As Spring Break approaches, students across campus are packing swimsuits, ski gear and even hiking boots as they prepare to embark on adventures across Texas, the United States and the world. Traditionally, Spring Break has sent students from kindergarten to graduate school on beach and ski vacations, but this year some students are taking different routes and spending their vacations in more exotic places and reaching out to the community by doing service projects.

After taking the play-in game from the New Mexico Lobos on Tuesday night, the men's basketball team was clinging to a possible NCAA Tournament berth. The Horned Frogs season was ended Tuesday afternoon, following a 77-64 loss to the No. 23 BYU Cougars.Odds were against TCU, but the team had won three of the last four games - including an upset over the then No. 14 Air Force Falcons on Feb. 24 - before being disparaged by the Cougars.

Picture this: Two No. 12 seeds upset the No. 5 teams in the East and South Regionals, a No. 10 seed defeats a No. 7 team in the West Regional and a No. 13 seed knocks off the No. 4 seed in the Midwest Regional. Brackets are busted, dreams go up in smoke and the hours spent dissecting matchups go to waste thanks to teams from schools the casual fan would have trouble picking out of a lineup. Sound familiar?

The AIDS epidemic in Africa only grows more serious.So serious, in fact, that people all over the world need to re-evaluate the tactics being used to battle the AIDS virus.

Although major progress has been made in increasing AIDS awareness across the globe, increasing actual support to deal with the illness has been less successful. Many organizations and charities have joined forces in the fight against AIDS, and one of the most effective ways people can help them is money.

Using the Internet to fight crime is a good idea and should be used more often. YouTube.com is filled with fun videos that can distract viewers for hours. But now, a handful of police departments are utilizing YouTube by posting surveillance videos for the public to watch so it can aid in identifying criminals.One problem police are facing is making the videos of criminals stand out among the thousands of others on YouTube. The more videos of criminals posted, the more people will notice them.

Most of the time, students find high-quality internships to be few and far between. In this day and age, everyone wants the paid internship at the huge company that people are familiar with.It is time we take a step back in to reality. Internships are meant to help us learn the skills that will help us find and obtain the jobs of our dreams. It is a time to form relationships with companies and people working inside those companies in order to get our foot in the door for a job.

A campuswide makeover would not be complete without giving the John Justin Athletic Center a new look.Fundraising has begun to renovate the south end of the Amon Carter Stadium to accommodate the growing needs of TCU athletics, said Danny Morrison, athletics director.

The renovations to the John Justin Athletic Center will create multiple uses out of the same facility, he said.

A Brite Divinity School student presented an interpretation on International Women's Day of a passage from the Hebrew bible that reveals God describing God's self in male and female terms.Teresa Ellis spoke Thursday at a luncheon hosted by the TCU Institute on Women and Gender about research she had done regarding female references of God.

"I think it could be meaningful to women from various religious traditions to give them another way to see a female image of God in the text," she said. "This is just fun for me."

Over the next few days, President Bush will conduct a five-country tour of Latin America to "underscore the commitment of the United States to the Western Hemisphere," according to the White House.Bravo to Bush for backpacking through Brazil, but it comes about five years too late; anti-U.S. sentiment has already gained a foothold down south.

While the current administration has ignored its Southern neighbors for almost seven years, much of Latin America has moved on to find other, local friends, such as socialist leaders Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and Evo Morales of Bolivia.

The puzzle thriller "Zodiac" kills from the very beginning and ends leaving the viewer wondering if the killer was in the audience while they were watching. This unique situation sets "Zodiac" apart from every other fright movie out there.Starring Jake Gyllenhaal ("Brokeback Mountain"), Mark Ruffalo ("Just Like Heaven") and Robert Downey Jr. ("Wonder Boys"), "Zodiac" recreates the case of the mass-murderer by the self-proclaimed name who was never apprehended by authorities for the killings of his victims during the late 1960s and '70s.