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The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

The Daily Utah Chronicle

Language requirement inadequate

By By Jeffrey Jenkins October 1, 2008

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.

Judges don’t have right to decide meaning of the Constitution

By By Steve Warrick October 1, 2008

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.

Enrollment in Web courses on the rise

By By Isabella Bravo, Staff Writer October 1, 2008

Online courses are some of the only courses at the U with increasing enrollment rates. Despite budget cuts, departments might have to spend the extra money for additional online classes, or face stagnant enrollment and additional cuts.

Colleges monitor applicant profiles

By By Michael McFall, Staff Writer October 1, 2008

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

Profs use net as teaching tool

By By Clayton Norlen, Staff Writer October 1, 2008

With the ever-increasing use and application of the Web in professional and personal settings, some educators have adapted their teaching techniques to incorporate the benefits of the Internet into their classrooms.

Crunching the numbers of PAC-10

By By James Boehly, Staff Writer October 1, 2008

Today in the Pac-10, USC is still the team to beat. Although the Trojans dominate the modern Pac-10, history has shown the they will not stay on top forever.

Wi-Fi access expanded to most buildings on campus

By By Ryan Shelton, Asst. News Editor October 1, 2008

By December, almost every building on campus will be equipped with high-speed wireless Internet access for students and faculty with laptops or internet-capable cell phones.

Huang gets $1.5 million to study tumor cells

By By Lana Groves, Asst. News Editor October 1, 2008

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.

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Study could debunk supplement

By By Lana Groves, Asst. News Editor October 1, 2008

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.