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Arizona head football coach Rich Rodriguez signed the vast majority of his first recruiting class in Tucson on Wednesday. Rodriguez said it’s important to find recruits who love football and need it in their lives because it will drive them to prepare like one of the best teams in the country.

UA signs 23 recruits on National Signing Day but still has room to add 1 or 2 more

By Alex Williams DAILY WILDCAT During a three-and-a-half day stretch last week, Arizona head football coach Rich Rodriguez made a stop in 14 different cities while he was on the recruiting trail. It paid off on Wednesday’s National Signing Day, when the Wildcats received 23 signed letters of intent.

Rivals.com ranks Rodriguez’s first recruiting class at Arizona, which he said has room for one or two more players, No. 45 in the nation and No. 11 in the Pac-12.

“I spend more of my time as a coach evaluating high school prospects than any other thing I do as the head coach at

Arizona,” Rodriguez said. “I think all of these guys will contribute at some point, and some will be able to contribute right away.”

Arizona’s incoming class includes players from nine different states and four different time zones, but Rodriguez said the diverse class was more a factor of a shortened recruiting period after the coaching change than a long-term plan.

The first-year coach said he’ll focus on places “with a direct flight to Tucson,” in the future, and that will include traditional recruiting grounds like California and Texas while the Wildcats also try to extend their reach into New Orleans and Florida.

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Top recruits Dakota Conwell Four-star LB Pittsburgh, Penn.

Zach Hemmila Three-star OG Chandler, Ariz.

Javelle Allen Three-star QB Prosper, Texas

Dylan Cozens Three-star DE Scottsdale Ariz.

Kyle Kelley Three-star DE Irvine, Calif.

Beau Boyster Three-star C Bellflower, Calif.

DAILY WILDCAT Students attending the UA, Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University who are not on a full-ride scholarship for academics or athletics may be charged an extra $2,000 out-of-pocket to attend school.

While House Bill 2675 would not raise tuition rates if passed, it would require full-time students attending Arizona universities to pay $2,000 per year with no financial assistance 2010-11 Debt from any entity affiliated with an in-state universi- Average total ty. These entities include amount of private or public fund- undergraduate ing such as grants, gifts, scholarships or tuition debt increased benefits, according to the from $19,946 to $21,158. legislation.

Students receiving scholarships or grants Total graduate for athletic or academic merit would be exempt student debt rose from paying out-of- from $42,097 to pocket, and only the top $44,918. five percent of incoming Source: Arizona Board of Regents students would be covered by the exemption, according to the bill.

Rep. John Kavanagh, a Republican who introduced the bill, said the idea came about when he was told that 48 percent of ASU students pay no amount of tuition because of subsidies from the university.

“In these times we can’t be giving away for free a fine university education to people who aren’t athletes or scholars,” said Kavanagh, citing the economic problems the state has been having.

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Proposed legislation that would allow bicyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs may make police jobs easier, according to a state representative.

Daniel Patterson, a Democrat representing Legislative District 29, has proposed the Arizona Bike Safe Yield Act, which would allow cyclists to pass through stop signs as long as there is no traffic. The proposed legislation is based off a current law in place in the state of Idaho, Patterson said.

“I think it would be great for U of A students, people who work at the U of A and those living in Arizona because it allows you to get around more efficiently and will eliminate the potential stress of being unnecessarily pulled over by police for something that shouldn’t be in violation of the law,” Patterson said.

The biggest complaint cyclists in Tucson have is that the Tucson Police Department and University of Arizona Police Department officers stop and ticket them for failure to come to a complete stop, Patterson said, even when there is no oncoming traffic.

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road, Patterson added.

The current law states that bicyclists must treat their bicycle as a vehicle and come to a complete stop at a stop sign.

Failure to do so can result in a $174 fine, according to Sgt. Juan Alvarez, the UAPD public information officer.

“With the university community

there’s a large mixture of pedestrians, people on bicycles and cars,” Alvarez said. “It’s important that when you come to a stop sign that you do come to a complete stop so that you avoid running into somebody else.” He declined to comment on Patterson’s proposed legislation.

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State lawmakers are considering a new law that would allow bicyclists to treat a stop sign like a yield sign.

The current law poses some problems for cyclists who encounter a lot of stop signs on their routes, as well as for those who ride with clipped in pedals and must unclip at every stop sign, Patterson said.

“I never really stop for stop signs in the first place,” said Tesher Cohen, a pre-business freshman, who has received a citation for failing to complete a stop. “I find it really pointless. I think cars should yield to the bike rider, even though bikes are considered to be vehicles.”

Some students, however, believe the proposed legislation will prove dangerous for bicyclists.

“I guess it’s an inconvenience, but not an unnecessary one,” said Sarah Dischinger, a chemical engineering junior, who says she hits at least three stop signs on her bike ride to school.

“I would be worried if it (the bill) were to pass that there would be more accidents, because I feel like I would slow down even less.”

The proposed legislation will not allow bicyclists to cut across traffic, but will force them to yield to oncoming traffic. Only if the roads are empty can bicyclists safely bypass the stop sign and cycle through.

Looking ahead to a day when Arizona would lead the way in algae farming, a Tucson lawmaker has proposed two bills that commercialize alga-culture and enable the UA and Arizona State University to further their research in the field.

The new legislation, introduced by Rep. Matt Heinz of Arizona District 29 and sponsored by Rep. Russ Jones of District 24, intends to turn algaculture into a commercial industry.

Alga-culture involves raising algae, microscopic plants that turn light into biomass, and converting them into biofuels or hydrogen. House Bills 2225 and 2226 would enable the UA to become more actively involved in the field of alga-cultural research, according to Jones.

HB 2225 would expand agricultural land use to incorporate algae farming for the purpose of researching, developing and commercially producing biofuels on trust land. Trust land is intended for the benefit of public schools and

institutions, according to the bill.

Consequently, HB 2226 seeks to widen the definition of agricultural real property to include lands dedicated to alga-culture, meaning that real property used for raising algae would be taxable land.

Due to its arid climate, ceaseless sunlight and wide-open land, Arizona is prime real estate for algae farming, Jones said.

“It would seem at first glance a good fit for Arizona,” he said. “If we can convert our sunlight into energy, I think our state is going to be

better off.”

The UA has been researching the genetic development of algae and the possibility of growing algae on an agricultural scale as part of an initiative by the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts.

Over three years, the U.S. Department of Energy will grant $50 million to the alliance, $4 million of which will go to the UA, according to Peter Waller, an associate professor of agriculture and biosystems engineering.

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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum campaigns in Luverne, Minn., on Monday. He spoke to several hundred people in the Palace Theater.

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LAKEWOOD, Colo. — A day after getting trounced in his third consecutive primary, Rick Santorum lashed out at his leading Republican presidential rivals Wednesday and urged the party’s rank and file to ignore media pundits who cast Mitt Romney as the inevitable nominee.

The former Pennsylvania senator compared himself to Ronald Reagan battling his image as

a conservative “radical” in the 1980 presidential race, but going on to win the Republican nomination and unseating the Democratic incumbent.

“Ladies and gentlemen, here in Colorado, you’ve got to stand up and put some sanity back in this race,” Santorum told a breakfast gathering of the Arapahoe County Republican Men’s Club at a Mexican restaurant in Denver. “You’ve got to stand up and ignore all of this inevitability

and say we want somebody who can actually voice our values.”

Republican presidential caucuses will take place Tuesday in Colorado, three days after a more high-profile and consequential contest in Nevada. Both states are uphill fights for Santorum, who won the Iowa caucuses by a razor-thin margin, but got clobbered in the New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida primaries.

In Denver on Wednesday morning, Santorum

attacked the conservative credentials of both Romney and Newt Gingrich.

Borrowing a line from former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who dropped out of the race last month, he called Romney a “well-oiled weather vane.” Santorum also mocked Gingrich’s plan to colonize the moon, saying the former House speaker would leave Americans wondering, “What planet are we going to colonize next?”

But his main line of attack, mainly on Romney, was on health care. Santorum called the former Massachusetts governor “the weakest candidate” Republicans could nominate, saying the health care overhaul that he put in place in his home state would leave the party “neutered” in challenging President Barack Obama on the issue.

In effect, he argued, Romney agrees with Obama’s position that “on one of the most important issues of our lives, government ought to be in control.”

“Why would you give this issue away?” he asked.

Mindful that his own support could wane following his distant third-place finish in Florida on Tuesday, Santorum called on Colorado Republicans to defy media reports of Romney’s invincibility.

“See, here’s the problem: You guys watch too much television,” he told the breakfast crowd.

“You’re listening to other people’s opinions instead of your own. You’re letting other people make decisions for you based upon what they think, and you think they’re smarter than they are. Let me assure you, I work with them — they’re not.”

When a man asked how a socially conservative candidate could win the presidency, Santorum said his stands on cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage, were no different than Romney’s or Gingrich’s.

“What makes me a social conservative and them, not?” he asked. “Well, I’ll tell you the difference: I actually believe it.”

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LONDON — Four British men pleaded guilty Wednesday to planning a bomb attack on the London Stock Exchange as part of an al-Qaida-inspired plot to cause fear and wreak economic havoc.

The men admitted in a London courtroom to hatching the plan and preparing to carry it out, though they had not gotten as far as buying explosives by the time of their arrest. The plotters took their inspiration from Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric who preached militant jihad and who was killed in Yemen last year in an airstrike by an American military drone.

The four would-be attackers were

among nine people charged with terrorist offenses following a major police sweep in December 2010 across Britain — in London, the northern English city of Stoke-onTrent and the Welsh capital of Cardiff. Scotland Yard officials said the coordinated raids and arrests were “absolutely necessary in order to keep the public safe.”

Bombing the stock exchange formed part of what authorities allege was to be a larger terrorist plot at Christmastime in 2010 that included possible attacks on Big Ben, the London Eye (the Ferris wheel on the banks of the Thames), Westminster Abbey and various pubs. In addition, police said they found the addresses of the U.S.

Embassy, London Mayor Boris Johnson and two rabbis on a list of potential targets.

All nine men, who ranged in age from 19 to 28 at the time of the arrests, initially pleaded not guilty to the charges against them.

But on Wednesday, as a jury trial was due to begin, the defendants switched their pleas. Four of the men — Mohammed Chowdhury, Gurukanth Desai, Abdul Miah and Shah Rahman — admitted to plotting to bomb the London Stock Exchange.

As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors accepted the four men’s contention that the attack was meant to strike fear and incur economic losses, not to cause death and injury.

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FARC refuse to release hostages Mcclatchy tribune

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s largest guerrilla group scratched plans to release six longtime hostages and was blamed for a bomb that killed at least five people in the port town of Tumaco on Tuesday, proving that the weakened rebel force can still pack a psychological and military punch.

Colombia’s Armed Revolutionary Forces, or FARC, said in a statement Tuesday that it was indefinitely delaying the release of six hostages, some of whom have been in captivity for more than 13 years, because the government had “unjustifiably militarized” the area where they would be freed.

President Juan Manuel Santos shot back on his Twitter account.

“My God, no more tricks,” he wrote.

“We don’t even know where the hostages are. They haven’t even given us coordinates. Free them now!!”

Hours later, a motorcycle rigged with a bomb went off outside the police station in Tumaco, along the border with Ecuador. The explosion killed at least five, including three civilians.

The blast also wounded at least 20

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people, the government said.

Police Gen. Rodolfo Palomino told RCN radio that the FARC’s Daniel Aldana column was likely behind the attack. Other government officials, however, cautioned it was too soon to assign blame and the guerrilla group did not immediately claim responsibility for the bombing.

Palomino said it was a “cowardly” move by the guerrilla group that is seeing its drug-trafficking routes shut down.

During the first 20 days of the year, the FARC staged 132 attacks that killed or wounded 56 military and police officers, according to the Corporacion Nuevo Arco Iris, which studies Colombia’s conflict. Even so, the FARC announced in December it would release six officials who have been in custody for more than a decade. It provided their names but never set a date for their release.

In November, the FARC executed four hostages as government troops moved in. The rebels claimed the military was staging a rescue operation, but the government said soldiers simply stumbled upon the

encampment.

In Tuesday’s communique, the rebels accused the government of trying to undermine the hostage release in order to mount another military operation.

“We want to release them alive, but the government prefers to return them to their families in caskets,” said the statement, signed by the FARC Secretariat.

Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzon accused the rebels of lying and said the government has always suspended military operations in areas where hostages were slated to be released.

“If they give us the coordinates, tell us the site, and tell us what we have to do to recover them, we can do that today,” Pinzon said.

Founded in 1964 with Marxist underpinnings, the FARC has increasingly resorted to drug trafficking, kidnapping and extortion to finance its survival. The rebel group, which is considered a terrorist organization by the United States and Colombia, is thought to have about 9,000 members.

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FORT WORTH, Texas — American Airlines parent AMR Corp. plans to cut 13,000 workers across the country as part of a broad bankruptcy restructuring that aims to cut costs by $2 billion a year, the company said Wednesday.

The proposed cuts include laying off 400 pilots, 4,600 mechanics & related workers, 4,200 fleet services employees, 2,300 flight attendants and 1,400 management and support staff, said company spokesman Bruce Hicks.

The Fort Worth-based carrier also said it wants to terminate all four of its pension plans as part of a broad bankruptcy restructuring that aims to cut costs by $2 billion a year.

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The Park Avenue Super-viser Union market lead gives students a listening ear and comforting shoulder

she said.

Samantha Gardner, a library science graduate student and one of Ebeling’s employees, said that Ebeling is “a very nice and sweet woman” by making sure that her employees get to know her, and while all of her employees are working, Ebeling is also working.

“She’s not just sitting in the back as a

boss,” Gardner said.

Ebeling is also there for her student employees far beyond the realm of work.

“When I had personal financial issues, Ebeling went above and beyond to help me out,” said Elisabeth Stromback, an undeclared sophomore and one of her student employees. “With

everything Ebeling has to deal with, her work and personal life, she did more than she had to by looking for services that were of a help in my situation, and helped me come up with a plan for myself to solve my problem.”

Ebeling began working in the Park Student Union as a lead in 2008 and then gradually became the supervisor of Park Avenue Market, a new store that opened this semester on the bottom floor of the PSU. The most challenging part for Ebeling was telling people what to do, she said — it was hard for her to come to terms with the idea that she is the boss.

“I definitely feel it’s not just a manager and a co-worker relationship,” said Jsanae Davis, a sophomore studying political science and philosophy.

“She is very sweet and understanding of other students’ personal problems.”

Ebeling is a very caring person who was always making sure that her employees and customers were doing well, Stomback said.

“She (Ebeling) will do anything to help you,” Stomback added. “She is a very strong woman and I hope one day I, myself and others would be more like her.”

In her free time, Ebeling likes to spend time biking with her son or walking her dogs. At all other times, however, she is managing the market to ensure that students are given the best customer service and healthy products to keep them going throughout the day.

“I am a mother of three boys, so everyone that comes in here are like my own children,” Ebeling said.

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to students who rely on need-based scholarships to assist them with the cost of higher education.

“The legislation also assumes that students only face costs in the form of tuition,” she said. “In fact, other costs — such as books, course fees, housing and meals — also add to the price of a higher education.”

Student debt loan has doubled in the past five years alone, Dan Fitzgibbon, board chair of the Arizona Students’ Association, said, and the average debt loan taken on by a student has exceeded $20,000.

“In passing this bill, it will affect more than universities and students economically, but the entire state,” he added.

When asked if the bill would unfairly affect students of a lower socioeconomic status who may be receiving need-based aid, while financially unaffecting students from families of a higher status, Kavanagh said, “Rich people will always be able to afford better cars.”

Associated Students of the University of Arizona President James Allen explained that if the UA wanted to offer a non merit-based scholarship to a “brilliant” student, that student would still have to pay the fee, which could potentially push the student away

from attending the university.

“Not every student has $2,000 lying around, especially when that is the difference between food money or gas,” Allen said. “This is a vitally important battle to fight, and it eclipses all of the conversations we (ASUA) had in the last few years.”

Both Fitzgibbon and Allen said that the proposed legislation could drive some of the best performing students in the state away.

Kavanagh disagreed, saying that discounted rates at state universities may be pushing students in when they aren’t ready and should be at local community colleges.

“Some people when they get it (education) for free don’t take it as seriously. Paying for what you get builds character,” Kavanagh added.

ASUA and ASA will be lobbying at the state Capitol this weekend for their annual Lobby Con event, where 150 students will explain to state legislators about the importance of supporting issues regarding higher education. Explaining why the legislators must oppose HB 2675, Allen said, will be a “huge priority” at the event.

“There are so many costs students have to incur, people think tuition is all they have to pay,” Fitzgibbon said.

“It’s sad, of all things.”

By Yara Askar DAILY WILDCAT arb Ebeling has stepped out of her job description as a supervisor in the Park Student Union to provide students with an ear for listening to their problems or a shoulder to lean on.

“I try to do anything that I can to help students out, that wouldn’t put a burden on me,” Ebeling said.

“That is just who I am and it makes me feel good to know I can help a student out.”

Ebeling received a degree in electronics and computer engineering from the International Telephone and Telegraph Technical Institute.

Throughout high school, Ebeling demonstrated strength in studying mathematics, but soon lost interest in the field. She followed a new path away from the rigorous life of studying, and discovered a useful skill within herself — the ability to easily socialize and converse with customers.

“I just started talking to the students and let them know they can come and talk to me, whether it is about the store or away from the store,” Ebeling said.

“With a lot of students being away from home, that mother and father figure isn’t there with them every day, and I try to help out in that.”

Ebeling has gone to students many times to let them know she is there

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Barb Ebeling works as a supervisor at the Park Avenue Market in the Park Student Union on Monday.

for them and can help with anything, whether it’s providing them with tools to solve their problems, giving them more shifts at work or even giving them rides to and from campus.

“If your paycheck is not big enough for you to pay your bills and buy food, then I try to help them out even if it’s just by bringing macaroni and cheese,”

alfafa and be used for cattle feed as well, according to research by University of Minnesota, he added.

Making algae farming a part of the commercial agricultural industry would not only create renewable energy, but produce jobs in Arizona, according to Jones and Waller.

“Of course I want people to be more interested in algae,” Attalah said. “Because after I get my degree, I will find a job.”

While HB 2225 and 2226 have received support from many lawmakers and researchers, Rep. Frank Pratt of Arizona District 23, chairman of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, cast the single opposing vote for HB 2225, calling the bill “premature.”

He voted “nay” to make a statement that while alga-culture may gain more momentum in the future, Arizona has yet to begin algae farming operations that would call for a broadening of agricultural land use.

“We’re making a bill for an industry that does not exist,” he said.

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If this legislation passes, algae cultivation will be more attractive to farmers and algae production will be cheaper, Waller said. In turn, the research taking place at the UA will be more appealing to those who want to invest in the algae farming business.

“There’s a huge potential economic benefit to producing algae,” Waller said.

The UA produces algae in a facility called the Arid Raceway Integrated Design (ARID), which uses a gravitydriven hydraulic system to cultivate and harvest the plants, according to Said Attalah, a graduate student in agriculture and biosystems engineering. Once the algae have been harvested, the oils extracted from the plants can be used to create energy, biodiesel and jet fuel. Alga grows at 10 times the rate of alfalfa while using the same amount of water, according to Waller. It could substitute

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to students of both sexes, and the instruction furnished shall be nearly free as possible,” requiring the legislature to use taxes to “insure proper maintenance of all state educational institutions.”

Kavanagh said he does not see this bill as a violation of the state constitution because it does not actually raise the price of student tuition.

Although the proposed legislation would not raise tuition, representatives from the Arizona Board of Regents and Arizona Students’Association said they believe the proposed legislation will affect accessibility for potential students to attend in-state universities.

Sarah Harper, a spokeswoman for the regents, said that HB 2675 as it’s currently written would impact Arizona University System’s mission of ensuring affordable access to higher education to all segments of Arizona’s population, and have an “immensely negative impact” on the ability of Arizona’s working-class families to send their children to college. In addition, she said the bill would create added financial burden

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ugenics is a complicated issue that always finds its way in and out of the news. Scientists exploit new technology which can give you the ability to choose the sex, eye color and hair color of your unborn children. “Designer babies” is the term for these potentially perfect children, and a website called beautifulpeople.com can help you find your “perfect” mate to harvest a supposedly beautiful child.

The hype of this website is that only “beautiful” people can join. The process begins with creating a profile, which is simply comprised of: name, email, location, sex and a profile picture. The catch is, only existing members can allow you to join this website by casting a vote from “absolutely not” to “beautiful.”

If you earn enough beautiful votes you are free to roam the website’s “largest, most exclusive beautiful community in the world,” as stated from its front page. If not, then you are cast aside into the group of beauty outcasts.

Recently, though, the company founder, Robert Hintze, has suggested opening the site to everyone, even those who may not have desirable features. “Initially, we hesitated to widen the offering to nonbeautiful people. But everyone — including ugly people — would like to bring good looking children in to the world, and we can’t be selfish with our attractive gene pool,” said Hintze in a public statement.

This site is completely judgmental, and is meant for those who suffer from extreme narcissism. The results will only create a generation that has been bred on the idea that beauty is the top priority, and that love and companionship don’t matter.

One of the members of beautifulpeople. com, Parissa Mobasher stated on ABC News, “I know it sounds really shallow in the context of beautiful people, but if you look at human nature, the initial attraction is the exterior … It’s that extra edge in life.”

But it’s also not the only feature that matters about a person.

What happened to intelligence, the ability to carry on a meaningful conversation, being witty, or having special talents? These are the things about individual people that make them unique and interesting and more than a face. We all know that even without advances in cosmetic surgery that a pretty face doesn’t last forever so having a great personality should be valued more.

“It’s just terribly insulting,” Dr. Daniel Sulmasy, a bioethicist at the University of Chicago, commented on the website. “It trivializes our values. It trivializes human sexuality. It’s just another example of the superficiality and consumerism that I think is running rampant in our society.”

This website is a terrible example of web designers and conceited founders taking the already complicated issue of eugenics into their own hands and using it for the wrong reasons. Faults and even characteristics about ourselves that may not be desirable should not be frowned upon, but embraced because it is part of our uniqueness as humans.

— Rebecca Miller is a junior studying photography and journalism. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

Online comments On “Roby, ‘true pioneer’ in women’s sports and UA alumna, dies at 85”: Dr. Roby was a terrific educator. I was very fortunate to know her in the early 70’s during my years as a student. She was instrumental in molding a lot of my thoughts in the area of Physical Education and Athletics along with her husband Fred. She certainly helped lead Arizona in the formative years of women’s athletics.

She will be missed.

— Fred Sheron

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Electronic bikes deprive students of exercise, cash Around campus, the response was a definite yes when asked if they would prefer a manual bike as opposed to an e-bike.

“If I biked to classes, then at the end of the day my legs would Cheryl Gamachi be sore,” said Dario Foroutan, a Daily Wildcat business marketing freshman. “It definitely helped when I didn’t in 2010. But in September of that have time to go to the Rec Center.” or some students, riding year in Las Vegas they thought their bike to classes is the Marianella Meza, a family of a different idea: the e-bike. only form of exercise they studies freshman, went even The team attended the Interbike get. Sometimes the Student further by stating, “The electric International Trade Expo, where Recreation Center is either too bike completely changes the they realized far from students’ dorms or they definition their original idea don’t have time to hit the gym. of a bike.

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campus, when in fact, that little amount of exercise could be securing a longer life in the future.

There are many students who actually do enjoy biking to classes and around campus, taking in the scenery and the breeze. It’s a stress reliever. It’s also satisfying to know that your legs are taking you where you want to go, and not the battery. Besides, if you knew you could go electric, wouldn’t you be tempted to use it instead?

Riding (or should I say sitting) on an electric bike defeats the purpose of owning a bike. With the retail price more than $2,000, the e-bike doesn’t make sense.

Tuition and other associated costs are already burning a hole in students’ wallets — do they really want to spend more just so they don’t have to use their legs?

A manual bike is the most ecofriendly, healthy and economical transportation.

— Cheryl Gamachi is a pre-journalism freshman.

She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

Optimism outdated in today’s world late last decade, perhaps never to return. In this environment, clarity is not something the upcoming generation will necessarily have.

That is precisely why skepticism Andrew will serve us so well. The optimistic Conlogue models, of trusting political figures or relying solely on our might to get Daily Wildcat us through, are starting to fail. New models and new ideologies are outh of the past have been or, at least, goals that responded required to face the new problems. well to self-assured thinking. criticized by their elders Skeptical attitudes about politics, Ideologies were for being optimists. These economics set, and the hard days, however, the complaint and the work came in seems to be just the opposite.

That is precisely why world itself following the Some older folks are concerned skepticism will serve us can act as ideology, not about the skepticism of the the catalyst so well.

The optimistic necessarily in younger generation. The starryfor creating shaping it. eyed youth have grown up, and models, of trusting them. At the The problems they’re worried about their political figures or relying very least, the world faces skeptical children. Not to be solely on our might the older now, and will likely cynical, but optimism may be models to get us through, are an outdated solution. The future face in the future, clearly need presents unique challenges, and are a bit different. starting to fail. a lot of work. skepticism just might be the way There is no Hitler, Optimistic and no Soviet bear forward. attitudes In the past, optimism was a more lurking the woods. tend to suppress questioning. In China, our biggest potential rival, applicable mindset. Nazi fascism optimistic times, ideologies are is also our largest trading partner. would have destroyed the world enshrined as doctrine, and any Terrorism, though horrifying, race by race if not for the fight dissent is crushed in the name of does not pose nearly the threat put up by our plucky forebears. keeping spirits sunny. Skepticism, Communism’s back was eventually enemy armies once did. Politics however, is by definition about are thoroughly broken, as the broken with a capitalist ideal that questioning. If everyone’s already many partisan debacles since the encouraged optimistic risk taking. debt ceiling indicate. The capitalist pessimistic, there’s no harm in The greatest generation and the pointing out the flaws in ideas. This one that followed had clearer goals, dreams of ordinary people left

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can help with situations in which ideologies clash, as well. If people are already skeptical about their own ideology, they are more willing to find points of compromise with others. Optimists of different stripes get gridlocked. Pessimists of all stripes tend to move toward the best solution, together. And that has the potential to create something that we can, cautiously, be optimistic about.

Opponents of this line of reasoning might say such skepticism is overblown. There are honest politicians, there are successes in capitalism, etc.

These things do indeed exist. So do lions who befriend human beings. But no matter how optimistic one is about finding such a lion, the wisest model of dealing with strange lions is to expect that they are predators.

That, in essence, is the ideology of the skeptical generation. It will serve us well in the jungle of the modern world.

— Andrew J. Conlogue is a junior studying philosophy, politics, economics and law.

He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

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By Elliot P. Hopper Daily Wildcat

Too high of expectations

University of Arizona Police Department officers cited a homeless man for trespassing on Monday at 8:20 a.m. Officers pulled the man aside on University Boulevard and Park Avenue, asked to see his driver’s license and what he was doing on campus so early in the morning. The man replied that he was hanging around campus and decided to head to the library and possibly use the restroom. The man then said that he knew he wouldn’t make it in time, and decided to “urinate in the public like homeless do.” The man was cited for trespassing and criminal littering. Officers ran his driver’s license and noticed that he had seven outstanding warrants. As he was handcuffed and placed in the back of the patrol vehicle, he kept yelling out, “I’m homeless, what do you expect?” He was transported to the Tucson Police Department.

Golf cart gone wrong

A UA maintenance employee called UAPD to report that a golf cart had been vandalized and wrecked on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. The employee said that every morning at 6:30 a.m., he opens the gate to all of the golf carts and inspects them.

Then around 9:30 p.m., he closes the gate and checks to make sure the golf carts are all accounted for. He noticed a golf cart in the back of the driveway with its lights on, dented on all sides with a trail of oil coming from the back. As the employee was waiting for the police, he saw two male students who seemed “heavily intoxicated” wandering around outside the gate and laughing hysterically. The employee identified the students as two white males, one 5 feet 11 inches tall and wearing a white T-shirt, the other as 6 feet tall and wearing a dark T-shirt. Both students appeared to be about 160-170 pounds. By the time police officers arrived, the two students had disappeared. The officers arrived and scattered throughout the university and surrounding areas to find the student who might match the descriptions, but were unable to find them. The officers then took photographs of the oil trails, damages and fingerprints on the golf cart. No fingerprints have been matched at this time.

Weed woes

UAPD officers saw a male student fail to stop at a stop sign when leaving the James E. Roger College of Law building on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. The student was pulled over by the patrol car, and officers asked for his driver’s license and registration.

The officer noticed upon approaching the car that there was a pipe and bag of weed in the center console of the car. The student was not aware of his mistake and repeatedly asked, “What’s wrong?” The officer responded, “What’s wrong is that it looks like you’re smoking marijuana and you failed to stop at a stop sign.” The officer asked him to step out of the car and put his hands behind his back. The officers conducted a search of his car and found other empty bags that smelled heavily of marijuana. The student told police that he only uses other peoples’ pipes to smoke, and that this one was not his. The officer asked why there was a particular reason why he had marijuana in the vehicle and if he had a medical marijuana card. The student replied, “No, I don’t and it’s dumb to smoke it.” As officers conducted more searches on the student, they found a host of fake IDs. He was cited for the stop sign violation, possession of drugs and of fake IDs.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports. A complete list of UAPD activity can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.

Campus Events

Workshop: Interviewing for Jobs and Internships Learn what to expect and how to prepare for an interview so that you can answer interview questions with ease. Please join us! No prior sign-up required. Find out more at career.arizona.edu. Thursday, February 2, 1:30pm – 2:20pm. Career Services, SUMC 411.

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 In the highly anticipated next chapter of the blockbuster The Twilight Saga, the newfound married bliss of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world.

After their wedding, Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth Edward finally fulfills her wish to become immortal. But the arrival of their remarkable daughter, Renesmee, sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens and their allies against the Volturi, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all-out battle. Gallagher Theater. Thursday, February 2 – Saturday, February 4, 10:00pm – 11:59pm.

Fifth Annual Darrow K. Soll Memorial Criminal Law and Justice Lecture Criminal law expert, author and former UA Law dean, Paul Marcus, is slated to speak at the fifth annual Darrow K. Soll Lecture. The talk will be titled “Miranda, the Exclusionary Rule, Jurors Talking, Entrapment and Harsh Sentencing: Why the U.S. Criminal Justice System Has All of Them, But Other Nations Do Not.” Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 5 p.m. - 6 p.m. James E. Rogers College of Law, Ares Auditorium

Wildcat Calendar Campus Events

Steward Observatory Mirror Lab Tours A behind-the-scenes look on Tuesdays and Fridays at the cutting-edge optical technology involved in making giant telescope mirrors at Steward Observatory Mirror Lab, University of Arizona. Tours are conducted at 1 p.m and 3 p.m. Monday through Friday. Advance reservations are required and can be made by calling 520-626-8792. Admission: $15 adults, $8 students.933 N. Cherry Ave., N208

Science, Technology & Art: A SISTA Exhibition The School of Information: Science, Technology & Arts (SISTA) is pleased to announce our first exhibition to be held in the University of Arizona Student Union Gallery, running from January 17th to February 9th. Admission is free and open to the public. This juried exhibition includes work by UA faculty, staff, and students who are blurring the lines between art, research, technology, and science. Information about SISTA can be found at http://sista.arizona.edu or by e-mailing info@sista.arizona.edu. Union Gallery Hours: Monday - Wednesday and Friday: 12pm - 6pm, Thursdays: 12pm - 8pm Free Hatha Yoga Class As part of the Tucson Holistic Healing Initiative for Nurses, the College of Nursing is hosting free Hatha Yoga classes, taught by Sandi Fox, throughout the month of February. Classes are limited to 30 participants on a first-come, first-served basis.

College of Nursing, Room: 117. Thursday, February 2, 2012 from 5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

February 2

Campus Events

“Mapping Arizona: From Mexican Territory to U.S. State” (exhibit) This is new exhibit on display in the UA Main Library from Jan. 6 – March 28, 2012, details the path Arizona took to become a state – first as part of the Territory of New Mexico, then as the Territory of Arizona, finally attaining statehood in 1912. In addition to an array of historical maps, “Mapping Arizona” also includes books and unique documents selected from Special Collections extensive holdings.

These additional materials offer insight into the stories that accompany the lines, boundaries, and borders within the maps. UA Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd.

Ansel Adams: The View from Here Perhaps no photographer’s work has enjoyed such popularity as Ansel Adams’s awe-inspiring views of the natural world. His early trips to the Yosemite wilderness in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s informed the stylistic approach that made him famous. These treks included not only the physical activities of hiking, camping, and mountain climbing, but also social, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual elements. With forty photographs and supporting documents from the Ansel Adams Archive, Ansel Adams: The View from Here explores the relationship between Adams’s magical photographs of the American landscape - both its panoramic vistas and its intimate details - and how he came to understand the importance of his natural environment. Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm, Saturday &a Sunday, 1pm – 4pm through March 4th at The Center for Creative Photography: 1030 North Olive Road.

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The Borderlands Community Film Series Presents Mi Vida Dentro (My Life Inside) A controversial court case involving an illegal immigrant and the death of a young child is examined in this documentary by filmmaker Lucia Gaja. My Life Inside received its North American premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. Visit www.mividadentro.com for more information. 6pm Thursday, February 2nd. FREE Monthly Film Series at El Pueblo Neighborhood Center Room 1C (101 W. Irvington Road). Refreshments Served and Everyone is Welcome!

58th Annual Tucson Gem and Mineral Shows For two weeks every winter, the world meets in Tucson as it becomes a bustling, international marketplace of buyers and sellers at the Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase. The “Gem Show” is much more than a single event at one location. Rather, there are thousands of participants and attendees at more than 40 sites around town. Dozens of shows take place at the same time - in giant white tents, at hotels and resorts and at exhibit halls. There’s something for everyone at the many open-tothe-public shows - from gold and diamonds to granite bookends and glass beads, and from fine specimens of dinosaur fossils to opals dug from the Australian Outback. View the following web page for specific dates, times, and locations of the Tucson gem and mineral shows:http://tucsongemandmineralshows. net/2012-tucson-gem-show.htm. January 28th through Febraury 12th, 2012.

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Sports scoreboard:

Cal’s deadly guards

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NBA Phoenix 120, New Orleans 103

NCAAB No. 22 Michigan 68, No. 20 Indiana 56

No. 14 Georgetown 58, Connecticut 44

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Gutierrez and Crabbe lifting Golden Bears to top of Pac-12 conference

By Mike Schmitz Daily Wildcat

College basketball is a guard’s game.

Eight of the NCAA’s top 10 scorers are backcourt players, further proving the impact guards have on the floor.

With the growing importance of 3-pointers, coupled with an emphasis on hand-check fouls on the perimeter, it’s a team’s backcourt that often dictates how successful they are in March.

Consider that and it’s no surprise Cal sits atop the Pac12 standings.

Senior guard Jorge Gutierrez and sophomore wing Allen Crabbe are arguably the conference’s top backcourt duo, combining Jorge to average 29.9 of Gutierrez the Golden Bears’ Cal guard 72.2 points per game.

“Crabbe and Gutierrez are a great one-two punch,” said Arizona head coach Sean Miller.

“They’re the heart Allen Crabbe and soul of that Cal guard team.

“They can hurt you in so many ways, especially Gutierrez. He’s a terrific player.”

While Crabbe leads the Pac-12 in 3-pointers made and ranks fourth in scoring, at 15.8 points per game, Gutierrez is Cal’s true barometer for success.

The 6-foot-3, 195-pound, multi-talented guard from Chihuahua, Mexico averages 14.1 points per game on the season, but only 9.6 points in Cal’s five losses.

He ranks sixth in the Pac-12 in assists with 4.43 per game, and is the only nonpoint guard in the top six.

Gutierrez is also one of the league’s better rebounding guards, as evidenced by his 12-rebound performance against Stanford on Sunday.

“Gutierrez is one of those guys that you would hate to play against, but love to have as a teammate,” said UA forward Solomon Hill. “He does little things that other guys really don’t take in. For a guard going down there and getting 12 rebounds, I don’t think I’ve had a game where I got 12 rebounds.”

Crabbe, on the other hand, is one of the conference’s better underclassmen. The four-star recruit out of Los Angeles, Calif., has the size (6-foot-6,

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The Arizona men’s basketball team will look to snap a recent slide and overcome the loss of forward Kevin Parrom against the Pac-12-leading California Golden Bears on Thursday. The Wildcats won their last visit to Berkeley, Calif., in a triple overtime affair.

Hoops takes to Bay Area for Pac-12’s toughest road trip

By Nicole Dimtsios Daily Wildcat

A lot has changed in the year since the Arizona men’s basketball team defeated the California Golden Bears in a triple overtime game last February in Berkeley, Calif.

“It goes by fast,” senior Kyle Fogg said. “A lot of things happened in that time span.”

The Wildcats (14-8, 4-5 Pac-12 Conference) take on the Golden Bears at 8 p.m. in Haas Pavilion, but will do so with a man down.

Forward Kevin Parrom broke his foot during the Wildcats’ loss to the Washington Huskies on Saturday, and will be one of four players no longer on the team after the 107-105 thriller. Former Wildcat Jamelle Horne graduated, Momo Jones

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transferred and Derrick Williams got drafted.

“Taking those four off of our team, and it’s a brand new deal, and it’s one of the reasons we are where we’re at right now,” head coach Sean Miller said.

Arizona is coming off a heartbreaking loss to the Huskies and a string of last minute whatifs that could have swung the momentum of the season in a completely different direction.

Instead of building on the success of last year’s Elite Eight run,

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Trip to hockey’s roots might be what Arizona needs to snap losing skid

By Kyle Johnson Daily Wildcat

With the Arizona hockey team in the midst of a four-game losing streak, its longest of the season, a trip up north to the frigid weather of North Dakota might be exactly

what it needs to get back on track.

“It’s going to be a big change (from) here, but I think the boys are ready for the weekend of cold weather,” forward Scott Wilson said. “It kind of brings you back to the roots of hockey.”

Traveling to hockey country isn’t going to put Arizona back on the winning track by itself, beating a pair of teams on winning streaks might.

Tonight the UA takes on nonACHA member Williston State

College, which is on a five game winning streak. The Wildcats then play No. 10 Minot State Friday and Saturday, a team on a nine-game winning streak of its own, and also the last team to beat Williston State.

A victory tonight should help the team erase the sour taste in their mouth from the 10-3 defeat in their last game against No. 3 ASU and return the Wildcats back to how they were performing before their

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W-Hoops hosts Cal in hopes of ending freefall

By Cameron Moon

In the midst of a season-high four game losing streak, the Arizona hockey team will face a pair of teams from North Dakota, including 10th-ranked Minot State on Friday and Saturday.

the Wildcats have been stymied by inconsistencies and growing pains from some of their younger players.

On the flip side, Cal (17-5, 7-2) has only improved. Jorge Gutierrez, Allen Crabbe and Harper Kamp have become household names around the Pac-12 and have produced one of the best home-court records in the conference. Cal has not lost at home this season, proving why Miller

If the Arizona women’s basketball team wants to snap out of its fourgame losing streak, it will have to do so against some of the Pac-12’s best, starting tonight at the McKale Center against the California Golden Bears.

The Wildcats return home after being swept by the Washington schools this weekend by a combined score of 155-116 and turning the ball over 23 times in each game. Head coach Niya Butts says the home crowd should be able to get the Wildcats back on track.

“We’re ready to play in front of our home fans,” Butts said. “We’ve tried a whole bunch of different medicines, I don’t know if we’ve gotten the right combination yet. I think it’s a lack of focus and mental errors. This is going to be a tough week ahead, but I’m confident that we can come out and play our best basketball.”

Arizona (13-8, 2-7 Pac-12) will be tested against Cal, the top offensive rebounding team in the conference.

“Obviously it’s going to be a physical basketball game,” Butts said. “They are a really physical team, especially down low. They do a really good job on the boards, but we just have to be

physical.”

Leading scorer Davellyn Whyte has struggled recently, and the Wildcats will need her to bounce back if they are going to compete against Cal. In her last two games, Whyte scored just 21 points combined — her season scoring average is 18.2 points per game.

“It’s been hard coming out so strong, and then hitting this little slump we’re on, but we all know where we want to be,” Whyte said.

“We’re just really focused on the next game. One game at a time so we can get back on a winning streak.”

One area where the Wildcats have an advantage over the Golden Bears is from the charity stripe, as Cal is the worst in the Pac-12 from the free-throw line, while Arizona boasts the third-highest percentage, 70.7 percent. If the Wildcats can be aggressive and get to the foul line, this game could swing in their favor.

“We have to make we’re doing things offensively to get that confidence,” Butts said. “Trying to the free throw line to get some offense going and see the ball go through the basket that way, and not just take a bunch of outside shots.”

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called the Bay Area trip the hardest of the all the trips in the Pac-12.

The Golden Bears were on a four-game win streak before losing by two points at Washington State on Jan. 21, but bounced back with a win over Stanford on Sunday. Cal currently sits in first place in the conference. “They have a great system, older players executing it,� Miller said about Cal’s jump to the top of the conference. “They really have a way of identifying single players and roles. Cal does a great job of screening and getting shots. They play at a good pace.�

With the veteran leadership of Gutierrez — who Miller called a “clever� player ­— and Kamp’s size,

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205 pounds) and range to give Arizona fits tonight in Berkeley. “He’s a great young player,� said UA guard Kyle Fogg. “Like a few of the other guys I’ve guarded he’s got height on his side and I’m sure he’s going to come off a lot of screens looking for open threes.

It’s going to be another tough challenge for me to take him on.�

Crabbe’s drilled four or more triples in seven games this season, but he’ll have his hands full against Fogg and an Arizona defense that leads the Pac-12 in 3-point defense, surrendering only 27.0 percent shooting from beyond the arc.

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the Wildcats will have their hands full containing the Bears.

Arizona will have to survive an aggressive man-to-man defensive style that is the second in the conference in terms of scoring defense, and will test the Wildcats’ ability to get second chance shots.

Cal also will test the Wildcats’ biggest strength this season — defense. The Bears lead the conference in 3-point field goal percentage and scoring with a +12 margin.

The Wildcats travel to the Bay Area with a team hardly reminiscent of last year’s, but Hill said this gives players the chance to write their own history. “We really need them more than ever. They should see this as an opportunity to work hard,� Hill said. “The minutes are going to be there. When we get out on the court, it’s going to speak for itself.�

While Crabbe and Gutierrez are unquestionably Cal’s most dangerous duo, point guard and Minnesota transfer Justin Cobbs is on the verge of transforming the Golden Bears’ duo into a three-headed monster.

The sophomore is averaging 13.0 points per game, while ranking third in the conference in assists per game with 4.7. “He gives us a different dimension,�

Cal coach Mike Montgomery said of Cobbs on his Tuesday teleconference. “He’s able to get to the basket. He’s strong and when he gets to the basket he can finish but he’s also very good at dropping it off. He’s getting better and more consistent and when he’s good he’s real good.�

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“It makes sense geographically,�

Rodriguez said. “But we’ll take a look at other areas if it’ll help us.�

Rodriguez also said there’s one quality he needs his recruits to have, and it’s something that will take a few years to get the entire program to understand. “I don’t want guys that like football,â€? Rodriguez said. “I want guys that love it and need it. If they just like it, they’ll treat it like a club sport ‌ if we expect to be an elite Division I football team, we need players that want to work at that level.â€?

While the Wildcats missed out on four-star athlete Devin Fuller after he committed to UCLA — Fuller would have played quarterback had he enrolled at the UA — they still added a signal-caller in Javelle Allen who could have a bright future in Rodriguez’s spread-option offense. “(Allen) was probably under the radar a little bit,� Rodriguez said. “He’s a very, very good athlete. He’s

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recent skid. “Playing consistent is definitely going to be key for us ‌ It’s kind of been the story of our season,â€? captain Brian Slugocki said. “We’ll let up for a couple minutes and that’s really what kills us.â€?

The task of playing three straight games isn’t daunting for Arizona,

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probably not as fast as Denard Robinson or Pat White, but very few people are. He just has everything you want as a quarterback.�

As a senior at Prosper (Texas) High School, Allen threw for 2,321 yards and 30 touchdowns while rushing for 1,497 yards and 22 scores. Allen also played basketball and ran track at PHS. Allen and 6-foot-5, 190-pound quarterback recruit Joshua Kern will join senior Matt Scott as the only scholarship quarterbacks on Arizona’s roster next season. Junior receiver Richard Morrison will also see time as quarterback in the spring. Morrison came to Arizona as a quarterback but was moved to the slot after redshirting in 2009.

But even though Arizona’s numbers at quarterback are growing, Rodriguez didn’t shy away from saying how he feels about the Wildcats’ quarterback situation for next season. “Scary,â€? he said. “Oh boy. I don’t think I’ve ever been in that situation. It’s scary from the standpoint of experience ‌ but we can fix that

through recruiting and I like the guys we’ve got.�

Rodriguez’s offensive system typically uses smaller players at the skill positions, and this year’s class reflects that. Receiver Jarrell Bennett is listed at 5-foot-10, 160 pounds, but Rodriguez said those numbers are slightly exaggerated. Running back J.T. Washington is listed at 5-foot-7, 165 pounds.

The class also includes a number of players who could play multiple positions, and Rodriguez said that would slightly change the dynamics of this year’s practice. Instead of spending the spring sessions working on shoring up fundamentals, Arizona’s players will be subject to more evaluation than usual so Rodriguez and his staff can figure out where the freshmen are most needed next fall. “We’ve got to do as much evaluating this spring as we do teaching fundamentals,� Rodriguez said. “There’s a lot of evaluation that goes on, certainly the first spring.�

The first day of spring practice will be March 5.

and the Wildcats view it as more of an opportunity.

The three games in a row will always bring fatigue, Wilson said, but it also gives Arizona a chance to try and build on momentum if it can win the first game.

And while Williston State has been hot as of late, Arizona should take care of the Tetons, who are in the National Junior College Athletic Association. But Williston State did beat Minot State once in three

tries this season, so if the Wildcats aren’t ready, it could turn into a trap game. “You don’t want to look past any game, and this game is just as important as any other game in the building process we’re trying to create here at the UA,� Wilson said.

What might be even more challenging than the three straight days or the streaking opponents is the travel schedule the players have to endure.

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Proposed pantry would feed hungry students

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The initial meeting for a proposed food pantry was held to address student food insecurity on Wednesday.

The meeting was led by Hannah Lozon, the coordinator of Social Justice education, who began by showing a clip from NBC Nightly News on the growing number of “food pantries” that have been spreading on university campuses across the nation. Due to the rising cost of tuition, many students are struggling to make ends meet, and UA students are no exception.

However, the issue of food insecurity is one that most staff members, like Renee Skau, community director for Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall, are aware of only through secondary sources, according to her.

Many students struggling with the issue of hunger are quite sensitive about the topic, Lozon said, so it’s necessary for staff and peers to look for signs, such as not showing up to class, or going to events solely where food is served and going through the line numerous times.

About 20 students attended the meeting, and had several ideas on tackling the question of food insecurity, including partnering with local food banks, which, while are good resources for food, are not ideal for students with little or no income and no transportation. Other ideas from the grassroots organization ranged from collecting food from residence halls to holding

food drives with Greek Life organizations and other student clubs.

For Jessica Crombie, coordinator of leadership development, the Food Pantry creates a “great possibility for students to advocate for other students,” she said. Other students also said they were happy to support their community members.

“After meeting a student who dealt with the issue I was inspired to look into it,” said Stephanie Hanson, a graduate student in education. “It touches your heart. An institution of higher learning should take care of the community.”

With such a great need, the staff and students of the food pantry have many proposals to get started, but said they are mostly eager to work on a “grassroots project, which gives us the chance to start something new,” according to Evan Smoller, an undeclared freshman.

In order to fully get started, the food pantry is in need of students to fill up their board of directors, Lozon said, and are looking for students who can volunteer for 10 or more hours a week.

Members of the Food Pantry project said they are also hoping to make the pantry an entirely student-led project. According to Andrew Campbell, assistant director of residential education, the staff working Social Justice — an entity of Residence Life — “are dedicated to the struggles of students, and we are proud of what students want to do.”

LOS ANGELES — If you had 800 million friends, you’d think you’d be worry-free. But Facebook isn’t.

As part of its plans to go public, the popular social network has spelled out its worst nightmares — a litany of scenarios in which its unmatched success in social networking is gnawed at by federal regulators, adverse media coverage, widespread privacy concerns, rampant hacker attacks, unseen flaws in its technology and worst of all, unhappy users.

“It just struck me about how aware they are of their vulnerabilities,” Ryan Calo, director of privacy at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet & Society, said after reading the 150-page document Facebook Inc. filed with federal regulators Wednesday to start its path toward an initial public offering of stock.

Many of Facebook’s most serious concerns arise from a tension at the core of its business: ensuring the privacy of its customers while also using what it knows about them to court advertisers.

“They have a narrow path to walk, and their risk factors really dramatize that in a way we hadn’t seen before,” Calo said.

By storing, transmitting and analyzing the huge amount of user data it collects each day, Facebook said, it sends its customers “billions” of ads a day, all keyed to “the information they have chosen to share.”

One of the company’s triumphs as both a business and a popular digital gathering place is that it

has coaxed users into sharing ever larger amounts of information about themselves and their daily doings — information it readily turns into advertising gold.

“The ad economy is really monetized by the sharing of personal information,” said Ashkan Soltani, an independent privacy and security researcher.

“The more information that’s flowing, the better the odds of targeting you are,” Soltani said.

But the company has repeatedly run afoul of both its users and federal authorities who saw it as less than upfront about the kinds of information it collects and where it all ends up.

In November, the Federal Trade Commission accused the company of deception and violations of federal law by telling users it would keep their information private “and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public.”

As part of a far-reaching settlement, Facebook agreed to allow independent privacy audits every other year for 20 years and to obtain users’ permission before changing privacy settings.

Noting the FTC probe and a similar bout recently with privacy regulators in Ireland, Facebook said in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it might well be subject to future investigations by government authorities.

That “could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business practices in a manner materially adverse to our business,” the filing says.