|
|
|
Monday, January 31, 2005
|
Presidents support tuition increases
TEMPE - The three state university presidents voiced their support for more tuition hikes Friday, but said predictable tuition increases over time could be a risk due to uncertainty in the external market.
At the Arizona Board of Regents meeting at Arizona State University, regents discussed a proposal to make tuition increases predictable every four years so families could budget their finances. However, the university presidents said the instability of factors such as financial aid and state appropriations would make the proposal challenging.
[Read article]
|
|
Women's reproductive rights discussed at UA mall rally
A woman's right to autonomy over her own body was discussed at the Arizona Coalition for Fairness Rally presented by the UA Students For Choice on the UA Mall Saturday.
The celebration commemorated the anniversary of the controversial Roe v. Wade decision giving women the right to an abortion. Speakers and bands tried to generate positive activity and a greater understanding of women's reproductive freedom to a crowd of more than 30 people.
[Read article]
|
|
|
UA lone Pac-10 school not requiring first-year meal plan
The Arizona Board of Regents approved Friday to implement a mandatory meal plan at Arizona State University for on-campus freshmen beginning fall 2006, making the UA the only university in the Pacific 10 Conference not requiring freshmen to pay some kind of dining fee.
The UA is also the last Arizona university to not have such a plan, as Northern Arizona University imposed a mandatory dining plan for freshmen in August.
[Read article]
|
|
UA student takes Tucson gem show into own hands
A UA student may be one of the youngest Hispanic women to hold a leadership role in the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, one of Tucson's biggest annual moneymaking and culturally inviting events.
Lynda Cruz, a Latin American studies junior, said she became show manager of the Best Western Executive Inn's Mineral and Fossil Show by talking to her manager about bringing an independent show, separate from the more commercialized mineral and fossil shows, to the hotel.
[Read article]
|
|
Students speak out at open mic and poetry night
Visitors to the Cellar restaurant in the Student Union Memorial Center were in for a surprise Friday when the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity held their semi-annual poetry and open mic night.
The night started off slowly but gathered steam as students and members of the Tucson community spoke and read on issues such as love, racism, friendship, spirituality, the war in Iraq and hip-hop culture.
The poetry night is a 10-year-old tradition of the Alpha Alpha Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Sigma, and is a place where anyone is free to speak their mind, said Skyler Miles, a music junior and a member of Phi Beta Sigma.
[Read article]
|
|
|
Undergraduate Biology Research Program shows their stuff
Move over Einstein, a new generation of scientific thinkers is making its way into the field of biology.
More than 100 UA students displayed their research in various scientific fields including breast cancer, quantum research and genetics at the Life Science South building, Saturday.
The 16th annual Undergraduate Biology Research Program presented 85 different projects and provided students with the opportunity to present their experimental results, said Carol Bender, program director.
[Read article]
|
|
|
UA to draw $20 mil in tuition for building projects
The UA plans to use $20 million of anticipated tuition money to fund campus building projects in 2006, a measure administrators say is a last resort.
The Arizona Board of Regents approved the Deferred Renovation, Building Renewal and Infrastructure project Friday, granting the UA permission to take out tuition-supported certificates of participation, which are comparable to bonds.
Joel Valdez, senior vice president for business affairs, said the UA has not received state funding for building renewal in four years.
[Read article]
|
|
|
NASA Spacegrant makes science accessible to students
A lecture on the asteroid that led to dinosaur extinction and meteorite impacts on our earth in past and present was held Friday in the Kuiper Space Science building.
Part of the NASA Spacegrant, a funded statewide program enabling student research, the lecture was lead by David A. Kring, professor of planetary sciences.
Kring, who was part of the team that discovered the impact crater, said the theory was established when he and other scientists discovered an unusual rock layer in Colorado in the late 1980s.
[Read article]
|
|
Fast facts
Things you always never wanted to know
On the evening of May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh, flying the Spirit of St. Louis, landed in Paris 33 hours after his departure from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, NY, "The Lone Eagle" became the first person to fly non-stop over the Atlantic. He was awarded $25,000 and was given the largest tickertape parade ever by the State of New York.
Local dance enthusiast "Shorty George" Snowden was watching some of the dancing couples at New York's Savoy Ballroom dancing to swinging jazz. A newspaper reporter asked him what dance they were doing, and a newspaper with an article about Lindbergh's flight was sitting on the bench next to them. The title of the article read, "Lindy Hops The Atlantic," and thus was the "Lindy Hop" style of swing dance christened.
[Read article]
|
|
|
|
