It was 7 a.m. on a Sunday morning when I got the call; it was loud and unwelcome, and it was the sound of my cell phone playing “These Words” by Natasha Bedingfield. I was so stunned I jumped off of the top bunk onto the hard tiled floor, which I do not recommend to anyone, and ran towards the phone just to see the surface read “Dad.
Last year's bizarre season of college football taught us that anything is possible. (As yelled by Kevin Garnett into an ESPN microphone at the 2008 NBA Finals.) However, as fresh as the memories of Appalachian State are, there's no way Idaho, which went 1-11 last season, can pull off an upset.
Last season was not what the Arizona soccer team expected.
After a hot start through the first five games, in which the Wildcats went 4-1, nothing seemed to go quite right.
Through the remainder of the season, Arizona won only two more games while being shutout eight times.
When night fell and the city lights turned on, the main acts at Lollapalooza took the stage. The Chicago skyline provided an incredible backdrop for the biggest shows of the weekend. The two main stages sat on opposite sides of the park, and for the night shows it felt like the crowd doubled in size.
The Arizona volleyball team will kick off its fall season this weekend in hosting the Sheraton Four Points Wildcat Classic tournament. The Wildcats will battle Weber State at 10 a.m. today, San Jose State at 7 p.m. the same day, and will finish the weekend Saturday against Gardner-Webb at 12:30 p.
On Aug. 27, The Arizona Daily Wildcat caught up with Charlotte Bernhardt, who plays Maggie in Arizona Repertory Theatre's upcoming production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” Here is what transpired:
How did you decide that the University of Arizona was where you wanted to study acting?
“During the audition process I realized how esteemed it is and how incredible and learned the faculty members are and how lucky I would be to be under them.
During Willie Tuitama's tenure as the UA football team's quarterback, he has been a lot of different things.
He's been the cause of more hype at Arizona than any time in recent memory, a signal caller with a strong and potent arm, and above all, the reason many Wildcat fans still have hope in the program.
While the start of the semester puts ample amounts of strain on students, faculty and staff, department heads are facing an additional source of stress: planning budget cuts for 2009.
The Arizona Legislature voted in July to reduce the amount of funding to the Arizona university system by $50 million for the fiscal year of 2009.
As one of the youngest teams in the NCAA, the Arizona men's golf team doesn't seem to have a clear leader for the upcoming season.. Last year, the team was led by senior Creighton Honeck, who helped develop the young Wildcats. Now, with a few weeks left until their first tournament of this season, the team is dependingon a mix of young players.
Not happy news
Nationally, about 40,000 troops have been diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder since 2003, the Associated Press has reported.
Time to get out the bug spray
The year's first West Nile virus case has been identified in Pima County.
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona revamped their outreach with newly acquired programs for clubs and fresh enthusiasm for voter registration in last night's senate meeting, the first of the new school year.
“We have some very large changes happening within ASUA,” said President Tommy Bruce.
(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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