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VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 76

‘Black Life’ activists to speak this weekend

IN THE NEWS Mitt Romney considers 2016 run House votes to reverse immigration protections Hikers topped El Capitan’s Dawn Wall in 19 days Al-Qaida claims responsibility for Paris attack

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LET IT SNOW Winter escape for those seeking acitivities for three-day holiday weekend outside of Tucson

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SPORTS

BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat

The Mount Lemmon area provides for a nice getaway from Tucson, especially for the upcoming three-day weekend, in which students can take advantage of the many recreational activities that make the area such an

attraction.

The slopes of Ski Valley, perhaps one of the main attractions, still remain closed even after the area was lightly dusted with snow on Tuesday night.

Even though parts of the mountain are still covered, the Ski Valley website says they are awaiting more snow

before resuming skiing.

Last year, the ski slopes did not open due to lack of snowfall.

According to snocountry.com, Mount Lemmon Ski Valley received 13 inches of base snow on New Year’s day.

Phil Mack, the Mount

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Throughout the weekend leading into Martin Luther King Jr. Day, community members are invited to attend the Black Life Matters Conference held at the UA. Through keynote presentations, handson workshops, collaborative panels, arts and performance and community engagement, the conference will discuss why “Black Lives Matter” in today’s political environment. Community members who attend the conference will discuss this by focusing on six main themes: disparities, global “blackness,” the criminalizing of African-American communities, sexuality, violence against women and immigration.

“This conference is an attempt to fuse academic, community political efforts, local to national, to remember that black life matters,” said Monica J. Casper, head of the department of gender and women’s studies, to UANews.

April Petillo, an American Indian studies graduate student, member of the Black Life Matters Conference planning committee and the community facilitator and a graduate assistant for African American Student Affairs, spoke on the importance of the conference to the UA and Southern Arizona.

“We would be ignoring the reality if we were to assume that Tucson is different,” Petillo said.

He said that the conference is an opportunity for university students to take what is taught in classes and use it to support Tucson’s local community and the national community as a whole.

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SCIENCE

Bigger biology data sets require new skillset

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Vaccinations lack efficiency in battling flu season strains

BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat

The U.S. is currently in the midst of a flu epidemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in a press release that the flu continues to expand throughout the country, with the latest report showing high or widespread activity in 43 states.

The Arizona Department of Health Services acquires data concerning influenza surveillance and posts weekly reports on their website. It acknowledges the 2014-2015 flu season as the period between Sept. 28, 2014 and Oct. 3, 2015. As of week 53 (Dec. 28 to Jan. 3), the data shows that Arizona has had 1,546 laboratory confirmed influenza cases in 14 different counties throughout the entire 2014-2015 flu season so far.

Of those cases, 428 have been reported by Pima County, and 131 cases were reported in week 53 alone.

According to a Pima County Health Department press release last year, 2,000 confirmed cases of influenza were reported.

This season, many issues have arisen concerning the influenza vaccine. The

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THIS YEARS flu epidemic has affected 43 states, including Arizona. This season’s vaccine has been of little help, failing to contain a variation of one of the strains of flu.

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QUOTE TO NOTE “There are some who reerve a table every month and bring their friends. Monterey Court is an outdoor venue so kids are welcome ... [and] some people bring their dogs” —Ron Pandy

UA leads nation in compassion

BY TIRION ROSE MORRIS

The Daily Wildcat

The UA is offering a variety of new courses this semester as part of the nation’s first collegiate Center for Compassion Studies.

As part of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, the center will teach students the importance of kindness and compassion in a world that is socially and politically stressed.

Leslie Langbert, a clinical social worker for 15 years, is now the

executive director and program held Tuesdays and Thursdays from project director of the Center for 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. and has not yet Compassion reached capacity.

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“The class cap is 50 The center is and it would be great [P]rograms partnering with the to have a full class,” … are geared Student Recreation Langbert said. to improve Center to offer This class is the overall some nonacademic technically part of the emotional wellness classes care and health society experience… and community major, but is open to outreach programs. all students.

Langbert teaches All programs at the a 3-credit class, center are geared to Special Topics in improve the overall Care, Health and Humanity. It will be emotional experience of students

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and staff at the UA. The Center for Compassion Studies is also partnering with the Student Recreation Center to offer two noncredit wellness classes.

The first is a six-week class, starting on March 24, called Introduction to Mindfulness Practices. The class is designed to help students incorporate mindfulness through food, communication and meditation into their lives. This class is on Tuesdays from 3-4 p.m. and registration is currently open.

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COMPASSION

Important dates in regards to new courses avalible through the Center of Compassion Studies and drop deadlines for academic courses.

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The second class, Managing Stress Mindfully, will be held twice this semester, once on Feb. 17 and again on May 5. This class will teach background on the science of stress, how it can impact the body and how to manage it in a positive way. Registration for both sessions is open now.

The Center for Compassion Studies works with both staff and students. The Center is offering an eight-week course to all UA staff through the CAPS program as a professional development opportunity.

Staff at Campus Health Service as well as across campus are learning how to be more compassionate and mindful towards students and each other.

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CDC website explains how the viruses to be included in the vaccine must be picked months in advance in order to be produced and delivered.

“Every year, there’s always concern that the vaccine is not a perfect match for the circulating strains of flu,” said Dr. Sean Elliott, medical director for infection prevention at the UA. According to the CDC website, this season’s vaccine includes an “influenza A (H1N1) virus, influenza A (H3N2) virus and one or two influenza B viruses.”

The website also states that there was no way to predict that the flu would circulate so widely.

Although the vaccine has the potential of not covering every strain of influenza circulating around this season, officials still recommend patients get vaccinated.

Elliott says he absolutely recommends people get a vaccination.

In an email interview, Dr. Harry McDermott the executive director at Campus Health Service, also recommended people get the vaccine because it still covers three to four different flu strains.

“Even though the flu strain that isn’t covered well by this year’s flu vaccine is the predominant strain circulating in the U.S. right now,” McDermott explained. “It is close enough to the vaccine strain that there could be some partial immunity generated by vaccination so that someone exposed to that strain would not be fully protected, but they

could get a milder illness.”

“We didn’t start seeing flu cases in students until the last week of the fall semester, and then rather quickly everyone was off for the winter break,” McDermott said. “From the fall semester until Jan. 16, 2015, we have had 15 cases of flu diagnosed at Campus Health.”

It is, however, not too late for people to get a flu shot. Elliot strongly urged everyone to not only get the shot but also be careful by washing hands frequently and not going into public areas when sick.

“Getting a flu shot is one important factor in preventing illness from the flu virus,” McDermott said. “However, just as important and potentially useful is regular hand washing, getting adequate sleep and balanced nutrition. For those who may come down with the flu, staying home to rest when initially ill and also covering your cough with your sleeve and not your hands will help avoid spreading it to your friends, families and others.”

Although the CDC declares a flu epidemic every year, Elliot said this year’s numbers are not out of the ordinary for this time. He also said that numbers are expected to be normal despite the issues with the vaccine not covering all strains.

Of those cases, 428 have been reported...

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Lemmon General Store and Gift Shop owner, explained that typically the peak of the season is the weeks before, during and after Christmas.

“Whenever we have fresh snow, it is mobbed,” Mack said. “I mean, it is exceptional when we’ve got snow on the ground. The snow melted in the last week so the numbers of tourists and visitors are way down right now, but if we get a snowstorm, then the mountains are as crowded as can be.”

He also explained how even though Summerhaven received about half an inch of snow and other parts about an inch, it didn’t last long. All the snow that was on his roof is already gone.

Despite the lack of snow, both Mount Lemmon and Summerhaven still offer many other activities and dining options for visitors to enjoy.

There’s rock climbing and hiking available, especially as the snow melts away and more trials become available.

Besides the usual activities, Mack said, “Just getting away, getting out, and having a picnic is a good idea.”

He added that this weekend it’s not going to be exceptionally cold, so a light jacket would be comfortable and ideal.

As for dining, there are a few different places one can eat when spending the day or weekend. The Iron Door located at Ski Valley is open and apparently a must when in the area. The Ski Valley website says, “Treat yourself to a relaxing lunch, a taste tempting slice of pie or just enjoy the mountain ambiance with some friends.”

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Mount Lemmon Ski Valley was closed all last season due to lack of snow for the first time in 50 years.

According to weatherbase.com, over the past 17 years, Mount Lemmon’s annual snowfall average totaled 196 cm.

Decemember has accumulated the most snow per month with a 51 cm average over the last 17 years.

Mount Lemmon received first snowfall of the season on Dec. 14, 2014.

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conference to think about the “next steps in the struggle around racial justice.”

FROM PAGE 1 “There’s a hope from the Adam Geary, associate professor planning committee that there in gender and women’s studies won’t entirely be panelists and a member of the Black Life speaking and the audience listens,” Matters Conference programming Geary said. committee, said he is most excited Geary points out that the whole for the conferences’ “all star cast day on Saturday is dedicated to of leading activists.” Among these creative and activists are the collaborative work, keynote speakers: where attendees Kenyon Farrow, can work alongside Lourdes Ashley the panelists.

Hunter, Tamura However, both A. Lomax and Geary and Imani Perry. the rest of the There will be over programming 40 other speakers committee hope —April Petillo, an participating in that attendees American Indian the conference. take new ideas studies graduate Artists and away from the student performers conference. will also be in T h e attendance, c o n f e r e n c e ’s expressing how website says the “Black Lives Matter” through dance, hope is that the conference will spark music, spoken word and film to over an ongoing conversation about 600 attendees. Petillo said that these black lives and give people tools and are prime examples of how many resources to take the conversations forms of activism there are that she into their own communities. Other hopes will be shared. planned outcomes include a “series “We want everyone to bring of thematic policy papers” and their own form of activism to the action items and next steps for local, conversation,” Petillo said. regional and national policies.

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The General Store even has a fudge shop for visitors to enjoy.

Summerhaven has the Pizza and Cookie Cabin, as well as the Sawmill Run Restaurant for tourists to enjoy meals.

Mack recommends all of the above and says that although there aren’t tons of options to eat, the ones available are actually pretty good.

One of the other activities for visitors to partake in at Mount Lemmon is SkyNights at the UA Sky Center.

According to the Sky Center website, the SkyNight experience uses a new 32inch Schulman Telescope, Arizona’s largest public viewing telescope, to observe the wonders of the cosmos.

Weather updates and snow forecasts are avalible at www.skithelemmon.com.

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LOURDES HUNTER will be a keynote speaker at the Black Life Matters conference this weekend. Hunter has a bachelor’s degree in social theory, structure and

Rights Campaign and 30 other units across the UA. The conference is free and open to the public, and while registration is available online, it is not necessary to register in order to attend the conference. A live stream of the conference will be available for viewing on its website, blacklifemattersconference.com.

Today and Friday, the conference will be held in the South Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center. On Saturday, it will be held at the Dunbar Cultural Center at

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SCIENCE

News • Thursday, January 15, 2015 Editor: Julie Huynh science@wildcat.arizona.edu twitter.com/dailywildcat

Funding issues challenge scientists

BY JULIE HUYNH

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Science suffers when there are not enough funds for investigators to do research, and potential discoveries are stifled by the increasing difficulty of obtaining funding. However, as a top public research university, the UA is adapting to tackle the challenge.

“It’s no secret that the federal government is in a period of retrenchment,” said Kimberly Espy, the senior vice president for research.

“We have too little tax dollars coming in and that trickles down to the research budget.”

Agencies are spending less money overall on research and development funding, Espy said. For example, the UA has seen a general decline in the amount of funding received from the National Institutes of Health over the past decade.

“And yet, it’s at a time when the need for investment in research couldn’t be greater,” Espy said.

Currently, the average age for an investigator to get their first R01 research grant from the NIH is 42, according to Tricia Serio, head of the molecular and cellular biology department. The R01 research grant is the standard grant that investigators get to run their lab. In 1980, the average age was approximately 36. “[Difficulties with funding] slows the pace of advancement in science because people are spending more time writing grants than doing research,” Serio said.

People had no idea how the fundamental research that ultimately led to things like iPods and Global

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SHAINA HASAN, a senior studying molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry, works in the Life Sciences South building on Saturday. Due to budget cuts, there is less money available for scientific research, resulting in repercussions such as talented scientists leaving the field and the stifling of potential new discoveries.

Positioning Systems would turn out, Espy said. If money was only put towards things that had practical applications, those technologies might not have come to be.

Inadequate funding also reinforces the inflexible path students follow to become investigators.

“Research in biology, the way the structure is set up now, is kind of like a pipeline,” Serio said. “You come in,

do research as an undergraduate, as a graduate student, as a postdoctoral scholar and continue on the academic track. But there is not really a way to exit [the pipeline] and also re-enter.”

The problems with funding will cause people to leave academic science with no realistic way to come back if they ever decide to, Serio said.

This has repercussions for education

and the training of future generations of scientists, because there are fewer opportunities for people to get the training they need.

“At the same time, even with less money being available, I’m very confident in the talent and creativity of our faculty,” Espy said. “The impact that our faculty make every day from the basic discoveries, to helping farmers use new practices to

increase their yield, to putting in new installations in art museums is truly remarkable.”

While overall funding has been down, one thing that is evolving is what the federal government is interested in funding.

“Nowadays, places like the NIH and National Science Foundation recognize that we have some grand challenges here,” Espy said. “How do we feed ten billion people in a way that leads to sustainable resources in our planet and at the same time powers our futures? How do we come up with treatments for diseases that are personalized for the differences between you and me?”

Many of these grand challenges are sitting at the gaps between disciplines, Espy said.

“If just a social scientist or physicist could have solved it alone, it would have been done,” Espy said. “So they are funding larger teams to tackle larger problems.”

Espy’s office focuses on looking for ways to bring people together to enable transdisciplinary work, such as connecting physical sciences to the life sciences.

While there are difficulties with funding, the choice to embark on this career path is not different from other careers, Serio said.

“There are risks involved in all professions,” Serio said. “If it’s something you are passionate about, you should try.”

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Conference highlights science communication

BIGGER DATA, NEW EDUCATION

COURTESY OF LAURITZ DIECKMAN

A LARGE data set from an electromyograph, which measures electrical activity produced from facial muscles, was analyzed using advanced computer algorithms and used to find facial disgust reactions. Computer programming is used to handle large data sets and is becoming a fundamental tool for researchers.

Bioinformatics pushes biology into digital age

BY AMY NIPPERT

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From lab bench to computer, life sciences education and research is becoming more reliant on programming and computation to achieve big results from big data. At the UA, an evolving curriculum in bioinformatics seeks to bridge the gap between traditional biological methods and computation.

Programming and computation is becoming increasingly necessary because scientists often generate more data than they can analyze themselves.

“There is a gap between the things people are learning and the computing and statistical skills they really need for advanced work,” said Dean Billheimer, an associate professor of biometry and leader of the UA Statistics/ Bioinformatics Resource.

Because of this gap, there is a big demand for data scientists — individuals that can apply computation and statistics — in a variety of sectors, including academic research and industries such as pharmaceutical companies, said Ryan Gutenkunst, an assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology.

The ability to understand advanced programming and statistics is a fundamental tool for researchers to utilize, said Joseph Watkins, a mathematics professor.

The nature of biology research is changing.

“It’s data driven now,” Watkins said. “If you went back 30 years and looked at different sectors of the university, the questions of mathematical models might have been interesting to engineering or optical sciences.

Now, the mathematics department is looking at more questions with large amounts of data.”

In part, this is due to new technologies and ways of collecting large amounts of biology data, such as genetic screens.

Even if a researcher is not doing trendy big data science, they spend a large portion of their time at their computer analyzing data, and programming gives them the tools to do what they want from their computers, Gutenkunst explained.

To learn how to use these tools, a background in bioinformatics is useful and the UA has classes that can help fill gaps in knowledge. These classes seek to combine statistics, computing and data-driven problem solving.

Currently, bioinformatics courses exist across a variety of colleges. Though relevant to modern methods of data collection and analysis, few of the classes are required, Gutenkunst said. He currently teaches a course in quantitative biology that teaches students to develop computational models of biological systems.

The UA continues to increase cooperation between departments and researchers in computing and life sciences, and there is an increase in life sciences students minoring in math, Watkins said. In his course, students from 15 different majors use statistics to work on data sets that are relevant to them.

The idea of learning to apply mathematical concepts to other fields is central to the idea of bioinformatics.

“We don’t want your education to be 30 different silos of knowledge,” Watkins said.

Watkins and Billheimer also both emphasized the need for researchers to understand the principles behind computing and statistics rather than simply technical knowledge.

In this way, researchers are better prepared to be part of collaborative teams, Billheimer said.

Traditional methods of research and subject knowledge are still valuable; however, the model for research is changing. Many projects are now a team effort where different specialists have important roles and all work together on the project, Billheimer said.

“The questions being asked are the same questions people have always asked,” Watkins said, “but now researchers have more ways to answer these questions.”

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COURTESY OF JEN CUBETA

LAUREN HARRIS, a senior studying ecology and evolutionary biology, presented her research at the 25th annual Undergraduate Biology Research Program Conference on Jan. 25, 2014 at the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. The UBRP conference is an opportunity for the students in the program to translate their research to the public.

have been apart of.

To initiate the 26th conference, Dr. Parmi Suchdev of Emory University will Only at the Undergraduate Biology be the keynote speaker. His speech is titled Research Program Conference can one find “Hidden hunger: how investing pennies in art, culture, science and family fun wrapped nutrition can save millions.” into a single event. Undergraduate science “[Dr. Suchdev’s] research is on childhood students will present their research at the nutrition in developing countries,” Bender upcoming 26th Annual UBRP Conference said. “He has conducted research in on Jan. 24 in the Stevie Eller Dance Theater Kenya and Latin America. He has also from noon to 5:30 p.m. been involved in promoting Sprinkles — a UBRP is a summer scientific research micronutrient powder — to address protein program. calorie malnutrition in kids.”

“The mission is to Bender said the teach students science conference is a means to by involving them in get the public community Science research,” said Carol excited about scientific Bender, a distinguished research, given that the is only as outreach professor and investigations are mostly important as the director of UBRP. conducted on taxpayers’ Aanika Balaji, a firstdollars. If the public does community who year UBRP student, not understand, feels understands it. said the conference excluded or views science is the culmination of as an elite, exclusive club, —Shaina Hasan, a student’s research that could mean trouble, from over the summer Bender said. There are UBRP ambassadors and academic year. more scientific terms in president The conference is a biology than there are wonderful opportunity in French, making this for students to present conference practice for their research to the community, Balaji students to translate their research to said. Oftentimes, the conference is the broader public. first poster presentation for participating “[UBRP] changes your perspective on students, such as for Balaji. what it means to be a young developing However, the conference is filled scientist,” said Shaina Hasan, president with more activities than just poster of the UBRP Ambassadors Organization presentation. and a senior studying biochemistry and “Last year, we started involving the molecular and cellular biology. “This public in hands-on science activities,” experience shows you how much you still said Jennifer Cubeta, assistant director of have to learn, which motivates student UBRP. “We had an arthropod zoo for kids inquiry about science.” to look at big bugs. There were also marine In addition, the conference is a great way creatures to look at and DNA extraction. for the Tucson community to learn what These activities allow us to bring science to the students are researching at the UA, the community, and we will continue to do Hasan said. this again this year.”

“Science is only as important as the The UBRP conference has a long tradition community who understands it,” she said, within the UBRP community, Bender said. “otherwise there would not be any passion Since the first group of students that joined for the science that is being done.”

UBRP in 1988, there has always been a conference, she said. Over 120 students will — Follow John McMullen present in the forthcoming conference in a @DailyWildcat tradition that approximately 2,200 students

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Thursday, January 15, 2015 • Page 4 Editor: Jacquelyn Oesterblad letters@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-3192 twitter.com/dailywildcat

We’re all going to die come 2050

BY TREY ROSS

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ith every new year, my list of resolutions seems to get lengthier. It will always include the ever popular “workout more and be healthy,” a love-myself mantra of “screw the haters” and probably something unrealistic like “write a book.” All nice goals. And with every new year comes anxiety — terrorism, impending nuclear war, climate change and the cost of cable.

But this year, we have something to be truly afraid of that we rarely think about: antibiotic resistance. Scary, right?

Imagine my alarm when the headline “Antibiotic Failure Will Kill 10 Million People a Year by 2050” popped up on the Mother Jones homepage a week ago.

The author, Tom Philpott , explained that a combination of antibiotic abuse in the medical field and the farming industry will result in extensive loss of life in the near future.

I spend so much time worrying about problems far beyond my control that I never realized we are on the brink of a controllable epidemic. Life is ironic that way.

Antibiotics were created to attack bacterial pathogens; they have no effect on viruses but are widely overprescribed for viral illnesses. I am guilty of antibiotic abuse myself: My mother and I tend to hoard Z-Paks like they are bars of gold and start one at the smallest sign of a scratchy throat or runny nose — cold symptoms, caused by a virus.

And even those of us who are prescribed medication properly contribute frequently to the evolving death machine of bacteria: When patients stop taking their antibiotics because they feel better and they don’t finish their prescription, some bacteria survive within their bodies. These bacteria become stronger and more resistant to the antibiotic but, had the patients finished their damn pills, they would have just killed the bacteria off.

Philpott also pointed out the many “high-stress but routine situations” in which people heavily rely on antibiotics, such as cesarean sections or car accidents. What happens when an infection kills everyone involved in a 10-car pile up because antibiotic use is as mundane as water?

So, to change up my resolutions, I am vowing to use simpler methods of fighting a common cold or flu — like rest, water and Advil — and to only use antibiotics when absolutely necessary, and by following my doctor’s exact directions.

In doing this, I’ll have solved less than half of our battle against bacteria.

The rest lies in the hands of industrial farms and their unhealthy practices.

Companies that are considered AFOs, or Animal Feeding Operations, pump their livestock with antibiotics for growth, disease prevention and weight gain. As more livestock are born into these death traps, they develop antibiotic-resistant bacteria that, in turn, are packaged and fed to the world. Eighty percent of the antibiotics consumed in the country can be found in the local deli aisle.

So, I propose another resolution: Let’s eat less meat, and let’s demand that any meat we do consume comes from pasture-fed, free-range animals instead of AFOs. Not only does antibiotic resistance have the potential to kill everyone, it could bankrupt the country first. It costs money to constantly develop new antibiotics and to produce higher quantities of them. By 2050, according to Philpott, we’ll be spending $8 trillion a year globally in making antibiotics.

If we start making changes in 2015, maybe they will lead to a dramatic change in the future. And if we don’t, change is going to come anyway.

If we continue to ignore this issue, more people will begin to die every year from antibiotic resistance. We might be far removed from campus by then, but where will we all be? Safe? Suffering? Or already dead?

— Trey Ross is a journalism sophomore. Follow her @_patriciaross

Huppenthal still a jerk

BY ELIZABETH HANNAH The Daily Wildcat

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n hindsight, it was naive to think that John Huppenthal would leave office gracefully.

After all, grandstanding and controversy largely characterized his single term as Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction. Instead of improving public education, Huppenthal appears to have spent his time posting bigoted comments on social media under pseudonyms.

So, really, it should not have been surprising when Huppenthal used his last days in office to renew his crusade against Tucson Unified School District’s ethnic studies program. His final act as superintendent underscores the destructive, self-serving agenda that Huppenthal began promoting shortly after he was elected in 2010.

But before tearing into Huppenthal, remember that the meritless attacks on TUSD’s ethnic studies program actually began with Huppenthal’s equally incompetent predecessor, Tom Horne. In 2010, Horne was the main proponent of HB 2281, a law banning classes that “promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, resentment toward any race or class, or ethnic solidarity.” The law directly targeted TUSD’s Mexican American Studies classes, none of which Horne

ever actually observed.

Meanwhile, as Horne was championing legislation that blatantly promoted white solidarity, Huppenthal was campaigning under the clever slogan, “Stop La Raza.”

Literally translated? Stop the race.

And he wasn’t referring to a NASCAR race.

Urban Dictionary, while perhaps not a credible source for a research paper, offers a definition of “la raza” that echoes Huppenthal’s intended meaning: “This word is used mainly by the Mexican or Hispanic people who live in the United States … often in conjunction with the concept of unity.”

The campaign slogan, therefore, roughly translates to “stop the Mexicans.”

Incredibly, Huppenthal won on this platform. Then, in 2011, he threatened to withhold 10 percent of TUSD’s state funding if it did not restructure its ethnic studies program, which he claimed violated HB 2281.

Judge Lewis D. Kowal upheld Huppenthal’s action, despite a Department of Educationsponsored study that revealed no violations.

In response to Huppenthal’s threat, the TUSD school board voted to cut the program because it could not afford a reduction in its already insufficient state funding. It removed several textbooks from its Mexican American studies classrooms to comply with the law.

But, as demonstrated on Jan. 2, even book banning wasn’t enough for Huppenthal.

Unsatisfied with TUSD’s response, Huppenthal used his final day in office to inform TUSD’s superintendent that the program still did not comply with HB 2281. This time, Huppenthal did not simply go after Mexican American Studies, citing an African American Studies class as an additional violator.

Huppenthal’s successor, Diane Douglas, has decided to carry on the campaign against TUSD, announcing last week that she agrees with Huppenthal’s assessment of the program.

All this theater puts TUSD between a rock and a hard place, given that it originally adopted the ethnic studies program to comply with a 1974 federal desegregation order. In 2007, as part of a settlement deal, the desegregation order was lifted with the condition that ethnic studies would continue.

If TUSD eliminates the program entirely, it could violate the settlement. At the very least, Huppenthal’s decision to target Mexican American and African American Studies constitutes a publicity stunt that only serves to detract from real issues plaguing Arizona’s public education system, like lack of funding. At worst, it is

an attack on the right to free speech. By effectively censoring certain materials from TUSD’s classrooms, Huppenthal is imposing a “master narrative” of history upon students — a narrative told from white, Western viewpoints.

“You’re not supposed to teach reality because they consider that teaching resentment,” said Mexican American Studies professor Roberto Rodriguez.

“You’re supposed to sugarcoat history.

There is nothing wrong with knowledge.

You don’t have agree with the knowledge, but to teach it, to learn it — there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Classes like Cholla High Magnet School’s English From a Culturally Relevant African American Perspective do not “promote the overthrow of the government” or “promote ethnic solidarity.” They expose students to cultures that are overlooked by the “master narrative,” thus offering a picture of the world as it really is, not as John Huppenthal wants it to be.

Huppenthal is imposing a “master narrative” of history upon students

— Elizabeth Hannah is a biochemistry sophomore.

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Letter to the Editor The U.S. and North America are experiencing a crisis. In 2013 alone, as many as 120,000 deaths occurred in Mexico. For the U.S., neighboring country’s issues may seem unimportant, but their effects correlate to our own issues. Central America’s poverty and violence are closely linked to the U.S.’s immigration problems. As violence and poverty increase, people flee their homes, believing they will find sanctuary in the U.S., but outdated immigration systems and a lack of aid create barriers. The U.S. has essentially caused the immigration dilemma that is occurring right now.

Historically, the U.S. had a contentious relationship with Mexico. In 1830, Mexican President Antonio Lòpez de Santa Anna abolished slavery and declared immigration to Texas by U.S. citizens illegal, but he was taken prisoner in 1836 and Texas joined the U.S. as a slave state. Mexico broke off its diplomatic relations with the U.S. When U.S. President James Polk wanted the Rio Grande as the U.S.-Mexico border, he invaded in 1848, securing a third of Mexican land for only $15 million with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

The U.S. has not been kind to its neighbors, instead exploiting them.

Today, the 1,954 mile-long border between

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the U.S. and Mexico brings more problems.

In 2005, there were 500 recorded deaths of immigrants trying to migrate to a find a better life. The area around Tucson alone had 477 deaths recorded in 2012. How can a progressive and great nation tolerate this humanitarian crisis in its own backyard?

According to economists, immigration boosts, not hurts, the economy. The 60 percent of undocumented workers in the U.S. who are from Mexico make up 4 percent of the U.S.’s gross domestic product and 8 percent when including second and third generations — a significant contribution to GDP. The U.S’s effect on Latin American economies, however, is deleterious: The North American Free Trade Agreement has put Central American institutions out of business by forcing disadvantaged farmers to compete with already established and economically strong U.S. industries.

When thousands of children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador crossed the border last summer, blame was placed on drug and gang violence, economic instability and government corruption. The U.S. itself has instigated these by supporting despotic regimes, adopting impossible immigration processes, implementing NAFTA, deporting criminals, fighting a war

on drugs and having a passive attitude when it comes to helping our neighbors. If the U.S. is concerned with the influx of Hispanic immigrants, addressing heightened gang activity in Central America should be a priority.

The U.S. government needs to take action to help decrease the violence and economic disparity it is partially responsible for creating. It needs to apply pressure on corrupt governments and organized crime factions that plague its southern neighbors, to deploy economic and educational initiatives for these struggling countries, to streamline immigration policies and to reassess NAFTA. The U.S. is an exceptional nation, but it needs to address these issues to live up to its founding standards.

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All you had to do was slow down

A non-UA affiliated individual was transported to Pima County Jail for possession of narcotics and violating traffic and motor vehicle laws on Dec. 30.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer saw a vehicle going 50 mph in a area where the speed limit was 35 mph. The officer followed the vehicle and noted as that it drifted into another lane. The officer stopped the vehicle in a parking lot.

A check by UAPD dispatch showed the driver’s license had been suspended since September. The officer had the driver and his passenger exit the vehicle so the officer could conduct a search.

Inside the vehicle, the officer could smell an odor of marijuana. The officer located a black backpack behind the driver’s seat.

The driver of the vehicle said the backpack was his. The officer opened the backpack and found a clear glass jar full of marijuana.

The officer also located a clear glass pipe with burnt residue inside. The officer had another officer on the scene handcuff the driver while he handcuffed the passenger.

The driver was read his Miranda rights and said he understood them. The driver reconfirmed the backpack as his. He also admitted the marijuana was his and was for recreational use. The officer searched the driver and found $500 in cash in his front right pocket and a metal cigarette case in his left jacket pocket.

Within the metal cigarette case was a red plastic straw with a white powdery reside inside. The driver said there was cocaine folded in a dollar bill that was also inside the cigarette case. He said he paid $20 for the cocaine at a party.

The officer also found an empty plastic Airborne bottle with marijuana shake inside and a small clear glass jar with a purple lid and a white powdery residue in the backpack.

The second officer searched the purse of the passenger and found four different types of pills inside a multicolored plastic

container. Two of the pills were identified as over-the-counter medication. The other two pills were identified as controlled prescription-only pills.

The passenger was read her Miranda rights, and she said she understood them and agreed to answer questions. She said she had a prescription for the pills, but the prescriptions were at her home and she had no way of retrieving them.

She said she did not carry the pills in the prescription bottles due to the size of the bottles.

The driver was transported to Pima County Jail. The passenger was cited and released for possession of prescription-only pills.

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An non-UA affiliated individual was cited and released for possession of drug paraphernalia on Dec. 31.

A UAPD officer noticed a vehicle failing to drive in its lane and pulled the vehicle over.

The driver of the vehicle verbally identified himself. The officer could smell a strong odor of marijuana coming from the passenger compartment of the vehicle and could also see a small amount of loose marijuana debris on the vehicle’s center console.

The officer had the driver exit the vehicle.

The officer informed the driver that he could smell marijuana in the vehicle and asked if there was any in the vehicle.

The driver said that there was a small remaining bit of a burned cigarillo with marijuana in it in the center console cup holder. The officer searched the vehicle and located the cigarillo, which smelled strongly of marijuana.

The driver of the vehicle said his brother had driven the car before him and must have left it in there. He said he knew the marijuana was in the vehicle but that he had not had time to dispose of it.

The driver was cited and released for possession of paraphernalia and warned for failure to maintain lane.

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CAMPUS EVENTS Remember Me: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, 9AM-5PM, Cost: $5, UA Museum of Art- 1031 N. Olive Rd. UAMA is proud to hold a superb collection of European and American portraits that range in date from the 15th century to the present day. While portraits might seem straightforward, they often reflect the values and ideals of individual societies, illustrating standards of beauty, fashion, and social status. As this exhibit will demonstrate, portraits are not always truthful, and their functions change and evolve over time.

Auspicious Images: Japanese Prints from the Permanent Collection, 9AM-5PM, UA Museum of Art1031 N. Olive Rd. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating world”, Ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock prints genre that originated in the seventeenth century. Informed by depictions of city life, entertainment, leisure, beautiful women, kabuki actors, and landscapes, Ukiyo-e magnified the sophistication of the newly minted bourgeoisie who had found a playground in Edo (modern day Tokyo).

“Of Dust and Rainbows”, 9AM-5PM, Cost $5, UA Museum of Art- 1031 N. Olive Rd. American artist Prentiss Taylor, widely known for his WPA projects and in particular for his lithographs, was also a major art collector. This exhibition will not only feature works

by Prentiss Taylor himself, but also works by Isabel Bishop, Jacques Callot, and Hendrik Goltzius.

Men’s Basketball vs. Colorado (Home), 7PM, McKale Memorial Center. Arizona takes on Colorado.

Song: From Salon to Stage, the Journey of a Genre, 7:30PM-9PM, Free, Crowder Hall- 1017 N. Olive Rd. Join us for a lecture recital by Dr. Kristin Dauphinais, assisted by UA voice and piano students,

CAMPUS EVENTS outlining the origins of Art Song. This event opens the third Tucson Desert Song Festival. It is free and open to the public. There is convenient parking in the public garage on Park, just north of Speedway.

TUCSON EVENTS Rincon Country East Farmers Market, 9AM-1PM, Free, Rincon Country East RV Resort- 8989 E. Escalante Rd. Come on out and find a wide selection of seasonal organic produce, honey from Holly’s Little Farm, Jellies,Jams, Salsas and pickled items from We B Jammin, as well as, farm fresh eggs. Food Trucks Ranchers that provide meats and eggs. We have a great bread person, Gabe from Farmers Markets Breads Yard Art and much more.

GEOlogic - Images by Michael Holcomb, 10AM4PM, Cost:$10, Tucson Desert Art Museum- 7000 E. Tanque Verde Rd. Michael’s work is created using three-dimensional vertex modeling software and original algorithms, edited for characteristics of color, transparency and texture. His work has been exhibited and published internationally and is included in both public and private collections.

Extra Ordinary, 11AM-5PM, Free, Conrad Wilde Gallery- 101 W. Sixth Street. A show of extraordinary works made from ordinary materials by artists: Jessica Drenk, Yechel Gagnon, Bill Heineken, Victoria May, Pamela Paulsrud, and Dave Zaslow. View the remodeling progress at our gorgeous new space in the Historic Steinfeld Warehouse.

Mark Klett: Then and Now, 11AM-5PM, Free, Etherton Gallery- 135 S. Sixth Ave. Both narrator and par-

TUCSON EVENTS ticipant, poet and geologist, Mark Klett is renowned for reinventing landscape photography beginning in the 1970s by rephotographing locations previously visited by 19th and 20th century photographers and pairing or incorporating the earlier images with his photographs to comment on physical and cultural changes in the western landscape.

New Works by Ole Marius Jorgensen, 11AM4PM, Free, Baker Hesseldenz Design Fine Art- 100 E. Sixth St. Baker Hesseldenz Fine Art presents the first American solo exhibition of emerging artist Ole Marius Jorgensen This exhibition of new color photographs by the Norwegian artist are from two series, Vignettes and The Way North. The works are dark, cinematic and hauntingly beautiful and show a different side of Norway, the isolation and loneliness amidst the beauty of the country.

Rodin Inspired, 6PM-8PM, Cost Included w/ admission, Tucson Museum of Art- 140 N. Main Ave. Dancers from Safos Dance Theatre will perform two works choreographed by Yvonne Montoya, inspired by the poses of Auguste Rodin’s sculptures on view in the exhibition The Figure Examined.

Samuel Beckett’s: “Waiting for Godot”, 7:30PM, Cost: $32, $15/Student, The Rogue Theatre- 300 E. University Blvd. One of the greatest of modern plays, Waiting for Godot remains a challenge for interpreters. Two figures wait for a vaguely rendered entity named Godot, and both he/she/it and the waiting itself become metaphoric. Directed by Cynthia Meier.

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MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TENNIS

Wildcats prepare for tournaments

BY STEVIE KATZ

The Daily Wildcat

Men’s Tennis The Arizona men’s tennis team will host three opponents for the ITA Kickoff Classic this weekend from Friday to Monday in Tucson.

The Wildcats will go head to head with UC Irvine, New Mexico and Texas Tech, with the early matches being played at 10 a.m. and the later matches being played at 2 p.m. each day.

“We have a lot of new guys on the team this year, so this year is just a matter of really last semester is first and for most making sure the guys are in the best condition and best shape possible going into the spring and then also bringing them all together as a team,” UA men’s tennis coach Tad Berkowitz said.

Many of the players have grown their hardest and they compete as up playing as individuals, which hard as they can and fight as hard as they can,” is very different Berkowitz said. compared to “That’s the first playing as a team. and foremost, The players have We’ll give it the the main thing been tasked with we ask for from learning how best we got... them.” to play for each it’s going to be For the fast other, rather approaching than just for an interesting tournament themselves. season this weekend, Berkowitz said the team has he wants to see six matches his players always —Vicky Maes, UA in four days, give 100 percent. women’s tennis coach so the main “It depends objective for on the match, it the team is to depends really on be ready to go the day and the week and the kind of year and the from the beginning.

Berkowitz added that he does time of the year that we are at, but the main thing for us is that we will not expect to see his players’ best never get on the guys if they try tennis this weekend, but does

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7 Washington State (8-7, 2-1) After a terrible nonconference slate, the Cougars opened Pac-12 play with impressive road wins at California and Washington. Wazzu head coach Ernie Kent faces his ex, Oregon, tonight. #Awkward.

This week: vs. Oregon (12-4, 2-1), vs.

Oregon State (11-4, 2-1) 8 Colorado (9-6, 2-1) Once thought to be a challenger for the Pac-12 title, the Buffaloes have slumped to the lower half of the conference. At least CU is 2-1 in the Pac-12, thanks to the lousy LA schools coming to town.

This week: at No. 10 Arizona (14-2, 2-1), at ASU (8-8, 0-3) 9 California (11-6, 1-3) Since opening conference play with a nice win over Washington, the Golden Bears have lost to Wazzu and lowly USC. After starting the year 10-1, they lost four of five.

This week: vs. Stanford (11-4, 3-1)

10 UCLA (11-7, 3-2) The Bruins had lost five in a row until they upset Stanford, thanks in no small part to a call by the refs that former UA and USC head coach Kevin O’Neill said Helen Keller could have made. O’Neill also said Daily Wildcat alumnus Luke Della needs to get a life in that same broadcast; shots fired.

This week: 83-66 W vs. USC (9-8, 1-4) 11 USC (9-8, 1-4) While the Trojans did beat Cal, make no mistake — college basketball in Southern California is suffering. Fun fact: USC has seven players from the Golden State, two from Serbia and one each from Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Nevada and Louisiana.

This week: 66-83 L vs. UCLA (11-7, 3-2) 12 ASU (8-8, 0-3) In a dreadful conference, the Sun Devils bring up the rear. At least their women’s team is good and ASU is so much a women’s hoops school that its student newspaper does power rankings for women’s basketball.

This week: vs. No. 8 Utah (13-2, 3-0), vs.

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expect to see their best intensity and focus.

“It will be interesting to see,” Berkowitz said.

Women’s Tennis After giving back to the community last Saturday, the UA women’s tennis team will travel to Palm Springs, Calif., for the weekend to begin its spring season by playing in the National Collegiate Tennis Classic.

With the team consisting of one senior, three juniors, one sophomore and two freshmen, there’s a nice mix of knowledge and experience to be shared in hopes of bringing a victory back to Tucson.

Arizona has lost four players to graduation, so the team is working through some kinks and dealing with injuries from last season.

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Cindric have already competed against No. 4 Alabama in the GymCat’s opening 194.375196.225 loss.

“A lot of our experience is hurt,” Ryden said. “There are three- and four-year members that will not compete. At this point in the year, all the girls need to be ready to go. Even the freshmen are going to get a lot of opportunities that maybe they weren’t going to get. They have shown that they are more than capable of stepping up and doing their job.”

Throughout all of this team’s obstacles, one gymnast has remained the leader. Senior Allie Flores, who finished in second place in the all-around competition against Alabama, expressed her excitement about playing in front of her home crowd.

“I’m really excited for us,” Flores said. “I think we have kind of a brand new team. There’s such a different dynamic, so I’m

“Well, we obviously have to work on doubles, any time you bring in new people into a system that’s already been in place for several years, you kind of have to teach them a few new tricks, and doubles is a work in progress,” UA women’s tennis coach Vicky Maes said.

Out of the tournament this upcoming weekend, Maes said she hopes the team will relax because the players perform better when they do not feel under pressure.

“The girls have played all their lives, so we’ll give it the best we got, but certainly it’s going to be an interesting season,” Maes said.

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really excited to show it to our beam against Alabama, earning fans and that will hopefully get her a first-place finish against the them excited about the rest of Crimson Tide. Also contributing were junior Lexi Mills and the season as well.”

A number of the GymCats said sophomore Gabby Laub on bars.

A r i z o n a’s their fans upcoming will give opponents them the may keep extra boost ALLISON FLORES them on to pull out their toes, the victory YEAR/ POSITION but Flores is in their SR. ALL-AROUND confident in upcoming MAJOR her team’s quad meet.

PHYSIOLOGY ability to “They HOMETOWN compete. l o v e ADDISON, ILL. “If we do competing 2014 STATS what we do in front of in practice their home COMPETED IN EVERY MEET OF and stay c r o w d ,” 2014 SEASON positive and R y d e n 2014 PAC-12 FIRST-TEAM ALLmotivated said. “We CONFERENCE FOR ALL-AROUND and healthy have a very a n d supportive everybody and very passionate fan base that is does what they are supposed to do, I think we can win easily,” always there for us.”

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Thursday, January 15, 2015 • Page 10 Editor: Roberto Payne sports@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-2956 twitter.com/wildcatsports

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Wildcats look to right the ship

BY ROBERTO PAYNE The Daily Wildcat

Fresh off a surprising road loss to Oregon State, the No. 10 Arizona men’s basketball team has another competitive team on the schedule.

The Wildcats host the always pesky Colorado Buffaloes (9-6, 2-1) in the friendly confines of McKale Center tonight.

In their last game, the Buffaloes suffered a crushing 74-49 defeat at the hands of the Utah Utes. Colorado’s top-three scorers all performed below their season averages, including second-leading scorer Josh Scott scoring just three points and third-leading scorer Xavier Johnson failing to score at all.

Sean Miller and company would do well to heed that uncharacteristic performance and take these Buffaloes seriously come tip time on Thursday, especially considering how beatable the Wildcats look at the moment.

Despite averaging 75.1 points per game, Arizona has reached that plateau once over the past five games. The most recent game saw the UA score just 21 points at halftime and finish with 56 points in a disappointing loss. If Miller and the Wildcats are to get back on track, the team needs to break its streak of starting out poorly.

That trend was reversed in the first conference road game against Oregon, when the Wildcats opened up on a 12-4 and ended with an 8062 victory. Much of the same will be required against Colorado.

The aforementioned top-three scorers for Colorado have torched the UA in the past. Just last year, they combined for 47 of the team’s 57 points in the first matchup of the season and 33 of the team’s 61 points in the second matchup of the season.

Specifically, Scott was a thorn in the sides of Arizona players. He ended the regular season matchups averaging 16.5 points and 9.5 rebounds against the Wildcats. His energy and ability to grab offensive boards is a key reason why the Buffaloes have been so pesky against Arizona over the past couple years.

Containing Scott will go a long way to securing an Arizona victory, not to mention helping out UA big men Kaleb Tarczewski and Brandon Ashley in their battle to win the interior scoring margin — an area the UA as a whole could use

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH Sean Miller directs his team during Arizona’s 73-49 win against ASU in McKale Center on Jan. 4. After losing two of their last four games, Miller and the Wildcats have a chance to right the ship against Colorado today.

improvement in.

Speaking of Tarczewski and Ashley, the duo struggled mightily against Oregon State on Sunday, combining to go 3-11 from the field for nine points and three rebounds.

Those are the kind of stats one could expect on a bad day from one of them, let alone both. Tarczewski was particularly ineffective against the Beavers, as the junior who averages 5.3 rebounds per game recorded zero boards.

In addition to his lack of a rebounding presence, Tarczewski failed to protect the paint like he had been doing all season. A few days after the loss, Miller talked on how poorly the defensive performance was against the Beavers. If Arizona is to get a different result from the Colorado game, beefing up the defense would do wonders.

As the venerable Bill Walton would say with his usual air of wispy confidence: It’s the Buffaloes and Wildcats in the beautiful Sonoran Desert! What more could you ask?

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL ASSISTANT COACH Damon Stoudamire, guard T.J. McConnell, guard Gabe York, forward Brandon Ashley and center Kaleb Tarczewski, left to right, sit on the bench during Arizona’s 73-49 win against ASU in McKale Center on Jan. 4. The Wildcats have been suplanted for the No. 1 spot in our weekly Pac-12 power rankings by the Utah Utes.

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

3 Stanford (11-4, 3-1) With two wins over ranked teams, the Cardinal have shown they belong up with UU and UA. However, its bad losses, like DePaul University and UCLA , make them look like just another one of the Pac-12’s bottom 10.

This week: vs. California (116, 1-3), vs. Connecticut (9-5, 2-2 American)

1 No. 8 Utah (13-2, 3-0 Pac-12 Conference) While the Utes are the secondmost famous “the U” and feature the second-most famous Coach K, they are first in the Pac-12 Conference. Utah has won six in a row since a close loss at No. 9 Kansas.

This week: at ASU (8-8, 0-3), at No. 10 Arizona (14-2, 2-1) 4 Oregon State (11-4, 2-1) Sure, the Beavers lost to 2 No. 10 Arizona (14-2, 2-1) Quinnipiac and Division II After starting the season 12- Western Oregon (in an exhibition 0, the Wildcats have lost two of game), but they’re undefeated their last four. It’s gut check time at home and beat Arizona. OSU for the Wildcats, whom Arizona will probably drop soon, but for head coach Sean Miller called now head coach Wayne Tinkle’s out at his press conference on stream is strong.

Tuesday.

This week: at Washington (11-4, This week: vs. Colorado (9-6, 2-1), 0-3), at Washington State (8-7, vs. No. 8 Utah (13-2, 3-0) 2-1)

5 Washington (11-4, 0-3) After losing four in a row, including a game to Washington State at home, the Huskies are in free fall. However, they’re the Pac-12’s fourth team (out of four) in the Big Dance in the latest Bracketology, so they’re slotted in the first division of the conference until it becomes a three bid league.

This week: vs. Oregon State (11-4, 2-1), vs. Oregon (12-4, 2-1) 6 Oregon (12-4, 2-1) The Ducks have a nice looking record, but no notable wins, so they start the Pac-12’s mediocre parade. Oh well, spring football probably starts soon.

This week: at Washington State (8-7, 2-1), at Washington (11-4, 0-3)

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The “next man up” philosophy is used in unison with injuries in collegiate sports. When one athlete goes down, the next one has to step up. Arizona women’s gymnastics is facing that exact challenge this season, as injuries have plagued the experienced team early in the season.

“We have had a lot of adversity in the fall,” UA women’s gymnastics coach Bill Ryden said. “But, the reality is this team refuses to hang its head. They are working their rear off and coaches are coaching their rear off and, despite some season ending injuries to some very good athletes, they are not conceding anything.”

The GymCats will host their first quad meet and home meet of the season this Friday against Illinois-Chicago, Sacramento State and Wisconsin-Stout in McKale Center. However, they will have to compete without much of their experience. Redshirt junior Danielle Buchanan, senior Kristin Klarenbach and senior Amber Wobma are currently injured, but Ryden and the rest of the GymCats have adapted to that adversity.

“As a team, just the next person in line has to show up,” Ryden said. “You just have to up your game. We have a lot of good athletes on this team and I’m confident that they can do it. We have some people competing in events that they have never competed in before. We will figure out a way.”

With the injuries, the three freshmen will have to step up. Newcomers Victoria Ortiz, Kennady Schneider and Madison

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