John McCain and Hillary Clinton are likely to have won the most delegates in yesterday's Super Tuesday presidential primary, but Utahns voted differently. Republican Mitt Romney overwhelmingly beat McCain in the Utah Republican Party Primary, receiving about 90 percent of the vote and all of Utah's 36 GOP delegates.… 4 Comments

When James LeVoy Sorenson died from cancer at the age of 86 last month, his family said that the late inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist's assets would be donated to charity. However, Peggy Hayes, a spokesperson at the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, declined to give any more specific details about how Sorenson's fortune will be donated, which Forbes magazine estimated to be worth about $4 billion.… Post the First Comment

The Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would conceal the names, personal addresses and phone numbers of animal researchers at state colleges and universities. SB 113, sponsored by Sen. Greg Bell, R-Fruit Heights, would modify the Government Records Access and Management Act to classify personal information of researchers who conduct medical or scientific research on animals at institutions of higher education as protected documents.… 3 Comments

Utah Democrats have been showered with visits from their party's presidential candidates or their surrogates, but Republican candidates have largely skipped the state. Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic candidate Barack Obama, visited Utah on Monday, and Obama's senior foreign policy adviser Susan Rice visited the U on Friday.… 1 Comment

U student Breanne Miller was one of about 20 people who asked presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a question during her televised national town hall meeting Monday night. "How do you plan to balance national security, financial reality and respecting immigrants while implementing immigration policies when and if your elected," Miller asked.… Post the First Comment

The classroom isn't Sunday school or a meeting place for the village atheists, said Benjamin Crowe, a U professor in philosophy. However, discussions of religion are welcome in the classroom for an intellectual approach to understanding, he said. Everyday topics related to religion are discussed in classrooms across the U, but religion and academia have butted heads on campus in the past.… Post the First Comment

Loui Ismaeel, a sophomore in pre-med, leaned over, picked up a little black clock from his desk and watched the digital seconds tick away. There were still six hours before sunrise -- the time to face east for the morning prayer. Ismaeel remembered the call for prayer, or adhan, in his hometown of Jeddeh, Saudi Arabia, 8,000 miles away, when the local mosque's speaker system broadcasts it for all to hear.… 3 Comments

Although acts of violence against the Jewish community, such as the Holocaust, are well known historical events, anti-Semitism still occurs on a daily basis, according to several leaders in the Jewish community. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organization, brought its campus outreach program to a small group of students in the form of a film and discussion about the ever-present problems of anti-Semitism in Europe.… 1 Comment

Every day hundreds of students can be seen walking to and from the LDS Institute of Religion across from the business loop. The institute has been offering religious classes and social opportunities to U students since 1934. Some students praise the Institute as a welcome relief to the daily classes they take at the U.… 1 Comment