TO CLIPS INDEX - Clips for February 15, 2008

Gunman kills 5, self at Northern Illinois University
Arizona Republic - Feb. 15, 2008 12:00 AM
Man in black opens fire at lecture; 16 wounded
DEKALB, Ill. - A former student dressed in black walked onto the stage of a lecture hall
at Northern Illinois University and opened fire on a packed science class Thursday,
killing five students, wounding 16 and setting off a panicked stampede before
committing suicide.

State's budget deficit getting worse
The Arizona Republic - Feb. 15, 2008 12:00 AM
2008 shortfall now $1.15 billion
The economy in Arizona and nationwide dipped significantly in the final three months
of 2007, spurring Gov. Janet Napolitano to release a strikingly more pessimistic picture
Thursday of state finances and shortfalls for this year and next. Napolitano upped her
estimated shortfalls for fiscal 2008 and 2009 by a combined $720 million from where
they stood just a month earlier.

ASU police investigating bomb threat
East Valley Tribune - February 14, 2008 - 6:20PM
The Arizona State University Police Department received a call Thursday that a bomb
would be set off on Tempe campus within an hour, according to ASU police
Commander Jim Hardina. The caller, who phoned at about 1 p.m., specifically
mentioned the Schwada Classroom Office Building, just east of the ASU Bookstore.

Free book helps college students get a handle on finances
East Valley Tribune - February 14, 2008 - 5:05PM
Student athletes shouldn’t just be on top of their game on the field or on the court. If
they’re smart, they’ll also have a game plan when it comes to managing their money.
That’s the goal of the national education program Playbook For Life, which gives
student athletes and all college students basic knowledge to build a solid financial
future.

State budget woes worsen
Arizona Daily Sun - February 14, 2008
PHOENIX -- The top financial aide to Gov. Janet Napolitano admitted Thursday the state
is now more than $1.1 billion in the red this year, almost $300 million more than the
governor said just a month earlier. George Cunningham said it now looks like income
tax collections for the current fiscal year, which began July 1, actually will be $100 million
less than the prior year. A month earlier the governor was predicting a small year-over
-year increase. Similarly, Napolitano now is acknowledging that sales tax revenues will
be just 1.4 percent above last year.

UA parking permits to rise by $24 next year
Arizona Daily Star - 2/15/2008
Parking permits at the UA will cost $24 more next year, and all Zone 1 lots on the south
part of campus will be closed by construction projects or converted to lot-specific parking.
The University of Arizona is losing about 1,200 parking spaces in lots along East Sixth
Street to the Student Recreation Center expansion and the construction of three new
dorms. With four new lots south of Sixth and four new ones in the northern part of
campus, the net loss is only about 200 spaces, ...

$2.4M computer system gives UA research boost
Tucson Citizen - 2/15/2008
University of Arizona researchers look forward to a big boost from a high-performance
supercomputing system that goes online Monday. The new $900,000 SGI Altix ICE
system, which contains 1,392 clustered computer central processing units, joins an
SGI Altix 4700 system containing 628 CPUs installed in March, said Mike Bruck,
assistant director for research computing at University Information Technology Services.

Gov. boosts estimate of deficit to $1.1 billion
Tucson Citizen - 2/15/2008
The worsening economy is doing further damage to the state's finances, forcing Gov.
Janet Napolitano to raise her estimates for current and future revenue shortfalls and
expand her previous proposals to keep the budget in the black. Napolitano's top budget
 adviser said Thursday that the revised plans call for making a bigger withdrawal from
the rainy day reserve and doublings of previously proposed spending reductions by
agencies, of sweeps of money from special-purpose funds and of a short-term delay
of state funding for K-12 schools.

Video links to far-flung patients grow through UA program
Tucson Citizen - 2/15/2008
PHOENIX - Dr. Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist, believes in personal touches. When she
works with patients, they can expect smiles, understanding looks and expressions
of support. "I think that the most important aspect is delivering high-quality care with
compassion," Sisley said. That makes it seem a bit odd to see her in an office
containing little more than an empty desk with a computer. Instead of a couch for
patients, there's a large video monitor against the wall with a camera pointing back.

Bomb threats shut down Schwada
ASU Web Devil - February 15, 2008
Building closes for more than an hour after caller makes two calls threatening
detonation; police able to trace calls ASU Police evacuated between 700 and 900
people from the Schwada Classroom Office building at about 1:45 p.m. on Thursday
after a caller, in two separate calls, threatened that a bomb was about to be detonated.
The first call came in at 1 p.m., ASU Police Cmdr. Jim Hardina said.

Nursing school tackles youth treatment issues
ASU Web Devil - February 14, 2008
College programs to address lack of mental health care providers
Two new ASU programs aim to end the health care provider shortage that is leaving
almost 4 million Arizona children without psychiatric care. The first post-graduate
program, through the College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation, is training nurse
practitioners to work with children's mental health problems, a field that is in need of
qualified people. The first class will receive their certificates in August.

Graduating students find harsher job market
ASU Web Devil - February 14, 2008
Job growth slowing, unemployment to rise, experts predict
Students looking for jobs when they graduate will have a rough time because of the
weakened economy, and experts predict there is no relief in sight. With the United
States heading toward a recession and national job growth on a steady downfall,
students who graduate this year may have a tough time finding work, said Lee
McPheters, professor of economics and director of the JPMorgan Chase Economic
Outlook Center at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

KAMP in danger of closure
UA Wildcat Online - 2/14/08
Radio station not included in ASUA activities fee, must quickly gather support
KAMP Student Radio is facing a campaign time crunch as they try to gather enough
student support for a $1 fee referendum that will be on the ASUA ballot in March.
KAMP has had to garner student support every five years, since they officially
became part of Arizona Student Media ten years ago, said Karl Goranowski,
general manager for KAMP.

A reward for caring, inspiration
UA Daily Wildcat Online - 2/15/08
UA associate professor to get national award as rehabilitation educator of the year
tomorrow
When one walks into the office of Charlene Kampfe on the fourth floor of the Education
building, one immediately notices the crayon drawings on the filing cabinet and the vast
array of "Thank You" and Christmas cards cluttering her desk. Then there's the wall
covered in plaques and awards from all over the country - a collection about to get a
new neighbor. Kampfe, an associate professor in special education and rehabilitation,
was recently named to receive the National Council on Rehabilitation Education's
(NCRE) Educator of the Year award, given to one educator each year.

Napolitano revises budget outlook after January slump
Arizona Capitol Times - February 14, 2008
An economy that continues to slump was cited as the main reason for a revised
economic outlook from Gov. Janet Napolitano’s office that is much gloomier than
what her office expected only a month ago. George Cunningham, the governor’s
deputy chief of staff for finance, said since Napolitano announced her budget
projections in January, the national economy has nose-dived into what some
economists are calling a recession.

Pearce bypasses leadership, schedules budget vote
Arizona Capitol Times - February 13, 2008
The House Appropriations Committee has scheduled a special meeting tomorrow
in order to vote on a series of bills aimed at solving the nearly $1 billion revenue
shortfall this fiscal year. Committee Chairman Russell Pearce was not available
for comment, but he told Arizona Capitol Times on Feb. 12 that his decision to
press forward with a budget that has not been negotiated among Republican and
Democrat legislative leaders is to send a message to the negotiators that they are
moving too slowly.

After just one year, ASU junked its scholarship program for illegal immigrants, Sarah
Fenske wonders who will step up for them now
New Times - February 14, 2008
Last year, when Proposition 300 went into effect and undocumented students were
barred from getting in-state tuition rates at Arizona universities, Arizona State University
did a brave thing: It enlisted private donors to do what taxpayers would not. If students
graduated from an Arizona high school but couldn't prove they were in this country legally,
ASU awarded them a privately funded $12,000 grant called the "Sunburst Scholarship."
The goal was to bridge the gap between in-state and out-of-state tuition — and keep a
few hundred kids from dropping out of school.