A campuswide makeover would not be complete without giving the John Justin Athletic Center a new look.Fundraising has begun to renovate the south end of the Amon Carter Stadium to accommodate the growing needs of TCU athletics, said Danny Morrison, athletics director.

The renovations to the John Justin Athletic Center will create multiple uses out of the same facility, he said.

A Brite Divinity School student presented an interpretation on International Women's Day of a passage from the Hebrew bible that reveals God describing God's self in male and female terms.Teresa Ellis spoke Thursday at a luncheon hosted by the TCU Institute on Women and Gender about research she had done regarding female references of God.

"I think it could be meaningful to women from various religious traditions to give them another way to see a female image of God in the text," she said. "This is just fun for me."

Over the next few days, President Bush will conduct a five-country tour of Latin America to "underscore the commitment of the United States to the Western Hemisphere," according to the White House.Bravo to Bush for backpacking through Brazil, but it comes about five years too late; anti-U.S. sentiment has already gained a foothold down south.

While the current administration has ignored its Southern neighbors for almost seven years, much of Latin America has moved on to find other, local friends, such as socialist leaders Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia.

A professor has been appointed to a national conference dedicated to improving the greater Fort Worth area for both residents and their wallets.Larry Kitchens, director of the Center for Instructional Services, was recently appointed to the information and technology committee as part of the National League of Cities Conference.

The committee will address issues related to providing improved cable service to homes in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, electronic voting practices and the use of technology as an educational tool.

Spring Break is a time for wet T-shirt contests, road trips and women and men alike to go wild. It's an opportunity to spend all of your money on postcards you will never remember to send and knickknacks that will break before you get out of the store. Spring Break is also a chance to torture unsuspecting family and friends with countless photographs of you posing with the largest paper clip in Nowheresville, USA.

If questionable budgeting tactics arise again, the adviser to the Student Government Association said he will take steps to curb them.SGA adviser Larry Markley said he advised against the overbudgeting of SGA, the wording of the vote that raised the student fee and locking $76,500 of the budget into the student activities funding board.

Markley said he wished he would have stopped some of these past actions, and said he will step in to block them in the future.

As Spring Break approaches, students across campus are packing swimsuits, ski gear and even hiking boots as they prepare to embark on adventures across Texas, the United States and the world. Traditionally, Spring Break has sent students from kindergarten to graduate school on beach and ski vacations, but this year some students are taking different routes and spending their vacations in more exotic places and reaching out to the community by doing service projects.

After taking the play-in game from the New Mexico Lobos on Tuesday night, the men's basketball team was clinging to a possible NCAA Tournament berth. The Horned Frogs season was ended Tuesday afternoon, following a 77-64 loss to the No. 23 BYU Cougars.Odds were against TCU, but the team had won three of the last four games - including an upset over the then No. 14 Air Force Falcons on Feb. 24 - before being disparaged by the Cougars.

Picture this: Two No. 12 seeds upset the No. 5 teams in the East and South Regionals, a No. 10 seed defeats a No. 7 team in the West Regional and a No. 13 seed knocks off the No. 4 seed in the Midwest Regional. Brackets are busted, dreams go up in smoke and the hours spent dissecting matchups go to waste thanks to teams from schools the casual fan would have trouble picking out of a lineup. Sound familiar?

It's taken Perrotti's Pizza longer than expected, but a property company representative said the pizzeria's move to the GrandMarc is right around the corner. In November, Andrew Harris, assistant asset manager for Phoenix Property Co., which owns and operates the GrandMarc, told the Skiff that Perrotti's was expected to move in by the first of the year, but "a few minor issues" have delayed the move.

"(The interior) is already built," Harris said. "(But) it's taken a little longer than we thought it would."