"Fees are a touchy subject."
- Erin Hertzog, ASUA senator and executive vice president-elect, on the possibility of instituting a small student fee to help fund for adaptive athlete programs

"It's easier to learn oceanography when you're actually in the ocean. ... I loved sloshing around in the mud."
- Lily Shevitz, media arts sophomore, on traveling on an oceanography field trip last weekend to Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico

My calves are tight and my right ass cheek hurts. It's obvious a man invented these. - Anthony Skevakis, program distributor for judicial affairs in the Dean of Students Office, on strutting for a mile in 2-inch black heels in the Walk to Stop Sexual Violence at noon Tuesday. April is Sexual Abuse Awareness Month

"The stereotype of Miss America is this Barbie doll. The whole waving, parade-riding beauty queen is not what Miss America is anymore."
- Andrea Hashim, dance graduate student, about the Miss America pageant after beating out nine competitors to be crowned Miss Tucson

"We can remember and be sad, but we're transforming it into a lesson. People don't understand how blessed they are on this campus. It puts everything into perspective."
- Jennifer Devorah Perry, communications and Judaic studies sophomore, present at the Holocaust vigil Wednesday

"It looks like a long sausage, about 18 feet long and about 8 feet in diameter, so a person can stand up in it. ... There are several rows in which we currently grow lettuce."
- Gene Giacomelli, director of the controlled environment agriculture program, describing his a great big growth chamber currently producing lettuce and other goodies at the South Pole. He also works on another chamber that is planned to go to Mars or the moon in a NASA spacecraft

"Today our silence is very loud. ... Today we took a stand and said, 'No I will not tolerate this.'"
- Alex Grubb, president of Students Promoting Respect and Individuality Through Education, breaking a nine-hour vow of silence Wednesday at 5 p.m. The National Day of Silence commemorates the silence the LGBT community has had and does endure