It is 3 a.m. You've been out late with your friends and as you come back to TCU, your friends park in the coliseum parking lot. You live on the other side of campus and realize you are left alone to walk back to your dorm. You are in a dimly lit parking lot and all you can hear is the rustling of the neighborhood TCU cats. You feel a bit uneasy about walking home; after all, it is 3 a.m.Do you: A) Walk alone to your dorm room and hope the boogie man won't spring out from the bushes, or B) call Froggie-Five-O?

Women live in a state of constant fear.We were taught to be fearful since the day we were born.

If I walk outside by myself at night, heaven forbid, my mom and friends freak out. They say I need to maintain the buddy system, or I just shouldn't go anywhere.

But who wants to stay indoors all day? I, for one, am not going to sit around and wait for some tough man to escort me to my car at midnight just because of a perceived potential danger.

Fort Worth may be more than 250 miles from the coast, but local residents are not taking chances.Fort Worth gas stations and grocery stores are flooded with customers and hotels are running out of rooms as Hurricane Rita makes its approach.

A Wal-Mart Supercenter on Anderson Street is struggling to provide enough bottled water for customers who are stocking up in preparation.

"We are swamped. All you see in the store are big baskets," said Regina Hall, a telephone operator for Wal-Mart.

Geraldine Robinson thinks she is just doing her duty to her family.Her family thinks she is a hero.

Since Hurricane Katrina, Robinson, 57, has housed - at least temporarily - about 80 relatives in her 2,800 square-foot house in Grand Prairie.

"It's just something I'm supposed to do," Robinson said. "It's not heroic."

Tell that to Starcylin Williams, Robinson's niece, who evacuated New Orleans.

"I tell her every day I thank God for her," Williams said.

Music blasted as students gathered beside Frog Fountain to watch sorority teams compete in a playground-style wheelchair basketball tournament.Sorority members wore matching shirts and cheered on their teammates, who competed against each other in several three-on-three half-court games.

Push Week - Pi Kappa Phi fraternity's three-day effort to promote Push America, a philanthropy benefitting disabled children - concluded Wednesday with the tournament.

Students will get first crack at GrandMarc apartments on East Campus when the leasing office opens in November.GrandMarc at Westberry Place, TCU's new privately owned, luxury on-campus apartment complex, located between Greene and Waits streets, plans to open a leasing office at 2711 W. Berry St..

Although TCU owns the land where GrandMarc is being built, Phoenix Property Co., a Dallas-based development and management firm, will lease the land from TCU and manage the apartments, said Don Mills, vice chancellor for student affairs.