The state senate bill that could direct millions of dollars to the hiring of more UA graduate teaching assistants is an investment in Arizona's future, graduate students agreed.

Overworked TAs may soon get relief if the legislature grants $3 million to the university to hire more TAs. As many as 144 new TAs would be hired with the funds.

Jani Radebaugh, a planetary sciences graduate student and the College of Science representative for the Graduate and Professional Student Council, said the council is encouraged by the support from the legislature and optimistic that the bill will pass.

"We have been emphasizing with legislators that while only 20 percent of all graduate students at the U of A come from Arizona, 60 percent decide to stay in Arizona once they are done with school," said Radebaugh, who lobbied the legislature to consider the bill. "Thus, an investment in recruiting graduate students is an investment in Arizona's future economy."

Before yesterday, Robin Yount had never stepped foot on Sancet Field.

Now, after winning the Fifth Third Bank All-Pro Alumni Game, 5-1, the former Milwaukee Brewer left 1-0 as a manager and honorary alum of the University of Arizona.

Yount, who was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame in 1999, made frequent visits to Tucson as a player when the Brewers played their spring training games at Hi Corbett Field.

"Tucson is a great town," Yount said. "I liked it a lot, especially because our team scored more runs than the other team, and that makes it a lot more fun."

Question: Should the University of Arizona sell the old Christopher City property to private developers?

Answer: No.

Think this answer is deceptively simple?

It's not. Three plainly sensible reasons make it apparent that UA should rezone, not sell the Christopher City property.

First, the site could be used for mixed housing. The UA could construct single-family homes for graduate students, as well as apartments open to all UA students. While Jefferson Commons may not provide the best example, the complex does prove that it is possible to establish a large UA undergraduate community off campus. Perhaps it could help alleviate the UA's predicted undergraduate housing shortage and ease tensions with surrounding neighbors who fear big business development.

UA professor co-writes book about religious references in film

In the 16th century, philosopher Michel de Montaigne said, "Man is certainly stark mad - he can't make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozen."

The validity of this quote is especially linked to the arts, where the status of religious beliefs has been recorded throughout time.

Sometimes blatant, other times cloaked in metaphor, allusions to God thread in and out of films through codes only a conscious viewer can decipher.

Sociology professor Albert Bergesen and Father Andrew Greeley, sociology professor at both the UA and University of Chicago, sought God references and found plenty - enough to collaboratively write a book and teach a popular socio-religion class based on their prevalence.