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VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 47
AZ medical students focus on homeless
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AMBASSADORS SHOWCASE UA CAMPUS (VIDEO)
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UA students have partnered with other students across the state to help create a health care system for the homeless population in Phoenix. The program, known as Student Health Outreach for Wellness, will be housed in the existing homeless clinic at the Central Arizona Shelter Services building in downtown Phoenix and is a collaboration between the UA, Northern Arizona University and Arizona State University. The main goal of the SHOW program is to provide health care to homeless people outside of the open hours of the homeless shelter, which are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
ISABEL KISHI (right), a UA instructor for introductory computer science courses, speaks to Dori Steinbach (left), a mathematics sophomore, at the Women in Technology Careers Event in the Irving & Rose Levine Grand Ballroom in the Student Union Memorial Center on Tuesday. The event provided networking opportunities and encouraged young women to explore careers in technology and related fields.
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Árbol adjusts to non-honors residents BY SHELBY THOMAS AND BRITTNY MEJIA The Daily Wildcat
Residence Life has opened honors residence hall Árbol de la Vida to non-honors students for the first time, and some honors students said they are seeing the differences with a louder and less academic atmosphere. Árbol opened in 2011 as an exclusively honors residence hall. This semester it opened its doors to all students for the first time, a change that might have been caused by the smaller incoming honors class. There were 834 incoming honors freshmen in the fall, compared to last year’s 1,214. The Honors College decided to admit a smaller incoming class so it would still be able to serve the students, said Patricia Maccorquodale, dean of the Honors College. “We can’t have more students than we can
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PRANAV BALAJI (right), a physiology freshman, and Tom Malone (left), a history freshman, walk out of Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall on Tuesday. There are now non-honors students living in the honors dorm.
reasonably serve with the resources and space that we have available,” Maccorquodale said. Although the freshman class shrank, there were 4,591 total honors students last year, while this year, there are 4,507 — signifying only a small drop in overall students in the Honors
College, Maccorquodale said. There are about 128 nonhonors students currently living in the honors dorm, according to Jennifer Hiatt, executive director of Residence Life. The Honors College was not able to fill all 719 spaces in Árbol, which is why, in the middle
of summer, the dorm was opened to non-honors students. For the most part, students have pulled their non-honors roommates into their room, which means that an honors student requested for their non-honors friend to be transferred to their room,
Hiatt said. “This has not happened before. They [the Honors College] have filled it each year with honors students,” Hiatt said. “This is the first time we’ve had this number of non-honors students in there.” Some honors students said they have seen a significant increase in the noise level, as well as the number of students going out on the weekends. Rob Gonzalez, an aerospace engineering sophomore who is living in Árbol for the second year, said “the scholastic quiet has disappeared.” “Last year was definitely positive. I had friends where, if they wanted to go to sleep at 9 p.m., they could go to sleep at 9 p.m. You can’t do that anymore,” Gonzalez said. “I don’t know if it is because people are more sociable or what, but it is definitely a louder place. If you want to get work done now, it is a lot harder.”
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Faculty explores religion, UA course politics across borders not all fun and games
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BY JEN BASCH
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UA faculty members recently launched an international project to study religion’s role in politics. The project, Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging, will be a three-year process and was started by Leerom Medovoi, head of the Department of English and the project director. Five teams will meet annually to discuss how issues related to religion, secularism and politics look different in various parts of the world. Representatives come from Hong Kong, Tel Aviv, the Netherlands, Portland and Tucson. “What I hope to get out of this is a sense of how the historical events of the last 30 to 40 years and the rise of religion as kind of a political force might look different to other scholars in other parts of the world,” Medovoi said. Each team includes scholars who hail from varying departments, such as the humanities, religion and biopolitic departments, and
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of essays about the study as a whole, as well as to try to expand the study and get more people involved. “I think the plan is, after three years, it’s going to pass on to different schools. … It’s going to be a continuous thing,” said Pete Figler, a fifth-year PhD student in the literature program and a research assistant on the project. “At the moment, it’s discussions, research [and] how can we get
A new UA course offered to first-year honors students is puzzling. Literally. For the first time, honors freshmen can take a first-year, one-credit seminar focused on crossword puzzles. Richard Ruiz, head of the Department of Mexican American Studies, is teaching “The Examined Life Through Word Puzzles,” which is focused on language and crossword puzzles. The purpose of the class is to help students think more expansively about language. “This seminar aims to view language [as] more than just words and phrases and so on. It’s about learning … to use language in a very creative way,” Ruiz said. “I started out the semester with the question, ‘What is a word?’ because we all think we know what a word is, but words are different and used differently in many languages.” Every incoming honors student is required to enroll in a first-year, onecredit seminar. Ruiz’s course is only
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each scholar will study different topics. Research will come from reading articles and books and discussing with other members of one’s own team along with other scholars in the same fields of study. Teams will then share their findings with one another and ultimately bring their discoveries to the annual meetings to discuss with representatives from all five teams. The goal of the project is to conclude with a collection
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INTERNATIONALLY DISTINGUISHED scholars Mayfair Yang (left) and Janet Jakobsen (right) lead a discussion about religion on Friday at the Student Union Memorial Center for the launch of the Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging project.
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We must modernize and preserve the positive aspects of chivalry, or both men and women will pay the price — and it will cost way more than a check at the end of dinner.” OPINIONS — 4