Many young playwrights dream of having their names in lights, but for one student, the dream has become a reality. "I didn't know what to think. I was really excited," said Hillary Benefiel, a sophomore English major. "I didn't expect to hear back from them after I submitted my play."

Benefiel's one-act play, "Invincible," is being produced by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. The San Antonio native, is the first TCU student to receive such an honor selected by a panel of judges.

Tony Burgess learned that the smallest things could make the biggest difference in the ecosystem during his 19-year experience with the Biosphere 2 project.Burgess, a professor of professional practice with the TCU Institute of Environmental Studies, spoke about the Biosphere 2 project, which he said was an attempt to see if it was possible for man to create a self-sustaining community of organisms that the physical environment would sustain.

Kevin Roney, a senior criminal justice major walked into his Greek history course, The Greek World, and found a seat. But it wasn't easy.The classroom in Winton-Scott Hall, he said, is made to fit 15 to 20 people, but according to my.tcu.edu, the class currently holds 25 people with five on the wait list.

"It's tiny," he said of the classroom. "You're sitting right on top of the teacher."

The first day there were not enough chairs for the whole class, he said, but now fewer people come to class, so there is one person to each chair.

The City of Fort Worth held a meeting Wednesday to hear citizens' concerns about zoning issues affecting, among others, TCU students. The meeting was conversely heated and reserved at the same time. Reserved in that open discussion of a controversial issue separates American government from, say, Cuban dictatorship.But heated in that we heard reports of flying potatoes launched into residential property by TCU students using PVC-pipe weaponry.

Students and local residents can expect at least another 18 months of construction on and around Berry Street as Fort Worth moves toward an entire reworking of the TCU area.The construction is part of the Berry Street Initiative and a larger effort to transform Berry Street into the "college community fabric," said Fort Worth City Council member Wendy Davis.

The Berry Street Initiative is a group of local residents, volunteers and private investors working to revitalize the Berry Street area, said Kristi Wiseman, council aide to Davis.

Junior wide receiver Cory Rodgers will be forgoing his senior season at TCU and entering the NFL Draft after changing his mind several times in the past two weeks.Rodgers originally told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram on Jan. 10 that he was leaving school for the NFL. On Jan. 17, teammate Eric Buchanan said Rodgers had reconsidered and had already re-enrolled in classes for the Spring 2006 semester. Other team officials were unable to confirm the matter, and Rodgers' most recent decision came later the next day.

Eleven weeks of flawless basketball and then, on one tragic Saturday, it all came screeching to an ugly halt.It's been a long time since every undefeated team in men's college basketball lost on the same...