Adrienne Walser, on top of the costs for tuition, books and rent, pays $100 a month for the prescription medication she needs for rheumatoid arthritis, which she's had since age 8. Also, every eight weeks, Walser, a graduate student of English, pays $400 for special drug injections to control the painful arthritis.

Although Walser has student health insurance, she has to pay for the prescriptions out of her own pocket because UA's student health insurance doesn't cover prescription drugs. Last year, in part because of these expensive drug costs, Walser had to return to working full time - meaning that she could no longer work as a graduate teaching assistant and could enroll only as a part-time student. [Read article]

UA should show spirit for all sports

There are some schools that have tons of school spirit and there are other schools, like the UA, with school spirit for only the popular sports, i.e. men's basketball and football.

The women's basketball team should be one of those popular sports. They had a 34-home-game winning streak before losing to Stanford, and at the previous two home games against ASU and Maryland, only 25 to 50 students showed up to support the home team. [Read article]

The best in last week's editorials from college campuses around the nation

Weaker dollar not so bad

Recently, there has been some talk in the New York Times about the fall of the dollar and how it might affect countries in Europe and Asia, who depend on selling their goods to the United States.

The countries in Europe and Asia don't seem to realize that the level of trade between the United States and the world has to balance out at some point. The United States has been financing a trade deficit that was at $489.4 billion in 2003 and continues to get larger. [Read article]