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GPSC angry over presidential search snub By Eliza Molk Daily Wildcat
While the 23-member UA Presidential Search Committee includes regents, university administrators and ASUA President James Allen, it does not include a graduate or professional student. The Arizona Board of Regents appointed committee members who represent core values such as research, education, economic development, community relations and statewide interests shared by multiple constituencies, according to Sarah Harper, the regents’ director of public affairs. Harper said the search committee did not intend to select a representative from each
Search Committee • The committee includes co-chairs Regent Dennis DeConcini and Regent Rick Myers. • For a full list of search committee members please visit azregents.edu
student, faculty, employment or other constituent interest. Graduate and Professional Student Council President Roeland Hancock said the graduate and professional students at the UA take issue with the “lack of adequate representation” on the committee, and that this omission
is “unjustified and detrimental” to the overall search process. Hancock said this is because it violates their traditional shared governance and leaves critical components of the academic environment without a voice. In the UA’s Shared Governance Memorandum of Understanding, both the Associated Students of the University of Arizona and GPSC are named as groups recommended for consultation in administrative decisions. The Faculty Senate and Shared Governance Review Committee have also recommended that graduate and undergraduate student representatives be included in “the selection and review of
administrators.” While the committee may not include graduate or professional student representation, these students can have a voice in the selection of the new UA president, according to Harper. Public input on the search process will be solicited via email as well as through events and an advisory council to “ensure that all voices are heard.” Additionally, the search committee will post public notices about public forums where members of interested groups can share their thoughts, concerns or suggestions about the search process. “The regents looked for members that are deeply committed to the UA and its exceptional reputation of
academic and research excellence,” Harper said. “As well, they looked for members that could represent many key constituency groups and bring forward their expertise in the search process for the next UA president.” Allen said that ASUA lobbied heavily to ensure a seat next to the already-present student regents, and sympathizes with their graduate peers’ lack of inclusion. Allen said he sincerely hopes that GPSC will allow him the opportunity to garner input, ideas and information from GPSC. He intends to bring that information to the search committee and advocate for it. gpsc, 3
Prof says parents misled on shots By Conrad Pursley Daily Wildcat
according Dr. Andreas Theodorou, chief medical officer at University Medical Center. Victims were commonly kept in the intensive care units until their bodies flushed the toxins out naturally. “We’d have to give them an unbelievable amount of sedatives just to keep children controlled and in bed,” said Theodorou, a member of the research team. “They’d spend a day battling
Over the past 10 years, the number of Arizona parents who opted to not inoculate their child has doubled. Arizona is one of several states that allows parents to make such a determination. The Arizona Department of Health Services and the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will be working together with two UA epidemiologists to identify Arizona schools where vaccination exemptions are high. The team will study whether there are pockets in Arizona that are in danger of out an outbreak of a commonly vaccinated illness. They will also attempt to understand the communities’ concern with vaccinations. A projected date for the completion of this project is early 2012. While they’re working to discover why, Rick Herrier, clinical professor in the College of Pharmacy, said he believes he knows the root of the cause. “I think the biggest thing is the fear of autism,” Herrier said. Herrier credits this fear, in part,
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Dr. Leslie Boyer, director of the Venom Immunochemistry, Pharmacology, and Emergency Response Institute (VIPER), has been involved in the clinical regulatory side of the 12-year development of an anti-venom to combat the symptoms of scorpion bites.
UA research looks to take sting out of scorpion venom By Brenna Goth Daily Wildcat
Bark scorpion stings used to mean breathing tubes, sedation and several-day stays in the intensive care unit for children brought to UMC. To combat this, UA researchers and doctors spent 12 years developing protocol and testing an anti-venom developed in Mexico that reduces treatment time to a matter of hours. The Food and Drug Administration approved Anascorp on Aug. 3, making it the first drug approved specifically
Quickies >>ZonaZoo: Student who have purchased a ZonaZoo pass can pick up their t-shirt under Arizona Stadium beginning tomorrow at 11 a.m. >>Looking for a job?: Get your resumes ready! The Wildcat Student Employment Fair is tomorrow beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom at the SUMC
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for scorpion stings in the United States. About 11,000 people call Arizona poison centers after being stung by scorpions each year, according to Keith Boesen, managing director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center. Bark scorpions are the only scorpions in North America to produce life-threatening symptoms, which are most common in children, he said. The venom affects nerve communication and can make victims jerk, thrash and drool,
Career Services to host job fair today Student Union readies Some Fair Attendees to play host to more Abercrombie and Fitch Investigation than 40 employers Apple Inc. General Mills Inc. If the end of summer means the end of your summer job, Career Services has just the event for you. Students seeking jobs for the Fall 2011 semester can attend the Wildcat Student Employment Fair on Wednesday in the Grand Ballroom on the third floor of the Student Union Memorial Center. The event will last from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will host more than 40 companies seeking students for part-time employment. The free employment fair is hosted
Arizona Student Unions AT&T Boeing Company ExxonMobil Federal Bureau of
Honeywell IBM JCPenny John Deere Kraft Foods
Microsoft Corporation Raytheon Target Think Tank Verizon Wireless W.L. Gore and Associates Inc. Source: Career Services
by Career Services at the start of every fall semester. One of the biggest changes to the fair this year is the incorporation of local off-campus companies. Previously, the fair was exclusively for employment
positions on campus. “I am really pleased with that because it has expanded the number of opportunities for students, and that is what we are looking to do,” said Susan Miller, marketing and special events
senior coordinator for UA Career Services. Last year’s event provided 300 positions among 27 employers on campus. This year the number has grown to 43 corporations both on and off campus looking to employ full-time students for part-time jobs with 450 positions available. This is a 50 percent increase from the previous year. One of the new local employers to the event is the part-time tutoring and caregiving agency College Nannies and Tutors. “Now that school is back in session we are getting more requests for tutoring,” said Chuck Nickel, managing director of the employment, 3