Female MIS students form club to overcome the obstacles of a male-dominated profession

Sitting in the front row of a lecture hall, Patricia Victory would often take the time to count the number of female students enrolled in her MIS 121 class. Her figures would fluctuate between four and six, but never came close to the number of males - around 40.

Then a management information systems sophomore, Victory would find that when she turned to look at the class, she saw all male students. When she turned back to take notes from her instructor, she saw a male too, she said.

In MIS 121, Introduction to Business Programming, the male population shocked Victory, but it was nonetheless representative of the makeup of the department. Male students in the program outnumber women 3-to-1. Similarly, there are 14 male faculty members, whereas the number of female faculty is seven.

Senior becomes UA's all-time strikeout leader; Wildcats sweep 4 games

As the top-ranked Arizona softball team continued to steamroll through its Pacific-10 Conference opponents this weekend, senior pitcher Becky Lemke stole the show.

Lemke fanned eight batters in yesterday's 6-1 victory against the Oregon Ducks to become Arizona's all-time strikeout leader with 880.

She struck out the side in the third inning to surpass former All-American Susie Parra's mark of 874, and received a curtain call from the 1,327 fans at Hillenbrand Stadium.

"It's an honor because they're have been a lot of pitchers at the U of A," said Lemke, who shares the same private pitching coach with Parra.

Wednesday night, the UA is going to party.

Classes will have ended, Dead Day will be right around the corner and the rock band Counting Crows will be performing at Centennial Hall.

On the night of April 17, nearly 125 students jumped at the chance to purchase tickets for the huge event, waiting outside the Centennial box office until at least 10 a.m. the next day.

By the time 10 a.m. finally rolled around, when the box office opened, the line from Centennial stretched clear around the corner toward the Social Science building.

The concert sold out in a matter of hours.

'Last Chance to Dance' features new choreography by UA dance students

The dance season may be officially over, but dance students have yet to stop performing.

"Last Chance to Dance," developed by assistant dance professor Nina Janik in the mid-90s in order to "foster (student) choreographers at the University of Arizona," will feature new student choreography tonight and tomorrow night in two separate performances, each with its own distinct dance lineup.

Janik, the official coordinator of "Last Chance to Dance," said the show has become tradition, occurring twice a year at the close of each semester. She added that it is a reflection of the eclectic program and talented students who comprise the UA dance division.