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VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 59
Cyberbullying: enough is enough BY MEGAN COGHLAN The Daily Wildcat
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he Internet is a nasty place. For one weekend, I was the least popular person on Twitter, according to Washington State University fans. Not Miley Cyrus, not Barack Obama or Taylor
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Swift, but me. On Friday, Yahoo Sports published a blog post I’d written for The Loyalty Report, a trash-talk pregame series that runs on the blog The Post Game. By Saturday, my Twitter, email, Facebook and Instagram exploded with comments from Washington State fans. I was called a slut, whore, cunt, bitch and many derogatory female-based terms. I had a hash tag: #MeganCoghlanSucks. I have no strong feelings against
Washington State. There is no reason for me to despise the school and its fans. But if you want some smack-talk, sure, I can deliver. I wrote my post based on examples of previous posts in The Loyalty Report series, which were provided to me and were quite similar to my final product. The Yahoo editor published the post and told me he loved it. Then people from Washington State formed a mob. I expected negative responses,
sure. When you talk trash, you expect to get trash back. But the overflow of sexism and cruelty that flooded my inbox and social media accounts was far out of proportion for a trash-talk column before a football game. As if they’d never heard their sports team take a hit before, people were getting worked up enough to track me down all over the Internet or find my phone number just to call me a cunt. Because they didn’t like a
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The Daily Wildcat The Arizona Board of Regents will ask the state Legislature to authorize a $1 billion bond package for the state’s three public universities. The funding from the “Competitiveness Package on Higher Education” would be split three ways with $450 million going to the UA, $400 million to ASU, and $150 million to NAU. If approved, the bond money will be used to upgrade the research infrastructure at each institution. “What we’re trying to do is let the world know that we’re serious about research and development in Arizona, particularly at the university level,” said Mark Killian, vice chairman for the board of regents. Research infrastructure development includes the construction of new facilities and the renovation of existing buildings, said Jennifer Barton, interim vice president for research at the UA. The work would begin in 2016 and continue for three to four years, she added. With tentative designs already in the works, several new UA buildings would be built with the funding. These include an “engineering innovation” building as well as an interdisciplinary chemistry building, Barton said, adding that bioscience labs would also be constructed on both the UA campus and the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. “The underlying goal here is economic development,” Barton said, noting that once the new facilities are in place, the research performed there will likely bring millions of dollars in federal grants to the state. Rep. Ethan Orr, District 9 state representative and vice-chairman of the Higher Education and Workforce
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PATRICIA HOHL, a UA graduate student in Latin American Studies, protests sexual assault as she walks down University Boulevard. Hohl was one of 50 community members who participated in SlutWalk Tucson on Saturday (read full story online at dailywildcat.com).
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Labs. Sakezles, who has been president for nine years, got into the business of synthetic cadavers because of an experience he had working on a medical project developing a device related to the trachea in grad school. He said the group he was working with didn’t have the money to pay BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY for an animal study, so they got a The Daily Wildcat small trachea model to test their Some UA medical students device. The model, however, will be the first in the country was “a complete piece of crap” to have a synthetic cadaver lab and was unusable, he added. “Because of that [experience], where they can practice medical I set about doing something procedures on life-like patients. The UA College of Medicine — better and used my knowledge to accomplish Phoenix and that,” Sakezles SynDaver Our goal said. Labs recently M e d i c a l with this announced a students face partnership partnership c h a l l e n g es to create a is to train the similar to what new synthetic best physicians Sakezles had to cadaver lab. in the country. contend with Medical when trying to students will — Teresa Wu, get experience simulation curriculum be able to use with medical director the synthetic procedures cadavers on the human in clinical training and surgical simulation body, said Dr. Teresa Wu, the in place of live animals and simulation curriculum director human patients, according to and a UA associate professor in Al Bravo, associate director of emergency medicine. “Prior to this, medical students Public Affairs at the College of across the country typically had Medicine — Phoenix. The cadavers have bones, to learn to do procedures for muscles, arteries, organs and the first time either on animal can breathe said Christopher parts or trainers that were Sakezles, president of SynDaver
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DEMONSTRATORS GATHERED IN FRONT of the Tucson State building, 400 W. Congress St., to protest Arizona’s Senate bill 1070 on April, 25, 2012. The UA is hosting a day-long symposium for the community to address human rights issues and laws such as SB 1070.
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The Daily Wildcat On Tuesday, the UA will be hosting the first Tlakatl : What it Means to be Human Symposium. The day-long symposium aims to discuss the question, “What does it mean to be human?” and seeks student and community insight in light of recent human
rights issues specific to Arizona, such as Arizona Senate bill 1070 and House bill 2281. “Arizona is very unique in the country. There are lots of human rights issues that exist in general throughout the country, but they seem to be most pronounced in Arizona,” said Roberto Rodriguez , an assistant professor
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