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New tech combats drought Tech Launch saves water and generates energy with easy-to-install Hexocover

BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat

Hexocover, a new technology supported by Tech Launch Arizona, was designed to prevent the evaporation of water and use solar power to generate energy.

Robert Sleeper, the UA College of Engineering licensing manager with Tech Launch Arizona, said he licensed the Hexocover to the company RePower Design , which is run

by Nathan Barba, a co-inventor.

Hexocover is made up of 4-inch plastic balls that are “sandwiched” between two pieces of plastic, said Nathan Barba, managing partner of RePower Design and an Arizona State University student . These modules are connected and topped with hexagonal shapes that are used on solar panels.

The Hexocover technology is easy to install and can be deployed to cover any open body of water where it’s important to

save water from evaporation, said Moe Momayez , co-inventor of Hexocover and associate professor in the department of mining and geological engineering .

“The best environment to deploy this would be in Southwest U.S. or anywhere else where you have a semiarid climate with a lot of evaporation,” Momayez said.

“The evaporation rate in Arizona is in excess of 100 to 105 inches per each year.”

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The Hexocover is a very cost effective method of stopping evaporation, Barba said. He and Momayez agreed that there was a need to prevent water evaporation due to climate change and significant drought in places such as California and Texas.

“If we could make a dent in some of the water loss some of the cities and municipalities are dealing with, we think that could make a huge impact,” Barba said.

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A QUARTERSIZE REPLICA of Louis XIV and the famous French Blue diamond stand on display. Louis is one of many historical figures represented at the exhibit “Diamonds are Forever: The Incredible Journeys of World-Famous Diamonds & the People Who Owned Them” inside The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures.

STATE LEGISLATURE

Business as usual for state Congress

BY ETHAN MCSWEENEY

Arizona Sonora News Service

PHOENIX — Super Bowl XLIX rolled into town this week, shutting down traffic on some streets downtown, but Arizona lawmakers continued their work nearby at the state Capitol. A few football jokes fell on unamused ears in the House and the Senate.

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There was no Selma march.

No historical speech from Martin Luther King Jr. No rallies that drew national attention. But deep in Arizona’s past is a litany of stories about the roles African-Americans played in the state’s history.

With February being recognized as Black History Month, it is important to take time to recognize stories of great African-Americans that contributed to the state’s development.

The African-American history of Arizona began in 1528 when a former slave named Esteban came to the land now known as Arizona. According to the Arizona Historical Society, Esteban was a slave to a Spaniard until he left on a Spanish expedition to discover the New World. While the fate of Esteban was uncertain, numerous historians still recognize him as the first African-American to step foot on Arizona soil.

Fast forward 400 years, and the number of African-Americans who resided in Arizona grew to 2,000, according to Keith Crudup’s dissertation “African Americans in Arizona: A Twentieth Century

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PHOENIX — An Arizona lawmaker has introduced a bill to protect underage drinkers from prosecution if they call for medical assistance for themselves or someone else.

Sen. Kelli Ward, R-Lake Havasu City, said she is sponsoring the bill, known as Senate Bill 1190, because many young people, often college students, drink alcohol, and they shouldn’t be punished for trying to get help should a night of drinking turn sour.

“At 18 and 20, they should be able to make a responsible decision,”

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Momayez added that they experimented with this design for almost 18 months, and the results have been promising.

“I can tell you that if you cover a body of water with this product to about 8587 percent coverage, you reduce water evaporation in excess of 80 percent,” Momayez said.

Andrew Falwell, program director for ASUA Students for Sustainability and a chemical engineering junior, said when he first heard about Hexocover, he thought it was a brilliant idea; it has a simple shape and concept, but it’s still powerful.

“It makes me really happy to see that we continue to succeed in the field of water conservation and hydrology,” Falwell said.

“This sort of project really helps us maintain that role as world leaders in hydrology and geology. I think all UA students should be extremely proud that we have this type of research going on here.”

Licenses for university-owned intellectual property assets attract and retain the very best investors, students and professors to the UA because they see success, Sleeper added.

“Tech Launch’s mission is to improve the economy in and around Tucson and the state of Arizona by making some sort of economic impact,” he said.

Momayez said he was working on a

led the Legislature to put the holiday in the hands of the public. The vote was 61 percent in favor, according to Trimble. Campbell Sr.’s dream of his state celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. finally came true 20 years after he initially proposed it.

In 1946, coach Steve Coutchie and the ASU Sun Devils made historical changes to their football team as they added two African-Americans to their roster. According to Trimble, Morrison “Dit” Warren and Joe Batiste returned from World War II and used their GI Bill to continue their education and play for ASU. At the time, ASU was a part of the Border Conference that included teams from New Mexico, Arizona and Texas.

According to Trimble, when it was time for ASU to play the Texas schools, the schools said they refused to let blacks play on their fields.

The reaction from ASU is what made history.

The Sun Devils refused to exclude their black teammates, and the student body urged their athletic department to take a stand. The athletic department declared that it would not play against any school unless the entire team could play. In the end, only one Texas team agreed to the terms.

The UA also had an athletic leader who not only made history in the state but in the nation.

Fred Snowden, an Alabama native, was the first African-American to be hired as a coach of major college basketball team in 1972. According to the Tucson Citizen, it was Snowden who grew the Arizona basketball program from 3,000 seats in Bear Down Gymnasium to the 15,000 that were built in McKale Center.

While his first seasons were more about turning the program around, Snowden finally claimed victory as he led the Wildcats to win the Western Athletic Conference championship in 1976.

This made Snowden the first African-American coach to win a major conference championship, according to The New York Times.

People looking to take part in Black History Month in Tucson can do so as the UA’s African American Student Affairs department presents its Black Film Festival at the Dunbar Project cultural center at 325 W. Second St. The films will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 21. For additional information about this event and other activities hosted by African-American Student Affairs, visit the department’s website.

Ward said, “but they don’t always, and there’s a lot of peer pressure at that age. I don’t want to punish them for a mistake they made that could haunt them for the rest of their life.”

The bill grants anyone under the age of 21 immunity from prosecution if they call for medical or law enforcement assistance and are cooperative with responders.

If they call concerning assistance for someone else, they would have to remain with that person until help arrives.

Ward, a physician, knows these types of situations well from working in hospital emergency departments. She said sometimes people, usually between the ages of 18 and 20, show up to the emergency room with a Post-it note on them saying the person has been drinking.

“If a friend could call 911 without fearing for their own future, I think it will make a big difference,” Ward said.

Twenty-one states have passed similar legislation, known as Medical Amnesty, 911 Lifeline or 911 Good Samaritan laws, and many more have bills up for consideration this year, said Aaron Letzeiser, executive director of the Medical Amnesty Initiative. He works with states on passing such legislation.

“For many, this is the first runin they might have with the law,” Letzeiser said, “so they’re worried about getting in trouble with their school or with their parents.”

Underage drinkers aren’t going out intending to get drunk to the point of alcohol poisoning, Letzeiser added.

“They’re drinking because sometimes it’s part of the collegiate culture,” he said.

It’s no secret that Arizona’s schools have a reputation for partying. Last year, Playboy ranked the UA fourth on its list of top party schools.

Most officers would not cite an underage drinker if that person called for help for someone else, but it’s still up to each individual officer, said Officer Jake Brady, a spokesman for the Northern Arizona University Police Department.

The University of Arizona Police Department reported 730 liquor law violations and 395 liquor law arrests in 2013. No data is available on whether the person cited called for help before.

The bill is not only meant for people who need medical assistance for alcohol consumption, Ward said. It is also intended for situations of sexual assault or if someone fears for their own safety.

“If there’s a girl and she’s been at a party and had a drink or two and she’s walking home … and feels unsafe,” Ward said, “she should be able to call 911 and get police assistance without worrying that she’s going to get a ticket.”

No hearing has yet been scheduled for the bill.

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UA researchers have developed technology to combat evaporation. The technology works to lessen the overall environmental impact of operations that work to replace water.

project on installing and monitoring the performance of floatable tank solar panels on mine tailings. He then noticed the ponds forming in tailing ponds as the tailings were being deposited.

“It wasn’t that much of a leap to think to

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History.” Many migrated from the South in hopes of new opportunities and potential work.

However, the move did not eliminate the presence of segregation that had swept across the states.

“Segregation was as entrenched in Arizona as anywhere in the South,” said Thomas Sheridan, in his book “Arizona, A History.”

With the Arizona Legislature enforcing segregated schools, the entire state separated everything from blacks and whites, including churches, banks, hotels and more.

Sheridan quoted Lincoln Ragsdale, a civil rights activist, saying, “Phoenix was just like Mississippi.

People were just as bigoted. They had segregation.

They had signs in many places, ‘Mexicans and Negroes not welcome.’”

Although the segregation was prominent, African-Americans continued to fight for their rights and equality. Through this struggle, prominent leaders rose to the occasion to represent African-American culture and what they Courtesy of U.S. National Archives and Records are capable of.

Administration In 1933, Elgie Mike Battaeu was the first black woman to graduate from the UA. She received a Civil rights leaders march from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in the March on master’s in education after already completing Washington on August 28, 1963. Arizona has several promiher undergraduate degree in Texas, according to nent civil rights leaders who are being remembered. the Arizona Historical Society. Battaeu taught at segregated schools in both Tucson and Phoenix before becoming the first African-American to voters first defeated it and then, two years later, serve on the Pima Community College governing passed it through the initiative process. A previous board. governor had killed an early governor’s decision to Cloves Campbell Sr. was the celebrate the day. first African-American to be This need for the people’s elected into the Arizona State vote to create a holiday came Senate. After receiving a degree from the lack of support in the from Arizona State University, Legislature. Since Campbell Sr. Campbell was a member of the first began the discussion, the House of Representatives for bill had been nearly approved two years before running for but was then denied countless the Senate seat. According to times.

BlackPast.org, Campbell was — Lincoln Ragsdale, a State Historian Marshall the first legislator in the nation Trimble said in March 1991 the civil rights activist to propose a holiday in honor of NFL voted to move the 1993 Martin Luther King Jr. Although Super Bowl out of Tempe, due to he was denied the holiday initially, the state’s stance on the holiday. the African-American community continued to The NFL then proposed that Arizona would be fight for the holiday until it was put to vote and given the 1996 Super Bowl under one condition. passed in 1992.

“The message was clear,” Trimble said. “Pass the Arizona was the last state in the nation to MLK holiday.” approve the holiday, and that only happened after This movement from the NFL is what ultimately

Phoenix was just like Mississippi

go beyond what I was doing,” Momayez said.

“That’s where the idea came from.”

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Community CHatter

1. “I just saw the movie ‘Selma’; it kind of opened my eyes. Martin Luther King Jr. did so much for the African-American community.” — ­ Hailey Byrd, undeclared freshman

Who do you think has been the most influential African-American figure, past or present?

2. “I would have to say Rosa Parks, because she’s an African-American female who didn’t take ‘no’ for an answer. She sat where she wanted to sit on that bus.” — Danielle Mollie, senior studying Italian 3.

“Maya Angelou was a very influential, salient civil rights activist and powerful black woman. First of all, because of her autobiographies that have become very well-known but mostly just for the fact that she really empowers everyone around her through the arts with her singing, dancing, acting and literature. She worked with MLK and Malcolm X during the civil rights movement. She’s just very influential, and with her recent passing, it’s very salient for her to be discussed.” — Elizabeth Porter, junior studying political science and Italian

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public safety needs and consumer protections,” Tobin said in a statement.

Citing safety concerns, Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill last year that would regulate Uber and Lyft differently than regular taxi services.

Ducey appointed Tobin as the director of the department on Friday last week.

week, it’s also School Choice Week, and advocates made sure the Legislature knew it.

Kicking off the week at the Capitol on Monday, yellow scarves promoting school choice were placed on the desks of each legislator by the National School Choice Week Closed caucuses organization.

The House voted for a rule Catholic schoolchildren change to allow for caucuses, descended on the Capitol where members of one party grounds Wednesday and meet to discuss bills coming shouted, “Thank you,” to forward, to be closed to the the Arizona legislators — public with Republicans in something they probably don’t favor and Democrats opposed. often hear. The students came Democrats blasted the from as far away as Flagstaff rule change, calling it an and Tucson to celebrate effort to shut the public out Catholic School Week, which from discussions and move also happens to be occurring government behind closed this week. doors. House Gov. Doug Assistant Ducey also Minority stopped by to Leader Bruce address the W h e e l e r, gathering of D -Tu c s o n , students briefly said this and returned a l l o w s Thursday to legislators address a school to conduct choice rally. “away from — Rep. Heather “I talked about the light of Carter opportunity for all day.” our citizens, and I “I think it really believe that harms the begins with our children in the Democratic process,” he said.” classroom,” Ducey said. “So, I I think it creates cynicism with think this idea of school choice our public as to how elected is one that Arizona has led in.” officials conduct business.”

Keeping with the theme of Defending the rule change, education rallies on the Capitol House Majority Leader Steve grounds, on Thursday, the Montenegro, R-Avondale, Arizona Students’ Association promised that House protested the proposed Republicans would continue $75 million in cuts to state to have their caucus meetings universities in Ducey’s budget open. proposal.

“This is a procedural matter in which we are being direct Uber and Lyft catch a in our rules,” he said, “and if a moment arises in which a break Andy Tobin, the former sensitive matter needs to be Arizona Speaker of the House addressed, we are being direct who lost his bid for Congress in how we’re doing that.”

House Minority Leader Eric in November, wasted no time getting to work — or rather, Meyer, D-Paradise Valley, said dropping work — after he this is the first step in eroding took over the Department government transparency.

“If this doesn’t change of Weights and Measures.

The now-director Tobin anything, my question is, ‘Why announced Wednesday that are we voting on it?’” Meyer his department suspended all said.

The rule change passed 36investigations into ridesharing 23 directly down party lines programs Uber and Lyft.

“This policy is in keeping with one absent Democrat. with Governor Ducey’s agenda of supporting new Tickets quota prohibition A bill prohibiting police and entrepreneurial-style businesses, while balancing departments from maintaining

There is still more work to be done

The Daily Wildcat • 3 traffic citation quotas cleared committee on Tuesday over the objection over some law enforcement organizations.

House Bill 2410 targets the Tucson Police Department, which is the only agency in the state to maintain any sort of quota.

John Thomas, representing the Arizona Associations of Chiefs of Police, said the bill is worded “too broadly.” He said police would be working with the bill’s sponsor, Rep. David Stevens, R-Sierra Vista, so some changes could be made to it. Currently, the prohibition would only apply to county and state-level law enforcement, and it could have some affect on DUI task forces.

“The bottom line from my organization is that this is something we feel should not be done at the state level,” Thomas said.

Levi Bolton Jr., executive director of the Arizona Police Association argued for the bill, calling it a matter of perception for the communities officers serve.

“What we don’t want to do is undermine the public’s trust,” he said. “We don’t want artificial parameters.”

The House County and Municipal Affairs committee unanimously approved the bill.

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With the Super Bowl in town, the House Health Committee voted to declare Aug. 20 of this year to be Concussion Awareness Day. That date was chosen to coincide with the beginning of the next school year — and as the football season gets started.

“There is still more work to be done,” said Rep. Heather Carter, R-Cave Creek, in a statement, “but by recognizing an official awareness day, we can continue to bring attention to this very important issue.”

Jeff Miller, senior vice president of Health and Safety for the National Football League, presented to the committee. He spoke on the NFL’s effort to promote concussion laws across the nation and improve safety for football players at all levels.

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When stigma kills, we’re all to blame

BY GENESIS LARA

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een student jumps to death after she’s caught cheating,” announced the New York Post in May. “Family struggles to explain girl’s death, among 3 teen suicides in Fairfax since Sept.,” the Washington Post reported in November. Or, take CNN this past month: “An Ohio transgender teen’s suicide, a mother’s anguish.”

As time passes, these kinds of headlines are becoming more popular and more integrated in our social norms. We may give these matters a bit of sympathy for a week or so, but then we move on to find what factors are to blame for the loss of another life: That teen was transgender; that teen was doing poorly in school; it was cyberbullying.

How can we find the ignorance and the prejudice to form such unjust reasoning — yet cannot admit that we are partly to blame for these deaths? We chose to judge many of these people to their graves, rather than lend a helping hand to get them through their suffering.

This brings us to a vital question connected to these lost lives: Why are people so afraid of talking about mental health issues?

While researching the kind of help offered by the Disability Resource Center, I found a significant lack of attention toward mental disorders. The problem wasn’t insufficient help available but everyone’s unwillingness to talk about such a topic.

When we think of the word “disability,” most of us likely think about physical impairments, such as an amputation or paraplegia. We don’t usually think about how mental issues such as anxiety, depression and sleeping disorders — among many others — are considered disabilities as well. How can someone be expected to play the game of life if their mind is playing another game of its own?

Based on statistics provided by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, “one in four young adults between the ages of 18 and 24 have a diagnosable mental illness.” Even though these statistics among college students are fairly high, it is still difficult to find people who will openly admit to having a mental health issue.

“There’s a lot of fear,” said Alfred Kaszniak, a psychology professor who conducts research on the neuropsychology of emotion and memory, “and the media dramatizes the very low frequency, but very scary things, that happen where somebody with a chronic mental illness commits a terrible crime.”

After speaking with Kaszniak, it was clear that much of the obscurity of mental health issues was linked to fear. As a society, we tend to be skeptical and afraid of people who appear to be different. How can it be all right to stigmatize someone who comes off as unusual or bizarre, rather than examine the ridiculous number of suicides that we hear about lately?

According to NAMI, “Suicide is the 3rd leading cause of death on college campuses.”

Looking back at the suicides of two former classmates, I have heard people say, “Oh, I wish they would have known that things would get better.”

But if we only increase the stigma regarding mental health, we can’t expect people with mental illnesses or disorders to know things will be all right.

Rather than intensifying stigmas of mental instability, we should all give more importance and attention to the help they receive. Students aren’t necessarily aware of the kind of help available for people with mental health issues.

“I’m always hearing about great services for paraplegic students or students with Down syndrome,” said Kimberly Henderson, a neuroscience freshman, “but I don’t hear much about the kind of help offered for students with anxiety or autism.”

If we stress the importance of helping people with mental disorders — whether a sleep disorder or a chronic mental illness — maybe we could decrease the number of horrendous crimes that propagate the stigma in the first place.

It is time we realize that people with mental health issues are not the problem.

It’s the lack of help and disproportionate amount of attention they receive that is actually frightening.

— Genesis Lara is a freshman studying journalism, Spanish and French. Follow her @genesislara95

Pit bulls get a bad rap

BY ASHLEIGH HOROWITZ The Daily Wildcat

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it bulls were once thought of as “Nanny dogs” due to the gentleness and loyalty with which they treat their owners.

Previously considered America’s favorite dog, the pit bull breed is now seen as the nation’s scariest.

The pit bull’s bad reputation comes from the terrifying, misunderstood death of a Cincinnati child in 1983 that has led to housing bans and insurance coverage deficiencies.

According to an article by Jamey Medlin in the DePaul Law Review, the dog at fault had been stolen, likely abused, resold and chained up in the backyard of a family home; upon returning to his first owner, the dog looked thinner and was in significantly poorer health.

The pit bull’s violence was a product of stress, fear and anger, not a preexisting breed hormone that magically made him more aggressive.

Dog breeds cannot accurately be used to determine the likelihood of a dog’s hostility or propensity to bite, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dogs are products of their environments, just as people are.

The nation can realize pit bulls are not the dangerous monsters insurance companies and landlords make them out to be; all it requires is an Internet search. From there,

animal lovers and anyone with a heart will do the rest.

Insurance claims for dog bites have decreased since 2012, but the average cost per claim has increased by more than $10,000 in the last decade alone, according to the Insurance Information Institute.

According to the ASPCA, those among the pit bull breed are adopted less and less, finding themselves either stuck in shelters or adopted by owners whose only intent is to use them for fighting or security purposes.

As a result of the stigma, pit bulls may spend several weeks or months in shelters, and some end up being euthanized. According to the Huffington Post the number of pit bulls killed in U.S. shelters each year is unpredictable and can range anywhere between 800,000 and 1,200,000 dogs.

In Tucson, a quarter of the dogs Pima Animal Care Center sees per year — 3,500 to 4,000 — are pit bulls and pit bull mixes. People often end giving up the dog because of the breed’s stigma, insurance coverage or home owner restrictions.

“The breed in general is a stoic and strong breed that requires, like any dog, a responsible and caring owner who is dedicated to training and socializing them,” PACC employee Justin Gallic said.

I have a pit bull mix at home. When my family and I went to rescue, we found Buddy,

a 2-year-old yellow lab/pit bull mix who was shy, flea-ridden and had been unwanted for nearly two months.

Buddy couldn’t have had a more perfect name.

He is a mellow dog who spends his days sprawled out on the couch ready for belly rubs and snuggling onto laps.

Buddy is now 10, and visibly aged, but when he thinks our other dog, Potter, is getting too much attention, Buddy won’t hesitate to roll over on you and make you give him your love.

Pit bulls are like any dog: They’re a lot like children who need guidance and attention.

Stigma toward these dogs could be overcome easily if they weren’t so heavily wrapped up in politics.

As of November 2014, 19 states have passed laws that prevent breed-specific legislation, according to USA Today. The argument is that these laws don’t reduce dog bites, but they do increase euthanasia.

If people learned just a little more about the breed, then there would be less fear, less reason for laws to ban them — and maybe one less pit bull behind bars for a crime it never committed.

A quarter of the dogs Pima Animal Care Center sees … are pit bulls and pit bull mixes

— Ashleigh Horowitz is a freshman studying creative writing and SISTA. Follow her @elhixsagh

New sociology fee unfairly burdens undergraduates

BY MARTIN FORSTROM The Daily Wildcat

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any sociology undergraduates were upset to see a new $300 fee posted on their bursar’s accounts this semester, in addition to the rest of the already onerous tuition fees they must pay. This annoyance was compounded by the recent transition for sociology from a department into a school and the lingering suspicion that this fee would pay for the increased cost of administration.

None of the $151,200 raised by the fee will be spent on faculty. A committee of student volunteers will vote annually on how to allocate the fee. Still, some will question whether this considerable fee is worth it.

Ultimately, given the increased budget cuts the university will be facing this year, this charge is the tragic consequence of a state government that does not adequately value its public education and is committed to

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the failed policy of austerity. This makes the fee necessary for the school to remain competitive.

Celestino Fernandez, a professor of sociology and a university distinguished outreach professor, pointed to various other programs that have instituted similar fees, including sociology’s downstairs neighbor, the School of Government and Public Policy.

“We are not by any means first or unique in this respect,” he said.

Fernandez explained that the decision to implement the fee was originally undertaken because of calls from students, particularly from the Sociology Club, for tutoring for the core classes Social Research Methods and Social Statistics. This is one of the four areas in which 86 percent of the money will be spent. The other three are internships, a new career planning service and a full-time academic adviser for Sociology.

The remaining 14 percent will be spent on a need-based scholarship.

John McNeil, the new fulltime academic adviser, said that not having to serve undeclared students and linguistics majors has allowed him to cut down the

waiting time for students to get an appointment, which used to be as long as two weeks.

The student committee will also have the power to use fee monies on an individual basis.

For instance, if a student wants to present a paper they wrote at a regional American Sociological Association conference, the money could be spent on this.

Still, the fee could cost the school students, as had happened to the Honors College when it implemented a $500 yearly fee.

Moreover, graduate students do not have to pay the fee, but they still benefit from it in some ways, including access to advising and career services. Graduate student Dee Zuganelli reflected on the change from department to school, saying it is “a way of building up our cred within Social and Behavioral Sciences and a way to resist our program being merged or culled out for other units.”

The fee is at least nominally part of the upgrade to the School of Sociology, and the improvements in the ranking and strength of the program may benefit graduate students more than undergraduates.

Tracy Bacon, a sociology graduate student, added that she laughed when she saw the new cost referred to as a “small fee.” She said that “Bergesen [Director of the School] told the grad students that the change was so we could have more opportunities to grow and remain competitive with other top sociology departments” and that “we’ve gotten more faculty and programs,” which again suggests an unfair emphasis on the topranked graduate program.

That this fee is necessary to provide these fairly basic services is upsetting. However, in light of recent and upcoming budget cuts by the state, it is needed. The lawmakers in this state, particularly the Republicans, must change course and adequately fund the UA so that this substantial fee can be reduced or reversed. In the meantime, graduate students should help fund the necessary services that make the school prestigious and their degrees competitive.

— Martin Forstrom is a senior studying sociology and Latin American studies. Follow him @martinforstrom

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BY AMBER WHITE

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Driving free

A UA student was arrested by a University of Arizona Police Department officer on charges of driving with a revoked license and for having an inadequate windshield on Jan. 28.

A UAPD officer was traveling westbound on Speedway Boulevard toward Mountain Avenue behind a white BMW convertible.

The officer conducted a check on the car, which was valid until November 2015 on a 2005 Chrysler convertible.

The UAPD officer verified that the car he was traveling behind was a BMW and not a Chrysler. He also noted that the windshield was cracked just in front of the driver’s view on the left side of the car.

The officer conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle in the 7-Eleven parking lot at 1001 E. Speedway Blvd. The driver said he was unaware that the license plate was not registered to the car and that he had borrowed it from his sister’s boyfriend. The driver also said he did not normally drive the vehicle, so he was unaware of where the registration and insurance were. He also said that he did not have his license with him because he left it at home.

The officer did a license check on the driver and found that his license was revoked. The social security number that the driver gave the officer was on the license as well.

The Ohio license plate was placed into UAPD Property and Evidence. A vehicle registration was located out of Texas and Arizona, both of which were expired. The BMW was towed to a mandatory impound.

Not so silent hill

A non-UA-affiliated individual was issued a citation for possession of marijuana on Jan. 28.

A UAPD officer was patrolling in the area of 1651 W. Anklam Road for a call about dogs being on Tumamoc Hill. While the officer drove up the hill, he was stopped by several pedestrians for a different complaint. They said men walking up the hill had a “boom box” playing loud music.

As the UAPD officer went up the hill, he saw three men to the east off the designated road, where it is prohibited to walk. He walked over to the men, who were playing music from a mini speaker, and told them that they were not supposed to be off the trail and were not supposed to be walking on the hill between 7:30 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The officer also told the men that he was told that they had been smoking marijuana. He asked if anyone had any marijuana on them; if any one of them did, he said they should turn it over to him, and he would then write the individual a citation.

One of the men admitted to having marijuana. He pulled out a plastic baggie containing marijuana from his backpack and handed it to the officer. The man received a citation and was released. The marijuana weighed 3.6 grams and was placed into evidence.

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THE FUTURE IS NOW Here’s a preview of Arizona football’s OKG day and the future of the program

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

The quest for the 2015 version of Scooby Wright comes to an end today.

Arizona will officially add its latest batch of recruits, or as the Wildcats call them, “OKGs” (Our Kinda Guys), on National Signing Day. Wright went from a twostar recruit to the nation’s best defensive player award winner.

Arizona will host a live stream

from 7-11 a.m. and a “Night of OKGs!” where head coach Rich Rodriguez will talk about the players at the Sands Club in the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility.

Admission is $20 for the general public and $10 for Wildcat Club members and season ticket holders.

Commitments are not binding until the players sign National Letters of Intent, and Signing Day is the first chance they get to make it official.

The Wildcats had 13 players

enroll this semester, so they can participate in Spring Football.

Quarterbacks

The Wildcats don’t have any quarterback commits, but they’re pretty stacked there. Fourth-stringer Connor Brewer decided to transfer and back up Jesse Scroggins, but the incumbent Anu Solomon returns, as does Brandon Dawkins, who redshirted last year and who some think can threaten Solomon’s starting job.

Running backs

Arizona is also stacked at running back. Its 2014 starter Nick Wilson was a true freshman, but they added one commit, Orlando Bradford. He’s the 106th running back according to Scout and chose the UA over Southern Miss, Tennessee and Utah.

Receivers

Three’s the magic number for the receivers, as the Wildcats are poised to add three three-star pass

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ARIZONA BASEBALL infielder Kevin Newman (2) bats during Arizona’s 6-5 win against UCLA at Hi Corbett Field on April 13. According to Newman and his teammates, pingpong is one of his lesser known talents.

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Infielder Kevin Newman is sneaky good at pingpong

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oogle search “Kevin Newman,” and you’ll find more than the Arizona junior shortstop’s endless baseball highlights, statistics and awards.

You may have to sift through a few pages of honors — from two-time Cape Cod League All-Star, to 2013 and 2014 Pac-12 All-Conference player, to Baseball America’s No. 27 sophomore prospect, 2013 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American — but if you dig deep enough, you’ll find that Newman has a second, more unconventional love: pingpong.

He lists it as a hobby in his biography on the Arizona Athletics website, but he says that it’s a little more than that.

“My sister and my dad were both collegiate tennis players, so we always had a pingpong table, because pingpong is the closest thing to tennis,” Newman said. “My sister

is five to six years older than me, so I was really young playing all of her friends, and I got really good at it.”

Since arriving at Arizona in 2012, he’s taken his talents to challenge his teammates, but he said he has to play left-handed most of the time to “make it fair.”

One teammate who can almost handle the heat is right-handed pitcher Nathan Bannister.

“I have beaten him,” Bannister said. “But that was back in the freshman dorms. Other than that, he has the upper hand on me.”

Newman, recently listed with fellow junior teammate second baseman Scott Kingery as a preseason All-American by D1baseball.com, is one of Arizona’s key returners this season. He and Kingery, who played center field last year, are now the core of Arizona’s middle infield at shortstop and second base.

Still, Newman likes to say he is better at playing table tennis than he

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Head coach Andy Lopez is one person who said he’s glad Newman stuck with the baseball route.

“I think that if Newman plays the way the way he’s capable of playing, he’ll take away the ‘preseason’ part of the Preseason All-American,” Lopez said. Lopez listed Newman as an integral teammate for the Wildcats this season.

If his past collegiate years are any indication of what’s to come, Lopez will probably be right. Newman batted .336 freshman year and .304 his sophomore season, both of which were fourth on the team. He raked in two consecutive Cape Cod Baseball League batting titles as well, batting .375 and .380 each season.

Newman’s defensive performance in 2014 also holds some merit; he was ninth in Pac-12 Conference play in assists with 149 and boasted a .958 fielding percentage.

Surprisingly, Newman attributed a lot of his talent on the diamond to his

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with BYU

BY MATT WALL

The Daily Wildcat

Arizona gymnastics is ranked No. 27 in the country on floor exercise, but the GymCats are much more than a ranking when it comes to their floor routines.

During each routine, the Arizona gymnasts standing on the side of the mat mimic the choreography performed by the gymnast on the mat, bringing a whole new meaning to the word teamwork.

Even UA assistant coach Meredith Paulicivic finds herself doing the movements during the meets.

“They are so used to seeing it so many times in a row in the gym that they just pick out their favorite parts, and sometimes, I find myself doing it,” Paulicivic said. “It’s just kind of a fun thing.

It’s not something you rehearse; it’s just something that happens.”

For Arizona head coach Bill Ryden, the movements are about motivating whoever is competing in the moment. He firmly believes that when the athletes not competing are involved in the

skills in pingpong.

“It helps with my hand-eye coordination,” Newman said. “A lot of ball teams actually have a table in their clubhouse for that specific reason.”

Unfortunately, Arizona doesn’t house a pingpong table in its locker room like Rice University, which the Wildcats will see Feb. 20-22. Newman works around that by sometimes going to the pingong club on campus.

With the season starting next Friday against Eastern Michigan, odds are you won’t see Newman at the pingpong club’s meetings each Friday at 6 p.m., but if you want to see his skills, he uploaded a YouTube video of highlights against childhood friend Steven Halcomb, who now plays for the Milwaukee Brewers organization.

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ARIZONA GYMNAST Kennady Schneider flips during her floor routine during Arizona’s 197.580-196.375 loss to Utah in McKale Center on Saturday. Schneider and the Wildcats have taken up mimicking each other’s routines as a method to improve team work.

routine, the gymnasts on the floor will earn higher scores.

“It’s because they are so close,” Ryden said. “It really does motivate and makes it that much

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Arizona football will become very familiar with a former conference rival in the next 12 years. The UA announced an extension on Tuesday to its series with BYU. The Wildcats will face the Cougars two more times, in 2026 and 2027.

Arizona will play BYU five times from 2016 to 2027, twice in Tucson, once in Glendale, once in Las Vegas and once at BYU. The 2026 matchup will be in Provo, Utah, and the 2027 game will be in Tucson. The UA also announced on Tuesday that its 2020 game, originally scheduled to be at BYU, has been moved to Las Vegas, Nev., and will be played in 2021.

In April 2013, Arizona announced the original threegame series with the Cougars, for 2016, 2018 and 2020. The 2016 game will be played at

University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. It is the home of the Arizona Cardinals and the VIZIO Fiesta Bowl.

The Wildcats and the Cougars used to be conference rivals. UA and BYU, along with ASU, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming, were founding members of the Western Athletic Conference in 1962.

Arizona and ASU left to join the Pac-8 Conference in 1978.

In 1998, BYU, along with seven other schools, split from the WAC to form the Mountain West Conference.

Then in 2010, BYU left the Mountain West and became an independent in football. For the 2014 season, there were four FCS independents, the Cougars, Notre Dame, Army and Navy.

Arizona leads the all-time series with BYU 12-9-1. The series started in 1936, a 32-6 Arizona win.

UA played BYU three times in the 2000s, winning in 2006 in Tucson, losing in Provo in 2007 and winning the 2008 Las Vegas Bowl 31-21.

Arizona is 8-5-1 against BYU in Tucson, 3-4 in Provo and 1-0 at neutral sites.

In other future games, Arizona will host both UTSA and NAU and travel to Nevada in 2015 before starting the defense of its Pac-12 South championship.

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more fun for the girl out on the floor. Part of the great floor exercise is really loving what you do. They really love the routine, and when your teammates are into it and you’re into it, believe it or not, [it] leads to higher scores.”

In their last meet against No. 4 Utah, Kennady Schneider did just that on floor, earning a career high of 9.875.

“Floor is usually a really fun event for me after a few hiccups last weekend in Washington,” Schneider said. “It felt like I’m back on track and I’m better then ever and I’m ready to keep scoring high.”

The freshman’s routine is very different compared to others’ in NCAA gymnastics.

She choreographed the whole routine herself and said that when her teammates mimic her choreography, it inspires her on the mat.

“To see them catch on to what I love to do so much really makes me happy,” Schneider said. “To see them doing that with me just makes me more excited in my floor routine and to keep going.”

Many gymnasts might cave under the pressure of competing in front of thousands of fans. However, Schneider and the rest of the GymCats know that they have 13 teammates behind them, even if they stumble and make a mistake.

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catchers. Cedric Peterson and Darick Holmes are the 70th and 71st receivers, respectively, according to Scout. UA beat California and Colorado, among others, for Peterson and ASU, UCLA and Washington for Holmes, who can play running back, too.

Offensive linemen

Arizona has no commits from centers but does have two tackles and three guards.

Headlining the tackles is Keenan Walker, the top-rated tackle in Arizona according to Scout. He chose the UA over ASU, Nebraska, Ohio State, Texas, UCLA and USC, among others. Guards Nathan Eldridge and Cody Creason are three-star recruits. Three offensive linemen enrolled last month.

Tight ends

The Wildcats loaded up on tight ends, adding three.

Darrell Cloy Jr. enrolled last month after grayshirting. To grayshirt means to enroll in

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“I think part of it is [that] we see each other do floor routines every day, so we naturally pick up on things,” Shelby Edwards said. “It’s kind of a unity thing; we are all there doing it with you, and we are all behind you, even though you are the only one on the floor.”

Although Schneider has only competed in five meets in her NCAA career, she has continued to improve. Her first floor routine earned just a 9.675 against thenNo. 4 Alabama. Now, she is able to say with confidence that her latest routine earned two-tenths of a point higher.

“I really like to play off the crowd, because I like to perform a lot,” Schneider said. “I like to make a lot of facial expressions and try to make as many people smile as I can.

That’s my ultimate goal: just to put on a great show.”

After the meet against Utah, dozens of fans swarmed the freshman to take photos and sign autographs. With three years of eligibility after this season, Schneider will only continue to improve and meet the caliber of the gymnasts that she has always idolized.

“I think it just adds a little bit more of my personality and my spunk, because I like to have fun,” Schneider said. “I don’t really like the traditional gymnastics dance, so I think it really shows who I am and what I’m about.”

Cornerbacks

Arizona has four commits from three-star players in this position group. Sam Morrison is the third ranked corner from Washington, D.C., according to Scout. Shun Brown picked the UA over Mississippi State, Alabama, Georgia and LSU, among others.

Safeties

The Wildcats have four commits, including two from Arizona. While Paul Magloire is from New York, he went to Arizona Western College.

Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles went to school down the street from the UA at Tucson High but was banned from playing in 2014 after transferring to Marana Mountain View, a move that was ruled illegal.

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Linebackers

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linebacking corps is young and light on recruits for this class. Besides Wright, who was a true sophomore in 2014, they had a couple four-star recruits redshirt, Marquis Ware and Jamardre Cobb. Kendal Franklin is their only 2015 linebacker recruit, though Scout and 247Sports list him as a defensive end.

Defensive linemen

Arizona has one defensive tackle and three defensive ends. Finton Connolly is the 15th ranked recruit from Arizona according to 247Sports. Four-star recruit Anthony Fotu, who enrolled last month, picked the UA over Miami, Mississippi State, Washington, Illinois and Maryland.

Specialists

Kicker/punter Oliver Graybar enrolled at the start of the semester. He was the 2013 Reno GazetteJournal Special Teams Player of the Year.

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MINI TIME MACHINE MUSEUM OF MINIATURES

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A QUARTER-SIZE REPLICA OF Catherine the Great stands, displaying her crown of diamonds with the Orlov diamond at the center. The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures will be displaying recreations of diamonds and their famous owners throughout history at the “Diamonds are Forever: The Incredible Journeys of World-Famous Diamonds & the People Who Owned Them” exhibit until April 19.

Diamonds are a dynasty’s best friend

BY ANNA MAE LUDLUM The Daily Wildcat

An unconscious, drunken slob slouches in his embroidered chair, his golden chalice toppled onto the floor. He is overweight, overdressed, resplendent.

A one-quarter life-size figure of King Louis XVI, skillfully crafted by George Stuart, is just one of 18 historic figures currently featured in his exhibit at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, titled “Diamonds are Forever: The Incredible Journeys of World-Famous Diamonds & the People Who Owned Them”.

The exhibit begins in the Golden Age of India, where each displayed diamond was mined before passing through the hands of history.

Louis XVI’s place in the collection is based on his status as one among few to claim possession of what is believed to be the Hope Diamond, currently

stored in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Other famed diamond owners in the exhibit include Napoleon Bonaparte, Marie Antoinette, Marie de Midici, Frederic the Great, Prince Albert and Queen Victoria, all attired in replicas of their clothing.

Louis XVI’s lethargic pose is an example of Stuart taking artistic license to reflect the French monarch’s personality, adding a humorously unexpected, regal twist.

Scott Sucher recreated each diamond to coordinate with Stuart’s historic figures for the Museum of Ventura County. Each recreation is made from cubic zirconia after years of research into the evolving cut, quality, name and owner of each gem.

The cut and use of each diamond was altered according to a country’s preference. India preferred a flatter cut to showcase clarity and weight.

An ostentatious size and style of

diamonds were commonly associated with European tastes.

After cutting each recreation into the precise dimensions of the original, Sucher duplicates this process to scale the diamond down to one-quarter of the original size. The quarter-size replica is fastened into the jewelry, headpiece, scepter or clothing of the figures, depending on the evidence of how each used the diamond. To call these figures dolls understates the significant effort and research done to achieve the figures’ historical accuracy.

Their handcrafted lace, metalwork and meticulous facial expressions truly make them into works of art.

“Each stone has a story giving its history and travels that it went through and the various hands that owned it, until its final resting place,” said Lisa Hastreiter-Lamb, the museum’s associate director and director of education.

One stone’s final resting place, the

MOVIE REVIEW

Sci-fi film highlights alum, fails authenticity

BY IVANA GOLDTOOTH The Daily Wildcat

Science fiction, Native American film and UA alumni converge in “Legends from the Sky,” a film with an intriguing premise of culture and supernatural phenomenon.

“Legends from the Sky” had a limited release on eight screens in the Southwest, one of which was the Tucson Harkins Spectrum 18 this past weekend. The film is one of many that deals with the theme of a soldier returning home after a traumatic experience overseas.

Unlike other films exploring posttraumatic stress disorder in veterans, “Legends of the Sky” deals with sci-fi elements that are entwined with the mythological elements of native culture. The film takes root in the Navajo Nation and uses the nation’s language among various Navajo actors, two of which are local comedians to the tribe — James Bilagody and Ernie Tsosie III. Hearing the Navajo language spoken by actual Navajos did add to the movie’s authenticity.

“We wanted to do some of the film in Navajo,” said Travis

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Hamilton, producer for the film. “There’s not a lot of fluent speakers in the age range we were looking for.”

Unfortunately, although actors spoke Navajo in the film, little of the dialogue had any Navajo cultural references, making the decision to include it at all seem after-the-fact.

The film seemed to parallel current issues on the Navajo reservation regarding protests to the fracking industry near Chaco Canyon. In the film, this is depicted as

supernatural elements on Navajo land being harvested for the government’s use. The plot supports a history of distrust with the government, given the long history of clashes between the U.S. and the Navajo Nation.

The protagonist, Lyle, is played by Edsel Pete, a UA alumnus who made his film debut in “Legends from the Sky.” Travis Hamilton, an independent filmmaker and the film’s director, said Pete auditioned in Albuquerque, N.M.,

and he had the added bonus of being fluent in Navajo and having military experience. The man who played Lyle’s grandfather in the film, Thomas Begay, had military experience as a Navajo Code Talker and was a Korean War veteran, according the film’s Kickstarter campaign website.

Pete and others who were fluent in Navajo helped actors with their speech. According to Hamilton, Pete was always ready for the next scene and strived to do his best. “[My] first time acting was very diverse and exciting,” Pete said. “It was a unique challenge, and applying teamwork was paramount. …

Many elements [and] departments were involved with one shot; precision and repetition was just as important as knowing the role [or] character.”

Despite the film’s ambitious efforts — and its bonus of having a Wildcat in its midst — its attempt at authenticity fails to deliver.

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Koh-i-Noor diamond, is fastened to a crown in the Tower of London and is considered part of the British Crown Jewels. The Koh-i-Noor’s first known public appearance was before 1739 on the throne of Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan. Nearly 100 years later, the King of Afghanistan exchanged the Koh-iNoor to the Sikh Empire in exchange for asylum from his warring country.

Pakistan and India have repeatedly demanded that British monarchs return the diamond, to no avail.

Gentry Spronken, the museum’s director of marketing and communications, said The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures was a personal passion project of founder Patricia Arnell. Arnell’s fascination for miniatures began in the 1930s and evolved into a collection. In the 1970s, Arnell looked for opportunities to showcase her personal collection and the artists and provide a unique educational experience. Arnell and

her husband founded the museum as a hub of sensory exploration through history.

“In some cases, these diamonds are lost to history, so the only thing that exists is the replica,” said HastreiterLamb, motioning toward the fullscale replica of the Mirror of Portugal diamond.

Arnell’s initial hope for a place to showcase history leaves visitors mulling over a particular question: Since humans responded to the diamonds with war, death, debt and greed, is it truly unfortunate that some gems are missing?

The “Diamonds are Forever” exhibit will be on display at the museum, Tuesday through Sunday, until April 19.

— Follow Anna Mae Ludlum @maeludlum

Bear Down Book Club The Daily Wildcat recommends a book to read throughout the month

BY MIA MORAN

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“The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins If you are still seething over the ending to “Gone Girl” or are desperate for a novel-delivered thriller, pick up a copy of Paula Hawkins’ debut novel.

Hawkins’ psychological mystery “The Girl on the Train” follows Rachel, an unstable alcoholic who is still pining over her ex-husband.

Rachel’s life is a figurative train wreck: She is jobless, directionless and nearly homeless. She rides the train every morning, observing the couple she dubs Jess and Jason who live in the neighborhood across from the tracks. From afar, Jess and Jason have the perfect marriage — the one Rachel has lost — until she sees the couple’s dirty laundry aired out on the terrace Rachel sees from her seat every morning.

Disappointment leads to tragedy as Jess goes missing, and Rachel finds herself caught up in her disappearance. After an all-night bender, all Rachel has to piece together from that fateful night is the memory of a red-haired man from the train station and quite a few cuts and bruises, proving the experience to be less than savory. With multiple women as unreliable narrators and the men they love blind to their psychosis, nobody can be trusted in “The Girl on the Train,” but the book will take you along for the ride.

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