As the UA prepares to send $13.9 million back to the state to satisfy a mandated budget cut, faculty recruitment has become more difficult for deans and department heads, who fear a faculty-retention issue known as "brain drain" will intensify if the university doesn't have the money to recruit and keep top faculty.

After an up-and-down season, the Wildcats will have at least one fond memory - beating the Sun Devils on their home field in the annual "Big Game" between the two in-state rivals.

In a game featuring Arizona's (5-6, 2-6 Pacific 10 Conference) most balanced effort on both sides of the ball this season, the Wildcats defeated Arizona State 34-21 Friday to claim the Territorial Cup and a year's worth of bragging rights.

Media guilty of mind control

After the initial frenzy over the terrorist bombings abated, a lot of questions are being asked about the media's role in whipping up the hysteria. It's a healthy sign that the media's dubious role is being scrutinized. To a discerning observer, the "Fourth Estate" seems like an extension, if not an integral part, of the official propaganda machinery. In the words of Noam Chomsky, the American mind is not just influenced, but controlled by these media houses.

The little Indian girl with her hand out tells me she's from Oaxaca - thousands of miles away, in central Mexico. Together with her mother, brothers and sisters, she's come an almost inconceivable distance from that land of impoverished, eroded Zapotec, Mixtec and Mixe farming villages in search of new opportunities. And here they are, begging on the streets.