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Andrew Comrie, the senior vice president for Academic Affairs and Provost, poses for a photo in his office on Friday, Oct. 16. The university has recently made efforts to improve the pay for non-tenure track faculty members.

Calls for better pay answered

BY Michelle jaquette The Daily Wildcat

The UA recently invested close to $600,000 to improve the salaries of its non-tenure track faculty. The Provost’s Office began looking to make these improvements at the beginning of the new budget year, July 1, per the recommendation of the Non-Tenure Track Faculty Task Force.

The Non-Tenure Track Faculty Task Force was put in place by the faculty senate to explore issues involving non-tenure track faculty in general.

“One of the issues that came up for certain kinds of non-tenure track faculty was the compensation,” said Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and Provost Andrew Comrie.

The provost found that the largest group of non-tenure track instructors not receiving appropriate pay were the instructors of the English department, with a total of 26.5 lecturers.

“All the writing instructors for things like freshman composition class, that kind of thing,” Comrie said.

The second-largest group of underpaid nontenure track faculty involved 32 faculty members across four departments in the College of Humanities: the departments of East Asian studies, German studies, French and Italian, and Spanish and Portuguese.

The UA invested $238,722 for the 26.5 lecturer positions and $322,930 in the other 32 faculty positions. The raises became effective Aug. 17 for the first group and Sept. 1 for the second.

Roughly 1,000 of the 2,500 educational instructors at the UA are non-tenure track faculty.

“These are people who have the actual

title of instructor, lecturer, multi-year lecturer, sometimes professor of practices, sometimes clinical teaching professor. There’s all kinds of titles for these people, but they are not standard assistant, associate or full-time professors who are on the tenure-track,” Comrie said.

Non-tenure track faculty are often called in to fill more flexible positions.

“Some of those people might have a one-year appointment. They are year-to-year instructors because in any given department there is always going to be some ebb and flow in the number of students signing up for courses,” Comrie said.

“Sometimes there’s a huge surge and we need two new sections of Spanish a week before we start classes in August, and you want somebody to be able to teach that.”

The instructors who fill these flexible positions eventually take on the equivalent of a full course load, but felt they were not paid a sufficient amount.

In a letter to the editor published in the Daily Wildcat, a group of non-tenure track faculty members addressed President Ann Weaver Hart before a February teach-in at the Alumni Plaza.

“NTT faculty in the department of English teach over 100 writing-intensive courses to 2,500 students each semester. These instructors have one-year contracts or less and earn just $33,050 a year when they teach full-time,” the group wrote.

“At our Arizona Board of Regents peer institutions, English adjuncts make 30 percent more while class sizes are 20 percent smaller.

Many of our instructors are UA alumni who have not had a raise in over 10 years, not even a costof-living adjustment,” the group wrote.

The UA responded in a manner that Comrie said was a rectification of inappropriate pay.

“They were effectively full-time, so we said; ‘Let’s convert them to full-time, [and] pay them the appropriate rate,’ ” Comrie said.

Michael Brewer, the chair of the NTT Faculty Task Force and head of Research & Learning for the University Libraries, said the next step for the task force will be to send out a survey to all UA faculty in the next couple of weeks to better understand the relationship between tenured and non-tenure track faculty.

Comrie said that the Strategic Planning and Budgeting Advisory Committee’s philosophy in the face of huge state budget cuts was to accept the cuts but to not stop making important investments in areas like salary and online education.

Even though UA was forced to cut 320 jobs from its payroll, only about 44 people were actually laid off, Comrie said. The other 280 positions would have been advertised in the fall, but instead were not.

The UA will continue its work on salary improvement. According to Comrie, the nontenure track salaries “were the most egregious salaries.

Of course, we still have much broader salary issues for everybody at the [UA]. The whole of [UA] is underpaid. Period. Of course, that’s a much, much tougher nut to crack, but we’re working on that, too.”

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News • October 19-20, 2015

Clinton and Trump prepare for face-off

BY AMANDA OIEN

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The top two presidential candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, fight from drastically different platforms for their respective parties’ nomination in the 2016 presidential election.

Clinton, a former secretary of state, first lady and senator, is one of the Democratic presidential candidates hoping to earn the nomination and eventually a seat in the White House. Hillary Clinton met her husband, former President Bill Clinton, in law school. Together they have a daughter, Chelsea Clinton.

In 2008, Clinton tried at her first bid for the White House. When she was not chosen for the Democratic nomination, the then-nominee who went on to win the presidency, Barack Obama, asked for her to serve as secretary of state.

According to Clinton’s campaign website, “[Clinton] was a forceful champion for human rights, internet freedom, and rights and opportunities for women and girls, [lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender] people and young people all around the globe.”

UA Young Democrats President Joseline Mata watched the first Democratic debate Tuesday night and said she thought Clinton stood out.

“She was very poised, she answered very professionally and she definitely knew what she was saying,” Mata said. “I really think she did a really great job on distinguishing herself. … I definitely think she’s still at the top and definitely won the debate.”

Donald Trump, the chairman and president of The Trump Organization, is one of the Republican presidential candidates also hoping to earn the nomination and call the White House home for the next four years after President Obama’s term.

A New York native, Donald Trump is married to Melania Trump. Together they have five children: Donald Jr., Ivanka, Eric, Tiffany and Barron.

The Emmy-nominated presidential hopeful has seven million followers on social media and “frequently uses this platform to advocate for conservative causes, Republican candidates and to educate the public on the failures of the Obama administration,” according to Trump’s campaign website.

Although Trump is currently the Republican candidate polling the highest, it’s by a small margin. According to a CBS News poll conducted between Oct. 4-8, Trump has only a 6 percent lead over neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson.

Ashlee Bierworth, the president of UA College Republicans, said she believes Trump’s performance in debates has allowed other candidates to close the gap in polling.

“I think that Trump will continue to lose his lead in the primaries and the debates unless he comes up with clear and smart policy positions and plans,” Bierworth wrote in an email.

Mata and Bierworth agree that immigration is an important topic.

According to Clinton’s website, she will advocate for a path to citizenship for those in America illegally rather than separating families, support President Obama’s executive actions regarding DREAMers’ risk of deportation and support a humane, common-sense approach to border security.

Mata said she is happy to see that Clinton has taken a stance on immigration and given specific guidelines to her reform plan. Trump, on the other hand, has three principles to his immigration plan, according to his website: There must be a wall at the border, laws must be enforced and an immigration plan must improve jobs, wages and security for all Americans.

Although Clinton and Trump’s stances on gun rights vary, they both agree on one thing: working to solve the mental health crisis.

“Hillary will fight to improve existing law prohibiting persons suffering from severe mental

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REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL candidate Donald Trump makes a campaign stop aboard the USS Iowa in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Trump is narrowly leading the polls over Dr. Ben Carson in the Republican race.

illness from purchasing or possessing a gun,” according to her website.

According to Trump’s website, “We need to expand treatment programs, because most people with mental health problems aren’t violent, they just need help. But for those who are violent, a danger to themselves or others, we need to get them off the street before they can terrorize our communities.”

While both candidates have different stances on many of the issues important to Americans, Mata and Bierworth agree that both candidates have flaws and hurdles to overcome. Mata said the question of Clinton being a progressive could have a negative effect on her campaign, but thinks Clinton did well at the debate addressing the issue. She says that she thinks she’ll work to get things done regardless of the polarization of politics.

“The huge obstacle that Trump will need to overcome is the fact that he has not come up with a rational and effective plan to any of the issues facing our country today, and the public is starting to realize that,” Bierworth wrote.

Despite their differing political views, Mata and Bierworth said they look forward to the rest of the campaign season.

Bierworth wrote, “there will be an interesting fight for [the Democratic] nominee between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and while I disagree with all of their policy positions, I am excited to see how the primaries will end on both sides.”

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UA researchers link soy and breast cancer BY nicholas johnson The Daily Wildcat

Two UA researchers, Donato Romagnolo and Ornella Selmin, have been awarded a $1 million research grant to study how soy intake affects the risk of breast cancer in women.

“Each year in the U.S. there are 200,000 new cases of breast cancer, and each year 40,000 women die from breast cancer,” Romagnolo said. “When people talk about the war on cancer, few understand that it really is a war.”

The two doctors went on to talk about their research, saying that 5-10 percent of breast cancer cases come from a mutated BRCA1 gene. The other 90-95 percent of breast cancer cases are caused by unknown factors.

According to Romagnolo, the two questions their research is trying to answer are: “What makes women who carry the mutated BRCA-1 gene develop breast cancer, and what makes women who have no mutation in the BRCA-1 susceptible to breast cancer?”

Genes that produce proteins can help prevent the development of tumors, and women without the mutated BRCA-1 genes become more susceptible to breast cancer when the BRCA-1 gene stops producing protein. Selmin and Romagnolo are trying to find the environmental factors that cause the

BRCA-1 gene to stop producing protein.

One hypothesis is that women who are exposed to chemical carcinogens while pregnant could potentially have an effect on their unborn child, and theoretically could cause the child to develop breast cancer later in their adult life. These tests are being performed on pregnant mice, and the offspring of the mice are being tested for breast cancer when they reach adulthood.

In past research, it has been shown that high soy diets are correlated with a lower risk of breast cancer. Romagnolo and Selmin will be testing this theory by exposing two mice at a time to chemical carcinogens with the variable that one mouse will be fed a diet high in soy. According to Romagnolo, the idea behind this is the fact that women in Asia have a 50 percent lower chance of developing breast cancer, and regionally they consume high soy diets.

Among the unknown effects of soy reducing the risk of cancer are the timing and the magnitude. Selmin and Romagnolo said they suspect that, with the proper diet at the proper time, soy can have a preventative effect on breast cancer.

“It’s good to see that research supporting our cause is happening on our campus,” said Michael Manchester, the logistics lead for the Relay For Life committee at the UA. “I hope further research is done on this

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Donato Romagnolo, left, and Ornella Selmin, right, pose for a photo. The duo is researching the link between a high-soy diet and lower risk of breast cancer.

subject to see if there is a difference when genetically modified soy is used.”

Romagnolo and Selmin recently received a $1 million research grant from the Department of Defense. The duo has also received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Agriculture and the American Institute for Cancer Research.

“It was very difficult to get that grant,” Selmin said, referring to the DOD grant.

Out of the 227 applicants, only 16 received funding.

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News • October 19-20, 2015

POLICE BEAT

BY MEGHAN FERNANDEZ

Snoozin’ A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to Cochise Residence Hall regarding a male student who was asleep on a bench outside the hall.

The officer tried waking up the student, but the student was unresponsive, which prompted the officer to call Tucson Fire Department to assess the student.

TFD medically cleared the student, and the officer identified him with his driver’s license. The student’s roommate was also there and said he would take care of him.

The officer observed that the student smelled of alcohol and struggled to walk back to his room.

The student didn’t disclose where he consumed alcohol, but said it had been provided for him.

The officer also noticed that the student was dressed in camouflage, which is how other people leaving the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity house were dressed. The officer asked the student if he had attended a party there and the student didn’t reply.

The student was informed about the UA diversion program and he was diverted to the Dean of Students Office for a minor in possession of alcohol in the body .

Lightweight A UAPD officer responded to Coronado Residence Hall regarding a female student who was being evaluated in her room by TFD. When the officer arrived at the room, the student was vomiting.

The student’s roommate was in the room and expressed concern about her roommate. She said that the one student “is so small, it doesn’t take much to get her drunk.”

TFD medically cleared the student and the officer began to ask her questions.

The officer asked her where she consumed alcohol and the student said at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house. The student said the only thing she remembered drinking was vodka. She smelled of alcohol and her speech was incoherent.

The officer arrested the student for a minor in possession of alcohol in the body, but she didn’t go to jail.

She only had to sign a citation.

The student apologized and said she would make sure that it was the last time something like that happened.

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OPinions

October 19-20, 2015 • Page A6 Editor: Nick Havey

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Can everyone just take a chill pill?

BY Trey Ross

The Daily Wildcat

W

e all fit into stereotypes. We hate them or, sometimes, we embrace them, but being stereotyped is a common denominator of being human.

Unfortunately, stereotypes are just true enough to be hilarious in the right situation.

I’m not justifying Nicole Arbour’s YouTube video titled “Dear Fat People” or Louis C.K. comparing child molestation to his love for Mounds candy bars on Saturday Night Live earlier this year.

Comedy, like life, is sometimes shocking and bizarre.

Welcome to 2015, where everything offends everyone.

However, this isn’t about a mean joke or two—how has political correctness taken over campuses across the U.S.?

Many comedians will not go near a college, including Chris Rock and Larry the Cable Guy, because of how

politically correct the humor needs to be at an on-campus show.

The extremeness of political correctness has begun to creep its way onto college campuses across the country, and not just when it comes to comedic relief.

A group of students at Harvey Mudd College, one of the five undergraduate schools in The Claremont Colleges consortium, were declined funding by student leaders for a campus party because its “mad scientist” theme was deemed inappropriate. Because Harvey Mudd is known for its mathematics and science programs the party was named “Mudd Goes Madd.” Student leaders decided that this was poking fun at mental illness.

On our own campus, organizations can sign up for a Personal Responsibility Workshop to be taught offensive words, phrases and actions to stay away from. The only true takeaway I had from the speaker was that wearing a Native American headdress to Coachella is crazy offensive.

Don’t we have bigger issues to tackle than my Day 2 outfit?

In September, The Atlantic featured a long investigation into the education system and how students are getting

The article explains how increasingly thin-skinned today.

Authors Greg Lukianoff and asking another student of an Jonathan Haidt wrote “The Coddling ethnic background where they of the American Mind” and explained were born could be considered a how protecting emotional well-being microaggression, or that using the in the classroom can be damaging to word “violate” in a law class about rape law should be given a large education and mental health.

The article discusses two phrases trigger warning or that even teaching the class should be that have become avoided entirely. popular in this Some college PC debate on The only true students have college campuses: takeaway I complained about microaggressions had from the reading Chinua and trigger warnings. speaker was that Achebe’s “Things Microaggressions Fall Apart” or F. Scott are small actions or wearing a Native Fitzgerald’s “The word choices “that American headdress Great Gatsby.” seem on their face to Coachella is crazy If something in to have no malicious offensive. class makes you intent but are thought Don’t we have bigger uncomfortable, say of as a kind of violence something. However, n o n e t h e l e s s , ” issues to tackle than overusing terms like according to The my Day 2 outfit?” “microaggression” Atlantic. and hiding behind Trigger warnings are alerts that professors must give political correctness is wrong. If to the class if covered material could curriculums begin to change because potentially garner an emotional of offensive, graphic, religion-driven or science-driven material we will response.

These two ideas are very real; have nothing left to study.

In the middle of the article in large, however, due to the extent of political correctness they have become bold-face type is the frightening truth: “According to the most-basic tenants exploited and overused.

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of psychology, helping people with anxiety disorders avoid the things they fear is misguided.”

Even President Barack Obama has stated that political correctness on college campuses has sometimes gone too far, limiting open discussion in classrooms by encouraging the avoidance of certain subjects.

You know you’ve got a problem when POTUS thinks you’re being a little stiff.

Going to college is about leaving your comfort zone and being generally uncomfortable. It’s also about figuring out who you are as a person.

We need to begin to identify the differences between being emotionally distraught versus a moderate disliking of subject matter.

Not all classroom materials, party themes or jokes were created to offend you deeply and personally.

Maybe there is an even larger issue behind the growing movement to become more politically correct on college campuses: Is it because our generation is so damn self-centered?

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Pima county bonds are all slam dunks

BY Graham Place The Daily Wildcat

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n the Nov. 3 ballot, Pima County voters will face a decision: approve the bond propositions and pay slightly higher taxes for the sake of improving the quality of life in our county, or vote no and save a few dollars while denying the county the improvements it needs. When you look at the facts, the decision is not a difficult one. Voters should approve the bonds; the cost incurred on an individual is minimal, and the amount of good the government could do with the money makes a slight tax increase worthwhile.

Do you hate potholes? Vote yes on Proposition 425, which will give our local government $200 million to improve our roads and highways.

Do you love a strong economy? Vote yes on Proposition 426, which will put $91 million into economic growth, our county libraries and workforce training. The money will go toward giving Pima County residents the training and skills they need to enter the workforce.

Do you want to bring money and jobs into Pima County? Vote yes on Proposition 427, which aims to promote tourism in the country.

(I know—more snowbirds? But remember, snowbirds have money to spend and our local businesses will gladly take it.) This proposition includes projects that will benefit tourists and natives alike, such as expanding the Reid Park Zoo and the Children’s Museum Tucson.

Do you want your house to be swept away in a flood? No? Then vote yes on Proposition 431, which puts $17 million into preserving watersheds and protecting our communities from flooding.

Also included in the bond proposals are projects like natural area conservation, park improvements, historic preservation and

the development of affordable housing. It’s obvious that these projects would greatly improve the quality of life for everyone in Pima County. So why are people so against these proposals?

Taxes.

I’m sure some readers cringed even at the sight of that word.

Yes, these projects cost money, and our local government gets its money by taxing its residents. Frustration over taxation is understandable; it’s hard to give away a chunk of your hard-earned income.

A knee-jerk reaction to any tax increase, no matter how small, is all too common and can be seen in the rhetoric of groups like Taxpayers Against Pima Bonds, which are responsible for the signs opposing the proposals that have sprung up on the streets around campus.

Ironically, their website includes a section in which they beg for donations to fund their project. Sounds a bit like asking for money to fund government projects, minus the part where our roads get fixed, our economy

improves and our county becomes a better place to live.

The truth of the matter is that if these proposals are approved, the burden placed on an individual is minimal. The median taxpayer would pay about $14 more annually. You probably spent more than that at Starbucks just last week.

The numbers associated with the proposals are in the high millions, and that can be intimidating. But the numbers associated with the cost to the taxpayer are small, and that combination is a good one. The government will have plenty of money to improve our county, and it will only cost each of us a few bucks.

We need to be willing as a community to fund projects that improve the quality of life of everyone living in Pima County. We need to approve the upcoming bond proposals.

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Opinions • October 19-20, 2015

For-profit colleges total waste

BY MADDIE PICKENS The Daily Wildcat

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he University of Phoenix was just put on probation by the Department of Defense. The DOD announced a little over a week ago that, after revelations of under-the-table recruitment and marketing techniques, that the school would no longer be allowed to recruit at military facilities.

The change happened fairly quietly, based on a report from the Pentagon that detailed aggressive recruiting, higher rates of loan default, less help with job placement post-graduation, and low retention rates. These characteristics are not unique to the University of Phoenix, but essentially every for-profit school in the U.S. Really, though, the question should probably be whether it’s even fair to call the University of Phoenix—and other forprofit colleges like it—a “school.”

With the 2008 recession, public and private universities alike were forced to tighten their belts. Students who were trying to make themselves more marketable by gaining a college

degree were forced to turn to for-profit universities, which welcomed them with open arms.

The primary reason that the colleges accepted students so easily is that they don’t really bear the cost of educating that student— the federal government does.

In the 2000-2001 academic year, for-profit colleges received $1.1 billion in federal Pell grants. By the 2009-2010 academic year, these same colleges were receiving $7.5 billion.

Their federal aid had actually surpassed that of private colleges, though not public.

A whopping 96 percent of students at these institutions are forced to take out student loans— perhaps because the average cost of a two-year associates degree at a for-profit college is more than four times the cost of a comparable degree at a comparable community college. The cost of a four-year bachelor’s degree at a for-profit college is more than $10 thousand greater than that

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same degree at a state flagship university.

It comes as little surprise, then, that these students graduate with over $32 thousand in median debt—debt that they are very likely to default on, in particular as data from the Department of Education suggests that in many cases, a diploma from a for-profit college will net a lower salary than a high school dropout.

If employers are recognizing that degrees from these schools are essentially worthless, why isn’t the federal government?

The takeaway from these numbers should essentially be that students are being conned. The federal government is pouring millions into loans for them that will more than likely be defaulted on. The profit from students certainly isn’t going into education, but rather into salaries for CEOs and recruiters, and ultimately

A whopping 96 percent of students at these institutions are forced to take out student loans— perhaps because the average cost of a two-year associates degree at a forprofit college is more than four times the cost of a comparable degree at a comparable community college.”

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serves to bring in even more gullible and vulnerable students.

So, frankly, it’s about time that the DOD got it together and put the University of Phoenix on probation. It might even be too late. And while some Democrats, particularly in the Senate, have recognized the problem and begun persecuting the schools, as well as pushing for debt forgiveness for their graduates who can’t find a job, Congress is strangely stagnant on acting on such a blatant money drain.

At the very least, as they wait to close bureaucratic loopholes that allow the schools to continue receiving funding, they can shut down the false recruiting tactics and work to educate would-be students about the true meaning of the debt they will be taking on, as well as the unlikelihood that it will even result in a job.

In a time where higher education as a whole is struggling, it’s absurd that this funding should be going to “colleges” that are definitively not providing a return on their investment. That funding should be going somewhere else. In the meantime, though, moves like the DOD’s are key and should be encouraged.

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Gardens & greenhouses feed the UA

BY LAUREN RENTERIA The Daily Wildcat

Located in the center of the Sonoran Desert, the UA may not seem like the most ideal landscape for various plant species to thrive.

However, tucked away across the UA campus lies a world of both local and exotic seed.

The Life Sciences Student Association is a student-run club on campus dedicated to education about the importance of plant life in the hopes of creating a more sustainable environment through gardens and greenhouses on campus.

The club uses two grant-funded greenhouses, located on the top of the Sixth Street Garage, to teach students about the art of growing plants and sustaining a green environment.

“Unless you’re eating bacteria or something, you are eating plants,” said Stephen Jinga, a senior studying plant and environmental science and the outreach coordinator for LSSA. “We like to teach people that growing plants is easy and that they play a big role in your life.”

Sustainability in Tucson is a major objective that the LSSA strives toward while working in the greenhouse. The club uses techniques like propagation and hands-on gardening to promote sustainability.

The LSSA is also an active partner in multiple farmers’ markets in Tucson. The club sells its products at various markets throughout the city, including the Heirloom Farmers Market, every Sunday. The LSSA can also be spotted on the UA Mall selling small plants twice a month on Wednesday .

While buying local may not seem to have an impact on sustainability, Jinga explains the disparity between the cost of imported produce and the effect it has on the economy.

“What really irks me is that when I go to Safeway to buy apples, I have all these options.” Jinga said. “I have the ones imported from Chile, and they are the same price as those from the USA. … There was energy invested into bringing that over and it’s kind of lost, and that’s just not sustainable.”

The LSSA uses its greenhouse to help close the information gap between consumers and farmers. Jinga said she hopes that, in working at the greenhouse, students will have a better understanding about the growing process and learn to foster their own crops.

“There are problems that farmers face, and people won’t understand those problems unless they start growing their own plants,” Jinga said. “That’s really the whole point of this club: for students to start growing their own plants.”

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PLANTS GROW INSIDE the greenhouses located on top of the Sixth Street Parking Garage. The Life Sciences Student Association uses the greenhouse as a tool to teach about sustaining a green environment.

Not unlike LSSA, the UA Community Garden is another space dedicated to sustainability and plant education.

Located just behind the Highland Avenue Parking Garage, the UACG is home to students passionate about the sustainable cause.

The garden is the 3-year-old project of Students for Sustainability, a club that focuses on all aspects of sustainability and that stresses the importance of community.

Jaclyn Mendelson, a plant sciences senior, UA student gardener and the vice president of LSSA, explained the importance of the garden and sense of community it brings to both the UA and Tucson.

“The reason why this garden is so important is because it is a communal space,” Mendelson said. “It’s a really great way to bring the UA and Tucson community together, and it’s just an incredible place to be—surrounded by people who care about the Earth.”

Not only does the garden bring a sense of community to students and Tucson through the sale of garden plots, it also fosters a learning environment for the concept of sustainability and how students can help the

cause.

At the garden, anyone willing to help can come join in on garden work-days every Friday and Sunday to learn about the gardening and composting processes.

The UACG also has a special section of the garden that is dedicated to making compost out of the discarded food brought in by those who live nearby.

Diana Englert, the chair of the UACG for Students for Sustainability and an architecture senior, explains how the garden promotes a healthy local economy—one of the main goals of sustainability as a whole.

“You have economic sustainability, where you’re selling the plots or the produce,” Englert said. “You are keeping that money in the community, and you are providing a stronger local economy.”

The UACG also works toward a more sustainable way of obtaining water for the irrigation through a new water cistern.

The water cistern will take funneled rain water that is caught at the top of the Highland Avenue Parking Garage and lead it to the irrigation system that will water the garden.

The garden plans on implementing the new cistern by the end of the semester and using this as a more efficient method of gathering water for the plants.

Despite waste still being a part of its daily routine, one of the garden’s main roles is promoting awareness of this waste.

Both Englert and Mendelson urge students and community members to be more aware in their efforts to create a sustainable environment. They stress the importance of watching the methods of waste that many overlook on a daily basis and understanding the process of gardening and growth within a community.

“When you start understanding where things come from, you become more aware,” Englert said. “We aren’t just here, things aren’t just given to us; there are people out there making those things. … You are so much more aware of yourself and your impact on the community.”

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A look at the recycling bins inside the Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall on the UA campus. UA Residence Life uses a variety of different initiatives to make living on campus more sustainable.

UA lives together sustainably

BY Ava Garcia

The Daily Wildcat

The Residence Life community promotes sustainability with programs both throughout campus and within individual residence halls. While the UA has had a recycling program since the early 2000s, Residence Life stepped up its commitment to sustainability with the addition of an Eco-Rep to every hall council in 2007 and is continuing this commitment with upcoming events like the Battle of the Utilities, which takes place Oct. 25 through Nov. 24.

The Eco-Rep is a position on each residence hall’s hall council that advocates for increased sustainability within the dorms.

The representatives meet with Jill Ramirez, the coordinator of sustainability education for Residence Life, for an hour and a half each week and bring the knowledge they gained during their meetings back to their hall. “[The Eco-Reps] help work with [their hall] to make their social programming more sustainable, so maybe that means residents bring their own bowls or plates or maybe that means they go and get a cardboard box and use that for recycling,” Ramirez said. “Things like that where, no matter what program it is, they can make it sustainable even [if ] it’s not teaching about sustainability.”

This idea that sustainability can be applied to any program is echoed by sophomore Valery Santacruz, a resident assistant at Graham-Greenlee Residence Hall who is also on her hall’s council. In Graham-Greenlee, Santacruz said there is an emphasis on finding paperless forms of advertisement for hall programs. The hall has invested in a reusable banner for its annual Hoggoween event and often writes on mirrors as an alternative form of advertising. For programs in which food is involved, the hall also incorporates composting bins.

“We try to incorporate sustainability within our entire hall, whether that’s with hall council or just with my residents. That’s something we’re always trying to incorporate into our programs,” Santacruz said.

These efforts for sustainability are spearheaded by Eco-Reps within each hall and can involve creating programs or putting up wall decorations that educate people about sustainability issues, as well as just teaching students about more sustainable ways to live their daily lives.

“I think it’s hard to tell someone ‘your practices are wrong,’ and we don’t try to do that. We try to encourage people to conserve more, recycle this, thrift something instead of buying it new,” said Lucette Peralta, a pre-business freshman and the Eco-Rep for

Yuma Residence Hall.

Ramirez helps the Eco-Reps with their sustainability education. According to Ramirez, out of the entire country, the UA was the second school to have a sustainability education coordinator. The position has since become part of other schools throughout the country, and Ramirez herself has helped institute her position in two other schools.

“It’s really unique to have a person in Residence Life dedicated full time to sustainability. There may be folks who have sustainability as one of many things that they do, but my position is very unique,” Ramirez said. “The deal is, with someone doing it fulltime, there is energy dedicated and there is money dedicated [to sustainability].”

With this dedication come campus-wide programs like the Earth Hour celebration and the utility reduction competition Battle of the Utilities, as well as online programs like LEAD certification. Ramirez said she feels like her sustainability efforts are supported within the UA community.

“I’m so lucky. I have the best job in the world because I get to work with students who get really excited about sustainability and I get to work with this staff that’s really open.

Residence Life really values sustainability,” Ramirez said.

Those students who are interested in

sustainability can channel their interest into competing for the Sustainable Hall of the Year award, which Ramirez said Yuma Hall has won more often than other halls over the last five years. Peralta credits the collaborative nature of the community there for the hall’s success in winning the award frequently.

“Because we have that strong tie to each other, wanting to improve Yuma is something that everyone wants to do, so people are ready to do it and ready to help you, which I think is really nice,” Peralta said.

By participating in these competitions and improving their respective halls, students are taking part in forming new sustainable habits, which is why Ramirez said she thinks Residence Life sustainability is so important.

“I think that this is a really critical time in folks’ lives because they are figuring out how they want to live independently,” Ramirez said. “This is their chance to create their own habits, and so this is the perfect time to start thinking about sustainability so that, as you’re forming those habits, you form good habits.”

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Constructing a sustainable UA

BY Elisabeth Morales The Daily Wildcat

The UA continues to raise the bar for in-state schools and universities around the nation with its sustainable design and construction throughout campus.

“I think the university takes a lot of pride in our sustainable practices and leading the way in many different ways,” said Christopher Kopach, the assistant vice president of Facilities Management.

According to Kopach, it could be said that every building on campus has some measure of sustainability in it; however, only five buildings are Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certified at the UA, with five pending LEED certifications.

LEED Platinum is the highest ranking on the U.S. Green Building Council’s metric, applying to buildings that have received 80 points or more, followed by LEED Gold with 60-79 points and LEED Silver close after with 50-59 points. Regular LEED certified buildings are those with 40-49 points.

The Arizona Biomedical Collaborative building, located on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, is the only LEED Gold-certified building and Old Main postrenovation is the only LEED Silver certified building. The five pending to be certified are the Environment and Natural Resources Phase 2 building, the Bryant Bannister Tree Ring building, the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility, the UA Cancer Center at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus and the Health Sciences Education building, also located in Phoenix.

The UA has an impressive three LEED Platinumcertified buildings, the most of any higher education institution in the state.

The first building on campus to reach LEED Platinum was the Student Recreation Center, which was the first LEED Platinum recreation center in the

country. The next two are residence halls: Likins Residence Hall and Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall.

According to Ben Champion, the director of the Office of Sustainability, the two residence halls received most of their points from the improved air quality by building and installing energy systems that are efficient for the amount of air they use.

“You have to bring in a lot more outdoor air to have high indoor air quality,” Champion said. “If you don’t have lots of outdoor air, then you end up having more indoor air quality issues because you’re recirculating air flow.”

The new ENR2 building is on its way to being UA’s fourth LEED Platinum building. It was designed as a slot canyon and doesn’t pump air but rather uses radiant cooling: a system of chilled water circulation that reduces air-conditioning expenditure by 30 percent..

Another great feature is how the building handles storm water.

“All the rain that lands on the rooftop ends up cascading through these openings from each floor, which has its own opening in the ceiling that allow the water to navigate down on the landscaping of the next floor,” Champion said. “So when it rains, it’s like this massive set of waterfalls, so it’s like you’d almost be standing in a slot canyon.”

With a growing number of LEED-certified buildings on campus, the UA shows it continues to promote strategies that are beneficial to the environment, as well as students and faculty.

“So whether it’s our ground, our custodial department, our maintenance shop, our utility department— everything we do, we say, ‘How can we make sure we are being as sustainable as possible? What’s good for the buildings?’ ” Kopach said.

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The new Environment and Natural Resources 2 building, located at 1064 E. Lowell St., is the UA’s most recent green building. It is just one of a number of sustainable buildings on campus and is in the process of becoming a LEED Platinum-certified building.

Rainforest Research

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BY PATRICK O’CONNOR The Daily Wildcat

Most days, you’ll find Joost van Haren tromping through Arizona’s only tropical rainforest.

An assistant research professor at the UA, van Haren works in the rainforest at Biosphere 2—in the middle of the Sonoran Desert, about 30 miles north of Tucson. Under the glass-and-steel dome of this 3.14-acre, space-age research facility, van Haren can turn off the rain or adjust the amount of carbon dioxide in the air.

The rainforest biome is an important laboratory for scientists studying climate change. To observe how plants will react as global temperatures rise, van Haren and his team simulated a drought in Biosphere 2’s rainforest over the summer of 2014.

Biosphere 2 is also being used to understand how the rainforest contributes to global warming.

The researchers are monitoring how methane, a greenhouse gas that traps 25 times more heat than carbon dioxide, is produced in the rainforest.

This summer, they will take the methods and equipment they tested in Arizona to the dense peatlands of Peru to study how methane flows through a natural environment.

“At [Biosphere 2], you have a magnifying glass on how interactions between the [environment] and atmosphere works,” van Haren said.

Computer simulations of the Amazon rainforest created by other scientists predicted that many species of plants would die during a drought. The Biosphere 2 rainforest outperformed what the models predicted, but it is not a perfect copy of the Amazon. It would be difficult to make a perfect model that would replicate all the complex interactions among plants, animals and microorganisms.

The results of the drought experiment will help other scientists adjust computer models that predict the effects of climate change all over the world.

“It’s oftentimes easier to run an experiment in Biosphere 2 and then take it to the real world because we have much greater detail in the data,” van Haren said.

Roots of the rainforest Although Biosphere 2’s rainforest may not truly represent a natural forest, it’s a great compromise for researchers who prefer not to share their sleeping bags with jungle snakes.

“It’s always a simplification of the real world, but it helps us understand how the real world works,” van Haren said.

Biosphere 2 began its life as an experimental laboratory in 1991, when eight biospherians were sealed inside the gigantic greenhouse. They were given no food, water or oxygen other than what they could provide for themselves from the Just add water Van Haren’s office at the UA is sparsely diverse biomes inside.

Today, Biosphere 2 decorated; he said he provides a large, enclosed doesn’t like to spend space where scientists can time indoors. Originally conduct research that is from the Netherlands, impossible or inconvenient he became interested in to do in the field. They environmental science can also test equipment as a kid watching Jacques to see if it will withstand Cousteau explore the the unforgiving humidity, underwater world. extreme temperatures Van Haren studied and constant precipitation Earth sciences as an of the rainforest before undergraduate at Utrecht deploying it for costly field University so he could research. If problems arise, work in the field. ordering replacement parts Van Haren earned his from Biosphere 2 takes doctorate in 2011 at the days instead of the weeks UA, where he worked in needed to ship something Biosphere 2’s rainforest — Joost van Haren, to the Amazon. biome as well as at field UA Assistant Research From gas to global sites around the world.

One of van Haren’s Professor warming favorite places is the The Biosphere’s 6,500 Amazon rainforest, which windows form a unique he predicts will become laboratory. Thanks to these drier with climate change. Some researchers have even predicted that one day it will turn into windows, ultraviolet light is filtered out, which normally produces unstable molecules called the Amazon savannah.

To understand how tropical forests will free radicals in the atmosphere. In the natural respond to an arid environment, van Haren world, free radicals quickly react with methane to and his team recently simulated a drought in produce a variety of byproducts that contribute to the Biosphere rainforest by turning off all the global warming but are hard for scientists to track.

By running experiments at Biosphere 2, van sprinklers that simulate rainfall for two months.

Haren and his team can monitor exactly how The trees slowly shed their leaves to ensure that they could effectively use the scarce remaining methane is exchanged between the atmosphere water. During the hot part of the day, the plants and the rainforest without the risk of change via closed the tiny pores on their leaves that allow free radicals.

“Methane and other greenhouse gases insulate water and carbon dioxide to move in and out.

These adaptations led to a high survival rate heat in our atmosphere, which keeps the planet among most species. “These trees are very warm,” said Caitlynn Kestler, a criminal justice studies senior who interned for van Haren. “An resilient,” van Haren said.

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It’s oftentimes easier to run an experiment in Biosphere 2 and then take it to the real world because we have much greater detail in the data.

abundance of these gases contribute to global warming.”

Van Haren and his colleagues received more than half a million dollars from the National Science Foundation in May 2014 to research methane in the sparsely studied Peruvian peatlands. Because methane traps 25 times more heat than carbon dioxide, van Haren hopes to understand how methane flows through the environment and how the peatlands affect climate change.

In summer 2014, van Haren and his team traveled to Peru to study how plants regulate methane. Van Haren traversed the muggy wetlands with a supply of instruments he had made to capture gases released by trees. After attaching these instruments to different trees, he found that palm trees release much more methane than other trees.

Methane is produced by a variety of sources, but microorganisms are a major contributor.

Certain microorganisms produce methane by breaking down fallen plants into the organic mush that is common in Peruvian peat. Plants like palm trees may act like giant drinking straws that suck out the methane trapped in the peat, van Haren said. When a palm tree absorbs water through its roots, gases trapped in the water and soil travel up the plant and escape through pores in the stems and leaves.

Unfortunately for van Haren, his homemade equipment was a tasty target for termites. He had to cut his fieldwork short. “[Working in Peru last August] was the hardest fieldwork of my life,” van Haren said. “Working in the swamps was very, very tough.”

Van Haren and his team returned from Peru with a mountain of data and some termitemangled equipment. Over the next few months, they analyzed the data and worked out the bugs in their equipment to prepare for their December 2014 trip.

Although the team was more experienced, the trip was far from easy. “[The December trip] literally whooped my heinie,” van Haren said.

The trip was worth the pain, as van Haren and his team confirmed their previous findings. They found that most of the methane is being released near the bottom of the palm tree, which leads van Haren to believe that the methane trapped in the soil is traveling up the palm trees’ roots.

Van Haren also believes that he may have an explanation for why other trees are not acting like methane vents. The palm trees he studied have aerial roots, which are found all over the trunk instead of just under the soil.

When a palm tree loses an aerial root, a hole leads to the inner portion of the plant’s water transport system called the xylem. When van Haren plugged these holes, he found an “immediate reduction” in the amount of methane produced.

Van Haren continues to travel to Peru every year and hopes to find a method for measuring methane inside the palm tree’s xylem to confirm his hypothesis.

UA researchers find real-world answers inside the dome of Biosphere 2

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DR. JOOST VAN HAREN lectures students about his work in the Biosphere 2 rainforest in Oracle, Arizona on May 20.

Van Haren often tests prototypes in the Biosphere 2 rainforest before bringing them to his field site in Peru.

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A VINE DESCENDS from the dense canopy of Biosphere 2’s tropical rainforest biome. Experiments in this artificial rainforest give researchers insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change.

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Eco-app helps cut energy bill

BY NATALIE ROBBINS The Daily Wildcat

The mailman just left, and the electric bill is here once again. You open it with dread—$200. There is no way you can afford that.

In Arizona, where the summers are long and the air-conditioning runs cold, staying on budget with electricity can be a tough task.

Now, with the click of a mouse, UA students and faculty can save energy and lessen the shock of their electric bill with EcoPower.

Developed by the UA Green Fund and UA Residence Life, EcoPower is a free interactive application for your computer.

“You can customize your energy usage habits and learn what impact that has over a month and what it costs,” said Jill Ramirez, the coordinator of sustainability education for Residence Life. “You can learn if everyone who lived off campus used energy the way you do, what that impact would be.”

Using it is as easy as one, two, three Saving money with EcoPower is as easy as logging onto the website, customizing the electric appliances to your usage and then observing what your projected electricity bill will be. From there, you can adjust the appliances to see the impact of lowering the air-conditioning three degrees or doing two loads of laundry as opposed to four.

The application has three virtual rooms: an office, a residence hall dorm and an apartment. Each room is modeled after a real place. Árbol de la Vida served as the inspiration for the dorm room, while the apartment room is from The Cadence, an offcampus complex.

When customizing EcoPower, students and faculty can choose whether each of the appliances is on, off or unplugged. In addition, they can adjust how much they use each appliance. For things such as air-conditioning and heating, the temperature is also customizable.

“The website is very easily personalized for different residences,” said Miranda Mann, an e-society sophomore. “It was very interesting to see the averages and compare how you stacked up.”

One of Mann’s favorite features is the Carbon PawPrint. This feature shows the environmental impact if everyone on campus used the same amount of energy as the user. The PawPrint breaks down how many trees would have to be planted in

How to use EcoPower: GRAPHIC BY NATALIE ROBBINS

order to balance out the energy usage.

This and other energy comparisons help put the impact of our energy usage in context.

“When you look at it and you’re like, ‘Oh, $18 worth of electricity, that’s not a big deal,’ ” Ramirez said.

“But then when you realize this is only part of what you are actually using, … we’re talking something thousand trees that have to grow [in order to offset our electricity usage].”

The evolution of EcoPower The application is Ramirez’s brainchild. After attending a presentation at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, she said she was inspired by an application the University of Kentucky had designed to help their students and faculty save energy.

Developing the software involved several UA Residence Life departments, including technical support and marketing. The marketing team was tasked with creating an authentic feel in each of the rooms. They organized several photo shoots at each location and made sure everything down to the shadows were exactly right when the lighting was turned on. Residence

Life technical support worked alongside a student programmer to ensure the site was simple to navigate and easy to update with changing energy prices.

The UA is the fourth school in the nation to develop an application like EcoPower, and the first to add an offcampus option.

The off-campus apartment feature evolved from the collaboration between Ramirez and Madeline Bynes, a junior studying political science and history.

When Bynes was looking for sustainable off-campus housing, she became frustrated with the lack of options. She approached Ramirez to expand the program so all offcampus students would also have the tools to live more sustainably.

As the program developed, Bynes was appointed the first off-campus sustainability coordinator for the UA. She educates students on ways to make sustainable living choices, with EcoPower being one of the programs she emphasizes.

Why is EcoPower important?

Both Ramirez and Bynes are active users of the program. Bynes has customized EcoPower within a few cents of her actual electric bill. From there, she can play around with ways

to lower her bill even more.

“If you are looking at [EcoPower], you can say, ‘OK, I’m going to unplug my coffee maker today when I’m done using it, and that can save me 10 cents,’” Bynes said. “That 10 cents adds up among all the appliances that you unplug. That t10 cents adds up among all the appliances you don’t use. Depending on what I’m doing, I can shave off between [$5] and [$20].”

During the winter, Bynes lowered her electricity bill to just $20.

As the off-campus sustainability coordinator, Bynes has found that students perk up when she brings up the cost benefits of using EcoPower.

“This is probably the most wellreceived part of the program that I do because it can save students money directly,” Bynes said.

EcoPower is a powerful budgeting tool that can serve cost-conscious students.

“You can’t change how much you are paying in rent,” Bynes said. “A lot of times if you’re living off campus in an apartment complex, they pay for your water, trash and sewer, so you can’t change that either. You can change how much you are paying in electric.”

Although there is no plan to expand the application, Bynes would

•Log on at ecopower.life. arizona.edu •Adjust the appliances under the “your usage” header •Observe your energy usage under the “your results” •Click the Carbon PawPrint link to see your combined environmental impact *(does not work on Google Chrome)

like to see a house option added.

“Obviously the energy usage in a house is going to differ from an apartment because [the apartment in the application is] not communal, but it’s still a good representation of what you can use,” Bynes said.

Bynes commented on her mission as a campus liaison between sustainability initiatives and the student body.

“Our job as sustainability leaders is to make people see the value on their own terms,” Bynes said. “EcoPower really does that.”

So, next time you are looking to lower your energy consumption, log onto EcoPower and learn how to live more sustainably and economically, one watt at a time.

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Beetles feast on weakened trees

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A GRAND COUNTY, Colorado forest lies devastated by bark beetles on July 8, 2011. Kit O’Connor, a UA research associate, is studying the beetle outbreaks in the spruce-fir forest in the Pinaleño Mountains.

BY KAITLYN FLETCHER The Daily Wildcat

A fallen spruce tree decays beneath the dense canopy of its neighbors—another victim of the ruthless invaders of the forests of southeastern Arizona.

Hundreds of thousands of these invaders penetrate the protective bark of vulnerable trees to reach the desirable phloem : a section of the tree between the bark and growth rings that contains the highest nutrient content and best-quality sugars.

This time, the beetles won.

The spruce beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) is one of the biggest threats to the spruce-fir forest ecosystems within the Pinaleño Mountains of the Sky Island region, which extends from northern Mexico to Southern Arizona and includes parts of New Mexico.

The Sky Islands’ name originates from the appearance, when looking down on the region from space, of isolated mountains among a sea of flat desert. This type of forest is only found in high elevations above 7,000 feet with at least 14.24 inches of rain per year.

During the past decade, higher summer temperatures and less spring rain have stressed the region’s ecosystem. These climate stressors are allowing naturally

occurring cycles, such as wildfires and beetle outbreaks, to be deadly for the trees.

A hundred years of fire exclusion, or wildfire suppression by various governmental organizations, have also expanded the range of available hosts for the spruce beetles, creating denser forests with a greater potential for destructive fires.

If nothing is done to stop the demise of these forests, then certain plant and animal species might not have a future in the Sky Island region.

Beetles attack Kit O’Connor, a research associate for the UA School of Natural Resources and the Environment with a background in entomology, researched the severity and size of the beetle outbreaks using dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, and other methods in the Pinaleño Mountains.

His findings revealed that fire exclusion and climate factors were intensifying the beetle infestations.

Beetles need a thick forest of stressed, mature trees to be successful in their daily activities.

The exclusion of fire from mixed conifer and spruce-fir forests allowed fuel to build up

and denser forests to develop, creating ideal conditions for spruce beetles.

Tree-ring scars date the previous damage done by failed beetle outbreaks. Yet, high-stress factors caused by climate change, such as higher temperature or competition for resources like water or sunlight, make the trees more susceptible to spruce beetles and other invaders of the forest.

“Basically, their immune systems get compromised,” O’Connor said.

Then, the process is simple.

A beetle locates a weak tree, burrows into the phloem and uses pheromones, a type of chemical communication, to inform its friends of the find.

“It is mind-boggling to imagine these [small beetles] could ever cause damage to a tree,” O’Connor said.

After the harshest outbreak in the last 50 years ended in 2002, there was only 15 percent of the host material, or trees in an ideal state for attack, left in the Pinaleños.

This is good and bad; spruce beetles need a large dense forest to spread, so a severe outbreak will probably not occur in the near future. On the other hand, the once-beautiful spruce-fir ecosystem in the Pinaleños is now

Up in flames The ideal conditions for beetle outbreaks are similar to the ones contributing to the increase of Southwestern wildfires in the last five years. High temperatures and drought lengthen the fire season, which begins in early spring and extends into the fall.

Fire exclusion created denser forests and shifted different types of forest into the same region, mixing fire-tolerant and nontolerant species together.

This change in boundaries is damaging both types of forest ecosystems. Trees cannot endure their natural fire cycles, allowing for more destructive fires.

These large fires increase carbon dioxide emissions with the burning of live trees, damage human properties and eliminate habitat for other plant and animal species. There is limited funding to prevent the disasters—only money to protect important properties once the fires begin.

This problem affects the whole Southwestern U.S., including Tucson.

ever-changing climate.

The organization also plans volunteer field projects within the region to restore ecosystem services, lost habitat and species diversity. “[You] feel an immediate sense of accomplishment after volunteer work,” said conservation director Louise Misztal.

Land management agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service are “thinking across boundaries,” Misztal said. Instead of trying to solve the problems on their own, some of the agencies are working together to look at a bigger picture of the region.

Actions have also been taken by the Coronado National Forest to restore damaged areas and prevent future events. For example, forest thinning and controlled burns are among the progressive ideas on the agency’s list to prevent outbreaks and fires.

The victims of the beetle attacks and wildfires are the driving force behind this environmental change. There is hope that this new era of land management will protect threatened plant and animal species in the Sky Islands and other parts of the Southwest.

Actions taken The nonprofit Sky Island Alliance promotes smart landmanagement polices and conservational work in the

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BY Thea Van gorp The Daily Wildcat

Over the past several years, Tucson has become a pretty ecoaware place. This isn’t to say that it’s a flat-out eco-friendly city, but Tucson has definitely come a long way when compared to its previous efforts to help the environment.

Being “green” can come in many different strains, and art is most certainly one of them.

With Tucson’s slowly progressing revolution toward becoming increasingly sustainable, recycled and up-cycled art have gained more and more presence in the desert community.

One of the most up-front and deliberate venues where these up-cycled creations can be found is none other than local

up-cycled-art paradise, PopCycle.

Located on Fourth Avenue, Pop-Cycle is a funky little shop selling merchandise made by recycling old, unwanted materials and turning them into popcultural, vintage-looking and new-age art masterpieces.

Jennifer Radler, co-owner of Pop-Cycle and artist who goes by the alias Monster Booty Threads, emailed the Daily Wildcat to share a little bit about her store and just what it means to up-cycle.

“When we first opened in 2008, I would hear people walking by saying, ‘That’s that store with recycled stuff,’ and now I hear the same thing only with an excitement and enthusiasm that was absent in the beginning,” Radler wrote. “I feel that we have inspired many artists to change

their medium and encouraged our customers to see the beauty of owning something new that has been made from recycled materials.”

Pop-Cycle focuses on more than just up-cycling and sustaining the environment, though. Its owners also work with Tucson’s businesses and community members to help strengthen the local small-business scene.

As people who have started their own business and who survived the economic crash, Radler and the rest of the PopCycle owners are very aware of the local businesses and opportunities around them.

“It helps everyone when you buy reclaimed materials from local thrift stores that provide a service to the community, or pick up materials that were headed for

the landfill and make something new and beautiful with those materials,” Radler wrote.

Radler said she thinks the Tucson community is actually starting to become environmentally conscious.

“This community is really starting to think green,” she wrote.

“We have abundant sunshine for solar power and there are many classes on harvesting rain water as well as many eco-conscious farmers in the area! [But] wow, there are so many things that we can do better.”

Needless to say, Pop-Cycle is definitely a leading force that drives Tucson to become a more eco-friendly city, one piece of artwork at a time.

Radler wrote that each community member needs to do their part to alleviate stress

put on the environment—herself included.

“I like to bombard my children’s art teacher with tons of recycled supplies to encourage our children to think about ‘stuff ’ differently,” she wrote. “We have become a throw-away society that encourages us to buy poorly made items, use them until they break and then buy new things. It’s the opposite of what we need to be doing to really make a difference.”

Radler invites the Tucson community to become involved, support local, green art and check out the funky up-cycled art PopCycle has to offer.

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‘Quantico’ could be a new favorite

BY Alex Furrier

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Isn’t it the worst when you’re all set to hate something, but you end up liking it?

We’ve all been there; the feeling encompasses someone with a bad reputation, and it can sour before consumption. (See: “Frozen.”)

That being said, the hype surrounding ABC’s “Quantico,” a new show about FBI recruits and—gasp—terrorism, set the show up to be hated. I didn’t go into the show predisposed to hate it; after all that is, like, rule No. 1 of reviewing something: check your assumptions at the door.

But I certainly wouldn’t have bet good money that “Quantico” would be one of the more entertaining shows I have watched in 2015.

“Quantico” is half flavor-of-the-week procedural, with FBI recruits training in a dorm environment, half whodunit flashforward mystery.

Priyanka Chopra plays protagonist Alex Parrish and presents a likable-enough character for viewers to get behind.

Objectively, as in a previous-Miss-Worldwinner type of objective, Chopra is likely one of the most beautiful people on the planet. That doesn’t hurt either.

It’s not like “Quantico” is unaware of Chopra’s looks; ABC made sure to verbalize this important finding by featuring the world’s creepiest voiceover in the teaser trailer: “Imagine 1200 … FBI recruits under one roof. All in the best shape of their lives.

Oh yeah. Just keep imagining.”

Creepy Voiceover Man isn’t wrong, as the ensemble cast certainly looks as if catalog models stepped off the pages and into the Quantico, Virginia, training grounds.

All of this sets the foundation for the absurd tone of the show.

“Quantico” is a show drenched head to toe in ridiculousness. It doesn’t veer far enough into the ridiculousness to become an homage à la the recent “John Wick,” but instead hits all of the cheesy hallmarks of network dramas while maintaining solid fundamentals in writing, editing and design.

After just two episodes, the ridiculousness has reached outrageous levels. A character reveals she is an orphan—plot twist: her parents died in the Sept. 11 attacks. A recruit turns out to be two twins swapping out for one another—plot twist: they are some kind of FBI experiment. One recruit is undercover as a mole for the FBI, another is likely faking homosexuality for some unknown reason, and another reveals her mother shot her father in self defense—plot twist: the recruit was actually the shooter.

Finally, for good measure, one recruit dies

in the first episode.

Oh yeah—all of that happened in the first episode.

At this point, you should know whether the “Quantico” bandwagon is right for you.

There are often two types of people who consume stories: those who roll their eyes at such unrealistic occurrences and those who suspend their disbelief as quickly as possible in order to be rid of the burden of reality.

Type A: Step off here. Type B: Continue on the journey with “Quantico”.

As for why “Quantico” can pull off such absurdities, the answer comes within the bones of the show itself. The writers of “Quantico” surely realize how insane it is to have a recruit pull the “fake twin” maneuver straight out of “The Prestige” playbook, but they successfully couch such an absurdity within the show’s solid fundamentals. If the basics of storytelling are followed, the twin gag becomes fun lunacy rather than cheesy crap.

“Quantico” gets the basics just right. Each scene has purpose; the actions and events of Scene A cause entertaining propulsion straight into Scene B. If Scene A occurs, then Scene B must take place; if Scene B unfolds, then Scene C results. So on and so on, rinse and repeat.

Lead character Alex Parrish is likable and the audience genuinely roots for her to succeed, and this is important as she connects the dual storylines of “Quantico.”

The FBI training juxtaposes with a flashforward terrorist attack for which Parrish gets framed.

Amid the “Survivor”-esque shenanigans and games the recruits experience, Parrish attempts to solve the whodunit terrorist attack in order to clear her name. The show reveals, within a training segment scene, events that directly relate to the present day, post-terrorist attack action.

That’s the propulsion of “if Scene A, then Scene B” in action.

In addition to excellent pacing, “Quantico” benefits from its genial cast of characters. The show invests enough time in each recruit to flesh out who these characters are—a fact that goes a long way in overcoming the various character stereotypes present.

The pilot cleverly sets up the recruits’ first challenge so that it adds characterization to the entire cast. Each recruit is given a classmate’s FBI personnel file, and must then investigate said classmate until they discover one piece of redacted info. The exercise, although ridiculous and not remotely plausible, simultaneously proves entertaining while still adding depth to every single character.

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It’s the basic yet ingenious story tactics such as this that make “Quantico” heaps of fun rather than soap opera drivel.

Will “Quantico” win any awards? Probably not. That being said, the show will end up as more than a few people’s guilty pleasure TV show. It’s a mile wide and an inch deep, but I’ll be damned if that mile isn’t fun the whole way through.

Let “Quantico” take you for a ride, as there

are certainly worse ways in life to spend 42 minutes of your time.

Worth the Watch: YES

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Rich Rod improv wills Wildcats to victory

BY Ezra Amacher The Daily Wildcat

Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez was staring at defeat, down 24-17 late in the third quarter to a Colorado program that is winless in Pac-12 Conference play over the last 23 months.

The defense had regressed throughout the game while the offense came up empty on nine consecutive drives.

Nick Wilson watched helplessly from the sideline as the Wildcats managed to average fewer than four yards per play throughout the third quarter. Arizona’s starting running back sat out the whole game with a foot injury.

On the field, the Wildcats’ starting quarterback looked just as debilitated.

Anu Solomon stalled following a 17-point opening quarter. Making his second start after suffering a concussion against UCLA, Solomon repeatedly resorted to rolling out to one side instead of staying still in the pocket.

As a result, Solomon was forced into tucking the ball or tossing passes that landed nowhere near intended receivers.

Colorado had made the proper adjustments to slow down Arizona’s offensive production. Now Rich Rodriguez needed to counter.

With 54 seconds remaining in the third quarter, out came Solomon and in entered Jerrard Randall.

Rich Rod improv at its finest.

Randall formed an all-backup backfield standing next to running back Jared Baker as the Wildcats attempted to steal the ballgame from the Buffaloes.

How would they accomplish such a feat? Well, by pounding the rock.

On the third play of the fourth quarter, Randall gave Baker a simple handoff and the redshirt senior took it to the house for 45 yards. Tie game.

A drive later, Baker found the end zone again, this time courtesy of a beautifully placed wheel route pass from Solomon. 31-24 Arizona. “[Solomon] came back in and didn’t hang his head,” Rodriguez said in his postgame radio interview.

On Arizona’s final scoring drive of the night, Randall and Baker combined for seven ground carries and 35 yards. Randall finished the methodical march with a short jog in the end zone. Arizona led 38-24 with 4:40 remaining.

Colorado made its best effort to make the game interesting in the final minutes, as Buffs quarterback Sefo Liufau led a scoring drive to make it a seven-point game with two minutes.

It was Randall and the Wildcats, however, who held onto the 38-31 victory.

“No. 8 [Randall] came in and gave us a little lift,” Rodriguez said in the radio interview. “The way they were playing us, we thought Jerrard would have some opportunities to get some runs and open our run game up.”

In other words: Rodriguez’s plan worked just as he scripted it.

As much as today’s era of college football values offensive ingenuity, a distilled rushing attack is almost a prerequisite for success.

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Arizona quarterback Jerrard Randall (8) runs the ball against Colorado during the Wildcats’ 38-31 win over the Buffs at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado on Saturday, Oct. 17. Randall finished with 81 rush yards and a rushing touchdown.

It’s no coincidence three of the top teams in the country—Ohio State, LSU and Utah—feature three of the nation’s top running backs.

OSU’s Ezekiel Elliott and LSU’s Leonard Fournette are on everybody’s Heisman shortlist. Devontae Booker of Utah should be as well, especially after his last few performances.

Even in the Pac-12, where the West Coast offense roams free, it’s Utah and Stanford that are respectively atop of each division.

Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey is averaging over 9.7 yards per carry over his last two games— blowout wins over Arizona and UCLA. Rodriguez is undoubtedly aware of the power-running dynamic shaping the Pac-12 race, and you can bet he’s happy to see Arizona joining in on the fun.

The Wildcats lead the Pac-12 in rushing touchdowns and are tied with Oregon for first with 297.4 rushing

yards per game. That number puts both schools at No. 6 nationally.

While Anu Solomon and Nick Wilson will remain Arizona’s go-to options, the Wildcats may turn more to Saturday night’s heroes to keep up with this running trend.

— Follow Ezra Amacher @EzraAmacher

Red-Blue shows promise, questions for ‘Cats

BY Kyle hansen

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s the official start to Arizona basketball looms closer and closer, fans everywhere begin to take a look at what this year’s team will bring to the table. Everyone got

their first look at the team during the McDonald’s Red-Blue Game on Saturday afternoon.

Here are some of the key points from the first look at the new Wildcats.

Who are the 2015-2016 Arizona Wildcats?

The team features seven new faces to the program: Freshmen Allonzo Trier, Justin Simon, Ray Smith, Chance Comanche and transfers Mark Tollefsen, Ryan Anderson and Kadeem

Allen. Anderson and Allen both were on the 2014-2015 roster but sat out the season after transferring.

The new players looked exceptional during the game, especially seniors Anderson and Tollefsen. Anderson had a game-high 15 points while Tollefsen added another 13 on 5-5 shooting. Both players also had eight rebounds each.

Though it was their first time wearing an Arizona uniform, Anderson and Tollefsen displayed their maturity and experience in the scrimmage.

“You saw Ryan Anderson and Mark Tollefsen; they don’t look like freshmen because they’re not,” head coach Sean Miller said about the newcomers.

“Although they’re new players, they’re in their last year of college.”

Allen was quiet for most of the game, scoring a couple of late baskets.

His biggest upside was his defensive presence.

Trier was the most impressive of the

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Brian Molina: tale of a homegrown Wildcat

BY Gia Trevisan

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“If at first you don’t succeed, dust yourself off and try again.” — Aaliyah Dana Haughton This quote could not be more relevant to Brian Molina’s time at Arizona. The senior is a Tucson native and said he has always wanted to come to the UA. Molina tried out for the men’s club soccer team his first year at the UA. He said he made it to the last day of tryouts; however, he came up short and did not make the team.

After two years of conditioning, playing soccer for competition and for fun, he tried out once more and made the team. Molina is now the leading goal-scorer with eight goals in 13 games.

Molina jokingly said before the weekend’s games that he would only increase his personal goal differential.

As his teammates have said, “He came off the bench and just started scoring goals.”

Despite their teasing about previously being a bench player, his teammates said they admire his confidence on the field. They said Molina plays with determination and humility.

Sounds like a pretty good teammate to have.

As for Molina, he said he has been playing since he was a kid and has a genuine love for the sport.

“I love the sport,” Molina said. “My cousin got me into playing soccer and growing up, he passed away. I do it for him every game.”

Molina said he mimics the way Lionel Messi, Diego Maradona and Christiano Ronaldo play.

He said he would like to see Messi and Maradona, who are both Argentinian players, play against one another; then he could decide ultimately who is the best Argentinian player of all time.

As for his favorite player growing up, Molina had to go with Ronaldo.

“I like his style of play and confidence on the ball and his love for winning,” Molina said.

Of course, Molina shares his favorite player’s love for winning. Molina cares about having a strong performance for his teammates and representing the team the best he can.

The UA men’s club soccer team beat New Mexico 6-0 and University of Texas at El Paso 5-0 over the weekend. With a pair of closing victories, Arizona finished first place in its region for the regular season with a record of 9-3-1.

Arizona’s new head coach, Eric Rhodes, has more than developed the players on the team.

He has instilled confidence and keeps the team moving forward.

Rhodes’ goal for the season was to come out No. 1 in the region, and that is exactly what the Wildcats did.

Up next, the UA has its Regional Tournament held in Glendale, Arizona. Facing some of the best teams, the Wildcats hope to make a historic statement with a win in the Regional Tournament.

— Follow Gia Trevisan @g_trevs

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Brian Molina runs onto the field with the UA men’s club soccer team. Molina leads the Wildcats in goals scored this season with eight in 13 games.

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Wildcats put an end to three-game skid

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Arizona soccer desperately needed a win after losing three straight games, and it got the job done with a 1-0 road win over the No. 16 Washington State Cougars.

It looked like the Cougars were going to get on the board quickly when, in the 5th minute, Pac-12-leading goal scorer Kaitlyn Johnson had a breakaway, but her shot was off the mark.

A few minutes later, a Wazzu corner kick was put on net, but an Arizona defender was there to block it.

The Wildcats got their first shot on goal soon after when Gabi Stoian put one on the net from about 25 yards out. Pac-12 saves leader Ella Dederick was there to make the save, however.

Stoian’s chance aside, Washington State was the aggressor in the first half, as it outshot the Wildcats 11-6.

In the 18th minute, the Cougars had a wide-open shot near the right side of the box, but it went off target.

About 15 minutes later, Arizona senior defender Sheaffer Skadsen, as the last line of defense, broke up a dangerous play that would have been a 1-on-1 if not for her heroics.

Despite Washington State’s constant pressure on the Arizona defense, it was Arizona that scored the first and only goal of the game. In the 34th minute, Dederick made a leaping save on a shot from Hannah Wong and knocked it over the crossbar. It setup an Arizona corner kick, and on the corner kick, Jessica Nelson was able to head it in for her first career goal.

The Wildcats headed into halftime up 1-0, and their defense would seal the deal in the second half.

In the 61st minute, the Cougars had a 2-on-1, but the Wildcats were able to avoid any danger. Shortly after, the Cougars had another open look, but Cera Wagner’s shot missed the net.

Lainey Burdett came up with a big save in the 67th minute when she knocked a Washington State shot to safety over the crossbar. She finished with a career-high nine saves. Wazzu got a corner kick out of the play, though, and that too was saved by Burdett. The rebound went to a WSU player, however, but the follow-up shot was errant.

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Arizona goal keeper Rachel Estopare (0) blocks a shot by Stanford during the WIldcats’ 2-3 loss against the Cardinal on Sunday, Oct. 4 at Murphy Field at Mulcahy Soccer Stadium. The Wildcats now hold a 9-4-1 record and are 3-3 in the Pac-12 Conference.

The Cougars earned another corner just a minute or two after, but Burdett was there again to clear the threat.

The Cougars finished with 25 shots, but the Wildcats’ defense—along with some beautiful saves by Burdett—were able to preserve their seventh shutout of the season.

“To come on the road against a top-20 team and win on the road is huge,” said Arizona head coach Tony Amato. “We grinded out a lot of the more important moments of the match and were dangerous in set pieces. The team put in a complete effort to get the win tonight.”

It was a tremendous bounce-back performance. The defense

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freshman group, as he scored nine points but also missed some open shots. Smith scored eight points and showed some incredible athleticism, but he also picked up five fouls in the contest. Simon was quiet offensively but his defense was impressive.

“I love our freshman class because of their attitude,” Miller said. “They have an attitude that makes it fun to be in the gym as their teammate and also as one of their coaches.”

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Arizona forward Mark Tollefsen (23) bounds over point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright (0) for a dunk in McKale Center on Saturday, Oct. 17 during the Wildcats’ Red-Blue Scrimmage.

Vets look Rusty Yes, this was a scrimmage, and yes, it is very early in the season. However, Arizona’s returning players were not as sharp as everyone may have thought them to be a month before the season.

Dusan Ristic looked the best of the veterans. He was nimble on his feet, pump faking and working his way around defenders with finesse. He finished the game with 14 points and five rebounds, looking stronger and playing better defense as well.

Miller says Ristic has been a very eager learner during his time at

struggled mightily against the Los Angeles schools—giving up eight goals in the two games—but it returned to its spirited self in tonight’s game. It was exactly what the doctor ordered to end the team’s three-game skid.

The win moves Arizona to 9-4-1 overall, and 3-3 in the Pac-12.

The Wildcats will host Oregon and Oregon State next weekend.

Both schools are at the bottom of the conference standings, and it will be a huge opportunity for the Wildcats to recover some of the ground they lost in the past two weeks.

Arizona.

“There aren’t a lot of seven-footers that have his skill set,” Miller said.

“He’s adept with both hands, he keeps the ball high and he’s a willing passer.

He’s really a fun guy to coach because of that attitude that I continue to refer to. As long as that attitude stays on our side, that’s our greatest upside as a team this year.”

Senior Gabe York got off to a slow start but picked up his play later in the game. He finished with 10 points including a pair of threes. Junior Elliot Pitts also hit a couple of threes and showed everyone that his defense is still solid.

Sophomore Parker JacksonCartwright displayed good passing ability at the point guard position.

Jackson-Cartwright finished the game with four assists but could have had a couple more had his teammates knocked down some open shots.

Center Kaleb Tarczewski sat out of the game as a precaution for an ankle injury suffered earlier in the week.

The veterans started out slow but picked it up in the second half. Arizona will be relying heavily on the senior leadership of this year’s team.

— Follow Ryan Kelapire @RyanKelapireUA My starter picks: Point guard: Parker JacksonCartwright Shooting guard: Allonzo Trier Small forward: Mark Tollefson Power forward: Ryan Anderson Center: Kaleb Tarczewski Sixth man: Gabe York This year’s team will have an interesting rotation. Simon could earn a significant role at the point guard spot because of his athleticism. Ristic could also see an expanded role, as Miller has entertained the possibility of Ristic and Tarczewski being on the floor at the same time.

The Wildcats also seem to have their depth back as Pitts, Smith, Comanche and Allen should all see time off the bench. This team looks deep, and with each player showing signs of solid play Arizona fans have a lot to look forward to this season.

— Follow Kyle Hansen @K_Hansen42

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October 19-20, 2015

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CAMPUS RECREATION Get Active. Live Healthy. Be Well.

rec.arizona.edu

OUTDOOR ADVENTURES Canoe Camping, Apache Lake, Nov. 13-15 • Canoe the “Quietest Lake in Salt Lake Reservoir” • Camp on the Banks—Best Fall Temps & Views • Register by 11/10

rec.arizona.edu/outdoor-adventures

AQUATICS & CERTIFICATIONS • • • •

Dryland Training, 10/22 Total Swim Package, 10/27 Lifeguard Training Course, 10/31 Mini Sprint Triathlon Series, 11/11

rec.arizona.edu/aquatics and /certifications

1/2 OFF GROUP FITNESS Fall Semester Group Fitness Pass on Sale • Only $30 for Members ($40 Non-Members) • Over 65 Classes a Week • Pass Good thru Dec. 9, 2015

rec.arizona.edu/group-fitness

HOMECOMING AT THE REC • Giveaways, Treats & Fun All Weekend!

• FREE 90’s-Themed Fitness Classes & Contest 10/25: Zumba @ 6p & Spin @ 7p • LAX Alumni Game, 10/23 @ 8:15p • $25 Massage @ RecSPA

rec.arizona.edu/25years

Campus Recreation 1400 E 6th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721 (520) 621-8702 rec.arizona.edu

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