Increasing funds top priority for UA presidential candidate

Students and faculty grilled UA presidential candidate Tom Campbell yesterday about campus diversity, tuition, class availability and other issues facing the university.

To improve diversity in the student population, Campbell said he wants the UA's population of Latino students to increase from 12 percent to 25 percent, the same percentage of Latinos that make up the state's population. [Read article]

Freshman forward finds himself in starting, starring roles

If you were to pass Marcus Williams in the Student Union Memorial Center on a hot fall day in September, it would be easy to pin the youngster as a freshman.

With a baby face covered by a pencil-thin mustache, the Seattle native looks more "Diaper Dandy" than NBA Lottery pick.

If you can peer through his boyish features and watch the 6-foot-7 forward work his on-court magic, it is easy to see how he is one of the top contributors for the Arizona men's basketball team this season. [Read article]

"You're the kind of woman who will graduate from this college, marry some man and make him miserable." This statement and many others like it were yelled at a young woman in the Alumni Plaza Thursday afternoon. Hearing it, I sprang from my seat on a nearby bench; as a Christian, I was dismayed, not just by the vitriol of the words, but by the fact that they were yelled by one of the UA Mall preachers featured on the Arizona Daily Wildcat's front page last week. [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]