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."

'Twas 19 days before Christmas, and the Lady Frogs were a mess.Fresh off a 40-point loss to No. 2 Duke on Dec. 6, the TCU womens' basketball team was a disappointing 2-5 and had lost to three top 15 teams by a combined score of 249-157. After just seven games, the season was already slipping away.

Sophomore guard Adrianne Ross said that while things looked bleak early, the players forced themselves to keep a positive outlook.

"We looked at ours as one of the tougher nonconference schedules," Ross said. "We were mentally tough."

To win the closest game in Houston Bowl history, the TCU Horned Frogs were forced to turn to the kicker that was partially responsible for putting the one in their 10-1 season.Junior reserve kicker Peter LoCoco, who was benched after missing three field goals in a Sept. 10 loss to SMU, nailed a 44-yarder with just over five minutes remaining to set the stage Saturday for the Frogs' 27-24 victory over the Iowa State Cyclones.

I had a teacher in junior high go off on a spiel one day about how our high school and college years would fly by."Sure," I thought as I watched him, "you also eat chalk."

(He actually did eat chalk on more than one occasion.)

Now, I find myself looking back on my last four and a half years at TCU (yes, I'm a super senior) and thinking that very thing: My college career really has flown by.