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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013
VOLUME 107 • ISSUE 72
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UA FRESHMAN forward Aaron Gordon walks off the court with a beat up eye after helping beat UNLV 63-58 on Saturday in McKale Center. Arizona is expected to move to the No. 1 ranking.
Undefeated Wildcats could claim No. 1 ranking today BY MEGAN COGHLAN
The Daily Wildcat McKale Center erupted with the chant “number one” as the last seconds on the clock ran out to secure a 63-58 Arizona (9-0) win over UNLV (3-4) for the annual whiteout game. The sea of white that filled McKale Center did not seem to blind the Wildcats. “It was a little bright out there,”
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freshman forward Rondae HollisJefferson said, laughing. “We’re not really worried about what type of atmosphere it’s going to be; we’re worried about how we’re going to play the game and how hard we’re working at practice so we know it’s going to translate into the game.” The last time Arizona was ranked No. 1, the top song on the Billboard 200 was “Chocolate Factory” by R. Kelly. If that doesn’t make you feel old enough, it was the same year the Pixar movie “Finding Nemo”
came out and Ruben Studdard was crowned the winner of “American Idol” over Clay Aiken. It was the week of March 10, 2003. Lute Olson was head coach, and Arizona finished the season with a loss to No. 2 Kansas in the West Regional Final by only three points. It was a year where future NBA players Channing Frye and Andre Iguodala combined to score 609 total points. With last week’s No. 1 Michigan State losing to North Carolina and No. 3 Kentucky falling to Baylor, the
No. 2 Wildcats should get the top spot when the polls come out Monday. “I think to be ranked number one is maybe the greatest compliment you could have,” head coach Sean Miller said. But being at the top of the polls comes with a new level of responsibility. Every opponent will try for an upset, and for a game that Arizona was expected to win by 16, according to the betting lines, UNLV’s fight proves that.
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UA unveils giant Art class’ final telescope mirror projects come hot off press BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY
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PATRICK MCCARTHY, GIANT MAGELLAN TELESCOPE project director, discusses some of the production processes involved in creating the third of the Giant Magellan Telescope’s seven mirrors at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab on Sunday. The GMT is expected to be one of the largest telescopes in the world.
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The Daily Wildcat Astronomers are one step closer to gaining a deeper understanding of the universe as UA scientists recently unveiled the third of seven mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope. The Steward Observatory Mirror Lab unveiled the mirror on Friday. The mirror will eventually become part of a
seven-mirror array, constructed in the Atacama desert in Chile. The GMT is expected to be one of the largest telescopes in the world. It will be used to study many different aspects of the universe, including planets in our own galaxy, the structures of other galaxies and the physics behind black holes, said Patrick McCarthy, project director for the GMT.
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In a former Italian restaurant north of Speedway, UA students are using some old methods to produce their work. The Book Art and Letterpress Lab gives students the opportunity to work with printing presses, hand-mixed ink and other methods from the past in place of modern digital means, all for upper-division credit. Karen Zimmerman, an associate professor at the School of Art, manages the lab and teaches the class “Letterpress and the Multiple.” Zimmerman said she has always been interested in the process of printing as a graphic artist. The printing press combines typography and image as well as printing production. “I personally love the magic of printing, where you start with nothing and then the image appears on your paper through
your work,” Zimmerman said. “There’s something really magical about that process.” Inside the lab, printing presses from decades ago are spread out in a former campus eatery, Corleone’s, an Italian restaurant whose red carpet, silver floral wallpaper and mood lighting still provide the backdrop to students working away with this collection of antiquated machines. The majority of the equipment in the lab is donated, according to Zimmerman. Most of that donated equipment comes from the late Jack Sinclair, an artist from New Mexico, whose large donation in 2011 led to the opening of the lab. The oldest piece of equipment in the lab is a Midget Reliance hand press, a model originally produced around the 1820s, which is currently in the process of being restored, Zimmerman said. “The school is very lucky to have this equipment,”
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