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TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013
VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 128
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ERIN BESOLD, A PLANNING GRADUATE STUDENT, fourth-year art student Laura Dinardo, fourth-year architecture student Julia Weatherspoon, and Jeff Tarbox, a graduate student studying landscape architecture, go over plans for a project that aims to revitalize Tucson’s warehouse arts district. Students are looking at planning and concepts for downtown development.
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role in forming some of the UA’s downtown plans. In 2011, the university opened UA Downtown, housed in the Roy Place Building at Stone Avenue and Pennington Street. A U of A Bookstore and the School of Government and Public Policy’s master’s program in public administration are housed there, in addition to the Drachman Institute, a community outreach arm of CAPLA. CAPLA students are working in three studios in UA Downtown, said Marilyn Robinson, associate director of the Drachman Institute. The students are looking at planning and concepts for downtown development. Students will meet with city officials and business owners to present their work, Robinson said. “It’s a learning opportunity for the students to learn how to approach planning and design issues in an urban area,” Robinson said. “We think that … the students present their work to stakeholders in the hopes that there may be something there that can actually come to materialize.”
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Students will be key in growing downtown Tucson, say UA leaders and city officials, who are working together to increase housing and employment opportunities and expand UA programs in the area. Janice Cervelli, dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, and Bob Smith, vice president for business affairs, are leading the downtown discussion for the UA. Cervelli and Smith have been looking into the possibilities of bringing programs within various colleges as well as research opportunities to downtown. “The idea is to create a partnership between the university and the city whereby the city benefits from the expertise of our faculty and our students,” Cervelli said, “and our students and faculty gain experience by working for the city and the county.”
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the Tucson City Council is working with heads of various departments in city government to identify where students can assist in research and theoretical work, in an effort to expand research and internship opportunities for students. Between six and eight departments, including the city manager’s office, the Parks and Recreation Department and the Tucson Department of Transportation, have submitted job descriptions for student internships to the UA. The internships vary from clerical work in an office to webpage design, cleaning parks and geographic information system’s mapping. Students working in the city manager’s office would help sort out opinions and ideas regarding international trade, especially with Mexico. The director of human resources sent the job descriptions to Paul Melendez, a professor in the UA Eller College of Management, about a month ago. Melendez is now working on finding the appropriate areas of expertise in various UA departments. “We have to kind of expand the network so that
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Gunman incident was Official investigated for hoax, UA president says allegedly targeting Miller PAC-12
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A 911 call about a gunman reportedly seen on campus last month was a hoax, President Ann Weaver Hart said Monday during the monthly Faculty Senate meeting. Campus police continue to investigate the report. “I just want to thank everyone who’s worked so hard to make that a successful conclusion and how grateful we all are that this was a hoax that has not been followed up,” Hart said. The incident on March 22 caused the shutdown of several areas on campus, including the UA Mall and the Student Union Memorial Center, while officers from the University of Arizona Police Department and the Tucson Police Department searched for a man who was reportedly seen carrying a rifle near the Administration building. Initially police reported that the call came from a “third-party operator,” but did not define what that meant. According to Hart, the 911 report came through a nontraditional communication channel designed to assist the hearing impaired. There is no voice message that can be traced to a person, she said. Last week, Melissa Vito, chair for the Campus Emergency Response Team, sent an email to
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PRESIDENT ANN WEAVER HART discussed the gunman hoax and faculty and staff raises at the Faculty Senate Meeting on April 1.
the UA campus stating that the investigation of the incident is “continuing with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The email also encouraged members of the community to register for UAlert and addressed issues with response procedures. Vito noted confusion over campus evacuation strategies and the need for a broader campus “All is Clear” message. During the meeting however, Hart praised CERT for its response to the gunman report. “I believe the professionalism of our entire team here at the University of Arizona made a major difference in how well and how quickly we were able to manage the situation,” Hart said. “You just can’t ignore a shooter alert.” Hart then shifted the meeting
into a discussion on the possibility of faculty and staff raises, depending on whether or not the Arizona Board of Regents approve the university budget proposal on Thursday. The increase for the university would be for all faculty, staff and students and based on performance, Hart said. However, employees found to be “performing satisfactorily” fall within that category, she added. Hart would not say how much salaries could increase by because it could depend on the Legislature, she said. “I am acknowledging that the Legislature’s decision will have an impact on the nature of what happens with our salary increase,” Hart said. “Not that it will prevent us from moving forward with the plan, but that it is, in part, contingent on funds.”
The Pac-12 conference announced Monday that Pac-12 head of officials and former NBA referee Ed Rush was investigated for “inappropriate comments” regarding an Arizona Wildcats Pac-12 tournament game threeweeksago,accordingtoJeffGoodmanof CBSSports.com. Rush allegedly offered a group of referees “$5,000 or a trip to Cancun” should they give Miller a technical at some point during the Wildcats’ Pac-12 tournament quarterfinal game against Colorado on March 15, according to the report. No technical foul was called in that game, but in a similar meeting the next day, before the Pac-12 tournament semifinal against UCLA, Rush reiterated that “the officials should take similar action against Miller.” At the 4:37 mark in the second half, Miller was called for a technical after trying to clarify whether or not a UCLA player touched the ball on a double-dribble violation by UA point guard Mark Lyons. The Bruins sank both free throws, and the Wildcats lost the game, 66-64, and were eliminated from the Pac-12 tournament. The official who called the technical, Michael Irving, was in the room at the time of Rush’s incentive offering, according to CBSSports.com’s report. Rush has been the league’s officiating coordinator for 11 months. Miller made some spirited comments in the postgame press conference, repeating the phrase, “He touched the ball,” for emphasis on what he told officials before the technical was called.
A few days later, Miller was fined $25,000 by the conference for his remarks. “On Sunday, March 17, we first learned of the allegation of the events that occurred during the Conference Tournament,” Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne said in a statement. “Due to the serious implications, we immediately shared our concerns with Commissioner Scott and the Conference office. We know that an investigation was held and any further issue is a matter for the Pac-12 office.” Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott released a statement regarding the matter, stating that Rush’s comments were meant to be taken as a joke. Scott also ac- Sean Miller knowledged that the conference received a complaint that Rush had offered gifts to officials for “being stricter with Pac-12 coaches.” “Based on the review, we have concluded that while Rush made inappropriate comments that he now regrets during internal meetings that referenced rewards, he made the comments in jest and the officials in the room realized they were not serious offers,” Scott said in the statement. “Following our review, we have discussed the matter with Rush, taken steps to ensure it does not happen again, and communicated our findings to all of our officials.” Senior forward Solomon Hill took the news as one might expect, tweeting “im waiting for the PAC-12 to reveal its just an April fools joke…”