Sometimes, it's the underclassmen who make the biggest impact on a team's season. During my senior year in high school, our basketball team broke the longest winning streak in state history in the 4A championship game. A sophomore who wasn't even 5-foot-11 had largely carried the team throughout the season.

Yesterday The Chronicle printed a letter authored by me regarding the post-game statements of Max Hall ("Hall's comments unfair to Utes," Nov. 30).

After claiming a win and a loss on the road during the week of Thanksgiving, the Utah women's basketball team has returned home for back-to-back matches early in the week, taking on Weber State tonight and Idaho State tomorrow.

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

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.

Junior Utah place-kicker Joe Phillips was named the Mountain West Conference Special Teams Player of the Week on Monday after his performance against rival BYU on Saturday.

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

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

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.

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.