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Giffords, Kelly to duke it out at UA By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT ASUA’s latest effort to ramp up voting excitement brings a political debate to campus. The Associated Students of the University of Arizona have organized a debate between candidates for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District on campus in the Student Union
Memorial Center ’s Grand Ballroom at 7 p.m. today. This comes on the heels of their first sponsored debate, held at the Pima Community College Desert Vista Campus on Wednesday. Incumbent Democrat Gabrielle Giffords and challengers Republican Jesse Kelly and Libertarian Steve Stoltz have all agreed to participate.
“It’s really important to be able to provide opportunities like this for students,” said ASUA President Emily Fritze. “For students who know they are going to vote, it will be really accessible on campus.” Fritze, who played a pivotal role in bringing the debates to campus, said it is vital for students to get involved with those who are slated to
represent them. “It shows that students really care about elections and who is representing them,” she said. ASUA collaborated with Arizona Public Media, the Arizona Students’ Association, the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and Cox Communications to bring the debate to campus. ASUA, page 3
LEARN MORE Read ASUA President Emily Fritze’s blog post about the campus debates at president.asuaweb.org/blog or to see video of the event, go to ondemand.azpm.org for the full webcast.
Policy issues hit UAccess
Students ignite tradition
System faces snags enforcing registration guidelines By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Students light up Tucson’s “A” Mountain with flares, fulfilling one of many Homecoming traditions, on Sunday.
Students shed light on solar Club looks to bring power panels, green awareness to the UA
By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Solar Cats began as a small group of students working to get solar panels on their dorm. Now, they have broader goals. Led by their adviser John Pollard, director of general chemistry and
biochemistry, Solar Cats began in 2008 as six students — not even enough to be considered a club — who wanted to put solar panels on the roof of Posada San Pedro Residence Hall. Now the group is primarily student-led with their original aim closer to reality and their membership at about 20.
Solar Cats has expanded their aims to educate the community about sustainability and solar power and has been asked by the Honors College to create a sustainability mural and a solar-powered gazebo. “It’s grown a lot and the people who started out with it
pretty much all of them are still with it, which for me is impressive because that means all of them felt that it was important enough, with their lives changing and school getting harder as they get older, they still made the time SOLAR CATS, page 3
As students begin priority registration, UAccess still has some kinks to work out. Some of the problems arise from the system attempting to implement the UA’s course repetition policy. The policy bars a student from retaking a course they have received an “A” or a “B” in without special permission, or from attempting a course more than twice. An attempt is defined as any time a student receives a grade for their participation in class, including a W for withdrawing. “The change that is occurring is with the new system, there’s more accuracy in the counting of course repeats and the displaying of that information on the transcript as well as in the ability to configure the system to stop somebody from repeating a course that is invalid,” said Beth Acree, the UA Registrar. Acree said there are still some issues with making UAccess reflect UA policy. “We’re still kind of working out some of these policy issues and tweaking things to reflect what the (UA Undergraduate Council) wants to have happen,” Acree REGISTRATION, page 3
UA helps homeless at Casa Maria Students volunteer with Newman Center to provide aid for community shelter By Yael Schusterman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT By 8:15 a.m. on Mondays and Thursdays, some students are already in their cars, pulling out of the parking lot of the St. Thomas More Catholic Newman Center at the UA, on their way to feed the homeless at Casa Maria, a Catholic worker community. Located about two miles south of the university, many people in southern Tucson depend on Casa Maria for food, clothes and showers. Krista Bolin, a UA physiology senior, helps minister at the Newman Center and became aware of Casa Maria, 401 E. 26th St., her sophomore year after participating in an alternative spring break trip to Chiapas, Mexico. After learning about the social and economic injustices in Mexico, she began volunteering at Casa Maria.
Bolin described her move from Phoenix to Tucson as a “culture shock,” particularly on campus and Fourth Avenue. “On campus, it’s like a bubble,” she said. “People are privileged to go to school, while Casa Maria is a different world — people go there to get their next meal. “I think everyone has had an encounter on Fourth Avenue or somewhere with a poor person, but there’s a different reality when you see them at Casa Maria,” Bolin said. “I never realized it until I went.” According to the city data report, the estimated median household income in South Tucson was $18,492 in 2008. The rest of the state was at $50,958. Volunteer Matthew Campbell graduated from the UA in May and said the reason he volunteers is “to expose people to issues of social justice and to look at HOMELESS, page 5
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Pre-nursing freshman Mary Marcoux serves food to the homeless at Casa Maria, a local shelter, on Friday. The shelter gives away free food every morning. Marcoux works for the St. Thomas More Catholic Newman Center.
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