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New face, same goal The Arizona Board of Regents approved for the Banner Health merger with the University of Arizona Health Network to move forward

BY DAVID MCGLOTHLIN The Daily Wildcat

The Arizona Board of Regents voted unanimously in approval for the merger of the University of Arizona Health Network and its affiliates into Banner Health and its affiliates on Wednesday at the Old

Main Silver and Sage Room.

“I see this as an incredible change, not just for the [UA] and for Banner Health, one of the consistently top-five ranked health networks in the nation,” UA President Ann Weaver Hart said. “It’s a wonderful confluence of a world-class medical school, a second medical school and

a world-class health network that will shape the future of academic medicine for the 21st century.”

UAHN was established in 2011 with the goal of creating a statewide top-tier academic health center for Arizona.

However, it lacked the capital to renovate facilities, expand outpatient

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Riley Moore and the ‘Cats look to rebound

services and expand its market beyond Tucson, which is where Banner entered the picture.

Banner will spend or commit to spend $500 million on capital projects in Tucson to support the clinical enterprise during the fiveyear period beginning with the

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Startup Weekend, a worldwide competition for entrepreneurs, returns to Tucson this weekend for its first-ever faculty- and student-exclusive event at the UA. While the competition was in Tucson in September 2014, it wasn’t exclusive to the university.

Startup Weekend will take place over three days in the Science-Engineering Library starting Friday at 5 p.m. The event is described by the InnovateUA website as a place “where students and professionals from the community representing all disciplines come together for an incredible 54-hour competition.”

The website also describes the event as a combination of a hackathon and business competition.

InnovateUA, the host of the event, is “fostering a studentled culture of innovation and entrepreneurship,” according to the InnovateUA website.

“You don’t have to go in with an idea,” said Nick Morin, director of InnovateUA. “If you just want to go to meet people or join a team, that’s definitely an option.

Having an idea can sometimes be daunting. We’re not asking anyone to come in with a full-on business plan and proposal. The mentors, judges and speakers coming are all entrepreneurs

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CHINESE KUNG FU teacher Junming Zhao practices his technique for the Chinese New Year Festival, held by the Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona, on Wednesday. Zhao has been teaching at the UA for three years and will be an instructor at the festival on Saturday.

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QUOTE TO NOTE “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”

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Event SHAC works to fund teaches Spring Break Safety Fair dietary pattern

BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat

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The benefits of the Mediterranean diet will be the primary topic of discussion at the 2015 Research Frontiers in Nutritional Sciences Conference hosted by the department of nutritional sciences in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences from Wednesday to Friday.

Melanie Hingle, assistant professor for the department of nutritional sciences, said that even though it is called a diet, the Mediterranean diet is actually a dietary pattern.

“It’s not a strict diet in the sense if you’re thinking calories and servings,” Hingle said. “This

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At the ASUA Senate meeting on Wednesday, the Student Health Advocacy Committee asked the senate to reallocate lost funds for its eighth annual Spring Break Safety Fair.

The event, which will be held March 4 on the UA Mall between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., is a collaboration between SHAC and the University of Arizona Police Department.

Stephanie Kha, director of SHAC, gave a presentation to the senate about the Safety Fair SHAC has been planning since July.

“The purpose of the event is to provide all … UA students with a very resourceful and valuable fair,” Kha said. “It’s going to have information on travel resources and personal safety practices that they can utilize during their spring break.”

Most students travel to Mexico, given Arizona’s location, so SHAC has invited travel agencies from Mexico, specifically the Department

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ASSOCIATED STUDENTS of the University of Arizona Sen. Elena Gold suggests giving the requested $1,000 in funding to Student Health Advisory Committee in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday. SHAC requested the funds for its eighth annual Spring Break Safety Fair, in collaboration with the University of Arizona Police Department.

of Tourism and the Green Angels, Kha said.

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themselves. They will provide an immense amount of support and advice.”

Founder of NoteBowl and InnovateUA Andrew Chaifetz, who made a startup in college, will be speaking at the event.

Chaifetz said he will explain how he went through all the steps while still dealing with the difficulties of college, as well as share some tips and lessons that he has learned along the way.

“I wish that there was something like this when I was a freshman,” Chaifetz said.

“When I was in my dorm room working on my startup, I didn’t really have that support level or community.”

Stephen Ost, founder and CEO of UFree — an app designed to make choosing a time to get together with people easier, based on their schedules and live availability — will be a mentor at Startup Weekend.

“I know what the students and the startups need to succeed in this startup weekend,” Ost said. “I’m there to offer my expertise.”

On Friday night, students will pitch their ideas, and the top-20 pitches will be chosen.

These students will then have others join their teams and collaborate together with them. On Saturday, coaches and mentors will help teams as they develop their ideas.

On Sunday, teams will present their final product; the judging and awards will take place at 1 p.m. Further information can be found at www.innovateua.org, including how to register.

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UA students participate in Startup Weekend in September 2014. Startup Weekend comes back to Tucson for a three-day UA-exclusive event starting Friday in the ScienceEngineering Library.

Students are encouraged to register for the event ahead of time, but they are allowed to show up and register at the start of the event.

“It’s really fun and it’s for any student

in any department, as long as you’re interested in expanding yourself by making new friends and learning new things,” Morin said. “It will take you less than five minutes to sign up. It’s going to change

your life, so take the opportunity now.”

— Chastity Laskey @dailywildcat

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is more an overall pattern of eating. There is research suggesting that independently and in combination, the components of the diet have significant health benefits and diseaseprevention properties.”

Hingle said there is research that shows the Mediterranean diet, if eaten consistently, can prevent things like heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease. She said there is no single element or aspect of the diet that works, but that she thinks it is the combinations of foods characteristic of the Mediterranean diet. These include olive oil, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, beans and nuts, seafood and moderate red wine consumption.

Donato Romagnolo, a professor in the department of nutritional sciences, said the full conference is open to anyone who wants register and composed of two events: opening night on Wednesday and the scientific conference today and Friday.

“Wednesday night, we have an opening event at the Tucson Museum of Art, and there we are going to feature five chefs from Arizona, including the chef at the [UA], a chef representing the Spanish cuisine, another one representing the Greek cuisine, one representing French and another one representing the Italian,” Romagnolo said.

The scientific conference today and Friday will be broken down into four main focus topics: Mediterranean pyramid and regional trends; obesity, diabetes and healthy aging; cancer prevention and control; and translating science to the plate, according to the program agenda.

“A big question that we ask is, what can we learn from the Mediterranean diet?”

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Chef Lisa Dahl, from Dahl & Di Luca Ristorante Italiano in Sedona, Ariz., serves community members Mediterranean food during the opening night of “A Food, Wine, and Healthy Living Event,” at the Tucson Museum of Art on Wednesday. The 2015 Research Frontiers in Nutritional Sciences Conference, hosted by the department of nutritional sciences, focuses on educating people about the benefits of the Mediterranean diet.

Romagnolo said.

Romagnolo said there will be a panel at the conference to answer this question, including speakers from Greece, France and Spain, as well as from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the National Cancer Institute, Duke University, the University of Maryland, California Polytechnic University and the UA. “I’m happy to say that the conference is also supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture,” Romagnolo said. “We made a proposal, it was reviewed by a scientific panel and we are very happy that this conference was selected for funding.”

Michael Omo, senior executive chef in the production kitchen of the Student Union Memorial Center, said he became involved with the conference partially because it is part of his job, but also because he finds the Mediterranean diet interesting.

Omo said that, in addition to showcasing some Mediterranean items at the opening reception and overseeing breakfast and lunch at the conference on Friday, he will be doing a cooking demo with locally grown food.

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COMMUNITY CHATTER “What are you looking forward to the most this Super Bowl Sunday?”

“The teams, commercials and Marshawn Lynch.

I want to see what he’s going to do. He’s one of my favorite players.”

— Jordan McKie, computer science junior

“A game that is actually worth watching, unlike last year. I just hope for a good game; that’s all.”

— Matt Marabeti, criminal justice freshman

“I would love to have Tom Brady win. He hasn’t won in a while, and it would make Gisele Bündchen, his wife, very happy.”

— Abe Slilaty, business entrepreneur visiting from New York

“To see the Seahawks lose.

I’m a 49ers fan, so I really want to see them lose.”

— Natalie Koenig, communications sophomore

“I look forward to smoking my ribs and having a competition with my brother with his ribs.”

— Filbert Barrera, University of Arizona Police Department public information officer

400 student volunteers and participants. “… Being prepared is the most important part about traveling. Safety is our biggest issue at large for spring break.

We want to make sure we can provide prevention education training awareness and resources at this fair to all UA students.”

Every year, the Safety Fair costs about $3,000, $1,000 of which is usually donated by the Parents and Families Association. Due to budget constraints this year, PFA is unable to sponsor the event, which is why SHAC is requesting $1,000 to help cover the cost of operations.

The outlined budget proportions included in Kha’s presentation showed that the most expensive items — using up over half of the budget at $1,600 — were T-shirts for the event participants and volunteers.

Associated Students of the University of Arizona Sen. Brooke Serack asked if SHAC has tried reaching out to other organizations on campus and asking for funding.

“We are working with UAPD and they’re trying to access some of their funds,” said Sona Shahbazian, SHAC member and head of the safety programming committee.

“Unfortunately, it’s a little harder for them to reach any of the money they’re working at.”

While SHAC has also been trying to contact other organizations like the Residence Hall Association, Shahbazian said SHAC was “really blindsided the PFA decided to not fund any other events on campus without informing any of the people they formally have been funding.

That’s where we’re kind of at a loss here in SHAC.” “We see this event as impacting students the most. … Given that the audience is students, we wanted to ask the senate, which is a student representation organization,” Kha said.

ASUA Sen. Elena Gold voiced her approval for funding the fair.

“I think we should fund this,” Gold said. “It seems like they’ve put a lot of work into it, and it’d be really sad to see it not go through because they couldn’t give them the funding that they worked so hard for. Especially because it’s under unfortunate circumstances that they’re asking for it in the first place.”

— Chastity Laskey @dailywildcat

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UA honors Chinese New Year

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The sixth annual Chinese New Year Festival will be held by the Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona this Saturday at Centennial Hall to honor the year of the sheep.

“There will be a range of performances to give the people of Southern Arizona a broader understanding of Chinese culture, dance and vocal performances and martial arts,” said John Olsen, codirector of the CIUA. The show will include over 200 artists and performers from all over the world.

“I am excited to perform,” said martial arts and Taiji instructor Junming Zhao. “It’s going to be great.“ The festival is designed not only to entertain, but also to teach the crowd about Chinese culture.

“Our mission is to create stronger bridges between the [U.S.] and China,” Olsen said. “Providing a cultural experience for Americans is an important component of that.”

According to Olsen, last year’s event drew a crowd of a little over 1,500 audience members, including many UA students and people from the community.

The festival is continuing to grow and has sold 2,000 tickets so far, according to artistic director Larry Lang.

“Everything is volunteered, some for fun, but many for cultural sharing, sharing with the community their cultural background,” said Lang, who organizes the performances for the event each year.

Education plays a large role in the festival

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Shaolin Warriors from Tucson’s Sino Martial Arts Group perform during 2014 Arizona Chinese New Year Festival on Jan. 25, 2014 at Centennial Hall in Tucson.

as well.

“A lot of the performers are students not only from the UA, but also from K-12

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“Arizona needs to be and should be the very best place to get a college education,” said Mark Killian, Arizona Board of Regents chairman. “More importantly, we should have the best medical school in America, and I believe this agreement makes that a reality.”

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Lang and Olsen acknowledged the event wouldn’t be possible without time and energy from everyone involved to prepare for it.

“Preparation is an ongoing process,” Olsen said. “Very soon after Saturday’s event, we will get together and start talking about next year, so in some ways, it’s always going on in the background.”

This year, there are some additions to the festival that Lang predicts will be extra special.

One is the opening performance.

The UA’s Purple Bamboo Ensemble will open the show with a song performed on traditional Chinese instruments.

The Origination of Life performance is a unique mix of ballet and martial arts. It is special in Chinese culture because it reflects one of its most important stories.

“The whole universe, it comes from two, Ying and Yang, the male and female — that’s where the life comes from,” Lang said. “The highest mountain is Everest and the water from the mountain comes down the Yellow River, and that’s where life comes from. And we use that story to make a dance combined with martial arts.”

Many of the performances hold great meaning in the Chinese culture.

“Everything is new to most American audiences,” Lang said. “There will be a big cultural combination through the performances.”

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Fund K-12 before free community college

BY ASHLEIGH HOROWITZ The Daily Wildcat

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bama’s proposal of offering free community college sounds like the government is not only spoon-feeding the nation, but also picking favorites.

According to USA Today, in order to qualify for these benefits, a student must be enrolled at least part-time, maintain a 2.5 GPA and be working towards earning an associate’s degree within three years. Within these parameters, public junior college education would be fully funded.

There’s nothing wrong with helping American teens and adults receive the education they deserve, but the previous education budget cuts make free community college an idea for the wrong time.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, public college tuition rose 40 percent from 2001-2002 to 2011-2012. But even for the young undergrads who make it to that big-time university, they are often left to rely heavily on themselves as they lose financial support from their parents.

As of 2013, only 27 percent of parents help their kids pay for college compared to 37 percent back in 2010, according to CNBC U.S. This has caused students to turn to government and outside aid to help pay for their educations.

From 2006 to 2012, the percentage of students relying on financial aid for college increased approximately 10 percentage points. In addition, “[t]he percentage of students receiving aid at 4-year public institutions increased from 75 to 83 percent,” and “[t]he percentage of students receiving aid at 2-year private nonprofit institutions increased from 83 to 94 percent,” according to the NCES. Students are also being pulled away from their studies in order to work in an attempt to pay off this debt. According to the U.S. Census, 72 percent of college students worked full- or part-time for at least one semester in 2011. In Arizona, 20 to 25 percent of college undergrads worked full-time year-round.

On top of all this hair-pulling stress, graduates are greeted by a world that can’t accommodate them: Unemployment for recent college graduates is the highest it’s been in over twenty years, according to The Huffington Post and the NCES. In 2010, just over 10 percent of college grads with bachelor’s degrees or higher were unemployed.

Many of the community collegebound graduates who would be helped by this initiative are not prepared to manage college, and there are still many who are left behind, unable to graduate high school in the first place.

The budget cuts to K-12 education in the heart of the recession in 2008 caused 14 states to cut expenses at least 10 percent per student, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Since July 2008, 324,000 school jobs have been lost.

Every child deserves a proper education. Helping young adults who struggle with tuition and middleaged parents who want a better life is a fantastic idea, but we should be ensuring the education of future generations first. If we don’t take care of K-12 students first, our country will have free community college — but still have as many dropouts and uneducated workers as before.

The American education system needs to help the younger generation in addition to promoting higher education as well. This is a balance that needs to be devised, but just offering free community college isn’t going to cut it.

— Ashleigh Horowitz is a freshman studying creative writing and SISTA. Follow her @elhixsagh

Cloud-seeding not harmless

BY KAITLIN LIBBY

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Like the programs and groups the students of the UA unwittingly fund with their student fees, the people of Arizona pay for a project they scarcely know about: Every person in Arizona who pays a water bill through the Central Arizona Project — Pima, Maricopa and Pinal counties — contributes to cloud-seeding experiments.

Discovered in 1946 by Bernard Vonnegut, brother to Kurt Vonnegut, silver oxide was found to possess properties which, when encouraged to interact with water vapor stored in clouds, increased the efficiency of precipitation. Such a solution to an environmental problem is easy — as The Arizona Republic reported in December, a study done in Wyoming used propanefueled tanks to burn silver iodide and a flammable liquid before shooting the vapor into a passing snowstorm.

Increased snowfall was measured, and thus the six-year study was declared a success.

However, the repercussions of such an act are less obvious than the result.

The Central Arizona Project has spent nearly $1 million on the study, a figure which includes the year 2015. Why does Arizona fund this project, if the studies are done elsewhere? Likely, all states drawing from the Colorado River are invested in the outcome of this study. Data collected since 2007 has revealed that the increased rain or snowfall could be anywhere from 5 to 15 percent.

According to The Arizona Republic, though, “… the study’s authors also said they threw out some data in order to achieve those results. Had that data been

included, the experiment would have shown that seeding had no statistical impact on the snowfall, the study said.” The rest of the article celebrates the potential benefits of cloud-seeding, with this snippet seemingly unnoticed.

In an interview with Scientific American discussing the cloud-seeding operation China orchestrated in 2009, atmospheric research scientist Arlen Huggins had some thoughts on the process.

While the benefit of efficiently producing clouds could give China more water, it could not bring it out of a drought, Huggins said.

However, timely use of cloud-seeding could yield extra water when saved in reservoirs for drier months.

It is easy to see why the Southwest would be interested in such a project.

In the eye of the storm, you see trees uprooted with the homes of those who planted them. You see your life lift away, if you are lucky enough to be only the spectator of destruction. You know there is more than the walls of dust and dirt around you, because you have to — you have only been in danger for minutes, an hour at most. As everything must, you know this will pass.

The same cannot be said for the dangers that exist around us every day, the ones in our control, not because we set them in motion, but because every day we perpetuate the circumstances that led to their arrival. It’s easy; the danger did not start with us, the actions which allow it to continue have been ours since birth. It

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Similarly, under the Clean Water Act, silver iodide — the chemical used in cloud-seeding — is classified as a toxic pollutant.

It’s also highly insoluble, meaning that it won’t simply dilute and disappear in the time between cloud-seeding operations. But because of the small amounts used in cloud-seeding and our lack of foresight, we continue to release it into the environment and hope it doesn’t become a problem.

Those who do bother to study this build-up, such as the Colorado National Park Service, have found that cloud-seeding with silver iodide leads to much higher instances of silver toxicity in the surrounding environment.

In the ’80s, faced with the problem of rising measurements of silver toxicity in its own studies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended halting or reducing cloud-seeding operations.

It’s a step most children are taught, and it’s easy enough to understand — when you hit a ball, or kick one, you follow through with your swing. When the Wyoming study ended with the soil silver iodide touches, claiming it already exists in the environment and the amount added is small enough not to be considered impactful, it’s as though they stuck their leg out to kick the rubber ball and walked to first base.

Hopefully, the outfield has their eyes open, and one of them will pick it up in time to knock that kid out of the game. Otherwise he might reach home base again, and cloud-seeding will become a regular practice in Arizona.

time machine, anyone who has ever stored one knows they get thinner and fall apart. Scientist[s] have found that the oceans don’t have as much plastic as predicted.

In fact, even though the use of plastic has gone up, the ocean has less [than] what they originally thought it had. Microbes have been discovered to be eating the plastic and may someday be used to reduce the plastic in landfill[s].

The reusable bag has [its] own set of problems. Most people don’t wash them and forget them. The cotton ones have to be reused 131 times before it equals the footprint of one plastic bag.

They will also become litter or go to landfill[s] because they can’t be recycled.

The plastic bag is sanitary,

reusable and recyclable. Stop this banning insanity.

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Cloudseeding could yield extra water when saved in reservoirs

Your Views In response to “Protesters egging it on at Whole Foods,”

by David Joseph Del Grande (Jan. 26)

began with the actions of our recent ancestors, before the dawn of industrial revolution.

It continued with our grandparents, and others like them who invented quick fixes to the symptoms of a threat they had yet to realize — themselves. These quick solutions to environmental problems have often been cheap and immediately beneficial to humans. But this vision is shortsighted.

In the early ’60s, Rachel Carson published her book “Silent Spring,” a book publicizing the dangers of pesticides and their use on the crops we eat. The pesticide she focused on was DDT, and it is her insight and well-worded argument which helped create the public movement toward banning this harmful product. She focused on many aspects of this harmful chemical: the soil it leached into, the waterways which met with this soil, the birds and fish who ingested the pesticide and perished from it and the people who died from direct contact.

When talking about the dangerous amounts of pesticides in the environment, such numbers seemed negligibly small. They were measured by the parts per million, a seeming infinitesimally small amount.

500 parts per million is less than half a percent. Yet birds died and fish and waterways were poisoned. Once DDT entered the environment, it never left.

It is not until the question is asked — where does it go? — that we have any real answers to the dangers of yet another unnatural step by mankind to tame his

In response to “Use the bag, spoil the climate,” by Maddy Bynes (Jan. 26) Lol, this doesn’t reduce plastic.

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On Sunday night, two UA students were arrested for underage drinking after a physical altercation between them.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was patrolling near Sixth Street and Highland Avenue when he heard a group of people yelling in the breezeway under Villa del Puente Residence Hall.

The officer saw two students grabbing each other by their clothes and attempting to punch each other and separated them.

The first student said the fight broke out when the other student started to “chirp” at him and called him a track star, making the student upset. The second student then punched him in the face twice near his eye and then again near his ear.

The officer noticed no visible physical injuries but did notice that the student’s clothes were disheveled and stretched out from the other student grabbing him.

The student did not want medical attention and said he was fine. The officer noticed he had bloodshot, watery eyes and an odor of intoxicants emitting from his breath. The student said he had been drinking earlier.

The second student said it had been a stupid argument and that he let his anger get the best of him.

He said the fight began verbally and led to punching. The officer noticed his clothes had also been stretched and looked disheveled.

The officer noticed that the second student also had a strong odor of alcohol coming from his breath, as well as bloodshot, watery eyes. He told the officer he, too, was drinking earlier.

While neither student wished to pursue criminal charges, both students were arrested for minor in possession of alcohol in body and diverted to the Dean of Students Office.

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Around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, a UAPD officer was dispatched to Manzanita-Mohave Residence Hall in response to reports of an odor of marijuana.

Upon arrival, the officer met with the reporting party, who escorted the officer to the fifth floor.

When the officer entered the hallway, he could smell a faint odor of marijuana and found the room it was coming from.

The officer knocked on the door and a student answered.

Another student who was sitting on a bed said it was his room, along with a third student in the room.

The officer asked if he could enter, and the resident agreed.

The officer noticed a strong odor of marijuana and a glass bong with water and marijuana residue sitting on the desk.

The officer asked whose bong it was, and one student said it was her boyfriend’s.

All three students admitted to smoking marijuana.

The officer read all three students their Miranda rights and asked if he could search the room, to which the resident agreed.

The officer found another glass bong, a silver metal grinder with marijuana residue in it and a glass container labeled “Bleu Cheese” with 1.6 grams of marijuana in it.

The resident had already been diverted to the Dean of Students Office and was arrested for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. The other students were diverted to the Dean of Students Office.

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USS Arizona bells from being melted down at naval yard in bremerton, Washington. he helped the UA acquire the bell in 1946 and in 2002, at age 99, rang it inside the new Student Union clock tower.

1951: When the original UA Student Union opened. The renovated union

By Mike Chesnick In his travels to different schools, Jason Tolliver has seen some impressive student centers. But none can match the unique design, he says, of the University of Arizona’s Student Union Memorial Center.

Through its architecture and artifacts, the union’s building honors the USS Arizona and the 1,177 sailors and marines who died when the battleship sank on Dec. 7, 1941, during the Japanese surprise attack of Pearl Harbor.

“We model our program and our focus after the USS Arizona,” says Tolliver, director of Arizona Student Unions, who came to UA nearly two years ago from LSU. “Our military ties make the union a very unique place.

In terms of history, there are only two bells left from the USS Arizona, one in Pearl Harbor and one here.”

Looking north from the UA Mall, the union’s clock tower houses the famous bell, and a large metal sculpture in front of the tower resembles a mast and sail.

The bell is rung seven times on the third Wednesday of every month at 12:07 p.m. to honor the fallen and UA achievements. By tradition, it is also rung by the Wildcat Events Board president on the Sunday before Pearl Harbor Day, on the Student Union’s birthday (Nov. 18) and after Wildcat athletic victories (over any team except Arizona schools).

The structure of the union represents the battleship, with the bow on the south end and stern on the north end. “The Canyon,” an outdoor walkway between the east and west sides of the building, includes a massive circular stairway intended to mimic the shape of the USS Arizona’s main

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Paying tribute to the battleship’s fallen, UA’s Student Union bustles with eateries, lounges and activities gun turret. In this rotunda, water runs to fountain pools, intended to subtly remind people of the waters covering the ship, and anchor chains and rusting steel plates add to the abstract design of the ship’s hull.

“My favorite place is down in the rotunda,” Tolliver says. “I fancy myself a singer, without being a singer, and I love the acoustics. You can go down there and start bellowing out songs.”

The east wall of “The Canyon” is curved to replicate a silhouette of the ship — and the colors and rocks that make up the wall represent the layers of Arizona’s canyons. North of the canyon, in a traffic circle, stands an 18-foot ship’s mast sculpture by Susan Gamble. Hanging from the diamond-shape Gods’ Eye are 1,177 dog tags with the names of the fallen men. Tags of the 334 survivors hang above the tiled portion of the mast.

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Southeast of the rotunda, on the union’s main level 2, is the USS Arizona Lounge, filled with photographs, uniforms and other artifacts from the ship. Heavy brass doors from the Union's original facility built in 1951 serve as the entryways to the lounge, where students can study and visitors can put on headsets and view several video interviews with men who survived the attack.

One man on the video, Donald Stratton, is among nine Pearl Harbor survivors still alive today. Now 92, he tells how a fireball engulfed the crew, “burning us real bad,” before he and five other sailors were thrown a rope and muscled their way, hand over hand, about 100 feet over fiery waters to safety.

The lounge was dedicated in early 2003, part of the grand opening of the “new” Student Union. Some exhibits are from the old Union, which UA tore down in a $60 million reconstruction project that began in 1999.

At the dedication, attended by Navy veterans, Capt. William Christman of the U.S. Navy ROTC spoke of the “long and deep relationship” between “a great ship and a great university,” and how the American people should never forget Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona.

“Frankly, it’s a story we don’t tell enough,” echoes Tolliver.

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left: visitors can view photos, uniforms and other memorabilia connected to the battleship in the USS Arizona Lounge.

opened in early 2003.

4 a.m.: The time executive pastry chef Manja blackwood arrives to start making pastries and desserts, some of the 26,000 meals prepared at the union every day. “I love my job,” she says.

$34 million: The yearly operating budget for Arizona Student Unions.

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CAMPUS EVENTS U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit Visit Ares Auditorium Rm. 164, 9:30. As part of its ongoing public education effort, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hold oral arguments during its annual visit to Arizona Law. Seating is available first to those who have registered. Others are welcome to observe on a first-come, firstserved basis, as space is available.

MacArthur Fellows Speaker Series – Nicholas Strausfeld Chavez 111, 6:30pm. The University of Arizona’s MacArthur Fellows exemplify all three. From neuroscience and astronomy to linguistics, ethnobotany and anthropology, these scholars are changing the world for the better. This speaker series explores and celebrates the innovation and impact of our MacArthur Fellows’ work.

Speaker Information: Nicholas Strausfeld, Neuroscience and Entomology UApresents - Mezzo-Soprano Susan Graham Crowder, 7:30pm. Dubbed “America’s favorite mezzo” by Gramophone, Susan Graham has mastered an astonishing range of repertoire.

Her operatic roles span four centuries. She is recognized as one of the foremost exponents of French vocal music, and at the same time is distinctly American. Praised by critics for

CAMPUS EVENTS her sophistication, flawless diction, subtle dynamics, and exquisite top tones, she is equally admired for her impeccable comic timing.

TUCSON EVENTS American Indian Arts Exposition Gem Show 1300 N. Stone Ave. 10-5pm. American Indian artists and artisans selling original art, craftworks, and foods directly from the artists and vendors for the discriminating collector; music and dancers performing poolside on weekends at the Flamingo Quality Inn Hotel Ballroom. This is an official event of the Tucson Gem, Mineral and Fossil Showcase, the largest event of its kind in the world.

Raptor Free Flight Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, 10 and 2. Bring your cameras to see the Raptor Free Flight demonstration at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. This presentation puts you in the flight path as native birds-of-prey swoop and soar right above your head. The action takes place in the open desert to showcase the birds in their natural habitat.

77th Annual Tohono O’Odham Nation Rodeo and Fair Highway 86, Milepost 110, Sells, AZ.

TUCSON EVENTS Arizona’s longest-running American Indian rodeo has a powwow, carnival, parade, Waila dances, and food/crafts at Eugene Tashquinth Livestock Complex in Sells, 60 miles west of Tucson. Runs thru Sunday Feb. 1.

Wired II – A Fusion of Glass and Copper 711 S. 6th Ave, 10-5. Philabaum Glass Studio and Hunting Studio Glassworks reunite in a collaboration of glass sculpture using copper wire with hot glass, culminating in the 2nd “Wired” exhibition. Exhibit ends Jan. 31.

Tucson Desert Song Festival 1017 North Olive Road. Enjoy moderate winter temperatures, breathtaking sunsets, and endless outdoor activities. Tucson Desert Song Festival showcases top vocalists and conductors with Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Arizona Opera, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, Tucson Chamber Artists, Tucson Guitar Society, and UApresents.

Gallery Row ArtWalk, 3001 E. Skyline Drive, Thursdays, 5-7 p.m. Browse the eclectic collection of fine art and enjoy wine tastings at the Gallery Row galleries at Skyline and Campbell.

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Arizona men’s basketball defeated the Oregon Ducks 90-56 to win their 33rd consecutive home game in McKale Center

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

The mood is so light for Arizona men’s basketball, point guard T.J. McConnell opened the press conference after the Wildcats’ 90-56 win over Oregon on Wednesday night with a joke.

“I’m just here so I don’t get fined,” McConnell said, alluding to Seattle Seahawk Marshawn Lynch’s response to questions on Super Bowl media day.

The No. 6 Wildcats (19-2, 7-1 Pac-12 Conference) beat the Ducks to win their 33rd-straight home game and fifth game in a row.

Arizona head coach Sean Miller said the win was one of the Wildcats’ best games this season, along with the wins over Utah and Gonzaga. “[Wednesday night,] the margin of victory favored us, and we did some very good things,” Miller said. “I’m sure on Oregon’s side of the ledger, they didn’t play as well as they normally do.”

After playing neck and neck with the Ducks for their first three minutes of the game, the Wildcats pulled away in the first half and blew the game open in the second to win their 16th straight Pac-12 game at home.

“We’re just happy we’re winning,” McConnell said. “I think a lot of teams would want to switch places with us right now.”

Six Wildcats scored in double figures: reserve guard Gabe York (16), forward Brandon Ashley (13), forward Stanley Johnson (12), forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (11), center Kaleb Tarczewski (11) and McConnell (10).

“We can have one of those nights on any given night, where four or five guys are scoring in double figures,” McConnell said. “It shows how lethal we can really be, and I thought that was one of the best games we played all year.”

The 34-point loss is Oregon’s worst of its season. The second-worst loss was the UA’s 18-point win in Eugene, Ore. The Ducks averaged 77.8 points per game going into Wednesday. UO shot 40 percent from the field.

“I think the story tonight is really our defense,” Tarczewski said. “They’re the second-leading scoring team in the Pac12, and we held them to 56 points. That’s really the reason we won. Everyone was really locking on defense.”

Ten Wildcats scored, and Arizona made 35 field goals compared to Oregon’s 19.

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball forward Brandon Ashley (21) shoots during Arizona’s 90-56 win against Oregon at McKale Center on Wednesday. Ashley and the Wildcats defeated Oregon behind a dominant offense and defense.

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ast February, Riley Moore said he thought he would be playing his last season in an Arizona baseball uniform.

But after not joining former teammates Trent Gilbert and Tyler Parmenter in the 2014 MLB draft, the senior is back in the desert for one more year, and he’s back with a vengeance.

Joining in on UA head coach Andy Lopez’s fall goal of improving mental toughness, Moore has been developing more of a leadership role than he has before in his career with the program.

“After two down years of not being the leader that I should have been, not taking control of the team that I should have taken control of, I’m stepping up and being the voice of this program that I always should have [been],” Moore said.

The catcher is one of four Arizona seniors to have won the National Championship in 2012. He played a vital role in the team’s sweep of the postseason, batting .389 in the 10 games it took to claim the title.

Since then, his performance at the plate has tapered, and with it, so has Arizona baseball. In 2013, Moore batted .285 and Arizona finished 34-21. Last year, he went .247; the Wildcats were just 22-33.

This year, he wants it to be different.

Lopez said the program needed an “attitudinal change” after last year’s roller-coaster season, and he thinks they accomplished that in the fall, especially in the leadership department.

Leadership is important to have on a team with five junior college transfers and 11 freshmen. Moore joins juniors Tyger Talley, Cody Hamlin, Scott Kingery and Zach Gibbons in the list of leaders Lopez expects to bring Arizona back to being the successful program it used to be.

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“If we are going to be good, we need that [leadership],” Lopez said. “I don’t have any indication right now to tell me they won’t be those leaders.”

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t was important for the Arizona men’s basketball team to take the Oregon Ducks seriously. A Wednesday matchup before a Friday revenge matchup is a classic example of a trap game. Instead of laying an egg, the Wildcats destroyed the Ducks 90-56 behind a dominating defensive performance.

Six Wildcats scored in double figures, with reserve Gabe York leading the way with 16 points. However, point guard T.J. McConnell exemplified the team’s performance best with one play in the second half.

McConnell jarred the ball loose from an Oregon player, dove to secure the possession and threw a pass to a streaking Stanley Johnson for an and-one layup that got the McKale Center crowd up on its feet.

McConnell stood up, yelled with a fiery rage and started to walk toward the ZonaZoo. He put his chest behind another yell and the crowd erupted with a furor reminiscent of the Gonzaga and Utah games.

After the game, I asked McConnell what that play was like and, a la Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, his first response was, “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”

“I looked up and Stanley was streaking down the court,” McConnell said. “I threw it to him and he made a great play and got the crowd ignited. I went to a dark place to kind of quote Marshawn Lynch a lot, go into beast mode and just try to ignite the crowd a little bit.”

To put that play into perspective, it did not come at a pivotal juncture of the game. The

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Marker brings confidence to ‘Cats Arizona women’s tennis sophomore Lauren Marker has an overall record of 6-3 this season and has taken a leadership role for the Wildcats

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he Arizona women’s tennis team has been taken by storm by sophomore Lauren Marker, who is currently ranked 15th in the region. Marker grew up in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and, despite moving three times, still stayed in the same country club. She said she originally got into tennis when she was 4 years old and grew up in a tennis family, as her father and younger brother played the game as well.

“I used to go watch him at our club all the time playing with his friends, and then he kind of got me into it,” Marker said about her father. “He coached me all the way throughout high school until I graduated, so it was a cool bond.”

Marker said her parents have always supported her, with her dad missing work to put in the time and effort to help her and her brother with, among other things, tennis.

“My dad would always miss work just to take me to my tournaments and come home early from work to practice with me and feed me balls,” Marker said. “He just puts a lot of time and effort into my brother’s and [my] game.”

For Marker it was a big accomplishment to reach her goal of becoming ranked, a feat she says doesn’t change the way she plays her game.

“It did give me a confidence boost,” Marker said. “It let me know that I was right up there with the top players in the country. I knew that I could compete with anyone, so it gave me a confidence boost.

But I don’t think my game changed because of a ranking.”

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ARIZONA WOMEN’S tennis player Lauren Marker prepares to return a volley during her 6-1, 6-4 victory over New Mexico State’s Ashvarya Shrivastava on Saturday at LaNelle Robson Tennis Center. Marker, a sophomore, has taken up a leadership role on this year’s Arizona squad.

Even though Marker said she loves playing tennis, she also played soccer and tried track. Off the court, she said she has a passion for festivals and concerts. Marker is majoring in pre-business right now and hoping to be involved in management and entrepreneurship.

“I love and have a passion for festivals and concerts, so I would

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Miller said ball and player movement was a point of emphasis after the UA’s 7350 win at California.

“When we take care of the ball and move the ball, a lot of good things follow, because we have balance,” Miller said.

The Wildcats led for 36:12, and their bench outscored the Ducks’ reserves 33-13.

“Arizona is a top-10 team for a reason,” Oregon coach Dana Altman said. “They have three projected first-round picks and one in the second round; they’re a talented team. They’re very well coached, and they have a great atmosphere.”

Arizona outscored Oregon 44-18 in the paint.

“Everyone did a great job passing the ball into the post and really kind of took advantage of that tonight,” Tarczewski said.

On Friday, the streaking Wildcats face Oregon State, which handed Arizona its only Pac-12 loss of the season. Since then, the UA has routed Colorado, California and Oregon and beat Utah, which tied for first place in the Pac-12 going into this week, and third-place Stanford on the road.

Even when the press conference ended, McConnell kept the atmosphere fun when asked about the ZonaZoo’s costume night.

“The costumes, I think, creeped out a little bit of their players,” McConnell said, “and I think it was to our advantage.”

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love to do production and booking for that,” Marker said.

That love of music is one of the many traits Marker said was passed down from her father, who is involved in the music industry.

“My family is in the music business, so that was also another inspiration for me,” Marker said. “My dad produces concerts and stuff, so I

thought that was super cool. I grew up around live music all the time, and just having that around me and having a passion for that kind of just made me want to get into the industry.”

On the court, Marker didn’t play enough matches in the fall to be in the first ranking in January, so she said her hope is to be back in the

updated rankings.

Next up on the schedule, Marker and the Wildcats take on NAU on Saturday at 10 a.m.

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SUPERBOWL MEDIA WEEK

NFL players or circus clowns?

BY MATT WALL

The Daily Wildcat

Super Bowl XLIX media week is underway with a slew of comical fiascos and none more than Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch.

Throughout the NFL season, Lynch has dodged all questions from reporters’and continuously given vague answers to the media. The last two days have been no different, as Lynch resorted to opening up his press conferences with “you know why I’m here,” and, “I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”

Ironically, Lynch might still receive a new fine, the fines he has continuously dreaded throughout his career. Few professional athletes know the feeling of being fined more than $100,000, but Lynch sure does. According to Men’s Journal, Lynch has been fined more than $131,050.

Although the media and Lynch sure don’t get along, the rest of the Seahawks have Lynch’s back.

“The guy loves the game,” Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson told ESPN. “Sometimes people try to take away from people the way they are. I don’t think he should be fined, personally.”

Does he deserve that? Maybe. But Lynch is not the only player getting media attention before the Super Bowl. The game has yet to be played and still the media has found itself with plenty of stories to run.

Just ask New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and quarterback Tom Brady. “DeflateGate” was trending worldwide on Twitter and half the world thinks the Patriots cheated in the AFC Championship game by alledgedly deflating their footballs by about 2 PSI. In fact, according to a survey

by Public Policy Polling, 41 percent of Americans believe the Patriots cheated “by underinflating footballs.”

The Patriots are not new to cheating

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scandals or new to playing in the Super Bowl after doing so. During the 2007-2008 NFL season, the Patriots were disciplined for “Spygate,” a videotaping controversy where the Patriots filmed New York Jets’ defensive signals. Later that season, the Patriots would lose in Super Bowl XLII to the New York Giants in Glendale, Ariz.

Yup, you heard me. The last cheating scandal occurred right before the Super Bowl that was also in Arizona.

Eight seasons later, the Patriots have a chance to win in this Super Bowl against the “Legion of Boom” in Glendale. But the fiascos sure have added up.

Patriots tights end Rob Gronkowski read an excerpt in his media day session from a themed erotica book called “A Gronking to Remember,” a book about himself.

Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman danced salsa, while players’ facial hair gained attention as well.

Overall, Super Bowl XLIX has been one crazy pit of nationwide attention and media fiascos. Come on, NFL fans: Listen to Taylor Swift and just let the players play.

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Wildcats held a lead in the 20s and McConnell was still diving for the kind of hustle plays that made Wednesday’s win so special.

Plays like that point to why Arizona has picked up the pace since the Oregon State loss on Jan. 11. In many ways, that loss opened up the players’ eyes in a way that the UNLV loss did not.

The UNLV loss came at a point where it wasn’t as surprising to see the upstart Runnin’ Rebels take down the then-undefeated Wildcats. The debacle that was the trip to Corvallis, Ore., was much, much more surprising.

Arizona head coach Sean Miller said the team struggled to defend players one-on-one and couldn’t execute offensively. The Wildcats have put up games of 89 points, 73 points and 90 points in the last three games to take down three conference foes.

Offensive balance has taken ahold of Miller’s team in a way that the players say is fun to participate in. In essence, the Wildcats are playing the way most people figured they’d play before the season began.

“That kind of just shows that we can have those kind of nights on any given night,” McConnell said. “That four or five guys are scoring in double figures … shows how lethal we can really be.”

When the ball tips on Friday between Oregon State and Arizona, I have no doubts the Wildcats will move on from Wednesday’s win. In many ways, Oregon State could not be more different than Oregon. Where the Ducks

fellow outfielder Tyler Krause, as guys that make a difference on and off the field.

“They’ve been here and they know what its like,” Aguilar said. “They know what coach Lopez expects, and what coach Lopez wants, they have.”

The Wildcats have a daunting 2015 schedule, facing preseason-ranked teams No. 20 Mississippi State, No. 18 Stanford, No. 19 ASU and No. 10 UCLA on the road and hosting No. 22 Rice in a sport already known for its grueling, nonstop season.

That’s where the mental toughness comes in.

“Last Saturday, we had an eight-and-a-half hour practice, which is just a little taste of what it’s going to take to be a tough team,” Moore said. “But having a team that’s willing to grind out long days, to grind out close games, is going to be making us tougher.”

The Wildcats also head into 2015 unranked for the first time since 2009, but they are using the lack of credibility to fuel the fire and reshape Arizona into a top-tier program.

“I agree with Lopez here when he says, ‘whoever the geniuses are that write that we’re unranked, that we are a nobody, we now have an opportunity to either prove them right, or we have an opportunity to prove people wrong,’” Moore said. “It’s a great opportunity when you’re not on the radar to make a big wake.”

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard TJ McConnell (4) animatedly talks with teammates Gabe York and Brandon Ashley during Arizona’s 90-56 win against Oregon in McKale Center on Wednesday. McConnell and the Wildcats have stepped up their overall performance during the team’s five-game winning streak.

look to push the tempo, the Beavers look to slow the down the game and run their sets.

Add in their matchup zone, and that completely different look will surely force Miller and the Wildcats into a more deliberate offensive mindset. However, according to Miller, the Wildcats have to be ready for a matchup with a team that has already outplayed them.

“We have to certainly be ready for an outstanding team, … a team that beat us, and beat us because they played well the last time,” Miller said. “Friday night at eight o’clock, we’re up again.”

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SOCKS SAVE DIABETICS’ LIMBS Diabetic neuropathy often leads to limb amputation, but Smart Socks communicate with smart phones to help prevent this

BY CONNIE TRAN

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The Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance, a collaboration between researchers and clinicians, is developing technology to help diabetic patients and their doctors better monitor potentially dangerous issues before they manifest. Some of the products being developed are “Smart Socks” and an injectable sensor, both of which are designed to communicate with smart phones.

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by SALSA and its engineering component, the interdisciplinary Consortium on Advanced Motion Performance, for the prevention of foot ulcers or skin breakdown on the feet.

“Amongst those with diabetes, the most common reason that one will be admitted to [the] hospital is not for a heart attack or a stroke or high blood sugar, but for their foot,” said Dr. David G. Armstrong, director of SALSA and a professor of surgery at the UA. People with diabetes are prone to a symptom called neuropathy, which is nerve damage that results in a loss of feeling among patients.

Foot ulcers can be dangerous for those with diabetes because they might not be noticed early. If allowed to worsen, the only option left may be amputation of the foot due to infection or gangrene.

According to Armstrong, every 20 seconds, a limb is lost due to diabetes, but Smart Socks are designed to prevent this by alerting the patient

through an app on their smart phone before ulcers are allowed to develop.

“If someone’s about to get a wound, you’ll see that potentially damaging inflammation before it actually causes damage,” Armstrong said. “Like the poet Thomas Campbell said, it’s a coming event that actually casts its shadows before. You can look for asymmetry [in temperature] on one foot, one body part, compared to another part of the body.”

Smart products have been made possible through the work of engineers such as Bijan Najafi, an associate professor of surgery at the UA. Najafi specializes in developing devices to assist diabetic patients.

“Doctors like Dr. Armstrong tell us about a problem and engineers try to find cost-effective solutions,” Najafi

said. “Together … we can make a difference to some of the devastating problems of society.”

While SALSA’s main goal is the prevention of diabetic foot wounds, it has other goals as well.

“I think, around the world, SALSA is probably best known in the world for preventing amputations in diabetes, so-called limb salvage, but we also have a broad interest in how people move through the world,” Armstrong said. “That doesn’t just involve people with diabetes.

It’s not just people who are older or that had a stroke or it’s not just an athlete. What we are working toward is helping to redefine how to measure how we interact with our environment.”

Najafi has been instrumental in developing technologies to detect

postural instability, which can be a sign that a patient is at risk of having dangerous falls. Once patients have been identified as potential fall risks, they can be prescribed a series of “smart exercises” that have been shown to enhance balance.

“We have direct interaction with people who understand the problem, recognize the problem, and sometimes the solution is very, very easy,” Najafi said. “The area that we are focusing on is benefiting from these apps and technology and helping patients to take care of their own health and helping doctors to provide personalized care cost-effectively without necessarily spending more time with patients.”

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DAVID G. ARMSTRONG, director of Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance and a professor of surgery at the UA, in the SALSA Clinic with patient Pearl Badman in 2013. SALSA researchers and clinicians have developed Smart Socks, which will alert patients’ smart phones when ulcers are about to develop.

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DR. PETER RHEE and Dr. Gary Vercruysse work in the hydrotherapy unit at the University of Arizona Medical Center Department of Surgery and Emergency on Wednesday. The hydrotherapy room opened in December as part of UAMC’s Burn Care Program to service residents of Tucson and the surrounding areas.

Burn program accommodates Southern AZ burn victims

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After the elimination of the St. Mary’s Hospital Burn Program in 2008, the availability of immediate treatment for moderate to severe burns in Southern Arizona has been almost nonexistent. The University of Arizona Medical Center has since recognized the need for burn treatment in the region and began developing a Burn Care Program of its own in 2012, including an advanced hydrotherapy room which opened in December.

“Between 2008 and 2012, about 95 percent of burn patients were going to Maricopa Burn Center in Phoenix,” said Dr. Gary Vercruysse, associate professor of surgery and director of Burn Services at UAMC. At $14,000 for a helicopter ride, transporting burn victims from Southern Arizona to Phoenix is a financial burden that can also have a psychological effect on patients and families, Vercruysse explained.

“Being burned is a scary thing, and having your family available to visit and talk with you — talk about your fears, talk about your pain and talk about getting better — makes a big impact on your recovery from a psychological standpoint,” Vercruysse said.

The development of the new UAMC Burn Care Program began under Dr. Peter Rhee, professor of surgery and chief of Trauma, Critical Care, Burn and Emergency Surgery.

Rhee explained that the number of burn patients treated by the UAMC has grown exponentially since 2012.

The burn clinic currently treats about 1,000 burn patients every year, Vercruysee said, and has transferred only two patients to Phoenix since the start of the new program.

“The UAMC Burn Care Unit is not only a safe facility, but a state-of-theart facility,” Rhee said.

The new burn facility maximizes patient care through advanced medical equipment, a high nursing ratio and devices designed for burn treatment, Vercruysse explained. The burn facility, he said, has ICU beds specialized for monitoring patient vital signs, a nurse ratio of 2-to-1 or 1-to-1 depending on patient stability, and the newly opened hydrotherapy room.

The hydrotherapy room is an advanced water-resistant burn treatment area that utilizes warm water to clean away dead skin and bacteria to prevent infections and encourage healing. The ceiling tiles of the “hydro-room” contain heaters that radiate warmth to burn victims, ensuring that patients maintain a

stable body temperature during therapy.

Rhee said he views the contribution of the Burn Care Program at UAMC to Southern Arizona as a much-needed service.

“Tucson is a city of a million people,” Rhee said. “It’s not a little town. For them not to have a burn center here is just unfathomable to me.”

The primary complication for the addition of a burn center to any Southern Arizona hospital is the risk of financial loss. Hospitals around Southern Arizona have been unwilling to confront the risks of building a burn center despite the community need for one. This hesitation is not only because of the potential financial repercussions but also because of the rarity of burn specialists like Vercruysse, Rhee explained.

“A lot of the reasoning behind other hospitals not wanting to take on that challenge is because they’re fearful of losing money,” Rhee said.

“We’ve been able to remove that from the equation and just concentrate on the population’s needs and what the people in town here need.”

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Unlike digital media, physical media has a tendency to deteriorate over time due to the nature of paper, so archivists such as Wendel Cox, an assistant librarian of Special Collections at University Libraries, are working to preserve the pages of the past.

“The mass-produced paper from the last quarter of the 19th century into the ’60s and ’70s is a challenge [to preserve],” Cox said.

Paper made hundreds of years ago holds up better than paper made in the last 200 years, Cox said. Paper was made out of natural fiber such as cotton, linen or papyrus reed — anything that can be made into a fibrous pulp.

Cox’s own mother used to make paper out of her kids’ old T-shirts.

Paper makers would collect linen fabric scraps and pound it so the fibers would break, creating a pulp, according to Brendan Tobin, a UA alumnus who studied material science and engineering and is now earning another master’s at Stanford University. They then pressed the pulp and the longer fibers would hold the page together.

However, once more people became literate, wood pulp replaced cotton and linen, which were too expensive to produce on a mass scale, Tobin said.

“Now, plain paper, the kind people see when they visit a used bookstore, … is yellowed and has that kind of smell [to it] because the paper is literally eating itself,” Cox said. “The biggest enemy of paper is the acidity of the paper itself.”

Paper makers had to bleach the pages of wood pulp in order to make the page white, and the fibers of wood pulp are shorter, so they had to chemically treat it to hold the page together. The acidity from this process breaks the pages down over time, Tobin said.

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Life in the Universe Planet Formation and the Origin of Life Dante S. Lauretta

The processes of planet formation are recorded in the chemistry and geology of the asteroids throughout our Solar System. These records also offer insight into the potential for life. Understanding the processes of planet formation may help reveal the origin of life in the Universe.

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A COPY OF Novelas Ejemplares by Miguel de Cervantes from the special collections archives in the Main Library on Monday.

Archivists at University Libraries are working to preserve print media from the past in digital formats.

to preservation is the acidity, there are other enemies of paper as well, such as cycling, the fluctuation of temperature or humidity and bookworms.

“Bookworms are real,” Cox joked.

That’s why the preservation of information, especially through digitization, means a lot to Cox. After a preserved newspaper is cleaned up, it’s captured on microfilm or digitized. After this, newspapers can be discarded. Cox said he acknowledges that this horrifies some people, but what he’s most concerned about is the access to information.

There are multiple ways of preserving the past, and different libraries have different goals when it comes to preservation and archiving. If the goal is simply preservation, then papers will have to be stored away, but if the goal is access to information, then digitizing the information allows access without the risk of damage that is inherent to paper.

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