December 5 - Last Day of Classes
December 6 - Reading Day
December 8-14 - Final Exams
December 15 - Commencement, Residence Halls Close
January 13 - Residence Halls Open
January 16 - First Day of Classes
January 21 - No Classes - MLK Holiday
January 22 - Last Day to Add Classes |
Women’s Resource Center Offers R.A.D. Self-Defense Classes
 By Carly Thomsen, Director of ASUA’s Women’s Resource Center
Oppression of women continues to exist throughout our world, and through recent events on our campus, we are reminded that sexual assault remains a major problem for young women. On April 12th, 2007 a woman was sexually assaulted by a stranger in the Manzanita-Mohave Residence Hall on the UA campus. This incident immediately led to a frightened and angry buzz among women students, who many of whom no longer felt safe walking around campus. While the trauma of this type of assault should not be dismissed, stranger rapes are statistically rare, as most victims of sexual assault know their perpetrators. This means that while stranger-rapes elicit broad media coverage, most rapes go unreported—the perpetrators unpunished and the victims un-served. According to Mary Koss, a University of Arizona Regent Scholar and internationally renowned expert on sexual assault, 1 in every 4 college- aged women are raped. Although this study was conducted two decades ago, the numbers have sadly remained constant in almost all subsequent studies.
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Many students from Colonia La Paz learn more than just study skills; they also receive words of wisdom from their Faculty Fellow, Dr. Roberto Mejias. Dr. Mejias’ philosophy is to empower students to be well equipped to learn and graduate. 
Like many college students, it took Chase Parker a couple years to discover his passion. The UA senior from Mesquite High School in Gilbert, Arizona started out as a Pre-Business major as a freshman and switched to Molecular and Cellular Biology before finally settling on Civil Engineering last year. 
