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IN THIS EDITION | VOLUME 113, ISSUE 14 Arts & Life

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America is obsessed with race and it’s not a bad thing

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Can’t go home for Thanksgiving?

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Arts & Life Wings & Rice offers a variety of cultural cuisine

Sports Duel in the Desert will not disappoint fans

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Top four takeaways from the ABOR meeting

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Hang with dogs if you’re homesick for your own

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SPORTS | TERRITORIAL CUP 2019

Expect the unexpected at this year’s Duel in the Desert

BY JACK COOPER @jackwcooper23

With Thanksgiving this week, it’s time to hang out with family, eat turkey and think about what you’re grateful for. It also means it’s time for rivalry week in college football and there may not be one more intense than the Duel in the Desert.

The Duel in the Desert is a football series between Arizona and ASU that dates back to 1899 — before Arizona was even a state. The winner of the game gets the Territorial Cup and bragging rights for the year until the two teams play again.

It’s one of the most intense rivalries in all of college sports, with fans on both sides having nothing but hate for the other. According to a study by The New York Times, it ranks as one of the top in the country. Before the game last year, police had to be on the field during warmups because the two teams kept getting face-to-face and neither would back down.

“It’s the biggest game of the year. It’s our bowl game,” linebacker Tony Fields said.

After last year, there was a bitter taste left in the mouths of Wildcat fans and players. The Wildcats were in complete control for three quarters and took a 19-point lead to the fourth.

And that’s when everything fell apart.

The Sun Devils scored four times in the final quarter and had a one-point lead with three minutes left. Khalil Tate put Arizona into field goal range with 17 seconds left. But senior Josh

Pollack pushed the field goal and ASU was able to escape the Wildcats with a one-point win.

“Winning? That would be the better experience,” Head Coach Kevin Sumlin said.

“We try to win every game and what that looks like is different every week. But certainly a rivalry game … And as I said after the [Utah] game, for our seniors, we would like to leave them with a good taste in their mouth for their last football game.”

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Khalil Tate has never beaten ASU and neither has J.J. Taylor. A win against their most hated rivals could fix what has been a disappointing last two years in terms of how people were projecting the Wildcats to finish.

Even just last year, college football experts were expecting Arizona to make it to their first ever Rose Bowl, and yet, they finished the season without going to a bowl game.

In 2017, Arizona had a 10-point lead

It starts in the parking lot with the fans.”

— KEVIN SUMLIN, HEAD COACH

Sumlin, who is now getting ready for his second Territorial Cup, also understands the point of view of the rivalry from a fan’s perspective.

“It starts in the parking lot with the fans,” Sumlin said. “There’s a lot of people who really care. There was a little skirmish before the game last year. I have a great appreciation for this rivalry.”

While some of the seniors were on the team back in 2016 when Arizona beat ASU, most of the players now haven’t gotten the chance to see what that feels like.

at halftime and were in control. But right before half, Tate threw a Hail Mary that fell incomplete, was hit on the play and was out for the rest of the game. That meant that Brandon Dawkins had to come in for his first game action in weeks. The second half was a complete 180-degree flip from the first half, and ASU went on to win 42-30.

The 2016 game was one for the record books. If you don’t know, Arizona blew out ASU 56-35 without attempting a pass in the second half and only having three completions for the whole game. This game was all about

bragging rights for Arizona as they were 2-9 on the year and weren’t playing well.

ASU, on the other hand, was one win away from a bowl game when disaster struck for them. It was the first time they had ever allowed over 500 rushing yards in a single game. While Arizona only finished 3-9 on the year, many felt it was still worth it considering they beat ASU. In rivalry games, it comes down to which team can control their emotions best and which team has the least mistakes. That could be a problem for Arizona, since they have lost control of their emotions at times.

In their last game against Utah, very early in the first quarter when the score was still tied, Colin Schooler sacked Tyler Huntley to force a fourth down and Utah punt, but Tony Fields got called for an unsportsmanlike penalty and an automatic first down for Utah. The Utes went right down the field and scored, but if that didn’t happen and Arizona got the ball back, then who knows what could have happened.

Every year, there seems to be something unexpected that happens in this game that fans hold on to forever. Whether it’s not attempting a pass in the second half and winning, the best player on the field getting hurt on a Hail Mary or coming back from 19 down in the final quarter and a senior missing a field goal on senior day, always expect the unexpected this year and every year in the Duel in the Desert.

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OPINIONS | RACE OBSESSION

Is America obsessed with race?

BY RHAYA TRUMAN @mygrhaya

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ecently I watched a video on YouTube from the channel Jubilee, and the title was, “Are Americans Obsessed with Race and Gender?”

First of all, props to the creator of that title because it truly does catch the eye. Second, I believe it is an essential question to ask because of the new social advances in our society and poses the question: Are we taking it too far?

When I first read the title of the video, my first reaction was, “Of course not!”, because of the negative connotation the word “obsessed” usually possesses. But as I began to think about it, the more I came to the conclusion that maybe we kind of are. Not just America but the whole world, society if you will. But to me, that isn’t a bad thing.

As the lines between politics and human rights begin to get blurred, the term identity politics is coming to light. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, identity politics can be defined as “politics in which groups of people having a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social, or cultural identity tend to promote their own specific interests or concerns without regard to the interests or concerns of any larger political group.”

In short, this is politics where people remove themselves from the greater whole because of a certain trait they have, like being black or a woman, and fight for those rights politically.

A lot of people see #BlackLivesMatter and the #MeToo movement as political campaigns, and those can be described as movements underneath identity politics.

These campaigns get huge amounts of backlash because of the alleged separation it creates between two groups of people. In the case of Black Lives Matter, it is black versus white, and in #MeToo, it is wrongfully deemed female versus male. In the eyes of people who disagree with these movements, they usually have a “see no color” mentality, where they believe if we just ignore the problems and see each other as equals, we are suddenly equal.

I haven’t been on this earth for a long time, but I can tell you from experience and history that ignoring these issues is the best way to keep them alive. When speaking about equality, civil rights activists do not aim

to advocate for switching gears and suddenly believing that color, religion, sex and sexual orientation do not exist. It is about understanding how, despite someone’s physical differences and experiences, they are no more or less human than you.

I believe identity politics is about separating yourself from the greater whole so that people can begin to empathize with your experiences and respect them. No white man could ever understand what a black man goes through in society, but that is not the point. The point is to educate yourself and be willing to recognize social status and how that affects your privilege. Political campaigns are important to give voices to people who are silenced otherwise, and trying to silence these movements puts a barrier between equality and ignorance.

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Something a lot of people have against separating each other based on our identities is the idea that, most of the time, this results in anger and hatred. I would say that in general, the makers of Black Lives Matter are not angry at white people — they are angry nobody is listening.

Black Lives Matter began because of police brutality. It began out of the hatred the system has for black people, so instead of staying silent, a movement was created.

Regularly, Black Lives Matter is coined as being a group of angry black people who are upset that they are marginalized, misunderstood and have high amounts of self-loathing. Truly, Black Lives Matter is filled with black bodies who are rightfully tired of the biased justice system, brutality and generations of hatred, so I would say they have every right to be up in arms. And no, not to remain silent.

Race and identity are two things that are never going to go away. There will always be harmful stereotypes, microaggressions and injustices we will have to deal with. I believe the obsession with race today should not come from trying to get rid of identity, but from trying to understand why identity has grown to become a huge wall that stops compassion and empathy within the human race. The goal should be trying to eliminate that wall. Race isn’t the problem, how we treat it is.

So, back to the question the video I found at 3 a.m. on YouTube posed: “Is America obsessed with race?” I would say yes, but for all the right reasons.

When topics like race, gender and sexuality get overlooked, more and more people get dehumanized. But as soon as people come forward to learn about these topics, more and more people get labeled human again. We should not be obsessed with our cultural differences, but we should be obsessed with minimizing how they affect our rights in this country.

One thing we can all agree on is that we are all human and that is the one identity we have in common. We are all different shapes, sizes, colors, heights, sexualities, religions and more, but those have nothing to do with what we can bring to the world, what we can achieve and what we can change. This world is filled with a lot of hatred, but love — love simply between human and human — can get out of the hole of inequality we have dug ourselves into for generations, decades and centuries.

— Rhaya Truman is a freshman double majoring in communications and gender and women’s studies

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ARTS & LIFE | POTLUCK

AACC opens doors to students far from home

BY DIANA RAMOS @diana_sacaria

The black community of the University of Arizona came together last week to bring a little more light and a little more food to students for Thanksgiving weekend.

On Friday, Nov. 22, the African American Community Council, or AACC, held a potluck in partnership with Team Keeping the Culture Alive, offering students the opportunity to get to know their community.

“It is an event for those students who don’t have the money to buy food or are not able to go home,” said Ray Ray Lambeth, an administrative assistant for African American Student Affairs, or AASA. And to those students without a place to go for Thanksgiving Day, some community members even offered their homes to students for the holiday.

The event was aptly called the Home Away from Home Potluck.

“It’s great. Those who are going home can spend time with those who are staying,” said Annalise Cooper, an AASA member who attended the potluck. “It is like a big Thanksgiving.”

The Home Away from Home event took place in the Martin Luther King Jr. building on Friday evening, where more than 80 students gathered to celebrate with a warm, home-cooked meal brought by the community.

“The Home Away from Home event is a chance to connect our UA African American students with their Black community here in Tucson,” Beah Williams, the coordinator of this event, said in an email. “No matter where they are from, they have a Black community right here in Tucson that will support and uplift them throughout their educational journey.”

Karla Morales, director of the Department of Multicultural Advancement, mentioned that the UA has different community councils that provide safe environments for students, where they can make friends.

“The purpose is to build community,” Morales said. “It is to make sure that we let our students know that there is a place for them on campus where they can build community, where they can develop

these friendships and develop these relationships.”

Part of the AACC’s goal for the event was to show students that even though they are far from home, they are not alone.

The holidays can feel especially isolating for students with no way back home, but for international students like freshman and UA football player Eddie Siaumau-Sanitoa, moving from American Samoa to the U.S. for college was a big enough transition already.

“It’s a different environment, being far away from home,” Siaumau-Sanitoa said.

According to Williams, not having family close to them during holidays can induce a state of loneliness in those students. Events like the Home Away from Home Potluck offer them the chance to feel connected with their community when they might otherwise.

“Even if it is not part of the culture where you come from, it provides an opportunity for students to feel included, to feel part of the community, to feel part of a family,” Morales said.

Beside the large spread of homemade dishes — including wings, fries, salad, cake, mashed potatoes, bread and much more — community members also offered their homes to students for the holiday weekend.

These community members gave students without the ability to go home for Thanksgiving the opportunity to feel like a part of a family.

“The most exciting thing putting together this event was the amount of individuals throughout the Black community that wanted to participate and [were] willing to open their homes to our students during the holiday break,” Williams said.

According to Williams, thanks to the involvement of the black community students who would have normally spent the weekend alone have found a home in Tucson where they are welcome to spend their holiday.

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THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY Council held a potluck for students to enjoy Thanksgiving away from home. The Student Union will be preparing meals for students starting at $78, to be delivered or picked up.

Other events on campus

BY DIANA RAMOS @diana_sacaria

With Christmas just around the corner, Thanksgiving is here to remind us of the importance of family. The University of Arizona has a strong gathering community that invites students to be part of activities.

In an attempt to reunite students and make them feel at home, UA departments, councils and associations have organized various events this Thanksgiving season.

GratiTuesday with Student-Athletes On Nov. 26, C.A.T.S Academics is promoting an activity for students to share what they are grateful for. The UA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, or SAAC, had created this initiative years ago.

SAAC is a group of student-athletes from different sports that meets once a month to discuss a variety of topics. SAAC is going to set up posters and poster notes in McKale Center, which is one of the busiest areas in the university, according to Sofia Read, C.A.T.S. Life Skills’ assistant director.

On the posters, students can write thank you messages for those who work on campus or just a reflection on what they are grateful for.

“Quick pieces of engagements — [students athletes] can just write what or who they are thankful for,” Read said.

For Read, Thanksgiving is a special holiday where she and her family spend time together.

“Thanksgiving always reminds me of just being able to spend time with friends and family and relax a little bit and be able to think about how grateful I am for the people in my life,” Read said.

Free Thanksgiving dinner with CatCard On Nov. 27 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., the UA Graduate and Professional Student Council, or GPSC, will be hosting a free event open to all graduate and professional students.

Thanksgiving meals will be catered at the

Student Union Memorial Center’s Grand Ballroom. Additionally, after dinner, GPSC will provide a movie screening and board games to play.

GPSC is partnering with the UA International Student Service Office to organize the Thanksgiving dinner.

“International students will have the opportunity [to] experience Thanksgiving and overeating,” said Meck Slagle, the events director for the GPSC. Slagle mentioned that there are a lot of students who don’t have the funds or the time to go home and visit for Thanksgiving.

“There is usually a sense of feeling … loneliness and depression,” Slagle said.

With the idea of forming a community, this event will provide a space to hear from students around campus, where they come from and their experience.

“Socials are one of the easiest ways to get to meet new people,” said Marie Teemant, GPSC president.

Besides gathering students, Slagle mentioned that these kinds of events are very important to have on campus because the university is addressing that mental health is a big issue.

“Students need support in many ways, and this is one way that the university can support students,” Slagle said.

Thanksgiving Feast To-Go Most students do not have the time and money to prepare a whole Thanksgiving menu.

Making a good, juicy and fresh turkey can be hard if you live in the dorms.

The Student Union is instead offering Thanksgiving Feast To-Go, a four-course dinner costing $78 plus taxes. The Thanksgiving feast provides enough food for eight people.

All reservation orders will be received on Tuesday, Nov. 26 at 1 p.m., and students can pick their orders up the next day, Nov. 27, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, visit union.arizona. edu/thanksgiving/.

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NEWS | RENEGOTIATION

Contract changes approved for Director of Athletics

BY MAGGIE ROCKWELL @magzrock

An amended contract for University of Arizona Vice President and Director of Athletics Dave Heeke was approved by the Arizona Board of Regents, the governing body for the state’s three public universities. Heeke was hired as director of athletics in 2017.

During the Nov. 21 board meeting, the multiple-year employment contract was brought up for approval. The proposed contract has terms of a oneyear extension to his four-year term, with a pay increase of $100,000 to make his salary $750,000.

The contract also stipulated that if he stays within the contract, there will be a retention payment of $100,000 for staying until March 31, 2021 and another $100,000 for staying until March 31, 2022.

Heeke will receive additional bonuses for certain academic and athletic achievements in the athletic department, according to the stipulations of the contract. This

includes bonuses like two weeks’ base salary per gendered sport if the student-athlete cumulative grade point average exceeds that of the general student population, two weeks’ base salary for any football bowl appearances and one, two, three or four weeks’ base salary for any NCAA Tournament basketball appearance.

Heeke’s duties as director of athletics include overseeing and coordinating the activities and best interests of the university’s athletic department. He is responsible for all administrative duties and making sure all personnel are fulfilling their own duties. The board reported that Heeke has had no issues involving his employment.

“Dave [Heeke] was hired three months before I arrived on campus and has done a fantastic job as being an inspirational and fantastic leader of our athletics program,” President Dr. Robert C. Robbins said in the meeting.

“I appreciate Dave’s partnership and I look forward to working with him for years to come.”

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ARTS & LIFE | AROUND THE CORNER

Wings & Rice: 13 years of flavor This week’s Around the Corner looks at a local Korean and Japanese fusion resteraunt that serves flavorful chicken wings and fried rice. Wings & Rice has been frying it up for over a decade in Tucson

BY HANNAH TOGIA @hannah_togia

Named a UNESCO City of Gastronomy in 2015, Tucson is nationally recognized as the place to go for the country’s most diverse cuisine. With so many food options in one city, it’s difficult to think that anybody could try everything at one restaurant — but Wings & Rice comes pretty close.

At first glance, one may be surprised by the diversity of options on the Wings & Rice menu. From Philly cheesesteak sandwiches to hibachi fried rice, this restaurant offers “a bit of everything,” as stated on the restaurant’s website.

Opened just around the corner in 2006 at the crossroads of Pima Street and Craycroft Road, restaurant owners Ken Kang and his wife, Lona Kang, wanted their restaurant to stand out.

“There are many Japanese restaurants in Tucson,” Ken Kang said. “I wanted to create something different.”

Prior to opening Wings & Rice, Kang HANNAH TOGIA | THE DAILY WILDCAT gained his 25 years of cooking experience THE INTERIOR OF WINGS & RICE located at the crossroads of Pima Street and Craycroft Road. This Tucson eatery has been open for over a decade and serves Korean and from working at local Japanese restaurants.

Japanese fusion food and drinks.

Described on the restaurant’s website as “an eclectic blend of cuisine from “The quality of the sauce is really good Buffalo to the Pacific Rim,” Kang’s dishes because the sauce sticks to the meat,” Alston are influenced by his years of experience in said. “It’s a thick, nice consistency, so it stays cooking teppanyaki cuisine. on. A lot of times, you get the chicken wing According to Kang, most of the restaurant’s and you got to dip it in the sauce.” dishes are inspired by Japanese cuisine, with While some restaurants offer their wings some influence derived from Chinese and with a side of fries or celery sticks, Wings & Korean food. However, some other wild cards Rice differs. To set their business apart and influence the menu — like Kang’s take on the stay true to the restaurant’s name, Wings & Philly cheesesteak.

Rice pairs their wings with a side of fried rice, Wings & Rice’s menu offers soup, katsu served with a layer of Japanese white sauce chicken and starters like onion rings and drizzled on top. breaded zucchini. Taking into account the At a price of $10.50, served with a side impressive array of options, Kang considers salad and a fountain drink, this Wings & the most popular item to be the restaurant’s Rice special is a crowd-pleaser during the namesake: the Wings & Rice. lunch rush.

The restaurant’s menu boasts 23 different Customer Terrence Sartor has tried various flavors of wings, featuring classics like restaurants in Tucson that specialize in buffalo and barbecue, as well as more novel chicken wings, but claims Wings & Rice as his options like Dragon’s Breath. For the less preferred spot. adventurous, Wings & Rice also offers a “I love wings, and these are my favorite “wimpy” flavor of plain wings. wings,” Sartor said. “This definitely is the best Valencia Alston, a frequent Wings & Rice wings for the best price.” customer, said she has enjoyed every flavor Wings & Rice’s wide variety of dishes joined she has tasted. She listed spicy garlic, lemon with their meal specials can be credited for pepper and orange as her favorite flavor maintaining a steady flow of business from choices. locals and tourists alike for the past 13 years “All the flavors taste good,” Alston said.

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Kang said everything down to the sauce is PATIO SEATING IS AVAILABLE at Wings & Rice, located at Pima Street and Craycroft Road. This restaurant has “They’re always about quality, not just made from scratch. He has found success in been around for over 13 years in Tucson. about making money,” Alston said. “They homemade recipes and has been using the want their customers to be happy.” same ones since the restaurant’s opening.

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CONTRACT FROM PAGE 8

Robbins also spoke of the highlights of Heeke’s career at the UA. He has improved the softball stadium, swimming pool, indoor practice facility and football stadium, according to Robbins. He has also doubled the size of compliance staff, instituted new and necessary policies and procedures and recruited employees that have greatly improved the athletic department, Robbins said.

Robbins said he was most proud of the academic performance of the athletic department, with it having the highest GPA in the history of the university.

Regent Jay Heiler also spoke highly of Heeke. Heiler was part of the search committee for athletic director at the university.

“None of us were aware of the tumultuous road that lies immediately ahead [when he was hired], but Dave [Heeke] has done a fine job and has established very, very well regarded and hopeful compliance procedures that have put the university on the right track, so I support the extension,” Heiler said in the meeting.

The board voted on the contract, which was passed unanimously with no abstentions.

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Vanessa Buch discusses UA Innocence Project The University of Arizona College of Law’s Wrongful Conviction Clinic was recently accepted as member of the Innocence Network and has changed its name to the UA Innocence Project

BY JAKE TOOLE @JakeToole4

The Daily Wildcat spoke with Vanessa Buch, the director of the UA Innocence Project, about the work that the clinic has done and the acceptance into the Innocence Network.

Daily Wildcat: How long has this clinic been providing legal services to convicted who claim innocence?

Vanessa Buch: So the clinic was officially started at the beginning of 2014.

When I moved here, I came at the end of 2013, and Marc Miller, the dean, and the administration were really interested in starting a for-credit clinic doing wrongful conviction work. There had been students and professors here for a while who had been doing it [voluntarily], but they wanted to sort of institutionalize it.

So they supported me to start this clinic then and we’ve been building it and growing it since, formally the Wrongful Conviction Clinic. We as you now know recently joined the Innocence Network and renamed it the University of Arizona Innocence Project.

DW: What are the services that the clinic provides?

VB: So the clinic has — since we are a law school clinic — we’ve got several missions. First and foremost: serving the clients. So we represent folks who are convicted of crimes in the state of Arizona who have claims of actual innocence. We get countless requests for assistance.

Every week, every month, we get dozens of them and we screen those cases and then cases that we are able to take on we do an extensive amount of investigation. In many cases, we do DNA testing or we consult with other forensic experts, and then we will litigate in state and federal court on behalf of clients with claims of actual innocence. So that’s our primary focus — one of our primary focuses. The other is the educational piece.

So we are a law school clinic and we couldn’t exist without the involvement of law students, so the clinic is open to upper level law students 2ls and 3ls.

You take the clinic for a year. They commit to be in the clinic for at least one year and they are intimately involved in all workings of the cases. They are involved in client meetings, doing the investigations, talking to witnesses, consulting with experts, doing legal research, drafting pleadings, to the extent we appear in court on behalf of clients as well.

DW: What was the process of the clinic becoming a member of the Innocence Network?

VB: We have been growing to that point for a number of years. We started small and have been adding students and clients, but the actual process was we applied to the network, and as part of their review of our application, they reviewed everything from our policies and procedure, our application materials, our intake material for applicants who applied to us, our financial stability support within the law school, support from the community, experience of our staff … all kinds of measures.

They did a detailed review of all of that and after that said, gave us approval to join the network. We’ve been sort of loosely associated with the network — more than loosely, we’ve been associated with the network for a number of years.

Our colleagues at the Innocence Project in New York and projects across the country are folks that we have collaborated with on cases we go to as resources for brainstorming cases. People that we’ve known and worked with ... This process made it official and with that official membership comes other benefits.

DW: Why was it important to become a member of the Innocence Network?

VB: I think it’s important for us in this moment in two regards. One, like I said earlier, it’s sort of a endorsement of what we’ve been doing and what we’ve built. We had to go through this application process and part of that was an endorsement of what we’ve been doing.

So that was important to us, but also, now being a part of the network, it really does open up this whole community of folks who are all doing similar work, which is priceless because they have the same issues, the same problems, the same victories, the same failures, the same things that come up in case after case.

And when we can all get together and share resources, share wisdom, share stories, that is really valuable. Again, it is a great networking experience for our students as well, to be able to meet and work with people across the network, across the country, who are doing this work.

There’s also institutional support. So the network provides organizational support for projects like ours, like fundraising support. And they also — as part of the network now — any clients of ours who are exonerated are eligible to receive a small stipend.

DW: What case, if you can share, has stood out to you, touched you or you feel proud of?

VB: One of the most meaningful things for me in this work is the clients and, being a law school clinic, we’ve got these sort of dual missions of serving the clients

COURTESY VANESSA BUCH

VANESSA BUCH IS THE director of the UA Innocence Project, which is the new name of the former Wrongful Conviction Clinic in the College of Law.

but also educating the students, and I think those two things come together beautifully in the way you were just asking that question.

We have clients who routinely say to us how incredibly moved they are by the fact that the students, that we are here, that we exist at all and that the students are there giving their time and energies to work on the client’s case.

It is not so much the work the students are doing, the amount of hours they’re putting in and quality of work, it’s the fact that there’s someone sitting in prison who has a claim of innocence and for them to know that there are law students here at the UA who could be doing anything else, who have all kind of opportunities available to them, but they’ve chosen to spend time in their law school career working on behalf of these clients who are sitting in prison throughout the state of Arizona.

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Top takeaways from regents meeting

Native students speak out The regents held a Call to the Audience session on the first day of their public meetings, Nov. 21, in which anyone with comments or concerns that they would like to present to the board had time to do so.

Amongst them were Amanda Cheromiah, Tony Viola IV, Rani Yamutewa, Trinity Norris, Joshua Billy, Joshua Sandoval and Felisia Tagaban, who are all members of the Native American community on campus. Many of them are members of two groups: Native Student Outreach, Access and Resiliency and Voices Of Indigenous Concerns in Education.

They shared different stories but with a unified message: respect and representation on campus.

“I want you all to think about the ancestral indigenous land our three in-state universities reside on and the high populations of Native Americans — not only in the state, but with the 22 tribes that reside here that are waiting and have been waiting for [the board] to [do] more for us,” Viola said after describing the injustices faced in the current system and called on the board to make a change.

All referencing their treatment at the university, or lack thereof, they called to Robbins to make the change in indigenizing

Plan to reform general education All three public Arizona universities will be integrating new general education reformation plans in the near future, according to the board’s discussion on Nov. 21. The UA presented their general education plan in detail, including the timeline and the focus of this reformation. The general education refresh began in 2018 and will start going into full effect by the spring of 2022, with students starting to enroll using the new general education system in the fall of 2021.

The new general education plan will ultimately highlight the integration of a student’s major into their general education courses so students do not feel like they are “taking a random walk in the woods,” said Liesl Folks, the UA senior vice President for academic affairs and provost.

The new plan will also work to integrate general education across all four years, have guided thematic pathways and include evidence-based practices that will hopefully be a core component in UA general education.

There were also concerns raised by board members on how exactly the changes will work, including worries of transfer students having barriers and students finding new passions due to the randomness of the current general education curriculum.

“I want to be really clear that there are often comments that come from graduates that say because of the randomness of the general education curriculum, they stumbled upon a new passion, and I take that to heart,” Folks said. “No matter what we end up with, it will still be possible to do that for students that want to.”

The other two universities also spoke on their similar general education plans that are scheduled to roll out in a time frame close to UA’s.

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Free tuition for certain med students The UA College of Medicine will be providing free tuition to medical students who commit to practicing in designated underserved areas in Arizona after they graduate, President Dr. Robert C. Robbins announced on Nov. 22.

This new tuition option is possible due to $8 million in funding from Arizona’s 2020 Fiscal Budget.

Robbins said some of the work health sciences research will be focusing on include opioid treatment, immunotherapy and treatments for brain disease.

According to Robbins, there are four categories of focus for the health sciences research: precision medicine for all, making wellness ageless, creating defenses against disease and big data for personalized care.

President Robbins’ contract extended All three presidents of the public universities had their contracts extended by one year by the regents on Nov. 21. This included the one-year extension of Robbins’ contract as the president of the UA. This would extend his contract through June 30, 2022. Robbins’ extension was passed unanimously by the board.

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The Arizona Board of Regents, the governing body for the three public universities in Arizona, held public meetings on campus on Nov. 21 and 22 to discuss important university matters, from general education to marginalized student populations. Here are the five biggest takeaways from those meetings.

the schools more.

“In July of this year, the Daily Wildcat [reported] that Dr. Robbins said the following: ‘You are measured by how you treat your most vulnerable population,’” Tagaban said.

“And I agree with you, our institution is being measured by how we treat our most vulnerable population.”

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ARTS & LIFE | FURRY FRIENDS

COURTESY ELLENOR SPENCER

THE PIMA ANIMAL CARE CENTER is giving community members a chance to spend the afternoon with some of the animals at the shelter.

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ONE OF THE MANY dogs kept at the shelter waiting for a loving family to come and rescue him.

Borrow a dog with PACC’s Pawjama Party

BY HANNAH CREE @hannahcreenews

What do you get when you cross a library with an animal shelter? Pima Animal Care Center’s Daytrip and Pawjama Party Program.

PACC is offering anyone with a soft spot for furry friends the opportunity to spend an afternoon, evening or even a few days with a shelter dog of their choice.

Clients check out a dog much like a book at a library using a binder of potential dogs that are good candidates. The profiles of various shelter dogs can help potential clients find one that suits their lifestyle or ability, such as being well-behaved on a leash or good with kids.

“We know that [these dogs] enjoy being around other people and other dogs in the community,” said Nikki Reck, PACC public information officer, regarding the dogs that are chosen to be sent out.

Rachel Jones, adult dog foster coordinator

for PACC, said the day trip program has been in place since August 2018 and was inspired by the success of similar programs at shelters across the country.

“A lot of the animals that went out on day trips ended up getting fostered for a longer term or adopted,” Jones said. “We’ve definitely seen the same types of things happening here. It’s been a really beneficial program for a lot of our dogs.”

According to Reck, the benefits are mutual for both human and canine participants in the program.

“Any time you can get [the dogs] out of the shelter is good for their mental well-being,” Reck said. “It’s like a mini vacation.”

“Sometimes clients are not sure if they’re ready for the responsibility,” Reck added.

According to her, the day trip program is a way for people considering adoption to determine if they’re ready.

The low-commitment aspect of the PACC’s day trip program can make it a great option for UA students stuck in Tucson for

the holidays due to travel expenses or work.

“We probably get more college students than anyone else,” Jones said.

According to Reck, the program enables students to put a furry friend when they’re missing their own pets from home.

Jones oversees the dogs who are eligible for the day trip program at PACC. According to Jones, dogs who participate in the program come back to the shelter less stressed than when they left.

“Getting to expend energy and get mental stimulation and physical enrichment for a few hours out of the kennel is so much more than they typically get,” Jones said.

“Oftentimes they return relaxed and more presentable to the public.”

According to Reck, the program has resulted in a few dogs finding forever homes.

“Sometimes they come back and they’re like, ‘So can we just keep him?’” Reck said.

Ryan Endsley, a UA graduate student in astronomy, is a regular participant in the PACC program and has completed 10 day

trips and overnight visits with various shelter dogs. He commented on the effectiveness of the program in finding dogs permanent homes.

“I love the fact that I’m able to help dogs get adopted someday,” Endsley said. “Whenever I take a dog back in, it’s usually within one or two weeks that I see the dog has been taken off their availability list, which means that the dog has been adopted.”

Program participants also get to fill out a report card for their canine companion at the end of every trip.

“I always give them all A’s because they’re always fantastic,” Endsley said.

Because of his busy schedule and living situation, Endsley said he will definitely continue participating in the program.

“It’s satisfying to know that you’re helping the creature get out of the unfortunate situation they’ve been in,” Endsley said, “even if it’s just for a few hours.”

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ARTS & LIFE | VR BALLET

The perfect dance illusion

BY BRIANNON WILFONG @BriannonWilfong

Imagine being on stage with dancers during a performance, experiencing the art form up close and personal.

Mixing optical science and dance, University of Arizona graduate student Gregory Taylor has created a project that is the first of its kind to grace the UA dance stage: a virtual reality ballet piece.

Taylor studies optical engineering and is an artist-in-residence for the UA School of Dance. He started his dance journey as a 6-year-old, when he followed his brother’s footsteps.

“I did the Youth America Grand Prix, the biggest ballet competition, and I won first at regionals for classical and contemporary,” Taylor said. “Before, I was like, ‘This is something to do for fun.’ After that happened, I was like, ‘I’m going to make this a job.’”

From doing that while he was in boarding school in South Carolina to getting a job with the UA School of Dance right after high school, Gregory quickly made a living out of dancing.

According to Taylor, his idea for a virtual reality ballet stemmed from his summer internship with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., the same company that helped build the Hubble Space Telescope.

During his internship, Taylor said he worked on getting full-flight footage and put that into a headset. When that headset is put on, it would transport the person to space and back. Taylor then wanted to do the same with ballet, connecting his art and his studies together.

“It’s really to bring the dancers closer to the audience because when you wear [the headset], you feel like you’re completely face to face,” Taylor said. “It’s like way closer than even the live performance experience.”

The performance will not actually be a live performance, but audience members will step into a side room known as the “green room,” put on a headset and then watch the ballet take place in front of their eyes as though it were live.

“It’s not flashy. It’s very much what you would expect from the high art experience,” Taylor said. “Long, drawn out, calm, time to pay attention to things, notice beauty.”

Taylor said to make this all into a reality and not just virtual, he auditioned and

picked 10 dancers for his piece.

“The ballet is cut up into sections … Part of it is [filmed] on stage, the movement is very austere, very cut and structured, everything is what it is,” Taylor said. “The middle section is all filmed out in Yuma.”

According to Taylor, he took the dancers out to the Yuma Desert in the sand dunes, doing 360-degree video shots of the dancers and their movement in order to create the perfect VR ballet experience that he wanted for the audience.

Reginamarie James, a junior UA dance major, is one of the dancers that participated in the project.

“I thought it was such a cool way of showcasing the art of dance to the public, and I thought it was really awesome that [Taylor] was going to merge the art of dance with the sciences,” James said. “[Taylor] is very intelligent. He really knew what he wanted and the fact that he knew what he wanted from us.”

Another cast member in the piece is UA freshman dance major Isabel Morales.

According to her, she thought the combination of ballet and VR was unique in a special way.

“VR is relatively a new video game device idea and concept,” Morales said.

“Something new as VR and then dance together, I haven’t seen anything like that.”

Taylor said he is very proud of the project and all of the dancers’ hard work to the piece’s fruition. According to him, they have given him exactly what he was looking for when directing and choreographing.

“I’m so excited for everyone in Tucson and in the dance program to see it, because it’s going to be something so different than what anyone’s ever done,” James said. “I think [the audience] is going to feel like they’re dancing with us in a way.”

Taylor’s virtual reality ballet “In The Wings – Student Spotlight” will debut on Friday, Dec. 5, at the UA Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.

PHOTOS COURTESY GREGORY TAYLOR

Top: A dancer plays in the Yuma Desert sand for the VR ballet shoot.

Bottom: Gregory Taylor talks with the dancers during the video shoot.

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about to take a study break and get food. She also told the couple that the police were on their way.

The student said the employee thought she and her boyfriend were having sex, but that it was a misunderstanding. She then showed the officer she had been sitting backwards in the chair, with her knees on the seat. Her boyfriend had been standing behind her, rubbing her back.

When the officer asked her straight out if they had been having oral sex, the woman told him they had not. She also told him that her boyfriend had never removed his pants, after the officer asked about that as well.

The officer then spoke with the man. The man also said the employee thought he and his girlfriend were engaging in sexual activity in the study room but that they had not been. His retelling of the events matched his girlfriend’s story, in that he said he had been giving her a massage as she kneeled on the chair, according to the report.

Based on the information the officers gathered, no arrests were made.

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Honestly, it’s amazing that Police Beat has gone at least two years without an entry about a couple (possibly) having sex in the library. But now that streak is broken.

When two University of Arizona Police Department officers arrived at the Main Library at around 2 a.m. on Nov. 12, they spoke with a library employee who told them that she had caught two people engaging in sexual activity in one of the study rooms.

The employee told the officers she had been performing a security check of the third floor study rooms when she spotted the pair. The woman was reportedly sitting in a chair, with her face near the man’s pelvic area and was moving her head “back and forth,” according to the employee. The man had his hands on the woman’s head and had his back to the door, the employee further reported.

After making eye contact with the man, the employee quickly walked away. When the pair tried to leave the study room, the employee stopped them and told them that the police were coming, so they could not leave.

When asked, the employee said that she had not seen the man’s penis, but that she was going to be a “witness” and “victim of sexual behavior,” according to the report.

One of the officers then went to speak with the couple, who were sitting on a nearby stairwell. The officer spoke with the woman first, who showed him that she was a UA student.

The woman told the officer that the employee had detained her and her boyfriend when the two were

GRAPHIC BY AMBER SOLAND | THE DAILY WILDCAT

If looks could kill, then smirking might actually be a crime. However, underage drinking is a crime, which means intoxicated students would normally avoid talking to officers, but not in this case.

Two UAPD officers were on “party patrol” on Nov. 15 and on the lookout for any overly rowdy students when they spotted a group of women standing near a white van at around 12:45 a.m. One of the women was yelling curses at the driver while flipping him off.

One of the officers activated the emergency lights on the police car in order to get the yelling woman’s attention. The move stopped the woman from yelling. However, she and a friend approached the officers and told them that the driver was making them feel “uncomfortable.” One of the officers reported that he could smell the odor of alcohol on the women. The friend was also reportedly very unsteady on her feet.

The officers asked the women why the driver was making them uncomfortable. They responded by

saying he had “just been waiting there” and that he had said something to them. When pressed, the first woman said that the man had asked them if they were waiting for an Uber.

Her friend then told the officers that the man had done something to them. When the officers asked what she meant, she said, “he smirked at us,” according to the report.

The officers reminded the women that smirking is not a crime and that alcohol could be affecting their perception of reality. After this comment, the friend walked back across the street and the woman soon joined her.

The officers then approached the students. One of the officers spoke with the friend. According to the officer’s report, the student was clearly, visibly intoxicated. She told him she was 19 years old and that she had been drinking Four Lokos that night.

The officer conducted a field sobriety test, which the friend failed with flying colors, displaying six out of six signs of intoxication.

She repeatedly told the officer that the driver had made her uncomfortable but did not provide any information to indicate that he had done anything suspicious or criminal. She did say she was concerned “because of everything that was going on in the world,” according to the report.

During the officer’s conversation with the friend, the woman who had been shouting repeatedly tried to interrupt them and the officer had to ask her to stop.

The officer ended up referring the friend to the UA Diversion Program. The friend said she understood.

The other officer spoke with the woman who had been cursing the driver. According to the officer’s report, she was noticeably less intoxicated than her friend. Like her friend, the woman also reported that she was 19 years old and smelled of alcohol.

The woman stated she was a pre-law student and thus requested to hear her Miranda Rights. The officers obliged. She told him she had drank beer earlier that night. The officer questioned this and said she smelled like she had been drinking more than beer, which she denied.

The woman also tried to invoke the Good Samaritan rule, which states that a mildly intoxicated person is not penalized for helping a dangerously intoxicated person in an attempt to “get out of trouble,” according to the officer. The officer referred her to the Diversion Program and “must have explained to her 3-5 times what that meant.”

The driver of the van was not located, as he had picked up a group of riders and left without further incident.

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