UA becomes member of the WRC
	Though no action had to be taken until the first of August - if even then - UA President Peter Likins has made the university the newest member of the Worker Rights Consortium. "I'm glad that he decided to follow with what a lot of other universities are doing," said Lydia Lester, Students Against Sweatshops spokeswoman and linguistics junior. "Obviously, we're really excited."    [More]

Osburn remembered for enthusiasm, friendship
	Life turned tragic for the Arizona community Monday as junior Kelsey Osburn, an infielder for the baseball team, died in Rochester, N.Y. at 9:20 p.m. EST. Osburn, 20, had been in a coma since July 11, when a teammate's line drive hit him on the side of the head during pre-game warm-ups of a summer league game. "We've (the athletic department) been talking with the parents throughout the week," senior associate athletic director Rocky LaRose said. "We are all just heart broken, no one can even look at each other today without tearing up."    [More]

Editorial: University should cater to those they've cheated
	Anyone who knows anything about Christopher City knows it needs to be shut down. Officials at the University of Arizona have struggled with problems at the pit they call Christopher City for years. Tucson media organizations report the news on the housing community, but the news is that there is no news - just the university victimizing its own residents, just as it had the month before, and the month before that.    [More]

Looking to the past, stepping into the future
	Although Arizona State Museum officials and conservators are doing all they can to preserve their internationally acclaimed pottery collection, the artifacts within the museum walls are slowly perishing, and with them, hundreds of years of ancient Native American history. Understanding the importance for the collection, the White House on Friday granted $400,000 to the museum as part of the Save America's Treasures millennium initiative to help create a new vault housed at the University of Arizona.    [More]

Quotable: "Listen, let's not fool ourselves, OK? If it walks like a duck, if it talks like a duck, if it sounds like a duck, it's a Palestinian state." -Avraham Burg, Israel's parliament speaker, on the Mideast peace talks, which he believes could end with a partial deal in which Israel recognized a Palestinian state