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UA helps design deception detection STEPHANIE ZAWADA Arizona Daily Wildcat

The year is 2020. As a person passes through airport security, he or she is handed a familiar device: an iPad. Instantly, an avatar TSA agent comes to life on the screen and begins asking questions of increasing severity. A few minutes later, the person is through security faster than ever before.

Graduate researchers in the Eller College of Management’s department of management information systems are working to make the above scenario a reality, taking their Department of Homeland Security-funded AVATAR kiosk to the next level — tablet style.

The AVATAR, which stands for Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time, is a product of BORDERS, the National Center for Border Security and

Immigration.

The BORDERS consortium is a funded project of the Department of Homeland Security designed to produce new, more efficient technology to aid in its monitoring of international immigration and trade. According to research published by Michigan State University, humans are only 54 percent accurate at spotting deceit, hence the existence of projects like AVATAR, encouraging technological innovations in deception detection.

The AVATAR virtual interrogator serves as a middleman between law enforcement personnel and subjects in question, using sensors to detect minute variations in human voice as well as facial expressions. The obtained information is then run through algorithms and processing software, detecting red flags and notifying instructed personnel to take a closer look.

The third-generation kiosk underwent live testing at the DeConcini Port checkpoint near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Commuters interested in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s faster security processing program, the “Trusted Traveler” initiative, were the first realtime testees for this updated version of the AVATAR. Since law enforcement agents often make security assessments in only a few seconds, this AVATAR kiosk can make the process more efficient, identifying up to 90 percent of all deception encountered in a controlled environment.

The tablet integration project is underway now, according to Mark Grimes, an MIS graduate student conducting research in the AVATAR lab. It would be used on the battlefield, on a Navy vessel or other such locations. However, scientifically, it is uncertain whether

this is possible or will yield any results, Grimes said.

Currently, the machine focuses on changes in vocal pitch, speed and volume. It makes a baseline of a person’s voice when answering a normal question and takes note of his or her transfer to more sensitive questions, Grimes said.

“The final decision,” Grimes said, “always rests with the officer.”

The research team is also working on integrating sensors for eye gaze and body movement. The release date of these kiosks is to be determined, specifically by future policy measures with regards to this technology.

“AVATARs offer consistency for the initial screening and more efficiency in higher volume applications,” said William Neumann, a senior MIS lecturer.

“Businesses could potentially use

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ELLER COLLEGE OF MANAGEMENT’S BORDERS research team is testing their AVATAR kiosk software on handheld devices.

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A Tunnel of Oppression event allowed students to experience and empathize with those struggling with oppression Monday night.

The beginning of the Tunnel of Oppression tour commenced with a group of participants standing in a line holding hands side by side.

Depending on answers to “yes or no” questions asked by the tour guide, participants would take a step either forward or backward.

The point of the exercise was to show that everyone comes from different backgrounds and can hold different beliefs.

Following the first exercise, participants were guided through rooms located on the third floor of the Student Union Memorial Center. Attendees learned of controversial topics regarding oppression in today’s society.

They traveled through dimly lit rooms where speakers gave personal and moving testimonies, watched a video educating on the horrors of the Holocaust and witnessed pictures and skits that emphasized the struggles fellow peers battle with every day.

“I just think a lot of people are not exposed to a lot of types of oppression,” said Alexandra Gates, a public health freshman.

“They’re not aware of the variety of them. I think it’s a good way to introduce different types of oppression.”

The interactive event allowed students from various cultural backgrounds and social upbringing to share an

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Arizona Student Media seeks support, petitions for vote on refundable fee BRITTNY MEJIA Arizona Daily Wildcat

Student media members are petitioning to get a referendum on the ASUA ballot to increase an existing student fee.

Arizona Student Media, made up of KAMP Student Radio, UATV and the Arizona Daily Wildcat, has been working to collect signatures from 10 percent of the undergraduate student body before the Feb. 15 deadline in order to allow students to vote on an expansion and increase of the original $1 per semester KAMP Student Radio fee.

The KAMP Student Radio fee has been in place for the last 15 years and goes up for renewal every five years. Now, instead

of renewing the same fee, student media passed, there would be significant outreach is trying to implement a $3 per semester to the student body as well as significant [either] improvements or refundable fee. advancements in terms If the referendum for the I think without of what the programs are fee gets on the Associated the fee it will doing now,” Murray said.

Students of the University really handcuff If the fee were to pass, of Arizona ballot, students it would not be strictly will have the opportunity to our ability to meet divided between the vote in March. If a majority the realities of the three student-run media of the student body votes 21st century media groups. Wherever the in support of the fee, this need is, that is where the would serve as tangible operation.

— Mark Woodhams, Arizona money will go, according support for the university Student Media director to Kristina Bui, editor-inadministration to propose chief of the Daily Wildcat this in its budget proposal to the Arizona Board of Regents, according and journalism senior.

Some of the advancements that could to Katy Murray, ASUA president.

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positions for reporters and production staff within UATV, a student-run TV station on campus, according to Jackie Kent, a journalism junior and general manager of UATV. There are nearly 60 students from different majors volunteering in UATV, but there are only two paid positions.

For KAMP, there must be some sort of fee or income to keep the station going, according to Isaac Gealer, general manager of KAMP and a senior studying marketing and entrepreneurship. About 100 volunteers are involved with KAMP, Gealer said. There are about 60 shows, according to the KAMP website.

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journalism to have a show at KAMP and they can get on the air for an hour a week in a professional environment, according to Gealer.

“Everyone is in need of some additional funding to help us stay afloat and give students the opportunities that we’ve been giving them,” Gealer said.

The Daily Wildcat is dealing with competition for advertisement dollars and print advertising revenue has dropped off 30 or 40 percent, according to Mark Woodhams, Daily Wildcat faculty adviser and director of Arizona Student Media. There are 150 students working at the Wildcat and the fee could help students pay for media they could participate in, as well as use, Woodhams said.

“Supporting student media is about giving 300 students a chance at real-world work experience, but also about supporting the voice of 40,000 undergraduate and graduate students, plus the faculty staff, parents and alumni who look to these organizations as voices of the UA community,” Bui said.

The Daily Wildcat distributed more than 1 million print issues during the course of last year, and there were about 1.4 million visitors to its website.

If Arizona Student Media collects enough signatures, students will vote to approve the fee on March 5 and 6. The fee would need final approval

by ABOR. If the petition fails to collect enough signatures or does not get approved, Arizona Student Media will have to consider restructuring its organizations.

“The Wildcat will come out next year if we don’t get this.

How many days a week? I don’t know,” Woodhams said. “I think without the fee it will really handcuff our ability to meet the realities of the 21st-century media operation.”

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LARRY HOGAN., FORMER Daily Wildcat photographer, is leading a student group in revising court documents for self representation in Pima County.

between the UA and Pima County Superior Court.

“The importance to me is multiheaded,” Hogan said. “Number one, in the English department for the most part, we focus on writing personal essays or writing novels or fiction. There is more to writing and so, being apart of this internship, it helps us [English students] to see that English is applicable not only to writing novels and screenplays, but also to the business world.”

One of the two law students working on the internship this semester, Kaytlyn Yrun-Duffy, said she has learned a lot more about what people going through divorces need.

“You’re just feeling a myriad of emotions and you’re just thrown in front of a bunch of packets of papers, a lot of the times at a reading level above what one is comfortable with, and asked to try and go and figure out their divorce,” Yrun-Duffy said.

rewriting in simple plain English instructions but also to get information to English students about how lawyers think and to lawyers on how to write better,” Christoffel said.

Students from the UA English department can participate in Simpla Phi Lex, a 3-unit internship to write up documents, while students from the College of Law can participate in the 1-unit program proofreading the documents making sure the legal terms are correct. Administrators and other officials then oversee the documents to ensure they are correct.

“The law students are the ones who understand how the divorce process goes,” said Larry Hogan, team leader for the English students and former Daily Wildcat photographer. “On the English side, we are given the responsibility to write the documents in a simplified language.”

This is the third semester the internship has created a partnership

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them to screen new employees in the initial hiring process, although this would require careful design to be in compliance with legal hiring practices.”

Neumann said that virtualbased interviews have proven to sometimes be more effective and that the use of AVATARs in certain instances offer a force multiplier solution.

“In situations like the recent flu outbreak,” Neumann said, “an AVATAR could be used to provide an initial assessment, perhaps even while the patient was at home, to help make emergency and urgent care centers more effective.”

The technology reinforces the value that the UA, as a research institution, contributes to the nation, Neumann added.

“It also creates new opportunities to expand the research work from which the next generation of breakthrough technologies will emerge.”

together in the hopes of finding common ground.

The two-day event hosted by ASUA involved many volunteers, actors, actresses, and facilitators to guide attendees through a tour lasting about an hour and a half.

The tour consisted of the reenactment of many topics of oppression experienced on the UA campus.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, and transgender discrimination were a few just topics discussed.

“Here, we’re able to address the ignorance,” said Fabian De La Cruz, an intern for the ASUA Diversity Center and a biochemistry sophomore. “What you don’t know, you usually fear.”

Marina Shalabi, intern for ASUA Diversity Center and senior studying political science and Near Eastern studies, said she expects 370 to 400 students will attend.

“I’m sure that it will definitely touch some people and it will inspire some people and … that’s better than nothing,” said Angelica Ceniceros, a graduate student studying aerospace engineering.

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“I just have a lot of empathy for what going through that process is like.”

For the law school to be involved is also beneficial, according to Atwood, the program coordinator.

“It helps the community. It’s a real value to the people who will be going to the Superior Court getting child custody and getting their divorce to understand and be able to have user-friendly documents that they are going to encounter in the court rather than intimidating documents.”

Simpla Phi Lex helps law students gain experience in what to expect from their future clients, Atwood added.

“These instructions are for people who don’t have lawyers,” Atwood said. “So it’s making them think about how the ordinary nonlawyer [person] would respond to a set of instructions about all the documents on how to get a divorce.”

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Two UA departments are working together with the Pima County Superior Court to help make divorce cases and child custody cases easier to read and understand.

About 80 percent of adults represent themselves in family law cases because they can’t afford a lawyer, according to Pima County Superior Court Commissioner Dean Christoffel. Without a professional to help guide clients through the legal forms, understanding the language is often difficult.

“We started the internship and the partnership because the selfservice forms for people who represent themselves in family law matters were very difficult to understand, were intimidating and were not helpful for people who needed to have information about how to access the courthouse and the court system,” Christoffel said. “So I sat down and tried to figure out how to simplify the language and decided that the only way was to try to find someone who knew how to write plain and simple English.”

Christoffel spoke with Jerrold Hogle, director of the undergraduate English program, who passed on an idea that English interns could best rewrite the instructions for the self service centers forms. Word got around and Barbara Atwood, Mary Anne Richey Professor Emerita of Law, said there were law students who would like to help out as well, Christoffel added.

“All of us decided that the collaboration between English majors, law students, and the Pima County Superior Court would be really beneficial not only to helping the people with the redrafting and

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Memorial service honors Pope Benedict XVI first to resign in slain Navy SEAL sniper nearly 600 years

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ARLINGTON, Texas — About 7,000 attended a memorial service Monday at Cowboys Stadium for Chris Kyle, the former Navy SEAL sniper who was slain last week near Glen Rose.

At about 11:30 a.m., parking lots filled up quickly for the 1 p.m. service at the 80,000-seat stadium.

“I stand before you a broken woman,” Kyle’s wife, Taya, tearfully told the crowd. “Chris Kyle was ‘all in’ no matter what he did in life.”

After revealing her flaws to her husband, Taya Kyle said Chris told her: “You’re a package deal. I love you. All of you.”

At the beginning of the service, the crowd entered slowly into the stadium with the hymn ”Mansions of the Lord” playing on the P.A. system and images of Kyle on the jumbo screen.

Serenaded by Scottish bagpipes, the casket carrying Kyle was placed on the blue star on the 50-yard line. A photo montage showed moments of Kyle’s life from his childhood through adulthood.

Dozens of Navy SEALS, past and present, stood as the SEAL creed was read at the memorial.

One-by-one, boyhood friends and fellow military members paid tribute to Kyle.

“At home, he wasn’t Superman.

He was just a dad,” one of Kyle’s high school friends said. Some of the speakers were not identified in the program.

At the close of the service, country star Randy Travis sang “Whisper My Name” then led the crowd in a

in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity PHILADELPHIA — Pope to adequately fulfill the ministry Benedict XVI, 85, said that he entrusted to me.”

The last pope to resign was will resign on Feb. 28, and would become the first pontiff of the Pope Gregory XII, who stepped Roman Catholic Church to do so down in 1415 in a deal to end the Great Western Schism among in nearly 600 years.

Benedict announced his competing papal claimants.

Benedict called his choice “a decision in Latin during a meeting of Vatican cardinals Monday decision of great importance for morning and said it was because the life of the church.”

The Roman Catholic Church of his age. can move swiftly to A conclave to find a new pontiff elect a new pope I am well aware that since there will will form before this ministry, due to be no traditional the end of March.

“After having re- its essential spiritual mourning time that would follow the peatedly examined nature, must be cardeath of a pope. my conscience be- ried out not only by are several fore God, I have words and deeds but There papal contenders come to the cerin the wings, but no tainty that my no less with prayer obvious front-runner strengths due to an and suffering. as was the case when advanced age are — Pope Benedict XVI Benedict was elected no longer suited to pontiff in 2005 after an adequate exerthe death of Pope cise of the Petrine ministry,” he told the cardinals. “I John Paul II. Benedict, 85, is the 265th pope, am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual na- and is the sixth German to serve ture, must be carried out not only as pope and the first since the by words and deeds but no less 11th century. The former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became pope in with prayer and suffering.

“However, in today’s world, April 2005 after the death of John subject to so many rapid changes Paul II. He was ordained as a priest and shaken by questions of deep in June 1951.

His nearly seven years as relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the bark of St. Peter pontiff was marked not only by a and proclaim the Gospel, both decline in religious participation strength of mind and body are throughout the world, but also by necessary, strengths which in the sex abuse scandals that have left last few months, has deteriorated their damage in the church.

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rendition of “Amazing Grace.”

No politicians spoke at the service, however, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin posted on her Facebook page that she and her husband, Todd, were planning to attend the memorial. “I find it sad to see that flags aren’t flying at half staff for this American hero,” Palin wrote on the page.

Kyle, co-author of the book “American Sniper,” will be buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin on Tuesday. The Patriot

Guard Riders have announced that they will escort the hearse from Arlington to Austin.

Nancy Clayton, office manager of Midlothian Funeral Home, which is handling arrangements, said Kyle’s family will have a private funeral separate from the public memorial service.

Kyle, 38, and friend Chad Littlefield, 35, both of Midlothian, Texas, were shot to death Saturday at the Rough Creek Lodge near Glen Rose, Texas.

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Social security tax raise is unfair NATHANIEL DRAKE Arizona Daily Wildcat

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eventy-seven percent of U.S. households have to find new ways to come in under budget after the government allowed for a 2 percent payroll tax increase at the beginning of this year, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

The Social Security tax rate, which increased from 4.2 percent to 6.2 percent for all income earned under $113,700, is continuing to hold back the economy from a full recovery and is unjustly burdening low income earners.

To be fair, the extra 2 percent isn’t so much a tax increase as it is a return to normal levels. In 2011, Congress passed a Social Security tax holiday which lowered the rate to 4.2 percent, collecting the lost revenue from the General Fund instead of the Social Security Trust Fund. The tax holiday was extended through 2012 but was allowed to expire as one of the only tax increases of the fiscal cliff.

Medicare taxes also returned to normal levels for people making at least $200,000 or couples making $250,000 per year.

There’s an important difference between the Medicare tax increase and the Social Security tax increase, though. The Medicare tax is progressive, meaning the rate is higher for people who earn more money. The Social Security tax, however, is regressive. It taxes all income at the same flat rate of 6.2 percent before disappearing completely for all money earned that exceeds $113,700.

Not only was it easy for Congress to allow these increases, it was cowardly. Allowing for payroll tax holidays to expire was playing it safe, but playing it safe isn’t going to get us out of this economic mess. Increasing regressive taxes conveniently doesn’t offend any high-earning political donors, so members of Congress from both sides of the aisle can continue to enjoy the incumbency advantage when they run for reelection.

While Congress fiddles around and fails to make any changes that may actually work toward shrinking the deficit, we sit here scratching our heads and wondering how we’re going to make ends meet.

For financially independent students, the extra 2 percent we’re losing from each paycheck isn’t excess money being spent on luxury items, it’s money we pay tuition with. We use it for groceries, gas and rent. It’s more significant for college students than it is for millionaires who own a private jet and a car for each day of the week, yet we’re the ones losing the highest percentage of our income to Social Security.

We’ve been counting on trickledown economics to spur the economy for years now, and yet we’re stuck with slow growth and persistent unemployment rates.

It’s time for Congress to make some of the tough decisions — the decisions that will actually work to alleviate the deficit like raising taxes on the nation’s top earners.

It may slow growth, but the Social Security tax increase is expected to slow growth by one-half of a percent anyway, according to economist Jeff Michael, director of the Business Forecasting Center at the University of the Pacific.

Since Congress is apparently willing to let growth remain slow, low income earners shouldn’t be the only ones feeling the pain. Millionaires and billionaires have enjoyed enough tax holidays and these policies haven’t succeeded in spurring the economy.

It’s time for them to pay up.

— Nathaniel Drake is a sophomore studying political science and communications. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

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At North Carolina State University, the Union Activities Board came under fire after spending $304.64 from student fees on prizes for the “Dirty Bingo: Taking the Dirt out of Sex Education and Healthy Sexuality” event on Tuesday. Prizes included butt plugs, dildos and even the popular novel “Fifty Shades of Gray.”

The purpose of the event was to “find an innovative and entertaining way to talk about sex and sex education, particularly on a college campus, which deviates [from] the norm and expected,” according to the Union Activities Board.

However, according to the Facebook event, “UAB does not have a bingo license and therefore cannot give out prizes with a monetary value of more than $10.” Instead, it will give out T-shirts and gift cards. You can’t say they didn’t try.

A study by the University of California, San Francisco found that pubic hair grooming injuries significantly increased between 2002 and 2010.

According to a survey cited by the “Today Show,” 70-88 percent of women partially or fully remove their pubic hair, and between 58-78 percent of men (both gay and straight) do the same.

Many cite the pornography industry for beginning the trend in the 1990s, when women started appearing without hair down there.

Men, on the other hand, were encouraged by the female approval that comes from a manscaped pubic region, according to Cosmopolitan.

But, while a landing strip may be sexually appealing, there is a biological reason for pubic hair. Pubic hair helps protect your genital region from infections, rashes and even acne.

It also reduces the external friction caused by sexual intercourse, which could make sex more enjoyable, according to Lauren Streicher, an assistant clinical professor at Northwestern University’s Feinburg School of Medicine.

But no matter what, if you’re thinking of taking a razor down there to impress that boy or girl at the party, make sure you keep a steady hand. Nothing is more of a turn off than a scabby pubic region, no matter how dark the room is.

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In response to “Proposed AZ bill hinders scientific advancement in global warming fight” (by Dan Desrochers Feb. 7): Most reasonable people who are not educated in the subject matter defer to those with specific training/knowledge. When you seek info on something as complex as climate change, it makes sense to seek the best info you can get — info from those with lots of education, publications, experience, references, etc. relative to the subject matter — right?

And where do you suppose the best info can be found? Maybe from experts in climate science.

It’s strange that when it comes to something as serious as climate change, people choose to seek info from those not specifically trained in climate science. Do you really want to trust Fox News for climate science info regarding possible catastrophe and mass extinctions? No! Illegitimate appeals to authority appeal to an authority outside the field of expertise — merely because that person is an “authority” in something.

Legitimate appeals to authority rightly point out that people with specific training are generally in a better position to be familiar with the subject matter, data, theories, etc., so as to make informed decisions on let’s say — whether anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is real or not. And how do we determine the legitimate experts from the bunk? There is a very well-known process used to determine credibility of experts used across the spectrum of sciences. You check publication and citation records of everyone claiming to be an expert. Those actively involved in climate research will understandably have the most publications/citations. When you do the check, those that deny AGW, have a very low publication/ citation record regarding climate science … hmm?

The check reveals that 97-98 percent of actively publishing climate scientists understand that man is very likely responsible for the recent global average temperature increases — not to mention the National Academy of Science and every reputable scientific organization on the planet. There is a reason for such support; it’s because the evidence is overwhelming!

Now, one can certainly challenge any authority, on any matter, even in his own specialty. But that just puts the burden on whoever does so to

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be able to prevail in proving their case over that expert — something the climate change denial crowd has utterly failed to do.

— Matt If you feel that the frequency of publication is evidence of fact, I could simply publish more papers stating that the sun is blue than the people that say that the sun is yellow. I will go with your argument that reputable scientific journals state that global warming is happening if you are willing to admit that those same scientists feared global cooling in the 1970s, global warming in the 1990s and climate change in the 2000s. The 52 UN IPCC experts that released the “Summary for Policy Makers” in 2007 were rebutted by more than 700 published scientists, stating that the science for AGW is out of hand and has gone awry.

The fear of AGW in modern times is questionable, especially when compared to the Medieval Warming Period (950-1300 A.D.) and the Roman Warming (200 B.C. - 600 A.D.). These periods happened without carbon emissions and increased human activity. To place the blame squarely on human carbon activity (CO2 represents a fractional amount of warming, especially when compared to water atmospheric water vapor, methane and ocean cycles, etc), is a fallacy. It has been proven that carbon emissions do not contribute to global warming in the levels expressed. The great engineer Burt Rutan published a rebuttal to climate change alarmists. He approached the problem as an engineer, not a scientist. A scientist identifies a problem and forms a hypothesis and then experiments in order to prove his hypothesis. An engineer uses available data to arrive at a conclusion.

Another great book to read is “Unstoppable Global Warming, Every 1,500 years” by S. Fred Singer, Ph.D., Physics. Global warming is a cycle that will happen whether or not I drive a Prius or a Hummer. I do feel that humans have a responsibility to be good stewards to the environment, but I reject the push to get us back to hunter/gatherer days in order to keep the temperature down.

As far as the claim that Fox News is the source that AGW deniers use for their main source of information, if that’s where they get it, so be it.

Ultimately the responsibility to follow up and find out the truth for oneself remains with the person. We have seen with the “Sandy Hook Truthers” and the “9/11 Truthers” that any available conspiracy theory can be portrayed in such a way that lazy people that don’t want to research will be convinced by a YouTube video.

— Brian (in response to Matt)

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The University of Arizona Police Department investigated a Safe Ride employee at 12:30 a.m. on Feb. 7, following a tip that the driver had been taking extended breaks and occasionally smelled of marijuana.

Police became aware of the report following a call from a Safe Ride employee, who added other employees had noticed this same behavior from the woman and after these breaks, she was often “disoriented.”

The employee then informed the officer the driver was currently in a parking lot northwest of the Student Union Memorial Center traffic circle.

UAPD then contacted the woman a UA student, in a white Safe Ride Toyota, before identifying and asking her to participate in some sobriety field-testing.

The student obliged, passing both tests the officer administered and showing no physical appearance cues of having been under the influence of marijuana.

The student was read her Miranda Rights and told police she never smokes before or during work, but occasionally does “every couple of weeks,” on her own time. She said she does have medications for various conditions that can cause red, watery eyes and a “lethargic” demeanor, creating similar signs to marijuana use.

The woman was released and wasn’t found to have committed any criminal violations.

When in doubt

A set of golf clubs valued at $2,700 were stolen from the trunk of a man’s vehicle at Cherry Avenue Parking Garage during the men’s basketball game on Feb. 6.

The man contacted UAPD the next day by telephone at 4:22 p.m. He had last used his clubs the morning of the game and was sure they were in the trunk.

While walking to McKale Center, after exiting his car, his wife said her stomach hurt and she needed to return for some medicine. Once she retrieved it, he pressed “lock” on a key flab, but never verified if the doors were locked before heading to the game.

Following the game, he returned to his car and didn’t notice any suspicious activity or marks to his vehicle.

The next morning he realized the missing clubs and believed they’d been taken at Cherry Garage during the game, since that was the only time his car was unattended and not at his residence. The set was held in a UA golf bag with an “A” and “Arizona” embroidery.

A victim’s rights form was completed and the man said he wanted to pursue criminal charges. There are currently no suspects or witnesses.

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2.12.13 LGBTQA Support Group. Here you’ll find a safe space for UA students to talk in an open and supportive environment about issues impacting their lives and the LGBTQ and Allied community. Rm 412, SUMC 4th fl, $FREE Tunnel of Oppression. An interactive experience where participants move through the “Tunnel” and become part of scenes depicting ableism, border issues, homophobia, racism, sexism, etc. A powerful and emotional journey of the oppression that is still alive in our society- while a reminder that there is “light at the end of the tunnel.”

SUMC, Grand Ballroom, 3rd fl, $FREE Safe Haven Free Screening. A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her. Gallagher Theater, SUMC, $FREE 8-Ball Pool Tournament. Open to Everyone, improve your game with a little friendly competition. Play to win hours of free pool. SUMC, Games Room, $5

Tomorrow 2.13.13 All Day Sabor: Facebook Check-In Check in. Prove it. Get rewarded. Show the cashier that you’ve checked in on your smart phone and receive a reward.

10a-2p Employers on the Mall, courtesy of Career Services Apple Inc. ?

Bookend Cafe: Sampling Watch for free samples outside Bookend Cafe in front of the Main Library.

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Pima County Public Library Bookmobile Want a copy of the latest best seller? Need to catch up on some leisure reading and DVD viewing? Running short on time and can’t make it to your local public library branch? We’ve got a solution! Visit the Pima County Public Library Bookmobile to: Apply for a library card, Check out one of more than 6,000 books, magazines, DVDs and books-on-CD Return items checked out from any public library branch. Request items from other public library branches for pickup on the Bookmobile February 12, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. UA Mall near Old Main Upper Division Writing Workshop - ‘Integrating Sources: Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing’ Joe Stefani of the Writing Skills Improvement Program will discuss “Integrating Sources: Quoting, Paraphrasing and Summarizing.”

This lecture is part of a semesterlong series of free workshops held every Tuesday, February 12, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Social Sciences 206 Exhibit - ‘Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race’: This exhibit was created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,

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will be on display at the Arizona Health Sciences Library. “Deadly Medicine” examines how the Nazi leadership, in collaboration with individuals in professions traditionally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution, murder and, ultimately, genocide. You may wish to incorporate a visit to this exhibit into your curriculum next spring.

Ongoing until March 31st, all day.

Arizona Health Sciences Library UA Studio Series Presents ‘The Arsonists’: What happens when victims are accomplices to their own disaster? In this dark comedy, arsonists victimize a town and still, the main character, Biedermann, allows two strangers with oil drums and matches to move into his attic.

Ongoing until April 11, 8-10pm. Price $7. Drama Building, Room 116 ‘Exploring Sky Islands’ Exhibit at Flandrau Science Center: Here in Southern Arizona, we live in one of the most unique environments in the world. We’re famous for the natural beauty of our landscape, a place where desert basins are framed by majestic mountains. We call those mountains Sky Islands, the most biodiverse region in the

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F.P.S. — The Fabulous Perspective of Sarah You’ve waited a whole week to be able to see the world through my awesome eyes. And let me tell you, there is nothing more amazing than that view. Get ready; your life is about to be changed forever.

Last Wednesday, I was sitting in the Union, when I decided to count the number of people wearing Ravens apparel. 53 PEOPLE IN TWENTY MINUTES! There’s something wrong with that because a) we live in Tucson, which means over half of those people are bandwagoners, and b) The only reason anyone cares about the Ravens is because of Ray Lewis. Also, it is not ok to wear your Ravens sweatshirt every day. Yes, I’m talking to you blonde-hair, black glasses kid!

Let me point out that just because the weather is wacky, doesn’t mean your clothes have to be. I want to know what possessed the GUY eating I.Q. on Friday to wear just a button up sweater, no shirt, just the sweater. The only acceptable explanation for that is his girlfriend’s dog decided to turn his shirt into a chew toy and the only thing that fit him from her closet was that button up sweatshirt… even that’s a stretch.

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United States.This exhibit will guide you to discover the geology, biology and ecology of our region through interactive exhibits. The rocks, the water, the life and even fire all play a role in our amazing Sky Islands. And all that science makes “Exploring Sky Islands” a fascinating exhibit for the whole family - a perfect way to learn about the amazing natural world where we live. Come visit, and prepare to have fun! Ongoing until Sept.

30th, All day. $7.50 for adults, $5 for children 4 to 15, free for children under 4, $2 for Arizona college students with ID. CatCard holders get a $2.50 discount. Flandrau Science Center, 1601 E. University Blvd.

“50 Years: Tucson’s Native American Community” (lecture) In the second program of the Civil Rights Lecture Series, Robert A. Williams, Jr., E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies, UA Rogers College of Law, will lead a discussion about Indian law cases, Arizona, and the Supreme Court during the Civil Rights Era. Held in conjunction with Special Collections newest exhibition “50 Years: Civil Rights in Arizona from 1963 to Today,” the Civil Rights

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Lecture Series explores how the fight for civil rights has impacted local Tucson communities. The series features community leaders, University of Arizona scholars, and local educators. All lectures take place at Special Collections on the University of Arizona main campus and are free and open to the public. Tuesday, February 12, 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Bob Diaz at diazj@u.library.arizona.edu or 520-621-7010.

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TUCSON GEM, MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOWCASE February 02, 2013 - February 17, 2013 This international marketplace of gems, minerals, fossils, beads and jewelry-making supplies as well as museum and collector exhibits and other treasures composed of more than 40 different locations across town, including the show that started it all, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show at Tucson Convention Center Arena. http://www. visittucson.org/GemShow/

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Defense wins championships. The best defense is a good offense. These are known as two of the biggest cliches in sports. It is almost as big a cliche to point out that they’re cliches in the lede to a sports story.

But who would do that?

Anyway, Arizona is 20-3, and its defense might be the biggest reason for the success of its season so far.

The offense is pretty good too, but Sunday’s 7769 loss to California exposed a glaring offensive weakness for the Wildcats — they struggle against a good zone defense.

Before Sunday’s game, Cal hadn’t really employed a zone. After, a media member asked Golden Bears head coach Mike Montgomery why they didn’t.

“There would be a question for Arizona,” he said.

“It’s just a matter of … seeing how it works, seeing if that’s the thing that’s going to work in that game. I’m sure [UA head coach] Sean [Miller] was frustrated with their ball movement in the zone. It was kind of played to our advantage in this game.”

It was by no means Arizona’s worst offensive performance (see: UCLA loss). The Wildcats shot 50 percent (9-of-18) from 3-point range, committed nine turnovers and attempted 24 free throws. But they also shot 34 percent on twos and missed eight free throws.

“We’ve won a lot of games with far less excellence on offense,” Miller said.

This game was not a very good example of a good defensive effort — Cal shot 58.8 percent from the field, a season-high against the UA — and that was perhaps the biggest factor in the Golden Bears’ effective defense.

“The real key was that we scored every time,” Montgomery said. “The point being that it allowed us to get back in a zone. When we ran into a problem is when we quit scoring. Then we tried to transition to get back into zone. We weren’t very good, then all of a sudden they were getting drives and stuff.”

What does that all mean?

To a man, the Cal effort might look like an anomaly. In a long season, teams have off nights and, again, 20-3 is nothing to frown at.

But Cal’s victory also exposed how the Wildcats’ defense has carried them this season, and that it’s hidden a few problems that Cal (and Oregon for that matter) exposed and future opponents might follow suit. However, it’s fixable.

And it’s all in the numbers.

According to TeamRankings.com, 47.2 percent of Arizona’s points have come from twos, which is the lowest percentage in the Pac-12. By comparison, UCLA gets 62.9, Cal 62.6 and Oregon 56.8.

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This statistic has a formula, which is possessions plus offensive rebounds minus turnovers, all divided by possessions, and an explanation: This measures how good a team is at actually getting scoring chances out of their possessions. Turning it over costs them a chance, while grabbing an offensive board gains them an extra one. Higher is better.

Arizona has a 0.956 effective possession ratio, or 104th in the country. It trails UCLA, Cal, Washington and Oregon State in the Pac-12.

But, more importantly, the rest of the schools in AP’s Top 10 significantly outrank the UA besides No. 8 Michigan State.

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long with national rankings and coveted RPI numbers comes the knowledge that conference leaders like Arizona and Oregon are going to get other teams’ best hits. That’s exactly what happened this weekend.

The Ducks took a punch straight to the gut from Colorado; Arizona, a shot to the jaw from Cal. Now the blackand-blue Pac-12 has eight programs separated by just two games as the conference carnage comes nearer to its conclusion.

“You got to be ready for every team’s best hit, best punch,” senior Solomon Hill said after a 77-69 loss to the Golden Bears. “That’s the respect that you have if you want to be a top-five, top-10 team. You got to be able to take everybody’s best punch and punch them back.”

Cal’s right hook landed squarely Sunday night, knocking the Wildcats off their short-lived perch at the top of the Pac-12. Now Arizona is in a three-way tie with Oregon and UCLA, with Arizona State lingering behind at 7-4 and four other teams at 6-5.

A previously clear Pac-12 race is no longer existent, and while Arizona and UCLA are still the favorites as long as Oregon’s Dominic Artis remains injured, the final seven games could go any which way.

“We can’t panic when we lose a game because it’s just hard to win every one of them,” head coach Sean Miller said after beating Stanford on Wednesday.

“It’s hard to win on the road. Heck, it’s hard to win at home. We have to stay with it, we can’t control who beats who.”

The Pac-12’s three punching bags — Utah, Washington State

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THE UA SCORES 47.2 percent of its shots from inside the 3-point line, which ranks it last in the Pac-12. Conversely, the Wildcats earn the second-highest percentage of their points from 3-pointers in the conference, at 30.8 percent.

The Wildcats score on 3-pointers in 30.8 percent of their points, which trails only Washington State in the Pac-12.

That says that the Wildcats are a good 3-point shooting team, which is good. Scoring inside the arc might be a bigger issue to watch for.

“We didn’t pass the ball. We didn’t get moving,” Solomon Hill said after the Cal game. “Every shot that we took was a one-on-one shot, trying to go beat your man instead of a shot from a pass and kick. A pass one more [time] to an open shot. We didn’t get a lot of that in the second half. Everything was kind of one-on-one, make something happen.

And that’s why our percentages were low in the second half.”

Efficiency would be a synonym for that. Effective possession ratio is a good barometer for efficiency.

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ob Gronkowski is a bro. He’ll wear a tank, he’ll drive a truck, he’ll call you “bro,” he’ll shotgun beers and he’ll dance with his shirt off.

He’s also an All-Pro tight end for the New England Patriots, and a former AP All-American for the Arizona Wildcats.

Gronkowski likes to have a good time, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

But Gronkowski, or Gronk for short, has gotten flak two years in a row for his post-Super Bowl celebrations.

After the Patriots lost to the New York Giants in last year’s game, video surfaced of Gronkowski “dancing” — or running back and forth, jumping up and down and chest bumping people — at a post-Super Bowl party.

Essentially, people got mad because he was having a good time after his team lost.

The Patriots weren’t in the Super Bowl this year, but Gronk still partied.

This time, video surfaced of a shirtless Gronk dancing on stage at a club in Las Vegas (or really just waving his arms around) and playwrestling someone on stage, landing on his casted, twice-broken left forearm.

Sure, maybe not the best idea for a man worth $54 million. But he’s fine. And Gronk warned you about who he was and what type of person he is. After the AFC Championship

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When top-tier athletes from around the world compete at the 2016 Olympic Games, there are two things you will be able to count on: Many of these Olympians from around the world will go on to win medals for their home countries and many of those winners will have been trained by or played on NCAA teams in the United States.

The UA is no exception.

In 2008, 17 of 25 Olympians who competed for or trained at the UA were foreign-born students, some of whom were directly recruited by the university.

The influx of foreign-born athletes competing at NCAA institutions has stirred up controversy regarding the recruitment and amount of foreign student athletes on college teams.

Some argue that American high school student athletes are at a disadvantage when looking to be accepted by Division I teams because of international recruitment.

This is especially true because many of these foreign athletes begin professional training at a much younger age than their American counterparts, especially in such internationally competitive sports as tennis, track and swimming.

“While we don’t have a strict policy on recruiting foreign athletes we do recruit internationally for a number of our sports,” said Greg Byrne, director of Arizona Athletics.

“I think it gives a great opportunity for our student athletes within our teams to have some different experiences when they are around different young men and women from other countries.”

Freshman swimmer Kelly Moodie wanted to be a Wildcat ever since his freshman year of high school while in Tokyo. Now, he is competing at the UA, one of the top swimming programs in the nation.

“To some extent I do see why colleges might want to limit their

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UA SWIMMER KELLY MOODIE was recruited out of a Japanese swim program to come to Arizona, and is one of eight international Wildcat swimmers.

foreign athletes,” Moodie said.

“In the end, collegiate programs produce most of America’s Olympians, so I see why some schools in the NCAA may have a cap on the amount of foreign athletes competing.”

Swimming has always been a sport that attracts foreign athletes due to its worldwide reputation for international competition. At the UA, of the 51 swimmers on the team, eight were born in countries outside of the United States, spanning the globe from Canada to South Africa and all the way to Israel and Slovenia.

“We have a great balance of American and international athletes,” associate coach Geoff Hanson said.

“At the same time, our job is to field the best team we can. We have a history of great international athletes here and we are going to use it to our advantage. When you bring the best in the world here to train with our American talent, it makes our talent better too.”

In 2008, Nimrod Shapira BarOr, now a senior swimmer for the Wildcats, became the first Israeli to qualify for semi-final competition in the Olympics. Even though he moved to the United States before high school and has dual IsraeliBritish citizenship, he said that his heart will always be with Israel when he competes.

“In some way, everywhere I compete, I feel like I also represent Israel,” Bar-Or said. “In the Olympics, I compete for Israel because I was born there and Israel is a part of me. But when I’m here in Arizona, I’m a Wildcat, and that is something that will stay with me even after I graduate.”

Arizona’s athletic department strives to compile winning team combinations for the best chance at achieving NCAA championships while also having to deal with the need to be fair to national athletes and their college recruitment.

“Obviously, our first preference is to recruit kids from Arizona,” Byrne explained. “From there we will go

outside of our borders, sometimes within the country and other times internationally to pick up the best talent. Our goal is to compete for national championships in our sports and this is what gives us the best opportunity to do so.”

Despite any controversy that may surround the topic of foreignborn athletes playing in the NCAA, players and coaches alike agree that the experiences provided for the athletes, both foreign and domestic, are invaluable.

“I’ve seen what America has given me as a foreign athlete, and I am very thankful for what I have got,” Bar-Or said. “I am really appreciative of all of my experiences here and take nothing for granted. All I can say is thank you.”

Additionally, the recruitment of foreign athletes adds to the diversity of college life, which makes being in a university setting a unique experience.

“I think it’s all about having

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a balance and knowing that some sports will have a higher percentage of international student athletes than others,” Byrne said.

“However, I think it still goes back to the fact that the experiences of the members of the different teams who have foreign athletes on them give them a different perspective than they have had before and really enhances and broadens their horizons.”

average, No. 35 in effective possession ratio.

Maybe stop settling for 3-pointers (looking at you, Mark Lyons and Grant Jerrett), and get to the basket. Draw the foul. Arizona is a good free throw shooting team, the best in the Pac-12.

Arizona doesn’t necessarily need to be the highest scoring team in the country, but a little bit of efficiency would suffice, especially against a zone defense.

Because, well, the best defense is a good offense.

“When you don’t get things rolling on the offensive end,” Hill said, “miss a couple easy ones, it takes you away from the game mentally. You get frustrated.

You might look at the ref on a call instead of running back on defense. And that all has an effect.”

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KELLY MOODIE wanted to join the UA swim team since his freshman year of high school in Tokyo. Associate swim coach Geoff Hanson said the UA has a “great balance of American and international athletes.”

week. The No. 1 team in the country has gone down in five consecutive weeks and non-traditional basketball from page 6 powers like Miami, Kansas State and and Oregon State — remain fairly Oregon are leading their respective harmless, with the Utes occasionally conferences. It’s times like this where giving opponents the most grief. But every college basketball fan should beyond that, any of the top eight have be giddy with excitement and full of proven they can win on any given passion for the most beautiful thing night, with Washington left as the in the world — the NCAA tournaenigma. ment.

Cal’s victory at the McKale Center Take, for example, No. 3 Miami. It made that point exceptionally clear. received 17 first place votes and has Guard Allen Crabbe, the Pac-12’s won 10 straight ACC games, but still leading scorer, was unstoppable, net- sits behind No. 2 Duke in the rankting 31 points on 15 shots. When the ings despite beating the Blue Devils conference’s most dangerous player by 27 three weeks ago. In the same is on a middling team, you know the breath, the Hurricanes are six spots overall talent level in the Pac-12 is up. ahead of the Wildcats, even though “Anything can happen in conferthey have one fewer win (19), the ence play,” Crabbe said. “If you catch same amount of losses (3) and sufa team slipping one night you have fered a 19-point defeat to Arizona on to take advantage of it. Fortunately a neutral court in December.

[Sunday] was that night for us.”

Fortunately, these types of debates The Golden Bears’ win, as well as will be answered in March, but the the slip in play by UCLA and Oregon, NCAA Tournament is both a beauty also showed something else; the con- and a beast. ference still has a way to go to regain March Madness provides the its top-tier stature. perfect system to crown an eventual That’s not just the case for the Pac- champion, but it’s also a reason for all 12, though. of the regular season parity, at least Five of the AP Poll’s top-10 teams, according to Miller. and 11 of the top 20, lost this past “Everybody wants to be able to

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game last year, which the Patriots won, Gronkowski was asked by an ESPN Deportes reporter if he would celebrate the victory.

He responded, “Yo soy fiesta,” which directly translates to “I am party.”

Gronk is party.

At heart, Gronk is still a college kid, and that’s fine. As long as he keeps producing, that is. Might be a good idea to avoid wrestling with a broken arm, though.

Still, in just three years in the NFL, he already has 38 touchdown catches.

Gronk being Gronk seems to be working, so let it be.

I’ve asked some former Arizona football players about Gronk and what he’s like.

The response was unanimous.

He’s funny, fun-loving, a nice kid and a “freak” on the gridiron.

“He’s a great dude,” former Wildcat offensive lineman Eben Britton said last year. “Great teammate. Loved playing with him. He’s a goofball but in a really good way.”

As for the whole post-Super Bowl celebration?

“Probably wasn’t the best thing to be doing,” Britton said. “But what are you gonna do, man? The guy just finished the season and he worked his ass off.”

He’s never been arrested and he performs on the football field, what more is there to ask?

Plus, is there a more likeable dude in sports?

Former Arizona head coach Mike Stoops was not very likeable, at least publicly. He doesn’t give off the sense that he has much of a personality, outside of his animated sideline outbursts. If he’s OK with Gronk’s antics, then you should be

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FORMER UA TIGHT END Rob Gronkowski has created headlines for his talents, scoring 38 touchdowns in three seasons, but is constantly under fire for his off-field actions.

too.

“Rob’s a very serious player on the football field, but like a lot of kids, he’s a happy-go-lucky guy, and that’s led to some suspect choices at times,” Stoops told ESPN.com. “Rob likes to have fun. He’s not a malicious kid at all. He’s just a little quirky.”

He was recently offered $3.75 million to star in a pornographic film.

By comparison, Ron Jeremy, perhaps the most recognizable name in that industry, reportedly earned $5.5 million for 2,000 porn films.

Taking that offer might not do wonders for his image, but it’s still funny nonetheless. Anyway, who cares what a 23-year-old kid does in his free time? The story has become so big that even Kobe Bryant (heard of him?) gave his two cents.

“Everyone is so worked up about what he did [in Vegas]. It’s funny,” Bryant told ESPN.com. “If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have a lot of explaining to do.”

— Zack Rosenblatt is a journalism senior. He can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu or via Twitter at @ZackBlatt.

make the NCAA Tournament. It’s so coveted,” he said. “There are so many teams that are close.”

Because of the 68 spots now available, everyone gives top RPI teams all that they’ve got because a bid is always a possibility.

“You’re getting each team’s best shot: they’re practicing well, they’re preparing well, they want to win the game,” Miller said. “Many times they enter the game with nothing to lose and everything to gain. The responsibility that we have is that we have to be ready.”

With Arizona, Oregon and UCLA all losing to 6-5 teams at home within the past three games, the potential for Pac-12 bids to NCAA Tournament is rising; but each program’s overall seed is dropping. Before bubbles burst and dreams are made, though, the battle for the Pac-12 has to be answered.

And as the war drags on, things are getting more and more interesting. I guess Edwin Starr was wrong — war is good for something.

— Kyle Johnson is a journalism junior. He can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @KyleJohnsonUA.

Week Seven Power Rankings 1. No. 9 Arizona (20-3, 8-3 Pac-12) Last Week: 1 This Week: at Colorado, at Utah Week Six: W 73-66 vs. Stanford, L 77-69 vs. Cal 2. UCLA (18-6, 8-3) LW: 3 This Week: at Cal, at Stanford Week Six: W 59-57 vs. Washington, W 76-62 vs. WSU 3. No. 23 Oregon (19-5, 8-3) LW: 2 This Week: at Washington, at WSU Week Six: L 48-47 vs. Colorado, W 73-64 vs. Utah 4. Arizona State (18-6, 7-4) LW: 4 This Week: at Utah, at Colorado Week Six: W 66-62 vs. Cal, L 62-59 vs.

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5. Stanford (15-9, 6-5) LW: 5 This Week: vs. USC, vs. UCLA Week Six: L 73-66 at Arizona, W 62-59 at ASU

9. Washington (13-11, 5-6) LW: 6 This Week: vs. Oregon, vs. OSU Week Six: L 59-57 at UCLA, L 71-60 at USC

6. Colorado (16-7, 6-5) LW: 7 This Week: vs. Arizona vs. ASU Week Six: W 48-47 at Oregon, W 72-68 at OSU

10. Utah (10-13, 2-9) LW: 10 This Week: vs. ASU, vs. Arizona Week Six: L 82-64 at OSU, L 73-64 at Oregon

7. California (14-9, 6-5) LW: 8 This Week: vs. UCLA, vs. USC Week Six: L 66-62 at ASU, W 77-69 vs.

Arizona

11. Oregon State (12-12, 2-9) LW: 12 This Week: at WSU, at Washington Week Six: W 82-64 at Utah, L 72-68 vs.

Colorado

8. USC (11-13, 6-5) LW: 9 This Week: at Stanford, at Cal Week Six: W 72-68 vs. WSU, W 71-60 vs.

Washington

12. Washington State (11-13, 2-9) LW: 11 This Week: vs. OSU, vs. Oregon Week Six: L 72-68 at USC, L 76-62 at UCLA

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‘Bang With Friends’ hits market, changes way you view friends AUDREY MOLLOY Arizona Daily Wildcat

For those meandering the Craigslist “want” advertisements during those lonesome midnight hours and weeding through promising posts for other needy bodies, social media now introduces a more direct approach to solve the formalities of online booty calls. It’s called Bang with Friends, and it can be downloaded to your phone today.

The app, which connects users to their Facebook friends list, is the newest edition in anonymous hooking up. If Facebook isn’t already the most subtle form of informing someone you’re down to hit the sheets, you can take your poke war to the next level with a quick download for, excuse the irony, a quickie.

By joining Bang with Friends, the app allows a user to compile a personalized list of choice hookup potentials. The list has cleverly been dubbed the “Friends with Benefits List.” From here, what could have taken hours of drinking and brazen courage is eliminated in a feat of technology.

If two members have mutually added each

other to their preferential lists, the site will alert the two curious persons and will provide further direction on how to proceed. The directions are supposedly rather explicit, so even the less experienced can participate confidently.

The app is designed to be a discreet means to joining two likewise “bangable” bodies for a union of sorts; however, the app is less covert than it is intended to be. Any person who creates an account on Bang with Friends will be viewed by fellow friends with similar accounts.

This means friends can easily see who is poking around.

Theoretically this app is prime for persons interested in casual sexual encounters, although the ramifications can only be imagined in a digital sphere where nothing is truly deleted. Social media has provided this generation with the tools to forego proper introduction in friendship and dating circles and this app proves only an additional weapon in an arsenal of nameless hooking up.

So, for those looking for an easy, casual hookup but don’t quite know how, buck up the courage to bang your digital friends on a digital site.

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Toss away chocolate hearts, teddy bears Three ways to make Valentine’s Day special for you and your significant other ALYSSA DEMEMBER Arizona Daily Wildcat

The stacks and stacks of heart-shaped boxes of chocolates surrounded by giant teddy bears with hearts on their bellies can be nauseating for singles as Valentine’s Day approaches.

But it can be pretty obnoxious for those in romantic relationships as well, no matter how much you might coo over your significant other in private.

When it comes to Valentine’s Day, the time when you are supposed to “show how much you love somebody,” following typical trends, like giving someone a dozen chocolate roses, doesn’t mean a whole lot. Besides, you can celebrate love every single day.

If you do happen to find yourself with someone special on Valentine’s Day, here are a few tips to make it truly meaningful:

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2. Write a series of “I love you because …” notes and hide them around their place.

Again, it’s all about getting as personal and specific as you can, so put a little thought into it — things like, “I love you because you scrunch up your nose while brushing your teeth.” Your significant other will hopefully find the notes throughout the day and smile every time he or she finds a new one.

3. Do something you’ve always wanted to do together. Gifts don’t even have to be involved at all; Have you ever wanted to fly a kite or see an old movie at the Fox Theatre? Go do it. Maybe you’ve talked over and over again about trying to master a three-layer cake. Have at it. Whether it’s a marathon of your favorite films, a super fancy night of dinner and dancing or a game of cards, don’t forget to simply enjoy 1. Make a gift yourself. This can be as being together. simple as you want, but think about his or If you decide that you really don’t want to her personality, what he or she loves or an do anything at all to celebrate Valentine’s, inside joke between the two of you. The more creative and personal you get with this gift, the it’s no big deal. Do what makes you happy: more weight it will carry. Paint a picture, make Couples and singles alike, you’ve got notha mini scrapbook, draw and write a comic ing to prove to anyone. Have a happy Feb. 14 either way you choose to spend it. book or bake his or her favorite dessert.

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Treatment for the DTs is comprehensive in nature and may be necessary to save a life. In the short term, hospitalization and medication are often needed to relieve symptoms and prevent complications. In the long term, counseling and support groups may be recommended to help achieve total abstinence from alcohol.

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According to one study, 6% of college students met the criteria for alcohol dependence, though 31% were described as using alcohol to the point of abuse. While those numbers are still too high, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the majority of students either don’t drink or drink moderately most of the time. Alcohol use is often described as a spectrum – beneficial or casual on one side, moving to problematic and chronic use on the other.

While any amount of alcohol may be risky for some individuals, the renaissance physician Paracelsus said it best: the dose makes the poison. Limiting your alcohol use to no more than 14 drinks per week for men or 7 drinks per week for women is the single best way to take advantage of the social benefits of alcohol while minimizing alcohol’s negative effects.

If you would like to change your alcohol use or have a friend who you are concerned about, there are resources at the UA that can help. These include Counseling and Psych Services (CAPS) at the Campus Health Service (621-3334) which offers individual counseling with trained substance abuse professionals, as well as the Friend-2-Friend website, which offers students practical advice on how to reach out to a friend in need.

Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

A “fifth” (750 ml) is a common volume for both wine and distilled spirits. It gets the name since it is very close to 1/5 of a gallon.

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The Red Cup Q&A is written by Lynn Reyes, LCSW, LSAC, David Salafsky, MPH, Lee Ann Hamilton, MA, CHES, and Spencer Gorin, RN, in the Health Promotion and Preventive Services (HPPS) department of the UA Campus Health Service.