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UA adjuncts protest wages

Jamaica makes small marijuana amounts legal Three New York men accused of assisting Islamic State Avalanches in Afghanistan kill at least 124 people Jury finds Eddie Ray Routh guilty in murder of American sniper and his friend ­— The New York TImes

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DEVON KEHLER, a graduate associate in the department of English, explains the importance of good working conditions at the National Adjunct Walkout Day outside the Administration building on Wednesday. UA adjuncts and non-tenure track faculty gathered to call for improved working conditions.

Non-tenure track faculty on campus joined national protests against the high number of adjuncts hired, coupled with few career promotion opportunities and low pay

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Arizona men’s basketball focused on Colorado Page 7

Baseball wins 13-0 to sweep Oakland

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Research looks at stereotypes in health care Page 12

OPINIONS Welfare programs need to focus more on helping people and less on humiliating them Page 4

QUOTE TO NOTE “No one is fooled, though,

and these [welfare] programs are just making a mockery of a government that already grossly underserves its people.”

— Nick Havey

Adjunct and non-tenure track faculty members gathered Wednesday in the Alumni Plaza in front of the Administration building to gain support from students and community members and ask for higher wages and smaller class sizes on

National Adjunct Walkout Day. According to Thomas P. Miller, professor of English and vice provost for Faculty Affairs, this is a national problem and the UA is and has been taking steps to limit the number of adjuncts and work on creating more career promotion opportunities for nontenure track faculty.

“Over 40 percent of the faculty

at [the] UA is non-tenure track,” said TC Tolbert, a non-tenure track adjunct lecturer in the English department. “We deserve job stability and support to give our students the best learning experience possible. We need your help, we need your critical thinking and reflection [and] we need to reprioritize education at the UA.”

According to Aimee Mapes, assistant director of the UA Writing Program, contingent faculty teach over 2,500 students each semester in her program.

“I support the [UA]’s Never Settle plan to support student success, and this is a teach-in about conditions that matter to

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‘Love guru’ teaches his art 15 years of

partnership for peace

BY ALISHA PERERA

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The Wildcat Events Board hosted An Evening of Love at Gallagher Theater Tuesday with selfproclaimed love guru David Coleman to help students with their love troubles.

The event was free and meant to teach students about relationships, break-ups, hook-ups and, most importantly, love.

Michele Rizzo, director of the WEB Speakers committee, found Coleman at the National Association for Campus Activities over winter break.

“I think a lot of students will learn to be more confident with themselves,” Rizzo said.

Coleman has been named National Collegiate Speaker of the Year 14 times by Campus Activities Magazine and NACA combined. He kept the audience laughing during the event while also giving advice to students looking for love.

“You will not find the right person until you become the right person,” Coleman said.

Coleman encouraged students in realizing they are good enough to be loved by someone, and his tactics were meant to help the audience relax when talking about such an emotional subject.

During his speech Coleman frequently interacted with his audience, referring to himself as Will Smith’s character from the movie “Hitch” and the audience as Kevin James.

Coleman allowed for questions, such as how to get over a break-up or how to end a toxic relationship, and gave out chocolate to students who made him laugh

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DAVID COLEMAN, a dating doctor and adviser, tells UA students his best kept secrets to dating in his seminar An Evening of Love in the South Ballroom in the Student Union Memorial Center on Tuesday. He interacted with the crowd, making them answer questions and giving out chocolates for good responses.

or smile.

Adam Caballero, a deaf studies sophomore, said his favorite part of the event was when Coleman asked the students to fill out their Johari Window, in which he asked the audience to describe their favorite

Peace Corps Week 2015 marks the 15th anniversary for the Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows at the UA, and there will be a number of events hosted this week to celebrate, including the Peace Corps fair, a storytelling workshop and a symposium.

“We really want to showcase that partnership of Peace Corps and the university through these events,” said Rachel Murray, a graduate assistant and program coordinator at the UA Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows Program.

Murray said the big event is the Peace Corps fair, which will represent over 50 countries and will be set up in the North Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday. She said the fair is free and open to the public, and there will be snacks and light refreshments.

“We have over 120 returned Peace Corps volunteers that will be exhibiting

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Students running with a purpose

BY LAUREN RENTERIA The Daily Wildcat

The Wildcat Running Club will hold its third-annual philanthropic 5K event this weekend, with all proceeds benefiting the UA Steele Children’s Research Center. The Sprint into Spring 5K will take place at Reid Park on Sunday morning.

This philanthropic 5K race is held every spring semester with a certain organization to which

all proceeds are donated. During the first annual 5K, the club raised over $800, all proceeds of which were given to the American Cancer Society. This year, the club will be donating to the UA Steele Children’s Research Center for the second year in a row and has now raised a remarkable amount toward its philanthropic goal.

“We have already raised the most money this year, surpassing our goal of $1,000, making around $1,500 with the 69 people who are

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already registered,” 5K coordinator Bianca Luna said. “We are expecting more registrations and hoping to have at least 20 more people sign up by race day.”

Last year, there were over 70 race participants at the event.

While attendance is projected to increase for this year, it is still expected to carry the same relaxed atmosphere as years past. From the most experienced runners to fresh beginners, everyone will have a chance at taking a prize

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home through the raffle that will be taking place at the race.

The event’s real winner is the Steele Children’s Research Center, which incorporates research in both clinical and teaching endeavors and will receive the funds from the run.

Established in 1985, the center is held as one of the prestigious Centers of Excellence at the College of Medicine — Tucson and works as a research extension

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student success,” Mapes said.

Madelyn Tucker, a representative from Feminist Action Research in Rhetoric, a coalition of feminist scholars and activists of public rhetoric, said that most UA students have taken a class led by a graduate student, an adjunct or a lecturer.

“Contingent faculty are invaluable members of this campus community,” Tucker said. “… Without one-year contracts or guaranteed full-time employment, no health insurance is offered to adjunct faculty. The UA in particular lacks clearly defined paths for promotion and has failed to offer any raises in over 10 years, despite rising costs of living.”

Miller said UA Faculty Affairs worked with the Faculty Senate for the last three years to look at salaries for adjunct and non-tenure track faculty. He said what they have found is very uneven.

“The average salary for non-tenure track faculty at the university is $57,000,” Miller said. “That is for the 350 full-time nontenure track faculty; that includes people who are associate professors and full professors, non-tenure track.”

Miller said many of the people speaking at the walkout are paid on a course-by-course basis.

“We need to do a better job of addressing the salary issues of the folks who are teaching in the writing program and also in several other programs,” Miller said.

Miller said he is working to review all

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STUDENTS GATHER to listen and hold signs in support of the National Adjunct Walkout Day outside the Administration building on Wednesday. The signs illustrated adjunct and non-tenure track faculty’s disapproval of current working conditions, including pay and class size.

non-tenure track faculty promotion options for each of the colleges.

“I am working with the Faculty Senate to research, what is the course salary for every college on campus?” Miller said. “Within the next few months, we’ll have a much better

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again, because it’s such a good cause and a big part of the community,” Stone said. “We would like to continue support for an organization that’s a part of the university.”

Each entry costs $25 and registration forms are available before race time at 7:30 a.m.

The race will begin Sunday at 9 a.m. and is projected to finish at around 11 a.m.

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and showcasing their countries of service,” Murray said.

“It’s a really great opportunity to learn about the Peace Corps.”

Murray said the on-campus Peace Corps recruiter and representatives from the UA Study Abroad office will be at the fair on Friday as well.

“We’ll also have some of the UA academic departments that we have Peace Corps Fellows in, so if students are interested in learning about graduate opportunities, you can come and learn,” Murray said. “We are also going to have some community agencies that we as the Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows partner with … represented so they can learn about different volunteer opportunities.”

Ashley House, a sophomore studying journalism and pre-business, said she wanted to ask a Peace Corps Fellow what their most unforgettable experience was and how that experience influenced their lives.

“I have considered going abroad and plan on going spring 2016,” House said. “I’m thinking the coast of Spain, because it’s by the ocean with warmer weather, and I’ll get to learn about a whole new culture.”

Murray said attending the Peace Corps fair is a great opportunity for interested students, faculty and community members to learn about different regions of the world that they maybe have not been exposed to before.

“We’re going to have an African village and a Latin American bus stop,” Murray said. “We also have some dignitaries coming from the U.S. Peace Corps from [Washington], so this is a really unique opportunity that some applicants could interact with some Peace Corps staff as well.”

Kylie Stratton, a sophomore studying management information systems and retailing and consumer sciences, said she knows a little bit about what Peace Corps volunteers do through a friend’s stories and through informational emails she has received.

“I have briefly looked into volunteering for the Peace Corps,” Stratton said. “I would like to volunteer later, when I’m in graduate school, and would be willing to go wherever help is needed.”

After the Peace Corps fair, there will be a storytelling workshop with Meleia Egger, a Peace Corps Third Goal Program specialist, held in the Rincon room in the student

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PEACE CORPS recruiter Anna Steeves-Reece discusses serving in Nicaragua at the Peace Corps meeting in the Student Union Memorial Center on Tuesday. A total of 50 countries in which the Peace Corps operate will be represented at the Peace Corps fair.

union from 2:30-3:30 p.m.

Murray said people can register ahead of time for a symposium on Saturday that will showcase an alumni panel and some work that members of the Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows have done in their fellowship program.

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“I think it goes to a lot of different student services, building maintenance and things like that. Generally going towards making the university a better place. I think people kind of undervalue educators sometimes, so maybe they do deserve more money.” — James Garlant, environmental sciences senior.

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5. “I think that the part-time teachers are

“My tuition’s going towards people like the dean and higher-ups who are making ridiculous amount of salaries, rather than people who work at the union or have no contract. Also, I think it’s going to sports.” — Adiat Azeez, psychology freshman.

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MEMBERS OF the Wildcat Running Club begin their daily run in front of the Student Recreation Center on Wednesday. The club is preparing for a 5K run this Sunday at Reid Park, with proceeds going to the UA Steele Children’s Research Center.

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of the UA Department of Pediatrics. The center currently has over 75 ground-breaking research projects in areas including cardiology, critical care, endocrinology, nutrition, genetics and oncology. One of its most celebrated areas of research involves the surveillance of developmental disabilities.

Austin Stone, vice president of the Wildcat Running Club and an economics senior, explained the strong relationship between the club and the center.

“We are happy to donate

sense of where strategic investments need to be made to bring people up to a more livable wage.”

animal, color and body of water.

According to Coleman, your favorite animal represents how you want to be, color is how you see yourself and body of water is how you view sex. The exercise created a lot of banter within the audience when their answers were either very wrong or very accurate.

Coleman also gave advice to students who were in long-distance relationships, talking about when such relationships are potentially worth the struggle and how to make them work.

“Fifty percent of long distance relationships fail within the first year,” Coleman said.

The relationship could survive if the long-distance factor did not last too long, and if each person sees their significant other at least once every two months, according to Coleman.

“I loved learning about the ABCs of initial interest,” said Sarah Patterson, a sophomore studying linguistics and French, about the event.

Coleman explained that, when initially meeting someone, people must think about attraction, believability, chemistry and desire. If they pass these requirements, have a conversation with them for one hour to really see if they are someone worth sticking around for, Coleman said.

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“I think a lot of the tuition goes towards Spring Fling, the concerts, the celebrities they bring, the athletes, the rec center and the sporting events. I don’t think a lot goes to the staff and employees.”

— Sammi Lindsey, sophomore studying care, health and society. not getting paid enough, and most of the money is going to full-time professors. It should be more balanced out because professors have a big impact on a student’s education, whether they be part-time or full-time.” — Tyler Kaplan, economics junior.

know I don’t want my tuition to go up.

Obviously, there should be fair pay for faculty because of all the hard work they do.” — Megan Marquiss, chemical engineering junior.

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— Compiled by Chastity Laskey and photos by Rebecca

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Panel group discusses warzone reporting, dangers with public

The Ukrainian American Society of Tucson in association with The Honorary Consul of Ukraine for Arizona presents

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Shevchenko, Ukraine’s greatest poet was an orphaned serf, a prolific artist and a fearless poet. He endured imprisonment and exile and became the voice of a people.

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In this exhibit you will find reproductions of some of Taras Shevchenko’s most famous artwork, facts of his life, and his moving poetry translated by Peter Fedinsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian Studies.

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JAMES FOLEY, an American journalist and 1996 Marquette Univerity graduate, was abducted in Northwestern Syria in November 2012. The Islamic State beheaded him in August 2014 in retailiation to American airstrikes in Iraq.

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Some journalists are killed for reporting the truth in warzones as foreign correspondents, and UA students will get the opportunity to hear first-hand from those who have taken on that risk. ”Reporting In a More Dangerous World” is an open panel conversation with those who have experienced the dangers, risks and violence of reporting in a warzone through personal experiences. Panel guests include the parents of an American journalist killed by the Islamic State, a former correspondent for The Associated Press who was held hostage for seven years and First Amendment lawyers from The New York Times.

“It will highlight the dangers of being a journalist in the most dangerous parts of the world, and how risky it is in today’s world for a journalist to seek information while putting their lives at risk — the perspective of what is it like being overseas in a war zone freelancing just to get the world to hear the truth in what’s occurring,” said William Schmidt, a foreign correspondent and UA journalism professor. “Understanding the risks for information to be provided to the world is very critical when a life is on the line.”

John and Diane Foley, the parents of James Foley, will speak on behalf of the risks their son and other journalists like him face on a daily basis. Terry Anderson, a former AP correspondent who was a hostage in Lebanon for seven years, will also speak on about the issues journalists are facing. David McCraw, a First Amendment lawyer, will address the global issues threatening the press.

The panel is sponsored by the Center for Border and Global Journalism. Mort Rosenblum, a UA journalism professor and foreign correspondent, former bureau chief with the AP and co-director of the Center for Border and Global Journalism, will moderate the event.

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Drug testing costs more than it saves

BY Nick havey

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ver the past six years, many states have adopted drug-testing programs for welfare recipients to ensure government and taxpayer dollars are going to support families with children in need and not the rampant substance abusers Republicans seem to think make up this population. With over 100 million Americans receiving government assistance in 2011, drug testing seems like the right move — but it’s not.

As always, Arizona is the frontrunner in discriminatory, potentially illegal and otherwise bullying legislation — we started our drugtesting program in 2009 as part of a greater state program to make people hate us. Of the 87,000 people tested, only one person tested positive for illicit and disqualifying drug use.

The $560 in saved benefits certainly makes up for the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on testing.

In 2012, 4,086 Florida residents were tested in a similar program with just 108 (2.6 percent) of them failing the drug test for a cost of $45,780 to taxpayers. Some simple math reveals that similar testing in Arizona would cost about $975,000, and when compared to the savings from the one drug used, $560, and the 1,633 people who did not return their surveys and were subsequently denied benefits, around $200,000, taxpayers lost about $775,000 while simultaneously humiliating alreadyunderserved citizens.

A similar program in Virginia was halted after a $1.5 million dollar cost was tied to a measly $229,000 in savings, an 85 percent loss on investment.

I’ve never taken a statistics course, but these numbers should shock anyone with a calculator and a pulse. It’s no surprise then that we have a national deficit — lawmakers can’t do math.

And while it is true that welfare recipients, specifically women, suffer from substance abuse — predominantly alcohol — this is not the main reason barring them from gainful employment.

According to studies conducted by the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, substance-abusing women receiving government assistance face a variety of barriers.

“The most common barriers to work among substance abusing women were: low work experience (81 [percent]), low educational level (48 [percent]), low job skills (65 [percent]), lack of transportation (88 [percent]) and generalized anxiety disorder (49 [percent]),” according to a report by the program A normal person might look at these numbers and think, among supporting similar programs for the general population, that these women could benefit from anti-poverty work, mental health education and treatment and professional development programs.

Barring the logical, our legislatures — and by that I mean Republicans — have opted for deleterious and dehumanizing campaigns against the poor.

This crusade against the poor is made worse, and stupider, by the fact that elected officials — presumably literate and educated — aren’t exactly sure how Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, or food stamps, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families money can be spent. Citing already prevalent concerns that government assistance is being spent on weed, campaigns like the “No Welfare for Weed Act” — thanks, Arizona — have been started to prevent this clear misuse of funds.

I get it, you don’t want the unemployed and otherwise impoverished toking up on the government dime, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture has made it abundantly clear that SNAP recipients are only allowed to use the benefits on approved food items and cannot buy alcohol, tobacco or non-food items. SNAP benefits definitely cannot be withdrawn from ATMs in the form of cash, although TANF and a few other programs can.

These cash-benefit programs, however, are tightly restricted, and, while times are certainly a-changing, I don’t think dealers are providing receipts these days. Think about it, Republican legislators: Do you think your son or daughter’s dealers would accept food stamps or provide them a receipt for the weed and other drugs they are purchasing?

The long and short of it is that these programs are not even remotely effective. The only purpose they serve, other than to be a blatant disregard for effective spending, is to demonize the poor and reinforce the notion that welfare recipients are uninhibited drug users.

No one is fooled, though, and these programs are just making a mockery of a government that already grossly underserves its people. Republicans would be better off investing in productive programming, like the anti-poverty, mental health and professional development work previously discussed, rather than continuing to establish a legal basis for discrimination and harassment.

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish.

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Presidents don’t punt BY jacob winkelman The Daily Wildcat

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ess than four months have passed since the 2014 midterm elections, and pundits and politicians from both sides of the aisle are gearing up for their next shot at the White House. Each party has to pick new nominees, but the eventual Republican nominee appears to have a much trickier primary season in store for him or her.

The New York Times lists 12 Republicans who are “expected to run,” although even this may be a low estimate. Already, many of these candidates have begun campaigning in Iowa, the first primary state, speaking at various conservative summits and assembling important campaign staffers.

In the midst of this chaotic political maneuvering, the mainstream media has made a habit out of presuming new frontrunners nearly every week.

This candidate, or potential candidate, enjoys the spotlight for a few days, inevitably makes some sort of political faux pas, and then quickly resumes his place in the middle of the pack.

After an impressive speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit in January, the most recent Republican flavor of the month is none other than Wisconsin Gov.

as a world leader, we need people Scott Walker. like Scott Walker to be willing to Unfortunately for Walker, as answer questions and fight for he has begun to find out over the their beliefs even when it’s not last few weeks, once someone convenient.” becomes the frontrunner, Many political commentators, everything he says or does is particularly the left-leaning ones, treated with far more scrutiny. have been quick to pounce on As a result of this spotlight, many Walker’s nonanswers. have begun to pick up on Walker’s Walker shifty tactic of has the not answering constitutional questions. freedom to Most recently, answer or not Walker declined to answer any discuss his foreign question he policy ideas on would like, the Islamic State, but anyone to say whether running for or not President president Barack Obama should be loves the U.S. and prepared to state his beliefs to answer on evolution. On a something recent credentialas basic as boosting trip their views to England, the — Joseline Mata, on evolution. governor was president of the UA The people of asked about Young Democrats the U.S. have a evolution and right to know if chose to answer the potentially with, “I’m going to most powerful person in the world have to punt on that one.” When asked later for clarification, Walker accepts the scientific method, or allows radical wings of the political replied, “That’s a question a spectrum to dictate crucial politician shouldn’t be involved in components of government one way or the other.” appropriations including Unfortunately for Walker, many government research, foreign people disagree. policy and scientific standards.

“Politicians are more focused This is not aimed at people of on winning the next election than faith or those who do not believe representing their constituents,” in evolution, but anyone running said Joseline Mata, president of for the president of the U.S. has to the UA Young Democrats. “If be willing to answer this question America wants to move forward

We need people … [to] fight for their beliefs even when it’s not convenient

and many others so that voters can make informed decisions about who they want in charge of this country.

What may be making the answers to these seemingly noncontroversial questions so difficult for many Republican candidates is the right-wing extremity of their own base.

Moderate positions that will be much more favorable in a general election could torpedo any Republican’s hopes of attaining the GOP nomination.

Evolution, for example, clearly demonstrates this predicament for Republican candidates. According to a Pew Research Center study, 60 percent of Americans believe humans have evolved over time, while only 43 percent of Republicans holds this view. In fact 48 percent of Republicans believe humans have existed in present form since the beginning of time. This disconnect between what the far right, including the tea party, want from a candidate and what the rest of America wants from a president has left many Republican candidates in this incredibly difficult balancing act, will probably end up leading to a lot more “punting” on important questions.

— Jacob Winkelman is a sophomore studying political science and English. Follow him @JacobWink94

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oday, the Internet is moving at the same pace as usual. Some images or videos may take an extra few seconds to load, or maybe Google didn’t find the specific link you’re looking for, but it seems to be running smoothly.

Everyday life on the Internet is a constant because of something called “net neutrality.” “[Net neutrality means] all data on the Internet should be treated alike — your [ISP] should transmit information at the same speed and priority, whether it’s Netflix or Hulu, email or LOLcats,” expalained Derek Bambauer, a professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law. Currently, however, net neutrality is coming under siege in Washington. Policy makers and Internet Service Providers are trying to take away the freedom of free data on the Internet, which is why college students need to be educated on net neutrality and to fight to keep the Internet a free place.

Last year, Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler

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released a plan that would have allowed very large companies like Comcast or AT&T to create paid Internet fast lines and discriminate against specific websites online.

However, after public outrage, Wheeler decided earlier this month that he actually wants to give Internet users the most protection possible by basing new net neutrality rules off of Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Wheeler explained that he became convinced “that this relatively new concept might, down the road, be interpreted to mean what is reasonable for commercial interests, not consumers.”

Today, the FCC will vote on Wheeler’s new proposal, and it could potentially mean one of the largest victories for those who have been fighting to protect the free Internet.

With American’s media-fueled futures on the line, why is it that many people are not familiar with net neutrality?

Bambauer said he believes that many college students and average adult Americans are not familiar with net neutrality because it seems complicated and boring.

“After just a paragraph or two about Title II or Section 706 or Deep Packet Inspection, most people are heading for The Onion,” Bambauer said.

He also added that while both sides

of the debate are good at portraying the consequences of their positions, they have not “done a good job of explaining the basic mechanics of how the Internet works today, or the high-level explanation of how the government regulates Internet access and routing.”

Both sides of the net neutrality argument believe that their path is the best way to drive deployment of quicker Internet connects and cool new devices, Bambauer said. And because the U.S. is a “global leader in Internet-related innovation” the stakes in this debate are very high.

Everyone is affected in this debate: rural families, college students, online education, the government, large corporations, small companies and ISPs. Net neutrality won’t just slow down a Netflix connection; it could affect whether the area where you live will even receive broadband access.

In light of the big vote, you should probably keep your fingers crossed and as many tabs up on your browser as possible.

— Trey Ross is a journalism sophomore. Follow her @_PatriciaRoss

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One man’s tool is another man’s weapon

IT’S A GREAT BIG UNIVERSE OUT THERE.

A non-UA affiliated woman was approached by a man who pulled a garden tool on her in the courtyard of the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building on Feb. 12.

The woman was waiting for her father, a UA employee, to get off work. To occupy herself, she was listening to music with one earbud.

The man approached her and asked how much money she paid for her cell phone, which made her uncomfortable. She said her father had purchased it, so she didn’t know the exact cost. He asked if he could hold her cell phone, and she said no.

Then, the man reached into his left sleeve and pulled out a metal garden tool with a wooden handle used to pull weeds.

The woman became scared, so she got up from where she was sitting, leaving her backpack and its contents on the bench. She called her father who was across the street and told him what happened.

She said the man was walking south on Mountain Avenue near Speedway Boulevard. She described the man to a University of Arizona Police Department officer as looking to be in his 20s, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt with the hood up and blue jeans. She also said he had a cut on his top lip and was missing his bottom teeth.

The suspect was later found at the UA Bookstore and taken to jail.

Flippin’ them the bird

A UAPD officer was called on a harassment complaint at 1518 E. Lester St. regarding a UA employee on Feb. 12 at approximately 3:09 p.m.

The employee in question was laid off over a year ago from the UA because he was confrontational, called his supervisor names and intimidated other UA employees.

According to the report, the former employee flipped off another employee when he saw him driving on campus.

The former employee was seen again later by other employees where he used to work and flipped off all of them without saying anything.

According to the police report, he was seen driving a blue 2002 Ford F150 in both incidents.

The woman who reported him only wanted to report the most recent incident, because she didn’t know his state of mind and did not know if these incidents would escalate further. She told the officer that other employees have similarly brushed him off.

The officer didn’t find any reason for the man to be on campus and contacted Human Resources about retrieving an exclusionary order. She advised the employer to have her employees contact UAPD if the man was seen on campus again or if he engaged in any more disruptive or threatening behavior.

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CAMPUS EVENTS Applications for 2015 UK Summer Institutes Deadline 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. There are nine UK Summer Institutes available for U.S. undergraduates with at least two years of undergraduate study left to complete. The Summer Institutes will cover the majority of the participant costs. This includes round-trip airfare from the US to the UK, tuition and fees.

MacArthur Fellows Speaker Series: Olivier Guyon 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Cesar E. Chavez Building, Room 111. From neuroscience and astronomy to linguistics, ethnobotany, and anthropology, these scholars are changing the world for the better. This speaker series explores and celebrates the innovation and impact of our MacArthur Fellows’ work.

‘Reporting In a More Dangerous World’ 6 p.m. Integrated Learning Center Auditorium, Room 120. The conversation will be moderated by Mort Rosenblum, a longtime foreign correspondent with the Associated Press, and now a professor of practice in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona.

Reading: Simon J. Ortiz 7 p.m. UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St. Simon J. Ortiz, poet, fiction writer, essayist, and storyteller, is a member of the Acoma Pueblo Nation. This reading is part of “The Poetics and Politics of Water,” a series presented by the American

CAMPUS EVENTS Indian Studies Program and the Department of English, co-sponsored by the Poetry Center.

Free Lunch/Lecture: ‘Queering U.S. Landscape Art’ Noon at McClelland Park, Room 402, 650 N. Park Ave. Come join the Institute for LGBT Studies for free pizza and stimulating conversation, as John-Michael Warner, doctoral candidate of art history and gender and women’s studies, discussess his experiences guest curating an exhibition.

TUCSON EVENTS Paper, Papier, Papel. 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Dragonfly Gallery, 146 E. Broadway. Exhibit runs January 10-March 6.,2015. Featured artists are Val Bembenek, Phillip Carey, JoAnne Hungate, C.J. Shane. Dragonfly Gallery is a non-profit art gallery with 50% of art sales go to benefit the children at Dragonfly Village.

Tucson Plein Air Painters Society Winter Exhibit 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Plaza Palomino, 2690 N Swan Rd. An exhibit of Tucson’s premier Plein Air Artists. The paintings are available for purchase directly with the artists. There will be painting demonstrations daily if you stop and visit.

TUCSON EVENTS The Best of Broadway 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. DesertView Performing Arts Center, 39900 S. Clubhouse Drive. $25 in advance; $30 at door. Produced by Lonely Street Productions. You’ll enjoy a riveting salute to the music of the Great White Way highlighting Broadway’s greatest hits with a mix of old and new from “Oklahoma” to modern classics “Les Miserables” and favorites from Andrew Lloyd Webber.

The Lady in the Looking Glass 7:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. The Rogue Theatre, 300 E. University Blvd. A collection of seven short stories by the great modernist writer, Virginia Woolf, brought to the stage for the first time by The Rogue Theatre. A feast of language and inner landscape in which worlds are discovered in simple moments. $32. Previews Feb 26-28 $22. Student Rush $15.

Wake Up With The Birds 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Roy P. Drachman Agua Caliente Regional Park, 12325 E. Roger Road. Join this guided birding walk in the desert oasis of Agua Caliente Park to spot wetland birds, hummingbirds, songbirds, and raptors.

Binoculars are available for use.

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Duke survives overtime scare at VT No. 4 Duke 91, Virginia Tech 86

Rockets win big in Houston Houston Rockets 110, Los Angeles Clippers 105

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Wildcats and Utes set for huge matchup

Thursday, February 26, 2015 • Page 7 Editor: Roberto Payne sports@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-2956 twitter.com/wildcatsports

MEN’S HOOPS

Arizona ‘focused’ on Buffaloes

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

The top-two teams in the Pac-12 Conference face off on Saturday, but Arizona men’s basketball must first travel to an unfriendly venue for a Colorado team that’s finally at full strength.

No. 7 Arizona (24-3, 12-2 Pac-12) plays at Colorado (12-14, 5-9) tonight at 7 p.m. on ESPN to kick off its Rocky Mountain road trip.

Arizona men’s basketball head coach Sean Miller said the Wildcats will be focused on Colorado and not Saturday’s de facto Pac-12 championship game on Saturday at No. 13 Utah.

Arizona won 88-61 in Boulder, Colo., last year, but lost there in 2013 and 2012 after Colorado joined the then Pac-10.

“I don’t really think that’s a worry for us, really, because of our history with Colorado,” Miller said. “They’ve always been such a great team and, in fairness to them, there hasn’t been a team that’s played maybe this decimated by injuries more than Colorado has.”

Arizona has won five in a row in the series, but is 2-7 against the Buffaloes in Boulder, Colo. The Wildcats beat Colorado 68-54 in January, but the Buffaloes were without forward Josh Scott and guard/forward Xavier Johnson.

When asked how they will not look ahead to the Utah game, Arizona forward Brandon Ashley said the Wildcats won’t underestimate another team.

“It’s simple: We’ve lost three games this year, all of them have been on the road and each of them have been against teams where we shouldn’t have necessarily lost those games,” Ashley said. “It’s that simple; you just got to focus on every game.”

Arizona has lost to RPI No. 102 UNLV, RPI No. 95 Oregon State and

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (23) defends Colorado guard Askia Booker (0) during Arizona’s 68-54 victory over Colorado on Jan. 15 in McKale Center. Hollis-Jefferson will likely be tasked with guarding Booker again as the Wildcats take on Colorado today.

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ARIZONA BASEBALL outfielder Jared Oliva (42) slides safely into home as Oakland pitcher Nate Green (32) attempts to tag him out during Arizona’s 13-0 victory over Oakland on Wednesday at Hi Corbett Field. The Wildcats won 13-0 on Wednesday to complete the twogame sweep against Oakland.

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Arizona baseball earned a series sweep over Oakland with a rout on Wednesday afternoon by scoring early and often.

The Wildcats (8-2) beat the Grizzlies (0-8) 13-0 to win the second-straight mid-week series.

Arizona head coach Andy Lopez said he was happy with the game, other than an error in the eighth.

“It was clean, it was very clean,” Lopez said. “It was good to see.”

Arizona designated hitter Riley Moore went 4-for-5 with three RBIs. Second baseman Scott Kingery went 2-for-3 with three runs, two RBIs, two walks and a double.

Arizona center fielder Justin Behnke went 3-for-4, with three runs, two RBIs and a walk.

Third baseman Bobby Dalbec had two doubles and two RBIs. Left fielder Jared Oliva went 2-for-3 with two runs, a double and a walk.

“It’s a neat story, didn’t even inning with a double and got play in high school,” Lopez said to third on a throwing error. about Oliva. “Well, he was on Behnke drove him home with a the team, bunt single. … I just Kingery told him, doubled to ‘You might score Behnke. want to call Then Kingery your high scored on a s c h o o l foul ball fly coach and out by Dalbec. say, “Hey, O l i v a h a v i n g scored again a good on an error time in in the fifth Tucson.”’” inning.

Arizona A r i z o n a’s — Riley Moore, took a 1-0 first four Arizona catcher lead on a batters got sacrifice nine hits, fly by right eight RBIs and fielder three doubles.

Zach Gibbons in the second “That’s what we’re inning. The Wildcats went up supposed to do,” Moore said.

2-0 when Oliva ran home on a “We’re all upperclassmen, wild pitch. except for Bob. Bob’s a Moore singled with the bases sophomore, but still, he’s got loaded to drive in two runs. the upperclassman mentality.

Before that at bat, Arizona had We all want to win and know been 0-for-9 with the bases this program can win.” loaded this season.

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Arizona women’s basketball’s Alli Gloyd and Candice Warthen will be honored on Senior Day this weekend.

The path to that milestone has given each player more than their fair share of hardship, on and off the court.

First, it was the injury bug, which plagued the careers of both players.

Warthen suffered a right knee tear that forced her to miss her entire sophomore season. Gloyd tore her ACL a year later and had to sit out as a junior.

Both Warthen and Gloyd went through grueling rehabs in order to return to full health.

“Rehab was intense, difficult and everything but fun,” Gloyd said.

“However, I never quit. When life kicks you, make sure it kicks you forward.”

That kind of resiliency allowed Gloyd and Warthen to not only recover, but also improve their level of play, and this year, the seniors have been cornerstones of a team that otherwise lacks an upperclassmen presence.

While this season has allowed both players to finally be on the same court, the results have been anything but what they had hoped for. Arizona is 9-18 and sits in last place in the Pac-12 Conference heading into the final weekend of play.

However, a poor team record does not take away from the progress the seniors have made over the years.

“Candice came in as a kid not doing much talking, and now she’s always talking,” Arizona women’s basketball head coach Niya Butts said. “We may even need … her to be quiet a little bit.”

Gloyd has served as Arizona’s best defensive presence down low this season, and her 5.3 rebounds per game are tied with Warthen for second-most on the team.

“As for Alli, she has always been a really mature kid,” Butts said. “She’s taken advantage of all the resources that you get by being a Wildcat, and that’s something great to see.”

Warthen leads the Wildcats in scoring by averaging nearly 13 points per game.

The point guard recently scored her 1,000th career point and currently sits at No. 16 on the UA’s all-time scoring list.

“It’s a great feeling knowing that I

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Gymnast strums to own beat Arizona sophomore gymnast Gabby Laub has not only excelled in competition, but also with her musical talents outside of gymnastics

BY MATT WALL

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ove over Beyoncé, because Arizona gymnastics has found the next musical star.

Meet sophomore gymnast Gabby Laub. On the floor, she competes in both vault and uneven bars and has earned career-highs of 9.825 and 9.875, respectively.

Outside of the gym, she has channeled her hidden talents of guitar and performing, singing herself all the way to the top.

Laub said she received her first acoustic guitar from her father when she was a child, but she didn’t learn how to play it until about three years ago, when she “randomly” taught herself.

Flash forward to about a year ago: Arizona cheerleader Andrew Maggio found out that Laub could sing and play guitar, and he decided they should play together some time.

“Gabby is extremely talented,” Maggio said. “I remember the first time we hung out to jam, and I found out her voice is just beautiful.

If I wasn’t so caught up with school, we would be

practicing together every day, but her dedication to gymnastics is also a huge part of her life.”

The duo even received some love from Arizona men’s basketball forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson on Twitter.

“Hey followers my buddies @GabrielleLaub @drewmaggio are really good check them out. It’s @fortherainydays,” HollisJefferson tweeted.

The duo recently had its first live performance at the UA Honors College Talent Show and they now have a Vine channel dedicated to the two singing together called “fortherainydays.”

“She never stops working and is the perfect example of a student athlete,” Maggio said. “I’m glad I’ve [had] the opportunity to perform with her.”

Laub said that countrymusic-sensation-turnedpop-star Taylor Swift is her biggest inspiration.

“I look up to Taylor Swift, because she writes her own music and puts all of her emotions into it,” Laub said. “She makes herself vulnerable for what she loves.”

Laub’s singing has brought the team together in more ways than one. In the recent talent show, her teammates came out to support her and cheer her on.

“She’s great at singing,” Arizona senior gymnast Allie Flores said. “I think she should pursue it, because it’s a hobby, and everyone needs a hobby, and sometimes hobbies can grow into more.”

According to Arizona gymnastics head coach Bill Ryden, Laub did not perform as well in her freshman year at the gym as she might have hoped. This season, Laub has changed that, bringing with her a new work ethic and a new voice.

“She came into the summer workouts and literally reinvented herself,” Ryden said. “Her physical fitness, how she does her skills, just the little nuts and bolts of how she does gymnastics. She’s a different person, and I think she set herself up now to have a fantastic collegiate career.”

In fact, Laub might have more in common with Ryden than she realizes. Both have played instruments and both are fans of country music.

“She’s a country music fan

and has been writing and singing,” Ryden said. “As a country music fan myself, who also played instruments back in my day, I absolutely think it’s great. An artistic outlet is a perfect release for an intense mental sport like gymnastics.”

Even though Laub has competed against NCAA collegiate athletes in front of thousands of fans, she said she is most nervous when she is singing.

“I get more nervous before a performance, because I’ve done gymnastics my whole life,” Laub said. “I’m a little bit more used to it than I am at playing guitar.”

Moving forward, Laub said she will continue to compete to the best of her ability in the gym for the Wildcats while keeping her musical dreams alive and well.

“It’s not something that I’m majoring in or anything like that, but it’s definitely something that I have a dream for,” Laub said.

“You never know what can happen.”

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ARIZONA GYMNAST Gabby Laub performs her uneven bars routine during Arizona’s 197.850-196.375 loss to Utah on Jan. 31 in McKale Center. In addition to her on-court performance, Laub has musical talents off the court.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Assistant coach, ex-player loves UA

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rizona women’s tennis volunteer assistant coach Kim Stubbe didn’t want to part with her fellow teammates. Instead, she decided to stay on with the team as a volunteer assistant coach, saying she wears the University of Arizona “A” with pride.

Stubbe said her favorite part of being an assistant coach is being around the team and helping the players be the best that they can be. She explained how being on the sideline helps teaching by being able to visually see where improvement is needed.

Stubbe said she will always remember her playing days and the game against ASU that fell on Senior Day. “Last year, when we beat ASU on Senior Day, our team [had] four seniors — that’s nearly half the team — and that was our last home match,” Stubbe said.

“You need to know: Last year, we were undefeated at home.”

Stubbe added that the result of the day was perhaps the best part.

“I remember, I finished first, and I never finished first in singles, and that relief, it was just amazing,” Stubbe said.

“I remember looking at the crowd like I felt my family was behind me, so it was an amazing moment.”

Stubbe said she didn’t just play tennis; she was very competitive in soccer and swimming as well.

She eventually decided to give up soccer and swimming to pursue her competitive side in tennis.

“Imagine, like, you grew up at the age of seven, you play tennis till now, and it’s a sport I am so [passionate] about,” Stubbe said. “Tennis not only teaches you so much on the court, but it [also] makes you stronger off the court. It is such a mental game, and you really get to know who you are out there.”

Stubbe is from Belgium and will graduate this May with degrees in psychology and French. She said she came to Arizona primarily due to women’s tennis head coach Vicky Maes.

“First of all, the coach, Vicky Maes, very inspirational figure, she came to Belgium to recruit me,” Stubbe said.

“I was very shy. My parents got along really well with Vicky. They were like, ‘Kim, I really trust her. You should go

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ARIZONA BASEBALL pitcher Xavier Borde (49) pitches during Arizona’s 13-0 victory over Oakland on Wednesday at Hi Corbett Field. Borde and the Wildcats scored 23 runs over the two-game series against Oakland.

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FORMER ARIZONA women’s tennis player and now volunteer asisstant coach Kim Stubbe hugs head coach Vicky Maes during her Senior Day on April 19, 2014 at LaNelle Robson Tennis Center. Stubbe said she came to Arizona because of Maes and stayed because of her attachment to the team.

with her,’ and I was like, ‘Okay, fine, I’ll take it on. I’ll go to Arizona.’ From then on, I heard they had a really good educational program, so that was key for me too, because I always wanted to focus on first getting a degree and then tennis.”

Arizona made it to the NCAA tournament three out of the four years Stubbe played, starting her freshman year in 2010. She traveled to Gainesville, Fla., during her freshman season for the tournament, North Carolina her second year and played in Georgia her last year.

“I’ve seen so many colleges, and I am so happy with this school,” Stubbe said. “Arizona is like a family, a town that always supports their athletics. No matter who you are, you always find people who are behind you.”

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(2-0) started for the Wildcats and went four innings, giving up three hits, zero walks and zero runs while striking out two to earn the win. Cody Moffet relieved him and went two innings, giving up one hit, zero walks and striking out one in his 2015 debut.

“Good to see Moffet pitch well, good to see Borde pitch well,” Lopez said. “Borde will get a start based off of [Wednesday].

The competition is getting good; I like that.”

Arizona pitcher Rio Gomez went two innings, giving up zero hits, zero runs, zero walks and striking out two. Matt Hartman pitched the ninth and gave up one hit in his season debut.

Dalbec doubled to score Kevin Newman in the seventh inning. Behnke got a two-out RBI in the eight inning. Kingery then drove in Behnke and Moore drove in Kingery. “[Tuesday] we had chances to score in the later innings and didn’t execute,” Kingery said. “We had a lot of two-out hits [on Wednesday] that really helped us put runs on the board, and pitching did a great job, shut ‘em out.”

The Wildcats will now travel to Starkville, Miss., this weekend for a pair of games against Samford and a two-game series with Mississippi State.

Lopez likes to evaluate the team in 10game segments, and he said he was happy with the Wildcats’ first 10.

“I like the competitiveness a lot,” Lopez said. “Really happy with the competitiveness, the intangible, competitive nature.”

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ARIZONA WOMEN’S basketball guard Candice Warthen (1) drives to the hoop while Stanford forward Kaylee Johnson (5) defends her during Arizona’s 60-57 victory over Stanford on Feb. 8 in McKale Center. Along with Alli Gloyd, Warthen is one of two seniors who will be honored on Sunday’s women’s basketball Senior Day.

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was able to accomplish a milestone as such,” Warthen said. “Every player can’t say they were able to do something like that, and I am just blessed and very fortunate for this.”

Gloyd and Warthen have also achieved success in the classroom. Both completed their undergraduate degrees and are now working to get their masters in Educational Leadership.

Warthen received a 3.5 GPA last semester, while Gloyd twice earned UA Student Athlete of the Month honors with a 4.0 GPA. Warthen’s goal after graduation is to play professional basketball. Gloyd wants to remain in hoops too, but not on the court.

“I would like to work with a basketball team either in operations or possibly coaching

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RPI No. 86 ASU, all on the road.

Colorado is 127th in the RPI. “Obviously in those games that we lost, we kind of looked past the opponent, and as you can see, it ended in a loss for us,” Arizona forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson said.

“So we just have to focus on the now, on the present, and just take it day by day and get better each day and worry about our first game.”

Miller said that it’s unfair to judge Colorado by its record, because the team that was picked to finish third in the Pac-12 hasn’t been at full strength until now.

“The good news for Colorado, and maybe the bad

someday,” Gloyd said. “I like both of these positions because I can work with studentathletes on a daily basis, which is what I would ultimately love to do in life — impact the lives of others.”

For now, Warthen and Gloyd’s sole focus is to end the regular season with a pair of victories before the Wildcats head to the Pac-12 Tournament.

“They have been great kids,” Butts said. “I would love for those two ladies to go out with a win on their home court.”

Arizona women’s basketball takes on Colorado at 6 p.m. on Friday and Utah at 3 p.m. on Sunday for Senior Day.

news for everybody else, is that this is really the first time that they’ve had a great stretch of health where they’ve had their entire team,” Miller said.

Scott, who averages 12.7 points per game and 7.7 rebounds, is a candidate for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award for the best center in the nation.

Johnson is 11th in the Pac-12 in 3-point shooting percentage, 12th in defensive rebounds, 17th in rebounding and 27th in scoring.

The last time the Wildcats played CU, guard Askia Booker scored a career-high 30 points.

“That’s a big challenge, but I’m sure our team’s ready for it,” Hollis-Jefferson said when asked about stopping Booker.

“We’ll be a lot more focused.

With that being said, we don’t

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want that feeling again, for an individual guy to do that to us.

It’s kinda embarrassing on the defensive end.”

Colorado is 70-13 at the Coors Events Center under head coach Tad Boyle. Arizona is 6-3 in true road games this season and CU is 10-4 at home.

The Colorado/Utah road trip is the only Pac-12 road swing to feature games in different states and at high altitudes.

“Salt Lake City and Boulder are both great towns,” Miller said. “They have tremendous home court venues, and it’s exciting to play there, but it’s difficult. They represent two great home courts.”

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UA psychology professor Jeff Stone has found evidence that nursing and medical students exhibit greater nonconscious stereotyping toward Hispanic individuals compared to non-Hispanic white individuals.

Prior research has shown that Hispanic patients are less likely to receive information on critical longterm health outcomes, like obesity counseling, smoking cessation advice and cancer screening recommendations than nonHispanic white patients.

“The psychological idea is when you see a non-Hispanic white or Hispanic face, concepts that we associate with these groups will come to mind,” said Elizabeth Focella, an author of the study. “And what we hypothesized is that when seeing an image of a Hispanic person, nursing and medical students are going to have certain stereotypes activate.”

In Stone’s study, nursing and medical students completed a sequential priming task consisting of five components. The first two consisted of showing students a blank screen followed by a visual mask. Then, a critical image of either a Hispanic or a non-Hispanic white face would appear for 15 milliseconds. Afterward, the visual mask would show again. The last

component to appear was a letter string that prompted participants to make a decision. Participants were instructed to press certain keys to indicate whether the letter string was a word they recognized or not.

The task measured the speed it took participants to recognize words related to noncompliance and health risk after subliminal exposure to the faces. Words semantically related to noncompliance or risky health behavior included “uncooperative” or “damage.” The images of the faces were pre-tested to be similar in age and attractiveness.

Stone explained that in accordance with the hypothesis, recognition of noncompliance, risk and general stereotype words was faster after exposure to Hispanic faces.

“I think this research and the results are an important contribution because a great deal of research documents clinician stereotyping of African American patients,” Focella said. “Here, we are documenting stereotyping against Hispanic patients.”

Stone is currently teaching UA medical and nursing students strategies on how to reduce the prevalence of stereotypes in their thinking.

“What the research shows is that there are a lot of ways of reducing implicit bias,” Stone said. “What I teach the medical and nursing

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UA researchers are studying stereotypes in the medical profession. Previous research has shown that Hispanic patients are less likely to receive information on things such as obesity counseling and cancer-screening recommendations than non-Hispanic white patients.

students about is being aware of when you’re likely to exhibit these biases — so when we’re working very fast, we’re very tired or we have too much on our mind. Then we are more likely to rely on simple rules and heuristics, and stereotypes are simple rules.”

Stone suggested that focusing on

drug design on target

what you share with somebody tends to shut off biases as well.

Furthermore, research has shown that focusing on being an egalitarian or fair person could also be an effective strategy.

“We call it activating your egalitarian goals,” Stone said. “What we try to teach people is that, when

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The UA Steele Children’s Research Center on North Campbell Avenue on Tuesday. UA researchers are developing a drug that makes it easier to treat inflammatory bowel disease in children.

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UA researchers are developing a new drug to treat inflammatory bowel disease — a condition of the gastrointestinal tract in which the body’s immune system attacks beneficial bacteria naturally found in the gut.

According to Eugene Mash, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, the design of the new drug was inspired by Olestra, a common food additive that limits fat absorption, and is patentpending under the wing of Tech Launch Arizona. UA researchers are optimistic that this drug can be an effective treatment for ulcerative colitis and colonic Crohn’s disease.

“Inflammatory bowel disease is a young person’s disease currently affecting at least 1.5 million people in the United States,” said Dr. Fayez Ghishan, head of the department of pediatrics and director of the UA Steele Children’s Research Center.

“IBD can be either ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, and is on the rise throughout the entire western world and in some underdeveloped countries.”

Ulcerative colitis is a disease that is limited to the colon, whereas Crohn’s disease can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract but is most commonly found near the end of

the small intestine, explained Pawel Kiela, an associate professor of pediatrics and immunobiology.

“The sucrose core of the drug is linked to long chains of lipidlike molecules,” Mash said. “The compound essentially cannot be metabolized until it reaches the lower GI tract due to both its size and hydrophobicity. At that point, bacterial enzymes can reach the outsides of the molecule.” Then, the enzymes cut off 5-aminosalicylic acid molecules found on the ends of the drug.

Essentially, the drug resists getting activated until it reaches the place it is able to do the most good.

The molecule that gets cut off, 5-ASA, is commonly used to treat IBD. As the drug coats the mucus membrane of the GI tract, the 5-ASA molecules that are released suppress inflammatory mediators, Kiela explained.

According to Ghishan, current treatments for IBD are structured like a pyramid. Treatment starts with 5-ASA, but if patients don’t respond, it is followed by corticosteroids, immunosuppressive therapy and IV infusion of humanized antibodies.

The higher up in the pyramid the treatment is, the more the immune system will become suppressed and the more susceptible the patient will become to diseases like tuberculosis, hepatitis B and valley

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Bacteria hijacks body’s natural defenses to hide

BY Connie Tran

BY Jacob Witt

you meet someone who is different, rather than using race, ethnicity and gender as a way of categorizing and begin stereotyping, use race, ethnicity and gender differences as a cue to be fair.”

fever. The new drug is important because more patients will be able to stick with the 5-ASA treatment instead of going to more damaging treatments.

“Because our delivery vehicle for 5-aminosalicylic acid is not absorbed, you won’t have side effects,” Ghishan said. “That’s the beauty of non-absorbable drugs.

We believe this is going to lead to a major advancement in our ability to treat young patients with ulcerative colitis.”

The newly developed drug is available in a liquid suspension rather than large capsules, so children will no longer have to rely on enemas, suppositories or expensive alternatives to treat their IBD. In the current state, the limited market of the drug for IBD may not elicit interest in commercialization.

“My plea to pharmaceutical companies is to realize that our children are our future, and we need to find ways to improve their lives, irrespective of profit,” Ghishan said. “I am going to continue to fight to improve the lives of our children.

That is a worthwhile goal.”

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A UA researcher has shown that the bacteria that causes gonorrhea is potentially able to “recruit” human proteins to protect itself from the immune system.

Nathan Weyand, a research assistant professor at the BIO5 Institute, works with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and a protein called CD46, which inactivates part of the immune system called the complement system. His project has shown that the N. gonorrhoeae bacteria may be recruiting CD46 to protect itself from attacks by the complement system. “[N. gonorrhoeae is] a fascinating organism,” Weyand said. “It is a current health problem, and each year, there are over 100 million people worldwide infected with this organism. It can cause blindness in children in third-world countries if they’re not treated.”

In addition, N. gonorrhoeae has been growing resistant to antibiotics. “[It] has been gaining resistance to every antibiotic that has been suggested for treatment, and pretty soon, there may be few antibiotics that will be able to treat it,” said Won Kim, an immunobiology graduate student.

CD46 is a component of the complement system, which is a part of the innate immune system.

“Complement can recognize foreign microbes and it has a way to activate enzymes and attach to foreign microbes, and eventually it punches a hole into the membrane of the invading microbe and this kills the microbe,” Weyand said. “This is an innate defense mechanism our bodies have to protect us from infection.”

Components of the complement system are commonly found in the blood serum and other bodily fluids, and there are over 60 proteins that participate in the complement system.

CD46 is a protein expressed by cells that prevents the complement system from targeting human cells.

“We’re working to test the hypothesis that CD46, when it is recruited to the site of bacterial adhesion, actually protects the bacteria from complement killing,” Weyand said. “We’ve recently done

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some microscopy where we see that CD46 stolen from the infected cell permeates the bacteria aggregate.

It looks like the bacteria are trying to coat themselves with this human protein that can inactivate human complement.”

In order to study this process in the lab, Weyand has been recreating the steps of infection.

“For our experiments lately, we’ve been infecting human cells with the bacteria, and then after five hours we add a serum, human serum, to the infection, and we see what happens,” Weyand said.

“Normally what happens is some of the bacteria begin to get killed by the complement system that is present in human serum.”

Weyand and Kim have been working together to downregulate the expression of CD46 in epithelial cells.

Messenger RNA, or mRNA, are products formed by the template of DNA that contain instructions for making specific proteins. If these “instruction” molecules are destroyed or reduced through a process called RNAi, the expression of the protein is decreased as well.

By interfering with the amount of viable mRNA, Weyand and Kim have been able to decrease the amount of CD46 expressed.

If CD46 recruitment to the site of infection is blocked, the bacteria then become more sensitive to death by the complement system, Weyand said.

“We also use a strain of [N.] gonorrhoeae [that cannot] hijack CD46 as well, and our prediction is that [this strain] will be more susceptible to the complement system,” Kim said.

In people, genetic defects of the complement system may increase susceptibility to infection.

“We think that CD46 plays a role in inactivating parts of the complement system that attach to the bacteria when the serum is there, and that’s what we’re working on understanding,” Weyand said.

“What is happening, we think, is that the bacteria are stealing a human protein from the cells and using it to protect themselves.”

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