The University Council voted to make changes to TCU's academic calendar in a meeting Monday based on students' requests.The changes include starting school on a Monday rather than a Wednesday in August, and adding a Thursday to Fall Break and a Wednesday to Thanksgiving Break.

"The students initiated the changes that have been made," said Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs.

For the first time in TCU women's tennis history, a player has won a grand slam event in collegiate tennis. Sophomore Nicole Leimbach won the Riviera/ITA All-American Championship on Sunday in Pacific Palisades, Calif.

"It makes you feel good when you are the record setter or whatever you want to call it, but I really don't think about it that much." Leimbach said. "It makes you feel good knowing you are setting goals so someone else can break them."

The TCU defense forced seven turnovers Saturday en route to a 28-14 victory over the Wyoming Cowboys, putting the Horned Frogs in sole possession of first place in the Mountain West Conference and back into The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time since the second week of the season.All seven turnovers came courtesy of Wyoming quarterback Corey Bramlet, who lost three fumbles and threw four interceptions. The Cowboys saw three critical fourth-quarter drives end in turnovers, sealing the win for a Horned Frog offense that had a consistently short field to work from.

The Horned Frogs dropped their first two Mountain West Conference games at Utah and Brigham Young last weekend, 1-0 and 4-0 respectively, but head coach Dan Abdalla said he felt his team posted an impressive performance on its first road trip of the season."We were impressive in the second half against Utah and gave ourselves a chance to win," Abdalla said. "We didn't play to our best potential at BYU, and they came out to play maybe their best game. We just need to go watch the video and try and improve, but they were a great team, and they'll go a long way."

It's true. Those pennies really do add up.Residence halls across campus participated in a donation drive to raise money for hurricane victims and received approximately $2,050.

Barbara Hawkins, associate director of Residential Services, said the amount included $921.67 in loose change and other donations in the form of paper money and checks.

Resident assistants from every hall set up donation cans in each wing so residents could make contributions.

A student-activist group is mounting a campaign to pressure TCU to serve 100 percent fair-trade coffee across the university from department offices to dining services.Later this month, Frogs for Fair Trade plans to deliver a petition of more than 360 names to Chancellor Victor Boschini and will write letters asking him to make TCU a 100 percent fair-trade campus, said Sean Blackwell, a sophomore criminal justice major.

Nature has been very unkind to human populations lately. Some would claim even more than usual.The past year has seen blanket media coverage of major disasters like the Indian Ocean tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

Major disasters are rare, so there will be more coverage when the unthinkable does happen. Even then, other examples of extensive devastation will not find their way into the news or will receive less coverage because they don't have a high enough body count or are too far away.