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Banner Health to acquire UAHN BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY
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… talking to students about what consent is and how to look out for one another.” Ives said all fraternities on campus are required to hire security and register events where alcohol will be served with the UA. “I would say if there are problems, typically, they’re at events that aren’t registered, that they’re not notifying the university they’re hosting,” Ives said. A member of the UA’s Phi Gamma Delta chapter, Michael Anderson, 19, fell from a ventilation tower on the roof of the Colonia de la Paz residence hall and died from the resulting injuries in April of this year. A Pima County coroner’s
Banner Health is moving forward with its plan to acquire the University of Arizona Health Network, following two votes of approval Thursday. The Arizona Board of Regents and the UA Health Network board members voted unanimously to approve that the UA Health Network and the UA move forward with talks with Banner on the acquisition. At a press conference following the votes, UA President Ann Weaver Hart, Peter Fine, president and CEO of Banner, and Dr. Michael Waldrum, president and CEO of the UA Health Network signed a “principles of agreement” document, which will guide the acquisition. Banner, the UA Health Network and the UA now move into an exclusive negotiation period using the principles of agreement document as the overall driving guidelines moving forward, Waldrum said. Steven Lynn, chairman of the board of directors for the UA Health Network, said this move is the result of extensive planning and analysis by the health network. “UA Health Network recognized that Banner is a strategic partner who would enhance and strengthen our options and operations while honoring our unique legacy and culture,” Lynn said. The UA Health Network is separate from the UA, but operates closely with the university. The principles of agreement lay out a plan that would create more than $1 billion of new capital and investments, Lynn said. Banner would make significant investments into the UA Health Network, according to the principles of agreement. Banner would pay off the UA Health Network’s debt of about $146 million and create a $300 million academic
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FEDERAL GUIDELINES requires federally funded institutions, such as colleges, to decrease instances of gender-based violence such as sexual assault. Many colleges are cracking down on the fraternity party scene to cut back on campus assaults and misconduct.
BY HANNAH PLOTKIN
Arizona Summer Wildcat
Fraternities and sororities are an iconic staple of American college culture, but with mounting pressure on universities across the nation to curb sexual assault and misconduct on campus, some colleges are giving greek life the boot. Between heavy media coverage of misconduct and federal action to ensure colleges are in compliance with Title IX, a nongender discrimination law that now umbrellas sexual assault, some colleges, such as Amherst College, are banning greek life entirely in the hopes that instances
Johanne Ives, director of of rape and violent misconduct will Fraternity and Sorority Programs, decrease. The UA has dealt with its said she can understand why some colleges share of fraternal are looking misconduct, to decrease i n c l u d i n g sexual assault fraternities holding I think that on a associated with events in which college campus greek life, but alcohol was served a lot of sexual it is naive to to minors and assaults are tied to assume that reports of hazing, alcohol. restricting or resulting in four - Johanne Ives, director of e l i m i n a t i n g chapters losing Fraternity and Sorority fraternities recognition in the Programs will solve the past three years. problem. Unlike Amherst “I don’t think and other private colleges, the UA cannot prohibit the solution is saying, ‘We’re not students from belonging to a going to have fraternities anymore,’” Ives said. “I think it goes back to sorority or a fraternity.