Ask yourself, what was the first European colony to fight for independence? What country first recognized freedom of speech, first banned child labor and first provided free public schools? The United...

Preachers stocked up record numbers of college converts during the 1997-98 season, according to Biblethumpers Inc., a Midwestern religious think tank. "We, I mean they, claimed anywhere from five to 5,000...

What started as a klutzy blunder became a startling discovery for University educational psychology graduate student Kurt Guidinger. As Guidinger turned to answer his phone last Saturday, his elbow accidentally...

Normally when Tom Swain approaches a stop light its green face gives him the go-ahead to cross, unfalteringly. But at 9 a.m. Friday morning, his good light karma made a change for the worse. At the corner...

As an evolving University that must change with the times, it is essential that a special legislative session be called so that the school can propose an emergency budget request. Things never go as planned,...

George Taylor, like thousands of desperate underclassmen before him, has been through the harrowing process of registration before -- and failed miserably. Taylor, an Institute of Technology sophomore,...

University administrators seldom have trouble getting what they want. But when it was time for him to go, John Fecalton, executive vice president for the Department of Plumbing and Paper, ran out of wipe. Yelling...

Jeremy LaRoche watches TV in his living room, a sinking depression sapping his will to do anything but passively absorb another episode of CHiPs. "I don't really have the strength to move," he says, "except...

A University student sat in a Dinkytown coffee shop Thursday afternoon reading James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake" and talking intellectually. "It's as if the author is reaching for some sort of hope in the...

What began as a routine day turned into a tale of bewilderment and total disbelief for two University students Friday. Jon Redman and Adam Meyler did their usual wake-and-bake Friday morning before classes....