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UAPD closes paper theft case By Shain Bergan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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David Ferreira, 33, looks at the screens displaying Web site results of election coverage updates during the Republican election night party at Chuy’s on E. Tanque Verde Rd. Tuesday night.
By Tim McDonnell and Will Ferguson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT With about 98 percent of precincts reporting at press time, Democrats locked up at least one of three Tucson City Council seats in this year’s election, with two others too close to call. Tucson voters rejected Proposition 200, which would have required 2.4 police officers per 1,000 residents. The measure failed by about a 70-30 percent margin. Propositions 401 and 402, budget overrides to increase funding for Tucson Unified School District, also failed by wide margins. Proposition 400, the Home Rule proposition, was too close to call at press time. The proposition would allow the city of Tucson bypass state-mandated
spending limits forcing the city to put a portion of its budget into savings. On the South Side, Democratic candidate Richard Fimbres defeated Republican Shaun McClusky by about 10 percent. Races in Ward 3 and Ward 6 were too close to call at press time. Incumbent Karin Uhlich, a Democrat representing Ward 3 on the North Side, maintained a 1 percent edge on Republican Ben Buehler-Garcia, with about 47 percent of the vote, while Green candidate Mary DeCamp registered at about 6 percent. The race for Ward 6, representing Midtown and the UA, saw Republican challenger Steve Kozachik holding a lead of about 50 percent to 49 percent over Democratic incumbent Nina Trasoff at midnight. A packed patio, gallons of margaritas and swarms of journalists
characterized the Pima County Republican Party’s election night bash last night at Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler, 6310 E. Tanque Verde Rd. “Tonight’s just a big night to see how our hard work’s paid off,”said political science junior and College Republicans President Coty McKenzie. About 10 members of the club were present for the event, he said. McKenzie was among a relatively small pool of college-age people mixed in with the mostly older crowd. It can be difficult to bring students out to events such as these, McKenzie said, in part because many of them are from out of town and not registered to vote in Pima County. “It’s real hard to get a big following,” he said. McKenzie, himself not registered to ELECTION, page A12
City Council Races
With 98 percent of precincts reporting
Ward 3 (North Side) Incumbent Karin Uhlich (Democrat) 47.32 % Ben Buehler-Garcia (Republican) 46.41 % Mary DeCamp (Green) 6.13 % Ward 5 (South Side) Richard Fimbres (D) 53.36 % Shaun McClusky (R) 46.39 %
Ward 6 (Midtown, including University of Arizona) Incumbent Nina Trasoff (D) 48.86 % Steve Kozachick (R) 50.78 %
The University of Arizona Police Department has ended its investigation into the Oct. 8 theft of 10,000 Arizona Daily Wildcat newspapers. The University of Arizona Police Department closed the case despite not questioning UA students and Phi Kappa Psi members Alex Cornell and Nick Kovaleski , whose names appeared on Spanish homework found in a pile of thousands of stolen newspapers discovered on West Anklam Road on Oct. 9. The fraternity’s president and vice president initially would neither confirm nor deny Phi Kappa Psi’s involvement in the mass theft. Phi Kappa Psi President Keith Peters later told the Daily Wildcat the fraternity would be carrying out an internal investigation. Peters, Cornell and Kovaleski have repeatedly declined comment concerning the ongoing case and the fraternity’s internal investigation. UAPD officers placed phone calls to Cornell and Kovaleski on Oct. 9. The call to Kovaleski was not returned, and Cornell deferred comment to Peters, who could not be reached by the police. The campus police again attempted to contact the fraternity members on Oct. 21, but UAPD received no response. After a final failed attempt to contact Cornell, Kovaleski and Peters via e-mail on Oct. 22, Detective David Caballero chose to close the case, according to police reports. “Probable cause does not exist at this time to obtain an arrest or search warrant,” Caballero wrote in the report. “No other investigative THEFT, page A12
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WebMail outage longest in six years of use Student Affairs Administrative Assistant Diane Jensen said her department reverted to making phone calls once e-mail UA WebMail experienced e-mail delays services went down, causing delays in the again Tuesday at 10 a.m. due to an un- office’s affairs. known problem, officials from University “It slows a lot of stuff down,”she said. Information Technology Services said. UITS officials said they spent hours TuesThe delays come a day after what one day looking for the cause of the problem. official called the longest outage — close to “We are systematically going 10 hours — in WebMail’s six years of use. through and turnThe problem was ing off different proprimarily due to the cesses. We have a This old system large number of current whole incident team barely gets by on WebMail users, which is working to figure out a regular basis. far more than the system this problem,” said was originally designed UITS Senior Director — Thomas Rees to accommodate, Limell Lawson. UITS associate director Associate Director of UITS technicians UITS-Frontline Services suspended the UA’s Thomas Rees said. new e-mail service “The demand on the system has com- CatMail Tuesday to make sure the pletely outgrown its ability to handle it,” new service was not the problem. Rees said.“The software was never meant Despite the suspension, 7,474 students to handle 60,000 accounts.” had opted into CatMail and 226 WebMail
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accounts were successfully transferred to the new service by 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Lawson said. The outage highlights the need for a transition to a new e-mail system, Rees said. “The old system barely gets by on a regular basis,”he said.
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