If you have ever listened to her KAMP student radio show, you know that at some point she will stop the talk and spin a Go-Gos tune.

During yesterday's show, UA Dean of Students Melissa Vito played "Cool Jerk" by the 1980s band and ended the session with a Talking Heads song.

Vito, who possesses over 700 music CDs, questioned special guests Regent Hank Amos and ASUA President Ben Driggs on a topic many are talking about - tuition.

Her sixth show of this semester netted several calls and lively debate with her guests about what students can expect when the Arizona Board of Regents sets tuition at its meeting next week.

Broadcast live from 1 to 2 p.m. on the student-run 1570-AM radio station, Vito and co-host Rusty Jones asked their guests to preview last night's teleconferenced tuition hearings and to further explain what tuition indexing actually means.

Amos said the Arizona university system is at a crossroads with tuition at such a bargain. With rates being what they are, Amos said, Arizona is listed as the fourth least expensive out of a 50-state survey ranking.

Amos said his idea of indexing will phase in predictable, pre-set tuition increases over seven years, bringing the state to a rank of 12 out of 50. Even though the increases will seem drastic, he said, Arizona will remain less expensive than three-quarters of schools nationally when it comes to the cost of attendance.

One caller asked Amos what the extra tuition would be used for when it came time to divide up the money.

Amos cited several areas that needed the money first, such as classroom improvements, faculty salaries and complying with the American Disabilities Act in making more areas handicapped accessible.

"Nobody wants to raise tuition," Amos said. "I was a student not too long ago. I just feel we need to go to some kind of plan." Amos graduated from the UA in 1981. During a break in the show, he requested the song "1979," by Smashing Pumpkins, be played.

After the break, Amos explained that a tuition indexing plan would tell students long before April what their increase for the next year will be. This gives students and their families plenty of planning time.

Driggs said he supported an indexing plan, but his idea of a nominal amount to phase in was about $50 less than what Amos had in mind.

Amos said he felt that an increase of $157 per year, based on an inflation rate of 4 percent and phased in over 7 years, is nominal.

Driggs said, "Hopefully, we can get a plan going that will benefit students. One of the biggest messages I want to leave students with is that no one is trying to gouge the students by raising tuition."

Arizona has one of the most accessible boards of regents, he said, evident by its willingness to sit down and listen to students and to take the time to discuss topics of concern.

Vito said it was important for her as dean of students to get out among the students, and that having her own radio talk show was one way she could communicate with them.

She said she started the talk show concept earlier this semester and word is slowly getting out.

Wednesday, Vito and Jones' guest will be Harry Hueston, deputy police chief of the UA Police Department, and the topic will be campus crime concerns. The show airs from 1 to 2 p.m.