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Tuesday, April 27, 2004
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Disability center celebrates opening
New facility expected to become Îgold standard' for other centers in U.S.
The Disability Resource Center in the Highland Commons building celebrated its grand opening yesterday, and officials at the ceremony said they hope the new center will improve the quality of academic life for UA students with disabilities.
President Peter Likins, speaking at the event that drew about 100 people, said this center will help disabled students overcome obstacles by offering resources that they cannot get elsewhere on campus.
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Spitter terrorizes UA women
When a UA student was walking to class two weeks ago, she got an unpleasant surprise from a man hanging around a UA building.
Gina, who doesn't want her last named used because she fears the man might try to find her, said she was walking to class on April 12 when a young man walked by and spit on her.
"I saw him walking toward me, and at first I thought he was spitting on the ground, but the spit hit my foot, and he turned around and called me a tramp," she said.
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New council aims to improve ASUA, club communication
Student leaders have created a new council they say will improve communication between clubs and ASUA, but club representatives question how effective the new initiative will be.
Sara Birnbaum, Associated Students of the University of Arizona executive vice president -elect, created the constituent councils for next year, which she says will help increase club representation on campus.
The councils will consist of a senator, a club advocate and an Appropriations Board member who meet monthly with approximately 40 club representatives.
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Napolitano signs 2 new nursing bills
PHOENIX ÷ The governor has signed two bills into law that one nursing organization cautioned would suppress nursing wages and threaten patient safety.
House Bill 2256, which establishes a pilot program allowing certified nursing assistants to administer pills and topical medication to patients, and House Bill 2345, which creates minimum standards for training nutrition and feeding assistants in licensed care facilities, both received gubernatorial approval.
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On the spot
Freshman pitches at 70 mph, says students only know Eloy because of the skydiving
Wildcat: So, my name's Nathan and you're on the spot.
Guevara: Pablo.
Wildcat: All right, Pablo. You've got to explain why you're throwing a softball at our brick buildings here.
Guevara: Break the red bricks, right?
Wildcat: Is that what you're trying to do?
Guevara: Well, I'm going to try out for an American Softball Association team here in Tucson. No. 1 team in the country right here. The girls. Yeah.
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Fast facts
Things you always never wanted to know
Englishmen of the 16th and 17th centuries believed that no one who lay upon feathers could die in peace. Therefore, as death approached, the pillow was withdrawn from under the dying person's head to ease the passing.
12,345,678,654,321 is the square of 11,111,111.
Euclid worked out virtually none of the theorems of "Euclidean" geometry. He was a collector of other men's works. His great virtue was that he arranged in so logical an order the geometrical theorems known in his time that they can scarcely be improved.
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From the Archives
April 26, 1965: Hit me
"Approximately 350 students attended the Student Union Activities Board's Las Vegas Night Friday.
"A letter submitted to the Wildcat Thursday questioned the Îcheap and farcical' handling of marriage at the event, the Îuse of high school girls as entertainment' and the Îfeaturing of gambling as a means of entertainment and/or fund-raising.'
"Prizes were given to the students cashing in the most chips after the evening of gambling. Men's winner was Adel Hamad, who amassed $23,830 during the evening. The winning coed was Mildred Galliker, who accumulated (a whopping) $488.
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