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Students harassed at UA
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ASUA fashion show a success
GIZMOS AND GADGETS
By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Some students on campus claim to have been harassed for the way they look — and it has nothing to do with race. The UA’s main website states: “At the University of Arizona, diversity isn’t just about talk. It’s about action. We build accessible and welcoming environments that support success.” The action is bolstered by the work of UA departments, such as the Office of Institutional Equity or, in extreme cases, the Judicial Affairs branch of the Dean of Student’s Office. “The University of Arizona will be a vibrant, inclusive community of diverse students, faculty and staff who value, challenge and inspire each other,” according to the website of the UA’s Office of Institutional Equity. Yet there are some UA students who feel as though they have been subjected to discrimination or profiling based on their appearance, race or even age. Stephen Green, an art education major, is part of an older generation, what he calls “non-traditional aged” college students. On April 18 at approximately 1:40 p.m., Green says he lie down for a nap in between classes on a sofa chair on the second floor in the UA Performing Arts building. After 15 minutes, Green says he heard a loud voice in close proximity to him. “What are you doing here?” the voice asked. The man identified himself as a UA professor and demanded to see Green’s CatCard. “I told him that I’d never seen him before and that I didn’t know who he was,” Green said. “So I asked him if I could see his identification as well.” After this exchange, the man, whom Green later identified as UA instructor of theatre arts, Matthew Marcus, left the immediate area and called campus police. Two uniformed officers arrived 10 minutes later. After speaking with Green and confirming that he was a student, one of the officers allegedly told Green to“be the bigger man and forget about this.” But for Green, it wasn’t that simple. “I was really upset, traumatized, embarrassed, humiliated,”he said. Green has since filed an official report with the UAPD department and is seeking recourse from the university, though he does not know what form that recourse will take. “It’s been very difficult for me to be on campus in general,” Green said. “I’ve missed several classes since then, and I don’t know if I can catch up or not. My main concern now is that the university addresses this in a way so that it never happens again.” Marcus declined to comment on the incident. Fellow UA student Todd DeFrank, in his mid-50s, alleges that he was stopped no less than six times by UAPD between June 2008 and April 2009 due to his appearance and age. DeFrank, who sports a large gray beard and walks with a crutch, says that his first encounter with UAPD occurred two weeks after he began school in June 2008. After losing his CatCard along with other forms of identification DeFrank went to the MISJUDGE, page A6
By Laura E. Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Members of the College of Optical Sciences’ Remote Sensing Group Nate Leisso, back, a postdoctoral student, and Charles Burkhart, an instrument maker and designer, calibrate a Short-wave Infrared Radiometer on the UA Mall on Tuesday. Leisso and Burkhart said that the clear, sunny weather was perfect to calibrate the radiometer for better use in their indoor lab.
About 200 people attended Diamonds in the Sky, a fashion show fundraiser intended to raise money for the Diamond Children’s Medical Center. The fundraiser, which took place on April 30, was pioneered by Associated Students of the University of Arizona Sen. Stephen Wallace. “Nearly all of the chairs were filled,” he said. The total profit was not available as of press time. The ASUA senate approved $5,000 for the event. Wallace initially requested $7,000 but lowered the amount upon receiving $4,000 from special events and $502 from the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership. The fashion show ticket prices were originally set for $20 a person, but, just days before the show,Wallace lowered the cost to $5 to get more people to attend. “We really wanted to fill it up, so we asked for a lower price,”Wallace said. He added that there were a lot of UA students at the event. “It was a great mixture of both Diamond Medical Center employees and supporters, as well as students, but the majority of attendees were students, which is great,”Wallace said. The event had four fashion designers, three of whom were Scottsdale Fashion Designers of the Year in 2008, 2009 and 2010. Several fashion designers made new lines of clothing for the show. “(ASUA) did a great time getting everyone together. It was chaotic at first when the models were running around, but it was incredible, I didn’t really have to do anything,” said designer Yu Yu Shiratori. Shiratori made mostly dresses and FASHION, page A6
Editors in chief ready for future By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The University of Arizona Media Board has chosen editors in chief for the upcoming summer and fall editions of the Arizona Daily Wildcat. Kevin Zimmerman, currently an assistant sports editor, was chosen to head the Arizona Summer Wildcat. Zimmerman has served on staff since 2008 as a sports reporter, assistant sports editor and sports editor. “At the time (2008), I was working as a stringer covering high school football for the (Arizona) Daily Star, but I e-mailed (current Editor in Chief) Lance Madden for an interview back when he was the sports editor, and he brought me on,” Zimmerman said. “This is a great opportunity first of all to lead, and I like to watch people develop which is the most rewarding part. There’s never a day working here that’s the same as the day before or the day after.” Zimmerman will focus on expanding the Summer Wildcat’s use of multimedia and Internet media to
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Kevin Zimmerman, right, and Colin Darland will take the helm as editor in chief for the summer and fall, respectively.
provide more diverse news resources for students. “Definitely I think this summer, we can discuss new ways to set that sort of stuff up,” Zimmerman said. “It’s going to be interesting to see what
kind of stuff and the types of projects we can do to see what makes a good multimedia piece.” Expanding multimedia usage is also a major goal of fall Editor in Chief Colin Darland, who served as
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the web director for the Daily Wildcat this semester. Darland has been with the paper since the 2008 fall semester. According to Mark Woodhams, the director of student media and faculty adviser for the Daily Wildcat, Darland is only the second non-journalism major to be named editor in chief of the daily edition of the Daily Wildcat in the past 16 years. He is currently an economics major. “In this day and age with so many competing sources of news, it’s really important for the Wildcat to offer up a product that no one else does in a way that continues to resonate with the readers,”Woodhams said. Darland, though, is not letting his lack of journalism experience hold him back. “I think to a degree it will help because I can give a fresh viewpoint to the paper,” Darland said.“Having come from a outside the circle, I can give an outside perspective. I can also surround myself with the right people so that any deficiencies there are in myself, my
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