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Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Spartan Race participant climbing up an obstacle during the Spartan Race in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 10, 2018. (Photograph by: Alex DeMarzo/Arizona Sonora News)

Obstacle course races: A rising trend here to stay for the long haul

Alex DeMarzo February 23, 2018

As dawn appears over the Fort McDowell Rodeo Grounds in Phoenix, thousands gather to unleash their inner warrior as they compete in an obstacle course known as the Spartan Race. According to a Running...

Michelle Higgins, 51, working in her office on Wednesday, September 13, 2017. Photo by: Deborah Lee/Arizona Sonora News

Women’s pay shortchanged

Deborah Lee September 27, 2017

Eighteen cents. That is the difference between a woman and a man working in Arizona. According to data by the Institute of Women’s Policy Research’s (IWPR) project Status of Women in the States,...

Man drinking alcohol at a bar. (Photo by: Pixabay, Free Stock Images)

Why men often die earlier than women

Alyssa Schlitzer March 17, 2017

Death visits men before women. Men, on average, die about five years earlier than women. Men’s behavior plays a huge role in why they tend to die younger, said Ronald Levant, a professor of psychology...

Lee Ann Hamilton, subdirector de la organización de la salud y servicios preventivos en UA Campus Health, está parada junto al folleto que ayuda a fomentar el análisis de enfermedades de transmisión sexual entre los estudiantes. (Foto por: Alyssa Schlitzer/Arizona Sonora News Service)

Los hombres se han demorado en aceptar el Tratamiento del VPH

Mar Ruiz March 7, 2017

Algunos hombres ni siquiera son conscientes de las repercusiones fatales de este virus.  Existen muchos conceptos erróneos que dice que el virus del papiloma humano (HPV por sus siglas en...

Photo courtesy of J.D. Fitzgerald/Tucson Local Med

Women in the rodeo: Limited opportunity to get in the saddle

Lauren Ikenn March 10, 2016

Marana's Erin Parsons is very familiar with rodeos. She comes from a well-known Tucson-area rodeo family and began competing in junior events at age 6. Now 29, she is a professional barrel racer...

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