The women's soccer team (5-6-1) opens conference play this Saturday at 8 p.m. when it travels down south to face rival BYU (8-2-1) in a game that is sure to be competitive and physical.

The KUTE Radio staff has been silenced again8212;not for their behavior on the airwaves, but in the Union.

Fall ball is about halfway over for the Utah softball team, and according to head coach Amy Hogue, there's still a lot up in the air for the group.

The student government plans to spend $15,000 per year on a mentoring program that aims to give high school students a head start on filling out college applications.

The Union's fire alarm went off shortly after 3 p.m. Students and staff filed out of the building but had to stand outside in the brisk fall afternoon for only a few minutes before being let back inside.

The U chapter of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and the National Alliance on Mental Illness combined forces to raise about $6,500 for mental health issues in Utah.

Sure, her eyes get nervous when she discusses her major: undecided, but she thinks marketing sounds right. She also wishes somebody would have had the courtesy to tell her the truth about living on campus. You can't cook your own meals when you reside in the dorms, a tough adjustment for Terry, who plays chef in her free time.

The rainy, and at times snowy, weather early Wednesday morning caused the Union Programming Council organizers to alter events a bit. The event celebrating German culture was forced inside from the Union Patio to the Union Ballroom.

Fresh off Friday's victory over rival BYU, Utah volleyball looks to push its conference record to 4-0 when the team heads to Las Vegas to take on UNLV tonight.

Cathy Maples of Huntsville, Ala., recently spent $63,500 on eBay to have dinner with Sarah Palin. The former governor of Alaska agreed to the event as part of a fundraising opportunity for the charity Ride 2 Recovery, which supports wounded veterans through cycling programs. Maples owns a defense contracting company and would like to see Palin as president in 2012. Couldn't they have had a bake sale instead?