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Concert losses lead to drastic cuts Nagata The most noticeable and drastic cuts came from the special events budget, which sustained a $93,000 cut - from $108,000 to about $15,000 — at the student leaders’ weekly meeting at the Student Union Memorial Center last night. The Associated Students of the
By Shain Bergan Arizona Daily Wildcat
The UA student government passed part of a yearly budget last night that included thousands of dollars in cuts to pay off the losses from last April’s failed stadium concert.
University of Arizona saved $35,000 when the university took over financial responsibilty for the University Activities Board. The board has been moved outside of the ASUA offices to the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership. Despite the new savings, the student
government will spend the next several years paying off the $900,000 that was lost last spring on the Arizona Stadium concert, sponsored by ASUA, that featured Jay-Z, Kelly Clarkson, Third Eye Blind and The Veronicas. ASUA, page 5
Apple offers appealing aid By Devlin Houser Arizona Daily Wildcat
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Scholarship winner and freshman Jada Jones opens her new MacBook and 8 gigabyte ipod that she received as a part of the financial aid allocation on Aug. 26.
For the first time ever at the UA, about 500 incoming freshmen received a non-monetary scholarship this semester: a customized MacBook Pro pre-loaded with software and a few extras to boot. The university is trying out the MacBook Scholars Program as a way to reach students who may be left out using traditional criteria for scholarship eligibility, said Paul Kohn, vice provost for enrollment management and dean of admissions. “There are many students who we want here, but who we, if we use our normal formulaic approach looking at their GPA and their test scores … we’ll end up not making them a scholarship offer,”Kohn said. This group of students is characterized by a discord between their GPAs and their test scores, which could disqualify them for other, more traditional scholarships, he said. This semester, recipients in the program must be Arizona residents, have been accepted to the UA, have written an application essay and be enrolled full-time. Not owning a laptop computer is not a criterion. From this pool, a group of 10-12 reviewers assessed the application essays, looking for students who have overcome unique obstacles on their path to college, Kohn said. Through a partnership with the UofA Bookstore, which already works with Apple, the students have each received a 13-inch MacBook Pro, an HP printer/scanner, and a full rebate for an iPod Touch. The computers are valued at $1,300, and unlike most scholarships, this one is nonrenewable. The funding comes from the same money used for other scholarships, but the iPod Touch and printer were included at no extra cost to the university through the same student disMACBOOKS, page 3
strives toward candor By Marissa Hopkins Arizona Daily Wildcat The last two days, the Daily Wildcat asked President Robert Shelton about his hopes and concerns for the coming year. Today, the Wildcat’s Marissa Hopkins discusses student leadership and the budget with Associated Students of Arizona President and health sciences senior Chris Nagata. Daily Wildcat: What are your goals for the school year? Chris Nagata: My goal for this year is basically to reestablish credibility with the students. The methods to do that are just going to be for us to be very transparent, very open and also to be very available. How are you planning on getting the word out about what you’re doing for students? A lot of times student governments in the past have depended on the students to seek out their elected officials, and I think that’s a backwards method of doing things. In order to truly represent the students and truly encompass and articulate their wants, needs and concerns, student leaders and representatives need to go out and seek out the students. We need to go to their meetings, we need to go to their lunch tables, we need to go to their hang-out spots and really engage the students to figure out what concerns them. What are you already working on for this year? A lot of the summer work, and there will be a formal presentation at Wednesday’s senate meeting, but a lot of the summer work has been about planning and configuring a sustainable budget. We need a budget that won’t just carry us through this year, but will also set us up with some stability for five, six years down the road. We’ve also been partnering up with a lot of community and campus organizations, all with the purpose of enhancing the programs and services that are already institutionalized within ASUA. But we also need to supplement outside funding sources to, again, just make our programs and services more sustainable. Currently what we’re doing … Zona Zoo’s in full swing. We are also in the process of planning our Southwest Student Leadership Conference that’s happening here in October. Family Weekend is in the grind as well. We’re looking forward to having our retreat, just to get everybody on the same page. Furthermore, we’re also going to be planning a forum and it will happen Sept. 13. It’s just an opportunity for NAGATA, page 3
Dehydration a risk in desert By Yael Schusterman Arizona Daily Wildcat Alyssa Weaver’s vision became blurry as she stood cheering on the football stands, and before she could ask for help, she had blacked out from dehydration. “It wasn’t the first time that it happened. I have a tendency to pass out,” said Weaver, a visual communications junior, reflecting on her experience freshman year. She said she tries to drink more than
the reccommended six to eight glasses of water per day and that coming from Colorado, it takes time for her body to re-adjust to the Tucson heat. “It is also easy to forget about drinking water after drinking coffee and caffeine,” Weaver said. Shari Overland, nursing supervisor at Campus Health, said she deals with at least one or two cases of dehydration a day, more of them in the summer and fall than any other time. Part of the problem, she said, is ignorance of dehydration symptoms.
Many people “just aren’t aware of how much they need to keep drinking in order to stay hydrated,” Overland said. Campus Health Services recommends that students drink at least eight glasses of water a day, but said they should really drink more than that. Speech and hearing sciences senior Mallary Owen is from Phoenix, and said although she is used to the Arizona heat, it can still get to her at Rita Lichamer/Arizona Daily Wildcat
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