By the time fans file into Amon Carter Stadium on Sept. 9 for TCU football's home season opener, preparations to ensure fans' safety will have already been under way for months.In addition to more than 60 Fort Worth police officers assisting TCU Police, the university uses plainclothes officers and hires bomb-sniffing dogs that work alongside specially trained arson investigators from the Fort Worth Fire Department, Fort Worth police Lt. Paul Jwanowski said.

While most students were trying to relax on their first weekend of the semester, the Lady Frogs volleyball team was too busy winning games to take a break.TCU hosted the Molten/La Quinta Invitational Tournament in the University Recreation Center Friday and Saturday. The Lady Frogs won the tournament championship Saturday night with a 3-1 win over Boise State.

The team started off the tournament with a 3-0 shutout against Loyola Friday afternoon. Then, in front of an energetic crowd Friday night, the Frogs won 3-2 against South Carolina coming back from a 2-game deficit.

Students looking for a way to get involved on campus can do so at the activities fair from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. today in the University Recreation Center, said the director of Howdy Week."Some students think that if you're not Greek there's nothing to do on campus," said Jennifer Pippin, director of Howdy Week. "The activities fair is a good way for students to learn about the groups they can join."

Relax the throat muscles, focus, tilt the glass, chug, repeat. This is essentially the format of this weekend's top five box office title, "Beerfest."

According to boxofficemojo.com, the Warner Brothers feature netted a $7.03 million opening weekend gross, which is not too shabby for a film that had enough alcohol consumption to put "Animal House" to shame.

Following last weekend's B-movie gem, "Snakes on a Plane," fans of the sauce could rest easy knowing that "Beerfest" would satisfy their thirst for barley, hops and yeast.

Student Government Association officially started its semester Tuesday afternoon by introducing new regulations for pregame tailgating.SGA President Trevor Heaney said the new changes include a two-hour time frame in which students may consume alcohol. Heaney, a senior entrepreneurial management and finance major, added that 15 minutes before kickoff, tailgating will end and students will be encouraged to attend the game.

"It's going to be something that is student-initiated and student-run," Heaney said of the pregame tailgating regulations.

With the monotony of the NFL preseason finally coming to an end and the regular season still more than a week away, America is ready for some football. "Invincible" fed that need. According to boxofficemojo.com,...

Over the past year, gas has consistently hovered around $3 a gallon. Natural disasters and social issues have hit Americans where it hurts them most: their wallets. Even President Bush, whose party is hardly known as the environmentalist type, recently said that Americans were "addicted" to oil."Me? Addicted?! That's just crazy-talk. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to hop into my 14 mile-per-gallon, eight-passenger SUV for my family of four so we can drive two blocks to our neighborhood pool."

The Apple iPod started as a personal music device, but is now making its way as a portable education tool.Amber Finn, instructor of communication studies, started podcasting in the Basic Speech Communication class this semester as part of a pilot operation for Web-based classes.

"We are already doing audio lectures through e-college, so now students can watch and listen to the lectures," Finn said.

The idea for using the iTunes feature of podcasting was introduced by Jess Price, a media producer for the Center for Instructional Services.

TCU is hosting European students who will study American teaching techniques as part of an education studies semester abroad program.The European Teacher Education Network allows students studying education to take classes in either America or Europe. There are currently eight students from Europe taking classes at TCU, and they said that so far, it has been a good experience.

Robbert Gommans, 20, from the Netherlands, said there are a few minor differences between American and European universities, including bigger class sizes at TCU and less access to teachers.

A TCU student who was robbed said she initially thought the attacker was a friend who was playing a joke on her.On Friday around 9:45 p.m. Christine Bowling, a senior fashion merchandising major, was robbed...