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VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 112
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Candidates for ASUA executive positions discussed their platforms and goals during Sunday’s debate
Decision made in surgeon lawsuit BY STEPHANIE CASANOVA The Daily Wildcat
“[The Pride Alliance] is a place where LGBTQ students feel at home,” Douglas said. “The work they’ve done with Coming Out Week and other events are things that have constantly been growing, and I think they need more money to expand their efforts.” After Douglas wrapped up his platform, the debate turned to the two executive vice-president candidates, Jordan Allison, a journalism and gender and women’s studies junior, faced off against Daniel Anderson, a political science and psychology junior. Allison emphasized her desire to reach out to first generation students, and said only 27 percent of first generation students make it to graduation. Anderson discussed increasing ASUA’s digital scope
Pima County Superior Court Judge Carmine Cornelio dismissed a lawsuit against the UA on Friday. Cornelio also ordered that University Physicians Healthcare, a nonprofit corporation that employs University of Arizona Medical Center staff, grant Dr. Rainer Gruessner, former chair of the UA Department of Surgery and chief of transplantation at UAMC, internal administrative due process. Gruessner filed a lawsuit against the university, UPH and University of Arizona Health Network, a nonprofit corporation that integrates UPH with UAMC, in November, after being placed on administrative leave with pay from UPH and the UA . Gruessner wasn’t seeking damages with the suit and was instead looking to get his job back, claiming UPH terminated him unlawfully and was supposed to give him due process before termination. UPH and the university placed Gruessner on leave after he allegedly altered or directed someone to change medical records. UPH terminated his employment in December. Gruessner remains on leave with pay at the university but was told in an email from former Dean of the UA College of Medicine Steve Goldschmid that he was not allowed to be on the UA College of Medicine campus or at UAMC without first making arrangements with UAMC security, according to court documents. Complications between Gruessner and Goldschmid began in July when Goldschmid asked Gruessner to step down from his position as chair of the department of surgery, citing a “record of poor performance,” according to court documents. While Gruessner initially refused, he eventually negotiated with Goldschmid and agreed to step down from his position as chair, with the agreement that he’d keep the title for six months. The dean also told Gruessner he wasn’t allowed to keep his position as chief of transplantation. In September, Gruessner wrote a letter of resignation from chief of
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TAYLOR ASHTONLEFT and Issac Ortega (right) speak on their views in the ASUA executive debate in the Student Union Memorial Center Kiva Room on Sunday.
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The remaining candidates vying for executive positions in the Associated Students of the University of Arizona fielded questions from a panel of moderators at Sunday’s debate. Daniel Douglas, a philosophy, politics, economics and law sophomore and the only candidate for administrative vice president, opened the debate with a brief speech about his platform. Douglas discussed how he wants to create two summer sessions for Bear Down Camp because 14.5 percent of incoming freshmen currently do not get the opportunity to attend. Douglas said he also wants to increase the budget of the Pride Alliance.
Meet the new sheriff in town BY JAZMINE FOSTER-HALL The Daily Wildcat
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The University of Arizona Police Department recently appointed Brian Seastone as the new chief of police. The Daily Wildcat spoke to Seastone about the changes he plans on bringing to the department and the ways UAPD plans to create more of a presence in the community.
campus. It’s a balance. There are so many different aspects of this job that keep your mind going all the time, you never want to classify one as worse than the other. How does UAPD plan to work with ASUA (Associated Students of the University of Arizona) and other campus groups to get involved with the community?
We do a lot of work with various groups such as ASUA, SHAC (Student Health Advocacy Committee), SafeRide, the student EMS LOW Seastone: I want to say that we’ve got a program and GPSC (Graduate and Professional really good department, and Student Council). … I want so what we need to do is just our officers to get out and Bear, Del. 52 / 41 We’re here to make some modifications. meet those people, become Downe, U.K. 58 / 40 help, we’re [Something] I said all through involved, go through meeting Wildcat, Canada 40 / 18 this process, and that’s them, letting them know why here to make becoming more involved in we’re here and answering their people feel the community. To be more questions. Some of the other safe on this visible in the community things we want to do is an ‘ask a QUOTE TO NOTE campus. and to really be a partner in cop’ out on the mall. … There’s — Brian Seastone, collaboration with the entire always the person that says, ‘I UAPD chief of police university havecareer a friend that, ’ so in this opens Come hearcommunity, a paneland of our professionals talk about their path supporting agencies that help up that opportunity for them to Science and Technology and network these leaders out soof much. ask us questions.with I would like, along with my This concern is constant theusfield command staff, at least once a semester to have from when I wake up, after the presentation. What do you think the hardest part of this job a brown bag lunch somewhere at the union, knowing that if I forget to will be? where people just can come in over lunch, we pack a lunch, an hour of pay Thursday, Oct 17 is gone.” The hardest part is whenever you have a sit and have our sandwiches, and visit and get input. personnel issue because that affects your @ SUMC Catalina Room OPINIONS — 4 department. Then the issues of serious crime the New York Times Please Register at ran an article on the campus, because that affects the entire Recently
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ARIZONA POLICE DEPARTMENT Cmdr. Brian Seastone has been elected the new UAPD police chief. Seastone has been with the UA for over 33 years.
on sexual assaults on college campuses. How well do you think UAPD handles cases of that nature? We have really well-trained detectives and police officers. We do not have one specific detective that handles sexual-assault crimes, however that’s something that we’re looking at,
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