亚利桑那大学｜The University of Arizona

亚利桑那大学创立于1885年，坐落在亚利桑那州的第二大城市塔克森，占地4,000多亩，有健康中心、体育场、室内游泳池、现代图书馆（藏书140万），校内可免费上网。大学有6106个宿位，一律采取先到先得办法，并且可住足四年。起初只有农学院和矿产学院两个学院，发展至今，2007年的学生人数为36，923人，分别来自美国50个州及海外100多个国家，是全美10所最多海外学生入读的大学之一。

亚利桑那大学是一所模范的研究型公立大学，其中多个系所具有先进的仪器设备，而研究水平也属一流，因此跻身于美国国家级评价的大学之列。亚利桑那大学是美国大学协会（Association of American Universities）认可的全美60所大学之一，亦曾获得卡内基认证（Carnegie Classification），并曾经由美国国家科学协会（The National Science Foundation）评鉴为公立研究型大学排名中的第15名。

亚里桑那大学有10个专门学校（school）：建筑，艺术，舞蹈，家庭及消费科学，信息资源及图书馆科学，景观建筑，音乐，公共管理与政策，戏剧艺术及自然资源。及19个学院（college），领域涵括有：农业及生命科学、建筑及景观、教育、工程、美术、人类学、法学、医学、药学、光学、社会及行为科学、护理、公共健康、管理、研究生院等。学生选课人数比例依次是：商科管理（21%）、社会科学（13%）、工程（10%）、文科（7%）、教育（6%）。

亚里桑那大学著名的教授阵容、藏书量巨大的图书馆和树木年轮研究实验室、光学研究中心、贫瘠土地研究所、斯拖尔天文台、月亮和行星实验室、国立大气研究中心等研究机构以及各个学院具有雄厚科研教学力量，使得该校具备牢固的教学和科研基础，为它赢得了极高的学术知名度。天文学是亚利桑那大学最有名、也最有实力的专业，在全世界享有极高的知名度，拥有世界一流的天文学家和设备，研究项目众多，并且经费充足，是名副其实的超A级学系。此外，新闻系也是超一流的学系。同时，亚利桑那大学也非常重视体育，为美国培养了很多优秀的运动员。

二、地理环境

亚利桑那大学坐落在亚利桑那州第二大城市塔克森。亚利桑那州位于美国西南方，是美国第六大州。提到亚利桑那州，人们会联想到壮丽的大峡谷，目睹过其风采的人都不禁会赞叹大自然的鬼斧神工；而该州悠久的历史及文化遗迹都是珍贵的人文遗产，集这些特色于一身，亚利桑那也成了著名的旅游胜地。

塔克森市是个人口近100万的大城，文化事业、商业及娱乐活动都很活跃，是个热情的现代化城市。这个城市拥有舒适的气候，因此吸引了许多运动爱好者，市内设有完善的国家级高尔夫球场，另外还有职棒春季集训队，以及知名的亚利桑那大学篮球队。

塔克森市的高科技产业相当蓬勃，带来庞大的经济收入，除了拥有亚利桑那大学这个研究重镇外，还设立了尖端科技的科学园区，其中的光电科技产业相当发达而闻名；其它像飞机制造、飞弹、电子、印刷、出版也都是塔克森的重点工业；而Kitt Peak天文观测站和特有的生物圈（Biosphere）则是塔克森市的特色之一。

三、校园生活

1.Student life

Recognized fraternities and sororities of the Greek System

There are currently (2005) 44 fraternity and sorority chapters that are recognized by the University of Arizona. As of 2006, approximately 10.3% of male UA students were members of campus fraternities, and 10.8% of female students were members of sororities. The fraternities and sororities are governed by 4 governing councils. The Interfraternity Council (IFC) represents 25 fraternities, the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) represents 6 historically African-American fraternities and sororities, the Panhellenic Association (PHC) represents 20 sororities and the United Sorority and Fraternity Council (USFC) which represents other minority based Greek organizations. The university maintains a full list of recognized fraternities and sororities as well as a map that highlights the locations of fraternity and sorority houses at .

Recognized student clubs and organizations

As mentioned earlier, a new and expansive Student Union building,[24] opened in 2003; it is the largest student union in the U.S. not affiliated with a hotel. The University of Arizona is home to more than 500 philanthropic, multi-cultural, social, athletic, academic, and student clubs and campus organizations. A listing is found at Center For Student Involvement and Leadership (CSIL) through the Student Union.

CSIL also houses the Arizona Blue Chip Program one of the largest collegiate-level leadership development programs in the United States, with over 500 active students at any one time throughout the 4 years of the program. Blue Chip was founded in 1999 and has formed a partnership with the University of Wollongong, in Wollongong, Australia where a sister program, the Black Opal Leadership Development Program began in February, 2005. Structure, curriculum, students and even staff are exchanged between the two institutions in a unique international leadership development initiative.

Through funding from the CSIL and the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, clubs are given the resources and encouragement to explore unusual interests.

Student government representation

Overall, students at the University of Arizona have, since 1913, been represented by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona (ASUA). Representation is elected by the students every year (usually in March). In recent years, the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) has emerged to represent issues specific to non-undergrads.

On-Campus residents also have their own Student Leadership Organization known as the Residence Hall Association. Anyone who lives on campus is automatically a member of RHA. The individual subunits of RHA consist of the hall councils of all 21 residence halls. Each Hall Council is composed of a President, a Director of Programming (for social events), a Director of Operations (for administrative duties), and two RHA Representatives who are sent to represent their hall at RHA General Body Meetings. At these meetings, the gathered representatives and RHA Executive Board, elected from within the RHA General Body, discuss issues and make decisions concerning all 6,000 on campus residents. The RHA Executive Board consists of 7 different elected positions (President, Vice President of Public Relations, National Communications Coordinator, Vice President of Finances, Vice President of Operations, Vice President of Services, and Vice President of Programming) along with an appointed Parliamentarian position and an advisor known as the Coordinator for Student Leadership.

2.Campus architecture and museums

The main campus sits on 380 acres (1.5 km2) in central Tucson, about one mile (1.6 km) northeast of downtown. There are 179 buildings on the main campus. Many of the early buildings, including the Arizona State Museum buildings (one of them the 1927 main library) and Centennial Hall, were designed by Roy Place, a prominent Tucson architect. It was Place s use of red brick that set the tone for the red brick facades that are a basic and ubiquitous part of nearly all UA buildings, even those built in recent decades. Indeed, almost every UA building has red brick as a major component of the design, or at the very least, a stylistic accent to harmonize it with the other buildings on campus.

The campus is roughly divided into quadrants. The north and south sides of campus are delineated by a grassy expanse called the Mall, which stretches from Old Main eastward to the campus eastern border at Campbell Avenue (a major north-south arterial street). The west and east sides of campus are separated roughly by Highland Avenue and the Student Union Memorial Center (see below).

The science and mathematics buildings tend to be clustered in the southwest quadrant; the intercollegiate athletics facilities to the southeast; the arts and humanities buildings to the northwest (with the dance department being a major exception as its main facilities are far to the east end of campus), with the engineering buildings in the north central area. The optical and space sciences buildings are clustered on the east side of campus near the sports stadiums and the (1976) main library.

Speedway Boulevard, one of Tucson s primary east-west arterial streets, traditionally dined the northern boundary of campus but since the 1980s, several university buildings have been constructed north of this street, expanding into a neighborhood traditionally filled with apartment complexes and single-family homes. The University has purchased a handful of these apartment complexes for student housing in recent years. Sixth Street typically dines the southern boundary, with single-family homes (many of which are rented out to students) south of this street.

Park Avenue has traditionally dined the western boundary of campus, and there is a stone wall which runs along a large portion of the east side of the street, leading to the old Main Gate, and into the driveway leading to Old Main.

Along or adjacent to all of these major streets are a wide variety of retail facilities serving the student, faculty and staff population: shops, bookstores, bars, banks, credit unions, coffeehouses and major chain fast-food restaurants such as Burger King and Chick-fil-A. The area near University Boulevard and Park Avenue, near the Main Gate, has long been a major center of such retail activity; many of the shops have been renovated since the late 1990s and a nine-story Marriott hotel was built in this immediate district in 1996.

The oldest campus buildings are located west of Old Main. Most of the buildings east of Old Main date from the 1940s to the 1980s, with a few recent buildings constructed in the years since 1990.

Student Union Memorial CenterThe Student Union Memorial Center, located on the north side of the Mall east of Old Main, was completely reconstructed between 2000 and 2003, replacing a 270,000-square-foot (25,000 m2) structure originally opened in 1951 (with additions in the 1960s). The new $60 million student union has 405,000 square feet (37,600 m2) of space on four levels, including 14 restaurants (including a food court with such national chains as Burger King, Panda Express, Papa John s Pizza and Chick-fil-A), a new two-level bookstore (that includes a counter for Clinique merchandise as well as an office supplies section sponsored by Staples with many of the same Staples-branded items found in their regular stores), 23 meeting rooms, eight lounge areas (including one dedicated to the USS Arizona), a computer lab, a U.S. Post Office, a copy center named Fast Copy, and a video arcade.

3.School Songs

Fight Songs

Bear Down Arizona

Arizona, Bear Down!

Let s cheer for Arizona

Let s lift our voices high

Let s cheer for Arizona

The Bear Down battle cry

Let s cheer our team to victory

Let s cheer our team to fame

Let s cheer for Arizona

For spirit wins the game!

Bear Down, Arizona

Bear Down, Red and Blue

Bear Down, Arizona

Hit em hard, let em know who s who;

Bear Down, Arizona

Bear Down, Red and Blue

Go, go, Wildcats, go;

Arizona, Bear Down

Fight Wildcats! Fight!

Hail Arizona Wildcats

Fighting for old UA.

A raging team of Wildcats

Growling for the fray

There s not a team can stop them

When the ball goes into play

So Fight! Team!

Fight with all your might

And win today.

Fight Wildcats, Fight for Arizona

We re with you ever staunch and true

This day we hail you and we cheer you

They can t deat the Red and Blue

Circle the ends and crash thru center

Hit hard and gain on ev ry play

Fight Wildcats!

Fight! Fight! Fight!

We ll win today!