Former University of Arizona football player Matt Scott, who was at Arizona from 2008-2012, will be remembered as one of the most-productive quarterbacks in school history. But 6 1/2 years since he first arrived at the university, Scott is still without a degree, a circumstance that isn’t unfamiliar to former Arizona student athletes. The graduation success rate for…
Mariachi music is hot. Rap, rock, country and pop musicians are all integrating mariachi into their sound. Betty Duarte-Matwick, vocalist, guitarronera and one of the founding members of the all female group Mariachi Pasion, believes that it takes more than music skills to play mariachi. “Music is the language of the gods both male and…
Casinos in Arizona are starting to regain some of the business lost during the recession, but the recovery process has been slow and numbers are still far below the highs the industry experienced a few years ago. Arizona Indian casinos reported yearly gross gaming revenue for Fiscal Year 2014 that surpassed $1.8 billion, according to…
Recent high-profile cases of ideological fights concerning the material contained in textbooks at public schools highlight the role political preferences play in selecting texts, members of the education community say. In Gilbert, the local school board voted late last month to edit material in a biology textbook after conservative members of the board determined it…
Dr. Zain Khalpey stands next to a ghostly white lung pumping rhythmically on the table next to him. “That’s pretty damn good, actually,” Khalpey says as he gazes at the data recorded by the lung’s ventilator. The ventilator indicates that the pig lung is inflating and deflating like a normal lung. Experiments such as this…
