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UA credit rating boost allows for more debt After recieving a credit rating upgrade, the UA can spend less on interest payments and take on more debt for pressing costs BY RANDALL ECK @reck999
UA’s outstanding debt is projected to be $1.15 billion in the 2017 fiscal year, according to a report presented to the Arizona Board of Regents. Due to improving financial health, the cost of managing this debt has decreased in recent years, freeing up revenue sources, according to UA’s Chief Financial Officer Gregg Goldman. Next year, the UA will spend 5.3 percent of its revenue, or $104.2 million, to pay off debts and interest. If revenue grows as expected and with no unplanned debts accrued, the UA will spend only 2.3 percent of revenue servicing its debt by the year 2025. Moody’s, an investor service which provides institutions with a credit rating, upgraded the UA from a negative to a stable outlook in 2015. Moody’s Investors Service credits the University of Arizona Health Network’s merger with Banner Health for the sudden change. “The merger resolved UAHN’s financial liabilities, which Moody’s perceived could have adversely affected the UA,” Goldman said. The UAHN was never directly intertwined with UA’s finances, but its loss of $6 million a month last year created a negative liability for the university, according to Chris Sigurdson, UA’s vice president of communications. The increased rating immediately opened the opportunity to reduce interests paid by $850,000 on bonds sold to investors funding the Bioscience Partnership Building, Goldman said. After the regents and the Arizona Legislature’s Joint Committee on Capital Review approve a proposal for the UA to obtain debt to maintain or finance infrastructure, the university sells bonds to investors. These investors, in turn, resell the university’s debt to
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institutions or individuals. An improved credit rating allows the UA to decrease interest the university pays on these bonds. As a result, the university’s capacity to hold debt increases and newly freed revenue can be reinvested or spent in other ways on campus, Goldman said. A decrease in interest payments and continual payments to lower UA debts will continue to decrease the percent of revenue spent on servicing UA’s current and planned debt. There are two types of debt held by the university: 29 percent is considered auxiliary
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increase revenue over time by increasing student capacity and research quality, quantity and funding. In the past, the UA acquired debt to fund deferred maintenance and infrastructure repair. According to Goldman, the UA currently has $131 million in deferred maintenance costs and by 2025, an estimated $1 billion will be necessary to resolve UA’s deferred maintenance. Although debt in the past has funded deferred maintenance, Goldman said he’d rather not borrow funds to address deferred maintenance. Rather, Goldman hopes opportunities will be found to fund UA’s deferred maintenance. The UA currently has 170 days cash on hand, meaning it possesses the necessary funds to pay all operating costs from the next 170 days. When UA President Ann Weaver Hart began her tenure at the university, the UA had 80 days cash on hand, significantly below the 175 day average of similar universities. This demonstrates the improving financial health of the university providing stability to investors and saving the university money. Hart has expressed her desire that her successor has the resources available to pursue policies to move the university forward. Under Hart, the yearly cost of the university’s debt sits well below the eight percent of yearly revenue limit. Goldman said the new UA president will set the direction on the acquisition of new debt and the projects funded by such debt. Goldman commends the presidential search committee for not limiting its search to candidates with extensive academic backgrounds. The UA is a $2.2 billion yearly enterprise and the next president must be able to balance the business aspects of the university with its core academic message, according to Goldman.
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Conference balances Israel unity and diversity BY LEAH MERRALL @leahmerrall
The Arizona Center for Judaic Studies hosted its second annual Israel Studies Conference over the weekend, culminating with a keynote speech by Anita Shapira, professor emerita from Tel Aviv University, on Monday night. The conference, called Balancing Unity & Diversity: Israel’s Changing Society & Politics, took place from Dec. 4-5 and featured historians, social scientists and professors from universities around the world. The individual sessions and seminars focused on Israel’s daunting task of balancing unity and diversity. Shapira, who is known as a historian, professor and author, and received the Israel Prize for History in 2008, spoke on the vision and reality of Israel in 2016. She addressed a room full of students, professors, sponsors and community members and discussed everything from Israel’s history to the problems the country faces today. She referred multiple times throughout her speech to the things that make Israel great, juxtaposed with its issues and controversies. “If it’s so good, then why is it so bad?” Shapira said. “Why do academic associations continuously attempt to pass resolutions boycotting Israel? Why do the Israeli media constantly attack the country’s political establishment?”
She reflected on Israel’s evolution— something she witnessed—clearly remembering the day Israel was established as a Jewish state. She spoke on the nation’s advances in science, research, entertainment and creativity. Shapira addressed liberal attitudes toward women, the LGBTQ community and Israel’s Zionist movement. Yet, Shapira contrasted these successes with what she identified as pitfalls, including Israel’s mishandling of education, the media’s attack on the political system and the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. “The majority in both nations want peace,” Shapira said. “Is the problem an excess of leadership? Is it impossible to strike a balance between the demands of both sides? It all depends on who you speak to. The rhetoric on both sides negates peace.” Shapira’s keynote speech addressed many sides of what is considered a complex issue. “This year has been the most diverse in terms of presentation and all sides of the issue,” said Thomas Borin, a sponsor of this year’s conference. For students who attended the various seminars and the keynote address, the conference presented an opportunity to shape, evolve or form new opinions on the issues. Despite, recognizing the challenges that Israel faced and continues to face in times of ongoing uncertainty, Shapira expressed her
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning on Jan. 15 for all people traveling to locations where the Zika virus transmission were ongoing. These include Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The most severe effects of Zika are in pregnant women; babies born from infected mothers were born with microcephaly, a disorder where the head of the baby grows much smaller than normal. Zika spread to the U.S., with officials confirming the first local spreading of the Zika virus in the U.S. through infected mosquitoes in Florida on July 28.
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OSIRIS-REx took to the sky on Sept. 8, launching out of Cape Canaveral, Florida, and started making its way toward the asteroid Bennu. It is scheduled to arrive in August 2018, where it will make a map of the surface and then collect samples in July 2020. It will head home in March 2021 and will arrive on Sept. 24, 2023. The mission will cost $800 million, not including the rocket.
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FLINT, MI President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency over the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, on Jan. 16. The Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency order on Jan. 21 deteriming that “the City of Flint’s and the State of Michigan’s responses to the drinking water crisis in Flint have been inadequate and that these failures continue.” Over the next four months children were treated and the city’s 8,000 lead service lines and public water fixtures were replaced. Stephen Busch and Michael Prysby, state officials at the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and Michael Glasgow, Flint laboratory water quality supervisor, face criminal charges.
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UA PRESIDENT ANN WEAVER Hart claps along with Arizona Athletics director Greg Byrne, left, and head coach Sean Miller, right, during former Arizona guard Miles Simon’s jersey retirement ceremony after the red and blue scrimmage in McKale Center on Oct. 14.
President Ann Weaver Hart announced over email on June 10 that she would not be renewing her presidency after her contract ends in 2018. Earlier in the year she accepted a position with the DeVry Education Group, spurring a petition calling for her to step down from the group’s board. The Arizona Board of Regents created the UA Presidential Search Advisory Committee comprised of 27 education and industry leaders to find the next UA president.
BROTHER DEAN SAXTON PREPARES to be seated in a Police Cruiser Sept. 20.
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OLYMPICS From Aug. 5 to Aug. 21, more than 10,000 athletes from 207 countries flew to Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The U.S. took home the most medals with 121 medals—46 gold, 37 silver and 38 bronze. Next was China with 70 medals and then Great Britain with 67 medals. Twenty-seven new records were set, such as Katie Ledecky’s world record in the 800-meter swim. People were skeptical whether Rio was the best place for the Olympics with Brazil’s Zika outbreak and the polluted water. Swimmer Ryan Lochte claimed he was robbed at a gas station, but he vastly exaggerated the incident and was suspended from competing for 10 months.
It took 108 years, but the Chicago Cubs finally ended their World Series drought, winning 8-7 against the Cleveland Indians on Nov. 2. The game lasted almost five hours that included a blown four-run lead, a 17-minute rain delay and a tied game that ran into the 10th inning.
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The decision to for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union was made on June 23 with a referendum vote, a vote in which everyone of voting age can participate. With more than 30 million people voting across the UK, a 71.8 percent turnout, “leave” won by 52 percent to 48 percent. The process of “Brexiting” is ongoing with the new Prime Minister Theresa May intending to trigger the process by March 2017, meaning they will be expected to be out of the EU by summer 2019.
Brother Dean Saxton was arrested and charged with assault after kicking Mackenzie Brandt, a freshman criminal justice major, in the chest in front of the administration building on Sept. 20. Saxton was wearing a purple shirt with the word “homo” crossed out in red and was preaching against homosexuality. When Brandt approached him to tell him what he was saying was wrong, he kicked her. The cops were called, and at 12:30 p.m. Saxton was patted down and placed in a police car. The University of Arizona Police Department issued an exclusionary order banning Saxton from campus for a year, per university policy.
OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER
Donald Trump was elected president on Nov. 8, winning 289 electoral college votes compared to 218 for Hillary Clinton. Trump will be the first president to enter the White House with no executive political, diplomatic or military experience. At 70, he is also the oldest president to be sworn in during his first term. His election sparked riots and protest marches, including a march on the UA on Nov. 14.
FIDEL CASTRO
Fidel Castro died at age 90 on Nov. 25 after serving as Cuba’s maximum leader for nearly half a century, a longer time in power than any other living national leader except Queen Elizabeth II. He directed the defense of the country during the Bay of Pigs invasion and continued the Communist revolution even when he fell ill in 2006.
DAKOTA ACCESS PIPELINE Environmental and Native American groups stood together to protest the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline with protests. The Pipeline would carry 470,000 barrels of crude oil a day from North Dakota to Illinois. It cut through sacred spots of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and the construction ripped up prayer sites and culturally significant artifacts. On Dec. 4, the Army Corps of Engineers denied a permit for construction for the pipeline under the Missouri River, halting the project.
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Look, another theft A UAPD officer responded to Kappa Sigma Fraternity for a report of burglary on Nov. 27. Upon arrival, the officer learned that the resident’s 40-inch, LG brand smart TV was stolen from the common area of his room while he was home for Thanksgiving break. When he returned, he noticed that his television and wall mount were gone. The victim stated that before he left his residence he had locked the door, but there are other occupant’s of the home that may not have locked the door. The only way someone would have access to the compound is if they jumped over a wall that any average person could easily jump over. The suspect probably entered the room, ripped the television and wall mount off the wall and fled the scene. No other property was reported missing. The victim would scan through the cameras that they have in their fraternity compound to see if he could find the suspect but stated that he would not want to prosecute if the suspect was found.
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Sleeping area could come to Main Library ASUA Sen. Lorenzo Johnson has been collecting student opinions and working to implement a sleeping area in the Main Library BY ELIZABETH O’CONNELL @_eoconnell
library. The nap stations opened at University of Michigan in 2014. During his research, Johnson found several other schools already implementing the Associated Students of the University areas for students, including the www.pima.edu/pimaonline for more! of Arizona Senators are reaching out toCheck out sleeping University of California Berkeley and the accumulate student opinions about a rest Fine print: Consult theofCourse University Miami. Equivalency Guide at center in the university’s main library, hoping Johnson then discussed this idea of to work with the library to create a space for www.aztransfer.com regarding transfer. a napping area with ASUA President students to rest during the day. Michael Finnegan. Senator Lorenzo Johnson, a sophomore As of now, Johnson is working with the studying philosophy, politics, economics and library to create a rest center. In the future, law, has been collaborating with the library to he plans on drafting a budget proposal help cultivate a plan for the center. and, if approved, beginning the initial “There is plenty of research that supports the stages of installation. notion that sleep and academic performance Johnson said the look of the space and are correlated,” Johnson said. “Also with the whether it has trendy nap pods or cots and University of Arizona having so many students couches is still left to be decided. The plan is who commute from afar to campus, it makes it to have enough space for five to 20 students impractical for many to leave to take a nap.” depending on the size of the budget. Johnson is currently working on a survey for A poor night of sleep can affect memory, students to fill out to evaluate support for the judgment and mood, according to the proposal. Questions are related to how often a student falls asleep or take naps on campus and American Psychological Association website. in class, how many hours of sleep he or she gets Younger adults have reported feeling stressed because of their lack of sleep, which can lead to a night and if he or she believes sleep affects sadness or depression. academic performance. With the rest center, students will be able to Johnson said the student reaction to this idea re-energize throughout the day. This can help has been overwhelmingly positive. During an students operate at full academic potential, initial survey with 168 responses, he said 91 Johnson said. The space provides students with percent of students would use a rest center. a quiet place to take a nap for an hour or less. Johnson heard about a similar set up at the The survey is still available for students to University of Michigan when he was speaking provide their opinion. with his aunt who works for the university’s
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UA may establish new sensitivity guidelines BY YOOHYUN JUNG THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR (TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE)
Professors at the University of Arizona may soon be asking students about their preferred gender pronouns and crafting a syllabus that includes warnings for possibly traumatizing content. The University of Arizona’s faculty senate on Monday explored establishing guidelines for professors to be more sensitive to marginalized students, including LGBTQ students and those who have experienced trauma. The recommendations come as a result of discussions facilitated by the diversity task force, which UA President Ann Weaver Hart created last year as a response to student activism. Groups of marginalized students and their supporters reported racism and homophobia on campus, and subsequently released a demand letter asking for a range of changes, including diversifying the UA’s faculty and staff and providing cultural competency training.
“It’s about creating a more welcome climate in the classroom,” said Jesús Treviño, UA’s senior diversity officer and vice provost for inclusive excellence who was hired in May to address diversity on campus. The task force has eight subcommittees, including the classroom experience subcommittee that produced the two recommendations on gender pronouns and content warnings. Each subcommittee is intended to tackle issues raised in the students’ demand letter. The general consensus from the faculty senate was to pursue fine-tuning the language for the pronoun and content warning recommendations for campus-wide guidelines. The faculty group will re-evaluate in the future whether or not those guidelines should be elevated to mandated policy. Some faculty senators voiced concerns mostly about the guidelines’ impact on academic freedom. Roy Spece, a law professor, said at the meeting that while he’s sympathetic to students’ concerns, there doesn’t need to be restrictions on professors’ speech when the issue is a moral one.
It could start the university down a “slippery slope,” he said. “We need to respect people’s rights to say things we don’t like.” Treviño, the senior diversity officer, said in an interview that the message is not “do not present the information in the classroom.” Instead, faculty should simply let students know, through syllabus or other means, what would be discussed throughout the semester. But where does the university draw the line? “Common sense,” he said. The boundaries are something the university and its members would have to continue to discuss, but the best gauge right now is to consider what is an obvious trigger for trauma, such as sexual violence. Some discomfort is part of the learning process, he said. “But we don’t want to push them over the learning edge.” In the end, the guidelines to ask students about their preferred gender pronouns and giving advanced notice on possibly triggering content are “not unlike a whole bunch of things that already exist in your contracts,” Faculty Senate Chair Lynn Nadel told his fellow senators at the meeting.
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“If you look at the university handbook, you will find a variety of things you’re required to do,” he said. “That’s not news. This is appropriate behavior. It’s simply adding things to an already long list of things faculty members are epxected to do as part of their employment.” Shevonda Joyner, a UA junior
and an intern for the Diversity Task Force, said she would like to see the guidelines implemented as quickly as possible. When the professors show “an actual understanding of students,” they feel comfortable and safe in the classroom, which is the state of mind they need to be in to learn.
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UA health experts give advice on finals stress Keep calm and study on—experts from Campus Health and Campus Recreation offer insight into stress management for the most hectic time in the semester BY CHANDLER DONALD @DailyWildcat
As university students, stress is an everyday part of our lives—whether we like it or not. College puts students under excess amounts of stress, and all too often students are unable to deal with it in a healthy way. With finals coming up fast, it is important to try and get a better understanding of what stress itself means for you. Researchers found that 40.8 percent of students felt an above-average amount of stress in the previous 12 months, while nearly 10 percent reported experiencing a tremendous amount of stress within that time period, according to a 2013 National College Health Assessment. “Stress is the No. 1 health problem in our country,” said Debra Cox-Howard, a mental health clinician with Campus Health Services. “It is your reactions to the events in your life. Stress can be positive or negative. Too much stress leaves you feeling fatigued, tense, edgy—not enough stress and you become bored and unproductive.” It’s important to remember that stress impacts everyone in a different way. It is often quite unique in its manifestation as well as what alleviates it. “Stress is not just about what happens,” Cox-Howard said. “It is also about your perception of these events. Each person responds differently, both physically and psychologically, to stressful events.” The ramifications of stress extends well beyond anxiety or a simple headache. The 2013 National College Health Assessment polled students and found about 10 percent of students had even considered suicide within the previous year. So, how should students deal with stressful times in a healthy way? Cox-Howard suggests to
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SOPHOMORE JOSE GARDEA STUDIES for a final on Saturday, Dec. 3. Experts from Campus Health and Campus Recreation advise a number of stress-management strategies including exercise and keeping an eye on your mood and habits in order to combat finals-induced stress.
avoid having too many things on your to-do list. “Recognize what is in your control to change and what is not,” Cox-Howard said. “Learn how to reduce your physical reaction to stress—yoga, meditation class, listening to music. ... Physical activity burns off stress and gives you an emotional lift.” The American Heart Association recommends 150 minutes of moderate-intense exercise per week. However, the 2013 National College Health Survey suggests that only about 20 percent of
college students are meeting that recommendation. Eric Thomas, a senior instruction specialist with the Student Recreation Center, said he strives to treat both the physical and mental sides of stress every day. “Whether there are external or intrinsic factors, it will always start with the individual’s thinking,” Thomas said. “One of the most common underlying attributes for stress is a lack of control or fear of what may happen. When we begin to train a client, we begin to provide that individual a new
sense of control and ultimately confidence to face difficult situations with more vigor and intent.” Stress can be so overwhelming that a new exercise routine won’t always suffice. At some point, the decision has to be made to seek professional help. But how can one recognize when their stress gets out of hand? Cox-Howard encourages students to keep an eye on a number of symptoms. “It is important to assess three things,” CoxHoward said. “What you are
experiencing—backaches, cold hands, cold sores, fatigue; what you are changing—alcohol and drug use, crying, eating habits; and what you are feeling— angry, anxious, depressed; and how these [feelings] are negatively affecting your daily life.” UA Counseling and Psych Services can help when stress begins to feel like it’s too much. They offer support and services to any UA student or faculty, who can set up appointments and access mental health resources on CAPS’ website.
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Science • Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Honeybee health, mortality linked to harmful or beneficial bacteria produced by diet BY NICOLE MORIN @DailyWildcat
A recent study led by a UA graduate student is focusing on how a decrease in pollen availability is negatively affecting the gut microbes of honeybees. These microbes can either benefit or harm the bee, depending on the insect’s diet. The research began with beekeepers, who typically feed their bees a pollen substitute using protein and sugar water. Patrick Maes, a UA graduate student and the first author of the study, wanted to find a way to improve these pollen substitutes. “My research focus was going to be on how the honeybee’s gut microbiome confers benefits to its host,” Maes said. “I wanted to know if we could harness the natural powers of the honeybees as a way to improve pollen substitutes.” To do this, Maes and his team had to determine how different diets affect the health and prosperity of honeybees.
researchers measured the Maes chose two 500-bee physical and developmental apiaries—bee yards—based on variables that could be affected. how available naturally occurring These included “mortality, flight pollen was to the bees housed muscle development, nurse gland inside them. development and Foragers of the consumption,” colony naturally collected pollen I wanted to Maes said. and pollen know if we Researchers also performed substitutes, which could harness genetic research was then packed into the comb by the natural on the four parts a honeybee’s fellow bees. From powers of the of digestion system— there, the food honeybees as a way mouth parts, cache was aged to improve pollen nurse guts, ilieum using a treatment of controlled substitutes.” and hindgut— which enabled humidity and them to see what temperature for —Patrick Maes, kind of bacteria either 14 or graduate student developed within. 21 days. Prior studies “We then and first author done by Maes used cage and the other studies to feed researchers were newly emerged also integrated bees one of the into the experiment. For example, treatments,” Maes said. All in all, the team was already aware that bees were fed one of four diets: honeybees prefer freshly stored newer or aged pollen and newer pollen and that colonies begin to or aged pollen substitute. show stress after a certain period To determine differences,
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of time. This is called “colony dwindling,” a natural phenomenon noted by beekeepers. This inspired the idea of using “fresh” and “aged” diets in the experiment. Through this research, the team discovered a connection between diet and bacteria in honeybees. Certain diets created an environment that allowed for particular types of bacteria, some negative and some positive. The type of bacteria found in the stomach correlated with the effects caused by the bees’ diets. “Our results document the first link between honeybee diet, host deficiencies and bacterial community structure,” Maes said. When a bee was fed a fresh diet, it experienced much more positive effects. These bees were documented as having a lower mortality rate, grew more efficiently and suffered less from dangerous pathogens. Bees fed an aged diet had higher levels of the negative gut pathogen Frischella perrara, which causes scab formation in the stomach of bees. They took longer to develop a nurse gland—used to
rear young—and to develop the muscles needed for flying. Bees who consumed the aged diet had to eat a great deal more, despite suffering from negative consequences. “The increased consumption effect could be due to the lack of assimilated as opposed to available nutrition,” Maes said. In an attempt to obtain necessary nutrients to both survive and feed their larva, the bees ate a larger amount of the aged diet. The microbial community within the bee’s stomach was altered no matter what type of diet they were fed, but the results were drastically different. An older diet clearly led to more negative bacteria, including species of Nosema, a feared bacterium which causes dehydration and has been linked to colonies collapsing in the United States. Fresh pollen, a dwindling resource, created an environment suitable for positive, useful bacteria in the bee’s stomach. In a decade of decreasing bee populations around the world, this research may play a useful role in protecting the insects in the future.
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THE CARL HAYDEN RESEARCH Center on Sunday, Dec. 4. The center aims to optimize the health of bee populations and maximize the production of bee-pollinated crops and partially funded the study on bee gut bacteria.
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OPINIONS
Editor: Scott Felix opinion@dailywildcat.com (520) 621-7579
The Dakota Access Pipeline fight is not over Last Sunday, the Army Corps of Engineers brought construction on the DAPL to sudden halt. Unfortunately, the fight to stop the DAPL for good is just begining.
BY AURORA BEGAY @DailyWildcat
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ative Americans have been treated as inferiors since Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas. They’ve had their land colonized and claimed by Europeans, and they have fought hard for the little land they already have. History seems to have been repeating itself. The construction of the $3.7 billion Dakota Access Pipeline started in late July, and the local Sioux tribe and hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting the site. The Dakota Access Pipeline, which is owned by Energy Transfer Partners LP, was scheduled to run through the Bakken region of North Dakota to South Dakota, Iowa and Illinois. The pipeline route caused a lot of controversy among the Native American community because it is being placed in the Lakota Treaty Territory at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The route of the pipeline has potential to contaminate the Missouri River and it would also mean destroying sacred land. Throughout the protest against the pipelines, law enforcement had been on site to keep protesters from interfering with the construction. It seems that law enforcement has been using more excessive force than needed to try and push protesters away. In past incidents, law enforcement have maced protesters, shot them with rubber bullets, shot them with water cannons and threatened to shut down their campsites. The Morton County Sheriff’s Department continues to defend their actions by stating that they are going to protect people and enforce the law. Sheriff Kyle Kirchmeier said in an interview that the protesters were warned to back up and get out of the way. Kirchmeier also said all they had to do was follow orders and they wouldn’t have been sprayed with water during the lateNovember protests. Could the actions of Morton County Sheriff Department have
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been out of fear? In a way, it seems so. Throughout the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline, protesters have been peaceful. They’ve tried persuading, without force or threats, law enforcement to join their side; they’ve gathered to pray in their Native language; they’ve sang their Native songs; and they’ve done all of this while unarmed. All they want to do is protect the land, the water and the environment for future generations. The protest also brought many tribes together to stand in unity to protect Mother Earth. It was a beautiful sight that could’ve caused law enforcement to feel existentially threatened. While the law enforcement feel their action is right, the protesters remained strong. They’ve faced the harm done to them and continued to stand for what they believe in. The actions of the protesters are courageous and show just how strong
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the Native Americans are. The controversy on the Dakota Access Pipeline has grown international. Supporters around the world showed support by holding protests in their hometowns. Celebrities such as Shailene Woodley, Mark Ruffalo and Senator Bernie Sanders have been vocal with support for Standing Rock. They brought attention to the protest, whereas mainstream media lacked broadcasting the issue. Protesters of the pipelines have been encouraging their supporters to reach out to their state representatives and to President Obama to address the issues of the protesters at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Back in September, the Obama administration halted the construction of the pipelines. It didn’t last long, though. The construction continued a few weeks later. The Native Americans of the land have the
right to protect their land. They were given the land through the Fort Laramie Treaty, a treaty which was later broken. The government disrespected not only the treaty but opened up the land to construction. Native Americans are still a minority, which might be another reason why the government feels they can disregard their concerns. After months of determination to stop the Dakota Access Pipelines, things are starting to looking up for protesters. This Sunday, Dec. 4, the United States Army Corps of Engineers denied the Dakota Access Pipeline’s easement to drill under the Missouri River, which means it will have to reroute the pipeline. This is a huge win for the Indigenous community and to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. It just goes to show that the First Amendment right to assemble is powerful when you stand together and fight for what you believe in.
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Trump’s ‘greater,’ whiter America The College of Social & Behavioral Sciences Congratulates our
WINTER 2016 GRADUATES! Department of American Indian Studies School of Anthropology Department of Communication Department of English Department of Gender and Women’s Studies School of Geography and Development School of Government and Public Policy Department of History School of Information School of Journalism Arizona Center for Judaic Studies Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies Center for Latin American Studies Department of Linguistics Department of Mexican American Studies School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Department of Philosophy School of Sociology
been Trump’s goal, and it worked. His empowerment of white supremacists has re-ignited the overt racial biases that were far more prevalent prior to the Civil Rights movement. His rallies are known to be violent BY ANDREW ALAMBAN toward African-Americans, Muslims and @DailyWildcat Mexican-Americans. By putting whites back on top, his supporters feel like they’re making Monkey see; monkey do. Trump’s bigotry America great again. has inspired white supremacists nationwide This strong sense of unity saw Trump to “Make America Great Again,” also read as, through the primaries and, eventually, lead to “Make America White Again.” his victory of the presidency on Nov. 8. The 2016 election cycle has seen many ups According to NBC news, 37 percent of the and downs. Many ideas have spouted from country consists of non-white Americans. the mouths of both candidates in an attempt Therefore, the country placed someone to cater to their respective voter base. While who openly insulted multiple groups, it may not necessarily be the sole reason groups that consist a considerable bulk of for President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, American society, as the some of his comments president of the U.S. suggested sympathy toward With The Donald at white supremacy. Adding fuel the helm, there was a While 2015 was a large to the fire may new surge of confidence landmark in U.S. history the alt-right. After have been within with the legalization of Trump’s victory, they began gay marriage across all 50 Trump’s goal, and to call for a temporary states, 2016 seems to have it worked. His ban on “non-European brought another “coming empowerment of immigration.” In addition out” of sorts with the altthat, complaints of hate white supremacists to right Americans. crimes have increased since His words of has re-ignited the the election—even worse empowerment brought out kindling of overt than after the 9/11 attacks, hidden sentiments within to USA Today. racial biases that according the alt-right. This is a group When looking through of Americans who harbor were far more the clouded lenses of white supremacist views. prevalent prior to a white supremacist, People who think that the the Civil Rights America is on its way to country belongs to whites being “great again.” But it movement.” isn’t great to undo decades’ because of a misguided superiority complex. worth of work toward These sentiments have diversity and acceptance of been harbored within the all within the U.S. white nationalist movement As an immigrant who came to this country for multiple generations. Luckily, the starry-eyed with promises of the American progressing attitude of the country toward a Dream, I can’t imagine an America in more diverse America that accepts people of which outsiders are treated without equal all races usually discourages the exercise of respect to their white peers. Fortunately, open white supremacy. I’ve never experienced any enmity toward So when Donald Trump preaches the great me or my family. The community my family message of “Making America Great Again,” immigrated to welcomed us with open arms. alt-right supporters were more than willing to I want every minority person to have listen to what “The Donald” had to say. And that experience. Encouraging xenophobic he had a lot to say, indeed. attitudes will rob immigrants of that sense We can trace this back to the beginning of community. of his campaign where he infamously called While I do concede that illegal immigration out Mexico’s immigrants and labeled them is something that needs to be stopped, the as drug dealers, rapists and criminals. He people who’ve made it here legitimately concedes that “some are good people,” but shouldn’t be ridiculed by Trump’s supporters that doesn’t justify the fact that he generalized because of their outward appearance. an entire race as rapists and murderers. But at the end of the day, there are those This was the first instance in which white who come into this country who are willing supremacists could see a figure to rally to. to do what it takes to make their American This was a figure who could insult a whole dream a reality with enormous pride in group of people and get away with it. Trump’s the country that adopted them. Having the bigotry only grew during the rest of the willpower to make that happen proves that election as he went out of his way to target immigrants are just as American as anyone Muslims, women, the disabled and more. else who was born in this country. Adding fuel to the fire may have
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Letters to the editor LESLIE ZARAGOZA
VENERANDA AGUIRRE, J.D.
On the death of Fidel Castro
On the death of Bert Barickman
Adieu to a Tyrant. Nothing but relief ensues from the death of Fidel Castro, the former oppressive tyrant of Cuba. It is imperative for us to not undermine the affliction he brought onto his country. Millions who opposed Castro and his newfound regime after he took over from dictator General Fulgencio Batista were jailed, tortured and murdered. His implementation of communism left the vibrant island in low wages, high ration rates and despair. Cuba’s health care system and education are in shambles with its shortage of doctors, due to the lack of incentive to work there and a propaganda-fueled literature, which is essential to keeping the public blind to the reality of their corrupt government. For these reasons and many others, we should rejoice the end of the Castro’s life and remain weary to not undercut his destruction upon Cuba. The past is history. This does not imply that we excuse his abuses because he has died. This means we observe and study the causes and effects of his destructive rule and learn to never repeat it.
I just got the news today in an off-hand way. Bert Barickman, one of my favorite college professors, has passed away. He taught Latin American history. I’ve been thinking about him in the past few days after Fidel’s passing. I’m devastated. Barickman taught me to think critically. He challenged me to be better, and I rose to the challenge because he was so good at what he did. I wrote the best academic work under his tutelage—a paper on the U.S. Involvement in the Chile Coup of 1973. I still have the paper. He said it was one of the best he’d ever received. I was so proud that he acknowledged me because I thought so much of him. I loved him so much I implored my sister Andrea, a science major, to take his class. I once ran into him at No Anchovies, a little inebriated, and poured out how much I loved him. He was humble about my praise and introduced me to another student hounding him, at which point he politely excused himself. I know there are generations of students who share my admiration of him. To some he was awkward, standing alone and drinking Fresca and smoking cigarettes before lecture. To me he was a shining beacon of intelligence and high standards. So long, professor Barickman. Your legacy lives on in your work and all the students who were lucky to have studied under you. There will never be another quite like you.
Congratulations and Best Wishes to all of the Fall 2016 Graduates! Please join us in recognizing the following students for their outstanding achievements.
MICHAEL H FRANZ On “The electoral college is for all of America” The opinion expressed by Ms. Drace in the above-mentioned article parrots a popular, but wholly wrong, modern notion of the principal behind the establishment, by the founding fathers, of the Electoral College. According to Federalist Paper #68, the electors are “... men chosen by the people for the special purpose, and at the particular conjuncture,” for the purpose of voting for the presidential candidate of THEIR choice, not the democraticmajority choice. The purpose of this intermediary body of voters was (and indeed still is) to make an educated, informed choice of president. The Electoral College is not, nor has it ever been, intended to be an instrument of direct democracy, except by some state legislatures—their laws to the effect that Electors must vote in accordance with the choice of the state majority being not only an abrogation of responsibility but also in direct conflict with the intent of the founders. The Electors were, in particular, assigned the responsibility of making a choice which
would minimize “... tumult and disorder.” Also were the founders concerned about “the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils” (need I say more about that, with respect to this particular presidential election?) Were the Electoral College to perform the duties it was initially assigned, many of the Electors would go forth on the basis of being “faithless,” and someone other than Donald Trump would be awarded the presidency by the choice of the majority of the Electoral College—Mr. Trump being wholly unqualified to perform the duties of the position. Mine is not simply the opinion of one individual. I think it is safe to assume that no one would argue that, left to make the choice for themselves, the Electors would never put Donald Trump in the office of President of the United States of America. In the current situation, the machinery of the Electoral College, as applied today, is not “... for all of America”—it is for none of America. With trepidation, concerning the health of our Republic.
CONGRATS! TO OUR RESIDENCE LIFE GRADUATES:
College of Science Outstanding Senior Award Kristina Stepanovic Psychology
Departmental Outstanding Senior Awards Jordan Krcmaric
Karey Armenta
Elizabeth Kahler
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Maj Krumberger
Geosciences
Teacher Prep Program
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Mathematics
School of Mind, Brain and Behavior Neuroscience & Cognitive Science
UA Science Ambassadors These students are selected to represent their department due to their high level of academic achievement, undergraduate research projects and outstanding leadership qualities. In addition, UA Science Ambassadors have distinguished themselves through their service to the College of Science in recruitment and outreach activities.
Elizabeth Kahler Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences
Usman Bandukda Patricio Carrillo Makena Graves Wilfred Njemanze Lisa Siewert Gabrielle West
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Congratulations, Honors Graduates! Outstanding Senior Award Dominic Palazzola Andrea Alanis Business Economics Capstone advisor: Keith Joiner Benton Anderson Biochemistry Capstone advisor: Jon Njardarson Clara Apodaca-Welch Latin American Studies Capstone advisor: Oscar Martinez Matthew Bartley Economics Capstone advisor: Charity-Joy Acchiardo John Bercel Neuroscience & Cognitive Science Capstone advisor: Mary-Frances O’Connor Ethan Beyak Mechanical Engineering Capstone advisors: Gerald Pine & Robert Messenger Jordan Boesel Creative Writing Capstone advisor: Stephanie Pearmain Sierra Bourne Entrepreneurship Capstone advisor: Joseph Broschak Taylor Camp Family Studies & Human Development Capstone advisor: Linda Pallock
Sarah Carton Art Education Capstone advisors: Lisa Hochtritt & Manisha Sharma Miguel Contreras Psychology Capstone advisor: Thaddeus Pace Briana Dohogne Public Health Capstone advisor: Sheila Parker Morgan Frank Nursing Capstone advisors: Ida Moore & Gloanna Peek Riako Granzier-Nakajima Economics Capstone advisor: Price Fishback Kalli Harshman Sustainable Plant Systems Capstone advisor: Dennis Ray Kitra Henker Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Capstone advisor: Judith Bronstein Dylan Hutchison Chemistry Capstone advisor: Jonathan Chorover Virginia James Political Science Capstone advisor: Thomas Volgy Jordan Krcmaric Geosciences Capstone advisor: Mihai Ducea
Spirit of Inquiry Alumni Award Winner Dr. Paul Barber, Professor & Vice Chair Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UCLA Rivian Lewin Psychology Capstone advisor: John Allen
Colin Pedron English Capstone advisor: John Hurh
Thaddeus Lin Physiology Capstone advisor: Douglas Keen
Nicole Rochon German Studies Capstone advisor: Chantelle Reynwar
Ivan Mendez Gonzalez Entrepreneurship Capstone advisor: Joseph Broschak Xochitl Monge Nursing Capstone advisor: Connie Miller
Melissa Schwan Geosciences Capstone advisor: Kevin Anchukaitis Vijay Singh Physiology Capstone advisor: Zoe Cohen
Sarah Naves Nursing Capstone advisor: Melissa Goldsmith Syn Yee Tan Geosciences Capstone advisor: Richard Andres Nuncio Zuniga Bennett Biomedical Engineering Capstone advisor: Gerald Pine Noel Teku Electrical & Computer Tiffanie Obilor Engineering Law Capstone advisor: Gerald Pine Capstone advisor: Negar Katirai Dominic Palazzola Molecular & Cellular Biology Capstone advisor: Ted Weinert
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Karina Paredes Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Capstone advisor: Kevin Bonine
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ARTS & LIFE
Editor: Emma Jackson arts@dailywildcat.com (520) 621-7579
Winterhaven residents prepare for light festival BY ISAAC ANDREWS @isaacandone
Residents of Winterhaven have been gradually completing their holiday light displays during the first week of December, preparing for the opening night of the Festival of Lights on Dec. 10. Arthur “Art” Clifton, a Winterhaven resident, has used the same lights he started out with when he moved to the neighborhood years ago. White icicle-shaped lights hang from his front awning, just as they always have. “We’ve been using these same lights here since we first moved in, which was about 38 years [ago],” Clifton said. Clifton said he is thrilled that the festival now only includes one drivethrough night. His favorite part of the Winterhaven experience is the people who come through to appreciate the neighborhood lights. “It’s amazing, the people that come through," Clifton said. "Everybody’s in the greatest mood. I love it—it’s well worth it.” Sean Doyle, another Winterhaven resident, moved to the neighborhood about a month and a half ago. He said he looks forward to participating in the festival this year. “We’re really excited, especially because we have our little boy,” Doyle said. “We wanted to bring him up in this kind of atmosphere where they really get into the Christmas spirit. He sees that all the lights are going up, so he’s more alert to what’s going on and is asking about Santa Claus.” Doyle had to make a few extra stops at the store to buy lights because he got less than he had anticipated. “We’re trying to ... get good-quality so that way it lasts 38 years,” Doyle said, nodding to the longevity of his neighbor’s christmas facade. Although his arsenal of illumination includes nets and strings of lights and even some solar lights, Doyle isn’t super worried about winning any of the festival competitions this year. “Honestly, I just want it to look nice and kind of up to par with everything else,” Doyle said. Each year, the houses are judged for various titles. Some of this year’s awards include Best Use of Lights, Southwest Christmas, TEP’s Favorite and Best Dressed Vehicle. The most prestigious competition is for the CB Richards award. CB Richards created the festival in 1949 after visiting a similar display in Beverly Hills. The festival lasts from Dec. 10-26 and
is free and open to the public from 6-10 p.m. every day. Groups in cars can drive through the neighborhood during the drive-through night on Dec. 26. Winterhaven Hayrides and Arizona Party Bikes are also available by reservation to ride through the neighborhood. Festival goers can also donate to the Community Food Bank at every entrance to the neighborhood. The city of Tucson stopped funding the festival in 2010, and since then, festival organizers have reached out to the community and local businesses for financial assistance. Robin Dolezal, the festival chair, said the event costs around $70,000 to put on, the majority of which is used to pay for barricades, insurance and off-duty police officers. Dolezal said they have applied to receive funding from Casino Del Sol and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, a previous year’s title sponsor. Dolezal said they have seen some community support, but the festival is still in need of a title sponsor. “The festival is going to happen no matter what this year,” Dolezal said. Dolezal, a Winterhaven resident, said the festival always brings a cheerful buzz to the neighborhood and the Tucson community. She said around 200,000 people come through the festival during its two-week run. Residents of Winterhaven do not have to decorate—participation in the festival is completely voluntary, but Dolezal said the particiaption rate in the neighborhood is “just immense and incredible.” Karen Miller has been living in Winterhaven since 2006. Her decorations include tons of lights, a Santa’s workshop scene in the front yard, fake snow blowing into the yard and street, a holiday village scene in her window and inflatables. “I would say there’s probably a good 30 of them,” Miller said, referring to the inflatables. Miller said winning a display competition is always an added incentive, but her family decorates for the fun of the festival. “It’s a free event, and it’s something we can give back to Tucson,” Miller said. “It’s just for fun, and it’s all friendly competition.” Miller’s husband, Jeff, is a firstgeneration Winterhaven resident, and their son is a second-generation resident. Miller said her favorite part of the festival is the community involvement. “We all feel like we are a part of it,” Miller said. “It involves the community and you get to know your neighbors
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JANETE, A WINTERHVEN RESIDENT, sets up her Curious George display that reads “Curious George visits Winterhaven” on her yard on Friday, Dec. 2. The Winterhaven Festival of Lights opens on Dec. 10.
better because of that, so that’s always really nice. It just becomes more of that hometown feeling.” Lauren Aguilar is another first-time festival participant who has lived in the neighborhood for almost a year. “I definitely think it will be exciting. I enjoy people-watching anywhere else,” Aguilar said. “Especially around the holiday season, I feel like people are a little more cheerful and just more in BY TAYLOR BRESTEL
Type/Breed: “We found her a week ago in a parking lot,” her co-owner, Canyon Smith, a general studies junior, said. Age: 8 weeks Favorite thing to do: Tear apart napkins. Gracie was spotted walking on a leash down the mall. It was her first time being walked outside and her co-owner Morgan Postal, a prenursing sophomore, said the goal was to continue training her to go on walks.
the spirit.” Aguilar is excited to have friends and family over, build a fire and enjoy the holiday vibes. “You are coming here for a purpose—to be happy and look at lights and see other people and just kind of enjoy,” Aguilar said. “Come out, enjoy, see the pretty lights. Stay warm, because it’s going to be cold.”
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Arts & Life • Wednesday, December 7, 2016
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JULIET MACKAY, A PREBUSINESS freshman, discusses her childhood growing up in South Africa on Monday, Dec. 5. MacKay chose to attend the UA because it resembles where she grew up.
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“I danced in the pre-professional program at the Boston Ballet School, which I was really fortunate to get into,” MacKay said. “I contemplated joining a professional ballet company, but my parents really wanted us to go to college in the U.S. That’s one of the reasons that we came. So I started looking at colleges that had good dance programs and I was accepted here.” Instead of pursuing a professional dance career right away, MacKay decided to try something new, majoring in pre-business, while still having the option to participate in the dance program. She also discovered that academic rigor and drive for success proved to be one of the major differences in education between the two countries. “Over here, everyone is really focused on school and grades and going to college and getting a degree and being really successful when they’re older,” MacKay said. “It’s not like that isn’t important in South Africa, but I just found that when I moved here academics became a big focus in my life.” MacKay said that while she enjoyed transitioning into American culture, she
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faced many generalizations about where she came from. “People tend to presume that the whole of South Africa is this third-world, dying country,” MacKay said. “People are always asking me why I am white, why my accent is the way it is, why I am not part of some tribe living in a mud hut, if I ride elephants to school or even if there are cars there. The list goes on and on. I’ve been asked the most ridiculous things.” MacKay said she found these misconceptions to prove very telling about how knowledgeable Americans are of South Africa. “It’s just interesting to see how much Americans actually know about South Africa because occasionally, there will be someone who knows a ton and then there will be someone who won’t even know where South Africa is,” MacKay said. “Someone asked me if it was next to England once.” Despite this, MacKay said she generally enjoys living in the States. She particularly loves the culture that surrounds holidays. “Getting to know more about American culture and celebrating Thanksgiving has been my favorite part,” MacKay said. “Americans are so into holidays and it’s so fun to see because everyone goes all-out, decorating all their houses and everything. In South Africa, we put up a Christmas tree, but no one really decorates outside of their house. Americans are really festive, and that’s really fun to be a part of.” Along with the opportunity of higher education, MacKay revealed that safety played a large part in the decision to move to America, particularly after her father was held at gunpoint. “Security in South Africa is really bad. My house had a wall around it with an electric fence and a gate and you never walked anywhere,” MacKay said. “It’s really weird coming here, because people walk everywhere and that was never an option. It was really unsafe.” Yet, MacKay misses her family and friends. She said it has been easy to stay connected to home, though. “My two older sisters and I are definitely more connected with South Africa than my younger sister, just because she moved when she was 12, so she was quite young,” MacKay said. “I am still really close to all my school friends in South Africa and I haven’t lost my accent, which I really thought I would, but having my parents around really helped.” While MacKay and her family travel back every December to visit, she has become accustomed to the idea of staying in America. “When I first moved and I was in that period of adjusting, I did think I was going to move back,” MacKay said. “But now that I am already in college here and I see how many doors have opened for the future by living in America, if I go back, I know that I won’t have as many opportunities that I would if I stayed here.”
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Mechanical Engineering Stephen Gregory Jewell Brian Bradford Kehn Robert Donald Miller Steven Patrick Moreland Chase Alexander Paules Jackson Mckay Pinney Bernt Powell Nicholas Bradley Siegel William David Sim Jessica Nell Vickers Toll Mining Engineering Derek Scott Bowerman Derrick Edward Hendrix Alyssa Lindsay Hom Kolton Paul McMahon Dakota Thomas Poole Michael Sean Sather Sydney R. Stauffer Cody Stibbard Aleksandr Anthony Stoopin Tonghui Wang Levi Michael Willard Systems Engineering Tyler Baker Matthew Lee Kelpien Matthew David Modean Santiago L. Solano Jonathan P. Taylor Note: This list does not include students who applied for graduation late or who were updated from a previous term.
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MICHAEL CANDELA AND KIMBERLY Chaffin as Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Past during Arts Express’ “A Christmas Carol” dress rehearsal on Monday, Dec. 5. Arts Express is an organization that focuses on artistic programming and education for local performers.
Arts Express rings in the holiday season BY VICKY PEREIRA @vguardie917
Ebenezer Scrooge and the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future are coming to Tucson this holiday season in Arts Express’ presentation of “A Christmas Carol.” Beginning Thursday, Dec. 8, Arts Express will perform the musical adaption of Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas story about a man’s journey to rediscover the holiday spirit. Arts Express’ mission is to teach and empower Southern Arizonan artists and foster the artistic community through events and shows similar to this one. “We’re trying to professionally present one of the most beautifully written versions of Dickens’ story of Scrooge,” said Cathy Simon, director of the production. “This musical by Alan Menken has simply glorious melodic themes.” Simon has directed past shows and events at Arts Express since she joined the group five years ago. She has been working on this season’s production since the audition process began in early October and is excited to exhibit the show to the community. Simon said the rehearsal process was not the easiest due to scheduling conflicts and time restrictions, but the cast and crew made the most of their rehearsals. “One of my favorite parts of the rehearsal process is being reminded that it really is all about the process of getting there,” Simon said. “The end product is only ever the honest result of the process.” Michael Candela, the actor playing Christmas curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge, said he is excited to be a part of the production, despite never intending to take
on the lead role. Candela jumped at the role after discussing the character and motivations of Scrooge with Simon and the original actor cast for the role who was unable to continue the show. “Cathy and I both agreed Ebenezer was at a point in his life where he decided to close himself off from all the pain in the world,” Candela said. “He makes his peace with the universe … and vows to be a better person.” Candela has been involved in theater for his entire life as an actor and director and has been part of hundreds of productions. Despite being involved in so many productions, Candela praised the “Christmas Carol” cast and crew highly and said some of them are deserving of positions on Broadway. Candela, like Simon, said he loves the process of putting a show together—he enjoys discovering who the characters are and watching big musical numbers come together over the weeks of rehearsal. With “A Christmas Carol” in particular, he has explored Scrooge’s story and tried to look at him through a wider lens than those who simply see him as a villain. “We all have a little Scrooge in our hearts and we all, at times, have lost the true meaning of Christmas,” Candela said. “The past is just that, the past, and each new day brings us the opportunity to make a new fate for ourselves.” “A Christmas Carol” will open on Thursday at the Berger Performing Arts Center, located at 1200 E. Speedway Blvd., and closes Sunday. Tickets for the five performances are $25 for general audience or $20 for students, and can be purchased in person at Gospel Supplies on Broadway Boulevard or online.
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Q&A BFA student prepares for ‘Twelfth Night’ BY TORI HUDSON @torihudson_
Alec Michael Coles, a theatre production junior, takes on the UA Bachelor of Fine Arts acting program as he prepares for his future role as Malvolio in the upcoming production of “Twelfth Night.” Coles talked to the Daily Wildcat about what he likes about the UA’s BFA acting program. When did you begin to act? The first production I ever did was Aladdin in “Aladdin Junior” in fourth grade. I started seriously thinking of acting as a career during my sophomore year of high school. I realized theater was something I was really passionate about and started to think about pursuing it as a lifelong career other than a hobby. Do you enjoy the UA’s BFA acting program and what it offers its students? I do. I do enjoy the program. There is roughly about 50 people total consisting of freshman and seniors, so it’s very small. Our class sizes are small as well, and because of that
we get a lot of attention and a lot of one-on-one training and experience with our professors. We have a really great faculty. It’s a very intense allencompassing theater program.
Who is your favorite actor and how do they inspire you? I really like Joseph Gordon-Levitt. He is a really good actor, however, he is also an entrepreneur and an artist, and has a lot of side projects that really stimulate his creative artistry as a person. We go into this field because we love acting, but also because we like art, and I think that having a passion for what you do but also cultivating your artistry in other avenues is really important. His foundation HitRecord is this awesome online collaborative art production company, and I really admire him and his work. What has been the hardest role you have taken on so far in your career? Next semester we are doing a production called “Twelfth Night,” a Shakespeare play, and we just had casting and I was casted as Malvolio, which I think is going to be the hardest
role that I’ve ever had to do. I’m getting into the script now and researching the meaning of the play and my role in the play— what it means to be Malvolio. It’s a really interesting role. The play kind of celebrates festivities and fun celebratory lifestyle, and Malvolio—in the original production—is described as a Puritan and is kind of against that lifestyle, but some of the more clownish characters in the play trick Malvolio into living that lifestyle, so it’s a really interesting journey.
What is the most challenging thing about being an actor? Bringing myself into everything I do. You can learn the techniques and the “rules” of acting, read the books and be instructed on what looks good and what looks bad, but if you don’t bring yourself into every role that you’re portraying, it's going to be false. You have to find similarities and connections between you and the character on the paper. That way what you bring on stage is still a human being.
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PORTRAIT OF THEATRE PRODUCTION junior Alec Michael Coles outside the ScienceEngineering Library on Monday, Dec. 5.
Where do you see yourself in the future career-wise? My goal for my career is to originate roles in contemporary works of theater. There are so many new contemporary-modern pieces being made for theater that I think is really exciting and I want to be a part of. I just recently fell in love with doing
Shakespeare, so I would love to do Shakespeare professionally as well. But there is something really exciting about getting a script and knowing you are the first person to originate a role because you bring so much to it and you are laying the foundation work, and that’s really cool. So that is the goal, career-wise.
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Sports • Wednesday, December 7, 2016
UA hoops notebook: Zone play, tempo steal the show BY SAUL BOOKMAN @Saul_Bookman
The Arizona Wildcats beat University of California, Irvine on Tuesday night to improve their record to 7-2 on the season before heading out to Columbia, Missouri for a contest on Saturday versus the Missouri Tigers. Before then, here are some notes about the game versus the Anteaters. Markkanen in the zone True freshman Lauri Markkanen has been good, but tonight, he gave fans a glimpse of just how good he can be. Against a 2-3 zone, Markkanen slowly started to figure out where the openings were and when to be aggressive. On top of that, he realized that holding the ball to see how open he was wasn’t
working, so he shot when he thought he was going to be open. This aggressiveness could be the difference in making him a 15-19 point scorer to a 25-30 machine. Kobi sets it up Although he’s not the primary ball handler, it will be interesting to see what Kobi Simmons’ role will be should Allonzo Trier come back. Despite playing at a slower tempo against UC Irvine, Simmons showed his vision and ball movement in transition may be only rivaled by Parker Jackson-Cartwright. If you add in Simmons’ athleticism, he has the potential to take the Wildcats to another level when they choose to speed up the tempo. He could be lethal if he can find his shooting touch once again after he struggled from the
field, shooting 2-for-8 on the night. Ristic sighting Dusan Ristic, perhaps Arizona’s most critiqued player, came through and scored at will late in the first half against UC Irvine to the tune of a season-high 18 points. He was able to take advantage of the Anteater zone and scored 14 points in the first half to enable the rest of his teammates wider lanes and inevitably more outside shooting success as a team. The Wildcats shot 5-of11 from downtown in the second half, largely because of the dominant inside performance by Ristic. Tempo comes down Prior to this season, Arizona seemed to have the depth necessary to run on teams at will.
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ARIZONA GUARD KADEEM ALLEN (5) rebounds the ball against Univeristy of California, Irvine during the Wildcat’s 79-57 victory on Tuesday, Dec. 6, in McKale Center. Allen had 12 points and six assists in the game.
Fast-forward to today and the Wildcats, now down to seven scholarship players, slowed the game down considerably against UC Irvine. Despite the slow tempo, several Wildcats were able to score in double figures. The team was efficient with the ball, especially in the first half, turning the ball
over only four times. The Trier Plan Pac-12 Conference analyst Don MacLean made some comments concerning Trier during Tuesday night’s broadcast in relation to his possible return. MacLean said that the Wildcats are doing their best to keep the same plan
because if he does return, the team would have to readjust and it would slow the players’ progress. It has taken a considerable amount of time for the team to find their way, especially with three freshman starting; slowing down would be catastrophic in Pac-12 play should Trier return.
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Sports • Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Neutral site games necessity more than desire BY SAUL BOOKMAN @Saul_Bookman
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uring the Lute Olson era for Arizona men’s basketball, the Wildcats built a foundation by playing the best in the country anywhere, anytime. Fast forward 30 years and times have changed dramatically. The Wildcats are coming off a 69-62 defeat at the hands of No. 8 Gonzaga in Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday. Before that, they fell to Butler in Las Vegas. Two big games, neither of which took place in McKale Center or as a true road game. The allure of college basketball has always been the intensity of fan bases, specifically student sections, and when games are played hundreds or thousands of miles away from either team’s home, it’s difficult for students to attend— thus losing the true passion within that game. “Yes and no. A game like Michigan State in Hawaii, of course not,” said Arizona head coach Sean Miller when asked if neutral site games are hurting college basketball. “I think you don’t want to play just anybody at a neutral site. The industry of college basketball, like everything, what used to be, isn’t today. Scheduling, especially in nonconference, is much more difficult today than it would’ve been five years ago or even 10 years ago.” MESSAGING
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The past marquee neutral site games not only presented matchups worth watching, but were formed tournament-style to give teams more games at a neutral site in a brief amount of time. The preseason NIT, Maui Invitational and Great Alaska Shootout used to be premiere events to highlight college basketball, but that is not the case anymore. The Wildcats alone have played in three neutral-site events with a fourth coming in Houston later this month: the Armed Forces Classic, where the Wildcats beat Michigan State; the Las Vegas Invitational, where they beat Santa Clara but lost the final versus Butler; the Hoophall LA, which Arizona lost to Gonzaga; and soon Texas A&M in Houston in the Texas Shootout. The Armed Forces Classic was an exception; the Wildcats’ trip to Honolulu was warranted and justified in recognizing the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Playing in front of crowds of less than 5,000 each in Las Vegas and Los Angeles was quite the opposite. “The neutral part is something we entertained this year because a lot of others are doing it,” Miller said. Some schools, like Kentucky, get paid to play at neutral-site events. According to the CourierJournal, Kentucky will receive $950,000 for appearances against Michigan State in New York, North Carolina in Las Vegas, ASU in the Bahamas and against Hofstra in Brooklyn. It is not known if Arizona has received the same benefits for its travels this season. “If you just took, for example, Kentucky
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GONZAGA FANS CHEER ON their basketball team in a bare Staples Center for the Gonzaga vs. Arizona game on Friday, Dec. 3, in Los Angeles. The Bulldogs beat the Wildcats in what was Arizona’s third neutral site game of the year.
base, which is what Miller and his staff are currently trying to address. “We would love to have more home-andhomes,” Miller said. “Next year, we start a homeand-home with UConn and will return a homeand-home with Gonzaga. ... Unfortunately, there aren’t as many takers as maybe there was 10 years ago or five years ago, because there are so many more neutral-site opportunities.”
or Kansas, they are playing more and more neutrals,” Miller said. “Every time they decide to play a neutral game, it makes others do the same and it takes away opportunities for home and away series. And, as you know, it’s not like anybody is chomping at the bit to come to McKale [Center].” Having a balance of non-conference home games and neutral site games is vital to a fan
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ARIZONA CENTER DUSAN RISTIC (14) snags a rebound against University of California, Irvine in McKale Center on Tuesday, Dec. 6. The Wildcats beat the Anteaters 79-57. Ristic, along with Lauri Markkanen, led the team with 18 points.
Dusan Ristic needs to play bigger more often
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rizona junior center Dusan Ristic’s role at the beginning of the season until now has been simple: just be an anchor in the middle, play defense and get rebounds. Ristic was essentially supposed to be another glue and make up for the absence of the departed Kaleb Tarczewski. But after evaluating the Gonzaga game as well as the University of California, Irvine game Tuesday, Arizona needs him now more than ever on both sides of the ball—specifically on defense with Arizona’s sudden lack of depth. “There are only seven scholarship players, and that is pretty much the rotation,” Ristic said. “If one player gets in foul trouble, then the whole team gets in foul trouble.” It sounds far-fetched that Ristic of all players would become one of the most valuable considering the size of fellow frontcourt members—6-foot-11 Chance Comanche and 7-foot Lauri Markkanen—but Ristic is a true back-to-the-basket center who adds a large body by the rim. It was a given that Markkanen would play more on the perimeter because he is a natural power forward and Comanche has only shown scoring capabilities in games this season either on the fast break or when he cuts to basket. Very seldom has Comanche
actually backed down a defender or drawn a double team. There hasn’t been a true post presence until this season, and with Ristic’s first season starting consistently, every now and again Arizona fans see glimpses of a payoff from going head-to-head with Tarczewski for two seasons. Ristic is more valuable than ever, and he set the tone on the offensive side of the ball Tuesday night, scoring 14 points in the first half when the game was in a bit of a lull. His offensive awareness has never been doubted, but his offensive decision making has been a head scratcher, seeing as that piece of the puzzle is vital to his success moving forward. His defensive strength will also need some tweaking as well. Ristic was vulnerable against a big body in Gonzaga’s Karnowski, and Tuesday’s matchup against UC Irvine wasn’t going to be that much of a drop off matching up with 7-foot-2 Ioannis Dimakopoulos. Ristic arguably had the best game of his career Tuesday, posting 18 points and 10 rebounds for his second double-double of his career and his first one this season. Fourteen of those points came in the first half. Safe to say Ristic learned his lesson from the LA trip and came in more “prepared.” “I faced another 7-footer and like I said, I came in more prepared,” he said. If Ristic continues to learn from his experiences against bruisers like Gonzaga big Przemek Karnowski, and use it as an advantage over other 7-footers, then he will be in shape to arguably be a top-three center in the Pac-12 Conference.
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Sports • Wednesday, December 7, 2016
85% of UA students did not experience memory loss as a result of drinking in the past 30 days. (2016 Health & Wellness Survey, n=3,113)
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THE ARIZONA VOLLEYBALL TEAM congratulates one another after scoring during Arizona’s 0-3 loss to Stanford on Sunday, Nov. 20, in McKale Center. After their 3-2 win at Michigan State on Saturday, Dec. 3, the Wildcats are heading to the Sweet Sixteen for the eighth time in program history.
Arizona volleyball to face region of death BY NIKKI BAIM @nikkibaim22
Arizona women’s volleyball is headed to the Sweet Sixteen for the eighth time in program history, but the Wildcats can’t escape the heat of the Pac-12 Conference as their next opponent is the conference champion and No. 8 seed overall, Washington. The Huskies have an edge over the Wildcats in their two regular season matches. Washington dominated over Arizona and obtained only one lost set in seven played. Arizona and Washington’s first meeting handed the Wildcats their third consecutive loss that week, contributing to a rough midseason stretch. Head coach Dave Rubio emphasized after the match the importance of a unified effort in defeating a team as talented as Washington. Following the Washington loss, Arizona redeemed itself by defeating No. 20 Oregon, No. 25 USC and No. 9 UCLA. The Wildcats seemed prepared for the rematch with the Huskies, but the Pac-12 Player of the Year, Courtney Schwan, led Washington to a 3-0 sweep. Arizona has had a tough run to get this far into the postseason, while Washington is cruising into the match with four losses all year. Arizona faced nine AVCA Top-25 opponents during the regular season, ranking its schedule as the sixth hardest in the nation. Arizona eased over Cleveland State in a sweep in the first round of the
NCAA Tournament, but took five sets and extra points to put away No. 9 Michigan State. Meanwhile, Washington is on a ninegame winning streak and hasn’t dropped a set since Nov. 23. Washington and Arizona are two of four Pac-12 teams making appearances in the Sweet Sixteen. The other remaining schools are No. 6 Stanford and No. 10 UCLA. Due to the Arizona-Washington matchup, there is guaranteed to be at least one Pac-12 participant in the Regional Finals. This is the first time Arizona has attended a regional since 2005. The Wildcats advanced to the Elite Eight as the then-No. 4 overall seed, but an unranked Santa Clara squad crushed the hopes of a Final Four appearance. Coincidentally, 2005 was the same year that No. 3-seed Washington earned its first NCAA Tournament title by sweeping No. 1 Nebraska in the championship match. Eleven years later, Nebraska is once again the No. 1 seed and will face No. 16 Penn State in the Sweet Sixteen. The Cornhuskers and Nittany Lions, along with the Huskies, represent the last nine of 11 NCAA national championships in women’s volleyball. It will not be an easy task as the Wildcats head to Nebraska. The Cornhuskers will play host to the Arizona and Washington match on Dec. 9, airing on ESPN3 at 12:30 p.m. If Arizona can advance, it will face the winner of Nebraska and Penn State in the Regional Final.
Why does alcohol make you blackout yet still look like you’re functioning? Great question! First let’s define blacking out as some people confuse it with passing out. They are two different things. A blackout can occur when someone engages in heavy drinking, usually in a short period of time and then has an amnesia-like period until their BAC (blood alcohol concentration) decreases. Blackouts are generally divided into two categories. En bloc blackouts are stretches of time for which the person has no memory whatsoever. Fragmentary blackouts are episodes for which the drinker’s memory is spotty, with bits of memory providing some insight into the drinking episode. This can be a scary, embarrassing thing for a drinker to realize the next day, wondering what happened. How did I get home and what’s this giant bruise on my leg? What happens in your brain is that memory receptors get blocked with
excessive alcohol intake. You’re not forgetting what happened; you’re actually not forming the memory. And you don’t realize it until you sober up, usually the next morning. Your friends don’t realize you’re blacked out either because you appear to be intoxicated, but functioning in that you still remember your friend’s names and where you live, etc. It’s just that you aren’t in control of what you are doing or able to give consent to things you wouldn’t do if sober. You just won’t know what you did during this period of excessive BAC. High tolerance can be a factor here also, leading your friends to believe you’re ok. What can you do to avoid blackouts? The good news is that they are preventable by reducing the amount of alcohol you consume, spacing your drinks further apart, drinking them more slowly, and eating before going out.
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No. 20 Wildcats methodically snuff out Irvine behind Markkanen’s 18 points, four boards BY CHRISTOPHER DEAK @ChrisDeakDW
minutes of the first half. The Wildcats were shooting around 40 percent, but hit their last four shots and finished the half shooting 52 percent. No. 20 Arizona men’s basketball Arizona’s defense had a rocky start in the moved to 7-2 on the season with a 79-57 second half and picked up five fouls in the victory over the University of California, opening minutes. The Wildcats employed Irvine Anteaters. Freshman Lauri a different strategy—one that Tucsonans Markkanen led the Wildcats with 18 are not used to seeing. Miller employed points and four rebounds. a 2-3 zone of his own for a couple of The Anteaters came out with a 2-3 zone defense that has given the Wildcats trouble minutes, and it stifled the Anteaters. “We work on [the 2-3 zone defense] all all season, and Arizona hit some tough the time,” Miller said. “Just looking at our shots early in the first half. Freshman players, we’re wearing down. As the season Rawle Alkins had three offensive rebounds grows, [each game] wears you out for the in the first four minutes, which helped the next game. We’re really Wildcats get settled early big, that’s one of the in the game. We had strengths of our current As usual, Markkanen Using that size is got the offense going plenty that we group. probably a smart move.” in the first half with talked to him Arizona held the a pull-up jumper on about after recent Anteaters to 41 percent the baseline, followed by a catch-and-shoot games, but I thought shooting in the second half and 38 percent for 3-pointer a few minutes [Markkanen] did the night. later. Alkins connected a good job tonight Foul trouble, however, on a 3 of his own a defensively. Maybe was an issue for the minute and a half Both Alkins after Markkanen, and better than Wildcats. and sophomore Chance Arizona grabbed a quick he’s been.” Comanche had four fouls 14-5 lead that it would early in the second half. not relinquish for the —Sean Miller, Comanche fouled out entire game. Ristic and Markkanen Arizona head coach with 8:53 to go, finishing the game with two points combined for 36 points, and no rebounds. It and Markkanen stole the meant that Ristic would show in the second half have to play the rest after a big first half from of the game but he had only played 25 Ristic. Markkanen scored 13 points in the minutes before Comanche fouled out. second half and connected on 3-of-5 shots Alkins’ foul issues led to walk-on from 3-point land. redshirt sophomore Tyler Trillo logging While the Wildcats have relied on 13 minutes in the contest, snaring two Markkanen early and often, Arizona head assists. Alkins was limited to 25 minutes coach Sean Miller noted that the Finnish but still finished with 14 points and forward still has room for improvement. seven rebounds. “He’s just such a special offensive Arizona was fortunate to have a big lead player; it comes easy for him” Miller said. and a matchup with the Anteaters to work “Even [Markkanen]—he’s not perfect he through the team’s first real foul trouble of makes defensive mistakes. We had plenty the season. The Wildcats head to Missouri that we talked to him about after recent this weekend and will need to avoid the games, but I thought he did a good job same kind of trouble. Arizona beat the tonight defensively. Maybe better than Missouri Tigers in Tucson last year, and the he’s been.” matchup presents the Wildcats’ first true Arizona once again had only seven road game of the season. scholarship players dressed for the game, “We’re playing a Southeastern and Miller made a clear effort to play at a Conference opponent, an opponent that slower pace. It’s an effort by Miller to make we beat here a year ago,” Miller said. “I’m sure that his team has enough energy to sure that they remember that. We’re going make it through a full 40 minutes. to have to be ready; we’re going to have to The Wildcats broke down the play great.” Anteater zone throughout the first half, Arizona and Missouri tip off Saturday at but struggled to finish good looks until 10 a.m. The game will be aired on ESPN2. they broke it open in the last three
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ARIZONA CENTER LAURI MARKKANEN collects a rebound during Arizona’s 79-57 win against University of California, Irvine on Tuesday, Dec. 6, in McKale Center. Markkanen scored 18 points while hauling in four rebounds.