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GPSC plans for Student Showcase By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Graduate student leaders last night named a special guest judge for their upcoming Student Showcase: KOLD weatherman Chuck George. “I know, calm yourselves,”said Cory Christenson, physics doctoral student, during the Graduate and Professional Student Council’s meeting. The showcase, hosted by GPSC, displays work by graduate and undergraduate students and culminates in the awarding of a small cash prize. Applications for the showcase — near a record low of 25 by the original deadline last week — grew to more than 100 this week, said optical sciences doctoral student James Johnson. The explosion of applicants has led GPSC to require additional tables but is still set to meet budget, Johnson said. The graduate council also discussed the formation of an advisory committee to oversee ongoing efforts to pass a graduate student bill of rights. This committee would include representatives from the Associated Student of the University of Arizona, the Arizona Students Association and the GPSC policy subcommittee, among other groups, said GPSC President David Talenfeld, a secondyear law student. “I would like to build as broad-based of a coalition as possible,” he said. The next step for the bill of rights — now in an unofficial draft form largely unchanged from a version passed by the GPSC last year — will be to gain the endorsement of several faculty and administrative stakeholders, Talenfeld said. These bodies include the Graduate Council — an academic policy advisory board — and the Faculty Senate. While a final version of the bill has not been approved by the full session of the GPSC, the advisory committee would manage edits made to the bill by these stakeholders and then present a revised draft to the full session for approval. The bill would then be passed to the Office of General Counsel and the President Robert Shelton for official ratification. Jim Collins, a non-degree seeking graduate student, said the formation of an advisory committee would be pointless because the older council already approved a version of the bill of rights. The danger, he said, would be the bill getting trapped in a bureaucratic cycle where it may not emerge in an official form for years. “I can see how this could be a never-ending process,” Collins said.
New ‘Think Tank’ Business edits student papers tutors thousands By Yael Schusterman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
By Carly Kennedy ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A new centralized learning center will formally showcase all that it has to offer for students, parents and faculty during an open house this Friday. The open house will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Nugent Building. The event will consist of guided tours through the building and information about tutoring services, along with presentations by Jeff Orgera, executive director of Student Academin Learning Services, and Melissa Vito, vice president of Student Affairs The “Think Tank” at the Student Academic Learning Center opened its
doors at the start of the semester, and has already served several thousand students, Orgera said. Prior to the creation of the Think Tank, there were many separate tutoring programs all over campus, for specific types of students with specific needs, which was not efficient or economical, said Student Affairs officials. Student Affairs went through a large transformation process last year, and decided to pull all the tutoring programs into one central place to make it easier for students to utilize. Combining the separate tutoring programs resulted in the first centralized learning support department on campus — like one-stop shopping for THINK TANK, page 5
A new online service started by UA students offers students a chance to improve their writing skills and earn higher grades on essays. Proof Genie, the online editing service, was founded by Josh Banayan, a business junior who co-founded the Web site with Noah Gereboff, also a business junior. These brothers in the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity worked on building the Web site over the summer and began promoting and gaining clientele six months ago, they said. “We were both interested in and had the same passion to start this Web site, and we made it happen,”Gereboff said. To use the service, a person writes an essay and submits a draft to the Web site, EDITING, page 5
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Proof Genie creators Josh Banayan and Noah Gereboff, both business juniors, show how their online editing service works.
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