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."

What do you do when your tolerance of college food is on the verge of disappearing? Where do you go when even Pond St. Grill doesn't sound any better than The Main? Chili's? Panera? IHOP? All pretty good...

University officials, in the wake of sexual assault charges filed in October against three former TCU athletes, say they are exploring ways to more closely scrutinize applicants for possible criminal histories. And, a public records search by the Daily Skiff of 370 current male and female varsity athletes reveals that two football players have pleaded guilty to felony crimes and three other football players have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.One of the players who pleaded guilty to a felony charge did so in 2004, more than a year before his freshman year.

Though the four newly elected Student Government Association officers will represent the entire student body, a little more than a quarter of students participated in the vote that put them in office.Only 26 percent of 7,267 eligible students voted for president, while even fewer students voted for vice president, treasurer and vice president of Programming Council, according to the SGA election tabulations.

The Horned Frogs volleyball team is working on cohesiveness in preparation for its final regular season game against the Wyoming Cowgirls at 8 p.m. today in Laramie, Wyo., the head coach said.Head coach Prentice Lewis said the team is not working on individual things but is working on the team as a whole.

"You work on making sure the team is meshing the way you want them to mesh," Lewis said.

Anna Vaughn, a senior middle blocker, said the team is better at home and wants to get back its chemistry during away games.

Students have a right to know what illnesses are prevalent on campus. Until TCU statistics are released, students can't receive accurate facts.Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Don Mills recently sent about 3,200 students who make up a random sample an e-mail encouraging them to participate in the National College Health Assessment Web Survey. Mills said in the message that the survey will be used to assess health behaviors of students in order for the university to develop and improve health services and programs on campus.

The cost to attend TCU next fall is $1,840 more, and some students say they aren't happy about it.The board of trustees raised annual tuition 8 percent to pay for utilities, health-care benefits for faculty and staff, and lowering the student-to-faculty ratio to 13-to-1, said Chancellor Victor Boschini.

At a Nov. 2 Faculty Senate meeting, Provost Nowell Donovan said TCU will have to hire 59 new faculty to lower the ratio of 14.7-to-1 to 13-to-1. He also said over the past three years, 41 new faculty positions have been created.

Changes in residential halls in fall 2007 will make history, allowing women to live in Milton Daniel Hall for the first time, the director of residential services said.Milton Daniel, along with Wiggins, Foster, Waits and Jarvis halls may all have major changes for fall 2007, said Craig Allen, director of residential services.

"All of this is part of our broader initiative to really reshape TCU as a residential university," Allen said. "We're moving forward full steam on this and most of the changes should be permanent by the end of the semester."

Take one plot, divide it into four subplots occurring in four different countries - Morocco, Japan, Mexico and the United States - and you have the groundwork for "Babel."In the biblical story of Babel, people were punished for their pride and vanity by becoming incomprehensible to each other. And while speaking different languages poses enough of an obstacle to overcome, the real barriers are those made by man.

In the movie, directed by Alejandro González I¤Ã¡rritu ("21 Grams"), much of the same is present as he weaves the story through the four subplots.

The Student Government Association voted to approve two resolutions and two bills at its weekly meeting Tuesday evening, including one bill that would extend the amount of time students have to elect the pass/no credit option for a class.The majority of SGA members voted to support the extension of the pass/no credit resolution, said Justin Brown, Student Relations chairman.

The current pass/no credit resolution allows students 20 academic days to decide if they don't want to receive academic credit for a class, Brown said.