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GradFest makes the grade
Final stop for UA seniors an ‘anticipated event’
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Graduate Professional Student Council President Emily Connally speaks during the council’s meeting in the Medical Research building on Tuesday. Connally and members of the board discussed an online survey concerning fees for graduate students.
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Students choose from an array of graduation items including caps, gowns, tassels and T-shirts at the GradFest table in the UofA Bookstore on Tuesday.
By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The semiannual GradFest changed it up this semester to accommodate various kinds of students. GradFest offers a one-stop shop for graduating students to get their caps, gowns, diploma frames and all others things commencement, by setting up tables in the back of the UofA Bookstore for a three-day stint. This semester, GradFest extends its second day an extra two hours to give nonconventional and night students time to access the GradFest sales and also moves the event inside, according to a UofA Bookstore representative. “I think GradFest is kind of an anticipated event,” said Kurtis Durfey, with UofA Bookstore’s marketing and creative design. “It’s coming to get their cap, their gown.” Representatives from Jostens, a graduation product company, and a portrait photographer offering free sessions and a free thumbnail are at the event. GradFest also gets to partici-
pate in the “university pride” get their caps and gowns,” Vill said. products like memory books and “But the emails were out, it was class rings, according to Durfey. known, and then it was just that I Durfey said he was “really ex- had the time and could stop by.” cited” about extending the open Carly Gordon and Ashley hours of the event. He graduated Williams also took advantage of last semester with his master’s in GradFest. business administration from the “It’s easy, it’s convenient, it’s fast,” Eller College of Gordon, an elManagement ementary educaand thought extion senior, said. tended hours “No lines at all.” GradFest could give proWiliams, a seUofA Bookstore fessional stunior in bilingual dents who work teaching and Wednesday 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. during the day Spanish, called Thursday 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. and go to school the moment at night a chance “bittersweet.” to attend no “It’s surreal,” matter what time of year they are Gordon said of graduating. graduating. Durfey noted the placement of “It’s a little bit smaller in the GradFest in the year comes before fall than in the spring,“ Durfey the rush of finals in order to allow said. “But it’ll still be in the book- students access to discounted lapstore in the spring.” tops, software and alumni apparel. Many students attending the “So if people don’t catch this one event had positive reactions overall. and are graduating in May, they can Samuel Vill, a business manage- catch the next one,” Durfey said. “It’s ment senior, said he was only there about getting people to make that for a little while, but thought the mental note … before it’s a week befest had everything he needed. fore commencement and they realize “I don’t know how else people they don’t have a cap and gown.”
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World Cup octopus dies
Sea creature famous for soccer match predictions MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE OBERHAUSEN, Germany — Paul, the German octopus who found fame during this year ’s soccer World Cup by predicting eight correct successive match winners, has died, his spokesman at the Sea Life Oberhausen visitor attraction in Germany said yesterday. Spain, in particular, hailed Paul as a national treasure after the mollusk twice picked the Spaniards as winners, first against Germany then over the Dutch in the final. The octopus died in his pool in the night between Monday and Tuesday. The aquarium said there are no suspicious circumstances concerning the death — although no one was expecting it. “We all grew very fond of him and we will grievously miss him,” said Sea Life chief executive Stefan Porwoll. Paul, nearly 3 years old at the time of his death, was actually born in Britain — although this was of no help to the hapless English side during the soccer tournament. Scotland and Wales did not even qualify. Aquarium staff employed Paul as an oracle by
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Paul the octopus tips the Spanish box during his test for predicting the semifinal match at the World Cup between Germany and Spain.
giving him a choice of two plastic buckets, each marked with a national flag, and seeing which one he reached into first for his favorite food, shellfish. Some of the losing nations at the soccer fest in South Africa blamed Paul for their defeat and
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GPSC wants to break up — with undergraduates and bundled fees. The Graduate and Professional Student Council voted at Wednesday’s meeting to fight what they consider unfair fees. Their principal focus is to fight fee increases that were proposed last year. “Last year they said they would implement half the increases and next year take them to the full extent,” said Mabel Crescioni, GPSC representative for the College of Public Health . “Our first focus should make sure that doesn’t happen.” GPSC President Emily Connally emphasized Crescioni’s second point, to fight the structure of fees by unbundling them. “We need to rectify those
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At least 113 dead in Indonesian tsunami MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE JAKARTA, Indonesia — At least 113 people were killed after a tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake slammed into villages on Indonesia’s Mentawai islands, officials and aid workers said Tuesday. The Disaster Management Agency in West Sumatra province said 10 villages on the island chain were swept away by waves as high as three meters caused by Monday’s 7.2-magnitude quake. Mujiarto, head of the Health Ministry’s Crisis Centre, said the latest information from Mentawai showed “113 people were dead and at least 150 others were missing.” But the Indonesian Red Cross put the number of missing at 502. It said in a state-
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problems last year with bundling fees,” Connally said. The council agreed that graduate students are grouped together with undergraduates . “The most frightening statement I’ve ever heard was said by the provost last week who said ‘because the undergraduates wanted it,’ and I think that’s something we need to fix,” said Bryan Helm, GPSC representative for the College of Science . “We’re very different and they aren’t taking that into consideration when they are making these changes at the university level. They lump us with them at their convenience … we need to stomp our foot and demand to be treated different.” Connally also brought up breaking from the Arizona Students’ Association.
ment that 2,000 families were displaced and nine boats were unaccounted for. The National Disaster Management Agency said most of the deaths occurred in Pagai Utara and Pagai Selatan districts. Authorities had lifted a tsunami warning one hour after the quake and initially said there were no reports of casualties or damage. “The information came late because communication was difficult,” said West Sumatra disaster management chief source: MCT Harmensyah, who like many Indonesians uses only one name. The Health Ministry said dozens of homes were swept away or destroyed by a TSUNAMI, page A3
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