‘Campus’ Archives
Three questions an engaged campus participant should »
(Editor's note: Though I just started cross-posting my writing elsewhere here, the following piece not only relies heavily on the research and ethos of this site, but also serves as a simple argument for why the discussions housed here are important. It's directed at high school students, but if you care about being an aware member of any campus [...]
ASUA to approve resolution condemning your rights, »
As they have publicized nowhere, the ASUA Senate will vote today on a resolution condemning bills in the Arizona legislature that will disallow private citizens from exercising their right to carry concealed weapons on college campuses. This is a long and storied sage with ASUA -- read this site's reports on the matter from 2009, 2010, and 2011, [...]
Dr. Ann Weaver Hart: The UA’s new president? »
As was announced yesterday afternoon, the Arizona Board of Regents has presented what they're calling a presidential "candidate" for the position vacated by Robert Shelton last July. In a very different process than how the past few presidents have been selected, the Board announced Ann Weaver Hart, current president of Temple University, as their [...]
ASUA Election Candidates 2012 »
For the fourth time here in the Lamp's long memory, it's ASUA Election season. The (controversial) Elections Commission sent out the names of the candidates to the press last night. The candidates are: President: Katy Murray Chad Travis Leo Yamaguchi Executive Vice-President: Kevin Elliot Krystina Nguyen JW Phillips Administrative [...]
Not a tuition increase: The mechanics of the Kavanaugh »
For all the ado that's been status-ed, tweeted, and publicly palavered over the proposed "Kavanaugh fee" in the last few days, an important detail is overlooked: HB 2675 does not once propose to increase tuition by one single penny, as even the Wildcat concedes in passing: Although the proposed legislation would not raise tuition... So what [...]
HB 2675: Just because college is free for you »
Here are a couple breaking news items for your Monday: The state of Arizona is broke. College is expensive. If you keep making an investment that doesn't yield a solid return on that investment, you should probably reconsider whether it's a good investment. Alarming everyone with a Facebook this weekend was an article from the East Valley [...]
Residence Life can evict you for basically anything »
Everyone who lives on campus signs a pile of papers that restrict everything from candles to pets to "fire-like conditions" (does that include opening the window in August?). But how much of these restrictions serve to foster the community, as ResLife claims, and how many of them are manipulated to violate the basic rights of students, such as [...]
Tuesday Links, 17 January 2012 »
-- Are universities vital to a city? This article includes a quote from ASU President Michael Crow who doesn't think so, but it's worth noting that Tempe and vast squirming ordinariness that surrounds it are the opposite of a college town. If, as Crow argues, universities will serve to bolster the rise of conglomerate cities like Phoenix to be [...]
Lower tuition, get fired: Hats off to former OU »
When rising education costs make even instant noodles seem like a splurge, students might assume higher education leaders are trying every innovation to keep quality high and college expense low. But unconventional ideas aren't always rewarded: University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere was fired in late November for, in part, his ideas [...]
Election Code up for Senate approval after change to »
Do UA students deserve another elections cycle of undisclosed rules, violations doled out at the whim of the Elections Commissioner, repeated re-hashings of what rules means in the ASUA Supreme Court? Should presenting a free, fair election for student representatives include over-broad clauses that allow the Elections Commissioner undefined, [...]
ASUA Elections Code Reform 2011 »
After offering initial thoughts last week regarding ASUA's currently-in-draft 2012 Elections Code, here are more in-depth thoughts regarding the still-plagued document. In the words of former ASUA Supreme Court member Brian Chase on last week's post: "The Code has problems...ASUA needs to read the Supreme Court decisions and consider those [...]
Please don’t keep to the code »
The ASUA Elections Code is a broken mess -- whether you consider it light of basic civil liberties, in context of running fair and sane elections, or in comparison to oppressive post-Soviet states (never mind peer institutions). To this everyone agrees, even ASUA officials that were once reluctant to see any problems with their [...]