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“It’s over 15 percent of the entire population, making it the largest student organization on campus.”

Rose said the committee sends emails to each chapter with an overview of the programs and asks if it wants to get involved. If the chapter agrees to join Greeks Think Green, it gets recycling and composting bins for its house with the proper signage. Greeks Think Green also provides coaching to all the chapter members so they know how to properly recycle and compost.

Currently, there are three chapters involved with Greeks Think Green: the Delta Delta Delta and Kappa Kappa Gamma sororities and Pi Kappa Alpha

While transgender students at the UA can receive insurance through Campus Health Service, transgender faculty are not given the same services because their insurance is through the state.

Faculty and staff in Arizona public universities are insured by the state of Arizona, not the university itself. The state insurance does not provide the same services and help for transgender people as Campus Health does.

None of the insurance plans offered for faculty and staff in Arizona and with the Arizona public universities includes any kind of gender confirming or transition-related health care.

Susan Stryker, a director of the Institute for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies, said the exclusion of transgender services in the state health insurance could be misinterpreted.

“I think it’s actually even worse then that,” Stryker said. “I think even the way the exclusions are written could be interpreted by someone who was very hostile to trans people as excluding coverage [to those] who are transgenderidentified.”

It is not uncommon, Stryker said, for insurance companies to claim transition-related health care as not medically necessary.

“Insurers for many decades [have] called transition-related health care experimental, or it’s a ‘cosmetic’ procedure and that there is no medical necessity for it,” Stryker said.

Stryker said that in comparison to other states, Arizonans are not worse off. “[Arizona is] as bad as most places,” she said. “But I think the tide is starting to turn, that more and more places are offering transition-related health care … and also through the work of protected legislation.”

Currently, Campus Health offers services for transgender students through UA health insurance.

According to the Campus Health website, the UA provides students with the “transgender benefit,” which allows members “critical access to medically necessary gender-confirming health care.”

The Arizona Board of Regents Student Health Insurance Plan gives students this benefit at all three Arizona public universities.

Depending on where a student is at in their process of

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UA students, employees and affiliates showcased their campus sustainability projects, which they had presented at a sustainability conference in October, to the UA community Monday morning at the Sustainable UA Initiatives Share-A-Thon.

Renee Guerin, a global studies senior and project manager of the Green Purchasing project, explained the concept as “Buy Less, Buy Better,” which is saving money by buying a smaller quantity of more sustainable supplies.

Not many people at the UA knew about the green purchasing policy, so the project was created to start a

conversation with purchasers from Residence Life about the policy and what can be done to increase sustainability at the UA. Emily Rose, a student studying environmental sciences and public health and an intern for the Waste Reduction committee of Students for Sustainability, said the Greeks Think Green committee was started during the fall 2012 semester by a Students for Sustainability intern and fraternity member who thought it was a good idea to promote recycling and composting in the greek chapters on campus. The committee’s formation and continuation was made possible by the UA Compost Cats and UA Green Fund.

“Greek Life is such a large part of the university,” Rose said.

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The Faculty Senate focused on the UA’s 100 percent Student Engagement initiative at the monthly Faculty Senate meeting Monday afternoon.

Vincent Del Casino, vice provost for Digital Learning and Student Engagement, spoke to the senators on the issue of student engagement. He began by saying this initiative emerged as a result of questioning what it is that administration wants students to leave the UA with, leading to a task force to focus on this initiative.

“With that sort of initiative in mind, we launched into a conversation about what 100 percent engagement really might be ­­— how we define it, how do we think about it, what are the categories that make sense,” Del Casino said.

He told the senate the task force then started to look at what it is students do while enrolled at the UA that is not formally recognized

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Student petitions for unlit crosswalk safety

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A UA student took action regarding unlighted crosswalks and pedestrian safety after his personal experiences of nearly getting hit by vehicles.

Derek Hernandez, a communications junior, said he wanted a change to take place at an unlighted crosswalk that was on his way to school.

Hernandez said the crosswalk on the corner of Euclid Avenue and Sixth Street is dangerous, and he sent a letter to the mayor and other city officials asking for something about that specific location to be done.

“It’s very dangerous with the way cars come down that street, with some coming from Euclid Avenue and Sixth Street, where there is a light,” Hernandez said. “… [A] lot of times cars are coming off that green light and there is not enough time for them to stop. A lot of the times, they don’t stop and I find [that myself and others] were almost hit … because these cars can’t stop.”

Hernandez also said that he feels sometimes even though he waits for these cars, they speed up to avoid stopping for the pedestrian waiting.

There are several locations on and surrounding campus similar

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TIFFANY KADLEC, an early childhood education junior, stands near the unlighted crosswalk on Sixth Street and National Championship Drive on Nov. 25. These crosswalks without lights cause hazardous situations when aggressive drivers ignore pedestrians.

to the crosswalk that Hernandez deals with on Euclid Avenue and Sixth Street. Communications junior Kaeli Johnson walks through another crosswalk daily, which is on Euclid Avenue west of the Main Gate Parking Garage, and she expressed concern about the overall pedestrian safety with the crosswalk.

“It’s surprising to me we don’t have certain crosswalks that light up,” Johnson said.

Johnson, who has a class that ends at 8:30 p.m. on Mondays, also said she doesn’t feel safe walking home at night because of the unlit crosswalk.

“Numerous times, I feel like I have to stop in the middle of the crosswalk,” Johnson said. “In that area, there seems to be a lot of cars who have to come to a screeching stop.”

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In the past month, the Tempe Police Department has answered at least six reports of residents tossing bottles, eggs, cans and other objects off the balconies of high-rise housing complexes near Arizona State University — a situation mirroring the recent spat of UA students dropping beer bottles off their balconies at a new high-rise housing complex onto the street and the Islamic Center of Tucson next door.

Since the fall semester started in August, there have been a number of reports of residents at Tucson’s Level — a new high-rise student housing complex across the street from the UA — throwing bottles from their balconies. The glass explodes onto the street or, in several cases, onto the Islamic Center of Tucson.

“The students don’t comprehend how bad what they are doing actually is and the damage they could cause,” said Ezadeen Naji, an employee with the Islamic Center of Tucson. “It’s actually really stupid. They could get evicted or even arrested. It is just a small number of students who make the rest look bad.”

Because the center is a place of religious worship, the idea of a hate crime comes up. Naji does not believe that the center was targeted, though. Students have had bottles thrown at them from the apartments while they were simply walking by.

“Maybe we have been targeted, maybe not,” Naji said. “I think it is just students being drunk.”

Chris Widmer with the Tucson Police Department also said that

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A study performed by the Federal Highway Adminstration found that High intensity Activated crossWalKs, which were developed in Tucson in the late 1990s, decreased the number of intersection-related crashes.

According to the FHW study, pedestrian crashes decreased by 86 percent at HAWK sites. However, for the 102 intersections that did not have lighted crosswalks, pedestrian crashes increased by 143 percent.

“Therefore, if citywide conditions were contributing to reductions in total crashes, these conditions were not having the same impact on pedestrian crashes, or other factors were contributing to a rise in pedestrian crashes at unsignalized intersections but not at signalized and HAWK intersections,” the study stated.

HAWK crossings give drivers multiple cues that there may be a pedestrian crossing a street. The background for the FHW study describes these cues as “a unique configuration of the HAWK beacon (two red lenses over a single yellow lens), high-visibility crosswalk markings (ladder-style markings as

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transitioning, an individual can make an appointment with Campus Health professionals who will help them figure out the next steps. Other options include filling out a medical necessity review form that will determine one’s eligibility for these services.

The insurance plan is offered for students who wish to transition or require transitionrelated health care and includes services such as hormone therapy and behavioral health services, along with other procedures and care.

The Campus Health website specifies that access to these

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these incidents do not appear to be hate crimes.

“We don’t have any evidence of a hate crime. There are four sides to the building, and one happens to be the Islamic Center,” he said.

Northern Arizona University students apparently haven’t caught on to the practice of heaving bottles off balconies, largely because there are few, if any, high-rise student housing complexes, said Flagstaff Police Sgt. Margaret Bentzen.

“Also, it is just too cold here,” Bentzen said. “Students aren’t hanging out on balconies outside for them to be throwing bottles off of them.”

Naji said a way to possibly solve the problem is to install a fence or a net to catch bottles and other debris falling off of balconies.

The Islamic Center of Tucson has installed security cameras and after every incident it turns over the footage to the management at Level and the adjacent Hub and Next housing complexes.

Several students in November were evicted based on the video evidence.

Taylor Thorne, a UA junior who lives in Level, said it is incredibly disrespectful and immature of students to throw anything off their balconies.

“I think it is really dangerous that college kids are actually doing this, and these bottles are landing on a place of worship,” she said. “It’s really unfortunate that they are willingly putting other people at risk. I think the Level apartment management should have done something about it more promptly because it seems to be an ongoing issue for a couple of weeks now.”

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STUDENTS HAVE BEEN THROWING BOTTLES from the high-rise apartment building Level on all four sides, including the one with the Islamic Center of Tucson below. Tucson Police Department does not believe these incidents are hate crimes.

Management has also distributed notes to the Hub, Next and Level warning residents of potential punishment for throwing items off balconies.

According to the lease agreement,

opposed to only two transverse white lines), a stop bar approximately [50 feet] from the crosswalk, 8-inch solid lane lines between through travel lanes, signs that can be illuminated and read ‘CROSSWALK,’ and School Warning signs. When activated, the HAWK uses a red indication to inform drivers to stop, thereby creating a time period for pedestrians to cross the major roadway.”

The beacon is not illuminated until activated by a pedestrian, but after a set amount of time, it does inform drivers that they need to stop, allowing pedestrians to cross safely.

Hernandez will be eventually getting his light at the corner of Euclid Avenue and Sixth Street. After emailing city officials, he said he received a response from a city of Tucson Project Engineering Manager who told him that a stoplight at that location is funded.

“First they need to repave it and then they need to install a light and hopefully within the next year … they say [there will be a lighted crosswalk],” Hernandez said.

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services is medically necessary and essential for transgender student’s success.

According to the website, “This access to care is a crucial element to the health, academic success and retention of transgenderidentified students.”

It took a statewide push to provide these services for students, Stryker said, and the state most likely did not consider UA faculty and staff.

Stryker said she thinks there could be a potential solution for university transgender employees.

“I think the easiest thing to have happen here to provide equal coverage would be for the universities to take out a supplemental insurance policy,”

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offenders face an immediate $1,000 fine and possible eviction, as well as the potential to be charged with a crime by TPD. Widmer said TPD does not have officers assigned to patrol

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Andrew Falwell, a chemical engineering senior and undergraduate program director for Students for Sustainability, talked about a project focused on innovative water collection and filtration from the Highland Avenue Parking Garage. Falwell said Tucson is a good candidate for innovative water collection because of the monsoon season and consistent rain throughout the year.

The Green Fund provided funding for a new cistern to hold collected water from the Highland Avenue Parking Garage, Falwell said, which should be in place by the end of this year. Students for Sustainability wants to water the UA community garden with the water collected from three cisterns, as the group has applied for a second grant to fund two additional cisterns.

“All three cisterns will eliminate or nearly eliminate the irrigation budget for the community garden,” said Chester Phillips, Associated Students of the University of Arizona sustainability program coordinator. “… The excess would go to the landscaped area next to it. The garden’s single largest budget that it needs to support each year is its irrigation budget.”

Madeline Ryder, a senior studying natural resources and environmental studies and a member of Compost Cats, said the Compost Cats program was started in 2010 by students who requested and received a grant from the Green Fund. She said the city of Tucson and

Stryker said. “There [are] not many trans employees of the university. I mean, it’s probably less than a dozen, as I count.”

Michael Woodward, a public health graduate student, said nothing will be changed regarding public university employees’ health insurance options until the Arizona government addresses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning issues.

“Until there is some movement at that state house around [LGBTQ] issues, especially this one … there’s not a lot that we can do to get the state to change,” Woodward said.

Woodward has been involved with the President Ann Weaver Hart’s LGBTQ advisory council

the UA signed an intergovernmental agreement in 2014.

“The city of Tucson will take over our pickup service and work on expanding it to city and commercial composting,” Ryder said, “and in return, the UA will focus more on the composting process itself and education throughout the community.”

The Compost Cats are actively involved in the composting of food that is collected from the UA at the San Xavier Co-op Farm, where the compost is then sprinkled into the gardens. The San Xavier Coop Farm is a certified naturally grown farm.

“We don’t use any pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers of the sort,” said Cie’na Schlaefli, propagation manager for San Xavier Cooperative Association and Farm.

Todd Millay, assistant director for the Arizona Student Unions, said there are compost bins in Sabor, Pangea, Cactus Grill and the Cellar Bistro, but that people don’t see the work Compost Cats is doing with the student unions in addition to the compost bins.

“I think what we showed is that the University of Arizona is really at the forefront of what sustainability looks like at universities around the country,” said Ben Champion, director of the Office of Sustainability at the UA.

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and the transgender project that put together a restroom access statement in 2006.

“The university has opted to cover some things for domestic partners in relation to marriage, so it seems like [it] could opt to pay for faculty care beyond what the state does,” Woodward said.

Woodward said despite the fact that faculty and employees are not eligible for the transgender services that are offered to students, the UA is “cutting edge” with its options for the students.

“For a university in the middle of this big red state,” Woodward said, “I think it is remarkably supportive.”

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the area around the three housing complexes; he said the complexes have their own security staff and TPD will respond when called upon.

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HORMONE INJECTIONS are one of the services offered to transgender students by Campus Health Service. Students can use the “transgender benefit” on the university health insurance, but this is not an option available to UA faculty, whose health insurance is through the state of Arizona.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is ordering up new rules for giving local police agencies access to surplus U.S. military equipment such as the armored vehicles, assault rifles and body armor that police in Ferguson, Mo., used in an unsuccessful attempt to quiet protests this summer.

Obama is also proposing a three-year, $263 million spending package to expand training and increase the use of body-worn cameras for monitoring police interactions with the public.

The proposal includes $75 million that would provide matching funds for purchasing as many as 50,000 cameras. Such cameras might have provided more information in the deadly August shooting of an unarmed black 18-yearold by a white Ferguson police officer.

The president’s directive comes along with the release of a new White House review that found the so-called “surplus” programs of the Department of Defense and other federal agencies to be a mishmash of rules and practices, with no clear sign that all police are properly trained and certified to use the military-grade equipment they receive.

The results of the review come a week after a grand jury in St. Louis County chose not to indict the Ferguson police officer, Darren

Wilson, in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The shooting inflamed local tensions and led to unrest that brought attention to the use of military-grade equipment by local law enforcement officials in their response.

Protests around the country and in Ferguson began anew last week in the wake of the grand jury’s decision.

With the report newly in hand, Obama is instructing his staff to come up with a list of military gear that has a legitimate civilian law enforcement purpose and thus can be sent to local police forces around the country, senior administration officials said Monday.

The new rules will also require that local officials review and authorize the acquisition of small arms and all other “controlled” equipment by their communities, and that police be specially trained in their civilian use.

The rules will come within the next four months in the form of an executive order governing the Pentagon and all other federal agencies that run so-called “surplus” programs that distribute military-style equipment to police around the country.

In the case of Ferguson, the use of military equipment served only to escalate the conflict between police and protesters angry about the shooting.

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA meets with elected officials, community and faith leaders, along with law enforcement officials, to discuss how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust to strengthen neighborhoods across the country during a meeting at the White House on Monday in Washington.

why the police turned out at peaceful protests with riot gear and equipment, Obama ordered a White House review of the rules that govern the distribution of that material.

The new report identifies a “lack of consistency” in how the various federal programs are run and audited and raises questions about whether police know how to use the military-grade equipment, the senior administration official said.

Obama is discussing the report’s findings, and his new directive, in a series of Monday meetings with his Cabinet, young civil rights leaders and community leaders from around

the country.

At the top of the agenda is finding ways to build trust between police and communities, an aide to the president said.

Obama directed his staff to draft an order that requires non-police officials to review and authorize the transfer of such equipment as small arms and armored vehicles before it can come to their communities.

Police forces would have to take part in rigorous training as well as follow-up reports for serious incidents involving the federal equipment, under the order.

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JERUSALEM — Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of an IsraeliCanadian woman who joined Kurdish forces battling the Islamic State in Syria, with unconfirmed reports saying she may have been captured by the terrorist group.

The governments of Canada and Israel were trying to obtain further information about the whereabouts of former Israeli soldier Gill Rosenberg, official statements from both said. According to the U.S.-based intelligence group SITE, a message on a known militant Internet forum claimed the Islamic State had captured a “female Zionist soldier” in Kobani, Syria.

Militants reportedly debated

online whether to trade the captive for female Muslim prisoners or execute her, but Kurdish sources dismissed the report as spurious propaganda.

Speculation swirled through Israeli media that Rosenberg was the woman being discussed.

However, according to a post on her Facebook page Monday, she is safe some 185 miles from Kobani and without Internet access. Two weeks ago, Rosenberg wrote that someone else would be managing her page for several weeks. She is believed to be in training.

Besides her friends, few Israelis had heard about Rosenberg until a month ago, when surprising media reports introduced her as the first Israeli and foreign woman to join Kurdish Peshmerga fighters.

According to various reports, Rosenberg, 31, is a Canadian-born Jewish woman who moved to Israel in the last decade after a short career as a civil aviator, reportedly with hopes of becoming an army pilot.

Rosenberg enlisted in Israel’s military, where she ended up serving in a rescue and recovery unit. Her new life was disrupted when she was arrested for allegedly participating in an international phone scam run by a dozen Israelis who swindled senior citizens, mostly in the U.S., of about $25 million, according to a 2009 FBI release that named her as Gillian Rosenberg.

Extradited to the U.S., she reportedly entered a plea bargain that included a prison term. After serving several months, she was released

and, according to her Facebook page, recently returned to Israel.

Foreigners heading for the Syrian battle zone are often discreet about their plans and identities. American journalist Steven Sotloff attempted to conceal his Jewish identity during his work in the region, and friends and colleagues scrubbed the Internet of references to his Israeli citizenship after he was captured by militants, revealing it only after he was beheaded by the Islamic State in September. Israeli aid workers involved in humanitarian efforts in Syria use aliases in media interviews, their faces blacked out in published photographs.

Despite the dangers, however, Rosenberg has shared her information freely.

Her Facebook page lists her as a resident of Tel Aviv and boasts a cover picture from the airport of Erbil.

Posts detail her unusual journey from Israel through Jordan and Iraq to join the Kurdish fighters. Her move drew appreciation and camaraderie from Kurdish supporters and a mixture of admiration and concern from her Israeli friends.

Those concerns grew deeper with the latest claims of the Islamic State capturing an Israeli.

“My heart sank to my stomach,” a friend of Rosenberg’s, Charlie Vardi, told the Hebrew news site Ynet. “For the Islamic State to land a captive who is North American, Jewish and Israeli would be “like winning a prize, a gold medal,” he said.

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Protests may spur ‘Mexican Spring’

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he protests rocking Mexico these past weeks have drawn attention to the recent disappearance of 43 students from the southern state of Guerrero. The students, who were training to be teachers, had travelled to the nearby town of Iguala for a protest. The local police confronted them and began shooting at the students’ vehicles. The police then passed the survivors on to a wellknown gang, Guerreros Unidos, which is now understood to have substantial ties to local politicians.

It is thought that members from Guerreros Unidos murdered the students placed in their custody, burned their bodies and dumped the corpses in a lake, though the ashes that were discovered have not yet been forensically confirmed.

The alleged politically arranged murders in southern Mexico ignited protests around the country, expanding to encompass more general dissatisfaction with the current government.

The uproar in Guerrero over the blatant disrespect for human rights is reminiscent of the beginning of the Arab Spring nearly four years ago — it is pushing communities to their tolerance threshold. Four mass graves were unearthed in the search for the remaining bodies of the students. Mexicans are claiming governmental foul play; protestors across the country are calling for the president, Enrique Peña Nieto, to resign; and an effigy of him was burned in the streets of Mexico City.

These 43 lives are just the tip of the iceberg.

“I don’t think it is going to fizzle out with some concessions — the [43] students are just like the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Cintli Rodriguez, an assistant professor in the department of MexicanAmerican studies. “People see it differently because [students] are the future of the nation and teachers are highly prized — they are seen as a second parent.

They’re venerated.”

When I travelled to Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, last month, the entire city was talking about the lost students. At an Hermosillo high school, students passionately debated the situation and what it meant for the future of Mexico. Indignation over the disappearances in Iguala is not isolated but rather represents a larger response in Mexico.

Citizens, from elderly protestors in large cities to young students in Hermosillo, are not letting the government sweep the issue under the rug as it has with other human rights abuse cases.

The less talked about 2011 Arab Spring movement in Morocco looks similar to the situation Mexico is currently facing. The citizenry was fed up with the government and began to protest, such as in Libya and Egypt. Unlike those countries, however, the government adapted to the unrest by making constitutional reforms, which gave minorities additional rights. These shifts diffused the momentum of the masses.

As Rodriguez put it, “This won’t go away tomorrow.” The countries in the Arab world that avoided major uprisings made concessions. Those that did not were plunged into turmoil, some of which lies unresolved to this day. In the weeks to come, the Mexican government will also have to give a little or risk further instability.

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ou know what can be hard? Finding something to watch on Netflix after you round out that last and sixth season of “Parks and Recreation” for the second time. I like to think that Netflix has a fairly capable predicting database based on previous views, but I have recently observed that it is woefully negligent and ignorant when you choose to watch a show with a — gasp — black lead actor.

One example that comes to mind is “Scandal.” The show, starring Kerry Washington in the lead role of Olivia Pope, legal gladiator and classy mistress to the president, is basically billed as a black show by the site’s logarithm.

The top recommendations for those who enjoy the show? “The Boondocks,” “Peeples,” “Real Husbands of Hollywood,” some

mockumentary featuring a white Madea movies and the BET staple, lead character surrounded by “The Game.” In breaking these some other white supporting connections down, the common characters. And, you know, a few threads start strong and then drift people of color in the background. apart to being hardly there at all.

I still love you, Kelly Kapoor.

Washington plays the main None of this character in both is surprising, “Scandal” and though, because “Peeples,” so [There] American media that’s not totally might and American insane. The other be white consumers have suggestions, Egyptians, accepted that though, are mainstream woefully and but television or film enthusiastically Christian production is dissimilar.

Bale is the equivalent “Parks and translucent of white Recreation,” on productions. With the other hand, is the whitewashing a lovely show with of Ridley Scott’s predominantly “Exodus: Gods and Kings” — there white characters and a few might be white Egyptians, but people of color sprinkled Christian Bale is translucent — and into the background as if the the contrary revamp of “Annie” network was trying to treat with Quvenzhané Wallis being itself to some diversity. Thanks hailed as revolutionary, noting that Donna and Tommy Tom. The Washington is both black and the top recommendation after main character of “Scandal” seems finishing “Parks and Recreation”? like just enough to label it as black “The Office.” Much like “Parks television. and Recreation,” “The Office” Which brings us to the broad is a professional comedy and

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assumptions Netflix makes about the shows that people watch.

It’s ironic that I’m saying this, but usually generalizations are bad. It is bad to generalize that people who watch “Scandal” — a vastly white show that happens to be anchored by a black actress — will also like shows that are almost caricatures — hey, “The Boondocks” — of black culture or Tyler Perry mass productions.

Shows starring people of color, then, are being — and historically have been — viewed not as the integrations of pop culture they could be, but instead as fetishizations and rehashings of stereotypes. In this muddying of media, Netflix is complicit.

This kind of sorting by color is the lazy work of a culture that can’t be bothered to recognize race.

As one of my favorite people on twitter, @thetruds, pointed out: “I saw another black woman around, similar content!”

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Michael Brown case not an outlier showed that black teens are 21 times more likely to be killed during an arrest than white teens.

The FBI’s report is also a gross underestimation of the true problem, since the data is voluntary.

Rice’s shooting especially highlights how police officers in the U.S. treat black people.

BY Ashwin Mehra Surveillance videos show that Rice was shot The Daily Wildcat before the driver of the police car could even exit the vehicle. he story of Michael Brown dominated Supposedly, the officers shouted at Rice to Thanksgiving table conversations last show his hands three times from the car while week, but Americans have largely ignored pulling up, but even then, Rice wasn’t posing a the stories of other unarmed black men who threat — there was no reason for him to be shot. were killed by police around the same time.

The person who originally called 911 said the There’s John Crawford III, a 22-year-old black man shot in Ohio on Aug. 5 while walking around gun might be fake, but somehow this tidbit of information was not deemed important enough a Wal-Mart carrying a BB to be passed on to the rifle he picked up from a officers. store shelf. Crawford was The officers then The officers then failed standing in an aisle, gun at failed to give to give Rice first aid for his side, when he was shot almost four minutes — far Rice first aid by police. longer than they waited Another was Darrien for almost four before shooting him.

Hunt, also 22 years old, minutes — far Another detective and an who was killed in Saratoga longer than they FBI agent then arrived Springs, Utah, on Sept. 10. waited before on the scene and started Hunt was cosplaying with giving Rice medical shooting him a 3-foot-long decorative attention, but it was too sword. He was shot late. multiple times in the back And, of course, when white people walk while running away. around with guns — real or fake, in stores or And on Nov. 22, 12-year-old Tamir Rice was parks — or cosplay with swords, they are not shot sitting in a Cleveland park with a toy gun when by police officers. a police car pulled up. Police barely hesitated, So why are black people, including children, so shooting him within two seconds. heavily targeted by police officers even when they These three shootings are part of a harrowing are unarmed and not committing a crime? pattern: Black men are disproportionately killed A 2005 study by researchers from Florida State by police officers, even when they aren’t posing a University found that a group of mostly white threat to police. police officers were more likely to shoot unarmed The FBI’s 2012 Supplementary Homicide black suspects than armed white suspects. It Report shows that of the people not attacking doesn’t help that according to The New York anyone who were still killed by police officers Times, minorities comprise only about 25 percent during an arrest, 39 percent were black. This was of police forces in the U.S. and that white people despite the fact that black people make up only are overrepresented in hundreds of police 13 percent of the population. The same report

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departments compared to those departments’ communities.

A study published in February by the American Psychological Association showed that black children are likely to be viewed as older than they actually are and less innocent than children of other races. The officers who shot Rice radioed in that he appeared 20 years old.

The defense of police officers, and the defense used in Brown’s case by officer Darren Wilson, is that when officers perceive themselves as being in danger, they are justified in shooting. However, if black people are inherently viewed as more dangerous regardless of the threat they pose, then they will be killed more often for no reason — and police officers will continue to get away with it.

Police officers have a duty to uphold the peace, and that means making sure that they are less likely to shoot innocent black people. It’s possible to give psychological tests to prevent hiring racists, and police departments should represent the community they serve.

More importantly, the “perceived threat” defense needs to be eliminated. Police officers should have to be in actual danger to use deadly force, and if they weren’t and they killed anyway, they deserve to be charged. If the officers aren’t sure or need to make a quick decision, they can incapacitate a suspect instead of shooting to kill. Officers can still use force to protect their own lives but can’t sentence a suspect to death without trial.

When cops racially profile and assume black people are dangerous because of their race, innocent people get killed for no crime other than being black. Police officers are meant to serve and protect people. It’s time they start serving and protecting black people, too.

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Open to interpretation

A non-UA affiliated individual reported being attacked by two unidentified men on Nov. 16.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to a report of a fight in progress around 11:30 p.m. Upon arrival at the scene, he was flagged down by a man.

The officer asked the man what was happening, and the man indicated he had a hearing impairment. He had an interpreter on his phone facilitate communication with the officer via video chat.

The man said he was attacked by two men whom he described as “crazy and drunk.” He said the men knew he was hearing impaired and tried to steal his wallet, which was chained to his pants.

He said the men took $53 from him, punched him in the back and pushed him to the ground. One of the men, he said, was taller than him while the other was the same height as him.

The man was complaining of pain in his back but said he did not want to go to the hospital because he could not afford it.

He was informed that an evaluation by paramedics would not cost him anything, and he could refuse transportation to the hospital.

The man also said he was diabetic and had run out of medication several weeks prior. Paramedics evaluated him, and he refused transportation to the hospital. However, once they left, he asked the officers to take him to the hospital so he could obtain more medication.

It was found that the man had prior cases where he used an interpreter to report being robbed by unidentifiable suspects and then requesting transportation to another location.

Catch me if you can

A UA student was diverted to the Dean of Students Office after shoplifting from the UA Bookstore on Nov. 18.

A UAPD officer responded to Cochise Residence Hall regarding bookstore employees chasing down a male student who had shoplifted from the bookstore. When the officer arrived, a security team member had stopped the male.

The security team member said he had tried to confront the student outside of the bookstore when the male took off running.

Security team members chased him on foot until he came to a stop outside of Cochise.

The student was read his Miranda rights, and he said he understood them. The officer asked the student if he would answer questions. The student said, “It depends on what kind of questions you ask.”

The officer told the student his response needed to be a yes or no, and the student replied with a yes.

The student said he bought two things from the bookstore but did not have enough money to buy the rest of the items he wanted. He said when he got a bag with his purchases, he put a pair of headphones in his pocket and put a hat, bow tie and sunglasses in his bag with his purchases.

He then continued to walk out of the bookstore past the registers.

The officer asked why the student ran away, and the student said he had previously gotten a citation for a minor in possession.

The student had stolen $150.47 worth of items.

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Workshop - ‘Adobe Photoshop: Selections & Masks’ 8:15 a.m.-1:45 p.m. University Services Building, Room 310, 888 N Euclid Ave. Use Photoshop’s Masks & Channels, Adjustment Layers, Selection Tools, and Layers to combine photographs in professional and efficient ways. $79.

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by LGBTQ staff to provide resources and guidance, the group is free and confidential. Please drop in–no need to call!

Bear Canyon Knitters 1-3 p.m. KirkBear Canyon Public Library 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. Bring your yarn, needles or hooks to a gathering of knitters with all levels of experience.

Cooking on Campus - Food Gifts 5:15 p.m. Student Recreation Center, Outdoor Adventures, Instructional Kitchen, 1400 E. 6th Street. Our student chefs will show you how easy it is to make tasty food during this hands-on culinary crash course. Learn how to make four different food gifts just in time for the holidays. Featured food gifts include pancake mix, dry rub for barbecuing, energy bites and Chai tea mix.

Men’s Basketball vs. Gardner-Webb (Home) 7 p.m. McKale Memorial Center.

Come cheer on our fellow Wildcats as they take on Gardner-Webb in this fun and exciting game. Go Cats!

LGBTQA+ Support Group 4-5:30 p.m.

Room 412, 4th Floor, Student Union. A safe space for UA students, staff and faculty to talk in an open and supportive environment about issues impacting their lives and the

UA Opera Theater: An Evening of Opera Scenes 7:30 p.m. Crowder Hall 1017 N. Olive Road. $10; $7 UA employees and seniors 55 and up; $5 students. Performers include distinguished undergraduate and graduate students of the UA voice area.

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Anyone Can Draw and Paint 9:30 am to 12:30 p.m. Tucson JCC 3800 E. River Road. $75/$65 JCC members for a 4-punch card, no expiration date. Class for beginners through experienced artists. Explore your creative spirit using various media. Demonstration and instruction at each session. Please bring paper and pencil.

Laughter Yoga 6-7 p.m. St Francis in the Foothills Church, Room 30-31 4625 E. River Road. Gently through breathing and yogic exercises, we touch your heart with playful laughter designed to promote peace and healing.

Outdoor Movie Screening of Watershed 5:30-7 p.m. Watershed Management Group 1137 N. Dodge Blvd. FREE outdoor screening of the documentary WATERSHED. Following the film, we will sign postcards to our elected officials to protect our local rivers.

Abbett Mystery Book Club 2-3 p.m.

Wheeler Taft Abbett, Sr. Branch Library 7800 N. Schisler Drive. Call 594-5200 for information.

Beginning Meditation Class 7-8:30 p.m. Little Chapel of All Nations (on the UA campus) 1401 E First St.. In this four session class, we’ll talk about how to establish a home practice, deepen meditation over time, and find a practice community among the many available in Tucson.

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CHAIR OF THE FACULTY LYNN NADEL addresses the Faculty Senate at the beginning of its monthly meeting in Old Main on Monday. The Faculty Senate focused on how students reflect on their community engagement experiences.

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come in and prevent them from doing their jobs.

“We’ve been having a lot of conversations FROM PAGE 1 with community partners about how to do this on a student’s transcript, such as sustainability … so [we‘ll] do exactly that,” Del Casino said.

He added that it’s also a question of how and leadership. much activity is going on in the wider campus He also gave an example of a field archeology class where students have the chance to go out community, rather than simply having students and actually take part in archeological digs and going out into the community. an agricultural class where the student goes out Another concern, which was brought up by and works with a member of the agricultural Sen. Lynn Nadel, was the use of the word ensector. Del Casino said what these already gagement, particularly after an anecdote of Del existing engagement opportunities lack is Casino’s in which he discussed talking about student reflection on how what students did will the initiative to a group of parents in the spring.

“I guess those parents would not have been affect them and their future.

“The big, big picture to me is this kind of as excited if what you were talking about was cultural politics of the campus that says we engaged classrooms,” Nadel said. “My guess is are genuinely interested in making sure that their excitement was about things that would be these kinds of student experiences are not only happening outside the regular classrooms.” reflected on a transcript, but are a part of how Del Casino responded to this concern by saying they think of themselves, how they package the initiative stems from the question of what a bachelor’s degree is really worth. themselves,” Del Casino said.

Sen. Edward Martin exDel Casino said part of pressed worry over having We wanted the issue is that there is these learning experiences to capture learning going on which isn’t shown on a student’s tranconsidered for credits. He as much of script. gave the example of Compost the activity “I’m a little concerned,” MarCats, which is through the that is tin said. “Would a departOffice of Sustainability, and ment’s curriculum commitalready said students participate in tee be the ones to say this is going on the group because they love an approved activity?”

— Vincent Del it and there is no way to really Casino, Del Casino said it would be a represent what the students are vice provost for matter of approving curricudoing and learning.

Digital Learning lums for classes which go out “What we propose is a and Student and do things and approving Engagement secondary set of options as their competency. actually a zero-credit learning “We wanted to be able to experience,” Del Casino said. “The idea here is that when you do these types of things, you can capture as much of the activity that is already actually say they actually matter to who you are.” going on,” Del Casino said. “Part of the big A concern discussed at length after a senator picture is really getting students to turn back asked about it was the issue that by prompting inward on themselves and reflect on the things students to do these zero-credit learning they are doing. That is the big picture moment experience, there is the possibility it may have a here.”

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Wildcats meet Runnin’ Bulldogs for first time GAME DAY MEN’S BASKETBALL

7 P.M. HOME VS GARDNER-WEBB

UPCOMING SCHEDULE FOOTBALL 12/5 vs. Oregon

MEN’S BASKETBALL 12/6 vs. Gonzaga

VOLLEYBALL 12/4 vs. Yale

WHAT TO WATCH

PHOENIX SUNS AIM TO STAVE OFF PACERS Indiana Pacers vs.

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game plan, it gives the opposition chances for free points at the charity Fresh off a title at the stripe.

2014 EA Sports Maui This needs to tighten Invitational, No. 3 Arizona up as nonconference play men’s basketball faces really heats up over the a completely unknown next couple weeks.

Gardner-Webb team The Runnin’ Bulldogs tonight. The Wildcats may just be 3-3, but and Runnin’ Bulldogs they have played some have never met in each competitive games program’s history. Plus, against teams like LSU Sean Miller has never and Clemson. Leading faced Gardner-Webb in the way is forward Jerome his coaching career.

Hill, who averages 18.5 You couldn’t tell by points per game and 8.0 looking at the pedestrian rebounds per game.

73.3 PPG average, but At 6-foot-5, Hill fills the Wildcats seem to be the stretch four role for a hitting Ga rd n e rt h e i r W e b b The Runst r i d e team that nin’ Bullon both s t a r t s dogs may sides of five guys just be the ball.

6-foot-7 3-3 but Stanley and under. they have Johnson That kind was just of small played named ball play some comthe Pacthat has petitive …

12 Player gripped teams of the t h e W e e k , basketball h o l d becoming the 36th means freshman and Arizona’s Tarczewski needs to pay 87th player overall to win extra defensive attention the award. in order to stay in front of Johnson’s emergence the quicker big men. couldn’t have come at With that small ball a better time, as the rotation, the Runnin’ Wildcats have struggled Bulldogs are chucking with foul trouble in the up 24 3-point attempts past few games. Starting per game, making 7.5 per center Kaleb Tarczewski game. has been the worst culprit It won’t happen often on the team. Tarczewski where Tarczewski and has 21 total fouls in six Brandon Ashley matchup games for an average of with such short guys, so 3.5 fouls per game. this is a great opportunity As a team, Arizona is for the big men. Credit averaging 18 fouls per Miller for scheduling this game. In the last game game. The Wildcats will against San Diego State, likely come out on top, several critical Wildcats but Gardner-Webb is the like T.J. McConnell, just the latest unique Johnson and Tarczewski team to come up on the faced foul trouble; this schedule. not only changes the

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ARIZONA FORWARD STANLEY JOHNSON dribbles down the court during Arizona’s 72-68 win against Kansas State at the EA Sports Maui Invitational in the Lahaina Civic Center in Maui, Hawaii, on Nov. 25. Johnson and the Wildcats take on Gardner-Webb on Tuesday for the first time in program history.

Column: UA football at its best

No. 5 Louisville vs. No. 14 Ohio State, 7 p.m., ESPN

BY JAMES KELLEY

MIAMI AND ILLINOIS CLASH IN CHALLENGE No. 15 Miami (FL) vs.

No. 24 Illinois, 7 p.m., ESPN2

QUOTE TO NOTE Fresh off a title at the 2014 EA Sports Maui Invitational, No. 3 Arizona men’s basketball faces a completely unknown Gardner-Webb SPORTS — 7

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hile Arizona football has two or even three games left in the season, it’s already the UA’s best campaign ever. The 1993 and 1998 seasons are generally regarded as the Wildcats’ best, but this year may change that.

In 1993, the Wildcats went 102, won Arizona’s only Pac-10/12 Conference title and beat Miami 29-0 in the Fiesta Bowl. In 1998, Arizona went 12-1 and beat Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl.

However, even if the Wildcats (10-2, 9-2 Pac-12) end the season 10-4, it is already Arizona’s best season ever.

The UA boasts wins at thenNo. 2 Oregon on the road, a blow out of then No. 17/20 Utah on the road and No. 13/13 ASU at home.

The only ranked teams the 1993 Wildcats beat were No. 25 Washington State at home and No. 10 Miami in the state of Arizona. The 1998 Wildcats only beat No. 20 Washington, No. 12 Oregon on the road and No. 9 Nebraska in the Holiday Bowl.

This season, Arizona already has more wins over ranked teams than the 1993 Wildcats, with two or three games left.

While the 1998 Wildcats also had three wins over ranked teams, only one was on the road and they only made the Holiday Bowl. San Diego is nice and classy, but the 2014 Wildcats are likely headed to a major bowl.

Arizona has other seasons where they enjoyed similar success against ranked teams, but it didn’t have the best endings.

In 1989, the Wildcats beat four AP-ranked teams: No. 6

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ARIZONA FOOTBALL COACH RICH RODRIGUEZ grins after Arizona’s 42-35 win against ASU at Arizona Stadium on Friday. Rodriguez and the Wildcats are in the midst of arguably the most successful single season in Arizona football history.

Oklahoma, No. 11 Washington Aloha Bowl, where the Wildcats and No. 22 UCLA at home and lost 28-0 to Syracuse.

No. 15 Washington State on In 1992, the Wildcats beat the road. three APHowever, ranked teams: While Arizona that season, No. 11 UCLA football has two they only and No. 1 or even three managed Washington games left in a Copper at home and the season, it’s Bowl No. 8 Stanford appearance. on the road. already the UA’s In 1990, But, again, best campaign Arizona that season ever defeated ended with an three AP unsatisfactory Top-25 teams: No. 11 Illinois bowl, a 20-15 loss to Baylor in and No. 18 Oregon at home and the Hancock Bowl.

No. 15 USC on the road. But that Arizona could very well get season ended with a trip to the spanked in the bowl game and

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end the season on a sour note, but it’s likely clinched a spot in one of the New Year’s Six bowl games: Cotton, Fiesta, Orange or Peach in addition to the school’s first ever Pac-12 South championship. For the math majors out there, the other two New Year’s Six games are the Rose and Sugar Bowls, which are the semifinals of the College Football Playoff.

Remember, the college football Jedi Council added two bowls this year to the old BCS bowl lineup — the Cotton and the Peach — so that’s four more chances to play in a major bowl, with 12 total slots now.

If Arizona loses to Oregon, then the Ducks will go to the College Football Playoff, freeing up the Pac-12’s champion slot in the New Year’s Six for the Wildcats. If the UA upsets the Ducks again, then at worst it gets the Pac-12 champion’s slot and could move into the College Football Playoff and even — gasp! — the Wildcats’ first ever Rose Bowl.

Ultimately, can any season top one that features the Hill Mary, the Scooby Strip and Casey Skowron’s redemption kick? At that pace, something amazing will happen in Silicon Valley on Friday or in a place like Glendale, Ariz., North Texas, Atlanta, New Orleans or Pasadena, Calif.

In November, UA head coach Rich Rodriguez kept saying that the more the Wildcats win, the better bowl game they will get.

Well, Arizona won so much it’s stumbled on the UA’s best season ever, with a freshman quarterback and running back and a sophomore middle linebacker.

What’s next?

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PAC-12 POWER RANKINGS

This one is for all the marbles

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

North 1. No. 3 Oregon (11-1, 8-1 Pac-12 Conference) As expected, the Ducks solved “the Stanford problem” and got past the Cardinal. However, now they have an “Arizona problem,” as the Wildcats have beaten them twice in a row. Still, it’s better than having 99 problems.

Last week: First, W vs. Oregon State 47-19 This week: Friday vs. No. 8 Arizona (10-2, 7-2) (Santa Clara, Calif.)

Preseason pick: First 2. Stanford (7-5, 5-4) The Cardinal’s streak of four straight BCS bowls ended this season and not just because of the BCS’s end. They underachieved a bit, but winning seven games in a rebuilding year is still pretty impressive, and they capped the season with a dominant win over UCLA on the road when the Bruins had everything to play for.

Last week: Second, W at UCLA 31-10 Preseason pick: Second 3. Washington (8-5, 4-5) The Huskies were also rebuilding this season and while they won eight games, it was barely impressive.

U-Dub played five teams that were ranked at the time and lost each time and won eight games against teams like Eastern Washington, Hawaii, Wazzu and Colorado.

Last week: Third, W at Washington State 31-13 Preseason pick: Third 4. California (5-7, 3-6) While the Golden Bears will miss out on a bowl, their season was a great success. They came within eight points of going bowling after winning one game last year and none against Football Bowl Subdivision teams.

Last week: fourth, L vs. BYU 42-35 Preseason pick: Sixth 5. Oregon State (5-7, 2-7) The Beavers were yet another Pac12 North rebuilding team and they played like it. They upset ASU but lost to Wazzu, which cost them a chance to go a crappy nameless bowl. Thus, they are stuck in Oregon for the holidays.

Last week: Fifth, L at Oregon 47-19 Preseason pick: Fourth 6. Washington State (3-9, 2-7) Cougar fans were hoping for backto-back bowl seasons, but instead,

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ARIZONA SAFETY JARED TEVIS (38) tries to take down Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota (8) during Arizona’s 31-24 win at Autzen Stadium. The Wildcats and Ducks will face each other in the Pac-12 Conference Championship Game this Friday.

WSU was as disappointing as going to Pullman, Wash., and expecting to see a Pac-12 city. On a positive note, they actually played pretty well after one of the nation’s best quarterbacks, Connor Halliday, was lost for the season.

Last week: Sixth, L vs. Washington 31-13 Preseason pick: Fifth South 1. No. 8 Arizona (10-2, 7-2) No one saw this coming except for me: In the preseason I picked the Wildcats to play in Levi’s Stadium after 12 games. Okay, fine, I admit I picked them to go to the bowl game there, not the championship game.

At least the Pac-12 will finally have a watchable championship game.

Last week: Second, W vs. ASU 42-35

This week: Friday vs. No. 3 Oregon (11-1, 8-1) (Santa Clara, Calif.)

Preseason pick: Third

losing two of their last three.

Last week: Third, L at Arizona 42-35 Preseason pick: Fourth

they missed Oregon and Stanford.

Last week: fifth, W at Colorado 38-34 Preseason pick: Fifth

2. No. 16 UCLA (9-3, 6-3) Coming in as the Pac-12 South’s biggest disappointment is the Bruins.

Many people saw them as playoff contenders, but instead they choked and let the division slip away. Oh well; they’ll always have that game where they destroyed ASU 62-27 on national TV. Last week: First, L vs. Stanford 31-10 Preseason pick: First

4. USC (8-4, 6-3) The Men of Troy started out strong but didn’t have a happy ending, much like the ancient Trojans.

Yeah, they beat up on Notre Dame last week, but that’s been done ad nauseam this season.

Last week: Fourth, W vs. Notre Dame 49-14 Preseason pick: Second

6. Colorado (2-10, 0-9) I had a fun time making fun of Colorado, but honestly, they didn’t really deserve such a hideous record.

They played an absolutely brutal schedule that a rebuilding program shouldn’t have to face. Good thing it’s basketball season for them. If you don’t check out the basketball power rankings, I’ll make fun of you for 14 weeks straight!

Last week: Sixth, L vs. Utah 38-34 Preseason pick: Sixth

3. No. 17 ASU (9-3, 6-3) For much of the season, the school that inspires young Sun Devils fans to throw up the shocker shocked the college football world. However, they ended the season in the stink by

5. No. 24 Utah (8-4, 5-4) The Utes had a season to remember as they were in contention for the Pac-12 South deep into November and had their best season as a Pac12 team. In 2012 and 2013, they went 5-7, and in 2011, they went 8-5, but

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Looking back, Mount St. Mary’s presented a team that shot about 25 3-pointers per game, something that helped the UA improve perimeter defense. UC Irvine boasted 7-foot-5 and 7-foot-2 centers, which allowed the UA bigs to get quality work against another physically imposing front line. San Diego State puts considerable pressure on ball handlers, an aspect that guards like Gabe York and Parker Jackson-

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From Miller’s perspective, no doubt he’d rather have his team see these unique looks now rather than in March.

For an Arizona team that has a game against Gonzaga and Michigan on the horizon, overlooking Gardner-Webb could prove deadly. It’s a classic case of a trap game.

Miller and the coaching staff will definitely preach focus and respect in the lead up to tonight’s action.

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Baseball spending is here to stay

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ajor League Baseball free agency has been underway for about a month now, and saying the floodgates have been opened might not do it justice. The Miami Marlins gave 25-year-old superstar Giancarlo Stanton the largest contract in MLB history at 13 years and $325 million. That’s about onethird of a billion dollars.

Feel free to pick up your jaw from the floor anytime now.

Stanton may not have been a free agent, but his unbelievable contract is only going to set the stage for a young player like Mike Trout. $200 million contracts are going to look like chump change over the next couple years.

There are penalties for exceeding certain levels of spending, but the lack of a hard salary cap means these contracts are just going to keep rising. Don’t believe it? Just look at some of the other contracts that have been given out so far this offseason.

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the right time. Those are just the top tier guys; mid-level free agents are getting anywhere in the $5 million to $12 million range.

All this spending has to raise some red flags in front offices around the league.

Bad contracts are the easiest way to stay out contention. They might not be contenders anymore, but look at the Arizona Diamondbacks. They gave Cody Ross $26 million and Bronson Arroyo $23.5 million over the past couple of years, two contracts that look absolutely awful now and have changed offseason plans for the last two seasons.

As spending increases, teams which built through the draft like the Chicago Cubs look like outliers.

In summation, Major League Baseball has set the stage for spending among major Northern American sports leagues. The NBA will follow suit in the next couple of years and the NFL shouldn’t be too far behind.

If you have any sort of chance to become a professional baseball player, I’d get on that as soon as possible, because that’s where the money is.

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6-0 3 11 73.3 59.5 Pac-12 40,200 Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr When the UA first opened, it offered a prep school because there were no high schools in the territory.

coming off a solid campaign with the LA Dodgers, got $95 million and $88 million respectively from the Boston Red Sox. Sure, the Red Sox have big money, but having money and spending money are two different things. They’re certainly not afraid to spend money and likely aren’t done spending either.

31-year-old catcher Russell Martin took a $82 million deal from the Toronto Blue Jays to move from the Pittsburgh Pirates. As the only realistic starting catcher on the free agent market, Martin was bound to get overpaid.

More low key but still large, Nelson Cruz signed a $57 million contract with the Seattle Mariners and Victor Martinez signed a $68 million deal with the Detroit Tigers.

It’s telling that two deals of at least $57 million are considered low key when compared to some of these other deals.

The trend of spending is not going to go away, either. The New York Yankees spent $471 million on free agents alone last offseason. Just think about that number. It doesn’t even take into account the entire offseason spending.

Looking at this year’s free agent market, pitchers like James Shields, Max Scherzer and Jon Lester look primed for deals north of $100 million. Each is at least 30 years old but is a free agent at

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passed by Congress in 1998 allowing, but not requiring, college campuses to notify parents of students under age 21 who violate campus drug and/or alcohol policies. The amendment states that... “an institution of higher education may disclose to a parent or legal guardian information regarding any violation of any Federal, State, or local law or of any rule or policy of the institution, governing the use or possession of alcohol or a controlled substance... if the student is under 21 and the institution determines that the student has committed a disciplinary violation.”

That’s a mouthful and it means that if you’re caught with alcohol on campus or recently consumed alcohol (body is a container law), your parents will receive a letter from the university after you’ve been cited informing them of the violation. Just an FYI: the student consensus seems to be to make the call home yourself before your parents receive the letter.

The intent of this policy is to inform and engage parents in prevention/intervention as needed, allowing parents to become involved before their son or daughter gets into more serious trouble with substances. For example, sometimes treatment may be necessary and parents can help facilitate that process. Many colleges and universities use this notification policy and a majority of parents are supportive of the practice (72% per a 2000 survey by Association for Student Judicial Affairs’ Model Policy Committee).

98% of underage UA students did not get an Minor in Possession (MIP) within the past 30 days. (2014 Health & Wellness Survey, n=2,175)

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Medicine and poetry collide

BY Ian Martella The Daily Wildcat

When going to the doctor, one usually doesn’t expect to hear poetry.

One would expect to hear original poetry from local poets even less.

Art Aloud is a spoken word event hosted by the College of Medicine — Tucson’s Medical Humanities program every month at Java City, inside the Arizona Health Sciences Library.

Organized by Dr. Ron Grant, a pediatrician and director of Medical Humanities, the event boasts a creative intersection between the sciences and humanities.

“Art Aloud is an opportunity to bring some holistic care and human empathy into a space that, for students, doctors and patients, can sometimes begin to feel a bit sterile,” said Adam Sirgany, a creative writing graduate student who lead last Tuesday’s event in Grant’s absence.

“It’s a good opportunity for people to get the other sides of their brain working,” Sirgany added.

Sirgany said the performance Tuesday was one of the most heavily attended of the year, where poetry and medical enthusiasts celebrated the 10th annual release of the Medical Humanities magazine, Harmony.

The library-style cafe was packed with administrative employees, doctors, students and some creative writing MFA candidates.

“Oftentimes there are a few more readers,” Sirgany said, “and many of them read from books that Dr. Grant or I bring in. Many of those are authors that Dr. Grant just has a love for, but many are fixated on

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Poetry and medical enthusiasts gather every month at Art Aloud, a spoken word platform hosted by the Medical Humanities program at Java City, located inside the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona Medical Center.

ideas of medicine and the body.”

The poetry found within the walls of Java City usually relates to those themes, but Tuedsay’s event varied with poems by poets like Maya Angelou and CAConrad. Among those who spoke about sciencerelated topics, however, was poet Evamaria Lugo, coordinator in research administration at the Arizona Health Sciences Center.

Lugo’s original piece titled “I know when people will die” — which appears in the 10th anniversary edition of Harmony — tells the story of a man Lugo met while waiting at a bus stop, who confided in her that he had the power of foreseeing the deaths of those around him.

Lugo’s conversation with the man centered around a curious dilemma of his regarding the

ethics of informing the living of their imminent demise. Pondering the differences between terminal disease and the terminal nature of life, Lugo’s poem gives credence to those affected by mental illnesses through a careful and attentive tone.

“I was taught to see homeless people as human beings worthy of respect,” Lugo said before she read the poem.

Lugo was not the only one at Art Aloud who sought to benefit those living in poverty. Lydia Kennedy, coordinator of faculty development at the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, announced the program would sponsor a toy drive for Casa de los Niños, one of the first crisis nurseries for abused children in the nation.

The event closed out with a reminder that Dan Shapiro, the creator of the Medical Humanities department, will be giving a lecture in December on his new book, “Delivering Doctor Amelia: The Story of a Gifted Young Obstetrician’s Error and the Psychologist Who Helped Her.” “It’s actually a non-fiction narrative about an obstetric gynecoloist who worked here at the UA,” Sirgany said, “and who, in the early years of her practice, made a very human error that lead to the death of a patient. The book itself follows the process of managing that grief, as well as the legal implications of that.”

Shapiro’s lecture will take place on Dec. 30 at the Poetry Center, Sirgany said.

The next Art Aloud event will be held on Dec. 16, from noon to 1 p.m., at Java City inside of the Arizona Health Sciences Library at the University of Arizona Medical Center. Everyone is welcome to attend, and those interested in poetry are encouraged to perform.

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Who. MTV’s ‘Girl Code’ What. comedian visits UA Wear. for one-night event

BY Chelsea Cook The Daily Wildcat

A comedian who admits to faking her own death to get out of a gym membership will be visiting the Student Union Memorial Center’s Grand Ballroom tonight to share her quirky humor.

Carly Aquilino is a standup comedian who appears regularly on MTV’s Girl Code, which MTV’s website describes as “a strong and smart female-driven comedy series” that openly discusses the wonders and woes of womanhood.

The entire show is put on by females and consists of comedy revolving around sisterhood.

Aquilino’s main objective, according to Adam Caballero, a deaf studies sophomore, is “to entertain her guests and make sure they are having a good time.” Caballero, the novelties director for the Wildcat Events Board, said Aquilino will serve as a distraction from papers, lectures and tests for one night. Because the main focus of the night is to give students time to relax and put school in the back of their minds, the main audience for the event is expected to mostly be UA students.

Aquilino is known across the courtesy of MTV country by her bright red hair. A still of Carly Aquilino in the skit “Get Back Out There” from season three of “I’ve had this hair color since MTV’s “Girl Code,” which began airing in October. Aquilino will be visiting the UA today I was 18 years old,” Aquilino for a free event hosted by the Wildcat Events Board. said in an interview with Her Campus. “I was a shampoo random, which can appeal committee is responsible for girl at a hair salon and I was to a social media generation. bringing different types of The event tonight is being events to campus; the speakers messing held by the and novelties committees around W i l d c a t organized Aquilino’s event. w i t h “I love Carly,” said Annie Events Board, colors all Nguyen, a freshman studying a student-run the time. I sciences and o r g a n i z a t i o n nutritional WHO: Carly Aquilino eventually p r o v i d i n g Spanish, who said she’s tried red WHERE: Student Union e d u c a t i o n a l , excited for the visit. “I can’t and I loved Memorial Center e n t e r t a i n i n g wait to hear her speak because it, so I and thought- on ‘Girl Code,’ she’s hilarious.”

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Can you tell me where you got your outfit?

My boots I got from a Steve Madden store, my leggings are super old and I think I got them from Forever 21 in high school, my dress is from H&M that I got at a thrift store and my jean jacket is from a thrift store called Crossroads.

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I have this blazer that is green with some metallic gold in it.

Where do you wear that?

On campus or when I’m going out at night.

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