Likins, student lobbyists to recommend tuition increases today

UA President Peter Likins will release his tuition proposal today, a plan including tuition increases and possible mandatory fees for undergraduates, graduates and non-residents.

Student Body President Alistair Chapman will also release his tuition counterproposal today.

In order to remain at the top of the bottom one-third in tuition rates compared to peer institutions across the nation, Likins said tuition needs to increase 19 percent, or roughly $800, for undergraduates next year. [Read article]

UA uses second half spurt to drop UCLA

Arizona men's basketball opponents know it all too well, and UCLA may know it best.

"We know Arizona counts on vital spurts," said then-Bruin Jason Kapono, now with the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats, in 2003. "It's the spurt of death."

Two years later, the spurt of death emerged again in the form of a 19-0 second-half run, giving the Wildcats their third straight win over UCLA, 83-73, Saturday night in Los Angeles. [Read article]

Indeed, at my own alma mater, Boston College, students were much more interested in raising a pint of Guinness in reverence to St. Patrick than they were in sending a bouquet of flowers on the day that honors St. Valentine. And it is no wonder - relationships in college are a tricky business. At no other time in our lives will such a wide variety of romantic expectations lead to so many different types of relationships, all present in the same community. [Read article]