It has always amazed me that some of the world's greatest discoveries were accidentally made by people looking for something else. Alexander Fleming, for instance, discovered the antibiotic penicillin in 1928 when his neglected bacteria culture got moldy.

In the 1940s, four teenage boys stumbled upon some of the world's oldest cave paintings in Lascaux, France, when they followed their dog into a hole in the ground.

Even Christopher Columbus was just trying to find a faster way to India when he sailed into the Americas.

Soon, 18 women will have the coveted parts in a play about their coveted parts.The women's studies department is holding auditions for "The Vagina Monologues" on Monday. There will be two performances on Feb. 9- - "V-Day" - that will raise money for awareness of violence against women.

"V-Day" is a global movement to end violence against women. The "V" stands for victory, valentine and vagina.

"The Vagina Monologues" performances serve as the center of an entire week of events known as "V-Week" that aims to raise awareness about sexual abuse.

The soap opera "Southern Comforts," created by TCU students, will be shown in its entirety by Tager TV, the campus cable system. Students can catch the show on channel 47 of on-campus televisions. Though an ending date has not been determined for the broadcast, all episodes of the first season are airing back-to-back continuously, said Deana Muirheid, manager of media production support services.

Muirheid said it is great to be able to showcase student-produced programming, such as "Southern Comforts," on the campus channels.

A change in Student Government Association's constitution may leave Programming Council scrambling for funds, but the group's directors are not discouraged yet. In years past, PC, one of the four branches that form SGA, has collected a fixed rate of 50 percent of the student government fee that appears on student tuition bills each semester, said Kristen Chapman, Programming Council chair.

With the passage of new SGA legislation, however, that sum may change, said Nate Arnold, SGA treasurer.

Oprah recently built a school called the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in a town called Henly-on-Klip, 40 miles outside Johannesburg, South Africa, according to Newsweek. Included in this school will be a yoga studio, beauty salon, indoor/outdoor theaters and large fireplaces in every building. There are also hand-picked china dishes, mattresses, uniforms and oversized closets, as well as plenty of tribal art and bright colors to decorate the walls. "These girls deserve to be surrounded by beauty, and beauty does inspire," Oprah said.

Oops! She did it again.Before the Christmas break, the Web site livejournal.com printed an article titled "She's Bringin' Slutty Back" referring to Britney Spears' wild, new lifestyle minus a husband, Kevin Federline. By slutty, the headline refers to photographs taken of Spears getting out of a car - photos of her private region.

The photographs reveal a drunk Spears with fellow bad girl Paris Hilton. They leave nothing to the imagination; you can even see the scar from her cesarean section from the birth of both of her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

A TCU student whose report of an attempted break-in spurred a campus crime alert Tuesday told police Wednesday a prowler shone a light into her back door in a separate incident. The woman called Fort Worth...

Why does it seem that all men, especially those in their teens and 20s, turn into rude, noisy, childish boys when they are with their friends?Is it all about the alpha male?

Where are the gentlemanly Rhett Butlers of "Gone with the Wind?" All I see are men who might have starred in "Jackass."

For the most part, men show no respect for women and their beauty. Instead of calling a woman "beautiful" or "stunning," they call her "hot" and then start discussions about how much they would like to get into her pants.

Even the cold weather could not stop many transfer and first year students from attending the first ever winter session of Frog Camp. While attending a two-day camp Thursday and Friday, students were given the chance to meet upperclassmen and faculty members and get to know their fellow classmates just like a regular summer session.

The summer Frog Camps usually last three to five days, in order to allow more time for games and outdoor activities.

The cold weather, however, spurred some changes in the original plans for activities.

If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?This seemingly simple question has puzzled mankind for ages. Maybe moving the setting to a more familiar locale will make the answer more apparent.

If a basketball swishes through the net at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum, and there are no fans in the seats, does it really make a sound?

You bet. There are 12 guys dressed in purple and white on the TCU sideline who live for that very sound, and dishearteningly, live to play the game in front of meager, unenthusiastic crowds.

The calendar may say it's a new year, but for the GrandMarc at Westberry Place it doesn't feel any different. A total of 23,000 square feet of the GrandMarc's retail space remains vacant, and, since leasing space with Perrotti's Pizza and CitiBank, the GrandMarc has been unable to recruit additional tenants.

Although negotiations with several businesses are in progress, Kimberly Moss, director of community operations for the GrandMarc, said both Starbucks and Dallas-based sandwich shop Which Wich, recently decided against leasing space in the GrandMarc.