Harvard study shows affirmative action needed

There are two cover stories in Thursday's Wildcat: "Students bake up race debate," about a group of students who are unhappy about affirmative action, and "Tenure at UA harder for women to achieve." What is the relationship between these two stories? Do the students protesting affirmative action discount the Harvard tenure study? Have they done one of their own, showing that in fact there is parity between white male professors and others, on this campus and elsewhere? [Read article]

The dust has settled. And although some of the folks intimately involved in the planning of the proposed activity fee that failed earlier this month are quick to assign blame, there's no denying that ASUA made some large mistakes in the execution of its very special election.

Those foul-ups, namely a rushed and arguably biased election, came just more than a month after some hiccups in the election of the student body president. In that process, Elections Commissioner Dan Suh and some former Associated Students of the University of Arizona presidents got all hot and bothered over a little statement candidate Josh Shapiro made. In speaking up, the ex-presidents and an opinioned Suh sealed the election for heir to the throne, Alistair Chapman. [Read article]

In case you have been stuck on Mars for the last few months, the election year hoopla is in full swing. Americans are being pounded daily by clips of speeches, ads and pundits telling anyone who will listen why their guy is better than the other guy. What's scary is that the election is still 200 days away!

Even so, the race to be the lesser of two evils is on, and as if the seemingly endless media coverage of anything related to the election has not been enough to saturate the usually politically apathetic American public, the political ads have been released earlier than ever. And so, let the mudslinging begin. [Read article]

Council right to rid the city of Grant Road death trap

The Tucson City Council voted yesterday to end the reversible "suicide" lane on East Grant Road. The council didn't discuss the matter and took less than 10 seconds to unanimously vote in support of Ward 3 Councilwoman Kathleen Dunbar's motion to eliminate the lane. In truth, 10 seconds was probably too long, much like the existence of the lane itself. [Read article]