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Student escapes assault A 46-year-old man was arrested for attempting to sexually assault a UA student, voyeurism and recording without consent

BY DEVON WALO

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In the early morning hours of Sept. 26 2015, a man wearing a clown mask broke into an offcampus home and attempted to assault a female UA student.

What happened That morning, while students and fans woke to the excitement of

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ESPN College GameDay on the UA Mall, one physiology junior woke up to something much different.

Around 5 a.m., she was woken by a man wearing a clown mask standing in her doorway.

“He tried to assault me,” she said.

“I was able to scream before he could put his hand over my mouth.”

The suspect was later identified as 46-year-old Corey Morris, according to a Tucson Police

Department media release obtained by the Daily Wildcat.

She said she had fallen asleep with her lights on the night before.

Morris turned her bedroom lights off after he broke in, which woke her.

“In that moment, I was scared shitless,” she said. “I thought I was going to be kidnapped. In all honesty, you don’t really know what to think.”

After Morris realized she had awoken, he charged at her. She thought to hide her cell phone while she screamed so she could contact the police in case Morris took her.

“He had his hands on my wrists and I was pushing him away from my face because he was trying to cover my mouth so I wouldn’t

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UA athletic director Greg Byrne presented the controversial new athletics fee to the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate on Wednesday evening during the senate’s weekly meeting.

“It’s to address Arizona Stadium,” Byrne told the Senators.

To be more specific, there is about $150 million worth of things that need to be addressed, according to Byrne.

He explained that the 56,000-person stadium has largely gone un-updated since its original completion in 1928. Facilities like the bathrooms, bleachers and concessions, among other things, are in dire need of renovation for the stadium to suit its current usage.

“We’ve taken some people on a tour during this football season— on game day—so that they can see what we are asking our fans to go through to come to a game … and it’s not pretty, what we’re asking our fans to do,” Byrne said.

The idea for the fee was originally tossed around last year after Arizona State University implemented its own athletics fee.

At that time, Byrne said he had no plans to implement a similar one.

In the past, the Arizona Athletics department has almost entirely funded its construction and

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pool, Jeremy Sharpe, associate director of communication services for the department, made it clear that fundraisers agreed to an “aggressive fundraising goal” of $50 million to help offset the costs.

In addition to this, a fee will be tacked onto ticket prices so that the cost of the project would be shared between students and fans.

“We have a major issue with Arizona Stadium. I promise you we have spent countless hours trying to find solutions—we’re not taking this lightly,” Byrne said. “We understand what we’re asking for is significant … and we think this is the best solution as a shared effort to make this happen, and we think it’s good for our university.”

Byrne, who had scheduled to speak during the ASUA meeting the week prior, directly addressed some of the senate’s concerns with the fee’s transparency during his presentation.

Sen. Joe Zanoni, who has expressed his concerns about the fee’s transparency since word of it first got out, told the Daily Wildcat that the creation of the proposed fee “has the troubling appearance of a backroom deal,” a concern that Byrne made a point to address.

“We couldn’t come to you the very first day we started discussing this and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got an idea, we have no detail, we have no information for you, but we’re thinking about it,’” Byrne said.

He mentioned that ASUA

President Manny Felix was involved in the exploration from the beginning and that the intention had always been to bring the fee forward to the senate after enough of a plan had materialized.

“That’s today,” Byrne said.

“That’s where we worked enough on this to bring this forward to you to get your feedback, to hear what you’re saying, and our goal out of this—and I mean it very seriously—was to be as transparent as we possibly could be.”

In response to a question posed

by Sen. Maddy Bynes regarding how students were going to be further involved in the discussion on the proposed fee, Byrne said that they would possibly obtain student input through a survey. He also said that he would continue to visit and update the senate as the process continued, so that they would better be able to serve their constituents.

Zanoni felt that a survey would be key to ensure that the student voice was accounted for in the final decision.

“We need to get a survey to the students,” Zanoni said. “The students are the ones who will be writing the check to athletics, and they need to be the ones surveyed in a respectable fashion.”

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renovation endeavors in donations and ticket sales—both the $72 million dollar price tag for the newly completed north endzone of Arizona Stadium and the $30 million worth of renovations done to McKale Center were entirely funded by donations—with the exception being the actual construction of McKale Center in the 1970s.

Arizona Athletics has had an extremely aggressive fundraising campaign in recent years. Giving from donors is at an all-time high and according to Byrne, $135 million of the total $219 million fundraised by athletics in the past 10 years was donated in the last five years. On top of that, some of the largest gifts that athletics have ever received also happened in the last five years.

This aggressive fundraising and generous giving of Arizona Athletics’ donors is not a sustainable funding source.

“Quite frankly, when you measure our donor base—the ability to address the needs at Arizona Stadium—we cannot do it by giving alone,” Byrne said.

That is where the idea for the fee came in. Last fall, faced with a stadium in dire need of updates and a depleted donor base, Byrne and the Arizona Athletics department began to think about implementing an athletics fee of their own.

Even with this depleted donor

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scream,” she said.

Pima County Superior Court documents obtained by the Daily Wildcat stated that Morris told her to be quiet. She responded telling him to take whatever he wanted.

“I want you,” Morris responded, according to the court documents.

Morris turned her onto her stomach, held her face against the bed and attempted to take his pants off.

Her screams woke one of her roommates, who then ran into the room and startled Morris. He then ran out the bedroom door, pushing

the roommate to the ground to make his way toward the front door.

Her roommate got up and began hitting Morris while he was trying to unlock the front door. Morris kicked the roommate in the stomach and ran out, according to the court documents.

Morris left both his cell phone and clown mask behind.

The girls locked the doors and called the police to report an attempted sexual assault.

It was determined by TPD Adult Sexual Assault Unit detectives that Morris had forced entry through the bedroom window of a third roommate who was not home. A fourth roommate was home, but did not wake up during the break in.

Morris’s blood and his fingerprint was found on shards of glass near the window where he broke in, according to the court documents.

A neighbor told police that he saw a man matching Morris’s description in the yard of the victim’s home a day prior, but was unaware only college-aged women lived at the residence.

Police also found an unused condom on the kitchen counter and another in a planter on the front porch with a wad of gray duct tape.

The residence now has an updated security system with the addition of cameras as an extra safety feature.

“I feel that I am definitely a lot

more aware of my surroundings,” the victim said. “We added a lot more security to the house, which I think is important because our security system wasn’t up to date.”

The original arrest Morris was booked to Pima County Jail for one count each of attempted sexual assault, aggravated assault, burglary in the second degree and kidnapping on Sept. 28, 2015, according to TPD Sgt. Pete Dugan.

Morris was then released from jail after posting a $75,000 bond on Oct. 4, 2015. He was indicted on Oct. 8, 2015, for charges on all four counts, according to the court documents.

The second arrest Morris’s phone was seized and forensically examined during the original arrest. TPD detectives found photographs of multiple women undressing in their homes, according to the TPD media release.

The seized phone had videotapes of two women and one man undressing as well. None of the victims appeared to be aware they were being photographed or videotaped, according to the court documents.

The photos and videos found also included a photo of the original victim asleep in her bed with the lights on just minutes before the initial 911 call was made, according

to the court documents.

Dugan explained that Morris was taken back into custody on Oct. 21, 2015, based on the contents of his phone.

Morris was charged with seven counts of voyeurism and seven counts of secretly viewing or recording another person without consent, according to the court documents. His second bond was set at $50,000.

Detectives then visited different homes in the neighborhood, attempting to find people who recognized themselves or the inside of their home or their property in the photos from Morris’s cell phone.

Detectives were able to find four others who recognized something in the photos, according to the TPD media release.

Two TPD officers greeted Steph Poiani, a nutritional sciences junior, while she and her roommates were making dinner at home one evening.

“Someone knocked on our back door in our backyard and we were really confused,” Poiani said. “We asked who it was before we opened it and they said it was the Tucson Police.”

Poiani said the TPD police officers explained there had been a break in on their street and there was a man taking photos of girls through their windows. The police officers showed Poiani and her

roommates the photos to see if they could identify anyone.

“It was really disturbing,” Poiani said. “They told us this happens a lot in this area, but their goal is to find out about it and stop it because a lot of times these people are looking to advance and do something else.

They’re trying to stop it before it escalates.”

Where is Morris now?

Morris was released on Jan. 5, after Azteca Bail Bonds paid his bond, according to the court documents.

As of Jan. 22, Morris is still out on bail. The court has approved the state’s motion of joinder, merging his two separate cases—the original case and the newer one from October—into one.

The trial date has been set for Oct. 11, 2016.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

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The Women’s Resource Center has proposed an idea that aims to change the way UA students perceive and act on sexual assault. The workshop, called Wildcat 101, aims to bring social justice and awareness to the UA. Students Promoting Empowerment and Consent is a student–run group on campus that spreads awareness about topics such as sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking.

Once the SPEAC interns pass their peer training, they will utilize the three-hour workshop to spread violence-oriented awareness.

Wildcat 101 will be geared toward incoming freshman and their parents during summer orientations.

“There are 10 [SPEAC] interns that will go through peer training to be able to run the Wildcat 101 workshop,” said Nick Taras, coordinator for Sexual Assault and Violence Prevention Programming. “This is new and innovative; we hope to have the curriculum developed by April 1.”

The WRC holds smaller, timed conversation sessions with students to

talk about their personal experiences with sexual assault and domestic violence, according to Taras.

The group aims to make Wildcat 101 an informative program for students who are scared, nervous or just want more information about the particular subject. “[It] sounds amazing, especially during orientation. Sexual assault is down-played and this can be informational for incoming freshman,” said Brenda Stoiber–Bouldin, a desk assistant for UA LGBTQ Affairs.

“This can set the tone for students entering college who are afraid and nervous that it could happen to them, or [those] who just want to know how to help if they ever had a friend in a situation like that.”

Taras said the discussion will be centered around masculinity and male violence, but geared toward both men and women.

“We definitely want to draw on the expertise of others to have some cool connections up there, so I think that would be the most exciting piece,” Taras said.

“You get different opinions from different vantage points and I think that makes it even more profitable for students and others.”

If the workshop is a success, the next step is to develop a three-credit course using

the social-justice lens of gender, race and trauma, according to Taras.

The class would be offered in both the fall and spring semesters and open to all majors.

Krista Millay, assistant dean of students and director of the WRC, attended the Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s Senate meeting Wednesday to ask for help with funding for the peer educators’ paid positions in teaching the workshops.

ASUA senators postponed the vote on whether they will fund the program until next Wednesday, when ASUA Treasurer Jack Emory will provide more information on where the money will come form.

Dana Field, a pre-business freshman and one of the two Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall representatives in the Residence Hall Association, said creating more educational programs on social justice in the residence halls is a frequent topic of discussion.

Wildcat 101 would be a great addition to orientation since it is an important time for incoming students, according to Field.

“Educating people on this topic is very important since the problems associated with it are often ignored and overlooked,” she said. “Having a three-credit class could

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Ely Miller, a gender and women’s studies senior, works on a project on Wednesday, Jan. 27 for a new assault prevention class. The class is set to take place next semester and will be guided by peer educators.

be a wonderful resource for anyone that wants to learn more about this topic, but I don’t think that it should ever become a mandatory class.”

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A spicy way to treat arthritis UA researchers are looking in to the healing power of the household spice, tumeric.

The spice’s anti-inflammitory properties may help those with rheumatoid arthritis

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Turmeric, a spice most commonly used for cooking Asian dishes, also has anti-inflammatory properties. UA researchers have been looking in to using turmeric to help treat rhumetoid arthritis.

“This is important for people with chronic inflammatory diseases who might be taking several medications to manage their illness,” Skulas-Ray said.

As CLaRA begins, Funk is excited to educate the community about turmeric and how it can be helpful or effect other medications in relation to rheumatoid arthritis.

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A peppery, bitter and amber-hued spice popular to Chinese and Indian cultures has brought UA researches together.

Researchers are determining if turmeric’s anti-inflammatory components can help the painful side effects of rheumatoid arthritis.

Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease where instead of the body’s immune system protecting the body, it mistakenly attacks the joints.

Janet Funk, associate professor of medicine and nutritional sciences in UA College of Medicine, has spearheaded the new human clinical trial, CLaRA. Funk explained the meaning behind CLaRA and how the trial got its name.

“Every plant has a Latin name that’s used to classify it,” Funk said. “Turmeric’s name is Curcuma longa and rheumatoid arthritis is abbreviated as ‘RA,’” hence the CL and RA. CLaRA is laying the groundwork for a much larger trial that will shine a spotlight on turmeric to see if its anti-inflammatory reputation could help those who suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, according to Funk.

“We’ve been studying turmeric for about 10 years now,” Funk said. “There’s two main kinds of chemicals in turmeric that the plant makes to defend itself, and it turned out that both classes prevent arthritis, which was a big surprise. No one knew that.”

Discovering new things is part of every clinical trial, but really analyzing all the information is vital.

“For research, we have to open all the doors, look under all the nooks and crannies to try and figure out how this thing is working and if it’s not working, why that is,” she said.

Funk and her team are looking at turmeric and its relation to other bone diseases, like bone metastasis, that occur in women with breast cancer.

“You kind of start with traditional use, figure out how it works, what the best dose might be and then you can move to a control trial to see how effective it is, but also start considering its use in other things,” Funk said.

For the trial, Funk and her team will need 45 patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis who meet the trial’s qualifications, which Funk said could be the biggest obstacle.

By the end of the trial, they will know if turmeric is safe to take with other medications without causing correlative side effects.

“We’ll be able to figure out what the best dose is for our next study, and people with RA might look at all this information and decide that might be a dose they might want to try,” Funk said.

Ann Skulas-Ray, a UA assistant professor of nutritional sciences, has conducted clinical studies with spice blends and focuses on inflammation.

“Anti-inflammatory medications for rheumatoid arthritis have significant side effects and risks that have to be considered,” Skulas-Ray said.

As Funk hopes to discover, turmeric and its chemical compound, curcumin, may help rheumatoid arthritis without corresponding side effects.

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POLICE BEAT

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I swear officer, it’s not mine During a pre-shift inspection of his patrol vehicle on Jan. 21, a University of Arizona Police Department officer noticed a small Ziploc bag sitting on the floor board in the rear of the vehicle.

The officer used his flashlight to more closely inspect the bag and noted that it was filled with a small amount of clear liquid and two “small, crystal-like items.”

The bag was then checked in to property/ evidence and was labeled under found property. The bag was then weighted at 0.0 grams and its contents were tested, which resulted in a positive match for methamphetamine.

It is still unclear how the bag made it in to the back of the patrol vehicle.

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Third time’s the charm On Jan. 21, two University of Arizona Police Department officers responded to Colonia de la Paz residence hall due to a report from a resident assistant that there was a strong odor of marijuana in the hallway.

The officers began to check the door jams of the rooms on the hall and eventually found a room with the door unlatched that smelled strongly of the odor.

The officer knocked on the door to which one of the residents, who was alone in the room, responded.

After being asked why his room smelled like marijuana, the resident responded that he “didn’t want to make anyone’s jobs harder.”

The resident was asked to retrieve the marijuana and he came back with a clear, Ziploc bag containing a small amount of a green, leafy substance. He also produced a small container, which contained four packs of rolling paper and a paper roller.

The paper roller also contained a green leafy substance that was consistent with marijuana.

The resident told the officers that he and his roommate had purchased the marijuana on campus from an unknown male, each buying a bag at $40 a bag.

He also said that he had only smoked marijuana twice before and that this was his first time smoking on campus.

The bag, rolling papers, paper roller and remaining paraphernalia were taken into possession. The green leafy substance was then field tested and came back positive for marijuana.

No additional items were found and the student was diverted to the dean of students.

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WETTER IS BETTER A grant from the USDA is helping UA advance its research in commercial fish breeding through aquaculture

BY JULIANNA RENZI The Daily Wildcat

On Thursday Jan. 14, the U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded over $1 million to four different universities for aquaculture projects. The UA won a grant, receiving $312,139 to research an alternative way to select broodstock—fish chosen for breeding.

While current selection methods select fish based on their size or method of reproduction, UA assistant professor of animal and comparative biomedical sciences Benjamin Renquist is testing an innovative way to select broodstock based on measuring a substance fish produce during metabolism called NADH2.

But measuring the metabolism of each fish in an entire broodstock is timeconsuming.

Instead, Renquist adds a drug to a container holding a single fish that causes the water to change to a certain fluorescent color depending on the amount of NADH2 present.

Fish that produce the most NADH2 are the fish that will grow the most quickly. This new technique may dramatically increase the efficiency of aquaculture by replacing outdated techniques for

selecting fish stocks.

Some aquaculturists select the largest fish stock for breeding, but bigger is not always better.

Larger fish aren’t necessarily those that grow the fastest; oftentimes selecting the largest fish just means choosing the most aggressive fish that eats the most.

These fish then dominate the tank and cause stress in other fish, limiting their growth. By measuring NADH2, aquaculturists can now select fish that are biologically the most efficient growers and select the smallest, l e a s t aggressive fish for breeding within that group.

But for Tucson, the acres of surrounding pasture lands may seem like a more reliable food source than a single laboratory at the Campus Agricultural Center. One of the five founding “C”s of Arizona was cattle, after all, not catfish. Arizona alone produced 391.2 million pounds of beef in 2010, enough meat to feed over four million people for a year.

While cattle were one of the

primary sources of livelihood among early Arizona settlers, cattle production today is half of what it was at its highest point in the 1890s. The rearing of some cows can create up to one thousand pounds of carbon—a contributor to climate change— to produce just one pound of protein.

Sixty percent of groundwater withdrawals already go toward rearing livestock each year, a number that will increase with the growing demand for food.

This has serious repercussions for water-poor regions like the arid Southwest.

While the bubbling f i s h tanks in Re n q u i st ’s lab may not be as iconic a scene as cattle grazing against an Arizona sunset, they may be the future of arid land food production.

Fish in self-contained systems such as those on the Campus Agricultural Center use much less water than traditional livestock. The water in the system can be recycled, meaning the lab does not have to add much additional water to continue raising fish.

Aquaculture is not perfect, it produces waste and has

environmental drawbacks.

Coastal aquaculture particularly has been proven to damage surrounding marine life.

But, as Renquist said, “The great thing about aquaculture is that fish don’t take food energy and produce heat energy, like you and I do. For every pound of food they eat they gain nearly a pound of weight.”

Unlike cattle and pigs, which can take upwards of 10 pounds of feed to gain one pound, fish turn one pound of every one and a half consumed into live weight.

“If we can produce more fish more quickly, we can reduce water use to help the environment and decrease the need for harvesting wild fish populations, most of which are overharvested,” said Renquist.

Through Renquist’s research, the amount of time needed for fish to reach full size could potentially be cut by 15 to 20 percent.

As the world’s demand for protein skyrockets, investment in more efficient sources of food will prove vital. The $1.2 million awarded by the USDA is not the end, but it is a start.

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Museum of Art connecting science & art

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The ‘Fires of Change’ exhibit at the UAMA was a brave effort to communicate the effects of fire in the Southwest.”

— Stephen Pyne, life sciences professor

BY PEARL LAM

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The Russo-Japanese War made way for tragedy when nearly 600 items from Russian artists pulled from the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair mysteriously disappeared in the midst of national unrest.

One of these items, “Lesnoi pozhar,” a fire painting by Russian artist Aleksei Kuz’mich DenisovUralsky, perhaps made bigger implications for art and science.

On Dec. 3, 2015, Stephen Pyne, author and Arizona State University life sciences professor, described the communicability of fire paintings at his keynote speech in collaboration with the “Fires of Change” exhibit at the UA Museum of Art, using “Lesnoi pozhar” as the prime example.

Although “Lesnoi pozhar” is not included in the “Fires of Change” exhibit, Pyne explained how the fire painting itself narrates the historical connection between

fires and society, a message “Fires of Change” sends.

In short, art empowers science.

For “Fires of Change,” open until April 3, the science behind Southwestern fires and their impact on society and the ecosystem could not be explained without art on display.

“The ‘Fires of Change’ exhibit at the UA Museum of Art was a brave effort to communicate the effects of fire in the Southwest,” Pyne said.

The Southwest was built for fires, according to Pyne.

Unlike the Northeastern U.S., the Southwest has an annual wet-anddry cycle which creates conditions ideal for growing, as well as fires.

If Arizona’s wet winter continues, more grass will be available for burning during the dry season.

During a drought, however, grass is dry and while lightning is still present, the rain is not.

“Lightning without precipitation is basically an ignition source,”

Pyne said.

Ever since sheep and cattle were introduced in the early 1900s to the Southwest, grazing has wiped out the vast, native grasslands that were responsible for maintaining natural wildfire cycles.

Wildfires today do not produce the same balancing effects as they did in the past.

Instead, modern wildfires in the Southwest have opened niches for disruptive species that disrupt the natural ecosystem.

Invasive species such as buffelgrass have replaced native grasslands and created conditions ideal for wildfires.

With “Fires of Change,” viewers can investigate the impact of fires in the Southwest in the form of sculptures, paintings and photographs through the lens of 11 artists.

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A STILL from a performance of the opera “Carmen” in February 2008. “Carmen” delights both opera novices and experienced theater goers.

‘Carmen’ an opera for beginners and veterans

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If you have never experienced opera, the exhilarating and resilient “Carmen”, is an introduction that should not be missed.

“It’s the greatest opera ever written. Nothing compares to ‘Carmen,’” said Beth Greenberg, UA assistant professor of music and opera stage director. “[Carmen] has the perfect trifecta: it has sumptuous music, the characters are in their musical element and it’s entertaining.”

Originally set in Spain in the 1820s, “Carmen” is the story of a love triangle between a beautiful and heartbreaking gypsy, a battlehardened soldier and a bullfighter.

This production of “Carmen,” directed by Tara Faircloth, is set in the 1930s instead.

“It’s a timeless story, comfortable in this century as well as the middle ages,” Faircloth said. “It’s important that we set [Carmen] in a time period that is relatable. For a modern audience, seeing people in a more modern silhouette is more relatable.”

Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack plays Carmen, the sultry gypsy woman at the center of the love triangle and the opera. “[Carmen is] a role that I’ve lived with for a very long time. It’s

a meatier role, and it’s marinated in my mind for a long time,” Mack said.

When asked about the pressure of playing such a key role in the history of opera, she said, “I try to shy away from expectations, and I try to look at [Carmen] with a fresh eye.”

A fresh perspective has been applied to the entirety of the production. “[The] Arizona Opera is very open to taking a chance on something that is unexpected,” Mack said.

“Carmen” has been interpreted and reinterpreted for the stage so many times, giving room for creative freedom.

“Great operas like [Carmen] are completely indestructible,” Greenberg said.

Indestructible is an apt description for the opera and for good reason. “Carmen is a ridiculously great night at the theatre—it’s violent, there’s lots of sex and there’s beautiful women everywhere,” Faircloth said.

She explained that she has a great set of fight coordinators and an excellent stunt team.

“It’s a very violent production,” Faircloth said. “There’s a nice electricity in the air to see that kind of violence in real life rather than limited to the film screen.”

The music of “Carmen” is legendary. There are many recognizable themes and melodies, even for those with no experience in classical music. Recognizable tunes include the “Habanera,” the “Toreador song” and more. “[Carmen] has big numbers that people know, even if they don’t know what it’s from,” Mack said.

“It’s music that’s stood the test of time.”

While opera can be a daunting art form to an inexperienced novice, the music of “Carmen” puts it among the most accessible of all operas.

“It’s effortless music,” Greenberg said. “It’s the only opera that comes close to being a good first opera because the music is so magnificent.”

All of these elements give “Carmen” the potential to be fantastic.

“Hearing a live orchestra is an experience like nothing else,” Faircloth said.

Given the cast rapport, modern interpretation of a timeless story and fantastic music, “Carmen” is magnificent both as a first opera and for the seasoned opera fan.

While the opera is completely in French, there will be supertitles— scrolling English captions suspended above the performers— for the audience.

As Faircloth said, “We’re very interested in attracting younger audiences.”

Tickets for “Carmen” are available at www.azopera.org.

“Carmen” will be performed on Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 31 at 2:00 p.m. at the Tucson Music Hall. Two hours before each performance, students can buy tickets for $20 each with CatCard at the box office.

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Christopher Carter is a UA alumnus who recently completed his second feature film “Overwatch,” which debuted at The Loft Cinema in an advanced screening on Jan. 21.

Carter graduated in December 2012 with a journalism major and a creative writing minor; he now works at the state department in the unemployment branch. Carter won best cinematographer at the Almost Famous Film Festival last year.

Jessica Morgan codirected the film alongside Carter. Morgan is a Pima Community College graduate who currently attends the School of Film, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University. Both Carter and Morgan performed roles in their film.

“Overwatch” tells the story of a group of survivors from a virus that has infected a majority of the population. Main character Carter (Taylor Plecity) is a young woman who must cope with the loss of her husband while surviving in a war-torn world.

“It’s a story about loss and how people cope with that,” Carter said. “It’s about how an individual who has something they really care for in their life and they lose it, and how they move forward with that.”

Carter, Morgan and Plecity met at an acting class they took together at PCC. “About a year ago, I decided to take the acting class because I feel it’s important as a director to know how to talk to your actors and to know how it feels on the other side,”Carter said.

“Overwatch” is unique in that it was filmed entirely in Tucson and used only local talent. Many distinct Tucson locations such as Gates Pass, Reid Park and the Slaughterhouse are featured in the film.

“I chose to shoot in Tucson because it’s such an underserved film community,” Carter said. “Like Gates Pass, when the sun starts dropping everything there is gold.

Every day at sunset it’s beautiful there, it’s captivating.”

“Overwatch” was shot entirely on a Canon Mark II and Canon 60D and edited using Adobe Premiere. Carter worked during his college years and saved money to purchase the equipment to film his movies.

“It’s so much easier. It was like, ‘Hey, you guys want to go shoot a scene? Sure, you hold the mic, you hold the camera, you guys act and let’s roll,’” Carter said.

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of October while the haunted house in the film was occupied for Halloween season.

“Since I was paying for it myself, we would have to wait until payday and since it cost about $100 a day to film, which included makeup, gas and coffee. We had to spread it out over time,” Carter said.

Noah Sanders, a freshman studying Spanish and global studies, saw the film at The Loft during its advanced screening.

“I liked the movie. It was nice seeing local talent and different places around Tucson,” he said. “We were sitting in the same crowd as everyone who worked on the movie and it made the movie feel more personal.”

Carter was excited by the fact people who were not involved in the film attended the screening.

“We had people come to the premiere that had nothing to do with it, they just wanted to see a film that was filmed in Tucson and I thought that was awesome,” Carter said. “My mom was sitting next to these two women and she asked them who they knew here and they said ‘No one. We just wanted to come watch the movie.’”

Carter is currently working on his third feature film in which he hopes to incorporate the UA campus.

“Overwatch” is set to officially release at The Loft on July 21.

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Soft lighting, semi-loud indie music, a decked out vegetarian menu, iced mochas served in mason jars and a 10-foot cactus popping out of a table—that’s Sparkroot for you.

Located on the heart of Congress Street, Sparkroot has been a Tucson hipster favorite since 2011.

Sparkroot’s Alex Potter encapsulates the ideal barista with a cool haircut, cute outfits and rad tattoos.

Daily Wildcat: How long have you been working at Sparkroot?

Alex Potter: I’ve been working here for three years.

What is your favorite drink to make?

Cappuccinos are my favorite. They’re classic and well-balanced drinks that are great for messing around with latte art. Generally people who order them have standards of how they’re made and I always like trying to meet or exceed them.

What do you enjoy about working here?

Probably my coworkers, but also being so close to everything that is going on downtown. [The Rialto Theatre and Hotel Congress] give us free tickets a lot of the time or they’ll like let us in if it’s, like, the end of the show, they’ll let us in to see the last little bit and not pay, obviously. So yeah, that’s really nice.

Do you have a favorite customer?

I think it changes, you know? I mean, I have a lot of favorite customers, I don’t think I could pick one, but I’ve made a lot of friends through working here and obviously those people end up being more of my favorites. I like almost all of our customers.

Do you have any memorable customers?

Yeah, there’s this one guy, Dave, that has been

coming here since I first started working and he teaches at the [UA], and he’s just a really nice guy.

He’s just a genuinely good person who has been there for all of us as a customer and friend. We love Dave.

What’s the weirdest thing you have experienced here?

One time when I was working, we get a lot of homeless people come in, and this one guy came in and he sat down ... And then he leaves and puts down what was in his hands when he left. I was looking at it and I was busy so I was just looking at it, like, ‘what is that?’, and I kind of figured out what it was in my head and at that moment he came back in and picked it up. It was raw steak. He started eating it, and he is just eating raw steak and there’s ... blood dripping all over the place. It was disgusting. Customers saw and we called security and so he left, but then he ended up coming back and he hit one of my coworkers. ... He was very intoxicated and old. But that was probably one of the craziest things that has happened.

With odds and ends as decorations and tiny metal and wood tables just big enough to fit your mason jar and MacBook, lights so dim and an ambiance so hip, Sparkroot is the perfect place to write that five-page essay and have a chai latte with your cool friends. After a recent switch of coffee companies, this corner coffee shop is serving nothing but rich, flavorful organic coffee from Ritual Coffee Roasters.

However, with a recent buyout from University Boulevard favorite Caffe Luce, Sparkroot will be dimming its lights and becoming Caffe Luce by the end of this year. Bring your friends for an evening filled with warm and iced drinks and a number two from the hip menu.

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AUSTIN SOBOTKA poses for a photo on Mount Lemmon. Sobotka believes rock climbing to be an essential part of a fulfilling life.

Rock climbing as a life philosophy

BY GRETCHYN KAYLOR The Daily Wildcat

“Do you ever have music in the background of your interviews? Is that okay?”

Philosophy senior Austin Sobotka pressed play and “My Mind” by Portugal. The Man started playing.

Sobotka was born a Canadian citizen, having been raised there until he was 10 before moving to Phoenix and eventually coming to UA. Sobotka has a passion for climbing, which he has been doing for over five years. He started climbing around Phoenix in the McDowell Mountains after deciding to get some gear and go for it.

Once he “found climbing,” there was no going back.

After asking if he climbs indoors, I immediately realized the question came across as asking a master concert pianist if they ever play iPiano. He laughed and proceeded to explain that the only exercise he does besides climbing real rocks is yoga.

When asked about injuries, Sobotka admitted that besides hurting his finger tendons, the only time he seriously injured himself occurred when messing around with friends and attempting to climb the side of a building. Sobotka fell off and hurt his wrist, but it was not until the next day that he realized the severity of the injury.

He had knocked it out of place and was told by a doctor he would probably not climb again.

Thankfully, this prediction was far from the truth.

Sobotka still climbs about three times a week. On the day of the interview he had just done some climbing on Mount Lemmon.

Besides staying active, both physically and academically, Sobotka also works downtown

at Maynard’s Market & Kitchen, drives a motorcycle and collects musical instruments.

A guitar, a harmonica and a didgeridoo populate Sobotka’s collection, each having been mastered to some degree.

Back on the topic of climbing, Sobotka described a hobby highlight from a climb at Yosemite National Park. He had ventured to Half Dome with a friend, hiking and camping before beginning a climb for which they had not planned sufficiently. Sobotka and his friend ended up spending 20 hours hiking and climbing before eventually passing out in the cold with nothing but their gear and the clothes on their backs.

Currently, Sobotka is working on helping a fellow adventurer write a guidebook for the Cochise Stronghold, another favorite climbing spot for him and other Arizonans.

When asked if he has any specific climbing goals, Sobotka mentioned Cobra Crack, a difficult climb in British Columbia. YouTube is filled with courageous souls climbing Cobra Crack, and this feat is truly unbelievable.

Though climbing is precious to Sobotka and fulfills an adrenaline desire along with a love of reaching higher places to meditate, he believes anyone can climb. All one has to do is find a local climbing gym and tell them you want to go on an outside climb.

As a believer that the mental benefits of climbing far outweigh the physical, Sobotka does not plan on retiring from this sport anytime soon. He is always looking for climbs no one else has conquered and finding freedom in his climbs.

“I don’t know what else I could experience that with,” Sobotka said.

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long with the majority of rational, moral Americans, I thought Donald Trump’s initial decision to run for president was merely a bad joke that would blow over and never be taken seriously. Clearly, I was in for a surprise.

With each comment he makes, each speech he gives and each action he takes, Trump incites millions of people. Regardless of whether people are livid toward him or groveling at his feet, everyone is paying attention to him. That is a quality that not many of the other candidates possess, being that they are “ordinary” Americans.

Bernie Sanders’ progressive liberal views are not actually all that “ordinary,” but he still conducts his campaign and his life in a wholly non-alarming manner, unlike Trump.

Whether one has no respect or admiration for Trump as a human or a candidate, one must admit that all of his accomplishments are rather intriguing.

Is America really that boring?

Are we so desperate for anything interesting to happen that a portion of us are actually willing to accept and support an ignorant, racist candidate?

After so many consecutive

years of politicians’ being firmly planted on the straight-and-narrow path—or so they claim—perhaps Americans are willing to accept anything or anyone, even if simply for shock value.

No one will ever admit this, but it is suspected that not as many Americans who claim to support Trump actually do.

Approximately 30 percent of Republican voters support Trump, according to the New York Times.

The vast majority of people have a basic moral compass and given that, it seems infeasible that this many people would support Trump.

Although it is morbidly

entertaining when Trump says things like “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose any voters, O.K.?”

Can we not find other ways to amuse ourselves besides supporting a renegade presidential candidate who seems to have nothing positive or progressive to offer American citizens?

While it’s impressive that Trump draws so much attention, it’s a bit like the attention drawn by a screaming, petulant 3-year-old on an airplane. People stare because they don’t know what else to do.

Train wrecks are horrifyingly fascinating to watch and, ultimately,

Trump is a presidential train wreck.

Yet he has the audacity to not only admit his outrageousness, but to bask in it and play it up as much as possible.

Whether Trump wins, he will surely go down in history as the most attention-grabbing candidate America has seen, and perhaps he deserves that recognition. It must be hard to maintain such an intense, over-the-top persona. Though he has done nothing else well, Trump has definitely maintained that persona to an impressive degree.

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t’s January, the time of year when New Year’s resolutions are made and subsequently broken. What seems like a spark plug into the new year turns arduous and unappealing. A sad testament to the fickle side of the human spirit, an estimated 80 percent of resolutions fail to make

it to the second week of February.

The most common resolutions of all, of course, are losing weight and getting into shape. We all want to be more “fit,” whether to be more attractive to others or for personal, long-term health reasons. Consequently, many fad diets enjoy a spike of popularity during the month of January. But if the end result is overall longterm fitness, I would argue that you shouldn’t be on a diet at all.

Ever.

Dieting is a huge moneymaking industry spurred on by marketers and nutritionists alike.

Not surprisingly, big name diets such as the Atkins or Jenny Craig are actually businesses with one foundational goal: to make money. The diet industry itself is huge; it generates upward of $6 billion in revenue per year.

We should not find it a drastic stretch that these diets are more concerned with gimmicky, quick fixes and fast-acting results, and less with overall sustainable effects on our health.

Around 45 million Americans went on a diet last year and while many of them will lose weight, 97 percent will gain back that weight

within three years. So all those too-good-to-be-true stories you see on TV are probably, in fact, too good to be true.

It’s actually very common for dieters to gain all their weight— and then some—back when on a fad diet. This in turn causes them to crawl back to a different diet, hoping for salvation in the form of a new, low-carb granola bar and shelling out even more cash to the diet and nutrition industry.

But don’t lose hope in a healthy and active lifestyle just

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Adults educating themselves about politics, current events or a healthy lifestyle, children learning basic reading, writing and arithmetic, young adults wondering what to study at a university level—everyone has something to learn and everyone should be awarded an opportunity to do so, socioeconomic class aside.

Students in England and Wales will not have that opportunity anymore if they come from low-income families.

Due to the 2015 budget that the British government has put into place, all grants for low-income university students will be cut.

With the grants cut, student aid will come from loans and the dispersal of scholarship funds. These welfare cuts are aimed to secure Britain’s future and economy, but it is a detrimental decision that simply will not work.

Grants are awarded to students from low-income families so that they are able to study and work without relying on their parents. The grants are awarded to students on a sliding scale that is dependent on the family’s yearly income and these grants do not have to be repaid once their degree is completed, unlike student loans.

Lydia Bagley, a student from Cambridge University, was entitled to receive £3,700 (approximately $5,300) yearly through government grants to help pay for the £9,000-per-year cost of tuition. She also receives other funding through Cambridge

because brand-name diets are erratic and unreliable. There is a legitimate way to achieve both long-term health and a body that is capable of fulfilling its purpose as a vessel of useful and beautiful functionality.

Forming habits of consistent healthy eating and actual exercise is the only proven way to get healthy.

This doesn’t mean you have to eat the Paleo diet or low-fat quinoa every night.

Simple consistent consumption of real, unprocessed foods and an uptick in vegetables and fruit intake will give you better long-term effects than a fad diet ever will.

The insightful documentary “Fed Up” illustrates the vile processes that occur behind the scenes in the production of packaged “low-fat” and “healthy” options of various snacks. Many of those foods make up for the lost fat with other sugars and chemicals that are even worse than the original content. Stick to stuff you know cannot be tampered with by additives and preservatives. Pair that with working out a few days a week and suddenly you’ve created a healthy lifestyle for yourself.

The key word is “consistent.” Eating sugary or fatty foods isn’t terrible every once in a while; neither is skipping a workout. The key is to make eating healthy and exercising the norm, and the gluttonous ogre living inside of us all something that only appears once in a blue moon.

Even if you are currently content with your body’s appearance, know that eating healthy isn’t just for looks; it’s necessary for your body to function properly.

Many diets swap true health for weight loss. All of us could use some more vegetables on our plates, but not just to get a six pack; they give the body what it needs to function.

Don’t diet. Swap the fad for healthy habits and you’ll see real, long-term effects.

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be long before only the elite will be able to access university-level education, bringing the United Kingdom and the U.S. back into a stark, two-tiered society comprised of the rich and the poor, the educated and the uneducated.

This stratification will result in a generation of young adults who will not have the opportunity to change their class standing through education or employment.

The job market will consequently suffer from a lack of educated workers. College graduates won’t be able to effectively contribute to the job market and economy due to their seemingly nonrepayable debt. Both the United Kingdom and the U.S. are taking large strides away from a prosperous economic future.

Universities should be accessible to any students who strive to educate themselves.

Education should not be a luxury that is available only to the elite.

Cutting welfare and grant support now may seem like a pragmatic option for the British government, but it will ultimately fail. The money it saves now will pale in comparison to the cost of saving the future economy—an economy stricken with a depleted job market and uneducated adults.

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to make tuition accessible and affordable for her family. As a bright, multi-lingual and motivated student, Bagley deserves to study in a university as prestigious as Cambridge, but without the grants she receives she simply will not be able to.

Bagley agrees that conservative budget cuts like these drive a wedge further between socioeconomic classes and heighten the elite over the underprivileged more and more. Students who already come from low-income families will likely be deterred by the notion of debt after graduation. This causes them to postpone applying for universities or to not apply at all in favor of entry-level work.

Students in the U.S. are facing similar issues with their college tuitions.

With no real cap on tuition increases by universities and a lack of scholarship funding for everyone who deserves it, students are forced to take out massive loans in order to fund their education.

Years after students have a degree and a career, they are still pinned down under crushing debt from their loans. This demotivates students from studying where they would like to—or even studying at all.

As a resident of Arizona, my tuition prices are manageable for my family. Had I wanted to study at a university out of state, I would have been forced to take out student loans to cover the extreme cost of tuition for nonresidents.

If this trend of rising tuition prices and decreasing student aid continues, it won’t

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Pac-12 still runs through McKale There’s no question Arizona’s grip on the Pac-12 Conference has loosened, but the Wildcats remain the league’s golden standard

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A frustrated Arizona head coach Sean Miller watches a replay on the stadium screen in McKale Center on Thursday, Jan. 28. The Wildcats lost to the Ducks 83-75.

“Our program, we’ve been chasing Arizona.”

—Oregon men’s basketball head coach Dana Altman

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hen Oregon men’s basketball head coach Dana Altman walks into the living room of a recruit’s home for an in-house visit, one question always comes up in conversation: Can you help us beat Arizona?

On Thursday night in McKale Center, the No. 23 Ducks did just that, knocking off No. 18 Arizona and ending the Wildcats’ nation-leading 49-game home winning streak.

The win kept Oregon atop the Pac-12 Conference standing and sent Arizona fans home with the taste of a McKale defeat for the first time since Feb. 10, 2013.

But make no mistake, one defeat on a Thursday night in January doesn’t end Arizona’s dominance atop the Pac-12.

“Our program, we’ve been chasing Arizona,” Altman said.

“And we still are.”

Arizona’s winning streak spanned a pair of Elite Eight appearances, a Pac-12 Tournament title, two Pac-12 regular season championships and a plethora of current and future NBA players.

“This is the program that has set the standard in the Pac-12. It’s not even debatable,” Altman said.

The streak encompassed a couple of close wins and many more blowouts. Last season, the Ducks were on the receiving end of one of those demolitions when Arizona knocked out Oregon 90-56.

“We’re just glad we could break the streak,” Oregon sophomore Dillon Brooks said after the game.

Brooks finished with a game-high 24 points including a 3-pointer that put the Ducks up eight points with just under five minutes to go.

In the game’s closing moments, the shots that

normally fall at home didn’t, and Oregon never let off the pedal. An unseemly sight arose in the final few minutes: Arizona fans leaving their cushioned seats early, afraid to visually witness the end of one of the best runs in UA basketball history.

After the game, Brooks and his team celebrated in the locker room like they’d just won a title. In some ways, they did.

The win keeps Oregon atop the conference with Washington.

With Pac-12 play nearly at its midway point, Arizona sits at an uncomfortable .500 winning percentage, two full games back of the Ducks and Huskies.

On paper, Oregon and the rest of the Pac-12 appear to be catching up.

The Ducks will almost certainly be the highest ranked team come next week, and they hold the conference’s best resume with victories over Baylor, California and now, Arizona.

Cal, UCLA and USC all appear to be on the rise and will get their respective chances to beat Arizona on its home court in the coming weeks.

The Pac-12 isn’t dominated by a single team anymore.

“Every game, you’ve got to come 100 percent, home or away,” Oregon senior Dwayne Benjamin said.

“There’s a lot of good teams in here.”

Midway through Altman’s press conference, Oregon’s six-year head coach paused for a moment before reflecting on the momentous achievement by his team.

“Again, 49 games and how they kicked us here last year, we’ve got the upmost respect for their coaching staff, their players, their fans,” Altman said.

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ear-in and year-out, the Pac-12 Conference seemingly always produces elite baseball players who go on to hear their names get called on draft day. Last year, 53 Pac-12 players were selected in the MLB Draft in June. This year seems to be no different, as there are numerous Pac-12 players who could very well be seen in the major leagues one day.

Three Pac-12 players were recognized as Preseason All-Americans by the site D1Baseball for the upcoming season.

Oregon State first baseman KJ Harrison was named to the first team, while California pitcher Daulton Jefferies and Arizona third baseman and pitcher Bobby Dalbec were named to the second team.

Other standouts in the Pac-12 include ASU infielder Colby Woodmansee, Stanford pitcher Cal Quantrill and Oregon pitcher Matt Krook.

Harrison had a freshman campaign for the ages, as he led the Pac-12 in RBI with 60 while

posting a .309 average with 10 homeruns.

The Hawaii native would go on to win Pac12 Freshmen of the Year and was named a Freshmen All-American by D1Baseball, Baseball America and Louisville Slugger.

Needless to say, Harrison will be a force in the middle of the lineup for the No. 5 Beavers.

Jefferies solidified himself as the ace of the Golden Bears staff in 2015 after a solid sophomore season. Jefferies posted a 6-5 record with a 2.92 ERA and 74 strikeouts, which was good for seventh in the Pac-12.

Arizona fans wish not to be reminded of Jefferies after he went seven scoreless innings with four strikeouts in a win over the Wildcats in April of last season. Baseball America ranked Jefferies as the No. 24 best draft prospect in college baseball for the 2016 season.

Jefferies looks to continue to wreak havoc on Pac-12 hitters this season for the No. 8 Golden Bears.

The last Pac-12 player to be named a Preseason All-American is none other than Arizona’s very own Dalbec, who was named second team for both a hitter and pitcher. The Colorado native launched himself into the conversation of potential first round picks in the upcoming MLB draft after an impressive sophomore season.

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Dalbec led the Pac-12 with 15 homeruns while hitting .319 with 53 RBI and a .601 slugging percentage. The two-way threat went 3-7 on the mound with a 3.21 ERA and 5 saves in 61.2 innings pitched.

Baseball America ranked Dalbec as the No. 18 best draft prospect, after his sophomore campaign as well as his summer performance with Team USA and in the Cape Cod. Arizona head coach Jay Johnson, who is in his first year at the helm of this Arizona squad, had some high praise for Dalbec at his press conference Wednesday.

“He’s a very talented player,” Johnson said.

“I’ve probably only seen one player, being Kris Bryant, that has as much if not more power than he does.”

Look for Dalbec to be one of the best twoway players in college baseball during draft day.

Woodmansee is another player who could be on a big league roster one day.

Woodmansee was awarded first team AllPac-12 after hitting .280 with 55 RBI, 36 runs and a .418 slugging percentage.

Woodmansee was ranked the No. 59 best collegiate draft prospect by Baseball America.

Stanford’s Quantrill and Oregon’s Krook are both coming off Tommy John surgery, but are still considered potential first round picks.

Quantrill was ranked the No. 14 best collegiate draft prospect, while Krook was ranked No. 9.

Both pitchers were drafted out of high school, more notably Krook, who was selected No. 35 overall in the 2013 draft by the Miami Marlins, but elected to attend Oregon instead.

It will be interesting to see how they bounce back from Tommy John after impressive freshmen campaigns two years ago. Both pitchers have been praised for their excellent talents, so if they can find a way to get back to their original form then Pac-12 hitters are in for a rude awakening.

The Pac-12 Conference is shaping out to be a difficult conference to play in yet again after five teams have been named in the preseason top 25 rankings.

Pac-12 baseball has made it known that high competition is a norm year-in and year-out, as shown through the elite number of players in the Conference of Champions.

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Olympics, here he comes: Tonnesen’s journey to success Arizona track and field athlete Pau Tonnesen, who transferred from Mesa CC, has caught attention for his performance in the decathalon

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ualification for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, an appearance in the 2015 World Championships, Pac-12

Conference field athlete of the year, Pac-12 champion and a second place finish in the 2015 NCAA Championships.

These are just some of the achievements and accolades Arizona redshirt senior Pau Tonnesen has obtained over his past two seasons competing for the Arizona track and field team.

A few years ago, these accomplishments seemed far-reached for the Tempe native, who began his track and field career sophomore year of high school at Tempe Preparatory Academy.

Tonnesen took up a variety of track events, from the 110-meter hurdles to the triple jump.

“I went to a really small school and it was in a very small division. I thought I was competing very well but in reality the competition was not very good,” Tonnesen said.

While Tonnesen had not gained the attention of any large colleges coming out of high school, he wanted to keep competing in track and field. He enrolled at Mesa Community College, a school that was happy to have him compete for its program.

At Mesa, Tonnesen was introduced to the decathlon, an event that would define his

career in the years to come.

By the end of Tonnesen’s second season at Mesa, he was receiving attention from many schools including the UA and ASU. Tonnesen made the decision to come to the UA, excited for the new opportunities, but timid about the higher competition level.

“I have always been confident in myself but once I got to competing in D1 competition, I thought that was the end of my ‘winning streak,’” Tonnesen said. “I was successful in high school and at Mesa Community College.

I have been fortunate and have competed well [at Arizona] so far. I have definitely surprised myself.”

In Tonnesen’s eyes, he has “competed well” at UA. To others, that might be a bit of an understatement. The list of Tonnesen’s accolades is a long one.

In his junior season alone, Tonnesen was named 2015 Pac-12 Field Athlete of the Year, 2015 Pac-12 Champion (Decathlon), 2015 NCAA All-American First-team (Decathlon) and 2015 NCAA Championship Runner-Up (Decathlon).

Of all these achievements, Tonnesen holds one above the rest.

“I’d definitely say I’m most proud of my decathlon score at the NCAA Championships,” Tonnesen said. “It qualified me for the 2015 World Championships and the 2016 Olympics in Rio.” Tonnesen said he is excited about his team’s performances so far and the energy he sees his teammates have.

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Arizona track and field athlete Pau Tonnesen long jumps during Arizona’s third-place finish at the Jim Click Shootout in 2015 at Roy P. Drachman Stadium. Tonnesen was named the Pac-12 Conference Men’s Field Athlete of the Week for his performance over the weekend.

“I have dreamt about it since I was a kid so it feels strange that it is going to happen now as long as I can stay injury free, I will continue to train through the end of the track season until the Olympics,” said Tonnesen.

First comes Tonnesen’s final season at Arizona.

“It is great seeing my teammates do well.

If they don’t do well then it is not as fun, it is great because you can share the success and happiness with each other,” Tonnesen said.

“That is part of being on a team.”

What’s Tonnesen’s goal for his last season as a Wildcat?

“I would like to win at least the heptathlon or the decathlon nationally,” Tonnesen said.

“It is going to be difficult with a lot of good athletes returning, but that is a personal goal I have set for myself.”

The next step to taking care of business for Tonnesen is the upcoming meet that he and the rest of the UA track and field team are competing in.

The Track Cats will be traveling to Seattle to compete in the University of Washington Invitational.

The meet is set to start Friday at 5 p.m.

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Ducks stun Arizona in McKale The longest home winning streak in the nation (49) fell Thursday night as the No. 23 Oregon Ducks shocked No. 18 Arizona, 83-75

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All good things must come to an end, eventually. The Arizona Wildcats found that out the hard way Thursday night.

No. 18 Arizona’s 49-game home winning streak was snapped at the hands of the No. 23 Oregon Ducks, 83-75.

Dillon Brooks led the game with 24 points and Dwayne Benjamin added 15 as the Ducks (17-4, 6-2 Pac12 Conference) overcame a 13-point deficit in the first half to beat the Wildcats.

Ryan Anderson led Arizona players with 22 points and 10 rebounds. Gabe York added 18 for the Wildcats (16-5, 4-4) who shot an impressive 61 percent from the field.

“I just want, on behalf of the team, to apologize to the fans and especially the players and coaches that have come before us,” Anderson said. “All of the guys that put work into this streak, the players that gave us all the beautiful facilities that we have. These last two games, we haven’t lived up to the standard that is held here at Arizona, especially effort wise and attention to detail.”

The turnovers proved to be the undoing for Arizona. The Wildcats had 19 compared to Oregon’s six. The Ducks turned these turnovers into 21 points. Anderson and Kadeem Allen each had five.

“Very proud of 49 in a row,” Arizona head coach Sean Miller said.

“Nation’s longest win streak. Lot of great players and moments. For it to come down tonight, I’m glad it was Oregon. I think they represent all of the qualities that are good in basketball. They’re a terrific team.

That’s who we lost to.”

It was a tale of two halves for both teams, as Arizona seemed to be coasting to an easy victory in the early parts of the first half. The Wildcats started the game 8-of-8 from the field and jumped to an early 18-7 lead in the first six minutes. York found Allen for an alley-oop for the first points of the game, as well as getting an and-one dunk from Anderson a few minutes late. York and Anderson each had seven apiece during that stretch.

“We made a lot of shots. I don’t care who you are, you’re not going to continue to make every shot you take,” Miller said. “When we

didn’t, we turned the ball over. We needed the stops, and to be a tough defensive team, and we weren’t. We had some guys come in the game playing for Oregon.”

The Wildcats had shot the ball 73 percent from the field in the first half and 61 percent for the whole game. Oregon shot 51 percent for the game, but the Ducks also shot 21 more than Arizona.

Oregon came out of halftime on an 11-4 run, including a 3-pointer from Elgin Cook to give the Ducks their first lead of the game at 4946. Oregon never trailed again as the Wildcats were only able to tie them at 64 after a Parker JacksonCartwright 3-pointer.

Arizona found its largest lead at 13 after Jackson-Cartwright hit a three to give them a 26-13 lead.

Arizona, however, began to cool off as Oregon hung in the game despite the early troubles The Ducks trimmed the lead to one right before halftime after former Arizona commit Tyler Dorsey knocked down a layup before the buzzer.

“I’ve never been more down looking at a team I coached,” Miller said. “Leadership, effort, togetherness, playing for the win.

Right now things are going to get worse before they get better.”

Arizona will look to get back on the winning track in McKale Center as they host Oregon State on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. on the Pac-12 Network.

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