With Superbowl XL just around the corner, people all over the nation are gearing up for one of America's most accepted and adored cultural pastimes - commercial watching.No joke. When it comes to television, nothing is more inundated with advertisements and selling points than the Big Game. It has gotten to the point that people are loading couches and drinking beers not to watch football, but manipulative attempts by advertisers at brainwashing Americans into buying junk like a Half-Pounder Fatty McCheese or UltraMega Light Super Beer.

Although early season struggles have slowed down the men's golf team, the Horned Frogs look to rebound by starting the spring season with a trip to Hawaii for the Waikoloa Intercollegiate Invitational.After coming off a fall season, which saw the Horned Frogs enjoy success in several national polls, head coach Bill Montigel said TCU is working harder than ever to ensure success in its new home, the Mountain West Conference.

TCU students, like their college counterparts in a nationwide survey, are reluctant to report sexual harassment to school authorities, said Susan Adams, associate vice chancellor for Student Affairs and sexual harassment officer at Campus Life.Almost two-thirds of U.S. college students experience sexual harassment, but less than 10 percent report it to school authorities, according to a survey by the American Association of University Women.

At TCU, students hesitate to report sexual harassment because of the fear of being labeled or magnifying the situation, Adams said.

The women's golf team, having already completed a portion of its season, is ready to move to the culmination of the year's efforts. Head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin said the team is looking forward to the new semester.

"Going into the spring, we are coming off some good momentum from our tournaments in the fall," Ravaioli-Larkin said. "Everybody is confident and feelings for the spring are really high. I think we are expecting some great things for ourselves, concentrating on what we are capable of doing."

TCU Black History Month 2006Wednesday, February 1
Kickoff - Real Talk
SC Lounge
12:00 p.m.
Student-led discussion on various topics that revolve around the Black community in Fort Worth and on the TCU campus.

Worship Service & Fellowship Dinner Honoring Black History
Robert Carr Chapel
5:15 p.m.
A nod to various leaders who have been instrumental in the Civil Rights arena, theology, social issues and more. A free fellowship dinner immediately following the service. Fellowship dinner immediately following service.

The women's tennis team is looking to break new ground in 2006 and take head coach Dave Borelli where he's never been before during his tenure at TCU: a conference championship podium."My goal is to try and win a conference championship," Borelli said. "I haven't won one here yet."

Even a Mountain West Conference victory would not fully satisfy Borelli, who won seven national championships at the University of Southern California before coming to TCU in 2002.

"We'd also like to finish in the Top 16, the Sweet 16 ... and host a regional," Borelli said.

Like most TCU rosters, the baseball team's features the usual crop of kids from Texas and one from Oklahoma. And then there's Eric Marshall. In coming to TCU, Marshall, a freshman right-handed pitcher from Barrington, Ill., followed a long lineage down the path to Fort Worth.

His grandfather played football for TCU in the 1940s. His father went to TCU. His mother, uncle, aunt - all Horned Frogs.

With the season almost complete, resting and relaxing is the last thing the TCU swimming and diving team has on its mind. Senior Brent Norcross, who specializes in sprints and the backstroke, said this team does things a bit differently than the competition.

"We train and swim up until our conference meet at the end of the year," Norcross said. "That is something most others don't do."

The conference tournament is on Feb. 22 in Oklahoma City. Norcross said that is when all the hard work will pay off.