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VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 132
UA law students to see lower tuition ALISON DORF Arizona Daily Wildcat
Although the Arizona Board of Regents’ approved a 3-percent tuition increase for undergraduates on Thursday, UA law students will be paying less next year. Annual tuition for the James E. Rogers College of Law 2013-14 academic year will decrease by 10.6 percent for resident students and 8.2 percent for nonresident students. “We’re seeing changing times for legal practice and for legal education,” said Marc Miller, interim dean of the College of Law. “One of the most sustained critiques of legal education is that is has become too expensive, so that the debt that students pick up …
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seriously inhibits their job options.” Though enrollment has also decreased, the College of Law is still doing better than other institutions when compared at the national level. The College of Law is down about 10 percent over the whole admission season, while the nationwide figures are about 17 percent, Miller said. By dropping both resident and nonresident tuition, the law school will become immensely competitive, he added. “It’s actually a very good time here at the law school,” Miller said. “That seemed to us like the right moment to become more accessible. Not out of fear, but out of a sense of real opportunity to change the game.” By decreasing tuition, the College of Law is
broadening its base and continuing to grow some of the existing programs that have been successful, according to Miller. In order to make up for the difference in tuition, Miller said the law school plans to expand new degree programs, though it has been cutting costs for several years prior to the decrease. “We’re looking at non J.D. programs that are going to produce outside revenue through tuition,” said Nancy Stanley, assistant dean for advancement at the College of Law. “A couple of those programs we already have, and a couple of them … we’re working through the approval process at the university PHOTO COURTESY OF PAUL KEALEY
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ALEX DOYLE (left), a dance freshman, and Alex Yonkovich (right), a dance sophomore, dance at the Courage in Motion Dance Marathon on Saturday. The marathon benefited Beads of Courage, a foundation that supports children with serious and complex medical conditions.
Foundation for children with medical conditions hosts 10-hour dance marathon with its programs. The donations raised from Courage in Motion will go to Beads of Courage. Registered participants in the dance People danced away the hours at the Courage in Motion marathon wore two beads made by glass artists. At the dance marathon Saturday to help raise funds for Beads of end of the event, one bead remained with the participant and the other was gifted to children Courage. Beads of Courage, which hosted “My beads help me feel receiving treatment at the UA Medical Center Diamond Children’s Center. the 10-hour dance event in the MAC strong and also help “This is an awesome opportunity gym in the Student Recreation Center, others understand what for us to share our love for dance with is a foundation that supports children I have been through in everyone else,” said Alex Yonkovich, a with serious and complex medical dance sophomore. “Dance is something conditions. my life. everyone can connect on and we are Throughout the day there — Robert Kidder, 15-year-old liver excited to share that with everyone.” were hourly themes, designated transplant recipient Erika Colombi, a graduate student in costume contest hours and guest the UA School of Dance, choreographed performances. Awards were also given to the top three fundraisers, with $2,800 for first an original piece, which was performed by several UA place, $780 in second and $225 in third, said Jean Baruch, dance students during a portion of the dance marathon. the founder of Beads of Courage and a UA alumna. Beads of Courage currently supports more than 30,000 children BEADS, 2 SARAH-JAYNE SIMON Arizona Daily Wildcat
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A lawsuit filed against the Arizona Board of Regents is up in the air, following the passage of a bill Friday that will eliminate funding for a student-run, statewide lobbying group. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed House Bill 2169 into law, banning state universities from collecting student fees on behalf of non-university recognized organizations such as the Arizona Students’ Association. “I’m pleased that the governor has signed the bill into law so that in the future no organization independent of the university can take mandatory student fees and spend it on political activities that many students may not agree with,” said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills). ASA, which lobbies the Legislature on behalf of Arizona students, relies on a $2 per-student, per-semester fee for funding. In past years, the organization has collected about $600,000 each year from the three state universities. Last fall, ASA donated $122,000 to the Vote Yes on Proposition 204 campaign using student fee money. The proposition, which failed in November 2012, would have extended a statewide onecent sales tax increase to fund education. After concerns were raised by student leaders from Arizona State University about ASA, the regents suspended the fee for the spring semester and ultimately decided to require students to explicitly agree to the ASA fee prior to payment. In response, ASA filed suit, accusing the regents of retaliating against ASA for the political donation and inhibiting students’ free speech rights. However, the passage of HB 2169 makes the lawsuit’s future uncertain. The decision of whether or not to continue with litigation will now rest with ASA’s incoming directors, who should be appointed within the next few months. “That’s something I’ve talked with Morgan [Abraham] about and that I know the other campuses
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