Forty million people around the world are infected with HIV/AIDS. By December, 3 million will die and another 5 million will transmit the disease.

In a world full of mind-boggling technology, vast amounts of education and countries overflowing with medical and monetary resources, how does such a preventable yet ravishing disease consume the lives of that many individuals?

Here, we can fight on behalf of our fellow citizens stricken with HIV/AIDS. [Read article]

My name is Dan, and I quit shopping at Wal-Mart 18 months ago.

It hasn't always been easy. There's a voice in my head that calls to me: "Come here, Dan. Always low prices. Always." Inside my gut, there's this fire burning for Wal-Mart, and it never goes out. But I just refuse to shop at Wal-Mart.

Some people even call me a crazy liberal idealist for it.

They should consider this: According to Business Week, the average Wal-Mart sales employee earns $13,861 per year, which is $1,000 below the poverty line for a family of three in the U.S. [Read article]

It's no secret that the Associated Students of the University of Arizona and the Graduate and Professional Student Council have a little bad blood.

Earlier this semester, ASUA President Cade Bernsen dismissed the GPSC as nothing more than a "club" that was "splitting hairs" about its lack of representation on the presidential search committee.

And after optical science graduate students voted to be represented solely by GPSC last week, GPSC President Elaine Ulrich told the Arizona Daily Wildcat that ASUA "falsely claims" to represent all UA students. [Read article]