As part of their budget tightening process, many states are cutting aid to colleges and universities, with students being asked to pick up a bigger part of the escalating tab of higher education. Which of the following would do the most enable you to cope with those higher expenses without impairing your progress toward a degree?A. aggressively pursuing loans, grants, and benefactors. B. taking fewer classes per semester or classes with lower associated expenses. C. Obtaining a part-time JobD. forming a student lobbying group to protest the budget cuts. E. Reducing your consumption of goods and services not essential to your education.

The defendant, angered because a rival gang member had twice beaten him up after school, obtained a heavy lead pipe and waited in a deserted alleyway which he knew the rival took as a route home every day after school. when his enemy came walking down the alley, the defendant leapt out behind him and smashed the pipe into the victim's head, knocking him to the ground. the defendant then rolled the victim over and pounded his face with 15 to 20 heavy blows with the lead pipe, killing him. the jurisdiction defines first degree murder as murder committed with premeditation and deliberation. all other murders are defined as second degree murders. why will the defendant be convicted of first degree murder (as opposed to second degree murder)?