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IN THE NEWS Startup Uber now worth $41.2 billion

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PEACE & QUIET

U.S. expected to call for no charges in death of Brown

BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat

Anti-immigrant German figure resigns after posing as Hitler Risk of heart failure lowered by an alcoholic beverage a day ­— The New York TImes

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STUDENTS PRACTICE yoga nidra breathing techniques under the direction of Leslie Langbert, executive director for the Center of Compassion Studies, in the Student Recreation Center on Tuesday. The class is part of the implementation efforts of the Center for Compassion Studies to improve health.

NATION & WORLD Wildcats take on Stanford in Palo Alto

Fee board begins annual funding review

Eleven stabbed on Tel Aviv bus TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

JERUSALEM — ­ A knife-wielding Palestinian went on a stabbing spree on a bus in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding 13 people, four of them seriously, before he was shot and arrested, a police spokesman said.

The attacker was identified as Hamza Matrouk, 23, from a refugee camp in the West Bank city of Tulkarm. Police said he’d told investigators that he’d acted in response to Israel’s military campaign last summer in Gaza, tensions over a contested holy site in Jerusalem and Internet videos promising paradise to “martyrs.”

Witnesses said the man went up to the driver and stabbed him before turning on the passengers.

After the passengers fled the vehicle, the assailant got off and stabbed a woman on the street before he was chased down and shot in the leg.

Liel Swissa, a 14-year-old boy who was taking the bus to school, told Israel Radio: “I heard people screaming. … I turned around and saw a person with a big knife

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The Student Services Fee Advisory Board will start reviewing funding proposals for the 2016 school year this week to decide how best to spend the money gained from the Student Services Fee. Every semester, a fee of $40 is charged to every undergraduate and graduate student. SSFAB is in charge of allocating all of the funds collected to different programs and services.

SSFAB is comprised of four graduate and seven undergraduate students, all of whom have applied for the position.

“Student Services Fee funds are available to all departments and units within the Student Affairs and Enrollment Management division,” according to the SSFAB website.

“The purpose of the fee is to enhance student experience at the University of Arizona.”

The website also says the board allocates approximately $3 million each year.

“Our goal is to take the money that comes in from each student

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Viewing the Middle East with new lens

BY DAVID MCGLOTHLIN The Daily Wildcat

A snow-covered mountain, a man shaping clay and a tea party aren’t the typical images associated with the Middle East. The UA’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies will be showcasing its best photographs representing “Labor and Leisure” in the region during the 24th annual photography exhibit reception.

“We want to draw in photos that we think can offer people a few different perspective on the region,” said Christian Sinclair, UA assistant director of the CMES and director of the Kurdish Language and Culture Studies summer program. “Not just typical or stereotypical images of camels, spice markets, pyramids and those things.”

Lisa Adeli, CMES outreach coordinator, originated this year’s idea of “work and play” as a way to tell a different story about the Middle East.

“It’s not all about politics and religion,” Adeli said.

Sinclair said that Adeli and three other CMES members refined the theme and its description before sending out details requesting photos from more than 800 people via email in April or May. Fifty photos from 25 different photographers were selected out of

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MEGAN YOUNG and Shyla Dogan work together to hang student photographs for the “Labor and Leisure” photography exhibit sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in the Louise F. Marshall building on Wednesday. Fifty photos out of 350 submissions are on display in the exhibit.

nearly 350 submissions.

The photographers are just as diverse as the locations. UA students, faculty, Tucson teachers, community members, Middle Eastern locals and various other travelers to the region submitted their photos from Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Oman, Jordan, Turkey and Yemen, to name a few.

Adeli has worked at CMES for

eight years and submitted photos to the exhibit for the past four.

Sinclair has had a photo chosen for the exhibit for the past seven years. His photo this year is of children playing with the snow on a mountain in a Kurdish village.

“Photos like these illustrate a hidden side of the region that

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OPINIONS For first time, students are spending more on college tuition than government.

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QUOTE TO NOTE Cramming should be saved for gen eds the UA forces students to take, not our crown jewel tournament.

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National use of student loans increases Arizona graduates average $20,299 of debt by the time of graduation

BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat

UA students, along with many others in the U.S., are still suffering from debt resulting from student loans, particularly as the numbers rise.

Data from the Project on Student Debt shows that in 2012, seven out of 10 graduating seniors faced student loan debt.

The average college graduate who borrowed money accumulated $29,400 of debt by the time of graduation. The highest debt regions, according to the data, are the Midwest and the Northeast. Arizona is

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categorized as a low-debt state, with an average of $20,299 debt by the time of graduation.

In a recent report from the Federal Reserve, a rise was seen in the outstanding debt of student loans taken out, with the numbers ranging from $831.6 billion in 2009 to $1,311.5 billion at the end of 2014. The average total educational debt for College of Medicine — Tucson students for 2012-2013 was $135,419, according to the College of Medicine Office of Financial Aid. In the same year, about 18.2 percent of medicine students graduated with

a debt of over $200,000.

Many students make the decision to apply for student loans because it is the only way they are able to afford a college education.

According to the Federal Student Aid, an office of the U.S. Department of Education, two types of federal loans are offered, the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program and the Federal Perkins Loan Program. A student is not required to begin repaying their federal student loan until they graduate or reduce their schooling to below half time.

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repayment plans for direct loans and federal family education loans: standard, graduated, extended, incomebased, pay as you earn, income-contingent and income-sensitive.

A Project Student Debt press release from Sept.

24, 2014 said new federal data shows that over 650,000 student loan borrowers from 2011 defaulted on their loans by 2013.

Laura Hacker, a prephysiology sophomore, said she hopes to avoiding taking out any student loans if possible.

“I plan on furthering

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stabbing the driver and other people.

“We all fled to the end of the bus. He approached us. I threw my schoolbag at him. … The driver slammed on the brakes, which caused him to fall. … I broke open a window with my elbow so we could get out, but then the driver opened the doors. When we got out, he ran after us with the knife.”

Officers of Israel’s prison service who’d been in a vehicle behind the bus said in radio interviews that they’d seen the bus rocking from side to side and passengers fleeing.

The driver’s sister, who spoke to him on the phone after he was stabbed, told Israel Radio that he’d tried to resist the attacker with pepper spray and had asked her to “take care of the children for me” before he was taken from the scene in serious condition.

The attack was praised by an official of the militant Islamist group Hamas. Izzat Risheq, who lives in Qatar, said in a tweet that the stabbing was “a natural response to the occupation and its terrorist crimes against our people.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed the violence on the Palestinian Authority, calling it “the direct result of the poisonous incitement being disseminated by the Palestinian Authority against the Jews and their state.”

“This same terrorism is trying to attack us in Paris, Brussels, everywhere,” Netanyahu

you don’t see unless you actually go there,” Sinclair said.

Hannah Gaber, a graduate student studying Middle Eastern studies and journalism with a Judaic studies graduate certificate, said she submitted five to 10 photos after reading about the opportunity in the MES newsletter.

She had three photos selected this year from her travels to Oman and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, during the 2013-2014 winter with the Journalism study abroad program.

“We were trekking through Oman, doing a tour to get a feel for their culture and history,” Gaber said. She noticed a clay workshop where she photographed a man shaping clay pottery, which was selected for the exhibit.

He did everything from digging the clay out of the ground to separating and adding to it, Gaber explained.

“This is a method that has been used in Oman that can’t be dated, but easily since the 17th century when they became a independent nation,” Gaber added.

Briana Sanchez, a journalism senior, was abroad in Jordan with a different UA program.

Sanchez admitted knowing close to nothing about the Middle East before taking a year of Arabic at the UA her junior year so she could qualify for the study abroad program called “Arizona in Jordan” with seven other UA students.

“I didn’t carry my camera around a lot because I wanted to live in the moment,” Sanchez said.

She submitted about 10 photos but only one was chosen.

“We were walking through supermarkets and our friends said, ‘These guys invited us to their little shop to have tea with them and they told us to bring friends,’” Sanchez said.

She and five friends sat down for tea and a casual conversation in Arabic before she said she captured the moment using her iPhone camera.

“They do the same things we do,” Sinclair said. “It’s not just terrorists on a bus or camels or donkeys smuggling drugs across the border.”

The photos are available for purchase and, after the reception, will be moved to the halls of the CMES until December 2015.

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ELEVEN ISRAELIS were wounded after a Palestinian attacked a bus in Tel Aviv.

added, referring to recent deadly assaults by Islamist extremists in France and arrests in Belgium of Islamists suspected of planning to attack police.

In several lethal incidents in recent months, Palestinian attackers have rammed cars into pedestrians and stabbed other

Israelis. In the most serious assault, triggered by tensions surrounding a contested holy site in Jerusalem, two men armed with a gun and meat cleavers attacked a synagogue in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in the city, killing four worshippers and a police officer.

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my education and if I have the means to pay now, I would rather pay off my undergrad now than be paying for medical or graduate school in addition to paying off loans,” Hacker said.

Federal Student Aid advises that students be aware of the legal obligation attached to the loan and the interest rates before applying.

According to Federal Student Aid, the current interest rate for undergraduate direct subsidized and direct unsubsidized loans disbursed on or before July 1, 2013 and before July 1, 2014 is 3.86 percent; the current rate for undergraduate direct subsidized and direct unsubsidized loans disbursed on or after July 1, 2014 and

before July 1, 2015 is 4.66 percent.

Connor Cirillo, a pre-business sophomore, said some students with student loans don’t understand the consequences of using their loans for nonacademic purchases, such as using their bursar’s account to purchase unneeded items at the UA Bookstore.

“People don’t see it as an issue,” Cirillo said. “There’s nothing coming out of their pocket, so they don’t understand.”

He explained his own decision to apply for a student loan as an investment in himself.

“School is helping set me up to be successful in my career,” Cirillo said. “I’m learning skills based on opportunities I wouldn’t have otherwise.”

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“Our purpose is to serve the students and represent what students have told us are their priorities,“ Havey said.

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There are many different programs and services that the fee money is allocated to help a variety of students.

“There are definitely programs or services that only benefit a specific population of the university,” Moule said. “While, yes, each student has to pay into the student services fee, they can kind of look at it as they’re paying into services that they could utilize if they so chose to. At least one of the programs or services will apply to each student.”

The board tries to take many different factors into consideration each year to decide on what is best for students. For example, every year a link is sent out to every student with a survey asking them where they want their fee to go. Havey

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In April, there is a final vote by SSFAB. The board then submits its recommendation to Melissa Vito, the senior vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, who has the power to ignore the recommendation or make slight changes.

The funding from the fee pays for services like Think Tank and SafeRide.

Havey explained that many complaints arise from students, such as graduate students who have no need for SafeRide.

“You’re helping other students have a better college experience, and you’re funding programs helpful for everyone, but if you’re not using something, it’s not a waste of your money,” Havey said.

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Nick Havey, the chair of SSFAB, said he wants to inform students about where their money is being spent in order to ease frustrations.

“People assume that the Student Services Fee is the whole almost $500 worth of mandatory fees they pay at the beginning of semester, as opposed to that also being wrapped up with [University Information Technology Services], Campus Health [Service] and [Campus Recreation],” Moule said.

“There needs to be a lot more transparency on what exactly that fee looks like and where it’s coming from and what it’s being used for.”

The applications for project proposals open in early December and are then closed at the start of spring semester.

This year, there are about 22 proposals.

Havey explained that the board meets almost every Friday to discuss and review the proposals.

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Giant donation for giant telescope Entrepreneur and astronomy advocate donates $20 million for construction of telescope

BY CHELSEA REGAN The Daily Wildcat

Astronomers at the UA have a new reason to celebrate the new year thanks to Richard F. Caris, who last month donated $20 million to the UA to aid in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will be one of the largest telescopes in the world.

Caris is the founder of Interface Inc., a company located in Scottsdale, Ariz., that produces load cell force measurement applications, which are typically used for construction sites.

According to Thomas Fleming, a UA astronomer and senior lecturer in the department of astronomy, the UA has used parts called actuators from Interface Inc., which are crucial in supporting the mirrors in the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory. Over a decade ago, Caris inquired as to why the UA was purchasing his product, and the lab invited him in for a tour.

Caris then became increasingly interested in astronomy and became a member of the Arizona Astronomy Board, and he donated money to projects in the department, including the most recent gift, Fleming said.

Aside from making the mirrors for the telescope, the UA must contribute $60 million to secure its share of time with the telescope. Caris’s donation has provided a third of this, Fleming added.

According to Dennis Zaritsky, a professor of astronomy and deputy director of the Steward Observatory, the UA is one of 11 institutions, including Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the Carnegie Institution for Science, which will be collaborating to build the telescope.

“A telescope is a way of collecting light, and so that if you have a faint object you are trying to see, you collect more light from it and you can see it,” Zaritsky said.

The main difference between the GMT and other telescopes is its sheer size.

“Right now, the largest telescopes in the world are in a class of 8 to 10 meters,” Fleming said. “Now we’re trying to go to the next step with a telescope of an effective size of 22 meters.”

Zaritsky said that some of the primary interests he will be pursuing with the help of the GMT are galaxy evolution, the stars within them and the dark matter content that they have. The collecting power and resolution of the new telescope will allow him to look at individual stars and galaxies, which wasn’t as easily done before.

“The reason you want to make your telescopes bigger and bigger is because you can see fainter and fainter and fainter into the universe,” Fleming said. “We want to do this because we have a lot of astronomers who are studying the very early universe.”

The $20 million donation is not the first gift Caris has given the UA, Fleming said. Caris was also responsible for most of the money used in reconstructing the Mount Lemmon Observatory.

In honor of the gift, the mirror lab will now be known as the Richard Caris Mirror Lab, Fleming said.

“The earlier you get your money in, the more telescope time you will get,” Fleming said. “Because [Caris] has decided to contribute such a generous amount of money so that we can participate in this large telescope project, we are renaming the mirror lab after him.”

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AN ARTIST’S rendition of the Giant Magellan Telescope mirror. Due to the large size of the telescope, seven mirrors will be made by the UA and then joined together.

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GRADUATES OF the UA Registered Nurse to Master of Science in Clinical Systems Leadership online program pose in their caps and gowns. The program is designed to give students the ability to go on to a variety of adminstrative and leadership positions in clinical settings.

Nurses graduate from new online leadership program

BY KIMBERLIE WANG The Daily Wildcat

The College of Nursing graduated 25 nurses in the inaugural class of the Registered Nurse to Master of Science in Clinical Systems Leadership online program this past December.

The development of the program began in 2010 with the vision of preparing nurses for leadership positions in the changing health care environment through accessible online courses. Through this program, students are prepared for a variety of careers in managerial, administrative and leadership roles in a clinical setting.

“The RN to MS students learn how to examine their basic nursing preparation and current clinical practice and discover who they can be as leaders in health care, and how they can positively influence health care reform beyond their current nursing practice,” said Cheryl Lacasse, a clinical professor and faculty coordinator for the RN-MS program.

Along with Lacasse, the program is also directed by Ki Moore, a professor and division director of biobehavioral health science. Moore said the program contains two tracks.

One track is designed for nurses with an associate degree in nursing and at

least two years of work experience.

The second track is for nurses with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and one year of work experience.

The program is unique in its delivery method of eight-week online courses that are flexible for working professionals, Lacasse explained.

The program admits students during fall, spring and summer terms and most recently admitted 75 students for the spring session, she said.

Students in the RN-MS program are able to connect through social media outlets and engage in online discussions, electronic presentations and podcasting. The online environment of the program provides a wide range of access for students across the country.

“We have students from across all of the time zones in the United States,” Lacasse said. “It makes it very exciting because all of these students from these different regional perspectives come together, and it is very enriching for the program. The way people approach nursing can be different across the country, so it really makes for wonderful learning.”

The program consists of a 31- to 44-credit curriculum that includes a wide variety of courses in health promotion, healing environments, health care policy and evidencebased practice. At the end of the program, all students take a Clinical

Systems in Leadership Immersion course.

“The Clinical Systems Leadership Immersion course is the final course in the program and requires students to apply all of the program content in a comprehensive experience,” Lacasse said. “Students work in small leadership teams to develop a care management plan for a high-risk patient population. They explore critical information for the care of a high-risk clinical population and integrate critical knowledge of pathophysiology, assessment and treatment.”

This experience allows students to use their knowledge, skills and abilities as leaders in order to create clinically relevant care-management plans and have a positive impact on clinical care outcomes, Lacasse said.

Lacasse is both excited and optimistic about the future of the RNMS program.

“The inaugural class of graduates is an outstanding group of clinicians and leaders in their area of nursing practice,” Lacasse said. “They generously gave faculty valuable feedback that has enriched the program.”

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It may sound New Age, but the UA’s recently established Center for Compassion Studies is developed from and guided by research.

“What we are aiming to do with the center is to explore and research the impact of the cultivation of compassion on individual, group and societal well being,” said Leslie Langbert, executive director for the Center for Compassion Studies.

The idea for the center started with Dr. Charles Raison, a professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine — Tucson, from his previous work at Emory University. Raison is the director of the Center for Compassion Studies.

“We started doing studies in compassion meditation at Emory and had some interesting findings that led to the practice being codified into what we now call cognitive-based compassion training,” Raison said. “When I relocated from Emory to the [UA], one of my primary goals was to bring the compassion training with me and establish the work out here.”

Compassion meditation is a type of meditation focusing on both compassion for oneself and other individuals.

“Cognitive-based compassion training is derived from IndoTibetan Buddhist meditation, from the ‘Lojong’ tradition,” Langbert explained. “Lojong translates to ‘mind training.’ It has been rendered secular from the Buddhist tradition, because we recognize compassion is really an ethic that’s central to all individuals.”

Raison said that the best way he knew of helping people become more compassionate and perceive the world as more compassionate was through Tibetan Buddhist practices.

University of Arizona College of Science 2015 Lecture Series cos.arizona.edu/universe Free! Monday, January 26 at 7PM at UA Centennial Hall

Life in the Universe What is Life? Guy J. Consolmagno, SJ

Our definition of ‘life’ reflects our assumptions about how the Universe works. Ultimately, to know what life is, we may need to discover life in places other than Earth. But without a firm definition of what we’re looking for, we may have a hard time recognizing ‘life’ when we find it.

Working in conjunction with Lobsang Tenzin Negi, a former Buddhist monk and director of the Emory-Tibet partnership at Emory University, Raison conducted several studies examining the effects of compassion training on individual health. “[We asked], if we take people and train them in this compassion meditation, can we reduce their inflammatory response to stress,” Raison said.

Raison had previously looked at the role of the immune system in depression and discovered evidence that immune system activation creates a pathway in which psychological stress increases depression, heart disease, stroke and cancer risk.

Strengthening this correlation, there was increasing evidence that people who have warm, close and supportive social relationships have lower levels of inflammation.

There seemed to be something about positive social connectivity that has anti-inflammatory properties, Raison said.

“So we did a study to test [compassion meditation and the immune system], and the answer appeared to be yes,” Raison said.

“We saw the signal that if you practiced compassion meditation, it had an anti-inflammatory effect.”

From the results of his research that linked social and mental wellbeing, Raison sought for a way to translate this research into health changes. This isn’t limited to the health sciences — its mandate is broad and incorporates departments across the university, from philosophy to environmental sciences.

Research may have led to the development of the center, but the center’s goals aren’t just researchbased. The center provides a translational approach that brings research into practice.

The Center for Compassion Studies is already offering courses in the instruction of CognitivelyBased Compassion Training, as well as classes at the Student Recreation Center. For example, a weekly Yoga Nidra class is offered, a sleep-like form of yoga designed to promote relaxation and decrease anxiety.

“We’re looking to offer folks the tools to cultivate compassion,” Langbert said.

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Giant donation for giant telescope Entrepreneur and astronomy advocate donates $20 million for construction of telescope

BY CHELSEA REGAN The Daily Wildcat

Astronomers at the UA have a new reason to celebrate the new year thanks to Richard F. Caris, who last month donated $20 million to the UA to aid in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope, which will be one of the largest telescope in the world.

Caris is the founder of Interface Inc., a company located in Scottsdale, Ariz., that produces load cell force measurement applications, which are typically used for construction sites.

According to Thomas Fleming, a UA astronomer and senior lecturer in the department of astronomy, the UA has used parts called actuators from Interface Inc., which are crucial in supporting the mirrors in the Steward Observatory Mirror Laboratory. Over a decade ago, Caris inquired as to why the UA was purchasing his product, and the lab invited him in for a tour.

Caris then became increasingly interested in astronomy and became a member of the Arizona Astronomy Board, and he donated money to projects in the department, including the most recent gift, Fleming said.

Aside from making the mirrors for the telescope, the UA must contribute $60 million to secure its share of time with the telescope. Caris’s donation has provided a third of this, Fleming added.

According to Dennis Zaritsky, a professor of astronomy and deputy director of the Steward Observatory, the UA is one of 11 institutions, including Harvard University, the University of Chicago and the Carnegie Institution for Science, which will be collaborating to build the telescope.

“A telescope is a way of collecting light, and so that if you have a faint object you are trying to see, you collect more light from it and you can see it,” Zaritsky said.

The main difference between the GMT and other telescopes is its sheer size.

“Right now, the largest telescopes in the world are in a class of 8 to 10 meters,” Fleming said. “Now we’re trying to go to the next step with a telescope of an effective size of 22 meters.”

Zaritsky said that some of the primary interests he will be pursuing with the help of the GMT are galaxy evolution, the stars within them and the dark matter content that they have. The collecting power and resolution of the new telescope will allow him to look at individual stars and galaxies, which wasn’t as easily done before.

“The reason you want to make your telescopes bigger and bigger is because you can see fainter and fainter and fainter into the universe,” Fleming said. “We want to do this because we have a lot of astronomers who are studying the very early universe.”

The $20 million donation is not the first gift Caris has given the UA, Fleming said. Caris was also responsible for most of the money used in reconstructing the Mount Lemmon Observatory.

In honor of the gift, the mirror lab will now be known as the Richard Caris Mirror Lab, Fleming said.

“The earlier you get your money in, the more telescope time you will get,” Fleming said. “Because [Caris] has decided to contribute such a generous amount of money so that we can participate in this large telescope project, we are renaming the mirror lab after him.”

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AN ARTIST’S rendition of the Giant Magellan Telescope mirror. Due to the large size of the telescope, seven mirrors will be made by the UA and then joined together.

Center built on professor’s meditation research

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GRADUATES OF the UA Registered Nurse to Master of Science in Clinical Systems Leadership online program pose in their caps and gowns. The program is designed to give students the ability to go on to a variety of adminstrative and leadership positions in clinical settings.

Nurses graduate from new online leadership program

BY KIMBERLIE WANG The Daily Wildcat

The College of Nursing graduated 25 nurses in the inaugural class of the Registered Nurse to Master of Science in Clinical Systems Leadership online program this past December.

The development of the program began in 2010 with the vision of preparing nurses for leadership positions in the changing health care environment through accessible online courses. Through this program, students are prepared for a variety of careers in managerial, administrative and leadership roles in a clinical setting.

“The RN to MS students learn how to examine their basic nursing preparation and current clinical practice and discover who they can be as leaders in health care, and how they can positively influence health care reform beyond their current nursing practice,” said Cheryl Lacasse, a clinical professor and faculty coordinator for the RN-MS program.

Along with Lacasse, the program is also directed by Ki Moore, a professor and division director of biobehavioral health science. Moore said the program contains two tracks.

One track is designed for nurses with an associate degree in nursing and at

least two years of work experience.

The second track is for nurses with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and one year of work experience.

The program is unique in its delivery method of eight-week online courses that are flexible for working professionals, Lacasse explained.

The program admits students during fall, spring and summer terms and most recently admitted 75 students for the spring session, she said.

Students in the RN-MS program are able to connect through social media outlets and engage in online discussions, electronic presentations and podcasting. The online environment of the program provides a wide range of access for students across the country.

“We have students from across all of the time zones in the United States,” Lacasse said. “It makes it very exciting because all of these students from these different regional perspectives come together, and it is very enriching for the program. The way people approach nursing can be different across the country, so it really makes for wonderful learning.”

The program consists of a 31- to 44-credit curriculum that includes a wide variety of courses in health promotion, healing environments, health care policy and evidencebased practice. At the end of the program, all students take a Clinical

Systems in Leadership Immersion course.

“The Clinical Systems Leadership Immersion course is the final course in the program and requires students to apply all of the program content in a comprehensive experience,” Lacasse said. “Students work in small leadership teams to develop a care management plan for a high-risk patient population. They explore critical information for the care of a high-risk clinical population and integrate critical knowledge of pathophysiology, assessment and treatment.”

This experience allows students to use their knowledge, skills and abilities as leaders in order to create clinically relevant care-management plans and have a positive impact on clinical care outcomes, Lacasse said.

Lacasse is both excited and optimistic about the future of the RNMS program.

“The inaugural class of graduates is an outstanding group of clinicians and leaders in their area of nursing practice,” Lacasse said. “They generously gave faculty valuable feedback that has enriched the program.”

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It may sound New Age, but the UA’s recently established Center for Compassion Studies is developed from and guided by research.

“What we are aiming to do with the center is to explore and research the impact of the cultivation of compassion on individual, group and societal well being,” said Leslie Langbert, executive director for the Center for Compassion Studies.

The idea for the center started with Dr. Charles Raison, a professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine — Tucson, from his previous work at Emory University. Raison is the director of the Center for Compassion Studies.

“We started doing studies in compassion meditation at Emory and had some interesting findings that led to the practice being codified into what we now call cognitive-based compassion training,” Raison said. “When I relocated from Emory to the [UA], one of my primary goals was to bring the compassion training with me and establish the work out here.”

Compassion meditation is a type of meditation focusing on both compassion for oneself and other individuals.

“Cognitive-based compassion training is derived from IndoTibetan Buddhist meditation, from the ‘Lojong’ tradition,” Langbert explained. “Lojong translates to ‘mind training.’ It has been rendered secular from the Buddhist tradition, because we recognize compassion is really an ethic that’s central to all individuals.”

Raison said that the best way he knew of helping people become more compassionate and perceive the world as more compassionate was through Tibetan Buddhist practices.

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Working in conjunction with Lobsang Tenzin Negi, a former Buddhist monk and director of the Emory-Tibet partnership at Emory University, Raison conducted several studies examining the effects of compassion training on individual health. “[We asked], if we take people and train them in this compassion meditation, can we reduce their inflammatory response to stress,” Raison said.

Raison had previously looked at the role of the immune system in depression and discovered evidence that immune system activation creates a pathway in which psychological stress increases depression, heart disease, stroke and cancer risk.

Strengthening this correlation, there was increasing evidence that people who have warm, close and supportive social relationships have lower levels of inflammation.

There seemed to be something about positive social connectivity that has anti-inflammatory properties, Raison said.

“So we did a study to test [compassion meditation and the immune system], and the answer appeared to be yes,” Raison said.

“We saw the signal that if you practiced compassion meditation, it had an anti-inflammatory effect.”

From the results of his research that linked social and mental wellbeing, Raison sought for a way to translate this research into health changes. This isn’t limited to the health sciences — its mandate is broad and incorporates departments across the university, from philosophy to environmental sciences.

Research may have led to the development of the center, but the center’s goals aren’t just researchbased. The center provides a translational approach that brings research into practice.

The Center for Compassion Studies is already offering courses in the instruction of CognitivelyBased Compassion Training, as well as classes at the Student Recreation Center. For example, a weekly Yoga Nidra class is offered, a sleep-like form of yoga designed to promote relaxation and decrease anxiety.

“We’re looking to offer folks the tools to cultivate compassion,” Langbert said.

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Students are picking up the tab for college

BY Nick Havey

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he U.S. has a rich history of utilizing its vast resources for furthering useful national programs and then electing people to public office who proceed to fuck them up.

One such program, the creation of land-grant universities as a result of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890, has instilled a tradition of funding public educational institutions from the federal, state and local government coffers. This tradition is gone, though, a recent report from the Government Accountability Office has revealed that for the first time, students now pay more of the cost of attending public universities than state governments.

In recent years, state governments could shy behind the veil of a failed economy, but as markets bounce back, what excuse is there to forgo funding higher education?

The U.S. has decided that it is a 16-yearold with a career in athletics who doesn’t need to complete high school or college or know how to read.

People come to the U.S. for its university system. In the University of Texas at Arlington, international students comprise 93.5 percent of the electrical engineering graduate program. Clearly, international students understand the importance of an education and recognize that the U.S. is a decent place to get a degree. American students know this, too; the government is just actively trying to prevent them from attending universities.

Growing up in the U.S. public school system, kids are constantly taught that they need to graduate high school and then go on to college in order to be successful — or at least more successful than their parents. This mandate has unfortunately not been reflected in government funding priorities, with state funding dropping from 32 percent to 23 percent as tuition became a larger source of funding at 25 percent within the same period. As recently as the late ’70s, public universities were overwhelmingly funded — almost 75 percent — by state governments, but now less than a fourth of funding is supplied.

All this is made worse due to increased enrollment rates, about 20 percent from 2002 to 2012, and a 28 percent rate of increase above inflation in tuition and financial aid isn’t helpful either. Formerly, Pell Grants were available for low-income students, but the 77 percent coverage in 1980 has fallen to just 36 percent in 2011. “But wait, what about merit-based financial aid?” Harp the administrators and parents who attended college before it became excessively unaffordable.

Just a few years ago, students who exceeded Arizona’s standardized tests — the AIMS, or Arizona’s Instrument to Measure Standards — and maintained a reasonable GPA in high school qualified for a full tuition “waiver.” Turns out this is not a waiver. It covers the tuition rate based on a student’s first year and does not adjust for increases. Thanks for completely misleading advertisements, Arizona Department of Education — for four years (contingent on the maintenance of a similarly reasonable college GPA) to an instate school. Now, the requirements have been upped to include comparatively high SAT or ACT scores, a high class ranking and a slightly higher GPA baseline for 25 percent of the tuition of in-state schools, again contingent on maintenance of requirements for four years. Again, it is not adjusted for the inevitable and continuous tuition hikes, nor does it factor in Gov. Doug Ducey not understanding what the “education” tab was on the budget and just deleting it.

While I’m impressed by the increase in standards surrounding the scholarship, the reduction of its financial aid, alongside tuition hikes and inflation, has made Arizona state schools less competitive for high-achieving students and reduced the viability of attending a four-year university for many Arizona students.

With consistent tuition hikes for the past couple of years and a newly elected superintendent of public instruction who seems staunchly against doing her job, Arizona could be in for a worse couple of years of academic funding than it has already experienced.

College, at least at the four-year level, is no longer the affordable option for upward mobility that it used to be — especially for America’s lowest social strata — and it doesn’t look like Uncle Sam will be stepping in to salvage a once-competitive university system. But hey, at least we have the faint idea of #FreeCommunityCollege to look forward to. Does anyone want to start a lemonade stand on the mall?

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish.

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Riots: A pretty awful tactic

BY Maddie Pickens The Daily Wildcat

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e are now fully into the swing of basketball season, which of course results in happy, loud displays of school spirit. After all, Arizona’s ZonaZoo is ranked the loudest student section in the Pac12 Conference. However, this school spirit comes with an unfortunate side effect: the riots that are often initiated over especially harrowing wins or frustrating losses.

Arizona’s loss in the Elite Eight last year provoked the arrest of 15 students for disorderly conduct and forced police to use force to disperse the crowds. The UA is not the only school to be affected: Recently, Ohio State University students set nearly 90 fires in the streets to “celebrate” their win against University of Oregon in the National Championship.

Sports riots often appear to be particularly pointless destruction of property; after all, the win or loss of a sports team isn’t cause to tear down goal posts or advance on police officers.

However, they do present an especially interesting comparison given the other types of protests that have been occurring on college campuses recently, such as the “Black Lives Matter” riots and protests following the various grand jury decisions regarding the assault and apparent murders of black men by police.

For Tucson’s part, there were several relatively quiet protests. A march through downtown saw police presence but no confrontations; demonstrators in the Student Union Memorial Center were politely asked to leave, but encountered no animosity from authorities.

The sports riots on the UA campus and the “Black Lives Matter” riots are very similar

YOUR VIEWS In response to “Editorial: University cuts are irresponsible, unfair” (Jan. 20).

This is what happens when people don’t vote.

— Mike Ingram While I honestly believe that America is the greatest country on Earth, I also believe that we got where we are today by doing things that made us greater, not lesser. If we, as a state and as a nation, have honestly decided that we no longer wish to enjoy our very prosperous position as [No. 1], then Doug Ducey does his constituents well. It feels like each and every day this nation works to make it a more attractive decision for me to move overseas — to take my

knowledge and my business somewhere far far away — to a place that is safer and more comfortable.

That $75 million cut is $75 million stolen from the future of America and given to its past. Given to a past where women, non-Christians and minorities were not allowed to vote. Given to the very same past that brought us the KKK, the war in Vietnam, and Japanese Internment camps.

Doug Ducey wants a future where more people work for minimum wage. He wants a future without doctors, engineers, scientists, artists, teachers, mathematicians, astronomers, psychologists, biologists, businesspeople or politicians. I’m not sure what’s worse, that he wants this future

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Johnny Bowens, a lecturer in Africana Studies.

“Because of the nature of the programs, you can’t separate the two. … Some of the [national media outlets] went to get comment from only the individuals who were angry or frustrated and didn’t get the balanced viewpoint; we are here for a peaceful demonstration, but that didn’t receive the same kind of attention.”

It becomes important to then distinguish between a riot and a protest; at what point is it necessary to progress past the type of demonstration held in Tucson? It seems that, particularly for causes in the national spotlight, such a progression can only be construed as selfish on the part of the rioters.

“When Arizona lost [in the Elite Eight], it was just a few fans who began to engage in the antisocial behavior,” Bowens said. “In the same way, the violence protesting the Ferguson decision was only generated by a small portion of the group.”

Much like rioting fans can discredit a sports team, unnecessary violence, even in the name of a worthy cause, only detracts from the goals of the protest. While it is the responsibility of protest leaders to take steps to ensure everyone who participates in the activity will cooperate, it is also the duty of the national media to ensure balanced, unsensationalized reporting. Regardless of the stakes, the actions of a few should not affect the image of an entire cause.

However, not all college towns saw the same level of peaceful demonstrations. Students and local citizens from the University of California, Berkeley protested the jury decisions for days on end; attacking businesses, blocking local interstates, and fighting with police officers, who were forced to use riot control tactics to contain the crowds.

From an objective standpoint, the sports riots on the UA campus and the “Black Lives Matter” riots on Berkeley’s campus are very similar: Both involve destruction of property that is seemingly unrelated to the riot’s cause, both involved violent confrontations with police and, most importantly, both received news coverage featuring primarily negative rhetoric.

It’s incredibly unfortunate, to say the least, that such a comparison can be made. After all, it’s difficult to justify the decision by sports fans to riot; the scenario is, almost by definition of a sporting event, fairly low-stakes.

Meanwhile, however, the grand jury decisions in the cases of Eric Garner and Michael Brown led to widespread discourse about police brutality and the unequal treatment of suspects by law enforcement. Or at least, they ought to have. Instead, riots in opposition to the court decision were lumped in with those causing generic damage for no reason, damaging the cause as a whole. The discourse was cheapened, misconceptions perpetuated and it ultimately backfired.

“You can try to educate people about how to have a peaceful march … and it only takes a few individuals to whip up the crowd to begin engaging in antisocial behavior,” said

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so much he ran for governor, or that the people of Arizona want that too.

The saddest thing about this whole affair is the political apathy of our generation. We offer up excuses rather than votes, silence rather than debate and complaints rather than actions. We sit idly by while our very futures are stolen out from underneath us. That $75 million will come from somewhere, and that somewhere is either your tuition or the quality of your education. Either the alreadyhigh bar we must reach to pay for college has just been raised $75 million higher, or our already dwindling chance at middle-class employment just got smaller. Amazingly enough, next year’s college freshmen are currently not of voting age, and yet it is they who will suffer most from these cuts. If today’s university students and young professionals don’t stand up for themselves, nobody will.

Our futures are at risk.

So, this is a plea: VOTE. — Connor Runyan, freshman studying electrical and computer engineering In response to “Law program shows decrease in enrollment,” by Holly Halstead (Jan. 20).

Law schools are scum bags.

Do not trust anything they say.

Record declines in applicants, yet not a single law school has closed. The law schools only care about maintaining a high quality of life for law deans and law professors. They do not care about the profession or individual outcomes.

— Joey Law school ruined my life! I have no job and I have student loan debt that will follow me to my grave. Save yourself! DO NOT GO TO LAW SCHOOL. — Suicidal_JD

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BY DAVID MCGLOTHLIN The Daily Wildcat

From hot to not

IT’S A GREAT BIG UNIVERSE OUT THERE.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer contacted a UA student on Saturday who said a male individual was harassing her via text messages.

The student reported meeting the man on a website called Hot or Not the night before. She said she had sex with him and later told him she no longer wanted to have sex in the future.

The man sent her texts saying he was going to “kick down her door” and “key her vehicle.”

The student told the officer she planned to get an injunction for harassment against the man on Monday.

The officer contacted the man via telephone and told him to leave the student alone and cease all electronic communication with her.

The man agreed to leave her alone and was cited for disorderly conduct and disturbing the peace.

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A little too much, obviously

A UAPD officer observed a group of people surrounding a man lying on the ground on the west side of the Sigma Chi fraternity house on Saturday.

As the officer approached the group, he noticed the man was lying in a large pile of vomit.

At first, the man was unresponsive, but he tried to stand once the officer identified himself. He then nearly fell before catching himself on the fence.

The officer requested Tucson Fire Department firefighters to come to the scene and conduct a medical evaluation on the man.

The officer noticed that the man had bloodshot, watery eyes and very slurred speech.

When asked how much he had to drink, the man replied, “A little too much, obviously.”

He was released to the president of Sigma Chi and cited for minor in possession of alcohol in the body.

Hey, Mickey, you so fine

An UAPD officer was dispatched on Monday to the Coconino Residence Hall in response to a report of an intoxicated female student.

The resident assistant led the officer to one of the dorm rooms.

The officer knocked on the door and a female student answered and identified herself as the resident of the room.

Another woman was lying on a bed. The officer noticed the woman had bloodshot, watery eyes and slurred, incoherent speech.

The resident told the officer that the other woman lived with her last year but now lives in a different residence hall. She had showed up extremely intoxicated and confused.

The resident said that after arriving to her room, the other student had suddenly gotten up and ran out of the room.

The resident said the woman then returned later appearing to be more intoxicated, distraught and repeating, “Mickey, no!”

The resident added that the student was “soaking wet and her clothes smelt like urine.” She also said the student failed to notice that her pants were on inside-out.

The officer asked the intoxicated woman, “Who is Mickey?

Did he hurt you?”

She replied, “No way! I love him! He’s my boyfriend!”

The officer then asked if the student had been partying tonight. She responded, “Yes, in California,” and added that she split “a whole bottle of vodka with a friend.”

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BY JUSTIN SPEARS The Daily Wildcat

The Arizona men’s golf team will open the 2015 spring semester at home for the first time this season, as the Wildcats host the Arizona Intercollegiate Tournament at Sewailo Golf Club.

The Wildcats have struggled throughout the 2014-2015 season with a 14-34-1 (.292) record in head-to-head matchups and have yet to defeat a Pac-12 Conference opponent this season. Hosting a tournament to open the 2015 portion of the season is much needed for the Wildcats at this point.

Third-year head coach Jim Anderson will

seek his first tournament win at home since signing with the Wildcats in 2012. The Wildcats finished in second place behind Pac-12 rival Cal in the Arizona Intercollegiate Tournament last season.

The Wildcats finished the fall portion of the season on a high note by tying for ninth place in the Quail Valley Collegiate Invitational behind the efforts of Tucson natives senior Alex McMahon (6-under-par) and freshman George Cunningham (2-under-par) back in October of 2014. That was just the second time all season that Arizona has finished in the top 10 as a team for any tournament.

Both McMahon and Cunningham have finished at the top of every tournament this

season on the Wildcats’ team other than the William H. Tucker Intercollegiate Tournament, when Cunningham finished in first place and McMahon finished fifth for the Wildcats.

McMahon and Cunningham lead the Wildcats and the duo adds versatility to the Wildcats youthful roster. With McMahon’s experience and Cunningham’s potential, the Wildcats have a one-two punch that can produce and improve at a consistent rate.

In the 2014 portion of the season, the duo finished as the only Wildcats under 900 strokes, as Cunningham leads Arizona with 875 strokes and McMahon is right behind with 878 strokes.

Cunningham also leads the Wildcats by averaging fewer than 73 strokes per round of 18.

Arizona will face instate rival ASU for the first time this season and hopes to add a win to the territorial cup standings before the Wildcats head up to Tempe in early April. The Wildcats have a tough road for the rest of the season, as they will have a few months of Pac-12 play before traveling to Pullman, Wash., to compete for a Pac-12 championship.

The 2015 Arizona Intercollegiate Tournament is an all-day event and will be from Monday to Tuesday at Sewailo Golf Club.

Tee-time is at 8 a.m.

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Grays (sic) Sports Almanac?

Ok, so that’s not really possible, but it’s possible to get a glimpse of who’s going to be the next big thing in March by knowing in advance who’s playing.

That’s where the all-mighty Big Dance can take a page from a new tournament and fix one of its weaknesses. The NCAA should follow the College Football Playoff committee’s lead and release its rankings each week.

If you’re not familiar with the NCAA tournament, its committee ranks the teams one to 68 and then seeds them in the four regions based on criteria like making sure teams from the same conference that play a couple times don’t meet early in the tournament or that BYU doesn’t play on Sunday.

So if the UA ended up sixth on Selection Sunday like its current RPI ranking, then it would be in line for a two seed, as the secondbest two seed, after the four No. 1 seeds get placed into regions.

That’s where the rankings come in, if the NCAA released the top68 teams each week, we could see which directional school or “State” school not named after a state will be the new black this year and watch it play in high school-sized gyms on ESPN 8, The Ocho.

Remember how much excitement the CFP rankings generated each week? And they only ranked 25 teams, assigned teams to six bowls and had a tournament of four teams.

will face this season. Gonzaga’s Kevin Pangos and Gary Bell Jr. might be the only other starting backcourt that has more combined talent than Randle and Brown.

It’s safe to assume T.J. McConnell, Stanley Johnson, Rondae HollisJefferson and Elliott Pitts will take turns guarding Stanford’s backcourt duo. However, even with the Cardinal holding a pair of aces among the starting guards, Nastic down low could give the Wildcats the most trouble.

Despite starting 35 games last season, Nastic was almost an afterthought to do-it-all wings Dwight Powell and Josh Huestis. He averaged just 7.4 points and 2.8 rebounds in 19.7 minutes per game. This season, Nastic has seen his

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball head coach Sean Miller directs the Wildcats during Arizona’s 69-51 victory over Utah in McKale Center on Saturday. The Wildcats head to Stanford, Calif., for a matchup with Stanford on Thursday.

A top 68 each week would be absolute must-see TV. Plus, teams could know each week where they stand. Stanford’s on the rise with an RPI of 26, which would slot it in the six-seed range, but it is 8-2 in its last 10 games, so maybe, if the Cardinal upsets the Wildcats, it can move up to a topfour seed.

Under the pod system, the topfour teams get to play closer to home, like Seattle or Portland, Ore., not Jacksonville, Fla. or

Pittsburgh.

Sure, ranking 68 teams is a huge task, but if it’s done each week, it’s less work than starting from scratch on Championship Week.

Cramming should be saved for gen eds the UA forces students to take, not our crown jewel tournament.

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team normally wants right before it tries to win a championship, especially going up against the Seahawks.

Arizona women’s basketball The Wildcats need to find themselves as fast as possible. With six-straight Pac-12 losses, this team is struggling. After starting the season with a couple of victories, Arizona and head coach Niya Butts need to figure out how to fix the drought before they have another off season.

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production increase as his minutes have increased.

Kaleb Tarczewski figures to be the one matched up with Nastic for the majority of the game and has at times struggled against talented opposing bigs. Luckily for Arizona, Brandon Ashley and Dusan Ristic wait in the wings if Tarczewski struggles.

Regardless, McConnell said the Wildcats will be ready for whatever Stanford throws at them tonight because the team is playing together.

“We have this motto: It’s all about the people in the gym,” McConnell said.

“No one else outside matters. We pretty much have stayed in tune with that.”

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LeBron James The Cleveland Cavaliers are struggling at just two games over .500.

The small forward has been scoring almost 32 points a game and is pulling his team out of the bumpy road that was the beginning of the season. At least that is what some might think.

James’ SpringHill Productions will be partnering with NBC to create a prime-time game show. Come on LeBron: You need to focus on basketball before you get into the game show business.

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SPORTS SCORE CENTER Suns grab huge win over Portland Phoenix Suns 118 Portland Trail Blazers 113

Durants, OKC defeat Wall, Wizards Oklahoma City Thunder 105, Washington Wizards 103

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Butts, Arizona aim for ‘breakthrough’ UPCOMING SCHEDULE MEN’S BASKETBALL 1/22 at Stanford

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Stanford is up next for Arizona men’s basketball and should provide the Wildcats with a tough road matchup

BY ROBERTO PAYNE The Daily Wildcat

Fresh off a victory over then-No. 8 Utah, the No. 7 Arizona men’s basketball team hits the road for tonight’s matchup with upstart Stanford (13-4, 4-1 Pac-12 Conference) in Maples Pavilion for first place in the Pac-12.

The Wildcats hold the all-time series lead 57-29 against the Cardinal and have won nine straight matchups dating back to B.M., or better known as Before Miller.

Arizona coach Sean Miller has gone a perfect 8-0 against Stanford in his time as the UA head coach but said this Stanford team is as deadly as ever.

“Both Cal and Stanford are always difficult to beat at home and especially Stanford right now,” Miller said. “That’s the only one we’re worried about, especially because of their record. They just beat the defending national champions, UCONN, on their home court. They’ve gone to Texas and won. They’re having a great season and the reason is they’re a really good team.”

As Miller alluded to, Stanford has beaten teams like UNLV, Texas and Connecticut this season and is starting to gain national attention, as the Cardinal is ranked No. 25 in this week’s USA TODAY Sports Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll.

Leading the way for Stanford are guards Chasson Randle and Anthony Brown and center Stefan Nastic. Randle averages a conference-leading 19.8 points per game, Brown averages 15.4 points per game and a team-high 7.3 rebounds per game and Nastic averages 13.9 points per game and 7.2 rebounds per game.

“I can remember when Randle came into the league, he was on the allfreshman team,” Miller said. “I think Nick Johnson and him came in together and I remember thinking those are two talented guards. … He’s really a four-year starter.

Anthony Brown is ditto for him. He’s really, in essence, a four-year starter and somebody who’s been around for a long time. Not only are they talented, but they have great experience.”

From a pure talent perspective, Randle and Brown are right up there among the best starting backcourt that Arizona

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball center Kaleb Tarczewski shoots over Utah defenders Brandon Taylor (11) and Brekkott Chapman (0) during Arizona’s 69-51 victory over Utah in McKale Center on Saturday. Tarczewski and the Wildcats head to Stanford, Calif., for a matchup with Stanford on Thursday.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL 1/23 vs. Oregon State

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1/24 vs. UC Riverside

Fun Fact

Arizona’s official colors are cardinal red & navy blue 1981: Stanford goes from the Indians to the Cardinal

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Committee should rank 68 teams each week

WOMEN’S TENNIS 1/24 vs. New Mexico State

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

GYMNASTICS

1/24 at Washington

TWEET TO NOTE It’s the best when I run into Coach Olson at Mckale. Such a great coach and even better person. #legend —@iPass4Zona

Arizona men’s baskeball point guard T.J. McConnell tweets about seeing legendary Arizona coach Lute Olson in the halls of McKale Center.

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball forward Brandon Ashley (21) dunks against Utah center Dallin Bachynski (31) during Arizona’s 69-51 victory over Utah in McKale Center on Saturday. The Wildcats defeated Colorado and Utah by double digits after losing to Oregon State on Jan.11.

track and field team means business.

BY MATT WALL

The Daily Wildcat

HOT Arizona men’s basketball The Wildcats proved they are a team to be reckoned with when they beat Utah at home 69-51. Plus, Brandon Ashley was named to the Lute Olson National Player of the Year Award midseason watch list.

If Arizona can get victories on the road in its upcoming games against Stanford and California, it will prove it needs to be ranked in the top five again.

Arizona track & field The Wildcats opened the season at the NAU Lumberjack’s J.L. Walkup Skydome and showed the Pac-12 Conference that this team means business. Sophomore pentathlete Alyssa Thompson led the pack, posting a personal best in shot put and earning first place in the long jump. Plus, freshmen additions to the team showed they can compete at the highest level. This

Max Scherzer The 2013 AL Cy Young Award winner just got a little bit richer when he finalized his $210 million seven-year contract with the Washington Nationals. The former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher has proved to so many why it was so dumb to have traded him in the first place. The Nationals now have a pitching duel in the works, with Jordan Zimmermann and Scherzer fighting for who will be the Ace.

NOT Deflate Gate Sources have now confirmed to the NFL that 11 of the 12 balls used by the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game were underinflated. That’s just silly.

Although the Patriots have made it all the way to the Super Bowl, they are getting media attention that is not the kind an NFL

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hen it comes to American sports tournaments, the NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament is the gold standard.

Men want to be it and women want to be with it.

However, it’s not perfect. The unforgiving single elimination format ensures that whoever survives and advances is the winner, not necessarily the best team.

Arizona should have won the 1998 and 2003 national championships. Had the format been something like the NBA playoffs, where best of seven series reign supreme, the best team would have won.

Then again, Arizona may not have won the 1997 national championship. After going 0-2 on the always tough Stanford/California road trip to finish the season, the Wildcats finished fifth in the Pac-10 Conference.

The fifth-best team in the Pac-10 winning the national championship made that tournament memorable to people who aren’t even UA fans.

The upsets and Cinderella stories are what we love about the NCAA tournament, so wouldn’t it be great to know who they are ahead of time? Doesn’t everyone watching “Back to the Future Part II” wish they had

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