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Report: UA needs to improve faculty diversity, planning, decision support, engagement By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT In less than a month, the UA will be the subject of a site visit that may determine whether the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools reaccredits the university. This site visit, from Dec. 6 to 8, represents the culmination of over two and a half years of work by the co-chairs for the North Central Association 2010 accreditation process: Beth Mitchneck, a geography professor and associate dean in the College of Letters, Arts and Science, and Randy Richardson, a geosciences professor.
“Students should care because this is ultimately about the quality of the experience they have at this university and what their degree from the University of Arizona means, both to them and to the greater community at large.” — Beth Mitchneck Associate dean in the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
In the past years Richardson and Mitchneck have presided over the UA’s self-study process, creating a report that details the institution’s strengths and areas it needs to improve. If the UA were to be denied accreditation, then the institution would no longer be allowed to offer federal financial aid to students. Specifically, the report cites four areas where the UA needs to improve: faculty diversity, planning and budgeting for the future, assessment and decision support, and student and community engagement. Richardson said assessment and decision support means reexamining all facets of UA instruction to ensure what is being CHECKUP, page 3
Board decides all ASUA club funding
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Appropriations members control more than $140,000 for clubs By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Laura Flannigan, a psychology senior, displays a kite as part of the community art project “Made for Flight” on the UA Mall on Monday. The project, which memorialized transgender individuals murdered in the past year, opened Transgender Awareness Week, which will feature workshops, panels, plays and films through Saturday.
Each week the ASUA Senate approves thousands of dollars for club funds — but the Appropriations Board decides the amount. The Appropriations Board allocates around $140,000 in club funding to the hundreds of clubs recognized by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. This was cut by tens of thousands of dollars from last year. At the end of last year, six board members were hired, but after two had to resign, ASUA Executive Vice President Katherine Weingartner was left with too small of a board. Five members is the minimum for properly approving requests. “With six we could operate, but I wanted to have seven in order to be a full board,” Weingartner said, hiring two directors within the first weeks of school. “But it is hard to advertise (the final spot) because people believe that all these positions are filled at that point in the school year.” Carlita Cotton was the last addition to the board. “It’s a good way to learn about all the different clubs on campus,” Cotton said. She said that what makes the job worth it is the mix of personalities on the board and funding clubs that can then go out into the community and promote the UA.
The board consists of seven directors and non-voting ASUA senators, who chair the meetings. Club advocates help show clubs how to approach the board for funding. The directors then base decisions on both precedence in club funding procedures and the bylaws set by ASUA. Funding is broken down into travel and general funds, allowing clubs support in sending members to conferences or competitions for travel or for shirts and space rentals for events in general funding requests. Travel funding tends to be more, Weingartner said, but overall the more than $45,000 the board has delineated is right on pace. Because ASUA receives federal money, there are restrictions on what the board can fund, Weingartner said. On the appearance of tabled and stricken requests, Weingartner said she “doesn’t know how it comes off,” but that usually the reason for the delays is to give clubs more of a chance to correctly apply and utilize the funds. Mitchell Manburg, a board director and student studying Spanish and philosophy, added that allowing clubs to resubmit applications allows students the most money possible, even with the board’s shrinking budget. Jarrett Benkendorfer, a political science student and appropriations director, noted the ASUA, page 5
Transgender panel offered answers, insight By Steven Kwan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Daniel Raven laughs at a story about his past at the Ask a Trans Person Anything panel at Wingspan on Monday. Wingspan and ASUA Pride Alliance invited trans-identified individuals to answer questions and share experiences about transexuality.
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What gender do you put down on job applications? How do you tell someone you are dating that you are a transgender person? These were some of the questions guests asked during the Ask a Trans Person Anything panel at the Wingspan Community Center, 430 E. Seventh St. The panel on Monday night was held as part of Tucson Transgender Awareness Week, which is organized mainly by Wingspan, Southern Arizona Gender Alliance, and the UA’s ASUA Pride Alliance and Office
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of LGBTQ Affairs. After introductions, the six panelists related the experiences and struggles of their personal transitions to another gender. “The process for me didn’t begin with my first shot. It began with having feelings that were stronger than the role I was playing.” said Daniel Raven, 57, a panelist who began transitioning 16 years ago. “I was very offended with my friends who would go, ‘Well, did you just wake up today and decide you want to be a man?’” The other panelists shared similar anecdotes of where they struggled with defining their identities. Some, like
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Raven, sought transgender individuals for insight while others found guidance in memoirs, community groups and online resources. Discussion and questions ranged from topics such as health concerns to confronting assumptions to personal relationships. One audience member asked what motivated each person to participate in the panel. “A lot of times you think you know what a transgender person looks like or who they are. If you’re able to ask these questions and we have the guts to LGBTQ, page 5
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Thanksgiving dinner for six — for less than $1 A professional “frugalista” is attempting what may be his biggest challenge yet: purchasing a complete Thanksgiving dinner for six people for less than $1 — total. Jeffrey Strain writes about ways to save cash at Grocery Coupon Guide, and he was inspired to do his cheapskate challenge after attempting a similar effort he calls “the penny experiment.” “Last year, I found a penny and picked it up and some teenagers nearby laughed at me for doing it,” Strain said. “I started thinking about whether it was
possible to turn this penny into $1 million for food banks. “In the process of doing that, I learned how to ‘super coupon’ and, at one point, bragged to my sister that I could eat on less than a dollar a day.” Strain’s sister, who is two years younger, dared him to do it — and he took her up on it. In fact, starting in May, he survived for 100 days on a dollar a day or less. “Using coupons, I actually bought $1,400 worth of food for $76,” he said.
Much of the food was donated to food banks, but Strain said he was able to eat quite well for that measly sum. “I ate very well: fruits, veggies and whole-grain bread,” he said. Strain was justifiably proud of his penny-pinching penny experiment, but when he bragged that he could probably use what he had learned to purchase a complete Thanksgiving dinner for six for $6, his little sister couldn’t help but issue another dare. — AOL News
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‘Native Perspectives’ photo exhibit to open By Rebecca Rillos Arizona Daily Wildcat
Photographs showcasing the modern lives of Native Americans will go on display this week in the “Native Perspectives” photography exhibit at the Arizona State Museum. Local photographers associated with the UA shot the photos, said Amanda Bahe, pre-health senior and one of the featured photographers of the exhibit. The exhibit features the work of Bahe and five other photographers. Bahe has three photos in the exhibit. “They are photos I took from back home of my little brother with his livestock and riding horses,” Bahe said. The exhibit previews some of the stories in Native Perspectives, a student newspaper printed each semester that covers what native America currently is. The exhibit, Bahe said, is an expansion on the Native Perspectives publication.
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“What we experience in our everyday lives may be totally different than what people think Native Americans are like,” Bahe said. “The photos fit into our theme of what it means to live in native America and what it means to be Native American.” The photographs mainly feature the lives of the Navajo. Bahe said the exhibit aims to get rid of the stereotypes people have about Native Americans. “For us, it is all about empowering our people, ourselves, getting the message out there that we are just like everybody else, whether or not people see it,” Bahe said. “We wanted a more contemporary view of what it means to be Navajo or Hopi or whatever these artists are, to show that this is what it is like to live our lifestyle.” The date of opening night was uncertain at press time due to delays printing the photographs, Bahe said, but the exhibit will be open to the public by the end of the week.
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Bill Booth, right, with son Nicholas, 2, and daughter Mary, 11 months, on his back, and son Russell, 4, trailing behind, drag their fresh-cut organic Christmas tree at Spring Hills Farm in Lackawanna County, Pa., Dec. 13, 2007.
Click, trim: Christmas tree sales shift online McClatchy Newspapers MINNEAPOLIS — You might imagine that a guy who works for the National Christmas Tree Association would be the type to cut down his own fir for the holidays. But not Rick Dungey. “I point and click, and it shows up on my front door,” said Dungey, a spokesman for the Missouri-based retail and tree farmers’ association. “For me it’s a convenience.” With consumers’ growing comfort with Internet shopping, it seems that even tried-and-true holiday traditions are a-changin’. Target Corp. began selling fresh Christmas trees online on Sunday for the first time, joining Costco as one of the few national retailers to use the Web to sell live trees. Target spokeswoman Jill Hornbacher said the retailer believes the online-only offering will be an added convenience, especially for city dwellers. Family farmers Jim and Beverly Whorton said online sales now make up about 10 percent of trees sold at their “choose-and-cut” Chub Lake Tree Farm in Carlton, Minn. “It started by customer demand and we saw a niche there,” said Jim Whorton, who started taking online orders more than a decade ago. Back then, he built shipping
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being taught in the classroom translates as a lesson to be used outside of it. “It’s not just classes,” Richardson said. “Classes are an important part, but it’s the integration of the whole student experience that’s the important part.” Richardson said faculty diversity was an issue that was raised during the UA’s last accreditation process in 2000. As Richardson puts it, UA faculty is still “far whiter and far more male” than its increasingly diverse student body. Richardson also thinks student experience is tantamount to the UA’s mission. “The institution takes seriously its mission of serving the students,” Richardson said. “There are always kinds of pendulum-like swings where some students might say, ‘It’s a big institution. They don’t care about students,’ but I think what we’ve really found is that the student experience is essential to the university. It really is. It’s not just lip service.” Mitchneck stressed the importance of planning and budgeting for the future, especially in the face of lingering uncertainties over the UA’s budget allotment from the state. Each of these suggestions carry particular importance for Richardson, who expressed frustration at how some issues raised during the last accreditation process went unaddressed. Despite some reservations, Mitchneck and Richardson
both said they are confident UA administrators, namely UA President Robert Shelton and Provost Meredith Hay, will take their suggestions to heart. “At the time, President Shelton made a commitment to us, but it was really a commitment to the institution that we would look for a small number of high-impact changes that could be made on this campus,” Mitchneck said. “And he committed to following through.” Richardson and Mitchneck also voiced their hope that students will become more involved in the accreditation process in the weeks leading up to the site visit. “Students should care because this is ultimately about the quality of the experience they have at this university and what their degree from the University of Arizona means, both to them and to the greater community at large.” Mitchneck said. Mitchneck said that without student feedback it is difficult to determine the quality of UA student life. “Are the students as successful as we hope they are, and what can we do to improve that experience?” Mitchneck asked. Richardson and Mitchneck both said students should attend the next reaccreditation open forum that will be held on Dec. 6 at the outset of the university site visit. The exact time and location of that forum will be announced at a later date. An official decision on accreditation will be made by spring 2011.
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A. Survey, administered by Campus Health every spring semester. This anonymous survey is considered quite accurate and goes out to a These statistics come from the annual Health & Wellness
random selection of classes across campus, as it has for over a decade. The survey asks questions related to alcohol and other drug use, sexual health, sleep, stress, nutrition, physical activity, violence, and mental health, among other topics. This past year, there were 2,931 undergraduate respondents. Here are few questions we’ve been asked: There are 39,000 students at the UA – how can your survey generalize about them with only 2,900 respondents? The magic that makes this work is the fact that the survey is administered to a random sample of classes. In fact, 2,900 is a huge number of responses relative to a student population of around 39,000. Case in point: most national polls that look at trends, beliefs or behaviors among the 310 million Americans have only 1,500 or fewer randomly sampled respondents. Additional responses don’t increase accuracy much and surveying more costs time and money. Don’t people just lie on surveys? Self-report data, especially if it is anonymous, has been shown to be accurate. Alcohol, sleep, and stress don’t tend to be taboo subjects for most people. On the other hand, asking about sexually transmitted diseases might be, and the results will largely reflect that. Why do you do these surveys? Survey data helps us gauge the overall health of UA students. It allows us to make our programs more effective and more relevant. It also gives us accurate information that we can share. Rather than going on perceptions alone (which we all know can be misleading), having the facts can help students make more informed decisions. Here at Campus Health, we have found that in-class surveys offer a good snapshot of the health of UA students. That being said, no survey is perfect and anyone who suggests otherwise should have you raising red flags. When it comes to statistics, asking questions related to “who, what, where, when, why, and how” are always good ideas. Chan, D. (2009). So why ask me? Are self report data really that bad? In Charles E. Lance and Robert J. Vandenberg (Eds.), Statistical and methodological myths and urban legends: Doctrine, verity and fable in the organizational and social sciences (pp 309-335).
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containers out of discarded appliance boxes. “We have customers who’ve moved away to Texas or Nebraska or to the Twin Cities, or who like our trees and want to ship a fresh one to their families.” No one tracks the exact number of online fresh tree sales, mainly because there are so many individual retailers and farmers doing it on the side. But it’s somewhere less than 3.1 percent of the 28 million to 30 million farm-grown tree sales, according to polls by Harris Interactive Inc. for the National Christmas Tree Association. Having a retailer with Target’s broad reach entering the fresh tree game is a welcome development, said Dungey, who is blogging about the process of getting his tree from a New Hampshire tree farm shipped to his St. Louis rowhouse. “It signals that retailers realize that not all consumers are equal,” he said. “Whether you’re a big box or a specialty store or a farm itself, good retailers realize they want a broad array of buyers. Not everyone wants to buy a tree the same way.” Fresh tree sales have declined from 37 million in 1991 to 31 million in 2007, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, while artificial trees nearly doubled over the past five years, to 17.4 million.
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unday night was the premiere of the new show “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” on TLC. Designed to show the life of Sarah Palin as she takes care of her kids, travels around the state and prepares for appearances on Fox News, it’s been described as the world’s longest campaign ad. Palin is shown as an avid adventurer, going salmon fishing next to grizzly bears and hiking glaciers in Denali National Park. She’s a strict, loving parent, taking care of her mentally disabled son, Trig, and preventing her 16-year-old daughter Willow from taking boys upstairs. This show seems like the perfect opportunity for Palin to craft an image ahead of another run for national office, but is it really? And will it work? “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” isn’t supposed to be about politics, so you won’t hear her saying much about policy. Instead, she talks about how beautiful her home state is and what life is like in such a remote area. One of the main things that makes her so appealing to many Americans is her image that she is one of them: a blue-collar mom with no interest in Washington power politics. However, her television show portrays her as quite different from the majority of Americans. For example, how many Americans live on a lake with a private dock and take a seaplane everywhere? How many Americans have the time to go adventuring as often as she does? How many Americans have a television studio in their home? How can she understand the struggles of everyday Americans from such an isolated location? Of course, hardly any politician can be described as an “average American,” but nobody claims to be one more than Palin does. Does it really matter if she’s average? No, but the fact is that if she decides to run for office, many people will vote for her because they perceive her to be one of them. To be completely honest, Palin seems like a lot of fun, somebody who knows a good time and would act as a good guide to her home state. However, this show only reinforces the belief that she is not fit to hold national office. She’s a good
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mom who spends a lot of time with her kids, cooking with her daughter Piper and going shooting with Bristol. Does she really want to lose all that time dealing with the stresses of the White House? Of course, Barack Obama has two young daughters, and Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and John F. Kennedy all had young kids while in office. Is there a double standard? Maybe, but none of their kids had special needs like Palin’s infant son does, nor did they live the sheltered, rural lives that the Palin kids do. Being a mom definitely shouldn’t be held against her, but based on how they’re portrayed in the show, she and her kids would absolutely hate life in Washington, D.C. Palin is very good at delivering a message and stating populist slogans. She’s made a good amount of money being a contributor for Fox News and will make even more with her new TV show. She’s not stupid like she is often described, but it remains to be seen how much she actually knows about policy and how the federal government works. She loves her life in Alaska. In the show’s trailer, she says she’d rather be there than in “some stuffy political office.” By all means, Sarah, stay. Please. — Andrew Shepherd is a political science senior. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.
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he commentators of the Arizona Daily Star’s website are raging as usual, this time over the Flagstaff Unified School District’s “goon squads of fat police,” as one put it. The district plans to send letters to parents whose children are overweight, or heading in that direction. Any action after that is up to the parents. Another commentator wondered if the district’s next step would be a call to Child Protective Services. Online comments bring out the sarcastic, the crazy and the just-can’t-be-taken-seriously in people, but the sentiment is valid: When is a teacher responsible for a student’s health? District Superintendent Barbara Hickman says students’ weight is an “emotional subject” for parents who might get offended, but it needs to be addressed. An estimated 50 percent of the district’s elementary school students will be classified as or near overweight . Physicians in Flagstaff are reporting obesity-related diabetes in children as young as 4 years old . Once again, it’s only a letter, but opponents imagine initiatives like Flagstaff’s or first lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! campaign against childhood obesity create a nanny role. They claim schools should educate children, not parent them. But a child spends five days a week developing a relationship with his teachers, and an education ought to consist of more than a report card. Teachers aren’t substitutes for parents, but they’re more than unfeeling robots reciting math formulas. The answer to the question is that teachers should always be concerned about their students’ health because they already play a major role in children’s lives, with or without a letter home to Mommy.
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ormally, I’m one of those people who online commentators refer to as part of the “nanny liberal state.” I think the government has a role in keeping citizens healthy, and if that means instructing them on things like obesity and good nutrition, so be it. But the Flagstaff Unified School District’s plan to send letters to parents whose children are, or might be, or look like they could be in certain lights, overweight, crosses a line. Schools and teachers should certainly be involved in the lives of students beyond just the classroom curriculum. To that end, schools have a responsibility to provide healthy food choices, engaging physical activities, health education and positive role models to students, especially those at risk for obesity and its related risks. Childhood obesity is an enormous problem in this country. So, should teachers and school nurses be on the lookout for children who risk developing serious health problems? Absolutely. But that’s not what the Flagstaff school district’s plan entails. Instead, as the Daily Star article puts it, school officials could send home notes to the parents of children who are “bordering on overweight.” Basically, that means that if a teacher decides a student is a bit chubby and might someday be at risk of obesity, they’d have the responsibility to alert parents to that fact. Not only does this plan sound ineffective, it might be incredibly offensive and damaging to both the parents and children involved. While some children are overweight or obese, others are just growing into their bodies. While childhood obesity is on the rise, so is the occurrence of eating disorders among the disturbingly young. It would be downright cruel for a teacher to tell a parent, who may or may not struggle with his or her own weight issues, that his or her pleasantly plump child is just a little too plump. Where is the line between “headed toward obesity” and “hanging onto a bit of baby fat” to be drawn? Without a specific way of determining when a child is certifiably unhealthy, and scientific methodology to back that up, teachers telling parents their kids are fat has the potential to be more cruel and damaging than helpful.
— Kristina Bui is a sophomore majoring in journalism and political science.
— Heather Price-Wright is the opinions editor of the Daily Wildcat.
MAILBAG Extra cost of biodegradable packaging a nuisance I have to admit that I do like eating the $8 salads at Core in the student union, which I frankly cannot afford, being the broke college student that I am. I am mildly annoyed lately by the new 20 cent add on for the biodegradable salad box. Don’t get me wrong; I’m all about saving the planet, but for an extra 20 cents a pop on an already strapped budget, it really adds up. I personally don’t eat out but once a week; however, some students eat at the union every day, two to three meals a day. Consider just one student that may really like those $8 salads and eats there once a day all this semester. That’s $1.40 per week to save the planet, or $22.44 including tax per semester. That’s nearly three more $8 salads that said cash-strapped college student could have eaten. Not to
mention, as any business major could tell you, this is most likely not a charitable effort on the part of Core, which, it seems, is operated by the student union. They are making a profit here. Instead of pushing the extra cost on the customer, why not prove that the student union is an environmentally conscious business and suck up the extra cost of the biodegradable box while letting current and possible future customers know of their efforts instead of asking me each time I order my salad, “How much do you love the planet today?” Candice Eaton Ecology and evolutionary biology junior
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Rise in U.S. hunger slows, but remains high McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — U.S. agriculture officials said Monday that the nation’s 15 federal nutrition programs helped keep hunger in check in 2009 even as the number of unemployed Americans soared. After a record one-year increase from 2007 to 2008, the number of U.S. households facing food shortages increased only slightly last year to roughly 17.4 million, according to a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The share of households with members who went hungry or cut their food intake because of money also held steady in 2009, albeit at the highest levels since the data were first collected in 1995. That stabilization in the growth of “food insecurity” was the silver lining in the otherwise-bleak report, “Household Food Security in the United States, 2009.”
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The annual survey found that 85.3 percent of U.S. households had enough food for all their members in 2009, about the same share as in 2008. But more than 50 million Americans — or 16.6 percent — had problems getting adequate nutrition last year. The rates varied widely across states depending on economic conditions. Arkansas had the highest percentage of food-insecure households, at 17.7 percent. Texas was next, at 17.4 percent, followed by Mississippi, at 17.1 percent. North Dakota had the lowest rate, 6.7 percent, followed by New Hampshire, at nearly 9 percent, and Virginia, at 9.2 percent. Of the 50 million food-insecure people, 32.5 million lacked money or resources for meals at some point last year, but few of them reported reduced food intake overall.
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But the other 17.7 million foodinsecure individuals reported multiple instances of inadequate nutrition and disrupted eating patterns because they couldn’t afford meals. These people with “very low food security” were up from 17.3 million in 2008. They account for about 6 percent of all Americans. Kevin Concannon, the undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said the report “further underscores that household food insecurity remains a serious problem across the United States.” He credited the nation’s nutritional safety-net programs with keeping millions of adults and youngsters well-nourished during a time of economic crisis. Fifty-seven percent of food-insecure households were enrolled in one or more federal meal programs in 2009, the survey found. Nationally, the programs “are indeed doing what they’re intended to do, that is responding to people,” Concannon said. This year, an additional 1 million youngsters are receiving free school meals, bringing enrollment to more than 31 million, Concannon said. Also, 400,000 more low-income children and women are enrolled in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children. Enrollment in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, has grown 58 percent over the last three years and reaches more than 42 million participants. Program benefits were increased last April as part of the economic stimulus bill.
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board’s recommitment to funding club conferences and events is personally helpful to him, as his experience in clubs he was involved in was limited due to high travel expenses on a collegiate budget. Tia Dankberg, a family studies and human development student and board director, said seeing the final products of the funding requests that come to the board is the biggest payoff of what is otherwise a rather unglamorous job. Board members get a $100 stipend for their work on the board, $20 of which can go to ASUA polos to wear to meetings. “It’s an interesting process,” Weingartner said of being on the board long before her tenure as executive vice president this year. “Most of the time, you get to hear about these exciting events. Students are doing all of these amazing things and what students are doing day to day to get involved.”
Tips on applying for funds:
• Speak to a club advocate — Clubs have a“club advocate”there to provide extra information about what the appropriations board can and cannot fund, such as only funding half the price of T-shirts, or not providing money for food. • Make sure to have a representative — When applying to the board, make sure to have a representative at the Monday meeting. Otherwise requests must be tabled from week to week. • Get receipts — Travel funds come in the form of reimbursement to clubs to be delineated to its members and general funds are paid directly to contractors, so make sure to get mock receipts to gain full board funding. • Come to Monday meetings — Weingartner said the board is always looking for more applications.
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‘We’re all in tansition’ continued from page 1 present ourselves to the public, hopefully, for a couple of people in the room, it’s eye-opening,” said panelist Jenison Silva. “We’re all in transition. You guys are transitioning every bit as much as we are. It’s just that you’re not going through a physical transition as we are,” said Sarah Elizabeth McNeill, 51, a panelist who began her transition seven years ago. After the panel, SAGA
screened the film “Esmeralda del Desierto” by Oscar Jiménez, a local filmmaker and Wingspan anti-violence program manager. The second Ask a Trans Person Anything panel will be held tonight at 6:30 in the Kiva Room of the Student Union Memorial Center. For a full calendar of events, visit www.deanofstudents.arizona.edu/LGBTQaffairs.
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policebeat By Lucy Valencia Arizona Daily Wildcat
Reading the bloody writing on the wall
A resident assistant from Coronado Residence Hall called the police after she noticed that a student was not answering his door and that there was blood on the wall outside of his room at 3:20 a.m. on Nov. 11. The officer went to the residence hall of the man after the RA said the student might be suicidal. He first met with the RA in the lobby, where she explained that other residents informed her that they had overheard the man arguing with someone on the phone. They said he was throwing things around in his room. The RA also added that someone mentioned he was talking about suicide. The RA took four UAPD officers to the room. They saw two streaks of blood on the wall next to the room. The residents who shared the room with the man spoke with one of the officers and said that they did not see the man hurt himself or punch the wall. They added that they did not hear the man say anything about wanting to hurt himself or commit suicide. They said he was just arguing with someone and that they heard things being broken. The officer knocked on the man’s door several times but no one answered. He tried calling his cell phone and the calls went to voicemail. He knocked again and still no one answered. Because of the blood on the wall and the man not answering his door or cell phone, the officers keyed into the room and found the man sleeping on his bed. They woke him up and asked if he was OK. An officer also asked him if he needed medical attention. The man replied that he was OK and that he was on the phone earlier arguing with his dad. He told him he was failing all of his classes and then threw some things around his room after the argument. While the officer spoke with the man, he noticed that his eyes were red and watery. He also noticed the smell of alcohol in the room and a vodka bottle on the desk. The man had no blood on his shirt or pants, and the officer did not notice any injuries on his body. The vodka bottle was confiscated and thrown into the trash. The man said that he was OK several times, and did not wish to see any medical personnel. His mother called while police were in his room to make sure he was OK, and the man told the police that his parents were coming to pick him up this weekend and take him back to New York. The officer gave the man his cell phone number and told him to give him a call if he needed to talk.
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A UAPD officer found on Nov. 11 a pink Disney princess rubber ball on the south side of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory while he was on patrol of that area. The officer placed the ball into UAPD’s found property department.
White light leads to landing in jail
A man was arrested on Nov. 11, at 2:22 a.m., for an outstanding felony drug possession warrant out of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department. He was additionally charged for driving in violation of his license restrictions. A UAPD officer was driving on Euclid Avenue when he noticed a vehicle in front of him had a white light that was shining out from the back window. The light became brighter and more intense as the car came to a stop and hit the brakes. The officer pulled the car over. He approached the driver, who identified himself with an Arizona identification card. The man explained that he was on his way to McDonalds. As the two spoke, the officer could smell burned marijuana and cigarette smoke. The officer asked the man if he had been drinking at all, to which he said no. The officer conducted an eye test, but the man did not show any signs of impairment. The man denied having marijuana in his car or smoking it recently. He gave the officer permission to search his car. No marijuana or paraphernalia was found. The officer did note, however, that he could detect the smell coming from the man after he had stepped out. A records check on the man showed that he had a felony warrant out of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department because of probation violations on a felony drug possession charge. The warrant was confirmed and the man was placed under arrest. His driving restrictions did not allow him to be using a car. The man was cited for driving with a white light to the rear and for restriction violations on his license. The officer booked him into Pima Country Jail on his felony warrant.
Someone is missing their Wal-mart card
A wallet was turned into UAPD on Nov. 11. An officer had found the black two-fold wallet at Babcock Residence Hall. It contained an Arizona identification card, a Chase debit card, a Wal-mart, Inc., money card, a cash express card, and other miscellaneous business cards. There was no answer at the number located for the address on the identification card. The name of the owner is not listed in the UA phonebook. The wallet and the items in it were logged into found property for safekeeping.
Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports. A complete list of UAPD activity can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.
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By Kevin Nadakal Arizona Daily Wildcat It took Stephen Sambu 9,797 miles to get to the Arizonan desert from his hometown of Kaptagat in Kenya. After only two and a half years in the United States, Sambu has made a name for himself as one of the country’s premier crosscountry runners. But his journey to UA needed a pit stop at Rend Lake Community College, just south of Chicago. “It was very hard for me. Coming from Kenya it was very different from this place,” Sambu said. Sambu relied on his teammates for a lot of support in his first few months at Rend Lake. He grew close with a few other runners who were also from Kenya, including Paul Tanui, who according to Sambu, is running for the Kenyan national team now. Tanui was there to teach Sambu how to wash his clothes because Sambu had never used a washing machine before. Sambu also had difficulty adjusting to the food at his new home because it was so different from what he was used to. “I adjusted very quickly because I was with some guys and they helped me a lot,” Sambu said. “They showed me things to do. If I was alone it would be very hard.” Sambu grew accustomed to the U.S. quickly and had one of the most successful careers in the history of Rend Lake. Sambu won backto-back National Junior College Athletic Association cross-country titles, all while never losing a race in his junior college career. At Rend Lake, Sambu was considered the No. 1 junior college cross-country runner in the nation. Despite the accolades, Sambu was not always a runner at heart, and he got a very late start. “I was in high school, and I was in junior year, and I used to sit around and do nothing,” Sambu said. “For a punishment, my teacher made me run three or four miles. My teacher said I can run very good, and I started running from that day.” Sambu was discovered in 2006 while he was at Biwott Secondary School. Sambu was noticed by some recruiters while he was training. When asked if he would like to go to school in the U.S. on
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Stephen Sambu has been the best runner for the Arizona men’s cross-country team this season, but his journey to being a Wildcat wasn’t a conventional one. The Kenya native started at Rend Lake Community College before transferring to UA this year.
a running scholarship, he quickly enrolled in a training camp where potential student-athletes go through time trials. Sambu has not been back to Kenya since he left in 2008, but plans to go back to visit in December of 2011. The success that Sambu had at Rend Lake has carried over to his short time at Arizona. In the first two races Sambu ran in, he took home first place. Sambu has been held out of two races this year because the coaching staff did not feel his participation would be necessary.
A lower leg injury sidelined Sambu for the Pre-National Invitational. Even with the week off due to injury, which hampered his training, Sambu came back for the Pacific 10 Conference Championship meet and captured fifth place. This past weekend Sambu took second place in the west regional’s earning him a spot in the NCAA championship meet next week. Sambu has been the lone bright spot during a rebuilding year for men’s cross-country, as he and the coaching staff are hoping for a top-10 finish.
The decision for Sambu to come to Arizona was an easy one once he came for his first visit in the winter. Sambu said he really liked the weather compared to what he had to deal with at Rend Lake. He also felt really comfortable with the coaching staff and he liked what the program had done so far. The coaching staff has raved about him all year and do not see him slowing down any time soon. “I feel like he is one of the best runners in the nation,” said head coach James Li. According to assistant coach Erin Dawson, “The guy is just a stud.”
Football searching for identity By Nicole Dimtsios Arizona Daily Wildcat If you thought the Arizona defense looked confused on Saturday night against Southern California, you weren’t alone. Linebacker Paul Vassallo thought so too. “I don’t know if it’s any one thing,” Vassallo said. “I don’t have that answer. I just know we need to do better.” Two weeks ago, the Arizona Wildcats were a top-10 team grounded by its defense, locked in a battle for the Pacific 10 Conference title. Now, the Wildcats’ defense has vanished into a defense giving up more than 200 rushing yards in each of its last two games and six total rushing touchdowns, leaving fans wondering where the stout defense that once sat among the nation’s top-five went. “I think it’s a good time for us to re-group,” said head coach Mike Stoops. “I think we’ve got to get some identity back to what we’re doing offensively and defensively.” On Saturday, USC’s Marc Tyler had a career night in yardage and carries, 160 and 31 respectively. He picked apart Arizona’s front seven, finding gaps and getting push at the point of attack to move the pile forward. Tyler’s performance was typical of the type of plays that have started to plague the defense in recent weeks. “I think it has to do more with our inability to stop it,” Stoops said about the defense’s problems with stopping the run. “We never consistently stopped the run and that led to our demise, obviously, defensively.” It hasn’t been so much the amount of yardage the defense has given up — Arizona’s
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Robert Golden, No. 1, tackles Southern California’s Cameron Jordan in Saturday’s 24-21 loss at Arizona Stadium. While Arizona struggles to figure itself out, Golden has been one of the few Wildcats that has played well throughout the season.
average was bound to go up once they started facing top-tier conference teams — but it’s been how the Wildcats have give up that yardage. Failing to get off the field on 3rd-and-medium yardage, giving up long runs, missing tackles — all things that would have been considered uncharacteristic earlier the year after the Wildcats’ surprising defensive start. Stoops said that some of Arizona’s recent problems have been with defensive discipline, something that cornerback Robert Golden echoed. “We just got to go out there and compete more. I feel like the guys wasn’t out there,” Golden said. “We didn’t have that intensity
that we usually have. I just know we’ve got to go out there and compete more.” Arizona’s opponents are converting on two-thirds of their third down attempts. Both Stanford and USC had the ball for more than 37 minutes, nearly 15 minutes longer than Arizona in each game. “We need to get back to work and get back to playing the prideful defense that we did the first seven, eight weeks and just figure it out,” Vassallo said. “We like to think of it as we’re making the mistakes and they’re not better than us, it’s just we’re beating ourselves.” So where has the Wildcats’ identity of a pass-rushing, quarterback-sacking, run-stopping
gone in the last two weeks? The Wildcats will have to answer that question during their bye week as they prepare for Oregon. If Arizona wants any chance of hanging with the No. 1 Ducks, a team that puts up 51 points per game and sports the nation’s top rusher LaMichael James, the defense that stopped Iowa and California will show up to Eugene, Ore. “Get back to our basics, get ready for another rough game,” said safety Adam Hall of what the defense will work on during the bye. “We just need to get back to the things we pride ourselves on — getting off the field on third down, making plays and just physical game.”
After adding four names to the Arizona women’s basketball 2011 recruiting class, head coach Niya Butts and the rest of the squad established immediate faith with their new additions by easily handling the NAU Lumberjacks 71-49 last night in McKale Center. The Wildcats (2-0) came running out of the gate with a highoctane offense, and that kept the Lumberjacks (0-2) on their heels throughout the entire contest. Butts was proud of her team’s effort, but some defensive miscues and turnover numbers concerned her. “It was a little bit sloppy,” Butts said after the game. “But at the end of the day we got the win, so, and I’m certainly happy about that, but we certainly have to do a better job taking care of the basketball.” At the tip, the Wildcats came out gunning and, before NAU had time to breathe, the Wildcats had forced a 20-2 run with 11:13 left in the first half. Even with some back and forth action, the Wildcats were able to force their style of play on the W-HOOPS, page 12
In the bench we trust By Kevin Zimmerman Arizona Daily Wildcat
Don’t expect Max Wiepking to be drilling 3-pointers on a nightly basis, but Arizona head coach Sean Miller believes a 43-point bench effort from Sunday’s victory isn’t the last he’ll see from his reserves. Led by Brendon Lavender’s 12 points, all by way of 3-pointers, the season opener for the Arizona men’s basketball team not only hinted that the Wildcats could go 10 players deep — it made Miller admit such. “In given games, there will be players coming off the bench who can impact the win as much as somebody who starts,” Miller said. “That’s not my decision to do that; it’s really what we watch everyday in practice.” The most obvious advantage was the Wildcat’s using 10 players before five minutes had elapsed in the game. Such waves of substitutions helps the defensive energy remain high when the starters return, Miller said. He credited junior college transfer Jesse Perry’s eight-point, fiverebound performance to the flurry that aided the Wildcats in mounting the route. He also singled out Lavender, who went 4-for-5 shooting from 3-point range, as an example of how close in talent the Wildcat bench is compared to the starters. “That lack of confidence once in a while that we maybe have seen his first two years,” Miller said, “I haven’t seen that very often in practice this year. Not only did he shoot the ball and it went in, just the way he played, he looked the same (as in practice).” The win was by far the biggest win in the Sean Miller era and he emptied the bench with walkons Wiepking, Dondre Wise and Robert Arvizu. Wiepking saw his first game action of his career after not playing during his freshman season. He hit a 3-pointer from the left wing just 14 seconds after entering the game for Arizona. HOOPS, page 8
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Recruits’ history of winning gives Miller confidence
“It was a good feeling,” said starting forward Solomon Hill of watching the bench play. “We didn’t have to play the whole game. It felt good to get the guys in, get them experience in the game. “And it felt good to put (Idaho State) away.”
Winning recruits
Miller praised the winning background of his 2011 men’s basketball signing class on Thursday, a day after his three-man recruiting class signed letters of intent at Arizona. Point guard Josiah Turner, combo guard Nick Johnson and forward Sidiki Johnson gave their official commitment to the Wildcats on Wednesday, the first day of the 2011 signing period. All three are ranked in the Rivals.com Top-75 players of the 2011 class. “Every tournament, every camp, for all 12 months … they’ve played the very best players,” Miller said. Experience against the country’s best is what Miller has credited to the cool-headed play of current freshman Jordin Mayes, who played at California basketball power Westchester High School. Turner, out of Sacramento High School in California, Nick Johnson, from Findlay Prep in Nevada, and Sidiki Johnson, from powerhouse Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, all knew each other before they committed, but Miller said he believed their commitments weren’t heavily swayed by their friendship. He added that Turner and Nick Johnson played together on the Oakland Soldiers AAU team. Their chemistry and experience in competition was good reason to believe that all three will have significant impact at Arizona in their freshman year. Miller describes the 6-foot-3 Turner as a pass-first, “pure point guard.” Like Turner, the 6-foot-2 Nick Johnson, who is originally from Gilbert, Ariz., is an explosive player who could become an elite defender, Miller said. Dave Telep,
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Forward Jesse Perry establishes offensive positioning in Arizona’s 90-42 win over Idaho State on Saturday at McKale Center. Perry’s play off the bench will provide the Wildcats with some much-needed depth this season.
ESPN.com senior basketbal recruiting analyst, said the backcourt duo will be the most athletic in the Pacific 10 Conference, should they start. Miller called the 6-foot-8, 230-pound Sidiki Johnson an “old-school, power player.” “He rolls his sleeves up,” Miller said.
Divvying the minutes at point
Momo Jones is not under any pressure to lose his job. Despite recording the same
stat-line as freshman backup Jordin Mayes — six points, four rebounds — Jones is much further along on the defensive end, and that’s not to mention his leadership role. He also took care of the ball, posting just one turnover. Still, Mayes has earned a good chunk of minutes. “Jordin (Mayes) on offense is really smooth for being such a young player,” Miller said. “I think Momo will play a little bit more,” he added. “That split won’t be (as big as) 35-5 (minutes) or 32-8. Jordin Mayes deserves … to play some.”
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UA swim and dive had a bittersweet weekend in Los Angeles. The teams began Pacific 10 Conference play on Friday against major rival Southern California with the No. 5 men’s team winning 190-110 and the No. 7 women’s team losing by that same score. The women rebounded by defeating the UCLA Bruins 168132 on Saturday. For the men’s team, it was the first time in a long time they defeated the Trojans in their pool, in spite of the Trojans’ best efforts to make the environment as challenging as possible. According to junior captain Cory Chitwood, there was some trash talking on Facebook prior to the meet. “USC doesn’t particularly like our team,” Chitwood said. “I don’t think we do that. I think our team has a lot more class than that. I honestly like it because I always swim better when I’m a little ticked off, and it just adds more fuel to the fire for the guys. I like that they do that and get us fired up and ready to go.” Chitwood was indeed on fire, along with fellow juniors Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or, Kevin Munsch and A.J. Tipton , who all won two events for Arizona. “That was one of the fastest dual meets the team has probably ever had this early in the season,” Chitwood said. “It was really exciting to see a lot of people step up and have some of the best swims they’ve had this season.” Chitwood continued to prove
the backstroke as his specialty by winning both the 100-yard and 200y events in 48.18 and 1:44.58. “Individually, I was really happy. It’s definitely the fastest I’ve ever been this time in the season,” Chitwood said. While Chitwood handled the backstroke, Bar-Or took charge with the freestyle events, also winning the 100y and 200y with the respective times of 43.81 and 1:35.96. He also came in second for the 100y fly in 47.91. Munsch claimed the 100y and 200y breaststroke events with the winning times of 55.01 and 1:58.33. Furthermore, Tipton ruled the butterfly, winning the 100y and 200y in 47.78 and 1:45.81. “I haven’t honestly seen a dual meet from top to bottom like the one on Friday,” said volunteer assistant coach Eliot Dash. “I thought we had some stellar swims, and we are moving in the right direction for Texas in three weeks.” In addition to the trash talking, in an effort to recruit more fans, USC requested to move the meet back to 4 p.m. as opposed to the usual time of 2 p.m. “USC called and asked us if we wanted to move it back later and do it under the lights,” Dash said. “We hadn’t swum a dual meet at night in a long time. The problem was just the cold — it was pretty chilly. I thought our teams were prepared for it and did a pretty good job staying warm.” SWIMMING, page 10
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Kevin Munsch won the 100-yard and 200y breastroke events against rival Southern California on Friday. Despite an effort from the Trojans to intimidate the Wildcats, Arizona’s men’s swimming team beat USC 190-110.
A later dual meet meant less recovery time for the women’s team, who also had to compete against the Bruins the following day. As predicted, the USC women’s team was a tough opponent. Despite Arizona’s loss, freshman Margo Geer posted some prominent scores. “I think Margo Geer had an awesome meet, the freshman standout,� Dash said. “Overall, I think the girls’ team learns on the fly, but they’ve got so much talent. They’re going to be great at Texas.� The “freshman standout� won the 50y and 100y freestyle events
and placed second in the 200y free. Not only did she bring in two wins, but she also had a personal record for the 100y with a time of 49 seconds flat. Geer also contributed to the 200y freestyle win along with fellow freshmen Grace Finnegan, Sarah Denninghoff and Kait Flederbach. After a disappointing meet on Friday, the women were hungry for a win and satiated their appetite by beating the Bruins on Saturday. “On the girls side, I think they rebounded really well at UCLA on Saturday,� Dash said, “winning after having a rough
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Freshman Candice Warthen pushed up the floor in Arizona’s 71-49 win over NAU yesterday at McKale Center. Warthen’s 12 points and 13 rebounds made her the second freshman to earn a double-double in as many games this season.
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Lumberjacks for the rest of the half and didn’t let NAU come within 12 points . The second half didn’t start with the same verve of the first for Arizona, but Arizona’s 39-19 halftime lead was enough room for them to make some mistakes. “I think we were trying to run more,” forward Ify Ibekwe said. “That’s what created a lot of mistakes.” After outrebounding the Lumberjacks 64-28 , Butts was pleased to see her stressing the importance of rebounding every day in practice was paying off. “We only gave them six offensive rebounds tonight, and that’s pretty dang good for us,” Butts said. “I don’t know if I’ve ever been sitting in a conference room and we actually had 28 offensive rebounds . I think we’ve probably given that many up before, but I don’t know if we ever personally attained that.” After freshman forward Erica Barnes ’ double-double performance in the previous contest against Wichita State , freshman guard Candice Warthen continued the rookie trend with 12 points
and 13 rebounds . ”When I first started rebounding, everything was coming to me,” Warthen said. “So I just kept crashing the boards, and everything happened to come on to me at the end.” Butts always said that basketball is a game of runs, and the team needs to figure out how to try and plateau between the runs to to keep the momentum on their side. “I think if we can limit defensive mistakes (in between runs) and keep those to a minimum when we do have those peaks and valleys, then they can be a lot less noticeable,” Butts said. Looking ahead, the Wildcats head to Oxford, Miss., to take on the Ole Miss Rebels on Thursday, and preparations are already underway. “It’s always running in transition, rebounding and defense,” said Ibekwe, talking about the practice emphasis. “That’s our main focus. We can score, everyone on our team can score, and so our main focus this whole year is just rebounding and being consistent on defense.”
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