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After defeating Oregon State, 70-59, in McKale Center on Thursday night, Kevin Parrom and the Wildcats are one win away from their first outright Pacific 10 Conference title since the 2004-05 season. Arizona hosts Oregon on Saturday at noon and can finish the season undefeated at home with a victory.

The UA will receive nearly twice as much of an increase in financial aid as Arizona State University during the next fiscal year. From fiscal year 2011 to 2012, ASU is projected to receive a $5.9 million increase in financial aid, and UA financial aid for those years is projected to increase by $10 million. The Arizona Board of Regents delineates the amount awarded from year to year. Financial aid awards include academic scholarships, money set aside from the regents and other awards, which encompass categories such as waivers for children and spouses of slain Arizona peace officers, according to the Arizona Board of Regents 2011 financial aid report. John Nametz, the director of student financial aid at the UA, said that the university is “very, very aggressive” in fighting for financial aid. An example of this, he said, is in 2009 and 2010 when the UA was the only university to access federal money allowing colleges to give students an additional term of the Pell Grant, called “year-round pell.” He explained that there are a variety of factors that determine how much financial aid a university is given, such as what programs an institution has to attract students who are eligible for need-based aid and private donors who provide scholarships. The UA’s jump is in part because of a 4.5 percent increase in total financial aid from 2011 to 2012, according to the report. The increase is due to factors such as regents-approved tuition increases and scholarship increases due to increases in tuition. Of the three in-state universities, the ASU student body comprised approximately 52 percent of the total amount of enrolled Arizona students during fall 2010 and is projected to have about 53 percent by 2016. The UA had about 29 percent of the students enrolled during fall 2010 and is projected to have about 27 percent by 2016.

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By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Students can now take a threeweek field ecology course in summer pre-session and learn by doing. The course focuses on the ecology and natural history of the Arizona side of the Sonoran Desert, as well as the upper Gulf of Mexico and Puerto Peñasco, Sonora. Students work handson for three weeks with the Biosphere 2 and the ArizonaSonora Desert Museum. The course’s instructor, Kevin Bonine, an adjunct assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, took a four-week field ecology course when he was a UA undergraduate, something he calls a “formative experience.” “There’s so many restrictions on a student’s time that it’s hard to get out in the field and experience places,” Bonine said, “I’m hoping that with this they can find the time and have a transformative experience similar to how I did 20 years ago.” Bonine often conducts field trips in his classes, and said he hoped to take the best aspects of his current trips and use what he has learned in this class. The group will spend five nights at UA’s Biosphere 2, five nights camping on Mount Lemmon, two nights in a residence hall working with the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and other local resources, then a few days at Saguaro National Park, Tumamoc Hill, El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve and the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The final days will be spent at Puerto Peñasco at a lesser known lava plain before a dinner at El Charro Café in Tucson to conclude the trip. Biosphere 2 Director of External Affairs Hassan Hijazi said that Bonine approached the institute’s director, Travis Huxman, on how to structure the course and house the students. “The research that Dr. Bonine does is a perfect fit for a lot of the research that we’re doing at Biosphere 2,” Hijazi said, “and we do have the facility that can house these students while they are doing their scientific research.” Pacifica Sommers, a doctoral student in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, has worked as a teaching assistant with Bonine for several semesters and was approached to be a teaching assistant for this class as well. “The areas (the class will be traveling to), those are all some of the most significant area for biology and ecology for the region,” Sommers said. “Tucson is home ECOLOGY, page 2

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Study: Get an extra hour of sleep By Steven Kwan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Most UA students have what would be considered a sleep disorder, according to a study conducted on campus that will be published in the Journal of American College Health. “One of the biggest reasons why is — surprise, surprise — because they aren’t getting enough sleep,” said Lee Ann Hamilton, assistant director of Health Promotion and Preventive Services at Campus Health Service and one of the study’s co-authors. Those surveyed, mostly freshmen that lived on campus, reported that they averaged close to seven hours of sleep and took about 26 minutes to fall asleep. Hamilton said 25 years ago, students would get an average of eight hours of sleep, “which, statistically, it’s a big difference.” New technology and social media are the main reasons for that lost hour, according to Hamilton. The study also finds that 54 per-

cent of students surveyed skipped class due to poor sleep the night before and 46 percent would fall asleep or show signs of sleep loss — difficulty with focusing, concentration or remembering — during class. Gender was also a significant factor in the study’s results. “Women were having a harder time (with sleep quality) in the fall compared to the men, but by the time the spring semester had rolled around, those differences had washed out,” said David Salafsky, director of Health Promotion and Preventive Services at Campus Health and a co-author of the study. Salafsky, Hamilton and co-author Kathryn Orzech, a postdoctoral fellow in the Chronobiology and Sleep Research Laboratory of E.P. Bradley Hospital at Brown University and former UA doctoral student, found that male students experienced significantly worse sleep from fall to spring, ending with similar sleep qualities as female students. Salafsky and Hamilton said they were unsure as to what could ac-

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friends and significant others during the academic year. But the most frequently reported mental health issue by both men and women was experiencing anxiety. The study formed the basis for Campus Health Service’s current sleep education campaign and its recommendations for getting better sleep. “If we could change one thing that would have improved (students’) sleep quality, getting them to get more than six hours of sleep really would have made a difference,” Salafsky said. If getting more sleep may not be possible sometimes, Hamilton offered this suggestion. “A lot of students would be well served if they set an alarm for when to go to sleep,” she said. “The idea of keeping a regular bedtime is a new concept for a lot of people. We tend to think only about the morning time. If we could all go to bed more regularly, we would all sleep better.”

count for the difference between male and female students. Even though the study initially

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- Keep regular bedtime and waking hours - Exercise regularly - Avoid caffeine and nicotine in the evening - Keep up with schoolwork - Minimize sleep interruptions with a dark, quiet bedroom — Campus Health Service only looked at the sleep quality among UA students, Hamilton said that the topic of sleep allowed students to talk about mental health issues. Overall, the women surveyed were more likely than men to report conflict issues with family members,

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