Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday April 11, 2003
Quotes this week from campus and the world
"Within five minutes, we saw a naked guy in a tree, a homeless guy in a chicken suit and a bonfire."
- Sophomore Lindsay Skorupa on Syracuse's night of revelry after winning the NCAA championship.
"You can talk about hunger until you die, but there is nothing like a personal experience to change someone and then change the system."
- Brian Flagg, director of the Casa Maria soup kitchen, at the Hunger Banquet, Tuesday.
"Every time I go to that intersection, I freak out."
- Nate Riordan, an engineering and physical sciences junior, reflecting on his accident at Park and Speedway that totaled his car.
"I was in my living room and kind of thought, ÎWere those fireworks going off?'"
- Mike Rocque, a UA graduate and resident of the University House apartment complex, where a Sunday morning shooting left two residents dead and four wounded.
"And you never know. An officer could be right behind the machine checking speed."
- University of Arizona Police Department Sgt. Mike Smith warning students not to violate speed limits.
"That's the sound of freedom."
- Spanish instructor Giulianna Donnelly as she remembered what her husband, who died in a military helicopter crash, would always say when he heard jets flying overhead.
"It just seems ridiculous that we have 30,000 students at school, and a lot of them are looking at five years because they're cutting class size and losing teachers."
- Dave Downey, a communication senior, venting his frustration because he can't get enough classes to graduate on time, while his tuition money pays off the debt on buildings.
"Pathetic space would be a reason."
- Provost George Davis explaining why the architecture expansion justifies the use of tuition dollars to pay off debt.
"Right now it's inhumane."
- Dean Richard Eribes on the lack of space in the architecture building.
"We are here because everyone deserves to be treated like a human being. Farm workers are people too, and people need to know who they are affecting when they spend their money here."
- Inez Duarte, a Mexican-American studies and political science major, who joined a group of protesters calling for a boycott of Taco Bell.