With six remaining conference matches in the season, the volleyball team preserved its .500 Mountain West Conference record after one of its best performances of the year, said head coach Prentice Lewis.The weekend home contests with the Colorado State Rams and the Air Force Falcons left the Horned Frogs with a split in the standings.

Friday night featured a hard-luck loss to the Rams after the team dropped a one-game lead en route to a 3-1 loss in the match.

Platinum-selling country singer Dierks Bentley is covering a lot of ground in his ol' cowboy boots, but the singer looks to hang them up on his third record, "Long Trip Alone."Known for catchy tunes such as "What Was I Thinkin'" off his self-titled debut album and "Lot of Leavin' Left to Do" from his sophomore effort "Modern Day Drifter," Bentley follows in the footsteps of his partying forefathers Willie Nelson and Hank Williams Jr.

But could this Arizona rebel be settling down just a bit?

A 100-foot-high moving stage, pyrotechnics, fireworks and a giant inflatable tongue could not overshadow The Rolling Stones at their mega-concert Sunday night in Austin.The Stones seemed on a mission to rock out the entire city as they opened with a deafening "You've Got Me Rockin,'" which could be heard miles away from Zilker Park.

And if you were looking for the Stones to play your favorite song in their "A Bigger Bang" tour promoting their 2005 CD of the same name, they probably did.

Two years ago, Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Now, "Flags of our Fathers," Eastwood's latest film, seems to be his attempt at a second Oscar in three years."Fathers" tells the story of the three surviving men who hoisted the flag flown over Iwo Jima in World War II, immortalized in the statue outside the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Va.

Blink for more than a second, and you may miss a key component of one the year's most intense and complex movies - "The Prestige."The director knows how complex the movie is and starts off the film by asking the audience, "Are you watching closely?"

"The Prestige" is the tale of two magicians, Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman, "X-Men") and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale, "Batman Begins") who are battling to be considered London's premier stage show.

The Student Government Association announced an upcoming forum with the provost to discuss the plus/minus grading system and passed a bill allowing the student body to change SGA's constitution at its meeting Tuesday evening.Nowell Donovan, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, will host an assembly to allow students to express their opinions on the proposed plus/minus grading system, said Justin Brown, SGA student relations chair.

I've had two different jobs since my sophomore year. More important, I realized having a job isn't social suicide, partly because I feel I have a balance of friends from work and friends from school.

My roommate is one of my best friends. I met her at my first job, and we now live together.

Finding a balance between work, school and time for the miscellaneous, be that socializing or studying, is crucial.

Shoes, purses and jewelry, oh my! Students of all ages are competing for an opportunity to showcase these items in a local boutique's window display competition, said the store's manager.Ruby, an accessory store in University Park Village, is offering Fort Worth-area students a chance fill four spots in a competition for $500 and an opportunity to work with the store's designer, Larry Leathers, said Jen Shults, manager at the University Park Village location.

The theme of the window is "Making an Entrance."

Nationally, about 20 percent to 25 percent of college women say they have been victims of attempted sexual assault, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.And that 25 percent isn't comprehensive. Only about 39 percent of all assaults are reported, the CDC estimates.

With this semester's investigations of reported on-campus and area sexual assaults, students should realize TCU is not immune to sexual violence. It can happen here, and there's a good chance it does.

When my special someone and I recently decided to take a break from our relationship, we said for the most part things wouldn't change. We would still talk to each other often and would still spend time with each other when we returned home during holidays. In fact, the only thing that would really change would be our official status - we would no longer consider each other "boyfriend" and "girlfriend." We would even change our relationship status on Facebook.

The Horned Frogs, 4-2 overall and 0-2 conference, ended their two-game losing streak Saturday, defeating the 3-5 overall Army Black Knights 31-17 last weekend in West Point, N.Y.Senior tailback Lonta Hobbs...