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From left: Former regent Fred Boice, UA Vice President for Student Affairs Melissa M. Vito, and UACampus Recreation Director Juliette Moore cut the ribbon during the grand opening ceremony of the Student Recreation Center expansion on Monday. Also with them was Jean Roberts, widow of Richard “Dick” Roberts, who was the UA budget director for 22 years.
Grand opening honors expansion’s sustainability, space By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT UA faculty, students and administrators gathered for the grand opening ceremony of the new Student Recreation Center expansion on Monday. The ceremony, dubbed “The Big Green Event”in honor of the expansion’s
sustainability efforts, was the final step in a project that was five years in the making. “Five years ago, we had a lot of complaints from students about the size of the Rec Center,” said Juliette Moore, director of campus recreation. “There were long lines for everything and long waits for machines, so students called together for an expansion.”
Taking into account the complaints of UA students, the Recreation Advisory Committee, a collection of students and faculty on campus, put together a proposal to expand and update the recreation center. “It’s amazing to think about the planning that went into this center,” said MelissaVito, UA vice president for student
affairs. “When I look at this center, I see something that has not only raised the bar, but created a new standard for the 21st century recreation center.” The expansion proposal was eventually accepted after UA students voted in 2006 to extend a $25 fee for three years. The fee OPENING, page 3
Former Miss America visits UA By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Kirsten Haglund, the 2008 Miss America, encouraged UA students to love their bodies and accept that they can’t please everyone. Students piled into the MAC gym in the Student Recreation Center to hear Haglund’s message Monday night. According to Haglund, 30 percent of college women have eating disorders. “The saddest thing about eating disorders is it steals all joy from your life,” Haglund said. Haglund developed anorexia through her involvement with ballet and said she began eating disorder behaviors at 12 when she went away for the summer to an intense ballet school. “It was the most horrible experience of my life,”Haglund said. It wasn’t until three summers later that she got help. During her struggle with anorexia, Haglund said she lost friends and became a shell of the person she used to be. For the first six months of treatment, Haglund said she was in denial, but eventually she began to feel better. “Food becomes the best medicine,” said Haglund who noted she enjoyed working with a nutritionist and having more energy. Haglund said she became involved with pageants as a way to get scholarship money and did not expect to win. “I swear I did not put in any effort,”
said Haglund as she explained that her evening gown was her prom dress and her talent costume cost her $5. According to Haglund, pageants gave her the opportunity to find encouragement through public speaking and an opportunity to share her experience with eating disorders. “The coolest part about the year (as Miss America) was that I got tested a lot,” Haglund said.“I was ripped apart for my appearance.” Haglund said she could not believe how cruel people could be, and that she learned she would never please everyone. Through Miss America, Haglund saw that people don’t look the way they are portrayed in magazines. Haglund saw herself digitally retouched, realized the images didn’t reflect reality and was able to ask on several occasions for the retouches to be removed because she felt she did not look like herself. Haglund said she feels it is important for college students who are struggling or suspect someone is struggling with an eating disorder to get help. “People do die from these things,” she said. Haglund also stressed the importance of eliminating “fat talk,” which is obsessively talking about weight and being fat. “It’s so normal and commonplace, but it doesn’t have to be,”she said. Students said they were inspired by Haglund’s message. “I thought it was really touching that
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Kirsten Haglund, the 21-year-old and 2008 Miss America, came the Student Recreation Center Monday, to speak about Love Your Body Day and to raise awareness on eating disorders.
she could express such an emotional experience in her life,” said nutritional science senior Rosie Thornton. Former Miss Arizona and UA alumna Erin Nurss suggested having Haglund speak at the UA. “In all my interactions, I just found that Kirsten (Haglund) has such an important message,”Nurss said. Getting funding from eating disorder treatment centers to bring Haglund to the UA was simple, according to Gale Welter, coordinator of nutrition services
and Campus Health Service. “They all knew of her and were thrilled to support her.” Love Your Body Day also coincided with the Rec Center’s grand opening Monday. Welter said working with the Rec Center turned out to be a beautiful partnership. In addition to Haglund’s visit, students were encouraged to fill out a healthy body image survey for Love Your Body Day as part of an annual national screening for disorderly eating, Welter said.
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Drivers face many distractions on the road everyday, but ASafeDrive, a new iPhone app, tries to aid new and old drivers alike. ASafeDrive tells drivers their own driving speed as well as the speed limit on the road on which they are driving. Working on their third installment of the application, ASafeDrive differs from many other applications in that it can be used all over the world. As soon as one driver inputs the speed limit for a particular street, it is then tracked by the program’s global positioning device, approved by the application and accessible to any other application user. Signals of surpassed speed limits included flashing red screens, small sounds and vibrations. Alex BenBassat, Accidents are the creator of unavoidable, ASafeDrive 3.0, notes that but limiting this is just the distractions first of many and inattention steps he is taking to aid is something young drivers we can and appease change. investors. “I’m build— Sgt. Juan ing a speed limit database Alvarez at the same public information time as I’m officer for UAPD entertaining people with this app,” he said.“This is one idea, but it’s a small piece in a huge puzzle … to help young drivers.” BenBassat was inspired to create this application by his own driving. “I was driving, trying to do like ten things at once,”BenBassat said, noting distractions while driving in Los Angeles. Distracted driving is just the kind of thing that police, especially around crowded college campuses like the UA, want to prevent. “Driving is a dynamic activity … there’s a lot of things that a person has to do to drive safely,” said Sgt. Juan Alvarez, public information officer of the University of Arizona Police Department.“Accidents are unavoidable, but limiting distractions and inattention is something we can change.” Linda Gorman, public affairs director for the American Automobile Association for Arizona, sees distractions while driving as a dangerous element, as AAA Arizona just lobbied for a ban on texting while driving. The No Texting While Driving Act, which passed with a 5-0 vote on Feb. 12 in the Arizona Senate Committee on Natural Resources, Infrastructure and Public Debt, will move on to the Arizona House of Representatives. Although AAA Arizona does not have an official position on the ASafeDrive and other safe driving applications, they generally discourage anything that takes focus off the road. “A lot of these applications are distracting in and of themselves,” said Gorman. “We want people to stay 100 percent focused on their driving.” Despite contentious debate, BenBassat has gotten “positive reviews” for the application. ASafeDrive costs 99 cents and is available now on Apple iPhones and the later version of Verizon Droid phones as well.
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Archaeologist sees proof for Bible in ancient wall JERUSALEM — An Israeli archaeologist said Monday that ancient fortifications recently excavated in Jerusalem date back 3,000 years to the time of King Solomon and support the biblical narrative about the era. If the age of the wall is correct, the finding would be an indication that Jerusalem was home to a strong central government that had the resources and manpower needed to build massive fortifications in the 10th century B.C. That’s a key point of dispute among
scholars, because it would match the Bible’s account that the Hebrew kings David and Solomon ruled from Jerusalem around that time. While some Holy Land archaeologists support that version of history — including the archaeologist behind the dig, Eilat Mazar — others posit that David’s monarchy was largely mythical and that there was no strong government to speak of in that era. Speaking to reporters at the site Monday, Mazar, from the Hebrew
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Students form club to promote questioning comments,”said Roca.“The bingo helps diffuse Brother Jed’s message.” Sherman said Brother Jed Bingo was Skeptical students at the UA finally have also meant to show that they could a place to unite — well, maybe. predict what he’d say. “Like discussing the big questions: The bingo sheet of paper has boxes God, gold and gals? Got questions about with words such as“homo,”“penetration,” just about everything?” These are some “hell passage”and“heaven,”among many questions on the Skeptics club flyer that others, and students were instructed to members passed around last week when check off these boxes any time Jed Smock Brother Jed Smock visited the UA campus. mentioned one of the listed topics. “We want to open up to those who The Skeptics club also passed around are questioning anything, and we’d like to a sheet of paper with Bible verses that discuss life’s most important questions,” promote questioning. said Stephanie Sherman, a psychology Zachary Finger, a creative writing senior and co-founder of the Skeptics club. senior and club member, designed the The club already has about 200 mem- Brother Jed Bingo cards. bers on the listserv, according to Antonio “We actually weren’t rude to Brother Roca, another co-founder of Jed as some of the Wildcat the Skeptics club. “Mailbag”writers were claimWe talk about “We don’t think ing,” Finger said. “Jed wrote evolution and anything is off-limits to on a Facebook note that the creationism. There Skeptics club members were talk about,” Roca said. are also some At meetings, students courteous and funny.” people who think come together to discuss Finger joined the Skeptics that Sept. 11 was all sorts of topics. club in fall 2009 as he “One student can research a government searched for organizations a topic that he wants to for agnostics and atheists. job, and we’re dispel, and everyone will “I have had a blast with skeptical about participate,”Roca said. this club,” he said. “Everyone that. Last week, members talkis really funny and creative.” ed about morality, Roca said. The club is comprised of — Antonio Roca “We talk about evolution Co-founder of the a variety of people and isn’t Skeptics Club limited to specifically reliand creationism,” Roca said. “There are also some people gious or moral skepticism. who think that Sept. 11 was a government “We’re not just a club of atheists; we have job, and we’re skeptical about that.” Christian members,”said Roca.“We weren’t The Skeptics club has a Facebook on campus to bash Brother Jed — just to be group that currently has 92 members. an alternative proof of knowledge.” When Sherman and Roca originally Roca said that he and the Skeptics club started the club last year, it was called table volunteers never fought with Brother Students for Inquiry. Jed during his visit, and that they were “Membership was rather low,” Roca merely trying to promote their club. said.“The club name was vague.” “We just want to show that we can think Last week, the Skeptics club had a critically about something,”Sherman said. welcome meeting with 40 attendees. Roca and Sherman said that the club has Club members had a table by Heritage social events as well as club meetings. Hill, where Brother Jed was preaching. The “We go bowling, watch movies, hike,” members started“Brother Jed Bingo.” Roca said. “We can be serious and fun “We wanted to make hilarity of his at the same time.”
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f you use Facebook, you’ve probably heard the rumors. Maybe you’ve even joined the group: “We will not pay to use Facebook. We are gone if this happens.”Many users already have. In fact, these kinds of groups have collectively attained nearly 310,000 members. But, how legitimate are these claims? And, why is everyone suddenly Miranda Butler concerned that Columnist Facebook will start charging anyway? According to Telegraph, an online technology blog, these rumors began circulating a few months ago. Around that time, a hoax e-mail was being passed around the popular social networking site. The message claimed that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, was under pressure to sell his company to any number of larger corporations. Groups that fight Facebook charges confirm that this is where it all began. The info page of one group states: “Apparently if Facebook gets sold then there’s a major possibility that it will turn into a Paysite. This is just stupid!”This statement refers to the idea that the companies who might buy Facebook would be willing to charge its users to gain the potential profits. But not to worry — Facebook is in the clear for now. Telegraph’s investigation clearly concluded that Facebook denies any such claims. The blog even quotes a company spokesman:“We have no plans to charge users for Facebook’s basic services. Facebook is a free service for its 350 million users.” So, why did such an illegitimate claim become so widely believed? It’s simple. The Facebook “charges” only exist because users chose to believe the rumors. Similarly, the rumors became so believable because of the chain of events that caused this idea’s popularity. As soon as many Facebook users received the hoax message, they automatically believed its contents and panicked. Such frenzy is contagious, especially if emotions are involved — and many people were rightfully enraged by the prospect of paying for an extremely popular and useful site. In true snowball-effect fashion, this idea grew larger and larger and even picked up specific details along the way. Telegraph explains that, in the UK, users were under the impression that Facebook planned on charging £14.99 per month — the equivalent of more than $23.00. Likewise, in the United States, similar mysterious details gave unwarranted credibility to the rumor. One common belief is that Facebook’s new charges will begin in July 2010. In this way, more and more people grew to believe the stories and revolt against the nonexistent plans to charge for Facebook. For example, the group “We will not pay to use Facebook” contributed by giving its members the following instructions: “INVITE ALL!”This kind of emotional intensity among enraged groups continues adding gasoline to the fire. The same group circulates images around Facebook, calling it names such as “Fascistbook.”They also have posted a copy of the hoax email that started it all. Although anyone could have been fooled by the hoaxes and groups, we should follow Vienneau’s advice. Any evidence of Facebook’s charge plans is completely ungrounded. So keep“liking”statuses, creating events, making friends, joining groups and getting thousands of notifications from pesky applications. Facebook will continue to be free of charge, even in July 2010. —Miranda Butler is a creative writing sophomore. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.
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What is so interesting about the McCain quote used in this article is that, during his presidential bid, McCain stated that he would rely on military leadership recommendations concerning this issue and support those decisions. It seems to me that he’s deaf to current military leaders, perhaps because he’s too busy listening to the screeching of right-wing ideologues. If you believe in equal rights and oppose stop-loss, it’s time to change this out-dated and unjust policy! Ariel If you believe in protecting our country and leaving well enough alone until we are done with this war, you agree with McCain. He knows better then most of us about the military, and I respect his stand on this along with many other issues! Madilyn Repeal the law now! 83 percent of discharges under the Homosexual Policy are of those who out themselves. 20 percent of the discharges occur during recruit training, 11 percent during job training and 51 percent within one year of completing job training. This is a total waste of taxpayer dollars, and, regardless of the reasons these members out themselves, one thing remains a constant: failure to complete contractual obligation. If soldiers, sailors, airman and Marines want to engage in homosexual conduct, what’s the big deal? If conservative homophobe heteros don’t like it … they should leave the service or simply not enlist. After all, there are plenty of homosexuals and liberals ready, willing and able to march into battle. Walt For the civilians: There are four Chiefs of Staff (Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines) plus the chairman, (Adm. Mullen) who is a mouthpiece between the president and service chiefs and not a policy dictator for each respective branch of the military. Adm. Mullen issued a personal opinion and predicated on an inability to obtain a consensus of support from the four chiefs. Therefore, there is no official position issued by the joint chiefs. McCain (who understands the makeup of the JCS) has stated he will support the recommendation of the military leadership. This does not mean supporting a personal opinion of one, and, as such, McCain demanded that Mullen have the four chiefs provide the Senate Committee with their positions. Marine
On ‘Streetcar’s funding complete,’ Feb. 19
I do not have the space here to discuss the complete structure of the Federated Republic of the United States. Yet, a simple understanding or complete lack of knowledge of federalism is clear in Rachel Leavitt’s piece on the bill currently in the Legislature concerning the private funding of a Ten Commandments Monument on state grounds. Were the legislature to vote an approval for this measure, there is nothing unconstitutional about it because it does not, legally speaking, have any reference to the federal government. If the idea of separation of church and state must persist, then Leavitt must recognize that this applies to federal processes and sphere. State governments and constitutions are not granted power by the federal government, and are sovereign entities that maintain their own constitutions and laws. State governments are absolutely allowed to decide for themselves how much of the mixing they want of church and state. Actually, it would be an encroachment of state’s rights for even the Supreme Court to intervene, in which case the state could invoke the 10th Amendment and maintain their monument. If Leavitt and her likeminded ilk do not like this measure, they should lobby against it, and in the event they lose they can collect votes for a referendum. If you have civil questions and comments, look me up in the UA phonebook. John Winchester Non-degree seeking graduate student
A voice about voices
Regarding“Human Rights Violations,”Feb. 15: In the ever-expanding bureaucracy of America’s “representative” government, the actions and opinions of individuals have become less effective and less important. It is nearly impossible to demand accountability from our government; many Americans have sought instead to make their opinions heard through socially conscious consumption choices. The effort to sever the UA’s contract with Motorola has nothing to do with anti-Semitism; it does not expect to financially cripple Motorola either. To end a contract with a corporation known to perpetuate human rights offences is to make a consumption choice — a statement which says the students and administration of the UA will not be ethically complicit or financially accountable for human rights violations in Palestine. By ending our contract with Motorola, we employ one of the most effective tools in making our voices heard, our money.
Awesome, and they are planning on raising tuition 31 percent. You get a trolley ride though. PFFFFFFF. Cronyism at its finest. Sam
Elizabeth Dake History senior
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Which thing is not like the other?
Berkeley, the number one public school in the resident Robert Shelton has released his nation, according to US News & World Report. recommendations for next year’s tuition to the Arizona Board of Regents. If approved, According to the National Center for tuition and fees could reach nearly $9,000 for Education Statistics, these peer institutions in-state undergraduate students, an increase have consistently higher median test scores and a higher student retention rate by nearly of 31 percent, according to the Arizona Daily 20 percent. Though the UA says on the Star (“UA tuition, fees may rise $2K,”Feb. 20). As UA News reported Monday, Shelton sent a admissions page that it offers “the highest quality memo to the ABOR that states,“The University’s academic experience,” only about 30 percent recommendation moves resident undergraduate of undergraduate students earn a diploma within four years, according to the tuition closer to the median of its Education Trust. peer universities.” This list of “peer institutions,” No matter what we say in our which is determined by the brochures, the UA is ranked nearly 60 ABOR, is constantly a part of the spots below the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and nearly conversation about improving the 100 spots below UC Berkeley on the UA and, especially, increasing the Anna Swenson cost of attendance. But, this list US News & World Report list of the Opinions editor includes schools like University of best colleges. In order to be like these Michigan and University of California, Berkeley “peer”institutions, something more than the cost to attend must be changed. The UA’s professor— schools to which the UA just can’t compare. student ratio is poorer, the average grade point It is meaningless and dishonest to justify an averages and test scores of the students is lower increase this colossal by comparing UA tuition and the admissions are much less selective. to schools that are just better. Of course, this list reflects colleges to which the UA would like More highly ranked schools are academically to compare, but we will need to change more better in most programs, and their tuition reflects than the price tag to compare to schools like that. If the UA is going to raise tuition by nearly
a third next semester for the same or poorer standards of education, the students should demand a more convincing rationalization than, “Well, Berkeley charges more than this.”Well, Berkeley is a better school. Schools like University of Washington and UNC Chapel Hill, which are more comparable to the UA, have tuitions that are a lower percentage of the area’s median household income, according to a report by the Resources Committee of the ABOR. As Becky Pallack pointed out on her Campus Correspondent blog for the Arizona Daily Star, though the tuition amount may be the same,“the UA has a lot more needy students.” As Pallack lists, 74 percent of first-time undergraduate students received financial aid, and 21 percent received Pell Grants, a need-based financial aid for low-income undergraduates. Clearly, the UA serves a community that can’t spend as much on higher education because the per-capita income in Arizona is much lower than in areas where“peer”institutions cost more. According to the 2000 Census, Arizona ranks below both Washington and North Carolina in per capita income. The tuition of this university, which boasts a mission statement claiming to“to provide the sons and daughters of Arizona families with
access to a broad-based, high-quality … education,” should reflect that. In simple terms, for the UA to try to rationalize raising tuition by comparing itself to schools like Ohio State University is like Target trying to charge a colossal sum for a purse by claiming it’s just like that one at Neiman Marcus and should therefore cost the same. Or, in a slightly manlier example, it’s like trying to charge the same price per ticket for a minorleague cricket match and a ticket for courtside seats to see the Suns. It just doesn’t compute, and a lot more than price would have to change to make one thing like the other. But, unlike the demand a consumer would have in those markets, students who are already enrolled in the UA have little choice in where their money goes and even less of a choice in how much of their money higher education is going to cost. No matter what other schools in other states cost, the UA must serve the Arizona community by providing an education for which excellence is more than a buzzword and value is more than an idea. —Anna Swenson is a sophomore majoring in English. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.
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The ups and downs of this week’s news
Team USA: U.S. men’s hockey beat Canada. Men’s figure skater Evan Lysacek beat favored Russian Evgeni Plushenko to snag the first U.S. men’s Olympic gold medal in figure skating since Brian Boitano in 1988. The U.S. women’s hockey team beat Sweden 9-1 to make it to the gold medal game. With 25 medals and counting, it turns out the U.S. is good at something other than television and processed foods. Coinciding with First Lady Michelle Obama’s new program to fight childhood obesity, spending time rooting for America’s finest athletes is good for national morale and, hopefully, good for getting American kids active. UA fans: Despite the men’s hoops loss to that one school in Tempe that claims to be normal (ASU), Wildcat fans have been showing true cardinal-and-navy support for the team. Fans wearing red and “No Easy Buckets” T-shirts showed up to Sunday’s game more than three hours early to show their support. The clever signs with quips like the Ke$ha-esque“Wake up in the morning feelin’ like K Parrom”prove that Zona Zoo and the Wildcat fans are the off-court winners in any game.
Student Services Fee: The Student Services Fee Appropriations Board allocated more than $230,000 to 23 different departments. Though the Arizona Daily Wildcat greatly appreciates the $27,000 the SSFAB allocated to Arizona Student Media, the board spent $13,600 of their reserve money for a total of nearly $1.3 million. The SSF Board did an admirable job weeding out the programs that are truly not utilized by students, like proposed movie programs and an online Rec Center diet and fitness application. While the board itself promotes the interests of the students, the fee does not. As graduate students have been debating in the Wildcat’s Mailbag, students are not at all in consensus on what, exactly, is a service to students. As the fees used to be allocated only by direct vote, the fee itself and the relative representation of students in the fee-allocation process leaves much to be desired.
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King George: This Tucson Great Dane is the official Guinness Book of World Records tallest dog ever on record. The 3-foot-7-inch, 250-pound pup is bringing positive national press to Tucson, even gaining an appearance on The Oprah Show. The Arizona Daily Star reports that King George has more than 20,000 Facebook fans (not, sadly, quite as many as Nickelback or the pickle that has more fans than Nickelback). George is a winner for bringing some positive publicity to Tucson and for being the world’s official top dog.
President Shelton’s Tuition Recommendation: If you haven’t heard, President Robert Shelton has recommended that your tuition rise by over 30 percent next year. Today, the listed UA tuition as recorded by Princeton Review is $6,540. If Shelton’s proposal is approved by the Arizona Board of Regents in their meeting next month, tuition and fees will be nearly $9,000 dollars per year for instate students and nearly $25,000 for out-of-state students. You really needed some way to spend that spare $10,000 you had lying around, right? Shelton should be making recommendations that don’t involve gouging the empty pockets of his captive market of alreadyenrolled UA students. If you have a problem with this, come give your two cents, if you can afford it, at the ABOR annual tuition hearing, March 1 from 5 - 7 p.m. We’ll see you there.
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A view from other college editorials
Internet! Conspiracy!
Thanks to our need to constantly inform others of what we’re doing and where we are, robbers’ jobs just got a lot easier. With Web site applications such as Google Buzz and Foursquare, people are now not only updating their Facebook statuses and tweeting that they are leaving their houses to go buy milk from the grocery store, but we are now letting the entire Internet know that we have“checked in”at the Randall’s around the corner. We don’t mean to offend anyone, but are we all idiots? Are we really so self-centered that we think anyone cares? And if you care, you should probably find something better to do with your time … Instead of informing each other of our locations every day — yes, we check in to work every morning, too — why don’t we use the Internet to share relevant information, such as political dissent, literary knowledge and do-it-yourself projects. There’s a limitless amount of information at our fingertips every day. But we prefer to read about what our friends are planning to do for a girls’night out or what they think of their favorite coffee shop. Then again, maybe that’s what the Internet was meant to do in the first place. Maybe it’s a distraction created by the government to involve all the world’s citizens in meaningless conversations so they no longer have any idea what is going on in their country, or what’s going on in other countries that affects them for that matter. But that’s just us. Some of us still believe former-President George W. Bush created Facebook so no one could ever use the“I didn’t inhale” defense when running for political office.
Funding does not determine content
Administrators at Virginia Tech have threatened to cut funding to the Collegiate Times, the university’ s studentrun newspaper, because they did not appreciate the anonymous comments on the paper’s Web site. Administrators said that the anonymous comments were racist, discriminatory and, in general, offensive. Despite how awful administrators thought these comments were, they couldn’t cut the paper’s funding solely on this issue. After a letter was sent out by administrators on Feb. 8, Educational Media Company at Virginia Tech, the organization that oversees the newspaper, said that anonymous speech was an important part of free speech and democracies, stating that the university should respect the First Amendment and not violate the newspaper’s constitutional rights. In its letter, EMCVT claimed the newspaper’s content was the reason the university wanted to cut funding. A week after the administrators’ letter was sent out saying funding would be cut, a university spokesman consulted with Virginia Tech’s chief legal counsel, who made it clear that the cutbacks requested by the Commission on Student Affairs were not permissible under the law … It was a victory for the Collegiate Times and college newspapers around the country. Let this be a message to all universities: Administrators can’t base a newspaper’s funding on whether they agree with, or like, its content. It is unconstitutional. — “College papers’ content a matter of free speech,”The University of Houston Daily Cougar editorial board, Feb. 22
—“Society not utilizing full potential of Internet,”The University of Houston Daily Cougar editorial board, Feb. 19
Catch a Tiger
This past Friday, Tiger Woods joined the ranks of the many politicians and celebrities who have had to face the media with an official recognition of and apology for their personal transgressions. In his long-awaited press conference, Woods addressed his automobile accident on Thanksgiving night of 2009 and the reports of his infidelity that later emerged. While he expressed his deep apologies to his family, fans and those involved in his foundation, he also admonished the media for its intrusion into his private life and the lives of his family members. Though this tenuous balance between the media and the people whose lives have become front page news is not a new conflict, Woods’ case raises questions about the responsibilities of both parties … A more appropriate course of action would have involved Woods making a public statement as soon as possible, addressing the seemingly burning questions that the media felt needed to be answered and thereby removing himself from the rumor mill and allowing him to focus on rebuilding his private life rather than keeping it hidden from view. This would also have allowed him to immediately answer the worries of his fans and the golf community — people to whom he owed an explanation … As someone knowledgeable about the expectations of the media, especially where sensitive situations such as marriage and infidelity are concerned, Woods played his cards poorly and, in not addressing the issue, sparked the media to inappropriately and unfairly invade his life and the lives of those closest to him.” —“The responsibility of reporters and celebrities,”The Tufts Daily editorial board, Feb. 22
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policebeat By Bridgette Doran Arizona Daily Wildcat
Security system turns off thief A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to the Park Avenue Garage at 1140 N. Park Ave. on Thursday at 5:20 p.m. in reference to an attempted car theft. The officer met with a man on the ramp between the third and fourth levels by the man’s black Chevy Tahoe. The man told the officer that he parked his car at 1 p.m., and, when he got back to it at 5:10 p.m., he noticed that the steering column had been torn apart. He said he only touched the driver’s side door and passenger side door but did not go inside the car. After the officer inspected the car, he saw that the lock on the driver’s side had been punched out, and the lock on the passenger side had been damaged in an attempt to remove it. The officer also noted that the steering column was broken and had many exposed wires. The owner of the car told the officer that the car had a security system that shuts down the engine if the system is not turned off before any attempts to start the car. The officer reported that if the system had not been turned on, then the car would have most likely been stolen. The man also told the officer that several items were stolen from the car including a UA parking permit, an AAA auto insurance card, a Sam’s Club membership card, Gucci sunglasses and a towel with a Korean flag logo on it. When the officer processed the car, he was able to lift several fingerprints from the box holding the securitysystem and the speaker system. Photographs of the car were taken, and the fingerprints were sent to Pima County Jail for processing. The man was issued a victim’s rights form, and his vehicle was inventoried. The officer also requested a list from UA Parking and Transportation of every time a car entered or left the garage between 1 and 5:10 p.m. There are no suspects or witnesses.
Pink bike plunderer on the prowl A UA student reported to UAPD on Thursday at 11:47 p.m. that her bike was stolen. The woman stated that her pink Electra brand beach cruiser bicycle was taken from the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house at 1443 E. First St. some time after Feb. 14. She fist saw that the bike was missing on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The bike was secured to her sorority’s bike rack with a cable lock.
Forget your backpack, lose your stuff A UA employee called UAPD on Thursday at 6:43 p.m. asking to be let into a classroom in the Social Sciences building so he could get his belongings that he left there earlier that day. When the officer arrived to the building at 7:10 p.m. and verified that the man was allowed to enter, the man found that his belongings had been taken. The man told the officer that his green colored laptop backpack, a Cannon Powershot digital camera and a Seagate external computer hard drive were missing from the classroom. The digital camera was worth $129, and the hard drive was worth $114. The man also stated that he did not have a telephone and was unaware of his local address. He presented his foreign Visa to the officer to identify himself. After the man attempted to call the professor of the classroom to see if he knew where the backpack was, the officer advised him to contact UAPD if he learned more about his missing items.
$2,000 bike stolen A UA student reported to UAPD on Feb. 17 at 9:23 a.m. that his bicycle had been stolen the previous day from the bike racks between the César E. Chávez building and the Communication building. The man told the officer that he’d locked his bike to the racks at 9:15 a.m. and had checked on his bike in between classes at 11 a.m. and saw that it was still secured. He noticed that the bike had been stolen, along with the lock, at around 7 p.m. The man described the bike as a black and gray Specialized Tri-Cross Road Bike with two white LED lights on the front and back. The officer reported that the man valued the bike at around $2,000.
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.
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In hard times, Americans blame the poor THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER PHILADELPHIA — Last month, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer of South Carolina said that when the government helps the poor, it’s like people feeding stray animals that continually“breed.”And this month, Colorado state legislator Spencer Swalm said poor people in single-family homes are“dysfunctional.”Both statements riled some Americans from the Piedmont to the Rockies and underscored a widely held belief: In tough times, people are tough on the poor. In an April 2009 poll by the Pew Research Center in Washington, 72 percent agreed with the statement“poor people have become too dependent on government assistance programs.” That’s up from 69 percent in 2007. “The economic downturn has made the middle class less generous toward others,”said Guy Molyneux, a partner at Hart Research Associates, a Washington firm that researches attitudes toward the poor. “People are less supportive of the government helping the poor, because they feel they’re not getting enough help themselves. It’s a divided country, splitting on a fault line: those who think the poor are poor because
they don’t try enough, and those who think the poor simply need help.” Americans don’t understand how the poor are victimized by a lack of jobs, inefficient schools and unsafe neighborhoods, experts say. “People ignore the structural issues — jobs leaving, industry becoming more mechanized,” said Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson, renowned for his study of the Philadelphia poor.“Then they point to the poor and ask, ‘Why aren’t you making it?’“ Americans tend to blame the victim, according to Angela Sutton, 33, of Northeast Philadelphia. “People think we like mooching off the system, and don’t see the circumstances that put us here,” said Sutton. A former welfare recipient, Sutton is an unmarried mother of two children living on disability insurance and food stamps. “They think we’re lazy and want a free ride.” Underlying negative attitudes toward the poor, experts say, are prejudices toward minorities, who are disproportionately among the indigent. 25 percent of African-Americans, 23 percent of Latinos, and nine percent of whites live in poverty. Overall, 13 percent of the U.S. population is poor.
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Angela Sutton plays a card game with her children 2-year-old Jahzaire and 9-year old Ayaan in Philadelphia, Penn., on Feb. 5. For women living in a depressing world of severely limited means and hopelessness, a child “makes you feel loved and wanted,” Sutton said.
Hint of hope for US in Afghan war Mexico captures Sinaloa THE ASSOCIATED PRESS KABUL — The arrests of key Taliban leaders in Pakistan and slow but steady progress on the battlefield of Helmand province have offered the first flicker of hope in years that the U.S. and its allies may be able to check the rise of an insurgency that seemed unstoppable only a few months ago. That’s a long way from victory — a word that has fallen out of favor within a U.S. military keenly aware of the complexity of Afghanistan and the dangers of elevated expectations among a war-weary public in the United States and Europe. The events of the last few weeks suggest that failure isn’t inevitable. For the first time in four years, the Taliban and their allies are on the defensive. Key leaders are in Pakistani custody, insurgents on the verge of losing their supply and logistical base in the Helmand town of Marjah and they face an expected
showdown in the months ahead around their spiritual birthplace of Kandahar. “The situation remains serious but is no longer deteriorating,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday. If all goes well, pressure will mount on the Taliban and their allies to consider a negotiated settlement — which the top NATO commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal and others believe is the only way to end the conflict. The process won’t be quick. The Taliban have shown great resiliency, rebounding from more serious setbacks including the loss of power in the U.S.led invasion of 2001. Civilian casualties, such as the 21 people said to have been killed Sunday in a misguided NATO airstrike, still fuel bitterness among Afghans. The U.N. says the Taliban are responsible for the majority of civilian casualties. Gen. David Petreaus, who oversees
the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, said last weekend that the ongoing offensive in Helmand province is only the beginning of a campaign expected last up to 18 months — testing the mettle of an U.S. military strained by nearly nine years of war and the patience of an American public facing their own severe economic and political challenges. Success is by no means assured. In recent weeks several key Taliban leaders have been picked up in Pakistan, including Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the movement’s No. 2 figure detained in Karachi. Pakistan’s motives are unclear, it appears the government is rethinking its strategy, pondering whether the relationship with the Taliban has outlived its usefulness. Analyst Charles Kupchan of the Council on Foreign Relations wrote that progress in setting back the Taliban “Islamabad might no longer see any reason to indulge the Taliban, and could instead seek to shut them down.”
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MEXICO CITY — Federal police have captured a man described as a key operator of the powerful Sinaloa cartel who served briefly in the U.S. army before taking on the trafficking of 2 tons of cocaine a month into the United States. Jose Vasquez Villagrana, 40, was arrested Sunday in his hometown of Santa Ana, Sonora, which borders Arizona, authorities said Monday. He joined the U.S. military in Arizona in 1990 and deserted a year after getting his U.S. citizenship, according to Mexico’s federal Public Safety Department. He is believed to have returned to Mexico, where he began trafficking. Vasquez is accused of smuggling Colombian cocaine through Panama
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and other countries to the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The drugs were stored at his ranch and then sent to the United States. U.S. officials could not immediately confirm Vasquez’s citizenship nor his role in the U.S. military. Police described Vasquez as a key player in the Sinaloa cartel, although he does not appear on a list of Mexico’s most-wanted traffickers. Vasquez’s capture comes amid accusations dogging President Felipe Calderon that his government has not pursued the Sinaloa cartel as aggressively as other gangs. Sinaloa — a west-coast state where 14 people were killed Sunday — has not seen the benefits of Calderon’s frontal assault on cartels, said Manuel Clouthier, a Sinaloa lawmaker from Calderon’s National Action Party.
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Freshman Heyer in uncharted territory By Mike Schmitz ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Prior to Friday night’s Arizona baseball season opener against Utah Valley University, head coach Andy Lopez and his players used words like “workaholic” and “dominant” to describe freshman pitcher Kurt Heyer. The 6-foot-2, 196-pound freshman out of Huntington Beach, Calif., showed the stuff: the work ethic and the confidence to be a No. 1 guy, yet it was looking like the team would opt for 6-foot-5 sophomore and last year’s No. 2, Kyle Simon, as the team’s opening day starter. But after Simon took a ball to the head in practice last week, Heyer got the call as the Friday-night guy, and, although expectations were already high, he blew them out of the water. The freshman right-hander turned in a six-inning, one-run, 13-strikeout performance in an 8-1 victory against Utah Valley, giving Arizona its 2,500th win in program history. “For a young guy like that to go out and do what he did and have the rest of the freshmen sort of look and say, ‘Oh OK, you can show up to this level and get people out,’” Lopez said. “Kurt (Heyer) did a marvelous job; boy, he did a great job.” Heyer’s performance earned him Pacific 10 Conference Pitcher of the Week honors. He was also dubbed one of three “Louisville Slugger” National Player of the Week winners by Collegiate Baseball. The 13 strikeouts were also the most for an Arizona pitcher since prior ace and current Cleveland Indian Preston Guilmet struck out 15 against Stanford on April 13, 2007. “He was lights out,” senior Rafael Valenzuela said of Heyer’s performance. “The guy came out here early. He was pumped and ready to go.” BASEBALL, page 10
PAC-10 HOOPS POWER RANKINGS With less than 20 days until Super Sunday and only two weeks of Pacific 10 Conference play left in the 2009-10 season, the rankings of the top teams are becoming more and more critical. As the season winds down, it looks like the conference will only be represented in the Big Dance by whomever wins the Pac-10 Tournament.
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California: (18-9, 10-5 Pac-10)
After splitting the Oregon schools last weekend, nothing is locked up yet. Three difficult games remain for the Bears, who face dangerous Arizona schools and a rivalry game in Palo Alto against Stanford to finish the season.
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ASU: (19-8, 9-5)
The Sun Devils earned more than just a win Sunday against the Wildcats: CBS sports will broadcast next weekend’s ASU-California game with the conference lead on the line.
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Washington: (18-9, 8-7)
The Washington seniors went out in style with a huge win against the Bruins to stay in contention for the Pac-10 title. The Huskies round off a three-team race for first with two weekends remaining.
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Arizona: (13-13, 7-7)
Sean Miller said it best: Mediocre. The Wildcats returned to .500 in a second straight home conference defeat. Losers in four of its last five, Arizona barely stays in contention for the Pac-10 title.
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Arizona freshman pitcher Kurt Heyer winds up for a pitch in Friday’s victory against Utah Valley at Sancet Stadium. His 13 strikeouts earned Heyer the Pacific 10 Conference Player of the Week award along with a “Louisville Slugger” National Player of the Week award, given weekly to three college baseball players.
A huge win at Washington last Thursday kept the conference grounded. The Trojans know how to close out games, unlike most young teams in the conference.
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Trainer’s strategy to bulk up basketball’s freshmen class By Vincent Balistreri ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT In a year of transformation for the Arizona men’s basketball program, changes from the new hardwood to the new banners to the new head coach can be seen. The change that will have the greatest impact in the long haul led to a 20-pound muscle gain for freshman Derrick Williams and helped fellow freshman Solomon Hill cut 30 pounds of fat before the start of the school year. This change has been spurred on by the leadership of Arizona’s new strength and conditioning coach, Chris Rounds, who followed head coach Sean Miller to the desert from the cold Cincinnati, Ohio, winters at Xavier University. Since taking the job at Arizona during the summer, he’s had his work cut out
for him. Although Arizona’s 2009 class of freshmen was strong ranking wise, the trainer admits that strength didn’t translate to the weight room. “They were a very weak group coming in, but they have taken great strides and worked very hard on it,” Rounds said. “It’s not a knock on them; it’s just that a lot (of) high schools don’t have their kids lift.” Rounds, 37, was an assistant strength trainer on the 1998 Kentucky national championship team and spent five years on Miller’s staff at Xavier. While he is also responsible for the women’s tennis team at Arizona, his transformation of UA’s men’s basketball players has been talked about most. In one press conference, Miller willingly told reporters that guard Momo Jones was the only one of the team’s five freshmen that could do a single push-up.
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USC: (16-10, 8-6)
As ridiculous as it sounds, Rounds vouches that was, in fact, true. “If you were to tell them to do a push-up fresh, they probably would have been able to do one, but I couldn’t guarantee that,”he said “They were (a) weak group of individuals coming in — they’re not at this point,” he added. “I don’t think their strength is an advantage for them at this point, but by next year it will be.” As for the returning players, Rounds noticed that they had a strong foundation but no continuity. “They had a good strength coach last year as well, but without a head coach, it’s hard for a strength coach to do his job,” Rounds said. “Strength and conditioning is only as important as the head coach makes it.”
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UCLA: (12-14, 7-7)
The tradition of splits continued for the Bruins — they’ve only swept one conference weekend this entire season, which explains their even 7-7 record.
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Stanford: (13-14, 7-8)
Landry Fields was named Pac-10 Player of the Week thanks to averaging 18.5 points per game across all 80 minutes last weekend.
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Oregon State: (12-14, 6-8)
A double-digit victory against California? Don’t count the Beavers out in the Pac-10 Tournament, especially if Roeland Schaftenaar continues to put up season-best performances.
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Washington State: (16-11, 6-9)
Losers in six of their last eight games, the Cougars can salvage their season by knocking off the Huskies this weekend. (It feels like football season all over again.)
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Oregon: (12-14, 4-10)
What’s worse: Five Ducks getting arrested on the football team this offseason, or this basketball season as a whole?
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Trainer Chris Rounds directs Arizona basketball players (from left) Alex Jacobson, DJ Shumpert, Nic Wise and Dondre Wise during a Friday weight training session in the team’s weight room. Head coach Sean Miller brought Rounds’ strength and conditioning program from Xavier University to Arizona and believes it is an important part of building the program.
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Pitchers seek equally consistent defensive support Nicole Dimtsios
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he arrival of freshman pitcher Kenzie Fowler to the Wildcats didn’t just signal a change of pace in the circle for the Arizona softball team. It demanded it. Her perfect 5-0 record combined with her .92 ERA has solidified her as the UA ace. Over the six games that she’s pitched, she has 52 strikeouts and has only allowed four runs to cross the plate in front of her. “She can match anyone pitch for pitch and gives us a chance,”said head coach Mike Candrea. Fowler has the power to go deep and rack up strikeouts as the game goes on. She changes the way the game is played both in the batter’s box and on the field behind her. When Fowler controls the tempo of the game, the players behind her become accustomed to playing defense differently. Her speed and pitch variation keeps batters guessing, and they’re often successfully sent back to the dugout. The freshman phenom has had the help of solid defense to back her up when she does get hit. The same can’t be said for veteran pitcher Sarah Akamine. A good defensive play can get a team out of a tight spot in an inning. A miscue can send the momentum straight to the other team’s dugout. Arizona softball found out just how important defense can be in the second game of the double-header against the then-No. 5 Missouri Tigers on Sunday. Its early mistakes in the second game of Sunday’s double-header created a hole that the Wildcats couldn’t climb out of. “She got hit hard,”Candrea said of Akamine’s performance.“And she knows it.” The defense seemingly switched off between games.
After a perfect first game in their home opener, the Wildcats made two crucial errors in the opening inning of the second game. Mizzou racked up five runs in the first inning, two in the second and three in the third. All the runs were scored with two outs in the inning. After Saturday’s 10-5 loss, Candrea said he noticed a difference in the way the defense played when Fowler was not in the circle. If the Wildcats have any hopes of living up to the 2010 season expectation — the Wildcats were ranked No. 4 in preseason polls — the one thing that can’t change is how the defense plays. Errors will happen, sure. Balls take bad bounces. But if there is a conscious difference that happens in the minds of the Arizona defense when Fowler pitches versus when Akamine does, the Wildcats will see more mental lapses
and more runs allowed. The mistakes that happen in the field might be swept under the rug when Fowler pitches because she has the dominance to change the momentum of an inning. With speeds near those of Arizona great Jennie Finch, batters will have a tougher time keeping a rally going against her. Akamine, however, is a converted pitcher. Her efforts have proven to be effective and helped the Wildcats reach the postseason for the 21st straight year, but Candrea had to constantly switch up pitchers to keep opponents guessing. When she pitches, she needs the defense to be able to support her. “You need everyone to step up and do what they need to do,”Candrea said of the defense after the loss.“I think that’s going to be the big thing this week, is going to try to get Sarah (Akamine) back.”
Regardless of who’s in the circle, the defense behind any one of the Arizona pitchers has to be consistent. The Wildcats can go far this season. With losses by top-ranked Washington and the opportunity to squash more ranked teams this weekend, Arizona could be No. 1 in the nation today. It has the power on the offensive side of the ball; it just needs to balance that with consistent play in the field. “We can play with the best and not play with the best,”Candrea said.“A lot depends on how you execute the game. In this game, if you give people four outs an inning, they’re going to come back and score runs.” Just because Fowler can change the game in front of her doesn’t mean the players behind her should change theirs. — Nicole Dimtsios is a journalism sophomore. She can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu.
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Freshman pitcher Kenzie Fowler launches a pitch in Arizona’s 5-0 victory over No. 5 Missouri on Sunday at Hillenbrand Stadium. While Fowler has shown dominance early in the season, she will need continuing support from the defense behind her.
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Not only did Heyer gain national recognition in his first collegiate start, but he also pitched his way into the Arizona baseball record books. His 13 strikeouts tied him for the secondmost by a freshman pitcher in UA history behind Tim Schweitzer’s 16 strikeouts in 1991. But Heyer fanned 13 in only six innings while Schweitzer achieved his total in seven and two-thirds innings, and the fact that it happened in his collegiate debut speaks volumes about his composure and demeanor. Heyer was quick to credit the team’s defense and early run support for his record-setting debut, but it was his ability to get ahead in the count that allowed him to strike out 13 batters. “If I was able to get first pitch strikes, I was ahead of the batter, and I was able to go from there,”he said.“It’s really crucial to get first pitch strikes, because if you’re ahead of the hitter, you control the batter’s tempo, and they get off balance, so it’s easier to get them out.” As Lopez said after the game, Heyer set the tone for what proved to be a successful, three-win weekend for Arizona. And with so many firsttime Wildcats in the lineup, Heyer’s ability to come out and dominate in his collegiate debut undoubtedly sent waves of confidence through the slew of youngsters — evidenced by the 18-1 Saturday win and 8-7 come-frombehind Sunday victory. With Simon pitching a gem in game two — eight innings of five-hit, onerun, seven-strikeout ball — the question becomes: Who will take the mound Friday night when Long Beach State comes to Tucson? Regardless of whether it is on Friday or Saturday, Heyer has already made a splash in the Pac-10 baseball circuit, and the season couldn’t have started off any better for the new-look Wildcats. “It was an honor to start off the season with a win,” Heyer said. “I thought it would be a little bit tougher, but I guess when you have your teammates backing you up every step of the way, it’s pretty simple now.”
Russians downplaying ‘Miracle on Ice’ The Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia — They are gathering again at a Winter Olympics, now aging cold warriors. Thirty years ago, they played a game that has been called the greatest upset in Olympic history, a David vs. Goliath tale, a political metaphor, a miracle. That’s how many Americans remember the hockey game played at the Lake Placid Olympics on Feb. 22, 1980, when a group of mostly college kids defeated the mighty team from the Soviet Union, which had dominated the sport for most of the previous two decades. But what went through the minds of those red-clad players, who watched in stunned disbelief as the Americans celebrated the “Miracle on Ice” at the other end of the rink? The hawkish features of goalie Vladislav Tretiak turned soft and he smiled slightly as he was reminded of the painful anniversary. But he brushed the memory aside as easily as one of the many thousands of shots he turned away in his Hall of Fame career. “It’s fine with me,” Tretiak said in an interview with The Associated Press at the nondescript East Vancouver community rink where the Russian Olympic team is practicing. “It’s a big number, but of course it’s 30 years ago.” The 57-year-old general manager of
Haywood leads Mavericks past Pacers 91-82 DALLAS— Brendan Haywood tied a career high with 20 rebounds and the Dallas Mavericks improved to 4-0 with him as their starting center in a 91-82 victory against the Indiana Pacers Monday night. Haywood, who came over from Washington in a Feb. 13 trade, scored 13 points and added three blocks to anchor a struggling defense. Since the trade, the Mavericks have held all five opponents to less than 100 points after the previous eight broke that mark. Haywood is starting in place of Erick Dampier, who dislocated a finger in the first game with his new backup. Dirk Nowitzki led Dallas with 23 points. Playing his second straight game in his native Texas, T.J. Ford led the Pacers
the Russian hockey team is one of several players from the Lake Placid game who is in Vancouver. Mike Eruzione, who scored the winning goal for the U.S., is here. Mark Johnson, who scored twice, is coaching the U.S. women’s hockey team. U.S. goalie Jim Craig, who turned aside so many Soviet shots, is coming. Former defenseman Slava Fetisov, now a Russian government sports official, will be here too. Even Al Michaels — whose famous call,“Do you believe in miracles? Yes!” — is broadcasting from Vancouver for NBC. The U.S. team had been selected and coached by Herb Brooks, a tough disciplinarian who was a master motivator. The Americans played a series of exhibition games before Lake Placid, and were soundly beaten by the Soviets, 10-3, in their final Olympic tuneup in Madison Square Garden in New York. The team survived a tie with Sweden in the round-robin Olympic tournament and then got victories over Czechoslovakia, Norway, Romania and West Germany. Against the Soviets, the hard-skating Americans fell behind twice in the first period but managed to tie it 2-2 when Johnson put a last-second rebound past Tretiak. Legendary Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov unexpectedly pulled Tretiak from the game after the first period,
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with 14 points. Jason Kidd had two of his seven assists and the punctuating 3-pointer on an 11-3 run that put the Mavericks ahead 64-48 in the third quarter. Their lead was never less than nine after that. Haywood also had a hand in the defining run, getting four points, a rebound and a block. The rest of the Mavericks were harassing the Pacers, too. Indiana shot 39 percent and went nearly five minutes without a field goal while the Mavericks pulled away in the second half.
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replacing him with Vladimir Mishkin in an apparent move to shake up his complacent team. “It was difficult for me to sit on the bench with the score 2-2,”said the Hall of Fame goaltender who won three Olympic gold medals and was part of 10 world championship Soviet teams. “If I played the second and third period, the game might have turned a different way.” Alexander Maltsev scored the only goal of the second period. Trailing 3-2 in the third period, the Americans got another goal from Johnson to tie it, and Eruzione, the team’s gritty captain, scored a screened shot to give the U.S. the lead for the first time with exactly 10 minutes left. With the crowd chanting “USA!” Craig turned aside wave after wave of Soviet attacks in the frenzied final minutes to preserve the win. “The Soviets were putting so much pressure on the American team at the end of the game, and it was a one-goal game, the crowd is going absolutely insane, we were on a platform that was shaking, the production truck was going crazy,” Michaels recalled. When time ran out, Michaels gave his famous call and the U.S. team broke into a wild celebration.The Soviets could only watch. Two days later, the Americans beat Finland to win the gold. Tretiak said he never got an apology
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straight victory. Limited to just 5 1/2 minutes at Madison Square Garden three weeks ago because of a migraine, Bogut played 36 this time and overwhelmed the Knicks’ smaller front line. He shot 12-of-15 from the field in his first 2020 game since Dec. 13, 2008, against Indiana, according to STATS, LLC. John Salmons scored 15 points for the Bucks, who forced the Knicks into their worst offensive performance of the season and completed a threegame sweep of the series. Tracy McGrady scored 15 points in his second game with the Knicks, but shot only 5-of-14. He wasn’t alone in struggling, as the team hit just 33.8 percent from the field in its seasonhigh seventh straight loss. Newcomer Sergio Rodriguez replaced Chris Duhon in the lineup, but Duhon couldn’t have done any worse
from Tikhonov for what many regard as the key blunder that gave the game to the Americans. “Tikhonov wrote in his autobiography that it was the biggest mistake of his life,” the goaltender said. In a 2006 interview with the online newspaper Gazeta, teammate Valery Vasilyev also blamed Tikhonov, saying the move to replace Tretiak “made the team nervous.” “For me, it was a ‘Mirage on Ice,’” Vasilyev was quoted as saying. “I still can’t understand how we could have lost to the Americans. I still can’t believe in that — as if it were a dream. “I believed then and I still believe that our dismissive attitude to the U.S. team had led to our defeat,”he said.“We simply hadn’t taken them seriously.” In Vancouver, the Russians have set up a lavish headquarters as they prepare to host the 2014 Winter Olympics in the seaside resort of Sochi. Several display cases around the pavilion are crammed with Russian sticks, jerseys, pucks and helmets from international hockey competitions dating from the 1950s to last year’s Stanley Cup finals. Even the 1972 Summit Series — which the Soviets lost 4-3-1 to a team of NHL all-stars from Canada — was commemorated. Tellingly, there is nothing from the game three decades ago that holds such a special place in Olympic history.
than the Spanish point guard, who had four points and one assist and shot 2-for-8 in 30 minutes. Bogut seemed on his way to a dominant effort in the Bucks’ 114107 win here on Feb. 5, making all three shots for six points before he was forced to leave. He was the one causing the pain this time, helping the Bucks improve to 27-28 with their fourth straight road victory. Despite its woeful shooting, New York was within six with less than 9 minutes. Jerry Stackhouse then made a 3-pointer before consecutive baskets by Luke Ridnour and Salmons made it 74-61 with 7:49 left. Knicks coach Mike D’Antoni promised his team would speed up the tempo after last week’s trades, yet finished nowhere near its previous worst scoring night of 78 points against Dallas on Jan. 24. — The Associated Press
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Diet, training impact change in players’ condition continued from page 8 “If the head coach doesn’t care or have the ability to say, ‘I’m going to be here for the long term,’” he added, “it’s very difficult for the strength coach to do his job, no matter how good they are. You need the leverage from the top to get the kids to work hard.” Throughout the season, Miller has raved about the effects the strength program will have in the future. It was a key part of his program at Xavier. All five Xavier starters from his Sweet 16 team a year ago could bench press 185 pounds 15 times or more. “Although players look mature physically, they’re light years away from where they’re one day going to be,” Miller said. Added Rounds: “We definitely want to have a strong powerful team. Coach Miller’s system of basketball is a very physical way to play the game. It becomes very important that your team can hold up to that and can do the things they need to do on the court.”
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The ultimate goal is to build strength in the student athletes, but Rounds has constantly had to teach college athletes that diet is also essential. Both Hill and center Kyryl Natyazhko came to the program with an early start to their “freshman 15.” “Most college kids come to college with very poor eating habits, and when they get to college it gets worse,” Rounds said. “A typical college kid will not eat breakfast, will not (eat) until after class at 12 or 1, then they will crush a bunch of food at dinner and eat something right before they go to bed.” Hill stepped on the Arizona campus weighing 248 and is currently at around 218, adding 20 pounds of muscle after first losing the body fat. “That’s a tremendous compliment to his work ethic,” Miller said. “That’s where you know a year from now, when you watch him, you’ll say, ‘Wow, he’s gotten a lot better.’” Rounds mentioned forward Jamelle Horne and guard Brendon Lavender as some of the stronger players on the team, though he thinks Horne can get about 15 pounds stronger to add to his athleticism. Jones, who Rounds said is naturally strong, is known to have
some of the most powerful legs on the team, which Rounds said works to his advantage on the court. Derrick Williams has improved his body more than anybody, having gone from 228 pounds to 248 and 14 percent body fat to 11 percent over the course of his freshman season. Williams has seemingly stayed strong the entire season while many freshmen hit a physical wall at some point. “My body is fine right now. I just keep going every day in practice, especially in the weight room,” said Williams during a weekly press conference before the team’s first meeting against ASU. “Rounds keeps us going with the weights and getting stronger every day.” One of the most impressive players for Rounds is senior guard Nic Wise. “Nic Wise is an interesting person because he’s had injuries that have hampered his ability to lift weights, but he’s done a good job of taking care of his body,” Rounds said. Players continue to work out during the season, but 40-minute workouts are shortened to 25 minutes so that players aren’t overworked. Rounds splits players into two separate groups. Some work out three times a year, some two days a week, depending on health or the number of minutes they play. Rounds credits his success over the years to Miller and the coaching staff allowing him time with the players during the season. “Coach Miller allows me to have time in season which really makes the difference,” Rounds said. “A lot of teams won’t lift in season, or lift sporadically, which won’t allow you to develop guys.” Arizona players have gotten stronger since the beginning of the season, but they still have a long way to go to reach their potential. “Our guys aren’t necessarily the strongest guys in college basketball right now,” Rounds said. “We know that, and you can see that when we play. We’ll work hard to fix that for next season.” With obvious results, Rounds insists there is nothing special to his workouts that have been successful in building players’ strength. “We just go hard, and we do it all the time,” he said.