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MON AUG, 5 2013 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 161
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THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA football team stretches at Frank Sancet Stadium during the first day of training camp on Saturday.
ASA lawsuit against ABOR dismissed
STEPHANIE CASANOVA Arizona Summer Wildcat
A lawsuit filed against the Arizona Board of Regents by the Arizona Students’ Association has recently been dismissed by a U.S. District Court. ASA, a student organization that lobbies for affordable and accessible higher education, filed the lawsuit in February,
after the Regents voted to change a $2 per-student, per-semester fee to an optin fee. While some student fees are optout, meaning students are automatically charged the fee but can request a refund, the opt-in fee requires students to agree to the fee before paying. The lawsuit claimed that the board had violated the First Amendment rights of ASA. In November 2012, the Regents voted to
suspend the fee for the spring 2013 semester, after ASA donated more than $100,000 to a campaign that advocated for Proposition 204. The proposition, which would have extended a sales tax to fund education, did not pass. According to Katie Paquet, the board associate vice president for public affairs
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