as long as she could remember, Cristin Zimmer has been molding and structuring pieces of clay into works of art. A graduate student in the U's art department, Zimmer has always had a love for ceramics.

Students not able to buy a plane ticket to Washington, D.C. for Tuesday's presidential inauguration can take advantage of a free broadcast on campus instead.

U.S. District Judge William Downes issued an order Jan. 12 mandating that the pub's 90 employees and the 20 tenants living upstairs vacate by March 15, when demolition will begin to expand the Frank E. Moss U. S. Courthouse onto the land.

After a week and a half of seeking donations, the U marching band has reached its goal to raise the $154,000 needed to send its members to Washington, D.C. to play in President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration parade Jan. 20.

Student activist Tim DeChristopher, with help from his legal team and donors, has raised more than $90,000 in hopes of making initial down payments on land he won in a Bureau of Land Management lease auction in December.

The debate surrounding California's Proposition 8 is continuing on the U campus as some faculty members and students are saying they want to change the focus from a debate over marriage for same-sex couples to a question of basic human rights.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and American Indian rights activist Rigoberta Menchú Tum will give the keynote address Thursday for the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Many U students rode TRAX on the first day back to school, but some didn't tap their Ed-Passes when getting on or off. Others were annoyed with the new "tap on, tap off" system.

Renowned author David McCullough, of John Adams and 1776 fame, will deliver the 2009 commencement address, U President Michael Young announced to the Board of Trustees on Tuesday.

Bankruptcy, not necessarily a bailout, could be the best remedy for the Big Three automakers, according to three U researchers.