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TEMPE — Arizona State University police say a graduate student fatally shot himself in a professor’s office. ASU police commander James Hardina says the shooting occurred about 11:40 a.m. Monday. Police say the student was apparently talking with a professor when he pulled out a gun and shot himself once in the architecture Design South building on ASU’s main campus. The name of the student has not been released. Hardina says there is no further threat to ASU students or faculty. ASU spokeswoman Julie Newberg says the Design South building is closed until further notice.
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From the left, Justice Stephen Breyer, NBC justice correspondent Pete Williams and Justice Antonin Scalia discuss methods for interpreting the Constitution during a debate at the Tucson Convention Center’s Leo Rich Theater yesterday. The event, hosted by the James E. Rogers College of Law’s William H. Rehnquist Center, let community members and students have the chance to listen to the justices’ opposing viewpoints and opinions on constitutional statutes, such as the interpretation of the Second Amendment.
U.S. Supreme Court justices debate constitutional philosophies at law college event “Where do we draw the line today? That becomes a difficult question.”
Stephen Breyer Born: Aug. 15, 1938 in San Francisco, Calif. Education: A.B. from Stanford University, B.A. from Magdalen College, at Oxford, LL.B. from Harvard Law School Appointed: Aug. 3, 1994 Nominated by: President Clinton
By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT In what Arizona law experts called a rare moment of public reflection from the U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer appeared yesterday at the Tucson Concention Center’s Leo Rich Theater for a discussion of their methods for interpreting the Constitution. The discussion, hosted by the James E. Rogers College of Law’s William H. Rehnquist Center, was broadcast live on the Public Broadcast Service in Arizona. At the event was a full house of Tucson community members, UA law students and faculty, and administrators including President Robert Shelton and Regent Ernest Calderon, a UA law college alumnus. NBC justice correspondent Pete Williams moderated the discussion —
Bill of rights gets unanimous approval By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
A graduate student bill of rights and responsibilities took a major step forward on Friday with a unanimous endorsement from the Graduate Council, Chair of the Graduate Council Andrew Carnie said. The council, a body of faculty members and administrators who decide graduate student academic policy, voted at their Oct. 23 meeting to endorse the bill as a “concept document.” The endorsement is not required to make the bill official university policy but is necessary to persuade President Robert Shelton
to approve it, said Graduate and Professional Student Council President David Talenfeld , a secondyear law student. Changes from the bill’s previous incarnation reflect edits made by Associate Dean of the Graduate College Dianne Horgan so that the bill would match preexisting legal policies. “It’s 95 percent identical (to the previous draft),” Talenfeld said. In an e-mail to Talenfeld sent before the meeting and copied to the Daily Wildcat, Horgan said of the revised bill that a “quick scan looks like BILL OF RIGHTS, page 5
titled “A Conversation of the Constitution: Principles of Constitutional and Statutory Interpretation” — and asked the justices questions about their approach to the Constitution. Scalia and Breyer voiced sharply opposing viewpoints that stem from a philosophical dichotomy between, in Scalia’s words, “originalism” (Scalia) and “evolutionary interpretation” (Breyer). The difference, the justices said, is that an originalist attempts to interpret constitutional statutes based on the intentions of their authors while an evolutionist attempts to describe how older values apply to present-day circumstances. Scalia looks for an “original intention,” while Breyer is “more of a guy who says, ‘let’s take a broad view,’” explained Tucson criminal attorney and DEBATE, page 12
“There has to be a consistency to your interpretation of the law.”
Antonin Scalia Born: March 11, 1936 in Trenton, N.J. Education: A.B. from Georgetown University and the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, LL.B. from Harvard Law School, Sheldon Fellow of Harvard University, 1960-1961 Appointed: Sept. 26, 1986 Nominated by: President Reagan
Campus offers aid for stressed students By Michelle Cohen ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT In the wake of yesterday’s suicide at Arizona State University, UA administrators reminded students that there are resources available on campus for students who are depressed or might be contemplating suicide. An ASU graduate student shot himself yesterday shortly before noon in a professor’s office in the College of Design South building on the university’s Tempe campus. Licensed psychologist Maria Theresa Velez, and associate dean of the UA Graduate College, called yesterday’s event “tragic and hopefully isolated.” “We hope that we learn enough from what happened so that we can prevent SUICIDE, page 5
Bikram yoga heats up By Yael Schusterman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT An instructor says, “get into ‘triangle pose,’”and 20 bodies lift one arm above their heads while lifting their back legs into the air, leaving the other half of their bodies crouched to the floor. The room is 105 degrees and humid. For 90 minutes, drenched bodies create a luminous glow of sweat, during what has become a popular form of exercise and a therapeutic activity for UA students known as Bikram yoga or “hot yoga.” Dana Becker, a pre-business junior and certified yoga instructor, spent 200 hours becoming certified to teach yoga classes, learning “pretty much everything there is to know about yoga,” she said.
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Sydney Duncan (far left) practices Bikram yoga during a class on Sunday at Bikram’s Yoga College of India. The studio, located on Oracle Road and Orange Grove Road, maintains a temperature of 105 Fahrenheit at high humidity.
The distinguishing characteristic of Bikram yoga, Becker said, is that it mainly sticks to the same sequence of 26 positions and two breathing
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exercises while other forms of yoga vary in positions and routines.
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