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Faculty asks, ‘Are we ever getting a raise?’ KYLE MITTAN Arizona Daily Wildcat
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FACULTY CHAIR Wanda Howell addressed salary policies in Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting.
What began as a conversation at Monday’s Faculty Senate meeting about the employee-related expense rate for graduate eventually turned into a discussion on faculty compensation, and how many UA professors haven’t seen raises in nearly half a decade. The expenses, which include insurance, retirement and other benefits — in addition to a university employee’s salary — were being addressed by Graduate
and Professional Student Council President Zachary Brooks when Wanda Howell, the senate’s faculty chair, asked Provost Andrew Comrie about the expenses’ recent and abrupt increase, which ideally would have been a gradual change. Comrie answered by saying that past years’ increases have been very minute, so it was necessary for a large increase to help strike a balance for the projected overall increase.
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WILLIAM FUENMAYOR DEMONSTRATES slack lining during a promotional event for Fiat and Dodge motor companies on the UA Mall on Monday. Students lined up to try their own hands at the sport, while professionals performed for passers-by.
Women of all ages cheered while tossing their bras up into the air at the Women’s Plaza of Honor yesterday afternoon to kick off the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Susan G. Komen for the Cure Southern Arizona will be spending the entire month of October raising awareness about breast cancer, and its Southern Arizona Affiliate teamed up with The Bra Recyclers to encourage the recycling of gently used and new bras. Joining the women at the event was UA theatre arts senior and Olympic Silver medalist Brigetta Barrett. “The cause is very close to my heart,” Barrett said. “My mother is a survivor of breast cancer and my grandmother lost her battle to it. Breast cancer is not a disease, but it’s a fight, and women are getting stronger and stronger every day.” The Bra Recyclers, based in Gilbert, is a textilerecycling company specializing in recycling bras. They have more than 50 organizations around the country, said Elaine Birks-Mitchell, the company’s chief executive officer. “We found out there was a huge need for bras in our immediate community for women in shelters and shelter programs,” Birks-Mitchell said. “Many of the organizations need the bras and do not have them. I figured if I had a lot of bras, many other women must have bras to donate as well.” Throughout Southern Arizona during the month
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Healthy body image program goes campuswide YARA ASKAR Arizona Daily Wildcat
Reflection, a body image program that first reached the UA through the Delta Delta Delta sorority, is now being instated as a program open to all female students by Campus Health Services. The program’s goal is to promote body image awareness and prevent eating disorders among the campus population. At the time of
its conception, Reflection was sorority-oriented. Now it is inviting all women at the UA to take part in the course sessions. The mission of the program is to create a mindset that will help women continue to build their own strength, said Gale Welter, a Campus Health nutritionist. “It’s focused on positive body image and how to work with the external media pressure,” said Jenny Nirh, senior coordinator for fraternity and sorority programs.
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Reflection also focuses on pursuing a healthy lifestyle, regardless of society’s conception of the ideal woman should look like. “The program is trying to get women together to resist the thin ideal that society puts on us women, and to realize the thin ideal is not realistic or healthy,” said Kendal Shanks, a nutrition science junior and program coordinator. Due to the stereotypes about perfection perpetuated by the media, women begin to
have body image concerns at a young age that are ingrained as they grow up, Shanks added. In order to make people more aware of these insecurities, the program aims to reach the typical stereotypes and rework them to fit the healthy body image. “We all can start to change the stereotypes of what body image should be, what we should look like and what we want to look up to,” said
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