After five straight losses, the Horned Frogs frustrations continued mounting as TCU dropped its sixth straight conference game.The quick-strike offense and athleticism of the San Diego State Aztecs kept the Frogs at bay for all 40 minutes, ending in a 76-71 final score.

From the field, senior guard Brandon Heath was like the plague against the Frogs as he made 22 points on the night, putting the Frogs in a deficit that was impossible to overcome.

When the TCU Bookstore caught fire last year, the plans for renovation were cast in as much haze as the night itself. Now, Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs, said design and logistical elements will be finalized within the next few weeks for the new bookstore. He said it will become an icon of the university.

The fire produced an opportunity to design, from the ground up, something that would really represent TCU, said Brian Gutierrez, vice chancellor for finance and administration.

Losses happen in sports. It is part of the essence of what competition must bring so there is a clear winner and loser. The loss of a friend through what the glory of competition brings is often one of...

Student journalists in Mexico have taken a hard hit as a university's unjust act of censorship violated a constitutional right: freedom of speech.La Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, is TCU's sister university. And its student newspaper, La Catarina, was gagged by university administrators and campus police Jan. 16 in possible retaliation for a series of controversial cartoons of Chancellor Pedro Palou. Staff members were abruptly evicted, snatching personal belongings as they were ordered to leave.

Two women's tennis players will begin the spring season by traveling to Madison, Wis., on Thursday to compete in the National Team Indoor Championship.Senior Ana Cetnik and sophomore Ana Sydorska earned an automatic bid in the tournament when they reached the final match of the 2006 ITA National Indoor Collegiate Championships in November, making them TCU's first female tennis players to reach the final match in a doubles national championship event.

The pair was also the second TCU doubles team in school history to win the ITA Southwest Regional Tournament.

Parking at TCU is always a good way to start a conversation on campus with a complete stranger.Most people would agree: parking here sucks. It's no secret.

But it's time for the complaining community as a whole to get over it; nothing is going to change anytime soon.

The administration is too caught up in its revising of Main Campus to seriously consider what to do about where people can put their cars.

A student environmental organization is coordinating a recycling competition between residence halls to promote participation in a nationwide recycling race, the group's vice president said.AV, an on-campus environmental organization, is coordinating TCU's participation in RecycleMania in conjunction with Residential Services.

RecycleMania, a 10-week recycling competition, began Sunday and will end April 7, AV Vice President Kimberly Banzhaf said.

TCU is one of 201 colleges and universities around the country competing in the race.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.To fans of the Fox hit drama "24," the sound of a ticking clock could only mean one thing: It's going to be a long day for Jack Bauer- the character considered to be "the" action hero of the post-Sept. 11 society, played by Kiefer Sutherland.

As the sixth season of "24" commenced with a special two-night premiere event, viewers found Bauer and the rest of his counterterrorism unit cohorts fighting a familiar enemy: an Islamic terrorist group.

TCU scored a D in a 2007 evaluation of its sustainability practices - its ability to meet the needs of the present without impairing future generations.Sustainability in relation to endowment investment was the focus of the College Sustainability Report Card, which assigned letter grades to 100 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada possessing higher education's largest endowments.

Members of the Student Government Association inaugurated new officers Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the D.J. Kelly Alumni Center. The inauguration was the 93rd in the organization's history. Chief Justice Neal Jackson inaugurated President Jace A. Thompson, Vice President Thomas A. Pressly, Programming Council Chair Kristen Chapman and Treasurer Nathan D. Arnold.

Chapman inaugurated the Programming Council officers.

Tori Hutchens, Speaker of the House, inaugurated the officers of the House of Student Representatives.