Katie Clark - April 17th, 2008
On April 8, students and local city residents packed into Flagstaff Public Library’s auditorium for two speakers, Jim Tuck, council member of the Citizens’ Transportation Advisory Committee, and Joanne Oellers, a biologist from the Center for Biological Diversity.
Tuck discussed the proposed propositions in the upcoming election, in regards to the future of public transportation for Flagstaff.
Currently, there are over 800,000 riders yearly with 48 percent communting to work, 23 percent communting to school and 18…
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Chris Coplan - April 17th, 2008
Plans to expand NAU’s presence in Lake Havasu City into a full-blown residential campus have been placed on hold after a survey reveals minimal interest in developing that region.
Lipman Hearne, a national marketing company, was hired by NAU to survey parents and students in the Phoenix, Lake Havasu City and southern California regions as to how interested they would be in a potential campus that could be the academic home for up to 7,000 students. …
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Chris Coplan - April 17th, 2008
Arizona students are leading the next charge in the Make Textbooks Affordable campaign by lobbying not only for cheaper textbooks, but pushing for more alternatives, including free texts.
April 15 marked the national announcement of various state students’ associations and state branches of the Public Interest Research Group, having gathered 1,000 signatures from professors at 300 schools throughout the country, including the University of California Irvine and Duke University, in support of open textbooks. NAU hosted…
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Alex Mudd - April 17th, 2008
For the past eight years some NAU students and professors have been frequenting an excavation site in the northern Mexico state of Senora. Professor James Mead, a geology instructor and paleontology expert, usually takes students down on multiple occasions over the course of the year.
The expeditions began when some mammalogist colleagues of Mead were studying bats near a Mexican village. According to Mead, some of the village elders brought some bones they believed could be…
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Blaine Hubbard - April 17th, 2008
Two days before students at Northern Illinois University (NIU) returned to class after the tragic shooting on the campus last month, psychologists and counselors traveled from all over the country to help ease students back into the first week of class.
Dr. Laura Lyn, psychologist and training coordinator at NAU’s Counseling and Testing Center, was one of the professionals who went to provide her therapeutic skills in the long and difficult recovery process.
On Saturday, March 23…
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Blaine Hubbard - April 17th, 2008
Although the NAU Police Department is currently understaffed, the increase in the officers’ workloads have not affected their response times.
Currently, the NAUPD employes 15 officers, including the police chief. The department could staff a total of 19 positions, four more than what they are presently working with.
Gregory T. Fowler, police chief with NAUPD, said the authorized capacity of the department has not been completely filled since before he started working with them a year ago.
“We…
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marissa luck - April 10th, 2008
On April 1 students stopped and stared as activists against human sex trafficking were chained together to raise social awareness. Unaware of the cause, spectators gazed upon this sight, watching their fellow peers chained by the wrists, walking slowly in silence. Some viewers laughed and called names while others ignored this group altogether. Those who asked were shocked to find that human trafficking is the world’s third largest criminal enterprise, after drugs and weapons, according…
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Alex Mudd - April 10th, 2008
The April 3 city council debate held at NAU gave the eight candidates running for city council and mayor a chance to differentiate themselves on issues concentrated mostly on economic growth, environmental sustainability and Flagstaff infrastructure.
Despite an overall cordial debate, the most substantive criticism was from council hopeful Morgan Hagaman, who used the affordable housing crisis as an example of the necessity for more common-sense thinking.
“Everyone talks about the affordable housing. How can you get…
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Blaine Hubbard - April 10th, 2008
NAU is teaming up with Pima Community College (PCC), Mohave Community College (MCC) and Chandler-Gilbert Community College (CGCC) to offer students a more affordable and flexible option to obtaining a bachelor’s degree.
During a press conference in Tucson in late February, NAU President John D. Haeger and PCC Chancellor Roy Flores announced the first in-state 90/30 program offered to students for earning a baccalaureate degree. The program will allow students to take up to 90 credits…
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Katie Clark - April 10th, 2008
On March 26, The Longest Walk II visited Flagstaff with leaders and activists for Native American rights and presented to a packed auditorium in Cline Library.
The Longest Walk II started in San Francisco in Febuary as a walk across the nation to commemorate sacred Indigenous lands and is proposed to end in Washington, D.C. in July.
Dennis Banks, the founder of the walk and a Native American leader who co-founded the American Indian Movement, was the…
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