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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 25

Hart to host first town hall of semester BY BRITTNY MEJIA

The Daily Wildcat UA President Ann Weaver Hart will hold her first town hall meeting of the semester on Tuesday, where topics could range from the university strategic plan to faculty and staff compensation.

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The town hall, which takes place in the Flandrau Science Center Planetarium in the planetarium theater room 219B from noon to 1 p.m., will allow students, faculty and staff to ask questions. Questions cannot be asked in advance and the town hall will not be live streamed, according to Heather Lukach, administrator for presidential

events and visitor services. The purpose of the forum is to allow the president to reach out to the community about what she’s been doing and her vision for the UA, according to J.C. Mutchler, executive director and vice president for the Executive Office of the President. “It’s also a chance for people

to come to the meeting and ask her questions about issues that they have concerns about or ideas that they have and share them,” Mutchler said. “It’s really an oldfashioned town hall in the historical sense of a chance to interact and see what’s on everybody’s mind.” One of the main focuses of the

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VOLLEYBALL SWEPT AT CAL

BY JOEY PUTRELO

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In front of a sold-out crowd at the historic Fox Tucson Theatre, members of the 1997 National Championship Arizona basketball team celebrated their 16th anniversary on Friday. Cohosted by the Primavera Foundation and the Blair Charity Group, the celebration raised more than $35,000 to help counter the rising poverty level in Tucson. Household names, including former head coach Lute Olson and Arizona star players Miles Simon and A.J. Bramlett, were in attendance. Simon, now an analyst for ESPN, received the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player Award in 1997. Arizona basketball fans and 10 members of the championship team watched a replay of the 84-79 overtime victory against Kentucky at the theater. During breaks in the game, the audience enjoyed entertainment from the master of ceremonies, Joseph Blair. Blair, founder and owner of the Blair Charity Group, gave out raffle prizes to attendees and interviewed the former Wildcats about their memories of the game and where they are today. “Joseph Blair and the Primavera

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We didn’t run any plays. We just had smart basketball players that knew how to play right away.

— Miles Simon, former UA basketball player

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Student starts nonpartisan Hispanic alumni Second Amendment club honor city manager BY MARK ARMAO

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to shoot is “fantastic.” The College Republicans plan a trip to a shooting range every semester. “A lot of the people who come with us have never shot before,” Kotzambasis said. “Once they learn how to use them, they realize it’s really not scary [like] how they thought it was, and I think it’s very empowering for a lot of our members.” While he said he supports anyone trying to start a club on campus, Nick Mahon, president of UA Young Democrats, said education about guns should include facts about deaths caused by gunshots.

The UA Hispanic Alumni Association will honor City Manager Richard Miranda at a fundraising dinner Friday. The 29th annual Portraits of Excellence Scholarship Dinner is intended to raise money for the UA Hispanic Alumni Scholarship Program while honoring the city manager and former chief of police of the Tucson Police Department for his years of service to the Tucson community. “He is Tucson,” said Marc Acuna, assistant director of Multicultural Clubs and the UA Alumni Association Scholarship Program. “He’s just a genuine, compassionate individual that cares about his city.” Born and raised in South Tucson, Miranda graduated from Sunnyside High School, before attending the UA, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in public management. He also has a master’s degree in educational leadership from Northern Arizona University. Shortly after college, Miranda began his career with the Tucson Police Department. He was named

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CHRIS BRADFORD advocates gun rights on campus in front of the Modern Languages building, on Sept. 20. Bradford was helping Cale Lyford, an economics freshman, recruit students to join a new Second Amendment club on campus.

BY STEPHANIE CASANOVA

The Daily Wildcat A UA student is working on starting a non-partisan Second Amendment club. Cale Lyford, an economics freshman, said he got the idea of starting Student Second Amendment Union about a week and a half ago. Lyford began to recruit students on the UA Mall and emailed the UA College Republicans and UA Young Democrats asking to promote the club at their meetings. The club’s mission is to create a positive attitude toward firearms and

educate people on how to properly use them, according to Lyford. In order to reach this mission, club members would take trips to a shooting range, Lyford said, adding that through these trips, members would learn the importance of owning a gun and not being afraid of firearms. “Second Amendment is traditionally a contentious issue and used between the two sides,” Lyford said. “But I think if your goal is education, then you’re going to want to attract people from both sides.” Zoey Kotzambasis, president of UA College Republicans, said the idea of a club that trains its members how

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