Editor:

Monday night I headed to the Warnock Engineering Building to finish an unnecessary lab report, and I parked between two handicapped spots in the yellow lined area.

During the past decade, there has been a trend of new coaches, new programs, new buildings and, overall, a new sense of diversity.

After reading yet another gag-inducing but largely unnoticed news story about the plague known as budget cuts, I feel as though I have become privy to some secret information in an underground bulletin: "This just in: The cuts could be large, the ramifications larger. It's happening again, and this time they mean business." And the swindler underbelly known as the Utah Legislature seems gung ho about the whole idea.

Although doubt still clouds the fate of the U's budget for next year, U President Michael Young appeared before the Academic Senate on Monday to offer an early prognosis.

After several criticized or mired projects and two successful ones, today the student government's leaders will sit down with students and go over what they've done for the past eight months of its administration.

Some former methamphetamine-lab busting police who filed for workers compensation for ailments related to their exposure to the dangerous drug while on the job are blaming their denied claims on a failed U study.

U art professor Jimmy Lucero arrives in a classroom on Salt Lake City's west side each week with an art lesson and a dream for his students that they can rise above their circumstances and go to college. But soon it will remain just that8212;a dream.

In light of recent findings from the undercover investigation by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals at the U's research labs, students are continuing to make an outcry.

As the semester comes to a close, the Office of Sustainability hosted its last open forum of the year8212;with only a handful of people.

After centuries of study, mental disorders are still largely a mystery, but U scientists aren't ready to give up, especially when it comes to various forms of depression.