OPINION: Tips on documenting protests

By Selena Kuikahi

The influx of citizen journalism activity over the past month has flooded the internet with crucial evidence regarding police brutality, especially as it pertains to recent protests. Without these firsthand videos, our only documentation of injustices would come from mainstream media, which has revealed its biases time and time again. Although this documentation has been and is currently essential to proving true the existence of police brutality, journalists of any degree are now called more than ever to protect the citizens they catch on camera. Read more

OPINION: Class of 2019, We did it!

Letter from the Editor: It's the end of an era, but the Wildcat legacy will live on

When I joined the Wildcat staff as a news reporter in the spring of 2018, I had no idea that less than three months later, I'd be taking over as editor-in-chief. What was supposed to be just an opportunity to build my portfolio, ended up being the single most rewarding experience of my college career. Read more

OPINION: Low club attendance may cause a decline in democracy?

Have you noticed? Some of the previously large clubs across campus are looking a bit thinned out, and not only during this especially busy time. Read more

OPINION: Wanna be woke? Stop asking your friends

Everyone wants to be woke – Why utilizing Google before your peers is key to your self-serving venture toward allyship. Read more

EDITORIAL: Beat the end-of-semester heat and de-stress

OPINION: Eyebrow threading is cost effective method

Women have been shaping their eyebrows since the beginning of time. Historically, eyebrows have always been a hot button of contention. Unibrows? Plucked to nothing? Rounded or arched? Today, there are three main ways in which women tame and shape their eyebrows: threading, tweezing, and waxing. Read more

OPINION: Game of Thrones, better than Harry Potter?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past eight years, I guarantee you have heard of a little show that is now a big show called Game of Thrones. Read more

Guest Letter: Impacts from UA Trademarks and Branding Policy

The University of Arizona Cycling Team shares many of the concerns outlined in the recent guest letter by David Klebosky and the UA Concrete Canoe team regarding the UA’s change in trademarks and branding policy. Read more

OPINION: Our country needs an independent president more than ever

Independents pride themselves on being a mesh between the two more radical parties. It would be nice to have a president in office who can listen to both political parties without much bias and be able to proceed in a manner that will benefit both the Republicans and Democrats. Read more

EDITORIAL: Free Speech needs to be defended by all

As a student newspaper, the Daily Wildcat is deeply concerned not just about our right to free speech and press as a newspaper, but the state of free speech on campus as a whole. Read more

Fraternities: Let's do better

This article pertains to the experiences of male UA students who do not belong to a fraternity that offered to voice their opinion on Greek life. As a reporter, I feel that there is validity behind the words of these boys, and that they are not the only students who feel this way. I write this article and those that follow in this series in an effort to educate the community. Hopefully, by voicing these concerns others who share them will come forward, and the UA Greek system will become the positive experience for all who engage with it, member or not. Read more

OPINION: Arizona cannot let student exemption win

Arizona’s vote to raise the state minimum wage from 8 dollars to 12 passed back in 2016 by a wide margin, carrying 58% of the statewide vote and carrying with it every county except for Graham county (1). This level of support for our minimum wage workers was a surprising wake up call to our legislators in Phoenix, who have historically kept our state wage within a dollar of the federal minimum of $7.25 an hour (2). Read more

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