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Likins proposes $200 hike in tuition
Nonresidents would pay $1,222 extra; new WiFi fee introduced
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PHOENIX - President Peter Likins announced one of the most complex tuition proposals in recent history yesterday that would leave some students facing a tuition jump of thousands of dollars. The proposed tuition increase, approved by Likins, would increase the resident undergraduate tuition by $200, or 4.
Pima residents upset over dismissal of RAs
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The Pima Residence Hall director and the hall's entire resident assistant staff were forced from their posts recently after the group drank alcohol during a retreat over winter break, according to students in the hall. Officials in Residence Life wouldn't comment on why the entire hall's staff was dismissed, but several students within the hall said that during a staff retreat in Flagstaff, the director and five RAs violated the UA's Code of Conduct by allowing some of the RAs - who were under 21 at the time - to drink.
Young Communists labor to begin own UA chapter
Anticapitalist students work to cure society's ills
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The Young Communist League tried to "rally their troops" yesterday on the UA Mall in an attempt to organize a chapter at the UA, members said. The YCL teamed up with the Communist Party USA at the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Progressive Fair on the Mall to talk to students and faculty about communism and trying to "make a better future," said Joe Bernick, organizational secretary of the Communist Party USA for Arizona.
ASA tuition proposal eases grad burden
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Student officials proposed tuition increases nearly identical to those in the UA president's proposal yesterday, except for in-state graduate students' tuition, which was half of the president's. The Graduate and Professional Student Council, the Arizona Students' Association and the Associated Students of the University of Arizona proposed that in-state tuition increase by 4 percent and out-of-state tuition rise 9 percent for both undergraduate and graduate students starting the next academic year.
Students: UA should manage funds better
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Students said they think the UA should manage its funds instead of relying on tuition after hearing about the 9 percent non-resident tuition increase proposed by the student government and President Peter Likins yesterday. "That's a huge increase," said Carissa Grubbs, a journalism freshman, who pays nonresident tuition.
UA's $60M debt 'black hole' concerns faculty
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The Faculty Senate stressed yesterday the need to find a solution to the university's substantial debt, which was loosely referred to as a $60 million "black hole." "We're still dealing with the reality of the deficit," said Sen. Antonio Estrada. "Maybe we still have too many programs.
FastFacts
Human nails and hair do not grow after death. They are simply the last parts of the body to decompose. Almost half of the newspapers in the world are published in the U.S. and Canada. Until the 1950s, Tibetans disposed of their dead by taking the body up to a hill, hacking it into little pieces and feeding the remains to the birds.
Correction
In yesterday's "Officials mum on tuition hike" the Arizona Daily Wildcat reported that nonresident undergraduates were asked to pay $704 in tuition for 2004-2005. $704 reflects the price resident graduate students paid in 2004-2005.
