February 6, 2013

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013

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Symposium combats stereotypes SHELBY THOMAS Arizona Daily Wildcat

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ALAINPHILIPPE DURAND IS THE principal organizer of the symposium.

This week, the UA will host its very first hip-hop symposium, which aims to deflate stereotypes. “The Poetics & Politics of HipHop Cultures” is a two-day oncampus event that invites the Tucson community to explore various artistic aspects of hip-hop. All events and performances are free and open to the public. Slam poets, scholars, DJs, archivists and speakers are collaborating to put on the symposium, including DJ Odilon, the 2010 International

DJ Association Team World Champion. The symposium was inspired by the new minor in hip-hop recently established through the Africana studies program at the UA . This event is meant to kick off and honor the university’s new program, as well as deflate some of the stereotypes that many associate with hip-hop. “We need to show and educate that hip-hop is not just rap or rap music,” said AlainPhilippe Durand, the director of the School of International Languages, Literatures and

Cultures, a professor of French and the principal organizer of the symposium. “It is a culture, and inside that culture is rap, but also dance, graffiti and many different subgenres … it is everywhere. “Many people out there say hip-hop is misogynistic and promotes violence,” Durand continued. “Those things exist, just like in many disciplines. But if you go back to the origin, the idea of hip-hop was to promote peace, to stop killing each other and use words. It was a pacifist movement.” Durand and his fellow

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organizers were motivated to earn recognition from those who don’t view hip-hop studies as a serious form of education, Durand said. He said he wants people, on a community and national scale, to realize that hip-hop studies is being covered in major universities such as Harvard, UC Berkeley and now, the UA. “This is a chance for the university to connect with the community. It will not just be professors and students; there

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TURKI ALLUGMAN/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT 46 / 28 TUCSON MODERN STREETCAR CONSTRUCTION ON PARK AVENUE between University Boulevard and Second 73 / 58 Street is in its final stages, with concrete being poured in the rail. Streetcar construction manager Jesse Gutierrez said 29 / 26 construction is ahead of schedule in the area and that the road will be open to traffic in mid-March, rather than in

April, as was projected.

After nine months of inactivity, ASUA’s free but unfunded podcast has returned to shed more light on student government. The idea of the ZonaCast podcast, which restarted on Jan. 26, is to help better represent the voice of the students, according to Alyssa Guzman, the communications director of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. The podcast is released every Friday. “The idea behind it was to create another portable media format for college students because we are always on the go,” said ASUA President Katy Murray. “We are always trying to do everything on our mobile phones, so this was just another format and platform to access the student body.” ZonaCast began more than a year ago with Dylan Duniho, the communications director of ASUA under 2011-2012 student body president James Allen, according to Murray. Duniho is currently the vice chair of external affairs for the Arizona Students’ Association. “It was designed to be a fun outlet to reach students,” Duniho said. The podcast had been on a break since last April, but it has now been reincorporated into ASUA’s arsenal to get students more involved. It didn’t run for a while because of the time commitment required to produce it, according to Evan Reed,

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Campus restaurant promotes world fair RACHEL MCCLUSKEY Arizona Daily Wildcat

Chinese lanterns, the smell of Asian cuisine in the air and students having their names printed in calligraphy were all part of the Asian-themed portion of on-campus restaurant Pangea’s World Fair during the past two weeks. Now the walls of Pangea, located in the Student Union Memorial Center, are bare, as no UA groups have stepped up to provide the atmosphere for the South American

destination of Pangea’s World Fair. As part of an effort to engage students this semester, the Arizona Student Unions is offering a chance for students to travel around the world with food at Pangea. Students can pick up a passport for the event that will be stamped each time they eat the cuisine of a particular destination. If a student eats at all eight destinations, they may be entered to win more than $500 in prizes. To engage students further, Arizona Student Unions has invited

ethnic and cultural groups from the UA provide the atmosphere at Pangea with decorations, music, booths, performances and events. The Chinese Culture Club and the Confucius Institute from the UA provided the atmosphere for the restaurant for the most recent theme. The South America destination lasts until Feb. 15, and the Western Europe destination begins on Feb. 18. The Arizona Student Unions was able to connect with student groups with the help of Noelle Sallaz, the international student adviser. Late

last semester, the Arizona Student Unions provided an email for Sallaz to send out to her listserv to try to get in touch with cultural group leaders, according to Todd Millay, marketing manager for the Arizona Student Unions. “We got some response, but not as much as we were hoping for,” Millay said. “We are now working with ASUA to help us connect better to those student groups.” Aside from getting student groups engaged, the passport stamp system also offers students a

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chance to win prizes. Although the first two destinations have passed, Pangea might stamp the past two destinations on the passport since some students are just hearing about the concept, Millay said. More than $500 worth of meal plan money is available as prizes, with a grand prize of $250. To enter their passports into the raffle, students must have all the destinations stamped. If students win and they don’t have a meal plan, Millay said

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