UA students who rent houses or apartments in town say they're angry that they may have to pay a 2 percent renters' tax that would help the City of Tucson balance an estimated $1 billion budget.
The Tucson City Council and the city manager will meet tonight at a public forum to discuss the possible renters' tax, which would help the city pay for new services by taxing the roofs over renters' heads.
But students say helping the city out of its financial burden isn't their problem to solve, and it shouldn't cost them more money.
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If any instrument has been maligned within Western music, it is the steel pan. Most American music fans are introduced to the instrument via the laid-back sounds of Jimmy Buffet. That's usually where the relationship stops. But the UA Steel Band is trying to take the pans out of "Margaritaville" and back into the concert hall where they belong.
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There are several conspiracies about who runs Hollywood. Some people think it's the liberals. Others think it's the conservative right wing. I have come to the conclusion Hollywood is run by neither. That kid in your high school who collected comic books runs it.
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Jazz studies junior hopes to make it big in New York City
Most students make a distinction between their college experience and the "real world," worrying about what good their degree will do them once they graduate. But jazz vocalist Katherine Byrnes has been living in between her world as a serious music student and that of a professional jazz singer.
Finding that pursuing her music degree in a straightforward, academic way was unappealing, Byrnes prepared to drop out of school at the UA.
"I don't need the degree I'm getting ," Byrnes said in defense of her decision to leave school, "because the only thing I can do with my degree is perform and I can perform without it."
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