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UA, city recover from cold snap By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
The UA and Tucson continue the return to normalcy following complications from last week’s cold weather. Tucson Water said that regular service has returned to the 1,400 homes that lost their utilities on Thursday and Friday. Some houses are still without water, due to individual plumbing issues, not problems with the municipal water service, according to a press release from Tucson Water Spokesman Fernando Molina. The 18-degree low on Friday was one degree warmer than the coldest February temperature in Tucson’s recorded history, which was Feb. 7, 1899. Both Thursday and Friday set new record lows for those days.
Tucson Fire Department officials said at least two people died seemingly as a result of the frigid weather. At the UA, some buildings continue to suffer from water and heating issues. “We probably had 20 buildings that were affected that had no water yesterday (Friday),” said Chris Kopach, director of Facilities Management. More than 100 employees, pulled from all areas of Facilities Management, have been “all over the place” working to restore the campus, according to Kopach. “They all worked as one good team,” Kopach said. Water has been restored to all buildings on campus, though crews will need to continue to work in order to repair broken pipes and water lines. Facilities Management worked with Southwest Gas Corporation and now
the gas pressure is up and running. Heat has been restored to most buildings but a few, such as Slonaker House, are still having problems. Repairs are being prioritized and “everything is safe,” Kopach said. The UA has yet to release a statement regarding the damage caused by the rupturing water pipes around campus, but these issues are not expected to interrupt the UA’s class schedule for the week. Luke Money contributed reporting to this story.
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Record low temperatures on Wednesday night were likely the cause of this burst water pipe outside of a Sixth Street house. Many Tucsonans awoke to water and other utility problems on Thursday morning as a result of the cold.
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By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT General education, math and chemistry courses are among those most frequently repeated using the grade replacement opportunity. More than 36,000 courses were repeated using the GRO between fall 2004 and spring 2008, including more than 1,550 different classes, according to data from the Undergraduate Council. Many of the courses are repeated to boost grade point averages and not because students fail them, according to Faculty Senate Chairwoman Wanda Howell. Faculty Senate amended the grade replacement opportunity last year so that students will only be eligible if they have completed less than 60 credits at the university starting in fall 2011. Grades of “C,” “D” and “E” can still be replaced using the program.
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Journalism instructor offers her insight, opinion on recent uprising By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Shahira Fahmy, associate professor of journalism, was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and lived in Cairo for nearly 20 years. The Daily Wildcat talked with Fahmy to discuss the recent political uprising in Egypt and her struggle to communicate with family members in the country. Daily Wildcat: Do you still have family in Cairo? Fahmy: Yeah, I still have lots of family. My parents are there. They’re U.S. citizens, but they’re there. It was a bit hard because last week I couldn’t reach them. They had no Internet. I couldn’t call them because they had no cell phone access and so it was kind of scary in a way. Have you been able to reach your family since then? They’ve actually been calling me, but I have not been able to call them. Actually, today, my mom emailed me, so she has Internet access. That was something new. I know that the day before, they had a number you could call and have a voicemail tweet because people were not able to get on Facebook or tweet or any of those social networks. So that was interesting, they kind of developed that for Egypt. What kinds of things have you been hearing from your family? One of the things is when it first started, they
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were in Alexandria, which is a Mediterranean city on the beach, and they were kind of in a gated compound, so they felt safe. Later, they said that people tried to break the gates, so they were kind of scared. Then they went to Cairo, which is two and a half hours away, but it took them six hours because they had to stop. But they were thrilled when they got home. Because just, like, they say in the media, there are young people that are acting like the police. Whatever weapons they can get, of course they don’t have guns there, but whatever they can get they use to protect the neighborhood. And then of course, they stocked up on food and things like that. I’ve heard from my friends there that a lot of them are happy about the revolution but they’re very unhappy about the violence. What was your reaction considering you have such close ties there? First, of course I was really worried. But I also felt like this revolution was sort of overdue. I kind of expected it to happen at least a decade ago if not more. It wasn’t really surprising that it happened, it was just that it happened while I had family there. In terms of the revolution itself, it had to happen. People are really craving democracy, and the economy is really bad. There’s just a lot that the people and the Egyptian population really need but don’t get. Just consider 40 percent of the Egyptian population is under the poverty line. They live with their parents, they
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By Eliza Molk ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA Faculty Senate will meet for the first time this semester today from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. During the meeting, the Undergraduate Council will ask the Faculty Senate to approve an amendment to final exam regulations. The proposed amendment would require that instructors of online classes offered during a regular semester give their final exam during the last exam period on the last day of final exam week or allow the exam to be taken at the student’s convenience any time during final exam week. The rationale for the change is that instructors of online classes requested a specific time period for their final exams. The Office of the Registrar suggested the last period of the
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can’t get jobs, they can’t get married, they can’t have sex. I wasn’t surprised at all. On Khaled Said, a symbol of the revolution: He was beaten to death last June by two policemen because he was trying to post on the Internet police brutality on YouTube. He was taken from the Internet café and beaten to death … He really became the icon of the revolution. I think that’s something a lot of people here are not familiar with.
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