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ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Printing the news, sounding the alarm, and raising hell since 1899
MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2012
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VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 45
A new neck of the woods UA’s giant sequoia specimen finds a new home in unfinished tree-ring lab, sees second move since arriving to campus nearly a century ago MATT BURNS Arizona Daily Wildcat
A segment of a giant sequoia tree was moved on Friday from the Arizona State Museum South building to the Bryant Bannister TreeRing building, which is currently under construction. The ring is from a tree that naturally fell over in Sequoia National Park around 1900, according to Christopher Baisan, a senior research specialist at the tree ring laboratory. The UA requested a segment of the tree because it had been doing research on giant sequoias. A segment was cut with crosscut saws and shipped to Tucson via railroad in the 1930s. After first being stored in the baseball stadium, the tree was moved to the Arizona State Museum South building when it was still a public museum. “Now this facility is no longer open to the public, and the sequoia was orphaned in the building, where no one could see it,” Baisan said. He added that the new Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring building includes a visitors space, where the tree ring will be housed. The primary function of the tree is not for research, but rather for public outreach. “This is a public display, in order to give people a sense of the age and the size of these things and to talk about research,” Baisan said. The tree segment cost around $4,000 to move, said Chris Kraft, facilities project manager, but the cost was well worth it. “We want to make it available to the public … it belongs in the new Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring building for public display,” Kraft said.
HAILEY EISENBACH/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A SEGMENT OF A GIANT sequoia tree was moved on Friday afternoon from the Arizona State Museum. The section of the tree has been at the UA since the 1930s.
The preparation for the move began last month with a crew removing four pieces from the 10-foot-diameter tree segment, and rotating it to fit through the door of the building Because the ring and base were too heavy for
wheels or machine dollies, they were instead placed on solid metal rollers about an eighth of an inch thick. According to Albert Kinder IV, rigger foreman for the project, the combination of tree, base, and rollers
left only a quarter inch gap from the doorway it was being moved through. The exact weight of the segment was unknown, and since the weight fluctuates with humidity, the crew moving it needed a bigger crane than
the one they had brought to move the tree safely. Kinder represents the third generation in his family to move this tree ring, with both his grandfather and father having moved it in the past.
Director makes CD for Wildcats first-ever Final Four team Parkinson’s research BRITTNY MEJIA Arizona Daily Wildcat
Eight years ago, Melissa Tatum was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Instead of letting it define her life, Tatum used her diagnosis as motivation to give back and produce a CD to help fund Parkinson’s research. Tatum, who works as the director of the UA’s Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, grew up in Plano, Texas, and said she always knew she wanted to be a lawyer. She was the first lawyer in her family. “From the time I was in sixth and seventh grade I was declaring, ‘I’m
going to be a lawyer or a judge,’ or something that worked with the law,” Tatum said. Halfway through her first year of law school, Tatum decided to pursue a career as a professor, and in her second year she stumbled across Indian law, which captured her attention. She ended up coming to the UA after some time spent codirecting the University of Tulsa’s master’s degree program in Indian Law. She was first hired as the associate director and became the director of Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy in March. “This is really my dream job,” Tatum said. “If people had asked me two weeks before this job got posted
to write my ideal job description … this was it. It couldn’t have matched more perfectly.” However, some years ago, Tatum did not have her “dream job,” and she began to notice a tremor in her ankle. When she went to the doctor, she was eventually diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, which results as a loss of dopamine-producing brain cells, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Currently, there is no cure for the disease. When Tatum received her diagnosis, she went to a library and began to do research. When her
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WILDCATS DOWN HUSKIES Arizona snaps three-game losing streak with a dominating 52-17 win on Saturday night against Washington. USC is up next for the UA.
members honored KYLE JOHNSON Arizona Daily Wildcat
Steve Kerr stood at center court in McKale Center and reminisced about the 1988 men’s basketball team. That team was the first in UA history to make a Final Four, and on Sunday at the annual Red-Blue game the team was honored. Kerr, a 5-time NBA champion — with 3 coming from his time with the Chicago Bulls — was a leader on that team and reminisced about a fan, whom he saw in the crowd when the team celebrated its final four berth back in 1988, holding a sign with the words, “We’ll never forget.” Twenty-five years later, the accomplishments of that team are still evident as they marked the birth of an elite college basketball program. And the Wildcat faithful have definitely not forgotten, as
cheers reverberated throughout the sold out McKale Center Sunday as the members of that 1987-1988 team were honored. “The fact that people can remember a group from 25 years ago and have this much enthusiasm is unbelievable,” said Craig McMillan, a senior guard on that team. While the Red-Blue game featured several notable events, including the induction of former Wildcat Andre Iguodala into the Ring of Honor, the 25th anniversary of the 1988’s Final Four run took the cake in terms of applause. All of the big names made the trip back to their place of dominance — from college and NBA greats Sean Elliott and Steve Kerr to baseball star Kenny Lofton to six-time Grammy winner Harvey Mason Jr. “I don’t think you could have a
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RUNNING BACK KA’DEEM CAREY rushed for 172 yards and a touchdown against Washington on Saturday. Carey has 11 rushing touchdowns this season, tying him for fouth-place on the UA’s all-time single season rushing list with Trung Candidate.
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