If one thing was agreed upon by friends and family about 21-year-old Stephen Scherer, it was that he lived to serve others. Friends, family, employers from the TCU Police Department and professors filled...

In times of financial belt-tightening, city and local governments have to trim budgets to avoid shortfalls and inability to function. Big spending projects fall under suspicion of being unnecessary to the goals of a city.

Such is the case with the City of Fort Worth's plan to spend $4.5 million on preparations for the upcoming Super Bowl XLV, to be held in February 2011 at Cowboys Stadium. However, there are significant reasons why the $4.5 million price tag for the city is both justified and necessary, and the Super Bowl will bring great returns on Fort Worth's investment.

As Athletics Director Chris Del Conte kicked off his department's town hall meetings Tuesday night in the Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom, he painted Amon G. Carter Stadium as a monument to the university's uniqueness and can-do spirit despite concerns over the planned renovations.

"In 1930, when that stadium was built, we were coming through the [Great] Depression," Del Conte said. "In the hardest times in our nation, they decided to build something special at TCU. We're going through pretty tough times right now, aren't we?"

Martin Luther King Jr. once said injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. For more than 60 years, a great injustice has plagued the nation of North Korea, and the cries of its citizens have gone almost totally unheard abroad. Since the mid-1990s, an estimated two million people have died from malnutrition. The recent transfer of power from Kim Jong-il to his son, Kim Jong-un, should be a reminder of the atrocities committed by the North Korean government and a call to action against it.

The founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Nancy Brinker, showed the personal connection she shares with others in the fight against breast cancer as she signed copies of her new book "Promise Me" at the university bookstore Wednesday.

Brinker received gifts from Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief and musician and alumnus Tim Halperin and took part in the Frogs for the Cure tradition of planting a pink flag in front of Sadler Hall. Brinker said she began Komen for the Cure to keep a promise she made to her sister Susan G. Komen, the organization's namesake.

A service of remembrance and celebration for Stephen Scherer is scheduled for 2 p.m. today in the John V. Roach Professional Development Center.

Scherer, who was a senior health and human sciences major, took his own life in his home Oct. 3.

The service is open for the campus community to join Scherer's family for an exchange of memories, encouragement and condolences to all that knew Scherer.