Seven Hour Stand Off
COURTESY PHOTOS, PHOTO ILLUSTRAION BY SARAH COLPITTS
Summer Brings Surge of Young Job-Seekers by KAREN STIGAR Staff Writer
Summer isn’t all late nights and pool parties -- many students spend the sunny months saving money for school. “I work during the semester but I work a lot more in the summer,” Blake Wilkins said. “That way when school starts back, I’ll have money saved up so I don’t have to work as much during school.” The average wage a student earns in college is $11 per hour, according to classesandcareers.com. The rate of 16- to 24-yearolds working or looking for work grows sharply between
April and July each year. During these months, large numbers of high school and college students search for summer jobs while graduates enter the labor market in search of permanent employment, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last summer, the youth labor force grew 11.8 percent, to a total of 22.7 million in July, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The restaurant industry draws large numbers of young job-seekers. One-third of all adults got their first job expe-
see JOBS on page 6
Cudi Concert Expected to Sell Out by KRISTEN COPPOLA Staff Writer
Kid Cudi will perform in Barnhill Arena Sunday with Big Boi and Chip tha Ripper as the UA spring concert organized by University Programs. Close to 7,500 people are expected to attend the concert. “Tickets went on sale to the general public, and it’s expected to be sold out,” said Nick Kapetenakis, a mem-
ber of the Headliner Concert Committee. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the concert will begin at 8 p.m. The concert is general admission, and there are no assigned areas aside from the floor seating distinction. The Headliner Concert Committee books musicians with funds from student fees. The Kid Cudi concert will cost around $165,000, according to a headliner concert committee advisor.
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 VOL. 106, NO. 108 10 PAGES UATRAV.COM
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
A UA Chartwells employee was sitting atop the ledge of the Garland Avenue parking garage between the University Bookstore and TCBY ice cream shop Wednesday night. See story, page 6.
Collection of Treasures
by JON SCHLEUSS Staff Writer
One of the largest eggs ever produced by any species rests quietly in a bug-proof cabinet on the UA campus. Measuring barely longer than a foot and capable of holding about two gallons of liquid goop, it is one of the last remnants of a 10-foottall ostrich-like creature that lived in Madagascar until its extinction in the 1600s. Humans most likely ate the eggs of the elephant bird, Aepyornis maximus, which led to its extinction, said Nancy McCartney, the egg’s keeper and curator of zoology for UA Collections.
“Back in the late 1800s the British are all over the world and they’ve got nothing to do. So they start collecting things and trading them. There were little books that had the prices of these eggs,” McCartney said. A few feet from the large elephant bird egg is another cabinet with many drawers holding smaller eggs. Hawks. Pelicans. Bald eagles. Ostriches. Some eggs have a synthetic sheen. Others are white or faded yellow. Some are covered in beautiful brown specks. Most of the eggs roll around in groups of
threes or fours in small, light yellow boxes. Organizing these eggs was a long and meticulous process, McCartney said. “When you close the drawers, these things, they jump from one box to another. They do! It’s like Night at the Museum,” she said. McCartney, with the help of a work-study student, recently organized four separate collections of eggs. There are hundreds of goop-less, unhatchable shells in these cabinets. The eggs came from four main donors. McCartney list-
ed them so quickly it seemed she might know them personally. “Wheeler, Luther, Tomlinson and Miller,” she rang out. “They didn’t know when they made these collections what they would be used for.” She estimates that there are anywhere from 50 to 200 elephant bird eggs in the world. Her egg came from H.E. Wheeler’s collection. “It’s a curiosity and the ter-
see MUSEUM on page 6