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UA leases expensive full-service DC office

BY SADIE CRUZ @SadieMCruz

A new University of Arizona center will soon find its home in Washington, D.C. At the May 30 Arizona Board of Regents meeting, the UA proposed their plans to rent premium office space in Washington, D.C. The plan was proposed to the Finance, Capital and Resources Committee.

According to documents from the May 30 meeting, the UA is interested in leasing approximately half of the fifth

floor of the new LEED Gold building on 1301 Pennsylvania Avenue. As of right now, the lease for this property is set at approximately $1.2 million a year but may be subject to negotiation.

This new property will be home to the new Center for Outreach & Collaboration.

Other features of the new center would include UA’s Federal Relations Office and a new fellowship program that would allow students to spend a semester in Washington, D.C. Brew McKenna, senior adviser to the UA president, says that this office

would be the university’s front door to Washington, D.C. “It would be like a full-service university office in D.C.,” McKenna said.

McKenna says that the university is hopeful that acquiring this office will allow the Federal Relations Office to grow.

“We see this as an opportunity to grow our research funding by working closely with policymakers and agencies in D.C.,” McKenna said.

Not only will the office space be beneficial to the university, but it would also be beneficial for students.

“[The new office] will give students an opportunity to live and work in D.C. for a semester,” McKenna said.

“Students will be able to intern at different government agencies, media firms, really anything they’re interested in.”

In an email correspondence, Lisa Rulney, the Vice President of Business Affairs at the UA, confirmed that the Arizona Board of Regents approved UA’s proposal at the June 13 board meeting.

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NEWS | CITY COUNCIL MEETING

Primary candidates discuss student housing CONTRIBUTED

BY SASHA HARTZELL @DailyWildcat

On Saturday, June 22, Ward 1 City Council candidates — Lane Santa Cruz, Sami Hamed, Rob Ellias and Miguel Ortega — and the three competing democratic Tucson mayoral candidates — Randi Dorman, Regina Romero and Steve Farley — came together at El Rio Neighborhood Center to discuss gentrification in Tucson.

As affluent Tucson continues to seep into traditionally lower-income areas, with developers buying cheap property on the south and west sides, rents have increased and displacement has become a painful reality.

Many of the development projects behind this displacement have been built for and depend on seasonal business: that of snowbirds and out-of-state students. Catering to the latter and punctuating the city’s skyline, luxury student housing developments have appeared at an incredible rate, causing concern and push-back within the community.

Candidate Ortega referred to the luxury student housing developments as an encroachment.

“We have to listen and recognize the leadership that has already been fighting this encroachment for many, many years,” Ortega said. “The students that come in, they have to respect the historic nature, they have to respect the quality of life of our residents.”

The University of Arizona is a growing institution. As the forum’s moderator, Arizona Public Media border reporter Nancy Montoya, phrased it, “this is a question of where do we put all these students?”

“The UA is a land-grant institution that operates more like a business, always trying to bring in outsiders,” Santa Cruz said.

Though total UA enrollment increased from

2017 to 2018, enrollment of in-state students decreased.

Hamed linked the luxury student housing complexes directly to displacement.

“These buildings that have come up for student housing displace people — businesses or homes,” he said. “But not just that, they also displace our students within the university.”

He said the new housing is very expensive and does not benefit Tucson’s students, but those out of state.

“It’s important that we’re having this discussion and protecting our neighborhoods, preserving them, from the university,” Santa Cruz said. “But we need to make sure that the university is serving our students. A lot of our students that are from here can’t afford the luxury student housing.”

More high-rise, high-end student housing continues to be built in and around downtown. Though Santa Cruz called the market over-saturated, developers would seem to disagree. “There are a surprising number of students with deep pockets looking for a certain lifestyle,” said mayoral candidate and former developer Randi Dorman.

Dorman said that before this trend of luxury student housing developments, starting about 6-7 years ago, developers would buy old houses in neighborhoods. These would be converted to mini-dorms in which the students would “unleash havoc.” The minidorms wouldn’t be able to be converted back to houses.

After community push-back, high-rises claimed the stage. Dorman said in this way, they’re a positive impact. She speculated that, especially with The Mark on Broadway, Tucson may finally be hitting saturation of luxury student housing.

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ARTS & LIFE | GROUNDWORKS

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BAND, COOL FUNERAL, PLAYING at 191 Toole for Groundworks’ fundraiser. The June 22 event helped raise funds for Groundworks’ main stage.

UA alum creates teen music platform

BY JAMIE DONNELLY @JamieRisa11

After Skrappy’s Tucson Youth Collective closed its doors in 2013, there has been a void in the local music scene for teens. Now, Logan Greene, a University of Arizona alumnus, is bringing the stage back to Tucson.

Since the end of last year, Greene has been working on Groundworks, a place for teens to learn about the arts.

“We want to make sure that there is a place where young people who are involved in the music and arts have somewhere to go,” Greene said.

Greene got involved in the arts during middle and high school, which eventually led him to booking and performing his own shows.

“I started to get really involved in the local music community while I was in high school,” Greene said. “There was a lot of cool venues and things like that where I could go and watch bands that were my age and bands that were on, so I

started to start my own musical projects, book my own shows and eventually be involved in the local music scene as much as I could.”

Greene noticed the lack of teenfriendly places in the Tucson art community, ultimately inspiring him to create Groundworks. Greene’s goal was to create a space dedicated to youthdriven music and arts.

“It’s a place where young bands can have their first show or somebody who just wanted to be able to display their art or create a class or workshop that is youth-focused or youth-driven,” Greene said. “That place doesn’t exist, so if you’re under 21, there’s no place you can really have as your home base in terms of music.”

Greene started the process of creating Groundworks by attending business classes and workshops and making sure it was a feasible idea. Once that was finished, Greene moved on to finding the perfect team.

“Logan has this idea of creating something like that in Tucson for a

while, so when he said he was ready to start it going, I was all in,” said Sophie McTear, the managing director at Groundworks. “I’ll do whatever because I’m really excited about the mission and helping make it happen.”

In order to get the word out, McTear has been busy promoting the place on social media and by word of mouth.

“Now we are starting to get the word out,” McTear said. “We have a Kickstarter, and our goal is a little over $7,000 and we were able to raise almost $12,000, so that was really exciting.”

Groundworks will offer different classes and workshops for kids and teens that help them explore their passion for the arts. Classes will also explore the business side of music or the arts that will give them exposure to what it is like to be a working musician or artist in the real world.

“We are going to offer classes throughout the week that will be aimed to specific areas depending on interests,” Greene said. “I’m a guitar teacher and can play the ukulele, so we will probably

do a guitar and ukulele class.”

Most importantly, Groundworks will be a home away from home for kids and teens who are enthusiastic about the arts.

“I think that the big thing that we are passionate about is providing a safe place where artistic people could feel like they have a community and that they have a network and support system,” McTear said.

According to Ondrea Levey, the leading arts director at Groundworks, Groundworks will also give the Tucson youth a fun place to hang out where they can feel supported.

“Teaching high school, I feel like I don’t really hear of hangout spots that are all ages for my students,” Levey said.

“They are usually very niche. I think there needs to be a community space for kids to feel connected and a part of. Groundworks is going to be a really empowering space for youth.

Not only will Groundworks offer a

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NEWS | RESEARCH

Banner UMC launches research into gun violence

BY SADIE CRUZ @SadieMCruz

Gun violence has long been an issue all across the world and especially in the U.S. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were more than 14,000 gun-related deaths in the U.S. in 2018 alone. Tucson is no exception.

Since 2014, Banner—University Medical Center has treated around 850 patients for gun shot wounds. Dr. Bellal Joseph, the chief of trauma at Banner UMC , was inspired by these numbers to conduct research that would help the community better understand why gun violence continues to increase.

“Gun violence is on the rise across the country,” Joseph said. “For the first time, we’re actually trying to focus on ways we can interject and reduce the gun violence epidemic.”

With national data, Joseph has found that victims of gun violence caused by more violent weapons, such as semiautomatic guns, are more likely to experience symptoms of PTSD than other gun violence victims. On a local level,

Joseph has recorded a number of different trends among gun violence patients that come to Banner UMC. “Some interesting things we’ve found were that a majority of the victims were between the ages of 15 and 50,” Joseph said. “A majority of the victims were male.

80 percent were victims of assault.”

The other 20 percent of gun wound victims suffered either a self-inflicted gun wound or were the victim of an accidental shooting. In his research, Joseph found that intoxication was a major trend among victims of gun wounds.

“More than half of the victims were intoxicated,” Joseph said. “Alcohol was the number one [substance found], drug use, followed by marijuana.”

Other factors that Joseph found that influenced the number of gun wound patients at Banner UMC included time of day and location.

“We looked at zip codes in the Tucson area,” Dr. Joseph said. “We thought that that was important because as we want to push towards interventional programs to do community outreach and violence prevention programs.”

The three zip codes that Joseph found

had more gun violence victims than others were 85705, 85713 and 85711. Combined, those three zip codes make up more than double the amount of gun wound patients from elsewhere in Tucson.

These numbers, however, only account for the patients that have come to Banner UMC. “There are many patients that get shot and die at the scene,” Joseph said. “These are just for patients that make it to the hospital.”

With this research, Joseph’s goal is to intervene and get people educated before they become victims.

“Education is the primary [way Banner UMC is trying to help prevent gun violence],” Joseph said. “[Teaching] gun safety, going to schools and interjecting when people are still young and understanding guns and their capabilities.”

Joseph is also dedicated to educating the community on the dangers of substance abuse, which he’s found to be a common factor among the majority of Banner UMC’s gun wound patients.

“We’re learning now that substance abuse and drug use is correlated with gun violence,” Joseph said. “More than half

of [our] gun victims were under the legal drinking age and intoxicated. Marijuana use was the second most common drug use in patients of gun violence.”

Joseph has said that the UA trauma center is dedicated to doing community outreach to prevent substance abuse and gun violence through education.

Unfortunately, some communities in Tucson don’t have the resources Banner UMC has to engage in outreach to help prevent gun violence.

John T. Martinez, a records specialist for the City of South Tucson, which is in the 85713 zip code, said that South Tucson does not have any community outreach programs to help provide education on gun safety.

“South Tucson does not have enough staff or money to implement [community outreach programs],” Martinez said. “But if we did, we would absolutely implement [community outreach programs].”

The Tucson Police Department could not be reached for comment regarding gun violence in the City of Tucson or programs the department has to help reduce gun violence.

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ARTS & LIFE | GROUNDWORKS

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place for kids and teens to perform and create, but it also offers them the opportunity to learn more about the arts than a traditional classroom would.

“Since I’m a teacher, I am in classrooms and I see how schools work, especially in Arizona where there is low funding and the classes that I teach are a little more crowded,” Greene said. “There is only so many options for somebody who is passionate about it, so providing another option other than school I think is super important.”

Levey believes that Groundworks is an important space to have in the Tucson community because not many kids are encouraged to pursue activities that will make them think creatively.

“A lot of kids are pushed to do things like science, math and physical things like sports,” Levey said. “Rarely are kids encouraged to find a passion with something that is creative because it’s not seen as something that will set them up financially for the future, but I don’t think that should matter. The kids should find something that makes them excited to wake up every day, and if that’s music and art, then we need to support that.”

As for the future, Greene, McTear, Levey and the rest of the Groundworks team plan to move into their building soon and will be having a fundraiser on July 13.

If you are interested in getting involved with Groundworks and curious about becoming a volunteer, teacher or just want to learn more about the project, visit their website to contact them.

PHOTOS BY ANA BELTRAN | THE DAILY WILDCAT

Top: Groundworks hosted a fundraiser event at 191 Toole on June 22. Groundworks is a nonprofit community arts space for youth coming to Tucson, Ariz., the fundraiser helped gather funds to build their main stage.

Bottom left: Lead singer of Rough Draft taking the stage at 191 Toole for Groundworks’ fundraiser. The fundraiser event held on June 22 helped raise funds for Groundwork’s main stage.

Bottom right: Guitarist and backup vocalist for Cool Funeral playing at 191 Toole for Groundworks’ fundraiser.

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ARTS & LIFE | MUDPUPPY

High school band brings change to the DIY punk scene in Tucson

BY SADIE CRUZ @SadieMCruz

Odalys Catalan and Tara Belger first met in the summer of 2018 during Summer on Stage, a theater program for teens run by the Arizona Theater Company. They played together for the first time at a talent show, but their partnership didn’t truly begin until the after-party celebrating the end of Summer on Stage, when they realized that what they had together was special.

That night, the band now known as Mudpuppy was born. Originally known as Hang the Bassist, the band got their start by playing their own shows for friends and families.

From there, they’d progressed to small house parties, backyard gigs and eventually made their way to Tucson’s iconic Club Congress. In early April, the self-described “soda pop punk” duo had rebranded from Hang the Bassist to Mudpuppy.

Mudpuppy may have undergone a name change, but their core values have remained the same: using their platform to empower their audience and make a positive change in the community.

“To me, Mudpuppy is all about empowerment, safety and having a good time,” Catalan said. “We talk a lot about issues that affect us and our community, especially LGBTQ rights and women’s rights as well as issues that people of color face.”

The DIY punk scene in Tucson, according to Mudpuppy, isn’t always inclusive for all members of the community. That’s something Mudpuppy strives to change.

“We want to create a safe space for people to enjoy music,” Belger said.

“There’s not a lot of that in the Tucson scene. We just want people to have fun and be nice.”

Catalan has been an avid concert attendee since long before her Mudpuppy days, and she’s bared witness to some of its toxicity, she said.

“It’s an open secret that there’s a lot of problematic people in the scene,”

Catalan said. “I’ve been to a lot of shows where it is just not safe for the LGBTQ community or people of color.

We want to help clean up the scene.

We want to make sure our shows are safe spaces for everyone and we don’t condone bad behavior at our shows.”

Mudpuppy has never been a band to shy away from speaking out against the injustices they witness in the world, in the music scene and in their daily lives. Their passionate stance on the different issues they and their communities face have always influenced their musical decisions.

“Things we’ve seen and places we’ve been inspire a lot of our political songs,” Belger said. “I have a new song that I’m working on that’s about what the news is covering and what they’re not talking about.”

The duo is adamant about their desire to make positive change in the community, no matter how small.

“As a musician, no matter how wellknown, you’re influencing people,” Catalan said. “Not everyone has to be politically active, but if you have a platform to make a change, you should use it.”

Mudpuppy has used their shows to shed light on the recent abortion bans that have been passed in states such as Alabama and Georgia. Their goal is to get people to think about these issues, no matter who may disagree with them.

Although Mudpuppy is still a relatively small band, they are well on their way to achieving their goal of making positive impacts in the community. Gracie Catalan, Odalys’ mother and the band’s manager, has seen firsthand the changes Mudpuppy has made in the community.

“I’ve had grown women come up to me at their shows and tell me they wish they’d been as brave as [Mudpuppy] at their age to get on stage and perform,” Gracie said. “They give positive encouragement for young girls to be brave and express themselves through music.”

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ODALYS CATALAN, LEFT, AND Tara Belger are dedicated to using their platform to create safe spaces in the Tucson music scene and shed light on serious issues marginalized communities face. Mudpuppy’s main goal as a duo is to get people to think, get people to dance and get people to have fun.

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Despite the positive changes Mudpuppy is making, their experiences as girls in the music scene haven’t always been pleasant.

“Girls and women aren’t as equally accepted on stage as male artists are,” Gracie said. “They’ve faced a lot of negativity and harassment, but they’ve become resilient and don’t let it keep them down.”

The differences Mudpuppy is making haven’t just been evident to their band manager. Other Tucson bands have taken notice of them, too.

Jake Shaw, the bassist for the local

band Bananapancakes, feels that Mudpuppy’s strong stance on social issues is what sets them apart from other local bands.

“Having a stance and possibly political agenda is a big part of local music, because it’s often what makes one band stand out from the crowd,” Shaw said over email. “I think they’re inspiring other bands to speak up about social issues based off their experience with Mudpuppy at shows.”

As for what’s next in Mudpuppy’s future, the band is keeping mum, but they want their audience to know that good things are coming. For now, you can catch Mudpuppy at Crooked Tooth Brewing Co.’s Pride Party on June 28.

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ARTS & LIFE | AROUND THE CORNER

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OVERTIME SPORTS HAS A collection of memorabilia that ranges from bobbleheads to jerseys from multiple teams and even signed baseballs and basketballs from various athletes.

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BY HARRISON MORENO @hmoreno7474

Matt Mortenson owns and operates Overtime Sports, a local sports memorabilia shop located at the intersection of Speedway Boulevard and Wilmot Road.

Mortenson has been working at the store since he was 5 years old. Two months ago, he moved down a few doors to the left and renamed Mountain View Sports to Overtime Sports.

“It was my first job, my first love basically,” Mortenson said.

For Mortenson, his love for sports memorabilia, especially trading cards, started at a very young age with his brother.

He worked at the store all the way through high school, and even when he started getting paid, it was only $5 an hour. His parents were not thrilled by the low pay.

“My parents were pissed,” Mortenson said.

Mortenson became a partial owner of the store when one of the previous co-owners he had worked for came to him asking if he wanted to buy his half. Shortly after, the other co-owner also sold his half to Mortenson and he thus became the full owner of the store in August 2015.

The sports store houses apparel and memorabilia for almost every team in what Mortenson called “the big four” sports: football, basketball, baseball and hockey.

“A lot of chain stores only carry the teams that sell the most,” Mortenson said. “I’m trying to be the place where people can go, no matter what sport it is, to be able to get a gift or something they want in the store instead of having to defer and say ‘online.’”

Mortenson is an Arizona Wildcats fan at heart, with his parents having season tickets for basketball since 1988. He pays close attention to Wildcat football, baseball and basketball, but basketball is his favorite

sport and TJ McConnell his favorite Wildcat of all time.

He has seen a lot of University of Arizona memorabilia come in and out of his shop’s doors, from signed basketballs to jerseys and hats. Mortenson had a hard time choosing a favorite piece of Wildcat memorabilia, but he had a few options come to mind.

“It’s hard to be a collector and a fan at the same time because I end up keeping too much stuff,” Mortenson said. “I have a cool starter jacket that was my dad’s that he gave to me that I’ll never get rid of. That’s the one item I won’t sell because it’s my dad’s.”

When it comes to the items in the store though, his favorite is a basketball signed by the entire 1997 Arizona Wildcats, the team that won the school’s lone NCAA championship.

Having a business comes with tough choices as well, and Mortenson was faced with one when he sold a limited edition

Michael Jordan card, which only had 250 copies made, to open up the new store, he said.

Mortenson moved from one side of the Bookmans, located in the same plaza, to another into a much larger area about two months ago. This move has now given him the opportunity to also do party rentals with old-school arcade games and a large projector screen that allows guests to bring in their own gaming systems, he said.

Ian Sheret, who works at Overtime Sports, has seen a lot of things come through the doors as well, but one really stuck out to him, he said.

“Someone brought in a Babe Ruth baseball to be authenticated one time when we had James Spence Authentication here, and JSA said that the ball was worth $40,000,” Sheret said.

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MEMORABILIA FROM PAGE 10

Sheret also said that coming to work every day doesn’t feel like work and that his boss never tells him what to do, there are just things that need to be done and they get them done.

There is one thing, though, that Mortenson said is the hardest to sell at his store.

“The thing I can’t get rid of fast enough is ASU stuff,” Mortenson said.

Mortenson has worked hard to get the store to where it is today, at one point working an estimated 250 days in a row without a break.

“But I love it, it doesn’t feel like work,” Mortenson said.

Anton, who has been coming to the store for years, is happy to see the new location, and his favorite part is the new “Air Jordan” logo that hangs above the register.

Anton mainly collects Michael Jordan cards and other Jordan collectible items and says he comes in to gauge the market.

“I really like at the last one, he started doing the authentications, having the people come down. That’s very convenient instead of sending stuff off,” Anton said.

For Mortenson, the chance to own your business, to be able to run it how he sees fit and to be doing something that is “your first love” is what makes it all worth it, he said.

“It was never and is still never ... a money thing,” Mortenson said.

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ACCORDING TO STORE OWNER Matt Mortenson, this UA shirt is rare because it still shows Wilbur wearing his guns and bullet belt around his waist.

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AFTER MOVING INTO A bigger space, Mortenson can host parties with retro arcade games.

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ACCORDING TO MORTENSON, THE basketball was signed by the UA basketball team that won the 1997 NCAA Championship game. Mortenson priced the ball at just under $1,000.

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ROOKIE CARD FOR DEANDRE Ayton can be found among the many cards in Mortenson’s collection.

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OPINION | MOVIES

Topic of the Week:

What to binge on Netflix It’s summer, the time of the year to catch up on movies you may have missed while stuck under piles of homework. If you’re ready for a movie binge, the Daily Wildcat has compiled a list of our personal favorites from different genres that we have deemed binge-worthy.

Based on a True Story

BY SAM BURDETTE @ samburdette4

“Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” This movie follows mass-murderer Ted Bundy (Zac Efron) and shows how his charisma manipulated many into believing he was innocent. If the acted portrayal sparks an interest, Netflix also has an original movie called “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes,” a documentary about Bundy that includes audio of interviews with Bundy himself.

Comedy

BY JAKE POLISHOOK @jake_poli

“Pineapple Express” After witnessing his drug dealer’s boss murder the competition, a process server (Seth Rogen) and his marijuana dealer (James Franco) go on the run from the murderer’s crew and a corrupt police officer that are after the two for viewing the killing.

“Wedding Crashers” Womanizers John (Owen Wilson) and Jeremy (Vince Vaughn) are masters at crashing weddings. The duo makes the most out of the

“Lincoln” Directed by Steven Spielberg, “Lincoln” shows the obstacles former U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis) encountered in passing the Thirteenth Amendment, which would constitutionally abolish slavery in the U.S. “Zodiac” This movie covers the hunt for the Zodiac Killer in the 1970s. Instead of focusing solely on the police’s investigation, as other truecrime movies often do, it also follows the work of Robert Graysmith (Jake Gyllenhaal), a cartoonist at the San Francisco Chronicle who went on to write the book “Zodiac.”

romance that fills the parties to flirt with the single women who attend them until one special party where John falls in love with Claire (Rachel McAdams), who is yet to be married to another man, and he finds himself seeking more than he bargained for.

“Murder Mystery” A low-income detective (Adam Sandler) and his wife (Jennifer Aniston) finally go on the vacation to Europe the cop has promised his wife since marriage. There, the two find themselves being framed for the murder of a billionaire and go on the run as they try to solve this mystery.

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Romantic Comedy

BY JAY WALKER @jayelizabethw

“Sleeping with Other People” This movie follows best friends Lainey (Alison Brie) and Jake (Jason Sudeikis) as they work on their love lives, from getting over the nerdy guy from college to overcoming a fear of commitment. This movie has raunchy jokes and portrays a sweet friends-to-lovers story that warms the heart.

Horror

BY CLAUDE AKINS @claude_akins

“Hush” If a central tension of the horror genre is the audience knowing what will happen to a character before they do, then this is brought to its apotheosis by “Hush,” a film about a deaf writer (Kate Siegel) stalked by a masked man. You can hear what she can’t — just don’t blink.

“The Invitation” This 2015 SXSW premiere is what is sometimes referred to as a “slow burn.” A man (Logan Marshall-Green) is invited to a

“Set It Up” The movie is a Netflix original about two assistants, Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), attempting to set up their overbearing bosses. Harper and Charlie have natural chemistry and witty repertoire that acts as a great base for a classic romcom.

“Bridget Jones’s Baby” This film shows spinster Bridget (Renee Zellweger) years after the first film, “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” except this time she’s pregnant. The nostalgia of the first film is an added bonus to the lighthearted humor and love in this second instillation.

dinner party hosted by his ex-wife years after the loss of their child. If you’re looking for jump scares, this ain’t it, but what you will find is a horrifying meditation on the effect of loss on the human psyche.

“The Witch” This marvelous Robert Eggers directorial debut captures what, through 21st century eyes, seems like the desperate loneliness of the so-called New World. The foreboding woods and Puritan paranoia (especially around sex and gender) intersect perfectly to tell a story of the colonial past in all its fear and isolation.

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OPINION | MOVIES

MOVIES

Science-Fiction

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“Pandorum” This movie is the first that comes to my mind when wanting to binge watch. It’s a horror/sci-fi where something goes wrong on a ship traveling to a new colony, forcing people to wake up early from cryo-sleep. This is when we really start to see just how bad the ship’s crew have it.

“The Emperor’s New Groove” This movie is not only a hidden Disney gem but a laugh-out-loud comedy starring the voice of David Spade as Emperor Kuzco. If you like an adventure that gets overlooked in the Disney movies franchise, then revisit this classic.

“What Happened to Monday” The over two-hour-long movie is as crazy as the title sounds boring. Seven identical sisters are thrown into a world where only one child per family is allowed. The dad names each of the daughters one day of the week, and for each that is the day they can go and embrace the world. However, things change once they become tired of staying in the cramped-up room. Whatever happens to one sister must happen to the others.

“Chicken Little” This is such a great movie and it is short (like the chicken). I think this movie holds up as a platform for the Bare-Naked Ladies to show their music, but also as a cute animal science-fiction alien movie.

“Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” I can watch this movie once a month and never get tired of it. When I first watched the movie when I was barley 8 years old, what a ride that was. Earth is to be destroyed for a galactic freeway, and our main character is whisked away to inadvertently be shown the universe.

“Bee Movie” “So, you like Jazz?” is a classic line from this childhood favorite for so many. Starring Jerry Seinfeld and Mathew Broderick, this is a comedy classic in the childhood genre.

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OPINION | COMMUNITY

GUEST LETTER: Older devices deserve Wi-Fi too

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BY HANNAH ROSENBERG @DailyWildcat

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wo years ago, in preparation for graduate school, I switched to an affordable mobile carrier plan, which involved downgrading my monthly data allotment to 1GB and purchasing a new compatible phone. I was certain that 1GB would be sufficient, since for the next three years I’d have regular access to Wi-Fi, splitting my time between campus and home.

Now, two years into my grad program, imagine my disappointment as I am told

by UAIT support that my phone was no longer able to connect to UA’s Wi-Fi, now running on TLS 1.1. During that same visit to the IT support center, two other individuals were also informed that their devices were “too old.” One gentleman had an iPad and the other individual had a MacBook. I consider myself to be fortunate. I own a relatively new MacBook and iPad, so the fact that my mobile phone cannot connect is more of an inconvenience than anything.

Imagine, however, come fall, when hundreds of students who have handme-down tablets or laptops purchased new or used freshman year return to campus. Their inability to connect to UA’s Wi-Fi will be more than an inconvenience — it will be debilitating.

Sure, the same tuition dollars and fees they pay (in part) for Wi-Fi enable these students to check out a device for free from the library. However, is having to return a rented computer every three days while constantly feeling at risk of accruing late fees really a fair solution?

Whoever was part of the decision to switch to TLS 1.1, it’s unfortunate that you did not appear to properly test the system on older devices. And if older devices were tested and failed, it’s a shame that you didn’t consider alternatives for those who cannot afford the latest technology. The UA touts being a “Best Buy” and a “Best Value College,” but for those accolades to deserve a prominent place on the university’s homepage, more needs to be done to include all students, no matter what technology they can afford.

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Let’s talk ... ‘Endgame’ and government

BY MAYA NOTO @mayanoto58

T

he spoiler ban has been lifted. It is very due to finally talk about “Avengers: Endgame.”

In a series of videos, the cast of Marvel’s box office smash cautioned the public on spoiling the movie for others. After the official ban-lifting, online debates and Reddit pages were filled with a feeding frenzy of fans discussing the film, but to me, the most interesting part is the ban itself and what it says about our society.

As a nation, we are divided, polarized to the point where political party names have almost equated to bad words. The “Avengers” series is so heavily protected by the American public because, I think, we wish we had our own Avengers.

The overwhelming opinion coming through the cacophony of new cycles is that Americans are dissatisfied with the way our government is being run. In fact, the government is in such political gridlock that earlier this year it was

shut down for 34 full days, the longest government shutdown in history.

Think about the plot line of the “Avengers” franchise for a moment and how it parallels to our world today. The Avengers are a group of heroes that live in a world where at some points the government, who we trust to tell us right and wrong, is against them.

Your friendly neighborhood Spiderman takes care of business that the police are missing, but he still is disliked by law enforcement in the film.

Social media creates the public conversation, but as a courtesy to other people, we have certain limits as to when we can discuss.

As a community, we declared a time limit of when we can discuss this movie. “Endgame” was not the first.

My mother and aunts refrain from looking at Facebook before a “Game of Thrones” episode for fear of accidental spoilers.

I wonder if it is better to stick your head deeper into the sand, or Reddit, or wake up from the dream and fix this broken world. We’re not being given the real-world Avengers we deserve and that’s why we covet this story so much.

The Avengers go rogue. They go

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outside of S.H.E.I.L.D.’s influence and operate independently for a stretch, since even the fictional American government was misguided. It’s nice to

think that we all could be a team and get together and do the right thing, but, alas, humans are always facing the darkness … or Thanos.

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NEWS | INNOVATIVE LEARNING

Placemats help youth with studies

BY MAYA NOTO @mayanoto58 It all began with Dara Lopata, a trip to Office Max and a maiden voyage on the laminator.

Now, she’s a mom with a booming small business.

Advanced Placemats was not intended to become what it is today, an online store that offers various study mats for students to utilize during meals. The study guides are created by high achieving students for students who wish to follow in their footsteps, but behind every “A+” student is an “A+” mom.

After watching her sons tirelessly study with their peers, she sought out a way to stay ahead of the curve. She took the curriculum her sons and their study group struggled with and put it on a placemat, hiding study time in plain sight.

As her sons sought out a more rigorous curriculum, so did the placemats. Each placemat is the result of hard work from students, teachers and tutors. Now, she has created over fifty different placemats ranging in subjects from calculus to world history.

The placemats — Lopata and her staff call them study guides — contain all the information simplified in an easy-to-read format. Lopata looked to her sons’ peers as employees, all high achieving students that were being accepted into some of the most prestigious universities and colleges in the nation.

From her office and home in Phoenix, Lopata has launched a small battalion of driven young people, all college underclassmen, to help her in her mission.

Advanced Placemats are written and edited by students who have excelled at the tests for those who wish to do the same. Each Advanced Placemat is edited by a subject expert and

formatted into its final placemat form through Lopata’s vetting process. By the time the mat is finished, it has passed through the hands of excelling students and certified Advanced Placement teachers to ensure all the necessary content is covered.

Conner Waslo, a sophomore at Vanderbilt University, is one of the content creators.

“After taking the class, I read through the textbook before making an outline of that content plus what we saw on AP mock exams,” Waslo said. “Being a part of the team is awesome. I love knowing that my studying is helping another student ace the AP test.”

Maddie Nowaczyk, a sophomore at the University of Arizona Honors College, is the advertising coordinator for Advanced Placemats at only 19 years old.

“Honestly it doesn’t feel like I’m working with young people. Everyone that Dara chooses to work with at Advanced Placemats is very driven,” Nowaczyk said. “By having this work experience at a young age really helps us prepare for the real world.”

It’s all right there under the student’s nose, which Lopata took literally.

When her sons were in high school, the kids would come over to do their homework together every Saturday. She noticed the dynamic way the kids were able to teach each other. One child who was gifted in math but weak in chemistry would help their friend who was good at chemistry in exchange for some math help. They were self-made study guides themselves.

Seeing the large amounts of content her sons and their peers set out to conquer, Lopata began making placemats that doubled as study guides.

“I would just photocopy stuff and laminated it because they were a bunch of kids over here

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eating things like pizza, grilled cheese, so they have greasy hands,” Lopata said.

Lopata took her placemat idea and made it into a sellable product.

“The stores weren’t providing the product that I wanted, so I just went and made it myself,” Lopata said, sitting in her office, a child safety gate guarding the entrance.

The idea for Advanced Placemats is simple: if you have time to eat, you have time to study.

Lopata looked at the subjects the Saturday study club were focusing on and then created placemats covered with curriculum. Now, she is the owner of a self-made small business, not to mention a full-time mom.

“It’s funny, I think my family forgets and I sit in my office like, ‘Ok, I’m being a professional on this side of the gate,’” Lopata said after her husband ran in to give her a kiss good morning on his way to work in the yard.

Lopata keeps her nose to the ground when it comes to education fairness in this nation.

She said her entire life revolves around her children’s academics. Not all children have that level of support.

“It’s not about selling, it’s about giving back.

That’s my end game,” Lopata said.

At first, Advanced Placemats were meant to help the small group of students that came

over every Saturday, but Lopata realized that her product could do a lot of good for kids around the country. The “buy one give one” program through Advanced Placemats allows for customers to donate a placemat to a child at the Title 1 school of their choice.

Although Advanced Placement testing has been talked about as an equalizer in education, the gaps in opportunities are beginning to widen in low income areas, according to Lopata. In some cases, the AP program can unknowingly cause inequality due to lack of support in all schools that house College Board curriculum. The result eventually reinforces that status quo: students at well-funded schools do well, students at less well-funded schools struggle.

“If somebody said to me, ‘I could give you whatever you want for this,’ you know what I’d say? I want to meet with the people from the College Board because I want to find out which schools have the support system for AP classes and I’ll send them placemats,” Lopata said. “I really want those inner-city kids, those rural poor kids, to be able to have this product.

Those are the people who are my inspirations.”

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NEWS | TUCSON CELEBRATION

Juneteenth Festival highlights holiday’s history

BY DESIREE GUERRERO @des__guerrero

The 49th annual Tucson Juneteenth festival was celebrated on Saturday, June 15 at the Tucson Convention Center, drawing crowds locally as well as from afar to commemorate the yearly celebration.

Juneteenth is held every year to honor and observe the official emancipation of slavery in the United States on June 19, 1865.

Although President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation had already been in effect since 1863, it wasn’t until two years later that Texas finally announced the abolition of slavery in the state.

Valerie Stanley, Tucson Juneteenth Festival Committee president, explained more about the history of Juneteenth and what it signifies.

“On June 19, 1865, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, General Granger rode into Galvaston, Texas and read the Third General Order, announcing freedom to the last of the enslaved men, women and children. When the news circulated, a spontaneous celebration erupted throughout the slave communities,” Stanley said. “Juneteenth became a freedom day celebration, expressing AfricanAmerican pride, solidarity and cultural tradition.”

The annual festival celebration started in Tucson in the early 1970s by residents that had moved into town from out of state.

“African-American families from Texas and Louisiana who moved to Tucson and into the ‘A’ Mountain neighborhood formed the first official Tucson Juneteenth Festival Committee and the first Juneteenth Festival celebration in 1970,” Stanley said.

The festival was held for the first time at the TCC, since the venue offered more room for vendors, entertainment, exhibits and more. It also offered more space for the larger attendance it had this year.

One exhibit that was featured this year was the “Black History 101 Mobile Museum,” an awardwinning collection that features original historical artifacts and memorabilia.

“Khalid el-Hakim from Detroit, Michigan has collected more than 3,000 artifacts dating from slavery to hip hop,” said Stanley in regards to the mobile museum.

The festival was also an all-ages celebration, inviting families to join in the commemoration.

“My favorite part of the festival were the performances I saw. Everyone was great. There was different performers and speakers, and the ones my family and I saw did an excellent job and were very moving,” said attendee Luis Robles. “My family and I enjoyed it very much and will definitely continue to attend every year.”

Musical acts, history lectures, poetry readings and dance performances were among some of the many showcases of the festival.

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A LOCAL ARTIST DISPLAYS his artwork for community members to enjoy and purchase.

“It’s nice to sit down and really enjoy the music especially. Everyone is so talented and performed wonderfully,” Robles said. “It’s amazing to get to hear and see these really awesome local performers and come together as a community.”

After the celebration at the TCC, the Juneteenth festival after-party was held at Wooden Tooth Records in downtown Tucson, featuring live performances and an art showcase.

The after-party was presented by Black Renaissance, a group that features black artists and creators, led by creator Seanloui Dumas, who performs under the name Seanloui.

“Black Renaissance is an annual event, starting 2020 one full month at a venue downtown,” Dumas wrote to the Daily Wildcat. “It started May 2019; it was made with the intention of highlighting and celebrating Black Creatives in Tucson and Arizona at large.”

Dumas said Black Renaissance was created to help promote local artists while giving them a platform for their creations.

“Black Renaissance(s) goal is to fill the void while inspiring others to do the same thing,” Dumas wrote.

“The Black Renaissance community is amazing and growing! The goal is to keep it growing until every citizen in Tucson has celebrated the Black Artists/ Creatives that reside in this city.”

For more information about the Tucson Juneteenth Festival, visit their website at www.tucsonjuneteenth. org, where you can stay updated on the annual event and get their social media links.

For more about Black Renaissance, go to their website at www.blackrenaissance.online for more information or how you can get involved.

To check out Seanloui’s upcoming performances and appearances, go to his website at www.seanloui. com for more information and social media links.

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A SMALL PART OF the Mobile Museum featuring the present societal issues that still linger from past history.

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A FAMILY FROM THE special guests are invited to stand on stage.

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NEWS | ALTERNATIVE TESTS

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JACKIE JOHNSON, A PROCTOR for the testing center, working at the front desk and answering emails. The testing center for the UA is located at 220 W. 6th St. Building B.

CLEP offers different way to earn course credit

BY MIKAYLA KABER @KaberMikayla

Students can earn college credit through testing with the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) at the University of Arizona Testing Center during and before attending the UA. Students can save thousands of dollars by earning credit through testing at the UA Testing Center instead of taking classes and having to pay for credits. According to Leah Chavez, program director of the Testing Office, one CLEP test is $132, while taking credits on the main campus can cost thousands.

The CLEP test is an online exam that offers a variety of subjects to test in such as Spanish, calculus or even American literature. The list of subjects available is on the Testing Office website. The test is offered through the College Board, who are more widely known for administering the Advanced Placement Test.

The main difference between CLEP and AP, although they can both be used for college credit, is that CLEP is computer-based and taken on one’s own merit, while AP is usually accompanied by a class and is paper-based on a specified date, Chavez said.

According to the College Board website, the AP exam fees total up to $94. For students with financial need, that cost can be reduced to $32. That is significantly less than the CLEP

exam fees.

Nichole Guard, administrative associate for the department of Spanish and Portuguese, emphasized the fact that AP also rewards more credits with higher scores than CLEP does, so there is an opportunity to fulfill more credits at a lower price.

Spanish is the most administered exam at the testing center, according to the supervising receptionist Steven Shaeffer.

“The most important thing to remember about the CLEP exam is their eligibility for CLEP,” Guard said. “They have to have absolutely no college credit for Spanish.”

In order to be eligible, students must not have earned any other college credit or they will not be able to take the exam.

Both Shaeffer and Chavez spoke about how the testing environment for the CLEP is less intimidating than AP testing because of the fewer people in the room and the cubicle of space for students.

This allows students to stay focused and engaged without an enormous amount of pressure on an already stressful experience.

Since there are alternative tests to fulfill credits at a lower price, there are options for students to save money and get credit without having to take classes at the UA. Each student has their own individual path and they have the chance to choose what works best for them.

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ARTS & LIFE | MOVIE REVIEW

The illusory world of ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ The Chinese blockbuster made its Tucson premiere on June 7, showing why its reputation as perfect arthouse cinema is well-earned

BY CLAUDE AKINS @ claude_akins

Hongwu Luo is a man haunted by loss.

The plot of “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” which only shares a title with American playwright Eugene O’Neill’s masterwork, is threadbare: a man, Luo, searches for a lost woman of his past from his hometown of Kaili. In the process, he reflects on the death of his father, contemplates the death of a childhood friend named Wildcat and meets and becomes intertwined with a mysterious woman named Kaizhen — is she the one he is searching for?

As if in reaction to this loss, the film is characterized by slow pans and long shots.

This is not a quick film: it makes room for each scene, each character, each table cloth and each clinking of the glass. In one flashback scene, Luo eats an entire apple, with tears in his eyes, the camera never moving.

The characters themselves wander through

this empty space, continually pushed farther back in the shot or off to the side or else some fragment of their body is highlighted.

Combined with this are endless reflections in buildings, puddles and mirrors; together with the amorphous plot, what is created is an uncanny atmosphere full of shifting surfaces on unstable ground.

At the root of this illusory world is the exurban decay of Kaili.

In one particularly illuminating moment, Luo is peeping through the breasts of a cardboard cutout of a woman into the woods (a scene which, like so many others, is unexplained), turns and is suddenly in front of a mural that likely dates back to the Cultural Revolution: smiling young Chinese people in uniform, working hard and in unison. On one hand, present day, capitalist China juxtaposed by the Communist past. The spectre of the past is alive, ever-present, disorienting the ground upon which we stand.

Immediately succeeding this is the 90-minute-long tracking shot for which the

film is famous. How did Luo arrive at this point? He fell asleep in a movie theater, woke up and followed a passageway into a cave (which may be the best description for the feeling of watching this movie.)

At this point in the film, Luo is immersed in the “night,” an altered reality, and his journey to find a woman from his past is momentarily superseded by the experience of the dreamworld. It is hard not to read this, as noted in the Roger Ebert review by Simon Abrams, as an analogy for how we use cinema to make sense of the world around us, and as art in general as a (potentially) liberating force.

Why does a 2019 Chinese film take its name from a mid-century American play despite sharing no structural similarities? This is a surface-level equivalency perhaps, but all the more important, the way worlds seem to overlap with one another with such ease not only within the movie but in our lives.

In a world that is ever-shifting by forces beyond our control and permeated by a

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WEI TANG RIGHT AND YONGZHONG Chen in a scene from Long Day’s Journey Into Night.

deep sense of loss — de-urbanization, deindustrialization and melting polar ice caps, to name only a few — “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” should be regarded as “foreign” to an American audience at our own peril.

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assistants leavinG to marry, study abroad & for medical school. Part-time positions available working for educated arthritic woman. Close to campus. Excellent healthcare experience. Tasks include: assistance with daily routine, medical appointments, procedures and exercise. Various shifts available including some afternoons, evenings and weekends.

Looking for intelligent, energetic person. Call in the afternoons: Emma at (520) 867‑6679. swim GiRl neeDeD to assist woman disabled with arthritis. Re‑ quirements: physical flexibility, good memory, and ability to work well with other assistants. Will be trained by existing personnel. Car preferred. Close to campus. You do not need to get in the water.

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ReseRve now summeR/fall University Arms 1 bdrm furnished apartments. Yearly $635/mo; 9 mo. lease $695/mo. Wifi included. units available mid‑June to late‑ August, limited availability. Special summer‑only rates June and July $475/mo. 1515 E. 10th St. 623‑ 0474. www.ashtongoodman.com stuDio aPaRtment, unfuR‑ nisHeD. Miramonte, 5th St. & Country Club. $525/mo, pay gas + electric, wifi included. 3122 E. Terra Alta. 623‑0474. www.ashtongoodman.com walkinG DistanCe: avail‑ aBle August. 2 bedroom, 1 bath, evaporative cooling, 760 sq.ft. All utilities and wifi paid, $850/mo, deposit, lease, 520‑370‑8588

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3 BeD/3 BatH Large yard, Free parking, W/D, AC. Call 520‑398‑ 5738 4 BeDRoom 2 Bath Modern home next to campus. Located at 1647 E. Lester St. New granite countertops in kitchen. Stainless steel appliances. Tile floors. Oversized bedrooms and closets.

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‘74 mBG RoaDsteR Newer Green exterior paint, honey‑tan in‑ terior, soft top & head rests, 3 point seat belts, modern radio – Drives & Handles GREAT. Asking $10,950 ‑ Call Lou: 520‑240‑4818 for details, to view and drive.

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At Sahara, enjoy the privacy of your own studio apartment for a lot less than a single occupancy room at the residence halls, or sharing an apartment at one of the high rise buldings with people whose lifestyles may not be compatible with yours

• Furnished studio apartments with ALL utilities included • Swimming pool • Whirlpool • Poolside barbeque • Exercise room • Socializing lounge • Game room, with pool table, air hockey, foosball & ping pong • Study room with computers, Wi-Fi and laser printer • Movie theater with 24 seats and 102 inch screen and satellite TV • Game consoles you can play on 102” movie screen

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