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Gunman scare raises safety concerns The call came from a third-party operator to the University of Arizona Police Department at 4:52 p.m. indicating that there was a man with a gun strapped to his chest and carrying a rifle, said Sgt. Joe Bermudez, a spokesman for UAPD. The caller also said a shooting in the Administration building had occurred. UAPD and Tucson Police Department officers began securing the area and sent out the first of a series of alerts via text message and email just after 5 p.m. The first alert went out
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After police shut down several areas on campus Friday in response to a 911 call about a gunman reportedly seen in the Administration building, some members of the UA community are examining emergency response procedures. The 911 call prompted the lockdown and evacuation of the Administration building. Officers also evacuated the Student Union Memorial Center, the Modern Languages building and the UA Mall.
through the UAlert system around the same time police arrived in the area, said Joel Hauff, interim director of Arizona Student Unions. Police officers instructed everyone inside the union to leave, he added. Campus police can do a “global lock” for facilities that are managed electronically, Hauff said, and UAPD was able to lock down all the doors within the student union via the computer system. However, when the building went into lockdown, the
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POLICE CONVERGE on the Student Union Memorial Center on Friday in response to a 911 call about a man reportedly seen in the Adminstration building carrying a rifle. Despite several hours of searching, no gunman was found.
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JAY GUILLEN, LEFT, A BUSINESS JUNIOR, celebrates at O’Malley’s on Saturday afternoon as the UA men’s basketball team beats Harvard by 71-54 in the NCAA tournament. The victory means the Wildcats to move on to the Sweet Sixteen, in which they’ll play Ohio State on Thursday.
Documentary tells sexual assault stories SHELBY THOMAS Arizona Daily Wildcat
A new documentary, screening on the UA campus, will provide insight into the experiences of eight women who were sexually assaulted. On Tuesday, Jennifer Baumgardner will host a screening of her new documentary, “It Was Rape.” After the viewing, Baumgardner will host a discussion with audience members. In the United States, someone is sexually assaulted every two minutes, and 54 percent of these cases are not reported to the police, according to the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network. In 2008, Baumgardner came up with the idea to
The film screening was coordinated and create a documentary that would bring attention to rape and provide those who were raped with sponsored by the UA Oasis Program, the Wingspan Anti-Violence Program, the a voice. Rape has always been Women’s Resource Center an issue that Baumgardner has If you go: and Feminists Organized to followed as a feminist, she said. Resist, Create and Empower. “I’m really interested in topics When: March 26 Sarah Bahnson, the antithat you’re not allowed to talk Where: Modern Languages violence program advocate about,” Baumgardner said. “Rape building, room 350 and educator at Wingspan, is a very common experience that When: 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Southern Arizona’s lesbian, is misunderstood and silenced. gay, bisexual and transgender We don’t get that many chances community center, met to hear from people who have been victimized so this film allows us to hear their Baumgardner at Soapbox Inc.’s Feminist Boot stories. But it’s kind of more than that, it’s getting DOCUMENTARY, 5 to see their lives.”
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Parking and Transportation Services is planning to alter the parking permit sign-up process, parking rates and lot designations this upcoming year, to keep up with inflating costs, construction and to lower congestion on campus. “We had a lot of people who would go check the closest lot, find there wasn’t a spot, go to the next closest and check that there wasn’t a spot there, so we were creating a situation where people were just driving around quite a bit,” said David Heineking, director of PTS. To lower congestion and parking frustration, Zone One parking areas, south of Speedway Boulevard, and near the center of campus, will become “lot specific parking areas,” according to Heineking. Following this change, drivers will need a permit to park in these designated areas. This decision came after PTS heard feedback from numerous people, who said they don’t leave campus during the day, for fear of losing their parking spot, Heineking said. Ryan Teefy, a communication freshman, said he doesn’t have a permit but he understands this concern, even though he parks off-campus. “I can’t leave all day or else I lose my spot,” Teefy said. Teefy also said he believes a way to improve parking on campus would be to remove permit parking from several side streets off-campus, allowing for less restrictions on where people can leave their cars. For faculty who park on campus, employees on payroll deduction with parking permits must reregister this year for a permit, as opposed to automatic renewal, which has been done for several years. This is to help update employee contact information. In addition to re-registering, a “majority” of permits will increase by $1 per month compared to this year. “We try to do things very frugally so that we’re not passing on a whole lot of costs as much as
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