‘Headlines’ Archives
Time for ASA to walk the walk »
From its use last year of student fee money to campaign for Proposition 204, to its current cry for help as the state legislature prepares to rescind its power, the Arizona Students' Association has claimed to be the defender of student rights statewide, acting on behalf of all, with the support of all. The group's mission is to be “the one [...]
USSC puts Arizona’s voter ID law on trial »
The Supreme Court will evaluate this week the constitutionality of an anti-immigrant measure put forth by Arizona that requires all voters to prove their citizenship in order to vote in national elections. But while the Justices, activists and reporters will focus on how the law affects immigrants, a different minority will probably go ignored: [...]
Who’s suing who and where do I come in? The ASA vs. »
As reported statewide, the Arizona Students’ Association filed a federal lawsuit against the Arizona Board of Regents lask week, accusing the Board of violating students’ First Amendment right to free speech. You might be asking what ASA, ABOR, the First Amendment and your wallet have to do with each other. The answer is: It’s a long [...]
Raising high school dropout age is not the answer »
During his State of the Union Address, President Obama strongly urged every state not to allow students to drop out of high school before the age of 18. The president alleges that because Americans with higher levels of education have a lower unemployment rate, requiring students to stay in school will offer a cure to high levels of [...]
Not a tuition increase: The mechanics of the Kavanaugh »
For all the ado that's been status-ed, tweeted, and publicly palavered over the proposed "Kavanaugh fee" in the last few days, an important detail is overlooked: HB 2675 does not once propose to increase tuition by one single penny, as even the Wildcat concedes in passing: Although the proposed legislation would not raise tuition... So what [...]
Could income-based student loans fix higher education? »
The idea of graduating college with no student loans probably sounds great for students who sacrifice sleep, nutrition, and drinking beer better than Keystone to make loan payments each month for much of their young lives. These crushing loans seem especially unfair to students whose investment in college don't yield as comfortable salary [...]
What democracy might look like »
The unexpected derailing—if not total defeat—of the Senate's horrendous anti-piracy bill and its counterpart in the House is a genuinely encouraging moment, made possible only by a tremendous public outcry against the bill of the sort we have not seen in years. Rarely is the citizenry so united on a single issue, and rarely is the gulf [...]
Obama administration in favor of affirmative action, »
Today in backwards progress, the Obama administration has issued a guidance asserting the importance of affirmative action in education, including college admissions decisions. The guidance is a reversal in White House policy from a 2008 letter issued by President Bush that called admissions decisions based on race "highly suspect" and noted [...]
Penn State isn’t about feminism »
Is an adult woman of the same capacity of intellect, self-determination, responsibility, or power of foresight as a child? Should she be treated as such by public consideration, and by the law? The thundering force of feeling superior and scolding people that is the Internet has descended with impressive wrath upon Penn State in the last [...]
Human Thing: Of Boccaccio, Baliani, Alchemy, and »
Italian is a language in contrast to the stoic English, a lush dance of the emphatic ch and the trilling l's leading to the triumphant ending i, a language in which even the banal seems almost too lush and lusty for Americans, a population who guild only the dashes dividing their traffic lanes. That language was created by, in addition to that of [...]
Obama in Tucson: Healing, humility, civility »
In tonight's address to an overflowing crowd at the University of Arizona's McKale Center, President Obama called for healing, humility, and civility in the face of tragedy—and shared hopeful news with a grieving Tucson community. In a moment of departure from his carefully crafted speech, the president announced that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords [...]
Empty thRHHEats »
Today's Daily Wildcat urges the Arizona Board of Regents to "man up" and demand that the Arizona Legislature divert state funds to maintain the Regents High Honors Endorsement scholarship, the turgid exercise in unintended consequences revised by the Regents last week. In a 9-1 decision Thursday, the Regents reduced the value of the award from [...]