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At least 200 people gathered in a circle on the UA Mall for a candle ceremony Monday night to commemorate the life of a UA student. Jack Cilek passed away Sunday after battling cancer, but his life was the focus of the ceremony on Monday night. The ceremony, coordinated by Delta Sigma Pi fraternity, lasted about an hour and was filled with laughter,

tears, hugs and endless stories. The people in attendance were from various groups on campus. Cilek had been involved in Delta Sigma Pi, one of the business fraternities on campus, as well as Primus Freshman Honorary and SMORES Sophomore Honorary. The ceremony began with lighting candles and then people sat in silence as others shared their memories and experiences with Cilek. Mary Page Decker, Cilek’s first cousin, thanked everyone for attending the ceremony and

emphasized the need to celebrate Cilek’s life. “He is obviously a special person who touched all your lives,” Mary Page Decker said, to which everyone in the circle raised their candles. Mary Page Decker’s husband, Brian Decker, acknowledged the turnout of the ceremony and how many people were in attendance. “I see all of you and it’s truly an inspiring thing,” Brian Decker said. Sassy and loving were the two common words people used during the ceremony to share their

memories and stories of Cilek. Chris Chavez, a political science junior, said Cilek loved everyone and also recalled Cilek’s sass. “If there’s anything that Jack taught me, it’s to be sassy,” Chavez said. “He loved everyone.” Lauren Maxwell, a public health junior who had been in SMORES with Cilek, also alluded to his sassiness and said one of her memories of Cilek was him taking pictures of random people, sending them to

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COMING OUT WEEK The supreme court refuses to hear appeals on samesex marriage bans, which may impact marriage equality in Arizona

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The UA Young Democrats had a table set up on the mall to get people to vote, as well as to show its support for the LGBTQ community. “We are really hoping to display how aligned the Democratic Party is with the LGBTQ community,” said Michael Sheridan, a political science senior and treasurer of the UA Young Democrats. Members of the Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and

UA student leaders are awaiting an Arizona federal judge’s decision on whether to overturn the state’s ban on same-sex marriage or not. As of Monday morning, 60 percent of the United States has legalized same-sex marriage. Arizona is among the 40 percent of the country that has not, prompting the question of when the state will join the majority. Alaska had its ban on samesex marriage overturned Sunday evening, and the Supreme Court denied appeals last week from five states that desired to retain their bans on same-sex marriage. Arizona has had a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage since 2008 under Proposition 102. Arizona also recently witnessed SB 1062 spiral into controversy, which protected religious freedoms at the expense of equality for same-sex couples. Toni Massaro, a regents’ professor in the James E. Rogers College of Law, said she believes the Supreme Court’s denial of appeals last week will affect Arizona’s Proposition 102. Massaro said Arizona is in the 9th Circuit and faces the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that overturned same-sex marriage bans in Idaho and Nevada. “The logic of the holding by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals applies equally to the Arizona prohibition, such that the federal district court judges in Arizona who are currently reviewing the Arizona law almost certainly will strike down the Arizona law as unconstitutional under controlling circuit law,” Massaro said. Greg Daniels, co-director of Pride Alliance, said he looks at

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MARIIA KHOROSHEVA, a graduate student studying language, reading and culture, spray paints a shirt at the Coming Out Week resource fair on the UA Mall on Monday. Coming Out Week gives students support to come out to their parents and friends.

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The UA celebration of Coming Out Week from National Coming Out Day onwards is leading up to Arizona’s decision to repeal the state ban on same sex marriage or not. Campus organizations, as well as local Tucson organizations, lined the mall Monday from the morning to the afternoon to provide educational resources for the campus community.

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Living Out Loud, a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning health and wellness center in Tucson, was one of the local organizations to come out to the UA and kick off Coming Out Week. Chad Mosher, program coordinator at Living Out Loud, said Living Out Loud is also a gender center and offers gender conformation. “Our hopes were to give people the message that we’re here to support the health and wellness of everyone,” Mosher said.

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I think that, for the people who gay marriage affects, it will make them happier, and for those who it doesn’t affect, it won’t affect them at all. Overall, campus will be the same — it will be a specific group of people just being happier. - Lidia Obregon, undeclared sophomore

I think marriage equality won’t really affect our campus, seeing as we are already a super liberal campus. It is kinda ‘go for whatever you want’ right now already because you can speak your mind, because it is a public university. The people who want to get married will be able to get married. - Mary Kate Wahlers, a sophomore studying prefamily studies and human development and psychology

I pretty much think that campus would stay the same. People who are very supportive of marriage will be the same, same for people who are here on campus want to get married. It would improve people’s outlooks. I don’t really think it would hurt anybody, because we are pretty open here on campus. - Garrett Biselli, marketing junior

Campus wouldn’t change, because everyone would be happy. Those who want marriage equality would be happy as well. - Kaylene Bauman, elementary education junior

I think that marriage equality [is] an absolutely exciting thing for our campus, and that our campus is already a very open place and university and it would only enhance our acceptance of gay marriage. - Cristina Florez, nutrition senior

-- Compiled by Ariella Noth


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