April 17, 2019 / Modified apr 18, 2019 2:18 p.m.

Finding Common Ground with "One Small Step"

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Free speech debate on campus; "I Dream in Widescreen Returns"; and thoughts on kindness from the Mission Garden.

Student Protest, ABOR Silent protest by University of Arizona students and supporters at an April 11, 2019 Arizona Board of Regents meeting. They want U.S. Border Patrol banned from campus following events in March that resulted in charges against student protesters.
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Featured on the April 18th, 2019 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

  • Last week, University of Arizona president Robert C. Robbins came under fire from student activists over the presence of armed border patrol agents on campus. Nancy Montoya reports on the UA administration's decision to open a dialogue and discuss the issue.
UA student with Sign VIEW LARGER University of Arizona student holds protest sign at Arizona Board of Regents meeting. (April 11, 2019)
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I Dream 2019.2 A scene from Sam Weisband's "Pick Me Up."
Sam Weisband

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  • And, Mark visits the Mission Garden Project in Tucson to find out what some of the dedicated staff have to say about acts of kindness both large and small that they have witnessed in our community.

Mission Garden volunteers Volunteers work at the nonprofit-run Mission Garden with downtown Tucson's skyline in the background, November 2018.
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