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Vitamin T, a new Mexican restaurant located at CityScape, is one of the few downtown Phoenix businesses using social media to market itself and reach ASU students and will be launching a social media campaign this week.

People were evacuated from the Nursing and Health Innovation I building after smoke was found on the third floor around 8 p.m. on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Phoenix Fire Department said.

Two new members have been appointed to ASASUD, while student organizations received limited funding amid discussions about fiscal concerns in a special ASASUD Senate session on Friday.

The Walter Cronkite School has recently begun increasing its efforts to expand its reach internationally by bringing in foreign journalists, creating trips to other countries and forming relationships with journalism schools around the globe.

ASASUD’s Election Committee has not yet formally met to revise the election code this year, despite promises made last year.

Immigration issues are coming to the forefront at the ASU Downtown campus with a conference featuring local immigration experts and the formation of a student organization focused on activism for the Dream Act.

With the possibility of Taylor Place reaching full capacity next year, ASU has begun discussions of building a second dormitory on the Downtown campus for upperclassmen and graduate students, a University housing official said.

ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus has grown to 13,567 students this year, according to enrollment numbers released Thursday by ASU.

Several student news programs have come together to launch Cronkite News, a multimedia news website for Walter Cronkite School students and other Arizona residents.

This time last year, a gay and lesbian student journalist organization did not exist at ASU. But on Wednesday, the Walter Cronkite School’s chapter of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalist Association will travel to San Francisco for a five-day convention.