Students may see higher fees for MCB, finance classes if approved
New fees and fee increases could force some UA students to pay more for their education next year.
The Arizona Board of Regents will vote Thursday on whether to charge a new fee for an undergraduate finance course and raise the fees for a molecular and cellular biology course.
Students who will be taking Recombinant DNA Methods and Applications, or MCB 473/573, will have to pay $150 next semester as opposed to the $50 now required if the fee passes next week.
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It's not easy for most writers to get their work printed in magazines like McSweeney's and The New Yorker. Ann Cummins, a writer and professor, grew up Irish Catholic on a Navajo reservation, a child of working-class parents. It's in sharp contrast to the decidedly more suburban, bourgeois upbringing of most writers who publish in those institutions of modern short fiction. Tonight, she'll read some of her work tonight as part of the UA Visiting Prose Writers Series.
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