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ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Printing the news, sounding the alarm, and raising hell since 1899
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013
VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 123
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Revised ‘bathroom bill’ still has critics SHELBY THOMAS Arizona Daily Wildcat
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STEPHANIE JOHNSON LEFT, a psychology senior, and Katie Ferron, an ecology and evolutionary biology senior, walk across a slack line at the UA in preparation for their Sunday trip highlining on Mount Lemmon. Both Johnson and Ferron are members of a loosely organized group called “Campus Slackers.”
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group of extreme sports athletes have been practicing for several months on the UA campus for a “highlining” task. The “Campus Slackers” will finally put its practice to the test when it will walk across straps suspended in the
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“Most things like this [highlining across a gap on Mt. Lemmon] is like using your brain and body so you have to focus on what you are doing,” Johnson said. “You have to use your mobility so you can stand on it [the line], know how to set up the rigs and basically everything I enjoy.”
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air over Old Man’s gap on Mount Lemmon, which is more than 100 feet in the air. One of the UA students attempting the gap is Stephanie Johnson, a psychology senior who is no stranger to activities that lean more to the extreme side. Her favorite extreme activity is off-roading but she said she also enjoys rock climbing, skydiving and, of course, slacklining.
After being met by fierce criticism from the LGBTQ community, including at the UA, a state legislator’s “bathroom bill” is up for some changes. Senate Bill 1432, proposed by state Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills) originally would have made it a misdemeanor to use a public restroom or changing facility designated for a gender different from the one on the user’s birth certificate. Kavanagh has altered his proposal to say governments should not determine who can use a particular restroom based on gender. Instead, the bill will leave the decision up to individual businesses, Kavanagh said. The original proposal was intended to counter a Phoenix ordinance that passed in February, banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and disability in employment, housing and public places. However, critics of the bill’s original language say it extends beyond the influence of the government. “I think it is really disrespectful to the transgender community because it is forcing them to out themselves and is an invasion of their privacy,” said Juan Pereyra, the graduate assistant for the UA’s Office of LGBTQ Affairs. “It is beautiful that we are able to allow them to have the ability to use whatever bathroom they choose.” In response to criticism, Kavanagh revised the language to leave the decision of determining who uses which restroom up to individual businesses. “I have changed the bill,” Kavanagh said. “I am saying that no level of government can override a business’s right to have an exclusively men’s room or an exclusively women’s restroom. You can’t make that a crime. “You can’t have people sue them for that,” he continued. “It is up to the business to determine if they want to let everyone into the facility or only people with their biological gender. I’m only making this
A program that originally began as a course internship with six students from the UA School of Geography and Development has become a growing community initiative. In collaboration with the Tucson Community Food Bank, The Community School and Garden program aims to help develop school gardens in local Tucson schools. Sallie Marston, a professor in the School of Geography and Development and the program’s director, contributed to the program back in 2009, offering the internship as independent study for students to gain extra credit. Among the first to jump-start the program is field coordinator and graduate student Morgan Apicella, who approached The Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and offered to help teach an urban agriculture class. The class would combine gardening skills with social justice issues, adding to the food bank’s
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THE UA COMMUNITY AND SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAM reaches out to Tucson schools to develop school gardens, and to teach sustainability and other valuable skills to youth. Roskruge Middle School, is one of the many Tucson-area schools involved in the program.
ongoing support for school gardens, which was overwhelmingly in demand. Now, the program has grown to 53 student interns in 10 schools and is working to expand to high schools with the help of funds from the UA’s Green Fund, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,
the College of Science, and Water, Environmental and Energy Solutions. UA interns from various majors work with each school’s students, incorporating subjects like math, literature and science while showing students how to develop and maintain a garden. Students
learn these skills by growing their own fruits, vegetables and even raising hens. Looking back, Marston said she never expected such a positive turnout. She credits the interns’ drive to work in the community to its success. “This has been a big jump for us,” Marston said. “It started really small. I thought of it as a oneoff thing. People came to me and asked for support … I could see a great need for these neighborhoods, where most students are under free lunch in schools and don’t have adequate resources. We wanted to seek the best interns to supply the program and provide support for these schools.” Schools participating in the program since 2010 include Manzo Elementary and Ochoa Elementary, both of which are working to include the gardens more in their curriculums. Manzo runs a Reconciliation Ecology program run by counselor Moses Thompson, who uses the garden as a tool to implement counseling. Through participation
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