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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, April 16, 2004

Quotes this week from campus and around the world

"Obviously, there's going to be a few people offended, but we're offended by affirmative action."

- Pete Seat, UA College Republicans president, on the CR bake sale on the UA Mall. Goodies were sold at gender- and race-specific prices, but were free for anti-affirmative action petition signers.

"It's a crazy stunt that 30 crazy frat guys are pulling off."

- Matt Van Horn, Apple student representative, on walking iPod advertisements. 30 members of Kappa Sigma are wearing bright yellow T-shirts for a month straight for free iPods.

"Oh shit, it's the cops."

- Unknown Navajo Residence Hall resident when police showed up trying to catch underage drinkers April 9. At the scene, an officer slipped on "liquid that smelled like beer" and broke a window.

"We're excited to get a player of Jesus' caliber at this point of the recruiting season. He is a proven winner with the ability to play a couple of positions for us. Jesus will definitely make our perimeter positions that much stronger."

- Lute Olson, UA men's basketball head coach, on incoming recruit Jesus Verdejo.

"There is nothing uglier than two naked guys running around. ... It takes balls of steel."

- "Man in Black," UA streaker, on, well, streaking at the UA.

"The people in Tucson made it clear that we want our wild areas wild. We don't want a green Disneyland."

- Lenny Molina, Chuk'son Earth First! activist, at a protest Tuesday demanding the release of a mountain lion captured near Sabino Canyon.