By
Katie Clark
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Student photos will show everyday life on campus
Bad weather dampened the pace, but not the spirit, of the University of Arizona's third annual "One Day at the U of A" event yesterday.
Student aids passed out 125 disposable cameras to other UA to take pictures around campus that represent the way they feel about diversity. But cold, rainy conditions slowed the distribution.
"We've usually given them all away by now," said Mike Remedi, Outreach and Development Coordinator for the UA, at around noon. "We've only given away about half."
However, Cory Shapiro, a business management and management information systems senior and the student leader of the event, said he was sure that by the end of the day all of the cameras would be given out.
"Projects like this make a large school like U of A smaller," he said. "We're hoping anyone can pick it up and see many different lifestyles."
Students will return the cameras today and the pictures will be published in a special insert of the Daily Wildcat in mid or late April.
Desiree Bear, a sociology freshman, was also excited about the event and didn't let the weather stop her from participating.
"It's a good thing to take pictures of diversity," she said. "I want to be able to say what I think is diverse."
Remedi agreed that student perspective is the most important goal of the event.
"We want to see what our students think about when they think about diversity," he said.
This is the first year the event has had a theme. Melissa Alfred, assistant editor to the dean of students, said the office chose diversity because it is an important issue across the nation as well as on campus.
"College campuses can make people feel good together and expose people to different cultures," she said.
"It goes with the whole theme of college," Bear added. "We come here to learn and diversity helps that."
