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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2015 VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 153

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Inside Former Wildcats win NBA Championship Sports — 15 Gender representation in film and TV Opinions — 11 Superhero history lesson Arts — 5 REBECCA NOBLE/ARIZONA SUMMER WILDCAT

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News

Editor: David McGlothlin news@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-3193 twitter.com/dailywildcat

Pride runs deep at UA Q& A The University of Arizona's Office of LGBTQ Affairs represents the voices and issues of all LGBTQ students on campus

BY David McGlothlin

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In of June 2012, President Barrack Obama proclaimed the month of June as “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month.”

Positive changes and important conversations regarding current LGBTQ issues continue to gain publicity. The UA leads efforts in creating a more friendly, tolerant and educated campus population in terms of LGBTQ awareness on campus.

The UA offers bountiful resources and services for LGBTQ students ranging from needs assessments and therapy to social events and support groups.

The UA’s ASUA Pride Alliance began about 20 years ago as an Associated Students of the University of Arizona recognized club but lacked the institutional position to advance LGBTQ initiatives on campus.

In 2007, the LGBTQ Advisory Council recommended hiring a director of LGBTQ Affairs, a position later created by former UA President Robert N. Shelton.

The position is currently filled by Jennifer Hoefle-Olson.

Today, the Office of LGBTQ Affairs oversees the operations, campus resources and programs. Chris Sogge, LGBTQ Affairs internship coordinator graduate assistant, said issues on campus reflect similar issues elsewhere because

“we [the UA community] are microcosms of society.”

This year, Sogge coordinates the Pride Alliance internship, where he first got his start. “I’ve worn a lot of hats,” he said.

“It’s cool to see how it works from so many different angles.”

He added the best way to understand the complexity of these issues is to educate yourself with knowledge and information, and noted that the major role of the Office of LGBTQ Affairs is to educate, primarily through its Safe Zone program.

According to Sogge, Safe Zone is LGBTQ cultural competency training split into two workshop days. Day one examines resources on campus and creates a resource framework for future discussions. Day two is more specific, focusing on oppression, statistics and hypothetical situations.

“It’s a place of openness, trust and respect,” Sogge said.

After completing the training, participants receive a Safe Zone placard signifying them as an identifiable source of support for members of the LGBTQ community.

“Since 2010, we have had over 5,500 people go through the program, and it’s definitely growing, which is fantastic,” Sogge said. “We offer it at least once a month for free and more advanced training like Trans101 classes that vary.”

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Q: What do you identify yourself as, and what was it like at the UA for you?

A: I use he/him/his pronouns and identify as a queer and white cisgender man for some of my non-sexual orientation identities. I feel really fortunate to be here.

It’s refreshing in terms of where we are in queer centers across the nation and having that happen in a very republican state is a good triumph.

Q: What issues do LGBTQ students at the UA currently face?

A: We did a 2014 Campus Needs Assessment with Campus Health that showed high level diagnoses for anxiety, depression and mental health challenges.

Also, a lot of students bring a lot of issues to us like bullying or dealing with suicide.

Q: How LGBTQ friendly is the UA community?

A: According to campus Pride, I think we are ranked 4 out of 5 stars [in terms of friendliness]. It’s not perfect for a reason like our faculty and staff don’t have gender-confirming health care options while students do at some other bigger institutional things.

Q: Any last words?

A: Never force yourself to come out or force yourself to identify as anything if it’s not the moment for you. Identity work is really frickin’ hard. It’s ok to not know and to love yourself.

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Growth and tolerance can be seen across campus through recent LGBTQ initiatives like the recent “Chosen or Preferred Name G u i d e l i n e s ,” which, according to Sogge, “allows students and David Mcglothlin/ employees to change their Arizona Summer Wildcat names to their Chris Sogge is the preferred name Internship Coordinator into the UA Graduate Assistant for systems — D2L, LGBTQ Affairs at the UA. UAccess, Catmail, CatCard and class rosters — even if they haven’t legally changed it."

In addition, the LGBTQ Advisory Council will again take recommendations on what is currently needed by the LGBTQ community after being inactive for a year.

“It’s really heartening to see people thrive in the face of really problematic situations and a lot of obstacles from society,” Sogge said. “So even just surviving is thriving I think.”

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Budget cuts finalized, UA in process of deciding where

BY Matthew Rein

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The UA community will have to wait till the start of the fall semester to see how $100 million in budget cuts to education will affect the university’s operations and structure.

On June 4, the Arizona Board of Regents approved and finalized budgets for the three state universities for the upcoming year. While talks have been ongoing throughout the year, this meeting was the final solidifying effort to set the budget so universities can make plans moving forward. The backdrop and events surrounding this year’s budget were quite different even though finalizing fiscal year’s budgets are routine for the ABOR. On March 7, the Arizona state legislature — with Governor Ducey’s support — passed a slim state budget that cut nearly $100 million from state universities.

“Cuts to university budgets represent 63 percent of all hard cuts made in the name of balancing the state budget,” said ABOR President Eileen I. Klein a week after the changes were made.

One of the main talking points at the ABOR meeting was tuition and how much it would need to increase in order

to negate the effects of state spending cuts. For the upcoming school year, UA in-state freshman will pay $11,403 in tuition, which is a 4.1 percent increase from the previous year. The tuition rate in 2005-2006 was $4,487, meaning that over a ten year period, tuition has increased by an astonishing 154 percent at the UA. “It’s a lot harder to put kids through college now,” said pre-physiology freshman Alex Benavides. “Kids are going to be even more stressed out with student loans, and it’s definitely going to affect everyday life when you have less money to spend on food, entertainment, etc.”

Meanwhile, for freshmen coming to the UA from out of state, tuition rose by 10.9 percent to $32,630. Fortunately, the UA’s guaranteed tuition plan locks in students’ tuition price for four years.

This means that incoming freshman can stay at that same $11,403 tuition for their four years at the UA. While this tuition lock will help save pre-existing students money, there are still major concerns among students.

Pre-business freshman Caitlin Brown said, “As tuition continues to rise, it will just deepen the gap between those who can afford higher education and those who can’t, making it even harder for

low-income students to afford a college degree.”

Nutritional sciences freshman Tassneem Solieman agrees. "Tuition increases mean students will graduate with even more debt, and in the end this debt screws over students in the long run,” Solieman said. “If tuition is increased in order to maintain the state of the school, it could have a positive effect on student’s education at the UA,” she noted.

Pre-education freshman Morgan Rice believes that “[the tuition rising] is incredibly unfair, especially those students who are trying to put themselves through school on their own.”

Even with the increase in tuition, the UA leadership had to come up with other ways to save money and make cut-backs. The total number of cuts the university made is equal to right around $25 million, and staff layoffs are a real possibility. “$25 million is an excessive amount of cuts for such a renowned university,” said pre-med freshman Kyle Bhatt. “I definitely don’t agree they should cut that much money from an educational institution within a single year.”

Recently, UA Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs Andrew Comrie and UA Chief Financial Officer

Gregg Goldman did a Q&A with the UA Office of Communications regarding the impact the $25 million in cuts will have on employees.

“With cuts of this magnitude, it is inevitable that staffing will be impacted,” said Comrie and Goldman. Even though staffing will be affected in a negative way, Comrie and Goldman added they will, “strive to minimize the impact as much as possible,” and that “many of the affected employees will have skills that may transfer to job openings in the areas that receive allocations.”

Although leadership at the UA hopes to minimize the impact of staffing cuts, students and staff have bleaker perspectives.

“I get frustrated when I hear we can’t afford to pay professors and TA’s," said religious studies sophomore Zy Mazza.

“We pay sports coaches millions of dollars each year, but when times are tough, the UA needs to prioritize education because we’re ostensibly a learning institution.”

The full list of the employees and programs who have been cut will be released in August.

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BY ALEX FURRIER

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Movies now move at the speed of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The past decade marks the takeover of the modern blockbuster by way of the superhero, with Disney’s Marvel franchises leading the charge.

“The Avengers” films both grossed well over $1 billion in box office revenue, highlighting Disney’s latest method of printing money: the superhero movie. Few film franchises can boast the title of “universe,” but the Marvel Cinematic Universe does.

It’s Marvel’s universe, and we are all just living in it. A pop culture takeover of such magnitude begs the question: how did this happen? Pima County Public Library’s summer series, The History of the Superhero in Film, provides an origin story for the latest pop culture craze.

Every Monday from 1-4 p.m. at Joel D. Valdez Main Library, Lauren Hebert, Pima County Public Library staff member, leads attendees on a journey through The History of the Superhero in Film.

Examining cinematic classics such as “Superman” (1978) and “Batman” (1989) leads to discussions centered around the effect of these films on culture. The Batman versus Superman argument will continue until the end of time, and Hebert chose to juxtapose the two films.

As an art historian, Hebert takes an academic approach of examining the films as a text, encouraging teens and other attendees to seriously examine pop culture. “[Batman] challenges ideas about what a superhero is and what is required to be one, and also challenges the easy morality of characters like Superman by making his choices more complicated,” Herbert said. She added that pop culture often reflects the social consciousness of the masses, in this case through the narratives of superheroes.

As made famous by Uncle Ben from “Spider-Man,” superheroes

live by the sage cliché, “With great power comes great responsibility.” Superheroes hold the fate of the world, and often the entire universe, in their hands.

The choices they make reflect their values and principles. Many iconic superheroes, such as Superman and Captain America, rigidly maintain their status as Boy Scout goodie twoshoes.

Others like Batman and Iron Man live in a world of moral gray guided by a personal code. Still others challenge the moniker of superhero by making choices that reflect self-interest rather than selflessness. 2014 hit “Guardians of the Galaxy” proves a band of untamable misfits with sketchy morality can still get the job done and save the day.

“Guardians of the Galaxy” indicates just how far superheroes have permeated pop culture. Before its announcement, The Guardians of the Galaxy were considered minor comic book heroes at best, and downright unknown at worst.

Yet, despite the unfamiliarity of its heroes, “Guardians of the Galaxy” grossed three quarters of $1 billion.

Such success indicates both the power of the Marvel brand and the saturation of the superhero market.

Slapping the Marvel logo on a film now guarantees box office success, which in turn leads to more and more films.

Marvel breaks down its schedule of films into three phases spanning until 2019. Phase Two concludes this fall with “Ant-Man,” and Phase Three kicks off with 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War.” Superheroes have even spread to the small screen with Marvel and DC Comics both sporting three current shows and more in the pipeline. Next summer marks the clash of DC titans in “Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.”

The rivalry between Marvel and DC extends to the big screen, even with the recent shift in dominance skewed toward Marvel.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of “Batman B e g i n s,” the DC

reboot of “Batman” that Christopher Nolan shaped into gritty, realistic blockbusters. The grim nature of the DC films contrasts the classic

comic book colors that provide the palate for Marvel films. Since the first Marvel Cinematic Universe movie “Iron Man,” Marvel has stayed one step ahead of DC. Case in point: “The Avengers.” The teaming up of the Avengers came a full five years ahead of the scheduled Justice League film still to come in 2017.

No one knows what the future holds when Marvel’s Phase Three concludes and DC’s second Justice League film releases in 2019.

Between the numerous films, official comic books and television series, it seems inevitable that society will run into superhero fatigue before 2019. Until then, superheroes show no sign of slowing down. History tends to repeat itself, and The History of the Superhero in Film at Joel D. Valdez Library provides a leg up to prospective superhero historians.

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Q&A with "Ex Machina" mind Screenwriter and Director Alex Garland answers questions about his writing process, inspirations, and the ethics behind artifical intelligence

BY Alex Guyton

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Since its April 10 release in the United States, “Ex Machina” has not only solidified its status as one of the best science-fiction films of late, but also as one of the best films of the year. Critically, the film is “Certified Fresh” on review aggregate site Rottentomatoes.com with a 91 percent rating, and has enjoyed moderate financial success, grossing almost $25 million worldwide on a $13 million production budget. Along with other collegiate publications, The Daily Wildcat participated in a conference call with screenwriter and director Alex Garland, who also penned “28 Days Later” and “Dredd.”

Q: Did you know when you were beginning to write “Ex Machina” that you were going to direct it? And if so, did that affect, in any way, how you went about writing the screenplay … as if you were writing it for yourself rather than writing it for another director?

A: “I mean, the short answer is no, not really. [... At] the point I first sit down to write the screenplay, in all of the films I’ve worked on, there hasn’t been any director[‘s] touch. And I’m not thinking about directors at all. I’m really just trying to figure out if the film makes sense by my own terms. I think one of the things I learned quite early on is the idea that [writing and directing] sounds like they work in conversation or in a treatment, [but it doesn’t guarantee that the two will] work as a script. And you don’t really find out until you write it. So at the point I’m writing, I’m really just trying to figure out — is this a movie? Does it work? Is it interesting? And then all questions to do with directing come way, way later. And so I never really would see it as writing for a director. It’s — the intention is just to make a film.”

Q: The one thing I like is it wasn’t necessarily about artificial intelligence, and, you know, [the inherent dangers] in that. But it harkened back to, I thought, “Metropolis” with the productive android, and also a Frankenstein. Would you like to talk about … whether those elements were, you know, in your mind when you were writing the script?

A: “Well, I think that [...] whatever one of those creation-type stories you want to

touch [...] “Metropolis,” or “Frankenstein” or “Pygmalion,”[...] there’s various, various inclinations at various times. [Creationtype stories are] in the culture that we will grow up in, and you acquire the set of rhythms of those stories almost by osmosis, even if you’ve never sat down or watched them or read them. They’re just in the fabric for us. The only thing I would say is that, to some extent, often those stories are [a] kind of creation myth of some sort, which have some kind of religious aspect to them in as much as they are [expectably] cautionary tales about mankind not messing with God’s work because he’ll get his fingers burned if he does so. And I tried to step away from [“Ex Machina”] as a creation myth and a cautionary tale in that sense because I saw it as more [preventive] than a God-like act. You know it’s a creation of a new consciousness. But that [is] essentially what parents do when they have children.”

Q: I want to know if you had any thoughts on if [non-sentient technology] has capacity for good or danger?

A: “No. It wouldn’t [...] be capable of good or evil in that way, because it is not sentient. And [whether] they have a good or evil aspect [...] would be defined by the humans, the sentient things that are defining it, and controlling it and using it, essentially. [… Our] whole system of right and meaning […] behind intention and in our action is based on [being] sentient. [… There’s] an ethical dimension to killing someone, but there isn’t really an equivalent ethical dimension to cutting down a tree that [is also] living. [… One] is self-aware and the other one isn’t. If a machine is not self-aware, it’s not really capable of being evil. It can be used for evil by a sentient creature — that is to say humans. But the thing itself doesn’t — [non-sentient technology doesn’t] have that ability. I think it has to be said though, just to be clear, that there’s plenty of room within sort of weak but complex AIs of the sort you’re talking about for bad things to happen. I mean, there’s no doubt about that. But I just wouldn’t lay the blame on the [artificial intelligence].”

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BY ALEXIS WRIGHT Arizona Summer Wildcat

On June 8, Tucsonans interested in sustainability piled into the basement of Joel D. Valdez Main Library to attend Sustainable Tucson’s monthly meeting. A panel of four experts addressed questions surrounding LEED certification, the issues associated with renewable building and making sustainable practices accessible to all levels of income.

Sustainable Tucson’s monthly meetings are open to the general public, and attendees are encouraged to engage with questions or concerns. This month, the meeting focused on viable building options and hosted a panel specialized in ecologically friendly alternatives.

With the emphasis on minimizing waste and renovating existing structures to fit environmental needs, keeping sustainable projects and building options affordable for all remains in the forefront of developers’ minds, as the initial costs of upgrading a pre-existing home aren’t always possible for low-income or multiple-family households.

“I think we need to see a lot of emphasis put on making sure that affordable housing — affordable homes and apartment buildings — are both healthy for residents and friendly to the environment,” said Paula Schulsberg, a core team member of Sustainable Tucson. She suggested that by implementing both financially and environmentally sustainable zoning regulation policies, project costs could be regulated more effectively by making financing options more readily available.

The conversation about concern for green financing has to do with the ever-changing financial environment. There are tax breaks for those interested in improving their homes, but a taxpayer may only claim up to a 30 percent credit depending on the project in question and the elements being added, such as solar energy systems, geothermal heat and small, wind-energy turbines.

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design provides certification from the United States Green Building Council to build with a green design in mind. It alters the way people think about how new buildings and neighborhoods are fashioned, constructed and maintained.

With specific requirements going into making a building LEED certified, the emphasis is on sustainable opportunities, which has some groups vested in existing manufacturing balances lobbying against pro-LEED legislation.

As of April 1, 2014, nine states were declared anti-LEED because of the impact USGBC policy would have on local contracting businesses.

According to the Louisiana chapter of the USGBC, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Oklahoma have passed anti-LEED

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Tucson focuses on sustainable development

'I think we need to see a lot of emphasis put on making sure that affordable housing — affordable homes and apartment buildings — are both healthy for residents and friendly to the environment.'

Paula Schulsberg, Sustainable Tucson core team member

legislation. Ohio senators proposed anti-LEED legislation in Nov. 2013, which passed through the Ohio State Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Feb. 2014. Lobbyists have yet to pass the bill through the Ohio Senate.

These states are concerned for their local timber companies, expressing that the LEED standard puts a strain on the regional industry. The Louisiana chapter suggests that either LEED should be abandoned, or that groups may still use the certification as a standard if building materials are sourced from their own state and not the certified resources from the USGBC. “They’re at a disadvantage because they cannot source locally,” said Tom Mannschreck, president, CEO and owner of Thomas Development Co. based out of Boise, Idaho.

Regardless of pro- or anti-LEED legislation, there are ways to improve pre-existing structures to be more environmentally friendly without investing large amounts of money in a structural redesign.

Simple fixes to make a home more eco-friendly include adding weather stripping to door frames, which helps insulate the home and prevent excessive A/C use, and changing light bulbs to LED bulbs, which use 75 percent less energy than incandescent lighting and last 25 times longer. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, by making simple, easy changes like switching to LED lighting, consumers can help save more than $30 billion and 348 TWh — equal to the annual electrical yield of 44 industrial electric power plants — by 2027.

Harvesting water is another option, though more physically intensive to install. Andrew Hayes, a field supervisor at Hayes Construction Inc., explained that by digging a trench to reallocate the water back to the plants or berms, homeowners can help the land retain valuable water, allowing excess water to percolate down through the soil and refresh aquifers. Installing rainwaterharvesting cisterns or tanks can help reduce monthly water expenses and may qualify residents for a rainwater-harvesting

rebate of up to $2,000.

“It’s just as much a mentality as it is a type of construction,” Hayes said.

Sustainable projects are coming up with an encompassing health and wellness spotlight for safe housing options geared toward families of all shapes and sizes. According to Sustainable Tucson Core Team Member Ray Clamons, by addressing the biophilia hypothesis — the theory of the human need to interact with other forms of nature in a design plan — opening up the home with more lighting and all natural materials improves a family’s physical and emotional needs.

The biophilia hypothesis combines humans with nature in a domestic setting. The idea is to show how the space can rejuvenate the inhabitants, both mentally and emotionally.

According to Healthcare Design Magazine, by embedding nature into the built environment, nature’s healing benefits lower inhabitants’ stress levels and reduce levels of toxic and harmful building materials. Hospitals that have applied this theory to their architectural designs have recorded releasing patients more quickly than traditional hospitals, effectively shortening the healing process. A biophilic focus not only assists in improving health, but also brings the attention back to maintaining a sustainable environment.

“It’s an important part of life in the world, to live well with each other,” Clamons said.

Fostering a healthy home is important to a healthy community.

There are four different levels of LEED certification, making the building process as health-conscious and ecologically friendly as possible. The various levels include Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum.

To be LEED Platinum certified, a building needs to receive a score of 80 or higher on a point system based on project requirements for building design. For homes specifically, the focus is on health, incorporating safe materials into the design of the house. Other

major areas of sustainable requirement include location and transportation, sustainable project sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, environmental quality, innovation and ultimately regional policies.

The Las Abuelitas Family Housing Project of the Primavera Foundation, a Tucson program dedicated to providing lowrent housing opportunities for grandparents raising their grandchildren, has recently received Platinum certification — the highest certification a building project can receive from the USGBC. Some of the green features this complex furnishes its residents with, according to the “Las Abeulitas Project Summary,” consist of metal shade structures positioned on south-facing windows to keep living quarters cool during the summer months, closed-cell foam insulation and a closed-loop glycol solar hot water system, which utilizes a heat-transfer fluid to collect and transfer external heat to the household water supply. The community’s water supply is collected by rainwater harvesting tanks tied together with an irrigation system to disperse the water. A photovoltaic system — designed to supply usable power via solar energy — helps offset monthly energy costs for residents.

As a result of the complex’s sustainable, efficient practices, four of the 12 units at Las Abuelitas received a rating of zero or lower from Home Energy Rating System, meaning they consume as much energy as has been produced, and the entire complex averaged a rating of 2.25. For an accurate comparison, the national average rating for U.S. homes in 2013, taken from a sample of over 200,000 locations across all 50 states, was 64.

The Primavera Foundation has two guided principles that are rigorously maintained: to involve community constituents in the vision and design of their projects and provide value to the larger community and neighborhood through their services.

“There are contractors who understand the value of building in a sustainable way and are very open to embracing those concepts,” said Nicole Brulé-Fisher, a realtor for RE/MAX Trends.

Brulé-Fisher who became the first realtor to receive the eco-broker designation in Tucson.

Las Abuelitas will be open for a tour on June 18, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at 440 East 26th St. in South Tucson. After the tour, a mixer will be held for guests to mingle and ask questions.

Denise Taub, chief asset manager for the Primavera Foundation, noted that a three-room unit would be available for viewing between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. The tour will also cover Las Abuelitas’ exterior, including a community garden and a basketball court that serve the residents and surrounding neighborhood, a playground, solar-covered parking spaces and a community recreation center complete with a computer lab.

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LAS ABUELITAS FAMILY HOUSING, a sustainable housing complex for grandparents raising their grandchildren, incorporates many sustainable options into its design including solar panels, a community garden and a structual design that prevents incoming heat from the summer sun from warming the houses. The site also has a rainwater-harvesting system that funnels water into on-site storage cisterns; the harvested water is then heated by a solar hot water system.

— Alexis Wright @DailyWildcat

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STUDENTS EXERCISE at the Campus Recreation Center on Tuesday afternoon. The Rec Center is a LEED Platinum certified building, utilizing a variety of sustainable improvements such as walls of highly insulatory windows that provide natural light and cut down on electricity use during the day, a rainwater-harvesting system embedded in the sand-volleyball courts that directs water into a cistern disguised as a rock wall, and floors made from recycled rubber.

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OPinions

Editor: Ian Martella

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Equal representation requires tipping the scale

BY Greg Castro

Arizona Summer Wildcat

In the history of its existence, no one has ever accused the World Wide Web of being a friendly or accepting place. As last fall’s Gamergate controversy showed us, the maledominated corners of the Internet can be especially hostile toward anything female-centered. It comes as no surprise then that recent pushes for greater representation of women in film and television have already found their critics online.

For every program that passes the Bechdel test, there is a men’s rights group waiting to cry reverse sexism.

Though a perfect world might have no need of an attention to gender representation both behind and in front of cameras, spotlighting the continued disparity between the number of opportunities for female stories and storytellers versus their male counterparts is a vital part of the fight for equality.

When Warner Bros. announced last October that they would exclusively seek out female directors for its 2017 “Wonder Woman” film, top comments on lifestyle websites like Forbes read, “This is just stupid.

It doesn’t matter [whether it’s] a man or woman. Just make it a good movie.”

These comments, usually left by male users, are representative of an unfortunately popular online trend in which the most “equal” course of action is seen as the most sensible, hundreds of years of white male dominance be damned.

When seasonal favorite “Orange is the New Black” premiered its second season last June, The Atlantic ran a column claiming that the show’s depiction of men was “irresponsible.” In response, Feministing columnist Mychal Denzel Smith pointed out that “… when you tell stories about women, you need not be obligated to additionally tell the stories of men.”

Smith’s observation cuts right to anything, female directors must the heart of the matter: the double work even harder than men to prove standard that men’s rights groups their value. In an interview with Fast force on women. If these individuals Company, Lexi Alexander describes truly believe in a “we should just her rather tragic reasoning behind pick the best person for the job” turning down the “Wonder Woman” approach, then they should become gig.

“We finally get equally incensed when '…without Wonder Woman with Sylvester Stallone forces an all-male cast any control, a female director: imagine if it fails? And for his “Expendables” you carry the you have no control movies, or when the fucking weight of over marketing, over Academy of Motion budget. So without Picture Arts and gender equality Sciences somehow for both characters any control, you carry the fucking weight of fails to nominate a and women female director for Best directors. No way.' gender equality for Director five years in — Lexi Alexander, both characters and women directors. No a row. Clearly, these writer and director way.” men only pay attention As talented as to the issue when women are given a rare chance in Cuarón or Fincher may be, they are the spotlight and male dominance is able to operate simply as directors without the societal baggage that threatened.

It’s also worth noting that these comes with the more daunting new opportunities for women are moniker of female director.

As for what comes in front of the hardly a fast-pass to success. If

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camera, things do seem to be looking up with season three of “Orange is the New Black” having debuted on June 11 without any men’s rights criticisms thus far. (Though it’s only been six days, so give ‘em time.)

ABC and The CW networks are both featuring programs with a record number of female protagonists this fall, and there is even some discussion over whether or not the oft-discussed Bechdel test is a useful standard anymore, perhaps setting the bar for gender-diverse content too low.

While it might seem odd that the journey toward equality involves giving one gender special consideration, ponder the fact that it has not even been a full century since that same group fought for the right to vote, much less to have the opportunity to tell their stories on camera.

— Greg Castro @DailyWildcat

Budget cuts kill animals, impact shelter

BY Ashleigh Horowitz

Arizona Summer Wildcat

In 2014, Pima County approved construction for a new animal shelter that now, because of budget cuts, is unable to rescue animals.

In early April, a countywide 2 percent budget cut was initiated to all departments in attempts to keep a $23 million deficit after the state announced a $47 million cut to Arizona counties, according to Arizona Public Media.

This put strain on the already struggling Pima Animal Care Center.

Prior to construction, the old PACC’s capacity was 500 but often held up to 1,000 animals, according to the Arizona Daily Star. Over a single year, the shelter saved nearly 14,000 animals and saw about 24,000.

Overcrowding, euthanasia rates, disease and genuine animal love prompted voters to approve Proposition 415 in Nov. 2014.

Initially, the proposal won 59 to 41 percent.

Oppositionists, such as Ann Holden, feared that since the county has a history of mishandling money, the new animal shelter would become a waste of $22 million. Sadly, Holden was right. Before Proposition 415,

According to Tucson News Now, Pima PACC installed an air-conditioned expansion unit to allow the center to care for more County already rejects about 4,000 to 5,000 animals and lessen euthanasia rates instead calls every year in attempts to save money of raising adoption rates, according to the by only responding to situations in which people or animals are in immediate danger.

Arizona Daily Star.

Arizona needs a better budget, and after The bills for this cooling expansion, which cost $245,000, have yet to be paid back. Pima months of news coverage, that is apparent.

County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry But Gov. Doug Ducey, legislators and voters need to grasp that said that this will Animal lovers are forced to this cannot wait. affect how much situation is money the county decide which cats and dogs are The now about more can give the city and the center for future saved; which animals will get a second than university graduates and projects.

This hit the shelter chance at having a loving forever home. undergraduates, our children and hard, the lack of grandchildren, labor and money causing more and more animals to be left but our four-legged friends, too.

Picking and choosing leaves other animals to fend for themselves in the upcoming hot and people at risk to be attacked or abused summer streets.

Each year, Pima’s only 25 animal control later on instead of having the reported officers handle nearly 30,000 cases compared animals rescued immediately, thereby to Maricopa’s 30 who only deal with 21,000, avoiding future physical and mental trauma. according to Tucson News Now. Huckleberry Animal lovers are forced to decide which cats said because of money being tight, the county and dogs are saved; which animals will get a second chance at having a loving forever cannot afford to hire more officers.

This lack of labor makes rescuing even half home.

Out of everything, the worst part is that this the animals an impossible task.

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million dollar shelter, built to hold thousands more cats and dogs than its predecessor, now cannot afford to hold many at all.

The PACC doesn’t want to kill puppies or kittens, and it doesn’t want to hold them captive either. These animals deserve loving homes and the chance to have families.

It’s one thing to make the lives and academic futures of upcoming generations difficult, but it’s an entirely different matter to condemn primarily domesticated animals to a fate of scavenging, disease and street violence.

We domesticated these animals. It’s our responsibility to treat these creatures right and start adopting and fostering instead of killing and ignoring.

— Ashleigh Horowitz @DailyWildcat

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Opinions • Wednesday, June 17, 2015

HAVE IT ALL THIS FATHER’S DAY

HOOK, LINE & SINKER

Niche film does not mean self-segregation standard that is presented and produced for the public.

Shows like “Being Mary Jane” and “Empire” Are minority groups responsible for have been wildly successful products made perpetuating a narrative that labels them for black people by black people at no cost to as separate from the majority? That is the non-black consumers (“Being Mary Jane” and claim that is being made by critics of the “Empire” are awesome shows and benefit from protests across the nation as minority groups the nuance provided by producers and writers — specifically black people — protest the who actually understand the characters) and continuous murders of their community their existence is non-threatening to shows with a majority of white characters, a fact members at the hands of the state.

Suggesting that minorities simply need to demonstrated by the Oscars.

What we learned from #OscarsSoWhite, assimilate to the dominant culture to prevent repercussions or judgment by the very culture other than the sad fact that Hollywood that problematizes being a minority, it makes maintains a sharp racial bias, is that sense that they’re protesting murders. We exceptional minority film or television cannot have some big problems in this nation, so compete in the market and does not threaten why does anyone care that Robert L. Johnson, white products.

This notion that minorities, specifically the creator of BET, is trying to provide some excellent programming to a niche, minority black people in this situation, are selfsegregating by producing a commodity that audience? they actually want to consume “Black Netflix? As long as W h i l e and subsequently celebrating minority groups, or any group for that matter, choose to simultaneously that consumption is not racist. segregate themselves, they will criticizing minority The Urban Movie Channel continue to foster the idea that efforts to foray into merely exists as an outlet to offer and consume a commodity that they are separate from others. culture, exists outside of the norm.

It’s self-destructive,” is the first popular “UMC was designed so that comment on NPR’s article “A [JWHY] is criticizing formation of the African-American and urban Look At ‘Blackbird,’ The First the Film On The New ‘Black Netflix’” something other than creative community could from user JWHY. the white normative. directly reach consumers in a way that removes many of the The comment, which restrictions associated with the references Johnson’s new Urban Movie Channel being touted as the new legacy content development and distribution “Black Netflix,” deleteriously states that black models,” Johnson said in a statement to people, because of the existence of this new Variety. “As more video is consumed over movie channel, are intentionally segregating broadband, we believe that we can quickly themselves from normal (read: white) online become the preeminent provider of quality media consumption and are subsequently urban entertainment to what has largely been being racist themselves in creating a space an underserved, yet highly engaged audience.”

In this country, we have a legacy of creating focused on exhibiting the work of minority mediums that are far-and-away controlled actors, producers and directors.

JWHY, along with your uncle who doesn’t by the majority white sphere of influence. understand why the channel BET exists, Institutions like Netflix and HBO exist as argues that a White Entertainment Television distribution models that historically have Network should exist and that this extension been coopted by the able and interested of the racist institution BET is perpetuated by target audiences that they are marketed to; the Urban Movie Channel. He’s also definitely like Netflix, UMC seeks to provide a nichecolorblind because clearly not being able product to a niche-consumer that is engaged to see race is one of the reasons people and asking for it.

The idea that UMC is attempting to usurp misunderstand the creation of this channel.

JWHY’s error, as well as anyone who refuses or suppress media that doesn’t exist within its to acknowledge minority culture and integrate niche audience is illogical. It’s simply providing it into popular culture, is simple. While a service that is otherwise underwhelming or simultaneously criticizing minority efforts to offensive in its current presentation. foray into popular culture, he is criticizing the formation of something other than the white normative.

For JWHY, and this nation in general, that norm is white-produced, white-consumed media and for the most part, that product has been institutionalized and protected. It doesn’t factor in that other groups, specifically minorities, exist as niche-consumers that want — Nick Havey to see something other than the whitewashed @NiHavey

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Iguodala MVP in NBA Finals

BY Justin Spears

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The Arizona basketball program emphasizes being a “player’s program,” which honors players in the past, present and future.

At this point in the year, Arizona basketball honors the past players competing in the playoffs, more specifically the 2015 NBA Finals. The Golden State Warriors defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers and the best player on the planet in LeBron James in the NBA Finals Tuesday.

Former Wildcat and Golden State head coach Steve Kerr has been a household name since he was a part of the one-two punch with Sean Elliott that made the Final Four in 1988. Kerr would also become a successful role player in the NBA playing alongside Michael Jordan with the Chicago Bulls, earning three championships on top of two more with the San Antonio Spurs.

After being a color commentator and serving as the general manager for the Phoenix Suns, Kerr would take his talents to Oakland to replace Mark Jackson as head coach of a young Warriors team.

Kerr would also add former

Arizona forward from 1999-2003 Luke Walton. Walton has a brighter future in coaching rather than playing as he had a career average of 4.7 points per game as well as 25 high-fives per game. Walton, however, is younger and can relate more to the players compared to old-school coach Kerr.

The game of basketball is a game of chess rather than checkers. Kerr has played chess under Lute Olson at Arizona as well as playing for 11time champion Phil Jackson and fivetime champion Gregg Popovich. Kerr knows how to compete in big stages, and even though he is a first-year head coach, he has more experience than Cavaliers head coach David Blatt.

James was a matchup nightmare for Golden State as the four-time MVP stands at 6-foot-8 and 250 pounds.

Kerr can’t have 2015 MVP Stephen Curry guard James, so there lies the problem.

Who will be the player to step up for the Warriors and contain “King James?”

There is another Wildcat on the Warriors and it’s not a coach. Forward Andre Iguodala has started for his entire career, whether it was at Arizona or with the Philadelphia 76ers and the

Denver Nuggets. Iguodala was moved out of the starting rotation for the entire season, but would get the nod as a starter to guard James.

With Kerr starting a lineup of Curry, Klay Thompson, Harrison Barnes, Iguodala and Draymond Green, playing small would be the best adjustment that Kerr made all season, despite winning 62 games in the regular season.

In a pivotal game four, James would only be held to 20 points, shooting 7-22 while Iguodala guarded him for the majority of the game. Iguodala tallied 22 points of his own. Iguodala then best LeBron James in a gritty Game 6 in Cleveland, Oh. Iguodala won the Bill Russel trophy for the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player.

The Warriors played the brand of what is Arizona basketball, which is a “player’s program.”

The Warriors finished the season as world champions and are bringing a title to a city that hasn’t seen an NBA it since 1975.

This is a win for Arizona basketball as well.

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Kerr and Iguodala were former players under former head coach Lute Olson at the UA.

UA Track ends season on a high note

BY Ivan Leonard

Arizona Summer Wildcat

The Arizona Wildcats sent 11 athletes to the 2015 Division I Men’s & Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Ore., and they did not disappoint the four-day attendance of 42,544.

Sophomore Collins Kibet and redshirt junior Pau Tonnesen led Arizona. The men’s team earned their fifth consecutive top-25 finish as they placed 19th at the championship.

Kibet finished seventh overall in the men’s 800-meter race with a time of 1:50.35 and earned NCAA first-team All-American, becoming the first Wildcat to earn the status in the 800-meter race since Patrick Nduwimana in 2000.

“My first time at the NCAA Championships, and I made it to the final,” Kibet said. “I was happy I made it, and I was here to learn and get better. The race today went out slow and I knew

it was going to be very tactical. It came down to the last stretch and it was tough. I got seventh place and I’m happy with what I got.”

Tonnensen ended day one of the decathlon with 4,230 points that put him in first place and broke the school record of 4,186 points set by Derek Huff in 1989. Tonnenson would go on to place second in the decathlon while accumulating a school record 8,247 points and making first-team All-America. His point total would shatter the school record of 8,215 points set by Jake Arnold in 2007 and would also be the highest runner-up total in NCAA Championship history. His performance also met the qualifications for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

In men’s discus, redshirt freshmen and Pac12 discus champion Gerhard de Beer finished 17th overall with a toss of 185-0 (56.38 meters).

For the women’s side, Arizona tied for 45th place with three points and saw its streak of top-25 finishes end at seven.

In the 400-meter hurdles, junior Nnenya Hailey finished in sixth place with a time of 56.98 that earned her NCAA first-team AllAmerica.

For the fourth consecutive year, the AllAmerica team had a lady Wildcat represented in the 400-meter hurdles as Georganne Moline earned All-America in 2012 and 2013, while Hailey received that award this year and last year.

Hailey also earned NCAA Indoor AllAmerica in the 60-meter hurdles, a feat that has not been accomplished by any athlete in school history.

Senior Elvin Kibet, Collins’ sister, will go down as one of the greatest distance runners in Arizona history. She placed 13th in the 10K with a time of 34:12.57 and will end her career with the school record for 5K, the second best time in Arizona history in the 10K, and All-American accolades on nine different occasions.

Sophomore Aleah Hurst finished 18th in the

long jump with a jump of 19-10.75.

If any track and field athletes look familiar on the football field, it is because coach Rich Rodriguez’s squad is also represented on the track team with de Beer and speedy sophomore Tyrell Johnson.

Their season is not over, however, as the Wildcats still have to compete in the national championships to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in Beijing. The USA Outdoor Championships will be in Eugene from June 25-28.

With Kibet, Tonnenson, de Beer and Hailey all returning next year, Arizona can expect more records to be broken in the near future.

Oregon would go on to win the event for both Men and Women’s Outdoor events to conclude the 2015 Track and Field season.

— Ivan Leonard @Ivan14bro

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Sports • Wednesday, June 17, 2015

The NBA is in McConnell's future

BY Ivan Leonard

Arizona Summer Wildcat

The 2015 NBA Draft is just a week away, and there are many concerns surrounding former Arizona point guard T.J. McConnell and his draft stock.

One common phrase being said about McConnell is that he does not have “the tools” to become an elite point guard in the NBA, and I just have to disagree.

Since Michael Jordan won his first ring in 1991, a common denominator for championship teams was how the point guard was merely a player with a decent jump shot. There is a chance that no point guards on the 2015 list will make the basketball Hall of Fame.

To say that McConnell could not join the list is absurd. He does not have to be a world-beater to lead a team.

All big-shot championship point guards know when to feed their go-to players and how to play tough defense on opposing point guards. It always seemed as if McConnell scored the majority of his baskets in the second half to keep the game in Arizona’s favor.

The way McConnell led his team through tough times was a common denominator for many Wildcat games.

He never shot the ball unless the rest of the team was cold and in need of a

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Then-Arizona guard TJ McConnell (4) brings the ball down the court during Arizona's close 68-60 win over Xavier in the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on March 26. McConnell has the opportunity to become the first point guard in the Sean Miller era to be drafted to the NBA.

spark, and McConnell always ran the offense like a floor general and only shot his turnaround when the game was tight. That is what made him

priceless to head coach Sean Miller.

With McConell’s 3.5 assist-toturnover ratio and his 60 percent at the rim, McConnell would be a

hand-in-glove fit with the San Antonio Spurs. He definitely needs to improve his three-point shot, but Kawhi Leonard, Patty Mills and Tony Parker

were all decent-at-best shooters before joining the Spurs.

If Matthew Dellavedova can have a little success in the association, why not place a point guard who can actually run an offense on the Cleveland Cavaliers? There is little argument that LeBron James is the one of the best players, but when he sits the offense goes into a stagnant game of my turn, your turn, even before they lost Kyrie Irving to injury.

The Cavaliers could even play Irving at shooting guard and let McConnell run the point so he can just play his game and not have to worry about creating.

To say the NBA is driven by point guards would be a definite understatement with players like Russell Westbrook and Stephen Curry in the league right now. While it is highly likely that Curry breaks from the norm of the past two decades of not needing great point-guard play, I still feel as if this is not a coincidence.

Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan and LeBron James each needed guys who would play hard on defense, and most importantly, feed them the ball. And nobody fed the rock better last year than No. 4 for Arizona.

— Ivan Leonard @Ivan14bro

Trio of 'Cats hear names in MLB Draft

BY Justin Spears

Arizona Summer Wildcat

Rebecca Noble / Arizona Summer Wildcat

Then-Arizona infielder Kevin Newman (2) jogs off the field after scoring a run in the first inning of Arizona's 8-1 win against Hawaii and last regular season game of the 2015 season at Hi Corbett Field on May 24.

University of Arizona athletic director Greg Byrne announced Jay Johnson as the next Arizona baseball head coach, replacing Andy Lopez last Monday. Monday was also the start day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, held in Secaucus, N.J. The MLB Draft included a pair of Wildcats to hear from teams on the first day. “[The MLB Draft] has a large impact on programs across the United States and will have a major impact on Arizona baseball,” Johnson said.

Going into draft day, it was a toss up of where infielders Kevin Newman and Scott Kingery would land, but there was confidence that it would either be in the first or second round.

Newman was selected in the first round at pick No. 19 to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Newman was in a round that was a hot bed for shortstops, considering he was the fifth shortstop selected.

Newman would be the first Wildcat selected in the first round since right-handed pitcher Ryan Perry was selected at No. 21 overall. Newman would also be the fifth Andy Lopez product to be

selected in the first round.

Newman has a high ceiling and has been productive ever since succeeding Alex Mejia his freshman season and was the only freshman named to the All-Pac-12 Conference team.

Newman spent two seasons in Tucson and was already added to the Golden Spikes Award watch list. In 2013 and 2014, Baseball expert Peter Gammons witnessed Newman become the firstever player to become the back-to-back Cape Cod League batting champion.

“He’s just a ballplayer,” Gammons said in a Pac12 release statement. “It will be fun to see where he goes.”

In his three-year stint at Arizona, Newman batted .337 while collecting 227 hits. He also gathered 132 runs as well as 112 RBI. Newman even flaunted speed in his career going 46-for-58 in stolen base tries, while twice being named to the All-Pac-12 Defensive team.

Newman has raised the eyebrows of many scouts throughout his career, and he’s only getting better. Of course the process of making it to the big leagues is much easier said than done, but the Pirates knew what they were doing when selecting Newman.

The current shortstop for the Pirates is Jordy Mercer, and he’s batting .222 this season, so Newman adds the offensive power that can compliment Andrew McCutchen.

Kingery would be the next Wildcat selected at No. 48 overall in the second round by the Philadelphia Phillies. Kingery played second base this season for the Wildcats, but also has the ability to shift over to shortstop.

The 2015 Pac-12 Player of the Year also adds offensive power to a Philadelphia team that gave up all-star shortstop Jimmy Rollins to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Kingery batted .392 and was named to the third All-American team.

The only other Wildcat selected in the draft didn’t come until the final day of the draft when the Baltimore Orioles selected left-handed pitcher Xavier Borde at No. 1093 overall in the 36th round.

That was all she wrote for the final Andy Lopez draft class. As for Jay Johnson, he will have his hands on Bobby Dalbec. Dalbec will look to stack his statistics in 2016 before becoming a potential first-round pick next season.

— Justin Spears @Hercules_52