The State of Leadership Conference

Who: Keynote speaker Donnie Hodge, president and COO of Alta Gracia and parent company Knights Apparel

Where: TCU Leadership Center

When: Dinner begins at 6 p.m. today. Hodge speaks at 7 p.m.

Open to students, faculty and staff. Registration is required.

For more information contact J.R. McGrath at j.mcgrath@tcu.edu.

Moudy Gallery Exhibition

Who: Chris Powell, head of the ceramics department in the School of Art

When: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. today

With the ice finally thawing from last week's winter storms, the No. 52 TCU men's tennis team will go into battle against No. 31 Alabama on Friday at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.

It will be the team's fourth match of the season after a 4-3 loss against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Jan. 29 and two 6-1 victories against UT-Arlington and UT-Pan American on Jan. 23.

Head coach David Roditi said that even though the team has had the past couple of matches canceled against Wichita State and Tulsa, it has been working hard in preparation for the upcoming match.

The TCU equestrian team gets back in action Sunday against the Fresno State Bulldogs for the first time since Jan. 30, when it defeated Delaware State 15-5.

The Frogs' match with Baylor at the Fort Worth Stock Show was canceled because of bad weather last Friday.

TCU is 4-0 to start the year and is ranked No. 5 in the country.

The Frogs' opponent, No. 9 Fresno State, won its first and only match of the spring thus far, defeating the University of Miami of Ohio and Ohio State.

We now live in a completely global world. Such traditional American companies, such as Coca-Cola, make the majority of their profits overseas and have the majority of their workforce based overseas.

Yet for all this globalization in terms of economics, the world is still dominated by the United States culturally and politically. American culture and English is spread around the world through various means such as movies, television shows and music.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday he was transferring power to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, but would not leave the country, according to the Associated Press.

Mubarak said in a nationally televised address Thursday that the demands of protesters calling for his immediate ouster are just and legitimate. He said he had requested six constitutional amendments, answering one of the demands of the protesters. He said he would lift emergency laws when security permitted.

With forward Caron Butler inactive, Mavericks guard Juan Jose Barea is proving himself a capable starter when called upon.

The 6-foot, undersized hoopster scored a season-high 25 points in the Mavericks' triumph over the Los Angeles Clippers on Jan. 25 and recorded 20 points in a 102-100 victory over Sacramento Wednesday, extending Dallas' win-streak to 10 games. Serving only his fifth year in the NBA, Barea continues to bring energy to the team.

Look both ways. Watch where you're going. Pay attention.

Texting while walking is literally killing people in the streets. Our technology addiction is taking its toll, and we have no one to blame but ourselves. This is bigger than carpal tunnel syndrome or eye strain due to low light. This has the potential to take lives. Students who are using a cell phone are 43 percent more likely to get hit when crossing the street, according to a Study by the University of Birmingham.

The Horned Frogs basketball team (11-15, 1-9 MWC) is on a seven-game losing streak and have a conference game at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Wyoming, but TCU's second-to-last home game at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum...

After students spent much of 2010 planning it, the university's first reality show, "Top Grad," will have its premiere Friday on TCU Channel 20 and on its website, topgradtv.com.

Junior Julie Harrison, the show's executive producer, said the show features 11 student contestants competing in various challenges in an attempt to showcase their wide-ranging abilities and poise.

"What we're really striving for is to show a renaissance student, so someone who is a really well rounded student and a jack of all trades," Harrison said.

TCU track and field signed 10 athletes (six women, four men) to the program Wednesday. Orlene Parris, an Arlington native, and Megan Smith, an Olathe Kan. product, will join the team next season. Pariss...