About 15 student government officials and candidates attended yesterday's tuition hearing with the Arizona Board of Regents. Combined, they made up nearly half of the attendees and an even larger percentage of the speakers.
Many of them arrived together, shortly after the meeting started. Some signed up to speak, though they evidently didn't realize they were doing so.
Current senator and executive vice presidential candidate Blake Buchanan left the meeting before his name was called, and when Sen. Jacob Reuben was called to the microphone, he told regents he thought he had signed an attendance sheet.
Reuben spoke anyway, on behalf of UA student lobbyists' plan to increase resident tuition by $400.
Two of the four presidential candidates, Alistair Chapman and Amanda Meaker, attended the hearing. Chapman is also a student lobbyist and one of the architects of the student tuition proposal.