We finally have the answer to the question I’ve been asking all day: Who do you think the next President will be? It turns out that students in Tucson, Ariz. were on the nose when they answered Barack Obama.

The University of Arizona’s Graduate Student Council hosted a watch party at The Shanty--a popular bar close to campus. When CNN announced Obama as the presumed victor, the packed room erupted. The floor was practically shaking from men and women jumping up and down. One man slowly started chanting “Barack Obama,” and within a few rounds the entire bar joined in. People actually started crying tears of joy. One couple found enough space to dance. More than 120 graduate students and their friends looked more like kids on Christmas morning than young adults watching th...

Two students at the University of Arizona’s law school organized 80 people to watch polling practices and problems in Tucson.

Kane and Ford organized the Election Protection Team, and are reporting problems to Pima County from their command center inside the UA’s law school. Other volunteers are at the polls talking to voters, making sure the rules are being followed, and all the machines are working.

Only two hours after the polls opened, the election protection volunteers reported problems with both electrical voting systems and the optical scanners that tally people’s votes. The majority of these problems occurred on Tucson’s Southside, according to Ford, a third year law student.

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 Faith’s father helps her pay for college. Now, he has to limit how much he gives her. As a senior in college, she is also worried about what she faces in the job market.

Liz is also concerned about finding a job when she graduates this May. Currently, she is watching every dollar she spends, and expects the financial problems abroad to affect her in some way.

 Andrew is worried he wont be able to pay for school. Federal cut backs on education could compromise his minority-based scholarship and make the Safford loans that offset his scholarship harder to get.

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Neil's deployment in Fallujah, Iraq could have been completely different if it wasn't for all those who fought before him.Click here to see Neil's story.

“With the current economic situation, getting hired seems like a big accomplishment for college graduates,” said Justin Shane who graduated this May from the University of Arizona.

Even before the economy took a down turn, Shane was concerned about getting a job after college. He, like many students, thought one perk of joining a fraternity would be getting a leg up in the job market. However, he found out it isn’t quite that easy.

“When I first joined my fraternity, networking with alumni for job opportunities was a huge positive,” Shane said. “When I was a junior in college, I started to network with FIJI alumni.  Quickly, I realized how difficult it was to find alumni that were in my field and in a hiring position.  From this problem, the idea forugreekrow.comevolved.”

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"It's was a little Rowdy at first," Jennifer Bollig said about the "necessary chaos" of her first Republican State convention.

More than 1,000 people showed up at Saturday's event, where state delegates chose the people to represent Arizona at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota this September.

The morning was a little hectic, but everything ran more smoothly than at Nevada's convention on April 26, which was recessed after Ron Paul supporters outnumbered McCain supporters in Nevada's delegation to the National Convention.

Amid speeches, campaigning Congressmen, suits, and white hair, young faces stood out of the crowd. Many were volunteers, from the Teenage Republicans, College Republicans, and Republican Professionals organization, but a few participated in the process.

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This past February three socially minded seniors, Ryan Brown and Nick Stewart of University of Arizona and Brock Ameele of Oregon State University, launched a campaign to support our troops stationed in Iraq called Thankful for Freedom.

"With graduation rapidly approaching and the 'real world' ever looming, a longing and urge arose to address current issues--not to just talk about them but to actually make a difference and do something," Ameele, Brown and Stewart explained on thankfulforfreedom.com.

Without expressing their personal feelings towards the war in Iraq, the trio has set out to build their own million-member army--outfitting them in olive green shirts with a yellow ribbon on the front. They also aim to raise $5 million to be shared among Disabled American Veterans, Give 2 the Troops, Hire Heroes USA, and the United Services Organization.

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Depending on which tee-shirt you read, anything could be the new black. Attendees at this year’s Solar Rock are bound to think green is the new black. The 100-percent solar powered concert and festival aims to educate the public about the effects of climate change. As if they can’t feel it every summer when the temperature hits record setting triple digits.

“A solar powered concert and festival would be the best way to get the word out about solar power and global warming,” one of the event organizers, Natalie Shepp, said of Saturday’s second-annual shindig, which will feature local bands, speakers, and tons of information about alternative energy.

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