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Faculty talks prove inconclusive By Will Ferguson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT While many voices were heard at the faculty forum Thursday, a plan of action to address the administration’s handling of the UA transformation was not agreed upon. Approximately 40 faculty members attended the meeting, sponsored by the Faculty Senate, to discuss the implications of a faculty poll that showed faculty doubts in the leadership of President Robert Shelton and Provost Meredith Hay. In response to the faculty forum
held last month, the UA Faculty Center created an anonymous poll to gauge faculty members’ opinions on communication between the upper administration and the faculty amid the UA transformation process. The poll went live online from Sept. 18 to Sept. 25. Faculty members in attendance expressed concern over whether or not the administration will be willing to reengage the faculty in determining future plans for the budget. Lynn Nadel, chair of the Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee, said the faculty poll raised
concerns about the administration, however the administration’s response was not one the senate was particularly happy with. “I don’t know if it is possible to imagine at this point the kind of change that would reverse the decisions that have been made,”Nadel said. Many of the faculty in attendance called for a concrete plan of action to address what they perceived as the administration’s inadequate response to the faculty poll. Only 31 percent of voting-eligible faculty participated in the poll, although the total number includes
hundreds of emeritus faculty. About 43 percent of on-campus faculty took part in the poll. Fifty-four percent of voters said they held little-to-no support for the way Shelton has carried out the transformation process, while 74 percent expressed little-to-no support for Hay. Jacqueline Sharkey, director of the School of Journalism, said the shared governance laws that determine the Faculty Senate’s role in the transformation process do not give the faculty the power it needs. FORUM, page 3
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Don Monroe, the boomerang man, throws a boomerang in front of Old Main on Wednesday and catches it with his feet. Monroe prefers to throw at this location because the grass protects the boomerangs from falling too hard and getting damaged. Tim Glass/ Arizona Daily Wildcat
‘Boomer’ blows away UA Internationally-ranked boomerang thrower dazzles campus with his mastery of an unusual talent. Check out page 12 for the full story.
UA Gmail switch to start Nov. By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Students will have the chance to begin the switch Google e-mail on Nov. 2, and all student e-mail accounts will be transferred to the new system by spring semester. However, moving everyone’s e-mail addresses at the same time would be technologically impossible, so University Information and Technology Services has decided to give student the option to transfer over at their own pace, said Thomas Rees, associate director for UITS. The opt-in process will run through Dec. 19. Beginning Dec. 20, all students who have not chosen to move will be transferred to the new Google space automatically, Rees added. “It’s a two-part process,” Rees said. “Because we have somewhere around 40,000 accounts to move, little is going to happen instantaneously.” To initiate the process, students will go to a Web site where they sign in with their UA NetID and simply click a button. The twostep process then begins. The first step will be to create an account in the Google space, Rees said.“This should happen relatively quickly, and after that they can sign in at catmail.arizona.edu and access all Google Apps: mail, calendar, docs and more.” Once this transition begins, all the opt-in students’ incoming email.arizona.edu mail will stop going to the old university e-mail system — WebMail — and go to the Google Mail inbox instead. The old mail in the WebMail inbox will not automatically transfer over until the student has gone through the second step of the process — mail migration. Because there is so much data to move in, students will be served on a first-come, first served basis in the mail migration process, Rees said. “When they reach the top of the queue, UITS will send the student’s stored e-mail to Google,” Rees said. “Then Google will run it individually through their various virus and spam checkers and add it piece by piece to the student’s Google Mail inbox.” Once the mail is moved over, the process is complete. Students will be able to access their old WebMail account until one week after the spring semester starts.
LGBTQ groups kick off Coming Out Week Yolanda “Yolie” Leon hands the microphone over to Violeta Ramos who discussed the challenges of being a lesbian during the LGBTQ meeting held in the Catalina Room of the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday afternoon. Emily Jones/ Arizona Daily Wildcat
By Marissa Freireich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Today is the official kick-off for UA’s Coming Out Week, a series of events organizers say are meant to raise awareness of issues affecting the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community on campus. The event, sponsored by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s Pride Alliance, the Office of LGBTQ Affairs and the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership, has expanded the week’s events throughout the month of October. National Coming Out Day is Oct. 11.
Jai Smith, sociology junior and Pride Alliance director, said various organizations both on and off campus are involved in Coming Out Week. He said these organizations fit together like pieces in a puzzle. “We are collaborating with a myriad of different organizations,” Smith said. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which some say marked the beginning of the current gay rights movement. This uprising was sparked when the police raided a gay bar in New York City in the early hours of June 28, 1969, and members of the gay community began to violently protest. Smith said he
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hoped the Coming Out Week events would emphasize this important event in history. Smith said Coming Out Week is similar to other heritage months. “It gives us a chance to highlight the strengths that we have as a community as well as the struggles that we’ve had to overcome,” he said. The event allows people who do not know a member of the LGBTQ community to break down any stereotypes they may have, he added. “It gives them an opportunity to sort of put a face to a potential label,”he said.
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