FLA unconcerned with student activists
	During the past week, the Fair Labor Association has continued to lose university members as the University of Loyola-Chicago joined the Workers' Rights Consortium. Another anti-FLA sit-in began at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and students at Yale University, in New Haven, Conn., have organized a rally to persuade their administration to join the WRC.    [More]

Athlete of the Week
	Don't let the blond hair and surfer-boy look confuse you - Ben Diggins is from a small town. Judging by his play last weekend, though, the 6-foot-6 sophomore is anything but small time. The 20-year-old from Prescott Valley, Ariz., pitched a complete game, homered twice, and drove in seven runs for the Wildcats as they swept No. 15 Tulane in three games last weekend at Sancet Field.    [More]

Watching the Detectives
	In recent days, a number of scandals involving police brutality have tested the nation's conscience. In one, a LAPD officer caught stealing cocaine from an evidence locker revealed a police conspiracy in the department that will have multi-million dollar consequences. In another, four NYPD officers were acquitted of the murder of 22-year-old Amado Diallo, an unarmed man whom they shot to death 41 times.    [More]

Brass band Crawdaddy-O
	Tucson may not seem the most likely locale to support a funky, guitarless, Cajun jazz band - but don't tell that to Crawdaddy-O. The band is composed of drummer and vocalist Jimmy Carr, trombonist Fruitpie, and the Flying Rosano triplets - saxophone player Marco, trumpeter Dante, and sousaphonist Tony. They will be bringing their blend of funk, soul and Cajun - and Dixieland - influenced jazz to a series of Mardi Gras gigs in the University of Arizona area.    [More]

Quotable: 'I donāt believe this is happening. A first-grader shoots another first-grader. First-graders shouldnāt be able to get a gun. I just want my daughter out of here. She has been traumatized, Iām sure.' - Freddie Booth Sr. of Mount Morris Township, Mich. who went to Buell Elementary to look for his 8-year-old daughter after a school shooting.

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