Music download service a bad idea for UA campus

After reading the Nov. 24 edition of the Wildcat, I was quite dismayed to discover that the UA was contemplating providing the Napster online music service to students for free. This is a bad idea, not in principle, but in execution.

It is an excellent idea to make music freely available to students, but it has to be available to all students. The online services available today are not available to all computer users. Napster, for example, will only run on systems that run WindowsXP. If the UA were to adopt this service, it would be unavailable to students who use Apple computers or those who chose to run Linux/UNIX in lieu of Windows. [Read article]

Jim Livengood couldn't have been more excited. The new coach was an ideal fit for the university and its struggling football program.

"Exactly what this football program and university need," and "No one was able to measure up," said Livengood.

But the praise wasn't for Mike Stoops, who was hired last week as head football coach. Livengood spoke those words three years ago, when he hired John Mackovic to take over the struggling Wildcat football team from Dick Tomey. [Read article]

Now is the time to speak up. The mission of the Arizona Daily Wildcat is to serve our readers by producing a daily paper that gives you all the stuff you want in a student-run university newspaper. Our readers read the paper for our timely and comprehensive news and sports coverage, stimulating and entertaining commentary and cartoons, arts and entertainment articles, odd facts, crosswords, classified ads and police reports. [Read article]