Police can't find suspects who injured student near library

Three men in a car tried to kidnap a UA student and steal her purse two weeks ago near the Main Library, but police have no suspects in the case.

The student had just left the Main Library and was walking near North Cherry Avenue and East Second Street around 7 p.m. Jan. 21 when she saw a silver four-door car drive past her and then make a U-turn on Second Street, according to University of Arizona Police Department reports. [Read article]

Still working at UNC, next pres. on double duty

Robert Shelton, the next UA president, said this week he plans to visit the campus next month.

Shelton, the provost at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said Tuesday he is planning to visit the UA in early or mid-March for three to four days, depending on his busy schedule.

Shelton said although he will be taking the reins at the UA, he is still employed at UNC and has a lot of duties to attend to in the next couple of months. [Read article]

Student government elections are nearly underway as the two-week period to turn in applications ends this morning.

Associated Students of the University of Arizona officials will announce candidates appearing on the primary elections ballot Friday.

Jordan Miller, the ASUA election commissioner, said 45 application packets have been picked up. If all the packets are turned in complete by 9 a.m., those 45 students will vie for 13 executive positions: president, executive vice president, administrative vice president and 10 senators. [Read article]

Man, 72, suffers serious injury

Police diverted traffic away from an accident on North Campbell Avenue yesterday, causing a three-hour delay in traffic leading to campus.

The hit-and-run on North Campbell Avenue left an elderly man in the hospital in serious condition.

Charles Christopher Hodges, 19, was arrested around 3:30 p.m. for leaving the scene of an accident and booked into Pima County Jail, said Tucson Police Department spokesman Sgt. Mark Robinson. [Read article]

International students have had trouble getting appointments for a language test because of recent changes that limit the number of students who can take it each month.

The Educational Testing Service, a nonprofit testing organization, replaced the computer and written versions of the TOEFL, or Test of English as a Foreign Language, with an Internet version - called the iBT TOEFL - in the United States, Canada and other countries in Europe. [Read article]

Arizona Daily Wildcat

Regents to talk state budget, construction
By J. Ferguson

PHOENIX - The Arizona Board of Regents will meet today to discuss everything from competing budget proposals in the Arizona legislature to several new buildings slated for construction at the UA.

The regents will not discuss the tuition proposals released Monday at the meeting, which is held at ASU. The regents are expected to hold hearings on tuition later this month and set tuition for next year during their meeting March 7. [Read article]

Things you've always never wanted to know

• Astronomers believe that, on average, the universe contains one atom for every 88 gallons of space.

• If all the packages of cigarettes smoked by Americans each year were laid end to end, they would circle the Earth 21 times.

• Tidal waves move faster than any wheeled vehicle on Earth. On the open seas they sometimes approach speeds of more than 500 nautical mph. [Read article]
  
  

In yesterday's article "Students protest Bush speech," the congressional hopeful's name is Cassie Christensen, who is a political science and pre-law major.

In the caption for the Page 1 sit-in picture, Refuse and Resist was not clearly attributed as the group that organized the sit-in.

The Wildcat regrets the error. [Read article]