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Phi Kappa Psi homework More than tea found with stolen Wildcats boiling at party
By Tim McDonnell and Shain Bergan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Some of the thousands of Arizona Daily Wildcat issues stolen Oct. 8 were recovered at two sites near West Anklam Road on Friday. Among the abandoned newspapers was a piece of homework with the names of UA students Nick Kovaleski and Alex Cornell, both undeclared freshmen. Both students are identified in the Greek Pages as members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. Close to 10,000 newspapers went missing Thursday morning. Initial estimates by Arizona Student Media, the university department that oversees the Wildcat, placed the newspapers’ value at $8,500, including advertising revenue, salaries and production costs. The Wildcat received several tips Thursday from persons wishing to remain anonymous who claimed that Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members were responsible for the theft. Wildcat reporters asked Phi Kappa Psi leadership several times during an interview Thursday whether or not members of the fraternity had stolen the newspapers, but the president and vice president of the fraternity would neither confirm nor deny involvement in the theft. Fred Smith, Daily Wildcat production manager, said he saw approximately 1,000 of the newspapers in the desert near Daisy Mae’s Steak House, 2735 W. Anklam Rd., Friday morning. Smith said he was looking through the papers at 10:30 a.m. when he saw the corner of a piece of paper sticking out. When he pulled the paper out, he said, he saw that it was someone’s Spanish homework. “(The homework) was just in with the papers,” he said. When contacted by phone, Kovaleski said, “I would have no clue at all. I’m in no way involved, and neither is Phi Psi. I have no idea how my homework got out there.” A second dumping site was found near the corner of Mountain Side Drive and Mountain Side Way in the Twin Hills Estate neighborhood. The newspapers must have been abandoned sometime in the early morning, said David PAPERS, page 3
By Brian Mori ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT More than 5,000 guests at Saturday’s Tucson Tea Party gorged themselves on ample helpings of cynicism, sarcasm and frustration with every level of government as they filled the seats of the Tucson Electric Park from first to third bases. Outside the gates, people signed petitions to get a medical marijuana initiative on the Arizona Ballot. Inside, anonymous poster messages ranging from “W.W.J.D., What Would Jefferson Do?” to images of President Barack Obama superimposed onto Heath Ledger’s Joker from “The Dark Knight” dotted stadium walls and waved above the crowd. While most of the attendees were middle aged or retired, even toddlers in strollers donned signs of protest, warning of Stalinist takeovers by the president’s administration. Marketing senior Robert Mayer, who co-founded the Tucson Tea Party in May, said the number of frustrated citizens didn’t surprise him, though he’d like to have seen more college students. “We’re the next generation; we TEA PARTY, page 11
New payroll system kicks off Lisa Beth Earle/Arizona Daily Wildcat
Pima County Sheriff’s Deputy H.W. Goritz pulls a handful of stolen Daily Wildcat copies out of his trunk to display the manner in which he found them after arriving at a dump site. Roughly 10,000 copies were stolen from newsstands across campus on Thursday.
Notehall founders strike deal on ‘Shark Tank’ By Marissa Freireich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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DJ Stephan, left, and Sean Conway, right, are congratulated by venture capitalist Kevin O’Leary at the end of an episode of ‘Shark Tank,’ an ABC series featuring entrepreneurs looking for capital to boost their company. Stephan and Conway took away $90,000 for a 10 percent stake in their company.
A group of UA alumni has successfully found its way out of dangerous waters. Notehall, an online marketplace for students to buy and sell class notes, is in the process of completing a $90,000 deal as a result of an apperance last week on the ABC show “Shark Tank.” The money will be used to expand the company, said Sean Conway, one of Notehall’s founders, who graduated from the UA in 2007 with a degree in entrepreneurship. On the show, entrepreneurs pitch their ideas to a panel of successful businesspeople in the hope of convincing one of the so-called “sharks” to invest in their business. Of the various deals offered
to them on the show, the Notehall team chose to accept the $90,000 deal from investor Barbara Corcoran, whose real estate business is worth $5 billion. The deal that Corcoran made with Notehall is similar to a loan, Conway said. “That’s unheard of coming from a shark like that,” he said. During the negotiations on the show, Conway and DJ Stephan, a former entrepreneurship student and the company’s chief marketing officer, were able to discuss their options in private. They also spoke with Justin Miller, a co-founder of the company and an accounting senior at the UA, on the phone to get his advice. They chose Corcoran instead of the other sharks because they felt she was genuine, the Notehall team said.
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By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
UAccess Employee, the UA’s new payroll computing system, left some employees confused but was still a success with no major glitches, Mosaic Project coordinators said. The system went live Sept. 28 in time for Friday’s paycheck, the first since the change. The UA paid 18,500 people with checks totaling $29 million. Some problems were phoned in to the Mosaic team, but overall the transition was fairly smooth, said Hank Childers, Mosaic Project director. “The volume of calls is much lower than we thought,” Childers said. “The help desk, financial service desk and the many other desks — none of us have been burdened with calls.” The calls received mainly consisted of individual problems, like people who needed help reading the online pay stub or navigating the system’s Web site. Others couldn’t see the money posted in their credit union accounts, he said. “In order to see your pay stub you have to enable pop-ups on your browser, so we received calls about that,” PAYCHECKS, page 11
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