Online petitioners are demanding that a local Catholic school teacher be removed from the classroom for what they call “racist and sexist hate speech.” The petition, which has garnered more than 2,500 signatures (and counting) over the past couple of days, alleges that an instructor at Phoenix’s Xavier College Preparatory,…
Twelve Arizona college students were suckered out a total of $118,000 two years ago in an elaborate scam involving alleged con artists posing as potential employers. The real losers, though, seem to be the four men who were arrested this morning by special agents of the Arizona Attorney General’s Office…
An Arizona State University autism researcher is encouraging parents to see a controversial film alleging a connection between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and the neurological disorder — despite widespread consensus that the premise is scientifically flawed. James Adams, director of ASU’s Autism/Asperger’s Research Program initially posted an advertisement…
More than one-quarter of working-age Arizona residents attended college but didn’t finish, a new report states. The percentage of Arizona residents between the ages of 25 and 64 who went to college but didn’t complete their degree is nearly 26 percent. That’s higher than the national average of 21.5 percent,…
The Arizona Board of Regents voted to raise tuition and fees at Arizona State University. International and out-of-state undergraduate students will pay $1,000 more, bringing their annual bills up to $26,470. In-state undergraduate students will pay $10,640, which is a $200 increase over last year. Arizona Board of Regents Chair…
Students at Prescott College have agreed enthusiastically to help fund their undocumented peers’ higher educations. The majority of students attending the private school signed a petition in support of paying a $30 student fee to go into the newly created Freedom Education Fund, which will award full-ride scholarships to undocumented…
“Allahu Akbar,” called the imam at the Islamic Community Center of Tempe. “God is the greatest.” In unison, several dozen men raised both hands up to their ears, palms facing toward Mecca, the birthplace of Islam. “Audhu billahi min ashshayta nirrajeem,” he said. “I seek God’s shelter from Satan, the…
At 19, Arizona State University student Daniella Rudoy has never had a driver’s license, much less owned a car. Living in student housing on the school’s Phoenix campus, she says she doesn’t need one. “If I do need to get around, it’s easier for me to use Uber … For…
Arizona State University president Michael Crow has proposed a $200 increase in undergraduate tuition for resident students and a $1,000 hike for non-resident students. Under Crow’s tuition plan, which must be approved by the state Board of Regents, students also would be required to pay a $270 surcharge to compensate…
Ryan Miller was a strong math student in high school. So when it came time to pick electives for his economics degree at Arizona State University, he felt pretty confident signing up for physics. It was hard. He got a bad grade. He wishes someone had warned him. So he,…
Latinos, blacks, Native American, and other minority students still struggle to achieve academic success in Arizona, a situation that limits their future work potential, a new state report shows. White students are doing better, but also face problems in a state with a below-average median income, higher-than-average poverty rate, and…
So you’re “feeling the Bern”? Now, thanks to a new dating website that connects fans of presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, you can also find love. Arizona State University political science major Colten Caudle created the website, called Berniesingles.com, to make sure, he writes, “the 1% aren’t the only ones getting…
A bill decried by critics as another assault on public education is advancing in the Arizona Legislature. It would allow every Arizona public school student to attend a private school at the expense of taxpayers. Currently, only a limited number of students can attend private schools using state money through…
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…
