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TWO FRESHMEN, JORDAN BRIDGEWATER (left) and Blakeley Koziol (right) play with Bandi, a 6-year-old golden retriever at the Pet a Pooch event on Wednesday. The event was sponsored by the University of Arizona’s Dean of Students Office. Tamara Y. Carter, the coordinator for the Dean of Students Office, said the pet therapy was to provide students with a “pinch of home” on campus and a break from school.

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The Arizona Board of Regents approved a $4.2 million recommendation to create a professional veterinary degree program at the UA at last week’s meeting.

The recommendation will be sent to Gov. Jan Brewer and, if it is included in her budget recommendations, it’ll make its way to the Legislature to be voted on.

Shane Burgess, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, put together the multiple-year plan to offer a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree program.

RYAN REVOCK/THE DAILY WILDCAT Burgess worked with the Arizona NOBLE JACKSON, an associate professor of the School of Animal and Comparative Board of Regents to determine how Biomedical Sciences, said funding for a veterinary program would benefit Arizona. much starting the program would cost. fits into the needs for veterinary a professional veterinary program.

The $4.2 million will fund start- doctors that animal growers have in Students who wish to get a DVM up costs such as facility renovations the state. The UA’s program will also degree can go through the Western and hiring faculty, Burgess said. In provide more collaboration and on- Interstate Commission for Higher order to keep costs low, the college the-job training, Myers added.

Education, an organization that will renovate and “It’s a new, reduces out-of-state costs for take advantage of innovative way students. WICHE sends almost 50 existing facilities to give people students a year to other schools in Through the WICHE rather than the training they its 16 member states and territories program… building new need and the to obtain the professional degree. clinics for the experience they The state pays the difference in outDuring 2013-14, the UA program, Burgess need at the same of-state fees for those who qualify for is supporting 47 veterinary added. time,” Myers the program. students and the support The plan Having a veterinary program at said, “so that fees total $1,438,200. complements they’re prepared the UA would allow tuition to stay other degrees to have a healthy within the state, said Dr. Noble During 2012-13 the UA that the school Jackson, associate professor of the practice.” supported 47 veterinary offers, according C u r r e n t l y , School of Animal and Comparative students and the support to Rick Myers, none of the Biomedical Sciences. fees totaled $1,410,000. chair of the board three state of regents, and universities offer VETERINARY, 2

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BY BRITTNY MEJIA The Daily Wildcat

Student government members are at odds following confusion over a proposal to change ASUA bylaws.

The specific bylaw change proposed stated that Associated Students of the University of Arizona would serve as the representative student government for undergraduates, while the Graduate and Professional Student Council would serve as the exclusive representative student government for graduate and professional students.

At the ASUA meeting on Wednesday, GPSC members said they wanted their organization recognized

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Compost Cats partners with Tucson community

BY BRITTNY MEJIA The Daily Wildcat

More than one million pounds of food waste — that’s what UA Compost Cats members have had their hands in over the past three years.

The Compost Cats, which is run through the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, recently surpassed 1.1 million pounds of food waste diverted from the landfill and composted, and they are planning to divert even more waste

through partnerships with the Tucson community.

For their efforts, members said they were notified that the Compost Cats have been named Non-Profit Recycling Representative of the Year by the Arizona Recycling Coalition. The project will be honored at a ceremony in Phoenix on Oct. 17.

“It’s always nice to have a little bit of recognition,” said Chet Phillips, graduate assistant for sustainability and project

supervisor for Compost Cats. “What I hope an award like that would do is help get the word out to the campus community, as well as the broader Tucson community.”

The student-run program has been a fixture on campus since the fall of 2010. The club collects food waste not only from the UA, but also from more than 20 businesses in Tucson, and takes it to the San Xavier Co-Op Farm,

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THE UA COMPOST CATS, run through ASUA, are working on increasing sustainability through partnerships in the Tucson community.

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Brenda Wittman has to balance being a doctor and practicing for figure-skating competitions on a weekly basis.

Wittman is a pediatric oncologist and hematologist at the University of Arizona Medical Center. When she isn’t on call, she takes two mornings a week and sacrifices sleep to drive up to Scottsdale, Ariz., and get some practice on the ice. She leaves her house at 2:45 a.m., skates from 5 a.m. to 6:45 a.m., then returns to Tucson.

Wittman spends her free time or days off teaching with the Learn to Skate program for the Tucson Figure Skating Club.

Gail Langley, Wittman’s longtime friend and president of TFSC, used to drive her daughter and Wittman to the rink in Scottsdale, and noted how incredible it is that Wittman now skates on her own.

“What she does is pretty remarkable,” Langley said.

“Skating alone takes a lot out of you, but then she comes back and works with the children … which is pretty amazing.”

Wittman said she started skating when she was 13, after deciding she didn’t like softball or soccer as much. This passion has stayed with her ever since. Most of the competitors have other jobs to go along with skating, but hers is truly

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TOP Brenda Wittman teaches kids how to ice-skate the Tucson Figure Skating Club.

LEFT Wittman participated in a competition in Oberstdorf, Germany last summer.

competitions, Wittman now joins adult competitions as well.

During the summer, Wittman participated in her first adult competition: the International Skating Union’s International Adult Figure Skating Competition in Oberstdorf, Germany. Any adult member of the ISU was eligible to go, and approximately 25 countries

special, she said.

“It’s nice to have something that’s goal-oriented to do, that’s not medicine,” Wittman said. “I like the skating because there’s always something I can improve on, but it’s also completely different from working at the hospital.”

While she has always participated in small, local

were represented. Her second international adult competition, called “White Nights,” was in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was the only skater from the U.S., and took first place in three events.

Her colleague, Dr. Lisa Kopp has known Wittman for about

“All of that money leaves Arizona and never comes back,” Jackson said, “so the Legislature is already paying a fairly substantial amount every year to educate veterinary students, but they’re done elsewhere.”

Along with keeping tuition money in Arizona, Jackson said a program within the state would help agriculture in areas where there is a shortage of veterinarians. Training in Arizona would be more tailored to Arizona’s veterinary needs, Jackson added.

Burgess said having a training program in Arizona would also allow twice as many students to be trained in the state.

“Many rural areas just can’t get the veterinarians they require,” Burgess said. “By having these veterinarians train in the state, they’re more likely to stay in the state.”

Students often choose to specialize in areas they’re exposed to, Burgess added.

The goal is to turn what is currently a plan into a successful program, Burgess said.

“It’s a plan that’s been approved by the regents,” Burgess said. “It’s a plan that’s waiting for legislative support through funding. And once we get that legislative support we can take that plan and we can make it a reality.”

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where it is turned into compost.

“By taking this food waste and turning it into a soil additive, we’re not only providing nutrients to the soils of Tucson … but we also keep it out of the landfill, because food waste is a primary source of greenhouse gas methane,” said Ashley Sanders, a veterinary science junior and member of Compost Cats.

Compost Cats members are currently working on a collaboration with the City of Tucson to divert more food waste, landscape waste and zoo animal manure from the city to the club to be turned into compost for local gardens and landscapes.

Members said their goal is to have a greater impact in the Tucson community, in addition to the UA. “We’re just really forming a lot of new partnerships and working toward becoming an important part of the whole Tucson community,” said Sarah Appleby, a veterinary science senior and the assistant supervisor of Compost Cats. “We really have made huge impacts on waste reduction, and we’re really heading toward much bigger amounts.”

Project members are currently partnering with the City of Tucson, Pima County and Tucson Meet Yourself officials to focus on recycling and composting efforts at the Tucson Meet Yourself event, which takes place Oct. 11-13.

The partners met often and continually worked on ways to ensure they would continue to have an environmentally friendly event this year, said Tim Escobedo, operations director of the Tucson Meet Yourself event. This year, the event will be styrofoam-free and will feature educational skits, he added.

“For us it’s a big benefit to partner up with the Compost Cats and the U of A,” Escobedo said. “We’re really excited about our upcoming event and how our partnership has developed with the UA Compost Cats, along with Pima County.”

Compost Cats members will present a brief skit at the festival on waste reduction with students from local elementary schools and the Girl Scouts. Members will also be at the festival to make sure people know what they can compost.

Phillips said he hopes to continue forming partnerships throughout the city in order to further promote sustainability.

“We’re building a soil fertility hub for southern Arizona,” Phillips said. “We really are interested in continuing to partner with the local groups to create something that’s a public benefit.”

as the sole advocate for graduate and professional students.

Although no vote took place, GPSC sent a press release shortly after the meeting stating that ASUA had decided to “ignore the needs of graduate students.” In the release, GPSC President Zachary Brooks said the next step will be to continue the process by asking President Ann Weaver Hart to form a committee that will “review and ask for a change to the ASUA constitution in regards to this issue.”

Brooks presented to the ASUA Senate survey results that he had compiled, which showed that out of 580 graduate students polled, only four answered that they felt ASUA represented them. The numbers were compiled through randomized surveys given online and on the UA Mall.

Additionally, Brooks said 99.3 percent of people who took the survey signed a petition to gain advocacy for GPSC. Brooks said his ultimate goal is for graduate students to serve graduates themselves.

Lili Steffen/the Daily Wildcat “We presented and [ASUA] didn’t comment at all and then moved on to the Zachary Brooks, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, presents to the Associated Students next thing, so we took it as … they’re not of the University of Arizona at its meeting on Wednesday. Brooks is requesting that GPSC become the official representative of graduate and professional students. looking at it,” Brooks said.

Brooks added that he believed the presentation The whole effort tonight was to be a at the meeting was an real partner and be seen as a partner, informational item and when senators did not but we don’t feel like we’re partners. discuss it, he said he — Zachary Brooks, thought it died.

GPSC president ASUA Sen. Diego Alvarez said Brooks’ presentation dealt for Brooks to express his opinion to with why members felt GPSC should be the senate. Abraham added that there a separate entity. Alvarez said senate is typically no discussion or debate members will take in the presentation, following a presentation. talk about it and ask questions to better “I almost feel bad for administration inform themselves.

Rebecca Noble/the Daily Wildcat … now Zach’s dragging people who “Senate will just talk about it,” Alvarez Winner of the ASUA special elections really aren’t affected by this into said. “We’re trying to think up questions Michael Mazzella shakes hands with Chris Chavez the conversation very prematurely,” for him and trying to see where we can go after the election results. Mazzella won the elecAbraham said. “It makes me very sad and from here together as a senate.” tion with 700 votes. concerned.”

ASUA President Morgan Abraham said In the press release, Brooks said GPSC an issue must be adopted by a senator ASUA announced Mike Mazzella, seeks partnership with ASUA, “not before it can become an action item and a communication junior, as winner patronage by ASUA.” be voted on. A senator can adopt a bylaw “They made their decision. We of the senate special elections on change, which will then be presented predicted they would do something like Wednesday night. as an information item. A week later this,” Brooks said. “For now, we’re just “[It was a] pretty grueling campaign it will be presented as an action item going to move forward … the whole effort and the senate can then vote on the process but definitely worth it in the tonight was to be a real partner and be implementation, he said. long run,“ Mazzella said. “I’m very seen as a partner, but we don’t feel like “I don’t know where the disconnect we’re partners.” excited for this opportunity.” was,” Abraham said. “What Zach Brooks requested was a presentation — Emily Bregger contributed reporting Michael Mazzella: 700, 46.5 percent … He presented; there was never really to this article. supposed to be any debate or discussion.”

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three-and-a-half years through their employment at the hospital.

“She is very compassionate and caring with all of her patients, and puts 100 percent effort into all of their care,” Kopp said.

“As a colleague, she is always willing to step up. If I need

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something, she is always willing to help me.”

Wittman said she plans to compete in Pacific Coast Adult Sectionals, a competition that pits iceskaters in the western third of the country against each other, in March 2014. If she places at sectionals, she will move on to compete in U.S. Adult Championships in April 2014 in Hyannis, Mass.

“As we’ve been working

out our schedule [at UAMC] for the year, I just let them know, ‘Hey, I have nationals this week,’” Wittman said.

“We have enough people to cover each other at this point, but sometimes it gets a bit tricky. A lot of times as soon as I get back, I’m on call again.”

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Gender studies provide valuable insight

BY DAVID W. MARIOTTE The Daily Wildcat

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ender and women’s studies courses are not just for women. The UA needs to expand diversity emphasis requirements to include a GWS course to encourage all students, regardless of gender identity, to explore new ways to approach highprofile social issues.

GWS courses can help students understand how they may take gender roles for granted, and the information they learn can be used to start changing dialogues and power structures, which would benefit society by dismantling the culture of violence and promoting equality. “[GWS classes are] not only beneficial and entertaining,” said Zeynep Korkman, an assistant professor in the Gender and Women’s Studies Department, “but essential for giving an awareness of the world and those around you that no other discipline can.”

GWS classes explore how gender, race, class, ability, ethnicity, religion, culture and sexuality intersect.

They inspire students to view the world from new perspectives, while encouraging them to bring their own opinions and philosophies to discussions.

These classes shatter preconceptions large and small, from thinking fast food is not part of American culture to believing feminists hate men. Students are thus less likely to discredit the ideas of campus activists who discuss inequalities like the wage gap.

According to a recent U.S. Census Bureau report, women in the U.S. earn only 77 percent of what men earn on average, and women of color earn only 70 percent of what men earn. Eliminating this gap is about equality, not competition.

One of the primary purposes of GWS classes is to further the understanding of the social constructions we engage in and assess topics like marriage equality, border policy, violence, slut shaming, economics and rape culture.

Rape culture has recently become a hot topic at the UA and on other campuses, especially since UA student Dean Saxton’s infamous “You deserve rape” sign and the three sexual assaults reported on the Arizona State University campus in the past three weeks.

“You can take gender theories and gender studies and apply it to so many areas of life,” said Ariel Flowers, a senior who switched her major from journalism to gender and women’s studies.

By requiring GWS classes for all students, the UA can ensure that students are being taught not to engage in victim blaming, which contributes to a reluctance to report sexual violence. Currently, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, 54 percent of sexual assaults are not reported to police.

Understanding the social constructs that perpetuate rape culture provides people with the intellectual tools to take action against it. This can be as simple as protesting against a musician, like Robin Thicke and his song “Blurred Lines,” by not buying or listening to their music, or as complex as hosting a “Take Back the Night” event that encourages a community to oppose rape culture.

Korkman said learning about the ways in which we are a part of the gender system is invaluable. The patriarchy and other oppressionbased constructs can only be changed by understanding how we contribute to the systems, which makes GWS classes important in a socially progressive society.

— David W. Mariotte is a journalism sophomore. Follow him @dw_davidwallace

Pulse of the Pac Here’s what other schools in the Pac-12 are talking about: free speech on Facebook, the importance of tenure, Russia hosting the Olympics, iPads pointless in class “Changing definitions of ‘free speech’ in Facebook age” by Shane Theodore Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that the pages you “like” on Facebook are considered to be protected speech under the Constitution.

The line between free speech and hate speech is one that is incredibly blurred, but in reality nothing is going to change. It’s up to us to be rational and to keep the irrational in check. If we see a hateful tweet or post, call the sucker out on it.

In person, only so much speech is permitted, but on the Internet it’s tough to hold such people accountable. We have to take a stance to promote free speech and discourage hate speech.

“Tenure is vital to academic freedom” by Josh Waugh

“Russians don’t deserve to host Olympics” by Dominique Wald

“iPads prove useless in the classroom setting” by Valerie Yu

By securing a scholar’s position against unfounded dismissal, tenure allows academics the freedom to criticize their own employer (the state, for example).

This criticism is necessary for pragmatic reform. If insiders can’t call out issues and faults within a system, that system will never improve. Similar to how whistleblower protection laws help keep us safe from dishonest organizations and safeguard those who alert us, tenure keeps universities and schools safe from institutionalized bigotry and corruption.

It was important in the past, it is important now, and it will be absolutely vital as we continue into the future.

The Olympic Games are a time of unity and pride in one’s country.

For those living in Russia, however, that might not be the case.

According to the Washington Post, activists are outraged that Russia will host the 2014 Winter Olympics in response to a recently passed bill which imposes anti-gay legislation.

The bill, which Russian President Vladimir Putin signed in June, prohibits nontraditional sexual relationships among minors, effectively isolating gays and lesbians from Russian society.

Last time I checked, a law which prohibits people from acknowledging homosexuality is one of the highest forms of discrimination, and Russia should suffer the consequences.

Last week, the Los Angeles Unified School District launched its $1 billion tablet initiative in an effort to give an iPad to every student in the district, according to the Los Angeles Times. In the digital age, it is undeniable that tech competency is important, but too much reliance on technology, such as the iPad, could lead to children devaluing the presence of paper and pencil. New technology is updated and outdated in a flash, but a book doesn’t change overnight — there’s a reason why we’ve been using it for thousands of years. Nothing is wrong with the old textbook, pencil and paper.

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Your Views Online Comments In response to “UA student starts Second Amendment club to educate about firearm safety” (by Stephanie Casanova, Sept. 30) The reason why gun control advocates are all over the place is because of fear. Fear is the government’s dance card. A little bit of fear, and the public will be for laws that don’t actually address the problem but only create superficial pleasures to the legislative bodies.

Law-abiding citizens look [at] guns from a practical perspective. They know they don’t want to use it on another person, but if that person is a threat, too bad for that person.

Guns are dangerous, and they’re not toys.

But it’s not a question of the gun, but who has the gun. Criminals don’t care if they wave around guns and fire off a few rounds on people. Why? Because if his gun gets taken away from the police, he’ll get two if he wants to. Criminals know where they can get a gun

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and will get it if they want to.

People use either background checks or mental health checks to try to impose gun control. However, such measures alienate the mentally ill and law-abiding gun owners.

How about we enforce the more than 2,000 gun laws that are already on the books and not waste our time making another stupid law to make us feel better? And you can’t stop insane people from stopping insane things with insane laws.

And what do the gun control advocates have to support their logic? Tragedies? Newtown?

Columbine? That’s it? Though they’re sad, and we’re sympathetic, but in the issue itself, it isn’t exactly addressing gun violence. For one, assault weapons were used in [the] minority of gun crimes. So why should public policy itself waste its time to actually address the minority of gun crimes? In the grand scale of gun violence, it isn’t the biggest thing on their plate.

And don’t get me started on “assault weapons.” Assault weapons are actually a manipulation of the English language. It was a term created by John Sugarmann in the 1980s to create a phrase that people will conflate with “assault rifles” to promote more gun control measures. This ultimately led to Dianne Feinstein’s “assault weapons ban” that

was highly ineffective the first time around and failed to be legislated. Why did it fail? Because it didn’t actually address the gun or the function of the gun, but just banned fixtures and semi-automatic weapons that “are scary.”

They say it’s “military-grade,” but the military doesn’t utilize those weapons, and wouldn’t utilize their weapons.

Police [don’t] protect us, and laws don’t protect us. Protection is left to the individual and the American people, who should have the right to own a firearm, even if they don’t like the idea of owning a firearm.

— GoodGuyGreg Need to start such a club for education about automobiles, which kill far more people per year than firearms. Oh wait — nobody’s trying to outlaw ownership of automobiles. How strange! How about a secks club? Millions of babies die each year due to irresponsible secks (abortion). Oh wait — progressive Democrats LOVE secks and are probably not going to outlaw it. Guns should not be in some sort of “special, really, really dangerous and deadly” class of their own. Alcohol and automobiles are FAR, FAR more deadly than guns, yet we treat handling firearms like defusing bombs for fun & recreation.

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University of Arizona Police Department officers referred a UA student to the Dean of Students Office for diversion for minor in possession of alcohol in a UA parking lot at 1:45 a.m. on Sunday.

UAPD officers were outside of a residence hall when they saw a student exit a cab and stumble backwards about 15 feet until he fell into a large puddle of water.

Officers went to check if the student was injured and saw that he was extremely drunk. He had red, bloodshot eyes and smelled strongly of alcohol. He couldn’t stand up straight and swayed back and forth.

The student said he had been at an off-campus house party and had “drank hard.”

UA Student Emergency Medical Services and the Tucson Fire Department arrived to see if the student was OK. After an evaluation, they released the student to his friend to be cared for. The student was walked to his dorm room by his friend.

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A UA student was arrested for minor in bodily possession of alcohol by UAPD officers on Sept. 29 at 2:45 a.m.

A UAPD officer saw a man sitting on a bench and throwing up. When the officer checked on him, it became obvious that he was drunk.

The student said that he was underage and had been drinking a lot of beer that night. He also said that he was only throwing up “just a little bit,” but would not say where he had been drinking.

TFD was called to evaluate the condition of the student, who had bloodshot, watery eyes and smelled strongly of vomit and alcohol.

Shortly before TFD arrived, the student’s friends came to pick him up. They said they were sober and came there to help their friend.

TFD released the student and allowed the student’s friends to take him home.

The student was cited and released. He was also referred to the Dean of Students Office for a code of conduct violation.

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Dr. Michael C. Fitzgerald from Duke University’s chemistry department will present a speech titled, “New Methods and Applications for Protein Folding Free Energy Measurements.”

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‘Anticipating Digital’ Photography by Todd Walker Exhibit at the Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road. Open Daily, 9 AM – 5 PM Mon-Fri and 1 PM – 4 PM Sat, Sun. Exhibit runs through Oct. 20, and examines three decades of Walker’s work with his early use of computers to digitize images and his use of alternate printing methods.

‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: Academic Integrity at the UA’ Noon - 1 p.m. Student Union Memorial Center, Sabino Room. Cheating scandals at colleges and universities, controversy regarding online services and even allegations of high-profile individuals’ lack of integrity seem to proliferate the idea that today’s college students are a bunch of cheaters.

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7th Annual Shakespeare in the Park at the Himmel Park Amphitheater, 1000 N. Tucson Blvd at 7 PM. Enjoy “The Merry Wives of Windsor” at the park. Bring a blanket, a picnic basket, and the whole family.

“Our Lady of Guadalupe” Exhibit at the DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Open 10 AM to 4 PM daily. 6300 N. Swan. This exhibit is open through February 16, 2014 and shows the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Mission in the Sun that Ted DeGrazia built in her honor.

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SENIOR MIDFIELDER JAZMIN PONCE dribbles the ball against UCLA on Sunday. The Wildcats lost 2-1 to the then-No. 4 Bruins in their first Pac-12 game.

Defenders/goalkeeping: C+

BY BRIAN PEEL

The Daily Wildcat Arizona soccer has now reached the halfway point of its season, 10 games in, which means it’s time for a progress report.

Under the leadership of firstyear head coach Tony Amato, the Wildcats are off to one of their best starts in program history at 5-2-3, with much of the credit due to the offense. Arizona is currently tied with Stanford for first in the Pac-12 with 24 goals scored, which is highly efficient considering the Wildcats are only fifth in the conference in total shots, with 168.

Defensively, the Wildcats are still a work in progress. At 10 goals allowed so far this season, Arizona is tied for eighth in the Pac-12 and hasn’t recorded a shutout since its early September matchup against then-No. 24 Ohio State.

By position group, here’s how the Wildcats score:

BASKETBALL

Zeus and the death of the ‘true center’

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n recent years, the evolution of NBA basketball has led to the desire for more versatile, athletic centers under 7 feet tall.

College centers are starting to look up to NBA stars like the Miami Heat’s Chris Bosh and the Chicago Bulls’ Joakim Noah, who both have the ability to post up and possess decent jump shots.

Kaleb Tarczewski, a 7-foot, 250-pound sophomore, will be Arizona’s starting center, and while he excels at rebounding, dunking and blocking, his repertoire doesn’t feature much of a jump shot. Last year, the Claremont, N.H., native played an average of 22 minutes, compiling 6.6 points and 6.1 rebounds per game. He additionally compiled 23 blocks, 14 assists and 10 steals on the year.

Tarczewski represents a dying breed of the true center, a 7-foot and taller big man that is starting to disappear from the game. In the 2014 recruiting class, 11 of ESPN’s top 15 centers are under 7 feet, meaning that college coaches are gaining interest in more athletically built, shorter centers.

When asked about the offseason, Tarczewski said that he was working on becoming a more well-rounded, athletic player.

“I worked hard [this summer],

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Arizona’s defense had a strong start to the season, as it shut out three of its first four opponents, but defensive struggles have cropped up recently, with five goals allowed in the Wildcats’ last three games. For comparison’s sake, Washington State has only allowed three goals all season, which leads the Pac-12.

The Wildcats’ defense needs to be tighter in its coverage. Too many clear shots on goal have been given up so far this season, especially from just outside the penalty box.

Junior goalkeeper Gabby Kaufman has been solid with her 42 saves this year, tied for second best in the conference.

Midfielders: B+ Midfield play has been the most consistent position for the Wildcats so far this season, led by senior Jazmin Ponce. Ponce, who was a first-team All-Pac-12 performer last season, looks to be headed

there again with her team-leading six goals. Fellow seniors Shannon Heinzler and Ana-Maria Montoya have provided a strong presence in the defensive midfield while freshman Jaden DeGracie, who has been playing out on the wing, leads the Wildcats with five assists.

As a whole, the midfielders have done a good job taking care of the ball and controlling possession, which has led to plenty of opportunities for the Wildcats’ attack.

Forwards: B If the midfielders have been the most consistent group for Arizona this season, the forwards have probably been the most unpredictable.

The Wildcats’ offense has looked unstoppable at times, with a pair of six-goal outbursts and two four-goal performances. However, at other times, the scoring just hasn’t been there when they needed it. Losses to ranked teams Texas Tech and UCLA might have been avoided if Arizona’s attack had taken

advantage of the opportunities created for it.

Junior college transfer Ali Doller has been an important pickup for the Wildcats’ front with her four goals and two assists. Sophomores Hannah Wong and Kaitlyn Lopez have chipped in with three goals apiece.

Coaching: A Amato has been a winner everywhere he has coached in his young career, and this season with the Wildcats has been no different. Arizona soccer has struggled mightily these past few years, finishing last in the Pac-12 last season and only collecting one win in 2011, but Amato has brought a new attitude to the program and the results speak for themselves.

Arizona still faces a daunting Pac-12 schedule and has already dropped its first conference game to then-No. 4 UCLA, but Amato certainly has the Wildcats going in the right direction.

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It was an effort in a lost cause, but USC receiver Marqise Lee’s performance against Arizona last season was one for the record books.

Poor open-field tackling allowed the 2012 Bilentnikoff Awardwinner to tear apart the Wildcats’ defense. Lee finished the game with 16 receptions for 345 yards and two touchdowns in the 2012 matchup. His 345 receiving yards broke the conference record and rank fifth all-time in NCAA history for a single game.

“Our strategy last year was to let [Lee] get so many yards that he cramped up,” head coach Rich Rodriguez laughed. “So after he went for about a half a mile, he had to go out for a play to loosen his cramps. That’s all we did last year.”

Despite the historic game, an undisciplined No. 10-ranked Trojans team racked up 13 penalties for a total of 117 yards, which allowed Arizona to stay in the game and come away with the 39-36 upset at home. But there was still a sour taste left in the Arizona secondary’s mouth after the win.

“As a secondary, we were embarrassed,” junior cornerback Jonathan McKnight said after practice Wednesday. “You should never let a receiver have that many yards.”

USC’s offense hasn’t been as explosive this season. Lee’s stats are down from last year, and he sustained a knee injury in the fourth quarter of the Trojans’ loss last week at ASU. But don’t expect the slow start or recent injury to distract the Wildcats. Last season’s embarrassing performance against

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USC’S MARQISE LEE had a record-breaking game against Arizona last year. The Wildcats pulled off a 39-36 upset over USC.

Lee is still fresh in their memory, and they’re focused on making sure that doesn’t happen again. “[The key to containing Lee is] making sure he doesn’t come out of the locker room,” Rodriguez joked. “We just got to make sure we change our coverage enough so we’re not just staying in one thing, letting them pick us apart.”

Senior Shaquille Richardson is the Wildcats’ most veteran cornerback and is expected to line up across Lee to start next Thursday’s game. That being said, Rodriguez said he has confidence in his other defensive backs, including McKnight. Rodriguez didn’t go into detail about the plan to contain Lee, but one can expect Richardson or McKnight will have help from a double-team on Lee. Both Richardson and McKnight

echoed Rodriguez’s plan to show USC’s offense multiple looks, but also acknowledged open-field tackling as the key to preventing a repeat of last season’s debacle.

“Team tackling,” Richardson said simply. “[Lee] had a lot of open space last year. It wasn’t really big plays, it was short passes that turned into big plays.”

Eight of Lee’s 16 receptions last year against the Wildcats were for 25 or more yards.

“If we team tackle, like we’ve seen other teams do on film, we’ll be fine,” Richardson said. “He’s a great receiver. He’ll have his big plays, but if we play as a team and ride to the ball, we’ll be fine.”

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Men’s soccer hosts arch-rival Sun Devils by brittney klewer

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ARIZONA SOPHOMORE Kaleb Tarczewski is a rare 7-foot center.

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definitely harder than I have before,” Tarczewski said. “[I’m] really just trying to get in better, more athletic shape, and [I] did a lot of drills during the offseason to work on footwork.”

During last week’s press conference, Miller hinted at the possibility of playing with a threeguard lineup, which features three guards and two forwards playing without a center. This would create a smaller and faster lineup but would take Tarczewski out of the equation.

In this situation, the three guards would be juniors T.J. McConnell and Nick Johnson and either sophomore Gabe York, freshman Rondae Hollis-Jefferson or freshman Elliott Pitts. Brandon Ashley, a 6-foot-8 sophomore, would be the

power forward and freshman Aaron Gordon would be small forward to create a smaller, faster lineup.

Miller has done this before — two years ago, after former Wildcat Kyryl Natyazhko failed to live up to expectations, the Wildcats went with a three-guard lineup consistently featuring Josiah Turner, Kyle Fogg and Johnson as guards and Solomon Hill and Jesse Perry as forwards.

Basketball is evolving to where there is no real need for a true center, and because of that, Tarczewski’s value may be skewed as he moves on to the NBA. The very big, big men are going the way of the dinosaurs.

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Seeking revenge, Arizona men’s club soccer will take on ASU for the second time this season tomorrow night at 8 p.m.

Senior and co-president of the club David Schipper said he especially wants to pay the Sun Devils back for the loss at ASU a few weeks ago, since this will be his last home game against them before he graduates.

The 3-1 loss to ASU was a rough start to the season, and Schipper said the Sun Devils had the upper hand playing at home when the two teams faced off on Sept. 13.

“When we played over there, their crowd and fans played a huge factor,” Schipper said. “We were up 1-0 in the first 15 minutes, and their fans got in our heads. They were talking smack on the sidelines; they were encouraging their players. So hopefully our fans can do the same thing for us.”

In addition to fan support, ASU also already had experience, playing as a team with two wins under its belt.

However, now that Arizona has played in more games, including a tournament, the Wildcats will have the advantage that they were lacking in the first game. Schipper says that the Wildcats are a different team now that they have gotten used to playing together and have learned each other’s styles.

Plus, they are playing at home on their new field south of Sixth Street, across from Arizona Stadium and next to the Student Recreation Center.

“I love to play in front of the home crowd,” senior and president of the

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Ethan Taplin, a forward on Arizona’s men’s club soccer team, steps in front of a defender at practice on Tuesday. The Wildcats host ASU on Friday night.

club Taylor Ahrensdorf said. “That is absolutely the best. You know, playing in front of your friends, your family, everyone’s coming out to see you. That’s easily the best. And I love playing ASU, too. They’re our best opponent in the region, and nothing’s better than beating them.”

This may be head coach Bryan DeJonghe’s first year coaching the UA team, but he is already familiar with ASU’s style of play and knows what to expect from the Sun Devils.

“ASU’s strengths are that they play very direct. They have some very big and athletic guys. They are very fast, especially in their forward positions,” DeJonghe said.

“They’re well-coached, they know what they’re doing when they go out there. I think each player knows exactly what they need to do in order to make it work.”

During tomorrow’s game, the Wildcats plan to use a different formation than they did the last time they played the Sun Devils,

in hopes of setting the tone for this game early on.

“We’re very effective,” Ahrensdorf said. “We’re very dangerous when it’s quick, on the floor, through our center-mids, through David. So if we can set our tone, play quick, on the ground — I think, technicallywise, there’s no contest between us and [ASU].”

DeJonghe said he is excited to see how Tucson fans react to the rivalry game.

“I’m excited to compete; I’m excited to give the fans a look at a great team; I’m excited to get some revenge,” DeJonghe said. “I expect [ASU] to be fired up; I expect them to be well-coached; I expect them to bring their best … [From Arizona] I expect the same thing. I demand the same thing.”

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Gleason returns to ice following ailments

BY Joey Putrelo

The Daily Wildcat Junior Shane Gleason had the secondmost points of all the Wildcat hockey defensemen during his freshman campaign.

As a sophomore last year, he had high hopes to be first; however, his 2012-13 season was cut short five games due to an illness that kept him off the ice for two weeks.

Gleason said doctors were never able to define his sickness, but he developed pneumonia-like symptoms right after Arizona’s road series at Illinois in the middle of October 2012.

“It started off with a basic cold — a fever, cough, sore throat — and then it just kind of escalated from there,” Gleason said. “It got a lot worse, and then the antibiotics they gave me made me more sick. It was real bad, and one of them actually made me pass out.”

Shortly after returning, Gleason was concussed for the fifth time in his hockey career. He said it was the worst of all, and it kept him out another week.

It was the longest period of time he had to sit out from hockey, Gleason recalled.

“It was kind of hard to watch the team and not be a part of it,” Gleason said. “You always

want to be part of the game and out there with the guys.”

In his first year with Arizona, Gleason accumulated 17 points on two goals and 15 assists. He only missed two games, which were during the home opening series against Texas, due to a shoulder injury.

Last season that point total dropped by 10, without any goals. However, in the opening weekend of this season, Gleason tied for first on the team with four points. Saturday’s performance was his best, as he netted a goal while assisting two.

It was the first time Gleason found the net since Dec. 1, 2011, when he scored on an open net in the Wildcats’ 3-1 win at home against Ohio.

“Scoring goals is great, and it was very joyful. I didn’t know what to do to celebrate to be honest,” Gleason said. “I saw the puck go in and was just kind of come over by emotions for a quick second, and it felt great. There’s nothing like it. “ His play last weekend earned Gleason the coaches’ selection for player of the week.

“He has been giving it his all since the beginning of training camp, and the whole first week of games,” head coach Sean Hogan said, “so it was a pretty natural choice.”

To keep from getting sick again this year, Gleason said he’s taken Vitamin C every day since the beginning of the semester, and has focused on getting more sleep as well.

Gleason also said that the past offseason was a healthy and productive one. Working at the Student Recreation Center while taking a couple of summer classes, he was able to find time to improve his game.

With his free hours spent in his garage practicing stick handling, shooting pucks and working out, Gleason said he was able to commit to both his personal goals and the team.

“Over the summer I was working hard,” Gleason said. “No problems in the weight room or feeling dizzy, so I’m back to 100 percent.”

Gleason said his expectations for himself are more realistic for 2013-14. He explained that the goal is to get at least two points in each series Arizona plays.

“I haven’t played in a home opening weekend yet, and I’m now in junior year, so I’m hoping to stay healthy for this one against NAU and Delaware,” Gleason said. “It’s going to be a fun one.”

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Pollard finds chemistry in class BY zane johnson

The Daily Wildcat Around 6 p.m. on a Friday night, John Pollard locks his office, pulls his beach cruiser through the doors of the Old Chemistry building and rides the two miles to his home.

From morning until night, Pollard, a professor in and coordinator of the general chemistry and biochemistry department at the UA, is dedicated to his students.

“I do three things here,” Pollard said. First, he provides service to the university. Second, he creates materials for his class. Third, he works with students.

“The first two things are equally important, but they all service the third,” he said. “That’s where you have the real impact.”

“I have over 20 preceptors that help me in my class with my students,” Pollard said, “and some of them have projects that they’re working on, so I’m meeting with students to help with projects.”

Materials

The second focus is developing the materials. Pollard is redesigning the way we teach chemistry by teaching students to think like chemists.

Pollard was unsatisfied with traditional lecture methods.

“Having the students come, sit and listen to me was sort of analogous to having [men’s basketball head coach] Sean Miller have people show his basketball players what to do, and that would be practice,” he said.

Instead, he wanted them on the court — metaphorically speaking.

This is where “Chemical Thinking” comes in.

Pollard explained his Friday, a For six years now, Pollard and day like many others: “When I get colleague Vicente Talanquer, in, the first thing I do is run a TA an associate professor in the staff meeting.” department of chemistry He meets with teaching and biochemistry, have been assistants from every general researching how students best chemistry course to coordinate learn chemistry. They are writing their curricula to ensure that a curriculum and textbook, both every student gets the same strong titled “Chemical Thinking,” to foundation in chemistry. adapt their findings for use in the He also meets with students classroom. conducting Supplemental The professors are already using Instruction sessions. Supplemental the book in its Instruction is unfinished form, a program that providing it to provides free outWork for me students free of of-class study is preparing... charge. sessions with Toward the end as you can see students who have of the day, Pollard I’m kind of previously taken shuts his door and a student of the course to works. chemistry. students currently “I do have some enrolled in the days where I have —John Pollard, course. more office time. chemistry professor “I’m on various Work for me is committees, preparing. As you so I have a can see, I’m kind departmental committee meeting,” of a student of chemistry,” Pollard Pollard said. As the departmental said as he gestured toward a large coordinator, he meets and bookcase — 8 feet tall and twice as coordinates with the other wide — that houses a few hundred chemistry instructors on campus, books, all of them related to general at a time when other people head chemistry. for lunch.

During this time, he creates Like many entry level courses, materials for his students, which Pollard’s classes have preceptors: include YouTube videos, study aids undergraduate students who are and the textbook for the course trained to provide help to their itself. classmates. He meets with them But his work isn’t finished when after his last class of the day. he leaves campus.

“After my kids are in bed, I have a second shift at home where I can actually hole up and get some work done,” Pollard said.

While he does try to spend as much time as possible with his three kids when he’s home, he doesn’t let his free time go to waste.

7:50 a.m. Pollard arrives on campus 8 a.m. Staff meeting with TAs 10 a.m. Class After class, Pollard often attends 11 a.m. Supplemental club meetings, as he advises three instruction meeting clubs on campus.

Noon Departmental meeting Solar Cats, a solar advocacy 1 p.m. Class group on campus, meets every 2 p.m. Meet with preceptors other Monday at 6 p.m. Through various environmental projects and 4 p.m. Chemistry Club outreach events, the group aims to 6 p.m. Home for the weekend raise awareness of the necessity of sustainable technologies for the environment.

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On Fridays, Pollard meets with the UA Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society to discuss its outreach programs, aimed at making chemistry more interesting and accessible to youth across Arizona.

Finally, there is Olympia Academy.

“There was a group of students who were getting together regularly and having open discussions about big questions,” Pollard said.

When a student approached him and asked if he would be the adviser for the group’s official club, Pollard sat in on a meeting, and he was impressed.

“For me, sitting around and having students freely — not for credit — spending their time engaging in intellectual discussion was something at the heart of what the university is about,” Pollard said. “I just felt this was a really important thing to support.”

This semester, Pollard is teaching two chemistry courses, and in both he employs the principles of evidence-based teaching, which he describes as “[seeing] the research out there on how students learn and [starting] to implement strategies based on the research into your classroom.”

In 2010, he won the Leicester and Kathryn Sherrill Creative Teaching Award for his work in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. This award recognizes outstanding teaching methodologies, attention to the quality of students’ learning and

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TOP AND RIGHT: DR. JOHN POLLARD teaches Chemistry 151 students in the Henry Koffler Building at the UA on Wednesday. kyle mittan/The Daily Wildcat

ABOVE: POLLARD WORKS ON the computer in his office.

the adherence to high standards with regard to both scholarly rigor and relevance of material.

That’s a testament to his approach in putting students first, but the awards aren’t as important as the way that he attempts to engage students.

“The fact that he encourages students to participate in class helps keep their attention and reinforces the material in class,” said Christina Yamada, a veterinary science junior who was in his general chemistry class her freshman year.

UA panel discusses climate change BY mary rinker

The Daily Wildcat The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released its Fifth Assessment Report this past Friday.

A panel of UA scientists convened that day to discuss the findings and how the Southwest is affected by them.

“We’re in the bullseye of climate change,” said Julia Cole, a professor in the Department of Geosciences. “Climate change is happening right here and right now.”

Nearly 1,000 scientists from almost 40 different countries contributed to the IPCC’s report as authors, reviewers and/or editors. The report is based on more than 2 million gigabytes of information, making it arguably the most authoritative reference on climate change for policymakers.

The IPCC stated that “it is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the world’s

A CHART FROM THE IPCC’s latest climate report shows the planet’s rising temperatures from 1901 to 2012.

increased temperature from 1951 to 2010.”

This has caused drastic changes across the planet.

According to the report, the “warming of the climate system is unequivocal and, since the 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over decades to millennia.”

The temperatures for both the atmosphere and oceans have increased, the sea level has risen and greenhouse gases are present in higher concentrations.

Cole clarified that with the effects of climate change, the dry lands will get drier and the wet lands will get wetter.

“The warmer we make the world, the stronger the patterns we are going to see,”

she said.

This means that, with each degree the temperature rises, the impact on plant life, atmosphere, and precipitation will increase at an accelerating rate.

Joellen Russell, an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences, spoke about the IPCC’s findings that the oceans’ acidity and levels are changing. The ocean is heating up, she said. It stores about 93 percent of the heat in the earth’s atmosphere, and it’s getting warmer.

Right now, we’re seeing a bit of a slow in rising temperatures, Russell said, but that’s only because the deep ocean is taking it in.

The heat’s not going away; it’s just being absorbed in larger amounts.

By putting in extra hours, being a student of chemistry and making his materials and lectures as engaging and informational as possible, Pollard is helping students to make lasting connections with objects too small for the human eye to see.

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Michael Crimmins, an associate professor in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Science, covered the change in temperature records. He said that Arizona has had the strongest temperature trend in the lower 48 states, which researchers previously agreed on but is now confirmed by the IPCC. Russell Monson, a Louise Foucar Marshall professor in the School of Natural Resources and Environment, spoke about the findings concerning greenhouse gases.

Carbon dioxide is a big concern right now, with levels reaching 400 parts per million, the highest in the last 800,000 years, a time period that basically covers the entirety of human existence, Monson said.

With higher temperatures and increasing water scarcity, the forests and various other plant life are under greater and greater stress to convert that carbon dioxide into oxygen.

Cole finished the panel by showing how the research applies to the Southwest.

“It’s going to get drier, that much we know for sure,” Cole said. There will likely be less summer rain and a shorter monsoon season.

Vegetation will shift, with water scarcity and higher temperatures pushing them uphill, and animal life will probably follow.

However, Cole said she’s optimistic about the future and believes change is a real possibility.

“It is encouraging to see climate change being picked up as a real risk-management issue outside the scientific community,” Cole said.

— Follow science writer Mary Rinker @DailyWildcat