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The Good Samaritan Policy, currently a work in progress among the university and the University of Arizona Police Department, will protect students from disciplinary action who are seeking medical help for their intoxicated friends. UAPD Police Chief Brian Seastone gave a description of what they hope the policy will look like. “The procedure, if adopted, would provide those students who are underage and have been drinking with a one-time disciplinary [or] criminal exemption related to an

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assistant vice president for student alcohol offense,” Seastone said. Seastone also said that students affairs and deans of students, said who are drinking while using illegal protocols such as Good Samaritan and Medical Amnesty have been drugs will not qualify for the policy. “My main concern is that a person taken up by other colleges and universities who is caring attempting to for someone Life safety is help students or needs always the — who fear to call for that trying to priority. emergency — Brian Seastone, get help while assistance UAPD Police Chief they or their or report a friends are crime can do i nt ox i c at e d so without fear of the being cited or diverted could cause them to violate alcohol for being a minor in possession,” laws and their universities’ codes of conduct. Seastone said. “In other words, if an underage Kendal Washington White,

student is suffering the physical symptoms of extreme intoxication, that individual’s underage friends, who have also been drinking, may recognize that the student needs medical attention, but are hesitant to call for assistance,” White said. White said good samaritans have been recognized by the Dean of Students Office in the Student Code of Conduct. White said the office has not issued the normal punishments for these students who attempted to do the right thing. Melissa Vito, senior vice president for student affairs and enrollment management, said there is a fundamental difference

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R&B AND SOUL MUSICIAN Aloe Blacc performs his hit songs such as “The Man,” “I Need a Dollar” and “Love Is The Answer” on the UA Mall during the Wildcat Events Board’s Welcome Back Concert on Friday. Opening for Aloe Blacc were Phoenix-based electronicpop musician Luna Aura and singer-songwriter Tyler Ward.

The Yabber app has been developed to help college roommates manage expenses and stay in touch. Sean Thielen, co-founder and app designer of Yabber, describes the app as a private hyper-local social network. He said the app isn’t an attempt at replacing other modes of communication, such as texting, calling or talking in person, but it informs a person what their roommates are up to. Jonathan Miller, co-founder of Yabber, introduced a few features that he thought made the app different from others. He said that there are buttons to inform roommates the user needs privacy or is getting food. In addition to creating total roommate awareness, Yabber can also handle students’ money. “Yabber keeps a running tally of all expenses between roommates,” Miller said. “If one of the roommates had the electric bill, I bought dinner and another roommate bought something else, Yabber automatically calculates which roommate owes which, and then allows roommates to transfer money directly to each other with a debit card.” Miller said Yabber operates differently than other apps that work with expenses. He said it allows the user to transfer money using their debit or credit card number. The founders began several months ago working with University Niche, a website that

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California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed the SB 967 “Yes Means Yes” bill into law, which redefines what constitutes affirmative consent prior to and during sexual activity. UA organizations are using this law as a model to address sexual assault. California is the first state to demand each higher education school in the state receiving government funds to uphold the “Yes Means Yes” law regarding sexual assault and other offenses. “Yes Means Yes” requires each party to provide affirmative consent to engage in any sexual activity. An absence of consent is no longer a legally debatable consent. Without the “Yes Means Yes” law, if the victims of sexual assault didn’t verbally say “no” before or during said assault, the assault becomes a matter of debate.

“Yes Means Yes” and the UA 2014 Campus Safety, Security and Fire Safety Report updated sexual consent to protect individuals who experience fight, flight or freeze. Fight and flight responses are often praised, but the freeze response draws negative criticism. Fight, flight or freeze can’t shut down at will and aren’t presented as choices for a person feeling threatened to quickly debate and decide, according to Megan McKendry, violence prevention specialist at the Oasis Program. Organizations on the UA campus are using California’s “Yes Means Yes” law as a way to educate about sexual assault and consent. Jenny Nirh, assistant director for UA Greek Life, said in email that mutual consent and sexual assault is a topic addressed among greek chapters by requiring members to take an interactive online module course. Nirh said the women in Greek Life are specifically educated

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KATE SELBY, a creative writing and studio arts graduate student, holds a sign with her opinion during a protest against rape culture and a column published by the Daily Wildcat on the UA Mall on Sept. 11. “Yes Means Yes,” a consent law recently passed in California, is impacting campus organizations at the UA.

on consent during the recruitment process as well. The Residence Life education on sexual assault includes programs about consent, assault, reporting incidents and inviting UA health professionals to provide more education for residents and staff,

said Residence Life assistant director of marketing Dana Robbins-Murray in an email. Arizona Rep. Ethan Orr (R-Tucson), a UA graduate and former professor, said he recalls the problems surrounding sexual

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