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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2015

VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 104

IN THE NEWS FCC is expected to enforce net neutrality Dozens injured after commuter train hits car in California American has been kidnapped in Nigeria Justice Department will not file charges against George Zimmerman for Trayvon Martin case

— The New York TImes

SPORTS

UA baseball gets back on track with win Page 6

Wildcats and Utes have big matchup coming

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ARTS & LIFE

Film shows media’s impact on body image

Getting schooled in childcare

Student parents struggle to balance school and family without on-campus daycare BY ELISABETH MORALES

The Daily Wildcat

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s the only school in the Pac-12 Conference lacking a universityaffiliated childcare center, concerns are rising regarding the level of support the UA has for student parents. According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research website, campus childcare is declining despite the fact that “[26 percent] of all

undergraduate students are raising dependent children.” It all comes down to money. “I think that logistically, the university has had some problems with trying to figure out how to provide it a cost level where it would actually be used or used by enough people that it would make sense,” said Eva Romero, a chair member on the UA Commission on the Status of Women and Family Care Workgroup.

Adjunct faculty plan walkout in hopes of change

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OPINIONS Adjunct instructors make demands of UA administration Page 4

QUOTE TO NOTE “The tenants of capitalism are destroying American culture because as long as sex sells, you will have corporations and industries willing to do anything to make money. No one is safe. — Darryl Roberts Arts & Life -Page 

BY BRANDI WALKER

The Daily Wildcat

UA adjunct faculty organized a walkout to improve adjunct faculty working conditions from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Alumni Plaza on Feb. 25, the first annual National Adjunct Walkout Day. “We’d like to inform the administration, faculty, staff, students and the greater Tucson community about the important role that underpaid adjuncts and other non-tenure faculty play in making this a world-class university,” said Joel Smith, a UA adjunct English lecturer and one of the walkout organizers. John Washington, an adjunct English lecturer and walkout organizer, said there will be an open discussion about the university’s allocation of funds and statewide budget cuts at the rally. “The UA spends only 24 percent

of all funding on tuition, which is an 8-percent decline since 2003,” Washington said. “Forty percent of teaching faculty are adjuncts, many of them underpaid and without any job security.” Washington explained that some goals of the walkout are reducing class sizes, instating multi-year contracts, ensuring paths to promotion and developing salaries that are in-line with peer institutions. “With low-wages paid to 40 percent of instructors, big classes, and minimal job security, the university is compromising its basic mission,” Washington said. “We want to improve classroom conditions and give students the education they deserve.” Carsyn Henry, a criminal justice studies sophomore, said reducing class sizes would be beneficial

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Lindsey Reichlin, research associate and program manager for the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, said that it may also be a lack of knowledge on exactly how many students need the service of a childcare center on campus. “I think colleges don’t totally know what they don’t know and how that can impact the success of their students in the

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PLAYING: AlonnaTruitt, 23, and Carson Truitt, 1, play on the couch while watching Netflix together in their home on Tuesday night. Table: Truitt attends a weekly Bible study at the Arizona Baptist Children’s Services & Family Ministries on Friday. Man handing paper: Truitt attends her weekly meeting as an intern at Aflac Insurance on Monday.

Professor’s book looks at college smoking BY TERRIE BRIANNA

The Daily Wildcat

Mimi Nichter, a UA professor at the School of Anthropology, recently published a book titled “Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses,” which explores social smoking among college students, the increase in available tobacco products and associated health risks. “I am arguing that given the instability in young adults’ lives … being a smoker, sometimes, is a way to meet people,” Nichter said. Nichter said smoking provides people an opportunity to portray themselves as “party people.” She also added that the tobacco industry specifically targets young adults and attempts to normalize smoking habits; the industry is also trying to re-normalize a different type of smoking through the advertisement of electronic cigarettes. In response to the tobacco ban at the UA, Nichter said “we’re actually following a trend.” “I think it’s really important,” she said, “because it sends a very strong message to students that it’s not a normal behavior.”

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ANTHROPOLOGY professor Mimi Nichter talks about smoking addiction’s relation to college life in her office in the Geronimo building on Monday. Nichter recently published her book “Lighting Up: The Rise of Social Smoking on College Campuses.”

Nichter said the overall prevalence of tobacco use among

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