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IN THE NEWS Barack Obama plans office to stop cyberattacks Jon Stewart will leave ‘The Daily Show’ later this year Brian Williams given sixmonth suspension from NBC NYPD officer indicted for fatal shooting of unarmed man — The New York TImes

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$11,490 TUCSON 30% GRADS IN BIND

will stay in Tucson

poverty line in Tucson (one in four people live below)

of Tucson population over the age of 25 hold bachelor’s degrees

Tucson’s job market deserts UA graduates, creating strife for those wishing to work local.

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ucson’s job market has come under fire in recent weeks following WalletHub’s ranking of the best cities to find a job in 2015. Despite being the 33rd largest city in America, Tucson finished 143 out of 150 , earning the distinction as the eighth-worst city to find a job out of 150 of the most-populated cities in the U.S.

WalletHub’s Credibility

According to WalletHub, the best and worst cities to find a job are determined by the use of two key dimensions. First, it

measured the job market by looking at statistics such as job opportunities, employment growth and unemployment rate.

Then, it calculated the socioeconomic environment, which includes median annual income, housing affordability and safety. The job market was given a weight of 10 and socioeconomic environment a weight of five. Then, both of these factors were taken into consideration before a city earned its ranking.

Some economic experts challenge the validity of the study. In particular, they question WalletHub’s methodology and use of statistics.

“Most of this is government statistics that they’re manipulating a little bit,” said George Hammond, the director of the Economic and Business Research Center

in the Eller College of Management. “They’re doing some adjustments.”

Hammond cites WalletHub’s rate of annual job growth as an example. Instead of using the raw number of job growth, WalletHub adjusts the job growth for the working age population.

“It’s not clear what that means,” Hammond said. “I’m not sure why they would do that.”

Hammond took an extensive look at WalletHub’s data and methodology and discovered that its core data is fairly standard.

“It’s a broad measure,” Hammond said. “This is pretty standard data, so I can’t vouch for their methodology.”

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Hillel hosts Torah restoration

BY BRANDI WALKER

“There are some who reerve a table every month and bring their friends. Monterey Court is an outdoor venue so kids are welcome ... [and] some people bring their dogs”

book — rather, it is sung. According to Druin, if any of the words or spaces are missing, the Torah does not work.

Druin also said people can ask him questions about what he is doing as he completes the restoration, as long as he still has enough time to complete his work.

Let’s talk sex.

That’s what the LGBTQ Resource Center will be doing when it holds its Real Talk for Men who have Sex with Men event today on the fourth floor of the Student Union Memorial Center from 3-5 p.m.

“In a nutshell, it’s going to be a very informal talk,” said Greg Daniels, co-director of ASUA Pride Alliance and a public health senior. “The main intent is to just have an honest conversation about sex in general.”

Pride Alliance and LGBTQ Affairs designed the informal setting to promote genuine conversation about “anything and everything that people

RABBI GEDALIAH DRUIN, a former medical doctor who now works as the president and chief scribe of Sofer On Site, speaks to students about the process of restoring the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies’ 200-year-old Torah scroll at the Hillel Center on Tuesday. Druin travels the country repairing old scrolls, writing new ones and promoting the maintenance of the Torah.

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A 200-year-old Torah scroll that was donated to the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies will continue restoration by a scribe today at the Hillel Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The restoration began Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. and continues today. Select

UA classes will sit in on the restoration and Rabbi Gedaliah Druin will speak to them and any other students, faculty or community members who attend.

Druin, president of Sofer On Site, said anyone can come watch the 3,500-year-old craft of working with holy scriptures. He said the Torah is not a book and is not read like a

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Legislature continues budget talks BY ethan mcsweeney Arizona Sonora News

The Super Bowl and its more than 114 million viewers have put Arizona behind them, but the good economic news didn’t stop when the fans left.

Apple announced Monday it would add a $2 billion global command center in Mesa at a facility that used to house a glass supplier for the company. Gov. Doug Ducey called a press conference with legislative leaders and other officials to tout the news.

Warning label initiatives

changes can be made to a voterapproved ballot measure except by a three-fourths vote of the Legislature in accordance with Proposition 105 — another voter-approved measure.

“It’s deceptive to not fully inform the electorate about the ramifications of their votes,” said Rep. Michelle Ugenti, R-Scottsdale, the House Elections committee chair and the bill’s sponsor. She said she has brought similar legislation before.

The committee approved the bill down party lines with its four Republicans voting in favor and its two Democrats opposed.

for Put the phone away

The House Committee on Elections on Monday passed a bill that would put a disclosure on the ballot reminding Arizonans that should they approve propositions, those measures will be difficult to undo.

The proposed warning label, HB 2072, would remind voters that no

A Senate committee wants you to put that phone down and pay attention to the road while you’re driving. The Senate Committee on Government voted to move forward SB 1102, which would proscribe Arizona drivers from sending text messages while behind the wheel.

Members debated amendments which delineated which specific

actions on a cell phone would be banned by the bill. While there is time for the bill to be amended again, the committee voted to change the bill so it would prohibit sending messages but not reading them.

Sen. Steve Farley, D-Tucson, said when he first brought the bill forward in 2007, it was one of the first of its kind to be proposed in any state.

Now, Arizona is one of two states not to have any laws prohibiting texting while driving.

The bill would ban texting but not reading on the phone while driving.

The bill still has to clear three more committees — Transportation, Rules and Public Safety, Military and Technology — before it could be heard on the Senate floor.

Prison proposal

Two of the biggest chunks of the state budget — schools and prisons — were presented to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday and senators questioned whether the state needs another

Red light camera ban

On Wednesday, the Senate Committee on Public Safety, Military and Technology voted to move forward a bill that would prohibit law enforcement agencies from using a photo enforcement system to ticket red light runners and speeders.

Law enforcement representatives testified to the committee against the bill, SB 1167, saying red light cameras decrease accidents and speeding at the intersections where they are

is to communicate some information in a safe-space setting,” Pace said. “We want to from page 1 let people speak openly about are interested in, especially their own experience with their with respect to risks for STIs, questions as well as with things as well as healthy and safe that they’ve learned.” practice,” said Tad Pace, an “It’s a lot of things you don’t assistant professor in the really learn when going through College of Nursing. sexual education as a child,” Pace and said Ty Morgan, Daniels will be a psychology in attendance senior, intern to give answers and Pride and offer life A l l i a n c e experience for member. those who have It can be questions about difficult to find sex, along with answers if you Wendell Hicks, don’t know the executive where to look director of and are not the Southern asking the right Arizona AIDS questions, Pace Foundation, and said.

—Dr. Tad Pace Miguel Soto, the “It’s not UA College of Nursing HIV program meant to be a associate professor coordinator panel, lecture at the Pima or anything like County Health that,” Daniels Department. said. “If anybody’s curious and “We essentially want to just wants to come and observe, empower [students] with they don’t have to necessarily information,” Pace said. participate — but it’d be great if It’s important to have they did.” professionals with years of Pace emphasized the open experience at the talk to offer atmosphere of the event, saying medical background, Daniels that attendees should expect said. The organizers said they an environment of community are hoping for upwards of 30 support while enjoying an participants to attend but could agenda-free conversation. potentially see that number “Being knowledgeable is rise. the first line of defense,” Pace “The goal of the section said. “The best prevention

to wear and tear.

“What we’re doing is having all of that damage repaired,” Nakhai said. from page 1 “The scribe came last year, worked for a day and estimated that maybe two Beth Nakhai, an associate professor more days of work would be required of Judaic studies and anthropology, to complete the repairs of the scroll.” said many people find it interesting Nakhai said those two additional to watch somebody work in such a days were Tuesday and today. She traditional way. said restoring this She said the scroll Torah is a testimony is handwritten to the importance of on parchment tradition in Judaism by a scribe and preserving using a special, communities. handmade ink.

“A Torah scroll is at In order to the core of Judaism become a scribe, and at the core of students must Jewish tradition,” be certified via Nakhai said. “From examination. that perspective, After receiving people who come their certification, will be able to learn prospective something about scribes then Judaism.” practice alongside Leah Cresswell, working scribes, a journalism senior, Druin said. said restoring the — Beth Nakhai “It’s really Torah is a beautiful associate professor a craft,” Druin project that of Judaic studies and said. “I can learn represents Judaism’s everything I can. anthropology own restoration.

I think I’m the “I think that greatest in the restoring this Torah world — but the is very significant truth is, I really have no idea what because it is symbolic for Judaism as I’m doing until I sit with someone a whole,” Cresswell said. “It is a way of else, who will then reveal what’s saying that we are still here and we are happening.” not going anywhere, no matter what Nakhai acquired the Torah scroll the world throws our way.” from an anonymous donor and gave it to the ACJS. She said the scroll has never been purposefully — Brandi Walker damaged, but it has been exposed @brandiwalker

placed, especially in school zones.

Opponents to the bill testified just the opposite – that red light cameras cause more rear-end collisions.

Ward, one of the bill’s sponsors, said the crux of the issue is that drivers’ privacies are being violated when the cameras record their actions.

“It’s unconstitutional to invade the privacy of people who are not breaking the law,” she said.

Sen. Lupe Contreras, D-Cashion, the only member of the committee to vote against the bill, argued that cameras are recording everywhere, even during legislative committee meetings. “Where do we draw the line?” he said.

John Kavanagh, R-District 8, who is a former law enforcement officer from New York and another sponsor of the bill, said photo enforcement takes the discretion out of the hands of officers.

— Ethan McSweeney @dailywildcat

sex ed

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A Torah scroll is at the core of Judaism and at the core of Jewish tradition

community chatter

private prison.

Charles Ryan, director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, presented a proposal to add a new 3,000-bed private prison, which Ducey supports, as the state’s inmate population is expected to grow. Prisons would see an increase in funding under Ducey’s budget proposal.

“My constituents would like to see us prioritize teachers and kids over criminals,” Republican Sen. Kelli Ward of Lake Havasu City told Ryan.

We … want to empower students with information

Courtesy of UA Pride Alliance

Greg Daniels, the co-director of ASUA Pride Alliance, will be leading Real Talk on the fourth floor of the Student Union Memorial Center today. The talk is meant to be an informal discussion about men who have sex with other men.

is knowledge and knowing how to use that knowledge in a real-world setting. It’s a conversation that I think we need to have to move ourselves forward as a community here in Tucson.”

— Chastity Laskey @dailywildcat

If the UA gave you a research grant, what research would it fund?

1. “A research of the student population itself to explore ways to integrate the whole population as much as possible in order to form a very supportive and cohesive environment. I think there’s a lot that could be learned and applied to what we have here.” — Sammi Moule, philosophy junior 2. “I would say grant money should go towards the fine arts program, like the music program, marching band or any other fine arts program.”

— Ali Stockdell, undeclared sophomore

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3. “Athletics. I’m a sports fan, so I would like to see a soccer team for

men here. I don’t know if that’s possible, but there’s only a women’s team right now.” — Lukas Barker, undeclared freshman

4. “I would want grant money from the university for more green investment all around the campus, not just in certain areas, in order to reduce our carbon footprint and especially reduce our water usage.” — Jack Speelman, mechanical engineering junior

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5. “I would say give grant money to the clubs. I’m a member of the UA Equestrian team, and it’s really hard for us to make travel plans [for] all of our shows in California. If we could have a little extra money to help send as many riders, that would be really good for us.” — Kathryn Anderson, animal sciences sophomore

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— Compiled by Chastity Laskey and photos by Sydney Richardson

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For this particular study, WalletHub used statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the FBI, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Council for Community and Economic Research, Yelp, Indeed and Gallup Healthways.

Jill Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for WalletHub, vouched for the soundness of the data and research.

“It’s not like we conduct this research,” Gonzalez said. “The research has already been done.

We pool [it] together and rank the data accordingly. The data is clearly listed. It’s all data that’s available to anyone that wants it.”

Current state Tucson’s economy

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Dashboard show the median household income for Tucson residents in 2013 measured in at about $44,612. In Arizona, the median household income was nearly $5,000 more and almost $10,000 more nationally.

Poverty rates reveal signs of economic distress. A poverty line is the minimum amount of money needed to survive. In 2013, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services determined the poverty line to be $11,490 for a single person. From 2009 to 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau determined nearly one out of four people in Tucson live below the poverty line. In Arizona, only 18 percent of people lived below the poverty line and only 15.3 percent nationally.

The Future of Tucson’s of Economy

Even in these tough economic times, economic experts and While WalletHub may not be entrepreneurs remain optimistic the most reliable data, there is about the future of Tucson’s some truth to its findings. economy.

A number of factors affect an “I do believe that there’s economy, including education, tremendous talent and health, infrastructure, workforce investment opportunity and and demographics. It is also pieces of the kind of the economy important to look at job that can grow,” said Justin employment by industry, median Williams, the CEO and founder household income and poverty of Startup Tucson. “We need to rate to gain a sense of the current engage that, provide it nutrients state of Tucson’s economy and help it grow.” and learn of other possible The growth and potential of contributing factors.

Tucson was echoed by Steven This data comes from Making Reff, an economics professor at Action Possible for Southern the UA and resident of Tucson Arizona, a website run by the for 45 years.

Eller College of Economic and “Tucson is a lot better than Business Research Center. The what it was five years ago,” Reff UA collects this data itself and its said. “It’s moving in the right accuracy is counted upon by the direction.” sponsors that fund its program.

Williams and Reff both cited But these statistics measure the growth of Tucson’s downtown just the metropolitan area area and construction of the Sun instead of the city.

Link Tucson Metropolitan areas M o d e r n expand beyond city Streetcar as limits and include evidence areas within the of Tucson’s county that are continuing outside the city. economic Employment development. growth by industry “There are offers insights into many people the job market and groups and employment now working opportunities of a together to region. According —Steven Reff, UA change that,” to MAP Dashboard, economics professor Shoopman in 2013, Tucson said. “A lot of posted a 0.7 percent good work is employment growth going into to rate. Nationally, the employment improving policy and to improve growth rate was twice as large. the community. … Between In Arizona, employment growth the universities’ partnership, rate tripled that of Tucson’s. the business community and “I wouldn’t overplay the fact our elected leaders, [they] are that we’re behind, but we are working closer today than in behind,” said Ron Shoopman, the last decade to try to find member of the Business and opportunities to grow and Finance Committee of the expand new jobs.”

Arizona Board of Regents.

Statistics back up the claim Median household income is that Tucson is moving in the closely tied to economic stability right direction as well. According and job opportunities. The more to MAP Dashboard, in 2013, residents make, the better the Tucson had a rate of 15.7 patents economy. Statistics from MAP out of every 10,000 workers,

Tucson is a lot better than it was five years ago

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Information for these graphics was gathered from Making Action Possible for Southern Arizona and the U.S. Census.

nearly twice Arizona’s patent rate and nearly 6 percent above the national average. The high rate indicates that there is an abundance of entrepreneurs and innovators living in Tucson.

Furthermore, Tucson is on par with the national rate of educational attainment. MAP Dashboard reports that in 2013, nearly 30 percent of the 25-and-older population in Tucson held a bachelor’s degree.

Comparatively, that posits the city in a good position, with the statewide number at 29 percent and nationwide at 29.1 percent.

The most encouraging sign of progress is the amount of graduates staying in Tucson and Arizona after earning their bachelor’s degree. In 2000, less than 50 percent of undergraduates stayed in Arizona. In 2012, according to data gathered by the Arizona Board of Regents, nearly seven out of 10 graduates will stay in Tucson or another part of the surrounding metropolitan area.

“We’re not that great,” Shoopman said. “But the trend is a good thing. And we are trending in the right direction, which is reason for optimism.”

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With proof of death, family honors hostage TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

TUCSON, Ariz. — An attempt to rescue Kayla Mueller and other American hostages occurred in a July 4 raid previously disclosed by the Pentagon.

U.S. special forces commandos conducted a raid in the predawn hours on a prison in Islamic State’s Syrian stronghold of Raqqa.

But the mission was unsuccessful because hostages — which included Mueller as well as American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff — had already been moved and weren’t there at the time.

“We never stopped trying to get her,” said a defense official, who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter. “We never lost that focus.”

President Barack Obama confirmed for the first time Tuesday that Mueller was one of the hostages Delta Force commandos attempted to rescue in a raid on an oil refinery facility in northern Syria in summer 2014.

“I deployed an entire operation — at significant risk — to rescue not only her but the other individuals who had been held, and probably missed them by a day or two,” Obama said during an interview with BuzzFeed News.

Relatives of Mueller, who was abducted while volunteering in Syria, announced

Tuesday that they had received confirmation that she is dead.

The Islamic State group released a video last week claiming that Mueller, 26, was killed in an air attack by coalition forces against the militants in Syria.

U.S. intelligence officials believe that Mueller is dead but don’t accept the militants’ account of how she was killed, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said in Washington on Tuesday.

Mueller’s family members released a statement saying that they had received confirmation of her death. They did not disclose how they learned the information.

However, a source close to the family who requested anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the communications said a private message containing additional information from the captors was sent to Mueller’s parents over the weekend. Once the statement was authenticated by the intelligence community, the family concluded that she was dead, the source said.

“We are heartbroken to share that we’ve received confirmation that Kayla Jean Mueller has lost her life,” her parents, Carl and Marsha Mueller, and her brother, Eric, said in the statement.

“Our hearts go out to the Mueller family and everyone who loves Kayla,” the family said in a statement posted on a website

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Kayla Mueller, a Northern Arizona University alumna, was abducted and held captive by Islamic State in August 2013. Her parents received photos of her body from IS and now presume her dead.

that aims to raise awareness about Austin Tice’s captivity. “We have no way of understanding what they are going through, and we wish them all possible comfort.”

In August 2013, she was abducted in the Syrian city of Aleppo as she left a hospital operated by Doctors Without

Borders and was being held in Raqqa, a militant stronghold in northeastern Syria.

The family statement also included letters Mueller wrote to her family, including one on her father’s birthday in 2011.

“Some people find God in church. Some people find God in nature. Some people find God in love,” she wrote. “I find God in suffering. I’ve known for some time what my life’s work is, using my hands as tools to relieve suffering.”

After attending Northern Arizona University, she worked with aid groups in northern India, Israel and the Palestinian territories. She returned to Arizona in 2011, where she worked at an HIV/AIDS clinic and volunteered at a women’s shelter. Late that year, she moved to southeastern France and worked as an au pair while learning French in preparation for a planned move to Africa.

But the plight of families fleeing the violence in war-torn Syria drew her to Turkey in December 2012. She worked with the aid groups Support to Life and the Danish Refugee Council, assisting women and children who crossed into Turkey as refugees.

She also made some trips into Syria to help reconnect family members separated by the fighting. Her trips into the country took her to Aleppo, where she was eventually kidnapped.

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History can’t get any whiter

BY NICK HAVEY

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ebruary is a good month: I’m getting my second pair of socks from my Sock of the Month Club, my hell weeks haven’t escalated to “please hospitalize me” level yet and it’s everyone’s favorite themed month – Black History Month. By everyone, I mean literate people with hearts and an Internet connection; strangely, there exists a population that doesn’t understand systemic oppression and racism and just wants to know why we can’t have a White History Month.

Let’s break this down for you all: The reason we don’t have White History Month is the same reason we don’t have affirmative action for white people, white history classes and a White Entertainment Television.

Generally, popular culture regards white achievement as standard; the achievements of others are categorized otherwise because of a deeply seeded method of portraying these groups as inferior. Also, WET would be a terrible acronym and white people shouldn’t be allowed to host any sort of White Entertainment Television Network Awards because we already have that and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences doesn’t need to meet that frequently. #OscarsSoWhite If you aren’t aware, the 2015 nominees are the least diverse in the past 15 years, a trend that is not uncommon. Is the academy concerned?

Probably not, because white privilege is so ingrained in popular culture that no one sees a problem with questioning manifestations of other, marginalized culture.

In David Foster Wallace’s essay, “This is water,” two fish are swimming and a third fish asks them how the water is.

Fish number one looks at fish number two and asks, “What’s water?” When you’re surrounded by something, its existence fades from your perspective and, according to Matice Moore, program director for African American Student Affairs, this is a definite problem.

Every year, AASA is approached with questions concerning Black History Month. “Why do we need this?” “Why isn’t it more inclusive?” And so on.

Moore said a general response to events put on by AASA in the spirit of Black History Month and throughout the year is that white students feel uncomfortable.

“The presence of people of color in a predominately white space has a tendency to make white people feel uncomfortable, perpetuating the narrative that paints black folks as inherently threatening,” Moore said.

Merely the concept of decentering whiteness by reducing the majority or encouraging diversity is threatening to the privileged majority.

This perceived threat, compounded with the ineffective millennial ideal of being “colorblind,” marks a sharp disinterest in observing diversity wherever it is found in an effort to counteract racism and what some describe as “reverse racism.” This blatant erasure of racial responsibility leaves millennials with an unearned sense of accomplishment and exacerbates the equally unproductive attitude of the people who don’t recognize their privilege.

According to former Saturday Night Live star and now professional asshole Victoria Jackson, though, we’ve got to give white people their due.

“Just for the record, white men invented rockets, space travel, airplanes, the automobile, the English language, the U.S.A., most medical advances, electricity, television, telescope, microscope, Ivy League Universities, the computer, the Internet, and on and on,” Jackson said. “I think white men should be praised and respected. White Christian conservative men especially, should be loved and adored. They were the backbone and originators of the greatest nation on earth. We need more of them now.”

To clarify, we don’t. Honestly, we need less.

We don’t have White History Month because we don’t need it, but we do need Black History Month.

The sad thing is that this opinion is wildly normative in this nation and there are too many people that need to hear the contrary message. Celebrate black history and move on from thinking that whites are being erased from the cultural landscape — we’re not. We’re just moving aside to make room for the groups that have been forced out of it.

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish.

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Boo to Dartmouth’s brand new booze policy cutting out hard liquor will certainly eliminate some dangerous behaviors — though it’s questionable whether a campus ban will truly limit students’ access to hard alcohol in the first place — this policy is not really addressing the root of the problem.

Sexual assault is not caused by alcohol.

Regardless of the presence of alcohol, taking advantage of someone sexually is wrong. That’s the lesson universities should be emphasizing; it would cut the problem off at the source.

UA-based social activism group Students Promoting Empowerment And Consent agrees, claiming, “Alcohol is merely used as a tool by perpetrators; sexual assault and alcohol misuse are not synonymous.”

Banning hard alcohol, regardless of whether it actually curbs binge drinking, will never address the real problems behind sexual assault.

“Many people have the misconception that sexual assault happens as a result of sexual desire and lacking impulse control,” SPEAC notes, in which case eliminating alcohol and the impairment of judgment that results might help the problem. “In reality, sexual assault is performed by those who wish to dominate and overpower their partner.”

It’s not just university presidents making these generalizations about the presence of alcohol and sexual assault, either. Recently, greek chapter presidents from the National Panhellenic Conference, an organization that has direct authority over campus chapters of

BY MADDIE PICKENS The Daily Wildcat

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ately, there has been a lot of conversation in the national media about the problem of sexual assault on college campuses.

Part of this conversation comes from the increasing visibility that this issue is receiving, which is great. The other part of the conversation, though, stems from the various policy decisions universities are enforcing as part of an effort to curb campus sexual assault.

Some of these policies, while well meaning, can actually add to the greater problems behind sexual assault. Casual sexism and rape culture can remain pervasive even in the face of these “solutions.”

A good example of this is Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, which recently announced a campuswide ban on hard liquor. The policy was intended as an umbrella attempt to curb binge drinking; however, the policy was also meant, at least in part, to alleviate the problem of sexual assault on the campus.

As Philip Hanlon, president of Dartmouth College, stated in reference to the sexual assault policy, “When it comes to a safe environment, … we know that excessive drinking is one of the most pressing challenges we face.”

What Hanlon is missing is that while

Greek Life, ordered sororities at the University of Virginia not to attend parties during rush week. This move, which was ostensibly for the female students’ safety, rings more like a punishment for the misdeeds of others.

The students, understandably, were not happy; around 2,000 of them were affected by the partying ban. In a widely circulated letter to the national representatives, students at the university declared, “Our concerns lie in the way sorority women are being used as leverage to change the actions and behaviors of fraternity men.”

If women are treated as weak and defenseless in the very “solutions” to sexual assault on campus that are meant to help them, it does nothing to fix the systemic sexism and violence that can lead to rape. The problem of assault will not go away by simply forcing the issue off the table temporarily.

In reality, the solution to the problem of sexual assault on college campuses is not as simple as eliminating hard liquor or keeping students home from parties. Let’s treat rapists like rapists — they’re in the wrong, not hapless victims of binge-drinking culture. Universities should forward policies that emphasize that basic fact, including those that allow for outreach, education and support of victims.

— Maddie Pickens is an economics freshman. Follow her @maddieclaire149

Justice is a bipartisan value

BY TREY ROSS

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he year is 2015 and rarely do Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye on issues. But this could actually be the year that the two parties finally decide to reform America’s criminal justice system.

Right now in America, there are more than 2.2 million people in prisons or jails. Not only is this a 500 percent increase in the last 30 years, but it also makes us the world’s leading incarcerator — we even have more prisoners than China, with its massive population and less-than-pleasant government.

This is a big problem for America. These prisons are time, money and energy vacuums, and maybe some of the stress on our system could be alleviated if Congress is able to work together to figure this mess out.

Michael Polakowski, an associate professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, agreed that there are significant

issues but reform is always a possibility.

“Too many people are being incarcerated,” Polakowski said.

“Too many people are being sentenced to long terms that offer little hope for the future. Crime has not dramatically reduced under any form of a ‘get tough’ approach.”

In Arizona, inmates are required to serve 85 percent of their sentence, and now Gov. Doug Ducey wants to spend $70 million annually to add more beds to private prisons. Many other states have similarly strict rules on the amount of their sentence prisoners must serve.

Arizona should allow each case to be individualized to the crime, person and situation by reducing these mandatory-minimum sentence regulations — or at least joining the other states that have adopted earned-time credit.

Reducing mandatory minimums has the potential not just to save bed space in prisons but also to make an overly punitive justice system a little bit fairer. Earned-time credits are an innovative idea that allows prisoners to take classes, participate in job training or join drug rehab programs in order to

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work towards an earlier release.

Prisoners are people regardless of the crime; at least they could spend their time doing something productive. Criminal justice decisions should not be just money-based but also humane.

Moreover, the U.S. has extremely high rates of recidivism — instances of people who are released from prison only to commit another crime and wind up back in court shortly thereafter. This is a result of the high correlation in this country between poverty and crime, and employment policies that ensure ex-prisoners remain poor.

Convicts have an extremely difficult time finding employment.

A bill cosponsored last year by Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., called the Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment Act would make it possible for adults convicted of nonviolent crimes to have their criminal records sealed.

Polakowski said he believes that earned-time credits and expunging records can give hope for the future.

“Without hope of some sort of new opportunity, most criminals will likely re-offend,” he said. “Carrots like these

provide a way out.”

These ideas could all help create a more efficient criminal justice system in our country, and most of them have vocal bipartisan support.

But, these days especially, we like to make things as complicated as possible in our country.

The two parties are busy squabbling over smaller details of prison reform while proposals that could make an immediate difference in the lives of and prisoners and their families sit ignored. Democrats are against forprofit prisons; Republicans praise them. Conservatives love drug laws; Liberals hate them. We get it. Let’s do something else.

Debate is healthy ­— everyone loves the drama of a good argument — but with that much money and that many lives on the line, does it really matter if you bleed blue or red?

Maybe you’re an elephant or maybe you’re a donkey, but at the end of the day we’re all living in the same zoo together. Sometimes, we even have to share a cage.

— Trey Ross is a journalism sophomore. Follow her @_patriciaross

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Two non-UA affiliated individuals were seen stealing alcohol on Jan. 26 from the Circle K gas station at 1610 E. 6th St. According to a witness, one man was white, approximately 35 years old, 6 feet tall and thin. He was allegedly wearing a brown cowboy hat with a jacket, black jeans and a dark backpack and had an earring in his nose. The other man was described as Hispanic, approximately 45 years old, 5 feet and 8 inches tall, heavyset and wearing a baseball cap with a dark backpack.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer saw two men matching their descriptions while driving east on University Boulevard.

Two officers went to the bus stop where the men were spotted. They both identified themselves, and the officers informed them why they were stopped and asked if they had any alcohol in their possession.

The men denied having any alcohol and one claimed that he had not drank all day. They were then informed that UAPD officers were at the Circle K viewing the security camera footage.

One officer transported two Circle K employees who witnessed the men to the police station to identify them. The men were positively identified as the two individuals who stole the alcohol.

One suspect admitted to taking a six pack of Budweiser out of the cooler. He also claimed there was a beer missing, so he grabbed the five remaining beers and stuck them in his backpack. The beers were later returned to the Circle K. The two men were cited and released for shoplifting.

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A UA student called a UAPD officer about a suspicious phone call she received in her dorm on Jan. 26 at approximately 1:32 p.m.

The UAPD officer met with the student in the dorm lobby.

She said that she received a call from an unknown person who sounded like a male with a scratchy voice.

“I can see you in your room,” the suspect said, according to the statement. “You look very cute in your pink panties.”

The student said she received the call while she was changing her clothes, and that she did have pink underwear on. She said she hung up the phone immediately.

The student escorted the officer back to her dorm room where she received the call. She pointed to the location she was standing when the phone call came. The location was in the center of the room away from her window, and her blinds were partially closed.

According to the officer, this would make it difficult for someone to peep through the window from ground level or see her from the windows at the Science-Engineering Library.

The student claimed there might be a hidden camera inside the room. She and the officer checked for a hidden camera but didn’t find one. The caller ID on the student’s cell phone was blank, too.

The student told the officer that this was the first time she had received a call like this and that she just wanted it documented.

The officer advised her to call UAPD if she received any further phone calls. The resident assistant was notified of the call, and she contacted the community director to reference the incident.

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12pm to 1pm. Health Sciences Library, Java City Cafe, 1501 N. Campbell. Medical Humanities and Art Aloud bring you “TAKE THE MIC” the art of Performance Poetry ... SLAM Poetry Competition! Winners will read at the Solidarity “Human Chain Connection” on Friday, Feb. 13, 12-1 on the Arizona Health Sciences Plaza.

‘Encouraging New Directions in Native Art.’ 3pm.

Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd. Arizona State Museum curators Diane Dittemore and Andrew Higgins will discuss the history, the teachers, and the students of the Southwestern Indian Art Project.

UApresents- Ray Chen.

7:30pm.

Crowder Hall. Charismatic Ray Chen is a violinist with cross-generational appeal.

He looks to expand the classical music audience through social media, and is the first classical artist to be invited by a major publisher to write a regular blog about his life as a touring soloist.

Prism and Perspective: Landscapes, Compositions, and Bodies. 12-5pm.

UA Museum of Art, 1031 N. Olive Road.

CAMPUS EVENTS This is the second installment of Edward J. Gallagher, Jr.’s donation of twentiethcentury art to the UAMA in memory of his son. Gallagher’s collection consists of artistic explorations of the abstract and the figural, landscape and portrait, and line and color in modern art. The exhibition includes works by Mark Rothko, Raoul Dufy, Marino Marini, and Yukiko Katsura.

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‘Walking the Spirit: Augmenting the Paris Experience’. 6pm. Playground Bar & Lounge, 278 E. Congress St. This talk will look at how technology, and more specifically, augmented reality and digital video are being used in a short term study abroad experience to Paris, France by a class: “When African-Americans Came to Paris.” Presented by Africana Studies assistant professor Bryan Carter.

Farmers’ Market. 9am to 1pm. 8701 S. Kolb Road.

Choose from fresh homegrown produce, local food products, homemade doggie treats, salsas, olives, oils, soups, jelly/jams, and baked goods.

You can also shop arts and crafts for yourself or for gifts.

TUCSON EVENTS Cool Season yoga: Indoors. 4-5pm.

Tohono Chul Park, 7366 N. Paseo Del Norte. Barbara Sherman, LifeForce Yoga® practitioner and registered Yoga instructor provides an hour of yoga practice. Enjoy accessible poses and breathing exercises. $7 per class.

Tucson Sculpture Festival.

11am to 6pm. Art Gallery, 1122 N. Stone Ave. The Drawing Studio presents more than 75 local and international sculptors, including artists from New York, Germany and China. The opening reception will take place at the Art Gallery other locations will be Moen Mason Gallery, the Granada Gallery and the Sculpture Resource Center.

Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Show.

For two weeks near the start of every year, Tucson becomes playground number one for the world of international gem and mineral trading, buying, and bargains. See http://www.visittucson. org/events/gem-show/ for more information. Running through February 15th.

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Growlers bring beach goth to Congress

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Surf-rock without the neonrimmed sunglasses, black-andwhite beaches, heavy guitars and bittersweet lyrics — that’s the signature sound of Orange County-based band The Growlers.

“Beach Goth” is the self-chosen label of the group’s musical style and, at the same time, the name of a festival they’re inviting likeminded musicians to once in a while. Though the next official festival won’t be until this October, The Growlers are bringing a preview to Hotel Congress tonight.

Laid-back, dark and psychedelic melodies, as well as melancholic lyrics, are what The Growlers specialize in. The newest example for that is the band’s fifth studio album, Chinese Fountain, which was released last September.

“You think that you know more about being lonely,” sings Brooks Nielsen, lead singer of The Growlers, on the first single of the album, Good Advice. The video for the single shows the band in a wooden church, a sweater vest-wearing Nielsen playing the preacher while an anaconda winds and twists in his hands. And there it is again: the black-andwhite color scheme that seems to have attached itself to the band.

“I get so lonely, no one’s allowed to hold me,” Nielsen finishes wearily.

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fans collected over the span of nine years as a band, The Growlers occupy the sweet space between insider tip and buzzband. Still, the band has been on the radar of major surf and skateboarding brands for a while now. The band just finished a series of promo gigs for Billabong and Monster Children

in Australia and New Zealand.

The Growlers are notorious for their live performances. The band’s website boasts that The Growlers play close to 150 shows each year, making for plenty of practice in front of various live audiences. Nielsen and his bandmates will kick off their North American tour in Tucson

Navajo poet shares experiences at UA

this evening before playing shows throughout February and March. Having gained more recognition than ever with their newest effort, Chinese Fountain, things seem to be moving quickly for the five Californians.

The band, which consists of Nielsen, guitarist Matt Taylor, drummer Scott Montoya, bass

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player Anthony Perry and keyboardist Kyle Straka, has gotten pretty good at what it’s doing.

“We were never really good musicians,” Nielsen said in an interview with Spin magazine last May. After having “kind of relied on getting drunk a lot” throughout the first years as a band, Nielsen said, “It’s really amazing how good the band sounds. It trips me out.”

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Sherwin Bitsui, a Navajo poet, will be reading his work at the UA Poetry Center on Thursday as part of the Poetics and Politics of Water series put on by the American Indian Studies Program and the department of English.

Originally from White Cone, Ariz., Bitsui lived in Tucson for around a decade before moving to San Diego, where he teaches for the MFA creative writing program at San Diego State University.

Bitsui is also a faculty instructor for the MFA creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M. The Daily Wildcat caught up with the author to talk before his upcoming reading.

Daily Wildcat: How did you start writing?

Bitsui: I started writing, at least more seriously as a poet, when I was probably at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe, [N.M.] … I took a creative writing class at a community college in [Holbrook, Ariz.], and I just started from there.

Nothing too miraculous or interesting. No explosions.

Your poetry deals a lot with reintroducing ideas/ concepts through Navajo culture. How do you deal with explaining cultural concepts?

It’s hard to contextualize simply. There are so many great writers out there — Navajo poets. I think that they can get a sense of deeper understanding of [Navajo’s] experience.

How do you deal with that sense of disconnection where you can’t explain things thoroughly?

Do you mean like ceremonial stuff? I guess I just don’t approach those sorts of stuff. I don’t really need to. … What I’m doing sort of occurs in a temporary space. I feel like I don’t really have to perform my culture in a way that would be inauthentic to me. I don’t think I’m pressured in that way. I’m very clearly able to move about between my spaces — that’s just cause I go home, I come from that experience. I come from the [reservation]. I feel rooted in that space. I feel I can be who I am and what I am and bring it to a performance space — or moment where my work is speaking — on

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SHERWIN BITSUI, a Navajo poet, sits in front of a bookcase. Bitsui will be reading his work at the Poetry Center on Thursday as part of the Poetics and Politics of Water series.

many levels, not just … the singular experience, but that it’s coming from a contemporary space. I’m most interested in how those perspectives resonate and how it can be a moment of sharing.

How has the Navajo culture influenced your writing?

I think that I have been influenced by how I was raised and how I was to be in the world. It’s not an “otherness”­— it’s not a sense of my culture being over there and this being over here. I am constantly in my culture. But ultimately, the work itself raises certain questions, so that would probably the artist side of me ­— someone who is affected by directions of contemporary global society ­— so I can’t help but be involved in that [society].

Definitely the language influences my work and just the way of understanding that I was raised with. The way of being and how we approach our world, the land, each other­— how we approach hak’éí, [or relatives by blood], and how we reflect that however

oppositional we are to contemporary society.

What are some challenges you faced as you write?

I think that different challenges in different parts of my life arise. I think maybe when I was younger, I always had a fear of sharing too much or giving away too much of who I was and my work. I think now I’m able to write what I want to write and able to express myself in a way I’m able to.

Poetry gives me the platform for that.

What would you like people to take away from your poetry?

I’ll leave it up to them.

They can decide what they gleam from the work. I just hope there’s a sense of feeling they’ve gained an experience of some sort.

Maybe they entered with something and left with something. Very simple thing.

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When the advertisement that plays before Radiotopia’s “The Heart” is promoting an online sex toy shop that offers listeners a 10 percent discount, it’s clear that this podcast, based on its sponsors alone, is not fit for the average radio station.

“The Heart” is a podcast that tells stories about sex, intimacy and beauty from members that identify across the gender spectrum. The program started as a traditional two-way interview show called “Audio Smut” in 2007, but as the show has progressed, it has become more narrative-driven with less and less focus on the host, Kaitlin Prest.

The show’s episodes are typically 15 to 30 minutes, and the “short and sweet” episodes are closer to five minutes in length. The longer episodes are usually focused on one person’s story and may feature another guest talking about an issue related to the episode’s theme.

The first “short and sweet” episode was disappointing compared to the other full-length episodes — there simply was not enough time to be emotionally invested in the short story told. At points, it felt more like an experimental audio piece and ­not a polished product.

The editing style is not like traditional radio — voices cut in and out and music crescendoes when you least expect it.

In the beginning of episode three, Prest discusses perceptions of beauty and describes how her inner voice can mock her. Her voice cuts in and out around her monologue, mocking her appearance.

Prest’s reverberating critique perfectly represented that voice in your head that questions every decision you make.

Episode three, “Beauty is Pain,” features a story told by a transgender woman named Rajee Narinesingh. The show begins with the sound of distant harps

being plucked as Narinesingh tells her story about how she began her quest for beauty. She had already undergone hormone replacement therapy but was not satisfied with her appearance. This dissatisfaction, coupled with peer pressure from other members of her community, convinced her to seek out plastic surgery. Lacking financial resources, Narinesingh found another transgender woman, known as The Duchess, who offered black market injections.

Narinesingh believed she was receiving silicone lip and face injections, and she was initially very satisfied with the procedure.

The Duchess seemed legitimate, and Narinesingh loved the way she looked afterward — that was, until a boil began to develop on her face and her face started to harden like cement. Fearing judgment, Narinesingh did not seek treatment for years as her botched procedure began to get worse and worse. The surgery had the exact opposite effect; she began to feel like a freak. Narinesingh eventually found a caring plastic surgeon who worked with her to mitigate the damage done by the black market procedure. The Duchess was eventually convicted for practicing health care without a license.

During the surgery, Narinesingh kept repeating the phrase “beauty is pain” over and over to ease the physical pain she was feeling, but “The Heart” displays her story in a way that shows listeners that the quest for beauty is painful. Narinesingh’s story magnifies everyone’s insecurities because her struggles were, and still are, extremely difficult, and as a transgender woman, she has fewer resources available to her.

The first three episodes of “The Heart” can be downloaded or streamed free from its website.

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LOS ANGELES — “AfterMASH” crashed. “Joey” couldn’t attract enough friends. “Mrs. Columbo” couldn’t keep up with her spouse.

For every successful spinoff — “Frasier,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” — there are at least a dozen that fall flat, unable to live up to the enormous expectations set by their predecessors.

With that history lesson in mind, “Better Call Saul” should be an absolute disaster. Set up as a prequel to “Breaking Bad” — the Emmy-winning masterpiece whose explosive 2013 finale is still fresh in fans’ minds — it revolves around the series’ Brylcreem-slick lawyer, Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk).

The idea of trying to mine gold from secondary characters is so preposterous that “Mad Men’s” Jon Hamm joked during a recent news conference that costar Vincent Kartheiser was prepping for a new series, “Better Call Pete.”

“You’re right,” said Vince Gilligan, the mastermind behind “Breaking Bad” and co-creator of the new show, which premieres Sunday. “It’s a risk. I’m still anxious about how it will be received. I won’t lie to you. I was scared the whole time we were making it. But ultimately, when I saw the first couple episodes become tangible in the editing room, I could suddenly say, ‘Man, I don’t know if the world’s going to like this thing, but I really do.’ I’m really proud of it.”

Gilligan should be. “Saul” may not be groundbreaking, but it’s a carefully crafted dramedy that explores some of the same themes as “Breaking Bad”: What personal trials can turn a wellmeaning man into a sinister one?

How far would we go to protect our loved ones? At what point do we stop justifying our painful actions and just admit that we love the power trip?

Sunday’s debut reintroduces us to Saul. It’s six years before he meets future client Walter White and he’s barely hanging onto a practice, working next to a water heater and defending teenagers who had sex with a cadaver.

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different name: Jimmy McGill.

“Breaking Bad” followers know that he eventually becomes a well-connected, unemotional fixer — but he’s not there yet.

Watching him go down his own slippery slope promises to be “Saul’s” best draw.

“I think the writers have a great time creating a character who is navigating a complex, ever-changing prism of ethical choices,” Odenkirk said. “It’s fun to watch this character because he has the ability to get stuck.”

“Saul” offers “Breaking Bad” fans a chance to see some other old friends. Two favorites from the original series make cameos Sunday night, as do some familiar settings, including the diner where Lydia stirred her final cup of coffee.

“We have a corkboard in the writers’ room with names of all the characters we can conceive

coming back,” co-creator Peter Gould said. “It’s always on our minds, but you want it to be organic to the show. You don’t want to have the details in the background distract you from what’s going on in the foreground.”

Two people you won’t see any time soon: Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) and Walter White (Bryan Cranston) — although White did pop up on a Super Bowl commercial for Esurance.

For one thing, Jesse would be in middle school. Then there’s the hope that, despite all the nods to “Breaking Bad,” this series will be its own beast.

“We don’t want to mislead people into expecting something that’s not going to happen, so Walt and Jess will not appear in season one,” Gould said. “Having said that, everything else is on the table.”

LOS ANGELES — Spider-Man is coming to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Under a deal between Sony and Marvel Studios, the iconic character will appear in an unspecified Marvel film before headlining a new installment in his own franchise for Sony, which will arrive in theaters July 28, 2017.

The next Spider-Man solo film will be co-produced by Marvel movie chief Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal, who recently segued from her executive post at Sony into a producing deal.

According to a release issued Monday evening, Marvel and Sony are exploring ways of possibly integrating characters from the MCU into future Spider-Man films.

“I am thrilled to team with my friends at Sony Pictures along with Amy Pascal to produce the next Spider-Man movie,” Feige said in the statement. “Amy has been deeply involved in the realization on film of one of the world’s most beloved characters.

Marvel’s involvement will hopefully deliver the creative continuity and authenticity that

fans demand from the MCU. I am equally excited for the opportunity to have Spider-Man appear in the MCU, something which both we at Marvel, and fans alike, have been looking forward to for years.”

The superhero of late had been played by English actor Andrew Garfield in 2012’s “The Amazing Spider-Man” and a 2014 sequel, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” both of which were directed by Marc Webb. The most recent movie grossed $706 million worldwide, a bit less than the reboot’s $758 million, and was met with mixed reviews.

The most recent film saw Garfield’s Peter Parker face off against several foes: Paul Giamatti as Aleksei Sytsevich, an Eastern Bloc criminal who becomes the Rhino; Dane DeHaan as Oscorp heir Harry Osborn, who suits up as the Green Goblin; and Jamie Foxx’s Electro, who begins the movie as the meek Oscorp employee Max Dillon and develops a masterful control of the power grid.

Marvel is next due to release “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” the eagerly anticipated follow-up to Joss Whedon’s superhero blockbuster, on May 1.

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ince the tournament era began in 1938, only eight NCAA Division I men’s basketball teams have completed perfect seasons, including postseason tournament victories. No. 1 Kentucky is on the path to do just that. The last team to finish perfect was the Indiana Hoosiers back in 1976.

The wow factor that makes this Kentucky team different than any other before it is that it has up to 10 possible NBA draft prospects.

ESPN Insider Chad Ford said that “this is the greatest college basketball team many [scouts and NBA management] have witnessed.”

Sure, Kentucky has had its challenges this season. It earned a nail-biting victory in overtime against Ole Miss and a double overtime victory over Texas A&M in the middle of the season. But besides those close games, really no team has presented a test.

The magic number is 17. That’s the highest possible number of games remaining that

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bench, very little.”

Hollis-Jefferson shines

One bright spot for the Wildcats at ASU was Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, who had 14 points, eight rebounds, three assists, one steal and served as the third-string point guard.

“His effort level against ASU was tremendous,” Miller said. “If you judge our players, you would say he looked the same in the game. Rondae brings it every game.”

Miller said Hollis-Jefferson is as valuable as any player in the Pac-12 Conference, especially with his versatility on the defensive end.

“Very few players defend the other

the Wildcats will have to play before they can walk off in discussion for the greatest college basketball team ever.

I’m here to tell you that they are going to do it. With NBA talent, one of the best coaches and arguably the greatest recruiter of our generation, John Calipari, will lead the Wildcats to the promised land.

Kentucky has trounced almost every opponent it has faced. Even UCLA head coach Steve Alford knows this team is the real deal.

“I don’t know in my 20 years of coaching at the Division I level that I’ve coached against a better team than what this team looks like,” Alford said to SB Nation. “They have everything.”

By April, we will know if this Kentucky team has what it takes to make it to the big show.

If it continues to play like it has been, I have no doubt that this team remains perfect.

BY ROBERTO PAYNE The Daily Wildcat

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espite having several teams make the Elite Eight over the past decade, Arizona men’s basketball hasn’t made the Final Four since 2001. Though that’s not to say the Wildcats haven’t gotten close. The 2003, 2005, 2011 and 2014 Arizona teams each lost in the Elite Eight by three points or less.

The Wildcats have struggled to get over the hump during seasons in which it was National Championship or bust. The 2003, 2005 and 2014 teams are perfect examples of that, with 2011 being the outlier in that group.

Sean Miller guided Arizona to its two most recent Elite Eight games and has suffered heartbreaking losses in each one, raising questions over whether or not Miller can win the big game. He has reached the Elite Eight three times but has failed to lead

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team’s frontcourt player, a four man and a point guard in the same game,” Miller said.

The Wildcats are 8-2 with HollisJefferson as a starter.

“My role is my role and everybody knows it: to guard the best player and to bring that energy; just to do everything basically,” Hollis-Jefferson said.

McConnell said he’s never seen a player do what Hollis-Jefferson has done this year.

“I don’t really think there’s a word to describe how Rondae’s played,” McConnell said. “Just to put it in perspective for you, he has to learn three positions in practice everyday.”

Hollis-Jefferson said that he has spent “countless hours” working on his jump shot and that he admired Kobe Bryant’s mid-range jumper. He said that he has tried to emulate the Kobe system of

a team to the Final Four.

There’s a good chance the Wildcats could get over the hump this season, even with their three loses to relative nobodies.

Miller’s squad is perfectly suited for a tournament format where it’s win or go home, as long as it can make it out of the second and third rounds.

Arizona has developed a tendency to playing at the same level as its opponent, both good and bad. That’s perfectly fine for those potential matchups in the Sweet Sixteen and farther, because the competition will be top-notch.

Talented players like Stanley Johnson, T.J. McConnell, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Brandon Ashley have the UA in position to stop just about anybody in the nation in a tournament format. It’s all a matter of execution and staying out of foul trouble.

The Wildcats have been one shot away from winning for so long now that they’re almost due for a breakthrough. Behind a starting lineup that is deadly when on, Miller has a prime opportunity to get to the Final Four.

making 100 shots in a row.

“I wanted to try that,” Hollis-Jefferson said. “I didn’t get that far, not even close, but I’m just going to keep working on it.”

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game against Oklahoma State.

Every offensive player made an appearance in that win as Arizona coach Mike Candrea used pinch hitters and pinch runners to perfection. Hughes came in to pinch hit for Alexis Dotson on her walk-off hit, further proving Candrea’s point of the team having increased depth.

After Sunday’s win, utility Chelsea Suitos said she loves to see everyone contributing in wins.

“It’s great to see production

With about a month to go until Selection Sunday, Arizona’s loss to ASU dropped the Wildcats from a No. 1 seed to a two seed according to bracket projections.

The Wildcats are the No. 2 seed in the West Region according to ESPN, CBS and USA Today. That path means the Wildcats could eventually play Gonzaga, the expected No. 1 seed in the West.

ESPN and CBS have the UA going to Portland, Ore. for the first weekend of the NCAA tournament.

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out of everybody,” Suitos said. “We used up all of our runners for pinch runners, which is a really crucial thing to do. Seeing the production from freshman and newbies, especially Ashleigh and then Trish Parks on the mound, it was a great team win.”

Candrea has an opportunity as the season progresses to utilize these newcomers with a group of returnees that may be the best in the nation.

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SCORE CENTER Kentucky remains undefeated No. 1 Kentucky 71, LSU 69

Rockets outshoot Suns in Phoenix Houston Rockets 127, Phoenix Suns 118

Badgers hold off late rally from Huskers No. 5 Wisconsin 65, Nebraska 55

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ARIZONA BASEBALL catcher Handsome Monica (12) catches during practice at Hi Corbett Field on Tuesday. Monica is among several newcomers who could contribute to the Wildcats this season.

Arizona baseball catcher Handsome Monica is among a group of newcomers who should have an impact this season

BY ROSE ALY VALENZUELA The Daily Wildcat

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f his name would have been called in the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft, chances are that he would not be a part of the Arizona baseball program. The odds, however, were in Arizona’s favor when catcher Handsome Monica became one of the program’s newest additions.

Monica is one of the 17 players in the nationally ranked class that Arizona signed in November of 2013. Monica has been through a handful of coaches after participating in events like the 2013 East Coast Showcase and being a part of the Nationals’ Area Code team at the 2013 Area Code games.

There are some things that make Arizona coach Andy Lopez stand out in Monica’s eyes. “[Lopez] is going to treat everyone the same and make you learn how to get better,” Monica said. “I know that with him, in order to find playing time, I need to learn how to push myself.”

There’s something else. Lopez doesn’t call Monica by first name or his last name because “Monica” is a woman’s name. To Lopez, Monica is “Kiki.”

Finding a new nickname was easy for Lopez, and now Monica said he hopes Lopez finds

Zeus is not in top form for ’Cats

UA may be deeper on offense

BASEBALL

Arizona men’s basketball coach Sean Miller said that center Kaleb Tarczewski is probably not meeting his expectations right now, but that the junior is undervalued.

Tarczewski scored two points on 1-for-6 shooting and grabbed nine rebounds in the No. 7 Wildcats’ 81-78 loss at ASU and is averaging 8.3 points and 5.0 rebounds per game.

“I would say that some of what Kaleb brings to the table, in terms of his overall value, you don’t really see on the stat sheet, and I’ve said it, really from the onset of our season, he’s where he’s supposed to be,” Miller said. “He’s physical, he’s hard working, he’s hard playing, he’s very determined on defense and that impacts a lot for our team.”

Miller said Tarczewski would get more rebounds if forwards Stanley Johnson and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson didn’t grab so many.

“I think where his struggles are at the moment is on offense, catching the ball, finishing,” Miller said. “He’s lost some confidence, but I believe that he can get that confidence back, and it’s up to us as a

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and actually likes Tucson, one semester at Arizona has not been enough for him to forget about Louisiana.

“I love Louisiana,” Monica said. “I can honestly see myself back there just because I love it so much.”

Monica learned time management and the act of hard work as soon as he became a part of Arizona baseball.

“I haven’t really been pushed that much throughout my life while I was growing up,” Monica said. “When I got here, I learned quick that I was going to have to learn how to grow up and do things right.”

As a catcher, the pitchers for Arizona have gotten to know Monica as a teammate and have been pleased with his job so far.

“He has a good work ethic and he won’t back down from anyone, and that’s a good sign,” Arizona pitcher Nathan Bannister said.

Monica expects himself to help the team no matter what his role is and wants to help Arizona have a better season.

“My drive is going to help,” Monica said.

“I’m going to go out there and help my team win.”

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playing time for him.

Arizona opens its season on Friday, and players like Monica are still trying to earn playing time. His teammates said they believe he can contribute no matter where he ends up in the lineup, although Monica is not sure where that will be.

“He’s going to find a way to contribute whatever way he can,” Arizona senior catcher Riley Moore said. “He’s not an issue on or off the field, and I think he’s a good guy for our team.”

Monica said it has been a different adjustment, on and off the field, coming from high school to the college environment. On the field, however, there are players like Moore who have mentored him throughout the experience.

“Riley has been there for me,” Monica said.

“He has showed me the ropes and he has been very supportive. I’m very thankful for that.”

The Louisiana native has had to make adjustments during his time in Arizona.

Monica said that although he gets homesick at times, things like school work and baseball keep him on track.

“It was a little challenging at first, coming in as a freshman in the fall and everything on my plate, but I got used to it,” Monica said.

Although he said he has gotten used to it

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team and he’s done probably as good a job as anybody can do,” T.J. McConnell said. “What he’s done for us this year is the reason we’re as good as we are, and we miss him but we wish him a speedy recovery.”

McConnell scored 25 points and had four assists and five rebounds in 34 minutes at ASU. “We could have definitely used Parker in that game, but anybody that watches our team knows how bad we played,” McConnell said.

Without their backup point guard, they were outscored 26-8 by the Sun Devils’ bench.

“That’s one of the reasons we did not win the game,” Miller said. “We got very little from our

It may be just three games into the 2015 season, but this Arizona softball offense might just be even deeper than last year’s offense.

For those who don’t know, the 2014 Arizona offense dominated statistics across the nation. Arizona as a team was first in total home runs (109), first in home runs per game (1.82), first in runs per game (7.5), first in slugging percentage (.636), tied for first in total runs (450), second in batting average (.350) and second in on base percentage (.439).

In other words, the Wildcats were really, really good offensively.

To say this season’s offense may be better than last season’s dominant offense may seem crazy, but there is a newfound depth at the bottom of the batting order in the form of talented freshman.

Two of those freshmen, Ashleigh Hughes and Trish Parks, have made immediate impacts already in just the first series.

Parks and Hughes have shined for Candrea’s squad in a learn-under-fire move that was necessary following the loss of outfielders Courtney Rodriguez and Alex Lavine.

Parks leads the team with five RBIs and two wins on the mound and is third in both hits and batting average among starters. Hughes has only seen five at bats but her last at bat was a tworun, walk-off triple that won Sunday’s

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball center Kaleb Tarczewski (35) gets tangled up with ASU guard Gerry Blakes (4) during Arizona’s 81-78 loss to ASU in Wells Fargo Arena on Saturday. Tarczewski has been struggling this season, a topic head coach Sean Miller touched on during his weekly press conference with the media.

coaching staff to help him get that confidence back, because we’re a better team when he can contribute 10 points or more, and he’s certainly capable.”

PJC questionable Washington trip

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Point guard Parker JacksonCartwright, who suffered a concussion against Oregon, may miss the trip to Washington.

Miller said the program will err on the side of caution, and that Jackson-Cartwright might miss the trip despite potentially being cleared.

“The good news is he’s made steady progress,” Miller said.

Miller said that playing without Jackson-Cartwright was costly against ASU. “Parker’s a huge part of this