Column denouncing players 'smears' UA athletic program

When I read Tuesday that the highly regarded columnist Steve Campbell was incredibly upset about the alleged candy incident in Kansas, I tried to imagine what was going through his mind. Doesn't he understand the position he is in? Is he really willing to sacrifice the integrity of his work, the Arizona Daily Wildcat, and the media in general, so he can vent some unwarranted steam? [Read article]

"A house divided against itself cannot stand," argued then-Sen. Abraham Lincoln in 1858 against admitting another slave state into the Union. The University of Arizona today is at a similar moral turning point, facing a fundamental inner contradiction that pits the individual against the collective in its administrative policies.

The university administration is simultaneously trying to conform to two opposing philosophies. On the one hand, it claims to offer a valuable education at a good price for the benefit of qualified, paying individuals; on the other, it increasingly emphasizes a duty to serve society through tuition and admissions policies that profile and penalize students according to socioeconomic class or ethnicity. [Read article]

On Feb. 1, 8,000 people died of AIDS or AIDS-related diseases. Cancer claimed the lives of 16,450. In Zimbabwe, 50 died when a passenger train collided with a freight train, setting fire to both. Hundreds died in civil war and military engagements. One thousand people were victims of fatal gun violence. Forty-four perished in a fiery explosion at a bank in central Lagos, Nigeria. And seven astronauts burned to death in a space shuttle minutes before their scheduled landing in the United States. [Read article]