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Monday, February 28, 2005
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Some might call President Peter Likins the enemy of undergraduate education. Some students even say he's more alumni friendly than student friendly.
After all, from his office on the seventh floor of the administration building, students say, he can see the Alumni Plaza, but can he really be aware of what matters to students? Or just look at his past track record.
Over the past two years, it seems that the most significant changes and financial decisions at the UA focus solely on business and scientific research, not undergraduate education. Last week administrators announced a tuition hike and a slew of program fees for architecture, technology, business and engineering. For the past two years attention has focused on securing money for science buildings and funding for the improvement of science programs, including the new buildings for the biotechnology buildings in the Arizona Health Sciences Center. And on top of all this, proposals are sitting before the legislature right now asking for money for hydrology and health sciences.
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Latest Issue: February 24, 2005
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Sometimes it's fun to imagine that characters in Shakespeare's plays are real people. That, after the play is over, they go home, plunk down on their couches and flip on the TV. Othello likes "Fear Factor" and Hamlet is a big "Six Feet Under" fan. On Saturday nights their cell phones ring, and they're out the door.
But if Shakespeare's characters were real, I would also imagine that some of them wouldn't be as popular as the Prince of Denmark. On Saturday night Pericles sits alone in his studio apartment, waiting for the phone to ring, hoping that Lady Macbeth will invite him to the party. [Read article]
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Tucson and Campus Calendar
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New gallery, new artists
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Arts Briefs
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Bollywood fails to translate
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'Constantine' is hell to watch
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Oscar Staff Picks
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Blood Brothers rip it up
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OK Go gets lean and mean
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CD Reviews: Apostle of Hustle, Superwolf, Motley Crue
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Latest Issue: February 22, 2005
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Hookah offers safe and relaxing alternatives
College students are always looking for the newest, hippest and easiest trends to keep their bored little minds occupied. While smoking weed will always be fashionable, it's illegal too. As an alternative, locals, young and old, are getting together to smoke the legal way, with the help of the hookah.
The pastime has become even more popular in Tucson since Roger Smiley and his wife Sarah opened Smiley's Ultimate Hookah Lounge and Coffee last year. [Read article]
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