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Classroom cleaning cut back
Janitors will clean classrooms less frequently, so facilities management asks students to tidy up after selves
UA students are going to have to start picking up after themselves.
Recent budget cuts have forced a cutback on the number of days per week janitors will be cleaning classrooms and off-campus offices.
Joel Valdez, senior vice president for business affairs, wrote in a memo to deans, directors and department heads last week that because of a more than $6 million, or 17 percent, reduction in Facilities Management's budget since July, custodial services would be cut back.
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Bioscience specialties may double federal grants
The UA's involvement in the burgeoning biosciences sector would mean the university could net nearly twice as much in federal research grants, build more research laboratories and specialize in neurological sciences, cancer therapies and bioengineering, according to a report released yesterday.
The UA and other Arizona universities are lagging behind other states in biotechnology research, and consequently, research grants, the report stated.
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Future of food may be in genes
Most people have eaten genetically modified food and don't even know it.
The current debate on genetically modified plants and the history of this little-understood science was outlined last night at a faculty lecture given by plant sciences professor Vicki Chandler.
Chandler works with a team of 16 at the UA, researching gene regulation and specifically studying the more than 50,000 genes of corn.
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On the Spot
Veterinary science junior says naked tanning and that Îtingly' sensation are attractive to many
WILDCAT: OK, so no offense, but you're not very tan. Do you tan often?
FINK: I was really tan. I haven't tanned in a while.
WILDCAT: You know, I've been in one of those beds, and they are freaky. I felt like I was being entombed.
FINK: A lot of people don't like them, but I don't have a problem with them.
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U-WIRE: Wayne State U. students have money management troubles
DETROIT ÷ Some Wayne State University students believe that it is difficult to manage the financial responsibilities needed to pay for a college education. Despite generous increases in financial aid allotments, it is likely to require more planning and more work to pay for a college education now than in the past, and may be even more difficult in the future. Direct financial aid is usually supplemented by money that students will have to earn or that they must borrow.
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U-WIRE: Education leader who worked to desegregate schools dies at 84
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ÷ Harold "Doc" Howe II, U.S. commissioner of education to President Johnson and senior lecturer emeritus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, passed away Friday in Hanover, N.H. He was 84.
As federal education commissioner in 1965, Howe was responsible for desegregating America's public schools, changing the way policymakers approach education reform and arguing on behalf of poor children in modern education.
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U-WIRE: Washington State U. research team hopes to up milk output
PULLMAN, Wash. ÷ Science research at Washington State University is helping consumers and farmers across the country protect the environment and help animals.
One current research project studies metabolic relationships in supply of nutrients for lactating cows. WSU researchers are trying to improve the efficiency of production of milk protein by dairy cattle.
According to a document about the study, the primary research goal is to identify the best pattern of feed nutrient use in order to maximize effectiveness of natural resources and minimize environmental impact.
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Fast facts:
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In 1944, Major Clark Gable's army discharge papers were signed by president-to-be Ronald Reagan, then a captain.
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There are 170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 ways to play the ten opening moves in a game of chess.
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There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings on the entire earth.
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Upon her death in 1967, writer Dorothy Parker left most of her estate to civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. She left her ashes to writer Lillian Hellman, who reportedly never claimed them.
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Emily Dickinson wrote more than 900 poems, of which only four were published during her lifetime.
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King Charles VIII of France, who ascended to the throne in 1483, was obsessed with the fear of being poisoned. The monarch ate so little that he died of malnutrition.
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In 963, Holy Roman Emperor Otto deposed Pope John XII for dishonorable conduct and for plotting an armed conspiracy; Leo VIII succeeded as pope.
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In 1154, Nicolas Breakspear, the first and only Englishman to be elected pope, was crowned as Adrian IV.
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In 1791, Britain's Observer, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, was first published.
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In 1965, the United States launched Gemini VII into space for a link-up with Gemini VI.
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In 1969, Chicago police shot and killed Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton during a raid on the party's Illinois headquarters.
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In 1984, the discovery of a Bronze Age shipwreck off Turkey's southern coast was announced by the National Geographic Society. The discovery dated from when King Tutankhamen ruled Egypt.
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In 1985, Dallas became the largest city in the United States to pass a no-smoking law for restaurants.
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In 1991, journalist Terry Anderson, the last American and longest-held Western hostage in Lebanon, was freed by his Islamic Jihad captors after being held for 2,454 days.
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Quotable...
"We find the gun, we turn the passenger over to law enforcement at the checkpoint."
÷ Robert Johnson, spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration, on airport security.
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