Arizona Students Association brings student concerns to state lawmakers, regents

Meeting the steadily increasing costs of attending college is a common strain on students - they are forced to combat costs with large loans, and often have no idea where their tuition dollars go.

Rarely do the letters ASA, or Arizona Students Association, come to mind when trying to piece together the tuition puzzle.

ASA - not to be confused with ASUA - is a student-lobbying organization that plays an important role in regulating tuition, and, members say, is not familiar to many students at the University of Arizona.

Weather completes true basketball experience in Minneapolis

It may seem strange, but the birthplace of Arizona basketball was in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.

Though UA head coach Lute Olson grew up in the neighboring North Dakota, his collegiate basketball career and initial coaching positions were all in Minnesota.

So when the Arizona basketball team boards a flight to Minneapolis tomorrow, it will be a homecoming of sorts for Olson, who lived in Minnesota for nine years, and several of his players.

On March 7, the first day of the two-day student elections, candidate Brandon D'Angelo, through his campaign manager, sent out a mass e-mail to more than 4,200 UA students.

The e-mail detailed the administrative vice-president candidate's campus involvement, his desires for office and references to his stand-up abilities, including an endorsement from this publication.

Within hours, elections commissioner Joe Rogers appropriately found the mass e-mail to be a gross violation of the elections code - candidates were warned that mass e-mails were forbidden - and within his sound discretion ordered D'Angelo to cease campaigning, further sanctioning him to have all his campaign materials removed by 6 p.m.

In these days of Web cams, "Temptation Island" and "Big Brother," the notion of privacy often seems a trifle old-fashioned. But everyone in the public eye relishes the idea of airing dirty laundry for an audience's approval.

"People talking about my personal life instead of talking about the music, stuff like that - I think it's ugly, like a miniature version of People magazine" said Tim Kasher, the singer and guitarist for indie rock band Cursive, which plays Solar Culture tomorrow at 10 p.m.

And while the Omaha, Neb. band is still a long way from the pages of America's premier gossip mag, Cursive has first-hand experience with the media circus.