It's that time of year again. Get ready to head into that beautiful corner property, plop down that shiny new student ID, silently apologize to your parents and limber up to get screwed to the wall by the university bookstore.

However, the bookstore is a necessary evil. Supply meets demand, and school is much tougher without books. As you read down your class list and your bag quickly fills, you may notice something interesting. Quite a few of your professors are published authors! So why, exactly, do they demand you purchase their book?

When news broke that Michael Vick would serve the last two months of his 18-month prison term in his Virginia home for bankrolling a dog fighting ring, much of the nation was given a slap to the face to waken them to the most covered sports story of 2007.

Vick's 2009 story should be about redemption and forgiveness, even if it isn't fair to the dogs who suffered so much under Vick's watch.

The university's efforts to provide housing to all accepted students is a commendable endeavor. However, an effort should be made to make those forced to live off campus pay less. In an article in Tuesday's...

Go to college, get an internship, graduate and then take a job - the process has been pretty standard for decades. However, these days a lack of job openings has created a competitive market for internships, some of which are being claimed by college grads.

Collin Howell, who graduated from the university in May, said he tried the traditional methods of finding work, but they failed.

University officials suspect there may be 25 to 30 additional cases of H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, excluding the 10 confirmed cases on campus announced Monday, the vice chancellor for student affairs...

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