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Reaching out with green thumbs Students for Sustainability plants new garden to grow community relations, organic products for sale By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Students and community members broke ground on a garden they hope will nourish not only stomachs but also the UA’s relationship to Tucson. The Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s Students for Sustainability Garden in the Desert team sifted soil and filled crop beds for a garden scheduled to be in full swing next semester. Students and community members will be able to rent plots to grow whatever they like in the garden, said Sofia Montes, crop production senior and Garden in the Desert team member. Located on the corner of Mabel Street and Highland Avenue , the garden is situated between Highland Avenue Parking Garage and houses in the Jefferson Park Neighborhood , home of the mini-dorms debate. “It’s a perfect bridge-way between the community and the university,” said Caleb Weaver, Garden in the Desert co-manager and a senior majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology and geosciences.

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Irene Liang, a sophomore majoring in soil, water and environmental science, sifts the rocks out of the native soil to prepare for the Garden in the Desert project sponsored by Students for Sustainability at Highland Avenue and Mabel Street on Saturday. Garden in the Desert, the UA’s first community garden, allows students to rent land and plant their own gardens.

Montes said she thinks students often get a “bad rap” and that she hopes the garden will help them see that “we’re not all bad folk.” The garden will also be an educational resource and a place to host workshops, she said. There will be 47 plots total with most measuring 20-by-3 feet, according to Montes. The beds consist of native soil, compost and manure,

according to Annie Silverman, Latin American studies senior and Garden in the Desert team member. Some plots will be set aside for production so that the team can sell organic produce to students and the Tucson community. The team wants the plots to be “very affordable,” Montes said, with plots costing no more than $15.

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Husband of current president elected to same position

Roeland Hancock was elected president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council for the next school year. Hancock is getting his graduate degree in psychology and is the husband of the current President Emily Connally. Daily Wildcat: What was your previous experience in GPSC? Roeland Hancock: I served a term as a representative from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and I was involved in GPSC’s internal appropriations board as well as the Student Services Fee Advisory Board. How are you feeling about becoming the new president-elect? It is both exciting and anxiety provoking. It’s a big responsibility and a challenging job to represent graduate students and the university. We have had a lot of financial troubles at the university, which trickle down to graduate students, and can affect us in significant ways. As the UA gets fewer and fewer resources from the state, it becomes harder to do things. What changes, if any, do you plan to make to the GPSC? I want to focus a lot on media outreach. We (GPSC) used to have a research and policy director po-

sition, and I am planning to reinstate that position. The person who holds the position is responsible for maintaining ties with the media and making sure that we (GPSC) pass information and issues pertaining to graduate students onto the media. They must also stay on top of what is going on at the state level and see how it might affect graduate students. I’m sure that there will be other small changes along the way, but for now, that is the big one. What are the goals and future plans for GPSC next year? Any events or ideas in the works yet? We are definitely going to continue what we have been doing, including continuing the graduate enrichment program that we started this year. I want to try and expand that. The program offers several courses in grant writing, various computer and research programs for graduate students by graduate students, and a Spanish for Professionals course. I want to try and keep the gains we have made over the past year, which may be a struggle in it of itself, but we will continue to address usual issues like student health coverage and fees. How is your leadership style different from that of your wife, Emily Connally? I am less of a direct in-your-face

leader, and I’m a lot calmer. But I don’t always have a lot of patience for some things, like trivial discussions that sometimes occur at council meetings. Take me through your campaign process. What platforms and ideas did you run on? I ran on the media outreach idea in conjunction with more actively collecting information from groups on campus. In the past, we had surveys, and those really helped inform some decisions. We will continue that and collect more information that we continually receive from our constituents. I’d also like to update the GPSC website to make it easier for people to contact us, and tie us closer with social networking websites. In addition, I want to organize forums on various topics, like undergraduate instruction. Do you think a reason as to why you ran unopposed is because you are Connally’s husband? Do you wish that you had competition? I’m sure some people have the view that I ran unopposed because I am her husband. I don’t think that’s true, and I don’t see a reason for someone to not try and run. Will Ferguson/Arizona Daily Wildcat Having more competition would have made things much more in- The recently elected president of the Graduate and Professional teresting because it is good to en- Student Council, Roeland Hancock, is a psychology graduate student and the husband of the current President Emily Connally. gage in debate.

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Surrounding the garden will be a “food forest” with be edible crops such as fruit trees, Montes said.

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Past ASUA presidents from as far back as the 1940s welcomed president-elect James Allen to the position at an organization dinner on Friday night. Ten past presidents and current President Emily Fritze shared advice with Allen over food at Pasco Kitchen and Lounge on University Boulevard. Allen was named the Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s new president after winning the special election on Thursday night. The gathering of past presidents was a long-time tradition that fizzled out in the 1980s, according to Benjamin W. Graff, who was ASUA President from 2000 to 2001 and organized the event. The dinner was revived two years ago. The event aims to prepare the president-elect for the position and allow past presidents to share their experiences. “There’s a lot of tradition in the

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