For its directors, the ACHIEVE Summer Business Institute at TCU can be boiled down to one concept: business exposure.ACHIEVE, a summer program run by the Tandy Center for Executive Leadership , is a crash course in business for non-majors and, as ACHIEVE Program Director Deb Baker said, a vital knowledge base for anyone entering the workforce.

"Business skills are essential for any major," Baker said. "This is a really good way to give students the skills they need before or after graduation."

A student environmental organization is coordinating a recycling competition between residence halls to promote participation in a nationwide recycling race, the group's vice president said.AV, an on-campus environmental organization, is coordinating TCU's participation in RecycleMania in conjunction with Residential Services.

RecycleMania, a 10-week recycling competition, began Sunday and will end April 7, AV Vice President Kimberly Banzhaf said.

TCU is one of 201 colleges and universities around the country competing in the race.

TCU scored a D in a 2007 evaluation of its sustainability practices - its ability to meet the needs of the present without impairing future generations.Sustainability in relation to endowment investment was the focus of the College Sustainability Report Card, which assigned letter grades to 100 colleges and universities throughout the United States and Canada possessing higher education's largest endowments.

A recent independent film, "Hounddog," has drawn negative attention from some critics because a scene with a child rape is depicted in the movie.The victimized child is played by 12-year-old Dakota Fanning, and while in no way is rape being advocated, the real life crisis is displayed.

Realism in cinema is something directors are striving for and while viewers may be appalled, a beauty of film creation can be seen.

Click. With one innocent flick of the finger, you've become a pirate. That's all that it takes.We've all seen the ads on TV constantly reminding us downloading movies and music without paying is a crime. Not just a crime but piracy.

In other words, homes have become ships and computers have turned into cannons.

However, should these "pirates" be considered filthy criminals or consumer advocates? The entertainment industry has grown into a bloated giant that exists solely on swindling the American people. It's getting what it deserves.

"Pirates of the Caribbean," one of the most popular movies today, may have taken the world by storm, but there's another kind of pirating that has everyone from college students to studio executives scrambling to their lawyers.Instead of flashy jewelry, gaudy clothes and an eye patch to match, the weapons of choice for today's pirates are a laptop and file-sharing program, like Kazaa or LimeWire. Peer-to-peer file sharing has become wildly popular since the first days of Napster.

Even when his health was failing, Doug Clarke insisted upon being there for his students. When Mr. Clarke was asked by Tommy Thomason, director of the Schieffer School of Journalism, if he needed to stop teaching, Mr. Clarke replied, "What would I do without these kids?"

Mr. Clarke, professor and retired Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter and editor, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007 at his home. He was 67.

Mr. Clarke had been ill for a while and had his second triple-bypass heart surgery in June 2006, his son Zachary Clarke said.

Faculty members of Student Development Services will meet Tuesday to decide how to put out a campuswide calendar that includes activities for more than 30 organizations on their Web site, the chairwoman of the Leadership Council said.Laura Rizzuto, chairwoman of the Leadership Council, organized a meeting of leaders from more than 30 student organizations Jan. 22 in order to develop the calendar. The collaboration in creating the calendar is a small step in unifying organizations across campus, Rizzuto said.