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Students protest tuition hike Sixth St. By Taylor Avey ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
UA President Robert Shelton, Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Chris Nagata and Regent Rick Myers gathered with upward of 50 students and community members to hear testimony from across the state regarding the latest tuition and fee increases. “No student should be denied access to public education in Arizona because he cannot afford to pay for a gym membership, to pay for organic foods in the student union or to pay for plasma TVs in the library,” said Connor
Mendenhall, an economics senior, in response to mandatory fee increases. “I urge you to send a message to President Shelton and university administrators by rejecting non-essential, non academic fees … and I urge you to take your obligation seriously to restore the safeguards that once protected students like me from unessential and unnecessary fees.” The 18th Annual Arizona Board of Regents Tuition Hearing took place from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Harvill building room 211 on Monday. It served as an opportunity for students TUITION, page 7
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A member of the audience holds up a sign protesting increases of student fees while UA President Robert Shelton proposes the highest tuition increase the university has ever experienced.
TUNE TIME
dorm caused Rec flood By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
The Student Recreation Center’s expansion is open to the public — again. The expansion opened around noon on Monday, according to Rocky Delarosa , a Recreation Services supervisor and classics senior. The mechanical room in the basement of the expansion flooded Sunday, causing the above ground center to be closed. A trench in the construction area on the new residence hall on Sixth Street and Highland Avenue was from where the water flowed into the basement, according to Melissa Dryden, senior program coordinator for UA Planning, Design & Construction. “It wasn’t a leak or a problem with the Student Recreation Center. It was caused by a leak of water that REC CENTER, page 5
Sweeping changes made to GROs By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Armen Sarrafian, a math education senior, passes time between classes Monday sitting on the UA Mall playing songs on his guitar.
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Shelton reflects on presidential pressures By Timothy Glass ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
In the four years since he took the reins as UA president, Robert Shelton has had to navigate many stormy seas. There have been budget deficits, department mergers, staff and faculty layoffs, tuition hikes, negotiations with a difficult state and the curious case of Lute Olson’s on and off retirement. Shelton recently shared his thoughts on dealing with high-
powered decision-making and the pressures of his job.
You said you’re not sure why anyone would want to be a university administrator in this day. Why? These jobs right now have a lot more constraints than they have opportunities. The only reason to do these jobs is if you think you can make a difference. If you think you can move an institution — or a department, or a program, or a college — forward in ways that aid discovery of new knowledge … and you have to feel
like you have enough tools, enough resources — not just fiscal, but overall — to make a difference. And right now, it’s hard for people to find that. In your November State of the University address, you mentioned the constant criticism. Is that difficult to put up with? If you aren’t getting criticism, you aren’t making
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The Faculty Senate voted to change several academic policies, including grade replacement opportunities, during its meeting on Monday. The first item passed was a proposed change to the policy concerning classes with pass/fail options for graduate students. Under the new policy, graduate students would be allowed to use the pass/fail option for courses that are part of their major program as opposed to only elective courses. “Graduate students are restricted to only having this option for non-major courses,” said Andrew Carnie, a UA linguistics professor.“This would change the policy and give power to individual colleges to determine which courses would be available for pass/fail.” The change also eliminated the stipulation that pass/fail courses do not count toward the minimum number of credits required for a graduate degree. The senate approved sweeping changes to the UA’s GRO policy. The amendments limit GRO applications to students who have completed fewer than 60 university credits. The changes also state that graduate students will not be able to apply for GROs. “Most universities have some sort SENATE, page 5
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