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VP of health affairs reflects on tenure By Brenna Goth DAILY WILDCAT
Dr. William Crist, the UA’s vice president of health affairs, announced his retirement earlier this month. Crist came to the UA in 2008 and said he planned on staying three or four years. He oversaw major changes to the UA’s health system, including the merger between University Medical Center and the University Physicians Hospital as well as the growth of the UA’s medical program in Phoenix. J. Lyle Bootman, dean of the College of Pharmacy, will replace Crist in September. Crist will retire in Missouri to spend time with his family.
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Students and parents examine bicycles on the UA Mall. Parking and Transportation Services is going to greater lengths to make the campus more bike-friendly.
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UA drives alternative transport progams By Rebecca Rillos DAILY WILDCAT
The UA is expanding programs and resources in support of campus community members who use alternative transportation. One such resource is the completion of the Tyndall Avenue Enhancement Project, an effort that remodeled a stretch of Tyndall Avenue from Sixth Street to University Boulevard. The street was repaved and renovations include new curbs, asphalt, crosswalks, wheelchair ramps and the addition of bike lanes on both sides of the street. “The street is more bike and pedestrian-friendly,” said Thomas Amparano, transportation manager for Parking and Transportation Services.
has been in the making for about eight years, Amparano said. The avenue was under construction over the summer and reopened in August. • Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. “It’s just a pleasure to walk down the street or bicycle now,” Amparano said. “Your teeth • Begins Aug. 29 don’t rattle anymore as you drive.” • Located in front of Nugent building Chris Quinn, a senior studying regional development and geographic information • Bikes must be picked up by 5:45 p.m. science, said he would definitely bike on • The service is offered for free Tyndall Avenue more often now. “All the roads here are normally pretty crappy, but I noticed when I first pulled onto (Tyndall Avenue), that it had been repaved,” “Before it was basically a street that Quinn said. was in very poor shape and it was hard Vera Rapcsak, a geography senior, said for people to walk or bike because the she thinks there are too many cars on pavement was so bad.” PROGRAMS, 6 The project to renovate Tyndall Avenue
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Profs consider Google Plus as teaching tool By Amer Taleb DAILY WILDCAT
The faster students integrate Google Plus into their personal lives, the quicker teachers can implement it in the classroom. Google’s nearly two-month-old social networking site combines older services such as Gmail, Google Docs and YouTube into a single platform, while also introducing new tools and features. Circles allow users to organize contacts into different sharing groups, hangouts admit up to 10 for a video chat and huddle equips users’ mobile devices to communicate via instant messaging within circles. Michael McKisson, an adjunct instructor in the School of Journalism, said he is considering incorporating
Google Plus into his entrepreneurial journalism class next spring. McKisson said he might assign a research topic, have students share their findings within circles and then discuss them. “Students don’t just want to sit there and listen to a lecture, they want to engage,” he said. “Anytime a new type of technology comes out, people in the field of education are going to try and figure out a way to use it to benefit the students.” Joy Healam, a psychology sophomore, said she had heard about Google Plus, but has not used it. She said she prefers classes that incorporate new tools and technology GOOGLE, 4
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>>ZonaZoo: Students who have purchased a ZonaZoo pass can pick up their T-shirt under Arizona Stadium today at 11 a.m.
William Crist: I encouraged bringing the parts of the clinical programs and the health sciences together. They were rather separate when I arrived. The UMC, the UPH, the College of Medicine — they were functioning rather separately even though all three components were necessary to deliver care to patients. The communication wasn’t always perfect, and there was a lot of room for improvement. A number of leaders thought it would be good to Dr. William bring that organization together into one program that could deliver an ideal Crist UA vice president model of care to patients. of health affairs With the leaders working together for a period of more than a year, UA Healthcare has been formed. I’m certainly not the only one responsible for that change, but I think the organization is much more effective in forming a health system … I think the second (accomplishment) is that I’ve encouraged what was already a strong program in interprofessional education, which is training health care workers to work together from the very start of their careers. Doctors, pharmacists, nurses — training them so they can function as a team, so they can work together. It’s important for the quality of care, especially
>>Job Fair: The Wildcat Student Employment Fair is today in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center, beginning at 10 a.m.
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Solar powered and by the hour PTS implements parking meters that take credit cards, not coins By Samantha Munsey DAILY WILDCAT
by streamlining the operation.” According to Davidson, the proposal to change the meters on the UA campus came about after the solar stations were tested at the UA’s Phoenix Biomedical Campus, with positive feedback from users. However, the new system can be confusing for those who are accustomed to the old meters. “I like the idea that you don’t need to have quarters all the time, but I don’t like that I can’t figure out how to use it right now,” said Maggie Christy, a communication senior, when trying to use the station for the first time. “It’s confusing using it for the first time but having to bring change around was a hassle,” Christy added. Since the beginning of school, the solar stations on average host around 800 transactions a day. They also allow users to pay in 20-minute increments and add additional time at any parking solar station on campus.
Returning students to the UA have noticed a big change in the parking meters on campus — they no longer accept change. Beginning in August, UA Parking and Transportation Services replaced about 400 standard coin-operated meters on campus with 35 new digital solar-powered stations. “The meters are going to be used to provide better customer service, better efficiency and better service for the campus, but also to our visitors too,” said Bill Davidson, director of marketing and communications for PTS. Each new parking station cost about $5,000 and is used for eight to 12 nearby parking spaces. But one of the biggest differences from
their old-meter counterparts is that they only accept credit cards and CatCards, no more change. “With the old meter we had to go out every day and collect coins, which took several hours and then we had to still take the money back and count it,” Davidson said. “In the long run, the new meters are going to save quite a bit of money
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