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New Rec Center flooded By Michelle Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Student Recreation Center’s expansion was closed on Sunday due to flooding. Heavy rainfall and construction most likely contributed to the flood, said Vincent House, an undecided junior and employee of the Pro Shop in the Rec Center. According to the Rec Center’s Web site, “The Expansion weight room, MAC gym and Outdoor Adventures will be closed until further notice due to a mechanical failure.” “It wasn’t the electrical room, it was the steam room, the basement,” said a representative from UA Facilities Management. “The electrical room is upstairs and the basement is where the mechanical stuff is, and it’s where the pumps are.” FLOOD, page 8
UA Peace Corps to Arizona club runs past ASU host fair Wildcats give new meaning to long distance with 24-hour run in SUMC Ernie Somoza/Arizona Daily Wildcat
Members of the Wildcat Running Club (from left) engineering management junior Kevin Maghran, philosophy junior Elizabeth Merkhofer, evolutionary biology junior Natasha Mazumdar and optical science freshman Kevin Duperret, practice for the Ragnar Relay del Sol, an event held on Friday and Saturday in which participants ran from Prescott to Mesa.
By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
The Wildcat Running Club ran from Prescott to Mesa in the Ragnar Relay del Sol, which began Friday afternoon, continued overnight and ended Saturday afternoon. The club began running at 1 p.m. Friday and continued until 1:30 p.m. the next day. They finished ahead of ASU’s team, but the overall results will not be announced for a few weeks. The club’s team consisted of 12 runners and two drivers. Each runner ran three legs of the race, which varied in difficulty. Drivers were responsible for dropping off and picking up runners. The relay spanned 202 miles and included live music.
“It’s just fun to get out and run in new places, and it’s also fun to go through the experience with your friends,” said evolutionary biology junior Natasha Mazumdar, who also participated in Ragnar last year. The club had been preparing for the run since December and members were excited to participate, according to Kevin Maghran, an engineering management junior and vice president of the Wildcat Running Club. “I wanted to participate in Ragnar because it is pushing my body to its limit, I have never ran so far or much in a race,” said geosciences junior Christine Willmott . “Ragnar will also give me a chance to visit more of Arizona since I am
originally from Illinois.” The club did extensive training to prepare. According to Maghran, on Mondays, Wednesdays and weekends the team focused on long distance runs. On Tuesdays and Thursdays they worked on improving speed and form. Fridays the club tried to do unusual runs, such as running downtown, or up and down the stairs of all seven UA parking garages twice. Willmott said she and another running club member injured themselves in preparation for the race. “According to my doctor, I increased my mileage too fast and have tendinitis in my right ankle,” Willmott said. “I guess that’s a warning to novice runners.”
Want to join the Wildcat Running Club?
Fill out an assumption of risk form and the Wildcat Running Club roster paperwork, both forms are located on the club’s Web site: sites.google.com/site/uofarunningclub under the resources tab. For more information, students can e-mail Wildcat Running Club President Ryan Swearingen ryan22@email.arizona.edu or Vice President Kevin Maghran at kmaghran@email.arizona.edu.
High-magnitude quake strikes Chile By Chris Kraul LOS ANGELES TIMES BOGOTA, Chile — Rescuers searched for survivors Sunday a day after one of the biggest earthquakes in recorded history rocked Chile, killing more than 700 people while leaving untold numbers missing and 2 million displaced, wounded or otherwise affected. The death toll jumped Sunday to 708, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said, nearly doubling as rescue crews reached remote and badly damaged towns. The magnitude 8.8 quake, which hit before dawn Saturday, toppled buildings, buckled freeways and set off sirens thousands of miles
away as governments scrambled to protect coastal residents from the ensuing tsunami. Authorities lifted tsunami warnings Sunday after smallerthan-feared waves washed shores from Southern California to Hawaii and Japan. Looting broke out Sunday in some of the most heavily damaged areas of Chile, where residents were without water or electricity. Crowds overran supermarkets in the port city of Concepcion, which sustained widespread damage, and were making off with food, water and diapers but also television sets. CHILE, page 8
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Former volunteers to talk expereinces dating back to ’60s By Laura Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
More than 100 former Peace Corps volunteers will talk with students about the program and the countries in which they served the at the UA Peace Corps fair on Tuesday. The volunteers, some of whom served in the 1960s and others more recently, have worked in more than 75 countries. “The goal is to teach university students and the Tucson community about countries where the Peace Corps serves,” said Richard Mora, a master’s student in Latin American studies and former El Salvador Peace Corps volunteer. March 1 through March 7 is Peace Corps Week. Alexandria Kassman, a 2009 UA alumna and current Azerbaijan Peace Corps volunteer, became interested in the Peace Corps after visiting the on-campus fair during her sophomore year. “After that I thought, ‘Oh my god, this is what I want to do, hands down,’” Kassman said. “I didn’t apply for anything else after graduation, Peace Corps was all I wanted to do. Then I went to the recruiter’s office and talked to them and they gave me literature to read about it to decide if it was for me. I just got more and more excited the more I read. I started the application process the summer before my senior year.” Kassman volunteers in the Teaching English as a Foreign Language program in Azerbaijan, where she has heat, basic amenities and Internet access through local Internet cafés. FAIR, page 3
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