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(04/21/09 12:00am)
On Monday, a five-part investigative series published in the East Valley Tribune won a prestigious Pulitzer Prize, the top award in the journalism and literary industry, for local news reporting. The piece, titled “Reasonable Doubt” and published last July, focused on the effects of the illegal-immigration enforcement plans executed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.
(04/20/09 12:00am)
At any university, the topic of donors comes up frequently.
(04/20/09 12:00am)
At 11:19 a.m. on April 20, 1999, the first shots rang out at a high-school campus in Columbine, Colo., forever changing the way students view their safety.
(04/17/09 12:00am)
Boo to President Barack Obama. After we spent all week blaming the national media for blaming ASU, we’re finally ready to set everyone straight about the real cause behind the Snub Heard Around the World. With certainty, we can tell you that it wasn’t political retribution for beating out our state’s senator in the presidential election, nor is it racism or plain disrespect. No, the person to blame for instigating the controversy surrounding honorary degrees was none other than the 44th president himself. While Obama was making his NCAA Tournament selections last month with ESPN’s Andy Katz, he picked the Temple Owls to defeat the Sun Devils in their first-round matchup. You had to know we wouldn’t forget, Mr. President. Obama dropped the ball; now can the nation just drop the ASU-directed anger?
(04/14/09 12:00am)
First, ASU students were told we were essentially too dumb to tie our shoes.
(04/14/09 12:00am)
At the beginning of the decade, the cost of in-state attendance at the University was less than $3,000 per year. In the fall, most students will be paying an annual bill exceeding $7,000.
(04/10/09 12:00am)
Bravo to Safe Sex Week and its penchant for creating humorous situations. Not only did a group of students assemble on Hayden Lawn on Tuesday afternoon to display a 12-foot mesh condom, they also tried to put it on the Tempe campus landmark casually (and affectionately) known as the “Nipple of Knowledge.” To us, that confusion of proper condom location — plus the failure of the placement — shows exactly why ASU needs a Safe Sex Week. We covered the ironic part of the story, now you insert the joke part.
(04/08/09 12:00am)
President Barack Obama has quite a remarkable track record in the realm of academics.
(04/03/09 12:00am)
Boo to the University of California, San Diego, admissions-letter snafu. More than 46,000 applicants received a letter from UCSD on Monday welcoming them to the 2009-10 school year. Sadly for 28,000 of them, the letter was actually sent out mistakenly to the entire freshman applicant pool, not just the ones who were actually admitted. While we’re (fortunately) past our days of waiting for acceptance letters for undergraduate education, we can all understand just how completely awful this must have been for the student applicants who actually got rejected. Even though it was certainly not meant as a joke by the university, this probably has to go down in history as one of the sickest April Fools’ Day pranks of all time. This “boo” deserves to be more than “booed” — we give it an “epic fail.”
(03/27/09 12:00am)
Boo to parking restrictions and road closures. A good half (which also happens to be the half that’s closest to the Tempe campus) of Lot 59 has been closed this past week to allow for the laying down of new asphalt. While we recognize that this is probably good in the long run (no more potholes or cracks, and nice new painted parking-spot lines), it sure has sucked trying to battle the other hundreds of students for half as many parking spots as are usually available. Not to mention, Mill Avenue is still torn up on the west side of the Tempe campus, Rio Salado Parkway between Rural Road and McClintock Drive is closed during nights as of yesterday, and Mill Avenue between University Drive and Third Street is closed today and the rest of the weekend for the Spring Festival of the Arts. Maybe it really is time we break out our trusty Razor scooter.
(03/25/09 12:00am)
Why did the chicken cross the road?
(03/20/09 12:00am)
Bravo to Gov. Jan Brewer. The governor, a staunch Republican who no doubt cringes every time she hears the words “federal stimulus,” recently sent official notice to President Barack Obama that she will accept stimulus funds for our troubled state. Even if her convictions speak against the acceptance, we certainly understand that by taking the funds Brewer is just doing what she believes is right for the people of Arizona. Desperate times call for desperate measures, right?
(03/18/09 12:00am)
In a government of the people, by the people, for the people, who is to blame when the government goes awry?
(03/16/09 12:00am)
It figures that the agony would continue to play out further.
(03/06/09 12:00am)
Boo to booing anything. Sure, we have our Friday tradition of “Boos and bravos” and considering that it requires both positives and negatives to make it work, it would seem that the action of condemning various items from the week that has passed would generally be a good idea. But right now, with spring break about to be in full swing — mentally, it’s already been in full swing for quite a while — we can’t find it in our hearts to give anything a thumbs-down this week. Consider this week’s version of “Bravos and bravos” to be our overly positive way of wishing you a merriment-filled spring break.
(03/05/09 12:00am)
(The following letter was written by the editorial board of The Daily Californian at UC Berkeley. The State Press editorial board supports the opinions expressed by the Californian.)
(03/02/09 12:00am)
As the economy slips further into the tank and more and more people lose jobs, houses and savings, some Internet subscribers have opted to lose their minds as well. Welcome back, dial-up!
(02/27/09 12:00am)
Boo to the impending week of academic doom. Midterm exams, papers and projects will be dominating the next handful of days in our lives, and we’re sure the rest of the student body is no different. Thankfully, the light at the end of the tunnel awaits in the glory of spring break, but we have to get there first. The big question of the week: Which one will win out — study habits or procrastination skills? We’ll let you know our answer once we get off Facebook and Twitter and the reruns of “The Office” go off the air.
(02/20/09 12:00am)
Boo to the stabbing that took place near Sun Devil Stadium on Monday night. Though the incident, which police believe was gang-related, seems to have been resolved quickly by the Tempe Police Department — the victim was hospitalized with a non-life-threatening wound to his side and police apprehended two suspects linked to the stabbing — it still brings a certain level of uncertainty to campus, especially to the many students who trek to the far reaches of campus after dark. We hope they get their feeling of security back soon; for goodness sake, people come to college to get screwed, not shanked.
(02/20/09 12:00am)
This Sunday, America will enjoy a few hours of escapism from economic woes while watching our favorite billionaires walk a red carpet in designer duds and be awarded miniature golden statues.