The department of surgery is looking for new ways to cut into innovative medical technologies.

Along with the Arizona Surgery Club, the department hosted the Surgery Simulation Expo Friday to showcase various medical simulation machines.

The machines are mannequins that look and feel like real humans, complete with movement and internal organs. They can be programmed to suffer from various medical conditions, which doctors can practice curing. [Read article]

A UAPD corporal was arrested Friday on charges of assaulting his wife after he accused her of adultery.

Vincent David Tracey Jr., 32, who has been with UAPD for more than 10 years, was arrested for punching his wife Thursday night, Tucson police reports stated.

The fight was over an Eegee's receipt Tracey found in his wife's purse that caused him to believe she was seeing someone else, reports stated. [Read article]

A new ASUA-created advising contract that would prevent students from being punished for bad advising may not be effective or even necessary, campus advisers said.

Kim Bui and Cassi Sonn, Associated Students of the University of Arizona academic affairs directors, recently created a contract that will enable students to keep a record of their academic advising appointments.

The contract, signed by both adviser and student, can be used as evidence if bad advice is given, so that the student is not penalized. [Read article]

Trumpet instructor Ed Reid not only wants to teach his students about music, he wants to enrich their lives.

Next summer, Reid, an associate professor of music, will take 18 trumpet, percussion and other brass students and a conductor to Bangkok, Thailand, to compete in the International Trumpet Guild competition.

"World travel is fun. Students in Arizona don't get this too much," he said.

In order to raise $30,000 for travel to the competition, Reid and his students are selling raffle tickets for a parking permit in the garage of the winner's choice. [Read article]

The Faculty Senate will weigh in today on whether top administrators should go forward with plans to ask regents to eliminate the School of Planning.

The senate's recommendations won't be binding, but administrators agreed more than a year ago that faculty would be allowed to voice their opinions on plans to eliminate departments if faculty within the affected department objected.

Planning students and faculty, as well as professional planners from around the state, have spent more than a year lobbying regents and administrators to spare the program. They say the school performs a vital public service by assisting communities that can't afford help from professional planners. [Read article]

The presence of two swarms of Africanized bees shut down parts of North Tyndall Avenue and closed off a walkway behind Park Student Union yesterday afternoon.

Both swarms were isolated and removed.

Kent Griffith, of Catalina Bee Removal, said approximately 12,500 bees gathered on a wall above a rear walkway of PSU, shutting down a portion of North Tyndall Avenue for about an hour.

Griffith said the bees that congregated on the wall were following the scent of their queen, who had chosen the spot to rest. [Read article]

UAPD officer a 'Jackass' pioneer, but won't run through bees

Wildcat: I'm Claire from the Daily Wildcat and you're on the spot. So what exactly are ya'll protecting us from?

Shcopner: Well, there was a sudden swarm of bees around the Park Student Union ... so we came out to make sure that no one got stung.

Wildcat: Are these "killer bees"? I heard that there were like 50,000 of them swarming. [Read article]

Things you always never wanted to know

Today

1775 - The American Revolution begins when a "shot heard around the world" is fired in Lexington, Mass.

1861 - The first blood of the American Civil War is shed when a secessionist mob in Baltimore attacks Massachusetts troops bound for Washington, D.C. Four soldiers and 12 rioters are killed.

1994 - A massive explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City kills 168 people and injures hundreds more. [Read article]