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A collaboration between the Star and the University of Arizona has brought nine "apprentices" to the paper. The students began in January and spend at least five hours a week at the Star, earning one independent study credit.

Team leader L. Anne Newell took pointers from partnerships between Phoenix media and Arizona State University and the Wisconsin State Journal and the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked with the UA to incorporate a classroom component. The program will morph into a two- or three-credit class next fall. Newell's UA partners include assistant professor Susan M. Knight and internship coordinator Lisa Button.

Said Newell: The program "gives us more diversity in the newsroom, makes us aware of more stories that we may not have found on our own."

College students aren't new to the newsroom. This semester, Valarie Potell, a NASA Space Grant intern, and Nathan Olivarez-Giles are reporters in Tucson & Region. Alex Grubb is learning to be an online producer in StarNet.

What's the chance of getting a full-time job? Newell was a reporter intern in 1998-99. I interned on the copy desk about two decades earlier.

Snow day was a hot one

Wednesday's Tucson temperature trends chart on the Weather page had no relation to reality and gave at least a few readers a chuckle. E-mailed Melinda Sims: "The best part: It showed us as having hit 100 degrees on the day we got snow here in Tucson! I'm sorry, but I think that was one of the funniest errors I've ever seen in the paper!''

Ah, Jan. 21: a day frozen in all our memories.