Over the weekend, Alistair Chapman nearly lost his position as next year's student body president.

But a technicality might have saved him.

Josh Shapiro, Chapman's opponent in the March elections, filed 16 elections code violations against Chapman this weekend. Chapman filed two against Shapiro.

Had Chapman been found guilty of four of the violations, he would have been disqualified from the presidency. [Read article]

Police are on the lookout for the person who has been shooting at students and a residence hall with a pellet gun.

While walking in a parking lot on Feb. 26 by La Paz Residence Hall, a female student was shot in the thigh by what police believe to be a pellet gun.

Police are now looking for the suspect and asking for anyone who knows anything about the incident to come forward.

"We are very interested in locating the suspect," said Sgt. Eugene Mejia, UAPD spokesman. [Read article]

6 Fulbright Scholars from Iraq learning English, politics in U.S.

It used to be only a dream for Iraqi scholars to study abroad in the United States.

But now, 10 months after the end of the war that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime, six Iraqi Fulbright Scholars have arrived to study at the UA.

There are 25 Iraqi Fulbright Scholars in the United States this year.

Ali Mohammed and Hamdy Singary are two of the six Iraqi students learning English at UA's Center for English as a Second Language. They will be here until August. [Read article]

A UA student was arrested Tuesday for possessing prescription pills, 3 ounces of marijuana and 1.2 ounces of cocaine in his dorm room.

The amount of drugs confiscated was more than UAPD officials have seen on campus in a long time, said Sgt. Eugene Mejia, UAPD spokesman.

UAPD officers searched the room of Patrick Jameson Madden, a business freshman, after receiving an anonymous tip.

Inside Room 221 at the Navajo Residence Hall, 1557 E. Sixth St., officers found 3 ounces of marijuana in seven different bags, 221 prescription pills, 1.2 ounces of cocaine and various drug paraphernalia. Everything had been hidden in a footlocker inside the room. [Read article]

Donald F. Post, self-declared Ohio farm boy known for his big, tooth-filled grin that spans ear to ear, has a knack for getting students excited about soils.

For 37 years, Post brought his enthusiasm for soils science into the classroom at the UA. Four and a half years ago, he became a professor emeritus. Although retired, he continued to teach part time.

Post drove across the country to join the small department of agriculture chemistry and soils in 1967. The program, thanks to his efforts, has since evolved into the soil, water and environmental sciences department. [Read article]

Fat Tuesday on East University Boulevard unexpectedly closed down last week.

Signs taped to windows around the building indicated some details about the closure.

Part of the sign read that Geronimoz Inc. had "exercised legal rights to re-enter and take possession of those premises."

The sign stated that Geronimoz retook possession because Fat Tuesday had defaulted on its sublease.

Geronimoz leased the bar to Fat Tuesday, and the Marshall Foundation owns the property. [Read article]

"Please turn off your cell phones, or make your vaginas happy and set them on vibrate."

Those were the first lines of the "Vagina Monologues" performed this weekend in Room 100 of the Social Sciences building.

The student production of the popular play by Eve Ensler was put on as an extension of Vday.org, a nonprofit organization that gives different groups the rights to perform the play.

Ashley James, a studio art and art history junior, organized the entire production by signing up for it through Vday.org and recruiting the actresses and crew. [Read article]

One of the biggest problems facing patients today isn't high blood pressure or arthritis, but a lack of health literacy, officials say.

Doctors and health advocates say patients often cannot understand the medical information given to them by their doctors and the media.

A conference at University Medical Center this weekend titled "Health Literacy, Medical Ignorance and the Media: The Central Role of Questioning" tackled the topic. [Read article]

Freshman girls catch some rays out on grass, followed by some Frog and Firkin

Wildcat: Hi my name's Nathan and you're on the spot. How are you guys doing? Just laying out on the grass?

Rosten: We live at Coronado, and we didn't feel like walking all the way to the pool.

Wildcat: This is a nice spot though, too.

Toveg: Yeah. Lots of people walk by, drive by. Lots of traffic. [Read article]

Things you always never wanted to know

This week in history

Today

1936 - Daytona Beach, Fla., stages its first race strictly for stock cars on a combination beach and public roadway course.

1951 - The Lonely Hearts Killers, Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York.

Tomorrow

1917 - Several hundred Mexican guerillas under the command of Francisco "Pancho" Villa cross the U.S.-Mexican border and attack the small border town of Columbus, N.M. [Read article]