THENORTHERNLIGHT APRIL 20, 2010
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Students protest proposed 22% tuition increase By Joshua Tucker and Josh edge The Northern Light
UA tuition could increase 15 percent by 2012, adding up to a 22 percent increase by 2013 as proposed by outgoing University President Mark Hamilton. Tuition increases will occur incrementally from fall 2010 through 2013. On April 15 and 16, the UA Board of Regents, the body that makes the final decisions on tuition, met in Dillingham to discuss the potential tuition increases. A final decision will be voted on in September. Students responded with outrage to Hamilton’s proposal. On April 15, more than 30 protesters met in the UAA Student Union for speeches by USUAA Government Relations Director Nick Moe, outgoing USUAA President Michaela Hernandez and public communications senior Zach Liszka. Students also protested the proposed tuition increases on the campuses of
UAS and UAF. Over 1,000 students joined a Facebook group opposing the increase within 48 hours of the group’s creation. “Enough is enough. Tuition has increased eight years in a row,” Moe said. Compiling proposed increases through 2013, Moe continued, “22 percent is about 500 dollars per student, per semester.” UAA Chancellor Fran Ulmer contends that tuition would only increase by $128 in the fall 2010 and $364 in the fall 2011 for an in-state student based on hypothetical class load of eight lower division credits and seven upper division credits. This does not account for the total 22 percent increase that is being proposed. “Whether we like it or not, tuition increases are going to happen,” Hernandez said. “But what we do have a say in is to what degree they happen. We are in an economic recession. You have to propose something more manageable.” See ProteSt PAGe 08
Broomball offers students chance to get in game By Taylor Hall The Northern Light
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Zach Liszka leads the 22% tuition raise protest at the Student Union. The protesters marched around campus on April 15th with protest signs, which was the same day that the Board of Regents held a discussion in Dillingham concerning the tuition hike.
For most, the opportunity to suit up for a team and represent their school goes unfulfilled. They’re left to cheer from the bleachers as they watch their school be represented by other athletes. At UAA, this is very apparent with a limited number of clubs and organizations that compete outside the school walls.
Enter the new UAA Broomball Club. With very few sports programs, not to mention the high-level in which they compete, it’s tough for a UAA student to find their own means in representing the Seawolves athletically if they wish to do so. “There’s nothing better than throwing on you school jersey and colors,” Mike Teilborg said, a freshman who doubles as a player and See BroomBALL PAGe
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Student nurses fundraising for March of Dimes By Jerzy Shedlock The Northern Light
Lining the walls of the PSB, placards showcase the School of Nursing’s deep community involvement. The large placards are changed after every year as new projects are completed. The UAA Student Nurses Association (SNA) is raising money in support of the March for Babies. The walk is being put together by the Alaska Chapter of the March of Dimes and will be held on May 15.
SNA has set a goal to raise a total of $5,000, but the association’s real test is to reach a higher total of money raised than the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Providence Hospital. Individuals from the March of Dimes presented the challenge to the SNA during a kickoff meeting in March. Last year, the association was able to raise $4,600 under their previous team captain, who now works at the NICU at Providence. Brandi Segraves, the current president of the SNA, quickly accepted the task.
“(The challenge) encourages everyone to work harder and adds an edge of competition,” Segraves said. “The money we raise supports programs in our community that help moms have healthy, full-term pregnancies.” The March of Dimes was founded in 1938 as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to defeat the disease poliomyelitis, commonly known as polio. It is now a health charity whose mission is to “improve the health of babies by preventing
birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.” Student nurses at UAA are adamant about helping the March of Dimes’ researchers, educators and advocates battle common threats to newborn babies. According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services more than 460,000 babies are born too soon each year, some so small they can fit in the palm of a hand. Currently, half of all premature births have no known cause. The upcoming March for Babies hopes See BABieS PAGe 03