The University of Arizona Police Department is launching a new Campus Watch program in hopes of increasing communication on campus and reducing crime.

The program is based loosely on Neighborhood Watch and will provide presentations on safety and security to the campus community, recommend changes to buildings to make them safer, release campus alerts to all departments and provide statistics on crime trends.

Officer Chris Scheopner, a crime prevention specialist, said the program was not started as a reaction to anything specific, but came about through a grant UAPD received that was geared towards establishing a program like Campus Watch. [Read article]

Getting clobbered 78-60 by unranked Virginia wasn't the greatest way for the Arizona men's basketball team to begin its season away from McKale Center, but the No. 17 Wildcats (2-1) will get an immediate chance to redeem themselves in the preseason NIT tonight, starting with a semifinal matchup against the Michigan Wolverines at 7 p.m. MST in New York.

Michigan (3-0) is led by junior guard Daniel Horton, sophomore guard Dion Harris, and junior wing Lester Abram on the perimeter, and sophomore Center Courtney Sims down low. [Read article]

After hearing the announcement that professor Robert Bechtel at the UA confessed to murdering someone, the whole state seems up in arms trying to figure out how the prevent the state universities from ever hiring a felon again. [Read article]