When U2 arrives at the American Airlines Center on Saturday, lead singer Bono will be hounded by press from the moment he sets foot on Dallas soil until he walks on stage.He certainly won't be found half-naked, singing a private concert for a local disc jockey.

That is exactly how George Gimarc first encountered the rock-singer-turned-diplomat.

"It was one of my strangest experiences with U2 ever," said Gimarc, who has kept in touch with band members since the day he met them in April 1981.

The "College Student for a Day" program Wednesday hosted its highest number of participants with 90 high school students attending.Shelley Marshall, a coordinator for the program, said "College Student for a Day" is run in coordination with the other high school program called Communities in Schools.

Members of the TCU Multi-Cultural Greek Council and the Office of Community Outreach and Service Learning at TCU hosted the program.

The Aardvark
Today: Calhoun, Petracovich, The Happy Bullets & Tyler Jermstad
Friday: Cracker Unplugged Featuring David Lowery & Johnny Hickman plus special guests Sorta & Shawn Russell Tickets at www.frontgatetickets.com
Saturday: Halloween PartyThe Moon
Today: Catfish Whisky and friends
Friday: Chatterton w/ Lomita
Saturday: Halloween Party: Pablo & the
Hemphill 7

The Ridglea Theater
Today: Orchard, The Monarch Box
Friday: Invincible Czars, Shaolin Death Squad, Golden Arm Trio

Hurricane Katrina may have ended in August, but its effects live on, say TCU faculty members and community workers.The Sociology Society is sponsoring a lecture on the current and future situations of Hurricane Katrina evacuees at 5 p.m. today in the Woodson Room, rooms 207 and 209 of the Brown-Lupton Student Center.

More than 10,000 evacuees are settling in Fort Worth and although the city is moving the evacuees into housing, their futures are unclear, said Jean Giles-Sims, a sociology professor and a coordinator of the event.

Bay-area band Rogue Wave returns with album "Descended Like Vultures," the follow-up to 2004's "Out of the Shadow." From the first few notes, it's clear this Sub Pop band has taken another step forward.

More mature that its predecessor, "Descended Like Vultures" pulls from a wide variety of styles. Some elements recall memories of early Pavement whereas others seem at home with contemporaries The Shins.

"How cool are you? You're on Facebook!" a TCU professor's stepson told her after he found her profile on the popular Web site.Almost 7,500 TCU accounts are registered on Facebook, a Web site students check as often as their e-mail.

But the Facebook is not reserved for students only.

Fourteen faculty members are registered on Facebook; Nine joined this semester.

Carol Thompson, an associate professor of sociology, is a TCU faculty member on Facebook and is seen as "cool" by her stepson at the University of California, Berkeley.

How are we supposed to save money on gas when the city deprives us of the most basic alternatives?The lack of sidewalks and bike lanes along the streets of Fort Worth is appalling. Bike lanes simply do not exist in this city. As I travel down South Hulen, I notice the sporadic placing of sidewalks - they exist in front of Compass Bank but stop at the end of its property.

This is a pattern throughout the southwest portion of the city.

Bringing awareness to alcohol and drug abuse programs among elementary and middle school children through proactive education is the goal of Red Ribbon Week, said Sparkle Greenhaw, associate director at the TCU Alcohol and Drug Education Center.A Red Ribbon Week Rally, hosted by Student Development Services and Tarrant County Challenge, Inc. will be held at the Daniel-Meyer Coliseum Friday.

"We had over 2,000 elementary and high school students at the rally last year, and we are expecting even more this year," Greenhaw said.

College campuses across the United States have seen increasing protests against small wages of university workers.At Washington University, an organization demanding higher wages occupied the admissions office for 19 days, during six of which the students were on hunger strike.

At Georgetown University, students went without eating for nine days while staying in tents in the main square of campus.

A similar group formed at TCU this fall, yet organizers say these tactics are not in the planning.