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Athletic director introduced By Kevin Zimmerman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT UA President Robert Shelton introduced newly hired athletic director Greg Byrne at a Wednesday morning press conference. The theme of both Shelton’s decision to hire the 38-year-old and Byrne’s own reasons for leaving Mississippi State University was family first. “As happy as we are to get Greg, we are doubly thrilled to have such a fine family join us here in Tucson,” Shelton said. “I sensed this was a real family decision. That just reinforced my whole regard for Greg.”
Joining Byrne during his first UA press conference were a number of family members — many of whom live in Arizona — including his 94-year-old grandfather. Byrne’s wife, Regina, and his two sons Nick, 14, and Davis, 12, were also in attendance, as was former head basketball coach Lute Olson and Arizona Board of Regents President Ernest Calderón, who said he will support the new AD “100 percent.” Byrne’s salary is $390,000, slightly higher than former athletic director Jim Livengood’s $372,000 price tag. His hire will become official April 30 pending Arizona Board of Regents approval. While Byrne said it was too soon to
have a prioritized vision, he did lay out four goals for maintaining an athletic department: graduate the studentathletes, comply with NCAA rules, remain first-class and act fiscally responsible. “If we do the first four things right, we have the opportunity for a fifth thing, and that’s compete for championships,” said Byrne, a 1994 ASU graduate. “The reality is that we’re a highly visible part of the university,”he added, “and we want to do everything we can to reflect positively on our student athletes (and) on our university.” Helping recruit Byrne from MSU was former Arizona athletic director and former NCAA executive director Cedric
Dempsey, whose post at Arizona came before recently hired University of Nevada, Las Vegas, AD Jim Livengood’s 16-year tenure at the UA. “It was the most challenging decision of my life,” Byrne said of leaving MSU. “I was not looking to leave.” After spending time in Oregon’s athletic department, the then-26-yearold moved to Oregon State to turn around a football team with a 20-plus year losing season streak in football — the bathrooms in the football stadium didn’t even have doors, Byrne joked. He then followed University of Kentucky BYRNE, page 7
Vigil honors Holocaust victims
ASUA denies PIRG funding By Laura E. Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT TheAssociated Students of the University of Arizona senate voted Wednesday six to one against a request from the Arizona Public Interest Research Groups to hold a special election. PIRG is a nonprofit, non-partisan, student-run public interest advocacy group that requested ASUA to hold a special election for students to vote on a $1.50 per semester refundable student fee. The fee would go toward hiring advocates and lawyers to help PIRG run grassroots campaigns on campus and lobby on the university’s behalf. “It’s that professional staff that really makes PIRG something special, and that’s really where the fee goes,” said Nicholas Theisen, a business administration master’s student and PIRG member. PIRG’s fee proposal did not make it onto the ASUA general elections ballot on March 9. Sen. LeoYamaguchi voted in favor of the special election at Wednesday’s meeting. ASUA, page 3
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Microbiology sophomore Rachel Kye, left, and business junior Jun Park take a look at a representation of a tight sleep setting within Nazi concentration camps set up on the UA Mall Wednesday. “Arbeit mach frei,” a German phrase meaning “work sets you free,” is a common saying placed above many entrances of Nazi concentration camps.
Adam Bellos, a Judaic studies senior who organized last year’s vigil. “This is the worst event in Jewish history, maybe in all of human history.” Bellos also expressed his frustration with Holocaust deniers. He said he hopes that vigils such as Wednesday’s ensure those killed in the Holocaust are not forgotten. “There are still some people out there, some people who are anti-Zionism or anti-Semites, who try and deny that this event ever happened, that 6 million Jews were ever killed. What we want people to know is that not only did this happen, but by denying that 6 million Jews were killed, they’re also denying
In the wake of the Arizona Board of Regents’ long-awaited decision on tuition and fees for the 2010-11 academic year, the UA Graduate and Professional Student Council turned its attention to the future. One issue raised by the council was the upcoming vote on Proposition 100. The proposition would raise the state sales tax by one cent for the next three years and would fund education and state services programs . Education would receive the lion’s share — 66 percent — of the funds. “I can’t impress upon everyone how important this is,” said GPSC President David Lopez-Negrete . “It will mean a lot to our university budgets and educational experiences if Prop 100 fails.”
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Hillel UA sets up Mall memorial for many groups victimized during WWII By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA Mall was transformed into a place of remembrance and reflection for the Holocaust Vigil, sponsored by the Hillel Foundation on Wednesday. The event included three exhibits, referred to as museums. The first was a replication of a boxcar used to transport Holocaust victims. The second was a re-creation of a barrack where prisoners would have slept, complete with “Arbeit Macht Frei,” a German phrase meaning “work sets you free,” that was written over the entrances to several concentration camps, including Auschwitz. The third museum featured a media
presentation and 12 burning candles; 11 for the approximately 11 million people killed and one for “righteous Gentiles” who helped victims of the Holocaust. UA anthropology junior Joel Kanter, who planned and developed the event, said the twelfth candle was especially dedicated to Stephen Tyrone Johns, a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum who was shot to death last June. “Last year, we had a lot of tents set up full of pictures,” Kanter said, “but we weren’t sure that people who stopped and looked got the full message we were trying to convey. Now we have replicas of the barracks where people were forced to sleep and the boxcars where they were forced
to travel in for days on end. It really is more interactive and gives you a much better grasp of what exactly people in the Holocaust went through.” The Hillel Foundation also set up a total of 1,213 flags on the Mall, each one representing 10,000 deaths. They were color-coded to represent the various groups targeted in the Nazi purges. Along with the 6 million Jews killed, the flags memorialized the 3.3 million Soviet prisoners of war, 2 million Poles, 450,000 Roma gypsies, 250,000 disabled people, 85,000 Freemasons and Jehovah’s Witnesses and 40,000 homosexuals who were killed during the Holocaust. “The reason we do this event is so people never forget this happened,”said
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Live Fit battles ‘freshman 15’ By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT UA students have free access to an online resource aiming to help collegegoers develop healthy eating and exercising habits. The Web site, called Live Fit on Campus, lets students log in with their UA NetID and take quizzes, find recipes and search for healthy food options on and around campus. The site features health and nutrition facts specific to college life. Funded by a $2 million grant from The National Cancer Institute, the Web site was designed as part of a study conducted by Klein Buendel, Inc. Nutrition and fitness experts from around the country developed the site, which was tested by students at four universities, including the UA.
A study was conducted during the 2008-09 school year on students between the ages of 18 and 21 who lived in residence halls. After completing the study, the UA community was given free access to the Web site. Gale Welter, coordinator of nutrition services for Campus Health Services, helped develop the site. According to Welter, the study found that students who used Live Fit on Campus showed improvement in their fitness and nutrition choices compared to those who did not have access to the site. Some students have trouble maintaining healthy habits while transitioning into college life because they suddenly have complete freedom over what they eat and a new set of food options. Pre-pharmacy freshman Kaci Kolberg
agrees that it can be difficult for college students to maintain healthy eating habits. “I eat about the same amount of food, but I ate better food when I was at home,” Kolberg said. For students looking to combat the “freshman 15,” Welter recommends taking a quiz or playing an interactive game on the Web site. Both lead users to relevant nutritional information. Other features include workout tips, dorm room recipes and a search engine to find exercise options in Tucson. Another resource is the“Track Shack,”in which students can calculate their Body Mass Index as well as graph what they are eating and how often they exercise. Live Fit on Campus is different from other health-related Web sites because it’s LIVE FIT, page 3
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