Financial aid drives regents' decision to increase tuition

When Oscar Angulo entered UA four years ago, he knew he was going to have to make sacrifices in order to graduate.

With his dad in Mexico and his mom supporting two other sons in Tucson, the applied political economy senior could not rely on his family financially, but still he sacrificed a full-time job to be a full-time student. [Read article]

Four protesters and a news photographer were arrested after the protesters locked themselves to a railing in the Administration building yesterday afternoon.

The Administration Building was closed for the entire afternoon as three students and a UA employee locked themselves with U-locks and a chain to a handicapped-assist railing in the south lobby of the building. The activists were protesting a possible $1,000 tuition increase and what they called the misuse of state and university funding. [Read article]

The Arizona Board of Regents might not only approve the highest tuition increase in UA's history at today's meeting, but it will also consider major changes to board policy that will give the universities more authority to decide who they accept.

The universities want the regents to guarantee admissions only to those students in the top 25 percent of their high school's graduating class.

Anyone else will be evaluated on a more individual basis. [Read article]

With less than a week before the Associated Students of the University of Arizona's general elections, presidential candidates J.P. Benedict and Jered Mansell met for the final time last night to publicly discuss their platforms.

As both candidates answered questions from a panel of student leaders, it became clear that both Freshman Class Council Director Benedict and Administrative Vice-President Mansell share the same views on a number of campus issues. [Read article]

Chicago native thinks her gen-eds are boring, likes Tucson weather and has seen yellow snow

WILDCAT: Of all the majors you could choose, why something hard like molecular and cellular biology?

ORTIZ: Because I'm going into pre-med. It is one of the few majors that has all the requirements for pre-med.

WILDCAT: I have friends in that major and all they ever do is study. They can never do anything because they are studying. Seriously, they do it nonstop. I hope you don't spend all your time studying too. [Read article]

· Kermit the Frog has 11 points on the collar around his neck.

· In every deck of cards, the King of Hearts is sticking his sword through his head. This is why he's often called the Suicide King.

· "Alma mater" means bountiful mother.

· The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is "Live Free or Die." They are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord. [Read article]

New scholarship created for former UA professor

An endowed scholarship has been established with the UA Foundation for Edwin N. Ferdon, a former associate director of the Arizona State Museum and an emeritus member of the anthropology department at the University of Arizona. Ferdon died of cancer in November 2002. He was 89.

Ferdon's career in anthropology began in college when he met Edgar L. Hewett, who started the Museum of New Mexico and the anthropology department at the University of New Mexico. At Hewett's urging, Ferdon left Ohio to attend field school and excavate the Chaco Canyon archaeological site. [Read article]

The article "Olson may be ready for a different ring" that appeared in yesterday's Wildcat incorrectly stated that UA head coach Lute Olson's late wife Bobbi died after a long battle with breast cancer. The article should have stated that she died of ovarian cancer.