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By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Students looking for offcampus jobs this semester may have to travel farther than University Boulevard. Many of the shops and restaurants near campus have already filled their staff for this semester, and those still hiring plan on filling available positions within the next few weeks as student employees change their schedules or quit. Peter Sutter, general manager of Red Velvet Cupcakery on University Boulevard, is currently hiring students for the fall semester. Sutter estimates 90 percent of Red Velvet employees are UA students. “It’s not always easy, but we do the best we can,” Sutter said about working around student schedules. “Sometimes I have to hire more people than I want to.” Students applying at businesses close to campus face steep competition from other students. “We’re so close to campus it’s almost like working on campus,” said Becca Rand , a graphic design senior who also works at Pitaya . “It’s actually really convenient working here.” This competition can make it difficult to land a job within walking distance. Rand’s fellow Pitaya employee, physiology freshman Cleyrissa Robinson applied for numerous jobs near campus last year and waited months before being hired. “I got this job nine months after I applied for it,” Robinson said. “I looked everywhere.” Not all nearby employers are fully staffed, however. Which Wich announced Friday that it is still looking to fill several positions for the upcoming semester. Competition is just as fierce, though. The restaurant has already received about 50 applications according to General Manager Jessica Lugo.
By Steven Kwan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The new instructor for your French class may have been hired via Twitter or Facebook. UA Human Resources has created Twitter feeds and Facebook pages to help campus departments and colleges advertise job openings. In addition to adjunct instructors for French, the UA has advertised openings for administrative assistant positions, on-call event attendants for UA Athletics and chief for the cardiothoracic division in the department of surgery in this fashion. Chris Wolf, human resources talent management coordinator, and Chris Foree, applications systems analyst and developer, worked together to create and manage the department’s Twitter and Facebook accounts this year. They also developed an online tool UA departments can attach to their websites to advertise job openings. Human resources has been working on two distinct plans with its social media tools, Foree said. The first is to provide a networking forum for the campus community, which is how universities and colleges nationwide have been using social media. The second is to utilize social media sites to expand employment recruiting strategies. “We’re one of the first universities to do this, and it’s using Facebook and Twitter as actual recruitment tools where people can see up-to-the-minute jobs that are actually available within different departments on campus,” Foree said.
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Which Wich, on University Boulevard, is one of the few businesses within walking distance from campus that is hiring. Off-campus jobs have become particularly scarce, especially with the recent increase in student body population.
“It probably just depends on how it goes. Some people might quit because of school,” Lugo said. Some students have been able to avoid this competition
by using personal connections to find jobs. One such student is retailing and consumer sciences senior Mary Ann Srulowitz , who was recently hired as a personal assistant
for a mortgage loaner. “I was looking all over. Nothing really worked with my schedule,” Srulowitz said. JOBS, page 3
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Outbreak of Tucson murders raises concerns By Alexander Vega ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Four Tucsonans have been murdered within the Tucson city limits since classes began a little more than a week ago. The most recent murder was a man at the 3000 block of Seneca Street early Sunday morning, police officials said. “It was really shocking how close the murder was,” UA media arts junior Austin Night said. “It was right next to the courtyard in the front of our house.” Night witnessed the aftermath of the crime and overheard it taking place outside of his apartment at Bella Vista Townhomes. “It was loud outside. We could hear the people yelling. Then, boom, four cop cars showed up,” Night said. “It’s so weird. It’s the first week of school, and there was already a murder outside my door.” Over the course of the last three weeks, eight people have been murdered in Tucson.
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“It is unusual that there were this many in a two week period,” Tucson Police Department spokesman Sgt. Matt Ronstadt said. But he assured that there was no direct connection between the murders. Many theories have been put forth as explanations for the recent violence, including gang-related activities, narcotics, long-standing confrontations and domestic disputes, police said. The only murder without explanation was at Pearl Nightclub, 445 W. Wetmore Road, where a man was shot and killed and four others were injured in front of a crowd of a few hundred on Aug. 15. The victim, Ronstadt said, was in the wrong place at the wrong time. While the amount of homicides may be concentrated, Ronstadt postulated that most of the victims had been involved in “increased-risk activities” prior to their deaths. Ronstadt said that most of the victims “may well not have become
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