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Off-campus housing still frustrating neighbors
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VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 124
UA re-evaluates how to respond to emergencies
WHITNEY BURGOYNE Arizona Daily Wildcat
Months after surrounding residents began demanding change, an off-campus student housing complex’s relationship with its neighbors remains fraught with tension. The District on 5th, a complex in the West University neighborhood, has frustrated neighbors with noise from traffic and partying since it opened last summer. The frustration became so bad that West University residents, led by City Councilman Steve Kozachik, began pushing the property management to enforce volume control, implement routine security checks and construct a wall as a sound barrier. However, a spokeswoman for the complex’s management team, Education Realty Trust, Inc., said the District’s management has no obligation to fulfill those requests. EDR had no knowledge of some of the previous commitments made by the District’s original management, Campus Apartments Inc., said Susan Jennings, vice president of corporate communications and marketing for EDR. Despite its lack of knowledge about those
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A TPD OFFICER INFORMS UA campus members that they can retrieve their cars from Second Street Parking Garage after a report of a gunman in the UA Administration building on Friday.
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On the heels of a scare caused by a gunman reportedly seen on campus last Friday, the campus emergency response system will undergo several changes in the next few months. University Information Technology Services employees are planning to install digital display boards in more than 200 classrooms, said Brian Seastone, University of Arizona Police Department commander and manager
of emergency preparedness at the UA . The boards will display messages sent through the UAlert system, which the UA uses to notify campus community members of emergencies. “When nothing is going on, it will appear like a digital clock,” Seastone said. “However, when the UAlert goes off, it will change color. It will begin to scroll and say, ‘Alert, alert.’ The UAlert message will then scroll across the screen.” Work is beginning now and is estimated to be completed in December. The digital displays have been in the works for a couple of years, but were delayed by funding issues and the
search for the right technology, Seastone said. Last Friday’s incident caused the shutdown of several areas on campus while UAPD and Tucson Police Department officers searched for a man who was reportedly seen carrying a rifle near the Administration building. After the incident, Tamara Boyens, a graduate student in second language acquisition and teaching, created an online petition in order to express her concern about campus safety. Boyens met with Seastone and Melissa Vito,
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Study: Hovering parents spoil their children Segrin explained. The idea for studying overparenting came from his and Givertz’s own Parents who hover may just be doing experiences with hyper-involved it out of concern, but they’re creating a parents. After comparing stories sense of entitlement in their children, three years ago, Givertz and Segrin according to a UA professor and his became interested in the effects of overparenting on children. research partner. “As a department head receiving UA Communications Department Head Chris Segrin and UA alumna phone calls from parents, I was seeing Michelle Givertz, assistant professor this happen,” Segrin said. “It was an interesting situation for communication and I couldn’t resist.” studies at California I found I was Givertz agreed and State University, dealing with a said she met students conduct studies on lot of students who weren’t welloverparenting. Three that weren’t very prepared and were studies have shown well-prepared. asking, “How do I that overparenting — Michelle Givertz, assistant professor for communication study for this exam?” results in children studies at CSU or saying “I’m not who act narcissistic sure how to write this and entitled, while a fourth, ongoing study is researching paper.” “I found I was dealing with a lot types of “helicopter parents” who try to exercise too much control over their of students that weren’t very wellprepared,” Givertz said. “On the other children’s lives. The study will be submitted for hand, they simultaneously expressed publication at the end of the summer, a high sense of self-entitlement. They Segrin said. The study aims to identify felt they were entitled to high grades, the different subtypes of parents and but it was pretty clear they didn’t know how to achieve those goals on their what their motivations and goals are. Overparenting refers to parents who own.” After asking students to take an apply developmentally inappropriate parenting tactics to their young adult online survey, Givertz and Segrin then children, where they offer more OVERPARENTING, 2 guidance and direction than is needed, RACHEL MCCLUSKEY Arizona Daily Wildcat
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CHRIS SEGRIN, UA COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT HEAD, is conducting a study on helicopter parents with UA alumna Michelle Givertz.
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