The Maricopa County Community College District urged voters to approve $951 million in bond sales in 2004 to prepare for a 60-percent projected increase in student enrollment. After it passed, the district spent hundreds of millions from the sale of the bonds to add or renovate nearly 2 million square…
Less than half of Arizona students meet the standards for attending Arizona universities, according to a recent report.The “Arizona Minority Student Progress Report 2013” prepared by the University of Arizona’s Center for Education also cites a warning from Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute: “Arizona is at risk of becoming a…
Jaime Castellano, a former school district superintendent in Apache County, resigned as executive director at a Pennsylvania charter school after the school disclosed why he’d left his job in Arizona.A local paper near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, reports that Castellano “resigned suddenly” last month, and it’s now been disclosed that Castellano gave…
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona and local Reverend Jarrett Maupin both have asked that ASU not expel students who attended an “MLK Black Party” hosted last week by fraternity members.The ACLU has chimed in saying the students’ actions are protected under the First Amendment, while Maupin, in a…
The Reverend Jarrett Maupin called for Tau Kappa Epsilon to be permanently banned from Arizona State University after the fraternity held an “MLK Black Party” on Monday.”TKE has a problem with African-American students,” the local black activist said at a press conference he called Tuesday at ASU’s downtown campus. “They…
Santa Clause is long gone, and that means the Tax Man is right around the corner. Time is running out for taxpayers to take advantage of the state’s dollar-for-dollar education tax credit, and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is urging residents to funnel extra money to local schools…
Arizona State University fell well short of its bid to appear in the team’s first appearance in the Rose Bowl game since 1997.Stanford beat ASU 38-14, in a classic case of déjà vu…
Arizona State University is playing for the Pac-12 championship trophy tomorrow, in a rematch with a Stanford team that just about blew up the Sun Devils earlier this year.In anticipation of tomorrow’s game, we have 10 (almost-serious) ways ASU can beat Stanford this time around:…
Several DREAMers burned copies of their high school diplomas at the state Attorney General’s Office today to protest a lawsuit that would deny them in-state college tuition. Dressed in graduation garb, four group members then tried to deliver a burrito from a food truck to Horne, hoping to symbolize their…
While most ASU parties go down without a hitch, there have been some undeniably bad ASU party moments that have landed the party scene in the news on several occasions.Check out the 10 worst ASU party moments of the last year (hint: spilled beer doesn’t even come close to making…
The Arizona State University Sun Devils beat the University of Southern California in a shootout this weekend in Tempe, 62-41.New Times was there to capture the pre-game festivities:…
Arizona State University is back in Playboy magazine’s top-10 party-school list.Last year, ASU didn’t make Playboy’s cut — which appears to be the first time ASU wasn’t a top-10 party school in the history of Playboy’s rankings…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office certainly didn’t shut down the Arizona State University party scene in Tempe this weekend, but the alcohol task-force did come away with 405 arrests.That was the fourth weekend of Tempe PD’s “Safe and Sober” campaign, which notched 1,367 arrests over the three previous weekends…
Arizona State University beat 20th-ranked Wisconsin in extraordinarily strange fashion on Saturday at Sun Devil Stadium.New Times was there to capture the festivities…
One of Arizona State University’s more prolific partyers says self-proclaimed tough-guy Sheriff Joe Arpaio won’t be putting the kibosh on ASU’s party scene this weekend.The Tempe Police Department is enlisting the help of Arpaio’s office for its “Safe and Sober” campaign, which already racked up nearly 1,400 arrests in three…
We’ve been skeptical about a website that claims Arizona State University is among the top schools in the nation for female students seeking “sugar daddies” — old dudes who will pay for their things.After seeing a SeekingArrangement.com video of ASU students explaining what they want out of their “sugar daddies,”…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says he’s going after the party scene at Arizona State University this weekend.Well, the old man himself won’t be out there scribbling minor-in-consumption tickets to the youngsters and telling them what life was like during the Civil War, but his staff warns of a “major…
The partying only seems to be increasing as the fall semester at Arizona State University goes on.Over three weekends, coinciding with the start of the semester at ASU, an alcohol task-force made a grand total of 1,367 arrests…
Isn’t there some sort of joke about Arizona State University’s seemingly generous acceptance rate?It makes a warning to freshmen to avoid drinking paint seem fitting…
Congratulations to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at Arizona State University, which has just been named the “most out-of-control” frat in the United States of America.Rolling Stone magazine gave SAE (ΣΑΕ) the honor for its two high-profile incidents last year — the death of a pledge, and an extremely intoxicated…
The weekend before classes started at Arizona State University, a task force focused on alcohol-related crimes in Tempe arrested 371 people in just three days.In the first weekend after classes started, the same task force went out and nabbed 486 people in a three-day stretch, which seems to mean that…
It appears that there has been no shortage of alcohol-related high jinks in Tempe in advance of the new semester.Classes start today, and the Tempe Police Department has been running a “Safe and Sober” campaign, with an emphasis on alcohol-related crimes. The result: 371 arrests in three days…
