UA police, McKale ticket agents Īstupid' for not planning ahead

The University of Arizona Police Department and McKale Center ticket agents must be the stupidest people on campus. What were the police and ticket agents expecting Monday morning? After all, we do go to a school of 35,000 with a ranked basketball team, and there were only 2,043 tickets being sold. Not to mention that there was no specific information given to us students on the process of buying tickets. There should have been some explanation of how Monday morning and the procedure for buying tickets works. [Read article]

Given the direct and tenuous relationship between Arizona's three state universities and the state Legislature, it seems very few elections this year are likely to have more impact on the UA than those for the state House and Senate.

It is also clear that of the two candidates for the newly-formed Senate District 28, Democrat Gabrielle Giffords has the most cohesive and potentially beneficial plan for the role of education in Arizona. [Read article]

What do you believe in? That's the painfully honest question that I put forth to you. Is there anything in your life that fills you with passion, boils your blood and inspires you to stake your life on? Are you ready to die for a belief?

On Saturday, 50 Chechen rebels died. Let that sink in.

Fifty men and women died.

They want freedom for their people and risked their lives as well as other people's lives for this cause. Those crazy Muslims are at it again. Killing innocents for no reason. [Read article]

The tears drip down her cheek. An old man shakes his head, sets down his glasses and wonders why things have changed.

Running across the back yard, a four-year old does not understand why no one feels like playing today.

Leaning on his rake, a worker pauses to gaze at the thunderheads building over the Santa Catalina Mountains.

Clenching them in one last hug, parents face the fact that their children are now off to the UA. [Read article]