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Hassling the ‘Hoff ’
Students pay more in fall 2010 By Taylor Avey ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Traci Smith, a computer science and religion freshman, got her backpack signed by David Hasselhoff when he came to campus Wednesday.
David Hasselhoff sings to INDV class, films new reality TV show on campus By Matt Lewis ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT People ignored the cliché and “hassled the Hoff,” Wednesday morning. David Hasselhoff , the star of such shows as “Baywatch” and “Knight Rider” was on campus to speak to a UA class and film a new reality TV show. Hasselhoff spoke to Adjunct Lecturer Dana Narter’s INDV 101 class — Structure of Mind and Behavior. He was also filming a show set to air on A&E in June, according to Hasselhoff. An airdate and a title for the show have not yet been released. The reality program will focus on Hasselhoff’s life as a businessman and single dad. He has two daughters, one of whom attends the UA. Taylor-Ann Hasselhoff, 19, is a communications major. His other
daughter Hayler, 17, is a model and aspiring actress. Taylor-Ann took Narter’s INDV 101 class in fall 2008, which led Narter to contact Hasselhoff. She thought it would be fun to have Hasselhoff come to her class and sing a song or speak to students. It didn’t happen last semester as Narter had hoped, but she got a call saying he would be in town to shoot his new reality show and could come speak to the class. He talked about both his personal and professional life — good and bad decisions that he’s made and how he’s learned from them. “It was really good, I am actually going to follow up on it in the following class to really link it back to the course,” Narter said. “He did sing. He sang a little snippet from a Broadway show that he
was in. He mentioned that he was in ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ on Broadway,” Narter added. She said she tried to keep the event quiet, but Narter did tell her class that someone big was going to come in this week. Narter said she had not met or had direct contact with Hasselhoff until Wednesday morning. About 400 students from Narter’s class gathered around Hasselhoff after class. After speaking, Hasselhoff signed autographs and posed for pictures with students. Hasselhoff’s public relations team handed out photos for students to get autographed. He signed autographs and posed for about half an hour before filming began. Jose Leones, a math senior, said he wanted Hasselhoff to sign a picture of himself posing with two puppies.
“My roommate texted me (saying Hasselhoff was on campus),” Leones said after he got his autograph. “I can check that off my list of life goals.” Traci Smith, a computer science and religious studies freshman , also got an autograph. She said she just wanted to say “hi” to Hasselhoff, who she’s been a fan of for a long time. Smith said she’s liked him since his days as Snapper in “Young and the Restless.” She not only said “hi,” but also had Hasselhoff sign her backpack — which he offered to do, according to Smith. Someone asked Smith if she had served in the military, and she said she had in the National Guard in Afghanistan for a year as a chaplain assistant — a person provides religious HASSELHOFF, page 6
Downtown CALA classes coming By Matt Lewis ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Graduate students in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture could be taking classes in downtown Tucson in the near future. Jan Cervelli, dean of the college, said Pima County has made the UA an offer, but it all depends on the state budget and whether the university will see more budget cuts. She believes the UA will certainly move into the space within a few years, but will move sooner if it has the money to pay for overhead costs like maintenance and operations of the facility. “It’s more a matter of us as a university putting together a plan on how we want to approach downtown. The county has been very generous in offering us the Walgreens building for use at a low lease rate,”Cervelli said. The UA is considering using the old Walgreens on Stone Avenue and Pennington Street, which closed in 2004, as a studio classroom for architecture and landscape architecture graduate students. A studio class typically has between 15 and 40 students depending on the program. DOWNTOWN, page 6
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Next semester could prove more expensive for students, but Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Chris Nagata hopes to have a hand in making it less so. “We are all collectively facing increases to our cost of education,” Nagata said. “We’re in very peculiar times.” Nagata and David Talenfeld, Graduate and Professional Student Council president , gave a presentation with the amounts of increased fees requested by several resource entities at the UA. These entities include Campus Health Services, the Student Recreation Center, the library, Information Technology and campus sustainability. The presentation also included separate requests for minimal decreases to these fees based on student feedback compiled through a variety of survey methods. Campus Health and the Rec Center combined their requested fee to total $306. Nagata and Talenfeld proposed a $159 increase instead. FEE, page 3
GPSC opposes proposed UA fees By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Graduate and Professional Student Council is against the university’s proposed steep fee increases. Recently, GPSC and the Associated Students of the University of Arizona released a joint statement opposing the proposed hikes for the Campus Health Service and Student Recreation Center fee, the student Information and Technology fee and the library fee — all of which would more than double under the current university fee proposals. “If we don’t give a little bit of ground and take an active role in paying for our education, then who will?”asked GPSC President David Talenfeld . GPSC members criticized Talenfeld for a letter he wrote to the Arizona Daily Wildcat that was published on Tuesday. In the letter he stated his personal opinion that certain fee hikes should be approved. This is contrary to the GPSC and ASUA joint resolution he signed and that was issued the same day. “It is my opinion, my personal opinion, that some increases in fees should be accepted,”Talenfeld said. “It was not my intention in my letter to the Wildcat to state, indirectly or otherwise, that all
The old Walgreens building on the southeast corner of Stone Avenue and Pennington Street will be the site for the new UA architecture and urban design studio.
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