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When it comes to expansion of gun rights, Arizona’s legislators are shooting blanks.

A number of gun bills cleared the legislature in the past two years but repeatedly met Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto, leading many at the state capitol, even some conservatives, to believe that the gun lobby has milked Arizona dry.

This year, legislators tried to push guns into college campuses and gut local government authority from regulating the use or restriction of firearms. The measures either died in the legislature or were vetoed.

Some hunting measures passed, such as a bill allowing hunters to use high capacity magazines to kill wildlife. Also, hunters can now bring Uzis on hunting trips, as long as they don’t use them on animals.

But the most wide-reaching (and failed) piece of legislation, H.B. 2729, would have nullified any ordinance from local governments imposing stricter regulations on guns than state law, and prohibit further restrictions unless gun lockers were present at every entrance to a public building.

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University of Arizona Junior Nick Small sits in his Marketing 361 class at Eller College of Management’s McClelland Hall listening to his professor lecture about marketing concepts for the upcoming exam.

Small, like many other university students in Arizona, is used to this traditional classroom experience: face-to-face instruction from a professor lecture, the raising of hands to ask questions and occasional in-class group work with peers.

“I guess I’m just old school, in the sense that I think there’s something to be gained by having a class full of people who come there for a reason,” said Jim McLean a marketing professor at UA. “They interact with one another and interact with me, I can read a frown of ‘I don’t understand’ or of disagreement that might be a source for discussion.”

Small and his classmates are also a part of a student population that is more involved with online education and Internet classes to either fulfill general education degree requirements or entirely complete a degree.

 

Telemedicine Changing Rural Healthcare in Arizona Patients in rural Arizona are facing the challenge of limited healthcare options and lack of specialists in the rural areas. However, Jill Bullock of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, said that telemedicine and critical access hospitals are two examples of how urban healthcare providers are…