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UA contracts with Wideworld Sportswear for future apparel By Will Ferguson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Several months after UA President Robert Shelton severed ties with Russell Athletics, the UA Department of Trademark and Licensing has selected a California-based company to take over the lion’s share of UA apparel production. Wideworld Sportswear, based out of Cerritos, Calif. , will produce T-shirts, crew sweatshirts, hooded sweatshirts and sweatpants for the UA, officials said. The UofA Bookstore designed a custom, private label to accompany the new line of clothing that will hit bookstore shelves in the next few weeks.
“The new label will feature our Ultimate design which is reserved exclusively for our made-in-theUSA clothing,” said Debby Shively, the senior associate director for the UA Associated Student Bookstore. The UA ended its previous contract with Russell Athletics after a June 29 report from the Free Labor Association that found that the Russell Corporation was not taking adequate steps to ensure the rights of its workers at the corporation’s Jerzees de Honduras factory. The report pointed out that Russell had failed to engage in good faith negotiations with workers’ unions on issues like compensation for terminated employees and had not
played an active role in educating workers about their freedom of association rights. In addition, the report accused Russell of not engaging with union representatives in Honduras. According to Shively, the bookstore is currently selling through its remaining Russell inventory. “When the university notified us of the decision, we did not go forward with any new orders and only accepted what we had committed to prior to the announcement,” she said. While Wideworld Sportswear has varying price points that are dependent upon style, imprint and quantity ordered, the company has agreed to honor previous price standards estab-
lished with Russell, she said. “Wideworld Sportswear honored the Russell pricing so we could stay competitive for this type of product line and to stay at the same price points we offered with Russell,” she said. In addition to the new Wideworld Sportswear line, the UofA Bookstore will continue to carry apparel by various large clothing manufacturers like Nike and Champion. The UA will continue to work with the Free Labor Association as well as the Collegiate Licensing Company and Worker’s Rights Consortium to hold corporations accountable in supporting workers’ rights, said UA spokesman Johnny Cruz.
Veterans offered aid in transition By Marissa Freireich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Pins mark a map on the wall of the Veterans Education and Transition Services Office where the UA’s student veterans have been deployed. Some students sit at computers discussing homework, while others talk and laugh while they eat lunch. The office is a gathering place and provides numerous resources for student veterans. “We try to make the transition as painless and helpful as possible,” said Matt Randle, student director for the VETS office and a family studies and human development junior. He served as a medic in the Army in Korea and Iraq. He compared the VETS Office to other minority offices on campus. “Everybody should have a place like that,” he said. Randle said the military spends months training people to join the military but only a few days — if that — training them to return to civilian life. The first VETS Office opened in Old Main 208C last year. At that time, Randle said about five veterans per week would use the office. By the end of last academic year, about 50 veterans per week were using the office. Now, about 50 veterans per day visit the new office, which is located on the southwest side of the Student Union Memorial Center in Room 404-0. “It’s kind of like a hub for anything that’s veteran-related,” said Daniel Standage, coordinator for the Veterans Reintegration and Education Project. He graduated in 2009 with a degree in rehabilitation. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from August 1991 to September 2001. There are approximately 600 veterans on the UA campus who are certified to use the GI Bill of Rights, Standage said. However, they estimate the veteran population to be higher. The VETS Office provides veterans with a place to do homework or get to know other veterans. “School is as much a social VETERANS, page 5
ASUA to poll students for special events input By Shannon Maule ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT In an effort to fix a reputation damaged by last semester’s disastrous Jay-Z concert, the undergraduate student government will release an survey to all students asking for input about concert planning this week, officials said. Caleb Wilson, media arts sophomore and executive special events coordinator for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, said he is working closely with ASUA President Chris Nagata to send the survey, which will likely come as an e-mail, as soon as possible. The survey is a necessary step to providing better concerts on campus, Wilson said. It will not be too lengthy and will be most effective if a large number of students respond, he added.
“We want students to come to the shows and see bands they like. Also, we are curious to see if having the Bursar option for purchasing tickets will affect the amount of students who attend,” Wilson said in reference to a probable survey question. “This survey is really all about finding out what the students want and like, and giving them a voice.” Wilson and Nagata said they anticipate the survey will be sent out sometime this week. As of now, they are not absolutely certain how exactly the survey will be distributed. “We are still looking into options available to us,”Wilson said. Before such a survey could be distributed to a campus-wide listserv it would need to go through a series of approvals, officials said. “It’s kind of a convoluted process,”
said John Dill, a University Information Technology Services technical support representative. The message would need to be approved by ASUA Associate Director Christina Lieberman — who could not be reached for comment by press time — and the Office of the Registrar, said Registrar Beth Acree . Most requests for listserv messages deal with student affairsrelated issues like the recent flu epidemic, she said. Acree said she would need to see a final draft of the survey before giving it her approval, but said it sounded like something she would normally approve. “If it’s something that’s either not critical or if I think there’s some SURVEY, page 5
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Caleb Wilson, executive special events coordinator for ASUA and a media arts sophomore, explains in the ASUA office yesterday afternoon his preparation of an upcoming campus-wide survey concerning future concerts at the UA.
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