The picture that graced the front page of Monday's edition was so in-your-face queer that it offended me.

As I strolled across one of our campus' many asphalt expanses, I thought, "I know what this campus needs: more A lots, and more pay parking lots while we're at it."

It's hard to believe, but we've almost made it to the finish line this semester. I was reminded of the fact after reading my registration date e-mail. It's time to pick next semester's classes and to hope, once again, of getting some decent teachers.

Saturday's game against No. 4 TCU turned out to be what some on the team are calling "a wake-up call" after the Utes fell to the Horned Frogs 55-28. TCU's 55 points were the most points scored by a Utah opponent since 1990, when the San Diego State Aztecs dropped 66 on the Utes.

Coming off of a disappointing 58-67 loss to Utah State on Friday in its season opener, the women's basketball team is preparing to take on an aggressive Minnesota team tonight in its first home game of the season.

2010 adds another year to the calendar and another increase in the price of tuition.

In a state where God, Jerry Hughes and football are one and the same, the defending Mountain West Conference champion Utes were handed their first conference loss of the season.

The Runnin' Utes were able to hang with the Idaho Vandals for most of the night, but in the end, Idaho's experience was the difference, as Utah lost its season opener Friday 94-87.

The Utah Museum of Natural History hosted a lecture Thursday called "Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent" at Judge Memorial High School in Salt Lake City, featuring Sampson, a U paleontologist and rising star in the dinosaur field.

Universities are homes to secret societies8212;Yale's Skull and Bones, Dickinson's Raven's Claw, Cornell's Quill and Dagger8212;but between the sneakers, sweat and slam dunks, the U's hasn't become so infamous.