A recent proposal that would have renamed the Economics building after Yuma-born farm labor organizer Cesar Chavez was met with support, but not approval, last week in its first steps toward a name change.

Antonio Estrada, director of the Mexican American Studies and Research Center and Socorro Carrizosa, director of the UA Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs, sent the proposal to President Pete Likins and the Naming Advisory Committee Thursday. However, it failed to meet a part of the naming procedure that requires results showing support from occupants of the facility under consideration, said Wanda Howell, head of the naming committee. [Read article]

President, provost tell Faculty Senate to expect amended Focused Excellence changes

Senior administrators expect to release revised versions this week of plans to eliminate 16 university programs, Provost George Davis told the Faculty Senate yesterday.

Davis and President Pete Likins have been reviewing responses from deans and vice presidents to proposals they released in January calling for the elimination of the programs, which range from environmental hydrology to landscape architecture. [Read article]

Speed monitor will show drivers' speed; measure traffic flow

Motorists on campus might want to think twice when racing down the streets and avenues that cross the university.

A new device already popular in construction zones across Tucson has finally made it to the UA to help curb speeding.

The speed-monitoring device, which consists of a radar gun and a large flashing billboard not only tells motorists how fast they're traveling, but also collects data. [Read article]

Students who can't wait until the end of the semester to evaluate their instructors are now turning to online alternatives that allow them to get the job done.

Sites like ProfessorPerformance.com and Grade-It.com, both of which have UA links, enable students to go online to evaluate their teachers using the standard A through F grading scale and add other comments.

"I think such a Web site is actually a great idea," said Jennifer Bowers, a nutritional sciences lecturer who had two positive evaluations posted on ProfessorPerformance.com. [Read article]

Psychology sophomore discusses soap operas and desire to solve teenagers' problems

WILDCAT: Psychology of the what?

GREEN: Umm · of the mind.

WILDCAT: Right, what can you do with that one?

GREEN: I was thinking of creating a program for at-risk adolescents in the theater arts actually, I love drama and I love watching people come alive and define themselves, and watch them do something they never thought they could do. [Read article]

· The average housewife walks 10 miles a day around the house.

· NRA Life Member John F. Kennedy was shot by ACLU Life Member Lee Harvey Oswald.

· The garfish has green bones.

· Work of an artist cannot be exhibited in the Louvre until he or she has been dead for at least sixty years.

· Christopher Columbus was blond. [Read article]

Gluteus glee

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University of Notre Dame

Members of the University of Notre Dame Glee Club may face disciplinary action after one of their members mooned high school students and other Glee Club members at a Connecticut high school where the club performed during their spring break tour.

According to Tom Jones, principal of Suffield High School, a member of the Glee Club mooned other students in a rehearsal room before the Glee Club's performance. [Read article]

A headline yesterday incorrectly stated that University Heights was the location of a homicide. As the story stated, the shooting took place at University House on West Anklam Road, not University Heights on North Park Avenue. The Wildcat regrets the error.