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VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 88
UA leads Pac-12 in awards Presentation from Intercollegiate Athletics Committee recognizes college athletes
BY DAVID MCGLOTHLIN The Daily Wildcat
During its monthly meeting on Monday, the Faculty Senate received a special guest presentation from the UA’s Intercollegiate Athletics Committee in Old Main’s Silver and Sage Room. Lynn Nadel, Faculty Senate
chairman said that “intercollegiate athletics plays an important role in higher education,” which is why he requested an update report from the IAC about its successes and upcoming challenges. The IAC was established in the ’70s due to an NCAA investigation of the football program. The committee was created to provide a monitoring and oversight arm
for the president about anything related to intercollegiate athletics. Nowadays, the committee meets once a month to make policies, discuss issues and is largely credited with the success of the athletics program. “I’m proud of what we are doing,” athletic director Greg Byrne said, “but that doesn’t mean we can’t continue to get
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Interactive map shows university impact on Arizona BY TIRION MORRIS The Daily Wildcat
— The New York TImes
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better every day.” According to the update report, the UA leads the Pac12 Conference with 23 total life skills awards, including six Pac-12 sportsmanship awards, four Pac12 leadership awards, six Pac-12 women of the year awards and four NCAA women of the year
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Learn to make meals on a budget with Cooking on Campus Page 3 JESUS BARRERA/THE DAILY WILDCAT
NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES junior Rayna Katz (left), undeclared engineering freshman Alex Osborne (middle) and nutritional sciences junior Dorine Owusu-nyarko (right) make spinach and asiago stuffed mushrooms on Wednesday at the Outdoor Adventures building at the Student Recreation Center. Cooking on Campus offers students the opportunities to make a variety of dishes over the course of the semester.
The UA Impact Map shows the importance of the UA for the state of Arizona, illustrating an impact that extends further than the perimeters of campus and Tucson. The map is intended to be as user friendly and interactive as possible. When talking about the decision to create the map in this manner, Barrett Baffert, the UA director of digital marketing, said the process was about “taking this robust set of data and identifying bite size points that the user could take in.” The map points are separated into six categories, including learning centers and public attractions. Two of the categories, Agricultural Research Center and Cooperative Extension, are run through the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Shane Burgess, the dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, stressed the map’s importance. “It really makes the university more accessible to the people of Arizona,” Burgess said. CALS has three large agricultural centers in Arizona; Maricopa’s is one of the largest in the country. “[In] all of Arizona, the very few acres that we have in the center of Tucson is a tiny minority of the actual footprint that we … have in the entire state,” Burgess said. Cooperative Extension is another part of CALS that is highlighted on the map. “[Cooperative] Extension was
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Bobcats College of Law hosts film series Honorary on US civil rights movement looking OPINIONS for kittens Oscar-nominated ‘Song of the Sea’ masterful
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State legislators make DUI penalties harsher while making themselves exempt Page 4
QUOTE TO NOTE “A lot of people don’t regard [drag] as a legitimate art form, but if you’ve been to a real, great drag show before, it’s amazing.” — Patrick Holt, also known as Tempest DuJour
BY TERRIE BRIANNA
The Daily Wildcat
BY BRANDI WALKER
The Daily Wildcat
The Bobcats Senior Honorary, a group of 13 seniors dedicated to the UA, is hosting an informational meeting today at 5:15 p.m. in the “Swede” Johnson building for students interested in becoming Bobcats. Jill Hall , vice president for the University of Arizona Alumni Association and faculty advisor for Bobcats, said that, on Thursday , applications to become a member of the Bobcats will be open to anyone who will be a senior next school year and will be due at the end of
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On Monday, the UA’s James E. Rogers College of Law presented “Eyes on the Prize,” a PBS series focused on the civil rights movement in the U.S. The event was sponsored by the Black Law Students Association and is set to run for six consecutive Mondays. The movie series is being held at the College of Law in Room 156 from noon to 1:15 p.m. Nancy Stanley, director of communications for the College of Law, said that the purpose of the series is to “give people familiarity … and it’s a chance for people to see really amazing stories … and analysis of the civil rights movement.” A group of 17 gathered at the College of Law at noon. Angela Addae, a sociology graduate student, was among those in the crowd. Addae said that the
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A GROUP OF STUDENTS watch “Eyes on the Prize” at the James E. Rogers College of Law during the Lunchtime Learning Series on Monday. The purpose of the film series is to take a look at the changes that took place during the civil rights movement.
film was very informative and historically accurate. “I think people should
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