The replacement student ID card price was raised from $10 to $20 as a deterrent to students losing cards and for security reasons, said a university director -- but whether this has caused a decline in the number of replaced ID cards remains to be seen.Emily Burgwyn, the director of student affairs and information services, said as of Nov. 17, there have been 1,312 cards replaced, which is about 290 fewer cards than last year. There have also been about 211 fewer cards found and re-encoded, she said.

With the college football season entering its final week, the Bowl Championship Series rankings have gone through a number of changes culminating in a projected national championship between wire-to-wire No. 1 the Ohio State Buckeyes and last season's national champion runner-up the USC Trojans.But with so many changes resulting from a multitude of factors, the question of the ranking system's integrity and makeup has seemingly been a subject of national debate since its inception in 1998.

As the college football season comes to a close, fans are starting to gain clarity as to when and where their team will be playing this postseason. While BCS contenders have been grabbing headlines, the Horned Frogs inched closer to another 10-win season thanks to Saturday's 45-14 road win against the Colorado State Rams.

The solid play of senior quarterback Jeff Ballard coupled with the career day of sophomore running back Aaron Brown led a unit that accumulated more than 600 yards of total offense.

An increase in tuition isn't ever a big surprise at TCU, but it still creates a great deal of conversation.However, a bigger change is going to take effect at TCU that is worth a lot of consideration.

On Nov. 10, the board of trustees approved new housing requirements at the university, requiring all freshmen and sophomores to live on campus beginning Fall 2007.

While immediate responses might strongly oppose this decision, the change in residential requirements has many promising factors.

At 8 a.m., anyone would need a cup of coffee as the smell fills the little corner office and the early sun washes through the second floor window onto the carpeted floor. Posters of European countries and French sayings adorn the white walls. Everything is in order for a Monday morning. It's just another early day for Jean Knecht, who will spend almost 40 minutes preparing for his four 50-minute classes.

"You think after all these years I would know my material," Knecht said.

The Frogs collect their eighth postseason berth in nine years as they are set to take on the Northern Illinois Huskies in the second annual San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl."It's a reward for the kids and how they played all year," head coach Gary Patterson said during a press conference Monday afternoon.

Mark Cohen, director of athletics media relations, said the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 19 will be the first bowl in the 2006 NCAA Bowl season and will come 17 days after the Frogs' regular season ends.

Computers controlling people. While it might sound like a plot from a really bad science fiction movie starring some washed-up actor, our society grows more and more dependent on our little mechanical friends every day. Sure, I understand that computers are needed for saving lives and controlling our nuclear weapons silos, but we could live without recreational computer-use for a week.

Let's start with the GPS systems that are becoming more and more common in today's automobiles.

Students involved in student government have to face many challenges - from gaining the support of their peers to working with university administrators; student government leaders find themselves working to overcome many obstacles. Student Government Association President Trevor Heaney said the goal of student government is to act as a liaison between the administration, the students, alumni and the surrounding community.

The women's golf team will head into the inaugural Aloha Purdue Collegiate Invitational this Thanksgiving break after coming off an 11th place finish at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown. Head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin said the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown, which featured four top-10 teams and four others in the top 25, had the strongest course the team has faced this season. Despite this adversity, the team finished 11th and didn't play too poorly, she said.

A former TCU professor of nursing proposed the institution of a new graduate studies program in her lecture Monday, a program the assistant dean of the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences said is now being considered.Former TCU professor Jeanette Lancaster spoke about the trends in nursing graduate education and explained why she feels a new program called the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program should be implemented on college campuses nationwide in her lecture at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni and Visitors Center.

It's the same scene every Thanksgiving: the entire family gathers around the festively decorated table that contains enough food to feed the population of Liechtenstein for a week, and before the meal begins, everyone shares something they are thankful for. Back in our younger days, our mothers would give us canned responses beforehand so we wouldn't blurt out something such as "Nintendo 64" or "Stretch Armstrong." The punishment for such an offense would be a fate worse than death: no pumpkin pie.What's wrong with this picture?