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Phone app will record human behavior Psychology professor develops technology to keep diary of daily life

By Kevin Reagan DAILY WILDCAT

For Matthias Mehl , there is much more to life than what people tell you.

Mehl, an associate professor of psychology, developed the

Electronically Activated Recorder, or iEAR, an app that serves as an acoustic diary to record the audible aspects of a person’s daily life. His interest in capturing spontaneous human behavior first began 10 years ago with an old-fashioned tape recorder, he said, and started as a way of collecting uncontrolled data from outside the laboratory.

“Psychologists need to go out in the real world,” Mehl said. “We all like to have a positive self-image, and

our society does not provide honest, authentic, critical feedback.”

So much of what is observed in volunteer experiments are glorified responses meant to impress psychiatrists, Mehl explained. One of the purposes behind the iEAR app was to provide researchers with a device that tracks unbiased behavior.

The other purpose behind the app, he said, was to develop a simple device that would serve as an honest judge for one’s own social behavior

— someone who may think of themselves as chatty and bubbly may discover few traces of vocal interaction in public.

“Awareness is the first step to changing behavior,” said Mehl, adding that he believes in this app’s capability in determining a realistic sense of oneself. During an experiment using the iEAR technology, Mehl discovered that an observed patient suffering from cancer only spent about 5 percent of their daily

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interaction actually talking about their illness. This kind of denial could inflict worse wounds than the cancer itself, he said.

Available for free download since last August, the iEAR app itself is designed to allow easy control for the user to designate how long they want to record an audible bite and at what frequency throughout the day.

Typically, the app would be set up to

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Sander prepares for next president

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New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin, right, and quarterback Eli Manning celebrate with the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the end of Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. The New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots, 21-17.

Students practice interviewing

By Danielle Salas DAILY WILDCAT

Career Services held its biannual mock interview event on Friday to prepare students for the real thing.

Whether it was for jobs, internships or graduate school, students arrived to go through the half-hour interview process in which their performances were evaluated and critiqued by both career counselors and volunteers from local business professionals. This year, volunteers from Geico, B/E Aerospace and Nova Financial Services attended the event to interview students.

Career Services received about 40 to 60 students from every major.

During the interview, students discussed their skills, background and used the opportunity to “practice talking about themselves,” said Charlotte Blanchard, a senior coordinator for Career Services.

At the end of every interview, students received verbal feedback and tips on how to better compose themselves. While some students attended the event before and

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Arizona alumna and Geico supervisor Sarah Ward and chemical engineering sophomore Rodney Zinyemba participate in a mock interview at the Career Services Office in the Student Union Memorial Center. The mock interviews are designed to give students tips on their interviewing skills.

generally knew what to expect, many students were there for the first time or had no interviewing experience at all. Jeff Patten, interviewer and career counselor, suggests going through the process several times.

“Interviewing is like any other

skill,” Patten said. “The more practice the better.”

For Jordan Lane, a physiology senior who plans to apply for the physician assistant master’s program in a few weeks, practice was important.

“For me, the interviewing is

probably going to be a pretty grueling process,” Lane said, adding that she expects to be interviewed by a panel. “You never know what you’re going to get.”

Even though the interview is not specific to any field, many students saw the mock interview as a good way to help them get a better idea of the actual process.

“It’s helped me to prepare. They asked me relevant questions,” said Bianca Gallego, who is studying pre-business, Spanish and Portuguese and plans on applying to the Eller College of Management.

The mock interview event is not the only opportunity students can get to prepare for job and internship interviews. Career Services allows students to schedule appointments year-round to gain interviewing experience, including online interviews where students can select their respective fields and have the option of selecting specific questions.

Blanchard said such events and services are key because “helping students prepare for the interview process is the nature of our mission.”

Concealed carry club seeks adviser

By Yara Askar DAILY WILDCAT

A club that supports the proposed law to allow guns on campus is struggling to find an adviser in its effort to become officially recognized by the UA. Despite Gov. Jan Brewer’s decision to veto the gun bill, Sen. Ron Gould has revised it and introduced Senate Bill 1474 on Tuesday, which would stop universities from prohibiting concealed weapons on campus.

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus at the UA, a pro-concealed carry club, is pushing to become a recognized club on campus in order to express its support for the law to allow firearms on campus, said Greg Collins, a public management and policy junior and

the club’s president.

“I am not for shooting anyone or killing anyone. However, I still want to fight for the right to bear arms,” Collins said.

After contacting several representatives with the Navy and Air Force as well as professors and faculty members, Collins has been unable to find an adviser who is willing to put his or her name into the club. The individuals in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cannot take a stance on the issue, Collins said, and faculty members were opposed to taking a stance on the issue despite their personal opinions.

Even though students can start a club without an adviser for a certain amount of time, if they want to become an officially recognized club, they need an adviser, said

Bryan Ponton, a journalism senior and executive vice president of Associated Students of the University of Greg Collins Arizona. club president “I specifically said what the club is about and I allowed them (potential advisers) to understand that I do recognize the controversy of the issue and that it is completely up to them if they want to get involved or not,” Collins said.

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus would be part of a national organization that oversees many concealed carry clubs, so an adviser’s involvement wouldn’t be as important as it would be for other

clubs, Collins said. The adviser is only needed for the club to be recognized.

“I am very persistent in getting this club started,” Collins said. “I knew it was going to be hard but I didn’t know it was going to be this difficult.”

Several activities have been planned for when the club becomes official, including wearing empty holsters on campus, attending gun-training classes, trips to shooting ranges and distributing pepper spray to students, Collins added.

Despite the club’s persistence in its beliefs regarding guns on campus, members understand the controversy surrounding the issue.

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During his final semester as the UA’s interim president, Eugene Sander plans to prepare the UA community for its new president next semester.

Sander was not new to the UA when he took the job as president.

He previously served as executive vice president and provost of the university, as vice president for the Outreach College and as dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, where he oversaw 11 academic departments and two schools.

Knowing that his position was temporary, Sander said he did not want to make any major changes to the university unless absolutely imperative. If he was to make more moderate changes, he said, they would fine-tune certain aspects of the university, not twist them completely.

“When I took over this job, I really felt that (former president Robert) Shelton’s departure left the university in a position where the principal thing to do was to lead us into a new healing in order to take the next step,” Sander said. “When you put a person like myself in a deadline, the big frustration is that I can only get certain things established.”

Sander said he feels that it is his responsibility to “pave the way” for the next president, and that the regent’s search for the UA’s next president is “moving along the way most do.” Shelton was being interviewed for the position at

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Hispanic engineers society invite HS students to campus

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Latino high school students interested in engineering came to the UA on Friday to learn about teamwork and the importance of diversity in the field of science.

More than 150 students from five different high schools in Tucson came as part of the UA’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ outreach efforts to encourage students from Hispanic backgrounds to stay in school and move forward with their education.

The club hosted the event in the Grand Ballroom in the Student Union Memorial Center. It was sponsored by IBM and Raytheon Missile Systems.

“I think we do this because a lot of people who are attending this will be the first generation in their family to go to college,” said Johana Guzman, an engineering sophomore

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Professor Matthias Mehl in his office on Friday. Mehl helped develop the iEAR, a way to record a patient’s life.

and vice president of the SHPE. “So I think it is really important for them to have that support group to say, ‘We can do it together.’”

The event is a combination of two outreach programs, The Advancement of Latinos in Engineering and Young Latina Forum, that the club conducts each year.

The Young Latina Forum, which is geared toward female students interested in engineering, has been held at the UA for the last 26 years.

The Advancement of Latinos in Engineering is a program for men that has been hosted on campus for seven years. This is the second time both programs were held together on the same day.

“I challenged them to do something like this for Latinos in engineering about seven years ago because they had already had a strong female group,” said James Valenzuela, keynote speaker at the event, UA alumnus and engineer for

Raytheon. “And in my opinion they have surpassed every single expectation I had for it, and it’s great.”

During the beginning of the day, girls and boys participating in the event were split up to work on projects dealing with different aspects of engineering. The girls learned chemical engineering principles by making a body scrub and also worked on understanding aerospace concepts by participating in a paper plane building challenge.

“In high school I went to an event like this and people told me I could go to college and be an engineer,” Guzman said. “Today is a day to influence a younger generation to do the same.”

The boys also participated in hands-on projects by building towers made out of dry spagetti and worked on creating a mechanical claw made out of a yardstick, string and paper. Ricardo Trevino, a systems engineering junior and

BELGRADE, Serbia — Subzero cold combined with snowstorms continued to claim lives across Europe, bringing the death toll to more than 280 by Sunday — most of the victims were in Ukraine, where 30 more people died over the weekend.

The severe weather, with the temperature in Ukraine often falling to 30 degrees below zero, has killed at least 131 people there since the beginning of winter, most of them homeless.

More than 1,800 people in the former Soviet republic have needed hospitalization this winter because of exposure, and 75,000 sought assistance in the 3,000 shelters providing warm food and beverages.

In Poland, eight more people froze to death, bringing the toll to 53. In addition, there were at least six fatalities from carbon monoxide poisoning caused by faulty heating systems.

In the Baltic republic of Lithuania, the cold claimed three more lives.

Though the temperature was more moderate in the Balkans, in Romania six people froze over the weekend, 34 in total during the cold snap.

In France, a woman with Alzheimer’s disease left a Toulouse home for the elderly in her pajamas and was found dead in a park. Two homeless people died of exposure.

In the Alps, German meteorologists recorded 29 degrees below zero in the skiing resort of Oberstdorf and a record low for the financial capital

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The UA leads all other schools in the nation in research grants from the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

The corporation has awarded the UA 152 research grants, the most in the country, according to James Gentile, president and CEO of the corporation. Columbia University falls behind the UA at 145 grants. The University of California, Berkley has recieved 129 and Harvard 122, according to data from the corporation.

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement was created in 1912 and was the first corporation to fund grants solely in science, Gentile said. The first grant the UA received from the corporation was in 1945 for research on protein contents of fruits and vegetables, he added.

The UA has a long history with the corporation and has been given grants for a variety

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Frankfurt of 15 below zero.

Multiple deaths have been reported in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. A snowstorm shut down much of the former Yugoslavia.

In Serbia, nine people died: three psychiatric patients who wandered out inadequately dressed, three homeless people and three elderly villagers who perished while trying to leave their homes on errands.

Another person reported missing six days ago is presumed dead.

Serbia was struggling to restore its infrastucture. A nationwide state of emergency is being considered and schools were canceled through the next week to reduce traffic jams and ease the strained power grid.

The storm deposited up to 78 inches of snow in parts of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro. At least three casualties were reported in Croatia from the weather on Saturday and Sunday and one in Montenegro, where a Russian man was found dead beside a road.

In Berane, a town in the mountains, the roof of a sport gymnasium collapsed under the weight of the snow, but without any reported injuries.

Roofs collapsing under the snow killed two people in separate incidents in Italy. A homeless man from Ukraine was found frozen near Rome.

Even North Africa has been affected by the chill, with children who had never seen snow having snowball fights in high-lying districts of the Algerian capital Algiers.

this point in the last presidential search, Sander said, and the regents should be making a decision shortly.

Sander also said he has made sure to constantly be in the loop about the presidential search, even if it’s just on board terms.

“It’s important to not be an outside guy. If you’re going to be a successful leader, you better know what’s going on in that organization. And when you’re separated from a layer of administration, you don’t get it done,” Sander said.

The president has also been working on pushing for endowments, which he said is very difficult. The UA has a relatively small endowment, but Sander said this is because the UA is still growing and is relatively young. A campaign launched by the UA just raised more than $1 billion, and the university is now working on establishing another campaign to raise more funds.

Aside from being involved in the search for the UA’s next president, Sander said he also wants to focus on finding new professors and employees to fill the spots of those retiring.

“We have to restock the shelves in terms of new people,” he said,

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of research. Gentile said in 1953, Emil Haury, former anthropology professor and department head, was given a research grant for carbon-14 dating, a method for measuring the age of material that has a biological origin.

Haury was also given a grant from the corporation for research regarding the Laboratory of TreeRing research.

On Jan. 18, astronomy professor Roger Angel received funding for his research that uses mirrors as a way to make harvesting solar energy more efficient and cost effective.

The money that goes toward these grants comes from independent funding by the organization, Gentile said. The money was originally invested in the stock market and has now grown into an endowment, which allows the organization to function and fund faculty members at schools to do scientific research. Currently, the organization funds about $10 to 12 million in grants each year, which is relatively small,

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members don’t agree with the purpose of the club, but I was hoping someone would want to be an adviser,” said Colin McWilliams, an optical science sophomore and member of the club. “I support the right to carry firearms and I believe that the rights should be extended out onto college campuses.”

Tyler Martin, a junior studying public management and policy, said he believes that people should be allowed to carry guns on campus, but is concerned about the ones who do. Martin, who is interested in becoming a member of the club, said the purpose of the club is not an “open pass” for everyone to carry a gun on campus, but for those who have been trained to carry guns and know how to use them.

“I wasn’t really surprised that we did not find an adviser for the club, knowing how controversial this issue is and some are just morally against it or they just don’t want to be part of it,” Martin said. “It makes sense to me and it is very understandable.”

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record 30 seconds of audio every 12 minutes of the day, with a blackout period assigned for when the user is sleeping.

“It’s for people curious about themselves,” Mehl said. The iEAR app isn’t intended only for intense psychological motives, he said — if someone wondered how many times they cursed in public on an average day, the multi-purpose app could measure moral judgment to clean up the language on campus.

Aside from verbal interactions, the iEAR app is also helpful in uncovering the sounds an individual surrounds themselves with. A person may go through an entire day without exposing themselves to any music, proposing a different set of analytical questions. Through his research with the iEAR app, Mehl has discovered that about twothirds of the audible sounds he collected were of mostly silence so far.

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vice president of the SHPE, said the projects are developed to excite students about science and higher education.

“We hope these students can get the most out of this opportunity,” Trevino said. “This is something we will continue to do for students and hopefully they will choose the UA and engineering.”

At the end of the day, club members combined the boys and girls into groups to design and promote their own autonomous vehicle, a car that can drive without an operator.

Larry Head, department head for Systems and Industrial Engineering, said the final project, as well as the entire event, is to help get students thinking creatively about engineering.

“This is really an equal opportunity process, engineering,” Head said.

“In fact, if we don’t have a diverse group of people solving problems, it is impossible to get solutions.”

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adding that he wants to make sure that the university has excellent deans, college presidents and other staff so when the next president takes his place, that person can pick up where he left off and see all university projects through completion.

Recently, Sander publicly opposed some proposed legislation in the state. This included House Bill 2675, which, if passed, will require

Gentile said.

The corporation likes to fund faculty members who tend to do “out-of-the-box thinking” and research, he said, and that is why the UA has been awarded so many grants. An example of this, Gentile said, is when Victor Hruby, a Regent’s professor in chemistry and biochemistry, was awarded a grant after synthesizing a complete enzyme for the first time. Hruby said the grant allowed him to do this research the way he wanted.

“They (the Research Corporation for Science Advancement) have had an incredible impact on science,” Hruby said. “They provided me with the freedom to explore.”

The Research Corporation for Science Advancement is the oldest continuous science foundation in the nation, Gentile said, and before it, there was no government or private organization that focused solely on science and funding scientific endeavors.

most in-state students to pay $2,000 out of pocket without financial assistance unless it is from an outside source. Sander said students who come from families with less money may not be able to attend college if they have to pay an extra $2,000 without aid. He also opposed legislation that would allow guns on campus, saying that it would create “enormous problems” for law enforcement responsible for protecting the campus.

When Sander looked back on his 25 years at the UA, he said attending graduations have been what really made this job worthwhile. Not just watching the ceremony or seeing the students wear caps and gowns, he said, but seeing the graduates’ enthusiasm and knowing that they are going to be able to think through problems, make decisions and be successful. Sander said he experienced this at a luncheon he held for graduating seniors in the agriculture department when he was a dean.

“Glad I don’t have to compete against this person (graduate) — they’re smarter than me,’” he said. “It feels amazing to have been a part of their growth.

They go from being a freshman to being a sophisticated, smart person that will make good decisions. It makes it all worthwhile.”

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INDIANAPOLIS — The Giants have gone from seven-and-seven to Super Bowl heaven.

Left by many on the scrap heap of the 2011 season when they lost to the Redskins in Week 15 and fell to a .500 record, the Giants won six straight games including Sunday night’s 21-17 victory over the Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI. It was the fourth Super Bowl title for the Giants, and the second time in four years that they beat the Patriots to win one.

It was the eighth time this season Manning engineered a drive that won a game in the fourth quarter or later.

The Giants became the fifth team in Super Bowl history to overcome a deficit of 8 or more points, and the first to overcome that deficit in the second half.

The Giants trailed by two points with 3:46 remaining. Eli Manning started the drive with a 38-yard pass to Mario Manningham who managed to get two feet in — a series after he

faded out of bounds on a similar play along the sidelines — that was challenged by the Patriots but upheld as a completion. Manning then drove the Giants to the 6 where Ahmad Bradshaw was given a free run into the end zone with 57 seconds remaining.

It was probably the only touchdown Bradshaw ever scored that he wished he hadn’t. Bradshaw put on the breaks at the goal line but couldn’t keep his balance and fell into the end zone, which was exactly what the Patriots wanted. It gave the Giants a 21-17 lead — they missed the two-point conversion run — and gave the ball to Brady at the 20 with 57 seconds remaining.

The Giants dominated most of the first half, but a 96-yard drive late in the second quarter gave the Patriots a 10-9 lead at halftime. Brady completed 10 of 10 passes, including a 4-yard touchdown strike to former Jet Danny Woodhead with 8 seconds remaining.

The Patriots, who won the opening toss and deferred to the second half, started the third quarter the same way

they ended the second a half hour earlier. They drove 79 yards and Aaron Hernandez caught a 12-yard touchdown pass to give them a 17-9 lead.

The Giants chipped away, settling for two Lawrence Tynes field goals in the red zone to close within two points, 17-15, late in the third. On the second play of the fourth quarter, Blackburn intercepted Brady on a play that was reminiscent of the David Tyree catch four years ago. Brady escaped a sack, rolled to open space and chucked the ball down the middle of the field just as Manning had done in Super Bowl XLII. This time, though, it was Blackburn who outjumped Rob Gronkowski for the pick. The Giants did not score off the turnover. In fact they wasted over five minutes of play and had to burn two time outs before punting.

The Patriots didn’t answer with a score, but they gobbled up about five and a half minutes to give the Giants the ball at their own 12 with 3:46 remaining.

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MIAMI — A Fort Lauderdale family of alleged con artists is accused of defrauding clients out of $40 million, but one defense attorney in the case says the fortunetelling business isn’t the only thing on trial — the family’s ethnic heritage, too, has become a target.

At issue: the word “gypsy,” which has been mentioned several times in the case against the Markses, a threegeneration family of fortunetellers of Romanian Gypsy descent. Defense attorney Fred Schwartz says the word is a slur.

“The connotation of the word ‘gypsy’ is a group of wandering people who go from city to city committing crimes,” said Schwartz, who accuses prosecutors of employing the word as a “tactical advantage” that will make the Marks family seem guilty. The case is expected to go to trial later this year.

Is the word “gypsy” that toxic?

Should people employ a less-offensive substitute in its place?

Hogwash, say prosecutors, who insist there’s nothing inherently derogatory about saying gypsy. In court filings, Assistant U.S. Attorney

Laurence Bardfeld said the hoopla amounts to nothing more than a defense team “trying to ‘muddy up the waters’ in an attempt to discredit the government.” Bardfeld noted that defense attorneys, too, had used the disputed word in open court, and he even cited several dictionary definitions of the word as further proof of its inoffensiveness.

From the Oxford English Dictionary: “A member of a wandering race (by themselves called Romany), of Hindu origin, which first appeared in England beginning of the 16th and was then believed to have come from Egypt.”

Lastly, Bardfeld singled out one of the family members on trial, Ricky Marks. Marks has posted several family videos on YouTube in which he uses the word gypsy, including a “Gypsy Super Bowl Trip” video that also showcases the family’s collection of luxury cars — the fruits of their lucrative psychic enterprise.

“Obviously, Ricky Marks does not consider the term an ethnic slur,” Bardfeld wrote. Bardfeld did not return a phone call seeking further comment.

Defense attorney Schwartz insists

the YouTube videos prove nothing, as he said some blacks use the N-word amongst themselves.

“This does not make the ‘N’ word any less of a racial slur,” Schwartz wrote in court filings. “As Caucasian comedian Michael Richards learned to his sad dismay when ‘Kramer’ used the ‘N’ word in his act and was severely castigated by virtually all of the commentators significantly ruining his career.”

Richards, who became famous playing Kramer on the hit TV series “Seinfeld,” did indeed have a career implosion after he angrily shouted the N-word — repeatedly — while performing a standup comedy routine.

Leanne Pupchek, an associate professor of communications at North Carolina’s Queens University of Charlotte, said the N-word and the word “gypsy” are not the same — the former carries a higher level of explosiveness.

But the latter is not appropriate for a criminal trial, said Pupchek, whose adopted son is of Romany descent.

“As soon as you say in a courtroom, ‘this is a gypsy,’ immediately they are a flight risk, and immediately they are guilty,” Pupchek said.

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CAIRO — Egyptian investigators filed criminal charges Sunday against at least 40 international civil society workers, reportedly including the son of a U.S. Cabinet secretary, in a case that could cost the ruling generals more than a billion dollars in U.S. aid.

Nineteen Americans are among the employees of nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, referred to trial on charges of involvement in banned activities and receiving foreign funds illegally, according to state media.

The other defendants are Egyptians, Serbs, Germans and Arabs from other countries, according to news reports.

All of them are prohibited from leaving Egypt.

The highly politicized case, which has drawn outrage from Egypt’s once-close allies in Washington, shows that the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Force is willing to risk Egypt’s annual $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid to assert sovereignty and win some points at home, analysts said.

“SCAF wants to demonstrate its anti-American credentials,” said Robert Springborg, a professor at the Naval

Postgraduate School who has written extensively on the Egyptian military.

In Egypt, a cross-section of political elites has long resented the NGOs’ work here on the belief that they were imposing Western values on a conservative Arab Muslim nation.

For years, American and Egyptian nonprofit workers say, authorities have blocked them from full registration and smeared them in state media as foreign provocateurs trying to destabilize Egypt.

On Dec. 29, Egyptian authorities raided the offices of 17 NGOs, including the U.S.-based International Republican Institute, Freedom House and National Democratic Institute. The groups receive U.S. government funding and were conducting candidate training and other activities related to the Egyptian parliamentary elections.

Helmy el Rawy, head of an Egyptian human rights NGO that was raided and which has one member under investigation, said the case was purely political, with evidence so deliberately weak that no court would accept it as sufficient. He interprets the generals’ strategy as: Try the Americans, win public support; then

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“We all know these NGOs have been functioning in Egypt for five years, with or without licenses, and the Egyptian officials knew about it. Some even dealt with them,” Rawy said.

Included in those reportedly referred Sunday for trial is Sam LaHood, the son of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and head of Egypt programming for the International Republican Institute.

An International Republican Institute official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said the group only heard about the charges through Egyptian media and hadn’t yet confirmed the development independently. By the time lawyers went to the high court to check late Sunday afternoon, the official said, the offices were closed.

U.S. officials have acknowledged that International Republican Institute employees were among a few suspects granted extraordinary permission to take refuge at the American Embassy in Cairo, ostensibly putting them beyond the risk of arrest.

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istracted pedestrians, whether listening to hip-hop or smooth jazz, need to have a code of conduct. Even if a pedestrian does not mind if he or she gets hit by an automobile, it leaves a psychological effect on the driver. There needs to be an equal level of responsibility for both drivers and pedestrians about what happens on Tucson roadways.

The city has created a task force to make Tucson’s streets safer in response to the city’s high pedestrian fatality rate.

In Tucson, there were 17 fatal pedestrian accidents in 2011, according to the Arizona Daily Star.

While this is a step in the right direction for Tucson, there are also signs that this a serious issue nationally. In a University of Maryland study published in the journal Injury Prevention, researchers found that there were 116 accidents between 2004 and 2011 where a vehicle hit a pedestrian while he or she was wearing headphones. Of the 116 accidents, 81 of the collisions led to deaths and 24 incidents involved serious injury.

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Is technology making the next generation less aware of its surroundings?

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This study and the issue in Tucson are upsetting because of how people view pedestrians.

Cars pose the highest threat to pedestrians, and adding headphones to the mix just puts people in greater jeopardy.

More and more adolescents are growing up viewing technology as an improvement to everything they do, but this research shows another side to a bigger issue. Is technology making the next generation less aware of its surroundings?

At the same time, there is a less publicized role in this situation. How does a driver psychologically recover from injuring another human being?

Even if the driver has no physical scars, he or she most likely has a conscience.

It should be a crime to jam out to some tunes and walk in front of a moving vehicle.

Whether or not the pedestrian has the right of way, what if there is an ambulance quickly approaching the intersection? It is not the paramedic’s fault that the pedestrian cannot hear the sirens.

There needs to be a code of conduct that regulates drivers and pedestrians. Pedestrians can be a significant distraction on the roadway. People need to understand that headphones do not mix well with walking outside. It may look cool around school, but at the end of the day the driver of a vehicle cannot tell whether a pedestrian is aware of his or her surroundings until it is too late.

The city of Tucson requires help from not only the government, but also from its residents. Drivers have enough penalties to fear, but headphones are a distraction that no one but the wearer can control. Pedestrians need to watch out and listen up.

— Megan Hurley is a journalism junior. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

College men need to respect women for society to work A

man is only as strong as the women he surrounds himself with. This is a value that is often overlooked by many men on college campuses.

Even though women are leaving men in the dust when it comes to attending and succeeding in college, the way women are viewed in college by men is atrocious. Considering college is where young adults become men and women, the impact of this sexism could be monstrous to our society.

For thousands of years, women have been viewed around the world as second-class citizens.

It’s only relatively recently that women were given the opportunity to venture outside of the home and pursue higher education. Since then, more and more women have applied to universities to seek degrees.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 74 percent of women

instead how sexual she is.

“It mostly happens at parties, but when a guy that has never met me approaches me, it is often to comment on my appearance,” said Candice Luke Davis Kading, a pre-nursing freshman.

Daily Wildcat For some reason, men think they’ll get more respect and credit with their peers if they who graduated high school in have an attractive, sexual woman 2010 enrolled in college. Unlike by their side. But the truth is the only 62.8 percent of men, a troubling trend. With an increase women aren’t just trophies, they play a vital role in strengthening in women attending college you and building a stronger society. would think that they would Kading gain more of men’s said she respect on campus.

College is where society believes Leading up to is built, and if women the sexism college, young culture men are often aren’t given the respect has pressured by society they deserve than our already to dominate over society will fall off course. set into women, treat women everyday as tools for pleasure life. and think of them as “The nothing more. This pressure reaches a pinnacle while sad thing is, it’s not looked at as being mistreated, but it instead in college, as the culture pushes has somewhat become a norm,” these values to an extreme. In she said. “It doesn’t even really college men are judged on their successes and opportunities, and bother me anymore because it’s become a sort of a norm to be if a woman is more successful, looked at as an object.” it’s seen as a man’s failure.

If men are continually On college campuses, men pressured to devalue women, don’t see women for their then sexism will most likely knowledge or their values, but

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continue after graduation.

A woman’s ability to create positive work will go without noticed.

The hazardous consequence for men if they continue to promote sexist values is just as bad. After graduation, men will continue to fight with one another to be the most dominating.

Despite the fact that women are receiving degrees at a greater rate than men, men still have more social power over women.

By holding women down, men have for years used this power to our own advantage.

We have disrespected their value in improving life and the role they play in our own lives. If men want to enhance society we can start by sharing our power.

Supporting women and helping them improve their lives will help improve our own. College is where society is built, and if women aren’t given the respect they deserve, our society will fall off course.

— Luke Davis is a prejournalism sophomore.

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

of sexual assaults that occur on campus each year is difficult. We know that the majority of sexual assaults go unreported for a variety of reasons including shame, fear and guilt. The fact that In response to the Jan. 23 column “Don’t tie students have a variety of reporting options both on the knot right after college graduation”: In response to the Feb. 2 column “Electronic and off campus, or choose to make an anonymous Danielle, report with the Oasis Program, make the actual bikes deprive students of exercise, cash”: Many thanks for your article of January 23rd numbers of reported sexual assaults committed I’m not a student any longer but I do have an in favor of marriage — but not too soon. I am an against UA students even more difficult to ascertain.

Episcopal priest, but more to the point is that my e-bike and rode it over 3K miles last year. Drove Therefore, the number that any one organization wife have been married going on 47 years and we my car 1.2K miles so quite a difference from the provides does not accurately reflect the total years before the bike. I am 59 years old, have have two sons who both graduated from the UA. number of students reporting sexual assaults.

HCV, arthritis and several partial disabilities. I In fact, our elder son received his master’s from All forms of sexual violence are horrific. Often would not last long on a regular bike but now the UA (in Public Health) in December 2010. when we hear about acts of sexual violence we instead of 5 miles, I can go 20 with the same Yes, marriage is not easy. In fact, I suspect all immediately think of a stranger assault, since amount of energy or I can pedal all the way. It’s marriages pass through rough waters over time, these are the types of assaults that get the most but it is important that marriage is seen a life-long a personal choice I am glad to be able to make. media attention. Although these types of assaults Most people I know that own e-bikes that are commitment, a partnership. a joint operation. I do happen, we know that they are the minority. tell young people, especially girls, that there is an overweight are in better shape and have lost order in life that is wise not to break. The order is: weight because of the treks they make with them. The majority of sexual assaults are perpetrated by a known individual including, friends, a current Were it not for the enjoyment of the ride few Education, marriage, and family. would get out at all. Evidently you have not been partner, a former partner, or an acquaintance.

The major cause of women in poverty The Oasis Program is actively trying to prevent on an e-bike for a length of time if at all. It’s hard in America is when family gets ahead of acts of sexual violence by engaging community not to pedal some when you are biking as it is education whether marriage at all. As members in a dialogue about consent, bystander the natural thing to do. Try riding one for a few you note, the pressures of completing months and then write your article again. Expect intervention, and challenging rape myths. We one’s education is such that it is less than know that often as direct result of educational it will change a bit when you have a bit more desirable to have to balance education opportunities, reporting numbers go up. People knowledge on the subject. with marriage and/or family. By the way, may feel more empowered or become more Dr. Laura Schlessinger once wrote that — Duane Wight aware of the resources afforded to them. We “Commitment is spelled M-A-R-R-I-Ashould not judge the safety of the school by the G-E.” Commitment is challenging within In response to the Jan. 26 article “Jan. assault lack of reports of sexual assault, but rather by the marriage (“forsaking all others as long as we presence of reported crimes, which show that both live”) is hard enough without trying to first in year reported to UAPD”: After reading the two articles pertaining to sexual students are aware of their reporting options and maintain it outside of marriage. I hope your feel safe to do so. assault in the Daily Wildcat published on Jan. 26, article encourages your fellow students to consider the great role marriage plays in life. the University of Arizona Oasis Program Against — Erin Strange, violence prevention specialist Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence would Getting one’s education completed is wise Dr. Kathe Young, Oasis psychologist like to provide some insight and clarification on a before moving on to finding Mr. or Ms. Right. few points. Unfortunately, counting the number Also, in this day and age, think master’s

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Liar, liar, pants on fire

A woman was walking next to the Music building when a man approached her to say he was selling magazines for points. The man identified himself as “Sean,” and said that the more magazines he sold, the more points he received to win a UA-sponsored scholarship. He picked out several magazines that he thought the woman might enjoy. The student expressed interest in the offer, and was asked to sign some paperwork, where she learned that her total price was $630. She said she didn’t realize that the magazines were so expensive, but the man replied, “You must pay this price because you already signed up for a membership.”

The woman then went to two different Wells Fargo ATMs and withdrew the money. The man convinced her to throw in an extra $90 for a few more magazines. The woman then pulled out more money, totaling $720. The man said he would give her a phone number to call, which would allow her to cancel the subscriptions and receive a full refund. As soon as the man walked away, the woman called the number to cancel her subscriptions, but the individual on the other line had never heard of the magazine deal before.

The woman said she would be able to complete a composite sketch of the man, saying he was a 6-foot-3, bulky, black man with acne scarring on his face. He was wearing a large-faced watch on his wrist and a long-sleeved red shirt. Wells Fargo reviewed video camera footage after the incident to possibly identify the man.

Caught red-handed

A student was traveling east on East Helen Street on his motorcycle at approximately 30 mph on Wednesday at 10:55 a.m. when he collided with a bicyclist making a left-hand turn from a parking lot. The student swerved and braked, causing him to be ejected from his motorcycle. University of Arizona Police Department officers said the motorcycle slid about 47 feet, scratching much of the motorcycle and the student himself.

The bicyclist walked away with a small bruise on his thumb. The student fled the scene and parked his motorcycle several blocks down the street in a parking lot.

When the student returned home, UAPD officers were waiting for him after the bicyclist was able to match the motorcycle and the rider’s description. The student was cited for failing to remain at the scene of an injury accident, failing to control speed and not having a motorcycle license.

Grab and go

A student went to UAPD on Wednesday and told officers that he had been pickpocketed. The student said he was walking to class at 11:05 a.m. and could feel his wallet in his pocket. While he was in class, he realized he could no longer feel his wallet.

He searched the surrounding areas where the wallet may have fallen out, but could only remember someone running into him right before class. He said he did not remember the person running into him because he did not think it was a big deal. The wallet contained his driver’s license, a CatCard, a $50 bill and numerous gift cards. There are no suspects at this time.

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

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Campus Events

Weekly Writing Workshop ‘Introductions and Conclusions’ February 6, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Victoria Stefani of the Writing Skills Improvement Program will discuss “Introductions and Conclusions.” This lecture is part of a semester-long series of free workshops held every Monday. Social SciencesRoom: 411 Professional Development Seminar - “Resume and Letter Writing” This seminar provides information about how to write your professional resume and job search letters – focusing on content and format. No prior signup required. Student Union Memorial Center, Room: Career Services, Suite 411. Monday, February 6, 2012 11 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.

Faculty Senate Meeting Monthly meeting of the Faculty Senate. Current agendas usually posted the week preceding the meeting. James E. College of Law, Room: 164. Monday, February 6, 2012, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Student Recital Featuring Peter Mueller on Trombone February 6, 7:30 p.m. Trombonist Peter Mueller presents a doctoral solo recital. School of Music Crowder Hall

Wildcat Calendar Campus Events

Steward Observatory Public Evening Lecture Elizabeth Green, from the Steward Observatory, will give a talk titled “Kepler, Astroseismology, Seredipitous Planets.”

Steward Observatory. Room: N210.

Monday, February 6, 2012. 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Exhibit “Company Town: Arizona’s Copper Mining Communities During 100 Years of Statehood” This exhibit at the UA Science-Engineering Library, shares 100 years of stories, struggles and triumphs from Arizona’s copper mining communities. It features an in-depth selection of photographs, pamphlets, original manuscripts, federal and state reports and personal papers drawn from UA Special Collections. The materials on display detail the history of eight Arizona mining communities – Ajo, Bisbee, CliftonMorenci, Globe-Miami, Jerome, RaySonora, San Manuel and Superior – and show that these communities were more than just a mine, and the people more than just mining workers. January 6, 2012 - March 9, 2012. Visit http://www.library. arizona.edu/applications/hours/ to view the hours of operation.

Student Recital Featuring Kyung Lee on Piano Pianist Kyung Lee presents a doctoral solo recital. Monday, February 6, 2012. 7 p.m. School of Music. Room: Holsclaw Hall

February 6

Campus Events

“Mapping Arizona: From Mexican Territory to U.S. State” (exhibit) This is new exhibit on display in the UA Main Library from Jan. 6 – March 28, 2012, details the path Arizona took to become a state – first as part of the Territory of New Mexico, then as the Territory of Arizona, finally attaining statehood in 1912. In addition to an array of historical maps, “Mapping Arizona” also includes books and unique documents selected from Special Collections extensive holdings. These additional materials offer insight into the stories that accompany the lines, boundaries, and borders within the maps. UA Main Library, 1510 E. University Blvd.

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

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

ATC Presents Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The 39 Steps’ Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have … Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. A mind-blowing cast of four actors play over 150 characters in this fast-paced tale of an ordinary man on an extraordinarily entertaining adventure.

Broadway’s most intriguing, most riotous, most unmissable Tony-winning comedy smash proves that anything the movies can do, the theatre can do more hilariously! January 14, 2012 - February 04, 2012. Times vary. Arizona Theatre Company presents at Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Church Ave. Phone: 520-622-2823

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Pre-physiology freshman Lauren Hasstedt orders a salad for lunch, prepared by English freshman Deb Garcia, at Core on Friday afternoon. Core received an “Excellent” rating on it’s most recent inspection.

Campus eateries receive excellent Pima County health ratings

By Cecelia Marshall Daily Wildcat

Eating in college means looking for the best deal and price, rather than the quality of food.

With options such as $3 burritos, $1 nachos and free sundaes with purchase — who wouldn’t want to save a buck or two? Many students, however, visit University Boulevard to mix up their culinary options. But looking into the health ratings of our favorite restaurants may reveal that the overlooked union food eateries are cleaner than some of those off campus.

Pinkberry’s arrival on Feb. 14 will add another eatery into a place with “excellent” Pima County Health Department ratings. Though some University Boulevard restaurants are working on getting their recent ratings from “good” or “adequate” to “excellent,” the union’s restaurants and eateries have been maintaining excellence for the past three years.

The health department lays out its ratings in straightforward detail. During random inspections, inspectors evaluate restaurants based on a range of violations and codes including temperature controls, contamination prevention, waste disposal and employee health and hygiene. Grades range from “E” for excellent, “G” for good, “N” for needs improvement, and of course, the dreaded “F” for fail.

According to Timothy Stevens, supervisor of Arizona Student Unions Dining Services, the Student Union Memorial Center’s “excellent” health ratings are the result of a new training program for student union food workers.

Before starting on the job this semester, student workers were required to attend a day-long training session, which included interactive education on the specific sanitation and health codes set by the Pima County Health Department. Unlike the online tutorials of past years, Stevens says that these handson sessions are more effective because they better prepare employees and keep them up-to-date with expectations.

Rachel Pergamit, an environmental resource economy major, has worked at Core for the past two and a half years. Pergamit said the training was long but important — employees learn everything from adequate food handling, to proper storage temperatures and techniques for preventing crosscontamination of food and chemicals.

“It’s not hard to maintain cleanliness,” Pergamit said.

She added that after intense training both in sessions and through experience on the job, upholding health standards becomes second nature.

Scott Buscemi, a management information systems major, said he is not surprised by the excellent ratings at the union because smaller offcampus restaurants may have fewer resources to spend on sanitation concerns.

In the spring of 2010, an inspection at Fuku Sushi revealed that “food contact surfaces and equipment are not cleaned frequently and properly to prevent food contamination.” In addition, not all food contact surfaces were sanitized properly, and “all foods are not from approved sources, safe, unadulterated or honestly presented.”

Adam Nathel, a history major, said he used to frequent a local Sonoran hot dog cart offcampus.

But after a health inspection report about the cart said “potentially hazardous foods not held at proper cooling temperature,” this past June, Nathel said he decided to be more cautious about where he eats.

For this reason, Nathel said restaurants should be required to post their inspection ratings. He explained that in his hometown of New York, restaurants must clearly display the grade of “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” for customers upon entrance.

Stevens added that of course health department inspections do not intend to damage restaurants’ reputations or put them out of business. But it’s the department’s job to hold restaurants accountable, and keep customers safe with open, honest and detailed expectations.

In addition to the standards upheld by the Pima County Health Department, the student union also has its own safety and sanitation department. These regulations ensure that workers properly utilize dishwashing stations, and clean large machinery such as char broilers and fryers multiple times a day.

Even after the union closes each night, late-night crew cleaners perform even more sanitation, from polishing floors to the nitty gritty, Stevens said.

“We run a pretty tight ship,” Stevens said. Every staff member goes through the same level of training, Stevens said, so everyone is responsible for keeping the restaurants sanitary and maintaining excellent ratings.

Online at DAILYWILDCAT.COM Check out ratings for some of your favorite campus restaurants.

Chick-Fil-A 5/2/2011 — Excellent • Panda Express 8/4/2011 — Excellent • Cellar Bistro 8/31/2011 — Excellent

Core 8/31/2011 — Excellent • Cactus Grill 11/1/2011 — Excellent • Canyon Cafe 11/1/2011 — Excellent

CLEAN EATS

REstaurant Review

Me, Josh and Mikey ... at The Hungry Fox in Tucson

By Andrew Conlogue with Josh Weisman and Mikey Agius Daily Wildcat Columnist Andrew Conlogue, arts writer Josh Weisman and cartoonist Mikey Agius are taking on Arizona one restaurant at a time, traveling the state to find the most interesting restaurants and share the adventures had in reviewing them.

A quick Google of “Interesting restaurants in Tucson” turned up The Hungry Fox Restaurant and Country Store, an independent Cracker Barrel of sorts in the middle of urban Tucson. And thus we come to the review, where we’ll judge each restaurant by atmosphere, food quality, service quality and price, with a final, overall rating on a scale of one to five cats (short for categories).

Atmosphere:

The atmosphere was the most disappointing part about The Hungry Fox. Aside from a homey looking sign, its facade looks like any other city building. Walking in revealed unexpected roominess, but also strange décor. Josh put it aptly, describing it as a hospital cafeteria, or a cafeteria that exclusively serves the elderly, except with more nutcracker soldiers on the wall. A booth adjacent to ours was separated by a small curtain, which was knocked over by the patrons beside us and created a socially hazardous moment of uncomfortable

teamwork to get it up again. But the worst aspect was, perhaps, the lighting. Mikey was overcome by a sudden bout of sleepiness as soon as we were seated, and understandably so. It was the kind of lighting that makes you want to leave and definitely doesn’t make you want to eat. The menu itself was more interesting. You can order a slice of cheese on the side of anything for 79 cents, and the back of the menu has a helpful guide for the different ways to cook an egg.

Taste:

Mikey had the first taste of The Hungry Fox’s fare by ordering a coffee (which surprised our waitress, who claimed we didn’t look like coffee drinkers). A bit of a coffee snob, he called it diner coffee, which wasn’t necessarily an insult. Mikey approaches such restaurants and their coffee with reasonably low expectations, and therefore is rarely disappointed. When the food arrived, the three of us together were able to capture the full range of The Hungry Fox’s breakfast options. Mikey opted for biscuits and gravy with an egg sunny side up, and an additional side of corn beef hash, I selected the French toast with a scrambled egg and bacon, and Josh chose a vegetable omelet and toast. Altogether it was a fine breakfast.

The bread at The Hungry Fox is baked onsite, which is sold by the loaf in the country store. Josh shared a piece of toast with me, in which I detected a liberal amount of

butter baked in (a huge plus for me, though admittedly not for all). The French toast was equally appealing, as were my eggs. I waited until my plate was clean to savor my one slice of bacon, served thick and crispy, just the way I adore it. Mikey was kind enough to share his corned beef hash with Josh, who had never tried it before. Needless to say, we made a convert of Josh, and Mikey, who favors the dish, said the hash was prepared to his liking. Josh was perhaps the most disappointed, as his attempt at eating healthy with a veggie omelet didn’t necessarily succeed. It was more an omelet with vegetables piled on top, and not very filling, to boot. The Hungry Fox is not the place for healthy eaters, but if comfort food is desired, then it’s an above decent option.

Service:

We had no real complaints about the staff at The Hungry Fox. As Josh, a film student, put it, the people seemed like the type that would let you film a movie there and cater to you while you did it. Our waitress, an older lady with a kind smile, was conversational, engaging and delivered our food in good time. Our cashier was also politely talkative, and to her credit followed us gamely on our strange conversational tangents.

They had Tootsie pops at the counter for a quarter, and I found one with an Indian shooting a star on the wrapper. Our cashier had shared my childhood obsession with tracking them down (legend has it some

shops will give you a free lollipop if you redeem such a wrapper), which of course bonded us as much as restaurant patrons and cashiers may be bonded. The only suspicious interaction with the serving staff happened when Mikey asked if there was a “bonus” ingredient cooked in the bread, which our server interpreted as “bones.” She made the leap rather quickly, which made us suspect dark doings at The Hungry Fox. The nutcrackers didn’t help much with our suspicions, either.

Price: If the food sounds good, but you don’t have a lot of money, worry not. The Hungry Fox is the place to go on a budget. My entire meal, including the Tootsie pop, didn’t exceed $7. The three of us ate well on a bill that could easily have included just two at another restaurant, and half of that was Mikey’s sumptuous feast.

Overall:

The Hungry Fox is worth a trip, emphasis on one. If unhealthy, good food is your game, and you don’t mind feeling like you’ve been put in a senior home with some kind of dark secret, then you’ll love it. And if you’re in the market for high quality country kitsch, you can do no better. Josh found “the caviar” of letter openers in the country store for only $2.

Me, Josh, and Mikey enjoyed our time there, and may return if we get a hankering for good bread and biscuits.

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NBA Miami 95, Toronto 89

NCAAB Miami 78, No. 5 Duke 74 F/OT

No. 10 Michigan State 64, No. 22 Michigan 54

breaking out Chol’s emergence is the missing piece to Arizona’s puzzle

‘Cats jump back into NCAA talks

By Mike Schmitz Daily Wildcat

PALO ALTO, Calif. — The Arizona men’s basketball team’s perimeter defense is among the best in the country. Opportunities to get into the lane against the Wildcats come at a premium, and knocking down 3-pointers is even more trying. Opponents shoot a lowly 26.7 percent from three against the Wildcats, good for fourth-best in the NCAA. At 6-foot-3 with a 6-foot-9.5 wingspan, senior guard Kyle Fogg is one of the conference’s top defensive guards. Freshman Nick Johnson isn’t far behind him, and point guard Josiah Turner is no slouch either as he ranks 10th in the Pac-12 in steals.

Add in Arizona head coach Sean Miller’s intensity and emphasis on defense and it’s no surprise the Wildcats’ perimeter defense is up there with the best of them.

“We’re a very good defensive team and we’ve really proven that over the course of our long season,” Miller said.

But even with Arizona’s tough perimeter defense, there’s been a missing piece to the puzzle. Both Jesse Perry and Solomon Hill are playing out of position, and Arizona needed a true center to alter shots, patrol the paint and clean the glass.

Enter freshman Angelo Chol.

The 6-foot-9, 217-pound freshman from San Diego emerged against Cal and Stanford this past weekend. He stepped in for Kevin Parrom, who’s out for the season, to average five points, 2.5 rebounds and three blocks in 18 minutes.

While those numbers don’t jump off the page, Chol’s impact goes well beyond the box score.

“The way he’s been right now, it’s a huge difference on the defensive end,” Fogg said of Chol. “Guys see him block one shot, throw it into the second row, you think twice before you drive it in there and lay it up.

That’s a huge impact that a lot of people may not realize that he has on the floor.”

Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins saw Chol’s performance against Cal, and told his team to prepare for his low-post defensive presence.

“He has really good timing, he’s active and he makes good plays,”

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ALO ALTO, Calif. — The race for the Pac-12 Conference championship is such a fickle

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Freshman forward Angelo Chol looks to pass against Stanford on Saturday. Chol’s emergence as a defensive presence in the paint helped Arizona become the first team to win at Cal this season and the first Pac-12 team to beat Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif.

W-Hoops no match for conference’s best

By Zack Rosenblatt The Stanford women’s basketball team is the No. 4 team in the country, and undefeated in the Pac-12. Arizona was considered an underdog going into the game against the Cardinal on Saturday. The Wildcats lived up to the label, and then some, in a 91-51 loss.

The 40-point loss was Arizona’s worst loss of the season, both in terms of the losing margin and points given up to an opponent. Yet, the Wildcats still found some positives in the outcome, especially in Aley Rohde’s playing.

“I didn’t like the outcome of the game naturally,” head coach Niya Butts said. “However, I thought Aley (Rohde) came to play in both games against Cal and Stanford, did some good things and grew up a lot.”

Rohde, the 6-foot-5 freshman center, has struggled much of the year adjusting to the pace of college basketball. But this weekend she took a huge step forward in her progression.

Against Stanford, she scored nine points and grabbed 11 rebounds in 35 minutes. In the overtime loss to Cal on Thursday, she scored 14 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and blocked two shots in a season-high 43 minutes.

On Saturday, she was tasked with defending two of the top players in the nation in Stanford’s sisterly duo of Chiney and Nnemkadi Ogwumike.

Their athleticism was a little too much to handle, however, and they combined to record 33 points on 14of-22 shooting, 16 rebounds, six assists and six blocks.

“They’re amazing athletes,” Rohde said. “I’ve always been so impressed with them, but you have to give credit where credit is due. They’re so aggressive and athletic and fast and strong, it was just one of those things you have to come in mentally for and

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Arizona freshman center Aley Rohde looks to shoot against Stanford on Saturday.

Rohde grabbed 11 boards against both Cal and Stanford in losses this weekend.

fight down low.”

Another major contributing factor in the loss was the play of junior guard Davellyn Whyte. The Wildcats’ leading scorer has been struggling as of late and her struggles reached a new low point on Saturday.

In a season-low 14 minutes of action, Whyte went 0-for-5 from the field, scored zero points, and had four turnovers and two personal fouls.

“She’s human, she’s going to make mistakes like anyone else and she made a few today,” Butts said. “The game was kind of getting away and we want to make sure we’re doing the

best thing for our players as well. We’re taking care of their bodies and not doing anything silly.”

Despite all the recent struggles of Whyte, and the team overall, there is still optimism moving forward. In the eyes of senior guard Shanita Arnold, playing the Cardinal and losing was a low-point and the only way to go from here is up.

“We got the big dog out of the way, Stanford, and now any given night we can win,” Arnold said. “We have to continue to play hard because we have the talent and, at the end of the day, it’s all about who has the heart.”

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Seen & heard

By Mike Schmitz

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thing.

It looked like the Arizona men’s basketball team’s title hopes were dashed nine days ago after a heartbreaking home loss to Washington — a loss that moved the Wildcats to 5-4 in conference play and seemingly knocked them out of the Pac-12 race. They lost Kevin Parrom for the season after he broke his right foot.

Everyone had chalked up the season to one that, barring a Pac-12 Tournament win, would end with Arizona playing in the National Invitation Tournament.

Everyone but the 16 players that make up the Wildcats’ roster, that is.

Angelo Chol had a breakout weekend. Kyle Fogg played like the senior leader he was expected to be before the season began.

The Wildcats overcame the loss of their backup point guard and won a game with seven players seeing action compared to head coach Sean Miller’s preferred nine or 10deep rotation.

“In our locker room, we feel like we’re the favorites,” freshman guard Nick Johnson said.

Arizona used that confidence and turned it into what could easily be described as the most unlikely sweep that any team in the conference will earn this season — one that lifted the Wildcats back into the Pac-12 race and, more importantly, the NCAA Tournament discussion.

Arizona knew the magnitude of Saturday’s game and willed itself

PALO ALTO, Calif. — About 50 miles separate Cal’s Haas Pavilion and Stanford’s Maples Pavilion.

But despite the proximity, the two arenas and fan bases couldn’t have been more different.

Haas Pavilion was filled with energy as a trio of hype men led the student section into a frenzy. Even a handful of portly gentlemen went shirtless, spelling “Go Bears” in the front row.

The building was lined with history, featuring the jerseys of former Phoenix Suns greats Jason Kidd and Kevin Johnson in the rafters.

Everyone from Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott to former ASU head coach Bill Frieder made it out to Berkeley.

When Cal disappointed its fans with a loss, however, the agony was felt throughout the entire arena.

The Cal’s student-section version of Flava Flav laid on his back at center court after the Golden Bears fell in a heartbreaker.

Then came the school located one hour south. The buzz around Stanford basketball was nonexistent. With 30 minutes until tipoff, Maples Pavilion wasn’t even close to halfway full.

When the game rolled around, the “U of A” chants nearly drowned out the “Let’s Go Card” chants that came from the Stanford student section.

While the high school-like pavilion eventually picked up steam, the lack of hype surrounding a team in the hunt for the Pac-12 regular season title was surprising.

One concession worker asked who Stanford was playing with just over a half hour until game time.

Three Stanford students said the university used to pay certain groups to go to games in order to up the attendance.

Red uniforms

Arizona’s red uniforms haven’t been kind to the Wildcats in years past. They were winless in the uniforms this season — until this weekend.

Despite the seemingly bad luck that came with the all-red gear, Arizona stuck with the uniforms and went on to have its best series of the season.

“I love it. I’ve always loved the red when they wore them last year but when they lost I guess they didn’t want to bring them back,” said UA freshman Nick Johnson. “Coach always likes to go with what we’ve been winning with.”

Parrom finds his role on the couch

With Kevin Parrom undergoing surgery on his right foot on Friday, the junior forward couldn’t help the Wildcats on the court. But Parrom found a new role for the Wildcats — on his couch as a so-called professional tweeter.

Parrom and 2012 recruit Brandon Ashley live-tweeted both the Cal and Stanford games, with Parrom continuing his reign as the Wildcats’ best and worst tweeter, as named by his teammates.

Perhaps Parrom’s finest moment came when Arizona missed 10-of-25 free throws against Stanford: “The Arizona Shaq-shooters.”

“We definitely have to work on that,” Johnson said with a laugh in response to Parrom’s tweet. “He blew up all of our timelines.”

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Persona magazine Channeling the 1950s from winter to spring deadline looms

By Jazmine Woodberry Daily Wildcat

Persona, an annual magazine of art and literature, is taking submissions through Feb. 10, and hoping to include a CD or DVD of film, dance, audio and other art forms not captured in two dimensions if the magazine can garner the submissions.

Run by UA undergraduates since 1978, the magazine focuses on getting student work read by peers and published, according to Erica Carlson, co-editor in chief of the magazine. “It’s hard to get into a literary magazine, but if you get into Persona, you get into the ranks of good writers and great artists. You get your work out there.”

The editors of the magazine will read all submissions and either approve, deny or flag for possible acceptance into the magazine with some tweaks. The amount of submissions accepted depends on how many works the editorial board receives.

Open to all majors, students are allowed to send literary pieces of poetry or prose less than 10 pages, artwork, dance, film or song submissions and anything that can’t fit in the magazine can go on a possible CD, DVD or on the website.

Go to personamagazine.wordpress.com for more information on how to submit, where to get old copies of the magazine and follow the process from submissions to the final hard copy, available April 19.

By Ashley Pearlstein Daily Wildcat

With springtime weather almost here, clothing lines are beginning to come out with styles for warmer weather. In the blistering heat of Arizona’s summers, it is easy to go with the old tank top, daisy duke shorts and a pair of $5 flip-flops. This, however, is far from fashion forward. Grab a copy of “Dirty Dancing” (set in the early 1960s but still inspiring), or Elvis Presley’s “Greatest Hits” and get inspired. Make note of the classy ensembles, perfectly primped hair and natural makeup. All of these things that make the 1950s loveable can help add chic elegance to modern looks. Here are some ‘50s inspired looks that will keep you looking classy, even in the summer months.

High-waisted shorts

High-waisted shorts, skirts and pants are making a comeback. Combined with a tuckedin chiffon top and a pair of simple black flats, high-waisted shorts make the perfect summer ensemble. High-waisted swimsuits are also making a comeback. They suck you in while also providing a classic, vintage feel to a day at the beach.

Full, knee-length dresses and skirts

During the ‘50s, the classic hourglass shape was very popular. In order to show off this womanly silhouette, small shoulder, small waistline and fuller skirts became popular. These flowy, full skirts seem like they would be hot during the summer, but when made out of a lighter material, they are actually very cool. They add a touch of class and professionalism to an everyday summer look.

Polka dots

A simple polka dotted skirt paired with a fitted white blouse is the ultimate 1950s look. Navy or red with white polka dots were probably the most popular colors. Of course, colors can be changed up for modernity, but the simple polka dot will never die.

Tight pants

Take a lesson from a classic 1950s-inspired movie, “Grease.” Tight, high-waisted pants are sexy. Colored skinny jeans are definitely in. Choose a pair in a pastel color with a fitted top and colored accessories and you have yourself a look that spices up the summertime blues.

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‘Grey’ cast packs more than action flick punch

By Josh Weisman

What elevates “The Grey” beyond its premise is the work Carnahan and cowriter Ian Jeffers have clearly put into their “The Grey” is far from the red-blooded characters. Each member of the crew — from American fistfight its marketing team would Neeson’s alpha male to Nonso Anozie’s quietly have you expect. But don’t let that deter you. determined invalid to Frank Grillo’s pushy The film, about a team of oil drillers stranded but well-intentioned braggart — has his own in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash, unique voice, his own redeeming character arc, is immensely entertaining, and at times even and thus his own reason to be sincerely cared heartbreaking. More a gritty character piece about (and in the event that he should die, than an action romp, director Joe Carnahan’s missed). This is less Neeson’s film than it is the latest effort proves to be yet another whole ensemble’s, and the players are all up to surprisingly first-rate entry into his strangely task, each turning in a performance that does impressive oeuvre. its part to keep the story alive.

The story is simple and Carnahan knows “The Grey” only falters in its tendency it, so he wastes no time getting to the point: toward preachiness, sometimes aiming John Ottway (Liam Neeson) is an oil rig for commentaries that aren’t so much worker — scratch that, a bearded oil rig unwelcome as they are unimportant. worker — whose job it is to kill any creature The Rockstar Energy Drink crowd will that intrudes on company ground. A minute likely groan at the ending, which opts for or two of exposition, then he hops on a sentiment over savagery, though there’s plane, the plane goes down, and he wakes plenty of creative violence to keep them up in the icy tundra with a motley crew of quiet throughout the rest of the film. six other survivors (scratch that, bearded If anything else, “The Grey” is worth survivors), each of whom is processing the the price of admission for the plane crash crisis in his own way. sequence alone, which is one of the more It’s clear almost immediately that the intense scenes on the silver screen in years. crew has landed in wolf territory and will be As long as you don’t go in expecting a forced to fend off the hungry pack as they Schwarzenegger flick, you’ll likely leave the make their trek toward civilization. The theater impressed by how “The Grey” ended wolves attack from time to time, and the up being as good as it did. men’s numbers dwindle. That’s pretty much it. And it’s very, very good.

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Of these, the herpes simplex virus (aka oral herpes, HSV-1, or cold sores) is probably the one most people are worried about. The truth is, there’s a very good chance that you have already been exposed to it, since most people first come into contact with HSV-1 as children by way of social kissing.

Studies have shown that by adulthood, 90% or more will carry – and shed – the virus without any visual symptoms, such as fever blisters or cold sores. In other words, HSV-1 is unavoidable, and probably not worth worrying much about – if all you are doing is kissing.

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After the weekend, redemption and disappointment are both words that apply to the Arizona tennis program. As the No. 33 women’s team beat San Diego in a nail-biting match, the men’s team fell to Cal Poly for the first time in Wildcat history.

“It was a big relief to win,” women’s head coach Vicky Maes said. “We came off an emotional weekend, so we were a little nervous how the girls would come out.”

After losing the doubles play point, Arizona was under pressure to win in singles play. Senior Sarah Landsman maintained her undefeated streak in a two-set match against San Diego’s Laura Claus with a score of 6-4, 7-5.

Sophomores Lacey Smyth and Susan McRann also won their singles matches to capture three wins for Arizona.

It was up to senior Natasha Marks to win her singles match against Anna Depenau to claim the match for the Wildcats. Marks lost the first set, 4-6, but fought back in the second to win 7-5. By the third, Marks held Depenau to one game to lead the Wildcats to victory, with a score of 6-1.

“It was nice to see Natasha pull the win,” Maes said. “We were in a must-win situation, but after today we can go in a little more relaxed to next weekend’s match.”

The Wildcats beat San Diego 4-3 to improve their record for the season to 2-2.

Meanwhile, the men’s team struggled on the courts against a team it was known for dominating in the past, and lost 6-1.

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“Cal Poly was just the better team today,” head coach Tad Berkowitz said. “I still think that we could beat them, and we played well, they just simply beat us.”

After losing two of the three doubles matches, Arizona forfeited the third to advance play after a late start. The only Wildcat to win a singles match and walk away with a point for the team was sophomore Andre Vidaller.

Vidaller defeated the Mustang’s Brian McPhee in a tie-breaking two-set match filled with emotion

6-4, 7-6(4).

Cal Poly’s Jordan Bridge broke freshman Sumeet Shinde’s undefeated streak in singles play after a three-set match with a score of 6-4, 2-6, 3-6.

“This was a good learning experience for us,” Berkowitz said.

“Learning from this will make us a stronger team and gives us the opportunity to improve each weekend.”

This marks the first loss for the men’s team, making its record 3-1 for the season.

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Dawkins said he told his team. “He’s a shot-blocker.”

Stanford was unable to avoid Chol, however as he swatted four shots in 20 minutes, and his contributions were especially important due to the foul trouble of Solomon Hill and Jesse Perry.

“You can really sense the difference when he’s in on defense right now,” Miller said of Chol. “He’s able to really block shots right now and affect shots.”

Not only does Chol help defend the paint, he keeps opponents off of the glass by forcing bad shots and creating better rebounding opportunities for Arizona.

It’s no coincidence Arizona outrebounded Stanford, the conference’s third best rebounding team in terms of rebound differential, 43-40 when Chol had one of his better games.

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to a win despite a woefully short bench and several players in foul trouble. Stanford head coach Johnny Dawkins called Arizona the best defensive team that the Cardinal has played all year after the UA held it to 25 percent shooting.

Arizona’s swagger is starting to creep back to where it was at the end of last season. Brendon Lavender held a finger up to his mouth to silence the crowd after he hit a 3-pointer that all but ended Sunday’s game.

Chol threw down a pair of monster dunks on Cal defenders — something the quiet freshman wouldn’t have even tried two months ago — and the freshman’s impact also included four blocked shots along with altering countless others against Stanford.

Miller got in Cal guard Jorge Gutierrez’s face after he spilled into the Arizona bench and tried to do his best Hulk Hogan impression on assistant Joe Pasternack. The Wildcats had a strong contingent of fans at both games — including about half of Stanford’s Maples Pavilion that broke into “U of A!” chants that drowned out the home

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emerging, giving us 15, 20 minutes, is going to help us out a lot as far as rebounding, blocking shots.”

Chol also makes Arizona a much more traditional team. When he’s on the floor, Perry, Hill and even Fogg, who’s been playing small forward, can slide to their natural positions, making UA much bigger and more natural.

“I love it,” Hill said of playing with Chol. “He puts me at the three and Jesse at the four. We can get more rebounds. It’s a really different lineup in there with me and Jesse because we have three guards and it’s really hard to rebound.”

As recent as the whiteout game against Washington, Chol was barely in the rotation.

But with Parrom out and Jordin Mayes on the mend, his window of opportunity has burst wide open.

“These games are huge for him,” Johnson said of Chol. “He had a few key blocks tonight, a layup, so it definitely was big. I’m looking forward to see what comes from that.”

crowd every time something went in Arizona’s favor.

For the first time all season, Arizona looked like a team that expected to win. It hit big shots. It made game-changing defensive plays. As strange as this might sound after the way the first half of Pac-12 play went, the Wildcats made nearly all of the small plays that can turn a heartbreaking loss into a 10-point win.

And, thankfully for Arizona, the top of the Pac-12 is falling apart team by team. Washington is the only team that’s separated itself from anyone in the conference, and the Huskies have lost to St. Louis and South Dakota State this season.

With an unexpected road sweep, Arizona has catapulted itself into the discussion for the conference’s contenders. In a typical year, a down Pac-12 would have hurt Arizona’s tournament seeding.

But this year, it’s giving an improving Arizona team a chance to rise to the top of the standings while the rest of the conference crumbles into ruins.

— Alex Williams is the sports editor. He can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatHoops.

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Arizona’s No. 5 men’s and No. 10 women’s track teams competed instate this weekend at Northern Arizona University’s J.L. Walkup Skydome for the NAU Open and the two teams combined to record five wins.

“In the sprints and hurdles, we did not do as well as we would have liked in Arkansas,” head coach Fred Harvey said. “So we wanted to see if we could step up and get it done, and I was very pleased with how we ran.”

Coming off the Arkansas meet last weekend, a handful of Wildcats were looking for a bounce back this weekend. Junior sprinter Chris McSwain felt he underperformed in Arkansas and was looking for motivation on the track on Saturday.

“It’s very motivating. To have a bad week makes me just want to come back stronger and better,” McSwain said.

He won his preliminary heat, clocking in at 6.76. Freshman Kate Penney won the mile race, making it her first collegiate win, while fellow freshman Molly Callahan made her debut coming in third. She also won her first race in the 3,000 meter event.

The other wins included senior Dahlys Marshall in the 60-meter

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The Arizona men’s track team competed at NAU’s J.L. Walkup Skydome for the NAU Open. Combined, the men and women’s team won five races.

hurdles and a big win for the 4x400 relay team consisting of junior Shale’ Garland, sophomore Shapri Romero, senior Ariel Coleman, and senior Echos Blevins.

UA volunteer assistant coach Jill Camarena-Williams won the shot put event with a throw of 19.62m, setting the best mark in the world so far this year.

Coming up next week, the Wildcats are set to compete at Boise State Team Challenge in Boise, Idaho while the distance squad heads to the Husky Classic in Seattle. Senior Stephen Sambu and sophomore Lawi Lalang will travel to New York on an invitation to compete in the 5,000-meter race at the Millrose Games.

It’s the same old song for the No. 21 Arizona hockey taem — a close game, a talented opponent and two more losses.

Arizona’s losing streak now spans seven games after No. 8 Minot State beat the Wildcats 6-5 Friday and 3-1 Saturday, and it’s starting to wear on the players.

“It’s very defeating, it’s frustrating,” defender Nick Stolz said. “You can dominate a whole game like (Saturday) and not be able to come out with a win. I think we kind of mentally put ourselves in this situation where we can’t quite get out of this losing streak.”

The losses to Minot State finalized the Wildcats’ winless trip to North Dakota after they lost 5-4 to Williston State Thursday. The floundering Wildcats have now dropped seven in a row, and eight of their last nine.

However, seven of the eight losses have been by a combined eight goals, with the bad defeat coming at the hands of No. 4 ASU, 10-3.

“We could have won almost every one of those games, they’re just that close,” forward Eric Watters said. “It makes it that much worse. It’s within your grasp, but you just can’t grab it.”

The game on Friday finished close,

but it didn’t look so competitive at the end of the second period. After forward Scott Wilson scored the opening goal for Arizona, Minot State quickly turned the Wildcats’ slight advantage into an ugly deficit. The Beavers scored six straight goals, with three coming in both the first and second period, to take commanding 6-1 lead over the Wildcats.

Arizona didn’t go away quietly though, thanks to a hat trick by forward Andrew Murmes, who almost didn’t play after suffering a leg injury Thursday. In the end, the Wildcats lost the first game of the series 6-5.

On Saturday, Arizona had another early lead after a goal by Murmes in the first period. The advantage disappeared on a flurry of goals by the Beavers in the final minute of the second period, though, putting the Wildcats down 2-1.

Minot State scored a late empty net goal to finish the game 3-1, capping off a disappointing weekend.

Arizona is in the midst of its longest losing streak this season, but players said they are still optimistic about their overall performance.

“There’s a difference between playing bad and having one error that they’re able to capitalize on and score on,” Stolz said. “It’s not just one person, or forwards or defense or goalies. It’s an accumulation of everyone.”