We saw Sarah Goertz, a sophomore majoring in family studies and human development and Russian, walking over by Dunkin’ Donuts on East University Boulevard.

Wildcat: OK, you’re on the spot. Actually, can I get your name?

Goertz: Sarah Goertz.

W: I recognize your last name. What’s your major?

G: Family studies and human development and Russian.

W: What’s your year?

G: Sophomore.

W: And where are you from?

G: Tucson.

W: Wait, where from Tucson?

G: Eastside.

W: Oh, have you seen the news today?

G: No.

W: There was a building that burned down on the Eastside.

G: Oh no.

W: I’m trying to remember. I think some people died. It was a corporation. There are a lot of buildings on the Eastside. Do you know, are there major corporations…

G: Um. Can’t think of them off the top of my head.

W: You don’t live there, do you?

G: No.

W: Do your parents?

G: Yeah.

W: I hope they’re OK. I mean, it wasn’t a lot of people that died. It should probably be in the paper. Well, you’ll see it later on the news. Anyway, do you think healthcare is a major issue in the presidential campaign?

G: Yes.

W: Why?

G: Because it involves so many citizens and people in a wide spectrum.

W: What candidate do you think addresses healthcare the best way?

G: I really am not focused that much on politics so far, so I would not know.

W: What do you think about disaster relief? Because that’s not really just a political issue, it’s a social issue too. If buildings burn down, or tornadoes or hurricanes or something like that…

G: I definitely think it’s an issue that we need to help support.

W: When things like that happen, how do you think the city government should respond?

G: In a way to provide aid immediately for relief.

W: What do you think about hospital visits for immigrants? Burn victims, or people that are here illegally? Say they get burned in a fire or something.

G: I’m not sure. I see both sides, because I work in a hospital. And I see how much debt it brings the hospitals into…

W: You work in a hospital?

G: Tucson Medical Center.

W: Is that over on the Eastside?

G: No, it’s on Craycroft and Grant. That area. A lot of illegal immigrants come there, so they’re in a lot of debt. But I also see the need to help people regardless.

W: OK, I hope everything’s OK. And by the way, that was an April Fools’ Day joke.

G: Are you serious? Oh my goodness.

– interview by Andi Berlin