The ASUU Student Senate Executive Committee voted down the proposed corequisite Nov. 17 that would require students to participate in community engagement before graduation.

Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. proposed a $1 billion statewide budget cut Dec. 4 that could mean up to a 14 percent cut in state funds for the U in the next fiscal year.

To handle the increasing number of cancer patients, the Huntsman Cancer Foundation and the U broke ground Oct. 31 on an extension to the hospital that will double the number of beds and open updated centers and technology for cancer care.

More than 52 percent of eligible young voters went to the polls, tying the 1992 election for the second-highest young voter turnout. 1972 had the highest percentage with 55.4 percent.

The U Police Department has tightened security after 22 cars were broken into on campus in late November.

Rebecca Beauregard has traded in the comforts of her life in Salt Lake City to serve HIV patients in Ethiopia. Although she realizes her impact might be small, she hopes to make a difference.

With the help of four surgeons from the U Transplant Center, the University Medical Center in Las Vegas will be able to maintain its transplant program until it is reviewed again by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in June 2009.

About 30 students watched as Julia Kornfield, a chemical engineering professor from the California Institute of Technology, discussed a new breakthrough in eye surgery that will restore full vision without multiple surgeries.

Although many students prepare for finals by coming up with quirky sayings to memorize information, reading through chapters and frantically taking notes, Stapley, an undecided freshman, and her fellow students in Math 1010 studied for their upcoming exam by singing.

To have a membership or not to have a membership8212;that is the question. Or at least that was the question students from the U and BYU argued at Thursday's public debate at the S.J. Quinney College of Law, which addressed the pros and cons surrounding the proposed elimination of required private membership at Utah bars.