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Friday, February 11, 2005
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Search for new UA president to kick off in May
When President Peter Likins retires in 2006, he's not going alone, as three members of his cabinet will also be handing over the reins. However, student leaders have high expectations for the next wave of administration.
Although they have not officially announced their retirement, Saundra Taylor, senior vice president for campus life, and Joel Valdez, senior vice president for business affairs, will be retiring in 2006, said Likins. Richard Powell, vice president for research, graduate studies and economic development, will retire this summer.
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The word "mandatory" is understandably repugnant to free-thinking college students, so it is of little surprise that the Residence Hall Association's mandatory meal plan proposal is being met with stalwart resistance. But while it is true that any new fee should be regarded with a healthy degree of skepticism, the proposal's failures often have nothing to do with the fact that it is mandatory.
Under the most recent proposition, a mandatory meal plan fee of $1,900 to $2,300 would be added to the tuition of students who opt to live in the residence halls. Dan Adams, director of the student unions, has touted the plan as a means of obtaining much-needed revenue, ostensibly to aid in upgrading current facilities as well as building new ones.
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