Regents exam may soon be a thing of the past

Many students are familiar with the infamous Regents' Exam and the emphasis that English courses place on meeting it challenges, but due to changes in statewide educational assessment, it is likely that the test will be dropped from the curriculum of many Georgia colleges.

MLB Playoff Fever

It's October again and the Major League Baseball Playoffs are back. Most of the teams in this year's playoffs, seven in fact, were not in last year, including the Diamondbacks, Cubs, Phillies, Rockies, Red Sox, Angels, and Indians. Each team has its own certain identity or blueprint for how they want to win games.

Migrating south

Phoenix Summer Send-Off event prepares students to head to Tucson

PHOENIX — The last time there were so many Wildcats together in Sun Devil territory was when the UA men's basketball team made it to the Elite Eight.

More than 1,400 incoming freshmen, friends and family showed up on July 31 for the 2011 Phoenix Summer Send-Off at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort to get immersed in all things red and blue.

Pearce’s recall behavior shameful

Russell Pearce's radical anti-immigrant ideology may have earned him the Arizona Senate presidency and national notoriety to boot, but it hasn't guaranteed him another full term in office. On Nov. 8, Pearce (aka "Mr. Ethnic Cleansing") will finally get his comeuppance: a recall election. If the residents of his district are as fed up with his shenanigans as the rest of us are, the controversial one-and-a-half term senator will be kicked to the curb. Of course, Pearce hasn't taken this sitting down. His two-bit lawyers and supporters are fruitlessly attempting to discredit the recall petition.

A little road weary in the west

While most CSC students were looking forward to having a much deserved October break just before their mid-terms, the 18 students in the southwest were just waiting for the opportunity to get back to a real classroom!Now approaching almost nine weeks into the school year, the semester in the southwest initiative is in full swing and shows no signs of stopping or slowing down until the very end.