U administrators discussed the proposed tuition increase with students Monday and detailed how departments campus-wide are facing a 17.5 percent budget cut from the Utah Legislature.

General elections will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, and the winner will be announced Thursday morning on the Union Patio. "We need to work harder and do everything we can to get to every student," Clough said. "With a little more push, this could continue to be a very interesting race."

Berry, an acclaimed writer, farmer and outspoken environmental activist, visited the U for the first time in 20 years Thursday for the centennial anniversary of his teacher Wallace Stegner's birth.

At the final lecture in the "Memory and the Media" series hosted by the department of communication, Laurel Leff discussed how The Times coverage of the Holocaust affected how American citizens remembered the events.

Student fees might go up an additional $2.68 next year, but it has nothing to do with sustainability.

Navy students tossed spinning rifles back and forth in a choreographed Z as audience members sat back in silence at the annual Northwest Navy competition hosted by the U during the weekend.

Kariann Hibbard, elections registrar for the Associated Students of the University of Utah, revealed that the GO and the Revolution parties will face off in final elections next week. The two parties were separated by 100 votes, with the Synergy Party finishing a distant third.

The campaign manager for one of the parties competing in student government elections has resigned, throwing the party's finances into disarray and forcing them to suspend campaigning on March 10 due to multiple financial disclosure violations.

The U's father of jazz has died, but family members say his legacy will live on in the music of his students.

In the Union Den, decorated with cacti and native rocks, U students from different faiths gathered together Wednesday night to discuss their spiritual connection to Utah's wilderness.