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General manager surprises staff, boss 1 vs rj iane Frisch no longer wants to be the general 1 manager of KMSB, "i J. 7 Hi. 1 i 1 Wt" ivv Ct'ty fe. t. Arizona Daily star Kaylee Starr crouched t' n.

6 A iW -t i 1 What I find in myself is a fatigue thatflees the night sol am wide-awake and blinking, and de- scends during the day, without warning, each nap a small lectable death. 1 nap at 'i all the wrong times, in staff meetings, on the phone with a social worker heart's rhythm all wrong. "Noontime" Essay by Lauren Slater in the collection "Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression" by Nell Casey ($13.95, Perennial). 1 9. 4 V-V- 1 1c Grief is depression in proportion to circum- stance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance.

It' can be described only in metaphor and Grief is a humble angel who leaves you with strong, clear thoughts and a sense of your own depth. Depres- siohisademonwho leaves you appalled. The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression" By Andrew Solomon Depression is debilitating, overwhelming, and common, but ultimately treatable Channel 11, and KTTU, Channel 18. She surprised her staff and apparently her bosses with that decision. Friday will be her last day at the helm of the two stations.

"Yes, if true I resigned," she said. Beyond that she isn't saying much at least not seriously. She also isn't ready to say what shell do next As is usually the case, neither side wants to talk about a personnel issue, especially to somebody who's going to put it in the newspaper. Skip Cass, Frisch's boss and general manager of KTVK-TV, Channel 3 in Phoenix, said he was caught off-guard. But "it was her decision," he added.

A logical assumption is that this could turn out to be one more step in parent company Belo aggressive downsizing of its Tucson TV stations. The sales manager's position has been vacant since June, and it would be possible for the two positions to combined into one. That's not the plan, Cass said. He expects to fill both positions. Still, there isn't that much "general" stuff at the stations to manage.

The building at 1855 N. Sixth Ave. boasts the logos of Fox 11 and UPN 18 on the outside, but there's not much inside. It's most a facade. Only about 30 people work there, and almost all of them are connected to selling commercials.

Oyer the last year, the other TV stuff has been farmed out So much of the technical equipment is gone, in fact, that the stations cannot routinely put local programming on the air without first sending it through KTVK in Phoenix. The local reporters for the Fox 11 news department are in Tucson, but they're a few blocks away in what they call the "Fox Hole" at "Eyewitness News 4," inside KVOA-TV. That's why you see Channel 4 and Channel 11 reporters as interchangeable on those stations' newscasts, even though KVOA is owned by another company. When the Fox 11 newscast goes on the air at 9 p.m., its anchors are sitting in a studio that's more than 100 miles away, in Phoenix That's where all of the technical switching for both stations takes place. When viewers see those long, pregnant pauses of black screen and no sound, it's usually courtesy of something that's gone awry in a master control room that's responsible for overseeing two Phoenix stations as well as KMSB and KTTU.

Programming decisions are also now made in Phoenix. Other chores for the Tucson stations are done even farther away. Accounting and scheduling of commercials are done at Belo's headquarters in Dallas. Frisch came to Tucson from Boise, Idaho, in 1998, a year after Belo Corp. bought KMSB as part of its larger acquisition of the Providence (Rhode Island) Journal Co.

In 2002, Belo officially took ownership of KTTU from Clear Channel Communications which had turned over the local operations to KMSB 10 years earlier. Phoenix's KTVK came into the Belo fold in 1999. Belo owns 19 television stations and four daily newspapers, and has other issues besides Tucson. It made media news in August when it disclosed that circulation figures for its flagship newspaper. The Dallas Morning News, had been inflated.

Newspaper advertising rates are tied to circulation, and Belo has been refunding $23 million to advertisers who paid SEE HATFIELD E6 By Jennifer Duffy August 19-year-old behind the dresser in her room at a sorority house on the University of Arizona campus so that she could cry and be alone. She tried to close her eyes and let sleep relieve her pain. The sadness came slowly and then suddenly. She felt overwhelmed, scared and powerless, but she didn't know why; Depression had consumed her world. Starr's not alone.

In spring 2003, about 13 percent of college students reported being diagnosed with depression, up from 10 percent in spring 2000, according to the American College Health Association's National College Health Assessment. About 19 million Americans suffer from depression. See Depression EG Impress upon children the importance of voting Parenting Marilyn Heins, MD. You should remind them over and over again that they will do it when they are grown up and they must do it every time they can, carefully and thoughtfully. The word? VOTE! Parents complain to me how hard it is to raise kids today because of problems in our neighborhoods, schools and communities.

Parents are worried about national issues like the economy, health care, terrorism, war. Parents ask me over and over again, "What can we do?" A one-word answer VOTE. vote, and it was 1965 before blacks were guaranteed the right to vote in all states. The national turnout in the last presidential election was 51 percent of eligible voters. Only 42 percent of Arizonans voted for president in the year 2000.

Don't you dare tell me you're too busy! Don't make the excuse that your vote doesn't matter, what's one vote? Don't tell me that all politicians are the same: crooked or accountable to the special interest lobbyists, not the voters. I get cross when I read that voter turnout is low. I am dismayed about voter apathy when so many decisions vitally important to families must be made. I go ballistic when a parent tells me, "I don't bother voting," because it gives such a negative message to their children. And I am saddened to the point of tears when a woman or a member of a minority group doesn't vote.

When my 96-year-old mother was born, women could not vote. It was 1920 before women won the right to Parents have a duty to vote! Just as you have the responsibility of feeding your kids, immunizing them and sending them to school, you have the responsibility of being a good citizen and modeling good citizenship. There are three steps to voting: 1) You must register and the deadline Is Monday! (Call the Pima County Recorder's Office at 740-4330 or go to: www.recorder.pima.gov online. SEE VOTING. E6 Shave an important and timely message for afl parents.

There is one four-letter word that parents should use repeatedly in front of the children. The kids should see you do it from the time they are toddlers. You should talk about doing it in front of the children..