From the editor

To our new readers,

In the July 16 issue of the Arizona Summer Wildcat, I asked the campus community whether we should bring back names to our Police Beat section. Wildcat editors decided to no longer use names during the 2002 spring semester.

After reviewing the few letters that we received, I decided to bring the names of suspects back to Police Beat back in their entirety. [Read article]

I sit here in the Wildcat newsroom weathering the tail end of a storm that was the production of this monster issue of the Campus Guide, the largest in a decade.

How odd; I'm also on the tail end of a hurricane that was my career at the University of Arizona.

Whether you're a bright-eyed, backpack-clad freshman or a fellow transfer student, my advice is to go into your time here at the UA with a game plan, a secondary game plan, and even a tertiary game plan. Most importantly, find something you love to do and stick with it. For me, I chose print journalism. [Read article]

The beginning of the new school year is an exciting time at any university, but we have some special reasons to celebrate this year. After years of construction in a series of projects focused on the undergraduate experience, we have the transformation of our central campus nearly complete. In the heart of the mall we have (fully operational) the Integrated Learning Center, the Main Library expansion, the Student Union Memorial Center, and the Eddie Lynch Pavilion expansion of McKale Arena. The magnificent addition to the Gittings Dance Complex will be dedicated in the early fall, leaving the Meinel Optical Sciences expansion as the only unfinished new building on the mall. There remains only the construction of the Alumni Plaza to complete the rebirth of the most impressive central campus mall in America! [Read article]

Looking back over my first three years here at the University of Arizona, I am astounded at the changes my life has undergone. I can still remember walking around campus for the first time and thinking about how big it was compared to high school, and getting lost and confused about a dozen times before finally getting adjusted. I can remember my first day of classes, walking down the mall through a horde of people, trying not to get trampled. I can remember my first lecture class of 500 students. I was amazed at all the people in my class and was barely able to concentrate on the lecture. I remember how daunting it was to be at a university as huge as the UA. [Read article]