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UA may lose another $18M
When the Arizona Legislature gathers for a special session on Monday to try to close the state's $500 million deficit, it will likely mean another hefty chunk of funding cut from the university system, UA administrators said yesterday.
Between expected cuts to the UA and the Health Sciences Center, nearly $18 million may be removed from this year's operating budget, documents from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee show.
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Prof says she was assaulted by officer
UA police are investigating allegations that a police officer threw an associate professor of French to the ground, bruising her and breaking her eyeglasses, while trying to arrest her late last month.
Associate professor Irene d'Almeida said her clothing was also torn, and that she was cursed at by an officer who came to arrest her in the Oct. 30 incident.
Police visited d'Almeida in her office days after the victim of a hit-and-run accident identified what police believed to be d'Almeida's car as the one that struck him with a side mirror as he was crossing the street.
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Regents support substantial tuition hike
Regents agreed that it is time for a "substantial" increase in tuition and financial aid during their meeting yesterday at the Arizona Cancer Center, meaning that tuition could rise as much as $1,000 next year.
Regents pledged to focus on raising financial aid rather than keeping with their precedent of voting for low tuition and only minimal increases.
The regents should move toward setting aside at least 14 percent of any tuition increase for financial aid, a significant departure from the current policy that calls for setting aside 8 percent, said Regents President Jack Jewett.
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Slain profs remembered
When Don Burton was assigned the task of designing a billboard to honor the three professors who were murdered Oct. 28 at the College of Nursing, Burton looked to his own personal experience for the design.
Burton said that while his wife was being treated for leukemia, she always referred to the nurses who cared for her as "angels."
Appropriately, the billboard, which stands near Broadway Boulevard and Campbell Avenue, reads, "Our teaching angels · we will always remember."
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Parking offices closed today for relocation
Garages, CatTran, enforcement services and disabled cart service still running
Those looking to stop by Parking and Transportation Services' offices today to pay parking tickets will be out of luck, as the department is closed for moving.
PTS, formerly located in the University Services Building, 888 N. Euclid Ave., is relocating to a new office in the Sixth Street Parking Garage, 1117 E. Sixth St, today. The garage office building, which is just north of East Sixth Street, is the first of three Highland construction projects.
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Phun fest for future physicists
First night of Physics Phun draws 250 to observe Îfun' side physical equations
A professor lay on a bed of nails and an undergraduate shot a suspended teddy bear with a potato cannon as part of an event last night meant to show young students the fun side of physics.
About 250 people, mostly 7- to 16-year olds and their parents, watched as a host of professors, undergraduates and graduate students brought the equations of physics to life with exciting demonstrations during the first night of the annual Physics Phun Nite.
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On the Spot
Theatre arts junior ready for monogamous marriage only
WILDCAT: If you could be anything, would you be an actress?
VECCIA: No. I've seen too many people that aren't quality people in the acting industry.
WILDCAT: But you get paid a lot of money.
VECCIA: I get paid a lot in nursing, too.
WILDCAT: And in both you can have easy access to drugs.
VECCIA: That's true.
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Weekend Art Briefs
Political activism book event
Tonight at 7 join Joni Adamson and Teresa Leal for a talk about activism and environmental justice. Adamson is co-editor of "The Environmental Justice Reader," a new collection of interviews, essays and accounts of global environmental justice issues and activist efforts. The book shows how political activism, creative work and education are equally important parts of environmental justice activism.
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Fast facts:
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Gilda Radner was the first person hired for the first "Saturday Night Live" troupe; John Belushi was the last of the original cast members hired.
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The average life span of a fifth-century man in England was 30 years.
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The Hollywood sign was first erected in 1923. Conceived as a real estate ad, it originally read Hollywoodland. The sign stands 50 feet tall, stretches 450 feet across and weighs 450,000 pounds.
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The famous Rosetta Stone was found in 1799 near the town of Rosetta in north Egypt.
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In 1497, Portugal's Vasco Da Gama became the first European navigator to sail around the Cape of Good Hope, in his search for a sea route to India.
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In 1718, Edward Teach, known as "Blackbeard" the pirate, was killed off the coast of North Carolina.
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In 1917, the National Hockey League was officially formed in Montreal.
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In 1955, RCA Records paid a then-unheard of sum of $25,000 to Sam Phillips of Memphis, Tenn., for the rights to the music of truck driver Elvis Presley.
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In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
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Quotable...
"Events have moved faster than we could possibly have imagined."
÷ Estonian Prime Minister Siim Kallas, on the speed with which the Baltic nations of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania have joined NATO.
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