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Dems camp out for victory news
The UA's Young Democrats were running on coffee, sugar and very little sleep as they and couple hundred other local Democrats, awaited election results last night.
Members of the club joined hundreds of other Democrats from across Tucson last night as election returns trickled in to their local camp set up at the Viscount Hotel on East Broadway Boulevard.
"Last night, we were hanging signs up in the morning around town," Young Democrat President Michelle Rust said. "That was exciting. I got three hours of sleep. I'm running on adrenaline now."
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Kolbe nods to Repub club
After months of pounding the pavement and going door to door in support of the Republican Party, the UA College Republicans felt both victory and defeat last night as they watched election results post.
Around 9 p.m., a chorus of cheers broke out among the small group of College Republicans, who gathered with other members of the Pima County Republican Party after Jim Kolbe's reelection as U.S. Congressman was announced.
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2002 Election Results: District 7 sends Grijalva to D.C.
Former Pima County supervisor Raul Grijalva, a Democrat, was declared the winner last night in his bid for U.S. Congress from Arizona's new District 7.
With 85.9 percent of precincts reporting just after midnight, Grijalva had beaten out Republican Ross Hieb and Libertarian John Nemeth, carrying just more than 60 percent of the votes.
Hieb followed with 35.8 percent and Nemeth trailed with just more than 4 percent.
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Campus counselor: 9/11 still on our mind
Forum addresses psychological state of Americans after stress of 9/11 attacks, murders, war
Members of the UA community and beyond are still suffering from the lingering affects of last year's Sept. 11 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, a UA psychology professor said Monday.
This comes on top of last week's murders of three nursing professors.
A survey taken at Northern Arizona University said people who watched the events on TV had similar emotional reactions as those who experienced it firsthand, UA psychology professor Judith Becker said at a forum Monday on the after effects of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Council looks to up staff morale
Staff Advisory Council to address pay, parking, respect
The Staff Advisory Council said yesterday that a recent survey on satisfaction in the workplace correctly showed that parking, pay and employee-supervisor relations are sometimes problematic at the UA, and that members of SAC feel their work is viewed as less important than the work of faculty members.
Nearly 4,000 appointed personnel responded to the Millennium II survey that was released two weeks ago by Diane Perreira, director of the SALT Learning Center and Kathleen Miller, an employee development coordinator in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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On the Spot:
Cheerleaders muse on dropping partners, face-feeding dolphins, visions of recycling, mating pigs
WILDCAT: How many girls do you drop per year?
ABUD: I usually drop the same girl because we have partners.
WILDCAT: So how many times have you dropped her?
ABUD: Well, I'm pretty good, so ·
WILDCAT: Has she suffered any permanent damage? Does she twitch, anything like that? When I was little, my grandpa accidentally dropped me on my head. Quite traumatic.
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U-WIRE: Texas A&M frat brother busted for taping sex without consent
COLLEGE STATION, Texas ÷ Texas A&M University student Brennan Jasper Bice was arrested Oct. 31 after he admitted to videotaping intercourse with a female student without her knowledge and then showing the tape to fraternity members.
Bice, 21, a information and operations management junior and member of Lambda Chi Alpha, told police that he videotaped himself and a sorority member having consensual sex at his home last month, said Lt. Rodney Sigler of the College Station Police Department.
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U-WIRE: Saint Mary's nature trail closed as hunters reduce deer numbers
SOUTH BEND, Ind. ÷ Don't be alarmed by that sound you hear; it just might be gunfire.
Starting yesterday, hunters began to reduce the overabundant deer population on Saint Mary's campus, hunting in the cornfields and around the nature trail. Although the hunters will not be on campus every day, these areas will be off limits through November.
"We ask students to avoid the area for the next month," Lindsay Evans, a Saint Mary's representative to Notre Dame campus life said at Monday's Executive Cabinet meeting.
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Fast facts:
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William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols, as Capt. James T. Kirk and Communications Officer Lt. Uhura, shared network television's first interracial kiss in the episode "Plato's Children" on the popular sci-fi series "Star Trek." The revolutionary episode aired in 1968.
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The Sun provides our planet with 126,000,000,000,000 horsepower of energy every day. This means that 54,000 horsepower is delivered for every man, woman and child on Earth in each 24-hour period.
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The Canadian Tulip Festival is the world's largest tulip festival. Held in mid-May in Ottawa and Hull, this festival attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world. Two million tulips were planted as part of the Millennium Tulip Challenge in 2000. Up to five million tulips bloomed in the National Capital Region, coinciding perfectly with the festival.
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The first vending machines in the United States dispensed chewing gum and were installed in New York City train platforms in 1888.
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A jet or turbo-jet powered aircraft uses more fuel flying at 25,000 feet than 30,000 feet. The higher it flies, the thinner the atmosphere and the less atmospheric resistance it encounters.
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In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederate States of America.
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In 1869, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the first intercollegiate football game was played. Rutgers defeated Princeton 6-4.
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In 1903, in New York, the original stage production of Sir James Barrie's "Peter Pan" opened. The play ran for 2 years with Maude Adams as its star.
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In 1928, Jacob Schick patented the first electric razor.
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In 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommending member states apply economic sanctions.
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In 1986, Edy's Ice Cream Company took out a $250,000 insurance policy on the taste buds of ice cream taste-tester John Harrison.
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Quotable...
"Things are looking remarkably similar."
÷ Assistant Tucson Police Chief Robert Lehner, on the possibility that the D.C.-area snipers were involved in a Tucson shooting in March.
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