If the Legislature cuts 5 percent of the university budget at its special session today, colleges and departments will face an average cut of 3.3 percent, President Pete Likins announced at the Arizona Board of Regents meeting Friday.

The Optical Sciences Center is getting the smallest cut of all at 2.8 percent.

A number of colleges, such as the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences are facing a 2.9 percent cut. [Read article]

Researchers think cows' anticarcinogenic fatty acids may prevent disease

Milk and beef might be able to help in the prevention of breast, stomach and skin cancers with the help of animal science research being done at the UA.

Although the fat in milk and beef is often viewed as unhealthy, it actually contains cancer-preventing components. The most potent anticarcinogen, which is actually contained in trace amounts in milk and beef, is a group of fatty acids called conjugated linoleic acids or "CLA." [Read article]

Apparently it's nothing new.

Flashers, masturbators and other sexual perpetrators have been coming to the Main Library to test out pickup lines, pleasure themselves and expose their genitalia for years.

In the library during the last month alone, there have been three incidents of masturbation, one of indecent exposure and two cases of a man asking students to sketch their feet, one of which was coupled with masturbation. [Read article]

A squad of 15 police officers from the Tucson Police Department easily handled the Army flag football team yesterday in what was a final tune-up for the two teams before the Army vs. Navy game to be held on campus next month.

The officers, in their mid-20's and early 30's, outmuscled the roughly 30 university ROTC students, winning 42-8.

The game was set when the Army realized the Tucson Police had a competitive team. Both teams wanted to get prepared for upcoming games. The Army will play the Navy on Dec. 6 and the Police Department plays in the Toys for Tots tournament of December 1. [Read article]

She's a fan of rhymes, from ĪJack and Jill' to ĪMiss Muffet,' but she wouldn't live in a shoe

WILDCAT: What are you doing here today?

STARACE: Right now we're eating lunch.

WILDCAT: So, what is that? You have squeezable jelly, peanut butter and Ritz crackers · nice. That looks really healthy.

STARACE: It's good.

WILDCAT: Emily, what's your favorite nursery rhyme? [Read article]

DURHAM, N.C. ÷ After a prolonged discussion of a controversial resolution recommending installation of security cameras at Duke University's dorm entrances, Campus Council voted down the recommendation by a 8-5 vote Thursday night, citing doubt of the cameras' effectiveness.

"Most people want to do something about sexual assault but think cameras were not the way," said Few Quadrangle representative Jacob Flomenberg, a sophomore. [Read article]

BALTIMORE ÷ A recent article in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education stated that this year's undergraduate freshman class at Johns Hopkins University showed an 82.9 percent increase in the number of African-American enrollees as compared to last year. The report said "Johns Hopkins · [a school] with a heavy concentration in the sciences, posted impressive gains in black first-year enrollments · The number of blacks in the first-year class rose from 35 in 2001 to 64 this year. Blacks make up 5.7 percent of all freshmen · this year compared to 3.5 percent last year." [Read article]

PHILADELPHIA ÷ The National Labor Relations Board gave University of Pennsylvania graduate students the right to hold union elections in a decision announced Thursday.

The decision will direct an election supervised by the NLRB in early 2003 for certain groups of graduate students to decide whether or not they will be represented by a union in contract negotiations with the university.

The announcement came more than seven months after hearings ended between the University and Graduate Employees Together-University of Pennsylvania in late April, and a year after GET-UP initially filed a petition for an election with the NLRB in December 2001. [Read article]

"Have a great flight. I hope you have a good turkey dinner packed for Thanksgiving.''

÷ Endeavour launch director Mike Leinbach to its passengers Saturday night as the ship streaked off to the international space station.