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CatMail change starts today
‘A’ Mountain tradition reignites
By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT UA technology officials confirmed this weekend that CatMail, a new campus e-mail system operated by Google, will open today as scheduled. “We are definitely a ‘go’ for Monday,” said Julie Suess, information technology project manager with University Information Technology Services. Starting today, everyone with a NetID account will have until Dec. 19 to “opt in” to the new system, after which the remaining accounts will be transferred automatically, Suess said. The new system will have the same features as Google’s Gmail service, Photo by Tim Glass/Arizona Daily Wildcat
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Various groups participate in lighting up iconic ‘A’ to kick off Homecoming By Marissa Frereich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Members of two student organizations ignited the “A” of “A” Mountain last night to signal the start of Homecoming Week. “It’s the week where whether you went to UA in 2002 or 1922, we’re all Wildcats and it’s just something fun to celebrate,” said Jeff Sandell , a business economics and entrepreneurship senior and Bobcats president. The 13 members of Bobcats Senior Honorary, the 34 members of Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society and homecoming royalty helped light the “A.” The UA’s Bobcats started in 1922 to promote school spirit and traditions, Sandell said. Mortar Board is a national organization that
promotes philanthropy, scholarship and leadership, said Petra Grubisic , a business economics senior and president of the UA chapter of Mortar Board. “I think it’s important because tradition is a really big part of our university, and it’s cool because it connects all the different generations together into kind of like one big group,” Grubisic said. Clad in red and blue and armed with flashlights, the students spread out across the “A” to light flares and set them in place. The students used 150 flares, which burned for 15 to 30 minutes , said Allison Macur, a sociology senior and the vice president of Bobcats. The clubs had to clear the event with Tucson Parks and Recreation, Tucson Fire Department and UA’s Risk Management and Safety
Department . Macur said the entire event cost about $1,000, which comes from the club’s budget from the Alumni Association. The Bobcats restarted the tradition of lighting the “A” last year after about 10 years of not doing so. “It was lucky because last year was the first year they brought back the tradition, so we had some kind of precedence set for it,” Macur said. A group of students took more than a year to construct the “A” on Sentinel Peak after the football team beat Pomona College 7-6 on Nov. 6, 1914, according to information from the online UA History Tour. The students worked every Saturday to clear the brush, dig TRADITION, page 5
TUCSON — Pima County health officials are hoping to get a shipment of swine flu vaccine Monday. A spokeswoman for the county’s health department says officials are expecting the shipment, and as long as it arrives, they are planning to resume vaccinations at Tucson Electric Park stadium Tuesday. It’s not clear whether the shipment will be in injectable or nasal spray form, or both. Those eligible for the nasal spray include children and young adults ages 2 to 24, caregivers of children younger than 6 months of age who are less than 50 years old and healthy health care and emergency medical personnel. The county is limiting injectable vaccines to pregnant women, some people with chronic health conditions and health care workers.
ASUA to teach sustainability through campus garden By Jennifer Koehmstedt ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Undergraduate student leaders will soon break ground on a demonstration garden intended as a guide to ecofriendly gardening for UA students and the greater Tucson community. The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, located at 803 E. First St., has been selected to house two four-feetby-20-feet plots that the Desert in the Garden Committee — a subcommittee of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Sustainability
Committee — will use to grow native plants and crops. The garden’s purpose is education rather than crop production, organizers said. “We want to give ideas to students and the Tucson community on how to grow a garden,” said Caleb Weaver, project manager of the Desert in the Garden Committee. The two plots will be used to grow plants that are suited to Tucson’s climate and temperature, meaning that the plants are able to use less water and tolerate the sun. The garden will also incorporate water harvesting into
its irrigation system, he said. The committee will give educational tours of the garden to university students as well as students from elementary and secondary schools in Tucson in order to teach them how to start gardens in their own communities, he said. “Students need to find out where their food comes from,”said Weaver.“There is a culture in America where food comes in a box, but food comes from the fields and hard labor, and it is important to GARDEN, page 5
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The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, located at the corner of First Street and Euclid Avenue, will serve as the future home of an ASUA demonstration garden to help inform the community about sustainability in the desert.
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