The Wildcats' swim and dive schedule looks like a minefield, and nothing about that will change in Austin, when the men take on No. 1 Texas today and tomorrow while the women race against a third-ranked Longhorns' squad. Arizona's men will also compete against a top-20 Southern Methodist University team in a meet of three teams which already have a good feel for each other.
The Arizona Legislature has made “questionably quick” movements toward approving a Republican backed plan to solve Arizona's budget deficit. Following the student protest Wednesday at the state capitol, The Associated Press reported that Gov. Jan Brewer called the Arizona Legislature into special session after Republican legislative leaders assured her that they had worked out a plan and had enough votes to get it approved.
Graphic sign on cover of Daily Wildcat unnecessary, offensive
The University of Arizona is in a state of upheaval. Students and faculty alike are trying to sort through the complicated web that has brought the university to this moment. Before you can know where you are going, you have to know where you have been. “Starting this fiscal year we took a $22 million cut, basically five percent,” UA President Robert Shelton said.
In “Universities fight State Legislature's proposed budget” published on Jan. 29, 2009, State Representative David Schapira's party affiliation was incorrect. Schapira is a Democrat representing District 17.
Magazine seller cited for marijuana possession
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Average number of M&M's eaten in one sitting by a person with a 1-pound bag of the candy: 112. The best selling cookies in the United States: Oreo's, Chips Ahoy's, and Girl Scout Thin Mint's. Salt Lake City, Utah has the highest Jell-O consumption, per capita.
Break out that high school prom gown and get ready to dance the night away under the sun. The UA Solar Decathlon team is hosting a winter formal fundraiser called Decath-O-Prom in an effort to raise money to construct a completely solar powered house that will be entered in the Solar Decathlon Competition.
The Arizona women's tennis team hopes to ride the wave of last weekend's success into Saturday's match against unranked NAU (0-1). The Wildcats (1-0) view the Lumberjacks - a team that succumbed to Arizona State 7-0 on Jan. 24. - as much more of a challenge than their home opener at the Robson Tennis Center, which was a rout of visiting UC-Davis.
A new program model is shaking the foundations of the School of Art. But this change doesn't come with the doom-and-gloom predictions other transformations have inspired. Instead of creating limitations, the program is intended to refresh and revitalize the way UA students go about art.
Now that President Barack Obama holds the reins of power, people all over the world are expecting big things. The first major piece of legislation that his administration wants to push through is a stimulus package. Officially titled the “American Reinvestment and Recovery Plan” is aimed to cushion, not stop, this economic crash.
UA Student Affairs is considering creating a United Nations of sorts by placing four campus cultural centers, as well as a few social and gender groups, all under one roof. Michelle Perez, director of the UA Center for Student Involvement and Leadership, is the co-chair of a team that has spent the last week talking to students in the clubs that would be combined to make up the new “Unity Center”.
What was the last book you read? The last book I read was, “Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World,” by Haruki Murakami. What is that book about? It's two different stories meshed into one. One's like a fantasy world and the other involves a computer tech geek who's being chased around and eventually the stories mesh together.
Research projects at the UA are treating individuals with a disease that strips people of speech and memory after they suffer traumatic head injuries. Pelagie Beeson, professor of speech, language and hearing, said aphasia is defined as the loss of ability to understand or express speech.
After a highly-successful inaugural season in 2008, the Arizona Club Baseball team will open this season with one goal in mind - to be better. But it won't be easy for a team that finished seventh in the country last season. The Wildcats will open their 2009 season against USC with a three-game series in Los Angeles this weekend, and although they didn't play the Trojans in the regular season last year, that doesn't mean the team is apprehensive going into its season-opening road trip.
(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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