President George W. Bush will start looking for a female candidate with credentials similar to those of Chief Justice John Roberts following Harriet Miers' withdrawal from the nomination process, faculty members said Thursday.The White House said Miers had withdrawn because of senators' demands to see internal documents related to her role as counsel to the president, according to the Associated Press.

It was our impression that the Living Wage Forum last Wednesday was set up to open discussion on a delicate issue. As students in Dr. Klopfenstein's Labor Economics class, we have studied this issue thoroughly and felt the economic side of the issue was well underrepresented.Economists are viewed, much like businessmen, to be for nothing but profit and void the human factor completely, but that just is not the case.

We believe we have some possible solutions, but first let's take a look at the problems.

At my urging, members of my labor economics class attended the Living Wage Forum with a panel of four TCU faculty members (one each from social work, religion, political science and management) last week. We have spent weeks exploring the causes and consequences of growing income inequality in the United States as well as policies, including the living wage, directed at compressing the income distribution, so my students had valuable insights to contribute. However, their voices were not welcome at the forum.

It almost goes without saying that vigilance is the key to crime prevention, but vigilance requires knowledge of your environment.This is the purpose of the Clery Act - a law requiring university police to keep a log of crime statistics available to the public and issue crime warnings.

The more students know about the crimes that go on around them, the easier it is to protect themselves from attack.

Although the act is an incredibly useful tool and a great benefit to campuses around the country, it doesn't go far enough.

On the heels of their critically-lauded collaborative EP, "In the Reins," Iron & Wine and Calexico will take Ridglea Theater stage Saturday.Doors open at 8:30 p.m. After both bands play a full set, they will take the stage together to play the EP in its' entirety.

The EP, which MSNBC.com called, "The best album of the year," is a collaboration between the Tuscon, Ariz.-based Calexico and Miami-based singer-songwriter Sam Beam, who records under the name Iron & Wine.

When U2 arrives at the American Airlines Center on Saturday, lead singer Bono will be hounded by press from the moment he sets foot on Dallas soil until he walks on stage.He certainly won't be found half-naked, singing a private concert for a local disc jockey.

That is exactly how George Gimarc first encountered the rock-singer-turned-diplomat.

"It was one of my strangest experiences with U2 ever," said Gimarc, who has kept in touch with band members since the day he met them in April 1981.

The Aardvark
Today: Calhoun, Petracovich, The Happy Bullets & Tyler Jermstad
Friday: Cracker Unplugged Featuring David Lowery & Johnny Hickman plus special guests Sorta & Shawn Russell Tickets at www.frontgatetickets.com
Saturday: Halloween PartyThe Moon
Today: Catfish Whisky and friends
Friday: Chatterton w/ Lomita
Saturday: Halloween Party: Pablo & the
Hemphill 7

The Ridglea Theater
Today: Orchard, The Monarch Box
Friday: Invincible Czars, Shaolin Death Squad, Golden Arm Trio

Bay-area band Rogue Wave returns with album "Descended Like Vultures," the follow-up to 2004's "Out of the Shadow." From the first few notes, it's clear this Sub Pop band has taken another step forward.

More mature that its predecessor, "Descended Like Vultures" pulls from a wide variety of styles. Some elements recall memories of early Pavement whereas others seem at home with contemporaries The Shins.

How are we supposed to save money on gas when the city deprives us of the most basic alternatives?The lack of sidewalks and bike lanes along the streets of Fort Worth is appalling. Bike lanes simply do not exist in this city. As I travel down South Hulen, I notice the sporadic placing of sidewalks - they exist in front of Compass Bank but stop at the end of its property.

This is a pattern throughout the southwest portion of the city.

After reading "Time to grow up: Limits not suitable for 18+," I felt the article served as little more than as bitter diatribe.I understood its point, but I felt the argument lacked substance. However,...