5 more wounded in shooting at University House apartments

A Tucson woman was killed and five others injured yesterday morning after several rounds of shots were fired in a west side student apartment complex.

The six were among several people attending a gathering in front of Building 19 at University House, 2525 W. Anklam Road, at about 1:15 a.m. when someone fired shots into the crowd, said Sgt. Judy Altieri, Tucson Police Department spokeswoman. [Read article]

15 percent of students' tuition dollars allocated to service debt on university building projects

Every semester thousands of UA students travel to the Bursar's office to pay their tuition. After signing their check, they shut their checkbooks and leave the Bursar's office behind them.

As they walk past the Integrated Learning Center and the Main Library with its fifth floor addition, they might not know that about 15 percent of the check they just handed over to the university helps pay off the debt on the construction of these buildings. [Read article]

Ask Dick Powell why universities perform research, and he'll say it's not for the money. It's for the students.

"It becomes the creative component of their educational experience," said Powell, UA's vice president for research and graduate studies.

But the money doesn't hurt. And research grants and contracts bring UA a lot of it ÷ $285.1 million last year, according to a study examining the university's impact on the local economy. [Read article]

This summer, 300 UA women will have a unique opportunity to take part in a study that could save millions of lives, and maybe their own.

Cancer prevention researchers at the Arizona Cancer Center are recruiting women, ages 18-23, to help determine the effectiveness of a new vaccine designed to prevent Human Papillomavirus infection. The study has already begun and covers a four-year period.

HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the United States. Nearly one third of university-aged females are infected with the virus now, according to Dr. Anna Giuliano, a UA associate professor heading the study at the College of Public Health [Read article]

More than two dozen UA students and other Tucsonans waived banners and picket signs outside a Taco Bell near campus, Friday, in opposition to possible worker's rights violations.

The protesters lined the southwest corner of East Speedway Boulevard and North Campbell Avenue chanting slogans like "Yo no quiero Taco Bell!" and "Taco Bell, shame on you. Farm workers are people too!" as rush hour traffic sped by. Several cars pulled in to the Taco Bell parking lot to examine the banners more closely. [Read article]

International students, faculty and researchers left Thursday's Immigration Information Workshop with two new maxims: arm yourself with information and don't travel outside the U.S.

The workshop featured three lawyers, from the Phoenix-based firm Bacon and Dear, who addressed new issues and concerns in immigration laws.

"It's important you know where the Constitution protects you and where it doesn't," said Roxana Bar, a partner at the firm, to a noon audience of about 80 that followed a morning session that filled UA's Gallagher Theatre. [Read article]

Graduate and professional students have the opportunity this week to make their voices heard by electing individuals to represent them in student government.

Elections start today and will run until 5 p.m. Thursday. Students will be able to vote for a representative for their college by logging on to the Graduate and Professional Student Council's Web site, www.gpsc.arizona.edu.

This is the second time in GPSC history that elections will take place online. [Read article]

Campus and community daytime jazz listeners will now get an earful of daytime news when they tune into public radio station KUAZ.

KUAZ simulcast stations, 89.1 FM and 1550 AM, serve as an educational broadcast and production source for UA, as well as the only source for National Public Radio news in southern Arizona. Changes, which take effect today, will replace the station's daytime jazz programming between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. with four popular news and information programs in its weekday schedule. [Read article]

As she prepares to compete for the Mrs. Arizona America 2003 title, UA graduate Emily Dille says her immense campus and community involvement at UA is what brought her to the runway.

Dille, formerly Spear, graduated from UA in 2000 with a degree in communication and four years of community service she hoped to continue. A member of Chi Omega sorority and former intern at the local radio station KRQ, Dille served as the sorority's social chairwoman for four years and was awarded Greek Woman of the Year during her sophomore year at the UA. [Read article]

Anthro sophomore's favorite dinosaur is a T-rex ÷ she thinks the stumpy arms are fun

WILDCAT: Call me stupid, but what are you going to do with your major?

GELSINON: You look at extinct species.

WILDCAT: Ooh, like dinosaurs?

GELSINON: Yeah, whatever, I don't know.

WILDCAT: When I have kids, my little boys are going to wear underoos with dinosaurs on them. Anyway, what's your favorite kind of dinosaur? [Read article]

· A law in Fairbanks, Alaska, does not allow moose to have sex on city streets.

· Butterflies taste with their feet.

· Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.

· In 1947, Marilyn Monroe was chosen as the first California Artichoke Queen. She had no competition for the title.

· Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level. [Read article]

Today

· 1994 ÷ The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Î'South Pacific'' opened on Broadway.

· 1998 ÷ Mary Bono, the widow of entertainer-turned-politician Sonny Bono, won a special election to serve out the remainder of her husband's congressional term.

Tuesday

· 1513 ÷ Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain.

· 1990 ÷ Ryan White, the teenage AIDS patient whose battle for acceptance gained national attention, died in Indianapolis at age 18. [Read article]