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Jobs will be few for Dec. grads
May graduates are expected to land jobs easier than December graduates as economy recovers
Students graduating in December will have a tougher time landing jobs than those who graduate in May, campus career experts and economists said.
Hiring has been weak this year.
Though between 1,500 and 2,000 students interviewed with prospective employers who visited campus this fall, the recruiters offered fewer positions than in past years, said Bill Ruggirello, assistant director of Career Services.
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NASA might send UA to Mars
The Lunar and Planetary Laboratory may receive a $284M grant from NASA to explore Mars in 2007
NASA officials said Friday that they are considering UA's proposal to explore Mars in 2007, among three other universities' proposals, in what would be the largest grant ever received by the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.
The UA became one of four finalists for project, partly by bidding to do the project for $284 million. The maximum cost for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's first "Mars Scout Mission" is $325 million.
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Deck the halls, but skip the lights this holiday
Budget cuts prompt UA to ask faculty, staff to decorate work spaces without holiday lights
The UA is asking faculty and staff to find creative and less expensive alternatives to holiday lights this year because of recent budget cuts.
Facilities Management and Risk Management and Safety have asked faculty and staff to eliminate lights from their holiday decorations and replace them with more "creative" ornaments.
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Fan hands down Wilbur suit
Some people are born Wildcat fans.
Some grow up to be Wildcats.
But only a special few become Wilbur the Wildcat.
Chuck Brugler, the 1974 football season's Wilbur, retired the last Wilbur costume to not have fur, fangs or holsters to the Jim Click Hall of Champions in the Eddie Lynch Pavilion on Friday afternoon.
"It's time for Wilbur to go home," Brugler said.
For more than 28 years, the mustard yellow smiling Wilbur head that he wore was displayed on his mantle at home.
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Campus cancer support group comforts victims
About 60 students are looking to make the holidays a little better for Tucsonans suffering from cancer.
Over the next few weeks, Youth Against Cancer club members will deliver care packages to chemotherapy patients in hospitals and meet with people who've lost family members and friends to the disease.
"My favorite thing to do is visit patients over the holidays and give them presents. It just brightens up their day a little," said theatre arts sophomore Christine Nelson.
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On the Spot
Database-constructing MIS and accounting guy doesn't mind numbers, prefers octopi
WILDCAT: Your major is not fun at all.
KHAN: No, not at all.
WILDCAT: It's like 7 on a Sunday night. What are you doing here so late?
KHAN: Working on a project for MIS.
WILDCAT: Do enlighten me · what do you have to do?
KHAN: We have to make a database.
WILDCAT: Yeah, still not very exciting. You're really not selling me on this accounting thing.
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U-WIRE: Roxio buys Napster, intends to sell music subscription service
Cary Sherman, president and general counsel of RIAA, said he thinks Roxio is a legitimate company.
Gary Augustson, Pennsylvania State University information technology provost, said Roxio is the model needed for legally acquiring Internet files.
Since Napster's demise in 2001, many students now use alternative programs like Kazaa and Morpheus that operate the same way Napster did. RIAA is calling on universities nationwide, including Penn State, to stop the large-scale use of illegal peer-to-peer Internet file sharing.
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U-WIRE- Shrink: Barbie dolls promote minority and body stereotypes
ANN ARBOR, Mich. ÷ Holding a platinum blond Barbie doll, clinical psychologist Stacey Pearson of Counseling and Psychological Services said the doll is one way in which American society perpetuates the idea that "the standard of beauty is white and it doesn't leave room for the diversity of sizes."
"There is this proliferation in thinking that this is the ideal," Pearson said. "This is the message, and it starts at Barbie."
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Fast facts:
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There were more than 200 visual special effects in the film "Batman Forever."
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The mouse is the most common mammal in the United States.
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Michael Keaton's name at birth was Michael Douglas.
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It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.
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Sandra Bullock's role in the romantic comedy "While You Were Sleeping" was originally offered to Demi Moore, but Moore's salary demands were out of reach.
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Jean Marie Butler was the first woman graduate from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1980. She also was the first woman to graduate from any U.S. service academy.
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In the marriage ceremony of the ancient Incas, a couple was considered officially wed when they took off their sandals and handed them to each other.
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A male pig is a boar. A female pig is a sow. A baby pig is a piglet.
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The winged hat worn by the ancient Greek god Hermes (or, in Roman mythology, Mercury) was called a "petasos."
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Human nails and hair do not grow after death. They are simply the last part of the body to disintegrate.
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In 1165, Malcolm IV, King of Scotland, died and was succeeded by his younger brother, William I the Lion.
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In 1792, the first formal cremation of a human body in America took place near Charleston, S.C.
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In 1793, Noah Webster established The American Minerva, New York's first daily.
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In 1926, the U.S. Golf Association legalized steel-shaft golf clubs.
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In 1934, because of ground conditions, the New York Giants football team wore basketball sneakers as they beat the Chicago Bears, 30-13, to win the NFL championship.
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In 1962, Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park was established.
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Quotable...
"I think if Iraq continues to completely comply, then I see no reason for the war."
÷ Former President Jimmy Carter, who is in Oslo accepting a Nobel Peace Prize, on the possibility of war with Iraq.
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