Becoming a legal adult at the age of 18 comes with many new liberties, such as the ability to purchase tobacco or play the lottery. Of these many new privileges, perhaps the most overlooked yet beneficial privilege is the ability to sign up for credit cards.While most new adults avoid credit cards on the basis that they are evil or dangerous, a credit card, combined with a little discipline and responsibility, can be a convenient tool for establishing a good credit rating and saving money.

Like foreigners in their own skin, transgendered people suffer from massive confusion, verbal and physical abuse, and struggles with acceptance. Many know about gay people, lesbians and bisexual people, but little is known about people who identify themselves as transgendered. "Transgender" is a term used to encompass people who do not identify well with the genders they were born as. Since not much is known about transgendered people, they lack certain rights and are often discriminated against.

Finals. With each passing moment we get closer to the sleep-deprived, coffee-chugging gauntlet that seems to pack an entire semester's worth of homework into a week. Welcome back, stress.Finals can be tough. GPAs are on the line, scholarships can be in jeopardy and the idea of failing a class that you paid $2,000 to take doesn't exactly lend itself to a carefree environment.

So, how can Joe T. College Student reduce his stress to a reasonable level while avoiding an "F" on his geology exam? Let's take a look.

WebMD.com gives some great suggestions.

As the world was still holding its breath from shock at the Virginia Tech massacre, the public received another round of unwanted news. Sickening pictures of the shooter, Cho Seung-Hui, were first released Thursday by NBC News.The pictures showed Cho in violent, outraged poses: arms outstretched and guns in hand. Only certain photos were released, but the package contained an array of media including "rambling, hate-filled video and written messages, with several pictures of him posing with a gun," according to an April 19 Associated Press article.

The men's golf team has been knocking at the door of the top-25 collegiate ranks the past few weeks, but its performance in the U.S. Collegiate Championships was not enough to gain an official spot in the Top 25. The Horned Frogs current reside at No. 31.The team finished 14th out of 15 places during the tournament, and that was the last match before the squad heads to the Mountain West Conference Championships in Tucson, Ariz.

Teams to beat during the conference tournament will be the No. 8 UNLV Rebels and the No. 14 BYU Cougars.

Energy Futures for Texas: Local and Global Perspectives, a symposium organized jointly by TCU and the University of Oxford that addressed controversial environmental issues and the necessity of the Texas and the U.S. to be more environmentally responsible, was held yesterday at the Fort Worth Hilton.The daylong symposium was organized primarily by 14 environmental science graduate and undergraduate students- 12 of which attended a two-week lecture series at the University of Oxford that addressed climate change issues from a European perspective.

Today is Equal Pay Day, an event put on by the National Committee on Pay Equity to raise awareness of unequal salaries for women and other minorities. And today, almost 90 years since women gained suffrage, there are many speculations about why women earn less money than men: Are they less deserving? Do the majority of women choose lower-paying jobs than men? Or do they just fail to negotiate their salaries with employers, such as sociology professor Jean Giles-Sims suggested?

In honor of TCU mascot SuperFrog's birthday, Programming Council is hosting a concert tonight with pizza, music and fun, said PC members.At 6:45 p.m. on Sadler Lawn, the Andy Davis band will perform to celebrate the mascot's birthday.

"Its good to have stuff like this at the end of the year, so the students can de-stress before finals week starts," said Kristen Chapman, PC chair.

Chapman and other members of PC went to see the Andy Davis band one weekend in February.

TCU women earn lower salaries than men of equal status, according to a recent survey of 848 graduating seniors.Of seniors surveyed last year by the Office of Institutional Research, 25 percent were employed full time, and among them, about 13 percent reported earning annual incomes of $80,000 or more, representing the highest income category and one with men only, according to the 2005-2006 Graduating Senior Survey Report.

The inaugural Greek Week at TCU began Monday with a discourse on diversity given by a former fraternity president.Clay Stauffer, a former Sigma Alpha Epilson president who graduated from TCU in 2002, said his viewpoint changed from being a high school senior to an undergraduate at TCU to a graduate student at Princeton in his speech titled "Nine Things I Wish I knew Nine Years Ago."

Stauffer said he wanted to help students understand the position they're in from the perspective of someone who has been there.