Former Tucson police assistant chief to head up UAPD
	More than 200 candidates from agencies across the nation - including the U.S. Secret Service - applied for the job of UAPD chief of police, and after months of searching, university officials have made their selection. The University of Arizona announced Monday that Anthony Daykin, Tucson Police Department assistant chief of police, accepted a job offer from the UA to take over the top position at UAPD.    [More]

For love of the game
	LONG BEACH, Calif.-Dylan Rigdon confounds people. Maybe it's because the 6-foot-4 point guard hardly looks the part of a basketball player, seemingly more at ease on the beach than on the basketball courts. Maybe it's because Rigdon, who played sparingly on the 1994 UA team that made it to the Final Four in Charlotte, seems to defy his age, seemingly reaching his potential at 29, the same time most athletes enter the twilight of their careers.    [More]

Regents place athletics above academics
	Lute Olson now makes $613,475 a year after the Arizona Board of Regents last week gave the UA basketball coach a $40,000 raise. Not too shabby. He's the state's highest paid official, making more than the three state university presidents combined. Olson's duties "related specifically to coaching basketball" will earn him $160,573 per year, while the remainder of his salary will come from television programs, advertising, public relations, fundraising and other activities.    [More]

Just plain ugly
	The filmmakers of "Coyote Ugly" proved one important point with their film - drunken, half-naked female bartenders dancing and writhing atop a bar are a sad replacement for intelligent dialogue, proper character development and realistic plot. Directed by motion picture newcomer David McNally, "Coyote Ugly" depicts the tired theme of a small-town woman attempting to realize her musical dreams in the heart of New York City. Piper Perabo ("The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle") plays Violet Sanford, an aspiring songwriter who moves from the garden state of New Jersey into the deepest depths of Gotham, where she is quickly hired as a bartender at Coyote Ugly.    [More]

Quotable: "Not only Merita died. We all died." -Remzije Shabiu on the death of her daughter at the hands of a U.S. soldier who was on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo.