Rooting for KAMP Student Radio is a lot like rooting for the Arizona Cardinals. Everyone in town wants them to succeed. How cool would it be to have a good football team or widely distributed student radio? But sometimes it just seems like the obstacles are too great.

KAMP's main challenge has always been that it doesn't have the funds for a strong FM antenna. Instead they have a weak AM one, 1520 AM, that only works around the university. But alas, even that has issues. Several of the taller buildings on campus actually block the signal, so it's not widely available. [Read article]

Forget all of the economic, racial, compassionate and moral arguments surrounding the immigration issue in Arizona. Instead we should focus on how immigration affects our national security - how it contributes to rising crime rates, human deaths and general sense of disorder along the border.

At least that is what Chris Simcox, co-founder and media-savvy spokesman for the often-criticized Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, wants people to think. Simcox turned up on the UA campus last week for a debate on the UA Mall with Isabel Garcia of Derechos Humanos, a human-rights group that deals with border issues. [Read article]

IRKUTSK, Russia

The Paris of Siberia. Russia's window on the East. The timeless refuge for the intelligentsia, Decembrists, czariots, liberal democrats, Leninists, Stalinists, idealists, Mongolians, Chinese, a sprinkling of Japanese, an occasional American or two, anyone and everyone who chose not to integrate with "modern" Russian society - the term "modern" being distinctly relative.

In 1917, as Lenin led the Bolsheviks to power in Petrograd (later Leningrad, and now St. Petersburg), the czarists based their quasi-successful resistance here for three long years. [Read article]

Whites letting down their fellow citizens

People criticize President Bush for his slow response in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and some even say if it were a white middle-class city things would have been different. Who knows, maybe they're right, but frankly what a bunch of hypocrites.

I work at a store collecting money for the Red Cross, and most of our customers are white middle-class college students buying liquor. I can tell you almost all our black, Hispanic, Indian and most of all Arab customers donated money. Some were so poor they were donating their last pennies. [Read article]