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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014
VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 78
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Community leaders and local activists march down UA Mall to remember life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. BY ELIZABETH EATON The Daily Wildcat
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Children, students, teachers and people from across Tucson gathered on the UA Mall on Monday to march in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and promote current social justice issues. Participants met at 8:30 a.m. for a free breakfast and a Zumba warm-up led by members of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first black sorority on campus. “We are out here today for MLK, passing out breakfast, hitting one of our health initiatives,” said Alexyz Liggins, a journalism and communications junior and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha. The dance was followed by several speakers, including Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and Congressman Raul Grijalva, who discussed the importance of King’s dream. The crowd also participated in a rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before marching to Reid Park, where the festivities continued with food and guest speakers. This marks the 28th year the Tucson Martin Luther King Jr. Committee has put together an event to celebrate King’s life. Since Clarence Boykins, president of the Tucson-Southern Arizona Black Chamber of Commerce, recently underwent surgery, Ron Burton, a
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THE MARTIN LUTHER King Jr. March and Festival Celebration was hosted at the Demeester Performance Pavilion at Reid Park on Monday. Hundreds gathered at the UA Mall and marched to the park, where speakers, vendors and performers entertained and educated on King’s legacy and the future of civil rights.
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A newly proposed center at the UA downtown campus will allow students and community members to collaborate with businesses, nonprofits and the city government. The Center for Geospatial Innovation, Science and Technology will be a space where students can work on projects that can be used to address the city’s needs, network with potential employers and find internships, said Chris Lukinbeal, director of the Geographic Information Systems Technology masters and certificate programs. The center, which will be located on the second floor of the Roy Place building on the corner of Stone Avenue and Pennington Street, will be dedicated to research and providing services to
the community. The projects will be related to the GIST field, which includes computer mapping and location-based technology, Lukinbeal said. “It was really important for us to be seen as part of that [geospatial] community,” Lukinbeal said, “rather than being situated just on main campus.” The proposal calls for a collaboration between academic units, such as the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute of the Environment, to take care of start-up costs, Lukinbeal added. The projects conducted at the center will provide funding once they get started. The center is still awaiting approval from the Provost’s Office and there’s no set opening date, Lukinbeal said. The approval process is usually a smooth one,
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Few undergraduates can say they spent their summer conducting research at Stanford with Ph.D.-level biomedical engineers. Only one can say she won a $5,000 scholarship when she got back. Sandra Gonzalez, a biomedical engineering senior, was awarded the first annual $5,000 Anna Salazar Memorial Engineering Scholarship from SynCardia Systems, a local artificial heart company. The namesake of the scholarship, Anna Salazar, was a senior quality engineer at SynCardia when she died suddenly, according to Don Isaacs, vice president of communications for SynCardia. The company started the scholarship to support women who go into the field of engineering, Isaacs said. “It’s really to recognize people like Sandra Gonzalez,” Isaacs said. “We want to help to continue the development of people who make contributions to our society.” Gonzalez said she felt honored to receive the award from SynCardia. Gonzalez was raised by a single mother in Phoenix, from whom she receives no financial assistance. Gonzalez used to work to support herself, in addition to the school work and research she
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SANDRA GONZALEZ, a senior in biomedical engineering, performs a lab procedure on the top floor of the University of Arizona Cancer Center on Friday. Gonzalez was awarded the Anna Salazar Memorial Scholarship.
did. “I eventually wasn’t able to do school, research and another job,” Gonzalez said, “so being able to have all that assistance from the scholarship really helped me out.” Gonzalez continues to do research in her final semester as an undergraduate, and works in the Contrast Agent Molecular
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The Daily Wildcat A fire broke out in the kitchen of Kababeque Indian Grill on University Boulevard late Sunday night. The fire started at approximately 9:45 p.m. in the restaurant, which has recently been undergoing r e m o d e l i n g . Construction workers were inside the
restaurant when the fire broke out. “Something was left on … one of the stoves,” said Jack Horton, one of the construction workers. Horton and two workers were part of a night construction crew that had begun renovation work inside the restaurant at around 9 p.m. Horton said that they were putting up plastic inside when the fire
broke out toward the back of the restaurant, in the kitchen area. “We tried to put it out with the fire extinguishers,” Horton said. “We thought we had it out but the fire started back up again and we had to call the police department because it got so smoky in there we couldn’t see anything.” Horton said none of the construction workers were injured
by the fire. Eat-a-Pita, the restaurant next door to Kababeque, was forced to evacuate after smoke began filling up the establishment, said Shelby Gormsen, an employee at Eat-a-Pita. “At 9:50 p.m. [the construction workers] came and told us that there was a fire next door,” Gormsen said, “and that’s when all the
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We thought we had it out but the fire started back up again and we had to call the police department because it got so smoky in there we couldn’t see anything.
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—Jack Horton, construction worker