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Drilling competition rattles Old Main

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Monday, April 24 – Tuesday, April 25, 2017 VOLUME 110 ISSUE 85

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AFTER COLLARING HIS LOCATION to drill into the 20-ton rock, Nathan Kraft begins drilling what will be his winning cumulative depth of 22 inches using a 120-pound jackleg drill at a drilling competition on April 21 at Old Main. The Mining and Geological Engineering department hosted the drilling competition modeled after the International Intercollegiate Mining Games, in which UA students won the inaugural year and will compete this year.

COMMUNITY, STUDENTS RALLY FOR SCIENCE BY RANDALL ECK @reck999

Hundreds of people gathered in El Presidio Park on Earth Day April 22nd, with lab coats and homemade signs, to rally in support of the nationwide March for Science. According to the national March for Science website, thousands of people across six continents and in over

One of 600 rallies worldwide, Tucson community members voiced their support for science in trying times 600 cities participated in the event “to defend the vital role science plays in our health, safety, economies, and governments.” The Tucson branch of the event featured a set of speakers, musicians, and a

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series of educational booths. “We have a team of really competent, wonderful, and passionate people who have been plugging away for the last couple of months to put together a great program that was not only inspiration but

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was also educational and entertaining,” said Linda Bruff, entertainment committee leader for the event. The rally comes as a reaction to proposed budget cuts to research grants and the rejection of scientific consensus at all levels of politics. “There has really been a push to silence scientists

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