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ASUA accepts help in concert planning from UApresents By Shannon Maule ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT After losing nearly $1 million on April’s Jay-Z concert, student leaders say they hope to win back the campus’s respect by collaborating with UApresents to organize, but not fund, an upcoming concert featuring The Fray. Ticket sales for the concert have already covered the cost of the performers themselves, a dramatic improvement compared to April’s loss. As of Wednesday, 1,450 tickets have been sold. The cost of the concert is $40,000, “which is very reasonable for such a popular group,” said UApresents Director of Marketing Jo Alenson . Unlike with Jay-Z, the Associated Students of the University of Arizona is not putting one penny toward the event, which is instead being funded exclusively by UApresents. Instead, the group has handled most of the public relations and advertising work for the concert. Caleb Wilson, media arts sophomore and special events coordinator for ASUA , said he is putting forth a strong effort to make sure things run smoothly for this event, which he described as an “educational opportunity” for his team. “We are still taking it to the next level and practicing as if it was our own show,” he said. Working in tandem with UApresents has been a good way for ASUA planners to relieve some of the pressure of organizing a concert, Wilson said. “I expected conflicts of interest, but it is actually all working out very well,” he said. “If we had a solo show, liability and responsibility would be all our own, but now it is not.” As the group gains experience with public relations — which has been the main aspect of ASUA’s
Federal officials discuss school violence CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CHICAGO — U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Attorney General Eric Holder came to Chicago Wednesday to address the issue of youth violence across the nation, bringing the weight of their offices but little in the way of funding or a plan to address it. The visit came two weeks after the release of a video capturing in lurid detail the fatal beating of a student at Chicago’s Fenger High. That video prompted a national outcry as it made the rounds on national television and the Web, sparking the speedy response from the Obama administration. Holder and Duncan met privately with a handful of Fenger students, parents and school officials Wednesday morning before holding a joint news conference with Mayor Richard M. Daley. While the officials spoke in broad terms about the video sounding a public alarm, no one suggested specific public actions or solutions — beyond launching VIOLENCE, page 3
First flu vaccines won’t reach UA FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
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involvement in the concert — it will be better prepared for future events and more able to avoid future catastrophes, Wilson said. “We have to accept what happened to the ASUA reputation,” he said. UApresents is also excited about pairing up with “such an important group on this campus,” Alenson said. “We felt badly about last year and the fact that having another event this year was unlikely because of the budget,” she said. “UApresents has always wanted to work with this particular student group in the Jacob Rader/Arizona Daily Wildcat past, and now they could not be Sen. Emily Fritze, left, and Sen. James Brooks, right, discuss funding issues at Wednesday’s ASUA meeting. ASUA has been working closely with UApresents to put on a successful concert with The happier.”
The first batches of the new swine flu vaccine have arrived in Pima and Yuma counties. Pima County Health Department spokeswoman Patti Woodcock says the county received 9,000 doses of a live virus formulation of the vaccine and will begin distributing it at regular clinics starting on today. None of the swine flu vaccine that arrived recently in Pima County will be delivered to the UA, Woodcock said. Campus Health Services officials had said they expected to begin receiving swine flu vaccinations in early November, and remain unclear about exactly when the vaccines will become available on campus, said Campus Health spokeswoman Terri West . “We don’t even know when we’re going to get it,” she said. Yuma County received 1,900 doses on Wednesday. They will be given to health care workers and pediatric patients. The vaccine is in a nasal mist. State health officials expect about 70,000 doses to arrive in the state’s 15 counties this week. The first batches of injectable vaccine, which uses a killed virus, are expected to start arriving within weeks. Between 800,000 and 1 million doses are expected then. By the height of the flu season in January, the state hopes to have vaccinated up to 70 percent of the population — as many as 4 million people.
Fray in November.
Pulitzer winners to speak at UA By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Two Pulitzer Prize winners and former Daily Wildcat reporters are at the UA today to speak about investigative reporting after writing a series of articles exposing the misuse of power in the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Paul Giblin and Ryan Gabrielson will be visiting several journalism classes before attending a dinner reception in the early evening, with a lecture to follow. They will be speaking specifically about their particular Pulitzer series as well as investigative reporting in general. Afterward, they will open the lecture up to questions and “talk about whatever the audience wants to talk about,” Giblin said. Giblin and Gabrielson wrote a series of articles in July 2008 about the Lisa Beth Earle/Arizona Daily Wildcat negative impacts of the Maricopa Ryan Gabrielson and Paul Giblin return to where it all began in the Arizona Daily Wildcat newsroom. Both are former Wildcat reporters who recently won the Pulitzer Prize. They are back at the UA to County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s illegal immigration policy. speak about investigative reporting.
They conducted hundreds of interviews, sifted through public documents and created a database to analyze arrests in the area — a database that not even the sheriff’s office has to this day. Under the policies at the time, there was “rather light regard for civil liberties — anyone who was brown and driving around certain roads and at certain times were likely to get pulled over,” Giblin said.“There was a shifting of a lot of manpower to illegal immigration, which left many other places not enforced. The response time went up from 911 calls. Serious crimes such as rape went un-investigated.” After months of researching and analyzing, the five-part series was published in the East Valley Tribune. After the story, a flurry of events occurred. The two largest repercussions were that Arpaio was re-elected, but is now under investigation by the FBI and PULITZER, page 3
Grad bill will need to pass council By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A bill of rights for graduate students, still in its infancy, will face a long road full of bureaucratic challenges before it can become legally binding university policy, officials said. The bill, originally passed by the Graduate and Professional Student Council in September 2008, was dropped due to confusion between the GPSC and the Graduate Council, a faculty body charged with handling policy decisions and grievances, said Andrew
Carnie, a linguistics professor and chair of the Graduate Council. One problem, he said, was that the bill did not clarify that some of its policies already existed in other university documents such as the employee handbook and the Arizona Board of Regents policy document. Graduate College deans requested that the document be split into a statement of rights and a statement of responsibilities and identify content that was already extant in other documents. What exactly happened to the bill after that remains unclear, but since then
graduate student leaders have maintained that the bill has faced resistance from administrators. Many faculty members question the need for a graduate student bill of rights, James Johnson, an optical sciences doctoral student and GPSC assembly chair, said at GPSC’s Sept. 30 meeting. “This is going to be an uphill battle for us,” he said. Nevertheless, Carnie called the bill very important and said that after the bill was returned to the GPSC, “(The UA) Transformation hit us all, and I
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think it just got lost.” Adding to the difficulty of resolving such issues is the fact that GPSC leadership turns over every semester, he said. A small group of former and current GPSC members met Sept. 3 to decide on an unofficial working version of the bill — largely unchanged from the 2008 version — to use in an Oct. 13 forum with President Robert Shelton. The next step is for the bill to be passed by the GPSC. President David
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