The Horned Frogs will be playing for their fifth straight win, fourth in the Mountain West Conference, when they host the San Diego State Aztecs on Saturday at 3 p.m.TCU's 23-20 victory at San Diego State last season was the first meeting between the two teams. The two teams were members of the Western Athletic Conference for three years - from 1996 to 1998 - but never played each other until 2005.

Head football coach Gary Patterson said the game last year was a tough one for the Frogs, who are 7-2 overall and 3-2 in conference.

A $23,000 security system was installed in the Mary Couts Burnett Library's special collections to secure 161-year-old Texas legislation papers that were expected to arrive this month. However, the arrival...

University officials, in the wake of sexual assault charges filed in October against three former TCU athletes, say they are exploring ways to more closely scrutinize applicants for possible criminal histories. And, a public records search by the Daily Skiff of 370 current male and female varsity athletes reveals that two football players have pleaded guilty to felony crimes and three other football players have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges.One of the players who pleaded guilty to a felony charge did so in 2004, more than a year before his freshman year.

Though the four newly elected Student Government Association officers will represent the entire student body, a little more than a quarter of students participated in the vote that put them in office.Only 26 percent of 7,267 eligible students voted for president, while even fewer students voted for vice president, treasurer and vice president of Programming Council, according to the SGA election tabulations.

The Horned Frogs volleyball team is working on cohesiveness in preparation for its final regular season game against the Wyoming Cowgirls at 8 p.m. today in Laramie, Wyo., the head coach said.Head coach Prentice Lewis said the team is not working on individual things but is working on the team as a whole.

"You work on making sure the team is meshing the way you want them to mesh," Lewis said.

Anna Vaughn, a senior middle blocker, said the team is better at home and wants to get back its chemistry during away games.

Students have a right to know what illnesses are prevalent on campus. Until TCU statistics are released, students can't receive accurate facts.Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Don Mills recently sent about 3,200 students who make up a random sample an e-mail encouraging them to participate in the National College Health Assessment Web Survey. Mills said in the message that the survey will be used to assess health behaviors of students in order for the university to develop and improve health services and programs on campus.

The cost to attend TCU next fall is $1,840 more, and some students say they aren't happy about it.The board of trustees raised annual tuition 8 percent to pay for utilities, health-care benefits for faculty and staff, and lowering the student-to-faculty ratio to 13-to-1, said Chancellor Victor Boschini.

At a Nov. 2 Faculty Senate meeting, Provost Nowell Donovan said TCU will have to hire 59 new faculty to lower the ratio of 14.7-to-1 to 13-to-1. He also said over the past three years, 41 new faculty positions have been created.

Changes in residential halls in fall 2007 will make history, allowing women to live in Milton Daniel Hall for the first time, the director of residential services said.Milton Daniel, along with Wiggins, Foster, Waits and Jarvis halls may all have major changes for fall 2007, said Craig Allen, director of residential services.

"All of this is part of our broader initiative to really reshape TCU as a residential university," Allen said. "We're moving forward full steam on this and most of the changes should be permanent by the end of the semester."

What do you do when your tolerance of college food is on the verge of disappearing? Where do you go when even Pond St. Grill doesn't sound any better than The Main? Chili's? Panera? IHOP? All pretty good...

The Student Government Association voted to approve two resolutions and two bills at its weekly meeting Tuesday evening, including one bill that would extend the amount of time students have to elect the pass/no credit option for a class.The majority of SGA members voted to support the extension of the pass/no credit resolution, said Justin Brown, Student Relations chairman.

The current pass/no credit resolution allows students 20 academic days to decide if they don't want to receive academic credit for a class, Brown said.

After months of students pulling U-turns, dodging potholes and swerving across confusing lanes, the West Berry Street Project is still not complete. The Berry Street Initiative began in 1997 with a vision for the street to become a place for business opportunities and for people to feel safe and socialize in an urban environment. The program funding was $1.5 million to clean up and urbanize Berry Street in order to make it an appealing street in the TCU community.