Both sides complain to Dean of Students

Student body president Cade Bernsen fired five student officials Tuesday, including three Arizona Students' Association directors and two cabinet members, sources said.

Bernsen, the Associated Students of the University of Arizona president, sent dismissal letters and e-mails to ASA directors Fernando Ascencio, Andrew Record and Christopher Dang, as well as Breanne Bushu, the cabinet coordinator, and Rebecca Rodl, the assistant elections commissioner. [Read article]

Sophomore guard, Cats take on Beavers

The No. 24 Arizona men's basketball team will receive a boost tonight with the addition of sophomore guard Jawann McClellan when it visits Oregon State in Corvallis, Ore.

McClellan will play his first game of the year for the Wildcats (10-4, 3-1 Pacific 10 Conference) after regaining his academic eligibility and will come off the bench against the Beavers (8-6, 1-2) in the game scheduled to tip at 8 p.m. on FSN Arizona. [Read article]

We're pretty much obsessed with things that aren't happening. The headlines the other day on one of the Internet's top portals announced that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were not expecting a child, and that Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn weren't engaged.

And at the same time, actual things are happening, and we're barely noticing.

A study published by the Lancet, Britain's leading medical journal, reported last week that over 32,000 people die monthly in the Congo. Between 1998 and 2004, nearly 4 million people died in the African nation. Four million. The number is incomprehensible. [Read article]

Fire twirling, sword swallowing on club's weekly agenda There's a little pyromaniac in all of us. Blame our caveman instincts, but our fascination with this force of nature - both destructive and life-sustaining - starts with childhood, where experiments with a Zippo lighter and your mother's industrial-sized can of hairspray gives you hours of fun and, if you're lucky, a brand-new set of eyebrows. [Read article]