TCU men's basketball coach Neil Dougherty has temporarily suspended player availability to the media following Saturday's 75-49 loss to Air Force. Dougherty said player-media relations will be re-evaluated after tonight's game against San Diego State."They've gone through a lot," Dougherty said. "It's not that they've been shut off, but as a coach, sometimes I feel the need to protect my players."

Men's basketball head coach Neil Dougherty said he is hoping the Horned Frogs can reverse their season before it's too late."We're struggling with wins," Dougherty said, "but we're working hard to play better."

The Horned Frogs are 0-3 in conference play and 4-13 overall. Despite their losing record, Dougherty said, the point differential has been consistently small.

"The gap between winning and losing in a lot of our games is a thin one," Dougherty said. "For example, the New Mexico game was a two-point game."

TCU-area residents will meet tonight in hopes of settling the storm brewing over what some consider to be inconsiderate student neighbors.A public hearing will be held at 7 p.m. in the Kelly Alumni Center, to allow local residents, students and nonstudents to respond to recommendations concerning parking problems, loud parties, littering and drinking in the Frisco Heights and Bluebonnet Hills neighborhoods.

After seven days of speculation and second-guessing, one Horned Frog football player says the team will be returning one of its most dangerous weapons.Junior wide receiver Cory Rodgers, just one week after he told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram that he was declaring himself eligible for the NFL Draft, has decided to return to TCU for his senior season, a team source said Tuesday.

Junior safety Eric Buchanan said Rodgers told him Tuesday that after further considering his options, Rodgers decided to return to his teammates and finish the remaining hours on his degree plan.

Anyone who has been in the Mary Couts Burnett Library has seen Susan Swain's work, but few have seen Susan Swain.Swain is a library specialist who works in the library's special collections creating the various exhibits on display in the library's entrance, in addition to providing creative support for faculty and occasionally the chancellor's office.

On Jan. 10, Swain became the ninth recipient of the annual Library Staff Recognition Award sponsored by the Friends of the TCU Library.

"I was very surprised" Swain said. "I didn't expect that."

Every day these opinionated people meet and discuss important issues from the news. They debate the issues, come to a consensus, and tell you what they think. Here is a little about each of them.Mike Dwyer
* News editor
* Senior news-editorial journalism and history major
He was Sports Editor in fall 2005 and has been a reporter and copy editor for the Skiff. His guilty pleasure is getting his face stepped on.

Stephanie Weaver
* Opinion Editor
* Senior English, philosophy and French major

Being opinionated got me this job.I'm not a journalism major, but my coursework doesn't exactly leave me out of the loop: The English department taught me how to write, the philosophy department taught me how to use my critical reasoning skills and analyze arguments logically, and the French department, if nothing else, made it easier to read international news.

What I do on this page is try to find a variety of opinions, get a discussion going and stir up some interest.

With new equipment allowing improved DNA sequencing research on the TCU campus, students in the College of Science and Engineering will have increased opportunity in the job market upon graduation, said Phil Hartman, professor of biology.The DNA research that used to take weeks, will now take days with the 4300 DNA Analyzer, Hartman said.

"DNA sequencing is an important technique because it was only talked about theoretically," Hartman said. "Now graduate students will have hands-on experience. This makes our graduates more marketable."