The Student Government Association rejected a bill to establish caucuses within SGA and approved a bill to change the credit hours needed to qualify for student body vice president Tuesday night.Lindsay Beattie, elections and regulations chair, said she introduced a bill to create caucuses in an effort to have all representatives in a constituency get to know each other better and get more work done.

"Hopefully this will get people working on legislation a little bit more," said Beattie, a senior English major, before the bill was rejected.

Ever since I wrote about our culture as a society of waiters and how technology has weakened our interpersonal relationships in my first Skiff article, I couldn't help but notice how this breakdown of communication transcends formal encounters to matters of the heart, often damaging our intimate relationships."Don't write about the same thing twice." That's the first thing your editor will tell you from the list of opinion article do's and don'ts. But sometimes, there are issues that affect so many of us so often they simply cannot be left alone.

In the biggest tournament of the fall for the men's tennis team, the Polo Ralph Lauren All-American Tennis Championships in Tulsa, Okla., junior Cosmin Cotet won five matches in a row in the singles qualifying bracket, which was by far the best showing of any individual TCU player.The tournament began Sept. 30 and ended Sunday.

Cotet's most impressive win came in the first round of the qualifying bracket when he upset the tournament's No. 5 seed Bruno Agostinelli of the University of Kentucky.

Although unhappy with their results over the weekend, members of the women's golf team said they learned from their experiences and are moving on to the season's next tournament."We are a little disappointed in our finish," said head coach Angie Ravaioli-Larkin. "This is one of our favorite tournaments."

The team finished sixth out of 17 teams in last weekend's Lady Paladin Invitational in Greenville, SC.

Catherine Matranga, a senior communication studies major, finished seventh overall, posting a three-round score of 226.

The Horned Frog volleyball team fell to 3-4 in conference play after two losses last weekend against two Top 20 Mountain West Conference opponents.The Frogs lost 3-2 against No. 19 BYU Friday night in Utah, 30-27, 23-30, 26-30, 30-27, 10-15.

Sophomore setter Nirelle Hampton had 53 assists in the match while senior defensive specialist Calli Corley had 26 digs. Junior outside hitter and middle blocker LeMeita Smith contributed 19 kills in the match.

The Frogs also lost Saturday, dropping three games to No. 16 ranked Utah by scores of 30-27, 30-17, 30-14.

I know what you're thinking."Didn't Beck just come out with a new album like, last year?"

The answer is yes, and following his 2005 hit album "Guero," Beck is back with yet another great album titled, "The Information."

For "The Information," Beck once again entered the studio with famed and sought after producer, Nigel Godrich.

Godrich is the man behind Beck's amazing "Sea Change" and "Mutations" albums, as well as Radiohead's masterpieces, "OK Computer" and "Kid A."

From the premise to the acting, "The Departed" grabs viewers and never lets go, holding their attention in the ultimate cat-and-mouse game until the grisly finale.Borrowing from the Japanese film "Infernal Affairs," "The Departed" is about two rival informants, one raised by the mob to infiltrate the Special Investigations Unit of the Massachusetts State Police Department, the other persuaded to enter the mob world.

I am a huge sports fan, and I always try to keep a keen eye on the game. But at the last home football game against BYU, I wasn't able to cheer the Horned Frogs out of a deficit, because I couldn't take my eye off of what was going on next to me - people smoking.The smoking continued as I expected a security officer to come stop the man who - from what I could see - didn't even have to be in the disabled section where I was sitting. After no one approached, I went back to the gate and questioned the security officer.

Remember the good ol' days of scripted TV? You know, back when CBS had to shell out $1 million an episode for Ray Romano to give us a few chuckles. Back when anniversary dinners and little-league games were missed thanks to the latest episode of "Dallas." Back when television studios actually tried.Nowadays, television is saturated with a parasitic phenomenon that threatens to draw us away from the more important things in life and make our nation more stupid as a result.

Instead of sleeping late for one more day of Fall Break, five TCU journalism students spent Sunday morning at a simulated train wreck.Three students played the roles of victims and two students simulated reporters at the scene of the mock train collision, hosted by the Trinity Railway Express, said Amiso George, associate professor of journalism.

George said she thought a full dress rehearsal of a crisis situation would be relevant for students in her public relations principles and international and intercultural communication classes.

More than 600 tickets have been sold for tonight's Fogelson Honors Forum where a CNN medical correspondent who has written medical segments for "ER" will discuss his experiences.Sanjay Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon in Atlanta, will share his background in covering issues such as Hurricane Katrina, the tsunami in Sri-Lanka and battlefield hospitals throughout Iraq as part of the TCU Honors Program's annual Fogelson Honors Forum.

Today is the deadline to register to vote in Texas' Nov. 7 general election, a process students can complete online. Students can visit the Texas Secretary of State's Web site, sos.state.tx.us, and click on the link for "Elections and Voter Information" on the home page to print a voter registration form.

The next step is to mail the completed registration form to the voter registrar in the voter's county.

Official applications to register to vote are postage-paid by the state of Texas, meaning a voter won't need a stamp to submit his or her registration.