It's the one time of the year besides Mardi Gras where its acceptable to lift up your top.It's Breast Cancer Awareness at TCU, and its time to get those breasts checked out.

You are probably thinking, "I am only 20 years old, why in the world would I need to get a breast exam?"

The fact is anyone can get breast cancer. It doesn't matter what age or gender you are.

Just ask Laura Martin Schlager, a recent TCU alumna who was diagnosed with breast cancer.

The men's basketball team will try to move to 3-0 for only the third time in 12 seasons this Saturday when it hosts the UTA Mavericks. The Frogs, who are 2-0 and have yet to play a conference opponent, face a Mavericks team that is also 2-0 and is coming off a 83-81 win against the North Texas Mean Green on Wednesday night.

Horned Frogs head coach Neil Dougherty said while his team isn't quite where they should be, he's happy with what he's seen so far.

Last week's election results were an indictment on the way the religious right influenced the Bush administration. The entire American Christian community, whether they agreed with the religious right or not, are now held under more suspicion than at any other point in American history. In fact, Ted Haggard's ironic fall, which involved his resignation as pastor after accusations of purchasing drugs and involvement in a homosexual relationship just before election week was symbolic of the religious right's future in American politics.

At freshman orientation, students are encouraged to get involved and be part of something they love - sports teams, fraternities, sororities - the possibilities are endless.Students are told that every person can find a place to fit in. But when does the desire to find that place overlap a need for self-expression?

Erica Bensik, a senior English major, said in an effort to belong, some students are giving up the things that set them apart.

Bensik came to TCU with a picture of what college would be like. But after four years, she said TCU isn't what she expected.

Seven TCU students have received university funding to travel to Fort Benning, Ga. on Friday to protest a military training school that has been accused by its critics of providing unethical military training to Latin American military officers.Since 2001, different groups of TCU students have been going to Georgia every November to participate in the national protest of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, more commonly referred to by its former name, the School of the Americas.

The football team chaplain said he is committed to being a friend to the Horned Frog athletes, a commitment the head coach and players say he more than fulfills.Pastor Ken Horton has been working with the Frogs for 10 seasons, and, during that time, he has become a confidant and mentor to many of the players, head coach Gary Patterson said.

Patterson said the players respect and trust Horton.

"He has always taken the time to be here," Patterson said. "He's available for the guys to talk to him and get his advice and guidance."

The Horned Frogs will be playing for their fifth straight win, fourth in the Mountain West Conference, when they host the San Diego State Aztecs on Saturday at 3 p.m.TCU's 23-20 victory at San Diego State last season was the first meeting between the two teams. The two teams were members of the Western Athletic Conference for three years - from 1996 to 1998 - but never played each other until 2005.

Head football coach Gary Patterson said the game last year was a tough one for the Frogs, who are 7-2 overall and 3-2 in conference.

A $23,000 security system was installed in the Mary Couts Burnett Library's special collections to secure 161-year-old Texas legislation papers that were expected to arrive this month. However, the arrival...

The H20 Frogs prepare for their sixth swim meet in three weeks as they take on the San Diego State Aztecs and Centenary Ladies on Saturday at the University Recreation Center Pool.Both the men's and women's teams will face the Aztecs, while the women's team will have the added competition of Centenary's squad, head coach Richard Sybesma said.

Since Oct. 25, the teams have had five meets.

"It's been a pretty tough fall with back-to-back meets," Sybesma said. "It helps to prepare us for the conference meet where we will have a three-day meet."

As the old saying goes, there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. Well, many students may be surprised to hear that TCU parking tickets aren't on that list. Those little yellow citations shoved oh-so-lovingly under your windshield wipers are a way of life here at the university. Parking tickets aren't a matter of if, but when.Let me say that everything having to do with parking here is a nightmare.