Convicted serial rapist James Allen Selby was found dead in his cell yesterday at Pima County Jail, after apparently hanging himself, authorities said.

His death occurred the day he was scheduled to be sentenced for sexually assaulting five Tucson women and a 13-year-old girl between October 2001 and November 2002. One of the women was a UA student at the time. Selby could have faced life in prison.

A corrections officer at the jail found Selby, 38, hanging from the window of his cell by sheets from his bed at 7 a.m. yesterday, said Deputy Dawn Barkman, Pima County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman. [Read article]

After three seasons in Tucson, Marcus Smith knows how important the Arizona-Arizona State rivalry is. But just for extra measure, the junior defensive end got a reminder early yesterday morning.

"I had a teacher about an hour ago tell me to beat the Scum Devils," said Smith about the request he received from his Classics 220 professor yesterday morning."(The rivalry means) everything to people at Arizona and ASU. It's always the biggest game of the season." [Read article]

When Al Gore invented the Internet, he never realized what many great things we would eventually be able to do online. And, as students, we have discovered the beauty that is the Internet; after all, we know that all good things come from the Internet - not from God.

For instance, if going to the UofA Bookstore at the Student Union Memorial Center isn't your thing, you can have next semester's books shipped right to your dorm room with just one quick visit to Amazon.com or any number of online book dealers. [Read article]