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UA campus amps up safety efforts BY EMILY BREGGER The Daily Wildcat
The UA is striving to keep students safe and secure by altering Safe Ride practices and maintaining communication via social media and technology to broadcast alerts. Safe Ride has vamped up its evaluation
process to ensure students have a safer drive this academic year, according to Adam Klever, administrative director of ASUA Safe Ride and a senior studying chemistry and Spanish. Safe Ride has also expanded its boundaries so that students can use the service to get to El Con Mall. “Our main goal is to get students safely from one place to another,” Klever said.
“Yes, our boundaries are Country Club [Road] and Broadway [Boulevard], but so many students want to go to Target and the [El Con] mall and a lot of them end up walking there, so we thought we would open that up.” The service is funded by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona,
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ASUA Senate reforms bylaws Outreach
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GRADUATE AND PROFESSIONAL STUDENT COUNCIL president Zachary Brooks addresses the ASUA Senate on Wednesday night regarding the removal of ASA director positions from its bylaws.
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staff. Although the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate voted 8-0 to remove these positions, it still plans to discuss the future of its relationship with the Arizona Students’ Association this semester, according to Morgan
Instead of appointing members to the [ASA] board, I’m appointing three members to serve the University of Arizona.
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— Morgan Abraham, ASUA president
Abraham, ASUA president. The reason for the change to ASUA bylaws stems from ASA’s changes to its own bylaws, which no longer allow the student government president to appoint directors to the ASA board. Because Abraham had already selected students to serve on the board, he said he decided to create positions for them within ASUA. The former ASA directors will now be called ASUA directors of state affairs, serving a similar role
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Arizona Stadium: Living history BY BRIAN PEEL
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Arizona Stadium had its welcome back party this past Friday, complete with music and fireworks. It seems odd to celebrate a return to something that was never technically gone, but during the 2012 season Arizona Stadium didn’t feel like the same place, with the ongoing construction of the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility, the first major addition to the stadium since the 1980s. But now the cranes are gone and the north end zone no longer resembles the black hole of last season. Everything seems to be in place. Taking a look back at Arizona Stadium’s renovation history reveals how much has changed over time, and how it has become one of the best stadiums in the
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A VIEW OF the football field during a tour on Aug. 1, in the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility.
Pac-12 Conference. In 1928, when Arizona Stadium first opened, it seated a meager 7,000 people, all located on the west side. For comparison’s sake, that’s smaller than today’s ZonaZoo section alone, which seats 9,000 fans. However, an expanding population soon changed that, and in the 1940s, when our boys were fighting tyranny in Europe and Asia, Tucsonans were fighting the menace of boredom. Women’s baseball leagues and games of hoop and stick could
only hold citizens’ attentions for so long, which led to stadium expansion and a chance to see the Wildcats play in person. By 1947, seats had been added to the stadium’s east side and both end zones, expanding its capacity to 17,000. At that point, Arizona Stadium still barely resembled what it looks like today. It didn’t stay that way for long, though. In 1950, nearly 8,700 more seats were added as the south end zone adopted the horseshoe configuration that is still in place today.
The UA Outreach College is offering new non-credit professional development and personal enrichment courses. The courses start today, but enrollment will be open throughout the fall semester. These types of courses have been offered in the past through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and the Arizona Youth University, but this is the first time courses will be targeted at adults who are looking to either further their education or seek out opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities. Rita Martinez-Purson, who has been a continuing education dean for 27 years, was brought to the UA to revamp this program. “There is a demand for these programs because the economy is changing so much that people that lost work back in 2007 and 2008 need new skills as they start getting reemployed,” MartinezPurson said. “They may already have their college degrees, but they need additional certification and skills in order to compete for the jobs.” For those looking for professional development, the UA is offering courses to gain renewal of certificates in areas such as accounting, web design and legal research and writing. More than 200 courses are being offered in a wide variety of categories. There are also almost 50 personal enrichment courses
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They may already have their college degrees, but they need additional certification and skills in order to compete for the jobs.
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— Rita Martinez-Purson, continuing education dean
The U.S. was changing in the 1960s, and the stadium had some evolving to do when 10,000 additional seats were added to the west side. Possibly the most important expansion took place in 1976, when Arizona was attempting to move up to the Pac-8 from the WAC. Doing so required a big jump in capacity, which Arizona Stadium accomplished by constructing a second tier of seats on the east side, taking capacity from about 40,000 closer to the current 56,037. After the 1988 season, the press box and sky box were constructed on the west side, and Arizona Stadium retained that familiar look until just a few years ago. Prior to the 2011 season, the 5,356-square foot video board appeared in the south end zone. It is the sixth largest video board in the country and has the power to pressure fans into doing things like kissing strangers on cue, participating in hedonistic songs and dancing to Otis Day & the Knights’ version of “Shout.” Today, the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility takes Arizona Stadium to a new level and rivals many in the Pac-12. — Follow Brian Peel @BrianPeel91