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UA soakin’ up the sun By Carly Kennedy ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The planning, design and construction groups at the UA say they are investing themselves whole-heartedly into the “green” movement, with four solar projects still on the way. As the first phase of the solar movement, the Second Street Parking Garage has been decked out in photovoltaic solar panels since early August, and the panels should be up and running within the next few weeks. Ralph Banks, assistant director of engineering, planning, design and construction for the UA, said the solar panels atop the parking structure will generate about 210 kilowatts per day, which is equivalent to powering forty averaged-sized homes.
The power will be used to support functions within the structure, like powering the elevators, and whatever is not used will be filtered into the university’s grid, he said. With the help of APS Energy Services, the UA will begin a multiple phase effort to move toward solar power. Starting with the Second Street Parking Garage, engineers will now look toward installing photovoltaic solar panels on McClelland Hall, McClelland Park, and eventually the Student Recreation Center and Hillenbrand Aquatic Center. “I love that the UA is being proactive about utilizing solar energy,”said Deven McMorrow, a physiology junior. “We have plenty of sun here in Arizona, so it makes sense to have solar energy power most of our daily electricity use.”
Project leaders predict that the initial phase of the solar project will produce about 500 kilowatts in total — which is a relatively small portion of the university’s overall electricity bill. “The University consumes about 26 megawatts of electricity in the middle of the summer,” said Banks.“But, we do not know how big this could become, which is the fun part.” Project leaders say they are looking at the solar movement from a research aspect as well as conservation. “Because we are a research university, we hope to monitor this and receive a lot of research knowledge,” said Banks. “I’m not sure how many universities are planning on doing projects similar to ours, but we are the solar capital of the U.S. The next steps are really exciting.”
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The solar panels of the Second Street Parking Garage are made up of photovoltaic panels that will potentially generate 210 kilowatts of energy per day and are the first phase of the UA’s solar movement.
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Expert reveals financial guide By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The New York Times economic columnist Joe Nocera spoke on Monday afternoon about three lessons that can be learned from the recent financial crisis. The Ares Auditorium, in the James E. Rogers College of Law, was packed with more than 120 people coming to listen to Nocera’s expertise. Nocera began by answering the question on everyone’s mind — can the financial crisis happen again? “Yes it can happen again and it will happen again, I can guarantee it,” Nocera said. And anyone who claims it can be avoided “you are authorized to roll your eyes at.”
Lesson 1:
Figure it out yourself.
Photo courtesy of UA Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter
The UA Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter is hosting an event tonight atop the mountain where audience members can view the Leonid Meteor Shower. The meteor shower is happening because the Earth is passing through the debris of a past comet. Debris and dust from the comet vaporizes in the Earth’s atmosphere and creates the illusion of “shooting stars.”
Tucson’s night sky hosts meteor shower yesterday, tonight
Maxine Goodman displays some of the African jewelry that she will be selling on the Mall today as a part of the Kenya Women and Global Democracy program. Ashlee Salamon/ Arizona Daily Wildcat
By Michelle Cohen ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Carl Hergenrother is a senior research specialist in the UA lunar and planetary laboratory. He received his undergraduate degree in atmospheric sciences from the UA in 1997 and has discovered four comets and thousands of asteroids throughout his career. The Daily Wildcat discussed this week’s Leonid meteor shower with Hergenrother. The meteor shower will take place Tuesday and Wednesday morning of this week when the Earth passes through 500 year old dust particles that were left by the
comet Tempel-Tuttle. The UA Steward Observatory is hosting a guided program for the shower at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter this evening. Can you tell me about the meteor shower going on the next couple of nights? The meteor shower is called “Leonids.” It’s small dust particles that are released by a particular comet — in this case a comet called Tempel-Tuttle. That’s the comet name and the comet comes around every 33 years and every time it comes close to the sun it heats
up and the ice that’s on the comet sublimates, then turns to gas and kind of blows off the surface of the comet kind of like a geyser — just like Old Faithful in Yellowstone — and as the ice does that, it carries dust particles. So every time the comet comes around every 33 years, it leaves behind this trail of dust particles. So what’s going on over the next couple of nights is the earth will be going through trails of dust particles that were released by the comet almost 500 years ago. METEOR, page 7
People who survived the Great Depression spent their money with that experience in the back of their minds, Nocera said. Now, 80 years later, the “memory fades and we forget what can happen.” “Your mother can tell you that you should save rather than spend. It doesn’t matter, you have to learn for yourself,” Nocera said. Nocera related the financial crisis to science and sex. “Take science. It builds on a foundation, and every new discovery is added to the foundation and builds on it. Discoveries in the 1970s are still part of the building blocks for 2009,”Nocera said. “Sex isn’t like that. You have to make all your own mistakes; you have to figure it out for yourself. And finance is like that.” FINANCIAL, page 5
League of Women Voters looking for young blood By Marissa Freireich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The League of Women Voters of Greater Tucson will provide information to increase student membership today from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. between the Student Union Memorial Center and the Administration building. Representatives from the league will provide information about the
organization and people can sign up to become members, costs are $30 per year for students. According to its Web site, the League of Women Voters is “a nonpartisan political organization (that) encourages the informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.”
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The national organization began in 1920. Noell Rodriguez, the president , said the organization was established during a time when women did not have the right to vote or determined their vote based on how their husband voted. “Once they did get the right to vote, it was a continuation of
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