Apparently Liz Carlston hasn't ridden a bike around campus lately. If she had, she would have acknowledged in her column ("Campus bike lanes a waste of U funds" Nov. 6) that the new campus bike lanes are overdue.

With a $1.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, U researcher Stefan Pulst is searching for a drug that would reduce the severity of any one of the neurodegenerative disorders.

With TCU hanging onto a 10-6 lead late in the fourth quarter, all Utah's defense wanted to do was give its offense a chance. Two empty TCU drives deep into Utah territory and a game-ending interception later and Utah's defense did all it could to keep Utah's BCS hopes alive.

Nadia Miniclier, a professor of family and preventative medicine, initiated the physician assistant program that sent personnel to Ghana to provide medical information to assitants last summer.

In Utah, headsets are pointless. Utah's cell phone law ranks as a secondary offense, according to the Governor's Highway Safety Association. The only way to receive a cell phone violation is to simultaneously commit another offense like speeding.

While some members of the University of Nebraska faithful did attempt a "Blackout" for their Sept. 27 game against Virginia Tech, the traditionalist and die-hard fans never bought into the idea (i.e. the "Blackout" didn't happen).

When Utah athletic director Chris Hill and head coach Jim Boylen scheduled their first game of the season, they didn't look for a Division-II team that they could blow out. Instead, they looked for a team that would give them a good game.

We are the ones living in the reality, not the Hollywood stars who get paid to act in movies in some imaginary world where crime goes unpunished and actions have little consequence. Of course, we can't stop Hollywood from producing these films, but we can decide to be more aware of what we watch on our own.

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The morning of the U's "Blackout" football game against TCU, a real blackout swept the campus, and it's only a small part of a larger problem.