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It’s the fourth week of school and two protests have already broken out on campus. As the campus newspaper, we are a united force that does not tolerate or stand for those who cannot respect people based on their preconceived thoughts and opinions regarding their color, sexuality and/or religion.

While we all go to this public university, we all expect the same type of respect and treatment no matter who you are. This, to many, is a very obvious expectation, because, after all, it is 2019.

However, this early in the semester, unacceptable hate acts have happened and the students of the UA are not here to put up with it.

On Sept. 4, the Queers United Coalition held a protest to have Dr. Randal Dull removed from his position as a professor in the Department of Anesthesiology after findings of homophobic comments in a letter to a newspaper in 2004. The following week, hundreds followed the Black Student Union in another protest after two white men verbally assaulted a black male, called him racial slurs and punched him in the head. BSU and followers protested in front of the Administration Building all the way down to University Boulevard to call for accountability after the assault’s initial punishment – social justice diversion training program.

Students of color and of different sexualities should be protected and treated with respect at all times, just like everyone else. However, incidents involving color, sexuality and religion continue to contaminate campuses worldwide, and unfortunately cases are on the rise, according to the Report on the Uncivil, Hate and Bias Incidents on Campus Survey. According to the survey, about 84% of the participants indicated that they experienced or knew about incidents involving students breaking anti-discrimination and or other biasrelated polices, while about 83% of participants have also encountered a hate crime.

These statistics are troubling because although not all incidents may be severe, they should not be taken lightly by any means. Together, all of these acts of hate can develop into more serious issues, like the ones we have already

experienced on campus. Furthermore, it can establish a hostile atmosphere on campus based on the nature of the type of people who are attending.

As a campus, especially as a Hispanic Serving Institution, it is our duty to establish a hate-free mindset and attitude toward everyone. Instead, we must cultivate relationships based on what — as a person — they have to offer rather than focusing on their color, sexuality or religion.

UA President Dr. Robert C. Robbins sent a statement on Sept. 12 to all students and staff addressing his disappointment towards the incident.

“We need to come together and let people know, without qualification, that intolerance and discrimination have no home here,” Robbins said. “Unless we have a safe environment, free from violence, discrimination and hate, students will not be free to learn and pursue their dreams.”

The two white men were arrested Friday morning and were each charged with one count of class 1 misdemeanor assault. This goes to show that pressure from the community is not in vain.

During the Friday protest held by the Black Student Union, students marched through campus chanting, “What do we want? Justice! When do we want it?

Now!” They called on the University of Arizona Police Department to be held accountable for how they initially treated the situation.

The Daily Wildcat, your student newspaper, calls on every student and staff member at the University of Arizona to help provide a hate-free, safe environment for everyone to avoid any incident of discrimination of any sorts on our campus ever again. We need to hold everyone accountable for their actions and treat it as seriously as it actually is. We are here to pursue our dreams and to become better versions of ourselves, and no student, or individual for that matter, should ever come in the way of that. This institution, just like every other across the nation, should remain a place where discrimination should never have a home.

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NEWS | ASSAULT UPDATE

Two students arrested after alleged assault

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Two white students have been arrested and charged after they allegedly assaulted a black male student Tuesday night on the University of Arizona campus.

UA Police Department officers identified and charged Matthew Frazier and Matthew Rawlings with misdemeanor assault on Friday, Sept. 13. They were originally referred to the UA Diversion Program without misdemeanor 1 charges, according to the police report.

The report stated that the victim, whose name has not been released, was walking near Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall when Frazier and Rawlings allegedly approached him and called him the “n-word.” One of the alleged assailants tackled him and punched him in the head. The victim said he was also kicked on the ground by a second person.

Frazier and Rawlings fled the scene after the alleged assault. Police identified the house they fled to, and one officer reported that Frazier appeared intoxicated and had fresh blood on his shirt when he came out to the porch.

Rawlings told police a black man yelled at Frazier from across the street, and then they tackled each other. Rawlings said he did not remember who threw the first punch.

According to the report, a Dean of Students referral and a hate crimes reporting worksheet were both completed the night of the alleged assault after the victim told officers he did not want to press charges.

The university’s Black Student Union released a statement after the assault, demanding accountability from UAPD and university administration.

“The victim suffering from this racially motivated attack has yet to be served justice,” the statement said. “The silence on this matter is threatening. Especially as black students, we deserve safety in our own community. The victim’s silence is warranted, but the administration’s is not.”

The statement demanded academic probation and suspension for the two alleged assailants, the names of the assailants to be released, the release of the incident report and a requirement for UAPD officers to complete “a cultural identity sensitivity program addressing the history of racially motivated discrimination.”

Fredian Tuyisenge, BSU’s director of community outreach and relations for the UA, said that releasing the statement felt more like a responsibility than a choice.

“We decided to release it because an

injustice of one black person is an injustice to all black people,” Tuyisenge said. “We as a black student union fight, represent, educate, empower all black students on this campus ... It’s our mission and who we are as an organization.”

The BSU planned and led a protest on Friday, Sept. 13, to show solidarity with the student who was assaulted.

Tuyisenge said the goal of the protest was similar to that of the statement: to demand accountability from UAPD and administration. “[The goal is] the university admits and takes accountability for this hate crime happening on campus,” Tuyisenge said.

“The students are suspended and expelled from this campus. They follow through with our demands and what we’re asking for.”

The Daily Wildcat reported hundreds of students participating in the protest. BSU members criticized UAPD and members of the audience shared their experiences of being people of color on campus.

UA President Dr. Robert C. Robbins released a statement on Thursday, Sept.

12, in which he referred to the assault as an “incident,” which Tuyisenge did not agree with.

“I’d also like to note that this has not been classified as a hate crime. It’s being referred to as an ‘incident,’ as a minor injury, when it is the exact definition of a hate crime,” Tuyisenge said. “I would have appreciated for the president to have said, ‘A black student was attacked by two white males and racial slurs were used upon him and physical violence was taken out on him.’”

In the statement, Robbins said he wanted the UA community to know that “racism, bias and violence will not be tolerated on this campus.”

Ana Mendoza, student body senator for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, said that she wanted to see UAPD held accountable.

“We need to hold UAPD accountable as well,” Mendoza said. “We saw it when they put charges up against three women of color last year and we see it today. It’s the lack of prosecution towards two white students ... The administration needs to check in with UAPD and hold them accountable for that.”

Mendoza said ASUA wanted to help students affected get their demands met.

“Visible support, again written support, we’re releasing a written statement. I know that’s just the first step towards actually helping students,” Mendoza said.

“The second part is to make sure that the demands that they have listed are met to whatever capacity I can.”

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LOCAL TUCSON CHAPTER OF the Brown Berets were in attendance of the protest on campus.

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HUNDREDS OF STUDENTS AND Tucson locals gathered on the UA campus to stand together and protest.

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BEFORE THE START OF the Black Student Union protest on Friday, Sept. 13, members of the BSU held up signs in solidarity for the victim of Tuesdays indiscretion.

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Wednesday, September 18 - Tuesday, September 24, 2019

NEWS | SCENTED LEAF

Main Gate cafe selling CBD tea

BY SYDNEY JONES @DailyWildcat

Drinking tea for relaxation just got taken to a new level with the addition of CBD-infused teas at Scented Leaf Tea House and Lounge.

For the past 10 years, Scented Leaf, located on University Boulevard and Park Avenue, has drawn in customers with their large variety of teas. The company’s addition of CBD-infused tea is the newest popular addition to their lineup.

Cannabidiol, the scientific name for CBD, is a naturally occurring component of cannabis. While tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, produces a “high” sensation, CBD helps with a range of health problems while having no intoxicating effects.

Though the exact effects of CBD are disputed due to a lack of scientific studies, there is evidence of CBD helping with physical pain management, as well as the treatment of mental illnesses.

According to the World Health

organization, CBD use in humans displays no signs of addiction or dependence.

Customers can now order up to three 10 milligram doses of CBD in each serving of hot or iced tea they would like to order.

Scented Leaf prices their CBD tea at $2.50 per 10 milligram serving.

Shane Barela, the owner of Scented Leaf, said he is pleased with the success of the new teas.

“It’s been great, it’s already popular,” Barela said.

He explained that Scented Leaf isn’t the first café to start doing this, but that the idea definitely originates from the west coast. Now, CBD is available almost everywhere in the United States.

Thanks to new innovations by companies testing out CBD products, water-soluble CBD is now used frequently in tea and other drinks that help the substance dissolve more efficiently into the liquid.

While states may make CBD legal, the substance is still illegal federally.

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AN EMPLOYEE WORKING AT Scented Leaf on University Boulevard. Scented Leaf just added CBD tea to their menu, and it can be added to any tea for $2.50.

However, Barela said the company that supplies the CBD is completely legal and free of any THC. Summit CBD, Scented Leaf’s supplier, promotes themselves as a company that has pure, high-quality CBD that is completely free of THC. Scented Leaf features flyers at the cash register and on a wall near the bathroom that explain the benefits of CBD and answers common questions people may have about the product.

The flyer states that CBD is effective in pain management, inflammation, anxiety relief, migraines, stress relief, depression, epilepsy and seizures, skin conditions, liver disease and improves general wellbeing.

There is a QR code in the upper lefthand corner that customers can scan to see the official lab results of the company’s CBD. The potency and quality can be checked by downloadable certificates of analysis.

Brooke Abbatico, a senior at the University of Arizona, has worked at Scented Leaf since last semester. Abbatico said she sees the positive effects of the addition of CBD tea and recommends it to students.

“I think it’s going really well,” Abbatico said. “A lot of people come in and get the CBD, and I think especially for college students suffering from anxiety, it definitely helps.”

Barela remembered one particular customer who was suffering from pain because of a broken arm and found much relief in the CBD tea. He said the man’s pain went away after drinking two dosages of the substance with tea.

Taylor Bader, another Scented Leaf employee and UA student, has been working at the location for over a year.

“For this location, our target demographic is definitely students and staff from UA and local businesses,” Bader said.

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THE SCENTED LEAF ON University Boulevard advertising their new CBD Tea. CBD is a natural remedy meant to calm consumers.

Bader recommended herbal, noncaffeinated tea with CBD and said that natural, relaxing teas work together with the CBD to give customers the ultimate calming effect.

“From a more personal standpoint, at a tea shop, you’re coming here to relax, you’re coming here to work, you’re coming here to enjoy getting a break from life outside of the shop,” Bader said. “The CBD just helps as a catalyst to kind of jump-start that relaxation. It’s not THC, it’s not a drug, it’s just like caffeine where it’s going to help you induce a state of being relaxed.”

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ARTS & LIFE | AROUND THE CORNER

Pig out at new campus ‘speakeasy’ A new barbecue restaurant and bar moved into the beloved old The Fix location, bringing in brand new ideas and flavors to Main Gate Square

BY VIANNEY CARDENAS @vianneycard

University Boulevard’s resident mac n’ cheese fix has officially vacated the premises, but a new barbecue joint moved in this summer in hopes of establishing their name.

The Blind Pig, located in Main Gate Square, is a new family-owned barbecue restaurant and bar that offers a dive environment with a variety of dining options.

The Blind Pig founders, brothers Brandon and Jonathan Hsu, current University of Arizona students, came up with the idea in March 2019.

“Our parents were visiting from California and we were walking down Main Gate,” Jonathan said. “My brother [Brandon] and dad thought, ‘What if we opened a restaurant here?’”

When creating the image for The Blind Pig, the owners took inspiration from early 1900s speakeasies.

“We were thinking back to the time where alcohol was prohibited in the U.S., during the Prohibition Era,” Jonathan said.

Names like “The Hideaway” and “The Prohibition” were brought up, but according to Jonathan, all of those were taken.

Keeping barbecue food in mind, Brandon came up with the name “The Blind Pig” — a slang term for speakeasy, according to Jonathan.

“It worked out perfectly,” Jonathan said.

The Hsu brothers then took the idea to Google and found that 943 E. University Blvd. — where The Fix, a recently closed macaroni and cheese restaurant — was once located, was under a private sale. By May 2019 the Hsu family secured the location and began their journey.

Vickie Patterson, a former UA student, said that she was disappointed to find out The Fix had permanently closed its doors.

“I had been planning on going to The Fix for weeks and they unexpectedly closed the day before my planned date,” Patterson said. “That was a bummer.”

According to Patterson, The Fix had a “build-your-own” macaroni and

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FROM RIGHT, JAKE ARMENTA, Gledis Muja and Frankie Aguirr working at The Blind Pig and ready to serve.

cheese system.

“It was a unique and nostalgic idea for a restaurant,” Patterson said. “I liked that it was vegetarian-friendly.”

Like The Fix, The Blind Pig also offers macaroni and cheese — and so much more.

“Normally when someone comes in looking for The Fix, I tell them we have mac n’ cheese or I ask them to look at our menu because we have a variety of dishes, from sandwiches to tacos to rice bowls,” Jonathan said.

For their restaurant, Brandon and Jonathan knew they wanted a barbecue focus, but they felt it was necessary to represent their Asian heritage in their cooking.

“We’re Chinese, so we use our Chinese roots in our food,” Jonathan

said. “Our barbecue is an American traditional style, but we cook it Asian style.”

Kyle Gabbard, an employee at Caffe Luce, has become a regular customer in the short time the restaurant has been up and running.

“Everything I’ve tried here is great,” Gabbard said. “The price point is right, it’s definitely affordable. I feel like this is the best barbecue on this street since I’ve been around.”

The Blind Pig’s signature dish is the Char-Siu Burger — a Chinese pork barbecue method, Jonathan said.

“A little sweet, a little salty, a perfect balance. We wanted to implement that into a burger.”

According to Jonathan, The Blind Pig also offers an environment that the rest

of bars and restaurants on University Boulevard don’t.

“Places like No Anchovies, Frog & Firkin, Illegal Pete’s — it gets pretty rowdy in there,” Jonathan said. “We wanted something opposite of that.”

Among other reasons, Gabbard enjoys The Blind Pig because it is a place where you can hang out and relax.

“It has a really cool vibe. It’s definitely a homey feel for me,” Gabbard said. “It’s like a garage-esque feel. There are motorcycles around and it is kind of a dark, comfortable spot.”

The Blind Pig also offers BOGO deals on different days and weekends. To learn more, follow The Blind Pig on Facebook and Instagram.

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NEWS | GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

New Speaker Series to feature Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement

BY ANIKA PASILIS @_anikapasilis

The University of Arizona Consortium on Gender-Based Violence will be hosting a new Speaker Series event, featuring two talks on Sept. 19 and Oct. 30.

Activist, professor and author Lacy M. Johnson will lead the first talk, reading a section from her new book, “The Reckonings,” and hold a Q&A session.

There will be a book signing immediately after the event.

The event will take place in the Holsclaw Hall in the Fred Fox School of Music at 5:30 p.m. The tickets to Johnson’s talk are free; however, they must be reserved on eventbrite.com.

The second event will feature Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement.

The talk is a less formal “fireside chat,” according to the event’s website. It is meant to be a discussion about how the movement has impacted thousands of women’s lives all over the world.

Tickets are not free and must be bought on centhall.org. They are $10 with a CatCard and $15 for general admission.

The event will be held at Centennial Hall at 6 p.m.

The UA Consortium on Gender-Based Violence was launched earlier this year with the aim of conducting research on gender-based violence and engaging the campus in more critical thinking on the subject. This is their first Speaker Series.

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Off the field: A look at what some former Wildcat baseball players are up to now

BY ARI KOSLOW @koslow_ari

It has been a rough recent drought for the Arizona baseball team after missing the NCAA tournament each of the last two seasons. The same can’t be said about the former Wildcats representing the University of Arizona in professional baseball.

Seth Mejias-Brean – 3B, San Diego Padres: A Tuscon native, Mejias-Brean was part of the 2012 Arizona Wildcats College World Series championship team. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the eighth round of the 2012 MLB draft.

In 2018, he hit .258 with 10 home runs and 56 RBIs combined between Arkansas and Tacoma.

The following season, Mejias-Brean elected for free agency and signed with the San Diego Padres where he spent the 2018 season and most of the 2019 season in the minor leagues.

He was called up by the Padres on Sept. 3. He made his major league debut as a pinch hitter the following day. He posted his first career major league hit just a few days ago on Sept.11 against the Cubs.

Mark Melancon – RP, Atlanta Braves: Melancon played with UA from 2004 to 2006. His junior season with the Wildcats was unfortunately cut short due to an elbow injury.

Melancon was drafted by the New York Yankees in the ninth round of the 2006 MLB Draft. Melancon made his debut with the New York Yankees as a relief pitcher against the Boston Red Sox on April 26, 2009. He pitched two scoreless innings.

Melancon is a veteran in the major leagues right now with 10 years of experience. He is currently pitching for the Atlanta Braves, who acquired him this past July at the MLB trade deadline after beginning the season with the San Francisco Giants. He has appeared in 61 games this season to the tune of a 3.92 ERA across 62 innings with 11 saves. He has a career 2.88 ERA with 193 saves across 578 games played.

Joey Rickard – OF, Baltimore Orioles: Rickard played with the Arizona Wildcats from 2010 to 2012. In 2012, he helped lead the Wildcats to a national championship. Rickard was named to the all-tournament team that year and was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the ninth round of the 2012 MLB draft.

Joey Rickard was left unprotected in the 2015 Rule 5 draft and was selected by the Baltimore Orioles. In his first season with the Orioles in 2016, Rickard excelled hitting just under .300 in his first month with the team. A mid-season thumb injury limited his season to just 85 games played, where he finished the season

hitting .268 with 5 home runs and 19 RBIs. Rickard’s defensive abilities, which was once a huge question mark, has since ended up being the entire reason why he has stayed up in the major leagues. Rickard’s numbers as a hitter have taken a huge dip since that 2016 breakout season, hitting under .250 in each of the last three seasons. The San Francisco Giants claimed Joey Rickard off waivers in June after he was designated for assignment by the Baltimore Orioles. Rickard was just re-called from Triple-A Sacramento by the Giants at the end of last month.

Scott Kingery – OF, Philadelphia Phillies: Kingery ended up attending the UA, where he wound up joining the baseball team as a preferred walk-on. Kingery was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the second round of the 2015 draft.

Kingery signed a six-year contract through 2023 on March 25, 2018 worth a guaranteed $24 million, the largest contract in Major League Baseball history for a player who has yet to make his major league debut. Kingery made his professional debut on March 30; five days later, against the Atlanta Braves, he churned out his first career hit. Kingery hit his first career major league home run on April 9 against the Cincinnati Reds. After struggling in his first season in the MLB, hitting just .226 across 147 games played, Kingery has taken a huge step forward this season hitting .264 with 19 home runs and 54 RBIs so far through 113 games played. Kingery has turned into an everyday outfielder for a Philadelphia Phillies team that is in a tight wildcard race as the postseason is right around the corner.

Willie Calhoun – OF, Texas Rangers: Calhoun was originally drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 17th round of the 2013 MLB draft out of high school in California. He did not sign and instead attended the UA, where he played just one season in 2014, and hit .247 with 19 RBIs across 46 games played. Calhoun was then drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the fourth round of the 2015 MLB draft after attending Yavapai College in 2015.

After playing in the minor leagues throughout the 2016 season, Willie Calhoun was traded to he Texas Rangers as part of a deal that sent Yu Darvish to the Dodgers. He was called up to the big leagues for the first time on Sept. 12, 2017 where he hit .265 with a home run and 4 RBIs across 13 games played. The following season in 2018, Calhoun hit .222 with two home runs and eleven RBI’s over 35 games played before he was sent down to Triple-A Round Rock Express where he hit .294 across 108 games played. Calhoun has been up and down this season between the major leagues and minor leagues, but he is currently an

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everyday starter for the Rangers.

Nick Hundley – C, Free Agent: Hundley played three seasons with the Arizona Wildcats from 2003 to 2005. He was selected by the San Diego Padres in the second round of the 2005 MLB draft.

Hundley was called up the major leagues for the first time on July 3, 2008. He has had a long career that has lasted 12 years and played with five different teams. He had the best season of his career in 2015 with the Colorado Rockies, where he hit .301 with 10 home runs and 43 RBIs across 103 games played. He began this 2019 season with the Oakland Athletics, where he hit .200 over 31 games played before he was released back in June. Hundley signed a minorleague contract with the Philadelphia Phillies in August but was released a couple weeks later. It is not clear right now what the future holds for Hundley in the MLB. Brandon Dixon – 1B, Detroit Tigers: Dixon played with the Arizona Wildcats from 2011 to 2013. He was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the third round of the 2013 MLB draft. In December 2015, Dixon was traded to the Cincinnati Reds as part of a deal that sent Trayce Thompson to the Dodgers and Todd Frazier to the Chicago White Sox. Dixon was called up to the major leagues for the first time on May 22, 2018. He racked up his first three career major league hits on May 24, going on to play in 74 games for the Reds in the 2018 season at six different positions, including two appearances as a

pitcher. Dixon was claimed off waivers by the Detroit Tigers in November 2018. He began this season in Triple-A, but has now turned into a regular starter for a struggling Tigers team that currently boasts the worst record in the league.

Kevin Ginkel – RP, Arizona Diamondbacks: Ginkel played just one season with the Arizona Wildcats in 2016, a year that saw the UA make a run to the college world series. He was selected by the Diamondbacks in the 22nd round of the 2016 MLB Draft.

He became the first UA player to make it to the major leagues under Head Coach Jay Johnson. Ginkel became the first Wildcats pitcher to break into the major leagues since Preston Guilmet with the Cleveland Indians in July 2013. In his major league debut last month, Ginkel struck out the first batter he faced, working 0.2 innings.

Kevin Newman – SS, Pittsburgh Pirates: Newman played with the Arizona Wildcats from 2013 to 2015. Newman was selected as the 19th overall pick in the first round by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2015 Major League Baseball draft.

He made his major league debut with the Pirates last season in 2018 and has now turned into the everyday start at shortstop for Pittsburgh, hitting .315 with 10 home runs and 56 RBI’s so far this season through 118 games played.

2019 Major League Baseball draft: This past year’s MLB draft was a success for the Arizona Wildcats which saw six UA players get drafted.

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OPINION | BORDER POLITICS

Members of Senate on the fence about Trump’s wall

BY CHUCK VALADEZ @DailyWildcat

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he border wall has been one of the most controversial plans laid out by President Donald Trump from the very beginning of his campaign.

Both Democrats and Republicans have questioned the effectiveness of a wall if it were to be placed at the border. However, to keep the fanbase alive, Trump has been determined to carry out one of his most quotable plans, albeit in a questionable way.

Trump has diverted $3.6 billion away from the military budget to go towards a border wall, a plan that naturally has received bipartisan criticism. As a result of this diversion of money, necessary funds to carry out important military projects have been lost, such as schools for military children, repairs of military bases in Puerto Rico and cuts to the engineering center at West Point.

Republican Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney from Utah have been extremely critical of the money diversion, as $54 million for jobs in Utah have been put to a halt.

Senator Romney criticized President Trump, stating

that the cuts have done nothing of value and have only negatively impacted the military readiness of the U.S. Sen. Lee had taken a different approach to critique the new plans, rather noting that this is an issue of executive power.

“Congress has been ceding far too much power to the executive branch for decades and it is far past time for Congress to restore the proper balance of power between the three branches,” mentioned Senator Lee after the decision had been made by Trump to divert the funds.

He was not the only person within the legislative branch to denote this issue.

Sen. Dianne Fienstein, a Democrat from California, said of the diversion that, “the decision by the administration to divert funds from military construction projects in order to build the president’s ill-conceived wall is irresponsible. Congress appropriated these funds for specific military construction projects, and that’s how the funds should be used.”

The Constitution does not give the executive branch the power to allocate funds where they see fit; the Spending Clause gives this to the Legislative Branch: “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States ...”

We have separation of powers in the U.S.; this is to make sure none of the three branches become too

powerful. When we ignore the clear responsibilities laid out in the Constitution for each branch, we begin to see the scales tip in favor of one of the branches. When we see this happen, the government does not run by design as one for the people, but rather for the branch that seems to have usurped some of the power.

The Legislative Branch has become helpless in this fight; however, simply because a previous ruling by the Supreme Court has allowed Trump to allocate funds from a separate category of military funding to the Department of Homeland Security. The Judicial and Executive Branches have seemed to snuff out the Legislative Branch.

Though, all hope is not lost. The American Civil Liberties Union is planning to block the diverted funds by way of a court order as part of its ongoing lawsuit against the emergency declaration.

We find ourselves in an interesting time, one in which our government is no longer serving the best interest of its people, but rather the whims of its egomaniacal commander in chief. Of course, this is nothing new; however, it is alarming how Americans are willing to watch what happens rather than exercising their rights and getting involved. Perhaps it is time to treat these issues as deliberate acts of disrespect toward our Constitution rather than treating them as the weekly antics of our kooky president. Something can be done, it just needs to be given proper attention.

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ARTS & LIFE | NEW TFT HEAD

Newly appointed Theatre, Film & Television director to take program ‘international’ Andrew Belser was appointed as the new director for the University of Arizona School of Theatre, Film & Television on Aug. 5. The Daily Wildcat sat down with him to talk about his goals for the school

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Daily Wildcat: What made you decide to get into theater, film and television?

Andrew Belser: Oh my gosh. Well, I was in the standard high school musicals and high school plays, and then when I was in college, I was acting but I really started to direct. As soon as I directed my first piece, when I was about 19, that was it. I knew directing theater and eventually film would be a strong center of what I was going to do.

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THE ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE is located on campus and offers many shows throughout the year. The theatre recently had a production of “Proof.”

DW: Can you tell us more about your work on The Gravity Project?

AB: The Gravity Project sort of emerged organically from my work with a lot of professionals. In the ’80s and ’90s, I directed a lot of professional theater and I went to a small college in Pennsylvania where I took a job as the head of theater. I knew that this small college would not be able to hire enough faculty to have a legitimately large theater program. So, I said to them, it would be far cheaper for us to just have a guest artist residency program.

Those guest artists came in and we made work with students, but sometimes we made work by ourselves. We workshopped, created work with students or we trained with students around. It was really great.

DW: As the new director of the School of Theatre, Film & Television, are there any new programs you want to start?

AB: I’m going to start an international program so that students can take, depending on what program they’re in, they can start exchanges.

This already started before I got here, but we’re really going to boost the micro-campuses. UA has a really interesting program through UA Global called micro-campuses. We are starting one in Manila, in Lima and in Peru, and they are both in film. We believe that we would like to have five, seven or eight of these in the next three or four years. These exchanges mean that our students

can go to any one of those programs for a semester, and students from those programs can come here, and our faculty can exchange.

DW: What about your plans for the school?

AB: I’m going to [also] begin to bring guest artists into all of the school. I would say probably the most guest artists that I see coming through are in the film side. They got a lot of guest artists and a lot are coming through the Hanson [Film] Institute.

That’s another initiative that I would like to do, is strengthen the collaboration and sort of structural integration between Hanson and the School of Theatre, Film & Television. I’m forming what I call “industry counsels.”

One of the problems around the country — probably the world, too, but around the U.S. for sure — in film and theater programs is that theater and film and TV have changed so much in the last 5-10 years. Programs can’t keep up with the change.

If you look at 10 years ago, there was no Netflix or Netflix movies being made. Now Amazon Prime and Hulu are making movies. Now you have people having careers on YouTube and they are film makers. The same is happening in theater, where theaters are diversifying what live entertainment looks like ... Theater looks more like a live spectacle, it looks like Cirque du Soleil, it looks like community-based theater events, like outdoor theaters and things that you might not think of as theater. Urban design often has live entertainment parts of it. We are going to do much more of that diversification facing Tucson and the region. We are going to bring the theater, film and television program to the region, and bring the region to us.

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resident assistant assistance Offering help to a resident assistant is a nice gesture, but if that help is green and leafy and comes in a plastic bag, students may be better off keeping that offer to themselves.

University of Arizona Police Department officers responded to reports of the smell of marijuana coming from a room in Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall on Sept. 6 at around 11 p.m.

Upon arrival, the officers spoke with a RA who told them that he had been doing his rounds earlier in the night when a student offered him marijuana. The RA described the student as a young man wearing a Houston Astros baseball jersey and a diamond necklace.

Later, while walking down the hall, the RA smelled marijuana and called UAPD. The RA lead the officers to the room where the smell was coming from, where they also heard loud music and voices through the door, according to the report.

The officers knocked on the door, and a resident answered. She and another woman were in the room, as was a student who matched the description of the man in the Astros jersey.

One of the officers spoke with the student in the Astros jersey, who reportedly had bloodshot eyes and an odor of marijuana. The officer told the student why he was there. The student told him he had a medical marijuana card, though he did not show it to him.

The officer found a small, empty bag in the student’s front pocket. The student said that it used to have marijuana in it. He also said that he had not offered drugs to anyone in the hall.

The other officer spoke with the two

residents and was given permission by one of them to search her half of the room. The officer noted he found nothing suspicious, though the smell of marijuana was strong in the room.

The officers ultimately referred the trio to the Dean of Students Office for a code of conduct violation.

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Well this case is exactly like that, except this man did not drive. He jumped a fence and home was actually a pool and he was naked when the cops found him.

So, really nothing like that.

UAPD officers arrived at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center around 1:30 a.m. after an alarm went off on Sept. 7. The officers split up to search the area.

One of the officers spotted a naked man running near the west side of the pool, according to the report. She ordered him to stop and lie on the ground, which he did.

She handcuffed him while he identified himself. At first, he told the officer that he was an employee, before saying he was a student and then later saying he worked in the Honors Village.

The officers located his clothing and helped him dress. The man was slightly damp when he was initially apprehended.

The man told the officers he had been drinking on Fourth Avenue earlier in the night and had no idea how he had gotten to campus or the pool, though he suspected he jumped over the fence.

An officer took the man to Pima County Jail, where he was booked on one charge of criminal trespassing.

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The Sixth Street Parking Garage has initiated the use of automated cashier systems, replacing human ones, a change that could be coming to more parking structures on campus.

The garage is not the first at the University of Arizona to undergo this switch, as the South Stadium Garage became automated in 2017.

Marketing and Public Information Manager for Parking and Transportation Services Florence Dei Ochoa explained this process.

“We were able to operate that garage no problem, so fast forward two years later, we’re trying it at Sixth Street Garage,” she said.

Success of the transition will be measured by how many more customers the garage will be able to cater to, according to Ochoa. Other garages may see the same conversion in the future.

“We do hope that this pilot program at Sixth Street Garage is a success so that we could roll it out to more garages,” Ochoa said.

Although relatively new at the UA, this technology has already been implemented at other universities and airports.

According to Parking & Transportation Services at the University of Minnesota, their garages began implementing automated pay systems during the summer of 2011 through June of 2013.

They stipulate that the reason for the change is so they can maintain low parking rates as well as offer a variety of programs.

PTS at the University of Minnesota also ensures that the level of security did not change. Even with the lack of attendants, there are cameras and call buttons at each exit as well as buttons on each pay machine.

The Los Angeles International Airport initiated the use of automated pay machines at a few of their garages.

Keith Wilschetz, the Deputy Executive Director of Operations and Emergency Management, described the reasons for the change.

“At LAX, one of our four strategic goals is to innovate for safety, security and efficiency, and the new automated payment systems at P3 and P4 will help us do just that,” Wilschetz said in a press release.

In the event of a patron in need of assistance at the Sixth Street Parking Garage, the staff will be present to help with any sort of issue.

“Primarily, they’re on the first floor, but if someone needed assistance, most likely there’s already someone at the entrance or exit gates to help them out,” Ochoa said.

In some cases, technological advancements can be seen to replace jobs otherwise held by people. That is not the case at the UA. “We are repurposing so that they are engaging customers more,” Ochoa said.

Workers previously holding cashier positions would now be doing other types of work. Ochoa cited disability cart service drivers, dispatch and bike valet as examples of PTS jobs outside the cashier booth that they are always hiring for.

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ARTS & LIFE | CRAFTING THEIR STORIES

Art exhibition explores grief and loss

BY SUNDAY HOLLAND @sunday_holland

Together with ArtWorks, the University of Arizona Museum of Art is hosting an art exhibition chronicling the universal human feelings of loss and grief titled “Crafting My Story: Experiences of Loss, Grief and Spiritual Life.”

The exhibit began Sept. 7 and remains until Jan. 12, 2020 on the second floor of the UAMA and features 22 works of art.

According to ArtWorks director Yumi Shirai, all pieces were created by adults older than 30 who have intellectual and developmental disabilities, or IDD, and have worked together with UA students through ArtWorks — an on-campus program in the Sonoran Center for Excellence in Disabilities.

Through the program, the artists with IDD spent 10 weeks learning about grief response and using it for their art, Shirai said. Their final creations tell stories about their own journeys with loss.

“In our folks, we have disenfranchised grief,” Shirai said.

“Their grief is buried down, not acknowledged or is even denied. It’s not clearly described how we can support them.”

Shirai, who has been the director at ArtWorks for 21 years, has completed training in grief counseling. She saw the need for it in the adults at ArtWorks and was inspired to obtain this experience.

According to ArtWorks, when suddenly faced with “the global life event ... grief,” those with IDD are often unprepared.

Traditional grief counseling is built on the assumption that everybody is literate and able to speak, according to Shirai. Individuals with IDD have impairments in these fields, so such techniques do not work for them.

The grief counseling field is missing tools for individuals who do not fit that precise mold.

“We did this exhibit because we wanted to show their capacity and also their need [for this type of grief support],” Shirai said.

Each work in the exhibit is an expressive story and provides a window into each artist’s in-depth process and journey through grief.

The Artists Like grief, each piece was unique

and personal to the artist’s journey.

ArtWorks artist Jon Green used dreamlike forms and distorted figures to display these emotions in his artwork.

“When my dad passed, I experienced overwhelming grief,” Green said in his artist’s bio at the exhibit. “I had episodes when I felt my dad’s presence, and I had never had that with other people. This happened so much that I had to call my mom and let her know that I had felt my dad in the house.”

According to the exhibit’s description, individuals with IDD are living longer than they have in the past. With this longer life expectancy comes the reality that they are increasingly outliving their parents, primary caregivers and other comforting faces.

They also experience multilayered losses, like their familiar daily routine, social network and residence when the passing of a loved one occurs. Oftentimes, they are confused with how to cope when someone passes away, according to Sheila Hollins’ article “Managing Grief Better: People with Intellectual Disabilities.”

Of the 21 contributing ArtWorks artists, 6 collaborated with students from the UA by sharing their grief stories and then working together on the creative process, according to Shirai. Students met with the artists for six weeks, 45 minutes a week.

Each artist was paired with three or four students.

“The students helped to synthesize the pieces of information [from each story] together,” Shirai said. “[To] have the ability to do so in art while using words is very difficult.”

A word from the curator “One of the powers of this exhibition is that we traditionally have this way of othering how we relate to others. We put ourselves in boxes of how we’re different from other people,” said Chelsea Farrar, the UAMA curator of community engagement. “ArtWorks artists, as adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, are a prime example of groups that have just been othered. We kind of infantilize that community of individuals, [yet] they’re having those same kinds of profound emotional reaction to the things that all of us have to experience at one

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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA STUDENTS Hannah Burns and Ellenor Spencer looking at a piece by Vicky Pisano on display for the “Crafting My Story” exhibit by Artworks for the University of Arizona Museum of Art. ArtWorks is a program that pairs adults with intellectual disabilities and University of Arizona students together to work on art projects.

point in our lives, whether it’s a pet, a family member or their lifetime caregiver.”

For the UA students, working with the artists also helped them to redefine the ways in which they themselves go about processing grief. The concept of grief became a positive discussion and celebration by the end of the six-week collaboration.

“The students really learned from our artists. Our artists are in their 30s through 50s, so they’re matured in terms of life experiences compared to college students,” Shirai said. “It opened up how students perceive death and grief and also permitted them to talk about it in different ways.”

This is UAMA’s second time working with ArtWorks. Both the 2016 show and the current exhibition have been well-received and Farrar is proud and honored to be hosting “Crafting My Story.” “[The exhibit] connects us in these shared experiences and makes us realize that we’re more alike than we are different,” Farrar said.

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A PIECE DONE BY Monica Gomez for the “Crafting My Story” exhibit at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. The exhibit will be at the museum from Sept. 2019 to Jan. 2020.

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hen most people think of packrats, they likely can’t help but think of the animal responsible for chewing through their car cables, causing the engine light to turn on. However, when undergraduate researcher Sandy Slovikosky pictures the rodents, she thinks of something entirely different: animals glowing in vibrant pink, orange and yellow colors running across the landscape.

Slovikosky works within Dr. John Koprowski’s Conservation Research Laboratory studying the routes that packrats follow when they are moved away from their nests using a technique known as “fluorescent powder tracking.”

She currently conducts this research on Mount Graham, the highest peak of Coronado National Forest’s Sky Islands and located in the Pinaleño Mountains.

“I call it creating glow-in-the-dark rats,” Slovikosky said. “In short, I capture the rodents, move them a short distance from their nests, place them in a plastic

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its movement patterns could potentially be utilized to help characterize the relationship between the natural environment and other small mammal species.”

Packrats, or woodrats as they are more frequently called within the scientific community, are relatively easy to locate based on the presence of their nests, or midd ens. These are characterized by a large accumulation of sticks, pine needles, rocks and virtually anything else the rat can find in addition to a bed of fecal pellets and a distinctive smell.

The specific species Slovikosky studies is the Mexican woodrat.

Because the animals are nocturnal, she primarily works at night, opening traps at sundown and releasing and powdering any caught rodents prior to sunrise. After dark, she then uses pin flags to mark the trails and, during the day, analyzes those marked from the previous evening by noting number of turns and preferred vegetation type.

“It’s quite an adventure being out at night,” Slovikosky said. “Following the trails is always fun because you

bag with the fluorescent powder, gently rotate to cover the fur in powder and then let them go.”

As the animals move across the landscape, they leave a trail behind that glows at night under an ultraviolet light, allowing her to know precisely which direction they went in.

By examining the packrats’ paths, Koprowski and Slovikosky hope to gain a stronger understanding of how these small mammals relate to their natural environment, including how they move over burned areas. Mount Graham had a severe fire in 2017, known as the Frye Fire, which burned over 48,000 acres.

The study sites on which the packrat nests are located are characterized by varying burn levels, ranging from unchanged to severe. Slovikosky notes the burn severity of the patches over which she moves the rodents.

“Understanding how fire and other natural phenomena affect rodents can help inform management decisions, particularly for endangered species,” she said. “While the packrat is not endangered, the knowledge gained from

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never know where they’re going to lead. Sometimes the animal runs in a relatively straight line and other times it’s all over the place.”

She additionally hopes to be able to publish the study, as there is little published literature on the Mexican woodrat or its habitat use.

The project is an example of the variety of research the Koprowski lab conducts.

The group focuses on the conservation of imperiled species from the Mount Graham red squirrel to Ganges River dolphins and African elephants.

While most people know the mountain for its astronomical International Observatory and refugium for the endangered Mount Graham red squirrel, the research that Slovikosky and others conduct lends testimony to the unique biodiversity on the mountain.

Koprowski and Slovikosky’s research is funded by the University of Arizona’s Undergraduate Biology Research Program and the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences.