Students, faculty and staff examined how diversity is portrayed in the media and how diversity issues affect TCU's campus at the 2006 Inclusiveness Conference on Wednesday.Greg Trevino, director for Inclusiveness and Intercultural Services, said the conference is designed to introduce different issues on diversity.

"The Internet, television and movies all show different aspects of diversity," Trevino said. "This conference is one of the many ways we try to implement diversity for the campus as a whole."

Audience members will have the chance to throw in their two cents during this year's Frog Follies by casting votes for their favorite acts in the new People's Choice Awards. Frog Follies, a homecoming event where students perform skits to reflect this year's theme "Building Toward the Future," now features People's Choice Awards. Students, faculty and audience members will vote for four winners in four categories: theme development, costumes, musical selection and crowd-pleaser.

The women's swimming and diving team defeated North Texas on Wednesday night in the University Recreation Center."North Texas is a much-improved team," head coach Richard Sybesma said. "They weren't as easy a team as we thought they were going to be, but our girls fought hard and did a great job."

The Frogs were led by freshman swimmers Natalie Melenric and Stephanie Futscher.

Melenric took first place in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 58.51 seconds and swam as part of the first-place 400-yard freestyle relay.

One of three former student-athletes accused of sexually assaulting a student on TCU's campus hired an attorney Wednesday, according to court records.Gwinda L. Burns, of Fort Worth, was hired Wednesday to represent Virgil Allen Taylor, 19, against sexual assault charges filed Tuesday in Tarrant County Criminal District Court No. 2, according to court records.

Shannon Monroe Behling, 19, and Lorenzo Labell Jones, 20, are also charged in the case but had not hired attorneys as of Wednesday afternoon, according to court records.

It happens at the end of every semester: Students wait impatiently in front of a computer, constantly refreshing my.tcu.edu's academic home page to see if final grades have been posted. Inevitably, someone will be dissatisfied with his or her grade. Disgruntled students can present their cases to the Academic Appeals Committee about discrepancies concerning a specific grade. Currently, a student has until the drop date of the next semester to appeal a grade, but a proposed appeals process would limit the time frame to appeal a grade to 10 days.

One iPod speaker, one Vera Bradley handbag, two candles, one Juicy tube of Lancome lip gloss and one Ralph Lauren Polo shirt - a bill at a department store or boutique? Nope, the receipt at the TCU Bookstore.Let's be honest: We've all been guilty at some point during our time at TCU of charging items at the bookstore and sending the bill home to Mom and Dad.

But the bookstore is just so tempting that sometimes you go in there and don't even intend to spend any money at all.

Blink for more than a second, and you may miss a key component of one the year's most intense and complex movies - "The Prestige."The director knows how complex the movie is and starts off the film by asking the audience, "Are you watching closely?"

"The Prestige" is the tale of two magicians, Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman, "X-Men") and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale, "Batman Begins") who are battling to be considered London's premier stage show.

The Student Government Association announced an upcoming forum with the provost to discuss the plus/minus grading system and passed a bill allowing the student body to change SGA's constitution at its meeting Tuesday evening.Nowell Donovan, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, will host an assembly to allow students to express their opinions on the proposed plus/minus grading system, said Justin Brown, SGA student relations chair.

I've had two different jobs since my sophomore year. More important, I realized having a job isn't social suicide, partly because I feel I have a balance of friends from work and friends from school.

My roommate is one of my best friends. I met her at my first job, and we now live together.

Finding a balance between work, school and time for the miscellaneous, be that socializing or studying, is crucial.

Shoes, purses and jewelry, oh my! Students of all ages are competing for an opportunity to showcase these items in a local boutique's window display competition, said the store's manager.Ruby, an accessory store in University Park Village, is offering Fort Worth-area students a chance fill four spots in a competition for $500 and an opportunity to work with the store's designer, Larry Leathers, said Jen Shults, manager at the University Park Village location.

The theme of the window is "Making an Entrance."