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TCU is jumping at the bit to start its new equestrian team.TCU will be adding an equestrian team to its list of NCAA-sanctioned sports next year, said Marcy Girton, associate athletics director.

Girton said the staff is aiming to start practices in fall 2006. Although Girton was unsure how many students had already expressed interest in the program, sophomore advertising/public relations major Jennifer Currie, who is working with the team's development, said early outreach has been promising.

"There's been about 15 to 20 people, maybe a few more," Currie said.

TCU football recruitment is gearing up for the 2006 season with three recent high school commitments.Jimmy Young, a wide receiver from Ouachita Parish High School in Monroe, La.; Wayne Daniels, a defensive end from Kilgore High School; and Clarence Leatch, a defensive end from Tatum High School, have all made verbal commitments within the past week to attend and play football at TCU.

According to NCAA rules, head coach Gary Patterson is currently barred from commenting on the Horned Frogs' recruitment progress.

Wake up at 6 a.m. Drink a Red Bull. Rush to campus praying to find any parking. Drink a Red Bull. Attend class, grab lunch and spend the rest of the evening cramped in a corner at the library. Drink Red Bull intermittently throughout the night. In the fast-paced, competitive world of today's collegian, students around the nation are reaching for anything to give them that extra surge of energy for a long day's work.

But research shows that these cans of sugar may be doing more harm then many consumers realize.

You reach Berry Street while driving on Lubbock only to be impeded by an orange-and-white blockade preventing you from entering Berry. You spout a few curses before turning around your large SUV in the smallest parking lot known to man.The barrels forming two lanes on the usually six-lane road are annoying, but not permanent. The construction on Berry Street hinders traffic now, but the long-term benefits to TCU from the Berry Street Initiative outweigh any present nuisances.

Four members of the local band Green River Ordinance sit outside a coffee shop on Saturday morning, joking with each other about how they name songs. It is clear that the group's chemistry works.Ultimately, "We're weird, not cool," said Geoff Ice, a sophomore environmental science major.

After years of playing for crowds at intimate local venues, GRO hit the big time, at least for one night.

The band, which includes three TCU students, opened for Jon Bon Jovi on Jan. 15 at the American Airlines Center after winning a contest through Mix 102.9.

It's called "Il Mio Viaggio in Italia," and half of the dialogue is Italian and the other half is English.It sounds like a foreign film, and in a way, it is.

Last July, 18 radio-TV-film students overcame the language barrier to make a film in Italy.

The film, directed by TCU professor Charles LaMendola, is 38 minutes long.

The film is about an American college girl named Haely who answers an online advertisement to go to Italy to take care of an old man for the summer in exchange for room and board.

Students are interested in making TCU's entire campus wireless and installing new classroom technology, said a student representing undergraduates on the Computer and Telecommunications Committee.Matt Madderra, a junior computer information technology major, serves as the chairman for the student subcommittee creating a new technology plan for the 2006 fiscal year.

Madderra sent an e-mail to all students last week requesting their input about campus technology.