Human flag story mischaracterized event

On April 29, the Wildcat ran a front-page story about an event from the day before, involving members and supporters of the Arizona Israel Alliance/Hillel and the Alliance for Peace and Justice in the Middle East. In observance of Israel's 56th year of statehood, AIA/Hillel was attempting to form a human Israeli flag on the UA Mall, while adjacent to them, APJME was holding a peaceful protest to make them and bystanders aware that Israel did not just magically appear. It was, in fact, formed at the expense of indigenous Palestinians who today remain the world's largest refugee population on Earth. [Read article]

Question: How do you cram the breadth and depth of a semester's worth of class into the one fateful week before finals?

Answer: Not very easily.

Most likely, for quite a few of you out there, this week has been a blur of memorizing facts and figures that should have been long ago stored into your cranium.

True, there are probably some serious and diligent Wildcats who have kept up with their reading, gone to office hours or actually attended class. [Read article]

This week, as President Bush started and finished a bus tour of Midwestern battleground states, and his challenger, John Kerry, took to the airwaves with a $25 million advertising campaign, Americans all over the country have gotten a taste of the intensive campaigning that will likely last to an election that is less than six months away.

It's unfortunate for the Democrats, though, that so many millions of useful campaign dollars are being drained into the weak Kerry effort. Beyond the wasting of funds, it is really quite hard to swallow that this senator from Massachusetts has what it takes to be the president of the United States, especially in light of some hiccups he has had to deal with and attempt to overcome during the past couple of weeks. [Read article]

I'll be honest: For the most part, I either ignore or laugh at most of the feedback I get from my loyal readers. It's not because I don't want to improve myself; I do. I just don't think you understand my vision. I'm an artist over here.

And yet, some good questions have been raised this year, whether they've been sent to my personal e-mail account, yelled at me in the student union or across the UA Mall, or mailed as letters made up of magazine clippings. So I want to finally address some of these questions just to show you I genuinely do care. [Read article]