Long before even the earliest shoppers hit stores on Black Friday, the student government had already approved spending $20,000 on a senior class gift.

A bike ride between Salt Lake City and Provo can sometimes be lonely.

Preparing for Saturday's Holy War between the U and BYU, Ute fans gathered at the Marriott Library Plaza on Monday for the annual Rivalry Week pep rally.

The U approved a new course for Spring Semester8212;Star Trek: The Quest to be Human8212;that uses the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" television series to discuss questions about what it means to be human and whether people are born human or learn to be human.

Ever since the financial crisis of 2008, pundits and lawmakers have considered an array of regulations and punitive measures to remedy the system's problems, but real solutions could be found in an unexpected place8212;Islamic countries.

Commuter Services came under scrutiny after a former professor fell out of one of its shuttles and died Thursday.

Wanting to address the U's reputation as a commuter campus, the senior class wants to give part of campus a face-lift.

Families are preparing large feasts for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, but for many Utahns, there won't even be enough food for the rest of the year, so the U is stepping in to help.

The U's table tennis team's dream of a national tournament berth is still alive after a fourth-place finish Saturday in the Northern California regional collegiate tournament at the University of California-Berkeley.

Scientists have evidence that the massive meteor that turned the night sky into day for two seconds Wednesday night might have exploded in the atmosphere above the reputed Area 528212;an extremely dangerous, mysterious patch of Utah desert.