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Arizona House approves measure allowing concealed carry of weapons on college campuses By Eliza Molk ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Arizona House of Representatives approved a bill allowing guns on college and university campuses on Thursday. The measure, which was approved 33 to 24, would allow firearms to be carried in the open or concealed in public rights of way, such as campus sidewalks, but not into classrooms. The bill will
now go to Gov. Jan Brewer, who will decide if the measure should be signed into law. The Associated Students of the University of Arizona, the Graduate and Professional Student Council and the Faculty Senate all passed resolutions opposing proposed gun legislation in Arizona. Sgt. Juan Alvarez, the public information officer at the University of Arizona Police Department,
said UAPD is waiting to see if the bill is signed into law before deciding on what safety measures and trainings to provide to the UA community. “We will see what’s required (of the law) and make adjustments to come,” he said. ASUA President Emily Fritze said that students and faculty who are concerned and uncomfortable about the bill need to “put pressure” on the governor to veto it,
although Fritze is “not sure how likely that is.” Fritze explained that the majority of students and faculty she has spoken with about the gun bills did not support them, especially the faculty. She also said that, if the bill is signed into law, she is sure that the UA will educate students on “what (the bill) means.” Fritze said she has heard talk of possible
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Health expert calls for care quality
Study shows long job hours can lead to cardiovascular strain By Michelle Weiss ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Working long hours may be associated with an increased risk of having a heart attack, a new study shows. The study, which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on April 5, has added long working hours to the list of traditional risk factors for coronary heart disease. The purpose of the study was to determine whether long working hours contribute to risk assessment of cardiovascular disease, the abstract of the study showed. “I’m not sure that there’s any data that says working long hours is bad for your health,” said Dr. Gordon A. Ewy, the director of the Sarver Heart Center. “If so, I’d be dead.” The Framingham Heart Study, which was a research project conducted in 1948, was meant to identify the common risk factors of heart disease, Ewy said. The findings of that study are the most important things to look out for, he said. Controlling high blood pressure, controlling cholesterol and not smoking are ways to avoid heart disease, Ewy said. “Those three things have really made the big difference,” he said. Aisha Abedi, a public health and pre-physiology sophomore, said she goes to the gym six days a week and it is a good way to work off her stress. Classes are stressful and other students can add to that stress, she said. “Someone next to you is always doing more than you,” Abedi said.
“I am a gun owner myself, but that’s not how you introduce a weapon into a system which for years didn’t have them.”
By John Kuells ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Carolyn Clancy has an ambitious goal: she wants to improve health-care quality and reduce disparities in care associated with race, ethnicity, gender and education. Speaking at Drachman Hall yesterday, Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, spoke on what the 20-year-old government funded agency’s goals and programs are to improve the overall state of health care in the United States. Among the topics, Clancy said that health-care quality and patient safety are a major research interest. She stated a large part of this would be to have systems that are more responsive to patients, with doctors looking retroactively at past trends to improve health care for the future. “We mean well, but our systems are really all about us … and we can do a whole lot better,” Clancy said. Clancy also dove into the topic of disparity in care for minorities, which she said comes at a personal and societal price. She said the agency’s goal is to care about all individual patients, but went on to add that data suggests health care is not equal for Native American or Latino
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Abedi said she has a friend who works two jobs and is stressed out when it comes to finding time to study. Students are definitely overworked so it is good for them to be active in other things and be social, she said. Ewy said in the 1970s, 40 percent of people died of cardiovascular disease, and in 1980, 38 percent. By 2000, the number
was still as high as 34 percent. Dieting can also be important for heart health, but not for everyone, Ewy said. “The reason diet doesn’t work for everyone is because the average cholesterol in the diet is 300 milligrams and the liver puts out 900 milligrams in the bile,” he said. “If you decrease your cholesterol intake way down, you can only lower your choles-
terol by about 10 percent.” If someone’s cholesterol is mildly elevated, diet can help, he said. Exercise is also good for the health and those who exercise more seem to live longer, Ewy said. However, exercise has also been associated with sudden death in a number of people. “That’s why they say ‘Well, HEART, page 2
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Safe Ride breaks passenger record and eased up on usual Safe Ride rules. Safe Ride eliminated the maximum number of three people per call. There was also no limit on the number of destinations each of the 13 vehicles used were allowed to serve. In addition, Safe Ride did not cut off the boundaries 20 minutes before the shift is over, allowing people to go to more destinations late at night. Safe Ride staff didn’t find out about the results until around 1:30 a.m., when they all went back to the office, Wozny said, noting that people back at the office tried to trick those coming back saying they would be disappointed. “I was quite ecstatic. I gave quite a shout when I saw that we broke the record,” he said.
By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Safe Ride passengers Rebekah Jackson, Julie Morse, Jasmine Larkins, Raashi Parihar, Kiah Egebreston and Desiree Bock get a ride from Manzanita-Mohave Residence Hall by Safe Ride driver Michael Bowman on Monday. Safe Ride recently broke a record by providing rides for 1,019 passengers on the Thursday of Spring Fling.
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Safe Ride sprung to a new record of 1,019 passengers last Thursday, the first day of Spring Fling. Traditionally, Spring Fling Thursday is the biggest night of the year for Safe Ride, according to Chris Wozny, Safe Ride administrative director. Around 840 people used Safe Ride in 2008 during the first day of Spring Fling and last year 935 utilized the service on the same date, he said. “We didn’t just want to break the record this year, we wanted to get into the quadruple digits,” Wozny said. To meet the goal, Safe Ride generated hype through social media
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