They say that you don't miss something until it's gone, and for thousands of new UA students, that something is parents.

Maybe it's the inevitability of having to learn to cook and do laundry. Maybe it's the realization that you have to pay for everything. Or for students from north Scottsdale, it may be that their dorm room is about the size of the closet in their parents' house.

Indeed, college is usually the time where parents go from enemy to best friend. But for one UA student, it was the time he first became acquainted. [Read article]

After two years of delays, and despite monumental support given by two Federal Drug Administration advisory committees and staff, the emergency contraceptive commonly known as the "morning-after pill" still has at least another 60 days to wait for a yea or nay from the FDA.

The FDA cites three excuses for this failure to approve over-the-counter status, claiming that the contraceptive is not proven safe for women under 16, doubting the ability of women 16 and under to "interpret" the directions, and worrying about age-restriction enforceability. [Read article]

The composition of the 31-member search committee charged with finding a successor to President Peter Likins provides a shining example of the ways in which students are continually shut out of important decisions concerning the university's future.

Of the more than 50,000 people who daily walked the UA campus in 2004, nearly 37,000 were undergraduate, graduate and professional students, according to university figures. [Read article]