Last Friday, despite my trepidation over almost all things religious, I attended a Shabbat dinner at Hillel, the Jewish student center. Boyfriend is taking a Jewish studies class in which he must have...

In case you may have missed the news, there's an alien invasion trailing the heels of comet Hale-Bopp. Yep, that's right, a spaceship four times the size of Earth is hiding in the comet's tail, steering...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Jeff Capel and Roshown McLeod made key shots down the stretch Wednesday night as No. 8 Duke beat No. 2 Wake Forest for the first time in 10 meetings 73-68, likely denying the...

Academic freedom -- freedom for unrestricted inquiry and expression in our research and teaching -- is the foundation of our profession and of a free society. Most of us presume that tenure is sufficient...

Bombs exploded last week in the bank and courthouse of Vallejo, Calif. A third bomb was discovered near the public library. The case was solved through classic police work: a combination of determining...

LIMA, Peru (AP) -- It's a ritual. Every day, Beatriz Gumucio steps onto a 14th-floor balcony of a Lima apartment building to look down at the Japanese ambassador's compound and the mansion where her husband...

In the political hubris of the last legislative season, Gov. Arne Carlson banded together with both a former legislator and a former representative and proposed the high tuition-high aid policy for higher...

The University became the state's first higher education institution in 1851 -- seven years before the state itself was established. Almost a century and a half later, the University is still the state's...

Family members cried as Deborah Wood, former University student Kami Talley's mother, testified Tuesday in the trial of Louis Cardona "Butch" Buggs, the man charged with killing Talley. In an eventful...

The high volume of snow this winter has caused both the University and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities to spend much more than they anticipated on snow removal. Paul Tschida, the assistant...