Over the past two weeks the debate raged on: Arizona Cardinals or Pittsburgh Steelers?

The Steelers won, who honestly were my pick to win it all in the preseason, thanks to some shady officiating.

Before the weeks of analysis, we watched the NFL playoffs and before that there was the annual debate about the BCS.

Before that, we had college football and preceding that every year is Major League Baseball.

Cynthia Montes arrived at the university eight years ago as a first-generation college student. She did not know where to go, how to study or anything about college life.

Then Montes found the Student Support Services program, aimed at transitioning first-generation students to college life. With the help of the Student Support Services program, Montes graduated in four years and is now an academic adviser for the program.

In these times of economic uncertainty, everyone is looking to save a buck, especially those paying for college or working to pay rent on their own. If you think the only way students can receive a scholarship is by making straight A's or being the star basketball player, you're wrong. The university and other programs and institutions offer a handful of scholarships with unusual criteria but not so unusual rewards (money). If you spin the dreidel in December or aspire to be the next Willy Wonka, you might be eligible to receive one of these scholarships.

TCU Connect officials have moved swiftly to ensure that the campus is prepared for the digital transition, which should be commended. However, it seems that in their quest to bring students the superior picture and sound quality that digital provides they have left them on the short end of the stick.

Currently, students without a converter box receive channels 2 through 38, even though they are still paying for the other channels their TV does not get.

TCU Connect's solution is for students to go out and buy a conversion box for their TV.

The department of religion is honoring a former professor by bringing prominent speakers to discuss the issues of religious literacy, a professor said.

Darren Middleton , associate professor of religion, said the department started the Daryl D. Schmidt Lecture Series to promote religious literacy, which Middleton said is a fuller understanding of religion's nature and function in the world. Middleton said religious literacy was important to Schmidt, former chair of the religion department.

As a Christian, I would like to comment on the Jan. 28 column "Proposed abortion law attests to loose morals" by Andrew Weatherford.

First, I would like to state that from my personal religious standpoint rather than a moral one, that abortion is wrong. Biblically there seems to be plenty of evidence to support this case with verses like Jeremiah 1:5 which states, "before I formed you in the womb I knew you." However, the Conservative right seem to misunderstand the fact that religious morals do not necessarily translate to societal morals.