The payments TCU receives from a lending company under investigation by the New York attorney general's office are given back to students through grants and scholarships, an administrator said Monday.The university has a one-year-old revenue sharing partnership with Education Finance Partners, the loan company that finances the recommended Private Loan for Horned Frogs, said Michael Scott, director of scholarships and student financial aid.

EFP, one of the companies under investigation by the attorney general, has paid TCU about $12,000 under its arrangement, Scott said.

The board of trustees will vote next week on a resolution that proposes the removal of one of the last remaining vestiges of the anti-communism McCarthy era from the Faculty and Staff Handbook.Provost...

The Fort Worth Public Library is considering adding filters to regulate Internet access at public libraries, according to an article in Tuesday's Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The filters would be implemented to help control the material users under 17 could have access to on public computers.Our libraries should remain free of restrictions, despite concerns from parents and watch-dog groups about obscenity and what young people should be allowed to explore.

TV commercials. Most people hate them with a passion only surpassed by their ire for Satan's favorite confection: candy corn. In fact, we all know someone, possibly even ourselves, who begins compulsively flipping channels the microsecond advertisements grace the screen.But why? As sacrilegious as it may sound, commercials play a much bigger role in everyday life than most people think.

First of all, commercials give us pop culture icons who can define generations. Who among us wouldn't be able to pick out Jared?

For Jeff Roet, the best way to explain the world is by looking down.The geography lecturer said he was "born with a spatial hardwiring and 3-D awareness" that enables him to envision the world as a map.

"By the time I was 6, I could read a map better than anyone," Roet said. "I could glance at one that was upside down and still understand what it all meant."

Although Roet showed an early propensity for geography, it took a sudden change for his gift to evolve into a near-obsession.

While many college students used Spring Break as a chance to go visit exotic locations and just get away for a couple of days, I spent the break in a small town with some of my best friends, watching a lot of college basketball.The March Madness tournament is the greatest sporting event of its kind, giving 65 teams the chance to become this year's national champion.

The only part of this grand event that needs some improvement are the commercials that run during the games.

The Horned Frogs (16-6) began a five-game road trip Tuesday night against the UT Arlington Mavericks (9-15) with a win thanks to some timely two-out hitting and a comedy of errors.Freshman pitcher Tyler...

Although he only stands at 5-feet-3-inches tall, TCU's lone male diver has spent the past 10 years looking down on people.And now, sophomore R.J. Hesselberg has achieved one of the highest honors in his...

There are no suspects in the investigation of an aggravated robbery that took place Friday night outside of the Aardvark, Detective David Sears said.According to Fort Worth police, two men robbed a young...