PHOENIX ÷ A bill to give the UA $182 million to build biotechnology labs, a new medical education center in Phoenix and an expansion on the Chemistry building cleared its first hurdle yesterday by a 9-0 vote in the Senate Committee on Education.

Around campus, the money would go to build the Institute for Biomedical Science and Biotechnology building, for $65.6 million; a medical research building where researchers would study health, aging and disease at the molecular level, at $54.1 million; and expand the Chemistry building southward, at $17.2 million. [Read article]

When Glyn Bolasky decided to send his two daughters to the UA, he felt he was making a deal with the regents to keep tuition increases low throughout their academic careers.

Yesterday, he told top UA administrators and two regents that a proposed $1,000 tuition hike would violate that deal. Bolasky, the father of a senior and a freshman, challenged them to drastically lessen the increase for current students, but leave it high for new students. [Read article]

New proposal would make Thanksgiving break longer

The UA could save up to $846,000 if ASUA President Doug Hartz's fall break proposal is passed and the university closes for nine days for Thanksgiving.

Hartz and ASUA Director of Academic Affairs Christopher Farney are pushing to get fall break on the faculty senate agenda next month.

If approved by the faculty senate, the vote would go to the Arizona Board of Regents. But if they don't approve the plan with the three extra days of vacation, Hartz will propose tacking on extra days to the beginning of the semester to maintain the number of class days. [Read article]

Resident assistant talks about evicting students and justifications for illicit alcohol

WILDCAT: So, what's it like being an RA?

NOBLE: It gets pretty crazy.

WILDCAT: You have to knock people around, keep them in line?

NOBLE: Oh yeah.

WILDCAT: Yeah, you look so brutal.

NOBLE: Oh, you'd be surprised. The other day we made T-shirts and mine said ÎI'm authorized to do terrible things, have a great day.' [Read article]

· More people are killed by donkeys annually than in airplane crashes.

· Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

· An ostrich's eye is bigger that its brain.

· The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.

· In every episode of "Seinfeld," there is a Superman somewhere.

· There are four cars and 11 light posts on the back of a $10 bill. [Read article]

Eller MBA students win competition for third year

MBA students at the University of Arizona's Eller Graduate School of Management took first and third place in the annual UA/ASU Intel Case Competition held Saturday, Feb. 1, in Phoenix.

They brought home the state competition trophy for the third straight year. A student team from Arizona State University took second place. A total of six teams participated in the event. [Read article]