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BY Ava Garcia

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Contrary to an age-old rumor that has been circulating the UA campus, the UA Department of Mathematics is not on probation.

The rumor has been around for the past 15 years according to Robert Indik, the associate head for instruction and associate professor in the math department. Both Indik and Scott Clark, a lecturer and entrylevel program coordinator in the department, have confirmed the rumor is false.

Indik and Clark said they have told numerous people the rumor is false, yet they still have heard the rumor from students, parents and other employees of the university—including academic advisers.

“It’s frustrating because you’ll get parents or students telling us, ‘We know this,’ and we’ll say, ‘Where did you hear this,’ and they say, ‘An adviser told us,’” Indik said. “[The advisers] know better because we make a point of talking to them [about the rumor]. I don’t know what to do about it.”

While Clark does not know why the rumor continues to spread, he thinks the initial reason behind the rumor could be due to students’ difficulties with math.

“It’s not every student’s case, but I think it’s the vast majority of students [who] find that math has always been a stumbling block for them in school, and I think when there’s a rumor that sounds like an easy out for them that maybe that’s a way to place blame on something external rather than maybe a weaker foundation coming into college or not knowing what the expectations would be,” Clark said.

Ryan Papetti, a freshman studying information science and technology and math— currently taking Math 129—has a similar idea for why the rumor persists.

“I think a lot of people think math is really hard, and they’re going to try and find every way they can to make it as easy as possible for them,” Papetti said.

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Shilu Feng, a senior studying mathematics and economics, works on her homework on Friday, Dec. 4 in the Mathematics building. Contrary to rumors spread around the campus over the past 15 years, the math department is not on any type of probation.

“I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that maybe if we can find a way to get rid of math altogether, then [people will think] I don’t have to take math.

I think a lot of it has to do with people trying to get rid of math in general.”

Clark said it would be “an impossibility” to get rid of math completely because some level of the subject is required for nearly every major.

Academic departments cannot really be termed to be “on probation,” according to Indik, but they can be eliminated.

This is usually because of low enrollment in the program or difficulty filling faculty positions, and, as explained by Indik, the math department has not met these criteria so far.

In fact, the department has more than doubled its enrollment over the last 10 years, with more than 500 majors currently in the program.

Because of this growth, the department is in need of more faculty because it is having “trouble covering the teaching [they] need to do,” according to Indik. He said this issue is one of the things they are focusing on during their current Academic Program Review.

Every seven years, the program, like other departments at the UA, undergoes an

Academic Program Review that includes an internal and external review process of the department’s teaching, research and service. According to Indik, the program is currently in the self-study section and meeting within the department to address problems.

Clark said the math department usually receives high accolades from these reviews.

This kind of response to the work of the math department is not isolated. The UA math department is consistently ranked in the top 50 math departments nationwide, Clark said.

According to a 2014 ranking of math departments in the U.S. by the U.S. News and World Report university directory, the UA math department’s graduate program ranked No. 41 in the country.

“The fact that we are a sort of an open enrollment public institution speaks highly to the work that we do here, given the diverse population of students that we have here,” Clark said.

Despite these rankings, Clark acknowledges the math department has a higher failure rate than other departments at the UA. He says the fact there is usually a more clear-cut right or wrong answer with math makes it different from more subjective subjects with less “black and

white” answers.

“Math, more so than other subjects, has fairly objective standards about what you want people to be able to do,” Indik said. “You could lower standards, but it’s particularly obvious when you do it with math.”

These passing and failing rates, however, are “largely in line with what you would see at larger public institutions,” according to Clark.

In some cases, like in the College Algebra class Math 112, Clark said, the UA math department’s pass rate is above that of similar institutions, with a rate of 70 to 75 percent of students receiving an A, B or C compared to 60 to 65 percent at other colleges.

“I like to say that we are doing a bit better than some of our other institutions, and that’s what we try to strive to do,” Clark said.

“You can artificially inflate any grade you want, but you want to have [students] succeed and get the knowledge that’s required so they actually learn rather than just get an artificially inflated grade.”

Yet this success rate is not what Indik says he would want it to be.

He acknowledged that lowering the standards of the class could help with grades, but he believes that this could hinder students’ ability to do the math they need for their next course.

“We work on trying to do a better job of teaching and improve the success and I think mostly we’re getting better, but it’s a big challenge,” he said.

In the meantime, the math department continues teaching students and remains—as it has been during the continuation of this rumor—not on probation.

“I’m having a great first semester as a math student,” Papetti said. “I haven’t heard any other students having major problems with their professor other than just that math is hard, but beyond that I’ve heard everyone’s having a decent time in their math classes this semester.”

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Experts weigh in on Israel’s place in world

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Several professors from around the globe came together in the Student Union Memorial Center’s Grand Ballroom on Sunday and Monday to examine Israel’s role in the Middle East. This dialogue was part of a conference held by the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies.

The conference kicked off with the discussion of the two-state solution by two speakers: Shai Feldman a professor from Brandeis University and Dr. Khalil Shikaki from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.

Feldman expressed what he believed to be the answer to whether or not the twostate solution was dead, representing the Israeli perspective. Shikaki rebutted by presenting the Palestinian perspective.

According to Shikaki’s research, two-thirds of Palestinians demand the resignation of President Mahmoud Abbas in order to make an attempt to regain a solution with Israel. Feldman also concluded that Israel is ready to support the two-state solution in order to create “two states of two groups of people,” Shikaki said.

After the discussion of the two-state solution, the conference let out for a lunch

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break, resuming at 1 p.m. with a talk by University of Texas at Austin professor Ami Pedazhur, who spoke about radical political factions redefining the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

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The first day of the conference concluded with professor David Menashri, senior research fellow from the Aliliance Center for Iranian Studies, presenting Iran, Israel and the U.S. with respect to the views from Tel Aviv.

Menashri explained how, after the Islamic Revolution and despite domestic rivalries and regional realities, Iran has remained consistent with its animosity toward Israel and the U.S. Iran, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, has had a negative relationship with Israel and has kept its animosity firm.

“President [Hassan] Rouhani has fulfilled his promises to transform recent Iranian challenges into opportunities,” said Jon Yarborough, a participant in the conference.

President Rouhani has turned the situation with Iran into a solution, Menashri said, and establishing Iran as a dominant power in the region could change its attitude toward Israel in this context.

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Trinity Goss, a philosophy junior and co-president of the UA Black Student Union, prepares for the group’s video statement to be recorded on the steps of Old Main on Friday, Nov. 13. The students were protesting to show solidarity with student activists at the University of Missouri.

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2016 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a rally at the Reid Park DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center on Friday, Oct. 9. According to Michael Briggs, a Sanders campaign official, 13,000 people attended the event.

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Two UAPD officers were patrolling the area near Euclid Avenue and Speedway Boulevard when one of the officers saw a male student urinating on a shed. The two officers approached the student who gave the officers his driver’s license.

The student was combative when the officers first approached him and said that the one officer was purposefully trying to get him in trouble. He smelled of alcohol and had slurred speech.

The student then told the officers that he was at an Alpha Sigma Phi party off campus, but was no longer a member of the fraternity. He also informed the officers that he drank vodka while at the party.

The student then began to ramble incoherent thoughts. While the one officer was writing the citation, the other officer was talking to the student and asking questions. At this point, the student was rambling nonsensical thoughts and became even more agitated with the officer. He then started yelling profanities at the one officer.

The other officer told the student he was being cited and released for a minor in possession, and the student hesitated at first before signing the citation. However, when the officer walked away, the student spit on the UAPD vehicle while still shouting profanities at the officers.

The officer then handcuffed the student and transported him to Pima County Jail. While on the way to the jail, the student kept spitting in the vehicle. The officer warned him that if he continued spitting, he would put a spit sock on the student’s head. The student did not stop and had to wear a spit sock the rest of the ride.

At one point, the officer noticed the student became silent and when the officer checked on him, he had passed out. The officer then called Tucson Fire Department to evaluate him.

After waking up, the student continued to be combative with TFD, even after being medically cleared.

When the officer continued driving, the student started screaming and hitting himself against the vehicle’s divider before arriving at the jail where he was eventually booked.

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Tribune News Service PHILADELPHIA — A day after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would ban all Muslims from the country, Mayor Michael Nutter said he wants to ban Trump from Philadelphia.

Nutter decried Trump’s words, saying “nothing more vile or ignorant” could be said and accusing the candidate of taking “a page from the playbook of Hitler.”

“Certainly if I had the power to do so, the only banning that should be done is that of that person not being allowed in the city of Philadelphia. We have no place for that kind of ignorance and tolerance and lack of understanding of what our country is about,” Nutter said.

The mayor addressed the media Tuesday about Trump and the pig’s head that was found outside a North Philadelphia mosque, prior to his scheduled endorsement of Katie McGinty for U.S. Senate.

“Donald Trump’s comments are a threat to the moral security of the United States. It engenders level[s] of fear, fearmongering, that we have not seen literally since the 1930s and ‘40s,” Nutter said.

“He has taken a page from the playbook of Hitler: Demonize a group, blame that group for our country’s problems, and then seek to ban or eliminate that group as some kind of solution to a problem that does not exist.”

Nutter added: “My fear is that a realityTV person, a cartoon clown, is one thing.

The concern here is that other Americans are actually paying attention to this insanity. That people are buying into this message. And that somehow his strength in the electorate continues to grow as he goes to the right of himself with more and more dangerous and insane comments.

“Donald Trump is literally trying to radicalize our fellow Americans against our American Muslim and international Muslim brothers and sisters. … He and his message of hate have no place in Philadelphia.”

Nutter said police were investigating the “act of ignorance” that was found at the Al Aqsa Islamic Society on Germantown Avenue. A worker found a severed pig’s head outside the mosque’s door on Monday. Nutter called the incident “the height of insult” and vowed “continued vigilance with regard to the desecration of the mosque.”

“We will at some point in time find the coward, the person who lacked understanding and sensitivity, who did what they did,” Nutter added.

The mayor had a direct message to the city’s Muslim community: “You will be safe and secure in the city. Your presence and your act of involvement in the life of Philadelphia is desperately needed.”

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Non-transparent bags banned at sports venues

BY Sam Gross

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Tonight’s basketball game against Fresno State is the beginning of a new era. Not for athletics, but for UA athletic venue security.

Arizona Athletics announced earlier this month it will introduce new entrance procedures at tonight’s game that include, but are not limited to, no longer allowing non-transparent bags in the venues and cutting down on the amount of entrances that are open in to the stadium.

Starting tonight, normal bags will no longer be permitted at the games. Instead, items brought to the game should be placed in a 12-by-12 by 6 inches deep clear plastic or vinyl bag. It is important to note that the rules on what you can bring to the games are not changing—just the container in which you bring those items.

Security will also be restricting the entrances open to the public. Suzy Mason, associate athletics director of event operations, said this is to help security consolidate its efforts on fewer areas—meaning faster entrance times and a safer venue for everyone in attendance.

People wearing coats will also be asked to unzip and open their coats, but they won’t be patted down.

Mason said these new security measures are something Arizona Athletics has been working on for some time. However, she added that the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris—during which UA teams were playing two separate games at home, with a football game the following day—did serve as a catalyst that sped up the implementation of the security measures.

“We were getting some queries from fans like, ‘What are you doing [to protect me] when I come to a larger facility with a lot of people that could be a target? … What are you guys doing to make me feel safer?’” Mason said.

Tonight’s game, as well as the following game on Dec. 13, will be considered “soft launches” by the McKale Center security team, Mason said.

Security personnel will be ready for fans who come unprepared, toting the standard baggage that comes with an average UA game day, and will politely inform them of the new policy.

“We’ve always had a no large bag policy; the challenge is that the people’s definition of that has been skewed over the years,” Mason said.

“Going to the clear bag just makes this as easy as possible.”

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Old Main at Penn State, the administrative center of the university, contains the Office of the President. A Penn State student faces ethnic intimidation, assault and other charges after following and assaulting another student early Wednesday morning.

Student assaults peer because of ‘skin color’ Tribune News Service PITTSBURGH—A Penn State University student faces ethnic intimidation, assault and other charges after police said he singled out and followed another student, believing him “to be of Middle Eastern [or] Asian descent,” and grabbed him by the throat.

Nicholas Tavella, 19, of Greensburg, is alleged by the victim to have said: “Don’t make me put a bullet in your chest,” according to an affidavit of probable cause.

That document identified the victim as another Penn State student, Samjeris Victor, a dark-skinned man of Indian descent. Tavella, who is white, has a preliminary hearing Wednesday morning in State College before District Justice Allen Sinclair, officials said Tuesday.

The incident early Saturday prompted Penn State President Eric Barron on Tuesday night to send emails to the university’s two dozen campuses statewide, in which he discussed Penn State’s place in a larger discussion unfolding nationally about race, ethnicity, religion, intolerance and discrimination.

“There is no place for hate, overt or subtle, at Penn State—such actions do not represent our mutually held values,” he said. “Any violence that causes physical or emotional harm to any individual harms our entire community, too.”

Tavella was arrested on the main University Park campus after Penn State Officer Colin McDanel was called about 1:50 a.m. to the intersection of Bigler and Hastings Roads, Penn State Police Patrol Sgt. Frank Ball said.

The suspect, who police said appeared to be under the influence of

alcohol, apparently noticed the victim in downtown State College and began following him through campus, asking whether he was going to rape a girl, making threats and telling him he was going to follow the victim home, Sgt. Ball said.

“The victim attempted to elude him but the defendant caught up with him and stated, ‘Are you trying to get away from me?’”said Sgt. Ball, reading from the affidavit.

The defendant “grabbed the victim by the throat and stated, ‘Don’t make me put a bullet in your chest,” according to the affidavit. Police said Tavella was not armed.

The defendant told officers he felt the victim was acting suspiciously but “was not specific about what that suspicious activity was,” Sgt. Ball said. “He said that he was racially profiling the victim” because he “appeared to be of Middle Eastern or Asian descent.”

“He admitted to officers that he probably grabbed the victim and probably said something racist,” Sgt. Ball said. He added that when the defendant was asked why, Tavella replied it was “because of his skin color.”

Tavella was arraigned Monday before District Justice Carmine Prestia Jr. on a felony charge of ethnic intimidation, misdemeanor charges of making terroristic threats, simple assault, disorderly conduct, stalking and summary offenses of harassment, public drunkenness and underage drinking, Sgt. Ball said.

Bail was set at $10,000 unsecured.

How do I control my drinking at a party?

College will give you more than a few opportunities to meet new people and celebrate in the company of friends. When alcohol is part of the mix, savvy drinkers know how to get the most out of their night out, without sacrificing their good name or the rest of their weekend (think hangovers and regrets). Yes, there will be those who want you to overdrink, often because that’s what they just did.

Stick to your game plan anyway.

After all, not many people look back and think, “I really should have had more drinks last night.”

Here are a few tips to keep you social and in control during the festivities: Don’t Get Derailed – Pre-gaming can run your night off the tracks before the party train even gets going. Avoid shots and handle pulls, my friends.

Focus on the People – Remember, it’s all about the humans. Alcohol may be the social

lubricant, but in parties, as in life, it’s the connections that count.

Stop at the Buzz – Psst, here’s a little secret. Feeling good after a few drinks? Think of that as your body saying “when.” It’s a far surer way to keep that buzz going than the alternative – piling on more drinks – which is guaranteed to only slow you down.

Stay in the Sweet Spot – Get a blood alcohol content (BAC) app and figure out how many drinks will keep you at or below .05 for a given amount of time. Use that as your limit for the night.

Drink Beer – Beverages with a lower alcohol content can help steer you away from having too much, too fast. Don’t forget to down some spacers (water, juice, or soda) along the way to stay hydrated and give your liver a break.

“Yeah, I’m Good” – Pass on a drink by combining equal parts humor and self-confidence.

Repeat as needed.

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The online-based program, Children of Divorce-Coping with Divorce, is an experimental program designed to increase active coping skills, decrease avoidant coping skills, increase coping efficacy and decrease maladaptive or unhelpful thoughts about divorce among children whose parents have divorced.

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According to the American Psychological Association, 40 to 50 percent of marriages in the U.S. end in divorce, affecting over 1.1 million children every year.

Many of these children are resilient, however, 25 percent of them will experience maladjustment and struggle with social, emotional, academic and behavioral issues.

Karey O’Hara, a UA clinical psychology graduate student, is studying the efficacy of an onlinebased program designed to help children cope with divorce.

“One of the things research is trying to pinpoint is: How can we identify which kids will end up in the 25 percent?” O’Hara said. “One of the strongest predictors is inter-parental conflict. Children from families

that continue to have high levels of conflict after the separation are at greatest risk for maladjustment. So it’s not the divorce itself that hurts kids, but the way parents go about navigating the divorce that can cause harm.”

The online-based program, Children of Divorce-Coping with Divorce, was created by O’Hara’s colleague, Jesse Boring, an Arizona State University alumnus. Boring created the program as part of his dissertation at ASU’s Prevention Research Center. Children who used the program would complete one module a week for five weeks.

“The modules are designed to be fun, engaging and interactive for the children,” O’Hara said. “The five modules aim to increase active coping skills, decrease avoidant coping skills, increase coping efficacy and decrease maladaptive or unhelpful thoughts

about divorce—like a child who takes the blame for the divorce.”

Analysis of Boring’s preliminary randomized controlled trial indicated that for every 11 kids who went through the program, one mentalhealth problem was prevented.

Boring’s trial included children from all kinds of families who had finalized their divorce between one to four years prior. O’Hara’s study is directed at the children who are in the 25 percent subset to see how well the program can help them.

“My study is targeting highconflict families,” O’Hara said. “We know that this program works well in a heterogeneous population, but what about these high-conflict populations?”

O’Hara’s study, unlike Boring’s, will be recruiting children and their families earlier on in the divorce process. She is contacting families

that had initiated a divorce or legal separation within the last 18 months, as well as families that have engaged the court to resolve parenting disputes.

O’Hara is also communicating with community agencies that work with these families, including family court judges or divorce attorneys.

Shivani Narang, a UA undergraduate student studying psychology and law, helps O’Hara to identify potential candidates for the study by reviewing divorce court cases between February and May of this year.

“After determining eligibility, I go to the Pima County Superior Court and look into all of the cases I collected in the first step and gather data regarding contact information,” Narang said.

“With this contact information, I create a mailing list that will be used to mail out the information to the parents about the study their child is

eligible to participate in.”

A unique aspect about the study is that parents who were never married but have a child together are also asked to participate.

“There is a growing population within this country of people who cohabitate and have children together, but don’t legally marry,” O’Hara said. “The kids from ‘never married’ families are basically left out of the literature because most researchers recruit based on legal divorces.”

O’Hara said she hopes to use the information learned from the study to support future research and to disseminate the information to legal and mental health professionals who work with these families.

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PATRICK O’CONNOR looks at the Chemistry By Design app on his phone above the distinctive tiled floors of the the Sherman R. Miller III Newsroom on Tuesday, Dec. 8. Dr. Jon Njardarson’s app incorporates chemical synthesis information from over 1,200 research articles dating back to 1939.

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BY GENEVIEVE PATTERSON

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Organic chemistry professor Jon Njardarson understands that presentation is everything.

That’s why he is working to represent and share information about organic chemistry in new ways, with significant implications for changing the way the material is taught.

Several of Njardarson’s projects are related to presenting chemical concepts in an efficient and appealing way. These projects include drug posters that are intended to help people view a lot of information very quickly. By looking at one of these posters, it is much easier to see patterns and engage with the material without being hindered by pages of text with complicated vocabulary.

“I like art and architecture and all these other things,” said Njardarson, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry. “I was trying to merge that with science and find a way to make scientific content come across in a beautiful, but concise and compact, way”.

With the same goal in mind, Njardarson wanted to create a way for people to access the content from journal publications in a better format. A typical publication in this field often loses a lot of content because the visual representations only show the composite of many steps instead of each individual step.

“We created a new app and a website where we recreate the literature better than it was originally and so you can test yourself,” Njardarson said.

This free website and mobile app is called Chemistry by Design and it was the first app created by the UA. As of today, 1,200 research papers from 1939 to 2015 have been read and recreated in the database, supported by the contributions of people from around the world.

The site also includes a feature that allows you to test yourself using flashcards.

Chemistry by Design is geared toward the research community, but Njardarson plans to create another similar app geared toward

undergraduate organic chemistry students.

Njardarson’s inspiration for creating free Internet resources came from an initial desire to make his outreach as fun and creative as his science by utilizing the possibilities offered by the Internet.

“I am committed to only creating products that can reach millions and are not held back by borders,” Njardarson said.

In terms of his teaching, Njardarson hopes to move away from expensive textbooks, which he feels try to force students to use a generic product, and instead create content with the rest of his department and supplement it with electronic tools and apps.

Providing the necessary support for students without dictating specific instructions for how to learn is a key part of Njardarson’s overall teaching philosophy. After discussion sessions were eliminated last spring, he signed up 30 preceptors so that now he can provide 20 office hours per week.

“I just created my own army to support the class and do it far better than we did the year before,” Njardarson said.

According to a member of that preceptor army, students are using the support offered outside of lecture.

“I think that students do take advantage of these opportunities,” said Julea Lipiz, a junior studying molecular and cellular biology and political science and a preceptor for the class.

“I have had quite a few students at my office hours, and with more preceptors scheduled at each time, it is easier to answer questions and help more students simultaneously.”

From posters to apps to office hours, Njardarson is working on creating better methods of teaching organic chemistry material and making that material widely accessible.

“I don’t look at anything we are doing … [as] revolutionary, but I think people should enjoy incremental advances,” Njardarson said.

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Cloud seeding option to ward off drought Controlling the weather is not just a fantasy in the Southwest. Cloud seeding is making it rain in states that need to increase their water supply

BY ANNIE DICKMAN

Arizona Sonora News Service

Drought threatens Arizona’s future and researchers have their eyes to the sky and their hopes in the clouds.

The idea is to boost the Colorado River flow by building snowpack and rainfall by seeding clouds. So far, researchers seem pleased with the results.

Water augmentation efforts are not new, and there are multiple options that states can use to increase their amount of drinking water from importing it to the much more expensive desalinization process.

“There are so many different ways you can augment the river,” said Tom Ryan, a resource specialist with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California who serves on the board of the North American Weather Modification Council and the Weather Modification Association.

But out of all the programs to augment the water supply, none quite captures the imagination like cloud seeding, also known as weather modification.

Discovered in 1946 by Vincent Schaefer, cloud seeding is the attempt to enhance the amount of precipitation a cloud would naturally produce on its own.

Particles are released into targeted clouds to provide a nuclei, the “seed,” for moisture to condense around. The most common particles used are silver iodide, dry ice and more recently salt. “[Silver iodide] is very good at forming ice,” said Armin Sorooshian, an associate professor at the UA, who studies and conducts research on aerosol particles in the atmosphere.

Silver iodide can mimic the structure of a snowflake, which makes it ideal for attempts to increase snowpack. The Weather Modification Association asserts that research shows silver iodide has no negative environmental effects.

Cloud seeding can be used to produce more snowfall or rainfall in a specific area. It enhances

what is already there rather than creating new clouds, a common misconception.

According to Ryan all seven states within the Colorado Basin— California, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming—participate in some form of cloud seeding to augment the river’s water supply.

“The cooperative nature of it is what’s been working well,” he said.

Cloud seeding takes place in the upper basin of the Colorado River to grow snowpack, and increase the runoff into the Colorado River.

The Central Arizona Project, an aqueduct that diverts water from the Colorado River into central and southern Arizona, has allotted $150,000 of its 2014-2015 budget to weather modification efforts in the Colorado Basin. “[Arizona is] currently participating, but we haven’t been leading the charge,” said Nancy J. Selover, Arizona’s state

climatologist and a professor at Arizona State University.

There are two main ways to seed clouds, by plane and by groundbased generators. Plane-based seeding is done by shooting the particles directly into the cloud, while ground-based generators release particles into the air as the targeted clouds pass overhead.

The CAP primarily funds ground-based generators as they are more cost effective. Seeding using planes is known to be more accurate, but also more expensive and dangerous as pilots fly into stormy weather.

According to Ryan, cloud seeding programs have been expanding in both frequency and location over the past 20 years that he’s been working in the field.

One of the reasons for its popularity is its cost-effectiveness.

“It’s really cheap,” said Mohammed Mahmoud, a planning analyst with the CAP.

“One of the cheapest ways to augment the water in the system.”

According to a nine-year study released last year by the Wyoming Weather Modification Pilot Project, a seeded cloud produces five to 15 percent more precipitation than a non-seeded cloud under ideal conditions.

The range can be effected by geographic differences from site to site and other variables.

This may seem like a modest addition, but not to drought watchers who know every drop counts.

“A 10 percent increase is a significant amount of water,” Selover said.

More importantly, the study showed that cloud seeding is a viable option.

“It does work, it does increase the water supply,” Mahmoud said.

But it is difficult to determine exactly how much more a seeded cloud produces because

of difficulties measuring the increase, and proving that it was the seeding that caused the increase in the first place.

There are also plenty of places for things to go wrong during the cloud seeding process, creating a large amount of uncertainties, according to Ryan. From getting the particles into the proper cloud to it snowing in the target area, missing any step in the process means that the seeding could not be successful.

Proper conditions also have to be met by prospective clouds, which includes the proper temperature, height and path of the cloud.

And even in the case of a successful seeding, science can’t truly control the weather.

“A potential downside to [cloud seeding] is creating snow for someone who doesn’t want it,” Selover said. “You don’t know where the clouds are going to go.”

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Over 50 years ago, the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory was built to search for and study asteroids. Today, it tackles its search directly on the OSIRIS-REx mission.

Edward Beshore, deputy principal investigator of the project, described the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission as “a NASA project to fly … a spacecraft to the asteroid, Bennu.

A site will be selected where a sample of material will be retrieved.”

According to Beshore, because Bennu is a “primitive member of the solar system,” the material collected from this asteroid can allow the team to analyze whether or not the organic material and water originated on this asteroid, allowing analysis of how life on earth evolved.

“Since the moon missions 45 years ago, there has not been substantial extraterrestrial material brought back to earth,” Beshore said. “This mission is quite a turning point.”

It will not be a quick trip, though. The scientists are going to have a lot of waiting to do to get back those samples.

“The mission will be launched in September 2016 from Cape Canaveral.

It will take the spacecraft approximately two years to reach the asteroid and then about 1000 days will be spent mapping the asteroid in space,” said Dr. Dante Lauretta,

the principal investigator of the mission.

The spacecraft is expected to come back in 2023.

The UA has been involved in this project since the very beginning.

“The Lockheed Martin company contacted the UA asking if we would be interested in collaborating with their novel approach to obtain a sample from an asteroid,” Beshore said.

With its partners, the Lockheed Martin Corporation, which “builds the flight system,” and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, which “provides the expertise of NASA,” the UA entered a competition led

by Lauretta to determine the academia that can “deliver the science that NASA wants,” according to Beshore.

In addition to building cameras for the mission, the UA team was responsible for processing the scientific information: observing the data, analyzing it and collaborating as a team to make a decision on how to conduct the rest of the study after the conclusion.

“Working on the project was a real experience,” Beshore said. “You meet so many intelligent people and you realize how much knowledge your head can hold.

It’s a privilege to be trusted by American taxpayers to spend their money wisely on a mission like this.”

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Jennie Finch, UA alumnus, points across Hillenbrand Stadium at the Red-Blue alumni game on Sunday, Oct. 25. Finch has struck out multiple MLB players thanks in part to the aerodynamics of her pitch.

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The New York Mets will undoubtedly spend the next few months wallowing in defeat as they recover from a disappointing World Series, in which they fell to the Kansas City Royals four games to one. As the Mets organization begins to ponder its options for next season, team executives will look to improve the team’s pitching staff in order to make another championship run.

With such improvements in mind, this science writer is proposing an unorthodox strategy to strike out opposing batters: draft a softball pitcher.

In his 2013 book called “The Sports Gene,” David Epstein writes about Jennie Finch— perhaps the most dominant pitcher to ever step on the softball field—and her ability to make major league batters look like tee-ball players. At the 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Finch put several future Hall of Fame players to shame when she struck out Albert Pujols, Mike Piazza and Brian Giles. None of the three players could even make contact with the ball.

FSN Sport Science later broadcasted an episode in which Finch tested her fastball against that of California State University—Fullerton baseball pitcher Adam Jorgenson. Each pitcher threw several pitches toward a machine capable of measuring physical parameters like force and velocity. Jorgenson’s 95 mph fastball registered 2,411 pounds of force; the strength of Finch’s pitch literally shattered the machine.

Finch’s impressive ability to compete with men at elite levels raises a number of interesting questions. What allows a woman like Finch to show such consistent athletic dominance over male athletes who represent the faces of their sport? Why should hitting a baseball be more difficult than hitting a softball, which is both larger and thrown at lower speeds?

Dr. Ricardo Valerdi, a professor in the UA College of Engineering, is the chief scientist and founder of Science of Sport, a nonprofit organization that teaches STEM subjects to school-age youth by demonstrating connections between sports and science. Valerdi also serves as the faculty adviser

for Arizona Science of Baseball, a UA student organization, and he teaches a freshman honors seminar called Science of Baseball. Although he does not specifically research the mechanics of baseball pitches versus softball pitches, he provided insight into the scientific principles behind Finch’s performance.

“I think there are a couple factors in what Jennie Finch was able to do,” Valerdi said. “One of them is that the pitching mound is closer than what the pros are used to. The other is that the angle at which the ball is coming underhand as opposed to overhand, so the aerodynamics are different.”

The result of these factors, Valerdi explained, is a significant difference in how baseball players swing a bat compared to softball players. Baseball players and softball players must use completely different mechanics, and therefore rely entirely different muscle memories, in order to play their respective sports.

Asking baseball players to hit off a softball pitcher “is almost like asking a soccer player to play hockey,” Valerdi said jokingly. “They’re just going to look silly.”

Michael Fenton, a former baseball player at Arizona State University and current softball coach at Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix, fully agreed with Valerdi’s analysis.

“Baseball pitchers can make their pitches move down. Even a straight pitch like a fastball has a downward trajectory,” Fenton said. “Softball pitchers can make the ball travel up because it’s released from below the hip with a windmill action. It takes years to be great at either. Trying one when trained for the other would be the opposite of what muscle memory tells the brain.”

It seems clear that with adequate practice, MLB All-Stars like Pujols would eventually learn to hit pitches thrown by Finch and her teammates.

Nevertheless, the nuances that distinguish the game of softball from the game of baseball would lead to quite an interesting season should an MLB team put Finch on its roster.

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Stay stress-free during finals this semester

BY Bailey Bellavance

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College students are under a lot of stress, and the university knows it. That’s why the UA has various mental health resources for both students and staff.

According to Debra Cox-Howard, outreach coordinator for Counseling and Psych Services, the amount of students seeking help is rising and mental health services on campus are being utilized more than ever.

Whether it’s from word of mouth or from information provided at orientations and online, more students have been seeking help on campus. Cox-Howard says the increase may also be because there’s less of a negative stigma toward counseling and mental health issues, so students are more likely to seek help and universities are more likely to offer these services.

Catherine Shisslak, the director UA Psychology Behavioral Health Clinic, says that mental health deals with not just the mind, but also the body.

“Here we like to treat the whole person,” Shisslak said.

Seeking help is the first step, but a lifestyle change that incorporates exercise, better nutrition and sleep could help aid in mental health improvement, according to Shisslak.

As for students seeking help, Cox-Howard had this advice, “We’re here. Please don’t not come in because you don’t think your issue is important.

If it’s something that’s troubling or of concern to you, that makes it important.”

Here’s a list of resources if you need an extra helping hand during finals week: CAMPUS HEALTH’S COUNSELING AND PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES—520-621-3334 CAPS is likely the most prevalent of the university’s mental health services, with it being advertised at orientations and frequently on the UA Mall. CAPS provides a wide range of mental health services ranging from one-on-one therapy sessions, to medication management for all currently enrolled UA students. The clinic is staffed by licensed mental health clinicians including psychologists, psychiatrists and even a nurse practitioner. CAPS professionals can help with counseling that addresses any problem students might be having, including substance abuse, eating disorders, depression, anxiety and psychiatric medication. CAPS, a full service mental health care facility, specializes in short term care and can aid students with referrals based on their needs. Students looking for help can go to CAPS without an appointment for a triage session Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to help find the best course of action for further care.

UA PSYCHOLOGY’S BEHAVIOR HEALTH CLINIC—520-621-9683 UA’s Psychology clinic is the Psychology department’s own clinic, staffed by current clinical psychology graduate students who are well trained as part of their graduate studies.

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more long-term care and is open to the entire community. The Psychology Behavior Clinic holds appointments year-round, including the summer. It provides low cost therapy to individuals and couples typically ranging from five to fifteen sessions, depending on student needs. The clinic also deals heavily with patients who have physical and mental illnesses to help with body and mind. UA Psychology Behavioral Clinic deals with trauma, relationship issues, depression, anxiety, anger and any general issues a student may be dealing with. However, the Behavior Health Clinic does not offer 24-hour emergency services or medication management.

BANNER UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PAVILION—520-626-6254 The Behavioral Health Pavilion is located at Banner — Health University Medical Center South and offers emergency psychiatric care and has both inpatient and outpatient services.

The Behavioral Health Pavilion is open to the community and has an emergency 24-hour crisis line. The Pavilion, staffed by psychiatrists, social workers and nurses, uses a team approach tailored to patients’ needs and treats acute psychiatric conditions like depression, anxiety, withdrawn behavior and chemical dependence.

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Sessions are usually 90 minutes and meet weekly, depending on the group. A student can sign up for a group by calling CAPS or speaking with a CAPS provider.

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Tucson is truly the Dirty (S)T(D)

BY CALLIE KITTREDGE

Arizona Sonora News Service

Arizona needs to pull up its pants.

When it comes to the three most common sexually transmitted diseases in terms of bacterial infections (chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis), Arizona has two cities that stand out above the rest: Show Low and Tucson.

Situated on the Mogollon Rim in northern Arizona, Show Low is ranked No. 49 out of 100 for the most sexually-diseased cities in the United States, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2013.

Show Low is far removed from any major metropolis, about 175 miles northeast of Phoenix. The town has a population of around 10,730 people with over 1,110 recorded cases of STDs in 2013, with chlamydia No. 1 with 926 cases, according to the CDC. Such a concentration of disease in a rural population could be attributed to a number of factors, but dwindling financial resources from the state takes precedent over all.

“In Navajo County, we have traditionally high STD rates for the last several years due to lack of funding … funding that we could use for education and outreach to help reduce STDs,” said Janelle Linn, interim assistant director for the Navajo County Public Health Department. “In recent years, we’ve tried to increase testing efforts, trying to identify cases to get treated to stop spread, to identify more people in population.”

Within the last 18 months, the Navajo County Public Health Department implemented numerous education strategies to combat the high number of STDS: There is a family planning program with services that reach out to schools, targeting teens on the dangers of STDs and how to protect themselves, Linn said.

The health department also goes out to provider offices, educating them on the most recent testing recommendations so patients are treated properly and don’t develop drug resistance. Additionally, Linn said the department works with the Indian Health Service (Navajo Area) and local hospitals to develop an STD task force to deepen testing strategies and treatments.

“We have implemented an expedited partner therapy treatment program (EPT), so they don’t have to bring their partner [to the hospital], they can take the medicine home with them, as to reduce the risk of infection.”

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However, the biggest problem faced by the Navajo Health Department is lack of money. When it comes to small counties, funding tends to look at population instead of needs, Linn said.

There are other theories besides funding for the high number of STDs on the Navajo Reservation, such as the change in attitudes, said Dr. Sean Elliott, medical director for infection prevention at Banner — Health University Medical Center. For example, HIV/AIDS was considered a death sentence in the past, whereas now it’s a chronic illness that is treatable.

“That removes the fear of death and unleashes the barriers,” Elliott said. “Trends … of the population to participate in bisexual encounters and then hetero encounters after, and more unprotected sex.”

Another theory could be the presence of drugs on Navajo lands,

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Successful season chock full of nuts

BY Annie Dickman

Arizona Sonora News Service

It’s a good year for Arizona tree nut farmers.

Expectations for Arizona’s fall harvest have been high and it’s an “on year” for both pistachios and pecans at Cochise Groves and the Green Valley Pecan Co. Agriculture is a large boon to Arizona’s economy, especially in the fall. It’s a $17.1 billion business and has experienced 40 percent growth over the last 20 years, according to Julie Murphree, the director of communications for the Arizona Farm Bureau.

“Harvest time is fun time,” Murphree said.

In 2012 Arizona produced 20 million pounds of pecans with a value of $32 million, which is no chump change.

As for pistachios, their growth gives more than $15 million to Arizona and New Mexico with their major producer, California, raking in more than $1.16 billion according to the American Pistachio Growers.

In 2014 the United States exported $2.7 billion worth of tree nuts, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

That is up 20 percent compared to last year, according to a USDA report, and also sets a record for exports since 1970.

The amount of nuts being exported isn’t the only thing going up. From 2004-2014 the prices of pecans rose from $3 a pound to $5.40 and the prices for pistachios have jumped from $2.25 to $5.50 according to an article published by the Arizona Republic.

Pistachios Pistachio harvests in Arizona usually take place anywhere from late August to October. For Cochise Groves, the pistachio harvest started in August.

“It was a pretty good year,” said Jim Graham, owner of Cochise Groves. He and his wife, Ruth, have been harvesting pistachios in Arizona since 1998 when they took over the family business that Ruth’s father had started in 1980.

Exact numbers haven’t been calculated yet, but their harvest is thought to be a good one that exceeds expectations.

It was an “on” year for the 21,000 trees located on Cochise Groves’ 160 acres of land. Pistachio trees are a biennial bearer, meaning that they alternate between having a large or small crop every other year.

Next year will bring a smaller yield for Cochise Groves, but Graham accepts this as the norm.

Prices of pistachios have increased significantly over the past 10 years, Graham said.

However, Graham estimates that the cool down of China’s rapid growth might mean a plateau in pistachio prices.

The U.S. pistachio market is dominated by Californian growers, who grow approximately 99 percent of the U.S.’s pistachio yield. Arizona and other states like New Mexico trail behind, but the popularity of the nut has made it an

attractive choice to farmers.

The continuing drought in California has strongly affected this year’s crop yields with some Californian pistachio trees shooting “blanks.” Blanks are when the green meat of the pistachio doesn’t grow due to drought, lack of fertilization, unusual weather or other factors.

California has been hit by a triple whammy: drought, unusual weather and heat. During the winter pistachios need to reach cool temperatures, called chilling hours, to bloom properly.

But if temperatures don’t stoop low enough, the male trees and female trees don’t bloom at the same time. Many male trees then bloom late—too late to properly fertilize the female trees. This is something that has decreased the yield in some Californian farms coupled with the worsening drought.

In comparison, despite Arizona’s 21-year drought, pistachio tree farmers here are confident about their own futures.

This is partially due to many, like Cochise Groves, relying on pumping ground water. In the long run this isn’t completely sustainable due to shrinking ground water reserves, but so far it has served many farmers who don’t rely on the Colorado River well.

“It’s never easy,” Graham said. “There are always challenges, but we do it because we love it.”

Pecans The pecan harvest in Arizona usually takes place around mid-November but can take place anywhere from early November to January.

Annually states like Georgia, the U.S.’s top producer of pecans, stay near the top, but Arizona stays safely nestled in the top 5 depending on if it’s an on or off year.

Pecan trees, like pistachio trees, are biennial bearers and also have on or off years. This is an on year for the Green Valley Pecan Company, one of the biggest growers and processors of pecans. They also act as the biggest exporter of pecans to Europe.

“It’s looking pretty good,” said Rich Walden, the farm manager for Green Valley Pecan Company.

Pecan trees are sturdy and long-lasting, and are known to produce nuts for over 100 years according to Walden as long as they are taken care of.

“They do take some care,” he said.

One of the main downfalls of making a home here in Arizona would be water worries, but some pecan farmer have been able to avoid them.

The pecan trees at Green Valley Farms are mainly maintained through ground water and a combination of flood irrigation and a sprinkler system. The farm is lucky due to its location nestled in a valley, which helps provide the water that it needs.

“We don’t get as much rainfall, but generally we’re okay,” Walden said.

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Science • December 9, 2015

Killing cancer with computers

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Reading and Assembling Contextual and Holistic Mechanisms from Text is a UA project with the goal to speed up human comprehension of areas with large bodies of data in the context of cancer.

UA researchers are developing a program to read all of the scientific literature about cancer and come to new conclusions with the data

BY Alexandria Farrar The Daily Wildcat

As college students, the perils of over-reading are well known. The text is flowing by and you vaguely imagine that these shapes all mean something in some wonderful realm of well-rested alertness.

Too bad it’s 1 a.m. and you’re so focused on pushing through the pages of words that you’re not absorbing any of it. At this point, most people either fall asleep on their textbook or reiterate some version of the infamous “I wish I could just download this into my brain.”

Well, if you’re a cancer researcher, now you can. Rather, a computer can, and you get to edit the products.

Reading and Assembling Contextual and Holistic Mechanisms from Text is a UA project funded and proposed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The ultimate goal of the program is to scan a huge body of publicly available, peerreviewed scientific papers indexed

by PubMed, namely biological papers relating to cancer, and have the computer make inferences on its own.

Why aren’t humans enough?

There are two factors that lead to poor human comprehension of large bodies of knowledge. First, sheer human boredom in the face of a huge body of knowledge.

“I think since 2010, there are a million papers being generated [per] year,” said Clayton Morrison, associate professor at the UA School of Information. “For a human, that’s going to be incredibly boring.”

Not to mention impractical. Since most humans can only read widely in a specific area that they specialize in, researchers say a lot of experts in different cancer fields do not necessarily talk to each other, which is the other reason large bodies of knowledge aren’t comprehended.

“Although almost everything has been started to a certain degree, research doesn’t interact; … I’m the expert in this protein—we don’t talk to each other,” said Mihai Surdeanu, associate professor of computer science at the UA. “We develop drugs on our own. So the whole idea of this project was to provide a holistic understanding by reading all the publications that have been published on cancer research, and integrating all the paper[s] into a single picture of cancer.”

The ultimate goal of the program is to speed up human comprehension of areas with large bodies of data, as well as find causal chains that might be overlooked.

First, the program reads fragments of papers. Next, the plan is to assemble the fragments into a causal chain of protein signaling pathways that will help to detect the cancer. Hopefully, at least a few of these pathways will be unknown to researchers beforehand.

Or, perhaps other strange patterns will emerge giving hints about how cancer behaves.

One of the successes that REACH has already had in this department is resolving the problem of certain redundant signaling pathways.

For example, in one cancer patient, there may be a change to his or her DNA. In another cancer patient, there is another alteration but to a different area of the DNA that makes a different molecular machine.

These two gene alterations seem to never happen together; they are mutually exclusive.

The program was able to detect this because both pathways activate the same protein, rendering them redundant. Perhaps this result will

alert other researchers to similar issues as they continue to construct a holistic mechanism of the disease.

The ongoing usefulness of the program is always a concern.

Morrison is working with biologists Guang Yao and Ryan Gutenkunst, assistant professors of molecular and cellular biology at the UA. They are still tying to determine how clear the data is, which has been one of the challenges, according to Morrison. “[The biologist’s] job is to keep us honest,” Morrison said. “We’re actively trying to understand, as we’re building up these different levels, what are the additional kinds of [language] that we need to respect and how things get connected together and how they behave. And it’s very, very challenging.”

The enormous impact that this program may have for not only cancer but any large body of research is exciting, especially considering the success it’s already had.

“I’ve been in a lot of DARPA projects, this one has felt—to me— very productive in a way I haven’t seen in other projects,” Morrison said. “Again, why that is, [is] a combination of luck, having the right

people, timing, certain tools having been developed far enough that when you bring them together the sweet spot of enormous amounts of data are already together.”

What’s the biggest challenge?

Synthesizing the biological and computational, according to Surdeanu.

“It forced us to very, very quickly pick up stuff we didn’t know.

Instead of focusing on the trending models in machine learning, for example, ‘Stimulate the brain with big graphs of neurons,’ it forced us to focus on models that the biologists understand,” Surdeanu said. “It forced us to focus on machine learning that can service a bridge between these two different tribes.”

2016 will mark the second year for the project. Though REACH has a long way to go, it may bridge the gap between the literature and the lab and help scientists find new insights into treating cancer.

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Science • December 9, 2015

STD

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such as “meth and heroine and Epi injection, perhaps out of desperation or because it’s there, followed by high risk sexual practices,” Elliott said.

And it’s not just the Navajo Reservation in Arizona; American Indians and Alaska Natives are disproportionately affected by STDs throughout the U.S. as well. According to the Indian Health Surveillance Report in 2011, “reported rates of chlamydia, gonorrhea and P&S [primary and secondary syphilis] among AI/AN were 1.2 to 4.6 times higher than comparable to whites.”

Though Tucson is the second largest city in the state, it is the second most sexuallydiseased city in Arizona, beating out Phoenix.

Here, funding would seem to be available, as Tucson boasts a metropolitan population of over 1 million citizens.

In 2013, there were around 608 STD cases per 100,000 people in Tucson, according to the CDC. There is not a rational answer for why Tucson has such a high number, but Miguel Soto, HIV program coordinator for the Pima County Health Department, has some ideas.

“In terms of why … it’s a hard question to ask because when you look for it, you find it …

STDs are in every community,” Soto said. “It’s not so much on that we have more STDs, but that we test and see a lot more people.”

However, this year there has been a decrease in positive STD tests, and it could be because of education, Soto said. The Pima County Health Department’s STD program uses mobile outreach to target populations.

Workers use an education van to do free rapid HIV testing, blood draws, throat swabs, and urine collections—just about everything except a physical exam, Soto said. The van participates at venues and events such as gay bars, the UA, Second Saturdays in Downtown

Tucson, and Fourth Avenue. Additionally, the van has a program called “Testing After Dark,” where the mobile unit goes to specific populations, offering a secluded testing center for individuals who might not be as willing to go to a public facility.

The Pima County Outreach and Education Team also has a different mobile clinic that does high school testing for no charge.

“We don’t turn anyone away,” Soto said. “We park outside the venues, so if someone comes up and they are, for example, underage, they can get tested just by coming to the van.”

In terms of syphilis, there is good news.

Syphilis is on the rise on a national level.

In Pima County (whose number of cases hit a high of 104 in 2014, causing a public health alert, according to the Pima County Health Department) is beginning to see a decline in cases per sample size.

“Back in 2014 when we had that syphilis rise, it was mainly in the community with men who have sex with men,” said Azucena Huerta, communicable disease investigator for the Pima County Health Department. “We did a lot of ads and signs on bus stops, mobile outreach … more testing at the gay bars, and it has decreased 30 percent. We’re getting there.”

Arizona’s syphilis rate is going down compared to the national rates. From 20122014, there has been a steady increase of congenital syphilis cases, where a mother transmits the disease to baby during pregnancy, across the U.S. A recent report by the CDC said there were “11.6 cases per 100,000 live births in 2014, the highest congenital syphilis rate reported since 2001.”

There are solutions to reducing the high number of STDs in Arizona, they just take resources.

“Even if these [STDs] are treatable and survivable, there are other harmful long-term health affects,” Elliott said. “We just need to stop being so nice and show the need to use condoms.”

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Cultural appropriation concerns out of hand

by Justice Amarillas The Daily Wildcat

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oga classes have been long taught on university campuses as a way to help relieve stress and promote fitness. It’s completely insane for yoga to be labeled as cultural appropriation because institutionalized yoga classes are not designed to recontextualize Indian spiritual or religious beliefs in the western world.

The University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada has recently canceled its yoga classes because of concerns over cultural appropriation.

“I guess it was this cultural appropriation issue because yoga originally comes from India,” Jennifer Scharf, the university’s yoga instructor, said. She also offered to change the name of the course to “mindful stretching,”

since her instructions don’t address Hindu religious practices, but to no avail.

Claiming something as being an appropriation of culture without considering the degree to which it is causing harm to a culture is not acceptable. There are real problems in the world with cultural appropriation, but this claim only proves that the concept is still not fully understood and, therefore, we should not be so eager to label it as such without further investigation.

“We believe that teaching yoga to campus students and respecting yoga’s roots is not intrinsically in conflict,” said Hindu American Foundation co-founder Dr. Aseem Shukla.

“If a yoga teacher uses Sanskrit terms for asanas or if a teacher incorporates Hindu iconography as ‘cool’ accoutrements—all without a respectful understanding of their deep symbolism and meaning to Hindus— then we would agree with concerned students about the legitimate risks of exoticization and appropriation.”

This just isn’t the case on college campuses.

Taking a yoga class is meant to be a fun

and easy way to dedicate time to learning how to stretch, breathe and focus on mindbody interactions. These classes usually provide students with an escape or rejuvenation from busy schedules.

Students also participate in practicing yoga apart from official classes all around campus. They do it in their favorite places on campus, places that provide them a sense of peace. There’s no escaping the presence of the practice of yoga.

It is highly unlikely that someone will confront an individual student’s practice as cultural appropriation because you can’t assume the circumstances of their practice, so why would a group of students do the same for an organized class?

Let’s think about it this way: we accuse

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people of cultural appropriation all the time, usually for legitimate concerns, but that doesn’t mean we have the right to take away every single thing just because an activity has roots in a different culture.

We shouldn’t be quick to assume the worst in someone’s actions unless you’re a part of the culture that someone is appropriating and you find it offensive.

Only then should you address the concern, at least at an individual level.

Cultural appropriation will likely never cease to exist, but that doesn’t mean we should take the matter to this extreme.

We shouldn’t be quick to assume the worst in someone’s actions unless you’re a part of the culture that someone is appropriating and you find it offensive.”

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Eurocentric focus in classrooms a disservice

by Hailey Dickson The Daily Wildcat

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dds are, you’ve probably heard or seen the word “namaste”—likely in conjunction with Lululemon or a washed out Instagram filter—in the last few weeks. You may even have a friend with an “Om” tattoo on his or her ankle.

People find these words beautiful and exotic; but do you even know what they mean, let alone what language they are?

Hindi is the official language of India—the world’s second most populous country. India, with a population of 1.2 billion people, is expected to surpass China as the nation with the world’s largest population in the next seven years.

With 310 million native speakers, Hindi is the fourth most widely spoken language in the world behind

Mandarin, Spanish and English.

That figure doesn’t even include speakers of other Indic languages like Urdu—spoken in much of India and Pakistan—that are mutably intelligible with spoken Hindi.

Yet, despite its massive prevalence and rising global importance, the UA does not deem Hindi an important enough language to teach in a formal classroom setting.

The foreign languages formally offered by the UA include French, Italian, German, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese and American Sign Language. Sadly, nearly every one of these languages is of European origin.

While studying any foreign language is undeniably useful, such a Eurocentric focus only provides students with a narrow linguistic and cultural perspective of the world.

Aside from Spanish and Mandarin, Hindi surpasses every one of the offered UA languages in terms of number of speakers. In fact, Hindi is almost five times as widely spoken as Italian, one of the most “standard” classes taught at American

universities.

Sure, Hindi is offered as a part of UA’s Critical Language Program, which also teaches other lessertaught languages like Modern Greek, Korean, Polish and Vietnamese, among others.

The CLP is a great initiative to provide students the opportunity to study languages like Hindi, but sadly, its services don’t compare to those of established language departments.

I took two semesters of Hindi with the CLP and, though I was grateful to be introduced to the language, I found the program severely lacking.

First, course fees for CLP classes are hundreds of dollars per semester—far higher and more prohibitive than those of standard language courses.

Second, my class only met once per week, and usually let out early in under an hour. Such an environment is not conducive to language learning, as languages are best learnt with daily classroom exposure.

Lastly, we had no professor. My class was taught by a native-speaking graduate student, and our exams

established, professor-led and were taken via Skype with a professor permanent setting. at UCLA. If the second language While any of these issues were requirement is preferable to not meant to prepare being able to learn The students for the Hindi—or another university work force and critical language— teach them how at all, the lacking does its students to engage in structure, especially a disservice by global cultures, in comparison to that then Hindi of formal language only allowing should be at classes, impeded them to take the forefront of my ability to be a formal, professorlectures offered successful language at the UA. learner. taught courses in Students who One of the most mainly European learn Hindi unfortunate issues gain access to with the Hindi languages.” poetry, ancient program as it stands religious texts, is that, because there media and entry into some of the is no professor, the class is entirely largest business and tech markets in interest based—meaning that if too the world. UA students deserve those few students sign up, the program resources as well as the knowledge could cease to exist entirely. that Hindi is a vital language useful The university does its students a far beyond the yoga studio. disservice by only allowing them to take formal, professor-taught courses in mainly European languages. The — Follow Hailey Dickson UA needs to teach and encourage @_hailelujah the learning of Hindi in a better

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Climate conference finally promising legality of agreements between the countries in a smarter way compared to previous, ineffective years. Some of the goals set by the U.S. with other countries will be legally binding and others will not, according to the

BY Jessica Suriano Los Angeles Times.

The Daily Wildcat This will better serve the achievement of the conference’s objectives because if eaders and diplomats from around the our government was to support protocols world are meeting in Paris for the 2015 advocated by some of the European nations, U.N. Conference on Climate Change which encourages only legally-binding from Nov. 30 through Dec. 11. agreements, they would have to be approved According to the Los Angeles Times, by the U.S. Senate, and its approval during Laurent Fabius, the French foreign this time is not probable. minister, said 183 countries have submitted Without approval from the U.S. Senate, all proposals of intent to reduce greenhouse the time that was spent even coming to an gas emissions. These 183 countries account accord will have been in vain because any for approximately 95 percent of global plans of action would be obstructed. The emissions, making this year’s conference combination of both legally binding and nonthe most promising of its kind in terms of its legally binding accords should lead to faster probability of success. and more lucrative outcomes for the planet’s Some skepticism remains about the degree future health. of significance any resulting outcomes will Certain powerful gas and oil industries, make in the larger picture of climate change, such as Exxon Mobil, are also losing more however. and more influence over the public, which It has been widely agreed by makes them unable to continue to promote environmental scientists around the world misleading information that preventing the absolute about their contributions to worst consequences of climate change.

Even the climate change would only Because of this widening smallest be a reality if the temperature gap between the fossil fuel does not rise more than 2 preventative industry and the public, degrees Celsius from the precompanies such as Exxon measures are Industrial Revolution era, Mobil might be pressured encouraged at this according to Independent into rethinking their news. point, and whatever ecological responsibilities.

Unfortunately, the On the other hand, progress we can take proposals submitted by the engineers, scientists and right now will be 183 countries forecast a 2.7technologists have been 3.5 degree rise in temperature, better than none at working to make a healthier at best, according to the Los planet more affordable; they all.”

Angeles Times. have made it possible for Despite the dilemma the price of a solar panel to regarding the two-degree drop 80 percent in the last six years, according threshold, there still remains hope for this to Los Angeles Times. conference.

While the plans discussed at the climate For one, this will be the first occasion China conference only predict holding off the has joined the other countries in pledging to temperature rise to 2.7-3.5 degrees Celsius, meet reduced emission goals. With one of the it is still an improvement from the six-degree largest populations residing in this country, as rise the planet will be headed toward by well as being one of the most industrialized, the end of the century if no action is taken, the effects of China’s cooperation could add a according to Independent news. significant difference to the overall amount of Even the smallest preventative measures reduced emissions. are encouraged at this point, and whatever Another reason this conference has progress we can take right now will be better higher chances of success is because of than none at all. its timeliness. This conference will be The time has already come and passed commencing at the end of what is predicted for leaders to be able to put off the crisis of to be the hottest year in recorded history, climate change to a future agenda. according to the National Oceanic and Action must be taken immediately and Atmospheric Administration. this conference provides one of the best Presumably, the urgency that the issue opportunities to finally come to compromises of climate change poses to these gathering that will lead to global progress. leaders should force them to compromise on the allowance each country is granted for the — Follow Jessica Suriano remaining global emissions budget. @DailyWildcat This conference is also discussing the

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TUSD punished for not being white enough

by Ashleigh Horowitz The Daily Wildcat

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egregation is a word that should long be dead in American society, but in the Tucson Unified School District, claims of desegregation still float around and, in reality, it’s the district’s fault that schools are subsequently failing.

In 1974, minority parents sued TUSD on the grounds that the schools were segregated, according to Tucson News Now. The parents won, leading TUSD schools to be closely monitored by the courts for the next 40 years until, in 2013 a federal judge lifted the desegregation order, according to The New York Times.

The act of desegregation sounds like a cause anyone would want to rally in favor of—all kids deserve a chance to be educated fairly—but the court case filed against TUSD did more harm than good.

According to Tucson Weekly, as of October nearly five magnet schools in TUSD face losing their magnet status because of the desegregation case. In TUSD, 34,000 of

the 49,000 students that make up Tucson schools are African American and Latino, and because of this, magnet schools are at risk for losing funding since according to the court order they are not allowed to have more than 70 percent of any one ethnicity making up their student body.

Racism and segregation don’t have to strictly apply to just blacks or Latinos, but this is not an issue of white students being oppressed. Simply speaking, Tucson schools are being punished for not being white enough.

Even though the court case against TUSD happened over four decades ago, TUSD still continues to pay nearly $35,000 in legal fees per year straight out of budget since there is no money coming from grants or from Phoenix, according to Tucson News Now. It wasn’t until November that the district finally let taxpayers know that it has been paying about $4 million in court fees over the past few years.

The TUSD board hasn’t accommodated for the fact that the demographics of Tucson have drastically changed, and Arizona’s open-enrollment policies haven’t been helping.

According to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau, 41.6 percent of citizens in Tucson were Hispanic or Latino, 47.2 percent were white

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Parents see that Tucson schools are failing to successfully educate their students, so the families with money go somewhere else, leaving other families behind and making TUSD schools unable to meet the desegregation case’s demands.

The solution to TUSD’s problems is simple. Instead of punishing schools for their student body, the district should fund magnet schools regardless and focus on improving academics and teacher training.

These ideas are similar to the plan proposed by former TUSD teacher and board member Sylvia Campoy.

According to Tucson Weekly, Campoy is a representative for the Mendoza plaintiffs who’s plan was to promote integration, focus on closing the academic gap and for schools to be monitored to help them stay on track and achieve these goals.

So what have Campoy and other TUSD district officials done so far? Why, nothing of course.

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Ochoa parent Caesar Agurrie told the Arizona Republic, “I find that very disrespectful—that the people who are supposed to be representing us, who are supposed to be fighting for our kids, refuse to come down here and talk to us and listen to us.”

The fact that the TUSD board has been ignoring and pushing off parents and students for decades is beyond unacceptable. These kids never did anything wrong and deserve to be represented, taught and cared for. The desegregation case may have been justified in its time, but that time has long since passed and it’s time the TUSD board picks up its slack and starts tackling its problems. Magnet schools are successful and it would be a tragedy to see them shut down because they aren’t white enough.

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Food waste has massive impact on wallet, planet

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here are relatively harsh taboos against littering, wasting gasoline, not recycling and wasting electricity. But there is no major taboo against wasting food.

We are accustomed to taking more than we can eat and then casually scraping what we don’t eat into the trash can. So why is food waste “OK” when it is just as detrimental to the environment as littering and using fossil fuels?

According to the award-winning documentary “Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story,” Americans waste nearly 25 percent of the food we purchase in stores. That’s like going grocery shopping, walking out with four bags of food, dropping one in the parking lot and not bothering to pick it up.

Forget about the environmental impact for a minute—do you really want to waste so much money on food you end up throwing out? If we shopped more carefully and actually planned meals ahead of time, so as to only buy what we need, we could cut this exorbitant waste immensely.

Another thing that would help appease this problem is getting out of our cultural mindset of always needing to have extras.

Having just enough food at an event is seen as embarrassing or a mistake—that makes no sense. Having exactly enough food should be the ultimate goal.

The point of revolutionizing our food waste habits is not because “there are starving children in Africa who need that food”—according to Hans Rosling, the amount of people who are genuinely starving in the world is far less than we think it is—but rather, because it is simply immoral to waste such massive quantities of food.

Food waste is one of the highest contributors to landfills. Our landfills are overflowing and producing excess amounts of methane and other awful gases, and we are setting up future generations to have to deal with disaster on top of disaster, environmentally speaking.

“The issue of food waste has compounded over time. From the turn of the 20th century till now, we have experienced a paradigm shift in the way we view our trash,” said Corbett Landes, an environmental science graduate student. “In the early 20th century, few things were considered disposable.

Recycling was a profitable industry and discarding objects was considered heedless;

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Russia, Turkey need to beware of World War

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ompared to the devastation caused by the last two world wars, another of the same scale today would be exponentially worse because of the immense technological development in the last 70 years. That being said, will the world really fall into such chaos again?

Most major countries in the world are fighting the Islamic State that has been inflicting terrorist attacks on the world, and lately the term “World War III” has been trending. It’s been all over Twitter and was even mentioned by the Pope when he said the Paris attacks were a part of a “piecemeal third world war.”

We need to define what is meant by a world war. Do

strong sanctions on its trade with Turkey, banning many Turkish food imports and barring Russians from vacationing there, as Turkey was the top holiday spot for Russian tourists.

Russia also accused Turkey of having secret relations with IS and buying oil from IS, which Turkey denied, subsequently accusing Russia of slander.

Russia is preparing for nuclear war and Turkey is making threats as it has NATO — which includes some of the most powerful countries, such as the U.S. and U.K. — behind it.

we mean a war like the last two world wars—with strong industrialized nations fighting each other and wreaking havoc all over the world? That has been unlikely as many of the world’s biggest nations are allies or at least rely on each other for economic reasons.

While a number of countries fighting IS could be considered a world war in terms of the widespread global participants, it is hardly a world war as we see it.

Recent events, however, have once again stirred up fear of a real global conflict. In late November, Turkey shot down a Russian bomber that was flying in Turkish airspace near the Syrian border. Turkey claims to have warned the bomber several times, while Russia claims there was no warning. Turkey’s claims, however, were verified by the U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin responded in a national speech: “We’ll remind them again what they did—they will regret it.” Russia has imposed

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Launching a war of this scale would completely destroy cities and even countries. Russia has a nuclear bomb that could wipe out the entire state of New York, over a thousand times bigger than the one dropped in Hiroshima.

While the U.S. is in NATO, whether we will actually join Turkey in a war against Russia and risk our cities is uncertain.

Have we not learned from our history?

Binding alliances are what brought numerous large countries into conflicts they were not a part of and started the first two world wars. What will

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ISIS should be the enemy that everyone is fighting against, and breaking out in a war with Russia is just going to give them a better stage in which to inflict terror.

Neither Russia nor Turkey can gain from a nuclear war. They will both lose people, cities and trade. Countries in NATO that get involved could also suffer great losses.

Nuclear missiles would devastate the environment and may even cause the apocalypse we have always feared.

All of this destruction over one downed jet. Russia and Turkey need to get over their pissing match and realize that starting a world war isn’t going to solve their problems.

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Anderson and Ristic on center stage Miller is less than pleased with Dusan Ristic’s offensive output, so Ryan Anderson is on tap to see an increase in minutes at center until Tarczewski returns

BY Ezra Amacher The Daily Wildcat

As No. 13 Arizona men’s basketball prepares to take on Fresno State Wednesday evening in McKale Center, there’s one priority at the top of head coach Sean Miller’s to-do list: Figure out the situation at the center position.

With Kaleb Tarczewski out for at least a couple more weeks nursing a left foot injury, the Wildcats (71) will have to play through the rest of the non-conference season without their senior big man.

So far, that’s proved to be a challenge.

Dusan Ristic and Chance Comanche have had to fill in during Tarczewski’s absence, and Miller said on Monday that Ryan Anderson—who has been battling an ongoing ankle injury—will also see minutes at the five spot moving forward.

The responsibility to replace Tarczewski has primarily fallen upon Ristic over the last two weeks.

Ristic played 21 minutes in Arizona’s 68-63 defeat over Gonzaga, finishing with nine points and four rebounds. Miller criticized the 7-foot sophomore for repeatedly being out of place on the offensive side. “[Tarczewski] makes the game

easier for his four teammates because he’s in the right place every single possession on offense and defense,” Miller said. “[Ristic] is very rarely doing what we’re asking him to do on offense.

He’s kind of that Sesame Street character, one of these kids who’s doing his own thing.”

Miller specifically critiqued Ristic for missing screens and failing to post up down low. Those are the types of little mistakes, Miller said, that cost the team a few buckets over the course of a game.

Miller did commend Ristic’s defensive play against Gonzaga’s Domantas Sabonis, as well as his rebounding. Offense is the next step. “[Ristic] has really improved in some areas for us,” Miller said. “But we now need him in this last area to check out; he just needs more repetitions. My hope is that when you watch him on Wednesday, that he’s more efficient, more sure of himself.”

Comanche and Anderson, in the meantime, will continue to bite into Ristic’s playing time.

Miller said Anderson, like Ristic, needs more experience at the position. It hasn’t helped that the redshirt senior has been less than 100 percent the last few weeks after rolling his ankle in both of

Arizona’s games against Boise State. “[Anderson] played in the Gonzaga game having very little practice under his belt at [center],” Miller said. “My hope is that [he] can get a good stretch of health here. Now he’s going to be productive in the game and do all the little things to make his team better.”

Looking ahead to Fresno State (6-2), the Wildcats shouldn’t need to rely on post scoring too heavily against a relatively small Bulldogs team.

Torren Jones, a 6-foot-9 junior from Chandler, Arizona, is Fresno State’s biggest threat down low, as he is averaging a near doubledouble with 12 points and nine rebounds per game.

The Bulldogs’ backcourt is led by seniors Marvelle Harris and Cezar Guerrero. Harris is the team’s leading scorer with 19 points per game, while Guerrero is perhaps Fresno State’s best pure shooter at 48.3 percent from the field and 50 percent from beyond the arc.

Tipoff is slated for 7 p.m. and the game will be televised on Pac-12 Networks.

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Arizona forward Ryan Anderson (12) leaps for a dunk in McKale Center over Boise State on Thursday, Nov. 19. Anderson will begin to have a larger role in the five position in Kaleb Tarczewski’s abscence.

High-hitting offense hopes for 7-1 start

BY Ryan Kelapire The Daily Wildcat

The Arizona women’s basketball team, winner of four straight games, is set to host Louisiana Tech Thursday night in McKale Center. It is the Wildcats’ last game before heading to San Juan for the Puerto Rico Classic.

The Wildcats (6-1) are coming off a 69-56 home win against Pacific on Saturday.

“It feels great to be 6-1, 7-0 would be better, but 6-1 feels outstanding as well,”

Arizona head coach Niya Butts said. “We’ve been in some tight ballgames this year already and to stick together as a team and handle that adversity, … I can’t say enough about this team.”

Malena Washington led Arizona with 21 points off the bench after scoring 17 points the game before.

“She’s huge for us, coming off the bench and giving us instant offense as well as that spark and leadership on the floor,” Butts said.

Washington and company will try

to extend their winning streak against Louisiana Tech, a team with a coaching staff Butts knows well.

“I haven’t watched a whole lot of film on them yet, but they have some people on their staff that I’m very familiar with,” Butts said. “[Head coach] Tyler Summitt, [associate head coach] Mickie DeMoss and [assistant coach] Amber Smith, who I recruited at Kentucky as a player. So I’m [really] familiar with them and I have a good idea of what they’re going to try to do.“

Brandi Wingate leads Louisiana Tech (43) with 15 points and eight rebounds per game while shooting 57.1 percent from the field. Brooklyn Pumroy, who is shooting 37.3 percent from 3-point range, also leads the offense.

The Wildcats’ defense is holding opponents to a 34.8 field goal percentage, but Butts said she wasn’t happy with the way the team allowed Pacific’s Desire Finnie to score 18 points on just 11 shots.

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Wright, Parks headline renewed rivalry

BY Matt Wall

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cooby is back. You read that right, Scooby Wright III practiced for the first time Monday since being injured against UCLA earlier in the season.

Along with Wright, Anu Solomon and Samajie Grant—who both sustained concussions during the season—also practiced and are expected to play in Arizona’s bowl game.

Wright worked with his trainer around Thanksgiving and knew it was time to return. He even joked with the media about his comeback and his opponent in the bowl game.

“Just because I’m healthy, and football players play in football games,” Wright said after practice.

Wright, who totaled 163 tackles, 29 tackles for a loss, 14 sacks and six forced fumbles last season, was even asked about his status for

the NFL and his possible return to Arizona next season. His answer, although not surprising, showed how motivated he is to simply return to action.

“Just focus on the bowl game,” Wright said.

A rivalry renewed The Wildcats must now circle Dec. 19 on their calendars, as they have less than two weeks to prepare for the Gildan New Mexico Bowl where they will matchup against New Mexico.

Wildcat fans should know the Lobos well; Arizona and New Mexico have squared off 66 times before.

The first meeting between the two teams was in 1908. The rivalry even had a trophy from 1938 to 1990: the Kit Carson Rifle.

Although the rivalry cooled in 1990, the two teams share decades of history, with the Wildcats leading the series 43-20-3.

“We are looking forward to returning to the Gildan New Mexico Bowl, where we have great memories from a few years

ago,” Rodriguez said in a press release. “It’s especially important to our seniors who will now play in a bowl game for the fourth consecutive season. I know we’re ready to get to work and start preparing for a tough opponent in New Mexico.”

Tough is right. This Lobos team defeated Boise State earlier this season, an opponent the Wildcats know all too well from their Fiesta Bowl loss last season.

The Wildcats and Lobos have played two of the same teams this season in Nevada and ASU. The Lobos lost to both teams, while Arizona picked up one win and one loss.

Family reunion Although the upcoming game will mean a lot to every Arizona player and especially all the seniors, one player in particular will have a vested interest.

Arizona safety Will Parks will have the opportunity to square up against his brother, New Mexico sophomore receiver Delane HartJohnson.

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“[I’ve played] against [HartJohnson] in rumble football in the middle of the street, but other than that, it’s go time,” Parks said at Arizona’s football banquet earlier this week. “I told him to practice hard and make sure he made his A-game, because I’m not going to let up on him.”

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Tigers lead the way to epic playoff

BY NOAH SONNET

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The final rankings of the College Football Playoff are in and we are all set for the semifinals on New Year’s Eve. No. 1 ACC champion Clemson will square off against Big 12 champion Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, while SEC champion Alabama will face Big Ten champion Michigan State in the Cotton Bowl.

The final ranking was really no surprise.

The committee, unlike last year, did an outstanding job of picking the correct teams to get into the playoff without much controversy at all, but let’s look deep into some of championship week’s best highlights.

Houston, the new Boise State?

A rule that came with the new playoff is that the highest ranked team outside of the Power Five conferences—Pac-12 Conference, Big 12, SEC, ACC and Big Ten—gets to play in one of the New Year’s Six bowl games.

We saw Boise State come out of the Mountain West last year and beat Arizona to win the Fiesta Bowl. Houston will be the team taking part in a big bowl this year.

The AAC champions outlasted Temple

on Saturday 24-13 to set up a showdown against Florida State in the Peach Bowl in what will be a tough test.

But the Cougars deserve all the credit in the world for getting this far. Will they be able to take down the Power Five juggernaut in Florida State like Boise State was able to do to Arizona last year, though?

the Rose Bowl to square off with Big Ten runner up Iowa.

Stanford head coach David Shaw deserves to be recognized for leading the program to multiple conference titles in his first five seasons at the helm.

In a conference so deep and even with its teams, that’s something amazing to accomplish.

The McCaffrey Effect Stanford won the Pac-12 Football Championship Game for the third time in four years to continue the Cardinal’s dominance.

The Pac-12 Conference champion was provided a tough game against USC Saturday, but powered through and pulled away 41-22, led by Heisman hopeful running back Christian McCaffrey.

McCaffrey broke Barry Sanders’ single season all-purpose yards record by racking up 207 yards on the ground, 105 receiving yards, 149 return yards and even throwing an 11-yard touchdown in the Cardinal’s championship victory.

McCaffrey finished the season with 3,496 all-purpose yards, surpassing Sanders’ 3,250 mark set in 1988.

The Cardinal barely missed out on the College Football Playoff, but will head to

Setting the pace While the committee got the playoffs right this year, it’s tough to determine what team really stands out among the top four.

Look at Oklahoma, which has been given a great matchup against Clemson in a game where we should see a lot of offense and many lead chances.

Yet, think about how either of those teams might fair against Michigan State or Alabama, whose defenses are among the best in the country. Both the Spartans and Crimson Tide, however, have less than outstanding offenses.

Expect the second College Football Playoff to set the standard for years to come.

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Embrace the Rich Rod roller coaster Rich Rodriguez has led Arizona football out of the depths and welcomed his role in a basketball-first school.

It’s time to be thankful for it

BY Kyle Hansen

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ildcat fans should be overjoyed with the news that head coach Rich Rodriguez will still be donning the block “A” next season. In fact, had he even decided to leave Tucson, fans shouldn’t have seen him go with a bitter taste in their mouths.

The fourth-year Wildcats head coach deserves thanks and praise, and another season with him at the helm of Arizona football should be welcomed with open arms.

Think about the coaching career Rodriguez has had.

After having been the head coach at huge football programs like West Virginia and Michigan, can you blame him for taking a look into the SEC and South Carolina? He would have been thrust back into the biggest college football scene in the country.

The Pac-12 Conference has some great football, but it doesn’t compete with the SEC, and Arizona will forever and always be a basketball-first school.

That being said, what Rodriguez has done in his four years at Arizona has been nothing short of impressive.

He has compiled a career record of 32-20 (.615) while at Arizona and has beaten a top-10 team each year with wins over No. 10 USC in 2012, No. 5 Oregon in 2013, No. 2 Oregon on the road in 2014 and No. 10 Utah this season.

The latest upset victory over Utah sent Rodriguez to his fourth straight bowl game, something that had never been done in Arizona history.

He won the Pac-12 South title last season, clinching it with a thrilling home victory in the Territorial Cup over ASU. While achieving big upsets each season, Rodriguez has seen his fair share of struggles. He is 1-3 against rival ASU, as well as USC, while also failing to beat UCLA

through his first four seasons at the Wildcats’ helm.

However, Rodriguez has found success at a school that is not known for its college football. He has to compete with the likes of ASU, UCLA, USC, Oregon and even some Texas schools when it comes to recruiting.

These other schools have programs that are more established and have found more success than Arizona over the years. Rodriguez’s ability to find players like Defensive Player of the Year Scooby Wright III, All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention Anu Solomon and Arizona’s freshman rushing record holder Nick Wilson, have helped steer this program to be relevant on a grander stage than in the past.

This season undoubtedly fell short of expectations. At 6-6, the Wildcats had a complete reversal from the previous year. But not all of this is Rodriguez’s fault, as injuries were the story of the season. A healthy Wildcat team might have performed better, but the rest is history.

And even so, this season had plenty of excitement to cheer for—see Jerrard Randall, Brandon Dawkins against ASU, a 77-point performance against NAU, a College GameDay appearance and another top-10 upset.

So while it may feel like Rodriguez “betrayed” Arizona fans by exploring another position, we can’t blame him for looking. With the success he has recently brought to this school and program, he’s earned his shot at another chance with a bigger program—at least the chance to explore one.

So don’t feel too bitter toward the soon-to-be fifth-year head coach; he’s done some great things with this program. Enjoy the fact Arizona gets to keep him for another season and embrace the craziness that comes with it. Who knows what type of team we will see next year, but with Rodriguez leading the charge, anything is possible.

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Pac-12 Hoops Power Rankings

BY IVAN LEONARD The Daily Wildcat

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Arizona — The Wildcats beat Gonzaga in another thriller in which they trailed by as many as 14. The Gabe York roller coaster started with a failed dunk attempt, but ended with four straight second-half 3-pointers and the game-sealing assist. Whatever you do as an opponent, don’t let Gabe find his

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Oregon — The Ducks lost to UNLV on Friday, so I finally had the validation I needed to put Arizona back on top of the Pac. Barring another setback, though, UNLV should be the Ducks’ lone loss heading into their matchup at Utah on Jan. 14.

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Utah — The Utes, led by Jakob Poeltl’s 21 points and nine rebounds per game, have returned to the top-25 party. Their stay could be short-lived again, however, as they face Wichita State Saturday with Fred VanVleet returning before heading to Madison Square Garden to face Duke next week.

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UCLA — After losing on back-toback days during Thanksgiving break, the Bruins pulled a massive upset against then No. 1 Kentucky. The Bruins became the first team since Florida in 2014 to defeat the Wildcats during the regular season and will look for an encore Saturday against Gonzaga.

Washington State — Arizona defeated Gonzaga just three days after Washington State had lost an intense battle to the Bulldogs.

The Cougars should win their next three—Idaho, UTEP and Texas State—before they tangle with Oklahoma on Dec. 22.

ASU — The Sun Devils defeated then-No. 18 Texas A&M to pick up an early key resume win for their NIT run. Their reward is a Kentucky squad ticked off from its first nontournament loss since March of 2014.

California — The trendy pick to win the Pac-12 this year might not even be the best team in its state after UCLA’s big win. The season is still young, so there is still a chance for Cal to make some noise out West, but the Golden Bears need to gather some momentum before heading into conference play.

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USC — While their crosstown rivals defeated the top-ranked team by 10 points, the Trojans beat UC Santa Barbara by a slightly larger margin at 12. The Trojans can beat up on more subpar opponents before losing to any team that poses a threat, just like their football team.

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Oregon State — The Beavers face a big test Saturday as they take on No. 2 Kansas. The Jayhawks narrowly defeated Harvard last week, so the Beavers have a chance. But keep in mind, Kansas’ lone loss came to new No. 1 Michigan State.

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Washington — The Huskies are sitting at 5-2 and face a seemingly easy schedule until the next calendar year. Andrew Andrews is continuing his quiet Player of the Year campaign as he hopes to help the Huskies make some noise in the Pac-12.

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Mining, Geological & Geophysical Engineering Briana Anderson (M.Eng.)

Environmental Engineering Rebecca Grace Copp Norma Nohemi Villagomez-Marquez Mojtaba Azadi Aghdam Bingcong Zhang

Mechanical Engineering

Jeffrey Cornoyer (M.Eng.) Jonathan Dufek (M.Eng.)

Systems Engineering Febisola Mojisola Akin-Deko Sara Minaeian

David Akins

Special Recognition of the Graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Aerospace Engineering Ruben C. Adkins-Rieck Youra Jun

Biomedical Engineering

Colorado — With their seventh win of the season Sunday, the Buffs’ basketball team has already eclipsed the football team’s win total the past two seasons combined (six). The Buffaloes’ schedule is relatively weak until Pac-12 play rolls around, so look for them to add to their early win total.

Outstanding Graduate Students

Alexan Issac Gomez Elliot J. Montes Amy Vaughn

Biosystems Engineering Todd L. Crouthamel Elizabeth De Vogelaere Kody Huey

Chemical Engineering Jorge Diez

Civil Engineering Isaac Hamilton-Josiah Gilles Christopher Bryan Gin Steven Gomez Kevin Mark Kent Jared Padayao Polk Ernnon Quanah Nawar Kareem Raies Jose Gerardo Ramirez

Electrical & Computer Engineering Kymberly Diane Beeston Jason Christopher Blomquist Cody A. Briner Andrew Byron

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Materials Science & Engineering

Chris N. Carry Moslin A. Cruz-Castellanos Tembong Fotabong Fonji Aaron Grabowski LaRay Graner His-En Hong Peter A. Lankisch Christopher Bradley McIntyre Sergio Esai Mendez Norman J Miller III Steven Jay Monroe Alex Edward Moser Nicholas Albert Paco Zachary D. Petruska Robert W Ramos Jesus Alfredo Sanchez Christopher Scott Sanford Shien Hong Matthew Calvin Watson Tai Xu Jue Zhang

Asher D. Fishgold Lynn Q. Nguyen Meera Saeed Alshehhi

Industrial Engineering Connor Edward Shea

Mechanical Engineering Abdulaziz M Th A Alameeri Lyndsay L. Batman Colin D. Bell Brent Anderson Carper Christopher M Drawert Oscar Escarcega Matthew Groff Harrison Hans Herzog Youra Jun Weston J. Keller Francisco Jose Luttmann Mackenzie Emerson Maddock Michel Eleazar Mora Vianre A. Nocos Ashley Ann O’Neal Nichole Ortiz Connor Frederick Owen Alexander Porter Liliana Saldana

Mechanical Engineering Ariel Jason Schwartz Gregory L Stanford Toshifumi Tanabe Jeffrey C. Williams Hong Zhang Vincent Hunt Patrick Mitchell Mirna Vega

Mining Engineering Kyle D. Cramer Caitlin E. Hale Jared Ritter Judd Adrian D. Patterson Richard A. Richards Samantha Montecinos

Optical Sciences & Engineering Ryota Kimura

Systems Engineering Alec Byron Dollarhide II Brent Allen Johnson Travis Everett Kibler Bryan Austin Krause Christian Daniel Magallanes Eric Robert Moser Note: This list does not include students who applied for graduation late or who were updated from a previous term.

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Women’s hoops from page 27

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING

FALL 2015 FSO GRADUATES!

to find the same type of success in the paint that Finnie had.

The Wildcats, on the other hand, will look to continue to shoot the ball well. They shot 6-for-13 from behind the arc against Pacific and the team has made a staggering 47.7 percent of its 3-point attempts this season.

Guards Washington and Taryn Griffey are the team’s main sharpshooters, shooting 41 and 50 percent from 3, respectively.

Perimeter shooting has certainly been Arizona’s strength, but defending the 3-ball is one of Louisiana Tech’s strengths, holding opponents to just 26.4 percent from 3-point land.

The Wildcats have had trouble getting baskets in the paint this season and they’re actually shooting a better percentage from beyond the arc than they are from the field.

Plus, their free throw shooting has left a lot to be desired, as they’re hitting just 56.2 percent from the charity stripe.

If Louisiana Tech can slow Arizona’s perimeter game, it may have the upper hand. If not, the Wildcats will have a great chance of picking up their seventh win of the season.

Tipoff is at 7 p.m. in McKale Center with a live stream on Arizona Athletics.

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Arizona guard Farrin Bell (20) prepares to execute a play in McKale Center against Pacific on Saturday, Dec. 5.

The Wildcats potent offense will look to keep things rolling against Louisiana Tech.

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STUDENTS Erin McGuinness

BS Business Administration Business Economics FSO Investments Office

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Robert Biggs

BS Business Administration Accounting FSO Financial Management

CONGRATULATIONS DECEMBER 2015 GRADUATES OF THE

COLLEGES OF LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCE Bachelor of General Studies Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies Bachelor of Science in Global Studies Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies Wishing our graduates all the best in their future goals and endeavors!

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