Health comes second during sorority recruitment

By Laura Donovan

As much as students want to get ahead with their degree requirements, many do not attend summer sessions I and II because of the scorching Arizona sun. Avoiding Tucson heat at its worst is possible unless you want to go through formal sorority recruitment.

Wildcard: PETA raises the steaks on artificial meat

The story: Animal-rights advocacy group PETA announced Monday that they will award a $1 million prize to the first person to successfully develop and sell "commercially viable quantities of in vitro meat" by 2012. According to PETA's Web site, "in vitro meat production would use animal stem cells that would be placed in a medium to grow and reproduce.

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Thanks for a great debate! Thank you to student leaders who planned the well-attended debate on the Ward Connerly Initiative that was held yesterday. The debate was well organized, balanced, informative and engaging. The speakers offered diverse perspectives and the audience questions were insightful.

Boneheaded battle

UA students may be off the hook, but the fight against filesharing is far from over

The 14 UA students accused of copyright infringement in March by the Recording Industry Association of America can breathe easier this week: legal complaints have been dropped against all but two of them. According to the Arizona Daily Star, the Recording Industry Association of America, notorious for suing thousands of college students for possible infringement using filesharing software, recently dropped its case against ten of the accused students, along with two Wildcats who had already paid to settle their cases.