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SAE interim suspension lifted Sigma Alpha Epsilon has been cleared of conduct violations regarding an alleged assault

BY MAX RODRIGUEZ The Daily Wildcat

The UA Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter was cleared of conduct violations and will not be disciplined for an alleged assault by Sigma Alpha Epsilon members against members of the UA Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity chapter last month. Sigma

Alpha Epsilon is also no longer under an interim suspension of recognition from the UA. Kendal Washington White, the dean of students, said in a UANews press release that Sigma Alpha Epsilon was cleared because “the actions under investigation were the acts of individual students and Sigma Alpha Epsilon and

Alpha Epsilon Pi worked with the university to demonstrate the organizations were not involved.”

On Nov. 18, Sgt. Chris Widmer, a public information officer for the Tucson Police Department, said around 20 members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon assaulted four members of Alpha Epsilon Pi who lived in an off-campus

apartment.

Widmer also said the Sigma Alpha Epsilon members kicked down the door of the apartment yelling “anti-Jewish” slurs and that they assaulted the four men inside until they realized they had the wrong apartment and left after taking $20 from one of the victim’s wallets.

TPD said yesterday that

there were no updates regarding the investigation and that it was ongoing and that there have been no arrests in the case.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon had been under interim suspension of recognition because the Dean of Students Office believed that it could

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Architecture college claims ranking for Master of Science planning program

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THE SONORAN LANDSCAPE LABORATORY features a garden, a fountain and a pond located behind the Architecture building. The School of rchitecture’s Master of Science in Planning program was recognized as one of the top architecture programs in the nation by the “Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning.”

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The College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture was recently recognized for its Master of Science in Planning program in the fourth edition of the “Planetizen Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs.” The program is ranked eighth out of 34 in Top Programs without a PhD and ninth out of 33 in Top Small Programs.

Janice Cervelli, dean of CAPLA , said the program does an outstanding job in education and preparing practicing planners to work at public agencies and private firms. “[Students] have strong professional skills to walk right into the workplace and to help lead the communities in developing planning policy,” Cervelli said.

A CAPLA press release said the undergraduate architecture program was ranked by America’s Best Architecture Schools 2014 in the Top 20 Programs 2015.

The Greenway Group, in association with Design Intelligence and Architectural Record, arranged the rankings this year.

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Indonesia could be UA students’ new destination after a meeting on Wednesday was held to generate interest in and discuss a possible new study abroad program.

Hillary Vance, a coordinator for Study Abroad and National Student Exchange, said in an email statement that the purpose of the meeting was “to discuss with student[s] potential opportunities for study abroad, research or internships in Indonesia. We want to see what students will be interested in and what questions they might have.”

The program is still in the developmental stages.

The meeting involved four local UA students interested in possible programs in Indonesia and four current degree-seeking students studying at the UA who are from different parts of Indonesia.

Students were able to express their interest and raise any questions or concerns they had.

Some students questioned if they were to receive any type of credit and what kind of funding would be available.

“It’s still in its early stages,” Vance said. “We’re just trying to figure out if we were to offer a program, what students would want to get out of it. We’re just trying to figure out the logistics that would make students interested in going to Indonesia.

As we’re building new programs, it’s useful to gauge that ahead of time and make sure we’re developing things that students actually want.”

Larry Fisher, a research professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment,

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AN INFORMAL FOCUS GROUP FOR students interested in developing a study abroad program in Indonesia was held Wednesday morning in the University Services building. Larry Fisher, a research professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment, began the meeting by discussing the work he has previously done in Indonesia.

was able to tell the students about culture, and Indonesians are very the Indonesian culture from his welcoming. He also said going many years of experience there. to Indonesia is a completely Fisher traveled to Indonesia for different experience compared to an exchange program which was going to other countries.

“It’s very different from Europe,” supposed to last two years, but extended his trip for over 18 years. Fisher said. “You go there and you “Indonesians are incredibly will fit right in. But in Indonesia, you can gracious stand up, a n d you will generous Indonesians stand out. p e o p l e ,” are incredibly There are Fisher said. gracious and significant Fisher generous people differences, said that — Larry Fisher, but that’s although research professor in what makes In d o n e s i a the School of Natural Resources and the it exciting is very Environment a n d diverse, the interesting. people who It’s what live there aren’t used to Westerners yet. makes it inspiring, because you He said they are very shocked to learn how to cross over into their see Westerners, but that doesn’t culture and retain your sense of self but also how to absorb all the come from a bad place.

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ASUA further discussed the details of election code at the senate meeting on Wednesday evening.

A major point of discussion among the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate was preventing an occurrence during elections known as “dorm storming.”

During prior elections, personal computers were utilized within dorm storming and caused the senate to discuss IP addresses.

Dorm storming was described by the senate as when affiliates of those running for a position go to dorms and have everyone in the dorm vote for that specific candidate.

ASUA Sen. Michael Finnegan said an issue with the previous suggestion of preventing IP addresses from being used multiple times would be students who have to use a desktop on campus to vote or the fact that supposedly the Wi-Fi changes the IP address.

Diego Alvarez, elections commissioner, said the issue of restricting IP addresses would not be something that would be in the code due to the fact that the elections commission wouldn’t be in direct control of it.

Brian Seastone, chief of the University of Arizona Police Department, said that the issue does not really matter as voters have to go through some form of security regardless. ASUA Sen. Joe Zanoni said that he does not think it matters.

“People will have to actually follow the rules if we implement this,” Zanoni said.

ASUA Sen. William Box said that it

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Decision looms for CD2 race InBrief

BY Christianna Silva The Daily Wildcat

The race in the 2nd Congressional District between Democratic incumbent Ron Barber and Republican Martha McSally has yet to be called.

The original vote was Nov. 4, and since then there have been multiple attempts to sue by each candidate.

Each one has been shot down.

Recently, a lawsuit was conducted by the Barber campaign to count 133 votes that had been considered ineligible. If Barber’s

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still present a risk to the community, according to the press release, but that suspension has been lifted.

The press release also said that the university is continuing an investigation of the individual students alleged to have committed the assault.

According to the press release, Sigma Alpha Epsilon can immediately resume all activity on campus other than holding events with alcohol, because the chapter is still under investigation for Student Code of Conduct violations alleged to have occurred in September. This investigation is related to allegations of hosting an unregistered event with alcohol, providing alcohol to minors and hazing.

Alpha Epsilon Pi also requested that the order preventing Sigma Alpha Epsilon members from having contact with Alpha Epsilon Pi members be lifted, according to the press release.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon had been subjected to the restrictions after the allegations of assault surfaced.

the Pima County Communications Office, The Pima County Elections Department is preparing for the official recount of the ballots.

The department has begun unofficial testing of the recount hardware and software used for the recount.

The recount is overseen by the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office and will officially begin today.

Mark Evans with the Pima County Communications Office told KGUN9 that the county has seven tabulation machines that can count between 20,000 and 30,000

legal challenge was heard, the recount would have been delayed further.

Another lawsuit was rejected Tuesday by Arizona Supreme Court Justice Ann A. Scott Timmer.

The lawsuit came from a Tucson attorney representing voters seeking to delay the recount until officials have a new method for ballot counting.

The election is now planned to continue without legal interruption.

McSally is ahead by 161 votes, and according to a press release by

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Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s national chapter said in an email that its investigation into the incident is ongoing and released a statement related to the suspension’s end.

“We will continue to work with the chapter, its members and its advisory board even after our investigation has ended,” the statement read. “Sigma Alpha Epsilon regrets that several members acted in a manner that is not consistent with what we believe and what we stand for. Arizona Alpha is one of our largest chapters, and the isolated actions of these few individuals certainly do not reflect the chapter as a whole.”

The statement also added that the individuals involved have been sanctioned by Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

Michelle Blumenberg, the executive director of the UA Hillel Foundation, declined comment on the decision by the Dean of Students Office until receiving more information about the situation.

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of Architecture, said the school works hard to put graduates out into the marketplace that are ethical, skilled, from page 1 knowledgeable and have a good work participants are taken from the ethic and attitude. He also said the Greenway Group database of firms students know the current software throughout the U.S. that firms are Greenway then using.

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Sustainable Built Environments seniors, who are graduating in December, will present their capstone projects on Friday in the Sundt Gallery from 5-6 p.m. Capstone projects that will be presented range from urban agriculture to zero energy to pedestrian zones throughout the UA campus.

Director of the UA Laboratory of Tree Ring Research Thomas Swetnam was recognized as an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow.

This is an elite recognition for members of the AAAS across the nation whose research has progressed science. In total, the AAAS recognized 401 of its members from this year. Swetnam, who is also a regents’ professor in dendrochronology, has focused his research on climate change throughout history.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration bestowed a $3.6 million grant on the UA to create training facilities for public health.

ITCats Toastmasters will continue hosting open discussions from 8:45-10 a.m. every Friday from now until Jan. 2, 2015.

At ITCats Toastmasters, UA information technology workers have the opportunity to attend discussions to learn more about communication skills in the professional field.

The UA Toastmasters, similar to ITCats Toastmasters except not limited to IT professionals, will continue its open discussions every Friday up until Dec. 26 from noon to 1 p.m. The focus of UA Toastmasters, as with ITCats Toastmasters, is honing communication skills in the professional world.

The farmer’s market at the Arizona Health Sciences Center plaza will continue for the next two Fridays, ending the semester on Dec. 12. The farmers market is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and is open to the public, where people can purchase locally grown and organic foods.

ballots daily.

According to The Arizona Republic, the results are to be announced on Dec. 16.

Until then, McSally has declared herself victor and attended freshman orientation in Washington.

Barber is currently the representative for the 2nd Congressional District until congress convenes in January.

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it’s not really true,” Miller said.

Miller said the recognition of the programs is a great indicator of their success.

“The people that hire graduates from different schools around the country are turning to us now and recognizing that we consistently produce really good graduates,” Miller said.

Miller added that the importance of the ranking this year is representative of how the program fares long term.

“It’s possible to pop in for a year or two,” Miller said, “but what really matters is if you’re getting in that more consistently.”

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Vance explained how this program will become possible. ”We are working on a formal agreement with the University of Mataram, as Dr. Larry Fisher has been working on joint projects with some faculty there for many years,” Vance said.

“We are hoping to gauge UA student interest in possible programs in this part of the world and to develop new initiatives in conjunction with Indonesian students such as research or service learning projects.”

Although the Indonesian

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program isn’t offered yet, the study abroad department is working to bring new opportunities to students.

According to an announcement encouraging Wildcats to look into all the study abroad opportunities, there are multiple programs being offered for the first time in 2015. Vance said there are almost 20 new programs being offered this year.

“We are hoping that at some point, we will add Indonesia to this list,” Vance said.

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SCOTUS says pregnancy law unclear Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — Since the 1970s, employers have been warned not to discriminate against pregnant employees, who “shall be treated the same” as other workers, according to a 1978 law.

But as a Supreme Court argument revealed Wednesday, it is still not exactly clear what Congress meant.

Some say it meant that employers should give pregnant women special treatment, such as lighter duty or shorter hours, if they need such accommodation.

Or did it mean that pregnant women may be temporarily laid off, just like a worker who twists an ankle or injures a back and is unable to do the heavy lifting required by the job?

In a surprising set of exchanges, the justices said they thought the law could be read in two ways.

It could require “favored” treatment for pregnant employees, but not necessarily, Justice Antonin Scalia said as the argument began.

If there was one point of agreement Wednesday, it was that employers may not treat pregnant women worse than other workers who have a temporary disability.

At issue before the court was a decision

by United Parcel Service to lay off Peggy

Young, a delivery truck driver, after she became pregnant in 2006. She was urged by a medical adviser not to lift more than 20 pounds during her pregnancy, and her job sometimes required her to lift packages as heavy as 70 pounds.

So she asked a supervisor to be assigned to lighter duty for a time. Instead, she was laid off. UPS said it would give lighter duty to employees who were injured on the job, but not to workers who suffered other injuries or a temporary disability. The company made no special allowance for pregnancies.

Young sued, but lost before a federal judge and a U.S. appeals court. Both said UPS did not discriminate against her because of her pregnancy, but instead treated her the same as others who could not carry out their duties — just as the 1978 law required.

UPS has since changed its policy to accommodate pregnant women. But New York attorney Caitlin Halligan on Wednesday defended the company’s previous stance as legal. Federal law does not require “preferential treatment” for pregnant employees, she told the court.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg objected and said UPS appeared to be giving pregnant employees “least-favored” status.

She cited reports that some men who had

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The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court argued on Wednesday that the meaning of a law that advises employers to not discriminate against pregnant women is unclear.

work injuries were given lighter duty.

Halligan denied that claim and said workers who were injured outside the job did not get special accommodations.

University of Michigan law professor Samuel Bagenstos said Young and other pregnant workers were “entitled to the same accommodation” given other

Ted Cruz ‘urges’ GOP block immigration funds Tribune News Service

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz stood outside the Capitol on a dreary Wednesday, leading the charge against President Barack Obama’s immigration plan. But it was not entirely clear who was following him.

The Texas Republican was imploring fellow GOP members to block money for Obama’s immigration action as part of the upcoming legislative battle to fund the government by the Dec. 11 deadline or risk a federal shutdown.

“What I’m urging my fellow Republicans to do is very, very

simple,” Cruz said, his speech punctuated by cheers from the modest crowd, including a man dressed in a Revolutionary period patriot outfit.

“We will fund the operation of the federal government, but we will not allocate taxpayer dollars for lawless and illegal amnesty.”

Last year, the Texas senator’s ability to influence core conservatives drew jokes that he’d become “Speaker Cruz,” rivaling the power of actual House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio.

The Cruz strategy of using the

annual spending bill as leverage to fight Obama over the Affordable Care Act had largely been blamed for the politically unpopular 2013 government shutdown.

Fresh from that episode, the Cruz clout began to dim.

Now, the potential 2016 presidential hopeful is advocating a similar hardline approach against the president’s executive action on immigration, which would protect up to 5 million immigrants — largely parents of U.S. citizens — from deportation.

Cruz wants to fund most of the

employees who had temporary disabilities.

U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. argued that Young deserved to win if there was evidence that other UPS workers were given lighter duty for a time. The law makes clear that pregnant employees “cannot be treated worse” than others based on their condition, he said.

government by the deadline, but withhold any money that could be used by the Department of Homeland Security to implement Obama’s immigration plan.

On the grassy east front of the Capitol, he was joined by a small group of GOP lawmakers wellknown for their hard stances against illegal immigration — Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Rep. Steve King of Iowa and Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas. One enthusiast in the crowd cheered, “Cruz 2016!”

But it appeared support for the Cruz strategy may not be enough to derail Boehner’s more tempered approach.

The speaker’s leadership team was trying to round up votes Wednesday for legislation to fund the government through the fiscal year ending in September, but only provide temporary funding for the Department of Homeland Security,

which handles the immigration agencies. Once the DHS funding runs out early next year, Republicans could revisit the immigration issue after the GOP majority is seated in January.

Led by Boehner, the House Republican leaders are also offering a parallel bill that would simply oppose Obama’s actions.

That legislation would be largely symbolic, since Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., the majority leader, has said he would not bring it forward in the Senate. But it could allow opponents of the president an opportunity to register their displeasure with his immigration plan.

Cruz mocked such “show-votes” as ineffective. He suggested that many Republicans won re-election to Congress last month vowing to prevent Obama’s immigration action, and now they need to keep their promises.

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Rioting for justice not same as revelry

BY MAGGIE FARRY The Daily Wildcat

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pparently, as evidenced by common responses seen on social media and news outlets, there is a difference between rioting as a result of intoxication and protesting for social justice. This difference does not favor those fighting for equal rights.

Despite personal opinions on the riots surrounding the State of Missouri v. Darren Wilson case last week, it’s undeniable that there have been riots surrounding significantly less important issues, which were framed with significantly different terms.

Last week, a Twitter user tweeted a series of tweets under the handle @red3blog. These tweets contained photos of groups, who were largely white, rioting over sporting events, competitions and music.

These events included a baseball game in San Francisco in 2012; a hockey game in 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia; a basketball game in Lexington, Ky., in 2012; and a disco concert in Chicago in 1979. All of these photos depict violent protests with fire, flipped cars and a significant number of white people. These events were all observed as lighthearted, a simple reaction of kids overinvested in trivial events.

On Oct. 19, a predominantly white crowd reacted with destruction in Keene, N.H., as a result of extreme intoxication at a Pumpkin Festival. The attendants of the festival threw rocks, pumpkins, skateboards and buckets and flipped cars. When the destruction was reported

by CNN, the word used to describe the incident was “rowdy.”

One 18-year-old involved in the Pumpkin riot was on record stating that, “It’s a blast to do things you aren’t suppose to be doing.”

Why do we encourage freedom of expression when it lacks purpose but denounce assembly when advocates are challenging an issue central to the American people?

While the Pumpkin riots were reflected on with playful diction, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar explained that the rioters in Ferguson, Mo., were “destroying a community.”

The riots in Ferguson were extreme, futile and undeniably destructive, but the motives behind them were justified.

Although there has been significant and inspirational progress on race in America, the riots that erupted last week proved that a substantial number of people are not yet satisfied with the treatment of minorities.

Riots have long been a tool for spurring authorities and leaders to acknowledge issues that directly affect the people.

In his second inaugural speech, President Barack Obama acclaimed the Stonewall riots in New York in 1969 that prompted major advocacy for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning movement. Supporters of the movement and members of the LGBTQ community threw objects at the police and shouted “gay power.” This event served as a catalyst for LGBTQ rights.

Although Martin Luther King Jr. did not advocate for violent and destructive behavior as tools for the civil rights movement, he did understand the power of a riot.

“These conditions are things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention,” King said in a 1968 speech. “And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

Riots have sparked change, such as the implementation of trade unions as a result of the 1886 Haymarket Square Riot and coal miners rights due to the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, where miners on strike opened warfare on law enforcement and U.S. military. This expression of the right to assembly stimulated change that significantly improved the livelihood of labor unions and coal miners.

The riots that spread from coast to coast last week were not the first time that the U.S. has heard about the difficulties black youth must endure due to racism and stereotyping.

The riots in Ferguson stand for the same level of equality that the Haymarket riot, the 1912 coal miner riot and the Stonewall riots advocated, whereas the Pumpkin riot stood only for debauchery and teenage angst.

There is an evident frustration with the existing inequalities regarding race in America. Although the nationwide riots last week were severe, there was a driving factor behind them that was significantly more important than pumpkins. Most outstandingly, the actions sparked a national conversation reminding white Americans that racism is not dead.

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Service academies’ honor dimmed by systematic hush

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f, like me, you enjoy fostering environments that are intolerant of sexual assault while also culturing climates that do not critically examine the behavior that enables these assaults — and getting free T-shirts — you’ve probably noticed the new It’s On Us campaign.

Though aimed at converting passive bystanders to people who are part of the solution, it’s ironic that an initiative started by President Barack Obama and his administration is so willfully ignorant of or silent about a problem within its own federally-controlled entities: the five U.S. service academies.

In accordance with the Clery Act of 1990, all colleges and universities that receive any federal funding or participate in any federal financial aid programs are required to keep an open, transparent log of alleged criminal incidents, as well as annual reporting of campus crimes, including sexual assaults, to the Department of Education.

Failure to do so can result in large fines being levied against the institution as well as other administrative punishments. Strangely, even though they are obviously federally funded, the U.S. Military, Naval, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine and Air Force Academies are not required to comply to the Clery Act, nor are they held to Title IX, which prohibits gender-based discrimination including sexual assault.

This is tremendously worrying because

sexual assaults are the sort of crimes that, even in a forgiving and accepting climate that is willing to search out the perpetrator, are rarely reported because of the stigma surrounding them. We live in an era where people are more willing to forgive a criminal than to listen to a victim.

But the military academies and the military in general are already not these types of environments. Over the last 25 years, more than 500,000 military members have been sexually assaulted while serving. Only 25 percent of women and 24 percent of men who were assaulted felt comfortable enough to report these crimes.

Maybe that’s because 62 percent of those who did report experienced retaliation, and because the general attitude surrounding rape in the military conveyed to 20 percent of survivors is that it is “to be expected.”

We’ve come a long way and the new It’s On Us campaign is certainly a step in the right direction. But the service academies should also benefit from the Clery Act, Title IX and from this new campaign in creating campus cultures that do not support victim blaming and other vitriolic facets of rape culture.

Anyone can be assaulted, anywhere, at any time by anyone and that is a fact that we can either choose to live in fear of or can actively combat. The service academies need to actively combat that fear.

Instead, they seem to be propagating it. Though the federal government hasn’t included any of the military academies on its list of schools to investigate for their handling of assault cases, numerous sexual scandals have been exposed at the service academies, especially at the U.S. Air Force Academy,

which faced sexual assault investigations into mishandlings and coverups in 2003 and 2012.

In 2004, a survey sent to all of the academies found that approximately 10 percent of all women attending them said they’d been assaulted.

Frankly, it’s surprising and concerning with the advent of the Clery Act in 1990 and Title IX in the 1970s that the service academies did not lead the charge. They are representative of U.S. military prowess, educational and instructional capabilities and administrative ideals. For example, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point claims to exude tradition, class and service. Why does it also support a tradition of sexism and turning a blind eye towards sexual assaults and the protection of its students, faculty and staff?

The administrations of the service academies need to take a pledge. They could definitely take the It’s On Us pledge, to support a community that wants to build a culture that enables victims of sexual assault to come forward, encourages positive support systems and disenfranchises those who wish to continue to victim blame and enable sexual assault to occur on the campuses of our nation’s service academies. They need to step into the light, embrace the newest presidential initiative and take action, beginning with adhering to federal protections for victims of sexual assault.

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish. Follow him @NiHavey

Grading cheating proves tiring BY ELIZABETH HANNAH

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hat constitutes cheating in competitive athletics?

At what point should a performance-enhancing substance or training technique be banned from use?

Intuition would suggest that there exist simple, straightforward answers to these questions. When UA athletes and local coaches were asked to define cheating, they each responded with a confident answer: “To me, cheating is when a person uses a substance that is not available to all athletes, giving them an unfair advantage,” said pre-business sophomore Casey Bowman, an infielder for the UA baseball team.

Andy Page, girls’ basketball coach at Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix, said something similar.

“Intentionally breaking a known set of rules to gain an advantage is cheating,” Page said. “It doesn’t

matter if the rules are logical or not, if they are broken to help an individual or a group get an edge on their competition, it is cheating.”

UA softball player Lauren Young agreed with cheating being about gaining an advantage.

“If you know what you’re doing and know the consequences it will have on your health, and you believe that it will give you some kind of advantage over someone, I believe it’s cheating,” Young said.

Groups like the World AntiDoping Agency have tried to combat these subtly different definitions by providing athletic organizations with precise criteria for judging whether a specific substance should be allowed.

The agency’s recently released 2015 World Anti-Doping Code defines an illegal substance as one that “has the potential to enhance or enhances sport performance,” “represents an actual or potential health risk” or “violates the spirit of the sport.”

Sometimes, peoples’ innate moral compasses seem to know exactly when an athlete has violated one of these principles.

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who uses human growth hormone to increase his home run total is certain to be labeled a cheater, as is a cyclist who increases his red blood cell count using erythropoietin. Such substances have brought about the downfall of several world-class athletes — just ask Barry Bonds or Lance Armstrong.

Other cases, however, send those moral compasses spinning into a confused frenzy.

South African cyclist Daryl Impey swallowed capsules filled with sodium bicarbonate to combat lactic acid buildup during the South African road championships, affording him more energy and endurance.

It would seem that sodium bicarbonate conferred an unfair advantage on Impey. But before calling for a universal ban, consider NaHCO3’s common name: baking soda. As The New York Times columnist Alex Hutchinson points out, organizations can’t just ban baking soda.

And what about substances like creatine, a compound that allows for increased endurance during weightlifting, and caffeine?

Such products, Hutchinson notes, have performance-enhancing effects yet are still widely allowed in professional and amateur athletics.

The reality is that a very fine line separates legal performance enhancers from prohibited drugs.

It’s difficult to describe in words why intuition says caffeine and baking soda are somehow different than HGH and EPO. While it may seem strange to implement a total ban on caffeine or baking soda, it would not be unreasonable to limit the quantity an athlete is allowed to use prior to competition.

To keep up with modern methods of rule-breaking, athletic organizations should constantly analyze and alter their policies.

They may not be able to prevent all the Daryl Impeys of the world from exploiting the chemical properties of baking soda, but they can adjust their rules as necessary to make sure that such abuses only happen once.

— Elizabeth Hannah is a biochemistry sophomore. Follow her@ehannah10

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Two students were cited and released for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia on Nov. 22.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was dispatched to the Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall after the resident assistant on duty reported an odor of marijuana coming from a room on the second floor.

As the officer stood outside the room, he could hear voices and smell freshly burnt marijuana coming from inside. The voices got quieter when the officer knocked. The resident opened the door.

The officer asked if there was anyone else in the room, and the resident pointed to her bed where a student was under the covers.

The officer noticed that the resident had red, watery eyes and slurred speech. He told her he was there because of the marijuana smell and asked if she had any marijuana in the room.

The resident pointed to a shoebox and gave the officer permission to look in it.

Inside the box was an elephant-shaped glass pipe with fresh marijuana residue in it and two containers with marijuana inside them.

Both students admitted to smoking marijuana in the room, and both took ownership for the marijuana.

The students were diverted to the Dean of Students Office with a Student Code of Conduct referral.

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A UAPD officer was dispatched to the Coronado Residence Hall on Nov. 22 regarding a report a fight on the second floor of the hall.

The officer saw four people in the hallway. One person had a face injury.

The officer told everyone to sit down against the wall. The students told the officer that the people that started the fight ran upstairs when the officer arrived.

The officer spoke with a student who was not involved but saw what happened. The student said he was doing homework and heard commotion outside. When he went to see what was going on, he saw three students “talking shit” to four members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, which resulted in a physical altercation.

None of the students involved in the fight decided to press charges.

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are told to select up to 10 individuals on the ballot, voters will simply select the first 10 listed rather than actually going through the list of FROM PAGE 1 names. Zanoni made the recommendation that doesn’t have to rely on the IP address, but that the list be randomized instead. restricting the IP address is the major way to “I agree if we explicitly state these [candidates] prevent people from walking around asking are in random order,” ASUA Sen. Jack Emery people to vote for a candidate. said. “It could be construed as something else if ASUA Sen. Brooke Serack said that a way to someone sees them in non-alphabetical order.” avoid the issue is have registered IP addresses Box agreed that if the ballot is placed in that would not be blocked at certain locations randomized order it needs be stated. such as polling places. However, she said that “When you see it in alphabetical order you if the real issue is dorm go, ‘There is a reason it is storming then the in this order,’ where as if focus shouldn’t be on it is randomized, you are restricting IP addresses. confused and wondering People will have “If dorm storming is why,” Box said. to actually follow our main priority that ASUA Sen. Elena Gold the rules if we we are trying to stop, said to the senate that the implement this then maybe it’s having ballot the year prior was — Joe Zanoni, harsher penalties or not in alphabetical order. It ASUA senator restrictions on people was then discussed that the who do dorm storming,” ballot was in order based Serack said. “Maybe it’s on how many votes an if you’re caught dorm individual received at the primaries. storming, then maybe that candidate you are ASUA Sen. Ellen Dunn confirmed with vouching for will face consequences, too.”

Alvarez that the names would be randomized The final suggestion made to prevent dorm using Excel and proceeded to propose an storming was that the elections commission amendment that would state in the elections should talk to resident assistants to see that code and on the ballot that Excel placed these dorm storming does not take place. names in random order.

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ARIZONA OUTSIDE HITTER Madi Kingdon (9) spikes the ball past the USC defense during Arizona’s 3-1 loss to USC on Nov. 26 in McKale Center. Kingdon and the Wildcats take on Yale in the first round of the NCAA Tournament today.

Arizona volleyball hosts the first and second round of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2002. The Wildcats match up with Yale tonight in McKale Center

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After 12 years, Arizona volleyball is hosting the NCAA tournament again, welcoming Yale to the friendly confines of McKale Center. The No. 11 national-seeded Wildcats (23-9, 12-8 Pac-12 Conference) host the Bulldogs (18-7, 12-2 Ivy League) today at about 6:30 p.m.

Due to its location, it’s rare for Arizona to host the NCAAs. “To be honest with you, I never thought it would happen,” UA volleyball head coach Dave Rubio said. “I mean it’s been so long — 12 years. It’s really special for this group and it’s special for me because it doesn’t happen very often.”

Arizona is 9-0 at home in the NCAA tournament.

Arizona previously hosted the NCAA first and second rounds in 2002 and 2000 and single matches in 1982, 1983, 1989, 1993 and 1994 before the field expanded to 64 teams.

“It’s great for our program,” UA senior outside hitter Madi Kingdon said. “It’s the first time since, I don’t even know, 2004, sometime? It’s awesome

for our program, and I think it will give this school a as we approach our first match and hopefully little more recognition for volleyball, and hopefully march through the tournament, is that everything we’ll get a lot of fans to come out and support our we’ve seen in our conference has prepared us,” volleyball team.”

Rubio said. “I don’t think there’s anyone that’s The Wildcats are 12-4 at home this season, going to give us heart burn.” winning 40 of the 57 sets. This is Arizona’s 25th Yale earned its spot in the NCAA tournament appearance in the NCAA by winning its fifth straight tournament and Rubio’s 17th Ivy League championship.

It’s really in his 23 seasons as head Rubio said a problem with coach. playing Yale is that film of exciting; it’s “It’s really exciting; it’s the Bulldogs is not reliable. really good. It really good,” UA sophomore The NCAA has the teams just shows the setter Penina Snuka said. “It send video of their latest hard work that just shows the hard work that match, which for Yale was a we’ve put in... we’ve put in throughout the 25-17, 25-12 and 25-12 win — Penina Snuka, year.” over Stony Brook. Arizona UA setter Arizona’s 23 wins during also swept its last foe, ASU, the regular season are its but it was 29-27, 25-20 and most since winning 25 in 2000 and the 12 league 25-21. wins are the highest since taking 14 in 2005.

“The hard thing about being in the NCAA versus The Pac-12 had a league-record 10 teams make the conference is that you don’t have as much the NCAA and five are among the 16 national information at your disposal,” Rubio said. “The seeds.

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given the Ducks a pass for their loss to Arizona because of injuries.

Aren’t injuries part of football? The Wildcats won at then-No. 17 Utah with their backup quarterback. Still, that would make a second win over Oregon this season all that more impressive for the Wildcats. No resume could match two wins over the No. 2 team away from home.

Wins against CFP top-25: vs. No. 8 Michigan State, at No. 15 UCLA, No. 23 Utah This week: No. 7 Arizona (10-2, 7-2

Stanley Johnson is really starting to come into his own. The freshman forward is coming off a Pac-12 Conference Player of the Week award and has emerged as the team’s leading scorer and rebounder through seven games at 14.1 points per game and 6.4 rebounds per game.

If someone would have said Johnson would be the leading scorer so far, I would have believed that in a heartbeat. Johnson’s knack for getting to the basket, his incredibly physical frame and his rapidly improving jump shot point to him getting plenty of buckets.

And no one can dispute that.

If someone would have said Johnson would be the leading rebounder so far, there’s no way in hell I would have believed that.

On a team with Kaleb Tarczewski, Brandon Ashley and Rondae HollisJefferson, there was little chance Johnson would top those three.

However, after head coach Sean Miller challenged him to rebound more early in the year, Johnson went to work on the boards. Ever since grabbing just one rebound against Cal State Northridge, Johnson has put up 10, 4, 7, 9 and 8 boards in the last five games.

“You’ve gotta respect when that happens,” Johnson said. “As long as I keep going to the boards, he’s going

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ARIZONA FOOTBALL HEAD COACH Rich Rodriguez argues over a call with a referee during Arizona’s 42-35 win against Arizona State on Friday. The Wildcats could make the first ever College Football Playoff with a win over No. 2 Oregon on Friday.

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

Not that long ago, the thought of Arizona football making the College Football Playoff seemed impossible.

However, since the Wildcats have No. 2 Oregon in the Pac12 Conference Championship game this week, the scenario that seemed like one only a wacko like Ivo Shandor could see coming may actually happen: Win and they’re in.

Here’s a breakdown of the playoff

contenders: No. 1 Alabama (11-1, 7-1 SEC) Alabama’s only loss was at Ole Miss.

The Tide are solidly entrenched in the playoff.

Wins against CFP top-25: at No. 24 LSU, vs. No. 10 Mississippi State and vs. No. 19 Auburn This week: No. 16 Missouri (10-2, 7-1 SEC) SEC Championship game (Atlanta) No. 2 Oregon (11-1, 8-1 Pac-12) The national media seems to have

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Women’s basketball takes wire-to-wire win Arizona women’s basketball defeated Grambling State 65-51 behind 14 points from forward Dezja James to reach .500

BY EZRA AMACHER The Daily Wildcat

Despite another sloppy performance, Arizona women’s basketball held on for a 65-51 win over Grambling State on Wednesday night. The Wildcats had nearly as many turnovers (24) as made shots (25) as they struggled to play through GSU’s tight defense. 17 turnovers came in the second half.

“It’s a matter of focus,” Arizona head coach Niya Butts said. “It’s a matter of positioning. It’s a matter of discipline offensively. You learn in the second grade not to come across halfcourt and pick the ball up and put it over your head.”

The UA started the game off strong and looked like it was going to handle the Lady Tigers without much difficulty. Arizona made 50 percent of its first half shots and went into halftime with a convincing 37-18.

“I liked our first half,” Butts said.

“I thought we played pretty solid.

We fouled too much but other than that, we made some good plays.”

In the second half was when things fell apart.

“They kind of threw a diamond

press on us,” UA point guard The Wildcats meanwhile shot 49 Candice Warthen said. “I wouldn’t percent as a team with 40 coming say we weren’t ready for it, but they in the paint. A major size advantage didn’t do it in the first half at all and allowed for Arizona to outrebound we were [caught] by surprise.”

GSU 43-28 and nearly score at will Grambling State outscored once it got inside. the Wildcats 33-28 in the final 20 Leading Arizona in scoring was minutes by capitalizing on miscue freshman Dezja James, who had 14 after miscue. In a five-minute points off the bench. Sophomore stretch midway through the half, LaBrittney Jones was right behind A r i zo na with 12 committed points and I wouldn’t say six turnovers 12 rebounds, we weren’t ready w i t h o u t good enough making a for a doublefor it, but they bucket. double. didn’t do it in the The UA “I thought first half at all never let the [LaBrittney] and we were... lead shrink finished well,” suprised by it below double Butts said.

— Candice Warthen, digits, but “We certainly UA point guard a 24-point needed that, margin was coming up cut down to with that 12 in the game’s final minutes. double-double. She needed a “We got way too comfortable, got bounceback game. Dezja was big relaxed and didn’t play with nearly for us offensively as well tonight, as much intensity in the second and Alli [Gloyd] was huge for us on half,” Butts said. the boards.”

All was not bad considering the Arizona entered in a total of 11 UA held GSU to 33 percent from players and got solid contributions the field, including 1-14 from the from Keyahndra Cannon, Charise perimeter. Dierra Ely led the Tigers Holloway and Jelea Bennet. with 12 points.

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No. 3 TCU (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) Even though TCU lost to Baylor, it is ranked ahead of the Bears. Things have gotten so confusing that the Big 12, whose football slogan is “one true champion,” will present TCU and Baylor as co-champions if they both win. Plus, honestly, TCU’s resume is pretty weak. If Arizona beats Oregon, it can certainly leapfrog the Horned Frogs.

No. 4 Florida State (12-0, 8-0 ACC) Wait, haven’t the Seminoles won 28 in a row? Very few people are impressed with their close wins over the weak ACC. Still, if they beat a solid Georgia Tech squad, it’s hard to imagine an undefeated defending national champion getting left out of a four-team playoff.

Wins against CFP top-25: vs. No. 18 Clemson, at No. 21 Louisville, This week: No. 11 Georgia Tech (10-2, 6-2 ACC) ACC Championship Game (Charlotte, N.C.)

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No. 5 Ohio State (11-1, 8-0 Big Ten) According to the CFP Committee’s website, injuries are one of the five principles that the committee uses.

Of course, expecting the committee to follow its own guidelines would be a lot to ask, as the third principle is “head-to-head competition,” and we can ask Baylor and TCU how that’s been working out. The fact is, without quarterback J. T. Barrett, the Buckeyes aren’t the same team. Plus, their resume and conference are terrible. The UA can certainly jump over them.

Wins against CFP top-25: at No. 8 Michigan State This week: No. 13 Wisconsin (10-2, 7-1 Big Ten) Big Ten Championship

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ARIZONA WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FORWARD Dejza James (31) defends Grambling guard Yosha Watson’s (24) shot during Arizona’s 65-51 win against Grambling State in McKale Center on Wednesday. James and the Wildcats have already more than doubled their win total of five from all of last season with three wins.

was in a mood to celebrate barely topping a GSU team that had previously been blown out by every Division I team it had faced.

“It’s over,” Butts said. “That’s the best thing I can say about this game.”

Indeed, the Wildcats can put

game (Indianapolis) No. 6 Baylor (10-1, 7-1 Big 12) The Big 12 doesn’t even have the balls to name Baylor champions if they both win out; instead they will let the committee pick. If the Bears win this week, they’ll be tough to keep out of the top four.

Wins against CFP top-25: vs. No. 3 TCU, at No. 20 Oklahoma This week: vs. No. 9 Kansas State (9-2, 7-1 Big 12) No. 7 Arizona (10-2, 7-2 Pac-12) A loss would drop the Ducks out, so really, the Wildcats just need to jump two teams. Arizona’s biggest problem is its nonconference schedule: UNLV

this one behind them and turn their focus to a road match at Wake Forest this Sunday.

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(2-11), UTSA (4-8) and Nevada (75). However, if the Wildcats beat Oregon, their positives, like three straight wins over top-25 teams to end the season, would outweigh the negatives. The Wildcats have two Ls, but they are quality losses, at No. 15 UCLA and to No. 25 USC by a play.

Wins against CFP top-25: at No. 2 Oregon, vs. No 17 ASU and No. 23 Utah This week: No. 2 Oregon Pac-12 Championship game (Santa Clara, Calif.)

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UA hockey hosts ASU over weekend .927 save percentage. This ranks Levin No. 14 overall in the ACHA goalie leaders.

During their last matchup, the Although the weather has entered its winter months, Sun Devils swept the Fighting Illini Wildcat hockey is back in Tucson both nights. The Sun Devils’ stifling and heating up the desert with a defense alongside goaltender matchup against an upstate rival. Levin, held Illinois to one goal Arizona (9-8-3) will host the Sun each night.

Earlier this season, Arizona Devils of Arizona State (20-2-0) in a two-game rivalry showdown State swept Arizona in Tempe 4-1 Friday and Saturday night at the and then again 3-0. The only goal of the series was put in the net Tucson Convention Center.

The Wildcats have dropped during a power play by UA forward two spots in the ACHA Division I Alex O’Dea, with assists from Will Rankings to No. 20, while the Sun Pointon and Michael Adamowicz.

Devils climbed up to claim the No. O’Dea has a total of 10 points this season from five goals and five 1 spot.

Last week, it was announced that assists.

“I’m really excited about ASU Arizona State’s hockey program has elevated from the 2014 coming to the TCC for the first time ACHA National Championship this season”, Adamowicz said. “We to NCAA Division I status. The have been preparing all week, and really all season, announcement to beat this makes men’s I’m really team. Nothing ice hockey Sun would make all Devil Athletics’ excited of us happier 23rd NCAAabout ASU than to get the sponsored sport. coming to sweep and show Various sponsors the TCC everyone that came together for the first we also have to donate $32 the ability to million to elevate time this compete at their the program. season level.”

“We know that — Michael Adamowicz, UA hockey player Pointon, ASU has a lot of Gleason, Robbie talent, but we Wilkinson and also know that if Alex Nespor all we take away their time and space we can shut down their more lead the Wildcats in scoring with skilled players,” UA hockey captain 13 points each. With 11 points each Shane Gleason said. “For us, it’s are Dylan Carter and Adamowicz.

Freshman goalie Austin Wilson going to come down to hard work, staying disciplined in our systems, has a save percentage of .938 and keeping our emotions in during three games this season. check. If we can stick to that Garrett Patrick remains as the game plan, we will have a great starting goalie for Arizona with a chance at winning both games this .903 save percentage.

The puck drops both Friday and weekend.”

Arizona State has five players Saturday at 7:30 p.m. If you come ranked in the top 50 overall in the to the game on Saturday, bust out — that’s the ACHA for scoring leaders. Ranked your ugly sweaters ­ No. 17 in scoring is Sun Devil theme. forward Liam Norris, a Calgary, Alberta, native who leads ASU in scoring with a combined total of 30 points from 22 assists and eight goals.

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to be happy with me.”

Rebounding isn’t the only area that Johnson has improved in. The 6-foot-7 forward has seen an uptick in his accuracy from behind the arc.

After making just two 3-pointers over his first three collegiate games, he’s made six shots from deep over the last four games, including three 3-pointers in his last game.

What looked like a weakness coming in the season seems to have changed into a strength. I can’t imagine what’s going through the minds of opposing head coaches when they watch his film.

Johnson is Aaron Gordon with a much better jump shot. Good luck to Arizona’s opponents.

TJ and Parker finally together

T.J. McConnell and Parker JacksonCartwright started out the year subbing in and out for the other with regularity. Since then, Miller has been experimenting with his lineups a bit to see which players fit well with each other. His most recent revelation may be playing his two point guards together.

Due to foul trouble, the two had to play together in Maui, Hawaii, and did a solid job together. Much like what the Phoenix Suns do in the NBA, employing two point guards together speeds up ball movement and decreases stagnant offensive sequences.

In the last game against GardnerWebb, the point guards combined for 10 points, 15 assists, six rebounds and just one turnover. If they keep playing this well together, Miller may have to permanently alter his rotations around that.

“We don’t want to be too small, but we believe in those two guys,” Miller said.

The next week is going to be huge

Up next for Arizona is Gonzaga this Saturday, Utah Valley next Tuesday and Michigan next Saturday. In the national ranks, Gonzaga is currently No. 9 and Michigan is No. 17.

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In many ways, these two games against premier teams will be the measuring stick for which this Arizona team is judged. Winning both will not be easy, and the Wildcats will need to bring a more complete performance, especially against Gonzaga.

is a really noncompetitive match?”

The Bulldogs have the most wins of Ivy League teams in the NCAA tournament, going 2-5, and have made it to the Big Dance six times total.

“We’re very excited to be a part of the field of 64 and

For those who have Arizona below teams like Duke, Kentucky and Wisconsin, the upcoming seven days will be key to watch.

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UA gets citizen help for asteroid project data on asteroids. They have turned to amateur astronomers to help fill this gap with great success. The A crowdsourced astronomy amateur astronomers collect data project at the UA allows amateur by observing and imaging specified astronomers to take a break from asteroids as they travel through the stargazing and train their telescopes sky.

“They may be amateurs in that on a new target: asteroids.

Target Asteroids! is a citizen they aren’t actually paid, but some of science project where amateur them are just as good as professional astronomers can collect data for astronomers when it comes to the Origins Spectral Interpretation collecting and reducing their data,” Resource Identification and Security- said Carl Hergenrother, staff scientist and co-lead on the project.

Regolith Explorer mission.

The big advantage to using citizen OSIRIS-REx is a NASA spacecraft mission to near-Earth asteroid science is that most astronomers Bennu. The primary objective of have their own telescopes, which the mission is to return 60 grams of means they can observe any night they want. For Bennu to Earth in professional 2023, according astronomers to Dolores Hill, a How can using professional senior research I not telescopes, they specialist and comay only get to lead on the Target participate? use the telescope Asteroids! project.

It sure beats once a month, Bennu was golf Hergenrother said. chosen as a means — Luis Martinez, “Two-year-old to elucidate both contributor to Target Asteroids!

Target Asteroids! is how Earth and life an award-winning on Earth began. program with It dates from the more than 277 earliest history of participants and our solar system and may contain the molecular 107 active observers and ‘measurers’ precursors to life on Earth. It is also spread over 32 states and 39 potentially hazardous, having a high countries,” Hill said.

One such observer is Luis probability of striking earth.

Scientists will use the data brought Martinez, a retired police chief back from the mission to answer currently working on a master’s fundamental questions about Earth’s degree in astronomy. He has been origins as well as prepare a defense working with Target Asteroids! for two years after seeing a call for against the possibility of collision.

For the mission, the researchers amateur astronomers in the Minor need to collect enormous amounts of Planet Bulletin, though his interest in

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LUIS MARTINEZ, a member of Target Asteroids!, stands in front of his telescope. Target Asteroids!, a UA crowdsourced project, allows amatuer astronomers to contribute to asteroid research.

asteroids stretches from 2008.

“Amateur and professional asteroid research may save the planet someday,” Martinez said. “I am retired with time available; how can I not participate? It sure beats golf.”

Martinez also goes out every night and selects an appropriate asteroid for his telescope. He then uses specialized software to fix the telescope on the asteroid and guide it through the night. The data collected

is then uploaded to the project server.

“After the data are submitted, both co-leads archive the data,” Hill said.

“Carl Hergenrother reduces the data and combines all of the observations.

He corrects all of the observations that were made with different telescope sizes and types, a variety of filters and dates to a standard reference.”

The project is not only for the mission. Ideally, it will continue on and the data will have impacts on

future space missions.

It also provides a space for astronomers to become scientists. “[Astronomers] love what they do and they are looking for something beyond what they’re used to observing,” Hergenrother said.

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Lightning research strikes Science made more accessible UA profs as incomplete through outreach at Biosphere 2

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THE 2014 COHORT OF Biosphere 2 Haury Outreach Scholars standing in front of Biosphere 2.

The scholars are UA graduate and undergraduate students who mentor middle school and high school students during the Biosphere 2 Summer Science Academy.

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Cutting-edge research, inspired mentors and mentees can all be found at the Biosphere 2, which is home to the Biosphere 2 Haury Outreach Scholars program.

This program aims to give young students experience in practicing the scientific process.

The program mentors are UA undergraduate and graduate students in the scientific community who help middle school and high school students with different projects, said Kevin Bonine, the director of education and outreach at the Biosphere 2. The mentors were trained in teaching, research content, leadership development and collaboration.

“We had a week of 40 middleschool students living at Biosphere 2 and a week of 40 high school students [as a part of the Biosphere 2 Summer Science Academy],” Bonine said.

The program is unique because they get to do hands-on research and are extremely involved with the Biosphere 2 science staff, Bonine said.

“The students pick a biome in the biosphere, such as the rainforest, the soil, the mandrake marsh or the ocean,” said Teal Brechtel, a graduate student in molecular and cellular biology.

They were then prompted to ask questions about that area and investigate the questions, Brechtel said. The students put together graphs and learned how to present their findings. Brechtel said this process is essentially what scientists

do over and over as they accumulate facts about the world.

“There is this misconception that a lot of people have about science that it is a collection of facts,” Brechtel said. “But in reality we don’t know very much at all, and science is really about the process of asking questions and analyzing data and interpreting data more than learning facts.”

The important part for the students in the program is that they develop the mental framework of how people really do science, Brechtel said.

Students that came to the Summer Science Academy were from Mexico, Canada and about 14 different states in the U.S., Bonine said.

“This program is great for the kids, and it is also great for undergraduates and graduates for communicating science,” Brechtel said.

The UA has been managing Biosphere 2 since 2007 with a twofold mission, Bonine said. Aside from the cutting-edge research about different ecosystems and how they function, Bonine said the goal is to make sure the community is educated.

“People think that scientists are really nerdy and geeky and sit in a lab all day, but in reality anyone can do science,” Brechtel said. “You don’t have to be some kind of genius.

You just have to have patience and perseverance and critical thinking skills and love problem solving.”

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There is potential for more lightning strikes in the U.S. during the 21st century, according to a new study published in the journal Science. This increase could mean bad news for wildfire prone regions like Southern Arizona. However, researchers at the UA keyed in on a few facets of this new study that may put everyone at ease.

The study, done by David Romps, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and the University at Albany, State University of New York, reported a new mathematical equation that can be used to predict the lightning flash rate across the U.S. using precipitation rates and convective available potential energy with global climate change models. The researchers predict that in this century, there will likely be an approximately 12 percent increase in lightning strikes for each degree Celsius the global temperature rises. In turn, over the course of the century, there will be approximately a 50 percent increase in the rate of lightning strikes, based on their methods.

Outside the realm of wildfires, the science of lightning applies to daily life in a myriad of ways.

“Not only does lightning start most forest fires … [and] is COURTESY OF SCOTT WOOD associated with nearly all severe weather events, it is a significant LIGHTNING STRIKES over the Chandler Municipal Airport. Lightning events may increase producer of greenhouse gases,” in the U.S. due to rising temperatures as a result of climate change; however, UA researchers said Ken Cummins, a research say there are many complex factors that contribute to lightning strikes which makes making professor in the department of predictions difficult. atmospheric sciences who is Serra’s research focuses on studying applied physical science many complicating factors that go evaluating how well models and detection of lightning. “Yet, into predicting lightning strikes.

In fact, Cummins and the rest of capture seasonal precipitation there is still so much we do not his affiliates found a little change over the course of the North understand about it.”

Cummins will have an article in lightning strike occurrences American monsoon. In a study published in the Journal of Applied for the continental U.S. as time she did last year, her research group found that there were, in Meteorology and Climatology progressed in the last decade.

“The CAPE- fact, errors in the model for largethat looks at p r e c i p i t a t i o n scale circulation patterns that the variability There is still proxy for likely contribute to the errors in of lightning l i g h t n i n g NAM precipitation patterns over strikes in the so much sounds like an the season.

U.S. between we do not “For [the Science article], the improvement 2003 and understand over the [other calibration of the relationship 2012.

During about m e t h o d s ] between CAPE and lightning is this interval, [lightning] described in the based on short-term weather, Cummins found — Ken Cummins, article, given which may be different than an interesting atmospheric its physical link the long-term relationship for a result that may sciences research to lightning slowly-varying climate,” Cummins deviate from the professor production,” said said. “For some studies, one article recently Yolande Serra, would infer that lightning rates published in an associate may not increase at all with Science. professor in the increasing temperature. Thus, we “Although my research for this research of atmospheric have more to learn before we can article was not directly correlated department with climate-related increases sciences. “Precipitation is one have the confidence in the impact in surface temperature, we did the most difficult parameters for of climate on lightning.” not find an increase [in lightning any numerical weather model strikes] over the continental to simulate, let alone a coarse U.S. over the last decade [in global climate model.” CAPE is our analysis],” Cummins said. the convective available potential — Follow John McMullen Cummins added that there are energy in the atmosphere. @DailyWildcat

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