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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 18

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UA STAFF TO PARTICIPATE IN CIVIC ACADEMY

ASUA split on tobacco policy BY STEPHANIE CASANOVA The Daily Wildcat

A majority of the ASUA Senate voted against a resolution supporting a tobacco-free campus on Wednesday, putting it at odds with its president, as well as the Student Health Advocacy Committee. Five Associated Students of the University of Arizona senators voted against the resolution, which would support a plan created by SHAC . Two voted in favor of the resolution, and one abstained. The goal of the resolution was to support a healthier, cleaner and more sustainable campus for everyone who works at and attends the university, according to the plan proposed by SHAC . The plan also includes a 12to 18-month transition period to make the UA community aware of the change, and to offer free resources for those who want to quit smoking, such as counseling, nicotine replacement therapy, outreach and education. Although the vote on the resolution did not determine whether or not tobacco use will be banned on campus, the senate represents the student body in its vote. The Faculty Senate will take this vote into account when discussing whether to make the UA a tobacco-free campus later in the semester, according to Sen. Grant Suman . During the meeting, ASUA senators discussed a survey that was issued through UA Campus Health to more than

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THE PRIDE OF ARIZONA MARCHING BAND DRUMLINE practices outside the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility on Wednesday. In 1988, the Drumline became a battery-only unit.

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UA leads national high-tech wireless project BY MARK ARMAO

UAPD sees staff increase BY ALISON DORF

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As part of a three-year growth and reorganization plan, the University of Arizona Police Department is now fully staffed. The plan, which will soon enter its third year, aims to add 12 police officers, as well as other support positions like police aides, according to Anthony

Daykin, chief of police for UAPD. “It’s a plan that puts more police officers to work out there in the community,” Daykin said, “in order to provide the level of service that the university expects and deserves.” Currently, the police department has an authorized staffing level of 68 positions, which include positions such as the chief of police, commanders, lieutenants and police officers. However, although all authorized positions will be filled by Sept. 30, 11 of them will not be deployable just yet. Several newly hired officers will be in training at a police academy until January 2014, with additional training to follow, three are currently in field training and two officers are deployed in Afghanistan,

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The future of wireless technology will be shaped by a UA-headed team of academic and industry leaders. Five universities and 20 techrelated companies are partnering for research as the Broadband Wireless Access and Applications Center, which will receive $1.6 million in the next five years from the National Science Foundation, as well as industry support of $4 million. “We’re working on technologies for the next generation of wireless systems that will have faster data rates and more flexible communications systems,” said Tamal Bose, professor and head of the department of electrical and computer engineering and director of BWAC, which received its initial funding in July. The UA team, along with those at institutions such as Virginia Tech and Notre Dame, will work to expand the range of wireless access, speed up data rates and eventually develop technology capable of choosing the most efficient channels for data transmission. In addition to communications, the wireless technologies will also impact the fields of healthcare, transportation and national security, Bose said. With the demand for data

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Marijuana research flounders BY MEGGIE COSTELLO-KESSLER

The Daily Wildcat Despite a law legalizing medical marijuana research in state universities beginning Friday, researchers say they doubt they’ll be able to conduct studies anytime soon. It’s unclear if the research will ever happen because the National Institute on Drug Abuse is the only agency federally approved to grow marijuana and sell it for research purposes, according to Dr. Sue Sisley, clinical faculty at the UA College of Medicine in Phoenix and principal investigator on a Food and Drug Administrationapproved marijuana study. “That bill — even though it was a huge victory, it’s a huge symbolic victory because it only takes us about 5 percent of the way,” Sisley said. Sisley plans to research the effects of medical marijuana on 50 combat veterans suffering from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Her

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study was approved three years ago, and is the only one in Arizona approved by the FDA. “There are two huge barriers to doing marijuana research: the nonexistent funding to support it and the problems of what we call the ‘NIDA monopoly’,” Sisley said.

The NIDA’s website says that too few clinical trials exist to prove that the benefits of medical marijuana outweigh the risks. “There’s not any independent research done to any sort of scientific standard that verifies that it’s going

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