Opinions: Playing it by ear
Imagine, if you will, Rep. Harry Mitchell, D-AZ, as a down-on-his-luck magician performing at a birthday party for little kids.

Next, imagine that one of the little kids partying the day away is President Michael Crow and — how fortunate is this? — Crow is the lucky assistant for Mitchell's next trick.

Opinions: Letters to the editor

Opinions: Madness? You ain't seen nothing yet
PELTON: Oh, the madness.

First, there was the unfortunate event of Western Kentucky hitting a miraculous shot to beat Drake, screwing my bracket over. Then, Georgetown decided to act like they've never played basketball before, which left me shaking my head in disgrace. My girlfriend could have picked more winners than I had. Both of these hurt me badly.

And then there's the madness here in Phoenix. In just a few days, the Valley of the Sun will host yet another major sporting event — the NCAA Men's Basketball West Region Finals. Due to this, the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 portion of the West fourth of the big bracket will be played at U.S. Airways Arena.

Opinions: Church should not be an annoying obligation
CLEVERLY: As a regular churchgoer who is Catholic, I get frustrated with a certain group of people who give religion a bad name, especially when such small easy steps could be taken to fix their image. These people are called "Christers," the combination of the words Christmas and Easter.

Obviously, these are the two most important holidays to any Christian, and personally they're my favorite — great food is cooked and spending time with the extended crazy family is always fun. But since I go to church every Sunday and usually sit in the front row with my family, I hate going to Christmas Eve and Easter masses.

Opinions: Being both pro-choice and pro-life
CEO: For some people, the abortion question is pretty simple. You are either pro-choice, and thus think a woman has every right to do whatever she pleases with her body, or you are pro-life, believing every fetus is a human and deserves the right to live.

Last week, when there were large displays of dead, aborted fetuses around campus there was also a table asking, "Should abortion be legal?" When I responded to that, I naturally fell in line with liberals like myself who signed the "yes" side. But then asked for a reason why I chose this side, I was at a loss.