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ZonaZoo unappealing to some students By Livia Fialho ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT More than 11,000 students bought a ZonaZoo pass this year. But the die-hard fans on the UA Mall four hours before the game aren’t the only ones on campus. Students who find the passes too expensive prefer to watch the game at home without having to deal with the crowds and those who simply don’t care
about football were there getting caught up with schoolwork. At the UA Main Library, linguistics freshman Rebecca Hynes was studying for a project. She usually goes to tailgating parties but doesn’t have a ZonaZoo pass. “I didn’t have enough money for one,” Hynes said. “I live offcampus so I have to pay for parking passes and things like that, so it was just too expensive.”
She plans on going to a couple of games, like the one against ASU in December, but not the majority of them. “I just don’t have it in my budget,” Hynes said. Family studies senior Deirdre Yazzie never bought a ZonaZoo pass. “I’d rather watch it on TV because I just don’t like the drunk people around, being disturbed (by them),” Yazzie said.
She acknowledged how how exciting the stadium atmosphere can be, but planned on watching the game with friends at home after she finished studying. Whitney Sheets was a member of Pride of Arizona marching band her freshman year, and had a ZonaZoo pass her sophomore and junior years. Now an art history graduate, she won’t go to any of the games, even though her friends and boyfriend will.
“I went for the novelty of it and the experience, and then I was just kind of done with it,” she said. On game day, the library receives a lot of visitors looking for one thing other than books: the bathroom. Senior Library Information Associate Pat Montoya said the volume of people at the Main Library is a lot smaller on these days, with a lot of people coming ZONAZOO, page 3
UA: Don’t get toasted Students teach high schools about sun safety By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Rob Paulus, a UA architecture alumnus, uses purchased and donated cans of heart-healthy kidney beans to build a heart-shaped structure in Margaret E. Mooney Hall at the Tucson Museum of Art in downtown Tucson on Saturday. The structure was inspired by a piece in the museum entitled “There is always Hope of Fruit” by Raymond Pettibon, and will be on exhibit until Oct. 1, at which point Tucson Community Food Bank will receive the food as a donation.
UA students, alumni build canned-food art By Abigail Richardson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Cans of food were sorted, stacked and made into unique structures by local architects, current UA students and alumni with backgrounds in architecture and engineering for the Canstruction charity event. More than 6,000 cans were used to build the structures on Saturday at the Tucson Museum of Art. The American Institute of Architects held the event in
conjunction with the Society for Design Administration. The AIA is treating Canstruction as the kick off for architecture week, which started Friday and ends Oct. 3. “It’s a series of events and lectures that we organize to establish public outreach to allow the architects of the community to reach out to everybody to talk about what we’re doing, what we’re working on and how architects actually help people in our everyday lives,” said Patrick Bradley, a recent graduate
of the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Canstruction, a nonprofit organization, hosts an annual design and building competition among teams who work in architecture and engineering. The event began almost two decades ago and now there are more than 140 competitions scheduled to take place this year. “We will be donating the several thousand cans used in the competition to the Tucson Community Food Bank to help fight hunger in
southern Arizona,” Bradley said. Since it is Canstruction’s first year in Tucson, the only category that will be awarded will be the People’s Choice, which is chosen by voters who visit the exhibit. The winning team’s entry will be submitted into a national competition. The three teams worked from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. to build large-scale sculptures made exclusively out of canned food. The team of local CANSTRUCTION, page 3
A new program through the Arizona Cancer Center’s Skin Cancer Institute shines a ray of light onto the dangers of ultraviolet exposure to a generation of tanning teenagers. Project SASS, which stands for “Students Are Sun Safe,” will bring UA student leaders into high school classrooms to teach about sun safety. Four local high schools will participate in the pilot program starting in October. Denise Spartonos, community outreach coordinator for the Skin Cancer Institute, created the proposal after noticing a lack of programs on sun safety geared toward high school students. “Teenagers are not using the sun safety prevention we know will help,” Spartonos said. Each presentation will be given during a 55-minute class period. The program includes a PowerPoint slide show and several activities. “It’s very dynamic, interactive,” Spartonos said. “It’s really designed for the high school audience.” Presentations include information from the Skin Cancer Institute describing how to protect skin from sun damage. Interactive activities show students the differences in sun protection between various sunscreens and clothing. SASS, page 10
‘War of Roses’ girls get down and dirty UA sororities compete over three days for title
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Courtney Nemyre, a member of Sigma Kappa sorority, runs for a touchdown during the “War of the Roses” flag football game against Delta Delta Delta on Sunday.
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Cheers erupt into chants that spread down the UA Mall Sunday morning, attracting passersby to stop and watch this spectacle. No, it’s not the chants of Wildcat football fans after the home game. Rather, it’s sororities coming together to raise money for a cause. Beginning on Friday, the fraternity Pi Kappa Phi had its annual “War of Roses” philanthropy. A name that might conjure much animosity between the different sororities, in fact, brought these organizations together for a common cause: Push America, Pi Kappa Phi’s nonprofit organization serving people with disabilities. “It’s a great event to get to raise
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money for a great cause,” said Patrick Verdon, a member of Pi Kappa Phi and coach for one of the sorority teams. However, “War of Roses” faced a complication. The philanthropy once had the benefit of a week-long period of events to raise money, but had reduce to three days due to a new regulation passed by the Philanthropy Advisory Board. The new regulation states that any philanthropy events put on by greek organizations cannot exceed three days. The board was allegedly getting complaints that weeklong philanthropy events were too long and stressful to participants. “War of Roses” is this year’s first philanthropy dealing with this time restriction. Last year’s “War of Roses” raised about $26,000, according to Pi Kappa
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Phi’s Philanthropy Chair Josh Guzman. Though the three-day barrier might have impeded the amount of donations, this year’s “War of Roses” still was able to raise $23,000, Guzman said. The money helps send active fraternity members to places where ramps and other renovations for the disabled need to be built, according to Guzman. A portion of the proceeds also goes to the Children’s Medical Center of Tucson. “The reason why we donate a portion to Children’s Medical Center is because we don’t only want to donate nationally, but provide locally,” Guzman said. ROSES, page 10
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