The culmination of four weeks of fall practice, the Purple and White World Series, will begin today at 3:15 p.m. at Lupton Stadium. The five-game series will last through Sunday.Sophomore catcher Andrew Walker said he is looking forward to separating into teams and the increased competition between players that will come with the split.

"It'll be fun to get out here and divide up into teams," Walker said. "It's a real competitive atmosphere instead of just doing the same drills every single day. It's a lot more fun."

The TCU campus will be buzzing with high school students that are being mentored by student volunteers for TCU's "College Student for a Day" event today."College Student for a Day" is an event to help students at risk of dropping out of high school find the motivation to go to college, said Terence Kennedy, an Americorps VISTA volunteer at the Office of Community Outreach and Service Learning at TCU.

The event, hosted by the office of Community Outreach and Service Learning and the Multi-Cultural Greek Council, expects 100 high school students to attend the all-day program.

A monorail, moving sidewalks, free laptops and iPods are just a few outlandish ideas students, faculty and staff have suggested over the years. While these ideas may cause your knees to grow weak, do not get too excited, because few of their ideas will ever materialize. On a more optimistic note, there are numerous ways the TCU Community can implement a better life on campus.One thing I would like to see happen on campus is for all professors to start using real life examples in the classroom setting.

From a student standpoint, the seventh annual TCU Inclusiveness Conference presented issues that aren't commonly discussed in the classroom setting, and from the faculty and staff perspective, it gave students the opportunity to grow, said Greg Trevi¤o, director of intercultural services.Students attended sessions on genocide, the role of the media, the impact of religion in the United States and women in developing worlds.

"I've learned more at this conference than what I hear from word of mouth and the media," Cleda Wang, a sophomore biology major, said.

It's as though the tribute was predestined.The day following the death of a crusader for civil rights, TCU held a daylong conference on inclusiveness.It may have been a simple act when Rosa Parks refused...

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.