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It’s not all booze, babes and brawls Contrary to popular belief, the most recurring crime at greek houses on campus is not alcohol violations. In fact, larceny is the most commonly reported crime at fraternity and sorority houses, with 73 reported incidents since Jan. 1, 2008. Liquor law violations are second with 56 reported, followed closely by vandalism at 48. Larceny, which is defined as personal
theft, is often committed by members within the same residence without forced entry or exiting of the building, unlike burglary, said Sgt. Juan Alvarez, a University of Arizona Police Department spokesman. Many of the houses on campus have unique ways of handling the problem. Pi Kappa Alpha enhances house security with indoor and outdoor locks on all entrances, said fraternity president Josh Schafer. “There are locks on every door in the entire house, kitchens, everything,”Schafer said. “Members who live in the house are
given a key specific for their room, and only the house manager and myself have the master keys.” The keys given to live-in members all say, “Do not duplicate,” but if a problem arises there is one extra key in the house. “There is a lock box in the utility closet, so there’s an extra key just in case,”Schafer said.“But only myself and the house manager know the code to the lock box.” If someone at the house was to commit larceny, the fraternity has their own way of handling the incident. The member would report the
missing item, then take the problem to the Member at Large, a fraternity officer designated as a liaison between other members, Schafer said. “(The Member at Large) would determine if it was stolen by another fraternity member, then it would go to the judicial board where there would be sanctions,” Schafer said. The process would remain within the house, and within fraternity members. “One of the biggest things about STATS, page 12
Walking the line: ethics edition Kristin Borrero, a junior majoring in finance and philosophy from Boston College, works with teammates to cross a tightrope without the aid of spotters yesterday at the Rincon Sports Complex. Kristin attended the Eller Business College Ethics Case competition, which invites participants from around the world to compete against each other with the goal of promoting ethics.
Eller College hosts annual team decisionmaking competition By Michelle Cohen ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Teams from 26 universities within the United States and Canada will be competing in the seventh annual Eller Ethics Case Competition from Oct. 22 through Oct. 24. Two students from each university will compete in teams by arguing a case presented to them. “(The competition) has grown in size every year,” said Paul Melendez , the Ethics Point Distinguished Lecturer in Business Ethics and director of the Eller Ethics Program at the UA. “When I started it in 2003, it was just a competition within the college. The next year it was statewide, then western regional, then national, then international.” “It gets student(s) to focus on the importance of ethical decisionmaking done in a way where they get to work on teams, do research and critically analyze,” Melendez said. The winning team will be chosen in the final round today between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. in McClelland Hall’s Berger Auditorium , he said. “They compete during the day, and in the end four teams advance into the final four. We call them the ‘ethical four,’” he said. The event will be judged by a panel of 20 top executives throughout the nation in the business, government and nonprofit sector, he said.
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ASUA closes student regent application By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The application pool for the next student regent on the Arizona Board of Regents closed last night, with a total of 15 applicants. The applications, managed by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, include students in a broad range of academic situations, including undergraduates, graduates, and law students, said ASUA Senator Emily Fritze, who chairs ASUA’s student regent selection subcommittee. The position, wherein the student
regent holds all the rights and responsibilities of ABOR’s other regents, opened in early September for the first time in three years after the tenure of UA’s last student regent, David Martinez. Fritze said the number of applicants was neither above nor below expectations, adding that the large responsibility and time commitment – two years – involved with the position make it so that very few students are willing to apply. “We’re basically only looking at the quality of applicants,” as opposed to quantity, she said. The next step in the process, Fritze said, will be for the ASUA selection
subcommittee to narrow the applicant pool to three through a rigorous interview process. To secure the position, applicants will need the approval the Arizona Students Association (for which Martinez now serves as a campus organizer) and will eventually be handpicked by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. ASUA will begin the selection process next week, Fritze said, and plans to have the three finalists confirmed by the end of November. After that, Brewer and will have a few months to select the student regent by summer, when term begins. “Hopefully they’ll have a decision by early spring,” she said.
Former student representative for the Arizona Board of Regents David Martinez. Tim Glass/ Arizona Daily Wildcat
January 2008 to present • Narcotic drug possession: 2 reports • Sexual assault/rape: 3 reports • Physical assault: 12 reports, 4 originating from a single fraternity house • False alarms: 22, 21 from sorority houses
Bill of rights up for review By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The body of faculty members and administrators responsible for graduate academic policy formation, the Graduate Council, will meet today to discuss amending and possibly endorsing a graduate student bill of rights. The bill, which outlines a series of rights and responsibilities for graduate students, is currently being developed by the Graduate and Professional Student Council. The GPSC is seeking input from policy bodies like the Graduate Council. The endorsement of the Graduate Council, although not officially required to ratify the bill, is a necessary step before the bill can be presented to President Robert Shelton for final approval, GPSC leaders said. “They’re the people in a position to sort of whisper in administrators’ ears,” GPSC President David Talenfeld, a second-year law student, said of the Graduate Council. The Graduate Council will meet at 3 p.m. in the Regents Room of the Administration building. The Graduate Council, which has not yet seen the most recent version of the bill, is supportive of the bill and will likely endorse it after some language is changed to match existing legal documents, said Dean of the Graduate College Andrew Comrie, who sits on the council. “I haven’t found a person who doesn’t think it’s a good idea,” he said. The main sticking point, Comrie said, is specific language of the bill that may not line up exactly with pre-existing legal policies. In addition, some faculty members on the council, although in favor of the spirit of the document, are unfamiliar with the details of the bill and will need to be educated about it by Talenfeld, he said. “It’s just a matter of what shape it will take,” Comrie said. The bill, previously passed by GPSC last September, was procedurally dropped after being edited by Associate Dean of the Graduate College Dianne Horgan due to miscommunications between administrators and GPSC, Comrie said. This semester, Talenfeld has said GRADS, page 5
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