Parking won't be a problem at the Arizona International Campus of the UA this fall like it always is on UA's main campus, but getting to AIC might be.

According to the Tucson-area bus system, Sun Tran's published schedule, the closest bus route to AIC right now is a little more than five miles away.

Arizona Board of Regents member Judy Gignac said she opposes the location because it is so far away from the city center. The campus is about 18 miles from the UA campus at South Rita Road and Interstate 10.

"I am opposed to that site because of its distance from everything," she said. "There are absolutely no services out there.

"Unless there can be an arrangement with the city bus system, they (the students) will be left to their own devices."

Mike Celaya, director of enrollment services at AIC, said plans are underway to provide transportation to the AIC campus, but nothing has been nailed down yet.

Students are being recruited from all over southern Arizona, and are told "up front" they need to have their own transportation, said Lori Tochihara, AIC's director of recruitment and orientation.

Lack of transportation has kept Canyon Del Oro High School senior counselor Dave Spire from recommending AIC to graduating students.

Prospective AIC students are also being told that if they attend classes at the new campus, they will probably not be provided on-campus housing.

"We are reserving 10 spaces for AIC students in Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall," said Jim Van Arsdel, University of Arizona's director of residence life.

Ten spaces mean five rooms in the hall that houses 358 people.

AIC students living in the residence hall will pay the same amount as UA students, about $2,500 for the 1996-97 school year.

Fernandez said that because not all students want to live on a university campus, AIC is looking for off-campus options.

"We are searching for housing ourselves," he said. "There are apartments, but not that close."

Spire said he felt the school was trying to do too much, too fast and skipping over some of the details.

"There are problems with location and housing, the nitty gritty, day-to-day stuff that needs to be done has not been established," he said.

"It's tough to say to a kid, 'We'll work these out by the time that you get there.'"

Joan Klose, a secretary in counseling at Ampitheater High School said there is little interest in AIC because the enrollment counselors have not visited the school.

Klose said, "Of all of our students, no one has applied to AIC."