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Students look beyond ASU Bookstores
- State Press (new window)
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2010-01-21 |
| Prices for new textbooks have increased at twice the rate of inflation since 1986, according to a federal report, leading many students to fight back by buying books from alternative companies. | |
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Some professors using alternatives to expensive textbooks
- State Press (new window)
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2010-01-21 |
| ASU instructors are using alternative resources in the face of rising textbook prices to help their students’ pocketbooks. | |
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Selecting safe toys is serious business
- The Arizona Republic (new window)
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2009-12-07 |
| Parents should be alert to these dangers as they shop for holiday gifts, a public-interest group said Tuesday. | |
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Panel argues ‘Substance and Sustainability’
- Arizona Daily Wildcat (new window)
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2009-11-20 |
| Arizona PIRG and the Environmental Law Society discussed sustainable issues and solutions at their “Substance and Sustainability” panel at the James E. Rogers College of Law last night. | |
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Students 'heart public transit'
- The State Press (new window)
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2009-02-15 |
| ASU students joined with a nonprofit organization in a mass bike ride to show support for cleaner modes of public transportation at the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus Thursday afternoon. | |
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Student group spreads love for public transit
- Arizona Daily Wildcat (new window)
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2009-02-13 |
| Armed with petition clipboards and pink and red doily hearts on Popsicle sticks with phrases like, "I heart the bus," about 20 students participated in a rally on University Boulevard to promote public transportation awareness. | |
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Student-Led Voter Registration Blitz Has Begun
- The University of Arizona - UA News (new window)
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2008-09-16 |
| With the presidential campaign less than two months away, University of Arizona students are working in overdrive to register eligible student voters and educate the campus population about the candidates and the issues that will be on the ballot. | |
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Bill Would Help Make Textbooks Affordable
- Arizona Daily Start (new window)
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2008-02-11 |
| Congress and several state legislatures are advancing measures designed to halt the rapid price increase of college textbooks by requiring publishers to disclose the books' cost to professors and outline any substantive changes in new editions. | |
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Textbook Resolution Passed
- Arizona Daily Wildcat (new window)
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2008-02-05 |
| The Faculty Senate voted to support legislation aimed at lowering the cost of textbooks in their meeting yesterday. The Arizona Students' Association and the Associated Students of the University of Arizona have fought to lower the cost of textbooks since last semester. | |
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4,000 turn out for rally
- Arizona Daily Wildcat (new window)
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2008-02-04 |
| Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton came out in a strategic campaign push before tomorrow's Arizona Democratic primary in front of more than 4,000 spectators in Bear Down Gym on Saturday night. | |
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UA Preps for Primary Elections
- Arizona Daily Wildcat (new window)
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2008-01-23 |
| The Arizona Students' Association, the Associated Students of the University of Arizona and Arizona Student Public Interest Research Group will kick off their week long effort today to encourage students to vote in the Arizona primary and national presidential elections. | |
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UA Students Join Effort to Urge Safe Credit Usage
- Arizona Daily Wildcat (new window)
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2007-10-11 |
| Students and national petitioners joined forces yesterday on the UA Mall to try to encourage others to eliminate unfair credit card marketing on college campuses. | |
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Wise Credit Card Use By Students Urged at UA
- Tuscon Citizen (new window)
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2007-10-11 |
| Volunteers with Arizona PIRG fanned out across the UA Mall from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., distributing financial fitness information and collecting petition signatures asking UA to establish specific "principles" regarding credit card marketing on campus. | |
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A 7-Foot-Tall Man-Eating Credit Card?
- Arizona Daily Star (new window)
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2007-10-10 |
| Look for a 7-foot-tall man-eating credit card out on the UA mall today. The vicious plastic monster is part of a new campaign by the Students for Arizona Public Interest Research Group to educate students about the debt trap posed by credit cards. | |
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Students Rally Against Global Warming, Al Gore To Speak
- KPHO CBS 5 News (new window)
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2007-04-02 |
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Al Gore at ASU
- Fox News Phoenix (new window)
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2007-04-02 |
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Gore's ASU appearance to benefit student-led effort
- AZCentral.com (new window)
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2007-04-02 |
| Although Al Gore may be getting the spotlight at Arizona State University today, his appearance is also drawing attention to a student-led environmental movement on campus. | |
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Speaker of the House addresses students in Tempe
- JackCentral (new window)
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2007-03-01 |
| Nancy Pelosi, the first female speaker of the House of Representatives, spoke Feb. 19 at ASU, addressing college students on the issue of making higher education more affordable. | |
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Pelosi touts college costs
- The Wildcat (new window)
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2007-02-20 |
| Over storms of applause and standing ovations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and three other U.S. representatives from Arizona laid out plans to improve college affordability yesterday. | |
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Group helps raise awareness about student issues
- ASU Web Devil (new window)
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2007-01-30 |
| ASU West's campus club, Arizona Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), has been holding events to broaden the student community's knowledge on problems within the community. | |
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On Election Day, one final push
- The State Press (new window)
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2006-11-07 |
| The smell of poster paint and the chatter of a dozen phone calls filled the third floor of the Memorial Union Monday night, just 10 hours before the election polls would open. In the final hours before the election, the ASU Votes Coalition was pushing to meet its goal of 4,000 student contacts by the time polls close. | |
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UA Offers Voters Info, Poll Shuttle for Election Day
- Arizona Daily Wildcat (new window)
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2006-11-07 |
| College-age voters are expected to reach record numbers during today's mid-term election, according to a national poll released by Harvard University's Institute of Politics. Thirty-two percent of the 18- to 24-year-old group said they would definitely be voting in today's election. | |
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UA's early polling site boasts Pima County's highest voter turnout
- Arizona Daily Wildcat (new window)
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2006-11-06 |
| With 362 voters, the UA's early voting polling station was the most used site in Pima County this election season by the time it closed Friday. The location had 362 of Pima County's 3,803 pre-election-day ballots as of noon Friday, according to the Pima County Recorder's Office. | |
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Students Urge Classmates to Vote
- The Arizona Republic (new window)
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2006-10-24 |
| Each of ASU's students associations, including those at the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University, have been working with the Arizona Public Interest Research Group to beef up voter registration among their peers. Each of ASU's students associations, including those at the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University, have been working with the Arizona Public Interest Research Group to beef up voter registration among their peers. | |
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UA Voter Sign-up Kicks Into High Gear
- Tuscon Citizen (new window)
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2006-10-05 |
| In the 2002 midterm, Arizona's 11 percent turnout among people 18 to 24 years old was the nation's lowest. However, the state legislative races critical to students this year are pushing student leaders to get more young adults to register. They say rising tuition and textbook costs, school funding and work force pay are among the hot issues young voters should care about. | |
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ASU Student Groups Work to Register Young Adults to Vote
- The Arizona Republic (new window)
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2006-10-04 |
| Student Groups launch an effort to register thousands of students in Tempe and at the college's other campuses as the Nov. 7 election nears. The Arizona Student Vote Coalition is a project of the Arizona Students' Association and the Arizona Public Interest Research Group, along with student government organizations from each of the state's public colleges. Their aim is to increase voter registration among young adults. | |
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State House Candidates "Get Out the Vote"
- ASU Web Devil (new window)
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2006-09-07 |
| Several local candidates running for the state House of Representatives visited ASU Wednesday to stress the importance of student voting at a meeting organized by ASU Votes. | |
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