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TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015

IN THE NEWS Boston Marathon Bombing trial wraps up Israel lists changes it wants in final Iran nuclear deal

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Tuition raises concerns The Faculty Senate expressed concerns over the hikes in tuition

BY ALISHA PERERA The Daily Wildcat

The rise in tuition was the main focus of the Faculty Senate when its members gathered on Monday afternoon for their monthly meeting. Graduate and Professional

Student Council representatives and faculty members brought up their concerns in regards to the future of tuition at the UA, given the budget cuts. During the open session of the meeting, GPSC treasurer Jared Brock discussed his meeting two weeks ago in Washington with five other members of GPSC

and a congresswoman from Arizona. During this meeting, they discussed the difference in interest rates among graduate and professional students and undergraduate students. “The 2013-14 school year was the first time in history that graduate professional students were charged a different interest

Fourth Brooklyn man charged in plot to join Islamic State

BY AMBER WHITE

The Daily Wildcat

Architecture, won first place and was awarded a $3,000 prize. Her presentation detailed her research about an affordable, sustainable and energy efficient alternative to the substandard housing within the Hopi Reservation. “As an undergraduate student, I began to study building efficiency

Arizona Ambassadors provide prospective students and their families with a warm welcome and some UA history to make them feel more at home on campus during their orientations. The UA organization has existed on campus since 1979. Each ambassador memorizes and recites the facts about the UA’s history for thousands of parents, prospective high school students, alumni and other people interested in the UA throughout the year. Some of the locations on the tour include Old Main, the Student Recreation Center, the Main Library and Bear Down Gymnasium where they sing “Bear Down, Arizona,” the UA’s fight song. They give tours around campus Monday through Friday at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. with about 17 people in each tour. On Saturday, the tours start at 10 a.m. Haley Berner, a nutritional sciences junior and ambassador since fall 2014, became the ambassador president last November. She is in charge of speaking in the monthly meeting, disciplining the other 128 ambassadors and overseeing the rest of the leadership team. Berner said she believes having a positive person who can express a lot of information about the university in a fun way is key to getting freshmen to become Wildcats. “We make or break prospective students’ decision to come here,” Berner said. “I’ve had so many students come up to me and say, ‘I’m coming to the UA because of you.’ We are a huge influence as to how are university is going to turn out and what kind of people are going to come here.” Sydney Werry, a theatre arts senior, has been an ambassador ever since freshman year and is one of the oldest people, both age- and time-wise, in the club. Since becoming an

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SPORTS

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Duke wins 2015 National Championship

ARTS & LIFE

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RACHEL LAMANTIA, a graduate student in the College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, poses for a picture just after she was announced the winner of the Grad Slam on Monday. LaMantia was awarded a $3,000 prize.

Graduate students talk about their research BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat

Learn ‘everything’ with NPR podcast Page 10

OPINIONS Opposition to needle exchanges reflects irrational desire to punish drug users Page 4

QUOTE TO NOTE “‘We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it’ should not come with an asterisk next to it.” — Tom Johnson

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History taught through tours

Palestinians want UN timetable to end Israeli occupation

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rate than undergrads,” Brock said. Brock also said that there has been an increase in the amount graduate students are charged compared to undergraduate students. Moises Paiewonsky, an associate professor and interim

Six UA graduate students competed for a chance to win up to $3,000 in prize money at the Grad Slam Final Round on Monday. Each finalist gave a three-minute presentation about a project related to their own research and

discoveries. “The talks are short TED Talk-style presentations featuring some of the UA’s most effective graduate student presenters,” said David Bradshaw, program coordinator for the UA Graduate Center, in an email. Rachel LaMantia, a graduate student in the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape

DREAMers work to attend college BY JOSEPH D’ANDRE

Arizona Sonora News

Every year, roughly 65,000 children who are undocumented citizens, but safe from deportation, graduate from high schools in the U.S. Of these 65,000 students, only around five to 10 percent continue on to college, according to the Immigration Policy Center. In contrast, close to 3.3 million total students are expected to graduate from high schools in the U.S. in 2015, and of those, an estimated 66 percent will continue on to attend college, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. This number is such a staggering disparity, because the U.S. government does not offer any scholarships to undocumented citizens, even those that are

immune from deportation under President Barack Obama’s deferred action initiative. These undocumented citizens have become known colloquially as DREAMers. They are immigrants brought to the U.S. at a young age, and protected from deportation by the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act. According to the Immigration Policy Center, an individual qualifies as a DREAMer if they are “under the age of 31; entered the United States before age 16; have lived continuously in the country for at least five years; have not been convicted of a felony, a ‘significant’ misdemeanor or three other misdemeanors; and are currently in school, graduated

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SUPPORTERS OF THE DREAM Act gather before the act was passed to voice their opinions. DREAMers who want to attend college often face additional financial stuggles.

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