At 8 a.m., anyone would need a cup of coffee as the smell fills the little corner office and the early sun washes through the second floor window onto the carpeted floor. Posters of European countries and French sayings adorn the white walls. Everything is in order for a Monday morning. It's just another early day for Jean Knecht, who will spend almost 40 minutes preparing for his four 50-minute classes.

"You think after all these years I would know my material," Knecht said.

The Frogs collect their eighth postseason berth in nine years as they are set to take on the Northern Illinois Huskies in the second annual San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl."It's a reward for the kids and how they played all year," head coach Gary Patterson said during a press conference Monday afternoon.

Mark Cohen, director of athletics media relations, said the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 19 will be the first bowl in the 2006 NCAA Bowl season and will come 17 days after the Frogs' regular season ends.

The Lady Frogs have found their way into the win column with a pair of home wins against the Houston Cougars and Rice Owls during the holiday.After starting the season 0-3, the Frogs have brought their record to 2-3 with a two-game winning streak led by junior shooting guard Adrianne Ross.

Ross leads the team in scoring with 89 points on the young season and made a career-high seven steals against the Owls on Saturday.

Other notables include senior forward Ashley Davis and freshman point guard Danielle Nunn.

We have all been guilty of this at one time or another. It's different when it's the phone call that just needs to be answered, the papers that have to be everywhere or the bag of chips that has to be eaten.

But when it is someone else committing these crimes against your studious ways, the call is the last thing you're interested in hearing, the papers seem a little bigger, and the chips always sound a little louder.

A library is a place to study, to start or finish a paper or do a little research.

With the college football season entering its final week, the Bowl Championship Series rankings have gone through a number of changes culminating in a projected national championship between wire-to-wire No. 1 the Ohio State Buckeyes and last season's national champion runner-up the USC Trojans.But with so many changes resulting from a multitude of factors, the question of the ranking system's integrity and makeup has seemingly been a subject of national debate since its inception in 1998.

As the college football season comes to a close, fans are starting to gain clarity as to when and where their team will be playing this postseason. While BCS contenders have been grabbing headlines, the Horned Frogs inched closer to another 10-win season thanks to Saturday's 45-14 road win against the Colorado State Rams.

The solid play of senior quarterback Jeff Ballard coupled with the career day of sophomore running back Aaron Brown led a unit that accumulated more than 600 yards of total offense.

An increase in tuition isn't ever a big surprise at TCU, but it still creates a great deal of conversation.However, a bigger change is going to take effect at TCU that is worth a lot of consideration.

On Nov. 10, the board of trustees approved new housing requirements at the university, requiring all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus beginning Fall 2007.

While immediate responses might strongly oppose this decision, the change in residential requirements has many promising factors.

Computers controlling people. While it might sound like a plot from a really bad science fiction movie starring some washed-up actor, our society grows more and more dependent on our little mechanical friends every day. Sure, I understand that computers are needed for saving lives and controlling our nuclear weapons silos, but we could live without recreational computer-use for a week.

Let's start with the GPS systems that are becoming more and more common in today's automobiles.

Students involved in student government have to face many challenges - from gaining the support of their peers to working with university administrators; student government leaders find themselves working to overcome many obstacles. Student Government Association President Trevor Heaney said the goal of student government is to act as a liaison between the administration, the students, alumni and the surrounding community.

The replacement student ID card price was raised from $10 to $20 as a deterrent to students losing cards and for security reasons, said a university director -- but whether this has caused a decline in the number of replaced ID cards remains to be seen.Emily Burgwyn, the director of student affairs and information services, said as of Nov. 17, there have been 1,312 cards replaced, which is about 290 fewer cards than last year. There have also been about 211 fewer cards found and re-encoded, she said.

Most TCU students would agree that on-campus dining isn't exactly Mom's home cooking. Many have complained about high prices as well as an overall lack of flavor and appeal, but one topic that has not...