The college admissions process seems to get more ridiculous every day. From hiring private counselors to reading the U.S. News and World Report college ranking list like the Bible, many high school students and their parents appear willing to do whatever it takes to catch the eye of the admissions staff and glean an acceptance letter from that oh-so-prestigious school.

The latest tactic: thank you notes.

Apparently, there is a growing trend of prospective students sending thank you notes to admissions counselors and tour guides after a college visit.

Many of us look forward to October. It brings cooler weather and grants us license to wear silly costumes and flirt with diabetes.

But there is more to October than Halloween.

Grab a Sharpie and mark your calendar because October is National Month Month.

Just about every advocacy group in the United States uses the month of October as its awareness month.

Despite leading for most of the game, Stanford came up just short on Saturday, falling 38-36 to the Horned Frogs at Stanford Stadium in a game that, for the second straight week, was decided in the final...

As I was following Saturday's game on the live update feature on my cell phone, I began to feel sick.It couldn't have been from the Kincaid's burger I had enjoyed hours before, could it? No, of course not - such a thought is blasphemous.

Instead, it was the score that was the cause of my stomach's discomfort: 31-17 Stanford in the third quarter.

Oh, no. Not again.

It was not too long after the Cardinal took the two-touchdown lead that I began to receive text messages from friends looking to dump their sorrows on me.

It was New Year's Eve, 1995. Andrea and Mike Cooper had just come home from a New Year's party and found their only daughter dead in their living room.Kristin had committed suicide because she was depressed after a co-worker raped her, her father, Mike Cooper, said.

Andrea Cooper, Kristen's mother and Delta Delta Delta alumna, who has made it her mission to travel and inform students about rape, depression and suicide will be speaking on TCU's campus for the third time Sunday at noon in Ed Landreth Hall Auditorium.

No one has a more difficult job than elected leaders, and it is up to them to make responsible decisions for their organizations, a speaker said Thursday.Dave Westol, owner and CEO of Limberlost Consulting in Carmel, Ind., discussed risk management for student-organized social events as well as the role of student leaders and faculty advisers. This event at the Brown-Lupton Student Center was a joint venture of the Office of Student Organizations and Campus Life and about 80 faculty and students attended.

Every hour, 330 American adults turn 60, said an alumna at a symposium Thursday.Janice Knebl, the chief of the geriatrics division at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, spoke about the growing senior-American demographic and brought attention to their medical, legal and financial issues.

Knebl's speech, "Understanding the Older Adult," was held at the Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center and was hosted by the Center for Healthy Aging and the Harris College of Nursing and Health Sciences. There were about 60 people in attendance.

There is one month of the year where baseball takes a whole new meaning. It is called the "Fall Classic" and "The Crown Jewel of Major League Baseball."It is October.

Boys become men in the course of October. History begins. Think back to the beginning of the month where this narrative shows the mood of what baseball after the first 162 games means.

Oct. 1: Day 1 of the postseason.

A team of youngsters. A bunch of guys fighting for better jobs in baseball later in their careers are living the Cinderella Story.