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Artificial device keeps hearts pumping BY MARK ARMAO

The Daily Wildcat

On any given day, there are approximately 3,000 people on the waiting list to get a heart transplant. However, with only about 2,000 donor hearts available annually, the wait times for these patients can stretch longer than a year.

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Are you a scaredy Wildcat?

For someone with a failing heart, a year may be too long. SynCardia Systems, Inc. aims to remedy this by implanting patients with its Total Artificial Heart, providing them with a “bridge to transplant.” The device, which was recently featured in a documentary on the Smithsonian Channel, was developed with the help of several

UA surgeons and engineers. The SynCardia temporary Total Artificial Heart is the world’s first and only device of its kind to be approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration, said Michael Garippa, CEO and president of SynCardia. Originating from a University of Arizona Medical Center program,

Syncardia was formed with the help of Dr. Jack Copeland, a renowned heart surgeon who, in 1985, became the first person to successfully use the Jarvik 7 Total Artificial Heart as a bridge to transplant. The patient received a donor heart after living for nine days on the Jarvik 7, which

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Imagine this: you’re home alone at night when you hear a strange noise coming from upstairs, a tapping that sounds almost like footsteps. Suddenly, you are overcome with paranoia and your body tenses up, each muscle prepared to spring into action. Your heart beats faster and your hair stands on end. You’re scared, and your body knows it. Fear is one of the most universal emotions humans experience. But while the cause of fear may be easy to pinpoint — be it a chainsawwielding maniac or the impending doom of midterms — the way the body and mind react to a scare is a bit more complicated. “The first thing that happens when someone is scared is an appraisal of the threat,” said Alfred Kaszniak, a professor in the UA department of psychology. This appraisal is controlled by two structures in the brain: the amygdala, which has a direct connection to the senses, and the hypothalamus, which sends signals to the adrenal gland. The adrenal gland then releases hormones throughout the body, preparing it for one of two options: fighting the threat or fleeing from it. This is called the fight-or-flight response, and it is our instinctual reaction to frightening or threatening situations. “Physiologically, it has all kinds of different effects on your body,” said Katrina Mangin, a professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the UA . “Your heart races, your blood pressure goes up, different hormones are released, all to get you to be on really high alert for whatever is happening.” During this fight-or-flight response, the brain becomes more focused and alert in order to identify the possible threat; muscles are energized, and the physiology of the gut changes as blood is moved out of the digestive system and into the surrounding muscles. This occurs as a way to divert energy away from unnecessary bodily functions and into places where it can be used effectively, Kaszniak said. “In terms of evolution, it makes sense that there would be this

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CALEB WILLIAMS LEFT, dressed as a train conductor for Halloween, plays the bean bag toss at Greek-or-Treat on Wednesday night with his father, Joshua Williams (right). The bean bag toss was hosted by the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity (See full story online at dailywildcat.com).

Children’s literature library gets facelift BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA The Daily Wildcat

The College of Education embarked on a $1.1 million project this semester to renovate a library space that houses 30,000 children’s books. The fourth floor area in the Education building, which was originally built as a library, is home to the Worlds of Words program, a collection of international adolescent and children’s literature, said Ronald W. Marx, dean of the College of Education. “This collection is the largest of its type in North America and the second-largest in the world,” Marx said. “Because of its quality

and uniqueness, we want to have and adolescent literature, Short a physical space that matches said. “The space the quality of the is very old, and books.” while we were Kathy G. Short, This has to be able to spruce a professor of a destination, it up, it was not teaching, learning something flexible enough and sociocultural people stop to for the wide studies in the range of needs, L a n g u a g e , look at. because we are Reading and —Richard Clift, doing everything Culture program coordinator of collecfrom events with and creator and tions and outreach, children and director of Worlds College of Education families and local of Words, donated organizations up the 30,000 books to highly scholarly events,” Short with the help of her husband. The purpose of the growing said. “So we needed a space that book collection is to “build global EDUCATION, 2 understanding” through children’s

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BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY The Daily Wildcat

The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies is hosting a talk on Friday about the Gezi Park protests in Turkey that captured the world’s attention last summer. Can Aciksoz, an associate professor in MENAS, will be giving the talk, which is titled “Gezi Protests: An Eventful History.” The event is part of a lecture series known as the MENAS Colloquium Series, put on by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, a division

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CAN ASCIKSOZ, A MIDDLE EASTERN and North African Studies assistant professor, will give a talk titled “Gezi Protests: An Eventful History” on Friday.

within MENAS. The lectures occur multiple times a month and are typically given by visiting scholars. “Generally, speakers come in from different places around the world to give these talks,” said Miriam Saleh, an administrative assistant for MENAS.

This particular talk is unique because the speaker comes from within the university, Saleh added. Aciksoz said his talk will focus on the transformation of Turkish politics after the protests. The protests began as a sit-in against an urban renewal project in

Gezi Park, but quickly swelled into a nationwide movement covering a wide swath of grievances against the government under Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Western coverage of the event failed to see how heterogeneous the protests were, according to Aciksoz, who is Turkish himself. The media instead tried to simplify the conflict into blackand-white terms — secularism vs. Islam, Turkish vs. Kurdish. Gezi, he said, is something that eludes that kind of easy categorization. “It was very novel in the way that [the protests] brought together all these social and political groups,” Aciksoz said, “ranging from anarchists and socialists to feminist and LGBT groups.” Aciksoz said he hopes to dispel these kinds of misrepresentations about the situation in his talk. He said he also plans to discuss what comes next for Turkey. While the protests felt like a popular movement that would evolve over the months, political

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