T enure is the golden chalice at the end of a long adventure. After battling through the trials of academia, seen as theses and lectures, a professor can be awarded the grand seal of approval and mark of a true academic: coveted, untouchable job security.

A tenured professor is relieved of the pressures of constant publication or research; he or she does not have to fear arbitrary release from contract or worry about the evaluations from disapproving officials. [Read article]

This just in: Drunken driving illegal!

For one reason or another, the University of Arizona Police Department has been hard-pressed to convince students that underage drinking is not merely generally discouraged but is also downright illegal. Armed with bolstered funds and a statewide task force, though, Arizona police have been able to crack down on one particularly insidious outgrowth of alcohol consumption - drunken driving. In fact, UAPD reported an almost 400-percent increase in the number of drunken driving arrests in the last year. For tackling this dangerous (and often tragic) malady, the UAPD gets a Pass. [Read article]

More effort needed to recruit Arizona's Hispanic students

Both the efforts and success of the UA and the College of Medicine as indicated in Ms. Blombaum's recent article point out the serious deficiency in the university's abysmal record for Latino/Hispanic recruitment ("UA, College of Medicine ranked at the top in Hispanic outreach").

I do not consider successful the UA's Hispanic enrollment. As stated by the article, the university's Hispanic undergraduate enrollment is 16 percent, and the University Medical School enrollment is between 10 and 13 percent. Our local Latino population of documented Hispanic residents is at 29.3 percent of Pima County's population. [Read article]