Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror? How many times have we heard this question, particularly directed toward women? But seriously, do you like what you see?

In the movie "Mean Girls," to quote a beloved and, of course, credible source, one of the main characters who comes into the "popular crowd" observes she "never knew there could be so many things wrong with your body." Another girl looks at her hands and says, "My cuticles are horrible."

Seriously?

The Mr./Ms. TCU competition isn't exactly gaining popularity from the student body this year due to the disqualification of three Ms. TCU candidates last week.Seniors Liz Hamner, Jill Rutherford and Katie...

Good students need not be punished for being well-liked.On behalf of the three ineligible Ms. TCU nominees, I, along with several other angered individuals, would like to express our complete disgust for the way our university has handled the situation of disqualifying Ms. TCU nominees due to Facebook groups.

Yes, you read correctly: Facebook. Ludicrous? I know. But we'll get to that later.

Since having Facebook groups made without their knowledge, three women have been deemed ineligible from the race by the university.

With the men's golf fall season coming to an end, the Frogs are looking to regain focus so the team does not repeat the performance it had at this past weekend's tournament, said Bill Montigel, the head men's golf coach.The team placed 11th among the 15-team field this weekend at the annual Ridges Intercollegiate in Jonesborough, Tenn.

For the first time in seven years, the team finished outside the top three.

Hubba Hubba! Flex those muscles and raise those water bottles high because, according to Men's Fitness magazine, TCU is currently rated the eighth fittest campus in the nation.Good? Sure. But could we do better? Definitely.

According to the report, TCU received an A- for sleep and exercise, an A+ for gym hours, and a B for overall culture of fitness.

Our downfall? Unhealthy habits. We received a C- in consumption of tobacco, alcohol and fast food. However, when one applies a little common sense, it's a relatively easy problem to fix.

TCU's Campaigns Team, which now has Coca-Cola Classic using its new Web site to recruit students and sell atypical TCU shirts to raise funds for competition, the Campaigns Team adviser said.Since the first campaign in 1999, TCU's Campaigns Team, a student-run advertising agency, has been responsible for constructing marketing plans for national clients, said Mike Wood, the adviser and an advertising/public relations instructor.

He said this year presents the biggest client yet, Coca-Cola.

The volleyball team finished the first half of its conference season with an even-conference record that has the Frogs in the middle of the Mountain West Conference pack.The Frogs swept both their weekend matches against New Mexico, a conference opponent, and UT-Pan American, in their last nonconference home game.

The team's winning weekend started with a Friday night match against the New Mexico Lobos, winning all three games 30-23, 30-21 and 30-27.

One graduate student represented the men's tennis team at this weekend's tournament.Graduate student Chris Biro played Friday in Midland at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational where he reached the 16th round.

Biro defeated Omar Altmann of Pepperdine 6-2, 6-1 to advance to round 16 where he lost to Matt Brown of Baylor who is ranked No. 82 in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

The Frogs have only two more tournaments left in the 2006 all-tournament portion of their schedule before Winter Break.

The Muslim Student Association held TCU's first fast-a-thon dinner at Smith Hall on Friday and plans to make this an annual event, said the MSA president. The dinner was held to recognize the end of Ramadan, which is Oct. 23, said Danielle Richter, the MSA president and a senior entrepreneurial management major.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic year where Muslims fast for 30 days to observe what they believe is the time the Quran was sent from heaven, said Sanober Lateef, a sophomore biology major.

Vision in Action committee members met with faculty and staff at the Student Center on Monday to talk about changes in the application process for funding of new university developments. Leo Munson, associate...

Middle school and high school teachers participating in a Contemporary Issues in Biology workshop finished their third follow-up session Saturday in Arlington. With money from a teaching quality grant issued by the state of Texas, TCU instructors have developed a workshop series for middle school and high school science teachers based on the information that is taught during the Contemporary Issues in Biology course, said Molly Weinburgh, director of the Institute of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education.

This year for the first time, students were able to sign up online for TCU Leaps - an annual one-day community service event taking place this Saturday, said the TCU Leaps adviser. Peter Thompson, Leaps adviser, said the online sign-up, which allowed students to pick their top three site choices for community service, was offered so more people would show up for the event.

"In the past, our biggest issue has been attrition," Thompson said. "We would have over 1,000 people sign up, but on the day of, only 600 would actually show up."