Bitter financial times won't stop the late-night alcohol-free parties thrown by the Union Programming Council.

However, party planners are tightening their belts a little.

Student fees might go up by $1.34 next year and an additional $1.50 during the next few years to finance ideas that have quietly been in the works for three years.

A tug-of-war contest for eighth-row MUSS seats ended in controversy Friday at Crimson Nights.

A proposal to raise student fees to finance student media will be presented to the U Board of Trustees early next month, but details of how the fee would be spent have not been disclosed.

Some historians believe that Adolf Hitler led an anti-Jewish pogrom in 1938 that killed 91 Jewish people, but visiting professor Alan Steinweis said this and some other theories are just myths.

Robert Newman, College of Humanities dean, removed his name from consideration to become the new president of Florida International University, he said in an email.

With a rapidly changing society, university presidents are predicting changes in the future of higher education, especially with regards to federal regulations, the use of technology and college affordability.

U students have caught the gardening fever. The Sustainable Environments and Ecological Design student group has joined up with biology professor Fred Montague to help prepare and promote his Ecological Principles of Organic Gardening course.

Students can expect to see construction starting April 22 when the U breaks ground on a new science and technology research building on the old golf course.

Almost 2,000 elementary school students built towers made of straw and homemade catapults this week in an effort by the College of Engineering to promote the importance of science and math at an early age.