In California, the dust is still settling from the recall race. The election of Arnold Schwarzenegger brings no catharsis to the world's sixth-largest economy. While the recall was a fine display of media-manipulated...

Music can uplift, inform and convey emotions in a way nothing else can. On Friday, music will be used to do something else: Remember. The Daniel Pearl Foundation has declared Oct. 10 Music Day in honor...

The whirlwind California recall has come and gone, and now the national political community tries to pick up the pieces. We have time to move beyond the day-to-day debates concerning ex-Gov. Gray Davis,...

After the riot last weekend in Mankato, Minn., and following riots here and at other Big Ten campuses and cities, it is nice to see one city do it right. The Cubs' victory against Atlanta on Sunday night...

A new University requirement makes incoming freshman athletes take a class that is largely unnecessary. In the past, freshman athletes attended hour-long Monday night development sessions once each month....

One year ago this Friday, the University controversially decided to invest in the Large Binocular Telescope project on Mount Graham in Arizona. The University's Faculty Senate will consider a resolution...

Something is rotten in the state of pop culture. Look at the top of the Billboard pop charts where you will find such masterpieces as "Shake Ya Tailfeather," "Right Thur" and "Get Low." Insightful stuff,...

There comes a time when every rash and stress-addled newspaper columnist must abuse his or her monopoly on the opinions page by airing semi-frivolous personal grievances in the name of the greater good....

Staccato beats puncture the silence. Three black youths bounce their heads and slap their thighs to the addictive rhythm of rap. The bus is packed with the regulars - droopy-eyed college students, tired...

In opposition to the University-offered contract, which freezes wages and increases workers' health insurance costs, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3800 members announced...