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ASUA talks budget, GPSC relations Grad By Devlin Houser ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona held its second meeting of the semester Wednesday evening, tying up a few loose budget ends, improving transparency and fomenting a new era of cooperation between the undergraduate student
government and the Graduate and Professional Student Council. Although the majority of ASUA’s budget was decided at last week’s meeting, the details of ASUA executives’ “operations accounts” were not resolved. The executives are the ASUA executive vice president, the administrative vice president and the student body president.
Last year, each executive received a $9,000 “operations budget,” which could be spent as the executive saw fit, after approval by the other executives and two other ASUA representatives. This year, each executive’s budget has been cut to $7,000. Another way ASUA is trying to cut spending and balance its $1.4 million budget is by requiring executives to
present their proposals to the senate 24 hours before spending any money. If executives do not provide advance notice, they must notify the senate within the following 24 hours and explain why prior notice was not possible. While senate notification is required for these expenditures, senate approval is not. ASUA, page 3
Former scouts give back
By Yael Schusterman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Believe it or not, there’s more to being a Girl Scout than just selling cookies. Former Girl Scouts and volunteers gathered yesterday evening at Ben’s Bells, 816 E. University Blvd., for the kick–off of a new UA club, the UA Campus Girl Scouts. Former Girl Scout and pre-business sophomore Laura Lelicoff formed the club as part of an outreach program meant to focus on underprivileged Girl Scouts in the Tucson community. Lelicoff said the club provided a chance for former Girl Scouts — now women — to give guidance to young women who may not be able to find it elsewhere. “I think that it is a great opportunity to be a role model for younger girls within the community and to have other women contributing as well,”she said. Girl Scouts can be as young as five and as old as 17 years old, Lelicoff said.
“Quick Girl Scout 101: the youngest girls are Daisies, a little older girls are Brownies and then we have Cadets,”she said. Lelicoff has worked closely with girls in the Girl Scout Sahuaro Council for the past two years and said she wanted to bring in more support from the UA campus. There were 60 volunteers last year and Lelicoff said she is expecting even more this year. The majority of volunteers are former Girl Scouts, she said, but not everyone. Kelsey Janet, a speech and hearing sciences junior and member of the new volunteer group, was at the event and feels it is valuable to the women as well as to the girls. Last year, Janet worked with underprivileged Girl Scouts in Tucson who were eager to learn and get involved, she said. “I got really close with the girls,” she said. “The best part of it is they really look up to you.”
council starts year By Lance Madden ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
The UA Graduate and Professional Student Council held its first meeting of the semester last night in the James E. Rogers College of Law building, marking a diverse start to the school year. The hour-and-twenty-two-minute meeting covered an array of topics, mostly pertaining to internal concerns and an array of budget issues. David Martinez, the new campus organizer from the Arizona Students’ Association , spoke briefly to the 22 assembled members at the beginning of the meeting, ensuring the GPSC that he would work to help make the university as affordable and accessible as possible. ASA will be working closely with the Arizona Board of Regents’ Tuition Task Force, which recently had a graduate seat added to it, Martinez said. ASA will also be working on the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act, which will involve the GPSC as much as possible, he added. “I want you to see me as a trusting source of information and as an advocate,” said Martinez, who served as a student regent on the Arizona Board of Regents from July 2007 to June 2009. A large amount of time was spent during the meeting discussing the necessity of hiring an office manager. “My biggest priority right now is getting a budget approved to get out and hire an office manager,” said GPSC President David Talenfeld . Representative Lucy Blaney, a Spanish and Portuguese graduate student , wanted to make sure the office manager would have open office hours, while other representatives inquired about hiring an office manager from within the council.
Other topics included:
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Kelsey Freese, top left, a 21 year old senior and communications major, Lauren Landefeld, left, 21, family services and human development major, and Christina Carlos, right, 18, pre-business major, paint ornaments for the Ben’s Bells Project at the Sahuaro Girl Scout Council Kick Off For Volunteers at Geronimo Plaza on East University Boulevard, Sept. 2.
• The GPSC awards travel grants for graduate and professional students to attend or present research at academic or professional conferences. Representatives discussed the acceptance process of applications, and whether judges should continue to be able to see an applicant’s name or if there should be a switch to an anonymous system. GPSC, page 3
SCOUTS, page 3
Travis concert pulls profit By Shain Bergan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Randy Travis performs at Centennial Hall, Aug. 22. The concert profits are estimated to have been between $6,000-$7,000.
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After 10 days of crunching numbers and counting expenses, UApresents came out almost $7,000 in the black for the Aug. 22 Randy Travis concert. The Centennial Hall show sold about 1,800 tickets, resulting in $75,558 of revenue in ticket sales, according the event’s newly completed budget obtained by the Daily Wildcat from UApresents yesterday. Between the $50,000 paid to Travis for his appearance, about $7,000 in produc-
tion costs and the almost $10,000 spent on advertising, the show’s total expenses came to $68,694, meaning UApresents ended up with $6,824 in profits from the show. The production costs were split between such expenses as hiring backstage personnel, enabling security and renting sound and light equipment. Because the expense amounts are not yet final, they may fluctuate slightly, but the profit will almost certainly stay between $6,000 and $7,000, said Mario DiVetta, a UApresents marketing associate.
UApresents reduces profit, stays in the black Despite losing 75 percent of its state funding due to budget cuts, UApresents has already generated more than $1 million in ticket sales for the current season, said Natalie Bohnet, executive director of UApresents. The ticket sale amounts are already 9 percent ahead of where they were this time last year. The current UApresents season CONCERT, page 7
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