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TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2014
VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 123
Police conduct questioned BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY The Daily Wildcat
The Tucson Police Department is internally investigating allegations of police misconduct from Saturday night’s clash on University Boulevard following the Arizona men’s basketball team’s loss in the Elite Eight. One cell phone video shows what appears to be a Tucson Police Department officer knocking a woman over a bench as she walks behind the line of riot police stretched across the street. People around the woman who was knocked over begin yelling at the officer and one shouts, “What did you do
that for?” A version of the video posted to Facebook by Cara Monier, an undeclared UA freshman, had been shared more than 3,000 times as of Monday evening. Monier said she received the video from a friend and shared it to make sure others could see what happened. “As soon as I saw [the video] it made my blood boil,” Monier said. “I am so intensely angry at the way that police officers were treating people and the way they were handling the situation.” The incident is currently being internally investigated by TPD, according to Roberto Villaseñor, TPD chief of police. The officer in question has already been
Campus preacher arrested twice
interviewed regarding the incident. “We’re going to look at all the circumstances and make our determination there,” Villaseñor said, “but we’re going to do it based off of everything, not just one video clip everyone’s looking at.” The officer was wearing a camera at the time of the incident and Villaseñor said police would be looking through what the camera recorded as they conduct their investigation. Villaseñor also said at the point in Saturday night’s events CECILIA ALVAREZ/THE DAILY WILDCAT that the incident occurred, TUCSON POLICE DEPARTMENT CHIEF OF POLICE Roberto the area had been closed off as police had declared an unlawful Villaseñor said the department is investigating an incident that
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occurred during Saturday’s unlawful assembly on University Boulevard after the UA men’s basketball team lost in the Elite Eight.
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A campus preacher was arrested twice over the weekend for disorderly conduct. Dean Saxton, a religious studies and classics senior, was first arrested on Saturday evening on University Boulevard. Saxton, known on campus as Brother Dean, was preaching on University Boulevard across from Frog & Firkin during the basketball game. During Saxton’s preaching, a man wearing a shirt that said “Wild West Security” arrived and confronted Saxton, attempting to stop him from preaching by taking his megaphone from him. When the man began trying to take the megaphone, Saxton started yelling that he was being assaulted. Tucson Police Department officers already on the scene in preparation for potential riots after the basketball game responded to the conflict between Saxton and the man. Officers broke the two men apart, and Saxton was placed under arrest for disorderly conduct. Saxton was one of 15 people arrested Saturday night. Saxton said he felt he shouldn’t have been arrested that night under the First Amendment.
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A TRADITIONAL PERSIAN GILAKI DANCE is performed by Mina Kazemimanesh, an incoming computer science graduate student, Akram Khosroabadi, an optical sciences Ph.D. student, and Pooye Khoshkhoo, a graduate student studying Middle Eastern studies. The Iranian-Students’ Cultural Association in Tucson, led by Saba Keynejad, a geophysics Ph.D. student, put on the event on the UA Mall on Monday celebrating Nowruz, the Persian new year. The holiday began in Tucson on the spring equinox, March 20, and runs for 12 days. Monday’s event included performances of traditional Iranian classical music and Persian and Kurdish dances.
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The announcement of the indefinite cancellation of the UA’s fall commencement ceremony has yielded mixed reactions from students and faculty. Andrew Comrie, senior vice president for Academic Affairs & Provost, cited no reason for the elimination of the ceremony in an email announcing the cancellation to students. The announcement confirmed that the cancellation of the school-wide ceremony will not affect the individual colleges’ convocations, which are ceremonies that allow students to walk and be acknowledged, but technically confer no degree. Ann Samuelson, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences anthropology adviser, said that the SBS convocation will continue as planned. She said the students she advises do not seem concerned about the elimination of the fall commencement. “They like the personalization of going to our college one instead of the big university one,” Samuelson said. Elaine Marchello, assistant dean in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences,
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to or following their scheduled graduation, Marchello said. She added that this alternative may not be convenient for students who don’t live in the area. “For those who are coming from out of state, it’s not really going to be feasible for them to come back,” Marchello said. Marchello said college convocations provide individual student acknowledgement that the university-wide ceremony can’t. “Ours is the one that really lets them be celebrated individually,” Marchello said. ”It gives them an
The UA has started a new climate change research center to identify ways people can adapt to climate change. The Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions is directed by Kathy Jacobs, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science. Prior to returning to the UA, Jacobs worked in the Office of Science and Technology Policy for the White House and on the National Climate Assessment. “One focus for the center will be preparedness for extreme events and rapid changes in environmental conditions,” Jacobs said in a statement on the UA Environment and Sustainability Portal. Thomas Meixner, a professor in the department of hydrology and water resources at the UA, said he attended one of the center’s presentations, where one of the topics discussed was bridging the gap between science and decisionmaking. The two focus areas of the center are mitigation and preparation for climate change.
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FALL 2013 GRADUATES celebrate the end of their college careers by having a snowball fight with styrofoam balls at the end of the UA’s 149th Commencment Ceremony on Dec. 21.
said that the CALS December convocation ceremony will also still take place. “We’ve always had two ceremonies,” Marchello said. “We will continue to do that.” One of the few issues in the CALS fall ceremony is that it cannot take place McKale Center, since it will be under renovation, Marchello said. The CALS ceremony will take place at the Tucson Community Center instead. Students who graduate in December are being given the option to participate in Spring Commencement prior
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