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ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Printing the news, sounding the alarm, and raising hell since 1899
MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2013
VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 87
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UA faculty help draft climate report RYAN REVOCK
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Six UA faculty members — more authors than from any other university in the country — contributed to a draft of the National Climate Assessment report, released earlier this month. The assessment is supposed to be conducted every four years under the Global Change Research Act of 1990. The United States Global Change Research Program website lists the first key objective of the report as “evaluating, integrating and assessing relevant climate
science and information from multiple sources,” and goes on to list “increasing understanding of what is known and not known about climate change.” The faculty members contributed to six different chapters. Two of the authors are convening lead authors, which means they led the development of their respective chapters. Diana Liverman, the codirector for the UA Institute of the Environment, is a convening lead author on the Research Agenda for Climate Change Science chapter and Gregg Garfin, a deputy director at the Institute of the Environ-
ment and UA professor, is one of the convening lead authors on the Southwest chapter. Katharine Jacobs, a soil, water and environmental science specialist who is now serving as assistant director for climate adaptation and assessment, which is part of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, praised the UA’s involvement in drafting the assessment. “The University of Arizona has a strong climate program and they have expertise in a wide variety of topics related to climate,” Jacobs said. “And for that reason there
are a larger number of researchers from the University of Arizona involved in the National Climate Assessment than any other institution.” Jim Buizer, a professor at the UA School of Natural Resources and the Environment and deputy director at the Institute of the Environment, was the lead author on the Mitigation chapter and the Sustained Assessment BRIANA SANCHEZ/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT chapter. He is also one of 60 members of the National Climate JAMES BUIZER, UA FACULTY MEMBER, Assessment and Development is one of six authors on the new draft of the
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Fraternity members raise money for UA Cancer Center RENEE VALENCIA Arizona Daily Wildcat
The Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity (PIKE) Gamma Delta chapter of the UA presented a check for $14,500 to the UA Cancer Center on Friday. PIKE received the funds through CATwalk, a community service event that raises funds for women’s cancer research, which was held on Dec. 1, 2012, according to then PIKE president Charles Eisner. While CATwalk is in its 12th year, this was the first year PIKE hosted the event alone, rather than working with other sororities and fraternities. “The event itself stayed relatively the same,” Eisner said. “It had the same three races. It was still for Lute Olson, it was still for the Cancer Center. It just changed from the entire Greek Life participating to one fraternity in Greek Life participating.” CATwalk started after former basketball coach Lute Olson’s wife Bobbi died of ovarian cancer, according to Garrick Pfeiffer, external vice president of PIKE and a physiology senior. “The greeks on campus went to Lute Olson; they wanted to do something in memory of Bobbi. They came up with this idea to host the CATwalk to benefit the UA Cancer Center,” Pfeiffer said. PIKE members started preparing for the 2012 CATwalk in February 2011. With more than 13 different sponsors, more than 75 individual donations and 379 people walking and running in different events, the 2012 CATwalk was a success, said Joshua Ruder, a senior studying
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THE PI KAPPA ALPHA FRATERNITY raised $14,500 at its CATwalk event in December. Fraternity members presented the UA Cancer Center with a check Friday.
Miss Arizona, Piper Stoeckel, may not be wearing this year’s Miss America crown, but she didn’t leave the competition empty handed. Stoeckel, a former UA journalism student who postponed her graduation to compete in the Miss America pageant, competed alongside 52 women from all over the nation for the title of Miss America 2013 at Planet Hollywood Resort in Las Vegas on Jan. 12. After 10 days of competition, with each day starting at 7 a.m. and ending at 10 p.m., Miss New York, Mallory Hytes Hagan, won the competition. Stoeckel’s journey may have ended sooner than she had hoped, but she said she has no regrets. “I would not change anything about my performance. I truly did the best I could do,” Stoeckel said. “That’s one thing that I left on the Miss America stage, I left Piper there, and I’m so happy that I did. If I had done something different from who I really am, I would be really upset right now. But because I was 100 percent myself, I’m happy.” Stoeckel said that despite her performance, she had already predicted that she wouldn’t make it to the top 15. “The crowd was screaming and I could see Arizona signs all around the audience. I knew at that moment that I wasn’t going to be a finalist, I just knew. And that is strange for me because I am such a competitive person,” Stoeckel said. “But I smiled and I knew this was going to be one of the most amazing experiences of my life. So I had two choices, to soak it in or to be hard on myself and take it for the competition factor. It was truly a defining moment in my life.” For the remainder of the competition, the eliminated contestants were asked to stay on stage to watch the finalists compete. Stoeckel said she always thought it would be an awful thing to do but now understands why it’s not. “I spent the next 45 minutes watching the most incredible women compete for Miss America. In that moment, I knew that it was their time,” Stoeckel said. “I had to sacrifice a moment in my life for 15 other girls to have theirs and they are so deserving.” All 50 of the United States, with the addition of the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, were represented in the competition.
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