The margin of error for the Utah volleyball team is small if it is to climb back into the conference title picture.

The men's water polo "A" team is heading to the National Championship Tournament, which is scheduled for Friday through Sunday. The team finished its regular season as the Rocky Mountain Division champions last month and is now preparing to compete in a pool of 16 top teams from all over the country.

Monday marked the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. The event signified the end of an era filled with constant fear of impending doom peeking around the corner. Indeed, it was such an important event that political philosopher Francis Fukuyama went so far as to describe it as "the end of history," or the end of serious competition for Western democracy.

The men's basketball team has plenty of new faces, but head coach Jim Boylen doesn't see a need for that to mean a less competitive team this season.

I could probably make a valid argument why the women's team could have a successful season, but when it comes to who will have the better season, I have to go with the men.

Sure, the women's basketball team is only returning two starters. Yes, it lost its two biggest stars, last year's Mountain West Conference Player of the Year Morgan Warburton and second-team All-MWC Katie King, who together averaged 29.5 points and 13.3 rebounds per game.

Although the offense looked solid against Chadron State for the Utes' season-opening exhibition game Saturday, Utah's defense highlighted an area with an opportunity for improvement.

U students hope to bring fellow filmmakers together with those across the nation by establishing a student-affiliate chapter of the David Lynch Foundation on campus.

Utah ballet and modern dancers proved themselves to be mature artists in the Utah Ballet Special Event Performance, which ended last Saturday. But it was the out-of-towners8212;aka Germans8212;that provided the most excitement. Their piece, "Troy Games," startled the audience with a sensual and beautifully masculine performance.

A poet, a mathematician and a composer walk into a library, engage in a heated debate concerning the relative merits of their chosen fields and in the process find they have more in common than any of them could have ever imagined.