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Kony campaign dwindles Amid administrative criticism, students push to ‘Cover the Night’ By Savannah Martin DAILY WILDCAT
Tony Garvey supported “Kony 2012” from the beginning. “I wanted to be a part of something bigger than I was,” he said. “So my first thought was, ‘How do I get involved and what do I do to help?’” Garvey, a public management freshman, joined other students who had been inspired by a video produced by the transnational organization Invisible Children. The documentary, “Kony 2012,” hit
the Internet on March 5 and quickly became the most viewed video on YouTube that day, getting around 80 million hits in 24 hours. “Kony 2012” claims that over a period of 26 years, Joseph Kony, the leader of the Ugandan rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army, abducted 30,000 children, turning them into child soldiers and sex slaves. The video calls upon its audience to make Kony and his crimes known worldwide by petitioning policymakers and raising awareness. These efforts would culminate on Friday in an event called “Cover the Night,” where activists intend to make Kony infamous through posters and flyers. Garvey became a host of the “Cover the Night- UA @ Tucson”
Facebook page and started working with a small group of students to coordinate the event. More than 3,600 Facebook users joined the initiative. “This is something students can actually make a difference in,” Garvey said. “It’s kind of a bandwagon thing, but it’s for a good cause and it’s something worth fighting for.” The hype, however, was short lived. UA students and “Kony 2012” activists everywhere encountered widespread criticism and faltering public interest. The UA group crumbled after the Associate Dean of Students Kathy Adams Riester warned that the event could result in Code of Conduct and Campus Use violations. “The UA students who were organizing the Kony event have not
completed any of the paperwork that is usually completed to reserve space on campus,” Adams Riester wrote in an email. “I asked them to contact me so we could discuss … what I saw to be some potential UA policy and Code of Conduct violations so they could decide how they wanted to proceed.” None of the students contacted her, she said. Instead, the event, according to a post on the Facebook page by one of the hosts, was canceled. The university’s warning wasn’t the only force against the event. Garvey said he expected only 20 percent of the Facebook guest list to attend. Criticism of the documentary and Invisible Children may have
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GPSC presidential candidates discuss on-site child care, fees By Eliza Molk DAILY WILDCAT
GPSC presidential candidates discussed ways to fund a child care facility on campus as well as fight tuition and fee increases at an elections forum on Wednesday. In his second semester as the Graduate and Professional Student Council presidential chief of staff, candidate Edward Beck explained that working with constituents opened his eyes to their needs. Many graduate and professional students work overtime conducting research, assisting professors and participating in graduate apprenticeships without proper compensation, he said. “I realized that the quality of education and quality of research the UA prides itself in is being threatened by budget cuts,” said Beck, a secondyear public health graduate student. “I may just be one person, but I believe I can make a difference.” For Zachary Brooks, the council’s vice president and a second-year graduate student studying language acquisition and teaching, being passionate and deeply involved in an organization comes naturally, he said. He explained that learning about issues and making good, informed decisions is not only part of his personality, but therapeutic as well. “When I know more, I tend to feel better,” he said. “Any time I think
‘I’m going to sit this year out,’ I feel compelled to serve and help out.” The UA is the only institution in the Pac-12 without an on-site child care facility, which both candidates said was problematic. To remedy the issue, Brooks said he will bring up the importance of an on-campus facility every time he speaks with an administrator. The lack of such a facility hurts students, veterans, faculty and staff, he said. “People say, ‘You’re just talking,’ and that’s true,” Brooks said. “But it’s discourse that raises the consciousness level.” This year, GPSC allocated $25,000 of the $26,000 grant it received from the Student Services Fee Advisory Board to Life and Work Connections, a division of human resources, to help students with child care needs. As a member of the board, Brooks said he was able to fight for these funds “all the way through.” Beck also said he plans to work with administrators on the issue. In doing so, the UA can compromise with the state Legislature to help fund a facility that is not only affordable, but competitive. “It (the facility) has to be competitive for how much it will cost,” he said. Beck also stressed the importance of fighting increased tuition and fees after years of budget cuts. Tuition is
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Zachary Brooks, a second-year graduate student studying language acquisition and teaching, explains the importance of funding an on-site child care facility.
Hood lands back in Arizona Intellectual D-lineman searching to succeed as a Division I athlete By Mike Schmitz DAILY WILDCAT
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evin Hood isn’t like most NCAA Division I athletes. The 6-foot, 302-pound defensive tackle was accepted into prestigious academic institutions like Yale, Princeton and Columbia. He enjoys the intricacies of literature and the thought-provoking workings of human psychology. He’s also inspired by Malcolm X, Sun Tzu and Julius Caesar. Hood graduated Hamilton High School in Chandler, Ariz., with a 4.52 grade point average, ranking fourth among 734 graduating seniors. He was one of five players to take home the National Football Foundation National High School Scholar-Athlete Award in 2010. In a nutshell, Hood understands there’s more to life than football, a value that comes from his mother, a 1991 Duke graduate. “She instilled a good work ethic in me. This can all end one day. It does for a lot of people,” Hood said. “You can’t really bank your entire life on this. I always take care of the business in the classroom and make sure I handle that. Even if you do play as many years as Brett Favre, at the end you still have to retire and do something.” While Hood’s pursuit of academics has helped him gain knowledge, notoriety and the potential for a bright future beyond football, it set him back in his pursuit of the coveted NFL dream. Although undersized — Hood said he was 5-foot-8 for most of high school — he turned in 19 sacks as a senior on a state championship team and was named the state’s top defensive player. “Every day I’ve just got to stick it to them because all these dudes are taller and they think ‘Oh, we’re going to run him over,’ and I’m like ‘No, I can’t let you do that,’” Hood said. His size kept big-time schools from calling, but Hood still received offers from New Mexico State, Northern Arizona, Northern Colorado and Southern Illinois out of high school. But Hood’s mother wanted him to attend a heralded academic university to put his smarts to good
Bites increase with higher temps By Kevin Reagan DAILY WILDCAT As the temperatures keep rising, so do the number of reported snakebites in Arizona. Seventeen rattlesnake attacks have occurred since the beginning of the year, and as the snake season continues, experts are spreading the word about the dangers of rattlesnakes to help keep people safe. Snakes are most dangerous during the early months of spring, when they come out of hibernation for food, according to Mike Berry, a wildlife expert from the Arizona Game and Fish Department. KAREN T. BORCHERS / MCT “In the summertime, you’ll find the snakes more passive aggressive and concerned with finding some four to five miles from their winter shady spot, even when threatened den, Berry said the snakes can be by a human. shade,” Berry said. “Cool concrete on someone’s Usually exploring no more than stubborn and may refuse to leave a
front porch is what they crave most in the hot days of August,” Berry said. The fire department is only permitted to remove a snake a quarter of a mile from where it is found, and the snake is likely to return to that same spot until it goes back into hibernation in October. “We still see activity year round,” said Gordon Schuett, a rattlesnake expert who specializes in tracking the 13 species of rattlesnakes that inhabit Arizona. “It’s not unusual for male snakes to make small visits to female snakes when trying to find a mate for spring.” The Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center has a range of 150 to 200 reported snakebites each year, with less than 1 percent of those bites resulting in death.
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