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The UA chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine hosted Palestinian students from Birzeit University Wednesday afternoon for a discussion about what it is like to live and go to

school in Palestine under U.S.-Israeli military occupation.

Rachel Beaty, a history graduate student, said one of the goals in the SJP constitution is for members to connect themselves and to act as facilitators to make things happen for the

Palestinian community in Tucson.

Gabriel M. Schivone, a member of SJP, said that ethnic studies depicting the Palestinian perspective are banned in Israel, similar to the Mexican-American studies books that were banned in some Tucson

schools.

“This is my history!” said Shatha Hammad, an junior studying English literature and language.

“You should teach me my history, not teach me the other narrative. It’s my history.”

Deema AlSaafin and Hammad, students

from Birzeit University, shared stories depicting the struggles they have had with education in Palestine. AlSaafin, a senior studying English literature and language, said they are sharing these stories to show they

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DRINK, DRANK, DRUNK Employees at Metro Wildcat accused of not properly identifying minors

BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA The Daily Wildcat

A former Metro Wildcat employee was arrested and released on Oct. 29 on charges of selling alcohol to underage students without demanding proper identification.

Shiva Thanet, a former employee at Metro Wildcat, had allegedly been continually selling alcohol to minors who did not have proper identification. This is not the first time Metro Wildcat has been under fire for not demanding proper identification from customers purchasing alcohol.

Metro Wildcat is a gas station and convenience store that sells a variety of food and drinks as well as beer, cigarettes and tobacco. It is located on Sixth Street and Park Avenue and open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Sudhir Newa, a Metro Wildcat employee, said the weekends are the busiest in regards to alcohol sales.

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Arizona Police Department records, in mid-September, Ryan Stass, a pre-business student, purchased a 30-pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer from Metro Wildcat without being asked for identification verifying he was of

legal age to purchase alcohol.

Stass identified the employee who carried out the transaction to be Jiten Darjee. When Darjee was questioned by a UAPD officer, he said he had not sold any alcohol throughout his shift, and that

Eller College dean heads to Nevada for promotion

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CUSTOMERS WALK IN AND OUT of the Metro Wildcat on Wednesday. Metro Wildcat is under investigation for serving alcohol to minors.

The dean of the Eller College of Management has been selected to be the next president for University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and will leave the UA during the holidays.

Len Jessup became the dean of Eller College in May 2011, according to his bio on the Eller College’s website. According to the bio, he is an alumnus of the UA, having received his doctorate in organizational behavior and management information systems from Eller College in 1989.

A press release regarding the announcement stated that Jessup’s time at Eller College was a time of growth for the college. The college’s operating budget, according to the press release, grew from $48.8 million to $60.6 million from fiscal years 2011 to 2014. This growth was attributed to increased enrollment, student fees, philanthropy and new initiatives, such as Eller Executive Education. The press release also said that, from 2010 to 2014, Eller College undergraduate enrollment increased 12 percent and graduate enrollment increased 32 percent.

The decision by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents was announced Tuesday

following a special meeting.

Jeff Schatzberg, Eller College’s vice dean and an accounting professor, said that Eller College is excited for Jessup as he moves on.

“This is a great testament to Len’s leadership, and we’re excited for him as he takes on this new challenge,” Schatzberg said. “We’ll also miss him, but have every expectation that our great team at Eller will continue to ensure that the college maintains its momentum in research, teaching and partnerships. We look forward to working with the provost on our transition plan.”

Andrew Comrie, the senior vice president of academic affairs and provost, said in the press release that the faculty is proud of Jessup’s achievements at the UA. “We are very proud of and excited for Dr. Jessup,” Comrie said.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for an incredibly competent and innovative leader. We will, of course, miss his expert leadership of Eller that led to many important and impactful advances for the college and the university. We wish him well and look forward to witnessing the many expected successes he will achieve at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.”

when he did sell alcohol, he recorded it in the store’s alcohol logbook that is verified by the Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control.

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THE ELLER COLLEGE of Management dean, Len Jessup, will be leaving the UA over the holidays to pursue a new career. He has been selected to be the next president of University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Jessup was one of three finalists for the position and, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, his contract at UNLV is for five years at a pay of $525,000 annually, including other benefits, making him the highest-paid university president in Nevada. He was voted in with an almost-unanimous vote of 12 board members voting in his favor with one against.

The University of Arizona Police Department is currently investigating the alleged misappropriation of funds from the UA Food Products and Safety Laboratory.

John Marchello, manager of the student-run meat store and the professor and coach of the UA Rodeo Club, is allegedly responsible for the shifting of money totaling around $130,000 over the past three years.

The UA Food Products and Safety Laboratory was contacted and referred to the online information page when asked to provide contact information for Marchello. Staff would not comment about the allegation or investigation that is taking place.

Marchello was reached by email. He responded, “Sorry, I have been advised to say, ‘No comment.’”

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International Transgender Awareness Week advocates for victim rights at UA the Transgender Day of Remembrance have a common mission in attempting to raise mindfulness of the issues and educate others so that the issues facing the transgender community can be addressed.

According to staff at Pride Alliance, Transgender Awareness Week at the UA will be localized with education being the main focus.

Alex Ross, a theatre arts freshman, said he agrees that people should continue attempting to understand the issues surrounding the transgender community in order to become more accepting of their differences.

“It’s really important,” Ross said. “We don’t think about transgender people, they are often marginalized in our culture, so it’s raising awareness to the fact that they are there, they are not invisible.”

Awareness of the transgender community is continuing to grow on a global level. Education and outreach can both help to promote further awareness and acceptance and end marginalization of transgender people.

“To see that over the past few years finally becoming a central theme in culture, in news, I think it’s awesome that we are finally getting there,” Ross said.

“Learning in order to be accepting is truly the most important thing.”

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The UA’s LGBTQ Affairs is taking part in Transgender Awareness Week to promote education and advocacy for people who identify as transgender this week and next week.

Greg Daniels, co-director of UA Pride Alliance, said that as an international issue, transgender awareness and knowledge is different everywhere you go.

“It is definitely two different beasts locally and internationally,” Daniels said.

“Internationally, I think it’s probably a lot worse, especially in places like Africa or even South America. … Our transgender awareness week is going to be very different compared to theirs.”

One commonality on a global level is the annual International Transgender Day of Remembrance, observed today.

The Transgender Day of Remembrance is meant to honor and pay respects to those who have been victims of antitransgender violence.

The website for the event includes a list of people who have been murdered due to anti-transgender violence throughout the world, including their names, the cause of death and the location.

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COMMUNITY MEMBERS LOOK AT BOOTHS set up by LGBTQ Affairs during the Transgender Awareness Week resource fair on the UA Mall on Monday. Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance, where individuals remember those who were killed due to anti-transgender violence.

LGBTQ Affairs and Pride Alliance staff members said they are proud of the work they are doing in order to accomplish the long-term goals of acceptance.

“Our events and having so many people this year turn out for our events really gives me that validity of what I am

doing is right,” Daniels said, “and it is really touching people.”

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Journalism professor aids UN in Ethiopia

BY CRYSTAL BEDOYA The Daily Wildcat

A UA journalism professor recently embarked on a trip to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to form part of a Fulbright specialist mission with the U.N. Economic Commission to Africa, aiding in the development of a think tank for the African Union.

Shahira Fahmy, a tenured journalism faculty member, spent two weeks assessing strategic communication skills through a U.N. and Fulbright Scholarship partnership. Her latest published academic work, “Visual Communication Theory and Research: A Mass Communication Perspective,” was granted an award for the most outstanding book in visual communication for this year’s National Communication Association meeting in Chicago, according to a press of release from the School of Journalism.

“She is a prolific researcher and is well-known for her research on how the media visually portrays [people around the world],” said David Cuillier, director of the School of Journalism. “She represents the university well [through] her research.”

While Fahmy was in Ethiopia, she conducted interviews and focus groups to get a better understanding of the African Union’s situation.

One factor that Fahmy said she noticed was a longing to become more active through social media, which was difficult due to age differences. The lack of knowledge on social media was something Fahmy particularly focused on improving.

Although the trip was diplomatic, Fahmy faced several problems while in Ethiopia.

There were threats by al-Shabaab, a terrorist group that pledged allegiance to al-Qaida, which limited Fahmy and others visiting the area to a tight-but-safe schedule.

“I received a note from the university that there was a terrorist threat directed to the U.S. Embassy where Westerners go to,” Fahmy said.

“They decided to … continue life

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DEEMA ALSAAFIN, left, and Shatha Hammad, right, speak during the Palestine discussion on Wednesday at the Student Union Memorial Center. The UA chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine held a conference where Palestinian students discussed living and learning under U.S.-Israeli military occupation.

monitored constantly so selfeducation online cannot occur.

“It makes you feel like, in the FROM PAGE 1 eyes of other people, you are not are not just one group. human, or something below what “There are thousands of they consider human,” Hammad narratives and stories,” AlSaafin said. said. “These are just two.”

H a m m a d She said Israeli said because o c c u p a t i o n the occupation You should has imposed is so strict, the teach me s e p a r a t i o n 10 Palestinian my history, a m o n g s t students who Palestinians and not teach came to the U.S. the territories they had to do so by me the live in. The West lying. other Bank is its own “We lied about narrative territory, Jerusalem getting here, — Shatha is increasingly but we’re not Hammad becoming its own English junior sure what will territory and the happen when state of Israel is we go home,” separated, AlSaafin Hammad said. added.

“We can’t lie about what we “My family was ripped apart did here; it’s all over Facebook, by that,” AlSaafin said. “My father all over social media. The and brother could not live with consequences of this, we don’t us anymore because they were know what’s going to happen. We assigned a different address. We might be in prison, we might not couldn’t be a family, in essence, be able to ever leave Palestine and that severely affected my again. But it’s worth it. We’re here education.” to get the message out.”

AlSaafin went on to say that the occupation affected her decision on where to attend college. She originally wanted to study abroad at a different university but didn’t want to leave her mom alone.

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JOURNALISM PROFESSOR Shahira Fahmy visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with the U.N. to aid in the development of a think tank. Fahmy spent her two weeks in Africa assessing strategic communication skills with the U.N..

as normal, but avoid any crowded areas.”

Because of its geographical location, Ethiopia was not considered to be a possible location for an Ebola outbreak; however, measures taken to ensure the population’s safety.

“I got to the airport [and there were two Ebola checkpoints and] as soon as I got there, I had people getting my temperature,” Fahmy said.

According to the School of Journalism’s press release, Fahmy also had the opportunity to attend a fact-gathering conference on command by the U.S. Department of State public diplomacy program.

While attending the conference, Fahmy said she realized the

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Another important goal was educating the people of Ethiopia’s African Union to present themselves as the group’s spokespeople and hopefully develop a think tank for the country, Fahmy added.

“Every single person that I met there had an amazing story and everyone there spoke different languages,” she said. “I suddenly felt right at home.”

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ASUA scrutinizes elections code

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At the ASUA Senate meeting on Wednesday evening, the senate debated revising the elections code for the March 2015 ASUA elections.

Major concerns regarding the Associated Students of the University of Arizona elections code that Diego Alvarez, the ASUA elections commissioner, brought to the senate involved campaigning and platforms.

Questions regarding campaigning ranged from restrictions on where posters and banners may be placed to who may be allowed to campaign for a potential candidate.

ASUA Sen. Elena Gold brought up during a discussion of fairness that there is a portion of the elections code that says those who hold office can not be campaign

managers.

“I understand maybe some of “It says that you shall not serve those,” Gold said. “I definitely as a campaign manager if you’re don’t think you should put [a] an elected official, but you are campaign poster over a stop allowed to support,” Gold said. “So sign; that seems like it would be if the ultimate objective is fairness, [a] definitely hazardous thing to I don’t see how do. I think that is fair.” that some Alvarez said of the other So if the ultimate the point of things might objective is that section be a bit was in terms of dramatic.” fairness, I don’t endorsement, Gold also see how that is but that it has had an issue fair. always been with the — Elena Gold, prohibited in restriction ASUA Senator the code. on leafleting Gold also on cars off had an issue campus, with the restrictions of where saying it is an effective form of posters may be placed, limiting marketing. candidates to any location that is ASUA Sen. Joey Steigerwald not a light pole, traffic signal pole, informed Gold that the stop sign, bus stop shelter, bench, restrictions are due to laws, such tree or Sun Link Tucson Modern as it being illegal to place posters Streetcar. on a stop sign.

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Alvarez said the issue with locations of some posters or other campaigning techniques such as chalking, is due to university policy. He further explained that the issue with leafleting on cars off campus is that it leads to irritation among voters. He also mentioned that posters can not be placed in locations such as university computer labs, as those are areas of academic study and that posters can be distracting to some.

Questions regarding platform focused mostly on the complaint that some candidates create platforms that are essentially unattainable.

“A lot of people run for office on platforms that are not feasible and are not going to happen,” Gold said. “So a huge problem with senate accountability in the past few years is people run on platforms they can’t realistically accomplish in a year and then

we have the senators getting paid student money to do nothing for the year, and that is really, really not okay.”

Some senators did propose that campaign platforms should be approved prior to being officially used, similar to how campaign materials have to be approved.

However, other senators did cite issues with the fact that they are not all knowledgeable in all platforms that may come up.

Alvarez said it is slightly unethical to grade a platform and inform the candidate that they either are or are not approved, and that it is up to the voters.

There was a final suggestion that platforms be eliminated altogether.

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UA, said UAPD is conducting the investigation. He said the university is aware of the investigation and improper money handling at the food product and safety lab, but specific information has not been released to the public.

“As far as I know, [UAPD] hasn’t mentioned any names or any details,” Sigurdson said.

Filbert Barrera, UAPD public information officer, said it will be a while until any information is released regarding the investigation.

“The only thing I can tell you is that we are in an investigation for improper money handling that was reported to us, and we can’t talk about it until we are done,” Barrera said.

The laboratory has student-run meat sales every Friday, from 3-6 p.m. These sales will continue unaffected by the investigation.

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Newa said that since the incident, Thanet has been fired.

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Perceptions of migrants emigrate from reality

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n Nov. 8, The Economist reported the results of a study on the economic impact of European immigrants. The results were shocking: From 1995 to 2011, immigrants added more than $6.4 billion to Britain’s economy through contributions to government revenues. In contrast, native Britons subtracted a whopping $926 billion during that same time period — a situation not so different than the one in the U.S. The head researchers of the findings, Christian Dustmann and Tommaso Frattini, even suggested that migrants are likely currently operating below their full economic potential. Their economic contributions will likely increase as their skill sets do. The Economist went as far as to compare immigrant populations’ economic additions to a new form of foreign direct investment.

Yet, despite this net gain, immigrants continue to be the automatic scapegoat for hard economic times. Most citizens do not have an accurate perception of immigration numbers or their impact.

According to a study done by Ipsos MORI, a market research organization, the majority of voting-aged citizens think that the immigrant population is over double its true size. Their complaints that immigration has “gone too far” have little direct correlation to actual migration numbers.

Immigration is debated with the same politicized fervor in the U.S. as in England.

Despite many British businesses’ claims that the migrants are helpful, British Prime Minister David Cameron is pushing a more stringent immigration cap. The goal is to lower migrant numbers to 100,000 by May, which will involve a drop in tens of thousands of migrants from current levels, according to Express and Star. Similarly, immigration is a hot topic in each election cycle in the U.S. and particularly relevant with the potential upcoming immigration executive order from President Barack Obama.

The study also revealed that the regional areas most concerned with immigration tend to be racially homogeneous, whereas multicultural areas are more welcoming to immigrants. In this case, those with less exposure to foreigners experienced more fear of them, whereas those who had meaningful interactions with them felt much more positive about their societal impact.

The same biases that plague British citizens also infect Americans. Andy Silverman, an immigration law professor, said there is a similar list of misconceptions about immigrants common in the U.S.: They take jobs from Americans, commit more crimes than Americans, do not assimilate or learn English and are only here to reap public benefits.

A study by Texas A & M University revealed that almost half of the workforce in many agricultural sectors is comprised of foreign-born workers. Yet, it is estimated that one of the low-wage jobs an immigrant holds supports 3.5 non-farm jobs, which usually have higher wages and are mainly occupied by American-born citizens.

“Immigration is healthy for society and the economy,” Silverman said. “… Most studies show that migrants put more into the economy, especially through taxes, than they take from the economy, like public benefits.”

Citizens’ unfounded fears are not unique to this era or to immigrants from Mexico and Latin America. My grandfather’s family was a migrant family from Italy, and he faced discrimination growing up in Massachusetts, similar to what migrants face today.

When Arizonans think about immigration, it is easy to think only about the U.S.-Mexico border, but there is a common trend that is easily visible with immigration in general: xenophobia, the fear of anything foreign. It’s what is impeding Britons’ perceptions of reality and what can drive American public opinion.

Yet for all of this fear, most of us are all right; we are reaping the rewards of a multicultural society. My grandfather went on to run his own bookstore and create a family of doctors, teachers and musicians. Much of U.S. food production would crumble without the support from immigrants. Briton’s economy is actually improving from the efforts of its immigrant population — not to mention the impacts to cultural enrichment. In fact, despite all of the overhyped perceptions and fears, we’re really better than all right.

— Julianna Renzi is a sophomore studying economics and environmental science. Follow her@jollyrenzi

Whitewashing of film stars reinforces, confirms bigotry other than their own personal experiences.

And if there’s not room for people of color to shine in the lead of those stories, there’s little to change what is already implicit in the hearts and minds of the American people.

So what should Hollywood do?

Well, there needs to be more black movie stars, for one, not only in dramas but also in crowd-pleasing action and genre fare.

And they’re needed not just in roles that are specifically about race either, but neutral roles, roles in archetypes that for too long have worn only a pallid mask. As an example, Idris Elba in “Thor” or “Pacific Rim” is about as good as it gets.

Hollywood is a bloated money pit that is resistant to change, but maybe in lowerbudget, high-production-value features, this idea could take hold, like “District 9” or “Killer Klowns From Outer Space.” Some of the best genre fiction comes from these semilow budget affairs, and if filmmakers make the lead of their found-footage giant-insect horror movie black or Hispanic, then more power to ‘em.

Also, if somebody could make more foundfootage giant-insect horror movies, that’d be great.

dearth of people of color in that category.

Therefore, given how most movie stars are white and how movie stars are necessary to sell a motion picture, it’s unsurprising that whitewashing would happen in films such

BY Tom Johnson as “Exodus.” This was exactly the case with The Daily Wildcat Johnny Depp’s infamous portrayal of Tonto in “The Lone Ranger.” idley Scott’s upcoming biblical film There’s also the fact that the roles for “Exodus: Gods and Kings” has been which black actors are critically acclaimed, getting huge flack for the egregious lack as commented by Kia Makarechi of The of black people in its cast. For a story set in Huffington Post, all have to do in some integral Egypt — which, by the way, is in Africa — the way with race. So that means with roles that main star-studded cast is all white. And the are racially neutral, nine times out of 10 roles for people of color colorblind casting falls to in the film are either white actors. extras or criminals. ...Nine times out Another aspect not Much of this whiteof ten colorblind helping the situation washing has to do with is the “racial empathy casting falls to stars. As Bill Mechanic, gap,” the sociological white actors. former chairman of 20th idea that white people Century Fox, has noted, inherently empathize “‘A guy stranded on an less with black people. island’ without Tom This has also been proven in a distressingly Hanks is not a movie. With another actor, [the high number of scientific studies, thus giving movie ‘Cast Away’] would gross $40 million. notoriously risk-averse modern Hollywood With Tom Hanks it grossed $200 million. even more motivation to lose black actors.

There’s no way to replace that kind of star But one could argue that the lack of power.” major black parts in mainstream film also Considering less than 10 percent of people contributes to this empathy gap. Because, like on the Hollywood Walk of Fame are people it or not, media and the stories therein shape of color and how 74.1 percent of all speaking peoples’ view of the world more than anything roles go to white actors, there’s a definite

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Shine a light on shadow classes professor, despite sounding like it was written by a 9-year-old and being one 150-word paragraph.

To make a comparison, this article is already 10 words longer

BY ASHLEIGH horowitz than that of the UNC athlete, and The Daily Wildcat it’s nowhere near done.

These programs were originally he student-athlete created by now-retired office conspiracy is a ridiculousadministrator Deborah Crowder sounding scheme in and former African and Afrowhich players are led by the American studies department hand through college so that they chair Julius Nyang’oro, according can participate in sports. The to U.S. News. Crowder said she unfortunate truth, though, is that started this because she felt the University of North Carolina sympathetic toward the struggling in Chapel Hill has been doing this athletes. for almost two decades.

I feel just as much sympathy Since 1993, over 3,100 students towards these students as I do for at UNC, half of whom were a school not getting investors and football or basketball players, donors because of its studenthave been enrolled in classes that athlete graduation rate. UNCs gave them easy “A’s” and “B’s” solution to this problem of failing according to The Huffington Post. athletes: put them in easy classes According to U.S. News, this and give them a fake education. “shadow curriculum” offered Reports from both CNN and lecture classes that students did U.S. News say that academic not need to show up for and advisers purposefully put “paper classes” where students student-athletes in these classes were only required to turn in a to keep them eligible to play, final research paper. and nearly 30 UNC staffers and An ESPN report released an administrators were aware of this. image of one of these papers. It It’s a disgrace that, of all these was written by a student-athlete employees in the know, only one and received an “A-” from the

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tried to bring attention to the scandal.

Former UNC employee Mary Wilingham has been attempting to reveal these fake classes since 2011.

According to CNN, the school has been fighting Wilingham on these claims and even demoted her in 2013, giving her more busy work. This year, the university verbally attacked her after CNN featured a story she did about the literacy rates of college athletes nationwide.

Back in May, Willingham quit and is currently suing to regain her original position at the school, which has recently been brought back to light because of former UNC student athlete Mike McAdoo, one of the first studentathletes discovered to be part of a “paper class.”

Originally, McAdoo wanted to study criminal justice, but advisors told him he had to pick between three majors that would work with his football schedule.

His pre-determined schedule included paper classes. McAdoo wasn’t considered a student when he went to UNC; he was a body, an athlete the school used to its

advantage.

In 2011, he lost his eligibility to play on the account of receiving too much help with writing a paper. McAdoo is currently suing the school for failing to provide him with the education he was promised.

McAdoo is only one of thousands of students who lost out on an education for the sake of sports. Although McAdoo realizes that he was cheated, other student-athletes have gone through the classes and accepted the system as if it was OK. But it isn’t OK. The idea of the college athlete conspiracy in general is disturbing, but the fact that it’s been put into motion and has stayed in motion for almost two decades is repulsive. It’s repulsive that a college, a place of education, prided brawn over brains enough to create fake academics to ensure their players stayed in play.

— Ashleigh Horowitz is freshman studying creative writing and SISTA. Follow her @elhixsagh

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A UA student was arrested and booked into Pima County Jail on charge of assault and minor in possession of liquor on Nov. 15.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house around 1 a.m. regarding an assault. The victim was working as a security guard at a registered event at the sorority house when he saw a man jump a 3-foot stucco wall without paying to get into the event.

The security guard approached the student and told him to leave the event and said the student appeared to be intoxicated and “squared up.” He said the student later slapped him and left the event.

An officer made contact with the student shortly after on Cherry Street north of Speedway Boulevard and told him he needed to speak with him.

The student asked why and continued walking. The officer ordered him to stop and place his hands behind his back. The officer told the student it was reported that he assaulted a security guard at the Gamma Phi Beta sorority house, but the student denied the incident.

The officer could smell a strong odor of alcohol on the student’s breath and noticed red and watery eyes. The student was not cooperative with the officer.

The student was placed into the back of the officer’s patrol car and taken to the “Swede” Johnson building parking lot to continue speaking with the officer.

The student continued to deny assaulting the security guard and would not tell the officer his name, saying the officer could contact his mother for information.

The student tried to pull his phone out of his pocket to call his mother and, while doing so, swung his feet out of the car, attempting to exit. However, he was unsuccessful because he was seat-belted into the vehicle.

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Two UA students and one non-UA affiliate were arrested on Nov. 15 on charges of second-degree trespassing.

Two UAPD officers responded to Hillenbrand Aquatic Center around 2:30 a.m. in response to an alarm going off.

One of the officers saw two people, one of whom was a student, jump over the east fence surrounding the center and run across Campbell Avenue. The officer made contact with the two individuals and noticed they both had wet hair and damp clothing and smelled of intoxicants. The non-UA affiliate told the officer she was visiting her sister for the weekend.

The second officer held the other student inside Hillenbrand Aquatic Center after she was found hiding behind a bush. The officer could also smell intoxicants on her breath, but she was confirmed to be of legal drinking age.

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Suicide car bomber explodes in Erbil TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

ERBIL, Iraq — A suicide car bomber in a Toyota sedan exploded outside the gates of the governor’s compound in Erbil on Wednesday, the first major terrorist attack in the Kurdish capital since the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria took over much of neighboring Northern Iraq in midJune.

Initial reports said the blast killed two policemen and four civilians traveling in cars. As many as 30 people in the surrounding area were wounded.

A Kurdish intelligence official, speaking only anonymously because he wasn’t authorized to discuss what had taken place, said guards had opened fire on the vehicle as it attempted to make an illegal left turn to ram into the walled and gated compound. The car exploded outside the gates but across from another government building.

The bomb appeared to be of moderate size, damaging surrounding vehicles and shattering windows but not significantly harming the blast walls that protect the compound.

Damage also appeared light at the unprotected Provincial Council

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A DESTROYED CAR SITS next to a mural-painted blast wall after a suicide car bomb outside the gate of the governor’s office in Erbil, Iraq, killed at least six people on Wednesday. It was the first major attack on the Kurdish capital since the start of the war with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

building across the street.

Still, the explosion put Erbil on edge. The city has remained largely untouched by Iraq’s violence, even after the Islamic State seized nearby Mosul in June and pushed the front lines to within about 30

miles. Kurdish security officials, however, have feared a campaign of terror, noting that hundreds of thousands of refugees have pressed into Kurdish areas from regions now dominated by ISIS. Most of those refugees are Sunni

Muslim Arabs, who’ve had a tense relationship with the ethnically and culturally different Kurds for years. About 500 Kurds are thought to have joined ISIS as well. “We’ve stopped several plots and will have to stop many more,�

said the intelligence official. “Daash is outside our gates and we have to stop them from coming in, but it’s difficult with the refugees, the huge border we share with them and even our own Kurdish traitors.� Daash is the Arabic acronym for ISIS. “We have known for three weeks that there was a plot inside Erbil,� he said. “I hope this is all they had planned.�

Erbil’s relative safety — it was unscathed by the sectarian warfare that convulsed Iraq after the U.S. toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003 — was one reason the U.S. chose to set up a joint operations center here as it began returning advisers to Iraq after ISIS seized much of the country over the summer. The city is also home to a large number of international oil companies seeking to tap into what’s thought to be large oil reserves.

Several of those firms evacuated employees in August, when ISIS launched an offensive on villages nearby, and have delayed returning them. Wednesday’s bombing is likely to add to that delay, slowing development of the region’s oil industry, contractors said.

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Students learn why geology rocks

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Sixty students from the Tucson community came to the UA on Saturday to attend the Saturday Science Academy and lick halite — or sea salt — ­ play with soil and view microbes, with the ultimate aim of explorng the expansive field of the geological sciences.

The SSA is an annual outreach event run by the department of geosciences, said Gary Trubl, a graduate student in the department of soil, water and environmental science and appointed director of SSA. Trubl combined his interests in both geobiology and astrobiology to shake up the standard geology outreach events by connecting geological concepts to life.

“This year’s theme is called ‘A Geologic Perspective on Life,’” said Phil Stokes, a graduate student, academic adviser in the department of geosciences and co-founder of SSA. “The goal was to think about what the first life on Earth was like, how it has changed over time, what life is like now and where is it going to be in the future, whether that be in our solar system or in others.”

The overarching goal of SSA is to find better ways to engage the community in the sciences, particularly geology, Stokes said. In addition, SSA encourages students in underserved Tucson schools by providing activities that they may not otherwise be exposed to in the classroom, Stokes said.

“The event began with keynote speaker Marc Sbar, a professor in geosciences, introducing the students to the steps to become a geoscientist and the many diverse questions that they have,” Trubl said.

Then, the students were broken up into smaller groups, Trubl said. This year, Trubl said there were sessions put on by the Microbiology Club; Soil, Water and Environmental Science Club; Astronomy Club; and other faculty members and graduate students. The final event of the day was a volcanic eruption, Trubl added.

At one of the sessions, geosciences graduate student Shaunna Morrison displayed a mineral exhibition to highlight the diversity of minerals in Arizona and across the globe.

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ATTENDEES OF THE SATURDAY SCIENCE ACADEMY recover from the eruption of a homemade water volcano outside of the Harvill building on Saturday. The department of geosciences and the department of soil, water and environmental science hosted SSA as an outreach event.

“It is really important that kids learn about science and math,” Morrison said. “This is a nice way to make it fun for them, especially when they are licking the halite.”

Ava Bemer, a seventh-grade teacher at Booth-Fickett Math and Science Magnet School, said the activities at the outreach event were very important to her students.

SSA changes their attitudes about learning science and other academic fields, which gives value to their education, Bemer said.

“Over the past six years, we have connected

to about 600 people, including kids and parents,” Stokes said. “That is 600 people in the community that we have connected with that maybe have never been to the university.

They may have also never had the chance to meet graduate students and see what a career in science is like.”

Stokes said the SSA outreach event is a big step towards getting people interested in science, improving diversity in science and contributing to scientific literacy to encourage critical thinking about making

better-informed decisions in daily life.

“There are lots of areas [of science] where you can’t physically touch something, and what you can, it is not necessarily that interesting,” Morrison said. “We get the students to think about the uses of minerals in society, which is neat for them to make this connection.”

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New telescope aims to discover Hazardous waste molecules, study black holes

risky, handled properly by UA

BY AMY NIPPERT

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THE ARIZONA RADIO OBSERVATORY has recently procured a new 12-meter radio telescope that is housed at Kitt Peak. The telescope boasts a lighter design, greater sensitivity, higher pointing accuracy and is an overall greater improvement over the traditional telescope the UA previously housed.

BY LAETH GEORGE The Daily Wildcat

The UA has recently installed a $14 million, 40-foot-wide radio telescope on Kitt Peak, which can be used for anything from identifying new compounds in space to studying black holes. “[The telescope] provides an opportunity for our students and faculty to work at the forefront of millimeter astronomy in both the technology they use and the science problems they try to solve,” said Buell Jannuzi, director of the Steward Observatory and head of the astronomy department.

With this radio telescope, students and faculty at the UA will be able to study the colder, darker matter that is found in interstellar space that people essentially didn’t know about until 3540 years ago, said Lucy Ziurys, director of the Arizona Radio Observatory and a professor of astronomy and chemistry.

“It’s the colder material from which stars form,” Ziurys said.

“It’s also the material that traces when stars die, but it’s nothing you’ll be able to see with your eye.”

They will also study the dying stars that are releasing a lot of molecular material to get an idea of how molecules form, die and evolve in interstellar space, Ziurys said.

Another area of interest, Ziurys added, is searching for organic

molecules that could help waves, which are emitted scientists understand the origins naturally from certain types of of life both in the galaxy and the phenomenon in our galaxy and solar system. external galaxies,” Ziurys said.

The telescope represents a Radio waves, unlike light, are significant upgrade over what the a part of the electromagnetic university previously housed at spectrum that are not visible to Kitt Peak, Jannuzi said. the naked eye.

“It is sensitive, points better Radio telescopes in the and is faster at executing past have been used to detect observations,” he said. compounds like sodium In addition to being composed chloride, also known as table largely of carbon fiber to reduce salt, or the simplest sugar the overall weight of the structure, — glycolaldehyde — out in the new telescope boasts several interstellar space, Ziurys said. improvements that put it on The radio telescope will also the forefront become part of of telescope a larger array design. of telescopes [The “This one is from around telescope] so well-built the world that provides an that when you will be used to opportunity point it at an study the black … to work at object, you are holes that exist exactly at that at the center of the forefront object,” Ziurys galaxies, Ziurys of millimeter said.

“You said. astronomy. don’t have to “[We hope —Buell Jannuzi, handle a lot of to] provide our director of the Steward Observatory corrections; faculty enough it points very observing time accurately. It’s to undertake like a factor of 20 over what we new projects of a scale that they had before, in terms of pointing have not been able to undertake accuracy.” them in the past,” Jannuzi said, Because its surface is made of “[to] let their imaginations rhodium, it is possible to look at consider new classes of problems the sun and study solar science, to study, not constrained by the Ziurys said. Panels are usually limits of the past.” made of aluminum, which reflects sunlight and will burn up — Follow Laeth George parts of the telescope. @DailyWildcat “We use it to collect radio

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Research laboratories produce results, but they also produce hazardous waste from the chemicals and biological materials they use, waste that must be disposed of in a safe and controlled manner. For the UA, this job falls to the Office of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Safety.

At the UA, only hazardous radioactive waste is directly disposed of by the department, and even then, this is only for certain types of waste. Most radioactive waste has a short half-life.

“A half-life is the amount of time that the material takes to become half of what is was,” said Dan Silvain, director of ORCBS. “We consider seven to 10 half-lives to be pretty much dead.”

For the most part, the waste is stored in a secure facility until the seven to 10 half-lives have passed.

After, it is tested with a Geiger counter to ensure it is inactive and the waste can be disposed of safely, Silvain said.

Overall, the amount of radiation the UA has is minimal.

“We are a speck of sand compared to the amount of radiation in things like nuclear power-generating plants,” Silvain said.

Radioactive substances with a long half-life, biological hazardous waste and chemical waste are all disposed of externally.

ORCBS manages the waste and packages it before it goes out through commercial vendors.

Biological waste from laboratories is placed in red biohazard bags and then placed for storage or pickup by commercial companies.

“The contractor has a massive autoclave, and they autoclave it and then it goes to the public waste stream,” said Crystal Cardoza, senior biosafety coordinator of ORCBS. An autoclave is a pressure system that uses steam to sterilize biological waste.

The waste is then de-identified by placing the red bags in other containers so they aren’t seen.

Some biological waste, including body parts and certain pathogens, are incinerated, Cardoza said.

Like biological waste, chemical waste isn’t disposed of by ORCBS. A corporate entity called Clean Harbors picks up the waste every 90 days and brokers the waste to the organization that offers the

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THE RED BIOHAZARD bag is used for disposal of hazardous waste. The Office of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Safety, which is in charge of taking care of hazardous waste disposal, is implementing new changes in inspection and training to further enhance the safety culture at UA.

best price. The waste can go to other states as well, though the UA ensures it isn’t sent to states with inadequate regulations, said Richard Wagner, manager of chemical safety at ORCBS. The transport of hazardous materials is heavily regulated.

The 49-CFR is a massive book of regulations for ground transport.

Similar protocols are in place for air transport and chemical transport.

ORCBS follows these guidelines for packaging and transport, one of its many responsibilities, Wagner said.

ORCBS combined existing departments and its creation brought with it the implementation of new policies. An extensive database existed for the radioactive materials at the UA; now, a similar system is in place for biology and will soon encompass chemistry as well.

“It’s all been centralized and digitized,” Wagner said.

This isn’t the only change that has been put into place. Training has gone from online to face-toface, and scheduled inspections provide a space for researchers to ask questions and learn more about the regulations in place.

“More than just waste, you’re fixing the safety culture,” Cardoza said.

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After finishing a nine-game home stand, Arizona hockey travels to play against two unranked ACHA East Coast teams. During the home stand, the Wildcats went 4-5 at the Tucson Convention Center Arena and jumped up one spot in the ACHA Division I rankings to No. 16.

Tonight, No. 16 Arizona will travel to New Jersey to play Rutgers University (3-08), followed by a Friday and Saturday night series against Drexel University (9-0-4). The three games will count toward No. 16 Arizona’s (7-0-10) standing in its recently joined Western Collegiate Hockey League.

Last year was the first time Rutgers did not make the national tournament since 2009. This season, the Ice Knights have high expectations and will not settle for anything less than a tournament bid.

Rutgers’ schedule has proved to be one of the toughest since the program has had a Division I men’s ACHA team. Despite their gauntlet of a schedule, the Ice

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Arizona hockey captain Shane Gleason (3) looks for an open teammate during Arizona’s 4-2 win against Michigan State at the Tucson Convention Center on Nov. 7. After a nine-game home stand, the Wildcats hit the road this weekend.

Knights have played extremely well against tough teams.

“Rutgers will be a tough challenge to start on the road,” UA hockey head coach Chad Berman said. “They have played some of the top teams in the country to very close battles, including [ASU], Delaware and Stony Brook.”

In Philadelphia, Arizona will take on the Drexel Dragons.

“I don’t know much about Drexel other than they are a hungry, hard-working team that was able to get a big

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deeper than last year’s team ever was.

By combining a highly ranked recruiting class with a group of experienced returnees, it’s no surprise these Wildcats are ranked No. 2.

Behind a defense that figures to be one of the best in the nation, Arizona head coach Sean Miller has a squad talented enough to bring home the program’s second national championship.

Rounding out the rest of the top five are the Wisconsin Badgers, the Duke Blue Devils and the Kansas Jayhawks.

Wisconsin advanced to the Final Four last season and returns almost everyone, including skilled big man Frank Kaminsky and crafty wing Sam Dekker.

Kaminsky may have averaged just 13.9 points per game last year, but the 7-footer came up huge in the tournament and led the Badgers on their deep run.

Duke may have lost super freshman Jabari Parker, but Mike Krzyzewski recruited a great group of freshmen to

win against the U.S. Naval Academy,” Berman said. “That Navy team is not an easy team to beat. They have been up and down. But they play a very aggressive, discipline style of hockey that always puts them in a spot to win.”

The Dragons have six players with double-digit points.

Marco Gagliardi leads Drexel with 17 points from nine goals and eight assists. Tied with 15 points each are Ryan Williams and John Quigley.

Goalie Zachary Kantner is

replace the No. 2 overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft. The class, headlined by Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones, complements a young Duke roster that has just one senior who figures to play meaningful minutes, Quinn Cook.

No team in the nation lost more toplevel talent than the Kansas Jayhawks did. Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid were the Jayhawks’ two best players and ended up as the No. 1 and No. 3 overall picks in the 2014 NBA draft, respectively.

That doesn’t even account for the loss of Tarik Black and Naadir Tharpe.

Luckily for Kansas fans, Bill Self is one of the best recruiters in college basketball. Self hauled in another top-10 recruiting class, headlined by power forward Cliff Alexander and small forward Kelly Oubre.

The fact that Kansas is still No. 5 in the nation shows just how great of a coach and recruiter Self is.

The rest of the top 10 is full of powers like No. 6 North Carolina, No. 7 Florida and No. 8 Louisville. All three programs are hoping to advance deep into the tournament and have the talent to do it.

ranked No. 22 among the entire ACHA goalie leaders with a 93 percent save percentage.

“Since we have a short week of practice, we will be doing high energy and fast-paced drills rather than a lot of X’s and O’s systems,” UA hockey captain Shane Gleason said. “We want to get off to a quick start in the games this weekend, so we want the intensity of our two practices this week to carry over into the first 20 minutes of this weekend’s games.”

The Wildcats usually excel on the penalty kill. Since Arizona plays an aggressive style, the Wildcats are forced to rely heavily on their penalty kill unit throughout the game.

“We need to stay out of the box more each game,” UA hockey player Robbie Wilkinson said. “We’re taking too many penalties. We need [to work] hard on our penalty kill and block more shots and passes. We will work on it in practice and improve for the games.”

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UNC has do-it-all point guard Marcus Paige, Florida has a handful of talented guards and Louisville has physical specimen Montrezl Harrell.

The rest of the top 25 is full of established mid-majors, such as the No. 11 Wichita State Shockers, No. 13 Gonzaga Bulldogs, No. 14 Iowa State Cyclones, No. 15 VCU Rams and No. 24 Harvard Crimson. Mixed in between those mid-majors are traditional powers, including the No. 17 Connecticut Huskies, No. 18 Michigan State Spartans, No. 20 Ohio State Buckeyes, No. 23 Syracuse Orange and No. 24 Michigan Wolverines.

Of that group, Wichita State, Gonzaga and Michigan seem most likely to crash the national championship party, as each team has the talent to make some noise.

Regardless of what happens, one thing is apparent: It’s college basketball season. Sit back, relax and prepare yourselves for one hell of a ride.

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Laxcats and Rugby wrap up tourneys

BY Daniela Vizcarra The Daily Wildcat

The Arizona Laxcats ended their fall preseason with a win against ASU at the Arizona Fall Brawl this past Saturday. The Laxcats played ASU and Grand Canyon University at the tournament, defeating the Sun Devils 9-5 and tying the Antelopes 5-5.

“The guys played well,” UA head coach Derek Pedrick said. “It’s a fall ball scrimmage, and it shows us that if we keep up and play well, we can play with some of the best teams in the country.”

During the first game, the Laxcats got on the board quickly with a goal from Zach Johnson. ASU followed up with a goal and played most of the game with that one goal. Arizona ended up scoring six more goals on ASU, including two goals from Austin Miller.

ASU tried to catch up during the last 10 minutes of the game by scoring four more goals on the Laxcats.

During the last few minutes of the game, Hunter Gore scored his second goal of the game, and Ben Brehne scored the final goal of the game to secure the win over ASU. For the final game of the tournament, Johnson scored two goals for the 5-5 tie against GCU. Arizona Rugby’s preseason will be coming to a close as the UA hosts its final home game of the season against GCU on Friday night. This will

be the first time Arizona plays against GCU, as the Antelopes have a new rugby program this year.

Arizona will also be playing against two former UA rugby players.

GCU head coach Ryan Kelly and associate head coach Merrick Firestone both played under legendary rugby coach Dave Sitton at the UA. “It will be a cool experience to play against those former Wildcats,” UA head coach Sean Duffy said.

For the final game of the preseason, Mason Pederson and Vinny Yackanin will not be playing, as they were invited to the Junior AllAmerican Ruby Camp in Florida this weekend.

Last weekend, Arizona played its final tournament of the preseason at the Pac-12 Rugby Sevens Championship at Berkeley.

The team placed fifth overall and went 4-2.

During day one, Arizona beat Stanford 21-7 and USC 43-0. That same day, the UA also lost to Cal 39-0 and ASU 21-5.

Arizona went on to the semifinals, winning its last two games of the tournament, defeating Washington State 29-5 and Colorado 21-10.

“We took 12 sevens players, and nine of them were freshmen,” Duffy said.

“It was a top-notch event and was great experience for the freshmen.”

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SOLOMON HILL NAILS GAMEWINNER Indiana Pacers 88 Charlotte Hornets 86

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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Behind a second-half charge, the Arizona men’s basketball team defeated the UC Irvine Anteaters 71-54 for a third consecutive victory to open the 2014-2015 season

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SPURS KEEP DOMINATING OVER LEBRON San Antonio Spurs 92 Cleveland Cavaliers 90

MAVERICKS WIN DESPITE BEAL’S RETURN Dallas Mavericks 105 Washington Wizards 102

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After feasting on Anteaters for 29 minutes, Arizona men’s basketball forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson still had room for some fruit snacks in the postgame press conference.

Led by Hollis-Jefferson, the No. 2 Wildcats (3-0) beat UC Irvine 71-54 to complete a perfect home stand to open the season.

For the third game in a row, Hollis-Jefferson started the game on the bench, but he led all scorers with 19 points, got six rebounds, had a block and the highlight of the night was when he dunked on UCI 7-foot-6 center Mamadou Ndiaye.

“My eyes got really big and I just knew I had it once I saw him turning slow, and I went up and jumped,” HollisJefferson said. “The rest was history.”

UA head coach Sean Miller said Hollis-Jefferson chose to stay on the bench because he thought it helped the team more.

“There are a lot of these guys that will talk the talk, and say ‘sacrifice’ and beat their chest when things are going well, but there aren’t a lot of kids that would come off the bench if you’re him,” Miller said. “It wasn’t as if I had to sell it; that’s who he is.”

Hollis-Jefferson said his mindset coming off the bench is to be “that energy guy that gives my teammates a spark when I come in.”

The Anteaters’ biggest lead was six points, and they were ahead for about 15 minutes. Arizona went on a 15-0 run late in the second half, capping off a second half surge to hold on for the win.

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tonight the way we played,” Arizona point guard T.J. McConnell said.

McConnell had 12 points, nine rebounds, four assists and six steals in a team-high 36 minutes of action.

“When we were in the

huddle, we just said we were two or three buckets away from going on a big run,” McConnell said. “It starts on defense. We locked down on defense, got two or three buckets and it just took off.”

The UA had 18 second-

chance points, compared to five for the Anteaters.

“Teams that are good, they stay together,” HollisJefferson said. “We just keep working hard and it worked hard in our favor.”

The Wildcats made 29 of

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their 34 free throws, led by Hollis-Jefferson’s 11 from the charity stripe. UCI made nine freebies.

“It rubs off,” HollisJefferson said about free throws. “Once one person starts making it, the other players on the team start making it and it’s contagious Forward Stanley Johnson got his first collegiate doubledouble with 10 points and 10 rebounds, including three offensive boards. Miller criticized his rebounding on Sunday.

“We dealt with Aaron Gordon last year and there’s so much expected of these young players, these highly touted before they get here,” Miller said. “Sometimes you forget that this is the first time that Stanley’s probably seen a zone this size and this is only the third game of his college career.”

After trailing by three at halftime, the Wildcats outscored the Anteaters (2-1) by 20 in the second half.

“We didn’t want to make too big a deal, whether we were winning or losing,” Miller said about the halftime message. “It was more along the lines of, ‘These are the things that we need to do better in the second half.’”

Ndiaye was held to nine points and five rebounds as he got into foul trouble.

Guards Travis Souza and Luke Nelson led the Anteaters in scoring with 11 each.

Up next for the Wildcats is the EA Sports Maui Invitational, starting with Missouri on Monday at 3 p.m.

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It’s about that time for college hoops

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The Arizona women’s basketball team will look to get its first win of the season on Friday when it goes on the road to face Texas Tech.

The UA lost its season opener on Monday, a 76-72 home defeat to Cal State Bakersfield. The Wildcats played poorly on both sides of the ball, committing 21 turnovers and allowing the Roadrunners to have their way from behind the arc.

While Arizona made a strong second-half run after being down as much as 20 points, the Wildcats couldn’t execute in the final minutes.

“If you don’t play up to your ability and can’t get stops defensively,” Arizona women’s basketball head coach Niya Butts said, “The results are probably not going to be good for you.”

In a season being billed as a “breakthrough,” it was a disappointing first performance for the Wildcats, who had a handful of players out for violating team rules.

A game into the season, the UA is already in need of a big victory, not only to begin building a successful nonconference resume but to establish an air of confidence in the locker room.

This is a program still getting over a dismal 2013-2014 campaign in which it won just five games.

Back-to-back opening losses could set Arizona down the same path.

“The thing we most need to do is focus and work on our discipline,” UA forward LaBrittney Jones said. “We had five bad days of practice, so we have to make sure we go in with

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the right mindset for the next game.”

The matchup versus Texas Tech looks winnable, at least on paper.

Like Arizona, the Red Raiders were picked to finish last in their conference after going 0-18 in Big 12 Conference play last season. So far this year, Texas Tech is 2-0 after scraping by Jacksonville State and Texas State.

For the UA to come out on top, it will need to play a fundamentally sound game and take advantage of the glass. Against Cal State Bakersfield, the Wildcats had a number of put-back opportunities and couldn’t convert.

Arizona did receive solid performances from guard Candice Warthen and forward Alli Gloyd. While Jones racked up a 14 point, 13 rebound double-double.

Perhaps most encouraging, freshman Charise Holloway started her first career game and scored 12 points behind a pair of

3-pointers.

Defensively, the Wildcats struggled to contain Bakersfield with their man-to-man defense until Butts switched to zone at the start of the second half. The change led to a nine-minute fieldgoal drought by the Roadrunners.

While the UA looked overwhelmed at times against Bakersfield, the team should be back to full strength on Friday.

The additional depth, as well as the lessons learned from the opening night loss, may give Arizona the spark it needs down the stretch.

“Hopefully, the film will speak for itself, and we’ll improve,” Butts said. “I have a lot of confidence in what we’re capable of doing. We just have to make sure as a team we have that same confidence.”

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t’s about that time when college basketball will be in full effect, which means it’s time to preview how the landscape of the game looks around the nation. Right off the bat, a pair of Wildcats come to mind at the top of the college hoops ladder: the No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats and the No. 2 Arizona Wildcats.

Kentucky is fresh off a national championship appearance, losing to UConn 60-54, and unquestionably has the most-talented roster in the nation. Kentucky head coach John Calipari usually recruits in waves, because he knows players are likely one-and-done. Well, Calipari recruited in waves, but those players who were likely one-and-done returned this year.

As a result, Calipari will implement a platoon system where five players will sub in for the starting lineup. It’s not common at the collegiate level, but Kentucky has a bench unit that could start on the majority of other Power-6 teams.

The 10 members of that platoon system are: Aaron Harrison, Andrew Harrison, Alex Poythress, Trey Lyles, Willie Cauley-Stein, Tyler Ulis, Dakari Johnson, Karl-Anthony Towns, Marcus Lee and Devin Booker.

It doesn’t take a genius to realize the Kentucky Wildcats are the most talented team in the nation from top to bottom, and they have as good a chance as anyone to go undefeated this season.

The Arizona Wildcats may have lost Nick Johnson and Aaron Gordon, but this year’s squad is

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