Political science professors: I have a must for your future booklists.

Earlier this summer I had the privilege of reading What's So Great About America, by Dinesh D'Souza.

Don't scoff ÷ the title is a bit misleading. It's certainly not a "rah-rah," flag-waving, feel-good book that comes to the simple conclusion that everyone else is simply jealous of the United States. Rather, it's a collection of incredibly well-researched arguments against America's harshest critics, domestic and abroad. [Read article]

What a difference a year makes.

During move-in week last year, more than 200 incoming UA students who were expecting to make an easy transition into their dorm rooms were forced to spend days, weeks, or even months in hotels, dorm lounges and resident assistants' rooms.

While Residence Life deserved criticism at the time, they deserve credit today for finding an appropriate solution to the problem and ensuring that people expecting to live in dorm rooms this year actually got to live there. [Read article]

There are only five days until the UA football team tears into its season against Northern Arizona University. Expert fans fully expect Mackovic to pull a win out of his pocket as the Tucson heat and the 63rd-ranked Wildcats waste the Big Sky Lumberjacks. And don't worry, team. A bunch of wasted fans will root you guys on.

Do football and alcohol go hand-in-hand? It does not take a Cheesehead or a Cardinals fan (do they exist?) to tap into the Budweiser advertisements scattered in between interceptions.

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We're here to serve you.

Come to think of it, those words should probably be plastered right up there next to the Arizona Daily Wildcat at the top of Page 1. You're that important to us.

Without its readers, newspapers are nothing. Without you, the students, faculty and staff of UA, the efforts of the Wildcat staff would be futile.

Improving your lives is our top priority. In fact, it's our only priority. If news breaks and you need to know about it, we'll tell you. If something interesting is happening in Tucson this weekend, we'll tell you. If there's more to a major campus issue than meets the eye, we'll dig up the dirt for you. [Read article]