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they’re confronting,” Boyce said. “Whether that’s getting someone bonded out of detention so they can be released for the duration of their case at least, remain with their family, or just covering routine household expenses because a primary breadwinner is no longer able to work.” Boyce said the reason they released the report was so the communities affected by the problem of immigration arrests would have free access to the data and not need a CatCard or library subscription to see the report. “These journals charge thousands and thousands for access, so it was really important as we were collecting this data from the community to also share it in a way that people can access,” Boyce said. Boyce also said he learned a lot in his time of the value of working with undergraduate researchers. “My experience working with undergraduate students to do the research was really rewarding,” Boyce said. “I think it’s a testament to … [how] our research can have multiple benefits not only in the data we were able to collect but also in the opportunities that we can create for students along the way.”
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they collected, the researchers found that the hundreds of immigration arrests happening in Tucson are costing the community. “So, just within our sample alone of 125 households and 200-some immigration arrests within those households, we can measure millions of dollars being pumped out of the local economy,” Boyce said. “So that means ultimately, even though it’s these families that are experiencing the brunt of financial burden that we’re looking at, it’s ultimately impacting everybody in the community.” Boyce said the money generated from immigration arrests is not going back to the community and is instead going to attorneys, private detention centers and companies that contract with detention centers, such as phone companies and suppliers for the commissaries. According to Boyce, they conducted this research because there had never been a study of this kind before. He said there has been isolated research of the cost of detention but never a study of the effects that immigration arrests have on the economic health of families and households. “It’s often times when someone’s family member is detained, these financial questions nevertheless are urgent ones
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Immigrant arrests are taking a toll on both U.S. citizens and the economy, according to an economic report called “The Immigration Dragnet and the Dispossession of Household and Community Wealth in the United States.” The report was published in October by Sarah Launius and Geoffrey Alan Boyce through the University of Arizona’s Binational Migration Institute and explores the economic impact that immigration arrests have on immigrant families and the overall community. Boyce, co-author of the report and visiting researcher in the Mexican American studies department, said that he and Launius were assisted by 14 undergraduate research assistants from the UA and Pima Community College. According to Boyce, they used a snowball sampling methodology to get the data they needed for the report. “It essentially means a word-of-mouth sampling methodology,” Boyce said. “Starting at a particular site where we know we have access to the research population, the folks we want to talk to relates to the study, relying on them to refer to additional people and their social
network who qualify for the study to us and then relying then on those people for additional contacts and so on.” According to Boyce, they asked qualified people a survey of 110 questions. The researchers asked about household demographics, finances, immigration history and the overall impact that an immigration arrest can have on a family. Boyce said there are two important implications that came out of their research. According to Boyce, the first implication is that once all the data was collected and put together, it was found that a majority of the people that have had family members arrested by immigration are U.S. citizens. Boyce said 62% of people who participated in the survey were U.S. citizens and 11% were lawful permanent residents. “So the significant majority of the people being impacted are citizens or people who are perfectly lawfully present in terms of immigration status,” Boyce said. “This reflects the ways that we already know a majority of … non-citizens but also undocumented people live in mixed-status families.” According to Boyce, the second important implication of the report is that through the data
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SPORTS | WILDCAT SPOTLIGHT
Four baseball players to watch The Daily Wildcat has been looking at four up-and-coming key players in Arizona baseball and compiled a short list. Here are four players to look out for on the field this year. BY ARI KOSLOW @koslow_ari
The Arizona baseball team will look to get back on track this season as they attempt to re-enter the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2017. If they are going to get back to where they want, they’ll need a few players to step up this season. Here is a look at a few of those key players to keep an eye on at Hi Corbett Field this season.
1. Mac Bingham
The freshman out of California is expected to play an immediate role in the Wildcats lineup this season. He impressed in his debut with the team two weeks ago against Team USA, blasting three doubles all down the third base line and showing off his speed rounding the bases. “Mac [Bingham] did a nice job,” said Head Coach Jay Johnson following the game. “We picked him up this summer due to some coaching changes and he fits our profile very well. He’s strong, physical, fast, athletic and he’s a great competitor.” In his two years playing varsity baseball at Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, Bingham combined to hit for a .356 batting average with 12 home runs and 45 RBIs. He’ll look to provide an immediate impact — both with his bat and with his glove — for the Wildcats this season.
2. Austin Wells
The reigning Pac-12 Freshman of the Year will look to build off his monstrous first campaign here in Tucson, where he hit for a .353 average with 60 RBIs. He became the first Wildcat to earn the honor. Wells led all Division I freshmen with 73 runs scored, the most any Arizona freshman had ever recorded
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AUSTIN WELLS AT BAT on April 30 in Tucson. The reigning Freshman of the Year will look to build on the 2019 season, when he averaged .353 and tallied 60 RBIs.
and the most by a Pac-12 freshman since 2009. His .353 batting average was the highest among any freshman in the Power 5 conferences, while he also hit 7 triples, which was the eighth-most in the nation. He was truly an allaround player his freshman season and will look to continue where he left off as he looks to gear the Wildcats’ offense toward another big season.
3. Matthew Dyer
The junior who can play so many different positions for the Wildcats is going to be another key component to the
team’s success this season. In the Wildcats’ first fall game against team USA, Dyer not only went 2-3 at the plate with a stolen base but also played three different positions on the field: center field, catcher and third base. “He is the best player on our team at every single position, with the exception of maybe shortstop, but if we put him at shortstop, I’d expect us to win the game,” Johnson said. “He is a great athlete and there can’t be a more complete player in the country relative to defensive versatility, and he’s a good offensive player.” Dyer’s versatility on the
field is going to be huge for Arizona this season, and that’s not even taking into account that he still hit for a .393 average with 46 runs scored, 10 doubles, 4 triples, 4 home runs and 28 RBIs last season.
4. Randy Abshier
After posting a dominant summer, Abshier was named by Johnson as the Arizona Summer Pitcher of the Year. Abshier pitched in 10 games with eight starts for the Mat-Su Miners of the Alaska Baseball League. He posted a 3-1 record with a 1.52 ERA, striking out 42 batters across 47.1 innings of work.
“He did have a great summer,” Johnson said. “I’m excited for some of the development I have seen out of him. As a matter of fact, going back to bullpens a few weeks back, and he was dominant against our offense last Saturday.” Abshier struggled with his command in the team’s opening fall game a couple weeks ago, and Johnson alluded to the fact that the pitching staff as a whole will be much better if Abshier is on top of his game.
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OPINIONS | GUEST COMMENTARY
Diversity and classics BY ARUM PARK
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arlier this year the Society for Classical Studies made headlines in higher education news for the blatant racism that was on display at its annual meeting. Among the documented incidents was a scholar of color being told that he “may have gotten” his very prestigious position because he is black. The incident was disturbing and upsetting to say the least, but when I learned of it a few hours later, my first reaction was, “That is not the first time he has heard that.” I could make that claim with near certainty, not because I know the scholar who was targeted (I don’t, though I would like to), but because this is an all too familiar experience for an academic of color. I would venture to say that any academic of color has heard some version of this — indeed, this is a defining experience for us, particularly those few of us who work in as white a field as classics. What it means to be a person of color in academia is to have our credentials questioned or undermined in some way at some point. It happens in our interactions with our peers and in our course evaluations. And sometimes — as was the case at the SCS meeting — in public spaces. Perhaps the age of social media and its potential for viral dissemination is ripe for public reflection and reckoning. Perhaps the internet provides people of color with unique and unprecedented opportunities to be seen and our experiences validated. Perhaps publicly documenting incidents like this one — as disturbing as it was — can provide impetus for real action and change. It is in this optimistic spirit that I embarked on a project I am conducting with the University of Arizona’s Center for Digital Humanities in partnership with Tech Core. I am hoping to leverage the power of digital humanities to vivify and amplify what people of color have always experienced as the diversity problem in classics. We began laying the groundwork for this project long before the 2019 SCS meeting, but what happened at the meeting gave the project renewed purpose. This fall, the first step of this project launched: I started disseminating a survey intended to gather and visualize demographic data on students and teachers of classics at the college and university level. My reasons for doing so were simple: Classics does not have adequate data in this regard, and the kind of data you collect reflects what you care about. Every three years the SCS keep a census of its member departments, asking them a number of questions about
their departments and programs, including questions concerning the demographic makeup of faculty and students. But the data produced by the census is lacunose; the response rate as a whole is nowhere near perfect and even less so for questions on racial demographics. Perhaps the undoubtedly overworked department chairs and administrative assistants tasked with completing and submitting the census do not have at the ready such data on their faculty or (more likely) their students; perhaps such questions are left blank out of a concern for privacy — a natural concern given how small our field is. But this kind of data really matters. In general, classicists are aware that the field has a diversity problem, but we do not have concrete numbers to substantiate our intuitions. Even when there is data, it is not presented in a way that illustrates the full extent of the problem. The team I am working with is keen to marshal the power of digital humanities to redress these problems. I put together a simple survey that focuses on race and other demographic markers specifically to remove the time burden of filling out a lengthy and unwieldy survey. The tech team developed an application to visualize the data from the survey in real time, to streamline the processes of data collection and data visualization by synchronizing them. The steps I am taking with this project might seem small and insignificant. Obviously, I do not hope to expunge racism just by conducting a survey, but through effective data collection and visualization, we can document systemic and structural racism in a way that catalyzes diversity efforts or reinforces those already underway. And why does diversity matter? As educators, we have an ethical obligation to provide educational access to anyone who wants it. What’s more, diversity in academia facilitates the production of new and often corrective knowledge; the kinds of questions we raise and the answers we discover are inextricably tied to our identities and experiences. By diversifying classics, we inevitably stand to gain new understanding about Mediterranean antiquity. It would be easy for classics and classicists to throw up our hands and say, “We can’t fix systemic problems that originate from and extend outside the field of classics.” Well, sure, systemic change is difficult. But it has to start somewhere. — Arum Park is an assistant professor for the Department of Religious Studies, & Classics
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Native SOAR looking toward future after incident with President Robbins BY VANESSA ONTIVEROS @nessamagnifique
Members of Native Students Outreach, Access and Resiliency, or SOAR, said that the group has forgiven President Dr. Robert C. Robbins for insensitive comments he made on Oct. 3 regarding taking DNA tests to check for Native American ancestry. However, just because there is forgiveness does not mean there is no expectation of further action. Instead, SOAR leadership said that Robbins and his administration have promised to take steps to better serve Indigenous students, as well as other marginalized groups on campus. The past On Oct. 3, the Native SOAR class gathered outside of Old Main. The students were writing letters to family members back home, according to Trinity Norris, one of the students present that day and member of the Tohono O’odham nation. The group was unexpectedly joined by Robbins. According to Amanda Cheromiah, the director of SOAR and a member of the Laguna Pueblo nation, the visit was not planned. A letter released by Voices of Indigenous Concerns in Education, or VOICE a group made up of students involved in Native SOAR described what Robbins told the students as a “failed attempt to connect and relate to the group.” According to the letter, he told the group he had taken a DNA test to see if he had Cherokee ancestry. The test came back negative, but Robbins told the students he would take another one and referenced his “very high cheekbones” as evidence he may have Indigenous ancestry, according to the letter. “It was just a little shocking and kind of disappointing coming from the president. That’s how I felt in the moment,” Norris said. “And then after, I just kind of was still processing it but realized he just said what he said.” In the days and weeks after the comments were made, Cheromiah and Felisia Tagaban, a graduate assistant for SOAR, who is Diné and Tlingit, attempted to contact Robbins in order to express to him the negative impact his comments had on the Indigenous community on campus. Tagaban said they did not hear back from his office until Oct. 14 to inform the pair that they could speak to Robbins at his office hours the next day. According to Tagaban, Robbins initially seemed sincerely eager to apologize to the SOAR students. However, when she and Cheromiah made multiple attempts to
schedule a time with the Executive Office of the President for Robbins to apologize in person, there was a “lack of follow through.” One month after the comments had been made, VOICE released a letter describing the comments and calling for accountability. SOAR also shared the letter on their social media pages. “The letter was the result, I would say, more of the aftermath, which was a perfect example of the systemic issues that we were trying to point out,” Tagaban said about the experience of Robbins initially showing interest in an apology, but not delivering. The present On Nov. 4, the day after the letter was released and publicized, Robbins released a statement to the media regarding the incident. “I want to extend my sincere apology for my comments made during a SOAR class in early October and their impact,” Robbins said in the statement. The next day, Robbins apologized in person to the SOAR students, as well as other members of the community in a conversation that took place in the Native American Student Affairs room in the Nugent building. Approximately 50 people gathered in the room that day, according to Cheromiah, as Robbins made what she found to be a sincere apology. After the apology, a conversation ensued. According to Tagaban, members of Robbins’ staff acknowledged that they had not initially understood the importance of the situation when trying to schedule an apology. SOAR has forgiven Robbins, Tagaban said. At the Nov. 5 meeting, which Cheromiah described as “a lot like a ceremony,” SOAR gifted Robbins a necklace as a way to show that the apology was accepted. They also gave him a printed copy of the letter from VOICE. “And I just kind of folded it to where the solutions were at, and I was like, ‘As you look at this, this is what we are focused on next,’” Cheromiah said. The future Now, SOAR is looking toward the future. According to Tagaban and Cheromiah, Robbins and his team made many informal commitments during the Nov. 5 meeting. “There’s always the grace. You forgive and you wait for the change in behavior, attitude, belief, you wait for that,” Tagaban said. “So we’re moving forward. That’s the expectation because, again, that’s the right thing to do.” Near the top of the list was the desire to institutionalize Native SOAR and make it an official class. This is something the SOAR
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STUDENT LEADERS FROM NATIVE SOAR gifted President Dr. Robert C. Robbins a necklace as a way to show that his apology was accepted. The leaders said they are now looking forward to working with Robbins in the future.
leadership have been working toward for a long time. Currently the program operates out of the College of Education. Robbins also said he is committed to developing a better understanding of Indigenous culture and has been communicating with tribal communities, according to Cheromiah. Norris said the Oct. 3 incident potentially could have been avoided had Robbins been better educated about Indigenous issues. Norris, Tagaban and Cheromiah all agreed that non-Native allies must be willing to educate themselves in order to actually work with the native community. “For me, I think, just learning about the communities first before they take action on anything else,” Norris said of non-Native allies, “because in most cases it doesn’t end well because they’re not educated on who we are.” Tagaban and Cheromiah also said, beyond personal changes, they are looking for
structural changes within the university’s power structure. That includes potentially creating positions within the Senior Leadership Team dedicated to understanding and responding to the needs of diverse, marginalized groups on campus. Though nothing was formalized in writing, Tagaban said she is hopeful that these commitments will lead to actual change. “We want the institution to stop espousing values that it’s not living up to,” Tagaban said. “Don’t exploit our connection to this institution by putting up pictures to show diversity and inclusion and care if you’re not going to uphold those words. Otherwise those are empty words. And, unfortunately, as Mandy [Cheromiah] has referenced, we as communities, as nations, are very familiar with empty words and empty promises.” In regards to the meeting and his future with SOAR, Robbins said in an email, “Meeting went well, apology accepted and looking forward to working together on mutual goals.”
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NEWS | STUDENT ASSISTANCE
The dean of students: More than Code of Conduct infractions BY TOMMIE LORENE @tommielorene
The Dean of Students Office might best be associated with handeling Code of Conduct infractions, but there is a lot more to this office than some students realize. Kendal Washington White, vice provost for campus life and dean of students, explained what the dean of students’ role is on campus and some recent challenges. The Dean of Students Office is in charge of student assistance, senior and provost awards and the code and policy department. Washington White described the office as helping students at their “lowest lows to their highest highs.” According to the dean of students website, “Student Assistance serves as a central support resource for all students.” The office assists students and their families to manage crises, life traumas DANI CROPPER | THE DAILY WILDCAT and other issues that could affect a ACCORDING TO THE DEAN of Students website, “the core values of the University of Arizona are Integrity, Exploration, Inclusion, Adaptation, Determination and student’s success. Compassion.” The Dean of Students Office acts as a resource to assist students and their families with issues that affect student sucess. “If you don’t know who to call, always start with the Dean of Students Office,” “We should all remember that is, but they deal with appeals to Code of Washington White said. A staff member most social changes and activism Conduct violations,” said Nathan Toy, a is available on most days during walk-in that has happened that’s advanced physiology student. hours and the office is for students as well our country is because of protests Brooklyn Richards, an environmental as parents. and demonstrations,” she said. studies and political science student, said The office is sometimes used as a go“There are people on this campus she doesn’t know a lot about the dean between when there are student and who get pissed off when students of students other than that they are a faculty disagreements, especially when protest. I can’t believe they work resource for students and offer tools for free speech issues arise. Washington here. What is wrong with you?” academic success. She said she doesn’t White explained that sometimes faculty needs extra training in classroom management and other times students need to understand how their behavior is affecting everyone around them. The University of Arizona Police Department and the Dean of Students Office work together on many issues ranging from student diversion programs to pandemic outbreak readiness. UAPD Chief Brian Seastone explained that he meets with Washington White on a weekly basis to discuss issues. “Kendal Washington White and I have a Recently, the Dean of Students close personal relationship,” Seastone said. know what that looks like other than it Office posted their core values, being their mission statement. Decisions made are a collaboration and Washington White said her The First Amendment and the rights with his department and the Dean of COURTESY KENDAL WASHINGTON WHITE favorite one is compassion. She of protesters have been a big issue since Students Office, and the best outcome for KENDAL WASHINGTON WHITE IS the dean of students. said her hope is that students, the Arizona 3 incident last spring and the university will be the consensus. The Dean of Students Office is committed to supporting faculty and staff try to treat each continued into this semester. Washington Many students aren’t sure what exactly students when emergencies happen and to treat students other with more compassion and White said her office thinks student the dean of students’ role on campus is with dignity. ask questions before making quick activism is key to students’ lives and other than for Code of Conduct violations. judgments. the betterment of the world and the “I’m not sure who the dean of students university.
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OPINION | DEVELOPMENT
Limiting high-rise housing could have positive impact on greater Tucson BY NATHAN GOSNELL @DailyWildcat
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estricting high-rise development to the university area can, for the time being, protect the rest of Tucson’s housing. The Main Gate district is increasingly dotted with towering monoliths that impose themselves into the landscape as constant reminders of Tucson’s future and the gentrifying influences at play. They also offer a possibility for housing development in Tucson, despite their current reality presenting a grim future. This has led to the question: Should high-rises expand out to the rest of the city or stay sectioned off? For the vast majority of Tucson, vertical building or density hasn’t been the case
for the most part. Recent developments, primarily centered on students, have slowly rippled out but stayed centered around the main downtown area, already featuring taller buildings. A dense urban landscape has never been part of Tucson, with only minimal development downtown that still matches or barely exceeds the current height of Main Gate’s student housing. The partitioning of student housing away from the vast majority of the city is a possible way to restrict mass changes to Tucson’s urban form, but vertical development has increasingly recognized benefits, and in a city plagued by urban sprawl, density can relieve some of the pressure it causes. Instead, the current benefits are seen only by a privileged few and downtown living is restricted to a minority of homeowners and renters. Thoughtful development can turn the tides in favor of an equitable urban environment. High-rises can allow for more access to housing in an increasingly
course of other major cities. As Aspire 2 begins construction directly next to the first Aspire, the question of whether or not highrises will stick to one area is one of urgency. Maintaining the relative affordability of Tucson living costs and promoting community developments should take precedent, and there is no reason they can’t coexist with high-rise construction if proper restrictions are put in place. So, for now, the relatively minimal development sectioned off to the Main Gate area at least can be used as a means for denying the rippling out of highrise construction into the peripheries of downtown and greater Tucson, where rising housing prices can create even greater risks of precarity for residents ill-equipped for the changes.
expensive downtown area and provide the much-needed space, not only for students, but locals as well. Limiting development only to a small area outside the university prevents larger trends throughout the city. Still, worry is necessary, as developments often aren’t built with the equity in mind, a case immediately obvious in the high prices for student housing and the lack of affordable housing provisions allotted in downtown construction projects. The argument for giving up space to development is one often used by those claiming resistance to gentrification exacerbates the problem. If development were to occur, then land previously occupied by small residences with high land and rent prices could be converted to denser housing and subsequently lower prices. In a city that’s most recent high-rises feel distant from the rest of the city, this scenario is hard to believe. Without rent control or proper measures put in place to maintain thoughtful development, Tucson is likely to run the
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SPORTS | ON-TRACK MENTALITY
A day in the life of track star Maj Williams BY JOHNNIE MITCHELL @johnniemitchh
The Navy Seals like to say, “The only easy day was yesterday,” and so does University of Arizona’s star track athlete Maj Williams as he commits himself to the pursuit of excellence and a spot in the 2020 Olympics. Williams is the top 400-meter runner at the UA. He represented the U.S. at the World U20 Championships in 2018, and even while battling an injury all of outdoor season in 2019, he was still able to show off in the NCAAs. He’s a Pac-12 champion in the 4x400 and never fails to make a personal record each season. The average day for Williams starts with facing his alarm clock at the crack of dawn for a lift. He grinds in the weight room to ensure he’s able to pull away from the pack. Next stop is tutoring and classes. From there, it’s back on the track, where he is running a punishing regimen of repeat 600-meter sprints that are followed by 200s. Aside from earning the right to take four-hour naps or engaging in extensive video game battles, it’s easy to wonder what the rewards are and what pushes Williams to put in so much effort day in and day out. “For me, it’s always remembering why I run,” Williams said. “There’s a lot of people I run for. My dad used to run, and a lot of my friends can’t run now and have graduated without getting to accomplish what they wanted to do, so I use the lessons they have taught me through track, being a teammate and being a brother.” One of the biggest lessons Williams has learned as an athlete is that “it’s never going to be easy to be great.” Williams isn’t the kind of person that believes in limits, which is why his drive to work hard and push himself is so strong. He sees the human body as a complex machine whose full potential is yet to be unlocked. It is really the mental barriers that tend to get in the way rather than the physical. Williams said he knows that if he puts in the work, his body is going to carry him there, but it’s about having the mentality to do that, and track is certainly the sport to test it. “This just isn’t the sport for people with normal mentalities,” Williams said. “Track is one of the hardest mental sports I have ever taken part in, and I have played basketball and football, but I think mentally this is the hardest. It’s not easy telling your body to sprint an entire lap, especially against seven other people.” To go against this mental barrier, Williams’ goal is to go into ultra-instinct, where thoughts are second to instinct. This ability is gained through practice, through knowing what your body can and will do. “You let your body take over for the time being without being slowed down by thought,” he added. Williams’ hard work to put himself in control of his mental and physical states is one of the reasons he has become a leader on this team. He shows the newbies that “the culture here is hard work.”
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ARIZONA SPRINTER MAJ WILLIAMS runs down the track during a seasonal meet held at the Roy P. Drachman Track and Field Stadium.
Freshman and sophomore year, Williams showed his leadership by example: going to practice, staying in, working hard in school and committing to push his body. As a junior now, Williams has started to be more of a vocal leader in workouts because he wants the freshmen to know what hard work can do for them. This is not to say that working hard doesn’t come with having some fun. Some of Williams’ favorite memories come from pushing his fitness on the track. Arizona’s former runner David Egbo used to battle out the last reps with Williams. Williams and Egbo would call it “their ultimate battle,” which, as Williams would be upset if you didn’t know, is a reference to the anime “Dragonball.” Williams would be Jiren and Egbo would be Goku. Like Williams and Egbo, Jiren and Goku like to test each other’s limits to see how far they can push themselves. So if the workout was 12 150-meter sprints, Williams and Egbo are going all out in that last 150 as their last fight for the day. For them, anime is their secret to getting hyped up for workouts and meets. Williams said he uses the lessons his friends have taught him through track, so if Egbo is Goku, then the lesson “I could go one step further if I wanted to” is surely embedded in the back of Williams’ mind. Williams’ determination to work hard is the key factor to what allows him to accomplish his goals. He started college running a 400 in the 47s and, because of his grind, his goals this year are consistently low 44-second 400s to qualify him for the Olympic trials, a 100 at 10.2 seconds and better starts for the first 40 meters and a 20.2 second 200. In addition, Williams’ determination to lead is going to be the key factor to the team’s relay goals of
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ARIZONA SPRINTER, UMAJESTY WILLIAMS, answers some questions for Daily Wildcat sports reporter, Rob Kleifield, on Feb. 20 at Mckale Memorial Center.
the 4x100: redeeming themselves back at nationals this year and making it to the finals in nationals and hitting that three-minute mark. To Williams, the workouts of track are about learning to manage time, learning to manage your body and learning to manage your health. It teaches him and his teammates how to be accountable and focus on getting better as a person and athlete every day, especially since the only easy day was yesterday.
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ARTS & LIFE | LOCAL BUSINESS
The ins and odds of Tucson Oddities Market BY HANNAH CREE @hannahcreenews
Tucson residents, get ready for a market of all things macabre and strange. The first oddities market of its kind is coming to Tucson on Nov. 15-17. Sponsored by When + Where Co. Market Space, the Tucson Oddities Market will feature vendors selling unusual items with a bit of art, natural science and history. According to Bridgett and Bryan Scofield, owners of When + Where Co., a true oddities market has only been featured in California and has yet to be seen in Arizona. “I sell a lot of weird stuff and I’m out of place at a lot of events and markets,” Bridgett Scofield said. “So I just figured there’s got to be more vendors like us out there.” The Scofields reported the interest in oddities in Tucson was much larger than they expected, with nearly 15,000 people responding to the event on social media and a total estimate of 200,000 interactions with the post.
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laying in my piercing room,” Parson said. “I took some whiteout and a Sharpie to it and made a little skeleton-type doll out of it.” His business took off after posting a picture of the doll to Facebook. The reason, Parsons said, is the natural fascination with the absurd. “People like to be scared and get freaked out,” Parsons said. Graham Criglow, owner of White Raven Trading Co. and Museum of the Strange in Tombstone, Ariz., is one of these vendors bringing their out-of-the-box merchandise to Tucson. “I’ve been collecting my whole life ... I’ve always had kind of a passion for the strange and unusual,” Criglow said. “We will be bringing up our two shrunken heads, some mummified heads, a couple of human skulls and just all of our regular rocks and fossils and oddities with us [to the market].” Across the board, people said that the fascination with the strange and unusual has been with them from a young age. “It starts when you’re young,” Bridgett Scofield said. “The ones who are poking
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“We didn’t realize how big of a need there was for it until we posted the event and it took off,” Bryan Scofield said. The Tucson Oddities Market will be hosting 40 vendors from all over Arizona and beyond, further proving the oddity obsession is not just a Tucson thing. “A lot of them are from Tucson, but then we have some from Tombstone ... Bisbee, Idaho and Douglas,” Bridgett Scofield said. Don Parsons, artist and owner of RecyKulled Doll Parts, will be one of the vendors featured at the Tucson Oddities Market. “My creations aren’t for everybody,” Parsons said. He said that his products usually stand out at conventional markets that sell your typical “grandma sweaters, plants or football jerseys.” Parsons’ business is exactly like the name suggests. He starts with dolls and figurines he finds at thrift stores and other secondhand entities and transforms them into unsettling artwork. Parsons’ career in the recycled doll business happened by accident on a slow day at his tattoo shop. “I was bored and there was a little doll
stuff with sticks, those turn out to be the creepiest collectors later on.” Not only will there be creepy collections, the Tucson Oddities Market will also have vendors performing tarot and astrology readings, as well as food trucks. For vendors like Criglow and the Scofields, their businesses have taught them valuable lessons about finding a community and proved that everyone has a weird side. “It spans all the different demographics,” Criglow said. “I mean, we have everybody from, you know, young kids to grandmothers that come in, that they buy stuff and enjoy it.” Bryan Scofield said he finds the Tucson community to be particularly supportive of the strange and unusual. “Biggest thing I’ve learned is that Tucson is really weird,” Bryan Scofield said. “They do want this kind of stuff.” The event will be located at 4441 E. Speedway Blvd. from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15, Saturday, Nov. 16, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 17.
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ARTS & LIFE | AROUND THE CORNER
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A GROUP OF CUSTOMERS look at the menu while munching on chips and salsa. This Tucson eatery, located on North Campbell Avenue, specializes in authentic Salvadorian cuisine.
New restaurant brings El Salvador to Tucson BY JAMIE DONNELLY @JamieRisa11
Bright blue chairs fill the restaurant and various pictures that depict villages cover the walls. An El Salvador flag proudly hangs on the wall with smaller versions found on every table. Greeted by the owner Luis Gonzalez, you could order a dish Leonardo DiCaprio claimed is better than tacos. Starting out as a food truck that only attended local farmers markets and festivals, Selena’s Salvadorian has moved its business into a brick and mortar restaurant that gives Tucson a taste of El Salvador. “I moved from California back in ’94 and we started doing big events like the Casino Del Sol Tamal [& Heritage] Festival,” Luis Gonzalez said. “People said, ‘Hey, this is a good window to show your food and everything,’ so we did events like farmers markets as an opportunity to sell our food before I opened the restaurant. I did that for about four years.” Two months ago, Luis Gonzalez decided to upgrade the truck to an actual building, saying they were inspired to make the change after people encouraged them to move to a restaurant. “People were asking about it,” Luis Gonzalez said. “They would say, ‘This food is really great, where is the restaurant?’ and we’re like, ‘This is it.’ I think that motivated us to pursue bigger things.” Selena’s Salvadorian gives the Tucson community the opportunity to branch
out from regular Mexican restaurants in town. According to Luis Gonzalez, Selena’s Salvadorian is one of the only formal restaurants in Tucson that serves Salvadorian food. He said most people just stick to food trucks or selling it out of their homes. “This is our second month and we’re getting a really good response from people,” Luis Gonzalez said. “It’s a good chance for everyone to try something different than just Mexican, Chinese and all the other food that’s been in Tucson for years now.” The most popular item on the menu are pupusas. Differing from tacos, pupusas can be vegan or include pork. “Pupusas are pretty much masa [corn mix] and what we do is stuff it with carnitas, beans, cheese and veggies,” Gonzalez said. “We make a snowball, turn it into a tortilla shape and then it goes on the grill.” Andi Berlin, a digital food reporter for This is Tucson, said that pupusas are the thing to get there. “Pupusas are the thing you want to eat there,” Berlin said. “It’s kind of hip right now because Leonardo DiCaprio said he liked pupusas better than tacos. They are really delicious.” Along with pupusas, Selena’s Salvadorian offers a wide variety of vegan and vegetarian options. Sandra Gonzalez, a chef at Selena’s Salvadorian, said the vegan pupusas often surprise customers. “One day I didn’t have enough chicharron for this customer’s pupusas, so I told him I could make him a veggie one,” Sandra Gonzalez said. “He said he didn’t like veggies but he still ordered one. Half an hour later
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SELENA’S SALVADORIAN IS LOCATED on North Campbell Avenue. Their menu offers a vairety of Salvadorian dishes, including pupusas and pozoles.
he called me and said, ‘Oh my god, this is incredible.’” As for being better than a taco, Luis Gonzalez said that some people do prefer pupusas once they find out about them. “It’s a different taste,” Luis Gonzales said. “The majority of the people here are Mexican, especially since we’re close to the border. So a lot of people know a lot about Mexican food, but not everyone knows what a pupusa is. I think that when they discover it, they start thinking, ‘Hmm, this might be better than a taco.’” According to Berlin, Selena’s Salvadorian’s food offers a good balance of tanginess, saltiness and richness, and he recommends
people check it out. “I definitely suggest going there, because it’s different than anything you can get around here,” Berlin said. “It’s really exciting that Tucson has a Salvadorian restaurant, because it makes us more of an international cuisine. It’s a very down-home kind of place. It gives you a feeling that you’re somewhere else.” Luis Gonzalez encourages people to come and give the restaurant a try because it allows them to step out of their comfort zone and experience something new. “It’s something different,” Luis Gonzalez said. “Just give it a shot, it’s really delicious. I highly recommend it, not just because it’s my food.”
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ARTS & LIFE | SCIENTIFIC ART
‘Art of Planetary Science’ paints the universe BY ISABELLA BARRON @bellambarron
The wonders of the universe can be hidden from us, but with the help of scientists and artists alike, we can see worlds outside of our own reality. On the weekend of Nov. 15-17, the University of Arizona’s Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, or LPL, is presenting the sixth annual “Art of Planetary Science” art exhibition, which aims to celebrate the “beauty and elegance” of the universe beyond our reach. “Art of Planetary Science” began in 2013 with UA graduate students from the LPL. Succeeding graduate students have continued to volunteer to keep it running. Jamie Molaro, a UA alumna, is the original founder of the event. “We started this show as a way of trying to share something deeper and more fundamental about science with the community,” Molaro said. “Not just the facts of it all, but how those facts reveal the beauty of the universe and the wonder that comes with exploring it.”
Molaro expressed her excitement in seeing the exhibit continue for another year, saying that she was happy to see the scientists behind it and how they “help to spread the value of this kind of event,” as well as seeing how the “community continues to respond with more incredible art.” The lead organizer of this year’s event is Allison McGraw, a secondyear graduate student who is currently studying asteroids and meteorites. After submitting art as an undergraduate student, she has gotten to watch the event grow over the years, McGraw said. She hopes to engage with the public and show them the data collected at the LPL. “It’s not all just numbers. There’s a visual component to the science,” McGraw said. “It’s an outlet for us to take those complicated ideas and show off the jargon and equations in a digestible format.” The exhibit will feature both data art and fine art. Data art, according to McGraw, is art based on scientific data from a scientist’s
work. Fine art is made by anyone who is inspired by planetary science. “We allow any art, of any medium, from any artist, of any level,” McGraw said. Although submissions are closed for this year, all are welcome to submit artwork for next year’s show. The window for submissions is March through August. According to McGraw, this year’s event organizers have received about 250 submissions from about 110 international artists. Over the past few years, prolific scientist William Hartmann has been a consistent artist at this event. According to UANews, Hartmann was one of the earliest UA graduate students under LPL founder Gerard Kuiper, co-founder of the Planetary Science Institute and best known as one of the first to propose that the moon was the result of Earth’s collision with another planetary body. Hartmann said that his paintings are inspired by the visualization of “what it would be like for a human being to visit and experience various planetary bodies.” “The ‘Art of Planetary Science’ gives
me and other artists and scientists a chance to explore the interface between visceral human experience and our discoveries about the universe around us,” Hartmann said. The exhibition will also feature a performance by local band Galactic Cactus, a telescope viewing and a special exhibit called “Arizona Asteroid Art” in partnership with Arizona State University, exhibiting artwork inspired by UA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and ASU’s Psyche mission. Opening night is Friday, Nov. 15, from 5-9 p.m. at the Kuiper Space Sciences building. The event will continue through the weekend on Nov. 16 and 17 from 1-5 p.m. Admission to the event is free. Stop by the event and experience “the wonders and diversity of planetary science, which in itself shows the breadth of the UA science,” McGraw said. For more information, check out LPL’s website at www.lpl.arizona.edu/art.
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ARTS & LIFE | BORDER ART EXHIBITION
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: A sculpture on display at “Arte de la Frontera” at Studio ONE: A Space for Art and Activism in Downtown Tucson. | Performance art by Gabriela Galup at the opening for “Arte de la Frontera” exhibit. | A sculpture by Lazslo Kantor featured at “Arte de la Frontera” on Nov. 8.
‘Arte de la Frontera’ unites both sides of Nogales BY SUNDAY HOLLAND @sunday_holland
Bridging the gap between separated sister cities that share one culture, “Arte de la Frontera” held its reception at Studio ONE: A Space for Art and Activism on Friday, Nov. 8. Over 20 artists from both sides of the Nogales border participated in the exhibition under the Ambos Nogales Border Art Project, or ANBAP, to bring to light the events surrounding the U.S. and Mexico border. Arturo Suarez, a general contractor from Tucson, said it was his first time ever attending an art show. “I like things that have to do with culture, and this is my Hispanic culture, so I’m excited about it,” Suarez said. “[The show] gives you a deeper look into the way we live our lives. It is amazing, you wouldn’t want to miss it.” Suarez is a friend of Paco Velez, the owner of Studio ONE. Velez created Studio ONE a decade ago as a creative space for the community in support of grassroots movements and local artists. “Arte de la Frontera” is composed of
photographs, sculptures, paintings, poems and more, giving it a well-rounded window into the subject through the minds of many artists. The walls are covered from floor to ceiling with artwork of all different sizes, shapes and styles. Louisa Wise, visiting from Melbourne, Australia, played her fiddle during the reception. An award-winning fiddler, she has played for 60 years and is a former performer with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. “This show is building a sense of community,” Wise said. “It is unique and something that you are not going to see anywhere else.” Before Wise performed, there was a welcoming ceremony and a borderinspired puppet performance. As the puppeteer performed, gallery visitors poured into the space until there was standing room only. Stefan Falke, a New York-based artist from Germany, also had photographs in the show from his project “LA FRONTERA: Artists along the U.S.-Mexican Border.” He has photographed over 200 artists living and working on both sides of the wall.
“I wanted to show a different, positive image of the border,” Falke said in an email, “one of lively culture and opportunities that most border and binational regions have in common.” Born in Hermosillo, Mexico, Alejandra Platt-Torres had been taking photos since she was 6 years old, but she has been fully committed to being an artist since 1991. Her photography is featured in “Arte de la Frontera.” “The role of the artist is to show people what is happening now,” Torres said. “To display the beauty and the horrors of the places we live and the borders we cross, the inner workings of our cultural language.” Torres became a member of the ANBAP after meeting its founder, Ricardo Santos Hernández, at one of his Tucson exhibits. Hernández started the project in honor of both, or “ambos,” Nogales in Sonora, Mexico, and the one in Arizona. His goal was to bridge the gap between the two cities using art. He said that “Arte de la Frontera” does just that. Hernández wrote in an email, “Visitors and guests to the exhibition can view
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A FOUND OBJECT ASSEMBLAGE by Faith Posey at “Arte de la Frontera” at Studio ONE in Downtown Tucson. The show was put on by the Ambos Nogales Border Art Project.
artwork of a distinct voice that echoes the heartbeat of the borderlands with a twist of resistance and artistic innovation.” The show will be open to the public for free until Dec. 7.
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Paintball is only fun if every player has a fair shot, but shooting paintballs at two students on Tuesday night is less fun and games and more assault. Two University of Arizona students called the police after being hit with paintballs in the Tyndall Avenue Garage on Oct. 29. When a University of Arizona Police Department officer arrived at around 12:30 a.m., he spoke with the students who relayed the following tale. The pair were walking out of the garage when a darkcolored car, either black or gray, drove by them. The person sitting in the seat behind the driver shot several paintballs at them, hitting the two students. The car then drove off, heading toward Park Avenue. According to the students, the car was full, with at least four people inside. None of the passengers inside the vehicle said or shouted anything while the paintballs were being shot and the sniper’s window was only rolled down about one third of the way. Neither student could describe the people inside the car. One of the students said he was hit on his forehead and on his left cheek below his eye. The officer noted yellow paint residue left over on the student’s cheek, as well as bits of green and yellow paint on his left eyebrow. The second student said he had been stuck on his right arm and left thigh. The officer found bright yellow paint on the second student’s right sleeve and pant leg. He also noticed that part of the second student’s right forearm was red and swollen. Neither student wanted medical attention, according to the
A UA student who came to the UAPD station to report her encounter with an Uber driver ended up being the one who had to deal with disciplinary measures. Ironically, the student and her friend took a different Uber to get to the station on Nov. 1. When an officer came to speak to the student at around 1 a.m., he reported that the second Uber driver, the one who had driven the women to the station, attempted to explain the situation. The officer asked if she was the driver in question, and when she said she was not, the officer told her that he only wanted to speak to the two women, as they were the ones with a complaint. The officer and the two women came into the station to give their statements. While exiting the vehicle, one student said that her right middle finger had been smashed in a car door earlier that night. She did not want medical attention, however. When the officer asked for identification, the student opened her wallet and the officer noticed what looked like a driver’s license at the top. He moved his flashlight to see it better, but the student turned her back to him and moved her cards around. The officer walked to face her and noticed she had removed the license from her wallet and was trying to hide it. The student handed him a different license and feigned ignorance when the officer asked about the other license. He took the other license from under her wallet where she had been trying to hide it. According to that license, the student was over 21 years of age, which conflicted with the license she had originally handed him. After the identification mishap, the officer took the student’s statement. She said that earlier that night, she and
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A UAPD officer went on a scavenger hunt for several items that surely have an interesting — and possibly disturbing — story behind them. Police received a call about suspicious items possibly located in the Olive Tunnel under Speedway Boulevard on Oct. 28. An officer checked the area but did not find anything. The officer then inspected the Warren Avenue Tunnel and found the items, which included a woman’s tank top with blood on it, a silver platter that also had blood on it, a picture of a woman, two high heeled shoes, two more shoes, a makeup tool and a photo memorial card. According to the officer’s reporter, the blood on the shirt and platter was minimal and appeared dried and like it had been on the items for a while. He asked a man in the surrounding area if he had seen the items or knew they were there, but the man said he had not. A second officer later found similarly strange items in the same tunnel, including a red backpack with VHS tapes inside. The backpack also appeared to have some dried blood on it. All of the items were entered into the station’s Found Property.