The Westin Phoenix Downtown hotel opened Thursday with 242 rooms in the Freeport-McMoRan building at North Central Avenue and West Van Buren Street. Occupying floors 11-19, the hotel is the first Westin in downtown Phoenix. The next closest Westin hotel to the city's center is in Scottsdale at the Westin Kierland, a high-end resort and spa.

Seventeen students from the Walter Cronkite School left Wednesday to spend 10 days reporting in the Dominican Republic.

As the people of the Greater Middle East continue to push for democracy, their political protests have impacted members of the ASU community from how much they pay to fill up to the news they write about.

ASU recently announced dynamic changes to its academic calendar that will take effect during the spring 2012 semester, a move that will allow students to opt for condensed classes, but some students remain unaware any changes are set to take place.

They call themselves “trickers.” They are members of an underground society that practices a sport called martial arts tricking — “tricking” for short — which consists of flips, spins and kicks all done in a fluid, aesthetic motion. Public relations sophomore Steven Atkinson is one of them.