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SHE’S BEAUTY, GRACE She’s Miss Tucson Desert Rose — UA pre-nursing sophomore was awarded title earlier this year

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U.N. says fighting in Ukraine has killed 840 since mid-January Police criticized for use of force against homeless man in Los Angeles — The New York TImes

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UA baseball hosts New Mexico State

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atricia Duenas, a pre-nursing sophomore, was awarded with the prestigious title of Miss Tucson Desert Rose in January. As part of the Miss America Organization, she will be in the running for Miss Arizona this upcoming June, and if crowned, she will be in the running for Miss America. But for now, she makes sure to stay on top of community service and her studies.

First competing in pageants at age 13, this Arizona native is a veteran in the world of pageantry; however, this was her first year competing under the Miss America Organization. With the help of former Miss Arizona titleholders, Duenas was persuaded to compete in the local competition of Miss Tucson Desert Rose.

“I competed in my first local and decided to run for Miss Tucson,” Duenas said. “I won my first time, and I just couldn’t believe it.”

Being honored with the title of Miss Tucson Desert Rose does not come without sacrifice.

Even though she calls Chandler, Ariz., home, living away from her family pains her with homesickness.

“My first year here [at the UA,] I was a little homesick, and being Filipino, we have a very rich culture,” Duenas said.

However, she found a group she was able to call her second family, the UA’s FilipinoAmerican Student Association. With the club, Duenas is not only able to find comfort, but she is also able to help spread awareness of the Filipino culture at the UA through philanthropic

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MISS TUCSON DESERT Rose Patricia Duenas is crowned by former Miss Tucson Desert Rose Rachel Dyckman on Jan. 17 at the Pima Community College Center for the Arts. Duenas is a prenursing sophomore and a veteran of pageantry competition.

Never Settle brings points of discussion to Faculty Senate

BY CHASTITY LASKEY

The Daily Wildcat

Last Vulcan salute to Spock himself, Nimoy

In a Faculty Senate meeting held on Monday afternoon, UA staff expressed a lack of knowledge about what Never Settle means for their colleges specifically. According to audience participation at the meeting, the strategic plan itself leaves many with questions about its relevance.

At the meeting, a brief recap was given of the process that generated the current Never Settle plan.

Barbara Bryson, vice president for strategic planning and analysis, gave a brief history of the last year-and-a-

half of Never Settle.

Senate members were asked to take part in a discussion stating how each felt about Never Settle. They were asked to respond to questions by raising their hands.

Questions included, “How would you describe your familiarity with Never Settle?” and “How much do you feel [it] can influence your professional life?”

The options to vote ranged from not at all, a little bit, some, a fair amount or a lot. Most senators refrained from answering.

Bryson said she and Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory

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CLAY WOOD, an employee at Second Amendment Sports, hangs a rifle on the wall. The outdoor sports store is one of many places to purchase a weapon in Tucson.

Severity of gun laws decrease in Arizona

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QUOTE TO NOTE “By excluding such a large portion of the American population, homophobia persists at an institutional level, and it is killing people.”

— Nick Havey

NATION AND WORLD

Tamir Rice blamed for fatal shooting TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

The lawyer representing the family of Tamir Rice, the 12-year-old African-American with a toy gun shot to death by a white Cleveland police officer, reacted angrily on Monday to city arguments that the boy was responsible for the shooting.

Rice was shot by Officer Timothy Loehmann on Nov. 22 as he played in a Cleveland park, which roiled civil rights groups across the nation.

The family originally filed a wrongful death suit in December, then amended it in January. The city formally responded in a 40page document filed with the U.S. District Court in the Northeastern District of Ohio on Friday.

In its papers, the city blames the boy for his death and puts the injuries, losses and damages “directly and proximately caused by the failure of [Rice] to exercise due care to avoid injury.”

“We’ve been in a holding pattern and all we get is these insults,” Walter Madison, the Rice family attorney, told the Los Angeles Times on Monday.

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BY LIZA RUBIN

Arizona Sonora News Service

Amber Underdown, 21, loves her Second Amendment rights.

“I come from a family that loves going out and shooting guns, so I feel very close to them when I go out shooting,” Underdown said.

“Plus, it’s a lot of fun. It’s quite the adrenaline rush.”

Underdown, a Cave Creek native, comes from a long line of gun aficionados. She grew up with guns and said most of her family members enjoy them as well.

The Underdown’s aren’t alone — Arizona has a love affair with guns.

Forty-five gun shows are scheduled in Arizona this year.

There is no firearm registry. There is no state permit required to carry openly or conceal a shotgun or rifle unless the carrier is younger than 21 years of age. There are

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a few places that prohibit guns, including public schools, polling stations on election days and nuclear generating stations.

The Center for American Progress ranks Arizona as No. 4 in the nation for highest levels of gun violence in 2014. The CAP reported 14.6 gun deaths for every 100,000 people in Arizona during 2010. That was 40 percent higher than the 10.3 national average.

A study done by the Behavioral Research Center’s Rocky Mountain Poll states that Arizona’s support for stricter firearm laws has decreased from 42 percent in 2013 to 33 percent in 2015.

Charles Heller, the media coordinator for the Arizona Citizens Defense League, supports the state’s gun laws.

“They are a tool,” Heller said.

“If you have a problem, you don’t

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as a pre-nursing sophomore with a minor in psychology.

She is part of the Gamma Beta from page 1 Phi honor society and received an academic scholarship toward events put on by FASA. pageant costs. While she hopes Being a first generation college to become the next Miss Arizona, student, Duenas makes sure Duenas holds tight to her lifelong she is able to help high school dream of starting her own practice students in a similar situation. as a nurse practitioner.

FASA has teamed up with her in “[Duenas] is an incredibly raising money for such students by intelligent young woman,” said donating to The Shine Scholarship pageant director Marta Vizcarra.

Project. Her “She is driven and success in has volunteered pageants to help serve has not only the Tucson helped students community. I am associated looking forward to with The Shine seeing big things Scholarship with her as Miss Project but also UA Arizona.” students involved Duenas said she in FASA. is thankful for the Francisco world of pageantry Enverga, FASA — Francisco Enverga, and what it president and a FASA president has helped her UA junior studying accomplish so far. biochemistry and She said she looks neuroscience forward to using and cognitive science, discussed the skills she has learned through Duenas’ involvement in the club. pageants to chase her dreams.

“Working with her has had “Pageantry has helped me in so such a huge impact on the club,” many ways,” Duenas said. “You can Enverga said. “It’s a blessing for be anything you want to be and us. The club has gained a lot of still be successful in pageants.” publicity. As a friend and club member, she is very hard-working, and it’s awesome to see her doing big things.”

Even with her hectic schedule, — Follow Lauren Reteria Duenas stays diligent in her studies @dailywildcat

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try and limit your tools. Guns are valid and valuable tools. You don’t reduce your tool cabinet when you need to do a project.”

While gun violence holds a high rate in the state, many Arizonans stand by their Second Amendment rights.

“I live alone, so it helps me sleep at night knowing I can protect myself, because you just can’t count on the police showing up in time,” Underdown said.

Lawmakers in Phoenix think along the same lines. They consistently pass some of the most pro-gun laws in the country.

“We have the best gun laws in the nation,” said Alan Korwin,

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owner and operator of the Bloomfield Press in Scottsdale and gunlaws.com. “People who want their freedoms cling to them very tightly and check encroachments on their freedoms. Efforts to deny us rights that we already have are not well-received. We are the linchpin of freedom. Firearms are part of that reason.”

Arizona consistently ranks as the best state for gun owners due to its non-restrictive laws, a competitive shooting culture and Gunsite, which is the country’s oldest and most well-known private shooting school. The Bloomfield Press, the largest publisher and distributor of books on gun laws, ranked Arizona as the No. 1 state for favorable gun laws in 2010.

This year, a number of progun bills have been proposed,

including House Bill 2320, which would exempt Arizonans who carry a concealed weapons permit from being disarmed in state and local government-owned properties, unless everyone is required for a weapons screening, as a method of self defense.

Ladd Everitt, director of communications for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, is not against firearm ownership, but feels as though Arizona should be more restrictive on gun laws.

“I think this is much bigger than guns,” Everitt said. “Our concern, like the Tucson shooting, is that someone with every red flag in the world owning a gun, or someone that failed a background check being able to go to a private gun owner and purchase a gun.”

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Andrew Comrie, provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs, speaks during the Faculty Senate meeting, while Barbara Bryson, UA vice president for strategic planning and analysis, listens on Monday in Old Main. Bryson gave a presentation on Never Settle that led to discussion from the senate members.

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Committee co-chairs Mika GalileeBelfer and Randy Richardson want to find ways to knit together the Never Settle plan and its processes throughout the university; they also want to find ways to get feedback in order to improve, learn, acknowledge accomplishments and set new goals.

“One of the major critiques concerning strategic planning is that the administrators create beautiful plans,” Galilee-Belfer said, “but that doesn’t necessarily suggest alignment with what’s happening in college and units within the college.”

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Rev. Al Sharpton, center, leads the “Justice for All” march in the nation’s capital with the families of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo and other unarmed black men who were killed by police, Dec. 13 in Washington, D.C.

Both of those cases led to demonstrations and sometimes violent protests. from page 1 The Cleveland incident was caught on videotape and shows incredulous comment I have ever heard,” Madison said. “The family Rice playing in the park with a is just completely infuriated. They cellphone and a toy pellet gun.

Police arrive, responding to a 911 are still picking up the pieces of call, and the boy is quickly shot. their lives, and they have been In its suit, the Rice family alleges obliterated by such an insult” that blamed the death on the 12-year- that Loehmann, Officer Frank Garmback — who is Loehmann’s old boy’s actions.

Cleveland also argues that partner — and 100 unidentified the city does not have enough 911 operators, police officers information to respond in full and city employees violated the to the Rice family allegations, family’s rights in the shooting.

The family’s because the suit also describes C u y a h o g a details about the County Sheriff ’s moments after the Office is still shooting when investigating Tamir Rice’s sister, Rice’s death.

Tajai Rice, 14, The Rice case was tackled and was one of a trio restrained as she of police actions ran toward her that reignited brother screaming, q u e s t i o n s “My baby brother; about policing — Walter Madison, the they killed my baby and Africanbrother.”

Rice family attorney Americans.

The Rice shooting The Cleveland occurred after the shooting came federal Department just days before Justice completed its a grand jury decided not to of charge a white police officer in investigation into the Cleveland the deadly shooting of Michael Police Department.

In its report issued on Dec. 4, Brown, an unarmed black man, in Ferguson, Mo. The Cleveland federal officials found that Cleveland shooting also happened before a police engaged in a pattern of using Staten Island grand jury declined excessive force against suspects, to charge a New York police including the chase and shooting officer in the death of Eric Garner, of Malissa Williams and Timothy who died after a chokehold was Russell in 2012. administered during an arrest.

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be the most helpful.

Other senators agreed and said making it more relevant to each person and college could greatly increase understanding.

Faculty Senator Barbara Mckean said one of the things she discussed with her table group is how the plan can provide spaces of opportunity in teaching and scholarship. She said her favorite comment raised was in regards to how the plan was going to make them happy.

“There’s a tremendous amount of cynicism around just the words ‘strategic plan,’” Mckean said.

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If you could donate to any charity, which would you choose and why?

1. “Either the humane society or the food bank, because I feel bad for the animals being neglected, and people need food.” — Lexie Thomas, a sociology junior 2. “I would try to donate to a research facility directly that is conducting research.

Otherwise, I would donate directly to a 1. homeless shelter or a battered men’s and/or women’s shelter. It would just depend on what I’m trying to do at the time.” — Amir Abidov, a senior studying physiology and biology with a biomedical focus

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Galilee-Belfer added that one of the most important pieces of the Never Settle strategic plan is comprised of the alignments included across colleges.

After each question, Faculty Senate members were then asked to discuss within their own sections.

Other questions included how Never Settle affects their professional lives and what the UA can do to expand their understanding of Never Settle.

Faculty Senator Ricardo Valerdi said he wanted them to make it more meaningful to him and the work he’s doing. He said that a less exhaustive and more condensed summary of what Never Settle means for him and his college specifically would

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3. “I would probably donate to the St. Jude Children’s [Research] Hospital, because childhood cancer isn’t funded enough. It affects a lot of people, and it’s not something that gets much attention.” — Kyler Waybright, a physiology freshman 4. “I would donate to Doctors Without Borders. I want to become a doctor, and I feel like other countries don’t really know how to take care of themselves. I feel like organizations and charities like that can really make a difference.” — Sasikanth Nagisetty Ravi, a biomedical engineering junior 5. “I would donate to this organization called MEDLIFE, because I’m involved in it. They do mobile clinics in South America. I’m going to Peru for spring break to work with them.

They help people get healthy in those areas and do building projects.” — Grace Heise, a nutritional sciences junior

— Compiled by Chastity Laskey and photos by Sydney Richardson

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The photo for the same article misidentified the artist as Campus DJ host Arty. The artist pictured was a DJ in the competition but was not the host. The Daily Wildcat regrets the errors.

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Acing midterms: There’s an app for that

BY MIA MORAN

The Daily Wildcat

In this digital age, our smartphones and computers can be used for everything from watching viral videos of llamas to writing an honors thesis. With midterms coming up and the general stress of the semester sinking in, look no further than your mobile device for apps to help you get through this grueling time and get to spring break.

RefME Price: Free Available on: App Store, Google Play

If you have an essay to write for your midterms (which I’m guessing is going to be most students at the UA), this app is going to be your new best friend. RefME allows users to scan the barcodes of books and journals in order to create citations with ease. Users can also input an ISBN or URL into the app, which has over 7,000 different referencing styles. So, whether your professor wants everything in MLA, Chicago or APA style, RefME is bound to have the citation you need. When you’re done, you can export your citations to an email address, Microsoft Word and other platforms.

WolframAlpha Price: $2.99 Available on: App Store, Google Play

If you’ve been hiding under a rock or have never taken a math course in your life, the famed website allows anyone to input an equation, and the site will solve it for you. The website

is now in app form, but it does much more than solve math problems.

The app provides info on DNA sequences and metabolic pathways, current and historical weather data, genealogy and mythology, morse code, socioeconomic data and more.

The app is a go-to guide for any data or statistic you may need, regardless of your major or random fact that piqued your interest.

Handle Price: Free Available on: App Store

If you have a sea of emails and have barely begun to wade through them, Handle can help you. Handle allows iOS users to sync their emails with a to-do lists that allows for the ultimate control over prioritization.

Users can create to-do lists and set reminders and dates in the inapp calendar. If you’re working on a group presentation or paper, different tasks can be assigned under a single project to allow for better organization. This app is clean and easy to use and does more than countless other “to-do” apps on the market.

30/30 Price: Free Available on: App Store

For those who have trouble staying on task or have a hard time using your time wisely, 30/30 can help you.

The app is essentially a to-do list but with a set amount of time that users designate for each task. For example, if you have a test to study for and a paper to write, you can designate 45 minutes doing research, give yourself a 15-minute break and then set aside

an hour for studying. It may seem matter-of-fact, but this colorful app makes it easy to move on from a task at hand with an alarm that does the timekeeping for you.

AnkiApp or AnkiDroid Price: Free for Android Available on: App Store, Google Play, Kindle Fire, Windows Store

IRL flashcards are so 2014. Like everything else that’s moving from print to digital, AnkiApp lets users create and download decks on thousands of different topics, from different cat breeds to country capitals to GRE vocabulary. Users can make multimedia flashcards with images or sounds, and all your flashcards are automatically synced to the app so they can be used with other devices.

Wi-Fi Finder Price: Free Available on: App Store, Google Play

Though Wi-Fi Finder is fairly selfexplanatory, you don’t know how useful it is until you really need it.

The app allows users to search for locations with Wi-Fi nearby and tells whether those locations offer a free or paid Internet connection. Users can sort by location (such as a hotel lobby or coffee shop) or provider type, and will give directions to the locations of their choosing.

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KAMP: Dancing is The final frontier in the air with these for Leonard Nimoy

spring music festivals

BY VICTORIA PEREIRA The Daily Wildcat

The Starship Enterprise lost a legendary officer this weekend. For one of the most popular TV series in history and for eight subsequent movies spread out across two different generations, Leonard Nimoy was Spock from “Star Trek.”

The half-human, halfVulcan science officer aboard the Enterprise, Spock was a character written by the show’s creators but brought to life by Nimoy. His portrayal made Spock one of the most beloved science fiction characters of all time, and Nimoy was forever tied to his Vulcan alter ego.

Nimoy died Friday in Los Angeles, Calif., due to endstage, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at age 83. Fans around the world have joined Nimoy’s friends and family in their time of grieving.

Nimoy was born in Boston, Mass., on March 26, 1931, to parents Max and Dora Nimoy, who were immigrants from the Soviet Union. Nimoy acted in various community plays during his childhood.

He decided to follow his dreams and pursue acting after his first big role as Ralph in the production “Awake and Sing!”

In the early years of his career, Nimoy found many minor roles on B-movie film sets. In addition, part of the two years that he spent serving in the military was in the Army’s Special Services Branch, where he produced stage shows for his comrades.

Nimoy was also often seen as a guest star on various television shows, including episodes of “The Twilight Zone,” “The Untouchables” and “Outer Limits.”

His place in film and television history was solidified when he began his work on the original “Star Trek” TV series that ran from 1966 to 1969. Although the series only had 79 episodes that stretched across three seasons, the program was immensely popular and opened many doors for the science fiction genre.

Nimoy’s character, Spock, was groundbreaking. By having a human mother and a Vulcan father, Spock was a unique combination of Vulcan logic and science and human faults and emotions.

He was extremely intelligent,

BY PRISA ESHRATI

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s spring approaches, the music scene really begins to blossom. The weather starts warming up, and people finally come out of their winter shells. So, naturally, this rejuvenating time is perfect for attending music festivals.

Music festivals can be a great way to not only immerse yourself in incredible music but also to connect with the community and become inspired by artistic and musical talent. Here are some upcoming festivals that our disc jockeys are looking forward to.

Pot of Gold Music Festival at Tempe Beach Park: This music festival takes place over spring break from March 13-17 and showcases a different genre each night. March 13, for example, will host more upbeat, dancepop acts, such as Future Islands and Chromeo, while March 14 will feature rap and hip-hop with artists such as Schoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar. The festival will also have a wide variety of local food vendors throughout the grounds, so you can check out what Tempe culinary experts have to offer while you’re waiting between sets.

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somewhat mysterious and, on rare occasions, subtly emotional.

Once he was cast into the role, Nimoy helped develop much of what is considered today to be Spock’s signature personality. Every deliverance of a line and every movement had to have the essence of Spock, and Nimoy made sure that it did. Nimoy also created the famous Vulcan salute from a childhood memory.

During an Orthodox Jewish ceremony, Nimoy witnessed a group of worshippers performing a ritual to bless the congregation.

The congregation was supposed to close their eyes or turn away during this blessing, but Nimoy stole a glance of the group and saw that they were holding out their hands in a strange v-shape. This image stuck with him, and while working on the first episode of “Star Trek” that featured Vulcans, Nimoy suggested that this V-shaped hand gesture should be the Vulcan salute.

Almost 50 years later, fans of “Star Trek” and Spock continue to use the Vulcan salute to send the iconic message, “Live long and

prosper.”

Throughout the remainder of his life, Nimoy dabbled in photography, music, writing and poetry, and continued to be involved in film and television through acting, screenwriting and directing.

He married his first wife, Sandra Zober, in 1954 and had two children, Julie and Adam Nimoy. After a divorce, he married Susan Bay in 1989.

Nimoy never really separated from Spock. He felt fans had a hard time distinguishing him from the character which reflected in his first autobiography titled, “I Am Not Spock.” However, in his second autobiography, “I Am Spock,” he seemed to embrace the shared persona he had created in playing the officer.

“Spock is definitely one of my best friends,” Nimoy told Starlog, a science fiction magazine, in 1989. “When I put on those ears, it’s not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.”

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McDowell Mountain Music Festival: This non-profit festival takes place in downtown Phoenix from March 27–29 and offers an eclectic mix of artists on its lineup. One of the headliners, Widespread Panic, is a legendary jam band and holds the title of having the most sold-out shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. So, it will be a unique experience to see it in a more

intimate setting. For the headier crowd, Beats Antique and Thievery Corporation will provide a cerebral experience by blending tribal and world music with electronic fusion. Folk music will be strongly represented as well, with bands such as Portugal. The Man and Trampled By Turtles. The lineup also features some more commercially known acts, such as Passion Pit and Phantogram, which will definitely bring in a larger audience and rack up even more energy than in the years past.

Sonic Bloom: If you were able to attend Gem and Jam Festival this year and are still vibing from all the psychedelic energy and artwork, then you’ll definitely want to check out Sonic Bloom from June 18–21. It is held at Hummingbird Ranch in the foothills of Rye, Colo., which would be the perfect place to road trip in order to escape the Tucson summer heat.

Sonic Bloom is a four-day camp-out that fully immerses the senses in visual and performance art and, of course, is coupled with some of the best electronic and psychedelic music producers from around the globe. If you want a taste of Sonic Bloom in Tucson, you can check out one of the headliners, Shpongle, at The Rialto Theatre on March 13.

KAMP will cover and give away free tickets for McDowell Mountain Music Festival and Pot of Gold Music Festival. So, be sure to like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter, @Kamp_ Radio, to find out when to tune in.

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PUBLIC NOTICE The ASUA Senate has proposed changes to the ASUA constitution on which students can vote in the upcoming general election.

To view the constitutional changes, there will be an advertisement in the picture bar on the home page of the ASUA website. To view the document go to asua.arizona.edu, click on “About ASUA” and the consitutional changes will be under “important documents”.

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Tuesday, March 3, 2015 • Page 4 Editor: Jacquelyn Oesterblad letters@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-3192 twitter.com/dailywildcat

Gay blood regulations are bloody bigoted

BY NICK HAVEY

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merica is in serious need of blood right now. According to the American Red Cross, about 36,000 units of blood are available daily, but 80,000 units are needed to keep up with the high demand for blood in surgery and emergency situations.

Unfortunately, over 2 percent of the nation’s potential donors are barred from donating on the basis of their sexual activity. The lifetime ban on men who have sex with other men will be lifted later this year, but it will be replaced with an equally deleterious and offensive proposition: Don’t have sex for a year, and then maybe the Red Cross or United Blood Services will take your free blood.

Alan Cumming, an openly bisexual, award-winning actor and newly selfappointed director of the Department of Sexual Abstinence — formerly headed by Coach Carr from “Mean Girls” — wants you to take the Celibacy Challenge.

Don’t have sex for a year, dudes, he says in a new video, and then you can donate blood. Cumming suggests things other than his name: Take up phallic pottery, polish your door knobs and trophies, and join a civil war reenactment. Really, anything to stop having sex.

The hilarious video is, of course, satirical. One year of abstinence for many adults is ridiculous. That’s like asking someone to not have an opinion for one year prior to voting. To donate blood, you have to be a consenting adult, and consenting adults usually have an adequate grasp on their risk; generally, no one wants to donate infected blood.

“Absurd! Those damn gays are far more at risk for contracting potentially dangerous diseases and infections than my wholesome straight son or daughter,” said everyone’s homophobic, rightwing relative who is probably also a huge racist. “They shouldn’t get married either! This ban totally makes sense.”

The fact of the matter is that the options aren’t that great for the blood services right now anyway. Only a little less than 10 million people in a population approaching 400 million donate blood regularly. Over 2 million men are barred from donating blood because they had sex with another man once. (Just once; that’s all it takes!)

Telling 2 million people they can’t do something doesn’t seem like a lot out of 400 million, but it’s huge in a population of 10 million blood donors. And those 10 million aren’t even producing an adequate blood supply.

Ian Thompson is a legislative representative for the American Civil Liberties Union on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. In a Huffington Post article citing tissue donation as another barrier for gay men in receiving medical equality, Thompson spoke to the progress of this move, however small.

“It makes no sense to exclude from the donor pool healthy, gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men who are in committed, monogamous relationships where neither partner is living with HIV,” Thompson said, “but I think the progress we’re seeing, however flawed it is on the blood donation end, is probably a good indication we may see progress on these other issues as well.”

By excluding such a large portion of the American population, homophobia persists at an institutional level, and it is killing people. People are dying because there is a lack of blood and organs in this nation. As a supposed world power, we should be ashamed of that.

The Food and Drug Administration needs to drop its bias and acknowledge that 2015 is a time in which straight people are just as likely to be diseased as gay people — and that their screening procedures need to be based on risk and not sexual orientation or gender identity.

After all, according to Sarah Kate Ellis, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation president and CEO, “Stereotypes have no place in saving lives.”

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish.

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Fix the fixed voting system

BY MADDY BYNES The Daily Wildcat

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he 2016 election is right around the corner. Many politically-savvy people are looking at the 2014 midterms as a barometer for the political climate in the year to come.

In 2014, the tide of Congress shifted from Democrat to Republican. The House, already under Republican control, gained 13 Republican seats. The Senate went much the same way. In the 113th Congress, Democrats had control of the Senate, but in the 2014 midterm, they lost nine seats.

All told, Congressional Democrats lost 22 seats to Republicans in the 2014 midterm election.

Though some of the issue is disapproval of President Barack Obama’s job, a large factor in the shocking increase for Republicans in the Congress was gerrymandering. There’s no other way to explain the fact that Republicans needed only 45 percent of the vote in 2014 in order to secure a majority in the House — the branch of our government that is supposed to

be the most representative.

In 2000, Al Gore lost the presidency despite winning the popular vote by 500,000 people.

Most people know this. It was the cause of a lot of uproar. And yet, the lopsided votes in Congress every year — only 49 percent of Americans cast their vote for a Republican Congressman in 2012 but Republicans secured a 33-seat majority in the House — attracts comparatively little attention.

Article 1 Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution requires the United States to redistrict every 10 years after a census process has taken place. Like most of the Constitution, this processes is vague and left to the states to decide.

Barbara Norrander, a professor in the School of Government and Public Policy, describes gerrymandering as “drawing Congressional district lines to advantage one group over another.” Gerrymandering happens because the process to reapportion members of the House is highly politicized.

Republicans had been thinking about gerrymandering after the 2010 census for years, as described by PBS NewsHour.

Since most states, excluding Arizona, have procedures where state lines are drawing by state representatives, the Republican

Party spent years of effort and money to gain control in the states. This strategy allowed for Republicans to control the House of Representatives until the next Census in 2020.

Gerrymandering has some harsh realities in the U.S. First of all, increases in the amount of districts that are gerrymandered creates a more polarized Congress. Arizona, South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Georgia and Louisiana are just a few states with highly gerrymandered districts.

The Republicans aren’t the only culprits. Democrats saw an increased turnout in North Carolina’s Congressional District 12. This district is obviously gerrymandered and runs down Interstate 85 with a width of only a mile or two.

Both parties are at fault.

Arizona is one of under 10 states that has an independent commission to redraw district lines.

“It perhaps made a few more competitive districts in Arizona,” Norrander said, commenting on the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. “It has five things it has to do in drawing lines, and drawing for competitiveness is one.”

More states should have an independent commission. In

Arizona, it created Congressional District 2. District 2 encompasses the eastern part of Tucson and Pima County. Anyone who watched the election in 2014 knows that District 2 was an extremely competitive race between Republican Martha McSally and Democrat Ron Barber.

In states with independent redistricting commissions, competitive elections are more common. This means there is more of a likelihood that your voice will count. That’s what politics in the U.S. should be. A Republican in North Carolina Congressional District 12 has no voice, the same way a Democrat in Ohio’s 8th District is powerless.

As members of states, we have to take the power of Congress out of the hands of future members of Congress. It’s a conflict of interest. Rather, people should do redistricting with no substantial skin in the game. Independent redistricting could change Congress and create a more bipartisan national legislature, something we could all use.

— Maddy Bynes is a junior studying political science and history. Follow her @madelinebynes

ISIS is Islamic in name only

BY ASHLEIGH HOROWITZ The Daily Wildcat

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he Islamic State is not an Islamic organization.

This idea gets a lot of pushback, not least because the word “Islamic” is in the name and because the Islamic State’s leaders attempt to justify their actions using Islamic teachings.

But those leaders are wrong. The Islamic State does not represent the Islamic religion any more than the pro-Nazi Christian Front, a Christian organization established in the U.S. in 1938 and eventually charged in federal court with treasonous activity, represents Christianity.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which represents 57 Muslimmajority countries, voted to condemn the acts of the Islamic State.

Imams from the U.K. spoke out against the Islamic State in July 2014, warning and urging people to not involve themselves after an estimated 500 Britons had emigrated to join the organization.

Even al-Qaida dislikes this group.

According to BBC News, al-Qaida general command released an online statement in early February that disavowed the Islamic State and pronounced its disapproval of its actions.

So what makes the Islamic State so unjustifiable in the eyes of even the most extreme Muslims? Its lack of respect for the dignity and preservation of life.

The burning death of the Jordanian pilot triggered backlash, and al-Qaida stated

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that the event is “conclusive proof of ISIS’ deviance.”

Two imams were also shot, and four civilians were beheaded as a result of their public denunciation of the Islamic State’s “muslimness.”

For any person to kill their spiritual leaders or citizens is an act of tyranny to control a dejected population. The only method the Islamic State has to silence the truth — that the vast majority of Muslims believe it’s comprised of apostates, an extremely serious accusation in Islam — is to kill the truth-tellers.

“Islam gives a great deal of attention to the concept of preservation of life, honor, and wealth,” said Imam Al Azhari of the Islamic Center of Tucson.

“None can be taken, ever, without clear, strong, irrefutable evidence within a reputable and fair justice system.”

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation explained its own opposition to the Islamic State in similar terms and stated that “such actions stand in stark contradiction to the tenets of Islam and any of the existing human rights or international law standards in dealing with prisoners.”

A recent article in the Atlantic by Graeme Wood quoted Princeton professor Bernard Haykel in refuting the idea the Islamic State is not an Islamic organization. Wood said Haykel “regards the claim that the Islamic State has distorted the texts of Islam as preposterous, sustainable only through willful ignorance.”

But if this is true, then the near 1.6

billion Muslims in the world, minus about 30,000 Islamic State fighters, have been hopelessly duped into wrongly practicing their religion for the past 1300 years.

In reality, Haykel’s argument is preposterous and, in some ways, Islamophobic and fundamentalist. It supposes that “real Islam” is violent, and it asserts that the only accurate way to follow a religion is to read the original texts literally without any intermediaries — meaning, for instance, any Christian who doesn’t believe in stoning adulterers is a bad Christian.

But literal interpretations of the Qur’an are impossible, unless one believes that God literally becomes the ear of a Muslim.

The task of defining religions by their texts, their intellectual traditions and their mystical practices is not an easy one, and, indeed, it gave rise to an entire department on the UA campus.

But someone doesn’t need a Ph.D. in religious studies to recognize that a small, violent fringe group does not define a religion’s true practice simply because they claim to do so — especially when the majority of the world’s Muslims say the Islamic State does not follow Islamic teachings.

Literal interpretations of the Qur’an are impossible

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

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Bike ruckus

A University of Arizona Police Department officer noticed a man riding a bicycle through a private parking lot looking into cars at Kappa Alpha Theta sorority house on Feb. 14 at 9:30 p.m.

The non-UA-affiliated man was standing near the bike racks of the sorority house and proceeded to begin wheeling a green, 21 speed bike with a basket on the front away from the rack when the officer pulled into the lot.

He told the officer he parked his girlfriend’s bike at that location in the morning before going to the hospital for a staph infection on his hand. He claimed to have parked the bike at this location because it was safer than the hospital.

He was now there to pick up the bike.

The individual said he was homeless and living on the streets near Fort Lowell. The bike did not appear to be stolen in the officer’s investigation. There were no locks in the bike rack area.

The officer went to speak with a sorority member and she said the bike belonged to a girl who lived in the house.

She said the bike is always secured to the bike rack. The sorority house mother came out and spoke to the officer, saying she did not want the man on the property again.

The man was cited and released for theft. He was served with a UA Exclusionary Order and photographed. He was told not to enter the sorority house’s property again.

The bike was placed into UAPD Property and Evidence.

The house mother told the officer she would have the owner pick it up at the station.

Drunken walks

A UA student was observed swaying outside Posada San Pedro Residence Hall on Feb. 13 at 1:18 a.m.

Two UAPD officers were working a Residence Life deployment when they saw two men walking on the sidewalk in front of the residence hall. Once one man reached the door, he started scanning his iPhone over the CatCard reader to gain entrance into the building.

According to the report, the man had a strong smell of intoxicants coming from his breath and body. His eyes were also bloodshot and watery. While he spoke to the officer, his words came out slurred. The officer asked how much he had to drink, and he said he had four beers.

The two men said they were coming from an apartment at The Hub at Tucson. He and the officer took the drunken man to his room. The sober man said he would look after him for the rest of the night.

The officer told the student he would be diverted for minor in possession of spirituous liquor. A Dean of Students Office referral was completed for him.

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Green Fund Annual Allocation Open Meeting 6 p.m. Saguaro Room, El Portal. The UA Green Fund Committee will review mini-grant requests and program alteration requests. This meeting is open to the public.

Staff Advisory Council Meeting 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Join the Staff Advisory Council for our monthly meeting from 3-4 p.m., followed by the presentation, “When You Talk, Do Others Listen?”

by Allison Vaillancourt, vice president of human resources and institutional effectiveness.

‘A Little Night Music’ 1:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Last day! Marroney Theatre, 1025 N. Olive Road. $31 Regular; $29 Senior, Military, UA Employee; $21 Student. This beloved, five-time Tony Awardwinning musical based on Ingmar Bergman’s film, “Smiles of a Summer Night,” is a warm, humorous story of romantic attachments, detachments and mismatches, infused throughout with the flavor of a waltz.

Beauties: The Photography of Andy Warhol 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1031 N. Olive Road. $5. Warhol was taking Polaroids and making them into screenprints for commission. Through a generous gift from The Warhol Photographic Legacy Program, the UAMA is able to present these photographs, which make up an important and commonly overlooked part of Warhol’s working process.

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Photo ID: Portraits By Native Youth 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Arizona State Museum. $5 adults, Free for Cat Card holders. Native American high school students from Ha:san Preparatory and Leadership School in Tucson share their own photographic portraits, in response to the early 20th century photographs of American Indians by Edward S. Curtis.

Buffmire Lecture: Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork. noon, Kiewit Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Dr. Frank Marcus, Professor Emeritus of Cardiology at the UA College of Medicine, will discuss the challenges associated with the prevention of obesity including exercise, sedentary routines, increased portion sizes at restaurants and mass advertising of high caloric processed foods.

TUCSON EVENTS Anyone Can Draw and Paint 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Road. $75. For beginners and experienced artists. Demonstration and instruction at every session. Price is for a 4-punch card with no expiration date.

Lunch Yoga 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Maker House, 283 N. Stone Ave. This is a chance to do yoga, eat healthy, and return to work in one hour. Our expert yoga instructor has designed a mini deep power stretch session that will work out and stretch the muscles that you may not use during your day in the office. $5 for class; $10 for class and lunch.

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The Ballad of Two-Gun McGraw 7:00 p.m. The Gaslight Theatre, 7010 E. Broadway. $18.50; $16.50 seniors 60 and over, students, military; $8.50 children 12 and under. Live musical comedy melodrama. A hilarious wacky western for the family.

Treasure Island 7:00 p.m. The Loft Cinema, 3233 E. Speedway. General admission: $15 • loft members & children 12 and under: $10.

Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure tale of murder, money and mutiny is brought to life in a thrilling new stage adaptation by Bryony Lavery, broadcast live from London’s National Theatre.

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Dusenberry-River Library, 5605 E. River Road.

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Iowa State holds off Oklahoma No. 17 Iowa State, No. 15 Oklahoma

Texas upsets No. 14 Baylor at home Texas 61, No. 14 Baylor 59

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UA hosts last nonconference game

BY NICOLE COUSINS The Daily Wildcat

Arizona baseball hosts New Mexico State on Tuesday in its final two-game midweek series before the start of Pac-12 Conference play next weekend.

Arizona coach Andy Lopez is expected to start Cody Hamlin, as he is still trying to determine the weekend pitching lineup

for conference play. The right-handed pitcher served as a reliever in two of Arizona’s four games over the weekend, pitching a shutout in the final three innings against Samford University on Friday.

Hamlin’s sidearm delivery has proven effective in relief, but his two games as a starter haven’t gone as expected for last season’s Saturday night pitcher. Hamlin has given up

five runs as a starting pitcher and two as a reliever.

Arizona (10-4) pitchers have only given up one home run in 480 at-bats on the season. The Wildcats have already sent eight balls over the fence offensively, tying last year’s total home run count in just 14 games.

Arizona’s batting lineup features six players batting over .300 with at least 40 atbats, led by second baseman

Scott Kingery, averaging .492 in 61 at-bats with one home run and 13 RBIs. The team boasts a .328 batting average and holds their opponents to just .244.

Transfer Justin Behnke is doing his job so far as the ninth batter in the lineup.

The Wildcat’s second leadoff hitter has a .383 average and has three stolen bases this season.

Behnke is also the

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Arizona Watson has been holds speed behind ’Cats Red-Blue for fans

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Watson said. “It’s great to finally have this opportunity.”

When asked where her speed comes from, Watson said it is a “natural gift.”

“I say it’s like a God-given gift,” she said, “but Rob, our trainer, has helped me a lot with that first step. I still do extra work in the weight room every single day just to make sure I maintain it.”

She’s arguably the fastest player on the team and has come to terms with constantly being on the move both in the box and on the base paths.

“Coach has told me before that when I get on base, I’m not going to be standing still,” Watson said.

Arizona sand volleyball had its first showing on Saturday at its Red-Blue Scrimmage, which gave the Wildcats the opportunity to play in front of a crowd. After many months of closed practices, Arizona will take on TCU in its season opener on Friday.

“I thought it was a good showing for the group,” Arizona coach Steve Walker said. “It’s really good for our young players to come out and see what its like on a weekend. It’s much different than our work week.”

The match gave both newcomers and returners the chance to test out the skills that they have been working on in practice. Walker said he was happy with some of the skills he saw, but he also said there are areas that need to be improved before the season begins.

“Offensively, I liked how aggressive we were,” Walker said. “I still think, at times, we were over aggressive and trying to score with velocity and not necessarily using the whole court.”

Walker praised the team for its serving as well, but he has some other skills he wants to focus on in practice this week before the start of the Wildcats’ season.

“For us, one big emphasis in practice this next week will be to locate in our shot making,” Walker said.

The scrimmage also gave the team an opportunity to compete with a variety of partners and gave Walker more information about who he will select as his seeds for the top six this season.

Walker said he is closer to his selection, but for now, it may go

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ARIZONA SOFTBALL outfielder Eva Watson (14) runs down the first base line during Arizona’s 9-1 victory over San Jose State on Feb. 14 at Hillenbrand Stadium. Watson is second on the team in stolen bases with six and has been a driving force behind the team’s recommitment to speed this season.

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only starter on the team with a perfect fielding percentage, even causing some commotion in the sports world after making a spectacular diving catch in last Saturday’s afternoon game against No. 8 Mississippi State.

New Mexico State (1-10) is batting just .211 as a team, with its best hitter being

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n the introduction for the 2006 comedy “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” the screen reads: “America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936.” While the Will Ferrellled comedy might have been a fictional story, that opening scene is a keen reference to American sports culture. Fast is good, but faster is better.

While she might not be Ricky Bobby, Eva Watson has been the speed that has made the No. 15 Arizona softball team go. Watson is a threat to create havoc with her

legs at any given time.

The sophomore outfielder from Victoria, Va., rarely played last season during her true freshman year. Watson was a pinch runner and rarely played the field. However, a hole opened up in center field when 2014 outfield mainstays Alex LaVine and Courtney Rodriguez left the team through graduation and a transfer, respectively.

It just so happened that the hole was Eva Watson-sized.

The sophomore has made the most out of her opportunity, batting .436 and ranking second on the team with six stolen bases this season.

“It honestly means a lot,”

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1. No. 5 Arizona (26-3, 14-2 Pac-12 Conference) With a two-game lead over Utah, it looks like the Wildcats will certainly win the outright Pac-12 championship again. Now, can Sean Miller end his Las Vegas curse?

Last week: First, W at Colorado 82-54, W at No. 13 Utah 63-57 This week: vs. California (17-12, 7-9), vs. Stanford (18-10, 9-7) 2. No. 13 Utah (22-6, 12-4) With the Pac-12 championship pretty much lost, the focus for the Utes turns to the Pac-12 and NCAA tournaments. Utah has a half-game lead over Oregon for second in the conference and it has a projected four seed on bracketmatrix.com and ESPN’s bracketology.

Last week: Second, W vs. ASU 83-41, L vs. No. 5 Arizona 63-57 This week: at Washington State (1216, 6-10), at Washington (15-13, 4-12) 3. Oregon (22-8, 12-5) The Ducks have won four straight and are now firmly in the third slot in the league. They’re an 11-seed on

Bracket Matrix and on top of ESPN’s last four in category.

Last week: Third, W at California 8069, W at Stanford 73-70 This week: at Oregon State (17-12, 8-9) 4. UCLA (18-12, 10-7) The Bruins are in the middle of the three Pac-12 bubble teams battling it out for a spot in the field of 68.

They’re second on ESPN’s first four out and the fifth team out on Bracket Matrix.

Last week: Fifth, W vs. Washington 88-66, W vs. Washington State 72-67 This week: vs. USC (11-18, 3-14) 5. Stanford (18-10, 9-7) As the third team out in the Bracket Matrix and the sixth team out on Bracketology, the Cardinal is on the outside looking in. A win at Arizona would go a long way toward getting it in.

Last week: Fourth, W vs. Oregon State 75-48, L vs. Oregon 73-70 This week: at ASU (15-14, 7-9), at No. 5 Arizona (26-3, 14-2) 6. Oregon State (17-12, 8-9) I guess I’ll move up the Beavers, because they seem to be the best of

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard Gabe York (1) defends Utah guard Brandon Taylor (11) during Arizona’s 63-57 win against Utah at the Jon M. Huntsman Center in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday. York and the Wildcats have to win one more conference game to clinch the outright Pac-12 Conference regular season title.

the worst, even though they lost two blowout games.

Last week: Seventh, L at Stanford 7548, L at California 73-56 This week: vs. Oregon (22-8, 12-5) 7. ASU (15-14, 7-9) The Sun Devils should probably be lower, but they have had some

big wins lately. As good as Arizona’s Rocky Mountain road trip was, ASU’s was that bad, starting with scoring nine points in the first half at Utah.

Last week: Sixth, L at No. 13 Utah 8341, L at Colorado 87-81 This week: vs. Stanford (18-10, 9-7), vs. California (17-12, 7-9)

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Men and women record different finishes

BY JUSTIN SPEARS The Daily Wildcat

Arizona women’s golf had the busiest and the most fulfilling weekend of the spring season with a quick in-state road trip to Sedona, Ariz., for the Red Rocks Invitational.

While the Wildcats were in Sedona, sophomore Wanasa Zhou was invited to compete in the Symetra Tour’s Volvik Championship in Beaumont, Calif.

Zhou shot a total of 145 (+1) in the first two rounds while making the cut for Sunday.

However, Zhou fell on the final day and finished tied for 66th place.

Zhou was also the only player who made that cut that didn’t receive a cash prize due to being a collegiate player.

While the usual lineup prepared for another trip to Florida, the Wildcats took freshman Krystal Quihuis, freshman Natalia Forero, sophomore Jessica Vasilic and senior Andrea Vilarasau to Sedona to give everyone on the roster a chance to compete frequently.

Assistant coach Derek Radley was the head

coach for the event.

Vilarasau held the best finish amongst Wildcats in the two-day event tied for sixth place with a total score of 147 strokes (+3). The veteran reserve shot a 74 on the first day and a 73 on the final day.

“Andrea is currently trying to play her way back into the lineup, and, being a senior, she definitely took a step forward,” Radley said.

“Being a senior and having Andrea compete like this is a great feeling as a coach.”

The Wildcat players were the only competitors from the Pac-12 Conference that competed in the event, and they can now feel relieved after the performance the starters and reserves posted.

Arizona men’s golf returned to Tucson this week for the National Invitational Tournament; however, the event was held at Omni Tucson National rather than Sewailo Golf Club. The Wildcats stumbled this weekend and finished the tournament with a total of 891 strokes (+27) and finished in 12th place.

“It wasn’t our best golf today,” Arizona men’s golf coach Jim Anderson said. “The wind

picked up, and we couldn’t play through it, but we know what we need to do moving forward.”

The Wildcats teed off on Saturday and were coming off yet another top-10 finish in Hawaii the weekend before, where the team finished seventh in the John Burns Invitational.

Arizona didn’t disappoint on its somewhat home turf after shooting a 292 (+4) and ending in a tie for fifth place with Cal after the first round. The Wildcats caught fire on the back nine of the first round, where Jake Kreuz was the only Wildcat to not birdie.

The Wildcats were lead by freshman George Cunningham and senior Alex McMahon.

Cunningham posted a score of 71 (-1) and tied for 10th place, while McMahon was in a third place tie after shooting a 70 (-2) after the first round of play. McMahon even made an eagle on the second hole par-4.

Cunningham continued to improve and maintained poise, even when the Wildcats struggled in the second round.

“I was very satisfied with my performance this week, even though we dealt with a lot of wind,” Cunningham said, “but I feel like I’m

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center fielder Quinnton Mack at .317.

Outfielder Daniel Johnson trails Mack with a .250 average.

Despite a low batting average, the Aggies have been able to turn hits into runs when players do get on base. They have put up 50 runs in a mere 78 hits compared to Arizona’s 109 runs in 160 hits.

The Aggies lost two of three to Incarnate World in their home opener last weekend. They recorded 13 runs on 13 hits on Sunday, but a four-run, sixth inning for Incarnate World allowed the Cardinals to hold on to the lead.

New Mexico State was also swept by Arizona’s Pac-12 rival Oregon in a fourgame series two weeks ago, its worst loss to the Ducks being 22-7.

The Wildcats, in the midst of their rigorous pre-conference schedule, have already played six games in six days, four of those on the road.

First pitch on Tuesday’s start to the twogame series is at 6 p.m. at Hi Corbett Field.

8. California (17-12, 7-9) The Golden Bears snapped their three-game losing streak last week by pounding the Beavers. Granted, the game was at home, and Oregon State is terrible on the road.

Last week: Eighth, L vs. Oregon 80-69, W vs. Oregon State 73-56 This week: at No. 5 Arizona (26-3, 142), at ASU (15-14, 7-9) 9. Colorado (13-15, 6-10) Buffalo coach Tad Boyle provided the quote of the year when he said he wanted to fight someone after CU’s blowout loss to Arizona. So, naturally, the Buffs took out their frustrations on ASU. Last week: Ninth, L vs. No. 5 Arizona 82-54, W vs. ASU 87-81 This week: at Washington (15-13, 4-12), at Washington State (12-16, 6-10)

ARIZONA BASEBALL outfielder Justin Behnke (4) bunts during Arizona’s 6-4 extra innings loss against Rice on Feb. 22 at Hi Corbett Field. Behnke and the Wildcats take on New Mexico State for a two-game series on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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week by week, largely based on health. He is also still working on pairing the right players together.

Two pairings that performed well in the scrimmage were seniors Madi Kingdon and Kaitlyn Leary, along with sophomores Madison Witt and McKenna Witt.

“I think, today, we competed really well,” Leary said. “We had some good competition, and it was nice to compete in front of people.”

Leary also agreed with Walker that she and her teammates will need to dedicate some focus to their shots in practice in preparation for the start of their season.

Witt said they were often trying to speed up the game and make quick plays, such as hitting to make it easier on themselves, instead of focusing on shots.

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“Mentally, I prepare myself every time, and anytime I get a chance to look at the pitcher, I’m getting my timing down, because every single step is crucial.”

While that first step might be the most important for Watson when stealing a base or laying down a bunt, steps two, three, four and on seem to be just as fast, if not faster.

Sisters McKenna Witt and Madison Witt are often paired and perform well because of the familiarity they have playing together.

“When we’re together, we just flow, and we feel a lot more comfortable playing with each other,” McKenna Witt said. “The team chemistry that a lot of people have to work years for, we have naturally.”

Other pairs that performed well during the scrimmage were seniors Rachel Rhoades and Kendall Polan, along with sophomore Sarah Seiber and freshman Hailey Devlin.

Olivia Macdonald, Sarah Seiber, Kaitlyn Leary and Rachel Rhoades led the team in kills.

While the Red-Blue Scrimmage did not name an outright winner, the team gained valuable information about skills that need to be focussed on and had an opportunity to experience a gamelike atmosphere before the season starts.

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“The first step is very important, because I have to get going, but then … I can’t leave early,” Watson said. “It’s hard, because I know I’m going to need to steal, and I get so anxious.”

Watson’s teammates and coaches have taken notice of her speed. Arizona coach Mike Candrea said Watson is one of several speedsters on the team that makes a difference.

“We have a lot more depth than we’ve ever had, [and] that depth is speed,” Candrea said.

only beating lowly Washington State.

Last week: Tenth, L at UCLA 88-66, L at USC 70-55 This week: vs. Colorado (13-15, 6-10), vs. No. 13 Utah (22-6, 12-4) 11. Washington State (12-16, 6-10) The Cougars had a better trip to LA than the Huskies, but Washington won the rivalry game at WSU, so they stay in the coveted 10th spot.

Last week: 11th, W at USC 70-66, L at UCLA 72-67 This week: vs. No. 13 Utah (22-6, 124), vs. Colorado (13-15, 6-10) 12. USC (11-18, 3-14) The Trojans lost the Pac-12’s Sacko Bowl last week in front of an (announced) crowd of 2,735.

But then, they turned around and pounded Washington. The Pac-12 is hard to figure out.

Last week: 12th, L vs. Washington State 70-66, W vs. Washington 70-55 This week: at UCLA (18-12, 10-7)

10. Washington (15-13, 4-12) The Huskies lost two more games last week on the Los Angeles road trip and have lost nine of their last 10,

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really progressing as a player.”

McMahon shot a 1-over-par in the second round and was one of four Wildcats to shoot above par. McMahon and Cunningham were the only Wildcats in the top 15 after the second round.

The Wildcats knew what needed to be done for the final round, but with a windy Monday, it didn’t get much easier for the team.

Cunningham didn’t have his best round of golf, but posted a solid score of 71 (-1) and finished the tournament tied for second place at 4-under-par.

The Wildcats, as a whole, took a step back this week despite Cunningham shining individually.

“We have our work cut out for us, and now all we can do is prepare and get back on track,” Anderson said.

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ARIZONA SAND volleyball players and twins Madison Witt (23) and McKenna Witt (21) laugh together after chasing a spike to the ground during the team’s Red-Blue Scrimmage at Jimenez Field on Saturday. Arizona held the scrimmage for fans and to practice for the season opener against TCU on Friday.

“We can steal some bases and make some things happen. It’ll be interesting to see how that all develops, but we have some pieces.”

Pitcher Nancy Bowling reiterated the presence of numerous speed options on the team and isn’t quite sure who the fastest player is, but Watson is up there.

“That’s tough; it [depends] on what you’re doing,” Bowling said. “I’d say [the] top three are Eva, Alexis [Dotson] and [Chelsea] Suitos, and any single one of them can win any day.”

While it’s impossible to figure out who the

fastest on the team is without several different types of races, one thing can be said for certain: Watson makes fast look slow and will continue to do so for Arizona softball.

Because, in the end, fast is good, and faster is better. Going slow just isn’t an option anymore.

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A. all the attention. What’s a brain got to do to get noticed?

Like your most annoying sibling, the liver seems to get

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All kidding aside, research shows that significant brain development continues through adolescence and well into young adulthood. Heavy alcohol use can impair brain function in college aged students and adolescents need only drink half as much as adults to suffer the same negative effects. Many scientists are concerned that drinking during this critical developmental period could lead to lifelong impairments in brain function, especially regarding functions of memory, motor skills, impulse control, coordination, planning and decision making.

As brain functions go, these are all pretty important, eh?!

Trust me; no one wants to have the smallest hippocampus on campus. Size does matter. Those who abuse alcohol have significantly smaller hippocampi. This area of the brain suffers the worst alcohol brain damage in teenagers and young adults.

Damage to the hippocampus makes it hard to learn and hold on to knowledge.

Another major contributor to short and long-term brain function is binge drinking. College students who have a higher propensity for bingeing will often suffer repeated bouts of withdrawal from alcohol. Repeated withdrawal may be a significant reason for alcohol’s harmful effects on the brain. The National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIAAA, defines binge drinking as consuming about four drinks for men or three drinks for women in about 2 hours. Compared to students who drink moderately or not at all, frequent drinkers have greater difficulty catching up in brain function as they become adults.

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So, in the end, while alcohol may not cause you to lose brain cells, it can profoundly suppress brain cell activity and critical development as well as cause actual permanent changes in the hippocampus and frontal lobes.

No brain, no gain. Just sayin.’

There are no pain receptors in the brain.

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