A look back at the fall 2010 season
The sports desk breaks down the highs and lows of this semester in athletics. SPORTS, 6
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The North Korean shelling of a South Korean island two weeks ago killed two people. It temporarily moved the South to crisis status and left U.S. officials scrambling to find a peaceful resolution to the decades-long conflict between the two countries. The Arizona Daily Wildcat
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Professor reveals consequences of Korean conflict interviewed David Dunford, adjunct instructor at the School of Government and Public Policy and a former U.S. ambassador to the Sultanate of Oman. Dunford is a Middle East expert who recently worked for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad as a senior ministerial liaison. Based on his many roles interacting with international affairs, here’s Dunford’s take on the North Korean issue and its
importance to U.S. foreign relations. Daily Wildcat: What do the recent developments mean to the U.S.? David Dunford: North Korea undertook an action that I’m sure makes both South Korea and the United States quite tense. We still have, in the five figures, a number of troops deployed in South Korea and, should a conflict break out, we’re obviously concerned about Korea, and North Korea
has nuclear weapons. DW: On recent military drills the U.S. has conducted with South Korea: DD: I can’t tell you (from the inside), but my guess is the U.S. is trying to send a message that we won’t tolerate further North Korean misbehavior by sending our military assets to drill with Q&A, page 5
PTS launches safety survey By Lucy Valencia ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT UA’s Parking and Transportation Services has released a new “Campus Area Mobility” survey for UA students, staff and the general public to take so they can learn more about walking and bicycling habits around campus. PTS teamed up with Pima Association of Governments and the City of Tucson to improve safety,
ONLINE The survey is available at www.surveymonkey. com/s/CABPNP1 and is open to anyone. After a participant completes the survey, they are given the option to be entered into a drawing for a $100 REI gift card. SURVEY, page 5
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Emily Connally, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, presents and interprets the results of the 2010 GPSC Fee Impact Survey. The online survey was designed to assess how student fees will and do affect graduate students as well as their opinions and suggestions regarding the matter.
GPSC fights for fewer fees after student survey By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
GPSC President Emily Connally says the majority of UA graduate students would be negatively impacted by proposed increases to institutional fees next year. Her position is supported by the results of the Graduate and
Professional Student Council’s Fee Impact Survey, which was conducted from early October until Nov. 8. Connally released the survey results during a meeting of the UA Faculty Senate on Monday. About 20 percent of UA graduates, 1,697 students, responded to this year’s survey. This included at least 10 responses from each
college represented by GPSC. A full 90 percent of survey respondents said they would be impacted by the current proposed fee increase, which would raise fees for full-time students to $933 a year, a $310 increase over this year’s fee. The majority of that amount would come from increases to the Library and Technology Fee,
which funds maintenance for the UA’s library system and related technological components, and the Health and Recreation Fee, which primarily funds services provided by Campus Health Service and the Student Recreation Center. Connally raised issue with SENATE, page 5
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Accreditation Board’s public forum results in few student complaints By Michelle A. Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA is doing a perfect job except for fees and transfer credits, according to students. Those were the two complaints of the 12 students who attended the public forums about the UA’s re-accreditation process. The Accreditation Board held
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open public forums on Monday with four separate rooms in the Student Union Memorial Center for faculty, students, alumni and appointed staff. Every 10 years, the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools must reaccredit the UA, and a part of that process is a site visit from representatives of peer institutions, which began Sunday and
will end Wednesday. Bundled fees were the main concern of the lone graduate student who attended the forum. “A huge concern for graduate students are those fees, they are horrible,” said Graduate and Professional Student Council at-large representative Zachary Brooks, a doctoral student in second language acquisition and
UA Opera Theater presents its fall production of “An Evening of Opera Scenes” with full set, lights, costumes and supertitles at 7:30 p.m. in Crowder Hall, Speedway Boulevard and Park Avenue.
teaching. “Their money is tight and suddenly those fees are lopped on top of it. It could be the determining factor on if they go to graduate school or not.” He asked that the board make a recommendation for more transparency and to unbundle fees. “We have to pay for things ACCREDITATION, page 13
Performances of “My Friend Irma: Irma Wants Money for Christmas” and other vintage radio shows at the Beowulf Alley Theatre, 11 S. Sixth Ave., 7 p.m.
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Students ready for holidays By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
As winter break approaches, many students are looking forward to going home and seeing family. This year, finance senior Daniel Redden’s family is forgoing their usual celebration in Portland, Ore., to come and visit him and his sister in Tucson for his graduation. “It will be good to have everyone come here. It’s a bunch of holidays all squished together because we have his graduation, then my birthday, then Christmas,” said sister Kathy Redden, a senior studying speech and language hearing sciences. Undeclared freshman Jenna Pace and pre-physiology freshman Sarah Moore both said their favorite part of the winter holidays was seeing family. As far was what they are looking forward to most during winter break, they can’t wait to go sledding and skiing. Linguistics sophomore Dacia Brown said after a long semester of studying Chinese, the thing she is most looking forward to is finally getting some shut-eye. BREAK, page 5
Chanukuh Story Hour with treats, 5 p.m., Barnes and Noble, 5130 E. Broadway Blvd.