TO CLIPS INDEX - Clips for February 22, 23, 24, & 25, 2008

ASU student earns credit while taking an ocean cruise
Arizona Republic - Feb. 25, 2008 12:00 AM
Editor's note: This article was written by Julie Newberg. Newberg works in media relations at the
ASU Downtown Phoenix campus. To submit education stories, e-mail lori.baker@arizonarepublic.
com. Kaelynn Sporka never dreamed that she would spend part of her college career sailing the
oceans of the world. Yet the 20-year-old tourism-development and management major at Arizona
State University won a $7,000 scholarship to do just that. The scholarship is from the National
Society of Collegiate Scholars and allows Sporka ...

Opinion: Laying a science foundation
Arizona Republic - Feb. 24, 2008 12:00 AM
Arizona is on the right path by building its economic future on a technical infrastructure
The recent announcement that Bill Gates and the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences have
donated $30 million to the LSST represents another major milestone in the evolution of Arizona as a
powerful force in the sciences. The LSST, or Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, will be constructed on
a mountain in northern Chile and will significantly enhance our understanding of the universe. But it's
an initiative conceived and managed in Arizona.

Mental-health info stays confidential at ASU
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 23, 2008 12:00 AM
ASU: Details required only if danger imminent
Arizona State University will not require students to disclose their mental-health histories after officials
earlier this week confirmed they planned to determine whether such a policy was feasible. Mental-health
experts had concerns that such a policy could discourage students from seeking help. Mental-health
information is confidential unless officials feel a student is an "imminent danger."

Opinion: Improve Arizona's education
Arizona Republic - Feb. 23, 2008 12:00 AM
The Arizona Department of Commerce projects that by 2013, 84 percent of Arizona's newly created jobs
paying a "livable wage" will require at least an associate's degree, while half will require a bachelor's or
advanced degree. This is a 21st-century reality, yet too few Arizona high-school graduates possess the
drive, qualifications and access to college to meet this challenge.

Governor orders state hiring freeze
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 22, 2008 12:00 AM
Amid pressure from lawmakers and a growing state-budget shortfall, Gov. Janet Napolitano on Thursday
ordered an immediate hiring freeze for all state positions not related to health, safety or revenue collection.
"The economic outlook for the nation and Arizona has changed considerably," she wrote in a letter to agency
and commission heads, Cabinet members and elected officials. "Unfortunately, collections in all of the
state's major revenue categories continue to fall below projections."

ASU professors, research group write guide to improved pavement projects
Arizona Republic - Feb. 21, 2008 03:40 PM
Arizona State University is behind a major change in how pavement projects worldwide will be designed
from now on. And the results of that work could mean fewer cracks and longer life for projects from roads
and bridges to airfields and ports. ASU and Applied Research Associates Inc. worked together to develop
the first new design guide for asphalt and concrete pavement in several decades, which is based on
science and engineering as opposed to experience.

Governor orders hiring freeze
Arizona Daily Sun - February 22, 2008
PHOENIX -- A day after brushing the question aside, Gov. Janet Napolitano on Thursday imposed a
statewide hiring freeze. In a letter to agency chiefs, Napolitano conceded that her September directive
to them to hire only necessary personnel wasn't having enough of an effect on the state's financial
condition to offset the worsening economic picture. At that time she told them to consider not filling
all vacancies. The governor said Thursday the move has "significantly limited" the growth of state
government.

NAU police investigating threats against transgendered student
Arizona Daily Sun - February 22, 2008
Northern Arizona University police are investigating written threats made against a transgendered
student and his roommate this month. University spokesman Tom Bauer confirmed that the police
opened an investigation after the student reported the slurs. Administrators have reached out to the
victims, and they held a meeting with the campus lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender club
Thursday, ...

Opinion: Medical-training campus at Kino a visionary idea
Arizona Daily Star - 2/24/2008
Our view: Facility would help address shortage of health-care workers in region
Pima County's $174 million plan to create medical-training facilities on the 70-acre campus at
University Physicians Healthcare Hospital at Kino is visionary. We hope the bond committee
recommends putting the measure on the ballot as early as possible — and that voters approve it —
so that work can begin quickly.

PCC, NAU set 90/30 program to ease path to 4-year degree
Arizona Daily Star - 2/24/2008
Pima Community College and Northern Arizona University are teaming up to offer students a more
flexible path to earning a bachelor's degree. The program will be announced Wednesday by Pima
Chancellor Roy Flores and NAU President John Haeger at a joint news conference at PCC's Down-
town Campus at 10:30 a.m. The partnership will provide a new 90/30 bachelor-degree program in
four areas: bachelor of arts and bachelor of science in interdisciplinary studies with an emphasis
on public management, and bachelor of arts and bachelor of science in interdisciplinary studies
with an emphasis on humanities.

Iowa physiology research chief appointed to UA provost post
Arizona Daily Star - 2/23/2008
Meredith Hay, an internationally known physiologist who has directed research activity at the
University of Iowa for the past three years, was appointed Friday as the University of Arizona's
next provost and executive vice president. The announcement by UA President Robert Shelton
ends a yearlong search and marks the largest and most important addition to his leadership
team since he took over as president in July 2006.

García gets the nod as new VP for instruction
Arizona Daily Star - 2/23/2008
UA President Robert Shelton appointed current vice provost Juan R. García to be the university's
new vice president for instruction and dean of the University College. García, who joined the faculty
of the UA's history department in 1981, had been serving as vice provost for faculty affairs. The new
combined position will give García vice presidential oversight of instruction in the UA's various
colleges, schools, departments and centers, as well as oversight of academic support programs,
the University Teaching Center and the Integrated Learning Center.

Ex-Arizona Gov. Mecham dies at 83
Arizona Daily Star - Feb 22, 8:58 PM EST
PHOENIX (AP) -- Evan Mecham, a firebrand conservative who served 15 months as Arizona's
governor before a dramatic impeachment trial removed him from office in 1988, has died, his son
said Friday. He was 83. Mecham had been in deteriorating health with symptoms of Parkinson's
and Alzheimer's diseases for years and died Thursday of circumstances consistent with his age,
son Dennis Mecham said.

Panel says pull your gun if you feel endangered
Arizona Daily Star - 2/22/2008
PHOENIX — A House panel voted Thursday to let people pull out their guns without fear of winding
up in jail if they believe they are in danger. HB 2629 would provide immunity from prosecution for any-
one engaged in "defensive display" of a firearm. That ranges from telling another person you are
armed to showing off the weapon, as well as actually holding the gun, provided it is not pointed
directly at another person.

Four Points at UA to be razed, replaced by loft-style hotel
Tucson Citizen - 2/22/2008
Four Points by Sheraton Tucson University Plaza, 1900 E. Speedway Blvd., will be torn down in the
spring and replaced with a boutique hotel in a new chain called aloft, a city official said. Both Four
Points and aloft are brands in the Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide chain. Demolition will start
as soon as Starwood completes the purchase of the land that Four Points occupies, which is owned
by Sundt Trust and the University of Arizona.

Napolitano orders hiring freeze for state agencies
Tucson Citizen - 2/22/2008
PHOENIX - Gov. Janet Napolitano has ordered a hiring freeze across all state agencies she controls
as a cost-savings measure. The governor's action exempts only those departments directly involved
in public health and safety or collecting taxes and managing state investments. Napolitano's actions
come a day after the Arizona House moved to impose a hiring freeze on state government to help
erase a big projected revenue shortfall.

A Black Hawk makes its first ASU landing
ASU Web Devil - February 25, 2008
Helicopter comes to ASU, takes Desert Rangers to training exercise
With a rush of noise and a cloud of dust, a Black Hawk helicopter landed on the Student Recreation
Complex fields Friday for the first time in University history. Thirty members of the Desert Rangers, a
 group within ASU's Reserve Officers' Training Corp, boarded the aircraft as part of a training and
leadership exercise, said Cadet Maj. Nicholas Gilewitch, the group's commander.

A hemisphere away, students reach out to fix water problems
ASU Web Devil - February 22, 2008
A group of ASU students will put aside their textbooks in March to work in a village in the Amazon
rainforest. Members of the organization Engineers Without Borders have been working with the
300 people of Tsukaru, Ecuador since last August to develop a new water and sanitation system
that will keep the villagers healthier. "A lot of the world's biggest problems are in sanitation," faculty
adviser Joby Carlson said.

Students film human side of medicine
UA Daily Wildcat Online - 2/22/08
For some, cancer is a death sentence. For Daniel Shapiro, it was an inspiration.
Motivated by his fight with the aggressive disease over a decade ago, the associate professor of
clinical psychiatry sought a way to bring the human side of medicine to UA medical students.

UA limits new hires
UA Daily Wildcat Online - 2/22/08
Total state hiring freeze spares universities
PHOENIX - The state's three universities will not be affected by Gov. Janet Napolitano's announcement
yesterday of a hiring freeze for state agencies, but the Arizona Board of Regents will be discussing ways
to tighten financial strings at its next meeting, officials said. Napolitano announced yesterday that all
cabinet agencies and executive agencies such as the Department of Administration and the Department
of Real Estate, should immediately implement a hiring freeze until further notice, said Shiloh Mitchell, the
governor's deputy press secretary.

Shelton picks Hay as provost
UA Daily Wildcat Online - 2/25/08
Appointment pending regents' approval; Hay would begin at end of April
The UA's nearly year-long search for a new provost is over. Meredith Hay, vice president for research at the
University of Iowa, has been chosen by President Robert Shelton as the UA's next provost and executive
vice president. Her appointment is pending approval by the Arizona Board of Regents during its March 6-7
meetings.

Year-old online university seeks new ownership
The Business Journal - February 22, 2008
Approaching its first birthday and 100 students, the Institute of Construction Management & Technology is
eyeing investors. The Phoenix-based online university is seeking private equity or an operator to acquire it
and take it to the next level, said Steve Cooper, president and CEO of ICMT. "I would love to keep it here
locally," said Cooper, who moved to Phoenix in June to take over ICMT. Before that, he was a sergeant first
class with the U.S. Army Military Police at Fort Dix, N.J.

Finally, state takes action to cut spending
Inside Tucson Business - February 25, 2008
With the fiscal year already two-thirds finished, there was finally some movement last week to address the
state’s impending $1.2 billion budget shortfall. On Thursday (Feb. 21), Gov Janet Napolitano ordered a
freeze on hiring for all open state jobs except those in health, safety and revenue collections. Napolitano
had been arguing against an emergency bill passed by the House earlier in the week to impose a hiring
freeze saying state agency directors had the situation under control.

Bills expand college tuition waiver for military
Arizona Capitol Times - February 22, 2008
A roadside bomb hit a truck in Iraq in 2003 and injured 1st Lt. Joseph Wren, a National Guard member
from Arizona. For his wounds, Wren was awarded the Purple Heart. Last year, an improvised explosive
device also hit a truck carrying American soldiers in Iraq, including 1st Lt. Joseph Turley, a police officer
from Mesa.

Elected state officials to attend Lincoln Day Dinner
Eastern Arizona Courier - Copper Era - February 25, 2008
The Eastern Arizona College will be on display Thursday when state officials join local residents for the
Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner in the Gherald Hoopes Activity Center on campus.

Party pledges 4-year college support
Eastern Arizona Courier - February 25, 2008
State, local officials attend Lincoln Day Dinner
With so many Republican politicians in attendance, the Graham/Greenlee County Republican Party’s
annual Lincoln Day Dinner looked more like a state convention than a local event. The dinner was held
at the Eastern Arizona College’s Gerald Hoopes Activity Center on Thursday, and the topic on the minds
of many of the political conglomeration was about getting the State Legislature to allow EAC to offer four-
year bachelor degrees.