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.

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.

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

This will mark the first year that BYU and Utah will face off in the conference season opener and the Utes are anxious to show the Mountain West what they are made of.

This could be one of those rare years where the mid-major MWC overtakes the Pac-10 as the strongest conference in the West from top to bottom.

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.

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.

After a strong debut at the BYU Invitational, the Utah women's tennis team will be back in action this week as it faces teams from across the nation in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Championship.

U students overwhelmingly support Democratic presidential contender Sen. Barack Obama, but they like incumbent Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. even more.

Buttars' run in the Senate has been filled with intolerance. He introduced two bits of legislation suppressing gay rights: One to eliminate the domestic partnership registry and the other to get rid of gay-straight alliance clubs in public schools.