After much debate, the House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday night to re-authorize the emergency relief to members of the student body affected by the Gulf Coast disaster.The bill appropriates $10,000 to establish the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Relief Fund.

One opponent, Thomas Guidry, a representative of the College of Science and Engineering, said it would go against a previous bill in effect.

Tailgate one of many opportunities to get involved in TCU communityWith so many activities, clubs and organizations on campus, students almost have to work to not know what's going on around them.

The college years are an important time in many people's lives, and getting involved and interacting with others at school only serves to enhance one's experience.

The new student tailgate is a prime example of this.

It encourages students to come together and get involved in the TCU community.

The women's tennis team kicked off its year with the Baylor Invitational in Waco and a tournament in Matamoros, Mexico over the weekend.Despite losing in the latter rounds in Waco, head coach Dave Borelli said he learned a lot about his new team and was impressed with how his players handled the competition.

"Since this was one of our first tournaments, we got a really good look at our players," Borelli said. "We can see that the strength coach has done great work with the team's conditioning, and we were up to the challenges last weekend's tournament had to offer us."

Quinn Donahue landed an internship working for Charles Attal Presents, one of the country's biggest independent promotion companies, and learned the ropes of talent buying for the Austin City Limits music festival, among others.Donahue, a fifth-year senior, took a semester off of school in order to secure a future in the Austin music industry when he graduates in December.

"This is what I want to do in the future and there was no other way to gain the experience," Donahue said.

Several changes have been made this year to LEAPS, an annual campus event that sends teams of 15 to 25 people to over 40 service sites around Fort Worth, said Director of LEAPS Sebastian Moleski.The changes "will get more students engaged in giving back to the community," Moleski said.

Instead of only visiting service sites, such as YMCAs, retirement centers and children's homes, Moleski said, teams will also go to private residencies in low-income neighborhoods.

In the beginning of the semester, we, the staff at the Skiff, said we wanted to implement some changes to incorporate the reader more into the paper.We started an entertainment page focused on weekend highlights.

We are working on consistently publishing Campus Lines on Tuesdays to give an overview of the week's events and important information.

And now we want to hear from you.

Our new implementation is an occasional Readers' Corner on the Etc. page.

Inspired by Austin's live music scene in the early 1970s, Austin City Limits, three decades later, still offers the mix of musical styles that has made it a television music program standout. "Austin City Limits seeks a balance of music genres encompassed by regional, national and international performers," Terry Lickona, the series' producer who books the talent, said.

The award-winning TV series showcase is recorded in KRLU studios, located on the University of Texas at Austin campus, and is featured on PBS throughout the country.

A second election today will fill two seats left vacant from the first House of Student Representatives election.Students in the College of Science and Engineering will choose between Kristi Tebo and Genniffer Williams. Students in the College of Communication will choose between Brian Goates and Rachael Anderson.

Both Tebo and Williams said the seats weren't filled because not enough people knew about the election.

Students did not run because of the "lack of interest, motivation or information," Tebo said.