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BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY The Daily Wildcat

The vote tally in the stillundecided 2nd Congressional District election remained close Wednesday night with Republican Martha McSally holding a slight edge over incumbent Democrat Ron Barber as ballots continued to trickle in.

McSally is leading Barber by just 1,293 votes out of the 187,755 ballots counted so far, according to the secretary of state’s office. All precincts have reported their results now, but thousands of ballots still remain to be counted and it could take days to determine the winner of the race.

According to a statement from the Pima County Communications Office, there are still about 10,000 provisional ballots to be counted, and the process for counting those votes could take up to 10 days.

Vote counting was also delayed in Cochise County due to technical difficulties. Cochise County election officials posted a message on their website early Wednesday explaining the delay.

“Due to technical difficulties, the early ballot counting machine did not match the hand count,” the message read. “Therefore, early ballots are in the process of being delivered to Graham County where they will be counted by their equipment.”

The votes, however, were counted and posted by Wednesday afternoon, which gave McSally a slightly larger lead.

The close nature of the race bears similarities to the 2012 race when Barber and McSally first squared off for Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District seat. That election took days to determine the winner, and Barber ended up beating McSally by fewer than 2,500 votes.

Both candidates remained optimistic Wednesday that they would win.

Ashley Nash-Hahn, a spokeswoman for the Ron Barber campaign, said they were confident Barber would win the early ballots and ultimately be re-elected.

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TOP: POLITICAL SCIENCE SENIOR Jose Guadalupe-Conchas rejoices as he watches the latest local polling results scroll by during Rep. Ron Barber’s election party at the Tucson Marriott University Park on Tuesday. The atmosphere of Barber’s election party was generally confident that the Democrat would win the race. BOTTOM: ANDREW DUY, a recent graduate of the Eller College of Management, wears a “Martha’s Wingman” shirt while attending Martha McSally’s election party at the Sheraton Tucson Hotel & Suites on Tuesday. As of Wednesday vening, a 2nd Congressional District winner has not been announced.

“This isn’t our first rodeo,” NashHahn said. “Two years ago, we woke up the day after the election with a significant vote deficit, but when the last early ballots were counted, Ron triumphed.”

A statement from the Martha McSally campaign released on Wednesday stressed patience as

the votes continued to be counted.

The campaign said that after the long election season, voters want nothing more than to know the winner.

“But while the democratic process can be slower than we want at times, it’s critical to making sure all Arizonans have

their voices heard,” the statement read. “We worked hard for every vote, and we intend to make sure that every vote is counted.”

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ASUA funding for feminist Tech Launch conference placed on hold Arizona to open doors to students

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A request for funding from FORCE was tabled at the ASUA Senate meeting Wednesday evening.

The tabling was a result of the senate deciding to make an amendment that would strike the South by Southwest conference from the funding request.

This occurred after Associated Students of the University of Arizona Sen. Joey Steigerwald brought up that there are several marketing resources on campus, particularly through ASUA, that are free for Feminists Organized to Resist, Create and Empower to use.

ASUA Sen. Josh Wexler then brought up that after some research into the feminist camp, he found the camp does have a session on expanding feminist movements on campuses.

These two points caused the senate to decide that the South by Southwest conference was unnecessary due to its price and the other resources for marketing available to FORCE. The senators proceeded to express their concerns with the reality that the feminist camp would cost over $1,000 to send each person, which is far beyond the amount given to previous requests for conference funding. ASUA Sen. Brooke Serack said that for the diversity conference, it was around $242 per person, and that another request earlier was around $250 per person.

A proposed solution to the costly nature of the feminist camp was to give enough funding for FORCE to send at least one person.

ASUA Sen. William Box then mentioned that although he enjoys funding these conferences because of their effect on campus, it is not the senate’s responsibility to do so.

The senators began to discuss the options on the table in response to Box’s comment. Among these options were to partially fund the conference by splitting the remaining cost down the middle for

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the senate and FORCE. Another was to simply help pay for a portion of the registration costs. During this conversation, the question of FORCE doing fundraising returned.

A few senators suggested the conference not be funded at all for the time being, and that FORCE come back at a later date with a revised budget.

Marisa Calegari, student director of FORCE, said

Tech Launch Arizona is hosting a student-focused First Friday Pitch Day for the first time on campus tomorrow in the Student Union Memorial Center.

The outreach event is open to any UA student who has a business idea they wish to pitch, whether it be a new innovation or a small business idea, said Dominique Villela, director of the Tech Launch Arizona Ambassadors program and CEO of Injected Media.

“It could be anything from an idea for a coffee shop, new technology material, anything as complicated as expensive optics and aerospace to software to a small business idea,” Villela said.

Villela said students are able to pitch their ideas in front of a panel of highly active community leaders who work in commercialization, entrepreneurship and ideas that have application specific to the Tucson community.

This is the first time the event is being held on campus; previously, the pitch day would be held at Tech Launch Arizona. The change

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MARISA CALEGARI, student director of Feminists Organized to Resist, Create and Empower, right, and Claire Larkin, left, listen to possible solutions to their request for funding during the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate meeting in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday. ASUA pushed its decision for FORCE’s request for funding to next week’s meeting.

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Indigenous Day of Health draws upon resilience related to native health and will be displayed at the Walkway of Wellness between the College of Pharmacy and the College of Public Health, The American Indian and Indigenous Health said Carmella Kahn-Thornbrugh, AIIHA club Alliance Club will host its annual Indigenous founder and a public health graduate student.

Kahn-Thornbrugh has been a part of the Day of Health to celebrate resiliency among indigenous people as part of the UA’s Diversity event for the past three years.

“When you hear about Native American Day on Friday afternoon at the Mel & Enid health, the resilience part of it isn’t there,” Zuckerman College of Public Health. “[The event is] part of Diversity Day and Kahn-Thornbrugh said. “It’s usually the the event is specific to the club,” said Felina deficits that are represented through media, such as diabetes, cancer, Cordova-Marks, AIIHA club heart disease and obesity. president and public health When you We really wanted to focus graduate student. hear about on the strengths, [the] Native American Heritage positive stuff that was Month, a recognized Native happening in American celebration throughout the American Indian communities. How U.S., is celebrated during the health, the we are strong and how we month of November, and the resilience are promoting our health Indigenous Day of Health is part of it for future generations to one of the many events being isn’t there come.” held on campus to celebrate — Carmella KahnInitially started through Native American culture.

Thornbrugh, the American Indian The indigenous health founder of AIIH task force, also founded celebration will showcase by Kahn-Thornbrugh information booths, poster and other public health displays and performances

by Native American students, Cordova- graduate students, the event focused on Marks said. Eleven clubs, such as the Tohono providing a better insight about the presence of O’Odham Student Association, will be at the Native American health on campus.

“We formed American Indian task force event promoting their current club activities.

The information booths, all gathered and mission [to] come together to create a voice developed by Native American students, will for American Indian students in our college, focus on topics such as public health issues because we felt a voice was lacking and we BY crystal bedoya The Daily Wildcat

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Carmella Kahn-Thornbrugh, American Indian and Indigenous Health Alliance Club founder and treasurer, left, club advisor Agnes Attakai, center, and club president and founding member Felina Cordova-Marks, right. The club is hosting its annual Indigenous Day of Health on Friday.

needed more support,” Kahn-Thornbrugh said.

The club has 23 members in total with both undergraduate and graduate students from different backgrounds.

Native American students Christie Humphries, a doctoral student who will play the flute, and Nyona Smith, a general studies major who will dance Pow Wow with the Black Mountain Drum Group, will kick off the event with a 15-minute performances.

Nicolette Teufel-Shone, a professor in the College of Public Health and co-principle investigator for the Center for American Indian

Resilience, mentors graduate students who are involved with the club and the event. “[It brings] awareness not only culturally, [but] the presence of American Indian students [on campus],” Teufel-Shone said. “We have a few students in the health disciplines: public health, nursing, medicine and pharmacy.

[It’s mostly] campus awareness of American Indians in higher education.”

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in location coincides with a change in focus from faculty to students.

First Friday Pitch Day happens multiples times a semester and was started two years ago, said Zachary Brooks, Tech Launch Arizona ambassador and president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council.

Tech Launch Arizona is an office of integrated teams creating an ecosystem of invention and commercialization and partners with the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, as well as GPSC. “They have now opened their doors to student innovation,” Villela said.

The panel that students will Courtesy of the Graduate and Professional Student Council be pitching to is made up of professionals from nonprofit First Friday Pitch Day, an event organized by Tech Launch Arizona, is an outreach initiative that creates a forum for innovation. and for-profit technology This is the first year that the event will be student-focused and held at the UA, on Friday in the Student Union Memorial Center. companies, UA faculty members years. The event is designed to resources they need to further and event where people can and researchers.

The confirmed panel includes be casual and approachable expand their ideas, offering launch themselves and their advice, technical ideas to making those ideas real John Zipp, Manny Teran, Sherry for students to come and share business advice, legal advice and other and making those ideas have their ideas.

Hoskinson and Justin Williams.

“The economy in Tucson is resources to give students impact,” Brooks said.

So far, five students have signed up to pitch their ideas driven by students,” Villela said. mentorship, guidance and at the event, but Villela said he “We want students to stay in networking opportunities.

“First Friday Pitch Day is expects a much higher volume Tucson and build companies.”

— Follow Adriana Espinosa Villela said First Friday Pitch important for the 41,000 UA of attendance than previous @Adrianaespi7 Day will give students the students because it is a place

it would require FORCE to go back to the drawing board. She said FORCE was willing to look into other, cheaper conferences, but they would be centered on women’s issues rather than a feminist-based conference.

ASUA Sen. Elena Gold asked if exploring other options would cause the Women’s Resource Center to decrease the funding it was providing.

Calegari said the funds FORCE had access to through the WRC were set aside only for conferences and that it would still have access to the amount originally given.

Calegari also told the senate FORCE had $1,000 for conferences and a miscellaneous budget that it was willing to utilize, but some of the budget was set aside for Women’s History Month.

ASUA Sen. Michael Finnegan suggested that out of respect for FORCE, the senate give it a number to work with for the time being, and that FORCE could explore its other options.

Box argued the issue with doing so was that he wanted to be aware of what he was funding. He said he didn’t want to give FORCE anything until it came back with information on what the new conference would be.

The senate decided the best option was to table the item until next week’s meeting with the request that FORCE look into its options and come back with a new proposal.

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JERUSALEM — The human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday that Israel had displayed “callous indifference” and in some cases committed war crimes when it bombed scores of homes of suspected militants, sometimes killing entire families, during last summer’s war in Gaza.

The attacks on family homes of suspected operatives was the signature tactic of the 50-day Israeli campaign against Hamas and allied militant groups in the Gaza Strip in July and August.

Israel’s declared aims of the war, which included bombardments from land, sea and air, followed by a ground offensive, were to stop rocket fire at Israel and destroy

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networks of tunnels, some of which reached into Israel.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs dismissed the Amnesty International report as biased, saying it ignored war crimes

by Hamas, including “the use of human shields, as well as ammunition storage and firing at Israeli civilian population centers from within schools, mosques and civilian neighborhoods in Gaza.”

More than 2,100 Palestinians were killed in the conflict, about 70 percent of them civilians, according to the United Nations.

On the Israeli side, 73 soldiers and civilians were killed in combat, and in rocket and mortar strikes.

The 49-page report documented eight cases in which family homes were attacked without warning,

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causing the deaths of at least 104 civilians, including 62 children.

Philip Luther, Amnesty’s director for the Middle East and North Africa, said that the findings show a pattern of attacks in which Israeli forces showed “a shocking disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians.”

“Israeli forces have brazenly flouted the laws of war, displaying callous indifference to the carnage caused,” Luther said.

The single deadliest attack documented in the report was a strike in which 36 members of four families, including 18 children, were killed when a three-story building was bombed. The secondmost lethal case was a strike in which 25 civilians, including 19 children, were killed when another

house was leveled.

Amnesty International said it identified possible military targets in the first building, and a member of Hamas’ armed wing was outside the second, but “regardless of the intended targets, both of these attacks constitute grossly disproportionate attacks under international law” and should have been called off when it became clear that so many civilians were present.

The Israeli army said during the war that it had repeatedly warned Palestinians to leave combat zones, but Gaza residents said that no place was safe during the fighting in the crowded coastal strip, and that there was nowhere to flee.

In some cases, buildings were hit with warning rockets before being

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In September, the army said that it had appointed fact-finding teams to look into more than 90 incidents during the Gaza war that might require criminal investigation. It said that such investigations were underway in five cases, including the shelling of a United Nations school in which 16 people were killed.

The U.N. Human Rights Council has launched an investigation into possible war crimes committed during Israel’s campaign, with a report due in March.

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Land water matters for monsoon

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UA researchers have found that water from the land is a more important contributor to the North American Monsoon than water from the ocean.

Huancui Hu, a hydrometeorology graduate student, and Francina Dominguez, an assistant professor of atmospheric sciences and hydrology, quantitatively assessed how much water sources, both oceanic and terrestrial, have contributed to the moisture of the NAM over the past 30 years. Their work was published recently in the Journal of Hydrometeorology.

Many researchers have tried to determine the main contributing moisture source to monsoons, which was previously thought to be oceanic, coming from either the Gulf of California or the Gulf of Mexico, Hu said. However, these studies never took an in-depth quantitative approach to address this question, she added.

“Monsoon precipitation is critical for the Northwestern Mexico and the Southwestern U.S.,” Dominguez said. “Both people and ecosystems depend on the intense precipitation that falls during the summer months.”

In particular, the monsoon brings in over half of the annual precipitation to the region, Hu said.

During the monsoon, Hu and Dominguez found that water from land sources contributes to monsoon moisture more than the oceans and does so consistently throughout the season.

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A daily monsoon storm on top of Mount Lemmon as seen from General Hitchcock Highway just outside of Summerhaven on July 8. It was previously believed that the ocean was the main moisture source of the North American Monsoon, but UA researchers have found that the main contributor to the NAM is actually land sources.

“Using isotopic and numerical precipitation data, we show that evapotranspiration from the land is an important source of moisture [for monsoons],” Dominguez said.

Evapotranspiration is the combined evaporation of water from soil and transpiration from plants.

As scientists learn more about the NAM, they can further use this knowledge to make predictions about climate change. Dominguez explained that currently, global

climate models are not at the point of being able to predict how monsoons will be evolving in the future. So far, scientists can only speculate that the NAM regions will become more arid, Dominguez said.

“The NAM is relatively hard to simulate because there [are] complex terrain conditions in this area, in particular the Sierra Madre Occidental [mountain range],” Hu said. “So we are trying to understand this process from the perspective

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of water movement and the evaporation-transport-precipitation cycle.”

Although models are important, it is important to back up these simulations with observed data from nature to make sure that they agree, Hu said. The study used both to describe the relationship between the land surface processes and NAM precipitation and can be useful to further forecast precipitation in the Southwestern U.S. and in

Northwestern Mexico.

“This research sheds light on the sources of moisture for the monsoon,” Dominguez said. “In the future, we will have to carefully consider evapotranspiration from the land and the importance of vegetation.”

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Students learn about human genomes in the Collaborative Learning Space classroom in the Science-Engineering Library on Oct. 28. UA science, technology, engineering and mathematics professors are testing the classroom to see if it provides a better environment for student learning and engagement.

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Biomedical sciences senior Colby Weaver holds his dog, Dirty Mike, on Tuesday at the UA mall. UA researchers are studying the health benefits dogs confer to their owners.

UA research looks to offer another reason for people to own pets, as dogs may provide direct health benefits

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Dogs are more than just man’s best friend.

Researchers are looking at how the contribution of their gut bacteria might be making their owners healthier.

Dr. Charles Raison, a professor of psychiatry and CNN mental health expert, is investigating whether owning a dog provides health benefits to the owners through positive changes in their microbiota.

Throughout an individual’s life, the microbiota — or bacterial community — play an important role in maintaining health and well-being.

Beneficial bacteria cover human skin and line the gastrointestinal tract, helping to digest certain foods, prevent inflammation and keep disease-causing bacteria from taking root.

There are studies that suggest kids who have dogs are less likely to get asthma or allergies, Raison said.

“We used to always think that that was because it does something to the immune system,” Raison said, “but we are recognizing that, if the dog does do something to the immune system, it actually doesn’t do it directly. It does it through the microbiome.”

Researchers think the dog is a probiotic delivery system, Raison said.

“There’s very good evidence that dogs change the microbiota of their owners and vice versa,” Raison said. “If you look at the composition of the microbiota in families, you’ll see that people share [their microbiota] as much with their dog as they do with each other.”

There are also studies that show if the composition of the microbiota in the elderly is bad, they will be more likely to become frail, lose their ability to talk and break bones, Raison said.

“Clearly, something is going on there in terms of the dog-human relationship,” said Kim Kelly, a principal research specialist in the Raison lab and program coordinator of the Human Animal Interaction Research Initiative at the UA. “We’re not sure what it is, but we know they are able to share this

microbiome.”

Building on these findings, Raison and his research group seek to delve deeper into this relationship between humans, dogs and their microbiomes.

Raison and his group will provide older people with dogs and look to see if it improves their functioning, both emotionally and physically, and whether that improvement correlates with changes or improvements in the microbiota.

The Raison lab will be partnering with the Humane Society of Southern Arizona to help place dogs in need of a home with study participants, Kelly said.

Baseline measurements will be taken before participants get a dog. The researchers will take a stool sample, a cheek swab and a skin sample from the foreheads of both the people and the dogs, and blood samples from the humans. Then, they will do the measurements again after introduction of the dog, Kelly said.

Ultimately, they want to find bacteria that might be having a probiotic effect on the people, Kelly said.

Scientists are increasingly discovering that bacteria affect far more than digestive and immune processes.

“This microbiota in the gut can have powerful effects on the brain,” Raison said. “You can totally change the behavior of mice, for instance, if you just clean out their guts and transplant bacteria. If you take stool from a strain of mice that are very anxious and timid and you clean out the gut of a very brave strain of mice, and you put the timid poop in the brave mouse, it turns into a timid little guy. It totally changes its personality.”

The powerful effects on body function conferred by the microbiota is one of the hottest areas in all of medicine, Raison said. “[We want to know if] it isn’t just that dogs are warm and fuzzy,” Kelly said. “[If] there’s something going on in that connection that biologically is actually making us healthier.”

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Various UA science, technology, engineering and mathematics professors are in the midst of an experiment to see how a new classroom design impacts student learning.

“I found it was hard for students to interact with each other [in traditional lecture halls] and it was hard to get high levels of engagement,” said John Pollard, a lecturer in chemistry and biochemistry. Pollard wanted to create an environment that facilitates opportunities for making connections and building ideas.

Now in its three-week pilot run, Pollard and other STEM professors are testing what teaching is like in the Collaborative Learning Space classroom created in the UA Science-Engineering Library. This learning space comes equipped with many roundtables, screens and whiteboards for student use.

“The main advantage is the ability to have students engage with each other and work in groups,” Pollard said.

There is a lot of research that shows a large benefit overall to students who are put into an active learning situation, Pollard said.

“Active learning is best defined as a process where learners are actively engaged in their own learning,” said Katie Southard, a graduate student studying molecular and cellular biology. “It requires students to be a part of meaningful activities where they are actively thinking about what they are doing. In an active learning environment, students participate in activities that often involve group learning, problem solving and inquirybased activities.”

There is enough evidence that shows traditional lecture alone is not an effective teaching modality for class, according to Pollard.

“This is hard because this is how many of us as professors were taught,” Pollard said. “But just because that’s how we were taught doesn’t mean that it

is what’s best for our students.”

So far, feedback from students has been positive, Pollard said. The students like to be able to engage each other and have better access to the instructors, teaching assistants and preceptors. “[The learning center] allows students to articulate their ideas in a small group setting where the instructor can act as a resource rather than the main disseminator of information,” Southard said.

However, the experimental room does have some limitations, such as not being able to see a screen well if seated in certain areas of the room.

Jordan Barrows, a sophomore studying biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology, said he likes being able to converse with group members easily and noted how the room really encourages conversation. But a valuable aspect of the lecture-hall setup that he found lacking in the room was the centralized focus of the class.

Pollard is aware of these limitations.

The goal is to learn as much as possible about the room configuration while in the pilot run so professors can think about how to improve future rooms, Pollard said.

“We at the UA want to be the institution that is cutting edge on research and cutting edge on research in teaching,” Pollard said. “When students decide to come here, they are going to be taking chemistry, biology with people who have expertise in not only the field, but [also] in some of the most advanced ways in learning that we know.”

If the UA is training future scientists and medical field professionals, it makes sense to have their education include authentic science experiences, Southard said. Collaboration and debate is a regular part of a scientist’s job.

Ultimately, however, it’s about the students and improving their learning experience.

“It’s an experiment, but we’re starting,” Pollard said.

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Funding for profs, students profit too

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nother year, another application cycle — for many of the untenured faculty at the UA, this cycle is the decisive factor in knowing whether they will have a job and, more importantly, an income for the upcoming year.

Untenured faculty, specifically adjuncts and lecturers, are the teenage, replaceable workers of the university industry. They are treated as expendable employees and suffer from a lack of benefits and job security.

This mistreatment can be felt by students both in the quality of education received and in consideration of future career paths. Who wants to be a teacher when teachers are treated so poorly?

This problem is exemplified by how American universities have drastically increased the amount of administrators per student — and inflated administrative funding to support this — while the amount of employees engaged in teaching, research or service per student pales in comparison.

According to the Goldwater Institute, “Between 1993 and 2007, the number of full-time administrators per 100 students at America’s leading universities grew by 39 percent, while the number of employees engaged in teaching, research or service only grew by 18 percent.”

One nearby example of this is Arizona State University, according to the same Goldwater report, which notes that, “Nearly half of all full-time employees at [ASU] are administrators.”

This increase in administrative spending reflects not only a disinterest in promoting academia as a feasible career option for students but also a devaluation of educators.

“Everybody says [this] an issue but the people who have the most influence and the most ability to do something about it are not acting on it,” writes Gary Rhoades, a professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the UA, in an Inside Higher Ed article.

The issue, which Rhoades writes “pit[s] administrative prerogatives against labor concerns and educational outcomes,” is an economic one.

With declining state revenues and the dissipation of endowments, funding for public universities has shriveled up while undergraduate enrollment continues to increase. The increase in demand for enrollment has led to a high necessity for instructors without the comparable match in funding to adequately compensate them, limiting their supply.

Jesseka Zeleike, a UA English adjunct, said this inadequate compensation affects the quality of life of adjuncts to a great degree.

Funding is driven by prestige and revenue instead of ethics or practicality, Rhoades writes. Attractive updates to campus — like modernized and upscale dorms, revamped athletic facilities and gimmicky amenities — are being used to draw tuition-paying middle-class students to universities.

So when one considers that ASU President Michael Crow and UA President Ann Weaver Hart have both approved threeyear bonus plans, proposed by their regents, to improve student retention, bachelor’s degrees and research funding, potentially totaling up to $260,000, on top of already impressive salary and benefit packages — ­­ Crow: $742,500; Hart: $620,500 — concerns abound.

These improvements are not directly impacted by the administration. Student retention and bachelor’s degrees, for instance, are directly impacted by the quality and treatment of instructors employed by the university.

When professors’ jobs are insecure and they are lowly compensated for large quantities of time and effort, they are less incentivized to avoid grade inflation and are passing students to get them out of the system.

This becomes a perception problem for adjuncts and other untenured faculty, such as graduate teaching assistants, because the incentive to produce high-quality education just isn’t there.

The system seems more in support of pumping out as many bachelors of something as possible, rather than trying to create doctoral candidates who are financially successful.

“Most grad students don’t plan on becoming adjuncts,” Zeleike said. “Many who assume they will get a tenure track job or work outside of the university later end up working as adjuncts for a variety of reasons.”

The problem with underfunding instructors in higher education is that it diminishes higher education in its entirety.

University administrations nationwide seem totally OK with treating crucial employees — and subsequently the product they directly dispense to students — as disposable, but those employees are not.

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish. Follow him @NiHavey

Alcohol reform sobers up colleges drunk on deceit close to campus, it’s difficult to believe the university or the Arizona Board of Regents when they claim to be fighting underaged drinking.

Underaged students who are caught drinking get away too easily, sometimes with only a letter to their parents or an enforced alcohol seminar. Colleges have to do better if they want people to believe their rhetoric.

Some colleges have already started. By forming the Amethyst Initiative, which currently has 136 signatories, John McCardell, president of Sewanee University of the South, hopes to convince colleges to pressure political leaders to review and debate the effectiveness of the present legal drinking age. These colleges recognize the difficulties in achieving successful alcohol policies that ensure alcohol is only consumed in a responsible manner, without the added burden of chasing underaged students about to keep them from drinking.

The UA isn’t a signatory yet, but it should be. Reviewing downwards the legal drinking age may save college administrators the time and money now committed to ineffective and hypocritical alcohol policies. Links may be found between this and the case for legalizing marijuana. Take the attraction and mystique out of alcohol by treating college freshmen as the adults they want to be seen as. Give them the keys to the wine cabinet at 18 and teach them how to drink responsibly, not dangerously.

vote, have sex, act in porn and so on. One of the only things they have to wait longer for is alcohol. It’s no surprise then that, in Arizona, underage citations have continued to increase annually from 1,502 in 2007 to 8,527 in 2013.

Colleges understand that students desperately want to drink; yet, as custodians of the underage kids on their campuses, they are ultimately responsible for ensuring these kids remain sober.

But no college can claim to be winning this war. Rather, they’ve been losing for decades.

And colleges don’t mind much that they are losing; they have good reason not to. A drinking student population means more money for the school: more money being spent at college football or basketball games, more students applying to study at the college and more business on campus.

Therefore, the high road most colleges take in the media and on their policies about drinking isn’t always their true stand on the subject. Actions speak louder than words.

Most colleges, including the UA, condone alcohol at Greek Life events despite knowing that there’s going to be an awful lot of underage drinking going on. Underage students make up more than 75 percent of students on campuses and the vast majority of Greek Life members.

In Arizona, there are no distance limitations for alcohol outlets around college campuses; retailers or bars can set up shop next to schools with thirsty student populations. On University Boulevard and Fourth Avenue, a number of bars abound, all making brisk business. All students need to do is show some ID, fake or original, to get in. With those attractions so

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aomi McClendon wanted to save the world. She was student body president of her high school and had chosen to major in nonprofit leadership and management. McClendon graduated and moved to Arizona State University. The freedom of college life was hers and, with it, the promise of parties and alcohol. So she attended an off-campus party and drank some liquor. Deciding to head back home, she wandered through the 10th-floor hallway, out to the balcony. Straddling the railing, she walked straight out into the air and fell to her death.

College life brings a host of uncharted waters to freshmen, and colleges aren’t making that experience any easier. A federal law, passed in the early 1980s, raised the legal drinking age to 21 and compelled states to raise their legal drinking age, too. Colleges had little choice but to revise their alcohol policies.

Since then, college campuses have been locked in an internal war with underage drinking and intoxication.

Young people flock to what they can’t have, a lesson every parent has to learn.

Alcohol is the biggest of these attractions, particularly because of the premium that government laws and regulations have placed on it. At 18, teenagers are considered old enough to die for their country, get married,

— Chikezie Anachu is an international trade and business law student. Follow him @Don_Chikzy

Net neutrality fight still unsure

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orporate lobbyists should be forced to walk the plank and fed to the sharks.

Lobbyists’ undue influence over politicians constitutes a de-facto corporate fascism. An article by Cracked showed how disturbingly pervasive that fascism is, how “lobbyists are everywhere, operating without any rules.”

From their coercion of infantilized politicians to their grabbing said politicians by the campaign puppet strings, lobbyists’ roots reach distressingly deep, and no domain is this clearer than the ongoing, vicious battle over net neutrality and, by extension, the future of the Internet.

Even though the major push to fix net neutrality has ended, those parasites working for “Big Telecom” — companies like Viacom, AT&T and Time Warner — are still placing their sinuous probing tentacles within the orifices of the issue of net neutrality.

Net neutrality keeps the access of

information flow the same between princes and paupers, which also keeps the Internet from being a Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil”-esque dystopia.

But currently, according to ProPublica, Big Telecom is doubling-down on astroturfing efforts via the National Cable and Telecommunications Association — its main lobbying group — to fool everyone into supporting it with campaigns like Onward Internet, a sinisterly vague campaign that’s meant to push against net neutrality.

Big Telecom is also buddying up with General Motors Co. to cripple any new net-neutrality rules set in place.

Because they think netizens will forget about the issue while they rest self-assured that their comments sent to the Federal Communications Commission over the summer might count, the Telecom robber barons are shoring up their political influence via public relations and cash so that before netizens realize it, Big Telecom can take net neutrality and drown it in a bathtub.

If lobbyists are given an inch, they’ll take it a mile, as can clearly be seen by how media deregulation

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by the FCC has lead to only five companies controlling most media, and how even now companies are throttling down on net neutrality.

Also, the FCC has shown in the past that even when commenters come out in force, it doesn’t really read most of what they have to say. Why? Because, apparently, according to a Slate article, it thinks the commenters — aka the everyday Internet users — are uninformed plebians, and thus, their opinions on the fate of their media does not amount to anything.

And while President Barack Obama has said he wants “real” net neutrality, he’s suspiciously omitted the Title II reclassification of the Internet as a utility, like water and electricity, that is not only the simplest solution to the problem, but also the reason why Europe has better Internet for cheaper prices than the U.S. This is also the solution which, by the way, was advocated for by most FCC commenters.

And now, Big Telecom’s plan has been unveiled to the world. Not only is it a laughable compromise of Title II, but it also favors larger Internet companies while leaving the consumers marooned.

Dealings with companies like Netflix would be classified under Title II, preventing Big Telecom from playing favorites. But dealings with consumers would be regulated only under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which broadly allows the FCC to ensure broadband internet is deployed to Americans “in a reasonable and timely fashion.”

Big Telecom would basically be allowed to treat consumers however it wants to.

If politicians still ignore cries for change, they will end up crucifying net neutrality on a cross of greed and inefficiency.

Netizens need to raise a ruckus and show they aren’t so easily lulled into acquiescence. They need to advocate en masse for full Title II representation rather than just compromise.

In order to get proper regulations passed, they can and must contact the FCC and their representatives in Congress.

Together, we can do this, and if they ask, tell ‘em Tom Johnson sent you.

— Tom Johnson is a film and television studies junior. Follow him @tbok1992

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Two UA students were diverted to the Dean of Students Office for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on Oct. 28.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was on foot patrol in the science concourse and could smell a very strong odor of burnt marijuana coming from the south side of the Math building.

The officer heard several voices in the area but was unable to see anyone, and he believed the students were smoking in a secluded area outside of the building.

Two more UAPD officers arrived and they began to look for the students. As they made rounds around the building, they found four people, three of whom were students, sitting on the second-floor stairwell of the building.

One of the students threw a black sack down the stairwell when he saw the officers. The sack was retrieved and a pill bottle was found inside. There were two Ziploc bags with a total of 2.7 grams of marijuana inside the pill bottle, along with two glass pipes, both with marijuana residue in them.

All four of them said they had been smoking marijuana in the stairwell. One of the students, whose name was on the pill bottle, said he had purchased the smoking pieces earlier that day at an off-campus location. Another student said he threw the sack down the stairs when he saw the officers because he was scared.

One student was issued a violation of the Student Code of Conduct and the parents of the non-UA affiliated person were notified.

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CAMPUS EVENTS Homecoming 2014. All day, UA Campus. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of UA Homecoming. Tens of thousands of Wildcats will return to the UA campus Nov. 6-8 for reunions, the Homecoming football game, tailgating, campus tours and more. Don’t miss it!

The Press Play Concert featuring Y LUV. 5:15 p.m. North Plaza Stage. Join the Wildcat Events Board the North Plaza Stage (Outside Pinkberry) to listen to indie rock band Y LUV. There will be FREE food and drinks.

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‘Harmony’ Magazine Launch. 6-8 p.m. Hotel Congress, Copper Hall, 311 E. Congress Street.

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CAMPUS EVENTS arguments during an upcoming visit to Tucson. This judicial visit is hosted by the William H. Rehnquist Center for the Constitutional Structures of Government at the James E. Rogers College of Law.

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Rincon Country East Farmers’ Market. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Rincon Country East RV Resort, 8989 E. Escalante Road. Come on out and find a wide selection of seasonal organic produce, honey from Holly’s Little Farm, Jellies, Jams, Salsas and pickled items from We B Jammin, as well as, farm fresh eggs. Food Trucks Ranchers that provide meats and eggs.

Poetry Craft Talk by Thomas Sayers Ellis at UA Poetry Center. 7 p.m. UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen Street. Join the UA Poetry Center for a Poetry Craft Talk by Thomas Sayers Ellis, titled “The Assassination of Poetry, or How I Discovered I Was Writing Cover-Story Poetics.”

27th Annual Flea Market. 7 a.m.-5 p.m.

Desert Skies United Methodist Church, 3255 N. Houghton Road. We’ve got stuff, from antiques to automobiles, toys, camping gear, furniture, kitchenware, appliances, lawn and garden equipment, tools & hardware, books, clothes, shoes, belts and purses. 10 acres outside and 100,000 sq. ft. inside. Hot dogs and sodas available for purchase. Benefits more than 30 local charities.

Arizona Supreme Court Holding Oral Arguments at College of Law. 2 p.m. James E. Rogers College of Law, Ares Auditorium, Room 164. As part of its statewide public education effort, the Arizona Supreme Court will hold oral

Gather: A Vintage Market. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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TUCSON EVENTS Full Moon Labyrinth Walk. 6:30 p.m. St. Philip’s In the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave. Walk St. Philip’s meditation labyrinth by the light of the full moon following an introduction to the spiritual reasons for the walk. Refreshments and fellowship follow.

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Butterfly Magic. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Visit the Cox Communications Butterfly & Orchid Pavilion, and experience the beauty of live tropical butterflies. From October through May the Cox Butterfly & Orchid Pavilion will transform into a magical oasis filled with over 300 butterflies at a given time. Exhibit included with admission.

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No. 16 Arizona Wildcats hockey (4-0-9) host the American Collegiate Hockey Association Division II Spartans of Michigan State University (6-0-3) this weekend.

“Michigan State is a very competitive team,” UA hockey head coachChad Berman said. “They only have three losses this year and they are to Division I teams, all of which were close games.”

Trevor McSween and Jacob Peacock lead the Spartans in scoring with 10 points each.

All three of Michigan State’s goalies — Brent Schwarz, Eric Matych and Karl Langhans — record saving percentages above .90. Schwarz starts between the poles for the Spartans with 188 total career saves.

Arizona snapped a six-game losing streak on Saturday night after beating Colorado 4-2. However, the Wildcats still have room for improvement on the offensive side.

“This week, we worked on getting to the net and having better execution on our three-on-twos,” Berman said. “We need to find ways to generate more offense.

We also are building on some of our power-play options. The power-play hasn’t been terribly productive, but it is getting better every week. We are getting better opportunities, more shots and better puck movement. This week,

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ARIZONA HOCKEY RIGHT WING Matt Reed (10) pats goalie Austin Wilson (33) on the head after Arizona’s 3-1 win against Colorado on Saturday at the Tucson Convention Center. The Wildcats match up with Michigan State twice over the weekend.

we intend to add a third unit to increase competition and give us another look.”

Arizona has struggled tremendously on its power play this season. Thursday night, the Wildcats went 1 for 9 during power plays after they lost to Colorado State 2-3.

“Our power play was struggling the past couple weeks, but we’ve been working on it recently in practice, running a few new plays and working on getting shots through,” captain Shane Gleason said. “We just need to keep it simple and shoot the puck when we have the chance; that’s what we’ll be doing this weekend against Michigan State.”

On Saturday night, freshman goalie Austin Wilson made his debut with 29 for 30 shot saves.

Freshman Alex Nespor leads Arizona in scoring with 10 points from six goals and four assists.

Alex O’Dea comes in second in scoring for the Wildcats with nine points. O’Dea will not be playing this weekend after he suffered an injury last weekend against Colorado.

Puck drops Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Tucson Convention Center.

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The Arizona’s men’s and women’s golf fall season came to an end this past week with both teams finishing their last tournaments of the session.

Arizona women’s golf finished in fourth place on Tuesday at the Pac-12 Conference Preview in Kona, Hawaii.

The University of Hawaii hosted all of the Pac-12 schools, minus Utah, at the Nanea Golf Club.

Arizona had a final score of 13-overpar 889 over the two-day tournament, earning the Wildcats fourth place. The team had total scores of 1-over-par 293 for round one, 10-over-par 302 for round two and 2-over-par 294 for the final round on Tuesday.

No. 6 Washington took first place with a total score of 11-under-par 865, No. 7 UCLA placed second with a total score of 876 and No. 3 Stanford finished in third place with a total score of 7-over-par 883.

Junior Lindsey Weaver carried the team, finishing in first place for the Wildcats and tying for fifth place overall. Weaver had a total tournament score of 1-under-par 218, scoring 3-under-par 70 in round one, 4-over-par 77 in round two and 2-under-par 71 during her final round of the tournament.

The women’s team resumes play in February at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, Calif. The team won’t have another

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ARIZONA LINEBACKER Scooby Wright (33) tackles UCLA quarterback Brett Hundley (17) just short of the endzone in the second quarter of Arizona’s 17-7 loss to UCLA at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., on Saturday. Wright has emerged as the leader of Arizona’s defense during his sophomore season.

Coordinator/Linebackers] coach [Jeff] Casteel out there and be able to line everybody up, and his knowledge of our scheme is getting better every week.”

Rodriguez said the only thing he’s worried about Wright is if the sophomore gets tired, with Wright being so active.

“I think the big thing that sticks out with him is his motor,” Gilbert said.

“His motor is just nonstop. He’s always going 110 percent, no matter where he’s playing, no matter what quarter it is, what play it is, he’s always going, playing like his hair’s on fire.”

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line up within five yards of the line of scrimmage.

Wright is the only Football Bowl Subdivision player in the top 20 in tackles, tackles for loss, sacks and forced fumbles. He is No. 1 in the nation in forced fumbles, with five.

The parade of accolades comes after Wright, whose full name is Philip Wright III, was considered a two-star recruit coming out of high school.

“Scooby plays with a passion,” Rodriguez said. “He plays like he wants to prove himself. I think because of his attitude, we keep getting better.”

Sophomore receiver Cayleb Jones, for the week of Sept. 22, is the only other Wildcat to win Pac-12 Player of the Week this year.

Rodriguez said Wright’s success can also be attributed to his added experience in the scheme and college football; he’s a true sophomore.

“He’s growing up in our system,” Rodriguez said. “As time goes along, sort of next year as well, he’ll become almost like an extension of [Defensive

home event until March when the Wildcat Invitational takes place in Tucson.

On Oct. 28, the Arizona men’s golf team tied for ninth place at the Quail Valley Intercollegiate tournament in Vero, Fla. The team finished with a total combined score of 5-over-par 869 over the two-day tournament.

“Our guys showed a lot of heart today,” UA men’s golf head coach Jim Anderson said in a press release.

For rounds one and two of day one, the team scored 5-over-par 293 and 3-over-par 291, finishing in 12th place overall. For the final round on day two, the team had its lowest scoring round with a final score of 3-under-par 285, bringing the team up from 12th place to ninth place overall.

“We knew we needed to come out and play well to finish the fall season on a positive note,” Anderson said in a press release.

Senior Alex McMahon earned his first top-10 finish of the preseason with a score of 4-under-par 68 for his final round of the tournament.

McMahon tied for fifth place overall, with a total score of 6-under-par 210.

The men’s team resumes play in January when it hosts the Arizona Intercollegiate tournament at its new home course, the Sewailo Golf Club.

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want to check out a potential NCAA championship team, head to McKale Center. However, if you are looking for a thrilling game and a chance to watch Arizona football bounce back against a depleted Colorado team, this is the game you need to watch and be at.

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McKale Center.

ESPN ranks Wildcats

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ESPN releases an annual list of the top100 collegiate basketball players in the nation in inverse order in groups of 20. So far, ESPN has released players 100 to 20.

In those 80 players, four Arizona Wildcats were ranked. Kaleb Tarczewski came in at No. 47, T.J. McConnell came in at No. 36, Stanley Johnson came in at No. 28 and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson came in at No. 24.

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The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced on Tuesday that Arizona men’s basketball senior point guard T.J. McConnell was named to the watch list for the Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award. McConnell is one of 36 D-1 point guards named to the watch list.

Along with Delon Wright of Utah and Chasson Randle of Stanford, McConnell is one of three Pac-12 Conference players on the list. Last season, McConnell was one of 20 semifinalists for the Cousy Award, which ended up going to Shabazz Napier of Connecticut.

After sitting out the 2012-2013 season due to NCAA transfer rules, McConnell guided Arizona to a 33-5 record last year in his first action as a Wildcat.

The 6-foot-1 point guard averaged 8.4 points per game, 5.3 assists per game, 3.6 rebounds per game and 1.7 steals per game.

His ability to orchestrate head coach Sean Miller’s offense while simultaneously hounding opposing point guards on defense is what makes McConnell so effective.

After this year’s annual Red-Blue game, Miller said he has complete trust in his point guard’s leadership and playing abilities. Having McConnell back in the fold as the starting point guard means Miller returns his floor general, something that hadn’t happened in his first five seasons at Arizona.

The award, named after legendary Boston Celtics point guard Bob Cousy, has been given out to the best point

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ARIZONA GUARD T.J. MCCONNELL (4) defends Arizona guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright’s (0) shot during the Red team’s 53-46 win during the Red-Blue game on Oct. 18 in McKale Center. McConnell was named to the Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award watch list earlier this week.

guard in the nation every year since 2004.

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With a glut of former Wildcats scattered around the NBA, including a couple pairs of teammates, it’s no surprise Arizona basketball never stops.

Channing Frye and Aaron Gordon have teamed up in Florida this year for the Orlando Magic. Frye starts at power forward while Gordon has backed up Frye at the four. Both have

put up unspectacular numbers so far, with Frye averaging 8.8 and Gordon just 4.6.

Jason Terry and Nick Johnson are teammates on the Houston Rockets, but the Rockets have only received contributions from Terry. Due to injury, Johnson has only played one game while Terry has emerged as a scoring option off the bench.

Possibly the highest profile former Wildcat, Andre Iguodala has been demoted from his starting role into a more sixth-man type role on the

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH Sean Miller, left, and football head coach Rich Rodriguez, right, both have games over the Homecoming weekend. Our writers debate whether the football game on Saturday against Colorado or the men’s basketball game on Sunday against Cal Poly Pomona will be the more exciting matchup.

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Arizona men’s basketball freshman forward Stanley Johnson tweets what many UA fans already know: he works hard.

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Golden State Warriors under new coach and Arizona great Steve Kerr.

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here are two main sporting events on campus this weekend during the 100th Homecoming: UA football vs. Colorado on Saturday and UA men’s basketball vs. Cal Poly Pomona on Sunday. Both games should see plenty of excitement, with football needing a bounceback performance to stop its current two-game losing streak and basketball getting a chance to play against someone other than their own teammates.

But the men’s basketball game will be more exciting than the football game.

Not only is Arizona a basketball school first and foremost, but Sean Miller has put the Wildcats in a great position to contend for the second national championship in program history. No offense to football’s 6-0 start, which was outstanding, but there was never a realistic chance it’d be one of four teams in the college football playoffs.

This is the first time fans can see Miller’s No. 2-ranked squad in action against real opponents, since no one is privy to watch “secret scrimmages.”

The newly renovated McKale Center was rocking during the annual Red-Blue game, which was the only time fans have seen the 2014-2015 team in action. Fans piled in hours early to fill up the limited-capacity seating that was offered and actually stayed the entire game. In fact, some fans lingered after.

Can you name the last time seemingly all fans stayed for an entire football game? I certainly can’t.

Besides, T.J. McConnell, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, Kaleb Tarczewski, Brandon Ashley and Stanley Johnson are a considerably bigger attraction than Anu Solomon, Scooby Wright, Jared Tevis and Cayleb Jones.

fter its disappointing loss against UCLA last weekend, it’s time for Arizona football to shine against Colorado at the 100th Homecoming game. Sure, there was a nasty bump in the road. But at 6-2 and ranked No. 21 in the country by the AP Top 25 Poll, the UA needs a rebound, and what better way to do it than to defeat the Buffaloes, which will easily be the best game this weekend with thousands of alumni present.

Sure, Arizona men’s basketball will kick off its season with an exhibition game against the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos. Like many of the early games played in previous seasons, the Wildcats have blown out opponents, and this upcoming game should be no different.

The game against Colorado, however, marks the 100th anniversary of the UA’s first Homecoming in 1914 against Pomona College, ending in a 7-6 Thanksgiving Day victory. What better way to cap off the anniversary than a Wildcats win in front of a hundred years of alumni? Plus, the UA has a 56-355 all-time record in its Homecoming games. Those are pretty good odds. Looking at probability and statistics, there is a pretty good shot that the Wildcats will earn another victory.

The Buffaloes are the Pac-12 Conference’s worst team, boasting a record of just 2-7, including 0-6 in conference play. Yet, in the Wildcats’ previous game, the offense stalled, which ended up being the main reason for the defeat. With no offense, it is challenging to win any sporting event.

Arizona men’s basketball is expected to be an offensive, dynamic powerhouse, and this game should be no different. That’s something that both Arizona teams have in common: an explosive offense, which tends to make games quite interesting.

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t 6:30 a.m. on Monday, Arizona football head coach Rich Rodriguez came to work out and saw sophomore linebacker Scooby Wright there by himself.

Rodriguez wasn’t surprised to see the two-time reigning Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Week.

“He doesn’t have to be there, but that’s Scooby being Scooby,” Rodriguez said.

Naturally, Wright downplayed the significance of him being there early, though.

“There’s always guys in the weight room,” Wright said. “I just get in there early and get it done.”

Senior defensive lineman Reggie Gilbert said Wright’s dedication definitely inspires the rest of the team.

He said the Wildcats see other players working out and it leads them to do the same.

“I love Scooby,” Gilbert said. “He’s a great teammate, a great friend – just a great person.”

While the offense has garnered most of the headlines, Wright has been vital in leading No. 19/21 Arizona to a 6-2 start. Wright leads the Pac-12 in tackles (97) and forced fumbles (five) and is second in sacks (12) and tackles for loss (18.5).

“He’s been our most consistent football player, period,” Rodriguez said. “I’ve probably said that in every game.”

Last week in the Wildcats’ 17-7 loss at No. 18 UCLA, Wright was one of the lone bright spots. He finished with single-game career-highs in tackles (19, 11 of which were solo), tackles for loss (4.5) and sacks (three).

“I’m just having a lot of fun with it, just playing good, team defense,” Wright said. “Our scheme that we’ve had the last couple of weeks put me in some good positions. Our defensive line has been playing great, freeing me up a lot of blocks and the double teams, really kind of sending them to me.”

The 19 tackles are the most for a Wildcat since Marcus Bell had 20 at ASU on Nov. 27, 1999. The 4.5 tackles for loss are the most since Spencer Larsen had 4.5 at USC on Oct. 13, 2007.

Wright is one of 20 semifinalists for the Chuck Bednarik Award, which goes to the most outstanding defensive player. He is also one of 12 semifinalists for the Rotary Lombardi Award. Two other Pac-12 players are semifinalists.

The Rotary Lombardi Award is for down linemen and linebackers who

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