A growing project aims to develop an appreciation and understanding of the natural world located on campus.

The Arboretum project, led by Provost Nowell Donovan, will begin this summer in an effort to learn more about and recognize some of the types of trees on campus, Donovan said.

The project is part of a state organization called the Great Tree Ring that consists of people concerned with botanical education, Donovan said. Campus botanists discovered that there are 40 different species of trees on campus, he said.

One of the best things about baseball is that it is a long season.

If you go 0-4 one day, you get the chance to come back out tomorrow and get another crack at it. So basically what I'm saying is don't freak out just yet and start blowing up your roster.

I have seen leagues where studs like Reds' second baseman Brandon Phillips and Brewers' outfielder Ryan Braun are getting cut. Don't be that dumb. Hang on to your best players because despite their slow start, these guys will still put up monster numbers as the season goes on.

I am a slave to this newspaper.It owns my soul. It tests my sanity on a nightly basis. And even as the hours dwell on and my hair becomes increasingly disheveled from a sort of stressed caressing that...

Pond Street Grill, a university dining facility that closed last semester, will not be re-opening as a dining facility next semester because poor business is predicted to continue, a university official said.

Director of Residential Services Craig Allen said the location was re-opened on April 1 as a study space. There are currently no specific ideas about how the space will be converted for the fall semester and what its purpose will be, he said, but he has spoken with the Residence Hall Association about the future of Pond Street Grill.

Field goals and field position can make all the difference in the world for a football team when the clock is winding down in the fourth quarter. Special teams are a vital part of any team, and the Frogs will be returning most of their 2008 unit for the upcoming season.

The two notable departures are running back Aaron Brown, who returned kickoffs, and Drew Combs, recipient of the 2008 College Football Rudy Award, who handled kickoffs for the team.

Employers expect to hire 22 percent fewer college graduates on a national scale from the class of 2009 than they hired from the class of 2008, according to a study conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers,

The deteriorating economic situation is the catalyst for the anticipated decline in hiring, according to a press release issued by NACE.

John Thompson, executive director of Career Services, said the strain on jobs has affected students on campus graduating in 2009 as well.

Last week, President Barack Obama attended the Summit of The Americas held in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. This meeting with democratically-elected heads of state from the Americas and the Caribbean...

Nothing has been changed yet, but the Mountain West Conference's eight-team playoff proposal is still making some noise among BCS officials.Conference commissioner Craig Thompson spent Tuesday morning...

Two students have launched a T-shirt company and are gaining entrepreneurial experience even before they graduate.John Hallman, a senior accounting major, and Scott Meyer, a senior studio art and environmental...

It has been more than six years since Savana Redding, who was then a 13-year-old student at Safford Middle School in Arizona, was forced into a strip search by school officials looking for two ibuprofen pills.

Now, at the age of 19, Redding is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will do something about the injustice she suffered as a young girl.

After a teacher found ibuprofen pills on Redding's classmate, she asked the girl where she got them and the girl indicated -- by pointing - that she had gotten them from Redding.

Graduating seniors hoping to get a job after receiving a diploma face the toughest market in decades, according to the Department of Labor. About 663,000 jobs were terminated and 3.3 million jobs were lost in the last five months. With companies hiring less and less, the resume now becomes more important than ever. Here are some tips for students to make sure their resume stands out to employers.

Don't forget a cover letter

It won't be Friday and there won't be any cold beer, but the Zac Brown Band will be singing about it.

To celebrate the end of the semester, the Programming Council arranged for the popular country music group to put on a free concert for students on Thursday, said Kennedy Stewart, Programming Council chair and sophomore advertising/public relations major.

Stewart said she saw the band at a convention some of the Programming Council members attended.