Sometimes I like to think I'm too smart for the forces of the advertising industry. I flip through the pages of a magazine and think I'm above the tricks various companies use to sell their wares.

Take the March issue of Maxim Magazine.

I'm currently staring at an advertisement for a cologne named Diesel. It sports a shirtless, muscular guy holding a bottle of the fragrance and sporting a cocky look on his face that screams, "I just had sex with your girlfriend."

Injuries, painful procedures and prolonged stays at hospitals can increase a child's anxiety and fears. However, students may soon have an opportunity to study a field that works to alleviate a child's stress when hospitalized.

A child-life option within the School of Education will be proposed in March. If approved by the faculty, undergraduate and graduate councils before the end of the semester, the program will be available for students beginning next fall, said Mary Patton, associate professor of early childhood education.

As the demand for secondary math, science and bilingual elementary school teachers continues to grow, TCU education graduates are apparently hot commodities.

TCU students get picked up right away by area school districts, said Molly H. Weinburgh, director of the Institute of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education for the College of Education.

"There are principals around the Metroplex who say they would take a less-than-stellar TCU graduate over a stellar someone else," Weinburgh said.

Young voters are expected to have a substantial impact in determining who will be the next U.S. president, and as candidates are visiting the Lone Star State seeking votes in the March 4 primary, they have a chance to become educated voters for a better future.

The March 4 primaries are crucial for both Democrats and Republicans as Ohio, Rhode Island, Vermont and Texas vote for 370 Democratic and 256 Republican delegates.

Residential Services is providing yet another opportunity for students to bond together.

Rachel Siron, hall director for Samuelson and Carter halls, said seven new residential programs called Living Learning Communities will begin next fall.

The programs offer students a chance to live in communities based on common interests, Siron said.

Siron said the communities will be available to sophomores, juniors and seniors.

A man in Baraboo, Wis., is custom painting weapons with the Hello Kitty character on them. From handguns to semi-automatics, he will paint it if the price is right - at least $100 for one color painting.

There are lots of ways to decorate a machine, but having a pink gun with a cat design on the handle is the most dangerous thing anyone could do.

A video on CNN.com features Jim's Gun Supply, where painted guns are sold with all kinds of designs.

Movies are meant to entertain.

That's the bottom line - the entire purpose of the industry.

With the Academy Awards on Sunday, movies are becoming a hot topic.

Who's been nominated? Who hasn't been nominated? Who will not be attending?

And apparently, who's been stirring up controversy?

"Juno," the movie that seems to be this year's "Little Miss Sunshine," was nominated for four Oscars, including best picture and best actress.

One quote from the movie, however, has incited people to criticize it.

TCU students are again participating in the most prestigious public relations competition in the country to win up to $2,500, an advertising/public relations professor said.Cowtown Communications , a student...

Are you Audrey ­- a 24-year-old sassy, hardworking perfectionist who does whatever it takes to get to the top?

The radio-TV-film department is on a hunt to find characters for its pilot, "A Fork in the Road," through open auditions today.

Maggie Truitt, a senior radio-TV-film major and an executive producer, said the pilot is a department-wide production based on an idea some of the students had in a dramatic writing class.