TO CLIPS INDEX - Clips for April 23, 2008

Colangelo quits business-leader group
The Arizona Republic - April 23, 2008 12:00 AM
'Time to move on in terms of leadership,' he says; Pinnacle West exec to head alliance
Jerry Colangelo, once a titan in downtown Phoenix development, is fading from the inner circle.
Today, he'll end his nine-year stint leading the Phoenix Community Alliance, a key group of
business leaders who have provided behind-the-scenes muscle for many downtown projects.
Those include the $1.4 billion light-rail line, the $600 million Phoenix Convention Center overhaul
and the $900 million City-Scape development in downtown. The alliance board is expected to vote
to name Martin Shultz, an influential executive with Pinnacle West Capital Corp., parent company
of APS, as the group's new chairman.

Justice Project is moving to ASU's College of Law
The Arizona Republic - April 23, 2008 12:00 AM
The Arizona Justice Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to exonerating those wrongfully
convicted and correcting other manifest injustices, is moving to the Sandra Day O'Connor College
of Law at Arizona State University. For 10 years, the Justice Project has been housed at Osborn
Maledon P.A., where attorney Larry Hammond has served as chairman. The move is made
possible by a $150,000 grant from the Arizona State Bar's non-profit foundation, the Arizona
Foundation for Legal Services and Education, which also will allow the Justice Project to hire its
first permanent staff, including an executive director, a development director and an administrative
assistant.

No Child Left Behind changes target poor, minority grad rates
Chicago Tribune - Arizona Daily Star - April 23, 2008
CHICAGO — In a last-ditch effort to strengthen the No Child Left Behind law, the Bush administration
announced Tuesday that it will require schools to make sure low-income and minority students
graduate from high school at the same rate as their white and more affluent counterparts. Schools
that fail to meet those goals would face sanctions, according to a wide-ranging plan unveiled by U.S.
Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings. Currently, the law requires that schools meet a graduation
target for the entire senior class. The new proposal would require that smaller groups of students —
broken down by race, income and special-education status — each meet the graduation goals. If any
one of the groups fell short, the entire school would be considered failing.

Lute Olson ordered to court over banking transaction
Arizona Daily Star - April 23, 2008
University of Arizona basketball coach Lute Olson has been ordered to appear in court May 7 to
explain a banking transaction he made after he filed for divorce from his wife, Christine. Christine
Olson's attorney, Kathleen McCarthy, claims Lute Olson transferred funds from a Charles Schwab
account, one of five joint accounts he shared with his estranged wife, to another Schwab account
that only bears his name — despite a court order prohibiting such actions. The court filing doesn't
say how much money was transferred. But documents submitted to the court indicate the transfer
was made because funds from Lute Olson's Nike shoe contract and the Olson Family Limited
Partnership were being deposited in the joint account.

TMC makes remarkable financial turnaround
Arizona Daily Star - April 23, 2008
Hospital cut staff and made savings elsewhere to rebound from red ink
Tucson Medical Center announced a much improved financial status and plans for a 24-hour
children's emergency room. In a major turnaround, the hospital has made money in seven of
the past eight months after years of losses, said Judy Rich, executive vice president and hospital
administrator. Tucson Medical Center was nearly $11 million in the red in the first half of 2007,
when CEO Frank Alvarez resigned in June.

O'Neill's UA future settled any day?
Tucson Citizen - April 23, 2008
The fate of Arizona assistant basketball coach Kevin O'Neill could be determined as early as
Wednesday. Arizona athletic director Jim Livengood said he and O'Neill will meet Wednesday
morning at McKale Center. "We'll be discussing his situation,'' said Livengood, who declined to
elaborate. In a televised news conference last month, UA coach Lute Olson said O'Neill would
not return to his coaching staff in 2008-09. O'Neill, however, has an verbal contract for next
season that pays him $375,000, and Livengood in December said O'Neill would succeed Olson
when the 73-year- old coach retires.

Ariz. Board of Regents to discuss budget cuts
Tucson Citizen - April 23, 2008
Money will be the primary topic of conversation when the Arizona Board of Regents meet Thursday
and Friday at the University of Arizona. The regents plan to discuss how the three state universities
will share the $14.7 million cut to this fiscal year's budget handed to them last week by the
Legislature. UA's original state appropriation for this fiscal year was about $362 million, and the
College of Medicine/UA Health Sciences Center had an appropriation of nearly $81 million more.
Northern Arizona University's appropriation was approximately $161 million and Arizona State
University received about $496 million combined for its three campuses.

OKed budget may cost ASU $12 million
ASU Web Devil - April 23, 2008
University to lose $5.25 million; extra $6.62 million in cuts pushed
See the Arizona Board of Regents proposed budget cuts for all three state universities. After months
of negotiations, the Legislature and governor agreed last week on a fix for this fiscal year's estimated
$1.2 billion budget deficit — and ASU is footing $5.25 million of the bill so far. In the bipartisan fiscal
year 2008 Budget Plan, which was signed by Gov. Janet Napolitano on Friday, the three state
universities' budgets were cut by a lump sum of $14.7 million, leaving it up to the Arizona Board of
Regents, the universities' governing body, to decide where those cuts will be made.

Students decide if men live or die … in a way
ASU Web Devil - April 23, 2008
His heart pumps, his pulse beats and fluids flow through his veins. He can receive shots, IVs and tube
feedings. And ASU nursing students determine whether he lives or dies. But, in reality, he never really
comes to life; he is a simulated mannequin (SimMan), an anatomically correct plastic person used by
College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation students to practice patient care. SimMan evolved from
Norwegian toy maker Asmund Laerdal's Resusci Anne CPR mannequin introduced in 1960.

ASU helps staff booming nonprofits
ASU Web Devil - April 23, 2008
University one of only about 40 in U.S. with nonprofit degrees
ASU is one of the only universities nationwide accommodating the rapid growth of the nonprofit sector.
According to a Seton Hall University database, ASU is one of about 40 schools offering nonprofit studies
certification and undergraduate and graduate degrees in the field. The program has been steadily
expanding over the last couple of years, most recently adding a graduate degree in nonprofit
management three semesters ago, said Debra Friedman, dean of the ASU College of Public Programs,
which houses the major.

Lawmaker to modify divisive proposal
ASU Web Devil - April 23, 2008
Rep. Pearce set to remove ban on race-based campus groups
A state representative said Tuesday that he plans to modify a Senate bill that would, if passed, ban public
schools and universities from teaching values that contradict American ideals and Western civilization. A
proposed strike-everything amendment to Senate Bill 1108 passed the House Appropriations Committee
9-6 last Wednesday with two members not voting. A strike-everything amendment cuts everything from a
bill and attaches a new, often unrelated, proposal. The bill, as it's written, would ban public schools from
using taxpayer money to promote "anti-American ideals."

Olson to appear in court
UA Daily Wildcat Online - April 23, 2008
Christine Olson's attorney challenges transfer of Nike money from joint to personal account after
divorce filing
Arizona men's basketball coach Lute Olson has been ordered to appear in a Tucson court May 7 in relation
to a money transfer he made the day after filing for divorce and requesting a season-long leave of absence,
court documents state. Olson must appear before Pima County Superior Court Judge Sarah R. Simmons
after he moved an undisclosed sum from a Charles Schwab joint account he shared with his estranged
wife, Christine, to an account in his name alone, documents state.

Fahey no fogey
UA Daily Wildcat Online - April 23, 2008
UA lobbyist has clout, decades of knowledge
PHOENIX - Greg Fahey is a relationship man. The UA's main lobbyist and associate vice president for
government relations has been in state government for almost as long as some students have been
alive. From higher education to the state's health care system, to the inner workings of the state
Legislature, Fahey knows it, and knows it well. "He is an outstanding communicator. He is an extremely
good articulator," said Charlene Ledet, director of the UA's legislative advocacy program, who had worked
with Fahey for 11 years. "That, combined with his wit and insight into politics and people and history, have
made it a tremendous learning opportunity for me as well as somewhat entertaining."

Seeking stability
Arizona Capitol Times - April 18, 2008
With dizzying highs and terrifying lows, Arizona’s tax collections have become a paragon of volatility. Only
two years ago, the state was awash in money, the result of booming-beyond-belief housing market and
skyrocketing property values. Now, with housing construction at a standstill and home values in a free-fall,
the state has the largest budget deficit in the nation. The cause: An economy driven by the development
and a tax code that relies heavily on sales tax. The collapse of the subprime-mortgage market, and the
ensuing credit crunch, has taken a toll on the Arizona economy and its residents.

Senate Panel Proposes No-Cost Help for Lenders
Inside Higher Ed - April 23, 2008
Momentum has been building for the federal government to take increasingly aggressive steps to wade
into the student loan markets, even amid continuing disagreement about whether and/or how serious a
crisis there really is. At the urging of lenders, lawmakers have moved from merely seeking to ensure that
there are alternative providers of loans, so that students do not lose access to college, to calling for out-
right financial assistance for banks and other loan providers. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings and
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are reported to be preparing this week to announce some joint attempt
to restore liquidity to the credit markets on which lenders depend, perhaps by calling for an existing
government entity like the Federal Financing Bank to buy student loans that lenders are unable to sell
through the traditional credit market, as suggested by Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and others.

Loan Forgiveness, Beyond Law and Medicine
Inside Higher Ed - April 23, 2008
Loan repayment programs have for decades been a staple at many law schools, from which students
often graduate with many tens of thousands of dollars of debt that may impede their ability to work in
fields that don’t come with the six-figure salaries top firms pay their first-year associates. Some
business schools, similarly expensive, have also ventured into that terrain, and dozens of federal and
state programs offer financial assistance to medical school graduates who work in high-need fields.
It’s not surprising that loan forgiveness programs have been focused on professional education, both
because graduates with multiple degrees have been likeliest to incur the most debt — in some cases
approaching $200,000 — and because those fields tend to have the biggest gaps in pay between the
most lucrative jobs and those in nonprofit or public service realms. But as college tuitions have
continued to rise, and with them the debt burdens of average undergraduates, attention has begun to
shift.

Universities Race to Add Freshman Housing Units
GlobeSt.com News - April 22, 2008 08:40am
TEMPE, AZ-When plans were unveiled for the 866-bed Vista del Sol on the Arizona State University
campus, the upper-class student residence hall attracted its share of attention. But for ASU, the
project, which is going vertical in partnership with American Campus Communities, is adding needed
beds to a growing student population."We don't have enough student housing," says Michael Coakley,
associate dean of student affairs and executive director of university housing for Arizona State University.
Coakley says housing demand in recent years has spiked due to growth in enrollment and a university
directive to put more freshman students into on-campus housing. As a result, ASU has been turning to
private/public partnership developments like Vista del Sol at 701 E. Apache Blvd. Preleasing has the
beds 100% filled for Vista's fall opening.

Boldly Going Back
Technology Review - May/June 2008
Private effort ignites unmanned lunar race.
As early as next year, Red Rover, a prototype robotic vehicle being built at Carnegie Mellon University,
may be sending back stunning images and video from the moon. William Whittaker, the CMU
professor whose driverless SUV triumphed on a course of urban and suburban roads in the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency's Urban Challenge last year, is using the same technologies in
the one-meter-wide moon-bot (left, at a CMU test site).