Regents approve largest tuition hike in Arizona's history

TEMPE ÷ The Arizona Board of Regents approved the largest tuition increase in the state's history yesterday, voting 9-0 for a $1,000 hike for resident undergraduates coupled with a 140 percent increase in mandatory financial aid.

The increase will bring next year's in-state undergraduate tuition to $3,593.

Regents also approved $1,250 increases for out-of-state undergraduates and in-state graduate students, and a $1,500 increase for out-of-state graduate students. [Read article]

The UA professor who said she was wrongfully detained and brutalized by police for a crime she didn't commit plans to sue UAPD.

Irene D'Almeida, a professor of French and Italian, said University of Arizona Police Department officer Robb Fountain tried to handcuff her after she refused to respond to questions regarding her involvement in a hit-and-run accident. Fountain told her that they could resolve the situation in her office, or they could go down to the station and "resolve it the hard way," reports stated. [Read article]

Plan to deal with tension upsets some students

In a recent briefing addressed to the campus community, UA officials said that if the U.S. declares war on Iraq, "enormous tension" can be expected on campus, but they are ready to deal with it.

UA officials laid out a five-point plan to handle the turmoil that a war could spark at the university.

Students raised objections to a portion of the letter that urged them to congregate only in a designated free speech zone just east of the Krutch Cactus Garden. [Read article]

The Tucson Police Department has issued a warrant for the man they suspect of killing a UA law student.

Everett Alan O'Quin has been missing since before Monday afternoon when police found the body of his girlfriend, Susan Barber, in her home at 2426 N. Fremont Ave.

Some neighbors have reported that they saw O'Qinn packing items into a black 1993 Geo Metro, owned by Barber, several days before her body was found. [Read article]

TEMPE ÷ Doug Hartz has had a long week.

In four days the UA student body president has seen his fall break proposal, the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, take fire from the Faculty Senate and his tuition proposal rejected by the Arizona Board of Regents.

Yesterday he had to admit defeat when the regents voted 9-0 in favor of President Pete Likins' tuition proposal over his.

He couldn't believe it. [Read article]

Entrance standards will be more stringent in 2006

TEMPE ÷ The Arizona Board of Regents moved a step closer yesterday to giving universities more control over who they admit, but decided to delay changes in the requirements until 2006.

That move would give current high school students more time to prepare for the changes, said Jack Jewett, board president.

Proposals originally asked that students entering in the fall of 2004 be the first class admitted under changed admissions standards, but in the end regents decided that any changes would begin for freshmen entering a university in the fall of 2006. [Read article]

A UA student who was sexually assaulted in a campus parking garage last spring has filed suit against UA, claiming the garage was unsafe.

The complaint, which was transferred to Pima County Superior Court last week,

stated that the university did not take proper measures to assure safety in the Park Avenue Garage, 1140 N. Park Ave. An unknown man sexually assaulted the student in the garage April 26. [Read article]

Winning candidate will act as a chief officer in student government, overseeing student programs and services such as the Women's Resource Center and SafeRide

As an ASUA senator, Dan Suh saw some of his peers' ambitious platforms fall to pieces when the group's initial energy dissolved.

If elected administrative vice president, the finance and biochemistry sophomore said he wants to help maintain energy by providing guidance to program directors. [Read article]

Former NBA center Bill Walton, or "Luke's dad" as he commonly refers to himself, will be the featured speaker at the premier of the new Student Union Memorial Center tonight at 7.

"We'll cover it all that night," Walton said. "We'll cover it all."

The Hall of Famer made the trip to Tucson to attend the Wildcats' final home games this week at McKale Center, not as an announcer, but as a cardinal and navy clad parent. [Read article]

Teaching assistant doesn't think it's too chilly out; not a big fan of Phoenix or bad jokes

WILDCAT: What are you doing out here tonight?

GALLARDO: I'm a TA and I just had a study session for students. Now I'm on my way to my car.

WILDCAT: What did you guys study tonight?

GALLARDO: Public management stuff. I was pretty much trying to give students some help for their next test. [Read article]

· Seventy percent of witches are registered Republicans.

· Pennsylvania was the first colony to legalize witchcraft.

· Thirteen boxes of jello are sold every second.

· Turtles and honeybees are both deaf.

· In a survey, U.S. children ages 8-12 could name more brands of beer than presidents.

· One million seconds is 11.5 days. [Read article]

You are the big losers.

Faculty Sen. John Willerton to Student Body President Doug Hartz about the proposed fall break

"I knew it was going to be really close. I wasn't sure where Travis was going to be, he was kind of a dark horse."

Jered Mansell, ASUA presidential candidate, in reference to Travis Pritchett being eliminated from the ASUA race for student body president. [Read article]