University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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Ken Foster (left), the man who made UA Presents a strong force on campus, resigned to take a job in San Francisco. UA Presents had a strong year with Urinetown and Jesus Christ Superstar hitting Centennial Hall with performances. Barbara Becker (right), head of the school of plan- ning, fought hard this year to save the school, which administrators pro- posed axing. After a rollercoaster year of negotia- tions, word came in late Spring that the school might be spared by switching colleges. TINKERING WITH TUITION Just one year after raising undergraduate in-state tuition by $1,000, the board of regents raised tuition by $490 on March 12. Out-of-state undergraduate tuition was raised by $700. The $1,490 tuition increase in the past two years was more than the previous 16 years combined. This year ' s increase brought resident undergraduate tuition to $3,998 and out-of-state tuition to $12,978. UA President Peter Likins promised that 15 percent of the increase would go toward financial aid, meaning $600 of the roughly $4,000 paid by in-state students at the UA would go to aid. For the first time, regents also approved separate tuition increases for each of the three state universities, as Arizona State University ' s resident tuition rose by $465 and Northern Arizona University ' s went up $475.

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TOWERING INFERNO The Aspen Fire in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson had the whole city watching as it burned down the village of Summerhaven on Mt. Lemmon before fall classes started in 2003. The blaze got national attention and spurred a visit from President Bush. Campus was excited when the Showtime reality series Fresh- man Danes announced plans to film the show on the UA campus. Producers filmed on campus in the fall, but the show was cancelled before UA episodes got off the drawing board.

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Year in revia - - International f WE GOT, HIM Captured former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein speaks in Baghdad, Dec. 14, in this image from television. Top U.S. administrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer confirmed the capture of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in a dirt hole under a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit, eight months after the fall of Baghdad. A March train bombing in Madrid, Spain did more than leave 180 innocent people dead and 1,800 injured. The bombings scared citizens into ousting their ruling party and altering the politics of the country. American wrestler Steve Austin, center, known as Stone Cold, is photographed surrounded by U.S. soldiers after a performance by wrestlers who flew to Iraq to entertain the troops at Baghdad International Airport, Dec. 20.