When students graduate from high school, they look forward to college being a breath of fresh air: there wouldn't be any more quizzes, worksheets or busy work. If only that were true.

Many professors seem reluctant to end class on the belief that students were actually paying attention. So they take it upon themselves to assign two worksheets due for the next class and prepare a pop quiz.

Before all of TCU's aspiring actors, actresses and dancers go to Hollywood, the Student Filmmakers Association is encouraging them to audition tonight for three upcoming film projects, said the association's president.Jonathan Nicholas, the SFA president, said this semester is SFA's second year on campus as a film club, though, he said, the association only made one film due to a smaller budget last year.

This semester, SFA is working on three, five-minute films, one of which will be a music video, said Nicholas, a senior radio-TV-film major.

After looking at TCU's summer-school policy, a task force decided to amend the credit transfer policy, according to a Sept. 28 Skiff article. The new policy allows students to transfer only 12 hours from a community college before they earn 54 hours, or the equivalent of junior status, at TCU. I feel like a hypocrite saying it, and I know plenty of people disagree, but this amendment can only further TCU's reputation as a prestigious private university, and I believe this was the task force's intention.

The Student Government Association rejected a bill to establish caucuses within SGA and approved a bill to change the credit hours needed to qualify for student body vice president Tuesday night.Lindsay Beattie, elections and regulations chair, said she introduced a bill to create caucuses in an effort to have all representatives in a constituency get to know each other better and get more work done.

"Hopefully this will get people working on legislation a little bit more," said Beattie, a senior English major, before the bill was rejected.

Ever since I wrote about our culture as a society of waiters and how technology has weakened our interpersonal relationships in my first Skiff article, I couldn't help but notice how this breakdown of communication transcends formal encounters to matters of the heart, often damaging our intimate relationships."Don't write about the same thing twice." That's the first thing your editor will tell you from the list of opinion article do's and don'ts. But sometimes, there are issues that affect so many of us so often they simply cannot be left alone.

In the biggest tournament of the fall for the men's tennis team, the Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championships in Tulsa, Okla., junior Cosmin Cotet won five matches in a row in the singles qualifying bracket, which was by far the best showing of any individual TCU player.The tournament began Sept. 30 and ended Sunday.

Cotet's most impressive win came in the first round of the qualifying bracket when he upset the tournament's No. 5 seed Bruno Agostinelli of the University of Kentucky.

Although unhappy with their results over the weekend, members of the women's golf team said they learned from their experiences and are moving on to the season's next tournament."We are a little disappointed in our finish," said head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin. "This is one of our favorite tournaments."

The team finished sixth out of 17 teams in last weekend's Lady Paladin Invitational in Greenville, SC.

Catherine Matranga, a senior communication studies major, finished seventh overall, posting a three-round score of 226.

Two and a half weeks ago, the Horned Frogs were riding high - leading the nation in consecutive wins and looking to dominate the competition by winning their second Mountain West Conference championship...

There is one thing I don't like about college other than the atrocious amount of parking tickets I get: The infuriating issues that I encounter in my classes. Some days I would rather stay in bed and pretend that while I slept, no one was being taken advantage of, no one was being forced from his or her home or injustice did not occur. But I go to class or I read the paper and my utopia becomes riddled with the bullets of reality.

The Frogs (5-6-2) enter the final third of their season with five conference matches left to play with their record hovering at the .500 mark.Mountain West Conference play began last week with a pair of matches against the BYU Cougars (10-2-1) and the New Mexico Lobos (6-4-3), both held at TCU.

TCU was held scoreless by No. 15 BYU in a 2-0 loss Thursday and the Horned Frogs fought to a 0-0 double-overtime draw against New Mexico, Sunday.

I am a huge sports fan, and I always try to keep a keen eye on the game. But at the last home football game against BYU, I wasn't able to cheer the Horned Frogs out of a deficit, because I couldn't take my eye off of what was going on next to me - people smoking.The smoking continued as I expected a security officer to come stop the man who - from what I could see - didn't even have to be in the disabled section where I was sitting. After no one approached, I went back to the gate and questioned the security officer.