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Grad student arrested for sidewalk chalk drawings Casey Sapio/Arizona Daily Wildcat
Jeff Garmany, a geography graduate student, rallies other university students for the budget protest in front of the Administration building yesterday on Thursday.
Students, faculty, rally for solidarity By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Geography graduate student Jacob Miller stands next to one of his chalk drawings, for which he was arrested yesterday and cited on charges of criminal damage and disturbing an educational institution. Miller said he met his arrest with “disbelief.”
UA claims $1000 in damages for required clean up after protest advertising By Tim McDonnell and Hank Dean Stephenson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A UA graduate student was arrested on campus after yesterday’s Arizona for Education rally and cited on charges of criminal damage and disturbing an educational institution. His crime: drawing with chalk. Jacob Miller, a graduate student in geography, was arrested just before 1 p.m., a few hours after he and about 10 other students drew pictures and messages in over 80 locations around campus. The drawings were part of yesterday’s student rally. Some depicted outlines of bodies with price tags, which rally organizers said were meant to represent the commercialization of higher education. Associated Director of Facilities Management Chris Kopach said he was contacted by the
University of Arizona Police Department and asked to assign maintenance personnel to wash up the chalk drawings. The process cost about $1,000, Kopach said. Many of the drawings were washed away by the time the rally began, at about 12:15 p.m., rally organizers said. An unnamed university employee called police at about 8:30 a.m. to report the chalk drawings said UAPD spokesman Juan Alvarez. Miller was charged on two counts of class one misdemeanor, each carrying a maximum penalty of six months in jail and $2,500, plus possible restitution charges for the cleanup, Alvarez said. Miller’s court date is set for Oct. 14. Chalk drawings are considered criminal damage because the university has to pay for someone to clean it up, Alvarez said. Miller said he was arrested sometime after the rally ended at 12:45 p.m. when officers flagged
FROM THE BLOG By Will Ferguson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Arizona Daily Wildcat sent administration-beat reporter Will Ferguson to Flagstaff for the Arizona Board of Regents conference. Here are some excerpts from the news blog. For more Arizona Board of Regents updates, visit wildcat.arizona.edu.
Shelton supports Obama’s FAFSA legistlation
FLAGSTAFF — The Arizona Board of Regents discussed President Barack Obama’s plan to streamline the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, a federal program designed to provide college tuition for students. The regents conveyed their support for the president’s three-part plan, which includes a restructuring of the online FAFSA form, modifications to allow students to electronically access information from their tax returns and simplifications to the formula used to calculate the amount of tuition received by students. The legislation regarding FAFSA is part of House Bill 3221, which was proposed by House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller. In addition to streamlining FAFSA, H.B. 3221, if passed, will establish a College Completion
and Innovation Fund that will fund programs designed to improve college retention rates. “Obama’s piece of legislation is very important and we are much in favor of it,” said UA President Robert Shelton.
Cost of education increasing, state not fulfilling promise
FLAGSTAFF — President Robert Shelton said the UA has been modest and consistent in its budget requests at the Sept. 24 Arizona Board of Regents meeting. He identified enrollment growth and retention of university faculty and employees as two critical areas where funding are essential. “The university has lost roughly 600 positions,” said Shelton. “We continue to see the loss of some of our best scholars to other institutions throughout the country.” ASU president Michael Crowe and NAU president John Haeger agreed with Shelton that funding enrollment growth is a critical issue. Crowe said the legislature is violating the state constitution by not providing adequate funding for an influx of new students. “The legislature has not said to stop enrolling qualified students,” BLOG, page 3
him down outside the Administration building. Miller said officers told him they were able to identify him using video surveillance footage. Miller told the Daily Wildcat his reaction to the arrest was “disbelief, surprise.” Alvarez said there were more than 80 instances where chalk was applied around campus. “It wasn’t just applied on the sidewalk. It was applied on other areas and it interferes with the aesthetics of the building.” The chalk drawings were spread out across campus, Miller said, including in front of both the UA Main Library and the Administration building. The drawings, he said, were meant to draw people’s attention to the important budget cut issue. Miller said his arrest would likely generate more support for his cause. “I guess it’ll raise awareness that there was a rally,” he said.“In that sense, it’s publicity.”
About 100 students and faculty rallied in front of the Administration building yesterday to voice their frustration with state budget cuts and the UA transformation process. Organizers said the event was a success in drawing attention to the lack of input students and faculty feel they have in university policy and funding decisions. The rally was organized by a group known as Arizona for Education, founded by graduate students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, which communicates via the blog arizonaforeducation.com. The group, which met for the first time last week is comprised of graduate and undergraduate students interested in “conscience raising” about the current state of the UA, said geography masters student Kerri Jean Ormerod. “It’s not a protest,” Ormerod said of the rally. “It’s a defensive response.” Support and publicity for the rally grew throughout the week through a series of emails and word of mouth. Although the crowd was mostly of students, some faculty members were in attendance as well, including Marv Waterstone, a geography and regional development professor, who addressed the audience through a megaphone. “This is a wholly political process,”Waterstone said of the transformation.“It is subject to political change.” Organizers said the event was held in solidarity RALLY, page 3
Sustainability conference faces uncertain weather By Carly Kennedy ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Dry spells, unpredictable weather patterns, a drought spanning the entire Southwest — what a perfect time for UA water management experts to meet and discuss their plans for the future. Except those plans don’t exist yet. UA scientists, water resource consultants and water district managers met at the annual convention of the Sustainability of semi-Arid Hydrology and Riparian Areas group to wrestle with“frighteningly” unpredictable weather patterns and growing demand for water in the desert. Speakers highlighted a recent lack of weather predictability as the first signs of climate change in the Southwest. Group scientists said weather patterns in recent years are significantly different than 10 years ago, or what is academically known as non-stationary weather patterns. “Things are completely upside down,” said David Modeer, general manager of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District. Modeer said that past El Niño and La
Niña rain falls used to act as a measuring stick for the Colorado River height. Not anymore. “There is something going on here; and we are not really sure what it is … but something is going on,” Modeer said. Historically, researchers could use statistical trends to look into the future — but now the changing climate has changed the weather-equation. “Just like every engineer likes to have facts and numbers to make their designs, water managers look at historical weather data to make forecasts,”said Marie Light, a UA graduate student and convention attendee. “Now they don’t have that.” The group also discussed water management, saying they are in the early stages of creating a long-term water supply program for metropolitan areas in the Southwest; but the implementation will be done in increments. Water banking, using underground aquifers to store water, is proposed to be an important part of the water supply future along with reducing water allocation to cities, said John Sullivan, associate general manager of Water Group.
But as for the rest of the program, that is to be announced, he said. “In 1998 none of us thought that we would have a long-term supply program; now we are all wringing our hands thinking, ‘What do we do next?’” said Sullivan. Ever growing population size, along with the climate changes already evident in the Southwest, are making the future of water supply look bleak, researchers said. The panel hopes the academic community will aid with the early planning stages. “Things are not going to happen overnight,” said Bill Plummer, a water resources consultant. “My hope is that we are not going to invest a bunch of money in things that won’t work. But we need to have these things in the planning process.” As top researchers brainstorm ideas to satisfy America’s thirst for years to come, some say the answer is a little closer to home. “Meeting our future water demands is not an engineering solution — it’s a people solution,” Light said.
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