It was expected but rather sudden when the announcement was made Thursday morning.During an interview with NBC News' "Today" show co-anchor Matt Lauer, conservative political columnist and author Ann Coulter discussed the possibility that Harriet Miers would likely withdraw her nomination as Supreme Court justice in the media pandemonium of the anticipated indictments of White House officials. Miers would simply disappear in the chaos.

Then it happened.

It was our impression that the Living Wage Forum last Wednesday was set up to open discussion on a delicate issue. As students in Dr. Klopfenstein's Labor Economics class, we have studied this issue thoroughly and felt the economic side of the issue was well underrepresented.Economists are viewed, much like businessmen, to be for nothing but profit and void the human factor completely, but that just is not the case.

We believe we have some possible solutions, but first let's take a look at the problems.

The "College Student for a Day" program Wednesday hosted its highest number of participants with 90 high school students attending.Shelley Marshall, a coordinator for the program, said "College Student for a Day" is run in coordination with the other high school program called Communities in Schools.

Members of the TCU Multi-Cultural Greek Council and the Office of Community Outreach and Service Learning at TCU hosted the program.

When U2 arrives at the American Airlines Center on Saturday, lead singer Bono will be hounded by press from the moment he sets foot on Dallas soil until he walks on stage.He certainly won't be found half-naked, singing a private concert for a local disc jockey.

That is exactly how George Gimarc first encountered the rock-singer-turned-diplomat.

"It was one of my strangest experiences with U2 ever," said Gimarc, who has kept in touch with band members since the day he met them in April 1981.

Hurricane Katrina may have ended in August, but its effects live on, say TCU faculty members and community workers.The Sociology Society is sponsoring a lecture on the current and future situations of Hurricane Katrina evacuees at 5 p.m. today in the Woodson Room, rooms 207 and 209 of the Brown-Lupton Student Center.

More than 10,000 evacuees are settling in Fort Worth and although the city is moving the evacuees into housing, their futures are unclear, said Jean Giles-Sims, a sociology professor and a coordinator of the event.

The Aardvark
Today: Calhoun, Petracovich, The Happy Bullets & Tyler Jermstad
Friday: Cracker Unplugged Featuring David Lowery & Johnny Hickman plus special guests Sorta & Shawn Russell Tickets at www.frontgatetickets.com
Saturday: Halloween PartyThe Moon
Today: Catfish Whisky and friends
Friday: Chatterton w/ Lomita
Saturday: Halloween Party: Pablo & the
Hemphill 7

The Ridglea Theater
Today: Orchard, The Monarch Box
Friday: Invincible Czars, Shaolin Death Squad, Golden Arm Trio

"How cool are you? You're on Facebook!" a TCU professor's stepson told her after he found her profile on the popular Web site.Almost 7,500 TCU accounts are registered on Facebook, a Web site students check as often as their e-mail.

But the Facebook is not reserved for students only.

Fourteen faculty members are registered on Facebook; Nine joined this semester.

Carol Thompson, an associate professor of sociology, is a TCU faculty member on Facebook and is seen as "cool" by her stepson at the University of California, Berkeley.

Bay-area band Rogue Wave returns with album "Descended Like Vultures," the follow-up to 2004's "Out of the Shadow." From the first few notes, it's clear this Sub Pop band has taken another step forward.

More mature that its predecessor, "Descended Like Vultures" pulls from a wide variety of styles. Some elements recall memories of early Pavement whereas others seem at home with contemporaries The Shins.

How are we supposed to save money on gas when the city deprives us of the most basic alternatives?The lack of sidewalks and bike lanes along the streets of Fort Worth is appalling. Bike lanes simply do not exist in this city. As I travel down South Hulen, I notice the sporadic placing of sidewalks - they exist in front of Compass Bank but stop at the end of its property.

This is a pattern throughout the southwest portion of the city.

After reading "Time to grow up: Limits not suitable for 18+," I felt the article served as little more than as bitter diatribe.I understood its point, but I felt the argument lacked substance. However,...