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services UAMC offers to patients, not only within the community, but throughout all of Tucson.

That’s why UAMC strives to give their patients the best, he added.

The consortium compares UAMC with other academic medical centers based on the services that are offered, such as having a level I trauma center, a transplant organ center and a robotic

After more than a decade working to promote collaboration efforts throughout the western hemisphere, the executive director for the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration, which has its headquarters at the UA, has decided to resign.

Francisco Marmolejo came to the university in July 1995, initially to participate in a 6-month project to find a better way to connect with higher education institutions in Mexico.

However, 17 years later, the project expanded to the entire western hemisphere, becoming the consortium.

The project started as a network of two universities and has since expanded to include 165 higher education institutions. When it first began, it brought together universities from Mexico and the U.S., but has since included universities from Canada, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil and Chile, to name a few.

“Our organization has become probably the most important and the most credible to help institutions to identify partners,” Marmolejo said.

“That is translated into better opportunities for our students to

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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MEDICAL CENTER was ranked ninth out of 101 academic hospitals in the nation by the University HealthSystem Consortium.

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The University of Arizona Medical Center has once again been recognized as one of the top 10 teaching hospitals in the country by being given a Quality Leadership award.

The University HealthSystem Consortium ranked UAMC ninth out of 101 nonprofit

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academic medical centers in an annual analysis.

UHS measured the center’s effective inpatient care, efficiency and safety.

“What it means to me is that we, as a medical center, are on the right track with one of our primary goals, which is to provide one of the highest quality care for all patients that come to us,” said Andreas Theodorou, chief medical officer of UAMC. This recognition helps validate the care and

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fter 9/11, Rafe Sagarin was working in Washington, D.C., as a science adviser to Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, a congresswoman at the time.

Everything was about security.

The issues he wanted to work on, the environment and labor, weren’t on the agenda.

The marine ecologist found himself with skills he couldn’t use. He had to adapt. As a naturalist, Sagarin could keenly observe the world around him. What he saw was a security system that wasn’t evolving and terrorists who were. So, he decided to pull together security experts and biologists to look at what could be gleaned from nature about how to improve security.

Now an associate research scientist at the UA’s Institute of the Environment, he has put some of that research into a book called “Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease.”

Daily Wildcat: You talk about how, post-9/11, you noticed security never changed. Can you give an example?

Sagarin: I learned that the metal detector wouldn’t go off if I just put my hands over my keys. I thought, “My goodness. If we could adapt so easily, what would a terrorist do if they were faced with these kinds of defenses? They could adapt just as easily.”

That led me back to biology. I thought about how organisms in nature have adapted for billions of years and dealt with essentially exactly what we’re dealing with concerning terrorism, which was an unpredictable threat we knew was out there.

How does nature handle security differently?

Organisms don’t waste energy trying to predict what’s going to happen in the distant future. Organisms stay alive because they’re good observers of change in the world. They decentralize their

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ability to sense change in the world.

That’s why you used the octopus centrally in your book. How does it decentralize?

An octopus has an amazing brain, but when it wants to camouflage itself, it doesn’t have its brain say, “Arm one, turn purple, and arm two, turn blue, and arm three, turn kind of purplish-blue.” What it has are millions of skin cells all running around and doing their own thing. They’re responding to the change in their little part of the world.

Our immune system works the same way.

We have a bunch of cells that run around and take care of invaders. They don’t ask our brain what they should do. They just are going around doing it. They still serve our body, but they have the independence to solve the problems.

How can we apply lessons from the octopus to the problems we face?

The power of individual people to solve problems and observe change in our world — that’s the most important thing that up until very recently we have neglected. Too often we rely on a small group of experts or a single leader to say, “This is what we’re all going to do.” That always gets us into trouble.

What’s another lesson we can apply from your book?

Organizations need to learn from their successes. Management gurus tell us, “Oh, we’ve got to learn from our failures.”

Every organism in nature is an example of learning from the success of its ancestors.

The failures died before they reproduced.

It’s a dead end. Yet for some reason we focus intently on our past failures and try to learn from that.

Can you give an example of when we should have focused on success instead of failure?

The after-action reports the government put out following Hurricane Katrina identify hundreds of failures, but they fail to identify the successes.

The biggest success of the aftermath of Katrina was the Coast Guard containing about a 9 million-gallon oil spill, which they did very well under incredibly different circumstances. Then it turned out that the one important lesson about Katrina for the next big gulf disaster was how to clean up oil in a really difficult circumstance.

You do hear that all the time.

People just didn’t notice someone was having a problem.

When we lived back in our evolutionary time, in these really small intensive groups, we intimately knew everyone’s intention in our group.

We are disconnected from essentially the source of all of our lives.

But in a more practical sense, we are much less able to deal with complex problems and issues when we haven’t trained ourselves through the daily practice of being outside, to observe Why is it that what should come this complexity of nature. naturally is counterintuitive?

When disasters and tragedies We’re essentially at odds with ourselves, and we’re at odds with common natural happen, is there a focus on how the sense because we’ve very quickly, in the last security system failed, not on how we 50 to 100 years, separated ourselves from as observers failed?

Absolutely. That was the problem I hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution and billions of years of biological initially saw in 9/11. It was all about these security measures that were evolution. metal detectors. There was very little We’re seeing more and more mass focus on that human connection part.

One of the most successful things shootings now. Is there a lesson in nature we can learn from those kinds of threats? that the Transportation Security The commonality of all these kinds Administration has done is implement of events — even underneath the fact behavioral screening, which gets at RAFE SAGARIN,associate research scientist at that they all involve guns is some kind of our deeply embedded evolutionary the UA’s Institute of the Environment ability to look at another human and psychological damage. It’s pretty clear.

This is all speculative and still being understand their intent. screeners picked out every single one of the looked at, but there are people who talk 9/11 hijackers.

Why are TSA screenings so successful? about nature deficit disorder — basically There are characteristics that we can train psychological deficits that emerge from You talk a lot about being cut off from being disconnected from the natural world. people very quickly to identify, that could nature, but you also talk about the ways We are losing our ability to connect, be, “I have a bomb, and I’m feeling anxious technology can help us solve these issues. empathize and understand the complexity about this.” It’s almost impossible to hide Correct? of other people. More and more, we see that that. You can’t even have actors mimic I am not at all a total technophobe. There people in our own world, who should be the those kinds of behaviors. They’re just there. are a lot of ways that this new technology people we understand intimately, are just They’re so deep in our evolutionary psyche can reconnect us and allow us to see change that we can’t repress them. going off the map. in the world better.

When the TSA first started training people People say, “Oh, yeah, he’s kind of a loner, but I had no idea he’d do that.” It’s like, well, in behavioral screening, they showed —This interview has been edited for you weren’t paying attention. You didn’t them randomized security videos, and the clarity.

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artist due to the band’s recent increase in fan base across the state.

“In addition to them really wanting to come perform here, students had asked we bring Radical Something,” Murray said. “So we thought it would be a good match.”

Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild will also be speaking at the block party along with a speaker from the UA athletics department.

ASUA is paying for most of the event, except for the projector screens which are being provided by Cox Communications. Most of the funding came as a result of the ASUA Senate’s vote at their Sept. 12 meeting, allocating $5,000 to the event. The DJ for the event, Jack Strandberg, a junior in psychology and pre-law, was in ASUA last year and is performing for free.

ASUA, the Arizona Students’ Association and the Wildcat Events Board all collaborated to put on the event to educate students about the presidential election.

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have an international experience.”

Along with founding the program and serving as the executive director, Marmolejo has served as assistant vice president for western hemispheric programs since 2007. In this position, he was primarily responsible for collaboration efforts throughout the Americas, according to Mike Proctor, a UA employee and vice president for global initiatives.

Marmolejo recently accepted a leadership position at the World Bank Institute, an organization that provides financial support to developing countries.

With the institute, Marmolejo will serve as a resource for different regions and regional directors on projects related to higher education that require support from the bank.

“The fact that they’re offering me to be in charge of the higher education sector of the bank is an honor for me,” Marmolejo said. “At the same time, it’s a great opportunity to contribute to the discussions on how to improve higher education in the world.”

Although some staff members said they are disappointed to see him go, they are not surprised he was offered the position.

“He is extremely well-respected

“We all kind of collaborated to say, ‘OK, how can we make this event the best for the best turnout in bringing the most students?’” Murray said. “It was very much a group effort.”

ASA interns will be attending the event wearing their shirts that read “Don’t just watch, vote 2012,” and encouraging students to fill out voter registration forms.

“ASA’s goals throughout this event is to, one, educate students on the two stances of the president’s,” said ASA board of directors member Jordan King.

“And, two, get them to vote so they can actually act on what they hear tonight, and what they hear from the other debates.”

The Wildcat Events Board Concert Director, Mike Mazzella, explained that Jane McCollum, from the Marshall Foundation, helped by providing ASUA with the use of University Boulevard and approving the concert artist.

“We won’t just have one big finale at the end of the year and no other concerts preceding it,” Mazzella said. “We’d like to have a few throughout the year so students stay engaged and have more fun times and are able to experience some new music.”

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globally and among a number of economic and higher education organizations out there,” Proctor said. “While I was certainly surprised to hear he took that job, I wasn’t surprised to know that someone wanted him really bad.”

Marmolejo will leave for Washington, D.C., at the end of the month. The consortium’s Associate Director Sean ManleyCasimir will serve as interim director while administrators search for a permanent replacement.

Marmolejo will be given a leave of absence from his UA position for a year in case he decides to return, Proctor added.

Although Marmolejo is leaving the institution, some members involved said they are confident in the future of CONAHEC. “I don’t think that this event is necessarily going to end the organization,” Manley-Casimir said. “I think that the organization should be fine, and I think the future is still quite bright for us.”

Marmolejo said he is hopeful that the future director will continue to advance the organization.

“My hope is that the board of CONAHEC will make a wise decision in identifying an individual who will make CONAHEC greater and who can bring more innovative perspective.”

ASUA special election Polls for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s special senatorial election will open Wednesday at 8 a.m. and close 12 hours later.

Students can visit elections.asua.arizona.edu, where they can view the list of candidates, their platforms and cast a vote. Election results will be announced at the end of night during ASUA’s Rad, White and Blue block party.

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— Christopher Chavez

— Dylan Peterson

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“These things are primarily found at academic medical centers,” Theodorou said. “The UHC award compares us to other programs around the country that provide similar services.”

Patients who come for those services often have a unique set of needs and a unique set of risks, he added.

It takes thousands of employees, including doctors, nurses, pharmacists and technologists, to provide patients with good outcomes and the ability to focus on continually delivering high quality care, said Vicki Began, chief nursing officer and vice president for Patient Care Services.

“It’s a team sport,” Theodorou said. “If everybody does their particular contribution well, in the end, it’s good news for the patients.”

For Theodorou, it’s not about receiving an award or recognition that matters, but receiving letters from patients that describe their experience and how thankful they are for the help they received, he said.

“That’s really the award we are after,” Theodorou said. “That is what I value the most.”

In previous years, UAMC has been named in the top 10 teaching hospitals in the country several times.

Receiving this continued honor only helps better the reputation of the center by allowing people around the country to know that the center has been highly recognized as an organization, he added.

“I’m very proud of all the members on our team, not because of the award but because of what it means to our patients,” Theodorou said.

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Biden continues political gaffes MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden, no stranger to gaffes, said Tuesday at a campaign event in Charlotte, N.C., that the middle class has “been buried the last four years.”

The presumed slip — Biden and President Barack Obama have led the country for nearly the past four years — came as Biden charged that Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney’s tax plan would result in a tax increase for middle-class families.

“How they can justify raising taxes on the middle class that’s been buried the last four years?” Biden said. “How in lord’s name can they justify raising their taxes and these tax cuts? Look folks, we’ve seen this movie before.”

Republicans and the Romney campaign pounced immediately, saying they agreed with what they called Biden’s “stunning admission.”

From his Twitter account, Romney said he agreed with Biden that “the middle class has been buried the last 4 years, which is why we need a change in November.”

“We agree,” said his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, in Iowa. “That means we need to stop digging by electing Mitt Romney the next president of the United States.”

Biden’s remarks came a day before Obama and Romney face off in their first debate. He retooled his words at a later event in Asheville, N.C., saying, “The middle class was buried by the policies that Romney

and Ryan have supported.”

Democrats accused Republicans of taking Biden’s remarks out of context, but they served to call attention to the standing of the middle class under Obama — incomes are down and poverty rates are up — as well as to Biden’s history of putting his foot in his mouth.

Biden, who will debate Ryan on Oct. 11 in Kentucky, has had a history of misstatements and missteps that have sent his handlers scrambling and the White House seeking to impose damage control.

Among his gaffes: —He once said that Franklin D. Roosevelt went on television when the stock market crashed, apparently forgetting that Roosevelt was not yet president in 1929, and television had not been invented.

—He once asked a man in an audience to stand up so people could see him. The man was in a wheelchair.

—Talking about immigration trends, he once said, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”

—At the start of his own campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Biden called Obama “the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nicelooking guy.”

—In 2009, Biden told a national TV audience that he was urging his

mcclatchy tribune VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN campaigns Tuesday at The Fillmore in Charlotte, N.C. Biden said the middle class had “been buried the last four years,” a gaffe Republicans pounced on.

own family to stay off commercial airliners and out of subways for fear of catching swine flu, a statement that went further than any from the Obama administration. It drew a quick rebuke from the travel industry and an apology from the White House.

—And in August, he lambasted Romney’s stance on financial

regulation, telling a largely AfricanAmerican audience in Virginia that Romney “is going to let the big banks once again write their own rules. Unchain Wall Street,” he said, adding, “He is going to put y’all back in chains.” The remarks prompted Romney to accuse the White House of fostering “division and anger and hate.”

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HONG KONG — The death toll from a ferry collision in Hong Kong waters rose to 38 on Tuesday, as seven crew members, including the two captains, were arrested on suspicion of endangering people’s lives at sea.

The collision — one of the worst maritime accidents in Hong Kong’s recent history — happened late Monday when the vessel carrying some 120 people to see fireworks to celebrate China’s National Day hit a passenger ferry en route to the islands.

The impact flung most of the passengers, including children, into choppy waters and caused the vessel to sink within minutes, leaving only its upturned bow visible above the water.

A government statement said of the people pulled from the sea by rescuers, 30 were confirmed dead

at the scene and a further eight were certified dead on arrival at hospital. Five children were among the confirmed dead.

A total of 101 survivors were sent to hospital, many suffering from hypothermia. Four were in a serious or critical condition.

Those arrested included the 56-year-old captain and two crew members from the sunken vessel, and the 54-year-old captain and three crew from the ferry. Police said more arrests may follow.

The boat was owned by Hong Kong Electric and was taking employees and families to the watch a firework display over Victoria Harbour.

The collision occurred near Lamma Island, a 25-minute ferry ride from Hong Kong island.

One man pulled from the water described how the boat sank quickly after being hit at high speed.

“I suddenly found myself deep

under the sea. I swam hard and tried to grab a life buoy. I don’t know where my two kids are,” he told local newspapers.

Others described how they were trapped and had to break windows to escape as the vessel sank vertically “Titanic-style.”

Following the accident, the other vessel, a ferry owned by the Hong Kong and Kowloon Ferry company, continued to Lamma where a few passengers were treated for minor injuries.

Hong Kong Electric’s director of operations Yuen Sui-see said the captain was experienced sailor and blamed the other vessel for the tragedy.

“The ferry rammed the side of our boat. They didn’t bother and just left,” he said.

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chung-ying promised a full investigation and a day of mourning on Thursday.

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ith Election Day fast approaching and presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s prospects looking dimmer by the hour, President Barack Obama’s critics have latched onto another cow of a conspiracy theory and are milking it for everything it’s worth — which isn’t much.

Apparently, the Obama administration, in its attempt to bankrupt the nation and create the world’s largest welfare state, has been encouraging Mexican citizens to apply for food stamps in the United States. Hence, illegal immigrants are crossing the border with food stamps in hand, ready to buy up the first Safeway store they stumble across.

This story, although outlandish, is in reference to the Mexico-U.S. Partnership for Nutrition Assistance, an initiative meant to curb hunger in America by partnering with the Mexican government to educate citizen and legal non-citizen immigrants from Mexico about the benefits of food stamps and other forms of nutrition assistance.

The program made the leap from harmless nutrition education program to a cog in the Obama welfare state superstructure when conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh and others suggested that it was a mechanism for pressuring illegal immigrants to use the country’s food stamp rolls.

That lie harkens back to an earlier and equally baseless claim that illegal immigrants were covered under the new health care law, a falsehood that spurred Rep. Joe Wilson into screaming, “You lie,” at the president during his annual State of the Union speech in 2009.

Those who have been steering the bandwagon of misinformation regarding the Mexico-U.S. nutrition assistance partnership have conveniently overlooked the fact that the partnership was forged in 2004, during the second term of George W. Bush’s presidency.

In fact, of the 151 meetings the U.S. Department of Agriculture has had with Mexican officials regarding the program, 121 of them took place under the watchful eyes of Bush administration officials.

Moreover, the probability of illegal immigrants abusing the country’s food stamp rolls as a result of this program is slim to none. The partnership is aimed at informing eligible legal immigrants and legal non-citizens of nutrition assistance programs in the U.S. Illegal immigrants, on the other hand, are barred from participating in food stamp programs, and, like any other form of government assistance, states are required to determine whether applicants are legal citizens.

The gross mischaracterization of this program is, of course, inexcusable, but what is more troubling is the fact that it is guided by the assumption that Mexican immigrants come to this country expecting to receive government hand-outs, when in reality the vast majority come with the intention of working hard and making something of themselves.

Those who have been peddling this food stamp fallacy, the Sean Hannitys and Limbaughs of the world, have slighted Mexican immigrants and made fools of themselves in the process.

Let’s hope there is a Mexican equivalent of a Joe Wilson out there, ready and willing to stand up and put the real liars in their place.

— Nyles Kendall is a political science senior. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

Size does matter, at least in college class enrollment administration to give undergraduates “a real great experience.”

A lecture filled with hundreds of students, in which engagement is measured by how well a person can press a button. Is not a “real great experience.” It is an educational Savannah catastrophe.

Martin The UA student population grew by almost Arizona Daily Wildcat 1,000 students this year. Its faculty population is estimated to have increased by only 17, remember the moment as vividly as I according to Wendy Miley, coordinator of remember the night I discovered Santa institutional research.

Claus isn’t real.

This puts the UA’s student to faculty ratio I marched up to Centennial Hall holding at about 26 to 1. By contrast, the student to my notebooks and wearing my first-year-offaculty ratio is 16 to 1 at UCLA and 19 to 1 at college blazer. My image of college looked University of Oregon, both of which are Pac-12 something like sweater-clad pupils pouring schools. over textbooks beneath ancient oak trees Clearly, higher enrollment does not mean and controversial debates erupting between more student-faculty interactions. It does not professors and students — the classic 1970s mean more research opportunities, and it does film “Animal House.” not mean a more personalized curriculum.

When I entered, however, this image Even so, the administration continues to strive shattered. I stepped into an auditorium filled for bigger numbers. with a thousand students. The professor stood This “bigger is better” attitude can be in front of a projection screen that looked like attributed to the corporatization of public it belonged in an IMAX movie theater, and universities. Students are increasingly there was no way I’d be starting any debates perceived as consumers rather than citizens with my clicker. seeking knowledge.

It was then that I realized I was not at a This transformation of public universities small, private liberal arts school in New from intellectual harbors to economic harbors, England. I was at the UA, where the student with students going in and coming out like population is larger than that of the capital city cargo ships, causes many of the ills destroying of Maryland. higher education today.

UA enrollment has surpassed 40,000 Because the objective of the corporate students. In earlier interviews with the Arizona university is to bring in and retain as many Daily Wildcat, administrators touted the students as possible, the university strives to student population increase and growing give students what they want rather than what retention rate as “good signs” that the UA they need. is “moving in the right direction.” All this One manifestation of this is grade inflation. growth is supposedly due to efforts by the

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By 2010, “A’s” and “B’s” represented 73 percent of all grades awarded at public institutions and 86 percent of all grades awarded at private institutions, according to a 2011 analysis published in the Teachers College Record.

And no, students aren’t brighter or more hard-working today than they were in the past.

Since the 1960s, students have cut their study time in half.

While such high grades shine like gold on a transcript, the fact that they are so easy to obtain decreases their value. This means students are forced to pursue graduate degrees in order to legitimize their education. More time in school means more money and more debt.

Along with diminishing the value of “A’s” and “B’s,” corporatization also degrades the quality of education. Pressed to retain student populations like that of the UA, faculty seek to disseminate information not in the most thorough manner, but in the most efficient manner. This causes classes to be less indepth and ultimately easier, meaning students learn less.

If higher education continues down this path, academia will lose all value — intellectual, monetary or otherwise. Students should resist the corporatization of their schools, for the more corporate universities become, the more worthless degrees are.

After all, universities are not factories.

However, “more than 40,000 students” definitely means they’re getting there.

— Savannah Martin is a junior studying journalism and political science. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @SavannahJual.

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Professor Howell, do you have to cut your prescription medica— Sebastian tion pills in half because you can only afford to buy them every other month? Can you afford your car repairs? Can you manage a reasonIn response to Sebastian: able standard of living and housing in a decent area without having to This is called “willful blindness.” Is it pure coincidence that the borrow thousands of dollars per year? “liberal” views were placed to the right and “conservative” views were If the answer is yes, then consider how different your life is from placed to the left? And, if so, why did they choose to put the “Wall that of the average graduate student on this campus. Some of us Street” on the conservative side and education on the liberal side? haven’t gotten a raise in half a decade, either.

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A University of Arizona Police Department officer went to the Optical Sciences building on Sept. 27 in response to a report of credit card fraud.

When the officer arrived, he spoke with a UA employee who said she had received a phone call the day before from her bank saying suspicious charges were issued to her UA purchasing card.

The fraudulent charges were made to Groupon.com, totaling $696.95. The employee said the card, which is only in her name, had been in her purse and in her possession at all times.

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A UAPD officer reported three men smoking marijuana at the tables under the west end of Arizona Stadium at 6:35 p.m. on Sept. 27. As he approached the table, one of the men removed something from its surface, dropped it on the ground and stepped on it.

The officer called for back-up, and when they arrived, one of the officers asked what the man had taken off the table. The man picked up a glass pipe and set it on the table. The three men identified themselves and denied smoking marijuana or even having it in their possession.

Each of the men had raised, green-tinted taste buds. The men emptied their pockets onto the table, but one of the men, as he was removing an item, quickly grabbed it and put it back in his front pocket. When the officer asked what it was, the man pulled out a small marijuana scale.

After asking to search their backpacks, the officers found an orange prescription bottle containing marijuana residue and one of the bags smelled of marijuana. Another backpack contained 16.1 grams of marijuana in a small bag.

The man with the bag of marijuana was cited and released for possession of marijuana and the other two were cited and released for possession of paraphernalia.

The officers placed the marijuana, pipe, scale and bottle into evidence.

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A UAPD officer responded to the Park Student Union in response to a shoplifting incident in progress at 7:36 p.m. on Sept. 27. When the officer arrived at the scene, UAPD dispatch said the subject had left the Park Avenue Market, and was headed toward the volleyball courts, where officers lost sight of the person.

The officer spoke with the market employee who was watching the security camera and observed a man in the northwest section of the store by the candy bars. With him were three other men, all wearing dark shirts and plaid shorts.

In the footage, one of the men took an item off the shelf and placed it into the front left pocket of his jeans.

Afterward, all three walked down another aisle, past the cash registers and exited the store without paying for the item.

The officer with a second employee who saw the subject take the item. She was in the back room at the time but noticed the incident on the security camera.

She said the man seemed a little “suspicious” so she continued to watch him. Other officers circulated the area where the subject was last seen and neither of the store employees had the authority to go back and review the camera footage, so they advised their store manager who could provide a copy of the footage to UAPD the following morning.

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A UAPD officer was dispatched to a possible fight at 10:39 p.m. on Sept. 27. When the officer arrived at the scene, he spoke with a UA student who said he had been drinking because he had a “really bad day.”

He had a fake Ohio driver’s license in his possession with a 1990 birthday. The subject admitted to using the driver’s license to purchase alcohol in the past, but didn’t say where he obtained the license.

He said that he had been drinking Corona beer at his friend’s fraternity house earlier that night, but didn’t use his fake license to purchase the alcohol. The officer noticed the smell of alcohol coming from the man, how emotional he was and that he had a hard time standing up straight or speaking clearly.

The second man admitted to drinking alcohol at the same location his friend had been drinking, the Beta Tau fraternity.

Both men were cited and released for possession of spirituous liquor in body, and the first subject was also cited and released for misrepresenting age to purchase alcohol.

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Wildcats aim to rebound from struggles EMI KOMIYA Arizona Daily Wildcat

The Arizona volleyball team didn’t expect this season to be easy, as the Wildcats have 10 newcomers, seven of whom are freshmen. Recently, the climb back to relevancy has been steep.

“We’ve got a ways to go. It’s going to be an up and down year and I knew that going in,” head coach Dave Rubio said. “You always hope that things aren’t going to be as difficult as they might be, but it always seems to turn out that way.”

Seven weeks into the season, the Wildcats are 9-6 (1-3 Pac-12) after starting the season 9-3.

Rubio admitted that only one week out of the past seven has been a consistently good week of practice. After pushing his team to compensate for lack of experience, the team’s progress has slowed significantly. The Wildcats took a third consecutive loss last weekend.

“Any coach would be really frustrated with some of those errors,” sophomore outside hitter Taylor Arizobal said. “Especially because he pushes us to work so hard during practice.”

Arizona came into conference play with four consecutive sweeps at home and a 3-1 win over Arizona State to open the Pac-12 season.

Although Arizona has won at

least one set in each of the last three matches, the team has not defeated a Pac-12 team since the Arizona State match.

“Talent’s only going to get you so far. In this conference everyone’s loaded with talent,” Rubio said. “It’s going to come down to your ability to execute. The only way to execute under the gun is when you’re doing it in practice every day.”

Preventing three back-to-back sweeps was a good start, but being in the position to win and not being able to finish the match out has been progressively more problematic for the Wildcats with each loss.

“I just think for us, since we’re not a big team, we have to be more technical than anything and be ready to play,” junior libero Candace Nicholson said. “Once second round of Pac-12 play comes around, everyone will be more ready.”

The problem is there is no concrete solution to implement.

The learning curve can only be accelerated so much.

“Everyone’s pretty frustrated.

Everyone’s pretty disappointed,” Rubio said. “The only thing that’s really the cure is to be able to get back into practice and start practicing at a level that I think warrants to being a part of this COLIN PRENGER/ARIZONA Daily Wildcat conference and put ourselves in a ARIZONA HAS STRUGGLED, recently losing three straight matches.

Things don’t get much easier from here as Pac-12 play continues. Outside position to beat those teams.” hitter Emily Bemis and head coach Dave Rubio looks on during Arizona’s match against Washington on Sept. 22.

Kick returns in need of improvement for Arizona CAMERON MOON Arizona Daily Wildcat

One thing separates NFL return specialists Devin Hester and Josh Cribbs from the throng of other able and successful kick returners.

They both have the ability to take a stadium’s worth of people’s breath away with one cut and world-class speed. They may not score every play, but the threat of a long return keeps teams honest on the defensive end of special teams.

Arizona (3-2, 0-2 Pac-12) does not have a player of that sort on its roster, which has led to struggles in the return game.

“Everybody wants that guy that, when they catch the ball, the entire stands holds their breath because he might take it the distance,” head coach Rich Rodriguez said.

“But we’re still looking for that guy.”

Arizona has fielded only 11 kickoffs in five games this season for a total of 175 yards, which is 11th in the conference and 113th in the nation. That’s two more returns than the Pac-12’s best return unit, USC, which has 65 more yards and a touchdown.

Due to the lack of a return game, the average starting point for the Wildcat offense is the 15-yard-line, 10 yards fewer than where the ball is placed on a touchback.

Despite poor field position, the offense has been able to hum along just fine, averaging 34.8 points per game.

“I don’t think it cripples the offense at all,” said Daniel Jenkins who leads the team

“[The rule change] has affected it, because sometimes when you want to kick the ball out at different times in the game and different strategy, you try to pin them down.

You try to get it in the end zone.”

Experience is hard to come by on returns, as kickoffs only happen after scores and at the beginning of every half.

“You only get six or seven reps at that, so you try to get everything right,” Leftwich said.

On offense and defense, the play is designed to go to a certain side of the field, and barring a blocking mishap, will stay on that side of the field. In the return game blockers set a wedge that the return men are supposed to find, and “it should just be hit the alley, make one cut if you have to, and go,” Leftwich said.

Arizona’s chances to jumpstart its return game won’t be plentiful this weekend against Stanford, a team that’s 19th in the country in kickoff return defense, giving up just 17.94 yards a return.

The Wildcats have been trying to get everything right, starting by switching out the return men. Sophomore running back LArry hogan/arizona Daily Wildcat Ka’Deem Carey was the team’s leading kick RUNNING BACK Daniel Jenkins is one of the Wildcats’ kick returners. The return game has been a problem area so far, returner in 2011 and the starter this season, but despite a lack of good field position the Arizona offense has been OK. with eight returns for 135 yards. “We have a strong, powerful offense and we can move the ball from anywhere on the field. It’s just about putting ourselves in a better position to do that.”

But the shoddy return game isn’t completely the fault of Arizona’s returners.

In an effort to make the game safer, the NCAA moved the kickoff spot from the 30yard line to the 35, which has resulted in more touchbacks.

“Obviously, it’s been a change, but we’re just trying to see what we can do,” offensive special teams coach Spencer Leftwich said.

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Bennett brings love for the game to UA soccer a lateral move and took the position as assistant coach for the women’s team from 1999-2003. love of soccer and the desire to teach In his seven years at Kentucky, Bennett drove Tim Bennett to accept the helped lead the Wildcats to four NCAA possition of associate head coach for Tournament appearances and the highest Arizona’s women’s soccer team. The Arizona national ranking, at No. 9, in school history in soccer team went 1-16-2 last season, and 2000 and 2001. once the season finally ended last November, In 2004, Bennett made his debut as a head something needed to change. coach at North Dakota, leading the team to Bennett joined the Wildcats’ coaching a record of 14-5-2. He spent one season with staff in January, bringing eight years of head the Fighting Sioux before accepting the head coaching experience with him — which is coaching position at Portland State for the exactly what head coach Lisa Oyen wanted to next three years. In 2006, Bennett’s recruiting add to her staff. class ranked first in the Big Sky conference “He brings great experience,” Oyen said. and 22nd in the West Region.

“He is a phenomenal recruiter and is good at After a pit stop at Iowa State as the training the team. Bringing Tim in, combined associate head coach, Bennett took a break with Brian Permian [the goalkeeper trainer] from collegiate soccer in March 2009 to and Danielle [Sunderhaus, the assistant coach the Dallas Texans Soccer Club, coach,] has really been a huge positive factor most recently earning the title U19 USYSA in our program being successful this season.” National Championship.

In 1996, Bennett took his four years “I wanted to change how high school kids of collegiate experience as a player at were being developed,” Bennett said. “Not a Providence College to Kentucky where he lot of coaches get the opportunity to coach served as assistant coach for the men’s at a club like that with the best girls in the program for three years. Bennett then made IMAN HAMDAN

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I knew I would return to the college game, but it gave me a different insight into recruiting.”

After three years, Bennett returned to coaching collegiate soccer at the UA and is already making an impact. The Wildcats are currently 5-5-2, and the players said they welcome his style of coaching.

“A lot of Tim’s drills have helped improve our play because we break the week down by working on a specific position each day,” senior Ariel Boulicault said. “All the girls really love Tim, and welcomed him with open arms. He is funny and you can tell he really cares about how we do.”

Bennett’s coaching philosophy is simple.

“I like to teach first and foremost,” he said. “I like all of our student athletes to know why they are doing something because the more they know why, the more they have control. The more control they have, the more empowered they become. That leads to building confidence and developing into better players.”

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UA has speed advantage against Stanford they are, the harder they fall.”

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The size and strength of Stanford is well documented, from its style of play to its massive interior players and tight ends. Now that Arizona is preparing to take on the Cardinal in Palo Alto, Calif., the Wildcats’ lack of size on the line is being exposed in plain sight.

The offensive line is not nearly as strong as it needs to be, especially going against the Stanford defense, Rodriguez said at practice Tuesday.

“I think the guys have worked pretty hard, but there’s another whole level of strength we got to get up front,” Rodriguez said.

Rodriguez pointed to the weight room as the main reason for the disparity between the lines. While some guys are serious about lifting and gaining strength, others aren’t quite as dedicated, he said.

“Those guys have to live in the weight room,” Rodriguez said about the offensive and defensive linemen. “The weight room has got to be their friend. I think for some of them it’s been activity, but not productivity, in there.”

While the average offensive lineman for Arizona stands an eighth of an inch taller, the Cardinal lineman is more than 13 pounds heavier on average — roughly 303 pounds for Stanford versus 286 pounds for Arizona.

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LARRY HOGAN/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT ARIZONA’S INTERIOR will have its hands full against Stanford’s defensive front Saturday. The Wildcats will use speed to counteract the Cardinal’s size.

The average Stanford defensive lineman is both taller and bigger as well — roughly a third of an inch taller, 6-foot-4, and more than 12 pounds heavier than Arizona’s defensive line.

The Wildcats can’t match up pound for pound, but running back Ka’Deem Carey said they have a

way to counter it — speed.

“We’re fast so we just gotta go out there and run against them,” Carey said. “Just hurry up and try to catch them out of shape.”

Wide receiver Dan Buckner compared Stanford’s defense to the team the UA just lost to in No. 14 Oregon State. But even in the

loss, the Wildcats scored 35 points on the talented and strong Beavers, and Buckner said Arizona needs to keep the tempo up and the ball moving.

“I think speed kills and this is a speed offense,” Buckner said. “If they’re a big physical team, maybe we can wear them down. The bigger

Size isn’t the only thing bearing down on the Wildcats’ offensive line this weekend, as health is also a major issue.

Right guard Trace Biskin missed the game Saturday, forcing tackle Mickey Baucus to move over to guard and backup Shane Zink to step in at left tackle.

This ability to move around showed a level of versatility for the offensive linemen, but it was versatility forced by injuries rather than choice.

“A lot of people always say we’re not tremendously big,” said center Addison Bachman, who got playing time when Kyle Quinn was hurt on Saturday. “But we’re fast and we can play different positions.”

The amount of change required with the line isn’t an ideal situation, Rodriguez said.

“You’d rather just have — to get the chemistry better — your seven or eight guys playing the same positions,” he said. “But we’re not afforded that luxury at this time.”

Even if Biskin returns Saturday, Arizona may still have to adjust for injuries. Center Kyle Quinn’s status remains uncertain until the injury report is released Thursday and backup tackle Lene Maiava is done for the season.

Women’s golf wins its second tournament of the season LUKE DAVIS

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The Arizona women’s golf team earned its second win in its second tournament on Tuesday. The No. 6 Wildcats finished the twoday, three-round Windy City Collegiate Classic in Chicago with a score of 879 (15 over par).

Arizona defeated No. 2 University of Washington by three strokes. Washington finished second with a score of 883 (19 over par).

The Wildcats also finished ahead of No. 1 Texas Tech University who placed eighth with a score of 901 (37 over par). Texas Christian University’s April McCoy won the individual medal with rounds of 73, 72 and 69 for a total score of 214 (two under par).

Arizona freshman Janie Jackson led the Wildcats, collecting four birdies on the back nine and finishing in seventh with a total score of 217 (one over par). Jackson totaled 10 birdies in the three rounds. Sophomore Andrea Vilarasau had the second lowest score for the Wildcats, as she finished the tournament tied for eighth with a score of 218 (two over par).

Sophomore Manon Gidali, ranked No. 59, finished tied for 12th. She finished with a score of 220 (four over par). No. 24 ranked sophomore Kendall Prince, fresh off her victory last week at the Mason Rudolph Championship, finished tied for 26th with a score of 225 (nine over par).

Freshman Anna Kim rounded out the Arizona COURTESY OF AJGA five with a score of 234 (18 over par) and JANIE JACKSON, a freshman, led the Wildcats with four birdies on the back nine in the Windy City Classic. finished in 62nd place.

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Basketball ranked No. 8 in early Sporting News poll KYLE JOHNSON Arizona Daily Wildcat

In what’s projected to be a two-team race for the Pac-12 title, Arizona made its first claim for conference superiority — at least on paper.

In Sporting News’ basketball preseason poll, released Tuesday, No. 8 Arizona ranked three spots ahead of No. 11 UCLA in the first major poll released for the upcoming 2012-2013 season.

Arizona’s season kicks off Oct. 21 with its annual Red-Blue game, but the Wildcats won’t officially take the court until its regular season opener against Charleston Southern on Nov. 11. With no other Pac12 teams in the Sporting News Poll, it’s shaping up to be a deadlock between UCLA and Arizona for the title of Pac-12 favorite.

This comes after both the Wildcats and Bruins underperformed last year and missed out on the NCAA tournament, finishing fourth and sixth in Pac-12, respectively.

On the recruiting trail, it was a different story though, as UCLA signed the second-best class according to Scout.com and Arizona the third, trailing only national champions in Kentucky.

With four big name recruits now in Tucson, including three five-star big men — Kaleb Tarczewski, Grant Jarrett and Brandon Ashley — according to ESPN’s Recruiting Database, the

Wildcats now have the size and depth they’ve lacked in the past.

The Bruins brought in big names of their own — No. 2 Shabazz Muhammad and No. 5 Kyle Anderson — but both players face possible eligibility issues, likely causing UCLA to sink behind Arizona in the Sporting News Poll.

Being at the top of the Pac-12 isn’t a rarity for UCLA or Arizona. The two schools have combined to win 41 conference championships since 1944, including 17 in 18 years for the Bruins from 19611979, but neither have seen the same kind of national prominence since 2008.

In the Sporting News article, Bruce Pascoe of the Arizona Daily Star wrote that the depth of the Arizona roster and its mix of talent, size and experience makes the Wildcats a top 10 team.

Another factor that put Arizona over the edge is the transfer of veteran guard Mark Lyons from Xavier.

Lyons, who is eligible to play immediately since he’s enrolled as a graduate student, will help fill the gap left by the transfer of point guard Josiah Turner.

The return of forward Solomon Hill, the teams’ second leading scorer and top rebounder, gives the UA another veteran playmaker.

Hill averaged 12.9 points per game on 50 percent shooting from the field and snagged 7.7 rebounds a game.

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before being pulled in favor of backup running backs Kylan Butler and Jenkins.

“I’m still getting used to it,” Jenkins said. “It’s still something that I have to get comfortable with each game.”

Jenkins returned kicks in high school and even scored a few touchdowns on them. Despite Jenkins’ experience in the return game, he and Butler haven’t exactly mastered when to take the ball out of the end zone and which way to go.

“Sometimes, we’re not getting our hats fitted at the right spot,” Leftwich said. “Sometimes, we’re losing a block, and sometimes we’re making too many cuts too early. We can’t do anything if the ball is kicked in the end zone.”

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Arizona daily Wildcat file photo ELVIN KIBET is the No. 2 Arizona women’s cross-country team’s top runner.

Cross-country tabbed No. 2 in latest rankings LUKE DAVIS Arizona Daily Wildcat

Following a first place finish at the Greater Louisville Classic, the Arizona women’s cross-country team is ranked No. 2 in the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches’ Association national poll — behind Florida State — and No. 1 in the West region.

On Saturday, the Wildcats defeated three higher ranked opponents, including then-No. 1 University of Washington. The Wildcats moved up 10 spots in the national poll and four spots in the regional poll.

“It’s gratifying for us to be No. 2 right now,” head coach James Li said in a press release. “It’s nice that they are talking about us but we have a long way to go.”

The Pac-12 is well represented in the top 30. Washington, Oregon and Stanford sit in the top 10 at third, fourth and seventh place respectively, and Colorado fell to No. 18. Arizona

was the only school in the Pac-12 this week to improve on its rankings.

“They’ve started recognizing us,” Li said. “It doesn’t mean anything other than they are talking about us right now.”

The No. 2 national and No. 1 regional ranking are an improvement from last season’s rankings at this time. In the 2011 week four poll, the UA women ranked No. 14 nationally and No. 4 regionally, and they finished the season ranked No. 19.

“However, I’m extremely proud of those young ladies for improving so much this year,” Li said. “It’s basically the same group from last year and they have improved so much.”

Arizona junior Elvin Kibet was the overall winner for Saturday’s race.

With the victory, Kibet is a favorite in the competition for an individual national title.

“We’re very happy and satisfied to see the ladies working hard in every way and we can see the improvement,” Li said.

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