No matter the color of a person's skin or his or her religious beliefs, no one should be discriminated against, a holocaust survivor said Monday evening in the Student Center Ballroom.Rosalie Schiff, a speaker for the Dallas Holocaust Museum, addressed an audience of students, faculty and members of the Fort Worth community about her experiences during the Holocaust.

Schiff shared a number of events that she witnessed while in various concentration camps and ghettos during her imprisonment.

Computer portals will be set up today in the Student Center Lounge to allow students to vote for Student Government Association representatives, a convenience that representatives said they hope will curb a history of low voter participation. While SGA does not tabulate the exact percentage of students who vote, Sheldon Pearson, a member of the SGA Elections and Regulations Committee, said voter turnout has been "pathetic."

He estimated that less than 10 percent of students participated in the last election.

TCU's Model United Nations chapter took home the second highest ranking last week in a competition against 200 schools in New York City. Model U.N. is a simulation of the United Nations that aims to help students learn how the United Nations actually works, said Lily Toner, head delegate for TCU's Model U.N. chapter.

At the National Model U.N. Conference, delegations from each school were assigned a different country, she said.

Last Monday actor Michael Keaton - star of "Batman," "Batman Returns" and, of course, "Jack Frost" - threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Pittsburgh Pirates' home opener against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Keaton, a Pittsburgh native and lifelong Pirates fan, raised eyebrows by taking shots at the Pirates' management, notorious for not spending any money on salary, after he threw out the first pitch."I fear they will take advantage of the goodwill of the people who continue to show up," said the Actor Formerly Known as Bruce Wayne. "For my money, it's disrespectful.

Lately, I've been making an effort to shy away from national sports subjects, focusing instead on TCU teams and athletes worthy of commentary. It's gone pretty well, I think. But now the course of current events - plus the public outcry of my handful of readers - has forced me to offer my opinion on a much less local topic.And, as disgusting as I feel admitting it, even this has a homegrown theme: Mavericks fans, rejoice, because Dirk Nowitzki is my choice for the 2005-2006 season NBA Most Valuable Player.

The Fort Worth Botanic GardenIf you're looking for some peace and quiet in the middle of the city, the Fort Worth Botanic Garden offers a place to picnic with friends or reflect in solitude. Go at the right time and you might see one of the many weddings the Garden hosts.

With more than 11 separate gardens both indoors and outdoors, the Garden features everything a nature enthusiast might want.

The Oval Rose Garden is a charming place to relax.

The Garden also features an on-site restaurant and gift shop.

The discovery of a leather-bound book made of 66 papyrus sheets may shed new light on one of the Bible's most infamous characters - Judas Iscariot.Judas, a man viewed as a traitor by most Christians, plays a new role in the events leading up to the death of Jesus Christ in a newly-discovered writing known as the gospel of Judas.

In the text Jesus tells Judas, "you will be cursed by the other generations - and you will come to rule over them. In the last days they will curse your ascent to the holy [generation]."

A sunrise service sponsored by University Ministries will be held Easter morning on the Sadler Hall lawn, said an administrative assistant for University Ministries.Ann Smith, worship and spiritual life intern for University Ministries, said the service has been a tradition in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) for more than 20 years.

"In our environment here at TCU, we don't do a (Holy) Thursday or a Good Friday because we don't have evening services typically," Smith said. "But it has been a tradition to have a Sunday morning Easter sunrise service," Smith said.

TCU students and faculty are familiar with the university's mission statement, "To educate individuals to think and act as ethical leaders and responsible citizens in a global community."But how often do they think about what it means?

Three faculty members - Gregg Franzwa, Jack Hill and Chris Riordan, from the philosophy, religion and business departments, respectively - will try to encourage the campus community to consider the mission statement tonight at a discussion titled, "The Mission Statement Revisited: What does it mean to be an ethical leader?"

E-mail inboxes were flooded with responses Tuesday after a chain e-mail discouraging consumers from buying certain gas suppliers somehow made its way to the entire university. To students. To faculty and staff. To alumni.The issue is not about how the e-mail was sent in the first place - it's about all of those people, not just students, mind you, who seized the opportunity to reply to all. Perhaps these people did not actually take the time to think of their discourteous actions, but everyone else sure made note of them.