Kathy Fox works every day encouraging children to read. Now, Fox is speaking out, encouraging the Tucson community to support UA's School of Information Resources and Library Science.

Images of librarians tiptoeing across the library shushing students are "old school," said the librarian at Gale Elementary School.

"That's an old stereotype," she said. "I'm a fairly political person, so I really do a lot of activism for the library." [Read article]

PHOENIX ÷ Arizona's universities are not as badly off financially as other state agencies ÷ even though they've taken a bigger budget cut ÷ Republican members of the Senate Committee on Appropriations argued yesterday.

Total funding for Arizona's universities has risen in recent years, to about $2.221 billion among the three universities. But the increase is largely due to federal research grants, higher tuition and donations, and does not account for inflation. Furthermore, much of the money from non-state sources can't be used to pay for things such as faculty salaries or electric bills. [Read article]

Delta Tau Delta faces community service, $2,500 fine

Delta Tau Delta fraternity was recently placed on suspension through May 2004 and now faces a host of sanctions for a hazing violation that that occurred in early January.

Members of the fraternity made new pledges do push-ups and other calisthenics, perform cleaning duties and eat ravioli topped with syrup and butter, said Associate Dean of Students Veda Kowalski. [Read article]

On April 19, 1999, 10 people lost their lives at Columbine High School. On Oct. 28, 2002, three UA nursing professors were killed by a student. According to one man, both situations could have been prevented ÷ by kindness.

Darrell Scott, father of Rachel Joy Scott, one of the students who died at Columbine, said that similar incidents can be prevented if people challenge themselves to be kind. [Read article]

Theater major struts her stuff in plays, aspires to be a drummer and wants to star on Broadway

WILDCAT: So, what musicals have you been in?

WOODS: Thus far I've performed in "Oklahoma," and then I was in "Encore," which is like a freshman touring show and that's it so far.

WILDCAT: So fun! I am secretly jealous of you. Did you get to speak with an accent?

WOODS: Yes I did. [Read article]

· Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbor Henri NestlŽ.

· In 1994, Chicago artist Dwight Kalb sent David Letterman a statue of Madonna made of 180 pounds of ham.

· Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.

· On June 21, 1913, over Los Angeles, Georgia Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane. [Read article]

Astronomy undergraduates discover new type of star

University of Arizona astronomy undergraduates have discovered a new class of star that thrills astronomers who specialize in a relatively new field called "asteroseismology."

Astronomers worldwide will collaborate in continuous observations of one of these newly found stars for several weeks in May 2003.

"Astronomers are always looking for new and better ways to study stars," said Elizabeth Green, assistant staff astronomer at Steward Observatory, who with her students discovered the new class of stars. They have found sub-dwarf B stars that pulsate like Jell-O, quivering in space through cycles that typically last an hour. [Read article]