PHOENIX ÷ Downloading diagrams of derrieres in the name of science is all right, but surfing the Net in search of smut should be grounds for a UA employee's termination, state lawmakers say.

State lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that bans UA employees from purposely viewing, downloading, printing or saving material on university computers that is considered pornography, unless it is research-related. In brief, the ban would apply to material that shows or simulates sexual intercourse of all kinds, oral sex, masturbation, nudity or sexually aroused genitalia. [Read article]

A group of Latin American women gathered Saturday to discuss the "younger generation."

Many of those women were UA students, looking to their predecessors for guidance.

The League of United Latin American Citizens held its annual National Women's Conference, "Cultural Strengths and Leadership for the Younger Generation," at Pima Community College.

More than 700 Arizonans are members of LULAC, and both of the state's young adults groups (ages 18-24) are at UA. One has been a part of the Hispanic/Chicano Department since 2001, while the other was started only three weeks ago through the UA Nursing Council, said Mary Fimbres, Arizona LULAC director. [Read article]

Doug Tidaback has all that jazz.

In only his second year as the assistant to the director of jazz studies, he has already led students from the UA and Pima County to large competition wins and organized the UA Jazz-a-thon.

More than 500 students, parents, teachers and musicians met at Bear Down Gymnasium Saturday for the Jazz-a-thon where ensembles of jazz students from Tucson participated in the festival with teachers and professional musicians. [Read article]

Beneath yards of taffeta and folds of satin, with their tummies tucked, shoulders back and white smiles beaming through lacquered lips, the Miss Tucson/Miss Pima County Scholarship Pageant contestants prepared for their one chance to go to the Miss Arizona Pageant.

Backstage before the pageant, the eight competing women stood before mirrors perfecting their images and passing the time before they went on stage. [Read article]

Only 5 percent of the almost 9,000 UA graduate and professional students voted in last week's Graduate and Professional Student Council elections.

The weeklong elections came to a close Friday evening, after being extended an extra day. The nine new members of the council have high hopes of initiating improvement within the graduate community.

The new council will get started with only 12 members, which is half the size of this year's council. Openings for representatives remain in the colleges of fine arts, medicine, pharmacy, social and behavioral sciences and public health. [Read article]

Pizza dude who doesn't usually go psycho dishes about his favorite toy as a youth and getting sick

WILDCAT: What's up with your name tag? It says Tazz.

KIRBY: That's my nickname. I've had it since I was a little kid.

WILDCAT: Do you go psycho sometimes?

KIRBY: Um, no my favorite toy was a sit-and-spin.

WILDCAT: A sit-and-spin? What's that?

KIRBY: It was from my great-grandmother. You sit on it with kind of like, a steering wheel between your legs, and it spins you until you get sick. [Read article]

· Americans currently drink nearly 35 billion glasses, or seven gallons per person, of iced tea every year.

· "Hang On Sloopy" is the official rock song of Ohio.

· The airplane in which Buddy Holly died was the "American Pie," hence the name of the Don McLean song.

· The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year; when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building. [Read article]

Today

· 1828: The first edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language was published.

· 1939: John Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath" was published.

Tuesday

· 1817: The first American school for the deaf opened in Hartford, Conn.

· 1947: Jackie Robinson became baseball's first black major league player when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day. [Read article]

· Friday's story "7 programs spared elimination," incorrectly stated that 12 departments now face elimination. In fact, only nine programs are still slated for elimination.