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Monday, september 26, 2011
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Parrom shot in Bronx
creepy crawlies swarm on UA Mall
Basketball forward ‘stable’ after being wounded in the leg By Kevin Zimmerman Daily Wildcat
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Dominic Murphy takes a grasshopper from a volunteer at the first-ever Arizona Insect Festival. Put on by the Department of Entomology, Saturday’s festival featured a large collection of live insects, many of which are native to Arizona. The insects are studied and modeled by several departments on campus.
First fest held for insects By Kyle Mittan Daily Wildcat
The UA Mall was a hive of activity on Saturday, thanks in part to a research showcase from the Department of Entomology. The department held its first-ever Arizona Insect Festival, which exhibited the university’s extensive insect collection being studied by more than 200 scientists on campus, including students and faculty. The collection included many live insects that are native to Arizona, as well as many mounted on display that can be found all over the world. Although the Department of Entomology maintains this collection as a tool for teaching and research, scientists in the Department of Neuroscience and the Department of
Molecular and Cellular Biology, which use the insects as model systems, also use it extensively. The Department of Neuroscience ran a booth that explained just how complex insect brains are. Wendy Moore, an assistant professor in the Department of Entomology who also serves as the UA insect collection curator, said the purpose of the festival was to educate people about insects, and to explain that not all insects are pests. “We feel like insects need a public relations person,” Moore said. “Over 75 percent of all animals are insects, and they perform very important ecosystem functioning, including pollination and litter decomposition.” Aside from the educational aspect of the festival, Moore also wanted
“We feel like insects need a public relations person.”
— Wendy Moore Curator, UA insect collection
to highlight the lighter side of the experience. “Everyone has a child inside them, and that child loved insects,” Moore said. “When they hold one in their hand and look at it really closely, they become a child again.” Moore said she hopes the festival can include more insect art in the future. A popular attraction at the festival was the Western Hercules beetle, a winged insect measuring about two
to three inches long, with a hard outer shell and horn, reminiscent of a rhinoceros. The herbivorous beetle is found throughout Arizona. Rory Tibbals, a Tucsonan who lives near the university, said he decided to stop by the festival during a walk with his wife and son. “We were just out for a walk and noticed this was going on, and thought it was about the coolest thing we’d ever seen,” Tibbals said. He said he found the centipedes and the scorpions to be the most interesting, but made sure not to leave without visiting the edible insects booth, where they were serving chocolate-covered crickets. “I’ve eaten crickets before in military training,” Tibbals said. “But they’re way better covered in chocolate.”
Arizona junior forward Kevin Parrom was shot early Saturday morning in the Bronx, New York, and is now in stable condition, according to a report by ZagsBlog.com. “I have been in contact with Kevin and his family throughout the weekend and look forward to his return to Tucson and being back in class this week,” head coach Sean Miller said in a statement. “Our focus is on Kevin’s health right now. Once we have more information, we’ll be able to address his Kevin Parrom potential return to Junior forward team activities.” The 6-foot-6, 205-pound forward was shot once in the right leg, an anonymous source at the New York Police Department told SNY.tv. “He was with a woman and two people came to that location and knocked on the door,” the source said. “They followed him into a bedroom and shot him with a 22-caliber handgun. No one else was in the apartment when he was shot.” Parrom was visiting his hospitalized mother, UA athletic director Greg Byrne said in a statement. Parrom tweeted Friday, “Playing music for my mommy on my ipod. Tryna keep her strong. I love her.” An unnamed source told ZagsBlog. com’s Adam Zagoria that two men showed up to Parrom’s house, one wielding a gun, as Parrom was being visited by a woman. The source said words were exchanged with one man, who the source said was a jealous boyfriend or ex-boyfriend, and Parrom wrestled the men for the gun. Parrom was grazed in the hand and also in the leg. His former AAU coach of the New York Panthers, Gary Charles, told SNY.tv that Parrom told him Sunday, “I’m good. I’m walking.” There are 26 days until the annual Red/Blue game and 31 days until the basketball season tips off.
Two new dorms officially Medical society dedicated over the weekend honors doctors By Michelle A. Weiss
Ribbon cut in front of crowd for Árbol de la Vida and Likins Hall
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Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall and Likins Hall hosted their formal ribbon cutting ceremonies on Saturday, providing a close look at the features of the new residence halls to those in attendance. One of the features of the two new dorms is their sustainability. Both new dorms are LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, certified. The new dorms include features such as electrical outlets that shut themselves off after a period of inactivity and a custom interactive website and kiosk that shows the hall’s energy and water consumption. In addition, Árbol de la Vida has study rooms that double as classrooms for a more intimate classroom and learning experience. The new dorms are the most recent installment at the UA and were built to help accommodate the rising population of incoming freshmen. Árbol de la Vida houses 719 students in five buildings: Alma, Bondad, Carino, Destino and Esperanza. Likins Hall, named after former UA President Peter Likins, houses 369 students. Both dorms are meant to help foster growth, learning and a sense of
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UA President Eugene Sander, left, and former UA President Peter Likins cut a ribbon during the dedication of Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall and Likins Hall. The two new residence halls were dedicated during separate ceremonies on Saturday.
community among students. The ribbon cutting ceremony followed speeches from UA President Eugene Sander, Vice President of Student Affairs Melissa Vito, Honors College Dean Patricia MacCorquodale and Likins. “Residence life is part of academic life,” Likins said. He said the new dorms, “make it possible for young people to learn about each other, from each other.” He said he thinks it is important for the residence halls to be more than just a place that students sleep and store their things. He said he believes the residence halls should be “comfortable and a place to
stimulate social interaction.” It costs $7,450 to live in Árbol de la Vida or Likins Hall. One UA parent, Vittorio Luliano, said he loves the new dorms and that it is well worth the money to let his daughter live there. Freshman Krystal Owens said what she likes most about the dorms is their feeling of “newness.” “I would live here,” said UA parent Mark Rogers. During the ceremony, Árbol de la Vida also displayed the winning photography from a study abroad competition sponsored by Snell & Wilmer Law Firm, according to David Scott Allen, director of devlopment for the UA Honors College.
The Pima County Medical Society honored three physicians from the University Medical Center University Campus as physicians of the year on Friday. The event, which opened with a live jazz band, dancing and hors d’oeuvres at the Tucson Museum of Art, honored six physicians altogether, including three as physicians of the year for attending to the Jan. 8 shooting victims and helping to build the center’s trauma system. “We are embarking on a new era,” said Rainer Gruessner, UA College of Medicine chairman for the department of surgery and one of the three honorees. Four years ago, Peter Rhee, chief of the Division of Trauma at the University Medical Center - University Campus, worked alone but now has a staff of 10, Gruessner said. “He saved not only (Rep.) Gabby Giffords’ life, but that of many others,” he said. “A quarterback is only as good as his team is … and I tell you I’ve got a fantastic team.” Rhee, another physicians of the year honoree, thanked the community for allowing him and the trauma team to provide services for surgery. “Trauma is not an individual sport, it’s a team sport,” he said. “I only take this honor and recognition to say that it’s for everybody out there that does it for us and we’re very proud of that.” Michael Lemole, the third honoree
and the chief of neurosurgery at the center, thanked everyone who played a role in helping the shooting victims. “What I learned is that the community both grieves together and heals together,” Lemole said. Pam Simon, the community outreach coordinator for Giffords, was wounded on Jan. 8. At 63, she said she was fortunate enough to never have experienced trauma. “But there I was laying on the ground in front of Safeway and loaded into a ambulance, and barreling down the highway,” Simon said. She kept hearing people in the ambulance say “GSW,” meaning gunshot wound. Simon had two of them. When she reached the trauma center, she said it felt like she was on a television set for a hospital show. “Everything seemed to work absolutely perfectly,” she said. “I was immediately taken in, immediately somebody was with me, immediately somebody was giving me reassurance.” Giffords fought hard to keep a trauma center in Tucson, Simon said. “And how ironic that she received the incredible services of that trauma unit just a few years later,” she added. Three other awards were given out that night, including the Rose Marie Malone Service Award, which was given to Dr. Eve Shapiro. She served as the chair in a committee to raise Arizona Medicaid eligibility to all those under the federal poverty level
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