April 10, 2013

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ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Printing the news, sounding the alarm, and raising hell since 1899

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 134

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New UA school prepares for fall semester KELSI THORUD Arizona Daily Wildcat

The UA’s new School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences will open to students this fall. As part of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, the new school will give students the opportunity to expand their knowledge in the fields of animal production, food safety, integrated biomedicine and bioinformatics. The school will combine the current department of animal sciences and department of veterinary science and microbiology into one program designed to give students access to upper-

division electives and a variety of research facilities and programs. “They’ll be integrated in such a way that students can track through the school and its various programs and they may have a quicker route through the professional vet med program,” said Charles Sterling, head of the department of veterinary science and microbiology and interim head of the department of animal sciences. The new program also focuses on animal health, growth, nutrition and disease and human health challenges. Much of the school will be centered on combining aspects of the curriculum that will serve the undergraduate majors in the school, Sterling said. The undergraduate

majors won’t change, but the curriculum will be restructured to “make it more meaningful,” Sterling added. The school will allow students to take a diverse array of classes pertaining to their specific interests and give them opportunities to get realworld experience in their preferred industry. “We’ve combined them in an interesting way to really open up some new possibilities,” said Andrew Comrie, senior vice president for Academic Affairs and provost. “There are at least two principle kinds of those: One is it allows us a lot more flexibility and creativity in what we can do, and then also, really importantly, it gives us a vehicle for our proposed veterinary medical

education program.” The new school is expected to house the proposed Arizona Veterinary Medical Education program, which the UA recently petitioned for funding for from the Arizona Legislature. The veterinary program will be structured as a fast-paced program that gives students the chance to graduate less than a year after finishing their undergraduate studies. The veterinary program will also incorporate local Tucson veterinary clinics as teaching facilities for students, rather than building an entirely new veterinary hospital through the university. “Everything that we’ve heard from all of the

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BRITT WIEDEMER (left), a communications senior, Madison Kramer (center), a nutritional sciences senior, and Kristen Sondag (right), a communications senior, slide down the “Super Slide” on Tuesday afternoon on the UA Mall. The slide was part of the Spring Fling kickoff and was free for everyone. Spring Fling begins Thursday.

The winners of the presidential and vice presidential elections of the Graduate and Professional Student Council were announced Tuesday, although representative winners have yet to be named. Zachary Brooks, current GPSC president, was elected for his second term as president, and Iman Daryaei, a current at-large representative, was elected as vice president. Both Brooks and Daryaei ran unopposed, with Brooks receiving 269 votes and Daryaei receiving 270. Although the winners for president and vice president have been announced, the school and atlarge representative election results have not been finalized at this point, according to Heath Vescovi-Chiordi, GPSC elections director. This is because individuals who ran for more than one position now have to decide which position they want to accept. The candidates have until Friday to decide, and the results will be posted on the GPSC website when the representative positions are finalized. The polls closed on Friday night, but results for the election were unavailable due to some candidates running for more than one position. The online voting system reported more than one number for those individuals; however, it did not say which number was for which position, Vescovi-Chiordi said. Despite these complications, Vescovi-Chiordi said there were no

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UA student to travel to Cannes Film Festival MARK ARMAO Arizona Daily Wildcat

UA students from the School of Theatre, Film and Television are making a splash in the world of student film. After winning best picture in a film competition, Brad Wong, a film production senior, will now travel to the Cannes International Film Festival in France to show his film, “Friend Zone.” Wong’s film was selected — along with 28 other films from the best picture pool — to be exhibited from May 15-26. Wong created his short film for Campus MovieFest, a national student film competition and festival that provides university students with equipment and challenges them to make a fiveminute film in one week. Wong, who directs local music videos in his spare time, said that a trip to the world’s largest film festival is the perfect capstone to his undergraduate film career at the UA. “It’s really an honor,” Wong said. “There was lots of sleepless nights editing and mixing sound, but it paid off.”

“The friend zone” describes the awkward place people find themselves in when they can’t, for whatever reason, profess their love for a friend. The term has become part of the common vernacular for many college students, but Wong has taken the idea to another level. The movie begins with the protagonist, Ryan, attempting to tell his longtime friend Audrey that he loves her. As he begins to speak, he is transported to a parallel universe called the “Friend Zone.” He learns that he must fight his way through the realm in order to attain the heart of his love. If he fails, he will never be loved by his crush and he will turn into a “Hollow” — a soulless inhabitant of the Friend Zone. Ron Calzolari, an acting sophomore, plays Jack, a human who fails to get out of the Friend Zone and transforms into a Hollow. Calzolari said he loved the idea from the moment he saw the script because he knew people would relate to it since “everybody’s been in the friend zone.”

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BRAD WONG, A FILM PRODUCTION SENIOR, displays his winning short film in the editing bay of the Marshall building.


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