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Friday, February 13, 2004
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Geosciences students educate local kids
Rock hammer in hand and sporting sunglasses as protective eye gear, Theresa Kayzar smashes a large, clear quartz crystal, sending small shards shattering across a parking lot.
Kayzar, like many geologists, is wildly attached to her rock hammer.
"I've had it for 2 1/2 years. It is like my baby. I have a special place for it at home," Kayzar confessed, while wiping blood from her finger after being sliced by a sharp slice of quartz. "It is kinda burnt because I put it in lava in Hawaii."
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Condom Olympics penetrates UA Mall
UA students threw, blew and were pelted with condoms during yesterday's Condom Olympics on the Mall as part of Sexual Responsibility Week.
Two teams with two people each headed off in a series of competitions, including a condom water-balloon toss, condom trivia and a latex tower challenge.
The trivia included multiple-choice questions like "What is the scientific name of a penis?" and "What is the most effective method of birth control?"
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Justice's UA visit prompts protest
Some students unhappy with Rehnquist's record
About 50 people protested outside Chief Justice William Rehnquist's class yesterday at the James E. Rogers College of Law.
The crowd gathered to oppose the rulings Rehnquist has handed down during his 16 years on the Supreme Court.
"It's not personal. We aren't protesting him as a person," said Meg MacDougal, a second-year law student. "We're protesting the negative effects he's had on the law."
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Friday the 13th sparks up the superstitions among students
If a mysterious black cat crosses your path and bad luck follows you through the day, or if you step on a crack and learn that your mother broke her back, you can blame it all on today's date: Friday the 13th.
Thoughts of bad luck have always plagued people's minds on this notorious day, and UA students are no exception.
David Galindo, a senior majoring in finance and Spanish, said he has many superstitions that change his daily tasks.
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Students upset garage spots lost to hotel guests
When Nikki Best went online to check her e-mail Feb. 4, she discovered she had a ticket warning her to move her car in Main Gate garage, even though she had paid $450 to park there.
The citation said she had one day to move her car before it was towed.
Just two days earlier, Parking and Transportation Services designated the spaces on the east side of the second floor of Main Gate garage for Tucson Marriott University Park valet parking.
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On the spot
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Education freshman wears the skirt in the relationship
Wildcat: Hi, I'm from the Wildcat and you're on the spot. Describe yourself to me in three words.
Berman: Umm ... smart, hilarious and sexy.
Wildcat: What about you is so sexy?
Berman: That's a good question. It's the hair, definitely the hair.
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Fastfacts
Things you always never wanted to know
Each square inch on human skin consists of 19 millions cells, 60 hairs, 90 oil glands, 19 feet of blood vessels, 625 sweat glands and 19,000 sensory cells.
Lewis Carroll, by his own account, wrote 98,721 letters in the last 37 years of his life.
As a boy in Scotland, Alexander Graham Bell made a talking doll that said, "Mama."
British ships in the English Channel fired a salute of 20 guns when word reached them that the country's adversary, President George Washington, had died in the states.
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Word Up
Quotes from campus and around the world
"I do think he needs some sassy highlights."- Carson Kressley, "Queer Eye" fashion guy, on President Bush
"It's amazing. You have great roads and continuous electricity. It's very nice."
- Tsewang Dorje, Tibetan monk on tour, on his American experience
"I've been really disappointed in the student body. (The Legislature) will get away with as much as they can."
- John Kromko, political science student and former legislator, on the tuition hikes
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