Admissions goal imperils sports

I have just one question for the Arizona Board of Regents and the UA administration: If the UA raises admission standards, what will become of our athletic programs? Football is an exception, as it can't get much worse.

Yuri Bahti
Alumnus, UA human resource specialist

Graduate students seek respect

I am writing in response to two somewhat flippant and thoughtless responses to the issues of graduate student working conditions at the UA. The first was made by Laura Malamud in her article, "Graduate College will ask for more TA money," published Sept. 26. She states, "Some GTAs have complained of being overworked and underpaid." I want to clarify that there are more than "some" GTAs who are upset and that our "complaint" is actually a reaction based upon comparisons of workload and tuition costs with graduate programs similar to ours at the UA. [Read article]

Editor's Note: This is the first in a three-part editorial series on the new "Changing Directions" and "Focused Excellence" plans set being considered by the Arizona Board of Regents and UA administration.

Faced with an explosion of in-state applicants and the promise of more state budget cuts, Arizona universities have had to make a decision: Do they sit cringing in fear, hoping the Legislature will answer their pleas for help, or do they take fate into their own hands? [Read article]

Friday was a dark day for democracy in Arizona. On Friday, I was told by our president that I am with Saddam Hussein.

President George "War" Bush graced Flagstaff and Phoenix with his presence as part of a national swing to raise money for Republican candidates. Speaking to support candidate for governor Matt Salmon and Congressional District 1 candidate Rick Renzi, Bush only contributed a third of his speeches to promoting these candidates, using the majority of his time to recite hollow rhetoric to gain support for action against Saddam Hussein. [Read article]

The mass media has never been my favorite corporate monkey.

In my more foolish days, I would spend hours in a CNN/Fox induced coma, waiting zombie-like for any semblance of relevant information so I could go back to drawing on myself or some similarly productive task, confident that I was still a stud in the pasture of current events.

Likewise, I never really minded the talk show hosts. It was probably my morbid curiosity that led me to watch Larry King swing from nodding blankly and drooling to passionately sucking the buttocks of his guests, gape at Hannity and Colmes as they disgrace their respective ideologies, and see Alan Keyes flaunt his collection of sweater vests. [Read article]