A simple walk between classes became a lesson in sexual harassment for three UA students Friday.

As they were walking south toward the Highland Tunnel underpass, a man standing at the bus stop above unzipped his pants and started grabbing his crotch yelling "I want to fuck you," and other obscenities.

One of those students, who requested to be identified as Mimi because the suspect is still at large, was later confronted by the man three hours later in the parking lot next to the same bus stop, 1395 E. Speedway Blvd. Just as earlier in the day, the man grabbed his crotch and yelled obscenities. [Read article]

After two years of budget woes, administrators are saying that the university is emerging from the budget crisis, and as a result students might soon have an easier time getting the classes they need.

This year the university's budget increased by $44.9 million with $20.1 million of that increase coming from last year's record-setting $1,000 tuition hike, said Dick Roberts, budget director.

To help students out administrators have decided to hire new faculty with $4 million of the revenue generated by last year's tuition increase, said Roberts. [Read article]

Rock-throwing marks 3rd incident in 1-month span

Vandals damaged the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity (FIJI) house last weekend for the third time since August.

A rock was thrown through a first floor window and the front door lock was damaged sometime between when construction workers left the site Friday afternoon and when they returned early Monday morning, according to police reports.

No damage was found inside the house. [Read article]

Nearly all the students who have been awaiting millions of dollars in aid since early August have finally received it.

At the beginning of the school year, the financial aid office had yet to distribute over $8 million in aid.

By the end of next week, the Office of Financial Aid will have caught up to the amount it gave out to students by mid-September last year, said John Nametz, director of financial aid. [Read article]

For too long the humanities and the sciences have been academically isolated from one another, and now the College of Humanities wants to change that.

Last night, 250 people attended the first in a series of conversations about ways that humanities, sciences, social sciences and the arts can successfully collaborate in one academic institution.

The series, called "Vital Signs: a Work of Humanistic Inquiry Today," was hosted by the College of Humanities with the hope of bringing to light the value of humanities in relation other fields. [Read article]

A UA student's plan to bring environmentalists and ranchers together has garnered her national recognition.

Sarah McDonald, an agriculture resource economics sophomore, won first place in the campaign plan category at the National Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow Convention held this past summer in Kansas City, MO.

She is the first student from UA to win this honor; UA's ACT club was just started in January. [Read article]

Students who shelled out hundreds of dollars in books at the beginning of the year might not know it, but their money not only goes to the bookstore, it also funds ASUA.

Students' myths have circulated about the source of ASUA's $924,103 budget with guesses ranging from the Arizona Board of Regents to private donors to tuition.

"I believe ASUA gets most of its money from the university budget and students' tuition," said John Bridges, pre-business junior. [Read article]

Consumer science junior is a fan of Rufio and ÎReal World,' doesn't like kissing big-nosed men

Wildcat: Did you know that today is "International Talk Like a Pirate Day?"

Weinress: I was not aware.

Wildcat: What is your favorite pirate-y word?

Weinress: "Aye-aye, Captain." Wait, that's not one. "ARGGGH!"

Wildcat: Do you think you'd be good for "Pirates of the Caribbean?" [Read article]

Quotes from around campus and the world

"I think they should build another garage or at least lower the fees. I guess they have to make a buck, but it's expensive for a college student. I don't think they realize how broke as a joke I am."

marketing sophomore Paul Pintek, on the high cost of parking permits.

"The thief just rushed by and pulled the purse from my arm. He was obviously very skilled."
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· According to modern theories of higher mathematics: If a person approached the speed of light he would shrink to a tiny size. If a person surpassed the speed of light he would start moving backward in time. The shortest distance between two points is a curve, not a line. Parallel lines eventually meet. Time is a curve. Space is, paradoxically, at the same time both infinite and bounded. There is no such thing as a straight line in the universe. The faster an object moves in space the heavier it becomes - but at the same time, the smaller it becomes. [Read article]