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GPSC reveals election results ABOR By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT After a week of elections, new members of the UA Graduate and Professional Student Council have been announced. Representative and administrative members of the council were announced at the GPSC office in the Student Union Memorial Center on Monday after a week of elections that saw 545 eligible voters participate. This is a decrease from the 609 voters who participated last year, but represents an increase from the 448 ballots cast in 2008. “I’m really glad this election actually was contested,”said current GPSC President David LopezNegrete . “That hasn’t happened for the past couple of years and is a welcome development. But
I hope that graduate students continue to turn out in larger numbers, because we’re facing some very important issues right now and we have some vacancies, which hopefully the next council will fill with special elections in the summer or fall.” Emily Connally, a graduate student in the College of Psychology, won a close presidential race over incumbent council member Mabel Crescioni 232 votes to 191. Connally sat on the council last year and was also a member of the UA Faculty Senate. “I feel excellent, really excited (that the) constituency voted for (the) best candidate,” Connally said . “I think they really want new ideas, and they’re tired of hearing Valentina Martinelli/Arizona Daily Wildcat the old things they want change.” The winner of the at-large seat for Graduate and Professional Student Council, David Dunbar, left, a doctoral candidate of music arts, shakes hands with David Lopez-Negrete, president of GPSC and a third-year law student Monday in the GPSC offices in the Student Union Memorial Center. The at-large elect represents the
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TEAM SPRING FLING
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Engineering juniors Sonia Sarmiento, front, and German Castillo worked in the old engineering courtyard on Monday, preparing some of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers boards for the upcoming Spring Fling, taking place Thursday through Sunday. Their group is hoping for a fifth consecutive year of the “best food” award, made possible by food provided by Pico de Gallo Restaurant of Tucson.
Do you really want a killer tan? By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Skin cancer became a reality for Janet Cooley — at age 25. Cooley had been ignoring a mole on her leg for a while. She finally went to have it examined after finishing pharmacy school at the UA. The mole was removed, and the next night Cooley was informed she had melanoma. Cooley said she was kind of “freaked out” but thought because
it was skin cancer it wasn’t that serious, but then the doctors told her melanoma was dangerous. “That was all very, very scary,”Cooley said.“You just kind of don’t think when you’re young that it can happen to you. It just doesn’t seem real at all.” Cooley had no family history of skin cancer and said she and her family were very shocked to learn she had melanoma. “None of us had any clue anything like that was coming; it was a total surprise,” Cooley said.
Cooley is not an unusual case. For the staff at the Arizona Cancer Center, it is not uncommon to see patients in their 20s and 30s. “It’s a wake-up call,” said Clara Curiel, assistant professor of medicine at the Arizona Cancer Center. “People tend to think that skin cancer is a disease of the elderly and something that cannot happen to you.” Cooley said she would advise people to see a dermatologist once a year and to practice safe sun behavior. “It can happen to anybody,”
Cooley said. “I think it is important for people to realize how common it is in young people.” Heather Hiscox, program development coordinator for the Skin Cancer Institute at the Arizona Cancer Center, and Lisa Quale, the center’s health educator, stressed that it is important to check skin regularly because the fatality rate of melanoma is extremely high if not caught early. Quale said melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, largely affects
demands $5M cut from UA By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
The UA’s proposed budget reduction of 2.75 percent might appear like a sliver cut by the finest scalpel, but when it means more than $5 million must be cut — and soon — it feels more like a swing from an axe. At the beginning of March, the Arizona Board of Regents told the UA to make a one-time cut from its budget by the beginning of the upcoming fiscal year. Although the general terms of the directive are still being worked out, it looks as if there will need to be about a $5.26 million reduction in general fund salaries. Jennifer Grentz, assistant executive director for public affairs for ABOR, noted that planning how the universities will proceed will start Tuesday and conclude at a special board meeting at the end of the month. Once the final wording of the directive is released, it will be clear whether ABOR wants Arizona schools to give the money from the 2.75 percent reduction in the general salary budget back to the state or just move it to a different section of school expenditures. As of yet, there are no definite plans of how to achieve this reduction. “We know the number, we just don’t know the specifics as of yet,” said Johnny Cruz, UA media relations director and assistant vice president of communications. “We don’t know how we are going to get there yet.” An official March 12 memorandum from President Robert Shelton’s office to faculty and staff stated, “Given the complex nature of UA’s salary sources, we will need some time to determine the full impact of this directive.” The road to a $5 million spending reduction is causing many people to worry. In the same March memo, Shelton noted he personally “did not want the campus community to misinterpret this directive and assume that there would be across-the-board salary reductions.” Cruz noted that the UA is already doing more with less, seeing increased enrollment coupled with staff cut-backs in the face of budget reductions. PAY CUT, page 3
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For insight on the ABOR budget cut demands from UA President Robert Shelton, see “Faculty Targets Athlete GPAs” on page 3.
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To Catch a Cheater: Eller’s GoodCat Hotline utilized By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Despite precautions taken by professors, cheating happens. The Eller College of Management recently released the GoodCat Hotline, a Web site students can use to report academic dishonesty within the college. The Web site mimics ethics hotlines used in the business community, which allow people to report unethical behavior seen in their companies. GoodCat, however, is tailored to students. Eller students can go onto the Web site and fill out a form about the incident. Students enter
the type of cheating as well as who cheated and where the incident occurred. Those reporting can enter their names or choose to report the incident anonymously. The Web site was donated and developed specifically for Eller by EthicsPoint, a company that specializes in hotlines. “Nobody else has done this. It’s the first application at the collegiate level for students,” said Paul Melendez, director of the ethics program in the department of management and organizations. The site aims to deter cheating by making it clear that students’ behavior is being monitored. Students may weigh the
risk of cheating differently knowing that anyone can report them. “If nothing else, it will help to make students aware,” Melendez said. The college stresses ethics under the belief that habits formed during college follow students into their careers. While cheating in the classroom may go unnoticed, poor business ethics can lead to serious consequences. “What students demonstrate in the classroom they will demonstrate in the boardroom,” Melendez said. Suzanne Cummins, senior lecturer in the department of management and organizations, notes that the site allows professors to track how students
cheat. Professors can then decide how to administer tests and assignments based on GoodCat reports. “We’re not trying to get to the student. We’re trying to get to the problem,” Cummins said. “It’s kind of a wake-up call to the teacher.” The site also aims to give a voice to students angered by their cheating peers. “It’s a quiet anger that people have about cheating if they’re not involved in it,” Cummins said. The site was developed with input from the Eller Board of Honor and Integrity, a group of about 40 Eller students.
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Gabrielle Johnston, a public management and policy senior, is the chair of the Eller Board and finds GoodCat to be an effective resource. “Eller has a strict code of academic conduct. I think it’s a great way for students to anonymously report what they may not feel comfortable going to a professor about,”Johnston said. The site, which was released just before spring break, has received one report so far. Cummins views the site as a “last resort” for students who have difficulty approaching their professors.
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