More Zona Zoo passes sold than seats in section

A jump in student attendance at football games has forced security guards to block admittance to the student section before the game-time whistle blows, officials said.

So far 11,640 Zona Zoo passes that grant UA students access to the student section have been bought this year, up from the 9,468 purchased last year, said Russ Dean, assistant athletic director. [Read article]

Plans to distribute a survey to assess interest in Spanish articles in the Arizona Daily Wildcat have been put on hold, said the ASUA senator heading the effort.

Sen. Lexie Ettinger, a political science sophomore, has not set a definite date to begin passing out the surveys due to being busy with other senate projects, she said.

"At the beginning of the semester, I wanted to get the surveys out as quickly as possible," she said. [Read article]

Despite the Wildcat defeat at Saturday's football game, an MTV-University camera crew said they were impressed with the amount of UA student spirit they saw after filming the campus over the weekend.

The college network of the mother ship MTV focused on the UA cheerleaders before and during the game, and also interviewed students and fans at the pregame tailgating party.

The "tailgating tour" focuses on five other college campuses nationwide in addition to the UA and is "about everything that goes into football but the football," said video jockey George Oliphant at the game. [Read article]

Registration for juniors and honors students

Priority registration for juniors and students in the Honors Program takes place this week ending Friday. Students can access course availability, descriptions and registration methods via Student Link.

Any students with a balance on their bursar's account will not be permitted to register until the balance is paid.

Altar for Los Dias de los Muertos at UofA Bookstore [Read article]

The UA India Club hosted Tucson's annual Garba celebration Saturday, a Hindu religious celebration that brought students and the local Indian community together for a night of music and dancing.

The party filled the Ina E. Gittings Gym with more than 100 people whirling and spinning in bright-colored traditional dress from 9 p.m. until after midnight.

A Garba is traditionally the culmination of a nine-night festival called Navratri, and consists of music and dancing in celebration and praise to Durga, the goddess of health. [Read article]

A new university magazine hits the newsstands today, replacing the Desert Yearbook that was eliminated this year because of inadequate sales and poor advertising.

To fill the yearbook's void, Arizona Student Media replaced the publication with a bimonthly magazine.

RedBlue is the first Arizona Student Media-sponsored student magazine and will feature a look into student life in areas of entertainment, fashion, sex, relationships and the Tucson scene, said Editor in Chief Lauren Miller. [Read article]

Female students and faculty in the Colleges of Science and Engineering attended a Taiko drumming workshop yesterday, learning leadership and communication skills while making a lot of noise.

Taiko, which means "fat drum" in Japanese, is an ancient art of drumming and poise that originated in Japan thousands of years ago as a means of communication across long distances.

The style practiced last night is called Kumi-Daiko or "group drumming," a variant of traditional Taiko founded in America in the 1950s that combines elements of traditional drumming with jazz and other modern styles. [Read article]