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Tuition spike won’t heal budget By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Undergraduate in-state tuition could rise by almost $4,000 in the next two years from this year’s levels, UA President Robert Shelton told the Faculty Senate last night. Shelton, responding to questions about potential tuition increases being considered by the Arizona Board of Regents, said that although tuition is unlikely to

rise as high as it has in the University of California school system, it could go up to $9,920 annually by 2012. The board will set tuition levels for the 2010-11 academic year at their March meeting. The tuition increase is necessary to partially compensate for the $100 million in cuts to state funding the UA has received in the last two years, Shelton said, although he added that even this increase only fill about half of that hole.

Speculating on whether the UA will see further cuts from state funding next year, Shelton said that although federal maintenance of effort requirements prohibit the state from cutting the university’s funding below 2006 levels, state legislators might apply for an exemption to this rule — although Gov. Jan Brewer has said she will oppose this move. “These are high-stakes games,” Shelton said.“I don’t think we can take

anything for granted.”

Regent candidates picked, bill delayed

Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Chris Nagata informed the Faculty Senate that three candidates have been selected for the SENATE, page A5

H1N1 CLINICS What: H1N1 Flu Vaccination Clinic When: Today from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., tomorrow from 9:30 a.m. - 4 p.m. Where: Today - Old Main Tomorrow - UA Mall near the Student Union (weather permitting) Who: Open to all students and staff How much: Vaccination is free of charge. For those who cannot attend the clinics, Campus Health provides free vaccinations at its office on: -Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday from 8 a.m. - noon, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. -Wednesday from 9 a.m. - noon, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. Most vaccines will be administered by injection with a limited supply of nasal mist vaccines available. — Jennifer Koehmstedt

Recent UA grad missing By Jennifer Koehmstedt ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

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Sydney Pangman, dance freshman, orders her favorite salad from Core in the Student Union Memorial Center on Friday afternoon. As a dancer, she tries to stay healthy and enjoys eating at Core almost every day.

‘Boredom factor’ plagues campus food By Marissa Freireich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Deciding what to eat on campus can seem difficult for healthconscious students, but not if they make smart choices, campus nutrition experts said. Students have a perception of restaurants that are healthier than

others, but it all depends on what you order, said Victoria Christie , assistant director of dining services . “I feel very strongly that each and every one of our restaurants is healthy,” she said.“It’s all about consumer choices and being an educated consumer.” Dining Services provides dining brochures in the student unions that outline the low-fat, low-carb,

vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options available to students, Christie said. All of the food served in the unions is made by Dining Services, so they know exactly what goes into each item, she said. “We have a responsibility to our public to offer everyone something that they might want and that would be suitable for their own personal needs,”she said.

Sometimes students determine their eating habits based on what they are used to eating at home or which options are cheaper, said Gale Welter, a registered dietitian with Campus Health . She said every university suffers from the“boredom factor”with students who

Writing Program rewritten By Marissa Freireich ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

As the UA copes with $100 million in cuts over the last two years, UA President Robert Shelton has called on the campus not to do more with less, but to do less with less extraordinarily well. The Daily Wildcat’s Marissa Freireich searched the campus for individuals who have done just that. With the UA experiencing severe budget cuts, programs across campus have been forced to operate on tighter budgets. Anne Marie Hall, the director of the Writing Program, has made some

adjustments to allow the program to operate as efficiently as possible. The program, which includes all of the 100-level English courses and professional writing courses, has been cut by $1.5 million in the past five years. Hall said they are currently operating at 65 percent of the budget they used to have. Although this has created many challenges, Hall said the students are still the biggest priority. “Our goal constantly is to meet demand, not raise class size and support the graduate students,” she said. The Writing Program has more than 100 instructors

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Anne Marie Hall is the director of the Writing Program. She has made innovative adjustments to the program to adapt to increasingly limiting budget cuts and waning resources. Tim Glass/ Arizona Daily Wildcat

22-year-old recent UA graduate, Devon Hollahan, disappeared in Germany more than two weeks ago while returning home from a concert, spurring national news coverage and the creation of a Facebook group to help in the search process. Hollahan was last seen in Frankfurt, Germany at around 3 a.m. on Nov. 21 by his Devon Hollahan friend Josh Friedman. Hollahan and Friedman were traveling from a Portugal The Man concert to their hostel. When Friedman stopped to ask for directions, he turned around and said that Hollahan was gone, CBS news reported. In an interview with CBS, Friedman said, “He had kind of a reputation for sort of disappearing, so when I turned around and he wasn’t there, that was my first thought — ‘Oh, he did it again.’” It wasn’t until the following day that Friedman said he began to worry. “The next day, when he didn’t respond to any text messages or anything like that or e-mail, then I stared to really get concerned.” Hollahan’s backpack was discovered in Frankfurt, but no form of identification was found in the bag. Devon Hollahan’s father Jeff Hollahan, of Scottsdale, Ariz., arrived in Frankfurt on Monday, Nov. 30, to organize a search for his son. Jeff Hollahan was contacted, but did not return phone calls. Devon Hollahan graduated from the UA Eller College of

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Weather Today’s High: 55 Low: 38

Free H1N1 vaccines will be given out today on the UA Mall near the Student Union Memorial Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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Bowl game bound, no matter what

Dec. 8

Datebook Avoid flu blues

Tomorrow: H: 62 L: 42

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Last writing workshop

Make sure those final essays of the semester are stellar! The last upper division writing workshop of the semester will focus on “Writing a Critique of an Article or Book.” It will be held in Modern Languages room 413 at 4 p.m.

Science Café

This month’s Science Café will discuss “The World Without Photonics.” It will be held at Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant, 198 W. Cushing St. at 6 p.m.

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Riley Lane Are you going to Arizona’s bowl game, the Holiday Bowl? I am not, no.

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The Biltmore House, America’s largest privately owned home, gets blinged out for the holidays. The 175,000 square foot estate in Asheville, N.C is owned by the Vanderbilt family and has been featured in films including “Forrest Gump” and “Patch Adams.”

Woman sues airline company over knee injury EASTPOINTE, Mich. — Kathy Kuhn didn’t hit the jackpot in Las Vegas. She claims the plane ride from Detroit wasn’t a winner, either. The suburban Detroit woman is suing Northwest Airlines, saying she injured her knee while trying to get settled in a middle seat.

The 58-year-old Kuhn says she wrenched her knee while trying to climb over an armrest that wouldn’t go up. Her husband, Gayl, said Monday that she used crutches during their stay in Las Vegas in 2007. Kuhn had surgery to repair a ligament when they returned home to Eastpointe.

Her lawsuit against Northwest was moved last week to federal court in Detroit from state court and seeks an unspecified cash award. In a court filing, Northwest denies liability. Northwest is a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines Inc. — The Associated Press

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Fast Facts The average American develops his or her first phobia at age 13.

Fear of law suits: liticaphobia.

The most common phobia in the world: odynophobia, the fear of pain. The most common fear in the United States; arachnophobia, fear of spiders. Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of having peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Fear of clowns: coulrophobia. What a suriphobe? Someone who’s afraid of mice. An anemophobic person is someone whos afraid of high winds. Fear of slime: myxophobia.

(Laughs) Well dude, I guess that’s always one option. Well, that would obviously be the first option. If not, then blood and semen probably. (Laughs) Oh man. What’s your price range with all of that? Whatever they’ll give me. (Laughs) — Brian Kimball

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So it looks like you have a couple of more weeks at your job and then you can quit on the 28th and make it out there I guess? The 28th, yeah. I could make it out there on time.

So if you are a little short on cash, what measures would you be willing to take to be able to go and see the game? (Laughs) Oh, that’s a good question. Uh (pauses, laughs) does selling your body count?

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How long did it take to get out there when you did that? Uh, about a day and a half.

I heard tickets are around 80 bucks or something with all the fees, and you can’t pick tickets up at will call. Does that change things for you? Not at all. Money is not a problem for the ’Cats.

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What is your job exactly? I just work banquets over at Hotel Congress.

Well now, is this changing up your thought process a little bit? Yeah. I’ve just got to find a ride. I’ve hitchhiked to Coronado (California) before. That’s pretty much the same distance.

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Oh come on now, what gives, man? I am working on the 31st so I wouldn’t be able make it back from San Diego, so …

So then what’s really stopping you from going? Uh (pauses) nothing actually, I guess.

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Is it really worth keeping? (Laughs) For the Holiday Bowl probably (pauses) probably not, no.

New question: Will you go to San Diego to watch the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl?

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BURBANK, Calif. — Even the most ardent fans of porn star Julie Meadows are unlikely, it seems safe to say, to have ever seen her like this. But there she is, the star of“Alice in Fetishland”and more than 200 other hardcore sex films, standing on a stage, dressed demurely in jeans, matching vest and white top, her blonde hair piled up under a fetching white watchman’s cap, belting out an enthusiastic but entirely PG-rated version of that old garage-band rock classic“Wild Thing.” Don’t get the wrong idea. This isn’t the opening scene for a porn video. It’s simply Porn Star Karaoke Night at Sardo’s Grill & Lounge, a friendly little hole-in-the-wall place that six nights out of the week is just another karaoke pub. The club, in fact, offers Family Fridays when parents can bring their children. On Mondays, people play Rock Band 2 while they sing. On Wednesdays there are trivia games. But on Tuesday nights, when just about everybody else is getting ready for bed in this quiet suburb on the edge of Los Angeles, Sardo’s becomes the place to be for anyone who has ever been, or who wants to be, connected with the porn business. Between beery versions of popular songs, this is where the deals that lead to films like “Video Voyeur” often get made. “Anytime you come to L.A. you’ve got to spend Tuesday night at Sardo’s.That’s where you meet the directors and the producers,”says Tony Batman, who travels the country putting on Miss Nude contests, strip shows and exotic showcases for would-be stars. As the porn stars schmooze, a 52-year-old former librarian who goes by the name Seymour Satin helps keep things under control from behind the curtain. Satin was the corporate librarian for ARCO in 2000 when the oil company was taken over by BP. The new owner offered him a job in its Naperville, Ill., office, but he decided to stay in California and buy a bar instead. Soon he had turned it into a karaoke club. Porn Star Tuesdays began accidentally in 2003 when a handful of entertainers, after a long day on the set, dropped by to unwind. They had so much fun they came back the next week and brought their friends. Six years later, they are still coming back, and attracting a following of fans that usually has the bar filled to capacity. But what about the all important question? Can porn stars really sing? In most cases it becomes clear within just a few off-key notes that these people are lucky they have sex films to fall back on. But every now and then someone who really can sing gets up in front of the microphone. Nicki Hunter, for example, has a surprisingly sweet soprano voice. “I actually did do some recordings when I was younger but everyone told me in music you’ve got to be willing to starve for your art. So I said,‘No, I’ll go into porn instead and make some money,’”says the married mother of two sons. — The Associated Press

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Decline of hormone therapy decreases breast cancer cases, analysis finds By John Fauber Milwaukee Journal Sentinel MILWAUKEE — The declining use of hormone therapy among women has led to 6,000 fewer invasive breast cancer cases a year, according to an analysis by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The research quantifies and advances what doctors had suspected: that the dramatic decline in hormone use beginning in 2002 was the cause of a reduction in the breast cancer rate that began the following year. The finding, which was presented at a medical meeting Monday, comes as a separate report shows that cancer rates and cancer deaths for men and women in the United States have dropped every year for several years. New cancer cases dropped 0.7 percent a year from 1999 to 2006 while cancer deaths dropped 1.6 percent a year from 2001 to 2006, according to a report from the National Cancer Institute. “The patterns are going in the right direction, but there still is a large cancer problem in the U.S.,”

said lead author Brenda Edward, a researcher with the institute. One factor might be the declining use of hormone therapy products by women. In 2002, a large clinical trial of estrogen-progestin was stopped early when more breast cancers were detected in women taking the hormone pill Prempro. The trial led to many women discontinuing use of Prempro. Subsequent research also linked the pill to a higher rate of death from lung cancer. A year or so after the trial, known as the Women’s Health Initiative, the invasive breast cancer rates unexpectedly dropped from an annual rate of 138 per 100,000 women in 2001 to 125 per 100,000 in 2003 where it remained for several years. Because hormones can fuel breast cancer tumors, doctors suspected the drop might have something to do with a reduction in hormone use from 61 million prescriptions in 2001 to 21 million in 2004. On Monday, UW researchers quantified the effect. Using a mathematical model, they found that 42 percent of the decline

Senate Democrats’ health care compromise may omit public option By Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Racing to complete work on health care legislation before Christmas, Senate Democrats worked Monday on a compromise that could leave their health care bill without a new government insurance plan. Instead, Democratic lawmakers are exploring an alternative that would authorize the federal government to contract with a commercial insurer to offer benefits to millions of Americans who do not get insurance through their work. The compromise could include an expansion of the Medicare insurance plan that would allow some Americans as young as age 55 to buy into the program, according to lawmakers and others involved in the discussions. That element is an effort to mollify liberal lawmakers who have been demanding that the government set up its own insurance plan, or “public option,” to compete with private insurers. Other issues that figure to be part of a final deal on the legislation include the size of subsidies that the government would offer to low- and middleincome Americans, as well as restrictions on federal funding for abortion, which the Senate may vote on as soon as Tuesday. The closed-door negotiations have yet to produce a deal that could bring together 60 senators, the number needed to ensure passage of the bill. Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., a key swing vote on the issue, cautioned Monday that negotiators were “a long way” from a final compromise. And several leading supporters of a public option in the Senate and elsewhere reiterated their demands Monday. “Congress must enact a strong public plan if we want to create affordable, accountable coverage options for all Americans,” said Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., who filed an amendment to bolster the version of a public option that is currently in the Senate bill. But several liberal and conservative Democrats said Monday that they were optimistic of making progress on what may be the most contentious issue: whether to create a government-run “public”

insurance plan, or some kind of alternative, that would give some workers a new option for buying insurance. “I think most of us — whether it is all of us is a different story — are prepared to back off in order to get this bill moving forward,” said Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin, a liberal Democrat who has been a strong advocate of creating a strong new government plan. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., a moderate who is among 10 senators meeting to resolve the issue, said: “We’re a lot closer today than we were a couple days ago.” House Democrats included a new national government insurance plan in the health care bill they passed last month. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., included a similar provision in the bill that he is trying to advance, although his proposal would give states the ability to “opt out” of the plan. Both bills would open the new, government-sponsored plan primarily to Americans who do not get insurance through their employers. But conservative Democrats have opposed the plan, forcing Reid to search for an alternative. The compromise under discussion would allow the federal Office of Personnel Management, which administers health plans for federal employees, to contract with a commercial insurer for a new plan that would be available people who do not get insurance at work. The idea is that with federal oversight on behalf of consumers, the new plan would be more responsive to the needs of beneficiaries than are the private plans that would be offered by competing insurance companies. At the same time, lawmakers are looking into how to allow Americans between 55 and 64 to buy into the Medicare program, which now primarily serves people 65 or older. The Medicare expansion has long been a top priority of groups such as the AARP, and it has the backing of many liberal lawmakers, who see it as an extension of the federal government’s most powerful existing public plan. On Monday, some lawmakers remained wary of the idea. “What’s that going to do to rates?” asked Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. “What’s that going to do to Medicare solvency? We’ve got to see answers to all those questions.”

in invasive breast cancer from 2002 to 2003, or 6,000 cases, was due to less use of hormones. What accounted for the rest of the decline is not known. The research was presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Conference in Houston. “We think that hormones are promoting the growth of tumors rather than causing the tumor,” said lead researcher Brian Sprague, a postdoctoral fellow at the UW Carbone Cancer Center. The Women’s Health Initiative found about a 25 percent higher risk of breast cancer in the estrogen/ progestin users. A 2007 report in the New England Journal of Medicine first raised the issue of a decline in breast cancer cases and decreasing hormone use. The report noted that hormone use was the only one of several risk factors that had changed substantially from 2002 to 2003. The research puts a number on what doctors have suspected for years, said Christopher Chitambar, a breast cancer specialist at Froedtert Hospital who was not involved in the study. “It is a strong case for incriminating

hormone replacement therapy,” said Chitambar, a professor of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa. “Estrogen can fertilize breast cancer cells.” Chitambar said he has seen lots of breast cancer cases in women who had been on hormones, which are immediately stopped when breast cancer is detected. Chitambar and Scott Maul, medical oncologist with Oncology Alliance, said for some women, hormone therapy is needed because their menopausal symptoms are severe. The therapy should be at the lowest possible dose for the shortest period of time in those cases. “That’s probably a minority of women,” said Maul, who was not involved in the study. “For the majority of women, hormone replacement therapy is not a good idea.” While the incidence of all cancers for men and women has dropped in recent years, the improvement was uneven. For men, the drop was 1.3 percent a year from 2000 to 2006. For women, there was a 0.5 percent annual drop from 1998 to 2006. For

men, the incidence of prostate, lung, oral, stomach, brain and colorectal cancers dropped while kidney, liver, esophagus, leukemia, myeloma and melanoma increased. For women, incidence rates for breast, colorectal, uterine, ovarian, cervix and oral cancers decreased while lung, thyroid, pancreas, bladder, kidney, nonHodgkin lymphoma, melanoma and leukemia increased. One of the brightest trends has been significantly declining rates and deaths for men and women from colorectal cancer, the secondleading cause of cancer deaths in the United States. For instance, the colorectal cancer death rate dropped 3.9 percent a year for men from 2002 to 2006. For women, it dropped 3.4 percent a year from 2001 to 2006. “The extraordinary progress on colorectal cancer shows what can be achieved … ,” John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society, said in a statement. Much of the mortality improvement is attributed to increased screening and early detection.

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Let it snow, Tucson

It’s about time Tucson experiences winter weather this season.Yesterday morning, students and faculty alike braved the chilly, windy, cloudy climate to attend classes. The cold can be difficult to adapt to, particularly for Arizonans who are accustomed to sunny days year-round. Tucsonans are ready for a change in temperature, especially since typical Arizona heat has overstayed its welcome this year. Students expect the torridity to subside by the beginning of November, and there was no such luxury this winter. Now that it’s cooler outside, students can actually bundle up and maybe even have an excuse to sleep in one morning. For finally providing everyone legitimate winter weather and toning down the scorching heat, Tucson gets a pass.

Dead Day? How about Dead Week?

Whether students are ready to accept this fact or not, the final examination period begins in just three days. The last day of classes is tomorrow, and after that, students only have Thursday as a“Dead Day”to catch up on academics and possibly wind down. Unfortunately, a single day is not enough time for anyone to get all their necessary studying done, and the start of finals marks an extremely stressful week. Other universities across the nation seem to have this in mind when they give students extra time for final preparation, as they should. Princeton University holds Reading Period, which is a weeklong downtime before final exams start.Yale University also has a Reading Period“to provide a period of about a week during which students might conclude their course work and prepare for final examinations.”Wouldn’t it be nice if the UA had this option, or at least something more than just Dead Day? For allowing students just one day in between the end of classes and the final examination period, the UA gets a fail.

UA connection to Climategate e-mail release

Critics and citizens all over are unsure of how to react to the recently-released e-mails to and from prominent UA climate scientist Jonathan Overpeck, who, among many other scientists, is under scrutiny for possibly pushing colleagues too hard to conform to global warming theories and failing to heed comments from other scientists that gave weight to skeptics, according to yesterday’s Arizona Daily Star news report. Overpeck responded that critics aren’t familiar with how scientists create major studies such as the reports from the International Panel on Climate Change. Regardless, the released e-mails show that there were definite scientific uncertainties about some key theories underlying the idea that today’s warm weather is caused by humans, said Ross McKitrick, an economics professor at Guelph University in Ontario, and this led many commentators to wonder what the truth really is. The global warming situation is much more complicated than an e-mail scandal, so even if leading scientists, including Overpeck, withheld certain details about the cause from the general public, the planet will still continue to warm. Citizens have no choice but to hope that scientists are still working hard to sort out the core of the global warming problem. But for potentially hiding contradicting evidence from society, Overpeck and other scientists involved get an incomplete.

Arizona carbon dioxide emissions see a 61 percent increase in 17 years

A recent news report shows that carbon dioxide emissions in Arizona increased faster than in any other state since 1990. Arizona has experienced a 61 percent increase since 1990, topping the list of states with the most increases. Compared to the national increase of 19 percent, Arizona’s emissions are embarrassing and disheartening. The state’s rapid growth as a whole has contributed to the problem, but it’s not the only reason for the skyrocketed carbon dioxide emissions. State corporation commissioner Paul Newman told the Arizona Daily Star that Arizona is very car-dependent and is behind on energy efficiency, both of which can cause the state to have a higher level of carbon dioxide emissions. Arizonans can do a better job of decreasing the emissions by being more sensible with consumption, and these emissions could have surely been reduced. For seeing such a drastic increase in carbon dioxide emissions in less than 20 years, Arizona gets a fail.

— Editorials are determined by the opinions board and written by one of its members. They include Alex Dalenberg, Laura Donovan, Justyn Dillingham and Heather Price-Wright.

MAILBAG Your choice, your consequences

I am writing this letter in response to Dan Sotelo’s column, “No health care? No Choice” (Dec. 7, 2009). While the Supreme Court has recognized a woman’s right to abortion, the issue in the health care debate is not whether it is morally or legally responsible, but whether or not the taxpayer should have to fund abortions. After doing some research, I found that 56 percent of women who terminate their pregnancies are in their 20s, while teenagers between 15 and 19 make up 19 percent of abortions. I’m just curious as to why my hardworking money should go to fund such irresponsibility? If young people choose to have unprotected sex, they must live with their consequences. To reward federal funds because these youngsters “made a mistake” is hardly economically right. Let’s put it into another perspective: say a person is drinking and gets into his or her car to drive. Now, say they are within the legal limit of .08, yet he or she remains impaired. If that person crashes the car, should our federal funds pay to have that person’s car fixed? Why not? How will they work or get to school without transportation? They were well within their legal rights and simply had an accident, one that we all make. The point is that we as a country need to recognize that adults can freely make adult choices, but the consequences of their actions remain their own consequences, good or bad. Jarrett Benkendorfer Political science sophomore

Wildcats still have time for redemption

I think it’s a bit premature to throw the ‘Cats under the bus because we lost to the the 24th-ranked UNLV Runnin’ Rebs (I still don’t get how they can be the Rebels; what are they rebelling against?). Regardless, we haven’t even started the Pac-10 season yet and, from the looks of things, the Pac-10 is going to come down to the ‘Cats and those weak-ass Huskies up in the 206. These types of games early in the season, such as Wisconsin (who just beat Duke) will only make us better in February and March. And despite what coach Miller says, it damn well

better be 26 years in a row. We ain’t paying you millions of dollars for the NIT. Check yourself, Miller. So before we start comparing the basketball team to the football team, let’s remember it’s a long season and those kids are still learning. Having been a Wildcats fan my whole life (yes, I remember our first Final Four) I have the utmost confidence that we will handle the Pac-10 and make the Tourney. Go Cats! David Kurtz

‘Textbook’ column hits close to home

Its almost that time again: time for the new semester to start and time to spend more money — on books. I’m a freshman majoring in music and I spent approximately $400 on books for the fall semester of 2009. I can’t believe that students have to pay that much money for the books they need for their classes. There is an option of selling books back to the bookstore, but how much is one really going to get back? Not as much as one would want. I’m seriously considering selling my books online just for that little bit more. Melissa Porta Music freshman

Alcohol column poses good ideas

In response to the article on Friday, “Wetter is better,” the things people will do to drink are interesting. Being able to take a class and sign a paper so you can drink in your dorm does sound like a good idea, however, I believe that people will take advantage of it and abuse the privilege if the university would want to pass the “wet” dorm policy. People would be in a safe area and not outside getting caught by cops but then calls can still be made because of the noise or even fights that would break out. I do not live on campus but am in favor for a policy like that and I’m sure a lot of other students would also. Denise Fuentes Undeclared freshman

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s the semester winds down and many are making plans to go home for the holidays, many exchange students are instead reflecting on a more permanent kind of departure and what both leaving the States and returning to their home country will mean to them. In writing this article, I am forced to not only consider how I will reconcile my desire to see family and friends in Australia with the life I have here in Tucson, but also whether my relatively brief stay in the U.S. may lead to a future change in residence. (I’m going to ignore the horrendous amount of red tape involved in such a move and pretend that the Department of Immigration would acquiesce to any such desire.) Culturally, such a change would not be as drastic as moving to, say, Bolivia. But having lived several months here, there’s no doubt that the differences between the two countries are significant enough to warrant due consideration as to the benefits and drawbacks of each. One of the main reasons I wanted to study abroad was that campus life at my home university in Australia, and presumably at many others in our sunburnt country, has deteriorated almost to the point of nonexistence. I would urge all of you to study there as an exchange student, but don’t do it and expect the food courts and plazas to be brimming with students every day. Going to university can be an isolating experience, with many young Australians seeing it as an inconvenience to fit into their work schedules. The disadvantage is that it is exponentially more difficult to find an available computer on campus at the UA than at Australia’s Integrated Learning Center equivalents.

The language barriers between Americans and Australians are pretty minimal, though I’ve had to explain my intent in using sarcasm as being fundamentally inoffensive on many occasions. Given my arguable overuse of it and the apparent reluctance of American broadcasters to screen British and Australian television shows, I’d be the one that would have to adjust. This would mean a complete overhaul in how I approach humor, and I’m not sure if I’m ready for such an adjustment. But in truth, there is only one important factor that realistically plays into my decision. Given the greater opportunities that are available career-wise in the U.S. and the disproportionate amount of touring that bands engage in here compared to Australia, the U.S. would likely be my preferred place of residence right now if logistics were not an issue. Except for one thing. I have not had to really deal with the health care system here, except for the obligatory $600 for health insurance that I had to pay at the beginning of the semester. My initial thought was that my hypochondriacal tendencies would allow me to fully capitalize on all the health services available to me, at least on campus. So you can imagine my disappointment upon finding out I would still need to pay to receive medical attention, even after having paid a fee for health insurance that was virtually impossible to have waived even if we proved that we had more comprehensive health insurance elsewhere. Such a ludicrous policy does little to suggest that the health care industry has the interests of its patients in mind. I won’t pretend to know enough about the U.S. health care system to know how to fix it, or even whether it is fixable, but I do know that I’ve never had to pay to seek out medical care on campus at home, and that bears great impact on my decision about where to live. (This forced avoidance of medical

attention has actually been kind of helpful for me, but most people are not in the same position of suffering almost exclusively from psychosomatic illnesses). I have loved my time here and I have loved Tucson. I don’t know why so many Tucsonans complain about this fair little city so much. There is no doubt in my mind that I will be back, and likely for prolonged periods of time. I just hope I don’t ever get sick. — Dunja Nedic is an Australian exchange student. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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open student regent position on the Arizona Board of Regents. Gov. Brewer will ultimately appoint one of these students to the position. The students are: Taylor Bell, a first-year law student, William Holmes, an economics junior, and Cheyenne Walsh, a first-year law student. Graduate and Professional Student Council President David Talenfeld informed the senate that presentation to the Senate of a graduate student statement of rights will be delayed until at least the senate’s February meeting pending further revision in GPSC subcommittee.

Advice for ‘fiscal cliff’

At the request of Chair of the Faculty Wanda Howell, Chair of the Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee Lynn Nadel updated the Senate on the work of the newly-formed Strategic 2012 committee, a special group formed to discuss university priorities and gather “collective wisdom” on budget decisions

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in preparation for the 2012“fiscal cliff,”after which the university will cease to receive federal stimulus dollars. Responding to a question on whether administrators would be held to the advice of the committee, Nadel said while he was confident the advice of the committee would be taken very seriously it is ultimately up to the president and provost to make budget decisions. “They are the decision-makers. To do anything else is chaos,”Nadel said.

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“I’m just kind of shocked,” she said. “He carries himself very well, and he’s used to traveling, so I’m just shocked about the whole situation.” Dominguez is encouraging people to join the “Find Devon Hollahan” Facebook group to give support to his search. Though Dominguez remains supportive in Devon Hollahan’s search, she still worries about him ever being found. “I mean it has been two weeks, and I’m hoping for the best, but that’s a long time,” she said. “It just makes me really worried.” Devon Hollahan’s father told CBS that staying hopeful was becoming hard in the search for his son. “Not finding a body is obviously a positive, but it would be really nice if we just had a little glimmer of hope, of a clue — anything at this point,” he said.

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Bong seen by boys in blue

University of Arizona Police Department officers were on patrol in the parking lot North of Parker House on Nov. 29 at 2:30 p.m. when they observed an unoccupied Ford Explorer with its lights on. Officers approached the vehicle and looked inside to make sure the vehicle had not been tampered with or vandalized. Officers saw a glass bong that was left in plain sight on the passenger seat. Officers left the area and drove around the block to try to locate the vehicleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner. When officers returned, they saw that two women were inside of the vehicle. As the driver was attempting to back out of her parking space, officers activated their emergency lights and sirens. Officers approached the vehicle and made contact with the driver and observed that the glass bong had been moved to a pink computer bag that was sitting in between the passengerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legs. Officers told the women that they had seen a bong in plain view and the driver stated that it belonged to a friend. Officers smelled the strong odor of burnt marijuana during questioning and asked the driver if she would consent to a search of the vehicle. A search revealed a bag of marijuana, a small amount of loose marijuana, two glass pipes, a pink glass bong, and a tin containing loose marijuana and burnt marijuana residue. The driver told police that some of the loose marijuana could have possibly belonged to other passengers that had previously been in the vehicle. She further claimed that all the other paraphernalia and marijuana belonged to her friends who she declined to identify. She stated that she allowed her friends to store their marijuana and paraphernalia in her car because they had no other place to keep it. The passenger denied that any of the marijuana or paraphernalia belonged to her either. Neither woman showed any signs of impairment. The passenger was cited on charges of possession of narcotics paraphernalia. The driver was cited on charges of possession of marijuana and possession of narcotics paraphernalia. Both women were released on scene and the incident has been referred to the Dean of Students Office.

Pen pilferer plows down bookstore employees

UAPD officers arrested a UA student for shoplifting at the UofA Bookstore on Nov. 30 at 1:19 p.m. Upon arrival, officers observed three bookstore employees surrounding the shoplifting suspect. Officers led the suspect to a first-floor conference room and he identified himself with an Arizona driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license. He told police that he had entered the bookstore in order to buy a birthday card for his sister. While in the store, he remembered that he needed a pen, so he took a package of pens from the shelf and slipped them inside his left sleeve. He then walked out of the front door. Bookstore employees told police that upon exiting the store, they confronted the man and told him that they needed to speak with him. As they were escorting him back towards the store, he attempted to throw the pens into a trashcan with the coffee he had been drinking. The employees saw this and told him â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nice try,â&#x20AC;? and retrieved the pens from the trashcan, after which the man attempted to run. The employees got in front of the man and he ran into them, all three were knocked down in the process. He then got up and attempted to run again but an employee managed to grab his shirt and restrain him until police arrived. He told officers, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have any reason to take it, but I did. I even have money for it.â&#x20AC;? The man was cited on charges of shoplifting and he was released on scene. The incident has been referred to the Dean of Students Office.

DPS officer reports speed gun stolen from cruiser

UAPD officers responded to the lobby of the UAPD station on Nov. 30 at 6:52 p.m. in reference to a report of a larceny from a vehicle. Officers made contact with an Arizona Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol officer who reported that a LIDAR speed gun was stolen from his fully marked patrol vehicle. The DPS officer told police that he had been assigned to work the Arizona-Oregon football game on Nov. 21. He arrived at the Sixth Street Garage at 3:20 p.m. and parked his vehicle on the third level. He secured the LIDAR unit in his trunk, locked his vehicle, and left the area. He returned at 11:33 p.m. and did not observe any signs of forced entry into the vehicle. The following day, he went to retrieve the LIDAR unit from his trunk and discovered it was missing. He immediately returned to Sixth Street Parking Garage and searched the area where he had parked his patrol vehicle, but was unable to locate the unit. He returned again at 8:30 a.m. and conducted a more thorough search of the area but again was unable to locate the unit. A search of the trash bins in the garage also proved fruitless. The DPS officer reported no damage to his vehicle and no other items missing. UAPD officers have no suspects or witnesses at this time.

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eat on campus frequently running out of things they want to eat. Restaurants where students can “self-direct,”such as On Deck Deli and Core, allow them to customize healthier meals if they choose, she said. Welter advised that students avoid fried food and sugary beverages like soda, lemonade and coffee drinks, and incorporate foods with color, such as fruits and vegetables in every meal. She also recommended that meals contain three different food groups in order to stabilize blood sugar and decrease cravings. “I am a big believer in moderation, and no food is bad food,” Welter said. Students can find food labels for meals on campus by visiting www.union.arizona.edu/dining/nutritioninfo/index.php, and then choosing the restaurant and food item. Although she said it is difficult to give specific numbers because everyone is different, Welter gave some general guidelines about target numbers for food labels. She recommended that sandwiches contain 500 calories or less with about 20 to 25 grams of protein. For a dinner, she recommended the foods contain 700 calories or less. Welter also said foods should not contain more than three grams of fat for every 100 calories. Welter said many students think that if they can not eat a perfect diet, they should not even bother

trying to be healthy. “It doesn’t have to be perfect, but better, and better is there,” she said. In Welter’s opinion, students are more concerned about gaining and losing weight than about eating healthy. “Everyone has in the back of their mind some awareness (about health), but I don’t know if everyone believes that food makes that much of a difference,” she said. Student opinions varied regarding dining options on campus. Jenny Ly, a biology freshman, lives in the dorms and said she eats on campus most of the time and that campus could have more healthy options. “Sometimes I feel guilty after eating some of the food,” she said. Ly said that as an athlete, she knows about health. “I balance it with being active,” she said. She plays intramural volleyball, tennis and basketball. On the other hand, Eric Szablinski, a materials science and engineering senior, said eating healthy on campus is not a priority for him. “If I wanted to, I could eat healthy at home,” he said. Welter said it is important for students to eat healthy in college. “Food habits, while not addictions, become very ingrained,” she said. “(Students are) setting the stage for the rest of their lives based on their own decisions.”

Powerful snowstorm sweeps across West The Associated Press FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A large and powerful storm howled across the West with snow and strong winds on Monday, snarling traffic, closing schools and threatening to spawn mudslides in wildfire-devastated Southern California. Virtually the entire region was suffering — from subzero wind chills in Washington state to heavy snow that closed schools and government offices in Reno, Nev., and left big rigs jackknifed across highways in several states. Blizzard warnings were in effect for northern Arizona and parts of Colorado, with forecasters predicting up to 2 feet of snow around Flagstaff. The National Weather Service said the upper elevations of the Sierra mountains could get up to 3 feet of snow, with up to 4 feet forecast for the mountains of southern Utah. Even the hills east of San Francisco Bay received a rare dusting overnight, and snow was predicted for Fresno and other communities in California’s Central Valley. Bad weather stretched far to the east as well. The first snow of the season for much of Indiana tangled traffic and delayed schools. Crashes left one person dead. Reno schools closed, and many state government workers were told to stay home. Chains or snow tires were required across the region. Several flights into and out of Reno-Tahoe International Airport were delayed or canceled. “Motorists are going to have to chain up,”Trooper Chuck Allen with the Nevada Highway Patrol said. “Otherwise, we end up with a parking lot.” The storm was blamed for dozens of accidents and road closures in the Flagstaff area, including a small stretch of Interstate 17 near a scenic overlook where a UPS truck lost its trailer and slammed into a barrier wall. Deputy City Manager Jim Wine said snowfall is pretty routine for a city that sits at an elevation of nearly 7,000 feet. But

winds of 30 mph with gusts of up to 50 mph are a concern because they could cause power outages and whiteout driving conditions, he said. The city school district let students out early Monday and canceled classes Tuesday. Northern Arizona University also released students and staff early Monday, in the midst of final exams. Arizona Department of Transportation spokesman Rod Wigman vowed to keep northern Arizona roads plowed despite a $100 million budget deficit, but advised people to stay home if possible as the brunt of the storm sweeps through in the afternoon and evening. “When the sun goes down, people need to go home,” Wigman said. Southern California was largely escaping the snow, but heavy rain — up to 4 inches was forecast in some areas — sparked concerns of mudslides. The foothill areas below the wildfire-scarred Angeles National Forest were barricaded with sandbags and concrete barriers, some decorated with Christmas garlands. Several roads in the San Gabriel Mountains, a few miles northeast of Los Angeles, were closed. Nine canyon homes were evacuated Monday before being allowed to go home several hours later as the rain shifted south. Still, residents of foothill towns such as La Canada Flintridge were urged to be ready to evacuate at a moment’s notice. “People are nervous,” homeowner Gary Stibal said as he kept watch on the burned mountain slope that rises sharply from his backyard. His car was packed and, like others in the neighborhood, was parked in the driveway facing toward the street for a quick getaway. In San Diego, the National Weather Service issued a warning of high winds as the storm front approached. Gust of up to 60 mph were forecast, especially along the coast, foothills and deserts.

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Two days removed from the Arizona football team’s 21-17 win against USC, the team is still enjoying the programdefining victory. The Wildcats’ win at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum marked their first win against the Trojans in any stadium since 2001, and that fact wasn’t lost on UA coaches and players. “As seniors, to finally get a win against USC, that’s something we’ll be talking about for the rest of our lives,”said safety Cam Nelson. “They’ve always been a dominant program and for us to be able to tell people that we know, ‘We beat USC,’ that’s a good feeling for us.” It was a good feeling for UA head coach Mike Stoops as well. Nelson said his coach was like “a kid in a candy store” after the game because beating a team of USC’s caliber — no matter the squad’s struggles this season — is still a great achievement. “He’s really been through a lot, just off-the-field issues and then always hearing the threats about him getting fired and stuff like that,” Nelson said.“To be able give him a win like this — people always question him as a coach and stuff like that — but to go out and beat USC at USC and come up with a game plan and get to a bowl game two years in a row, I think that’s very, very good for him.” It might have been just as good for quarterback Nick Foles as he said it was a childhood dream to go into the Coliseum and take down the Trojans, adding that “it still doesn’t seem real.” The win put the No. 22 Wildcats in a tie for second place in the Pacific 10 Conference this season and showed Arizona will likely be a contender in the conference during the coming years. “(USC has) always been a great team and I think they had a great team this year, it’s just that they lacked experience,” said offensive tackle Adam Grant. “They’ll definitely get back to where they were, but we’ve always known we deserve to play there. We proved it finally that we’re there.”

UA excited for challenge Nebraska presents

Beating USC not only helped the Wildcats’ confidence, it also boosted them into the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl on Dec. 30 in San Diego against No. 20 Nebraska. The Cornhuskers boast one of the top defensive units in the country, led by a Heisman Trophy candidate in defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh. “We’ve got about a month to prepare for him, and I’m sure we’re going to double-team him, triple-team him like every other team does,” said UA starting center Colin Baxter.“It’s a big assignment up front. He’s obviously a great player. If you’re going to be a d-tackle making Heisman lists, that’s not very easy to do.” Even with the challenge that Suh and

Take two Former UA swimmer Stupp now testing track and field By Nathan Comerford ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT To compete in one sport in college requires an exceptional amount of time, dedication and effort. In order to compete with some of the best athletes in the country and keep up, athletes need to sacrifice quite a bit. But don’t tell that to former UA swimming All-American Julie Stupp. As a swimmer who has aspirations to compete in her second Olympic swimming trials in 2012, Stupp has decided to take on a second challenge: track and field. “Being an All-American swimmer and having that type of success, you’re always wondering what you can do in another arena,” said UA track and field head coach Fred Harvey. “You don’t really know what’s still there with the ability to compete at this level. “I think the biggest thing, though, is that I respect her willingness to try this and her respect for what it is that we do out there on the track.” Taking advantage of a lesser-known NCAA rule, Stupp is using a fifth year of eligibility for track and field, a sport she once competed in during her Missouri high school days. The NCAA rules, which former UA basketball player Fendi Onobun used to play football at the University of Houston, state that after athletes use four years of eligibility in a main sport, they are then allowed a fifth year of eligibility in a second. Stupp had to petition the NCAA to gain her fifth year. STUPP, page A10

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Pac-10 down year to help team grow for next season

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Arizona quarterback Nick Foles gets rid of the ball with the USC attack in his face on Saturday. The Wildcats enter the Pacific Life Holiday Bowl faced off against Nebraska and its stingy defense led by Ndamukong Suh on Dec. 30. It will be up to Arizona’s offensive line, led by several AllConference selections, to keep the likes of Suh out of the backfield and away from Foles.

the rest of the Nebraska defense presents, it doesn’t dissipate the Wildcats’ excitement in playing one of the best teams in the Big 12 Conference. “It’s a big bowl,” Grant said. “I’m excited to go against one of the top d-lines, one of the top defenses in the country.”

Wildcats showing growth as a program

Last season, Arizona broke a 10-year bowl drought by going to the Pioneer Las Vegas Bowl, but that didn’t seem to impress media that regularly covers the Pac-10. Before this season, the Wildcats were picked to finish eighth in the Pac10, and that didn’t sit well with the team. “Coach Stoops was definitely upset. He brought that up in our first camp meeting, ‘This is what they said and this is where we’re going to be,’”Grant said.“Second in the Pac-10 is pretty damn good, I’d say.” Arizona used that preseason prognostication as motivation all season, and in the process showed the steps it’s taken under Stoops’ guidance. The team went from a cellar dweller to

competing for the league title in just six year’s time, which is no easy task. “We’ve just been so close so many times, and we still ended up second in the Pac-10 (this year). We fought through it all, we never gave up,” Foles said.“The guys showed great character and it just shows where this program is going.”

Injured ’Cats have time to heal

17?’and I was like,‘Well you gave up two of the touchdowns,’ just messing with him. I think he’s going to try and watch the film (on Monday) and get his memory back.” Also suffering from an injury is Foles who has a broken left hand — his non-throwing hand. He said it hasn’t affected his play during the past two weeks and it should be back to normal by the bowl game.

While most Arizona players will have vivid memories of the win against USC, redshirt sophomore cornerback Trevin Wade won’t. Wade suffered a concussion at some point during the game — possibly from a series of knees to his head resulting from his low tackles on USC receivers — but he should be OK for the Holiday Bowl. Film sessions likely helped refresh Wade’s memory, but not before Nelson and other players had some fun at Wade’s expense. “(After the game) he was like,‘How was I doing?’ Everybody teased him. I just told him that he gave up three touchdowns,” Nelson joked.“He was like,‘How’d they get

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y now it’s obvious. Arizona is the young and vulnerable team that head coach Sean Miller first described before his team hit the road to the Maui Invitational. After a shameful loss to Oklahoma, the same question kept popping up: will the Wildcats keep The Streak of 25 straight years of getting into the NCAA tournament alive? To Miller, the answer seems to remain irrelevant. For the firstyear coach, what does it matter if his team is selected for the NCAA Tournament if they won’t make anything of it? What does matter to Miller, though, is improvement and building the future. Aided by the anemic Pacific 10 Conference and with games against Louisiana Tech and Lipscomb upcoming, the Wildcats find a hidden gem — a schedule that fits like a glove. Some call it weak, but the Wildcats’ schedule is tailor-made to give an inexperienced squad not only a chance to learn, but also a chance to maintain enough confidence to move into next season with a positive vision rather than a worn and beaten mindset. So far this year, teams like Oregon have fallen to unknowns like Portland in embarrassing fashion. The league is a combined 0-9 against The Associated Pressranked top-25 opponents. That’s OK, though. How much more could a freshman- and sophomoreladen team like Arizona’s benefit from getting smothered nightly once it enters a league — such as the Big ZIMMERMAN, page A10

Wildcat Mustafa Shakur By Vincent Balistreri ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Editors Note: Former Wildcat Mustafa Shakur was a highly decorated recruit. Coming out of high school, he was ranked higher than NBA All-Star point guard Chris Paul. He played four years (2003-2007) under Hall of Fame coach Lute Olson, starting in all but two games at Arizona. But despite the accolades in high school, Shakur’s inconsistent career at Arizona resulted in the former Wildcat going undrafted after his senior year at Arizona in 2007. The Arizona Daily Wildcat caught up with Shakur to discuss playing in the D-League, working out with Nic Wise and whether the Wildcats will extend their streak to 26. Daily Wildcat: So you got drafted with the first pick in the second round of the NBA Developmental League draft and now you’re averaging 20 points and six assists through the first six games. How has life been in the D-League through six games? Mustafa Shakur: It’s been pretty good in some aspects, and in other ways it’s been tough. Having six games in nine nights is really tough on your body, but I’m really learning some things as I go along. DW: Since your final year in Arizona in 2007, I understand you’ve played in three different countries? MS: Yeah, I played in Poland — where I won a national championship — Spain and Greece. DW: What made you decide to stay in the States and play in the D-League rather than go back overseas? MS: Well, I thought it was the perfect time. I felt that I had improved

so much, and I felt that I was ready to show everyone what I had improved on and worked so hard on. DW: It has to be a huge adjustment money-wise from the D-League and overseas. MS: Yeah it’s definitely a big, big, big difference money-wise. It’s no comparison, I’m not going to get into the numbers, but when you come to the D-League you have to understand you’re here to learn, improve and showcase for the next level. You’re not here to make money or make a living for your family. You’re here to get to the next level. DW: I heard that D-League players have to take long bus rides and stay in motel rooms. Is that all accurate? MS: That’s not really accurate. They really take care of us well in the D-League. The only difference, in comparison to the NBA, is that we don’t have private planes. So we can’t fly out directly after a game, so sometimes we fly out the next morning. Overseas was much tougher. In some areas we had to take 10- to 13-hour bus rides to a game. DW: So you do fly in the D- League? MS: Yeah, we fly everywhere in the D-League. DW: Seeing that you played in three different countries and now you’re in Tulsa, (Okla.), what keeps you fighting through this nomadic lifestyle? MS: Well, I love to play basketball and my ultimate goal is to be an NBA player for the rest of my career, so that pretty much keeps me going every day. From the outside looking in, it may seem hectic but it’s been pretty fun so far. I have great experiences in

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every country I’ve been in. DW: The Tulsa 66ers are owned and operated by the Oklahoma City Thunder, so have you envisioned playing alongside Kevin Durant and company? MS: I haven’t really envisioned myself with the Thunder or any other team. I’ve just been focusing on

doing the best I can with my teammates every day. When that day comes, it will be a pretty good transition because we actually run the same plays and offense that Oklahoma City does. DW: Have you kept track with Arizona basketball since your last year in 2007? MS: Yeah, I definitely kept up with it, but it was much tougher overseas because of the time zone and not having the channels to keep track. I even worked out with Nic Wise a little bit over the summer. DW: Well, Nic is the only player on the current roster that was on the team when you were on the team. MS: Yeah, exactly, but I actually worked out with Jamelle Horne a little bit too. I saw both of those guys working really hard over the summer. Over the summer, I worked out with (current LA SHAKUR, page A9

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A head coach can only hope for a freshman to step in and take advantage of whatever opportunities she was given in her first year. Maybe she would make a few key shots in limited minutes or give some rest to the veteran players off the bench. But women’s basketball guard Davellyn Whyte has far exceeded the expectations of a first-year player so far this season, and it seems her success was inevitable. Just ask head coach Niya Butts, who saw something from her star freshman even before the season began. “She is just a freshman, but she acts like a junior,” Butts said at the team’s media day prior to the season. After a November tournament in New York, one in which Whyte took home the MVP honors, Butts had nothing but praise for her first prized recruit. “I’m speechless about Davellyn. She’s taken the leadership role and taken ownership in the team,” Butts said. “What we’re going to do is just continue to stay out of her way and let her play basketball.” And play basketball she has. Whyte, the team’s only true freshman, leads the Wildcats (5-1) in scoring by averaging 13 points a game and is coming off a 19-point

Clippers assistant coach) John Lucas, who has workouts in Houston with a lot of college guys and pros. I stayed over the summer so I got a chance to talk and workout with Nic. Saw him and his father, so it was cool. DW: Isn’t it amazing how time flies and Nic is now the senior leader to the young freshmen the same way that you were to him in your senior year? MS: It is crazy how time flies but we’ve always known that Nic has had that in him, it was just a matter of time. Now it’s his time. He’s worked hard and he deserves everything he is getting. DW: The team was actually in Norman, (Okla.) last night. Did you get a chance to catch that game? MS: Nah, I didn’t get a chance to catch that game, but I did watch the entire Maui Invitational. DW: What did you think about the team from what you saw in the Maui Invitational? MS: The team is extremely talented. They have a lot of talented young guys, but I think once it’s all put together I think they can have a good team. I’m looking forward to seeing them improve as the season goes on. DW: Well, some are worried about the tournament streak after Sunday’s blowout loss to Oklahoma. MS: Yeah, that’s natural for the fans to be worried, but the team has to block that out and just work on the things that they didn’t do well. DW: What do you think of the team’s chances of extending the streak to 26? MS: I think they have a good shot at it with all the talent they have, but it’s just a matter of them consistently keeping everyone on track for every game. DW: Well, good luck with the rest of the season. MS: Thank you, and tell everyone in Arizona I said,“Bear down.”

effort against Nevada. A graduate of St. Mary’s High School in Phoenix, Whyte was heavily recruited by the nation’s top programs, including hometown school and Wildcat-rival ASU. She credits the coaches as the reason for her decision to head south to Tucson, and attributes her ability to find success in games to their ability to point out her mistakes. “Our coaches, they’re hard on us,” Whyte said. “We do stuff right but at the same time they find the little things, so we don’t get too comfortable with them saying ‘good job’ all the time. “They really push us so when it comes to game time it’s a little easier.” In the six games Arizona has played this season, Whyte has proven to be an integral part of the offense with her ability to create scoring opportunities for herself and her teammates. Even for someone who has experienced so much success before playing at the collegiate level, the 2009 Gatorade Arizona player of the year was cautious to assume a starting role entering the season. “I knew nothing was guaranteed when I came in, so I knew I just had to play hard,” Whyte said. “I figured let me just start from the get-go with pre-season workouts before practice even started. I was just working really hard.”

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Freshman guard Davellyn Whyte makes her move to the hoop in the face of Nevada defenders on Friday. The lone freshman on the women’s basketball team has made her presence felt early in the season.

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“I was a little worried because if you look at my timeline, it does look like I’m out of time since I took a year off (of swimming),” Stupp said. “(The NCAA is) usually so strict, but I just filled out some paperwork and sent in a ‘why I wanted to do this,’ and they responded pretty quickly.” Swimming at the University of Auburn for three years, Stupp transferred to Arizona for more stability. In her three years as a swimmer at Auburn, she had three different coaches. “After my junior year, I was frustrated with how I was swimming,” Stupp said. “So I took a year off to train for the ‘08 trials. I wanted to go to a stable program to train for the 2012s (trials). I wanted a stable group of coaches who wouldn’t leave.” A swimming program can’t get much more stable than Arizona under head coach Frank Busch, who has coached 28 Olympians in Tucson in the past 21 years. When originally looking for colleges out of high school at Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in Missouri, Stupp actually had Arizona on her radar. But she wasn’t on the Wildcats’. In fact, she said she still gives the coaches a hard time about that. “It’s all worked out for the best though … and it worked out how it did for a reason,” Stupp said. Now the multi-sport athlete is making the transition to track and field for the first time since her senior year of high school. “My senior year I was second in the 800-meter (state meet) by like a tenth (of a second). The only reason the other girl beat me was she leaned across the line. Ever since then I was mad,” Stupp said, laughing. “I’m just slightly competitive so I’ve always wanted to run again and see where I could go.” That drive is what UA senior swim captain

Annie Chandler witnessed training with Stupp over the past year. Chandler said she isn’t surprised that Stupp is trying something new. “She’s one of the most competitive people I’ve ever met,” Chandler said. “This was a new discovery for us that she could do another sport, and it’s just appropriate that she would be the one.” The energy that Stupp brings to the table is tremendous, which led Chandler to refer to her training partner as “The Energizer Bunny.” “I’ve always told her I think she’ll be the most embarrassing mom because she has to get her energy up some way,” Chandler said. “But she was a great teammate for that reason.” Busch also pointed out how Stupp was a great teammate, citing her positive attitude. “She’s just a real positive person,” he said. “You hear that thrown around, but she’s just really positive about working hard, challenging herself and her teammates and being part of the team. She certainly wasn’t the most talented athlete I’ve had but, being a several time All-American, I think that makes a strong statement as to her work ethic.” Stupp is now bringing her positivity to the track, looking to compete in either the 800 race or the mile, which would fit the endurance she had in the pool. Stupp has been training her body to get used to the stress of running on the track as opposed to swimming in the pool. “Coach Harvey has been giving me tips, and I’ve been doing work on my own getting used to running,” Stupp said. “I’ve done a lot of ice baths and hot tubs lately. I’ve been living in there.” While Stupp may not get her “revenge” on the runner who beat her in the high school state meet, her fuel for competition remains. And just like The Energizer Bunny, Stupp keeps going and going and going.

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East or ACC — that boasts the Connecticut Huskies or the Duke Blue Devils among a slew of other highly competitive squads? Playing in that environment could demoralize a team as fragile as Arizona and possibly wear the team down to the point of giving up. Look no further than the ever-strong Pac-10 football conference and the lowly Washington State Cougars, who had no shot at regaining traction once they hit a wall in their conference schedule. It tore them up like a wood chipper. But that threat of mental destruction doesn’t exist for the basketball version of the Wildcats. Not in the Pac-10. Arizona showed in Wednesday’s double-overtime loss to the UNLV that when it plays well, there’s enough raw talent to potentially steal a game here and there. That’s definitely possible in the Pac-10. With the Louisiana Tech and Lipscomb

games acting as filler between tougher matches against the likes of BYU and North Carolina State, there’s always opportunity to keep the wheels turning and the outlook positive. The same can be said for a weak, meek conference schedule that will give the Wildcats reasons to look forward to next year, giving them a chance at winning on any given night. Perhaps they’ll get blown out by a team like Washington, the conference favorite. But just as memories of the team’s poor showing in Oklahoma can be put to rest by a win against Louisiana Tech on Wednesday, the team will be able to forget a Pac-10 loss with a victory, avoiding any spiraling losing streak. Whether he admits it or not, Miller can’t be stewing about a weak schedule. Not this year. — Kevin Zimmerman is a journalism junior. He can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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Aide says Arizona tax hike would do little this year

The Associated Press PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer’s proposed sales tax increase would do little to close the current fiscal year’s shortfall but would help deal with a significant part of the next one, the Legislature’s budget director said Monday. March is the earliest the proposal could be put to a special election vote — if legislators approve a referral during a special session being considered for next week. Legislative Budget Director Richard Stavneak said March voter approval would mean the proposed one-cent increase would generate only about $175 million before the fiscal year ends June 30 — about a tenth of the current $1.6 billion budget shortfall. The tax increase would generate about $925 million in the next fiscal year, nearly a third of the projected $3 billion shortfall, Stavneak told

legislators during a briefing on the state’s fiscal troubles. “We have a fiscal crisis. I think most, if not all, in this room know that,”Sen. John Nelson, a Litchfield Park Republican whose Senate committee held the hearing. Brewer first proposed the tax increase in March, saying it was needed to augment spending cuts to close the worsening budget gap. It met with stiff resistance from many legislators during the regular session and a subsequent summer special session. Brewer continues to press lawmakers to approve it, spokesman Paul Senseman said Monday. “But we do not as of today have a sense of a majority or consensus of legislative votes. We will continue to press legislators for support,” Senseman said. State Treasurer Dean Martin told the committee that the state could be forced to resort to California-style IOUs in February

if there’s any glitch with executing plans to borrow $735 million through sale-leaseback deals with investors in January. The deals would cover about a dozen buildings that the state would technically sell but continue to use. In January, the need to make a $325 million monthly payment to public schools on top of other expenses will nearly exhaust the state’s new $735 million line of credit from Bank of America and the ability to borrow $500 million from various state funds, Martin said. The February school payment could put Arizona over the top if the sale-leaseback deals aren’t completed as expected in January, he said. “Should there be a hiccup, a sneeze, anything, it gets lost in the mail, we will not be able to make the February school payment,” Martin said. “There’s just not enough cash.”

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and teaches about 12,000 students each year, including summer sessions, Hall said. The regular English classes are capped at 25 students per section, and ESL and Honors sections are capped at 23 students. “If they have to blow up some of their gen-ed courses into these huge sizes, they have to balance that with keeping something really small and quality,” she said. Hall has adopted her own philosophy to deal with the budget cuts. “I think it’s more a matter of work smarter, not harder, and not doing more with less because I can’t do more, I was already doing a lot before,”she said. One of the ways the Writing Center has dealt with these cuts is by not filling vacant positions. For example, it once had five full-time employees in composition and 11 lecturers, whereas now it has one permanent position in composition and seven lecturers. The program is not able to hire as many adjuncts as it was in the past either, Hall said. Another change is the requirements for honors students. In the past, English 109 was only for students who received certain scores on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate exams, while other students who placed into honors English took 103 and 104. Starting this semester, however, all students who place into honors English only need to take English 109. Similarly, the program has eliminated English 100 and 106, which are developmental classes. Instead, students take English 101 with a onecredit studio class attached with it. This allows students to finish their English requirement in fewer semesters. “So we’ve really streamlined and simplified our offerings,” she said. In addition, the Writing Program is experimenting with offering the research component of English 102 to a web-delivered format. In the past, library employees visited every class to teach research methods. “The Writing Program instructors can focus on teaching writing with research instead of teaching research,” Hall said. The program is also trying to offer some online, Saturday or eight-week long courses. Another change is that the Writing Center, a student tutoring resource, is now under the direction of the Think Tank rather than the Writing Program. “The English department can’t pay for a tutoring center for the whole campus,” Hall said. “We just don’t have the resources.” The department does produce some custom publications for student textbooks from which they receive royalties. This money goes towards supporting graduate students. The Writing Program has also altered the way graduate students are trained. After their first year, the graduate students have more responsibility for their own professional development through brown bag lectures than in the past. In addition, the Writing Program is no longer

able to offer course releases to graduate students. Previously, during their first year, graduate students taught two sections the first semester and one section the second semester. The graduate students were also able to teach only one section during the semester that they wrote their dissertation. However, now all graduate students must teach two sections every semester. “So that slows down the graduate students’ ability to finish on time and it affects our ability to attract top graduate students,” Hall said. Derek Adams and Erica Cirillo-McCarthy, graduate associates in teaching and co-chairs of the English Graduate Union, shared Hall’s concerns. Cirillo-McCarthy teaches English 101 with an attached workshop and Adams teaches two sections of English 101. Adams said the goal of the foundations English courses is to give students“the critical thinking and critical writing skills that will translate across all disciplines.” He called writing a personal experience. “The amount of personal attention they have to put into a piece of writing, we have to be able to give them the same amount of personal attention,” he said. Cirillo-McCarthy added that there are benefits to having smaller class sizes. She said in the three years she’s been here, the cap on class sizes has increased from 22 to 25 students. “I think the smaller classrooms create the sense of community that helps students see their writing as personal,” she said. Cirillo-McCarthy said students can feel “a sense of despair” with increased fees and class sizes. Adams pointed out that the caps on class size are not a matter of laziness, but rather of students getting the most out of the class. “If you take something like the Writing Program that all students are required to take and you turn that into something that mediocre effort is given in terms of teaching that, mediocre effort will be given by the students taking those courses, and you’re going to end up with mediocre forms of critical thinking and critical writing.” Adams said. In terms of graduate student training, CirilloMcCarthy and Adams noticed an increase in online resources and peer mentoring compared to years past. Besides discussing issues that affect graduate students, one of their responsibilities with the English Graduate Union is to maintain morale during this difficult time, Cirillo-McCarthy said. She acknowledged that the Writing Program has worked hard with the English department and the university to deal with the cuts. “We have to continue to be strong as an organization because the budget cut is going to get worse,” she said. Adams agreed. “There seems to be no light at the end of this budget cut tunnel,” he said. “We’re working as smartly as we can.”