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Thursday Jan. 31, 2002   |   wildcat.arizona.edu   |   Online since 1994  

UA freshmen easliy adapt to college life

UA freshmen make switch from high school to college smoothly, surveys show

University of Arizona freshmen are making the transition into university life better than most new college students in the country, according to the results of recent surveys.

Ninety-three percent of University of Arizona freshmen say they transitioned well into college life, according to a recent poll conducted by Health Promotion and Preventive Services at the Campus Health Center.

When compared with a recent survey conducted by UCLA researchers of 3,680 freshmen from 50 four-year colleges across the country, fewer UA freshmen had experienced depression than freshmen at other universities. [Read article]

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Media arts freshman Karin Yarnes tries to keep warm and dry during a freak snowstorm that hit Tucson yesterday. The weather service predicted two inches of snow, however none stuck at the university.
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The changing face of higher education

Lectures to decrease in importance as Internet courses play a more prominent role

The lecture hall, a place where hundreds of students gather daily to scribble notes as they stare at a professor, is quickly becoming a thing of the past. [Read article]

Battle by the Bay

Cats look to avoid first three-game losing streak since 1992

The stakes just keep getting higher with each game the Wildcats play. [Read article]

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Latimore family grateful

Thank you very much, Connor Doyle, for writing the article about my son, Dennis Latimore, on Jan. 23. You are a great writer. Surprisingly, Dennis' 86-year-old grandmother was the first to learn about the story. Then word traveled around to his aunts and uncles, and then to me. [Read article]

The art of... body adornment: Henna artful alternative to the needle

An alternative to permanent tattooing is Mehndi, the ancient art of applying henna-based paste to skin. Since antiquity, the leaves of henna plant (Lawsonia Inermis) have been used as a skin, hair and nail dye. [Read article]

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