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Faculty Senate ratifies grad policies
Undergraduate, graduate, transfer students benefit from Sunday’s meeting By Michelle A. Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA’s Faculty Senate voted to simplify graduation requirements for undergraduate students on Monday.
Undergraduate grad options
Students will be able to change their academic catalogue year without affecting their graduation time. “In most cases they have to change their
catalogue to whatever is in place when they join a new program. In many cases it sets them back. In some cases it’s a serious impediment,” said George Gehrels, geosciences professor and undergraduate council chair. Students who change catalogues can have new general education requirements, and sometimes classes already taken will not count toward graduation. Ralph Renger, associate professor of public health for the department of community environment and policy, was
skeptical of the idea. “It sounds like a logistical nightmare,” he said. “How can you be confident that this won’t overburden our system? I get the flexibility of the system for students, but sounds like it will be quite expensive.” Celeste Pardee, an associate in the curriculum office of the Office of Academic Affairs and Faculty Senate audience member, assured the senate that the new UA software, PeopleSoft, has the program built in already so there is “no additional work.”
Transfer students
California transfer students will be able to satisfy general education coursework from their IGETC classes. IGETC, intersegmental general education transfer curriculum, classes are the California equivalent to the Arizona general education curriculum. The senate voted unanimously to allow unconditional admission for IGETC GRAD, page 3
Ethnic studies restraints opposed
No paying for valet
By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Kelli Johnson, right, a student working for ASU’s Cronkite News, conducts a video interview while Alex Wright, left, who works in the Office of Admissions, picks his bike up from Zachary Lewis, center, a junior majoring in marketing and Spanish, at the new bike valet on the UA Mall yesterday. Parking and Transportation Services started the valet after Labor Day, which Wright plans to use as a safer option ever since his previous bike was stolen. Though it’s currently free, it will cost $10 for 20 drop-offs after Sept. 24.
U.S. pledges millions to end child labor in cocoa harvests MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE WASHINGTON — The U.S. government and the chocolate industry pledged $17 million on Monday to help end child labor — some of it forced and dangerous — in two African countries where much of the world’s cocoa is grown. “If there’s one thing people around the world share in common it’s our love of chocolate. But it is a bitter reality that the main ingredient in chocolate, cocoa, is produced largely by child labor,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, at the agreement between industry, the Department of Labor, the Ivory Coast and Ghana. A June 2001 investigation by Knight Ridder, gave readers a closeup look at the lives of boys who were tricked or sold into slavery on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast. The stories
led to a voluntary program by industry to end abusive and forced child labor on the cocoa farms. Harkin and Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., drew up the agreement with industry in September 2001. Harkin and Engel said Monday that while some progress had been made, large numbers of children are still working in the cocoa sector. Engel said there are times when he and Harkin are “very, very frustrated by the slow pace” of change. The new plan calls for a 70 percent reduction of internationally unacceptable child labor by 2020. The Labor Department pledged $10 million and chocolate industry groups pledged $7 million for building schools and helping rural families in the two West African countries escape poverty so they don’t have to rely on their children’s wages.
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Lenikpo Yeo, also known as Le Gros, which means “The Big Man,” carries a gun while walking with his own children and nephews. Le Gros had 19 Malian children working on his farm before he was arrested by the government and forced to pay the children for their work.
The UA Faculty Senate voted unanimously to declare its opposition to H.B. 2281 , otherwise known as the “Ethnic Studies Bill,” during their meeting on Monday. The bill, a brainchild of Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne , is designed to prohibit the teaching of classes that promote the “overthrow of the U.S. government or resentment toward a race or class of people.” The bill also forbids classes that “are designed primarily for students of a particular ethnic group” or “advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals.”
“I personally find it fascinating that we’re not allowed to teach any thing about promoting the overthrow of the United States government and I’m, you know, really heartened that they don’t say anything about the state government of Arizona,” —Tsianina Lomawaima chair, UA Graduate Council The bill would not affect Native American students, since portions of their curricula are determined in part by federal law. “It’s not only disturbing and distasteful, but it really sends the wrong message to both Arizona and its students,” said J.C. Mutchler, secretary of the Faculty Senate. Mutchler decried the “hazy” and “bizarre” language of the bill as some primary reasons for his opposition and that, though the bill itself does not explicitly bar ethnic studies classes from being taught, the motivation of SENATE, page 3
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