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Class registration sees big change UA prof schools Congress view enrollment appointments, transfer credit reports, personal campus finances and full academic records and request adviser times and official transcripts. Monday also marks the beginning of the Cat Cart, a system allowing students to surf classes and place
By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
UAccess, the system replacing Student Link, implemented its largest change for students today — class registration. The launch uses the new search catalog for class browsing and maintenance of personal biographical information. Students can also now
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WHEN TO REGISTER
March 31 — Priority registration for
April 12 — Juniors and
athletes, other designated groups April 5 — Graduate students, seniors and post-baccalaureate students
Honors College students April 19 — Sophomores April 26 — Freshmen and unclassified students
UA med students matched
on records Experts address Freedom of Information Act By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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UA graduating medical student Mike Walston and wife, Katie, share a kiss after learning of his acceptance as a resident to the University Medical Center in anesthesiology last Thursday at UMC’s Match Day 2010. The Walstons, flanked by daughter Nayeli, 2, and Jett, 4, said the Tucson residency was Mike’s first choice.
Match Day 2010 reveals residency placement for May graduates By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A masked man, clad in a black costume with a yellow “M” emblazoned across his chest, leapt onto the stage of the DuVal Auditorium at the University Medical Center. His mission: To thwart the evil Dr. Doom in her attempts to ruin Match Day 2010. Using his secret weapon — a can of Silly String — the hero, known as Match Man, defeated Dr. Doom, saving UA medical students from a terrible fate. This was the scene March 18 at Match Day 2010. Match Day, part of the larger National
Residency Matching Program, is an annual event that lets medical students from all over the nation know where they will serve their residency period. This year's Match Day theme was “Not All Heroes Wear Capes,” a theme most UA medical students took to heart by wearing a variety of costumes, including Zorro, Batman, Batwoman, Superman, Superwoman and all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Fourth-year medical students Todd C. Daniello and Beth Ranney also joined in the fun, playing Match Man and Dr. Doom, respectively. “This was truly a great
atmosphere to be in,” said Lee Jones, the associate dean for student affairs and admissions in the UA College of Medicine. “Not many places have themes like the UA does, and certainly not many places embrace the theme like students here do.” For medical students, Match Day represents the end of official university education and the beginning of their medical careers after a long process of applying, interviewing, waiting and wishing. “I'm just so excited,” said Ranney, who was assigned to Maricopa Medical Center. “This begins a whole new part of my life and I couldn't be more happy.” Approximately 110 UA medical
students were matched on Thursday. The majority of them will be doing their residency in Arizona. UA Match Day also has another tradition. As students are called up, they place a $1 bill in a bag. The last person called gets all the money. This year's winner was Brooke Coleman , a fourth-year medical student who was matched to Sutter Medical Center in Sacramento, Calif . “I'm pretty psyched about the money and where I was matched,” Coleman said after the ceremony. “Drinks are on me tonight.” Matched medical students will graduate with their doctorates on May 14.
First AZ Jewish temple celebrates 100 years By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Temple Emanu-El, the first Jewish congregation in Arizona, turned 100 years old and celebrated with a gala at the Hilton El Conquistador Resort on Saturday. “The Centennial Celebration will honor all of Temple’s past presidents and Joan and Donald Diamond for their vision, leadership and the dedication they have provided over these
100 years,” said Rabbi Samuel Cohon. The gala included dinner, live music and multimedia presentations. Jill Rich, one of the temple’s vice presidents, said they would also have comedic presentations about their history. Rich said several hundred people attended. “We’ve been on the forefront of every Jewish organization in Tucson,” Cohon said. “It was from Temple Emanu-El really that every organization came.”
Cohon said the temple has the largest outreach program in the Southwest. In addition to the gala, the temple, along with hundreds of participants, is working on writing a new “Torah” to celebrate the anniversary, Cohon said. One of the Jewish organizations they’ve supported is the Albert T. Bilgray lectureship in honor of Albert T. Bilgray, rabbi emeritus at Temple Emanu-El and UA professor emeritus, who helped form Judaic and religious studies programs at
the UA. The lectureship started in 1985. “It’s someone speaking on Jewish interests and has an academic component as well,” Cohon said. The lecture normally draws 80 or more faculty and staff depending on the topic, according to Edward Wright, director of the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies. “That lectureship has had an important impact on campus,”Wright said.“It really models effective ways of the university and the community working together.”
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UA professor David Cuillier spoke as one of 10 experts about the current implementation of public records access under the Obama administration. The hearing held on March 18, entitled “Administration of the Freedom of Information Act: Current Trends,” lasted just under two hours and included two panels, one on government agencies and one about those who request records, like assistant journalism professor Cuillier. These panels were meant “to aid transparency and accountability,” according to chairman of the board William Lacy Clay. The hearing was during “Sunshine Week,” which, according to www. sunshineweek. org, is “a national initiative to open a David Cuillier dialogue about the UA professor importance of open government and freedom of information.” “Requesters are forced to be adept at what I call psychological warfare,” Cuillier said. “It’s a cat-and-mouse game and it shouldn’t be that way.” Cuillier, the Society of Professional Journalists freedom of information committee chairman, remained frustrated with the lack of openness within federal agencies. The Freedom of Information Act, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1966 and amended several times since, contains barriers, according to agencies and requesters. The Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee in the Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing to discuss issues and solutions. “FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) was designed … to provide our citizenry with the legal means to access government information,” said Patrick McClatchy, ranking minority member of the committee. “Over a year into (President Barack Obama’s) administration, the American people should be seeing more transparency than this. It’s my hope that our witnesses will be able to shed some light on this overreliance on certain FOIA exemptions and the delay in implementing the President’s directives.” Cuillier pushed for further reform of the directives McClatchy noted. “If the president were in my class, I’d give him an A for effort but probably a C for execution,” Cuillier said. He noted the work of the committee, but gave a representative view of public records requesters from the point of view of a journalist and researcher, as he is both. “I think what you’re doing here CUILLIER, page 7
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