"Musty paperbacks turn students on."

÷ headline of a brief in Rolling Stone about masturbation in UA libraries

"It is counterintuitive but nonetheless a fact that universities with the highest tuition have the highest access."

÷ ASU President Michael Crow speaking on the need to raise tuition at the Board of Regents meeting last week

"One funding stream that stands out because it's not a funding stream · it's like the Rillito is state-appropriated financial aid."

÷ Board of Regents President Jack Jewett talking to student journalists last Thursday about the lack of a state financial aid program

"A hard pill to swallow."

÷ Slogan for the Women's Pregnancy Center's campaign to increase women's knowledge about RU-486

"Whatever the duration of this struggle and whatever the difficulties, we will not permit the triumph of violence in the affairs of men. Free people will set the course of history."

÷ President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address on Tuesday

"If it's not passed, we're done."

÷ Brian Van Buren, general manager of KAMP student radio on the $1 fee that students will vote on during student elections

"But sometimes between hanging out in a packed club in Tel Aviv, sharing a taxi with a young Arab woman, and watching Pokˇmon with my 5-year-old distant cousin, I realized something that the media in the States seem to ignore · people are living here."

÷ David Halperin, commenting on life as a student in Israel

"I drive a weapon of mass destruction."

÷ Bumper sticker placed on a student's sport utility vehicle

"I think we proved to the world that we're the number one team."

÷ Salim Stoudamire after scoring a career-high 32 points and leading the UA to a victory over Kansas University

"We're daring to change this institution."

÷ Provost George Davis said as he defended Focused Excellence at the Campus Town Hall

"Got info? We need a library school!"

÷ Poster held by SIRLS students as they marched into the town hall held on Tuesday

"This faculty will leave. They will despair · This is a very significant amount of further damage."

÷ UA lobbyist Greg Fahey commenting on the Republicans' proposal to cut UA's budget by $35.2 million

"I was there to play basketball, not steal anything."

÷ senior basketball forward Luke Walton on charges that UA basketball players stole from a vending machine at a Kansas hotel