The women's basketball team will try to extend to a three-game winning streak when it hosts the SMU Mustangs tonight before hosting the Pepperdine Waves on Sunday.The undefeated Frogs (2-3) will be playing their third- and fourth-straight games at home.

The Mustangs (4-1), coming off an 80-61 win over the Bradley Braves, will look to get back on the winning streak they started the season with in the first three games.

This game will be the 51st meeting between the Horned Frogs and the Mustangs.

The cold weather came just in time to enhance the winter spirit at tonight's Holiday Tree Lighting on Sadler Lawn, said a Programming Council director.The live Christmas tree on the steps of Sadler Hall will be lit tonight by Chancellor Boschini who will ride in on a sleigh with Santa and Mrs. Claus, said Natalie Boone, SGA adviser.

New purple and white suits were made for Santa and Mrs. Claus this year, said Aaron Wolfe, PC director of spirit and traditions.

"We went a little more all out this year," Wolfe said.

Remember growing up, when your parents used to tell you things to make you do something you didn't want to do? "Eat your carrots, it'll make your eyes pretty," or "Finish your green beans so you can have a happy plate!"

What the heck is a happy plate anyway?

For me, anytime I left a mess somewhere, be it my bedroom or a plate I left on the table, my mom would tell me, "Your maid is dead."

After I got over the shock of thinking I killed someone, I realized what she was trying to say to me.

Enrollment in the Intensive English Program has increased 41.38 percent since 2004, which is about 30 percent more than national programs' enrollment increase, according to the 2006 TCU Fact Book.Kurk Gayle, the director of TCU's Intensive English Program, said, after gaining 13 more students this semester, enrollment in the Intensive English Program has reached a record number of 47 students -- the largest group of students Gayle said he has seen since he started working at TCU in February 1995.

Anyone can get on Facebook now, which means anyone can see your profile. MySpace has been public since its inception, while Facebook used to be exclusive to the college community. I'm not the most technologically savvy person, but I can figure out how to set up a profile on both of these sites. I don't have a MySpace site, but I am a part of the Facebook community. I have friends on MySpace, and I see few differences in the two communities. On MySpace, you can color and add music to your page. On Facebook, you can add large amounts of pictures.

Out of 30,000 square feet of retail space on the first level of the GrandMarc at Westberry Place, 7,000 square feet have been leased, said a property company representative.Two businesses, Perrotti's Pizza...

What does it take to truly learn something from a class? What is the final factor of whether we gain knowledge from three or four hours of credit?Learning is being able to literally take away with you something from the other people and resources. Learning is not memorizing facts, spitting them out and then forgetting them. It is about discovering something about yourself or learning more about the social interactions around you. When you study a subject to develop yourself in any way, you are learning.

"Save the Cheerleader. Save the World." If you don't know where this TV season's most popular catch phrase is from, then you are missing out.NBC's "Heroes" is the most watched new show of the season, and for good reason. It tells the stories of common people with uncommon powers and how they must come together to fight the ultimate evil.

NBC is about to air the last new episode before taking a six-week break, which means there is no better time to get caught-up on all the action. NBC still has the first 10 episodes posted on its Web site.

Our campus is booby trapped.I'm not kidding. There are several places on campus where the unsuspecting student will be innocently minding their own business, thinking they're doing nothing wrong and then "BOOM!" They find themselves short $75 for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I'm referring, of course, to parking spaces.

But not just any parking spaces. Six in particular, at the end of the middle row in the Colby Hall parking lot. And I'm warning you because I have been the unfortunate victim of such a booby trap in these spaces.

College football is one of the most lucrative businesses that colleges partake in year to year. From ticket and concessions sales to bowl game-appearance money, college football is a cash business in which coaching staffs around the nation are trying to get ahead and find the edge that will help their teams win and give them the opportunity to get the coveted BCS national championship or win their respective conference.But with so many vying for such rewards, the question of how to obtain such goals and how far to go to do so is presented.

Focus on the upcoming game against the Air Force Falcons took precedence over the Poinsettia Bowl and recent talk of firings in the college football world at Tuesday's football Coaches' Luncheon."We beat the odds, and nobody thought we could get to this point with a chance to go 10-2," head coach Gary Patterson said. "We are in a position to finish the season just like we wanted, we just did it in a different way."

Last weekend the Frogs beat the Colorado State Rams and solidified their chance for a bowl bid.