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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 16
UA ranked in education, partying
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BY KACIE CLAUDEL The Daily Wildcat
The UA was recently named one of the nation’s best higher education organizations and ranked No. 58 nationally among public universities. U.S. News & World Report released the 2015 version of its annual rankings of universities on Sept. 9. The rankings are based on many different aspects; graduation and retention rates, evaluation by colleagues and analysts, class sizes, financial resources for students, alumni giving and graduation rate performance, which is the difference between actual and predicted graduation rates, are all taken into consideration. According to the report,
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the College of Engineering’s undergraduate program was ranked No. 51 out of universities that offer doctoral degrees in engineering. Engineering education and research at the UA date back to when the university was first established in 1885. Currently, the college has more than 100 projects with annual spending of $27 million. Jon Schertzer, a chemical engineering sophomore, has participated in research through the College of Engineering and holds a leadership position in the Engineering Student Council. “[It] is the best way to keep sane,” Schertzer said. “Doing research provides the opportunity to make important faculty connections that can
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STUDENTS TWERK together at the Residence Hall Association Block Party on Aug. 23 on the UA Mall. The UA was recently ranked No. 4 on Playboy’s Top 10 Party Schools list for 2014.
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ENGINEERING FRESHMAN Tristian Caputo, left, and pre-architecture freshman Pamela Davila, right, work on a class project together for foundation studio I in architecture. The class required the students to measure the proportions of the areoles on cacti.
The Divest UA campaign is kicking off its first event tonight to raise community awareness about the use of fossil fuels by the UA. According to Katie Marascio, an environmental sciences senior and Divest UA campaign worker, the UA has invested money in the fossil fuel industry. Marascio said this money comes from an endowment fund, and a board of trustees determines where the money will go. The main goal of the Divest UA campaign is to convince the UA administration to divest from fossil fuels. “I feel like [the UA] has a commitment to do better than what we’re doing — to go bigger, to make a bigger impact and really make sure that we are part of the solution to climate change rather than part of the cause,” Marascio said. The campaign started recruiting on the first day of classes of the fall semester. There are currently ten core members involved in the campaign, but the group is trying to expand at a meeting tonight. “The people who we have connected with have been really into it,” Marascio said. The meeting is at 8 p.m. today in the San Pedro room in the Student Union Memorial Center and is an effort to gather all of the campaign’s supporters and bring in new people to talk about Divest UA and why it’s important. Toward the end of the meeting, the audience will be split up into smaller discussion groups to talk about different strategies for the campaign. Eric Traub, a Green Corps worker
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UITS has high demand, under new management requests. The increase in requests began over the summer break. Kelly South, UITS communications and University Information Technology Services marketing manager, said the staff has been is under new management this year to better focused on UAccess systems. meet the university’s technology needs, after an “We have been closely monitoring the UAccess increase in the student body population. systems to ensure everything is running smoothly The freshmen class size as faculty and students record was broken this fall, return to campus,” South The student’s with over 7,800 students. said. demand of our The increased population According to South, has demanded more Classroom Technology customer service from the UITS, according Services upgraded 46 has increased to Rusty Martin, an IT classrooms with new 30 percent from support center specialist. technology equipment last year. Consisting of over 200 over the summer. South — Rusty Martin, people, the UITS staff is said there are now 127 IT support center specialist committed to enhance the upgraded classrooms. learning of technology. “We have increased our “There has definitely been an increase in outreach efforts to educate students via student student traffic into our center,” Martin said. orientations and our UITS social media accounts “[There] always is at the beginning of the school about the many IT services and tools available to year, but the student’s demand of our customer new and returning students,” South said. service has increased 30 percent from last year.” According to South, UITS offers several Another IT support center specialist, Kevin Garrigan, said there have been a lot more UITS, 3 BY COURTNEY RICE The Daily Wildcat
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Maxwell White, senior studying molecular and cellular biology, left, assists engineering management graduate student Dhuva Kapoor, right, at the University Information and Technology Services building on Monday. UITS is currently under new management and serving a larger customer base.