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Hart’s first town hall looks to future BRITTNY MEJIA Arizona Daily Wildcat
President Ann Weaver Hart discussed a variety of issues, including funding, building relationships in Phoenix and the importance of academic and medical centers, at her first town hall meeting on Wednesday. Before Hart answered questions from the audience, she updated attendees on her
strategy for the university. Hart explained university members’ work toward building an integrative plan for the next decade and beyond. Hart said she hopes to share an outline of that vision, as well as her hopes and aspirations for the university, with the community at her inauguration at the end of November. “I hope you will all take the opportunity when we have a rough draft of this
envisioning of our academic hopes, to respond when invited to our town hall meetings,” she said. Following Hart’s update on the strategy, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Andrew Comrie opened the floor for questions on topics such as cutting overhead on directed research and increasing funding for the Honors College. While addressing a community member’s desire to have a nationally
and internationally recognized Honors College on campus, Hart said she has held discussions on how university members can bring in academic leaders and the student support team to better the honors experience. Hart also addressed the concern of one attendee, who said that he felt greater attention is paid to the athletic department
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Day care in works for UA community RACHEL McCLUSKEY Arizona Daily Wildcat
For now, the UA is the only Pac-12 school without a daycare program, but an effort spearheaded by the College of Education aims to establish one in the near future. The day care would support around 200 children from infant to preschool age and would be available for students, faculty, staff and the Tucson community, said Ronald Marx, the College of Education’s dean. A location has yet to be determined. Marx said that the day-care facility would probably not be on campus, but would be in an area appropriate for children and easily accessible to students and faculty with children. He added that the hours for the facility would likely be from about 7:30 a.m. or 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. or 5:30 p.m. “To be successful because of the nature of academic work, we would need some flex time in the morning and the late afternoon,” Marx said. “Usually what they [child care centers] do is have an early arrival and a late departure room so the children that have to come early go to a particular room and stay in that room until 8 o’clock or whatever the start time
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is, and then they go to their regular group.” The college has looked at other universities to see how their programs work, especially the University of Illinois and Kansas State University’s programs, which have been in place for decades, Marx said. Although the college is still working on the funding model, he added that administrators wouldn’t ask the UA to build a facility. It has not yet been decided how students will pay for the service, but various ideas are in the works, including raising tuition or allocating a fee per semester for all students. Kristin Melendez, a public health senior, takes her daughter, Kyla, to Kindercare, a non-UAaffiliated day care, on East First Street. Melendez said the addition of a facility for child care specific to the UA would be financially beneficial to her. “I think I can be more supportive of it as a fee,” Melendez said. “I’m a single parent, so it would help me out a great deal. It’s definitely always about my daughter first, but to be relieved of such a financial load would be amazing.” If a fee were to be implemented,
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Sandy hits home ARIZONA WINS EASY for students with East Coast ties
The Wildcats open their preseason with a decisive 108-67 victory against Humboldt State at McKale Center
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KRISTIN MELENDEZ, a public health senior, drops her daughter, Kyla Cannon, off at Kindercare on East First Street. Melendez, a single mother, said the College of Education’s addition of a day care would help her situation both financially and in terms of convenience.
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With flooding, power outages and a rising death toll across the East Coast, some UA students shared worries about family members in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Melissa Turner, a history and pre-law junior, heard about the hurricane from her mother, who said her grandparents were told to evacuate their home in Surf City, N.J., two days ago. Now, their house is underwater. “It’s weird because here we live in paradise and it’s sunny yearround, and all of a sudden I’m on the phone with my mom and my grandparents’ house is underwater,” she said. “It’s surreal.” Turner said her grandfather built the house with his own hands and that since their evacuation, they have had to take up temporary residence with Turner’s parents in Blue Bell, Pa. In Blue Bell, Turner said her family made sure to buy supplies and food and to fill their bathtubs with water in case the water stopped running, which it now has.
“We don’t have any electricity or running water right now,” Turner said. “My mom says it looks like this weird post-apocalyptic war zone. It just is completely devastating.” Brian Wynn, an undeclared freshman from Baltimore, said he heard about the hurricane on the news, but didn’t think much about it until his mom called. She told Wynn that extreme winds were blowing at between 70-90 mph and rain was falling at a rate of about one or two inches per hour. Wynn’s family owns a house in Ocean City, Md., where about half the city was underwater, he said. His parents found out yesterday that the hurricane was not strong enough to breach the sand dunes and cause flooding in their home. However, according to his family, streets around the area were flooded and under about 10 feet of water at one point. Wynn’s main concern for his family right now is the possibility that they might lose power. “I’ve been hearing a lot of different things about power
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GUARD NICK JOHNSON shoots a floater against the Lumberjacks on Wednesday night. Johnson scored 14 points in the 41-point victory at McKale Center.
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