Several departments at this university are selective of whom they let into their classes.
They don't intentionally want to shut out lowerclassmen just for being at the bottom of the barrel during class registration, but they end up doing so because they don't always have the resources to offer everyone a required class.
The football and men's basketball programs drive the financial ship that is the Arizona athletics department, even when they encounter choppy waters associated with first-round NCAA Tournament losses and nine straight bowl-less seasons.
The UA will continue the trend of a space-themed year by having astronaut Frank Borman speak at this year's commencement ceremonies.
Borman was the commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the moon.
UA President Robert Shelton selected Borman to speak, said Edith Auslander, vice president and senior associate to the president.
There are many groups on campus aimed at empowering women and helping them fight violence and discrimination. But now there is a new group focused on giving men the opportunity to fight for the same cause.
Men Against Violence aims to help encourage all members of the community to become involved in the violence prevention process.
Heading into the third round of the Pacific 10 Conference Championships at Meadows Golf Club in Fairfax, Calif., yesterday, the Arizona men's golf team was right where it wanted to be, in fifth place at 4-over-par, just seven strokes behind first place.
Two UA professors have teamed up to stifle cancer by using cutting-edge methods.
Professors Pak Kin Wong and Donna Zhang have spent their brief stays at the university honing complementary ways to stave off and subdue cancer cells through drug combinations.
Are you happy?
According to a Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index that interviewed more than 100,000 people, 49 percent say they are thriving, 47 percent say they are struggling and 4 percent say they are suffering.
Salty cheesesticks
An order of Papa John's Cheesesticks with Buffalo Sauce has 6,700 mg of sodium and is deemed the saltiest appetizer by Men's Health Magazine.
Hired on April 3, Arizona women's basketball coach Niya Butts became the eighth coach in the program's history and the youngest in the Pacific 10 Conference. The Arizona Daily Wildcat caught up with Butts yesterday in McKale Center to discuss her new job, her expectations for her team and her busy schedule.
Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point, is a spring break hotspot because of the close proximity of the beach and a legal drinking age of 18 years old.
Many UA students have made the trip safe and sound, but for three young adults in September 1999, the trip was deadly.
SAN ANTONIO - Tony Parker scored 31 points, Tim Duncan added 29 points and 17 rebounds, and the San Antonio Spurs advanced to the Western Conference semifinals with a 92-87 Game 5 victory over the Phoenix Suns last night.
(UA or U of A) is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885, when Arizona was still a territory and is considered a Public Ivy. UA includes Arizona's only allopathic medical school. In 2006, total enrollment was 36,805 students.
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