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."

TCU's men's golf team sent four students to the U.S. Amateur Championship last week, tying a school record.Jon McLean and Robby Ormand advanced to the match-play round of 64.

Along with McLean and Ormand, Tom Miles and James Sacheck were also in the tournament but did not qualify for the match-play rounds.

"It was a great experience," said McLean. "Absolutely the best tournament you can play in as an amateur."

Ormand said playing in the tournament, which was held at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn., was not an everyday occurrence.

Although the semester has begun and student organizations have shifted into full-gear, one group of students lags behind.Senseless Acts of Comedy, the student comedy troupe, has found themselves without a performance space and unable to begin their weekly comedy shows, said Michael Flusche, SAC president.

"We just got kicked to the curb," said the junior advertising/public relations major.

Because of the number of parking tickets the TCU Police write, many may not realize what the department's most important duties are - preventing and solving crimes.But if students take the time to look around, they will see that distributing parking tickets isn't the only activity of the department; campus police also implement and execute precautions and measures that keep campus safe.

Froggie Five-O can be a resource for students afraid of walking alone across campus. The escorts can expedite a student's trip and provide strength in numbers.

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.

The 2006 men's track and field team broke the Southeastern Conference's seven-year streak of being ranked first in relays by "Track and Field News.""It is a big honor to receive recognition from a source...

Why is it that the country's largest organizations have some of the most inept customer service representatives?It is almost impossible to get connected to someone who can offer any kind of help without having to transfer you to another person.

Being transferred from person to person would not be so bad except for the fact that before you are even connected to anyone, you have to wade through numerous automated menus.

The TCU women's soccer team was scoreless in its season opener Friday night with a 0-1 loss to the Rice Owls at Garvey-Rosenthal Stadium.Head coach Dan Abdalla said the team, which includes eight freshman and six seniors, played tentatively the entire match and didn't take advantage of its scoring chances.

"For a young group, as we have, they've got to recognize that you can't just sit back," Abdalla said. "And the older players need to do a better job giving them instruction, helping them out and being active and involved themselves."

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.