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Upping the ante on underage drinking

By Julia Etters ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT

The University of Arizona and Tucson police departments are collaborating with local liquor merchants to hold those who provide alcohol to underage drinkers more accountable.

Representatives from the Pima County Board of Supervisors, TPD and the UA gathered in a town hall meeting on June 10 to discuss a new Keg Tagging Program to prevent minors from having someone else purchase alcohol for them.

“At point of sale, you show them your ID and they confirm you’re of age. Then you fill out a brief little sheet that corresponds with a tag with your name, address, ID type and some information related to that. It’s a 30-second process. They put a tag on the keg that is associated with you as a buyer,” said David Salafsky, director of Health Promotion and Preventive Services at UA Campus Health.

According to the program’s press release, underage drinking costs the U.S. over $53 billion annually. The Keg Tagging Program will be the first step in the Tucson area collaborators’ goal to cut back on underage and binge drinking in Pima County.

Amy Bass, director of prevention for the Pima County Community Prevention Coalition, said eight out of 13 Tucson liquor merchants are volunteering their involvement in the Keg Tagging Program.

Dan Rodarte, owner of Lee’s Drive-In Liquor, said it was a no-brainer to come on board.

He said they already collect all the information required, and the keg tag is just an additional step.

“Usually you have someone of age who comes in to buy alcohol and provides KEG, page 3

New track pavement requires nightlight

By Will Ferguson ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT Retired Tucson resident Margaret Moss noticed a neon glow emanating through the window of her home on 18th Street, a little past 11 p.m.

Moss proceeded to investigate and discovered the stadium lights surrounding the Roy P. Drachman track and field stadium had not been turned off. That was about two weeks ago, she said.

“In the past there have been a few cases where they forgot to turn the lights off,” Moss said. “However, it was the same thing the next night and has been that way ever since.”

According to Steve Kozachik, associate director of athletics for facilities and capital projects, the Drachman track is currently being re-gummed due to a technical problem with the way the track was refinished about four years ago.

“It was the wrong chemical mix, not sure what the problem was,” he said. “However, we are now fixing the problem by applying several new layers of track material.”

Gary Vining, an employee of General Acrylics, a Phoenix-based company that specializes in the construction of

athletic facilities, said it is so hot during the day that the rubber used to resurface the track can’t be put dow. It clogs up the machine, he said.

“We should be done in a couple of days,”Vining said. “I know it is a pain for some of the neighbors.”

For neighbors like Moss, that is definitely the case.

“I have lived here for 42 years and have never seen something like this before,” she said. “I went over to the track at 4 a.m. and the lights were still on. There were only a couple of workmen there and they seemed half asleep.”

Drachman track neighbor Razz Rasmussen said he did not know that they were resurfacing the track.

“The lights have been on and I haven’t seen anyone out there,” he said.

However, Rasmussen said there is one benefit to having the track lights on throughout the nighttime hours.

“They keep all of the bugs away from my house,” he said.

Rasmussen’s roommate Leif Dyrsten said the lights do not perturb him; however, the noise from the maintenance crews is bothersome.

Dyrsten too is thankful for the newfound lack of bugs.

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UAccess system continues takeover of Student Link

Online service proves popular with new students

By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT As summer rolls in, so do droves of students making the switch from high school students to first-year Wildcats.

So it’s no surprise that the system used to register students for classes and teachers for vacations is undergoing steady changes in the summer months.

UAccess Student replaced Matrix, the Degree Audit Reporting System, the Student Information System and both Student Link and Advisor Link as the new operating system for the UA, completely supplanting Student Link by the fall of 2010, said Keith Humphrey, vice president of student affairs who works with New Start, a program overseeing freshman orientation.

Overall, Humphrey noted UAccess has been much better for students than Student Link and he’s seen “high levels of satisfaction” with the new system.

“For freshmen, they don’t know any different. They aren’t looking for the same types of things they had in Web Reg,” he said, noting the new system allows incoming students to register while still leaving current students open times to rework their own schedules.

“It’s better for incoming as well as continuing students,” Humphrey said.

For incoming students, the big news on UAccess Student is that Student Link functions are being moved to the UAccess Student Center and Guest Link is turning into the new Guest Center in the UAccess Student system, said Kay Stevens Beasock, manager of organizational communications for the Mosaic Project, which oversees UAccess Student.

Students and guests will be able to view information and a demonstration video about these changes on the university’s information technology systems website: uits.arizona.edu/workshops or at mosaic.arizona.edu, the Mosaic website.

Because they receive training on Guest Center, students are hit with the new system right away, Beasock said.

Using the same process as the old Guest Link hosted through Student Link, the registry of guests and the information they have access to will be available, but hosted in the new student center.

“So if you want your parents only to pay your bills, then you can give them access to see just that information,” Beasock said. “But we’ve gotten comments and people seem to really like it.”

However, only the look and feel of the new system will be available to users for now. Parents and students cannot use the new Guest Center for account balance information and other services until the official go-live on July 19.

Two training videos are assisting administrators on how to integrate students into the new system. One is for students on how to grant access, and the other is for the guests on how to view information students have allowed them to access.

For incoming students unaware of the old system, the new system presented little challenge.

“Usually, only if it’s a major problem, it’s coming to me,” said Ryan Windows, a program coordinator with the Dean of Students office.

“Doesn’t mean there might not be 15 or 20 people having a problem, but I troubleshoot … and I’m not seeing it.”

Returning and continuing students who are not involved in the orientation process will be receiving an e-mail through the university to let them know when they will start using the new Guest Center.

“The reason some people may think they don’t need to worry is because they’ve already given their parents access,” Beasock said. “But it doesn’t transfer because it’s a brand new system.”

On the same day as the UAccess Guest Center’s official go-live, students can actually begin to see their fall 2010 bill in the UAccess student center. For the bursar’s office, that just means they begin to process billing information in the UAccess system starting on that date.

Although there is still a lot of work to be done, there has been positive feedback for the system, even in the hustle of summer orientation.

“Prescheduling seems to be going well for the new students as well,” Beasock said. “But the (Guest Center) is our big push.“

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American arrested in Pakistan while on solo mission to kill bin Laden ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The U.S. has spent nine years and billions of dollars trying to hunt down Osama bin Laden amid the rugged, lawless badlands along PakistaniAfghan border.

But according to Pakistani officials and his own family, Gary Brooks Faulkner of Denver thought he could get the job done himself, with a pistol, a dagger and night-vision goggles.

Faulkner talked with family members about his quest, and at Denver International Airport on May 30 he was asked what his family should do if he came back from Pakistan in a body bag.

Faulkner, 50, and his younger brother Scott discussed Gary’s desires for cremation. Scott snapped a farewell picture on his Blackberry.

Then Gary, a construction worker with failing kidneys, boarded a plane for Pakistan.

On Tuesday, Pakistani police said they had arrested Faulkner in a remote, mountainous region near the Afghan border.

“He’s not insane,” Scott Faulkner told reporters in Denver on Tuesday. “He’s just very passionate.”

Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Scott said, his brother — a devout Christian with no military training — has taken at least six trips to Pakistan to find bin Laden.

“After Osama mocked this country on 9/11 and it seemed that the military wasn’t doing enough, it became his passion, his mission, to track down Osama and kill him or bring him back alive,” Scott Faulkner said. A physician, Scott described his brother, who is divorced with one adult son, as charming, chatty and in fine mental health.

Pakistani police quoted Gary Faulkner as telling them he was “on a mission to decapitate bin Laden.” He had been staying at a hotel in the town of Bumburate in Chitral since June 3. Local police were providing security for him, not uncommon in border

regions where kidnappings and killings of foreigners have occurred.

But on Sunday, he sneaked out of the hotel without telling the officer who was assigned to him.

After a 10-hour manhunt, he was picked up on a mountain path as he was trying to make his way into Nuristan, an eastern Afghanistan province that abuts Chitral, according to Pakistani officials. He was moved to the city of Peshawar for questioning, they said.

It is one of the areas where bin Laden is rumored to be holed up. Scott Faulkner said his brother had developed intelligence from sources he would not reveal that bin Laden may be on a specific mountain honeycombed with caves and rocky hiding spots. Gary Faulkner had seen armed men with two-way radios patrolling the area and wanted to go take another look.

An avid outdoorsman and hunter who was raised north of Denver, Gary Faulkner had learned how to live off the land in the mountains of Colorado. He figured, Scott Faulkner said, that his hunting skills would help him track down bin Laden.

During his initial trips he ran into numbers of mercenaries hoping to collect the $25 million bounty the U.S. has placed on the al-Qaida leader’s head. But in recent trips it seemed no one was looking anymore.

The journeys were risky, though Gary always secured Pakistani visas and was in the country legally, Scott Faulkner said. One time, Scott Faulkner said, the Taliban discovered the hotel where his brother was staying and shot the guard there “between the eyes.”

Gary Faulkner fled. Scott wired him money and the U.S. Embassy helped get him out of the country.

“The first couple of times, it was a shock to the family,” Scott Faulkner said of his brother’s

travels. “We don’t go to Pakistan looking for mass murderers.”

The family grew to accept Gary Faulkner’s obsession and figured it was in character for a man who spent years in Central America repairing hurricane damage and building churches, or who would vanish for days on a hunting trip and abruptly bring back an elk.

Colorado media reported that Gary Faulkner was convicted of burglary and larceny charges in the 1980s, but his brother would not answer questions on that issue.

Last year, Gary Faulkner was diagnosed with a severe kidney ailment and placed on dialysis.

He was unable to continue his construction work, which had financed his previous travels to Pakistan. He moved into an apartment in a building owned by Scott, who thought his brother’s hunt for bin Laden was over.

However, Gary Faulkner sold his construction equipment and bought a round-trip ticket to Islamabad, leaving May 30 and due to return Monday.

U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Snelsire said the embassy had been notified of the arrest of a U.S. citizen, and was working on arranging a consular visit with that individual.

Snelsire declined further comment. Scott Faulkner said he was in touch with the State Department, which he believed was working to secure his brother’s release.

Gary Faulkner had called Scott last week to report he had received dialysis treatment in southern Pakistan and planned to return to the north to resume his search.

“Gary is a Christian,” Scott Faulkner said.

“He understands that, if he dies, I will see him again in heaven. A lot of people live in fear. My brother does not have that fear.”

— The Associated Press

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Bringing the universe into focus: UA astronomer studies young solar systems

By Will Ferguson ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT Scattered across the Milky Way, immense clouds of swirling gas and dust are giving birth to stars.

Known as protoplanetary disks, these large gaseous clouds and the stars forming within them have remained a mystery to astronomers.

At least, until now.

A team led by Joshua Eisner, an assistant professor of astronomy at the UA’s Steward Observatory, recently observed the starforming process within 15 of these protoplanetary disks.

Eisner and his team were able to docu-

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Students doubt effectiveness of tagging program continued from page 1 for the minors. Retailers have no control over this, but with the keg tagging it puts the responsibility back to the purchaser. We do it to cover our butts,” Rodarte said.

While Rodarte fully supports the program, he also questions the stipulations of possible legislation. He feels that if keg tagging becomes state mandated, the government should help with the cost of the stickers used as tags.

“Right now it’s not out of our pockets. We count our pennies, nickels and dimes. If we have to start providing the tags, it’s not cost effective,” Rodarte said.

He said he only makes about $5 on a keg, and if it costs him $1.50 for a sticker, it’s not worth it in the long run.

Many students, however, don’t think a sticker will have much power in the end.

“This is just going to try to intimidate people.

Maybe they’ll think twice before they do something, but they’ll find their way around it,” said Andrew Vo, 19, a UA pre-pharmacy student.

Pre-nursing and psychology student Taylor Simmons, 19, agrees that kids will find other ways to drink.

“The person who is responsible for buying could not buy a keg, but something else. It might reduce keg sales, but I don’t think overall it will have the impact they want. It will just force kids to be creative and party somewhere else,” Simmons said.

According to the federal Alcohol Policy Information System website, as of 2009, 31 states have keg registration legislation.

“At this point, we are only hitting one little niche of alcohol. If kids want to drink, they’ll do whatever they have to get around laws or their parents. There’s numerous ways how underage drinkers can get alcohol,” said Allison Jacobs, the Pima County Community Prevention Coalition program assistant.

“We’re trying to get one little niche down and then tackle the rest.”

Jacobs also said that launching this program might set the standard for other Arizona counties.

“We don’t have the authority to change the law at a local level. The coalition spearheaded this as a pilot project to set the ball in motion and get merchants on board. We are hoping to get legislation to pass a state law that makes it mandatory,” Bass said.

ment the processes giving rise to planets and stars in these nascent solar systems in unprecedented detail.

“How does a star actually assemble itself is the question we are trying to answer,” Eisner said. “No one has been able to probe that problem directly.”

The process starts when a massive cloud of gas molecules and dust particles begins to fold under the influence of its own gravity.

The cloud rotates slowly, becoming denser and more compact as it grows in size. It eventually flattens into a spinning disk of swirling gas and dust that will give rise to a star and possibly planets.

Eisner and his team utilized two powerful

telescopes on Mauna Kea, an inactive volcano in Hawaii, along with an instrument named ASTRA (ASTrometric and phaseReferenced Astronomy), to explore the gaseous interactions between a forming star and a protoplanetary disk.

Using the two telescopes and ASTRA, Eisner and his team were able to achieve an angular resolution stronger than that of the Hubble telescope.

The resolution was so strong, in fact, that researchers were able to distinguish for the first time the distributions of gases, mostly hydrogen, thereby resolving the disk’s features.

“We think we now understand how the gas is going from disk to star … for basically

the first time, we can see this happening in young stars,” Eisner said.

“It’s kind of a trick,”he added.“You synthesize a big aperture instead of building one.”

Eisner said the solar systems his team chose for this study are still young, probably only a few million years old, and are hundreds of light years from our own solar system.

He added that through studying these early-stage protoplanetary disks, scientists will be able to learn more about the formation of our own solar system.

“We think that our solar system looked like some of these protoplanetary discs millions of years ago. We are observing stars that look a lot like the sun when it was young,” Eisner said.

Obama pledges 'whatever it takes' to Fla. PENSACOLA, Fla. — Hours before President Barack Obama was to address the nation, he came to Florida’s ground zero on the Gulf oil spill crisis and pledged that his administration would do “whatever it takes” to deal with the mess.

“This isn’t just an environmental disaster,” Obama said to a crowd inside a hangar at the Pensacola Naval Air Station.“For many families and communities, it’s an economic disaster.

“Those plumes of oil are off the coast. The fishing waters are closed. Tar balls have been coming ashore,” Obama said. “And everybody is bracing for more.”

After a morning briefing on Pensacola Beach, Obama spoke to hundreds of service personnel. He donned a dark-colored blazer after the stop on the beach and was greeted by often-raucous applause as he spoke.

Throughout the speech, those in the crowd took pictures with cell phones and cameras.

After he finished, the president spent several minutes shaking hands.

During his talk, Obama commended efforts of those from all branches of the military who are working to battle the spill. Echoing his speeches the day before in Alabama and Mississippi, he emphasized that the beaches in Pensacola remain open.

“People need to know that Pensacola

is open for business,” said Obama, who earlier visited the Fish Sandwich Snack Bar, which has lost about 40 percent of its business because many people think the beaches are closed.

At the snack bar, Obama said he wanted every businessperson in Florida to know that he would be “their fierce advocate” to ensure that they’ll get compensation.

“So the key right now is just to make sure that people ... are helped, that they’re able to get through what’s going to be a tough time,” the president said.

Earlier, in a blue shirt and black pants, Obama walked the white sandy beach with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist and Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who’s coordinating the response to the oil spill.

Three boats and some bathers could be seen out in the water, glistening in the sun.

Down the beach, some 200 yards away, a knot of people chanted,“Save our beach. Save our beach.”

Obama was on the second day of his fourth trip to the region since the spill began on April 22.

Since the April 20 explosion, millions of gallons of crude oil and chemical dispersants have been unleashed on the Gulf. The oil is slowly making its way to the Florida coast and

already has materialized in the form of gooey tar, weathered oil and sheens on the water.

In Tallahassee, the state Republican Party called the president’s actions too little, too late and too remote.

Rather than address the nation “from the comfort of the Oval Office,” Florida GOP Chairman John Thrasher said in a release, Obama “should have mounted the courage to give his address to the nation facing those impacted across the Gulf region.”

Thrasher called the president’s two-day trip to the Gulf a “public relations endeavor,” but he expressed the hope that it would produce “a concrete plan to address this disaster, rather than a two-day photo opportunity at the expense of the American taxpayer.”

After Obama’s motorcade left Pensacola Beach’s Crowne Plaza Hotel, a handful of people gathered along the route, and one had a sign declaring,“Thanks for your support, Mr. President. You still have mine.”

His route took him past people lining the roadway, with booms clearly visible in the distance.

As the motorcade passed, one protester held up a sign directed at BP and its president, Tony Hayward: “Kick Tony’s ass for us,” it said.

— The Associated Press

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President Barack Obama and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist walk along Casino Beach on Pensacola Beach, Fla., on Tuesday.

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merican political history is littered with examples of wealthy individuals who bankrolled relatively successful campaigns. The most glaring example is Ross Perot, a Texas electronics mogul who ran for president as an Independent candidate in 1992 and 1996 and in the latter election received the second-highest percentage of the popular vote for a third-party candidate in American history, trailing only Teddy Roosevelt during his “Bull Moose”run in 1912.

Yet, how many times has an average citizen of average per capita income won an election of national importance in the United States?

Luke Money Such candidates, rare as Opinions editor they may be, are about to become an endangered species in Arizona.

Under the 1998 Clean Elections law, Arizona candidates who chose to run publicly financed campaigns were entitled to matching funds from the state if they were outspent by their privately-provided-for rivals throughout the course of the election. The reasoning of such a law is clear: It keeps the Arizona political system from becoming a hierarchical hegemony of highbrows, where governmental seats are auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Last week, the United States Supreme Court issued a stay in funding received in this manner for the 2010 elections in Arizona, leaving the door open for a full review of the policy at a later date.

The reason given for this decision is the same as was provided in January, when the same Supreme Court overturned long-standing precedent barring corporate funds from being used in candidate elections, effectively extending First Amendment protections to privately owned companies. In both instances, the court declared that existing case law inhibited the free speech of involved parties in such a way that was intolerable.

Whether you believe a corporation should have the same rights as an individual is a matter of opinion. But to deny campaign funds to those who cannot afford to bankroll a political campaign does not expand the franchise of free speech; rather, it severely mitigates the ability of an ordinary citizen to mount a successful candidature, as is his or her right. Not to mention the fact that this decision comes in the middle of several hotly contested campaigns in Arizona where candidates were counting on these funds in order to mount effective campaigns. Such is the case with Gov. Jan Brewer who, at last tally, had raised a third as much money as her Republican primary opponent, Buz Mills, despite receiving more than $700,000 in matching funds before the court’s ruling.

This is not to say that the Clean Elections legislation is political rhetoric worthy of Rousseau or Jefferson. It does, however, take great strides toward the admirable goal of extending the right to seek and hold political office to those who otherwise would never have the opportunity to do so. It also provides a hefty second edge to the sword, banning any candidate who elects to receive public funding from securing any form of private funding, reducing the likelihood of well-established candidates abusing the system at taxpayers’ expense.

To deny people that right on the pretext that those who are wealthy and well-known enough to secure private campaign financing have their free speech rights infringed upon by this legislation is as laughable as it is illogical. Rather than upholding the franchise of free speech for beleaguered billionaires and much-maligned millionaires, the Court is applying a mercantile approach to the issue, elevating the already substantial platform given to wealthy candidates at the expense of those who are in the most dire need of protection against infringement on their rights.

Arizona lawmakers should sit and discuss how best to apply the admirable goals of this legislation in such a way that they can apply to a wider cross-section of potential candidates and ensure that not being well-to-do does not limit what you are able to do.

— Luke Money is a journalism junior.

He can be reached at letters@wildcat. arizona.edu.

C O M M E N T S F R O M daily wildcat.c o m Living across the border: A Mexican national’s take on SB 1070 “This young woman is a perfect example of a misappropriation of educational funding. We should not be educating the citizens of a foreign sovereign nation, but providing an adequate public education to our own citizens children.

This young woman is fortunate enough to have a privilege she is not entitled to and look how ungrateful she sounds! If she doesn’t like our laws maybe it’s in her best interest to attend a school in her own country. Cheers!”

— Anonymous “The first two posts are ridiculous.

International students aren’t even qualified for FASFA or any government-funded aid.

I wanted to comment on the fact that the Wildcat staff did a poor job once again. They interviewed a non-UA international student that has absolutely no clue with what forms of ID that needs to be carried around. If the

Wildcat staff had interviewed a staff from the International Student Office or an actual UA student, they would have learned that you do not need to carry your passport around.

Come on Wildcat staff do a better job.“ — Anonymous

Ethnic studies law un-Republican “Does this law mean you can’t teach Mariachi to the Mexican American students?

You know, that music that beautifully reflects the cultural mix of German brass band, Spanish guitar and violin, with Mexican American and Northern Mexican cultural experience? But, let me clarify. The law does allow high schools to have jazz bands, right?

How far is this imposition on the teacher’s understanding of what is best for their students supposed to be taken?”

— Dr. Zoe Sherinian, ethnomusicologist “This law doesn’t sound like it’s restricting kids from learning to Tango or play African music, based on my interpretation of

this sentence. I don’t see how learning any type of music can instill hatred towards an American institution, or any other for that matter. Same with math, science, English, etc. I think it refers more to history, anthropology, and sociology classes.

I don’t feel convinced it’s wrong to ask that cultural classes not be taught from only one perspective. If I took a class on the conflict in the Middle East, I wouldn’t want to be taught it by someone who was fiercely one way or the other, as my perspective would be radically altered, and everyone knows that. If I took a class on the takeover of Russia to communism, I wouldn’t want it taught by a communist, or Christian history from a Christian, or Muslim history from a Muslim. Learning Mexican history from a Mexican is fine, but it shouldn’t incite people to hate the U.S. I took a Spanish class once where half the time we talked about how terrible America is and how Mexicans in Arizona should start a revolution to reclaim it and California to Mexico. It may be politically incorrect, but I found that class appalling.”

— Anonymous

Pearce at it again with immigration proposals

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resh off the legislative victory of witch-hunt of illegal immigrants.

Arizona Senate Bill 1070, the state’s But forcing the children of illegal imcontroversial new anti-illegal immigrants out of schools won’t drive them migration law, Arizona out of this country; even uneduSen. Russell Pearce has cated, they likely will have far gone back to the drawbetter economic opportunities ing board. Next on his in this nation than the one they agenda: two new bills, came from. Instead, all Pearce’s thankfully as-of-yet proposal would do is create a undrafted, which prompermanent, uneducated, impovise to convincingly and erished, marginalized and incruelly dissuade illegal Heather Price-Wright credibly angry class of immigrant immigrants from coming children. Crime and violence Columnist to Arizona. would erupt in unprecedented First, Pearce wants to force the children waves, much like the 2005 riots in Paris, of illegal immigrants to pay tuition in which were driven by marginalized impublic schools or risk being kicked out. migrant youth and caused French President His purported rationale is that illegal imNicolas Sarkozy to declare a three-month migrants come to this country as much to state of emergency in the country. Keeping give their children a better life as to create kids uneducated means only offering them such a life for themselves. Target immimostly illegal, dangerous ways of making a grant children, and you’ll remove a major living, opportunities they’re more likely to incentive to live in this country illegally. In take if they’re barred from public schools. addition, Pearce told the Arizona Capitol Pearce’s plan would serve only to make Times that, “You don’t have a right to be Arizona more divided, violent and dangera non-resident of this state and take adous, as well as to further widen the gap vantage of the taxpayers of this state.” It’s between rich and poor. an oft-used argument: Illegal immigrants The second measure would stipulate that don’t pay taxes, so they should be barred children born in this country to parents here from taxpayer-funded services. illegally would not be United States citizens.

Economically, this seems to State Rep. John Kavanagh, who supports make sense, and taxpayer ire the latter proposal, told the Capitol Times is one of the driving forces that the current policy of granting citizenbehind this state’s growing ship to all children born within the borders of the United States is “a magnet that attracts illegal immigrants.”

Apparently, Kavanagh, Pearce and other

proponents of this idea need to brush up on their middle school civics.

Directly from the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.”

The Constitution could not be much clearer on the matter of citizenship, and all of Pearce’s fancy rhetoric about the clause “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” will never hold water in court, as multiple experts in constitutional law have pointed out. His proposal flies in the face of the 14th Amendment and all it seeks to uphold — fairness and equality for all people in America, regardless of current politics or prejudices.

This amendment was written in response to the argument that black slaves were not and could not become citizens. Sadly, it seems not much has changed. Now, more than ever, when the rights of another marginalized group are under attack, we must uphold the words written to protect them.

Pearce and his supporters will use every trick in the book to squeeze their proposal through whatever tiny loophole they can find in the Constitution. We mustn’t let them get away with it.

— Heather Price-Wright is a creative writing senior. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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POLICEBEAT Clogged toilets, overturned cacti plague UA cardiologists

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to a call from the Sarver Heart Center on Thursday morning in reference to a report of an unknown person(s) who had gained entry to the fourth floor arthritis lab in the middle of the night.

When housekeeping arrived early Thursday morning, they found that the intruder had left a sink on in the break room with the spout over the counter, causing the break room and the hallway to flood.

Intruders with a bent for plumbing sabotage in the middle of the night have become a persistent problem in the building. On Monday morning, employees arrived to find that the men’s toilets had been clogged and a cactus had been tipped over, and on Tuesday“the toilet was clogged so bad a plumber had to respond out,”according to the police report.

Cardiology employees believe the intruder(s) gained entry between 6:30 p.m. and 3 a.m., when housekeeping arrives, and they have requested hourly checks from UAPD.

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UA fan’s 21st birthday plans dampened by sign stealing attempt

A UAPD officer conducting a safety check near the Cherry Garage on Thursday at 2:16 a.m. noticed a slow-moving pickup truck with two passengers in the cab and a third man in the bed pull up to the curb at the northeast corner of East Enke Drive and North Cherry Drive.

The officer watched as the man in the bed stood up and removed a metal street sign. The vehicle’s description and the circumstances of the theft were radioed to other responding police units in the area, and the vehicle was apprehended at East Fourth Street and North Vine Avenue.

After the sign was reclaimed from the bed of the truck, the passengers, who were self-proclaimed “big U of A fans,” explained that “they were just being stupid and they wanted a sign with the UA letter‘A’on it.”

Officers observed three 44-ounce Circle K styrofoam cups in the passenger compartment of the vehicle contained soft drinks and smelled of intoxicants. One passenger, whose breath reportedly smelled of intoxicants, said he had been drinking that night and then quickly followed up by saying he doesn’t drink. The other passenger informed the officer that he had been drinking and then added that “this sucks”because he was a few days from turning 21.

The driver was arrested for theft and possession of an open container in a vehicle and both passengers were arrested for theft and underage drinking. One passenger was also found to have an active warrant out for a previous liquor violation. All three were booked into Pima County jail. The passenger with the outstanding warrant was to celebrate his 21st birthday on June 15.

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A UAPD officer responded Friday to a report of intentional vandalism at the corner of Sixth Street and North Martin Avenue.

A UA employee at the scene stated that at some time in the night an unknown vandal had damaged a newly installed curb segment.

Upon inspecting the curb, the officer found a 3-foot-by-1-foot etching that read“I LoveYou Nena Mary.”The etching was written in capital block print letters and was reportedly“not unique in nature.”

According to the UA employee, it had likely been etched when the newly installed concrete was already mostly solid, implying a certain amount of engraving proficiency on the part of the vandal.

At this time, there are no suspects, witnesses or pertinent evidence regarding this latest bid for Mary’s affection.

Stolen library book traced back to chronic book lender

A UAPD officer responded to a call Wednesday afternoon from the Main Library in reference to an unknown female who had been found with a stolen book belonging to the library.

A library employee explained to the officer that an unidentified female set off the book alarm at the main doors earlier in the afternoon. The employee asked the girl if she had any library books and she replied that she did not, only a book that a friend had lent her. Upon examining the book, a copy of “Landscape Architecture Graphic Standards”by Leonard J. Hopper, the employee noticed that the book carried the stamp of the UA library and had a sticky residue where the call number would be on the spine and where the barcode label would be on the inside cover.

The employee then saw that the book was listed as missing in the library computer system and reclaimed it. The unidentified female said she needed to return the book to the friend who had loaned it to her, to which the employee replied that the friend could contact the employee directly if she had any questions. The girl then left the building.

The employee did not obtain any contact information for the girl in question but she found papers belonging to another girl inside the book, including information on her name and address. The officer found and identified the girl at her home, and she told him she had lent“at least 10”of her books out to friends but that she wasn’t sure which book he was referring to or which friend had it. She then said that if she could see a photo of the girl in question she could identify her. The officer informed her that he would return when he had a photo.

— Eli MacKinnon

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports. For a complete list of UAPD activity, the daily resumé can be found at http://uapd.arizona.edu.

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Pro football coming to Tucson Indoor league set to begin in 2011

By Vincent Balistreri ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT Indoor Football League commissioner Tommy Benizio stood up at a press conference at the Westin La Paloma resort on Monday to announce the league would bring a new expansion team to Tucson.

The IFL is currently in its second year of existence and is looking to add a number of teams from the southwestern region of the U.S. before the start of its third season.

The IFL will be become one of a long list of minor league-type professional leagues to bring a team to southern Arizona. The 25-team league hopes to accomplish what a plethora of leagues have failed at in Tucson — maintain a stable professional team.

“We feel like we’re in the right place, we’re in the right time,” Benizio said. “It’s very exciting. We hope this is the first of four or maybe five teams that will play football in the IFL in the Southwest.”

Tucson has a history of failed professional teams, with the most recent being the Tucson Sidewinders baseball team in 2008. After a decade-long tenure in the Old Pueblo, the minor league affiliate left Tucson for Reno, Nev. Benizio shares at least one of the many professional team failures with the Tucson community, as he was a part of a group that managed the Tucson Scorch, a minor league hockey team that failed before even playing its first game.

“It wasn’t my proudest moment as a sports marketer,” Benizio said of his prior experience in Tucson. “In 17 years (in sports) this may not have been my most successful stop, but I had a chance to attend an Arizona football game once and I could confidently state that I think we have some football fans in this area.

“When you look at minor league professional sports, there is always the question of stability,” he added. “We’re not perfect, we do have some attrition, but when it’s all said and done, we’re the most stable football league in the country aside from the NFL.” Though Benizio failed during his brief stop in Tucson in 2001, he is confident that with the ownership put into place for the

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IFL commissioner Tommy Benizio, right, introduces majority owner Mario Wiggins, left, of the to-be-named indoor football team at Monday’s press conference at the Westin La Paloma resort.

yet-to-be-named Tucson team, his second go-around will be a success.

During the press conference, the new team’s owners were introduced, led by Tucson businessman Mario Wiggins, who will serve as the majority owner. Wiggins served eight years in the Air Force, most of those years at Davis Monthan Air Force base in Tucson.

“Football in Tucson will be great, it will be something for us to do,” Wiggins said. “I’m sure Tucson is interested and ready for this IFL team.”

Wiggins will be joined in ownership by Dart Clark, Terri Clark, Demond Williams and former Wildcat David Adams, who is working on buying a stake in the team and called it all but done.

Adams, who played at Arizona from 1984-86 and in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys, is confident that an IFL team will fill a void in Tucson sports.

“After basketball season we don’t do nothing,

after football season we get mad because we went 7-4,” said Adams. “Tucson needs something to do besides wait for basketball season and football season.”

Adams and Williams, who is the director of player personnel, mentioned that former Wildcats who are unable to make an NFL team would be a focus for the team when it comes to filling roster spots.

“We want make sure they know they have somewhere to go,“ said Williams, who played two years at Pima Community College and at Michigan State. “It’s basically going to be a pipeline for the guys before they can get their next contract.”

The team is expected to have a name and a head coach by Aug. 4, and start its first season in March 2011.

“Everyone should buckle up and get ready to go because it’s going to be something the Tucson community will thoroughly enjoy,” Adams said.

ho wasn’t Pac-ing for a trip to Sixth Street’s wild party, hearing echoes from the Live Music Capital of the World?

Austin’s melody sounded too good to be true: the premiere college athletics program — University of Texas — flirting with the idea of pioneering the Pacific 16 Conference into an equally powerful institution.

Branding specialists at Creative Artists Agency — the hot-shot Hollywood agency that Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott hired for Bryan Roy expansion consultaSports writer tion — couldn’t have dreamed of a better Ari Gold-esque acquisition.

Take your pick, Larry: ABC, ESPN, NBC, FOX — any national network would’ve cleared nights and weekends to dominate three time zones of premiere competition in the nation’s fastest-growing sport.

The master plan to absorb the Big 12 South folded on Monday as the Longhorns officially declined an invite after two weeks of ramped speculation. Two weeks crumbled in a few hours, and the only progress made was from Chip Brown, a writer for some college recruiting website with inside sources that came off like a parlay of musical chairs.

As Los Angeles Times reporter Chris Dufresne tweeted, the guy who broke the story about Texas jumping to the Pac-10 also broke the story about Texas staying in the Big 12. But who could ignore such fascinating information? Credible or not, the reports about Texas and its Big 12 minions showing interest to Scott’s system was one of the most exciting storylines in NCAA history.

The other five piggy-backing schools didn’t matter — they never did. Sure, Oklahoma puts together a fine football program and maybe a Blake Griffin here and there, but are they $138.5 million good? The Texas athletic TEXAS, page 7

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he University of Colorado at Boulder agreed last Thursday to leave the Big 12 conference to join the Pacific 10 conference, in what was supposed to be the first of six teams joining the Pac-10.

Pac-10 Commissioner Larry Scott seemed thrilled to add the Buffaloes to the “conference of champions.”

“We have been discussing expanding for a few years, and it was just the perfect time. The University Kevin Nadakal of Colorado is just a Sports writer perfect fit for the Pac10,”Scott said.

Why is Colorado such a“perfect fit”for the Pac-10 conference? The Buffs are not athletic juggernauts and would not increase revenue for the Pac-10 by themselves.

The University of Colorado has 20 national championships in its school history, 16 of which have come from skiing. With one football title in 1990, the Buffs football program has struggled lately, falling to a 3-9 record last season.

“You’re judged by who you are associated with,”said University of Colorado President Bruce Benson.“We want to be associated with the Pac-10, because it’s such a great conference.”

Benson added that the school enjoyed its time in the Big 12, which created many wonderful traditions.

Using Benson’s thought process against him, why does the Pac-10 want to be associated with Colorado? The only time in recent memory that the University of Colorado has been in the press is because of a scandal. The Buffs were accused in 2004 of using alcohol and sex to lure potential football recruits to the school. Since then, they have had an abysmal record of 31-43.

Many believe the Pac-10 used Colorado as a ploy to get five other schools from the Big 12, including Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas Tech and Texas A&M. But Texas decided on Monday to stay in the Big 12. Shortly after the announcement from Texas, the Big 12 received similar commitments from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M. Adding the Buffs to try and get the other schools to join was a big risk. There was no substantial evidence that all five schools would leave the Big 12; all anyone had were reports of rumors.

Staying in the Big 12 was the smartest decision for a school like Texas. The school will be able to earn the most money by staying in the Big 12. According to orangebloods.com, Texas will earn between $20 million and $25 million annually from a reworked television contract.

As far as competition is concerned, it was also smart for the Oklahoma and Texas schools to remain in the Big 12. If the Pac-10 got all six teams, the division would be split in half. The Arizona schools, Colorado and the former Big 12 schools would compete against each other in one division.

There would be no added competition to Texas or Oklahoma, because the Arizona schools would not be able to compete against them.

Since none of the other five schools will be joining the Pac-10, the expansion venture should be looked at as a failure, and that failure should fall on Scott’s head. There is no obvious benefit of adding Colorado to the Pac-10.

But Scott has been adamant that the conference is happy with adding Colorado and does not know what else will happen.

“We, under any circumstances, we are thrilled to have the university of Colorado in our conference,” Scott said.“It would be premature to comment on

any other possible situation.”

The Pac-10 did get some attention in the collegiate sports world, but that’s about the only thing it seemed to gain over the last couple weeks.

“I think the Pac-10 has been talked more about in the last five days than we probably have across the country in years,”said Greg Byrne, the UA’s Athletics Director.“That’s a good thing for our brand, our identity as a league, and obviously that’s a good thing for the University of Arizona.”

When asked if there could be more additions to the conference after Colorado was added, Byrne said,“It’s a definite maybe.”

The current Pac-10 schools will begin competition at the start of the 2012 football season.

Scott said that only preliminary talks have begun with regard to scheduling.

The only thing that is guaranteed at this point is the Pac-10 has become the Pac-11. All of these rumors gave ESPN something to talk about for the past two weeks. Sure, all of these reports got fans of the Pac-10 excited, but at the end of the day all we got were the Buffs.

— Kevin Nadakal is a journalism senior. He can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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department brought in that revenue from an ultrapassionate fan base.

The Longhorn tradition would’ve pioneered a television contract worth about $250 million annually and established an incredible conference football championship game — something that could’ve been cycled through Jerry Jones’Taj Mahal in Dallas, Glendale’s University of Phoenix Stadium and San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium.

The Pac-16 Basketball Tournament in Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack Center — why the heck not?

Arizona would’ve essentially switched conferences by playing in the Pac-16 East. While pod scheduling could have cut back on visits to the Pacific Northwest and possibly Bay Area schools, the Pac-16’s newfound connection to the Texas market would allow Mike Stoops to pierce a floodgate of an even deeper Lone Star pipeline of recruiting.

UA basketball coach Sean Miller, a marketing guru in his own right, came to Arizona to restore a national brand of elite college basketball, and a big-time television deal would’ve allowed the family of Momo Jones, and all his teammates in Harlem, N.Y., to watch marquee games live in prime time.

Influence: That’s what great recruits want and that’s what successful programs get — both in financial and prestigious compensation.

But the Pac-10 couldn’t close. Now an ambitious Scott must once again reinvent a plan to keep fans from complaining how the national media disrespects the league.

Scott was this close to getting his teams the marquee time slots positioned for the lead-in to SportsCenter and highlights from“colossal” matchups on a weekly basis.

Instead, for now, we’re left with South Florida vs. Rutgers on Thursday nights. Then Georgia vs.

South Carolina on Friday nights. And Michigan vs.

Nebraska on Saturdays.

Today’s Pac-10 just isn’t attractive to television and Colorado’s arrival certainly doesn’t impact that from any standpoint. Nor would Utah.

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Texas quarterback Vince Young talks to Oklahoma’s Rhett Bomar as the University of Texas beat Oklahoma University 45-12 at The Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas in 2005.

From the national perspective, it goes like this: “Poor Pac-10. Can’t defend in football, basketball OR expansion. But enjoy Colorado, fellas,”tweeted CBSSports.com scribe Gregg Doyel.

It goes like this: An Arizona football team that starts the season 4-1 in the Pac-16 would be ranked at least No. 15 in national polls.

Today’s Pac-10: maybe a few votes.

Traditionalists insist on maintaining the symmetrical structure of the current Pac-10. But how

viable is a 30-year-old model in today’s age of ultra-competitive recruiting? As professional sports go global, college athletics must go national to attract the best and brightest athletes.

Give credit to Scott for instilling the right mindset in Walnut Creek, aiming to provide his schools enough money to compete with revenue models of nearly a third to what the Big 10 and SEC are providing their schools with television contracts.

The forward-thinking Scott risked the conference’s authority and public image after the Texas Master Plan was revealed. One way to recover will be to field ultra-competitive bowl teams like in 2009.

After all, winning cures all.

— Bryan Roy is an interdisciplinary studies senior. He can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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Outfielder Selsky drafted by MLB Baseball player leaning toward returning to Arizona

By Mike Schmitz ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT Heading into the 2010 MLB draft, Arizona baseball right fielder Steve Selsky was expected to be selected within the top five rounds.

Just after finishing his sophomore season, which ranked him among the top 5 of the Pacific 10 Conference in batting average (.370), runs (57), hits (87), triples (6) and total bases (43), he was seeking second or third-round money.

But even after such an impressive season, the draft-eligible sophomore fell to the 34th round where he was selected by the Colorado Rockies.

The Rockies are taking a “draft and follow” approach with Selsky, as they will watch him play in the Cape Cod Summer League for the Orleans Firebirds in Orleans, Mass., and reevaluate his worth before the official signing day on Aug. 15.

Selsky is asking for a deal in the range of $130,000 to $750,000, which he feels he can obtain with an impressive performance this summer.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Arizona women’s track finishes 13th at nationals The Arizona women’s track and field team posted its best finish since 2001, finishing 13th place at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., on Saturday.

Five athletes finished with AllAmerican accolades: senior high jumper Liz Patterson, freshman Brigetta Barrett, junior Christina Rodgers, freshman Julie Labonte and freshman high jumper Nick Ross.

Sophomore Hannah Moen was the only athlete to compete on the final day, finishing 14th in women’s steeplechase.

Texas A&M ended up winning both men’s and women’s overall team titles.

Men’s hoops to play in Las Vegas Invitational Arizona men’s basketball will join several teams in the 10th annual Las Vegas Invitational tournament.

The most notable game will be against the Kansas Jayhawks on Nov. 27 at the Orleans Arena in the Orleans Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev. The Jayhawks are the tournament’s defending champion, and are ranked No. 7 in 2010-11 preseason polls. The last time the two teams met, the Wildcats defeated the Jayhawks 84-67 at McKale Center in the 2008-09 season.

Arizona softball finishes second in final polls Arizona softball came in second in the USA Today/NFCA poll and the ESPN.com/USA poll for softball after finishing as the runner-up in the Women’s College World Series.

The UA returns eight starters and is expected to be highly ranked to start the 2011 season.

—Arizona Summer Wildcat

The Arizona Daily Wildcat’s baseball beat writer Mike Schmitz caught up with Selsky to discuss his chances of returning to Tucson, who he compares himself to in the MLB and if he wants to play for the Rockies.

Daily Wildcat: Before the draft where did you think you’d be selected?

Steve Selsky: I was supposed to go in the top 5 rounds.

DW: Do you feel disrespected that you fell so much?

SS: Yeah, but I don’t really look at it in that way. If you look at the numbers and you go back in history and look at players drafted out of the Pac-10, you look at their numbers and compare them to my numbers, mine are better than the guys that got drafted in the third round or the second round and they got like $600,000.

DW: If you had to put a percentage on coming back to Arizona what do you think it would be?

SS: I would say 75 to 25.

DW: Where do you think you’d be able to go in the draft after another year at Arizona?

SS: That will depend on how I play here. That has a big impact on how I play here because the scouts want to know how you can hit with a wood bat instead of a metal bat. Last year when I was a freshman, that draft, Grant Green, who was a USC shortstop, he came to Cape Cod, he played in the summer league and he hit really well. He hit like .330, I want to say. And he went back to USC and he did not do very good. He, I want to say, hit maybe .300 and he still got taken like sixth overall. He still went first round.

I played here last summer and I had a pretty decent summer. So if I play really well here, I

feel like I can go in the top two rounds.

DW: Obviously Arizona is really young and talented. Does that factor into whether you want to come back or not?

SS: You know it does. When I was talking to coach (Andy) Lopez about that, we were talking about how our team next year’s looking, and really if you look at it, the only position guy we’re losing is Rafael Valenzuela. That’s only one guy so most teams don’t do that. And with the success that we had this year, everyone’s going to be older, more mature and know what they’re going into, including the pitchers because (Kurt) Heyer was our Friday night guy and he was a freshman and we have a lot of other freshmen pitchers that pitched a lot. So add in that experience and I feel like we’re going to be really good next year. That does play a role in coming back.

DW: Is Colorado somewhere you would want to play?

SS: I don’t really have a preference, I don’t see why it would be a bad thing because the ball flies up there so that could never hurt.

DW: If you had to compare yourself to another MLB player, who do you think?

SS: Hmmm, I’m trying to think. If you look at right fielders in the major leagues, they’re usually a lot bigger than me, except for like Ichiro (Suzuki). If you look at (Jayson) Werth for the Phillies or (Vladimir) Guerrero for the Angels (pause) I guess I’m kind of like (Nick) Swisher for the Yankees or J.D. Drew for the Red Sox. I have, like, their size but I haven’t really thought about that ever. But I don’t think I’m like any Vladimir Guerrero or Jayson Werth or big-ass guys, I think I’m an average-sized guy who can hit the ball a little bit.

Kerr done as Suns' GM

Former Wildcat may return to role as TV commentator PHOENIX — Steve Kerr won’t return as general manager of the Phoenix Suns, despite building a team that made a surprising run to the NBA’s Western Conference finals.

Kerr told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the decision was solely his and not the result of any disagreements with owner Robert Sarver. He said he is “exploring a couple of possibilities”to return to television work.

Kerr’s contract expires at the end of June. He had said he expected to work out a new deal with Sarver.

Kerr was a TNT color commentator for NBA telecasts for four years before Sarver hired him three years ago. He said in an interview with the AP a month ago that he sometimes longed for the simpler days behind the microphone.

His departure from the Suns first was reported by KTAR in Phoenix, the team’s flagship radio station.

Kerr starred at the University of Arizona and played in the NBA for 15 years. Known for his deadly long-range shooting, he was on five teams that won the championship.

Kerr’s departure comes at an important time for the Suns. The team is negotiating with All-Star forward Amare Stoudemire, who can opt out of his contract on July 1, and is preparing for the June 24 draft.

In an interview a month ago, Kerr acknowledged that sometimes, especially in previous years when he was severely criticized by fans and on sports talk radio, he longed for those day of television broadcasting.

“There were many nights where I thought, ‘Man, I should have just sat there with a microphone in my hand,’”he said at the time.“It was a much better life.’”

Kerr met Sarver through mutual friend Lute Olson, the Hall of Fame former coach at Arizona.

Kerr helped Sarver buy the Suns from Jerry Colangelo, then was hired to run the team despite no front-office experience.

Under Kerr, the Suns made what turned out to be a crucial deal, sending Boris Diaw and Raja Bell to Charlotte for Jason Richardson and Jared Dudley.

Richardson was a starter and Dudley a critical player off the Suns’strong bench this season.

He took heat for taking Robin Lopez in the first round of the 2008 draft, but the 7-foot twin from Stanford proved critics wrong when he was moved

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Phoenix Suns General Manager Steve Kerr and former coach Mike D’Antoni take questions during a press conference on the trade that brought Shaquille O’Neal to the Phoenix Suns in Phoenix, Ariz., Wednesday, February 6, 2008.

into the starting lineup this season. Kerr also negotiated the draft-day trade with San Antonio that brought Goran Dragic to the Suns. The Slovenian point guard struggled in his rookie year but became an effective backup to Steve Nash this season.

Kerr negotiated the 2008 trade that brought Shaquille O’Neal from Miami for Shawn Marion and Marcus Banks. It was an expensive mistake, considering O’Neal’s salary. The big man never fit in with the up-and-down Suns, who fell to San Antonio in the first round of the playoffs. O’Neal was traded to Cleveland in what amounted to a salary dump after the season.

Coach Mike D’Antoni departed, too, taking the same job with the New York Knicks after what were described as philosophical differences with the Suns general manager. Kerr said he simply wanted D’Antoni to emphasize a little defense and use more, preferably younger, players.

Kerr acknowledged he made a mistake when he brought in Terry Porter as D’Antoni’s replacement before the 2008-09 season. Porter never connected with the players, who resisted his preferred slower playing style. The Suns fired Porter at the All-Star break, replacing him with Alvin Gentry, who returned to the high-octane style, with a few tweaks, emphasizing floor spacing and rapid ball movement. Gentry also brought an increased emphasis on defense.

Last season’s team was predicted to barely make the playoffs, at best. Instead, the Suns went 54-28 and were the No. 3 seed in the West. Phoenix beat Portland in six games in the first round, then swept longtime nemesis San Antonio in four before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers 4-2 in the Western Conference finals.

“This is exactly what I envisioned,” Kerr said in the May interview. “We just took a strange route to get here.”

— The Associated Press

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‘Human Centipede’ revolts, disappoints

By Kristina Bui ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT I’m not sure what director Tom Six intended when he used the tagline “their flesh is his fantasy” to advertise his horror film,“The Human Centipede (The First Sequence),”but it could double as a tag for a porno.

It would be fetishist torture porn about a man who stitches people together from mouth to ass. Tom Six is probably a sick dude; however, if his work is any indication, he is not a frightening one.

“The Human Centipede” has a familiar start, with Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie) and Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) as American tourists in Germany who become stranded in a remote area late at night during a storm. Predictably, they trek through the woods in stilettos to get help.

The girls reach the home of Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser) after much wandering and high-pitched whining. Heiter, a reclusive former surgeon in a minimalistic house of creepy art, offers them water.

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Heiter holds both girls and a man named Katsuro (Akihiro Kitamura) hostage and explains he was once famous for separating conjoined twins. Now, he plans on building them. Cue melodramatic music. His victims will be Siamese triplets — a human centipede. He has diagrams. Katsuro screams obscenities in Japanese. It’s almost funny in a surreal way. The plan is so sinister that it seems too ridiculous to take seriously.

Heiter sews the trio together, placing Jenny in the back, Lindsay in the middle and Katsuro as the head of the centipede. The surgery is surprisingly subtle, just Heiter pulling out his victims’ teeth, then slicing through their skin. It’s less visually gruesome than the average episode of “Grey’s Anatomy.”

To be fair, there must be very little dignity in a role where you spend the entire second half of the film with your face in someone else’s anus. But, up until the point when they cannot speak, Yennie and Williams sound so forced that they become one-dimensional caricatures of other horror flick victims. Only Laser plays his part well — and alarmingly so, because no man should be that good at being a ruthless sociopath. But his talents are wasted. Heiter practically jumps and claps when Lindsay is forced to swallow Katsuro’s excrements.

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This is absolutely revolting, but not frightening.

The trailer is a dare to viewers to see how much they can bear, but gives away the whole plot. Already crippled by predictability, the film is

further hurt by forcing the viewer to constantly straddle gross-out shock and genuine fear. Audiences will be left underwhelmed, albeit definitely nauseated. The story devolves into they-eat-each-other’s-poop

nonsense so quickly that the film alternates between childishly silly and incredibly boring. While not for those with a weak stomach,“The Human Centipede”is entirely forgettable and ultimately, a disappointment.

Eminem’s ‘Recovery’ a true regression LOW PRICES! Marshall Mathers may be well on his way to recovery after Relapse, but do people really want to hear about it?

Whether you want it or not, Slim Shady’s muchanticipated new album Recovery will be in your face officially on June 22.

In Eminem’s usual style, this album is demeaning to women, contains loads of derogatory language, references his daughters and features his unpredictable and often offensive lyrical musings.

Although Eminem may be gifted with superb jargon, Recovery takes a very different emotional tone than his previous albums.

It’s probably as serious as Mathers could get.

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It’s a noticeable low point for the album due to its ridiculous amount of profanity, and it lacks the thought-provoking subject matter of some of the other singles from the album.

Most of the other tracks are forced and don’t add anything to Recovery.“Won’t Back Down” featuring P!nk couldn’t sound more out of place; her forgettable vocals in conjunction with Eminem’s rapping just don’t mesh — the same could be also said for the Lil’ Wayne and Rihanna collaborations. But because of the collaborators’ popularity, you will most likely hear the clean versions of these tracks on Top 40 radio, which is a shame because they’re entirely undeserving.

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one bedroom near campus in the Village at tucson & 6th street starting at $750/mo with one month free 322-2940 or gmadrid@sebra.com

1bd $465/Mo $300 deposit. 425 E Drachman. Coin-op laundry and carport. Available July 1st. 272-0754

studio condos at ‘the ice house lofts’ starting at $895. pool, gym, new appliances, w/d, storage & gated parking. 520-798-3331.

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Close to campus, bus, shopping. $425/mo SUMMER ONLY, $500/mo for year. University Arms Apartment 1515 E. 10th St. 6230474 www.ashton-goodman.com 1blK froM uofa reserve your apartment for summer or fall. Furnished or unfurnished. 1bedroom from $585. Pool/ Laundry. 5th/ Euclid. Call 751-4363 or 309-8207 for appointment.

studios froM $400 spacious apartment homes with great downtown location. 884-8279. blue agave apartments 1240 n.

7th ave. speedway/ stone. www.blueagaveapartment.com

$775/ Month. larGe 2br/ 2bath split floor plan. Perfect for student share. Eat-in kitchen, washer/ dryer, fireplace, vaulted ceilings, air conditioned, outdoor balcony, covered parking assigned space, community pool. Quiet dead end of Country Club Road, adjacent to Rillito River Walk. 520-940-0340 2bd casa club condo for rent$800. 1810 e blacklidge. Many amenities, tile floor, security system, large kitchen. nancyangle7@gmail.com 3bd 1ba w. uniVersity, on-site parking, walled-in security, W/D, D/W, microwave, refrigerator, recently renovated. No pets. Available July 1. $1200/mo. 241-0969

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on Mountain aVenue 3BD, 2BA, A/C, ceiling fans, laundry room, ceramic tile floors, dishwasher, covered patio with mountain views, covered and lighted parking, move in now or reserve for August. $975.00 call 631-7563. Will email pictures. !!! arizona inn neighborhood guesthouse. Nicely appointed and renovated. Private, off-street parking. Walk or bike to campus. 310497-4193 wildcatrentals@gmail.com 1bedrooM Guesthouse with private entrance, washer & dryer, full kitchen, pets ok, A/C $550 ALSO Studio guesthouse in Sam Hughes, all utilities included, carport, A/C, covered patio, wood floors $650 CALL REDI 520-6235710 OR LOg ON WWW.AZREDIRENTALS.COM close uMc caMpus, newer guesthouse. High ceiling, fans, skylights,built-in furniture, baywindows, covered carport. available May. Safest cleanest $600 248-1688 larGe furnished studio. $385, nice, quiet, and clean. 1mile north UofA. 2565 N Park Ave. 8826696 larGe studios only 6blocks from campus, 1125 N. 7th Ave. Walled yard, security gate, doors, windows, full bath, kitchen. Free wi/fi. Unfurnished, $370, lease. No pets. 977-4106 sunstoneapts@aol.com loVely Modern 2story guesthose. 1.5BA, oak floors, secluded yard, large Bedroom &full Bath upstairs, plus balcony. Downstairs has kitchen, living room, dining area. 1.5BA, french doors, private patio, carport, electric gate, plus storage. West University neighborhood $825/mo includes water.

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2bd/ 1ba on Adams/ Tyndall. Private yard with off street parking $900/mo. $895 deposit. w/d, newer kitchen. Available now. 843 E. Adams #2 call 240-2615

2blocKs froM ua! Large 2bd/1ba duplex unit. A/C, offstreet parking, fireplace. Avail 6-1. 315 N Park Ave 520-903-4353

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2BD, 1BA. Shared W/D, A/C, covered patio, & parking. Water and gas paid. No pets. Lease $550/mo.

Also, studio. AC, shared W/D, water paid, no pets. 6month lease $325/mo. 629-9284.

larGe 2bd 1bth. 2blocks from campus, parking, W/D, A/C, quiet, clean. See website for locations: www.thecastleproperties.com 520406-5515

Quiet VintaGe studio 3blocks from UA, patio, A/C, parking, laundry. $350/mo. Cats ok 319-9339 !!! biKe to caMpus IN Aug 2010- 1, 2, 3 bdm, remodeled condos $650- $1200! Within 1mi to UofA, A/C, Covered Parking, Pool, Fitness & Rec Ctr, Free Wifi and water/ trash. Most appl. Included. www.goldenWestManagement.com toll free 866-545-5303 !!!!! #1 4br, 2ba red brick house. Large fenced yard, renovated and nicely maintained. W/D, Ref, DW. 310.497.4193 wildcatrentals@gmail.com !!!!! #1 arizona Inn neighborhood. 2BR, 1.75BA and 1.5BA. Renovated and nicely maintained.

Reserve now! 310.497.4193 wildcatrentals@gmail.com !!!!!siGn up now for aug 2010– 2,3,4 &5bdm, newer homes! 2mi to UofA, A/C, garages and all appl. included. www.goldenWestManagement.com toll free 866-545-5303 !!!preleasinG 0,1,2,3 bdrM units for rent. ALL within 5blks of Campus. All have AC and most have been remodeled with new tile, paint, electric, etc. View properties at www.PrestigiousUofArentals.com Call 331.8050 (owner/agent) for showing appt. !!now preleasinG 1,2,3,4&5bdrm units within walking distance to campus. www.PrestigiousUofArentals.com Call 331.8050 (owner/agent) to schedule showing appt. !4br/ 2ba Starr Pass Area. 5miles from UofA greasewood/ Anklam.

Built 2001 $1600/mo by owner.

Avail July 1 or Aug 1 Call (520)2455454 ahernand@email.arizona.edu $900- $1700 auG 2010– 1,2,3,4 & 5bdm, newer homes! all within 2mi to UofA, A/C, garages and all appl. included. www.goldenWestManagement.com toll free 866-5455303 1/2 Mile uofa 3BD 2BA $990 mth Avail Aug 1st Wash/ Dry AC $1000 Dep Call Kathy (520)349-5908 1bd house, 4blocKs north of UofA, near Park & Elm. New paint & carpeting. Private. Off-street parking, water paid. $450/mo. 327-4228

1bedrooM house, screened in porch, washer & dryer, covered patio, water included $525 ALSO 1Bedroom house, A/C, water included, washer & dryer, fenced yard, covered patio $600 CALL REDI 520-623-5710 OR LOg ON WWW.AZREDIERNTALS.COM 2bedrooM house a/c, saltillo and wood floors, water included, all kitchen appliances, W/D hookups, fenced yd $600 ALSO 2Bedroom house + den in Sam Hughes, wood floors, fireplace, washer & dryer, mature vegatation, high ceilings $750 CALL REDI 520-623-5710 OR LOg ON WWW.AZREDIRENTALS.COM 2houses 4blocKs to campus.

2319 #1 Helen 3BD/ 2BA 2250sqft, A/C, W/D, fireplace $1650/mo Available August. 2319 #2 2BD/ 2BA, 1000sqft, A/C, W/d, $1100/mo Available July. 777-3995 3bd 2ba. a/c, with W/D, all appliances, private yard, close to UMC. Pima/ Country Club. $950/mo. 1yr lease. 928-853-3437 3bedrooM 2bath, parK & grant, 1mile from UofA, Courtyard, BBQ, Laundry, A/C, Carport, $950.

Discount for Summer. Call Dee at 520 508-6689.

3bedrooM 2bath, pool, large yard, laundry, A/C. Near UofA. $1,500/mo +utilities. Available Now. Tom Stitt 407-9111 3bedrooM house in Sam Hughes, A/C, washer & dryer, fenced yard, carport, covered patio $950 ALSO 3Bedroom house A/C, wood floors, family room, carport, crown molding, vaulted ceilings, washer & dryer, ceiling fans $995 CALL REDI 520-623-5710 OR LOg ON WWW.AZREDIRENTALS.COM 3br/ 2ba $1250; gardner’s Dream; 1600sqft; AC; pool (including cleaning service); DW; WD; Pets; http://meredithandmatt.com/Site/HouseForRent.html

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VintaGe 2bd house 3Blocks from UA. Wood floors, Mexican tile, fireplace, basement, central A/C &heat, parking, laundry, $800/mo, water paid, cats ok. 319-9339 walK to caMpus sam hughes, 2,3,4 &5bdm, newer homes! within 1mi to UofA, A/C, garages and all appl. included. www.goldenWestManagement.com toll free 866545-5303 charMinG saM huGhes Double Red Brick Home for Sale (Himmel Park). 3BR, 1.5BA, .24Acre. 2Backyards, Fireplace. Detached Double garage & Shed maybe converted to living quaters.

Zoned R1. $375,999.99. Excellent condition.

Negotiable. Call: 304-4110.

Mls#: 21023066. live in a completely newly remodeled luxury 2bed 2bath condo for less than rent! just one mile from uofa!

This is a great find and amazing value. Great, quaint condo just renovated for a lucky owner. new carpet, new paint, new tile, new granite countertops, new master bath, new guest bath vanity, new hood microwave, the cooler just serviced and professionally cleaned. all appliances stay. the backyard chimenia stays. The condo has a fireplace and its own laundry room! for more info call Kevin w wood at 520-260-3123 or kwood@gotucson.com only 2blocKs froM UA! 3b/2ba house plus studio. $255,000. 1635 E 8th St. 520-2408854 Barbara Hodges, Tierra Antiqua Realty perfect for sharinG 2BR/ 2BA pride of ownership townhome.

2car garage, all appliances included. great location for UofA & bus lines. $149,900 Yolanda Ponce 520-444-6678 Debby LeBlanc 520-870-6251 Keller Williams Southern Arizona

4bd 2ba near grant/ Mountain.

W/D, D/W, A/C, fenced yard, large Bedrooms. Recently remodeled kitchen & bathrooms. $1400/mo.

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walK to ua. 2bd/ 1ba bungalow house at 844 E Lee St. A/C, w/d, large yard with room for parking, addition. 145k. Call Phil 520-903-4353.

4bd/ 1ba house north of UA off Euclid. A/C, W/D hu, large yard, offstreet parking. Avail now $975/mo.

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June 16-22, 2010

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Joe Dusbabek Arts Editor 621-3106 arts@wildcat.arizona.edu

YOUR SUMMER GUIDE TO TUCSON MUSIC, MOVIES AND ART

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16

Visit The Loft Cinema for The Other Network. Part one of a two-night special, the best unaired TV pilots ever created will be on display. Of particular note on Wednesday is“Sick in the Head,” created by producer and director Judd Apatow, and“Lookwell,” created by Conan O’Brien. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. General admission $8. Show starts at 7:30 p.m. Visit www.othernetwork.com for more information.

THURSDAY, JUNE 17

Enjoy the 1950 film “D.O.A” starring Edmond O’Brien and Pamela Britton at the Cinema La Placita Outdoor Film Series, where you sit under the summer night sky and eat complimentary popcorn all night long. 110 S. Church Ave. Movie begins at 7:30 p.m. $3 suggested donation. See www.cinemalaplacita.com for more information.

FRIDAY, JUNE 18

Immerse yourself in Spanish culture at Casa Vicente Spanish Restaurant featuring Flamenco del Pueblo Viejo. Enjoy live flamenco and classical guitar music as well as traditional flamenco dancing while you indulge in traditional Spanish dishes and drinks.Yes, tapas are on the menu. Flamenco guitar starts at 7 p.m., dancing at 8 p.m. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. www.casavicente.com.

Dinner ranges from $15-$40.

SATURDAY, JUNE 19

Come celebrate the“new American tapestry”at Tucson World Refugee Fest 2010 at El Presidio Park in downtown Tucson. Join the cultural celebration by embracing music and original craftwork from survivors of worldwide conflicts. 160 W. Alameda St. 5 - 9 p.m.

See www.tucsonrefugeefest.com for more information. Free.

SUNDAY, JUNE 20

We’re headlong into baseball season, so take yourself out to the ballgame and watch the Tucson Toros take on the Chico Outlaws. With Tucson’s lack of a major league team, the Toros are the closest thing. 3400 E. Camino Campestre. 325-1010. www.tucsontoros.com. General admission $6.

MONDAY, JUNE 21

Head to Sky Bar to check out the Midsummer Solstice Celebration festivities. The party will feature dance, art, music and performances from Elemental Artistry fire performance troupe. 7:30 p.m. – midnight.

536 N. Fourth Ave. 622-4300 for directions. Parking is limited.Visit www.skybartucson.com for more information. Free.

TUESDAY, JUNE 22

Check out the Dog Days of Summer, a leisurely stroll with your canine companions through the tranquil paths of the Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686. 7 - 8:30 a.m. Admission $7 for adults and $3 for children ages 4-12. www.TucsonBotanical.org for directions or more information.

— Ashley James

By Joe Dusbabek ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT

During a pivotal scene in “The Karate Kid,” Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) looks at Mr. Han (Jackie Chan) after being given a shirt for competition and says,“Wow! This is the same one Jet Li had!”

Maybe so, little Parker, but Jet Li never had one like this.

By updating one of the most precious pop culture icons in the original “Karate Kid,” this new version had perhaps one of the biggest hills to climb in terms of gaining audience approval while still managing to make the source material fresh and compelling.

No need to worry about any of that, because “The Karate Kid” at its core is the best remake of a beloved film that we’ve ever seen. The film starts with 12-year-old Parker and his mother (Taraji P. Henson) making the difficult move to Beijing, China. Dre quickly falls for a local girl who attends his school, which leads to a lot of trouble with the neighborhood bully. Several rough beatings follow until Mr. Han steps in and attempts to stop the bullying by entering Parker in a martial arts tournament. One problem: Dre doesn’t know any martial arts.

One of the best decisions the

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new movie makes is to ditch the mostly-comedic tone of the first film in favor of a more serious and tragic tale. At the center of this is Chan, who hasn’t been this good since 1978’s “Drunken Master” and turns in a career-saving performance. He achieves the right blend of comedic timing and strong physical ability while still possessing a tortured soul, which creates easily one of the strongest characters we’ve seen this summer not named Tony Stark. It’s good to see Chan actually doing real martial arts again, because the slapstick version seen in films like “Rush

Hour” had definitely gotten old.

An equally good decision was to make Beijing an integral part of the story. When Smith gets fed up with the fact he’s not fitting into a new culture and shouts at his mother in frustration, the moment is entirely believable and moving. The setting is exotic and comes through in nearly every scene.

In the end, the movie’s success lies in the relationship between Han and Parker. The two characters don’t possess the same charisma as Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) did in the original film, but Han and Parker

have their own unique and intense relationship that works well.

Chan gives the performance that drives the movie. Once you learn his tragic backstory, you’ll be roped in until the end. Smith also establishes himself as a funny and talented child actor and is a name to keep an eye on. Henson does a solid job as Dre’s mother, and Harald Zwart’s directing is definitely a step up from “The Pink Panther 2.”

Zwart takes minimal risks with his photography and sticks with what works, which proves to be a very smart decision here.

“The Karate Kid” is a remake of a revered icon from the 1980s.

Many things are very similar to the original, including nearly the entire plot, but the new scenery and effective performances from both Smith and Chan will keep you in your seat during the whole film. The fight choreography is top-notch and the directing is solid.“The Karate Kid” may be the best popcorn flick yet this summer.

GRADE

A

‘A-Team’ reloads, blasts into theaters

By Steven Kwan ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT “The A-Team” aims to be an easy, breezy summer blockbuster, and it hits the target more often than not.

The movie begins in Mexico with Col. John “Hannibal” Smith (Liam Neeson) bringing together his team.

Eight years later, the seasoned team is in Iraq for the end of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The A-Team takes on an unofficial mission to recover some U.S. Treasury plates. After the shooting and exploding are over, the group succeeds, but everything goes wrong once they return to base.

Misunderstandings ensue and the members are then court-martialed.

Cue The A-Team’s first mission.

Like other ’80s revivals,“The A-Team”has to retain the spirit of the original TV series while updating the story for today’s audiences. So instead of being Green Berets who robbed the Bank of Hanoi to end the Vietnam War, they are now Army Rangers trying to recover U.S. Treasury plates kept by Saddam Hussein’s regime after the first Gulf War. This also means much of the style, character tics and familiar catchphrases from the original TV series are thrown into the mix. This puts the movie in an awkward position.

Let’s start and end with the acting, because the two-hour

GRADE

B

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story and the jittery, jumpy action sequences that characterize most modern blockbusters don’t really matter. Neeson brings the right amount of authority and dignified charisma to Hannibal while continuing his streak of being a formidable badass onscreen.

After Mr. T capitalized on his catchphrase in recent years and thus became a part of pop culture for a new generation, mixed martial artist Quinton“Rampage”Jackson has the toughest role with Sgt. Bosco“B.A.” Baracus. The pitying of fools does come out throughout the movie and he does seem self-conscious about it at times, but Jackson balances such moments

with solid acting elsewhere.

Bradley Cooper and Sharlto Copley are interesting extremes.

Cooper has the passable charm for Lt. Templeton“Face”Peck, but that’s overshadowed by his frat boylike enthusiasm during the action scenes. This Face is not the smarmy, gentlemanly lady’s man of yesteryear, but a man who is comfortable with two-fisted beer shotguns at a party as he is with the threepiece suits that adorn the covers of GQ magazine. He is Hollywood’s modern man, which might explain why he has the most screen time.

As the follow-up to his lead role in “District 9,”Copley reminds us again

how he can captivate an audience.

Copley succeeds in projecting the wide-eyed enthusiasm and looniness of H.M.“Howling Mad”Murdock and maintaining it throughout the movie with what appears to be ad-libbing.

It’s hard to tell what’s going on in his mind, but you’re glad he’s around. It’s a shame we don’t see more of Copley.

“The A-Team”is filled with ridiculous explosions and schemes, topped with moments of cheekiness, especially when the supporting cast members take big bites out of their scenes. As with most plans, not everything in“The A-Team”comes together, but when it does (wait for the end of the credits), it sure is a lot of fun.