In the late 1800s, in an effort to lure settlers to the sparsely populated American West, the federal government passed the General Mining Law of 1872, which made it easy for settlers to mine on federal public land. This debate mirrors other debates in communities across the country, pitting environmental protections against economic growth. Others say preserving the town’s natural resources would be better for the town’s future. Some of the town’s 900 residents say the return of mining is boosting Patagonia’s local businesses. South32 is one of at least two mining operations probing for minerals beneath the Patagonia mountains, the first companies to operate in the area since the 1950s. They are returning from an exploratory drilling site in the Coronado National Forest, where the Australia-based mining company South32 has been searching for evidence of zinc, lead, silver and other hardrock mineral deposits since 2018. Mining company trucks, identifiable by their waving orange flags, wind down Patagonia’s country roads. Hidden amid rolling hills and grassy golden valleys nearly 20 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border is the town of Patagonia, where small business is the only business and stoplights are nonexistent. In addition to the general education courses, ASU students in the new online program will be required to take a core class on media and society and choose from a wide range of program-specific electives, including International Mass Communication, Political Communication, Sports and Media and Visual Communication.By Katherine Sypher, Calah Schlabach, Franco LaTona and Haillie Parker This new program will provide students with access to the school’s internationally recognized faculty, including Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Doig, the school’s Knight Chair in Journalism. “It will enable students around the world to take advantage of the world-class education offered by the Cronkite School and ASU, giving a broad-based liberal arts education with a focus on mass communication and media studies.” “This innovative program provides a new option for students who want and need the flexibility offered by a fully online program,” says Cronkite Dean Christopher Callahan in a press release. online undergraduate degrees in mass communications, beginning with the fall 2013 semester. The highly-regarded Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University has announced one of the first U.S.
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