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Starting today, law could bring more guns to campus By Will Ferguson Arizona Daily Wildcat
A new gun law goes into effect today that will allow firearms to be kept in a motor vehicle on campus. The new law, Arizona Revised Statute 12-781, states that any firearm brought onto university property must remain
locked in a privately owned vehicle and must not be visible from outside of the vehicle or motorcycle. Previously, state law required a person to have a concealed weapons permit in order to keep a weapon in a motor vehicle. The new law revokes this restriction. President Robert Shelton released
a statement on behalf of the UA faculty condemning the new law at the Sept. 23-24 Arizona Board of Regents meeting in Flagstaff. “The faculty of the UA would like to express grave concern about the safety of our students and staff,” Shelton said. The Faculty Senate voted to issue an official statement to this effect at
their Sept. 14 meeting. Both ABOR and UA faculty have publicly stated their opposition to the new law. “We are talking about an environment where we have a lot of youngsters who are away from home for CAMPUS, page A5
Concealed weapons allowed in bars Proprietors can post signs prohibiting firearms to counteract new legislation
Emily Jones/Arizona Daily Wildcat
Ryan Bluhm, a bartender of two years at The Shanty on 401 E. Ninth St., serves up a drink on Tuesday evening. An Arizona law that goes into effect today allows gun owners with concealed weapon permits to take their guns into bars unless the establishment posts signs prohibiting firearms (right).
By Alex Dalenberg Arizona Daily Wildcat UA area bartenders aren’t too concerned about a new Arizona law that goes into effect today allowing guns into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol — but they are asking, “What’s the point?” Under the law, backed by the
National Rifle Association, the 138,350 people with concealedweapons permits in Arizona will be allowed to bring their guns into bars and restaurants that haven’t posted signs banning them. Those carrying the weapons won’t be allowed to drink alcohol. “If you’re going to come in and hang out with a gun, then there’s no
point,” said Nathan Scott, who has been a bartender at O’Malley’s for seven years. An 8½-by-11-inch sign that says “No Firearms Allowed” and shows a red slash over a gun now hangs next to the door of O’Malley’s and most Fourth Avenue bars. If a bar owner does not post such a state-approved sign, people with concealed weapons
are allowed in with their guns. Scott said he thought most bars would take advantage of the rule. “If there’s a loophole that says you can put up a sign up, everybody and their brother is going to do it,” he said. There is no way to track how many BARS, page A5
ARIZONA BRIEFS Judge blocks key parts of new Arizona abortion law PHOENIX — A state judge has blocked implementation of key parts of a new Arizona law restricting abortion. Judge Donald Daughton of Maricopa County Superior Court late Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction granting most of a request by Planned Parenthood, the state’s largest abortion provider. Daughton’s order allows a 24-hour waiting period to take effect, but blocks parts requiring that a woman see a doctor in person for advance disclosures before getting an abortion. Other blocked provisions include a requirement that parental consents for a minor’s abortion be notarized and a ban on nurse practitioners performing abortions. Other parts of the law still take effect Wednesday, pending a federal judge’s ruling on one provision not covered by Daughton’s order.
Arizona prepares order for swine flu vaccine PHOENIX — A first batch of roughly 60,000 doses of the new swine flu vaccine could arrive in Arizona next week, state health officials said Tuesday. Arizona Department of Health Services Director Will Humble said his office is collecting orders from county health departments for submission to the federal Centers for Disease Control on Wednesday. Arizona will likely get the first doses of a nasal spray vaccine from vendors sometime next week, he said. The CDC is coordinating the allocation of about 3 million initial doses to states, which will be distributed according to population. Arizona has about 2 percent of the nation’s population, meaning the state will get roughly 60,000 doses initially. Humble’s office says the spray is only approved for healthy people between 2- and 49-years-old. The doses will likely be given to health care workers or people who care for or live with infants under 6 months old. Health departments in each of Arizona’s counties will decide how to allocate its vaccine. Maricopa County, the state’s most populous at about 4 million residents, expects to receive about 40,000 doses, county health department STATE, page A5
Icy craters found on Mars By Michelle Monroe Arizona Daily Wildcat Scientists have discovered craters in Mars filled with almost-pure ice with the help of UA technology and say they are hopeful that this discovery will lead to possible missions there for astronauts. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, is comprised of a team of UA scientists who operate the high-resolution camera that captured the images of ice on Mars’ surface from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
“UA’s role was really key,” said Shane Byrne, member of the HiRISE team and assistant professor of planetary sciences at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Laboratory, the lab HiRISE calls home. Research on Mars’ ice has been led by researchers at the Lunar and Planetary Lab like Dr. William Boynton, who operated a gammaray instrument that detected all the buried ice on Mars for the first time several years ago, and Peter Smith, who recently led the Phoenix mission which dug up and analyzed ground ice on Mars.
“I’d say that UA hasn’t just contributed to Mars research, we’re leading it,” Byrne said. Scientists had been studying ice on Mars for a few years before they chanced on the crater findings, researchers said. Because ice usually disappears quickly on Mars’ surface, the sites must be photographed quickly. The team did not expect to find ice so far away from the poles, Byrne said. Since Mars’ orbit around the sun Casey Sapio/Arizona Daily Wildcat constantly changes, its climate changes Alfred S. McEwen, Planetary Image Research Lab director, is the principal investigator of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE. The experiment involves a team of UA
MARS, page A5 scientists who operate the high-resolution camera that captured the images of ice on Mars’ surface from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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