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New forum demystifies FAFSA By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT ASUA and the UA Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid have partnered to sponsor free financial aid forums for students, to provide more access to alternative means of financial aid. “The more requests the Arizona Legislature sees for FAFSA forms and for financial aid, the more they see that it is an issue for students paying for college,” said Associated Students
of the University of Arizona Sen. Chad Travis at an ASUA Senate meeting on Oct. 27. The idea for the financial aid forums started last year as collaboration between ASUA and the financial aid office, according to Rebekah H. Salcedo, student scholarship services coordinator at the UA Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid. “There’s a lot of students that think they can’t apply for financial aid because of their financial situation, but they never applied or even filled out their
FAFSA form,” said ASUA Sen. Mary Myles. Myles became involved in the project last year after then-ASUA President Chris Nagata and Arizona Students’ Association members visited the UA Freshman Class Council, of which Myles was a member. This semester, the financial aid workshops will focus on helping students fill out scholarship and FAFSA forms. Fliers for free financial workshops advertised the free forums, and started to aid students
in filling out their financial aid forms such as the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Myles added, “So much financial aid is wasted at the end of the year” and starting the forums earlier into the school year this time should help alleviate that waste. Strong student attendance last year encouraged the financial aid office to hold similar forums this year. Salcedo , noted the forums’ importance in serving “as a way to remind students to fill out their FAFSA
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Giffords declared winner
Democrat comes out ahead after close race By Yael Schusterman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The suspense ended Friday as U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was announced the winner in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District. According to the election summary report from the Pima County Elections Department, Giffords received 49.9 percent of the vote to Jesse Kelly’s 46.1 percent. The Associated Press reported Kelly’s response to his loss. “I would like to thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, my wife Aubrey, who has been by my side this entire time, my family, for their unwavering support and the thousands of warriors who fought with me in this campaign,” he said.
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Children wait in line to choose their decorations for accessorizing their homemade angel wings for the Procession of Little Angels at Armory Park on Saturday. The procession was geared toward helping children embrace life and death.
‘Little Angels’ walk for the dead By Rebecca Rillos ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Richard Davis held up a photograph of a smiling, young boy. “This is Drew at age 3,” he said. “And that photo there is his senior picture.” Drew Davis, a graduate of Catalina Foothills High School and a junior at UA, died July 9, 2006. He was 22 years old. His parents, Richard and Kathy Davis, created a memorial altar for him on Saturday in Armory Park at the annual Personal Altar Vigil and Procession of Little Angels.
Their altar was one of many created by community members in remembrance of loved ones who have passed away. “Whatever was important to Drew, I brought,” Kathy Davis said as she set small glass bowls of Skittles and mint Lifesavers on the table. “These were his favorite candies.” A few feet away from the altars, children prepared for the Procession of Little Angels, a community parade around downtown Tucson. The procession and vigil are both projects of Many Mouths One Stomach, a Tucson-based organization that
coordinates many artistic and cultural events. Children played music with volunteer musicians, decorated sugar skulls and painted cardboard wings that they could wear in the procession. Jhon Sanders, one of the event directors for the Procession of Little Angels and member of Many Mouths One Stomach, said the procession started in 2006 in response to community feedback. “People wanted something more family-oriented that connected with the All Souls Procession,” Sanders said. “It is
quite different from the All Souls Procession because Procession of Little Angels is a kid-driven event. We let kid energy dictate what happens there.” The purpose of the Procession of Little Angels is to provide families with the opportunity to open the discussion of mortality with their children, Sanders said. “We create the rough framework, they decide how to do it,” Sanders said. “We don’t impose, we just provide the opportunity.” Jane Beiser heard about the
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UA office makes 3D projects a reality By Lívia Fialho ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT For students wanting broader views, the UA’s Virtual Reality Annex may be the place to go to make assignments more visually appealing. The UA Office of Instruction and Assessment’s free service for students, faculty and staff allows for the production of panoramas and image slides that imitate real life. Gary Mackender, a senior information technology support analyst, has done panoramas of entire environments such as the Optical Sciences building and parts of the UA Mall. Mackender believes there is no other virtual reality lab in any other campus. Virtual reality technology
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surfaced in 2000, only one year before the UA founded its lab. Mackender, who is also a photographer, heads the virtual reality section of the office, which started in 2001. “Documenting some of the work that’s going on around the university,” is part of the goal of the virtual reality, he said. Although the annex doesn’t get much publicity, media arts and architecture students are usually the ones who look for the services, Mackender said. He recently finished a montage of a building’s model for an architecture student and says most of the work he does is to aid project visualization. Virtual reality can be used to showcase museum collections, or to show objects for large VIRTUAL REALITY, page 12
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Smaller images of the 360-degree virtual reality captures of an anthropology department skull, a Southwest Indian pot from the “The Pottery Project” in the Arizona State Museum and a model by A.J. Mach of the new Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house.
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