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Athlete education comes first BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat
The CATS Academic Center, a new $7.25 million academic home for UA athletes, is set to be completed in October. Greg Byrne, director of Arizona Athletics, said graduating student athletes is their top priority, and that a facility like this makes a total commitment to showing how important that is. Commitment to an Athlete’s Total Success, or CATS, is an academic support program for UA student-athletes. CATS academic director John Mosbach said the program currently has phenomenal resources, staffing, programs and systems in place, but will have the opportunity to implement the programs exactly how they want, with the space they want. “I think that there’s maybe a percentage of students that we’re maybe not serving right now, just because we don’t have that individual study space or that
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UA FACULTY, athletes and donors participate in the ground breaking of the CATS Academic Center on Feb. 12. The center is expected to be completed in October 2016, and will serve the academic needs of the UA’s student-athletes.
Terror groups: ‘like businessmen’
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Incidents like 9/11 and the recent attacks on Paris have left strong democratic nations shaken. How terrorists coordinate largescale attacks like these without tipping off intelligence agencies is a question that can be difficult to answer. It is arguable that the only way to understand a terrorist is to think like one, and Dr. H. Brinton Milward, director of the UA School
of Government and Public Policy, would tell you terrorists think like businessmen. Milward has spent the past 30 years studying networks and organizations of all kinds, including health care systems and private-public partnerships. After 9/11, he was asked to assume the mindset of Osama bin Laden, a leader on the run. Since then, his research has shifted to what he calls “dark networks.” Dark networks are organizational networks that must operate
covertly for fear of being killed or captured. According to Milward, dark networks can include drug cartels, ISIS outside the caliphate or rebel groups fighting against the government, even if for reasons Americans might deem “good.” He has found is that dark networks face an existential tradeoff. They can either act and face being discovered and wiped out, or they can lie low and risk losing the support of their community who may stop seeing them as effective. Dark networks are typically
small and not hierarchical, according to Milward. “If you try to control everybody in a network, you’ll increase the probability that you’ll be known,” he said. “This is one of the reasons you have cellular structure to many of these networks.” Milward pointed to the example of Pablo Escobar’s Colombian drug cartel of the 1990s. Escobar, he said, was at the center of his organization. He tried to control
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