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Family Weekend Events

Friday Open Classes for UA Families Everywhere If your mom wants to know what you’ve been doing in class or just that you’ve been going at all, classes are open to parents and guest today. Ask your professor beforehand if there’s room for Mom and Pop — and maybe don’t bring them along to Love and Eroticism.

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Need a moment away from the folks? Parent-friendly hot-spots in Tucson

Family Weekend is a time to update your parents on what you have learned while away at college for the last couple months — both in and out of the classroom. Instead of skipping out on class or work the second your parents arrive for the weekend, why not send them off to a Tucson hot-spot? Here are some Tucson activities so your parents aren’t stuck in the Student Union Memorial Center chowing down on Burger King while you are in class.

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Arizona fans cruise in style from Phoenix

There’s a new, cheap way for fans — including parents — to get to UA home football games. The Cat Cruiser is a bus with two pick-up locations near Phoenix. Anyone can ride the Grey Line bus for only $20, said Alyssa Samuelson, UA Phoenix Alumni Chapter’s Cat Cruiser chair.

Green Family Weekend

ASUA paints Family Weekend green

This weekend, the UA’s annual Family Weekend goes green for the first time in campus history.  As families from all over arrive to visit their UA students, the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, along with other financial supporters and organizations, are committed to being as green as possible throughout the event, organizers said.

Paying For College

Students depending more on financial aid

With the nation’s economy struggling, paying for college has also become a struggle for students and parents alike.

Parent Opinions

Father and Daughter: On Procrastination

There is a lesson that UA students can teach our state legislature: Ultimately, you have to stop procrastinating and do your work.   It’s as if our elected leaders — though there is precious little leadership evident — are just shutting their eyes and wishing for a solution to materialize out of thin air. 2 comments

Brother/sister duo address anti-Mexican racism in borderlands

Having been both born and raised here in Tucson, in the heart of the borderlands, the subject of racism and discrimination of “the other” has been a long-present matter of inquiry and engagement in our lives. It is unfortunately one that prevails in our culture, transcending multiple histories of today and of a distant past that are not, as it is often supposed, detached from one another. 2 comments

Students want freedom, parents want control

For many, Family Weekend here at the UA will be a relation celebration. It will be a chance for students to get a free meal or two from their parental patrons. It will give those genetic donors an opportunity to take pictures they can hang up at work to make Karen in accounting (whose kid lives at home and went to a community college) slightly uncomfortable.

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Two brothers and their cousin bring homeliness to football team

The first, last name that comes to mind on the Arizona football team is Stoops, as in head coach Mike Stoops and defensive coordinator Mark Stoops. The two brothers played safety in the 1980s at the University of Iowa and Mike played at the same time as his older brother Bob, the current head coach at Oklahoma. 1 comment

Sisters

Sister, sister

College is a time of freedom, when students get to leave home, go off on their own and experience new things.  The Jackson sisters are experiencing all that together. There are six children in the Jackson family, including Brooke Jackson, a sophomore guard for Arizona women’s basketball, and Cami Jackson, a freshman member of the Arizona women’s cross country and track and field teams. 4 comments

Football Tailgate

The cost of family

$1.6 million. That’s approximately how much money Arizona men’s basketball coach Sean Miller is budgeted to make each year of his new contract. $685,288: Head football coach Mike Stoops’ salary for 2009. Spend a week on a college campus and you’re bound to hear mumbling and grumbling over coaches’ salaries.