State News In Brief

TUITION LAWSUIT: Students in Arizona are entitled to pursue a lawsuit against the state's public universities over what the students argue were unfair and illegal tuition increases in 2003 and beyond, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled. In their ruling, some of the judges pointed out that the state's Constitution requires that instruction at state universities be "nearly as free as possible," according to the Arizona Daily Star. The judges, who largely reversed a lower-court decision to