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(04/09/10 3:00am)
Bravo to student voting. The Tempe campus Undergraduate Student Government election had the highest turnout ever this year — 6,653 votes cast. It may not be anywhere near the number of undergraduate students on the campus, but it nearly doubles last year’s 3,619 votes. The referendum to include a $1.50 refundable fee to sponsor Arizona Public Interest Research Group was voted down, and presidential candidates Jacob Goulding and Brendan Corrigan will face an added runoff election. We’re glad to see students are participating in campus elections — facing tough cuts, this is a time when students need to be involved the most.
(04/08/10 12:28am)
If you’ve ever played the classic board game Scrabble, you know how frustrating it is to draw two X’s and not be able to spell Xerox. Well, never fear, board-game-loving friends, because Scrabble has felt your pain. All you have to do is take a hop across the pond to the United Kingdom to pick up an edition of Scrabble Trickster, to be released this July. The new Scrabble rules will allow proper nouns like city and celebrity names.
(04/07/10 12:03am)
In the past, being a sports fan in the Valley of the Sun wasn’t easy. The area only has one world championship to its name among the four major professional sports, a shocker when the Diamondbacks beat the New York Yankees in the 2001 World Series. Other than that, the state of Arizona has thrown up a giant doughnut (unless you want to count the Phoenix Mercury’s two WNBA titles and UA’s 1997 college basketball title, the latter of which we’ll forget ever happened).
(04/06/10 1:50am)
As you may or (probably) may not know, the student government elections opened today.
(04/04/10 9:48pm)
When the Arizona state Legislature wanted to cut 40 percent of the funding to state universities, students came out in huge numbers to protest.
(04/01/10 10:46pm)
Bravo to bringing people out of poverty. ASU is the first university to team up with Open Table, a nonprofit organization that uses the experience of volunteers to change the lives of individuals and families who struggle financially. By gathering a “table” of volunteers and utilizing their connections, the group provides families with resources that can improve their situations in the long run and bring them to financial stability. Instead of focusing on “quick fixes,” like monetary handouts, Open Table works to help struggling individuals and families become self-sustaining, and that is something to truly be commended.
(03/31/10 11:16pm)
ASU isn’t the only institution intent on making cuts to its salary budget — the ax is working its way up all the way to Washington.
(03/31/10 1:43am)
We generally associate temper tantrums as children’s ploys to thwart authority and get extra candy or stay up an hour later than usual. Now we can associate temper tantrums with political ploys too.
(03/29/10 11:02pm)
When you’re a pedestrian on ASU’s campuses, bicyclists and longboarders become the bane of your existence, frustratingly zooming by you with no regard for your personal safety and without any sense of decorum.
(03/28/10 10:16pm)
When you have 100 of anything, it usually adds up to something of value. When you have 100 pennies, all you have is a heavy purse or wallet. Pennies don’t work in vending machines, parking meters don’t take them and if you lose a penny in your couch, you’re probably just happy you don’t have to carry it around anymore.
(03/25/10 10:54pm)
Boo to Allison DeVane, Undergraduate Student Government senator for Barrett, the Honors College. DeVane was impeached for failing to attend meetings of the Barrett Honors College Council. Although 59 percent voted for her to be convicted, USG requires a three-fourths vote to remove an officer from office. Ironically, she is currently running for USG vice president of services on the same ticket as Brendan Corrigan. Is it weird that a senator accused of blatantly disregarding her duties would run for a more prestigious position? Yeah, it is. Call us crazy, but going to meetings you’re supposed to go to seems like a pretty significant part of the job — especially when it’s the majority of what you get paid to do. We’re just a little shocked at the audacity to run for higher office in the face of impeachment, especially when the majority voted for conviction. We’re also a little ticked that USG spent so much time on this issue while the proposed on-campus smoking ban was sent back to the committee. Priorities?
(03/24/10 11:30pm)
You may think Thomas Jefferson was an influential figure in American history. Well, according to the Texas Board of Education, you would be mistaken.
(03/24/10 12:09am)
Thanks to massive jumps in the cost to attend college — ASU tuition will rise 20 percent for incoming resident freshmen next year —loans are weighing heavily on the minds of university students.
(03/23/10 12:00am)
How does one define a hero?
(03/21/10 11:44pm)
As much as it hurts to come back to another two months of school after an all-too-short break, it is nearly as painful to turn on the news and listen to the bickering coming from Washington, D.C.
(03/12/10 2:47am)
Boo to the massive tuition increases approved yesterday by the Arizona Board of Regents and to the lack of effort to stop them. ABOR passed ASU’s tuition proposal Thursday, but not without combining the surcharge with tuition and shattering the model of predictable increases.
(03/11/10 1:24am)
On Wednesday, searchers found the body of a 39-year-old woman who disappeared Monday near Munds Park in northern Arizona after leaving to take her dog on a walk.
(03/10/10 1:30am)
A state budget-balancing plan likely to pass the Legislature this week echoes an all-too-familiar tune. It will spell disaster for the education system, ironically possibly making it harder for kids to learn how to spell.
(03/09/10 1:18am)
Even if the last time you saw Mill Avenue was through unfocused eyes in the wee hours of a weekend morning, you may still remember the empty storefronts and “For Lease” signs dotting the street.
(03/07/10 11:17pm)
Say what you want about ASU, but it certainly has had a penchant for drawing some prominent and charismatic speakers.