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New residence halls almost complete By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

The new residence halls on campus are close to completion, with a date picked to start moving in furniture. One of the new residence halls, Árbol de la Vida, meaning tree of life, located at Tyndall Avenue and Sixth Street and set to house 719 honors students , will be “substantially complete” by the end of this month. Another, Likins Residence Hall, located at Highland Avenue and Sixth Street with be “substantially complete” in March. According to Jim Van Arsdel , Residence Life director, the term “substantially complete” means there will still be a few changes to make and people could get into the building if they really had to, though people probably couldn’t live in it. Likins Hall, which began construction three months after Árbol de la Vida, can house 369 students and is named after former UA President Peter Likins . Furnishing will begin on April 11 when approximately 25 semi-trucks will bring in student room furniture. Both halls have subtle themes running throughout. Likins Hall has a river theme due to the fact that runoff water used to flow through the area where the hall now rests, a problem Van Arsdel said

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Jim Van Arsdel, director of Residence Life, explains the progress of the dormitories, looking from the center of the project toward Park Avenue, at the corner of Sixth Street and Euclid Avenue during a tour of the project on Wednesday. The inset photo (by Tim Glass/Arizona Daily Wildcat) shows the project from the view of Euclid Avenue on Jan. 20, 2010.

they have hopefully fixed. The shape of Likins is modeled after the path the water used to follow. Árbol de la Vida is a five-

building complex with two themes. One is of a slot canyon, which can be seen both through the complex’s shape as well as on the faux copper paneling

that has a picture of a slot canyon on it. The second is a tree theme. The complex’s lobby is lined with glass. The front of the glass is etched with what,

from far away, looks like trees. As onlookers get closer to the glass they will be able to see that the trees are actually made HALLS, page 3

Women: avoid remotes Men: avoid doorknobs

UA starts health survey

Professor conducts a cleanliness study on men’s and women’s homes By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT If you had to venture a guess as to whose apartments would be dirtier, men or women, many people would say men. And they’d be right — to a point — with a new UA study just in time for Valentine’s Day. Thirty bachelors and 30 bachelorettes had 100-square centimeter portions of four surfaces from their homes tested — the front doorknob, the top of the night stand, the remote con-

trol and the coffee table — in going to the bachelorette’s a study conducted by Charles house, make sure she opens Gerba, prothe door.” fessor of soil, Most parwater and enticipants were Charles Gerba’s v i ro n m e n t a l in their early next “dirty” science , and 20s and from sponsored Arizona, alstudy will include by the Clorox though there shopping carts Company. were others “If the from California, and reusable bachelorette New York and shopping bags. is going over Texas. the bache“We had lor ’s house, done studies avoid that remote at all costs,” on whose offices were cleanGerba said. “If a bachelor is er, men or women, and so we

By Michelle Weiss ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

asked ourselves, ‘Does that carry over into their homes?’” Gerba said. Women’s offices were dirtier in his previous study, due to the fact that 70 percent of women store food in their desk as compared to 50 percent of men, and most food that women store is biodegradable, such as apples or cupcakes. But at home, the story was much different. Some bachelor pads carry more than 15 times the bacterial amount than those

Campus Health Service’s annual Health and Wellness Survey begins today. Since 1992 , the Health Promotion and Preventive Services has been surveying UA students on a range of topics such as drugs, nutrition, sexual health, violence and sleep. Last spring, 2,931 students participated in the survey, according to David Salafsky, the director of Health Promotion and Preventive Services at Campus Health . “It’s probably the best snapshot of health and wellness among U of A students here at the university,” he said. Peggy Glider, the coordinator for Evaluation and Research at Campus Health, will lead the evaluation efforts and coordinate the process for administering the survey. The survey will not be produced online because, more often, students who complete it online are those who already practice a healthy lifestyle, Salafsky said. “We kind of do this the oldfashioned way, by going out to the classrooms,” he said. “The reason why we do that is we feel we get a better response.” The survey takes 15 to 20 minutes to complete and the results are used to give people an idea of the trends over time. It is beneficial to know whether the rates are changing and if things are moving in the right direction, he said. After evaluation of the results, programs can be implemented

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Out of many hearts, one for Tucson which filled half the size of Hi Corbett Field. Selected participants in the middle would be given white poster boards to hold up which would spell “TUCSON.” In the end, the white poster boards were laid on the ground and people stood along the outline of the heart shape painted on the grass. The crowd was not discouraged for not breaking Janice Biancavilla/Arizona Daily Wildcat any records though. Music Showing their support for the victims of the Jan. 8 shooting and celebrating their community, about 2,000 people met at Hi Corbett filled the stadium and KVOA Field on Sunday to form a heart in the “Tucson Has a Heart” event. Donations were also accepted for the community food bank. members even led crowd members in a synchronized YMCA dance, only they “TUCSON.” Participants wore many as 12,500 participants . By Janice Biancavilla red shirts and stood on the When numbers were far less spelled “TUCSON” instead. ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT KVOA and community field as a helicopter overhead than they expected though, More than 2,000 Tucsonans took an aerial photograph. the proposed human heart members created the event as gathered at Hi Corbett Field a response to the Jan. 8 shootKVOA and many other local had to be slightly altered. on Sunday to form a giant “hu- supporters who organized the Originally, the plan was to ings as a way to show commuman heart” around the word event were hoping to draw as create a solid human heart nity strength after tragedy.

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