Incoming business and nursing undergraduates may have to empty more from their pockets to pay for tuition next year.

Administrators announced yesterday that they are requesting business management undergraduates to pay an additional $250 per semester while nursing undergraduates pay an additional $1,000 per year.

These fees would be on top of the $1,000 tuition increase for resident undergraduates. [Read article]

Students likely won't see benefits next year if regents approve a proposed $1,000 tuition increase, but the university would face a dire financial situation without the hike.

So said President Pete Likins yesterday afternoon, shortly after formally proposing tuition hikes of $1,000 for in-state undergraduates, $1,250 for out-of-state undergraduates and in-state graduate students, and $1,500 for out-of-state graduate students. [Read article]

Balancing act teaches time management skills

A large number of UA students spend their nights flipping burgers instead of flipping text book pages, according to a Campus Health survey.

A Campus Health study conducted during the 2000-2001 school year found that 81 percent of incoming freshmen said they planned to work while attending the UA.

Sixty-one percent of UA students work 11 hours or more per week, the study stated. [Read article]

Former mayor and current UA political science professor Tom Volgy announced yesterday that he will challenge Mayor Bob Walkup in a bid to win back his old job.

More than 150 people, including UA students, showed up to a Democrats of Greater Tucson meeting yesterday to support Volgy.

Volgy said he was surprised to see so many people at the meeting, including his students.

"It was truly humbling," Volgy said. "I didn't invite (my students) because I don't recruit students for my campaigns, but I was really surprised." [Read article]

PHOENIX ÷ Sen. Robert Burns (R-Phoenix) introduced a bill yesterday to auction off all UA residence halls that have been paid for in full.

The bill, if passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, would mean higher expenses for students who live on campus.

Burns said Friday that he planned to introduce the bill, which proposes that the UA sell its residence halls, the land beneath the residence halls and any dining facilities within the halls to the highest bidder. [Read article]

The UA men's basketball team may have violated NCAA regulations when assistant coaches reimbursed a Kansas hotel $80 for candy on Jan. 25.

NCAA rules state that schools may provide three meals a day, or $10 for each meal, per player.

Following the Wildcats' 91-74 victory over Kansas, UA coaches reportedly gave $80 to desk assistant Michael Moore of the Marriott Spring Hill Suites in Lawrence, Kan. [Read article]

Students who threaten or physically abuse a teacher will likely face being administratively dropped from the course or expelled from UA, under a policy adopted yesterday by the Faculty Senate.

The plan will now be officially incorporated into university policy.

Under the plan, students who endanger, threaten or cause harm to faculty members, teaching assistants or other teaching staff can be automatically dropped from the course. A second offense can be cause for expulsion. [Read article]

Generous freshman would like to rule the world, see White House painted pink

WILDCAT: So you want to be a big business woman?

RODRIGUES: Yes, that would be nice.

WILDCAT: I agree. Women need to rule this world.

RODRIGUES: I wouldn't mind doing that actually.

WILDCAT: What's the first thing you would do as president?

RODRIGUES: That's a difficult question. [Read article]

Seminar
· Physiology Seminar Series, 11 a.m. ÷ noon, Arizona Health Sciences Center, Room 5403
· Public Health Grand Rounds, Noon ÷ 1 p.m., Arizona Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium

Campus Town Hall
· conversation with the president, provost, and AHSC Vice President Raymond Woosley, Noon ÷ 1:30 p.m. Arizona Health Sciences Center, DuVal Auditorium

Colloquia
· Latin American Studies Brown Bag Colloquium, 12:15 p.m. ÷ 1:15 p.m. Douglass building, Room 102

Workshop
· General Education Writing Workshops, 5:00 p.m. ÷ 6 p.m., Modern Languages building, Room 413.

Meeting
· Alliance for Peace and Justice in the Middle East Meeting, 6:00 p.m. ÷ 7:30 p.m., Economics building, Room 105

Lecture
· Faculty Community Lecture Series, 7:30 p.m. ÷ 9 p.m. University Medical Center, DuVal Auditorium

University of Colorado Colorado Daily ÷ After a scuffle in which University of Colorado police and a student exchanged pepper spray at a peace rally Wednesday, police now admit they sprayed first.

Police spokesman Tim McGraw had said Wednesday that police only used pepper spray in self-defense after being sprayed by a student.

McGraw said Thursday that investigations had revealed that officers had, in fact, shot the irritating chemicals first in an act of "crowd management."

Testing for the EPA

Middle Tennessee State Sidelines÷ The Middle Tennessee State University aerospace department has assisted the Environmental Protection Agency in testing some new emission equipment.

The new equipment measures exhaust and other emissions given off by cars, planes and other vehicles. Emissions from factories can also be measured using the new equipment.

Most of the research has been done by the aerospace department's maintenance management sector.

Fraternity in trouble
Cal Poly

Mustang Daily ÷ Members of Sigma Chi fraternity are being served a summons and complaint that allegedly holds nine members responsible for the death of Brian Gillis, a Sigma Chi member who died last April from a Gamma-Hydroxybutrate overdose.