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By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA improved its national ranking in sex health services. The annual Trojan Sexual Health Report Card grades and ranks more than 140 universities on their sexual health and education resources. The UA ranks 34 this year, higher than UA’s number 70 ranking in 2009. Schools were given grades in 12 categories, ranging from condom availability to outreach programs. The UA received a 2.78 cumulative grade point average on a 4.0 scale. “What we’re looking for and think is even more important is the information and resources offered to the students,” said Bert Sperling, president of Sperling’s BestPlaces, the independent research firm in charge of the study. Schools filled out forms about their services to submit to the study. Recent college graduates with the firm also navigated the schools’ website to judge usability. Lee Ann Hamilton, assistant director of Health Promotion and Preventive Services for Campus Health Service, said she did not know why the UA moved up significantly in the ranking. “We may have done a better job communicating all that we have to offer here,” Hamilton said. “That would be my guess, just more information conveyed better.” The UA received two “A’s” in the sexual assault programs and the anonymous advice categories. Hamilton and other employees write the SexTalk column found each week
By Lívia Fialho ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Studying in Germany changed a student’s views on research. Molecular and cellular biology senior Cameron Lee was there for three months as part of a research and study abroad program. Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open, known as BRAVO, funded his trip to do research at the University of Tübingen, in the city of the same name. He was still making sense out of his experience and the new lifestyle he grew accustomed to, having been interviewed 10 hours after his return. “It’s made me more focused as a researcher. They didn’t have time to do anything else during the day but research … They would work really hard, for nine or 10 hours a day, every single day, and they would not come in on the weekends. Whereas here, from the research friends I know, we all come in all the time. We’re always working.” As his first time traveling abroad, he was overwhelmed with the BRAVO, page 3
ASUA Rec Center pool draining stalls on festival funds SEX HEALTH, page 3
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Elizabeth Dake, a history and religious studies senior, demonstrates how to turn a condom into a dental dam during a Sex Ed, College Style presentation in the Student Union Memorial Center’s Tucson Room on Wednesday. Students trained by Planned Parenthood and Campus Health Service led the peer-to-peer presentation.
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Water pumps out of the Student Recreation Center pool on Wednesday to drain it for resurfacing. UA Facilities Management is recycling the pool’s water to hydrate plants around campus, including the grass on the UA Mall.
By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The inside of the pool at the Student Recreation Center is being resurfaced, but the water won’t be going to waste. The pool closed on Nov. 1. On Tuesday, Facilities Management began draining the pool, filling a 5,000-gallon fire truck and then transporting that water to septic pumper trucks. Once the water is in the trucks, it is taken to various places around campus, including Bear Down Field, the UA Mall and Rincon Vista Fields
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and Facilities to be recycled. To prepare the water for harvesting, the Rec Center stopped putting chlorine in the pool before the pool was drained. The pool is being redone “because it’s 20 years old and needs it. Everything has a life expectancy, and the time is at hand to do those repairs,” said Ron Roberts, senior business manager for Campus Recreation. Facilities Management is bringing in a contractor next week to begin resurfacing the pool. This week, they are focused on getting as much water as possible out of the pool.
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Facilities Management Director Chris Kopach estimates the pool holds about 250,000 gallons. To drain the pool, a fire truck will pump the water from the pool into the pumper trucks. “A lot of the times folks will get upset because … the water is just running off the street, but that’s not the case. We’re trying to be real proactive capturing it. You’re going to have some runoff, but that’s a lot water in that pool, and we’re going to try and capture as much as we can.” The Rec Center pool will reopen in the spring semester.
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Another delay in funding halted movement on Sen. Taylor Bilby’s Tanzbodeli project in order to allow more time for a more strategic marketing plan at the ASUA Senate meeting on Wednesday. The mission of the music and art festival is to “to unite the entire U of A student body to increase awareness of student talent on campus, as well as to raise money to contribute toward a cure for cancer,” Bilby said. Bilby’s plan was to have donations and marketing revenues to pay for the event, and an estimated admission price of $20 would go straight to raising money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which donates 88 cents of every dollar donated to research. An initial request of $900 for shirts and art posters, as a trial run for the success of future marketing of the event and the event itself, held an eventual promise of asking for around $5,050 from the senate to put on the show. Senators expressed concerns about the initial requests’ timing and the proposed funding of the event in general. One concern was that the headliner band, estimated to cost $17,000 to bring to campus, would stretch the event too thin both on funds and on ASUA, page 3
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