The Lumberjack, April 14, 2004.

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Restructure plan calls for 6 colleges
PRESIDENT JOHN D. Haeger announces his plan
for restructuring the university in Ardrey Auditorium
Monday afternoon.
W ILL FLETCHER
T he Lu m b e r ja c k
After months of anticipation and debate,
President John D. Haeger announced his
plan for restructuring Monday, cutting the
university’scollegesandschools from 10 to
six. In addition, the university's approxi­mately
40 centers and institutes will be
placed under the administration of the col­lege
that best matches its academic and
research needs.
Haeger’s plan caLLs for combining
Science and Engineering, Humanities and
Fine Arts, Socid and Behavioral Sciences
and Communication, leaves the Colleges
of Business Administration and Education
alone and creates one professional school.
The professional school merges Forestry,
Health Professions and Hotel and
Restaurant Management.
But details on implementation and what
the university will look like a year from
now is far from certain.
Certainty rests in the fact that Haeger
will recommend to the Arizona Board of
Regents April 2g that NAU irreversibly con
solidate its colleges and schools.
ABOR is expected to vote on the plan
June 24-2 5.
A steering committee w ill also be
formed to decide how best to merge the col­leges.
Haeger said while some aspects of merg­ing
academic departments can be worked
on immediately, many of the details would
unfold as restructuring happens, which
Haeger said could take up to four or five
years.
Before hundreds of curious students, fac
ulty and staff in Ardrey Auditorium
Monday, Haeger said he thinks the plan is
necessary to achieve academic excellence
and financial stability.
If approved, Haeger said he expects
changes to begin as early as July 3.
The idea to overhaul the university’s aca­demic
structure was first conceived
November 2003 after a 1,032 student
enrollment decline and unfunded state
mandates resulted in a $4 million budget
shortfall.
See HAEGERr page 2
Students’
pocketbooks
going to gas
LUCAS HOLUB
T he Lu m b e r ja c k
As gas prices rise nationally, so has
the premium American voters are plac­ing
on Democratic national candidate
John Kerry and incumbent President
George W. Bush.
But insofar as finger pointing has
produced no answers to what the U.S.
Department of Energy reports are the
highest gas prices in 20 years, NAU stu­dents
continue to foot the bill.
Adrian ne Ward, senior public rela­tions
and advertising major, commutes
600 miles per week from P h o e n ix to
Flagstaff and back, just to get to class.
“My financial aid went straight to
paying gas prices,” Ward"said.
Ward said her major is only offered at
NAD, and after considering a lucrative
job in Phoenix and the higher cost of
living in Flagstaff, Ward chose the 150
mile one-way commute.
While Ward’s Nissan Sentra is more
fuel efficient than the increasingly pop­ular
gas guzzlers, she still doles out
about $3,20 a month for gasoline and
$25 for an oil change during the same
period.
*lf it gets to be $2 a gallon, no one's
going to see me up here again,” Ward
saidW
ard’s commuting headache will
end in May when she graduates, but
NAU political science professor
Stephen Wright, said the elevated cost
of gasoline may be around for quite
some time.
Wright said speculation in the U.S.
future markets, where pricing is linked
to confidence, has a major influence on
the cost of oil.
Fear of a terrorist attack on an
American oil refinery, refinery capacity
itself and a steadily increasing rise in
demand have all contributed to a lack of
investor confidence in the U.S. market,
Wright said.
See BUSH, paqe 3
Napolitano approves
2 a.m. last call bill
TERRA COLE
The L um berjack
NAU student bar hoppers can hop for one more hour
starting mid August. .
Gov. Janet Napolitano signed a bill Tuesday that will push
last call time back one hour. Restaurants, bars and otheT
businesses can serve alcohol until 2 p.m.
House Bill 2570 was passed April 6 by the Arizona
Legislature and sat on the Governor’s desk for five days
before she signed it Tuesday. It also pushes closing time to
2:30 a.m. from 1:15 a.m.
Of the 50 largest US. cities, only fo u r- including Phoenix,
Mesa and Tucson - have a last call time of 1 a.m. Currently,
j7 states sell alcohol after 1 am .
Napolitano asked agencies - including the Department of
Public Safety, the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety and
the Departm ent of Liquor Licenses and Control - to monitor
the effects of the new law.
See ARIZONA, pa*e 2
Campus group calls end to Coke
SONIA BOWERS
The L umberjack
Violence, oppression and dirty politics are all reasons some
NAU students want Coca-Cola removed from the Mountain
Campus.
The NAU chapter of the Colombia Action Network, a group
dedicated to educating students about alleged crimes against
humanity in Colombian Coca-Cola bottling plants, intends to
persuade Associated Students of NAU and administration offi
cials to take Coke off the shelves.
Latin American studies instructor Jeronimo Vasque2 formed
the NAU chapter.
Vasquez said US. tax dollars are directly funding the ongoing
civil war in Colombia because the US. government is giving
the Colombian government money for paramilitary opera
tions, which in turn allowed big corporations like Coke treat
their third-world workers poorly.
Coca-Cola has publicly stated that allegations against its
Colombian bottling plant are completely false and all Coca-
Cola employees in more than 200 countries are treated with
fairness, dignity and respect Coca-Cola said their bottling
plants operate in accordance with all laws and contribute to the
communities they serve.
Vasquez said he is hoping that NAU students will not be
Jessica RosefThe Lumberjack
GRADUATE LATIN AMERICAN studies instructor
Jeronimo Vasquez is leading the NAU Coca-Cola Protest.
fooled by Coca-Cola’s rhetoric and do research on their own.
The NAU chapter said it hopes to collect j.ooo student signa­tures
by May to present something “tangible and concrete" to
ASNAU and the administration for their backing.
Set COKE, *
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Just another sunny day...
Erika Shultz/The Lumberjack
MEGAN DAUGHERTY, SOPHOMORE business major, kills time between classes Tuesday behind
the University Union. Students could be found laying in the grass and listening to live music on the
sunny, but blustery afternoon. -
NAU soldier
comes back to
the good life
TERRA COLE
T he L u m b er ja c k
Kara Boone strolled up the steps to
her Campus Heights apartment last
week and saw a light in the window for
the first time in more than a year. With
that light waited her husband. Joshua
Boone, who returned April 2 after serv
ing over a year in Iraq with the Arizona
National Guard 2220th Transportation
Company.
The Boones have been apart for
about half of their two^and a-half year
marriage, including )oshua Boone's
five months in boot camp and his 13
m o n th s in Iraq.
“In a way it’s strengthened our rela­tionship,”
Kara Boone said. She has
filed each letter written during their
marriage in binders and organized
them according to date.
“When you write you have to learn
to express yourself better and clearer,"
she said.
While Kara said they have an open
and honest relationship, they know
there are certain times of the day to not
bother their partner.
‘ He pops up at 6:30 every morning,
and there’s no way I’m getting up at
that time,” Kara Boone said.
. Army life has trained Joshua Boone’s
mental alarm clock to go off a little ear­lier
than his wife would" like. Of course,
while Joshua settles down for the
night, Kara Boone’s energy hits the ceil­ing.
Along with sleeping patterns, their
daily schedules do not match either.
“I go to school in the morning, some
times until eight at night," Kara Boone
said. “It’s hard because I know he’s
home now, and 1 want to see him.”
While Kara Boone sits through class,
her husband is making some alter­ations
in his life.
‘ My wife has her own schedule," he
said. “I'm trying to find my own place."
In the meantime, Joshua Boone tries
to keep from reaching boredom.
See SOLDIER, paqe 4
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