It is always risky to try to write history as we make it. Still we speculate about the pivotal moments in history, even as we live them. In this spirit, I believe that historians will someday see this academic year as a critical "turning point" for our university, a moment in time when the trajectory of the university took a dramatic upward turn.

If this opinion is to have any credibility, we must distinguish clearly between "position" and "direction" (the difference between a position on a curved line and the slope of that line). [Read article]

The University of Arizona has seen better years. While UA strives to remain a top Research I university and an affordable educational refuge for in-state students, many events tried to sink our ship this year.

Honoring the first anniversary of Sept. 11th and watching the Wildcats get knocked out by Kansas in the Elite Eight should have been enough to cope with.

But we cannot forget that three innocent professors were murdered in October. [Read article]

In the midst of exams, field trips, parties, homework and sleep, many events instantly changed the course of our lives as students and impacted the university for decades to come. In nine short months, the school saw a triple homicide, a riot, a historic tuition hike and a redefinition of its place in Arizona higher education. Looking back over all that has happened in the past two semesters, what do you think was the issue of the year? [Read article]