In a move that could clamp down on Utah's higher education funding, state lawmakers will gather next week for a special legislative session where Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. will ask them to cut the state's budget by 2 percent.

Homecoming Week kicked off Saturday as students and alumni gathered for the festivities8212;past and present Utes sharing the commonality of Utah spirit.

Thousands of students gathered outside the Union yesterday to watch Matisyahu with special guest Brother Ali perform a unique style of Reggae and hip-hop.

Danielle Tapia has wanted to be a doctor since high school.

But instead of paying expensive medical school fees after her undergraduate degree is finished, she decided that she will join the Navy.

Empathy is the focus of this year's Ramadan, as observed by members of the U Muslim Student Association. The fast culminated with a Fast-A-Thon, a banquet at the Officer's Club in Fort Douglas on Wednesday night to celebrate the breaking of the day's fast.

Orest Symko, a physics professor and researcher, is in the process of producing a working prototype of a new technology that utilizes waste heat from an exhaust pipe or power plant and converts it into electricity.

The grief program offers support groups for people adjusting to the death of a family member or friend. Sessions are eight weeks long and run during Fall, Spring and Summer Semesters

Sen. Barack Obama and Gov. Sarah Palin are no longer on the tip of every tongue in the nation's Capitol. Instead, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers are the talk of the town.

With words like "crisis" and "crunch" used to describe current global financial markets, it can sometimes sound as if the economic sky were falling. And for U finance majors, a dwindling job market and shaky economy has some students rethinking their postgraduate plans.

The four-person panel cited adequate funding, programs to get students into college, recruiting and preparing teachers and local control of the educational system as key issues being decided today that will determine that future of public education.