State universities will have more discretion in deciding which applicants to admit beginning in 2006, under new policies adopted Friday by the Arizona Board of Regents.

Resident students in the top 25 percent of their high school graduating class will still be guaranteed admission to the state university of their choice, but UA, ASU and NAU will be able to decide which other applicants to accept. [Read article]

A long-range plan presented to members of the Arizona Board of Regents Friday would more than double the amount of building space on campus, while reducing the number of parking spaces by 5,000.

UA's Comprehensive Campus Plan would increase building space to 19.5 million square feet from the current 9.4 million, largely by replacing many surface parking lots with buildings. Current campus growth boundaries would not change. [Read article]

It was a first for undergraduates.

With the approval of a $500 fee for business undergraduates, the regents gave the Eller College of Business and Public Administration the authority to charge students more for their education, a funding strategy traditionally reserved for graduate programs.

But with the close 5-3 vote and the intense discussion that preceded it, regents and administrators sent a clear message: They don't want to see more program fees for undergraduates. [Read article]

On the east end of campus, removed from the Student Union Memorial Center and the masses trudging to and from various buildings, 50 students are in class. The classroom has no desks, and the students move gracefully across the floor, in unison, entranced by the music whispering from the speakers.

They are UA dancers. And they will be getting a boost with big changes in store for their school. [Read article]

With the proposed extension of the Old Pueblo Trolley, students may soon have an easy way to shop, dine and barhop downtown.

The trolley currently runs on weekends between North Fourth Avenue's business district and UA's Main Gate, but the proposed extension would extend its current route to the downtown area and allow daily operation. As part of the planned Rio Nuevo project that hopes to revitalize Tucson's downtown, the extension would cost a total of $8 million. [Read article]

Some of Tucson's homeless population, firemen, and disadvantaged children are happier today thanks to the efforts of UA's greek community.

About 320 fraternity and sorority members volunteered at eight different locations across Tucson yesterday for All Greek Service Day, participating in activities that ranged from yardwork to bowling.

"The biggest problem has been that we have had too many people show up some places," said Mariel Furst, vice president of programming for the Panhellenic Association, which governs all UA sororities. [Read article]

Computers are connected to the Internet at all times, laser printers silently spew information and study rooms are encased in glass ÷ these are reasons why the UA Main Library is 29th in the nation, according to the Association of Research Libraries.

Available to students 24 hours per day, five days a week, and open until 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, the Main Library and Information Commons are convenient for students in need of a place to study, read or write. [Read article]

Optical sciences student Îkind of' from Michigan, doesn't get straight A's

WILDCAT: Any relation to Keith Primeau? He played for the Red Wings a while ago.

PREMEAU: Ah, no. But I have a brother named Keith, though.

WILDCAT: Really?

PREMEAU: Yeah, but it's not the same one.

WILDCAT: Oh, you guys aren't from Michigan?

PREMEAU: I am from Michigan, kind of. [Read article]

· The housefly is faster than a jet airplane. A fly moves 300 times its body length in one second, while the jet, at the speed of sound, travels 100 times its body length in one second.

· Camels have three eyelids and can shut their nostrils during a desert sandstorm.

· In his 30 years as host of "The Tonight Show," Johnny Carson delivered 4,531 monologues. [Read article]

Today

· 1967 ÷ Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused to be inducted into the Army.

· 1990 ÷ The musical Î'A Chorus Line'' closed after 6,137 performances on Broadway.

Tuesday

· 1981 ÷ Truck driver Peter Sutcliffe admitted in a London court to being the Yorkshire Ripper, the killer of 13 women in northern England during a five-year period. [Read article]