Salvador Rodriguez

The city of Phoenix is buying the property across the street from Taylor Place to expand the Downtown campus, the university planner said Monday.

The ASASUD Senate voted down the proposed facilities fee 6 to 3 at its biweekly meeting Friday, which is the second time the Downtown campus student government has rejected a version of the fee this year.

An ASASUD senator for the Walter Cronkite School resigned from his post Monday, the third Senate resignation this semester.

University student governments presented a new facilities fee proposal at a town hall meeting on Friday that would charge students $75 per semester.

Speakers from Bataan, Burma, Iraq and Somalia discussed the situations of refugees in Arizona at the Walter Cronkite School Thursday night.