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Grad students face worse debt

BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA The Daily Wildcat

Graduate and professional students account for a significant portion of the $1.2 trillion in federal student debt.

According to a report in Time magazine, graduate students account for about 40 percent of student debt, while generally making up 14 percent of the student population.

Graduate and professional students make up about 22 percent of the student population at the

UA with 9,249 students, according to Zach Brooks, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council.

According to the UA Financial Aid website, the estimated in-state tuition for graduate students is $11,800 and $28,800 for out-of-state students. The cost of attendance, which doesn’t include tuition, is $20,900 for both in-state and out-ofstate graduate students..

There are roughly 3,000 graduate assistants at the UA, Brooks said, and their average salary is $16,388 per year. This leaves graduate

assistants making about $4,000 less than the average cost of attendance.

Brooks said almost every graduate student starts with a below-cost-of-attendance salary.

They then have to pay university fees, deal with a lack of subsidized loans, higher interest rates and in some cases, may be parents having to support their children.

“The impact of paying a higher interest rate, and not being able to get an unsubsidized loan, is becoming very real to millions of Americans,” Brooks said. “People are saying, ‘I’m not going to start

a family or buy a house, because I have $500-900 student loan payments a month with a doctorate degree.”

Kristofferson Culmer, director of outreach and 2015 president elect for the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students, said the average amount of student debt for master’s degree students is about $55,000, $75,000 for doctoral students and $146,000 for students studying for a professional degree. The national average for undergraduate student debt is

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard Gabe York (1) goes for a rebound during Arizona’s 91-65 win against Gardner-Webb on Tuesday in McKale Center. York tied with Stanley Johnson for the team-high scoring mark of 18 points in the Wildcats’ seventh win of the season.

The Arizona men’s basketball team overcame a slow start to defeat Gardner-Webb 91-65 in the first ever matchup between the two programs

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Sandwiched between games with then-No. 15 San Diego State and No. 9 Gonzaga, Arizona men’s basketball’s game against GardnerWebb looked like a potential trap game, but it was not to be. The No. 3 Wildcats (7-0) beat the Runnin’ Bulldogs 91-65 to remain perfect heading into the Gonzaga game.

The UA used a 27-5 run midway through the second half to pull away.

“No, you got to respect every opponent,” UA forward Stanley Johnson said, when asked if it was tough to get up for a team like GWU. “I think, personally, after going to Maui, for us to come here and put up a subpar performance

is almost making Maui look kind of bad on us.”

Johnson tied for a game-high 18 points, was 6-for-9 from the field, 3-for-4 from beyond the arc and had eight rebounds. Shooting guard Gabe York also had 18 points, including three 3-pointers.

The Wildcats trailed for almost 10 minutes in the first half, and GWU was 10-for-29 from 3-point territory on the game.

“It tested us in a big way, and when you give up 10 made 3’s, you’re playing with fire,” UA head coach Sean Miller said. “Hopefully. we learn from the film and learn from what we went through here [Tuesday] night, which will only make us better.”

Arizona shot 56 percent from the field, 59 percent from 3 and 50

percent from the free-throw line.

Meanwhile, the Runnin’ Bulldogs shot 38 percent, 35 percent from beyond the arc and 58 percent from the line.

“It didn’t feel like a 25-point win or whatever it was,” Miller said. “I think we learned more about our team and gained some knowledge on what we need to work on.”

The Wildcats had 23 assists, and point guards T.J. McConnell and Parker Jackson-Cartwright had 15 assists and one turnover.

“That’s a heck of night from that position,” Miller said.

After three games in three days in the EA Sports Maui Invitational, Miller said the Wildcats needed a break and a couple days to get

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Dr. Sue Sisley’s marijuana research made a list of studies that Colorado’s Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council announced on Nov. 24 in order to be considered for research funding.

When Sisley was terminated from the UA in June, Sisley had been working on research to explore the effects of marijuana on post-traumatic stress disorder for veterans.

Sisley’s sponsor, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, submitted a proposal in October to the Colorado council requesting $2 million to fund her research.

The Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council’s list of studies, which includes Sisley’s, will be considered by the Board of Health at its Dec. 17 meeting to decide whether or not Sisley and MAPS receive the funding.

“Each proposal is for a two or three-year study,” states a press release from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “The Board of Health has authority to approve or disapprove the grant proposals submitted by the council. In the event of unallocated research funding, the board may direct the department and the advisory council regarding funding of additional research that meets grant requirements.”

MAPS said in a press release that the money would be used to fund the study in two locations.

The plans for the study include Sisley staying in Arizona and conducting half of the study at either her private practice or at Arizona State University.

At the time of the press release in October, MAPS said Sisley was in discussions with ASU for the study to be performed there. These discussions followed veterans attending the Arizona Board of Regents meeting in September who spoke in favor of Sisley and asked ASU to host the study.

The other half of the study would take place at John Hopkins Univrsity in Baltimore, conducted

by Ryan Vandrey, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

In an email with VICE New’s Samuel Oakford, Sisley said that in October 2012, she was told by

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A new look at ‘eye’phones

BY BENNY SISSON The Daily Wildcat

UA faculty and students were awarded a grant for three years of development and research to create devices that will change the way eye examines are given around the world .

Researchers at the UA are finding new and innovative ways to use smartphones to scan eyes in order to detect and quickly determine whether or not patients will be at risk of losing their sight .

Wolfgang Fink , a

professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering , is heading the investigation.

Funded by the National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation , the research is attempting to create a hand-held device that can examine particular parts of the eye.

Fink said that the technology will allow the doctors or examiners to go to the patient, instead of the patient going to the doctor, allowing for faster response

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PROFESSOR WOLFGANG Fink is developing ophthalmic examination devices similar to the one shown here that attach to smartphones for health care providers to conduct eye exams in the field.

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UA professor discovers students taking MAS courses succeed academically

BY Katelyn Caldwell The Daily Wildcat

Recent studies have found that students who take Mexican American studies courses are more likely to do better in their academics.

Research conducted by Nolan Cabrera, an assistant professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education, has positively linked academic success among the students who took MAS courses.

Cabrera was the lead author of the study of Tucson’s controversial ethnic studies program, and concluded that those who took MAS courses were more likely to graduate from high school as well as score higher on standardized tests.

“We found a consistency of a positive relationship between taking the Mexican American Studies courses and students’ increasing academic performance,” Cabrera said.

Research was done in 2012 regarding the Tucson Unified School District’s school desegregation lawsuit to address the benefit of MAS

courses for students.

At the request of Special Master Willis Hawley, the overseer of the TUSD desegregation case, Cabrera conducted these analytical studies.

“The more allowed Mexican American Studies courses took, the greater the likelihood of success,” he said.

MAS courses have come under attack from individuals who believe these types of classes will encourage and promote ethnic solidarity, leading students to resent white people.

House Bill 2281 was passed by Arizona legislation in 2010 and targeted the MAS course curriculum in TUSD. According to Section 1, lines 4-12 of the law, public schools should treat everyone as individuals and not based on their ethnic background.

The law also stated that a program cannot promote ethnic solidarity or overthrowing the U.S. government, or be geared toward a particular ethnic group.

“There were massive educational inequities in the Tucson Unified

School District between white and Latino students,” Cabrera said.

He argued in his research article that the TUSD curriculum, after HB 2281 was passed, was out of compliance with that very law.

“It is a difficult situation, because there is a lot of misinformation put out there,” he said.

Mary Carol Combs, an associate professor in the department of teaching, learning and sociocultural studies at the UA, is among many contributing authors to the book, “Raza Studies: The Public Option for Educational Revolution.”

The novel is a passionate defense leveled to promote MAS programs after Arizona legislators passed legislation with the intent of banning MAS or similar curriculums in schools around the state.

The novel, published by the University of Arizona Press, was a mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act. “It gave them another vision of what education could be and their own role within it,” Combs said.

Combs is one of many supporters

of MAS programs, and said that the courses allowed students who were struggling in school to improve and learn material they could, ideally, relate to.

“It really motivated students to learn the content and dig deeper to explore topics that were relevant to their own lives,” Combs said.

Combs added that she has personal ties to the MAS programs, as her daughter was exposed to the program at Tucson High School and was positively affected.

Combs said she believed MAS did not violate HB 2281 because any student, no matter their ethnicity, could take the courses offered.

“There was never any evidence or desire for this program to promote ethnic solidarity,” she said.

“When kids see themselves in the curriculum, they are much more motivated to do well. It provided another future for these kids.”

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Honey bee research buzzing on UA campus book “Honey Bee Colony Health: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions,” in which they present their research that the processing UA affiliates and students are currently active and preservation of pollen is partially due to in honey bee research with the vision that the microbes.

According to their chapter, the researchers bees are beneficial to the Tucson economy and are beginning to learn about all the components ecology.

Gloria DeGrandi-Hoffman, an adjunct affected by microbes in the health of honey scientist for the department of entomology bees and other organisms. It explains that many and research leader and location coordinator metabolic processes are directed by genes of for the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in symbiotic microbes.

From this, researchers can assume that Tucson, works in the nutrition laboratory of optimum health is reliant upon the microbes the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She said honey bees that are needed to process food and maintained are important to Arizona agriculture because of conditions that stimulate their growth.

A trend that DeGrandicrop pollination.

Hoffman said she has seen “We grow a lot of seed The value over the past five or six years is crops here in Arizona, things of bees to that more people are becoming like broccoli seeds, different aware of the importance of bees, everyone vegetable seeds, and the wanting to get into beekeeping has gone bees pollinate the flowers and to keep pollinating plants so and set the seed,” DeGrandiup quite a the bees that are around can get Hoffman said. bit pollen and nectar.

She said honey bees are — Gloria “The value of bees to everyone DeGrandialso important to the desert has gone up quite a bit,” she Hoffman, in making sure that desert an adjunct said, “[and] the consciousness plants set seed. scientist for the has really been raised on the “This gives us recurring department of importance of bees.” entomology flowers, which are She said if there was ever a important for wildlife and silver lining to colony collapse for soil stability,” DeGrandiHoffman said. “All those sort of ecological disorder, it was the resulting awareness about honey bees that has been generated. benefits of flora on the desert floor.”

Sarah White, a biology sophomore, studies The nutrition lab conducts research on honey bee nutrition and focuses on trying to bees in a lab at the UA. She chose to do research maintain colony health. Currently, it is looking on bees because she thought it would be at the nutritional needs of colonies, DeGrandi- interesting to learn more about them in a handsHoffman said, and the relationship between on way.

“The news media focused attention so much good nutrition and their community. on colony collapse disorder and the loss of bees “We’re also looking at the microbes that are and the importance of bees, that it really served important in honey bee nutrition and how those help bees to preserve their food in the hive, but an educational purpose and raised peoples’ also to process and digest it within the bees consciousness,” DeGrandi-Hoffman said.

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themselves,” she said.

DeGrandi-Hoffman, Bruce Eckholm and Kirk Anderson published a chapter in the

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about $29,000. Culmer said there is an inequality between undergraduate and graduate students. This happens, Culmer said, because universities often focus on the largest demographic at their institution, which is almost always undergraduate students.

Congress passed the Budget Control Act in 2011, which put an end to subsidized loans for graduate and professional students. More recently, in 2013, HR 1911 was the first time that legislation stated there would be a difference in the rates that an undergraduate student pays for a student loan and a graduate professional student pays for a student loan.

Culmer said the interest rate on student loans for graduate and professional students is 6.8 percent and

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Sue Sisley, former UA researcher.

the Arizona Legislature to make it legal to do this study on campus; we did that,” Sisley said, citing Senate Bill 1443.

According to SB 1443, no one can legally contain marijuana on a public university campus, but an individual doing medical research on marijuana may do so on a public university campus.

If Sisley and MAPS receive the funding from the board of health, the $2 million they requested will come from $10 million that was set aside last year by the general assembly for “scientific research available about the use of marijuana in effectively treating various medical conditions.”

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the UA that researching marijuana on campus was illegal, and that the university insisted she find a location off campus.

Sisley said that she did attempt to find a location off campus, but no one was willing to host a location for her to do her research because it involved marijuana.

“As soon as each landlord heard the word ‘marijuana,’ they immediately shut the door on us,” Sisley said in the email to Oakford.

She said in the email that following the failure to find a location off campus, they returned to the UA. “When I returned to the [UA] with this information, they claimed that the only way they would allow this is if we ran a bill at

to eye problems.

The whole field is called teleophthalmology, which Fink is pioneering as an extension of telemedicine that brings mobile devices and medical care together.

“The purpose is you would be able to go to the bedside in hospitals, you could go to third-world countries, you could go to areas of catastrophe … [and] you could use it in a military setting, too,” Fink said.

Fink said the research and development has three components that are necessary for success of this device. The device is to be attached to a smart phone and is significantly smaller then the average examination machine.

The device is meant to scan the eye for diseases such as glaucoma, macular degeneration and other problems the eye can contract that could ultimately cause blindness.

The three aspects of the effort and grant are the device itself, the way to send the data to an expert system which reviews and uses smart algorithms that to produce the data, Fink said.

Fink has student researchers working with him, including Jerri-Lynn Kincade, a biomedical engineering senior and vice president of the UA chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers.

“As the team’s leader, it is my responsibility to help lead the team in building and testing the hand-held ophthalmic examination device to image areas of the eye,” Kincade said.

Both Fink and Kincade said there are many aspects of this project to be excited about, and with this grant, there is a lot of promise for the future of medicine and eye care.

“One thing I am excited to see is if these devices take off and actually go through the commercialization aspect of things,” Kincade said. “It will be awesome to see Dr. Fink’s devices that he has mentored us on just out there in the world and people using them.”

Fink said he is looking beyond that in hopes to change health care by creating a device that he hopes can save lives and take the care directly to people.

“What I would like to see is actually changing health care at large,” Fink said. “You would actually reduce health costs and bring quality health care to the vast majority of people, which wasn’t possible up to date.”

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only 3.4 percent for undergraduate students.

“When Congress was making legislation in regards to higher education and student loans, the graduate student population was the easiest to take resources away from, [and] over time, it’s just been a steady chipping away of benefits,” Culmers said. “We’re an easy population to do that to.”

There is a general perception that once a student obtains a graduate degree, they make a lot of money, Culmer said, and while that may be true for certain fields, it is not the case for all of them.

“The graduate student debt issue is really big,” Brooks said. “It’s getting worse and has a huge negative impact. Graduate student living is tough.”

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Guardsmen ease control in Ferguson tribune news service

Hundreds of National Guardsmen have begun to withdraw from St. Louis and Ferguson, Mo., as tensions have begun to ease in the embattled suburb, which was the site of mass looting and riotous behavior after a grand jury declined to indict a police officer in the August killing of an unarmed 18-year-old.

As of Tuesday afternoon, there were 1,268 guardsmen stationed in St. Louis County, down from an estimate of more than 2,000 last week, according to a statement issued by Gov. Jay Nixon.

“The men and women of the Missouri National Guard have served the people of the region admirably, and I greatly appreciate their professionalism, bravery and dedication,” Nixon said in his statement. “As the Guard begins to scale back its operations, the Missouri State Highway Patrol will continue to work closely with local law enforcement agencies to protect lives and property in Ferguson and across the St. Louis region.”

The image of guardsmen riding in Humvees and patrolling the outsides of businesses with rifles had become commonplace in the days that followed a grand jury’s decision last week not to indict Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in

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Missouri National Guard soldiers patrol the parking lot of the Ferguson Market & Liquor store on Florissant Avenue in Ferguson a little after 10 p.m. on Monday. Traffic has been allowed to flow freely on Florissant Avenue since Saturday night, but a sign on the road still states it is closed to traffic at 5 p.m.

the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown.

The guardsmen, often carrying riot shields and sporting fatigues, were also a constant presence at the Ferguson Police Department’s

headquarters, the scene of many of the clashes between protesters and police last week.

Nixon declared a state of emergency in the St. Louis suburb in November, and on Monday,

he called for a special legislative session in the hopes of allocating additional state funds for the work of guardsmen and Highway Patrol officers in the region. However, Nixon later said a special session was not needed because statutes already permit him to reallocate that money.

More than 100 people were arrested in Ferguson and St. Louis in the days after the grand jury decision, though protests tailed off leading up to Thanksgiving. After two days of clashes along West Florissant Avenue and at Ferguson City Hall, demonstrations remained largely peaceful through the holiday, though 15 people were arrested during demonstrations outside police headquarters Friday night.

While public tension has largely diminished, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson did say police may investigate Brown’s stepfather for several incendiary comments he made in the moments following the grand jury decision.

Louis Head was filmed screaming “burn this [expletive] down” and made other similar remarks in the moments that followed the announcement that Wilson would not be charged in Brown’s death.

Jackson, speaking to Fox News on Monday, said the department is “pursuing those comments” but did not elaborate on what, if any, charges Head could face.

Wife of militant leader detained tribune news service

Lebanese authorities have detained a wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State militant group, according to unconfirmed reports circulating Tuesday in the Lebanese press.

Various news outlets cited security sources saying that a woman identified as one of Baghdadi’s wives had been taken into custody while trying to cross into the nation from neighboring Syria.

There was no official confirmation from Lebanese authorities, and there were various conflicting accounts of her reported arrest. The name of the woman identified as a Baghdadi spouse was not released.

The Lebanese newspaper As-Safir described the arrest as “a preemptive blow” against Islamic State, which has declared a “caliphate” across vast stretches of territory under its control in Syria and neighboring Iraq, prompting a U.S.-led air campaign against the group. Al-Baghdadi has taken the title of

“Caliph Ibrahim.”

The woman carried a false identification when arrested in recent days at an unspecified border crossing, As-Safir reported. She was taken to Ministry of Defense, where “investigations with her are ongoing,” the Lebanese newspaper said. Authorities had deliberately remained silent about “this great security achievement” until now, the newspaper reported.

She was reportedly detained with another person, alternately identified in press reports here as her son or daughter.

Lebanese authorities have been waging a campaign in the country against Sunni Muslim militants, including supports of Islamic State, a breakaway al-Qaida faction. Security officials say they have arrested group supporters and broken up several plots linked to the transnational militant organization.

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the proceeds from oil sales in Iraq and Syria.

Thousands of foreign jihadists, including many westerners, have traveled to Syria to join Islamic State.

Relatively little is known about the personal life of al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi who was a leader of al-Qaida-linked Sunni Muslim rebels fighting against U.S. and Iraqi government forces in Iraq.

He has long been a secretive figure, largely known through grainy mug shots and audio messages. But he made a breakout public appearance this July, delivering a sermon at the Grand Mosque in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which had been overrun by his followers the previous month. A video of his sermon was posted on the Internet, showing al-Baghdadi as a bulky, bearded figure who appeared to walk with a limp and urged Muslims to join a battle for what he described as Islam’s lost glory.

Some unconfirmed reports have said that alBaghdadi was injured last month during a U.S. air raid in Iraq that killed an associate.

Al-Baghdadi, believed to be in his early 40s,

is a Sunni Muslim cleric reportedly from the city of Samarra, 60 miles north of the capital, Baghdad.

Al-Baghdadi, whose real name is said to be Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, was held

by U.S. forces in Iraq as a “civilian internee” for 11 months before he was released in December 2004, according to the Pentagon. His Iraqibased insurgent group moved into Syria after the outbreak of war there in 2011, and eventually split from al-Qaida in a dispute with the radical organization.

Al-Baghdadi is said to be a disciple of the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an al-Qaida militant from Jordan. Al-Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. air strike in Iraq in 2006 after leading a campaign of suicide bombings, kidnappings and hostage beheadings against both Western forces and Shiite Muslims, the majority sect in Iraq. AlQaida-style Sunni militants generally view Shiites and those of related Muslim sects as infidels.

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Drunks make all students look racist

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ighly educated people can still be extremely ignorant.

On the edge of the UA campus, the Islamic Center of Tucson has been standing for over 25 years. Since the fall of last year, three apartment buildings have gone up, surrounding the center on three sides. And, of course, this has caused problems for the Islamic Center.

These problems culminated in several serious events in November when large amounts of trash, including glass bottles and food waste , were hurled off of balconies and onto the center’s property. Not only is this rude and destructive, it is extremely dangerous to any person that might be walking through the parking lot. Glass should never be falling from the sky and especially not onto the dome of a mosque located 20 feet from campus.

Cardinal Group Management, a Denver-based company, is the owner of the Next and Level apartments. The management group sent out letters to their residents with balconies facing the Islamic Center, detailing the consequences, including eviction and fines, if the newly-installed surveillance cameras caught anyone in their apartment throwing trash into the night sky.

This is a good thing. But we also need more involvement from UA administration.

Kendal Washington White, the dean of students, said that nothing has been done because the Tucson Police Department “is still working on the investigation,” but the Dean of Students Office “hopes to receive names” of the students involved. She also explained that consequences could vary from a warning to expulsion, but she argued that the actions of the Level and Next residents do not reflect on the UA because “our students are all individuals.”

Wrong. Even if all UA students are individuals, this reflects on all of us in the most negative light. It makes us look like a bunch of drunken hooligans that don’t know how to use trash cans and enjoy defacing property.

Muhammad Al-Khudair, a member of the Islamic Center and a UA employee, said that many in the center’s congregation feel targeted because nothing is being thrown at the other adjacent properties: Mama’s Hawaiian BBQ, the parking garage or Jack in the Box. Al-Khudair believes that students can be “influenced by the media into thinking everyone is the same.” In the end, both AlKhudair and I agree that this situation is fueled by a “lack of understanding and ignorance.”

So here’s a bunch of university students proving their ignorance of the consequences of glass projectiles — and either they all live on the same side of the building, or they’re also ignorant about who the Islamic Center serves and what being a Muslim means. It doesn’t seem like too much of a stretch to assume the latter.

If my hypothesis is correct, then I have a few questions for these students. Should they throw bottles immediately upon meeting me because my race means I could be a white supremacist? Or should I have trash strewn across my lawn because my sex means I might be a feminist?

If we’re going to make assumptions about the ICT and treat it accordingly, should we treat everyone from Africa like they have Ebola or AIDS, all Mormons as though they practice polygamy, everyone who speaks with a Southern drawl as a hillbilly, everyone with a Russian passport as a member of the Mafia, all blondes as dumb and anyone wearing blue like a Crip?

Figure it out, people.

But the most important question is: Why isn’t anyone throwing crap off their balcony at the Jack in the Box? God knows obesity is a real terror threat in the U.S.

— Trey Ross is a journalism sophomore.

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Time to check our use of border checkpoints

by Casey Hoyack

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ecently, the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint in Ajo, Ariz., was closed due to a lack of agents available to staff it. According to officials, the Border Patrol is not understaffed. Rather, resources are limited, and this is their way of prioritizing. Nicole Ballistrea of the Tucson sector said the decision was based on “where it’s operationally necessary and where needs dictate.”

So not having enough agents is not understaffing, just prioritization. I am so convinced.

The Ajo checkpoint is one of 11 checkpoints in Southern Arizona.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Vic Brabble said all checkpoints are temporary and can be moved within 24 hours based on operational needs. Even when checkpoints are closed, CBP can deploy agents to specific areas, if necessary.

As someone who has lived on the Southern Arizona border my entire life, I have constantly had to go through these checkpoints. Though their purpose is to stop people from entering the country illegally and contraband from entering the country from Mexico, I am not convinced of their efficacy or their constitutionality.

One does not need to be a constitutional as harm to property values, tourism and quality of life resulting from checkpoint scholar to be a little leery of these operations.” checkpoints. One needs only look at the While I am all for border security, Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against resources and efforts need to be focused “unreasonable searches and seizures.” on the border before criminals and Slowing down to 25 miles per hour to criminal activity creeps into the interior of remind myself and some stranger that I the country. It would be best if the Border am a U.S. citizen is a waste of both our Patrol would redirect its efforts away from time and, yes, is unreasonable. patrolling the interior of this country and These checkpoints are not just located toward the border itself. along the U.S.-Mexico Stopping travelers and border. They form a residents who happen to 100-mile-long border Border be traveling through this within American land Patrol 100-mile zone, including and coastal borders. [should] here in Southern Arizona, is Nearly 200 million people redirect not the way to go. It’s simply live in areas where its efforts ineffective. such checkpoints exist, And, remember — according to the American away from unconstitutional.

Civil Liberties Union. The patrolling Immigration reform ACLU is one of the most the interior is more than creating a outspoken of the many of this pathway to citizenship or nonprofit organizations country building new fences along that routinely speak out the border. It is also about on issues related to the removing the inefficiencies Border Patrol checkpoints. that exist in the way we In a recent letter govern our borders. Hopefully, whenever to the U.S. Department of Homeland the federal government decides to (finally) Security officials regarding the ACLU’s reform our country’s immigration system, concerns with Border Patrol checkpoints, we’ll decide to “prioritize” things other Arizona ACLU Staff Attorney James Lyall than road checkpoints. wrote, “Border Patrol checkpoints have profoundly negative impacts on border communities. Recently, residents of Arivaca, Arizona began petitioning for the — Casey Hoyack is a philosophy, politics, removal of one of three local checkpoints economics & law senior. Follow him that surround their town, citing ongoing @hoyack_ rights violations and harassment as well

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elebrities coming out can feel so passé, especially in the entertainment industry. Sports figures such as Michael Sam or Jason Collins shock our sensibilities and judgments about what the gay community looks like, but no stink is made when stars such as Lady Gaga or Ricky Martin publicly identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. The attitude seems to be, “So what?

Who cares?” Or maybe, “Duh.” But how does that change when the celebrity who comes out works within an industry whose values align more with social conservatism than progressivism?

Is it more important or less? Do we even care?

I say yes, we do.

The recent coming out of two country music stars, Ty Herndon and Billy Gilman, is a vitally important event within the country music community.

Herndon, who has been married (and divorced) to two women, revealed his sexuality in interviews with People and Entertainment Tonight at the age of 52. Gilman, who was

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signed with Nashville’s Epic Records at the age of 11 and is now 26, took a page from the books of celebrities such as Tom Daley and Troye Sivan, and took to YouTube for a more personal, intimate coming out dialogue with his fans.

The two men are at very different stages in their lives and careers, and this has been reflected in the aftermath of their coming out.

“Being a gay, male country artist is not the best thing,” said Gilman, referencing his recent struggles to find a major music label.

“I knew something was wrong when no major label wanted to sit down and have a meeting and listen to the new stuff.”

Herndon, though, claims that he has gotten nothing but support from the Nashville community.

“I was met at the back door of the Ryman with love and hugs from peers, from other artists, and affirmation and love by the Nashville community,” Herndon said.

He also cites country artist Chely Wright, who came out as a lesbian in 2010, and the Country Music Awards song of the year “Follow Your Arrow”, which serves as an anthem for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning

approval, as signs that the industry is changing. Herndon has hope.

And while I look at these revelations as brave and important for a younger generation to see, there are some who argue that it is not good enough — that watching another straight-acting white guy come out is not the best way to test an industry’s “inclusion.”

Greg Daniels, the co-director of student affairs for LGBTQ Affairs, said that though this has been a stride forward for homosexual visibility within the country music scene, its general audience consists of “white, cisgender, heterosexual people of [the] middle class, and conservative in values,” and it is not necessarily enough of a stride.

“While I love that more celebrities are continuing to come out, I want to acknowledge that many identities in the queer community continue to be eclipsed and rendered invisible by the more well known L, G and B identities,” Daniels said. “While lesbian, gay, bisexual-identified folks enjoy the perks of coming out, many asexual, pansexual, twospirit, questioning, aromantic, demisexual, genderqueer, intersex, agender and

countless other identities are shoved to the background and thus become less celebrated or acknowledged.”

Although Daniels is certainly correct­— When was the last time a celebrity came out as asexual? — my belief and hope is that the courage it takes to come out in communities such as the country music industry will inspire those who may feel like they exist on the periphery of an already marginalized group. In a sense, celebrities such as Gilman and Herndon can pave the way for those LGBTQA+ members who fit more in the T, Q, A or + areas.

“Celebrities that come out have the power of publicity,” said Danie Kaplan, student assistant for LGBTQ Affairs.

Artists such as Gilman and Herndon have had the power to start dialogues, even in homes that may not traditionally support gay rights. Whatever conclusion those households come to, at least it’s the beginning of something.

— Paul Thomson is a senior studying BFA acting and Africana studies. Follow him @BePaulite

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No tickets, please

A UA student displayed disorderly conduct at Parking and Transportation Services on Nov. 18.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to PTS regarding a disorderly student. The responding officer spoke with the PTS appeals officer after arriving.

The appeals officer said he was on the second floor of the building and noticed a male student walking around that he did not recognize. The student approached him and asked if anyone was working the front desk.

The student told the appeals officer, “I need to talk to someone about the fucking ticket.”

The appeals officer told the student that he could help him and told him to come downstairs. The student began to pace and moved his arms back and forth across his chest once he was downstairs. The appeals officer asked how he could help the student, who replied with, “I paid over $6,500 to this university; parking should be free.”

The student proceeded to say that he was only over the meter by a couple of minutes. The appeals officer became alarmed by the student’s anger and said he may have to call UAPD. The student told the appeals officer to call UAPD, before throwing down his PTS citation and the receipt for parking at the meter. He then left the building.

The student returned to the PTS building and spoke with another individual. He immediately wanted to know who the PTS officer was and gave the officer’s number.

The individual asked the student to calm down, and they went inside his office to talk. The student became angry and yelled, “I was only over by 15 minutes! How dare you guys ticket me for that!”

He continued to yell, “This $50 ticket is money I don’t have, and I live on a fixed income.” He again asked for the officer he spoke to earlier.

The individual told the student he was not going to tell him that.

The student yelled, “This is fucking ridiculous. All these kids here live off mom and dad’s money.”

Prior to leaving the building, the student said that the officer he continued to ask for was “probably some fat ass” and left.

The individual who spoke with the student the second time said that he did not want him to return to the building unless he was able to talk in a calm and professional manner.

The individual also said PTS was not interested in criminal charges.

When the UAPD officer contacted the student to get his side of the story, he said he did not want to talk to police without his lawyer. The officer told him that was fine but not to return to PTS about the matter until it was resolved.

The student said he would not return and would use other resources on campus to resolve the ticket.

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A UAPD officer was dispatched to the Main Library on Nov. 18 in reference to an individual who was disturbing people.

After the UAPD officer arrived, he spoke with library staff who said a man had used profanity at them, and they wanted him to leave. They pointed the individual out to the officer.

The officer approached the man and could detect a strong smell of intoxicants from him.

The officer asked the individual to leave and escorted him out. The man said he was just trying to use the computer and had never been at the Main Library before.

However, he was disrespectful to another officer who arrived on the scene by telling him to “shut up,” among other things.

The individual asked to be transported to the Crisis Response Center. He was searched and handcuffed before being transported to the CRC without incident.

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Things To Do At The U Tour 10 am. UA Visitor Center, 811 N. Euclid Ave. This is the quintessential tour for non-student visitors interested in navigating main campus and all of its resources and attractions available for the public. Reservations are required.

concert film follows three acclaimed Muslim comedians on stage and off as they lift the veil to reveal the humorous truth of what it’s really like to be Muslim in America.

Mo Amer, Azhar Usman, and Preacher Moss poke fun at themselves, their communities, government, human nature and the tricky predicament of living in post-9/11 America.

‘Can the Law Do Anything to Improve Patient Safety?’ (The Mind and the Law Lecture Series) 7 pm.

James E. Rogers College of Law, Ares Auditorium, Room 164. This talk explores innovative suggestions (apart from any changes in malpractice litigation) the law might adopt that might be able to increase patient safety.

UA Women’s Basketball vs. Grambling 7 pm. McKale Memorial Center. Come cheer on our Lady Cats as they continue their journey for greatness! Go Cats!

Widescreen Wednesdays 7 pm. UA Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road. This series of detective films and TV shows represents examples of the classic detective, but also branches out to include broader definitions of “detective,” as well as exciting mysteries from countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia. Attend the series, and you may find your own definition of “detective” changing … and you may discover a new favorite film, or two!

Film - ‘Allah Made Me Funny’ 7 pm. Marshall, Room 490. Did you hear the one about the South Asian, the Palestinian and the African American? This landmark

TUCSON EVENTS Food Can Drive Concert 6 pm to 8 pm. Billy Lane Lauffer Middle School 5385 E. Littletown Road. Mariachi Cascabel of Billy Lane Lauffer Middle School is hosting a Food Can Drive Concert to raise food for the community for the holiday season. In attendance will be a variety of performances, from our 8th grade Chamber Orchestra to Pueblo High School’s Mariachi Aztlan. One can of food or non-perishable food item will gain you entrance into this wonderful event. It will be night of fun and entertainment that the whole family can enjoy.

Western Square Dancing 10:30 am to 2:30 pm. Voyager RV Resort Catalina Room, Ballroom 8701 S. Kolb Road. Come bring your cowboy boots and straw hats as you learn fun dance moves as you swing your partner round and round! $4 to attend.

Female Story Tellers Presents: ‘Tis The Season 7 pm. Flycatcher 340 E. Sixth St. Who says the desert has no seasons? We may not have snow, but the feisty

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The 27th Annual Holiday Bazaar 1 pm to 5 pm. WomanKraft Art Center 388 S. Stone Ave. Come join an amazing exhibit of the finest arts and crafts Tucson artists have to offer. And the best part? Everything will retail for $100 or under, so that every gift you love to give can be an original work of art!

Team Trivia Tucson 8:30 pm to 10:30 pm. Breeze Patio Bar and Grill @ the Radisson Suites Tucson Hotel 6555 E. Speedway. Come for the fun and get your knowledge on. We have a reverse Happy Hour that runs from 8p-11p and House Cash Prizes for the top 3 winners...and a little prize for last place. Enjoy good food, drinks and a fun time!!!

Plant Chat with Dr. Bessey 10 am to 12 pm. Tucson Botanical Gardens 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Have plant questions that need answering? Retired UofA plant sciences professor, Paul Bessey, can help diagnose your plant problems, including pests, disease and nutrient deficiencies. Held each Wednesday and included with Gardens admission.

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Wildcats earn top honors

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

GAME DAY WOMEN’S HOOPS

HOME VS. GRAMBLING AT 7 P.M.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE MEN’S BASKETBALL 12/6 vs. Gonzaga

FOOTBALL 12/5 vs. Oregon

VOLLEYBALL 12/4 vs. Yale

WHAT TO WATCH

WISCONSIN AND DUKE FACE OFF IN HUGE GAME Wisconsin vs. Duke, 7:30 p.m., ESPN

UTAH LOOKS TO UPSET WICHITA STATE AT HOME Utah vs. Wichita State, 9 p.m., ESPN2

Arizona football will go for the Pac-12 Conference’s biggest prize on Friday but picked up a couple conference awards on Tuesday.

Ahead of the Pac-12 Championship Game, Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez won Pac-12 Coach of the Year, and linebacker Scooby Wright won Pac-12 Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year.

“I’ve always thought of it as a staff award, and it’s a players’ award,” Rodriguez said. “I mean, they don’t give guys coach of the year when your team does poorly.”

Rodriguez led the Wildcats to a 10-2 overall record and 7-2 Pac-12 mark en route to the Pac-12 South championship in his third season.

This is only the UA’s third 10-pluswin season in school history and its first 10-win regular season since 1998.

Rodriguez is the first UA coach to win Pac-10 or Pac-12 Coach of the Year since Dick Tomey in 1992.

Rodriguez also won the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference coach of the year award twice and the Big East coach of the year honor twice.

“I knew it was going to happen some time,” Wright said about Rodriguez’s award. “I knew it was TYLER BAKER /THE DAILY WILDCAT only a matter of time.”

ARIZONA FOOTBALL linebacker Scooby Wright (33) sacks ASU quarterback Mike Bercovici (2) during Arizona’s 42-35 win against ASU at This season, the Wildcats have Arizona Stadium on Friday. Wright was named the Pac-12 Conference Defensive Player of the Year on Tuesday. three wins over ranked teams, “It’s well-deserved,” Rodriguez rankings were unveiled, and the Don’t forget Tevis! including Pac-12 North champion and then-No. 2 Oregon on the road said. “I think he’s had a great year, Wildcats moved up to No. 7.

Safety Jared Tevis headlined Arizona jumped up four spots and Arizona’s selections to the Pac-12 All31-24. The Wildcats are fourth in and he’s got a lot of numbers, which the Pac-12 in scoring (36.7 points help, and he’s had a lot of help around is just outside the top four. The four Academic teams. per game), rushing (189.8 yards per him. But he’s had as good a year as playoff teams will be announced on Tevis was selected to the first team, any linebacker that Sunday. game) and total the third time he has won that honor.

I’ve ever had.”

Oregon is No. 2, leading many to Tevis graduated in May with finance offense (481.2).

I think Wright leads the speculate that if the Wildcats win on degree and a 3.28 GPA, according to Wright is Arizona’s he’s had a nation in tackles for Friday, they will be in the final four. eighth Pac-10 or Pacthe UA. great year, loss with 27 total and “Everything, other than being 12 Defensive Player Linebacker Jake Matthews, a preand he’s 2.25 per game. He undefeated, is probably still out there neuroscience and cognitive sciences of the Year, but the got a lot of also had 139 tackles for us,” Rodriguez said. “That’s pretty major, was second team. According first since Tedy numbers this season. neat in the first week of December.”

Bruschi in 1995. to the UA, he has a 3.55 GPA, and this Wright won Pac-12 Wright is the first is his first all-academic team award.

— Rich Rodriguez, Defensive Player of Hoke’s history underclassman to Jared Baker also made the second UA football head the Week three times In a twist tailor-made for sports team. According to the UA, he has a take home the honor coach this season. writers, Rodriguez’s replacement as 3.30 GPA and is a sustainable built since Washington’s Wright not only Michigan head coach Brady Hoke environments major.

Steve Emtman in scooped up the Pac- was fired on the same day Rodriguez 1990. Entman is the Defensive lineman Calvin Allen only other underclassman to win the 12 Player of the Week award but won coach of the year.

(3.23 GPA, business), receiver also won the Walter Camp National Hoke went 31-20 at Michigan, Abraham Mendivil (3.29 GPA, award, which began in 1983.

“It feels great,” Wright said. “I Defensive Player of the Week and the but after winning 11 games his first undeclared) and kicker Casey mean, it hasn’t even really hit me yet. Athlon Sports National Defensive year, has gotten worse each season, Skowron (3.37 GPA, psychology) finishing 5-7.

I’m focused on Friday. It probably Player of the Week. were Honorable Mention.

Last week against ASU, Wright had Under Rodriguez, the Wolverines won’t even hit me until Saturday a game-high 13 tackles, including improved each year, from 3-9 his first when I wake up; I’ll let it sink in.”

Wright led the Pac-12 in forced 5.0 for loss, 2.0 sacks and a forced season, to 7-6 in his third.

“I don’t worry about what happens fumbles (six) and is third in the fumble. at Michigan,” Rodriguez said. “I’m nation in sacks (14). The true worried about getting a first down sophomore is a finalist for the Chuck Within striking distance — Follow James Kelley During Wednesday’s practice, against Oregon.”

Bednarik Award, Bronko Naguraski @jameskelley520 Trophy and Rotary Lombardi Award. the latest College Football Playoff

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1. No. 3 Arizona (6-0) The Wildcats are the unquestioned best team in the conference and have played like it so far. Behind the emergence of standout freshman Stanley Johnson, Arizona is just one of two undefeated teams left the Pac12. Now if they could just stay out of foul trouble…

UA head coach Rich Rodriguez won Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year and linebacker Scooby Wright won Pac-12 Pat Tillman Defensive Player of the Year.

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ARIZONA FOOTBALL wide reciever David Richards (4) hugs Arizona running back Nick Wilson (28) after Wilson scored his third touchdown of the day during Arizona’s 42-35 win against ASU at Arizona Stadium on Friday. The Wildcats will take on Oregon this Friday in Santa Clara, Calif., in the Pac-12 Conference Championship Game.

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Arizona football beat ASU 42-35 on Friday to improve their record to 3-1 against AP top 25 teams.

This is the first season since 1998 that the Wildcats have beaten three ranked teams and the first time since 2006 that the UA has defeated ranked teams in back-to-back weeks.

Arizona men’s basketball forward Stanley Johnson not only won the EA Sports Maui Invitational MVP award, but he also was named Pac-12 Player of the Week. He averaged 15.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game in Hawaii. Aloha.

Arizona women’s volleyball earned hosting duties for the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2002.

The Wildcats are 9-0 in the Big Dance in Tucson.

Arizona women’s basketball snapped their ninegame losing streak with a 61-34 win over UC Santa Barbara. The Wildcats moved to the Hot side with their first win since Feb. 9.

Nebraska fired head coach Bo Pelini, which may unfortunately lead to the end of the @FauxPelini Twitter account. “LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT YOU ARE PAYING ME NOT TO LIVE IN LINCOLN NEBRASKA AND I AM SUPPOSED TO BE SAD,” @FauxPelini tweeted.

After five St. Louis Rams entered the field making the “hands up, don’t shoot” gesture, the St. Louis Police Officers Association demanded the players be punished. The NFL declined.

On Monday, the Philadelphia 76ers lost their 17th game in a row to open the season. The 76ers are just the fourth team in NBA history to begin the season 0-17.

On Sunday night, a Valencia fan threw a bottle from the stands and hit Barcelona striker Lionel Messi in the head. Barcelona won the game 1-0.

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2. No. 25 Utah (5-1) Utah started the year ranked No. 25 before losing to San Diego State and falling out of the rankings in week 3.

Since then, the Utes have won four cupcakes over teams like Alabama State and UC Riverside. The real test comes tonight when No. 8 Wichita State comes to town in what should be a huge matchup.

3. California (5-1) The Golden Bears may have lost last year’s leading scorer in Justin Cobbs, but have scored at a slightly higher rate this season. Tyrone Wallace has upped his points per game to 17.2, and Jordan Mathews has increased his points per game to 15.5. Add in new coach Cuonzo Martin, and things are looking up.

4. UCLA (5-2) Most expected a drop-off from the Bruins, but it’s hard to tell what kind of drop-off they’re experiencing.

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Their two losses have come against Oklahoma and North Carolina by a combined score of 153-121. The offense that averages 84.3 points per game looked mediocre against better competition. This is a very confusing UCLA squad.

5. Colorado (4-1) Losing someone like Spencer Dinwiddie is usually enough to set back a program for a bit. However, the emergence of Josh Scott has certainly eased that transition. The Buffaloes don’t jump off the page otherwise; they’re just a solid Pac-12 team.

6. Stanford (4-2) The Cardinal is another team that lost considerable pieces from last year. Luckily, Chasson Randle stayed because he is the heart and soul of this year’s squad. The Cardinal will go as far as Randle takes them. A wallop over UNLV and a close loss to Duke prove Stanford is a quality opponent.

7. Washington (6-0) The Huskies are the only other undefeated team in the conference besides Arizona. Sure, they’ve mostly come against cupcakes, but 6-0 is still impressive. It’s may be too early to say for sure, but this quick start is exactly what Lorenzo Romar needs to keep his job. With doit-all guard Nigel Williams-Goss leading the way, the Huskies could make some noncon noise against SDSU this weekend.

losses to ranked teams Michigan and VCU have given Ducks fans hope.

9. ASU (4-2) Bringing up the rear of the conference is ASU. The Sun Devils have lost a pair of games against solid teams in Maryland and Alabama so far. It’ll be hard to tell if they’ve gotten over Jahii Carson’s and Jermaine Marshall’s departures until a Dec. 16 road matchup against Marquette. If the Sun Devils are going to make noise come conference play, they have to keep getting better over the month of December.

10. USC (4-3) The Trojans were supposed to be dunk city part 2 under offensive wizard Andy Enfield.

Turns out they’ve been more of a yawn city.

Their leading scorer averages just 11 points per game. Sure, three other players average at least 9.1 PPG, but there just isn’t enough talent to make a difference. Add in a relatively weak nonconference schedule and it’s no surprise to see the Fighting Enfield’s this far back of the pack.

11. Oregon State (3-2) Craig Robinson may have had presidential ties, but getting rid of him has proven to be the right decision. My opinion of the Wayne Tinkle hire is much less optimistic. I’m not sure hiring from Montana was the splash the Beaver faithful wanted to see. When looking at the roster, there’s not much after Gary Payton II. 12. Washington State (3-3) The Cougars stink. ’Nuff said.

8. Oregon (4-2) After losing so many key parts in the offseason to a rape scandal, the Ducks figured to take a major hit. Before the departures, this was a team that could’ve challenged Utah for second in the conference. However, Oregon has performed admirably this year. Competitive

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back on Tucson time; he added that he wasn’t satisfied with their practicing until Monday.

“I don’t want to use that at all as an excuse, but it’s not an easy thing to juggle early in the year,” Miller said. “I think that’s why some coaches aren’t playing in exempt tournaments, because everybody knows it puts a tremendous amount of pressure on everybody, but I believe we’ll be better long-term, having gone through it.”

Center Kaleb Tarczewski had 10 points and seven rebounds. Power forward Brandon Ashley had seven points and eight rebounds before fouling out.

The Wildcats out-rebounded the Runnin’ Bulldogs 43-27.

“I thought Arizona was terrific tonight, and they have a great team,” Gardner-Webb head

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coach Tim Craft said. “They were making shots at a high level, and they were making 3’s.”

The Wildcats ran their winning streak in nonconference regular season games to 34.

“It’s really, really hard to do,” Miller said.

“I never say, ‘Ah, it doesn’t mean anything.’ It means a lot.”

When asked about being perfect against non-Pac-12 Conference teams so far in his three-year career, York literally knocked on wood with his hand on the press conference podium.

“At the end of the day, we just have to worry about the next game and we have to accomplish as a team,” York said, “and we have to get better over the next couple of games, because we know who’s coming in here on Saturday.”

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Student art descends into abyss

BY VICTORIA PEREIRA The Daily Wildcat

Two UA art students are holding the opening of “ABYSS: The Perpetual Space,” an art exhibit at BreakOut Studios this evening.

The exhibit features a collection of mostly two-dimensional art, including photography, mixed technique pieces, illustrations and one painting all relating to the concept of the mysterious abyss.

“When you think of abyss, it’s like you’re looking down or out into this sea of black,” said Alyssa Ferguson, an extended media art junior, “but what’s beyond that? What’s after what you can’t see?”

Ferguson and Audrey Molloy, a studio art senior, are the co-curators of “ABYSS,” a project that began as a course requirement.

Ferguson and Molloy wanted to put together an exhibit defying the traditional white-walled, museum-style art gallery and instead create a space where talented artists could gain exposure, and members of the community from all walks of life could experience their work. This led to “ABYSS” finding a home at BreakOut Studios, a local dance studio.

When first planning the exhibit, Ferguson and Molloy were introduced to Todd Wilson, owner of BreakOut Studios. Wilson was willing to donate an unfurnished, slightly rundown room to the curators and allowed them to do whatever they pleased with the space. Ferguson and Molloy refurbished the room and repainted the walls, and spent the past two days hanging up the artwork that will

be featured in the show. They have also been using the space to their advantage, installing a floor-to-ceiling mirror on one of the walls.

“We had originally thought of a dance studio [for the exhibit] because of the effect that the mirror makes,” Ferguson said. “You’re looking in the mirror, but you’re looking at the whole room, and we got the idea that, that is perpetual space.”

Fifteen artists are featured in the gallery, including Ferguson and Molloy. Thirteen of these artists are UA students, one is a local Tucson artist and one other is an artist from Los Angeles, Calif. When Ferguson and Molloy were hunting for art for the gallery, they first tried a general call for artists. Although they found a few people through their first attempts, they decided to contact their friends and peers in the UA School of Art, who they knew had created or were working on pieces that would fit in with the theme of their gallery.

Dominic Valencia, a 2D studio art junior, is one artist whose work is being featured in the show. Valencia has contributed two lithographs and a 4-by-4 painting.

“When the curators were talking to me, they were stressing the quality of change and leaving it open to our interpretation,” Valencia said, “so my painting focuses on the change in your state of mind from childhood to adulthood.”

All of the artists were also given the option of putting their work up for sale.

The opening of the gallery is tonight, but “ABYSS” will be on display and open to the public until Jan. 10. After “ABYSS” closes, Ferguson and Molloy plan on creating more

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A VARIETY of photographs are on display at “ABYSS: The Perpetual Space” art exhibit at BreakOut Studios on Tuesday.

The exhibit is curated by two students in the UA School of Art.

galleries in BreakOut Studios since Wilson has granted them the space.

“Seeing a ton of different types of people who aren’t normally exposed to this whitewall gallery space and having it thrown in the middle for them to experience has been really nice,” Molloy said when asked what her favorite part of the process has been.

“ABYSS” will open today beginning at

5:30 p.m. Ferguson, Molloy, the other artists, friends and families will all be in attendance, as will members of the community and possibly some curious passersby. The event is free, and complimentary drinks and snacks will be served.

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Loft screens film on border issues

BY IVANA GOLDTOOTH The Daily Wildcat

Southern Arizona has a lot of history — from Tombstone to the infamous Tucson Ring Meteorite to the Tucson Gem Shows.

But a major concern nationwide occurs here as well: the issue of immigration.

The Loft Cinema will be screening the Tucson premiere of Vincent De La Torre’s film “Trails of Hope and Terror” on Thursday.

The film is based on the book of the same title by Miguel A. De La Torre’s, Vincent De La Torre’s father. Both the film and book explore the plight of the undocumented Latin American immigrant from their perspective in a mix of hope and terror.

The film follows the stories of two teenage girls, with one tale hopeful and the other terrifying. It shows how militarizing the border has created abuse and death to those crossing it. But it also reveals how some migrants become united from their disenfranchisement.

“I’m an ethicist; I deal with social issues,” said Miguel A. De La Torre, a professor at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colo. “I was invited by some of the cofounders of No COURTESY OF VINCENT DE LA TORRE More Deaths to visit them in the desert and see for myself what was going on.”

Hyatt added that both De La Torres would Miguel A. De La Torre said it was after this be present at the event before and after the experience that he decided to write his book film for a discussion with the audience. on this issue from the point of view of the “[Tucson Samaritans and No More Deaths] immigrants crossing the desert. The book thought it would be a good opportunity for was eventually released in 2009. people here in the border regions to see this Miguel and Vincent De La Torre have work,” said Marx on getting involved with the been filming the screen adaptation of the film and the event. book in Arizona for the last year-and-aMarx added that the film would help call half. The father and son have interviewed attention to the plight of migrants and the many volunteers from current immigration laws in Tucson Samaritans and No need of change.

More Deaths, two charity “It won’t be a huge moneyIF YOU GO: organizations who offer maker,” Marx said, “but our What: “Trails of Hope humanitarian aid to migrants interests are always about and Terror” crossing the border. educating people on what’s Where: The Loft “When they got to the point Cinema going on and the truth about where the film was almost Time: 7 p.m. what’s happening and giving Price: $15 general completed, they offered people who usually don’t admission to make the film available have a voice, a voice.”

75 min., Not rated to us as a fundraiser at no The most humbling part charge,” said Michael Hyatt, of the journey, Miguel A. De representative of Tucson La Torre said, is listening Samaritans. to the individual stories of All proceeds the film will make will migrants, whom he considers to be more benefit the humanitarian aid in the U.S./ articulate than someone with a Ph.D. Mexico borderland. The fundraising is “I would hope that people will take away brought together by Tucson Samaritans and a commitment to do something and not just No More Deaths, according to Jim Marx, a coming and looking,” he said. representative of No More Deaths.

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ALLISON WILLIAMS as Peter Pan speaks to Taylor Louderman as Wendy Darling from the windowsill in a promo for NBC’s “Peter Pan Live!” that will premiere on Thursday. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, the producers behind last year’s “The Sound of Music Live!,” are also producing this performance for NBC.

Will Williams soar above Underwood?

BY KEVIN C. REAGAN The Daily Wildcat

Allison Williams will have to overcome some pretty high expectations when she takes flight as Peter Pan in NBC’s live theatrical special “Peter Pan Live!,” as musical theater snobs are still recovering from Carrie Underwood’s lackluster turn as Maria Von Trapp from last year.

The star of HBO’s “Girls” seems a little bit better cast than the country singer’s attempt to come off as an Austrian nun. With her boyish pixie cut, Williams seems to possess the charm, grit and might needed to portray the boy who never grows up.

“I just hope that people know that I will take care of him as a character,” Williams said in an interview with NBC. The Yale University alumna has an extensive background in musical theater and has occasionally showcased her vocal talents as Marnie Michaels on “Girls,” but the 26-year-old actress said she’s never been in a production on this grand of a scale.

When her casting was first announced, there was already talk on social media about “hate-watching” her performance. The way critics received Underwood’s performance the previous year may be to blame for this cynical skepticism.

Brian Lowry of Vanity Fair wrote Underwood handled the “vocal chores more ably than the acting,” and that the musical generally “couldn’t make the story sing between the musical numbers.”

Robert Lloyd of the Los Angeles Times criticized Underwood as being an “amateur” and judged her acting chops as “lacking weight and substance.”

But Williams seems better suited for her role as Peter Pan. The actress admitted to

role-playing as Sir J.M. Barrie’s adolescent hero when she was a toddler, and owned a VHS copy of Mary Martin’s performance from the 1950s televised Broadway production.

Martin’s Peter Pan not only won her a Tony award, but the production’s telecast on NBC drew in 65 million viewers.

The modern television spectacle airing Thursday night is guaranteed to dazzle viewers with its colorful set designs and onspot choreography. Hoping to draw in the nearly 19 million viewers who tuned into “The Sound of Music Live!” last December, NBC seems to be pulling out all the stops to make this production sing.

NBC cast the Oscar-winning actor Christopher Walken as the villainous Captain Hook. Walken started out dancing in the chorus line of the 1963 Off-Broadway production of “Best Foot Forward” before venturing to Hollywood to play serious, sardonic roles in films such as “The Deer Hunter,” “Annie Hall” and “The Dead Zone.”

“He is so deeply cool,” Williams commented on working with the 71-year-old acting veteran. “Even when he’s not doing anything, he’s better at acting than I’ve ever been.”

Other cast members joining Williams and Walker are Minnie Driver as the grown-up Wendy Darling, Christian Borle of CBS’s “The Good Wife” as Mr. Darling and Kelli O’Hara as Mrs. Darling.

As Williams soars into Neverland Thursday at 8 p.m., Twitter will undoubtedly become a sinkhole of critics waiting to jump any slight mishap — another reason why live theater belongs on a stage and not in someone’s living room.

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