Katie Little refills drinks and gets to know her tables in hopes that her service will influence her tip income. According to an article in the Journal of Socio-Economics, Little is right on.

Tips in the United States add up to $16 billion a year, according to a 2000 article by Michael Lynn.

Lynn, of Cornell University, wrote the article, "Gratitude and gratuity: a meta-analysis of research on the service-tipping relationship," to explain his study on the connection between server evaluations and tip size.

An ongoing sex scandal among fifth-graders gets school officials and media attention in Spearsville, La. The story presented by CBS 11 within the past week has undoubtedly startled parents all over the nation.

School officials need to regain control in many American schools. We cannot continue to let students do whatever they please just because we, as a nation, have begun to fear discipline in the classroom.

National Guard troops are most likely going to face deployment to Iraq soon because U.S. forces need to be replaced, according to an April 6, NBC News article, "National Guard Likely to Head Back to Iraq." Changes have been made as to how long the National Guard can be deployed overseas, and although they are needed to relieve U.S. military troops overseas, the deployment could cause more problems than it would fix.

Our nation has traditionally been tied to Christianity. The United States has been and most likely will always be associated with the Christian religion. But that does not change the fact that the founding fathers of America gave our country freedom of religion in 1791 and, through that, the separation of church and state.

And the freedom of religion that defines America now must be upheld as more than 200 years after the founding of the Constitution, a bill is proposed to mandate a secular Bible study course to be offered as an elective in public high schools.

The ballet world would be a lot different were it not for Ben Stevenson's impact.Stevenson, who won numerous dance awards and gold medals for his choreography work in England, the United States and China, has also made an impression on the dance faculty and students at TCU.

Stevenson is visiting campus today to speak as part of Conversations on Dance, a question-and-answer session held between professionals and dance students.

Everyone in the ballet world knows Ben Stevenson's name, said Elizabeth Gillaspy, an assistant professor of ballet.

Students now have the option to minor in child development, a new addition to the curriculum that educates undergraduates on the well-being of children.The Institute of Child Development is a multidisciplinary...

Every year, more females participate in college sports, yet one aspect of female athletics becomes more male-dominated every year: coaching.Out of the 10 women's teams at TCU, men coach seven of them.

TCU is actually part of a national trend.



THE RESEARCH

Female coaches represent 42.4 percent of the coaches of women's teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association compared to 58 percent in 1978 and 90 percent in 1972, according to the latest edition of a longitudinal study by R. Vivian Acosta and Linda Jean Carpenter.

Graduate, get a job, start making rap videos. It may not be the future that every TCU student has in mind, but that's the way it has turned out for one 2006 graduate. On March 30, Chip Hanna, a TCU alumnus who works at an advertising agency in Fort Worth, submitted a rap video to YouTube and entered himself into a contest to win $25,000.

Hanna, who graduated with a degree in advertising and public relations, is one of 370 entrants in a contest sponsored by TurboTax, a tax preparation computer program.

Saints can help people maintain relationships with their loved ones in the afterlife, said a professor from the Brite Divinity School.Carolyn Osiek, the professor of New Testament in the Brite Divinity School, discussed the "Communion of Saints," and how it merges society into a single community, Wednesday night in Sadler Hall.

Following the dinner conversation, Interfaith Council watched an episode from the television series "Charmed," and discussed issues in Paganism.

Glitz, glamour and a little piece of Hollywood came to Dallas on March 22 with the opening night of the first annual AFI Dallas International Film Festival. The American Film Institute is a national institute which provides screen education, recognition and celebration of excellence in film, television and digital media. Future filmmakers attend the AFI Conservatory to hone their craft and display their products.

The festival ran for 11 days, with more than 190 screenings at The Magnolia, Inwood Theatre, Majestic Theatre, Angelika Film Center and AMC Northpark 15 Theater.