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Young Dems to attend DNC STEPHANIE CASANOVA Arizona Daily Wildcat
A current UA Young Democrat and three former club members will represent Arizona in the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. Patrick Burns, Matt Kopec and Christopher Campas, all former UAYD members, will serve as delegates at the convention, while Erik Lundstrom, the current Young Democrats of Arizona president, will serve on the rules committee. Lundstrom, a political science senior, received a phone call from the state director of the Obama campaign last spring, during which he was asked if he would accept an appointment to be on the rules committee at this year’s convention. Lundstrom, who was appointed through presidential
privilege, is one of six appointed members of the rules committee and one of two appointees from Arizona. “I was in kind of like complete shock … it took me a few minutes to process, and then I was so excited,” Lundstrom said. “It literally was one of the best pieces of news I could’ve ever heard.” While the state and county party held fundraisers to help the state club members pay for their trip, Campas, who was the UA Young Democrats president in 2010 before graduating, is on his second term as vice chair of the Arizona Democratic Party and said he is paying for his own trip to the convention. The convention kicks off Monday, Sept. 3, with a Labor Day celebration that’s open to the public. Business starts Tuesday,
when the credential committee, rules committee and platform committee set the democratic agenda, according to the DNC website. The rules committee approves and makes necessary changes regarding diversity requirements at the convention, timing rules for primaries and presidential privilege rules, among others. There are certain diversity quotas each state must meet when electing delegates to represent that state. Groups like LGBTQ, women, African Americans and Hispanics each attend separate caucuses to discuss issues dealing with that diversity group. “The Democratic Party, this one in particular, will have one of the most diverse embodiments of
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ARIZONA YOUNG DEMOCRATS PRESIDENT Erik Lundstrom, right, addresses club members at last week’s meeting. Lundstrom and three former club members will attend this year’s DNC.
Arizona football ready for opener
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Senior quarterback Matt Scott has not started a game since UCLA in 2010, and has not started a regular season opener since 2009, against Central Michigan, but his last-ever first game in Arizona Stadium hasn’t added any more pressure for him. “It’s been a long road for me,” Scott said. “It’s just another game. The preparation is the same.” Scott played against Toledo at the start of the 2010 season in a 41-2 bludgeoning by Arizona, passing for 53 yards and a touchdown, but was also in the game for a holding penalty in the end zone, which resulted in a safety. That season, though, Scott played admirably, replacing an injured Nick Foles in three games against Washington, Washington State and UCLA, winning all three. On the season, Scott passed for 776 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions. Scott said he’s “grown a lot” since 2010, after a redshirt year in 2011 that “humbled” him. In Scott’s eyes, the fact that he’s played Toledo before means nothing in terms of how he’s preparing. “It’s irrelevant (that Arizona played Toledo two years ago),” Scott said. “They have a whole new defensive coaching staff. I haven’t looked at it like that.”
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It’s game week and I think the players are excited. The coaches are excited. There’s been a lot of work to finally get to this week. I’m sure these guys will tell you they’re probably looking forward to playing somebody that’s not in the same color jerseys and the guys they’re in the same locker room with. I’m anxious to see what we have. I think the guys have worked hard. The first year is always the toughest because you’re teaching new schemes and new techniques. Hopefully we have a great crowd, the weather is supposed to be terrific again, and we will see what happens Saturday night — UA head coach Rich Rodriguez
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PROFESSOR EMERITUS MO EHSANI has invented InfinitiPipe, which uses a sustainable, lightweight material and requires far less connecting joints than pipes made of steel or concrete. Ehsani, who left the UA’s department of civil engineering in 2010, is also president of QuakeWrap.
Prof. emeritus invents ‘game-changing’ pipe BRITTNY MEJIA
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Mo Ehsani, a professor emeritus of civil engineering, was initially looking for a way to strengthen infrastructure pipes, but ended up making one of his own. After leaving the university in 2010, Ehsani turned to his business, QuakeWrap, which he founded in 1994. His new product, InfinitiPipe, uses a lightweight material meant to lower costs, increase sustainability and be theoretically infinite in length. “Often times you may not appreciate pipes because you don’t see them,” Ehsani said. “But there’s truly a lot of money that needs to be spent on fixing this buried infrastructure.” The pipe itself is made up of a honeycomb core, wrapped in carbon fiber fabric, that weighs about 10 to 15 percent of a typical steel or concrete pipe. Because there is less material, the pipe is more environmentally friendly, easier to
transport and less expensive. To make it “infinitely” long, users can make molds of the pipe from a smaller sample, Ehsani said. Using only a few feet, a longer piece of pipe can be molded and attached, and with samples always available from each new piece of pipe, there’s always a way to build additional piping.
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Additionally, a typical pipe requires a joint every 20 feet, which increases the chances of a leak. However, the InfinitiPipe can be manufactured so that only one joint is needed for approximately every thousand feet. “If you only have a joint every two thousand feet you can afford to
monitor that joint very efficiently,” Ehsani said. “If there’s a leak you can have an alarm that alerts operators that something happened.” Along with being environmentally friendly, the pipe will be easy to build in developing nations, Ehsani added. Raw materials can be transported in a container and local companies can make pipes for themselves, Ehsani said, adding that the project is the most significant he’s ever led. “I can truly tell you that of all the things I’ve invented in my career, this is by far the most game-changing and really revolutionary project that I’ve come up with,” Ehsani said. Whether or not the InfinitiPipe is used by a large percentage of people, the groundwork has been laid for showing other developers that an infinitely long pipe, without joints at every 20 feet, is a reality, he added. “Even if nobody starts using this InfinitiPipe that I have developed, at
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