Likins may consider mid-year tuition hike

Elective courses will be cancelled next semester due to budget cuts

UA President Peter Likins announced at last night's ASUA meeting that he may support a mid year tuition increase if the state Legislature cuts funding to the UA by a substantial enough amount.

Although the exact amount of the funding cut will not be known until sometime after Nov. 13 - when the Legislature meets in a special session to discuss the state budget shortfall - Likins suggested that he could reverse his earlier stance, which unilaterally opposed mid year increases.

"I do not believe there should be a mid year surcharge," Likins said. "At the same time, right now we're looking at a 4 percent, $14 million recission, and I don't know what I'd believe (about raising tuition) if it was a $50 million recission."

Feature Photo KRISTIN ELVES/Arizona Daily Wildcat

Math graduate student David Marsden, front, cowers after being vanquished by undeclared freshman Owen Maurer, during heavy armor fighting yesterday afternoon on the Mall. Marsden and Maurer are both members of the College of St. Felix, an organization devoted to the study of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The club meets at 6:30 p.m. every Thursday on the lawn near the Ina E. Gittings building.

Budget cuts could put faculty raises at risk

$650 million state budget shortfall could jeopardize salary increases

Money for staff salary increases planned for April could be in jeopardy, UA President Peter Likins said at last night's ASUA meeting.

The state Legislature will begin discussing how to fulfill a several-hundred million dollar shortfall in the state's budget at a special session beginning Nov. 13.

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The roommate of UA freshman tailback Tremaine Cox reported to police Monday that Cox used his debit card to purchase pornographic material on the Internet, UAPD reports stated.

Ricardo Hernandez, a junior political science major, told the University of Arizona Police Department that Cox used his debit card without his permission and bought access to a pornographic Web site.

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