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Wednesday, June 15, 2005
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Reclaimed water Keeps keeps
Watering lawn with recycled water saves UA; makes lawn vibrant for summer
Over the course of three years, facilities management and a UA Mall panel committee have come up with ways to water the Mall lawn during the hot summer months while ensuring proper conservation of water through the best possible means.
Using the correct water and deciding when to irrigate the lawns is a task that can help save the UA time, money and wasted energy it need not expend if those in charge at the UA's facilities management assume correct and precautious measures.
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This Week
Wednesday 15th
High: 104°
Low: 71°
Sunny
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104/71
"Rodeo: No Guts, No Glory." – White-eyed broncos and nostril-flaring bulls frozen in aerial rolls and gravity-defying twists with cowboys hanging for dear life are featured in this solo photo exhibit by legendary rodeo action photographer, Louise Serpa. 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. The Lower Link Gallery, Tucson International Airport, 7250 S. Tucson Blvd.
FREE- Sex columnist and author Dan Savage speaks at Joel D. Valdez Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave from 6: 30 p.m. – 8 p.m. You've seen his column in the Onion for years. Now see him in person! Presented by the GLBT Services Committee of Tucson-Pima Public Library as part of Gay Pride Month
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Campus Briefs
UA student chosen for health internship
A UA student was honored in a national health internship program for talented minorities.
Candice Donald, a community health education alumna, was one of only 16 college students chosen to represent the Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars, a press release stated.
The internship program for talented minorities takes place in Washington, D.C. and is directed by the Kaiser Family Foundation in partnership with Howard University, the release stated.
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UA Webmail goes on stricter anti-spam diet
With an influx of spam and spyware popping up on today's laptops and personal computers, many believe keeping up with the filtration of these infectious nuisances should not be a concern in the first place.
The UA's Center for Computing and Information Technology does its best to help ensure unsolicited spam and bulk messages do not reach the more than 50,000 students, faculty and staff using UA's WebMail program, said Michael Torregrossa, co-director of CCIT.
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Freshmen fill up dorms despite continued rise in price
Imagine choosing a 180 square foot room without a kitchen and having to share a bathroom with 10 other people over choosing an 800 square foot space with a kitchen and your own bathroom when the 800 square foot apartment may cost as much as $150 less per month. Many freshmen will be doing just that this fall when they choose to live in a residence hall rather than renting an apartment or house.
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Important tips to help tame your toilet
So, you're interested in water conservation, but there's something that irks you about reclaimed water, especially that part about it being not "free from harmful or objectionable materials."
Let's cut the crap - it doesn't take a genius to figure out what "reclaimed" really means.
On that note, courtesy of the Tucson Water website (http://www.ci.tucson.az.us/water/tame_toilet.htm) here are some ways of conserving water immediately pertinent to the matter at hand – that of "recycling wastewater." The idea here is to create less "wastewater" in the first place.
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Fast Facts
taken weekly with a grain of salt
Four out of five American teens do not want to grow up to be president.
A Costa Rican worker who makes baseballs earns about $2,750 a year. The average American professional baseball player earns $2,377,000.
Christian Bale, who plays the title role in the upcoming "Batman Begins," played the role of Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho."
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