Monday August 20, 2001 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat Online

Due to a shortage of housing space, many students who expected to begin the year in a dorm room have instead been assigned to live in converted study rooms, computer labs and residence hall lounges. Still others were temporarily placed in hotel rooms or assigned to live with one of the residence halls' resident assistants.

UA officials say the reason for the crunch is the record number of freshmen entering the university this semester - approximately 6,100.

Fast facts:

The skeleton of an average 160-pound body weighs about 29 pounds.

An average adult eyeball weighs about one ounce.

There are between 40 and 50 billion fat cells in an average adult.

The digestive tract of an average adult is 30 feet in length.

The average duration of a single blink of the human eye is 0.3 seconds.

On this date: Monday August 20th, 2001

In 1866, the National Labor Union advocated an eight-hour workday. Workers ignored the request and commonly worked 10-12 hour days.

In 1920, America's first commercial radio station, 8MK in Detroit, began live broadcasting.

In 1945, Tommy Brown of the Brooklyn Dodgers became the youngest player to hit a home run in a major-league baseball game. Brown was 17 years, 8 months and 14 days old.

In 1961, East Germany began to erect a 5-foot wall along its border with the West.

Quotable...

"We have to think about the future, and we have to remember the past as something bitter."
- Ali Ahmeti, the political leader of the National Liberation Army on working for peace in the Balkan nation of Macedonia.