Letters that were stolen from the U's front marquee on University Street are one step closer to being replaced.

"The Bakkhai" was set to run Monday at the de Jong Concert Hall at Brigham Young University,the U's conservative sibling down south, but BYU canceled the U theater production, which was scheduled to appear at its annual Greek Festival.

At a time when being a student gets more expensive each year, one company isn't forgetting to cut students a deal.

A special topics anthropology class teaches students the roles humor and laughter play in society. Ewa Wasilewska, a professor of anthropology, developed the course after Linda Adams of the Middle East Center asked her to do a lecture on humor in the Middle East.

The University Venture Fund is a venture capital fund that gives 20 students from the U, Westminster and BYU an opportunity to gain business and investment experience before they graduate. The fund was one of three financial backers for the Orem-based company Omniture. BYU graduate Joshua James started Omniture, an online marketing and web analyzing company, in 1996. Last week, Adobe bought Omniture for $1.8 billion.

Stealing backpacks has become a common way to get quick cash for thieves, especially in the University Campus Store, and the U wants students to take the extra effort to protect themselves.

The U Campus Store strives to be a virtual Fort Knox, especially around its priciest items, so it doesn't have to raise the cost of textbooks or technology for students to compensate for stolen property.

Students who are in fraternities or sororities involved with the Alpha Epsilon Delta society and interested in medical school can gain insight into career goals before applying to medical school, so they don't end up wasting their time if it's not something they are truly interested in.

Flu season is beginning, and with two strains floating around, the U is preparing to deal with potentially more student absences than in past years.

An English baroness originally from Iran who was scheduled to speak at the 17th Reza Khazeni Memorial tonight has cancelled her visit.