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 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.

Nationally, women account for half of all medical school applicants, but in 2007, only 30 percent of the U's applicants were women.

After legal disputes, fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha will be moving into the former Delta Delta Delta sorority house within the next few weeks. Some of the excitement of the move has been curbed by complicated legal issues stemming from the Tri Deltas.

The fencing being put up for the Redfest concert Thursday fell on a student Monday morning.