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Man dead at home near UA
Grads progress on bill of rights By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Tucson Police SWAT officers respond to man barricaded inside a home on East Drachman Street near North Tyndall Avenue last night. A dead body was found outside the home at about 9:45 p.m.
Stay with dailywildcat.com for video and continuous coverage Tucson police were in a standoff last night with a man who barricaded himself inside a house on East Drachman Street near North Tyndall Avenue. Police received a call from a neighbor at about 9:45 p.m. telling them that a man was lying in the yard
outside the house. When officers arrived, they found the man dead, said Sgt. Diana Lopez, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman. Another man inside the house refused to come out when questioned by police and barricaded himself
inside. The SWAT team and hostage negotiators were called to the scene. As of press time, the man had not surrendered. Few other details were immediately available. Police are still investigating how the man in the yard died.
The men were related, Lopez said, but police have not yet released the specific relationship. Lopez could not say whether or not the man inside the house was armed. — Arizona Daily Wildcat
Graduate student leaders took their first steps toward approving a graduate student bill of rights this weekend and agreed upon a tentative rough draft. The unofficial document, released to the Daily Wildcat, is largely based on a graduate student bill of rights passed by the Graduate and Professional Student Council several years ago. That bill was killed by university administrators due to legal complications after being passed by GPSC. The proposed rough draft will be presented to President Robert Shelton in a meeting next week, before it goes to the whole GPSC. It outlines a broad range of administrative procedures, First Amendment-style freedoms, academic responsibilities and teaching policies. A small group of current and former GPSC representatives — including former president Stephen Bieda — met Saturday in preparation for the upcoming meeting with Shelton. The group decided to move ahead with a largely unchanged version of the older bill, although some changes will be made before the meeting with Shelton, said GPSC President David Talenfeld, a second-year law student. “I’m going to give it some provisions to really give it some teeth,”Talenfeld said. Talenfeld gave particular attention to a clause added during the weekend that calls for a governing board comprised of faculty and students to resolve disputes related to the bill. “I don’t think the document GRADS, page 5
Lutherans split over gay clergy By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A vote to allow gay pastors to preach in member churches has led some congregations to consider leaving the largest body of Lutherans in the United States. On Aug. 21, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted 676-338 — a two-thirds majority — to adopt a social statement regarding homosexuals, “Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust.” The statement describes the group’s stance on same-gender relationships and homosexuals as members of the church’s clergy, said Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop. Individual congregations may choose to recognize lifelong, monogamous, same-gender relationships, and can accept homosexuals as registered leaders in the church,
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said Ron Rude, campus pastor for the ELCA at the UA. “ELCA congregations who believe God is calling them to welcome gay and lesbian couples, individuals and their families into fullness of life and fullness of ministry, are no longer barred from doing so,” Rude said.“ELCA congregations who believe God is calling them to refrain from welcoming gay and lesbian couples, individuals and their families into fullness of life and fullness of ministry, can continue to minister in this manner.” This stance has caused a significant rift in the ELCA’s congregations, officials say. The Community Church of Joy in Glendale, Ariz. — the 10th Lisa Beth Earle/Arizona Daily Wildcat largest congregation of ELCA Pastor Ian Pacey of the UA Lutheran Student Fellowship expresses his Lutherans in America — voted views about homosexuality in the church. The Evangelical Lutheran CLERGY, page 3
Church in America, the nation’s seventh-largest Christian church, voted on Friday, Aug. 21 to allow gays and lesbians in committed relationships to serve as clergy.
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By Will Ferguson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A memorial service will be held this afternoon for the late Kristopher A. Weatherly, former associate director of the University Teaching Center. Earlier this year, Weatherly was diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome, a type of bone marrow disorder that eventually took his life on July 4 at the age of 44. Weatherly graduated from the UA in 1995 with a doctoral degree in management and marketing, and had served as the associate director of the University Teaching Center since July 2007. After learning of Weatherly’s condition, the University Teaching Center sponsored several drives to help Weatherly find a
Kristopher A. Weatherly potential bone marrow donor. Approximately 600 people attended the UA’s first drive, which broke the national bone marrow registry’s record for a twoday drive held in the U.S. Today’s service will be held at 2 p.m. at the Little Chapel of All Nations , 1052 N. Highland Ave. The memorial is open to the campus community and will feature a video tribute to Weatherly’s life.
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