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Party gunman still unidentified Off-campus housing complex faces questions over safety planning BRITTNY MEJIA Arizona Daily Wildcat

After a massive party ended in gunfire Saturday night, an off-campus housing complex has come under criticism by police officers for failing to ensure safety at the party. The Stone Avenue Standard apartment complex, located a little more than a mile from campus, hosted about 1,000 or more people at a party Saturday night, according to Sgt. Maria Hawke, a spokeswoman for Tucson Police Department. Although this is not the first time the complex has hosted a party, management failed to notify TPD or the Tucson Fire Department, Hawke said. Typically, a business is supposed to check with the fire department on maximum occupancy at an event, as well as have a fire inspector determine if the complex is observing that occupancy limit, she added. “If they’re going to have events like that, the expectation is, in order to maintain their zoning, they have to abide by the rules, which is if you’re going to have huge events like that, you make the appropriate notification to the authorities,” Hawke said. “In this case, they did not.” The Standard hired private security for the event, rather than relying on TPD to provide off-duty officers for

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THE STONE AVENUE STANDARD APARTMENT COMPLEX was issued a red tag as a result of a party that ended in gunshots Saturday night. Police estimated that about 1,000 or more people were in attendance.

the event. John Hiserman, property manager for the complex, declined to comment on whether or not management contacted TFD or TPD prior to the party. “We’re still trying to damage control this and I know you guys are trying to sell ads and all that … but at the time being, we’re kind of keeping to ourselves,” Hiserman said. The apartment residents who threw the party would release a final statement on the event’s Facebook page, Hiserman added. He would not

comment further on the incident. TPD officers received noise complaints regarding the party, but had no idea about the size of the event until they arrived, Hawke said. Due to the number of calls Saturday night, TPD had not yet been able to dispatch officers to look into the complaints. However, shortly before midnight, an attendee of the party fired multiple shots into the air. TPD responded with all available officers. Officers closed down Stone Avenue to get everyone across the street to an empty

parking lot, Hawke said. There were no injuries. Officers are examining videos taken at the event, some of which were posted on YouTube, Hawke said, to determine who fired the gun but the party’s size is making the investigation difficult. “With so far as trying to identify who it was, with over a thousand people who were present there, efforts will continue that will include reaching out to the management,” Hawke said, “but there’s no guarantee they will be identified, obviously.”

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Police remove Ka’Deem Carey from McKale

EMERGENCY RESPONDERS and drivers react to a three-car collision on Speedway Boulevard late Monday evening. A late-model Cadillac CTS struck the car in front of it. A third car struck the Cadillac from behind. Gerry Valencia, a junior studying family and consumer sciences, was driving the Cadillac. “I was going like 25 miles an hour and I tried to brake, but it was too late for me,” he said. “I had to kick my door open because it was dented in.” The accident delayed traffic on Speedway, between Mountain and Park avenues.

Arizona running back Ka’Deem Carey was removed from Thursday’s basketball game against UCLA in McKale Center after a verbal confrontation with event staff and police, according to a campus police report. The incident comes on the heels of earlier legal troubles for Carey, regarding a domestic violence incident with his ex-girlfriend in December. Carey, an All-American running back for the UA in 2012 and the nation’s leading rusher, was removed from T h u r s d a y ’s KA’DEEM CAREY basketball game due to a “lack of cooperation” with UA event staff. He and his cousin, Hakeem Adams-Johnson, were “double seated and sitting on the backs of the chairs.” Frank Duarte, a UA Athletics event staff member, initially asked Adams-Johnson and Carey to leave, according to the report. Duarte asked them to move on “four occasions.” After Carey ignored him, a University of Arizona Police Department officer asked Carey to move and he complied. Carey told the officer they were sitting in that area because “they couldn’t find their seats.” When the officer asked both of them for their tickets, Carey responded, “Get the fuck out of my face.” He then asked, “Do you know who I am? I’m an AllAmerican.” The officer asked Carey and Adams-Johnson to accompany him outside. They agreed, but

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Enrollment in agriculture college increases at UA, across nation KELSI THORUD Arizona Daily Wildcat

Agricultural departments at universities across the nation have seen a rise in both undergraduate and graduate enrollment. The number of undergraduate students enrolled in agriculture programs nationwide has risen more than 17 percent since 2006 and continues to increase, according to the Food and Agricultural Education Information System database. In the fall of 2011, there were 3,265 students enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the UA, an increase of more than 1,000 students from 2006, according to the UA Office of Institutional Research and Planning Support. The agriculture department at the UA is promoting the growth in enrollment by adding multiple program specialties and facilities. The UA has four Tucson Area

Agricultural Centers that provide students with a location to research and study food production, greenhouse production and breeding. There is also a 50,000-acre range outside of Tucson that is used for research studies and several direct internships that are available to students to help increase the appeal of the program and promote a higher standard of education in agriculture. “It is absolutely critical that farmers stay highly educated and proactive in increasing productivity on their farms in an efficient manner,” said Steve Husman, director of the UA’s Tucson Area Agricultural Centers.” There is absolutely no question that agriculture production is going to be as important, if not more so, in the future from the challenges relative to population increase.” The rise in the number of

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RICHCREST FARMS is one of the vendors that attends the weekly farmers market held on Sundays in St. Phillips Plaza. Every week they show up to sell a variety of produce.

students going to college to study agriculture is thought to be a product of technological advancements in the industry, he added. “Farming has become an increasingly high-technology based operation,” Husman said.

With the invention of genetically modified organisms and other advances in efficient productivity, agriculture has become increasingly science based. Farming is no longer thought of as a profession

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