Unless you want to endure the seemingly endless barrage of juvenile hijinks (my God, these kids are making me use square words from rock-and-roll-hating adults in the '50s) in what essentially amounts to a junior high stay-over summer camp, avoid the U's residence halls.

I would like to provide an alternative perspective to the opinions espoused by Liz Carlston ("Incentives to give service defeats the purpose," April 6). Her views are shared by a fair few, including some members of Congress. These views are, however, a reflection of a clear misunderstanding of the term "service" and its role in society, particularly in America.

New ASUU leaders took the first step in combining their multi-party administration by appointing Ameena Khan as chief of staff.

Richard Wright, a noted writer and civil rights advocate, was honored by a centennial celebratory conference at the U this weekend for his novels depicting racism in the 20th century.

The U is undertaking a 10-month planning process to bring more minority support and representation to the fraternities and sororities.

Many of the elite population in China believe the peasant population is ignorant and incapable of understanding democracy, but a study by Yang Zhong, a political science professor at the University of Tennessee, shows just the opposite.

History has taught us that there is room for radical activism8212;so long as it is properly focused. And U students who pride themselves on their activism would do well to learn the difference between the right and wrong way to demonstrate their newfound (yet often misguided and overly simplistic) anger.

Given the alternative for government funding, spending on volunteer efforts is a lot wiser than bailing out behemoth companies that are crumbling and allocate their bailout dollars for golden parachutes given to the executives responsible for the financial disaster.

The Daily Utah Chronicle beat out other college newspapers to be named best all-around daily college newspaper from Utah, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.

The Sigma Chi fraternity is working with the Utah Red Cross to host a blood drive at its house on Greek Row today.