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The city of Flint, Michigan, has been making headlines since dangerous amounts of lead contaminated the public water supply, forcing residents to turn to bottled water instead of tap.

While the water flowing through Tucson is nowhere near the contamination levels that plague Flint, experts weighed in on the safety and quality of the water that runs through this city’s sinks.

Water quality in Tucson is not something the public should be concerned about, according to Sharon Megdal, director of the UA Water Resources Research Center. In fact, the quality is exceptional.

“Our water quality in Tucson and the region is very good,” she said.

According to the 2014 Annual Water Quality report, Tucson’s water supply comes from 200 groundwater wells located in and around the Tucson metropolitan area. The report states that Tucson water contains beneficial minerals like calcium and minerals that remain harmless at low levels like lead and arsenic.

“We have not only very good quality water, but we undertook, over the last many years, a major pipe replacement program,” Megdal said.

“There’s no comparison. The people here have nothing to worry about in terms of the quality of the water.”

Jon Chorover, head of the UA Soil Water and Environmental Science program, said Tucson’s city water is incomparable to that of the Flint crisis.

“Tucson groundwater is of high quality,” Chorover said. “We’re not in a position to anything similar to what was going on in Flint, Michigan.”

Chorover is also a co-director at the Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants, which analyzes water in order to detect and quantify contaminants in very low concentrations.

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BY CONNOR OSWALD The Daily Wildcat

The average price of gasoline fell below $2 per gallon on Jan. 11 for the first time since March 23, 2009, according to a weekly gasoline price survey by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Since this new low, the average regular gasoline price was $1.996 per gallon.

As of Jan. 18, however, the prices have continued to drop, reaching a low of $1.914 per gallon. This price is approximately $0.152 per gallon lower than it was last year.

The greatest drop in weekly prices occurred in the Midwest, and the largest yearly drop occured in the central Atlantic region of the East Coast.

There were also similar decreases in U.S. on-highway diesel fuel prices.

From Jan. 11 to Jan. 18 the price of diesel fuel dropped $0.065 per gallon, reaching an average price of $2.112 per gallon. This price is $0.821 per gallon lower than it was one year ago.

One of the primary reasons for this decreasing gasoline price is the falling cost of crude oil.

The reasons for this dropping crude oil price are the U.S.’s increased role in oil production and a slowdown in China’s economic production, according to Assistant Professor of Economics at the Eller College of Management Derek Lemoine.

While the reasons for the drop in oil and, subsequently, gasoline prices can be explained, it is harder to predict the effects of the low prices.

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With regards to the U.S., Gautam Gowrisankaran, the Arizona public service professor of economics and the director of economics graduate studies at Eller College, believes the prices will have a relatively counterbalanced effect on the economy.

“I think that the effect of dropping oil prices for the United States is going to be neutral, it’s going to balance out,” Gowrisankaran said.

“There will be less oil jobs and a drop of revenue [in the oil industry] but also a counterbalance in new spending.”

Additionally, Gowrisankaran mentioned the possible international and environmental effects from long-term results of the

low oil prices “If prices stay low, you’ll see a lot of drying up of oil infrastructure.

Unless the United States puts a carbon tax, you’ll see a lot more gasguzzling cars,” he said. “[There will be] a lot of geopolitical effects in countries in the Middle East as they lose influence in oil.”

Lemoine echoed Gowrisankaran’s concerns with the environmental impact of low crude oil prices.

“When the price of oil falls, we burn more of it so our emissions increase,” Lemione said.

He also provided insight on the geopolitical effects of the low oil prices. Countries such as Canada and Saudi Arabia, whose economies rely on oil exports, will be more

impacted by the low oil prices.

“The Russian and Saudi Arabian budgets, including things like military, look very differently than they did five years ago,” Lemoine said. “These places need a high oil price to keep spending in the way they planned.”

This trend is natural economic behavior, even with the potential ramifications of fluctuating gas and oil prices “Neither a low or high oil price is necessarily bad,” Lemoine said.

“It’s just prices working the way they should; it’s actually good that prices move.”

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Medical school dean departs UA The current dean of the UA medical school at the Phoenix campus is one of four candidates to be chosen as dean for Fort Worth medical school

BY AVA GARCIA

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The dean of the UA College of Medicine –Phoenix , Stuart Flynn , is one of four candidates for a position as the dean of a new medical school in Fort Worth, Texas.

This new school is through a partnership with Texas Christian University and the University of North Texas, according to Judy Bernas, the associate vice president of university relations at the College of Medicine– Phoenix .

Flynn has been the dean since 2009, according to Michael Jonen , senior associate vice president for heath sciences in the UA Health Sciences Department.

Being dean for seven years is slightly longer than the average tenure length.

“Tenure length for deans varies greatly, but previous studies have shown the average for medical school deans to be four to five years,” Jonen said.

Turnover of deans is “fairly common,” according to Dan Hunt, the co-secretary of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the senior director for accreditation services of the

Association of American Medical Colleges.

The UA College of Medicine– Phoenix is currently seeking its preliminary accreditation, according to the LCME website.

From there, the college can be advanced to provisional accreditation and later to full accreditation.

The college’s next survey date is listed as “pending” on the LCME website.

When it comes to accreditation of medical schools, Hunt said that while dean turnover will “garner some interest,” it’s not “unique.”

“The LCME can’t really say [if dean turnover will affect accreditation] until it looks at [the school] and gets the information,” Hunt said.

Jonen said that he doesn’t think the dean’s departure would have an adverse impact on the accreditation progress of the school.

“The college possesses an incredible depth of leadership talent that is responsible for the delivery of our medical education curriculum and meeting the

quality standards expected of accredited programs,” Jonen said.

“There is tremendous confidence in the college’s education team and their ability to continue the development of our educational mission in support of our outstanding medical students in Phoenix.”

Regardless of whether the dean’s departure could affect the college’s accreditation, his departure would mean that the school would have to look for a replacement dean.

“I don’t know when exactly they would get things started, but I know it would be important for them to have a new dean in place as quickly as they could,” Bernas said.

Flynn’s leaving could also affect the school in other ways.

“His departure would mean we would need to be proactive in continuing to build the external partnerships and relationships with community stakeholders as well as continue to advance the programmatic growth agenda of the college,” Jonen said.

These changes don’t mean the school would be unable to continue if the dean were

selected to head the new medical school in Texas and had to leave the UA College of Medicine– Phoenix campus.

“We feel like the school has a great structure and we love having Dean Flynn, but the medical school will certainly continue without him,” Bernas said. “He’s put together a great medical school and hopefully he’ll continue leading this school, but if not the school will continue to shine in Phoenix.”

Jonen considers Flynn’s candidacy for the new position to be a testament of his leadership qualities and understanding of the complexities of building a new college.

“His leadership in taking the college from a branch campus, to a separately accredited medical school built upon the distributed clinical experience model with hospital system partners throughout Phoenix, will long distinguish his tenure as dean,” Jonen said.

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His leadership in taking the college from a branch campus, to a separately accredited medical school built upon the distributed clinical experience model with hospital system partners throughout Phoenix, will long distinguish his tenure as dean.”

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Swingin’ for the fences A University of Arizona Police Department officer arrived at the Main Gate Parking Garage on May 14, 2015 at 11:05 p.m. in response to reports of suspicious activity.

Upon arrival, a group of young males were seen fleeing the garage via the stairs.

Two males stayed on top of the garage’s roof where the officer observed debris, which appeared to be broken glass, scattered across the ground.

The men admitted a group of five or six individuals were breaking Christmas ornaments with a baseball bat.

No bat was found at the scene but the officers observed a backpack on the ground.

When asked, none of the men claimed responsibility for it. A search of the abandoned property revealed a cold, halfempty bottle of Stella Artois beer and a cold Landshark beer bottle, which matched broken glass on the ground.

When the sluggers were asked if they had been drinking, the answers varied.

One male denied drinking and later passed sobriety testing.

The other male initially denied drinking.

He later changed his response and admitted to drinking prior to the incident. He was charged with minor in bodily possession of alcohol.

Both men were released after cleaning the debris off the ground. Before leaving, one individual went back for the backpack, but the officers explained that since it had not been claimed, it would be destroyed.

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The man said he was just trying to find somewhere to “take a leak,” and added that he was not familiar with the area, as he had arrived in Tucson from Nevada 12 days prior. The officer soon identified him as a homeless individual from an earlier interaction.

Fraternity members living at the residence were informed of the incident.

They complained about a lot of homeless activity such as trespassing and theft.

The male was arrested for trespassing at the residents’ request and was transported to the Pima County Adult Detention Center.

On the ride over, he shared his thoughts with the driving officer, calling him a “f*cking pig, mother f*cker.”

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UA Tech Park looks for funding

BY Devon Walo

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The UA Science and Technology Park is seeking help from a private partner to fund projects that were denied after voters rejected the Pima County bond proposals in November 2015.

There were seven bond packages containing 100 different projects, three of which focused on propositions involving the Tech Park.

The Tech Park, located on South Rita Road, has been operating for 21 years to help develop new companies and build new technology.

It sits on 1,345 acres of land and has 2 million square feet of offices, laboratory and production space. It houses over 40 companies that employ over 6,000 people.

“UA Tech Park is a place where we bring the university together in a community in an effort to try to move technology out into the market place,” said Bruce Wright, associate vice president of Tech Parks Arizona.

The Tech Park had projects under Proposition 425—Road and Highway Improvements; Proposition 426—Economic Development, Libraries and Workforce Training; and Proposition 428—Parks and Recreations, according to Pima County’s website.

The project under Proposition 425 proposed improvements for better circulating traffic toward the Tech Park drive, because it is the central roadway into the park. If the bond had passed, Pima County would have funded the total cost estimate of $10 million, according to Pima County’s website.

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UA Tech Park has been struggling financially since November 2015, due to the denied Tucson Bond Proposal. The park is now searching for private donors to help cover funds that would’ve been covered by the proposal.

An application was submitted last year for a federal Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant that would fund all roadway improvements, according to Wright.

Since the application was not selected, another will be submitted next year, Wright said. If successful, the Tech Park will be able

to act on the proposed improvements.

Proposition 426 proposed an Innovation and Technology building for the Tech Park at The Bridges, located on 36th Street and Kino Parkway.

“The reason we are doing the second park is because some companies need a different location,” Wright said. “Whether they need to

be closer to campus or they want to be close to the university hospital downtown. They tend to be companies that want to be in a more open environment.”

The proposed 180,000 square-foot building would dedicate 60 percent to office space and 40 percent to laboratory space. The goal is to accommodate the different needs of different companies.

“The parks serve the same kind of companies, but meet different kinds of company needs,” Wright said.

Pima County would have paid for $20 million of the $40 million estimate, according to the bond proposal document.

The final proposal under Proposition 428 was a request for a YMCA on the corner of the Tech Park property.

Estimated at 40,000 square feet, Pima County would have helped pay $6 million of the $12 million estimated total cost, as stated in the bond proposal document.

Tech Park representatives are going into the community to explain the purpose of the park and show viewers what market opportunities there are in Tucson.

Wright says the goal is to find interest in helping with finances and contract the facilities they are trying to build.

Since the Tech Park is not taking donations, it is looking at local, statewide and national developers and investment groups for help.

“We were talking to a local development group, one in Phoenix, one in Salt Lake City, one in Seattle and in Atlanta,” Wright said.

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Indonesia identifies attacker in deadly blast Tribune News Service

JAKARTA, Indonesia— Indonesian authorities said Jan. 15 they had identified one of the attackers responsible for the deadly explosions in Jakarta a day earlier as a former terrorism convict who was released from prison early.

The disclosure came as police beefed up security in government offices, police stations, shopping centers and diplomatic missions across the capital following Jan. 14 attack that left two civilians— an Indonesian and a Canadian— and five assailants dead.

One of the assailants was identified as Afif, who was sentenced to seven years in prison

on domestic terrorism charges in 2010. The circumstances of his early release were not disclosed.

Photographs showed Afif, dressed in a baseball cap and jeans and wearing a backpack and shoulder bag, pointing a gun at a crowd at the scene of the attack on Thamrin Street in Jakarta. Police said the backpack contained explosives and that Afif eventually blew himself up along with another attacker during a shootout with police.

Police spokesman Anton Charliyan said another attacker, whose name was not revealed, was also a former terrorism convict.

Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, was the

scene of several major militant attacks by al-Qaida-affiliated groups in the 2000s, but Jakarta had not seen a significant attack in several years following a harsh crackdown by police.

Authorities said the Jan. 14 attack was directed and financed

by Islamic State, the militant organization based in Iraq and Syria, by an Indonesian living in Syria. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the blasts in online statements, but analysts said the attack caused significantly less damage than other coordinated attacks attributed to the group, such as the November rampage in Paris that left 130 dead.

Indonesian authorities named

the mastermind of the Jakarta attack as Bahrun Naim, who reports said had been living in the Islamic State-held town of Raqqa. Bahrun praised the Paris attacks in a blog post in November and encouraged militants in Indonesia to carry out similar operations.

Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian said Bahrun had instructed operatives in Indonesia to attack the police and places frequented by Westerners on Christmas and New Year’s Eve. “We are in the pursuit of other cells and actors,” Karnavian said.

Dozens of Indonesians rallied Jan. 15 at the scene of the blasts outside a shopping mall, carrying

flowers and shouting, “We are not afraid!”

Police in the city of Balikpapan in East Kalimantan province said they had arrested one suspected militant, but it was not clear if he was related to the Jakarta attack, the Antara news agency reported.

President Joko Widodo said on Twitter that “there is no place for terrorism in Indonesia.”

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aims at identifying of harmful contaminates.

“There’s a strong focus now on trace contaminants in water, including trace organic and inorganic contaminants,” Chorover said.

“Just because we can measure it, doesn’t mean it’s a problem.”

He explained that in the Southwest, treating waste water so it’s useable again is extremely important.

“It’s very important, in a place like Tucson, that we do a very good job of treating our waste water after it’s been used by homes,” Chorover.

“What some people sort of laughingly refer to as ‘toilet to tap,’ but it’s really no joke. We’re going to need to be able to develop technologies that will clean the water sufficiently so we can reuse it. There’s just not enough water otherwise.”

Water conservation has not been required in Tucson despite the drought. However, Chorover said it is a part of the social norm in Tucson and thinks the city is one of the most “enlightened cities in the country” when it comes to water conservation.

Arizona’s rich history of mining which has fueled development and employment can also sometimes affect the water quality.

The water is monitored continuously by Tucson Water and would be detected if there were any elevated concentrations of metals that might result from mining activity, according to Chorover.

Fernando Molina, the public information officer for Tucson Water, said keeping Tucson’s water clean for use and consumption is a top priority.

“We’re sampling water at the source to see if there’s any problems as the water comes out of the ground,” Molina said. “We sample in reservoirs because we want to make sure the water is moving through those reservoirs and not having issues with any kind of bacteria growth from water sitting for too long, and we sample in the distribution system itself in the neighborhoods.”

Molina said Tucson Water samples from faucets inside homes to test for lead and copper. The city water samples average about 2,600 samples every month, with over 200 parameters that are analyzed.

If Tucson Water had a positive hit for contaminants while sampling, it has 24 hours to go back and sample both upstream and downstream from the original sampling point.

“In the event that there is a positive hit on one of the samples and we go back the second time and it’s still positive, that’s when we go back and shut the wells down, the source of water, start a public notification and fix the problem,” Molina said.

While there has been positive testing for contaminants in the past, Molina says day-today procedures keep the city safe from harmful materials.

“I’ve been here for over 20 years and it’s been a long time since we’ve had a positive hit,” Molina said. “Maintaining high quality water is our goal and that is reflected in our daily

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UA introduces a new research technology The UA will be able to reach unprecedented heights in various areas of research with a new supercomputer

BY Gabriella Vukelic The Daily Wildcat

New high-performance computing equipment is coming to the UA’s Research Data Center this semester in the form of a brand new supercomputer.

The new processing power will triple the performance level of computing resources available to all researchers in varying fields, including computing sciences, engineering, chemistry, biology and many others.

The UA Research Computing Governance Committee has created a contest to decorate the supercomputer, which will be a vital piece of equipment in the UA Never Settle goal of doubling research by 2020.

“A supercomputer has much greater computing power than a desktop or laptop and can be used to solve much larger and more complex computing problems,” said Susan Miller, chair of the High Performance Computing policies sector of the UA Research Computing Policies Committee.

Supercomputers have more disk storage that’s necessary for storing large data sets.

What makes supercomputers different from a Windows PC or MacBook is that they handle climate modeling, medicine or genomics.

“Supercomputers typically have hundreds or thousands of computing cores and many terabytes of memory, as compared to personal computers that have a small number of computing cores and a few gigabytes of memory,” she said.

The data sets are very large and would not be practical to work on with a desktop or laptop.

In many cases, “a data analysis that would take weeks to run on a personal computer can be done in just a few minutes on a supercomputer,” Miller said.

Members of the UA community will have the opportunity to submit their name and artwork concept for the supercomputer.

The UA RCGC wanted to come up with a fun way to call attention to the computing power available at the UA and the interesting problems it enables them to work on, according to Miller. Other supercomputing centers have artwork on their racks and the UA wanted to get involved.

They encourage all contestants to use their imagination subject to

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Wires from the new UA supercomputer are displayed on the first floor of the University Information Technology Services building. The new supercomputer technology will help with research in various STEM fields.

the requirements listed on the entry form, which is located on the website.

According to the entry form, the designs must be related to research or research computing.

The contest is open to UA students, faculty and staff. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 31. The judging committee will make a decision by Feb. 15 and notify the winner or winning team.

“We will have an open house in the spring with recognition of the winners and viewing of the artwork,” Miller said.

“The open house will be open to the public.”

According to UA@Work, the winning team will have their name and design memorialized in the RDC. As a prize, each member of the winning team will receive a Lenovo tablet.

According to Leo Enfield, information technology manager at the college of engineering, the college research groups will benefit from having access to the new UA high-performance computing system in a variety of ways.

“One of the more common methods will be by using increasingly complex models to simulate natural and manmade systems and processes,” he said.

“The results of these simulations allow engineers to predict events in the real world such as when space debris may endanger astronauts or active satellites.”

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Narcissistic characters, disgusting potty humor, occasional violence and frequent screaming are not traditional aspects of a sitcom.

One television show, however, has proven these elements can work time and time again.

FXX’s hit comedy “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” returned for its 11th season on Jan. 6. The show revolves around the misadventures of five narcissistic, alcoholobsessed friends who own and run Paddy’s Pub, a bar in South Philadelphia.

There’s Charlie, the illiterate idiot with a big heart ; Dennis, the overly confident womanizer and possible psychopath; Mac, the fitness freak who thinks he’s a total badass ; Dee, the aspiring FX actress with no chance of ever A STILL from official teaser for “”It’s Always Sunny in Philedelphia,”” season six.” FXX is currently showing season 11 of the show. achieving stardom; and Frank, the eccentric cat food eating The episode provides all absurd amount of laxatives to see crack. billionaire. Their bar is certainly During Frank’s concussion- the fun of a 1980s film while who can hold it in the longest. a less than classy establishment, It serves fans and makes for a driven wanderings, he keeps acknowledging how ridiculous it which makes it even more having visions of old moments all really is. One of the funniest night of hilarity. hilarious.

Season 11, episode two serves from the show, so this episode concepts is the events are all A large amount of the show justified by people referencing as a homage to the very beginning serves as a clip for the series. is the characters yelling at each It’s a throwback to whom the “mountain rules.” of the series. In “Frank Falls other and trying to out do one The irony here is also that characters out the another at ridiculous tasks. But were in Charlie, the designated dumb W i n d o w ,” somehow, the writers and actors 2006 and a one of the bunch, is the only F r a n k , manage to keep the show fresh reminder they one who seems to think these as you and clever. This couldn’t have haven’t really “mountain rules” don’t make any may have • Starring: Rob been easy, but the dynamic c h a n g e d . sense. guessed, between the characters is so McElhenney, Glenn Episode four, “Dee Made a It’s the falls out of strong and each character is so Smut Film,” airs Wednesday, r e a l i z a t i o n a window, Howerton, Charlie Day, well developed that everything that these so there is still time to catch up where he still feels new and funny.

Kaitlin Olson and Danny really are fully and put “Sunny” on your weekly hits his Old jokes and previous plot d e v e l o p e d queue. head and DeVito lines aren’t used unless it’s for Thanks to the characters’ characters suddenly a specific purpose, so nothing • Episodes in new season: relationships and and perhaps brilliant thinks it about this program ever feels a hint that the writers’ ability to make is 2006.

“Chardee MacDennis 2: stale or overdone. the basic outbursts of anger ripe The gang, Electric Boogaloo,” “Frank maybe The formula for “Sunny” really show won’t be with hilarity, “Sunny” is still a as selfhasn’t changed over the years: It’s Falls Out the Window” on for all that hysterical treat. centered the same five main characters, Once you get to know the much longer. as they are, and “The Gang Hits the known as the “Gang,” who really The episode is characters and understand their concoct haven’t gone anywhere in life Slopes” a testament to dynamics, it becomes clear that a plan over the past decade. how long they even in its 11th season, it is still to trick The gang revisits an old board have already one of the funniest shows on TV. Frank into game in the season premiere, “Sunny” airs Wednesday giving them all of his money. been around.

“Chardee Macdennis 2: Electric Episode three, “The Gang Hits nights on FXX. This revisits some old “Sunny” Boogaloo,” they created earlier in moments like Dennis and Dee the Slopes,” is a spoof of old 1980s the series. It’s very entertaining to getting addicted to crack and ski movies, with all the partying watch them glue back together a then going to the social services and absurdness that comes with broken beer bottle, drink alcohol — Follow Alec Keuhnle office to get welfare to buy more them. through an IV drip and take an @ThrowMeAnAllie

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AA: Not just for hollywood Alcoholics Anonymous provides a place for UA students to talk about, get help and recover from alcohol problems

BY Gretchyn Kaylor The Daily Wildcat

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i, I’m Gretchyn and I’m in the same boat.” I butchered the widely known mantra.

“We’re not a cult,” was one of the first phrases to console me as I took a seat in the Campus Health Service meeting room, very much after hours at 9:25 on Friday night.

The meeting began with a short prayer, which happened to be one of the pre-written Christian prayers I actually liked: the serenity prayer. So I hesitantly joined in.

Afterward, another young woman introduced herself as an alcoholic and began what I assume is another part of every meeting: the reading of the “12 steps” and purposes of Alcoholics Anonymous.

On first mention of “the big book,” I became a bit wary that this was a reference to the Bible, but soon realized that it was a sort of AA textbook. The 12-step program, which I learned is prudently paced and requires real commitment, is not a quick-fix leading to never needing another drink in your life.

It is based in spiritual principles, but is not claiming any religion or religious beliefs. All these members accept that there is some sort of power larger than them, a power in the universe that they have to realize they are consequence to in order to fight the grasp of alcohol on them.

“I thought I was crazy,” is a statement that many of those gathered around me would agree to.

Before accepting you have an illness related to a substance, it is easiest to just see the related failings as a fault in yourself rather than a weakness that needs to be addressed in order to avoid future mistakes.

I knew nothing going in. Well, nothing other than I was unsure

if college students could even be considered alcoholics and that I’d been told of this meeting because someone thought it could possibly help me.

No, I never expected this to be a cult, not before or after I heard a few statements recited in unison or everyone introducing themselves as an alcoholic.

I am in a sorority, so I know how important and comforting ritual can be and I quickly understood that the “and I am an alcoholic” was repeated because members want to acknowledge as much as possible that they have an illness that is not curable and that no matter how many decades someone has been sober, he or she still has to actively treat their alcoholism every day.

The group was started in 1935 by two professional men: a New York stock broker and an Ohio surgeon who had decided that they needed help curbing alcohol’s effects.

Today, AA has never accepted donations from outside the community, had a paid governing counsel or been affiliated with any other religious or non-religious group.

Will I return? Well, I guess that is for me to decide and for you to probably never find out; I can say that I met many wonderful people with varying life experiences and a similar desire to befriend me and give me advice on what I was going through.

Beside the Friday meeting on the third floor of CHS, there is one every weekday at First United Methodist church on campus at 12:10 p.m.

I was told that this group has even more UA-affiliated attendees and is a slightly shorter meeting. These groups are closed, which means they welcome newcomers that want to know more about why alcohol has such a control over their lives and what they can do about it.

— Follow Gretchyn Kaylor @notsowild_cat

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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.

Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

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Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

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Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

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Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

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Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

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Arts & Life • January 25-26, 2016

Learn to skydive with SkyCats

BY CASEY ALDAVA The Daily Wildcat

There are some moments in life that are so unbelievable and sensational that your mind stores the memory of them more vividly so that you can always remember them. Stepping out of a plane at 13,000 feet makes for one of these memories.

Arizona SkyCats, a relatively new club, is the official skydiving club at the UA . I probably never would have known about it if I hadn’t stopped by its tent at the student involvement fair in September.

At the time, the presentation of skydiving seemed like a cool, fun, spurof-the-moment idea, so I signed up for the newsletter and a few weeks later, I attended a meeting.

SkyCats is not only for one-time bucket list divers; you can also get a skydiving license through the club or compete on a team at collegiates and nationals.

A few months later, in December, I went on a group trip to Eloy, Arizona, where Skydive Arizona is located.

The price to jump once without pictures or a video is $180 for students with ID, $315 to go once with pictures and a video and $99 more for a same-day second jump.

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Skydiving planes are very small and inside there are only two wooden benches on each side. We all sat with the people going first closer to the door—tandems always go last, so I sat at the very front near the pilot. Because this plane ride was all about altitude and not about distance, we were tilted at an angle the entire ride.

At this moment, I started to get serious butterflies and nervous energy, so I sat there shaking and laughing like crazy. I tried to talk to everyone around me and I can actually say they all jumped out of the plane to get away from me. Watching everyone jump, however, looked like watching the toy army men in “Toy Story” and that was somehow oddly comforting to me.

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Body Positive workshop promotes body image acceptance at the UA Campus Health Service promotes positive body image for UA students who work to establish a climate where selfcare, positive imagery, as well as healthy The Daily Wildcat eating are considered the norm,” according to the organization’s website.

The word “acceptance” is widely Furthermore, in order to establish itself distributed to us as a reminder that we as a well-organized group, the organization must accept ourselves for who we are as comprises itself of five competencies that individuals, even if it means accepting our can help others live peacefully within their flaws. The same idea can also be applied own physical selves. to the images that we bestow on our own The first competence, “Reclaiming physical bodies.

Health,” teaches students to uncover The UA Campus Health Service, along messages that they receive regarding with the International Association of Eating health and how to distinguish between Disorders Professionals Chapter here in those that are good messages and those Tucson, will be hosting an introductory that can cause self-destructive behavior.

“Body Positive” Workshop in the Rincon The second Room of the Student c o m p e t e n c e Union Memorial Center discusses the on Thursday to discuss importance of the challenges and issues practicing intuitive associated with negative self-care so that body imagery and how our bodies have the these issues are often linked capacity to obtain a to mental health disorders healthy experience. such as depression, anxiety, “Cultivating Selfsubstance abuse and suicide.

Love,” the third “Basically what we’re trying competence, allows to do here is create a culture of students to move body acceptance,” said Gale away from selfWelter Coleman, nutrition criticism about our — Gale Welter Coleman, services coordinator at CHS. nutrition services own bodies and “This is why I’m bringing become aware of in Elizabeth Scott to our coordinator at CHS the voices that raise campus to help distribute the criticism. message regarding body-image problems The fourth competence, “Authentic and how we can improve on those issues.”

Beauty,” teaches us to find inner beauty Scott and Connie Sobczak founded the without having to resort to the ideal images movement in 1996 with the hope of creating imposed on us by society. a vivid community that offers a voice and Lastly, “Build Community,” seeks to helps those who are struggling to obtain a encourage individuals to be connected with positive perception of their own body. others in order to establish a community of “We all live with body image,” said Lee support and harmony.

Ann Hamilton, assistant director of Health The discussion regarding body image is Promotion and Prevention Services. one that reaches many parts in our society The organization is dedicated to helping and ultimately affects individuals who build peer leadership programs across struggle to find inner peace with their own college campuses in the hopes of not only bodies. addressing areas of need such as selfIf you would like to take part in this destructive behaviors caused by conflicts introductory workshop, secure your spot with our own physical bodies like eating by emailing Laura Orlich at lkorlich@ disorders, but to also provide leadership email.arizona.edu or call (520) 250-1007. training aimed at creating Body Positive on college campuses. “[They] provide training and educational materials needed for students and staff — Follow Ernesto Fierro members to become Body Positive leaders @dailywildcat

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Arts & Life • January 25-26, 2016

‘Dirty Grandpa’ is nothing new ‘Dirty Grandpa’ is exactly what you would expect: raunchy and cliche, De Niro and Efron can’t save this film

BY Casey Aldava The Daily Wildcat

Making its box office debut over the weekend, “Dirty Grandpa” proves to be exactly what you would expect. The Zac Efron and Robert De Niro led comedy follows the exploits of Jason (Zac Efron), a young, by-thebook corporate lawyer who is about to get married and his raunchy, fowlmouthed grandpa Dick (Robert De Niro) whose wife of 40 years recently died.

Dick—whose name is a little on the nose and absolutely intended— guilt-trips his grandson into taking him on a nostalgic trip down to Boca Raton, Florida.

The trip ends up being a ruse to get Jason away from his crazy fiancée and dad. The duo’s trek to Daytona Beach fulfills every stereotypical fantasy of a crazy, drug-addled spring break, with shocking turns around every corner that feel like bits and pieces appropriated from other comedy and action movies.

The storyline is simple and predictable. Because the movie follows a familiar cookie-cutter

model, we know it’s ending before any of the action even begins.

The best part of the movie is the commitment to the roles by the lineup of great actors.

De Niro adds depth to an otherwise cardboard cutout of a fraternity boy who never grew up.

Efron’s straight-laced character is pedantic. It oftentimes feels like the writers were trying too hard to make him an extreme dork that they forgot that real people have multiple sides to them. As the movie progresses, Efron attempts to add more layers to Jason, but ends up being a fool’s errand.

Aubrey Plaza and Zoey Deutch’s representations of two college students is on point and draws a few laughs from a college-aged audience.

With nearly every sentenced uttered having at least one f-bomb, and dicks being either pictured or referenced in just about every scene, it feels a bit like a desperate ploy to attract and maintain the attention of a younger viewing audience.

There were still some genuinely funny moments and exchanges, especially in scenes led by De Niro.

Interspersed between each funny moment though are clichéd and often sadly juvenile characters and situations. For example, the unprofessional local police, who are friends with the resident drug dealer, and the group of wanna-be gangsters at the nightclub, who befriend Dick after he beats them up, all feel beyond unrealistic. There is such a forced irony that doesn’t work at all.

The movie finally finds its greater purpose about halfway through.

Heartfelt moments between Dick and Jason provide insight into Dick’s single-minded purpose to bone a college girl and Jason’s need to find some balls and make his own life decisions.

The movie ties together perfectly at the end, like simplistic comedies often do, and gives everything you could want from an R-rated comedy: nudity, curse words, drugs and jokes that play into the realm of offensive.

Overall, it’s funny, awkward, predictable and offers many opportunities for drinking games.

— Follow Casey Aldava @caseyaldava

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Daily Wildcat Arts and Life reporter Casey Aldava skydiving on Dec. 4, 2014. Aldava went on a skydiving trip to Eloy, Arizona, with the UA’s Arizona SkyCats club.

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strapped to my tandem instructor, and I felt the strong, cold wind hit me hard.

My instructor reminded me how I’m supposed to crouch down with my arms crossed over my chest and my legs folded as we swung out. I’m crouched, he’s swinging and before I could take a breath he threw us out.

My mind spun and all I could think was that my hands were so cold and I was being video taped, so I wanted to look cool, which I definitely didn’t because my cheeks were flapping in the air and my mouth was pressed shut to prevent bugs’ flying in. I couldn’t breathe at first from all the air pressure and adrenaline.

When my instructor pulled the chute, it felt like we flew up and everything went quiet and I could see everything clearly below me. My instructor let me steer the parachute. The next few minutes were

scary and amazing and I can remember never wanting to come back down. In that moment, everything in the world was perfect.

“I’m terrified of heights, but skydiving helps you to see the world in the most amazing way,” Montoya said. “The breathtaking views and experience will last a lifetime and nothing compares to it.”

The next Arizona SkyCats meeting is Thursday at 6 p.m. in the Gould-Simpson building, Room 206. You can also check out the club on their Facebook page, University of Arizona SkyCats, or contact Montoya at Brek@arizonaskycats.com.

— Follow Casey Aldava @caseyaldava

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Jan. 25-26, 2016 • Page 14

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Tucson deserves recognition for food

BY NICOLE ROCHON The Daily Wildcat

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ucson was named a World City of Gastronomy through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s Creative Cities network. Excited and proud, I told a slew of friends only to receive confused looks and questions as to why Tucson, of all cities, received such a recognition.

As the first city in the U.S. to be designated a city of gastronomy, many people question the choice over more obvious candidates like New York or San Francisco. Only Tucson, however, possesses several special attributes that make it the

obvious and inarguable choice and every Tucsonan should be ecstatic about our city’s recognition.

Many Tucson residents are unaware of the history of agriculture and sustainability right under their feet. There are few other places that have such a rich history of agriculture—no others in North America, in fact. For more than 4,000 years, inhabitants of this region have adapted to its climate and agricultural conditions in order to farm and grow crops sustainably—knowledge gained largely from Native American communities.

Members of Tohono O’odham are credited with one of the longest sustainably farmed fields in all of North America and can now be globally appreciated for the long-standing traditions they have brought to us.

The UA is continuing this

tradition with a major in sustainable built environments along with community gardens and outreach programs to continue teaching the importance of sustainable agriculture and local products.

These programs, paired with food banks and farmers markets, push ideas forward into coming generations to continue the important tradition of agriculture and local businesses.

Agriculture alone does not make Tucson deserving of the City of Gastronomy title. Small businesses all across the city support farmers and use locally-sourced products in their restaurants and businesses.

These businesses can grow and cooperate to propel our economy forwards and add to the rich and vibrant culture of our city.

Our unique environment allows for unique agriculture and cuisine.

Edible Baja Arizona listed chefs

downtown that use heritage foods from the Tucson basin in unique and new ways that make Tucson a hub for southwest and borderland cuisines.

Tucson’s proximity to Mexico, its variety of unique desert plants and rich history of Native American tribes made the city stand out to UNESCO. This accolade puts Tucson on the map as an example of how to farm sustainably and support local businesses to drive our economy forward. With so much of our country’s land being over-farmed and large, national corporations controlling the economy, Tucson is an anomaly that can be a national example for sustainability and, of course, creative gastronomy.

— Follow Nicole Rochon @nicoleeeoooo

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Opinions • January 25-26, 2016

Diversity an issue within Academy year’s nominees: Ridley Scott’s quality, but unremarkable film “The Martian” gets chosen over the likes of more innovative and more diverse films such as “Tangerine” or “Beasts of No Nation.”

BY greg castro Diverse films within even the studio The Daily Wildcat system face an uphill battle at the Oscars.

“Creed” was a critical and commercial y entire Oscars acceptance speech success—probably one of the best-written, is already planned out. It’s really best-directed and best-acted films of the good, but I won’t get to utter a year. But the voting body, as it stands, word of it unless I happen to win one of acknowledged the work of the film’s white those little golden bastards in the distant supporting actor, not its black lead or its future. All aspiring filmmakers have some black director. version of their speech worked out, if only The only reason we get “The Martian” as vaguely in the back of their minds. a nominee over “Creed” is because the old, The massive influence of the Oscars white and male voting body preferred it. within the film industry cannot be To be fair, not every snub of a black artist understated, despite the fact most don’t is necessarily indicative of racial bias. One even understand what the Academy of of the loudest voices when it comes to this Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is, or who year’s lack of diversity at the Oscars has comprises its membership. been Will Smith, who surely wishes he For this obscure, sometimes clandestine, could’ve made the running for his turn in group to fail to nominate a single black “Concussion.” artist for the second year in a row is— That film received mixed reviews and despite what we’d like to tell ourselves—a had a fairly pathetic box office return very big deal. indicating that, if nothing else, academy These are the people members simply weren’t who somehow thought that aware of the picture.

“Shakespeare In Love” was The only Similarly, Samuel L. a better film than “Saving Jackson’s snub for “The reason we Private Ryan,” who chose Eight” is more get ‘The Martian’ Hateful Meryl Streep as best actress outrageous not because over Viola Davis in 2011 and as a nominee of race, but because that who somehow thought “Argo” spectacular film found itself over ‘Creed’ is was a movie people were almost completely excluded because the old, going to watch beyond the from the awards. winter of 2012. white and male Perhaps that very fact We really shouldn’t give is indicative of just how voting body them the four hours it takes conservative the voting body to watch their annual award preferred it.” is, as “Hateful Eight” featured ceremony; and yet every year, some of the most provocative, there we are in front of our racially charged imagery of TV screens. any film this year.

If we’re honest with ourselves and admit One positive feature of the academy as it the Oscars are as much a historical and stands now is its president, Cheryl Boone cultural institution as they are an actual Isaacs, a black woman. Her statement measure of quality filming, it should be regarding this year’s controversy is hopeful. a no-brainer to acknowledge the awards “In the 60s and 70s, it was about should strive to represent the full spectrum recruiting younger [Academy] members of people who are making films, not just to stay vital and relevant,” Isaacs said. “In one ethnic group or gender.

2016, the mandate is inclusion in all of its The Los Angeles Times’ 2012 study of the facets: gender, race, ethnicity and sexual academy’s makeup revealed that the voting orientation.” membership is 94 percent white, 77 percent While it’s easy to cry “merit regardless of male and has a median age of 62 years. race” or something similar, the truth is that This is, unfortunately, representative there are any number of films that could of the ethnic and gender makeup of the have filled the top spots this year. filmmaking professionals working on studio Making a conscious effort to ensure next feature films. Variety reported last year year’s films represent not only the depth on how only 7 percent of the 250 biggest of quality filmmaking, but also the breadth films in 2014 were directed by women, for of diverse filmmakers would guarantee the example.

Oscars endure as a true representation of It’s important to note, however, that it is the best cinema the world has to offer. the establishment and there are many films being made by non-white and non-male — Follow Greg Castro filmmakers outside the studio system. @gacastrotweets This is what is frustrating about this

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Sun Devils overpower UA with swarming defense

Jan. 25-26, 2016 • Page 16

Editor: Matt Wall

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Temple knocks off unbeaten SMU No. 8 SMU 80 Temple 89

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ARIZONA HEAD COACH Niya Butts expresses her exasperation toward the end of ASU’s 62-47 win over Arizona on Sunday, Jan. 24 in McKale Center. ASU’s defense was too much to handle and overpowered Arizona all night.

No. 8 ASU defeated Arizona women’s basketball twice in one weekend as Wildcats drop to an 11-9 record

BY RYAN KELAPIRE The Daily Wildcat

ASU defeated Arizona 62-47 Sunday night in McKale Center, led by double-digit scoring efforts from Arnecia Hawkins and Katie Hempen. It was the second time in three days the No. 8 Sun Devils beat their instate rivals.

The loss is the Wildcats’ fifth in their last six games as their

record dropped to 11-9 overall and 2-6 in Pac-12 Conference.

Meanwhile, ASU is now 17-3 overall with a perfect 8-0 conference record.

Arizona was competitive for most of the game against ASU on Friday and was hoping to improve on that effort, but the Sun Devils had other plans.

ASU came into the game boasting one of the conference’s best defenses and its swarming

full court press made it difficult for the Wildcats from the start.

The Sun Devils were able to force three quick turnovers and, after a three by Hawkins, took an 11-4 with 5:52 left in the quarter.

“They came out very intense and I think we didn’t come out and match that,” Arizona guard Malena Washington said. “We came out kind of flat.”

The Wildcats were unable to stop the bleeding and the

run ballooned to 19-4 in the Sun Devils’ favor after a trio of jumpers by Hawkins and Kianna Ibis. Hawkins finished with a game-high 19 points.

LaBrittney Jones ended the run with a layup at the end of the quarter, but the damage was already done as the Wildcats were down by 13 heading into the second quarter.

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Sports • January 25-26, 2016

UA fans, R-E-L-A-X Even with Arizona men’s basketball collecting its fourth loss, the Wildcats will figure it out by March their competition.

Unfortunately for Arizona, Cal was at its best when the Wildcats were struggling.

As for UCLA, the Bruins are the BY kyle hansen perfect bipolar example. They’ll beat The Daily Wildcat someone like Arizona or Kentucky, but lose to Washington State.

It doesn’t make sense, but college oming into this season, it was basketball around the nation has been tough to imagine the Arizona weird this year. men’s basketball team would Upsets have come in ridiculous have suffered four losses already. Over amounts this season. the past three seasons, Arizona had Over the last two weeks, over 20 only lost four games total by this point ranked teams have lost. There seems in each of those years combined. to be a new No. 1 each week.

This year has seen an older Arizona Oklahoma was given the No. 1 roster struggle through growing honors a week ago, only to be upset pains that seemed nonexistent in the

by No. 19 Iowa State only a few hours past. The story has been the same later. Michigan State upset Maryland throughout the season: Arizona has on Saturday to snap a three-game four seniors and one losing streak. Duke is junior in the current sitting at No. 20 and starting lineup, yet Arizona isn’t Kentucky at No. 23. three of them had the only team Southern Methodist not suited up for the University, the only with struggles and Wildcats until this remaining undefeated this team has plenty season. team in college of time to figure Because of the basketball, can’t even inexperience with each something out by play in the tournament other and with head the time March rolls because of NCAA coach Sean Miller, the around.” sanctions.

Wildcats have had their In short, it’s been struggles, especially on a wild year for hoops defense. and it won’t slow down They have had to anytime soon. play keep-up much more than they’d Despite the early losses, the like and have consistently played as Wildcats have some early positives a second-half team rather than a full, they can hang their hats on. They have solid 40-minute team. given conference leader Washington Even though these growing pains its only Pac-12 Conference loss, might have people worried, they and have gone on the road to upset should take some old but beneficial Gonzaga. We’ve seen flashes of what advice from Green Bay Packers this team can do; it’s only a matter quarterback Aaron Rodgers: of putting it together on a more “R-E-L-A-X.” consistent basis.

Arizona’s four losses have come Arizona still has plenty of time to by a combined 10 points. This figure things out. They will get to host includes a four-point loss to now No. UCLA, USC and Cal in McKale Center, 16 Providence, who boasts National where they will have a chance at Player of the Year candidate Kris redemption.

Dunn. They also lost on a 3-point The early losses are scary on paper, buzzer beater to UCLA, two free but frankly, everyone is losing this throws in a four-overtime thriller at year. This isn’t like last season when it USC—who is also ranked now at No. was Kentucky versus the field.

21—and Saturday’s one-point loss to Multiple teams have a chance in California. this year’s tournament. Arizona isn’t Each of these losses have been the only team with struggles and it has on the road or at a neutral site, yet plenty of time to figure something out all have been close and against by the time March rolls around. formidable opponents.

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Arizona guard Gabe York (1) waits across court on Saturday, Jan. 23 in Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, California. The Wildcats have struggled in California for much of the season.

Arizona’s losses to UCLA, USC, Cal and Providence have showcased its fast tempo struggles

BY justin spears The Daily Wildcat

With Arizona returning home this week after splitting on the road in the Bay Area, beating Stanford and losing to California in heartbreaking 74-73 fashion, the Wildcats are placed in a tough position in the middle of the Pac-12 Conference.

Following the split on the road, Arizona is now 3-4 in the state of California, counting the DirecTV Wooden Legacy and its first conference road trip to Los Angeles.

Don’t put the blame on the bad luck of playing in California, but rather Arizona having a strenuous time against teams that play at a similar pace.

Arizona plays its best basketball when fast break opportunities turn into a layup drill, because it’s simple, a missed basket or turnover turns into a quick outlet pass to a guard and then a quick bucket.

Last week against the Washington schools was arguably the Wildcats’ best weekend of conference play. Washington has an extremely talented, yet youthful team who Arizona managed to score 24 points off of turnovers against.

It’s all fun and dandy when points come with ease, as the Wildcats are scoring more than 70 points per game in the conference. However, when teams come right back at Arizona with the fast tempo, it’s a coin flip for whoever wins the game and that’s shown in every loss for the Wildcats.

Going back to their first loss against Providence, the Friars forced 21 turnovers and had a seven-point advantage in points off of turnovers. Cal only had three points less than the Wildcats and USC had two more fast break points than Arizona.

A similar situation happened Saturday night in the second half, when Arizona head coach Sean

Miller, reintroduced the 2-3 zone defense and lack of transition defense, leading to Jordan Mathews having a career night with 28 points on 10-of-17 shooting.

Cal had 14 points off of turnovers to go along with seven fast break points. The Golden Bears moved the ball up the court, especially in the second half.

Their controlling the tempo even though Arizona was comfortable in that pace might have been the difference maker.

“Cal is really good in transition of off turnovers and misses and I thought that really was the difference in the game because their push in transition and ability to find [Jordan Mathews] and the points they generated was too much for us to overcome,” Miller said.

With the spotlight on the Cal freshmen duo Ivan Rabb and Jaylen Brown, it was Mathews that created separation late in the game in the right corner by going up five with just over a minute left.

“A lot of his shots didn’t come in the half court offense, it came in the transition where I thought his teammates did a great job finding him and when they found him, they made us pay,” Miller said. “We went to a 2-3 zone one time and I didn’t recognize him in the corner and he made us pay. A shooter of his caliber and the way he is playing, certainly the way he played tonight, he was the difference tonight.”

It doesn’t get much easier for Arizona, even though the Wildcats are at their best at home. Oregon defeated Cal by 14 points and former Miller recruit Tyler Dorsey, who is averaging 13.8 points per game, will suit up for the Ducks and test the Arizona backcourt once again.

Cal has shot 35 percent from 3-pointer for the entire season and Oregon is right behind them with 34 percent. If they’re anything like their football’s offense, then the Wildcats will play man-to-man defense for the most part.

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With Taryn Griffey still away from the team, Washington became the only true point guard that Arizona head coach Niya Butts had at her disposal. She played a career-high 32 minutes and though Butts was satisfied with her performance, Washington didn’t get enough help from her teammates.

“She played a lot of minutes and only turned it over three times, the problem was we just didn’t have anyone else step up at point guard,” Butts said. “She was having to handle the ball an awful lot, so she was getting fatigued and then because she was having to dribble the wings weren’t open like we needed to, but we have to work on that again this week.”

Washington les the team with 17 points and four assists, but the offense as a whole was stagnant and the turnovers piled up.

“I don’t think we were intense enough with the basketball,” Butts said. “We weren’t focused, really casual and they applied a lot more pressure than they applied in the first game and I thought that gave us some pause and instead of responding to that with more aggressive play, we kind of took steps backwards.”

ASU continued to add to its lead in the second quarter. Hempen started it with a 3-pointer to put ASU up by 16 and drained a pair of jumpers later in the quarter to give the Sun Devils a 34-14 edge at halftime. Hempen tallied 14 points on the night.

The Sun Devils as a team shot 13-of26 from the field in the first half and nearly one third of those points came off turnovers. The Wildcats had 16 turnovers in the game with 12 of them coming in the first half.

“They were absolutely getting anything they wanted,” Butts said. “We didn’t get anything from our bench, we didn’t get anything from our first five and just talked about coming out in the second half and making it a game.”

The Wildcats did improve in the final two quarters as Butts had hoped, as they outscored the Sun Devils 33-28 in the second half. But the early hole Arizona dug itself into proved to be too much to overcome.

Washington scored 15 of her 17 points in the second half and Jones had eight second-half points, as Arizona was able to cut the deficit down to 12 late in the fourth quarter; but by that point, there simply wasn’t enough time for a comeback.

Arizona will try to regroup when it hits the road to face Oregon State and Oregon on Friday and Sunday respectively.

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DENVER BRONCOS wide receivers Emmanuel Sanders and Demaryius Thomas make angels in the confetti following Denver’s 20-18 win in the AFC Championship game against the New England Patriots at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in Denver on Sunday, Jan. 24. The Broncos and Carolina Panthers will face off in Super Bowl 50.

Super Bowl 50: Panthers, Broncos

BY MATT WALL

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Palmer chokes on big stage Whether it was their defense or the Cardinals lacking offense, the Carolina Panthers steam rolled the Arizona Cardinals 49-15 in the National Football Conference Championship game.

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Palmer made poor decisions all game, which led to turnovers and then points by the Panthers. Palmer threw for 235 yards on 23-40 attempts, one touchdown and four interceptions. Each interception would add insult to injury for Cardinals fans everywhere, with Palmer throwing four interceptions for the fourth time in his career.

“I kept digging us in a hole,” Palmer said to ESPN. Overall, nothing went Arizona’s way.

Their defense struggled to stop the surefire Panthers offense. Arizona’s offense was pitiful for most of the game. Patrick Peterson and the special teams made a key error on a muffed punt which led to a turnover.

The highlight of the game for the Cardinals was most definitely their rookie running back. David Johnson rushed for 60 yards on 15 carries and one touchdown. Johnson also added nine catches for 68 yards.

The star of the night was none other than Panthers quarterback Cam Newton. Newton threw for 335 yards on 19-28 passing attempts, two touchdowns and one interception.

Analysts most certainly had something to say about Palmer’s performance, essentially destroying the quarterback on Twitter.

“I’ve lost a lot of respect for Carson Palmer in these two playoff games,” ESPN analyst Skip Bayless tweeted. “Ran away with reg-season QBR. Postseason stage too big for him.”

“Carolina deserves to win this game, but hate to see Carson Palmer’s season end this way,” NFL Network reporter Alex Flanagan tweeted. “He worked harder than any other season in his career.”

However, if you think about it, the state

of Arizona and its team would be nowhere without its franchise quarterback. Palmer has been the face of the team the entire season and head coach Bruce Arians has always put his confidence in his quarterback. In fact, for most of the season, people were calling his name for MVP. Broncos punch Super Bowl ticket With 1:34 left on the clock, New England Patriot and former Arizona Wildcat Rob Gronkowski made the 40-yard catch of his life on fourth down. That was until 12 seconds remained in the fourth quarter, when Gronkowski somehow grabbed a miracle four-yard touchdown catch.

Even with eight catches for 144 yards, Gronkowski and the Patriots weren’t able to top the Denver Broncos defense with the final score being 20-18. The defense intercepted Tom Brady on a two-point attempt to end the game.

That same defense tallied two interceptions and four sacks on one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks, Brady.

Peyton Manning will be heading to Super Bowl 50 (his fourth appearance) with one ring already in his pocket and as the oldest quarterback in NFL history to lead his team to the big game. The five-time NFL MVP has tallied quite the postseason numbers, especially in the Super Bowl. Manning has thrown for 860 yards and three touchdowns; however, he also has four interceptions in his three career appearances thus far.

The Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski missed an extra point attempt early in the game, which led to a two-point conversion attempt in the fourth quarter. Gostkowski defended his teammate, blaming the loss on the entire team.

Brady threw for 310 yards on 27-56 passing attempts, one touchdown and two interceptions.

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Close defeats hurt team down stretch

BY EZRA AMACHER The Daily Wildcat

If it feels like Arizona men’s basketball suffers down-to-the-wire losses at a disproportionate rate, you’re not wrong.

Over the past two and a half seasons, the Wildcats have lost 13 games by a total of 43 points, according to math performed by Dan Dickey of hoopsnerd.com.

That averages out to a 3.3-point margin of defeat per loss.

In the same two and a half year span, no other team in the nation has come close to suffering as many close losses.

Whereas Arizona stands at a -43 scoring margin in losses since the start of the 20132014 season, the next closest team, Wichita State, suffers a -83 margin in that frame.

This season, all four of Arizona’s losses have come within four points.

The UA’s loss to California on Saturday was perhaps the most heart-breaking of any of Arizona’s defeats this season, considering the Wildcats came back from a nine-point second half deficit and were a Gabe York layup away from winning.

After the game, Arizona head coach Sean Miller rationalized the close defeat as a game in which Cal outworked the Wildcats on a few key possessions.

“There was too many times where their hustle and hard play really separated them from us,” Miller said. “There were two or three hustle plays in the second half where we were competing at a frenetic pace, and when they came up with it, they converted.”

In order for the Wildcats to pull off the win, Miller said the team would have needed to play a “terrific game.”

Instead, “we just played a good game,” Miller said.

Cal coach offers praise of Arizona program Cal men’s basketball head coach Cuonzo Martin danced in the locker room following the Golden Bears’ gold-out victory. That’s how much a win over a marquee program like Arizona means to Martin and his team.

The Golden Bears are no slouches, considering they have a few future NBA lottery picks on their team. But it takes more than one group of talented players to solidify a program among the nation’s best.

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ARIZONA GUARD Gabe York (1) dunks in Haas Pavilion in Berkeley, California on Saturday, Jan. 23. The Wildcats lost to California 73-72 in heartbreaking fashion on a missed layup as time expired.

One day, Cuonzo Martin said, he’d like to see Cal reach the level of consistency displayed by Arizona.

“We beat a very talented program who I believe is one of the top programs in the country,” Martin said. “We hope to be that one day, but it takes time.”

Should Pac-12 receive more hype?

Arizona freshman Justin Simon has only played in seven Pac-12 Conference games, but the guard has seen enough of the league to judge its level of play.

“The Pac-12 is the most underrated conference, I think,” Simon said after the Wildcats’ loss to Cal. “Cal’s a great team; I think we’re a great team. You never know who is going to come out and play.”

While the conference doesn’t have any elite teams like in years past, the league’s depth and parity has improved considerably this season.

Four weeks in, 10 of the league’s 12 teams are still in realistic contention to win the regular season title.

Not bad.

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Yim helps #stick another landing Head coach Tabitha Yim’s invention of #ARIZONASTICK inspires gymnastics program to hit its mark

BY MATT WALL

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hands go up like that in the crowd, we knew that was something that was going to stick.”

For the athletes themselves, the #ARIZONASTICK has led to higher scores – something they are always trying to achieve. When one of them hits a landing, it brings that much more excitement to the entire team.

“It’s definitely exciting for the judges, too,” junior gymnast Gabrielle Laub said. “It’s the last thing they see and the exclamation point.”

Since Yim has held the head coaching role, attendance has significantly improved, to which Yim credited her sports information director Danielle Bracamonte.

At their first home meet of the season, the Wildcats had the highest attendance in history. It all goes back to the message that Yim and her staff are sending to the city of Tucson.

“We are really trying to live, eat and breathe those values in everything that we are doing,” Yim said. “Our SID Danielle Bracamonte has just been on top of it. She posts things every single day to make sure our fans and our community know what is going [on] inside the gym. Like I said, it’s a team effort, and we are all on the same page.”

Yim also credited the collaborated effort of the Arizona Athletics marketing staff, the introduction show and the team.

The team as a whole has now bought into Yim’s system, especially as the Wildcats gave then-No. 5 UCLA a run for their money Saturday afternoon. Against the Bruins, the Wildcats notched seven #ARIZONASTICKS. It most certainly has brought more intensity to the Arizona gymnastics program. So keep those #ARIZONASTICKS coming.

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ARIZONA GYMNAST Lexi Mills sticks her landing off the high beams in McKale Center on Friday, Jan. 8. Arizona head coach Tabitha Yim created the #ARIZONASTICK. JESUS BARRERA/THE DAILY WILDCAT

AN ARIZONA gymnast jumps high in the air in McKale Center on Friday, Jan. 8. The Wildcats have impressed early with a young team and have an overall record of 2-1.

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hen Arizona gymnastics head coach Tabitha Yim first joined up with the program, she knew she had to find a way to get the crowd and Tucson community more involved in home meets in McKale Center.

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“Both feet stuck and slide your heels together,” sophomore gymnast Maddy Cindric said. “Do not move.”

That’s an understatement. In order to stick the perfect landing, gymnasts must stay completely still with their arms usually in the air.

The idea really came from the mind of Yim after she attended a number of UA sporting events and saw the interaction with their respective crowds.

“It came from a collection of things,” Yim said. “In football, they say that’s an Arizona first down. I’ve been watching a lot of the different Arizona sporting events; it’s such a unique culture here and really a family feel.

Even at [a] volleyball game, they are going ‘roof roof roof!’ I personally love that in the stands.”

The new employment of the crowd and the #ARIZONASTICK has brought back the intensity of the GymCats’ program and has the opportunity to intimidate opponents.

“I said that we really had to bring something like this into gymnastics so the crowd can be interacting and they can be a part of it, because our crowd makes a big impact,” Yim said. “We talked about it as a staff and a team and tried it out at our Meet the Team event. When we saw everyone’s

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My best friend recently caught chlamydia.

She's been dating her BF for almost two years and he says he has never cheated on her. She hasn’t slept with anyone else since they started dating. Now he says that she caught the STI while they had sex during her period because her blood has bacteria. Is this possible?

Fortunately, chlamydia doesn’t spontaneously appear from menstrual blood. Someone had to have some sort of sexual contact, if not intercourse, for it to appear in either partner. Chlamydia can go undetected, without symptoms, for months or years. Either of them might have had the infection months PRIOR to their sexual relationship.

Because most women with chlamydia (and about half of men) do not experience symptoms, the best advice for sexually active people is to get tested regularly. According to experts, annual chlamydia testing is recommended for all sexually active women 25 years and under.

It’s also suggested for women older than 25 who have new partners or multiple sex partners.

Chlamydia is the most common sexually transmitted infection diagnosed and treated at the UA. It’s passed from person to person, usually from direct genitalto-genital contact. One of them gave it to the other (unless they BOTH got infected from contact with other sex partners). Your friend may never know the source of this current infection. Regardless, they both need medical treatment and medication.

Why get tested regularly? Untreated chlamydia can lead to serious complications such as pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) and, possibly, infertility. The test is easy – pee in a cup or swab the vagina. It’s easy to cure with a simple antibiotic.

Males should get tested if they have a discharge from the penis, or if they have pain or burning with urination.

Questions? Call (520)621-4967 or visit www.ashastd.org. Or, make an appointment at (520)621-9202.

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