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Thursday Mar. 7, 2002

Hull calls for smaller employee raises

Legislature still debating graduated-raise plan

Gov. Jane Dee Hull wants to make raises for UA employees smaller than planned and distribute them later in the year, she said Tuesday, changing her original stance that called for eliminating the raises altogether.

Hull asked the state Legislature Tuesday to approve 2.5 percent raises for all full-time public employees, including University of Arizona employees, to be distributed on June 24.

Originally, and as the law currently reads, all full-time public employees would receive 5 percent raises, with a $1,500 minimum raise, on April 1.

"Barring a compromise by all parties, my only option as governor may be to exercise my veto power and substantially reduce the April pay package as approved by the Senate," Hull wrote in a press release, referring to a plan that has passed the Senate and is now under debate in the House. [Read article]

 

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Psychology junior Matt Ehler casts his vote in the ASUA general election yesterday afternoon outside of the Student Union Memorial Center. ASUA elections began online yesterday and will continue until 8 p.m. tonight. Winners will be announced tonight at 9 p.m. at Sharky's, 800 E. University Blvd. Votes can be cast at http://www.asua.arizona.edu.

Fast facts:

  • Five times as many meteors can be seen after midnight as can be seen before.
  • If an astronaut tried to land on a neutron star, he or she would be crushed by the extremely strong force of gravity and squashed into a thin layer less than one atom thick.
  • The temperature of Earth's interior increases by one degree every 60 feet down.
  • The temperature on the Moon reaches 243 degrees Fahrenheit at midday on the lunar equator. During the night, the temperature falls to -261 degrees Fahrenheit.
  • The Ulysses Solar Mission revealed that matter flows outward from the south pole of the sun at a rate of one million tons per second.
  • Some neutron stars spin 600 times a second, which is as fast as a dentist's drill.
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    On this date:

  • In 1847, U.S. General Scott occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico.
  • In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone.
  • In 1926, the first transatlantic telephone call took place between London and New York.
  • In 1933, the board game Monopoly was invented.
  • In 1939, Glamour magazine began publishing.
  • In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised the filibuster rule, afterward allowing 60 senators to limit debate.
  • In 1981, an 18-year-old was stabbed to death in the first homicide at Disneyland.
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    Quotable...

    "President Clinton's offenses had a significant adverse impact on the community, substantially affecting the public's view of the integrity of our legal system."
    - Independent Counsel Robert Ray about former president Bill Clinton and the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Pay concluded yesterday evidence existed to bring criminal charges against Clinton.


     

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