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Deliberately demented
Sarah Silverman’s aggressive push to ease the world by dumbing it down. PAGE B1
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Student services fee decided this week By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Nineteen items for next years student services fee were discussed at Tuesday’s student services fee board meeting. Hotly contested proposals for an Associated Students of the University
of Arizona Book Scholarship extravaganza, which would offer $500 to about 55 need-based applicants to aid book expenses or paid mentorships in the Arizona Assurance Scholars program, were met with hesitance. Most appreciated the aims of the programs but agreed
they simply don’t having the money to fund them. Matthew Totlis, chair of the student services fee advisory board, said new programs like Alternative Breaks “caught (the board) by surprise.” Alternative Breaks, a program headed by the Center for Student
Involvement and Leadership will take 25 undergraduate and graduate students on a volunteer spring break trip. Other items were expected. “We got a lot of ‘save our program’ proposals,” Totlis said, noting his frustrations during the meeting of poorly-written and redundant
proposals presented. The state of the economy and the rising costs of college were on many of the board members minds throughout the meeting, as they noted every department’s budget is feeling the squeeze. FEE, page 3
New UA recruiting embraces alumni
Free salsa
By Alexandra Newman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Summer Sando, a dance instructor from Salsa Soulseros Dance Studio, instructed students Jade Cruz, a deaf studies junior, and biology freshman Sergio Redondo in front of the Administration building Tuesday afternoon. The lessons on Tuesday were free of charge, but Sando leads paid dance classes at the Student Rcreation Center as well.
SIFE fundraises for charity By Laura Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
The Students in Free Enterprise club hosted a fundraiser on the Mall Tuesday. All the proceeds from Tuesday’s event benefit SKRAPPY’S, a Tucson youth collective and community center for young disadvantaged artists to express their creativity. The band Rescue Lights performed for the fundraiser behind the Student Union Memorial Center. The Students in Free Enterprise club
has 125 student members on campus and does community service activities. “We do a variety of different community service activities around town, from working with SKRAPPY’S to working with refugees,” said Kourtney Nelson, the vice president of ethics for the Students in Free Enterprise club. Since the stage near the Student Union Memorial Center was overbooked, Rescue Lights could not play there as originally planned. “We hope to have another event this week,” said Brittany Verloo, co-president
for the Students in Free Enterprise club. Sean Garza, vice president of environmental sustainability for the Students in Free Enterprise club said the organization creates projects that require business skills. “We’ve taught refugees how to fill out job applications, we’ve told them basic English phrases, how to create budgets, just general life skills,”Garza said. The Students in Free Enterprise are also putting on the career expo in Bear Down Gymnasium from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. All 125 members of the organization will be working at the
career expo. There will be 37 companies from all different industries, including Pottery Barn and Apple. Last year 48 percent of students who attended secured job interviews and internships at the event. Students have the opportunity to be interviewed on the spot.
Contact Kourtney Nelson at Kourtney.nelson@uasife.org for more information on Students in Free Enterprise’s next event.
Brother Jed’s family speaks out By Laura Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Martha Smock is graduating from high school this year. When she finishes homeschooling, she would like to join her father, known as controversial campus preacher Brother Jed Smock, on his campus visits. “When school starts up, I’ll travel with my dad for a year, and then I want to go to an arts school for graphic design and photography,” Martha Smock said. Martha and Priscilla Smock joined their parents, Cindy and Jed Smock to preach at the UA campus this week. “The University of Arizona is a typical college campus,”said Cindy Smock.“It’s pretty and there’s lots of sin.” Cindy Smock said that she enjoys preaching at the University of Missouri, which has a freedom of speech area on campus. The Smock daughters are used
to most college students’ negative reactions to Jed Smock, but they said repetitive discussion bores them. “It’s annoying when people say the same thing over and over again and they think they’re really original, especially if they’ve already said it that day,” said Priscilla Smock with regards to some of the onlookers who dispute with Jed Smock. The Smock daughters have been to college campuses all over the country. “Besides Alaska and Hawaii, I think we’ve preached in nearly every state,” Priscilla Smock said. The sisters have explored college campuses in different ways as they’ve grown up. “When we were younger, we had a blast on every campus,” Martha Smock said.“We’d bring our toys with us and slide down the banisters. Now, we pretty much just listen.” Martha Smock has been traveling JED, page 3
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Brother Jed’s wife, Sister Cindy (far right), and two of their five daughters came to the UA Mall Tuesday, to be part of one of the regular spring semester visits from Campus Ministry USA’s Brother Jed. Martha, 18, (left) sang as her sister Priscilla, 15, (third from left) played the guitar during one of their multiple song performances that afternoon.
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This spring, the UA launched a new student-recruiting program called P.A.W.S., which organizes parent and alumni volunteers all over the country. P.A.W.S. is an acronym for “Parents and Alumni Working with Students.” The organization provides three ways for parents and alumni to work with new students at the UA. A volunteer may choose to adopt a high school in his or her area and serve as a sort of adjunct admissions counselor for that high school. “Clearly, we are limited in numbers as to how many high schools we can hit with admissions counselors both out of our office and the people that we employ on the East and West Coasts,” said regional recruitment coordinator for the Office of Admissions Drew Braden. A volunteer could also choose to attend college fairs for the UA. Braden said the UA receives more than 1,000 college fair requests each year, and the Office of Admissions doesn’t have enough representatives to send people to all of them. “The more (college fairs) we can cover, the more visible the UA is going to be and the better we can market ourselves to students,” said Braden. “This is especially important in markets we may not already be well established in … we’d love to get alumni in that area or parents who live in that area to go out and attend a college fair for us.” The third opportunity is to reach out to newly-admitted students by offering advice or answering questions students may have. “Students in these places would feel that university is really looking out for their best interests,” said Alumni Association president and executive director Chris Vlahos. Parents and alumni who wish to be a part of P.A.W.S. will be provided with a list of recently-admitted students in their area so parents and alumni can keep in contact with new students and so they can feel comfortable asking questions. “The whole goal here is for that parent or that alumni to be the first person to actually reach out to that student and congratulate them on their admission to the U of A,” said Braden.“I try and give them a list (of students) near their geographic area … to give them something in common to talk about.” There are thousands of alumni across the country, and it would make them feel good to provide such an invaluable service to students, Vlahos said. P.A.W.S. is modeled after a similar program at the University of Michigan. Braden worked on the program’s research and development last summer to get the program ready for this year. “This will really save us a lot of money, and we’re able to reach further into the demographics and geographic locations we don’t normally go to,” said assistant director for the Office of Admissions, Ryan Burton-Romero. “(The other schools) realize, in the current economic climate, that universities aren’t going to be able to send the dedicated full-time admissions representatives,”said Braden. Vlahos thinks the program is a great partnership between the Office of Admissions and the Alumni Association. “We have alumni all over the country who would love to volunteer on behalf of the university,” he said.
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