Six former and current Arizona State University police employees have filed a lawsuit accusing the university of falsifying crime statistics and retaliating against employees who objected. In the civil suit, filed this month in Maricopa County Superior Court, four police officers and two police aides, one of whom is still…
Arizona State University has partnered with Cisco Systems, Inc. to launch a project aimed at teaching minority youth how to become entrepreneurs. The grant-funded project plans to help an estimated 1,000 high school students and about 300 community college students create solutions to problems they see happening in their communities…
Arizona State University recently released more than 4,500 photos chronicling the Phoenix area’s development from a cowtown in 1884 to an emerging metropolis in 1947. The collection, available for perusal and download online, is one of largest collections of Phoenix photography documenting this time period. Some of the photos, recovered…
The legislators behind a proposal to allow guns at Arizona universities argue it will make students safer. But the bill has many who live, study, and work on campus feeling fearful. Since state Representative Sonny Borrelli (R-Bullhead City) filed House Bill 2072, which, if passed, would permit anyone who obtains…
Mesa Mayor John Giles announced in his State of the City address today that Arizona State University will open a new campus in downtown Mesa. Joining him to make the big announcement was ASU’s mascot. “Sparky and I are here to announce very, very exciting news,” Giles said. “We are…
The viral photo of six teenage girls spelling the n-word with T-shirts sparked a meeting this week of more than 40 community leaders that was closed to the public. The meeting on Tuesday afternoon over the still-hot subject of the photo, widely perceived as racist, was put together by Tempe…
An Arizona State University professor well-known for his work on African-American history and race relations has agreed to resign following accusations that he plagiarized parts of his latest book. Matthew Whitaker will step down as co-director of ASU’s Center for Race and Democracy immediately, but he will stay on the…
Turns out some rumors are true. New data shows that more than a thousand young women at Arizona State University will spend their college years living in luxury, receiving pretty little monthly allowances, and getting wined and dinned or taken on extravagant vacations by wealthy businessmen. Oh, and did we…
An Arizona State University junior attending college on scholarship committed suicide on the first day of the spring semester by jumping off the roof of a building on campus. Thomas Wagoner, a 20-year-old economics student, jumped from an unknown building on the Tempe campus at about 2 a.m. His body…
With a few hours left until the official deadline, the Campaign to Recall Diane Douglas, Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, says it didn’t gather enough signatures to get the recall measure put on a special election ballot. “Our biggest problem was fundraising,” Campaign Chairman Max Goshert tells New Times. “We…
An Arizona State University sorority sister who torched her ex-boyfriend’s condo in May has entered a guilty plea that will put her behind bars for six months. Claudia Rose Drinnan, 21, broke into the home near Hardy Drive and Southern Avenue about 2 a.m. on May 14, climbing into her…
Diane Douglas’ assault case against State School Board President Greg Miller has been slapped down by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery. Douglas, the Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction who Miller once called “unqualified for the job,” claimed that the board president assaulted her on August 24 at a board meeting…
No open-meeting violation occurred over an order to place anti-abortion stickers in Gilbert Public Schools’ biology textbooks in August, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office ruled. However, the school district’s governing board was set to receive mandatory training last night on Arizona’s Open Meeting Law at a special session because of…
Discovering a huge lack of understanding about the needs of undocumented college students, two Arizona State University students formed a program three years ago to educate campus leaders, staff, and faculty about such challenges and about ways to help. Jesus Cisneros and Davier Rodriguez formed DREAMzone in 2012 with the…
The menacing online poster who threatened to shoot up Arizona State University with an assault rifle Monday is a 12-year-old boy in Canada, law enforcement officials announced today. The boy has “apologized for his actions and the disruption they caused,” according to an ASU police statement. He has been contacted…
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has hired a high-profile Arizona immigration activist to assist his campaign with outreach to Latinos, an increasingly important voting bloc. Erika Anidola, a 28-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, will join the Sanders campaign as a Latino outreach strategist for the southwest states. She starts work…
Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is lobbying to get its namesake’s face on a postage stamp. Christopher Callahan, the school’s dean, started organizing a letter-writing campaign after the U.S. Postal Service announced last week that it is considering a proposal, submitted by the Society…
When Lily Gallego began attending Carl Hayden Community High School as a freshman, she struggled to keep up with schoolwork and didn’t feel that teachers paid much attention to her. “It was really fast-paced,” she said. “If you didn’t get it, oh well. You moved on to the next lesson…
The number of sexual assaults reported at Arizona State University nearly doubled from 2013 to 2014, according to the university’s annual security report. That may sound ominous, but, according to advocates for victims, it’s actually good news. ASU police investigated 35 cases of rape or forcible fondling in 2014, compared…
People will get offended by anything these days. That’s the hypothesis University of Arizona Alumni Josh Miller set out to test when he launched a tongue-in-cheek petition on Change.org last week calling on rival Arizona State University to stop “using Satan as its mascot.” In the petition, Miller, a 37-year-old…
Rallying under a cry for “no more victims,” a group of Arizona State University students has launched a campaign to pressure the school to repeal its on-campus weapons ban. ASU Students for Self-Defense assembled for its first meeting less than 24 hours before a heavily armed man opened fire on…
Tia Oso, the Black Lives Matter activist — and convicted embezzler — who interrupted a town hall meeting for Democratic presidential candidates in July, will be a guest speaker at an Arizona State University event on Tuesday as part of Ethnic Studies Week. Oso’s scheduled to appear with H.L.T. Quan,…
