When resident assistants from campus residence halls gathered Wednesday night in Milton Daniel Hall, a collection of donations for hurricane victims punctuated the standard fare of awards and announcements.Barbara Hawkins, the associate director of residential life, said the RA all-hall is basically for RAs on campus to get together, make announcements and give out individual awards.

More than 50 students filled the Brown-Lupton Student Center Lounge Thursday to hear concerns TCU's NAACP chapter has with diversity on campus.The forum was a follow-up to last year's April meeting during which the chapter began its campaign for diversity awareness.

"The NAACP at TCU has collaborated the Chancellor (Victor) Boschini and we are at the point of implementation and action," said Allison Robinson, vice president of the chapter. "We need student participation from all organizations in the TCU community."

The TCU men's and women's cross country teams will compete this weekend in the North Texas Invitational in Denton."This is one of the smaller meets we will compete in this year," Senior Katrina Zielinski said.

Cross country head coach Patrick Cunniff said this weekend's meet will be very interesting.

"I have not received a final list of the number of schools who will be competing this weekend," Cunniff said. "The level of competition will be determined by the schools that actually compete."

Bob Schneider said he has been playing at the Aardvark for about 10 years, and he plans to keep coming back."The Aardvark is just one of those nitty-gritty, sweaty little clubs," Schneider said. "You have to leave to get away from the music."

Schneider has spent the last year touring behind his 2004 release, "I'm Good Now." The album is a melting pot of styles and genres, ranging from rave-up rockabilly to dreamy electro-pop.

Schneider first gained attention playing with Austin-based bands like Joe Rockhead and Ugly Americans.

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.

While TCU ranked 97th nationally for academics, it took 12th for fitness and 10th for the influence of the Greek community.One might be quick to say that TCU should study as much as it exercises.

It is easy to draw connections between these numbers and jump to conclusions, but we must remember the magazines doing these rankings were entirely independent and used different methodologies.

We can't link these factors scientifically, but it does raise questions for some.