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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2015

IN THE NEWS

VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 84

MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW

Students moving abroad to study

Chris Brown postpones tour for probation

BY TERRIE BRIANNA The Daily Wildcat

Obama ends popular college saving account known as 529s

Pac-12 Conference behind Stanford’s Chasson Randle. However, the Wildcats handled Young fairly well in the first matchup, holding the senior to 4-15 shooting from the field and just 12 points in 36 minutes of action. Miller said limiting Young on Jan. 8 is a testament to talented defenders such as Rondae Hollis-Jefferson. “Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, you guys know this, but you’re not going to see very many talented defenders walk through the doors here at Arizona more than Rondae,” Miller said.

The year of 2015 is expected to see an increase in the amount of students studying abroad, according to a study conducted by Savills, an international rental consultancy. The UA joins the trend with the addition of new study abroad programs. There has been a larger number of students studying abroad because “having international study on a resume has proven to help students to secure jobs faster than those who have not studied abroad,” said Greg Kraynak, the CEO of Cellhire USA . Study abroad numbers have increased in 2012 and 2013 by 2.1 percent, Kraynak said. The UA added 19 new study abroad programs for the summer of 2015. Some of the new locations include universities in the Netherlands, China, Brazil, Switzerland, Guatemala and Egypt. The new programs “further align study abroad with the 100 percent engagement initiative,” said Harmony DeFazio, director of study abroad and student exchange. “For example, Global MedCats program in Costa Rica offers students clinical experience.” According to DeFazio, profound opportunities for personal growth helped motivate 211 UA students to take part in study abroad programs just this semester. About 70 students attend the Costa Rica program each year, and 150 students go to Italy, which are the two biggest programs, DeFazio added. Meg Morita, a senior studying public health and minoring in Spanish, chose to study in Costa Rica to complete requirements for her Spanish minor. Morita said that she was able to practice her Spanish when she got lost using public transport, which she said happened a few times. “Even with a language barrier, I was able to learn a

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3,000 honor 70 years after the liberation of Auschwitz

DUCK HUNT

Marshawn Lynch gives one reply to all at Super Bowl Media Day — The New York TImes

SPORTS

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Frosh Holloway has taken up leadership role Page 6

Men’s golf finishes in seventh place Page 6

ARTS & LIFE

ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL guard T.J. McConnell (4) shoots over Utah forward Jakob Poeltl (42) during Arizona’s 69-51 win against Utah in McKale Center on Jan. 17. McConnell and the Wildcats take on Oregon on Wednesday in McKale Center.

BY ROBERTO PAYNE The Daily Wildcat

Fresh off a two-game sweep over the Bay Area schools, the No. 6 Arizona men’s basketball team hosts Oregon on Wednesday in McKale Center. This is the second and final regular season matchup between the two teams. The Wildcats took the first game 80-62 on Jan. 8 at Matthew Knight Arena in Eugene, Ore. Behind 21 points from UA guard T.J. McConnell, that last matchup between the Wildcats and Ducks saw

CDC gives $2 million to research

Arizona grab an early lead and never relinquish it. In total, Arizona led for 39:21 of the 40 available minutes and never trailed. Arizona head coach Sean Miller said there is no advantage to playing the Ducks about three weeks after that first matchup. “We’re equally familiar with each other,” Miller said. “If there’s an advantage, we’ve already played them at their home court.” Oregon’s leading scorer, Joseph Young, averages 19.3 points per game, good enough for second in the

Low gas prices fuel economic concerns

BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat

Play premieres through student collaboration Page 3

OPINIONS Capitalism and the Protestant Work Ethic work to discriminate against those with disabilities Page 4

QUOTE TO NOTE “There are some who reerve a table every month and bring their friends. Monterey Court is an outdoor venue so kids are welcome ... [and] some people bring their dogs” — Ron Pandy

BY DAVID DEL GRANDE

The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Surveillance Program has recently received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue research on autism spectrum disorders. Led by co-principal investigators Sydney Pettygrove, an epidemiologist and assistant professor in the UA Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and Margaret Kurzius-Spencer, assistant professor of pediatrics and public health, the program will receive the donation over the course of four years. Pettygrove said the most basic goal of the Steele Children’s Research Center program at the College of Medicine is to provide an estimate of what proportion of children are affected by autism spectrum disorders within defined populations. It is important to know this kind of information in planning for services for those people, mainly to predict the size of the demographic, Pettygrove said. “If something should happen and we get a big increase in cases, it’s hard to know you have an increase if you never knew how many you had

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The Daily Wildcat

Since Jan. 18, Tucson gasoline prices have dropped 6 cents per gallon, according to GasBuddy, a retail fuel pricing aggregate. This sets local average fuel prices at about $1.81 per gallon, which is 22 cents less than national rates. Patrick DeHaan, senior petroleum analyst at Gasbuddy, wrote in a press release that U.S. motorists will have another week of gas prices averaging about $1.99 per gallon. He further explained drivers shouldn’t expect that to last, especially as we approach summer months. The stray gas pumps that hug the corner of Park Avenue and Sixth Street may fuel memories of economic debate, even though their wells dried almost 10 years ago. The initial deposit for reestablishing fuel service is expensive, and the investment wouldn’t provide many benefits for the independent operation, said Trina Lombardy, a Metro Wildcat sales associate. Lombardy has worked at the retail location on and off for the past three years. “I don’t know if it would be a detriment to us to get gas here or if it would actually help us,”

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TUCSON RESIDENTS FILL up their vehicles with gas at the QuikTrip on the corner of First Avenue and Glenn Street on Tuesday. Gas prices are expected to remain in $1.99 range until the beginning of the summer season.

Lombardy said. Lombardy said she hopes gas prices remain low for another three years, because inexpensive prices at the pump dictate the elasticity of her monthly budget. “[While] this year will still feature far lower prices than last year,” DeHaan said, “we’ll be subject to a seasonal lift in gasoline prices as refineries slow production to do maintenance and to make the progressive switch over to cleaner burning summer gasoline.”

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Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries refuse to yield their pace of crude oil production, which has pitted U.S. producers against its foreign counterparts. This commodity has reached its lowest selling value since 2009. Additionally, while motorists continue to consume inexpensive fuel throughout the U.S., economic experts are worried about the long

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