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Guaranteed tuition approved BY STEPHANIE CASANOVA The Daily Wildcat
Current UA students will have the option to pay guaranteed tuition, a set tuition for eight consecutive semesters, starting this fall. The Arizona Board of Regents approved the guaranteed tuition program Thursday morning before it set the three state universities’ tuition for the 2014-2015 academic year. The guaranteed tuition program was modeled after Northern Arizona University’s Pledge Program and will guarantee students a set tuition cost for four years. The set tuition rate is higher than the proposed tuition increase for current students who choose not to
join the program because it takes into account year-to-year increases. The new program will be mandatory for incoming freshmen. The board passed the UA’s proposed 2 percent tuition increase for resident graduate and undergraduate students and 5 percent increase for non-resident graduate and undergraduate students. The guaranteed tuition program will add an additional 4 percent increase to the base tuition increases. The program won’t be offered to graduate students. UA President Ann Weaver Hart said UA administrators carefully ran economic models to ensure the
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Resident undergraduates not on guaranteed tuition:
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Incoming freshmen and resident undergraduates on guaranteed tuition: Resident graduate students:
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$27,374
Non-resident undergraduates on guaranteed tuition:
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Student dies of injuries from fall BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY The Daily Wildcat
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PATTY LEFFLER, a stay-at-home mother, tells members of greek life about her daughter Alyssa Leffler’s life with cancer in Centennial Hall on Friday evening. Alyssa Leffler was diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and is now in remission.
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UA Greek Life members stayed “Up ’til Dawn” to raise money for charity Friday night. Up ’til Dawn is a national collegiate fundraising program for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital The program is the UA’s annual greek-wide philanthropy event, according to Madison Kurz, a physiology junior and Director of Public Relations for the Up ’til Dawn Executive Board. The board
announced Friday evening that the total amount of money raised over the year was $114,533, an increase from last year’s total of about $97,000, according to Kurz. This is the first year the finale event was held in conjunction with Greek Sing, said Kurz. “Greek Sing is really spirited, fun, people get really excited,” Kurz said. “We thought that gearing up with Greek Week would get the spirit and excitement of the reveal and the finale.” The event began on a serious
note with a moment of silence for Michael Anderson, a UA student and member of fraternity Phi Gamma Delta who died early Friday morning. A dance competition between various groups of Greek members then took place, along with performances by CatCall and Black N’ Blue Hip Hop Crew. A cancer survivor who is a patient at St. Jude’s was also in attendance. Alyssa Leffler, 3, was
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A UA student died from injuries sustained after a fall at Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall early Friday morning. Michael Anderson, 19, a pre-business freshman from Mission Viejo, Calif., was climbing on a 20-foot-tall towerlike ventilation structure on top of the residence hall with a friend when he fell onto the roof, according to Sgt. Filbert Barrera, public information officer for the University of Arizona Police Department. The fall is believed to be an accident. UAPD received a call at 3:55 a.m. Friday in reference to a fall injury, Barrera said. Tucson Fire Department attempted to resuscitate Anderson, but he was pronounced dead at the scene shortly after UAPD arrived. A medical examiner came and collected the remains. Anderson was a resident of Colonia de la Paz and a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. The flags in front of the FIJI house at the end of Greek row now fly at half-mast following Anderson’s death. FIJI was a big part of Anderson’s life, even though he wasn’t a member for very long, said Cameron Steiner, a pre-business sophomore and member of FIJI. Anderson’s older brother, Scott, is a senior and a member of FIJI as well. Anderson was always happy, Steiner said. “Even on his worst day he had the biggest smile on his face,”
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UA policy bans one-on-one contact with minors on campus BY HANNAH PLOTKIN The Daily Wildcat
The UA is in the process of revising an interim policy that prohibits one-on-one contact between UA faculty and minors. The interim policy, which was put in place in November, was drafted by the Office of the General Counsel and prohibits UA faculty, students and third parties running events on campus from having one-on-one contact with non-enrolled minors. This policy applies to the dozens of youth programs run by the UA and on the UA campus, and are also applicable to phone calls, emails and home visits.
The policy also disallows photographing and filming children and implements a compulsory training program for anyone working with children. James Van Arsdel, senior assistant vice president of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, said the interim policy was influenced partially by the sex crimes against children committed by Jerry Sandusky at Pennsylvania State University. Sandusky, a former assistant football coach at PSU, was convicted in 2012 of sexually abusing young boys over the course of 15 years and sentenced to 30 years in prison. His victims
were participants of a youth outreach program Sandusky founded. Van Arsdel said the aim of the interim policy is to avoid private contact between children and UA faculty that could lead to inappropriate behavior. This means programs that involve close contact with minors now require a two-to-one ratio, with either two adults to one child or two children to one adult, he added. Van Arsdel said that schools around the country are working to better protect children and the programs that educate them. “It’s something that we are
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JIM VAN ARSDEL, senior assistant vice president of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, said the interim policy currently under revision was influenced in part by crimes committed against children at Pennsylvania State University.