The Frogs soccer team will be hungry and determined for revenge when it hosts the Wyoming Cowgirls tonight at 7 in the Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium.Although the Frogs (5-6-2, 0-1-1) fell to the Cowgirls (6-5-2, 1-0-1) in the 2005 season 2-0 in Wyoming, senior defender Breanne Kaldheim and senior goalkeeper Katy Buchanan said they have high hopes that the team can come away victorious against the Cowgirls in this early season conference showdown.

The TCU Muslim Student Association is hosting TCU's first annual Fast-A-Thon today to raise money for the West Africa Food Relief Fund.Participants will fast from sunrise to sundown, meaning they will abstain from consuming all types of food and beverage.

Danielle Richter, president of the Muslim Student Association, said fasting is an opportunity to practice self-discipline and a reminder to not take for granted our privileged way of life.

"You fast so that you feel the pain of the hungry so that you contribute more to charity," Richter said.

In January 1993, when International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were rejected by North Korea with the threat that the North Koreans would process spent nuclear fuel rods into plutonium - a crucial ingredient of nuclear weaponry.The scare was that even while the threat of North Korea could easily be extinguished by the combined militaries of the United States and South Korea, North Korea had the capacity to launch several bombs into nearby South Korea.

A senior cornerback was dismissed from the football team earlier this week due to a violation of university policy, said the director of athletics media relations.Because of privacy laws, further information on Salvage's dismissal cannot be released, said Danny Morrison, athletics director.

Also, due to university policy, TCU football players are not allowed to comment on Salvage's dismissal, said Mark Cohen, director of athletics media relations.

Students who recently took the Medical College Admission Test are some of the last to view it in its pencil and paper format.Starting January 2007, the MCAT will only be offered in a computerized format, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Kristi Tebo, a junior neuroscience major, took the MCAT in August and is scheduled to receive the results of her test on Saturday.

"I am hoping I did as well as I did in the prep tests I took before," said Tebo, who took about nine prep tests with Kaplan.

The Horned Frogs' volleyball team looks to improve its record, and despite recent losses, is happy with its season thus far.The Frogs, who are 3-4 in the Mountain West Conference, host conference foe New Mexico Lobos on Friday night, and team members said they hope to bounce back after last weekend's two losses.

"We've had a really good start," junior right-side hitter Emily Allen said. "In preseason, we did well, and we've struggled a little in conference, but I think next time in conference, we're going to pull it together and do really, really well."

College students are only a few short years away from entering the job market.How competitive will that market be? How much money will we have to pay in taxes once we receive that first paycheck? And what type of job security will there be?

Students assume they have little influence on the answers to these questions. But in reality, they do. Decisions affecting those issues will be made by the men and women elected to office - from local government to Washington D.C.

There has been little interest in the Picnic-To-Go program since the program's launch Oct. 2, says the marketing manager for TCU Dining Services.As of now, no students have ordered or purchased the Picnic-To-Go packages, which, Dining Services marketing manager Legia Abato said, is mainly because there has not been great weather.

"This is something we have been working out for a while now, and there was too much going on at the beginning of the year for it to be launched," Abato said.

Wuz up u goin 2 the party 2nite?no. can't hav hmwrk.

ok. call l8r

will u b my friend? i plan 2 talk thru text only. sry. i dont hav nuff time to call. i tell jokes w/ j/k after them 2 show im kiddin. i say wuz up but wont talk if i pass u. sry. i dont hav nuff time.

I'll admit I'm guilty of text messaging often. I'll admit I have some friends I don't talk to outside of text messaging. I'll admit I'll say something sarcastically and send a smiley face afterward to make sure the recipient of my text message knows I'm just kidding.

The invitational cross country meets have come to a close and the women's team is preparing for the NCAA Pre-Nationals meet this Saturday in Terra Haute, Ind.After placing in the top three team spots in their prior meets at North Texas and the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree in Stillwater, Okla., the Frogs will enter their largest race this season with hopes of better placement than last year's 25th-place finish out of 34 teams.

The Pre-Nationals is used to set the team qualifiers for the NCAA Championship race that takes place November 20.

Broken elevators, unreliable Internet connection and constant construction: These are some of the problems students living in the GrandMarc at Westberry Place said they have encountered since the complex opened in August."The first weekend I was here I got stuck on the elevator for three hours," said sophomore marketing major Mark Aughinbaugh. "It just stopped between floors."

Johanna Janovsky, business manager for the GrandMarc, said the problems with the elevators were the result of maintenance work.

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