The Working Dog Reading Series is a series of readings throughout the school year held by English graduate students where they read their own work.

A new season begins a new chapter for the Utah swimming and diving team. The Utes will take to the pool this Friday in Boise, Idaho, under second year head coach Greg Winslow.

The Beavers have already made their season. Call it a cliché, but the Utes will have to make their season one game at a time, starting tonight.

Although the results of a two-year study at the U seem to show that two nutritional supplements don't have an effect on slowing cartilage loss, U researchers believe a longer study could show more positive results.

With a $1.5 million grant recently awarded by the National Institutes of Health, U researcher Eric Huang now has extra funding to study the process of tumor growth and possibly slow that process down.

When people have been deprived of their voice in deciding such controversial moral questions by a non-elected group of pseudo-experts, it is only natural that they should like to make their own preferences felt by engineering the selection of new pseudo-experts of their own philosophical bent. While this might be satisfactory to a given side in the short run, it hinders the judicial independence that is important to all of us in the long run.

Some colleges and universities are using Facebook and other social networking Web sites to evaluate prospective students.

Access to contraception is the least we can do to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Maybe we could also offer people some compassion when they make mistakes and decide to put their development as adult members of society ahead of the fate of a couple of cells.

The U should expand the current language requirement by offering a hybrid course with not only the language component of a given culture, but also immersing students in other facets of a foreign lifestyle.

Students and teachers began experimenting with iTunes U last year, a part of iTunes used by universities and colleges for Web-based classes, downloadable files and more.