Cell phones. As much as I hate them with every fiber of my being, they are a necessity in today's world.On-the-go college students are constantly shuffling classes, study dates and time with friends. As...

The final team race of the season is on the horizon for the Horned Frogs.Both the men's and women's cross country teams will travel to Waco this weekend for the NCAA South Central Regional Championships.

"We were improving every week until the Oklahoma State meet," said head coach Eric Heins.

Since that meet, the runners have had good individual races but haven't been able to pull together as a whole team on race day, Heins said.

"We haven't had everybody have a good race on the same day since Oklahoma," Heins said. "We want to finish on a good note."

Eight Starpoint School students shot paint from bottles, carved clay with toothpicks and created wood sculptures to show parents, teachers and classmates at their art exhibit Thursday.Art education coordinator Amanda Allison, said three TCU art students from her art curriculum class developed the Starpoint art curriculum, called "Process of the Artist," which she said gave her students the real-world experience of teaching art.

The up-and-down fall season for the men's golf team came to a close Tuesday as it shot 10-ver and finished 16th at the CordeValle Classic in San Martin, Calif. Playing at an unfamiliar course and going up against a talented pool of nationally ranked competition such as UCLA, Coastal Carolina and tournament champion Stanford proved to be too much for the top-25 ranked Horned Frogs.

Though the team finished with a season-worst 16th place, the Frogs were fewer than 10 shots away from their third top-10 finish of the five-event fall season.

The chimes of a piano can echo through the ears of classical music audiences worldwide this weekend, thanks to a new program allowing TCU's music department to broadcast concert events online. TCU alumni Adam Golka, and Jose Feghali, artist in residence and professor of piano, will perform a Beethoven sonata Sunday, which will be broadcast live online using Internet2, a new high-speed Internet program.

Working along with network engineers, TCU network engineer Tony Fleming said Feghali has used the Internet2 program to aid with some of the online musical computing.

A recent national study found the number of American college students who participate in volunteer activities has increased nearly 20 percent since 2002 - exciting news for a community service coordinator."Student interest in volunteering here at TCU definitely seems higher," said Peter Thompson, program coordinator for Community Involvement and Service Learning. "Especially after last fall, when Hurricane Katrina put such a spotlight on volunteering - it was easier to see the need for it."

As regular-season play comes to a close for the Horned Frogs volleyball team (17-12, 5-9), head coach Prentice Lewis only has one goal: to win.The Frogs go on the road this weekend to face the New Mexico Lobos (8-18, 4-10), and Lewis said winning is the team's goal.

"We're going to play them at their house, which is always different," Lewis said. "Our athletes are excited, and it's down to crunch time for us."

The men's and women's swimming and diving teams will take on the Air Force Falcons, and the women's team will face the New Mexico State Aggies at a meet in Colorado Springs, Colo., today. The H20 Frogs are going up against Air Force and NMSU after the men's loss to the BYU Cougars 159.5-80.5 and the women's loss to the Cougars 149-94 Saturday.

The women's team also lost to the Colorado State Rams Thursday 156-144. These meets marked the first losses of the season for both teams.

It's amazing how much you can learn about a person by visiting the "reveal all" Web site - Facebook.So it should come as no surprise that employers are looking for job candidates' revealing information on networking sites. What they are finding is that the profiles don't emphasize skills students learned in the classroom, but those they learned after hours.

Some who post on sites such as Facebook and MySpace are offended at the idea, but employers are now thinking twice about who they hire to represent their companies.

With the results of yesterday's gubernatorial election in, many students and faculty members say the outcome would have been different had there only been fewer candidates.Republican Gov. Rick Perry was re-elected with 39 percent of the votes, while Democrat Chris Bell came in second with 30 percent. Independents Carole Keeton Strayhorn and Kinky Friedman drew 18 percent and 12 percent, respectively.

"I think everybody expected this," said Ralph Carter, chairman of the political science department.

President Bush announced Wednesday that Donald Rumsfeld, secretary of defense since 2001, had resigned. Bush made his announcement only hours after the Democratic Party took control of the House - and hours before the Associated Press reported Democrats made up the majority in the Senate. Although the president's announcement seemed to be rather hasty only a day after elections, many students and faculty members say Rumsfeld's step down was long overdue.

Ralph Carter, chair of the political science department, said Rumsfeld should have resigned a long time ago.