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OPINIONS
Thursday, January 27, 2005
photo Journalism needs an integrity injection

A new class of infectious diseases is on the rise, affecting a unique demographic - journalists and the news media. This exclusive group is suffering a potentially deadly affliction that has affected their quality and integrity severely. Two of the causative pathogens have recently been identified.

One common journalistic bug is the nasty bacterial organism Fabricus factus (commonly called outright fraud). [Read article]

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We're being branded

Red and blue tags take all the fun out of house parties and hotel rooms

In a world far removed from Tucson, a strict Puritanical society branded a woman with a scarlet letter.

As a punishment for the moral transgression of sleeping with a man she was not married to, Hester Prynne, the heroine of a Nathaniel Hawthorne novel, had to wear the letter "A" prominently on her chest.

Flash forward to 2005, location: Tucson, the city where you can find modern-day scarlet letter branding houses around the university in the form of the infamous red tag. [Read article]

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Mailbag

No need for disjointed student section

As a member of the Zona Zoo since its inception in 2002, I have had quite the love/hate relationship with our McKale Center. I love the energetic feeling after leaving an awesome game - I'll certainly never forget Salim hitting the trey to beat UCLA. And yet I hated leaving games last year after losing to inferior Pac-10 teams. I love the fact that our alumni have succeeded in life and donated enough money to have courtside seats and yet hate the fact that it takes a dunk from Sauce to get them up and cheering. I love my fellow students in our enthusiasm and madness, and yet the fact that our consistently top-ranked basketball program does not have a true student section irks me enough to write this letter. [Read article]

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