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 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.

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,...

As a person who is 18 twice over (and then some), I should be able to drive as fast as my car will go. I should be able to drive on the sidewalk to avoid traffic jams. I should be able to leave my trash...

The English department's edict came down as it did every week.Teachers at Southwest High School in Fort Worth, like many other schools, are given a list of what objectives to teach, the vocabulary on which the students should be drilled, the books students should be reading and what questions the teachers should be asking about those readings.

All of this is done to prepare students for the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills, a standardized test given to all students statewide to gauge what they have learned in their classes.

The TCU campus will be buzzing with high school students that are being mentored by student volunteers for TCU's "College Student for a Day" event today."College Student for a Day" is an event to help students at risk of dropping out of high school find the motivation to go to college, said Terence Kennedy, an Americorps VISTA volunteer at the Office of Community Outreach and Service Learning at TCU.

The event, hosted by the office of Community Outreach and Service Learning and the Multi-Cultural Greek Council, expects 100 high school students to attend the all-day program.

A monorail, moving sidewalks, free laptops and iPods are just a few outlandish ideas students, faculty and staff have suggested over the years. While these ideas may cause your knees to grow weak, do not get too excited, because few of their ideas will ever materialize. On a more optimistic note, there are numerous ways the TCU Community can implement a better life on campus.One thing I would like to see happen on campus is for all professors to start using real life examples in the classroom setting.