ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT wildcat.arizona.edu Thursday, March 4, 2004 The University of Arizona, Tucson ASUA PARAMEDICS 101 Graduation candidate ceremony agreement under fire moved to By Dana Crudo stadium STAFF WRITER Possibility of Bush visit An agreement that surfaced yester- day between ASUA presidential candi- date Josh Shapiro and a former graduate combines both ceremonies student council president has come under fire from current and former stu- dent leaders. By Jeff Sklar The deal would guarantee one stu- SENIOR WRITER dent lobbyist position for a graduate stu- dent and eliminate the Associated Commencement will take place in a single ceremo- Students of the University of Arizona ny at Arizona Stadium this year, the first time since the president’s role as a representative of 1970s that the UA will hold graduation outside. graduate students. The event is normally split into two ceremonies in The ASUA elections commissioner, McKale Center, but was moved outside and consoli- Dan Suh, and former ASUA presidents dated in anticipation of a possible speech by President Doug Hartz, Cisco Aguilar and Ray Bush. Quintero said yesterday that they were Though officials still call a Bush acceptance unlike- concerned about the deal struck ly, they moved the ceremony outside so that if he does between Shapiro and Peter Morris, last attend, all the graduates will be able to hear his speech. year’s president of the Graduate and But they emphasized that even though they moved Professional Student Council who grad- the ceremony, they haven’t received any word from uated last year. the White House on whether Bush will accept. Suh said although the deal didn’t vio- “We have no idea … of what the president’s late the elections code, he said he was response will be,” said Edith Auslander, Likins’ senior upset by it and would not condone it. associate. Auslander echoed earlier statements from “It’s a terrible thing,” he said. Likins in calling a Bush acceptance a “long shot.” After realizing the promise was not The White House could respond to the request any- consistent with ASUA bylaws, Shapiro time, she said. took back the agreement and made a The stadium could accommodate about 50,000 peo- different promise. ple for a single ceremony. Between 11,000 and 14,000 “Since the graduate students aren’t typically attend the McKale ceremonies. represented enough, if a graduate stu- Graduates and their families should prepare for dent applies and has a reasonable argu- warm temperatures during the May 15 ceremony, said ment on why they should be in ASA, associate dean of students Alexis Hernandez, who JACOB KONST/Arizona Daily Wildcat then I will appoint them,” he said. “It chairs the commencement operations committee. UA Extended University student Nicole Whittaker responds to a mock trauma in which “There will be no shadow in the stadium,” he said. gives a fair balance to whoever else instructor Chris Nealy portrays a victim of a furnace explosion during a training exercise at the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center, 1824 E. Elm St., yesterday. The simulation See ASUA/8 was part of the 10-month paramedic course provided through the distance-learning program. See COMMENCEMENT/7 Writer zooms in on UA prof wants less grass, more birds gays in Holocaust By Jessica Lee STAFF WRITER Holocaust survivors keep By Walter E. Staton silent about their experi- Desert landscaping could encroach STAFF WRITER ences, especially gay and on campus grass if a UA professor gets lesbian survivors. his way. Lev Raphael is the gay “I always wondered Michael Rosenzweig, an ecology and son of two Jewish what I could do as a evolutionary biology professor, said the Holocaust survivors, and writer,” he said. UA campus could become a more appe- he wants to bring more He said there are only a tizing habitat for the local bird popula- attention to the persecu- handful of books that deal tion if officials were to trade the grass for tion of homosexuals in the with the issue and that mesquite trees. Holocaust. there is little imaginative “It is unimaginable what this campus Raphael spoke to stu- literature on the subject. could be like,” said Rosenzweig. “(The dents and community Raphael read a few current landscape) was unbelievably members last night in the pages of his latest book, badly done.” Catalina Room of the “The German Money,” Due to drastic reductions in Sonoran Student Union Memorial before taking questions Desert landscaping over the years, the campus no longer sees a variety of WILL SEBERGER/Arizona Daily Wildcat Center, focusing on the from the audience. The Michael Rosenzweig, an ecology and evolutionary biology professor, wants an increase in native birds, he said. Rather, house experience of gays and book’s characters are three Sonoran Desert landscaping within the UA and Tucson to make a more favorable habitat finches, doves and pigeons flood the lesbians in the Holocaust. siblings, one who is bisexu- for native birds. campus. His talk also previewed al, who are struggling with their Jewish identity and “We already spend the money to areas, Rosenzweig insists that urban scape, the campus is different from the a traveling exhibit from how to cope with their develop; why not spend it wiser?” areas could do more to preserve plants surrounding desert landscape. We aren’t the Holocaust Museum recently deceased mother. Rosenzweig said. and animals by leaving more open providing the habitat for the native showcasing gays in the Silence is the main To bring back the native birds, space. desert species, (but) rather birds attract- Holocaust. The exhibit theme of his writing, Rosenzweig advocates a new type of The drive to return more local birds ed by urban environment,” said Mark will hit Tucson in mid- Raphael said. He targets the ecology he calls “reconciliation ecology.” to campus would involve integrating Novak, a landscape architect within April. Rather than protect undisturbed wild the desert with the campus. Campus Facilities and Planning. He said many SURVIVORS/7 areas in national parks or wilderness “When we look at the local land- See See BIRDS/7 Senior Grzyb Stiller and Do a jig: heads home for Undercover Wilson play ‘Riverdance’ at Centennial Pac-10 tourney buddies ’70s icons PAGE 17 PAGE 9 PAGE 13.