“Nigger,” “faggot” and “cunt” were some of the identities written on nametags that students wore around their necks as they were marched through the Tunnel of Oppression last night.

The tunnel event, which is in its eighth year at the UA, is an interactive tour that leads visitors through themed rooms depicting instances of abuse, hate crime and prejudice throughout history.

As students entered the basement of Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall they were violently greeted by a swarm of actors waving protest signs and screaming racist chants like “Hell no, you must go back to Mexico.” [Read article]

About 800 students cast their votes yesterday on whether to expand the Student Recreation Center, but which way students are leaning won’t be known until all the ballots from today are counted.

Tyler Carrell, elections commissioner, said final numbers of students that voted and what the outcome is so far cannot be released because of legal issues within the parameters of the elections code.

“Simply because of the precedence carried on from previous elections, I unfortunately do not have the luxury of releasing such information at this time,” said Carrell, a finance junior. [Read article]

A new Student Link program may ease registration woes as early as next semester by allowing departments to make restrictions for online course registration.

The new program, WebReg Permissions, may eliminate the need for students in many departments to meet with an adviser to register by hand as early as the spring semester, said Beth Acree, senior associate registrar for the Office of Registration. [Read article]

New study finds childhood experience linked to violent crime

The social standing of murder victims has a direct impact on what kind of sentence convicted killers receive, according to the research of a UA professor.

James Clarke, a political science professor, studied the cases of 179 convicted killers whose cases were tried in Pima County between 1991 and 1999.

The most startling finding to come from the study was that 89 percent of the victims of death-row inmates were middle class, while 83 percent of the victims of nondeath-row inmates were poor or unskilled, Clarke said. [Read article]

Today marks Janet Bingham’s seventh year as vice president of University Advancement, just a small chunk of her nearly 25-year career with the UA, which will end when she retires in January.

Bingham said she was chosen to fill the position from the 100-candidate pool a national search started when President Peter Likins revived the position in 1997.

“I feel like the most fortunate person in the world for working in this position under President Likins,” Bingham said. “I genuinely really love him.” [Read article]

Panel discussion on modern anti-Semitism

A panel discussion will be held today to discuss the need for more awareness about modern anti-Semitism.

The panel of scholars will examine the origins and early evolution of European anti-Semitism in an effort to determine the relationship between medieval and modern anti-Semitism.

The discussion starts tonight at 7 in the Center for English as a Second Language, Room 102. [Read article]

Things you’ve always never wanted to know

Studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls indicate that the passage in the Bible known as the Sermon on the Mount is actually an ancient Essene prayer dating to hundreds of years before the birth of Christ.

Newborn babies are not blind. Studies have shown that newborns have about 20/50 vision and can easily discriminate between degrees of brightness. [Read article]