April 20, 2004

Spring break a ‘black hole’ for students
Delynn Bodine
Mesa Legend

“Disappearing students and the big black hole of spring break” is how Sarah Capawana, Art Department Chairwoman, describes the phenomenon.
According to some instructors on campus, spring break seems to be taking its toll in the classroom.

File sharing may benefit music industry
Kathy Gilsinan
Columbia Daily Spectator

(U-WIRE) NEW YORK - As the Recording Industry Association of America continues to cite music piracy as the primary cause of its profit slump, a recent study plays a slightly different tune.
In a study released March 29, Professors Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard and Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claim that the effect of music piracy on recording industry revenue is "statistically indistinguishable from zero."

Parade promotes tolerance
Francesca van der Feltz
Mesa Legend

Members of Maricopa Community Colleges’ Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Association joined hundreds of participants in the annual Arizona Gay Pride Parade April 3.
About 20 members of Maricopa Community Colleges’ GLHRA joined in the festivities.

New ASU plan may kill current ‘campus life’

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophie"
-H. G. Wells