March reminds of MLK's vision
	Admitting that the past holds notice of positive efforts made by blacks and whites to eliminate racial discrimination, participants in the UA co-sponsored Martin Luther King Jr. Millennium March agreed that America has taken several steps in the direction of racial equality - but the journey isn't over. "Martin Luther King Jr. had a lot of passive resistance ... physical presence of people is how it was originally done," said Carlos Reyes, UA psychology senior. "This walk is a symbolic demonstration - a dramatization."

Woods, Griffith bring home Player of the Week awards
	For the second time in the 1999-2000 college basketball season, a player from both the UA men's and women's squads earned the honor of being named the Pacific 10 Conference's player of the week on the same day. Sophomore forward Michael Wright and senior forward Tatum Brown both won the award on Dec. 6, 1999 and now junior center Loren Woods and senior guard Lisa Griffith can boast the same accolade.

More than just a movie
	Say it ain't so. NASA: the Mars Polar Lander mission has been declared a failure, and the $161 million spent on the project are supposedly down the drain. Popular opinion is that its space exploration endeavors are a federal budget guzzler and are not worth anyone's time or taxes. This is one of the great misconceptions about the American federal budget. Compared to what the United States spends on national defense, paying off the debt, and the abominable entitlement programs lovingly known as Social Security and Medicare, the funding NASA receives is a penny in the federal piggy bank.

More than just a movie
	With the loss of UA's Gallagher Theater, students have encountered new problems searching for movie theaters in Tucson. Concerns with distance, high ticket prices, the lack of amenities and formulaic films beleaguer would-be patrons. However, when attempting to find quality entertainment, students need not look any further than their own campus. Every Friday night at 7:30 the Modern Languages Auditorium comes to life with the best in both international and domestic film. All shows are free and open to the public.

Quotable: "These people cut fences, (urinate) in their water tanks, leave trash everywhere and don't ever close a gate. I tell you what, if you live in this part of the country and you go out in the country, you'd better have a gun." -Bill Wendt, a Douglass businessman on smugglers and illegal immigrants that try to come to the U.S. each year.

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