While most students were trying to relax on their first weekend of the semester, the Lady Frogs volleyball team was too busy winning games to take a break.TCU hosted the Molten/La Quinta Invitational Tournament in the University Recreation Center Friday and Saturday. The Lady Frogs won the tournament championship Saturday night with a 3-1 win over Boise State.

The team started off the tournament with a 3-0 shutout against Loyola Friday afternoon. Then, in front of an energetic crowd Friday night, the Frogs won 3-2 against South Carolina coming back from a 2-game deficit.

Students looking for a way to get involved on campus can do so at the activities fair from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today in the University Recreation Center, said the director of Howdy Week."Some students think that if you're not Greek there's nothing to do on campus," said Jennifer Pippin, director of Howdy Week. "The activities fair is a good way for students to learn about the groups they can join."

Relax the throat muscles, focus, tilt the glass, chug, repeat. This is essentially the format of this weekend's top five box office title, "Beerfest."

According to boxofficemojo.com, the Warner Brothers feature netted a $7.03 million opening weekend gross, which is not too shabby for a film that had enough alcohol consumption to put "Animal House" to shame.

Following last weekend's B-movie gem, "Snakes on a Plane," fans of the sauce could rest easy knowing that "Beerfest" would satisfy their thirst for barley, hops and yeast.

Student Government Association officially started its semester Tuesday afternoon by introducing new regulations for pregame tailgating.SGA President Trevor Heaney said the new changes include a two-hour time frame in which students may consume alcohol. Heaney, a senior entrepreneurial management and finance major, added that 15 minutes before kickoff, tailgating will end and students will be encouraged to attend the game.

"It's going to be something that is student-initiated and student-run," Heaney said of the pregame tailgating regulations.

With the monotony of the NFL preseason finally coming to an end and the regular season still more than a week away, America is ready for some football. "Invincible" fed that need. According to boxofficemojo.com,...

Over the past year, gas has consistently hovered around $3 a gallon. Natural disasters and social issues have hit Americans where it hurts them most: their wallets. Even President Bush, whose party is hardly known as the environmentalist type, recently said that Americans were "addicted" to oil."Me? Addicted?! That's just crazy-talk. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to hop into my 14 mile-per-gallon, eight-passenger SUV for my family of four so we can drive two blocks to our neighborhood pool."

TCU's men's golf team sent four students to the U.S. Amateur Championship last week, tying a school record.Jon McLean and Robby Ormand advanced to the match-play round of 64.

Along with McLean and Ormand, Tom Miles and James Sacheck were also in the tournament but did not qualify for the match-play rounds.

"It was a great experience," said McLean. "Absolutely the best tournament you can play in as an amateur."

Ormand said playing in the tournament, which was held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., was not an everyday occurrence.

Although the semester has begun and student organizations have shifted into full-gear, one group of students lags behind.Senseless Acts of Comedy, the student comedy troupe, has found themselves without a performance space and unable to begin their weekly comedy shows, said Michael Flusche, SAC president.

"We just got kicked to the curb," said the junior advertising/public relations major.

The 2006 men's track and field team broke the Southeastern Conference's seven-year streak of being ranked first in relays by "Track and Field News.""It is a big honor to receive recognition from a source...

Why is it that the country's largest organizations have some of the most inept customer service representatives?It is almost impossible to get connected to someone who can offer any kind of help without having to transfer you to another person.

Being transferred from person to person would not be so bad except for the fact that before you are even connected to anyone, you have to wade through numerous automated menus.

The Apple iPod started as a personal music device, but is now making its way as a portable education tool.Amber Finn, instructor of communication studies, started podcasting in the Basic Speech Communication class this semester as part of a pilot operation for Web-based classes.

"We are already doing audio lectures through e-college, so now students can watch and listen to the lectures," Finn said.

The idea for using the iTunes feature of podcasting was introduced by Jess Price, a media producer for the Center for Instructional Services.