The University of Utah's Independent Student Voice

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

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Deans faced with 4% budget cut

By By Ryan Shelton, Asst. News Editor October 10, 2008

Fall Break won't be very relaxing for U college deans, who will spend the majority of their week off figuring out where they can trim their departments' budgets by 4 percent.

Students, faculty make fall break plans

By By H. Rachelle Graham, Staff Writer October 10, 2008

Unlike students who sometimes travel to exotic locations during Fall Break, faculty use their week away from students to work on research and catch up on grading.

UMFA holds writing contest

By By Jamie Bowen, Staff Writer October 9, 2008

The Utah Museum of Fine Arts is holding its second annual writing competition to encourage U students from all backgrounds to write a response to a work of art in the museum.

Diversity conference returns after 30 years

By By Lana Groves, Michael McFall October 9, 2008

The U hopes to bolster its enrollment of American Indian and Chicano/a students by showing interested science students around campus as part of a national conference.

Students struggle with campus wheelchair accessibility

By By Sylvia O'Hara, Lana Groves October 9, 2008

With a campus spanning more than 1,100 acres and built on a mountainside, navigating around it can be frustrating, especially for students in wheelchairs.

Students attend technology fair

By By H. Rachelle Graham, Staff Writer October 9, 2008

U Career Services sponsored the fair, which featured about 120 different employers that are part of science and engineering companies.

Kappas billed $500 for grafitti

By By Michael McFall, Staff Writer October 8, 2008

The U Paint Shop slapped the Kappa Sigma fraternity with a $500 fine Tuesday for painting the "ASK HER" messages on campus.

Profs bring crisis talks to classrooms

The classroom has become the center of economic crisis discussion on campus, as several professors have deviated from their syllabi to use as a teaching tool what some call the collapse of the American financial system.

U hosts lecture on grief over sibling loss

By By Allison Johnson, Staff Writer October 8, 2008

Hare, a professor of family studies and gerontology at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, gave a lecture exploring how children cope with the death of a sibling on Monday.

Grad student creates interactive election poll

By By Lana Groves, Asst. News Editor October 8, 2008

With the 2008 presidential election approaching, a U doctoral student specializing in computer science has designed a more interactive poll result viewer analyzing how different voting demographics view the presidential candidates.