Michael Crow

Lisa Love's Firing at ASU: Memory Of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The sacking of Arizona State University athletic director (with a fancier title) Lisa Love came as no big surprise, especially after the fiasco following the firing of head football Coach Dennis Erickson. ​ Sun Devils' fans (and there still are some) watched with some horror as the ro ... More >>

Dennis Erickson Canned by ASU After Mediocre Half-Decade at Helm

Arizona State University made it official an hour or so ago, releasing a statement that everyone expected: Dennis Erickson is out as the Sun Devils' head football coach, apparently effective after the team plays in a minor bowl game somewhere next month.Erickson's record in Tempe is 31-30, and that ... More >>

Rich Rodriguez Hiring As Arizona's Next Football Coach: We'll See How This One Turns Out

Lots of talk in Sportsland about the hiring today in Tucson of Rich Rodriguez as the Arizona Wildcats' next head football coach. Price tag: 5-year deal for $9.55 million. Nice work if you can get it, huh?  Rich Rodriguez is not universally loved from what we gather.​Mixed bag of opini ... More >>

Mayor Gordon May Be Remembered Most for Compromising His Ethics for the Woman He Loved

Lots of talk in Sportsland about the hiring today in Tucson of Rich Rodriguez as the Arizona Wildcats' next head football coach. Price tag: 5-year deal for $9.55 million. Nice work if you can get it, huh?  Rich Rodriguez is not universally loved from what we gather.​Mixed bag of opini ... More >>

Undocumented Youth Blocked from Entering the U.S. Workforce Are Starting Their Own Businesses to Survive

Lots of talk in Sportsland about the hiring today in Tucson of Rich Rodriguez as the Arizona Wildcats' next head football coach. Price tag: 5-year deal for $9.55 million. Nice work if you can get it, huh?  Rich Rodriguez is not universally loved from what we gather.​Mixed bag of opini ... More >>

Cops Welcome ASU Students to Tempe With Breathalyzers

​They're back.It's that special time of year in Tempe again: when traffic near University and Mill Avenues becomes unbearable, lines -- everywhere -- get longer, and the stench of stale Milwaukee's Best and overindulgent students fills the streets.Arizona State University students are coming back ... More >>

Havasupai Tribe Win Nice Settlement From ASU In Scandalous Blood-Sample Case

Back in May 2004, we published a cover story entitled "Indian Givers," which broke the news about a remarkably devious study conducted by genetic researchers at Arizona State University. ​The piece described how those researchers, led by Dr. Therese Markow, a nationally known geneti ... More >>

Rename SanTan Brewery's Sun Devil Ale

​If you've ever wanted to name a beer without the effort and work required to, you know, brew it, this is your chance. SanTan Brewery is holding a contest to rename what used to be called the Sun Devil Ale after receiving a "cease and desist" letter from Arizona State University. They don't se ... More >>

ASU Professor Elinor Ostram Wins Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences

ASU professor Elinor Ostram, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.​Forget President Obama -- one of Arizona's own won a 2009 Nobel Prize (and there's no doubt that she earned it). Elinor Ostram, a faculty member at both Arizona State University and Indiana University, wo ... More >>

ASU Art Museum Opens "Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures" Both Literally and Figuratively with Postcommodity Installation

Friday night was not your typical art opening at ASU Art Museum's Ceramics Research Center - no gallery goers milling about, gawking at art objects carefully mounted on vitrine-capped pedestals spaced strategically throughout a pristine gallery space. No, this was literally an opening celebrating ... More >>

The Party's Over: ASU Drops to 20th on National "Party School Survey"

  Did you ever think you'd live to see the day when ASU students weren't partying enough? Well, it's arrived.​Un-tap the keg, and turn out the lights; Arizona State University's reign as one of the nations top party schools is coming to an end, according to a recent survey. This year ... More >>

F.A.R.'s Marilu Knode St. Louis-Bound for Laumeier Sculpture Park Position

It's no rumor that Marilu Knode, associate director and head of research at Future Arts Research @ ASU (F.A.R.) is leaving Phoenix for considerably less dust storms and considerably more humidity to become Executive Director of the Laumeier Sculpture Park in St. Louis, Missouri. One of just a handf ... More >>

ASU Cronkite Journalism School Mourns the Death of Its Namesake

Walter Cronkite during a broadcast at CBS Evening News, a long time ago Walter Cronkite, famous CBS anchorman known as "the most trusted man in America," and long-time mentor to Arizona State University School of Journalism students, died today at his New York home. He was 92. The illustrious jo ... More >>

Stephen Colbert to Give ASU Commencement?

The class of 2009 had Obama, but Arizona State University's class of 2010 is recruiting the leader of a different sort of nation to deliver their commencement address: The Colbert Nation. More than 3,000 ASU students have joined a group on Facebook with the goal of landing Stephen Colbert and his ... More >>

Jon Stewart's The Daily Show Skewers ASU for Barack Obama Snub

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Arizona State Snubs Obama thedailyshow.com Daily ShowFull Episodes Economic Crisis Political HumorIn case you haven't seen this, it's a must... Why did Arizona State University snub President Barack Obama on a worthless, honorary sheepski ... More >>

Obama's ASU Commencement Speech Urges Community Involvement, Uses Flap Over Honorary Degree to Make Point

President Barack Obama deftly turned an embarrassment for Arizona State University into a theme for his commencement speech on Wednesday, urging students to never stop "adding to your body of work."The reference was to a statement made by ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeling when asked why the univer ... More >>

Scottsdale’s SkySong Is One of the Few Phoenix Development Plans That Will Actually See Completion – Too Bad It’s So Ugly

President Barack Obama deftly turned an embarrassment for Arizona State University into a theme for his commencement speech on Wednesday, urging students to never stop "adding to your body of work."The reference was to a statement made by ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeling when asked why the univer ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 19, 2009

President Barack Obama deftly turned an embarrassment for Arizona State University into a theme for his commencement speech on Wednesday, urging students to never stop "adding to your body of work."The reference was to a statement made by ASU spokeswoman Sharon Keeling when asked why the univer ... More >>

Court Ruling on Havasupai Blood Case Good News for Tiny Tribe

A state appellate court ruling has given new life to a lawsuit filed by the tiny Havasupai nation over blood samples that the tribe was told would be used for the study of tribal diabetes but instead were used for other research. Back in 2004, we wrote "Indian Givers," a chilling ... More >>

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, September 20, 2007

A state appellate court ruling has given new life to a lawsuit filed by the tiny Havasupai nation over blood samples that the tribe was told would be used for the study of tribal diabetes but instead were used for other research. Back in 2004, we wrote "Indian Givers," a chilling ... More >>

A Cancer on ASU

Could Bob Pettit have cured cancer in his lifetime? We might never know, thanks to nasty university politics

Land o' Larry

Could Bob Pettit have cured cancer in his lifetime? We might never know, thanks to nasty university politics

Koetter Carve-Up

No, this ain't some artist's rendering of Dirk Koetter post-whacking; it's the scary new statue of Pat Tillman at You Pee Stadium

Gas Bag Man

The winged wonder rags on dead Republi-con Jeff Groscost, Tempe's "PG clause," and Dr. Sketchy's anti-art lameness

Da Mayor's Debacle

The foul fowl crows over Scottsdale's vote-down of the anti-lap-dance prop, a major slap-down of Mayor Mary Manross

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, July 6, 2006

The foul fowl crows over Scottsdale's vote-down of the anti-lap-dance prop, a major slap-down of Mayor Mary Manross

Bleak House

How two insiders made a tidy profit on the sale of Arizona State University's president's house

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, May 25, 2006

How two insiders made a tidy profit on the sale of Arizona State University's president's house

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, May 18, 2006

How two insiders made a tidy profit on the sale of Arizona State University's president's house

Xtreme Cuisine

Arizona's cunning culinary wizard Chef Kaz Yamamoto prepares taboo illegal moveable feasts for the elite and über-rich

Fire HIM!

A mediocre record and coddling thugs on his team didn't keep ASU football coach Dirk Koetter from getting a big raise

Commentary

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 30, 2006

A mediocre record and coddling thugs on his team didn't keep ASU football coach Dirk Koetter from getting a big raise

Commentary

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 2, 2006

A mediocre record and coddling thugs on his team didn't keep ASU football coach Dirk Koetter from getting a big raise

Commentary

Sammy Time

Fresh pasture for downtown grazing

Letters

Letters from the week of March 31, 2005

Back Atcha, Future

A look back at the music scene in -- 2005?

Letters

Letters from the week of November 4, 2004

Please, It's About Time!

It's great that Colangelo's been dumped. Now real players are taking over.

Heil to the Chief

ASU's Art Museum is planning a show to coincide with this fall's presidential debate. The art would make Michael Moore blush.

Health Scare

Employee complaints prompt investigation of ASU health center

Indian Givers

The Havasupai trusted the white man to help with a diabetes epidemic. Instead, ASU tricked them into bleeding for academia.

Letters

Letters from the week of May 20, 2004

Token Arab

Neo-conservative Muslim Oubai Shahbandar has been called a liar, a forgerer, a plagiarist. He'd rather answer to Congressman.

Big Scam Theory

Downtown Phoenix has always had its high points, but the Civic Center boondoggle isn't one of them

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Downtown Phoenix has always had its high points, but the Civic Center boondoggle isn't one of them

Jerry's World

Jerry Colangelo and his pals have gobbled up the lion’s share of public development dollars. If downtown’s to be saved, City Hall’s got to share the wealth.

Good Cops, Bad Cops?

Letters from the week of September 5, 2002

Porn U

So an ASU frat boy showered with a porn star. Get over it.

Portrait of a Young Man

Letters from the week of April 25, 2002

Why Chromosomes?

The secret economics of genomics