Online survey allows graduate TAs to share workload concerns
	Graduate teaching assistants can now turn to the Internet to offer input on the weight of their workloads, as a result of a questionnaire posted online by the UA Graduate and Professional Student Council. A task force organized by the GPSC to address graduate student workload and pay issues wrote the survey and posted it on the organization's Web site this week.    [More]

Wildcats down Beavers in overtime thriller
	Just when the Pacific 10 Conference championship seemed to be slipping away for the UA women's basketball team, senior guard Lisa Griffith hit a three-pointer with 31 seconds remaining in regulation, to keep the Wildcats hopes alive. Griffith, who had missed all six previous three-point attempts, put the Wildcats ahead by two and swayed the momentum toward the UA , enabling Arizona to put the Oregon State Beavers away in overtime 79-77.    [More]

Editorial: Nicaragua trip, but not SAS, deserves ASUA money
	Wednesday, ASUA agreed to fund former Students Against Sweatshops member Arne Ekstrom's trip to Nicaragua. Ekstrom, a graduate student, intends to look into the living conditions of workers in factories manufacturing UA apparel. In the end, they agreed to give Ekstrom $150 towards his project. While ASUA should fund fact-finding expeditions such as this, Ekstrom is not the best person to carry-out student-funded research.    [More]

'Mona' drowned in stereotype
	The premise of "Drowning Mona" is one of those ideas that sounds really cute and funny on paper, but once it reaches the screen becomes a lackluster, unamusing fiasco. Directed by Nick Gomez, the film relies on the exploitation of "white trash" stereotypes for its humor - diluting the murder mystery essence of the narrative. Mona Dearly, played by Bette Midler, is murdered when her Yugo plunges off the side of a cliff and into the Hudson River    [More]

Quotable: 'A 6-year-old canāt form criminal intent. A 6-year-old still believes in the tooth fairy, the Easter bunny and Santa Claus. They donāt make the connection between their actions and the consequences. They have no sense of the permanence of death.' -Steve Drizin, a lawyer at Northwestern Universityās Children and Family Justice Center in Chicago on the 6-year-old boy who shot and killed his classmate.

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