Holocaust conference begins with vigil; other events include movies, seminars and dinners

A 24-hour vigil to honor victims of the Holocaust sparked the beginning of the 11th Annual Conference on the Holocaust, sponsored by the Hillel Foundation.

UA President Peter Likins started the vigil at 1 p.m. Monday on the UA Mall with a speech honoring the victims. Over the next 24 hours, 50 students and many others read the names of 20,000 people killed during the Holocaust, according to Rebecca Rosenburg, a Jewish campus service corps Diamond Family fellow. [Read article]

It has typically been a place where students can sit down on campus or grab a meal on the go, but now the Student Union Memorial Center may provide students with a quick history lesson when they visit.

Aside from eateries, services and entertainment forums, the four-story union is also equipped with a number of architectural and design elements that honor the history of the USS Arizona. The ship suffered more than half of the 2,390 casualties during the attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. [Read article]

Until the age of 13, Nathan Puente had the same teachers for his elementary and high school level education ÷ his mom and dad.

Unlike most students at the UA, Puente, a journalism sophomore, was home-schooled for the entirety of his primary education. Although Puente is a rarity at this university, he was one of over 1.5 million students in the United States that receive their primary education through home schooling, according to the Home School Legal Defense Association. [Read article]

Justin Levasseur, the UA football player arrested for transporting marijuana, will have to wait another month before his case goes to court.

According to the Henry County Clerk's office, Levasseur had a preliminary hearing on Dec. 9 in which he pleaded not guilty. The pre-trial hearing was then set for Jan. 10 and the jury trial was to begin on Feb. 3.

However, because a new judge was assigned to the case, the pre-trial hearing was postponed until March 18. No date is set for a jury trial yet. [Read article]

Spring is almost here. Soon, flowers will be springing up all over campus, and so will ASUA campaign posters.

Primary elections for positions on the Associated Students of the University of Arizona are March 3 and 4, and candidates are publicizing all they can to get votes. There are 13 ASUA positions up for grabs, but 28 people are running to fill them.

"I'm really pleased with the turnout," said ASUA President Doug Hartz. "Last year we only had two candidates run for executive positions." [Read article]

Hare Krishna musician into India; discusses life, music, his guru and his mantra

WILDCAT: So what do you do?

SNYDER: Um · I'm a musician.

WILDCAT: Do you play an instrument, do you sing, do you use your armpit?

SNYDER: I play a lot of different instruments and I sing as well. I'm currently into a lot of Indian music, songs of spiritual leaders in India. [Read article]

· If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

· Women blink nearly twice as much as men do.

· The average human eats eight spiders at night in his or her lifetime.

· A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

· ÎStewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand. [Read article]

Unisex

The California Aggie
U. California-Davis

Some University of California-Davis students are lobbying for the campus to convert all single-stall, gender-specific restrooms to unisex bathrooms, and at least one UCD administrator might sign onto the idea.

In November 2002, the student senate passed a resolution supporting the conversion of one-stall gender-specific bathrooms to non-gender-specific, or unisex, bathrooms. [Read article]