One of the best lessons I learned in elementary school was from a seemingly silly class project on Valentine's Day. At the beginning of February, my first grade teacher had us all bring empty paper towel rolls and Kleenex boxes to school. Then there was a mass of creativity as we used the trash to design beautiful castles and space ships, using colorful tissue paper to give color to our cardboard turrets and rockets.

BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENTS:

Brite Worship Service

Tuesday, Feb. 15

11 a.m.

Description: A focus on Black History and the Black Church hosted by Rev. Victoria Burson Associate Pastor of Cathedral of Hope [U.C.C.] in Dallas, Texas

Location: Robert Carr Chapel

Free and open to the public

CommUNITY Conversations: Ghana

Wednesday, Feb. 16

12 p.m. - 1 p.m.

Junior Lyndsi Hardin earned her first MVP honor of the season as No. 5 TCU moved to 5-0 on the season Sunday afternoon with a 10-9 decision over No. 9 Fresno State at October Hill Farm.

With the win, the Frogs have now won six-straight regular season matches dating back to last spring and haven't lost at home since the 2008-09 season. Overall, TCU rallied on the Western side Sunday to outscore the Bulldogs, 1,433-1,423.

TCU dropped their eighth-straight game to Wyoming Saturday, 77-67, at the Cowboys' Arena-Auditorium. The loss dropped the Frogs to 10-16 overall this season and 1-10 in Mountain West Conference play....

Alabama defeated TCU 4-3 at Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center. TCU suffered its second loss in a row, dropping the Horned Frogs to 2-2. TCU won the doubles competition 2-1. The Horned Frogs fared poorly in singles play losing four of the six matches.

On the first court senior Emanuel Brighiu and senior Christopher Price, took on Alabama juniors Ricky Doverspike and Vikram . Brighiu and Price trailed early, but rallied to take the 7-5 lead. Reddy made a sensational dive to pull the score to 7-6. Brighiu and Price held of a "Bama rally to win 50-30 and give TCU the victory.

The State of Leadership Conference

Who: Keynote speaker Donnie Hodge, president and COO of Alta Gracia and parent company Knights Apparel

Where: TCU Leadership Center

When: Dinner begins at 6 p.m. today. Hodge speaks at 7 p.m.

Open to students, faculty and staff. Registration is required.

For more information contact J.R. McGrath at [email protected].

Moudy Gallery Exhibition

Who: Chris Powell, head of the ceramics department in the School of Art

When: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. today

With the ice finally thawing from last week's winter storms, the No. 52 TCU men's tennis team will go into battle against No. 31 Alabama on Friday at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.

It will be the team's fourth match of the season after a 4-3 loss against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Jan. 29 and two 6-1 victories against UT-Arlington and UT-Pan American on Jan. 23.

Head coach David Roditi said that even though the team has had the past couple of matches canceled against Wichita State and Tulsa, it has been working hard in preparation for the upcoming match.

The TCU equestrian team gets back in action Sunday against the Fresno State Bulldogs for the first time since Jan. 30, when it defeated Delaware State 15-5.

The Frogs' match with Baylor at the Fort Worth Stock Show was canceled because of bad weather last Friday.

TCU is 4-0 to start the year and is ranked No. 5 in the country.

The Frogs' opponent, No. 9 Fresno State, won its first and only match of the spring thus far, defeating the University of Miami of Ohio and Ohio State.

We now live in a completely global world. Such traditional American companies, such as Coca-Cola, make the majority of their profits overseas and have the majority of their workforce based overseas.

Yet for all this globalization in terms of economics, the world is still dominated by the United States culturally and politically. American culture and English is spread around the world through various means such as movies, television shows and music.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Thursday he was transferring power to his vice president, Omar Suleiman, but would not leave the country, according to the Associated Press.

Mubarak said in a nationally televised address Thursday that the demands of protesters calling for his immediate ouster are just and legitimate. He said he had requested six constitutional amendments, answering one of the demands of the protesters. He said he would lift emergency laws when security permitted.