Students who receive a tuition waiver from the UA will still have to pay program fees if President Peter Likins' tuition proposal, which includes an 11.4 percent total increase of resident undergraduate tuition in addition to eight program fees, is approved in March.

Jerry Hogle, vice provost of instruction, said the program fees, also known as differential tuition surcharges, in Likins' proposal are separate from tuition. As a result, students would be required to pay those fees even if they do not have to pay tuition. [Read article]

If there was ever a question of the importance of experience, it showed last night in McKale Center.

The Arizona men's basketball team got 41 points from its two top seniors to take advantage of a young Oregon squad in front of a crowd of 14,597.

"Every night is senior night from now on," said senior center Channing Frye, who ended with 19 points, as classmate Salim Stoudamire contributed a game-high 22.

Meanwhile, Oregon started five underclassmen, and all but two of the team's points came from freshmen and sophomores. [Read article]

Since his calamitous debut on Monday, a debacle that very nearly resulted in his arrest, Smock has created quite a stir on the Alumni Plaza. Spewing rhetoric that is ignorant at best, and anti-Semitic and misogynistic at worst, the evangelist has engendered no small amount of student outrage. But while most of Smock's commentary is certainly shameful, it was the student response Tuesday afternoon that was most disappointing. [Read article]