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College tuition is higher than it has ever been and students are taking on jobs, student loans and sugar daddies to pick up the slack. That’s right, sugar daddies are now being marketed as a form of “financial aid.” Websites like SeekingArrangement.com seek to create “mutually beneficial relationships” by providing a place for wealthy men and women known as sugar daddies and sugar mommas to connect with attractive, low-income sugar babies. Sugar Baby University, part of SeekingArrangement.com, advertises an average monthly allowance of $3,000 to college students looking for tuition money and some UA students are taking the bait. In its annual ranking of the fastest growing sugar baby schools, Sugar Baby University ranked ASU second and the UA 14th. The rankings are based on the number of new student sign-ups from each university in 2015. Last year, UA had 84 new sign-ups while ASU had 189. Students who sign up for their sugar baby membership using a school email account, or who later submit proof of their enrollment in college, receive free premium memberships. Public relations manager Brook Urick said via email that this is how SeekingArrangement. com keeps track of unique university sign-ups. SeekingArrangement.com has been around since 2006 and now has a reported 1.134 million student sugar babies in the U.S., according to the company’s 2016 Us press release. The company’s basic business model is this: all sugar babies, male and female, get free basic membership, while sugar daddies and mommas must pay monthly fees. “Sugar daddies can pay $70 a month for a premium membership or $200 a month for the diamond membership,” said Angela Bermudo, a member of Seeking Arrangement’s press. Signing up for a membership is simple for people looking to become sugar babies. While Seeking Arrangement’s terms state that “you must be at least eighteen years old to register as a Member or use the Website. Membership in the Service is void where prohibited,” the website does not require any identification
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Discussion at Wednesday’s ASUA meeting centered around the newly proposed athletics department fee and funding for a class designed to educate about sexual assault and relationship violence. The meeting kicked off with an open discussion with Andrew Comrie, senior vice president of academic affairs and provost. Comrie gave a general overview of the “big things” coming down the pipeline for the university and its students such as the upcoming budget, tuition-related things, the newly discussed athletics department fee and cluster hires for certain departments. The athletics department fee, which in its most recent form was proposed to be $200 and applicable to all students, is still being discussed. Comrie made a point that at this point, the fee is “just an idea,” and that nothing concrete has been decided. He went on to say that the proposed fee is being spearheaded by Greg Byrne, director of athletics. According to Comrie, Byrne is pushing for the new fee because there are “real challenges with the facilities” that need to be addressed. “It’s no secret that we’re in a financial and arms race in athletics in general, and keeping up with the kind of quality we need to retain the talent we need is not a cheap business,” he said. “There’s some pressing issues now that the athletics department really thinks need some special attention.” Krista Millay, assistant dean of students and director of the UA’s Women’s Resource Center, presented a proposed class that would address sexual assault and relationship violence. It would be a three-credit class that allows students to become trained as peer educators in sexual assault and relationship violence prevention. Upon completion of the class, peer educators who are deemed “good enough” will be brought on board as paid peer educators to run
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a prevention workshop similar to Wildcat 101. Incoming students will be strongly encouraged to take part in the workshop. The proposed launch date of the class is fall 2016 and students who take part in the class would receive three credits toward their elective requirements, according to Millay. The goal of the class would be to create a campus climate that would combat the number of sexual assault and relationship violence cases at the UA. “If all of our incoming Wildcats have similar experience through workshops they’re attending together and are led by their peers, then there’s a sense that this is who we are,” Millay said. “This is what we do, we care about these issues.” Millay asked for the senate to choose between two funding proposals. The first asked for $14,000
and the second for $20,000. Sen. Matt Lubisich then took the floor requesting $610 for the I Will campaign. The goal of the Feb. 1-5 campaign is to combat rape and the $610 that Lubisich requested would go toward marketing for the campaign. After little deliberation Brian Seastone, chief of police for the University of Arizona Police Department, offered for his department to foot the bill instead of delegating money from ASUA funds. The meeting concluded with reports from the senators, their committees and ASUA President Manny Felix.
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verifying age. To become a full-fledged sugar baby, members must submit a photo or photos, a short biography and a description of the kind of arrangement they are looking for. These items are shown as pending until a website administrator approves of their content. Sugar babies must also enter stats including body type, height, birthday, whether they smoke or drink and their expected lifestyle (i.e. moderate, luxury, etc.). Members are encouraged to use fake names online and administrators review these too. If a name appears to be real, administrators will replace letters in the last name with numbers. Once a sugar baby profile is approved, it becomes visible to sugar daddies or mommas based on the preference of the sugar baby. Sugar babies can browse the sites of sugar daddies and/or mommas, but cannot communicate with them until they receive an online message. One sugar daddy profile claimed that the user had a net worth of $2 million and an annual income of $400,000. Sugar daddies and mommas are not required to enter their net worth and income, but they often do. They can also enter their height, body type, education and relationship status. Sugar daddy and sugar momma accounts are not always run by just one person. Some accounts are created and used by couples. One profile, apparently made by a female user, stated a desire to find a woman to rendezvous with her and her boyfriend. The types of sugar arrangements one can procure on SeekingArrangements.com are numerous. Regardless of the type of relationship they are seeking, sugar babies are monitored by the website as promised in a Sugar Baby University advertisement. Associate professor of sociology Louise Roth said “the idea promoted by SeekingArrangement.com is an old one.” “It kind of buys into the idea that women can exchange their youth and beauty for financial support,” she said. “A different version than we saw in the 1950s of that, but also I think a big part of it that plays into that, this in the contemporary context, is that the cost of going to university and the fact that people take out really big student loans that they’re then going to be responsible for, you know, no matter what.” Roth called sugar relationships “exploitative,” but she did not believe the rise of university sugar babies would have any long-term negative cultural effects. “Well, again, if you look in the 1950s, most people still ended up with someone who was close to their age and the same social status as themselves and I don’t think that’s going to change in, you know, the sort of longer term with this either,” Roth said. Whether or not modern sugar relationships will increase is unknown, but the answer will lie partly in the price of college attendance. Whether tuition continues to increase remains to be seen. — Follow Michelle Jaquette @MichelleJaquet
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Education ‘hopeful, but skeptical’ BY SAM GROSS
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During her annual State of Education address to the Arizona House Committee on Education, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Arizona, Diane Douglas, was cautiously confident that Arizona education has a bright future. “The current state of education in Arizona is hopeful, but skeptical,” she said, beginning her address. Using the classic Peanuts cartoon of Lucy pulling the football away just before Charlie Brown kicks it as a metaphor, Douglas warned the house not to “temporarily placate the public” with short-term fixes and the resolution of lawsuits such as the recently resolved 2010 lawsuit in which school districts and charter schools sued the state claiming that the state shorted them during the Great Recession. The lawsuit was ultimately resolved when Gov. Doug Ducey signed three bills that would ultimately pump $3.5 billion back into the public education system.
A large chunk of Douglas’ speech, however, was spent highlighting the reasons that education has a hopeful future despite the fact that Arizona’s national ranking for education has stagnated for yet another year, at a “D+.” Douglas’ major new initiative, AZ Kids Can’t Afford to Wait! education plan, was frequently referenced during the speech. The plan is a formal, comprehensive approach for the improvement of education in the state. Using feedback and commentary from Arizona’s educators, students and parents, it attempts to utilize and set forth constituent feedback in the creation of education legislation. Much of the feedback used in this plan was collected during a talking tour that Douglas has been doing throughout school districts in the state. “The call for more education funding was loud and clear,” Douglas said, referring to the comments she received during her tours. “No other topic came close in terms of the volume and feedback that I received in regards to funding.”
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Douglas also called for the federal government to release more federally held land to the state in order for it to be used as state land trust revenue, which would then become a revenue source for public schools—a call similar to one that has been made by the Arizona Board of Regents to help fund higher education. The state land trust was created in 1912 to help fund education and Arizona lawmakers have recently been looking to the federal government to bolster Arizona’s land trust reserves in order to further fund education in lieu of raising taxes.
Douglas concluded by outlining her stance on the purpose of the state’s public education system. “The purpose of Arizona’s education system is not simply to create a long line of college applicants and worker bees,” she concluded. “Our children are not a source of human capital that exists only to feed the economy.”
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Lightweight A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to Coronado Residence Hall regarding a female student who was being evaluated in her room by the Tucson Fire Department. When the officer arrived at the room, the student was vomiting. The student’s roommate was in the room and expressed concern about her roommate. She said that the one student “is so small, it doesn’t take much to get her drunk.” TFD medically cleared the student and the officer began to ask her questions. The officer asked her where she consumed alcohol and the student said at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house. The student said the only thing she remembered drinking was vodka. She smelled of alcohol and her speech was incoherent. The officer arrested the student for a minor in possession of alcohol in the body, but she didn’t go to jail. She had to sign a citation. The student apologized and said she would make sure that it was the last time something like that happened.
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Light pollution hides the night sky BY SARAH ROSE VINING The Daily Wildcat
Many people in Arizona are in the dark about a little-known environmental issue: unpolluted dark skies, which are a luxury enjoyed by the residents of Flagstaff. The people of larger cities, including Tucson and Phoenix, have not seen a night sky with all its stars. Light pollution from storefronts, homes and cars affects the visibility of the sky from dusk until dawn. “There now exists a generation of people who have not seen a dark night sky before, who have not clearly seen the Milky Way, parts of our galaxy, the aurora and meteor showers,” said Adam Block, the manager of Mount Lemmon’s SkyCenter, north of Tucson. Block said that light pollution is paramount to a loss of the Earth’s identity in the universe. “We have this loss of our place in the universe,” he said. “That’s a loss of identity and that might actually be something people will regret losing someday.” Bright, human-made lights create a real “boogeyman” that lurks beneath the night sky. Some cities have taken action to cut back on their light emissions. Flagstaff is famous for its recognition as the first International Dark Sky City. Sedona, Arizona followed suit in 2014. Tucson is not considered a Dark Sky City, ccording to the International Dark Sky Association, Dark Sky cities are ones that demonstrate exceptional dedication to the integrity of the night sky. This might include lighting codes, dark sky education and citizen support. Flagstaff is the prime example of a Dark Sky city. During a drive between Phoenix and Flagstaff on a cloudless night, Orion walks Sirius the dog across the horizon and the Little Dipper comes into focus. Twinkle, twinkle, little star: How I wonder where you are The National Park Service champions the purity of the night skies. Pollution affects the night skies of national parks, which threatens diversity, diminishes visibility and mitigates human health. Light pollution affects the visibility and aesthetic quality of the night sky. Preliminary data comparing Casa Grande Ruins National Monument and Saguaro National Park with the relatively pristine Wupatki National Monument and Petrified Forest
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LIGHT STREAKS GLOW in the sky above Mount Lemmon on March 18, 2014. Light pollution from Tucson can be observed on top of Mount Lemmon.
National Park indicated that nearby Phoenix and Tucson should consider cutting back on their light use. When compared to the pure horizons of Wupatki, city horizons appeared splotched in red light. This light compromises the visibility of the horizons in both the cities themselves and their surrounding areas. “People don’t like change,” said Scott Kardel, a member of the International Dark Sky Association. “Period.” But change may be necessary for the sake of both environmental and human health. “It’s important to remember the context that almost all life has this embedded 24 hour cycle in it,” Kardel said. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight The National Park Service declared light pollution an issue of environmental concern in 2002. Since then, it has been researching the skies through its Night Sky Program. In Arizona, Flagstaff has one of the least polluted horizons near a city. “It’s kind of the standard for how you want to do it, you know, if you’re worried about night skies,” said Dan Duriscoe, a scientist researching photometry for the National Park Service. “We haven’t run the same analysis on Phoenix and Tucson, but I would suspect that both
Tucson and especially Phoenix would be much brighter.” This nearby light can obscure the visibility of the night sky. Block runs regular outreach programs on Mount Lemmon to show people the effects of pollution on the night sky. “If you have someone on the mountain, [they] can see that this is a dark sky, but [they] can see the glow from the nearby city,” he said. Block and the other astronomers who work in Mount Lemmon’s SkyCenter have found that Tucson’s lights still affects their jobs. “If it’s too bright, I can’t show people the stars,” Block said. Like a diamond in the sky, when tiny diamonds become blazing suns Light pollution can creep from the horizons into the homes of citizens. Electric glow, particularly from blue lights, can affect human health. Many people attempt to sleep with lights from other homes or muted TVs and this light can interrupt their sleep cycle. “We’re basically giving ourselves something that’s an equivalent to jet lag,” Kardel said. Safety is the main reason many people balk at the idea of cutting back on lighting. The initial dimming of light can be a shock. “People will want more light because they’re used to more light,” Duriscoe said. “If they get less light, they’ll get used to it.”
Cities can consider techniques such as shielding streetlights or home floodlights, curfews and amber-colored lights to cut back on their emissions. “I think today we’re seeing a trend of using more light in terms of brightness,” Duriscoe said. He believes that the intensity of city lights is the main problem. Duriscoe does not think that we need to eradicate every single light source. Making them dimmer might just do the trick. “Just using less of it in the first place can make a difference,” Duriscoe said. Kardel envisions technology as being beneficial in the future. Instituting motion sensors in parking lots would decrease light use at night when few people are awake. As lighting continues to obscure the skies, the future remains uncertain for researchers such as Duriscoe and activists like Kardel and Block. The universe is an expansive infinity of black quilting. Each star is like a glowing pinprick in that quilt, up above the world so high. “It’s a beautiful thing to see the rest of the universe,” Block said. “The Earth is just a very small part of that.”
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Heriberto Bujanda shows off a soccer-playing robot at the RoboCub Jr. STEM Professional Development training at the Student Union Memorial Center on Saturday, Jan. 16. Students in Sunny Side school district will make robots similar to these in the coming months to compete at Robocup Jr.
UA engineering professor gets students excited about science by teaching them to program soccer-playing robots BY Natalie Robbins The Daily Wildcat
Exemplifying the “E” in STEM, Dr. Ricardo Valerdi, a UA professor in the department of systems and industrial engineering, has brought a new, hands-on way to encourage science, technology, engineering and math in classrooms across Tucson. Through the RoboCup Junior STEM program, students at three middle schools in the Sunnyside School District will have the chance to build and program their own soccer-playing robots. Ultimately, they will use these robots to compete in the RoboCup Junior Tournament at the Children’s Museum Tucson on June 30. A training session for the teachers was held by Valerdi and two of his teaching assistants for the program—Matt Kelpien, a systems engineering senior and Heriberto Bujanda, an industrial engineering senior—on Jan. 16. The teachers learned basic rules and components necessary to succeed in the
tournament and were provided with a curriculum to supplement the design and testing process. Each middle school competing will purchase two robots and work to program and build an exemplary goal-scoring and goaldefending robot using a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit. The robots are autonomous—not controlled by a remote—and are able to play soccer using sensors and programmed codes which are uploaded to the robot. The tournament uses an infrared soccer ball that the robots can detect using infrared sensor on their bodies. They can use the intensity of the light to determine how far away the soccer ball is and then adjust to grab the ball and score. Competition is held on a color-coded field to help increase the perceptibility for the robots. The playing field itself is green, outof-bounds areas are white and the goals are painted two opposing colors. Similar to the infrared sensors, the robots are equipped with
color sensors, which alert it to back up onto the playing field when it senses white, or shoot the ball when it senses the color of a goal box. “[The robots] don’t actually know which goal is theirs,” Bujanda said. “If they can recognize the color, that’s the way they can know: ‘Red is mine or blue is the opponent’s goal.’” The RoboCup Junior program is part of the Science of Sport program, which was also created by Valerdi in partnership with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Science of Sport first focused on baseball, and then expanded into soccer, with the goal of teaching STEM concept through sports. “We want students to expand their dreams and look at a STEM career,” said Ballard Smith, the executive director of Science of Sport. Over the course of the next semester, the schools will build, program and test their robots, trying to find the best mix of speed, size, appearance and programming. Students are only able to use the things provided to them in the LEGO kits.
“If it was remote-controlled it would be easy,” Valerdi said. “You have to put enough intelligence into the robot.” At the tournament, the matches will be oneon-one and will last five minutes. Just like in regular soccer, there are penalties including penalty kicks if there is a tie at the end of regular play; however, there are no time-outs. “The exciting thing is, there’s not one way to do it, so it can actually be a competition,” Bujanda said. Come June, there will be at least six newly designed and programmed robots accompanied by eager middle school students ready to compete for the ultimate prize: a trophy featuring a soccer player with a soccer ball for a head. This will be small reward for being the winners of the RoboCup Junior Tournament compared to the invaluable knowledge they will gain along the way. — Follow Natalie Robbins @Natpatat11
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Women in science: Bramson helps uncover ice on Mars BY LIZZIE HANNAH The Daily Wildcat
In a conscious effort to recognize women for their contributions to science, the Daily Wildcat will run regular profiles this semester of UA women who hope to change the world through their passions for knowledge. Some of the women to be featured are only just beginning their careers in research or medicine, while others have already impacted the decisions of aspiring young scientists through teaching and mentorship. Each woman in the upcoming series was asked to discuss another female scientist who influenced her decision to enter her chosen field. Like the role models they discuss in their profiles, each of the women featured this semester will go on to inspire girls and women to follow their hearts into the sciences.
To kick off the semester, we begin with a profile of Ali Bramson, a graduate student in UA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Upon graduating from the University of WisconsinMadison with a bachelor’s degree in physics and astronomy-physics, Bramson joined the UA Department of Planetary Sciences. She is currently a fourthyear graduate student working in the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, where she uses spacecraft data to study the surfaces of planets and moons. Bramson published a study in August describing her discovery of an ice sheet just under the surface of Mars that is as large as Texas and California combined, and as deep as a 13-story building. Bramson observed the ice sheet using the laboratory’s high-resolution camera
called HiRISE, and a radar instrument called SHARAD. Both instruments are currently flying around Mars onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Bramson is coding a model this semester to investigate how the ice sheet she discovered could have been preserved over tens of millions of years. She hopes that her work will help uncover new information about the Martian climate and the distribution of ice on Mars. Bramson was inspired to enter the field of planetary sciences by Sally Ride, the first American woman to travel to space. In her spare time, Bramson plays on the UA women’s ultimate frisbee team.
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Growing up, my dream was always to be an astronaut; like, I was really obsessed with the idea of becoming an astronaut from age five onward. So naturally, Sally Ride was my favorite female scientist. She not only was the youngest American to go into space, but she also became an astronaut through getting bachelor’s and Ph.D. degrees in physics. COURTESY OF ALI BRAMSON Growing up, I didn’t know anyone who was a professional ALI BRAMSON at the Kennedy Space Center scientist, let alone an astronaut, for the launch of the MAVEN spacecraft to Mars in November 2013. so learning about Sally Ride’s career path gave me an idea of the education I would need. Many astronauts enter the program through the army [or] air force pilot route, and the Apollo days of going to the moon featured only men astronauts. As a girl, watching movies like ‘Apollo 13’ and ‘October Sky,’ it seemed the closest women got to becoming an astronaut or rocket scientist was to either to be the wife of one or their K-12 teacher. Sally Ride became an important role model to me as it was really important for me to see not only that a women could become astronauts, but that I could achieve my dreams by becoming a scientist. I went on to do my bachelor’s degrees in physics and astrophysics, and am now working on my Ph.D. in planetary science, and I couldn’t be happier that I followed this career path!”
How physics is contradicting general relativity BY STEVEN PRESTON The Daily Wildcat
Nonlocality is a phenomenon that has gained a lot of attention within the physics community over the past few decades. In what Einstein described as “spooky action at a distance,” the implications of nonlocal action pull the rug out from under one of his most prominent scientific contributions: the theory of general relatively. As a part of quantum mechanics, nonlocality seems to contradict the logic and consistency found in his idea of general relativity. Because of this, Einstein wrote it off, saying there had to be something missing from our understanding of the universe causing certain actions to appear nonlocal. To better understand the concept of nonlocality, it helps to first grasp the idea of locality. A local universe means that particles, or separate objects, can only interact with one another through some type of direct contact. From what humans have gathered about the world, locality
appears to be the only logical explanation for what causes interaction between separate objects. You can’t see light without it directly hitting your eye, you can’t hear someone without the sound waves from their voice directly hitting your eardrum and you can’t move something without giving it a direct nudge. Everything we can observe with the naked eye appears to operate in this local fashion. It isn’t until we scale things down to the subatomic level that things begin to get a little spooky. The study of subatomic particle behavior is known as quantum mechanics. In quantum mechanics, various observations have been made which challenge the ideas established in Einstein’s theory of general relativity, including nonlocality. General relativity and quantum mechanics remain two notoriously opposing physics models that both attempt to explain the inner workings of the universe. Developing a theory relating the two ideas is something that many within the physics community strive to accomplish. As of now,
physicists struggle to understand how both models could remain true. In a non-local universe, particles can instantaneously affect one another no matter how far apart they may be. They are not bound by the limits of space and time. Nonlocality has been suggested to occur between particles taking part in an event known as quantum entanglement. When two particles participate in quantum entanglement, they are ultimately surrendering their individual properties in exchange for becoming a part of a larger system in which the quantum properties of each component cannot be separated from one another. Particles that take part in this entanglement will continue to behave in a coordinated manner no matter how much distance exists between them. “I could separate them by an inch, a mile or the width of a planet, it never makes any difference to them, and that is very different from anything else we have in life or in science,” said George Musser, author of the book “Spooky Action at a Distance” and
contributing editor for Scientific American. For example, with the forces of both gravity and magnetism, the greater distance one puts between two acting objects, the weaker that force between them becomes. Particles acting in a non-local manner behave as though the distance between them is irrelevant. In his book “Spooky Action at a Distance,” Musser adheres to the idea that in principle, nonlocality says that there could be two entangled particles on opposite ends of the universe acting in unison, knowing exactly what its counterpart is doing without missing a step. How and why entangled particles participate in this spooky action remains a mystery to us. As our understanding of the physical universe continues to progress, only one thing seems certain: the fabric of this world we inhabit is much more beautifully complex than we could have ever imagined. — Follow Steven Preston @stevenpreston626
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‘Youth’ explores the conundrums of growing old a Buddhist monk that may or may not be able to levitate, and a retired, morbidly obese Diego Maradona, the legendary Argentine soccer player. Even Miss Universe WITH ALEX GUYTON (Madalina Diana Ghenea) stops by as a vibrant, sensual vision in a setting of wrinkles and sags (I’m n the follow-up to his 2013 not sure if Ghenea modeled her Academy Award-winning film performance after Miss Colombia “The Great Beauty,” director or Miss Philippines). Paolo Sorrentino delves into what’s These additions to the left behind and still left to do in old supporting cast serve more as age with his latest film, “Youth”. fixtures to the atmosphere than The film takes place at a as characters. This atmosphere luxurious resort tucked away establishes the resort as a in the Swiss Alps, which allows character, and in fact, may be the Sorrentino and the inhabitants most interesting character in the of his film to wax philosophic on entire film. sweeping subjects like youth and Viewers are dying. This is where concerned the international primarily with Fred upper class come to Ballinger (Michael get away. Caine), Mick Boyle This pause in • Director: Paolo (Harvey Keitel), life, set against Sorrentino Lena Ballinger sweeping pastures (Rachel Weisz) and and towering • Starring: Michael Jimmy Tree (Paul mountains, allows Caine, Harvey Keitel, Dano). for conversations Paul Dano Ballinger is that couldn’t a retired music happen anywhere • Genre: Drama conductor with else, let alone slicked back white regular society. hair and thick• Runtime: 2 h 4 min I am reminded framed glasses, of the ethereal exactly like Jep bathhouse of the Gambardella in “The Great Japanese animated masterpiece Beauty,” who achieved global “Spirited Away,” where spirits of all acclaim for his composition shapes and sizes would come for “Simple Songs.” a deep cleansing. This Swiss resort In his twilight, he has absolutely is also a destination for wayward souls—figuratively, not literally—as no desire to take up music again, which poses a particular problem in “Spirited Away’s” case. to an emissary of the queen (a Among the resorts’ guests are
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small, delightful performance from Alex Macqueen). The queen desperately wants Ballinger to conduct pieces for Prince Philip’s birthday. In addition to music, Ballinger has no desire to participate in life, as his advanced age renders most pursuits irrelevant. In response to his dutiful daughter Lena’s plan to get him healthy and moving, Ballinger responds, “At my age, getting in shape is merely a waste of time.” Juxtaposing Ballinger’s hands-off attitude toward life is his best friend Mick Boyle, who refuses to give up the ghost. A successful Hollywood film director, Boyle has come to the resort with a group of brighteyed and bushy-tailed twentysomethings to write his next great screenplay—his “testament,” as he deems it. Boyle is accompanied by another film luminary: a young actor, Jimmy Tree, who has the corners of his lips perpetually upturned ever so slightly, as if smirking about an inside joke. Tree believes himself wise beyond his years and considers Ballinger a kindred spirit. From Tree’s hair to the misunderstood artist shtick, Dano is channeling some serious LaBeoufian vibes. These characters stroll,
sit and lounge about as they discuss their problems amidst pristine mountain vistas. Some conversations are engaging while others are roundabout and fail to go anywhere. When the mind starts to wander away from the conversation at hand, at least there’s gorgeous scenery to look at. You can’t help but wonder if the beautiful landscapes not only dwarf the characters and story in size, but also in terms of interest. Although Sorrentino pursues some story strands that seem superfluous (for examples, whether the monk can actually levitate or not), the feelings conjured by the ending are sweeping and poignant. This is the result of Caine’s powerful performance of a quietly regretful man and the revelations of his past that come to light at the film’s end. “Youth’s” ending culminates in a charged finale of opera and montage that leveled me with its emotion and execution. Although the parts of “Youth” don’t always add up, the film builds to an ending that might make it all worth it.
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The Tex-Mex restaurant first opened in 1995; in other words, it’s about as old as many students. Offensive or not, owner Pete Turner’s intentions to create an “illegal” atmosphere proves conducive to University Boulevard. Often measured against the more well-known chain across the street, Chipotle. “I’ve had nachos and a steak burrito; it’s great. Possibly better than Chipotle,” physiology senior Mike Abrahamson said. “I really enjoyed getting a beer and sitting on the balcony with friends in perfect weather.” Illegal Pete’s is open until 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights and has a full service bar on both floors of the two-story eating area. When busy, it’s loud inside like a bar although the music isn’t overpowering and gets my stamp of approval on trendiness. Some students are taking notice. TOM PRICE/THE DAILY WILDCAT “The line’s out the door every time I go there,” ILLEGAL PETE’S, a new restaurant on University Boulevard on Thursday, communications senior Lexi Lightfoot said. “I love Jan. 21. Many are already comparing the restaurant to Chipotle. ending a night out at Illegal Pete’s.” “The more the merrier” could be the motto of Illegal Pete’s. When it comes to employees, all were friendly and appeared to be genuinely enjoying themselves the entire time I was there. The restaurant is dedicated to providing a living wage to its workers, along with its commitment to natural food and live music performances. Illegal Pete’s has its own record label with various bands and comedians and provides free meals to hungry artists coming through town. Even not-so-starving favorites like Weezer and Morrissey have enjoyed a free meal from Illegal Pete’s. With burritos, nachos, tacos, quesadillas filled to the brim with beef, chicken, carnitas or fish served along with different types of veggies—in addition to alcohol—there really is something for everyone. My personal favorite: the breakfast offerings during early opening hours. Even if you show up bright and early, expect a crowd any time.
n a class last semester, I remember having to do a writing exercise that changed simple syntax into savory sentences. One sentence was about a person eating a giant burrito and I recall having a difficult time deciding how to depict this. Quite literally, the problem was: What’s in the burrito? Now when I crave a burrito, I know exactly what I want in it and it’s not always the same thing. Like sentences, my burritos can be plain with beans, or have nacho cheese with spiced veggies and juicy meat. That’s just one way to have your meal at Illegal Pete’s. I first heard of Illegal Pete’s from the protests over the insensitivity of its name. After all, there’s no such thing as bad press, right? My dream of an authentic Mexican food restaurant closer to campus seemed to be fulfilled. In reality, that’s not quite accurate.
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Don’t be crazy, use the crosswalks BY ASHLEIGH HOROWITZ The Daily Wildcat
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he UA campus is no small place, so riding a bike rather than walking makes getting from Old Main to the UA Main Library much less daunting. But when everyone is riding instead of walking, the roads become as clustered as those designated for cars. Students shouldn’t be walking on the roads around the UA Mall, they shouldn’t be crossing unless there is a crosswalk and they definitely shouldn’t be muttering about how bikes are the worst for nearly running over them.
It doesn’t take a genius to see parking garage and cuts through there is an excessive amount of multiple buildings, many students foot and non-motorized traffic act as if they have the right-ofon roads and way. walkways across Watch how campus. students act when Students From the Mall classes get out shouldn’t be to Second Street, and it will become packs of students walking on the roads abundantly clear migrate across around the Mall, they that pedestrians c r o s s w a l k s , shouldn’t be crossing rule the road. s o m e t i m e s unless there is a crosswalk, However, this leading cyclists is not how and they definitely to swerve, stop our campus or even ride shouldn’t be muttering transportation onto sidewalks about how bikes are the system works. in attempt to worst for nearly running Pedestrians avoid careless have a over them. pedestrians. responsibility to Because cars use sidewalks and aren’t running crosswalks when back and forth past the Student available and should not proceed Union Memorial Center and to jaywalk or block pathways because Second Street has a for motor vehicles or bicycles,
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according to the UA Bicycle Parking and Transportation Regulations. If designated walking areas are not provided, pedestrians should walk on the far left-hand side of the road facing oncoming traffic. Think of it this way: if you were standing at a busy highway, would you rather use the crosswalk with traffic signals or simply run across the road? Campus roads are no different, even if cyclists move slowly. Walking across busy roads causes congestion and can cause riders to run into one another. We have roads specifically for bikes, golf carts and skateboarders to use, just as we have sidewalks that are meant specifically for foot traffic. According to the UA Regulations
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ut-of-state students at UA don’t have much, or any, disposable income. Even if I were rolling around in trust fund dough, there would still be an ethical issue with spending $7 on a jar of pasta sauce at Highland Market when I could get the same sauce for $2 at Fry’s Food and Drug. Even if an out-of-state student were a billionare, they would still take issue with the $500 annual Honors College fee and the $4 water bottles at Cactus Grill, when bundles of 24 water bottles cost $1.88 at Fry’s. The $10 “freshman fee,” the $40 “student services fee,” what are student services? And the Financial Aid fee: I have to pay to receive Financial Aid? According to a student employee in the Student Union Memorial Center games room, night janitors were recently laid off due to “budget cuts.” How on Earth could the university need to make budget cuts? Perhaps there is something I am naively disregarding, but it seems students’ money is being guzzled in and there is often nothing to show for it. There are two main issues here: one is ethical and one is, obviously, economic. With the obscenely overpriced food at places like Highland and U-mart, I choose the more ethical stance. The university knows there is a large population of students living in dorms who don’t have cars and thus are trapped on campus. Knowing this, the university realized it could get away with selling a $7 tiny jar of pasta sauce—along with
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a plethora of other highly overpriced groceries—simply because people would feel they had no other options and would opt to spend the money out of necessity or convenience. This is unethical and irresponsible of the university. Is our immensely expensive tuition not enough? Does it really need the few dollars it makes off that pasta sauce? My guess to that question is no. Absolutely not. These prices are merely taking advantage of students and their already struggling financial situations. People make a decision to go to a school with regard to the cost of tuition, but they don’t expect to have to pay a few thousand dollars more than the stated tuition in a myriad of vaguely labeled “fees.” How could there be a $10 charge for being a freshman? All of these individual charges are relatively small, but they add up very quickly— especially when there are at least 15 of them per semester. We need to be more diligent about why the university charges ridiculous amounts of money for everything from pasta sauce to simply being a freshman. It is our money and we have a right to know where it is going, how it is being used and how it could possibly not be enough to keep the university running without making regular budget cuts. If the university wants its alumni to have the desire and willingness to give back once our wallets begin waxing, it ought to stop kicking us while we’re down by hounding our currently waning wallets.
We need to be more vigilant about why the university charges ridiculous amounts of money for everything from pasta sauce to simply being a freshman.”
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handbook and UA Campus Bike Map, cyclists and skateboarders are required to act like motorized vehicles by using hand signals and obeying traffic signs and lights. Many students need to use hand signals and stop at signs, obey traffic lights and step off their non-motorized vehicle when proceeding onto a sidewalk, but many still seem to think these laws don’t apply to them. According to the University of Arizona Police Department website, UAPD officers monitor foot and vehicle traffic and stop those who disobey the laws. Personally, aside from the one time I ran a stop sign on my bike freshman year, I’ve never seen any cops stop a single one of the numerous hazardous students running and riding around campus like monkeys. UAPD began the Bicycle Safety and Education Campaign in 2012 that was meant to help educate students about campus transportation safety and increase enforcement against prosecutors. This program worked so well it was brought back again in 2015 in what the UAPD website describes as “a period of heightened education and enforcement” to remind students about the program they’d supposedly enacted three years prior. Let’s clear this up though: no one is
saying it’s UAPD’s fault and no one’s saying it is students’ fault, but it is a problem that affects everyone on campus. Traffic will get worse if it is continuously overlooked. More cyclists will hit pedestrians and more pedestrians will cause cyclists to swerve and hit others. I know this problem all too well. A skateboarder was swerving back and forth on the road and when I proceeded to speed up and pass him, we collided and I was thrown off my bike because he hadn’t stopped to consider that someone, anyone, was behind him. There are thousands of students riding and walking everyday as they try to get where they need to go, but becoming impatient and walking or riding wherever they please can lead others to do the same. We all need to work toward a solution. University administration should send out a newsletter, police should be harsher by pointing out violations and students should learn the rules. UAPD can only see and do so much, so if the UA school and students become more proactive in safely navigating campus, then perhaps we will all be a little less angry and a little more safe.
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or a brief moment, it seemed all hope was lost. Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers was about to singlehandedly crush every single Arizona Cardinals fan’s dream with a spectacular hail mary throw, a play that just screamed Santonio Holmes 2.0. Green Bay Packers receiver Jeff Janis managed to out jump two Cardinals secondary players and catch a 41-yard touchdown pass as time expired, but then Larry Fitzgerald happened. Fitzgerald recorded 176 yards receiving on eight catches, none bigger than a 75-yard catch on the first play of overtime, a play on which Carson Palmer probably should have been sacked. A few seconds later, Fitzgerald made the play of the season on a shovel pass from Palmer and forced his way into the end zone to end the game.
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However, now the Cardinals are playing with that fire and Fitzgerald is at the forefront of it. “He’s the face of it,” ESPN’s NFL Nation reporter Josh Weinfuss said. “When people around Arizona—and most likely around the country—think about the Cardinals, they instantly think Larry Fitzgerald. You can tell his impact on the franchise when people who aren’t football fans know who he is.” The Carolina Panthers, who finished the regular season 15-1, now stand in Arizona’s way on Sunday. The NFL’s best team, headed by Cam Newton, will look to take down another NFC West team like they did last week against the Seattle Seahawks. “Locally, there has been a sense of nervous excitement, because people know what this team is capable of,” said Adam Green of 98.7 FM radio. “But of course, with that comes a level of expectation never seen with this football team.” So what are this team’s chances? Weinfuss has covered the Cardinals for the last four seasons, three of which have been with ESPN. “I think their chances are just as good as anyone’s,” Weinfuss said. “But the question Sunday will be which Cardinals’ offense shows up? Will it be the one that played in the first half against Green Bay, or the one that dropped 40 against Philadelphia? This is by far the best Cardinals team ever, that’s not up for debate. They’re well rounded and have the weapons to win Super Bowl 50.” Green has covered the Cardinals for the past two and a half years and currently has a radio show on 98.7 FM on Saturday mornings. “While they are the underdogs going into Carolina, it is not at all unreasonable to think the Cardinals will win this game and then Super Bowl 50,” Green said. Boivin has covered sports as a columnist in Arizona for 20 years. “I’ve stopped picking against the Cardinals,” Boivin said. “I sound cheesy, but it feels like there’s some weird mojo going on with the team. Passes get tipped and go into the hands of the Cardinals receivers. Coins are flipped twice and both times the Cardinals win the toss. Plus, I truly believe, top to bottom, they’re the best team in the NFL.” The face of the franchise seems to agree. “There’s still work to be done—but we’re getting there,” Fitzgerald said on The Player’s Tribune. “In fact, I think there’s only one, large, final box left for us to check off: Win a Super Bowl. Nothing less. We have the ownership to do it. We have the coaching staff to do it. We have the players to do it, and I know we have the state to do it. So let’s do it.” That my friends, is Fitzgerald calling: Game. Set. Match.
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Sports • January 22-24, 2016
Desert Swarm: Meet UA’s recruiting dynamic duo Newly hired assistant coaches Marcel Yates and Donté Williams bring a newfound passion to the Arizona defense
by matt wall
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Arizona football has experienced a lot of change and transition within the past few weeks. The Wildcats hired Donté Williams as a defensive assistant for the defensive backs Sunday and by Tuesday, Marcel Yates was hired as the next UA defensive coordinator. Although both are defensive masterminds, each is a recruiting genius to say the least. “[Yates] has a proven track record as an outstanding recruiter, and he knows how to develop players,” Arizona football head coach Rich Rodriguez said in a press release. “There is no question he embodies the personality we are looking for as we strive to build the best program in America.” In fact, Yates means business. His defenses have historically ranked nationally in a number of statistics. “To me, it’s about getting to work,” Yates said in an Arizona Athletics video. “To me, it’s about winning on and off the football field.” Some coaches might embrace their new campus, but not these guys. Instead, each is out recruiting already, spreading the Wildcat name to get back the title of “desert swarm.” “Recruiting is not what you can say,” Williams said in an Arizona Athletics video. “Everybody can say things. Recruiting for me has been pretty much easy because the best recruiters for you are your players.” For Williams, that starts with his players more than anything else. If you have players that believe in the system, the rest will just come naturally. “Me and my players are more than just a relationship of a coach and a player— it’s family and that’s how it should be,” Williams said. “Recruiting for me, as far as philosophy goes, is just being relentless.” More than that, Williams and Yates have hit the recruiting track hard, especially in California. In the past week, the coaches have hit up Portland, Los Angeles and Northern California. “An OKG for me is just the guys I’m looking for,” Williams said. “The guys that remind me of myself. Nobody wants to recruit somebody as if they already have. I never look at a player and like, ‘he reminds me of me.’ I look at a player and say ‘he reminds me of me but he’s a little better in every shape, form and fashion.’ ”
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Arizona football head coach Rich Rodriguez smiles on the sidelines in Arizona Stadium on Sept. 26, 2015. Rodriguez’s newly hired defensive staff of Donté Williams and Marcel Yates brings a recruiting edge to the Wildcats’ defense.
The most important thing down the line that Yates will be looking for in his players is trust. “It comes down to trust,” Yates said. “Can we trust you? If we can’t trust you, then it’s hard to have you on the football field. If we can trust you off the field, then it leads on the field.” The Wildcat coaching staff has managed to recruit like crazy over the past few days. According to the Arizona Daily Star, the Wildcats have given 2017 defensive end Hunter Echols and 2016 defensive back Chacho Ulloa offers in the past few days. Furthermore, the duo visited high schools in southern California. Don’t get it wrong, it will be tough to replace all those the UA lost on the defensive side of the ball. The Wildcats
have lost Scooby Wright III, Will Parks, Sir Thomas Jackson, Reggie Gilbert, Jeff Worthy, Anthony Lopez and Jamar Allah. This is a ton of big-name players that made big plays throughout the entire season. At the same time, the Wildcats will surely bring in new talent and that starts with Yates and Williams. It may take a little bit of time to adjust, but Pac-12 Conference opponents watch out, the recruiting snipers and the Desert Swarm are back.
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Fab Five:
Arizona’s top five frontcourt players
BY IVAN LEONARD The Daily Wildcat
With Arizona’s nickname being Point Guard U, it is easy to remember all the guards that have dawned the cardinal and navy under head coaches Lute Olson and Sean Miller. With multiple point guards having their jerseys in the rafters in McKale Center and earning player of the year honors, it is easy to forget that multiple frontcourt players have also made their mark at Arizona. Whether it is lighting up teams from behind the arc, slamming with authority or shutting down multiple positions, Arizona boasts a solid resume of forwards and centers that made their mark in both college and the pros.
RONDAE HOLLIS-JEFFERSON
ANDRE IGUODALA
CHANNING FRYE
Accolades: First-team All-Pac 12, Pac-12 All-Defensive Team, Pac-12 All-Freshman Team A fan favorite during his two-year stint with the Wildcats, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson routinely shut down opponents during his sophomore year, including future NBA players D’Angelo Russell and Joe Young. While he may have been in the shadow of Nick Johnson and Aaron Gordon his freshman year, and Stanley Johnson and T.J. McConnell as a sophomore, nobody could slam or shimmy like Hollis-Jefferson.
Accolades: First-team All-Pac-10 Before he became an NBA Finals MVP under Arizona great Steve Kerr, Andre Iguodala was a Swiss Army knife for the Wildcats during his two years at Arizona. His sophomore year he would lead the team in assists, rebounds and steals and joined Jason Kidd as the only two players in Pac-10 history to record three tripledoubles in a season.
Accolades: 2x First-team All-Pac-10, Pac-10 AllFreshman Team Channing Frye was the man in the middle for a Wildcats team that frequently featured three or four future NBA players in the lineup. He would finish his career second in both Arizona and Pac-10 history in career blocks with 258 and receive the Sapphire Award, given to Arizona’s outstanding senior male student-athlete.
Accolades: 2x First-team AllPac-10, Pac-10 Player of the Year In 2011, Derrick Williams held the prestigious honor of being the only Arizona big man to become an All-American. That year, he led the Wildcats to the Elite Eight with a 32 point, 13 rebound explosion against the No. 1 seeded Duke Blue Devils.
DERRICK WILLIAMS
SEAN ELLIOTT
Accolades: 1989 Wooden Award, 1989 Adolph Rupp Award, 1989 AP Player of the Year, 2x consensus All American, 2x AllPac-10, Arizona all-time leading scorer The greatest player in UA program history was a small forward from Tucson who helped put his city on the map in the 1980s. Sean Elliott is the most decorated player at Arizona and the small forward would go on to become a two-time All Star and NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs. He would have his No. 32 retired at both Arizona and for the Spurs.
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California defeats Sun Devils for first time since 2012 Cal 75, ASU 70
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Second-half ‘Cats top Cardinal Arizona outscores Stanford by 13 in second half while holding the Cardinal to 30 percent from the field BY EZRA AMACHER The Daily Wildcat
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA— If Arizona men’s basketball head coach Sean Miller had to write a short list of his greatest adversaries, he’d likely put zone defense, road venues and foul trouble near the top. The No. 12 Wildcats overcame all three of those in their 71-57 win over Stanford at Maples Pavilion on Thursday night. Gabe York dropped 19 points including four 3-pointers while Ryan Anderson added another 18 points as Arizona evaded a deliberately slow Stanford squad. “I thought our defense was the constant from start to finish,” Miller said. “It might have been our best overall defensive performance.” The victory gives Arizona its first Pac-12 Conference road win of the year and moves the UA to 16-3 overall and 4-2 in conference play. York’s shooting served as the catalyst for the Wildcats offensively, providing a pair of timely shots in the second half. “Gabe York was tremendous,” Miller said. “He’s done it a number of times, especially in our road games. I thought him stepping up mid second half was one of the keys to our victory tonight.” With Stanford down just 4640 with under 11 minutes to go, York made a layup followed by a 3-pointer to put Arizona back up to double digits, 51-40. The lead would never shrink to less than 10 points the rest of the night. Arizona collectively shot 8-18 from 3-point range, carving up Stanford’s zone defense with an effective inside-out attack. Mark Tollefsen hit two of those 3s and finished with 10 points. Kaleb Tarczewski also reached double digits with 11 points to go with seven rebounds, despite playing through foul trouble late in the second half. Arizona’s defense, which has struggled to shut down opposing shooters all season, held Stanford’s Dorian Pickens to 3-of10 shooting including just 1-of-7 from outside. Pickens, a Phoenix native, didn’t help himself by missing more than
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a couple open looks. The Cardinal’s Rosco Allen— who entered the night as Stanford’s leading scorer—had an even worse night, going 1-for-12 and scoring four points. He too made just one of seven 3-point attempts. “Coach Miller put me on him,” Anderson said. “He just called on me to be aggressive, to be really focused on the details of our game plan against him, and trust my teammates that they were going to have my back.” Instead, it was freshman Marcus Sheffield who led Stanford with 17 points on the night. The Cardinal was collectively held to 31 percent shooting. Nonetheless, Stanford remained competitive and even took a quick
40-39 lead early in the second half before Arizona responded with a defining 12-0 run capped by York’s shots. “They are a very hard playing group,” Miller said. “They play together well on both ends. We knew before we came here that their zone defense is a big part of their success and I thought they battled our guys, especially in the first half.” The Wildcats opened the game up strong, jumping out to a 12-4 lead at the first television break. A 3-pointer by Tollefsen expanded the advantage to 15-6 with 12:40 to go in the half. Arizona held control through the midway point of the first half, when a York three put the UA up 20-13 with 9:29 remaining.
That’s when the scoring drought started. The Wildcats would go scoreless for the next four and a half minutes. By then, Stanford had closed the lead to one possession. With 40 seconds to go in the half, Pickens tied the score at 29 all before Kadeem Allen put Arizona on top by a pair. At halftime, the Wildcats led Stanford 31-30. Arizona now has just a few days off before it travels to Berkeley on Saturday to face California for a 6 p.m. tip-off.
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