Dining Services announced Tuesday at the Student Government House of Representatives meeting that the dining plan will rise in cost fall 2008 and representatives expressed concern about how it will affect the student body. Rick Flores, general manager of Dining Services, told representatives the cost has not yet been determined, but he thinks the new plan for on-campus residents will cost between $1,900 and $2,100. The current plans offered range from $1,400 to $1,800.

Many of us look forward to October. It brings cooler weather and grants us license to wear silly costumes and flirt with diabetes.

But there is more to October than Halloween.

Grab a Sharpie and mark your calendar because October is National Month Month.

Just about every advocacy group in the United States uses the month of October as its awareness month.

Student Government Association will host the president and vice president of the University of Utah's student government this week to discuss a collaboration of ideas between universities in the Mountain West Conference. SGA President Jace Thompson, SGA Vice President Thomas Pressly and Dean of Campus Life Suzy Adams traveled to Utah during fall break to meet with the Associated Students of the University of Utah and prepare them for a trip to TCU.

Despite leading for most of the game, Stanford came up just short on Saturday, falling 38-36 to the Horned Frogs at Stanford Stadium in a game that, for the second straight week, was decided in the final...

Athletics may be the only thing bringing together schools from the Mountain West Conference now, but there is a possibility student leaders may be solidifying that relationship on a deeper level.The student leaders from TCU and Utah plan to meet to exchange ideas about their respective student government systems in hopes of learning from each other's mistakes and successes.

"Our goal is to have a Mountain West Conference convention where delegates from each university will come and hopefully resolutions for the future will be made," SGA President Jace Thompson said.

As I was following Saturday's game on the live update feature on my cell phone, I began to feel sick.It couldn't have been from the Kincaid's burger I had enjoyed hours before, could it? No, of course not - such a thought is blasphemous.

Instead, it was the score that was the cause of my stomach's discomfort: 31-17 Stanford in the third quarter.

Oh, no. Not again.

It was not too long after the Cardinal took the two-touchdown lead that I began to receive text messages from friends looking to dump their sorrows on me.

"Diversity Within Religion" will be the subject of a daylong conference sponsored by Inclusiveness and Intercultural Services on Wednesday.The luncheon keynote speaker, Manochehr Dorraj, a political science professor, said he will discuss why religion matters in a post-modern world.

"One of the most important forms of diversity is religious diversity and different venues of religious and spiritual life," Dorraj said.

IIS hosts the Inclusiveness Conference annually to open a campus-wide dialogue on issues of diversity within different realms of society.