Search for UAPD chief narrowed to 2
	After receiving 210 applications for the job of the University of Arizona Police Department chief, the search committee has narrowed the applicant pool down to two candidates. The committee is eager to have a new chief on station prior to the commencement of the fall semester, and the announcement of the new chief is scheduled for early next week.    [More]

Conference of champions
	The Pacific 10 Conference claims to be "The Conference of Champions." Never again may its slogan ring as true as it did this year, as the conference received the highest ranking of any conference in the Sears Directors' Cup standings. Paving the way for the Pac-10's No. 1 ranking were Stanford, UCLA and Arizona - all finished in the top-10 of the 2000 Sears Directors' Cup voting.    [More]

Degrees earned entirely online would indicate poor quality education
	The Arizona Board of Regents would do well to consider the overall quality of education before pursuing a fully online, accredited university. Now, all that exists is one central Web site that combines all online courses from the three state universities. But within a few years, this could become the Arizona Regents University, with full accreditation.    [More]

Hacking up the music scene
	In 1993, still years away from graduating from the University of Texas, Mark Morris knew that he could find success without that lofty college degree. Now, seven years later, he and his fellow Dynamite Hack bandmates are beginning to realize the difference between a successful college graduate and a successful rock star.    [More]

Quotable: "That's a request for a death warrant for each of these five companies. That amount will destroy each of these companies, not once, but 10 times over. It's more than financially destroyed. They're gone." -Dan Webb, who represents Philip Morris Inc., the nation's No. 1 cigarette maker, on a possible $154 billion verdict in the class action suit against five tobacco companies