As Sgt. Kelly Ham responded to a call for a suspicious vehicle in a campus parking lot, he said he counted 12 visible GPS devices on car dashboards.

He said when he attended the call for the suspicious vehicle, it didn't seem like students paid close attention to the warnings that had been sent out in regard to the recent burglaries.

"If the burglars don't see anything to steal, more than likely they won't break out a window to look through the car," he said.

A bill awaiting approval by SGA's Finance Committee may help students save a bit of money on test day.

Tuesday night, SGA Campus Advancement Committee proposed a bill to allocate money to purchase Scantrons for students, Jackie Wheeler, vice president of SGA, said. The Scantrons would be provided for free in the library.

The bill must be approved by the Finance Committee before a final decision by SGA members is made. If the bill is passed, SGA will make a trial run this semester by purchasing 2,500 Scantrons, Wheeler said.

Students from a local high school will be touring the university campus today as part of a scholarship competition organized by university students, a student helping to raise money for the scholarship said.

Junior communication studies major Meredith Woolsey said students in her group discussion class, taught by adjunct professor in the communication studies department Carie Kapellusch, are raising money for a scholarship along with an advanced public speaking class to be awarded to students at Eastern Hills High School at the end of the semester.

The 2010 midterm elections were an obvious example that voters were not happy with the direction of the country and did not see the change in Washington that they envisioned two years earlier. Voters were still concerned about the unemployment rate, and they have now put Republicans into office in hopes that they will adequately deal with unemployment issues.

As a result of these elections, I expect three main things will happen.

Swimming & Diving

The TCU women's swimming & diving team lost to San Diego State on Saturday 123-173. Sophomore Sabine Rasch set a university record in the 100-freestyle, finishing the freestyle with a time of 50.75. Senior Maria Paula Alvarez also competed strong for the Frogs individually with a win in both the 500-freestyle and the 1000-freestyle. TCU is now 1-1, 1-1 while SDSU leads the Mountain West Conference 5-0, and are 6-0 overall. The women's team will be back in the water Nov. 11 at home against Colorado State.

In celebration of Veterans Day, a joint committee representing veterans from all military branches has coordinated several events this week, including a wreath-laying ceremony.

Senior strategic communications major John Harvey said the theme of this year's celebration is "Reflections of service and sacrifice" of not only the veterans memorialized in Veterans Plaza in front of Reed Hall, but also the more than 200 veterans who are attending TCU.

Student Government Association elections are live on my.tcu.edu today.

Candidates will be available for questions at SGA's GrillFest by the Founders Statue from 11-1 p.m. today.

At GrillFest, SGA will provide free hot dogs to the student body in an attempt to promote the elections and get the student body involved, SGA Elections and Regulations Chair Lizzy Caudill said.

Last year's election brought in a little over 2,000 voters, according to the total votes from the 2010 ballots.

The voting polls opened at 7 a.m. this morning and will end tomorrow at noon.

On the night of Nov. 2, a group of TCU students went to KXAS NBC Channel 5 as volunteers to enter elections results into the system, myself included. Many of us were nervous and unsure of what to do. But we eventually found a rhythm and without thinking about it, we became a part of the democratic process.

We saw what happened behind the scenes during an election and heard what the people who run the elections had to say. We typed, phoned and updated from 6 p.m. to midnight and left laughing and talking about how great it had been.

In recognition of former president John F. Kennedy's assassination 47 years ago this month, the Fort Worth Police Historical Association is inviting student journalists to learn about the event's media coverage from a local journalist Tuesday night.

Phil Vinson, a TCU Press author who covered the Lee Harvey Oswald funeral in 1963, will address the complexities of covering one of the biggest news stories of his time.

On a beautiful campus like TCU's, it's easy for students to feel safe. But incidents like the gunpoint robbery just one block south of Berry Street Friday night remind us how careful we must be when we leave the TCU bubble.

After the sexual assault that occurred in the fall of last year, the university formed the Safety and Security Committee to address safety on campus, according to a previous Daily Skiff article. Since then, the university has increased the number of street lights on campus as a response to the student request for better lighting.