Soon, 18 women will have the coveted parts in a play about their coveted parts.The women's studies department is holding auditions for "The Vagina Monologues" on Monday. There will be two performances on Feb. 9- - "V-Day" - that will raise money for awareness of violence against women.

"V-Day" is a global movement to end violence against women. The "V" stands for victory, valentine and vagina.

"The Vagina Monologues" performances serve as the center of an entire week of events known as "V-Week" that aims to raise awareness about sexual abuse.

The soap opera "Southern Comforts," created by TCU students, will be shown in its entirety by Tager TV, the campus cable system. Students can catch the show on channel 47 of on-campus televisions. Though an ending date has not been determined for the broadcast, all episodes of the first season are airing back-to-back continuously, said Deana Muirheid, manager of media production support services.

Muirheid said it is great to be able to showcase student-produced programming, such as "Southern Comforts," on the campus channels.

A change in Student Government Association's constitution may leave Programming Council scrambling for funds, but the group's directors are not discouraged yet. In years past, PC, one of the four branches that form SGA, has collected a fixed rate of 50 percent of the student government fee that appears on student tuition bills each semester, said Kristen Chapman, Programming Council chair.

With the passage of new SGA legislation, however, that sum may change, said Nate Arnold, SGA treasurer.

Oprah recently built a school called the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls in a town called Henly-on-Klip, 40 miles outside Johannesburg, South Africa, according to Newsweek. Included in this school will be a yoga studio, beauty salon, indoor/outdoor theaters and large fireplaces in every building. There are also hand-picked china dishes, mattresses, uniforms and oversized closets, as well as plenty of tribal art and bright colors to decorate the walls. "These girls deserve to be surrounded by beauty, and beauty does inspire," Oprah said.

Oops! She did it again.Before the Christmas break, the Web site livejournal.com printed an article titled "She's Bringin' Slutty Back" referring to Britney Spears' wild, new lifestyle minus a husband, Kevin Federline. By slutty, the headline refers to photographs taken of Spears getting out of a car - photos of her private region.

The photographs reveal a drunk Spears with fellow bad girl Paris Hilton. They leave nothing to the imagination; you can even see the scar from her cesarean section from the birth of both of her children, Sean Preston and Jayden James.

A TCU student whose report of an attempted break-in spurred a campus crime alert Tuesday told police Wednesday a prowler shone a light into her back door in a separate incident. The woman called Fort Worth...

Student attendance at college sporting events around the country is dropping, and TCU is no exception, an athletic administrator said.Scott Kull, associate athletic director for external operations, said the size of the average basketball crowd at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum is 3,000 to 4,000 people, most of whom are young children and their parents.

Despite the Lady Frogs' 13-4 record and reaching No. 23 in the ESPN/USA Today coaches' poll and the men's team sitting at 10-5, Kull said students are not making the trip out to Daniel-Meyer Coliseum on game days.

The men's basketball team looks to continue its early success in conference play when it hosts the Colorado State Rams at 7 p.m. tonight in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum.During the holiday break, the Horned Frogs (10-5, 2-1 in conference) sported a 4-2 record while downing two conference opponents, the New Mexico Lobos and the Utah Utes. The 10-5 mark through 15 games matches the record of the 2004-05 team, and is a six-game improvement from last season's record of 4-11 through 15 games.

On Jan. 8, a Dallas-based pizza chain, Pizza Patron, began accepting Mexican pesos, in addition to the U.S. dollar, as a form of payment from customers.The decision by any business to accept an additional currency is entirely that: its decision.

Andrew Gamm, Pizza Patron's director of brand development, said the chain caters predominantly to Latinos and began accepting pesos as an additional service to its patrons.

Like all businesses, Pizza Patron has a desire to make a profit by serving customers and keeping them happy. Accepting pesos is one way to do that.

When the new student union opens in 2008, both a new campus life and a new way to eat will come along with it. TCU Dining Services is replacing the present a la carte plan with a buffet-style program.

Rather than using an ID debit card at all of the dining facilities, students will swipe their IDs to gain access to the residential dining hall in the new Brown-Lupton Student Union, said Rick Flores, the general manager of TCU Dining Services.

Students will then choose their meal from a buffet of choices.

Why does it seem that all men, especially those in their teens and 20s, turn into rude, noisy, childish boys when they are with their friends?Is it all about the alpha male?

Where are the gentlemanly Rhett Butlers of "Gone with the Wind?" All I see are men who might have starred in "Jackass."

For the most part, men show no respect for women and their beauty. Instead of calling a woman "beautiful" or "stunning," they call her "hot" and then start discussions about how much they would like to get into her pants.