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New voices, few votes BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona initiative to get more students involved with early voter registration in the 2014 midterm elections didn’t have quite the turnout as expected. Katie Jones, ASUA policy director, said the turnout this year from the “Our Voice, Our Vote” campaign was widespread with respect to students and community members from Tucson. “The opportunity was there for people to go out [and] vote,” Jones said, “and it was convenient for a lot of people, both on campus and nearby to get here.”
ASUA President Issac Ortega said in the past, the UA has registered around 600 people for early voting. “This time around, they got just about 400,” Ortega said, “but the difference was that there were probably way more students [than] there were people from the community.” ASUA Sen. Joe Zanoni said students seemed less excited about the midterm elections than they were two years ago for the presidential election. “I think that’s because both candidates for governor really didn’t excite the student body, because there weren’t that
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ASUA SEN. Joe Zanoni asks former ASUA President Morgan Abraham if he is registered to vote outside Centennial Hall on Sept. 21. The end of the midterm elections concluded the ASUA “Our Voice, Our Vote” campaign, an iniatitive to get students involved with early voter registration.
— Courtesy of The Associated Press
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A SOUL HULA hoops amid a congested 6th Avenue while the All Souls Procession congregates before the 25th anniversary march on Sunday, Nov. 9. After sunset, the ethereal procession slowly made its way from 6th Avenue and 7th Street to the grand finale at Mercado San Agustín where the procession made a final walk across an ornate stage and groups like Flam Chen, Dr. Karl Vonoggle and his Telsa Coil, Danza Azteca Calpulli Tonantzin, and many others performed.
MOOCs revamp education BY HOLLY HALSTEAD
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As Massively Open Online Courses grow in popularity across the nation, the UA currently has two professors who have developed a MOOC. One MOOC is taught and developed by astronomy professor Chris Impey, and another is being developed by chemistry professor Katrina Miranda. MOOCs are specifically designed for those hoping to further their education for their own benefit rather than with the goal of obtaining a college degree.
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They comprise a kind of no-strings-attached education, wherein the student has virtually nothing to lose. Most classes are free, and students can pick and choose what they want to learn and how much effort they want to put into the class. There is no obligation to finish a class, so a student could sign up for a class with the sole intent of using it to study for an exam or prepare for a presentation. Impey developed a MOOC to teach Astronomy — State of the Art through Udemy. Impey said his course was not designed for advanced astronomers,
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BY ALYSSA SCHITZER
While joining Greek Life at the UA is a way to connect with new people and build lifelong relationships, the price tag inherent in joining leaves students surprised at how much they spend each year in fees and other expenses. Sororities and fraternities are national, and each chapter has to pay a flat fee to its national fraternity or sorority, which covers its national insurance. Johanne Ives, the assistant dean of students in Fraternity & Sorority Programs, said the insurance covers things such as house chapters, meal plans, staff that work there and other fees. According to the Greek Life website, new members of the Chi Omega sorority will spend about $2,113 during its first year, including 10 meals a week. This number doesn’t include housing. Nicole Cousins, the president of Chi Omega, said those dues include the mandatory house fee, payments to the national chapter and also food in the house. Cousins said Chi Omega includes lunch and dinner five days a week, and by doing this, students are saving a lot more money than by having a meal plan at the university. Some sororities may also fine for missed meetings if they are important, but each sorority has different prices and ways of running its house. Ives said it depends on each chapter when and why they want to issue fines to their members. “Most chapters fine for really important things that they don’t want members to miss,” Ives said, “like initiation and recruitment.” Joe Novelli, the vice president of finance for the Interfraternity Council, said that of the fraternities he is familiar with, most will issue fines depending on the situation at hand. “If members are unexcused from chapter meetings or mandatory events, maybe ritual and things like that, they do issue fines,” Novelli said. “They vary depending on what the event is and how frequent the mishaps are.” On the other hand, for some fraternities and sororities,
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While the 2nd Congressional District representative has yet to be voted in , there’s no question that things in Washington will change now that there are more Republicans in the Senate. President Barack Obama gave a speech on Wednesday
to discuss the Republican gains in the Tuesday election and stressed that he would put the voters at the top of his list. “The American people overwhelmingly believe that this town doesn’t work well and that it is not attentive to their needs,” Obama said in his televised speech. He said one of the best ways to work for the American people
is to use both sides of the aisle. “I think it’s fair to say that I’ve shown a lot of patience and have tried to work on a bipartisan basis as much as possible,” Obama said, “and I’m going to keep on doing so.” While Obama said he would like to work across the aisle, he also said if bipartisanship didn’t work, he would have to rely on other forms of governing as a
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