Word Up


Arizona Daily Wildcat
Friday, November 21, 2003

  • "Free food always attracts people." - Xuemei Cai, president of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association and biochemistry science junior, was out on the Mall distributing turkey sandwiches to encourage people to quit smoking cold turkey for the Great American Smokeout.

  • "Alcohol goes really good with food. It's part of the traditional college experience." - Gale Welter, a nutrition counselor at Campus Health, on why people make their way to Los Betos after a night of drinking.

  • "I don't have a Gatorade card. I can't walk into any Circle K and say, 'Hi, I'm the Gatorade girl. I'm going to get a Gatorade.' I get that one a lot." - Bre Ladd, UA volleyball sophomore middle blocker and 2001 Gatorade National High School Volleyball Player of the Year.

  • "Loans and grants will be available for every student that wants to go to college. That program will cost over 10 years the same as what we spend over one year in Iraq." - Frank Costanza, representative of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, pitching the Democratic candidate's ideas to students.

  • "It can't be considered porno. If it's in an English book, then they call it art. I think they don't want readers to get bored, so they throw in some boobs." - Nikki Medina, senior majoring in English, commenting on the naked Adam and Eve put up on a screen at Monday's Milton Marathon.