The number of students enrolled at the Downtown campus, now in its fourth year, increased by more than 3,000 students from 2008 to 2009, an ASU official said.

Five panelists spoke to a small group of students on how people become homeless, whether homeless people should be feared, appropriate ways to interact with the homeless, and what can be done to help.

The Downtown Phoenix campus had 46 liquor law violations, 20 drug law violations and three liquor law arrests in 2008, according to the 2009 Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Report issued late September.

For the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community of Arizona, the seventh annual Rainbows Festival and Street Fair is more than a celebration of an open life. It is a symbol of how far they have come in gaining acceptance.