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ESPN ‘GameDay’ comes to UA
ESPN’s “College GameDay” will be visiting the UA campus on Saturday in preparation for Arizona football’s showdown with Oregon, ranked No. 11 in the Associated Press and Coaches’ Polls. The ESPN pre-game show is hosted by one college campus each week and typically focuses on that week’s premier
college football matchup. The Wildcats’ meeting with Pacific 10 Conference-leading Oregon may decide what team represents the conference at the Rose Bowl in January. If Arizona (6-3, 4-2 Pac-10) defeats the Ducks, the Wildcats will be launched into a tie for first-place in the Pac-10,
owning any tiebreak scenarios with Oregon, Oregon State or Stanford. The multi-hour show will start airing live from campus at 8 a.m. on Saturday. The game starts at 6 p.m. and will air on ABC. — Arizona Daily Wildcat
Stick with the Daily Wildcat all week for complete coverage as the UA gears up for “College GameDay”
ON THE PROWL TOWARD A CURE
By Shannon Maule ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Dr. Fernando Martinez, one of the world’s most prestigious researchers in childhood lung diseases, has been named the newest Director of the BIO5 Institute. He has been a part of the UA’s Institute of Collaborative Bioresearch for over 25 years. He is the director of the Arizona Respiratory Center and a pediatrics professor. The Daily Wildcat spoke with him about the past, present and future of his and BIO5’s investigations. DW: What are you most excited about for BIO5? FM: What is most exciting about BIO5 is that it combines two elements that are crucial in addressing the most important challenges today in the life sciences. The two elements that it puts together is first, the creativity of the researchers. In the end, science is always going to be the result of creative researchers, who, by knowing what is out there and what has been discovered until now, find new ways in which we interpret the world. That is the basis for all research work — it’s the individual creativity. And examples of that you have in thousands, from Galileo to Einstein, it’s always in the brain and the mind of the investigator of the person with creativity that science works. We are going to continue through BIO5, fostering our best researchers in the life sciences in Arizona. But the second aspect, which is also important, is that we are going to foster collaboration. You see the challenges we have today are very, very difficult: it is not going to be easy to solve cancer; it’s not going to be easy to find foods that are nutritious but don’t make people obese; it’s not going to be easy to figure out Alzheimer’s and diabetes. And no single MARTINEZ, page 3
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The 2009 CATwalk kicked off Saturday morning as thousands of UA students, faculty and community members got together to help raise $81,000 for the Arizona Cancer Center.
Transgender issues focus of week By Marissa Freireich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Today marks the beginning of Tucson’s fourth annual Transgender Awareness Week. “It’s primarily a way to get folks to know about transgender people — who we are, something of our lives, our con-
cerns and the variety and range of transgender people here in Tucson,” said Alison Davison, coordinator of Wingspan’s Southern Arizona Gender Alliance. Davison estimates Tucson’s transgender population to be about 500 to 1,000 people, although it is difficult to know exactly because many people have not come out as transgender. The number
could be higher, she said. Transgender Awareness Week is sponsored by Wingspan’s Southern Arizona Gender Alliance and Eon Youth Program, the Office of LGBTQ Affairs, ASUA’s Pride Alliance, the Dean of Students Office, the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership and the Student Services Fee.
Davison said many people erroneously think being transgender is similar to being homosexual. She defined transgender as “a person whose sex, gender identity or gender expression differs from the sex assigned to them at birth.” AWARENESS, page 5
Nurses diagnose by phone
Shari Overland , a nursing supervisor at Campus Health Services, diagnoses a student over the phone. Students can now call in, describe their symptoms over the phone and receive a nurse’s diagnosis and plans for treatment.
By Jennifer Koehmstedt ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Students can get diagnosed and treated for seasonal flu and H1N1 over the phone, using Campus Health Service’s new“flu nurse”phone service. Students with flu-like symptoms can call Campus Health and schedule a telephone appointment with a nurse. The nurse will then call back and ask the student a series of questions to determine if the flu could be the cause of the symptoms. If the student fits the flu protocol, the student is then given instructions for treatment, Terri West, administrative associate with Campus Health, said. Campus Health implemented the phone service the second week of September in response to this year’s flu season, which has been unlike any other Campus Health has dealt with, West said. “This year, it started very early. Normally we don’t expect to see flu until this time of year, but we started seeing it the first week of school. And this one’s very contagious, and we’ve been seeing a lot of students. Our numbers on Monday (Nov. 2), the students walking through triage, were the highest we have ever had,”she said. Phone diagnosis is a good way to keep contagious flu patients at home,
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Mary Pasternacki, a nurse practitioner at East Flagstaff Family Medicine in Flagstaff, said. “The flu is so common right now, and the symptoms are pretty easily identified, and it’s so contagious,” she said. “I think it’s really good that they can stay at home and keep their symptoms there instead of coming into the office and infecting everybody else.” Pasternacki said that patients should not rely solely on phone treatment. “There’s always the risk of misdiagnosis or someone omitting some symptoms that are important or misrepresenting some symptoms. The most important thing is that if it doesn’t seem to be going like the usual symptoms then to get rechecked,”she said. Campus Health uses the phone service not only to diagnose flu-like symptoms, but to determine if certain symptoms necessitate scheduling an appointment with a Campus Health provider, West said. Miles Hearn, a geosciences junior, recently called into the flu nurse after waking up with a high fever. “Because I didn’t have all the symptoms, they said I could either wait until those symptoms showed up or just come in,”Hearn said. Even if flu nurses find that a student has all the symptoms necessary
to make a phone diagnosis, they still do not tell students that they have the flu, West said. “They’re diagnosed with an influenza-like illness. There’s no confirmation with that,”she said. The already-high number of cases of H1N1 is expected to rise within the next couple of weeks, Pasternacki said. “It’s going to peak again in another couple of weeks, right around Thanksgiving, when people start moving and going home and getting in touch with family,” she said. “So hopefully if you get your H1N1 (shot) as soon as you can, then hopefully you’ll be protected again for the big traveling of Thanksgiving time.” Campus Health had an H1N1 vaccination clinic last Monday, but does not know when the next shipment of vaccines will be available to students. West recommends that students check Campus Health’s Web site for updates related to the flu and future vaccination clinics. With the expected increase of H1N1 cases, West said that Campus Health prefers students call a flu nurse before coming in. “We have a lot of people walking in,” she said. “The lobbies are full, and this is a way, if you’re feeling yucky, to stay where you are and make that call.”
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