When she arrived at the UA three years ago, Christine Yafuso turned away from her Christian faith.

"I came here by myself, not knowing anyone," said Yafuso, an ecology and evolutionary biology senior. "I was very homesick and I didn't find a church to attend. I started hanging out and making friends with people in my dorm, many of them not being Christians. We would always go out to parties and drink a lot." [Read article]

"Only half a mile left!" yelled a man before he stuck a recorder in each nostril and a Dixie whistle in his mouth and started playing a tune.

Clay Adams, a local performer known as Black Man Clay, was one of more than 2,000 people marching in remembrance of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. yesterday.

"I'm here for Dr. King," Adams said. "He was a prince of peace."

Adams, along with John Aza on drums and Paul Stephen on tambourine, entertained the marchers as they walked from the UA Mall to Reid Park. [Read article]

Muscat named to magazine's list of top U.S. scientists

When most people hop on the Internet, snap a digital photo or answer their cell phone, the technological implications of the devices are the last thing on their minds.

But behind every new electronic toy is a group of researchers made up of people like UA chemical and environmental engineering associate professor Anthony Muscat, who pushes the realm of what is technologically possible. [Read article]

Current students would be 'grandfathered' into old rates if tuition rises

PHOENIX - A Phoenix lawmaker is pushing legislation that would guarantee full-time students stable tuition rates and make across-the-board tuition hikes for Arizona undergraduates illegal.

The bill, sponsored by Rep. Debbie McCune Davis, D-Phoenix, would make tuition increases solely applicable to the UA's incoming class, and let students enrolled in at least 12 credit hours the semester before a tuition or fee increase attend school at the cheaper rate. [Read article]

Adam Duckworth hopes that in 2004, John Edwards will be the 44th president of the United States.

From start to finish of the North Carolina senator's campaign, Duckworth, a political science sophomore, will try to pass on Edwards' beliefs and cause.

On Friday morning, Duckworth climbed into the 15-passenger van that took him across three states in the last days before the Iowa caucus.

As the van coasted along the highway and through the Wyoming fog, Duckworth received the news he desperately wanted to hear, as the latest polls of the Iowa caucus indicated that Edwards was in a dead heat with three other candidates. [Read article]

Campus Health has moved into a new location that offers more services, more space and a more convenient location for staff and students.

After sitting at North Cherry Avenue and East University Boulevard for almost 10 years, Campus Health is now settling into its new location at the Highland District.

Campus Health's move brings new seminars and classes to students in a variety of subjects.

"We offer classes ranging from asthma education to sexual responsibility. (Counseling and Psychological Services) also has things like alcohol and depression screenings, and even yoga," said Leeann Hamilton, health educator. [Read article]

Students living in three campus residence halls experienced problems with their Internet yesterday, complaining that their service had been either sporadic or totally unavailable over the holiday weekend.

Residents of Gila, La Paz and Yuma Residence Halls began to report problems with their Internet as early as Thursday, saying they were not always able to log on to the Web.

In addition, some residents were able to access the Web while a roommate was not able to. In some cases, students could also log on to only a select number of Web sites. [Read article]

Students living off campus may soon see an increase in their water bills.

At today's meeting of the Pima County Board of Supervisors, it will be decided whether to institute an increase in the average bill from $13.11 to $15.52.

The increase is necessary in order to maintain and repair deteriorating sewage pipes and a water treatment plant that is becoming ineffective due to its age, said Laura Fairbanks, Community Relations Specialist at Pima County Wastewater Management. [Read article]

Freshmen spent MLK day shopping, sleeping and doing homework; enjoy the socialization of smoking

Wildcat: Hi, my name's Nathan and you're both on the spot. Ugh ... it's cold out here.

Nissen: You're very cold.

Glass: I'm, like, warm.

Nissen: Me too. I'm hot.

Wildcat: That's because you're smoking. It's like a fire you can warm yourself by. (feeling chest) My nipples are all hard; they're all cold. [Read article]

Things you always never wanted to know

Jan. 14, 1975

Decades of scheduling problems

Irritated by scheduling blunders? Students in this line would have quickly switched places with students in today's world, who can easily add or drop classes using the online WebReg system of class scheduling. In a line stretching onto the Mall, students nearly 30 years ago had to wait outside Bear Down Gym to receive materials for schedule changes during their free drop-add day. 1975 was the first year students had to pick up their six-part pre-registration forms rather than receive them in the mail. Fifteen minutes after opening, a line of 100-150 students had already formed. Students lined up according to the first three letters in their last names and picked up their forms at designated times. [Read article]