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MONDAY  TUESDAY, APRIL 1112, 2016 | DAILYWILDCAT.COM |

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A MORE SUSTAINABLE SPRING FLING, p. 11

the new ASUA Senate for 20162017, p. 4

ARTS & LIFE: Dance grad student prepares for final spotlight, p. 8

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‘Super Bowl’ mantra bolsters Wildcats baseball, p. 13

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(ABOVE) Ferris wheel at Spring Fling. RIGHT Sarah Bertram, a sophomore studying physiology and molecular and cellular biology, and Lia Ossanna, an environmental science freshman, collect trash and recycling on Sunday, April 10.

UA professor running for AZ House of Representatives BY MICHELLE JAQUETTE The Daily Wildcat

When times get tough, UA environmental law professor Kirsten Engel usually throws on her sneakers and goes for a run around town. But this time, she’s running for the Arizona House of Representatives. Engel learned last year that one of the Arizona House representatives, Bruce Wheeler, would not be running for re-election in the fall. She decided to take the opportunity to run for the position herself and make a stand against continuing cuts to education. Engel, a UA faculty member since 2005, has been a big presence in the James E. Rogers College of Law, where she previously served as associate dean for academic affairs and helped students create the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. She also helped begin a certificate program that allows law students to demonstrate their interest in environmental law to future employers. “She is really passionate in working with students on environmental issues,” said Andrea Logue, third-year law student and editor-in-chief of the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law and Policy. Despite Engel’s extensive background in environmental law, including a short stint at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, she said it was the continued state cuts to education funding that compelled her to run for public office. “The biggest motivation for me running for public office is the fact that I feel like I’m living our state’s unwillingness to adequately fund public education,” Engel said. “Both in my professional life here at the university and also in my personal life, being the mother of a kid in public school.” The professor appeared before UA President Ann Weaver Hart and the Arizona Board of Regents at the tuition hearing on March 29 to ask that the regents and presidents of Arizona’s three public universities continue to advocate for more state support from the Arizona government.

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