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02/03/2008 Happel consults w/ ticket-selling site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 

SOURCE: Chicago Tribune-City, Chicago, IL 

Article Images for Happel consults w/ ticket-selling site . . . . . 6 

01/30/2008 ASU’s Brian comments on "green buildings". . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

SOURCE: Financial Times, London, GBR 

Article Images for ASU’s Brian comments on "green buildin... 11 

01/31/2008 ASU’s Rosenberg: ’Collaboration’ undercuts gains long fou... 13 

SOURCE: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, GA 

Article Image for ASU’s Rosenberg: ’Collaboration’ underc... . 14 

01/15/2008 ASU study: Vinegar may help diabetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 

SOURCE: El Nuevo Herald, Miami, FL 

Article Image for ASU study: Vinegar may help diabetics . . . . 16 

12/01/2007 ASU buildings win Valley Forward awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 

SOURCE: Arizona Business Magazine, Phoenix, AZ 

Article Images for ASU buildings win Valley Forward award... 18 

12/14/2007 ASU releases "Sustainability for AZ" report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 

SOURCE: Business Journal Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ 

Article Images for ASU releases "Sustainability for AZ" rep.... 25 

01/25/2008 GIOS: Safe recycling of e-waste is a priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 

SOURCE: The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ 

Article Image for GIOS: Safe recycling of e-waste is a priori... 28 

12/28/2007 ASU’s Liu comments on real estate market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 


Article Images for ASU’s Liu comments on real estate mar... . 30 

01/04/2008 ASU students drum up economic partnerships abroad . . . . . . 34 


Article Images for ASU students drum up economic partner... 35 

01/04/2008 ASU scientist creates energy-collecting backpack . . . . . . . . . 38 


Article Image for ASU scientist creates energy-collecting b... . 39 

01/04/2008 Business prof comments on possible recession . . . . . . . . . . . 40 


Article Image for Business prof comments on possible rece... 41 

01/04/2008 Dean takes School of Engineering, life up a few notches . . . . 42 


Article Images for Dean takes School of Engineering, life u.... 43 

01/09/2008 Rex: Mesa could follow Scottsdale Airpark trend . . . . . . . . . . 45 

SOURCE: East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ 

Article Images for Rex: Mesa could follow Scottsdale Airpa... 46 

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01/10/2008 Settling in at Sky Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 


Article Image for Settling in at Sky Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

01/10/2008 ASU’S West campus plans MLK celebrations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 

SOURCE: The Glendale Star, Glendale, AZ 

Article Image for ASU’S West campus plans MLK celebrati... 51 

01/16/2008 ASU Coalition to host Black History Month programs . . . . . . . 52 

SOURCE: Arizona Informant, Phoenix, AZ 

Article Image for ASU Coalition to host Black History Mont... . 53 

01/16/2008 College Goal Sunday comes to ASU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 

SOURCE: La Voz, Phoenix, AZ 

Article Image for College Goal Sunday comes to ASU . . . . . . 55 

01/17/2008 ASU’s Storad shares writing secrets with young students . . . 56 

SOURCE: Roswell Daily Record, Roswell, NM 

Article Image for ASU’s Storad shares writing secrets with .... 57 

01/08/2008 Schools revise in-state tuition count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 

SOURCE: Daily News-Sun, Sun City, AZ 

Article Image for Schools revise in-state tuition count. . . . . . . 59 

01/19/2008 ASU powers forward with solar plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 

SOURCE: Scottsdale Tribune, Scottsdale, AZ 

Article Image for ASU powers forward with solar plans. . . . . . 61 

01/20/2008 Workers cite ASU building safety hazards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 


Article Images for Workers cite ASU building safety hazard... 63 

01/24/2008 ASU Foundation shares in Piper grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 

SOURCE: Scottsdale Tribune, Scottsdale, AZ 

Article Image for ASU Foundation shares in Piper grant. . . . . 66 

01/10/2008 Lawmaker targets needy university students, Crow comme... 67 


Article Image for Lawmaker targets needy university stude... . 68 

01/25/2008 Business professors promote free market for ticket prices . . . 69 


Article Images for Business professors promote free marke... 70 

01/25/2008 Get ASU Nursing School design right . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 


Article Image for Get ASU Nursing School design right . . . . . 73 

02/06/2008 Poly sci prof comments on Democratic race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 

SOURCE: USATODAY.com 

02/06/2008 Merrill comments on election polls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 

SOURCE: Associated Press - AP 

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02/12/2008 ASU prof comments on multi-generational communities. . . . . 77 


02/07/2008 Best Cities For Bargain House-Hunters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 

SOURCE: Forbes.com 

02/07/2008 ASU’s Wheeler names new beetle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 

SOURCE: San Diego Union-Tribune 

02/06/2008 Poly sci prof comments on Democratic race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 

SOURCE: EastValleyTribune.com 

02/06/2008 ASU’s Simpson comments on McCain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 


02/06/2008 Longtime educator joins ASU journalism school . . . . . . . . . . . 87 

SOURCE: The Business Journal Phoenix 

02/07/2008 Comments by Stoops fan Arizona-Arizona State rivalry . . . . . 88 


02/12/2008 McLaren comments on AZ migration trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 

SOURCE: DenverPost.com 

02/08/2008 Are we sending a bit too much information into the cosmos... 92 

SOURCE: Universe Today 

02/08/2008 ASU encouraging freshmen to live close to where they stu... . 93 

SOURCE: The Business Journal Phoenix 

02/08/2008 Art professor comments on Victorian florals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 

SOURCE: azcentral.com 

02/09/2008 ASU prof comments home sales data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 


02/09/2008 ASU professor comments on pika conservation . . . . . . . . . . . 98 

SOURCE: sacbee 

02/10/2008 ASU’s Warner: Council candidate’s business could pose c... . 100 


02/10/2008 Citizen or illegal? - ASU’s Cruz comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 


02/10/2008 ASU’s Grimm comments on urbanization effects . . . . . . . . . . 106 

SOURCE: National Science Foundation 

02/11/2008 Low diploma rates hurt UA, ASU loans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 


02/11/2008 ASU’s Robert comments on gene testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 


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Publication Name: Chicago Tribune-City, Chicago, IL 

Market Name: Chicago, IL 

Publication Date: 2008-02-03 00:00:00.000 

Frequency: Daily 

Circulation: 559404 

Market Rank: 3 

Title: Happel consults w/ ticket-selling site 

Byline: -lWike Lu bow -Pa trick Kampefi -Chris McNamam 

Favorability: Positive 

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The Guy Page 

lWike Lubow 

Patrick Kampefi 

Chris McNamam 

Dealing 

sport 

ticket 

futures 

OK so the Bears didn t 

make it to this year s Super 

Bowl But ifyou re willing to 

pony up anywhere from 182 

to 322 a seat you can guar 

antee you ll be in Tampa for 

next year s big game ifthe 

Bears make it 

Those prices which vary 

according to seating charts 

are far below what the face 

value of a ticket would be but 

can be locked in thanks to 

yoonew corn which was 

started in 2004 by a couple of 

MIT grad students Gerry 

Wilson and Hagos Mehre 

teab Wilson played corner 

back at Princeton 

Yoonew works like a fu 

tures or options exchange if 

your team doesn t make it to 

the Super Bowl your money 

is gone unless you ve man 

aged to sell your option to 

someone else Professor 

Stephen Happel of Arizona 

State University proposed a 

Chicago TribuneCity 


DMA: Chicago, IL 

futures exchange for sports 

tickets in a 2002 paper and 

has consulted with Yoonew 

Wilson said 

It s the only place to get a 

ticket to a major event for a 

price below face value he 

added Other biggies like 

the World Series and basket 

ball s Final Four also are 

available on the site and 

Wilson and Mehreteab said 

they may expand to other 

events from concerts to the 

college World Series to inter 

national events such as soc 

cer and cricket 

One confluence of circum 

stances several years ago 

forced Wilson to cash out his 

401 k to pay for tickets but 

since then investors pumped 

2 million into the company 

to solidify its future he told 

the New York Times Some of 

the owners of Admit One a 

major New York ticket bro 

ker have made investments 

in Yoonew anti the young 

firm leases office space from 

Admit One Wilson told the 

Tribune 

But most people who want 

to see a Super Bowl or NCAA 

championship don t care 

how the sausage is made 

they just want to see the big 

game That was the case for 

Bob Thom M of Westmont 

Thorn himself a ticket bro 

ker—he owns classytick 

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ets com—bought futuresfor 

a Bears Super Bowl appear 

ance last year and ended up 

with four tickets two of 

which he sold 

I ve had season tickets 

since 84 he said In the 

second season they went to 

the Super Bowl but back 

then I didn t exactly have the 

means to go 

Yoonew has improved its 

system since last year Thom 

said allowing its options 

traders to specify seating 

areas for tickets unlike 2007 

In the last month he bought 

and sold options on Dallas 

Green Bay and the New York 

Giants ending up with a 

pair of Super Bowl ticket 

options on the New York 

Giants that he pgzfnasad for 

about 500 each and sold for 

3 900 apiece 

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GOT A MINUTE 

A hole in self defense 

This occasional Guy Page 

feature is guaranteed to 

contain no more than 160 

words which can be read at 

average speed in one minute 

It respects a guy s innate 

desire to scan kind of like 

watching TV with a remote 

When you see guys fight 

it s utterly artless Seems 

the more a guy knows about 

fighting the less likely he is 

to do it There was a kid 

named Frankie who learned 

karate while in high school 

He lived near a tough neigh 

borhood and his dad 

wanted him to have the 

lessons Frankie got one 

kind of colored belt after 

another 

One day in the school 

yard a skinny kid with a 

cigarette hanging from his 

lips bumped into Frankie 

This kid was known for his 

mean disposition Frankie 

stood his ground and the 

tough kid popped him— 

bam bam too fast to see 

Blood from Frankie s nose 

Don t fire off 




ran down his chin and onto 

his clothes The only color 

on Frankie s belt that day 

was red Karate didn t help 

because it didn t make 

Frankie mean and it cer 

tainly didn t do anything to 

make the other kid nice 

How politics 

plays in private 

The political season 

bringe out the oddest poll 

sters Playboy s February 

edition carries this factoid 

55 percent ofRepublicans 

say they have sex at least 

once a week compared with 

43 percent ofDemocrats 

And Republicans say they 

are more satisfied with 

thl^ir sex lives 

p||tegionaU the Industri 

falJMidwest was tops in 

sexual satisfaction and 

frequency but dragging in 

all other categories mainly 

involving adventure 

insults until you 

know the weapon 




City: Chicago 


If insulting someone is 

an art form then Jeffrey 

Ross is Pablo Picasso Or 

more appropriately Gen 

Patton since the stand up 

comedian has earned the 

nickname roastmaster 

general for his verbal 

assaults during Friars Club 

roasts of celebrities such as 

Pamela Anderson William 

Shatner and Flavor Flav 

Roasting is a way to 

honor somebody by dishon 

oring them explained the 

New Jersey native labeled 

by New York Magazine 

the meanest man in come 

dy It s a tribute using 

backhanded compliments 

Whether delivering a 

best man speech at a wed 

ding or just busting chops 

in the locker room most 

guys have experience roast 

ing buddies 

Human beings can t 

help making fun of each 

other—it s at the very 

heart ofhuman nature 

Ross said I m sure there 

vtl one caveman making 

inn of anott r caveman s 

ass 

But how do you do it 

right olic speaking 

guides don t provide point 

ers en ridiculing your 

f iend s sexual prowess So 

we asked Ross—the best 

there is—for some roasting 

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¦ You have to doit for 

friend somebody who is a 

good sport 

¦ Committo your 

rial—no retreat Once you 

say something don t apolo 

gize because that weakens 

it 

¦ Be formal and 

the person up because then 

it s funnier when you take 

him down 

¦ TheF word 

every joke Roasts are tradi 

tionally blue 

Milton ¦ Some advice 

Berle gave me after I i 

roasted Steven Seagal—just 

use your best jokes They 

only remember the home 

runs 

re ¦ Keepit light You 

not there to pontfücate and 

the audience wants to have 

a good time You want ev f 

| eryone leaving saying 1 

| can t wait until he roasts 

me th 

ft ¦ Never heckle Jeff 

Ross 

¦ 

Jeffrey Rossplays Zanies 

Wednesday and Thursday 

For details visit zanies com 

Warning Those seated in 

thefront ofthe house will be 

victimized 

Male Call will return next 

week Our wives made us do 

chores this week 

Send Guy Page comments 

questions or suggestions to y 

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Jeffrey Ross wields the 

insult as an art form Learn 

from him 

No training for being mean 




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Publication Name: Financial Times, London, GBR 

Market Name: 

Publication Date: 2008-01-30 00:00:00.000 




Title: ASU’s Brian comments on "green buildings" 

Byline: Danny Bradbury 


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Every user to be part of 

move to green buildings 

Giving staff 

information on 

how much power is 

being used could be 

the next step says 

Danny Bradbury 

started to get seri Last ous year about the green world IT 

The main goal was 

making servers work harder 

using less energy and many 

companies have made 

progress 

But what about the build 

ings people work in Many 

offices are not designed with 

energy efficiency in mind 

meaning that as servers 

work hard to save power 

heating and lighting systems 

are wasting it What can be 

done 

Green buildings has 

become a popular term over 

the past few years but 

designers have been experi 

menting with energy effi 

ciency for decades says Har 

vey Bryan professor at the 

school of agriculture at 

Arizona State University 

We started to bring in 

computer controls for build 

ings back in the 1980s he 

says explaining that origi 

nal pneumatic controls were 

replaced by actuators and 

then by digital controls 

Today new buildings are 

almost all fitted with compu 

terised controls for heating 

and air conditioning 

The more advanced com 

puter controlled systems 

present a console on a single 

screen that building manag 

ers check and adjust occa 

sionally 

But the next step is to 

adopt what Prof Bryan calls 

the Prius factor 

Toyota s hybrid car tells 

drivers how much fuel they 

are using at their current 

speed reminding them to 

ease up on the accelerator 

Buildings are starting to do 

the same 

We re now seeing that 

screen moving out of the 

building manager s cubicle 

in the basement and into the 

front lobby and on to every 

user s desktop he says 

They re now providing 

information to building own 

ers and tenants 

That data can be displayed 

anywhere For example 

Oberlin College in Ohio uses 

a system created by Lucid 

Design Systems It logs 

energy consumption within 

its 26 dormitories using sen 

sors and displays the results 

in public kiosks within the 

building 

The real time statistics can 

also be viewed online at 

www oberlin edu dorm 

energy and are used to run 

competitions between the 

dorms to see which can use 

the least energy 

Sensor technology is 

becoming more sophisti 

cated says Prof Bryan 

Zigbee a low powered 

radio technology is being 

used in sensors that commu 

nicate with each other wire 

lessly 

A mesh of wireless sensors 

in the building can relay 

environmental information 

between each other and back 

to central control systems 

which means that old build 

ings do not have to be 

rewired A Zigbee sensor 

could be programmed to tell 

a building control system 

when no one is in a room 

dimming the lights or lower 

Financial Times 


DMA: 

ing the heat 

Prof Bryan also likes the 

idea of micro sensors embed 

ded in walls to provide a 

more accurate reading of the 

heat in a room based on sur 

face temperature rather than 

air temperature 

You could read those and 

then do a mean radiant tem 

perature calculation he 

says explaining that putting 

a thermostat at a single 

point in a room often fails to 

provide an accurate reading 

because heat is rarely dis 

tributed evenly in the air in 

a room 

By installing a series of 

such sensors in the wall you 

give users more control and 

have a better temperature 

indicator 

One drawback is that even 

basic upgrades to heating 

and lighting systems can be 

expensive However the 

costs can be covered by 

energy savings 

Energy services companies 

will often install systems in 

return for little or no up 

front payment with the cus 

tomer using the money 

saved on energy bills to 

cover instalments 

Performance based con 

tracts provide a benchmark 

to adjust payments based on 

actual savings over time 

But adapting existing 

buildings with fancy tech 

nologies is not the only way 

to make structures greener 

Experts are proposing 

changes in architecture to 

design energy efficiency into 

buildings right from the 

start 

You can make a lot of 

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State: GBR 

difference by simply con 

structing things the right 

way says Helen Goodland 

executive director of Light 

house a Vancouver based 

organisation that collects 

market intelligence and 

develops policies on green 

buildings 

Ms Goodland believes that 

buildings use between 30 

and 40 per cent of energy in 

the Pacific Northwest s 

Using virtual building envi 

ronments to model air flow 

daylight and heat absorption 

can help designers make the 

right decisions at the outset 

These are all important 

and tie into the CAD com 

puter aided design models 

that the architects use to 

generate the plans and ele 

vations she says 

The move to environmen 

tally friendly building design 

and adaptation is gaining 

such force that there is even 

a standard 

The US Green Building 

Council s LEED Leadership 

in Energy and Environmen 

tal Design rates buildings 

throughout their lifespan 

design construction and 

operation It spans a range 

of types including commer 

cial interiors healthcare and 

schools 

It rates the environmen 

tal footprint of a building 

with energy efficiency being 

a major component says 

Roy McBrayer deputy state 

architect and programme 

manager for California s 

green building initiative 

The state is on a mission 

to improve the energy effi 

ciency of government build 


Date: 01/30/2008 

Pub Num: GBD5008 

Section/Page: DB6 


ings as part of a wider initi 

ative called the Green Build 

ing Executive Order signed 

in 2004 

All buildings that the 

state will build will be built 

to LEED silver certification 

standards explains Mr 

McBrayer 

The 1 650 existing facilities 

in the state under the execu 

tive authority of Governor 

Arnold Schwarzenegger will 

also be brought up to that 

standard and the 250 of 

them that are more than 

50 000 sq ft in size will 

receive LEED certification 

he adds 

Mr McBrayer expects most 

of the changes will increase 

energy efficiency in areas 

such as lighting heating 

and air conditioning sys 

tems 

However he also says that 

a lot can be achieved purely 

through changes in opera 

tional procedures 

We are signing a perform 

ance contract agreement 

with the energy services 

company that has guaran 

teed savings says Mr 

McBrayer 

If not then it will pay the 

state the difference 

With whole US states try 

ing to make public buildings 

more energy efficient com 

mercial organisations may 

follow suit 

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DMA: 

Not such a bright idea High energy use in New York City Aiamy 

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Publication Name: Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Atlanta, GA 

Market Name: Atlanta, GA 





Title: ASU’s Rosenberg: ’Collaboration’ undercuts gains lo... 

Byline: By ERICA ROSENBERG 


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domi 

environ 

agreement 

They 

at 

ENVIRONMENTALIST 

Collaboration 

undercuts gains 

long fought for 

By ERICA ROSENBERG 

There s nothing wrong with a group of people 

historically at odds sitting down to find common 

ground Or is there 

For decades our public lands have been a bat 

tleground timber wildlife recreation wilder 

ness — which interests and uses should 

nate But now collaboration is all the rage In 

collaboration diverse stakeholders — 

mentalists developers off roaders timber com 

panies county officials — hash outan 

on how to manage their local public lands and 

then submit it to Congress for approval 

The new paradigm means everyone sits down 

with their adversaries But these collaborations 

are troublesome particularly for environmental 

ists who risk undermining their mission as well 

as the very laws that are the basis of their power 

effectiveness and legitimacy 

For example a bill poised for introduc 

tion in Congress would turn into law an agree 

ment reached by one collaborative group on how 

to manage Montana s 3 3 million acre Beaver 

head Deerlodge National Forest The stakehold 

ers Montana Wilderness Association National 

Wildlife Federation Trout Unlimited and timber 

companies — had one thingin common 

hated the management plan proposed by the 

Forest Service So they came up with their own 

plan specifying which areas can be logged which 

can be opened to off roaders and which should 

be recommended to Congress for wilderness 

designation 

Sounds reasonable enough So what s wrong 

To start as owners of the public lands all Amer 

icans have a stake in their management and they 

have not designated these representatives Even 

the most inclusive collabo 

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City: Atlanta 

State: GA 

ration can go bad The Bea 

Congress is verheadbill for example 

ir Ji A triples the acreage where 

mumtxi lu logging can take place from 

nibber Stamp what was in the Forest Ser 

theseloeallv vice plan 

mese lotdiiy The collaborationpro 

Sponsored totype the 1998 Quincy 

initiatives Library Group legisla 

mmauves tion illustrates the prob 

Overlooking the lem That group named 

y 1 h for the California town 

a library where it met came 

are an end run up with a plan for three 

irnnnrl tVip lnw« national forests in the 

aiound the laws sierra affectedby endan 

that safeguard gered species listings The 

DllbllC lands Proposal increased logging 

puuiit ldiius while protecting pristine 

areas When it landed in 

Congress California Rep George Miller insisted 

on adding one provision All environmental laws 

would apply The Quincy Library proposal held 

up at the time as a model of local consensus 

based decision making has never been fully 

implemented Why Primarily because it didn t 

jibe with Endangered Species Act guidelines pro 

tecting the California spotted owl 

That environmentalist stakeholders signed 

on to the Quincy Library agreement in the first 

place highlights the danger of the collaboration 

fad 

For decades environmentalists fought to get 

a more level playing field and establish transpar 

ency and accountability in public lands policy 

How ironic it would be then if in their eagerness 

to embrace the new paradigm they craft and push 

through Congress deals that undercut the very 

laws that got them to the table in the first place 

¦ Erica Rosenberg directsthe programon public policy 

Arizona State University s law school and served as coun 

seTEothe House Resources Committee from 1999 to 2004 

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Publication Name: El Nuevo Herald, Miami, FL 

Market Name: Miami - Fort Lauderdale, 





Title: ASU study: Vinegar may help diabetics 

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Publication Name: Arizona Business Magazine, Phoenix, AZ 

Market Name: Phoenix, AZ 

Publication Date: 2007-12-01 00:00:00.000 

Frequency: Bi-Monthly 



Title: ASU buildings win Valley Forward awards 

Byline: - BY NOELLE COYLE 


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estab 

^ Valley Forward Association was 

lished in 1969 through the merger of the 

Phoenix Development Association Mid Town 

Improvement Association Valley Beautiful 

Citizens Council and the Maricopa County 

COYLE Taxpayers Association — BY BY NOELLE NOELLE COYLE 

The association is dedicated to the envi 

ronmental stability of the Valley and holds 

regular meetings for its membership to dis 

cuss pertinent issues Its 700 plus individual 

members represent nearly 300 organizations 

both large and small 

Valley Forward in partnership with SRP 

presented its 27th Annual Environmental 

Excellence Awards on Sept 29 at the Westin 

Kierland Resort and Spa The awards recognize 

projects that contribute to the sustainabiiity 

and livability of Arizona The highest honor in 

each category is called the Crescordia award 

which in Greek means to grow in harmony The 

President s Award the most prestigious is cho 

sen among the Crescordia winners An addi 

tional 28 Awards of Merit were also given out 

The President s Award 

I The Biodesign Institute at Arizona 

State University Building BTTempe 

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Publication Name: Business Journal Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ 



Frequency: Weekly; Fri 



Title: ASU releases "Sustainability for AZ" report 

Byline: BY TV YOUNG 


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Local companies work together to promote sustainability 

BY TV YOUNG 

tyyoungiaibizjournals com 

Two major companies created an Ari 

zona coalition promoting sustainable 

business practices last March and numer 

ous research reports show the organiza 

tion is right on target 

Intel Corp and Arizona Public Service 

Co officials spearheaded the formation of 

Arizona Businesses Advancing Sustain 

ability after determining the corporate 

climate was moving in a new direction 

The group since has increased its mem 

bership to 30 companies including Cox 

Communications Arizona The Dial Corp 

and Sundt Construction Inc 

The variety of industries 

represented shows the busi 

ness world s interest in im 

proving economic social 

and environmental prac 

tices said Ed Fox APS vice 

president and chief sustain 

ability officer The organiza 

tion is responding both to a 

renewedpublic thirstfor environmentally 

safe products and to an increased sense of 

corporate responsibility among the busi 

nesses involved he said 

At the first meeting we didn t really 

know what to expect But the energy and 

commitment from the people involved 

was very reassuring he said That level 

of energy has sustained itself over the 

year 

At their fourth meeting held in Decem 

ber members discussed ways to formalize 

the group s efforts while looking at new 

marketing concepts to explain its mission 

to others The group s first public effort 

came in November when it partnered 

with the Arizona Investment Council to 

host the Business and Climate Change 

Summit 

Since then multiple studies have fur 

ther detailed the definition of sustain 

Business Journal Phoenix 



ability a buzzword that has permeated 

the public and private communities 

Arizona State University s Morrison 

Institute for Public Policy and the Global 

Institute of Sustainability released Sus 

tainability for Arizona shortly after the 

summit exploring issues the business 

community has been concerned about for 

several years 

The study also detailed what Arizona 

businesses need to do to continue growth 

in this area Co author Nancy Welch of 

The Morrison Institute said defining 

the term sustainability was one of the 

study s larger hurdles 

It was something everybody was talk 

ing about but was really undefined she 

said We had a lot to learn when we start 

ed 

The size and prominence of certain 

companies leading the charge includ 

ing Wal Mart Stores Inc and Intel have 

been pushing sustainability practices 

into the mainstream But in the past few 

years small and midsize businesses have 

become more aware that they can earn 

money while taking on a larger role in 

environmental and community issues 

Welch said 

Beyond basic corporate initiatives com 

panies must plan further into the future 

to continue their progress she said Ac 

ceptance of new technology government 

support and education are at the heart of 

this she said 

I think the business community has 

been a very big catalyst in some ways and 

a follower in others Welch said I think 

we are seeing the start of the momentum 

toward a more connected community 

education environmental and business 

world 

Another recent study Leadership and 

the Corporate Sustainability Challenge 

by Atlanta based research organization 

Avastone Consulting showed U S enter 

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prise companies have made major prog 

ress but there still is a gap between recent 

adopters of sustainability and those lead 

ing the charge 

The study detailed how 10 global cor 

porations with annual revenue between 

1 billion and 100 billion have integrated 

sustainability practices into their busi 

ness models While all 10 companies re 

ported they already had increased their 

philanthropic and compliance methods 

and had begun branding their environ 

mental initiatives none had integrated 

sustainability into strategic 

business plans 

This however is part of the 

natural evolution of sustain 

ability in the business sector 

said Ivan Johnson chairman 

of the Arizona Chamber of 

Commerce Industry and 

vice president of commu 

nity relations at Cox Arizona The goal 

of achieving balance between economics 

and environment is starting to take hold 

he said 

We see those as linked he said You 

can buy all the innovative energy saving 

devices you want and spend yourself into 

the ground No company can survive that 

way 

Arizona Businesses for Advancing 

Sustainability www azbas net 


Date: 12/14/2007 




SUSTAINABILITY is a condition of exist i 

ence that enables the present generation of 

humans and other species to enjoy social 

well being a vibrant economy and a healthy 

environment and to experience fulfillment 

beauty and joy without compromising the j 

ability of future generations of humans and I 

other species to enjoy the same f 

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Publication Name: The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ 






Title: GIOS: Safe recycling of e-waste is a priority 



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it 

— 

Safe recycling ofe waste is a priority 

This article is one in a se 

ries ofarticles contributed by 

Arizona State University s 

Global Institute ofSustain 

ability The institute catalyzes 

and advances interdisciplin 

ary research and education on 

environmen 

tal economic 

Hl|P| ¦ § I Finally 

puter with a 

V C 3Ghz proces 

Wllliams sor and a 

special for screaming 

Tfie Republic fast y fe0 

card that will 

realistically 

render the digital sweat on 

virtual enemies in your favor 

ite video game 

Now what happens with 

your old computer 

Most likely it will end up 

with other electronics prod 

ucts heaped in landfills or 

exported to another country 

for recycling Either option 

raises concerns about the en 

vironmental impact of such 

electronic waste 

One issue is the possible 

health risk posed by toxic 

substances contained in com 

puters and other electronics 

For instance solder in circuit 

boards and glass in cathode 

ray tubes contain lead a well 

known neurotoxin 

The Arizona Republic 



Are toxic substances in 

electronics really a health 

threat Many environmental 

organizations believe so 

Greenpeace published a re 

port Missed Call Iphone s 

Hazardous Chemicals claim 

ing that the Iphone is a toxic 

and environmentally irre 

sponsible product 

The Greenpeace argument 

runs like this Substance A is 

toxic and Product B con 

tains substance A thus B is 

a toxic product This argu 

ment is appealing in its sim 

plicity 

But apply the same logic to 

other products and virtually 

everything around us is toxic 

including peanut butter 

which contains the carcino 

gen aflatoxin 

Understanding the real 

toxic risk of a product is 

more complex including 

characterizing how toxic sub 

stances move in the environ 

ment and end up inside us 

For some substances such 

as lead leakage out of land 

fills in the U S seems unlikely 

For many other substances 

the potential risk is unclear 

nor is it clear which products 

are leading to exposure 

There is a much more obvi 

ous environmental problem 

Old computers and other 

electronics are often exported 

to developing countries 

where they are reused or pro 

cessed to recover parts and 

valuable materials such as 

copper and gold That recy 

cling is often done by a 

backyard industry using 

primitive methods that dam 

age the environment 

For example to extract 

copper from electronics 

wires are pulled piled up and 

burned in the open to remove 

the plastic casings This burn 

ing generates toxic emissions 

including dioxins that are po 

tent carcinogens 

Here we face a recurring 

dilemma with managing envi 

ronmental issues in a global 

ized economy People in rich 

countries can purchase goods 

and services cheaply in part 

because they are produced at 

great environmental and or 

social cost to other countries 

So is that just somebody 

else s problem Not if you 

want a bona fide sustainable 

solution to dealing with e 

waste because a sustainable 

solution must be global solu 

tion So what is truly a 

green and sustainable com 

puter 

Some argue that a green 

computer is one with no toxic 

materials This is not the 

whole story partly because 

improper recycling generates 

toxic substances in addition 

to any originally contained in 

the computer 

Others argue for a blanket 

ban on exports This misses 

important sustainability is 

sues A sustainable product 

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system should address how to 

best meet environmental eco 

nomic and social objectives 

Many of the computers 

people are using in the devel 

oping world are purchased 

used Used markets provide 

inexpensive access to infor 

mation technology which is 

important for economic de 

velopment and education in 

developing countries The re 

use and recycling industry 

also provides jobs both 

abroad and domestically 

So are there ways to im 

prove health and safety in re 

cycling enabling reuse of old 

electronics and providing jobs 

while ensuring environmental 

safety 

Several engineering col 

leagues at ASU are working 

with me to look for answers 

One thing we know Sustaina 

ble solutions ones that pro 

tect the environment pro 

mote economic development 

and provide social benefits 

are the first priority 



Pub Num: AZD90 

Section/Page: B3 


Eric Williams is an assistant 

professor in the Department of 

Civil and Environmental 

Engineering in ASU s Ira A 

Fulton School ofEngineering 

and the School ofSustainability 

He along with several ASU 

colleagues recently won a grant 

from the National Science 

Foundation to study sustainable 

solutions for international reuse 

and recycling of computers 

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Title: ASU’s Liu comments on real estate market 

Byline: BY JAN BUCHHOLZ jbucholtz@bizjournals.com 


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with 

Industry leaders forecast skittish real estate market tough financing 

RY JbK KKHHOl2 

jbuchholz@bizjournals com 

Crystal balls usually are in high de 

mand at year s end because of a desire to 

know what the future will hold This year 

leaves the business community—and the 

real estate industry in particular — 

even more questions about what s in store 

for 2008 and beyond 

As 2007 winds down the economy is be 

ing hammered by a housing meltdown 

soaring foreclosure rates tightening cred 

it the looming employer sanctions law 

stiffer pollution penalties and an uptick 

in state and Valley unemployment 

Instead of asking a psychic to read the 

future the Phoenix Business Journal 

asked real estate and construction indus 

try experts for their take on the economy 

uncertain — the good the bad andthe 

Given such a dubious business and eco 

nomic climate some of their answers may 

be surprising 

What is the greatest concern facing local 

real estate and construction companies in 

2008 

MIKEFITZ GERALD 

Managing director 

Colliers International 

Greater Phoenix 

How deeply the subprime fiasco 

will affect commercial markets 

and the increasing vacancy in 

all submarkets in 2008 

JEFF ROBERTS 

Vice president of real estate and develop 




ment 

Opus West Corp 

The tightness of the credit 

market has had a significant 

impact on a commercial real 

estate buyer s ability to obtain 

a loan and therefore purchase 

property This has caused real 

estate values to decrease 5 percent to 10 per 

cent over the last half of 2007 At the end of 

the day this may be the greatest uncertainty 

facing real estate companies in 2008 

TIM LAWLESS 

President 

National Association of Office 

and Industrial Properties 

Arizona Chapter 

Like everyone else our biggest 

concern is whether we will 

escape a national recession 

next year While this is out 

of our control how the state responds to 

the slower growth is not For instance state 

policy makers currently are faced with a 1 

billion budget deficit for this year and a 1 8 

billion structural budget deficit for next year 

that will involve tough choices We will be 

advocating that these choices not include 

tax increases which will harm our economic 

competitiveness 

CROCKER LIU 

City: Phoenix 


McCord chair and professor of 

real estate 

Arizona State University 

Whether the subprime mort 

gage crisis puts the economy 

into a tailspin Interest only 

money has dried up and what 

money can be had has more 

due diligence associated with it 





Date: 12/28/2007 


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JoHH VhTISTAS 

Chairman 

Equitable Sotheby s 

International Realty 

An excess inventory of over 

priced homes Foreclosures 

vyill continue Lending will 

continue to tighten and make 

qualifying for homes much 

more difficult 

Is the subprime mortgage meltdown in the 

residential sector spilling over into commercial 

iniMkctmont 

CRAIG HENIG 

Managing director 

CB Richard Ellis 

The commercial sectorv 

definitely is feeling the ef 

fects from the fallout of the 

subprime debacle Unlike the 

days of the Resolution Trust 

Corp there is an abundance 

at capital waiting on the sidelines waiting to 

see when the Dricine has hit bottom 

CRAIG COPPOLA 

Principal 

Lee Associates 

Yes Getting debt is harder 

and more expensive Tenants 

are closing shop or subleas 

ing making the market softer 

Buyer confidence over the 

next year is shaken creating a 

i ai i iru ic dm irnnmant 

CARTER FROELICH 

Managing principal 

Development Planning Financing Group Inc 

It has affected liquidity at all levels of 

investment As a result lenders are raising 




underwriting standards on 

all product types includ 

ing commercial properties 

Nevertheless the Federal 

Reserve is signaling to banks 

through its continued lower 

ing of the discount rate that 

they should continue to lend 

money to those who are 

qualified 

LIU The subprime mortgage meltdown is 

making it harder to obtain financing since 

a lot of the subprime stuff was roiled into 

a collateralized debt obligation which In 

turn was rolled into a structured invest 

ment vehicle which was backed by asset 

backed commercial paper They will have 

to refinance this ABCP andthe question Is 

where the money to refinance these deals 

will come from 

VATISTAS It already has Commercial lenders 

are becoming much more conservative and 

skittish It will affect the cash required to 

develop more speculative type properties 

Lenders are looking for much more skin in 

the game 

How much will foreign investment come hrto 

play in Phoenix 

JfPP DAtToH 




City: Phoenix 


Vice president and Southwest 

division manager 

JEDun i Construction 

Foreign investment will 

continue to increase as the 

dollar loses value internation 

ally Currently we are working 

with investors from Israel and 


Date: 12/28/2007 




Chile and financial institutions in Europe 

When a foreign firm makes a decision to 

come to the U S Phoenix is one of the top 

candidates We have a great combination of 

weather work force population growth and 

overall cost of living 

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JULIAN ANDERSON 

President 

Ryder hevett Bucknall 

Americas Division 

Watch for money from China 

the Middle East and India 

LAWLESS Oil rich nations will 

continue to invest profits in the 

U b it for no other reason than to generate 

goodwill and protect their interests More spe 

cific to Arizona Canadians could be expected 

to ramp up investment in our state given the 

advantageous currency exchange rates 

VATISTAS We are seeing both investors 

and home buyers from Ireland Canada 

Mexico and England They view our market 

as a bargain 

Several curve balls have been thrown into the 

Arizona market in the past several weeks in 

cluding the sanctions law for businesses that 

hire illegal immigrants and increased penalties 

forenvironmental pollution How much impact 

will these have on real estate and construction 

locally 

TOM JOHNSTON 

Senior managing director 

Cushman Wakefield of Arizona Inc 

The immigration sanctions will affect 




the multihousing market 

particularly in west and 

southwest Phoenix It also will 

affect the retail market 

ERIC NEBLUNB 

Senior vice president 

Sundt Construction Inc 

As a company Sundt has 

participated in the pilot program and we 

feel very comfortable that we will have 

no impact with our work force because of 

the employer sanctions bill The serious 

issue facing the construction industry is 

the critical shortage of a skilled legal work 

force Neither federal nor state legislation 

has addressed this key issue and pro 

actively solving this issue is 

important to the future of our 

industry 

DALTON The increased 

penalties for pollu tion and 

dust control shouldn t have 

much of an effect Frankly 

if e company wasntalreadv 

stepping up and aggressively following 

dust prevention and storm water pollution 

policies they were being left behind 

ANDERSON Not s gnificantly These 

issues might have been curve balls but 

they should not have been a surprise to 

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Title: ASU students drum up economic partnerships abroa... 

Byline: BY TY YOUNG 


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ASU students drum up economic partnerships abroad 

BY TY YOUNG 

tyyounggpbizjou rns Is corn 

The Emerald Isle and the Grand Canyon 

State may be diametrically different in 

nearly every way but Arizona State Uni 

versity students still are finding a major 

resource in their Irish counterparts 

A handful of ASU science and chemistry 

students are yartnering with peers from 

Ireland s three universities to advance 

their research and find a market for their 

products ASU President Michael Crow a 

big supporter of making the school a scien 

tific research powerhouse said Ireland is 

an obvious entry point for global business 

We are always lookingfor ways to enter 

Arizona State University into new areas 

in the global economy Crow said Ire 

land is a great entry point because of its 

dedication and support of research fund 

ing and educational excellence 

In Ireland much of the investment for 

research into alternative energies bio 

technology computer science and infor 

mational sciences comes from the private 

and public sectors With more than 5 bil 

lion invested in science and technology 

research since 2000 Intel Corp Hewlett 

Packard Co and dozens of other large 

companies have targeted Ireland for fu 

ture research partnerships 

These economic connections attracted 

many ASU researchers and students But 

ASU also caught the eye of some visitors 

from Ireland including Sarah Ingle a pro 

fessor of entrepreneurship at Dublin City 

University 

While spending some time in the Val 

ley last year and meeting with leaders of 

ASU s WP Carey School of Business she 

became impressed by the entrepreneurial 

spirit of the students Before returning 

to Ireland she hatched a plan with Julia 

Rosen ASU s assistant vice president of 




economic affairs to partner recent Edson 

Student Entrepreneur Initiative award 

winners with business students at DCU 

We were trying to come up with ways 

to involve more students Ingle said It is 

working really very well so far 

Murat Karatas an ASU doctoral student 

in marketing has yartnered with five DCU 

students to build a business model for a 

Web site he s developing that will help us 

ers learn foreign languages While Kara 

tas is building Livelanguages com five 

DCU students are looking at advertising 

opportunities and companies that could 

contribute 

Meanwhile ASU junior biochemistry 

student William Hamilton is trying to cre 

ate synthetic proteins to use in artificial 

blood He developed his idea while serving 

in the U S Army prior to starting at ASU 

As he sifts through chemicals and peers 

through microscopes to complete his re 

search students at DCU are looking for 

biotechnology companies to fund and 

eventually buy his invention 

A lot of students businesses are fairly 

standard A lot of groups create restau 

rants or online companies that provide 

some sort of a service said Teegen 

McGuire a senior DCU marketing stu 

dent When we saw the different busi 

ness ideas that were coming from ASU 

we thought William s project sounded 

really interesting 

McGuire alongwithfourother students 

already has courted Biopure Corp Hemo 

sol BioPharma Inc and Northfield Lab 

oratories to participate in the research 

Each of those bioscience companies is in a 

different stage of artificial blood produc 

tion but all said they could benefit from 

Hamilton s research McGuire said 

After meeting his Irish counterparts 

in person and through Internet commu 

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nications Hamilton said he is more than 

impressed with the abilities of the DCU 

team 

They are real go getters he said I 

don t think I ve seen anything like it be 

fore They are very motivated 

Some ASU students are living in Ire 

land to help with research studies Five 

students have called National University 

of Ireland at alway home for the past 

semester They are there helping with gly 

cobiology research for L okesh Joshi an 

associate professor in the Harrington De 

partment of Bioengineering at ASU s Ira 

A Fulton School of Engineering 

The entire group studies at NUI alway 

and hopes to follow the Irish tech transfer 

process that could lead to business oppor 

tunities While in Ireland they use the 

university s facilities partner with other 

researchers and work within the country s 

research based economic infrastructure 

They also hope this research exchange 

will lead to further partnerships between 

the two universities 

We re really interested in learning 

from the Irish model and developing long 

termpartnerships between NUI and ASU 

said Kausar Samli an ASU chemistry 

Ph D student handling much of Joshi s 

research in Ireland 

NUI Galway President Iognaid Muir 

cheartaigh said he s happy to see students 

from ASU using the resources of his school 

A strong proponent of global connection in 

research he said international partnerships 

are the future of innovation 

It makes me feel good to see this hap 

pening he said Our futures are depen 

dent on what takes place today and what 

these students are doing at both schools 

will be very important in the future 

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City: Phoenix 


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ASU biochemistry student William Hamilton is working with students at Dublin City 

University to turn his artificial blood research into a viable business 









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Title: ASU scientist creates energy-collecting backpack 

Byline: Ty Young 


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ASU scientist creates energy collecting backpack 

Ty Young 

Add a few more books to that backpack 

kids because it just may mean a little 

more juice for your cell phone 

An Arizona State University scien 

tist has created aTiackpack that harvests 

enough energy from friction to power 

small electronic devices such as flash 

lights MP3 players and phones 

The backpack was created by Henry 

Sodano an assistant professor in the 

Department of Mechanical and Aero 

space Engineering at ASU s Ira A Ful 

ton School of Engineering It was part 

of his research into finding mechanical 

engineering applications for kinesthetic 

motion 




Energy is derived from the backpack s 

conductive material as it brushes across 

the wearer s back and arms The shoulder 

straps are made at golyvinylideae fluo 

ride a flexible material similar to nylon 

The polymer allows the electric charge 

from friction to be transferred into an en 

ergy outsourcing device 

Your normal gait causes the backpack 

to move up and down during each step 

resulting in a force in the pack s straps 

Sodano said The material used for the 

strap has the ability to transform this al 

ternating force into electrical energy that 

can be collected and used to power an elec 

tronic device 

Sodano s work was supported by the 

U S Office of Naval Research which 




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is looking to provide more alternative 

power sources for the U S Marine Corps 

Sodano hopes the backpack will create 

enough energy to power global position 

ing satellite system units or night vision 

goggles 

Beyondthe backpack Sodano hopes to 

find self generating alternative energy 

sources in internal body parts 

There s a lot of energy in your body 

that could be converted into electrical en 

ergy he said Your heartbeat could pro 

vide energy to help ppwer a pacemaker 

You could even use the energy produced 

by the expansion and contraction of your 

rib cage as you breathe 

For more www fulton asu edu fulton 

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Title: Business prof comments on possible recession 

Byline: BY MIKE SUNNUCKS 

Favorability: Neutral 

40

Job loss figures spur concern over possible recession 

BYMIKESUNNUCKS 

msunnucks@bizjournalsjcom 

Arizona lost 1 800 jobs between October 

and November according to new federal 

numbers 

The U S Bureau of Labor Statistics 

said Arizona s nonfarm employment to 

tals went from 2 721 900 jobs in October to 

2 720 100 in November with construction 

accounting for the bulk of the loss 

Construction employment dipped from 

233 000 jobs in October to 231 000 in Nov 

ember Last month s figures were down 

significantly from the 252 000 construc 

tion industry jobs reported in November 

2006 Those drops are fueled by the hous 

ing market meltdown which has seen con 

struction starts and residential sales drop 

off dramatically 

Those declines coupled with housing 

market doldrums and soaring oil prices 

spark worries that the state is headed for 

a recession though economists differ on 

the severity of the situation 

Arizona overall still has gained 41 000 

jobs since November 2006 according to 

seasonally adjusted numbers from BLS 

Arizona gross job gains are better than 

Illinois 39 900 but behind Virginia Utah 

Colorado and North Carolina 

The job numbers are indicative of the 

murky economic picture Arizona faces in 

2008 The slow housing market looming 




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crackdowns on companies that h re ille 

gal immigrants energy induced ir flation 

and the subprime mortgage fuelec credit 

crunch all are clouds hanging oirer the 

economy 

University of Arizona economist Mar 

shall Vest said at a December forum that 

the state already may be in a recession 

pointing to drops in residential p srmits 

uncertain credit markets and weak job 

growth Arizona for several years posted 

strong job gains compared with other 

states thanks to population growth and 

the real estate boom Those stron num 

bers have faded according to Vest 

Employment and economic projections 

for housing related sectors such as con 

struction mortgages and real estz te ser 

vices remain bearish for 2008 This weak 

dollar compared with the euro aid the 

British pound has economic developers 

focused on attracting more foreign invest 

ment and businesses to the state 

Arizona recently formed the Arizona 

Economic Research Organization to fo 

cus on that goal and the Arizona Depart 

ment of Commerce is opening a bu iness 

attraction office in Canada next yea r 

Other economists are a bit more opti 

mistic forecasting slower state ecc nomic 

growth but not a recession A 

recession is characterized by 

negative economic growth for 

two consecutive quarters 

The expansion lives on 

but at a more moderate pace 

as growth rates decline for 

yet another year said Lee 

McPheters an economist 

at Arizona State University s WE Carey 

School of Business citing a comp lation 

of economic forecasts But as o now 

there is no recession on the horizon 









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Title: Dean takes School of Engineering, life up a few notch... 

Byline: By Joe Kullman 


42

Spirit of 

Adventure 

ASU dean takes School of Engineering 

her life up a few notches 

By Joe Kullman 

As Deirdre Meldrum closes in on completing her first year 

as dean ofArizona State University s Ira A Fulton School 

of Engineering she says ASU is living up to her expectation 

of being ambitious energetic and fast moving 

Look at the pace she has been maintaining throughout 

her career—as wellas in her life off the job—and you under 

stand why the environment suits her Since arriving from 

the University of Washington she has set up the Center 

for Ecogenomics in ASU s Biodesign Institute where she 

directs researchers studying human cells for clues on how 

to cure diseases and developing biological sensors from one 

of the most technologically advanced oceanographic explo 

rations The cell project brought ASU one of the highest 

individual research grant amounts in its history 

She is leading the effort to draw a road map for the 

growth of an engineering school that already has more than 

6 000 students 200 faculty and 25 research centers The 

goal is nothing less than establishing a fundamental blue 

print for how we will train engineers to meet the world s 

needs in the 21st century she explains 

Meanwhile Meldrum has traveled with ASU contin 

gents to Mexico Singapore India Vietnam and elsewhere 

to help extend the university s global connections Closer 

to home she has been at work nurturing planned and 

potential collaborations between the Ira A Fulton School 

of Engineering and some of Arizona s leading high tech 

health care and research companies and organizations 







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such as Science Foundation Arizona I ve collected hun 

dreds of business cards she says laughing 

No Slowing Down 

Meldrum s prodigious engineering educational and entre 

preneurial undertakings mirror an adventurous spirit 

exhibited by challenging pursuits outside of her work life 

In the summer between earning her bachelor s degree in 

civil engineering from the University of Washington and 

starting work on a master s degree in electrical engineer 

ing at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York she 

bicycled 4 200 miles across the United States 

She took extra time to earn her Ph D in electrical engi 

neering at Stanford University so that she could compete 

on Stanford s bicycle racing team and a rowing club team 

She s seen much of Scotland Spain Portugal France and 

the Alps by way of long distance bicycle sojourns 

For several years she and a group of friends took 

an annual seven day cross country skiing and camping 

trek across California s Sierra Nevada mountain range 

Her husband proposed to her on top of Mount Shasta in 

California after they climbed to a snow covered peak more 

than 14 000 feet high 

Despite the marathon work days required by her new 

responsibilities as an ASU dean and director of a major 

research center she doesn t plan on breaking stride on 

travels with her husband and two children We still have a 

lot of exploring to do she says EH 




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DEIRDRE NAME M^e Meldrum PROFESSION SHE WOULD MOST ENJOYIF NOT ENGINEERING Space and ocean exploration 

MELDRUM AGE 46 ADVICE SHE W0UL° GIVE ASPIRING ENGINEERS Find something you really love to do and keep your 

RESIDES Ahwatukee eyes open for new opportunitiesBe flexible and adaptable 

flj fl PERSONAL Married Husband Advice She Would Giveto Young Women on Pursuing Careersin Science and Engineering Have 

pi¦kipr Peter Wiktor isa mechanical confidence in your abilities and never give up 

U LAN lit engineer Children Thaddeus CAN T LIVE WITHOUT Water and food OK family and friends 

12 Genevieve 8 HOW SHE SPENT HER LAST VACATION Wakeboarding and swimming in Coeur d Alene Lake Idaho 




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Publication Name: East Valley Tribune, Mesa, AZ 






Title: Rex: Mesa could follow Scottsdale Airpark trend 

Byline: By LINDSAY M BUTLER TRIBUNE 


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Development chief looks ahead 

Mesa newcomer sees 

Gateway airport as 

key to growth 

By LINDSAY M BUTLER 

TRIBUNE 

Mesa s economic future hmges 

on careful airport development 

attracting high salary jobs and 

encouraging quality redevelop 

ment according to the city s new 

economic development^ director 

Wlham JabTmigr 

But a strong economic develop 

ment plan won t matter if the city 

doesn t have money to spend a 

prominent East Valley economist 

says 

As the city official responsible 

fijr luring businesses to Mesa Jab 

juaak must be an expert on all the 

otherwise upsets — financial and 

Mesa can offer over other cities 

lH the Valley and the Southwest 

po 

s 

about 

cov 

region 

Jabjimak relocated from Rich 

mond Va just more than three 

months ago — after the Mesa 

sttion had been vacant or tempo 

rarily filled for two years 

One reason the city had difficul 

ty filling the position is because of 

its light emphasis on economic de 

VfJopment in the past said Mesa 

^lamber of Commerce president 

Charlie Deaton 

It s important that we have the 

r »ht guy in that position Deaton 

SSud It s a very critical position 

l«e city has in my opinion not 

gwen the kind of attention to that 

lfcshoufd We re seeing that hope 

mly change 

The city originally planned to 

jpy for Jabjimak s relocation with 

ajmx of public funds and private 

dfinations collected by local busi 

tSfcss consortium the East Valley 

gCftnership but the deal fell apart 

aTter media scrutiny 

The relocation costs — 

B5 000 in addition to his 142 400 

annual salary — now will be 

East Valley Tribune 



ered by the city 

In an interview Monday Jabjin 

lak shared his newcomer perspec 

tive on the city and its economic 

opportunities 

When it comes to attracting 

business Mesa gets the edge with 

its transportation land outdoor 

recreation and atmosphere Jab 

jmiak said 

It s a big city with a small city 

feel he said 

Deaton added quahty of life 

amenities such as education 

home prices arts and culture and 

weather 

All of those features will come 

into play as the city drafts its plan 

for the thousands of mostly unde 

veloped acres near the Phoenix 

Mesa Gateway Airport 

First be wary of forgetting 

there are two airports Jabjimak 

said The city does want to grow 

general aviation at Falcon Field as 

well 

Its focus at Gateway however 

will be more specific 

We re looking at Big P pas 

senger and little c cargo Jabjin 

aak said 

With a focus on passenger 

services at the airport the city 

will have an opportunity to at 

tract jobs It s shooting for at least 

100 000 high paying positions in 

such fields as research technol 

ogy bioscience and health dare 

And with those higher level 

jobs the city will be looking to add 

dining and shopping 

We want it to be so that you 

can go to the airport and fly to Dal 

las for a meeting and be back for 

dinner he said 

City leaders are looking to the 

airport area as an employment 

hub and a boost to its own econ 

omy now mostly funded through 

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City: Mesa 


sales tax revenue 

Mesa is one of the few cities 

poised to capitalize on its local air 

port and could follow the trend set 

by the Scottsdale Airpark employ 

ment hub said Tom Rex Arizona 

State University professor of state 

and metro Phoenix economy 

With affordable housing prox 

imity to ASU Polytechnic and 

capacity for commercial flights 

Mesa could really take a jump 

ahead Rex said 

But the city s ongoing financial 

struggle could hinder its economic 

development potential Rex said 

When you don t have much 

money you re not spending and 

not building infrastructure that 

companies want to see he said 

You get what you pay for The 

people of Mesa aren t willing to 

pay for more taxes and more city 

services so that dictates the na 

ture of the community 

Jabjimak said garnering more 

sales tax revenue isn t necessarily 

his purpose 

My focus is on bringing qual 

ity jobs he said 

On the western side of the city 

Jab mlak won t say exactly what 

he has planned for downtown 

Mesa just that he wants to make 

it a destination point 

The wide streets are not pe 

destrian friendly he said We 

need to get people out of their 

cars 

One ofthe keys to that develop 

ment will be the extension of light 

rail if the city decides to expand 

its reach into downtown Mesa 

Mesa has a center line planned 

for light rail Jabjimak said Main 

Street has a median — there 

your light rail Do a loop around 

and there is vacant land 

Downtown and other older 




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parts of Mesa will benefit greatly 

from adaptive uses he aid 

Redevelopment is not a nasty 

word he said We just need to 

work with the community to fig 

ure out what s missing 




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Title: Settling in at Sky Song 



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Publication Name: The Glendale Star, Glendale, AZ 



Frequency: Thu 



Title: ASU’S West campus plans MLK celebrations 



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Publication Name: Arizona Informant, Phoenix, AZ 



Frequency: Wed 



Title: ASU Coalition to host Black History Month programs 



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ASU Black and African Coalition To Host 

Programs For Black History Month 

The Black and African 

Coalition umbrella orga 

nization for all Black orga 

nizations at Arjzona State 

University will Host a series 

of events for D L A C K 

History Month 

D L A C K is an 

acronym for the different 

themes of each week dur 

ing the month Beauty and 

Brotherhood Leadership 

and Legacy Africa and 

Activism Culture and 

Creativity and Knowledge 

and Kinship Each week 

will consist of an event and 

an art display 

The events of the 

month are as follows 

February 6 at 7 p m in 

Arizona Informant 



Murdock201 Why Did 

God Make Me Black 

Presentation and discus 

sion about the concept of 

beauty throughout the 

African Diaspora 


the Student Services 

Amphitheater Con 

scious Leadership Forum 

about the current state of 

leadership in the Black 

community and at Arizona 

State University 

February 18 at 6 30 p m 

at Union Stage Activism 

at ASIJ Panel discussion 

about how a Black ASU 

student protest led to the 

formation of the African 

and African American 

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City: Phoenix 


Studies Department 


Murdock 101 Spoken 

Word Revolution Poetry 

performance and competi 

tion involving members of 

the ASU and Phoenix 

community 


Murdock 201 The 

Great Debate Formal 

debate about issues con 

cerning the Black commu 

nity 

For more information 

about B L A C K History 

Month or the Black and 

African Coalition contact 

Charisse Burden Stelly at 

charisse burden stelly@ 

asu edu or 489 217 1041 



Pub Num: AZW390 

Section/Page: B19 


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Publication Name: La Voz, Phoenix, AZ 



Frequency: Wed; Sat 



Title: College Goal Sunday comes to ASU 



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Publication Name: Roswell Daily Record, Roswell, NM 

Market Name: Albuquerque, NM 





Title: ASU’s Storad shares writing secrets with young stude... 

Byline: VANESSA BEAUMAN RECORD STAFF WRITER 


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make 

Author shares writing secrets with young students^ 

Vanessa Beauman 

Record Staff Writer 

With an encouraging smile 

and upbeat note in his voice 

writer Conrad J Storad 

spilled the secrets of good 

book writing to Dexter Ele 

mentary School students 

Tuesday and Wednesday at 

the school s library He start 

ed by providing them with the 

essential first step in writing a 

book 

Think Storad said to a 

group of preschoolers and 

third graders Wednesday 

afternoon You have to have 

some ideas That s how you 

start to write a book Storad 

then explained the role of edi 

tors publishers and illustra 

tors — people needed to 

the idea of a book a reality 

Storad s educational back 

ground includes undergradu 

ate degrees in journalism and 

environmental science as well 

as a master s degree in sci 

ence journalism from Arizona 

State University s~~WaTter 

Cronkite School of Journal 

ism and Mass Communica 

tion He has experience as a 

reporter editor and general 

manager for the Barberton 

Herald newspaper in Ohio 

Storad currently works for 

ASU as director of the Office 

of Research Publications He 

writes and edits the ASU 

Research Magazine is the 

founding editor of Chain 

Reaction magazine and is 

dedicated to writing non fic 

tion children s books that he 

hopes will encourage children 

to read and be interested in 

science 

Roswell Daily Record 


DMA: Albuquerque, NM 

But Wednesday afternoon 

all that mattered to the 

preschoolers and third 

graders was how Penny Pack 

Rat was going to survive the 

harsh desert environment to 

find a shiny spoon The cen 

tral character in Storad s 

Desert Night Shift A Pack 

Rat Story Penny s quest is 

meant to teach children about 

the desert and one of its noc 

turnal creatures the pack 

rat 

Children s books are my 

fun job on the side said 

Storad who has written over 

a dozen children s or young 

adult books He calls them 

non fiction because their sub 

jects are based on real crea 

tures 

My intent is to help chil 

dren learn that reading is 

fun he said Storad said 

sometimes children ask him 

why he does not write fiction 

but he finds his current genre 

too much fun to let go 

I like to write about the 

real world Storad said The 

world around us is an inter 

esting place You just need 

to slow down and take a 

look 

Storad said that as a visit 

ing author he has been to 

eight states more than 700 

schools and estimates that in 

the 10 years he s been travel 

ing the country with his work 

he has spoken to 700 000 

children This is his second 

visit to Dexter 

Nancy Miles elementary 

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City: Roswell 

State: NM 

librarian for Dexter Elemen 

tary said Storad s visit and 

input into book writing came 

just in time for the school s 

students who are in the 

process of authoring books 

themselves 

Miles said children pre 

school through third grade are 

writing books as a class proj 

ect Fourth and fifth graders 

will be writing a book individ 

ually Students will provide 

their own illustrations and be 

editors to each other s work 

Miles called Storad s advice 

about book writing invaluable 

She said Storad s visit as well 

as many other art music and 

drama programs at Dexter Ele 

mentary are made possible 

through funding received from 

the State Fine Arts dollars 

This funding is available to 

elementary schools throughou 

the state of New Me xlcc 

through an applicatior 

process 



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Publication Name: Daily News-Sun, Sun City, AZ 


Publication Date: 2008-01-08 00:00:00.000 




Title: Schools revise in-state tuition count 



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Publication Name: Scottsdale Tribune, Scottsdale, AZ 






Title: ASU powers forward with solar plans 



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Title: Workers cite ASU building safety hazards 

Byline: By RYAN GABRIELSON 

Favorability: Negative 

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Workers cite ASU building safety hazards 

Asbestos peril lack 

of fall protection 

among claims 

By RYAN OABRIELSON 

TRIBUNE 

ASU workers last year ac 

cused the university of more 

than 20 workplace hazards that 

violated safety regulations 

But the state agency re 

sponsible for investigating 

such allegations usually direct 

ed Arizona State University to 

inspect itself 

And ASU officials rarely 

found problems on their cam 

pus a Tribune review of com 

plaints shows 

The one time that the Arizo 

na Department of Occupation 

al Safety and Health conducted 

an unannounced inspection it 

found a university building su 

pervisor had sent his employ 

ees to tear down a roof loaded 

with asbestos 

The agency initially cited 

ASU for a serious violation 

But college officials negotiated 

that down to non serious as 

part of a settlement deal last 

month 

Before the asbestos case 

the agency had declined to in 

vestigate allegations that ASU 

put employees at risk of ex 

posure to mold and electrical 

currents and that it had leveled 

scaffolding using phone books 

and didn t provide equipment 

to protect against falls 

The university s health and 

safety office denied most of the 

22 individual allegations made 

throughout 2007 complaint 

records and internal e mail re 

cords show However ASU offi 

cials told the state agency they 

couldnt confirm or deny some 

ofthe most serious alleged haz 

ards 

Leon Igras the university s 

health and safety director 


Circulation: 70025 


declined to comment for this 

story Robert Backus head of 

ASU s carpentry shop also de 

clined to comment specifically 

on the asbestos case in which 

he was involved 

In October state inspectors 

found Backus had told his em 

ployees the Lyceum Theater s 

porch roof he d assigned them 

to remove had tested negative 

for asbestos In fact he never 

had it tested 

In the process oftearing off 

the roof a big cloud of dust was 

created that caused coughing 

and watering of the eyes the 

employee complaint said 

The employees stopped 

work after just three hours 

worried that the 69 year old 

theater did contain the car 

cinogen Asbestos only pdses 

a serious risk if it becomes air 

borne 

The roof had seven layers 

of felt paper that tested positive for 

asbestos the complaint said 

After the state agency cited it for 

a serious violation the university es 

tablished a more rigorous building 

permit system and added training 

for construction supervisors to pre 

vent future hazards Leah Hardesty 

an ASU spokeswoman wrote in re 

sponse to the Tribune s questions 

When complaints are serious in 

nature or could possibly result in se 

rious harm or even someone s death 

then we re going to put a lot more 

weight on those said Darin Perkins 

Arizona s occupational safety and 

health director 

If state regulators didn t inspect 

certain alleged hazards at the univer 

sity Perkins said it is likely because 

the complaint didn t meet all the state 

agency s criteria Those criteria are 

that the complaint detail a situation 

that could cause serious injury that 




City: Mesa 


it be filed in writing and that at least 

one current employee sign their name 

on it 

The state agency commonly di 

rects employers to handle minor com 

plaints that don t include a significant 

health risk Perkins said The agency 

is sometimes notified when an office s 

carpet isn t flat for instance 

Employers typically provide the 

agency accurate information about 

such nonserious allegations be 

cause they risk criminal prosecution 

if they don t said John Alan Doran 

a Phoenix labor law attorney with 

Greenberg Traurig 

Why would anybody lie about 

something that s of relatively little 

consequence in the big scheme of 

things Doran said 

Records do not indicate if any of 

the allegations against ASU besides 

the asbestos were minor by state 

standards Nor do they say what fac 

tors caused regulators to decline to 

investigate 

In March a complaint said work 

ers repairing the Tempe campus 

Matthews Center a two story build 

ing kept scaffolding level by placing 

phone books and bricks underneath 

the structure s legs That could de 

stabilize the scaffolding and violates 

state and federal regulations 

An AsU safety official checked the 

construction site the day after receiv 

ing the complaint but the scaffolding 

had already been disassembled 

Perkins said construction work 

ers often level scaffolds with pieces 

of wood considered a nonserious 

violation 

However he added you re not 

normally going to find a phone book 

used to level a scaffold 

Less than a month later the state 

agency asked the university to inves 

tigate another potential fall risk That 

complaint accused ASU construction 

supervisors of directing employees to 

work at elevated heights without fall 

protection measures 



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Igras told the agency in an April 4 

letter his office s internal review was 

inconclusive 

While no hazard was observed 

Igras wrote the potential for em 

ployees to work at elevations in excess 

of six feet without guard rails and fall 

arrest systems was identified 

Falls are the second most common 

cause of Arizona workplace deaths 

according to agency statistics 

That same complaint also said ASU 

building supervisors exposed workers 

to mold growing on water damaged 

ceilings Igras letter said there was 

no evidence supporting that claim 

But even if there was evidence 


Circulation: 70025 


of mold Perkins said the agency 

wouldn t have inspected the tiles 

Mold can cause health problems 

but the agency doesn t cite employ 

ers for it because there are no laws 

regarding mold growth he said 

There re no federal standards no 

state standards there s nothing out 

there that says If you have this much 

mold you re in violation he said 

ASU s single violation last year for 

the asbestos cost the university 750 

It negotiated the agency s fine down 

from 1 000 as part of a settlement 

that lowered the charge to nonseri 

ous and closed the case 

While the 250 saved is inconse 




City: Mesa 




Pub Num: AZD71SUN 



quential to the nation s largest uni 

versity Doran said it is important to 

employers to downgrade serious 

violations 

If the state cites the university 

again a serious violation can prompt 

inspectors to charge ASU with re 

peat or even willful violations 

Those citations bring much larger 

fines and can damage an employer s 

reputation The agency is often will 

ing to lower the violation to close cas 

es without costly court battles Doran 

said 

It s really just part of the day to 

day administrative horse trading that 

gets these resolved without going to^ 

hearing he said 

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Publication Name: Scottsdale Tribune, Scottsdale, AZ 






Title: ASU Foundation shares in Piper grant 

Byline: JULIE JANOVSKY 


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Title: Lawmaker targets needy university students, Crow co... 



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Title: Business professors promote free market for ticket pri... 

Byline: By John Faherty THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC 


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— 

or 

Get into the market for next year s Super Bowl 

By John Faherty 

The Arizona Repubt to 

Oneticket month to see agothe youGiants couldin have Super bought Bowl a 

XLIIfor 86 

f But there was one catch If the Giants did not 

jjiake the game there was no ticket and your 

money was gone 

I Keep in mind that one month ago the team 

was coming off a bad loss to the Redskins and 

ifobody in his right mind was thinking they 

yould make it to the Super Bowl 

The tickets were available on a Web site called 

Y5onew com which treats Super Bowl tickets 

or more accurately the right to buy them like 

a stock market option 

Sports fans and speculators buy these options 

hoping a particular team makes it 

¦ That person can lose their investment 

make a lot more For example the average face 

value for a Super Bowl ticket is about 700 and 

the average resale price is 4 400 

The company behind the 

Web site is in New York but the 

idea behind the business came 

from two professors at Arizona 

State University 

Stephen Happel and Mar 

ianne Jennings wrote about 

their idea in the Cato Journal 

which promotes free markets 

Two MBA students from the 

Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology saw the paper 

liked the concepts detailed in it 

and created Yoonew com 

The company is simply an 

electronic marketplace that 

sells what it calls Fantasy 

Seats 

Happel acts as an adviser for 

the company 

Here s how it works 

Imagine a rabid Cardinals 

fan is certain the team will 

make the Super Bowl next year 

That fan can buy the right to 

a ticket to the game in Tampa 

today for about 140 

If the team makes it that fan 

is holding something worth 

thousands of dollars on the 

open market 




When the game participants 

are determined Yoonew com 

buys tickets through ticket bro 

kers and hands them over to 

the people who own the rights 

Purchasing the tickets is ex 

pensive for the company but 

keep in mind that most people 

bought the options for teams 

that will not be playing in Glen 

dale 

People who thought or 

hoped the Cowboys Colts or 

Packers would be playing next 

week lost their investment 

Company officials would not 

divulge how many tickets it 

handed over this year 

They do say that the com 

pany about 3 years old is al 

ready making money 

For fans and speculators the 

hard part is picking a team 

Buying an option for the 

Cowboys or Patriots who are 

expected to do well next year is 

a lot more expensive than buy 

ing an option on the Cardinals 

Happy fans 

Gerry Benson of Northbor 

ough Mass has been a season 

ticket holder with the New En 

gland Patriots for 15 years 

Three weeks ago he decided 

to buy the options for two tick 

ets at Yoonew com 

Because the Patriots were 

such a heavy favorite to make 

the Super Bowl he spent 

2 100 for each ticket 

The risk was the Patriots 

losing a playoff game which 

would have meant Benson 54 

had nothing but remorse 

His gamble however has al 

ready paid off Tickets for the 

game are now selling for twice 

that amount 

Benson a die hard fan will 

not be selling his tickets 

I m taking my son he said 

I really want to go this year be 

cause they can make history 




City: Phoenix 


Knowing the market 

It s the fan aspect that makes 

the futures market for tickets 

so interesting 

Passions for a team mix with 

traditional market forces to 

make pricing volatile 

Each game the Giants lost 

this year their fantasy seat 

price went down 

Each time they won it went 

up 

During the NFC Champion 

ship Game in Green Bay Wis 

on Sunday ticket prices were 

spiking and dropping precipi 

tously 

When one Giants drive 

ended in a touchdown the 

price for an option shot up to 

3 856 When their kicker 

missed a field goal late in the 

game the price dropped to 

1 150 

That market volatility may 

not have been what Professors 

Jennings and Happel had envi 

sioned but for Jennings it 

proves that the free market 

means tickets will be available 

to people who know teams not 

just the rich 

Tickets will go to the people 

who have the time and the en 

ergy to really know the market 

place Jennings said That s 

not the wealthy They don t 

have the time The tickets will 

go to the savvy 

By the time the Giants made 

the Super Bowl the Patriots 

had already earned their way to 

Glendale 

That was when Benson who 

bought his tickets for 2 100 fi 

nally told his wife about the 

chance he took 

Oh yes I told her Benson 

said with a laugh that still be 

trayed his nervousness Just as 

soon as the Patriots won and 

the tickets were worth some 

thing I told her 

Reach the reporter at John 

faherty@arizonarepubHc com 






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Title: Get ASU Nursing School design right 



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educa 

Get ASU Nursing School design right 

Memorandum to Re 

sponsible parties on 

at Phoenix Nursing School ex 

pansion City of Phoenix 

not SmithGroup architects and 

and Arizona State University 

Re The new building 

Message Get this right 

When approved Phoenix a quarter voters 

billion in bonds to 

build a downtown campus for 

Arizona State University they 

hoped to accomplish two im 

portant goals 

¦ First create higher 

tion opportunities for a com 

munity whose economic vital 

ity depends on education 

And second revitalize 

downtown 

Two simple goals Not easy 

of not inexpensive but clear 

And the ^23 million bond is 

currentsue 

devoted to ASU repreJ 

sents the Phoenix residents 

commitment A large one A 

generous one 

So naturally we were con 

cerned as were many down 




town activists that the sec 

ond phase of the Nursing 

School s development — 

the corner of Third Street 

and Fillmore — might 

meet our expectations Those 

concerns have eased At a 

meeting this week between 

citizens and the project s 

planners itseems obvious 

you the responsible parties 

are listening In recent weeks 

more shade and softening de 

sign elements have been add 

ed City staffers pocketed sev 

eral of the design variances 

they had initially requested 

That s very promising 

Think back Recall the mis 

sion the idealism the vision 

and the eloquence that ac 

companiedthe proposal to 

bjing ASU downtown 

~ This newspaper was part 

that promise i 

¦ Downtowns 

evolution is the rnosi impor 

tant period of change in the 

urban core since y 1924 

More than ever we need to 

get it right The Arizona Re 

public May 13 2007 

¦For downtown 

to flourish economically and 

socially it must be friendlier 

more appealing to visitors 

shoppers tourists students 

and their parents Shade glo 

rious shade It s coming we re 

told The Arizona Republic 

June 8 2007 

And your words were reas 

suring The city launched the 

Urban Form Project pronuV 

ing greater activity and con 

nectivity 

The SmithGroup architects 

for the nursing school expan 

sion seemed to be on board 

But when initial details came 

out about the new nursing 

building some city planners 

and downtown activists 

balked 

Blank walls do not a city 

make commented Steve 

Weiss chairman of the 

Downtown Voices Coalition 

Obviously some of us were 

hoping for a more enticing 

streetscape An outward look 




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Section/Page: PH13 


to the building More shade 

More green 

Since then officials of ASU 

the city and the architects 

have been huddling And they 

have made progress — 

promise to keep people in 

formed Weiss and members 

of the Downtown Voices Coa 

lition are encouraged 

Here s our philosophy 

Shade and design of the ASU 

downtown campus are criti 

cally important aspects to the 

whole plan Voters did not 

tax themselves for mediocre 

drab edifices like the disap 

pointing downtown Sheraton 

Hotel which was financed by 

revenue bonds It will be paid 

for by guests tourists But it s 

the residents of Phoenix who 

are paying for ASU 

The nursing college expan 

sion will be the entrance to 

the ASU campus front the 

north The first thing motori 

sts and visitors see It must 

be done right Something 

we ll be proud of Keep work 

ing 

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URL: Link to original text 

Source: USATODAY.com 

Title: Poly sci prof comments on Democratic race 

Nielsen NetRatings: 9461451 


Full Text: WASHINGTON - The ongoing Democratic presidential race combined with Latino 

population growth and diverse states on the early calendar have ignited the first spirited battle for 

Hispanic votes in a primary season. DEMOCRATS: Race now a test of endurance DELEGATES: 

Count can be confusing 

The rivalry between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama is a turning point, said Simon 

Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, which studies Hispanic voting. ’Hispanics have 

arrived as a major force. This is now a permanent condition of American politics in the 21st century,’ 

he said. Clinton, the New York senator and former first lady, has a 16-year history of working with 

Hispanics and began laying the groundwork with them for her presidential run in late 2006. Obama, 

the Illinois senator, started a push for Hispanic votes last month as Feb. 5 primaries neared in several 

states with large Hispanic voting blocs. 

Obama won 26% of the Hispanic vote in the Nevada caucuses Jan. 19, compared with 64% for 

Clinton. 

In states this week where at least 10% of voters were Hispanic, his share ranged from 26% in 

Clinton’s home state of New York to 50% in his own home state of Illinois, surveys of voters leaving 

the polls showed. In California, where three in 10 voters were Hispanic, his 32% share was an 

improvement on earlier polls but not enough to help him win. DEMOCRATS: Race now a test of 

endurance DELEGATES: Count can be confusing Republican candidates did not have a high-profile 

competition for Hispanics. In California they were 13% of the electorate. Arizona Sen. John McCain, a 

supporter of paths to citizenship for illegal immigrants, received more of the vote than his rivals, 39%. 

Obama was boosted in the days before Super Tuesday by endorsements from Massachusetts Sen. 

Edward Kennedy and Southern California’s La Opinin, the largest Spanish-language daily newspaper 

in the USA. He also made points in a debate at which he reaffirmed his support for driver’s licenses 

for illegal immigrants and refused to blame them for joblessness among blacks. 

On Wednesday, Obama said he has made ’enormous progress’ among Hispanics and will do better 

as he becomes more familiar. ’It’s just a matter of us getting more information to them,’ he said in 

Chicago. ’As Latino voters get to know me & they realize I’m somebody who’s going to be battling for 

all people, including Latino voters.’ Still, several analysts say Obama was late to ramp up his appeal 

to Hispanics, and it cost him in Nevada and California. ’You have to ask Latinos for their vote and not 

just assume you have their vote because you share this common history of oppression,’ said Andra 

Gillespie, a political scientist at Emory University in Atlanta. 

Obama introduced himself in Feb. 5 states with a Spanish-language television ad just days before 

Super Tuesday. Matt Barreto, an expert on Latino politics at the University of Washington, said 

Obama made far less use of Spanish-language radio in the Southwest. ’That was a huge mistake. It 

is a very powerful medium,’ he said. Texas is the only remaining primary with a major Hispanic 

component, on March 4. Rosenberg and others said Obama needs to introduce himself, talk about 

his views on immigration and his plans to help struggling workers, and generally signal that he cares. 

’This is no longer about sending surrogates. He’s got to make the case himself,’ Rosenberg said. 

Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor rejected the notion that the campaign got a late start, noting the 

primary season is ’sequential’ and outreach to Hispanics in the first contest, in Iowa, helped Obama 

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win a key victory. 


Analysts give many reasons for Clinton’s dominance in this group: "She has a famous name, a long 

history with the community and a husband who put many Hispanics in his Cabinet and administration. 

" Her focus on economic nuts and bolts may have had more appeal to Hispanics than Obama’s 

’change’ message. ’This population is very blue-collar,’ says Roberto Suro, a University of Southern 

California professor and former head of the Pew Hispanic Center. That puts them squarely within the 

lower-income, less educated demographic Clinton has dominated in primaries to date. "Blue-collar 

Hispanics are less likely to know of Obama. ’People who hear about a challenger tend to be higher 

educated individuals’ who watch news and use the Web, said Rodolfo Espino, a political scientist at 

Arizona State University. "In California, Suro said, Clinton started lining up endorsements and 

making appearances as far back as 2006. On Tuesday, she had help getting out the vote from many 

elected officials with effective political organizations, including Los Angeles Mayor Antonio 

Villaraigosa. 

All the analysts dismissed the idea that Obama is lagging because Latinos are reluctant to vote for 

blacks. Barreto said there’s very little evidence of that. To the contrary, black mayors Harold 

Washington of Chicago, David Dinkins of New York, Wellington Webb of Denver and Ron Kirk of 

Dallas all received overwhelming Hispanic support when they were elected to office. 

Obama’s own career is another example, Barreto said: In his 2004 Senate primary, Obama won 

more Hispanic votes than Latino candidate Gerry Chico. 

In 2008, for Obama, ’it’s a name-recognition thing,’ Barreto said. ’It’s an outreach thing.’ 

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Source: Associated Press - AP 

Title: Merrill comments on election polls 

Nielsen NetRatings: 10880611 


Full Text: PHOENIX (AP) -- John McCain won his home state’s GOP primary Tuesday, beating Mitt 

Romney and Mike Huckabee by overcoming anger from conservatives who oppose his stance on 

illegal immigration. Hillary Rodham Clinton won on the Democratic side. 

At a speech in Phoenix, McCain declared himself his party’s front-runner for the presidency. 

"Although I’ve never minded the role of the underdog, and have relished as much as anyone 

come-from-behind wins," McCain said. "And tonight, I think we must get used to the idea that we are 

the Republican Party front-runner ... And I don’t really mind it one bit." 

Throughout the campaign, conservatives hammered McCain for his support of a path to citizenship 

for illegal immigrants. It’s an especially touchy issue in Arizona, where more people cross illegally 

than any other state along the U.S .-Mexico border. 

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, criticized McCain’s stance as "amnesty" for 

people who didn’t follow the rules. 

Retired Air Force Col. Bill Peel of Tucson, a World War II prisoner of war, said he supported 

McCain. 

"That war that we’re involved in is probably the No. 1 problem," Peel said. "We’ve got to get a 

reasonable solution to that situation over there, and we can’t just walk out." 

An AP exit poll showed that Clinton led among those who said experience was the most important 

trait for candidates. Obama had an overwhelming lead among voters who said change was their top 

priority. 

Arizona State University pollster Bruce Merrill said Obama benefited from thousands of 

non-traditional voters taking part in the primary. 

But Clinton "worked Arizona for years," Merrill said. "Her husband was very popular here, and 

they’ve worked the party machine very hard." 

Kieth Anderson lined up early at a Lutheran church in Phoenix to cast his ballot for Obama. "Not to 

use catch phrases that everybody else uses, like in the media, but it really is that feeling of hope," 

Anderson said. 

Anderson said the war in Iraq was his No. 1 concern, citing friends he has lost in the conflict and 

others he knows who are deployed there. "I’m certain my friends will be back in a year if he’s 

elected," he said. 

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Title: ASU prof comments on multi-generational communi... 



Full Text: DeLAND, Fla. - Something is out of place in one of the freshly painted, tastefully appointed 

model homes in Victoria Gardens, an upscale development for the 55-plus set not far from Orlando. 

One of the guest rooms sports children’s furniture, pink bedding and toys. 

A kid’s room? In an active-adult community? 

It has become a common sight in a growing number of residential developments that try to fulfill 

families’ desire to live close to parents, children and grandchildren. As the oldest of the nation’s 79 

million baby boomers turns 62 this year, extended families are extending. Their parents may still be 

alive, and their kids are having children and grandchildren. These ’multigenerational’ communities 

stop short of putting several generations under one roof, the way many families lived in earlier times. 

Instead, they build close but separate sections for active adults, families and younger couples: 

one-story houses and golf courses down the street from larger, single-family homes near playgrounds 

and schools. ’They are close but not too close,’ says Jimmy Dundon, 38, of his in-laws. ’It’s easier 

getting together for Sunday dinners, birthdays and holidays. & It’s much easier for babysitting.’ The 

emerging niche for home buyers and builders has roots from long ago. ’This is historically how we 

lived 200 years ago or even 100 years ago,’ says Sherry Ahrentzen, an architectural researcher at 

Arizona State University. ’It’s just sort of coming back because of demographics, the transportation 

crunch and taking care of kids.’ Germany, a nation like many others in Europe struggling with an 

aging population and low fertility, has turned to multigenerational developments to help support the 

elderly. Older people live next to young families who are not necessarily related to them. The two 

groups often help each other out. 

In the USA, longer life spans and delayed childbirth create more multigenerational families. Housing 

for them is particularly popular with large subdivision developers who appeal to more affluent buyers. 

Pulte Homes’ Del Webb, a developer best known for its ’Sun City’ communities for people 55 and 

older, has launched ’Anthem’ communities for all ages in Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. It also is 

building parts of similar housing clusters in North Carolina and Florida. Anthem at Merrill Ranch, 

southeast of Phoenix, is the first such development to include a Sun City section. ’Living closer to 

your loved ones, your family, your parents, your sisters, your aunts and uncles has been more 

important since 9/11, frankly,’ says Jacque Petroulakis, a public affairs director for Pulte Homes and 

Del Webb. 

Accommodating family needs 


Dundon and his wife, Jen, 38, were raising their three children in congested South Florida about 200 

miles from here. They longed for a small-town atmosphere but also wanted to stay close to Jen’s 

parents, retired educators who lived 25 minutes from them. 

They discovered the new, 1,859-acre Victoria Park community here in central Florida, about 35 miles 

north of Orlando. When Jen brought her parents, Jim and Maryanne Cerra, to look at the homes, they 

bought one. ’They said, ’We’re not moving without you,’ ’ says Maryanne, 62. 

Now, the Cerras live in a single-story house in Victoria Gardens, the gated and age-restricted portion 

of the vast development. Their daughter’s family lives a five-minute drive away in Victoria Hills, one of 

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the community’s single-family-home sections. 


The three grandchildren Julia, 7, Jillian, 5, Jeana, 2 stay with their grandparents three times a 

month. Everyone knows that one of the guest rooms is the ’kids’ room.’ The three generations see 

each other at least once a week, take bike rides together and help each other whenever they can. ’It’s 

perfect,’ says Jen, a math teacher at DeLand High School. ’They’re not right next-door, but really 

close.’ The need to accommodate elderly parents and families is growing at all income levels, says 

Ahrentzen, interim director of Arizona State’s Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family. 

’Another reason that people are recognizing why it’s important to live closer is, let’s face it, that 

nursing homes and assisted living are terribly expensive,’ she says. Not everyone can afford to move 

parents and grandparents to master planned communities such as Victoria, where prices start at 

$209,990. Some communities are allowing ’granny flats’ or ’mother-in-law suites’ something that 

helps lower-income families, Ahrentzen says. ’The more you can use your house to maintain the 

economic stability of your family, the better it is,’ she says. ’A rare day I don’t see them’ 

Shea Homes’ Victoria Park development here was designed to appeal to many generations. The 

goal was not to attract extended families, but it has played out that way. 

Cathy Updike, 55, and her husband, Nathan, 59, already lived here. Her parents, Glenn and Inez 

Bish, in their 70s, were about two hours away in Lakeland. They saw each other only every couple of 

months. ’As the oldest of four, I figured I’d be the one taking care of them,’ Updike says. So she 

decided to move her parents closer so close that they’re in the active-adult section of the same 

development. They now see each other once a week. 

For Joe Hilbe, 63, and his wife, Cheryl, 57, downsizing and moving to an adult community made 

sense after their two sons finished high school. They wanted them close and wanted to help them 

build a financial future. 

The Hilbes moved into the new Sun City neighborhood near Phoenix and bought a house in the 

adjoining Anthem development for their sons, ages 22 and 20. ’It’s a rare day that I don’t see one of 

them,’ says Hilbe, an adjunct professor of statistics at Arizona State University. ’When I was 

younger, I would’ve thought that it was kind of a dumb idea, but as you get older & ’ 

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Source: Forbes.com 

Title: Best Cities For Bargain House-Hunters 

Nielsen NetRatings: 6947085 

Favorability: Unspecified 

Full Text: Property sharks looking to take advantage of local housing slumps are doing their best to 

time the market, searching for the precise moment when prices bottom out before taking a bite. 

They’d be smart to look for markets where job growth is strong, foreclosures are relatively low and 

inventory is high. With these factors in place, buyers can still dictate terms of sale and negotiate 

prices, but aren’t as exposed to the economic and lending risk problems that have sunk many 

markets around the country. 

Good places to look? Timing a market is tricky business, and prices alone may not be the best way 

to determine a bargain opportunity. 

What you need is a buyers’ market, where there is healthy job growth and more houses available 

than people to buy them. This is not due to foreclosures and economic downturn, but to overbuilding 

that should balance out in time. These markets ’are where you have high inventories but pliable 

borrowers, with lenders willing to deal,’ says Anthony Sanders, a professor of finance at Arizona 

State University. 

This is what’s happening in Houston. Compared to housing prices in other cities, Houston real estate 

has always been a bargain, which is part of why the population has expanded so much since 2000. 

Jobs are being added to the books at the sixth fastest rate of cities measured, and while the city has 

had more than a few foreclosures, especially in Harris County, it hasn’t taken a huge overall hit. 

Based on inventory levels and construction projects in the works, buyers still have good standing to 

negotiate price. 

Behind The Numbers Our list includes 2006-2007 data on job growth, from the Bureau of Labor 

statistics; foreclosure data from RealtyTrac, an online database of foreclosures gleaned from multiple 

listing services, bank-owned properties, bankruptcy records, loan histories, tax liens and lender 

information; and ZipRealty 

In addition to Houston, and Raleigh, what we found were soft markets such as Orlando, Fla. 

Who is to blame for the subprime crisis? Weigh in. Add your thoughts in the Reader Comments 

section below. 

Job growth matters, as it’s a sign that people are moving to a city and that they’re building the roots 

and wealth to buy a home. On this measure, we used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 

2006 to 2007 to calculate which markets are adding people to payrolls. The timing of the data also 

weeds out any places that saw their job growth explode in past years due heavily to housing or jobs 

that are now gone, and we excluded any city losing jobs from our list. Excess housing inventory and 

job loss don’t pair well. 

But fast job growth coupled with a high foreclosure rate points to a more volatile market, one where 

economic activity might be slowing, or where prices were untenable from the very beginning. 

Kermit Baker, an economist at the Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies, says that the 

equity problems that lead to foreclosures are more often than not ’the result of economic conditions in 

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the market as a whole,’ or ’an overheated market.’ Neither condition makes for a bargain because 

there’s too much risk involved. Sellers in , for example, might be anxious to sell to save whatever 

equity they have. Of course, this is more or less like being handed a grenade. If you bought a house 

in Stockton, right now, where there’s one foreclosure for every 31 households, according to 

RealtyTrac, it’s likely that prices will continue to plummet. 

You won’t be getting a bargain, you’ll be buying cheap. 

Instead, a bargain buy in an overbuilt market exposes you to less risk and comes with the 

satisfaction of not profiting at someone else’s foreclosure misery. 

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Source: San Diego Union-Tribune 

Title: ASU’s Wheeler names new beetle 



Full Text: This beetle can’t sing Entomologists have named and described a new kind of Indian 

whirligig beetle, part of a wide-ranging family of aquatic insects. It’s called 

Orectochilus orbisonorum, in honor of the late rock ’n’ roll legend Roy Orbison. Creative naming isn’t 

new to entomologists Quentin Wheeler of Arizona State University and Kelly Miller of the University 

of New Mexico, who discovered the new beetle with Paolo Mazzoldi of Brescia, Italy. 

In 2005 Wheeler and Miller made news with the discovery of 65 new species of slime-mold beetles. 

The entomologists named three of the species in honor of President George W. Bush, Vice President 

Dick Cheney and then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. One other was named after Darth 

Vader. 

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Source: EastValleyTribune.com 

Title: Poly sci prof comments on Democratic race 



Full Text: Hillary Clinton beat back a surging Barack Obama to easily win Arizona’s Democratic 

presidential primary Tuesday, claiming more than half the popular vote and a majority of the state’s 

56 delegates. Clinton jumped to an early lead with mail-in ballots and never looked back, grabbing 

more than 50 percent of the vote to Obama’s 40 percent with more than two-thirds of precincts 

reporting late Tuesday. Most of the rest went to John Edwards, who dropped out of the race last 

week. While polls showed Obama gaining on Clinton in the final days and both sides predicted a long 

night, national TV networks were calling the Arizona primary by 9:30 p.m . It was a stunning win for 

Clinton, particularly given Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano’s enthusiastic backing of Obama. 

"Everybody wants change," former state party chair Jim Pederson told Clinton’s Arizona supporters 

during the victory celebration. "Who is the person to cause that change?" "Hillary!" the crowd shouted. 

"The Democrats in this state led a resounding voice as to who should be our nominee to make that 

change," he said. The candidates treated Arizona like it mattered, heavily courting the state’s 56 

delegates with public appearances, TV ads and direct mail. For pollsters, the excitement of Obama 

and the devotion to Clinton made the race a moving target. Voters responded, with an estimated 50 

percent streaming to the polls in Arizona to cast 1 million ballots, nearly double a typical presidential 

primary election. Both campaigns set up Arizona headquarters, with offices and staff, and worked the 

state’s urban areas hard for endorsements and voters. Clinton held two rallies here in the past few 

weeks, and her husband came in between. Obama drew 14,000 people to Veteran’s Memorial 

Coliseum last week, and his wife appeared Monday. On Tuesday evening, both Arizona campaigns 

welcomed supporters at the same downtown Phoenix hotel. Obama’s Arizona contingent started the 

evening with rock music and cocktails, but crowds started thinning as the election results started 

rolling in. Even so, he had a bigger, more raucous crowd than the tamer crew one floor below at the 

Wyndham Downtown Phoenix. Campaign staffers had expected the early returns of mostly mail-in 

ballots to favor Clinton. But as the night wore on, his supporters were bracing for a loss. "Hey, at the 

end of the day this is a race about delegates," said Rep. David Schapira, D-Tempe. "We’re just going 

to have to keep on fighting." Schapira and other Obama supporters pointed to wins in other states 

and were hopeful he could split the Arizona delegates, even if he didn’t close the gap. The candidates 

generally appealed to two wings of the Democratic party, with Clinton claiming the traditional voter 

who values experience and Obama appealing to the idealistic young and new voter. "There’s this kind 

of tension, at least within the Democratic party, between what we want and hope for versus what we 

think we might need," said political strategist Bob Grossfeld. "It’s going to be a choice between one’s 

head and one’s heart." The Democratic contest doles out its delegates proportionate to voting results 

both statewide and by congressional district, so neither Clinton nor Obama would grab all of them 

Tuesday. Nor will their wins in the rest of the Super Tuesday states determine the Democratic 

nominee. But they’ll be able to claim bragging rights to Arizona, which has emerged as a key swing 

state with a treasure trove of Hispanic, independent and women voters. Clinton was expected to grab 

most of the Hispanic vote in Arizona. During Tuesday night’s Clinton celebration, cheers of "Si se 

puede!" erupted each time her opponent appeared on the TV screen. And as prominent Democrats 

took to the stage to lead the celebration, former state party chair Jim Pederson asked, "How do you 

say Madam President in Spanish?" "Senora Presidente!" the crowd roared back. Clinton state director 

Rick Ridder said the two-term New York senator spoke to the concerns of Arizona voters, outlining 

plans to freeze home foreclosures and interest rates and create "green" jobs. "People in this state are 

hurting," Ridder said. "It just may be the economy, stupid." The pollsters and pundits have had trouble 

predicting the Democratic race all along thanks to two dynamic candidates with barn-storming 

campaigns and similar platforms. "People truly are making up their mind late," said Patrick Kenney, 

chair off Arizona State University’s political science department. "They’re waiting, they’re waiting, 

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they’re waiting." The indecision was reflected in the comments of some East Valley voters, who 

agonized and then literally made up their minds in the voting booth. "I was completely torn. I sat there 

for five minutes," said Lareina Reyes of Mesa. "Did I do the right thing?" Reyes eventually came down 

on Clinton’s side, persuaded by her policy positions on health care and the economy, as well as her 

personality. "Hillary comes from a standpoint that there’s a lot of tough love for her," said Larenia 

Reyes, 22. "She’s not a soft person. But she’s the kind of person we need in office" The race has 

been billed as change versus experience, and in maverick Arizona, Obama’s message of hope and 

unity rang true with many voters. Even with Democrats who favored Clinton, there were the inevitable 

comparisons between Obama and former President Kennedy. But Mesa Community College nursing 

student Eddie Koch, 25, said he was sold on Obama’s positions on health care and immigration, as 

well as his charismatic appeal to young people. "I work in the emergency room at Banner Gateway 

and I see both of those issues in the ER," he said. "(Obama) does present himself pretty good, and 

he’s younger and more in tune with how I feel." 

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Title: ASU’s Simpson comments on McCain 



Full Text: Hillary Clinton beat back a surging Barack Obama to easily win Arizona’s Democratic 

presidential primary Tuesday, claiming more than half the popular vote and a majority of the state’s 

56 delegates. 

Clinton jumped to an early lead with mail-in ballots and never looked back, grabbing more than 50 

percent of the vote to Obama’s 40 percent with more than two-thirds of precincts reporting late 

Tuesday. Most of the rest went to John Edwards, who dropped out of the race last week. 

While polls showed Obama gaining on Clinton in the final days and both sides predicted a long night, 

national TV networks were calling the Arizona primary by 9:30 p.m. 

It was a stunning win for Clinton, particularly given Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano’s enthusiastic 

backing of Obama. 

"Everybody wants change," former state party chair Jim Pederson told Clinton’s Arizona supporters 

during the victory celebration. "Who is the person to cause that change?" 

"Hillary!" the crowd shouted. 


"The Democrats in this state led a resounding voice as to who should be our nominee to make that 

change," he said. 

The candidates treated Arizona like it mattered, heavily courting the state’s 56 delegates with public 

appearances, TV ads and direct mail. For pollsters, the excitement of Obama and the devotion to 

Clinton made the race a moving target. 

Voters responded, with an estimated 50 percent streaming to the polls in Arizona to cast 1 million 

ballots, nearly double a typical presidential primary election. 

Both campaigns set up Arizona headquarters, with offices and staff, and worked the state’s urban 

areas hard for endorsements and voters. Clinton held two rallies here in the past few weeks, and her 

husband came in between. Obama drew 14,000 people to Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum last week, 

and his wife appeared Monday. 

On Tuesday evening, both Arizona campaigns welcomed supporters at the same downtown Phoenix 

hotel. 

Obama’s Arizona contingent started the evening with rock music and cocktails, but crowds started 

thinning as the election results started rolling in. Even so, he had a bigger, more raucous crowd than 

the tamer crew one floor below at the Wyndham Downtown Phoenix. 

Campaign staffers had expected the early returns of mostly mail-in ballots to favor Clinton. But as the 

night wore on, his supporters were bracing for a loss. 

"Hey, at the end of the day this is a race about delegates," said Rep. David Schapira, D-Tempe. 

"We’re just going to have to keep on fighting." 

Schapira and other Obama supporters pointed to wins in other states and were hopeful he could split 

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the Arizona delegates, even if he didn’t close the gap. 

The candidates generally appealed to two wings of the Democratic party, with Clinton claiming the 

traditional voter who values experience and Obama appealing to the idealistic young and new voter. 

"There’s this kind of tension, at least within the Democratic party, between what we want and hope 

for versus what we think we might need," said political strategist Bob Grossfeld. 

"It’s going to be a choice between one’s head and one’s heart." 

The Democratic contest doles out its delegates proportionate to voting results both statewide and by 

congressional district, so neither Clinton nor Obama would grab all of them Tuesday. Nor will their 

wins in the rest of the Super Tuesday states determine the Democratic nominee. 

But they’ll be able to claim bragging rights to Arizona, which has emerged as a key swing state with a 

treasure trove of Hispanic, independent and women voters. 

Clinton was expected to grab most of the Hispanic vote in Arizona. 

During Tuesday night’s Clinton celebration, cheers of "Si se puede!" erupted each time her opponent 

appeared on the TV screen. 

And as prominent Democrats took to the stage to lead the celebration, former state party chair Jim 

Pederson asked, "How do you say Madam President in Spanish?" 

"Senora Presidente!" the crowd roared back. 


Clinton state director Rick Ridder said the two-term New York senator spoke to the concerns of 

Arizona voters, outlining plans to freeze home foreclosures and interest rates and create "green" jobs. 

"People in this state are hurting," Ridder said. "It just may be the economy, stupid." 

The pollsters and pundits have had trouble predicting the Democratic race all along thanks to two 

dynamic candidates with barn-storming campaigns and similar platforms. 

"People truly are making up their mind late," said Patrick Kenney, chair off Arizona State University’s 

political science department. "They’re waiting, they’re waiting, they’re waiting." 

The indecision was reflected in the comments of some East Valley voters, who agonized and then 

literally made up their minds in the voting booth. 

"I was completely torn. I sat there for five minutes," said Lareina Reyes of Mesa. "Did I do the right 

thing?" 

Reyes eventually came down on Clinton’s side, persuaded by her policy positions on health care and 

the economy, as well as her personality. 

"Hillary comes from a standpoint that there’s a lot of tough love for her," said Larenia Reyes, 22. 

"She’s not a soft person. But she’s the kind of person we need in office" 

The race has been billed as change versus experience, and in maverick Arizona, Obama’s message 

of hope and unity rang true with many voters. Even with Democrats who favored Clinton, there were 

the inevitable comparisons between Obama and former President Kennedy. 

But Mesa Community College nursing student Eddie Koch, 25, said he was sold on Obama’s 

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positions on health care and immigration, as well as his charismatic appeal to young people. 

"I work in the emergency room at Banner Gateway and I see both of those issues in the ER," he 

said. "(Obama) does present himself pretty good, and he’s younger and more in tune with how I feel." 

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Source: The Business Journal Phoenix 

Title: Longtime educator joins ASU journalism school 



Full Text: Longtime educator Dave Cornelius will join Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite 

School of Journalism and Mass Communication on a project to create multimedia newsrooms at 10 

underserved Arizona high schools. 

Cornelius will serve as director of the Stardust High School Journalism Program. The newsroom 

project is being funded by a grant from the Scottsdale-base Stardust Foundation in an effort to 

reinvigorate high school journalism programs, encourage student success and improve graduation 

rates. 

Cornelius taught media communications at Arcadia High School for the past six years. He developed 

programs considered models for teaching arts, audiovisual technology and communications. Last 

year, he and his students won more than 50 state, regional and national broadcast awards. 

High schools interested in the program should contact Cornelius at dave.cornelius@asu.edu . 

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Title: Comments by Stoops fan Arizona-Arizona State riv... 



Full Text: TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) - The smoldering Arizona-Arizona State football rivalry grew hotter 

Wednesday when Wildcats coach Mike Stoops said ASU has ’turned into a J.C .’ Speaking at a 

football signing day news conference in Tucson, Stoops, who coached with brother Bob at Oklahoma, 

said some recruits had told him that it was easier to earn acceptance at ASU. ’Each school has to 

recruit to that school and what type of academic requirements there are,’ Stoops said. ’Obviously, 

Arizona State has turned into a J.C . and we are a four-year college. According to all the players, they 

say it is easier to go to school there, easier to get in. I thought we had the same requirements. It is 

news to me.’ It was also news to Arizona State coach Dennis Erickson, who had little to say about 

Stoops’ remarks. ’He can say what he wants,’ Erickson said. ’We’re all the same. There is no 

difference. ’The bottom line with recruiting, and all that talking back and forth and all the stuff, is who’s 

going to win games and who isn’t right now,’ said Erickson, who defeated Stoops and Arizona 20-17 

on Dec. 1 in Tempe. ’What we’ve done with our group academically, as far as helping our guys be 

successful, that’s what it’s all about. ’I really don’t know what he’s referring to.’ Stoops offered an 

apology for his comments on Thursday. ’Yesterday in my annual signing day news conference I 

regretfully made some comments about sister institution Arizona State University,’ Stoops said in a 

statement released by Arizona.’These remarks were dutifully reported by the media, and not 

necessarily taken out of context which was within some of my heartfelt observations about the 

recruiting process and what it entails for individuals and college football programs. ’I’ve since spoken 

with ASU Coach Dennis Erickson. It was a personal mistake and one for which I apologize.’ Earlier in 

the day, Virgil Renzulli, VP for public affairs at Arizona State, disputed Stoops’ comments. ’Our 

academic standards are as high as Arizona’s,’ he said. ’All three state universities are governed by 

the same board of regents. The academic profile for our incoming freshmen class is the same as the 

University of Arizona’s with the exception that we admit 40% more students.’ Tensions between the 

Pac-10 football programs, located 90 miles apart, grew last month when highly touted tailback Ryan 

Bass of Corona, Calif., backed out of an oral commitment to Arizona and said he would attend ASU. 

Bass was among the 27 signees announced by the Sun Devils on Wednesday. 

Arizona signed only two players from the state seven fewer than Arizona State. The disparity could 

be a byproduct of ASU’s three-game win streak in the Territorial Cup series. Stoops is 1-3 against 

Arizona State. ’I am disappointed we didn’t sign more kids from the state of Arizona,’ Stoops said. 

’When you don’t have the success it hurts you probably the closer you are to home. ’They read and 

they understand what is out there,’ Stoops said. ’Arizona State had great success this year. That is 

not something that is shocking. It is something we have to take care of and win. They have beat us 

three years in a row. We have to go out and beat them and play better than they do, and hopefully we 

will have a better year recruiting.’ 

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Source: DenverPost.com 

Title: McLaren comments on AZ migration trends 



Full Text: PHOENIX The signs of flight among Latino immigrants here are multiple: families moving 

out of apartment complexes, schools reporting enrollment drops, business owners complaining about 

fewer clients. 

While it is too early to know for certain, a consensus is developing among economists, business 

people and immigration groups that the weakening economy coupled with recent curbs on illegal 

immigration are steering Hispanic immigrants out of the state. 

The Arizona economy, heavily dependent on growth and a Latino work force, has been slowing for 

months. Meanwhile, the state has enacted one of the country’s toughest laws to punish employers 

who hire illegal immigrants, and the county sheriff here in Phoenix has been enforcing federal 

immigration laws by rounding up people living here illegally. ’It is very difficult to separate the 

economic reality in Arizona from the effects of the laws, because the economy is tanking and 

construction is drying up,’ said Frank Pierson, lead organizer of the Arizona Interfaith Network, which 

advocates for immigrants’ rights and other causes. But the combination of factors creates ’a 

disincentive to stay in the state.’ State Rep. Russell K. Pearce, R-Mesa, a leading advocate of the 

crackdown on illegal immigration, takes reports of unauthorized workers leaving as a sign of success. 

An estimated one in 10 workers in Arizona is a Hispanic immigrant, legal or illegal twice the national 

average. ’The desired effect was, we don’t have the red carpet out for illegal aliens,’ Pearce said, 

adding that while ’most of these are good people,’ they are a ’tremendous burden’ on public services. 

On Monday, state lawmakers, concerned about shortages of workers and the failed revamping of 

immigration law in Congress, which was pushed by Sen. John McCain of Arizona, pledged action. 

Bills were announced that would create a state-run temporary worker program, though it would need 

congressional authorization. 

And last week Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, offered to help the U.S . Labor Department 

rewrite regulations designed to streamline visas for agricultural workers, who growers say are 

increasingly hard to find. 

While data for the last month or so are not available, there were already signs of migration out of 

Arizona at the end of last year. In the fourth quarter of 2007 the apartment vacancy rate in 

metropolitan Phoenix rose to 11.2 percent from 9 percent in the same quarter of 2006, with rates of 

15 percent or more in heavily Latino neighborhoods. ’You have many people moving out, but they are 

not all illegal,’ said Terry Feinberg, president of the Arizona Multihousing Alliance, a trade group for 

the apartment and rental housing industry. ’A lot of people moving are citizens, or legal, but because 

someone in their family or social network is not, and they are having a hard time keeping or finding a 

job, they all move.’ Elizabeth Leon, a legal immigrant and day care worker, said the families of two of 

her charges abruptly left, forcing the state to take custody of the children. Leon’s brother, a 

construction worker who is not authorized to be in the country, plans to leave, unable to find steady 

work. Families at the neighborhood school have pulled children out, Leon said, fearful of sheriff’s 

deputies. ’It is like a panic here,’ she said. ’This is all having an effect on the community, mostly 

emotional.’ Juan Jose Araujo, 44, is here legally. His wife, however, is not and is pressing for the 

family to return to Mexico because of the difficulty in finding a job and what the family considers a 

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growing anti-immigrant climate. 


Although prosecutors in the state do not plan to begin enforcing the sanctions against employers 

until next month, several employers have reportedly already dismissed workers whose legal 

authorization to work could not be proved, as required by the law. ’We don’t have family or anything in 

Mexico,’ said Araujo, who has lived in the United States for 24 years. ’I wouldn’t have anywhere to go 

there, but we have to consider it.’ Property managers report that families have uprooted overnight, 

with little or no notice. Carlos Flores Vizcarra, the Mexican consul general in Phoenix, said while he 

could not tie the phenomenon to a single factor, the consulate had experienced an ’unusual’ five-fold 

increase in parents applying for Mexican birth certificates for their children and other documents that 

often are a prelude to moving. 

Several school districts in heavily Latino areas have reported sudden drops in enrollment. Official 

explanations are elusive because school officials have not been able to interview families about why 

they left, but, anecdotally, people point to the sour economy and the immigration crackdown among 

other factors. 

The Cartwright Elementary School District in west Phoenix, for instance, reported a loss of 525 

students this school year (dropping the enrollment to 19,845), while in previous years enrollment had 

grown or remained stable among its 23 schools. Meri Simmons, a spokeswoman for the district, said 

word of mouth suggested that the economy and sanctions on employers played a role. ’We know we 

have a lot of empty houses,’ Simmons said. Jobs in the construction industry, a major employer of 

immigrants, are growing scarce, declining 8.6 percent in December compared with the previous year. 

Juan Leon, a construction subcontractor and the husband of Elizabeth Leon, the day care worker, 

said illegal immigrants had made it harder for legal residents like him to find work. Companies that 

employ them can bid much lower on projects than he can because they pay workers much less, Leon 

said. ’I hate to see families torn apart,’ he said of the current flight, ’but there is no money to be made 

sometimes, because some contractors who employ illegal workers can do the job dirt cheap.’ Dawn 

McLaren, an economist at Arizona State University in Tempe who studies the state’s economic and 

migration trends, said it was likely that lack of work is forcing people to move, probably to nearby 

states. But McLaren also theorized that the slowing economy had caused a reduction in the flow of 

new immigrants over the border. 

Analyzing data back to the early 1990s, she said, a drop in Border Patrol arrests they have been 

steadily declining the last couple of years typically preceded an economic downturn or slowing. ’It’s a 

highly networked community,’ she said of border crossers. ’It costs a lot to get here, and they 

generally have a job lined up here. People say, ’We need people on the crew.’ And they tell friends 

and relatives to come over.’ A persistent decline in the immigrant population could damage the overall 

Arizona economy, McLaren said. A study by the Pew Hispanic Center released in January said illegal 

workers made up close to 11 percent of the state’s work force of 2.9 million people in 2006, double 

the national estimate. ’What it looks like now is that a little bump in the economic road, especially with 

the sanctions law, is looking like it might last a year or more,’ she said. Even as the economy slows 

and people leave, the matter of the state’s sanctions on employers is not settled. 

The legal fight over the law, which a federal judge upheld Thursday, is headed for the U.S . Court of 

Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The law punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants by 

suspending their business license for 10 days on the first offense and revoking it for a second 

infraction. 

Opponents call it an unconstitutional intrusion by the state on federal immigration authority but the 

federal judge, Neil V. Wake, disagreed. 

At the same time, signatures are being gathered for two ballot initiatives, one that would toughen the 

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law and another meant to soften it. If both end up on the November ballot, the one with the most 

votes would prevail. 

McLaren, the economist, said that in the end history showed it was difficult to stop illegal immigration 

so long as jobs paid better in the United States than at home. An economic rebound would probably 

draw people back here, no matter the laws. 

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Source: Universe Today 

Title: Are we sending a bit too much information into the c... 



Full Text: Written by Ian O’Neill 


On Monday (February 4, 7 pm EST) NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) toward the North Star, 

Polaris. The transmission sent was the song ’Across the Universe’ by the Beatles intended for any 

sufficiently advanced extra terrestrial life to listen to. Although this is a nice gesture and may nurture 

Beatles fans beyond our solar system, some scientists have expressed concerns for advertising our 

planet’s location to the universe, just in case the aliens listening in aren’t that friendly after all& The 

main argument against trying to communicate with other civilizations is the possibility that if there are 

aliens out there listening in, then perhaps they might not be friendly. By giving away our location, 

critical facts about our society, biology and intelligence, we have already given possible alien 

aggressors a strategic advantage. This threat is obviously very far-fetched, but sending information 

about our current state of humanity will be inaccurate when signals are received in hundreds, 

thousands or millions of year’s time, perhaps putting our future generations in a negative light. ’Before 

sending out even symbolic messages, we need an open discussion about the potential risks [&] It’s 

very charitable to send out our encyclopedia, but that may short-change future generations.’ - 

Douglas Vakoch of the SETI Institute, Mountain View, California. 

Vakoch is not concerned that we are risking an alien invasion any time soon, but does highlight the 

need to discuss the implications of attempted extra-terrestrial communication in an open scientific 

forum before acting. 

If there are any advanced alien beings out there however, they are keeping very quiet. The purpose 

of the ’Sound of Silence’ meeting is to discuss why the SETI project has, thus far, not found anything 

compelling to suggest there are any life forms transmitting their presence to the universe. ’Have we 

been looking in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in the wrong way?’ asks Prof Paul Davies of 

Arizona State University. ’The purpose of this meeting is to brainstorm some radically new thinking 

on the subject.’ Source: Telegraph.co.uk Filed under: NASA, SETI 

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Source: The Business Journal Phoenix 

Title: ASU encouraging freshmen to live close to where th... 



Full Text: Arizona State University freshmen who apply for student housing are being urged to live 

on the specific campus that houses the college of their major studies. 

This means, for example, that journalism students are being asked to live at Taylor Place, the 

dormitory being built near the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Both 

the dorm and the college will open this fall in downtown Phoenix. ’What I am encouraging all students 

and all parents to do is to think about living downtown, whether that’s Taylor Place or an apartment 

near the downtown campus,’ said Christopher Callahan, dean of the Cronkite School. ’We’re 

encouraging everyone to think about that option.’ Freshmen entering the College of Nursing, the 

College of Public Programs and the School of Letters and Sciences at the downtown campus this fall 

also will make their homes at Taylor Place, he said. 

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Source: azcentral.com 

Title: Art professor comments on Victorian florals 



Full Text: Everyone knows that if you receive a dozen red roses, there’s a passionate lover in your 

life. 

What if you receive yellow roses? Someone is expressing friendship. Pink carnations? You’re 

unforgettable. Or, maybe, ’thank you.’ The language of flowers is as capricious as love itself. Red 

roses are one of the few flowers whose meaning is universal and constant. The ancient Greeks 

associated roses with the blood of Aphrodite’s Adonis. Ivy, as well, almost always signifies 

faithfulness or fidelity because it clings to surfaces. advertisement But receive a yellow 

chrysanthemum and it could mean either you’re being slighted or that you have a secret admirer. In 

Japan, chrysanthemums are the national flower, symbolizing long life and happiness. 

The meanings of various flower types dates back thousands of years, but the practice was especially 

popular during the Victorian era. ’What I think made the Victorians stand out in this area is their 

commercialization of floral messages, just as they commercialized Christmas and even childhood by 

promoting specialized products for these occasions,’ says Julie F. Codell, a professor of art history at 

Arizona State University. 

Meanings were based on folktales, herbal medicine, the flowers’ appearance and other cultural 

associations that had been handed down. 

Mythology is a popular source for significance. Hyacinths are associated with sports and games 

because in Greek mythology, Hyacinth, a boy whom Apollo loved, was killed by a discus. Various 

’dictionaries’ of floral meanings, called floriographies, were produced during in Victorian days, and 

two people had to have the same dictionary if the flowers were to have meaning. ’Expressing love 

was a serious business for the Victorians,’ Codell says. ’A man had to be careful not to be 

misinterpreted as a suitor, or face possible breach of contract. And women needed to protect 

themselves against revealing their feelings too hastily to an unworthy partner, since anything women 

inherited went to their husbands.’ Flowers also were popular in Victorian art, used to convey the 

mood of a character or scene, Codell says. ’In John Everett Millais’ painting Ophelia, in which she is 

singing while floating down the river before drowning, the artist put in flowers mentioned in 

Shakespeare’s play, such as nettles and daisies, and added some others very popular with Victorians 

- fritillary for sorrow, poppy for death, forget-me-nots denoting Hamlet’s rejection of her love - to 

convey the feelings and fate of the drowning Ophelia. ’Victorians knew their botany well, and people 

complained that Millais’ many symbolic flowers could not have been together, since they all bloom at 

different times, an indication of how carefully Victorians read paintings.’ The floriographies included 

herbs (rosemary for remembrance, parsley for festivity); trees (spruce for hope in adversity, oak for 

hospitality) and even fruit (cranberry for hardiness). 

Contemporary lists of floral meanings leave out the more obscure examples, such as: monkhood 

(’beware, a deadly foe is near’), belvedere (’I declare war against you’) and meadow saffron (’my 

happiest days are past’). The Society of American Florists includes a list on its Web site, 

aboutflowers.com, of more commonly used flowers and happy meanings. The symbolism of yellow 

carnations has been changed from rejection to cheerfulness. 

Kevin Holt, owner of Fresh Cut Romance in Phoenix, says creating a bouquet based on the old lists 

would be tricky because of flower availability and the aesthetics of combining certain blooms. ’At 

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Valentine’s Day, the most common arrangements are the red roses and Oriental lilies,’ Holt says. 

Love and beauty endure. 

Reading between the lilies Larry Roof, owner of the North Carolina-based Web site languageof 

flowers.com, began researching flower meanings in the 1980s when he started his business, which 

sells Victorian-style gifts and silk-flower bouquets. His list includes only those meanings he was able 

to verify with at least three scholarly sources. 

amaryllis - pride 

azalea - temperance 

bachelor’s buttons - delicacy 

basil - hatred 

cactus - endurance 

calla lily - magnificent beauty 

carnation - pink, unforgettable; red, pure love; striped, maybe; white, yes; yellow, no 

cherry tree - good education 

evergreen clematis - poverty 

purple columbine - resolved 

crocus - youthful gladness 

dahlia - dignity 

American elm - patriotism 

fern - sincerity 

scarlet geranium - comfort 

gerbera daisy - pink, friendship; red, love; white, congratulations; yellow, joy 

holly - foresight and domestic happiness jonquil - ’I desire a return of affection’ lavender - distrust 

lily - beauty 

marigold - despair 

mint - virtue 

orange blossom - bridal festivities 

pear - affection 

poinsettia - cheer 

Queen Anne’s lace - fantasy 


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ose - pink, friendship; red, passionate love; white, purity and worthiness; yellow, forgive and forget 

sage - health 


tulip - red, love; pink, caring; yellow, hopeless love; striped, beautiful eyes or smile 

zinnia - mixed colors, thoughts of absent friends; white, goodness; yellow, daily remembrance; 

scarlet, constancy 

Reach the reporter at marybeth .faller@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8167. 

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Title: ASU prof comments home sales data 



Full Text: Home prices in several Valley cities are falling at rates not seen since 1990, wiping out 

equity and making it difficult for those trying to refinance. 

Throughout the Valley, prices on repeat home sales fell 4.6 percent overall from October 2006 

through October 2007. That compares with an overall decline of 3.8 percent for September 2006 to 

September 2007. 

Unlike other indices that measure median home prices, the Arizona State University-Repeat Sales 

Index is based on repeat sales. 

The data is the most reliable way to estimate price changes in a housing market because repeat 

sales compare the prices of a house against itself, rather than homes of varying quality, said Karl. L. 

Guntermann, real-estate professor at W. P. Carey School of Business. 

Every city and region dropped into the negative category in terms of rates of change in house prices, 

demonstrating the severity of the Valley’s housing problem. 

The best performers were Phoenix and the northeast Valley area of Carefree, Cave Creek, Fountain 

Hills, Paradise Valley and Scottsdale. Both regions fell at about 1 percent from October 2006 to 

0ctober 2007. 

In the same period, housing prices dropped 11.1 percent in the Southwest region, a grouping that 

includes Avondale, Buckeye, Goodyear and Litchfield Park; 9 percent in the Northwest, in the cities El 

Mirage, Glendale, Peoria, Sun City, Sun City West, Surprise and Youngtown; and 8 percent in the 

Southeast, which stretches from Tempe through Mesa, Gilbert and Chandler to Apache Junction, 

Higley, Queen Creek and Sun Lakes. 

The real-estate market hit a peak for appreciation in September 2005. 

The 4.6 percent decline is the biggest drop in housing prices over a 12-month period since the 

February 1989 to February 1990 period, when home prices dropped 5.01 percent, during the last 

real-estate recession. 

Guntermann said he cannot predict when the decline will stop or when housing prices will regain 

their former strength. 

"It’s not just a matter of too many houses on the market," he said. "It gets into the 

sub-prime-mortgage problem, affordability, foreclosures, and that has a big impact on people’s ability 

to refinance if their house prices go down 6 to 8 percent. They may not have any equity, and that may 

create cascading problems." 

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Source: sacbee 

Title: ASU professor comments on pika conservation 



Full Text: State wildlife officials have recommended denying endangered species status for the 

mountain-dwelling American pika, a rabbit relative that is the first animal proposed for protection 

under California law because of climate change. 

Researchers have documented shrinking pika colonies throughout the Great Basin mountains of 

Nevada and Utah, and global warming is the main culprit. They say similar change is ahead for 

California pika populations. 

But California Department of Fish and Game biologists found inadequate evidence that pika numbers 

are dropping here. 

In a report submitted Thursday to the state Fish and Game Commission, they recommend rejecting a 

petition to protect the pika under the California Endangered Species Act. The commission is expected 

to review the report at its March meeting in Stockton. 

The debate is likely to be the first of many to unfold in coming years. Scientists say a host of wildlife 

species are threatened by climate change, and many may not survive. 

From crickets to abalone, butterflies to birds, biologists have already observed wildlife reacting to an 

altered climate. Some are migrating or breeding sooner. Some are leaving inhospitable homes and 

flourishing or foundering in new ones. 

Because of the state’s geographic diversity, ’California is going to see a lot more changes than much 

of the rest of the United States,’ said Camille Parmesan, a University of Texas professor of population 

biology and climate change. 

The Center for Biological Diversity petitioned the state to protect the pika. It also asked the U.S . Fish 

and Wildlife Service to protect all pika colonies under the federal Endangered Species Act. 

Most surprising about the state’s response to the petition is the report’s statement that reducing 

greenhouse gas emissions and helping the state adapt to climate change ’are not in the purview’ of 

state wildlife officials. 

That contradicts not only the state’s broad efforts to become a global policy leader on climate 

change, but also the California Wildlife Action Plan. This document, adopted to guide all of Fish and 

Game’s conservation activities, repeatedly stresses the need to plan for global warming. 

Fish and Game officials ’have to be helping species to adapt, or we’re going to lose them,’ said Terry 

Root, a research ecologist at Stanford University. ’If it is the case that the regulations are not there so 

that they can regulate for climate change, then we’ve got to do something very, very fast, because we 

already have species being greatly affected.’ Officials at Fish and Game, including the lead author of 

the pika report, did not respond to several inquiries from The Bee. 

An official at the Resources Agency, which oversees Fish and Game, declined to comment on the 

report but said a ’direct action’ policy to adapt to climate change is in the works. ’We’re all on the 

same page of knowing we have to deal with adaptation to climate change,’ said Anthony Brunello, 

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deputy resources secretary for climate change and energy. 

Biologists say that as the mountains warm, pika habitat shrinks, forcing the fist-size fur ball into 

ever-higher ’islands’ of shrinking habitat. 

The pika generally nests above 8,000 feet, deep within rocky slopes. It doesn’t hibernate, eating 

grasses and plants through winter that it has dried in tiny haystacks outside its burrows. 

But the pika has trouble regulating its body temperature because of dense fur. Research shows 

pikas overheat and die and thus must live where temperatures are not commonly above 77 degrees 

Fahrenheit. In some areas, there is nowhere higher for the pika to go. ’The pika is the polar bear of 

California,’ said Kassie Siegel, an attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. ’The public thinks 

we’ve protected our wildlife in Yosemite. We haven’t.’ No area is immune to global warming. To 

protect the pika, the group wants the state to do more to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, preserve 

mountain roadless areas and improve monitoring of the species. 

Ecologist Erik Beever of the U.S . Geological Survey documented that more than one-third of pika 

colonies in Nevada and Utah have vanished since the early 1900s. He believes more will vanish, 

largely because of climate change. ’Yes, climatic influences are impacting the distribution of pikas,’ 

said Beever, based in Alaska. 

A study of habitat change in Yosemite by UC Berkeley researchers found that pika colonies there 

have been forced as much as 1,600 feet higher over the past century. But they don’t know when that 

occurred or whether climate is to blame - or even if pika numbers declined. 

That information gap is a major reason state wildlife officials recommend against protecting California 

pika populations now. 

Andrew Smith, a professor of conservation biology at Arizona State University, for 30 years has 

studied pika colonies in the historic town of Bodie and at Silver Lake in the eastern Sierra. Those 

colonies have been stable. 

Smith said there may not be enough evidence yet to warrant protecting the pika in California. But he 

said pika experts believe the need for protection is coming. ’There are enough data to warrant a 

precautionary way of looking at pika,’ he said. Other species in decline because of global warming 

include the Coachella Valley Jerusalem cricket, said Cameron Barrows, a UC Riverside ecologist. ’It’s 

happening so fast ... over probably the last five to 10 years,’ he said. The black abalone is under 

attack from a withering syndrome because of global warming. California officials have called for 

federal protection of the species. 

Several seabirds sensitive to weather change will also bear watching, said Cagan Sekercioglu, a 

specialist in bird extinctions at the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford. 

Meanwhile, more tropical birds and butterflies are being seen in the south state. Creatures of the 

southern seas are moving north. No one knows what will happen as new species jostle with those 

already established. 

What may become critical is protecting natural escape routes, so species forced out of one 

environment will have a shot at safety elsewhere, researchers said. Such ’habitat corridors’ are an old 

conservation idea. ’But with climate change, the need becomes really immediate and much more 

intense,’ said Parmesan. 

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Title: ASU’s Warner: Council candidate’s business could ... 



Full Text: Cheryl Butler says her family of seven sweltered in their west Mesa apartment for at least a 

month last summer without air conditioning. 

Now, the new heating and cooling unit installed in her modest stuccoed apartment at 1024 E. 

Second St. doesn’t keep the place warm enough during the cold winter months, she says. Her 

children huddle around space heaters at night in the living room. 

But what makes the place unlivable, Butler says, is a pernicious infestation of cockroaches. 

"It’s so bad now that you can take a picture off the wall and 300 cockroaches come out," she said. "I 

shouldn’t have to live like this." 

The apartment Butler is renting for $585 a month is managed by JMT Management LLC, owned by 

Matt Tolman, a City Council candidate in District 1. 

District 1 covers an aging area of Mesa many say should be converted from a run-down area filled 

with check cashing stores and pawn shops to a more modern and eclectic urban destination. 

Tolman estimates he manages about 50 properties, at least half of those lower-rent apartments in 

western and central Mesa. Many are advertised on his company’s Web site. 

Tolman’s business gets 10 percent of the rent of the various properties it manages, he said. 

He started the business in 1999, according to Arizona Corporation Commission records. 

As a council member, Tolman would be in a position to have some say over issues affecting his 

business interests. 

Carolyn Warner, an Arizona State University political science professor, said potential conflicts could 

arise if Tolman were elected to the council. In an ideal world, a council member would have no 

business interests in areas where he makes policy. 

Tolman’s broad interests in property values and redevelopment in west Mesa could create issues on 

the council, she said. For instance, if elected, should Tolman vote to direct redevelopment dollars to 

west Mesa? 

"If there’s a general big redevelopment in an area where he has an interest, does he recuse himself 

from the whole thing or not?" she asked. 

Warner added it depends on the culture in government as to whether Tolman could receive favorable 

treatment from city departments that may enforce violations by his business. 

"That can go either way," she said. "My sense of it is that it depends on the norm and the ethics and 

the general environment of the city agency." 

Tolman says he would recuse himself from any votes that might present a conflict of interest. 

Moreover, he said, "I don’t see the conflicts because we are trying to improve the properties that we 

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have there," Tolman said, noting that it’s not always easy to convince low-rent property owners to fix 

things. 

"You know, when we manage as many properties as we manage, you’re going to miss a violation 

here or there." 

Tolman says that his business is not a detriment to sprucing up the city’s west side. He says his 

company encourages property owners to make improvements, like a new paint job on a run-down 

apartment building. 

But lately, there have been serious problems for some of Tolman’s tenants. 

Butler said her cockroach infestation still hasn’t been eradicated, despite recent intervention by the 

Maricopa County Environmental Services Department. 

An inspector for the department visited Butler’s apartment on Nov. 14 and observed "live and dead 

roaches ... in kitchen cabinets, floors, wall and bathroom," according to a department report. The 

inspector called JMT and said the problem needed to be fixed "immediately." 

As for the air conditioner, Tolman said a contractor was dispatched to Butler’s apartment in July, 

August and again in December. Tolman acknowledged there were problems with the air conditioning 

but said the unit was replaced. 

"I don’t know how long they were without air conditioning," he said. "Every time we have been 

notified, we send someone out." 

Michelle Fox, a tenant in Four Peak Estates at 2650 E. McKellips Road, is in limbo right now. JMT 

Management oversaw her unit before four buildings in the complex owned by a California real estate 

investor were placed in foreclosure. 

Tolman said the bank began posting the foreclosure notices on units in the complex "sometime in 

December," and that he did not know the foreclosure proceedings had begun months earlier. 

Many of the tenants in the 16 units moved out in December, some inevitably losing out on some of 

that month’s rent - possibly as much as $4,800 collectively, Tolman estimated. 

Tolman said he was torn about what to advise tenants to do when the foreclosure notices began 

popping up. 

Since the property could have been cleared from foreclosure by the owner, Tolman’s boss, it would 

have been a bad business move that could have exposed him to a lawsuit had he advised tenants to 

move out, despite the risk to them if they stayed, he said. 

"There’s a contract signed with the property owner - it’s a balancing act," he said. "It’s nothing 

personal; it’s just business." 

Fox, for her part, is staying in her apartment at Four Peaks Estates, although it’s unclear what the 

future holds. 

She said she had heard nothing about the foreclosure and recently worked a deal to put city water 

service in her name so that it would not be shut off, which would have left her apartment unlivable. 

It required a member of her church to pay a $300 deposit and overdue fees on the water, she said. 

Her options are limited if things don’t work out in the transfer of the property to new owners. The 

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woman is disabled and cares for two daughters. 


"I didn’t know what I was going to do," Fox said. "I was strongly thinking about going into a shelter or 

something." 

Tolman’s company also has run afoul of the city’s code compliance office, responsible for keeping 

neighborhoods from descending into blight. 

A one-bedroom apartment on 124 S. Barkley was given notice for overgrown grass and weeds. 

Tolman confirmed his company is responsible for cutting the grass and common areas on his rental 

properties. 

The Barkley case was resolved, according to city records. 

But in cases that drag out, the city’s code compliance officers can cite property management 

companies. 

Tolman said he didn’t know if his company has ever been cited. And city officials also couldn’t say 

whether Tolman’s company has been cited for any serious, ongoing issues. 

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Title: Citizen or illegal? - ASU’s Cruz comments 



Full Text: Kimberly was afraid about going to Guatemala. But the 9-year-old girl knew it was 

inevitable. Her parents were here illegally, and her mom had been caught. When the Tribune 

interviewed Kimberly last month, she knew her mother was about to be deported. That happened a 

short time later. Ten days ago, Kimberly and her two younger brothers followed. Guatemala is a place 

Kimberly had never been and knew almost nothing about. She was born here. She went to school 

here. She learned English and adopted the American culture here. In her heart, Kimberly said, she is 

American. ’It scares me a lot,’ Kimberly said of going to a nation she had never seen and has no ties 

to. ’It’s unfair to me. It’s just unfair.’ Kimberly and her siblings are Americans, all born and raised in 

the Valley. The way things stand today, virtually anyone born in the United States is an American 

citizen, regardless of the immigration status of their parents. But critics are pushing to change that. An 

initiative has been launched in Arizona to challenge the presumption that American-born children of 

illegal immigrants are citizens. There is a separate effort being pushed in the Legislature to achieve 

that same goal. For years, legislation has been proposed in Congress that would strip automatic 

citizenship from American-born children whose parents are in the country illegally. So far, the federal 

effort has failed to gain traction. There is no tougher issue in the debate over illegal immigration than 

what to do with U.S .-born children like Kimberly. Their parents are breaking the law and face 

deportation if caught. The children are American citizens as a birthright, and are entitled to the same 

rights and benefits as children born to American parents. But as the numbers of these children 

continue to grow, so does the pressure to re-examine the issue of what is called ’birthright 

citizenship.’ Critics of automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants say that notion is based 

on a misinterpretation of the Constitution never resolved by the U.S . Supreme Court. Some use the 

term ’anchor babies’ to describe those children, arguing the kids allow illegal immigrants to tap into 

taxpayer-funded welfare and health programs while making it less likely the parents will be deported if 

they get caught. No one can say for sure how many of these children are in the United States, or how 

much they cost. Last year, taxpayers picked up the tab for more than 18,000 babies born in Arizona 

to parents who could not prove they were in the country legally. Labor and delivery costs alone were 

almost $88 million for those children. There are roughly 12 million illegal immigrants living in the 

United States, according to studies from various organizations. That figure does not count the 

estimated 3.5 million to 4million children born in the U.S . to parents here illegally. Theyare counted 

as Americans, not illegal immigrants. Almost one in five children born annually in Maricopa County is 

the child of a mother who is an illegal immigrant, according to studies based on 2002 data by the 

Center for Immigration Studies. That percentage has almost certainly grown in the last six years, said 

Steven Camarota, the center’s director of research. Mothers who are illegal immigrants account for 

about 17.2 percent of the children born in Arizona and about 9.5 percent of those nationwide, 

according to Camarota’s studies, based on Census data and records of all births compiled by the 

National Center for Health Statistics. Separate studies by the Pew Hispanic Center estimate about 

two-thirds of the children living in U.S . families headed by illegal immigrants are American citizens by 

birth, according to Jeffrey Passel of the center. Those numbers, and the costs associated with the 

taxpayer-financed benefits those children qualify for, are driving the effort to challenge the notion of 

automatic citizenship, said Della Montgomery, chairwoman of the committee circulating the initiative 

petition. ’I’m not saying ’starve them to death,’’ Montgomery said. ’I’m just saying they are not 

citizens. It’s in such numbers now and it’s costing us money. We just can’t keep it up.’ The initiative 

would prohibit the state from issuing a birth certificate to a child born to illegal immigrant parents. 

Montgomery said she knows that, if passed, the initiative would be the subject of a court battle. The 

ultimate goal is to force the U.S . Supreme Court to decide the issue, she said. COST OF CARE 

Figuring the cost of American children born to illegal immigrants is tough. For one thing, they’re not 

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counted as illegal immigrants. They’re Americans by definition. Schools and hospitals do not track the 

legal status of parents. Neither do state agencies in charge of government welfare and health care 

programs for the poor. Generally, illegal immigrants do not qualify for public benefits such as medical 

coverage under the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS), or for general 

economic assistance programs. The children, as Americans, do. Labor and delivery costs for illegal 

immigrants are paid under a federal program to provide emergency medical treatment. People in the 

program cannot prove they are citizens or legal U.S . residents, but AHCCCS does not take the extra 

step to confirm they are in the country illegally, said Rainey Daye Holloway, spokeswoman for the 

agency. Taxpayers spent about $87.9million to pay for the 18,103 births to undocumented parents in 

Arizona covered under the program last fiscal year, which ended in June, according to an analysis 

run by the agency in response to a Tribune inquiry. It cost an additional $101.7 million to provide one 

year of medical care to those American children through AHCCCS, according to agency estimates. 

For normal medical coverage under AHCCCS, the child born in the U.S . qualifies for any benefits 

available to children of American citizens, Holloway said. The parents and their nonlegal children only 

qualify for emergency medical treatment, she said. Liz Barker, spokeswoman for the Arizona 

Department of Economic Security, said there is no way to track how much the state pays out in 

economic assistance for American-born children of illegal immigrants. Only citizens and legal 

immigrants who meet certain qualifications can qualify for economic benefits, Barker said. The legal 

status of the child is verified, Barker said. The legal status of the parents, who are not applying for 

benefits, is not, she said. LIMITED BENEFIT For Kimberly’s father, Hector, it was not the lure of 

government benefits or the prospect of thwarting deportation that led to the decision to have three 

children in the United States. ’A lot of people think immigrants have children because they want to 

stay here forever,’ Hector said. ’No. I love my wife.’ Because of his fear of immigration authorities, the 

Tribune agreed to protect the identity of Hector’s family as a condition of his agreeing to an interview. 

Hector is a Guatemalan native who sneaked across the border at Nogales in 1993, he said. He has 

worked since he got here, most recently washing cars. Though his wife has already been deported, 

Hector remains, at least for now, until pending legal issues related to his immigration status are 

resolved. Hector said English is the primary language for all three of his children ranging in age from 

four to nine. They consider themselves Americans, not Guatemalans, he said, echoing Kimberly’s 

sentiments about her heritage. ’They act more like Americans,’ Hector said. ’They make the oath to 

the flag and really have their hearts in the United States more than Guatemala.’ The three children 

were getting health care through AHCCCS, Hector said. Two have asthma and the youngest, 

four-year-old Emerson, recently needed emergency surgery after his appendix ruptured, Hector said. 

The family has not received any other public assistance, he said. Having three American children did 

nothing to help their immigration case, Hector said. Nancy-Jo Merritt, an attorney handling 

immigration cases, said the situation Hector and his family are in is typical. Having American-born 

children carries no weight in deportation proceedings, Merritt said. There are limited circumstances in 

which an immigration judge can block the deportation of illegal immigrants, such as having an 

American child with severe medical problems, she said, noting that exemption is rarely granted. 

Economic hardship does not qualify, Merritt said. Neither does the argument the child would receive a 

better education here. ’The reason I hate the term ’anchor babies’ is that it sounds as though the 

people that are here have done something sneaky,’ Merritt said. ’They just live their lives. They have 

jobs. They get pregnant. They have children. And those children are of no benefit to them in terms of 

their status until the children turn 21.’ When American-born children turn 21, they can sponsor their 

parents for legal status in the U.S . ’JURISDICTION’ DISPUTE The presumption that all children born 

in the U.S . are citizens, regardless of their parents’ legal status, is rooted in the 14th Amendment to 

the Constitution, which was adopted in the post-Civil War era to ensure citizenship for blacks. ’All 

persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of 

the United States and of the State wherein they reside,’ is the language in the Amendment. It is the 

phrase ’subject to the jurisdiction’ that is in dispute. The Supreme Court has not directly ruled on 

whether the children of illegal immigrants are automatically American citizens if they are born in the 

U.S ., said Peter Schuck, a Yale Law School professor who has researched the legislative history of 

the 14th Amendment. The most recent guidance the court has given was 110 years ago, when it 

ruled the child of legal Chinese immigrants born in San Francisco was an American by birth. But that 

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ruling came decades before there was a modern-day concept of illegal immigration and a century 

before the latest surge of illegal immigrants crossed America’s borders. Illegal immigrant parents are 

the subjects of a foreign nation, Schuck said. Unless they are in the United States legally, they are 

under the ’jurisdiction’ of their native countries, he said. That means their children are exempt from 

automatic citizenship, just as the American-born children of foreign diplomats are not considered 

Americans, Schuck said. But Evelyn Haydee Cruz, an associate law professor at Arizona State 

University and director of the school’s immigration clinic, said illegal immigrants are subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States because they can be prosecuted for breaking the law. Diplomats 

cannot be prosecuted, and their American-born children are not citizens, she said. Schuck 

acknowledges the Supreme Court would probably rule children of illegal immigrants born in the 

United States are entitled to birthright citizenship because it has been the accepted practice for so 

long. That means it would take an amendment to the U.S . Constitution to change the law. That’s 

unlikely, said Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., who has co-sponsored bills challenging the notion of 

birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants since his first term in Congress in 1995. Shadegg said 

federal legislation on the issue ’is not going anywhere soon,’ despite pressure on Congress to clamp 

down on illegal immigration. It is tough enough to get a consensus in Congress to deal with adults 

who enter the country illegally, Shadegg said. The issue of what to do with their children, particularly 

those born in the United States, is even more volatile, he said. If the legislation ever does pass, it 

would at least get the issue to the Supreme Court so the question of who is an American citizen could 

be resolved, Shadegg said. ’To leave this big of an ambiguity in such a fundamental provision of a 

nation’s law is inappropriate,’ Shadegg said. ’This is a huge issue that ought to be resolved. Right 

now, it’s a muddle.’ At the Legislature, Rep. Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, is pushing a proposal that 

would ask Arizona voters to weigh in on the issue. The measure, co-sponsored with Sen. Karen 

Johnson, R-Mesa, is similar to the initiative being circulated by Montgomery. If it clears the 

Legislature, the issue would be put directly to voters in November. Pearce said he is confident the 

referendum would be approved. But he acknowledged the issue of birthright citizenship is tougher 

than other recent measures that targeted illegal immigrant adults. ’It always makes it more difficult 

when you involve children,’ Pearce said. ’You have to separate that emotion from it being the right 

thing to do. It’s not a matter of not loving these people. It’s a matter of what’s right.’ WITHOUT A 

COUNTRY Though the prospects are dim that the current interpretation of birthright citizenship will be 

overturned anytime soon, illegal immigrants fear the efforts to challenge the status of their 

American-born children. Rosa, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, worries about what would happen to 

her three children - all American born - if their U.S . citizenship is called into question. The children, all 

boys, range in age from eight to 13. They have lived in the Mesa area all their lives and consider 

themselves Americans. Rosa and her husband, both Mexican nationals, have worked since they 

crossed the border illegally in 1993, she said. No one in the family has received any government 

welfare or health care benefits, she said. If efforts to change the law are successful, Rosa says her 

kids would be left without a country. ’It’s worrisome,’ Rosa said of her sons’ heritage. ’It’s worse 

because they don’t have a place in Mexico. Not from here. Not from there. Then from where?’ 

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Source: National Science Foundation 

Title: ASU’s Grimm comments on urbanization effects 

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Full Text: What shape could future cities take, and how will their human populations meet 

environmental and resource challenges? 

A paper published this week in the journal Science, authored by Arizona State University (ASU) 

ecologist Nancy Grimm and colleagues, concludes that global change and the ecology of cities are 

closely linked. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). ’When we think 

of global change, images of melting ice caps and pasture replacing tropical rainforest come to mind,’ 

said Grimm. ’What drives these changes?’ ’In fact, much of the current environmental impact 

originates in cities. With the increasing transition to city life, the urban footprint is likely to continue to 

grow.’ Not all changes that occur in the city stay in the city, Grimm and colleagues have found. Rural 

landscapes at a city’s edge show changes in soils, human settlements, the diversity of plant and 

animal species and nearby ecosystems. 

Cities are substantive ecosystems in their own right, replete with complex human-environmental 

interactions and increasing and far-reaching impacts, Grimm and co-authors write. 

Other authors are ecologists John Briggs, Stan Faeth, and Jianguo (Jingle) Wu of the ASU School of 

Life Sciences; archaeologist Charles Redman, director of the ASU School of Sustainability; and 

researchers Nancy Golubiewski from the New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics and Xuemei 

Bai of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems in Australia. ’People in cities increasingly dominate 

environmental change on a global level, but humans’ effects are understudied from an ecological 

standpoint,’ said Henry Gholz, program director in NSF’s Division of Environmental Biology. ’This lack 

of knowledge hampers our ability to make informed predictions of, and policies regarding, the 

environment of the future.’ Urban challenges increasingly face communities world-wide, with solutions 

lagging behind, according to Grimm. In this paper, she and other scientists take a global perspective 

on urban development. 

Their analyses capture some of the commonalities that face future city planners and societies, 

viewing cities as both drivers of and responders to environmental change. The authors chart the 

socioecological challenges and changes ahead for all cities, but particularly those in rapidly 

developing regions like China and India. 

The changes ahead are associated with issues ranging from land use to urban waste discharge to 

heat effects, as well as challenges related to larger changes in global climate, hydrologic systems, 

biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles. ’The research discussed in this paper is especially 

noteworthy because it deals with humans as an integral part of the broader environment,’ said 

Thomas Baerwald, program director in NSF’s Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences. ’Cities, 

and the people in them, will ultimately determine global biodiversity and ecosystem functioning,’ 

added Wu. Phoenix is the fifth largest city in the United States, with an estimated population of 1.5 

million. The West in general is expected to experience the largest population increases in the U.S . in 

the next 20 years. 

With rising numbers of residents and increasing demands for land, power, water, waste removal and 

transportation, Phoenix, site of the Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) 

project, with which Grimm and several co-authors are affiliated, provides a ’before’ and ’after’ 

laboratory. ’Landscapes, virtually anywhere in the world, will experience the impact of the growth of 



nearby and distant cities,’ Redman said. ’We need to understand the complexity of impacts that rapid 

global urbanization has--both within urban boundaries and across landscapes farther away.’ How can 

multiple environmental changes be considered in a unified way? One recent approach has been to 

view urban systems as organic units: organisms that take up resources and produce wastes. 

Such an integrated perspective can be useful for interpreting biogeochemical cycles in cities, and 

analyzing their regional and global effects. For example, cities are sources of carbon dioxide and 

other greenhouse gases, and human-caused nutrient deposition. 

Grimm and colleagues’ article points out that, worldwide, cities alter the behaviors, physiologies, 

disease patterns, population densities, morphologies and genetics of city-dwelling organisms. ’Cities 

create novel biological communities,’ said Faeth, ’and these communities, no matter how ’unnatural’ 

they are, are the ones that most humans now, and in the future, will experience.’ Studies of urban 

ecology offer critical insights into how we might best reach a sustainable urban future, said Grimm. 

’The field of urban ecology has demonstrated that well-designed cities can have less overall impact 

on the environment than equivalent rural populations,’ said Jonathan Fink, director of ASU’s Global 

Institute of Sustainability. ’The research results in this paper show that an ecological perspective can 

help urban planners and engineers find ways for society to live more harmoniously with nature.’ 

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Title: Low diploma rates hurt UA, ASU loans 



Full Text: Low graduation rates at Arizona’s public universities might keep students from an 

increasingly popular cash source for college expenses. Sallie Mae, the nation’s largest student loan 

firm, is reeling from the loss of at least $1.2 billion last year on defaulted private loans. The firm 

recently announced it intends to stop making such loans to those enrolled at schools struggling to 

graduate a large share of their students. Most of those bad loans came from students who dropped 

out of school, said Martha Holler, a Sallie Mae spokeswoman. "That’s why we’re so focused on 

graduation rates moving forward," Holler said. Arizona State University and the University of Arizona 

are among the worst large, public research universities at guiding students to diplomas within six 

years. ASU and UA have slightly improved their graduation rates - 56 percent and 58 percent, 

respectively - during the past five years. Northern Arizona University graduates only about 45 percent 

of its students. Those rates measure how many full-time students graduate within six years of 

enrolling. Sallie Mae hasn’t decided how low is too low when it comes to graduation rates, Holler said. 

Asked if ASU could be among those excluded from the firm’s private loans, she responded: "That’s a 

great question." It’s unknown how many ASU students have received private loans from Sallie Mae. 

Craig Fennell, ASU’s financial aid director, declined to comment. He said he could not provide details 

last week on how much private loan business the lender does at Arizona State. No matter what Sallie 

Mae decides, ASU Provost Elizabeth Capaldi argues the graduation rates paint a misleading picture 

of how universities are performing. Students count as dropouts if they take fewer than 12 credit hours 

in a semester, transfer to another university, or even if they graduate after leaving school for a period 

of time. Even so, Capaldi has spent much of her 18 months at ASU working to increase the 

graduation rate. "I’m not proud of it," Capaldi said, "but we’re not as bad as lots of people." ASU’s 

graduation rate is low for a number of reasons. The university accepts about 90 percent of applicants, 

including many not prepared for college course work. Another obstacle is that many ASU students 

must balance work and studies. "I don’t know if you’ve ever been at graduation where (ASU 

President) Michael (Crow) says, ’How many of you have worked?’ One-hundred percent of our 

students raise their hand," she said. People who earn a bachelor’s degree can enter higher-paying 

careers, enabling them to repay loans more easily. Those who drop out of college typically gain little 

financial benefit from their educations and are more likely to default on their loans. Most students rely 

on federal loans guaranteeing low interest rates and flexible repayment plans. Private loans are, 

traditionally, students’ last resort because they come with far higher interest rates than federal loans. 

Student advocacy groups are celebrating Sallie Mae’s retreat on private loans. "Frankly, it’s good that 

Sallie Mae is going to stop aggressively marketing costly and risky loans to students they know can’t 

afford to pay them back," said Lauren Asher, associate director of the Project on Student Debt. Asher 

argues undergraduate students at public universities, like Arizona’s, should be able to limit their 

borrowing to federal loans. Regardless, the private loan business has grown at a startling pace - 

particularly at ASU. In 2005, the university’s students, and their parents, took on at least $31 million in 

private loans, according to data from the Arizona Board of Regents. By last school year, that amount 

swelled to nearly $62 million. And those figures are likely below the real amount borrowed, said Dan 

Anderson, a research analyst for the regents. ASU’s financial aid office cannot track how many 

parents take on second mortgages, or use other types of borrowing, to help pay college expenses. 

The number of ASU students borrowing from the federal government has slowly dropped the past two 

years, regents data shows. But private loans appear to have more than made up the difference. Two 

years ago, 41 percent of the university’s undergraduate students used federal loans, compared with 

just 6 percent for private loans. Now, only 37 percent take federal loans and 9 percent use private 

loans - which, in raw numbers, means that almost twice as many students are taking the expensive 

loans. Private loans have more than doubled at NAU, regents data shows. Student advocates and 



policymakers in the state have spent years discussing student debt. However, private loans haven’t 

entered the conversation, said Serena Unrein, executive director of the Arizona Students Association. 

Unrein said she wasn’t aware of the rise in private borrowing here. "Perhaps that’s something that 

should be on our radar now," she said. At some universities, students have turned to private loans to 

cover the rocketing costs of tuition, books and housing. Students can borrow up to $23,000 from the 

government for college, but expenses can rise far above that over the years required to earn a 

bachelor’s degree. At Arizona’s universities, students on average graduate with $18,000 in debt, the 

regents’ data shows, indicating students are choosing more expensive private loans instead of federal 

loans. For now, it is unclear exactly why. "It seems like there’s an explosion in the marketing of 

private loans," Unrein said. "And it seems like I can’t watch TV without seeing a loan for Astrive or 

other such lending companies that really emphasize that, hey, these private loans are out there." 

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Title: ASU’s Robert comments on gene testing 



Full Text: The eternal search to live longer, healthier lives is driving technology faster every day, with 

advances in diagnosing and treating many diseases. 

One of the newest technologies is personal genome testing, marketed directly to consumers by labs 

that collect, test, analyze and report people’s individual genetic information - at about $1,000 a pop. 

At the end of 2007, three Web sites - 23andme.com, navigenics.com and decodeme.com - were 

selling genome-testing packages to people who wanted them, sidestepping doctors and insurance 

companies. 

Interest in genetic testing is fairly strong. A 2002 Harris poll found that 69 percent of adults would be 

somewhat likely to seek a comprehensive genetic test that could indicate the likelihood they might get 

several major diseases. advertisement ’I don’t think anyone in this field has a doubt that the day will 

come when it will be useful and a routine test for everybody,’ says Heather Shappell, a genetic 

counselor. But she adds a word of caution: ’That day is not here now.’ Here are some reasons why 

you might want to hold off on paying $1,000 out of pocket for your genetic snapshot: 

The genetic information is presented out of context. ’Everything we know about genetics is 

contextual, and these are decontextualized samples of DNA,’ says Jason Robert, a bioethicist at 

Arizona State University School of Life Sciences. The ’risks’ presented by the test results don’t take 

the individual client’s factors into consideration, such as nutrition, stress levels or exposure to 

environmental toxins. ’One thing we do with the medical students at the ASU medical school 

downtown is to emphasize personalized medicine, including things like genotype. But we also 

emphasize that each person leads a very individual life from conception onward. Impacts can occur at 

any point in that lifeline, such as diet or the timing of diet or environmental exposure.’ Diseases such 

as heart disease and diabetes are extremely complex, says Emily Zaragoza Lao, medical director at 

St. Joseph’s Family Medicine Center in Phoenix. ’Genetics is so vast that you can’t say, ’I have the 

gene so I’m going to get it.’ Certain diseases, yes, but it’s not black or white,’ she says. The medical 

community hasn’t caught up. 

Most physicians have neither the time nor the expertise to interpret the type of genetic information 

provided in the testing for individual patients. 

Shappell is founder of Informed Medical Decisions, a national genetic-counseling company based in 

Palm Springs, Calif. ’Doctors order tests all the time, but a genetic test is not a cholesterol test, where 

it’s either good or bad,’ she says. Genetic tests are filled with subtle nuances, many of which are not 

yet understood even by geneticists in terms of predicting disease risk, she says. 

As a family doctor, Zaragoza Lao says that a personal genome report is useless to her. ’When 

patients bring me the report, I’m not going to be able to interpret it. I don’t have a standard to go by. 

Do they have a family history? Symptoms? Let’s find out about that first,’ she says. Not everyone 

benefits from genetic testing. 

Shappell, whose company specializes in telephone counseling for cancer, says there are clear 

guidelines established for who should be tested for hereditary cancer. ’Most people who have cancer 

or cancer in their family don’t have hereditary cancer caused by a single gene mutation that causes 

high risk in the family,’ she says. In fact, only 10 percent of cancers are caused by specific genetic 

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variances that can be pinpointed. 

Genetic counselors use specific criteria established by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 

on who should be tested. 

And even if the family history is strong enough to warrant testing, the person who doesn’t have 

cancer yet but is wondering whether he or she will get it is not the one who should be tested. The 

family member who already has the disease should be tested first, to determine the specific genetic 

variation. Then others in the family can be tested. 

Testing someone who doesn’t have that specific cancer doesn’t help. 

There are ethical considerations. 


All three of the testing Web sites describe their strict privacy features, but after clients receive their 

own information, they can dispense it how they choose. ’If you get this testing and find your risk of 

having a stroke is higher by 50 percent, and your insurance company knows, you’re not going to get 

approved,’ Zaragoza Lao says. 

A scary result also could affect employment or promotion chances. 

Another ethical consideration is access to the test. ’A thousand dollars might not seem like much 

money, but it is,’ Robert says. ’Most people aren’t going to be able to afford it. ’I think there’s an 

ethical imperative to emphasize genes in context rather than a gene on its own. A new test that 

makes a few people rich and a few people healthy strikes people as an odd way to look at health-care 

innovation.’ The results could produce a lot of needless anxiety. ’You’ve taken someone who wants to 

take care of something and made them anxious, and I as a family doctor have to deal with that,’ 

Zaragoza Lao says. 

Although personal genome testing is new, Robert is unsure whether the results will actually cause 

people to change their lifestyles. ’So far, empirical data show that people don’t take genetic data any 

more seriously than other health data, whether to eat better or get more exercise,’ he says. On the flip 

side, there are a lot more options available now to delay or prevent onset of a disease, such as 

prophylactic surgery to remove the ovaries or breasts in women who have the BRCA1 or BRCA2 

mutations. 

Eventually, men who are found to have the recently discovered gene-variant combination linked to 

prostate cancer could take hormone-blocking drugs to prevent the disease. 

Reach the reporter at marybeth.faller@arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8167. 

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