Busy college students are saying goodbye to the VCR and welcoming TiVo, a digital technology that allows viewers to record shows anytime automatically on a timer without the use of tapes. "I love TiVo," Brian Greaves, a junior advertising/public relations major, said. "It's easy, and I am pretty busy, so I want to make sure the shows I like get recorded."

He said he shares his machine with three other roommates in their on-campus apartment.

Issues of diversity will be the focus of the "Call to Action" forum at noon today in the lobby of the Brown-Lupton Student Center, NAACP members said.Members of the TCU NAACP chapter say issues of diversity first addressed at a forum last semester still remain major issues at the university.

"We're serious about this; it will not fade," said NAACP chapter President Erica Parker.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is spearheading the forum today.

Students looking for anything from summer internships to permanent employment have the opportunity to find their dream job today at the career expo, organizers said.University Career Services organized TCU's annual Career Expo for students to get involved and learn about jobs available to them, said Laura Chaney, assistant to the recruitment coordinator.

"We're really trying to get freshmen and sophomores involved this year," Chaney said. "By sophomore year, students need to get focused on what they want to do."

CBS 11 News producer and TCU alum Kent Chapline told broadcast journalism students about his experiences in Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday night - both as a field producer and as a husband and father of two."I deal with stress on a daily basis, and I deal with it pretty well," he said. "But this is a different kind of stress."

Chapline said CBS 11, a station in the seventh largest market in the country, sent him with two reporters, three photographers and two engineers to cover the hurricane.

"We have formed out of necessity," the women of TCU's first Asian sorority state in their constitution.Kappa Lambda Delta was formed this semester to provide unity, participation, awareness and sisterhood to the Asian students on campus, said Cleda Wang, the sorority's president.

But Wang said membership is open to any female regardless of race, creed, color, sexual orientation or physical ability.

"If you notice in the Greek community at TCU, we're the only ethnicity left out - like we don't exist," said Wang, a sophomore biology major.

TCU officials welcomed the school's ranking this year among "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News and World Report, but said the ranking that is most important is in the minds of the students and the experiences each one takes with them after graduation.Ranked 97 for 2006, TCU climbed the polls one spot from last year, Nowell Donovan, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, said.

The Judicial Board is holding a trial today to determine the legitimacy of the Hurricane Relief Bill passed by the House of Student Representatives.A preliminary hearing was held Friday to decide if a...

TCU junior quarterback Jeff Ballard will likely start this Saturday's game against New Mexico in place of injured senior Tye Gunn, head coach Gary Patterson said. Gunn was forced out of last week's game against Brigham Young with a shoulder injury.

"Right now, Tye couldn't play," Patterson said. "Tye will take mental repetitions this week. If we don't have to play him, we won't, but we'll see how this week progresses."

Ballard, who took over for the injured Gunn late in the third quarter of Saturday's game, said Sunday that Gunn's shoulder "popped out of place."