The lack of brakes on fast bikes spark controversy around the country, but U students are still riding the new trend.

Homecoming Week kicked off Saturday as students and alumni gathered for the festivities8212;past and present Utes sharing the commonality of Utah spirit.

Thousands of students gathered outside the Union yesterday to watch Matisyahu with special guest Brother Ali perform a unique style of Reggae and hip-hop.

Danielle Tapia has wanted to be a doctor since high school.

But instead of paying expensive medical school fees after her undergraduate degree is finished, she decided that she will join the Navy.

Empathy is the focus of this year's Ramadan, as observed by members of the U Muslim Student Association. The fast culminated with a Fast-A-Thon, a banquet at the Officer's Club in Fort Douglas on Wednesday night to celebrate the breaking of the day's fast.

The grief program offers support groups for people adjusting to the death of a family member or friend. Sessions are eight weeks long and run during Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters

The four-person panel cited adequate funding, programs to get students into college, recruiting and preparing teachers and local control of the educational system as key issues being decided today that will determine that future of public education.

A U graduate student is learning clams and worms are not the major cause of coral reef deterioration8212;instead, it's caused by factors such as global warming and harmful chemicals being pushed into the water.

With words like "crisis" and "crunch" used to describe current global financial markets, it can sometimes sound as if the economic sky were falling. And for U finance majors, a dwindling job market and shaky economy has some students rethinking their postgraduate plans.

New GPS technology in campus shuttles tracks the buses' locations in real time and shows students when they will arrive.