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UA Department of Spanish and Portuguese will gather in front of Administration
By Taylor Avey ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Students who have become accustomed to the quirks of Student Link will need to make a major readjustment to the way they register for classes. In 2008, the Arizona Board of Regents approved funding for the UA’s Mosaic Project, a computer administrative replacement program designed to overhaul and update the old system to run more efficiently. After Spring Break, students will use UAccess, not Student Link, to register for classes. The Associated Students of the University of Arizona invited Tom Bourgeois, student administration system co-director, to give a presentation on the university’s new computer administrative system during tonight’s meeting. The ASUA meeting will take place in the Ventana Room of the Student Union Memorial Center at 5 p.m. Sen. Tyler Quillin, who sits on the Information Technology Student Advisory Board, is sponsoring the presentation. He said that although it might be difficult to acclimate to the new system, it will provide more capabilities to students. “Getting people to buy into a new system this late in the game is (going to be) difficult for us juniors,”Quillin said. The presentation will highlight the system’s administrative changes and help students prepare for the new system. UAccess is said to offer more options for wait-listed classes and other new advancements that should make the registering process easier for students, according to Quillin. “This is what is happening on campus, and this is what you’re going to be using to register for classes in two weeks. It’s a more complex and intelligent system,” he said. Quillin is also sponsoring a presentation by ASUA President Chris Nagata. Nagata will present the senators with his formal tuition proposal, which he plans to send to the regents before the ABOR meeting scheduled for later this week. Nagata was unable to be reached by press time about the details of his formal proposal. The regents will meet this Thursday and Friday to vote on whether to increase tuition for the upcoming school year. Sen. James Brooks will once again provide the other senators with a preview of the consent agenda. This week, more than 15 clubs and organizations requested funds, including the Filipino American Student Association, the University Filmmakers Organization, the National Art Education Association and many others. In total, these clubs and organizations requested $38,699.36. The Appropriations Board awarded $10,878.60.
IF YOU GO ASUA meeting Where: Ventana Room of the Student Union Memorial Center When: 5 p.m.
By Alexandra Newman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Jenna Pursley struts her stuff in a dress that won Best of Show in the Möda Provocateur runway show, which was held in the Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom on Sunday to benefit Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation. To read more about the show from a model’s perspective, see page B1 of WildLife.
Campaigning heats up By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Students are casting votes in the Associated Students of the University of Arizona general elections, which began Tuesday morning. There are three campus polling stations: at the Student Recreation Center, the Student Union Memorial Center and the Eller College of Management. Students can also vote online. ASUA candidates and commissioners alike tried to spur apathetic students and get the word out to vote. “When people walk by — shrug it off, say they’ll do it later — they should know it does have an effect on campus,” said Molly Lampert, part of the ASUA elections commission. Lampert expressed the importance of voting and noted that convenient polling places could encourage student voters. “Sometimes it’s swamped with people,” she said of the booth as she was heading outside the Student Union Memorial Center. Candidates also pounded the pavement on the UA Mall to do some last-minute campaigning before people went to the polls. “It’s the nature of elections,” said Chad Travis, a pre-business freshman and ASUA senatorial candidate. “Voters are going to be apathetic.
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The bulletin board on North Campus Drive is covered with campaign flyers.
You just have to appeal to them.” Jeff Adams, also a pre-business freshman and ASUA senatorial candidate, reaffirmed Travis’ thoughts. “(Campaigning) has been going good,” said Adams. “It’s really cool getting to educate people on the importance of student government and being active in their school because ASUA actually has a lot more influence
than I think a lot of people realize.”
Vote online at asua.arizona.edu or at any of three polling stations through 8 tonight. Final results will be revealed at the results election show tonight at 8:30 in the Kiva Room of the SUMC.
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A group of graduate teaching assistants from the UA Department of Spanish and Portuguese are putting on a peaceful protest tonight from 7 to 9 in front of the Administration building to show their opposition to a proposed fee increase of $700 for the fall 2010 semester. Wasilia Yapur, a teaching assistant in the Spanish department, said she finds the increase upsetting because teaching assistants barely survive on the money they make, and an extra $700 constitutes almost one month’s pay. “This is extremely aggressive and is something most graduate students can’t pay,”Yapur said. Some students may need to take loans in order to pay for such a fee increase. Yapur said many teaching assistants in her department are international and cannot take out loans. “Our classes have gone from 20 students to close to 30 students in the last few years, and we’ve been silently putting up with an ever-increasing amount of work because, of course, we knew this would be the life of a teaching assistant,”Yapur said. Some students fear that they may have to discontinue their education because they cannot afford to pay for school. “If the point of the fees is to make this a world-class university, then the distribution of the money is not in the right places,” said Alejandrina Barajas, a graduate teaching assistant. Barajas said that it’s important to understand where the money from the increased fees is really going and if it’s going towards making education better. “Like the (Student Recreation) Center — not everyone uses the Rec Center, so does everyone really need to be paying for it?”Barajas asked. Increased fees may put education out of reach for some and turn it into a privilege rather than a right, Barajas said. “We have to think in terms of who loves the university.”Yapur said. “Is it only going to be the undergraduate and graduate students who are the poorest of the poor?” Yapur said the university will not benefit from losing teaching assistants, adding that each teaches up to 50 students a semester. Hundreds of students would be left without classes. Protestors are encouraging everyone to wear a white shirt and dark pants but especially white because the protest is peaceful. There will be no signs or shouting, just prayer, meditation and silence. “We’re trying to get as many people as possible who don’t want to see this tremendous increase and see students start to fall out because they can’t pay,”Yapur said. The group hopes to affect UA VIGIL, page A3
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