The Lighting up the Darkness Company Closure Impacts Bear Bucks
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The Sun Star (September 9th, 2014) Publisher The Sun Star Download date 07/10/2021 16:23:27 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7058 The SUN STARTuesday, September 9, 2014 Last comic standing finalist to perform at Pub page 6 Women’s Arctic Java Center Lighting up the darkness packed for Move Open Mic Julia Taylor Anessia Hubler Sun Star Reporter Sun Star Reporter The UAF Women’s Cen- Red lights lit up the stage ter (WoC) opened in the signaling the start of Wood Center in the spot open mike night at Arc- that used to house the tic Java on September Spirit of Alaska Federal 3rd. Credit Union. Over fifty students came All of the new furniture flooding in at eight pm, in the office was funded to hear and perform by ASUAF. Their support songs and poetry. All the made the transition less chairs were filled as stu- stressful, said Women’s dents spread out on the Center Coordinator Kayt floor and stairway. Sunwood. Student worker and The new space is larger, Sophmore Eric Richards and provides for more said staff worked hard flexibility for its usage, to organize the event, said Sunwood. She says scheduling stage time, having the ability to keep making flyers, setting up conversations confiden- the mics and speakers as tial in the inner office, well as a sign up sheet. without having to close the entire office is a -ma “We really wanted to get jor advantage of the new everyone out of their layout. At the old loca- rooms so that they could tion in the Eielsen build- be mixed together before ing, closing the door to the first day of class to have a confidential con- make it a little easier on versation with - (Contin- them and it - (Continued ued pg. 3) Northern lights danced across the sky late Wednesday night. Travis Olsen / Sun Star Photographer on pg. 4) Company closure impacts Bear Bucks use . Julia Taylor whom it directly impact- and Munch Money pro- “While some businesses in the memo.,”Our intent her department no lon- Sun Star Reporter ed. Memo author Pamm grams were working well who were part of the pro- is to ensure that the en- ger has its own IT people, While some businesses Zierfuss-Hubbard, con- on campus during the gram may have been un- tire campus communi- they have not corrected were unhappy with as- tracts manager for Auxi- 2014-2015 school year. happy with the fee that ty is able to utilize Bear the information. pects of the Bear Bucks lary, Recharge and Con- was being charged, to say Bucks in the most flexi- program, as reported in tract Operations at UAF, The intention is to bring that they were rejecting ble way possible.” Even for students who the Sept. 2nd issue of the says that she did not back off-campus Bear Bear Bucks is inaccu- stick with webpages on UAF Sun Star, none of send a copy of the memo Bucks for the 2015-2016 rate,” Zierfuss-Hubbard The contract with OCS in the www.uaf.edu do- the off-campus business- directly the Associated school year through an- said in an email to The that allowed UAF stu- main, there is still room es had a choice about Students of the Univer- other program if students Sun Star. “We had sev- dents to use Bear Bucks for confusion. The link whether to continue to sity of Alaska Fairbanks indicate that it is import- eral businesses (McDon- at off-campus businesses that was sent by Zier- accept Bear Bucks for the (ASUAF). ant to them, for the 2015- alds, Sunrise Bagel & started in 2008 and was fuss-Hubbard as having 2014-2015 school year as 2016 school year. Espresso and Del Ray’s to renewed in 2012. the correct information the company that ran the While the memo ex- name three) who partici- http://www.uaf.edu/ program, Off Campus pressed the hope that Zierfuss-Hubbard says pated in the program and Bear Bucks Websites finserv/bursar/polarex- Solutions (OCS), went meetings would start in that this didn’t just pull liked it. We are searching Display Incorrect Infor- press/, contains a list of out of business. “the next few months,” the plug of the program for a way for students to mation places that Bear Bucks and include “campus at UAF. OCS’ closing utilize their Bear Bucks can be used off-campus, The Bear Bucks program constituents” meeting to There are still websites and the phrase, “Bear allowed students to use “determine how best to that have inaccurate in- Bucks are also accepted Bear Bucks funds on move forward,” that pro- formation regarding the at some off campus loca- their PolarExpress cards cess has not started. UAF Bear Bucks pro- tions.” at locations on and off gram. http://uafbear- campus in place of cash Zierfuss-Hubbard does bucks.com/, has seven Going Forward or credit cards. not know when a group links to different pages, will be created to deter- all of which refer to an For students who are UAF received notice mine what will happen off-campus program for interested in getting in- of the business closure for the 2015-2016 school using Bear Bucks, and volved with the process in March, according to year. include the same vendor of deciding what should Pamm Zierfuss-Hub- list that was accurate for happen going forward, bard, contracts manager She said that there are the 2013-2014 school there is not a current for Auxiliary, Recharge no plans to bring an year. group looking at the and Contract Operations off-campus option for choices for next year, ac- at UAF. The notice in- Bear Bucks this year. She Zierfuss-Hubbard said cording to Zierfuss-Hub- cluded that the contract says that the process for impacted hundreds of off campus and once we that OCS did allow uni- bard, but students can would terminate on June having students involved schools around the coun- find a way that is benefi- versities to purchase the email her using the 30, 2014. has not been set yet, but try and UAF is not the cial to participating busi- domain names for their [email protected] that she plans to have only program struggling ness, students and UAF, campus websites, and account, and including Students Not Informed other mechanisms for to find a replacement. we will bring it back.” UAF paid for the UAF Off Campus Bear Bucks About Bear Bucks student input before a fi- Emails to the company site a month ago, so UAF in the subject line if they Changes nal decision is made. started bouncing back in “OCS’ cancellation has does currently own the have comments or would August, and the parent provided UAF with an http://uafbearbucks. like to be a part of the A memo dated April 10th Zierfuss-Hubbard says company to OCS, Nu- opportunity to review com/ domain name. group that decides the 2014 detailed the discon- that with all of the Vision Networks, has no our campus carding future of the program. tinuation of off-campus changes happening with information about OCS needs and identify the She said that they are Bear Bucks use. It was Dining Services, her de- on its current website. most beneficial program working to get the incor- addressed to the UAF partment felt that it was Calls to NuVision were to offer a more holistic rect information on the community, but it was better to focus on making not returned. campus card solution,” website taken down and not sent out to students, sure that the Bear Bucks Zierfuss-Hubbard wrote replaced, but that since Tweet us! @ uafsunstar Like us on Facebook! Find us on YouTube! 2 THE SUN STAR CAMPUS LIFE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 2014 Police Blotter: Summer 2014 While many of the calls that the UAF Police Department (UAFPD) respond to are issues police departments Summer Arrests deal with all over the country, some are more unusual, and sometimes the police blotter raises as many ques- tions as it does answers. Here are some of the highlights, and lowlifes, that UAFPD interacted with over the June: summer. Assaults........................... 5 Drugs..............................4 The UAFPD has a process called “trespassing” a person, which means that the person is not allowed back on DUI.................................6 The Sun Star campus, without explicit permission from the administration. It comes up often in the police blotter, and is used Other Arrests.................8 Issue # 2 by UAF as a way to make sure that people who have been caught not following the rules, are ready to follow the rules, before being allowed back on campus, according Kathy Catron, a UAFPD police officer. When the police July: September 9, 2014 blotter is using “trespassed” in this way, it will appear with the quotation marks, to denote its difference from the Assaults ...........................0 more traditional use of the word. Drugs..............................1 The Sun Star’s mis- DUI.................................6 Other Arrests..................1 sion as a campus The Coffee Fund/iP- ing on the third floor of up and down on tables took the description of hone Caper - UAFPD the library, while watch- and chairs. The response a man who is accused of voice for UAF is August: responded on August 5, ing pornography. The of- from UAFPD was mixed. stealing three children’s to report the news Assaults...........................2 2014 involving missing ficer located the man in Those who had received books. One book was re- Drugs..............................3 honestly and fair- money that had been the library, escorted him prior warnings for the turned, but the investiga- DUI.................................4 ly, announce and taken from the coffee off the UAF campus, and same behavior were tion into the theft of oth- Other Arrests..................4 chronicle events and fund in the Reichardt “trespassed” him.