Editor:

I realize much of your staff consists of freshmen and sophomores who have read brief excerpts of old Wildcats, but I have one question? What happened to 'Police Beat'? This article, once the daily highlight of reading our school's paper is now a boring piece of, well, crap. We used to be shocked every day to find out about our fellow students involved in prostitution rings, fences, comical harassing phone calls and everyone's favorite - twice a week someone would be found engaging in a form of "self-exploration" in the third-floor library restrooms. Granted, I thought it was disguising at the time, but at least it was entertaining.

Every day now there are: two articles about stolen computers from some lab, a couple DUI's, a few bikes being stolen, some freshman getting caught with "a green leafy substance," and maybe, if we're lucky, we'll get a story of those horrible, reckless, in-line skaters around campus. Come on now, why do you even write this garbage!

If you need help with better 'Police Beat' articles, get some from other schools, use the Web, call other editors, do something! Use ASU's, at least they can write about the student body president being involved in a bar room brawl, or an athlete or two being arrested each semester. Editor, it's bad enough that advertisements take up 70 percent of the paper and the editorials are usually dull and non-controversial, but bring back 'Police Beat,' please.

One last suggestion, if the UAPD is so bold that they prevent all "news worthy" crimes from occurring, then let's at least have some type of "True Life Stories of the UAPD." It works on television, so how about in the paper?

Albert Lawrence "L.T." Thuesen III
interdisciplinary studies senior