Golfers hit a tiny white ball with a golf club, and tennis players hit a slightly larger ball with a raquet. But kayak polo players? They juggle a ball on a paddle as they try to score a goal that is seven feet high, while fighting off defenders. Kayak polo, or canoe polo as it is internationally known, is played like a mix between hockey and basketball, but instead of skating on ice or running on hardwood, the players use boats. Four players and a goalie paddle and maneuver their way around a rectangular pool.

The record number of fans that packed into Amon Carter Stadium for the TCU vs. Texas Tech game helped the Horned Frogs play well, said head coach Gary Patterson ."The bigger the crowd, the better we play," Patterson said. "The players get this adrenaline that makes a difference."

Senior safety Marvin White said having a lot of fans in the stands motivates the team to play at an even higher level.

"We need them when things go bad," White said. "The fans keep us up."

Ah, the sweet serenade of the TCU alma mater. Nothing's greater than a group of students getting together and expressing their school spirit by singing this revered tune. Last Wednesday night, I attended such a performance. The problem is, it was occurring outside of my dorm room window at 3 in the morning.Yes, it's true. And as if that weren't enough, they proceeded to sing the fight song and then have a 45-minute conversation in the alleyway between Milton Daniel and Moncrief halls. By the time everything was all said and done, it was about 4 a.m.

Conference play has begun, and the Lady Frogs have continued their winning ways with a victory over their first conference opponent, the Lady Cowgirls of Wyoming.They will open up further conference play on the road, when they battle the Air Force Falcons and the Colorado State Rams Friday and Saturday.

Freshman defensive specialist Katelyn Blackwood said the Frogs keep the same kind of simple game plan against all of their opponents.

"Our game plan is always to go out and play like a team," Blackwood said.

The war on terror has been the United States' global battle for the past five years. While it is debatable whether the United States is winning the war, it has no doubt dominated our national attention.There is another war, however, that has been going on for ages and has been all but ignored by the general public: the war on poverty.

It is reprehensible to imagine the amount of resources we waste that could be used to help eliminate poverty.

Tadrick is a prisoner at the Tarrant County Jail in downtown Fort Worth.Linda Collins, a clinical psychologist at the Tarrant County Justice Center, said that in Tadrick's youth, his mother was constantly finding herself in prison for theft and drug dealing. His father ran away from the family when he was 2 years old. With no parents to raise him, Tadrick moved in with his abusive grandmother, a cocaine addict.

Spinach lovers should start finding another salad option to munch on until the E. coli outbreak is resolved, said TCU Dining Services staff. Since the recent outbreak, Dining Services has taken all frozen and fresh spinach products off the menu and out of the kitchen, said Legia Abato, marketing manager for Dining Services.

Rick Flores, general manager of Dining Services, said the Dining Services staff "have thrown out the four cases of spinach we had and will not order more until the FDA says it's safe to."

The classical sonatas of Beethoven played by one of TCU's own can be heard on campus.Alumnus Adam Golka, pianist, is performing a free pulic concert Sunday in Ed Landreth Hall Auditorium.

Golka said it is a dream come true for him to be able to perform all 32 of Beethoven's sonatas at TCU.

"Beethoven has an important place in the lives of pianists, and it's really been a dream of mine to perform again at TCU," Golka said.

The president of the American Society for Training and Development for the Fort Worth/Mid-Cities Chapter said to about 40 students that joining ASTD will allow them to jump-start their careers.Shelah Mabeus, ASTD Fort Worth/Mid-Cities president, said the organization provides job opportunities for students after graduation.

"I think the primary advantage that students joining ASTD have is that they have the chance to network with professionals in their field," Mabeus said.

The ministry series AFTERdark, which will feature a dramatic interpretation of scripture and a performance by the band Green River Ordinance, will visit Ed Landreth Hall on Monday, said a student representative of the series.Cameron Sparks, the on-campus student representative, said when speaker Joe White, who performs the interpretation, came in the spring of 2003, Ed Landreth was filled to capacity with about 1,000 people.

A group of students is using a Facebook group, described as a place for Horned Frogs who don't believe in a deity or afterlife, as a segue to implementing an alternative religious organization on campus.Joshua Donnoe, founder of the Facebook group "Secular Humanists are People Too!", said he knows his beliefs are in the minority at TCU, but also knows there are other students who don't follow any religion.