Wildcat should be cognizant of terms; show deaf culture

When I saw the Monday article on "Hearing irregularities," I read it with hope that it would at the very least say something about the unique dynamics of deaf culture, but when I read through it, I was sorely disappointed. There is one major problem and one minor problem with the article. The minor problem being that the term hearing-impaired used in the article is considered inappropriate by the deaf community even though it is considered politically correct in academic circles. It should be made known that the term is not politically correct around deaf people because it implies that hearing people are deaf-impaired. [Read article]

Thursday afternoon, Doug Hartz passed the key to his office over to J.P. Benedict, making J.P. next year's student body president.

The shift ushers in an administration that has promised a commitment to student spirit and involvement.

Like Ray Quintero before him, Doug has spent the last couple weeks passing the buck over to J.P.

As a new spirit-centered administration takes hold, Doug's administration sets sail. [Read article]

Most of the news coverage dedicated to diseases ÷ which pales in comparison to the coverage given to the most recent Hollywood marriage ÷ focuses on those affecting humans. A great deal of modern epidemics affect wildlife, including a number of endangered species. A small article in last Sunday's Arizona Daily Star, pointed out that wildlife, birds, fish, trees, and other plants are all victims of an increase in infectious diseases. [Read article]

Iraq's modern borders position the troubled nation squarely over the vast river basin of the Tigris and Euphrates, where millions of years have slowly metamorphosed buried organic matter into long, viscous hydrocarbon chains that slowly rise into convex rock traps deep under the region's impoverished inhabitants.

But because landowners since the 17th centuries hired the most innovative scientists of the day to identify and develop the useful qualities of the same crude oil found on American shores, this black gold has become one of civilization's most prized resources. And the world's second-largest proven reserves of it lie largely untapped beneath Iraq. But who owns it? [Read article]