The UA will partner with a university from Tucson's sister city in Kazakhstan through a memorandum of understanding, an agreement that will promote both cultural and academic exchanges.

President Peter Likins will sign an International Memorandum of Agreement Thursday, which will link the UA with Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tucson's "sister city" since 1989.

Jerry M. Gary, chairman of the Tucson-Almaty Sister Cities Committee, said the IMOA will open the door for students and professors to assimilate the educational practices of another country and sample the cultural differences that exist, while observing how business is done in both. [Read article]

Arizona cheerleaders are at every game, performing back flips and throwing each other up into the air, all for the enjoyment of the crowd.

People may think cheerleaders are just random students who are assigned to stir up the crowd at selected campus sporting events, but there is much more to it than that.

Cheer preparation begins with selecting the squad from about 40 to 60 candidates over three days of tryouts, Friday to Sunday.

"Tryouts are overwhelming because there are all these new people competing for a few spots on the team," said sophomore Taylor Hendrickson. "It's like working out for a full day." [Read article]

This clash demonstrates the detestable position in which Americans have placed the media. Let's face it: The media feed us stories and illustrations of junk on demand. Sadly, this just reflects our society's degenerating moral values and the popular view that anything goes. [Read article]