TO CLIPS INDEX - Clips for April 22, 2008

Fossil defines professor's life
The Arizona Republic - April 22, 2008 12:00 AM
Riddles of 3.2 million-year-old skeleton still intrigue ASU anthropologist
The man who found Lucy, the world's most famous fossil, is never far from her. Just steps from
Donald Johanson's office at Arizona State University is a tiny skeleton made of plastic casts of the
3.2 million-year-old fossil. They're wired together and propped inside a glass box. Lucy souvenirs
decorate Johanson's office: an "I Love Lucy" button, a framed Lucy stamp issued in Ethiopia and
porcelain Lucy salt-and-pepper shakers. She made Johanson an anthropological superstar.
Single discoveries often define a scientist's career, but nothing in his field was as big as the Lucy
find. In 2007, Lucy resurfaced in the news, drawing the 64-year-old back into the spotlight.

Experts get $6.6 mil for Alzheimer's work
The Arizona Republic - April 22, 2008 12:00 AM
Scientists at Banner Alzheimer's Institute and the Mayo Clinic in Arizona have secured a $6.6 million
federal grant to study the brains of people who carry a genetic risk for developing Alzheimer's disease.
The National Institute on Aging grant will allow researchers to use brain-scanning technology to
monitor the brains of 200 healthy people who either carry or lack APOE4, a critical gene linked to
Alzheimer's disease found in one of four people. If local researchers can track brain changes before
participants get Alzheimer's, it may yield valuable clues to develop a vaccine for a disease that afflicts
5.2 million Americans.

Legislation to save our values would actually trample them
The Arizona Republic - April 22, 2008 12:00 AM
Stalin and Mao would applaud state Rep. Russell Pearce's sweeping proposal to ban schools from any
instruction "in conflict with the values of American citizenship and the teachings of Western civilization."
What exactly are those values and teachings? They're completely amorphous. This is the kind of law that
dictators love: Enforce a hazy ideological purity, creating uncertainty and fear. Talk about a conflict with
American values.

Texas cancer center eyes Valley connection
The Arizona Republic - April 21, 2008 11:06 AM
SCOTTSDALE - It's not unusual to find a cancer event in the Northeast Valley. Scottsdale boasts branches
of the Arizona Cancer Center (based in Tucson) and the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (based in Rochester,
Minn.). Both are among the 39 elite comprehensive cancer centers funded by the National Cancer Institute,
and they dependably capture the attention of local donors. Arizona Cancer Center is said to be the national
leader in cancer prevention. What was unusual about a recent cancer promotion held at Camelback Golf
Club in Scottsdale, was its focus: the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Alzheimer's study gets $6.6 million grant
East Valley Tribune - April 21, 2008 - 8:49PM
Researchers at Banner Alzheimer's Institute and Mayo Clinic have won a $6.6 million federal grant to
continue and expand their research into the earliest indicators of Alzheimer's disease. The five-year
funding from the National Institute on Aging supports a study using PET and MRI brain scans to
measure brain changes in healthy people, some who carry a gene linked to the disease and others
who don't. "We truly believe that this work will play a pivotal role in finding effective treatments to end
Alzheimer's disease without losing a generation," said Dr. Eric Reiman, executive director of the
Banner Alzheimer's Institute and the study's principal investigator.

University of Arizona's Lute Olson ordered to appear in court
Arizona Daily Star - April 22, 2008
PHOENIX — University of Arizona men's basketball coach Lute Olson has been ordered to appear in
a Tucson court May 7. Olson, 73, was ordered to appear before Judge Sarah Simmons of Pima County
Superior Court after he transferred money into his personal account from a joint account with his
estranged wife Christine, court records show. The transfer of funds from a Charles Schwab account
came to light earlier this month, court records said. Olson was accused of moving the money Dec. 7, a
day after he filed for divorce from Christine Olson and the same day he asked the University of Arizona
for an indefinite leave of absence.

Salazar stamp fête to be at UA
Arizona Daily Star - April 22, 2008
A daylong celebration for journalist Rubén Salazar — including the unveiling of a 42-cent postage stamp
— and a symposium highlighting his career and a look at his death is set for Thursday at the University of
Arizona. Olga Briseño, director of the UA College of Humanities Media, Democracy & Policy Initiative,
worked for three years collecting signatures and gathering resolutions from national Latino organizations
in support of a stamp. The policy initiative works to identify the contributions of Latinos in U.S. politics, social
justice and the media. The national issuance of the stamp in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., is today.

Technology group connects businesses, students
ASU Web Devil - April 22, 2008
Since its creation in late 2006, the Advanced Technology and Innovation Center, or ATIC, has offered ASU
students and faculty the opportunity to work with businesses in their fields to develop new technologies.
The center focuses on creating partnerships with small- to medium-sized businesses, and sometimes
individuals, that are looking to develop a new product, software, or technology, said the center's founder
and director Anshuman Razdan. "Big industries have a different kind of leverage," Razdan said, "whereas
ASU is a huge labyrinth of knowledge, it may seem overwhelming to a smaller enterprise. ATIC becomes
the umbrella organization to channel the flow of information to the appropriate departments.

Speakers debate civil rights bill
UA Daily Wildcat Online - April 22, 2008
In front of more than 300 members of the Tucson community yesterday, Clint Bolick leaned in to his microphone
and told the partisan crowd what most of them did not want to hear. "I'm going to focus my comments on the
practical side of what has come to be known as affirmative action," he said. "But what I refer to as preferential
treatment." Bolick, director of the Goldwater Institute, the chief supporter of the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative,
debated Dennis Shields, dean of the Phoenix School of Law, on what is the best way to decrease institutional
racism in Arizona. Diversity in educational institutions is the backbone of what has led universities around the
nation to thrive both academically and economically, Shields said.

Developers fight effort to roll back property tax breaks
The Business Journal of Phoenix - April 22, 2008 - 12:08 PM MST
Real estate developers, city governments and heavyweight business interests have come out in force against a
state measure that would restrict special property tax breaks for development projects and certain businesses.
State Sen. Ken Cheuvront, D-Phoenix, wants to restrict cities from doling out Government Property Lease Excise
Tax deals. GPLETs involve cities leasing their land to developers and businesses, allowing the latter to pay lower
property taxes than if they owned the land. Several downtown Phoenix office projects (including the Colliers Center
and Arizona Center), Cabela's sporting good store in Glendale, a planned private hospital in Goodyear and Arizona
State University's SkySong tech center in Scottsdale are GPLETs.

Arizona Proposal Would Prohibit Race-Based Student Groups
The Chronicle of Higher Education - April 18, 2008
An Arizona legislative committee has passed an amendment to a routine homeland-security bill that would prohibit
students at the state’s public universities and community colleges from organizing groups based on race. The
amendment was approved by the Arizona House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday. It still awaits a vote by
the state’s full House and Senate.