TO CLIPS INDEX - Clips for February 29, 2008

Erickson to earn $2.4 mil more in deal
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 29, 2008 12:00 AM
Arizona State football coach Dennis Erickson will earn $2.4 million more in guaranteed salary
under terms of his new contract if it is approved by the Arizona Board of Regents at a meeting
March 6-7 in Tempe. Erickson was to make $5.1 million guaranteed from 2008-11 under
original terms of a five-year contract approved last year. Now he is in line to make $7.5 million
guaranteed from 2008-12, including a one-year contract extension. His annual guaranteed
salary starting in July will increase from $1,275,000 to $1.5 million.

ASU West closing popular child-care center
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 29, 2008 06:23 AM
An acclaimed preschool at Arizona State University at the West campus is scheduled to close in
June, upsetting West Valley parents. ASU says it no longer can afford to subsidize and give free
space to the privately run ASU West Child Development Center & Family Studies Research Lab.
The school needs more room for its growing enrollment, said Elizabeth Langland, vice president
of the West campus.

Astronaut Ride to host science festival for girls
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 28, 2008 11:03 AM
Young girls around the Valley will have the opportunity to learn about science this weekend during
a festival organized by the first American woman in space, Sally Ride. Ride will host the Sally Ride
Science Festival on Saturday at Arizona State University's Barrett Honors College complex in Tempe.

Downs in brief return to interviewer's chair
East Valley Tribune - February 28, 2008 - 11:42PM
Hugh Downs will be breaking out his notebook of questions this Saturday evening. But the veteran
broadcast journalist and longtime Paradise Valley resident won't be making a return to the camera
for this interview. Instead, Downs, 87, will make his hosting debut at the Scottsdale Center for the
Performing Arts, tossing questions to New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich, for the next
installment of the center's "In The Spotlight" series.

Music industry sues 14 at UA; file shares alleged
Arizona Daily Star - February 29, 2008
Fourteen unnamed UA students are being sued for copyright infringement by the recording industry's
trade association, which accuses the students of illegally downloading or sharing music files over the
Internet. The initial complaint was filed on Feb. 21 in U.S. District Court, and on Tuesday, attorneys for
the Recording Industry Association of America asked a federal judge to subpoena the University of
Arizona to provide the names and contact information for the students now identified only by computer
IP addresses.

Spill it
ASU Web Devil - February 29, 2008
Students won't be punished for calling cops, even if drinking underage, in cases of sexual assault and
alcohol poisoning
An unofficial ASU policy prevents underage student drinkers from getting in trouble if they call police to
report an emergency, an ASU Police official said Tuesday. Dubbed "medical amnesty," police officers
overlook alcohol offenses if the student called for police aid in cases of alcohol poisoning or sexual
assault, said ASU Police Cmdr. Jim Hardina.

Event to introduce girls to math, science careers
UA Daily Wildcat - 2/29/08
The sounds of more than 200 middle and high school girls will displace the dull hum of computers in
the Manuel T. Pacheco Integrated Learning Center tomorrow. Students from five counties in Southern
Arizona will be attending the Expanding Your Horizons conference, a national event the UA has hosted
locally for the past 26 years. The UA's Women In Science and Engineering program will run the
conference.

Arizona budget deficit labeled country's worst
Phoenix Business Journal - February 28, 2008 - 11:01 AM MST
Arizona has the worst budget deficit situation in the U.S., according to one group's figures. An analysis
by the liberal Center for Budget & Policy Priorities shows Arizona with the worst budget deficit in terms
of the shortfall's percentage of state spending. Arizona's estimated $1.7 billion deficit is 16.2 percent
of state spending, according to CBPP.