When the residence halls close at the end of the fall semester, not all students have the opportunity to go home and spend time with their families. For several international students, going home is not an option, and they are left to make other living arrangements until campus reopens.

"They either stay with family or with other students," said John Singleton, director of International Student Services. "Some travel."

Dimitar Zlatkov, a sophomore computer science major from Bulgaria, said he spent Winter Break last year in a motel.

TCU's Brown-Lupton Health Center has received an additional 100 flu vaccines to be available to students."We are encouraging students to get their flu shots as soon as possible," said Marilyn Hallam, assistant...

The Horned Frogs were swept out of the Las Vegas Invitational over Thanksgiving weekend with losses to Oklahoma State and Drake, but head coach Neil Dougherty insists the team has a brighter future than its 1-3 start."We don't have a win to show for the weekend, but I think we grew up a lot," Dougherty said. "I don't like the fact that we're losing, but I can see a silver lining in our cloud."

The silver lining may be senior guard Nile Murry, who scored 38 points over the two games and was named to the all-tournament team.

TCU will take a trip to Cancun, Mexico over Thanksgiving Break, but the trip won't be a holiday for the Lady Frogs.They will open play against Mississippi State on Friday in the Caribbean Classic.

Sophomore guard Adrianne Ross said the team knows little about Mississippi State.

"They're in the (Southeastern Conference), and we know we have to give a lot of credit to that conference," Ross said. "We know they will have good guard play, but besides that, we don't know very much yet."

You walk into The Main, get your food in a to-go container and later throw the container away. You read a newspaper and toss it in the wastebasket when you're done. When you finish your bottled water, where will the bottle go? In the trash?The average American throws away nearly 8 pounds of garbage every day, according to the America Recycles Web site.

The city of Fort Worth recycles 20 percent of its collected trash, up from 6 percent in 2003, according to its Web site.

So, what does TCU do to recycle?

Ever since the Frogs beat Nevada-Las Vegas 51-3 in their last regular season football game, every TCU fan has wondered one thing: What bowl game are we going to?As the rumors flew - talk of the Las Vegas Bowl, the Independence Bowl in Shreveport, La., the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tenn., the Houston Bowl and even the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., circulated - we all expected an invitation and an announcement any day.

TCU's record-high enrollment and increasing number of faculty members could be causing campus buildings to burst at the seams.Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Nowell Donovan said the problem of limited office space has been "creeping up" on the administration for years but has accelerated in recent years because of the administration's goal to decrease the student-faculty ratio from 15-1 to 13-1.

Donovan said the undergraduate population has increased by 26 percent over the past 15 years.