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President Hart adds position to cabinet BY STEPHANIE CASANOVA
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UA President Ann Weaver Hart created a new cabinet position last week after the UA’s executive director and vice president of the Executive Office
of the President resigned. Hart announced via email on Friday that she would be adding the position Director of Arizona Board of Regents Relations to her office after J.C. Mutchler stepped down from his position as executive director and vice
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president in the president’s office due to a life-threatening illness. Amy Taczanowsky had been serving as interim executive director while Mutchler was at the University of Arizona Medical Center this semester. While Taczanowsky has been hired permanently as executive director of the president’s office, the email stated that the position of vice president will not be filled. Hart said the function of the director position is not new.
Mutchler did the same type of work that the new position will require, but whoever fills the new position will focus solely on communication between the UA and the board of regents, which includes fulfilling the regents’ requests, planning meetings and preparing for when the UA hosts board meetings, Hart added. “Ultimately, everything we do at the university is directly related to [the board’s] authority as the final governing body,”
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ALEX MCINTYRE, a journalism sophomore, climbs a rock face in Death Canyon, Ariz. on June 2. McIntyre started rock climbing when he was 9 years old.
UA sophomore spends his free time rock climbing in the Arizona mountains BY JAZMINE FOSTER-HALL
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Balancing school and a personal life is hard enough without also balancing on a cliff face. However, Alex McIntyre, a journalism sophomore, manages to do just that. McIntyre has been rock climbing since he was 9
years old, and recently became a sponsored athlete with Mad Rock, a California company that sells rock climbing shoes and gear. McIntyre said he got into climbing after he took a field trip to the local climbing gym while at summer camp. “I had always been pretty bad at team sports and anything involving a ball,”
McIntyre said, “and I sucked at [climbing] too, but I liked it so I decided I was going to stick with it.” McIntyre became the youngest of five climbers to tackle a difficult route on Mount Lemmon last May. McIntyre has also participated in the USA Sport Climbing American Bouldering Series youth
national championship, the USA Sport Climbing Series youth national championship and in higher-level competitions across the country. Last summer he also participated in a professional competition in Salt Lake City. McIntyre said he loves the feeling of climbing at his highest level of performance.
“Even if it’s not necessarily fun all the time, it’s still a rewarding experience,” McIntyre said. “You’re trying to make something that isn’t possible for you, possible.” Tiffany Hensley, team manager at Mad Rock, said McIntyre was chosen to be a representative
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UA has ‘phun’ with physics experiments BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY The Daily Wildcat
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The UA community will get a chance to see the magic behind physics this Friday at an annual show. The UA Physics Department’s Physics Phun Night, held at the Physics and Atmospheric Sciences building in room 201, will feature physics experiments and demonstrations for the general public. Faculty from both the UA and Pima Community College, as well as UA students, will gather at 7 p.m. to perform their favorite physics experiments, said Shawn Jackson, a physics lecturer who will be emceeing the event. Some demonstrations will involve Tesla coils, which produce high-voltage electrical currents, a bed of nails and a levitating chair, said Larry Hoffman, a senior laboratory coordinator in the Department of Physics and the organizer of the Physics Phun Night. Hoffman has been organizing the event every year since 1996 and said this year will also feature a demonstration about the effects of light pollution and how to mitigate them. The experiments demonstrated at the event are projects students work on for class, said William Bickel, a professor emeritus who has been participating in the event for the past 20 years. Bickel will be performing an experiment in which he presents several optical illusions. He said the featured demonstrations are fun and engaging for the whole audience. “We pick demonstrations that are really easy to see from the back row,” Bickel said. Bickel said that one of his past experiments involved placing two balls of the same size, one black and one white, on two arrows of separate lengths. The white ball was placed on the longer arrow and the black ball on the shorter arrow, causing the white ball to appear larger. He said he remembers one young girl in the front row who
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could not believe that the two balls were actually the same size. “Our audience is a lot of kids, and we cater to them,” Bickel said, “but everyone in the audience has a good time.”
A new club on campus is helping young entrepreneurs bring their business ideas to life. Startup Tucson is a city-wide organization that aims to grow the community through business ventures. Justin Williams, founder of Startup Tucson and president of the UA chapter, said he saw that there were entrepreneurs on campus and decided Startup Tucson needed to bring its resources to the university so students could use them to start their own companies. “We’re just there as an outside party to help provide access to investors or experienced CEOs in a way that’d be really hard for a student who just showed up from Phoenix,” Williams said. Though the club was formed in January 2013, its first official meeting was last Tuesday, Williams said, adding that the goal of the meetings is to give students the opportunity to share ideas about companies they’d like to
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A VOLUNTEER puts his hand on the Van de Graaff generator at a past Physics Phun Night event. This year’s Physics Phun Night will be held on Friday at 7 p.m.