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IN THIS EDITION | VOLUME 112, ISSUE 31 News

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Stressed about finals? Here’s a 2019 survival guide

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Arts & Life

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UA alumna starts fertility company

Investigative Behind the pills that protect against HIV

News Police Beat: Student speaks in solidarity with “Arizona 3”

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Meet the Uber and Lyft driver who goes above and beyond

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Get the latest update on the “Arizona 3”

Sports Student Spotlight: Beach volleyball player Jordan Abalos

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UA graduate students invited to Prague conference

Meet the UA baseball player who overcame two injuries

Opinions Topic of the week: Reactions to the Notre Dame fire

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EDITORIAL

Beat the end-of-semester heat and de-stress

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ummer is coming and the temperature is rising, and student stress levels are, too. The end of the Spring semester is near, which means time is limited to get those last-minute assignments and projects done before studying for final exams.

Grades are important factors in deciding whether or not to take a summer class, keeping a scholarship or restricting you from other things, so getting those grades up is the main goal this time of year. Of course, that’s on top of keeping up with the weather, social time, making future plans, jobs and family — for many, the plate is full.

Just listing all that was a bit stressful in itself, so the Daily Wildcat wants to remind you of the basics to make it to the start of summer break.

One thing to remember when things get stressful is the reason you came to college in the first place. Reminding yourself of

your goals is important in the last few weeks to motivate you to achieve them.

An important tip everyone should follow is the rule of hydration. With stress on the rise, and the temperature as well, dehydration is apparent on campus. Drink water when you can to keep yourself cool.

Schoolwork and projects are key parts of the spring semester.

They are due and you have to finish them, so you should remember to do your best and communicate with your professor, but also avoid taking on side projects for friends or work. The more you add to your plate, the heavier your stress becomes.

We at student media understand deadlines, and that is another heavy burden in the semester. However, remember to not overwork yourself. Taking a part of the day off to distract your mind from the work to be done is good for your health. So watch a movie on a Wednesday, take yourself to dinner, enjoy shopping on a Saturday.

A very important tip: If you’ve gotten this far, keep up with

us. There are a good number of events coming up, news is happening as you read, and our reporters are finding new stories to share with the campus community. We’re a campus resource here to help you keep up with the university.

Also remember there are plenty of campus resources available right now, from CAPS to Think Tank and events put on specifically for finals week like “Dogs and Donuts”. Campus Health is always taking appointments if you’re feeling under the weather, emotionally or physically.

The last tip is to have a good end of the semester. This is the only 2019 Spring semester you will have, unless you time travel, but that’s another conversation.

— Editorials are determined by the Daily Wildcat Opinions Board and are written by its members. They are Editor-in-chief Jasmine Demers, Managing Editor Marissa Heffernan, Engagement Editor Eddie Celaya, Opinions Editor Ariday Sued and Arts & Life Editor Pascal Albright.

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NEWS | FINALS WEEK

Finals Week Survival Guide

BY JAKE TOOLE @JakeToole4

Finals week can be a time of anxiety and panic for students, which is why the Finals Survival Week committee was created at the University of Arizona to help students relieve at least some stress amidst their finals.

Finals Survival Week will be hosting events from April 22 to May 10. The events differ widely in location and in content. So, if you are looking for a way to get your mind off studyingt, FSW will have something for you.

Relax and Recharge at the Museum The University of Arizona Museum of Art will be holding a day of activities on April 30 designed to help students alleviate their stress from end-of-year school projects and exams.

The activities at the UAMA will focus on creative art all day, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Coffee and snacks will be provided. There will also be specialized activities, including painting with ambassadors from the College of Fine Arts at 1 p.m. and a yoga nidra class with Leslie Langbert at 2:30 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to RSVP. Dogs and Donuts On Thursday, May 2, the University Libraries will be hosting “Dogs and Donuts” for Finals Survival Week.

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University Libraries website, it will be held in the Main Library from 5-7 p.m.

The main activities this event will provide, as the title suggests, are playing with therapy dogs and eating donuts. However, the events will also include other relaxing activities, which include board games, aromatherapy, making tabletop Zen gardens and even Think Tank academic tutors.

Free Solo Screening and Rock Wall The Loft Cinema will be showing Free Solo on Wednesday, May 1, at 8 p.m. for Finals Survival Week.

The Oscar-winning documentary will be shown on the Loft Cinema’s inflatable solar cinematic screen on the UA Mall.

This is an event you will want to get to early, because you will be able to climb the rock wall that will be available. You will also get to make your own trail mix and participate in other activities that aim to relieve stress. Attendees will have to bring their own seating.

Preparing for Final Exam Workshops The Think Tank will be adding a “Preparing for Final Exams” workshop to its Workshop Wednesdays.

It will be on Wednesday, April 24, from 5-6 p.m. in Room 311 of the Science and Engineering Library.

The goal of the workshop is to teach students effective studying methods to help them with their finals. These methods will include how to study with flashcards and time management.

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NEWS | ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

UA alumna founds fertility treatment company After graduating from the UA in 2001 and experiencing fertility issues, Claire Tomkins is now the founder and CEO of Future Family, providing affordable fertility care all over the country

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In 2016, over 160,000 women had medical help to have their babies, according to a report from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. One of these medical treatments is in vitro fertilization, where an egg is combined with sperm outside of the body.

These treatments, however, come with a cost. One IVF treatment costs an average of $12,000, not including medication. The price for more rounds of treatment adds even more.

Spending over $100,000 dealing with her own fertility issues, Claire Tomkins witnessed the realities of both the cost and stress surrounding the issue.

This realization is what led Tomkins, a University of Arizona alumna, to leave her job as the director of product marketing at SolarCity and become founder and CEO of her own fertility treatment company, Future Family, in 2016.

“I think the fertility medical journey can be really challenging for folks,” Tomkins said. “It can be very complicated, very stressful, clearly very expensive.”

Future Family is the world’s first subscription fertility model. They provide people with affordable fertility care in all 50 states.

“Our vision was [subscriptions] are fairly easy to do, and we really want fertility, in some ways, to feel that easy,” Tomkins said. “We can design a custom plan, that’s usually a five-year plan that can be anywhere from $350 to $450 a month.”

Through her job at SolarCity, Tomkins “became very passionate about the impact that we could all have through entrepreneurship,” and said she was both nervous and excited to make the career change.

Tomkins graduated from the UA in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in systems and industrial engineering and public policy.

She received her Master of Science and Ph.D. from Stanford and has been named a National Science Foundation Fellow and Kauffman Fellow.

Jim Sweeney is a professor for management science and engineering at Stanford. He was Tomkins’ adviser for most of her academic program and one of the faculty members on her dissertation committee, according to Sweeney.

“She was completely full of energy,” Sweeney said. “Very environmentally conscious, and she was an activist in the sense of putting her time and attention where her values were.”

Sweeney said Tomkins was trying to make a difference during her time at Stanford. He said she helped lead the Stanford Outdoor Outreach Program, which provided opportunities for high school students to get outdoors and understand the value of the environment.

Sweeney said that Tomkins’ choice to go from working in solar energy to working in fertility care after her personal experiences with infertility is another example of how valuedriven she is.

“She’s done a superb job in integrating her personal skills, her academic skills ... and her ability to work with organizations,” Sweeney said. “She’s all the way along done a good job in putting those things together to make a difference.”

Jeff Harbach is the president and CEO of Kauffman Fellows.

He was in the fellowship class of 2011 to 2013, just one year behind Tomkins, who was in the class of 2010 to 2012.

COURTESY FUTURE FAMILY

CLAIRE TOMKINS IS THE founder and CEO of Future Family, a fertility treatment company. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in systems industrial engineering and public policy.

“Claire is incredibly driven; she’s incredibly thoughtful, she’s everything you want to see in an entrepreneur,” Harbach said. “What’s amazing about her is she’s taken her life experiences and some of the things that have impacted her life, including her journey to start a family with her husband, and started this company, Future Family, that helps other families do the same thing, especially when it’s impossible for them.”

Harbach said Tomkins recently spoke at a module for Kauffman fellows, sharing her experiences and talking about her company.

“She’s leveraged the things that she’s learned and gone and created a really impactful company,” Harbach said. “We want people to take their raw talents and maximize their potential

to make a positive dent in the world, and she’s absolutely doing that.”

In 2016, Tomkins was invited to the UA College of Engineering Homecoming to be the keynote speaker at the Engineers Breakfast. Tomkins said she was excited when she got to come back and speak, as she has great memories of her time as an undergrad at UA. “Very particularly I’m excited about some of the work that the university is doing around entrepreneurship,” Tomkins said. “I want to encourage more students to think about that as a potential career pathway, down the line.”

Tomkins currently lives in San Francisco and has three children, all born via IVF.

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ARTS & LIFE | GRAD STUDENTS GO ABROAD

UA students picked to share ideas in Prague

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REBEKAH CLARK, A GRADUATE student seeking a master’s degree in scenic design, is of three University of Arizona graduate students selected to present at an international festival this summer.

RYAN MOORE, A GRADUATE student seeking a master’s degree in costume design, is one of three University of Arizona graduate students selected to present at an international festival this summer.

TORI MAYS, A GRADUATE student seeking a master’s degree in lighting design, is one of three University of Arizona graduate students selected to present at an international festival this summer.

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designed were royal figures like Marie Antoinette and King Henry VIII, and the students used the theme of lavishness in “Ubu Roi” to get creative.

“One of the themes is excess,” Moore said. “But instead of focusing on money and riches, we wanted to do material excess.”

One costume Moore designed was a dress fit for a queen, but instead of being made of velvet or silk, it’s made of pink Sweet‘N Low packets. Another costume uses cardboard from 12 packs of Mountain Dew and plastic horse feed bags.

“It looks really fancy, but it’s made out of garbage, because that’s how ‘material excess’ came through for us,” Moore said.

Clark, a first-year graduate student pursuing a master’s in scenic design, said the idea of material excess in the form of trash helped her create what the stage and audience spaces would look like.

“The ideas translated into the scenic world by creating little mounds of trash for the audience to sit on,” Clark said. “It makes them a part of this story and brings the idea of class hierarchy to life by having the trash juxtaposed against the clean, minimalistic platform of the stage.”

Mays said the project had no budget, since the play won’t actually be performed, and this gave her the freedom of “unlimited technology” to design the show’s lighting.

“I basically used LEDs everywhere so we can have any color pouring out through the ceiling of the stage,” Mays said. “There are also fixtures on the outside that create shards of light to incorporate the audience in the setting.

The light can make it look like there are jail bars or the colors can make the audience match the environment the characters are in.”

Mays said she also included fluorescent and ultraviolet lights to add more control and variety for how the stage and audience will appear.

Mays, Clark and Moore had UA professor Joe Klug help mentor them and provide feedback as they worked on the project.

Klug was involved with designing an exhibit for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology which he said was presented at the most recent PQ in 2015. He shared examples from that year’s festival with Mays, Moore and Clark of what other countries had done in the field of theater design to give them a broader sense of what theater looks like outside the U.S. “That was kind of the goal of the project: to introduce our graduate students to this idea of ‘how do we engage in that larger worldwide conversation of where theater is going?’”

Klug said. “For me, the goal with the PQ is just opening the students’ eyes to what theater can be.”

The trio, who have never been to Prague, said they are looking forward to being exposed to work by students and theater professionals from around the world at PQ. “I’m excited to experience art that isn’t American,” Mays said. “In America we can get easily caught up in commercial theater and trying to make it this entertaining spectacle. I feel like other areas in the world make art not necessarily for money.”

Clark said she is excited that PQ is centered around the technical side of theater.

“I think the focus and discourse of theater tends to lean towards directors and writers and their vision,” she said.

“So being in this environment where designers are all talking about how to push themselves forward is really exciting.”

Three University of Arizona graduate students will travel to the Czech Republic this summer to present their theater design project at an international festival.

Tori Mays, Rebekah Clark and Ryan Moore will represent UA at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, or PQ for short, in June.

The students said 11 other schools will also have students sharing their projects at PQ, which happens every four years to showcase theatrical design, architecture and scenography from around the globe.

“I think it’s going to be really cool to show our school and our program as a top contender,” said Moore, who is seeking a master’s degree in costume design.

Moore said the UA, the California Institute of the Arts and Carnegie Mellon University were the only three American universities that had students selected to present their work for PQ’s Common Design Project.

According to Mays, a third-year graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in lighting design, all students who participated in the project created a design plan for the same play script.

Mays worked on the lighting concepts, Moore did the costuming and Clark made a model of what the stage and audience space would look like for “Ubu Roi,” the 19th century play by Alfred Jarry that was assigned.

The trio said the play, which parodies Shakespearean plays such as “Hamlet” and “Macbeth,” centers around a political figure’s rise to power and deals with themes of tyranny, social class and corruption.

Moore said some inspirations for the costumes he

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INVESTIGATIVE | HIV/AIDS PREVENTION

One pill a day may keep HIV away

BY JESSE TELLEZ @jtell27

Students at risk of being exposed to HIV can turn to the University of Arizona Campus Health Service for a drug that helps protect against getting the virus.

The brand name is Truvada, and in 2012, it became the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reduce the risk of being infected by HIV, according to the FDA’s website.

Truvada is a combination of tenofovir disoproxil and emtricitabine and a form of pre-exposure prophylaxis, which is also known as PrEP. Cesar Egurrola, lead clinical coordinator at the UA Department of Medicine’s Petersen HIV Clinic, said when a PrEP medication is taken daily by HIV-negative patients, it prevents the transmission of HIV. “Daily adherence to PrEP is essential to prevent HIV infection,” Egurrola said.

Patients who use PrEP must also undergo routine HIV and STD screenings and regularly visit their PrEP provider while on the medication, Egurrola said.

There is a similar method of using medication, called post-exposure prophylaxis or PEP, which helps prevent HIV transmission after a person is exposed to it.

Egurrola said PEP is most often used after someone may have been exposed to HIV through sexual contact, sexual assault or from exposure to blood, often through needles.

“If PrEP can be compared to ‘the pill,’ PEP could be compared to ‘Plan B,’ with the exception that, for PEP, the 28days course of treatment needs to be completed,” Egurrola said. “And there is no weight maximum for PEP efficacy.”

Dr. Kathy Wilson, a physician at Campus Health, said that in addition to taking PEP for 28 days, the medication must be started within 72 hours of the possible HIV exposure to be effective.

She said following the dosage instructions for both PrEP and PEP is vital.

“Both regimens need to be taken daily to provide maximal effectiveness,” Wilson said.

“When taken daily, PrEP has a 92 percent success rate in the prevention of HIV transmission. Per the CDC, PEP is very effective in the prevention of transmission of HIV, but not 100 percent.”

STDs on the rise

Lee Ann Hamilton, the assistant director of Health Promotion and Preventive Services at Campus Health, said students taking PrEP and PEP should be advised the medications do not protect against other sexually transmitted diseases. She said this is important to know because cases of STDs are being seen more frequently lately.

“PreP and PEP only protect against HIV,” Hamilton said.

“We continue to see high rates of chlamydia and have seen more syphilis than in past years.”

According to the most recent Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2017, rates of STDs have been increasing across the country.

The report showed that over 1.7 million cases of chlamydia in the U.S. were reported in 2017, an increase of 6.9 percent from the previous year.

Reported cases of gonorrhea totaled over 555,600, which was over an 18 percent increase from 2016 and an increase of a little over 75 percent from a record low in 2009.

The CDC report showed rates of syphilis rose 10.5 percent from 2016 to 2017, and 87.7 percent of those reported cases were men.

Men make up the majority of people in Arizona who have HIV, according to the 2018 Arizona HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Supplemental Report from the Arizona Department of Health Services.

The report showed that out of the estimated 9,480 cases of prevalent HIV in the state in

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INFORMATION FROM THE MOST recent Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2017).

2017, 8,027 cases were male.

Egurrola said the main demographic that uses PrEP is “mostly men who have sex with men, predominantly white, followed by Hispanic.”

Local access to PrEP and PEP

Wilson said more UA students and Tucsonans are becoming aware of these medications through community outreach such as the PrEP and PEP Navigators program by the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation.

“Word of mouth is an effective tool to encourage our students to come in to Campus Health to start PrEP and PEP, or even simply to ask questions, allowing them to become better informed about their options,” Wilson said.

Wilson said students have the opportunity to get the medications at reduced prices, and some are even able to get them without paying out-ofpocket.

“There are patientassistance programs and grants available that can offset

the price of the medications,” Wilson said. “We utilize pharmacies that are wellversed in navigating these programs in order to provide our students with the lowest cost possible, regardless of insurance coverage or lack thereof.”

Students who are interested in PrEP and PEP can schedule appointments with PrEP/PEP providers at Campus Health to find out more or reach out to SAAF through its Navigators program.

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NEWS | POLICE BEAT

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stand and deliver There’s no more appropriate place to stand up and make your argument than in a College of Law. Except maybe when it’s an impromptu speech during a fancy banquet.

On April 8, a man informed the University of Arizona Police Department of an incident at the James E. Rogers College of Law that took place April 6.

During a banquet hosted by the Arizona Law Review team, a law student gave a surprise speech she also videotaped for Live.

The man showed an officer the video. In the speech, the student brought up the three UA students, known as the “Arizona 3,” charged with harassing Border Patrol officers in an incident on March 19.

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introduced and handed the microphone. The student, who was wearing a shirt with the words “Murder Patrol” on it, took the microphone from the dean.

She spoke about the three students’ situation and how multiple departments had expressed their support of the Arizona 3. However, she said she did not believe that the College of Law leadership would bring attention to this issue.

She also said she did not feel safe, respected or appreciated in the College of Law; rather, she felt powerless, helpless and ostracized as an immigrant student.

The student finished by explaining she was wearing a “Murder Patrol” shirt and interrupting the meeting in solidarity with the Arizona 3.

She also said she did not think Border Patrol should be permitted on campus, as they posed a threat to students.

According to the man, the student then road away from the banquet. Her bike had been next to her while she was making the speech.

The man told the officer that once the event finished, he filed a Code of Conduct Violation with the Dean of Students Office. He said he did not disagree with the student’s message the university had treated the Arizona 3 unfairly, however, he felt her method of delivery and disruption was inappropriate.

That day, he had also spoken with members of the Arizona Law Review about potentially reporting the student to the police, as he felt she might interrupt other College of Law events. He initially did not go through with it.

However, later on, the man saw a Facebook post

from the student. In it, she stated the man, who she referred to by first and last name, had called the police on her in an attempt to silence her.

She later took the original post down and wrote an updated post, which claimed he had been heard saying he was planning on contacting the police and the Dean of Students Office.

The officer and the student also looked at the comment she included with the video. She said she had interrupted the banquet to protest the treatment of the three students and bring attention to the situation.

She also wrote she felt grateful to have the right to protest as a naturalized citizen.

In the post, she also criticized President Dr. Robert C. Robbins for his handling of the situation and accused him of inciting violence and death threats against students of color by pursuing criminal charges against the Arizona 3.

The officer told the man none of the student’s posts were threatening in nature, nor did they constitute criminal activity.

The officer also called the dean of the College of Law. The dean said that at the time of the interruption, he believed the best course of action was to let the student state her case and then continue on with the event.

He said he did not want to prosecute the student and that he would have involved law enforcement if he had thought it was necessary.

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ARTS & LIFE | 5-STAR DRIVER

Rideshare driver goes beyond the destination for students

BY NICHOLAS TRUJILLO MAYA NOTO & JAMIE DONNELLY @fantastic_nick @mayanoto58 @JamieRisa11

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After over 4,000 trips with Uber and Lyft combined in the University of Arizona area, Nicole Ochotorena, aka Mama Bear, has no regrets about getting fired from Circle K. Ochotorena was fired from her previous job for being too friendly. She said she would take customers who walked in drunk and belligerent and have them walk out feeling happier and less drunk.

Some of those talks took hours on end.

“People would come in drunk and angry demanding beer,” she said. “I would talk them down, and by the time they left, they wouldn’t be drunk or angry.”

According to Ochotorena, her boss was not happy about this.

However, being too friendly is not a bad quality for an Uber driver, according to her son.

“I guess that’s why the kids want me do to it — because I’m very friendly,” Ochotorena said.

Her family stresses she has “a heart of gold.” Her husband Alex Ochotorena remembers her being kind since the day they met.

“She’s just a kind-hearted person, she’s always been like that,” Alex Ochotorena said. “If she can help out people, she will help them out. If she sees homeless people in the streets, she will give them water and food. It’s just the way she’s been since I have PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY NICHOLAS TRUJILLO | THE DAILY WILDCAT

1: Nicole Ochotorena, aka Mama Bear, can be identified by the iconic University of Arizona Wildcat mascot logo on the hood of her car.

2: Ochotorena said she takes pride in knowing her car is noticable because of the time and effort she has put into buying extra amenitites.

3: Mama Bear has also bought lights that shine inside the roof of her car. According to Ochotorena, many riders see the lights as a plus, making the ride more fun.

4: One of Ochotorena’s regulars, UA student Kendall Grow, chats with Ochotorena before exiting the car at her destination. Ochotorena makes it a point to make personal connections with each of her riders.

5: The Uber Driver app lets you view all the reviews you have obtained from previous riders. Ochotorena has a 4.96 out of 5 stars on the Uber rating system. According to her, it is one of the highest ratings in Tucson.

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known her.”

That golden heart was molded through her peers making fun of her. As a child she was called scar-face, and it wasn’t an homage to Al Pacino’s Tony Montana.

Ochotorena said she was involved in a car accident in her home state of Indiana that paralyzed the right side of her body, ruptured her spleen, caused head trauma and left scars across her body.

“They would call me fat, ugly, scar-face and other horrible names,” she said. “But karma has a way at getting back. One of the girls who used to call me fat and say I would never get a man is now bigger than I am.”

Yet Ochotorena said she refused to let the damage bring her spirits down.

“My brain decided, well, we’re not going to do this,” she said. “I know everyone wants to figure out their purpose. But mine is here helping these kids.”

Ochotorena calls the kids “chil-vains.” This is because the UA riders she drives around are not her children, but when they are in the car, “they are just chillin’ like villains,” according to Ochotorena.

According to UA student Raquel Glasser, the name “Mama Bear” certainly fits Ochotorena.

“She is willing to drop whatever she has going on to go and pick us up, which is probably the most amazing thing,” Glasser said.

Ochotorena’s love for her passengers can be seen in her car as well. As she rolls down the street in her Dodge Journey, her hood is adorned with the UA’s iconic Wildcat logo.

The inside of the SUV is lit up with

dancing lights and a UA flag in the back seat.

“You have to make sure people know your spirit,” she said.

In addition to her car being decked out in lights and UA gear, Ochotorena takes a different approach to the rideshare industry.

She became “Mama Bear” to act as a “guardian” to students who are away from their own families, Ochotorena said.

Glasser said she was in the market to find a safe Uber driver when she was paired up with Ochotorena.

The driver’s fun and protective personality encouraged her to ask for Ochotorena’s phone number, and she has been a regular customer since.

“She wanted to take us where we needed to go in the safest way possible,” Glasser said.

“Since our families aren’t here to watch over us, she is the one that wants to take over that and protect us.”

Ochotorena gives out custom-made business cards with the hood of her SUV on the front of it with her number and a message for her future regular customers.

“Keeping you safe,” the card reads.

This is a mantra Ochotorena takes to heart.

She often works 12-hour days back-to-back, sometimes being on the road from 5:30 p.m. to 5:30 a.m. Some weekends, she even works a 24-hour shift to drive everyone home safely.

“If the kids need me before, then all they have to do is call me,” she said.

She’s often willing to drop her own schedule to prioritize her riders, Glasser said.

“She is doing this purely out of love for all of us,” Glasser said.

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Ochotorena was always worried about getting the kids safely from point A to point B, her husband said, which Ochotorena demonstrates nightly.

“All these kids need is a little bit of love, and they’ll give you tenfold of the love you get them. They will love you unconditionally,” Ochotorena said.

This love she gives is the reason she has a 4.96 out of 5 stars on the Uber app out of the past 500 rides she has given, according to her profile page on the Uber Driver app.

On Lyft, she has a perfect 5-star rating out of the 895 rides she has given, according to her profile page on the Lyft Driver App. Her reviews are filled with descriptions of Ochotorena being “spunky” and “amazing at keeping a conversation rolling.” They also speak volumes of her being the best driver her riders have ever had.

Her high rating comes in part from her view that a ride is about more than what goes on inside the car.

“I will literally get out of my car, and if somebody is fighting with [a rider], I get involved,” she said.

With each ride, she said she makes efforts to ensure her riders feel completely safe. She said her policy is simple: Riders respect her car, and she gives them the same respect in return.

“I don’t care if you have a wheelchair, if you have a bike, if you have a dog, if you have a cat, anything you can fit in my car ... I will not turn you away,” she said.

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NEWS | MIGRANT DROP-OFF / ARIZONA 3 UPDATE

ICE drops off 120 refugees at Tucson bus station

BY ALANA MINKLER @alana_minkler

On Sunday, April 14, 120 asylum-seeking refugees were dropped off by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Tucson Bus Station between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. The United Methodist Church was able to arrive and take the first 30 migrants to the Campus Christian Center and the United Methodist Church on Park Avenue and transported the rest later.

Hannah Bonner, a minister of the United Methodist Church, said the dropoff on Sunday felt like a deliberate attempt to create chaos.

“For days we had been getting warnings that ICE & Border Patrol would be delivering people to the streets rather than the shelters, in what we know is the ongoing attempt to create the illusion of crisis and surge here on the border,” Bonner wrote on her blog in a post titled “Love is in the Lead.”

Colby Brown, a University of Arizona senior studying physics and mathematics, is an oncall volunteer for The Inn Project, a project by the Methodist Church that provides an in-between place for refugees before they go to their destination after they have been processed by ICE. Brown said It was clear from the start the Sunday dropoff would require all hands on deck.

“When I got there, there was a bus sitting in the parking lot,” Brown said. “There were Tucson Police officers standing around. There were just a mob of parents and children, and

I could see several volunteers who I know running around trying to organize things.”

It turned out the bus and the police officers were sent by Mayor Jonathan Rothschild to help the church transport the refugees as quickly as possible.

“At that point in the day, our number one priority, more than anything else, was getting them out of the parking lot,” Brown said. “Largely because it was very hot — dangerously hot.”

Yoni was one of the asylum-seekers.

“When we got there, we were scared and it was very warm,” he said. “We hadn’t drunken any water. We hadn’t had any food. And we went three days without water and food. All we had were little cookies and juice pouches.”

When volunteers arrived, they provided food and water and restored order, Yoni said.

“She gave us clothes, food, and we took a shower,” he said. “We changed our clothes and we felt brand new, like we were reborn.”

According to Brown, volunteers’ immediate goal was to remove the refugees from the public eye to more effectively help them.

“Our number one goal was ... to get them out of the public view as quick as possible, where now we can do our work without the perception of chaos or anything else, because there wasn’t chaos,” Brown said.

Usually ICE will warn the churches and tell them how many people will be drop off, and bring them directly to the churches. According to an ICE spokesperson, they can’t hold

families after they’ve been given their release paperwork.

On occasion, however, Brown said “they will just drop off however many people onto the streets,” but usually not in such large numbers.

Usually, the United Methodist church brings the refugees food and water and they offer them help to get to their next destination, as most of them don’t speak English and don’t know how to navigate the transportation system here. Volunteers will wait with them, help them navigate or bring them to shelter.

Yasmeen O’Keefe is a spokesperson for ICE. “The family surge is ever changing,” O’Keefe said. “Sometimes there are larger numbers of them coming through the Arizona border and other times there’s less ...”

She also explained the process behind dropoffs, like the one that occurred on April 14. “[Enforcement and Removal Offices] has been and continues to work with [nongovernmental organizations] and faith-based organizations,” O’Keefe said. “If they can not accommodate families, we ask them if they would like to be dropped off at a transportation hub, some say yes others just walk out the door.

We simply provide a courtesy ride.”

Overall, Brown said that in order for the situation to not overwhelm them, they had to do their best. “[We were] shocked that this had actually happened, recognizing the monumental task that we were about to undertake, understanding that we could undertake it, but

only if everything went really well...” Brown said. “And that’s exactly what happened, and that’s why we were so successful on Sunday.”

From the other side, Yoni and the other migrants were unsure about the situation.

“We came and we were scared,” Yoni said.

“We were waiting for a long time to eat, so we were hungry, and when we came here, we started feeling a little better. The people that have been here have been very helpful and have been very attentive. And we’re so appreciate, truly and from the heart.”

Yoni said he and his son were held by ICE for six days. He recalled the ICE facilities.

“We’re enclosed in a room. We call them ice boxes,” he said. “It’s literally very, very cold, especially for the children. It’s very bad there.

There’s no food except for these little burritos and juice boxes.”

Yoni said he came to the United States because he wants his son to learn English and have opportunities they don’t have in Mexico.

Yoni’s bus was canceled four times, so he has been with the Inn Project for six days. He has made many friends while he’s been with the project. The volunteers call him “Mr. Popular,” because he gels his hair back every day.

“We will miss him very much,” Bonner said.

“He’s been a big help.”

— Editor’s Note: Per his request, the Daily Wildcat has chosen not to publish the last name of a source in this article due to concerns it will affect his legal case to be granted asylum.

Charges dropped, UAPD investigation revealed

BY EDDIE CELAYA @reporterEddie

Misdemeanor charges against each of the “Arizona 3” — three University of Arizona students made infamous in a viral video capturing their encounter with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents during a March club meeting — were dropped, according to the Pima County Justice Court website.

On Friday, motions to dismiss charges of interfering with an educational facility against each student were granted.

“The Pima County Attorney’s Office filed motions to dismiss without prejudice the charges that had been filed ... against three University of Arizona students relating to those students’ encounter with Border Patrol agents as well as with other students hosting the event where the Border Patrol agents had been invited to speak,” said Amelia Cramer, chief deputy in the Pima County Attorney’s Office, in an email.

Denisse Moreno Melchor, the student who filmed the encounter, also had a charge of

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PROTESTERS signing letters to President Robbins around noon on April 11.

threats and intimidation dropped.

Because of threats and their unwillingness to seek public attention, the Daily Wildcat is

withholding the names of the other students involved.

In a joint statement from the three students

issued Monday, March 22, on Facebook, the group jointly claimed “victory” and thanked supporters for campaigning for their case dismissals.

“We know that this was only made possible by the massive community support we have recieved, both on campus and off,” the statement read.

They also chastised UAPD and UA President Dr. Robert C. Robbins for filing charges and continuing to persue university-sanctioned punishments against the three.

“It is important that we still demand all punitive measures against us permanently cease,” the statement read. “We want an apology from President Robbins and a promise that he will never again jepordize the safety or free speech of students in service of Border Patrol.”

Spokesperson for the UA Chris Sigurdson did issue an email response acknowledging the county’s decision.

“We respect the decision and will continue to follow our processes and the law. The University

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is moving forward with the Dean of Students’ process review of the incident per our policies,” Sigurdson said.

According to Cramer, the PCAO was informed by the university that all parties will have an opportunity to participate in the University’s administrative process.

As of publication, it was unclear if any members of the Criminal Justice Association or either of the two Border Patrol agents have elected to participate in any UA-initiated hearings.

The investigation Last week, the University of Arizona Police Department closed the case into the Arizona 3. It revealed a chaotic scene in and outside Modern Languages Room 304 on March 19 where the Criminal Justice Association, a club for students interested in careers in law enforcement, was holding its meeting.

Of note was the revelation the first officers on scene failed to get the names of any of the protesting students and only learned those details through use of social media and dependence on witnesses to provide information.

The report also detailed UAPD efforts to track the Arizona 3. To find the students, police combed the internet and social media, comparing still shots taken from the video recorded on Moreno Melchor’s phone.

For example, on March 22, a UAPD crime analyst detailed finding a seven-second video on YouTube, posted by a user whose name is redacted. The video shows people standing outside in a hallway chanting “MURDER PATROL,” according to the officer’s report.

“The caption to the video is as follows: ‘My class had to evacuate our class because of these two. We legit felt uncomfortable having class as this happened,’” the officer reported. The video was entered into evidence.

The next break in the investigation would come in a March 25 letter to the UA from Judicial Watch, a conservative organization that “promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law,” according to its website.

The letter, which named Moreno Melchor, is referenced in the report as coming to the department’s attention on March 27, and officers matched still shots taken from the original video against social media pages matching her name.

The incident and its fallout After Moreno Melchor had posted footage of the March 19 encounter on social media, the video was picked up by conservative media outlets like the Daily Caller as an example of “berserk” liberal college students intolerant of opposing views.

Yet local reaction was supportive of the three students’ action.

A March 21 letter from the Associated Students of the University of Arizona said the presence of armed Border Patrol agents for the Criminal Justice Association event had a harmful effect on members of DACA and communities without documentation on

campus.

“Every single UA student, faculty and staff deserves the right to feel safe within our campus community,” the letter read.

Robbins responded on March 22 with what would be the first of three universitywide emails. In this first response, Robbins acknowledged there were differing opinions on the interaction but said his first duty was to protect students.

“Ensuring safety can take many forms,” Robbins said. “Including providing an environment where students feel the university will support them.”

After that, a letter from conservative thinktank Judicial Watch co-signed by National Border Patrol Council Vice President Art Del Cueto was shared.

On March 29, Robbins issued his second response.

While the first letter seemed to focus on Robbins’ commitment to UA students, the second on the line between free speech and disruption. Robbins also confirmed further action was being taken by UAPD against students involved.

“The student club and the CBP officers invited by the students should have been able to hold their meeting without disruption,” Robbins said. “Student protest is protected by our support for free speech, but disruption is not.”

A few days later, April 1, misdemeanor charges would be issued against Moreno Melchor and another of the “Arizona 3.” A few days later, the third student was charged.

During that same week, Del Cueto spoke before UA conservative groups and a throng of protestors clad in “Murder Patrol” shirts, and online threats related to the case forced the evacuation of the Mexican American Studies Department on the second floor of the Cesar Chavez Building.

Campus Conversations On April 3, Robbins issued his final letter.

This time, Robbins offered a chance for the UA and Tucson communities to reconcile their opinions on the incident. He proposed a series of town hall-like events, dubbed “Campus Conversations.”

“These events will be discussions of how our free speech rights can be modeled on a college campus,” he said. “In other words, our campus is a marketplace of ideas, and there is no better place to introduce and debate these highly emotional and sensitive issues.”

The first event, held April 23, started with Robbins giving an opening statement where he reiterited his commitment to student safety.

It was promptly met with chanting from about two dozen protesters clad in white shirts.

At one point as the event continued, protesters played a March 25 clip of Del Cueto on a radio show claiming he “would have punched her [Moreno Melchor] in the throat” and that Robbins had met with Del Cueto before charges were filed against the three students. Robbins, who was not on stage, denied the accusation.

“I have never never met this man,” Robbins said, while also condemning Del Cueto’s words.

The event ended with Interim Provost Jeffery Goldberg announcing the next event would probably be held in the fall.

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Branden Boissiere bounces back Branden Boissiere had big plans. With a scholarship to USC, his future seemed set in stone, but a series of unfortunate events left him unable to play and put his baseball career in jeopardy.

Now he’s back in the game and he won’t give up easily

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Before coming to play for Arizona and racking up seven hits in UA’s last three games, Branden Boissiere’s baseball career was in jeopardy.

“I was scared if I was even going to be able to play baseball again,” Boissiere said, recalling his difficult path to Tucson.

Boissiere, a Riverside, Calif. native, initially was not coming to Arizona after securing a scholarship to USC, but two freak injuries in high school opened the path to him becoming a Wildcat.

Now a college freshman, Boissiere played high school baseball for Woodcrest Christian in Riverside. He played in 25 games as a freshman, hitting .469 with 18 RBIs and 12 doubles. He followed up with another big season in his sophomore year, hitting .427 with 32 RBIs over 33 games played.

Boissiere originally committed to play baseball for the USC when he was 16 years old, but that was when things took an unexpected and alarming turn for Boissiere’s future as a Trojan.

Boissiere hurt his left (throwing) arm and had to undergo Tommy John Surgery, which forced him to miss his whole junior season at Woodcrest Christian. While he was recovering from surgery, he went on vacation with his family in Wyoming.

His family was riding four-wheelers, and while he was in the passenger seat of one, an accident occurred.

“The four-wheeler flipped, and it landed on my ankle,” Boissiere explained.

“It took off a bunch of skin off my ankle and broke both my bones, so that set me back even more.”

At this point, Boissiere’s future as a baseball player was doubtful.

“Luckily, I came back from it, got a skin graft on my ankle, and I’ve been working hard to get where I am today,” he said.

After missing his whole junior season of high school baseball, Boissiere was able to return partway through his senior season, continuing where he left off, hitting .371 at the plate with 14 RBIs over 23 games played.

Despite all this hard work Boissiere displayed in recovery and getting back on the baseball diamond, he received notice from USC on vacation in the Bahamas

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BRANDEN BOISSIERE BATS DURING an Arizona baseball game at Hi Corbett Field. Boissiere is a freshman at UA.

that the school had rescinded his scholarship, another unexpected blow for him, considering he had just graduated from high school.

The day he got back from vacation, he called up his local travel team and was able to get in touch with UA head coach Jay Johnson.

“USC took the scholarship from me, said something was wrong with it. I called up coach Jay here at the U of A, and had him come watch me play a couple of games,” Boissiere said.

Johnson let him walk on the team this season, and Boissiere made the most of his second chance. He opened the season as a starter but struggled early on and was moved to a reserve role.

“I think a lot of it for me was my mental game,” Boissiere said when asked what he did when he wasn’t playing much.

“I worked on that a lot, talked to a lot of people. Also, I put a lot of work in with my swing and getting it really dialed in. I think a big thing for me at the beginning of the year was my timing at the plate and selecting good pitches to hit, but now I feel like I’m getting my foot down in time, hitting good pitches and results are showing.”

Johnson credited Boissiere for making his way back into the lineup after his early-season struggles.

“Branden Boissiere was somebody we thought would start,” Johnson said. “He got beat out, essentially, and now has

worked his way back in there, and I think he had seven hits on the weekend.”

Boissiere can also pitch. In his sophomore year in high school, Boissiere threw 42.1 innings to the tune of a 7-1 win-loss record and a 0.33 ERA. “I hope so,” Boissiere said when asked if he was going to pitch this year. “I’ve been throwing bullpens. We’ll just see when it comes together.”

As the Wildcats run into arguably their toughest stretch of the season, going on the road to play both Oregon State and Stanford, they are going to need to continue to get good at-bats from Boissiere, as he hopes to solidify a spot in the starting lineup moving forward.

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SPORTS | BEACH VOLLEYBALL

Surgeries no match for Abalos

BY AIYA CANCINO @cancioaiya

In sports, injuries come with the territory. Athletes put their bodies on the line and test every limit to perform at the highest level. For many, that means overcoming maybe one or two major physical setbacks. For Arizona beach volleyball athlete Jordan Abalos, however, it means overcoming many more.

Abalos is a redshirt senior at the UA playing her last season for the beach volleyball team. Over the course of her career, she has suffered countless injuries resulting in six surgeries.

“It all started my senior year of high school,” Abalos recalled. She tore her ACL and needed both ACL surgery and meniscus surgery. One year later, as a freshman playing for New Mexico State, Abalos needed another meniscus repair.

Her senior year at New Mexico State, she would need a fourth surgery.

“I couldn’t straighten my leg all the way,” Abalos said. “I went into the doctor, and I was like, ‘OK, what’s going on?’ I had partially torn my ACL and developed a cyst. They took out the cyst, and they said, ‘You have three-fourths of your ACL left, let’s try and get through your senior year here at New Mexico State.’”

So, that’s what she did.

But not long after playing in a tournament hosted by Arizona, Abalos once again tore her ACL, meniscus and more cartilage. She required another surgery and was on crutches for three months.

“Then I came here [Tucson] and got my ACL reconstructed,” Abalos said. “It’s been a year, that was last April.”

In January of 2019, Abalos broke another piece of cartilage. In less than two weeks, she was back at practice.

“I was going to stick by Jordan regardless of how her injury played out.

I wanted her to be a part of our program, because I know what kind of young lady she is, and I know that our young players can learn from someone like her,” head coach Steve Walker said.

Abalos, who is originally from Safford, Ariz., made her way back out to the Grand Canyon State by way of Keith and Dave Rubio. Keith Rubio, Abalos’ coach at New Mexico State, made a phone call to his brother, Arizona volleyball head coach Dave Rubio, who then got in touch

with Walker.

“Next thing you know, I was committed to UA, which was awesome,” Abalos said.

On April 13, Abalos experienced her first Senior Day ceremony and was recognized in front of coaches, teammates, family and attendants.

“My biggest goal after all these surgeries was to finish what I started,” she said. “I have never had a Senior Day, because I was hurt my senior year in high school and my senior year at New Mexico State. This is a huge accomplishment for me, health-wise,” Abalos said.

Also in attendance was Abalos’ fiancée.

“He’s been with me every step of the way, for every surgery I’ve had. I think Senior Day for me is just as exciting for him, because he gets to see me not

on crutches for once,” Abalos said, laughing.

Although Abalos did not compete in the Wildcat Spring Challenge, the final home tournament of the 2019 season, she was able to take part in an exhibition match while her teammates looked on.

While playing beach volleyball will soon be over for Abalos, she looks forward to being involved in sports in other ways.

“Eventually I want to get into coaching and into the school system,” she said. “I have three younger sisters and I’m so excited to see where sports take them.”

Abalos is also preparing to move to Phoenix with her fiancée and will earn her master’s degree over the summer.

“I’m super excited about the next stage of my life,” she said.

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In light of large donations to rebuild Notre Dame Cathedral after a recent fire, Daily Wildcat opinions writers reflected on how they would use their money if they were billionaires Selena Kuikahi

Notre Dame, a monumental symbol of both Western civilization and the Catholic Church, is indeed a veritable cause for donation and reestablishment.

But, when the world is currently in the midst of multiple, solvable epidemics, it is difficult for me to justify the mass funding of this building when there are actual humans in need of aide and justice. Puerto Rico, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, the black churches in Louisiana also impacted by fires (arson) — the list is longer than one would care to imagine. If I had the fiscal means to support a single present-day cause, you better believe every penny would go to Flint, Mich. The city estimated it would take roughly $55 million dollars to reestablish clean water to the people of Flint. What to do with the remaining $45 million, you may ask? Restoration.

The forgotten city of Flint cannot be anywhere near refurbished without its people being provided proper communal and personal rehabilitation.

The remainder of that illustrious billion would go to providing medical aide to those impacted by the staggering amounts of heavy metals in the water.

Also, the community itself requires a large amount of funding to make it livable again, which is a basic human right, as well as mass amounts of fortifications so its citizens can begin to feel only the beginning of the reparations they deserve.

Alec Scott

In the wake of the disaster in Paris, there has been a general outcry from many justifiably outraged or confused advocates of other, more life-threatening causes. The ability of Notre Dame to gather so much money so quickly while there are countless other issues out in the world that go unreported is, to put it lightly, controversial. But this is not an expression of the disinterest of people for the concerns of others, or the idea that Notre Dame is somehow more important than the lives of thousands. Instead, the Notre Dame fire was urgent, widely reported and widely felt, while the outreach of many nonprofits dedicated to curing diseases, raising people out of poverty and solving our societal problems leave much to be desired.

If I were a billionaire, I would emphasize making these problems more visible to the average American, to make it impossible to look away. The Notre Dame fire and the many responses to the hurricanes that batter North America and the Caribbean is a testament to the dedication Americans have to solving problems if they are made real to them.

Brianna Ali

What would I do with my money if I were a billionaire? Well, to start, I would focus on fixing the problems in my own country before I send millions of dollars to another. There are people in our country who do not have clean water, people who are living in poverty and kids who are going to bed hungry. It may be selfish to say I would help my own country before another, but that is the reality. As a billionaire, how could I just stand by and watch my own people struggle and not want to help them?

Anika Pasilis

If I were a billionaire, I would still donate to Notre Dame Cathedral. Whether anyone likes it or not, it is a culturally and historically significant monument that is worth preserving.

I had the chance to see it in 2016, and I would feel sorry for anyone who wanted to see it, whether it be for tourist or religious purposes, and lose the opportunity. Obviously I would also donate to people in need, but most billionaires already do that. People only have a problem when they hear how much was raised to rebuild Notre Dame.

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