A journalism freshman was appointed Friday as Freshman Senator for the ASASUD Senate, filling the last senate seat available to the freshman student body.

With the possibility of Taylor Place reaching full capacity next year, ASU has begun discussions of building a second dormitory on the Downtown campus for upperclassmen and graduate students, a University housing official said.

Numerous BMX bikers attended a Parks and Recreation Board Subcommittee meeting on Thursday evening to advocate the integration of bikes at Phoenix’s planned downtown skateboarding park.

The Downtown Devil's Vincent Burnton had the opportunity to take part in a telephone conference with stars Zach Galifianakis and Keir Gilchrist and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from the new film “It’s Kind of a Funny Story” on Sept. 16. Below are some of the highlights from that conversation.

People like John Hughes’ films because of the plot; people care about John Hughes’ films because of the characters, and it’s for reasons similar to this that “Its Kind of a Funny Story,” in putting its own updated spin on the teen-movie standard, is able to work so much better than it should.