Last January about 200 students gathered on the Washington Avenue Bridge, ignoring the cold weather and shunning their classes in a show of support for a tuition-relief bill sponsored by Rep. Myron Orfield,...

A former University employee is suing the University and several officials whom he alleges fired him after he made suggestions about improving the integration and success of minority students in General...

It seems no team is safe in the Big Ten this season. The conference schedule has already produced some early upsets, which leads a few men's basketball coaches to believe the league is balanced this year. Some...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -- Indiana went small and came up big. Neil Reed scored 20 points and A.J. Guyton added 15 and grabbed a game-saving rebound in the final seconds Tuesday night as the 21st-ranked...

TORONTO (AP) -- A few months ago, Toronto was aglow at being ranked the world's best city. Now, municipal leaders sound like doomsday is at hand -- and blame their own province's premier. "It's like the...

One of the biggest gripes on most college campuses today is that students are forced to take too many general education requirements. Many students forget that having a degree does not mean "well trained...

America faces four more years of a president under whose leadership the government ignored the public's wishes more than any administration ever recorded, according to a University professor and his colleague. A...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -- Derek Anderson is lost for the season because of a knee injury, a blow to Kentucky's hopes for repeating as national champion. The guard injured his right knee in the second half...

Here's an interesting piece of trivia: Newt Gingrich aspired as a child to be a zoo keeper. Considering the ethics imbroglio he now finds himself in (again), perhaps he should have avoided the Beltway...

Following an excellent high school career at Duluth East in which he amassed a state record 311 points, Dave Spehar had a lot of eyes resting on him. Spehar was the buzzword during the first week of Gophers...