Students got a chance to learn about all that ASUA has to offer during yesterday's ASUA Day.

ASUA Day is a once per semester event with the goal of increasing awareness of ASUA and each of its departments. The event lasted for two hours yesterday.

Students were able to register to vote, toss water balloons, rock climb, and volunteer for the various committees that are affiliated with ASUA.

"I think ASUA Day is awesome. I remember it last year but as a freshman it was hard to get involved, but this year it is an awesome program," said Shannon Scott, a political science sophomore. [Read article]

Spring registration begins this weekend, and that will mean another round of tuition bills for students who say they are struggling to pay the $1,000 tuition hike.

Although administrators allocated $14 million of the revenue generated by the tuition hike, the largest in UA history, towards financial aid, students say it has not been enough.

Mary Aroz, a physical education sophomore, receives financial aid through grants and student loans. [Read article]

When Laura Hartstone traveled to Tanzania, Africa, this summer as part of an AIDS awareness program, her eyes were opened to another world.

Hartstone, an environmental sciences sophomore, realized the seriousness of this worldwide epidemic when a village woman came to her, pleading for medicine for a young boy whose weakened immune system caused by advanced HIV left him with a fungal infection on his scalp. [Read article]

Students make hobby of downloading porn

Students in residence halls acknowledge that they use the campus network to download pornography, but university officials said that they do nothing to stop this practice even though it's technically a code of conduct violation.

The university doesn't have the resources to send "squads" of people to enforce this, said Sharon Kha, the UA spokeswoman. [Read article]

As the country gears up for one of the worst flu seasons in years, students are encouraged to roll up their sleeves and feel the pinch of an annual flu shot.

"Australia got hit pretty hard (with the flu)," said Carrie Torrington, nurse coordinator and registered nurse at Campus Health Services. "We are expecting a pretty bad flu season."

In the United States more than 36,000 people die each year from the flu, a preventable illness, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention. [Read article]

Sophomore has a full head of hair without the help of Rogaine and likes crab puffs

Wildcat: My name's Nathan and you're On the Spot. I've been following you for like, a hundred meters.

Libbon: Yeah. We're in a hurry.

Wildcat: All right. I'll try to keep this quick. Are you hungry? Is that why you're in a hurry.

Libbon: Yeah.

Wildcat: So I'm walking behind you and I'm getting more and more jealous because you have a pretty full head of hair, right? And I think I'm going bald. Like, at the back. (bends head forward and points) Look at that. Isn't that major thinning right there? [Read article]

Quotes from around campus and the world

"He felt like he got great tickets to the game."

÷ Chicago resident Ron Cohen, 63, about Steve Bartman

"You cost us the World Series!"

÷ One Chicago Cubs fan to Steve Bartman during Cubs vs. Marlins game six

"Today, this is not about icon politics. Today is about the history of our people, and the struggle of our people."

÷ Richard Ch‡vez on the CŽsar Ch‡vez building name change [Read article]

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