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Despite the UA Health Network’s attempts to make its campuses a tobacco-free zone, smoke breaks may not be over just yet.

On Jan. 1, the network implemented a new policy that prohibits the use of tobacco both inside and outside its facilities, including the University of Arizona Medical Center-University

Campus, South Campus and affiliated clinics.

“Everything is going really well,” said John Marques, vice president and chief human resources officer for the network. “We have had a good response from our staff and there has only been a few situations when people visiting the center were found smoking and told about the new policy.”

The ban is in place to prevent

patients at a medical facility from being exposed to secondhand smoke, and also to encourage smokers to make better health decisions, Marques said.

On top of the policy, the center has also created a campaign to help employees, family members and friends quit smoking. The Quit and Win Tobacco Free Living Program developed by the Department of Family and Community Medicine

is one of the options created to help people quit.

“We have had a number of people enroll in this program, and that is really going well,” Marques said. “So I think, all in all, we are getting the response we were looking for.”

However, while the university campus medical center is a tobaccofree zone, the Arizona Health

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Complex surgical robots manually controlled by surgeons are used for heart surgery and various other procedures at the University of Arizona Medical Center.

Robotics provide surgical aid UMC uses machines to improve operations, train new surgeons

By Stephanie Zawada DAILY WILDCAT Like the iPhone, the UA’s surgical robot machine just “gets better with time,” said Dr. Carlos Galvani.

According to Galvani, an associate professor of surgery and director of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery at the University of Arizona Medical Center, the newest da Vinci Surgical System robotic machine

offers more for surgeons and surgical residents than earlier version did. The first and second generation of the robot came to the College of Medicine in 2004 and 2007. The newest debuted last year.

The third-generation machine provides a better HD image, is slimmer and has two surgical consoles, which allows for two surgeons to actively participate in a surgery.

“People compare this a lot to a flight simulator,” Galvani said, where surgeons can “take it over at any time.” When a new surgeon is still undergoing surgical training, the third-generation da Vinci machine

provides instructors with the ability to step in and correct any technical errors that might have occurred.

“You actually have the power to take it away from the trainee,” Galvani said. All this is possible, he said, “with just the press of a button.”

Although the machine has played a role in training new surgeons, that isn’t the main goal, according to Galvani.

“It’s not only a teaching machine,” he said. “That’s not the message we want to give. Our goal is to perform better surgeries for patients.”

In offering surgeons the opportunity to employ cutting-edge

technology, the da Vinci machine is not restricted to a specific specialty.

“This is a multi-specialty program,” Galvani said. “Almost every procedure that can be done with this robot can be done at the university.”

Galvani said that, for example, a heart surgeon used to have to break a patient’s chest open in order to perform surgery. With da Vinci, he said, “Now you don’t have to do that. You can do it with a small incision.”

Despite the fact that robotic machines like da Vinci make surgery more efficient, robotics have not

Members of the ASUA Student Health Advocacy program introduced doctors, nurses, paramedics and friends of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords to students, faculty and Tucson residents to explain what happened during the critical hours after the Jan. 8, 2011, shooting.

Speakers included Brad Bradley, battalion chief of Emergency Medical Services; Dr. Randall Friese, associate professor of surgery; Katie Riley, director of Corporate Communications and Media Relations for the Arizona Health Sciences Network and Dr. Andreas Theodorou, professor of pediatrics and chief medical officer for the University of Arizona Medical Center.

Bradley used a PowerPoint presentation to explain the timeline of events that happened on Jan. 8, 2011.

At 10:10 a.m. the call was made to 911, explaining the congresswoman had been shot. Four minutes later, Bradley was the first responder to get to the Safeway parking lot where the shooting took place.

“I arrived on the scene and immediately made sure that the suspect was in custody,” he said. “Once that was made sure, our biggest problem was establishing who was injured and who wasn’t.”

Bradley said the suspect fired 32 rounds of bullets in 19 seconds, hitting someone with each round. It was faster to use ground support than a helicopter to get to the scene, he said, and by 11:04 a.m., the last patient had arrived in the trauma bay.

“Our world was a mess after 52 minutes, but I am thankful that we established all the injured and transferred them to the bay within the firsthour period,” Bradley added.

Dr. Katherine Hiller, an associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, was on call in the department when the emergency room was initially notified of the incident. The first victim was 9-year-old Christina Taylor-Green, who was in critical condition.

“My first initial thoughts were to do CPR on her to get her stabilized, and at the same time, I was thinking, ‘This is not good.’”

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Roby, ‘true pioneer’ in women’s sports and UA alumna, dies at 85

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Mary Roby, a pioneer of UA women’s athletics, died Monday in Tucson at the age of 85. The cause of death was not released.

“Dr. Roby’s work has huge historical significance,” athletic director Greg Byrne said in a statement. “We look back to a number of visionaries and people behind the success of University of Arizona athletics, and none have had a more dramatic impact than Mary.”

Roby was inducted into the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics Hall of Fame in 1995, six years after she retired from the UA. She worked at the UA for three decades, in what is considered one of the most important periods in the growth of college sports.

She began her time at the UA as an undergraduate, then as a professor in exercise and sports sciences, coach and administrator in Arizona’s women’s athletics. She worked in athletics from the time the program was only club sports to when Arizona became a prominent Division I sports program.

Arizona’s budget for women’s sports grew from $8,000 at the time of her hiring to more than six figures during her 30-year career.

“Mary was one of the true pioneers in the growth of women’s athletics,” said Rocky LaRose, deputy athletic director, in a press release. “Her leadership and advocacy has led to thousands of sport opportunities for young girls and women, not just at Arizona but across the nation. Her pride and joy, though, was the UA program. The foundation she laid has led this program to the great successes we enjoy today.”

Roby was born in Miami, Ariz., in 1926 and became a student at the UA in 1944, earning a bachelor’s degree in 1948. She also earned a master’s degree from Smith College in 1949 and a doctorate from the University of Southern California in 1971. Her long association with the school as a faculty member began in 1959.

Over the course of Roby’s career at the UA, she accomplished much, especially in the area of women’s athletics.

She directed the UA Women’s Recreation Association, served as women’s athletic director, had a hand in creating most UA women’s athletic programs, was one of the first women named to the NACDA’s Executive Committee and to the board of the United States Sports Academy. She also was vice president of the Pac-10 Conference and was a founder and board member of the Council of Collegiate Women

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Mary Roby, an inductee of various athletic halls of fame, died Tuesday at the age of 85. In her time at the UA, she was a student, professor, director of UA Women’s Recreation Association and women’s athletic director.

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Other hall of fame inductions in Roby’s career included the UA’s Mortar Board Hall of Fame in 1981, the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 and the NACDA Hall of Fame in 1995.

In recent years, as a member of the Arizona Sports Hall of Fame selection committee, she remained an active member of UA athletics.

In 2006, donations by Laurel L. Wilkening and Fred Roby made it possible to honor Mary Roby in the Women’s Plaza of Honor on the UA campus. As a part of the donation, she was given a gateway entry and two arches with seating, along with a leaf tile.

Roby is survived by her husband, Fred Roby, a retired UA professor emeritus.

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Ariz. has new jobs for Study: Diabetes a first time in four years hindrance to sleep

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Arizona is once again in the green after four consecutive years of dwindling employment numbers.

Total nonfarming employment increased by 37,500 jobs in 2011, according to a Jan. 19 Arizona Department of Administration Workforce Employment Report.

The largest employment gains were in the education and health services sector. In addition, there were substantial employment increases in leisure and hospitality, financial activities, construction and the professional business services sectors. The number of government employees, and the arts, entertainment and recreation sector were two areas that saw little to no growth.

Eileen McGarry, director for UA Career Services, said the university is seeing indicators of economic recovery that mirror the report’s results. She said Career Services currently has 80 employers scheduled to interview students on campus this semester alone, about a 20-percent increase over last year.

“Since 2007, like many campuses, we had a significant drop-off in employers coming to the university,” she said. “We have had to work real aggressively to rebuild some relationships and are working with new employers. We are starting to see results.”

McGarry said Career Services has expanded its pursuit of

potential employers from out of state. She said Career Services also recently hired a full-time employee to work with recruiters in the Phoenix metro area.

Brionna Rogers, a political science senior, is one of four student ambassadors Career Services hired in the fall to hunt down potential employers in new and emerging industries.

“We look into what is new in the market in terms of technology, nonprofits, etc. and we try to convince these companies to hire recent and current graduates,” she said. “We are trying to be innovative. I’ve been told several times by employers they have never heard of a university that sends students to do outreach and they are impressed.”

Despite, 2011’s positive numbers, experts warn that the job market is still as competitive as ever.

“We have to get away from the idea that a university degree guarantees one’s financial security,” said James McBrearty, an associate professor of economics. “A university degree can be a ticket for the good life, but you have to have marketable skills that employers want.”

McGarry said students should start working early, their freshman year if possible, on building practical work experience regardless of their area of focus. “Our philosophy is to focus on individual students and their unique skill sets, values, interests and work

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from there,” she said.

She added that students should take employment numbers and forecasts with a grain of salt. Just because a certain market sector is down now, she said, does not mean that will be the case four or five years down the road.

“When the Web industry tanked in the early 2000s, there was a drop in students pursuing a degree in computer sciences,” she said. “Now we are seeing a shortage of people with the skills to work in that area.”

She used Geico as an example of a growing company and an engaged recruiter that is looking for students with a broad skill set.

“A lot of recruiters are looking at the overall package instead of focusing specifically on a student’s major,” she said. “About 25 percent of recruiters that come through and interview say they are looking at liberal arts majors and other non-technical disciplines for positions outside of their major.”

McGarry said Career Services has seen an increase in the number of students seeking help and looking into potential internships. For students who graduate and find themselves unemployed, Career Services offers counseling and assistance up to six months after graduation.

“Start early,” she said. “I know a lot of times, freshman year is one of adjusting, but those students who are on top of their game stand out even more so now.”

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Children with diabetes may struggle more in school than children without diabetes because of differences in their sleep, according to UA researchers.

Researchers monitored the glucose levels and sleep patterns of 50 diabetic children, and found that patients with Type 1 diabetes spend about 5 percent less time in deep sleep than people without diabetes.

Michelle Perfect, an assistant professor of disability and psychoeducational studies at the College of Education, said that after comparing results from the sleep monitor, the research team obtained school records to determine how diabetes and sleep were affecting the children’s school performance. They found a definite connection between quality of rest and academic struggling.

“One way to help improve school performance is to improve sleep,” Perfect said. “Hopefully, if we teach the children strategies to have better sleep habits, they will be able to have more consistent sleep.”

Although the study did not look at why diabetic children spend less time in deep sleep, Perfect said she had a few theories.

“Hypothetically, I think one reason could be that in deep sleep you have different neurotransmitters that are released, and those help balance glucose in the body,” she said.

Perfect also said that these children could have trouble falling into deep sleep if they are woken up nightly because of glucose checks.

Dr. Priti Patel, assistant professor of pediatrics, helped recruit patients for the study. Patel said her focus was more on the glucose levels and fluctuation during sleep and exercise.

“Though our research teams had differences in focus, the clinical team was interested in any revelations of glucose trends related to hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, during sleep and during activities,” she said. “We were able to come together to gain insight to the psychological aspects of school function and glucose control, and gain insight into the child’s experience with diabetes as a whole.”

Dr. Mark Wheeler, associate professor of pediatrics and endocrinology section chief at the College of Medicine’s Angel Clinic, provided resources to the clinic, including glucose monitors.

“There is so much complexity in diabetic care and in other chronic health issues that it is difficult for one person to be able to answer all of the research questions that need to be addressed,” Wheeler said.

“Before I met Dr. Perfect, I hadn’t thought about the sleep aspect in Type 1 diabetes care. With her expertise in sleep and education, and our expertise in the clinical management of diabetes, we were able to broach a research component that we wouldn’t have done on our own.”

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Arizona pools will be tested as part of a study, conducted with the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, to re-assess what quantity of pool chemicals is harmful.

the water,” said Monique Trejo, a preelementary education freshman and an active swimmer. “I’m usually in the water for about an hour, and if it’s not chlorinated enough or too much I could get sick, or anyone can get sick.”

Researchers will try to find the right balance to control the bacteria, without adding too much chlorine, since people can have adverse respiratory

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A study conducted with the Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will help develop questions to improve current methods for assessing swimmers’ exposures to harmful microbes and chemicals in swimming pools.

Kelly Reynolds, an associate professor in the College of Public Health, is leading the study after receiving a $65,459 grant from the National Swimming Pool Foundation last October to help improve current swimming pool testing methods through the development of new questionnaires for researchers.

“We’re basically developing a survey that can be used both in advance in monitoring how the pools are doing, as well as in response to an outbreak that has been identified,” said Kacey Ernst, an assistant professor in the college and a collaborator on the study.

Current surveys do not focus on certain factors such as the amount of time spent in the water, the amount of water ingested or how chemicals

are mixed, Reynolds said. To remedy this, Reynolds will administer questionnaires to pool users and operators in order to create an improved survey.

“Part of the study is improving the current questionnaire that the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) uses during outbreaks to evaluate swimmers’ exposure and part of it is validating what we find in the observational assessment,” Reynolds said.

Although there are no established sites yet, water testing will begin in the summer and will focus on public pools in Tucson. Because Arizona has the most swimming pools per capita in the nation, the study will especially benefit the state, Reynolds said.

“There shouldn’t be a worry in a properly maintained pool, but what we’re finding is that a lot of pool operators, because they’re worried about bacteria, are overdosing the chlorine,” Reynolds said. “With mass amounts of chlorine you (swimmers) can experience skin, eye and respiratory tract irritations due to chemical exposures.”

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At the Student Recreation Center’s pool, lifeguards check the chlorine levels every hour and add tablets to the main pump that filters out to the entire pool, said Brandon Recker, a Rec Center lifeguard and a senior studying public management and policy.

Not only do lifeguards check the pool water to ensure it is safe, but maintenance also checks the chemical content of the water throughout the day, Recker said. The Rec Center has not been contacted about possible testing, but there is an interest in testing its pool water, Reynolds said.

The yearlong study will try to develop an understanding of how much of each chemical needs to be added to balance controlling microbes with minimizing health effects, especially with over-chlorination, Reynolds said.

“I think (water testing) is an important topic, especially living in Arizona,” said Mari Hanchar, a family studies junior and a swimmer at the Rec Center. “A lot of people come here to swim and I think it’s important that it’s safe for everybody.”

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ustin Clark Moody is the seminal eccentric. He’s rounded the musical bases of indie pop, pirate folklore, and alternative country, finally settling into an act that is both worldly and traditional. The Balcony Scene, Moody’s solo act moniker, lies somewhere between Ryan Adams’ twang and Nick Drake’s melancholy while adopting the modesty of Owen, Mike Kinsella’s solo effort. His most recent collection of songs could go hand in hand with a tall whiskey in a dark country bar, mourning over love lost. It’s a sound that is years beyond Moody’s age.

“When it comes to my sound, I have mixed emotions,” Moody said. “Sometimes I want to be really folk, sometimes I want an alternative country feel — it depends on the day. I feel I do a good job at both, so I like to combine the genres together.”

This willingness to alter the classic formula of both country and folk is what makes Moody’s artistry sound remarkable, given that’s he’s only 19.

He possesses the self-awareness that is necessary for the formation of a classic folk song, yet with a modern twist similar to David Bazan. While Moody’s work is that of a songwriter, he is also a multiinstrumentalist in the vein of Kinsella, allowing him a sense of musicianship that few possess. This affinity is what allows him to coordinate each instrument in an arrangement with ease.

Moody’s eclectic variations on Americana are the result of an upbringing rife with mindful, classic music.

“Both of my parents really shaped my taste,” Moody said. “My father listened to Willie Nelson and Johnny Cash, while my

mother really loved The Beatles.”

The instrumental hooks he writes into songs like “The Sun Will Rise” can be attributed to these strong pop bases of his youth.

His muses are different from typical folk themes of death and misery, instead leaning toward emotive storytelling and introspection. Although songs like “Oh The Distance …”, may paint Moody as a man plagued with immense emotional pain, he says his inspiration is much milder than that.

“Most of the music I write is fictional. I get the emotions from things happening in my life, so in a lot of ways it is really personal, but I usually write about people I know,” he said. “I like to use other people as a cameo.”

The Balcony Scene demos, rough as they may be, already hint at an evolution of a sound that will suit Moody through the life experiences he will collect, while retaining a youthful point of view. In this craft of music, it’s important for a musician to stay relevant to his listeners, and it seems that Moody understands that.

“I feel that my music will change with however I change,” he said. “But I don’t see myself changing anytime soon.”

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At 19 years old, Justin Clark Moody makes up the heart and soul of The Balcony Scene, a solo act based in Prescott, Ariz. Moody’s debut album will be released in mid-April.

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they got a response from gamers and Pandaren ended up being included in “Warcraft III’s” expansion, “The Frozen Throne.”

Their limited role seemed to be fine, but now gamers seem Jason Krell concerned or upset over their Daily Wildcat addition to the massively multiplayer online role playing released “Diablo III.” Plain and lizzcon is one of the most game that is “WoW.” simple, it’s not smart to make popular gaming events As a final note, Blizzard actually gamers wait that long anymore, of the year, arguably looks to be doing a great job with and Blizzard knows it. Blizzard second only to the Electronic them — namely in the fact that understands that today’s gamers Entertainment Expo. Last Pandaren choose their faction are a fickle bunch compared to Wednesday, however, Blizzard (the “good” Alliance or the “evil” their 20th-century equivalents.

Entertainment announced that it Horde) at level 10, something is canceling its yearly showcase of What’s more, Blizzard set the that is exclusive to them. Not bar pretty high with “Wings of up-and-coming games and new only is that cool from a gameplay Liberty.” In order to release a content for 2012. Now it’s time to perspective, but it’s brilliant riot, right? Wrong, actually — this quality game on time, it needed to from a story standpoint. Now, was about as savvy as a move that take a break from Blizzcon. hopefully, players will pay far To up the stakes even more, the greater attention to the story their Blizzard could have made. game deals primarily with one of It’s odd to admit, but the character follows instead of just the favorite races in the StarCraft decision to cancel was genius. skipping over their occasionally universe, the monstrous, alien, Just look at what projects the long and dry quest descriptions. all-consuming Zerg. If Blizzard company has been working on That kind of story-based doesn’t come out with exciting and innovation is needed now more and how hugely important they balanced new units along with a are: “Diablo III,” “StarCraft II: than ever thanks to the wide compelling story, it’ll have a very Heart of the Swarm” and the appeal and general success of disappointed fan base. Again, newest “World of Warcraft” BioWare’s “Star Wars: The Old doesn’t look like a problem, but expansion, “Mists of Pandaria.”

Republic” and its fully voiced, Blizzard isn’t taking any chances.

Those are three critical games interactive quests.

Now it’s time for the awkward all set to come out reasonably More than anything, despite soon, or at least soon enough that elephant in the room — “Mists of all the good this choice will do Pandaria.” The tricky thing about they warrant special attention. for these three games, it’s just this particular expansion is that, Plus, with Blizzard’s tendency nice to see Blizzard take a step aside from one thing, it looks to be back and say, “Showing off to take forever to release games, a hands-down fantastic addition it’s nice to see it focus on what’s isn’t as important as the games to the “World of Warcraft” important: development. themselves.” universe. Not much is known After all, fans of the “Diablo” So many games look great about it now, but one exciting bit franchise expect the next when advertised but are horrible of released news is the addition installment to be good, and when released. In today’s age, of a new class: the monk, which Blizzard needs it to be good to developers have grown to enjoy will use “chi” based abilities to give the game staying power. showboating more than crafting either tank, deal high amounts of games worthy of said antics. If the From what has been released damage per second or heal. This about it so far, it doesn’t look developer had spent less money is going to be a blast. The jury is anything like a flop, but Blizzard advertising and more on the still out on the focal point of the has to ensure that’s not the case. game, it probably would have sold expansion: the introduction of Then take a look at “Heart better. Merit wins out over a high Pandaren as a playable race. of the Swarm” — it’s a similar volume of advertisement any day.

As their name might suggest, situation. The time between they’re basically giant pandas.

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“One day, Mikey, you’re going to stick your dick in the wrong door and somebody’s going to slam it.”

So reads the puzzlingly serious script for “Man On A Ledge,” a film so absurdly unaware of its own ridiculousness that it borders on being an unintentional masterpiece. Unfortunately, director Asger Leth’s debut thriller isn’t enjoyable enough to hit that mark, leaving us with a film that can only be described as one part drinking-game funny and two parts maddeningly inept.

The premise is interesting enough: Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington, sporting an accent that fluctuates comically from shot to shot) is a fugitive on the run, wrongfully accused of stealing a precious diamond from an evil rich guy (Ed Harris). Desperate to prove his innocence, he climbs onto — you guessed it — a ledge, grabbing the attention of the media and effectively distracting the police while his brother steals the real diamond from the rich guy’s building. Elizabeth Banks plays the uncharacteristically hot negotiator appointed to talk him down, a task she’ll only accomplish if she can figure out his true motive and help him clear his name.

Sounds fun, right? Well, it would be, if the film had any clue what kind of tone it was going for.

Instead, “Man On A Ledge” runs like a bad joke, playing things serious when they’re obviously absurd and shooting for laughs when the narrative clearly calls for suspense. The result is a very boring film, lifelessly performed and laugh-out-loud funny in every place it doesn’t mean to be.

Take, for instance, the heist itself: Cassidy’s brother and his brother’s girlfriend, neither of whom has ever done anything illegal, break into the rich tycoon’s building carrying fire extinguishers, explosives, wet suits, bedsheets, a skateboard, 10 or so digital cameras, an infrared fingerprint monitor and a coffee thermos filled with liquid nitrogen. And all

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of this, mind you, they’ve fit into two regular-sized backpacks.

I’m sorry, but … what?

The problem, of course, is that all of this is played with stone-faced seriousness. Worthington and Banks scowl at each other amid lengthy exposition (“You’re Lydia Mercer, the woman who failed to stop a guy from jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge and now has an alcohol problem because blah blah blah blah”), while the rest of the characters run around panicking about vague emergencies that for whatever reason are left entirely unexplained.

Had “Man On A Ledge” opted to acknowledge its silliness from the start, the plot’s inevitable spiral out of the logical stratosphere would be far less painful to watch. But by the time the “twist” ending was revealed, the groans in my theater were echoing out of the building and across the street.

All in all, this isn’t a malicious film, just a confused one.

As far as drinkinggame movies go, it might not be as effective as, let’s say, last year’s “Green Lantern,” but it’s definitely the most unintentionally funny film of 2012 so far. Whether or not that’s a good thing will be up to whoever sees it.

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Twitter: Avoid your #mom Ashley T. Powell Daily Wildcat

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ashtags on Twitter can be used for more than just funny commentary. Now there is a hashtag that will put helicopter parents’ minds at ease.

Non-Twitter users may be confused about the hashtag phenomenon, but it is basically a way to tag an idea or concept, which followers can click to find tweets about the same subject.

For example, “Just read Police Beat, I’m pretty sure I’m the lead story. #awkward.” Followers can click on the hashtag and find stories about awkward moments. However, the new “#mom” serves a more functional purpose.

Twitter reported there were 200 million tweets and 600,000 sign-ups per day in 2011. Somewhere in that mix are students just like us, who find ourselves remembering to update a Facebook status or tweet before we even remember to do homework.

But some parents are frustrated by their children, who can remember to check in on FourSquare but forget to check in with Mom and Dad. Some parents, or moms specifically, worry when their children forget to call as soon as they get home or into town.

That can all change with #mom.

The service, available at www.hashtagmom.com, is connected to your FourSquare account, which is linked to Twitter.

When you check in on FourSquare with a message like, “Just landed at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport,” just add #mom. The service then forwards the update to your mom’s cellphone via text message, or calls her with a recorded message to tell her that you have landed safely. Nothing could be better than social networking while maintaining your position as No. 1 son or daughter.

Students immerse themselves every day on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and other sites, and every day students forget to call their mom or dad for the fifth time. Or parents would like to think they forget to call, rather than intentionally refusing in order to avoid that lengthy conversation. This is a convenient and faster way of communication for protective and worrying parents.

Of course there are those students who might worry about this forwarded message allowing Mom access to their Twitter accounts. Quite frankly, future employers can already look up potential employees’ Twitter accounts, so whatever might ruin a child-parent relationship probably should not be posted anyway. When we start censoring what we put out there on the Internet, there will be no need to worry about this new hashtag.

Besides, let’s be honest — how many parents actually know how to use Twitter? #Mom is a great way to keep parents informed when busy students forget to.

— Ashley T. Powell is a journalism sophomore. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

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UA, colleges must teach critical thinking skills T

o the students who emphasize partying more than studying, spend lectures on Facebook and simply go through the motions when it comes to the academic life, you might want to reconsider your priorities before it’s too late.

A recent study titled, “Documenting Uncertain Times: Postgraduate Transitions of the Academically Adrift Cohort,” by Richard Arum, a professor of sociology and education at New York University, found that college graduates who scored in the bottom 20th percentile on a critical thinking test were three times more likely to be unemployed straight out of college than the test’s top 20 percent.

The low scorers were also twice as likely to live with their parents and much more prone to severe credit card debt. And these are just a few of the study’s unnerving correlations.

Basically, students who didn’t apply themselves, challenge themselves or take advantage of their expensive educations are now suffering because of it.

While going out and experiencing

between graduates from highly selective institutions, like Stanford University, and students from less selective institutions, like the UA. The UA has been nationally recognized in certain areas of study, Kelly Hultgren but it’s also notorious for letting Daily Wildcat just about anyone in. If the school doesn’t set high standards for itself, then its students might not either. the college social life is important As for the professors, a captivating and sometimes mandatory after a week’s worth of studying and stress, and thought-provoking lecture doesn’t consist of reading verbatim it shouldn’t be the foundation for your critical thinking. Where you’re from a PowerPoint presentation, and then posting the PowerPoint going tonight, who you’re going online. The professors who let with, what you’re wearing, who’s buying and all of the other questions students roam Facebook, skip lecture, turn in late assignments regarding imminent drunken adventures should be afterthoughts and do the bare minimum, are just facilitating students’ lack of critical — as in thoughts after your studies. thinking.

But it’s not Make just students. It’s Simply having a degree students get easy to throw involved all of the lazy, is not going to get in lecture, underachieving someone very far these make them students under the days. Students need be discuss, and bus, but it’s also make them to be at least proficient, unfair. Universities apply their and professors if not the best, at what readings and should also be held they do in order to get what they’re accountable for the job. learning. students’ mediocre Make them critical thinking not want to abilities. think about their nightly escapades.

The critical thinking test, more Unfortunately many UA classes are formally known as the Collegiate simply too large to get students that Learning Assessment, was involved. It’s unreasonable to think distributed to about 1,000 students one professor can hold an intimate across 29 colleges and universities. class discussion with 1,000 students.

The results also found the above According to the UA Factbook, disparities were more evident

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Affirmative action boils down to reverse racism. And while some can make the argument that it counteracts the racism or hardships Arizona state legislator Ron Gould encountered in the lives of is renewing his push to see guns on minorities, everyone knows you can’t Arizona university campuses. His fight fire with fire. The quote you latest guns-on-campus bill would used from Chief Justice John Roberts force universities to allow permitted Jr. summed it up well, basically guns on campus against the wishes saying that if people want racism of the students who would be put at to end then they should stop being risk, and it would have universities racist. There’s a reason employers provide a lockbox — a sort of “gun aren’t allowed to ask about religion locker” — in each building for in the application process: it should students to store their guns while not play a factor in the hiring they are in class. process. The same is true with race We all support the Second and colleges. Race should not be a Amendment, but Gould’s bill is factor in the acceptance process so wrongheaded for two reasons. First, — David Francis it shouldn’t even be asked. If it’s for he’s putting the emotional well-being UA alumnus studies or demographic purposes of the UA, Arizona State University it can be asked once the student is and Northern Arizona University In response to the Jan. 31 column accepted or denied. Are we 5 years students at risk. Gould and his old? If someone hits you, you don’t titled, “Affirmative action doesn’t constituents may not realize it, but hit back to make it “even.” the thought of fellow students toting help”: Dear Daily Wildcat, pistols down the UA Mall is likely to — Connor Young Lauren Shores’ “Affirmative scare the wits out of those students aerospace engineering sophomore action doesn’t help” was spot on. who choose not to bring weapons to a place of higher education.

Second, Gould’s bill is sure to drive prospective students away from Arizona universities. Despite the fact the UA is a truly fantastic place to get an education, fewer students are going to want to go to school at a place where students have things called “gun lockers” and tote deadly weapons around campus for no good reason.

Kudos to Gov. Brewer for vetoing this bill last year, and here’s hoping she stands up for universities again if the Legislature passes this second iteration.

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In response to the Jan. 30 column titled, “Keep the babies close, the contraceptives closer” : Hooray to Megan Hurley for promoting the smart use of birth control! While not all students are sexually active, it’s important for those who are “getting busy” with an opposite sex partner to always use reliable birth control and/or condoms. Abstinence is a great and healthy option for those who truly abstain. However, we know that 70 percent of UA students report having had vaginal intercourse at least once in their lives, according to the 2011 Health & Wellness Survey. And once is all it takes to make a baby.

The author points out that the U.S. has the highest teen pregnancy rate of most industrialized countries. According to Advocates for Youth, the U.S. teen pregnancy rate is almost three times that of Germany and France, and more than four times that of the

in 2010 there were 31,957 undergraduate applications, and 23,134 students were admitted.

That means that around 72 percent of the people who applied were accepted. But were they prepared? Just because applicants meet the low standards of acceptance, can the school actually provide them with a quality education at that scale?

It’s nice that the UA offers an education to thousands of people. However, at what point does this generosity begin to hinder the actual education of the students? Simply having a degree is not going to get someone very far these days.

Students need be to be at least proficient, if not the best, at what they do in order to get the job.

Even though students are primarily responsible for their decisions, the university and its professors play major roles in their outcome.

College should prepare students not only for the job market, but also for life. Spoon-feeding information to students, never requiring them to do any critical thinking, and then throwing them into the world is like throwing a kitten into the lion’s den.

— Kelly Hultgren is a junior studying journalism and communication. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

Netherlands. Why? Our society is not as open to discussion of sex and our governmental and school policies don’t always support access to information or services.

Americans often choose not to talk about sexual health education and contraception even though rates of sexual activity remain high.

Young people are “doing it.” So, let’s talk about it! Students and staff are invited to a free movie titled, “Let’s Talk About Sex” on Feb. 7 from 6 p.m.-7:30pm at the Gallagher Theater in the Student Union Memorial Center. The movie takes a provocative, sensual and humorous look at sex education in the U.S. and Europe. It’s one of the many fun and free SexTalk Week events at the UA. — Lee Ann Hamilton, assistant director Carrie Hardesty, health educator UA Campus Health Service

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Police Beat

By Elliot P. Hopper Daily Wildcat

Pee patrol

University of Arizona Police Department officers on patrol at 2:30 a.m. on Sunday noticed a male student standing close to the wall of the Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage. He was holding his groin with both hands and standing with his legs apart, with one slightly lifted. He had his head down, and officers could tell he was watching a trail of his urine travel down the wall. Officers flashed the patrol car’s lights, and the man quickly zipped up his pants and buckled his belt. Officers asked him to stop and turn around. He told them he was of age and that he had consumed “a drink or two” earlier that night. In response, an officer said, “You may be of age but it does not give you the right to urinate in public.” He was cited for criminal littering, then he left to urinate elsewhere.

Sent to time out

UAPD responded to a call on Saturday at 7 a.m. made by ESPN security, who said two heavily intoxicated male students were trying to be distracting during ESPN College GameDay filming. When officers arrived, they told the students to go home, sleep off the alcohol and not come back for the remainder of the day or they would be cited for criminal trespassing.

They were escorted out of the building and police left the scene.

Twenty minutes later, UAPD received another phone call of the same two students attempting to flash the ESPN viewers and run around the stadium. Police were able to detain them, and the students were cited for criminal trespassing.

Fight for the 40

A UAPD officer was patrolling campus on Saturday evening at 4:20 p.m. when he noticed a student walking with a brown paper bag, occasionally bringing it to his mouth. The officer asked him what was in the brown paper bag, and the student responded, “A 40.” He took the bottle out of the bag, and the officer saw that it was nearly empty. He asked how much the student had been drinking. The student said it was his first drink of the day. The officer cited him for drinking in public, emptied the bottle and told the student to go home.

Drove hammered, got nailed

A female student was arrested and cited for littering in public, extreme DUI, failure to maintain control and failure to possess insurance on Sunday morning at 3:30 a.m. UAPD officers pulled her over at the corner of the North Norris Avenue and East Sixth Street for throwing cigarettes out of her car’s window.

The first thing she said to officers was, “Sorry, I will pick it up.”

As the woman tried to get out of the car, officers thought her breath smelled strongly of alcohol and ordered her to stay in the car. They asked her how much she had to drink, and she said she had only had a little. They then asked for her identification.

Officers performed a breath analysis, which showed she was over the legal limit to drive. She was arrested and cited.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports. A complete list of UAPD activity can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.

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Campus Events

The 10th Biennial Toward a Science of Consciousness April 9-14, 2012 Tucson, Arizona. Known for rigorous and leading edge approaches to all aspects of the study of conscious experience, TSC includes neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, philosophy, neurobiology, medicine, quantum physics and cosmology as well as art, mind technology and experiential and contemplative approaches. TSC is the largest interdisciplinary gathering probing fundamental questions related to conscious experience. An estimated 500 scientists, philosophers, psychologists, experientialists, artists and students from over 60 countries are due to take part. An annual TSC is held overseas in cooperation with partner organizations and institutions - cities included: Stockholm, Hong Kong, Salzburg, Budapest, Tokyo, Naples, Elsinore. REGISTRATION: Early registration by Feb 15 www.consciousness. arizona.edu/

Talk - ‘Osteoporosis: You and Your Bones’ The importance of protecting and strengthening our bones as we age – and how to do it – will be discussed in “Osteoporosis: You and Your Bones,”

by Kristi Cristello. Cristello will offer suggestions to optimize bone health and will discuss the critical importance of weight-bearing exercise and being active throughout life. She also will discuss ways that even the most moderate levels of exercise can benefit bone health. Seating is limited and prior registration is requested. For more information or to register, contact the University of Arizona Arthritis Center, 626-5040, or email livinghealthy@arthritis. arizona.edu. University of Arizona Medical Center.

Room: Chase Bank Auditorium. Wednesday, February 1, 2012 from 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Wildcat Calendar Campus Events

‘Lost Illusions: On Poetry, Translation and Literary Publishing’ Talk by Jeffrey Yang This event is co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies. Jeffrey Yang, who has worked as an editor for New Directions Publishing for 11 years, talks about his experiences editing, producing and promoting and the translation trade. Poetry Center, Wednesday, February 1, 2012 at 7 p.m.

“Mapping Arizona: From Mexican Territory to U.S. State” (exhibit) This is new exhibit on display in the UA Main Library from Jan. 6 – March 28, 2012, details the path Arizona took to become a state – first as part of the Territory of New Mexico, then as the Territory of Arizona, finally attaining statehood in 1912. In addition to an array of historical maps, “Mapping Arizona” also includes books and unique documents selected from Special Collections extensive holdings.

These additional materials offer insight into the stories that accompany the lines, boundaries, and borders within the maps. UA Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd.

Statistics Colloquium Food webs, phylogeny, social networks and statistics: What is the common thread? Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. Medical Research Building, Room: 102

Free Tai Chi Class As part of the Tucson Holistic Healing Initiative for Nurses, the College of Nursing is hosting free Tai Chi classes, taught by Edna Silva, throughout the month of February.

Classes are limited to 30 participants on a firstcome, first-served basis. College of Nursing, room: 117. Wednesday, February 1, 2012 from 5:15 p.m.

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Campus Events

Ansel Adams: The View from Here Perhaps no photographer’s work has enjoyed such popularity as Ansel Adams’s awe-inspiring views of the natural world. His early trips to the Yosemite wilderness in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s informed the stylistic approach that made him famous. These treks included not only the physical activities of hiking, camping, and mountain climbing, but also social, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual elements. With forty photographs and supporting documents from the Ansel Adams Archive, Ansel Adams: The View from Here explores the relationship between Adams’s magical photographs of the American landscape - both its panoramic vistas and its intimate details - and how he came to understand the importance of his natural environment. Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm, Saturday & Sunday, 1pm – 4pm through March 4th at The Center for Creative Photography: 1030 North Olive Road.

Science, Technology & Art: A SISTA Exhibition The School of Information: Science, Technology & Arts (SISTA) is pleased to announce our first exhibition to be held in the University of Arizona Student Union Gallery, running from January 17th to February 9th. Admission is free and open to the public. This juried exhibition includes work

by UA faculty, staff, and students who are blurring the lines between art, research, technology, and science. Information about SISTA can be found at http://sista.arizona.edu or by e-mailing info@ sista.arizona.edu. Union Gallery Hours: Monday Wednesday and Friday: 12pm - 6pm, Thursdays: 12pm - 8pm

Tucson

58th Annual Tucson Gem and Mineral Shows For two weeks every winter, the world meets in Tucson as it becomes a bustling, international marketplace of buyers and sellers at the Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase. The “Gem Show” is much more than a single event at one location. Rather, there are thousands of participants and attendees at more than 40 sites around town. Dozens of shows take place at the same time - in giant white tents, at hotels and resorts and at exhibit halls. There’s something for everyone at the many open-to-the-public shows - from gold and diamonds to granite bookends and glass beads, and from fine specimens of dinosaur fossils to opals dug from the Australian Outback. View the following web page for specific dates, times, and locations of the Tucson gem and mineral shows:http://tucsongemandmineralshows. net/2012-tucson-gem-show.htm. January 28th through Febraury 12th, 2012.

ATC Presents Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The 39 Steps’ Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have … Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. A mind-blowing cast of four actors play over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure.

Broadway’s most intriguing, most riotous, most unmissable Tony-winning comedy smash proves that anything the movies can do, the theatre can do more hilariously! January 14, 2012 - February 04, 2012. Times vary. Arizona Theatre Company presents at Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Church Ave. Phone: 520-622-2823

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NCAAB Illinois 42, No. 10 Michigan State 41

No. 1 Kentucky 69, Tennessee 44

Forward to seek 5th season of eligibility

No. 20 Wisconsin 52, Penn State 46

Correction An article on Monday incorrectly stated that last season was the first time that the softball team failed to reach the Women’s College World Series in 24 years. Arizona did not reach the WCWS in 2004. Last season was the first time a Mike Candrea-coached team failed to reach the WCWS since 1987. Candrea coached the U.S. National Team in the 2004 Olympics, and did not coach Arizona in 2004.

By Mike Schmitz Daily Wildcat After fracturing a bone in his right foot against Washington on Saturday, Kevin Parrom will be out for three months and will undergo surgery in the next couple of weeks, said UA head men’s basketball coach Sean Miller.

The junior guard won’t return to the floor until May, which will force him out of Arizona’s individual workouts in April. Parrom won’t travel to Cal and Stanford this weekend due to the swelling in his foot.

Although Parrom is ineligible to redshirt this season because he’s played more than 30 percent of the games on UA’s schedule, Miller said Arizona will petition for the 22-year-old to receive an extra year of eligibility.

Although Miller hasn’t yet talked to UA compliance director Bill Morgan, he said he feels that with Parrom’s hardships and good academic standing, along with the 14 games he missed his freshman season, Parrom “can be a candidate for that fifth year.”

“I think just to represent Kevin and his family in the right proper terms, that’s something that we’ll try to help him get,” Miller said.

Miller and Arizona spokesman Rich Paige confirmed that the process wouldn’t begin until this summer at the earliest. A final decision may not be reached until the end of next season.

Regardless of when the decision is made, Miller and Parrom’s teammates said they feel they owe it to their junior forward to try and win him a fifth year of eligibility.

That task won’t be easy, however, as defying the NCAA’s redshirt rules is almost unprecedented. Even though Arizona really only had the Parrom of old for four games this season, as Miller said, the 30 percent rule is fairly set in stone.

Even with the 14 contests Parrom missed as a freshman, he still played nearly 50 percent of the regular season games that season.

But with Parrom it’s not all about the games he’s missed, but rather the loss of his mother and grandmother, along with the Sept. 24, 2011, shooting injury he suffered while visiting

Angelo Chol Forward

Kyryl Natyazhko Center

Brendon Lavender Guard

Who needs to step up with Parrom out Junior’s season-ending foot injury opens a door for three of Arizona’s bench players

By Mike Schmitz

Colin Darland / Daily Wildcat

Injured forward Kevin Parrom will try to get a fifth year of NCAA eligibility.

his home in New York City.

Parrom has stayed positive in the public, constantly tweeting to his fans not to worry about him, he’ll be fine and ready for next year. But Miller made it clear that those 140 characters aren’t how Parrom’s feeling behind closed doors. Few athletes, or people for that matter, have gone through what Parrom’s gone through

in such a short period of time.

“He’s had immense struggles, like any young person who would deal with just a single episode of their life,” Miller said. “When you have the complete circumstances that have affected Kevin, it’s hard to believe. A family generally doesn’t go through that, let alone one person at the age of 22 years old.”

Daily Wildcat It’s no secret that with Kevin Parrom out for the year, the Arizona men’s basketball team loses size, versatility, scoring, rebounding, playmaking and every major skill that makes up a well-rounded player.

But even Bugs Bunny’s special juice in “Space Jam” couldn’t cure Parrom’s broken foot, meaning a few Wildcats need to elevate their play in Parrom’s absence.

“When you lose Kevin, just do the math,” said head coach Sean Miller.

“Someone’s going to have to play a bigger role.”

Miller said those players will most likely come from Arizona’s frontcourt reserves, as Parrom had been backing up Solomon Hill at the power forward spot.

Parrom also played quite a bit of small forward as well, opening the door for the Wildcats’ guards and swingmen to step up.

Here are three guys who Miller said should see an increase in minutes and have an opportunity to help

fill the void left by Parrom:

Angelo Chol

Whether it’s been by way of a monster block or an and-1 off of the dribble from the 3-point line, Angelo Chol has shown flashes of greatness at times this season.

Unfortunately for Arizona, his inexperience, lack of confidence and inability to stay tough on the boards has limited him to a minimal role this season.

That’s all about to change. With Parrom playing the backup four, starting center Jesse Perry will now back up Hill at the power forward spot, giving Chol more time at the five position.

“He’s had good moments,” Miller said. “He’ll be given a good opportunity here down the stretch and hopefully he can take advantage of it.”

Hill said he talked to Chol about stepping up in Parrom’s absence, and described how the freshman gives Arizona a more traditional

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Baseball kicks off new Lack of confidence holding back ’Cats era with first practice commentary

When Arizona gets down, it’s not out of line to feel bad for the Wildcats. Shots don’t go in or a turnover is committed and it Cameron becomes an easy bucket for the opposition, leading to a forced Moon deep ball that may or may not go Daily Wildcat in, starting the cycle again.

The current four-game losing rizona women’s basketball streak certainly doesn’t help, nor head coach Niya Butts and do this week’s opponents — Cal the rest of the coaching on Thursday night, and fourthstaff has tried to diagnose the ranked Stanford on Saturday problem with the Wildcats in their afternoon. Both games will be current conference rut — one played at home, which Butts has that’s seen them go 2-7 in their said helps her team. last nine outings.

“We’re ready to play in front of She’s talked about reboundour home fans, hopefully get some ing, shot selection, defense and good vibes from them and do what energy, all things that can drive we need to do,” Butts said. any coach mad if they are not That’s a nice sentiment, but in place. Despite that, as far as I what’s going to happen when know, there’s one thing that has the best offensive rebounding not been discussed. It only takes team in the Pac-12 begins to one trip to McKale Center to see muscle the Wildcats out of the what the problem is with the paint? What happens if Arizona’s team: confidence. leading scorer, Whyte, misses Watch a Los Angeles Lakers, her first three shots, pulls a Dallas Mavericks or Oklahoma LeBron, and chooses to defer all City Thunder game when you game? get a chance. What you’re lookAddressing that specifically, ing for is the way Kobe Bryant, Butts said the team will just have Dirk Nowitzki, and Kevin Durant to keep pushing regardless. react when they miss shots.

“We just have to be physical They keep shooting. They hustle and push back, or hit first,” Butts down the court to get stops and said. “We have to continue to maybe get another attempt at keep them encouraged. Encourthe previous shot. All three play- age them to take those shots, but ers have a “killer instinct” that also making sure that we’re doing can’t be coached or taught. things offensively to get that The Wildcats do not have such confidence.” an instinct.

If Arizona doesn’t get out of When Arizona wins, it finds the mental rut it’s in, it could ways to win big in many different be a long rest of the season for fashions. There have been game- the Wildcats. They’re halfway winning shots, like sophomore through conference play and Erica Barnes’ against Oregon playtime is over.

State. There has been high scoring, like when the Wildcats — Cameron Moon is a journaltopped the 80-point mark in wins ism junior. He can be reached at against BYU-Hawaii, Georgia sports@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Southern, Syracuse, New Mexico Twitter via @WildcatSports.

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By Dan Kohler Daily Wildcat

As Opening Day 2012 inches closer and closer, it’s business time for head coach Andy Lopez and the Arizona baseball team. The first item on the agenda is official preseason practice, which starts this afternoon.

“We’ve been working in skill hours and they’ve been doing some things on their own,” Lopez said. “Today is just kind of that initial day when it’s time to get things going.”

Last Friday, the Wildcats were named the No. 20 team in the country by the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’ poll and the country’s No. 5 team by Baseball America.

Regardless of the rankings, which Lopez has said he won’t bring up with his squad, the focus of official practice will be to get the team up to par for the regular season. “(We’re focused on getting) them ready, and when I say that I’m not talking about the upperclassmen, but I’m talking about (some of the younger guys),” Lopez said. “Riley Moore, who will be catching for us, Matt Troupe and Lucas Long who could be pitching for us early in the season as freshmen. Really it’s the new guys, getting them ready for the speed of Division I baseball.”

Although getting new players up to speed sounds like a trivial thing, it’s the hardest part of the preseason for the coaching staff. Lopez said the only way for younger players to adjust is simply by playing in the regular season.

“They’re going to have to get their feet wet,” he said. “Then they’re going to have to submerge and figure out how to swim at this level.”

It’s not an easy transition, and Lopez has seen it every season since he started coaching 30 years ago.

“As much as you think, ‘Boy, that guy’s ready,’ the game shows up and they do things and you’re like, ‘That’s a freshman,’” Lopez said.

The freshman catcher, Moore, has

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After an offseason that included the loss of five starters and a move off campus, the Arizona baseball team will have its first official practice of the 2012 season today.

been working hard to make sure that his transition to Pac-12 baseball is a smooth one, and said he sees the start of official practice as just another benchmark en route to the beginning of regular season play.

“Year round we’re just anticipating towards the season, it’s just another one of those building blocks,” Moore said. “You know fall was done then we were on our break, we came back and we were still working on it, and now it’s the first official day of practice and we’re just building up to February 17.”

Lopez said he knows his players have been charging hard all offseason, and he knows they will continue.

But one of the only physical changes that could be seen as practice begins could be the coaching dress code.

“Well, honestly, it’ll be the change where you’ll see the coaching staff and myself without the shorts. I know, I kind of look like I’m on a Club Med vacation and all the players are in uniform,” Lopez joked. “(Today) we’ll be right there with them in uniform and we’ll go out and get it done.”

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Camaraderie tells story for UA swimming The Wildcats will be tested come NCAA Championship time

By Christopher Cegielski Daily Wildcat

If there are any questions about Cory Chitwood’s place in the hierarchy of college swimming, a quick glance at his in-pool accomplishments should take care of them.

Chitwood is the two-time defending NCAA champion in the individual 200-yard backstroke and currently holds the fastest times in the country for 200-yard breaststroke and the 200-yard individual medley. Besides those accomplishments, he is also currently senior captain of the No.1ranked and undefeated Arizona Wildcats.

These accolades sprung from Chitwood’s love for swimming, which he discovered as a child. His mother

was a swimmer and the family had a pool in the backyard, giving Chitwood plenty of time around water.

“I could swim actually before I could walk,” Chitwod said.

Although he played a lot of sports growing up, he was always fond of the individual competitiveness of swimming. When he entered high school, Chitwood’s parents made him commit to a single sport, and “everything worked out for the best,” he said.

Chitwood has helped lead an Arizona swim team that’s defeated the No. 2, 3, 6 and 8 teams in the country this season, helping the Wildcats gear up at a run for a national championship.

“We have taken the right steps in trying to reach our goals,” Chitwood said. “I think that stems from the leadership from all the seniors we have.”

With an undefeated record and national title aspirations comes

Golf wins first tourney of spring

By Alex Williams Daily Wildcat

The Arizona men’s golf team finished its first tournament of the spring season with a one-stroke victory over No. 10 California in the Arizona Intercollegiate, held at Arizona National Golf Club.

This is the sixth time Arizona has won the tournament in its 32-year history and the first time since 2004.

It’s also the sixth time in tournament history that the title has been decided by one stroke. The last time was a California victory over Arizona in 2010.

Arizona (-17) had two individuals place in the top three of the 54-hole

tournament — Juan Pablo Hernandez (-7) and Tucker Wadkins (-5). New Mexico’s John Catlin (-10) won the individual title.

Sophomores Chris Capo and Erik Oja finished in the tournament’s top ten. The win is the 72nd in Arizona’s history; 62 of those victories have come under head coach Rick LaRose. The win is also Arizona’s third in the last three seasons and the first since the Anteater Invitational last February.

Arizona, Cal and New Mexico were the only teams in the 12-team field to finish under par.

The Wildcats continue the spring season at the John A. Burns Intercollegiate in Honolulu, which begins Feb. 15.

pressure, but Chitwood said he sees it as a force that can propel a person and team forward.

“I think pressure and adversity is going to show your true team’s colors and it’s going to bring out the best in your team,” Chitwood said. “And our team has faced that all year.”

The Wildcats have been able to rely on each other all season, and their camaraderie and unity were evident during Saturday’s 155-88 win over Texas. The Wildcats constantly cheered for their teammates during and after the race.

“I don’t even think the word team really describes the swim team that well, it is truly a family,” Chitwood said. “We’re with each other all the time, and everyone loves each other.”

The team unity was something daily wildcat file photo that Chitwood felt immediately after arriving in Tucson for his recruit- Arizona swimmer Cory Chitwood said he loves the Wildcats’ family environment. ing trip.

“That’s something you really can’t Chitwood said. “I think if you were part they love the most and the asfind anywhere else in the country,” to ask anyone on the team, that’s the pect that stands out the most.”

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Oregon State, scoring 18 points in each and shooting a combined 11from page 6 of-13 from 3-point range in those games. Lavender also went for 14 lineup with Josiah Turner, Kyle Fogg, points against Washington State as Solomon Hill, Jesse Perry and Chol. he knocked down four of his five Out of the three candidates, expect 3-point attempts.

Chol to see the biggest increase in minutes.

him to have a shot at a bigger role, Lavender’s teammates and coaches believe in him fully.

“We have full trust in his shot. I don’t think anybody will ever second-guess any of the shots that he’s taken,” Hill said. “We always try to give him the ball, try to look for him in transition.”

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While Chol should pick up Parrom’s interior presence, Brendon Lavender will help fill the void he left on the perimeter. No guard or small forward is more experienced or better equipped to do that than Lavender.

The senior sharpshooter has finally come into his own this season, and he ranks third in the NCAA in 3-point shooting at 58.3 percent.

“That’s a heck of a stat sheet,” Miller said. “He’s doing a really nice job for our team.”

Lavender set career highs against Bryant University and

When you lose Kevin, just do the math. Someone’s going to have to play a bigger role.

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Lavender has been limited by a lack of playing time, however, as he’s averaged 11.1 minutes per game. But the senior’s window of opportunity will increase from here on out.

Even though it took an injury for

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It’s hard to expect much from Natyazhko after two and a half disappointing seasons with the Wildcats, but he’ll get his opportunity at center.

The Ukrainian averages only 8.2 minutes per game and has played in only 18 of the team’s 22 contests.

He’s struggled to contribute, scoring 1.2 points per game on 38.5 percent shooting from the field, while grabbing only 1.8 boards per game.

While his increase in actual minutes may be minimal, Natyazhko will have a bigger role moving forward.

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Hiller had another doctor perform CPR on Taylor-Green as 10 more gunshot victims arrived at the emergency room.

“I knew that the UMC (University of Arizona Medical Center) was the only trauma one capability. I knew that all of them were coming here.

I learned a lot and I would like to state that my team did a superb job that day in the emergency room,“ Hiller added.

Michelle Ziemba, a registered nurse and director of Trauma and Emergency Services at the medical center, said she handled many of the media and families that came to the center.

Ziemba said she remembered that there was not enough time to state the names of all of the victims other than Giffords, so everyone was named “John Doe.” Her toughest moment, she said, was dealing with the rumor of Giffords’ death.

“As soon as I heard the word, I rushed over to the trauma bay and asked the doctors and nurses if she was truly dead,” Ziemba said. “They told me no, but she was in critical condition.”

Riley’s main job was to deal strictly with the media and ensure that all victims in the medical center were safe. Within hours, she said, the center was able to release a statement, but had to make sure that all of the patient’s families were informed of their loved ones’ situations.

“Many of the rumors came from the citizens at the crime scene text messaging the news stations ‘Gabby’s dead.’ I knew I had to put a stop to this and keep all of the hospital’s patients still safe,” Riley said.

Friese was the trauma surgeon on call and performed surgery on many of the victims. That morning there were two full teams of surgeons, he said. Friese added that as he walked down to the trauma bay, things were “already in order” and that many of the rooms were already full and ready for the injured to arrive.

“As I spoke with Dr. Theodorou, I noticed we had chief resident surgeons, resident surgeons, first-year surgeons and private surgeons that made up 11 surgeons on each team,” he said.

“Christina was my first patient, but unfortunately she was beyond any of our help. I felt compelled to keep trying.”

After calling Taylor-Green’s time of death,

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Sciences Center, located directly behind it, is not. Laurie Soloff, evaluator for Outreach and Multicultural Affairs for the College of Medicine, said because the center works under a different employer than the university, its side of the campus was not impacted by the new policy.

“The challenge right now is that the policy only affects the medical center side,” Soloff said.

“There are a number of areas on the Health Sciences side where smoking has been ongoing and continued, if not increased, by the amount of employees who moved here because they are not able to smoke where they used to.”

One of the smoking hotspots on the center’s side of the campus, which also houses the Colleges of Medicine, Pharmacy, Public Health and Nursing, is the Hippocrates Courtyard, located by the Arizona Health Sciences Library.

“We have a statue of Hippocrates in that plaza, and all around him there are cigarette butts,” Soloff said. “My concern is really the secondhand smoke exposure because it is a serious health hazard to all of us. Having to walk through clouds of smoke to get to a building is a problem.”

Elizabeth McClellan and Kelsey Mesch, juniors

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yet become the most popular form of surgery.

Roughly 5 percent of surgeries nationwide are performed using robotic machines, according to Galvani. However, more patients are requesting this type of surgery. The most popular surgery for robotics is a hysterectomy, as patients don’t have as much down time, he said.

From a university perspective, Galvani said having these machines gives the UA a large responsibility in terms of medicinal technology.

“I think we as a university have the obligation to show the path,” Galvani said. “The advantage that we have here is that we have everybody in the house. We’re seeing a huge number of patients getting better care.”

Amar Gupta, director of the UA’s Nexus of Entrepreneurship and Technology Initiative, said the machines complement the university’s prestige in the medical field and predicts that they will be much more affordable in the future.

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Friese attended to Giffords. He said Giffords was trying to speak to the best of her ability, surprising Friese and other doctors. Friese along with Ziemba spoke to Giffords’ parents and Taylor-Green’s mother.

“I approached Gabby’s mother and told her she (Giffords) may not live,” Friese said. “She (Giffords’ mother) grabbed my arm and told me to tell her that she loves her. I then directed my attention to Christina’s mother and told her that her little daughter was not going to make it, and that I tried the hardest I could. She hugged me and said, ‘It’s OK.’” All the speakers said the teams could not have done a better job.

“Everyone on this board can say that they prep for stuff like this every day,” Theodorou said. “While we still learned things from this event, we were able to run our hospital bay with smoothness.”

Online at DAILYWILDCAT.COM Check out additional multimedia coverage of what the speakers had to say.

in the College of Nursing, said they usually spend time in the plaza in between classes and notice people smoking there regularly.

“The ban is not really effective when we are sitting out here trying to enjoy the day and all you can smell is cigarettes,” McClellan said. “But there is nothing we can really do about it.”

Currently, the center is in the process of creating its own tobacco-free initiative that will be similar to the the medical center’s.

“It is really important that we have the same kind of requirement for our side as well for all of the same reasons,” said Cathy Nicholson, director of human resources at the Arizona Health Sciences Center. “Though we have been working on this for quite some time, our process takes a little longer because we are a university.”

The proposal, which is currently available for public comment, will go to the UA for final approval in the beginning of March. If approved, the center will implement the ban as soon as possible, Nicholson said. But until then, places like Hippocrates Courtyard will be free for smokers to use.

“I think nurses and doctors should be role models to their patients, so when they smoke they are setting a poor example,” Mesch said. “We should have a smoking ban on our side because we are learning how to be future doctors and nurses here — we need to be that better example.”

“Any time we have a departure from tradition, you open yourself to legal action,” Gupta said.

“Everyone is very cautious. This is one of the reasons the cost goes up initially.”

But, he said, new procedures are never initially justified based on cost alone, and that when someone has suffered trauma, the first hour is important. Machines like da Vinci offer surgeons the opportunity to perform faster, more effective surgeries. Because machines like da Vinci allow surgeons to take action more quickly, Gupta said, they in turn improve health care.

“It’s really modernizing medicine,” Gupta said. “Any time these technologies are first introduced, the cost is higher. Over time, the cost will stabilize and become less because you will be able to reduce the number of medical professionals involved.“ Galvani also said that while surgery with the da Vinci machine is expensive, the end result is completely worth it.

“For us, it is totally gratifying, because it makes surgery faster,” he said.

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama dropped by the Washington Auto Show on Tuesday afternoon, sitting in a handful of cars, reminiscing about his rides from before his days as president and — once again — beaming about the product coming out of Detroit and the turnaround in the American auto industry.

Eighteen Fords, Chevrolets and Chryslers were lined up for the commander in chief to take in during a quick, 20-minute run through the annual auto show. Auto executives showed him around, vehicle by vehicle, explaining each.

He popped into a Ford Fusion plug-in, saying, “If you live in the city, you never have to fill up with this.” He got into a blue Ford Shelby GT 500 with a black racing stripe after being told it goes up to 200 miles per

hour, saying, “This is what I needed in high school.”

Not that anybody ever has to drive that fast, the president noted.

All in all, he sat in eight vehicles during his brief visit to the auto show, checking out a red Jeep Grand Cherokee with Dodge President and CEO Reid Bigland. The president recalled that the first new vehicle he ever bought was a Jeep. He looked at a Chevy Volt, lauded some high-mileage Ford vehicles, and stepped up into a red Chevy Silverado, declaring it “a classic.”

Also showing him cars were Sherif Marakby, director of electrification programs and engineering for Ford Motor Co., and Ed Welburn, vice president of global design for General Motors Co. Afterward, Obama touted the industry, which his administration bolstered with taxpayer

support of General Motors and Chrysler in 2009. Both have seen an upswing in sales and profits, and GM is back on top in worldwide sales.

“It is testimony to the outstanding work that’s being done by workers, by American workers,” Obama said, adding, “The American auto industry is back.”

Expect to hear a lot of that going forward. The rescue of GM and Chrysler was unpopular at the time. But unlike some parts of the president’s plans to stimulate the economy, it is one where he can point to sales, job hires and profits as suggestive of a measure of success.

The highlight from the quick tour, though, may have been when Obama got into a black Corvette.

“I had a friend,” he said, remembering a buddy who had driven one. “He let me drive it one time. One time.”

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