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The UA School of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture received accreditation for eight years from the National Architectural Accrediting Board for both the school’s Bachelor of Architecture and Master’s of Architecture degrees.

This is the highest level of accreditation available by the accrediting organization.

The Bachelor’s program has been accredited since 1964 and the Master’s program was granted its initial candidacy in 2011, according to the NAAB website.

The school also met some of the 26 student performance criteria set by the NAAB with distinction, with the Bachelor’s degree achieving distinction in 46 percent of the criteria and the Master’s degree achieving 19 percent, according to Robert Miller, director of the school of architecture.

Meeting a standard with distinction sets a “national standard of excellence,” Miller said.

This accreditation did not come without effort.

The NAAB’s criteria covers what needs to be included in classes and syllabuses, what professors need to teach the students and what students have to learn.

These objectives need to be documented, according to CAPLA lecturer Ray Barnes, who was also the archivist for the school’s accreditation.

Each semester, CAPLA

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FIRSTYEAR ARCHITECTURE STUDENT Cameron Bird works on a project for his studio class in the evening on Tuesday, Oct. 4. The UA College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture recently received accreditation for eight years.

and the faculty had to collect students’ projects and models to be archived.

The NAAB required at least two years worth of archived materials for accreditation.

The UA School of Architecture archived materials for over three years to be more prepared before the accreditation this year, Miller said.

The archived material, which filled three storage rooms, required an “incredible amount of participating by all the

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Miller said the national accreditation board reviewed the report in the summer, and the school of architecture learned of its accreditation in July.

Second-year architecture student Raymie Rash said he wasn’t surprised by the school achieving the highest level of accreditation from the NAAB. Rash said when looking for a school to study architecture, he saw that the UA School of Architecture consistently made

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“I think that reflects really great on the school,” he said.

The school had previously received accreditation for its master’s program for two years and its Bachelor’s program for six years.

This was the maximum term available by the NAAB before the accrediting system was changed a few years ago from six years to eight years, according to CAPLA

senior lecturer Brad Lang, who also served on the school committee preparing for accreditation.

The school will not have to be up for accreditation for eight years. Miller called this time a “really fun period” as compared to years before where preparation for the accreditation visit kicks into high gear.

During the years before an accreditation visit, the school doesn’t want to change many things and instead concentrates on the quality of teaching, Miller said.

“Everyone is really excited about the time that we have been given to improve the school, improve the curriculum and the freedom it’s given us to explore a variety of things within those realms,” Miller said.

Part of this exploration includes faculty sessions to discuss what things could be changed to “innovate this education,” Miller said.

He also said one possible change could be the compression of the requirements for the master’s degree.

“There’s a consensus among the faculty that they’re so busy working that they don’t have enough time to really think and explore,” Miller said.

When it comes to students at the school, he said that there is a sense of partnership between them and the faculty.

“Within our school, you can feel when we had the exhibit up, you could feel a lot of pride in the work,” Miller said. “There’s this kind of feeling like we’re doing a good job, we’re doing this together as one big family.”

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UA’s National Institute for Civil Discourse weighs in on Sunday’s presidential town hall

BY RANDALL ECK @reck999

The first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was the most watched presidential debate in this country’s history.

The two candidates will face off in their second of three debates, Sunday, Oct. 9. The debate will air at 6 p.m. MST from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri on all major news networks.

The debate will last approximately 90 minutes and will be conducted in a town hall format. Half of the debate questions will be asked by uncommitted voters from the audience who were selected by the Gallup polling organization.

Each candidate will have two minutes to respond to each question. Moderators Martha Raddatz and Anderson Cooper will then have one minute to further the discussion of the question.

Raddatz is the chief global affairs correspondent and coanchor of “This Week” at ABC,

while Cooper is an acclaimed news anchor for CNN. Raddatz and Cooper will ask the candidates the remaining half of the debate questions. Their questions will be drawn from topics of public interest as reflected in social media and other sources, as laid out by the Commission on Presidential Debates.

Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein will once again not be participating in the debate.

Both nominees failed to meet the 15 percent polling minimum in five national polls to be eligible for participation.

Johnson has one more opportunity to qualify for a debate.

If he did, this would accomplish one of Johnson’s main campaign goals, said Lauren McCarthy, a regional director for the Johnson campaign.

The campaign also hopes to receive at least five percent of the national vote in order to automatically place Libertarians on the ballot in 2020, according to

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Reuters ranks UA No. 63 in world for innovation

BY LEAH MERRALL @leahmerrall

Reuters ranked the UA and the Arizona Board of Regents No. 63 on the Reuters 100: World’s Most Innovative Universities list.

The list ranks educational institutions based on what they’re doing to “advance science, invent technology and help drive the global economy,” according to the Reuters news release.

The ranking relies exclusively on empirical data like patent filings and research paper citations.

The Board of Regents was included in the title because of its involvement in processing patent applications, the Arizona Republic reported.

The UA was the only university from Arizona on the list, as ASU was bumped off the list.

In the description about the UA’s success in innovation on the Reuters website, it reported that the UA has an $8.3 billion annual economic impact on the state and brought in more than $606 million in research investment in fiscal year 2015.

The UA also reported that 14 startups were launched out from the UA and the university executed 97 license and option agreements.

Reuters also referenced the Arizona Center for Innovation, which is housed in the UA Tech Park and is the school’s business incubator. AZCI supported over 100 startups and raised over $30 million in funding since it started in 2003, according to Anita Bell, the center’s acting director.

Bell said she was thrilled the center got a mention in the ranking release and that it really is a testament to all of the work that goes on. She attributes the ranking to the growth that’s taken place over the last few years, especially when it comes to businesses being supported at the center.

“In our case, more is better, because ultimately when we have more companies,—especially if they come out of the university—and we manage to get them into successful companies for the region, it improves everybody,” Bell said.

“There’s better jobs available, and it’s really more economic development for the region.”

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REUTERS RANKED THE UA No. 63 in the world on their list of innovative universities. The Arizona Center for Innovation, housed in the UA Tech Park, was mentioned for its funding and startup efforts.

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Clown panic caused by fake UAlert, social media rumors

BY JESSICA SURIANO @suriano_jessica

Alarm spread through students and parents earlier this week when rumors surfaced that armed clowns were roaming the dormitory buildings and campus. Fake, blurry images of these allegedly nearby clowns went viral on Twitter. The University of Arizona Police Chief, Dean of Students and other UA experts are setting the record straight.

Rumors were also circulating that the Posado San Pedro and Coronado residence halls were evacuated after clowns were sighted within the buildings, but these claims were also untrue, according to Chris Sigurdson, UA’s vice president of communications.

“We need to emphasize that being a clown is not against the law, and dressing up is not against the law,” said UAPD Chief Brian Seastone. “What we’re afraid of is that, because of this frenzy, ... somebody’s going to inadvertently get hurt just because they dressed a certain way.”

Seastone said UAPD received between 20 to 30 calls when panic first broke out about the nonexistent clown sightings.

“Moms and dads back east are being awakened at 3:00 in the morning about false information, and really on information that had no credibility whatsoever,” Seastone said.

Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students Kendal Washington White said one of the biggest pieces of advice the UA wants to stress is that UAlerts come from the university, not through social media.

UAPD is still continuing their investigation of who created and sent out the fake UAlert stating that there were multiple reports of armed and knife-wielding clowns on campus.

“If we could determine who created that and then distributed it, that is definitely a violation of the Code of Conduct,” Washington White said. Seastone said the same violation

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Part of the success of the AZCI comes from the existence of Tech Launch Arizona, Bell said. TLA is responsible for working with researchers to help identify and secure intellectual property that is created during the research process.

David Allen, TLA’s vice president, said innovation at the UA has increased since 2012 when TLA was established. He also said he appreciates that Reuters focused on the dimension of commercialization for innovation, not just the dimension of research for innovation.

“This is not just about only commercialization ... It’s also about the impact of citations and research and everything,” Allen said. “That’s why I think it’s a particularly good index of innovation—because it’s more comprehensive than most.”

could be a criminal act as well.

“If it didn’t come over your own phone, it’s probably not legit,” Seastone said.

In regards to reporting suspicious activity, both Seastone and Washington White said it is important to emphasize there is a difference between propagating rumors and reporting a legitimate sighting.

“Our UAPD colleagues always say ‘if you see something, say something,’ and the key word is ‘see,’ ” Washington White said. “Report what you’re actually seeing, not necessarily what you’re hearing.”

“Now, somebody in a clown outfit itself is not suspicious,” Seastone said. “It’s the action and behavior that makes it suspicious.”

Seastone said suspicious behavior could include anyone lurking around, following people or making threats. In those cases, he encourages students to absolutely call the police.

With Halloween quickly approaching, Seastone and Washington White said they understand people will be in costumes and will want to celebrate the holiday. Seastone said it is just all about “time, place and manner” when it comes to what is in good fun and what goes too far.

“We’re not prudes,” Washington White said.

“We want people to be safe, we want them to be responsible and we also want them to have a great time.”

Catherine Brooks is the director of UA’s Center for Digital Society and Data Studies.

“The role social media plays is that material gets pushed around much faster than it would move if it were face-to-face only, or images in print,” Brooks said. “The big concern I have is: What do you do when you have maybe a real clown and you have almost a mob mentality?”

About 6,000 students at Penn State gathered to hunt and chase clowns after similar rumors had spread on their campus about clown sightings earlier this

The No. 63 ranking is an exciting place to start for both AZCI and TLA, but both Bell and Allen said they think the UA can eventually move up.

“I think we’re going to do better over years,” Allen said. “Maybe on one given year it’s hard to say, but I think that I’m optimistic about our future. I’ve looked at the trajectory of our growth and it’s going to continue, and I think we’re going to have increasing impact.”

Allen said he is proud of where the university stands given the other universities ranked around it. He also said the faculty and research community at the UA deserves kudos.

The ranking is a validation that things are moving along in the right direction for the researchers and innovators.

“I hope it really continues to foster the culture of innovation,” Bell said. “So this is a kind of public stamp of approval and encouragement, [and] I hope that it will encourage more faculty and students to go down that path.”

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A UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Police Department officer talks to a UA student outside Likins residence hall in the early morning of Tuesday, Oct. 4. A fake UAlert was circulated with false information, causing students and parents to worry.

week, according to Brooks. “[That] is very scary because what would have happened had they run into one?”

Brooks said.

Seastone said he does not want people at the UA to get chased for “who they are, what they are or anything else.”

“This isn’t Pokémon,” Seastone said. “Why are we going after and chasing these people down? They have done nothing. The people that are chasing them ultimately could face disciplinary and criminal charges depending on what happens.”

Brooks said false assertions of dangerous clowns are crimes that can “suck up” emergency personnel, which is exactly what happened Monday night.

“We’ll respond and do what we’re supposed to do,” Washington White said. “This hoax stuff is just not a good use of anybody’s time.”

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McCarthy.

Jane Calderwood, the director of congressional programs at the National Institute for Civil Discourse, said the first presidential debate was one of the most uncivil in recent history.

The NICD was created in 2011 following the tragic shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords’ at a Congress on your Corner public meeting which claimed the lives of six individuals. The institute, based at the UA, attempts to promote healthy and civil political discourse.

The institute conducted a survey on the night of the presidential debate and found that debate watchers viewed Clinton’s performance as more civil compared to that of Trump, according to Calderwood.

The survey found 78 percent of respondents believed Trump failed to respond to the questions posed during the debate. Only 31 percent felt this way about Clinton.

Less than 50 percent of respondents felt Trump

“Because the clown has become the latest thing to fear, given social media, the new variety of bomb threat this week is not a bomb at all—it’s a clown wandering down the road,” Brooks said.

Brooks compared the clown-sighting hoax to “the latest meme” that inundates social media briefly with all kinds of users’ reactions and hype.

Clowns in this situation could be considered a group offset from the rest of the public, and others might feel like encouraging the hoax because they see how much disruption it can cause, according to Diana Daly, an assistant professor in the school of Information.

“It has to do with people wanting to feel like part of a larger threat,” Daly said. “This behavior is generally understood as a public reaction against a counter public.

took responsibility for his past errors. A much more significant portion felt Clinton did.

Calderwood said she’s cautiously hopeful that the second presidential debate will be a more civil affair.

She said debates should provide voters with an opportunity to hear the candidates policies on important issues.

The institute partnered with the University Center for Politics this election cycle to promote civility. The institute sent standards of civil discourse to the campaigns and debate moderators.

The institute plans to conduct another survey after the second presidential debate.

The NICD feels it is very important that the public watches the presidential debates, learns about the candidates and decides for themselves who they will cast their vote for.

The last day to register to vote in Arizona for November’s election is Oct. 10, or the day after the second presidential debate.

The last day for UA students to request a mail in ballot is Oct. 28.

Calderwood said whoever wins or loses, the American people need to go out and vote and express their views to shape the country’s future.

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POLICE BEAT

BY AVA GARCIA @ava_garcia1

Phone fight University of Arizona Police Department officers went to Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall in response to a possible fight in one of the rooms on Sept. 24. When officers arrived, they didn’t hear or see and signs of fighting from inside the room.

Officers knocked on the room’s door and asked the residents to open the door.

A minute later, a male student opened the door with blood on his face and hands, and the officer saw another male student in the room with blood on his face. Two chairs were turned over in the room and there were items laying on the floor.

The second student was the resident of the room while the one who had opened the door was a resident of Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall. When the officers asked the men if they needed medical attention, they both said no. The AZ-SO resident said he had come to the room to find his phone because he thought it was in the room, and the room’s resident was trying to go to bed and wanted him to leave.

The AZ-SO resident wouldn’t leave until he found his phone, and this angered the room resident and the two men got in a shoving match. The resident said the chairs had been overturned when the AZ-SO resident was looking for his phone, and the blood on his face was from his nose, which he had injured earlier when he fell at a football game. The room’s resident said the blood on his own face was not his. Neither student wanted to press charges against the other. The AZ-SO resident’s phone was found in the room and returned to him. Both students had Code of Conduct violations and were referred to the Dean of Students. $50 or a fake ID When UAPD officers were conducting a security check of UA parking lots and nearby properties on Sept. 24 when they noticed a man wearing a flat backpack, which is sometimes consistent with underage people waiting for alcohol, outside the Metro Wildcat.

The officer then saw another man walk towards the front of the store with a 30-pack of beer. The officer asked to speak with the man, who said he was underage and that an older man had gotten the beer for him.

The officer asked to speak to the first man, who said he was the second man’s roommate and that he had gone to the store to buy chips and his roommate had asked if he wanted beer, and he said yes and that he used his fake ID to buy the beer. He said it was his first time using the fake ID and that a friend had owed him $50 but had gotten him the fake ID instead. When asked about it, he got out a second fake ID. The man was cited and released for charges of misrepresentation to purchase spirituous liquor, possession of a fictitious license and minor in possession. The other man received an FYI and the officers poured out the beer.

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This is more or less the media narrative that has coalesced on the night of the debate: The affair was not really important overall, but Kaine was pushy

BY RAAD ZAGHLOUL and Pence held his own. @DailyWildcat What is mentioned all too infrequently is the extent to ere’s a headline you’d which the Republican candidate never see run in a lied his way through the debate. major newspaper: “Vice As Dylan Matthews presidential debate changes mentioned in an excellent course of election.” As much as piece for Vox, ignoring this fact MSNBC would like you to believe while evaluating the rhetorical otherwise, the debate between capabilities of each man is, at Sen. Tim Kaine and Gov. Mike best, theater criticism.

Pence was less a “showdown” To be fair, American than an inconsequential presidential politics has rarely, skirmish in a meadow adjacent if ever, been a sober, data-driven to the main battlefield. examination of dueling policies.

There are, however, ominous That will not change in the year underpinnings to the so-called Donald J. Trump is running for “battle of the dads.” this nation’s highest office.

It will take the If anything, this casual political debate should observer about been a mild What the have 10 seconds to distraction from read 10 different American the repulsive accounts about electorate neon histrionics how Gov. Pence got instead was of this election won the debate. cycle. Both a terrible piece of vice president There are polls to prove it, too political theater and candidates (allegedly). an excellent example have legitimate Sen. Kaine in of lying as debate experience did not exactly both national cover himself strategy" and local politics with glory from and, more a rhetorical importantly, standpoint; he are infinitely interrupted his less interesting opponent 60 times and often than the upper half of their came off as desperate in the respective tickets. face of Gov. Pence’s Midwestern What the American electorate stoicism, which itself got instead was a terrible piece approached caricature at times. of political theater and an Indiana’s esteemed governor excellent example of lying as did have his own gaffe almost debate strategy. immediately, referring to When faced with things his host Longwood University as candidate did or said, Gov. “Norwood University,” which Pence simply lied. does not exist. To his credit, When Sen. Kaine asked him Pence did spend most of the to defend Mr. Trump’s position debate in “silently disapproving that “more nations should get dad” mode, against which nuclear weapons,” Gov. Pence Kaine’s roiling indignation broke astoundingly said, “He never time after time. said that.”

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Mr. Trump, on record and on camera, has said that he would be fine if South Korea, Japan and Saudi Arabia acquired nuclear weapons.

This moment is but a tear in a torrent; after a few feeler exchanges, the two candidates worked out a routine.

Sen. Kaine or moderator Elaine Quijano would ask Gov. Pence about a certain Trumpism; Pence would lie or flat-out ignore the question; Sen. Kaine would protest impotently. Rinse and repeat for 90 minutes.

Lying does seem like a wildfire in the age of communication: You can control the way you contain or extinguish the flame, but it is difficult to stand in front of a burning forest and say, “My, how the trees are growing today.”

Yet here Mike Pence stands, shoulders squared, amid the

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smoke and ashy detritus spewed forth from the bilious depths of the Trump campaign, talking calmly about green leaves and growth rates.

Pence has been praised by some in the GOP for being a “principled Republican,” but principles of any kind were scarce at Longwood University on Tuesday night.

Perhaps Gov. Pence knows his function all too well. By the dint of his jawbone, by the virtue of his uncontroversial coiffure, he is an acceptable vessel for the least acceptable aspects of the Republican ticket.

The flip-flopping and straight-up lying just sounds better coming from the statesman-like Indianan.

Or, perhaps, Gov. Pence has grander ambitions. Failed vice presidential candidates in recent years have been a mixed

bag. Republican Paul Ryan has since gone on to become the most powerful Republican in the country, while Sarah Palin has become a punchline, albeit a very rich punchline.

In any case, Mr. Trump’s running mate, co-conspirator and hostage looked like a president. If American politics has indeed become hostile to facts of any kind, his prospects are bright for 2020—assuming the Clinton-Kaine ticket is successful this year.

Again, it is more likely than not that this debate will be an unpleasant footnote in the annals of presidential campaign history.

However, perhaps there is more to it; maybe lying in the face of facts and logic can win you a debate, but only if you do it with a straight face and a reasonable haircut.

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Not all endorsements are good endorsements

BY JACKSON MORRISON @DailyWildcat

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ith the presidential election rolling into its final stretch after what feels like years, the candidates have cemented their public image. A large part of a candidate’s image is the endorsements the candidate receives from various groups, but what happens if a politician receives an endorsement from an unsavory group?

Do they have an obligation to reject the endorsement?

This presidential election has been particularly gruesome, with a new personal attack springing up on what seems to be a daily basis. While both sides are guilty of this, one particularly successful form of rhetoric on behalf of the Clinton campaign is to paint Trump as a racist or a bigot.

It’s no secret that Trump has pulled in supporters with radical ideas about race and nationalism. Supporters such as David Duke and Matthew Heimbach point to a trend of Trump resonating with white nationalists— also known as the alt-right.

While Trump has gone on to eventually disavow endorsements from various groups commonly considered hate groups, many

analysts believe he was slow and reluctant to do so.

The Clinton campaign has been quick to point to these endorsements as a representation of a very evil core in Trump’s character. The Clinton campaign has even gone so far as to bring poor Pepe the Frog into the political fray.

I don’t believe that these endorsements are actually as problematic as they may appear.

Ultimately, the alt-right has a political agenda they seek to advocate, and while the superiority of the white race, an end to all Muslim immigration and extreme segregation of the races are all evil, terrible goals for our country, the alt-right takes rational steps to see them through.

Despite what someone on the internet may have told you—yes, I do recognize the irony that a large number of this paper’s readers are digital—Trump does not advocate for the superiority of the white race. It’s true that he is against affirmative action and has not embraced political movements such as Black Lives Matter, but this does not make him a member of the alt-right; rather, Trump is a conservative with radical—but not evil—views.

By endorsing Trump, the alt-right is not recognizing Trump as one of their own. Instead, they are simply acknowledging that their goals will be more easily met in the future if Trump were to become president than if Hillary were to become president.

Trump has come under fire this election for his slow response to reject alt-right endorsements. In a national election such

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Tucson author Shannon Baker discusses literary journeys, mysteries, new novel

BY GRETCHYN KAYLOR @notsowild_cat

Shannon Baker, a local Tucson author, has experienced and written mostly about the Southwest since moving here from rural Nebraska.

In her newest mystery novel, “Stripped Bare,” Baker revisits the sandhills of Nebraska, a region which with she has a complex relationship.

Baker has found success in her writing career with her first trilogy, the “Nora Abbott Mysteries,” which led to recognition as a finalist in the New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards in 2013 and as the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers’ Writer of the Year in 2014.

Baker told the Daily Wildcat about her journey back to Nebraska, the place where she spent 20 years of her post-college life.

“When I was living out in the sandhills, I really needed a creative outlet,” Baker said. “So, I started to write.”

Her straight-out-of-college job required her to look busy around a boss who was particular about what she could do in the office.

Baker found that during the long hours of the afternoon, sitting and making up stories was a both productive and encouraging outlet.

Though the writer has a business background, she remembered back even earlier to her first encounters with writing and being staved.

“When I was in grade school, I wrote this poem and it got all this attention,” Baker said. “Then my older sister finally took notice of it and said, ‘That’s fine, but I’m the writer in the family.’ ” Clearly, this was not too discouraging, and neither was the long road to her first novel being published in 2013.

It took Baker close to 20 years to publish that first novel, and she notes that most writers, especially of fiction, are said to have to write a million words before they ever see themselves published.

Baker said she sort of happened upon her genre.

She received a response regarding her first “Nora Abbott Mystery” manuscript that claimed

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SHANNON BAKER, AUTHOR OF “Stripped Bare,” signs a copy of her book at a Barnes & Noble book signing in Tucson on Sunday, Oct. 2. Baker is a Tucson author and will be at Clues Unlimited for an author event on Saturday, Oct. 8.

the novel fell under the mystery genre. This made Baker realize there was more to come for Nora Abbot’s character, as mystery readers tend to prefer series.

She found that the best ways to expand her work was in the details, which is something her readers note about her.

“Scenery and setting are as much a part of my books as any character,” Baker said.

After seeing her first three novels take place in Flagstaff, Boulder, New Mexico and Moab, Utah, Baker turned back to the place from which she had strayed away for 10 years.

The “Nora Abbott Mysteries”

dealt with Hopi Indian spirituality and environmental issues, as well as murder.

In returning to the Nebraska sandhills, she worked with the superficial bleakness of the environment and the complicated relationships in a place where cattle outnumber people.

“It took me all this time just to get my sense of humor back about the place,” Baker said. “Kate Fox just walked into my head one day and I said, ‘Okay, let’s see what you can do here.’ ” Baker traveled back to the barren land in order to rein it in again in her mind, setting down this character, Kate Fox.

Kate, who has lived in the sandhills her entire life, has a huge family there and thrives there. That is, until the novel’s troublesome events transpire.

This fictional life is very different to Baker’s personal experience.

“I was 21 when I first moved out there—a new bride,” Baker said about herself. “After a month, I wanted to leave, but I was too embarrassed, so I stuck it out and learned to love this weird place.”

Baker noted that when Kate Fox’s life turns upside down, the drama unfolds in sync with the volatile weather of an April in rural Nebraska.

Though Baker describes the

sand hills as being the dunes of the Sahara Desert covered with grass, it is a grassland which gets hit by a blizzard as Kate’s life is rocked.

When it comes to her inspiration, Baker notes that all her writing is really an extension of reading and that she is always reading.

One thing that is for sure, though—Baker and all her readers will be glad she was bold and triumphed in order to share the story of “Stripped Bare.” All that is left is to find out if Kate Fox can do the same.

Shannon Baker will be at Clues Unlimited for a book signing, Saturday at 2 p.m.

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S U R V I V E brought dark synth-pop to Tucson S U R V I V E, the band behind the ‘Stranger Things’ soundtrack, played its second show of the year at Hotel Congress on Tuesday night

BY NINA ULLOA @nine_u

S U R V I V E, a four-piece band from Austin, Texas, came through town on Tuesday night. The band played a packed show at Hotel Congress, kicking off its U.S. tour for their new album RR7349.

Why should you care about S U R V I V E? You’ve probably already heard their work.

Band members Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein created the soundtrack behind Netflix’s mega-popular “Stranger Things.”

Adam Jones and Mark Donica make up the other half of the band.

Their Tucson show, which followed an intial album release party in Austin, was their second gig of the year.

The release of “Stranger Things” came at the perfect time.

The show’s popularity raised awareness of the band right before the Sept. 30 release of S U R V I V E’s RR7349.

“Maybe people who heard the music in the show were like ‘Oh, this is really cool,’” Jones said. “But a lot of the soundtrack stuff is formatted to be watched with film, and the album is made to be listened to by itself. So I think a lot of people can hear the stuff on the show, maybe they even bought the soundtrack … But then they listen to the album and are like ‘Oh, okay. This is more of a listening experience.’”

The unconventional album name stands for Relapse Records, release number 7349.

S U R V I V E names all their releases after the catalog number assigned by the record label.

The band makes dark electronic music, but Relapse Records specializes in metal.

The label has released albums from Mastodon, Pig Destroyer and Baroness.

When Relapse first reached out to S U R V I V E, it came as a surprise, but the band saw it as a way to reach a new fan base. The members said they’re happy with their label choice.

“We got put on a handful of metal shows early on and the crowd always liked it, so we knew it worked,” Stein said.

Jones said that in his experience touring with Relapse’s metal bands, fans tended to spend a lot of money on albums.

“I will say that metal fans are big collectors of records,” Jones said. “So I’m sure in like a year, we could put out a deluxe gatefold edition with some gold leaf imprinting text on it or something like that. And it would cost like $45, and people would be like ‘Hell yeah, I’m gonna pre-order that shit.’”

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MICHAEL STEIN OF S U R V I V E, veiled in fog and darkness, works at his synthesizer during the band’s performance at Hotel Congress on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Stein worked with fellow band member Kyle Dixon to compose the theme song for the hit TV series, “Stranger Things.”

S U R V I V E is still getting used to the notoriety and mainstream visibility “Stranger Things” brought the band.

Interview requests have rushing in, taking time away from the band’s other activities.

“It’s not regular compared to what our lives have been like up until now,” Jones said. “It’s cool.”

If you like “Stranger Things” and need some new music, the band has some suggestions. They created a Spotify playlist full of dark synth music.

The playlist includes tour opener Majeure and Lydia Ainsworth, who plays a show at Congress on Oct. 29.

“There’s actually a lot of women on that mixtape, which is cool because I don’t think that gets represented as often in electronic music,” Dixon said. “There’s Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Suzanne Ciani, that’s very nice, floaty kind of stuff. And then Lena Willikens is pretty aggressive, sick techno.”

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ADAM JONES OF S U R V I V E plays a synthesizer while partially shrouded in fog and colored lights at Hotel Congress on Tuesday, Oct. 4. S U R V I V E is comprised of Mark Donica, Kyle Dixon, Adam Jones and Michael Stein.

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Say goodbye to Bookmans Sports Exchange

BY SHANE HOLLY @shaneholly94

Bookmans Entertainment Exchange, arguably Tucson’s favorite second-hand bookstore, plans to undergo some changes as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

To commemorate 40 years of operating in the Old Pueblo, all six locations will be hosting a social media scavenger hunt until Nov. 13.

On a less positive note, the Bookmans Sports Exchange store on Speedway Boulevard will close, but the Entertainment Exchange store on Grant Road will fill its spot.

The sports exchange will stay open until early 2017 or until it can sell off most of its inventory, which has been discounted by 25 percent.

The decision to close the sporting goods branch comes with surprising openness from the leaders at Bookmans.

“The supply of used goods coming in from our customers couldn’t keep up with the demand,” said Sean Feeney, Bookmans president. “This forced us to stock more new items than we ever intended to, which wasn’t in keeping with our Bookmans identity.”

In light of 40 successful years, the Bookmans team is reeling back a little bit and returning to their roots—books.

By moving to the Speedway Boulevard location, sandwiched between Whole Foods and Performance Bicycle, the store will receive a much-needed facelift.

In doing so, the company solidifies its mission and reaffirms its future success in the Tucson marketplace.

“We are excited to be reinvesting in our roots by moving our Grant [Road] location to a remodeled and updated building,” Feeney said.

While this news may come as a blow to the store’s sporty customer base, all lovers of $3 books and fans of buying banjos and Madden ’98 in the same store will rejoice.

The store hopes to invigorate this excitement through the social media scavenger hunt.

The 40-years-in-40-days celebration will upload a “daily directive,” which prompts viewers to either find an item or complete a task in one of the Bookmans Entertainment Exchange locations, according to Caity Evans, community relations for Bookmans Tucson.

“What better way to celebrate than by sharing the Bookmans birthday wealth with our awesome customers?” Evans asked.

So turn on your phones and put on your detective hats, because each completion of a daily directive automatically enters you into a raffle to win a Bookmans prize pack.

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Utah’s defense, run game pivotal in showdown with Wildcats

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The Arizona Wildcats football team will take on the Utah Utes in Salt Lake City on Saturday night. The Daily Wildcat spoke with Daily Utah Chronicle sports editor Kim Brenneisen to get a deeper look into the Utes and the challenge they will pose for Arizona.

previous two starts, and the two of them will probably have a similar amount of carries.

For the defense, Chase Hansen has been a versatile player. He is able to put pressure on the quarterback when necessary, and he has caused a few turnovers.

What has been the team’s response to the goal line defeat at California?

That loss was hard on the team, but the Utes also understand they can’t keep digging themselves a hole.

In back-to-back games, they have gone down by 14 points, and it isn’t going to get any easier. It seems like they are ready to bounce back; Whittingham’s teams tend to perform well following a close loss.

DW: Utah has had some great success the past couple years, yet has not been able to get a hold on how to beat Arizona. Why? KIMBERLY KB: For one reason or another, BRENNEISEN Utah head coach Kyle Whittingham has never been able to bet Rich Rodriguez while he has coached Arizona.

The Utes haven’t blocked the run game as Who or what should Arizona be concerned well as they would like, and that’s one thing with this weekend?

Going back to the offensive line and the that has worked to Arizona’s favor in the past. Arizona is also a team that can score in run game—if Arizona can put a stop to that, it will take a lot of momentum from Utah’s side. big chunks.

While Utah’s defense can typically do a Also, the Utes use the run game to eat up a lot decent job of stalling teams or preventing of the clock. So again, the run game should the opposing team from scoring as much as be of concern. it typically does, the offense has a hard time matching what the opposing team brings to If Arizona wins at Utah, especially considering the year it is having, what does the field. that mean for coach Kyle Whittingham?

I don’t know that this particular loss has any What has been the key for Utah on both effect on Whittingham. Honestly, I think it just sides of the ball?

After a disappointing first game, the means once again, he can’t beat Rodriguez.

It will have an effect on Whittingham in a offensive line has turned it around, and it’s because of the offensive line’s play that the sense that he’s going to have to demand a lot more from his players. run game has been successful.

There has yet to be one game this season The starting running back at the beginning of the season, Joe Williams, didn’t have great where all of Utah’s units are playing up to ball security in the first two games, and his standard, and Whittingham has not shied name dropped off the depth chart in the third away from replacing people if the situation week of the season. Williams then retired warrants it. from football two days later.

However, the backup running backs have How many wins do you expect Utah to have this stepped up. Armand Shyne will be starting on season? What is your prediction for the game?

I expect Utah to go 9-3 this season, but I Saturday for the first time. Zack Moss had the

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say that with a lot of hesitancy. There were a lot of high hopes for this season, but there are a lot of unresolved issues that won’t seem to go away.

Injuries (although Whittingham will tell you that’s a “loser’s game”) have taken a toll on the team. The Utes lost their starting center, J.J. Dielman, for the season, and

the transition to the backup wasn’t great against Cal. That being said, I still see them winning nine games this season, but that number, of course, falls short of where they would have liked to finish.

Saturday’s game will be close—too close for comfort—but I think Utah pulls out a 3128 win.

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Winning becoming a necessity for Arizona soccer

BY RYAN KELAPIRE @RKelapireUA

After starting the season with a 5-1-1 record, the Arizona women’s soccer team has lost its last four games, including its first three Pac-12 Conference games. The Wildcats’ once-hot start to the season has cooled considerably, as they now sit at 5-5-1 record.

The Rocky Mountain schools— Utah and Colorado—swept the Wildcats at home last weekend, giving Arizona three losses in its last three home games.

“Right now, we’re trying to regroup and trying to get that first [conference] win,” UA defender Laura Pimienta said. “We’ll progress from there.”

Maybe a change of scenery will help the Wildcats regroup. Arizona will leave Tucson and travel to the Pacific Northwest this weekend, where it’ll face Washington State and Washington.

The first game of the twogame road trip is in Pullman, Washington, against Washington State on Thursday night.

“They’re a good team,” Arizona head coach Tony Amato said of the Cougars. “They’re tough, they run hard and they’re tough to beat, especially there.”

Arizona hasn’t won a road game this season (0-2-1), but it did manage to knock off the thenNo. 16 Cougars in the Wildcats’ trip to Pullman last season.

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Arizona squeaked out a 1-0 victory despite being outshot 2612. Wildcats goalkeeper Lainey Burdett had a career-high nine saves in the match and was subsequently named Pac-12 Conference Goalkeeper of the Week after keeping the Cougars out of the net.

Amato believes a similar performance will be needed if Arizona is going to escape with

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Pac-12 in digs per set with a 16.33 11 a.m. matchup Sunday. This match average. The Trojans’ libero Taylor will also air on Pac-12 Networks.

UCLA will enter Whittingham leads this weekend with the defense and is the conference’s Until we can an 11-3 record, even playing 12 of its reigning Defensive get our full after first 13 matches on Player of the Week. lineup back, the road.

USC’s reliable defense is coupled The Bruins’ three it is going to be a with a powerful loses came against little harder to score No. 19 offense to make the Colorado, against the upper- No. 10 Washington team a formidable level teams in the State and No. 5 San opponent.

Middle blocker conference.” Diego, so UCLA has proven thus far that Elise Ruddins leads it can only be beat the Pac-12 with a .473 —Dave Rubio, by the best. hitting percentage Arizona head coach to give the team the The Bruins are edge needed to reach another team with 10 wins. a powerful offense and sound defense.

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another road victory against WSU. “They had shots, but we limited them to the kind of shots that it would be really special if they scored,” Amato said. “And Lainey had a really good game as well. She made some big saves last year, so we’ll need a lot of the same. We’ll need them to miss a chance or two; we’ll need Lainey to come up with a big save or two.

And if they’re going to have 25,

18.06 digs per set, ranking the Bruins fifth nationally. With five hitters averaging more than two kills per set, UCLA also leads the Pac-12 in kills.

The Wildcats hope to debut their ideal starting lineup this weekend in Los Angeles. Both Kendra Dahlke— who underwent concussion protocol—and Kalei Mau—who just returned to the lineup—are expected to start on Friday.

The last time this Wildcats squad took on UCLA—in November 2015— it defeated the then-No. 11 Bruins in a five-set showdown in McKale Center.

The Pac-12 is filled with talent this year. Seven of the 12 teams are ranked in the top 25, and Arizona is scheduled to face all seven of those teams this season.

With a more than tough road ahead, the Wildcats are looking for at least a split this weekend so they can hang around in a talented conference.

26 shots, they gotta be from bad angles and long range.”

Washington State was the team to lose while out-shooting its opponent last season, but it’s been happening quite often to Arizona this season.

The Wildcats have outshot their opponents 57-46 during their four-game losing streak, but they’ve been outscored 9-2 in that same span.

Simply put, Arizona has had trouble capitalizing on scoring chances lately.

“I think we just need to work on…our composure in front of the goal,” said UA forward Paige Crouch, who scored Arizona’s lone goal in its 2-1 loss to Utah on Sunday. “Everyone [has to] kind of do their part and reflect in the mirror and see ‘what I need to do better next week’ to help the team win.”

Just like Arizona, Washington State is 5-5-1 on the season, but it has a 5-2-1 record at home.

“It’s just tough travel, it’s a tough environment and it’s just hard to go there and win,” Amato said. “They’re a good team and it’s difficult to get in and out of Pullman. You gotta know you have a big challenge ahead and find a way to win.”

The Wildcats have found ways to beat the Cougars recently, as they’ve beaten them in two straight contests, even if the shot differential has favored WSU. “We know it’s a big challenge and if the game looks exactly like last year, I’ll take it,” Amato said.

“If they outshoot us and we win, I can live with that.”

Kickoff in Pullman is set for 7 p.m., and afterward, the Wildcats will travel to Seattle to face Washington on Sunday afternoon, with the game time set for 1 p.m.

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ARIZONA VOLLEYBALL PLAYER MCKENZIE Jacobson (18) spikes the ball against USC on Wednesday, November 26, 2015. The Wildcats will look to swing their luck against ranked opponents this weekend in Southern California.

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UA volleyball looks to flip the script vs. ranked teams

BY NIKKI BAIM @nikkibaim22

Arizona women’s volleyball has a tough weekend in front of them, facing two ranked division foes. The Wildcats are traveling to Los Angeles to play USC on Friday and UCLA on Sunday.

The Wildcats head to California having split a home series with the Oregon schools last weekend. Arizona—a team that struggles against ranked opponents—will try to shake off a four-set home loss to No. 21 Oregon on Saturday.

“I thought at times that we played well,” said Arizona head coach Dave Rubio per Arizona Athletics. “I am frustrated that we didn’t play well at all of the right moments.

I felt like we were playing from behind a lot in this particular game. The thing that we know is that we have got to be very good at the service line and tonight, we weren’t. They were better than we were. Our serve receive wasn’t that sharp and so that hurts us. Until we can get our full lineup back, it is going to be a little harder for us to score against the upper-level teams in the conference.”

Senior outside hitter Kalei Mau’s return from a back injury certainly played a factor in the Wildcats’ victory over Oregon State last Friday.

“After being down for two weeks, we were very lucky Kalei was able to play at least front row,” Rubio said following the victory over the Beavers. “She was a big reason we were able to play as well as we did, especially offensively.”

Mau expressed how it felt to be back out on the floor after missing five matches and several more sets.

“It felt awesome,” Mau said. “It really helped me to know I still have a lot to play for.

I’m out there every day giving it all I’ve got.”

Arizona’s attention now turns to No. 22 USC and No. 18 UCLA. The USC match starts at 7 p.m. and will air on Pac-12 Networks.

The Trojans had a slow start to their 2016 campaign, but have since turned their season around.

USC dropped its first three matches against unranked opponents, but have rebounded and now stand with a 10-5 record.

The Trojans are .500 at home this season, with all three of their losses coming on their home court.

Defensively, USC is second in the

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ARIZONA DEFENSE TRAPS UTAH running back Davontae Booker (23) during Arizona’s 37-30, double-overtime win against Utah on Nov. 14, 2015, at Arizona Stadium. The Wildcats haven’t won a game in conference play this season.

Arizona looks to fend off vengeful No. 24 Utah for first Pac-12 win

BY IVAN LEONARD @Ivan14bro

Arizona football heads to Utah to take on the No. 24-ranked Utes on the gridiron Saturday.

Utah is coming off of a heartbreaking loss of 28-23 at California. Utah drove all the way to the 1-yard line, but was unable to punch it in as time expired.

Arizona is looking to get back to .500 as the Wildcats sit at 2-3 after a 45-24 loss to UCLA last weekend. While its performance was not the best, the team said the loss was due to a lack of execution rather than game plan.

“There is nothing that we did in the game that needs to be changed; we just need to be better,” cornerback Davonte’ Neal said. “We need to do our assignments better and cover better. We went in there prepared; we just did not perform.”

Arizona upset a No. 10-ranked Utah team in overtime last season to ruin the Utes’ possible bid to a New Year’s Six bowl game, so Utah

will be looking for revenge Saturday night. The Wildcats pulled off a 38-31 upset capped off by Nate Phillips’s game-winning touchdown in overtime on Senior Night.

Under head coach Rich Rodriguez, Arizona has had success in this series, winning the last four matchups over Utah.

The Utes are led by quarterback Troy Williams, who has thrown for 1,259 yards and six touchdowns to four interceptions this season.

Tim Patrick leads the Utes in every receiving category with 24 catches for 429 yards and five of Williams’ six touchdowns. While Williams’ numbers don’t jump off of the page, Arizona is not taking this signal caller lightly.

“He is definitely a good quarterback,” Arizona safety Paul Magloire said. “He is accurate and he is athletic, so it is something you see on film that jumps off screen.”

For the Utes, this game is about getting back on track in the Pac-12 South. At 1-1 in conference play, they are one game back of division leader

and No. 21-ranked Colorado. Utah is in a threeway tie for second with UCLA and ASU, so this game is important for the sense of positioning.

Injuries have decimated Arizona this season as 28 Wildcats made the injury report this week, including 18 starters. The Wildcats’ bye week is not for another two weeks, so head coach Rich Rodriguez could be shorthanded against Utah on Saturday and USC next week.

One of Saturday’s biggest question marks is who will take the snaps for Arizona. With injuries to both Anu Solomon and Brandon Dawkins, freshman Khalil Tate could see some action—and as a starter.

Tate saw the field in the loss to UCLA and went 5-for-9 for 72 yards and two touchdowns in the second half. He was also the team’s leading rusher with 79 yards on 15 carriers.

Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. on Foxsports Network.

The Wildcats return to Tucson next weekend to take on USC for Family Weekend.