by Ed Board

As costs rose for maintaining NT's streets, administrators made up the difference by charging students with higher-priced parking permits and parking fines. The editorial staff suggests an alternative to digging deeper into students' wallets: Give them free bicycles. (0) comments

by Abigail Thatcher

Sometimes, people leave an indelible mark upon our lives, and they can be friends or former significant others. The things we experience can affect how we see the world around us. Thus, it makes sense that we might express concern for the other person after they are out of our lives. (2) comments

by Kip Mooney

"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) Directed by Frank Capra. Not cheesy inspirational like many sports films, this movie goes all-in as it follows an inexperienced but good-hearted senator during his first term. It's part of a long line of great collaborations between Jimmy Stewart and Frank Capra. (0) comments

by Addley Fannin

I tend to spend my Saturdays at PetSmart, staring at the cats up for adoption. I have literally spent hours pressed against the plastic windows talking to cats, though most of them don't even wake up. If the staff would let me play with the adorable little fuzz balls, I could stay there all day - which, now that I think of it, is probably why they don't allow such things. (0) comments

MORGAN, Utah (AP) - A Utah sheriff's office has found that it shouldn't underestimate the golf cart as a getaway car. A suspect in a souped-up cart managed to elude officers who pursued him last month through an alfalfa field - but only for a while. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother's house. (0) comments

NEW YORK (AP) - Barack Obama and John McCain will attend a New York cat show this weekend - Obama the Bombay cat and McCain the American Shorthair, that is. The two felines are vying for the title of "Purr-fect President" at the Cat Fanciers' Association-IAMS 2008 Championship that opens Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York City. (0) comments