I had an idea for this column last week. It was supposed to be my first full-fledged column post-writers’ strike and my self-imposed sympathy break. (Any writings that seemed like they occurred during the strike were illusions – or copy I got paid for at work.) But the best laid […]

Texas A&M University-Commerce head football coach Scotty Conley announced the arrival of eight players at the semester break and the letters of intent from five high school standouts. A&M-C is coming off a 5-6 season and the program’s first-ever Lone Star Conference North Division title. Among the eight coming in […]

With the search for the next president of Texas A&M University-Commerce well under way, members of the search committee should be appreciated for their efforts in whittling down the list of candidates they will eventually turn over to the Chancellor, who will in turn pass along his list to the […]

A young man stands in a four-foot by four-foot cell next to a window, let’s call him Billy. There is no chair for Billy and he is expressly forbidden from sitting or leaning. He will stand there for four to seven hours, and will rarely leave the cell for the […]

The Texas A&M University-Commerce women’s golf team was the only team in the field to make an improvement in Tuesday’s final round of the Lady Rattler Roundup in San Antonio. The Lions cut 14 strokes off Monday’s opening round en route to a 10th-place finish and a two-day total of […]

Texas A&M University-Commerce Counseling Center is now offering free legal advice to students. The attorney can assist students in legal matters such as contracts, family law, landlord disputes, probate wills, and traffic tickets as well as many other matters. All records are kept confidential and all communication between the student […]

Slated for April 5 from 8 a.m. to noon, ‘The Big Event’ community service day is set to kick off. In this single day, University organizations, students and business in Commerce strive to complete projects on campus and throughout the town. “We encourage all the businesses that are going to […]

As the national race for president continues, so does the search for the next head of Texas A&M University-Commerce. In an e-mail to faculty and staff last week, David Crenshaw, president of Faculty Senate and chair of the Presidential Search Advisory Committee, said the committee had spent nearly five hours […]

Tired of staring at textbooks? Looking for something more interesting to read? Well, the “Mayo Review” is on its way. “The ‘Mayo Review’ is a creative literature and art journal, sponsored and published by the Department of Literature and Languages at the University,” LeAnn Nash, editor of the “Mayo Review,” […]

Columbine, Jonesboro, Virginia Tech and now Northern Illinois University. All of these places have the scenes of school shootings in the past decade. Since the beginning of this month, there have been six shootings at schools across the United States. Some of the shootings have been more publicized than others, […]