The volleyball team finished the first half of its conference season with an even-conference record that has the Frogs in the middle of the Mountain West Conference pack.The Frogs swept both their weekend matches against New Mexico, a conference opponent, and UT-Pan American, in their last nonconference home game.

The team's winning weekend started with a Friday night match against the New Mexico Lobos, winning all three games 30-23, 30-21 and 30-27.

One graduate student represented the men's tennis team at this weekend's tournament.Graduate student Chris Biro played Friday in Midland at the Racquet Club Collegiate Invitational where he reached the 16th round.

Biro defeated Omar Altmann of Pepperdine 6-2, 6-1 to advance to round 16 where he lost to Matt Brown of Baylor who is ranked No. 82 in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.

The Frogs have only two more tournaments left in the 2006 all-tournament portion of their schedule before Winter Break.

The Muslim Student Association held TCU's first fast-a-thon dinner at Smith Hall on Friday and plans to make this an annual event, said the MSA president. The dinner was held to recognize the end of Ramadan, which is Oct. 23, said Danielle Richter, the MSA president and a senior entrepreneurial management major.

Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic year where Muslims fast for 30 days to observe what they believe is the time the Quran was sent from heaven, said Sanober Lateef, a sophomore biology major.

Vision in Action committee members met with faculty and staff at the Student Center on Monday to talk about changes in the application process for funding of new university developments. Leo Munson, associate...

Middle school and high school teachers participating in a Contemporary Issues in Biology workshop finished their third follow-up session Saturday in Arlington. With money from a teaching quality grant issued by the state of Texas, TCU instructors have developed a workshop series for middle school and high school science teachers based on the information that is taught during the Contemporary Issues in Biology course, said Molly Weinburgh, director of the Institute of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education.

An engineering professor and two undergraduate students are working to develop new technologies with the help of grants from two Dallas/Fort Worth-based companies.Edward Kolesar, W.A. Moncrief professor of engineering, Brandon Least, junior mechanical engineering major and Jeff Tippey, junior electrical engineering major, are using micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology to create a wireless sensor for helicopter blades and a mechanical eye.

The sky is the limit at KTCU 88.7 FM The Choice as the station seeks to replace the outdated logo with something a little more hip, said the station manager for The Choice.Russell Scott, KTCU's station manager, said the station is holding a contest open to all listeners, but said he wants the logo contest to appeal to students in particular.

"We're hoping it has some purple in it, but it's certainly not limited to just purple," Scott said.

The only requirements Scott said he has for the new logo is that it contains KTCU, The Choice, FM 88.7 and Fort Worth.

Although the Frogs are just better than .500, the team, which went 0-1-1 during the weekend, played hard and worked on its fundamentals.The Frogs (6-7-3, 0-2-2 MWC) tied the Wyoming Cowgirls Friday night at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium and lost to the UNLV Rebels Sunday in Las Vegas.

Freshman midfielder Michelle Nguyen said although the Frogs didn't win the game, the team played to its fullest.

Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror? How many times have we heard this question, particularly directed toward women? But seriously, do you like what you see?

In the movie "Mean Girls," to quote a beloved and, of course, credible source, one of the main characters who comes into the "popular crowd" observes she "never knew there could be so many things wrong with your body." Another girl looks at her hands and says, "My cuticles are horrible."

Seriously?

The Mr./Ms. TCU competition isn't exactly gaining popularity from the student body this year due to the disqualification of three Ms. TCU candidates last week.Seniors Liz Hamner, Jill Rutherford and Katie...

Once again the Student Government Association's new task force is working to institute an honor code at TCU, this time a pilot program targeted for next semester.SGA President Trevor Heaney said the council has never given up on the idea of an honor code but has been re-evaluating past efforts.

Heaney said the task force was created to research individual TCU honor codes it could expand on to ensure that the honor code will be school-wide.