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Thursday, April 8, 2004
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Students vote down activity fee
The student activity fee was shot down last night with 56.6 percent of student voters opposing the $15 per semester charge.
More than 3,000 voted in the special election held over the past three days.
After the results were announced last night, student leaders said there should have been more time to educate students about the vote.
The Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate approved the activity fee referendum March 31, and the special election began on Monday, giving fee organizers only a few days to market the fee.
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'Fling' springs into action today
In 1974, two UA students, Ken Sobel and Scott Nation, went on a trip to California to see how student governments were run.
While at the University of California, Los Angeles, they heard about a Mardi Gras carnival put on by student government to raise money.
Sobel, the newly elected student body president, and Nation, the newly elected executive vice president, came back to the UA, determined to plan and organize a carnival for the UA and Tucson community.
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Cell phone use leads to more campus crashes
Ed Stokes experienced the scare of his life two weeks ago when he crossed a street near campus with his 7-year old daughter and her friend.
As Stokes, a UA alumnus, reached the end of a crosswalk with the two children, a student talking on her cell phone while driving her car raced down the street, hitting the stroller where the children sat.
Lisa Stokes, Ed Stokes' wife, said she's not sure the student's cell phone use caused the accident but did say the student was not paying attention.
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Asua Briefs
The ASUA Senate approved the Appropriations Board consent agenda for $400 for Alpha Phi Gamma.
Alpha Phi Gamma requested $900 in funding to attend its annual conference in June in Los Angeles.
The senate also approved a Solar Living Resolution stating that ASUA supports research toward and promotion of environmentally and socially responsible living.
The UA Student Initiative Solar Power Living & Learning organization put forth the resolution.
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On the spot
Senior has no funny stories, thinks males try too hard to impress females, isn't a player
Ly: Kaibab-Huachuca front desk, Chun speaking. How can I help you?
Wildcat: Hi. I was just wondering if there was anyone I could talk to. I lost my favorite pair of Velcro shoes in California this weekend.
Ly: OK.
Wildcat: And I was wondering if there was anyone here who could cheer me up.
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Fastfacts
Things you always never wanted to know
Giraffes, zebras and chimpanzees have exhibited homosexual behavior.
The system of writing checks predates the use of coinage. A full millennium before the world's first coins were struck, checks inscribed on clay tablets were used as currency in ancient Babylon.
The albatross has the largest wingspread, anywhere from 10 feet to 12 feet, of all the creatures flying today. This bird has adapted so well to life in the winds of the Atlantic Ocean that once the young albatross leaves the island of its birth, it may not touch any land again for two years.
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Campus detective
Question: Who is Louise Foucar Marshall? I know she has a building named after her, but what did she do?
Answer:
This was exactly something I was wondering about.
This case starts off simply enough. Louise Marshall was the UA's first female professor and the founder of the Marshall Foundation in 1930, a nonprofit organization to whom most of the businesses in Main Gate Square pay rent.
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