UA men's basketball player Isaiah Fox was arrested Wednesday on charges of stealing food from the U-Mart in the Student Union Memorial Center.

U-Mart employees told police this is not the first time he has shoplifted from the store, UAPD reports stated.

On Wednesday at 10:40 a.m., two employees followed Fox, anticipating another theft, as he walked down store aisles, reports stated.

They saw Fox put a bagel, cream cheese and a king-sized Hershey candy bar in the front pocket of his sweatshirt and walk out of the store. One employee followed him into the UofA Bookstore, where she found him at a magazine rack, reports stated. [Read article]

Bouncing to drum beats while holding countless effigies of the dead, thousands of All Souls' Procession participants shrieked and cheered as they swayed down North Fourth Avenue Saturday evening.

Under the half-lit moon, onlookers cheered as an estimated 4,000 skeletons and ghouls remembered deceased loved ones and celebrities.

The All Souls' Procession was held as part of D’a de Los Muertos, Day of the Dead, a holiday that has its origins in ancient Central American cultures and Catholicism. [Read article]

2 UA students' homes destroyed by Calif. fires

The worst wildfires in California history have claimed the homes of two UA students, university officials said.

Brian Savitch, a journalism senior and former Wildcat sports writer, is one of two students who has lost his home, said Carol Thompson, senior associate dean of students.

Savitch is known among men's basketball fans as one of the Zona Zookeepers, fans known for leading cheers and painting themselves in UA colors at games. He is with his family in California, and told the Dean of Students Office he does not want to comment until he returns to the UA. [Read article]

UA law students held a 5K race yesterday morning and raised more than $1,000 for a memorial scholarship named for Susan Barber, the UA law student murdered by her boyfriend last February.

The race was held just two days after Everett Alan O'Quin, 25, admitted in court that he beat Barber to death for objecting to a trip he had planned to take with a friend to Louisiana.

His confession was part of a plea bargain that let O'Quin plead guilty to second-degree murder rather than face capital murder charges. The agreement calls for a 10- to 18-year prison sentence to be handed down Jan. 6, 2004. [Read article]

More than 300 volunteers gathered on the UA Mall Saturday morning to volunteer with non-profit agencies around Tucson.

The University Activity Board's Project Volunteer and the Varney Center for Student Involvement and Leadership organized the 17th annual All-Campus Philanthropy event for members of the UA community.

The event began with an 8 a.m. check-in, lots of bagels and some yawning post-Halloween volunteers. [Read article]

Businessmen and women from all over the United States and Eastern Europe journeyed to Tucson this weekend for the annual business forum held by the UA Department of Russian and Slavic Studies.

The forum was organized to provide information to UA students and businesspeople who are interested in business affairs in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, said Roza Simkhovich, a Russian and Slavic studies senior lecturer and forum coordinator. [Read article]

Senior likes peanut M&Ms and role-playing with his bovine costumes on Halloween

Wildcat: Hi, my name's Nathan and you're On the Spot.

Neal: All right. I'm James Neal.

Wildcat: Have you seen those MTV things about Furries?

Neal: Furries?

Wildcat: Yeah, I think they're called Furries · or Fuzzies or something. It has something to do with stuffed animals. They wear stuffed costumes and date each other. [Read article]

Students suing UA over tuition hikes ask for trial to be moved

Four UA students suing the State of Arizona and the Arizona Board of Regents will go to court today to fight the state's request to move the trial to Phoenix.

A judge will decide whether the state can move the trial to Phoenix under a statute that allows any lawsuit against the state to be heard in Maricopa County.

Paul Gattone, a UA history graduate student and the lawyer for the students, said that the state's request is inappropriate given that all the plaintiffs live and attend school in Tucson. [Read article]

· According to some scholars, "Mother Goose" was an actual person. Her name was Elizabeth Vergoose, and she is believed to have collected and perhaps written some of the most famous English nursery rhymes. Her son-in-law, a printer named Thomas Fleet, is often credited with publishing the first book of her rhymes in Boston in 1719. Unfortunately, no copies of this book exist to prove the case. [Read article]