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It is expected that the Walter Cronkite School's nightly newscast Cronkite NewsWatch will have fewer sports reporters and less sports air time in the fall, depending on students' ability to go to the new sports bureau in Santa Monica, Calif.

Alexis Kramer's goals include improving the OrgSync system, getting students involved in the Super Bowl and adding charging stations on campus. Frank Smith III's goals include creating a USG scholarship, further addressing the textbook pledge and adding a parking lot shuttle and traffic regulator to improve safety.

Walter Cronkite School Sen. Alexis Kramer said she is running for president of the Downtown campus because Undergraduate Student Government Downtown has lacked leadership this year and the organization is failing students.

Current Undergraduate Student Government Downtown President Frank Smith III, a public service and public policy student with a concentration in business, will be running for his current position with a new ticket in the coming election.

For almost half of his 23-year term in the House of Representatives, Rep. Ed Pastor's office was located right in the heart of ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus. During his time there, he impacted the lives of students as well as community members.

The ASU-sponsored science festival entertained and impressed First Friday attendees with innovative approaches to technology.

Gary Soto attended the performance of his play “In & Out of Shadows,” about the challenges faced by teenagers who entered or were brought the United States illegally.

A senior at the Metropolitan Arts Institute in downtown Phoenix, Shelly Ortiz was one of 16 filmmakers officially recognized at the White House’s first Student Film Festival on Feb. 28. Ortiz's submission was titled "Technology, Documentary, My Dad, and Me."

His journey as a bone marrow donor began in October 2010 at London’s Run in Queen Creek, Ariz. The health solutions senior filled out a sheet and gave a cheek swab, which put him in the Be the Match donor registry, he said. Three years later, he found out he was a match.

Three of the Humphrey Fellows spoke Wednesday night about how media in their home countries and around the world portrays the stereotypes of their nations at the Cronkite Global Conversations lecture series.