April 3, 2013

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Q&A WITH KEVIN CORDES

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UA hospital revives lung transplant program

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VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 129

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The University of Arizona Medical Center is reviving its lungtransplant program after a yearlong hiatus. The program shut down in February of 2012 after UAMC’s primary lung-transplant surgeon, Dr. Michael Moulton, left to accept an appointment as chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Now, with the recent hiring of Dr. Jesus GomezAbraham as the director of the lung and heart-lung transplant programs at UAMC, the program is being restored. “No one else could follow in his footsteps until we recruited from the outside,” said Dr. Rainer Gruessner, chairman of the UA’s department of surgery. An assistant professor in the UA Department of Surgery’s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the surgical co-director of the Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support programs, Gomez-Abraham said he knew he wanted to be a doctor at a young age. He was influenced by his uncle, who was a cardiovascular

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RACHEL KLIMINSKI, a senior in Marketing 425, participates in an AT&T promotional event highlighting the class-generated slogan, “Reconnect. Your Way.” The event invited students to reconnect with their past through a tetherball competition, ’90s music, freeze pops and parachute games, among other things.

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A student-run, statewide lobbying group is asking Gov. Jan Brewer to veto a bill that would completely eliminate the organization’s funding. The Arizona Senate voted 16-12 on Tuesday to pass House Bill 2169. The bill would ban state universities from collecting fees and transferring money on behalf of non-university recognized organizations such as the Arizona Students’ Association. “It’s a needed bill based on the reprehensible behavior of the Arizona Students’ Association,” said the bill’s sponsor, Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills). ASA, which lobbies the Legislature on behalf of Arizona students, relies on a $2 per-student, per-semester fee for funding. Last fall, ASA donated more than $120,000 to the Vote Yes on Proposition 204 campaign using student fee money. The proposition, which failed in November 2012, would have extended a statewide one-cent sales tax increase to fund education. The donation brought the organization under increased scrutiny from student government leaders at all three universities, the Arizona Board of Regents and legislators like Kavanagh. “If you’re going to use university resources to collect your monies, then you have to play by university rules, which prohibit the use of government resources for political campaigns,” Kavanagh said. “If the ASA wants to continue to exist and do political contributions, then they should remain independent as they are and request voluntary donations from students.” Across the state, ASA interns and students are urging Brewer to veto the bill, said Jordan King, vice chairman of the ASA board of directors and

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Five-star forward Aaron Gordon commits to Arizona ZACK ROSENBLATT

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Five-star recruit Aaron Gordon announced his commitment to the Arizona Wildcats on Tuesday. Gordon made the announcement at a press conference in Chicago, where the McDonald’s AllAmerican game will be played tonight at 6:30. Gordon, a 6-foot-8 forward from San Jose, Calif., told reporters, “I hope Tucson is celebrating, because I’m going to be a West Coast Wildcat.” With Gordon’s commitment, head coach Sean Miller’s 2013 class added its second five-star recruit, the other being small forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson. Gordon is ranked the No. 4 recruit in the nation by ESPN, and his addition helped the Wildcats jump from having the 25th-best recruiting haul in the country to the fifth-best. “He kind of felt for him, it would be the best fit,” said Tim Kennedy, Gordon’s head coach at Archbishop Mitty High School. “Their style of play really suited him. He loved the campus, the facilities. Coach [Sean] Miller was great for him. Aaron’s a basketball junkie, so he and coach Miller … really hit it off.” Gordon averaged 21.5 points, 16.5 rebounds, 3.5

blocks and 3.7 assists per game in his senior season at Archbishop Mitty High School. Gordon chose Arizona over Oregon, Washington and Kentucky. National signing day is April 17, and when Gordon, Hollis-Jefferson and four-star shooting guard Elliott Pitts officially sign with the Wildcats, Miller will still have one scholarship to spare. Gordon is listed as a power forward, but it’s widely believed his ultimate goal is to switch to small forward. Either way, Arizona is loaded with talent, especially in the frontcourt. Arizona has Kaleb Tarczewski at center and Gordon, Brandon Ashley, Grant Jerrett, Angelo Chol and Hollis-Jefferson at forward, although Hollis-Jefferson is purely a small forward. “I think he’s going to be successful just because of his drive and his motor and his work ethic,” Kennedy said. “He’ll have an immediate impact. He wouldn’t do well sitting on the bench, and he’ll find a way to get on the court and he’ll find a way to help his team win.” Gordon is the most highly touted prospect to commit to Arizona since Brandon Jennings, a No. 1 overall recruit who committed to the Wildcats in 2008. He never played a game at the UA, though, instead choosing to play overseas in Italy for a year

before going to the NBA. “He has a lot of upside,” said Josh Gershon, a basketball-recruiting analyst for FoxSports and Scout.com. “6-foot-8 athletes with his build and motor don’t grow on trees. You could very well make the argument that he’s the best NBA prospect to ever come to Arizona.” Gordon becomes the seventh five-star recruit to commit to Arizona in Miller’s tenure, along with Josiah Turner and Nick Johnson in 2011, Ashley, Jerrett and Tarczewski in 2012 and Hollis-Jefferson in 2013. Both Gordon and Hollis-Jefferson will be playing in tonight’s McDonald’s All-American in Chicago’s United Center.

If You Watch: McDonald’s All-American Game When: 6:30 p.m. Where: Chicago TV: ESPNU, online on WatchESPN


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