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Power outage zaps UA into the dark Students Dorms, buildings out for five hours By Michelle A. Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

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Nicholas Ong, a Villa Del Puente Residence Hall desk assistant and microbiology junior, endures the power outage on Wednesday. The outage prevented the vertical drop gate in front of the desk from retracting and left only one emergency light to work under.

Approximately 13 buildings, including five dorms, had their power knocked out around 10:15 on Wednesday morning. “The cause of it might be weather related,” said Al Tarcola, assistant vice president of UA Facilities Management. “Excessive water might have gotten into one of our larger pieces of equipment and got on the fuses, therefore knocking the power out.” The problem affected buildings central to campus — the Highland Avenue residence halls and buildings surrounding, including Administration. The University

Services building, at Second Street and Euclid Avenue, also experienced power failure, according to Tarcola. “Most buildings are on emergency generating power,”Tarcola said. Power came back at different times, but the entire system was restored at about 3 to 3:15 p.m., according to Tarcola. Some of the equipment around campus was affected, but after the water was cleaned up there was no lasting damage. Nothing will need to be replaced and the UA will not pay any damage costs. “It was all cleaning up and labor which is always on site anyway so there is no additional costs,”Tarcola said.

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Newly elected Sens. Lindsay Hartgraves, left, a freshman majoring in English and history and Mary Myles, a freshman majoring in pre-business and Spanish, exchange congratulations after the announcement of the election results for ASUA senate in the Kiva room in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday.

Close race in 2010-11 student government elections By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Associated Students of the University of Arizona election results revealed the final executive and senatorial seats for the 2010-11 school year Wednesday night. Every seat in the house was full with some of the more than 100 spectators even sitting on the floor as the result of the 3,480 ballots cast in the general election. “You should all be very proud of yourselves,” said Justine Piscitello, elections commissioner for ASUA. “You all ran a very good race.”

The night turned out some historical wins for candidates. Current Executive Vice President Emily Fritze became only the eighth female student body president elected in UA history with 2,714 votes. “Overall, I’m just really excited to serve the students of the University of Arizona,” Fritze said. “So I think it’s going to be a crazy, exciting and very successful year in ASUA.” Pre-business sophomore Brett Ponton became the first male administrative vice president since 2002 with 51.1 percent of the vote, beating out a tearful Sen. Hillary Davidson by only 68 votes.

“In all honesty, I came in here prepared to lose,”Ponton said.“I had no idea I would be in this position for my junior year.” Ponton expressed his sadness over Davidson’s loss but also preparedness for the position. “I feel really bad for Hillary,” he said. “We were both so passionate about this position … but with being administrative chief of staff, I feel more than ready.” Battles for the senate placed a virtual shuffle of the top 10 primary winners. Only political science senior Gabriella Castillon, who received a 10th place ranking in the primaries, did not receive a final senate seat, replaced by marketing

sophomore Dominick San Angelo. Pre-business freshman Mary Myles gained the most votes, with 9.3 percent, topping 1,529 votes. “We worked until the very last minute of elections and I was really nervous at first, but we all worked really hard so it feels good,” Myles said after hearing of her victory. The last name to be called in the race for senate, interdisciplinary studies junior Deanna Mariner, remained breathless as she received the 10th and final spot on the senate with 5.9 percent, ELECTION, page 5

stand up for UA On-campus rally to support 1¢ tax raise for education By Taylor Avey ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Students who oppose the possible tuition increases will rally today in support of a proposition that could help supplement state funds for education. The rally will take place in the James E. Rogers Plaza, 1209 E. University Blvd., between noon and 1 p.m. If passed, Proposition 100 would temporarily increase the state sales tax by one cent and could produce $1 billion for the state, according to Elma Delic, Arizona Students Association chair. Two-thirds of the profits from the increased sales tax would be allotted for K-12 and higher education, according to the Arizona Education Network. The remaining one-third would pay for health, human services and public safety. The increased sales tax would end automatically on May 31, 2013. Delic and other student representatives will take part in the rally to provide information and garner support for the proposition. The rally is sponsored by Solutions Through Higher Education, a coalition of business and community leaders working to raise awareness about the importance of higher education, according to ASA campus organizer David Martinez. “We recognize it’s the state legislature’s lack of support for higher education that has put us in this situation,” Martinez said.“The message we’re trying to convey is we want students to be engaged.” Martinez said he believes Proposition 100 could boost and diversify the state’s economy. According to the Arizona Education Network, Arizona currently spends the least on education compared to the other 49 states, resulting in fewer teachers and classes and increased tuition and fees. Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Chris Nagata will also participate in tomorrow’s rally. He said it is important to inform students and the public about the benefits of the proposition. If passed, the proposition could secure additional investments for education in the state and prevent deeper cuts to higher education, Nagata said. Two-thirds of the state legislature will need to vote in support of Proposition 100 for it to pass. It will go to a vote on May 18.

IF YOU GO Student rally James E. Rogers Plaza 1209 E. Univesity Blvd. Between noon and 1 p.m.

ABOR to make final tuition decision today By Matt Lewis ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Arizona Board of Regents will vote on tuition, fees and rates for residence halls for the 2010-11 academic year in meetings today and Friday in the North Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center. If the tuition increase passes, instate undergraduate and graduate tuition would increase by $1,450 to $7,224 and $8,014, respectively. Nonresident tuition could increase by $2,000, to $22,983 for undergraduates and $23,276 for graduate students. The UA is also asking the regents to consider increasing tuition for

students in the College of Medicine for the 2010-11 academic year. The university is proposing tuition be set at $24,772 for Arizona resident medical students and $41,680 for non-resident medical students. The proposal also includes an increase in base tuition for UA South’s in-state students by $500 for undergraduates, making their tuition $5,453. Resident graduate students and all non-resident students at UA South would pay the same base tuition as students at the main campus. The UA is proposing a $404, or 7.4 percent increase for undergraduate housing and a $28, or 3.9 percent

monthly increase for graduate housing. The proposed increase would help pay for the Sixth Street Housing Project and other operations. In the afternoon, the UA will request approval for the Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring building. The cost of the proposed building is $12 million. The building will be funded by a gift of $9 million from Agnese Haury and $3 million from local funds. ABOR will also vote on the appointment of B. Glenn George as UA vice president for legal affairs and general counsel, which would take effect May 17.

The specific increases for residence halls are as follows:

• Arizona-Sonora, Coronado, Via del Puente, Pueblo de la Cienega, Colonia de la Paz, Pima and Posada San Pedro will increase from $5,999 to $6,490, an increase of $491 or 8.13 percent. • Apache-Santa Cruz, Cochise, Gila, Graham-Greenlee, Kaibab-Huachuca, • Manzanita-Mohave, Maricopa and Yuma will increase from $5,399 to $5,780, an increase of $381 or 7 percent. • Babcock, Coconino, Navajo-Pinal, Hopi and Yavapai will increase from $4,799 to $5,140, an increase of $341 or 7.05 percent. • A one bedroom apartment at

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Skyview will increase from $7,110 to $7,360, an increase of $250 or 3.5 percent. • A two bedroom apartment at Skyview will increase from $6,105 to $6,260, an increase of $155 or 2.52 percent. • A one bedroom, one bath in La Aldea graduate housing will increase from $877 to $911, an increase of $34 or 3.88 percent. • A two bedroom, two bath in La Aldea graduate housing will increase from $662 to $688, an increase of $26 or 3.93 percent. • A four bedroom, four bath in La Aldea graduate housing will increase from $597 to $620, an increase of $23 or 3.85 percent.

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Today is Dream 2010 Day, Johnny Appleseed Day, Nametag Day and World Kidney Day. Tomorrow: H: 70 L: 45

Hitchiker’s Guide to the The Streak is on the line The UA men’s basketball team birthdays takes on UCLA in the Pacific 10 Today is the birthday of Lawrence Welk, Benji and Joel Madden of Good Charlotte and author Douglas Adams.

Conference Tournament at 1:10 p.m. in Los Angeles. Bear down, ’Cats!

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No (22 votes) There are ASUA elections going on? (25 votes)

New question: Were you inconvenienced by Wednesday’s power outage?

News Tips

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Finance senior What are you doing for spring break? Well, I’m going to Las Vegas for a couple days, then San Diego. Plan to win a lot of money? I’m going to try. I’ll hit up the craps table, then some poker and blackjack. Do you have a lucky charm? Lucky underwear or anything? Just a lot of practice online. Are you good? At blackjack. I know the odds and I’ve never lost. I’ve never came out negative. Do you count cards? I don’t because there are like five or six decks. So, uh, (laughs) a little hard. What are you going to do with your winnings? Roll out to the clubs? Drop some money on girls and buy drinks for everyone. (Laughs) Just kidding. If you could go anywhere for spring break with unlimited funds, where would you go? Either Costa Rica or Argentina. A little Latin flavor. Latin girls. With spring break coming up, you’re halfway through the semester. How’s it going? It’s going well. Every day that goes by, senioritis tends to grow. I keep looking at the end instead of now. Things are getting easier, even though they’re getting tougher because I’m caring less. Are you going straight to a grad school? I’m actually taking intermediate accounting, two courses over the summer in Portland online actually. So I leave here, take two accounting courses and then start graduate school. How are you going to leave Tucson? With a big hurrah? As fast as I can. The whole last week is pretty much nothing. So there’s the tradition at Dirtbags at 6 a.m., then graduation. It should be a good last week. If you could install a timer that shows the time you’ll meet your soul mate, would you get it? I think I would. So watch this. It takes out some of the mystery and all that, but if you had a timer, you could say,“OK, this is when I’m going to settle down, this is when I’ll meet her.”Do your thing. So the time before that time goes off, I can be single, I don’t have to search, I can travel, and you’re free to become independent. When the timer goes off you can be like, “All right. I didn’t waste time searching and here’s my soul mate. Time to settle down.” Yeah, but aren’t you shaped by people you date? Well, I think you need to grow as an individual to who you are. Your soul mate should complement you. So you have to be who you are and grow as an individual before that happens. But some of the people you’ve dated have probably impacted you. True. But I would say that my morals and foundation of who I am was set before I dated them. What if she’s your soul mate but you’re not hers? Huh. Love grows.You grow to love, right? Obviously it has to be mutual. I’m not going to waste her time or mine. I wouldn’t want to know. I like the mystery. Well, if you like to date a lot you’d want the intrigue. I would rather take a break from that and travel. Leave it all for later. — Kathleen Roosa

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A palm tree-lined pathway near the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building creates a linear perspective, a technique commonly utilized by artists.

Wiretaps, surveillance used to catch reputed US mobster NEW YORK — The FBI arrested a reputed U.S. mobster Wednesday on charges of providing protection for a Sicilian counterpart operating in Florida — part of an international sweep aimed at further crippling the storied Gambino organized crime family and disrupting its ties to the Italian mob. Wiretaps and surveillance revealed that suspected Gambino soldier Gaetano Napoli Sr. had a “close relationship” and “communicated extensively” with Roberto Settineri,

a suspected member of the Sicilian Mafia facing charges in Florida and Italy, according to court papers filed by federal prosecutors. They said Napoli helped settle a dispute last year between Settineri and members of the Colombo crime family during a “sit down” at a social club in Pompano Beach, Fla. Settineri was caught on tape telling Napoli he wanted his participation to “show everybody good manners” — what authorities say was a reference to the La Cosa Nostra custom that

only made members handle such negotiations. Napoli, 71, and a son, 44-year-old Gaetano Napoli Jr., were arrested Wednesday in North Carolina on extortion, bankruptcy fraud and other charges contained in an indictment unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn. A second son named in the indictment, Thomas Napoli, 31, was arrested in New York and was to be arraigned later in the day. — The Associated Press

1980s child star Corey Haim dead at 38

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LOS ANGELES — Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. Haim died early Wednesday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Los Angeles County coroner’s Lt. Cheryl MacWillie said. “As he got out of bed, he felt a little weak and went down to the floor on his knees,” Assistant Chief Coroner Ed Winter said. His mother called paramedics. An autopsy will determine cause of death. There was no evidence of foul play, police Sgt. Michael Kammert said. Haim, who gained attention for Corey Haim roles in “Lucas” and “The Lost Boys,” had flulike symptoms before he died and was getting over-the-counter and prescription medications, police Sgt. William Mann said. “He could have succumbed to whatever (illness) he had or it could have been drugs,” Mann said.“He has had a drug problem in the past.” Haim was taken by ambulance to the hospital from an apartment in Los Angeles near Burbank. His friend, Corey Feldman, said he wept when he heard the news. “This is a tragic loss of a wonderful, beautiful, tormented soul, who will always be my brother, family and best friend,” he said in a statement. “We must all take this as a lesson in how we treat the people we share this world with while they are still here to make a difference. “I hope the art Corey has left behind will be remembered as the passion of that for which he truly lived,” Feldman said. Haim acknowledged his struggle with drug abuse to a British tabloid in 2004. “I was working on ‘Lost Boys’ when I smoked my first joint,” he told The Sun. “I did cocaine for about a year and a half, then it led to crack.” Haim said he went into rehabilitation and was put on prescription drugs. He took stimulants and sedatives. “I started on the downers, which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck,” he said. In 2007, he told ABC’s “Nightline” that drugs hurt his career. “I wasn’t functional enough to work for anybody, even myself. I wasn’t working,” he said. The Toronto-born actor got his start in television commercials at 10 and developed a good reputation for his work in such films as 1985’s“Murphy’s Romance”and his portrayal of Liza Minnelli’s dying son in the 1985 television film “A Time to Live.” His career peaked when he became a heartthrob with his roles in the 1986 movie “Lucas” and “The Lost Boys” in 1987 in which he battled vampires. — The Associated Press

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Nagata proposes less harsh tuition hikes By Taylor Avery Arizona Daily Wildcat

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Sudha Ram, a UA Eller College of Management professor, co-authored a paper with Jun Liu, a management information systems graduate student, explaining why some Wikipedia articles can have higher quality than the site is give credit for.

Wiki-problems New research addresses Wikipedia’s credibility by studying contributors By Bethany Barnes Arizona Daily Wildcat Wikipedia articles’ quality may be able to be determined by looking at who contributes to them, according to instructor Sudha Ram and graduate student Jun Liu, who coauthored a paper looking at why some Wikipedia articles are of a higher quality. Ram, a UA Eller College of Management professor, said the research began with her involvement with iPlant, looking at ways for scientists to collaborate through technology. Ram said they wanted to look at Wikipedia because of its success. Despite Wikipedia’s popularity, there is a lot of debate about the credibility of the Web site. “I think it’s interesting how teachers don’t think it’s credible,” said Andre Ospital-Cone, a finance senior. Ospital-Cone said he uses Wikipedia often but was surprised when one of his instructors used it in class because most teachers do not allow the site. “The quality of Wikipedia articles is a serious issue,” Liu said. Liu said he noticed many articles with a similar number of contributors or of similar length, but they varied

in quality. He believes the different collaboration patterns determine the article’s quality. Liu and Ram narrowed the contributors down to seven roles and determined how these roles affected quality. “We found that most articles where people come in as all-around contributors, they are the ones that end up being really high-quality articles,” Ram said. All-around contributors are people that add information more often than the average contributor and are able to make several different types of edits. Previous studies only counted the number of editors and edits lost information, Liu said. “Our research is more practical,” Liu said.“We not only found a way to assess the quality, but (we) propose a method to improve Wikipedia articles.” Liu suggested looking into e-mailing contributors about modifying or adding references to their articles to increase quality. Ram said the paper has generated a lot of discussion and interest. “It’s neat, actually, to do research on how people collaborate in these new environments,” Liu said.

Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Chris Nagata informed students and ASUA senators about the new proposed parameters of the student tuition proposal at yesterday’s meeting. “Tuition is quite possibly one of the most complicated and complex issues that the ASUA and student governments across the country deal with year in and year out,” Nagata said. “It’s no different for our organization.” Nagata submitted the latest student tuition proposal late last week. It was met with support from President Robert Shelton and the Arizona Board of Regents. The university currently has a $60 million deficit to account for, and every $45 increase to tuition yields $1 million, according to Nagata. “In order for the university to recoup the debt and the budget cuts, we need about a $2,700 increase to tuition,” Nagata said. Shelton’s original proposal, which was submitted in late February, laid out a plan to increase the tuition by more than $1,400 and acquire $2,900 over two years. That would mean an increase in tuition for the 2010-11 school year and the 2011-12 school year. Shelton’s proposal also included a $766 surcharge, along with a $306 Campus Health Services and Student Recreation Center fee, a $335 technology fee and a $24 sustainability fee. If approved, students would be asked to pay around $2881 next year. Instead, Nagata said a team of student representatives including students, the Graduate and Professional Student Council and ASUA met to come up with a more manageable amount. His proposal included a clause that ABOR voted on last year which mandated that returning students’ tuition not be increased by more than 5 percent. Other provisions of the student proposal included a $382 increase in tuition for graduate students and a $324 increase for undergraduate students. Nagata acknowledged that this would not make up for the $60 million shortfall. Therefore, the student proposal includes the $776 surcharge and an increased total of $90 for mandatory fees, which amounts to a total of $159 for Campus Health and the Rec Center, $120 for the library and information and $125 for technology. Nagata told senators his proposal was well received by university officials, and Shelton submitted a new counter-proposal this morning. “In my four years, I have never seen ABOR be this invested or this supportive in a student tuition proposal,” Nagata said. The counter-proposal called for a $400 reduction from the initial cost increase along with an endorsement of the student recommended fees. Shelton’s latest proposal did not take into consideration the original mandate not to increase tuition by more than 5 percent

for returning students. “It doesn’t necessarily make the tuition adjustments that much more palpable but it is a huge improvement from where we initially started,” Nagata said. “We will continue to work with all stakeholders in order to continue this (effort).” ABOR meets tomorrow morning at 9:30 in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center to review tuition proposals from the three major state universities and vote on the proposed increases. Senators were also given a presentation on the new administrative computer system currently being used to replace Student Link. After spring break, students will no longer use Student Link to register for and otherwise manage their classes. “The current system takes a lot of manpower to manage, but we are changing to a simpler system,”said Tom Bourgeois, student administration system co-director. In addition to being easier to manage, the new system promises to be more efficient and offer more options for class management, according to Bourgeois. Bourgeois said he and his team plan to continue transferring over the university’s student records during Spring Break in order to be ready for priority registration, which opens March 31. During his presentation, Bourgeois encouraged all students to log onto the new system and make sure their records transferred correctly. He also said the new system was “browser neutral” for the most part but might not work with Google Chrome or Safari. The new system will allow students to register for all at once, instead of one at a time. Students will continue using their Net IDs to log in. During Bourgeois’ presentation, he demonstrated how students would be able to load multiple classes into a “shopping cart” and then click to enroll. OSCR lab monitors will be trained to assist students who have trouble with the new system. The new system is similar to the administrative system used by Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University. Bourgeois warned senators and students the new system would “be a big shock,” and take some adjustment. “We’ve done quite a bit so far and we still have quite a bit to do,” Bourgeois said. “It’s going to suck for a little while and then it will be good.”

if you go Arizona Board of Regent’s meeting today at 9:30 a.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center.

Alpha Chapter of Arizona congratualtes the following students who have been invited to join

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A view from other college editorials Textbooks still don’t plug in to classroom E-readers may have the potential to revolutionize the way students purchase and use textbooks, but the current Kindle model does not meet the needs of Seattle University students. While the Kindle test program beginning next quarter will provide students with the devices, the cost alone will be a deterrent for students outside the test group, preventing the Kindle from becoming popularized on campus. The largest model, the Kindle DX , was designed to display textbook pages. The price, however, was not designed with students in mind, coming in at $489 , with the smaller size designed for leisure reading coming in at a more affordable $259 . With the more expensive DX, students would not see savings as quickly and would have to begin using the device early in their academic careers to justify the cost. Another problem with the devices is that many of the electronic versions of textbooks have page numbers that do not correspond with the print versions. This inconsistency would create more work for professors in classes with a mix of Kindle and print book users. Professors would have to check two sets of numbers when evaluating the accuracy of students’ in-text citations in assignments. The Kindle also makes it difficult to highlight and make marginal notes. A stylus can be used for underlining, but students must use a keyboard on the device to make notes. The device does not yet offer a feature that would allow students to bookmark these pages with notes. Additionally, Kindle access is limiting for blind and seeing impaired students or students with certain learning disabilities, as some books’ rights holders make the “read-to-me” feature unavailable. Reed College in Portland, Ore. refused to purchase Kindle readers until they are made fully accessible to blind and visually impaired students. The test class that will introduce Kindles (to colleges) is investing in a technology that appears to either ignore the needs of its target market or is still in the early stages of development. “Kindle still a gamble in the classroom,” The Seattle University Spectator editorial board, March 10

Don’t be such a Barbie girl Walmart has always been at the forefront of slashing prices and exploiting workers, but in recent news, it was involved in a more peculiar issue. According to an ABC News article, a store in Louisiana decided to discount black Barbie dolls for the sake of selling its spring inventory. The public took it as something different. The issue, which has been circulating the Internet, is that the white Barbie dolls sell for almost double their black counterparts — $3 versus $5.93. And while it may look as if the racial aspect of this is predominant, Walmart claims it was purely a business decision. And after all, why wouldn’t it be? Despite the unfavorable image most of us have of Walmart, it was making a tactical retail decision. There are plenty of other types of dolls that are aimed to sell to different people. For example, if a little girl had the dream of becoming a ballerina, she would buy the doll that most closely resembles her dream. Basically, the way a doll is dressed and accessorized is just as important as the color of its plastic, or skin. The simple marketing decision to sell black dolls at lower prices was only a response to the fact that the toys were not selling as successfully. The red tags on the black dolls’ boxes meant that they were the same price — up until the decision to discount them, rather than make an innate statement that white is better than black. Any business-minded corporation or individual would resort to discounting the product that is least sellable. In addition to the marketing aspect, little children do not know any better than the doll they actually like. Their views are not of color or ethnicity — they simply go for the toy they most like. Blaming a child for picking the “wrong” color doll would be completely unfounded. Kids will want whatever they want and any question of political or social issues does not reach their brains as they are, after all, still untainted. It is logical to take the standpoint of racial injustice, but that is simply not the case here. Demand of the customers is the sole driver for this business decision. Any question of inequality has no place in the issue. It is important not to make a big deal out of such situations, because kids are at risk of learning habits from generations involved in racial segregation in the past. Any question of race then should not have even been asked. “Simple marketing sets Barbie prices,” The Rutgers Daily Targum editorial board, March 9

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MAILBAG One final word

I’m writing to congratulate editor in chief Lance Madden for his latest column (“Anger works in funny ways”, March 9). First of all, the editorial was very well written. It illustrated, it moved, it cried out with all the anguish associated with running a student newspaper, and finally, it wound up in slow motion and gave Hillel the finger. It was also quite strategic. The Wildcat could not have planned a better time to bring up the issue of its slighted integrity again, except possibly Wednesday. “Regardless,” Madden proclaims, cashing in his chips before anyone has a chance to respond,“It’s time to move on.” However, despite this skillful writing, there are some issues. Never mind that Madden asserts a void of Jewish legitimacy in its homeland — his stance is already obvious. What is less overt, however, is his poor defense of the issue in question: the “ethics” of the Daily Wildcat. Apparently Madden believes that because groups such as the UAPD do not bow down to reporters and give two-hour interviews on peripheral political issues, he can justifiably present students with inaccurate news. Students have every right to question the integrity of a newspaper that skews information out of spite, if not out of bias. The editor complains about the great plagues brought down upon the Wildcat office by Hillel, which is, we’re told, the true villain for caring about political issues. Snapple Fact: if people didn’t care about issues, people wouldn’t read the newspaper. The signature of “Michael Schwartz” for a letter is then questioned, as if only one Michael Schwartz has ever graduated

from this university. When I was a freshman, there was always a morning scramble to get my hands on a coveted copy of the Daily Wildcat, which so many of my peers would read in class. This isn’t a problem anymore. Coincidence? This wasn’t the first time that I’ve seen Daily Wildcat employees angry that citizens would dare to decline to comment on an issue to reporters, but I hope it’s the last. Regardless, it’s time to move on. Daniel Greenberg Near Eastern studies senior

Say your piece and move on

Before I say my piece, let it be known that I’m a former Wildcat sports editor who supports Israel and doesn’t exactly agree with the Motorola articles that have sparked so much anti-Wildcat talk around campus. But I do find it a little ridiculous all the hate that has been spewed at Lance Madden and his staff. Isn’t there a better way to resolve these differences? I feel the “fight” between the Wildcat and different groups over the years (from cartoon troubles to this latest Motorola issue) has become bigger than the issues themselves. This shouldn’t be about Lance and his integrity. I know Lance. I hired him and worked with him for two years. There’s nobody with more integrity than Lance Madden. This issue shouldn’t be about Lance any more than an anti-Semitic cartoon run in the fall of 2007 should have been about then-Editor-in-Chief Allie Hornick, who bore the brunt of the blame for that incident.

The Wildcat should run your letters on the ISSUE and even invite a counter guest opinion so that the other side is represented and dialogue is fostered, which is really the point of newspapers even today (yes, they still have a point). Let’s come together, voice our opinions, discuss the issues and with all the facts on the table everybody can come to their own decision. As a whole, the Wildcat is not anti-Semitic, it doesn’t hate Israel and it doesn’t need diversity training classes. I’m not trying to defend these Motorola articles, and Lance even admits these faults in his Tuesday column. But if you did not sometimes disagree with the Wildcat it wouldn’t be a paper worth reading. Michael Schwartz Former Daily Wildcat sports editor

Red and blue … and white?

I am not here to bash on me or others paying more for this university’s tuition, but more on the topic of diversity. With tuition going up, changes with diversity is going to as well. Whites have continually passed down their wealth to future family keeping the family wealth, while other newcomers have not had this (seemingly taken for granted) opportunity. Where does affirmative action come into play here? All races are not equal yet here in America and the population speaks for itself. With our tuition going up, we will start to see less and less minorities especially at one of the cheapest public universities. Soon economic groups will be set apart further and further making diversity go down and the population of whites go up. Stephen D’Addio Undecided freshman

Appreciating women’s history for more than a month

alking around the UA campus, it’s the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. difficult to fully grasp the suffering and Margaret Sanger established the American risks that those strong and brave women Birth Control League in 1921. After seven years of the past endured to grant the women of today of fighting the courts for her initial attempt the freedoms and opportunities now taken for at opening the first U.S. birth-control clinic, granted. It seems like centuries ago that women Sanger won support of the courts and opened were restricted to cooking and child a clinic in New York City in 1923. rearing; powerless, inferior and Then, in 1942 the American victimized. But it’s important to Birth Control League that remember that the progress toward Sanger founded evolved into the true equality is ongoing by recalling Planned Parenthood Federation the recent past and the women that of America, which continues to questioned their society and broke provide reproductive health care, Rachel Leavitt from the chains of sexism. sex education and information to Columnist Seneca Falls, N.Y., was home women and men worldwide and to the first women’s rights convention in 1848, promote informed and independent decisions. which resulted in the signing of a Declaration of In 1960, the Food and Drug Administration Sentiments outlining grievances and an agenda for approved birth control pills. The Supreme the movement. In May of 1869 Susan B. Anthony Court struck down the last remaining state and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National law prohibiting the use of contraceptives by Woman Suffrage Association with the goal of married couples in Griswold v. Connecticut in achieving voting rights for women through a 1965, and in 1973, the supreme court ruling on Congressional amendment to the Constitution. Roe v. Wade superseded the anti-abortion laws Colorado made history as the first state that of many states and established a woman’s right adopted an amendment granting women the right to safe and legal abortion. When questioned to vote in 1893, swiftly followed by Utah and Idaho again, the decision of Roe v. Wade was upheld in 1896; Washington in 1910; California in 1911; once again by the Supreme Court ruling in Oregon, Kansas and Arizona in 1912; and so on and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. so forth. In 1913, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns formed Throughout this time, women were working the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage in toward parity in the work place, equality under order to pursue the passage of a federal amendment the law, legal restriction on sexual harassment and to grant women the right to vote. gender discrimination and much more. Originally written by Anthony and introduced Today, the fight to respect a woman’s right to in Congress in 1878, the federal woman suffrage choose rages on, currently playing a major role amendment was passed by the House of in the never-ending quest to pass a health care Representatives and the Senate in 1919. A year later, reform bill. Now women are not only able to vote, on Aug. 26, women were granted the right to vote in but two of the prominent candidates in the last

election were women. But as Uncle Ben told Spiderman,“with great power comes great responsibility.”Though these women took great strides towards equality, there are steps yet to be taken. Unfortunately, much of the attention women — one woman in particular — are receiving is negative. The legacy that Sarah Palin is currently leaving is one of contradictions, incompetency, fickleness and fear mongering. As the originator of the fallacious“death panels”rumor, detractor of explicit sexual education despite her grandson recently born out of wedlock and viewer of Russia from her backyard, Palin and her followers are weighing down the equality and respect that the aforementioned women, and others like them, have spent decades working for. No one is perfect, and misspeaking is perfectly human. But when you represent a group of people that have incessantly fought for their rights and respect as women have, it is your responsibility and privilege to do everything in your power to set an admirable example for future generations and demand the respect of the world with intellectual and sensible actions and speeches. So women, choose your role models wisely. It is your responsibility, as voters and as women, to vote for and support people that can represent your ideas for our country and our gender with grace and brilliance. For better or for worse, the women that make their way to the limelight with your help will decide the future of women; let’s make it for better. — Rachel Leavitt is a creative writing sophomore. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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Mayor Bob Walkup stands next to series star Tyler Labine from the new Fox sitcom â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sons of Tucsonâ&#x20AC;? and proclaims March 14th the official â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sons of Tucson Dayâ&#x20AC;? in the Gallagher Theater on Wednesday. The mayor also gave the executive producer of the show a key to the city.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sons of Tucsonâ&#x20AC;? is the first sitcom to receive a key to the City of Tucson. Berfield and Tyler Labine, one Mayor Bob Walkup proclaimed March of the showâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stars, responded to 14â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sons of Tucson Dayâ&#x20AC;?at Wednesdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s questions and comments before and free screening of two episodes of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sons after the screening. The show is set in Tucson â&#x20AC;&#x153;because of Tucson,â&#x20AC;? a new Fox sitcom from executive producer Justin Berfield, who itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big city, and, as we all say, starred in and produced â&#x20AC;&#x153;Malcolm in thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stuff to do here, things to see,â&#x20AC;? Berfield said. the Middle.â&#x20AC;? Berfield and Labine â&#x20AC;&#x153;This new show gives added that heat plays an Tucson visual recognition important role in the show. on national television,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My character Walkup said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To get a lives in his car and is show like this in Tucson is desperately trying to an extraordinary thing.â&#x20AC;? Premieres find air conditioning,â&#x20AC;? Mayor Walkup Sunday on Fox Labine said. presented Berfield with Berfield said Tucson is a gold key, a symbolic after â&#x20AC;&#x153;Family Guyâ&#x20AC;? a place that Hollywood gift of appreciation, in 8:30 p.m. hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really explored. Gallagher Theater. The nine â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sons of Tucsonâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not something we writers have a map of do very often,â&#x20AC;? Walkup Tucson and try to incorporate real street said of giving a key to the city. Walkup has given such a key to 11 names in the show, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was surprised we got the key to the people in his 10 years as mayor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has to be someone who is a city,â&#x20AC;?Labine said.â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought you have to leader and has done great things,â&#x20AC;? KEY, page 12 Walkup said.

By Laura E. Donovan Arizona Daily Wildcat

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Students gather for a peaceful vigil in response to proposed fee increases outside the Student Union Memorial Center in the James E. Rogers Plaza on Wednesday. Many of the participants were graduate students, but everyone was welcome as they were there to manifest their presence as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;united communityâ&#x20AC;? affected by the fees.

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or 972 votes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone else was going up and my heart was breaking a little each time,â&#x20AC;? Mariner said of her anxious wait to hear the results. Even candidates who did not win were impressed with the race and were excited to see where ASUA would go from here. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was all really fun and it was a really good race,â&#x20AC;? said Jarrett Benkendorfer, a political science sophomore, who got 13th place in the senate elections with 4.9 percent of the vote. Benkendorfer expressed hope that winners would be representative of the students on fees and would work to expand seats on senate even if they werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his own. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just want someone in there who will do their job,â&#x20AC;? he said. Elected candidates will be inaugurated on May 3.

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POLICEBEAT By Bridgette Doran ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Dealing drugs? Don’t speed. A University of Arizona Police Department officer was near First Street and Campbell Avenue when he saw a gold Nissan Maxima moving 55 mph in a 35 mph zone. When the officer pulled the car over, the driver told the officer that he did not have a license and had never had one in any state. He was identified by an Arizona Identification Card. The officer asked why he was driving without a license and the man said he was picking up some friends. There was a woman in the passenger seat and one in the backseat. The officer told the man he was going to impound the car and asked everyone to get out so he could check the car. In the front passenger seat the officer found a black Adidas pouch with folded plastic baggies and a small metal hanging scale. Also inside the pouch was a plastic baggie with marijuana and a blue aluminum smoking pipe with burnt residue on it. The man was read his rights and initially told the officer the pouch was a friend’s, but then said it was his and he knew marijuana was inside. When the officer asked if he had been selling drugs the man said he had and the last time he sold was to a coworker on March 6. The officer then requested a recorder so the confession could be taped. The man said on the tape that he had only been selling marijuana for about a week to make some extra money. Within the week, the man said he earned $100. While the man was being handcuffed, another plastic bag with marijuana in it was found in his front pocket. The marijuana weighed 3.4 grams. The man said the marijuana in his pocket was for his own personal use and he did not intend to sell it. The man was taken to Pima County Jail and booked on charges of possession for sale — a class four felony — and possession of drug paraphernalia — a class six felony. The recorded interview, the marijuana and the contents of the Adidas pouch were entered into UAPD property as evidence.

Hole-y forbidden fruit in Coronado An on-duty resident assistant at Coronado Residence Hall called UAPD after she smelled marijuana coming from the hallway on the second floor. The officer knocked on the door of the room where the smell was the strongest and a resident answered. The officer reported the woman as having red and watery eyes. The woman allowed the officer in the room where the smell of burnt marijuana became stronger. She was asked if she had been smoking in the room and the woman said she had smoked earlier with some friends, but would not say with whom. The officer asked if she had any pot in the room and she pulled a baggie with marijuana inside out of bottom desk drawer. The resident told the officer that she had bought the marijuana from a man she did not know downtown for $10. After reading the woman her rights the officer searched her side of the dorm room for any other suspicious things. He found a pink and blue glass smoking pipe, an apple with burnt reside on the top and two holes in the side and a plastic bottle covered with a sock, with a tissue inside and the bottom cut off. The woman told the officer the apple and the bottle were also used for smoking marijuana. The woman was cited and released for possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. The items found in the room were entered into evidence and a Code of Conduct referral was sent to the Dean of Students.

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A UAPD officer saw a man carrying a large blue bottle walking with two other men near Park Avenue, Sunday at 1:40 a.m. As the officer watched them, he saw the man carrying the bottle yell across the street at two women, “Hey, fuck you.” When the officer walked toward the men, two of them stopped immediately, but the man who yelled kept walking away. The officer noticed the bottle he was carrying was a liquor bottle and shouted for the man to stop. The man looked over his shoulder and said “No.” He then started to run down Park Avenue toward University Boulevard. The officer caught up to the man, pushed him to the ground and handcuffed him. As the officer was doing a search of the man, he found two unopened cans of beer in his back pockets, a 12-ounce Miller Light can and a 12-ounce can of Coors Light. The bottle the man had been carrying was a 750-mL bottle of Pinnacle Grape Vodka, about one-third of the way full. The man told the officer that he “had him” on the alcohol. He also denied saying anything to the women walking on the other side of the street. The man was taken to Pima County Jail and booked on charges of minor in possession in body, minor in possession of spirituous liquors and disorderly conduct. A Code of Conduct referral was also sent to the Dean of Students.

Man gobbles ganja in jail An officer saw a man riding his bicycle behind the Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall on Monday at 4:19 a.m. carrying a potted plant. The officer stopped the bicyclist and conducted a records check, which showed he had two warrants from Pima County Jail for failure to appear to court. Before the man was transported to Pima County Jail, the officer attempted to search the man’s pant pockets, but was unable to because of the small size of the pockets. The man was warned of bringing illegal contraband into the jail and he said he did not have anything on him. While inside the jail, the man was seen pulling a small baggie out of his pocket and putting something in his mouth. The man was again told of the jail contraband policy and the man said, “It’s only pot.” He continued to chew on the marijuana plant and swallowed it. The officer told the man that if he had not brought the marijuana into the jail it would have only been a misdemeanor charge, but because he lied, it would be a felony charge. The man told the officer, “I know, I really fucked up.” He was booked on felony charges of prison contraband, possession of paraphernalia, and the charges for his previous warrants. The marijuana bags were entered into UAPD property as evidence. 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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EVERYONE Mark Finelli: HAS A World Trade Center survivor STORY By Laura Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

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Mark Finelli, a UA Eller College of Management master’s student, is a war veteran who was inspired to join the U.S. Marine Corps after surviving the collapse of the World Trade Center South Tower on 9/11. Finelli credits the new GI Bill for funding his UA degree.

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“Everyone has a story” is a weekly segment in the Arizona Daily Wildcat that aims to tell the story of an interesting person on the UA campus. This week, the Daily Wildcat interviewed Mark Finelli, a 9/11 survivor, Iraq war veteran and Eller graduate student. The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, was the most beautiful New York morning that Finelli had ever seen. “There was something so magical about that morning, which is really odd considering the treachery that happened later that day,” Finelli said. A native New Yorker, Finelli had been training for an investment banking position at the World Trade Center. “It was picture-perfect weather, very sunny, it must have been 72 degrees. It’s never that nice in New York. There was no humidity at all, not too muggy or cold, just a perfect September day. You couldn’t beat it,” he said. New York didn’t remain picturesque for very long. Finelli was on the 61st floor of the south tower when the north tower was struck. “There were about 100 of us sitting by a coffee bin laughing, and suddenly,

the tower next door to us completely exploded,” Finelli said. Finelli remembers seeing a million pieces of paper and dust outside. After going into the boardroom to get his cell phone, Finelli ran for the stairwell. He decided it would be faster to take the stairs than the elevator. “I thought there had been a pipe bomb explosion in the north tower, so I assumed I had the day off,” he said. By the time he got to the 41st floor, a woman yelled that a plane had flown into the tower next door. “For reasons I’m still not sure of, I started running really fast at that point,” Finelli said. Finelli felt the building shake when he arrived on the 11th floor. His tower had been struck. Shortly thereafter, he smelled jet fuel, a scent he recognized from skydiving. “I got to the lobby and a security guard tried to stop me from leaving the building,” Finelli said. There were bodies lying outside and people were jumping from both buildings and the guard thought it would be dangerous. After barreling past the guard, Finelli ran“like Forrest Gump,”as he describes, toward the Hudson River. Once he got there, he was told by a passerby that the World Trade Centers

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had been attacked by terrorists. Then the ground started shaking, and Finelli watched from afar as the south tower collapsed. “Manhattan literally bounced as the tower(s) fell,” Finelli said. “A wave of soot came at me, and I jumped onto a fire department boat, which took me to New Jersey.” Soon after arriving at a T.G.I. Friday’s in New Jersey, Finelli picked up his phone and told a few people that he was OK and was going to join the Marine Corps. “I just had to do it, because the firemen saved me. You get to live because they die, and I wanted to do something for them,” Finelli said. Finelli soon enlisted in the Marines. From July 2005 to February 2006, Finelli served in Iraq. Since serving, Finelli has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN, and he occasionally contributes to Newsweek. Finelli is now an Eller student under the G.I. Bill but says he had an easier time serving in the military. “The Eller College of Management is more stressful than the United States Marine Corps,” Finelli said. “The workload is enormous. Take away the possibility of getting killed or maimed, and the Eller school is more difficult than the Marines.”

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NO BIGGER TEST ‘Cats either win out Pac-10 Tourney or snap streak of 25 straight By Bryan Roy ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT It’s hanging on by a Staple. Arizona’s active streak of 25 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances — only two shy of North Carolina’s record of 27 — faces an uphill climb today in Staples Center. Too late to secure an at-large bid, the No. 4-seeded Wildcats (16-14, 10-8 Pacific 10 Conference) must win three games in three days to win the conference tournament or face the inevitable realities of playing in the National Invitation Tournament. The facts have never been more clear-cut. The Streak has never been in more danger. “It will be tough to take (not making the NCAA tournament), but we knew it would be hard coming into the season with our young team,”said UA point guard Nic Wise after Saturday’s win against USC. “We’ve never been in this situation before.” Today’s 1 p.m. tipoff strikes eagerness and hunger even deeper than when the Wildcats and No. 5-seeded Bruins (13-17, 8-10) stood as predominate powers atop the Pac-10 in the ‘90s and early 2000s. One of the weakest fields in decades awaits the cutthroat fight-for-survival environment in Los Angeles where nobody is given anything. Nothing is guaranteed. “I think everybody is going to bring their A-game,” Wise said. “Not too many Pac-10 teams are going to get automatic bids, besides maybe Cal. For everybody else, it’s going to be all-out war to try to get that top spot.” The only predictable storyline is a potential Pac-10 Tournament semifinal clash Friday between Washington and ASU. Both bubble teams would presumably be playing for a spot in the NCAA Tournament — but again there’s no guarantee how many at-large bids will be available, especially to a conference shocked by nonconference losses of all sorts. “I think Washington and Arizona

State have played the best recently,” said UA coach Sean Miller. “When you look at the last four weeks of our conference season, both of them have really emerged and been consistent.” Arizona and UCLA aren’t the only nationally recognized programs suffering through down seasons. Connecticut, Indiana and North Carolina, all recent dancers the past March, are also expected to miss the NCAA Tournament. Those five teams have won 21 of the past 46 national championships. “There are going to be years like that even for name-brand programs,” said Sports Illustrated’s Andy Staples on ESPN Wednesday.“It is really hard to stay on top and maintain, especially now in this climate where you have one-and-dones and team chemistry can change with the tip of the hat.” While their confidence sits sky-high after three consecutive come-from-behind victories, the Wildcats haven’t won more than four straight games all season.

“Going in as underdogs is always good; personally I think going in on top everyone wants to come for you,” said UA forward Derrick Williams. “So I think it’s good for our team coming in as underdogs. We’ve beat Cal before, we beat UCLA, we beat Arizona State. We’ve beaten all the teams that they say that are going to be in the finals.” When asked if he thought the

regular season met expectations, Miller said the Wildcats’ 16 wins was the best-case scenario. “I don’t want to say ‘overachieved,’ but we’ve come in right around where everyone would have hoped under the circumstances,” Miller said.“Hopefully, our best basketball is yet to be played.” Check out page 14 for the updated Pac-10 Tournament bracket

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Bruins hope third time is the charm By Vincent Balistreri ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Since the Arizona men’s basketball team swept UCLA a week ago, the Bruins now know the odds of a Wildcat win in a third game are a lot higher. One of the toughest things to do in college basketball is to beat a team three straight times in a season. The Bruins will try to avoid a Wildcat trifecta today at 1 p.m. “It is difficult to beat a team three straight times in a row, but we have great familiarity with them,” said Arizona head coach Sean Miller. “We respect them a great deal, there isn’t a big difference between the two teams.” There will be one big difference for the Bruins that they didn’t have last Thursday: starting freshman center Reeves Nelson will play today after missing the last four games with a eye injury. Nelson is averaging 11 points and shooting 63.3 percent from the field. “Reeves Nelson is one of the most talented young players in our conference,” Miller said. “He gives UCLA that option on the block, he’s a physical player that can get to the free throw line, and he makes them a better team on offense and defense. “He’s a physical and aggressive player that I think all coaches would love to have on their team.” Though Arizona beat the Bruins in the last two meetings, the Wildcats are aware that UCLA has had almost a week to learn from its mistakes in the first two games. “I know they’re watching a lot of film,” said freshman Derrick Williams. “We’ve beat them twice, but it doesn’t mean we’re going to beat a third time, but hopefully we can beat them one more time.”

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Wildcats wallop Saint Joseph’s

By Mike Schmitz ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Beating the teams you are supposed to beat is a staple of successful sports teams, and three days after taking two of three games from California State University, Fullerton, the Arizona baseball team took care of business against Saint Joseph’s in a double-header, sweeping the two-game series in lopsided fashion. The Wildcats (8-4) pounded the lesser Hawks (1-8) into oblivion, outscoring them 29-5, thanks to 38 hits — on a combined .470 team batting average — and solid pitching from freshman Vincent Littleman, sophomore Kyle Simon and the Arizona bullpen. “(Saint Joseph’s) was a team that we were supposed to take care of, and we did,” said senior first baseman Rafael Valenzuela, who went 5-of-10 with six runs, four RBIs and four doubles on the day.“We put a lot of runs up, we got a lot of hits. It was nice to just come out here and do a good job.” Arizona took the field for its 10th game in 13 days. But if the Wildcats were fatigued against the Hawks, it certainly didn’t’ show from the first pitch to the final out. “I thought they were playing as hard at the end as they were six hours ago,” said head coach Andy Lopez after Game 2. Game 1 was over before the umpire had a chance to say “play ball,” as the Wildcats recorded 22 hits and coasted to a 17-3 victory. Littleman did yield a run in the first inning, but the UA bats made up for it in a hurry. Arizona plated nine runs off of 10 hits before the fourth out of the game was even recorded. The Hawks, who lost a game 33-1 to New Mexico State on March 5, burned through two pitchers in the first inning, and were torn apart on the base paths. The Wildcats

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The Wildcats’ 2-3-4 hitters have been nearly impossible to retire as of late. Against Saint Joseph’s, senior Rafael Valenzuela and sophomores Jett Bandy and Steve Selsky combined for 18 hits in 31 at bats (.581 average). The trio either scored or drove in 24 of the 29 runs on the series. Coincidentally, Bandy (.490), Selsky (.446) and Valenzuela (.370) are ranked No. 1-2-3 in batting averages for the Wildcats. Selsky finished Game 1 a home run short of the cycle, going 4-for-6 with three RBIs and three runs. He finished the series 7-for-11 with five runs and three RBIs. Valenzuela, who hit the first home run of his career against Fullerton last weekend, finished the series 5-for-10 with six runs, four RBIs and four doubles. Bandy finished the series 4-of-8 with four runs and two RBIs. swiped five bags in the first two innings, including four in the second inning alone. Runners kept moving — nine stolen bases on the series — and the aluminum kept connecting, as every Wildcat that started the game recorded a hit before the end of the fourth inning. The middle of the lineup, Valenzuela and sophomores Steve Selsky and Jett Bandy, dominated Game 1, combining for 10 hits, nine runs and seven RBIs. Selsky missed the cycle by a home run, while Bandy went 3-for-4. “They’re swinging it,” Lopez said of the trio.“Those are the guys that we’re counting on. We can’t count on all of those freshmen. They’re doing a great job.” As for the Arizona pitching, Littleman coasted for five innings in his first collegiate start, allowing only two runs on seven hits while striking out five. The Arizona bullpen handled the rest as they yielded only one run for the next four innings en route to a UA victory. The Wildcats picked up right where they left off in Game 2. The Hawks tried to cool of the scorching Wildcat bats, but to no avail. After two first-inning runs, the scorching Wildcat bats cooled off momentarily, as they

only plated two innings through the second, third and fourth innings. But six fifth-inning runs blew it open, and another ridiculous hit total of 16, lifted the Wildcats over the Hawks, 12-2. Simon, the preseason favorite for the No. 1 starter job, slightly bounced back after two ugly starts that saw him allow 10 runs on 13 hits and six walks. The 6-foot-5 righty went 3 innings because of a pitch count, but allowed only one run on two hits. Sophomore Bryce Bandilla, who will be taking Simon’s spot in the weekend rotation, was impressive, as he threw three innings of scoreless, three-hit ball while striking out five. “A little bit more effectiveness,” Lopez said of Simon. “A little bit better strike (to walk) ratio which is good. He’s just got to throw more strikes.” Arizona made easy work of the Hawks, and Lopez feels good about where his team is with less than three weeks left before Pacific 10 Conference play begins. “Double-headers are hard to sweep, but all in all I’m very happy with the way these guys played,” Lopez said. “They’re young, but this group plays hard, and I can live with that.”

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UA freshman Seth Mejias-Brean beats out the throw on Wednesday against the St. Joseph’s Hawks 17-3 in Game 1 and 12-2 in Game 2. Arizona will take on Northern Colorado in a weekend series beginning on Friday.

W-hoops poised to commence tournament play By Dan Kohler ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT With dreams of dancing in March, the Arizona women’s basketball team opens Pacific 10 Conference Tournament play against the Washington State Cougars tonight at the Galen Center in Los Angeles, with tip-off at 7. The Wildcats (13-16, 6-12 Pac-10) are looking for another win against the Cougars (8-21, 3-15), a

team they managed to sweep in the regular season. Although Arizona already has two wins this season against Washington State, head coach Niya Butts was cautious in stating that the Wildcats hold any momentum over the Cougars because tournament play is an entirely different game. “What our team is doing right now is understanding that tournament time is a whole new season, so that’s

our approach,” Butts said. “When you go in and you think about a team like Washington State, who has certainly gotten better over the year, they’re a really confident team, despite their record, and so they’re always dangerous.” Arizona comes into the tournament on a five-game losing streak, something that is never ideal for a tournament atmosphere. But the Wildcats can take pride in the fact that their second-half

play was greatly improved over the past weekend against USC and UCLA. In both games, the Wildcats were down by at least 10 points, but managed to rally and fight back to lessen the deficit substantially. Arizona guard and Pac-10 Freshman of the Year Davellyn Whyte said the key to these comebacks was the tenacity of star forward Ify Ibekwe. “I think it was Ify,” Whyte said. “She came back in the second half with a

lot of energy and it helped us all forget about fatigue, so we fed off her.” Ibekwe, a junior, has been nothing short of spectacular during her tenure as a Wildcat. Taking home Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year this season is another awardto add to her already sparkling basketball resume. Butts and company congratulated Ibekwe and Whyte on their achievements W-HOOPS, page 10

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Rodeo club still going strong after 71 years By Jaime Valenzuela ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT For those who do it, rodeo is more than competition — it’s a way of life. For many of the Arizona Rodeo Club members, that life extends beyond the saddle. It starts with family. In existence since 1939, the club is the oldest intercollegiate rodeo club in the country. Many of its current members have been rodeoing for most of their lives. Club president Jacob Mayfield, an agribusiness economics and management senior, is one member who didn’t just grow up with the rodeo, but was born into it. “My grandpa and dad always roped. My mom and my two sisters rope, so I grew up into it,” Mayfield said.“Since I could walk, I’ve been riding horses, and as soon as I could swing a rope, I started roping. “In high school our whole family would go to the rodeos. My sister would run barrels, and I would team and calf rope. We’ve always done it as a family.” Second-year club member Dru Palmer, an agriculture economics and management junior, also grew up with a rodeo family. “It’s something I’ve done my entire life with my family,”he said.“You meet great people and compete in something you love to do.” One staple of the club has been head coach John Marchello. Since 1967, Marchello has had the pleasure of coaching multiple generations of families while at Arizona. “I got grandkids (in the club) of parents who rodeoed with me before,” Marchello said.“That’s a satisfaction.” Mayfield’s grandparents were not part of the club, but his parents were. Currently, his younger sister Whitney is also a member of the club. “We go to the rodeos together, and that makes it fun,”Mayfield said. A week after the conclusion of the 85th annual La Fiesta de los Vaqueros in Tucson, the club staged its 71st intercollegiate rodeo at the Pima County Fairgrounds over the weekend.

By Kevin Nadakal ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Passionate, motivational, caring; these are the words that continue to come up when people speak about Bill Ryden, the head coach for the women’s gymnastics team. Ryden is in his 20th year at Arizona and his 12th year as head coach. Ryden came to Arizona as an assistant coach in the summer of 1990, but it was a long road to get to that point. “I grew up in all of the conventional sports, doing well at them, and I also raced motorcycles,” Ryden said. “I’m like an adrenaline junkie. I was getting out of racing motorcycles. I needed something else that had that same amount of adrenaline or danger, and men’s gymnastics is very dangerous.” Ryden followed in his sister Alison Ryden’s (now Alison Shearer) footsteps. She was a gymnast, and because of her, Ryden had watched gymnastics his entire life. He began to compete during high school, looking for that same adrenaline rush. “I liked the idea of flying through the air and controlling my own destiny,” Ryden said. “Flying through the air, and you are responsible if you don’t get hurt, or do get hurt.” Even as a 17-year-old, there were coaching skills prevalent. He eventually began coaching other kids that worked out in the same club as him, and at one point he was even coaching the upper level kids. “I had a knack for analyzing physical movement,” Ryden said. “I could sit there and say, OK, that person is doing that wrong and that is why that’s going wrong.” RYDEN, page 14

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Justin Bennett, an undecided sophomore, rides a bucking bronco at the Tucson Rodeo last weekend. The Arizona Rodeo Club has been a club on campus since 1939.

One-hundred sixty six contestants competed in the oldest intercollegiate rodeo in the world. The club participates in 10 rodeos each year, five in both the fall and spring. The top three competitors from each event, broken down by male and female categories, advance to the national college finals in Casper, Wyo., in June. The rodeo club competes in the Grand Canyon Region as part of the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. And though membership has dwindled in recent years, the club’s new practice facility, which opened last year, could help increase membership. “Hopefully, with this new arena we can get these community college kids into our university and build up our team again,”said Mayfield, who came up with the idea of the arena. “I had the idea and (coach) helped me push it through,”he added.“He actually

made it happen.” Marchello worked the phones, contacting former rodeo contestants and supporters of collegiate rodeo. With further help from club members, $30,000 was raised. The new facility has sparked an interest from students who plan to rodeo while pursuing their education. “We have a lot of interest from students coming in now,”Marchello said.“We should have more incoming freshman and transfer students from community colleges.” A dedication for the new practice facility is forthcoming in the fall. “It’s (a) great practice arena,”Palmer said.“It’s great to push each other in practice (and then) compete and cheer for each other in competition.” As much as club members enjoy the competition of rodeo, academics come first. “We stress academics before we

stress rodeo,”Marchello said.“The students we get here are academically inclined. Their first goal is to get a good education and their second is to rodeo. We like that position.” For Mayfield and Palmer, academics were the main influence in their coming to the UA. “Academically, the U of A (was) better for me,”Mayfield said.“It’s a little tougher and had more of the programs I wanted.” For Palmer, rodeo was only a bonus. “I came here for academics, and part of my decision (was knowing) they did have a rodeo team here.” Palmer described rodeo as“a way of life,”and for those who rodeo, the club couldn’t be any better. “(Members) get to meet a lot of people,”Marchello said.“They learn to handle pressure. (Rodeo helps) develop character as the kids move into their adult life.”

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Injury-riddled pitching crew optimistic By Kevin Zimmerman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Following a week that saw freshman ace Kenzie Fowler sit out with a knee injury and rain muddy the Hillenbrand Stadium playing field enough to cancel three games, the Arizona softball team will likely — weather permitting — play six home games in four days, beginning tonight with a 5 p.m. contest with Saint John’s University. Fowler, who tweaked her knee during warm-ups last Thursday against Northern Iowa, is day-to-day according to UA head coach Mike Candrea. “It’s gotten better each day,” Fowler said. “I think I’ve given it as much rest as I can. “We were kind of unsure what happened (to the knee),” she added. “Obviously it was painful. We just wanted to be smart.” Arizona will also play the University of Northern Colorado and University of Illinois at Chicago on Friday, St. John’s and Creighton University on Saturday and the University of Minnesota on Sunday. If she can play ball, Fowler (11-0) will likely split time with senior pitcher Sarah Akamine, who took over for the freshman during her injury. Improving her record to 5-1, Akamine took a line drive in the knee Sunday, causing it to swell. She said she’ll be

ready to pitch. “It looks worse than it is. It looks gross,” she said, adding that the swelling is causing pressure around her knee. Aiding the injury-riddled pitching staff will be Arizona’s offense, which Candrea would like to see get on the board in the first and second innings rather than waiting until the second time around the battling order. “I think we’ve had a lot of games where we have not made adjustments,” he said. “Against good teams you have to take advantage of every inning. We’d like to jump-start ourselves a little better.”

Young blood aiding Wildcats On the offensive side of the ball, the Wildcats have relied upon the bat of freshman Brigette Del Ponte, who has knocked in a home run in four straight games. She is tied for the team lead with six home runs — freshman Baillie Kirker and sophomore Lini Koria also have six jacks. The freshmen on the team have hit 13 of the Wildcats’ 30 total home runs on the season, the most of any class. “I don’t even know what to say about them,” said catcher Stacie Chambers. “Obviously they have natural talent. “They’re out here working really hard at it,” she added. “I guess it’s really not much

of a surprise.” Candrea said Del Ponte has taken advantage of her at-bats and also her opportunity on defense after fellow freshman and third baseman Matte Haack was limited due to an illness. “I think Matte has struggled a little bit defensively because she’s never played the corner,” Candrea said. “When you take a kid that’s used to playing away from the ball (so) close to the ball, the game gets a little quick, a little tough. “Brigette (Del Ponte) has played (third base before),” he added.“She has obviously settled in a little easier. I think both of them are going to be big assets for us.”

Out of the strike zone Behind the hoopla home run hitting of Arizona’s youngsters, Chambers, the 2009 NCAA home run leader, has quietly hit four despite seeing a limited number of a hittable balls. Out of 38 at-bats, the redshirt junior has been walked 21 times. “It makes me work on taking advantages of those good pitches that I do get,” Chambers said, adding that she isn’t bothered by the lack of opportunity to get close to her NCAA record number of long balls. “To me, they’re just numbers.”

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ust more than a week ago, the On the other hand, the UA men have never Arizona men’s swim and dive team won a Pac-10 Championship and did win a was riding high. National Championship in 2008. That year, the The Wildcats finished their regular season Wildcats also finished third at the Pac-10s. undefeated and had just been voted the “Considering what we did in 2008, I don’t nation’s top team in the coach’s poll. think it (the Pac-10s) really has any bearing Then, in its debut as the top-ranked team, on the NCAAs,”said senior Jean Basson. Arizona finished in third place at the Pacific It is natural to think that losing the Pac-10 10 Conference Championships, more than Championships is a bad sign, but it isn’t any 200 points behind first place Stanford. different than if this week college basketball’s On the surface, finishing third out of top team Kansas lost to ninth-ranked Kansas five teams and losing by State in the Big-12 tournament. more than 200 points seems If Kansas lost that game no one like it would be cause for would start to question its NCAA concern for the men’s NCAA tournament chances. championship hopes, but The same rule applies to the UA that is not the case. swim team. The results of the PacThe two teams that the UA lost 10 Championships won’t to are Stanford and Cal, which are have any bearing come the Derek Lawrence ranked third and fourth, respectively. NCAAs because conference “Cal and Stanford definitely put tournaments in any sport a lot more emphasis on this meet Sports reporter don’t usually have much value than we did,” Basson said. besides entertainment. These losses shouldn’t have much effect in With this year’s victory at the Pac-10 the long run, especially considering that the Championships, Stanford has now won UA went to the Bay Area earlier this season 29 Pac-10 titles in a row. In that 29and swept Stanford and Cal. year run, they have won seven national Another reason to not put too much championships. As astounding as into the UA’s performance at the Pac-10 Stanford’s streak is, it has won the Pac-10 Championships is that the team really doesn’t Tournament 22 times and failed to win a care about winning a Pac-10 title. national championship. “Our priorities are different from

other teams in our conference,” said senior Jack Brown. The priority for most of the other schools at the championships was to win. Many of the teams came fully shaved and rested. Swimmers usually don’t fully shave until the races get really serious. Some UA swimmers came shaved, but only the ones still hoping to make some of their NCAA qualifying times. While a Pac-10 title wasn’t high on the swimmers’ priority list, they did have some other goals to accomplish. “We did what we needed to do there,” Brown said. The trip was a huge success in qualifying more swimmers. For the first time in the team’s history it will send a fully qualified team to nationals. With the Pac-10s over and nationals coming March 25 in Columbus, Ohio, the team will begin to further step up its preparations. The swimmers will rest often and work on getting their mechanics right in the coming weeks. The team feels that with the extra rest they will be ready. “Our focus is nationals and I think in a few weeks we will be at our peak,”Basson said. Come March 27 we will all find out if the strategy was the right one. — Derek Lawrence is a journalism senior. He can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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this season, and Butts stressed that the awards, although individual, should be considered as merit for the entire team. “They certainly could not have won that without their team and need to make sure that they acknowledge that,” Butts said. “But again, I’m just happy for them as a coach, I love coaching them. Hopefully we can just use some of that momentum going into the tournament.” Washington State is quite saturated in the loss column, but is still able to put solid points up on the board, averaging 61.8 points per game, only a few behind Arizona’s average of 66. With help from guards April Cook and Kiki Moore, who average 13.8 and 12.1 points per game, respectively, the Cougars will look to keep Arizona in check with quick drives to the basket and solid perimeter shooting. In order to bounce back from the losing streak, the Wildcats have emphasized rebounding and ball protection, but at the end of the day Arizona’s ability to finish games needs to finally come around. “We’ve been working hard, we’ve done a lot of things better, we’ve rebounded better, and we’ve done a better job taking care of the basketball,”Butts said. “Its just a matter of us being able

to those finish games and get up over the hump a little bit.” If the persistence and hard work keep up, Arizona should be primed physically and mentally to make a run through the tournament table. “You’re going to need a little luck somewhere in between, but our kids are going to keep working and hopefully going into the tournament,”Butts said. “They understand that anything can happen in March. “(The team) understands in their minds, if they don’t get it done tonight, then there will be no tomorrow,” The winner of tonight’s game will go on to face the No. 2 Stanford Cardinal in the second round of the tournament. Stanford is undefeated in the conference and its only loss on the season came against the No. 1 Connecticut Huskies, who have won 72 straight games. Butts and company are ready for anything March can throw at them, and the will to win will be present throughout the entire 40-minute contest, regardless of the final outcome. “It’s not rocket science,” Butts said. “You just have to keep fighting, if there’s time left on the clock, if there’s any life left in your body, you have to fight until the end.”

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Oregon beats Washington State 82-80 in OT

LOS ANGELES — Tajuan Porter scored 32 points, including eight in overtime, and Oregon rallied for an 82-80 victory over Washington State on Wednesday night in the Pac-10 Conference tournament opener. The victory ensured Ernie Kent at least another game to coach the Ducks. Multiple media outlets have reported that he’s already been fired, but Kent has not commented on his status. Washington State’s Reggie Moore missed a jumper at the buzzer that would have sent the game into a second overtime. The eighth-seeded Ducks (16-15) advanced to a quarterfinal game against top-seeded California (21-9) on Friday. Klay Thompson scored 20 points and made six 3-pointers for No. 9-seeded Washington State (16-15), which had five players score in double figures. Marcus Capers added 16 points

Nebraska upsets Missouri 75-60 in Big 12

KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Brandon Richardson scored 19 points and No. 12 seed Nebraska took command with an early 16-1 run and shocked No. 5 seed Missouri 75-60 Wednesday in an openinground upset at the Big 12 tournament. The underdog Cornhuskers (15-17), who had won just two of 16 Big 12 regular-season games, outrebounded, outshot and outhustled the team that had easily beaten them twice this year. After Kim English pulled the Tigers (22-10) to 61-51 with a pair of free throws with 4:01 to play, Richardson canned a long 3-pointer, drew a foul from Zaire

Taylor and made the free throw for a four-point play that clinched it. Ryan Anderson had 16 points for Nebraska and Jorge Brian Diaz had 10, including several easy buckets as the Huskers consistently beat Missouri’s pressure defense. Laurence Bowers had 11 points for Missouri, the defending Big 12 tournament champion.

Montana rallies for 66-65 win over Weber State

OGDEN, Utah — Anthony Johnson wasn’t ready to look ahead—not even to playing in his first NCAA tournament. Johnson was too busy relishing what he and his teammates had just done, rallying Montana from a 22-point deficit to beat Weber State 66-65 in the Big Sky tournament championship game on Wednesday night. “Right now I’m kind of confused. It’s all kind of just surreal,” said Johnson, who scored a tournament-record 42 while leading the Grizzlies back to the NCAA tournament for the first time in four years. “I’m not even thinking about that. I just want to live in the moment and soak this up a little bit.” Johnson scored 34 in the second half, including the Grizzlies’ last 21 points to complete the amazing comeback and stun the tournament’s No. 1 seed. Johnson hit a jumper with 10 seconds left to put Montana up by a point and the Grizzlies completed it with a final stop on defense when Will Cherry tied up Damian Lillard with 2.6 seconds left. Shane Keyser/Kansas City Star The officials called a jump ball and the Missouri guard J.T. Tiller (left) could only watch as Nebraska center Brian Diaz (21) scores an Grizzlies knew they had the possession easy basket in the men’s Big 12 Championship tournament at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri, on Wednesday. Nebraska upset Missouri, 75-60. arrow and the game.

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Gymnastics coach emphasizes family, teamwork in program

Ryden points to Diane Monty as he explains that she was one of the gymnasts he coached when she was 9 years old. Monty would later be one of the major reasons Ryden came to Arizona. Ryden soon competed at the collegiate level, while attending ASU. At this point in his career, he had no intention of returning to coaching. While at ASU, he received a degree in engineering. The bonds he made with the women he coached was so strong that he felt bad when he left them to pursue another job. Ryden was sucked back into gymnastics. There have been many pit stops in Ryden’s career on his way to Arizona. “I ended up going to Colorado to start an engineering job and intended to leave gymnastics behind,” Ryden said. “Clubs

in Denver slowly discovered I was in town, and would call me and ask me to look at this girl. I didn’t want to coach I just gave them my opinion as if she were my girl. After a while it sucked me back in and I was coaching the upper level kids at Denver school of gymnastics.” In late 1990, Ryden was again thinking of getting out of gymnastics and pursuing a job in engineering. He then got a call from his old pupil Diane Monty, who had just finished a fantastic career at Arizona. “At that point Arizona needed an assistant, and Diane had grown up and she was the star here at Arizona,” Ryden said. “She recruited me and my predecessor recruited me, I never really applied for the job. I decided to come down here for two years, and low and behold I am here for 20 years.”

Keeping tradition alive at UA Although Ryden’s voyage to Arizona was full of changes and pit stops, his time at the UA has been filled with consistency and a winning tradition. “You always have to be flexible and learn as you go,” Ryden said. “As the athletes change, your philosophy has to change.” Within the team, Ryden is revered for his ability to adjust to each athlete, his passion for the sport and his concern for each athlete. “We really are an individual sport that was put into a team. Each person’s gymnastics are so different, their strengths and weaknesses,” Ryden said. “You have to be willing to mold yourself to whatever is going to help that athlete the most.”

Ryden had a hard time choosing just a few memorable moments in his long career, because there have been so many. “In ’93, when went to nationals with only six healthy kids, and five allarounders,” Ryden said. “We made it to the Super Six; it was like defying all odds. Beating ASU, at ASU, in 2002 to leave them home and us go on to the NCAA championship meets.”

She said it “I remember one of things that inspired me to come here was his passion for gymnastics. I always felt that if I am going to be working really hard, I wanted to do it with people that wanted to be here too.” — Miranda Russell “He is an overall amazing coach he cares about us so much, and he just

wants the best for us. I think it’s funny when we are practicing and Britney Spears starts playing over the radio and he just starts singing it, like no normal 50-year old-guy knows Britney Spears.” — Katie Matusik “It’s such a family program, he cares about us more than anything, and we are his kids. It’s just a really big family in here, and I love it.” — Deanna Graham “Bill is a really passionate coach; he always has the best interests of the girls at heart. He treats us as his own family and we are his first priority. We kind of want to propose something this year that if we make nationals that he has to completely shave his head. It’s just something that we really want him to do; we haven’t proposed it yet though.” — Sarah Tomczyk

ANALYSIS

Even match for Wildcats and UCLA

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In the first game, the Bruins slowed down the Wildcats for the first half with their zone defense, but Arizona was able to come back from a 14 point deficit in the second half and seemed to figure out the zone. The Wildcats know that getting down in this game isn’t a smart decision. “We need to come out strong. Every game this season we’ve started slow and had to bring ourselves back in the game,”Williams said.“We were down 14 last time and came back and won, but we can’t afford to do that this time.” Each team would have to win the Pac10 Tournament this weekend to even think about the NCAA Tournament, and this will probably be a game that comes down the stretch. “It’s about who will be the best (today). I don’t think we’re that much better than UCLA,” Miller said. “The game could go either way, we’re not the team that’s saying we’ve beaten them twice (so) it’s going to be easy. “We expect a hard fought game, we know UCLA has a lot pride just like us,” he added.

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