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IN THE NEWS Female suicide bomber kills 10 in Nigeria

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The rising cost of parking permits has students questioning: ‘Where does the money go?’

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bout 20 percent of UA students live in dorms on campus, leaving the other 80 percent to commute to their classes every day.

This issue leads to students such as Michael Hernandez, a senior majoring in journalism and physiology, questioning the rising cost of parking.

“It’s just really, really frustrating as a commuter having to drive 30 minutes and then paying them for the privilege of being able to go to my classes,” Hernandez said.

Garage parking permit prices at the UA have increased for the third year in a row since 2012, rising to $615 for an annual pass.

The garage parking permit is the most expensive out of all the parking options, and the cost of off-campus parking has stayed consistent since 2012 at about $200 per academic year.

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“I know a lot of people who don’t have parking passes because of the price,” said Chelsea Canizales, a regional development junior who has a parking permit.

“On top of tuition and everything, it’s a little steep.”

The increase of parking costs is due to the rising cost of living and the new Sun Link Tucson Modern Streetcar subsidies, said David Heineking, the director of UA Parking and Transportation Services.

How does Parking and Transportation use the money?

36.5% Parking programs 26.7% Debt service 23.5% Alternative parking programs 8.3% Admin charges 5% Lot development

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Congress is debating military force against the Islamic State.

So are our columnists.

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QUOTE TO NOTE “[If ] you are a U.S. citizen, there is about a 51-percent chance that there is no mention of your rights in the Constitution.”

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Students deal with stress and anxiety every day. Stressbusters, a Campus Health Service program, is coming to the Guerrero Student Center to provide stress relief with a free backrub in the Cesar E. Chavez building, Room 205, today from 11-11:45 a.m.

In a Counseling and Psych Services survey conducted this spring, 6070 percent of UA students reported difficulty with anxiety. According to the Campus Health website, there is a weekly Stress and Anxiety management group where students

can talk about their “feelings, actions and beliefs related to anxiety and stress.”

In a Health and Wellness survey conducted in 2013, 50 percent of the 3,055 students interviewed experienced above average or extreme stress in that school year.

Anamaria Ramirez, a graduate assistant at Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs, said Stressbusters is doing this to “bust stress,” hence the name. They will provide free, five-minute backrubs in addition to wellness information to students and staff on campus.

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A DEAD FISH LAYS in the dried up High School Wash on Warren Avenue on Tuesday. The Institute on Science for Global Policy partners with Tucson Working Group to discuss climate change, awareness and how people in the Southwest can live with less water.

Students learn to live with less water

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Living in a desert means living with limited water.

The Institute on Science for Global Policy, in partner with the Tucson Working Group of concerned local volunteers,

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will host a series of conferences throughout the country to bring the issue of climate change to light.

Tucson will host the first of ISGP’s 15 national conferences, each of which revolves around specific, regional topics of environmental

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George Atkinson, founder and executive director of ISGP, and Sharon Megdal, director of the UA from page 1 Water Resources Research Center. concern. The first is titled “Living Megdal emphasized the with Less Water,” which will discuss importance of education regarding how individuals can diminish or water resource management. adapt themselves to the effects of Much of her work relates to drought this Friday helping people and Saturday from 9 understand a.m. to 4:30 p.m. how water Each conference resources begins with a formal are managed debate among policy and keeping makers, scientists, them aware aspiring students of options for and members of meeting future the public. After the demands to event, the conference help ensure a — Sharon Megdal, breaks into caucuses w a t e r-s e c u re director of Water and that encourage future.

Resources Research participation from T h e all members in order Center conference to reach agreements will not aim to on feasible next steps form solutions regarding everyday environmental or take certain sides on the issue. impacts of Tucson and Southern ISGP and the Tucson Working Arizona community members.

Group said it wants people who “Our goal is to get people have different views concerning thinking about our priorities and climate change to attend and wants assumptions concerning water,” all of them to be represented. said John Pedicone, chair of the Having been a scientist for a Tucson Working Group, in a press number of years, Atkinson said release, “and working together his past experiences have made toward a consensus on possible him realize that it is important that next steps in adapting to living with people articulate their ideas and less water.” then debate them. Atkinson noted Three featured speakers include that this belief is the fundamental former UA president Henry Koffler, principle of the conferences. who is in the local forming group,

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Atkinson and Megdal encourage students to attend the two-day conference this weekend. They said they both strongly believe students in their daily lives should think about the little things, such as how long of a shower they should take. As the future generation, students will feel the impact of these changes, and they said they hold the power to make a difference if they become aware.

“Students are eventually going to become professionals, if they’re not already,” Megdal said. “They’re going to become homeowners, renters; they’re going to live in society, and I think throughout their lives — all of our lives — we have to think about being good stewards of our natural resources, including water.”

Ariella Valencia, a film and television senior, said she believes climate change is a hyped-up, heated topic.

“I have taken a class on climate, and the professor had some controversial opinions,” she said.

“To me, these weather changes are part of a cycle of heat fluxes.”

For those interested, registration for an event invitation is available on the ISGP website.

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1. “To deal with stress, I typically just go for a drive in my truck or listen to music ’til I relax.” — Maggie Zamarripa, a sustainable built environments junior 2. “The way I deal with stress is by listening to music, singing it out, kick-boxing or running it out.”

— Shanice Falls, a pre-business freshman 3. “I deal with stress by either playing video games or card games. I try and go to events with other people that play the games to connect and unwind.” — Bryan Mane, a sustainable plant systems junior

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4. “I go to the gym; the physical activity helps me work off stress.” — Kyle Duckworth, a psychology junior

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5. “I smoke cigarettes, I hangout with friends and I play video games. I just try to practice good health habits, like sleeping well and making sure I eat right.”

— Brandy Porter, an aerospace engineering veteran student

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correction On Tuesday, the Daily Wildcat published a story about a Mardi Gras event hosted by the Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall. The correct name of the event is “Carnivida.” The Wildcat regrets misspelling the event’s title.

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Students can enjoy free, five-minute massages on Wednesday from 11-11:45 a.m. at the Guerrero Student Center. Stressbusters, a program at the UA Campus Health Center, is managing the event.

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People are asked to rate their back rubs on a scale of 1-5, with 5 being the from page 1 highest, Hamilton said. According to Hamilton, at the Student Recreation it to the location where Stressbusters is Center on Aug. 8, the average feedback holding its event,” Ramirez said. “It’s a score was 4.9. first come, first serve service that runs Hamilton also noted that the last for 45 minutes.”

Stressbusters back rub was a Campus The amount of people they can Health event on Oct. accommodate at 16., and the average the event depends score was 4.94. on how many There is a volunteers are Stressbusters app, willing to participate. according to the “We are hoping UA Stressbusters to give around 50 website, which people free back became operational rubs during the in 2014. Several short time period,” tips on how to — Anamaria Ramirez Ramirez said. “chill now” on graduate assistant Stressbusters your own or before was started by at Chicano/Hispanic an event are also Jordan Friedman at Student Affairs available on the Columbia University, site. Stressbusters according to Lee volunteers are at Ann Hamilton, the the Main Library on Monday nights assistant director of Health Promotion and at the Rec Center on Tuesday and Preventive Services. afternoons. They are often at events “Jordan wanted to help students on the UA Mall and take requests for deal with stress,” Hamilton said. conferences, groups and halls.

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Higher ed budget cuts come with a price BY ethan mcsweeney

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PHOENIX — Have you heard of the Arizona Public Enterprise University? One senator wants to remake and rename Arizona State University into “an autonomous, quasipublic, nonprofit corporate entity,” with a bill introduced this session.

While Eileen Klein, president of the Arizona Board of Regents, said the governing board is not taking a position on the bill from Sen. Jeff Dial, R-Chandler, she said it does go in the direction of a “public-private” model the regents would like to see for state universities.

With further cuts looming over higher education in Arizona, public universities are finding ways to rely less on the state for funding at the expense of the students they serve.

Gov. Doug Ducey in his budget proposal called for $75 million in cuts to funding to state universities, which represents about 10 percent of state support. Board officials say some legislators may propose deeper cuts beyond Ducey’s proposal.

The regents issued a call to action last week to not allow more than the proposed $75 million reduction, which Klein said came at the request of university presidents. The board of regents governs the state universities — ASU, the UA and Northern Arizona University — and sets their tuition rates.

The consequences of this decline in state funding haven’t affected state universities so much as their students.

Despite less state support since the recession, Arizona universities still spend about the same on their academic mission, said Donna Desrochers, a higher education finance researcher with the Delta Cost Project at American Institutes for Research.

The lack of state support also means universities are relying more on private donations, grants and higher tuition to fund

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operations. For example, last year, legislators tried, and failed, to get state funding for a veterinary school for the UA. A donation from the Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation later funded the program.

Mark Killian, the chair of the board of the regents, said that the state does need to support its universities.

“The route we are on right now, we are ensuring that tuition is going to continue to climb and increase, and we’re going to make it so impossible for middle class and lowermiddle class families to have their kids get a college education in Arizona,” Killian said. “It is absolutely, totally insane.”

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At a January meeting of the regents in response to Ducey’s proposal, ASU President Michael Crow echoed these sentiments, saying he would not raise tuition for in-state students.

UA President Ann Weaver Hart will wait until after the budget is resolved before deciding whether to support a tuition hike for in-state students, said Chris Sigurdson, the university’s vice president for communications.

Bills have been introduced in the Legislature to reduce the tuition burden on different groups, such as National Guard members or those who were in foster care, Dial argues his bill would be a way to address rising tuition costs.

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Dial said, as universities rely less on state funding, he believes this corporate model would give them more flexibility and help to keep tuition down for students.

“Let’s give them the freedom to work more like a private-public partnership … freeing them up from regulations,” Dial said.

Arizona universities are considering phasing out the current pension system for new employees to make the colleges operate less like state institutions in this move to a publicprivate model. Klein said the regents do want to design a new benefits system that would be “affordable in the long-term.”

“Especially in an era where we are getting reduced resources, we’re very eager to evolve from the state agency model, because that is creating additional costs for us,” Klein said.

This movement away from relying on state funding for public universities in some states follows the model set by the University of Michigan more than 30 years ago, said Tom Volgy, a political science professor at the UA. The University of Michigan receives about 16 percent of its funding from the state and operates more like a private institution.

“The Michigan model has been the alternative to throwing our hands up in the air and saying, ‘Well, what can we do?’” Volgy said.

Killian said that Arizona is different than others states that have gone this route with its constitutional mandate to keep education nearly as free as possible. He said that while he would like much less in cuts to universities, it’s “not the reality of what we’re dealing with.”

Killian said he believes the next step for the board of regents is to sue the Legislature and go to the state Supreme Court for violating the part of the Arizona Constitution that stipulates college education in the state should be as close to free as possible. This would be similar to the action taken by representatives for K-12 schools, which sued the Legislature for underfunding them.

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Students worry about the legitimacy of the reasons behind the price increases.

“They don’t have the students’ best interest in mind, that’s for sure,” Hernandez said.

Hernandez does not currently have a parking permit and instead opts for an eight-hour day pass twice a week, which is a less expensive option.

Parking prices for the university lots and garages are determined by the Parking and Transportation Committee, the central administration, and the Office of Parking and Transportation Services. According to its website, the committee’s members are appointed by UA President Ann Weaver Hart and includes representatives from Student Affairs, Faculty Senate and others.

Budget

According to Parking and Transportation’s budget, the total revenue from all sources is $16.4 million.

Over half of that is spent on parking and alternative transportation programs such as the CatTran. A little over 25 percent is spent on debt service for the parking garages.

Revenue gained from selling permits for lots and garages accounts for over half of the funding for PTS, and visitor parking accounts for just over 25 percent.

PTS is an auxiliary function of the university. Thus, it is not a state funding recipient. This also means most of the revenue PTS makes is put back into other PTS services.

“Our prices are set so we don’t make a profit,” Heineking said. “The money we bring in [is] spent on parking programs, transportation programs.”

Demand for parking

Demand is not equally spread

between garages and lots, and certain garages are sold out long before others. Cherry Avenue Parking Garage and garages close to the middle of campus are usually the first to fill up, but parking has not been completely full for several years, Heineking said.

“The demand pretty much starts in the center of campus and moves out,” Heineking said.

Heineking added that this is not currently a critical problem, but the loss of some parking spaces due to construction on campus has sparked the planning for a new garage on the south side of Sixth Avenue.

Despite these plans, PTS is also focused on developing and maintaining alternate forms of transportation in order to stop overcrowding in the garages and promote sustainability.

Successful programs for commuting students, such as Sun Link and Zipcars, have countered the need for much more oncampus parking, Heineking said.

“The university and parking transportation supports sustainability,” he said. “The students want us to be sustainable; it’s become a goal of many students, and we’ve heard how important it is.”

Ben Champion, the director of the UA Office of Sustainability, has similar views on the future of oncampus parking.

“This campus continues to grow,” he said, “and we don’t have infinite space to increase our parking.”

This is one of the reasons why alternative transportation is strongly supported by PTS. “This campus has some of the best examples of sustainability initiatives in parking and transportation I’ve seen around the country,” Champion said.

Impact on students

Overall, students who commute have a negative opinion of the parking prices on campus.

Hernandez has planned his schedule for this semester around

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parking, squeezing all of his classes onto Tuesdays and Thursdays so that he can avoid the high prices after being unable to receive a permit for Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage or Main Gate Parking Garage.

“I’m trying to pay the least amount possible,” Hernandez said.

Others have had milder reactions.

“I know that prices are a lot when you think about dropping $600 on a

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parking pass,” Canizales said, “but I’d say they’re kind of fair.”

Billma Peter, a care, health and society junior, works at the Office of Transportation and Parking Services in customer relations.

She deals with complaints about parking, takes phone calls and sells parking permits.

Peter said she gets a lot of complaints from students, ranging from pricing woes to worries of certain garages’ availability.

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“I think it’s really expensive,” she said. “But, I mean, there’s nothing you can really do about it.”

Parking prices increasing with the cost of living may benefit PTS, but as Hernandez pointed out, “increasing prices doesn’t help my cost of living at all; that’s the bottom line.”

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Justice serially falls short BYJACOB WINKELMAN The Daily Wildcat

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rime shows and true-crime programs are nothing exceptional to an American audience. It would, in fact, be a struggle to find a time where there is not one of the many “Law and Orders,” “Nancy Graces” or “Blue Bloods” on television. In spite of this seemingly overdone narrative, a fresh, true-crime program emerged once again at the forefront of American pop culture in September.

“Serial” — a 12-episode podcast detailing the 1999 murder of a high school senior from Baltimore — amassed nearly 1.5 million listeners per episode. Generally (and without spoilers), the podcast focuses on narrator Sarah Koenig as she attempts to discover who murdered Hae Min Lee and whether police were correct to arrest Lee’s ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed.

Syed became the state’s main suspect after another student came forward with damning eyewitness testimony. Besides Syed’s inability to report a sufficient alibi, the eyewitness testimony allowed the state to convict Syed successfully despite the lack of other evidence. Last week, however, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals granted Syed an appeal, placing further doubt on the prosecution and returning “Serial” to the front page.

One of the program’s major strengths is how it challenges audience members to imagine themselves as the subjects.

As Koenig points out in the first episode, our memories are fickle, and if our life imprisonment came down to remembering where we were for 21 minutes, six weeks ago, most of us would be in prison. Who do we know to be guilty, and when are we wrong?

Finding a solid number of wrongful convictions in the U.S. is impossible. But a 2008 study published in the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies argues that at least 2.3 percent of death sentences were wrongful convictions.

Estimates put the overall wrongful conviction rate between 0.5-2.5 percent of guilty verdicts. Even if this number is closer to 0.5 percent, that still leaves thousands of innocent people behind bars and dozens wrongfully executed.

When asked why this number is so high, Jason Kreag, assistant professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law, described several factors that play into this rare, disconcerting pattern. Failure by the prosecution to disclose favorable material to the defense (a legal obligation), false convictions and the manner in which juries rely on eyewitness testimony all play into innocent people going to prison.

According to the Innocence Project, a nonprofit, 30 percent of exonerated cases involve false guilty pleas, and 72 percent involve witness misidentification. Reducing the importance juries can place on these kinds of “evidence” could start lowering this trend. Only concrete information such as DNA evidence, forensics, video or audio recordings, or multiple eyewitnesses corroborating the same story ought to have a place in the courtroom.

In addition to the flaws that exist within the courtroom, the appellate process also raises some eyebrows. Despite the numerous evidentiary objections raised in “Serial,” including obvious discrepancies in the prosecution’s case, Syed’s appeal was only granted for a claim of “ineffective counsel”; Syed’s lawyer may have acted irresponsibly by not investigating Syed’s potential alibi.

For Syed, an appeal is an appeal and should not be considered anything other than a tremendous victory. But as a broader examination of the appellate system, this case reveals a troubling tendency. As Kreag explained, the appellate process validates the finality of a verdict and, consequently, is unlikely to reverse a guilty verdict unless there is a significant revelation or incontestable DNA evidence. Even if a case seems fishy, the likelihood of a successful appeal after a guilty verdict is almost nil.

Incorrectly convicting people only 1 or 2 percent of the time is an admirable statistic. Clearly, the vast majority of people found guilty in the U.S. are, in fact, guilty.

But when the lives of innocent people are at stake, the U.S. can and must do better.

After all, our legal system was designed to uphold a maxim articulated by Benjamin Franklin: “[It] is better a hundred guilty persons should escape than that one innocent person should suffer.” To succeed at achieving this goal, we need to treat eyewitness testimonies and guilty pleas with far more scrutiny, and appeals, barring irrefutable DNA evidence, need to be more accessible.

Even if “Serial” has failed to answer the question of what happened on Jan. 13, 1999, it has succeeded in generating new conversations about the justice system. Hopefully the U.S. can seize the opportunity to create meaningful, impactful reform.

— Jacob Winkelman is a sophomore studying political science and English.

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Brand new era, same ol’ ERA

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hat do Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan all have in common?

All three countries have greater representation of women in government than the U.S. Actually, 90 countries — spanning across six continents and at all levels of development — have a higher representation of women in the elected lower house of their parliaments (i.e., Congress) than the U.S. does.

Many countries that outrank the U.S. in this area have one thing in common: They include provisions for protection of women’s rights in their constitutions. In fact, “the U.S. strongly urged Iraq and Afghanistan to include women in their new Constitutions as they rebuild their societies.” Why, then, doesn’t the U.S. lead by example?

Around 72 percent of Americans mistakenly believe that a provision for the protection of equal rights between the sexes is included in the

U.S. Constitution. It’s not.

In reality, despite Abigail Adams’ 1776 request for her husband, John Adams, to “remember the ladies,” no mention of the word “women” or “gender” has ever been included in this nation’s constitution. This shortcoming is what the Equal Rights Amendment aims to address.

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”

That is the ERA — a simple statement that holds the power to change the face of this country.

Soon after women were given the right to vote, suffragist Alice Paul proposed this amendment in 1923 as the logical next step toward assuring equal rights under the law for all citizens.

The ERA was introduced to Congress every year between 1923 and 1972, when it was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. The ERA fell just three states short of the number needed for it to be ratified and permanently added to the Constitution.

Why has an ideal that became so close to being realized lost so much momentum and visibility?

Perhaps it’s because since 1972,

even in the absence of the ERA, the U.S. has managed to make notable progress in the realm of gender equality.

“A lot of the public policy benefits that we could have gained through an amendment was achieved through independent legislation,” said Suzanne Dovi, associate professor in the School of Government and Public Policy. “[For example,] equal pay is supposedly illegal in practice, even though it is still with us today.”

It is true that legislation such as the Equal Pay Act, Title VII and Title IX work to better secure women’s rights. These legislative measures contribute to the illusion that gender discrimination is adequately addressed in the U.S. The problem is that these solutions are impermanent.

According to the ERA webpage, without constitutional framework, “Congress has the power to make laws that replace existing laws — and to do so by a simple majority.

Therefore, many of the current legal protections against sex discrimination can be removed by the margin of a single vote.”

Were the ERA added to the Constitution, the impermanency and ambiguity toward women’s

rights would be largely eliminated.

Our country would no longer operate under the presumption that men innately hold rights and women must prove that they hold them. It’s about time our nation shifts the burden of proof from the oppressed to the perpetrators of sexual discrimination.

Almost 51 percent of Americans are women. That means that if you are a U.S. citizen, there is about a 51-percent chance that there is no mention of your rights in the Constitution. Regardless of whether or not you know this already, it’s time for the public to become informed about where the U.S. stands with respect to the rights of its majority: women.

Feminism has been on the rise and is becoming increasingly prominent in contemporary U.S. dialogue. There is no better time than this to bring the ERA, a timeless call for justice, back to the national stage.

— Hailey Dickson is a freshman studying public health and molecular & cellular biology.

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Bread and Butter Should Congress authorize Obama’s use of force against the Islamic State?

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President Barack Obama’s proposed legislation against the Islamic State is filled with vague generalities. Most importantly, the bill prohibits “enduring offensive combat operations.”

What does that mean? Almost anything, which is its biggest problem. It could tie the hands of the executive branch. Or, it could lead to a Lyndon-Johnson-esque escalation of conflict — and we all saw how that ended.

Whether American foreign policy is inhibited or allowed to run rampant, it’s unlikely Congress will be able to do anything about it. Those in Congress would first have to agree on what the bill actually means, at least enough to force the executive branch into complying.

(Congress agreeing? Doubtful. Agreeing to use their power to constrain the executive’s war-making powers? Even more doubtful.)

The trouble is, the bill is set to last three years. Obama’s successor will also be affected. With an issue as broad and murky as combating the Islamic State, specifics are paramount. Until Obama comes up with a bill acknowledging this, Congress shouldn’t be willing to pass it.

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After Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. should be hard-pressed before sending troops back into combat.

Sen. John McCain told Meet the Press, “I think we should not restrain the president of the United States.”

But Congress’ job is to check the president’s power, and defunding the military through the power of the purse is not the right method. Though sending troops into harm’s way may not be the best choice for the U.S., once there, U.S. soldiers should have full support.

President Barack Obama did the right thing in asking Congress to authorize the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State.

The use of U.S. forces against the Islamic State is questionable, and Congress should be asking: What are our goals? What are our tactics? What will success look like?

This debate in Congress should take place before any American boot touches Iraqi soil once again.

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The U.S. military spent 10 years in Iraq, and all we got out of the deal was the Islamic State.

Naturally, many are skeptical of the push to re-engage in military conflict in Iraq and its surrounding areas.

But there are some key differences this time around: no functioning (albeit oppressive) government that is being overthrown, no “boots on the ground,” a clear and timely expiration of executive authority to engage, and a genuine regional coalition that is dedicated to the cause.

There’s something to be said of learning from the legacy of the Iraq War, but there’s also a worry that our recent history will cloud our judgment.

We should be skeptical of every military entanglement, but that doesn’t mean every military entanglement is a Vietnam or Iraq. Every once in a while, a Rwanda happens, and we live with the collective regret of having done nothing.

I don’t know if the Islamic State is a Rwanda or an Iraq, but I do think the hysteria is overblown and that the president’s Authorization for Use of Military Force is much less dangerous than, say, Congress’ open-ended check to President George W. Bush in 2001.

It’s time for an honest debate about our contemporary military priorities; it’s a new era and a new war.

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Stay away, stay away, stay away

A UA student was receiving text message threats on Feb. 11 at approximately 5 p.m.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was contacted behind Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall about a female student receiving threatening messages. The student and her friend determined the person’s approximate birth date from social media posts. The texts were associated with a phone number, which the student had on her phone.

“And if you do not want to get the shit beat out of you, you will stay far away from me and him,” the messenger said. The message referred to the messenger’s boyfriend. The student said she believed she was receiving these threats because she is friends with the messenger’s boyfriend. When she advised the messenger to go see a psychiatrist, she said, “Keep talking shit. I’ll find you and kill you.”

The UA student was assaulted approximately three times on Friday morning at a greek house party held off-campus. The person sending the messages grabbed her hair and dragged her to the ground. The UAPD officer advised her about Injunctions Against Harassment, and she agreed to obtain it soon.

The officer contacted the messenger, and she denied knowing who the student was or sending the threatening messages. The UA student had a nickname, which the woman on the phone referenced to when she claimed she met the individual once but had no other contact with her. The officer advised her against sending threatening messages and initiating future contact.

The student was notified. The officer contacted the messenger.

The officer completed a Dean of Students Referral “FYI” form in reference to this incident.

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UAMC staff said the individual was discharged from the emergency department earlier that day, but he was “hanging around the hospital property and other UA properties in the area since his discharge.”

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SOFTBALL

Arizona wants to go fast

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Speed kills. For Arizona softball, speed has been the driving force behind the team’s success over the first nine games of the 2015 season.

The Wildcats have 20 stolen bases in 20 attempts after recording 24 stolen bases all of last season.

Arizona softball head coach Mike Candrea rarely sent runners last season, due in large part to speed not being as prevalent. Power dominated as the Wildcats led the nation with 109 home runs. Thus, speed was an afterthought.

“We have a lot more depth than we’ve ever had [and] that depth is speed,” Candrea said. “We can steal some bases and make some things happen. It’ll be interesting to see how that all develops, but we have some pieces.”

Despite the majority of those home runs returning this season, Candrea’s recruiting class has brought in a multitude of speed options — mainly in the outfield — to that power dynamic.

Outfielders have accounted for 17 of the 20 stolen bases this season. Seven different Wildcats have snagged a bag this season, with outfielder Eva Watson leading the way with six stolen bases in nine games. Outfielder Chelsea Suitos and utility player Ashleigh Hughes aren’t far behind, with four stolen bases each.

For some context, Watson and Suitos combined for 12 stolen bases

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ARIZONA SOFTBALL outfielder Eva Watson (14) sets up for a catch during Arizona’s 6-2 win against Loyola Chicago at Hillenbrand Stadium on Saturday. Watson and the Wildcats have stolen 20 bases so far this season.

all of last season. They’re already at 10 combined.

“I really think it’s the speed we have on our team; coach has a lot of faith in us, but we also have a lot of faith in our batters too,” Watson said. “I guess, really, it’s just coach having faith in his runners.”

The rest of the team is starting to notice, too. Starting pitcher Nancy Bowling said she feels the team’s speed even from a defensive perspective.

“It’s great [because] we have so much range out there, and it’s fun watching them race in our conditioning and stuff,” Bowling said. “They’re just so fast, and you wonder how do they get that fast. But it’s nice, you know, even

those littler dinkers you see get through on other teams, our team is able. You blink, and they’re there. It’s clutch.”

Catcher Chelsea Goodacre, who’s thrown out all three stolen base attempts against her this season, said she understands what speed can do to a team.

“That’s huge, because that really kills the vibe of the other teams when you get stolen bases,” Goodacre said.

“I know what it feels like to get stolen bases on me, so I think that’s a huge asset to us.”

Goodacre added that the team has a different and more diverse offense this season knowing that not every hit needs to be a home run.

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Arizona men’s basketball looked like the walking wounded on Sunday, but head coach Sean Miller said every Wildcat is cleared to practice now, including point guard Parker JacksonCartwright, who got a concussion in the UA’s 90-56 win over Oregon on Jan. 28.

Miller said J a c k s o n Cartwright missed 21 days of contact and isn’t yet sure if he can play Thursday against USC. Center Dusan Ristic missed the Washington trip with a bacterial infection in his throat, but Miller said he will also practice. Ristic was sick for

six days, according to Miller, who said he is getting some of his weight back and benefited from resting.

“Dusan [is] feeling much, much better, and he’s also able to practice as well,” Miller said.

“We’ll see how he does.”

M i l l e r said point guard T.J. McConnell, who appeared to have knee trouble on Sunday, is “fine.” Rondae H o l l i s Jefferson limped into the locker room late in — Sean Miller, the second Arizona coach half at WSU, but Miller said he didn’t even know the forward was hurt.

“People told me Rondae got hurt; I don’t even remember,” he

It’s great for our team that Parker’s coming back

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Hollis-Jefferson is able to practice this week and appears good-to-go for this weekend.

Arizona went 3-1 without Jackson-Cartwright.

“I think it’s great for our team that Parker’s coming back,” guard Gabe York said.

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Ortiz would compete at the sixth position.

Although she only competes in one event for the Wildcats, Ortiz is a big reason why Arizona is ranked No. 17 in the nation on bars. The Tucson native from Sahuaro High School proved her skill set in the latest meet against ASU on Monday, scoring a careerhigh 9.900 on her bars routine.

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Many might cave under the pressure of going last in an event, but Ortiz embraces it.

“It’s really rewarding,” Ortiz said. “At first, it was nerveracking, and I wasn’t exactly sure what it meant. It’s definitely a privilege to be the anchor on bars.

I feel really privileged and really blessed.”

ESPN’s College GameDay covered by State Farm will be broadcast from Tucson on Saturday for the second time.

ESPN’s basketball pregame show is coming to the UA for the Wildcats’ Saturday Primetime presented by DIRECTV game against UCLA on ESPN. GameDay has been at Arizona games four times prior to this weekend, including the last three years.

“It’s awfully nice,” Miller said.

“We have to make sure that we focus on the task at hand — that is playing the game and winning

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After a rough start, Arizona baseball bounced back to score seven unanswered runs and win its fourth game in a row to start the season. The Wildcats gave up two runs in the first to North Dakota State (0-4) but rallied to win 7-2.

Cody Hamlin (1-0) started for the Wildcats, going 5.0 innings, giving up two hits and two earned runs and striking out four.

“I was happy to see Hamlin bounce back after a little bit of a rough outing at the beginning,” Arizona head coach Andy Lopez said. “They were hitting him pretty good, but I thought he settled down and did a pretty good job.”

Arizona utility player Bobby Dalbec went 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Shortstop Kevin Newman went 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.

North Dakota State scored two runs in the first after Hamlin hit the first batter, NDSU third baseman John Skrbec hit a double and Dalbec committed an error.

However, Dalbec atoned for the error with a single to give Arizona the lead in the home half of the first inning after the Wildcats scored a run off a balk by NDSU pitcher Reed Pfannenstein and a sacrifice by catcher Riley Moore.

“I told Hamlin I was going to make up for that error, so I did right there, so that’s cool,” Dalbec said, laughing.

In the second, the Wildcats scored again after left fielder Ryan Aguilar moved into scoring position off of another Pfannenstein (01) balk, and center fielder Justin Behnke drove him in.

“We’re just gelling as a team chemistry-wise; we’re a lot better this year,” Arizona designated hitter Tyler Krause said. “Last year, we were kind of mixed up, and I think a big thing for us this year is to be efficient, be aggressive.”

UA shortstop Kevin Newman led off the third with a walk and then stole second. Shortly after, Krause drove him in with a triple and Dalbec drove in Krause not long after.

The damage could have been worse as the Wildcats loaded the bases with no outs in third but only scored one run after hitting into a double play.

“You can see, we’re struggling sometimes,” Krause said. “Bases loaded, we’re getting double plays. … [But] I think if we can clean some things up, it’s going to be even better.”

The Wildcats hit into double plays three innings in a row, but

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“I like it a lot, because some days, the home runs aren’t going to be there, and it’s nice to know we’re going to have the speed to back us up,” Goodacre said. “Same thing when speed is not there: We’re going to have the home runs to back us up. It’s kind of just an all-around better team.”

As the Wildcats head to Palm Springs, Calif., for the Mary Nutter Classic from Thursday to Saturday, Candrea can rest assured knowing speed travels — and kills.

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Lopez said he was glad they weren’t fly ball outs.

“I would be more concerned if we had, like, nine fly ball outs, 10,” Lopez said. “As crazy as it is, a double play is not that easy to execute defensively, and that ground ball is going to be a line drive eventually. But the fly ball outs, you just get worn down with that psychologically.”

The Wildcats and Bison wrap up the two-game series today at 6 p.m.

David Ernst (0-1, 3.60 ERA) is scheduled to pitch for North Dakota State.

Pitcher Xavier Borde will start, making his 2015 debut, Lopez said.

“It’s a double-edged sword when you play five games a week,” Lopez said.

“You have to pitch some guys that you might not think are going to be very effective, and, hopefully, they prove you wrong.

That’s the honest-to-God truth. I hope they prove me wrong.”

the game. … [To] have them here is quite an honor, and I think it’s something we don’t take lightly, and we appreciate ESPN choosing us.”

GameDay starts at 8 a.m.

MST on ESPNU before switching over to ESPN at 9 a.m. GameDay also has an evening edition at 4 p.m.

Admission to GameDay is free. Doors open at 7:15 a.m., and fans are asked to enter through the ZonaZoo entrance on the west side of McKale Center.

“Obviously, it’s a great environment, but we’re not really worried about Saturday yet,” said Arizona guard Elliott Pitts. “We still have this game Thursday.

Obviously, we can’t look past any game.”

Parking will be available in the Cherry Avenue Parking Garage and surface lots around McKale Center until noon, after which game permits will be needed to park there.

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The accolades kept rolling in for HollisJefferson on Tuesday.

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GYMCATS Ryden said he feels the same way.

Many coaches might refrain from using a freshman in that place, especially if a team has to count a fall, but Ryden has a lot of confidence in Ortiz.

“I think she is just happy-go-lucky Victoria, and that is the reason why I put her back there,” Ryden said. “She’s not going to get caught up; she’s just going to do her routine, and it is virtually flawless. From a mental standpoint, she does not get stressed.

I think even though she is a freshman, I think she is the perfect anchor for this team.”

Ortiz now has the opportunity to inspire the young gymnasts who dream of competing for the GymCats as a collegiate athlete. Ortiz competed for eight years at Arizona Dynamics under Gina Mueller and Tricia Oagle in Tucson. For someone who grew up in Tucson, the dream of becoming a collegiate gymnast has now become a reality.

“That was probably the most exciting part — when I was younger, being in the stands and looking at the girls and wishing that one day I would be just like them,” Ortiz

THE DAILY WILDCAT • 7 Basketball Hall of Fame named Hollis-Jefferson one of 16 finalists for the 2015 Karl Malone Power Forward of the Year Award.

The Malone Award list will be narrowed to five finalists in early March, and the winner will be crowned on April 10.

The Pac-12 Conference named him player of the week on Monday.

He averaged team-highs of 17.0 points and 9.5 rebounds in last week’s sweep of Washington and Washington State.

“I was excited to see him get the Pac-12 Player of the Week, because I thought he got it in large part because of his well-roundedness,” Miller said.

Hollis-Jefferson is the Wildcats’ third-leading scorer with 11.5 points per game and second-leading rebounder with 6.6 per game.

Hollis-Jefferson is seventh in the Pac-12 in steals with 1.4 per game in conference play and 1.2 per game for the season; he has scored in doublefigures 18 times this season.

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said. “Being on the floor and looking up at all of my family and friends is just such a good feeling.”

Instead of being a fan in the stands, eyeing what might be, Ortiz now signs autographs and takes pictures after meets.

Although Ortiz has started her collegiate career as a success, it wasn’t always that way.

“Considering the hard work that she had to do to get here being a Tucson kid, growing up wanting to be on this team, she had some struggles — not personal — in high school to get here,” Ryden said. “I honestly think a success story is as good as anything. When she came here, her parents were just so thankful that she was apart of the program, and look at what she’s done.”

This success story has the opportunity to become the perfect storybook ending for Ortiz and goes to show the recruiting powers of Ryden and the rest of the GymCat coaches.

As the end of the regular season approaches, having the ability to count on a freshman truly speaks for the depth of this Arizona team.

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Find your zen at Mindful Meditation

BY Elise McClain The Daily Wildcat

Mindful meditation courses have been offered on campuses across the nation since the ’70s. However, it’s not until recently that the trend has really gained momentum. The story remains the same: College students everywhere strive to balance work and play, a feat that is not easily achieved.

Effective and Engaged: Mindful Meditation to Strengthen Focus and Tame Stress focuses on the relationship a person shares with stress and how to manage everyday pressures through biofeedback, such as controlled breathing and heart rate. The UA opened the class to students and faculty as of Feb. 3, and it is geared toward eliminating day-to-day stress, which many on campus struggle with.

The on-campus meditation sessions are much more than outlets for relaxation, said Carol Stewart, assistant director of continuing and professional education and former student of Effective and Engaged.

“It’s important to note that our class is taught by a physiologist and involves biofeedback and lecture,” Stewart said. “It is not simply a class where people come to relax but, rather, a class where people can learn why stress is problematic and why relaxation and breathing are helpful.”

As New Age as it may seem, meditation and classes such as the one Stewart promotes can have a significant and sweeping role in a student’s life.

According to research published in

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Priscilla Vargas, a pre-business sophomore, finds peace in her room in The Ranch at Star Pass on Monday evening. The class Effective and Engaged: Mindful Meditation to Strengthen Focus and Tame Stress offers an opportunity for meditation on campus.

the journal Mindfulness, practicing meditation before class can lead to better focus and better grades. In the study, professor Robert Youmans of George Mason University and Jared Ramsburg, a doctoral student of the University of Illinois, tested whether meditation worked to help students focus and better retain information.

Research conducted on randomly selected students ­— all of unique religions, creeds and upbringings —

indicated that those who meditated before lectures scored higher on subsequent testing than their peers who did not meditate.

The course is taught by Ann Baldwin, professor of physiology and psychology. Effective and Engaged uses both science and spiritual practices to optimize student productivity and eliminate stress.

“We set up the class because we

knew of Baldwin’s research and were intrigued,” Stewart said. “As you probably know, mindfulness is the current trend in looking at lifestyles, so we wanted to take that and put it into a very real, useful context. Baldwin’s class not only examines what mindfulness is and how being mindful can lead to a more engaged life, but it also teaches how to achieve that through meditation.”

Adapted for improving overall performance, Effective and Engaged is a six-week course that deals in handling emotions that can overwhelm rationality in times of stress. The class explores topics such as response flexibility, calming anxiety and creating structural changes in the brain, and it works to broaden students’ perspectives.

“I think anyone would find learning how to practice mindful meditation extremely useful in helping them focus — whether on homework, research or a task at work,” Stewart said. “Learning this practice is tremendously helpful in keeping us engaged with life and stressing less than we otherwise might.”

Though statistics on meditation are difficult to come by, there exist several studies in the past decade that provide some profound evidence in favor of meditation.

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life’s 2008 “U.S. Religious Landscape Survey” found that 39 percent of surveyed adults claim to meditate weekly. Meanwhile, a 2007 study by the National Institutes of Health found that 9.4 percent of nearly 24,000 respondents had meditated in the past 12 months, a 1.8 percent increase from the past five years.

Set to proceed through March 10, Effective and Engaged classes remain open for enrollment to anyone interested.

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Alumna creates collars, gives to animal charity

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BY Victoria Teplitz

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Courtesy of Surfer Blood

Fresh surf-rock tunes at Flycatcher Surfer Blood comes to The Flycatcher tomorrow to debut songs from upcoming album

BY Caren Badtke

KAMP Student Radio

“Can we do this in an hour? I somehow thought this interview was going to be later today,” JP, alias John Paul Pitts, the lead singer of Surfer Blood asked politely. He seemed busy, which is no surprise, seeing that things seem to be picking up for his American surf-rock band.

The band’s last studio album, Pythons, was released in 2013. Somehow, between touring, the band managed to record a third album.

“I basically spent the better part of six months in my little home studio tweaking everything, and recording backup parts, and just kind of just explored the stuff,” JP said. “I think it really shows in the variety that’s on the record.”

1000 Palms will be released on May 12. However, the band will give a small taste tomorrow when it plays a gig at The Flycatcher on Fourth Avenue.

“The album’s done,” JP said. “We have a new record label; we’re doing a tour.

Things are going good. It’s starting to get in motion.”

For the lead singer of an established band with considerable critical acclaim under its belt, this gratuity toward the very basics sounds strange at first. Given the band’s turbulent last few years, it is only natural that it’s starting fresh. After an incident that overshadowed its last album and ended in JP’s arrest being dragged all over the music press, this back-to-thebasics notion makes perfect sense.

After its home-produced first album, 2010’s Astro Coast, the band, originally from Florida but now California-based, signed a contract with Warner Bros. for its followup. However, 2012’s Gil Norton-produced album Pythons wasn’t as convincing; it was too sleek, too one-sided.

The record’s 10 songs had singer JP begging for forgiveness and displayed the

band’s overall bad place at the time.

“Pythons was a very polished record and overall really cohesive,” JP said. “The songs all have a similar structure and sound similar sonically. But we were dropped from Warner in the beginning of the year, so [1000 Palms] isn’t quite like the last record where we recorded in Hollywood with a big producer, which is really not a terrible thing.”

As lead singer and songwriter, JP didn’t seem to be too down about this development.

“I love recording, and to be honest, I missed having control about all aspects of recording,” he said.

This time around, creative freedom was given to the band, and it’s tried to make the best of it.

“We recorded all by ourselves,” JP said.

“It takes a little bit longer, but it gives you the freedom to experiment, try different stuff — and if you don’t like it, you just start over. … On this record, we didn’t even worry about cohesiveness; we didn’t want to constrain ourselves in terms of writing.

I think it’s a lot more open-sounding; it’s a lot more [detailed].”

On Monday, the album’s name, 1000 Palms, was revealed on Pitchfork. The first single, “The Grand Inquisitor,” can now be streamed online. And, if nothing goes wrong, you’ll hear Surfer Blood’s new song “Dorian” and an interview with the band on KAMP Student Radio Thursday afternoon before its show at The Flycatcher.

“I think that ‘Dorian’ is one of the more ambitious songs from the record,” JP said.

“It shows the broader palette we are going for with our new album. Hopefully, it will take some people by surprise.”

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You may carry your heart on your sleeve, but your pet carries your heart on its collar. Collar Me Charming sells handmade dog and cat collars and gives a portion of its profits to local organizations, such as the Humane Society of Southern Arizona.

The company was founded by Katie Yaeli, a 2008 UA alumna with a degree in retail and consumer sciences.

“I combined my passion for creativity and animals,” Yaeli said. “This gave me a way to give back to animals.”

Yaeli’s company sells collars primarily through its website and Etsy account.

With an eye for design and a passion for animals, Yaeli has been successful in creating collars that include bow-ties and flowers.

Though they may look dainty, the cotton material collars are hard-wearing.

Courtesy of Katie Yaeli “I construct it so it’s a little A dog poses wearing a collar made by Collar Me Charming. Katie Yaeli, a 2008 sturdier than normal bow UA alumna, created Collar Me Charming to do something she loves and give back ties, since it [is] going on a to animals. dog,” Yaeli said.

The collars are made from Yaeli explained she had seems risky, it’s the risks that high quality fabric and are worked with animals in determine if an endeavor is also machine washable. a veterinarian office her truly worth it.

The business has pets “I think you have to take freshman wagging their year, which chances,” she said. “I wanted tails around fueled her to be my own boss.” the world, Since the retail industry compassion since many for animals. is small and competitive, customers In 2007, she especially in a location such happen to be interned at as Tucson, the creation of international.

G a d a b o u t a successful business such “Canada is as Collar Me Charming salon. a huge avenue “I did an took a combination of for us; they independent Yaeli’s education and work love their study where experience. dogs,” Yaeli “I believe that my I specialized said. in product education helped me in — Katie Yaeli Collar Me design,” she learning about consumer Collar Me Charming Charming has behavior,” Yaeli said. “Stepsaid. founder also shipped H e r by-step, it slowly started up.” to Ukraine, In the future, Yaeli said work with Australia and G a d a b o u t those at Collar Me Charming England. Even consisted of designing would like to build the animal celebrities have been up toward styling bottles for the company seen wearing the company’s company, which gave Yaeli merchandising its products. collars, such as YouTube star experience with visual She said the collar demand Jesse the Jack Russell Terrier. is high, and manufacturing merchandising.

Yaeli said she started Yaeli said the is a possibility at this point. making collars by dressing encouragement and support Since Yaeli and her husband up her golden retriever, in founding the business are currently expecting a Cassy, with accessories. came from her husband, baby in April, designing After her creativity Michael Yaeli, who praised children’s clothes is also a flourished into a business, her idea from the start. Lexi future possibility. her dog Cassy was promoted “This is a way for me to do Danielson, the designer for to a higher position and Collar Me Charming, has what I love to do,” Yaeli said, is now named the CFO, or also provided ideas and “and also help out animals Chief Furry Officer, of the at the same time.” inspiration, Yaeli said. company.

She added that even Starting a company though running a business that’s based on a passion — Follow Victoria Teplitz founded in her passion takes a lot of experience. @torteplit

This is a way for me to do what I love to do