Tuesday August 21, 2001 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat Online

Students who applied for financial aid more than a month ago and have not yet received their disbursement checks are urged to "check it out" with the Office of Financial Aid.

John Nametz, Director of Need-Based Aid for the University of Arizona Financial Aid department, said almost all checks have been sent out, but some students are still waiting.

Typically, a student will have his or her check held by the university because he or she is not yet registered for the required minimum of 12 credit hours or because a bar has been placed on his or her UA financial account.

Fast facts:

Celery has negative calories. It takes more calories to eat and digest a piece of celery than the celery has in itself.

Centuries ago, men were told that coffee would make them sterile. Women were told to avoid caffeine unless they wanted to be barren.

Of all the potatoes grown in the United States, only 8 percent are used to make potato chips.

Official FDA guidelines allow up to 1 percent of the volume of whole peppers to be made up of rodent droppings.

One of every 11 boxes of cereal, and often a child's first food, sold in the United States is Cheerios.

On this date: Tuesday August 21st, 2001

Venetian blinds were patented by John Hampton of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1841.

The Chicago Cardinals became the first professional football team to go out of town for training camp in 1929 when they started practice in Coldwater, Michigan.

Martial law was declared in 1963 in South Vietnam following raids on Buddhist pagodas and the arrest of hundreds of Buddhist monks.

In 1972, Cheech and Chong's comedy album, Big Bambu, was on the U.S. record charts for 100 weeks and was awarded the Gold Disc Award on this date.

Quotable...

"What is required now is not rhetoric, not debate that polarizes an already volatile situation, and certainly not an effort to condemn one side with unbalanced charges�"
- Acting U.S. Ambassador James Cunningham on the crisis in the Mideast