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Climate migration disputed
Princeton cites UA research to claim millions of Mexicans will resettle in US by 2080 By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A recent Princeton study proposes that climate change will increase Mexican migration, but UA researchers are skeptical. The study estimates that between 1.4 million and 6.7 million Mexicans will migrate to the U.S. by 2080. Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank professor of
geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University and one of the study’s authors, said they chose to focus their study on the U.S.- Mexico border because the data is stronger there than in other border cases, and they thought the study would interest policy makers. “There have been many claims that global warming would cause a significant increase in global
migrant flows, including immigration across borders. However, none of these claims was substantiated with quantitative projections based on detailed observations and modeling,” Oppenheimer said. “We set out to fill this gap by constructing a model which could be used to project the effect of climate changes on immigrant flows over a period of many decades.” Oppenheimer said that the paper ’s major limitation is that
it assumes ‘all other things being equal’ meaning that only the climate will change over the decades and not the economic standings of the U.S. and Mexico. “This is a simplification, and we hope subsequent research will improve upon it,” Oppenheimer said. Here at the UA, Co-director of the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, Diana Liverman,
remains unconvinced about the study’s claims. “There were so many assumptions, each of which had enormous uncertainty associated with them, that, by the time you got to the end of the article where they predict the migration flows, the uncertainty was just enormous,” said Liverman. MIGRATION, page A3
ASUA to ratify hidden budget By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate will have their first official meeting of the 2010-11 school year tonight. Approval of the budget for the new school year will be the main topic of discussion. “The only thing … we are going over is approving the ASUA budget for the year,” said ASUA Executive Vice President Katherine Weingartner.
IF YOU GO ASUA Senate Meeting Student Union Memorial Center Ventana Room Tonight at 5 Kenny Ho, ASUA treasurer, said that the 2010-11 budget will then be released to the public upon complete senate approval. The proposed budget will go online shortly after the meeting. “It’ll be up for approval
(today) and then when the senate approves it, it’ll be up,” Ho said. Although the senators were inaugurated last May and got to work holding forums for the student reaction to the controversial Senate Bill 1070, tonight will be the first time they meet to discuss the year ’s upcoming events. The SB 1070 resolution could be among topics of conversation at the meeting, but the discussion was tabled in summer governance, and no changes will be made to any statements until Sept. 8, according to Weingartner. Approval of the budget will allow for various senate projects to be passed. Such programs include plans to have a concert for breast cancer, a senate initiative of Taylor Bilby, ASUA senator and prebusiness sophomore. Garret Voge, an ASUA senator and pre-business sophomore, also plans to initiate a ‘volunteer buffet’ where students can try different volunteer programs and find one they are passionate about. Weingartner said the passion of the new senate is apparent through the different personal projects that are being started early this semester.
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Students get a late night workout at the Student Recreation Center on Monday. The Rec Center is now open as late as it was before budget cuts and thanks to a portion of the new Campus Health Service fee that will be used to support a return to these operating hours.
$150 Rec fee dissected By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Students will be paying a $150 Campus Health Service fee this semester for the Student Recreation Center and Campus Health. The fee was approved by the Arizona Board of Regents in March and was designed after continuous budget cuts on both a
state and university level. “The health and recreation fee was even conceived of or considered as a result of budget cuts,” said Kris Kreutz, director of administrative services for Campus Health Service. “We felt we should move from a less stable to a more stable funding source.” Campus Health Service and Campus Recreation surveyed
4,800 students last year before requesting the fee. Out of the students surveyed, 64 percent approved a mandatory fee. “We did have student support,” Kreutz said. Many students were not aware of the fee until they received their Bursar’s statement. “It was just when I went to pay the bills,” said Nate Kennedy, REC FEE, page A3
McCain beats conservative challenger in primary vote MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
John McCain in April 2010
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John McCain J.D. Hayworth Jim Deakin
59 percent 30 percent 11 percent
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WASHINGTON – Sen. John McCain of Arizona easily defeated an aggressive conservative challenger in a primary vote Tuesday despite a strong anti-incumbent mood. The result means that McCain, 73, will again represent the Republican Party as a candidate for the Arizona senate seat. The primaries, in which voters pick their party’s candidates for November ’s congressional and gubernatorial elections, come amid an angry mood against politicians from both parties. Voter anger over a still-sluggish U.S. economy has also left Democrats fearful of losing their majorities in the Senate and House of Representatives. Moderate politicians were seen as especially vulnerable, as voters in both parties have turned increasingly partisan in the past few years.
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McCain, the Republican Party’s nominee in the 2008 presidential election, has spent more than $20 million in the battle to keep the Arizona Senate seat he has held for more than two decades. He faced former congressman and talkshow host J.D. Hayworth, who questioned McCain’s conservative credentials. Once a self-styled “maverick” who worked with Democratic lawmakers on many signature issues over his tenure in the Senate, McCain moved to the right on hot-button topics such as immigration in a bid to fend off Hayworth’s bid for the Republican nomination. As polling stations closed, U.S. television projections gave McCain an easy win. In the early count published by the Arizona secretary of state, he enjoyed 59 percent of the vote compared to his opponent’s 30 percent.
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