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HOW MUCH WOULD SB 1474 COST THE ARIZONA UNIVERSITY SYSTEM INITIALLY?
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Concealed carry on campus a historically hot issue for colleges and universities across the nation By Samantha Munsey DAILY WILDCAT
Arizona lawmakers are not the only ones considering allowing guns on college campuses. Over the past year, lawmakers in other states have debated, and passed, similar legislation. In 2011, 23 states proposed bills that resemble Arizona’s Senate Bill 1474, which would allow students, faculty members and visitors with gun permits to have a concealed firearm on school property. Out of the 23 states, Mississippi and Wisconsin were the first to approve and enact the legislation. On March 5, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that University of Colorado’s gun ban was in violation of a state statute. “We have laws that allow people to have concealed weapons virtually everywhere in our states and it hasn’t been a problem,” said Adrienne O’Reilly, southwest regional director for Students for Concealed Carry. “So why would
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it change if we cross this invisible boundary that separates off campus from on campus?” This is not the first time Arizona lawmakers have proposed legislation that would allow guns on college campuses. Last year, five similar bills were proposed and dismissed. Andy Pelosi, president of Gun Free Kids, an organization that provides information on gun violence prevention, said he traveled from his home in New York to Arizona last year to help lobby against these proposed bills. “My experience with Arizona is that over the last few years college presidents have been vocal about not wanting guns,” Pelosi said. “Law enforcement doesn’t support this, schools don’t want it, so my question is why are the legislators trying to pass this?” Legislators from other states have also debated allowing guns on campus for many years. In 2004, lawmakers in Utah passed a bill
Arizona university students may pay the price to keep weapons out of classrooms if proposed legislation to allow guns on campus passes. The Arizona Board of Regents released a fiscal impact study that examined how much it would cost the three state universities to safely allow guns on campus if Senate Bill 1474 were to pass. It would cost Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University and the UA $13.3 million in one-time costs and $3.1 million annually in operations to equip 732 public buildings across the three campuses with gun storage lockers. Since the proposed legislation does not require the universities to build storage lockers in the buildings, the Legislature will not fund the lockers. With an unfunded mandate from the state, student tuition may be caught in the middle if the universities cannot collect $13.3 million upfront from other entities, said Dan Fitzgibbon,
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Q&A Protester reflects on revolution in Egypt By Amer Taleb
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change is parting from an old to a new paradigm, in the middle of that you have chaos. It’s never a smooth path, but let me tell you this: The biggest achievement so far is the change in the Egyptian people themselves. It’s a transformation in how the individual views authority, and that’s extremely powerful.
Wael Nawara is a writer, activist and co-founder of El-Ghad, a political party in Egypt. Time magazine named “the protester” as the 2011 Person of the Year, and highlighted Nawara as one of the most influential protesters in the Egyptian Revolution. Nawara now speaks to variPeople watch the violence on ous institutions and organizations TV and many might say that the about the revolution, which began revolution has made things worse, a year ago. and that less Egyptians would be dead if they had just stayed silent. Daily Wildcat: One year after How do you respond? the revolution, is Egypt where you Here in the United States, there expected it to be? was a war against the British, a civil Nawara: Egypt is going through war, and there was a lot of unrest its growing pains and anybody throughout the Civil Rights Movewho expected something different ment. Somebody could argue, would be mistaken. The nature of “What was the point of that? Lots of
people died.” Everything has a cost, and the mode of change is for the people to decide. Life is change. If you don’t like change, that’s up to you. But it’ll happen anyway. What was the atmosphere like when the revolution started? The first feeling was, “We made it. I can die today a happy man.” For years, we’ve had faith in our hearts, but there was no physical evidence that things would get better. It’s like if all your life you’ve been praying and someone tells you, “Stop wasting your time, God doesn’t exist.” And then one day you finally see God in all his glory and you see heaven and hell. Hallelujah!
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Ads could get facelift in Arizona By Savannah Martin DAILY WILDCAT
An Arizona lawmaker helped spark a discussion in the Legislature by proposing a bill that could make altered or enhanced printed advertisements illegal in the state. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat from District 15, proposed House Bill 2793 last month. The bill, which was discussed in the House Commerce Committee on Feb. 15, would require any manipulated advertisements to include a disclaimer. The bill targeted beauty product advertisements that use techniques like airbrushing to make photos of men and women more appealing. While
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