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Tuesday October 14, 2003
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Protest erupts over Mt. Graham
2 arrests made at Mall demonstration of telescope proposal
Police were called to a protest in front of the UA Administration building yesterday, leading to the arrest of a UA law student and a Tucson environmentalist.
UAPD was called after Daniel Patterson, an ecologist with the Center for Biological Diversity, was accused of assaulting another protester, said UAPD spokesman Sgt. Eugene Mejia said.
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Scene of tragedy reopens for class
Nursing shooting site opened as video room
A classroom that was once closed off by tragedy has reopened its doors, bringing together nursing students from across the state.
Room 470 in the College of Nursing ÷ where UA nursing student Robert Flores Jr. shot and killed professors Cheryl McGaffic and Barbara Monroe on Oct. 28, 2002, before taking his own life ÷ has been transformed into a $350,000 teleconference room.
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Charity events run through Tucson
Instead of dressing up for posh charity balls, members of the UA community are dressing down to run and walk for benefits.
On Saturday, some 40 UA students, faculty and staff attended Tucson's Walk for Diabetes at Reid Park starting at 8 a.m. More than 1,200 people of all ages attended the walk, some with their dogs.
Mary Carter, chairperson of the College of Science Staff Advisory Council, said that more than 200 people donated money to the diabetes walk and raised around $9,300 from the UA alone.
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ÎMinority myth' troubles students
Fredrick Floranda's classmates often crowd around him during lecture to try to copy his notes.
It happens a lot, and according to Floranda, it happens because he's Asian.
An agricultural economics senior, whose parents came to the United States from the Philippines, Floranda is one of many Asian students at the UA who has encountered the "model minority myth," a stereotype that indicates all Asian students should excel academically.
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Internet use causes student distraction
Many students like to ride on the information superhighway, however, some just forget to get off.
Lindsay Brown, a pre-business freshman, said she uses the Internet to escape doing homework and only a quarter of her Internet time is productive.
"The other day I made a screen saver of pictures I found on the Internet," she said. "It was a waste of time."
Brown, like countless other UA students, is struggling to manage her Internet use.
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On the Spot
Freshmen girls learn the ins and outs of the male mind, find bike accidents funny
Wildcat: Hi. My name is Nathan and you guys are both On the Spot.
Newman: Cool.
Workman: All right.
Wildcat: So I saw you guys just talking to some guy walking his puppy.
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Fast Facts
Things you always never wanted to know
In the late 19th century, it was the fashion among many English women to wear gold rings through their nipples. In an 1899 edition of the British Journal Society, fascinating details are given about this peculiar fad. The woman who wished to wear such ornaments, the magazine said, had holes bored through her nipples and thin golden rings threaded through the holes. It was believed that wearing such rings made the breasts fuller and rounder, and that the rings were a stimulating sight for men when exposed. The operation was performed not by doctors, but by jewelers, much the way ear piercing is done today.
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