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TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2013
VOLUME 107• ISSUE 128
COMING ATTRACTIONS Setup on the UA Mall has begun for Spring Fling, which is returning to campus for the first time since 1999
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Spring Fling is returning to campus for its 40th anniversary this weekend, after 15 years. Setup for Spring Fling, which organizers say is one of the largest student-run carnivals in the country, began Monday. Crews have begun fencing off the UA Mall from Cherry Avenue to Campbell Avenue, where all the rides will be erected; at least five of the rides had already arrived on the mall Monday. A total of 30 to 35 rides are expected, including the Mach 1, the Techno Jump, Mega Drop and the Zipper. Morgan Abraham, president of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, said the whole purpose of the annual carnival is to raise money for clubs. On average, about 50 clubs participate, setting up booths to run an activity or sell food for tickets, which are the currency used at Spring Fling. “At the end of the event, the tickets equal X amount of dollars,” Abraham said. “So, [clubs] are able to make money and we’re able to put on an amazing event for students; it’s a win-win for everyone.” In its 25 first years, Spring Fling was held on campus. It only moved to Rillito Downs when construction began for the Manuel Pacheco Integrated Learning Center and the event could no longer be held on the Mall. The carnival had been expected to move back to
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RCS CONSTRUCTION WORKERS unload and set up carnival rides for the upcoming Spring Fling, which will take place this weekend. Spring Fling is returning to the UA campus for the first time in 15 years.
campus after construction was over, Abraham said, but ended up staying at Rillito Downs — until this year. Jared Young, an accounting and finance senior and the executive director of Spring Fling, said bringing the carnival back to campus is like bringing it home. “I am really excited just to see Spring Fling back where it started and see something that’s
been missing from campus for 15 years,” Young said. “There’s just been something missing. … The atmosphere was not the same.” Efforts to bring Spring Fling back to campus have been ongoing for several years, Abraham said, after hearing students express negative views on having the carnival off campus. “We thought this was a really
good opportunity to bring it [Spring Fling] back and re-engage students who hadn’t been able to experience it in the past,” Abraham said. But some have expressed disapproval over the carnival’s reintroduction to campus. Residents of nearby housing associations such as the Sam Hughes area raised concerns about
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Faculty endorses UA tobacco ban BY JORDAN FOWLER The Daily Wildcat
Despite objections from other members, the Faculty Senate voted to endorse a proposed tobacco ban on campus at its meeting Monday. The Faculty Senate made it clear that the Tobaccofree University of Arizona Policy would apply to public events, such as the Tucson Festival of Books, as well as any university property not directly on the UA campus. Associated Students of
the University of Arizona Sen. Michael Mazzella, a communication junior, raised the issue of smokers living in dorms in his objection to the policy. “Keeping in mind students who live on campus and in dormitories … who are smokers who choose to smoke. We’re all adults and we have that right to make that choice for ourselves,” Mazzella said. “They then would not be able to go home and smoke where they live.” His objection was met
with support by John Ulreich, a professor of English and self-proclaimed “recovering” smoker, who questioned whether or not the smoking population had any representation in the discussions on this policy. However, the endorsement of the policy was ultimately passed. Revisions to the oneon-one minor interaction policy were also discussed by Faculty Senate members. The revisions would
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Grad students to host events for EarthWeek BY KATYA MENDOZA
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Guests will get the chance to learn about tree rings, Big Foot and more during four days of graduate student-hosted events this week. EarthWeek, which is being held on campus this week, is being hosted by the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences for the fifth year in a row. The events, organized entirely by graduate students, feature oral presentations, poster sessions and a keynote speaker. Michael Stovern, an atmospheric sciences graduate student and co-chair for EarthWeek, said that the event was created to combine individual events hosted by each Earth and Environmental Sciences department. “Each of the individual departments tended to have long-running symposiums,” Stovern said. “We brought them all under one banner.” Including a joint collaboration among the different departments of the SEES, each individual department will have its own day of events, beginning today with the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research’s “TreeRing Day” in the new Bryant Banister Tree-Ring Building.
MTV show does not deter teen pregnancy BY LAUREN NIDAY
Center. At the Plenary Poster Session on Friday, graduate students representing each of the departments will present about 100 posters, preceding the main keynote speaker, Dr. Marcia McNutt, editor-in-chief of the academic journal Science. The keynote speech at the end of EarthWeek will be relevant to all of the SEES departments,
The popular MTV show “16 and Pregnant” does more than just entertain, according to a study by a UA professor. The study, which was led by communication professor Jennifer Stevens Aubrey, shows that viewers who identify with the teenage mothers on the show tend to view teen pregnancy more favorably. While watching a segment on “The Today Show” with two of the teenage mothers from “16 and Pregnant” and Dr. Drew Pinsky, Aubrey said she noticed that when the girls were asked if the show worked as educational entertainment, Pinsky quickly interrupted. Instead of allowing the teens to share their experiences, Pinsky spoke over them, aggressively boasting about the success of the program in preventing teenage pregnancy. “You can’t just say it works because hypothetically it could,” Aubrey said. Aubrey said that she decided to focus her study on whether “16 and Pregnant” was effective as a pregnancy prevention mechanism and if the show improved behavioral intentions to avoid teen pregnancy, because when the show aired
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“El Día de Agua,” presented by the department of hydrology and water resources, will be held on Wednesday. “AIR,” hosted by the department of atmospheric sciences, “GeoDaze,” hosted by the department of geosciences, and “SWESx,” presented by the department of soil, water and environmental sciences, will all be held on Thursday. Each of these events will be held in the Student Union Memorial
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A PIECE OF A 1,000-year-old giant sequoia is on display at the Bryant Bannister Tree Ring Building. Today, the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences will kick off its event called EarthWeek, a four-day annual conference organized entirely by graduate students.
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