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A driver crosses a flooded parking lot in Oroville, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. A massive storm barreled toward Southern California on Monday after causing flooding across the northern half of the state. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)

What we’re reading: Record storm hits the West Coast, Facebook faces backlash from Wall Street, 2 dead in Idaho mall shooting

By Rebecca Robinson
Published Oct 27, 2021
Record storm leaves many without power, Facebook loses investors and more of what we're reading.
Thousands of demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Womens March in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Texas Senate Bill 8 up for debate as Texans protest

By Kathryn Lewis
Published Oct 27, 2021
Across Texas, pro-choice residents rallied to protest restrictive abortion bill, Senate Bill 8.
IdeaFactory staff, members of theCrew, and students celebrated the IdeaFactory’s 10-year anniversary in the Commons. (Bailee Utter/Staff Reporter).

TCU IdeaFactory celebrates 10 years helping students bring their ideas to life

By Bailee Utter
Published Oct 27, 2021
TCU IdeaFactory, which helps foster ideas for students on campus, celebrated its 10-year anniversary on Tuesday.
The TCU Health Center at noon

Honors faculty encourages vaccine mandate

By Allie Brown
Published Oct 26, 2021
TCU Honors faculty proposed a vaccine mandate, as TCU looks for new ways to protect the purple.
Students creatively decorated their own pumpkins at the Intercultural Center on Monday. (Bailee Utter/Staff Reporter)

TCU’s Intercultural Center brings American Halloween traditions to campus

By Bailee Utter
Published Oct 25, 2021
Some international students are experiencing American Halloween the first time.
Ramblin Rose Ornaments launches their business at the Purple Pop-Up Shop on Crockett Row Sept. 24, 2021. (Image courtesy of the Ramblin Rose Ornaments Instagram)

TCU alumnae and long-time best friends launch new business during the pandemic

By Chaelie DeJohn
Published Oct 25, 2021
TCU alumnae and long-time best friends launched their new business named Ramblin Rose Ornaments.
Flamingoes at the Fort Worth Zoo receive pumpkins as a special Halloween enrichment. All proceeds from Boo at the Zoo help the zoo care for and feed its 7,000 animal residents. Photo courtesy Fort Worth Zoo

Fort Worth Zoo’s Boo at the Zoo event offers all treats, no tricks for guests

By Camilla Price
Published Oct 22, 2021
The Halloween festivities include trick-or-treating, a pumpkin decorating contest and special keeper chats from Oct. 29-31.
A Texas Christian University sign displayed on campus on Oct. 7, 2021. The TCU Board of Trustees approved an increase in tuition for the 2022-23 year. (Ella Gibson/Staff Reporter)

International students on campus: an opportunity worth 8,000 miles

By Ella Gibson
Published Oct 21, 2021
More students travel to TCU than ever following a historical drop off in international student population in 2020.
TCU students shop at the IJM annual on-campus thrift shop on Saturday, Oct. 9. (Iris Lopez/TCU 360 Reporter)

IJM holds annual on-campus thrift shop to help end modern day slavery

By Iris Lopez
Published Oct 21, 2021
An anti-slavery organization on campus held a pop-up shop to raise money to send to a field office in Delhi, India.
TCU nursing students give out flu vaccinations. (Photo by Lonyae Coulter)

TCU nursing students practice during annual flu clinic

By Lonyae Coulter
Published Oct 21, 2021
TCU nursing was expected to administer 3,500 flu vaccinations to protect the purple in the midst of a pandemic.
Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool)

What we’re reading: FDA allows for Covid-19 boosters, Haitian gang sets demands for kidnapped missionaries

By Nicole Johnson
Published Oct 20, 2021
The FDA is expected to allow use of different vaccine types for boosters, Haiti gang demands $17M in exchange for kidnapped missionaries, Miami private school requires students to stay home for 30 days after their vaccinations, 20 people escaped a plane crash outside of Houston, and more in what we're reading.
The bike sharing kiosk on the north side of the Mary Couts Burnett Library is one of two stations that was added to campus in June. (Camilla Price/Copy Desk Chief)

TCU adds Fort Worth Bike Sharing kiosks to expand campus transportation options

By Camilla Price
Published Oct 19, 2021
More bike kiosks have been added to the TCU campus as part of the university's effort to encourage students to use sustainable alternative transportation.