Mt. Graham officials can't buy Apache beliefs

UA Mount Graham officials came to our reservation recently. They offered us $40,000 per year each from the UA, University of Minnesota and University of Virginia. It was a cash package of programs for us - if we would give up our religious beliefs. Our Tribal Council rejected those bribes.

We Apache went to Minnesota in 2002 and pled with UMN's president and regents not to participate in this harm to us. We explained that our Tribal Council had voted resolutions five times opposing this project over the past decade, saying the project represents "a display of profound disrespect for a cherished feature of our original homeland as well as a serious violation of our traditional religious beliefs." [Read article]

The stereotypes from popular culture may lead us to believe that college is a time when dissidence is in such high quantities that it seems almost like a contagious disease.

In movies, stereotypes usually abound in which some mild-mannered, nonpolitical daughter of the middle class is ideologically transformed from her time at the university. She then comes home for Thanksgiving break, dreadlocked and indignant, berating her parents for their bourgeois lifestyle, proudly touting her new vegan lifestyle and/or a new piercing and her love for all things leftist. [Read article]

It's crunch time, everyone. It's that time of year when everyone has one last shot to prove themselves. That last obstacle before everyone is set free to enjoy the summer break.

It's hard to believe that it was just five years ago I moved all the way from Bean Town, leaving behind my family, friends and beloved Bo-Sox for Tucson and 100-degree heat, Saguaro cactuses and Gila monsters. I remember strolling onto the UA campus as a young, naive freshman eager to start my college career, completely unprepared for what lay ahead of me. [Read article]

The best in last week's editorials from college campuses across the nation

University of Minnesota

For male athletes in Division I college basketball and football, the term "student-athlete" is a farce. The athlete is ever-present, appearing on national television, honored by pep rallies and showered with perks - but the student is historically in the bottom third of his class in SAT scores, grade point average, class rank and graduation rates. [Read article]