In one of its most competitive tournaments of the year, the men's golf team will be starting one of its most unorthodox lineups.Four freshmen will round out a five-man roster today as the Horned Frogs tee off on their first day of play at the Waikoloa Intercollegiate in Hawaii.

Head coach Bill Montigel said despite the underclassman-heavy rotation, he has high hopes for the team's chances.

"They still have to get used to college golf," Montigel said. "I feel good about these four guys."

A new tuition increase for students was approved Friday at the winter meeting of the Board of Trustees for the 2006-2007 academic year.The current tuition is $21,280, but students taking 12-18 hours will pay a combined tuition and fee of $22,980, Tracy Syler-Jones, assistant vice chancellor for marketing and communications, said in an e-mail.

Chancellor Victor Boschini said increasing tuition ensures a good education without giving up the service the student body wants.

With a retention rate of 53.57 percent from last semester's House of Representatives to this semester, Student Government Association members said they hope to improve the body's reputation and in turn, retention by changing the focus from internal issues to student concerns."Students don't want to see SGA doing things for SGA - they want to see them doing things for students," said Tori Hutchens, chairwoman of elections and regulations.

Although she said there is only so much SGA can do to get people to participate; it's all cyclical.

Projected increases to the TCU budget will take into account rising costs in tuition, housing, health insurance, utilities and athletics, the vice chancellor for finance and administration said Tuesday.Vice Chancellor Brian Gutierrez said at a Staff Assembly meeting that while TCU currently remains under the national trend line for increasing tuition costs at four-year private universities, an anticipated rise in tuition would cause the university to meet the national average by 2007.

The TCU Programming Council is hosting its own version of "Singled Out" tonight at 7 p.m. in the Student Center lounge.Kristen Chapman, director of special events for the council, said she hopes the knock-off...

It's not uncommon to sit in the Main and hear students complain about Student Government Association. I suppose they have every right to when they spend enormous amounts of money to attend a school like TCU. Part of a student's tuition goes toward events put on by Programming Council and improvements proposed by the House of Student Representatives. I've been a member of House for two years, and I see everything that goes on, and it's a ton.What irritates me is when people don't know or care to know what SGA does.

Students can vote to fill 23 of 26 vacant seats in the House of Student Representatives between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. today at my.tcu.edu, the Student Government Association elections and regulations chairwoman said.Tori Hutchens, chairwoman, said seats are available because they were not filled initially or the previously elected representatives could no longer hold their positions for varying reasons.

"Between this semester and last, class schedules and time commitments have changed, so many seats are open for new representatives," she said.

The TCU psychology department is researching the prevention of diseases such as Parkinson's, said an expert of human behavior.Tim Barth, chairman of the psychology department, said that by creating the...