- The Daily Utah Chronicle

Volleyball looks to extend conference winning streak to 17 games

By and • September 13, 2007

This week, the U volleyball team will be trading in one challenge for another. The Utes will be turning in their most demanding pre-conference schedule for a target the size of the 16-0 regular season record they compiled in Mountain West Conference play.

POWs will be honored Sept. 21

By By Arthur Raymond and By Arthur Raymond • September 13, 2007

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Letter: Saudi Arabia is free of the West’s issues

By and • September 13, 2007

Editor: Luke Hinz seems very judgemental of a regime that has been very successful for the past couple of hundred years ("Saudi Arabia can't be trusted," Sept. 4). I have lived here in Saudi Arabia for the past 30 years, and the system works pretty well on a day-to-day basis.

International textbooks: cheaper alternative

By By Celeste Chaney and By Celeste Chaney • September 13, 2007

Each year students struggle to find affordable textbooks for their classes, especially when newer editions are mandatory and textbook prices continue to increase. Many turn to outside sources such as off-campus bookstores and online sellers. Scott Laming, spokesperson for AbeBooks.

Program teaches women defense skills

By By Michael McFall and By Michael McFall • September 13, 2007

More than 30 sorority members left the Aline Wilmot Skaggs Biology Building on Monday night with a new set of martial arts skills that can potentially help them disable a man in mere seconds. Erin Weed, the 29-year-old founder and sole employee of Girls Fight Back, a self-defense lecture program for women, spent two hours teaching members of sororities how to defend themselves in the presence of an attacker.

$6 million given to business school

By By Rochelle McConkie and By Rochelle McConkie • September 13, 2007

The David Eccles School of Business received $6 million yesterday to fund cutting-edge ideas that could turn more U students into inventors. The Sorenson Legacy Foundation, a charitable company founded by local inventor James LeVoy Sorenson, donated the sum to finance the school's new interdisciplinary center for innovation and discovery, which is now up and running.

Horoscopes

By By The Guru • September 13, 2007

Aries (March 21-April 19) This week is off to a slow start. Not slow like Velcro-shoes-on-a-still-stumbling-toddler slow, but slow nonetheless. The cosmos predicts, however, you will get "crunked" later in the week. So, I suggest you put off that table dance until Saturday, and consider keeping those Velcros laced up -- they provide excellent traction.

Annie get your gun, and sub-machine gun…

By By Glen Bellamy • September 13, 2007

If Michael Davis were in some sort of creative arts class and his assignment was "find as many unique, creative ways to kill human beings," he would undoubtedly walk out of the class with an easy A. Teacher's pet. Dean's list. His latest movie, "Shoot 'Em Up," would be his thesis.

The Red Herring: Country Singer’s Latest Effort Strikes a Different Chord

By By Orion Archibald • September 13, 2007

Toby Keith's 2001 hit "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue" was the anthem of a nation poised to deliver righteous wrath from on high -- but six years later, as that righteous wrath has spiraled out of control into misdirected carnage and the nation finds itself more confused than confident and more bitter than boisterous, Keith has found himself singing an entirely different tune.

Cartoon: Andy Ludwig for Mayor!!

By and • September 13, 2007

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