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Prop would trump state spending limits By Brian Mori ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The City of Tucson wants permission from voters to spend all the money it collects during the next four years, overriding state spending limits by about $42 million. If passed on Nov. 3, Proposition 400, also called the Home Rule Proposition, will allow Tucson the option to spend
100 percent of what it collects in revenue, instead of putting some into savings as Arizona law requires. Every year, the Arizona Economic Estimates Commission determines the amount municipal and county governments can spend without a city override, based on population growth and revenue from taxes and other income. Proposition 400 will not raise taxes or
fees, according to city officials. Most city services, including public safety, parks and recreation, and business development are paid for with property taxes and fees from things like parking tickets and permit applications. “Whatever money we have coming in, we have to spend it for this community,” said Ward 6 City Councilwoman Nina Trasoff. “There’s nothing wrong
with saving it or putting it in reserves, but right now we need to be putting the money into the programs.” Trasoff said the money would be spent to fill holes in the city budget created by the recession. In 2010, all Tucson services will operate from a total budget of about $1.3 billion, including about $51 million in federal stimulus funds.
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Site saves profiles of dead FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
DECEASED, page A3
PROP 400, page A3
Man barred from campus
THE MEN BEHIND THE MACHINES
Death doesn’t erase the online footprints that people leave in life, and now Facebook won’t either. The five-year-old social network will “memorialize” profiles of the dead if their friends or family request it. Such accounts will be different from regular Facebook profiles. For example, the site will remove any contact information and bar people from logging in. The person’s profile also won’t appear in the “suggestions” section of Facebook, and only the deceased person’s confirmed friends will be able to find them in a search. The development comes as Facebook becomes an important social hub for its more than 300 million active users worldwide to keep up with friends and family. Writing on Facebook’s official blog, employee Max Kelly said the question of how to deal with death in a virtual world hit home quickly when one his best friends and fellow Facebook employees was killed in a bicycle accident. “The question soon came up: What do we do about his Facebook profile? We had never really thought about this before in such a personal way,” wrote Kelly, Facebook’s director of security. “Obviously, we wanted to be able to model people’s relationships on Facebook, but how do you deal with an interaction with someone who is no longer able to log on?” Patti Harada , who teaches Psychology of Death and Loss at the UA, called Facebook’s decision to memorialize pages “wonderful.” “It helps keep that person alive,” said Harada, who is a grief and trauma counselor and adjunct faculty member in the psychology department. “We know the person has died, but most people are so afraid of
While the total has increased $16.5 million from Fiscal Year 2009, the portion over which the council has discretion, the General Fund, has decreased by $49 million. The General Fund represents only about 32 percent of Tucson’s total bank account, according to the adopted budget for Fiscal Year 2010.
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The University Research Instrumentation Center is where many of the devices and machines for highly specialized UA research projects are fabricated. These machines are used for cutting, milling, boring, tapping, dyeing and many other metal-crafting tasks. The center produces devices not only for the UA, but also for entities outside of the university.
The UA Research Instrumentation Center has played a key role in helping the UA achieve its prominence in the fields of astronomy and optical science. From cameras that snapped photos of the Martian surface to high-powered radio telescopes, the instrumentation center has been critical in designing and developing prototype parts. FULL STORY AND PHOTOS, PAGE A5
Campus police have issued an exclusionary order against a man who allegedly repeatedly harassed faculty and staff on campus, effectively barring him from all property owned and controlled by the UA. The man, 48-year-old Carlos David Manrique, allegedly frequented the workplaces of certain faculty members, sent them unwanted e-mails from university computers and violated pre-existing Carlos David court orders, according Manrique to a University of Arizona Police Department press release. Manrique already has two court orders prohibiting harassment and a court order barring him from the campus, the report says, adding that he is known to frequent the Modern Languages and the Main Library computer commons. Exclusionary orders — which can be given only to non-UA affiliated persons like Manrique — last for either six months or one year and can be issued following complaints of harassment, disturbing the peace, misuse of university facilities or a crime, UAPD spokesman Sgt. Juan Alvarez said. UA affiliates accused of similar misdeeds can be referred to the Dean of Students Office, Alvarez said. Exclusionary orders are rarely issued, Alvarez said. “It’s not something we do all the time,” he said. — Arizona Daily Wildcat
To aid UAPD in enforcing this order, please dial 911 if you see Manrique on campus.
Students’ video game business thrives By Marissa Freireich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A UA student has transformed one of his hobbies into a successful online company. Evan Paul, a communications junior, founded eGamePlace.com at age 15. The company provides a trading platform for people across the country to exchange video games. The Web site has about 86,000 active users. The site supports all systems across all consoles, and users can also trade across systems, Paul said. The company works through an automated process. One person makes a list of the games they have and the games they want. That person is matched with someone else who has corresponding lists. Both people then pay for the exchange and send
their game through the mail. The transfer itself costs $1.95, plus the cost of shipping. Within a few days, both parties will receive their games. If one person fails to send their game, the company will reimburse the other person. Users also rate other users in a system similar to eBay’s. The site also acts as a community because members can talk to other members about games, Paul said. Paul’s inspiration for the company came from personal experience. He was diagnosed with dyslexia before his freshman year of high school, and said video games served as a release for him as a child. “Video games provided me with an escape, an outlet,”he said.“It was something I excelled at.”At that point, he was beating video games about every two weeks. VIDEO GAMES, page A3
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Evan Paul reviews business finances with Mohammed Sharawi Tuesday in the Integrated Learning Center. Paul created an Internet business for trading videogames when he was 15 years old and is now considering selling it to investors.
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