April 9, 2013

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WILDCAT FRESHMEN NEED RIPENING

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UA CAMPUS CELEBRATES EARTH DAY

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VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 133

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FIGHTING WORLD HUNGER

UAMC to create new residency program KAYLA SAMOY Arizona Daily Wildcat

9 billion by the year 2050, it will be more difficult for families to have access to healthier foods, Nye said. During the HungerU event, students were given the opportunity to play games and discuss with HungerU speakers to learn more about the issue. Patricia Martinez, a neuroscience freshman,

The University of Arizona Medical Center will introduce this summer a new residency program in ear, nose and throat medicine. The five-year Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Residency Program will begin July 1 and will be the second otolaryngology training program in Arizona. Dr. Alexander Chiu, professor and chief of the Division of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery and Dr. Audrey Erman, assistant professor of surgery and Dr. Alexander Chiu co-director of Head and Neck Oncology, will lead the program. The new otolaryngology or ear, nose and throat program only took a year and a half to receive accreditation from the American Council on Graduate Medical Education, according to Erman. “I think that it means we’re ready,” Erman said. Dr. Rainer Gruessner, head of the Department of Surgery, said it highlights the quality of the faculty and the breadth and width of the division, which treats everything from nasal tumors to ear diseases to head and neck cancer. “It’s almost unheard of, getting approval in such a short amount of time,” Gruessner said. When Chiu started at UAMC three years ago,

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KATHARINE NYE, A SPOKESWOMAN FOR HUNGERU, talks to students about HungerU’s mission near the tour bus. HungerU, an organization that teaches university students about agriculture and its effects on world hunger, made a stop at the UA as part of its college campus tour. The organization is sponsored by Farmers Feeding the World and will reamin on the UA Mall until 5 p.m. today.

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A nationwide mobile tour that travels to universities teaching students about agriculture and its effects on world hunger hosted an event at the UA on Monday. The HungerU Tour, a project sponsored by Farmers Feeding the World, is currently on its third national tour. About 1 in 6 people suffer

from hunger in the United States, according to Katharine Nye, a spokeswoman for HungerU. “This is an issue that’s happening in our own backyard and it’s astonishing to see that many people aren’t aware of this issue,” Nye said. Farmers Feeding the World is an initiative by The Farm Journal Foundation, which aims to give communities the resources to grow their own food, Nye said. With the global population estimated to reach

Student housing developers, neighbors agree to compromise on building plans complex with the culvert on the land. Construction is estimated to begin this Arizona Daily Wildcat summer, Lazarus Silvyn said. The developers The developers of an off-campus student are still waiting to receive the building permits housing complex have agreed to numerous from the city. The neighborhood association will be changes based on urging by the Iron Horse working with Ernie Duarte, the City of Tucson Neighborhood Association. The Junction at Iron Horse, a student Development Services Department director, housing complex, will now offer 232 beds to enforce the terms of agreement between the instead of 297. The complex will be four stories developers and the neighborhood association, tall, not five, and it will not include balconies according to White. Although the City of Tucson does not need on several-street-facing sides of the complex. Developers will also construct a basketball to receive approval from the Iron Horse court that will be constructed in Iron Horse Neighborhood Association before granting the developers the building Park and refurbish Empire permits, according to Duarte, Market and Empire Laundry. I think we have the city does take into There will also be a had really great consideration the “response market analysis conducted and feedback” from the two years after the complex participation from neighborhood association receives its Certificate of the city council. before making decisions. Occupancy, according to The neighborhood an informational packet — Erika Mitnik-White, Iron Horse Neighborhood Association treaassociation is still concerned provided at a meeting last surer with student behavior, and Tuesday. hopes developers will include The changes are made in compliance with standards set by the Iron a code of conduct clause in the Junction Horse Neighborhood Association, according resident lease agreements, White said. The neighborhood association doesn’t want to the packet. “I think it is a constantly evolving process to see the Junction at Iron Horse become a so as they [Junction developers] present other “District on Fifth type of situation with loud issues, the neighborhood will have input on parties and bad traffic,” White said. The District on Fifth is a student housing that as well,” said Mike White, Iron Horse complex in the West University neighborhood Neighborhood Association president. According to the packet, The Junction at that has dealt with issues due to noise from Iron Horse developers proposed a plan in traffic and partying since it opened last 2011 that had 200 bedrooms and a three and summer. Meetings between the neighborhood four-story design. However, the proposal became unfeasible association and the developers of the Junction due to a culvert — a water drain — under the at Iron Horse will continue on a regular basis, site, which caused the developers to increase even after the construction of the apartment the size of the complex, said Keri Lazarus complex. “I think we have had really great Silvyn, an attorney for the developers. The apartment complex had to be increased in size participation from the City Council,” said to compensate for the cost of constructing the Erika Mitnik-White, Iron Horse Neighborhood

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KERI LAZARUS SILVYN, an attorney for the developers of Junction at Iron Horse, addresses the concerns of the Iron Horse Neighborhood Association at its meeting last week. The Junction at Iron Horse is a student housing complex that is supposed to begin construction this summer.

Association treasurer. “They have really helped our neighborhood a lot with the process and the neighborhood has really come together around this issue and we have just seen a lot of good work on it.”

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