Campus Magazine, a publication started by three recent UA graduates, has caused a stir on campus, with some saying it does not represent the university at all.

"It's glorifying the most stereotypical views of college students. All the ads are for salons and bars and clubs," said Amber Giuliano, family studies and human development junior.

Campus Magazine was started to showcase the founders' talent to future employers and to entertain the UA community. The managing editor of the magazine, John Hansen, said the goal of the magazine is to divert students from serious classroom topics and make it fun for students to look at. [Read article]

The click of a mouse was all it took to tell the $400 million rover Spirit to drive off its lander onto Martian soil.

And the man behind the computer, 100 million miles away, was Chris Lewicki, a former UA student.

Lewicki is the senior flight systems engineer and Mars Exploration Rover flight director at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The JPL is the mission control for both Mars rover missions. [Read article]

Administrators are asking faculty whether they would like to see the Student Union Memorial Center open a club for employees to congregate, bring guests and eat at the end of the day.

Depending on faculty responses, student union directors may extend the hours of the Redington Restaurant, which is now open only through lunch. With the change, faculty, staff and their guests could relax there later in the afternoon. [Read article]

Contrary to its name, Daughter's On Campus Day will not only be for females this year, as sponsors welcome both sexes to campus.

Daughter's On Campus Day, the UA's version of national Take Your Daughter to Work Day, will return to the university April 23.

This year's theme, "Sharing Our Community," reflects organizers' aim to embrace diversity. Rather than just invite faculty, staff and students to bring their children to campus, event planners will also welcome underprivileged children from groups like Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boys and Girls Club and the Brewster Center. [Read article]

Spring semester includes research

Eleven UA students are getting a lesson this semester about how laws are made in Arizona, without stepping foot into a political science class.

For nearly 15 years, UA students have gone to Phoenix to spend their spring semester interning at the state's Capitol.

Whether they're explaining bills to legislators or filming a weekly TV show watched by more than 1 million viewers statewide, the UA's Capitol interns say they're learning a lot while playing an important role in the legislative process. [Read article]

Sophomore's mother spent 38 hours giving birth, just so he can talk about being a flour tortilla

Wildcat: Have you ever read "On the Spot"?

Bacon: Uh, yeah a few times.

Wildcat: Can I tell you something? I'm the birth mother of "On the Spot."

Bacon: Really?

Wildcat: Yeah, like two years ago I started it, and now they've got these rookies doing it. So I thought today I'd come out here and show them how it's done. Anyway, um, Donnie, I think that your hat's on sideways. [Read article]

Things you always never wanted to know

Quotes from campus and around the world

"I hope it isn't another piece of junk they are spending money on."

÷ Hillery Kemp, undeclared freshman, on the new 26,000 pound competition drilling rock that now sits east of Old Main.

"I am glad it landed. I saw a big money sign behind its parachute."

÷ Jeff Diday, sociology junior, on the successful landing of the second Mars rover Saturday night. The annual revenue of the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab amounts to $14 million. [Read article]