The University Campus Store staff doesn't expect huge sale numbers this December, though it is historically the single best month for retail.

Although local analysts haven't tallied all the numbers for Utah yet, national reports indicate that there has been and will be more money poured into a damaged economy through the upcoming holiday shopping season compared to last year.

Charlie Brown would be ashamed8212;like Snoopy, this week's holiday news section has gone all commercial.

Someone vandalized the stairwells in the plaza on the east side of the Marriott Library sometime during the weekend.

With the Legislative session fast approaching, Kim Wirthlin, U vice president of government relations, spoke to students Monday about the vital need to keep further budget cuts to a minimum and emphasized the U's role as an engine of the state economy.

Darin Furgeson, professor of pharmaceutical chemistry, in collaboration with Joe Yost, professor of neurobiology and anatomy and Ed Clark, professor and chairman of pediatrics, is studying how nanoparticles affect people and future generations.

As part of World AIDS Day, several organizations around the U are offering their services to students, faculty and members of the community.

After BYU beat the U at the football rivalry game Saturday, quarterback Max Hall said he hated everything about the U and referred to the school and everyone related to it as "classless." Even though he issued an apology Sunday night, the Frankenstein monster that is fan backlash was already alive and unstoppable.

A controversial U construction project will not be eliminating parking spaces in the Rice-Eccles Stadium parking lot8212;for now.

The law is an organism that packs in so much history and so many influences that it's scarcely within anyone's mental power to summarize every last point and its origin. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes expressed this systemic concept when he said, "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."