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The UA Journal

This month, University of Arizona president and the president of the UA student body come face to face to discuss tuition and the student affairs. Mondays at 4:30 p.m. and Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. on UA Channel.

Nationwide colleges and universities struggle to balance their budgets in a bleak economy. This time on UA Journal ASUA president Chrisotpher Nagata joins UA president, Dr. Robert Shelton, to discuss some strategies in the works to ease the burden for students.

When we think of the light at the end of the tunnel, it might very well be a computer monitor. Chrisopher Connover reports that as budgets tighten, the U of A is working to increase the number of on-line classes offered to students.

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The economy also invites metaphors...like ...the money disappeared into a black hole. A new book from one UA professor details the discovery of the solution to one of Einstein's equations that describes the real astronomical black holes.

Current events challenge us to come up with innovative solutions. In this case, that requires students to get outside and get dirty. That's what founders of a new school had in mind when they opened the doors of Sky Islands High School in 2008.

In Arizona and the west, a decade of drought has forced us to take a new approach to preserving our water resources. As Tony Paniagua reports, local officials have taken measures to preserve valuable resources and maintain habitats for desert critters.

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