Hoops coach, family plan to make pledge to Arizona Cancer Center

Lute Olson, head coach of the UA men's basketball team announced yesterday the Olson family plans to make a $1 million contribution to the Arizona Cancer Center. The donation is a gift from the family and will benefit the Bobbi Olson Endowment for Ovarian Cancer Research.

Olson said the donation "will set the stage" for a community that leads the world in women's cancer research, and "help things really happen." [Read article]

A student was killed in a hit-and-run car crash early Saturday morning on North Euclid Avenue and East Mabel Street.

Colin Rodriguez Griswold, 25, a philosophy doctoral student, was driving a 1994 Mazda Protégé with one passenger when a white 1986 Plymouth Reliant hit the driver's side of his vehicle around 12:40 a.m., said Michelle Pickrom, a spokeswoman for Tucson Police Department.

Griswold was pronounced dead on the scene, reports stated. [Read article]

University administrators proposed the idea to merge the curriculum and the location of UA South and the main campus during yesterday's Faculty Senate meeting.

Provost George H. Davis and Randall Groth, dean of UA South, said the merge of the two campuses would provide greater development for UA South while bringing diversity to the main campus.

"It's important to think carefully about a more deliberate, tighter relationship with UA South, all the time the two institutions retaining their own distinctiveness" said Davis, who said he was happy to explain the impending proposal to the Faculty Senate while it was still "fresh and embryonic." [Read article]

Michael Moore's October visit to the UA is still causing controversy, and one Tucson man says the UA violated federal campaign finance laws by paying the filmmaker to speak on campus.

Tucson attorney David Hardy, co-author of the book "Michael Moore is a Big Fat Stupid White Man," has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission saying the money the UA and other universities paid Moore to speak amounted to illegal campaign contributions for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. [Read article]

Twenty-one-year-olds living in the residence halls may have an advantage in age over their hallmates, but the elder coeds say life in campus residence halls is not much more beneficial for them.

Jim Van Arsdel, director of Residence Life and university housing, said the set alcohol policy for 21-year-old residence hall residents is very stringent.

The rule states that those over 21 years of age may only shelve and consume alcoholic beverages in the privacy of their own room, Van Arsdel said. [Read article]

PHOENIX - A Senate committee approved a bill last week to exempt fraternities and sororities from property tax if they buy a fraternity house from a university in Arizona.

The bill, sponsored by Sen. Dean Martin, R-Phoenix, expands property tax exemptions for independently owned fraternity and sorority houses.

As the law is written, fraternity houses are exempt from property tax while owned by a university. However, once an outside buyer purchases a house and property from the university, they become eligible for property taxation. [Read article]

It's back and now twice the fun!

Freshman digs old-school comedians, hopes Seinfeld won't end up like them

Wildcat: My name is Kylee and you're on the spot. So tell me, what do you think about Johnny Carson dying (of emphysema)?

Gustin: I think it was really sad. Johnny Carson was a big legend, you know. A TV entrepreneur, so I thought it was horrible. Sad.

Wildcat: Were you old enough to stay up that late to watch his show? [Read article]

Things you always never wanted to know

Correction Letter:

"With regard to your so-called 'Fast Facts,' Ted Hughes did not marry three times. He was married only twice (to Sylvia Plath and Carol Orchard). Of his two wives, only Plath committed suicide. However, his girlfriend Assia Wevill also committed suicide and killed their child. It is a pity that your 'facts' seem so unreliable."
- voice_of_eve@exclamatorydomainname.com [Read article]