Hungry students everywhere, it is time for you to rejoice. The new Highland Market is now open, and it's ready to please that special spot in your stomach. The market is an amalgamation of coffee shop, deli and convenience store; students could not possibly ask for anything more. Watch out U-Mart, the new Highland Market is breathing down your aging neck.

Although at first it might seem that the Highland Market is just another key venture for the UA to gouge students out of their precious cash, in reality it isn't. The Highland Market was created by the university to provide a candy land of great deals, convenience and just plain-out awesomeness for its students. [Read article]

Question: Have the election results encouraged or discouraged you to be involved in the political processs in the future?

"If you don't vote, then you have no right to complain. If don't like what is gong on in American politics, you, you know, have to become involved."

"It encourages me even more. But I've always been involved in politics. I realize that we obviously need to get out the vote a lot more. Encourage more people to be more involved, that's all. ... It keeps getting better. I think more people are getting involved anyways. Especially since we have four more years of Bush." [Read article]

Not everyone gets their way in a democracy

The editorial titled "Do away with the initiative process" was remarkably in tune with an article I read the same day about Americans who disliked Bush's re-election and were considering emigrating abroad. A New Zealand immigration official quoted in the article was incredulous that "when Americans don't get their way, they want to move."

In the Wildcat's editorial, we read of grown adults complaining about the most democratic institution in America, namely the initiative process, because one initiative they like did not pass, and one they opposed was passed. In short, people are complaining because they did not get their way. I doubt such an editorial would have been printed had Proposition 102 been passed while Proposition 200 was defeated. Obviously, the essence of living in a democracy is that one will not always get his way; however, in a democracy, one always will have an opportunity to convince others of his way. On Tuesday, some voters were convinced, others not. So goes life in a democracy. [Read article]