The men's and women's golf teams came back in the final rounds of their tournaments to jump up several places in the final standings.The women's golf team tied for second out of 16 teams Tuesday at the Jeannine McHaney Intercollegiate Tournament in Lubbock after a slow start in the first two rounds, said head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin.

"We left a few shots out there the first two rounds, but we talked about being focused Monday night and it worked out," Ravaioli-Larkin said.

Students can get advice on what they can do with their degrees after college tonight in Moudy South, said an adviser of a recently renewed special interest group. The American Society for Training and Development, an organization geared toward students, faculty and staff who are interested in workplace learning and performance, will kick off its first meeting tonight with free Chipotle, said Debi Iba, the organization's faculty adviser.

"ASTD gives students a sneak peak into what professional life is like after graduation," Iba said.

The soccer team will try to improve its 4-4 record in a pair of matches this week at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium.Thursday's and Saturday's games will be at 7 p.m. against SMU and UT San Antonio.

Last week, the Horned Frogs extended their home winning streak to two games with a win over Sam Houston State, but fell to the Nebraska Cornhuskers 4-0, Sunday in Lincoln, Neb.

The focus of practices this week has been on keeping team composure through the course of a match, said head coach Dan Abdalla.

Construction adds shadows and new dark spaces on campus, creating a need for more lighting, TCU Police said.Twice a semester, members of the police, administration, Physical Plant and Student Government Association walk the campus searching for dark areas that need lighting, said TCU Police Chief Steve McGee.

This semester, the lighting walk will take place on a new moon during daylight-saving time so it is as dark as possible earlier in the night, McGee said. This will occur on Nov. 20 or 21 according to stardate.org.

Texas legislators are considering suspending the University of Texas at Austin's admissions regulations for an unspecified number of years, according to a Sept. 18 article published by insidehighered.com, a Web site pertaining to higher education news.Specifically, the change would do away with the uniform admission law, better known as the top 10 percent law. The law specifies that Texas high school students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their classes are automatically accepted and guaranteed places in the Texas public universities or colleges of their choices.

Fair Trade coffee is available in Frog Bytes again after student activists met with representatives from TCU Dining Services last week.At the end of the 2005 spring semester, the activist group Frogs for Fair Trade succeeded in its mission to make fair trade coffee available in Frog Bytes, Bistro Burnett and the now closed Jazzman's Cafe, said Seth Harris, president of Frogs for Fair Trade.

Harris said when he returned this fall, he was surprised to find fair trade coffee wasn't being sold anymore.

MySpace and other networking Web sites have been consistently attacked by the mass media to the point that the controversies surrounding them are mostly old news. The fact is, despite the many stories in the media about creepy men stalking underage girls through MySpace, chances are the audience to which these stories are targeting are active users of MySpace.According to Seeking Alpha, a leading provider of stock market opinion and analysis, MySpace has over 100 million users and, according to CNN, about 230,000 new members join every day.

Pornography. Few subjects are so ubiquitous and taboo in American culture. But it seems the taboo factor is wearing off. Over the past three decades, our society has become increasingly porn-friendly. What was once the occasional Penthouse stashed away in your grandfather's garage has blossomed into what is now a $12 billion industry, according to The Christian Science Monitor.

What has caused this sudden moral shift? Was it the liberating sexual revolution of the 1960s? Or perhaps the embracing of postmodernism and its relative views on morality?

For the past few weeks, I have heard a lot about the plus/minus grading policy. Even though I agree that the policy will help students in the long run, I believe the issue directly relates to TCU's national ranking. The new grading policy will help raise the academic bar for students. Raising this bar will make grade inflation a thing of the past and give students more options. A student who goes the "extra mile" will be rewarded for working harder.

Pornography will be a hot topic tonight at "Porn Nation," a multimedia-based event that will discuss the truth and consequences of pornography and sexual addiction, said the event promoter.Speaker Michael Leahy will talk about how pornography has affected his life and will share with students the dangers of addiction, said the event's promoter, Matt Syme, a freshman broadcast journalism major.

The 2006 Austin City Limits Festival was once again held at Zilker Park in Austin for its fifth year, and it proved to be yet another successful year for the three-day event as more than 50,000 people filled the park each day, according to the ACL e-mail newsletter. The first obvious change for the festival was planting grass in Zilker park to eliminate the dust-bowl incident of last year, when the wind made the park look like a Sahara sandstorm.