Arizona Daily Wildcat

The University of Arizona announced that this year’s spring commencement speaker would be former Google CEO and Chairman Eric Schmidt.

He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University and with a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences. He will be earning an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the UA College of Science during commencement.

Since the announcement of Schmidt as the commencement speaker, posts began to be shared connecting Schmidt with s*x trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. A post made by Students for Socialism at UA posted an infographic titled “Eric Schmidt is an abuser,” stating that Schmidt is an Epstein affiliate.

However, according to the Epstein files themselves, released by the Department of Justice, it is unclear what level of connection there is between Schmidt and Epstein. While the two had exchanged emails and Schmidt was invited to many cocktail parties and dinners, it is unclear how many he attended.

➡️ Read more at the link in our bio.

📝: Emma LaPointe, Editor-in-Chief
📸: University of Arizona’s Student’s for Socialism

Read more at the Daily Wildcat website. ⬇️

University of Arizona names former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as spring commencement speaker The University of Arizona announced that former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will be this year’s spring commencement speaker. He leads innovation in AI, and his foundation, Schmidt Sciences, has partnered with UA to create the first fully privately funded telescope using adaptive optics. However, stude...

As students move away from midterms and towards finals, the University of Arizona Police Department’s reports from mid-March to early April showed a slight decrease in public ma********on but a sharp uptick in attacks on Subaru Foresters.

📝: Griffin Salkowski
📸: Courtesy UAPD

Read the full edition of the Police Beat at the Daily Wildcat website. ⬇️

Police Beat 19: Tough luck for Subarus As students move towards the end of the semester, the University of Arizona Police Department faces terror on the Sun Link Tucson Modern Streetcar, another wily wa**er and much more.

Amidst an atmosphere of shifting immigration policies, the safety of U.S. born Latinx citizens is in peril, Isabel Vidrio writes in her latest opinion piece.

“We must demand a shift in how we speak about and legislate our neighbors. Move away from the dehumanizing language of immigrants and towards speaking up against those who defy us. We need our identities to be celebrated rather than vilified,” Vidrio writes. “It is time for this country to decide: will we continue to govern through the shadow of fear? Or will we finally honor the promise of the American dream? My safety, and the safety of others like me, depends on that choice.”

📝: Isabel Vidrio
📸: Josie Shivers

Read the full piece at the Daily Wildcat website. ⬇️

OPINION: Immigration Policy Affects Citizens Too In an atmosphere of dehumanizing rhetoric and shifting policies, opinions writer Isabel Vidrio emphasizes the crisis of safety for U.S. born Latinx citizens.