Standing on a hard, dirty cement floor in a smoky bar sounds like your average Saturday night on Berry Street. Hoards of college students happily dance about as mixed drinks are sloshed out of plastic cups onto the high heels of unsuspecting sorority girls. People crowd the bar, fighting for the attention of the bar tenders while the cover band jams loudly in the background and everyone sings along to hits by artists such as Billy Joel and Tom Petty.

Except this week it's not Saturday night; it's Tuesday night.

If you were given $483 to spend wisely, what would you use it for?Four hundred and eighty-three dollars may not seem like a substantial amount of money to many people, but to a college student, it can be an ample amount of change. Think of all the things the average college student could buy with that money: It could buy food for almost an entire year in TCU's dining plan, compensate a car payment, be invested in a savings account or help with TCU's pricey tuition.

Or you could invest it in health insurance at TCU.

At TCU's Living Wage Movement forum Wednesday, panelists said starting wages at TCU should be raised to the living wage, but did not say where the money for the increase would come from.The panel included professors from four fields: social work, political science, religion and management. Stephanie Sherwood, a junior social work major and president of the Living Wage Movement, led the discussion.

The Horned Frog football team trailed the Brigham Young Cougars by 22 points late in the third quarter and had just lost its starting quarterback to injury.No worries. The backup quarterback had been in...

To understand the TCU women's rifle team, first one must understand that each member is an individual bringing her own style to the shooting line, her own sense of humor, her own determination to accomplish a self-imposed goal and her own desire to be a part of something greater than herself.Senior Carly Snead said no physical ability is needed to compete in the sport.

"It's all mental," she said. "You're competing against yourself. It's all you."

Despite the uncertainties of moving into a new conference, H20 Frogs head coach Richard Sybesma said he expects to have a strong season against stronger competition."The Mountain West Conference is a much stronger conference than what we left (Conference USA)," Sybesma said. "We have a great opportunity to really have an impact on it. We right now are predicted to be third in men and fourth in the women (in the conference swimming polls), and I think we will really surprise some people especially in the women's. We got a really good program in the men's and women's side."