Seniors deserve opportunities inherent in smaller classes

As seniors at UA, it seems time that we should be able to attend classes with fewer than 90 students. However, such is not the case and we are extremely frustrated and disappointed. Our tuition would be better spent on a library card to the Pima County public library system.

We love this school, and for the first three years thought it was acceptable to have large class sizes. Six out of our combined 11 classes are so large that discussion is not a feasible or productive way to spend hours upon hours of class time. In a recent Wildcat column, a staff reporter expressed her disdain for students who try to initiate discussions with an instructor during class time. We have both experienced the same situation, when a student in front of a 90-person class converses with the professor and the 89 other students cannot hear or participate because of the sheer class size. [Read article]

One year ago today, I woke to the sounds of a phone ringing and a muffled television being turned on. I was just a few weeks into my freshman year and, having a brutal math exam scheduled for the next day, I had driven to my parents' house the night of Sept. 10 in search of a quiet refuge from the noise of my dorm.

I remember my mother's gasp down the hall, remember the plain but urgent way she told me, remember pinching myself in my half-conscious stupor just to be sure. Sitting in the most comfortable seat in the house, bundled in my age-old pajamas, surrounded by the artifacts of a thousand nights of studying just like the one before, everything about me unraveled. Eight days before my 18th birthday, my adolescence ended with the force of a passenger plane slamming into a skyscraper. [Read article]

In today's noon Sept. 11 ceremony on the UA Mall, the bell of the USS Arizona will toll five times and a minute of silence will be observed in memory of the five UA alumni who lost their lives one year ago today. The ROTC will present America's colors. President Likins will speak.

Remember the victims, don't celebrate religion

If I could choose any way to celebrate Sept. 11, it wouldn't be a ceremony at all. This year began with our friends and families, distant from imperial displays of our nation's infallibility and durability, and that's where it should end. [Read article]