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Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, April 23, 2004

"If they pull out, there will be a big economic mess over there. And if they stay in, then more soldiers could perish. I don't really know what the best thing is right now."

- Jacob Hall, pre-pharmacy sophomore, on the U.S. presence in Iraq.

"They would see each other every few months and hang out. They were both secretly in love with each other but too scared to get back together."

- Noelle Gaffney, a close friend of Lindsay Schiffman, on Joseph Johnson and Schiffman's relationship. The two former UA students died Sunday in an early-morning motorcycle accident.

"We have a president who plunged us into a war that was based on fabrications, lies and deceptions day after day. If that isn't an impeachable offense, it is hard to find what is."

- Ralph Nader, independent presidential candidate, on President Bush.

"I'd go to the moon or Mars in a nanosecond."

- Don Pettit, astronaut and UA alumnus, on his experiences in space and aboard the International Space Station.

"It strikes me that the committee has brokered a really happy marriage here. A happy marriage is not an easily won thing."

- Jennifer Jenkins, faculty senator and associate professor in the humanities program, on the Faculty Senate's 18-0 vote to spare the School of Planning.

"People really dig the '80s hair-metal music. Everyone's got some spandex and a wig hidden somewhere."

- Kane Flint, lead singer of R' Aqua Net, on its music.