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ULA’S ATLAS V ROCKET breaks free of its tethers at ignition. The 370-ton rocket sends the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on it’s seven-year round-trip journey to asteroid Bennu. Developed in part by the UA, this spacecraft will be the first in history to return samples of an asteroid to Earth. This photo was taken by a sound-triggered camera at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Launch Complex 41.
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OSIRIS-REx is headed to the asteroid Bennu. In its departure, it not only left Earth for the fairer heavenly bodies—the tiny spacecraft left behind a whole team of UA scientists who helped bring it to life and dozens more who will continue to watch over it during the seven year journey. Now that OSIRIS-REx is on its way, it is time to meet some of the Wildcats who worked on the project in collaboration with NASA, and learn about the different roles their efforts played in the thus-far successful mission. Bradley Williams, a systems engineering graduate student, helped build the camera suite aboard OSIRIS-REx. The suite is comprised of three cameras—the PolyCam, MapCam and SamCam, each of which Williams said serve a different purpose. The PolyCam’s function is to look at Bennu from a farther distance and will be used while the spacecraft is still approaching the asteroid. The PolyCam should be able to show NASA if there is anything rotating around the asteroid.And the MapCam will be able to show specifically what is on the asteroid by using color footage. The SamCam will be the camera that gets closest to the asteroid, touches it, collects a sample of the asteroid and examines it before bringing it back to Earth. “The flight cameras that are in space today took about two and a half years from the design to the installation on the spacecraft,” Williams said. Just the team working hands-on specifically with the cameras consisted of more than 50 people, but according to Williams, there were hundreds of people with whom the team connected to help the cameras get on the spacecraft smoothly for launch. “I went to the UA mainly because of their heritage and their background in space science,” Williams said. “Showing that the university can lead a team and help identify
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The UA paid Grambling State University $575,000 to travel to Tucson for last weekend’s football game at Arizona Stadium, which featured their famous band during the halftime show. “That’s accurate,” said Arizona’s Assistant Athletics Director Mike Parrish. “Pretty much right in line where a [Football Championship Subdivision] opponent is getting paid.” FBS, or Football Bowl Subdivision, and FCS programs are determined by size of school. FBS used to be known as Division I-A and FCS was Division I-AA. Ohio State and Alabama are two class names in the FBS, while North Dakota State has dominated the FCS for the last five years. FBS teams pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for FCS teams to travel for a game they are likely to lose. These games often occur during the first few weeks of the season before teams dive into their conference schedules. Payday for FCS teams can range anywhere in the hundreds of thousands to over a million dollars. The intended benefit is that the FBS team fills its stadium for a home game and the FCS school gets additional cash flow to add to its limited budget. This ongoing method of scheduling can be seen as a necessary part of college football for athletic departments. FCS coaches can also use these games as a recruitment
tactic to tell players they compete against top teams across the nation. The outcomes are often not favorable for the smaller programs. The News Star reported that Grambling State was paid $600,000 to play California last year, a game they lost 73-14. A team may occasionally overlook an FCS opponent, which can lead to upsets in the college football world. In 2006, for example, Appalachian State beat fifth-ranked Michigan with a blocked field goal—one of the biggest upsets in college football history. A total of 105 games were played between the two subdivisions in 2015. FBS schools won 96 of the matchups against their FCS opponents, according toESPN. Since the College Football Playoff ’s inception in 2014, more emphasis has been put on strength of schedule. Now teams make sure they do everything they can to be in competition for the playoff. The Big Ten Conference made the decision to not schedule FCS opponents this year, most likely an attempt to strengthen schedules when it comes to national rankings and the 13-person playoff committee. No other conference has made this decision to prohibit all FCS opponents from future schedules. “We certainly take strength of schedule in consideration and that’s why with scheduling one Power Five team, we’re playing 10 in a season,” Parrish said. Parrish said that Arizona’s schedule with 10 Power Five
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“Definitely tougher opponents if they’re going to be spending that much money.” More conferences may follow the Big Ten’s lead, but in turn, teams won’t necessarily be able to guarantee an extra home game like they can with FCS teams. That means a sizable chunk of revenue wouldn’t appear for the athletic department. “These payoff games for these FCS schools here are important for them to be able to take care of their budget,” Parrish said. Matt Koppinger, a nutritional science graduate student, said
opponents doesn’t make the program feel that playing an FCS school lessens the overall strength of schedule. “One thing we try to do is we try to balance the schedule,” Parrish said. “We’ve got conference games—we try to get a Power Five, a Mountain West level game and an FCS game.” Aviv Tzalalihin, a pre-business freshman, said he would like to see the schedule have a different matchup with the money that was paid to Grambling State. “I definitely would’ve liked to see a better matchup …” he said.
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Viruses thrive more on shoes than toliets UA researchers conducted experiments showing just how much bacteria attach to shoe soles and how effectively that bacteria could contaminate other surfaces BY COURTNEY GALLANT @court_gallant
Where did you step today? Perhaps you went to class, grabbed lunch at the student union and headed back to your apartment or house. Did you wear your shoes inside? Next time, think twice before you neglect to kick them off at the door, because that cute pair of boots could be a severe illness waiting to happen. New research conducted by UA professors revealed just how dirty the bottoms of our shoes are. Microbiologist Dr. Charles Gerba collaborated with research specialist Jonathan Sexton to collect information on what really happens when we wear our shoes inside. They conducted an experiment in which he wore a new pair of shoes for two weeks, and found that within a fortnight, 440,000 units of bacteria attached themselves to the soles. Throughout the entirety of the research, the team found nine different species of bacteria on the shoes of randomly selected people and were able to determine that the viruses actually thrive better on shoes than toilets. The entire experiment consisted of three parts. First, the researchers tested 26 shoes that had been worn for three months, and found between 3,600 to 8,000,000 units of bacteria per shoe with the average being 421,000 units, according to Sexton.
For Gerba and Sexton it wasn’t enough to just know how much foreign material we drag in on our shoes, they wanted to know how effectively the bacteria could contaminate other surfaces after people tracked it in. Sexton said a volunteer donned the shoes and trekked over several uncontaminated floor tiles, with one step per tile. The results, over 90 percent of the time the bacteria transferred directly onto the clean tiles. The next step was to know how effective washing the shoes could be. Ten new shoes were provided to 10 volunteers that were then worn outside for two weeks. They were then washed using cold water and Tide detergent, which was extremely effective. Researchers saw a 99 percent decrease in bacteria per shoe, according to their research. The research was several different projects that were Industry-funded. “We were looking at what germs you have on your shoes—what you pick up throughout the day,” Sexton said. “We were also looking at different types of shoes. Some shoes have antimicrobial material in there, so we were seeing if there was a difference in that.” He said the research also focused on how far the germs would be traced after being picked up by a certain pair of shoes. “You think that a lot is already known about germs, but their transmissions and environments are very different,” Sexton said. “Part of the study was to answer how germs were moving and how susceptible
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some people are.” He said all of this research contributes to a big picture model of how viruses move and the ways we can protect ourselves from them. Samantha Amaya, a molecular and cellular biology freshman, said she was shocked to hear these statistics.
“That makes me very scared,” Amaya said. “It’s very alarming that viruses such as those can be tracked into my dorm room on my own shoes.” She said she definitely won’t be wearing her shoes inside anymore.
Potable water reuse pilot program wins 2016 project of the year, UA contributes BY AVA GARCIA @ava_garcia1
WateReuse Arizona named the Potable Water Reuse pilot tested in Tucson as the 2016 Project of the Year award winner. A handful of UA students and faculty contributed to the sixmonth pilot that was a tailored collaboration led by international engineering company CH2M HILL and partnered with Tucson Water and the WateReuse Research Foundation.
The project focused on pilottesting a method of wastewater treatment to see if it could be used for drinking water. While the treated water was not actually used for drinking water because it was a pilot project, it was analyzed and found to consistently meet federal and state requirements for drinking water, according to project engineer Michael Hwang, who works with CH2M HILL. Hwang said the treatment of the wastewater draws on different processes that have been used to
treat wastewater for other uses, like irrigation, but this project is the first to combine some of these processes to treat the wastewater effluent to be suitable for potable water. To be treated in the pilot project, the wastewater goes through different treatment barriers. These include a soil aquifer treatment through wastewater effluent’s recovery and recharge, nanofiltration, ozone oxidation and granular-activated carbon that is operated in adsorption and biological filtration modes,
according to Hwang. There are efforts similar to those in Tucson to treat wastewater taking place around the world, but this project in Tucson is unique because of its combination of engineering and natural processes, according to Shane Snyder, a UA professor of chemical and environmental engineering. Snyder and fellow chemical and environmental engineering professor, Robert Arnold, had research groups who worked on the pilot project by operating the plant
and analyzing the water quality. Snyder said those involved in the project had to be clever in their work to ensure they didn’t waste any water because technologies used in similar projects in coastal cities aren’t as efficient for inland cities like Tucson because there is not an ocean to discharge waste stream into. Hwang said Tucson Water’s participation in the pilot stemmed from their interest to plan for the future. The city doesn’t need
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Standing in solidarity with Standing Rock Over 200 UA students showed up to stand in solidarity with indigenous and non-indigenous people protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline in North Dakota
BY MICHAELA WEBB @michaelastoke
Chants of “water is life!” rang out amid raised fists, hand-written protest signs and the booming sounds of Tohono O’odham drums at the UA standing in solidarity with Standing Rock gathering on the UA Mall earlier today. The event, organized by the Native American Research and Training Center and eight other campus Native American groups, was aimed at showing solidarity with protestors at Standing Rock, North Dakota, in their efforts to halt construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. If constructed, the pipeline would run underneath the Missouri River and would have the potential to contaminate water supplies for the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Over 200 Native American tribes are currently involved protesting the pipeline. The UA solidarity event attracted over 200 people and a number of local Indigenous performers, including the Tohono O’odham Starpoint Drum Group. Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan, a doctoral student in American Indian studies, president of the American Indian Studies Graduate Student Council and member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, was helping to collect names and signatures from people attending the gathering for their petition. Ramon-Sauberan said they had a diverse turnout of natives and non-natives, students and faculty and employees of the UA and surrounding areas.
“It’s great to see all the different signs out here and to see how many people are coming out here to support this,” RamonSauberan said. “You know even though we’re in Arizona, we’re still sending all our love and our support to our brothers and sisters.” Felina Cordova, a public health doctoral candidate and the chair of the NARTC, said that they decided to hold the gathering to collect donations for Standing Rock and to show that UA students support the protests. She said that the event is one of the first student solidarity gatherings for Standing Rock in the nation. “We wanted to show that, even though we’re in Arizona, not only just the Native American students here care about what’s going on up there, but also that students in general care about protecting the land and the water rights,” Cordova said. “It not only will affect just that tribe up there but tribes across the country.” Jordan Jimmie, a hydrology and atmospheric sciences senior, member of the Navajo Nation and one of the event organizers, said he is showing solidarity not only because he is a tribe member, but because his field of study has given him an understanding of the potential ramifications of the pipeline. “Since the tribal lands fall on a major watershed, it’s just too great a risk,” Jimmie said. “I just figured we have to stand in support.” If you missed the gathering but still want to show your support and get involved, Jimmie says that there will be
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potable reuse of water right now but the potential need may arise in the future, depending on water scarcity. “I think the genesis of the project is the fact that there’s still an epic drought in the Colorado river which is the main source of water for southern Arizona,” Snyder said. “The city and the county have become vastly interested in how to, if you will, get more mileage from our water.” The project was started in 2013. After the involved organizations designed the plant and set up the equipment. Pilot testing ran from October
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2014 to April 2015, a time period selected to be during Tucson Water’s off-peak reclaimed water demands.
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UA STUDENTS AND MEMBERS of several non-student groups protest at a #NoDAPL solidarity rally on the UA Mall on Thursday, Sept. 15. The demonstration supports the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which is protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that would pass under the Missouri River just outside the tribal
donation points for Standing Rock set up at the Native American Student Affairs Office and the NARTC. When asked how UA students can get involved, Jimmie said that informing yourself about what is going on at Standing Rock is important. “Really put yourself in the situation of the natives,” Jimmie said. “Would you want this pipeline built in your backyard?” Kimberly Ortega, a UA student studying
Some parts of the project were “almost entirely run by students” while being overseen by professors, which provided opportunities for student engagement, according to Snyder. Hwang said some UA students working on the project went to the facility almost every day to monitor the process and collect samples to be analyzed. The project, now complete, is the winner of the 2016 Project of the Year award from WateReuse Arizona. The selection committee who chose the winner of the award, comprised of Arizona water professionals working in academia, municipal water sectors and consulting engineering, looked for projects focusing on reclaimed water
communication and American Indian studies and a member of the Tohono O’Odham nation, said that she attended the event because water is important to everyone. “The tribes in Arizona know what it’s like to lose your water rights, to lose rivers due to the oncoming of American society,” Ortega said. “Water is sacred, water is what everyone needs, not just us.”
quality, the use of reclaimed water and contributions of public education, according to Bradley Hill, the utilities director for the City of Flagstaff. Hill said via email the selection committee thought that, after being fully tested, the pilot project could one day be applicable to other Arizona water providers who may need to expand their water portfolios. Hwang said it was an honor to have the project win this award. “This was a really cool project—it was a great example of collaboration and also an example of a utility preparing for the future,” Hwang said. “There’s a lot of excellent work done from everyone on the team.” Hwang said the next step in the development of the water
treatment could be Tucson Water’s construction of a demonstration treatment plant in the near future. The demonstration plant would run the treatment process for a couple years to collect more data and optimize the project before it could construct a full-scale facility. Snyder said that there is work to be done in public perception and acceptance of the use of treated wastewater. “I think what we’ve done is we’ve demonstrated that the technologies will work efficiently and produce a very safe, very pure water. But whether or not the city employs it is really a political decision,” Snyder said. “That’s where the science ends and the politics begins.”
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POLICE BEAT BY AMANDA OIEN @amanda_oien
Just be blunt about it A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to Arizona Sonora Hall in reference to a student claiming his roommate was smoking marijuana on Sept. 7. When the UAPD officer arrived at the door, there was no odor of marijuana coming from inside the room. The officer asked the roommate if he had any marijuana in his room to which he nodded his head up and down. The officer asked the roommate to retrieve it, and the UA student got a blue Maxwell House coffee can with a hidden compartment at the bottom and pulled out a plastic baggie containing what the officer recognized as marijuana. The officer read Miranda Rights to the student, who then provided a large pill bottle with a small amount of marijuana with three flavored cigar wrappers that he stated were used to roll “blunts,” according to police. The student was diverted for possession of marijuana and paraphernalia. There were a total of 17 grams of marijuana in the baggie and one gram in the pill bottle.
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Vomiting the Fifth UAPD responded to a call from Coronado Residence Hall of a report of an intoxicated female at approximately 1:20 a.m on Sept. 7. Tucson Fire Department and University Emergency Medical Services were on the scene rendering aid to the student who was sitting in a chair in her room vomiting into a trash can. The Residence Assistant, who lives in the room next door to the girl, said the student’s roommate knocked on his door requesting help. The vomiting student answered questions from TFD saying she had only drank alcohol. She was medically cleared by TFD and released to the care of her roommate. The officer spoke with the student as she was still leaning over a trash can. Her eyes were red and watery, and the officer could smell the odor of intoxicants emitting from her breath and vomit. Her speech was slurred and she spoke slowly. The officer advised the student of her Miranda Rights, at which she nodded, and asked if she would answer questions. The student shook her head, indicating no. The student was diverted to the Dean of Students for a minor in possession of spirituous liquor in body.
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UA sets SAIL on new learning program
BY ELIZABETH O’CONNELL @econnell
Students can now learn from their peers about the best techniques to improve learning and study habits through the UA SAIL learning initiative, Student Advocates for Increased Learning. SAIL, which began this semester as a response to the Higher Learning Commission, is a UA initiative meant to improve teaching on campus. There are two components of the learning initiative: Faculty development and students. The SAIL program focuses on the student aspect of the learning initiative. John Pollard, associate professor of practice, said SAIL is designed to train students in the best practices for learning based on a book, “Make It Stick,” which reports on the science of successful learning. Pollard, who has been a faculty fellow for the past 10 years, works with resident halls to help build a
connection between faculty and students. He is also one of the faculty members that helped lead the efforts to create collaborative learning spaces on campus. He said because of his involvement with those endeavors, it was natural for him to get involved with SAIL, where he helps connect fellows to other student groups in the resident halls, cultural centers and classes. Students enrolled in the one-credit SAIL course, IA 497A, are taught which areas of cognitive and behavioral science show us how we learn. After the fellows identify the best practices of learning, they then meet with other students to pass on what they have learned. During the last few classes of the semester, time is spent discussing the impacts of the program. Debra Tomanek, the assistant vice provost for instruction and assessment and one of the SAIL professors, said she’ll be preparing and educating students on how learning works. Students in Tomanek’s class will then go out to teach other students how to
apply those strategies and skills to get better at the job of learning. Tomanek said it has been proven that someone is more likely to retain information by giving him or herself frequent self-assessments rather than reading notes over and over again. Instead of relying on professors for study materials, SAIL allows you to take charge of your own learning. Alison Comrie, neuroscience and cognitive science senior and student coordinator for SAIL, said she goes to the classes and helps with discussions and student planning. She said she’s found that the students who are already in the class have been doing experiments on themselves with their own habits. They have already seen results from changing their study techniques. “Once I heard about what SAIL was going to be, I thought ‘what a great cause,’” Comrie said. There are 17 students currently enrolled in the SAIL course. The students are sent out to meet with a group three different times throughout the semester. The
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first two meetings include running activities and discussions, and then the last time is a debriefing. “What I hope to see is a growing community of undergraduates who
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the origins of the solar system is, I think, the greatest part of this.” Melissa Dykhuis graduated from UA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and received a Ph.D. in planetary science in August 2015. Her two roles on the OSIRIS-REx mission included creating the “321Science!” YouTube video series for NASA and being a part-time asteroid researcher with the project. Dykhuis said the video series explains the timeline, news and science of the OSIRIS-REx mission with entertaining cartoons and accessible explanations for the general public. She and Anna Spitz, who holds a Ph.D. in geosciences from the UA and was the head of the education public outreach branch for the OSIRIS-Rex mission at the time, began working on the videos in the summer of 2013. Dykhuis said she learned most of her video creation skills on the job. “It was created for the OSIRIS-REx mission, but the idea is to use it as an umbrella series for all NASA missions if they want to use the ‘321Science!’ brand to explain NASA science to the general public,” Dykhuis said. For her research and as part of her dissertation, Dykhuis studied the regions of the main asteroid belt where Bennu might have come from. She said her favorite aspect of being a part of the OSIRIS-REx project was creating the YouTube series.
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INSIDE THE PAYLOAD HAZARDOUS Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing. Launched Sept. 8, OSIRIS-Rex will be the first U.S. mission to sample an asteroid, retrieve at least two ounces of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The asteroid, Bennu, may hold clues to the origin of the solar system and the source of water and organic molecules found on Earth.
“I think that asteroid research is a really accessible means of studying our solar system’s beginning for two reasons,” Dykhuis said. “One, the asteroids are a lot closer than some of the other objects in the solar system.
Two, there are just so many asteroids that you can study the history of the solar system ... easier because you have a huge sample size.” Tanner Campbell, an aerospace and mechanical engineering
graduate student, worked with the software to create a navigation system that produced visual models of the asteroid Bennu. Bob Gaskell, who holds a Ph.D. in physics from McGill
are familiar with key principles of learning and using those principles to advance their own success here and throughout their learning lives,” Tomanek said.
University, developed the software, Stereophotoclinometry or SPC, according to Campbell. He also said SPC has already been used on a handful of other NASA missions. “There was quite a big suite of testing that had to go on,” Campbell said. “I helped with testing to make sure that it was up to NASA standards for flight.” The software will conduct three types of navigation, according to Campbell. The first is star-based navigation, which is accurate down to about a kilometer and uses the stars to determine the spacecraft’s position. The second is landmarkbased navigation. “It’s basically a mosaic of topography that we use to create the asteroid,” Campbell said. The third type is called naturalfeature tracking. Because of the time delay from the asteroid to Earth, this tracking cannot be done in real-time, according to Campbell. He said that by the time this type of navigation is used, the asteroid will have been studied for about a year, and this tracking can be accurate down to the centimeter-level. This navigation type is also what will be used to actually complete the “touch and go” action of the spacecraft collecting a sample off the asteroid’s surface. “We’re really trying to look back and see what the conditions were like at the formation of the solar system to let us know why things formed the way they did and potentially why life is on Earth,” Campbell said.
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Dakota Access Pipeline rally: Stand in solidarity with Standing Rock BY ANDREW ALAMBAN @DailyWildcat
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eople from different walks of life banded together on the UA mall to speak out about the repercussions of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The pipeline is reported to go under Lake Oahe, a reservoir on the Missouri River. This area is also occupied by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. I had the good fortune of being able to witness Thursday’s rally on the UA mall. Native Americans from the community took to the stage to voice opposition to the pipeline. They graced the campus with cultural performances including instrumental and vocal music accompanied by dancing. At one point, they had a huge circle of people joining hands to stand in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. Seeing people from such a wide variety of backgrounds unite against something taking place hundreds of miles from here made me realize that the Dakota Access Pipeline isn’t just a Native American problem, it’s a human problem—a problem that will affect the people of Arizona for generations to come. Completing the pipeline runs the risk of allowing oil into the waters of Lake Oahe. It’s not so much if it happens but when it happens. When that happens, it will cause a huge environmental disaster. The people who live there rely on the clean waters of Lake Oahe to live, and the wildlife won’t do well when it’s covered in oil. In addition to the environmental problems that this project presents, there are also grievous social injustices taking place. These wrongdoings aren’t just a problem for Native Americans but for everyone else as well. I had the chance to talk to J Carmen Tirado-Paredes, a PhD candidate in teaching, learning and sociocultural
studies here at the UA, about his thoughts on the rally. “Taking [our native people’s] rights away or not [consulting them] ... those are big issues that affect everyone, you know, because that’s happening over there now, and tomorrow it might happen here in Arizona.” Thrado-Paredes said. If the oil companies succeed in stepping on the rights of Native Americans in North Dakota, who’s to say they won’t step on the rights of people here in Arizona? The rally also criticized corporate greed and its of value money over the people. That should never be the case as we owe it to the next generation to preserve this world as best as we can so that they can enjoy it as we have. I saw children at the rally holding up hand-made “Kids Standing With Standing Rock” signs. Another poster said “United to neutralize big energy greed and destruction.” The number of people in attendance along with the diversity of those people is a testament to how universal this issue is—not just for the Native Americans being directly affected in North Dakota. Another thing that fascinated me was the deep, rich culture that the Native American protesters displayed. Some were clad in colorful clothing or playing the drums and singing. A similar culture is being threatened in the north, and southern tribes here in Arizona greatly value solidarity with their family. It’s impressive how Native Americans from different tribes came together to support their brothers and sisters. I spoke to UA senior Jordan Tsosie who, when asked why so many tribes all over the country support Standing Rock said, “We’re all together. We’re all Native American and they’re our brothers and sisters. We have to stay together [because] there’s not many of us.” We are all brothers and sisters. So I would like to call on everyone, because the Dakota Access Pipeline is not just a Native American issue, it’s a human issue.
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The importance of arts in education BY JULIAN CARDENAS @DailyWildcat
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ells Fargo recently came under fire by artists all over the country over interesting ads they released promoting “Teen Day.” The ads, which were meant to reach out to teenagers who might have been interested in joining the bank and begin planning for their future, seemed to try to dissuade them from pursuing a career in the arts. Well Fargo used examples which involved replacing one’s past time in ballet or acting with a new future in engineering or botany. The immediate backlash they got from professional actors, singers, dancers, painters, sculptors, musicians and other artists made me think about the many other instances of discrimination committed against artists and how often they go unnoticed. There is an unspoken hierarchy in college.
It’s not something you openly hear a lot, but it’s definitely something one can feel. As soon as you take your first college class, it’s clear that people believe that there are certain majors and minors that are greater, more important, more difficult and more useful than others. They place an extreme amount of emphasis on one particular field of study and seem to ignore the rest. The only time they refer to other majors/minors is to complain about how easy they must be. While studies like journalism, psychology, communications and cultural studies are often ignored, there is one area that people really disregard—the arts. Every artist, at one point or another, has felt discriminated against over their choice of profession. Whether it is a raising of the eyebrows, a quick chuckle or a confused glance, we have all received odd reactions from others whenever we have mentioned our interest in an art-related field. Studying fine arts is looked at as a waste of money, a pathway with no future, a joke of an education. People truly believe investing in an education in fine art is a waste of time and
money. However, artists or students studying fine arts don’t understand what’s so funny or confusing, about wanting to pursue a creative, artistic career. It seems like everyone’s in on a joke that we arrived too late to hear. Art is not accepted because it is difficult to define, to classify, to deconstruct. Art cannot be constricted or perfectly defined. Thus, since it is not something that can be easily enclosed in a tight box, it is something we do not always see in a favorable light. Art, in it’s different forms and styles, is difficult to understand for many, and what do we do with things we don’t understand? We make them seem odd, pointless and unnecessary. We face discrimination from almost everyone. The general questions and complaints we hear daily have become engrained into our brains: “If you’re not a science major, you have no reason to be complaining about your workload,” “Why are you stressed, don’t you just sit around/ move around a stage all day?” “What are you ever gonna do with that? Good luck finding a job.”
These are not questions faced by students in STEM fields. Apparently, there is an unspoken rule that degrees are only worthwhile if they guarantee a job, not if you enjoy them or actually care about what you’re studying. Why do we continue pursuing art? Why are there so many people dying to be able to express themselves artistically when most of the world thinks it’s a waste of time? We do it because art cannot ever be avoided or ignored. We study art because by studying art we are studying human culture, human development and human relations. We live in a world that is fundamentally rooted in art, yet we fail to truly acknowledge the importance of the many artistic qualities of life that we live with today. These things include sports, religion, graduations, processions, parades, weddings and many more. We go to concerts, obsess over movies, gawk over fashion shows. All of these activities have theatrical components, they are all presentational. Everything that surrounds us is a performance we ourselves, as humans, perform daily. We participate in artistic events all the time. Art is fundamental to culture. We live art.
Gary Johnson and third-party candidates of races past BY RAAD ZAGHLOUL @DailyWildcat
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nd what is Aleppo?” With four words and a bashful puppy-dog look, former New Mexico governor and current Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson made a fine argument against the seriousness of his own campaign. Of course, this is but a spark against the raging inferno of half-informed nonsense that comes out of the Republican nominee’s mouth on a daily basis, but it does beg the question: Do third-party candidates really matter? Despite a system that’s almost comically hostile to third-party presidential candidates, American politics has seen more than its fair share of them. They’re a colorful and motley bunch united only by their shared failure. They range from the Socialist Eugene V. Debs, who ran his 1920 campaign from prison, to Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond, who ran only to oppose the Democratic Party’s adoption of a civil rights platform in 1948. One of the most frequently cited thirdparty runs in recent years has been that of Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot, who earned just shy of 20 million votes in 1992 but still failed to capture a single electoral vote.
As Steven Rosenstone, Roy Behr and Edward Lazarus argue in their “Third Parties in America,” Perot was not that impactful of a candidate. Like a certain fellow billionaire, his platform revolved around the strength of his own character and not any particular policy position. Unlike said fellow billionaire, he actually self-funded most of his campaign, spending more than 60 million of his own dollars. A message can outlive a candidate— unfortunately, that’s very difficult to accomplish when the candidate has no substantive message and “cleaning up the mess in Washington” does not count. In any case, billionaires with questionable messages no longer need to run third-party campaigns—they have the Republican Party for that now. That brings us to George Wallace, former governor of Alabama, and up until June 2015, the most dangerous American presidential candidate in recent memory. By 1968, Wallace had been a household name for some time. Five years before, he gained notoriety by trying to make good on his mantra of “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” In front of a constellation of flashbulbs on June 11, 1963, the diminutive governor placed himself on the steps of the University of Alabama, defying orders to integrate. Eventually, President John F. Kennedy called Wallace’s bluff and federalized the Alabama National Guard. It didn’t matter, because Wallace
had gotten what he wanted. His sweaty segregationist stand had achieved two aims: To earn an avalanche of free publicity and to present himself as the man willing to stand up to twin evils of integration and the spaniel-haired Kennedy brothers—Robert Kennedy was attorney general at the time. With this, he headed into the 1968 race with a vengeance. Running under the banner of the American Independent Party, which was invented solely for the purpose of his candidacy, he won five states, 46 electoral votes and 13.5 percent of the popular vote. Richard Nixon won the presidency, narrowly defeating Democrat Hubert Humphrey. This is an impressive result for a man who ran essentially on a platform of racism, “states’ rights” and an affinity for hair gel. Somewhat prophetically, Wallace understood the importance of an easily communicated message and a distinctive personality in the age of television. There can be no argument that any rational person voted for him on the strength of his policy—as his running mate, he chose General Curtis LeMay. The nuke-loving LeMay was the basis for the character of the insane Gen. Turgidson in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove.” Wallace probably should have known this, because that picture was released four years earlier. It’s important to remember that George Wallace was pulling logic-defying stunts long before it was cool.
This is especially prescient today, during a campaign that largely consists of logic-defying words and deeds. Much more so than in 1968, the 2016 race has become less a policy discussion and more a referendum on personality. This is why Johnson does not stand a chance, even within the realm of thirdparty candidates. The former governor has apparently tried to present himself as an amiable alternative to the chilliness of Secretary Clinton—and to the brash anger of Mr. Trump. In this he has succeeded too well. His air headed Aleppo query and his lackluster CNN town hall will make it difficult to be taken seriously as a policy-oriented candidate, and his inability and/or refusal to dominate headlines on his own terms makes it nigh impossible for him to reach the heights of Wallace, let alone those of Trump. This is not a case against letting Johnson debate. If anything, his lackadaisical demeanor would be a relief during the bareknuckle boxing matches the presidential debates are sure to become. Perhaps one day in the near future, a thirdparty candidate will take the system by storm, and that will be a good day to be an opinions columnist. However, today is not that day and Gary Johnson is not that candidate. And even a moderately successful third-party candidate will have to be able to mold their own image in the manner of Wallace and Trump, and at this rate, Johnson has already allowed his likeness to be sculpted by others.
ARTS & LIFE Astronomy documentary ‘Star Men’ holds premiere at The Loft Cinema Friday — Sunday Sept. 16 — Sept. 18 Page 9
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BY VICTORIA PEREIRA @vguardie917
Astronomy captivates those staring up at the Milky Way. There is a seemingly universal curiosity about things beyond Earth, and the desire to understand has driven the human race to research and observe the night sky for thousands of years. Astronomy is all about discovering and exploring what lies beyond our little blue planet and often developing a better understanding of ourselves in the process. It’s kind of like an existential road trip. “Star Men,” which held its U.S. premiere on Wednesday at The Loft Cinema, tells the story of four astronomers and their road trip through time and space in the Southwest. Distinguished astronomers and longtime friends Donald Lynden-Bell, Roger Griffin, Neville “Nick” Woolf and Wallace “Wal” Sargent reunited in 2012 for the 50th anniversary of their road trip across the southwest. Director Alison Rose was there to document it all. “It’s an astronomy road movie,” said Chris Impey, a UA astronomy professor and the associate dean of science. “Four quirky Brit astronomers moving out to the U.S. to make their careers and just taking a Southwestern road trip.” Impey was a scientific consultant for “Star Men” and gave an introductory speech at the screening. The film is driven by a nostalgic road trip across California, Arizona, New Mexico and Utah while the astronomers rekindle their strong bonds. The group stops at some incredible sights along the way including the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the UA Mirror Lab and the Mt. Wilson Observatory. With every stop, the audience learns more about the astronomers as they recount their numerous contributions to what some call the most exciting period in the history of astronomy. “It shows how people are driven by intense curiosity,” Impey said. “It’s got real people and their struggles and… they fail and they succeed and they don’t know what they’re doing and they have big questions they can’t answer and some they hopefully can.” When structuring her story, Rose decided to focus less on the science behind the astronomy and more on the astronomers themselves, giving the documentary a compelling and heartwarming narrative. “These men had a rich life learning and
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PROFESSOR NEVILLE “NICK” WOOLF, right, one of the astronomers featured in the film, answers a question during a Q&A after the premiere of “Star Men” at the Loft Cinema in Tucson on Wednesday, Sept. 14. Alison Rose, the film’s director and producer, center, was present for the premiere as well, while associate dean of the College of Science Chris Impey, left, served as a moderator for the panel.
exploring and being good friends,” Rose said. “In the end, that’s what life is about: learning and friendship and doing good.” In the wake of astronomer Sargent passing away due to illness several months after the reunion, the film also addresses death and the concept of death being necessary for progress. After spending their lives looking into the vast expanses of space and realizing how small our world is in relation to the rest of the universe, these astronomers have developed some interesting viewpoints on life and death that are addressed in the film. Astronomy is a subject that tends to photograph well, as any one of Rose’s
audience members can vouch for. Gorgeous images of gigantic telescopes, sprawling landscapes and star time lapses compliment the story and bring a mystical element to the film. Wednesday’s screening was the first in the country, and Rose chose Tucson specifically for this privilege. After the Q&A session, Rose had a parting note for her Tucsonan audience: “So much of the landscape of [“Star Men”] is the landscape of your home,” Rose said. Along with being featured in the film, Rose chose Tucson because of a special request from one of her subjects, whose birthday happened to fall on Sept. 15.
“The U.S. premiere is in Tucson not just because this is the place this film was supposed to be seen, but because it’s Nick [Woolf ]’s birthday,” Rose said before leading the audience in “Happy Birthday.” The film is currently not available for purchase, but Rose said she would be interested in setting up future screenings at The Loft Cinema. There is also an interactive website to go along with the film that features guided tours of the universe with the four astronomers and Rose. Visitors can explore the cosmos from their computer screens and learn more about some of the incredible things mentioned in the film.
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Kishi Bashi gets woefully orchestral with ‘Sonderlust’ Independent instrumentalist and songwriter Kishi Bashi (Kaoru Ishibashi) comes back onto the music scene with his third studio album BY ALEX FURRIER @badjazzmaverick
Way back when, some caveman took time off from hunting and wrote the first-ever song. It was likely a prehistoric love ballad. Music and love go hand in hand, and the natural response to falling in (or out) of love is to express the joy and sorrow musically. To love is to be human, and good music illuminates that practice. With his third LP Sonderlust, indie pop artist Kishi Bashi, whose real name is Kaoru Ishibashi, shines a light on the classic subject of a love gained, lost and found once more. Given the over-saturation of love songs, Sonderlust offers a refreshing look at relationships under the songwriting microscope. As the album progresses track by track, a story unfolds of two lovers—from the elation of a blossoming relationship (“m’lover”), to a heartbreaking separation (“Say Yeah”) and the soul-searching that’s induced by heartbreak before an eventual reconciliation (“Honeybody”). It doesn’t take a detective to draw autobiographical parallels between this story and Kishi Bashi himself, who has described Sonderlust as an album “forged through heartbreak.” The heartbreak stems from a period of separation in his marriage of 13 years, an experience that called into question all Ishibashi knew about love. “This album is straight from my soul. I questioned everything about what it means to love and desire—the difference between loving someone and being in love,” Ishibashi said in a press release. It would be remiss to not touch on the name of the album, which comes from the invented word “sonder” as part of writer John Koenig’s project “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” which creates words that capture ineffable human experiences. Sonder is defined by Koenig as “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” Sonderlust, by extension, would be the search for this realization—to connect with those random passersby and the complexity that results from two human lives colliding.
It’s the tragic desire for and impossibility of this connection that powers Sonderlust, manifesting itself in each of the album’s 10 tracks. The lead track “m’lover” simultaneously captures the elation of falling in love while planting the seeds for a relationship that will have to one day face reality. Lyrics like “Could you be her / Would you feel together and inebriated / Enabling every fable we were never meant to be but together” exhibit this truth. Underneath the lyrics, the hallmarks of the Kishi Bashi sound run in the track’s blood: an upbeat rhythm, cascading violin strings and a tone reminiscent of a room filled to the brim with party balloons. It’s the dissonance between that bubblegum “poptimism” and the devastating heartbreak that make Sonderlust Kishi Bashi’s best album to date. The sweetness of the baroque pop flute solo in “Say Yeah” distracts from the tragic lyrics, “If I really love you / I’ll be waiting for you / That I really want you too / Say yeah.” It’s a musical magic trick; the sound distracts while the lyrics slowly slip a knife between the listener’s ribs, directly into their heart. This occurs many times throughout the album, such as in “Why Don’t You Answer Me.” The swelling orchestral sound drops out to leave just the singer and an acoustic strum, where he makes an allusion to the couple’s child with the line, “Hey! Before there was three / there was one / the loneliest of all the numbers.” There is an emotional sucker punch disguised behind Kishi Bashi’s upbeat pop sound. Sonderlust offers the most “colorful” Kishi Bashi LP to date, with many songs building a soundscape akin to a ride in a washing machine with a sci-fithemed kaleidoscope for company. Funky sounds abound, and with Ishibashi’s composing roots, they always feel larger than life, particularly in the film score-like track “Ode to My Next Life.” Despite the zany sounds, the album also marks a departure from the thickly layered sounds that populate previous albums 151a and Lighght.
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CHECK OUT: Kishi Bashi separates from the pack of traditional love ballads with Sonderlust, largely as a result of the raw honesty and heartbreak at the center of the album. While the album does boast a stronger first half than second, a problem present in previous albums, the songwriting and top-notch production quality make this album Ishibashi’s most mature effort. The album does have a
happy ending with the upbeat “Honeybody,” a high point of the album both thematically and musically. The song, much like Sonderlust as a whole, offers a refreshing take on love: We are too complex of beings to live out a fairy tale romance. Love is hard, people are complex and life collides between the two. Real love isn’t simple, but it is beautiful.
“M’lover” “Say Yeah” “Statues in a Gallery” “Honeybody”
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GUITARIST/BASSIST KRISTIAN DUNN shreds while drummer Tim Fogarty keeps a steady beat during El Ten Eleven’s set at Hotel Congress on Wednesday, Sept. 14. The post-rock duo El Ten Eleven formed in 2002 in Los Angeles and utilizes effect pedals, looping and electric drums to create their unique sound.
El Ten Eleven rocks Congress on tour BY NINA ULLOA @nine_u
Los Angeles-based band El Ten Eleven came to Hotel Congress on Wednesday night. They played at the club to kick off their U.S. tour promoting their 2015 album “Fast Forward.” The band headed up to Flagstaff on Thursday before starting its tour through the rest of the country. Kristian Dunn and Tim Fogarty make up the instrumental-rock duo. Dunn plays guitar and bass and Fogarty plays the drums. Don’t expect a traditional live set from the band—Dunn plays doubleneck bass/guitar combo, fretless bass guitar and traditional bass guitar.
Fogarty plays acoustic and electronic drums simultaneously. The band plays its complex and layered instrumental music 100 percent live. In a past interview, Dunn said they “refuse to use pre-recorded tracks live.” Their ambitious live sets have earned them recognition. The Dallas Observer named El Ten Eleven the fourth-best instrumental band of the last 20 years. Gary Hustwit’s documentary series “The Design Trilogy” from the mid-2000s featured the band’s music. “Helvetica,” “Objectified” and “Urbanized” are iconic films in the design world. In 2008, “Helvetica” was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. The success of these films brought the band attention. “It certainly helped us get where we are
now,” Dunn said about the documentaries. El Ten Eleven released its first mixtape at the end of July. The mixtape contains rare and unreleased songs. Many were puzzled as to why El Ten Eleven would release a mixtape rather than an EP or studio album. “There are so many songs that we think are worthy of being heard that never were, so … [we made a] mixtape,” Dunn said. One of the major themes on “Fast Forward,” their latest full-length album, is family. Fogarty’s father passed away during the recording of the album, and the implied triangles on the album’s cover art represent connection to family. El Ten Eleven played three new songs at their Hotel Congress show that revolved around this theme. “They are so new they don’t even have titles, but family [is] the theme,” Dunn said.
The band’s upcoming releases feature collaborations with vocalists, a change compared to the instrumental work it has already released. “It’s a little early to talk about it but we’ve worked with about a half a dozen singers and some are working out better than others,” Dunn said. “It’s taking much longer than anticipated but that’s because we want it to be great, not just pretty good.” Aside from the tour, the band members have plenty on their plate. Dunn is also working on a novel on the side. “It’s pretty much finished,” Dunn said. “I’m just waiting on the artwork. I was hoping to sell copies on this leg of the tour, but I’ll have to wait for the next. It will also be available digitally very cheaply.”
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Sushi scene emerging in Tucson Finding sushi in the desert may seem like an impossible task, but you can find plenty of Japanese culture within Tucson’s food scene BY SARAH BRIGGS @SarahBriggs11
When thinking of what makes Tucson special, the last thing that goes through peoples’ heads is sushi. Jesse Wong, a 2015 alumnus, said that the sushi in Tucson is amazing but noted that it can be difficult finding highquality sushi spots here in southern Arizona. Wong admitted that the sources for sushi in Tucson can be a little questionable. “The only weird thing about sushi in the desert is when you think about where [the restaurants] get their fish from,” Wong said. “Because we live in a desert, [there are] no bodies of water around us.” In fact, the closest ocean to Tucson is about four hours away, and it’s across the Mexico border. Needless to say, fresh-caught fish isn’t exactly synonymous with Tucson, but that hasn’t stopped local chefs from trying to create high-quality Japanese cuisine. A lot of the sushi restaurants in Tucson often have something unique about them; whether it is the sushi or the drinks, customers always find the cuisine extremely interesting. “Sushi Garden is my favorite restaurant,” agribusiness sophomore Lauren Boswell said.
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A SAKE BOMB COMPRISED of sake and Kirin Ichiban beer at Fuku Sushi on University Boulevard on Wednesday, Sept. 14. Fuku Sushi’s sake bombs are $4.99.
“They always have fresh fish and get your food out quickly.” The spicy tuna rolls at Sushi Garden remain Boswell’s favorite. Boswell describes them as having a little kick, which makes them very delicious. At Sushi Garden, the spicy tuna roll is tuna covered in a spicy sauce rolled with cucumber and avocado. The roll is a Tucson favorite and a
true art piece of desert sushi. Other sushi fans prefer to measure their sushi in quantity, which makes Sushi Ten another popular sushi spot in Tucson. With a $20 unlimited sushi menu, it is hard to go wrong. “Sushi at Sushi Ten is simple and delicious,” Wong said. “The fish is fresh, but the quality of rice really plays a big part in taste as well; after all, the
literal translation of sushi is ‘vinegar-ed rice’.” Upon visiting Sushi Ten, Wong and his friends average an astounding 15 orders of sushi each per meal. The quantity and affordability of decent sushi is not something to be undervalued— customers that visit Sushi Ten leave with bellies full of sushi and a smile on their face. Fuku Sushi, located on
University Boulevard next to the UA campus, isn’t known as much for its sushi as its sake bombs. “A sake bomb is a rice wine shot dropped into malt liquor or a strong beer,” said prephysiology senior Joss Delaune. The price of these inexpensive drinks doesn’t go unnoticed. “They rock because of how cheap they are,” Delaune said. “I don’t drink them very often, but when I do, it’s for starting off the bars, usually.” Fuku’s sake bombs are only $5 each, making them extremely popular among college kids. Often times, the most fun way to drink them is with a large group of people. Sake bombs are a staple of Japanese drinking culture and there’s an art to taking them. The shot of sake balances on a pair of chopsticks atop a full beer glass. Upon pounding the table, the shot falls into the drink and everyone says cheers before finishing their beverage. Perhaps it’s the simply the culture of sushi that prevails in Tucson; whether it is endless sushi or unique drinks, sushi restaurants are figuring out their own way of doing Japanese cuisine here in the desert. “The sushi is memorable in Tucson, and it is something to experience for yourself,” Wong said.
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Hawaii last non-conference foe for UA BY IVAN LEONARD @Ivan14bro
After Arizona’s 31-21 victory over Grambling State, the Wildcats have one more non-conference matchup this season before they get into Pac12 Conference play. Saturday, they take on the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors at 7:45 p.m. at Arizona Stadium as the Wildcats prepare for conference play next week. Hawaii is 1-2 coming into this game and will look to keep the momentum rolling after they beat the University of Tennessee-Martin last week 41-36. Ikaika Woolsey is the Rainbow Warrior signal caller and he has thrown for 527 yards this season with five touchdowns and five interceptions. His completion percentage is slightly over 50 and he is flanked by Diocemy Saint Juste in the backfield. The Rainbow Warriors should look to lean on Saint Juste as he has 42 carries for 225 yards and two touchdowns so far. Brandon Dawkins got the start last week with starter Anu Solomon out, and he put up a solid, but unspectacular performance against Grambling State. Dawkins threw for
223 yards and one touchdown while also carrying the ball 16 times for 97 yards and two scores against the Tigers. While he struggled at times with accuracy, he created multiple plays on the fly and dodged multiple sacks. Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez said Hawaii will challenge Arizona’s offense this week with their aggressive style. “They bring a lot of pressure and are not afraid to challenge you and play man coverage,” Rodriguez said. “They will blitz quite a bit, particularly when you are going into the red zone and they are very active up-front. Last week, Nick Wilson had another 100-yard all-purpose performance, improving Arizona’s record to 12-2 when he reaches that mark. The junior running back had 24 carries for 116 yards last week, and he and Dawkins create a dynamic backfield when they are together. If Wilson can gash the defense a few times, Arizona can use the play action for deep shots down the field. If Wilson cannot get into a rhythm, Dawkins may be forced into down and distance scenarios and Hawaii can ramp up the pressure. Another thing to watch for on Arizona’s side is how the carries will
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A LOOK AT THE special uniforms to be worn in the upcoming game against University of Hawai’i this Saturday to remember Pearl Harbor. The Wildcats will take on Hawai’i while donning the special uniforms.
be divvied up. Backup running back Orlando Bradford was dismissed from the team so J.J. Taylor may receive more carries this week.
The Wildcats struggled on defense early on as Devante Kincade picked the defense apart with his arm and legs. Arizona would come storming
back in the second half, though. The defense forced six turnovers in the end pitched a shutout in the game’s final 30 minutes.
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Soccer set up for big test vs. Oklahoma BY RYAN KELAPIRE @RKelapireUA
Only one game sits between the Arizona soccer team and the Pac-12 Conference schedule, but it’s certainly one they can’t afford to overlook. The Wildcats (5-1-1) host Oklahoma (5-2-1) Friday night and the Sooners are entering the match on a threegame winning streak. “We know this is a big game,” Arizona head coach Tony Amato said. “We’re not even thinking about Pac-12 play yet. We’re approaching this as the biggest game of the year and we got to find a way to get a good result.” Arizona is on a winning streak of its own, too, as it has won its past four games, outscoring opponents 8-0 in the process. The Wildcats haven’t allowed a goal since Aug. 26—five games ago— when they tied Texas Tech 2-2 in Lubbock, Texas. “We’re trying to be a wall,” said UA defender Laura Pimienta. “People in front of us can mess up and make mistakes, but we’re trying be that wall that stops everything and cleans everything up.” And recently they have, as Arizona
has given up just five shots on goal during the team’s streak. Limiting Oklahoma in the same way could prove to be difficult, however. The Sooners have scored nine goals in their past three games. “No question,” Amato said when asked if the Sooners were going to present a challenge for Arizona’s defense. “They’re a good team; they’re well-coached. I have a lot of respect for coach [Matt] Potter, he does a good job. We’ve seen on video that they’re a very capable team and we’re going to be challenged in a lot of ways.” The Sooners are led by center forward Liz Keester, who leads the team in goals (3) and assists (3), midfielders Kaylee Dao and Jemma Cota and a sound defense. “They get a lot of numbers behind the ball and they’re hard to break down,” Amato said. However, the Wildcats should be well-prepared for anything Oklahoma throws their way, given this is their only game of the weekend. “For the coaching staff, it’s huge,” Amato said. “It’s not that different for the players—other than the turnaround of the recovery to play on Sunday—but for the staff, we’re
preparing for one game this week. And when we’re preparing for two, we’re behind the scenes watching film on two teams, scouting two teams, preparing for two teams and so it’s heavier on the staff more than anything. This allows us to just hone in on one game. … The amount of video you’re able to watch on one team can increase and then you can pick up all sorts of things like tendencies of individual players more so than just the overall game-plan of the whole team on the field.” Another advantage is the Wildcats are playing at home, where they’re 3-0 this season and 10-3-1 in their last 14 home games. “It’s pretty important,” said UA defender Hannah Stevens on protecting their home-field. “It always feels worse when you lose on your home-field, especially if you have a big crowd come out on a Friday night. You want to win for them and give them a good game.” Arizona looks like it will keep its winning streak going and continue its excellence at Mulcahy Stadium on Friday. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. and the game will be televised on Pac-12 Networks.
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SAN FRANCISCO DEFENDER ALLISON Arriola (25) gives Arizona midfielder Cali Crisler (3) a shove on the second day of the Arizona Cats Classic at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Soccer Stadium on Sunday, Sept.11. The Wildcats take on Oklahoma in the final non-conference matchup of the season.
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Running back arrested, bond set at $20,000 BY IVAN LEONARD @Ivan14bro
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HAWAII QUARTERBACK IKAIKA WOOLSEY (11) attempts a pass versus University of Tennessee-Martin at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu, Hawaii on Saturday, Sept. 10. Hawaii will take on the Arizona Wildcats in the last non-conference game for both teams.
Behind enemy lines: ‘Flow’ the name of the game for Hawaii BY JUSTIN SPEARS @JustinESports
Arizona had a scare in the first half against Grambling State last Saturday, and to end the nonconference schedule with another potential nail-biter, the Wildcats will host the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors on Saturday at 7:45 p.m. The Wildcats are the second Pac-12 Conference team the Warriors will face this season, and both teams are coming off home wins. Arizona and Hawaii will both be aching for their second win of the season Saturday. The Daily Wildcat went off the big island of Arizona and got insight from the folks 2,875 miles away at the Ka Leo O Hawaii student newspaper. We spoke with Associate Sports Editor Christian Shimabuku about his predictions for this weekend. DW: Hawaii has a fairly brutal non-conference schedule. What are some positive takeaways that could lift the Warriors over Arizona in upset fashion? CS: The Rainbow Warriors are
still relatively healthy. After a twoweek gauntlet of facing California in Australia and then Michigan at the Big House a week later, none of the ‘Bows have suffered a major injury. That in itself is a positive and they should come into Tucson at full strength. As is the case with most firstyear head coaches, the team is very much a work in progress under Nick Rolovich. Though still sloppy, the offense seems to be ahead of the defense at this point. The UH put up 31 points against California and 41 against Tennessee-Martin. The defense has struggled with tackling and has had a tendency to give up huge plays on third down this season. It has given up 50 points per game so far, which is 126th out of 128 FBS teams. If the Rainbow Warriors want any chance at winning, they’re going to need to clean things up on both sides of the ball and hope for Arizona to make some mistakes. Head coach Nick Rolovich replaced Norm Chow as head
coach this season. What is a highlight that gives the program promise moving forward? Rolovich and Chow are almost polar opposites. Rolovich was 36 years old when he was hired. Chow was 65. Rolovich is a UH alum, Chow is not. Rolovich runs a hybrid run-and-shoot and read option offense while Chow had a very traditional pro-style scheme. Rolovich is very invested in team morale and has taken measures to reach out to the community as well. Some of these [measures] include awarding his players scholarships via a diving board on one occasion and a koala in Australia on another, as well as a campus-wide Pokémon Go hunt with fans. Rolovich is a breath of fresh of air from the Chow era and has received a large amount of support from the local community thus far. Arizona is expected to do their own version of the traditional Maori war dance, or haka, before the game. Will Hawaii do a pregame haka? What makes the dance so special? Hawaii has dabbled with different variations of hakas over the years. Last Saturday, the ‘Bows debuted a Hawaiian haka
composed by olohe lua Tom Kaulukukui, Kyle Nakanelua and Ke’eaumoku Kapu. I’ve been told that they wanted to do it in Australia but they felt they weren’t ready, especially with so many rugby players in attendance. What are your predictions for the flow of the game, standout player for the Warriors and final score on Saturday? That’s the key word for the Rainbow Warriors: flow. The offense needs to do that throughout the game if it wants to stay competitive. Senior quarterback Ikaika Woolsey was named the starter before the season but has been very inconsistent. With five interceptions through three games and a 50.8 completion percentage, he’s on a short leash and could yield to sophomore Dru Brown if he doesn’t perform. One name to watch is senior wideout Marcus Kemp, who has bailed the ‘Bows out multiple times with his big-play ability. So far, he has 12 receptions for 272 yards and four touchdowns. I think the ‘Bows will beat the spread but not Arizona’s offense. Arizona 31, Hawaii 13.
Former Arizona football running back Orlando Bradford was arraigned Wednesday night for four counts of aggravated assault and three counts of kidnapping. The alleged victim spoke at the arraignment and asked the judge not to release Bradford. “I have an order of protection against him and I don’t think he should be released,” the alleged victim said. “What he did was wrong, and he should be accountable for his actions. I’m scared of what he would do if he’s released.” Bradford’s bond was set at $20,000, secured by Judge Geri Hale. Bradford was instructed that he is not allowed to make contact with the alleged victim, go to where she lives, make any further acts of domestic abuse or possess firearms. Bradford, who was arrested early Wednesday, was dismissed from the team shortly after. His preliminary hearing is set for Monday, Sept. 26. The incidents occurred over the last several days, which is the cause of Bradford being charged with multiple counts, Tucson Police Department Sgt. Pete Dugan said. TPD received a call from the alleged victim Wednesday morning, referencing domestic violence, and Bradford was arrested shortly after, according to Dugan. Head coach Rich Rodriguez released a statement Wednesday regarding the situation and the program’s plans to move forward. “Earlier today, we were made aware that Orlando Bradford had been arrested and as a result of his actions, he has been dismissed from the program,” Rodriguez said in the statement. The program did not release details of the situation but felt it was time to move on without Bradford. Bradford was supposed to “co-star” with Nick Wilson this season in the backfield, but those plans appear to have been nixed. The sophomore running back had five carries for 16 yards and no touchdowns through two games this season. Last year, he had 47 carries for 208 yards and three touchdowns as a true freshman. Arizona now turns to the next three running backs in line—freshman J.J. Taylor, redshirt junior Zach Green and redshirt freshman Branden Leon—to backup Wilson.
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For Wildcats quarterback Brandon Dawkins, last Saturday was a long time coming. The redshirt sophomore, who had been a backup to Anu Solomon, had never made a start in his collegiate career. He only saw action in the three games that Solomon missed, backing up Jerrard Randall. But against Grambling State, it was Dawkins’ time to shine. When asked if there was a different anxiety knowing he was getting the start, Dawkins admitted that there were a few nerves before the game. “I mean, I could lie and tell you no,” Dawkins joked. “But there was a little bit [of anxiety].” The 6-foot-3, 210-pound QB saw his most significant action come last year as a backup in a game against ASU, in which he completed 16 of his 30 attempts for 301 yards and two scores, along with two interceptions. The dual-threat QB also ran for 78 yards on 21 carries. Being a QB who can both pass and run the ball is something that Dawkins prides himself on. “If something happens and I have to make a play, that’s what being a dual-threat quarterback is all about: being able to run off and make a play.” It’s that dual-threat capability that separates Dawkins from Solomon. Playing in just seven games, Dawkins already has more than half of the rushing yards (276) that Solomon has (469) in 19 fewer games played. While Dawkins has his own drawbacks at the position, such as the tendency to be somewhat inaccurate with his passes, his running ability is a tool that he uses to his advantage quite often—sometimes even a little too much for coach Rich Rodriguez. “I think there’s a tendency when you can just run, when maybe taking off and then throwing, might be a bigger play,” Rodriguez said. “We don’t want to take away from his creativity, but he’s got to do it within the framework of the offense and let the play break down first before you decide to scramble out on it.” In the game against Grambling State, Dawkins didn’t start out so hot, and the QB was quick to acknowledge that. “Sadly, we didn’t take over until the second half. That’s when we started getting rolling.” And boy, did they roll. Dawkins finished the game with 223 yards and a score in the air and also added 97 yards and two touchdowns on the ground, coming from behind to beat Grambling State 31-21. Perhaps the best play of the game was a 21-yard touchdown run by Dawkins early in the fourth quarter, a play that put the Wildcats up by 10 while also showing the great elusiveness that Dawkins possesses. In terms of improving the offense and looking toward this Saturday’s matchup against Hawaii, Dawkins said one of the biggest things he and the coaches discussed was tempo. “A lot of it was tempo, you know, just get the offense moving faster, take a little more control of it to get it going,” Dawkins said. “It’s a big part of our offense, being fast-paced.” When asked what has changed for him from last season to this season, Dawkins said that his maturity is something that stands out. “Maturity and understanding the offense and things like that,” Dawkins said. “It’s just a lot to learn and a lot gets thrown at you, and Rich Rod will say that it’s a very simple offense, but there’s a lot to it. There’s a lot of little checks and things you can do to the offense to make your job easier, so you just got to be able to understand those and what situations you can use those in.” Saturday’s game against Hawaii will be another big showcase for the player that many think could be just the guy that Arizona needs to make this campaign a successful one. While Dawkins said that he hopes Solomon makes a speedy recovery, he also said that he wants to make the most out of any opportunity he is given, and he views this as a great one. “Obviously, I’m still trying to win this job. I’m not going into the season expecting to be a 2,” Dawkins said. “Whatever I have to do to try and win this job i’m definitely going to be taking advantage of it while I still have it.” With the motivation to win the starting job and the skill set to actually make it happen, Brandon Dawkins could prove to be exactly who Arizona offense needs to get things going in the 2016 season. PHOTO BY DARIEN BAKAS/THE DAILY WILDCAT
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Arizona football’s newest version of Haka dance set to debut Saturday against Hawaii BY JUSTIN SPEARS @JustinESports
For the first time in almost a year, Arizona Stadium may witness the Wildcats football team take part in the prominent Ka Mate Haka dance that was prohibited last October for the team performing it wrong. Dr. Christina Campbell from CalState, Northridge released a petition last year claiming the Wildcats did the dance “poorly” and offended many of the New Zealand natives. After the famous Polynesian dance was banned as a pre-game tradition, Vice President of Athletics Greg Byrne provided defensive lineman Sani Fuimaono two options: Either teach the entire team mid-season how to properly Haka or scrap it and create a Wildcat version of it. “Somebody got all upset about the Haka for whatever reason, so we didn’t do it and we were told, ‘Well, it would be okay to create your own,’” Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez said. “And Sani Fuimaono worked his tail off this summer to create one just for Arizona and Arizona football. … I thought it was pretty remarkable what he put together.” When the ban was posted, the Wildcats were 3-1 after getting embarrassed on national television by UCLA. For Fuimaono and the rest of the team, a prohibition for a pre-game ritual was the last thing on their minds, even though the tradition was shattered. “At the time, things weren’t going our way and I think it was just to help us refocus and not have that as an extra distraction,” Fuimaono said. “A lot of people were bummed out about it— coach [Rodriguez] was pissed.” Once the school year was finished, the only thing on Fuimaono’s mind was football, family and an attempt to revive the beloved tradition. Except this time, Fuimaono wanted to add a little more Wildcat flavor and bring back a tradition that was near and dear to the football team’s heart, according to Arizona linebacker Cody Ippolito. “I think he was just doing it for our tradition,” Ippolito said. “He just made it because it’s a tradition here and we would like to do it and we want to keep that tradition going.”
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ARIZONA CORNERBACK DAVONTE’ NEAL (19) dances the Ka Mate haka before the Wildcats’ record-breaking win against NAU on Sept. 19, 2015. The haka will be brought back after some modifications to the dance.
Fuimaono stayed patient and, even though he had to teach himself the new and uncontroversial dance, it made his job easier as the instructor because the whole team was eager to learn. “The guys have been responding very well to it and the big thing was to just bring something unique and something of our own for Arizona,” Fuimaono said. Arizona isn’t modifying the meaning of the dance, but rather changing the lyrics. The meaning will still represent strength and unity on the battlefield.
“There’s no such thing as modifying it. You just keep it traditional and make it your own [by] basically creating new lyrics,” Fuimaono said. “When I was in middle school, we started to do language classes and I took a Polynesian language class and we learned about the Maori language. I think a big part of it is just that I take pride that they say the words correctly…because if you say it a different way, then it doesn’t have that meaning to it.” After Wednesday’s practice, Fuimaono spent approximately 15
minutes rehearsing the Wildcat Haka with the team and has practiced everyday this week in preparation for a showdown with Hawaii on Saturday. “We’ve been [learning] piece-bypiece and this week we’ve been going every day since Sunday, because the boys are like, ‘Hey man, we for sure gotta’ do it for Hawaii week,’” Fuimaono said. Another reason why the Wildcats are so eager to run the Haka this week against Hawaii is because the Rainbow Warriors perform the Haka before every game prior to walking
in the locker room after pre-game warm ups. The only difference between the two is Hawaii’s Haka represents “a boy turning into a man,” so Arizona fans can see firsthand how rich the Polynesian culture is with tribal dances. “When there’s two opponents, it’s Haka against another Haka,” Fuimaono said. This will probably be the only unranked, non-conference opponent where Arizona fans should arrive to the stadium early to observe the battle before the actual game.