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UA to keep control of union food services
	After considering a proposal to privatize student union dining, university officials said yesterday they have determined the UA will benefit most by retaining the services. Dan Adams, director of the Memorial Student Union, said a University of Arizona committee reviewed a proposal to give control of the campus dining services to a private company, but recommended it was in the university's best interest to keep the programs.

Because of the perpetually vigilant eye of the public, athletes must monitor their actions on and off the field
	For athletes, "keeping your nose clean" is something senior quarterback Keith Smith said has become a requirement as much as showing up to every practice and giving it his all. In a world where every action can be scrutinized and where repercussions are buried behind red tape, athletes are under pressure to keep up a good image as in sports, image is everything.

Toxic waste, toxic treatment
	In 1983, it was asked: "What was it like to really live in Arizona, as opposed to the high-energy, air-conditioned, water-sogged oasises that now rupture the terrain?" In 1923, a retired street-car conductor from Kansas City, John Timothy Page, and his wife Sarah, sought to find out. The "worn-out land" Page found beside the Oracle highway, which, since the 1880s, had been over-grazed by cattle and taken over by harvester ants and kangaroo rats, had been stripped of the native grasses to leave prickly pears, stubby mesquites and weeds.

80 years inside the fire
	On Jan. 22, 1934, a fire devastated the downtown landmark known to many as "Congress." Now, the flames that were sparked 65 years ago live on in the downtown hotel that made history in Tucson as a landmark for groundbreakings and rebelliousness. Keeping up with the rebel spirit that made it famous, Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St., celebrates its birthday this Friday night with the slogan "Celebrating 80 Years of Doing our own Thing."

Quotable: "Iāve never done anything that would be deemed unethical and anything that wasnāt done by the universityās procedure. Iāve done everything the way I was trained or taught to do...They canāt prove anything." -Christopher S. Brown, who was dismissed last week as director of the College of Medicineās Willed Body Program, where his job was to embalm and repair donated cadavers for research and to dispose of them afterward. Brown has been accused of selling body parts illegally.

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