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Rape suspect Selby arrested in hospital
Man charged with 4 campus-area rapes apprehended in Colorado Springs yesterday
The man charged with four rapes near UA last year was arrested yesterday afternoon, after walking into a Veterans Administration Hospital in Colorado Springs and giving his name to hospital officials who recognized him from police photographs.
James Allen Selby is wanted in Oklahoma, Nevada, California and Arizona in connection with 15 sex crimes committed in the past four years.
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Childcare reps say UA needs daycare
Representatives from school and daycare centers across Tucson met with Provost George Davis and Vice Provost Libby Ervin on Monday in an attempt to salvage plans for childcare at the UA.
Seventeen people from child-related organizations like United Way, Head Start, the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Child Development Center, the Jewish Community Center Early Learning Center and others took turns addressing Davis and Ervin on the need for an on-campus childcare center at the UA.
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No more boogieing at Tiki Bob's Cantina
Clubgoers heading for the dance floor at Tiki Bob's Cantina will have to find another place to get their groove on.
The popular UA hangout and Tucson nightclub closed Sept. 16 after failing to renew its temporary liquor permit.
"We are temporarily closed for remodeling. Thanks for all your good times and we look forward to seeing you in the future," says a voice on the Tiki Bob's answering machine.
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Enrollment highest in campus history
Combined graduate and undergraduate enrollment at UA has reached a record high of 36,847 students, topping the previous enrollment record of 36,676 set in 1989.
The UA was bound to break old enrollment records.
Last year's record-breaking freshmen class of 5,949 is in its second year and this year's freshman class of 5,808 students is UA's second-largest ever, according to statistics compiled by the Office of Assessment and Enrollment Research.
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On the Spot
Museum curator gets frank on archaeology, gardening and other ways of playing in the dirt
GRINDELL: I'm an assistant curator at the Arizona State Museum.
So what exactly do you do?
GRINDELL: I'm exactly in charge of what is actually a specialized archive of archaeological records for the state of Arizona collected by many different people.
WILDCAT: That's a lot of history!
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National College News
Students vote to make Loyola College dormitories smoke-free
BALTIMORE ÷ All on-campus housing will now be smoke-free, as decided by a very close vote of all students living in upperclassmen housing last week.
A new non-smoking policy was announced by the Resident Affairs Council last year. The policy stated that smoking would be prohibited in Newman Towers, Campion Tower, Aquinas Hall and all freshman dorms.
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Fast facts:
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The studios wanted Matthew McConaughey cast as hero Jack Dawson in the 1997 box office hit "Titanic," but director James Cameron insisted on Leonardo DiCaprio.
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At Disneyland Paris, the park's famous Sleeping Beauty Castle is known as Le Ch‰teau de la Belle au Bois Dormant.
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Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can get sunburns.
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The old Chinese Telephone Exchange in San Francisco was completed in 1909. Operators were required to be proficient in English and five Chinese dialects. They were also obliged to learn every phone number of every one of the company's 2,400 clients because the company believed it was rude to refer to a person as a number.
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In 1493, Christopher Columbus set sail from Cadiz, Spain, on his second voyage to the New World.
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In 1690, one of the earliest American newspapers, "Publick Occurrences," published its first, and last, edition in Boston.
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In 1775, American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen was captured by the British as he led an attack on Montreal.
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In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification.
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In 1954, Elvis Presley made his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry.
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In 1962, Sonny Liston won the world heavyweight boxing title after knocking out Floyd Patterson in the first round in Chicago.
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In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female to sit on the United States Supreme Court bench, as she was sworn in as the 102nd Justice.
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In 1990, the United Nations Security Council voted to impose an air embargo against Iraq after its invasion of Kuwait. Cuba cast the only dissenting vote.
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Quotable...
"If the death penalty is to be part of our system of justice, due process of law and the fair trial guarantees of the Sixth Amendment require that standards and safeguards governing the kinds of evidence juries may consider must be rigorous, and constitutional rights and liberties scrupulously protected."
÷ William Sessions, U.S. District Judge
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