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Students face dorm shortage By Lance Madden Arizona Daily Wildcat Nearly 300 students who moved into residence halls on campus this weekend will likely experience another move before the fall semester is over. All of the UA’s 22 residence halls have created temporary housing in order to provide students a place to live until space clears up in the dorms, said Jim Van Arsdel, director of Residence
Life and University Housing. The university expects to begin moving students out of temporary living spaces as early as next weekend, but it may take up to a semester to relocate students into their permanent dorm rooms, he said. “Will we move all of them by the first weekend? Probably not, but we’ll have a good number (moved),” he said. Students who applied last for campus housing, before Residence Life started
to waitlist applicants, were placed in temporary housing. Currently, these students are being charged the lowest on-campus housing rate of $2,904 for the whole semester. If and when they move to permanent housing, their rent will be adjusted based on their new hall assignment. A handful of residence hall guest apartments, usually reserved for visitors to the university, have been temporarily assigned to some of the displaced stu-
dents. Aerospace engineering freshman John Inman is living in one of these apartments in Coronado Residence Hall. Inman said that while the room is large and well-furnished, its location on the ground floor of the hall, where there are no other rooms, has made it difficult for him to meet new people. However, Inman added, “I have my own kitchen, so I have a massive HOUSING, page A3
Running of the greeks:
By Hank Stephenson Arizona Daily Wildcat
Bid Day 2009
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Members of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority run north on Mountain Avenue leading new members to their house on the corner of First Street and Mountain Avenue on Sunday, Aug. 23.
By Michelle Monroe Arizona Daily Wildcat As women took their seats yesterday in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center, the room filled with excitement and nervous energy. Sorority recruitment counselors stood on chairs above a crowd of around 1,100 potential new members. They began a 15-second countdown to the final moment of rush week, Bid Day. Liz Hudson, a psychology freshman and Alpha Delta Pi new member, could hardly contain her excitement.
“This whole week has been crazy and it’s nice to know it’s coming to an end,” she said. When the countdown reached zero, envelopes ripped open and screams filled the hall as the women discovered which house they received a bid from. Taylor Hall , an accounting freshman, let out a yell as she climbed over chairs to reach friends’ rows ahead of her after finding out which sorority she had been accepted into. “I got in Pi Phi!,” Hall said. During rush week, women formally meet all the houses and use a process known as mutual selection — prospective members and sororities submit
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electronic lists of preferences and are matched by a computer — to find their ideal house. On Bid Day, houses get to welcome and celebrate with their new members. Hall and her eager peers quickly rushed outside and began the run to their new houses while active sorority members lead them through the streets of the UA. Fortunately, the University of Arizona Police Department was on hand to prevent any running-ofthe-bulls-style chaos. BID DAY, page A12
The new Fourth Avenue underpass is open, though not totally finished, and despite criticism of the structure’s aesthetic appeal, it has succeeded in uniting two neighborhoods. Students are traveling downtown with greater ease, while downtowners are arriving at the UA less sweaty and with fewer pedal pumps. Business owners on both sides are already feeling the economic benefits, while artists and community leaders are thinking of new ways to use the link to unite downtown, Fourth Avenue and Main Gate Square. Thousands of people flooded the wide pedestrian paths of the new Fourth Avenue underpass on Thursday, Aug. 20, to see the ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by Mayor Bob Walkup. The mayor thanked the organizations and people who struggled through the more than two-year construction process but admitted the battle wasn’t over. Then, with the mayor at the controls, the electric trolley connecting the two construction-bludgeoned neighborhoods started rolling. Hundreds of cameras flashed as the trolley burst through the blue ribbon, destroying the last barrier between downtown and Fourth Avenue. Then the trolley stalled and rolled backwards a few yards. After two more jerky starts and about a minute of awkwardness and doubt, the trolley emerged in downtown. It was a moment of jubilation: the crowd cheered as prominent business leaders, city council members and UA President Robert Shelton waved from the trolley as it finally arrived downtown. But whether the underpass opening was a total success still remains in doubt for some.The concrete and steel blandness of the $46 million structure brought criticism from people at the ceremony, though most were careful to mention that functionally it’s great. UNDERPASS, page A19
A word from the editor in chief “I hate newspapermen … if I killed them all there would be news from hell before breakfast.” – Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Editior in Chief, Alex Dalenberg
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I hated journalists too. I first made it into the newspaper when my friends and I wrote a three-act comedy in high school,“Don’t Correct The Boss!” If it ever hits YouTube I’ll never be elected to anything — ever. Even though we were a bunch of acne-faced drama kids, our hometown newspaper, The Glendale Star, sent a reporter. We were excited. We’d hit the big time. Then the article came out. I guess publicist-types would say I went off message. You see, during the interview I mentioned this other student who’d written and produced his own musical a year earlier — Kevin Frei. I’d been an extra in his play.
When I mentioned Kevin Frei, the reporter’s eyes caught fire. She’d done a story on this guy before. Thinking back on it, I can see the lead forming in her reporter’s brain as she scratched away at her notepad. “Oh, Kevin,” she said.“He’s brilliant.” “Yeah, he is,” I said.“Anyway, we’ve been working on this play for about—” “No, no, you don’t understand,” she said. “Nothing is good enough for Kevin Frei. He is a genius.” And then we talked about Kevin Frei for something like 10 minutes. You can see where this is going. When the article hit the newsstands, the story I thought was going to be about our play turned out to be a Kevin Frei lovefest. “Don’t Correct the Boss!” we read, was inspired, fueled and nourished by the incandescent spirit of Kevin Frei.
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I never even clipped out the article. We would joke for years that if I were ever horribly killed the obituary would read something like this: “Alex Dalenberg, who had a chorus role in Kevin Frei’s groundbreaking musical, ‘Final Vinyl,’ was among the victims in Sunday’s explosion.” We also used to sing this song called,“What if God was Kevin Frei?” Man, we were pissed. We even wrote in another villain, the smarmy newspaper reporter Madeline Hitchcock. Things really went south for our heroes after she showed up. So if you’ve ever felt burned by the media, trust me, I’ve been there. I felt like my whole life got boiled down to Kevin Frei by a journalist, a damned journalist. And now here I am, editor of your Arizona Daily Wildcat. What a life. EDITOR, page A4
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