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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2014
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Candidates running for ASUA Senate met in a debate Tuesday night to discuss their platforms and plans for improving ASUA university,” Box said. Several candidates suggested having the UofA Bookstore offer more online A debate on Tuesday night gave the textbook options and increasing parking candidates running for ASUA Senate at the Student Recreation Center. Josh Wexler, an ASUA Senate candidate a chance to prove why they belong in a neuroscience and cognitive science student government. junior, said he supports increasing the Thirteen out of the 17 candidates running for the Associated Students of availability of online textbooks. Being the University of Arizona Senate turned involved with ROTC helped him to understand his responsibility to the out for the debate. The candidates were quizzed by university, Wexler said. “You work for your people, and your current ASUA president Morgan people come first,” Wexler said. “This is Abraham, executive vice president Danielle Novelly and administrative vice my people, this is my family. I believe my president Amanda Lester on topics such role on campus is to be their voice.” Michael Finnegan, an ASUA Senate as their platforms and what it means to candidate a philosophy, politics, be a senator. economics and law major, said he The candidates’ supports bringing platforms focused on solar power to varied topics, from You work for campus, creating a sustainability to onyour people, quality of life survey campus dry cleaning and your and expanding services. the number of people come Ellen Dunn, an ASUA restaurants that first. Senate candidate and accept CatCash. — Josh Wexler biosystems engineering ASUA Senate candidate Finnegan said junior, said she wants to he hopes to install bring a farmers market to solar panels on the the UA. parking garages on “I want to tailor it to the students that can’t go off campus if they campus, which may lower the cost of don’t have a car and want the access [to parking on campus, and is willing to work healthy food],” Dunn said, “or are just with the Office for Sustainability and the Institute of the Environment to make this passing by and want a healthier option.” Dunn also provided statistics on happen. Finnegan said he also wants to survey ASU’s farmer market, saying that it was a successful project and that many vendors students to see how they feel about ASUA and farmers found it a great place to sell projects. “The obligation of the ASUA is that their produce. they need to know what the students William Box, an ASUA Senate candidate and pre-business freshman, are thinking about the programs they’re said he not only wants to extend the putting on,” Finnegan said, “ask people hours of Safe Ride’, but also hopes to what they personally think, increase the implement the preferred name policy people that know about ASUA.” Elena Gold, a philosophy, politics, that would allow transgender students economics and law sophomore, is a who have not legally changed their name returning senator running for re-election. to have their preferred name on D2L and Gold said she wants to extend the on their CatCard. alternative spring break program to “My goal is to make students feel much
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ASUA SENATE candidate Michael Finnegan explains his platform during a question and answer session at the Student Union Memorial Center Kiva Room on Tuesday.
Eller class to market streetcar BY STEPHANIE CASANOVA The Daily Wildcat
A UA class is partnering with the City of Tucson by creating a marketing campaign for the Sun Link Tucson Streetcar. The Integrated Marketing Communications class in the Eller College of Management, a class of more than 60 students, sat before UA athletic director Greg Byrne on Tuesday as he answered questions about how the streetcar will benefit Arizona Athletics and discussed marketing ideas. The class has been hosting guest speakers all semester, such as Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, business owners from downtown and from the Fourth Avenue Merchants Association and city officials from the Tucson Department of Transportation, said Ed Ackerley, an adjunct instructor in marketing and professor of the marketing class. Ackerley said the speakers help the students gain an understanding of the impact the streetcar will have on the city. The professor said when he had lunch with the mayor once, they discussed UA President Ann Weaver Hart’s goal to engage students in the community and came up with the idea of having his class market the Sun Link Tucson Streetcar. The students are responsible for coming up with marketing ideas that they will share with the city, with streetcar management and with businesses and other programs affected by the streetcar, such as Arizona Athletics. Byrne said the streetcar can help get people to park downtown and take the streetcar to the university for athletic events, especially because parking in downtown is free on the weekends. “I would say that this can be a very attractive and economical way for our fans who … ride the bus, that this may be more efficient than that,” Byrne said, “and a very easy way to get to and from the stadium and arenas.” Jake Storer, a marketing senior and director of the class, said marketing for the streetcar is the sole focus of the class this semester. The students have been given little direction, Storer said, which allows them to use their
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The UA Bursar’s Office announced a 2.5 percent convenience fee charged to students who pay their balance with credit or debit cards
Many UA students are outraged after the UA Bursar’s Office announced an additional fee on Monday. In an email sent out to students, Every additional the Bursar’s Office difference to me. said a 2.5 percent convenience fee will be charged to UA students who choose to pay the balance on their Bursar’s account with credit or debit cards, effective May 5. Nelnet, the company contracted by the UA to process credit and debit card payments, charges the 2.5 percent user fee, none of which is paid to the UA, according to the
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Bursar’s Office website. The website states that the Bursar’s Office will no longer directly accept credit or debit card payments for Bursar account charges. On base tuition, this fee will total about $260 a year for in-state students and nearly $680 a year for out-of-state students. cost makes a Students have responded by — Ilena Jayaraman, signing a petition pre-business sophomore on Change.org asking for the UA to remove the 2.5 percent fee. The petition was started by Tiffany Rose Lee, a religious studies, creative writing and nutritional sciences senior, and as of Tuesday
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Student nonprofit aids Guatemalans BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA
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When Courtney Slanaker embarked on a study abroad trip to Guatemala in the spring of 2012, she had no idea that a nonprofit organization would begin as the result of her trip. Walk With is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that works through “inspiration, development, and empowerment” to perform public service projects in underserved communities throughout the world. The communities that they work with provide project proposals for the Walk With team, and they work to help them achieve their goals in that project, said Slanaker, a public health senior and president of Walk With. Currently, the nonprofit’s main focus is giving a small, severely impoverished town called Buena Vista, located in Guatemala, its own
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COURTNEY ANNE Slanaker, a public health senior and president of Walk With, stands with Buena Vista citizen Rufino and Buena Vista children.
community center. At the center, the community will be able to come together and have resources like a clinic, a place for Bible study, classrooms for teaching children, a place of meeting for community
development discussions and more, Slanaker said. Buena Vista is a town that has about seven “pueblos” located
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