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LINES Student political groups on campus hold meetings of their own during Obama’s State of the Union address
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(Above) Students gather to watch President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address in Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall on Tuesday night. (Top right) The UA College Republicans hold a meeting during the address in the Sabino Room of the Student Union Memorial Center.
By Stewart McClintic and Danielle Salas DAILY WILDCAT
President Barack Obama discussed how he wants America to move forward through the coming years, focusing on taxes, the outsourcing of jobs and the importance of higher education during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. Obama said that states need to emphasize funding for higher education in their budgets, and cannot expect continued increases in subsidies from the federal government to stymie cuts. He also said that colleges need to focus on ways to make attendance more affordable, be it through redesigned coursework that favors speedy progress through the college ranks, better use of technology, or other factors. He also hinted that consequences may be in store for institutions that prove resistant to change. “So let me put colleges and universities
on notice,” Obama said. “If you can’t stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down.” Obama also said the Legislature should prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling come summer, during a time when most Americans owe more in tuition loans than in credit card debt. “Higher education can’t be a luxury — it’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford,” Obama said. Obama emphasized that, because the economy is still in a bad state, jobs need to be created for Americans who became unemployed due to the recession, and reminded viewers that after the failure of the economy in 2008, nearly 4 million Americans lost their jobs within the first six months. Obama declared that the government should no longer bail out big companies for making risky investments with their customers’ money, and blamed the corporations for the economic crash. Obama added
that the government should instead bail out and help the people who need a bailout the most — members of the middle class. “We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by,” Obama said, “or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules.” He said those who make more than $1 million a year should not only pay 30 percent of taxes, but even more. Obama then proposed that the United States raise taxes for the wealthy, and offer tax cuts to average, working-class Americans. In addition to these cuts, he proposed that small businesses should be given the same sort of tax break because they create local jobs. He added that the U.S. government
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Students volunteer to train service dogs By Yara Askar DAILY WILDCAT
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Student trainer Morina Piece, a veterinary science junior, has trained Jenai, a 16-month-old Laborador for one year through Paws for the Cause.
Three UA students are committed to changing the lives of disabled persons by providing them with a social, wellmannered and friendly guide dog. Chelsea Reaves, Morina Pierce and Max Gluck, all veterinary science juniors, each decided to spend a year raising and training a puppy to be used as a service dog to assist someone with a disability. Gluck joined Paws for the Cause, a local offshoot of Guide Dogs for the Blind, after watching Reaves raise Roma, a female yellow Laborador. He soon afterward began raising Pecifica, a 9-month-old black female Labrador. Pierce has been raising Jenai, a 16-month-old female black Labrador, for almost a year now. Jenai is a survivor of canine parvovirus, a contagious viral disease, and she is now ready to go in for her last evaluation this Saturday with Roma. To qualify as trainers, the students began by going to meetings for Paws for the Cause. Trainers first receive
their dogs when they are about 8 weeks old. At this age, the puppies have no house manners. Puppies are not allowed out of the house until they have had all of their shots and can show decent behavior. At 17 weeks of age, the puppy gets a vest that allows them to go into public buildings. Once the dog has its vest, it starts out with very short social outings. Roma’s first social outing was to a discussion class. After the first outing, trainers build up to a full day of classes, Reaves said. “I first started her (Jenai) out by taking her into a gas station, and then I worked her up into going to class with me,” Pierce said. Reaves and Pierce said the main responsibility is to train the dog in obedience and socialization. The dogs are taught to socialize with everything and not to react to the many stimuli around them. Throughout the training process, they are taught how to properly behave in elevators, walk on
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The UA’s Water Resources Research Center held its annual conference on Tuesday to discuss the present and future state of Arizona’s water issues. The all-day conference held in the Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom addressed how to more effectively use the water coming into Arizona. Speakers at the event included Grady Gammage Jr., Arizona State University’s senior research fellow at the Morrison Institute for Public Policy; Michael Lacey, deputy director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources; and David Rousseau, board president of the Salt River Project. Gammage said the main issues discussed at the conference regarded the choices people make with the water they already have, how not to continue population growth with the little water they receive and more long-term plans for what to do with their water over the next 40 to 100 years. Joseph Garcia, director of communications at ASU’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy, said the issue right now is not if we have enough water, but where the water we already have is going. He said about 70 percent of water in Arizona goes to agriculture. The rest of it goes to industries and mining, recreational urbanization or landscape use. What Arizona needs now is the foresight and the initiative to do what the producers of the Central Arizona Project did when the project was first initialized, he said. “We are not running out of water,” Gammage said, “but we can’t do everything forever. We can’t support continued population growth, and also support agriculture, and also support the environment.” Arizona is allotted about 2.8 million acre feet per year from the Colorado River. Because Arizona doesn’t currently use all of its allotted water, it ends up just being dumped back into the environment, Gammage said. “It depends on what ‘use’ means. If you believe that leaving water in the natural environment is a use, which lots of people don’t, then we are using it all even though some is left in the natural environment.” According to Gammage’s report, the population over the next 40 years will grow by 25 million or more, leading to an increase in water demand to about 5 million acre feet of water per year.
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