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UAccess running behind
Class registration a challenge for many departments By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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From left, Josh Steinberg, a biomedical engineering junior, Dan Canfield, a business management sophomore, and Blaine Light, an engineering management sophomore, are the co-founders of “The Crazy Dot Com Show,” an online news and discussion show which they modestly state is “too legit to quit.”
The Crazy Dot Com Show Three student stooges create a weekly ‘news’ show online By Jonathan Prince Arizona Daily Wildcat
Looking for some zany local programming? Watch “The Crazy Dot Com Show.” The founders, three UA students, Dan Canfield, Blaine Light and Josh Steinberg put an interesting and undoubtedly crazy spin on presenting the news. “The Crazy Dot Com Show” is a Web-based blog show inspired by television programs such as “Whose Line Is It Anyway?,” “The Soup” and the local news. The show has gotten over 430 views on YouTube in the past month. “The purpose of the show is to
provide some interesting news and topics of discussion while having a wild and crazy time along the way,” said the creators of “The Crazy Dot Com Show” on their Web site. Canfield, Steinberg and Light decided to record themselves and share their unique personalities with viewers online. The show is completely improvised. “We have bullet-point reminders of what we want to talk about, but there is no script involved,” said Dan Canfield, business junior and co-host. The hosts get topics of discussions by searching for “strange news” in search engines, suggestions from
viewers and compiling interesting and wacky facts throughout the week. Topics have included the Super Bowl, love, working out, music and adventure. Light, an engineering management junior and co-host of “The Crazy Dot Com Show,” recommends that viewers don’t watch the show if they are easily offended. “Offending others is not our goal. We’re just being funny. Like in any comedy, people will find different things that they think are offensive, but we do everything in good spirit,” Light said. “It’s probably not a show to watch while
eating a family dinner.” Their audience consists primarily of college-aged individuals. The show is filmed in a makeshift studio in Canfield’s apartment. To record each episode, the group uses a combination of different recording devices, including a digital camera, a video camera and a laptop video recorder. “We love recording and just having a random time,” Canfield said. “It’s a break from chaos.” Viewers respect the students’ courage and enjoy watching their antics. “I heard about the show from a
After months of build up, UAccess, the system replacing Student Link, has hit some snags, which the Mosaic project managers are trying to fix. In an e-mail to the campus community, Hank Childers, the director of the Mosaic project implementing UAccess, noted that the system is “experiencing significant performance issues at various times and for some individuals,” and was a problem “affecting UAccess Analytics, Employee and Student.” Departments around campus are running into scheduling problems. The UA School of Journalism resorted to manual registration for students to cope with inaccurate online class schedules. “We had every intention in using the new system,” said Karen Weaver, adviser for the UA School of Journalism. “But at the point where we needed to make a decision, it wasn’t ready.” Other departments had different issues. Heidi Hopkins, an administrative assistant for the Latin American Studies department noted that although on Monday the department’s online schedule was updated, training interfered with the ease of registration for students. “I think once everything is implemented it will be great but as of right now, it’s not really helpful,” Hopkins said. “For new employees that have transferred to different units, there is no workshop training for the course scheduling component. Between now and April 26, if you don’t have access, UACCESS, page A3
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ASUA to Career fair draws large crowd approve stipends By Matt Lewis ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
By Laura E. Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona will meet tonight to review stipend requests. They will also approve the senate funds request and other orders of business, according to Executive Vice President Emily Fritze. “The main thing is that we’re doing stipend settings,” Fritze said. “We are actually picking the stipends for all the directors for next year, and the elects are making those proposals and the senate will approve them.” ASUA will also oversee several presentations from Bear Down Camp and the Student Health Advisory Committee, and they will discuss their plans for the rest of this year. ASUA, page A3
Seniors, there are 45 days until graduation. Today is the last day of the Spring Career Fair and time is running out, so bring your best suit and resume to the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. The two-day fair has brought in recruiters from more than 100 companies. The Pacific Islands Club, a resort in Saipan, has been coming to the UA for years. Saipan is the largest island in the Marianas, in the northern Pacific Ocean near Guam. Cole Pritchard, a representative of Pacific Islands Club, said the company offers six-month contracts for those interested in the hospitality and tourism industry. An average salary is about $750 a month. “Our company’s been participating (in the career fair) for the last four or five years. What we’re really trying to do is get young energetic young adults that are just out of school, and for our
purposes, that don’t necessarily want to jump right into their career path,” Prichtard said. He said that in the past there has been some “good talent” that has come out of the UA, so the company returns year after year. Wells Fargo Financial is another company that has been attending the UA’s career fair for years. Luis Manjarrez, a UA alumnus and branch manager at the Wells Fargo at Broadway Boulevard and Country Club Road said he’s been coming to the UA Career Fair as a representative for Wells Fargo Financial for several years. “I believe that all (the UA’s) colleges are really great, especially Eller. We’ve had really good experience with everybody that’s been hired from the U of A,” he said. Susan Miller, the senior coordinator for marketing and special events at UA Career Services, says that Career Services’ employer relations department has cultivated the university’s relationships with employers. “We’re a great venue, the students have a great reputation, so that’s
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Alexis Higbee, a junior majoring in Spanish, center, speaks with U.S Army Sgt. Jeff Dozier, right, and UA Army Reserve Officers Training Corps Major Vernal Fulton, left, about joining the Army during the UA Career Fair held in the Student Union Memorial Center on Tuesday.
why they come,” she said. All students are encouraged to attend to the fair. There are fulltime employment opportunities for seniors and internships for sophomores and juniors. Attending freshmen can familiarize themselves with the environment,
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she added. Miller said that when the economy started faltering in 2008 there were about 300 tables at the Fall Career Fair, the largest the university had ever seen.
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