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LGBTQ community discusses difficulties in coming out process BY ALYSSA SCHLITZER The Daily Wildcat
Coming out to friends and family is a difficult process for many LGBTQ individuals, but groups at the UA are trying to make the experience easier. The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community and allies joined together for the UA’s Coming Out Week to express their identities and discuss the difficulties of coming out. According to AJ Born, a public health senior and co-director of Pride Alliance, Coming Out Week was created to help people feel supported and loved. Born said the goal for the week was to educate people about LGBTQ identities. “We are in support of people who are in the process of coming out, one’s who are already out and we also want to show support for people who are not yet out,” Born said. “It [is] basically a week where we can celebrate who we are.” For many students, coming out for the first time is a difficult process that takes a lot of courage and support, according to Jacob Winkelman, a political science sophomore and Pride Alliance intern. “Coming out is such a lifelong process, and even after you come out for the first time you have to keep coming out to anyone you
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CARDBOARD CUTOUTS are placed on the UA Mall depicting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning community during Coming Out Week. Coming Out Week addresses the difficulties that the LGBTQ community faces when coming out and celebrates and embraces the identities within the community.
meet,” Winkelman said. Winkelman said he reached out to the Pride Alliance organization to find a place to feel safe, and encourages other people who want to “really be their own” to join and make a difference.
“For some people, it is a place where they can find a community,” Winkelman said. In conjunction with Coming Out Week, the UA was ranked number two out of 30 schools for best colleges for LGBTQ students,
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according to a list recently compiled by bestcolleges.com based on criteria from the Campus Pride index. The ranking recognized the UA for having successful and effective
Jose Guadalupe Conchas, ASUA’s diversity director, requested to send nine UA students to the Oregon Students of Color Coalition conference in Eugene, Ore., at the ASUA Senate meeting on Wednesday. Conchas requested $2,666 for the nine students to attend the conference. The Oregon Students of Color Coalition conference will be held from Nov. 14 through Nov. 16 at Lane Community College. According to the Oregon Student Association, the OSCC conference is for students from across the Northwest to “come to gain skills necessary for successful grassroots organizing, to learn about issues affecting their communities and [to be empowered] to take action.” Conchas said he is worried the UA is not properly trained to handle diversity and said having representatives from the Associated Students of the University of Arizona attend the OSCC conference would help solve inclusion issues. “It is my concern that no one in the ASUA, including the Office of Inclusion, has any social justice training or guidance on how to lead an effective, accessible and inclusive organization,” Conchas said. Conchas said there isn’t a program to train student leaders to be inclusive or to make students count, and that ASUA needs to “take that broad initiative all together.” Conchas said he hopes that after attending the conference in Oregon, the UA will be able to host a similar one in the spring of 2015. The conference would be called the Arizona Student Diversity & Inclusion Conference. “We want to bring a conference where students can come together from across the state but also within U of A and talk about important issues,” Conchas said. According to Conchas, there are no other conferences like this in the state of Arizona. “We can’t just have an office in ASUA and say, ‘We’re going to be diverse,’” Conchas said. “There needs to be engagement, there needs to
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JOSE GUADALUPE Conchas, diversity director for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, requests funding for nine UA students to attend the Oregon Students of Color Coalition conference in Eugene, Ore., at the weekly ASUA Senate meeting in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday. The conference focuses on diversity and inclusion issues.
be advocacy and there needs to be action plans. I’m working to better the student body and better the representation within our organization and within ASUA as a whole.” Conchas said to ASUA senators that attendance at the OSCC conference would be beneficial for the Office of Diversity & Inclusion when it comes to preparing to host the conference at the UA in the spring. “In order to have a successful conference, we
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Interested in research across the UA? Come hear about it over a beer. The UA is bringing science to the general public through its science café series. The science cafés provide an opportunity for the Tucson community to interact with UA scientists and hear about their research in a casual setting. “If you talk to people at other institutions, they’ve heard of [the] UA’s research, but a lot of times our community isn’t aware of that,” said Shipherd Reed, operations and communications manager for the Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium and coordinator for the downtown science café at Magpie’s Gourmet Pizza. “This is a way to fix that.” The informal setting provides a space for the public to learn about science that isn’t a lecture hall or classroom. There isn’t the physical barrier of the stage, and audience members are encouraged to ask questions and interact with the scientist. As a result of the casual setting and decreased distance between the scientist and the audience, science cafés tend to be more dialogue than lecture. “It’s a human interaction, not a knowledge transfer,” Reed said. The program has grown from the
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Zipcar car-sharing introduced to UA BY ARIELLA NOTH
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Parking and Transportation Services at the UA introduced Zipcar, a car-sharing service, at the beginning of this semester to replace their previous contract with Hertz. Zipcar is a car-sharing system where an individual signs up for a membership, reserves the vehicle, goes to one of the several locations on campus where the cars are located and uses their membership card to unlock the vehicle. According to CJ Himberg, the public relations specialist for Zipcar, it allows a student to have access to a car on campus without the hassle of owning
one. community ages 21 and over.” Himberg said the company Jose Santana, a freshman launched six cars on campus this studying agribusiness fall, including economics and a Ford Focus, management, Zipcars a Volkswagen recently signed also help Jetta and a up for Zipcar. Toyota Prius. “I think it’s a reduce traffic “ T h e good idea and congestion convenient gets you out and lower transportation of a jam if you the campus’ option is now really need a carbon available car,” Santana to [the UA] said. “It’s very footprint — CJ Himberg community at convenient Zipcar public an affordable for short-term relations specialist rate,” Himberg use, but can get said. “24 hours pricey if you a day, seven constantly use days a week for students, faculty it.” and staff ages 18 and older, as The previous car-sharing well as members of the local option on campus was Hertz.
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According to David Heineking, director of Parking and Transportation Services, the transition to the new option was a matter of business. “In the normal course of business, when the agreement with Hertz expired, we requested proposals from carshare companies to operate on campus,” Heineking said. “Hertz chose not to submit a proposal.” Heineking explained Zipcar was chosen because of name recognition, experience and professionalism. Himberg said that Zipcar is beneficial to everyone, not just UA students. “Zipcars also help reduce traffic congestion and lower
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