UA doesn't ignore the financial aid drug law

The Wildcat published a story Thursday on the federal law that limits federal student aid eligibility for drug convictions. This story implies that students can blithely ignore the federal drug law and its financial aid implications. Don't you believe it!

The U.S. Department of Education does enforce this law, and contrary to the Wildcat headline, UA officials do not ignore this law. We do, in fact, receive information on each student who should be denied federal aid. The UA has systems in place that assure 100 percent compliance with this requirement. [Read article]

Before I left for college, I noticed a change in my mother. She'd usually been a very agreeable woman, but that all changed one day. Without warning, she launched into the most irrational tirades. Alternating between her native tongue of Tagalog and English, she combined the two to make up dirty and clever bits of profanity that I have yet to hear topped.

My father, brothers and I were dumbfounded by this new behavior. Naturally, to make sense of it all, we blamed each other. The finger-pointing led us nowhere. In lieu of a rational explanation, we made every effort to see to her happiness, like making sure to turn all of her ceramic elephant figurines east, lest she decide to let my father know what she really though of his mother. [Read article]

What would ya do for a buck back? (Or a Klondike bar, as the infamous jingle goes) Last week, when graduate students asked for their dollar back from the Arizona Students' Association, my fantasies of graduate students willingly diving into the Old Main fountain, giving entire discussion sections "A"s and gleefully dancing to the Klondike song - all to get their measly buck back - filled me with enjoyment. I would be the first to take a free "A" in exchange for an old George Washington, but alas it is not to be. [Read article]

The best in last week's editorials from college campuses across the nation

Clemson University

The Patriots and Panthers battled to the last seconds in a see-saw affair that ranks as one of (if not the) greatest Super Bowls ever. And the next day, we have to sit down and read about this trash?

The fans who felt that they needed something like that to complete their Super Bowl party probably had already forked over the $20 or so to watch the Lingerie Bowl at halftime and missed the stunt anyway. [Read article]