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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2014
VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 89
Startup simplifies college
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BY BRITTNY MEJIA The Daily Wildcat
Not only did the movie “The Social Network” gross around $96 million, it also inspired a couple of UA students to push forward with their dream of creating a startup, which will launch its pilot program this summer. Andrew Chaifetz and Matthew Silverstone, currently both marketing seniors, co-founded NoteBowl in 2011. Frustrated with the lack of student engagement and networking, the two went to work creating the startup to help students connect with classmates and professors. The purpose of NoteBowl is to aggregate all courses, information, applications and resources on campus into one social platform. The NoteBowl team, consisting of 14 students,
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will launch a summer pilot the startup is not a UA project or product. program with professors. “They seem to be a group of “It’s really just about seeing a frustration and having the great, smart young people who passion to solve that problem are taking a lot of initiative to crease a business, and come up and that’s always with a really a very good good solution,” Your college is thing,” Wadlund Chaifetz said. “I not just about said. “It’ll be just had the drive your courses. very interesting and persistence It’s your entire and exciting to to get through see how things it and that’s university progress for what it’s all experience. them.” about. I wake When the up NoteBowl — Andrew Chaifetz, co-founder of NoteBowl idea was born, and go to sleep Chaifetz and NoteBowl.” Silverstone spoke L a u r e l with professors W a d l u n d , assistant director of production and administrators and searched integrity and enterprise for programmers who could help applications at UITS, is advising make their vision a reality. In the NoteBowl team in getting its December, the team received a pilot off the ground, although $300,000 Angel investment from
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a former network and systems administrator at Microsoft, which is helping them hire the individuals necessary to progress. The startup will allow students to collaborate with classmates and integrate class syllabi into one calendar, which then syncs to mobile phones. Students can receive instant notifications about tests and quizzes and ask professors questions, among other functions. Since the platform will also integrate Google Apps, students can sync Google Drive to their phone where they can edit and update to NoteBowl. Chaifetz said the ultimate goal is to simplify the organizational process for college students. “Every student that I talked to said, ‘Man, I wish everything was
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UA club works to quench thirst BY HANNAH PLOTKIN The Daily Wildcat
In places where water is scarce, such as Swaziland and Uganda, finding enough to survive can be a challenge — a UA club is trying to make it a little easier. In these countries, women and children walk miles to collect unsanitary water. A jerrycan , normally used to store gasoline, is often used to carry the water. When full, a standard jerrycan weighs more than 44 pounds. Carrying these cans for miles can cause spinal and pelvic malformations. Once the water is collected, there is usually no way to sanitize it, leaving the drinker vulnerable to parasites and disease. “We live in a world where nearly 1 billion people don’t have access to safe drinking water,” said Evan Wesley, a speaker for Thirst Project. “That’s like one-in-eight
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Even if we did allow tanks on campus, it definitely wouldn’t be fair to limit them to bros. ... I’m pretty sure Title IX would require us to have just as many babe tanks as bro tanks.” OPINIONS — 4
CLAUDIA ARELLANO, a pre-public health sophomore, browses through books of posters on the UA Mall on Tuesday. The stand selling posters is owned by Trent Graphics and has a variety of music and pop culture-related posters of varying sizes.
It hit me really hard. We just take for granted the water that we have.
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— Tori Kinnon, nursing junior
LGBTQ Affairs to host spring open house in new center a dual purpose: We are doing activism to change policy and get more rights for LGBTQ people The Office of Lesbian, Gay, on campus, but also providing a Bisexual, Transgender and social space for students to get to Questioning Affairs and Pride know each other and feel safe in, Alliance are hosting a Spring Open where they can be who they are House today to welcome students and not have to hide it.” and faculty into their new center This open house is particularly and kick off the spring semester. special to LGBTQ Affairs because LGBTQ Affairs it is the first works to build, official spring We are doing sustain and since the strengthen a group moved activism to safe and open in to the change policy environment for new LGBTQ and get more faculty, students, Resource rights for alumni, parents and Center last LGBTQ people. guests of all gender April, said — Juan Perevra, identities and J e n n i f er graduate intern REBECCA SASNETT/THE DAILY WILDCAT sexual orientations, Ho e f l e coordinator for LGBTQ JUAN PEREYRA AND KATIE KILBY stand outside of the LGBTQ Resource Center. Pereyra is according to its Olson, the Affairs mission statement. p r o g r a m an internship coordinator for the resource center and Kilby is the Pride Alliance co-director. “A lot of the time, director for that had a shower curtain and sense of privacy, because there students come to this campus not LGBTQ Affairs. LGBTQ Affairs other people could still hear your are sensitive issues that are talked knowing where to find friends previously occupied a space in the conversation,” Pereyra said. “That about.” or who they can meet,” said Juan Center for Student Involvement Students will have the was difficult because LGBTQ Pereyra, the graduate intern and Leadership. students sometimes need that coordinator for LGBTQ Affairs. “It’s “Before, we were in a cubicle LGBTQ, 3 BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA The Daily Wildcat
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