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ENJOYING THEIR DAY
By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Veterans Josh Corn, a sociology major at NAU Tucson, TJ Gale, a nursing senior at Pima Community College, and UA students Glen Lacroix, a pre-psychology junior, and Matt Randle, a family studies senior, spend some quality time together during a game of golf at The Golf Club at Vistoso in Oro Valley for Veterans Day. It was less about the game for these longtime friends and more about relaxing and having fun together during the holiday that commemorates their services.
UA Dance updates vaudeville By Dallas Williamson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Already known for showcasing outstanding productions throughout the year, UA Dance is giving a new twist to the traditional performance scene with its presentation of The New Vaudeville Revue. Unless you were alive in the early 1900s, the height of its popularity in the United States, vaudeville may be an unfamiliar concept. Trendy from the late 1800s to around the 1930s, vaudeville is a form of theatrical entertainment composed of variety acts. Each act on the playbill would be unique, completely unrelated to the other acts of the show, each hoping to appeal most to the audience. From magicians and trained animals to musicians, acrobats and dancers, an audience rarely knew what to expect when seeing a show. Although we no longer live in the vaudeville era and new forms of entertainment have long since come onto the scene, UA Dance is adapting this historic performance type to accommodate our fast-paced, action-crazed and entertainment-hungry society. “The New Vaudeville Revue is a 21st (century) re-invention of the vaudeville genre of variety acts,” said director Douglas Nielsen, a professor in the UA School of Dance. “It alternates singing, dancing, film and acts of skill.” While The New Vaudeville Revue will be performed in the UA School of Dance’s Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, UA dancers will not be the only performers taking the stage. Keeping with the character of vaudeville, Lisa Beth Earle/Arizona Daily Wildcat Keith Nelson, aka “Kinko the Clown,” star of the Bindlestiff Family Circus, will numerous acts will be sharing the limelight. UA team up with UA dancers, choreographers and composers for The New Vaudeville Dance has brought in a wide range of artists, including Revue performances Thursday and Friday at the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.
Kinko the Clown and other members of the worldrenowned Bindlestiff Family Cirkus. In an additional collaboration, an overture by The Stevie Eller Orchestra will open the show. With guest musicians and singers,this unique ensemble was formed by co-producer Suzanne Knosp for this occasion. Of course, the UA Dance Ensemble will also be displaying its talent in the spirit of vaudeville. With three faculty works by acclaimed choreographers Nielsen, Michael Williams and Sam Watson, audiences are sure to enjoy a spectacle of rhythmic tapping, slapstick comedy and a new spin on your typical strip tease. Spectators will also get the special opportunity to witness UA Dance department heads Melissa Lowe and Jory Hancock, along with Nielsen, perform in a silent movie filmed at Hotel Congress in downtown Tucson in 1988. Other featured performances include juggling, sword swallowing and a high wire act on pointe. Local jugglers from Tucson will also appear in the final act. Offering such a wide variety of performances, The New Vaudeville Revue is certain to appeal to even the most unlikely theatergoer. Whatever may be the case, it will be unlike anything you have ever experienced at a UA performance. As Nielsen put it, “expect to be surprised.”
To get tickets:
Dates and times:
Call the College of Fine Arts Box Office: 621-1162 General admission is $23, $12 for students. Tickets will also be sold at the door, but go early; shows may sell out.
Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 at 1:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Bug’s ‘kiss’ can bring disease By Yael Schusterman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
“Kissing bugs” might not be as friendly as their name implies, new research at the UA suggests. In 2005, Carolina Reisenman , associate staff scientist, Pablo Guerenstein and John Hildebrand , director of neurobiology, collaborated with the Centers for Disease Control and wrote a proposal — the Kissing Bug Project — funded by the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission. Hildebrand, the principal investigator for the project, who does the laboratory and field work, said, “kissing bugs are important in southern Arizona because they bite humans to get blood-meals — their bites are allergenic and some people have very bad allergic reactions to the bites.” The researchers were originally seeking an explanation as to why the bugs bite humans instead of or in addition to “their usual hosts for
blood-meals,” Hildebrand said. He added that in the course of the research, the team discovered that a high percentage of the local kissing bugs are carrying the parasite that causes Chagas disease, an illness spread by insects, most common in South America and more recently in Mexico. “We also study kissing bugs from South America. In that research project we are trying to learn about odors that attract the kissing bugs and trying to develop trapping strategies that could be used to intercept the insects before they enter people’s houses,” Hildebrand said. A possible strategy is the use of detection and control tools — which might reduce triatomine (the scientific name for the family to which the bugs belong)-human contact and the risk to human health, Reisenman said. “For instance, traps which are baited with odors that attract kissing bugs can be an effective method,” she said. “The idea is to divert insects
from invading human houses.” These bugs, abundant in southern Arizona, get their name because they usually bite people near their mouth during the night while they sleep, according to the neuroscience department’s Web site. It states that kissing bugs are blood-suckers, similar to mosquitoes, ticks and tsetse flies. They are attracted to the odors that people exhale, and the face is usually the only exposed area of skin during sleep. Arizona is the state with the highest number of triatomine-human contacts reported in the United States, Reisenman said. She added that health problems related to triatomines in Arizona will become more common, now that more people are choosing to live in triatomine habitats. The team collected about 500 insects in 2007, 800 in 2008 and about 500 in 2009, she said. KISSING BUGS, page 6
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Around $2,750 was allocated to different organizations at ASUA’s unconventional senate meeting on Tuesday. The meeting was bumped up a day because its normally scheduled time fell on Veterans Day. Five of the senators and Executive Vice President Emily Fritze of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona were waiting and expectant at the meeting’s prescribed time. However, the other six senators were nowhere to be found. Eduardo Atjian III was the last to arrive in person, but ASUA Senator and University of Arizona Police Department officer Brian Seastone said the meeting could not begin until one more member was in attendance. Leo Yamaguchi eventually made his presence known on Sen. Hillary Davidson’s cell phone. “The meeting is called to order on Wednesday Nov. 10, 2009, at 4 p.m.,” Fritze said, forgetting the change of date. The senators not in attendance were marked excused; some had class at the scheduled time. As the senate was voting to approve the new business discussed, they discovered that Yamaguchi was no longer on the phone and could not confirm that he had spoken during the vote. “This is really frustrating,” Fritze said. “Can someone table this to the end of the agenda?” In response to the senators who had confirmed they would attend, Fritze said, “Rule of thumb people, if you tell me you can show up, you should.” On the third try, Yamaguchi stayed on the phone and gave verbal consent and acknowledgment of the vote. The Senate approved funds for the Young Americans for Liberty, the Delta Lambda Phi fraternity, the American Society for Engineering Management and the Pride of Arizona Twirling Line. The Young Americans for Liberty organization was allocated $410.48 for startup capital for publicity and to spur debates. This chapter is the first of the club at the UA, and is a national, nonpartisan organization whose members believe that government is the negation ASUA, page 6
Pioneer of civil rights movement visits campus By Gabriel Matthew Schivone ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
One of the groundwork innovators of the American Civil Rights movement spoke on campus last night to more than 100 Tucsonans of all ages about wielding the power of nonviolent resistance to injustice. Sponsored by the ASUA Women’s Resource Center, the Culture of Peace Alliance and the newly created student-community Nonviolence Legacy Project, Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. came to campus for the second time to sponsor a training of “nonviolent direct action techniques” based on the models of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “My life changed when I met Martin Luther King,” LaFayette said. “He believed in blending ideas,” LaFayette said of King.“He borrowed
from everybody. He was able to put together a philosophy for himself — and not just a theoretical construct, but a program of how it could apply to today’s problems. He didn’t want to change just a few sentences, or a few paragraphs, but change the whole book.” LaFayette said that he didn’t want to be a leader. Rather, he wanted to assist the leaders. He trained some of the most well-known names of the movement such as Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson in techniques such as how to deal with the media and write press releases. Recalling going over a press statement with Dr. King shortly before he was assassinated, LaFayette said King made a remark about what would be a good next step for the movement.
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