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Likins reaches for contributors, goes on TV
First show of the program focuses on Campaign Arizona, faculty
A new television program called "UA Journal: A Conversation with the President" premiered last night on KUAT-TV to raise UA awareness in the Arizona community.
The program featured a conversation between University of Arizona President Peter Likins and Janet Bingham, the vice president for university advancement.
The show was taped in early January but was aired last night at 6 p.m. The topics discussed were Campaign Arizona and the phenomenon known as "brain drain." It also featured a question and answer session with various members of the UA community.
Likins said the show is an effort to reach beyond the campus to increase financial possibilities. However, he pointed out the show was not a fund-raiser.
"It is a friend-raiser," Likins said. "We want to help the public understand and value what we do."
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Bush takes office as 43rd president
Republican promises unity, promotes citizenship
spite the cold, wet weather and sea of protesters, George W. Bush was sworn in as the 43rd President of the United States Saturday, asking Americans to "be citizens."
Bush's call to "be citizens: citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens, building communities of service and a nation of character" came amidst 30-degree temperatures and protests against results of the 36-day ballot recount battle that culminated in Bush's election to the presidency.
Protesters wielding signs proclaiming "Hail to the Thief" and "Bush was appointed, not elected" did not stop the 50-minute inauguration ceremony, in which the title of chief executive was handed from former President Bill Clinton to Bush.
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Tropical baseball opener successful for Wildcats
Slow start blossoms into series victory against the Vulcans The Arizona baseball team started the season off with a promising 3 -1 series victory over Hawaii-Hilo this weekend.
The Wildcats (3-1 overall) won the first three games, but the Vulcans (1-3) managed to take the fourth and final game Saturday, costing UA a season-opening sweep.
"It is always nice to start on the right foot," senior outfielder Jason Shroyer said.
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Pickaprof is no the answer
The UA has been offered the services of Pickaprof.com, a Web site that posts teacher evaluations and grades. The UA wants the cite to pay the UA to use its information. While it is fair to make professor evaluations and grading records accessible to UA students, there is no need to use the services of this Web site.
The UA should provide this service to students on its own.
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CCP celebrates Martin Luther King Jr.
UA professor to speak on racial violence
The Center for Creative Photography, along with the department of African American Student Affairs, will commemorate the ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with a lecture and one-time viewing of select civil rights photographs today.
Jeanne Courtemanche, communications director for the CCP, said she hopes the exhibit, which falls one week after Dr. King's birthday and less than two weeks before the start of Black History Month, will act as a bridge between the two events.
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On This Day: Monday January 22, 2001
In 1879, at the Battle of Isandhlwana in present-day South Africa, the British army suffered one of its worst defeats of the 19th century against a regiment of Zulus armed primarily with spears and cowhide shields.
In 1901, the death of Queen Victoria ended an era in which most of her British subjects knew no other monarch. Her reign, spanning more than a half century, the longest in British history, saw immense growth of the British empire.
In 1905, the Russian Revolution began when Czarist troops opened fire on a peaceful group of workers marching to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg to petition their grievances to Czar Nicholas II.
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