Posts Tagged ‘Daily Wildcat’
Pres. Fritze to the Wildcat, students: »
Yesterday President Fritze took to the Wildcat opinions page in her official capacity as ASUA President to air her grievances against that publication's editorial board. As a frequent critic of both parties involved, the President's letter demands a few corrections and a hearty, skeptical brow furrow. Though this site has also taken issue with [...]
The importance of looking earnest »
In their meeting yesterday, the UA Faculty Senate passed resolutions on two matters of recent controversy: the ethnic studies program in Tucson public schools and state legislation that would allow concealed weapons on campus. Though one might expect emotion and opinion on these touchy subjects to outweigh reason and research, this body of [...]
Red light, green light »
Though it pains this fourth-generation Wildcat to concede anything to the Sun Devils, Arizona State University now has us beat in at least one area: commitment to free speech on campus. As of this week, ASU revised its restrictions on student advertising, earning praise from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an advocacy group [...]
How to have your fee—and spend it, too! »
Results of this year's Student Services Fee survey are in, courtesy of Luke Money at the Daily Wildcat, and the results are no surprise. Students responding to the survey still like receiving the concentrated benefits of various programs—financial aid, subsidized lunches, free tutoring and job counseling—while diffusing the costs over the rest [...]
Existential ANGST courtesy of the Daily Wildcat »
The Wildcat has a column today about the "unintended consequences" of Prop 107. Considering the importance of the proposition, it's curious that the editorial staff waited this long. Then again, considering the lack of thought invested in the column, I suppose the delay makes sense: Instead of achieving its purported goal of eliminating practices [...]
Incidence and accidents »
Call it an incidental fee, differential tuition, or tax on the gifted—whatever term one chooses for this year's $500 increase in the cost of Honors College enrollment, its economic effects were predictable from the start. Tax honors education, and it is wise to expect less of it in the future, though just how much depends on student [...]
ASA AIMS and Misses »
We have a Letter to the Editor in today's Wildcat in which he address some of the concerns voiced by Elma Delic regarding our column on the AIMS scholarship. The full text is included below: Defense of AIMS scholarship ignored pertinent points For all its efforts, Arizona Students’ Association chair Elma Delic’s letter in yesterday’s [...]
Our commenters rock: Future of student media edition »
Our earlier post on amending the rules that govern Arizona Student Media to ensure total independence over content set off a smart conversation on turnover and tradition in student media. Buried in our comments is a noteworthy post from Lamp-lurker, champion commenter, and former Wildcat editor-in-chief Alex Dalenberg. His comment is excerpted [...]
A door’s perception of transparency »
My colleague passed along this email from Executive Vice President Katherine Weingartner, in response to a request for today's Senate meeting minutes: I will post the Senate agenda on the door to ASUA each Tuesday by 4pm as was done in the past. Today I similarly posted the agenda on the door by 4pm. This is how the Wildcat has access to [...]
Arizona Student Media Advisory Board: A Modest »
We had a post a couple weeks back about the Arizona Student Media Advisory Board and in particular about how certain aspects of the advisory board's Governing Statement could potentially act as impediments to journalistic independence. Shain Bergan of the WatchCat News Journal and Alex Dalenberg, two individuals with extensive Advisory Board [...]
A Brief History of Fees: Part I »
Introduction Lately, we've been mad about fees here at the Lamp, and as part of that process, I've done quite a bit of research on the origins of the mandatory fees University of Arizona students pay today. The arc of history at a large university like ours is a curious thing to try and observe. Few students manage to perceive phenomena that [...]
Against Erevnocracy »
Columnist Ben Harper takes on the Rec Center in today's Daily Wildcat, describing the breathlessly tweeted opening of our stately pleasure-dome with peerless eloquence—"a perfunctory circle-jerk" for "a massive and unwarranted extravagance." More important, it's clear that at least one student commentator is wising up to the rise of rule by [...]