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MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2013

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Incoming housing to offer more options BY RACHEL MCCLUSKEY

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KAYLIE FOSTER (RIGHT), Resident Assistant at Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall and marketing senior, and Emma Bishop (left), a student volunteer, help move students into the Colonia de La Paz Aug. 22. This is the first year that Residence Life used a centralized check-in system.

Residence halls, streets fill during move-in process of more than 6,000 students BY CHELSEA CANIZALES & EMILY BREGGER The Daily Wildcat

After roughly 13 hours on the road coming from Colorado, Lindsey Willman pulls up to her new home at Hopi Lodge Residence Hall. T-shirts, banners and flyers display the new theme for resident check-in: “Welcome

Home.” “Nervous is an understatement,” said Justine Willman about dropping her daughter off for her first year of college. As incoming freshman Maria Arey arranged photos of her friends and pets onto her shelves and unpacked her belongings in her new room in Yavapai Residence Hall, she spoke about missing the comforts of home such as talking face-to-face with her mother. “It was hard because I had to move out of the home I had lived in for 17 years,” said incoming freshman Maria Arey. “But it was also like I’m changing up my whole environment.”

Arey said easier access to classes and a chance to better manage her time are only a few of the benefits of leaving what is familiar to her at home. Lindsey Willman also expressed concern about leaving behind the familiarity of home. “I’m feeling a little excited but also nervous. I have never lived with anyone except for my parents,” Willman said. “It will be very

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The off-campus student housing market continues to grow in Tucson as three more complexes are set to open next year. Next, built by Campus Acquisitions; Hub at Tucson, built by Core Campus; and The Junction at Iron Horse, built by Royal Properties, will house UA students by summer 2014. Three new off-campus student-housing complexes — The Retreat, Level and The Cadence — ­opened this summer. Michael Yeagle, senior vice president of Campus Acquisitions, said Next and Hub at Tucson will create a destination, making the area just west of the university a new student neighborhood. “I think [the new housing complexes] will be great for this area,” Yeagle said. “I think that with as many students that go to the University of Arizona and being immediately across the street from school this will

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There wasn’t a lot of good options immediately adjacent to campus for students.

— Michael Yeagle, senior vice president of Campus Acquisitions

Sun Link promotes streetcar safety campaign BY MAGGIE DRIVER The Daily Wildcat

A campaign to educate Tucson citizens on ways to be safe around the streetcar tracks begins this week. To bring attention to community safety, Sun Link plans to advertise the safety campaign through various outlets around Tucson. Outreach efforts will include a 30-second public service announcement, brochures, and social media announcements, according to Joan Beckim, public outreach project manager for Sun Link. “The education materials will target bicyclists, pedestrians, motorists and people with disabilities so that it will be a universal, all-inclusive awareness

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campaign that educates all people traveling in all different ways,” said Bill Davidson, manager of public information and marketing for Parking and Transportation Services. The Tucson Modern Streetcar will be able to serve a population of around 100,000 people who live and work within the nearly fourmile alignment tracks, according to Shellie Ginn, program manager for the Tucson Modern Streetcar. With so many potential riders, the education campaign must try to reach the entire community and take advantage of social media including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, Ginn said. To gain student ridership, the UA is partnering with Sun Link.

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CONSTRUCTION NEARS COMPLETION at all Tucson Modern Streetcar stops. Educational posters informing the public on proper safety precautions will be in place soon.

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