A TCU Police officer driving to work in his own personal vehicle pulled over a man after he saw him jump the curb and nearly hit a student crossing University Drive on Monday afternoon. Dale Connor was driving when he noticed a silver Pontiac Grand Prix swerving in front of him.

"He almost hit some cars and then jumped the curb and almost hit a student, so I pulled him over," Connor said.

Connor said he was able to pull the driver over by yelling verbal commands at him.

TCU has yet to sign a lease with a local oil and gas company that is telling residents in a nearby neighborhood that it's a done deal, a top administrator says.Brian Gutierrez, vice chancellor for finance and administration, confirmed Monday in an e-mail that no agreement has been reached with Four Sevens Resources Co., who distributed fliers in the Colonial Park neighborhood announcing that Four Sevens "has been awarded the TCU gas lease!"

Gutierrez said Thursday that TCU is still assessing the feasibility of drilling on campus and discussions with Four Sevens are ongoing.

A long-awaited schism in the Anglican Communion is on the horizon. In September, the Episcopal denomination of the Anglican church may find itself separated from the Anglican Communion at large.The Episcopal...

After a dominant performance against the Mississippi Rebels on Sunday, the No. 17 TCU women's tennis team will face the No. 13 Baylor Bears 6 p.m. today at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.TCU head coach Jefferson Hammond said the 6-1 win over Mississippi will give the Horned Frogs confidence as they go into the Baylor match.

The Bears, who are also coming off a convincing 4-1 victory over the Rebels on Saturday, will be pitted against the Horned Frogs' highest-ranked doubles team in school history.

The swimmers wandered through the halls of the University Recreation Center Gymnasium on Monday afternoon as they turned in their equipment and bid farewell to the 2006-2007 swimming and diving season.After a sixth place showing for the men's and women's teams in last week's Mountain West Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, head coach Richard Sybesma said he was pleased with the overall performance of the H20 Frogs.

The body is a very useful and flexible thing; it is an instrument that can always surprise us with its capability and potential.Most people, however, don't know the exact way of using their bodies as tools or advantages when getting a job, landing an interview or making a good impression to others.

According to Business Week Online, words are only 7 percent of communication. The rest is composed of 55 percent visual communication, such as body language or eye contact, and 38 percent vocal communication, such as pitch, speed, volume and tone of a person's voice.

Last semester, readers were bombarded with my complaints about being a commuter, only to find that the hidden message of the two-part expos‚ was to appreciate the small and simple joys in life. This semester, we've moved out of the house and things have gotten a little crazier.The two hours a day spent driving are better spent socializing with real people, rather than mumbling to the truck driver in the next lane. And eight-hour days with nowhere to rest were quickly getting old, so I moved on campus.

The Panhellenic president said Monday the university was unaware of the controversy surrounding one of the three sorority finalists who could join the TCU Greek community and said the effect it will have on the voting process remains uncertain.The Delta chapter of Delta Zeta at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., has gained national attention due to recent questions raised about its restructuring by its national sorority. DZ nationals asked 23 of the Delta chapter's 35 members to accept alumna status and vacate the sorority house.

Officials met Tuesday to discuss implementation plans for a plus/minus grading system. In November, Provost Nowell Donovan announced the plus/minus grading system would be grandfathered in, and, therefore, would not affect currently enrolled students.

Donovan met with the registrar and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee Tuesday and chose to have faculty members grade all students on a plus/minus scale. A computer program will then remove the pluses and minuses from current students' grade point averages, leaving them on the current grading scale.