While transitioning from complicated leaps to en-pointe poses that resemble a vertical split, U ballet dancers and students from The Royal Ballet School in London performed for a full house of viewers Saturday night.

Instead of children wasting their school breaks watching TV, the U Continuing Education Program has organized Club U as an educational alternative.

Martinez, a sophomore in physical therapy, avoids borrowing money from her friends, despises credit cards and wants the national government to avoid adding to debt from the financial crisis.

At the Hinckley Institute of Politics forum on Friday, Carlson sparred with Phil Duncan, the director of the Marriage Law Foundation and a former visiting law professor at Brigham Young University, about gay marriage and the legal arguments for and against it.

DeChristopher, a U senior in economics and an environmental activist, placed phony bids on land in southern Utah at a BLM gas and oil lease auction in December. Some of the land sales from the auction have now been terminated.

As campus departments are facing budget cuts, the ASUU Sustainability Board is proposing a $5 student fee increase to help pay for sustainability projects aimed at lowering utility costs.

The Utah Ballet and the Character Dance Ensemble have been invited to perform at the Valentino Dance Center in Tokyo, but the dance companies must first raise approximately $39,000 to cover the cost of the trip.

The David Eccles School of Business is bracing its students against the economic thunderstorm.

Prominent U professor and volunteer Catherine Newman died on Tuesday at age 83. Newman spent 20 years volunteering at the University Hospital and will also be remembered for her long life as a teacher, according to her obituary published in the Deseret News.

The Daily Utah Chronicle is suspending Friday print editions and moving to "green" online issues starting this Friday.