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UA professor to give lecture addressing pediatric OCD BY TERRIE BRIANNA The Daily Wildcat
A UA professor researching treatment methods for obsessivecompulsive disorder using smartphone apps will be giving a talk on the anxiety disorder today. Cary Jordan, an expert in the treatment
of OCD and a UA professor at the College of Education, will be speaking at the college at 5:30 p.m. in Room 318 specifically about pediatric obsessivecompulsive disorder. Jordan has successfully treated OCD in adults and children and said the response rate has been 85 percent or above for the patients he
has treated. Michelle Perfect, an associate professor and interim program director of the psychology program, said “nearly 20 percent of school age students experience significant social, emotional or behavior difficulties that impact their ability to learn.” Jordan has been treating OCD since
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2007 and said the goal of the pediatric OCD lecture is to “build awareness in the community with regards to what is OCD and what is the evidencebased effective treatment.” Perfect’s research is focused on the relationship between physical and
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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL FORWARD Stanley Johnson (5) dunks during Arizona’s 99-60 victory over California on March 5 in McKale Center. Johnson and the Wildcats take on Cal during the quarterfinals of the Pac-12 Tournament today.
The first female president of Ireland will present a lecture at the UA today about climate justice and how climate change affects people of varying demographics globally. The Agnese Nelms Haury Program invited Mary Robinson, the former president of Ireland, to speak at the UA, said Anna Spitz, senior program director for the Institute of the Environment. This new program is affiliated with the Institute of the Environment, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the College of Science. “Mrs. Robinson has extensive worldwide experience and is especially concerned about how climate change will affect vulnerable populations,” Spitz said. “The Southwest is where climate change will have a disproportionate impact. Mrs. Robinson is inspirational and will raise awareness of the connection between climate change and human rights.” The UA is one of the top universities in the country looking at climate impact from society, said Diana Liverman, co-director of the Institute of the Environment. “We’re happy to have one of the top people in the world looking at that coming to visit us,” Liverman said. Liverman said it is her understanding that Robinson will
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A UA student and her family will be a NASCAR driver’s special guests to honor organ and tissue donors at the Phoenix International Raceway on Saturday. Caitlin Korte will be attending for Nick Korte, her brother, who was a registered organ donor. Joey Gase, driver of the number 52 Donate Life car, will be honoring Nick Korte at the race. Nick Korte passed away in 2012, said Jacqueline Keidel, media relations coordinator for the Donor Network of Arizona. “I definitely think this is a great experience because, Nick, my brother, loved doing anything that was fast, so I think that if he was still here he would be just so excited to have the opportunity to go over 100 miles per hour in a race car,” said Cailin Korte. Caitlin Korte said her brother came home one day asking for signatures so he could register to be an organ donor. “We kind of rolled our eyes at him because we didn’t think that at 15 and a half, you’re
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Blinded by the light pollution BY PATRICK O’CONNOR The Daily Wildcat
It’s the only pollution that we see every day but never think about. Light pollution may sound like an issue only astronomers care about, but it has been linked to negative effects on our health, ecosystems and climate. One author who cares deeply about the subject is Paul Bogard, an assistant professor of English at James Madison University. The Daily Wildcat sat down with Bogard to talk about his book on light pollution, “The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light,” before his appearance at the Tucson Festival of Books. Daily Wildcat: How did you become interested in light pollution? Bogard: When I began learning the constellations after college, I quickly realized I couldn’t see half of what I was told to look for, and this was because of light pollution. From there, I began to learn about all the other costs from light pollution. Losing the stars is just the beginning. Who was the most favorite person you met when researching “The End of Night”? I met a lot of great people. One of the first was François Jousse, the man who led the relighting of Paris over the past 30 years.
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ever going to have to think about that again,” Caitlin Korte said. Gase said his mother was an organ donor after she passed away of a sudden brain aneurysm in 2011. Gase said Nick Korte will be honored on the Donate Life race car this weekend. “It’s always cool when we get to honor a donor,” Gase said. “It lets the family and the nation know that once you are a donor, you are never forgotten. When someone sees that picture on the car, they’ll always ask, well why is that person on the car? And we get to tell them their story and say why donation makes such a big impact in so many people’s lives.” Caitlin Korte said Gase honors a different donor every year by putting their picture on his car. She said she thinks honoring her brother in this way is a great opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of organ and tissue donation. “I think the biggest impact it’s going to have is that it’s going to provide even more awareness to especially young people in a community that may not to be as open to organ donation,” Caitlin Korte said. “The NASCAR fan base is generally more conservative, and I feel like Joey Gase supporting organ donation so much is going to bring a lot of awareness to it.”
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What advice do you have for students interested in a career in environmental writing? We need you. We need as many voices as we can get to be talking about what we’re doing to this natural world we love. Read a lot, and write a lot. And remember that people want most of all to read stories, not data. Tell us a story about something you love, and we will listen. Don’t forget to see Bogard during his three panels at the Tucson Festival of Books. He will be speaking at a panel called “Dark Skies and National Parks” on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at the National Parks Experience Store. Following that discussion, he will be in the Integrated
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“I’m going to Boston to visit my brother. I haven’t seen him in a couple months, and we’re going to go to the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Then, I’m going to go home to Scottsdale and just hang out for a bit. I’m pumped; I need a vacation to get away from everything. “ — Danny Mcatamney, a freshman studying criminal justice and finance.
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Learning Center Room 120 at 2:30 p.m. leading a panel called “Dark Skies: An Endangered Resource.” On Sunday, he will be speaking on the Science City Main Stage at 2:30 p.m. at a panel called “Bring Back the Night: Light Pollution and Human Health.”
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Liverman said. Bayleigh Preston, a psychology sophomore, said she thinks having the first female president of Ireland give this presentation will draw more national attention to the issues she brings up. “Poor people in Tucson might not have heat or air so they can get sick from being in the cold, or even get heat stroke from not having air,” Preston said. Liverman said the Institute of the Environment has a large number of projects that focus on climate variability, which include the climate extremes we are experiencing now and the ones we might get in the future. The Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions works to try to help the U.S. and other countries cope with the impacts of warmer climate and natural extremes.
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be speaking about how climate change has much greater impacts on the poor than it does on the rich because the poor often live in areas that are more vulnerable to natural disasters. “Even within Tucson, less well-off people can’t afford to run air conditioning in the summer, they can’t afford to pay for water when it’s hot weather, so there’s really major issues as to how people are affected by natural disasters and by climate change,” Liverman said. She added that there are a lot of UA students and faculty who are concerned with human rights, and that she thinks it will be great to hear from Robinson. “She just seems like somebody who has kept her values throughout her life and has achieved more than most people ever do,”
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Why should the average person care about light pollution? Because it’s an enormous waste of energy and money; it actually makes us less safe at night by creating glare and creating the illusion of safety; it is destroying habitat[s] for nocturnal creatures who help keep our world alive; [and] it is negatively impacting our physical, mental [and] spiritual health. Losing the stars is only one cost from light pollution. Even if you never go outside at night to see the stars, your life is being negatively impacted by our irresponsible, wasteful, unneighborly use of light.
Keidel said Nick Korte’s gift of life saved five people after he passed away. “Donor Network of Arizona is the federally designated organ recovery organization for the state, so we worked with Nick’s family at the time of his passing and helped facilitate that gift of life,” Keidel said. Keidel also mentioned that since that time, Caitlin Korte has become an incredible volunteer for Donate Life, especially in Tucson, helping with registration events and a couple of signature events. “An organ donor can save eight lives,” Keidel said. “If you have also chosen to be an eye donor, you can give the gift of sight to two people.” Keidel said there is currently an incredible need for organ donation in the state of Arizona. “Right now, there are just under 2.5 million Arizonans registered as donors, and that is a little bit over 50 percent of Arizona’s adult population, which is wonderful, but there’s still about 2,500 people in Arizona waiting for the gift of life,” Keidel said. “But to be an organ donor, you do have to pass away in a hospital, which is why even though there are millions of people registered in Arizona, there is still such a great need for donation, because not many people pass away in that manner.”
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What was the most surprising thing you learned when researching “The End of Night”? I was surprised that so many amateur astronomers were doing so little to protect the night sky. They seem content to simply go somewhere else if the sky they knows gets too bright to see the stars. We need these folks to join in the effort to protect darkness.
light pollution in their community? First, become aware that light pollution is just about everywhere. Next, take care of the lights on your own property by shielding them so they only shine downward rather than into the sky or into your neighbor’s house. And finally, take action to create or help enforce lighting ordinances in your community.
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Where was your favorite place you travelled when researching “The End of Night”? Well, it’s always great to be in Paris, but Death Valley National Park was also a wonderful place to visit the night.
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mental health, and particularly the impact of sleep and other chronic illnesses on mental health and education. “Despite the high prevalence, up to 80 percent of youth do not receive services,” Perfect said. Perfect added that the lecture is meant to provide trainees and practitioners with knowledge about cuttingedge research-based treatment for OCD. “I think the overuse of OCD has maybe drawn attention away from what it is really like to have OCD and how impairing this disorder can be for those diagnosed,” Jordan said. Jordan said the symptoms of OCD have different degrees of severity and, if left untreated, can consume an individual’s entire life. “Even moderate levels of symptom impairment can be very impairing,” Jordan said. — Follow Terrie Brianna @dailywildcat
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Teaching computers how to see BY Laeth George The Daily Wildcat
Researchers at the UA have been awarded a grant from the Office of Naval Research to study human vision in an attempt to improve computer vision. Mary Peterson, psychology professor and director of the Cognitive Science Program, is part of a larger nationwide team across a variety of disciplines that was also awarded the grant. Her role in the project is to decipher the mechanisms underlying human vision — specifically, the ability to differentiate objects from a background. “We want to understand human vision so that we can inform machine vision,” said Elizabeth Salvagio, a graduate student in the Visual Perception Lab. “Many, many years ago, maybe in the ’70s, computer scientists said they’d be able to build a machine that could see like a human in 10 years. Here we are, 45 years later, and they still can’t do it.” Ultimately, what researchers seek to understand is how people differentiate objects from their background, Salvagio said. They want to know how we perceive one region as a shaped figure and the other region as a shapeless background. “To be able to navigate in this world, we have to know where the objects are to avoid them, but you also have to know where the empty spaces are so you can move between them,” Salvagio said. According to Peterson, one of the areas in which computers struggle to identify images is in crowded scenes, such as when there are objects occluded — either completely or partially covered — by other objects. What they are good at is identifying faces and obvious textures, like zebras, tigers and leopards. “What that means is they’re capable of mistakes that a human wouldn’t make,” Peterson said. “For example, a tiger coat may be interpreted to be an actual tiger.” One way that human vision is different from
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A view of buildings on the UA campus on Wednesday. Computers would have difficulty in differentiating between these overlapping buildings because it is hard for them to distinguish between borders.
computer vision is that the human brain uses past experiences to help decode visual inputs. Peterson said she hypothesizes vision as a twoway street, in which what we see is affected by our experiences, attitudes and intentions. “My work has long shown that our past experience exerts an influence very early in the course of [visual] processing, that it helps us to parse the world into objects in the first place,” Peterson said. “People are resistant to this idea. They’re worried that because you and I have different past experiences, out of sheer necessity since we’re different people, that we may see different worlds.” From a physiological standpoint, the setup for a two-way means of communication appears to be present.
“Physiologists have found that, in the brain, whenever there is a connection between a higher level to a lower level, there are also connections that go in the opposite direction, allowing one to affect the other in either direction,” Peterson said. “The physiology seems to favor this feedback mechanism, this two-way street explanation.” According to Peterson, the grant is meant to help figure out when this feedback connection is being used and for what it is important. Then, scientists who look at these questions can take the data to their computer science colleagues so they can create models and better computer vision programs that more closely approximate that of a human. More knowledge of human vision and better
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computer vision can have a variety of uses. One potential use is relevant to the military’s training of fighter pilots, one reason why it is funding this research. “When [pilots] are taught to fly, they learn using flight simulators,” Salvagio said. “They’ll be in a cockpit that has motion, but they’re looking at a screen that is projecting an image. … That’s not the real world. But how can we make that experience more life-like? By understanding how vision is accomplished in the first place, we can do that.”
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Depicted is an artist rendition of a quasar. SDSS J0100+2802, a newly discovered quasar, will help researchers learn more about the early universe’s environment.
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Kathy Padilla and her granddaughters, Victoria and Isabella Padilla, browse the Penguin Book Truck’s selection at the Tucson Festival of Books on the UA Mall on March 15, 2014. The festival is also home to Science City, where visitors can find many hands-on scientific activities to do.
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At the Science City at the Tucson Festival of Books, the science of everyday life and the science of tomorrow are only a few booths away. Over 150 participants from the UA, Biosphere 2, OSIRIS-REx and many other clubs, departments and organizations will gather together to share their science with the general public, “I believe that Science City exposes people of all ages, but especially children, to the amazing science that takes place at the UA and in the Tucson area,” said Elliott Cheu, executive committee co-chair of Science City and UA physics professor. “This allows us to demonstrate the relevance of the research activity on the UA campus to the Southern Arizona community.” Even though it’s held at the UA and many of the volunteers and coordinators are affiliated with the UA, it isn’t just a UA event — it’s a community event, said Erin Deely, the science stage liaison for Science City and assistant director of recruitment and engagement at the UA. The emphasis is on hands-on interactive activities and science literacy. This year, one big focus is on making math approachable and fun. One of the “worlds” available is “Science of Pi.”
March 14 is Super Pi Day and Albert Einstein’s birthday. There’s a plan in the works to make a circle with the digits of pi using a coordinated series of volunteers. Other options allow for more hands-on activities and kidfriendly fun. The Biochemistry Club is having a “Science of You” tent with activities that include making lung models out of water bottles to show the breathing process. Another option is the Brainworks booth, which has activities and information about the brain for all ages. Small children can make neurons out of pipe cleaners, and those who don’t want to keep theirs can use it to help create a giant neural network. There will also be a “brain zoo” with a variety of preserved animal brains and information on brain injuries and disorders. “I love seeing people delighted about the brain, and they almost always want to know more,” said Lynne Oland, a neuroscience research professor and one of the coordinators for the Brainworks booths. “It’s good to send people away wanting more.” This section alone will take around 80 volunteers to run, which is a small portion of the 1,100 people, according to Deely, who staff all that’s happening. It’s not just the clubs and
groups in Science City on display; many UA areas are open for tours, including the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium and the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab. “It’s really our attempt to have a STEM open house,” Deely said. They are also trying to ensure that the festival is open to all. School groups are bused in to ensure that under-served communities have access to the festival. People who typically would not hear about the festival or be able to attend have a way to come and experience everything, Deely said. According to Deely, the event has a huge reach, with over 30,000 people going through Science City in two days. This may only be two days, but it is connected to other opportunities throughout the year. The Science City Visitor Center volunteers give out information about the other camps and events throughout the year that can extend learning and outreach, Deely said. Science City is happening Saturday and Sunday, and everyone is welcome to attend. “Just learn, just be exposed [and] have fun,” Deely said.
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Biggest, brightest quasar discovered BY Kimberlie Wang The Daily Wildcat
Peering into the infancy of the universe, astronomers have recently discovered the largest and brightest quasar powered by a central black hole with a mass of 12 billion suns. To put this into perspective, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way has a mass of only 4 million suns, which is 3,000 times smaller. The finding was published in the scientific journal Nature by astronomers from Peking University in China and the UA. “A quasar is a galaxy with a very massive black hole at the center,” explained Xiaohui Fan, regents’ professor of astronomy at the Steward Observatory. “Black holes exhibit such a strong gravitational pull that they are always sucking matter into themselves, and even light cannot escape from inside the black hole. During this process, black holes release a lot of energy from the collision of gases and stars, so a lot of light is being emitted just before it disappears into the black hole.” Fan, who co-authored the study, explained that it takes time for light to arrive to the Earth, as light travels at 186,000 miles per second. Thus, seeing objects from far away also means seeing them at their early stage in the universe. The quasar, named SDSS J0100+2802, is at a distance of 12.8 billion light years away and formed only 900 million years after the Big Bang. There are only 40 other known quasars from such an early time of the universe. This factor, paired along
with the luminosity of the quasar being that of 420 trillion suns, is surprising to astronomers. “What we discovered is that the brightest object in the early universe also contains the most massive black hole ever detected at that time,” Fan said. “The surprising part is how can the universe, in a relatively short period of time by astronomical standards, produce such a massive and bright object? It’s like observing an infant that turns out to be the size of a giant. It is not clear how that could happen.” The quasar was first discovered by the 2.4-meter Lijiang Telescope in Yunnan, China, using digital mapping of the sky and infrared imaging from NASA satellites. Pursuing the discovery further, UA astronomers used the 8.4-meter Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham and the 6.5-meter Multiple Mirror Telescope on Mount Hopkins in Southern Arizona for data collection. Fan said he is excited to learn what the newly discovered quasar will reveal about the environmental conditions of the early universe. “What we have discovered is an object that defies our expectations based off of our standard theory on how these black holes occur in the universe,” Fan said. “It is the brightest beacon from the early universe, and from it, you can see the conditions of the universe, whether it was cold or hot, had small or big galaxies, that sort of thing.” — Follow Kimberlie Wang @DailyWildcat
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It’s not a crime to be homeless BY nick havey
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ucson could be considered a progressive city, and in many aspects it is. We have a lot of unique food, boast a pretty rad Gem & Mineral Show and have some of the most beautiful collections of art in the Southwest. We also contribute to the worldwide marginalization of the homeless. Tossed aside and subjected to ridicule and persecution, the plight of the homeless is a problem we are ignoring, or even worse, actively inflaming. According to a National Institute of Housing report on homelessness, “One homeless individual’s release from jail was conditioned on his agreement to stay out of a two-mile square area covering most of downtown Tucson.” Downtown, urban and industrial areas offer the most available shelter to the homeless as well as comparatively lucrative places to ask for help, and removing them from these areas exacerbates an already intense obstacle to survival. The criminalization of activities like public loitering, urination, defecating and sleeping is a direct assault to the lives and well-beings of homeless people, and these are everyday actions the general public takes for granted. For the homeless, shelter spaces are few and far between, and when they exist, they are often dangerous spots where the residents fear for the safety of their bodies and possessions because of the other inhabitants. For the homeless, options are slim and living has become a criminal activity that cities are demonizing instead of treating. In Tucson, the city has considered leasing sidewalks to businesses so they can mandate the homeless away from their locations. Combined with location sanctions, this proposal infringes on their right to travel. Tucson also has a massive population of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning homeless youth, and these sanctions worsen the already-troubling living conditions for them. According to UCLA Law School’s The Williams Institute, 40 percent of homeless youth are LGBTQ-identifying and, as a result, are directly at greater risk of arrest, sexual assault and illness as a result of “survival sex work.” According to Patrick Farr, the Wingspan Anti-Violence Project coordinator at the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation, this is a result of the system of cyclic hate violence against the homeless and LGBTQ-identifying people. “They are conscious of the problems they are facing and for a majority, going into survival sex work is one way to find a place to eat or sleep for the night,” Farr said. “As a result, this population faces the heaviest police crackdown — one trans youth said that, ‘All my friends were there,’ after spending a night in jail after being arrested.” This crackdown and general hateful sentiment isn’t, however, unique to Tucson or to LGBTQ homeless. In an interview following the shutdown of a public feeding program run by local nurses, one Santa Monica, Calif., resident emphatically spoke to this perspective, telling a reporter, “If you can’t feed yourself through working in this society, then maybe you shouldn’t exist and starve.” People privileged and lucky enough to have homes find cruel solace in placing punitive measures against the lower echelons of society, incarcerating people for acts that should be misdemeanors, thus criminalizing existing-while-poor. Criminalization, however, has no positive effects and it is costing us money. According to the same NIH report, it cost $40 to incarcerate someone in 1993 compared to the $30.90 it cost to feed, house, clothe and offer counseling services to the same person. Barring a discussion of the horrible status of our justice system, this is a clear misuse of public funds. One county in Florida might have a heart: It started a voluntary “Homelessness 101” program to educate police officers about decreasing arrests and citations against homeless people. Arrests dropped by 26 percent. In another Florida county, a meal tax was imposed, grossing over $400,000 a year to provide services for homeless people. There are good options; we are just looking past them. An unwillingness to engage with these issues then foments a disdain for the victims; a cyclic pattern of disgust leading to harassment and arrests is not productive — it is inhumane. “Homelessness 101” needs to be become a nationwide program for legislators and law enforcement officials, because the current system is not only ineffective, it’s awful. I certainly would not want to be jailed or harassed on the basis of my outward appearance or a stranger’s presumption, and the over 600,000 homeless nationwide don’t either.
— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish. Follow him @NiHavey
The disabled have sex, too Vice Magazine is trying to shed light on a topic that should be more freely discussed and less taboo. These articles explain that sex is just sex, no matter your race, religion, body weight or possible physical impairment, and most importantly, that sex should never be considered a privilege that some are unentitled to because of their disabilities. While this topic is interesting, it’s also risqué and a little awkward. However, there is a lot of room now to create an even more negative, bizarre or misunderstood outlook on disabled people and their sex lives, because it has been brought to a public forum. So now that it’s here, we need to talk about it. In particular, Chris Wenner, a psychologist, UA graduate and wheelchair user, said he wants us to talk more about disabled women, whose sexual experiences are pointedly overlooked in the Vice Magazine articles. Sexual desires only scrape the tip of this even larger subject, and this represents an opportunity to begin discussion on a variety of disability sexuality issues. Like the wide variety of sex positions that exist in the world, there is a large spectrum of disability and what abilities these physically impaired folks do and don’t have. How can we even begin to categorize the sexual needs of a person if we don’t know what they are capable of? “One of the things I really want, one of the
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et’s talk about sex. Like money and politics, sex is a controversial topic. Everyone thinks about sex, everyone has sex, everyone talks about sex. However, there are some sides to the world of sexual encounters that are rarely discussed. In recent months, Vice Magazine has published a few articles showing a different perspective on this crude and exciting topic: the relationship between sex and disabled people. These various articles profile different countries around the world and the way that disabled people are able to receive sexual services. Jen Munaretz wrote “For Disabled People Seeking Intimacy, There’s a Fine Line Between Health Care and Sex Work,” and told the story of a disabled man and his experience with a Canadian group that provides sexual services like massage therapy and tantra for the disabled. Nelson Moura and Yun jie Zou co-wrote “These Volunteers Give Handjobs to the Severely Disabled” about a Taiwanese volunteer organization — the title is probably pretty selfexplanatory.
things that make this topic iffy, is how we categorize a disability,” Wenner said. “The idea of what a disability is has a lot of variation and a lot of grey area.” For example, Wenner said he believes there should be a better definition of what sexual behavior really is for disabled people, because sexual behavior is not just about having intercourse. There is such an array of variability, and the public should know that disabled people have the ability to engage in sexual behavior. Disabled people are more likely to work on the abilities that they do possess, according to Wenner, and therefore are “far better lovers and partners.” Disabled people, he says, even “have better quality sexual experiences, sexual relationships and romantic relationships” because they put in more effort. Sex is sexy, but the public needs to be educated on people with disabilities as a whole, rather than searching for steamy secrets. It’s 2015, so everything that happens in the bedroom stays in the bedroom (or on the Internet forever, and everyone will be talking about it Monday). But at least they’ll be talking about it.
— Trey Ross is a journalism sophomore. Follow her @_patriciaross
Pulse of the Pac Universities up and down the West Coast are debating Israel, Palestine and anti-Semitism within the campus dialogue about the conflict “Statement from UC faculty on divestment from Israel,” by UC Faculty Members With the Associated Students of the University of California, Davis … vote to pass … the “divestment resolution,” UC Davis joined the student governments of six other UC campuses … and a larger number of universities nationwide. The resolution calls upon the UC regents to refrain from investing in certain companies that openly assist the Israeli government and army in the occupation of Palestine, in violation of international law and multiple United Nations resolutions. The recent University of California Student Association vote confirms that this is a demand strongly made by the student representatives of the UC system at large. … As faculty, we strongly urge the administration to heed this call. Divestment is not a “personal and emotional” issue, as UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi claimed. … Divestment is one of few widely accepted means by which civil society can influence global politics. We deplore the attempts to disguise this broad struggle as local identity politics that can thereby be dismissed. … The University of California has historically been in the forefront of progressive movements and struggles for social justice, … thanks to strong student movements. Today, the university has more than 240,000 students, and it is incumbent upon its administrators to … honor the duly expressed demands of this population to continue to honor this position that the university has historically occupied. The Daily Californian The University of California, Berkeley
“UCLA campus must take action to address anti-Semitism,” by David Myers, Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller and Maia Ferdman Last week at the University of Chicago, anonymous postings on the secret-sharing site Yik Yak … were riddled with antiSemitism. … The most shocking of posts expressed the wish that the “final solution had worked.” … [We] have our own local outbreak of the Jewish Question: the case of Rachel Beyda, whose qualifications for a position on the Undergraduate Students Association Council Judicial Board were challenged … because of her Jewish religious background. … … [These] cases are wake-up calls. As much as we assumed it to be dead, the Jewish Question lives on. At UCLA, it took the form of the myth that Jews are … incapable of unbiased participation in society. At the University of Chicago, it took on a more blatant form of hatred. … It is true that many Jews strongly identify with the state of Israel. It is also true that some Jews are strongly critical of the state of Israel — or have relatively little connection to it. The danger of the current discourse … is that it sweeps in all Jews, branding them as monolithic, biased and incapable of sound judgment. … … [The Jewish Question’s] context has evolved, as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to unravel complicated and charged associations between identity and politics on American campuses. But its potentially toxic effects remain. Daily Bruin The University of California, Los Angeles
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“UW’s Simpson Center puts Israel in the dock,” by Edward Alexander UW’s Simpson Center has … [created] a “research cluster” entitled “Palestine and the Public Sphere.” Its first featured speaker was Omar Barghouti, stalwart of the “Boycott, Divest, Sanction” movement to expel Israel from the family of nations. … … According to the Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, “All academic exchanges with Israeli academics … have the effect of normalizing Israel and its politics of occupation and apartheid.” … There have never been apartheid laws in Israel. Jews and Arabs use the same buses, clinics, government offices, theatres, restaurants, soccer fields, beaches. … … Simpson recommends, for unmatched “depth, tenor, and thoughtfulness,” “The Question of Zion,” a frenzied polemic by … [a UW] English professor, Jacqueline Rose. … She depicts mass murderers as “people driven to extremes,” [and] lashes out against “those wishing to denigrate suicide bombers and their culture.” … … Organizations that demonize Israel … feature what Kafka called Display Jews like Rose. … But stoking the fires of Jew-hatred is risky business: flames get out of control, and Jew-haters are notoriously poor at distinguishing Zionist from anti-Zionist Jews. … [She] will find it useless to plead “I am Jacqueline Rose the anti-Zionist. I am not Jacqueline Rose the Zionist.” The killers — in Paris or Toulouse or Copenhagen — will nevertheless reply: “It is no matter. Tear her to pieces, she’s a Jew.” The Daily of the University of Washington The University of Washington
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A non-UA affiliated individual was accused of stealing a baseball bat from the A-Store at Downtown on Feb. 26 at approximately 3:03 p.m. University of Arizona Police Department officers arrived with a store employee, who pointed to a black male wearing a baseball cap and a gray hoodie. He said, “That’s the guy.” One officer attempted to speak with the suspect across the street on the northwest quad. According to the officer, the individual was walking really fast and trying to avoid him. He walked around the corner of a nearby building to lose sight of the officer. The officer ran and tried to catch up to him, but he started running away from him. The officer shouted, “Police, stop running!” The suspect was ordered to drop the bat and put his hands up. He was then handcuffed and escorted back to the store on foot. A check showed that he had been arrested for shoplifting at the Student Union Memorial Center in the past and was known to grab police officers’ duty weapons. The employee said the man entered the store wearing a hoodie over his head. He walked around the store, and, at some point picked up a baseball bat and dropped another one on the floor. He left the store and the employee saw him removing the price tag off a bat outside through the glass window. The employee knew he didn’t pay for the bat because he was the only one working at the time and the man never came to the register. The man was cited and released on charges of shoplifting and was served with a six-month UA Exclusionary Order. The bat was returned to the store, and a store video of the incident was given to police.
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A UA student reported someone being inside his car and stealing his personal items on Feb. 26. According to the student, he parked his 2005 blue Subaru station wagon in Parking Lot 1157 on 1225 E. Helen St. at approximately 10 a.m. on Feb. 25. He returned to his vehicle the next day at approximately 12:30 a.m. to find the remnants of someone going through his vehicle without permission. The man said his glove box and center console were open, and his gym bag, which was always stored in the rear storage compartment of the station wagon, was missing. He claimed that there was no damage to his vehicle, and that it was unlocked when the incident occurred. Later, the individual said he returned to the area around 9 a.m. to look for his gym bag. He ended up finding the bag on the ground near Mountain Avenue and Mabel Street, undamaged. The only thing missing from it was a Polar heart-rate monitor worth about $100. The man was mailed his victim rights form and given a case number to help with the judicial proceedings.
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Exhibit – Prism and Perspective: Landscapes, Composition, and Bodies. This is the second installment of Edward J. Gallagher Jr.’s donation of 20th-century art to the UA Museum of Art in memory of his son. Gallagher’s collection consists of artistic explorations of the abstract and the figural, landscape and portrait, and line and color in modern art. Free Lunch/Lecture: ‘LGBTQ Older Adults and Project Visibility’ McClelland park 402, 12pm. Come join the Institute for LGBT Studies for free pizza and conversation, as social worker Sandy Davenport explores how LGBTQ older adults are five times less likely to access senior services, and often feel they have to be closeted when receiving care, for fear that their care providers may act out of prejudice and subject them to ridicule, abuse or other discrimination. Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium Koffler 218, 4pm. Ka Yee Lee, chemistry professor at the University of Chicago, will present a seminar titled “Stressing Lipid Membranes: Relaxation Mechanism in Lung Surfactant and Effects of Polymers on Membrane Integrity.” Fathauer Lecture in Political Economy Berger Auditorium, 5:15pm. Susan Athey from the Stanford Graduate School of Business will present “The Impact of the
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Internet on the News Media” on Thursday, March 12 from 5:15-6:15 p.m. A reception will follow. MacArther Fellows Speaker Series: Gary Nabhan Chavez 111, 6:30pm. Nabhan is an ethnobotanist and writer whose studies on indigenous farming, wild-food gathering, and land management focus on conserving ancient cultural traditions. His research projects in the Tucson community and Southwest include involvement with University of Arizona Southwest Center and Edible Baja Arizona. Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Disorders Education 318, 5:30pm. Cary Jordan will address the following in his presentation: Review of identification and diagnosis for children, empirical treatment approaches with case examples, PANDAS/PANS, and school and therapist collaboration. Everybody Matters: Climate Change and Human Rights Centennial Hall, 6pm. Mary Robinson, who served as the first woman president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 and U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002, will discuss the importance of including the most vulnerable populations of the world in solutions to climate change.
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Garden Kitchen Dinners 2205 S. Fourth Ave., 5:30pm. The evenings will each begin with a little socializing followed by a talk and cooking demonstration, with some hands-on preparation shared by all. We will finish by sitting down together – an important part of the Mediterranean lifestyle – to enjoy the culinary creations we’ve made and will take home knowledge and recipes! Exhibit – ‘Curtis Reframed: The Arizona Volumes’ AZ State Museum, 10-5. Edward S. Curtis, famed photographer of the American West, created iconic images of Native peoples at the start of the 20th century. This exhibit explores Curtis’ work in Arizona from 1900-1921, featuring photogravures and narratives from his life’s work “The North American Indian,” a 20-volume set. Borderlands Brewing Science Café: Gloria Jimenez 119 E. Toole Ave. 6pm. The Science Café series at Borderlands Brewing, in downtown Tucson features Carson Scholars, graduate students who are selected by the UA Institute of the Environment. Their research focuses on environmentally related science and solutions.
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Ferguson police chief resigns under fire TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
FERGUSON, Mo. — Police Chief Thomas Jackson has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department effective March 19, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has learned. Sources say Lt. Col. Al Eickhoff will be appointed as the department’s interim chief until a national search for a permanent chief can be conducted. Jackson, 57, is the sixth city employee to leave in the wake of a scathing federal Department of Justice report that alleged racist police and court practices aim only to raise the city’s revenue instead of protecting its citizens. In an exclusive interview, Jackson said he felt it was time for the city to move on. “I believe this is the appropriate thing to do at this time,” Jackson said. “This city needs to move forward without any distractions.” In his emailed resignation letter to Mayor James Knowles III at about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, Jackson writes: “It is with profound sadness that I am announcing I am stepping down from my position as chief of police for the city of Ferguson, Missouri. It has been an honor and
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FERGUSON POLICE CHIEF Tom Jackson is surrounded by his officers as he leaves a news conference in Forestwood Park on Aug. 15, 2014 in Ferguson, Mo. Jackson took questions in the quiet park after earlier identifying Darren Wilson as the officer who shot Michael Brown.
a privilege to serve this great city and to serve with all of you.” “I will continue to assist the city in anyway I can in my capacity as private citizen,” his letter
continued. A press conference was called for City Hall later Wednesday. Last week, the Justice Department also
concluded there was no evidence with which to charge former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, 18. But in a separate report, the department report revealed racist emails that were sent by court and police officials, and portrayed a police department and court that discriminated against African-Americans from the initial traffic stop to how they were treated in court. The report also heavily criticized Jackson for his role in using the city’s police force to generate revenue, quoting emails in which he lobbied to switch to 12-hour shifts that would put more officers on the streets and increase traffic enforcement. The report said such schedules are shown to diminish community policing efforts. The report also takes the department and Jackson to task for holding people in jail for more than 72 hours at a time as well as using canines only on African-American suspects. The federal investigation also found that city police officers stop African-Americans at higher rates than the city’s African-American population.
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WASHINGTON — The United States will provide Ukrainian forces fighting Russia-backed separatists $75 million in nonlethal equipment, including small reconnaissance drones, radios and military ambulances, a senior administration official said. President Barack Obama has also approved the transfer of 30 armored Humvees and up to 200 unarmored Humvees under a separate authority, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and requested anonymity. “We have said from the outset of the crisis in Ukraine that the United States supports the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” the official said. “We have been working together with our European and other international partners to achieve a diplomatic solution to this crisis.” The aid comes amid an ongoing
debate inside the administration and Congress over whether the U.S. should start providing defensive weapons to the Ukrainian forces to try to force Moscow to withdraw its support for the separatist insurgency. Despite a cease-fire negotiated by leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine on Feb. 12, fighting has continued in parts of Ukraine. An estimated 6,000 people have died since fighting broke out 11 months ago after Russia’s seizure and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea territory. “While we continue to believe that there is no military resolution to this crisis, Ukraine has the right to defend itself,” the official said. Many in the U.S. government, including lawmakers, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, have publicly advocated providing lethal arms to Ukraine.
Thus far, the U.S. has given only nonlethal aid to Ukraine’s military, including medicine, night-vision goggles and armored vests, since the conflict erupted. As many as 300 American troops are also to be sent to the Lviv region on Ukraine’s western border, far from the conflict zone, to train Ukrainian soldiers. The White House approved the new allocation of $75 million through the Pentagon’s European Reassurance Initiative funds. The Pentagon expects the equipment to arrive in six to nine months. The package includes countermortar radars for warning and protection against mortar and artillery fire and night-vision devices. It also includes small remote-controlled Raven drones, made by AeroVironment Inc. in Simi Valley, Calif., that are thrown into the air by soldiers and provide a bird’s-eye view of what’s happening over a ridge or around a bend.
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RUSSIAN FORCES PATROL near Perevalne, in Crimea, Ukraine, on March 10, 2014 in the days before a referendum on whether to leave Ukraine and join Russia. After initially claiming not to be involved in the occupation of Crimea, Russia later admitted its troops had taken control of the region before the vote.
The Department of the Treasury announced on Wednesday new sanctions targeting eight Ukrainian separatists, a Russian pro-separatist organization and a bank that has become the largest in
Crimea since Russia seized the area from Ukraine. The sanctions freeze all assets held on U.S. property and prohibit Americans from doing business with them.
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’Cats open tourney with Cal BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat
Arizona men’s basketball begins its quest to win its first Pac-12 Conference tournament championship in 13 years this afternoon, with the quarterfinals at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The No. 5 team in the nation and top-seeded Wildcats (28-3, 16-2 Pac12) open up the Pac-12 tournament in the quarterfinals against No. 8 seed California, which beat No. 9 seed Washington State 84-59 on Wednesday. Arizona tips off against the Golden Bears at noon MST on the Pac-12 Networks. The Wildcats are 7-5 in the Pac12 tournament under head coach Sean Miller and have made it to the championship game three times in the last four years, but haven’t won it since 2002. “We haven’t won it,” Miller said. “We’ve played really well recently. In our program’s history, it’s been some time that we haven’t won it, and yet we won the regular season, and then having a chance to add to our win total and quality of play leading into what I think really matters, and that’s the NCAA tournament.” Arizona went 2-0 against California (18-14) in the regular season, beating it 73-50 on the road and 99-60 at home. The Golden Bears went 7-11 during the conference season. Arizona won four Pac-10 tournaments years before the conference became the Pac-12 or moved to Las Vegas. “That’s pretty surprising, but I know since coach Miller’s been here, we’ve come pretty close quite a few times, and we’re trying to get over the hump this year,” Arizona point guard T.J. McConnell said. The tournament is the Wildcats’ first action since Miller, McConnell and forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson lost the Pac-12’s Coach of the Year, Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards, respectively. Miller said that there weren’t any politics involved with the Pac-12 awards voting, and that he wasn’t sure if not winning the awards is motivation for his players. “I don’t know,” Miller said. “I think we as a team, and me as a coach, have to be
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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL guard T.J. McConnell (4) looks to pass as California guard Tyrone Wallace (3) defends during Arizona’s 9960 victory over California on March 5 in McKale Center. McConnell and the Wildcats will face Cal for the third time this season when the two teams face off in the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals today.
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watch us play baseball.” Behnke described his family as a “baseball family.” His father played ball, his uncle played ball and his older brother pitched at Grand Canyon University. Leaving South Mountain Community College was not a difficult task for Behnke. “I miss the friends I made there, but other than that, I like it here a lot,” Behnke said. He also hasn’t found it difficult to adjust to the change from junior college to Division I baseball. “I think the biggest difference is just that everything is faster,” Behnke said. “The pace and the practices here are faster, but other than that, it’s all the same so far.” There is something, however, that Behnke has experienced that he didn’t encounter during his two years at South Mountain: making national headlines. Being the No. 1 play on
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ARIZONA BASEBALL outfielder Justin Behnke (4) slides safely into home during Arizona’s 9-6 victory over Portland on Sunday at Hi Corbett Field. Behnke has made significant contributions in his first year at Arizona.
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e wishes he was a little bit taller, and he wishes he was a baller. At least that’s what his walk-up song says. “I actually didn’t choose that song; someone else chose it for me at South Mountain,” Arizona center fielder Justin Behnke said. “Everyone just loves it, and everyone says it works for me, so I just kept it.” What if he wasn’t a little bit taller and a baller? He wouldn’t be part of the Arizona baseball team this year and his contribution would be missing. After junior Scott Kingery transitioned to second base, it was Behnke who was chosen to take his spot. The junior college transfer had to fill big shoes in the outfield. “Justin has done a great job; he has really played a solid defense and has gotten some big hits
for us here and there,” Arizona baseball head coach Andy Lopez said. “He does a great job. He is like a double leadoff hitter for us between him and Kingery.” Behnke said he still hopes to improve on his defense for the rest of the season. However, to his teammates, he is already someone to look up to defensively. “He is definitely a leader by example, and he is definitely someone in the outfield who we look up to,” Arizona right fielder Jared Oliva said. Oliva described Behnke as a soft-spoken person, which is hard to believe since he was raised in a family of all men, besides his mother. “I like it, and it’s a lot of fun, but I know my mom has always wanted a girl,” Behnke said. “She’s the only girl in the whole family. Even our dogs are males, and she complains about having male dogs, too. But I think she likes it at the same time, and she gets to
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s Arizona softball looks ahead to the start of Pac-12 Conference play this weekend, the Wildcats find themselves in the midst of a midseason crisis. Arizona has been thoroughly defeated, both on the mound and at the plate, by nationally ranked, nonconference opponents. No. 1 Florida shut out the Wildcats 10-0 on Friday, limiting Arizona to just three hits. On the same day, No. 12 Auburn handed the UA its worst loss in program history — a humiliating 20-2 blowout. A top-ranked Baylor team knocked off Arizona 9-1 just two days later. Yes, those are just three results, and yes, the Wildcats still boast a 21-6 record on the season. But for a program that prides itself on being a national title contender year every year, it looks like Arizona may be on its way to missing the Women’s College World Series for a fifthconsecutive season. The pitching simply isn’t strong enough to shut down top lineups right now. The Wildcats’ offense has similarly struggled to find any success against the game’s best pitchers. Every Arizona pitcher got knocked around at least once over the weekend at the Judi Garman Classic. Michelle Floyd and Nancy Bowling each gave up five runs against Florida. Trish Parks only made it through an inning after allowing seven runs against Auburn. Floyd and reliever Siera Phillips didn’t fare any better versus the Tigers. Baylor also knocked around Floyd and Bowling, who both saw their ERAs jump
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f you didn’t think the NFL is the most popular sports league in the nation, take a look back at the last few days and reevaluate your views. Boatloads of money were spent in what was arguably the most hectic opening day of the NFL league year, and several seemingly secure players were shipped off to new destinations. Despite contracts like Ndamukong Suh’s monster $114 million deal with the Miami Dolphins, teams like the Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints and Seattle Seahawks took swift advantage of the beginning of the new league year. A bevy of talented players were traded over a 10-minute period. Here’s a rundown of players who were traded during that stretch: All-Pro tight end Jimmy Graham from New Orleans to Seattle, Pro Bowl center Max Unger from Seattle to New Orleans, Pro Bowl quarterback and former Arizona Wildcat Nick Foles from Philadelphia to St. Louis, quarterback and former No. 1 overall pick Sam Bradford from St. Louis to Philadelphia and Pro Bowl defensive tackle Haloti Ngata from Baltimore to Detroit. It’s remarkable to think that all those moves went down in that 10-minute window in a league that traditionally has shied away from trading big-time players for other marquee players. The scary thing is that those are just the trades that went down that day, and doesn’t take into account some of the free agent signings that also impacted the league in a
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significantly. Not to mention, Parks went down with an unknown injury and there are no updates on her status. Even if the Wildcats had received stronger performances on the mound, the offense didn’t offer enough production to keep games competitive. The Wildcats went a collective 1364, a .203 batting average, at the plate against Florida, Baylor and Auburn. Leadoff hitter Hallie Wilson, the catalyst for the offense, batted .071 (114) over five games at the Classic. Arizona’s pitching was the biggest question mark going into the season. Would the Wildcats find the right combination of hurlers to keep the team in close games? About midway through the season, the solution looks murky at best. Floyd leads the staff with a 2.78 ERA, 69 strikeouts and 73 innings pitched. However, she has also allowed 31 walks, more than the other three pitchers combined. Parks, a freshman, boasts a solid
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careful in talking about that, because when you talk about that, it’s almost like you’re discrediting those that have won the awards.” McConnell downplayed any perceived awards snubs as motivation. “I don’t think of the awards as motivation to us,” McConnell said. “I mean, I think motivation to
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big way, the biggest of which was cornerback Darrelle Revis heading from the Super Bowl champs in New England back to the team that drafted him 14th overall in the 2007 NFL Draft, the New York Jets. In a move reminiscent of LeBron James’ return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Revis went back home and got an insane amount of money from the Jets to do so. New York signed him to a five-year, $70 million contract with $39 million guaranteed. It may not be the highest amount of
8-2 record and 3.04 ERA, but she is still acclimating to elite college-level hitting. Floyd and the understaffed Wildcats will be tested again this weekend when Arizona travels to California to face the Golden Bears, another strong offensive team. As for the Wildcats’ offense, Arizona still ranks No. 7 nationally in batting average and No. 16 in slugging percentage. Those numbers, while inflated by an all-around weak slate of opponents, suggest that the UA’s lineup is sufficient, although not nearly as dominant as last season. With the exception of a few remaining nonconference trips, the competition won’t get any easier for Arizona, which should be taken as a challenge. If the Wildcats want to be taken seriously as a Women’s College World Series contender, they’ll need to prove it in the weeks ahead against topranked Pac-12 opponents. — Follow Ezra Amacher @EzraAmacher
us is being so close last year and not being able to win the Pac-12 Championship. That’s motivation for all of us, just being hungry and wanting to get over the hump.” Arizona won the conference by three games over No. 2 seed Oregon, which the Wildcats beat 80-62 on the road and 90-56 in Tucson. More than just the Pac-12’s automatic berth could be at stake for Arizona, which could move up from a two seed in the NCAA tournament, where most projections have it, if
guaranteed money for a cornerback ever — Arizona’s Patrick Peterson holds that record with $48 million guaranteed in his deal — but the $14 million per year average is tied with Peterson and Seattle’s Richard Sherman for the highest in the league, according to ESPN Data. Much like James’s situation, Revis heads to a team desperately in need of his services. The Jets employed a multitude of corners in the secondary, looking, praying and hoping one of them would turn into anything above
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SportsCenter’s Top-10 plays was probably the best reason for him to pick up communication with people from community college whom he hadn’t talked to for a while. “I was getting calls and text messages from friends and family and basically everyone I know,” Behnke said. “My phone was blowing up, and after, like, an hour, I couldn’t go to bed, just because everyone was trying to talk to me.” It’s no question that Behnke has made an impact on this year’s Arizona team. He’s hitting .375 and has tallied six RBI’s this season. Behnke is the type of player who will let his game do the talking. “Communicating in the outfield is when he will be loud, but besides that, he gets the work in and doesn’t try to do too much.” Oliva said. The team is not even half way through the season, but when it comes to Behnke, Lopez is certain about three things. “He’s a good guy to be around with, he plays hard and he’s fun to coach,” Lopez said. SALLY LUGO/THE DAILY WILDCAT
ARIZONA SOFTBALL utility player Hallie Wilson (5) hits a home run during Arizona’s 8-3 victory over UNLV on March 4 at Hillenbrand Stadium. Wilson and the Wildcats have struggled against top-level talent this season, inciting talk that Arizona needs to improve.
it wins the Pac-12 tournament and teams ahead of it lose. “A lot can happen,” Miller said about the possibility of getting a No. 1 seed. “We’re in our tournament, others are in theirs. If we would be fortunate to win the conference tournament, I don’t know what seed we would get, but I know this: that there would be nobody that would look at us and say anything but ‘Boy, they’re playing their best basketball of the season.’” Arizona is No. 7 in the RPI, 11-1
in its last 12 games, has won eight games in a row, is 3-0 against the RPI top 25 and is 7-0 against the top 50. “I think at the end of the day, we just have to worry about us,” Arizona forward Stanley Johnson said. “They’re going to pick what teams we play, they’re going to decide how they mark their brackets, but all that matters is the game right here, you keep winning the games.” The Pac-12 is offering its network free to everyone today, on Pac-12. com and the Pac-12 Now app.
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average. Instead of a clear-cut star emerging, the team was left with mediocrity throughout the secondary, something too detrimental for most teams to overcome. Revis’ return brings hope for new head coach Todd Bowles’ defensive unit, and is one of those feel good stories that fans like to hear about. Some of the other notable signings and agreements are as follows: Pro Bowl guard Mike Iupati signing with Arizona, Pro Bowl tight end Julius Thomas heading to Jacksonville, linebacker Trent Cole and running back Frank Gore signing with Indianapolis along with Pro Bowl receiver Andre Johnson, and Super Bowl champ and wide receiver Torrey Smith heading to San Francisco. On a much sadder note, linebacker Patrick Willis, quarterback Jake Locker and linebacker Jason Worilds retired from the game, with Willis citing injuries and Locker and Worilds citing a lack of passion to play the game. All of them are not yet in their 30s. Locker, the 26-year-old No. 8 overall pick by the Tennessee Titans in the 2011 NFL Draft, and Worilds, the No. 52 overall pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 2010 NFL Draft, were in line for multi-million dollar free agent contracts. Willis was under contract for the next three seasons with base salaries of $7.065 million, $7.985 million and $4 million, respectively. Tuesday was one of the craziest days in NFL offseason history. If history is any inclination, it’s only going to get more hectic as the years go by.
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Arizona fans are expected to be plentiful and vocal in Las Vegas. “If the last couple of years in Vegas [are] an indication, I would expect that, especially if we’re able to advance, that [the] arena will take on a really red flavor as the tournament progresses,” Miller said. “Our fans are the best.”
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The Arizona women’s tennis team has hit the road to start its long, fivematch stretch away from home. After about a five-day break of no matches since playing NAU, the team traveled to Fort Collins, Colo., to take on Colorado State. During the short break, the team was given three days off to catch up on schoolwork, rest and clear their minds. “Our schedule was going to be grueling, and we wanted everyone as fresh as possible,” Arizona women’s tennis head coach Vicky Maes said. “That was really our biggest goal.” The players listened to their coaches and did just that. The Wildcats came back from that break and played an outstanding first match of the five, winning 7-0, giving Arizona some momentum for the remainder of the trip. “The team performed great under the circumstances,” Maes said. “We never get to play indoors and that always requires some adjustments, but we responded well. We did a nice job in the doubles and kept it going all throughout the singles, too.” It is still a great feeling to get a win on the road, even though the Rams are not one of Arizona’s Pac-12 Conference competitors. It is also key that Arizona won the doubles point 6-0 on courts one and two. All of the Wildcats won their matches on the singles courts, and Arizona quickly took the victory 4-0. When Arizona won the doubles point, the only senior on the team, Laura Oldham, and her partner, freshman Devin Chypyha, who is still undefeated
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Arizona women’s tennis freshman Devin Chypyha returns a volley during Arizona’s 4-3 victory over BYU on Feb. 13 at LaNelle Robson Tennis Center. Chypyha and the Wildcats defeated Colorado State 7-0 on Wednesday.
in her single matches, were behind 5-1 when the match was stopped. All of the Wildcats were able to sweep their opponents in two sets, except junior Shayne Austin, who still brought the team a victory. Maes said she was very impressed with Chypyha’s poise and performance on Wednesday. “I like how Devin keeps improving with every match she plays,” Maes said. “She has a big game, but needs to learn and build the points better. She is coachable, though, and has made huge strides.” Maes said the team’s high level of chemistry this season has been a factor to the team’s success and continued growth. “This is a wonderful group of young women,” Maes said. “We enjoy working with them because they are interested
in playing hard and doing well together. Our team chemistry is what makes the difference in close matches.” Arizona now has a record of 9-1 and is preparing for a Pac-12 match coming up on Friday against Colorado. Maes said they have a tough competitor ahead of them and will have to put all they have into the match to leave with a victory. “We know that we will battle two tough teams in Colorado and Utah,” Maes said. “We did what we needed to do today to prepare for those matches, and now I feel we just need to go out and bear down.”
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Arizona track and field athletes Lisanne Hagens, Nnenya Hailey and Elvin Kibet left early Wednesday morning for Fayetteville, Ark., where they will compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships Friday and Saturday. The trio will be competing fresh off strong performances at the MPSF Indoor Championships in Seattle two weeks ago. Hagens finished second overall in the high jump competition, Hailey set a personal record of 8.19 in the 60-meter hurdles and finished third overall and Kibet finished second in the 5K event and won the 3K event. Kibet will be competing in the 5K event this weekend. Going into the high jump competition and her first big national event, Hagens said she feels well prepared to compete against some of the best high jumpers in the country, and the meets she has competed in this season have helped her to see how far along she is and what she needs to do to improve. Many of the competitors have personal best clearances of 6 feet and higher, and Hagens said she believes the fierce competition will motivate her to be better. She said she hopes to break her own personal best
clearance of 6 feet. “It should be a great experience for me,” Hagens said. “I think I’m ready to [set a personal record] soon. It would be awesome to [set a personal record] at nationals.” Hailey also comes into Fayetteville with hopes of beating her personal record of 8.19 seconds in the 60-meter hurdle event, a record she just set two weeks ago in Seattle. Hailey said she’s never competed at an event in Fayetteville before, but thinks the track may help her beat her personal record and even help her set a new school record. Hailey fell just short of making the finals a year ago in the NCAA Indoor Championships, but hopes to make it this year in Fayetteville. “My goal is to make the final, beat my personal record and get the school record,” Hailey said. The Wildcats will use Thursday as a day to rest after a long day of travel and to prepare for the weekend ahead of them. The three of them said they plan on eating light, healthy meals the night before and doing shakeouts and jogs Friday morning to ensure that they are warmed up and ready to go. — Follow Brandon James @Twitterhandle
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Applications are now being accepted for the position of general manager of KAMP, the UA’s student radio station, for the 20152016 school year. This is a challenging paid position for qualified students with broadcast and management experience and a knowledge of student radio operations. Pick up a complete job description and application from the Student Media business office, 615 N. Park, #101, first floor of Park Student Union. Application deadline is March 23, 2015 at 5 pm.
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Do you want to work for the only student run television station on campus? UATV channel 3 is recruiting for the position of General Manager for the 2015-2016 school year. The candidate will be responsible for coordinating the daily operations of the television station. This is a challenging paid position with a flexible work schedule. Gain valuable management experience that will help in future career endeavors. To qualify, you need to be a UA student (graduate or undergraduate) with strong leadership, organizational and communication skills. Pick-up a complete job description and application from the Student Media Business office, 615 N. Park #101, on the first floor of the Park Student Union. Application deadline is Monday, March 23, 2015 at 5 p.m.
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Bike/ WaLk to UA 4Bed/3Bath upscale kitchen & baths, Lg bdrms & yard. Lots of upgrades. Must see. 2810 E. Lester $2400/mos 520-977-0619 Bike/ WaLk to UA/ UMC 4BD/2BA Remodeling of kitchen/baths/Lg bdrms/yard complete by June 1st 2317 N. Martin $2200/mos 520-977-0619 BLoCks From CamPus, Guesthouse, A/C, water paid, washer/dryer $500 ALSO Guesthouse, A/C, 650sqft, washer/dryer $690 REDI Rentals 520-623-5710 www.azredirentals.com House For reNt. Campbell/ Grant. 2 Bdrm, 2 bath,+ craft/bdrm, Lg. Living rm, bright dining room, stove, fridge, new HVAC, washer &dryer hookup, enclosed yard w/ detached store room &carport. Pets OK w/ deposit. $950/Mo. 1 Yr. lease 331-5918 miNutes to uoFa, 2BD House, A/C, washer/dryer $795 ALSO 2BD, A/C, fenced, washer/dryer $875 REDI Rentals 520-623-5710 www.azredirentals.com remoDeLeD House. 4BDrm/ 2bath. All appliances, washer/ dryer. Air conditioning. Private, 2 car garage, enclosed backyard. Available August 2015. 1227 N. Tucson Blvd. $2200. Call Gloria 885-5292 or 841-2871. sPaCious 5BeDroom 3FuLL bath home for lease for August 2015. A/C, fireplace, W/D, private parking, fenced yard. Located just within blocks of Campus!! Call for more info 520-398-5738 totaLLy remoDeLeD sam Hughes House 4 RENT avail. June 1. 223 N. Bentley 3/BR (2 ARE HUGE) 1.5/BA ALL UTILS included (WHICH AVG 400/mo). $2660 (per mo.) as-is (if split 4 ways is only $665.00 each) or $2900 with an agreement to add a 2nd shower (if split 5 ways is only $580.00 each) Details w/more info/ pics http://tucson.craigslist.org/apa/4890653294.html Contact cook.bob@comcast.net or 520444-2115 uaoFFCamPus.Com ‑ 3, 4 & 5 bedroom houses, 2015 school year. Walk/bike to campus. Newer, high quality, AC, washer/dryer, granite, stainless steel. Very BeautiFuL, oPeN concept. 2BD/1BA. 222 E. Elm #1. Open kitchen, W/D, A/C, very private, secure, patio, energy efficient. $1150, available August 2015. 520-885-5292/ 520-8412871 WaLk to CamPus, 3BD House, A/C, fenced, washer/dryer $895 ALSO 3BD 2BA, A/C, washer/ dryer $1100 REDI Rentals 520623-5710 www.azredirentals.com WaLk to CLass, 1BD Duplex, A/C, fenced yard $650 ALSO 1BD, ceramic tile, carport, storage $675 REDI Rentals 520-623-5710 www.azredirentals.com
2 blocks to uofa. Duplex +sin‑ gle family home. $198,000 w/ seller financing available. Charming rented duplex with 2 1BD apartments, +604 sq.ft. house in need of total rehab. seller is offering financing with 25% down payment, 6% in‑ terest, $891 monthly Pi, 5 year balloon. Currently grosses $14,160 per year in rent. Jade Bossert 797‑6900 tierra an‑ tigua realty.
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