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ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Printing the news, sounding the alarm, and raising hell since 1899

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2013

VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 90

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Bill could impact club funding BRITTNY MEJIA

Arizona Daily Wildcat

Proposed legislation is raising concerns for some Arizona campus organizations funded through student fee money. Rep. John Kavanagh, R-Fountain Hills, proposed House Bill 2169 at the House’s first regular session; the bill challenges where student organizations transfer their money after it is collected from students. “I ran the bill because I think it’s unconscionable that any organization should take mandatory student fees and then spend it on an outside political campaign,” Kavanagh said. “That is so unethical.” The bill specifies that a university cannot transfer money to student organizations if that money will then be used to influence “the outcome of an election or to advocate support for or opposition to pending or proposed legislation.” Additionally, if the bill were passed, a student enrolled in a university would have to consent to the transfer of their tuition or fees to a specified student organization. Without consent, the fees would not be transferred. When commenting on the possibility of an opt-in, Kavanagh said it was a good start, but if the university helps organizations collect funds, there should be a ban on their giving money to political organizations or elections. “If they want to collect money and give it to elections and campaigns, they should form a separate organization and collect the money with no university involvement so it’s not tainted with taxpayers’ assistance,” Kavanagh said.

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final decision on the fee’s removal will be made at the ABOR meetings next Wednesday and Thursday. King stressed that the bill, if passed, would limit a group’s ability to advocate for student rights. Oftentimes, group members go to the capital and advocate for student rights, King added. The ASA board of directors will meet next week to discuss tactics to combat the proposed legislation and the group trip to Lobby Con in February will also provide members an opportunity to meet with state legislators to discuss the bill, King said. “This is just another thing that we can fight and that really shows that ASA is doing what’s best for its students across the state,” King said.

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Arizona Students’ Association members addressed Kavanagh’s proposed legislation at their annual organization kick-off Wednesday night. Along with the history of ASA, members discussed legislation that could impact Arizona university students. “Obviously it’s important because it’s going to impact students as a whole throughout the entire state,” said Jordan King, vice chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the internal affairs committee. “As far as the kickoff goes, we just really want to educate as many students as possible, that way the students can formulate their own opinion on what we should and should not do.” ASUA President Katy Murray said she is still reading through the bill to get a better understanding of its potential impact on the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. “It will be an issue that we are talking about,” Murray said. When discussing the bill, King expressed some skepticism about the bill’s purpose. “I feel like this was in direct relation to ASA supporting Prop. 204,” King said. “I think it’s meant to affect a student association like us, but it’s actually going to affect every kind of student association.” In the fall 2011 semester, ASA faced controversy over its decision to donate funds to a campaign for Proposition 204, which would have renewed a one-cent sales tax that allocated some of its revenue specifically to education. As a result of the debate, the Arizona Board of Regents suspended the ASA $2 student fee for the spring semester. A

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A new nonprofit organization on campus will provide a direct response to the growing need of the student population for increased aid and resources on campus. The UA Campus Pantry was first chartered in January 2012, along with a small group of student volunteers who wanted to serve the UA’s students and staff, according to Mariel Wilk, an elementary education sophomore and director of communication and outreach. The pantry is committed to helping students who suffer from food insecurity gain access to the resources they need through donations. So far the organization has collected 300 pounds of food that has either been donated or purchased with donated funds. “This can be something that people can come to so they don’t have to worry from day to day about food and they can feel comfortable coming to an open event like this and not feel ashamed,” Wilk said. “It relieves a lot of problems that they are having so they can enjoy their college lives more and know that there is support for them out there.” In addition to the pantry, the nonprofit organization has auxiliary programs to provide additional resources to students, including a nutrition program and a community education program. “I really hope that students view this as a viable resource to relieve the burden of these worries,” said Davis Bauer, a marketing junior and director of marketing for the pantry. “The prices around some

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of the U-Marts at [the] UA are astronomical and I would like them to view it as a resource to aid students who can’t afford to buy high-cost groceries on campus.” The number-one problem on the UA campus is the lack of accessibility to low-cost groceries, according to Bauer. He said the pantry will help people who do not have access to these resources. “On Friday, if we have five people show up, just knowing that we made a difference, I will be completely satisfied,” said John Beeler, a pre-marketing and entrepreneurship sophomore and

chairman of the UA Campus Pantry. “I want to see the number of people we can help expand every time, but if one person’s life is improved by our operation, then we are achieving our goal.” The UA Campus Pantry will continue to hold events on the first Friday of every month. UA students and staff with a CatCard will be served at the event on Friday. Donated foods include overproduced or discontinued items, frozen foods, dairy products, mislabeled goods, dented cans, and day-old breads and pastries.

Students will volunteer at the official launch Friday, working two-hour shifts that include setting up, opening, operating and cleaning up. The launch of the UA Campus Pantry will take place from 3 to 6 p.m. at El Portal. “I am volunteering because I think that not a lot of people realize the struggle that students go through and I think it is really good for people who go to the same campus to give back to their fellow students,” said Natalie Morice, a public health sophomore. “It really gives a sense of community.”

ASU spirit cone stolen from UA campus BRITTNY MEJIA Arizona Daily Wildcat

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THE ASU SPIRIT CONE was stolen from the UA and returned to ASU.

An Arizona State University spirit cone that had been housed on the UA campus for more than 30 years was recently stolen, reigniting a long-standing game of rivalry between the two state universities. Although the history of the cone is not fully known, some said it was stolen at an ASU-UA football game and has been hanging in the student body president’s office in the Student Union Memorial Center since then, according to Mark Naufel, a junior studying finance and computer information systems and president of the undergraduate student government at ASU’s Tempe campus. That is, until it was stolen the night of

Jan. 17. Naufel declined to comment on the details of how the cone fell into the hands of ASU students, but he said he plans to keep it there. “We were just happy to have it back; it’s part of our university,” Naufel said. “We’re glad you guys no longer have something in your [student union] that belongs to us. But it’s all in good fun.” ASUA President Katy Murray said she came into her office one day and the cone was gone. That is all that is known about the missing cone, Murray said. “Took them long enough, we’ve had it for years,” Murray said. There are plans in place to keep the cone locked up and hidden away until ASU students find a good way to secure it, according to Naufel. He said he is

on his guard because there is a faculty member on the ASU campus who went to the UA . “At the end of the day, I think it’s going to be a fun thing,” Naufel said. “If it gets stolen again, we’ll have to steal it back. I think it’ll start off a little stealing war of the cone.” There have been no threats from UA students regarding taking back the cone, according to Naufel. However, if UA students did manage to steal the cone, Naufel added that he would find a way to get it back. “It’s definitely a rivalry and a tradition that I want to make sure continues,” Murray said, “so whether it’s my year or a future year, I’m confident that at some point [the] U of A will take it [the cone] back.”