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Oil spill Sarah Tatum pleads guilty to dorm baby assault spreads to By Michelle A. Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Sarah Tatum, the former UA student who gave birth in a dorm shower last February, has pled guilty to aggravated assault and child abuse. She faced charges of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse and was set to go to trial when the plea bargain was struck on Tuesday. Tatum gave birth to a 7-pound boy in the shower of the Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall, placed the infant in a laundrybag, and tied the
drawstring top around 1 p.m. Her hall mates pulled her out of the shower around 4 p.m. The bag began to move and one of the hall mates alerted the community director who called the police according to previous reports. The infant was in University Medical Center’s care until March 12, 2009, and was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. The child was adopted its first week out of the hospital, according to Laura Udall, Tatum’s attorney. “It is a closed adoption by her choice, she contacted Catholic Social Services right away and that’s been her plan all along,” Udall said.
Tatum was indicted on March 17, 2009, and charged with attempted first-degree murder and child abuse. The Sept. 7 plea agreement states, “On or around the 23rd of Feb. 2009, Sarah Elizabeth Tatum assaulted Baby Boy Tatum, causing serious physical injury … committed child abuse by intentionally or knowingly causing physical injury to Baby Boy Tatum, a child less than eighteen years of age, under circumstances likely to produce death or serious physical injury, to wit: concealing the baby’s presence TATUM, page 3
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UA study By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
This summer UA environmental anthropologist Diane Austin observed the Gulf community’s utter exhaustion from the oil spill, and now she is heading back to research the spill’s long-term effects. Austin and UA research anthropologist Tom Mcguire, have been studying the effects of the oil industry in the Gulf for 15 years, so when the spill occurred they were able to quickly begin studying the impact. Mcguire and Austin’s focus is on the way the spill effects people. As anthropologists, Austin, Mcguire and accompanying graduate students live in the homes of people in the communities they are studying.
“What happens to a community that’s dependent on essentially the oil industry when something like this happens? How do you think about yourself when the thing that’s sort of how you make your living is also contributing the degradation of the environment?” — Ben McMahan anthropology graduate student
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Students wait outside the Navajo-Pinal Residence Hall for the all-clear to be given from Tucson Fire Department shortly after 10:00 pm Tuesday following the dorm evacuation triggered by a false fire alarm. According to UAPD, there have been over 100 false alarms on campus since Aug. 18, 2010.
UA alum, rocket scientist running for Congressional office By Alexander Vega ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT UA alumna and rocket scientist Ruth McClung is seeking election as a Republican representing the congressional district that includes the UA. McClung stressed the prime opportunity to turn District 7 red in a speech made to UA College Republicans yesterday at the Student Union Memorial Center. “We need to get out the vote,” McClung said to an audience of about 25 club members. McClung petitioned that club members get involved in campaigns and the Republican cause. The 7th Congressional District includes the UA and is represented by Democrat Raúl Grijalva. “He is the most left politician,” McClung said. “We looked up his voting record… it’s disgusting.” McClung graduated from the UA with a bachelor’s in physics in 2004. “I learned a lot,” McClung said. “College ELECTION, page 3
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“When you live in the home of somebody who lives in the community it’s those informal conversations,” Ben McMahan, anthropology graduate student who was in the Gulf in July said. “You get home from maybe doing a day of interviews and the person is in the kitchen and is like ‘Oh I made you dinner ’ and then you sit down and you have dinner with them and over dinner sometimes they tell you things in an informal way that are really important about what’s going on that if you came and interviewed them they might not think to tell you.” McMahan said the oil spill, like the hurricanes that affect the area, has an acute impact but also has a chronic long-term impact. McMahan thinks that media tends to focus on the initial acute impacts. McMahan feels that it is difficult for people outside of the region to grasp what is going on because the media OIL SPILL, page 3
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Arizona congressional candidate Ruth McClung speaks to the UA’s College Republicans chapter Tuesday in the SUMC’s Kiva Room. McClung, a UA physics graduate, will challenge democratic incumbent Raul Grijalva to represent District 7.
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