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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 21
SPINNING COLORS
OPINIONS - 4
EDITORIAL: ASUA SENATE FAILS TO REPRESENT SPORTS - 6
FOOTBALL TO FACE LOUD CROWD AT UW
ARTS & LIFE - 10
ARIZONA BAND TO PLAY FREE UNION SHOW
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TREVOR BIGELOW, a physiology freshman, practices with the UA Color Guard for the Pride of Arizona on Monday.
ADOT offers vets new services BY FERNANDO GALVAN The Daily Wildcat
Veterans in Arizona can now be recognized for their military service on their driver’s license or identification and may qualify to opt out of a test requirement for a commercial license. According to the Arizona Department of Transportation, veterans can have their military service recognized by choosing to add the word “veteran” next to their name on their driver’s license, and they can request a waiver for the skills test for a commercial motor vehicle license if they meet specific criteria. To receive the “veteran” designation on their license, they must show proof of their status. The veteran must also fill out a new application and take a new photo for the license or ID card. To qualify for the commercial driver’s license skills test waiver, the veteran must be on active duty or must have been inactive from the military within 90 days under an honorable discharge. Veterans must have also operated a commercial motor vehicle while in the military, for at least two years directly before being discharged or when applying for the waiver. The waiver will allow veterans to use their experience and the training they received while in the military to obtain a civilian commercial driver’s license. While the transportation department will be in charge of handling these services, they are not responsible for making the services a reality. Both of the changes were passed through Arizona legislation, according to Harold Sanders, a representative from the public information office for ADOT.
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UA students assess internships BY MAGGIE DRIVER
The Daily Wildcat While a national survey shows there is little benefit to unpaid internships, some UA students say internships are valuable regardless of whether they’re paid or not. A 2013 survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers showed little percentage difference between students with unpaid internships and those with no internships, when it came to getting a job after college. The survey, found on the NACE website, showed that 63.1 percent of students with paid
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STEPHANIE SMITH (LEFT), the internship coordinator for the communication department at the UA, talks with Alissa Patmos, a graduate student studying communications, on Monday.
internships received at least one job offer, while only 37 percent of students who had an unpaid internship and 35.2 percent who had no
internship experience were offered a job after graduation. The survey included responses from 9,215 seniors who were earning
a bachelor’s degree, and has been conducted for three consecutive years, according to the association’s website. A lot of students want paid internships, said Stephanie Smith, internship coordinator for the communication department, but there are some reasons students may prefer an unpaid internship. In the communication department, for example, students can’t get school credit if the internships are paid, Smith added. But there are also factors that drive students away from unpaid internships. If the department requires a student to pay summer
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Graduate student co-hosts show on Science Channel
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The Daily Wildcat Martin Pepper, a doctoral candidate at the UA , could tell you a thing or two about machete ambushes. He has survived four of them. Pepper, co-host of the Science Channel’s newest show, “How the Earth Works,” premiering Oct. 9, is no stranger to the dangers that accompany research abroad. He recently returned from South America where he spent a year collecting sand samples from rivers to see the effect of erosion on the continent from the past two to three billion years. “There was a mob that took me over in Ecuador,” Pepper said. “I was sleeping and minding my own business when all of a sudden they came into my tent with a couple of shotguns, a couple of machetes,
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MARTIN PEPPER a doctoral candidate at the UA, films a scene for the show “How the Earth Works.”
and I thought, ‘I’m done.’ It ends up they thought I was some thief from the town over. When they saw I was a tourist … they realized it wasn’t me. They tried to put
everything back neatly.” The show is filmed on location in Japan, Indonesia, Italy, Iceland, Colorado and Northeast America
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If the Senate is unable to work with its own president, how can students be expected to work directly with, or for, them?” OPINIONS — 4
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