Animal rights article in the Wildcat does a disservice

Regarding the article "Animal rights group wants UA to cut animal sciences program," written by Bob Purvis and the photo provided by Danielle Malott on April 22, I would like to say that I feel the Wildcat has done the college of Agriculture and Life Sciences a great disservice. While I do not feel the article had any malicious intent or that is should not have been published, I do feel that the front page was not the place for it. Nor was it prudent to catch the eyes of potential readers with a lovely picture of one of the UA horse facility's foals, which was taken with permission from the Equine facility management on the pretext of being part of a West Nile virus article. The fact that the article was based on the concerns of a rather ignorant individual at the head of an equally misguided organization and concerning, for the most part, the issues many animal rights organizations have with the harvesting of beef and the production of dairy products in the United States makes me wonder why a picture of UA horses was chosen to accompany this article at all. [Read article]

Let's face it. Every once in a while, the lure to gaze at porn sometimes gets the best of us, right? A new Arizona law says that all state employees ÷ including the University of Arizona employees ÷ are now subject to more severe punishments for looking at pornography while on the job. Signed into law by Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano on April 17, HB-2498 now prohibits "purposely viewing, downloading, printing or saving material on university computers that is considered pornography, unless it is research-related," as reported in the Wildcat. It is effectively an extension of a current rule that states that employees should not use "university resources for purposes that aren't in the interest of the university." [Read article]