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Hands on teaching outside the classroom

BY Rofida Khairalla

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The UA teaches hands-on lessons outside the traditional classroom setting to better prepare graduates for the competitive job market through its 100% Engagement Initiative.

The program provides students with the opportunity to exercise the skills and techniques learned at the university in real-life settings.

“What we’re looking for is to apply learning to real challenges and reflect on those real challenges,” said Vincent Del Casino, the vice provost for Digital Learning and Student Engagement. “This is not just showing up; this is actively engaging in big questions and problem solving and taking up the really interesting and important questions of the day.”

The 100% Engagement Initiative provides professional experiences that will be officially noted on students’ transcripts.

To acquire this notation, students will participate in either an upper division course with Engagement Activities embedded, or a noncredit experience, such as internships, study abroad or research experience.

“Engagement is a goal set out by the university to ensure that all staff and faculty are helping students be ready for whatever comes postgraduation," said Rachael Ronald, the director of Student Engagement and Academic Advising for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

"But there’s also engaging, which is helping the students obtain experience in disciplines and in their fields to help them launch careers or prepare for grad school.”

The initiative seeks to provide undergraduate students with the opportunity to have hands-on

experience during their college careers.

Experiences are comprised of Engagement Activities, such as leadership, community partnership and creative expression, and Engagement Competencies, which include innovation and creativity, professionalism and sustainability.

“The [Engagement] Activities that are forcredit are coming out of the academic colleges,” Del Casino said. “They are also coming out of non-credit experiences, which could come from a wide variety of places across campus, including the academic colleges.”

Among those locations is the Arizona Blue Chip Program. According to Jessica Hill, the associate director for Leadership Programs, UA Leadership Programs staff members serve on a leadership team for 100% Engagement. As part of a working group that seeks to understand how the UA will be impacted by this initiative, Hill wrote a non-credit engagement proposal for the Blue Chip Leadership Experience.

By providing students with skills and experiences, Blue Chip aims to create student leaders that positively impact their communities.

This goal echoes some of the competencies and skills the Engagement Initiative seeks to enhance within students.

According to Hill, during the fourth year of the program students participate in an applied learning component called the Meridian Project.

The project requires that students work with a community organization, such as Tucson Village Farms and Girl Scouts.

According to Hill, some of the proposed noncredit Engagement Activies will allow students to choose competencies they feel best fits their activity, while others will be predetermined.

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A committee of UA faculty, staff and students will evaluate proposals for non-credit experiences to ensure activities lend plenty of opportunities in which students can apply learned concepts to real-world settings.

“When we create a system where we really verify and authenticate that, through these activities, students have really learned these competencies [and] are really understanding the

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UA club swims away with 5th place

BY David McGlothlin

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An unlikely team from the UA placed in the top five at last week’s 18th annual International RoboSub Competition in a David versus Goliath-type fashion.

The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle - University of Arizona is a small student club recognized by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona that battled it out against the elite robotics and aquatic schools from around the world. The AUVUA was outnumbered and out-funded compared to the other teams, but found a way to pull off a surprising top-five finish for a $1,000 prize and a place among the international crème de la crème.

“Some of the other competitors in this, for example Cornell [University], who has won the last three years, has an annual budget of $100,000 and more than 40 members,” said Jacob Gold, a mechanical engineering junior and first-year team member responsible for constructing the vehicle known as Danger ‘Zona.

“A lot of it was unique design, software and luck on our part… Teams that should have crushed us had either mechanical or technical problems,” he added.

This year 37 teams from universities around the world such as the National University of Singapore and École de technologie supérieure of Montreal, gathered in the SSC Pacific TRANSDEC pool at the Point Loma military base in San Diego, Calif., for the competition co-hosted by the U.S. Navy.

Industry leaders and big-name sponsors gathered to scout the

best talent and creative minds in constructing a fully autonomous underwater vehicle that can maneuver itself, perform tasks and make decisions entirely on its own while underwater. Each team races to complete a underwater obstacle course with the best time, fewest mistakes and best score.

“The general consensus was there was a 15 percent chance [going into the semi-final run] that it would do what we wanted it to do,” Gold said.

“However, we were all cautiously optimistic going into the finals.”

The team is comprised of eight members from the UA, a UA adviser, two advisers in Phoenix and a collection of community sponsors and donors that funded the project.

The club started in the fall of 2012 with the goal of competing in the RoboSub competition every year.

Since the first competition, the team improved in all aspects of design and engineering including mechanical, electrical and software.

Previously, the team’s best finish was in 2014 at 12th place with the completion of all navigational objectives. This year going into the first day of competition, the team had yet to test their vehicle underwater.

“The propellers were not working until two days before the competition,” Gold said.

The first day, Danger ‘Zona's capabilities consisted of submerging the vehicle three meters and going straight toward a fixed heading.

“We were basically shooting darts,” Gold said.

As time went on their capabilities increased, and they were able to

attempt all tasks.

Luckily the hotel where the 400-plus engineers congregated for the week allowed teams to test vehicles in the hotel pool between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.

The team spent many all-nighters perfecting their vehicle in their hotel room, which they turned into a makeshift workshop by positioning the hotel room table in between the two beds.

The Danger ‘Zona cost a total of $3,500 to build. A majority of the funding came from club president Kevin Forbes, who supplements the bills with paychecks from his full-time job while pursuing his graduate degree in computer science. Forbes’ two bosses and Gold’s father also helped by donating money.

Equipment used in the design includes two GoPros that stream realtime visuals, three separate computers each performing different functions, thrusters, propellers and a borrowed Doppler Velocity Log, which cost $16,000.

The AUVUA has partnered with Fredi Lajvardi from Carl Hayden High School’s robotics team in Phoenix since 2012. In exchange for borrowing the DVL for the competition, the team builds the DVL enclosure and helps students in Phoenix with programming. The DVL is crucial in the vehicle’s ability to navigate through the objectives and acts like an underwater GPS. Gold added that the university “didn’t give us a single cent,” which makes competing against teams with a $100,000 annual budget and a single piece of equipment worth three times more than AUVUA’s vehicle a daunting task.

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Danger ‘Zona is moved by a diver during the 18th Annual International RoboSub Competition in San Diego, Calif. The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle - University of Arizona team took five weeks to construct the vehicle; design began fall 2014.

Despite being cheap, and built from scratch just five weeks before the first day of the competition, the Danger ‘Zona scored well in the competition.

The competition was divided into three sections: qualifying rounds, semi-finals and the finals. The course consisted of 13 objectives varying from passing underwater gates to navigating color-coded buoys in order, among other underwater tasks, which are scored by judges based on time and execution.

During the qualifying rounds, the teams had 20 minutes to complete seven main tasks and pass six markers in the pool as quickly as possible, but the final time was the only score that counted.

“We were able to get several [objectives] done in the time it would take other teams to do one,” said Gold. “We completed six of 13 objectives in about [three minutes and thirty seconds].”

In addition to its speedy score, the club was the only vehicle to perform a barrel roll through an underwater gate, which scored major style points and

helped advance the team to the finals.

This year, the design primarily consisted of plastic instead of aluminum, the design-base for the previous year's model. Plastic is closer to the density of water—providing more stable balance while submerged.

Gold noted this design would be expanded upon for the next two years instead of starting over from scratch like the team has done in the past.

Moving forward, Forbes said the goal is to get the university more involved.

“This is what we can do with $3,500; just imagine what we can do with say $10,000,” Gold added.

Forbes said the team is always looking for new software, mechanical and electrical engineers. He said it’s a great opportunity to apply what you learn and rub elbows with some of the biggest names in the business, like the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Foundation, SOLIDWORKS, MathWorks, SpaceX, U.S. Navy and Blue Robotics.

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'Best college value' rankings hurt AZ universities

BY Matthew Rein

Arizona Summer Wildcat

Each year new college rankings flood the Internet. Recently Time’s Money magazine released its annual rankings for best value colleges in the United States.

The rankings, according to Money, were based on a combination of factors like affordability, educational quality, and alumni earnings. These factors culminate in determining the best value for one’s educational dollar.

Out of the 736 schools that were ranked, the UA was listed at No. 147, one behind Cal State Fresno, and Lawrence University.

This ranks the UA in the top 20 percent of all universities listed. Other in-state universities did not do as well, with ASU at No. 354 and

NAU at No. 562.

Last academic year, all three in-state universities had better rankings. One factor may be the decision by Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona Legislature to approve $100 million in education cuts to in-state universities.

Money does not explicitly state whether the budget cuts were a direct result of the drop in the rankings for the UA. Even though the UA dropped on Money’s list, the Center for World University Rankings lists the UA as the 68th best university in the world, which is two spots better than its 2014 ranking.

In a press release by UANews, UA president Ann Weaver Hart stated, “The University of Arizona does very well in international rankings thanks to the productivity and achievements of our faculty and the

employability of our graduates.”

Like Money, the CWUR bases its rankings on various factors ranging from quality of education to how often the university was cited in research papers.

Tamara Statman, a political science freshman, believes many students use college rankings to determine where they want to go.

“Students want to be able to compare schools and see how they stack up against one another,” she said.

Students are not limited when it comes to comparing rankings produced by magazines and websites such as US News & World Report, Money, CWUR, Forbes, The Princeton Review and more.

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Rankings: CWUR Rankings for AZ public schools in 2014/2015: UA: 70/68 ASU: 106/97 NAU 783/766 Money Rankings for AZ public schools in 2014/2015: UA: 99/147 ASU: 214/354 NAU: 562/625

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No avoiding Tucson's monsoon season

BY Rofida Khairalla

Arizona Summer Wildcat

Arizona’s monsoon season is known for bringing fantastic displays of lightning coupled with terrifying thunderstorms, sudden gusts of wind and occasional flooding of roadways and washes.

Behind these giant seasonal rain clouds are many moving components that power the storm cell starting at its origin often hundreds of miles away.

“Monsoon means the seasonal change of wind direction,” said Xubin Zeng, a UA professor of atmospheric sciences and the Agnese Nelms Haury chair in Environment and Social Justice.

Known as the North American Monsoon, the event occurs annually during the months of July through September. Pulling water vapor from the Gulf of California and the Gulf of Mexico, the monsoon’s circulation begins in Central America and moves north toward the American Southwest.

According to Zeng there are several circumstances that bring about a monsoon.

“There are three primary factors,” he said. “One is the temperature horizontal gradient, or the horizontal difference in temperature, between the ocean and the continent.”

This difference in temperature creates systems of high and low pressure.

“Then there must be deep convection, or heavy

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A car drives through several inches of water accumulated on Tyndall Avenue outside of Coronado and Arizona-Sonora Residence Halls on Tuesday, July 28. The lack of proper sewage systems throughout campus streets frequently causes flooding at intersections.

precipitation. That’s the only way the monsoon can move inland far away from the coast,” he added.

The final factor is the Earth’s rotation, which is related to the overall pattern of circulation in the atmosphere.

While these factors are not commonly observed with the naked eye, the side effects of monsoons can be seen throughout the city with heavy amounts of flooding in the streets.

“The university campus is right in the in the middle of the older part of Tucson,” said Herbert Wagner, the director of Occupational and Environment Health & Safety for the UA. “There

were no sewer systems put in, so the city streets were basically the water conveyance for storm water.”

Tucson city streets were originally designed to fill with water that would then be transferred to washes, causing the flooding.

Even for technologies such as the Sun Link Tucson Modern Streetcar, designed to work in areas around the UA campus and downtown, flooding can be potentially hazardous.

“If the water gets high enough to where we can’t see the switches of the track, then we suspend the service until the water subsides,” said Steve Bethel,

the streetcar’s general manager.

Yet, despite the impact Tucsonans may feel the monsoon season has upon their lives, residents often experience a yearly fluctuation in rainfall.

Since the state is far away from an ocean, rainfall can change substantially from year to year because Southern Arizona is not the core region of storm activity, Zeng noted.

The North American Monsoon is neither the strongest nor most well known. Other summer monsoons play a key role in the livelihood of many people who live in regions such as India and Southeast Asia.

A lack of rainfall can have dramatic impacts for these countries, since many rely on summer monsoons for both local industry and agriculture.

However, too much rain or storm activity in such regions can also lead to significant damages, including loss of life and damage to public and private property.

When it comes to safety, no one is exempt.

“When the monsoon comes, there’s always the problem of potential lightning strikes,” Wagner said. “Getting indoors, getting where it’s dry and safe, pulling over if you’re driving and delaying your trip [are] the best [things] you can do.”

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UA awarded for role in AZ economy

BY Samuel Gross

Arizona Summer Wildcat

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities recognized the University of Arizona as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity University on June 24. Only awarded to 18 universities, the designation was given to recognize the universities’ commitment to economic engagement in their respective regions.

Given by the APLU’s Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness, and Economic Prosperity, each applicant was judged on a number of categories, including innovation, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, talent and workforce development, and community development.

“As a land grant university, historically, so much emphasis has been put on agriculture and the mechanical arts,” said Sherry Hoskinson, director of Wheelhouse Arizona and author of the designation’s application. “In today’s economic and social environment, it is important to acknowledge that there are other dimensions that are just as important.”

Initiatives such as the UA’s Never Settle strategic plan, Tech Launch Arizona and the recent merger between the University Medical Center and Banner Health have helped further insert the UA into Arizona's economy.

According to Hoskinson, these and many other elements were crucial to the UA’s application.

The comprehensive “self-evaluating” application process was essentially an introspective look at the UA’s economic engine. Instead of solely submitting an argument as to why the university deserved the designation, strengths were improved upon and weaknesses were found and fixed—a process that took a year of ongoing collaboration with the APLU, CICEP

and other universities that were working to earn the same designation.

Surveying was the largest mode of self-evaluation during the year-long process. Internal and external groups associated with the university were asked questions regarding the university’s effect on Arizona’s economy.

Respondents were asked their opinion regarding the university’s role in bolstering the state’s economy, if they felt that the UA helped enhance the regional economy and if the university was meeting its full potential.

The designation itself even came with remarks and feedback on areas that needed improvement.

After earning the designation, the UA will have to submit a five-year progress report on the changes made in response to the feedback. Then, after ten years, the application and evaluation process begins again, and the UA’s status as an Innovation and Economic Prosperity university will be revisited.

According to Hoskinson, the UA is among an elite few of applicants who made the cut.

“The 18 institutions in the 2015 class of Innovation & Economic Prosperity Universities serve as wonderful models of how public research universities extend beyond their campuses to engage their communities in economic development that create jobs and improve lives,” stated APLU President Peter McPherson in a June press release.

For students, this designation, and more specifically the programs for which the designation was given, are affirmations that the UA is doing its part to create jobs in Arizona.

Joey Iuliano, a geography graduate student, believes that the designation is well deserved. “It shows that we are supporting our students post-graduation by attracting businesses that can provide good careers,” he said.

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Sherry Hoskinson, Director of Wheelhouse Arizona and author of the designation’s application.

Initiatives like the UA Tech Park are helping to attract corporations by offering them partnerships with various departments and research labs at the school.

These partnerships create avenues and opportunities for recent graduates to find local jobs.

“You don’t have to leave; we have the jobs you need in your area,” Iuliano said. “You can go and work in aerospace, you can go and work in computer engineering. These jobs are here and they are developing.”

For more information on the university’s economic initiatives, visit the Tech Launch Arizona’s website at techlaunch.arizona.edu.

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Pac-12 media day in the books

BY Ezra Amacher

Arizona Summer Wildcat

If Arizona football head coach Rich Rodriguez took slight to the Wildcats being picked by the media to finish fourth in the Pac-12 Conference South, he sure didn’t show it at the conference’s football media days last week.

“Fourth?” asked Rodriguez to reporters.

“You know, is that where we were picked last year?”

Indeed, the media slotted Arizona to the same spot last season, only to be proven wrong when the UA went on to win the Pac12 South title.

That was with a freshman quarterback and running back leading the offense.

Now that Rodriguez’s team has returning playmakers at the two most important skill positions as well as an All-American linebacker in Scooby Wright III, general theory suggests that Arizona will continue its upward climb.

“I’ve been in situations where we’ve been the league favorite to win in situations like last year or this year where nobody would predict you’d win,” Rodriguez said. “But if it motivates your guys to run an extra sprint on their own or something, maybe it will be good.”

Coinage aside, Rodriguez and most everyone at the Pac-12 Conference media days understood why Arizona is not expected to repeat as South champions: the division is just too strong.

USC returns a Heisman hopeful quarterback of its own. UCLA is loaded with experienced players at nearly every position except quarterback. And ASU enters the year with a much deeper defense.

Even Utah looks poised to make headway with a healthy quarterback and a strong defense.

“I think the Pac-12 South is probably going to be better this year than it’s ever been,” Rodriguez said. “I think there are always some arguments about which league is the best, which division is the best, and that’s good for debate. I don’t worry about it.”

Rodriguez, understandably, has bigger issues to worry about, mainly ensuring that Arizona doesn’t face a steep drop off at any position.

“It starts with the guys up front on our o-line, both tackles on defense and at the safety position,” Rodriguez said. “You’re losing three guys of your secondaries that have been multi-year starters. So you can put some talent in there, but the experience part of it is going to be new.”

The young offensive line, which took

a blow when Jordan Poland was arrested and kicked off the team last month, will be bolstered by the presence of Freddie Tagaloa.

The Cal transfer, who redshirted last season, will be asked to carry the load up front for a line that needs to stay healthy and sharp.

That’s a lot to ask of a guy who hasn’t yet played a down in Arizona uniform, but Rodriguez boasted with pride talking about the 6-foot-8 addition from Richmond, Calif.

“Freddie will be the first guy off the bus,” Rodriguez said. “He can do, like, Incredible Hulk commercials. He’s a mountain of a man who loves football.”

Rodriguez also expressed confidence in discussing the progress of Anu Solomon, the man Tagaloa will be asked to protect.

After an up-and-down freshman year that ended with a poor Fiesta Bowl showing, Rodriguez said Solomon took a leap this past spring.

“He was a little bigger, little faster, little stronger,” Rodriguez said. “He’s worked extremely hard in the off-season, and it’s important to him.”

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Arizona safety Will Parks (11) catches the ball during warm-ups before Arizona's 58-13 win against UNLV at Arizona Stadium on Aug. 29, 2014.

Arizona football's future shines brightly

BY Ezra Amacher Arizona Summer Wildcat

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ahen Hawaiian offensive guard Michael Eletise committed to Arizona last week, the four-star recruit chose the Wildcats over a host of West Coast programs including Washington, UCLA and ASU. Eletise, who is regarded as the best offensive guard prospect on the West Coast, even had offers from college football bluebloods such as Alabama, Texas and LSU. The fact Eletise chose to commit to the UA over all those other schools is a testament to the burgeoning stature of head coach Rich Rodriguez’s program.

While Arizona is not yet a top destination for elite high school recruits

across the country, the Wildcats’ recent success both on the field and the recruiting trail are putting the UA on the track to greater relevancy.

Big wins on the gridiron translated into another kind of winning streak this past month, when Arizona landed nine commits in a week and a half span.

In addition to Eletise, Arizona recently landed another four-star recruit, defensive end Josh Allen of Long Beach City College. Allen’s Long Beach teammate, safety London Iakopo, joined the club a couple days later.

Including Allen and Iakopo, 11 of Arizona’s 17 commits for the 2016 class are from the state of California.

Interestingly, just one is from in-state: Salpointe Catholic High School’s Justin Holt.

Arizona has clearly placed a big stake in California, and for good reason given the Golden State’s ability to produce gilded athletes.

But to conclude that the UA has taken the leap into the next echelon of college football programs, you’d have to look at Arizona’s appeal outside the West Coast hotbed.

Right now, it looks like Rodriguez’s Hard Edge brand is still catching on in other regions, where the coaching staff spends decidedly less energy pursuing recruits.

Only three of Arizona’s 2016 commits hail from the East—one each from Arkansas, Georgia and Pennsylvania—and none of them were considered highly touted guys when they made their decision.

Rodriguez and his staff did strike it rich in Louisiana last year, which serves as the home to five commits in the 2015 class. But that Cajun bunch, too, was generally looked upon as minnows to the sharks of the SEC. Whether Arizona can broaden its appeal to top recruits both in and outside the West Coast will all depend on whether the UA can maintain its

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Head coach Rich Rodriguez motions to his team during warm-ups before Arizona's 58-13 win against UNLV at Arizona Stadium on Aug. 29, 2014.

status as a national contender.

To do that, the UA will need its talent to be to the caliber of other top programs. That is why this next recruiting class, currently ranked as high as No. 18 in the country according to rivals.com, needs to be a big one.

A highly ranked recruiting class

doesn’t always lead to a finerperforming football program, but talent is a commodity, and the Wildcats are doing a better job of attracting some of the better talent they can get their claws on.

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Summer league A dozen years of dominance

BY JUSTIN SPEARS

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he basketball culture in Tucson begins and ends with the Arizona Wildcats ever since Hall of Fame head coach Lute Olson took the reins in 1983. For former Arizona standout Corey Williams, the summer period is a chance to showcase the cream-of-the-crop talent that pumps through the city in the Tucson Summer Pro League.

Williams was a part of Arizona’s second Final Four appearance and two conference championships. Williams even played among household Wildcats such as Damon Stoudamire, Khalid Reeves, Reggie Geary and Joseph Blair.

Jokingly, Williams explained his dominance amongst the fraternity of what is Arizona basketball.

“I still have the highest 3-point percentage in Final Four history at Arizona,” Williams said.

Williams spent four years in the Old Pueblo and maintained a winning tradition at Arizona.

After spending a dozen years playing professional basketball overseas, Williams founded the Tucson Summer Pro League with co-founder Carl Graham in the summer of 2004.

Williams eventually ventured into the television broadcasting business in 2009 and hasn’t looked back since.

When Williams is not color commentating for ESPN or providing in-depth analysis for Pac-12 Conference networks during college basketball season, he spends his summer weekends organizing and promoting the Tucson Summer Pro League.

In a radio show interview in June, Williams explained his reasoning for starting an official

NCAA-certified summer league.

“It was more out of frustration really," Williams said. "Look at all of the summer leagues around the country, like Drew League. It was started for college kids to come home over the summer and work on their game. It’s even great for the kids to come out and watch, because they get to see some of the big faces coming out of [the UA] every now and then.”

Former Wildcats like Jordan Hill, Richard Jefferson, Hassan Adams, Steve Kerr, Kevin Parrom and Mark Lyons have all made appearances.

Even though the league is NCAA certified, that doesn’t mean it’s strictly for current studentathletes. For Kansas Wesleyan University sharpshooter Matt Dickman, it was an extension of playing basketball at the highest level and showcasing his range from beyond the arc.

Dickman last played for the Coyotes in 2011.

In an interview in June, Dickman revealed to have taken his talents from playing to coaching.

“I coach now and I play for fun. I’ve always been able to shoot the ball from that far,” Dickman said. “Last year I really didn’t have that kind of role, so I took over that role this year.”

Even players such as local legend Donte Williams have been playing for the TSPL since it was first running. Williams even “retired” for the first half of the 2014 season and came out of retirement to finish the summer and compete in this season’s Pro League.

Kyrie Irving’s Sprite commercial featuring himself in an old man costume going out to the blacktop to buckle the ankles of rising stars is the same vibe Williams gives off when playing considering his long tenure at the TSPL. The Tucson Summer Pro League has consistent players that compete every year, which is why local businesses sponsor teams. Casino Del Sol Resort, McFadden/Gavender Advertising, Ace Hardware and Truly Nolen are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the teams in the

TSPL. Dickman led his respected Truly Nolen squad to a 100-93 victory over Asarco during the TSPL Championship.

Truly Nolen manager Randall Hartman even did his best impersonation of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on the court, high-fiving the players and holding up the trophy with the newly crowned champions Sunday.

TSPL co-founder Carl Graham is arguably the hardest working man at the Tucson Summer Pro League beside Williams.

Graham is a major contributor to the TSPL. He coaches the men’s league as well as the kids league and applies his cheerful spirit and knowledge to teach kids the fundamentals of basketball. The kids league has been a part of TSPL for three years, and it’s been a success according to Graham.

“It’s a blessing. Especially to see these kids learn and their confidence build up,” Graham said. “These guys have never practiced together, and they come out here looking like they played together all summer. It’s just awesome.”

The 2015 Tucson Summer Pro League season came to a conclusion Sunday, Aug. 2, after an afternoon of basketball festivities including a 3-point shootout, TSPL All-Star game, TSPL kids championship, slam dunk contest and the championship game. If dozens of 3-pointers and highlight windmill dunks that even get ESPN Tucson’s Zach Clark out of his seat don’t count as a grand finale, then Williams has more in store for years to come.

“It was a great year. We’re going to split the league in half and make it both Phoenix and Tucson next year,” Williams said.

Another year is in the books for the Tucson Summer Pro League, and as long as Williams and Graham are in charge, Tucson will always be a summer gem right in the heart of Arizona.

— Follow Justin Spears @JustinESports

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TUCSON SUMMER PRO LEAGUE founder and league operator Corey Williams claps for the kids Texas Roadhouse team after winning the Tucson Summer Pro League Championship for Kids 45-25 against the Watson Chevrolet team at the Gregory School on Sunday, Aug. 2. Williams, a UA basketball alumnus, founded the NCAA-sanctioned league in 2004.

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ELIJAH WILLIAMS (8) of team Texas Roadhouse tries to shoot past Logan Seantlin (5) in its 45-25 victory over team Watson Chevrolet during the Tucson Summer Pro League Championship for Kids at the Gregory School on Sunday, Aug. 2. The kids league is on its third season in the Tucson Summer Pro League.

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Academic pressure impacts mental health

BY Nick Havey Arizona Summer Wildcat

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y high school graduation quote, handpicked by a talented friend of mine, comes from a widely read children’s story: “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.”

While the wise words of Dr. Seuss feel safe and comforting, the pressures of parents, schools and society placed upon highachieving students wreak havoc on the mental health of college students, and current resources simply aren’t enough.

I wasn’t scared to start college.

I’d always been a high achiever and was lumped in with some 200 other high achievers; we were complicit, putting on a happy face even though we were tired from our jobs, our six Advanced Placement classes, cross country practice and, of course, volunteering. We were ready to excel in college and to

continue putting up the front that everything was all right, even when it wasn’t.

Referred to at the University of Pennsylvania as “Penn Face” and at Stanford as the Duck Syndrome—wherein a duck looks like it is drifting smoothly across the water, but underneath the surface it paddles nonstop— burnout, mental struggle and exhaustion are ubiquitous in college.

The Jan. 2014 death of University of Pennsylvania student Madison Holleran didn’t shock or confuse me. Even finding out that Holleran was the third of six Penn students to commit suicide in 13 months didn’t shock me.

The way I found out was ironic: a high school friend who attended Penn, and had recently confessed to me that he was taking a leave of absence for mental health, sent me the ESPN article about it.

(Holleran was a student athlete.) I was just thankful the article wasn’t about him.

Maybe it was foreshadowing or just an indication of a larger trend, but a few months after that another highschool friend of ours was found dead of apparent suicide. I remember finding out around midterms, being incredibly exhausted from studying and just sobbing

uncontrollably. The friend who died was the same kid who helped me when I was struggling in our AP Calculus class; he was incredible, brilliant, hard-working, overly involved and popular—just like Holleran.

Nationally, the suicide rate among 15 to 24-year-olds has steadily increased since 2007: from 9.6 deaths per 100,000 to 11.1 in 2013. Active Minds, a mental health organization with over 400 chapters on campuses nationwide, estimates there are approximately 1,100 college student suicides each year.

Struggling with depression and other mental health issues is not an uncommon situation for college students. Another friend from high school, Hannah, was an all-star headed to Columbia University. Hannah experienced similar and overwhelming pressure while at Columbia and took a leave of absence.

“While I was experiencing depression at Columbia, instead of the school offering help, they

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pressured me to take time off by putting me on disciplinary probation and kicking me out of housing,” she explained. “I felt like they only saw me as a liability, exacerbating my problems.”

Hannah is one of many who believe that mental health care needs to be more accessible to students.

“Destigmatizing mental problems and eliminating the shame factor in having a problem is crucial,” she said.

“So many people refuse to seek help because it is viewed as a weakness.”

Kathryn DeWitt chronicled her own struggle with suicidal thoughts and depression at Penn in a blog post.

“It’s hard to overcome this Penn attitude that I am slacking off by taking a semester off, that I should just push through it to get better, or that I am running away in weakness,” Dewitt writes. Her own experiences echo Hannah’s and point to the damaging effect of social media on already fragile students.

The careful curation of an Instagram or Facebook profile is the hallmark of the student who

Struggling with depression and other mental health issues is not an uncommon situation for college students."

has their stuff together. Posting beautiful filtered selfies as the sun sets and you leave the library only to be followed by the perfect picture of you and the gang at a party later that evening sets a tone of effortless excellence.

Students like Holleran and DeWitt, while wildly impressive, simply compare, despair and fall further into the trap of depression.

It’s clear that the mental health resources are lacking in this country, in particular at colleges.

When someone expresses suicidal thoughts, depression or other mental health concerns— to their RA, their counselor, their professor, whoever— they are either put on suicide watch, with the cops called and hospitalization likely, or sent to Counseling and Psych Services where they’ll meet a triage person who will briefly listen, record and send them on their way.

Destigmatization of mental health issues and compassionate healthcare are necessary for the health of students. If you fear you are going to be a disappointment or failure because of a low test score or a shorter resume than a classmate, know that you aren’t alone.

— Follow Nick Havey @NiHavey

Safety over rights when encountering police

BY Tanner Jean-Louis Arizona Summer Wildcat

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s early as elementary school, we are taught what is great aabout America. Usually, freedom and our constitutional rights are highlighted.

We are taught that our rights are our most valuable possessions, that generations of American soldiers have fought and died for them. Being proud of our rights and being willing to defend them is embedded within

the American identity.

Still, even if most of us know that we have these rights, it can be difficult to understand how they work.

Unless you’re a lawyer, you’re probably not an expert.

When citizens interact with law enforcement, these rights appear ambiguous in the face of a steep power disparity.

Although we know we have certain rights, such as the right to remain silent, to be protected from unlawful search and seizure, to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, to not be profiled, we also know the man or woman with the badge and the gun has a certain authority over us.

We may assume that we have to comply with every instruction or request by a police officer. This assumption often leads guilty people to self-incriminate, or allow police to search and seize when they didn’t have to. Innocent people who comply often feel violated, profiled and powerless.

There are those who know (or think they know) their legal rights well and choose to exercise them to the fullest. YouTube is full of videos showing people—mostly young, white men—challenging an officer’s every request, swearing at the police, blasting their music during traffic stops and citing the Bill of Rights off the top of their head.

There is a popular YouTube channel of a white, non-Hispanic guy who spends his free time intentionally driving to border patrol checkpoints, just to film himself being a pain in the ass. Some people even like to flip off passing cops simply to flex their First Amendment rights.

Nevertheless, many parents teach their kids to put their rights and pride aside while dealing with the police. For many families of color, “the talk” is not about the birds and the bees, but rather about making sure their children make it home safely after an interaction with the police. If you’re a person of color, it is likely you have heard some version

of this conversation described by Jeannine Amber in TIME magazine: “If you are stopped by a cop, do what he says, even if he’s harassing you, even if you didn’t do anything wrong. Let him arrest you, memorize his badge number, and call me as soon as you get to the precinct. Keep your hands where he can see them.

Do not reach for your wallet. Do not grab your phone. Do not raise your voice. Do not talk back. Do you understand me?”

This is a difficult conversation for many reasons. No parent wants their child to feel their rights are less important because of the color of

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Breakthrough Listen intensifies search for alien life

BY GREG CASTRO Arizona Summer Wildcat

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n July 20, when billionaire Yuri Milner ’s The Breakthrough Listen project went live, the broadest search for alien life in human history began, giving special relevance to the oft-quoted Arthur C. Clarke gem: “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

Using two of the world’s largest telescopes, the new project hopes to detect radio signals in the heart of the galaxy that would indicate advanced civilizations. The center of the galaxy, dense with stars, is thought by many scientists to be the most likely region in which life could evolve.

Stephen Hawking is serving as an adviser on the project, his interest in the search for intelligent life elsewhere already well known. At the launch of the new initiative, Hawking was quoted as saying, “… there is no bigger question. It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to

search for life beyond Earth. We must know.”

Hawking’s sentiment echoes the Clarke quotation, both brilliant men noting that to finally answer this age-old question would fundamentally alter how human beings perceive their own existence. Does the Earth-centric, often religiously tinged view hold? Is the universe actually part of an intricate design, all with the final endgame of producing the human race?

Or, like an H.P. Lovecraft story, are humans a galactic accident, nothing more than fleas on the back of an unknowable, terrifying cosmos? Indeed, either discovery could herald the dawn of a new era, or the collapse of organized society.

I once asked a devout friend of mine if the theoretical future discovery of intelligent alien life would affect her faith at all. Much to my surprise, she admitted that such a revelation would cause her to “seriously question” her religion.

In many ways, discovering intelligent alien life would function as the “answer” to existence that we’ve all been waiting for since the dawn of time. After all, the human condition is a terrifying thing.

Being born into it is like being hired to work for a company where the work is lethal and none of the other employees can tell you why they’re doing it.

Depending on whom you ask, the boss

might be a loving father, a fire-breathing squid monster, or worst of all, non-existent.

Of course, the possibilities extend beyond the abundant life/no other life dichotomy. One of the fathers of the atomic bomb, Enrico Fermi, once asked, “Where is everybody?” in response to the intelligent life question.

From this developed Fermi’s paradox , or the analysis of the apparent contradiction between the theoretical number of inhabitable planets, and the lack of observed intelligent life thus far.

Since this form of analysis became popular, countless scientists and more mundane observers have formulated a wide variety of hypotheses to explain the lack of observed extraterrestrials in the universe. These include ideas that posit intelligent civilizations as too far apart, too different or too shy to contact one another.

Some have been moved by the question to suggest even deeper reasons for our lack of extraterrestrial contact. Perhaps the universe as we see it is a mirage, or maybe aliens already live among us a la “Men in Black.”

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Obviously, such a fundamental question stabs at the heart of what it means to be alive, and can lead the interested into philosophical territory as much as scientific. Humans may go another 1,000 years without meeting another civilization. Conversely, we may all wake up tomorrow to news footage of an extraterrestrial landing party shaking hands with the president.

While scientists continue to search for the truth, the rest of us have no choice but to search for our own truth within the myriad daily tasks and agendas we occupy ourselves with. And even if we should find ourselves coming into contact with celestial neighbors, who is to say that their response to the question “What does it all mean?” won’t be “We thought you guys could tell us.”

Depending on whom you ask, the boss might be a loving father, a fire-breathing squid monster, or worst of all, non-existent.

— Follow Greg Castro @DailyWildcat

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their skin. No parent wants their child to be treated like a criminal when they’ve done nothing wrong. No parent wants their child to sacrifice their pride while interacting with a stranger. But for these parents, their children’s safety ultimately trumps all of these concerns—and for good reason. If an officer perceives a threat, they will most likely act quickly to protect themselves and others whether they are right or wrong.

In an article for the Washington Post entitled “I’m a cop. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t challenge me� Los Angeles Police Department veteran Sunil Dutta doles out similar advice: “Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, peppersprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me.�

The officer doesn’t have any legal justification to tell you not to do any of these things. Only the last bit could reasonably be perceived as threatening, but whether or not somebody is walking aggressively is a subjective judgement susceptible to bias.

If the officer finds your body threatening to

begin with, they may be more likely to think you are acting aggressively.

There are many legitimate reasons a police officer may perceive an unarmed, even innocent citizen as a threat. There may be an armed suspect in the area, or that person may fit the description of someone else. It is important to remember that the officer has seen numerous training videos depicting routine traffic stops turning deadly.

These legitimate concerns can be exacerbated by more problematic ones: police officers of any color likely harbor some of the same unconscious racial biases that society ingrains in us all. In some precincts, this racism may be even more entrenched, and biases might be consciously acknowledged.

As much as I believe in the Bill of Rights, I’m not willing to be martyred for it. If you want to challenge the police, cite the constitution, or be a pain in the ass, that’s your right. If you are a person of color, just know that doing so may be more dangerous for you than for somebody else.

If your safety is your first concern, cooperate and politely state that you don’t consent if you know an officer is violating your rights. The safest option is to deal with any rights violations in court. This may feel wrong, painful or humiliating, but ultimately it may ensure your survival. — Follow Tanner Jean-Louis @DailyWildcat

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Arts and Life • Wednesday, August 5, 2015

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El Charro Café boasts historic presence BY alexis wright

Arizona Summer Wildcat

Driving down Tucson’s Court Avenue, canary yellow buildings catch the eyes of passersby. As they scan the structures, the word "Toma!" is plastered on the wall of an almost century-old home acting as the centerpiece for a Tucson founding family and restaurant.

With Latin music playing in the background, bright turquoise ceilings and the feeling of coming home greeting guests, El Charro Café is the country’s oldest continuously-run Mexican restaurant and a family-run establishment—a staple for locals since the day it opened in 1922.

Started by El Charro President Ray Flores’ great-great-aunt, Monica Flin, the café was unique for its time, as women business owners were rare.

Monica ran the whole shop herself, working as the hostess, waiting on customers, cooking customers food, and shopping for ingredients and supplies. Flores noted that she was sometimes even found drinking a martini out of a teacup so no one would know—when all of the work was done, of course.

“She was a pioneering woman,” he said.

Monica and her family came to Tucson by way of France after her father, Jules Flin, was appointed to build the St. Augustine Cathedral. Jules was a renowned stonemason and even built the family’s dwelling, now the home of the original El Charro Café located at 311 N. Court Ave. The El Charro businesses are scattered from Oro Valley to Ventana, including other El Charro Cafés and restaurants, a catering business and a USDA commissar y on 18th Street and Euclid Avenue called Carlotta’s Kitchen.

El Charro’s current chef is Carlotta Flores, the greatgrandniece of original owner Monica Flin.

She has helped El Charro become what it is today: a critically acclaimed restaurant with all kinds of feature articles in publications such as Bon Appétit, Gourmet Magazine and recently the New York Post, among other publications and television stations like the Food Network and the Travel Channel.

Carlotta Flores’ son, Ray Flores, described his mom as “a

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force of nature” who outworks everyone, including himself.

She is always trying new recipes to add to the extensive existing menu to maintain a fresh and ingenious outlook on food.

The restaurant features inventive Sonoran-style Mexican food with a specialty: the chimichanga.

According to the El Charro website and Flores family stories, Monica Flin is the inventor of the chimichanga. On accident, she dropped a burro into a frying pan and searinghot oil splashed about.

There’s a curse word in Spanish that starts with “ch”, but Monica's young nieces and nephews were around her, so she refrained from swearing. Instead she said, “Chimichanga,” which is

close to the word “thingamajig.”

Henceforth, Monica Flin's creation was known by the name of her linguistic invention.

Utilizing local products, as well as manufacturing them, El Charro even sells to the MGM Grand’s Hecho en Vegas restaurant in Las Vegas. From Carlotta’s Kitchen, they ship shredded beef birria, green and red chile beef tamales, red and green chile enchilada sauces and salsas, among other prepared meats, Ray noted.

The produce, meat and dairy products used for El Charro’s concoctions come from the highest quality ingredients they can get, including products from a company founded in Tucson: Shamrock Farms.

The dairy farm, also established in 1922, is one of the largest family-owned producers in the U.S. Ann Ocana, chief marketing officer for Shamrock Foods, describes the El Charro family business as passionate, creative and in-tune with their customer’s requests.

“This is not simply a restaurant, it’s a family legacy that has stood the test of time,” Ocana said.

El Charro opens at 10 a.m. daily and operates seven days a week for lunch, happy hour and dinner. Throughout the city with El Charro, El Charro Catering, Carlotta’s Kitchen and other associated brands including Sir Veza’s Taco Garage and Pub 1922, the affiliates employ about 400

people year-round, Ray explained.

“El Charro is an experience, and people need to experience it,” he said.

With servers rolling their ‘r’s when asking if the guests want another margarita on the rocks with salt, the menu simply requests that patrons dance on the tables responsibly when ordering a cerveza-rita with a Corona plunked inside.

— Follow Alexis Wright @DailyWildcat

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Mermaids return to downtown Tucson

BY Sarah Pelfini

Arizona Summer Wildcat

The elusive life forms that exist in the small sanctions of water in the desert, Sonoran Desert toads, hibernate in the soil and return for a brief period during the rainy months of the monsoon season. Just like the toads, as we approach the depths of monsoon season, the mermaids will come to play and celebrate what makes Tucson unique. The Return of the Mermaids parade is making its second annual appearance along Fourth Avenue and downtown Tucson on Saturday, Aug. 8.

Water is a rarity in the dry desert of the Southwest, so David Aguirre decided to bring a taste of the ocean to Tucson with the Return of the Mermaids celebration.

“Every monsoon season the clouds open up and the mermaids return,” Aguirre said.

Lizzy Mead, one of the parade organizers and owner of Silver Sea Jewelry, encourages attendees to get into the spirit and adorn themselves in ocean garb.

“The star of the show is the community of Tucson,” Mead said.

“It’s really the people that dress up that make [the Return of the Mermaids Parade] amazing.”

Whether you’re a mermaid, a pirate, a fish or even a surfer, everyone is welcome to enjoy the event’s live music, dancing, icedunk games, face painting, artists’ booths and food trucks. As the sun goes down, belly dancers, stilt walkers and fire throwers will emerge before the sidewalk parade begins at 8:30 p.m.

Many Tucsonans have inspired the event, such as Melodee Stumpf, also known as Desert Mermaid Melodee.

“I feel so fortunate to be a part of such a creative community of people who love mermaids just as much as me,” Stumpf said.

Stumpf has always had an appreciation for water and sea life, but as an aquatic masseuse she has found many healing powers from water.

Stumpf works with people to harness their inner mermaid within an aquatic space. She explains that using a mermaid tail while swimming allows people to connect

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to their bodies and is a great form of exercise in the warm desert months.

“The [Return of the Mermaids] event will be a fun and light-hearted day offering healing on a physical and emotional level,” Stumpf said, adding that creative expression is a key part of a happy community.

Stumpf hopes the parade will open people to experience the magic and magnificence of the water in the desert.

At this year’s event, a wide range of artists will exhibit their work.

Aguirre hopes to kick-start “a new way for artists to show their work.”

According to Aquirre, as downtown has developed with the construction of the Sun Link Tucson Modern Streetcar and new restaurants and bars, development brought an “inevitable change for the art scene."

The transformation seen in Tucson is a natural process of a developing city, and what was originally considered the art

district has developed into an entertainment district.

“But I knew we would come back,” Aguirre said.

The Return of the Mermaids event is bringing art back into the downtown area in a different way, while integrating the merchant districts.

“It is important that as artists and a community we stay ahead of the wave, and surf it,” said Aguirre.

Return of the Mermaids brings to focus just how important a connected community is, especially during the summer months when the city’s population becomes sparse.

Mead has been amazed by the outpouring of support from the community.

“The Fourth Avenue Merchant Association has helped to really make this under-sea world come to life,” she said.

The event aims to unite the Fourth Avenue and downtown

communities.

“Each district used to be very separate, and now the streetcar really links everybody together,” Mead said. She hopes that through Return of the Mermaids, “we can unite everyone together and bring about a new energy.”

Sally Kane, owner of The Coronet Café, which is positioned at the conjunction of the two merchant districts, explained, ”it’s a really fun event for kids and adults and I’m really excited to be a part of the community.”

The Coronet will act as the observation deck during the parade and will be serving a special drink called Neptune’s Mistress Seafoam Punch. Kane explained that the cocktail will consist of a rum punch with floating sherbet.

The eatery will also serve fish tacos to celebrate the aquatic theme. But everyone can rest assured, “there will be no mermaids harmed in the making of the dish,”

Kane said.

Just down the street, Ermano’s Craft Beer & Wine Bar will also join in on the fun.

Owner Mark Erman said they will be serving a specially made mermaid sangria throughout the night. The restaurant will also serve as a mermaid speakeasy before the parade, as well as an afterparty once the event has culminated.

“We have more people that are willing to [contribute] their time and talents for the community at this year’s event,” Stumpf said.

Many people have come together to contribute to the event, sharing new perspectives.

Jocelynne Simone, board member of Tucson’s Steampunk Society, is excited to introduce her interpretation of the aquatic world at the Return of the Mermaid parade.

Simone explains TSS offers the community with a place to celebrate 19th century science fiction aesthetics through costume. She is excited to take inspiration from “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” by Jules Verne.

The society will be presenting a variation of mermaid hunters, mariners and giant squid to contribute to the scenery. “That is steampunk in a nutshell: we take something and put a little bit of a spin on it,” Simone said.

She is excited to see the outcome after hearing the tales of the first annual parade.

“The type of creativity that came from the community of Tucson as a whole was absolutely phenomenal at last year’s event," Simone said.

With the help of the people of Tucson and the masterminds behind the event, the Return of the Mermaids event will continue to spread positivity and energy through the streets.

Aguirre hopes the community will “take a peak behind the curtain, and experience what Tucson really has to offer.”

— Follow Sarah Pelfini @DailyWildcat