Likins and Davis propose extensive changes in form of mergers, reorganization

Administrators released yesterday seven preliminary proposals to merge university programs and 19 proposals to structurally alter a variety of university areas.

The plans include two proposals for merging entire academic departments, and also call for the renaming of two colleges and the elimination of several administrative positions, including the dean of the Graduate College. [Read article]

Media arts may move from College of Fine Arts to join journalism, communication

When Michael Dues, head of the communication department, read the list of proposed mergers and reconstructions, he saw exactly what he wanted.

Not only was the department of communication spared from a merger, but it was also included in a proposal to create a new college focused on "communication, journalism, and the media." [Read article]

The generation gap that once separated Generation X and the baby boomers is becoming narrower, and some UA students are finding out that their parents are a lot cooler than they thought.

Maya Pri-Tal, an undecided freshman, said she talks to her parents every day, while Sean Brandt said he talks to his parents at least 10 times a week.

More students are following the same trend, buying calling cards or extra minutes on their cell phones to check in with their parents throughout the week. [Read article]

More than 200 students, faculty and community activists lined East Speedway Boulevard yesterday afternoon, waving picket signs and chanting pro-choice slogans to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

The demonstration, organized by UA's Students for Choice, capped off a day of campus activities commemorating the 1973 Supreme Court case that gave women the right to choose.

Demonstrators flooded the corners of Speedway Boulevard and Mountain Avenue around 5:30 p.m., holding signs that said "Keep abortion legal" and "Honk for choice." [Read article]

Regents will discuss more stringent admissions policy

The Arizona Board of Regents will hold their first discussion on possible changes to admissions standards when they meet today in the Student Union Memorial Center.

Arizona's three university presidents will present various scenarios on potential admissions policy changes and how such changes would impact students.

Any discussion on admissions will be tied to guaranteeing accessibility for "qualified" Arizona residents, said Jack Jewett, president of the board. [Read article]

For a few minutes yesterday morning, Thomas Kovach thought he was safe.

Kovach, head of the German studies department, and his nine faculty members had feared the prospect of merging with Russian and Slavic studies, their department's neighbor in the Learning Services Building.

He was expecting to hear yesterday from his boss, Humanities College Dean Charles Tatum, if German studies would be targeted. [Read article]

John Szivek was recently awarded over $1 million, but he didn't win it on a reality TV show.

The National Institutes of Health gave Szivek, an orthopedic surgery research professor, $1.1 million to grow human cartilage in his lab. The cartilage will more closely mimic the natural cartilage that surrounds the bone in the joints.

"It's the hottest thing in orthopedics right now," said Bill Grana head of the orthopedic surgery department. [Read article]

Aerospace engineering junior likes monkeys in diapers, never tried astronaut ice cream

WILDCAT: Are you going to be an astronaut?

QUBTI: Um, no. Just an aerospace engineer, working for Boeing or NASA or Airbus, some of the big names out there.

WILDCAT: What if they were like, ÎHey, we want you to go into space with a monkey.' Would you do it?

QUBTI: Yeah, I'd probably go with a monkey. [Read article]

Discussion
Neurobiology Discussion Group, 12 p.m. Gould-Simpson building, Room 601

Art Exhibits
UA Museum of Art ÷ Artbuzz "Gloria et Miseria" 12:15 p.m.

Preforming Arts
UApresents: Contact (Winner 2000 Tony Award for Best Musical) 2 p.m. Centennial Hall

Lecture/Seminar
Lecture by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar 4 p.m. ÷ 5:30 p.m. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building, Room 202
Benjamin Burrows Lung Immunology Seminar Series 4:30 p.m. AHSC Burbank Conference Room, 2343

Workshop
Student Leadership Development Workshops ÷ "The Rules of the Game: Understanding Privilege" 5 p.m. ÷ 7 p.m. Student Union Memorial Center, Presidio Room

Harvard Crimson

Harvard University ÷ As minority populations in America's public schools continue to climb, schools across the country are becoming increasingly segregated, according to a report released on Thursday by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project.

According to the report, 44 percent of high schools have almost entirely black student populations, and only 14 percent of white students attend schools with significant minority numbers.

÷ Douglas G. Mulliken

Mustang Daily

California Poly State University ÷ Band girls gone wild: A group of college coeds have bared it all in an attempt to please California Poly State University's sexual appetite.

The "Carnegie or Bust" calendar is a university club's most extreme measure in raising money for its trip to Carnegie Hall this spring.

With more than a dozen band members setting the tempo by wearing only their birthday suits and strategically placed instruments, the band expects the calendar to toot some horns.

÷ Chrissy Roth

Daily Californian

University of California-Berkeley ÷ Wherever you may go in life over the next year, you can rest assured: a little piece of University of California-Berkeley will be orbiting 600 kilometers overhead.

A Boeing Delta II rocket delivered a satellite supported jointly by NASA and UC Berkeley into polar orbit at on Jan. 12.

"CHIPS is going to be the first mission that will detect extreme ultraviolet emission from the remnants of ancient supernovae that detonated near the area millions of years ago," said team leader Mark Hurwitz.