After an impressive outing against a conference foe, the men's and women's swimming and diving teams will welcome another conference opponent to the University Rec Center Saturday.The teams will face Wyoming at home, on the heels of a sweep against the Air Force Falcons last weekend.

With the men's team standing at 4-0 and the women's team at 4-2 heading into the weekend, head coach Richard Sybesma said the teams are looking at some close races on Saturday, but it could turn out to be a big conference victory for the teams.

Graduating seniors have ranked the Schieffer School of Journalism the lowest in quality of academic advising out of all the schools on campus.The advising problem at the Schieffer School, said Tommy Thomason, director of the school, stems from the high number of adjunct faculty members. Adjuncts do not participate in advising, so the weight of advising lies on the shoulders of the 13 full-time faculty members, Thomason said.

New research backs up what many women may have thought for years - men are generally happier.A recent survey conducted by a team of researchers, including Princeton economist Alan Krueger, confirms that men find happiness much more easily than women.

A happiness gender gap?

The survey asked people about daily activities and how they felt while they were involved in the activity. Men and women had similar likes and dislikes, such as spending time with friends and paying the bills, respectively, but there were some pronounced differences on other questions.

Brad Stone logged on, only to see his work had once again been deleted.It wasn't good enough for one of Wikipedia's other editors and was flagged as biased, undoing his modifications to an entry in the online encyclopedia.

Stone, an EMT from Cambridge, Mass., was in an "edit war."

Such edit wars happen every day on Wikipedia, the online, user-generated encyclopedia Stone helps to edit along with about 100,000 others. The encyclopedia's first 7.2 million entries were crafted through more than 282 million edits, according to a Hewlett-Packard Labs report.

Coming off a disappointing finish at the Mountain West Conference Championships, a senior runner said he hopes to make good this weekend on what did not happen at the conference championship meet.Senior Matt Manly and sophomore Festus Kigen will vie for a chance to run in the NCAA National Championship on Saturday when they compete in the NCAA South Central Regional Championship.

Head coach Shawn Winget said the top four individuals not from the winning two teams get an invitation to Nationals.

The Vietnam War changed the culture of a nation and gave it a vocabulary with special words and phrases: peacenik, tie-dye, Woodstock and draft dodger.But that hasn't happened in the war in Iraq.

Is it because there is no draft?

The cultural advancements made in the 1960s were outstanding.

The decade was marked by the civil rights movement, led by the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. Among others, King, led protests and demonstrations on behalf of civil rights.

There was a headline the other day that bothered me: "Algae-Powered Cars." Yes, it's true! Now you can power your car with the same stuff floating in your uncle's crappy swimming pool that hasn't been touched in years - but you probably won't.

I'll go out on a limb: No one reading this, including me, will ever power a car with sewage, hemp, animal fat, vegetable oil, corn, sugar, electricity, air, water or sunlight either.

The rifle team awaits a challenge from a top-three team in the nation this weekend, the head coach said.Head coach Karen Monez's team heads to West Point, N.Y., to face Army on Saturday in the Tronsrue Marksmanship Center. Army finished third in the nation last year.

Monez said the Horned Frogs want four solid individual scores that will lead to a high aggregate total, but that doesn't have to result in a victory.

Students need 24-hour library access, lower tuition, better student security and an easier way to access university Web sites, student leaders told the Board of Trustees Student Relations Committee and school administrators Wednesday.Intercom members, who are all campus organization leaders, meet with the student relations committee once per semester shortly before the entire board meets. The board will discuss the students' proposals at its meeting Friday.

Coming off the team's second Mountain West Conference sweep, the volleyball team wraps up its season on the road.At 20-10, the team will take on San Diego State on Friday and head to Las Vegas on Saturday to face UNLV.

Head coach Prentice Lewis said the team needs to play with more consistency, especially on the road. The team's road record stands at 7-6 heading into this weekend's West Coast swing.

"If we play consistent, we can battle with a lot of things," Lewis said. "That's our goal, but we have to be consistent to do so."

The Shell Oil Co. executive president of supply and distribution said the economy should be twice as efficient as it is now.Mark Williams spoke to students in Sid Richardson Hall on Wednesday night about the issues facing oil in his speech titled, "The Future of Oil: Hard Truths about the Choices."

Throughout his career, Williams has explored and sold oil. Currently, Williams is in charge of the global oil supply for Shell Oil Co.