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Senate address cuts, merger President Hart addresses proposed higher education cuts and Banner Health merger BY DAVID MCGLOTHLIN The Daily Wildcat
Gov. Doug Ducey’s proposed budget cuts and the Banner Health merger with the University of Arizona Health Network dominated
the first Faculty Senate meeting of the calendar year. “The budget is on everyone’s mind,” said UA President Ann Weaver Hart, in response to the proposed $75 million cut to Arizona universities by Ducey.
She said work has already quietly begun behind the scenes to explore ways to distribute funds after the cut. “I do want to argue, persuasively, that whatever we have to do, the deans, the provost, all the senior team and all of you [on the senate], focus on our student services and academic mission,” Hart added. Last year’s adoption of a fouryear fixed tuition rate, which was prompted by students, means
current students will continue to pay the same tuition. However, incoming freshmen next year may face a tuition increase. They would then be charged the same amount for the following four years. “Higher education is a critical component to the state going forward,” Hart said.
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Northeastern snowstorm force road and transit closures Alexis Tsipras sworn in as Greece’s new Prime Minister — The New York TImes
SPORTS
Women’s basketball fixed errors en route to win Page 6
Wildcats remain in top basketball spot Page 6
ARTS & LIFE
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OPINIONS Standardized tests measure socioeconomic status more than actual intelligence Page 4
QUOTE TO NOTE “Some school districts are working to remove or already have removed chocolateand strawberryflavored milks. That’s utterly (get it?) insane.” — Nick Havey
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GLAD MAMO, a husband and wife band, performs at the Maker House during the Tucson Blues Dance events on Jan. 20. Glad Mamo originally wrote children’s songs but recently released a standard blues album.
BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA
‘Transparent’ honest, modern show on LGBTQ
Tucson Desert Blues teaches, brings together novice, experienced dancers
The UA Green Fund is a way for students and faculty to be a part of making campus a more sustainable environment. Each year, proposals that will ultimately help in increasing the sustainability of the UA campus and the surrounding Tucson community are introduced by students or faculty. If approved, they receive Green Fund Annual Grants to fund their projects.
Contest winner awarded dream job BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat
Olivia Cain, a senior studying film and television production and marketing, was announced as the winner for the DreamJobbing.com CBS TV Producer contest on Jan. 6. In their own words, DreamJobbing
The Green Fund Annual Grant program began in 2010, said Ben Champion, director of the Office of Sustainability. This year, the committee was given about a $400,000 budget to work with, the funding for which comes directly out of student tuition. “Because the funding comes from students, [the proposals] need to have a significant amount of benefits to students,” Champion said. “The committee looks at how much students
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is a digital platform that connects people around the world with oncein-a-lifetime dream jobs. Cain will have the opportunity to work in California as a guest producer on the set of “NCIS: Los Angeles” for a week. “I would be responsible for working with the actors, directors, writers, to produce the hour-long episode, attend table reads, any casting sessions, any dry runs and, of course, the taping of the episode,” Cain said. Cain said she found out about the contest while voting for one of her Facebook friends who had applied to a different DreamJobbing.com contest. “As I was consistently voting for her, they released a new contest, which was the dream TV producer contest,” Cain said. “I decided I was going to
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TRIBAL CONFERENCE
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JERRY CARLYLE, vice-chairman of the San Xavier District, blesses the conference before the speakers begin in the Student Union Memorial Center on Monday. The conference worked to discuss the legal issues that Native Americans face.
Legal concerns lead conference BY TIRION MORRIS
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The impact and importance of issues with Native American reservation land were discussed on Monday at the third annual Tribal Lands Conference at the UA. There are 566 Native American tribes that are recognized by the federal government, and 153 of these tribes own land, said Mary Guss, a staff attorney for the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy program. The rules and regulations over this land between tribal governments and the federal government are not always clear. Robert Hershey is director of the Indigenous Peoples Law Clinic at the James E. Rogers College of Law, director of clinical education
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and professor of practice. Hershey introduced the conference, explaining that the overall goal was to “take care of the longstanding need of Native Americans to understand probates and rights.” Many questions from the audience were aimed at the speaker, addressing both personal and larger legal concerns. Erica Wolf, the executive director of the Center for Indian Law and Policy at Seattle University, responded by saying that continued efforts are being made to better encompass everyone’s needs. “A lot about what we talk about in Indian law is what the law is, versus what should happen,” Wolf said. Timothy Berg, director of Fennemore Craig Law Firm in
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