For Najib Amiri, this year's Ramadan experience was a chance to connect with not only his creator, but also himself.

The University Venture Fund is a venture capital fund that gives 20 students from the U, Westminster and BYU an opportunity to gain business and investment experience before they graduate. The fund was one of three financial backers for the Orem-based company Omniture. BYU graduate Joshua James started Omniture, an online marketing and web analyzing company, in 1996. Last week, Adobe bought Omniture for $1.8 billion.

Students tired of seeing the cost of everything from tuition to food go up can at least enjoy this year's Redfest for free.

The Bennion Community Service Center will be holding its sixth annual Legacy of Lowell Community Service Day this Saturday, which is free and open to the public. The service day will also kick off Homecoming Week.

The MSAUU is participating in the Muslims United Against Hunger food drive for Utah's needy, which started last month during the holy month of Ramadan. During Ramadan, Muslims fast from dawn until sunset, so they are able to focus more time on prayer and purifying their lives through self-restraint and good deeds.

A $1.34 per semester increase in student publication fees8212;intended at least in part for a long-delayed, still-pending restructuring of student media8212;has already been collected and is being held in limbo.

By the time she was 5 years old, she had experienced her first six-hour seizure. On a daily basis, she will have about 150 seizures. Hansen considers it a miracle that now, at age 11, her daughter can even write her name because the frequency of the seizures impairs her ability to learn.

It usually takes Whitney Allison, a freshman in exercise and sport science, about 20 minutes to walk from her dorm to her classes on lower campus. But come Monday, Allison said she will have to leave her room even earlier because of the closure of the east end of HPER Highway.

Students are getting frustrated because Internet accessibility has been less than reliable for residents at the new housing complex downtown.

U chemists are using the most out-of-this-world laboratory in the universe: the International Space Station.