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You can talk the talk, but can you chalk the chalk? tuesday, september ,
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Faculty poll shows withering confidence in Shelton, Hay By Shain Bergan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The results of a faculty poll questioning the competency of President Robert Shelton and Provost Meredith Hay showed an overall lack of support from voters for the UA’s upper administration. The last question of the poll, the results of which were released on
Monday, asked voters to gauge their confidence in Shelton and Hay. More than 300 voters replied that they had no confidence, while 98 said they had full confidence. Seven of the 10 poll questions asked faculty for their opinions on the upper administration’s faculty support, transparency and handling of the UA transformation.
In all seven such questions, results showed faculty favoring the answers denouncing Shelton and Hay. Fewer than one-third of all votingeligible university faculty members took part in the poll, with 858 total ballots cast from 2,754 eligible voters. The poll, created by the UA Faculty Center, ran online for voting from Sept. 18 to Sept. 25.
The poll’s questions held varying degrees of responses, with answers falling along a scale of one to five. Results were noticeably harsher toward Hay. When asked how much support they have for the way the provost has carried out the UA transformation, 483 expressed no support. POLL, page 5
Kayla Crofoot, a pre-physiology freshman, and Christina Carlson, a pre-nursing freshman, draw with chalk on the the Manuel T. Pacheco Integrated Learning Center wall on Monday. The chalk drawings first appeared during a UA graduate student protest against the commercialization of education on Thursday, but is now a campuswide free speech issue after the arrest of graduate student Jacob Miller. Tim Galaz/ Arizona Daily Wildcat
Flu shots for all of campus By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Seasonal flu shots have become available for UA affiliates, and Campus Health Services has launched a campaign this week to make the shots easily accessible on campus. This week, the shots — which are not for H1N1 or “swine”flu — will be available throughout the day at a number of “walk-up clinic” locations across campus. This is the first year the shots have been offered throughout campus, said nursing supervisor Shari Overland, adding that previous years’ campaigns had focused on dorms and greek buildings and had seen a low turnout. No appointment is needed for a shot and prospective recipients only need to bring a CatCard. University employees who bring their insurance cards and identification numbers can receive the shots free of charge. Otherwise, the shots are $15 each. After only one day, Overland said, the campaign has been “a huge success.” Overland said that on Monday over 400 flu shots were given to students and faculty. Recipients are immunized within two weeks. “It’s more cost effective (to give shots out) at the beginning,” she said. “If we treat them (people on campus) early, then we don’t have to see them in the clinic later.” Shots for H1N1 viruswill become available in early November.
Flu shot walk-up clinic locations this week:
Chalk one up for free speech
Charges against two UA students dropped at Shelton’s request
By Hank Dean Stephenson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
President Robert Shelton asked the University of Arizona Police Department on Monday afternoon to drop charges against two students arrested for drawing protest signs in chalk on the UA campus. Campus police arrested a second chalk artist, Evan Lisull, a political
science senior and an author of the campus news blog DesertLamp.com, just before dawn yesterday. Lisull was making chalk drawings to protest Thursday’s arrest of graduate student Jacob Miller, who was arrested for his own chalk art after a rally protesting budget cuts. By noon yesterday, students had distributed thousands of chalk sticks on campus in a show of solidarity.
After the UAPD arrested Miller on Thursday and charged him with criminal damage for writing in sidewalk chalk before a protest, student support for the chalk-writer swelled. Students who had never met Miller started taking up arms online, on Facebook. com and in the form of comments on the Daily Wildcat’s Web site, and on campus, CHALK, page 12
TUESDAY • 12-3 p.m. | Arizona Health Sciences Center, Campus Health Service clinic (this clinic is intended for medicine, nursing, pharmacy and public health students) WEDNESDAY • 11 a.m.-1 p.m. | UA Mall, in front of the Student Union Memorial Center THURSDAY • 10:45 a.m.-2 p.m. | West side of Old Main FRIDAY • 8:45 a.m.-1 p.m. | Manuel T. Pacheco Integrated Learning Center • 2-4:15 p.m. | Biological Sciences East building
College starts student research site By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The College of Science has created a new Web site to publicize undergraduate research opportunities. Students who visit the site are led through a three-step process during which they identify opportunities, select a research interest and connect with faculty. The site, hosted by the Office of Undergraduate Research, is used to guide students and encourage them to find research opportunities in many different areas, including science, technology, engineering and math.
The Web site is accessible through a new UA homepage which will replace the current homepage later this semester. The site allows students to search for information about research opportunities on and off campus and leads them to other sites with more specific information, said Glenda Gentile, director of the Office of Undergraduate Research. The Web site will also list research opportunities at other universities, primarily projects funded by the National Science Foundation, said Gail Burd, vice provost of academic affairs and a distinguished professor
Jacqueline Garrick, a veterinary science senior, prepares samples of plant DNA for a polymerase chain reaction in the Life Sciences South building on Monday. Garrick is part of the Undergraduate Biology Research Program, one of many programs that can be found on a new Web site created by the College of Science.
of molecular and cellular biology. This project began two years ago and was deemed a necessity because students who participated in undergraduate research benefitted themselves and others, said Elliott Cheu, associate dean of the College of Science. “Research has shown that students that do undergraduate research perform better in their course work,” Cheu said. “In addition, their classmates, somewhat surprisingly, do better.” Student benefits are not limited to better
Lisa Beth Earle/ Arizona Daily Wildcat
RESEARCH, page 3
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