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INSIDE
Opinion: Moving on from
campus incident, p 8
Sports: Volleyball, p 18
A&E: Mickey Avalon, p 23
Issue 4, VOL 99 Sept. 22 - Sept. 28, 2011
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wow, toughCollege is
Lizzie Wilkinson, a freshman biomedical sci-ence
major, sits at the desk in her residence
facing off with a pile of homework. (Photo illus-tration
by Holly Mandarich)
With tuition as-sistance
lowered
and university
budgets slashed, easing the
transition from high school to
college for freshman students
is something NAU considers
a huge priority this year.
To that end, the university
has several mechanisms in place
to assist freshmen, including
Welcome Week — where orga-nizations
across campus reach
out to all incoming students —
and freshman targeted tutoring
programs within the Student
Learning Centers (SLC).
Nicole Buth, a sophomore
speech and language pathology
major and one of the residential
advisors (RA) of Wilson Hall,
said RA’s assist with the shift
between high school and col-lege
life by helping freshmen get
used to campus.
BY William Brown
see TRANSITION page 3
NAU president John Haeger
hosted a forum on Sept. 16
for members of the NAU
community to discuss an incident
that occurred between the NAU
Conservatives club and university
officials two Fridays ago in the Uni-versity
Union. Community members
had their say, the members of the club
argued their side and university offi-cials
confirmed no charges would be
pressed against those involved in the
incident.
Rick Brandel, NAU dean of stu-dents,
said the issue clearly revolved
about what rights university students
have in where they hold events.
“In this case, it sort of became
the issue of free speech, my right for
that, versus does the university have
the right to say OK here’s where we
would like you to facilitate that free
speech,” Brandel said. “And that’s
what came up in conflict.”
In response to a com-ment
from the audience about
NAU holds forum to discuss incident in Union
BY Alexis Paiz
BY William Brown
see BIKE SALE page 6
Bike sale to benefit yellow bike program
NAU will host an
Abandoned Bicycle
Sale at the Capital
Assets building on south cam-pus.
The sale will take place 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday and will
showcase around 200 bicycles.
Many of them will be priced
between $15 and $20, and the
proceeds will go to fund the
Yellow Bike rental program.
Rick Brandel, the Dean
of Students, said the sale will
take place on south campus
at Capital Assets, which is lo-cated
near the Skydome.
“We try to sell as many as
we can,” Brandel said. “Num-ber
one [is] to minimize stor-age
space, but secondly, to
sell as many bikes, because
part of all of this is about sus-tainability
efforts. The more
with ASNAU President
Blaise Caudill Q&A
see FORUM page 7
NAU freshmen face the transition
from high school to college with the
help of university programs
see page 4