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TPD arrests 7 UA students in 4th Ave. melee Campus much quieter for university police Tucson police arrested 17 people in the Fourth Avenue area Monday night, seven of whom are currently enrolled at the University of Arizona, the dean of students office confirmed yesterday. Whether the university will take legal action is still up in the air. "Our office will connect with chief legal counsel (today)," dean Melissa Vito said. "Tucson Police is conducting the investigations so we will have to attain more information from them." [Read More]

Wildcat start, end season near the top DALLAS - Even though the Arizona basketball team didn't return home to Tucson yesterday with the National Championship trophy, they deserve recognition for an incredible season. Given the trials they faced this season, the Wildcats deserve the award for "Comeback Team of the Year," even though such an accolade doesn't really exist. Soap-operatic at times, the UA players made it to the program's fourth Final Four despite Bobbi Olson's death, a midseason coaching shift, two undeserved suspensions and a travel itinerary that would leave even Jules Verne panting. [Read More]

Women are insane - and now we know why Most males have come to the conclusion that women act a little crazy once a month independently of drug companies' sales pitches, but now we can diagnose them with a specific disorder, rather than just a general malaise. That disorder is pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder, and, by sheer coincidence, it was discovered by drug companies just as they invented a cure for it. Now, rather than suffering through the debilitating disease that has plagued women since somewhere south of the dawn of time, women can take a pill to make it all go away. [Read More]

Printing Money Visiting artists collaborate on print portfolio for art department fund-raiser The UA art department is printing money - well, kind of. The printmaking division of the UA art department has invited 10 visiting artists - including American Indian artist Edgar Heap of Birds - to create a collaborative print portfolio that will be sold to benefit the division. The portfolio will showcase each of the 10 artists' individual artistic visions. Heap of Birds said his contribution will deviate from stereotypical American Indian artwork. [Read More]

Fast facts: Wednesday April 4, 2001 Beer is 92 percent water. Beer accounts for nearly 87 percent of all alcohol beverages consumed in the United States. The average American drinks approximately 23 gallons of beer every year. Miller Brewing, founded 21 years before the first Budweiser was brewed in 1876, is the world's third-largest beer producer after Anheuser-Busch and Heineken. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and William Penn brewed beer on their estates. It was the accepted practice in Babylonia 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the "honey month" or what we know today as the "honeymoon."