The women's soccer team (5-3) is in Los Angeles this weekend to take part in the four-team UCLA Women's Cup. The Utes will first face off against the host team and No. 4-ranked Bruins (4-1-1) Friday night at 7 p.m. This will be the second meeting between the two teams, with the Utes getting a 2-1 upset victory over then-No.7 UCLA in 2004.

Although weeks one and two for the Utes have been more challenging offensively than fans thought they'd be, the defensive side of the team has been showing its ability to iron out some wrinkles.

Have you ever been in class, trying to focus, when a sudden deep yearning to escape the confines of civilization creeps into your brain, making you consider just running for it and not looking back? That might not be the best decision regarding your academic career, but if you are looking for a change in routine, you could swing by the office of the Hinckley Institute of Politics in OSH Room 253 or check out its website at www.hinckley.utah.edu.

I just returned from living in Amman, Jordan for the past four months and I can't speak highly enough of the amazing opportunity. It is interesting being an American male watching the constant conflict in the Middle East and then voluntarily placing yourself within it. I automatically assumed that whatever horrible account being aired on CNN or Fox News Channel would be occurring daily, and to my alarm, this became my biggest false pretense of the Middle East.

The women's tennis team kicks off the start of its 2009 season today at the BYU Invitational in Provo. Play will continue through Saturday.

The Utah team enters conference play on a three-game losing streak and has lost five of its past seven games, including a loss to No. 12 Oregon that snapped a 13-match, yearlong home winning streak.

In a time when stocks are reaching the highest levels in more than a year, the financial job market is looking up for U students.

It usually takes Whitney Allison, a freshman in exercise and sport science, about 20 minutes to walk from her dorm to her classes on lower campus. But come Monday, Allison said she will have to leave her room even earlier because of the closure of the east end of HPER Highway.

By the time she was 5 years old, she had experienced her first six-hour seizure. On a daily basis, she will have about 150 seizures. Hansen considers it a miracle that now, at age 11, her daughter can even write her name because the frequency of the seizures impairs her ability to learn.

A $1.34 per semester increase in student publication fees8212;intended at least in part for a long-delayed, still-pending restructuring of student media8212;has already been collected and is being held in limbo.