I was enjoying a beer and barbecuing on my deck last year when I first heard TCU would get its chance at Texas the following season. "We're going to get our (butts) handed to us," one friend said.

After taking a sip from my Bud Light, I had a different take on the game.

"It's about time," I said. "Everyone needs a good gut check every once in a while."

Fast forward the clock to Sept. 7.

The university's billboards that went up Saturday advertise a new slogan, "Ahead of the curve," and the marketing and communication department aimed for that mark when it designed the new admissions Web site.With a tentative launch date scheduled in two weeks, the site will feature an interactive look that is one of the first of its kind, said Elizabeth Perkins, director of admission marketing and communication, who said she started the project about two months ago.

Rights of accused not honored in sexual assault caseThe Bill of Rights grants all Americans the right to a speedy and public trial.

The case involving three former TCU athletes facing sexual assault charges has certainly been made public, yet has been anything but speedy.

Former athletes Lorenzo Labell Jones, 20, Shannon Behling, 20, and Virgil Allen Taylor, 19, were arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a freshman female student last October, according to court documents.

Every NFL owner has officially uncovered their eyes now that the preseason is finally over, and after six months of anticipation, it is time for opening weekend. Your fantasy team is set, L.T.'s owner has been ostracized and it's time to start scouring the waiver wire for this year's Marques Colston as well as second guessing who should be your flex starter for this weekend.

This week, we will help you with our top three waiver wire adds and examine some of this weekend's matchups to keep an eye on.

Waiver Wire Adds:

The Faculty Senate met Thursday for the first time this semester to welcome 20 new senators and discuss the individual committee projects for the 2007-2008 school year.After spending an academic year working on a new faculty tenure and promotion appeal policy and producing a draft last August, the Tenure, Promotion and Grievance Committee will continue to work on the policy, TPG chairwoman Dianna Newbern said.

"We have to get more input on the draft the committee wrote this summer and write another draft, but overall we are 90 percent complete," Newbern said.

When you think of football games, what do you think of? Cheering in the stands until you lose your voice? Painting your face so purple that your professors can't tell whether you've been strangled or gone...

Would anyone notice if you went missing?The TCU chapter of Amnesty International held a weeklong event starting Sept. 4 to raise awareness for people who are imprisoned for their beliefs.

Dani Folks, vice president of Amnesty International, said the term coined for these prisoners are "prisoners of conscience."

"Amnesty International is the biggest civil rights organization in the world," Folks said.

Amy Gardner, the organization's secretary and treasurer, said people's rights are being abused every day.