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neighborhood said the unruly behavior of students living in the towers has affected other neighborhood members as well.

Tucson Police Department police Chief Roberto Villaseñor said the problem he has with the incidences of unwelcome debris is the potential for injury.

“When you start talking about wild parties and beer cans and littering the streets, that’s something we can clearly identify a responsible party with conditional red tag, we can arrest people and so forth,” Villaseñor said. “When you start talking about 10, 12, 14-story buildings and you have items that are being thrown from the rooftops

According to a Complete College report, most college students in America do not graduate within four years, but the UA graduation rate exceeds that national average.

Complete College, a nonprofit organization, released “The FourYear Myth” in early November, a report that stated college students in America do not graduate within the general student goal of four years.

Complete College works toward improving the quality of higher education and the amount of Americans who receive college degrees and career certificates.

The number of students who graduate within four years at the UA exceeds the national average indicated by the Complete College study. According to “The University of Arizona Fact Book,” 40 percent of students who began their freshmen year in fall 2007 graduated within four years and 61 percent graduated within six years.

According to the Complete College report, only 19 percent of students from non-flagship universities and 36 percent of students from flagship universities with “very high research” receive their bachelor’s degree within four years.

Flagship universities are defined as the main public universities of a state.

Additionally, the report says that in the last 20 years, over 31 million students have gone to college and never ended up receiving a degree, adding that far too many students get lost in the process or are slowed down due to unclear expectations.

“Metrics like these are unacceptable, especially when we consider that students and their families are trying desperately to control the skyrocketing costs of higher education,” the report says.

“As lifetime savings are depleted and financial aid packages run out, the extra time on campus means even more debt and for far too many students, additional semesters do not result in a degree or credential.”

Jeff Orgera, senior assistant vice president with Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, said the UA has many resources to help students graduate on time, but they simply need to take advantage of them.

“We’ve done a good job on this campus to make sure that the courses that you need to graduate

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A community forum was held at the UA on Monday to address the unruly behavior of students living in the tower apartment buildings on the north side of campus.

The Campus Community Relations Committee hosted a Livable Communities Forum to address recent incidents involving the student apartments surrounding the Islamic Center of Tucson.

City councilor Steve Kozachik of ward 6 said unwelcome bottles, cans and other debris from some of the towers around the Main Gate area and the Islamic Center of Tucson served as catalysts for the

Winter session viable option

BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat

With winter break quickly approaching, some UA students face the decision of whether to take a winter course, which UA advisers claim is more economical than not taking classes over the break.

Roxie Catts, director of the Advising Resource Center at the UA, said there is a demand for winter session courses. She said she believes students not only need the flexibility but want the option of courses during winter break.

Martin Marquez, an academic advisor for the department of chemistry and biochemistry, said winter session courses vary from general education requirements to different language courses, graduate courses and even introductory math courses and added that a majority of the winter session courses have an online option.

Risa Latinka, a senior studying nutritional sciences and global studies, is taking American National Government online during the winter session through Mesa Community College.

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meeting at the UA. “Historically, we’ve had issues with respective student behavior [from] off-campus facilities that we also need to get our arms around,” Kozachik said.

Bilal El-Aloosy, vice president and maintenance coordinator of the Islamic Center of Tucson, said he wants to communicate openly with the university and the city of Tucson to find a solution to the unfolding situation.

“We have been in this situation for over 14 months,” El-Aloosy said.

“We tried to make contact with management, we tried to work with them, but unfortunately, it didn’t happen until the media got involved.”

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ASUA concludes fall, plans for spring

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ASUA plans to stay as engaged as possible with the UA student body for spring 2015.

“I’m very proud of our organization this year — across the board,” said Issac Ortega, president of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona.

This semester, ASUA launched two major campaigns: “Our Voice, Our Vote,” and “It’s On US”.

The “Our Voice, Our Vote” campaign was an effort to encourage the student body to participate in the midterm elections.

The “It’s On Us” campaign was also launched to promote the awareness of sexual assault at the UA and is a nationwide campaign part of a collaborative effort introduced by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and the White House in September.

While the UA campaign had a successful “day of action” in November, Ortega said that ASUA hopes to continue the campaign into the spring semester and work specifically with Residence Life to bring more awareness to oncampus living.

“A great portion of our student body lives in close [quarters] with each other [and] we want to make sure students are aware of what ‘It’s On Us’ has to offer,” Ortega said.

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ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA Executive Vice President Jordan Allison listens during the weekly ASUA meeting in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday. Allison discussed ASUA’s plans for next semester.

Part of the spring semester for ASUA includes elections for the upcoming year.

“We want to make elections more accessible so we can get all different kinds of students through our doors to be an elected leader,” Ortega said. “I really want to encourage every single student who has ever thought about taking a leadership role on campus to pick up a packet.”

ASUA elected over 300 student leaders this year, Ortega said, which is the most that the UA has

ever seen.

“I want to make sure our student government stays engaged,” Ortega said. “A lot of times, people are excited to see who the next team to lead our student government will be and a consequence of that can sometimes be disengagement.”

The required amount of student signatures when running for an ASUA position has changed this year from 250 to 150, Ortega said,

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Latinka said taking this course over the winter break is the only way she can graduate on time.

She said she normally would have taken the class during the summer but is planning to study abroad this summer in Guatemala, so it didn’t work out.

Pima Community College usually offers winter session as well, but this year it is not.

“They stopped for this year due to the lack of effectiveness [PCC felt] about winter courses,” Marquez said.

“They are reviewing [and] evaluating if this is a permanent decision.”

Latinka said she would have taken her course at PCC had they held or offered a winter session this year.

Winter session is also an opportunity for students to take advantage of lower tuition rates for courses.

According to the UA bursar’s website, the estimated cost of a three-unit class, including tuition and mandatory fees, for an undergraduate resident is $2,274.91 for fall 2014. In comparison for that same student, the cost is estimated to be $1,250 for winter 2014, allowing students to save money.

“I think that winter courses are a pretty good deal overall,” Marquez said.

Marquez said typically winter sessions are taken to satisfy graduation and scholarship requirements or to fulfill a prerequisite for courses like math.

Although winter session offers a chance to fulfill scholarship requirements or save money, Marquez said, students can only

to hopefully make it more accessible for students.

“We’re very proud of that,” Ortega said. “We just have to make sure everyone stays [in] high gear.”

Jordan Allison, executive vice president of ASUA, said that this semester was amazing for ASUA. “Our student body senate has accomplished some awesome stuff and will continue working through winter break to get all their platforms accomplished,” Allison said.

Allison is also in charge of all clubs and organizations on campus and says she plans to make sure that club engagement continues through the spring.

Club registration, both for recognition and renewal, will occur twice during the spring, Allison said.

She added that there will be a club fair during the first few weeks of the spring semester.

The Reverse Career Fair, a collaborative effort between ASUA and Career Services, will also take place on campus in the spring with 20 student organizations that were chosen for their professional preparation, leadership and community service. The fair will host different employers and recruiters, and instead of each employer having a table to visit, each organization or club will have a table and the recruiters will have a chance to visit them.

“New things were started, old things continued and there were a lot of great learning experiences,” Allison said. “It was an all-around great semester.”

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POLITICAL SCIENCE SOPHOMORE Stephanie Littig (left) and pre-physiology sophomore Trevor Durflinger (right) study chemistry and public policy and administration, respectively, in the Main Library on Monday. UA students have the option to fulfill major requirements by taking winter session courses.

take one class worth three or four units.

He added that sometimes a student is allowed to take two classes though it is not advisable, but in certain extreme situations like if they’re the last two courses needed to graduate or in a situation that could cause detrimental impact on the

student, it can be approved by the college.

Catts said she thinks that paying for classes during winter break on top of tuition during normal semesters may be a burden but is worth it in the long run.

“The way I look at it is from a big picture perspective,” Catts

said. “Yes, you’re paying extra tuition for an extra course, and no, you’re not getting a muchneeded break, but if it’s between graduating on time or salvaging a scholarship, it’s worth it.”

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are available,” Orgera said.

‘We’ve also done a lot of working closely with students to help them find their goals and their pathway, because it can be pretty overwhelming.”

Oftentimes, many students are unprepared for collegelevel work, independent life on campus or which path to take in a major, Orgera said, and this can make it difficult to get through it all in four years.

Some of the other causes the College Complete report outlines that contribute to low graduation rates include not taking the required courses on schedule, entering college with remedial math proficiency

… there’s not going to be any tolerance with that.”

Villaseñor added that there have not been any incidences of injury so far from the projectiles.

Tannya Gaxiola, assistant vice president for Community Relations for the UA, said the UA community is the Tucson community, and with that come about 40,000 students, most of whom — about 33,000 students — live off campus.

“The overwhelming majority of [UA students] are really good neighbors,” Gaxiola said, “but there’s that tiny fraction that aren’t — who are going to cause problems — and for them, we really want to teach them to be good neighbors.

We want to take these opportunities to help our students grow. We want them to learn how, not only to just be good neighbors, but to be really responsible engaged citizens.”

Chrissy Lieberman, associate dean of students, said the UA offers education to offcampus partners, but that additionally, they are

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MEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 2014 during the UA 150th commencement ceremony at Arizona Stadium on May 17. According to a report by Complete College, the UA four-year graduation rate is above the national average graduation date.

and excessive graduation requirements.

“Get involved in our campus community,” Orgera said. “Get engaged.

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always open to educating their students.

“The reality is that these properties aren’t our own properties, but we do take advantage of the time we have with our students during orientation and throughout their classes to do that outreach and education, especially around sex assault, consent, drugs and alcohol,” Lieberman said.

Charlie Paul, a community member and UA alumna, said she is grateful to know TPD is taking zero tolerance very seriously. She also said she would hope the university would do the same.

“If the university does not expel these students, they’re complicit [and] they’re condoning this heinous behavior,” Paul said.

“I want the university to send a strong message that we will not accept this type of behavior from our students [in the] future. I don’t want this university to have this dirty stain.”

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Community Chatter “Do you think iTunes is violating First Amendment free speech rights by removing white supremacist music from its website?”

“I would say no simply because if it’s putting down others and putting others at risk of violence or hateful acts, I think it should be banned.”

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“I understand why they would do it, just because they have a wide range of audience, and I think they’re more covering their back than, like, trying to violate our amendment rights.

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Game drags in plot, missions

BY TORSTEN WARD The Daily Wildcat

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he Crew,” a massively multiplayer online game, is one of the first driving-only games to boast that characteristic. As great as it sounds to be able to hop in a souped-up whip and drive across America with your friends, the novelty runs out faster than your car’s NOS canister does.

This codevelopment from Ivory Tower and Ubisoft Reflections stars Alex Taylor, another Troy Baker-voiced everyman with little personality on a quest to avenge his dead brother, who was murdered by the now-leader of a national gang. It’s a typical cliche but not all that bad. Plot points seemed a little too easy but hey, I wasn’t expecting a narrative masterpiece. I came to drive.

Too bad that was also lacking.

That’s not to say cruising across America isn’t enjoyable. It is — for a while, at least. The few cars available actually do drive well, look good and sound great. But when it comes to content, Ubisoft made the choice of quantity over quality rather than striving for both. Yeah, Times Square looks like it should, but it isn’t Times Square. The city lacks genuine life, and this is true for nearly every unique location in the game, an issue that should have been addressed in lieu of the ability to get out of your car and explore like you can in “Grand Theft Auto.”

For a game that plays a lot like “GTA”’s driving component, one would think the developers would focus a little more on visual authenticity where Rockstar Games had to create a whole other traversable-on-foot game. But instead, “The Crew” thus far has been a mediocre-looking experience. Yes, the more content there is the harder it is to include detail, but still. Players can’t even hit pedestrians.

It’d be easy to assume a driving game would at least have cars, but 30 hours later, I still only own four and three of them suck. Even with the soundtrack, “The Crew” avoids quantity and quality by featuring maybe a dozen tracks which play on repeat the entire time. Kill me.

“The Crew” is by no means an ugly game.

In fact, it’s quite gorgeous, specifically when cut scenes show off the image quality next-gen

consoles can produce. But it’s not as crisp as “Forza Horizon 2” or as lively, either.

Despite the name of the game, there isn’t much of a crew to join players on their journey.

Sure, there will be other players here and there, but most often they’ll just follow you around a bit or ram into you as soon as you cross paths.

The few times there were players in my area actually competing in events or PvP lobbies, I did enjoy it. But these instances were seldom and getting T-boned during a slalom event by the one other guy in Miami is sadly the norm.

Ubisoft’s problem here is that it’s created a catch-22 by giving players an expansive map with literally hundreds of events to partake in but limiting the amount of people players can see in their server to seven. Seven. The entire nation to peruse and Ubisoft only gives seven people to do it with? Go home, Roger.

Boredom doesn’t take long to set in either. As big of a game world as “The Crew” offers, the amount of things to actually see is unfortunately meager. Even the 200-plus “monuments” players can visit each only provide a cutscene of several pan shots, no descriptions or anything.

These instances and the rest of “The Crew”’s world feel empty and lazy, albeit beautiful.

Recent titles have proven something about the way Ubisoft thinks games should be played: together. “Assassin’s Creed” has been plagued by mediocre multiplayer since “Brotherhood,” “Far Cry 4” can be played with friends who don’t even own the game and “Tom Clancy’s The Division,” slated for 2015, has been revealed as online only, as is “The Crew.” It doesn’t seem players are actually opposed to this format, but few titles have succeeded at it.

As entertaining as it is, “The Crew” lacks in areas it should excel in following a nine-month delay and fails to improve some of the many issues Ubisoft has been pegged with in the past, namely the mind-numbingly repetitive missions. Players will have fun driving around the U.S., avenging their brother and trying to best their event rankings. However, “The Crew” isn’t topping anyone’s game of the year lists.

Happy hunting.

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THE REEL DEAL

Iranian vampire western full of broken, dark characters

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scar season is in full force as Hollywood releases its cream of the crop from now until the end of the year. Stepping onto the refreshingly off-the-beaten path, however, is “A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night,” a vampire indie film that has style in spades.

While the title refers to a young, adrift vampire known only as The Girl (Sheila Vand), the backdrop against which the film plays out, the fictional Iranian ghost town of Bad City, is just as much of a main character. The city seems to beget its inhabitants and happenings.

On the outskirts, oil rigs rapidly move up and down with a mechanical, unnatural rhythm.

There’s also a wash littered with what must be trash, until the music slows down to a surreal discord and the audience realizes they are corpses strewn about the dirt. When a young man with a wide-eyed cat in his arms walks by the nightmarish scene, he doesn’t turn his head at all in acknowledgment. Death and disease are commonplace in Bad City.

So much of the film is set at night and cast in contrasting, chiaroscuro shadows that the only way to relay the bleak atmosphere is through black and white. It’s nearly impossible to imagine the visual canvas of this film being expanded to color, but if such a place actually existed, it could only exist in the space between black and white.

The Girl walks the empty streets of Bad City by night. Lamplights elongate her shadow to project a vast figure. She silently observes the nightlife’s various denizens, almost acting as a type of moral arbiter.

There’s Saeed (Dominic Rains), the resident tough-guy pimp with tattoos all over his body and cocaine up his nose, and Atti (Mozhan Marnò), a prostitute saving up money to escape Bad City and her current occupation, who hangs a tattered world map on her bedroom wall representing this goal. There’s also a man dressed as a woman with thin, drawn-on eyebrows (credited only as “the Rockabilly,” played by Reza Sixo Safai) whose only scene involves dancing, quite inexplicably, with a black balloon.

Maybe his joy in being alone and in his gender-bending image is a foil to The Girl’s quiet solitude, but the whole character is just an odd little aberration in a cohesive piece.

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The most sympathetic story of these broken people is that of Arash (Arash Marandi) and his father, Hossein (Marshall Manesh). Arash is boyishly handsome with a good, unassuming personality to match.

However, his aging father has taken to drugs since the death of his wife, and he doesn’t have enough money to keep up with payments to Saeed.

Things start to look up when, in a wonderful, cutely ironic scene, he meets The Girl after a Halloween party dressed as Dracula, plastic teeth and all.

Pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts and the bleak pall all hang over the two and the city itself seemingly suggests a very dark, gritty story.

However, it’s the distinctively cool, slightly irreverent stylization that Iranian-American director Ana Lily Amirpour infuses into every frame of the self-described “first Iranian vampire spaghetti western” that turns this into something else entirely different and awesome.

When she steps out for the night, the female vampire goes through her own unique process of getting ready. In her room, she puts on vinyl records, swaying to the music. The film’s soundtrack is one of the most hip and overt since 2011’s “Drive.”

She dons her body-shrouding

burka, a smart takeoff from the typical Dracula cape. She even puts on some makeup, applying heavy eyeliner that will make her look all the more threatening when she transitions from girl walking alone at night to terrifying vampire.

The transformation Vand can make on the turn of a dime is truly remarkable, most notably in her face.

It’s hard to believe at points she’s the same person. One minute, she’s a spectator off to the side, and the next, her fangs are out and she’s bearing down with a demonic visage on her next victim. Oh, she also happens to skateboard, too, her burka flapping behind her like wings.

“A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night,” like its protagonist, is disarmingly fresh and memorable.

Just like how the members of Bad City don’t think much of The Girl, it would be a mistake to underestimate and overlook this film.

“A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night” is currently playing at The Loft Cinema.

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CIS” and “Criminal Minds” may be entertaining modernizations of the murdermystery genre, but they lack an appealing aspect one radio journalist has in her favor: They’re not true.

“Serial” is a weekly podcast released every Thursday that investigates the 1999 murder of Baltimore teenager Hae Min Lee. Her ex-boyfriend at the time, Adnan Syed, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Fifteen years later, if one asks the members of the jury who convicted Syed — as host Sarah Koenig has — they will tell you confidently Syed did it. But Koenig, and many listeners, are not so convinced.

Koenig begins the podcast with posing a question to listeners: What were you doing six weeks ago? She poses the same question to several boys around the same age as Syed at the time of the murder, and the answers are vague — he was probably at school, or maybe seeing a movie. She calls into question the reliability of memory and how this one important question is what constructed a case against Syed.

Koenig is a masterful storyteller with an inquisitive voice who isn’t afraid to say when something feels off about a person’s account of the events. She explores the case from all angles, leaving no stone unturned. Koenig and her team from “This American Life” reconstruct key elements of the crime, such as the timeline between 2:15 and 2:36 p.m. that the prosecution said the murder must have occurred, taking the same drive from Syed and Lee’s high school to the Best Buy parking lot, where the murder allegedly occurred. She reexamines the evidence of the case, such as Syed’s cell phone records from Jan. 13, 1999, the day Lee was killed, and how the different cell towers indicate what location Syed — or at least, Syed’s phone — would have been that day.

But what’s most compelling about “Serial” isn’t the examination of the evidence that may or may not have been accurately presented in trial.

It’s the many witnesses she speaks to throughout the podcast, in hopes to understand on a human level why Syed was convicted of the murder.

Most notably, Koenig records her

conversation with Syed in prison, who maintains his innocence and discusses consistent and conflicting evidence with Koenig. Koenig calls him a “nice guy,” and hearing his voice throughout the podcast, it’s hard to argue otherwise. He’s polite and has little ill will towards those who accused him of murder, to the point where Koenig and listeners must question: Is Syed a psychopath?

It’s no surprise that this true crime story has captivated a cult following.

After all, “NCIS” is the most-watched show on television and fans across the Internet anxiously await for the newest series of “Sherlock.” As a culture, we are obsessed with whodunit stories, in the mystery and intrigue of watching, reading or hearing a story and trying to play detective.

And that’s where “Serial” has become a true success. Listeners are solving the crime along with Koenig.

She and the producers of the show do not know how or when this season of “Serial” will end. There’s an intense Reddit community devoted to unpacking the layers of the latest episode, who, like Koenig, have read between the lines of witness testimonies and even done so much as analyzing the cell phone tower pings and how they conflict with Jay, the prosecution’s star witness, and his testimony.

“Serial” is huge not just because it’s a murder mystery, but because it’s a true murder mystery. The families of Syed and Lee listen to the show, commenting on how this popular story is their reality. When Koenig speaks of issues like religion, xenophobia, poor police work and damning defense attorneys, it reminds listeners these things happen every day, and for some, like Syed, possibly, these things can lead to real, horrible consequences.

Perhaps most importantly, “Serial” confronts us with the question few other forms of entertainment do: Why? Why would Jay lie and say Syed killed Lee? Why would Syed do it and lie about it with a life sentence? And, to quote a high school friend of Jay and Syed interviewed during the podcast, if Syed didn’t do it, “Well, then who the fuck did?”

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Don’t get rid of racist Facebook friends

BY Nick Havey

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few days ago, a friend on Facebook posted that she was triumphant in “finally getting rid of the ignorance, hate, misogyny and racism” on her newsfeed.

She accomplished this feat by defriending people who had made offensive posts about Michael Brown and then passive-aggressively posting about it — which I’m sure led to a few other people thinking, “Oh, I also disagree with her, but I’m less vocal about it,” and subsequently defriending her.

I’m proud to be a part of a community and university that is willing to have dialogue and protest about problematic situations like the murders of Brown and, more recently, Eric Garner. But I’m concerned because at last Friday’s protests, there were mostly white faces leading the community in chants like “Hands up, don’t shoot,” and “I can’t breathe.”

UA alumnus and current activist Kemi Oso said he recently recognized similar patterns in Washington.

“I understand the intentions of the protests,” he said, “and it’s nice to see that there are white allies who want to be a part of this movement to dismantle systemic racism. However, I think they need to realize that a role in that fight is uplifting the voices who are already fighting, who have been doing so for a while, instead of recentering the conversation and movement on whiteness.”

While the protest had good intentions, generally movements should be led by the people who are directly affected by them. “Hands up, don’t shoot” is a great chant and a powerful image when done by people who are actually at risk of being shot by the police, but when done by a group of white people, it just looks like a malformed flashmob that forgot the lyrics to “YMCA.” But white people do have a role in these protests and movements. As Oso pointed out, it’s their responsibility to amplify the voices of people of color when they talk about their experiences with racism.

It’s their responsibility to engage their fellow white people in discussions that black and brown people may be too exhausted or, frankly, busy to have. White people need to be using their unearned privilege as white people to reduce the looming racial divide.

So while it may seem helpful or cathartic to unfriend the people who are posting troll-tastic comments on your photos or statuses, it’s counterproductive. People can’t just preach to the choir.

When it comes to family members or close friends who are willing to ignore their privilege, eager to look past systemic oppression and blind to the institutionalization of hate, being aggressive in opening dialogues is the only way to catch them up.

Recently, I shared a series of graphic images to another friend’s wall and some of her family members commented saying things like “they deserved it,” or “he was a criminal and a thug,” and she made the tough decision to engage those family members in a dialogue about why their opinions are hateful.

She made a choice that everyone should make — to engage in meaningful, although difficult, conversations with people who differ in opinion. White people cannot be silent on issues of race, especially because they directly benefit from a system that has been programmed to systematically screw over people of color.

Don’t defriend. Dialogue.

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

Easy to get in to wrong school

BY Julianna Renzi The Daily Wildcat

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evin Carey argued in The New York Times a few weeks ago that most “wellqualified” students get into a top school. In an article titled, “For Accomplished Students, Reaching a Top College Isn’t Actually That Hard,” Carey writes that college admission statistics are skewed by the vast number of applicants to top schools, many of whom are underqualified.

While he is correct that low admission rates may distort perceptions, he also glosses over a few things that make it truly difficult for dedicated students to be accepted by their dream schools.

The college admission process is long, arduous and, quite frankly, a bit of a crapshoot among distinguished students. Many high school students feel the pressure of molding themselves into the perfect applicants, and they spend four years jumping through hoops that are supposed to land them in their dream college. They study for the SAT and ACT despite empirical evidence that the scores

doubt that she was one of the “wellhave slim to no correlation with qualified” students who applied. actual student success in college, Bosche was accepted into other they participate in extracurricular prestigious schools around the activities and they vie for the top nation, but it is less about getting GPAs. Yet, sometimes, having into a prestigious school than it started a nonprofit for one-legged is getting into the school that is dogs or getting a 4.6 GPA is not right for a student. While Carey is enough. right that most top students can Carey discussed Stanford get into a well-ranked university, University, one of the schools the emphasis should be placed on with a scary and deceptively low getting into the right university. acceptance rate of 5.07 percent.

While While it’s true Stanford that many Carey writes University under-qualified that college and students apply, admission Princeton Carey seems statistics are University to gloss over are equally the many skewed by the rigorous and extremely vast number of prestigious, “wellapplicants to top they are not qualified” schools the same students who school. apply and are They have vastly different cultures rejected. and offer different kinds of Sarah Bosch, a UA sophomore, opportunities, and we shouldn’t this difficulty while applying to dismiss the many students who college. In high school, Bosch wish to get into a specific school. played sports, worked a part-time Even if a student is accepted into job, was second in her graduating their dream school, the application class, competed All-State for process can distort young adults’ flute and was drum major for the mindsets. Erika Christakis, a school’s band. Her dream school, Harvard College administrator who Northwestern University, which works with undergraduates, stated had a unique dual-degree program that the college admission process that combined academics and and laundry list of expectations music that fit her interests perfectly, pushes students onto a “hamster put her on its waitlist. There is little

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wheel of adult expectations,” which makes it hard for them to do what they really want. She recalls the “look of horror” upon their faces when she suggests to students that they spend a summer doing something unorthodox instead of a Washington internship or resume builder. Rigorous application processes are a struggle for high school students. The experience can forge a mentality that carries over into their undergraduate years where they often restart the pattern, trying to a mold themselves for graduate school.

Ultimately, getting into a good college is not impossible. If a student works hard in high school, it is likely that they well be accepted into a college where they will be happy. But the culture that terrifies students about their prospects of getting into their dream school takes its toll, both on those students who are accepted and those who ultimately end up elsewhere. That can’t be explained away by The New York Times and the secondguessing of admissions rates.

— Julianna Renzi is a sophomore studying environmental science and economics. Follow her @jollyrenzi

Football concussion crisis is also about suicide, mental health This isn’t the first time concussions and impact sport-related injuries have resulted in a change in a person’s mental health. There have been cases similar to Karageorge’s in college football and a high prevalence of them in the NFL.

BY Emilee Hoopes “In terms of concussions and mental health, we The Daily Wildcat know that any significant injury or illness can have adverse effects on someone’s mental health,” said osta Karageorge, a former Ohio State Bruce Helming, assistant head team physician University football player, was like at Campus Health Service. “Concussions may most college athletes: strong, tough make pre-existing mental illness worse and can and determined. At 6-foot-3 and 273 pounds cause symptoms of depression and anxiety due Karageorge had been a to temporary changes in member of the OSU wrestling the brain. There is ongoing team for three years and had Doctors and research into whether just recently joined the football concussions by themselves, coaches are team in August as a defensive or in combination with other primarily lineman. During his college factors, cause long-term concerned career, Karageorge had earned mental health and brain a reputation of being “upbeat” about changes.” and “endearing.” treating the Over time, researchers have Perhaps this is why his death tried to prevent concussions physical last week, by a self-inflicted and its lasting effects by components gunshot wound, left so many implementing technologically of a saddened and confused. advanced helmets and The additional tests that will concussion studying post-concussion be done on Karageorge’s brain side effects. But despite won’t be available for a few these efforts, the problem is more weeks, but it is known that he had suffered reoccurring, as are its tragic results. four or five concussions during his career and had Naturally, doctors and coaches are primarily been complaining of disorientation and mood concerned about treating the physical swings. Just a few hours before he committed components of a concussion — if a player is not suicide, Karageorge texted his mother to complain recovered physically, they cannot play. However, it that “these concussions have my head all fucked seems unfair to neglect emotional side effects just up.”

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because they are not as prevalent or obvious as the physical ones.

In the case of Karageorge, he was known for keeping his emotions to himself. In retrospect, people have to ask whether this reputation was earned because of a reserved personality or whether he was afraid to reveal his mental distress for fear of appearing “weak.” We’ll never know now, but it isn’t farfetched to assume that many who have suffered concussions while playing contact sports deal with these worries.

“We follow international guidelines and NCAA recommendations for the management of concussions,” Helming said about the UA. “This includes education for incoming athletes about concussions and its potential consequences and education about mental health services available on campus. We monitor student-athletes with diagnosed concussions during their recovery for changes in mood or mental health. We treat each student individually and do what is best for that patient.”

It is crucial that both the physical and mental health of a student-athlete be addressed, especially after a concussion. It is important that student-athletes not only know when to receive help, but to inform the entire community of mental health, suicide and how to help those at risk.

— Emilee Hoopes is a molecular & cellular biology sophomore. Follow her @h00pesthereitis

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BY ARIELLA NOTH

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Bloody hell

Dried blood was found splattered at the UA Museum of Art on Nov. 22.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to the double-door entry on the second floor of the art museum in reference to the report of blood. The officer saw the blood on one of the exterior glass doors and dried blood on the floor next to the door.

Among the blood were approximately 2-inch-long sharp metal shards with the word “Catclaw” etched into them. The blood also appeared to be contained to the outside of the building and nowhere else.

The officer spoke with workers at the building adjacent to the museum, and no one said they saw anyone in the area who was bleeding. The officer also had dispatch contact the University of Arizona Medical Center and the Tucson Fire Department to find if they had treated any patients with lacerations the night prior.

Both said they had not.

Another officer and a police aide arrived on the scene to help with the investigation. The police aide noticed a blood spatter on the window ledge above the door. The officer noticed that the ledge was lined with more of the “Catclaw” metal spokes.

The spokes were affixed to the ledge pointing upright and were designed to prevent birds from perching on the ledge. The officer noted that it appeared as if someone had attempted to climb up the wall next to the doors in order to gain access to the roof, but they fell in the process of climbing.

The officer contacted the building monitor, who said the building had issues with people tagging graffiti on the roof.

The officer asked her if someone would have put blood on the doors as a possible art project, and she told him that special permission would be required to do so.

The scene was photographed and the blood-covered “Catclaw” spokes were placed in evidence. The officer also noted that the door for roof access did not lock from the outside and can be accessed by anyone.

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Tucson reaps benefits of shopping locally

BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat

Consumers who shop locally stimulate the Tucson economy by investing money back into a city that is home to numerous local businesses, restaurants and organizations, which is beneficial to all Tucson residents.

The existence and success of local retailers generates the opportunity for the existence and success for local producers, thus creating a spending cycle within the local economy.

“With the chain stores, payments for the resources to the suppliers of the merchandise usually leave Tucson’s economy,” writes Stephen Reff, a lecturer in economics at the UA, in an email interview. “The same holds true for a local business if the merchandise is produced outside Tucson’s economy. Both groups of businesses, though, create jobs which then stimulate consumption.”

Main Gate Square and University Boulevard host a variety of different local and non-local retailers, such as Collette Clothing, which is located

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CHARNJEET KHAIRA (LEFT) and Shivani Narang (right) walk down University Boulevard after shopping at Pitaya on Thursday. Studies show that the Tucson community and economy benefits from local shopping.

on University Boulevard and is one of the many local Tucson businesses that attracts consumers from campus and local high schools.

According to Reff, the balance of

local and out-of-town shoppers is a vital part of Tucson’s economic growth.

“For Tucson to have true economic growth, rather than just a

transfer of income from one group of individuals to another group of individuals inside of its economy …

Tucson needs to attract businesses that create products or services that are sold outside of Tucson’s economy … so as to bring in more money to Tucson,” Reff writes.

Consumption, in general, increases in the U.S. during winter months when consumers purchase gifts for the holiday season. Sherry Lotz, associate professor in retail and consumer sciences, said that if a small, locally owned business is in a mall setting, it can share in the profits of the shoppers who are already in the holiday “shopping mood.”

Local First Arizona, a statewide nonprofit focused on supporting small businesses, launched the “Buy Local Month” campaign in late November. The program, which ends Dec. 24, focuses on providing shoppers with the resources necessary to know where and how to shop locally during the holiday season.

“Shopping locally is one of the best things you can do for an economy,”

said Jesse Lee, a pre-business sophomore.

According to a 2004 report from the Andersonville Study of Retail Economics, for every $100 spent within the community, $68 stays in that local community. Conversely, for every $100 spent at big chain companies, $43 stays within the community. By spending locally, the amount of money kept within the community increases by 58 percent.

“It keeps the money in the hands of the community and out of the hands of large, outside businesses,” Lee said. “It allows employees from retailers that experience an increase number of seasonal shoppers to gain access to more hours, creating an opportunity to increase their income. In this situation, this increase in income can then be used for consumption at another local store. This creates a beneficial cycle that most economists would consider ideal.”

— Follow Brandi Walker @brandimwalker

Public health college awarded $3.6 million

BY HOLLY HALSTEAD The Daily Wildcat

The Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health was awarded a four-year $3.6 million grant to help improve the nation’s public health.

The grant was awarded by the Health Resources and Services Administration as a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

According to a press release, the grant will be used to establish a Consortium of Public Health Training Centers, called Western Region Public Health Training Centers, in the Health Resources and Services Administration’s ninth district. This district serves Arizona, Nevada, California, Hawaii and U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands.

In order to qualify for the grant, a college must be an accredited college of public health in the region and submit a proposal. Other schools in the region that were previously awarded the grant include the colleges of public health at University of California, Berkley; University of

California, Los Angeles; and San Diego State University.

Staff will assist numerous groups throughout the different states with the establishment of their own Public Health Training Centers to strengthen the technical, scientific, managerial and leadership competence of both the current and future public health workforce.

Douglas Taren, the associate dean of academic affairs for the College of Public Health and the project director for the new centers, said representatives from the College of Public Health will assess the needs of individual centers and train their staff members accordingly.

The College of Public Health has strong experience in online education, Taren said, in addition to working closely with Medicare and Medicaid.

The Public Health Training Centers are partnerships between accredited schools of public health, related academic institutions and public health agencies and organizations.

These training centers are developed with the intention of creating a center that will best

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serve the needs of the community in which it is located.

Taren said he believes the UA was chosen largely because of its focus on rural health care.

“The UA’s College of Public Health has a strong focus on rural health care,” Taren said, pointing to the UA Arizona Center for Rural Health which strives to provide education and technical assistance to rural hospitals and

health care providers.

In addition to specialization in rural health care, the UA also has another focus, Taren said, which is in nutrition, physical activity and obesity.

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Wildcats welcome Utah Valley for first matchup GAME DAY MEN’S BASKETBALL

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH Sean Miller shows his frustration at the referees during Arizona’s 66-63 win against Gonzaga in McKale enter on Saturday. Miller and the Wildcats take on Utah Valley today for the first time in program history.

12/31 vs. Boise State

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RIVALS INDIANA AND LOUISVILLE FACE OFF Indiana vs. Louisville, 7 pm, ESPN

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For the sake of Sean Miller and his coaching staff, there better not be a mental, emotional or physical drop-off after Saturday’s 66-63 OT victory over then-No. 9 Gonzaga. No doubt the back and forth affair drained the No. 3 Arizona Wildcats (8-0) mentally, physically and emotionally.

Just a few days after that victory, the Utah Valley Wolverines (3-4) come to McKale Center five days before a matchup with Michigan.

While Utah Valley is what one could call a cupcake game, that doesn’t mean the Wildcats can overlook the opponent

sandwiched in between the two biggest nonconference home games of the year.

“The way our schedule unfolds, we just don’t have a stretch for some time where we have a chance to take a deep breath in and really practice,” Miller said after the Gonzaga win. “We’re practicing, don’t get me wrong.

But even now, our next game is on Tuesday. We play Utah Valley and we play Michigan on Saturday.”

Much like the Gardner-Webb matchup last week, the Wildcats and Wolverines have never matched up in program history.

Unlike Arizona, which has been on the national radar for about

30 years, Utah Valley is largely balanced offensive attack and unknown, thus making it tough stingy defense, Arizona is the unquestioned for Miller West Coast and company The way our team to beat. to game schedule Since before the plan for the season began, Wolverines. unfolds, we Miller has said Add in the just don’t have he feels like he fact that the a stretch ... to has six starters Wolver ines take a deep rather than five, lost their topbreath and he wouldn’t two scorers — Sean Miller, be surprised from last UA men’s basketball if a handful of season, and coach players averaged Miller is in double-digit unknown points per game. territory.

Arizona’s leading scorer Luckily for the Wildcats, there’s a reason they’re ranked UVU, 9 No. 3 in the nation. Behind a

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Instate rival Arizona State swept Arizona on home ice this weekend at the Tucson Convention Center.

On Friday night, ASU shut out Arizona 6-0 and then won again 3-1 on Saturday night.

The sweep was deja vu for the Wildcats as No. 1 Arizona State holds a six-game win streak over Arizona.

After giving up three goals in the first period Friday night, Garrett Patrick was replaced between the

pipes by freshman goalie Austin Wilson, who guarded a shutout in the second period.

“I thought it was a really good second period,” UA hockey head coach Chad Berman said. “We were able to clog up the neutral zone with a trap, which created turnovers which first and foremost slowed them down. I think we need to build off of the positives.”

With such a heated rivalry, the Cactus Cup always roots physical play between these two Arizona teams. On Friday night, a full on brawl broke out between Wildcat

Robbie Wilkinson and Sun Devil Connor Schmidt that led to an immediate ejection, as well as a one-game suspension for both players.

Unfortunately, Wilson and the Wildcat’s defense could not withstand the offense produced by the defending national champions, letting in three goals during the final period.

On Saturday night, Arizona came out like a completely different team. The Sun Devils put up 18 shots.

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The football team finished the regular season in the top 10, the volleyball team earned the No. 11 seed in the NCAA tournament, the soccer team returned to the big dance and won its third NCAA game all-time and the men’s basketball team is ranked No. 3.

Plus, UA baseball recently moved to a better ballpark, Arizona Stadium got an outstanding new addition, sand volleyball was added as an official sport and McKale Center is undergoing extensive renovations.

There’s not much room for things to get better, right?

Wrong.

With Arizona’s athletics at an all-time high, the time is right to elevate hockey to varsity status.

The club team has developed quite a following, now it’s time to move the sport up.

The impetus for this, of course, is ASU making hockey a varsity sport last month. Certainly ASU is not the best school to copy, but the Sun Devils adding hockey opens a lot of possibilities.

By itself, ASU promoting hockey doesn’t make much sense. There’s an NHL team there, there’s no

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Rubio has set Wildcats up for future success

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wenty-three years ago, Dave Rubio entered the Arizona volleyball program as its head coach and has always looked ahead. Rubio has led the Wildcats to 17 NCAA Tournament appearances, including one Final Four, four Elite Eights and seven Sweet Sixteen trips.

After every match since 1992, Rubio’s name has been announced as head coach of the Wildcats, and with good reason. The season prior to his arrival, the Wildcats did not win a single conference match. Since then, Rubio has directed Arizona to a 440-257 overall record and has won 562 matches in his 27-year collegiate coaching career.

Even with all of his years of experience coaching volleyball, Rubio enjoys the task of bringing in new athletes and training them to be superstars.

“Every year is a challenge, and I think that’s what makes coaching so unique that you can do it for many years, and every year it feels like it’s the first year you have ever coached,” Rubio said.

Besides providing impressive numbers and experienced coaching advice, Rubio’s recruiting is what has taken Arizona to the next level. He has recruited 30 athletes listed as Volleyball Magazine Fab 50 recruits and his recruiting class back in 2002 was ranked top in the nation.

REBECCA NOBLE/THE DAILY WILDCAT Looking forward, Rubio has quite the feat ahead of ARIONA VOLLEYBALL HEAD COACH Dave Rubio speaks to the media him after the Wildcats’ disappointing loss to BYU in the after watching the NCCA Championship Tournament selection show on second round of the NCAA Tournament this season. He Nov. 30 in McKale Center. Rubio and his coaching staff have tabilized the now has to figure out how to replace five seniors, four of Wildcats for the future. whom have been leaders from the very start. record 300 kills, 300 digs and 100 blocks in one season.

This season, Arizona hosted the NCAA Tournament, Assistant coach Gregg Whitis has two years of something that hasn’t happened since 2002. In fact, Rubio experience on Rubio’s staff and has considerable coaching thought that Arizona would never have the opportunity to experience of his own. Volunteer assistant coach Jack host again.

Dyck has over 25 years of coaching experience to bring to “To be honest with you, I never thought it would the table. happen,” Rubio said. “I mean it’s With so much valuable coaching been so long — 12 years. It’s really experience at his side, Rubio should special for this group, and it’s Every year is a be confident moving forward. Four special for me because it doesn’t challenge, and I Wildcats signed their letters of intent happen very often.” back in November and will be joining think that’s what Rubio rarely changes his the team next season. Junior middle expression on the sideline, no makes coaching blocker Halli Amaro and sophomore matter what is happening on the so unique setter Penina Snuka have consistently floor. While other coaches scream — Dave Rubio, started this season, while sophomore UA volleyball head coach and shout at officials, Rubio’s calm outside hitter Ashley Harris provided demeanor allows Arizona to stay valuable play off the bench. relaxed.

Although this past season might Alongside Rubio are his two assistant coaches and one have ended in disappointment, look for Rubio and volunteer assistant coach.

Arizona to rebound next season.

Assistant coach Charita Stubbs returned to Rubio’s staff after taking a head coaching position of her own. She is a former UA alumna and knows what it means to be a — Follow Matt Wall Wildcat, especially since she was the first in UA history to @mwall20

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Stanley Johnson averages just 13.8 points per game, but with six Wildcats averaging at least eight points per game, Miller has plenty of options. Just look at that Gonzaga game.

When Johnson struggled to just get 11 points on 3-7 shooting with four turnovers, Brandon Ashley (14 points), T.J. McConnell (12 points) and Kaleb Tarczewski (11 points) picked up the slack.

That’s just the offensive side of the ball, too. This Arizona squad held an explosive Gonzaga team 25 points below its season average of 88 points per game, further proving that Miller’s packline defense works wonders.

After the Gonzaga game, Miller said his players have learned more about themselves over the first eight games of the season.

“We’ve learned in each game, and I think our

team is growing and we’re learning,” Miller said. “We have a couple things that you can put us against any team in the country and compare, and we have a couple things we really have to get better at. That’s the quest for us.”

As the Arizona players put it, this team can continue to improve if the defense keeps up the current level of play.

“Even last year, I think defense won us a lot of our games when we were in a drought on offense,” McConnell said after the Gonzaga game. “I’d say we were in a drought on offense today and, again, our defense took it to the next level. It pretty much saved us tonight.”

As the Wildcats look toward the end of nonconference play, a stingy defense and opportunistic offense will take this team far.

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1. No. 3 Arizona (8-0) With wins over San Diego State and Gonzaga already this season, once again the Wildcats can claim the title “Best in the West.” There’s the matter of the Pac-12 Conference, but the defending champs and preseason favorites own the conference right now.

Last week: First, W vs. GardnerWebb 91-65, W vs. Gonzaga 66-63 OT This week: vs. Utah Valley, vs.

Michigan 2. No. 13 Utah (6-1) Obviously, I have to say that the Utes shocked then-No. 8 Wichita State last week. It’s the obvious joke, but you have to take the high percentage shots when they’re open.

Last week: Second, W vs. Wichita State 69-68 This week: at BYU, vs. Kansas 3. No. 17 Washington (7-0) Up until last week, the Pac-12’s other undefeated team ran its record up against a collection of cupcakes. However, it scored an impressive win over San Diego State to move up in the AP poll and, more importantly, the Daily Wildcat power rankings.

Last week: Seventh, W vs. UTEP 6865, W vs. San Diego State 49-36 This week: vs. Eastern Washington 4. California (7-1) The Golden Bears disappointed against the Grizzlies of Montana (34) and needed double overtime to win at home against Nevada (2-6), winning by single digits. This week, they face a tough Wyoming side

that’s ready to shoot down another Pac-12 team.

Last week: Third, W at Fresno State 64-57, W vs. Montana 78-76 2OT, W at Nevada 63-56 This week: vs. Wyoming, vs.

Princeton 5. UCLA (7-2) The Bruins extended their modest win streak to three games with a couple wins over mediocre Southern California teams. They have one more SoCal cupcake before they face Gonzaga and Kentucky in back-to-back games.

Last week: Fourth, W vs. Cal State Fullerton 73-45, W vs. San Diego 75-68 This week: vs. UC Riverside, vs.

Gonzaga 6. Colorado (5-2) It was a long road trip, but Georgia is pretty average at 5-3. Last week, the Buffaloes continued to disappoint with a loss at UGa. Last week: Fifth, W vs. San Francisco 72-55, L at Georgia 64-57 7. Stanford (4-2) The Cardinal doesn’t play from Dec. 1 to Friday, but seems to have checked out early. On Nov. 30, Stanford lost at DePaul in front of just 5,990 people.

Last week: Sixth, L at DePaul 87-72 This week: vs. Denver 8. USC (6-3) The Trojans’ record is not impressive, but their win at the Pit in New Mexico is. The Lobos (5-3) don’t look all that good, but that win is enough to move USC over Oregon and ASU. Last week: 10th, W at New Mexico 66-54, W vs. LMU 77-61, W vs. Utah State 89-84

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NCAA teams nearby, the team doesn’t have a clear place to play, it isn’t well supported and neither are ASU’s other teams, with reduced capacity at Sun Devil Stadium and Wells Fargo Arena.

However, those factors don’t apply to the UA. There’s not even a minor league hockey team here, there’s now an NCAA team down the road and the varsity Wildcats could play in the Tucson Convention Center where they would get solid support without much local media coverage.

In fact, Pac-12 Conference commissioner Larry Scott wants to see future expansion in the Pac-12. Friday night hockey would be a lot more popular, even in the less traditional hockey locales of the west coast, than women’s basketball on the Pac-12 Network.

Of course, there is the money issue. ASU added hockey with massive donations, but Arizona is in much better financial shape than ASU. Things are so bad at ASU that they charge students a fee to support the athletics program.

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL FORWARD Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (23) tries to knock the ball out of Gonzaga forward Domantas Sabonis’ (11) hands while Arizona forward Brandon Ashley (21) and Arizona guard Gabe York (1) defend during Arizona’s 66-63 win against Gonzaga on Saturday in McKale Center. The Wildcats have firmly taken a hold of the title for Best in the West.

9. Oregon (5-3) The Ducks have played a tough schedule, but let’s just say they’re not the football team. Generally, Oregon has beat the teams it’s supposed to and lost to better teams, but it’s just not the same after some of its best players were kicked out after a rape scandal.

Last week: Eighth, W vs. Portland State, W vs. CCD 94-63, L vs.

Mississippi 79-73 This week: vs. Illinois 10. ASU (5-3) Like Oregon, the Sun Devils are just

UA hockey currently gets crowds of 1,264 people for games against teams like Liberty.

If it moved to varsity, local media besides the Daily Wildcat would cover them and those crowds would increase.

The biggest problem with adding hockey is in men’s NCAA hockey. Other than the two Alaska teams and three in Colorado, Minnesota is considered west. If Arizona joined ASU, Colorado and Utah would be more inclined to add varsity teams.

NAU would be compelled to bring back its varsity team. If that happens, suddenly, there’s eight hockey teams in the four corner states and travel doesn’t seem so insane.

Athletic director Greg Byrne told House of Sparky last month that “Hockey is not on the radar screen for the University of Arizona.”

ASU got the ball — or puck — rolling; Arizona should return the favor and continue the evolution of college hockey.

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kind of treading water. They got a nice win over UNLV, but they have three losses and have played zero ranked teams.

Last week: Ninth, W vs. UNLV 77-55, L at Texas A&M 72-71 This week: vs. Pepperdine 11. Oregon State (5-2) The Beavers are the last of this little cluster of teams with mediocre records. Like ASU and Oregon, there’s little reason to move them or change their position. How boring.

Last week: 11th, W vs. Miss Valley State 74-50, W vs. Portland 65-58 OT

This week: vs. Mississippi State 12. Washington State (4-4) The Cougars lost the Battle of the Palouse last week,but rebounded to beat UTSA by 20. Still, the Cougars are clearly the worst team in the league.

Last week: 12th, L vs. Idaho 77-71, W vs. UTSA 91-71 This week: at Gonzaga, at Santa Clara

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Wildcats are usually lights out when they are playing with a man down, but went two for six during their penalty kill. The FROM PAGE 8 Sun Devils scored two of their three goals Someone once said, the best athletes during power plays.

Arizona was trailing by three goals when have short-term memories. Patrick put that into action on Saturday night because Alex O’Dea finally found the back of the net despite a poor performance the previous for the Wildcats late into the third period.

O’Dea was the only night, Patrick started Wildcat to score in net on Saturday, against the Sun stopping 31 of 34 shots.

Everyone has Devils this weekend “Everyone has games and earlier in the games like that like that and you just season up in Tempe. have to put it behind and you put it “They are a good you and focus on the behind you... team; give them next game,” Patrick credit,” Berman — Garrett Patrick, said. “I had some bad UA hockey goalie said. “If you make bounces and wasn’t as mistakes like we did, mentally in it as I should they are a team that have been. But tonight, will make you pay.”

I felt on and watching the puck well.”

Wildcat hockey returns Jan. 8, 2014, Overall, Arizona came out onto the ice like a completely different team. The Sun when No. 2 University of Central Oklahoma Devils put up 18 shots against the Wildcats and No. 7 University of Oklahoma travel to TCC for a new year of ACHA hockey. but left the first period without a goal.

Although the score showed donuts on the scoreboard going into the second period, Arizona’s defense struggled — Follow Zoe Wolkowitz tremendously throughout the night. The @zowolko

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However, this does not mean there are no risks when using marijuana. The most relevant risks for young adults center on brain development, critical thinking, and memory changes, which may diminish academic success and cloud personal and social choices. Impaired muscle coordination and judgment from marijuana can result in physical harm. Driving a car would be particularly dangerous as studies demonstrate impaired reaction time and diminished attention to traffic signals. Additionally, due to the accumulation of marijuana in fatty tissue, this impairment can last 12 to 24 hours. A reduction in both male and female fertility is another possible side effect of marijuana. Some people experience anxiety attacks and paranoia. Contrary to popular myth, some people can become addicted to pot.

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Thank you Tucson!!!

We hear you

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LOUD & CLEAR “Damn…the University of Arizona experience will never be the same…”

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