Education

The city of Phoenix is buying the property across the street from Taylor Place to expand the Downtown campus, the university planner said Monday.

Plans have been set in motion to build a $15 million animal research facility in downtown Phoenix’s medical campus that has drawn criticism from animal rights activists at ASU.

The ASASUD Senate voted down the proposed facilities fee 6 to 3 at its biweekly meeting Friday, which is the second time the Downtown campus student government has rejected a version of the fee this year.

A chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists was started on Arizona State University’s Downtown campus by a group of students hoping to give the Hispanic community a voice both at the University and in the local community.

After the quake in Haiti, volunteers all across the world banded together to support the aching nation. The Downtown campus intramural department is also taking initiative with a Haiti-relief basketball tournament Saturday.

An ASASUD senator for the Walter Cronkite School resigned from his post Monday, the third Senate resignation this semester.

University student governments presented a new facilities fee proposal at a town hall meeting on Friday that would charge students $75 per semester.

ASU President Michael Crow participated in an open forum telecast hosted on the Downtown campus Tuesday afternoon to answer questions from students on all four campuses.

The Downtown Tunnel of Oppression organization hosted an event Thursday to raise student awareness about various humanitarian issues within the global community.

At the sixth annual State of Downtown Tuesday evening, Mayor Phil Gordon said ASU continues to pump life into downtown Phoenix and lead its revitalization efforts.