Intersection at Park and Speedway gets new light

Finally, the City of Tucson has seen the light.

The city plans to install, in the next month, a left-hand turn signal at the intersection of North Park Avenue and East Speedway Boulevard.

"We've been pushing the city on this for years," said David Duffy, director of campus and facilities planning.

The decision resulted from a study on March 4, 2003, to determine the intersection's eligibility for a left-hand turn signal, said Michael Graham, spokesman for Tucson's Department of Transportation. The results from the study came in two weeks ago. [Read article]

Although the UA has felt the heat from record companies cracking down on students who download music, UA students aren't flinching.

"No one is really scared. They should warn us a lot more than they do," said pre-business freshman Kristina Johnson, when asked how she feels about the record industries' lawsuits against students this summer.

For the first time, The Recording Industry Association of America began cracking down last April on students downloading music, filing a suit saying four students running Napster-like file sharing software at Princeton University, Rensselaer University and Michigan Technical University caused them to lose nearly $100 million in damages. [Read article]

Exhibit highlights the woman behind the man behind the lens

Xiaohui Fan, an assistant professor of astronomy, spends a lot of time standing around in the dark staring up at the sky, but he's not wishing on falling stars, he's looking for quasars.

"I was always interested in how far you can see," said Fan of his research on quasars, extremely distant, old and

enormously bright objects at the edge of the universe whose power output is several thousand times that of the entire galaxy. [Read article]

In response to the complaint that the UA does not promote diversity enough on campus, the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership has opened up a Multicultural Leadership Center.

Saundra Taylor, vice president for campus life, said that Wildcat Welcome Week coordinators have received negative feedback from minority students who felt overlooked and in need of a more specialized source of support, especially during the hectic first weeks of school. [Read article]

With an ongoing war on terror and an "axis of evil" accentuating the difference between American political and economic ideologies with those of unfriendly foreign powers or militants, UApresents has chosen to celebrate the vast and beautiful cultural diversity spanning across the globe.

The theme of the upcoming season, "Our Shared Earth," is an exploration of cultural and performing arts from all over the world intended to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of different global traditions and how, in some cases, those traditions have blended to form new art forms and experiences. [Read article]

Local taxicab driver waits for drunks, talks about crazy women and backseat m�nage a trois

Wildcat: So, has it been a busy night tonight?

Harless: No.

Wildcat: No, is this typically what happens with you taxi guys? Just sitting around waiting? What are you waiting for?

Harless: Drunks.

Wildcat: Drunks?

Wildcat: What's the craziest story you've had about picking up a drunk person? [Read article]

· A peanut is not a nut. It is a legume.

· There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, more Italians in New York City than in Rome, and more Jews in New York City than in Tel Aviv.

· The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the first novel ever to be written on a typewriter. It was typed on a Remington in 1875 by Mark Twain himself. Twain, however, wished to withhold the fact. He did not want to write testimonials, he said, or answer questions concerning the operation of the "newfangled thing." [Read article]

Question: Where in the heck did the Bursar's Office go? And for that matter, why is everything in a different place this year?

Answer: For new students (and a few returners), campus can sometimes be a confusing place, and it's tough to find what you're looking for.

Like the time I searched for hours for the Bank One ATM machine while the Student Union Memorial Center was still under construction. Never fear, I'm here to help. [Read article]