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September 6, 2005
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UA takes refugee students
Students displaced by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina are seeking the opportunity to continue their education at the UA.
Administrators are working with displaced students to enroll them in classes two weeks after the start of the semester and find them housing, a process President Peter Likins said will not be easy.
"It will take an enormous effort to ease this transition," Likins said. "This has been a traumatic experience for everyone."
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Students work to raise disaster relief funds
UA- and Tucson-area organizations are seeking ways to raise money, collect clothes and donate blood to the people suffering through the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Whether students have friends and family affected by the hurricane or are victims firsthand, help can be seen all across the UA campus.
The women's lacrosse team raised more than $600 Saturday in a three-hour car wash at the Circle K on East Speedway Boulevard and North Park Avenue, said Dannah G. Raz, team president.
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Quick Hits
Hurricane donation table
The Arizona Daily Wildcat student staff will be on the UA Mall every day this week from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. collecting cash donations to be donated to the American Red Cross Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
Credit card donations accepted by United Way
Students without cash who wish to contribute to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort can donate funds via credit card to the United Way Hurricane Katrina Response Fund. Log on to www.unitedwaytucson.org and or call 1-800-272-4630.
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Bid night nets at least 20 drinking citations
Labor Day weekend and bid night celebrations collided, bringing parties, police and minor-in-possession citations to campus Friday and Saturday.
An extra police squad was on hand to help keep an eye on campus partygoers, and the fraternities will be footing the bill for the security squad, said UAPD spokesman Sgt. Eugene Mejia.
Mejia said there were about 20 citations given out for underage drinking between Friday night and early Saturday morning.
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800 Katrina victims to stay in TCC
Victims from Hurricane Katrina will begin staying in the Tucson Convention Center as early as today, officials said.
Gov. Janet Napolitano announced Friday evening that Arizona would temporarily house victims from the storm, according to a press release from the governor's office.
"We have already deployed state, local and volunteer agency resources to assist with the response operations," Napolitano said. "Right now, the greatest need for these individuals, now that they have nothing left, is to have access to safe shelter where they can begin to heal emotionally and physically from the incredible trauma they have just suffered."
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Students, families feel Katrina's wrath
Some UA students from the New Orleans area are feeling the devastation of Hurricane Katrina personally. Some have lost almost everything they own, and others are saying goodbye to memories of the Big Easy.
Hal Miller, an undeclared freshman, was in Texas when the hurricane hit. He and his parents left New Orleans a day before the storm and went to Houston in 16 hours, a drive that normally takes about six, Miller said.
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Road trip takes students to Utah
Six students drove more than 24 hours to Utah over the weekend to support the UA football team in its first game of the season.
The students left Tucson in a Suburban at 8 p.m. Thursday for Salt Lake City, and after seeing the city and attending the game, returned to Tucson at 6 a.m. Saturday morning, said Amber Harryman, a classics junior who went on the trip.
"In hindsight, driving over 24 hours (for a road game) is a little crazy," Harryman said. "But we're all in college and it's experiences like that that you're going to remember."
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Names and Faces
Movers and shakers on campus
Sonia Aguila, pre-health education undergraduate; Lourdes Barrera, Olga Felix and Christine Armenta, public health graduates; Melisa Celaya, pursuing a doctorate in epidemiology - Awarded $4,000 Latina Scholarship for academic achievement and service to the Latino Community.
Mark Bierner, botanist and lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin - New director of the Boyce Thompson Arboretum. "I want everything to be so wonderful and so beautiful that (patrons) are wide-eyed, saying 'Ooooooh, Aaaaah!'"
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Fast facts
Things you've always never wanted to know
If you lace your shoes from the inside to the outside the fit will be snugger around your big toe.
Only one-third of the people who can twitch their ears can twitch only one at a time.
The expression "What in tarnation" comes from the original meaning: "What in eternal damnation."
Only two states' names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.
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