At my urging, members of my labor economics class attended the Living Wage Forum with a panel of four TCU faculty members (one each from social work, religion, political science and management) last week. We have spent weeks exploring the causes and consequences of growing income inequality in the United States as well as policies, including the living wage, directed at compressing the income distribution, so my students had valuable insights to contribute. However, their voices were not welcome at the forum.

"Final Cut: No lights. No cameras. All Action!"At Hangman's House of Horrors, one of the top-ranked attractions in Tarrant County, new scares can be found.

Hangman's doesn't claim to be the scariest, but instead, the most fun, said Aryn Young, production assistant for La-De-Da Productions, the theatrical production company that sponsors Hangman's.

"We're definitely the most entertaining," Young said. "And I think that's why we've been so successful."

Sophomore setter Loren Barry said preparation could make the difference in TCU's upcoming games against No. 13 Brigham Young and Utah this weekend.The Horned Frogs enter the second half of conference play on a three-game winning streak, including a come-from-behind win over the Colorado State Rams on Tuesday.

"We've been working really hard this week, and any team can win on any given day," Barry said. " It's just about who comes out more prepared and whose mind is in the right place."

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.

It almost goes without saying that vigilance is the key to crime prevention, but vigilance requires knowledge of your environment.This is the purpose of the Clery Act - a law requiring university police to keep a log of crime statistics available to the public and issue crime warnings.

The more students know about the crimes that go on around them, the easier it is to protect themselves from attack.

Although the act is an incredibly useful tool and a great benefit to campuses around the country, it doesn't go far enough.

Because most sexual assaults don't occur on campus, there is no way the TCU Police Department can accurately inform students about how many sexual assaults students experience, TCU Police said.Under a federal law known as the Clery Act, TCU Police must provide an updated crime log, but Crime Prevention Officer Pamela Christian said the crime log alone does not paint the whole picture.

The TCU crime logs report three sexual assaults at TCU during the past four years, but Christian said this number is far below what the actual statistics are.

On the heels of their critically-lauded collaborative EP, "In the Reins," Iron & Wine and Calexico will take Ridglea Theater stage Saturday.Doors open at 8:30 p.m. After both bands play a full set, they will take the stage together to play the EP in its' entirety.

The EP, which MSNBC.com called, "The best album of the year," is a collaboration between the Tuscon, Ariz.-based Calexico and Miami-based singer-songwriter Sam Beam, who records under the name Iron & Wine.