College football is one of the most lucrative businesses that colleges partake in year to year. From ticket and concessions sales to bowl game-appearance money, college football is a cash business in which coaching staffs around the nation are trying to get ahead and find the edge that will help their teams win and give them the opportunity to get the coveted BCS national championship or win their respective conference.But with so many vying for such rewards, the question of how to obtain such goals and how far to go to do so is presented.

Focus on the upcoming game against the Air Force Falcons took precedence over the Poinsettia Bowl and recent talk of firings in the college football world at Tuesday's football Coaches' Luncheon."We beat the odds, and nobody thought we could get to this point with a chance to go 10-2," head coach Gary Patterson said. "We are in a position to finish the season just like we wanted, we just did it in a different way."

Last weekend the Frogs beat the Colorado State Rams and solidified their chance for a bowl bid.

Flags on campus will be lowered to half-staff Thursday in memory of Monika Dewar, a former nursing teacher who was killed in a car accident Sunday evening, said Mary Nell Kirk, an executive assistant in the chancellor's office.Dewar, who taught in the nursing school in the 1980s, remained active in the program for many years, said former colleague Linda Curry, interim director of academics in the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Armed to the teeth with sounds thicker than their name, the Plump DJs have consistently dominated the break-beat music scene since arriving in 2000.From humble roots of screaming 303 synthesizer lines and sampled 1970s drum breaks, the London-based DJs (Lee Rous and Andy Gardner) increasingly have added layers to their sound: guest vocalists, changing tempos and, albeit rarely, a more mellow sound.

"Mad Cow," their latest single, however, is anything but mellow or complex. And it works.

Once you have proclaimed your band to be the greatest in the world, what else is there left to do? Make a movie, of course.That is exactly what the overweight middle-age rock group Tenacious D did, and, surprisingly, it didn't suck.

The band is best known for the short comedy skits that first started airing on HBO in the late 1990s.

"Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny" sets out to portray how the band got its start.

Every year, the same message is everywhere you turn: This Christmas, give the gift of giving.This sounds like the perfect gesture, but how many people actually put this suggestion into action?

You hear people all the time say they want to give or need to give, so why don't they just do it?

People often say they don't have the time, money or resources to give to others.

But let's face it: It's just an excuse. Anyone can join in the spirit of giving to others if they just put forth the effort.

The Student Government Association passed a bill to allocate funding for the creation of a disc golf course at TCU, along with two other bills and one resolution at its weekly meeting Tuesday evening.Jordan Haygood, a representative from the College of Communications, proposed the bill and said the disc golf course, which will be located in the Worth Hills area, would be a good way for students to spend more time outside.

As the TCU men's golf team wrapped up its second consecutive second-place finish, one golfer hoped to clinch an individual goal at the Memphis Intercollegiate.Franklin Corpening, a junior communication studies major, left a 20-foot putt for eagle one foot short and tapped in the birdie putt in disgust.

But, when that putt connected with the bottom of the cup, Corpening guaranteed his first career collegiate victory.

Because of student opposition, faculty and staff are unsure of when the proposed plus/minus grading system will go into effect, said a Faculty Senate member.Andrew Fort, past chairman and member of the Faculty Senate's Executive Committee, said the issue has not been finalized because of the negative student reaction.

David Grant, a religion professor who first presented the proposal, said the system was supposed to go into effect next fall but will probably be implemented later on next year.

The Frogs collect their eighth postseason berth in nine years as they are set to take on the Northern Illinois Huskies in the second annual San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl."It's a reward for the kids and how they played all year," head coach Gary Patterson said during a press conference Monday afternoon.

Mark Cohen, director of athletics media relations, said the Poinsettia Bowl on Dec. 19 will be the first bowl in the 2006 NCAA Bowl season and will come 17 days after the Frogs' regular season ends.

Computers controlling people. While it might sound like a plot from a really bad science fiction movie starring some washed-up actor, our society grows more and more dependent on our little mechanical friends every day. Sure, I understand that computers are needed for saving lives and controlling our nuclear weapons silos, but we could live without recreational computer-use for a week.

Let's start with the GPS systems that are becoming more and more common in today's automobiles.