The TCU cross country team will begin their season Friday at the Baylor Bear Relays in Waco. Head coach Patrick Cunniff said he is looking forward to the meet.

"It will be a good opportunity to bust the rust off after the summer," Cunniff said.

The cross country men and women will competete in two-person relays, with men running three kilometers each and women running two kilometers each.

Cunniff said the format of the meet will be beneficial as the opener for the team.

"The relay team format is less intense," Cunniff said.

TCU is beginning a three-stage system giving students opportunities to aid Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.Fernando Vasquez, director of community services, said Student Development Services and University Ministries began stage one Wednesday.

Stage one is aimed at raising money, and there will be staffed tables with donation cans in every residence hall, the bookstore and the recreation center, Vasquez said.

Five leaders, one line.TCU assistant head football and offensive line coach Eddie Williamson said all five members of his starting offensive line lead in different ways.

Seniors left tackle Michael Toudouze and left guard Shane Sims lead by example, while the other three members of the line, seniors center Stephen Culp, right guard Ben Angeley and junior Herbert Taylor provide vocal leadership for the five Frogs in the trenches.

"It's almost here," head football coach Gary Patterson exclaimed, in reference to the upcoming game with Oklahoma.Patterson has a different outlook on this game from what he had for last year's season opener against Northwestern.

"Last year our players didn't know much about themselves," Patterson said. "They were still in the process of learning and figuring themselves out. This year it's a lot different -- our starters out there are experienced."

Senior quarterback Tye Gunn said he knows Oklahoma's defensive line will come out fired up.

Skiff misses mark covering KatrinaIn the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of thousands of poor souls in Louisiana and Mississippi are now homeless, out of work and searching for food, clean water...

Anything we can do to return the survivors of Hurricane Katrina to some sense of normalcy is vital.For this reason, the Skiff commends TCU, Southern Methodist University, Texas Southern University, Rice University and the Houston public school system for allowing students displaced by Katrina to enroll late and attend these institutions.

However, students attending TCU will have to pay tuition here in addition to that paid to their respective universities.

Ok. So eating back at school is quite a change from having mom serve up dinner every night at 6. Many students struggle with regulating what they eat when they're at school so as to not gain or lose too much weight while keeping up with their diet.Gaining weight in college is not a myth. According to a study conducted over several years at Tufts University, men gain an average of 6 pounds their first year of college while women gain on average 4.5 pounds.