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Phi Beta Sigma fratinformational

Phi Beta Sigma will hold a meet-ing today in the Presidio Room on the fourth floor of the Student Union Memorial Center at 6 p.m.

The meeting is open to anyone in-terested in knowing about the histo-ry, types of events, social activities and community service of the fraternity.

President Kyle Harris said it’s an op-portunity to meet some of the broth-ers as well as some graduate chapters.

For more info, contact harrisk@email.arizona.edu or (623)521-8067.

Recycle Mania boasts big can, jazz band

If you feel like doing something good for the environment today, stop by Recycle Mania’s kickoff from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the UA Mall.

Entertainment will include a jazz band and a giant aluminum can made out of — what else? — alumi-num cans.

Top recycling dorms are contend-ing for $1,000 and other prizes when the 10-week competition ends April 9.

This year the UA will be trying to beat rival ASU, which last year slightly edged its way to victory.

Former Arizona governor, UA law grad dies

Former Gov. Samuel Pearson Goddard Jr., who was Arizona’s 12th governor from 1965 to 1967, died Wednesday at 86.

Goddard, the father of Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, graduated from the James E. Rogers College of Law in the 1950s. Before coming to Tucson, he got a degree in history at Harvard University and served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

Goddard is survived by his sec-ond wife, Myra Ann, two other sons and three grandchildren.

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a supreme teacher

Jacob Konst/Arizona Daily WildcatFormer U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor lectures UA law students yesterday as part of a 10-day course on the highest court in the country. More than one-third of the students in the James E. Rogers College of Law registered for the class, in which O’Connor gives a rare insider’s view of the decision-making process involved in Supreme Court cases.

O’Connor provides insight into court

Former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has taken up a new profession since retiring Tuesday from the U.S. Supreme Court: teaching UA students about the practices and procedures of the highest court in the land.

Students lined up outside the James E. Rogers College of Law yesterday afternoon to grab the closest seats to the honorable justice, who will be co-teaching half of the curriculum for the 10-day course law 695H: The Su-preme Court.

Though she has taught a few

one-hour classes at different in-stitutions nationwide, O’Connor said this is the first time she will be teaching four to five classes for one particular course.

“I am very excited,” O’Connor said.

In addition to giving students an insider’s look at how the Su-preme Court operates, the course also emphasizes the roles of the clerks, foreign law and how the court deals with changing ad-ministration, said Nancy Stanley, associate director for external af-fairs in the College of Law.

Instructing with O’Connor is her former colleague and dis-tinguished visiting faculty fellow RonNell Andersen Jones, who

worked as O’Connor’s law clerk from 2003 to 2004, Stanley said.

Though the class is limited to second- and third-year law stu-dents, 178 students are enrolled, which is more than one-third of the college’s student body of 450, said Toni Massaro, dean of the College of Law.

“Every chair is full,” Massaro said. “Imagine at 8:15 this morn-ing you’re studying cases and then at noon you get to meet one of the justices. This is as good as it gets for a law student.”

It’s also one of the more ex-citing classes offered at the UA thus far, said Mary Beth Canty, a third-year law student.

Students poked by admins on Facebook

In this day and age it’s easier for students to stay in touch with friends, but new and improved resources like www.Facebook.com can sometimes make life more complicated.

In a forum organized by the Dean of Stu-dents Office, students debated the benefits, risks and complications of using Web sites such as Facebook and www.MySpace.com.

“We want students to tell us what they’re using it for,” said Broussard, program co-ordinator for judicial affairs. “It would be faulty of us to continue to ignore it.”

Brandi Lea Milloy, a senior majoring in English, said she thought Facebook was similar to a dating Web site, but she later viewed it as a communication tool.

Milloy said if she misses a class she can ask a friend to “facebook” her the notes.

But it isn’t always a reliable way to get notes, said Thu Huynh, a molecular and cellular biology junior.

Huynh said she never received a reply af-ter asking someone from her class for notes over Facebook.

Aasim Saied, a psychology junior, said stu-dents shouldn’t rely on the information people put on their profiles because many students never update the information they post.

Broussard asked students how they de-cided to “filter” the information they display about themselves on their profile pages.

Chandra Jennings, a pre-health senior, said she didn’t feel comfortable putting her phone number on her profile like some of her friends.

Other students at the discussion agreed that putting personal information on their profiles, like phone numbers and home ad-

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Video games aren’t just for play-ing anymore.

The newest exhibit at the UA Library Special Collections show-cases video games through history and the communities that gaming creates, said Ken McAllister, co-di-rector of the Learning Games Ini-tiative and an associate professor of English.

The exhibit, “Documenting Digi-tal Play,” which is also featured in the UA Science-Engineering Library, is not only historical, but is also an attempt by special collections and LGI to show visitors that gaming is not an isolated experience and that

many communities are created by games, McAllister said.

LGI started in Tucson in 1999 and aims to study, build and teach with video games to better understand their cultural implications and how they can be used for learning, said Judd Ruggill, a UA media arts in-structor and co-director of LGI.

Games always teach multiple concepts in multiple ways — in-cluding resource management, spatial organization and conflict management — or at the very least, the skills needed to play a particular game, Ruggill said.

“People like to play (video games), and when people like to do something, the learning is transpar-ent,” he said. “Games are useful for teachers and students of all ages,

because when people enjoy learn-ing, it becomes more effective.”

There are many different types of communities created by video games, and an academic setting is the perfect place for all of them to come together … where the re-sources exist to investigate all the different aspects of games, McAl-lister said.

“In many cases, there is a sense that video games are a ‘trendy’ thing to study,” he said. “But many insti-tutions aren’t investing in gaming as an academic endeavor. They’re hung up on the idea that play is not worth studying. If it’s not serious, it’s not worth studying.”

The environment for video games

Library displays history of video games exhibit

Jake Lacey/Arizona Daily Wildcat‘Documenting Digital Play,’ a visual timeline of video games from their birth to the modern day, is on display in the UA Library Special Collections building. Visitors can add additional historic events to the timeline using Post-It notes provided at the display.

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