Students during the 1960s fought against what they considered unjust government restriction to protest, and students now are fighting similar battles for their beliefs. In the past year alone, students have taken an active interest protesting animal research, gay rights and budget cuts to state schools.

Candidates running in student government elections hope to take advantage of available campus technology to benefit students by creating online databases and making financial records visible to the public.

A team of law experts from the U's S.J. Quinney College of Law will leave in the beginning of March to assist Iraq in ironing out some constitutional wrinkles.

The Utah government suspects Kimaro is connected to money laundering, theft by deception and forgery, communications fraud and engaging in a pattern of unlawful activity and conspiracy that involved stealing $2.5 million from the state using U tax codes, according to a public warrant.

Police suspect embers from a fire pit burning outside the Union could have been the source of a fire that torched one of the building's overhangs Saturday morning. By the time firefighters put out the flames, the damage mounted to $5,000, according to the police report.

Because of a recent drop in the cost of diesel fuel, the Utah Transit Authority has scheduled to remove the fuel surcharge from the price of the U's Ed-Pass, bringing the cost down 10 percent.

Grandin, a well-known researcher on cattle herding and autism, presented her lecture, "Animals and Autism," at the Goodwill Humanitarian Building on Feb. 13, to students and researchers from the U and other universities.

To inspire high school students throughout the state, just as she was inspired years ago, Furse helped organize "Meet an Inventor Day," which was held Saturday, where engineering students and professors demonstrated their latest inventions.

When the day of the second annual iPod Kiss-off arrived, the Johnson sisters took their stance amid about 30 other couples and friends to hold up a block of wood with an iPod picture on it using only their lips, taking away the first prize.

With just the small pieces of a silver mirror, U researchers might be able to prevent a disaster by detecting whether aircraft parts such as tails and wings are deteriorating.