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VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 98

Founding dean donates $10M

IN THE NEWS

The College of Optical Sciences exceeded expectations, raising $12.5 million in 18 months, a large portion of the donation coming from the college’s founding dean

Nascar driver Kurt Busch accused of domestic assault

BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat

The College of Optical Sciences has managed to raise $12.5 million for student scholarships in 18 months,

Two suspected of aiding Copenhagen gunmen are arrested

despite a projected deadline of six years.

“It’s just simply astounding the change this will make, the impact is going to be phenomenal,” said Kaye Rowan , senior director of development at the College

of Optical Sciences. “It will not only help the students as they pursue their education, but it’s [also] going to be an enormously strong recruiting tool for us to get the best and the brightest.”

James C. Wyant , professor

emeritus and the founding dean of the college, donated $10 million out of the $12.5 million.

“A lot of individuals saw the importance in this and were moved both by the sincerity of

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Science of sleep focal point of cafe series

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Residence life celebrates Mardi Gras

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Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall brings the festivities of a traditional New Orleans’ Mardi Gras from Bourbon Street to the UA with its fourth annual Carna Vita on Feb. 28 from 8 p.m. to midnight.

The celebration also serves as the one campuswide program required yearly from each residence hall. The events purpose is to resemble and reenact the traditions of Mardi Gras.

Mardi Gras beads will be handed out at the event and lights will be hung in the courtyard of Árbol de la Vida.

“The decorations are usually lights,” said Aishwarya Karlapudi, a prephysiology freshman and member of Árbol de la Vida’s hall council.

Roma Imports, an Italian food service, will provide the event with

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DOWNTOWN

The Science of Sleep Downtown Science Café series for this semester addresses the importance of sleep in well-being and health — not only for college students but for everyone.

“What we’ve done is we’ve put together a number of people who are from the School of Mind, Brain and Behavior to talk about sleep from a number of different points of view,” said Mary Peterson, a professor of psychology and director of the Cognitive Science Program.

Peterson has attended and been a speaker at Science Cafés in the past. Every semester, a new theme is chosen for the Science Cafés, and about once a month, a café is held where a scientist will speak from their perspective about the theme. The spring 2015 theme for the downtown café is “The Science of Sleep,” and the second installment of the series will happen today at 6 p.m. at Magpie’s Gourmet Pizza.

The speaker will be David Sbarra, an associate professor of psychology, who will discuss “Divorce, Lonely Days and Restless Nights.”

Even though divorce is in the title, Sbarra said this is really a topic about romantic separation, difficulties associated with breakups and separation, and how people recover.

“Sleep is important for our physical health of course, but it’s also essential to our mental health and psychological wellbeing,” Sbarra said.

Peterson said she chose sleep for this semester’s theme because of the work researchers have been doing in the School of Mind, Brain and Behavior on sleep.

“They take a variety of

pizza. Gluten-free alternatives will be among the many varieties of food available. The main food event will be the King’s Cake, a Mardi Gras tradition where everyone is given a piece of cake, and whoever has a small baby figure in their piece wins.

Members of the Pride of Arizona marching band will parade from Yuma Residence Hall to Árbol de la Vida dressed in their uniforms while playing pep tunes, as marching bands do in New Orleans on Mardi Gras.

“I have a friend who is in marching band,” said Michael Woodson, resident assistant council co-adviser.

“She is going to be parading with the marching band from Yuma [Residence] Hall to Árbol de la Vida.”

Participants can also expect face painting, mask making — which will be part of a social justice workshop

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Professor teaches virtual reality for students

BY Adriana Espinosa The Daily Wildcat

Bryan Carter, assistant professor of Africana studies, approaches teaching in a more modernized way that allows students to bring technology into their studies.

Carter also strives to teach students the importance of knowing culture, especially in the workforce.

Carter teaches a series of classes that allow students to become engaged using devices they are probably already using in their everyday lives, such as cellphones.

In Carter’s course Topics in Africana Studies: African Americans in Paris, his students develop an interactive app that allows them to see history in an entirely new way while being in an augmented reality.

“They are not only learning a new technology,” Carter said, “but augmented reality is huge

in the industry right now. Having students have this skill will turn ears with employers.”

Each Thanksgiving break, Carter takes students to Paris for 10 days where they are able to see the content they created to understand the history of AfricanAmericans in Paris in the 1920s and early 1930s.

Students create content for an app; then, when they are at specific locations in Paris, the app can take photos of those areas, recognize them and provide information on their history. This essentailly allows individuals to be in a virtual reality.

Students also make short documentary films that are filmed with their mobile devices, Carter said. They consist of short video clips taken all over Paris that tell a story of their experiences.

Carter said he thinks the excitement of a new approach to the classroom is refreshing to

students.

“When you excite the imagination of students using the technologies that they come to the classroom with, that they are often told to turn off, you can teach them about the tool while also focusing on a very exciting period of African-American life and culture,” he said.

Carter added that the technological approach maintains attention and sparks creativity, saying that he sees amazing projects from students who would have never thought about doing them if their only assignments were 10-page papers. “[Technology is] growing exponentially, and our graduates have to be ready for that,” Carter said. “If they’re not, they are going to be left behind.”

Carter said that an emphasis on specific cultures in higher education studies are important, because it puts students at

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Bryan Carter is an assistant professor within the Africana studies department.

He has been teaching his students through travel and virtual reality with the use of an app that gives the history of specific locations in Paris.

an advantage when they are competing for jobs after graduation.

“When you think about knowing a great deal about a particular culture in society, it really does give

scholarships

sleep

the impact and need but also by the incredible generosity of what Tim Wyant was offering to do,” said Thomas L. Koch, dean of the College of Optical Sciences. “It just motivated a lot of people to step forward. We had 275 people contribute to this; it’s quite phenomenal.”

Rowan said she worked closely with the donors and that it is her responsibility to identify people who have the passion to support the college in different capacities, including scholarships.

Rowan said that the donor makeup was incredibly vast. It included alumni, faculty from the UA and other universities in the U.S., business leaders, families and family foundations.

“Not all of them had a formal relationship with the university or an education from our college, but they had some kind of interest in what our college is trying to accomplish,” Rowan said.

She said the donators believe in what the college is contributing to optics and photonics, because it affects us every day in areas such as entertainment and safety. It is also an investment in students and their passions, since they are the leaders of the future, Rowan added.

“The financial support that we can offer them in their first year is so badly needed for them,” Rowan said.

The scholarship will cover tuition for 30 scholarship recipients and offer a $20,000 stipend for first-year graduate students to live off of.

“It’s quite an opportunity,” Koch said. “Now, in their first year, they won’t have to make a commitment to work on a particular research project.

They will have time to learn

approaches,” Peterson said, “exploring how children need sleep to learn, how sleep disruption affects learning and cognitive abilities, and how sleep, physical and mental health are affected by a variety of stresses — also including the stresses of daily life and the stresses associated with the break-up of a romantic relationship.”

The Downtown Science Cafés are run through the Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium at the UA. “Sleep is so important and seems to be a topic that keeps coming up as we keep learning about how beneficial sleep is and how problematic it can be if you’re not getting enough sleep or good sleep,” said Shipherd Reed, operations and communications manager for Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium. “We thought that people would be interested.”

Sbarra said college students are notoriously poor sleepers, and the stress of relationship transitions creates “quite a mess.”

“One of the things I think that’s

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James C. Wyant in front of the Meinel Optical Sciences building. Wyant, the founding dean of the College of Optical Sciences, donated $10 million of the $12.5 million raised for scholarships.

and understand what all the research is and all the things going on. That way, at the end of the year, they can make better and more informed choices.”

The first year is very difficult, Rowan said. The graduate work, especially in science and technology, requires focus and knowing where they want to take their research.

“There’s so many different areas of optics and photonics,” she said. “Although they might think they know what they want, they typically need to still explore that.”

Koch added that the funds will provide scholarships for about 30 students.

Lee Johnson is a first-year,

community chatter What should be done to prevent the high number of bike thefts on campus?

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optical sciences graduate student who is currently a recipient of the Kenneth and Michele Moore Graduate Student Friends of Tucson Optics Scholarship in Optical Sciences. Johnson graduated from the UA with a Bachelor of Science in optical sciences and engineering.

“I really appreciate what it has allowed me to do,” Johnson said. “There’s a community behind our college here. There’s support for the students, and it’s acknowledged how difficult it can be.”

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1. “I feel like having more bike valets with later hours would help. I’ve had two bikes stolen, and they had a U-Lock on them. I feel like an actual person watching it would really help. — Karlee Hamilton, care, health and society sophomore 2. “Maybe implementing a program to raise money for better locks.” — Noe Arroyo-Williams, mechanical engineering sophomore 3. “There’s an easy solution: Don’t bring a bike to campus.” — Cody Clubb, psychology junior 4. “Having [the UA] supply us with nicer locks. I just don’t think people protect their bikes well enough.”

— Ryan Baker-Miller, pre-business freshman

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5. “There’s several things they can do. The first is to use more U-Locks to fasten their bicycles. The second is to create more bike valets in the areas where there’s the highest activity of bike thefts.”

— Jennifer Kepler, an environmental sciences transfer student from Pima Community College

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on the masks people hide behind — character artists, henna tattoo artists, flip books where participants draw the images, fortune-tellers and a balloon artist.

“I think that the program is a lot of fun,” said Stephen Merchant, a chemistry senior who was at Carna Vita before. “Last year, we had fire dancers.”

Music will be provided by a disc jockey who will play music in-between each performance

students different insight with how to deal with diverse populations,” he said. “That’s the way America is becoming; employers are looking for that skill.”

Carter said knowing another culture is key because companies are looking for people who can communicate with diverse populations. For instance, it can be valuable to know what may or may not offend a certain group of people.

Carter stressed the importance of using technology and knowing other cultures to be a step ahead of competitors in the workforce.

“I hope we can continue to interest students in not only these courses but also to explore Africana studies,” Carter said.

“Once they take one or two classes, they’ll be hooked.”

— Follow Adriana Espinosa @adrianaespi7

important is that, when we sleep well, we learn better,” Sbarra said. “Our ability to handle our emotions is improved manyfold by the quality of our sleep. After a stressful event like a breakup, it’s really important to focus on positive healthy behaviors and not a spiral downward into something worse.”

Sbarra said that many people on campus go through relationship transitions and, oftentimes, sleep disturbances will accompany a breakup.

While she believes many people know how important sleep is, Peterson said she thinks we don’t often realize how something like a divorce or breakup can disrupt our sleep and affect performance at work or school.

At each installment of the series, a speaker will present for about 20-30 minutes, followed by a Q&A session.

“As opposed to a lecture, there’s so much Q&A, it’s kind of like having a conversation,” Reed said. “It’s a great way to engage with science and the strong research being done at UA.” — Follow Chastity Laskey @dailywildcat

and student a cappella groups accompanied by performances from the campus magic club and Charles Darwin Experience comedy improv group.

The event is for students from every hall and attracted 600 people the previous year.

“We are aiming for higher than 600 this year,” Woodson said.

“There’s a community behind our college here.”

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on the spot Maricela Balderas, a sophomore studying early childhood education What was the last thing you ate?

“Pizza.”

What is your favorite four-legged creature and why?

“A dog, because they are really cute!”

Would you ever consider living abroad?

“Yes, probably in Brazil.”

Are you a good cook?

“Yes; I like to cook spaghetti and things like that.”

How many tattoos do you have?

“I don’t have any tattoos.”

What is your dream car?

“A yellow jeep; they’re pretty.”

— Compiled by Chastity Laskey and photos by Brandi Walker

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Immigrants seek Deferred Action TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. — In a county 100 miles from the Mexican border where unauthorized immigrants are a 10th of the population, people like Oswaldo Farias’ parents never know if or when they will be deported.

“It’s a constant fear,” said Farias, 22, who was born in Costa Mesa, Calif., but whose parents are Mexican immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally. His parents are among the many undocumented immigrants in Orange County who raised their children in the U.S. while working as landscapers, nannies or in other service jobs in the affluent oceanfront suburbs south of Los Angeles.

“I think everyone in our community, whether you’re documented or not, knows of at least one person a year being taken away, just immediately,” Farias said.

People like Farias’ parents are typical of the millions who could benefit from immigration changes planned for this spring. As immigrant communities gear up to take advantage of the programs,

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ALEXIS NAVA TEODORO, an immigration activist in Santa Ana, Calif., has a mother who may qualify for relief from deportation. She would be one of up to 4 million parents helped by new immigration reforms.

states and cities are bracing for the impact, with some states challenging the programs in federal court.

President Barack Obama announced in November the new Deferred Action for Parents Act, which will offer parents of citizens or lawful residents temporary relief from deportation and a chance for

Boston Marathon trial finds 54 jurors TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON — The federal judge in the Boston Marathon bombing case says he has found 54 of the 70 people needed for a suitable jury pool, and a court official predicted testimony would begin in the “near future.”

But defense lawyers for bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Thursday will once again ask an appellate court to halt the proceeding or move it out of the Boston area, claiming impartial jurors cannot

be found so close to the site of the terrorist attack.

U.S. District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. has rejected three defense requests to move the case out of Boston and refused to give defense lawyers a hearing on the issue, spurring them to turn to a higher court.

After more than a month of searching, jury selection has gone slower than anticipated because many potential jurors in Boston have expressed anger toward Tsarnaev or say they are still grieving over the April 2013 bombing that killed three and injured more than 260.

legal work permission as long as they have been in the country for five years and don’t have a serious criminal record. It’s scheduled to start in May. The Migration Policy Institute estimates that 3.7 million parents out of a total of 11.4 million undocumented immigrants in the

U.S. may be eligible under the new program, while the Pew Research Center — Pew also funds Stateline — puts the number at 3.5 million.

Two-thirds of those helped will be Mexican, according to Pew’s analysis.

A Migration Policy Institute study last month identified Orange County

Progress has also been slowed by a week’s worth of snow days, which shut down the courthouse, and two federal holidays, including Monday’s President’s Day. The hunt for a jury started Jan. 5, when 1,373 prospective jurors began reporting to the downtown federal courthouse to fill out questionnaires. The jurors then began meeting individually with the judge, defense lawyers and prosecutors for interviews.

In those sessions, a host of Boston-area residents said either that they were flatly opposed to the death penalty or that they have already decided Tsarnaev is guilty for the twin bombings at the marathon’s

finish line. Because the government is seeking the death penalty, the 12 jurors and six alternates must be open to sentencing him to death if he is convicted.

F u r t h e r complicating the situation is that many other prospective jurors were disqualified for other reasons, such as making donations to victims’ charities, knowing some of those who were hurt or working in hospitals treating the injured.

The defense believes the lengthy jury selection process has shown that Boston-area residents cannot set aside their prejudices and give Tsarnaev, 21, a fair trial. They cited

Boston area residents cannot set aside their prejudices

as one of the dozens of areas across the country with high concentrations of unauthorized immigrants, many of whom could get help from the new changes. The report profiled 94 such areas in 24 states.

States and cities where these areas are located are preparing for a flood of applications that could dwarf the 700,000 produced by the DACA program for childhood arrivals in 2012.

Not surprisingly, the Migration Policy Institute found that large cities such as LA and Chicago have large populations eligible for the relief, said Randy Capps, the group’s research director.

“What really drives these patterns is a strong association with Mexican origin,” Capps said. “These are people who cross the border illegally.”

Advocates agree that immigrants will need help proving they are eligible. That means providing documents such as foreign passports or birth certificates, U.S. birth certificates showing children were born here, and possibly court records proving that any scrapes with the law were minor and resolved.

the large outpouring of emotion in Boston, for instance, when an unknown person shoveled snow after a Jan. 28 storm to uncover the marathon finish line, seen widely as an expression of respect for the victims of the attack.

The defense has suggested moving the trial to Springfield, Mass., New York City or Washington, D.C. The government, however, is arguing that a fair jury can be impaneled in Boston.

O’Toole, meanwhile, is pushing ahead with a Boston trial.

As of late Friday, 193 people had been interviewed at the courthouse, and the judge revealed that 54 of them were suitable as jurors. He did not reveal which ones they were. He needs a pool of about 70 people to enable each side to strike 23 candidates and leave enough left over to make up the 18 jurors and alternates.

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Marina Picasso not just full of hot heir

BY NICK HAVEY

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ablo Picasso is one of the world’s most beloved and renowned artists. His works are featured in museums worldwide, and his art reflects stylistic changes amidst significant political strife. His collected works, upwards of 50,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings and other manifestations of his genius, are strewn across the world, but the largest portion of them reside with his heirs. One in particular — Marina Picasso — has decided to sell hers to benefit her charities.

This move, while worrisome to esteemed art dealers concerned about overwhelming and saturating the market for Pablo Picasso works, is healthy for Marina Picasso and the international charities she contributes to.

Marina Picasso, daughter of Pablo Picasso’s son Paulo, inherited both Pablo Picasso’s villa, La Californie, and upwards of 10,000 pieces of his artwork.

In an interview with The New York Times, Marina Picasso enumerated her reasons for selling off the collection: to support her family and her philanthropic efforts and to distance herself from the toxic and loveless memory of her grandfather.

On supporting her projects, most notably teenage psychiatric units, geriatric health centers and orphanages in Vietnam, from which she has adopted three of her five children, she told The New York Times, “I have paintings, of course, that I can use to support these projects.”

She picked a good time to sell, as Picassos only fall behind Andy Warhol’s works in terms of earning potential on the open market. That’s $449 million in a $16.1 billion international market for art, according to New York-based Artnet.

Marina Picasso did not grow up with the wealth and luxury that her name could have entitled her to; her father’s estrangement from her grandmother and her mother’s alcoholism cut them off from any wealth. This life, made worse when her older brother, Pablito, was barred from their grandfather’s funeral and later committed suicide, is not one she is eager to hold onto. This is why she is so quick to distance herself from her inheritance, she said.

Super-wealthy heirs are no strangers to distancing themselves from their families’ legacies for one reason or another. Hyatt heiress and now U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker dismantled her family’s empire to assuage money-hungry and upset family members.

What Marina Picasso is doing is less tactical but in the same vein.

Her most recent donation — a sum of $1.7 million to a nearby hospital — could have been paid for exclusively by the sale of “Femme Assise en Robe Grise” last year for $3.2 million. Many art dealers and auctioneers, who are, incidentally, losing potential commissions, believe that she is going to overwhelm the market, and they consider her desire to sell independently both selfish and disillusioned.

The market is strangely primed for an influx of high-priced art ,according to the art dealers quoted in The New York Times, but it is far harder to sell a painting for millions of dollars than the Internet seems to think.

Essentially, Marina Picasso will just have to hope that she gets a good price without engaging with auctioneers or industry professionals to appraise the works adequately and have them networked to buyers. Undeniably, it is a risk.

In terms of philanthropy, Marina Picasso is inspirational. The woman is funding both elderly care and teenage mental health. According to a New York Times interview, she has been in therapy for the past 15 years due to a toxic family environment and estrangement from her grandfather.

Thus, funding mental health care is close to her heart and is incredibly important in this day and age.

Basically, this is a big middle finger to her haters, and it is going to do good for many charities — and, hopefully, other heirs sitting on unused piles of money.

So, you do you, Marina Picasso. Fund orphanages, clean water, scholarships and agriculture subsidies in Vietnam and mental health care in Europe, because the art world wants to buy your paintings, and it is ready and willing.

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish.

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Invest more in loaner laptops

BY MARTIN FORSTROM The Daily Wildcat

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ust over nine years ago, the price of tuition was skyrocketing and the requirement for a laptop was becoming more entrenched as just another exorbitant cost university students have to pay to attain their right to a quality college education.

Then, one anonymous family stepped up and donated $10,000 for the school to provide laptop loans, free of charge. The UA Main Library’s trust fund matched the remaining $10,000 needed to buy the computers, initially just 15 laptops, and get the program up and running.

ASUA Sen. Rhonda Tubbs spearheaded the effort, which spent just $30 on advertising; the products inevitably loaned themselves.

Today, according to Travis Teetor, library operations manager of Access and Information Services, and the man in charge of the laptop program, the libraries have 98 MacBooks, 47 full-sized PCs, 131 netbooks and 53 iPads, in addition to eight Android tablets, eight cameras, eight camcorders and 13 projectors. He said full-size

laptops, particularly MacBook Pros, are their “most popular item.”

Moreover, he asserts that “since July 1, 2014, we had 23,655 requests for laptops and tablets, and we have been able to meet demand 97 percent of the time.” This does not include many who settle for Netbooks or are denied renewal.

Nonetheless, this does represent an impressive figure, and the program seems to be well-run. A reasonable $1 per hour late fee is charged once students are more than an hour late in returning the devices — 72 hours after checkout for full-sized laptops and 120 hours for netbooks.

“When you consider how many items have been borrowed, lost and damaged equipment is a fairly uncommon occurrence,” Teetor said. “The primary maintenance is done by our student employees who recharge the equipment and re-image all of our laptops to clear out the activity of the previous student and restore all of the settings … to help protect the privacy of the previous person and to assure that it is ready for the next user.”

However, because it is such a great and increasingly necessary program, we can do even better.

Teetor explained that the program relies on funds from student fees, about which the library regularly meets with the Associated Students

of the University of Arizona and the Graduate and Professional Student Council. This means program costs must be shared with other programs covered by the student technology fee, such as document delivery.

Additional student fees are an onerous burden for students, given the cost of tuition, but this program is essential. Imagine a student whose laptop breaks during finals week but can’t afford to replace it until next semester’s scholarship check comes in.

Jacob Davidson is a physiology senior who found himself without a working laptop last semester. He was unable to buy a new one due to tuition increases for out-of-state students and said the program gave him the ability to take notes in class and work from home.

“The rental laptops are an absolute lifesaver,” Davidson said.

“I can’t imagine what I would have done [without them].”

However, whenever the time came to renew his laptop, he had to face the constant dread that there wouldn’t be enough available.

Considering that California State University, Fullerton, among other rival schools, has been offering semester-long laptop rentals for several years, there is no reason that 100 percent of students who need to rent should not be able to do so. Students should be able

to take out full-size laptops for five days, as renewals every 72 hours are anxiety-inducing and inconvenient.

Where should the money come from to make this happen?

Frankly, it should come from administration, not from the students who will spend their post-college years paying off university costs.

President Ann Weaver Hart is due to make up to $40,000 in bonuses alone this year. That’s in addition to her generous compensation package that totals about $620,000 a year, including a $50,000 housing allowance. Given that, according to The Arizona Republic, Hart is facing serious criticism about her leadership from top donors and regents, she should consider donating her bonus to the program. It would provide a major public relations boost, show solidarity with students and be the right thing to.

All this being said, Teetor said they are planning to make a small purchase of new full-size laptops this year. At least something small is being done to address student needs in this area.

— Martin Forstrom is a senior studying sociology and Latin American studies. Follow him @martinforstrom

Honorable fee, small return

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f you ask any given UA student, honors or not, what the Honors College means to them, you can expect a variety of responses. For some, it’s a frivolous waste of $2,000 over four years. The end result?

Just one extra word on your degree. For others, being an honors student means going the extra mile: exploring options in research, classes and extracurricular activities that aren’t available to the rest of the UA student body.

According to Patricia MacCorquodale, the dean of the Honors College, synthesized opportunities are the most important parts of an honors experience.

“Each dimension — from living in an honors hall, to interdisciplinary classes, to international experiences and research accomplishments — are important insofar as they contribute synergistically [to a college education],” she said.

But does the Honors College achieve this goal? Let’s break down what the $250 semester fee actually buys.

Perhaps the most obvious expenses are the honors classes. These courses can take the form of a more in-depth review of material, more interesting general education classes, smaller sections within majors or classes that don’t fit traditional molds, such as the new civic leadership track and specialized honors internships.

However, with these class opportunities come stringent requirements. Students who matriculate into the college as freshmen

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must complete 30 honors units, which can confuse scheduling and degree plans. The idea of forcing students into classes just to fill degree plans is almost ironic in the context of encouraging individual exploration — ostensibly a goal of the honors program.

For example, all freshmen honors students are required to take a “freshman colloquium,” a one-unit course centered on a common reading. The topics of this year’s colloquiums ranged from science outreach to investigative journalism using public records.

However, freshmen reactions to the colloquia were mixed. They’re difficult to fit into a schedule, which isn’t conducive to finding one that aligns with your interests.

Many science students were in historythemed colloquiums and vice-versa; others felt that their classes were mostly busywork or intangible fluff.

“While the topic had the potential to be interesting and engaging, the teaching method resulted in a class that was pretty dull and uninspiring,” said Exene Anderson, an honors freshman studying molecular and cellular biology.

Those aren’t promising words for a class supposedly centered around intellectual engagement.

In the midst of their complaints, though, many students missed out on opportunities presented by the colloquiums: to network and bond with professors, take and enjoy a course in a field outside their own, or explore important themes in social justice and leadership.

There are, admittedly, other perks to being an honors student. Special grants for study abroad, conference travel and research are useful tools in crafting an undergraduate experience and resume. But many of these grants are limited; they require additional prerequisites, or the grant isn’t extensive

enough. In other cases, grants are marketed to honors students, but you don’t even have to be in the Honors College to apply.

For example, the Undergraduate Research Grant ­— open to all students — offers undergraduates opportunities to complete independent research, which is an important part of any resume or intellectual journey.

The maximum amount of $1,500, though, is rather limited in the context of supplies for most scientific research or research in other fields.

Not to mention, if you asked the average honors student, many of them might not even be aware the grant exists. This isn’t necessarily the fault of the Honors College: It’s been referenced in weekly emails for the past two months.

But if a student is going to be aware of opportunities like this one, it would probably require actually reading the weekly emails or paying attention to the posters plastering the walls of any given honors dorm. It might also necessitate a visit to the newly renamed “Honors Student Success Counselors,” previously mere “Honors Advisors.”

In short, the Honors College could improve on a lot. It could start by expanding funding and local connections for honors students specifically, as well as by working harder to match students to appropriate opportunities provided.

Still, students shouldn’t point fingers. The honors experience is, like most things in life, what you make of it. That’s a lesson they’ll be forced to learn at some point. In that regard, the Honors College is doing them a favor.

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

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A University of Arizona Police Department officer encountered a fight between two men on Sixth Street and Highland Avenue on Jan. 25 at approximately 2:43 a.m.

The officer heard a group of people yelling in the breezeway that separates Villa del Puente Residence Hall.

A UA student and another individual were grabbing each other by the clothes and attempting to punch each other with closed hands, while two other people were trying to break the fight up.

The officer attempted to speak with the men involved in the fight. One of the men said that he got upset because the other man started to “chirp” at him. He also said that the other man called him a “track star” and was the aggressor in the situation.

The man said he was struck in the face twice near the eye and his ear, but there were no visible injuries to his face or body. He refused medical attention and said that he was “fine.” His clothes were disheveled and stretched out from where he was grabbed. He had a strong smell of intoxicants coming from his breath, red watery bloodshot eyes and slurred speech; he said that he drank earlier in the evening.

The other man claimed that it was a “stupid argument,” and he let his anger “get the best of him.” He said it started with a verbal argument before escalating. His clothes were stretched out and a strong smell came from his breath; he also claimed to have been drinking earlier that day.

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The officer was stopped on Campbell Avenue facing southbound at Enke Drive for other police officers that were directing traffic flow away from the UA basketball game that had ended.

The UAPD officer noticed that the silver sedan next to him was displaying September 2014 registration tabs. The officer checked registration records on the vehicle and found that its registration expired on Sept. 30, 2014.

After several officers directed traffic flow southbound, the officer who saw the 2009 silver Kia Spectra drove behind it to make a traffic stop. When the officer got in contact with the driver, he found out that her license was also suspended through the Tucson City Court for an unpaid traffic ticket.

The driver was cited and released for driving with a suspended driver’s license and warned about the expired registration. The vehicle was impounded, and Tucson Wrecker towed her sedan to its yard.

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UAMC Blood Drive 8 a.m. – 2 p.m. UAMC Cafeteria.

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‘Eccentricities of Our Nature’ 7 p.m. UA School of Music. The University of Arizona School of Music presents “Eccentricities of our Nature,” a Faculty Artist Series recital featuring baritone Andrew Stuckey and pianist Paula Fan. $10 general admission, $7 UA employees and seniors 55+, $5 students

Archaeological Institute of America Lecture 5:30 p.m. Haury, Room 129. Albert Ammerman from the classics department at Colgate University will present “Landscape Dynamics at Acconia: Placing the Work of the Survey in Time.”

‘The Work of Fady Joudah’ 6 p.m. UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St. UA Master of Fine Arts graduate student Jon Riccio will present a talk on the work of Fady Joudah. Joudah will be giving a reading on Thursday, Feb. 19 at the UA Poetry Center.

Downtown Science Café - ‘Divorce, Lonely Days, and Restless Nights’ 6 p.m. Magpies Gourmet Pizza. The “Science of Sleep” will be the theme for the Downtown Science Café series this Spring 2015.

David Sbarra will discuss the latest research linking psychological stress with disrupted sleep. Sbarra’s results from two studies of adults coping with recent, stressful marital separation will shed light on this question. He will discuss the implications of these findings as well as ways to promote better sleep during periods of relationship transition.

TUCSON EVENTS KATACHI: The Essence of Japanese Garden Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. An exhibit of the appealing beauty, time-tested functionality, and fine workmanship inherent in 50 traditional Japanese objects.

YUME JAPANESE GARDENS - CERAMIC SCULPTURE BY PING WEI Yume Japanese Gardens of Tucson 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Come see the works of Phoenix artist Ping Wei, whose sculptures stand on their own in mostly earth-toned colors, and with clear lines and mass. People are invited to arrange flowers in them in the Japanese art form called ikebana. Entrance to the exhibition is free with admission to the Gardens. Prices for admission vary.

‘The Way of the Cross’ 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. The annual showing of Ted DeGrazia’s “The Way of the Cross” is on display through Lent with 15 original oil paintings that depict the suffering and crucifixion of Christ. Instead of the traditional 14 Stations of the Cross, DeGrazia’s collection culminates with the resurrection. “I never

TUCSON EVENTS thought the cycle would be completed unless we had the 15th station where Jesus arises in glory,” the artist explained on a 15-minute audiotape that accompanies the exhibition.

“Enamel on Copper Paintings of Ted DeGrazia” 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. This new exhibit features DeGrazia’s work with fired enamels on copper plate. Beautiful partial and full editions along with examples of DeGrazia’s enameled jewelry and sculptures will be on display.

Mardi Gras Celebration at The Parish Gastropub 4 p.m. to 12 a.m. Celebrate ‘Fat Tuesday’ at The Parish, The fourth annual Mardi Gras celebration, Tucson’s only Southern fusion gastropub, promises to bring spirit, atmosphere and revelry of The Big Easy to Tucson. The cover charge is $10. Come early and stay late for Mardi Gras at The Parish Wild West Stunt Show FREE 7- 8:00 p.m. @ Trail Dust Tow Catch all the ACTION, ADVENTURE and COMEDY with the Pinnacle Peak Pistoleros Wild West Stunt Show. The Pistoleros 30 minutes shows feature slap-stick comedy, cowboy style fist- fights, gun fire and dynamite explosion effects. Outdoor bleacher seating with heaters. Though family friendly, loud noises may frighten small children.

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Ducey demands changes to Child Safety Department BY ethan mcsweeney

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PHOENIX — Some international news crept into the Legislature this week with the death of Kayla Mueller, the Prescott woman who was killed after being kidnapped at the hands of Islamic State militants.

Gov. Doug Ducey ordered state flags to be flown at half-staff, and moments of silence were held throughout the Capitol during the week.

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At a press conference on Tuesday, Ducey announced that he fired the director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, Charles Flanagan, and replaced him with Greg McKay, the investigator who uncovered that the agency had left more than 6,500 cases of abuse uninvestigated.

“When it comes to Arizona’s record of safeguarding children — our most vulnerable — our state government has come up woefully short,” Ducey said.

He said the state’s child welfare agency needed a new direction just about eight months after DCS was created under Gov. Jan Brewer with Flanagan, who had been in charge of the agency’s predecessor, at its helm.

McKay said he was dedicated to the issue of child safety.

“Whatever has taken precedent over this mission is to be discarded immediately,” he said.

Center for Arizona Policy Day

Following up on that announcement, Ducey addressed the influential Center for Arizona Policy on Wednesday and called on it to help the child safety situation in the state. The group was behind last year’s controversial Senate Bill 1062, which critics derided as discriminatory against members of the LGBTQ community.

Ducey told hundreds of conservative and antiabortion activists that they should reengage in child welfare, helping children who are now outside the womb.

“These are the most vulnerable in our society and are, in many situations, not being cared for properly,” he said.

Cathi Herrod, president of CAP, then proceeded to interview Ducey at the podium, asking him about his time so far as governor and prayer.

Herrod later went to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services to testify in favor of a bill that would provide for tighter

regulations on abortion in the state.

SB 1318 would prohibit abortion coverage under the federal health care exchange and require doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges to local hospitals. The committee approved the bill down party lines to the applause of those in the audience, which is prohibited during committee meetings.

Ducey, Douglas spar

On Wednesday, Superintendent of Public Instruction Diane Douglas announced the firing of two top State Board of Education officials, but Ducey responded by saying she had no authority to do so.

Douglas fired back on Thursday with a statement to the media where she said Ducey now views himself as both governor and superintendent of schools. “[Gov.] Ducey has refused to take calls or meetings with me personally since his swearing in,” Douglas said in her statement.

“Clearly he has established a shadow faction of charter school operators and former state Superintendents who support Common Core and moving funds from traditional public schools to charter schools.”

Ducey responded that he was “disappointed” with Douglas.

Beer, beer, beer

Beer dominated the conversation at the Capitol Monday afternoon when microbrewery supporters descended on the Capitol to rally for SB 1030. The bill from Sen. Kelli Ward, R-Lake Havasu City, would raise production caps for microbreweries to allow them to continue operating restaurants.

“Beer puts people to work, and we should be ensuring craft brewers have a path for responsible growth,” Ward told supporters holding green signs supporting SB 1030 on the Senate lawn.

The microbrewery supporters weren’t just there to back SB 1030. They also came to oppose competing legislation that would keep in place the system where producers, distributors and retailers are separate. That bill, SB 1437, sponsored by Sen. Steve Smith, R-Maricopa, also has supporters in the alcohol industry and was heard in the Senate Committee on Commerce and Workforce Development along with SB 1030.

After hours of debate and testimony, the committee approved SB 1030, and Smith held his bill in hopes of finding compromise later.

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Arizona baseball returns to Hi Corbett Field on Tuesday to host the North Dakota State Bison.

The Wildcats (3-0) swept their opening three-game home series against Eastern Michigan last weekend.

The two-game series is part of Arizona’s heavily loaded nonconference schedule, which features 19 games in 23 days.

Cody Hamlin will start on the mound for his first time this year on Tuesday against the Bison. The right-handed submarine pitcher was snubbed from the weekend rotation after underperforming in comparison to other candidates during the preseason.

Hamlin debuted as a closer in Friday’s opening night 7-3 win, striking out five of the seven batters he faced, and threw 33 pitches in two innings of work.

“He’s in the mix,” Arizona head coach Andy Lopez said.

“We’ll be settled in by the [Pac12 Conference], but right now, you have to get it done, and if not, you’ll go back in that pen.”

Another one of those in the mix is Nathan Bannister, who will follow Hamlin with a Wednesday night start.

Bannister made an appearance in 13 games as a reliever last season. His 5.40 ERA yielded 23 hits and 11 runs in 15 innings. Lopez said he sees the right-hander as a top pitching contender this season.

Sunday’s starting pitcher, Tyger Talley, said having the competition with a deep bullpen can only help Arizona’s tenacity in the long run.

“I’d rather go as deep as I can and take the innings then go to the bullpen,” Talley said. “I’d rather rest [the relievers] and have them healthy for the rest of the season.”

For a team that lacked depth in the pen last year, having this

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ARIZONA BASEBALL INFIELDER Scott Kingery (25) records a hit during Arizona’s 6-2 win against Eastern Michigan at Hi Corbett Field on Sunday. Kingery and the Wildcats take on North Dakota State in a two-game series on Tuesday and Wednesday.

battle early in the season comes as a relief to veterans such as catcher Riley Moore.

“We might not have Vanderbilt stuff where every arm coming out is throwing mid-90s,” Moore said, “but I think the mentality we have on the mound is mid-90s.”

North Dakota State is coming off a three-game losing streak in the Grand Canyon University Classic in Phoenix over the weekend. NDSU faced GCU, Bradley University and University of Nebraska, Omaha, in the threeday Classic.

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1 No. 7 Arizona (22-3, 10-2 Pac-12 Conference) True to form, the Wildcats atoned for their bad loss at ASU by scoring impressive wins at the Washington schools. How long will they keep rolling, though? Rondae Hollis-Jefferson earned Pac-12 Player of the Week honors for his contributions, with team-highs of 17 points and 9.5 rebounds, and he also earned spots on blooper and highlight reels for his slip on a dunk attempt.

Last week: First, W at Washington 86-62, W at Washington State 86-59 This week: vs. USC (10-15, 2-11), vs.

UCLA (16-10, 8-5)

4 Stanford (16-9, 7-6) The Cardinal was an NCAA tournament team and a potential challengers for the Pac-12 title not too long ago. Now, it’s lost four of its last five, including a loss to lowly Colorado. This week, we’ll see how far its fallen and how far Cal has climbed when the NorCal rivals face off.

Last week: Fourth, L at Utah 75-59,

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6 Oregon State (16-9, 7-6) The Beavers should drop (they played on the road, so of course they lost both games), but there’s not really anyone to move ahead of them. Oregon State has had so much trouble on the road that its plane home on Sunday had to be delayed due to a scorpion attack.

Last week: Sixth, L at UCLA 75-59,

cKale Center is without question the best arena in the Pac-12 Conference.

Recently renovated, it features state-of-the-art everything, from concessions to locker rooms to the court itself.

Arizona’s practice basketball facility, Richard Jefferson Gymnasium, is just as stunning. Two full courts run end to end, joined by a weight room and cardio room that feature the latest technology.

The UA has constructed a modern basketball palace in Tucson, and the women’s program still finds itself muddling through quicksand.

Every conceivable tool is at the disposal of Arizona basketball players, both men and women. They share everything. Heck, even the team locker rooms are identical.

But while the men continue to dominate the conference on the recruiting trail as well as the court, the women have inexplicably fallen — and remained — at the bottom of the Pac. The Arizona women’s team traveled to Corvallis, Ore., this past weekend, where it lost to No. 8 Oregon State 73-48. The defeat moved the Wildcats to 2-12 in conference play and 9-16 overall, all but guaranteeing another losing season.

It was not long ago that the Beavers were in the same cellar position as the Wildcats. In fact, going into this season, Oregon State had not made the Women’s NCAA Tournament in 19 years.

Today, the Beavers are ranked top 10 nationally, sit atop the Pac-12 and look poised to make a deep run in March.

Oregon State does not play in a state-of-the-art arena, nor does the

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2 No. 9 Utah (20-4, 10-2) The Utes kept pace with the Wildcats with a sweep of the Bay Area schools. Utah can’t look ahead to the huge Feb. 28 de facto Pac-12 championship game with Arizona, though. This week, they face the tall task of winning at Oregon State.

Last week: Second, W vs. Stanford 75-59, W vs. California 76-61 This week: at Oregon State (16-9, 7-6), at Oregon (18-8, 8-5) 3 UCLA (16-10, 8-5) Don’t look now, but the Bruins have played themselves back into the NCAA tournament after their horrid start. After losing five in a row, including once scoring only seven points in an entire half, everyone buried them, even this Pac-12 pundit. However, the Bruins have snuck into the last four in slot of ESPN’s Bracketology.

Last week: Third, W vs. Oregon State 75-59, W vs. Oregon 72-63 This week: at ASU (13-12, 5-7), at No. 7 Arizona (22-3, 10-2)

The Bison gave up leads in the games against GCU and Omaha, and went into extra innings against Bradley, before allowing five unanswered runs in the top of the 10th. The team recorded just 25 hits throughout the weekend.

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (23) blocks Oregon State guard Langston Morris-Walker’s (13) attempted shot during Arizona’s 57-34 win against Oregon State in McKale Center on Jan. 30. Hollis-Jefferson was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week for his performances against Washington and Washington State last week.

L at Colorado 64-58 This week: vs. California (16-10, 6-7) 5 Oregon (18-8, 8-5) The Ducks have won four of their last five and six of their last eight. However, they lost a potential statement game against UCLA in the battle of the Pac-12’s renaissance teams.

Last week: Fifth, W at USC 80-75, L at UCLA 72-63 This week: vs. Colorado (12-12,

5-7), vs. No. 9 Utah (20-4, 10-2)

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GymCats get revenge against Sun Devils

BY MATT WALL

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No. 20 Arizona gymnastics defeated archrival ASU on Monday night in McKale Center 196.625-195.375 , earning a point in the Territorial Cup against the Sun Devils. The GymCats score was also their highest total so far this season .

“It shows good growth,” Arizona gymnastics head coach Bill Ryden said. “The way we did it was we didn’t really worry about our rival; we worried about us being better. We tried new lineups on three different events. The girls are just continuing to grow.”

The GymCats remained consistent in every event throughout the night, and the Sun Devils always trailed.

The victory was even more important, since the Wildcats lost the meet against the Sun Devils last season .

The Wildcats earned a team score of 49.025 on the vault , highlighted by Shelby Edwards, who scored a 9.875 . Allison Flores added a 9.825 , and Jessie Sisler scored a 9.800 .

The GymCats pulled off their highest total team score of the season on bars with a 49.300 .

Victoria Ortiz nailed her routine for a career-high of 9.900 , and Selynna Felix-Terrazas tied her season-high with a 9.875 . Gabby Laub and Krysten Howard both scored a 9.850 .

“I’ve been working on that since the beginning of the season, so it feels really good to reach that,” Ortiz said.

The Wildcats are currently ranked 17th in the nation on bars, and Ryden is confident in his bar team.

“When you can have the expectation that every single girl can do 9.800 or better and they do their job, good things are going to happen,” Ryden said.

The Wildcats then moved onto beam, totaling a score of 49.175 .

Madison Cindric , Flores and Shay Fox all led the GymCats with scores of 9.850 . Sisler added a score of 9.825 , while Edwards capped off beam with a 9.800 .

The GymCats managed a total team score of 49.125 on the floor. Flores once again led her team with a score of 9.875 , tying her season-high, along

with Sisler who also scored a 9.875 . Lexi Mills scored a careerhigh of 9.850 in just her second time performing on floor in her collegiate career.

Flores finished the meet in the all-around competition with a 39.350 . Even though she tied career highs, she is still focused on improving.

“There’s always room for improvement,” Flores said. “I’m really hard on myself, so I know that I can do better. I only have two meets left at the McKale Center.”

Ryden said he’s proud of his team because the Wildcats can now say they own the state in gymnastics, at least for the moment.

“Certainly, it is that rivalry and we are glad to do our part,” Ryden said. “Obviously, owning the state is a goal of ours, so this just goes toward that.”

Up next, the Wildcats have a bye week and will face No. 18 California at home on Feb. 28 in McKale Center.

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ARIZONA GYMNAST Allison Flores performs on the beam during Arizona’s 196.625-195.375 win against ASU in McKale Center on Monday. Flores finished in the all-around competition with a score of 39.350.

Last week: Eighth, W at Colorado 68-61, L at Utah 76-61 This week: at Stanford (16-9, 7-6)

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L at USC 68-55 This week: vs. No. 9 Utah (20-4, 10-2), vs. Colorado (12-12, 5-7) 7 ASU (13-12, 5-7) The Sun Devils earned the split in Washington, which is normally an impressive feat. However, Washington is so bad of late that it needs to change its name from UW to UL. Last week: Ninth, L at Washington State 74-71, W at Washington 78-68 This week: vs. UCLA (16-10, 8-5), vs. USC (10-15, 2-11) 8 California (16-10, 6-7) Last week on the Rocky Mountain road trip, the Golden Bears continued their rebirth. Cal beat CU, and while they lost at Utah, you have to walk before you can run.

9 Colorado (12-12, 5-7) The Buffaloes showed some signs of life last week by upsetting Stanford. The win snapped CU’s three-game losing streak. A sweep of the Oregon schools this week would make things interesting.

Last week: 10th, L vs. California 68-61, W vs. Stanford 64-58 This week: at Oregon (18-8, 8-5), at Oregon State (16-9, 7-6) 10 Washington State (11-14, 5-8) The Cougars had their way with ASU but then got spanked by the Wildcats. WSU has lost seven of its last nine.

Last week: Ninth, W vs. ASU 74-71, L vs. Arizona 86-59 This week: vs. Washington (14-11, 3-10)

by burying the Beavers. Was that due to USC playing better, or Oregon State playing like Oregon State on the road? Maybe the Trojans can steal a win in the desert this weekend, but ruining Jason Terry night on Thursday seems pretty impossible.

Last week: 12th, L vs. Oregon 80-75, W vs. Oregon State 68-55 This week: at No. 7 Arizona (22-3, 10-2), at ASU (13-12, 5-7) 12 Washington (14-11, 3-10) The Huskies have lost seven in a row. It’s a good thing Washington had a “blackout” against Arizona last weekend, because it was another one to forget. It should be noted that the Daily Wildcat does not endorse binge drinking, though.

Last week: 10th, L vs. Arizona 86-62, L vs. ASU 78-68 This week: at Washington State (11-14, 5-8)

11 USC (10-15, 2-11) The Trojans snapped their nine-game losing streak last week

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school own a top-line training gym. Gill Coliseum, built in the 1940s, could be the home of some “Hoosiers” sequel.

The seats look like they’re made with cheap plastic, the scoreboard is archaic compared to the one at McKale Center and the arena only holds a capacity of 9,604. McKale Center can fit in nearly 16,000.

That’s not to mention that Corvallis isn’t exactly a destination spot for elite basketball players.

Yet, it is the Beavers, under fourth-year head coach Scott Rueck, who have climbed the conference ladder and look primed for future success.

Inevitably, the conversation turns to the future of head coach Niya Butts, who still has one year left on her contract. With Arizona doomed for another bottom finish in the Pac-12 — in a year that rival ASU has raced to the top — will athletic director Greg Byrne give Butts another chance?

Byrne made his presence nationally known when he chose to fire former football coach Mike Stoops mid-season back in 2011. He is not an athletic director who is going to accept mediocrity.

Now in her seventh year at Arizona, Butts has never led the Wildcats to the NCAA tournament. The only postseason trip was in 2011 when the UA fell in the first round of the NIT, and she actually got a contract extension after that.

In the four seasons since, Arizona has won a total of 10 conference games. That’s not cutting it.

Now equipped with the best facilities in the Pac-12, the only question to ask is: Why aren’t the Wildcats winning more? The blame has to fall on Butts.

Arizona, on the other hand, proved the loss of second baseman Trent Gilbert to the MLB didn’t affect its offensive performance.

The team collectively batted .368 on the weekend and raked in 21 hits in Saturday’s matchup alone.

Returning starter Scott Kingery demonstrated an easy transition from outfield to second base with no errors and nine assists over the weekend.

He also went 7-13 with his bat in the series, scoring the first home run of the season Saturday. Kingery was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week for his efforts.

Arizona outfielder Justin Behnke, a transfer from South Mountain Community College, also had a hot bat over the weekend, tallying three runs and an RBI in his three starts at center field.

“The sweep gives us some confidence,” Behnke said. “We still have things we need to work on. These next two games will allow us to work on those.”

The first pitch today is at 6 p.m.

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’Cat plays with PGA stalworth everything, and that’s a great trait to have as a golfer.”

Cunningham was a highly touted Arizona men’s golf freshman player coming out of high school George Cunningham received as the No. 2 overall recruit by both an opportunity on Monday that Golfweek and American Junior every athlete dreams of at least Golf Association, and even though once in their career: playing with the young Cunningham is ahead of a professional athlete — more many players his age, playing with Furyk was more of a golf lesson to specifically, ex-Wildcat Jim Furyk.

The pair competed at the the freshman.

“One thing that I learned from Northern Trust Open Collegiate Showcase at Riviera Country him was to stay relaxed, and Club in Pacific Palisades, Calif., that’s one thing that stood out to and despite shooting a one-over- me was how relaxed he was with par and finishing second, the everything,” Cunningham said. “I experience for Cunningham was used to get frustrated really easily in high school, imperative. but I’ve been “This was more relaxed and a chance for now after playing George to get GEORGE CUNNINGHAM with Jim; it will experience definitely help my with a true YEAR game.” competitor, FRESHMAN The NTO and it worked MAJOR Collegiate out great for GENERAL STUDIES Showcase was him,” Arizona HOMETOWN also a chance for men’s golf TUCSON, ARIZ Cunningham head coach to present his Jim Anderson HEIGHT, WEIGHT talents to the said.

“For 5’9”, 180 LBS former Wildcat in being such 2015 STATS hopes of getting a young positive feedback player, having 72.53 AVERAGE, FIVE TOURNAMENTS, from a man of his someone 15 ROUNDS AND 1,088 STROKES profession. like Jim play “Jim actually with you is something that is very helpful to had some pretty positive comments about George’s game, as well as George.”

Even though Furyk hasn’t mentoring him,” Anderson said, recorded a PGA Tour win since “so that was something George can 2010, the 44-year-old completed hold on to.”

Cunningham will take the the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am tied for seventh place compliments with a grain of salt after shooting a total score of 271 and use Furyk’s words of wisdom as (-16). Furyk’s performance was motivation heading into Hawaii for highlighted during the final round the John Burns Invitational.

“Jim’s comments will be used as a after he somehow made par on the par-5 sixth hole after his ball ended confidence booster for myself, and hopefully I’m not too tired for the up on the edge of a cliff.

Most golfers would panic in a next tournament we have coming situation such as standing over a ball up in Hawaii,” Cunningham said. on the edge of a cliff looking out to “But I’ll be fine, and I’m looking the Pacific Ocean, but Furyk thrives forward after a day like today.”

The Wildcats will compete for on being relaxed and refusing to let sticky situations get the best of him, the John Burns Invitational in a trait that Cunningham hopes to Lihue, Hawaii, on Wednesday with an 11:30 a.m. tee time. replicate.

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball head coach Sean Miller stoically watches his team defeat Oregon State 57-34 in McKale Center on Jan. 30. Miller and the Wildcats have rebounded nicely from the ASU defeat earlier in the month.

AFTER SEATTLE SEAHAWKS kicker Steven Hauschka kicked an onside kick, Green Bay Packers tight end Brandon Bostick had his hands on the ball but couldn’t keep it. Seahawks wide receiver Chris Matthews recovered the ball during the fourth quarter on Jan. 18 at CenturyLink Field in Seattle.

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Hot Arizona men’s basketball Sean Miller’s group lost to ASU earlier this month and rebounded quite nicely by defeating Washington 86-62 on Friday and Washington State 86-59 on Sunday.

Despite being shorthanded, Arizona dominated both matchups in the way most UA fans expect the team to.

After taking down the Washington schools, Arizona stayed at No. 7 in the latest AP Top 25 poll. All in all, it was a good week for the fighting Sean Millers.

Kentucky men’s basketball No. 1 Kentucky just keeps finding ways to look down and out before a crazy comeback in the last couple minutes of games to reach a perfect 25-0 on the season.

LSU had John Calipari’s group on the ropes in Baton Rouge, La., but the Wildcats stepped up over the last two minutes of that game. Stud freshman Karl AnthonyTowns made a couple huge buckets, and Kentucky is still the unanimous No. 1 in the nation. Can anyone take down Big Blue Nation?

Former New York Yankees The New York Yankees announced on Monday that former Yankees Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada and Bernie Williams will have their jerseys retired. Not to mention, former Yankee Willie Randolph is getting a plaque in Monument Park at Yankee Stadium. Pettitte, Posada and Williams are the 18th, 19th and 20th former Yankees to be honored with a retired jersey. It’s safe to say it was a good day to be a Yankee.

Arizona women’s basketball Just when Niya Butts’ team looks to be on the upswing, more losses rained down on Arizona’s parade. Fresh off an upset of women’s basketball powerhouse Stanford, the Wildcats put together back-to-back double-digit losses on the road against the Oregon schools. It’s past the point where this team can’t catch a break; this is a normal occurrence now. To say Butts is on the hot seat might be too kind.

Brandon Bostick The Green Bay Packers announced on Monday that backup tight end Brandon Bostick was released. Why should you care? Bostick was the player who let the onside kick bobble through his hands against the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship game. Seattle went on to score after that and eventually won the right to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl. Bostick couldn’t catch a break then and didn’t catch a break now, either.

Guess the moral of the story is Bostick can’t catch. Too soon?

Amar’e Stoudemire There once was a time where Amar’e Stoudemire looked to be the future of the New York Knicks franchise.

The Knicks announced on Sunday that the organization has waived the often injured power forward. Stoudemire has fallen quite a long way since his days as a Phoenix Sun. While a return to Phoenix was rumored, STAT is likely headed to a title contender for the rest of this season; with the Dallas Mavericks being the apparent front runner to land the big man. If only he could take Phoenix’s storied medical staff with him.

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Mixing Xanax and alcohol is always a bad idea.

The combination can produce effects that range from being mildly uncomfortable to ones that are fatal.

Xanax is a benzodiazepine (tranquilizer) and is most often used for short-term treatment of anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia, and seizures.

Both drugs markedly magnify the effect of the other. You can become intoxicated much quicker when taking Xanax while consuming alcohol. Xanax may intensify alcohol’s ability to cloud judgment and you may easily find yourself making poor decisions that could quickly lead to regret.

Combining Xanax and alcohol (two central nervous system depressants) creates a synergistic action called “potentiation” in which the effect of the two drugs taken simultaneously is much greater than the sum of the effects of each drug taken separately. The risks of coma or death from respiratory and cardiac failure are significantly greater.

Ironically, when combined with alcohol, Xanax, which is intended to reduce panic attacks, may actually trigger more intensive panic attacks. This mixture can increase the likelihood of intense and unstable mood swings and behaviors.

Xanax is also considered one of the most addictive tranquilizers. A serious danger of Xanax addiction is abruptly stopping it because of the risk of seizures.

Withdrawal from Xanax needs to be done gradually and under the care of a physician.

The bottom line is that the combination of alcohol with any other drug is risky and is especially so with Xanax.

The combination of Xanax and grapefruit juice may produce toxic side-effects.

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015 • Page 12 Editor: Mia Moran arts@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-3106 twitter.com/dailywildcat

THEATER REVIEW

Tech issues doom ‘Mindy Anna Jones’

BY ANNA MAE LUDLUM The Daily Wildcat

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f “Mindy Anna Jones and the Lost Ark of Time” is to be remembered for one accomplishment, it would be for transforming Lionel Richie’s “Endless Love” into a humorous, adorable cover.

“Mindy Anna Jones and the Lost Ark of Time” is the first parody musical of the season at The Great American Playhouse. Time-traveling villains, two wise Aztecs and an archaeologist hoping to prevent the villains from ruling the universe gleefully break the fourth wall and encourage audience participation.

While on the hunt for lost Mayan artifacts, three villains from the past meet Mindy Anna Jones (Jennifer Ackerley Lawrence).

Jumping through the timetraveling ark, which really looks like a Mayan propane grill, Mindy and her two less-competent fellow adventurers decide to follow the villains back in time.

Lawrence’s bouncy physicality — reminiscent of a former Disney sitcom star — combines with her undying gusto; they are wellmatched features for the ever-inmotion Mindy Anna Jones, the younger, cuter female counterpart to Indiana Jones.

It is a shame her talent wasn’t put to more use in the choreographed musical numbers. An American Musical and Dramatic Academy graduate, Lawrence should have been given an opportunity to enhance the underwhelming, repetitive dancing choreographed for those without dance experience.

The musical forces a romantic storyline between Mindy and one of her male companions (Daniel Lopez), and it is unnecessary and unbearably awkward. A strangely

dry peck on the lips between Lopez and Lawrence was like watching Corky St. Clair attempt to play a character wooing Libby Mae Brown in “Waiting for Guffman.”

The villainous threesome is lead

by Sean MacArthur as Roman.

Dressed in a white suit and Hawaiian undershirt, MacArthur embodies the polished humor of Steve Martin’s early years in show business. He sings “Under Pressure” and “Ice Ice Baby” with his sister, Augusta (Amy DeHaven), and a wannabe gangsta rapper sidekick, which is surprisingly impressive and funny.

MacArthur’s talent can’t be overlooked. His commitment to each scene, his powerhouse singing and his masterful craft are thrilling to watch.

At times, the chemistry between Roman and Augusta seemed to foreshadow a potential relationship, but this never occurred.

The over-the-top acting and breaking of the fourth wall is expected in parody musicals, but the writing is subpar at best.

One character attempts to use Queen’s “We Will Rock You” anthem as the ultimate reason why America is superior, prior to the cast singing the song. The problem in this setup is that an English guitarist for a British band wrote the song. If this was intended to mock Americans’ innate sense of self-importance, the humor was lost in delivery.

The lack of sufficient acoustics makes a mess of the show’s musical aspects. Instead of the performers’ harmony and striking vocals being enhanced, their voices lost luster and impact depending on where they stood on stage. At times, the pianist didn’t seem to accommodate the key changes for the various vocal ranges.

COURTESY OF SEAN MACARTHUR / GREAT AMERICAN PLAYHOUSE

JESUS LIMON as Chang (left), Jennifer Ackerley Lawrence as Mindy Anna Jones with her trusty whip (center) and Brian Paradis as Cade (right) onstage at the Great American Playhouse. Despite Lawrence’s noticeable talent, the play underutilizes her singing and dancing abilities.

Those with smaller voices untrained to project stood out when compared to actors with professional vocal training. The microphones used provided inadequate amplification.

The constant pop-culture-laced jokes, followed by explanations of why they should be funny, soured scenes. Audience members that had

missed the joke would have laughed regardless of the overt explanation.

The Great American Playhouse is still relatively new to the Tucson theater community and is still trying to find a unique perspective and style. The production issues are mostly technical, but this still wouldn’t be the best play to begin anyone’s first theatrical, musical

parody experience.

“Mindy Anna Jones and the Lost Ark of Time” will run until March 21 at The Great American Playhouse.

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Sculptors, science, sequels: Anticipated books of 2015

BY ANNA MAE LUDLUM The Daily Wildcat

While the Tucson Festival of Books isn’t until spring break, that doesn’t mean you can’t begin reading now. Here is a list of a couple of quality books that have already been released, as well as some to keep your eyes out for in the future.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE

ACTOR AND COMEDIAN Eddie Murphy gleefully addresses the audience of “Saturday Night Live 40” after a gushing introduction by Chris Rock in NBC Studios on Saturday. Murphy didn’t say much and didn’t perform, adding to a night of both hits and misses for the program.

by Asali 1.“Disgruntled” Solomon, Feb. 3

Solomon’s coming-of-age story is a highly anticipated debut novel looking at the minority communities within a minority community.

Kenya Curtis attends an African-American elementary school where she is treated differently for celebrating Kwanzaa. Her parents live paycheck to paycheck and host “socialist intellectual” dinners, which further distance her from peers discussing “Diff’rent Strokes” during lunch.

Transferring to an all-girl private school, Kenya is one of a few black students experiencing the sting of racism for the first time. Obstacles rise as Kenya comes into her identity separate from the identity her parents dreamt for her, the expectations from her black community and the identity thrust on her from her peers.

Sculptor” by Scott 2.“The McCloud, Feb. 3

McCloud’s graphic novel tells the tale of the lonely David Smith, a distraught and ambitious young sculptor, who makes a pact with Death. Smith will forfeit his life after 200 days to achieve immortal recognition for his work. The pressure of his 200day deadline overwhelms Smith; the unexpected presence of an equally distraught and ambitious actress adds degrees of reality to emotional depth.

McCloud’s nod to Ayn Rand’s philosophical novel “The Fountainhead” is found in more ways than the page quantity. “The Sculptor” emphasizes why famed graphic novelist Frank Miller has called McCloud “the premier comics theorist.”

“AsapSCIENCE: Answers to the World’s 3.

Weirdest Questions, Most

Persistent Rumors, and Unexplained Phenomena”

by Mitchell Moffit and Greg

True to form,

SNL 40 overly long and uneven TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX

Brown, March 17

YouTube’s AsapSCIENCE singing duo has made science accessible and, well, adorable.

Moffit and Brown’s roughly threeminute videos could be described as Baby Einstein for the curious and literate. Quirky lyrics and simple graphics have garnered fans in science enthusiasts and the science averse.

They simplify questions about the effects of using a snooze button to explanations about spontaneous combustion in easy-to-absorb logic. The creative pair’s first book claims to provide answers for your most embarrassing and uninformed questions — along with giving you a how-to guide to using your new knowledge in conversations.

“The Wright Brothers” 4.

by David McCullough, May 5 Over 100 books have been written about Orville and Wilbur Wright and their seconds-long flight, yet David McCullough’s thorough research and writing craft will help differentiate this one from the rest. He dispels century-old myths, humanizes American icons and will make you reevaluate the quality of your education in history.

The two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize is accustomed to having unprecedented access to otherwise unseen personal diaries. Readers can anticipate learning of Katharine Wright, the little recognized sister behind the genius brothers’ momentous moment in history.

Set a Watchman” 5.“Go

by Harper Lee, July 14 You read the first book in high school and can finally read “Go Set a Watchman,” the sequel to Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The title references the biblical Isaiah 21:6 verse. Though Lee’s book won’t be published until July, the buzz surrounding the announcement is too loud to ignore.

Written before Lee’s previous 1960 one-hit wonder, the sequel follows adult Scout Finch leaving New York to visit her father, Atticus. Regardless of potential sophomore slump status, there is a certainty the novel will be read by young and old alike who were moved by Scout’s childhood tales.

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It was a risky strategy for “Saturday Night Live” to put on a star-studded 40th anniversary special. Seen from the wrong angle, it could make NBC’s late-night warhorse look like a museum piece, instead of a still-vital part of the TV — well, OK, maybe the special makes sense.

The company of “SNL” in the TV longevity race, after all, includes the likes of “60 Minutes” and “Meet the Press.” And, just for the record, the actual 40th anniversary of what was truly groundbreaking television doesn’t come until October.

Certainly Sunday’s 3½-hour live festival of celebrity cameos and Studio 8H selfindulgence did an awful lot of recalling past glories.

The show provided a fair number of laughs, to be sure, amid not nearly enough new material. This is “Saturday Night Live,” and those of us who have decried the show in one season or another tend to forget that, from the outset, its signature characteristic has been unevenness.

So, Bill Murray’s lounge-singer rendition of the theme from “Jaws,” a sequel to his early-days theme from “Star Wars,” was the highlight of the evening; he’s terrific as an actor playing all the variations of morose, of course, but he’s also a pretty great, fully committed sketch comic.

Steve Martin, in the opening monologue, reminded us why he became Steve Martin: so crisp, so sharp, so dry — and even willing to play along by reprising his 1970s pop hit “King Tut.” Take note, Eddie Murphy.

The mock soap opera “The Californians,” of recent vintage, still worked with an update featuring Bradley Cooper as a new pool boy and Betty White

playing, what else, a randy old lady.

Having Jane Curtin join Tina Fey and Amy Poehler on the “Weekend Update” anchor desk was inspired, as was Fey’s joke saluting “one of the show’s original producers, cocaine.” Listing the still extant Jon Lovitz among the show’s dearly departed was a fine running gag.

But, again, unevenness.

On a supposed big event like this, does Miley Cyrus really deserve to sing a full song (Paul Simon’s “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover,” which she mangled with odd fakey voices)?

As for Murphy, he said being back there was like being back in high school, which must mean that in high school, he held himself aloof and didn’t try very hard. Arguably the funniest cast member the show has ever had — which is saying something — Murphy inspired Chris Rock’s highly engaging, how-great-thouart introduction. But the man himself tossed out a few platitudes, then went awkwardly to commercial. Sigh.

What’s funny is that the 2014-15 edition of “SNL” has actually seemed to be on an upswing. There’ve been more good videos and a higher proportion of sketches that seem to have dramatic shape and at least a modestly sharp point of view. You probably disagree; this is how “SNL” keeps us going.

But the special, in the end, doesn’t feel like it’s going to be a key part of the legacy.

Except in its efforts to hammer home the idea that “SNL” has been central to pop culture, which we already knew, this, really, did not feel like a show for us. With all the famous friends it kept displaying, it seemed more like a prelude to a pretty exclusive after-party. We hope they had fun and that it didn’t drag on for 3½ hours.