Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy, of Massachusetts, will introduce a measure aimed at retracting the wide latitude Congress gave to President Bush earlier this year in using military force against Iraq. Read more...

What were your reactions to President George W. Bush’s State of the Union speech? Gabriel Valentin Third-year, political science “The president sent a very clear message of his intentions for the year and I agree with what he said about Iraq posing a threat to our country. Read more...

O ver in Japan where not everyone has Internet access, cell phones take on such desktop duties as e-mailing and even Web browsing. The same is true in Europe, where the wireless network has replaced traditional landlines. Read more...

This year’s freshmen class studied less in high school than any class in at least 37 years, a new UCLA study says. According to a survey conducted by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, a record-high number of students spent fewer than six hours doing homework their senior year of high school, with 15.9 percent of students reporting they studied less than one hour per week. Read more...

Along with the 7 to 7.5 percent increase in housing fees this past year, student concern about how to lower these fees has also escalated. Most of the fee increases are due to the Housing Administration’s four-year construction plan, through which it hopes to house all undergraduate students for four years, said On-Campus Housing Council Chairwoman Michelle Sivert. Read more...

Most private schools use affirmative action to promote on-campus diversity, but that practice could be altered by an upcoming Supreme Court ruling. The ruling on the University of Michigan’s admissions policy will obviously affect public universities, but because almost all private universities receive federal funds the high court’s ruling would affect them as well. Read more...

That rambling professor who goes on and on about the importance of utilitarianism may seem no more interesting than John Stuart Mill, but he’s got a secret: from time to time, he serves as an expert witness in court. Read more...