Forget the wheelchair. At age 94, Doris "Granny D" Haddock is on a 36-state, 15,000-mile journey fighting to register more voters and eliminate corporate money in political campaigns.

Today, students will walk all over Scott Stulen's artwork. But the third-year graduate student said he doesn't mind.

Today, students will walk all over Scott Stulen's artwork. But the third-year graduate student said he doesn't mind.

Winners of the Carlson School of Management annual business plan competition received approximately $25,000 in cash prizes Wednesday.

A St. Paul selection committee has narrowed the field of 14 police chief applicants down to five candidates.

A ceremony will be held at Van Cleve Park today in memory of Brian Heiden, Amanda Speckien and Elizabeth Wencl, the three University students who died in a Dinkytown house fire last September.

The House did not fully fund the University's capital bonding request in a bill passed Wednesday in a committee meeting.

Sitting in his physics lecture, University student Nathan Warner envisioned a black knight riding two birds, flying in a dark sky. After sketching the scene, he set the drawing aside and continued taking notes.

Before this year, the Brian Coyle Community Center could enroll a maximum of 20 students in its after-school reading program.

The University will present John Tate Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate Advising to four University educators on Friday, College of Liberal Arts adviser Maureen Neerland said.

Some University students are not taking in spring for its green beauty or earthy aroma, but are instead feeling the season's pollens and spores assaulting their sinuses and burning their eyes.

A federal agency awarded the University $154,000 for kidney disease research, a spokesman from the office of Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., said Wednesday.

Business for Minneapolis' pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers was down during the bus strike, city officials said.

Democratic presidential hopeful Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry proposed a plan Thursday that would change how banks make student loans and would increase funding for a national volunteer program.

Minnesota's softball team was down 4-3 in the second game of a double-header against Drake on Wednesday after rallying for three runs in the last half-inning at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium.

A proposed NCAA rule change would allow Minnesota's men's basketball team to sign two more recruits for next year.

Known for making fast decisions - and changing her mind just as quickly - Minnesota's women's golfer Sophie Stubbs made a choice in fall 2002 that might have been rash, but one she hasn't regretted.

Minnesota's baseball team had made a habit out of barnburners against lesser midweek opponents, going 1-2 in three one-run Wednesday games during the first half of the season.

Recruited freshmen rowers Tracey Tallman and Rachel Hotkowski clung together at the beginning of the fall season because they had to adjust to the unfamiliar aspects of college rowing and life in the Midwest.

Minnesota men's hockey forward Thomas Vanek will represent his native Austria in the 2004 International Ice Hockey Federation World Championships in the Czech Republic beginning Saturday.

These days, if you write to a celebrity expecting a personal reply, you will probably find yourself out of luck.

When hard-core film buffs go to sleep at night, Cinema Revolution is what they dream about.

In the Twin Cities' vast theater scene, what is good for the majority is not always good for - or representative of - the minority.

Reluctant heroes, impossible odds, brutal bad guys. These are the ingredients required for your typical kung fu movie, and they are all present in glorious kung fu abundance in "Shaolin Soccer." But that's not all.

Most things in life fall into a gray area. It is rare to see something that can be easily categorized.

College students are generally hip, cool and cutting edge, and that's especially so for these eight graduate students.

Imagine there are five people who can explain your existence. Then imagine your heaven is five situations that shaped your life and told from the point of view of the other person in that situation.

Oliver Mtukudzi's song "Ndakuvara" is the story of a man admiring an ox. The man assumes, because all his other oxen had been easy to train, this one will be too.

Stealing culture is usually a bad thing. Usually. Quentin Tarantino's entire career is based on cultural appropriation. But his appropriation is more borrowing than stealing.

Wednesday's correction of the story "Probe targets former U doctor" contained an error. Robert Woolley's name was spelled incorrectly.

Apache spiritual leader Wendsler Nosie said he went to the mountain to pray.

The Swift Trail, which leads to the Large Binocular Telescope, takes an hour to ascend, through lower-elevation cacti and juniper bushes, ending in old-growth pine forests.

Fifty miles west of Mount Graham and its Large Binocular Telescope, on the other side of Coronado National Forest, sits another telescope the University uses.

Passing among them a staff with a small stone and a feather attached to it, young Apaches ran up Mount Graham in the annual spirit run last July.

Though the Vatican has operated a telescope on Mount Graham since 1993, the Rev. Christopher Corbally said the church is not focused on astronomy in the name of finding a higher power hidden in the depths of the cosmos.

With little fanfare or publicity, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two cases during the next week that pose historic challenges to the breadth and extent of executive power within the federal government.

On my all-time favorite list of famous last words, nothing truly tops the last request of a murderer facing a Utah firing squad who supposedly asked for a bulletproof vest.

If there were a three-strikes law against ignoring science in public policy making, the Bush administration would have several free passes to prison.

I'd like to voice my concerns with the negative energy surrounding the current political situation in response to Barry N. Peterson's Monday guest column entitled "Dear Mr. President: Enough with the rhetoric already, and take some speech lessons!"

Amid the recent attention given to the troubles in the Middle East, it was disheartening to hear President George W. Bush shift decades-long U.S. foreign policy by supporting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to make permanent some annexations of Palestinian land.

Today is Beautiful "U" Day, an annual event cleverly scheduled to coincide with Earth Day and designed to get students involved in making our school cleaner and more aesthetically pleasing.

This year's Earth Day will certainly bear the marks of a presidential campaign. We expect to see the usual dance of partisan politics - Democrats assail the Republican record and Republicans accuse Democrats of being extremists.

I have struggled to answer two questions in my lifetime, one of which concerns the whereabouts of the pet hamster I lost in 1989.