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Shelton’s State of the UA in Capitol By Matt Lewis ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT PHOENIX — UA President Robert Shelton discussed and defended the UA’s Phoenix expansion at his State of the University Address on Wednesday. This is the first time a UA president has delivered the State of the University Address in Phoenix. Shelton spoke to about 400 alumni, doPresident of nors, public the University officials and of Arizona supporters. The address was held in Phoenix to accommodate the growing UA presence in Maricopa County. Representatives from several colleges including the UA College of Medicine, the UA Eller College of Management and the UA Honors College attended. “We’re trying to make sure we’re connecting with our Maricopa County constituents, so we put together a table,” said David Scott Allen, director of development for the UA Honors College. Shelton described the UA’s founding 125 years ago. “At the groundbreaking for Old Main the honorable C.C. Stevens, who was Pima County’s representative to the 13th legislature said this,‘The world may forget its heroes, but shall remember its teachers,’”Shelton said. He added, while the UA was founded on 40 acres in Tucson, it has also had a prominent physical presence in Phoenix from the earliest years. “In 1887 … the very first permanent director recommended that experiment stations be founded not only in Tucson, but also in Yuma, Phoenix and Tempe,” Shelton said. He talked about the financial implications and how even in the best of times, the university’s expansion to Phoenix would be difficult. “Even if we weren’t in the midst of a recession, there would still be those who would yell ‘Stop,’” Shelton said. “Sadly there are always some in any community who just can’t bring themselves to envision the possibilities of a brighter tomorrow. The singular objective of these naysayers seems to be blocking those who dare dream of something better.” He shared an anecdote about a patent officer who quit because he said everything that could ever be invented already existed. Shelton told the story as a parallel to discussion about the recent funding cuts. “The tragedy of all of this is that (it) doesn’t actually take very much to restore funding the University of Arizona has lost. It would cost about $15 per Arizonan per year,”Shelton said.“So the question we have to answer as a state is should we threaten our future to save a

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Taylor Bilby, left, a pre-business freshman, and Courtney Campbell, a pre-physiology freshman, rejoice after winning the primaries for Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate on Wednesday.

Results allow candidates to gauge their poll status, prepare for next week By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Next year’s Associated Students of the University of Arizona candidates found out where they stand so far in 2010-11 elections. The crowd — filled with members of the Freshman Class Council, prospective candidates and supporters — clamored

to hear the results, Wednesday night in the Kiva Room of the Student Union Memorial Center. The results for the uncontested spots for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona president and executive vice president were not a surprise. Executive Vice President Emily Fritze is running for president and Sen. Katherine Weingartner is running for

executive vice president. The race of administrative vice president tilted toward Brett Ponton who received 53.6 percent of the vote, 46.3 percent going to Sen. Hillary Davidson. Justine Piscitello, ASUA elections commissioner, noted that even though no candidates were eliminated, this primary ELECTION, page 3

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Student aid bill awaits Senate approval By Alexandra Newman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act will give the federal government a chance to invest as much as $87 billion into education, without relying on taxpayers. “The time of going to college has never been so important and it’s David Talenfeld, former president of the Graduate Professional Student Council, resigned Wednesday. Talenfeld’s resignation came in the wake of an “impasse” between his beliefs and those of the GPSC as a whole. Colin Darland/ Arizona Daily Wildcat

never been so expensive,” said Arne Duncan, U.S. secretary of education. The act passed in the House of Representatives in September 2009 and is awaiting Senate approval. John Nametz, director of the Office of Student Financial Aid, said it’s really hard to speculate whether the Senate will pass the bill and what the final result may be. “This would end the private side of

student loan programs — we’re already prepared for that,” Nametz said. He said, should the bill pass, it would have a pretty minimal impact for some students who are already seeing their loan discounts with private banks dwindle because of a bad market. “Five years ago I would have said it’s terrible … but because of the market situation, it’s almost exactly equal, it

might be simpler,” Nametz said. Nametz said the bill would be an improvement from a student’s point of view and that President Obama has goals that would certainly help students. “SAFRA will not reach these goals; it’s a step,”Nametz said.“There’s a good chance it may not get passed.” BILL, page 3

GPSC president resigns from office By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA Gradate and Professional Student Council president resigned Wednesday. David Talenfeld, former GPSC president, recently came under fire from the council for a personal letter published in the Arizona Daily Wildcat that addressed new student fees. It was contrary to a joint statement the GPSC and the Associated Students of the University of Arizona had issued on the same day. “I hope you all agree that this is in everyone’s best interest,” Talenfeld wrote in a prepared statement. “Over the past few months my views have increasingly

differed from those serving on the council, both in individual questions of policy and a broader ideological determinations about how our constituents may be best served. Presently we have arrived at an impasse; which will require me as president to either stray precariously from the dictates of my beliefs or become a stubborn impediment to the student advocacy process.” Talenfeld arrived as his prepared statement was being read by a member of GPSC, and took the opportunity to further explain his positions. “I think that the solution to our state’s critical budget deficit must come in the form of compromise and on the back of all stakeholders,”Talenfeld said.“If students

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The latest meeting of the Higher Education Colloquim will be today at 12:30 p.m. in the Rincon Room of the Student Union Memorial Center. Greg Fahey, UA associate vice president of government relations, and Christine Thompson, Arizona Board of Regents assistant executive director of government affairs, will participate in a lobbyist panel.

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Today at 8:30 p.m. the UA men’s basketball team takes on UCLA in McKale Center. Bear Down!

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The ASUA Senate debates are today from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. in the Rincon Room of the Student Union Memorial Center. Candidates will be given a chance to introduce themselves and outline their platform, but due to time constraints, there won’t be any actual debating.

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Not yet, but I plan to (5 votes) No, it only encourages them (36 votes) New question: Do you agree with the UA’s expansion to Phoenix?

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Art history sophomore So you’ve heard about the earthquakes in Chile by now, right? Yeah, it really rocked my world. Shook me deep, if you know what I mean. Why’s that? Well, you know. These things have a way of reverberating in you. If an earthquake happened right now in Tucson and you had to evacuate, name the three things you would bring with you. Uh. my comic book collection, water and food. In that order. You wouldn’t bring the proposed student fees with you? Oh yeah, I guess you can’t escape those no matter where you go. Maybe I’d bring the tuition increase with me too. Can’t leave that behind. Do you work on campus? Yeah, I work at the Health Center. What do you do there? I attend and help it be awesome. So in your opinion, do you think passing these fees will have any impact on your job? Well, I can’t really make a judgment on that, but I can tell you they’re making me sick. Sick like the Swine Flu. But no, there’s no way it affects me being awesome. I can juggle! But can you play golf? No. So then, how do you feel about Tiger Woods? Am I supposed to have feelings for Tiger Woods? You can if you want to. I think his wife’s a hero for putting up with all that. It takes a tough woman to forgive something like that. I couldn’t. Are you saying you’re not a tough woman? I’m whatever I want to be. I could be a space alien or Spiderman if I wanted to be. What do you think the odds are that Tiger is a space alien? He’s really good at golf and he married a tough Swedish nanny. That’s not normal. Eh, 50-50 odds. I’d vote between that or a cyborg. Like the Terminator? Exactly, only really good at golf and he married a tough Swedish nanny. Otherwise, exactly the same. — Joe Dusbabek

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Tiles, encapsulating bits of the university’s history and aspects of school life, connect the second and third floors of the Student Union Memorial Center’s southern corridor.

Atom smasher restarts to prepare for new science GENEVA — Operators of the world’s largest atom smasher restarted their massive machine Sunday in a run up to experiments probing secrets of the universe, a spokeswoman said. The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, sent low-energy beams of protons in both directions around the 27-kilometer (17-mile) tunnel housing the Large Hadron Collider under the Swiss-French border at Geneva, said Christine Sutton. After a cautious trial period, CERN

plans to ramp up the energy of the beams to unprecedented levels and start record-setting collisions of protons by late March, Sutton said. The restart follows a 2 1/2-month winter shutdown during which scientists made improvements and checked out the smasher’s ability to collide protons at energies three times greater than has ever been achieved previously. The new collisions are expected to shatter the subatomic particles and reveal still smaller fragments and forces

than previously achieved on any collider, including the previous record-holder — the Tevatron at Fermilab outside Chicago. The Large Hadron Collider was built to examine suspected phenomena such as dark matter, antimatter and ultimately the creation of the universe billions of years ago, which many theorize occurred as an explosion known as the Big Bang. “We’ve started up again,” Sutton said. —The Associated Press

peeps “NASA says the earthquake in Chile shifted the Earth off its axis, making the day shorter. As if I can finish all the things I need to do in a day anyway!” — Harvill submit at dailywildcat.com or twitter @overheardatua

fast facts •The longest cells in the human body are the motor neurons. They can be up to 4 1/2 feet long and run from the lower spinal cord to the big toe. •There are no poisonous snakes in Maine. •The blue whale can produce sounds up to 188 decibels. This is the loudest sound produced by a living animal and has been detected as far away as 530 miles. •The largest man-made lake in the U.S. is Lake Mead, which is created by the Hoover Dam. •The poison arrow frogs of South and Central America are the most poisonous animals in the world.

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Veterans criticize Cameron for A-bomb book defense

NEW YORK — An organization of World War II veterans is unhappy with James Cameron’s support for a discredited history of the atomic bombing of Japan that the director has optioned for a possible film. Members of the 509th Composite Group, which consists of veterans and relatives of those who carried out the 1945 attacks, said in a statement Wednesday that many aspects of Charles Pellegrino’s “The Last Train from Hiroshima” are “complete fiction and cause great damage to true history.” Henry Holt and Company, responding to concerns raised by The Associated Press, announced Monday that it had ceased publication of the book. The AP questioned the existence James Cameron of two men in the book: Father Mattias (the first name is not given), who supposedly lived in Hiroshima at the time of the bombing and committed suicide, and John MacQuitty, identified as a Jesuit scholar who presided over Mattias’ funeral. Holt said Monday that Pellegrino did not offer a satisfactory answer. But Cameron, whose “Avatar” has been nominated for nine Academy Awards, defended Pellegrino in an e-mail sent Tuesday to The AP. “All I know is that Charlie would not fabricate, so there must be a reason for the misunderstanding,” the filmmaker said in the e-mail. Cameron wrote that he had long sought to do a movie on the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “and still intend to do so, although I currently do not have a shooting script and no decision has been made to proceed in the short term.” In Wednesday’s statement, the 509th Composite Group said “it suspects that Mr. Cameron did not understand the extent of the misrepresentations in Pellegrino’s Hiroshima book.”The group has been a leading critic of the book, released in January to strong reviews. “However, we stand by our offer to help Mr. Cameron to make an historically accurate film about these important events,” the statement reads.“But we strongly caution that many things in the Pellegrino book are complete fiction and cause great damage to true history.” Cameron did not immediately respond Wednesday to an e-mail seeking comment on the 509th’s statement. Pellegrino first acknowledged flaws last month when he said he had been misled by Joseph Fuoco, who had claimed he was a last-minute replacement in 1945 on the Enola Gay bomber for flight engineer James R. Corliss. —The Associated Press

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Wednesday’s article “ASUA assigns positions” incorrectly stated that Sen. Leo Yamaguchi was to be appointed the executive vice president. The story should have stated that Sen. Yamaguchi was to introduce the agenda item regarding Executive Vice President appointment.The information was taken from ASUA’s incorrect agenda. The Wildcat regrets the error.

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ASUA senators vote against decreasing their pay By Taylor Avey ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

ASUA voted during its meeting against a pay decrease for themselves for next year despite fear there will be less money in the budget. Sen. Eduardo Atjian made a motion to reevaluate the stipend amount for next year, and he further requested that the senate wait to vote on setting the stipend until they know how much money will be available in the budget. The funds set aside for the stipend account are used to pay the senators for their time spent serving the students. Last year the stipend was set at $1,400. The Associated Students of the University of Arizona senators debated over whether to push the vote back a week to allow time for the senate budget to be finalized, but University of Arizona Police Department Officer and honorary Sen.

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Brian Seastone argued it was better to vote immediately. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop everything because of what the future might hold,â&#x20AC;?Seastone said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to move on based on the best information weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got.â&#x20AC;? Sen. Daniel Wallace agreed the senate should vote this week because nobody knew when the senate budget would be set or how much money would be available for the stipend. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We might have concrete numbers next week; we might not have concrete numbers,â&#x20AC;?Wallace said. Sen. Ryan Ruiz was also opposed to voting this week, but was overruled along with Atjian. The senate ruled to keep the stipend amount set at $1,400. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fair amount,â&#x20AC;?Atjian said. Atjian said his role as a senator is a demanding, full-time job and that he was making more money at his previous parttime job.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would love to increase (the stipend), but with the budget, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just not possible,â&#x20AC;? he said. Atjian said he was not upset with the ruling, but would have preferred to wait until he knew the official numbers of the budget. The Community Development Director Aysha Fuller, a marketing junior, presented a summary on her current and future projects, namely the Youth Basketball and Cheer League, and the annual Spring Fling letter project. The Youth Basketball and Cheer League is a non-profit program designed to promote higher education, sportsmanship and teamwork, according to Fuller. The program was created nearly 15 years ago for economically-challenged children in Tucson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reason we have this is for kids who cannot afford to be on a league team,â&#x20AC;?Fuller said.â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anyone can sign up.â&#x20AC;?

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was an important step in the election campaigns, which will culminate with for all candidates. next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elections. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reason why we decided to have a Most candidates agreed with Trevor primary election is so that you can assess Hill, a sophomore studying English, where you are in the polls,â&#x20AC;?said Piscitello. that results can change, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still In the results, candidate Garrett Voge, anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game. a pre-business freshman, garnered â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important that we go and hit it the most votes out of all the senatorial hard after this,â&#x20AC;? said Hill, who received 12th place in the primary votes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m candidates with 9.32 percent of the vote. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really excited,â&#x20AC;?said Voge.â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see an increase in candidate first big thing in college (and) overall, presence out there. It gets real after this.â&#x20AC;? itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been a really positive experience.â&#x20AC;? ASUA general elections take place Candidate Taylor Bilby, a pre-business Tuesday, March 9 and Wednesday, freshman, received the second most March 10 from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. with votes in the polls with 8.85 percent winners announced at 8:30 p.m. in the of the vote, shared Vogeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excitement Kiva Room of the student union on about the results. March 10. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really pleased with the results FOR YOUR INFORMATION for sure,â&#x20AC;? said Bilby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I mean, I was Senate debates are tonight at 6:30 in the Rincon second and I definitely was surprised it Room of the Student Union Memorial Center. was that high.â&#x20AC;? Vice Presidential debates are Monday at 6:30 p.m. All the candidates said the primary was a good barometer for their ongoing in the Ventana Room of the student union.

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The teams consist of co-ed groups of children between the ages of 8 and 13. Fuller said the basketball teams are made up of mostly boys, but they occasionally have girls who are brave enough to play with the boys. She also said the cheer squads are made up of mostly girls. The league will wrap up after the championship competition, which will take place in the Bear Down Gym this Saturday and Sunday. Fuller said she managed to secure several sponsors and donations for the event including ZonaZoo, Jimmy Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Golf-N-Stuff. The competition will be comprised of six basketball games, a jump competition and cheer performances. The children will receive free T-shirts and trophies. Fuller is also in charge of the annual Spring Fling letter project in which nearby primary schools are asked to decorate a letter from the phrase, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spring Fling.â&#x20AC;?The letters will be on display during this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Spring Fling event in April. Fuller said some schools decorate their letters in their school colors, while others choose a popular theme from their class as inspiration. Administrative Vice President Gabby Ziccarelli announced a Breast Party, which will take place tonight from 6 to 9, and is hosted by the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Resource Center. The event is to raise awareness about breast cancer. Throughout the event, women can make a mold of their breasts and once the molding material dries the women are encouraged to decorate their molds. The molds will be on display at the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resource center. Lastly, there will be a spring break safety fair today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the UA Mall and a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hot Dogs for Haiti/Chili Dogs for Chileâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; event at the Sigma Chi fraternity at First Street andVine Avenue from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. to raise funds for disaster relief.

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While it does include changes for childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s early education, it primarily focuses on making college more affordable for students and preparing them for â&#x20AC;&#x153;21st-century jobs.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The president wants to make sure that this country has the highest proportion of college graduates by the year 2020,â&#x20AC;? said Melody Barnes, White House domestic policy advisor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He knows we have to make higher education more accessible to people.â&#x20AC;? Barnes said the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act bill is critical in ensuring that college students finish their education, whether they entered college directly after high school or are going back to school. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One piece of this (bill) is a huge investment in community colleges,â&#x20AC;? Duncan said. Community colleges play an important role for people looking to go back to school later in life, make a career change, touch up their job skills

or get certified in a specific area. The Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act will concentrate on shrinking college studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; need for private loans from banks that charge high interest rates by increasing Pell Grants and Perkins Loans. The Perkins Loan program, which provides low-cost loans to students, would maintain and expand the availablility of low interest rates. Pell Grants would receive a $40 billion investment so the maximum annual scholarship will match tuition inflation plus 1 percent, Duncan said. According to Barnes, cutting out the middleman means â&#x20AC;&#x153;going from subsidized lending to direct lending which would mean that the U.S. Treasury would originate those loans and those loans would be serviced on a competitive basis by lenders.â&#x20AC;? Duncan said the income-based repayment portion of the bill is hugely

important in attracting talented teachers for Americans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people would have loved to teach, but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t follow their passion because of their debt,â&#x20AC;? he said.â&#x20AC;&#x153;If weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to reduce loan repayment each month, 10 percent of income, we can attract people into public education.â&#x20AC;? Any individual who enters a public service job need only pay their debt for 10 years. After the 10-year period, their debt is completely forgiven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can empathize with parents who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to send their kids to college if theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have debt hanging over their heads,â&#x20AC;? Barnes said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This burden shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hurt the job the student takes after college.â&#x20AC;? Dan Klizas, undecided freshman, said anything that puts more money into education is a good thing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I hope it passes,â&#x20AC;?he said.â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hopefully itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll give more people the opportunity to go to college and do what they really want.â&#x20AC;?

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any were stunned by the death of young Brazilian soccer player Serginho Chulapa, after he collapsed on the field in 2004. Few, however, likely felt the added tinge of frustration that Dr. Gordon Ewy felt as he watched shoddy chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth performed on someone with clearly no airway obstruction. Multiply that tinge by a few hundred thousand, for all those who die of cardiac arrest in the U.S. each year, and a much desperate situation Andrew Kenyon Busch more can be imagined. Columnist As Chief of Cardiology at the UA Sarver Heart Center, Dr. Ewy has been attempting to change the“P”in CPR since 1993. In the event of sudden cardiac arrest, which constitutes the majority of cases requiring out-of-hospital resuscitation, Dr. Ewy and colleagues have instead been advising an amended version of CPR called cardio cerebral resuscitation that calls for“hands only.” The reasons for the transition are many, according to a stream of studies out of Sarver and elsewhere. As reported in the Jan. 19 issue of The Arizona Republic, survival rates after cardiac arrest are dismal and not helped by the fact that bystanders make rescue attempts less than one-third of the time. Many believe the reason for inaction to be the fear of complicated and slightly unpleasant mouth-tomouth breathing. Indeed, cities in Arizona, Texas, Missouri, Washington and Wisconsin that promote the simplified “CCR”that eliminates the“gross factor,”have seen an increase in bystander intervention and survival rates. Even if the new technique were of only comparable efficacy, as some argue, its increased“user-friendliness” would seem to sufficiently justify its use over traditional CPR. However, clinical, statistical and animal research studies have indicated that the continuous chest compressions are actually more effective, and can result in a “near 300-percent improvement in neurological normal survival of patients with witness cardiac arrest and a shockable rhythm.” This increased efficacy is due to the fact that victims of cardiac arrest often have oxygen still in their lungs and bodies that merely needs to be moved around to sustain life long enough for a defibrillator to shock the heart back into action. The compressions may also allow passive inhalation of air as the chest wall recoils. According to a 2006 report in Science Daily,“performing powerful chest compressions with minimal interruptions is of utmost importance.”Tucson and Phoenix Fire Departments were easily persuaded to adopt the new technique. Hopefully, as a result of a statewide campaign launched by the Arizona Department of Health Services in 2005, both professional and lay rescuers will be using hands-only CCR. It is unclear whether a simple allegiance to tradition, or something more sinisterly political is fueling the American Heart Association’s stubborn resistance to change. Luckily, Dr. Ewy and his formerly radical ideas have found a friend in CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Hopefully the handsome young neurosurgeon and his actor-friend Matthew McConaughey will have more luck affecting change with the American Heart Association than the older, assuredly irritated Dr. Ewy. —Andrew Kenyon Busch is a first-year doctoral student in physiological sciences. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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Suggesting that the other party involved in these situations is likely as drunk as the victim is naive. Not all, but many times the aggressor is literally waiting for the victim to be too inebriated to say no and then takes clear advantage of his/her inability to make a conscious choice in the matter. This is most certainly rape whether it happens to a woman or a man. Of course there are situations where both are drunk and did something regrettable, and these are hard to weed out. But that doesn’t make it right to paint the entire issue with an “oops” brush. What your sister did is rape. She has no business bragging about committing such a heinous act. Kate “Though some may believe that women only file rape charges out of regret, guilt or spite, the FBI reports that false reporting of rape accounts is only about 3 percent.” This is incorrect and requires correction. I founded the world’s leading site dedicated to giving voice to and raising awareness about the falsely accused — The False Rape Society — and it is an urban myth that only 2 or 3 percent of rape claims are false. False rape claims are a significant problem. By way of clarification, the last time the FBI reported on unfounded rape claims was 1996 (it never reported on “false” claims per se), and it found that 15 percent of all claims were “unfounded.” See Dr. Bruce Gross, “False Rape Allegations: An Assault on Justice,”Annals of the American Psychotherapy Association, Dec. 22,

On ‘Evening with Beckett beautiful but baffling,’ March 3

Very nice job. The language is very evocative, with a good eye for telling details (“red-lipsticked mouth”) and the writer’s confidence is palpable in her voice (“a face so expressive each twitch signals numerous emotional nuances”). This is everything a Wildcat review should be. JD

On ’Cats fall in last bat to Rebels,’ March 2 Time to start looking for a baseball coach that can get the job done. Lopez has had plenty of time and nothing good has happened. Long gone are the days when the Wildcats were top 10 every year. Livengood is gone, new basketball era starting, football was embarrassed by Nebraska. Time to cut our losses and hire a new baseball coach. Wildcat Fred

On ‘Tucson considers taxing UA students,’ March 2 That’s the spirit! Dump the burden on the students since not much is happening with them financially anyway. And I’m SURE the bookstore will recognize this, and will cut costs, like they do every semester. Why you ask??? Because everybody loves their future generation! U of A Student

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ep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) has once again managed to embarrass his party and district of representation with outrageous, fictitious comments, this time implying that African Americans were better off under slavery than they are today in a society permitting abortion. Franks is a representative of Arizona’s second congressional district, containing the northwest corner of Arizona and most of the western suburbs of Phoenix, as well as a small portion of the city itself. For those of you in that district, take note that your area contributes in enabling this man to represent your area. Whether you Rachel Leavitt voted or not, you are represented by Coulmnist his actions and statements. So if for no other reason, vote to keep candidates who are prone to vocalizing nonsense from representing you. According to Franks in an interview with video blogger Mike Stark of StarkReports.com on Friday,“far more of the African American

2008. This percentage, by the way, reflected only the claims that the FBI knew were unfounded; the FBI did not suggest that the other 85 percent were actual rapes. Rape claims do not lend themselves to that kind of certainty. Only 15 percent of all such claims result in conviction, so for the vast majority of claims, no one can assert with certainty how many are false. In addition, a landmark Air Force study in 1985 studied 556 rape allegations. It found that 27 percent of the accusers recanted, and an independent evaluation revealed a false accusation rate of 60 percent. McDowell, Charles P., Ph.D. “False Allegations.”Forensic Science Digest, (publication of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations), Vol. 11, No. 4 (December 1985), p. 64. See also, “Until Proven Innocent,” the widely praised and painstakingly conducted study of the Duke Lacrosse non-rape case. Authors Stuart Taylor and Professor KC Johnson explain that the exact number of false claims is elusive but the “standard assertion by feminists that only 2 percent” of sexual assault claims “are false, which traces to Susan Brownmiller’s 1975 book ‘Against Our Will,’ is without empirical foundation and belied by a wealth of empirical data. These data suggest that at least 9 percent and probably closer to half” of all sexual assault claims “are false,” (page 374). In short, every objective study ever conducted on the prevalence of false rape claims reveals that they are a significant problem. By any measure, denigrating the experience of the wrongly accused by dismissing their victimization as a myth or as unworthy of our discussion, much less our protection, is not merely dishonest but morally grotesque.

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ver the past several years, UA students have experienced the hardships of increasing tuition. The increases have been characterized not only as necessary, but also a long time coming. UA President Robert Shelton has claimed that recent and future tuition increases will place UA tuition in line with our peer universities. Our tuition rates have been traditionally lower than our peers’, but so has the quality of education. The term“peer university”suggests a comparable level of academic prestige and quality of education, but a close look at the“ABOR-approved university peer list”casts doubt on ABOR’s definition of“peer.” The gap between the UA and its“peer”universities presents a catch-22 for the impending tuition increases. It’s hard to justify comparable tuition levels when the value of a UA degree is still less than that of a peer university. However, the only way for the

community is being devastated by the (legal abortion) policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery.” Even attempting to compare the painful lives of slaves to those of Americans with liberties and choices is utterly implausible. Along the same line, perhaps Franks thinks that beyond the racial, religious and civil progress we as a country have taken forward, America has actually regressed. Perhaps we should go back to a time when alleyways, clothes hangers and staircases were the only choices women had to abort a pregnancy — the good ol’days. Comments lacking logic should hardly evoke surprise when they come from Franks — the same congressman who considered suing President Barack Obama for proof of his citizenship before and after the 2008 election. When asked to clear up his statement by David Weigel of the Washington Independent, Franks confirmed that he now agrees that the president is American,“even if he acts un-American.” Franks also called the president — who ordered the closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp,, signed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, won the Nobel Peace Prize

and continues to pursue universal health care — an“enemy of humanity” for his position on abortion. Even if Franks’abilities in rational and tactful expression fall short, his fervor and consistent disapproval of abortion is undeniable. But he pursues ineffective solutions.Virtually no one is pro-abortion; no decent person, Democrat or Republican, longs for the death of a potential person. The right to abortion is about having a choice. So, rather than attacking the issue and robbing women of their rights to their bodies, tackle the problem before it commences. Promote sexual education, condom use, contraceptives and safe sex. Provide people, young and old, with knowledge regarding the repercussions of their actions and, in doing so, enable them to make educated decisions. Consider it, to use terms Republicans can relate to, preemptive action — only with something legitimate and tangible to prevent.

UA below peers in resistance, too

UA to improve — or even maintain — its ranking is Student participation at Monday’s ABOR tuition to increase revenue to bridge the budget shortfalls. hearing has been referred to as a protest, but the The differences between UA and some of its event was nothing more than an effort to placate students. Arizona’s budget crisis has already reaped peer universities are more than just rankings and numbers. The response by both students and student great harm on the UA, making the tuition increases a representatives to tuition increases at the UA has virtual inevitability. ABOR, which pursues“leadership been much more docile. in higher education,”is not going to Last November, students across vote down the tuition increases for fear of crippling the UA, no matter California protested tuition increases what input was given. by staging lock-ins at their respective universities, including peers UC Student representatives, including Berkeley, UC Davis and UCLA. Taking ASUA President Chris Nagata, voiced over campus buildings, considered their dismay and condemnation Dan Sotelo trespassing by authorities, was of the Arizona state legislature for Columnist reneging on its commitment to a united protest by UC students demonstrating their unwavering affordable higher education, but they opposition to tuition increases. According to a CNN failed to take a stand and express strict disapproval article, nearly 100 protesters were arrested over a for the proposals. two-day span. Tuition increases may be vital to maintain quality

— Rachel Leavitt is a creative writing sophomore. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

universities, but the decision to reluctantly give support through student representatives negates the sentiments of thousands of students across Arizona. The tuition hearing, which could be described as a procedural formality, was the perfect opportunity for student representatives to express Arizona student views with the utmost candor. Instead, the responses appeared to be less than passionate politicking. The chance to be more like our peers in California was not in the form of a lock-in, but in an impassioned refusal to support the proposed increases. Though the UA is in dire need of additional revenue, the transformation of students into Arizona’s financial windfall is a precedent undeserving of reluctant acceptance. —Dan Sotelo is a political science senior. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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Not impaired but still illegal

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was driving north on Park Avenue heading toward Second Street when he saw a silver jeep drive through a stop sign, pass through a crosswalk and continue through the intersection of Park Avenue and Second Street without stopping. The officer pulled the car over and identified the driver by a California driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license. He could smell alcohol coming from the car and asked both the driver and the passenger if they had been drinking. The driver said he had not had anything to drink and the passenger said he had been drinking. When the officer asked if he knew why he was being pulled over, the man said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, the stop sign.â&#x20AC;? He said he had reached down to change a song on his iPod and did not notice the stop sign until his friend had told him he â&#x20AC;&#x153;blew it.â&#x20AC;? The officer asked the man to step out of the car and could smell alcohol on his breath. When the man was asked to complete a few tests to see if he had been drinking, he said he was sorry for not being honest earlier. The man told the officer he had a few glasses of wine at a banquet for his fraternity and knew he was okay to drive. After performing field sobriety tests, the officer determined that the driver had alcohol in his system but was not impaired. The man was arrested for driving while under 21 with liquor in body, minor in possession in body and failure to stop at a stop sign. He was also referred to the Dean of Students. The vehicle was towed and impounded.

Threatening calls to Coronado

A Coronado Residence Hall resident called UAPD on Sunday at 11:45 p.m. to report threatening phone calls she received that night. The woman told the officer she received three calls from a restricted number at 9:31 p.m., 9:48 p.m. and 9:50 p.m. During the first and last phone call she did not hear anything. On the second phone call, she said she heard a man say her name and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know where you are. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m watching you. You better watch your back.â&#x20AC;? The woman also said he repeatedly called her â&#x20AC;&#x153;bitch.â&#x20AC;? The woman told the officer she did not recognize the voice but thought he was college-aged. The woman also reported lot of background noise during the calls, but she could not tell if it was music or other voices. The woman said the phone call made her nervous because of personal information he knew about her and her daily life. The student stated she had not been in any altercations with others and did not know who would threaten her. Victimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rights were given to the woman and she said she will decide whether to press charges if the caller is found.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Roachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; in ashtray

A UAPD officer pulled over a car with both headlights out Sunday at 8:28 p.m. on Sixth Street. The officer pulled the car over at Sixth Street and Campbell Avenue in the Sam Hughes parking lot. The officer could immediately smell burning marijuana coming from the car. The man was identified by his Arizona driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s licenses and sat on the curb as the officer searched the car. The officer found a small piece of the end of a joint in the center console ashtray. There were also two rolling papers in the console. The man told the officer there was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;roachâ&#x20AC;? in the ashtray shortly after the officer found the piece of the joint. The man was criminally charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was cited and then driven to his brotherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house. The manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s car was left in the parking lot and the joint and rolling papers were entered into property as evidence. The marijuana was submitted for testing. Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports. A complete list of UAPD activity can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.

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buck a month.â&#x20AC;? Although the universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s budget has been cut, Shelton pointed out that the UA has received $84 million in competitive stimulus funds and has raked in $600 million in research grants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The future success of this state depends on the success of the University of Arizona and our mission to foster access, quality and discovery,â&#x20AC;?Shelton said. Some audience members thought success depended on the state governmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just wish our legislators were visionaries,â&#x20AC;? said Emerson Smith, the chair of the guidance department at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Ariz. The UA has expanded to Phoenix at a rapid rate in recent years. Maricopa County houses the UA cooperative extension office, which offers training for travel care professionals through John and Dorris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, along with food safety and classes in grandparenting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most recently weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve partnered with Maricopa Community Collegestoestablishtwo-plus-two

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donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pay for their education or their future, who will?â&#x20AC;? The council had been notified by e-mail on Tuesday about Talenfeldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s resignation, but the announcement came as a surprise to those not on the council. Former GPSC Vice President David Lopez-Negrete was sworn in as acting president at the end of the meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it is unfortunate that this happened,â&#x20AC;? Lopez-Negrete said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But it was necessary. I will now devote the rest of the term to following up on the projects we have already set forth.â&#x20AC;? Lopez-Negrete mentioned the ongoing tuition and fee debates, the currently shelved student bill of rights and negotiating an end to â&#x20AC;&#x153;drop feesâ&#x20AC;? for UA graduate students as the most important items still to be resolved before the current GPSC term ends.

programs and have identified 14 UA degree areas of critical importance to this district,â&#x20AC;? Shelton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are focusing on Chandler and Paradise Valley for physical delivery of what we hope will be lower-cost, more readily available UA degrees here in Maricopa County.â&#x20AC;? The two-plus-two program is a partnership between the UA and Maricopa Community Colleges where students can complete their first two years towards a bachelorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s degree at a community college in Maricopa County and the remaining two years at a UA campus. The UA will receive five years of rent-free laboratory space at a facility in Chandler and 10 years rent-free for instruction space. Management information systems and optical programs will be offered by the UA in Chandler next year, Shelton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paradise Valley articulation is focused not only on high access programs such as retail and consumer finance, family studies and human development, but also in collaborative laboratory experiences in the life sciences programs,â&#x20AC;? Shelton said.

He said the UAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest impact and the thing that will have the most â&#x20AC;&#x153;profound impact on this community and this stateâ&#x20AC;?is in bio technology and medical education at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. He discussed the new Phoenix medical center and helping Arizonans have enough physicians to â&#x20AC;&#x153;get the care you expect, and you need.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The college of medicine in Phoenix is critical to meeting that demand,â&#x20AC;? Shelton said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let me tell you that already weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had great success. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to put together very quickly a faculty and staff to launch the school. We received accreditation in record time, indeed even before the first class even began their studies. The first cohort of students passed the first board exams at near perfect rates, and much higher than the national average.â&#x20AC;? He also talked about the UAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Cancer Center in Phoenix, which will be larger than its counterpart in Tucson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Five years from now, we anticipate that the Cancer Center here in Phoenix will serve 64,000 patients,â&#x20AC;? Shelton said.

Figures according to Shelton â&#x20AC;˘ Arizona has cut funding for higher education from 16 percent to 10 percent over the last 20 years â&#x20AC;˘ UA has lost $100 million (or onefourth of the state appropriation) â&#x20AC;˘ There were 2,000 more applications for fall 2010 than in fall 2009 â&#x20AC;˘ The freshman class of 7,000 is the largest ever â&#x20AC;˘ The freshman class is also the most ethnically diverse its ever been. More than 41 percent of Arizona residents represent ethnic minorities â&#x20AC;˘ Thirty-two percent of minorities who graduate from high school are eligible for admission to college â&#x20AC;˘ The number of students in the top band of academics has doubled since last year

VP sworn in, opposes Rec Center fee â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to be able to get us through the end of this term and set things up for the next council,â&#x20AC;? Lopez-Negrete said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Next year is an important phase.â&#x20AC;? Council members were clearly pleased with Lopez-Negreteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ascension, and several jumped to their feet as he was sworn in to his new office. Internal turbulence could not stop the flow of business, however. The council also listened to a presentation from Frank Farias, the executive director of UofA Bookstores and entrepreneurial initiatives, about the proposed new fees for the Student Recreation Center. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The fee that has currently been proposed is much needed,â&#x20AC;? Farias said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This new center is for the students, and so part of it has to be supported by the students.â&#x20AC;? Farias also voiced his disapproval

of the reduced fees proposed by the council in their joint statement with ASUA. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can speak personally that these fees would only cover the costs of the old center, and would not address the increased costs associated with the recent expansion,â&#x20AC;?Farias said. Some council members spoke out against the mandatory fee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do you understand the gravity of these types of fees?â&#x20AC;? asked Helena Morrison, a doctoral candidate in the College of Nursing. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I believe that this proposal is premature. Wait a year. Get your finances in order and if the (Rec) Center has to suffer, then the need will be even more obvious and students will want to pay the fee for the services.â&#x20AC;? Others spoke out against partnering the Student Recreation fee with the fee associated with

Campus Health Service. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nobody really, I think, believes the rationale behind bundling the fees,â&#x20AC;? said Jim Collins, a non-degree seeking student. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The (Rec) Center has been around for 20 years and there has never been any integration between student health and the (Rec) Center. Everybody kind of sees this as the combining of an unpopular fee with a necessary fee.â&#x20AC;? Farias constantly stressed his belief that the Rec Center was a sound business opportunity, as well as potentially a critical recruitment tool. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the (Rec) Center can be far more than just an exclusive club,â&#x20AC;? Farias said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I cannot change what has already happened, only what happens now and in the future. And I know what our plan is for the future.â&#x20AC;?

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The seesaw of the men’s basketball teams in the Pacific 10 Conference has one last weekend to level off. Where the Arizona Wildcats stand will be determined by two home games, starting with tonight’s 8:30 game against UCLA (13-15, 8-8 Pac-10) and Saturday’s 11:30 a.m. contest with the USC Trojans (16-12, 8-8). “I know there’s a lot of parity, but nonetheless we’re all in it,” said head coach Sean Miller of the conference standings. “To have 10 (conference) wins and be all in it would be a great accomplishment. “If you would have said at the beginning of the year, ‘Coach, you guys finished as the number-three seed in the Pac-10 Tournament,’” Miller added, “I would have signed up for that.” The Wildcats, now 8-8 in Pac-10 play and 14-14 overall, are coming off a momentum-changing victory over the Stanford Cardinal. Miller said his team hasn’t taken a large step forward since the Jan. 28 and Jan. 31 home wins against the Cardinal and California. Now in a three-way tie for fourth place with both USC and UCLA, Arizona has the opportunity to roll into the Pac-10 Tournament with a threegame winning streak and a No. 3 seed. “We look forward to playing all out, leaving it all on the court for the last two games,” said senior Nic Wise.“Winning three in a row before the tourney can boost your confidence.” Wise, who has struggled down the stretch, will play his final two games in McKale Center this weekend. Against Stanford, the Wildcats were saved by freshmen Momo Jones and Derrick Williams while the elder Wise sat on the bench during crunch time. The point guard finished with seven points and one assist, far away from his 14.4 point, 3.3 assist per game averages. Hopefully for Arizona, Wise will have enough in the tank to play the final two regular season games. “When he doesn’t play well, it’s hard

Gone are the days when Arizona versus UCLA meant a battle — a rivalry, if you will — for the top spot in the Pacific 10 Conference. Gone are the Jordan Farmars and Salim Stoudamires, the Kevin Loves and Jordan Hills. Gone is anything resembling UCLA’s three consecutive Final Four appearances last decade or Arizona’s 25 straight NCAA Tournament appearances. Lute Olson watches these Wildcats from the seats in McKale Center. John Wooden watches these Bruins from the seats in Pauley Pavilion. “It really made me feel terrible,” UCLA head coach Ben Howland told the Los Angeles Times. “Coach Wooden’s health has not allowed him to be with us much this season, but he was here Saturday with his championship ’70 team watching us play zone defense, turning over the ball and not winning. “I remember looking at video later that night and seeing coach Wooden sitting there, and it really hurt me,” Howland added. From 2005 to 2008, the Bruins went 97-17 overall and 51-10 in Pac-10 — three straight 30-win seasons. The Bruins enter tonight’s game 1315 overall and 8-8 in the Pac-10. The last time Howland had a losing record was his first season in Westwood, Calif., — building off Steve Lavin’s first and only losing season in 2002-03. “You can say I know failure because that’s what it has been relative to our expectations here,” Howland said. “It’s no fun. I have sleepless nights wondering how the heck did we get here. “But all of it starts right here with me. I’m in charge of making this program competitive year after year, but I did a poor job of evaluation of some of our recruits — from a talent, as well as a character standpoint.” This season’s struggles started from the get-go: a double-overtime loss to California State University, Fullerton, followed by five straight losses to the University of Portland,

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Men’s swim and dive fourth after Day 1 of Pac-10s The newly top-ranked Arizona men’s swim and dive team got off to a slow start at the Pacific 10 Conference Championships, ending the first day in fourth place. In the only two events of the first day, the Wildcats finished third place in the 200-yard medley relay while taking fourth in the 800y freestyle relay. “It was a pretty rough night for us,” said senior Jean Basson. “We take a lot of pride in relays, and we all gave it everything we had right now, so it’s disappointing not to get a better result.” Scores and times were not available online due to technical problems, according to Pac-10.org. While the Wildcats struggled in the two early races, they came into the Pac-10 meet with a different purpose than the majority of the other teams. Many of the schools racing in Long Beach, Calif., are aiming to either win the Pac-10 Championships or earn individual qualifications for nationals. Meanwhile, Arizona has already earned the majority of their cuts for NCAAs and will instead use the Pac-10s to add a few more men into the fold of preparing for the team’s ultimate goal — winning the second NCAA Championship in three years. “We are up against teams who are way more ready to go than we are right now, but we have to realize that’s OK because we want to be on top at nationals, not necessarily the Pac-10s,” Basson said. Despite the slow start on Wednesday, Arizona is in prime position to make a move Thursday with many of top swimmers racing in their best events. Basson will be in the 500y freestyle where he is the defending national champion, and fellow seniors Jack Brown and Jordan Smith will also be swimming in events that they have dominated this season. “We just need to make sure we’re ready to race from the first event to the last event,” Smith said. “We can’t afford to take the first events to warm up.” — Derek Lawrence

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Guard Momo Jones drives to the basket against a California defender on Feb. 25 in Berkeley, Calif. The freshman’s buzzer beater against Stanford two days later not only lifted the Wildcats over the Cardinal but also gave them momentum going into the last week of conference play.

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No-hitter highlights double-header By Kevin Zimmerman Arizona Daily Wildcat Fourteen wins, one loss and a seven-game winning streak — things are swell in Arizona softball land. But don’t tell that to head coach Mike Candrea. In his eyes, it’s too early to know where exactly the No. 2 Wildcats stand, even after Wednesday night’s two-game sweep of the New Mexico State University Aggies. “It’s kind of nice to come out and take care of business, although we had a lot of hiccups tonight,” Candrea said. “We still have a lot of growing pains that we’re going through.” Taking on last season’s besthitting softball team in the NCAA, the Arizona Wildcats (14-1) rode the first career no-hitter by freshman ace Kenzie Fowler to a 8-0 Game 1 victory against the NMSU (9-6) before pounding the Aggies 9-0 in Game 2. Freshman Brigette Del Ponte hit two three-run home runs on the evening — one in each game — sparking the offense, while an inconsistent defense gave up two hits and committed two errors. “You’re always looking for that complete game, that perfect game you’re trying to play,” Candrea said. “There’s still room for improvement.” Both teams were quiet to begin Game 1. The Wildcats put four runners on base through the first two innings but none advanced past first, as NMSU’s defense held strong. Soon though, starting Aggie pitcher Carissa Theis would find trouble. Junior Brittany Lastrapes got the scoring going in the third inning with a solo homer to right-center field to put UA on the board. Then, redshirt junior Stacie Chambers knocked in center fielder Lauren Schutzler from third base, who had advanced off a stolen base

and a single. With the fifth Arizona hit in a row, five-slot hitter Del Ponte rocketed a three-run bomb into the outfield stands, giving Arizona a 5-0 advantage. “I was watching them warm up and (they) really favored (their) inside pitch,” Del Ponte said. “That’s what I expected, and that’s what I got at both at-bats.” After second baseman Kristen Arriola sent a solo shot to left field on the first pitch of the fourth inning, freshman Baillie Kirker singled in the bottom of the fifth inning to set up a two-run homer by designated hitter Lini Koria. That gave Arizona a walk-off, 8-0 victory in the middle of the fifth inning due to the eightrun-after-five-innings run rule. Game 2 was much of the same. Pitcher Sarah Akamine got the nod from Candrea despite lingering back problems. She found trouble in the top of the third after tossing a triple to freshman Lauren Morizi before giving a single to junior Kylie Randall to put runners on the corners. With one out, Arizona’s fielders got the Wildcats out of the inning unscathed and did the same when NMSU outfielder Angie Ortega reached third with one out in the fourth inning. Akamine finished the game giving up two hits in the full five innings. “A lot of balls got hit to K’Lee (Arredondo),” Del Ponte said. “She really stepped up, made some plays. “We need to work on our throws,” she added, alluding to two UA errors. Schutzler scored in the first inning after a second of two wild pitches by Schroeder got behind Aggie catcher Ali Baumhover. Schroeder would walk Arizona’s leading home run hitter, Koria, to give Arizona a second run. The Aggies senior appeared tentative putting any pitches in the strike zone and was replaced by junior Alex Villalobos in the third inning after

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Freshman Kenzie Fowler delivers a pitch during Arizona’s 8-0 victory over the New Mexico State University Aggies on Wednesday. Fowler threw her first no-hitter of her collegiate career.

Del Ponte hit her second home run, giving the Wildcats a 5-0 lead. Still in the third inning, Koria knifed a double between the center and right fielders, and Kirker earned an RBI single before Schutzler, usually a slap-hitter, hit a home run for three more UA scores and a 9-0 lead

that would hold. Afterward, Candrea’s mantra of going through the learning process still stood despite the two blowout wins. “I told the girls, ‘It’s a simple game. You hit strikes and take balls,’” he said. “Sometimes young kids make the game more difficult than it really is.”

• thursday, march 4, 2010 • arizona daily wildcat

Comeback ’Cats down UNLV

W-hoops begins high-stakes road trip

Pitching staff keeps UA alive in extra innings

During the Arizona baseball team’s Tuesday night loss to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, it was the Runnin’ Rebels (7-3) that came up with the timely hits down the stretch, resulting in a 12-10 Arizona loss. But the Wildcats turned the tables Wednesday night, fighting back from a two-run deficit in the bottom of the 12th inning to ultimately steal a 5-4 victory in the 13th inning after more than four hours of play. “If there’s one thing about this group, they don’t give up,” said head coach Andy Lopez. “They played hard last night and they played hard tonight. They compete.” The Wildcats put the marathon of a game on ice after sophomore Bobby Brown singled, stole second and scored on a UNLV error committed on a sacrifice bunt by freshman shortstop Alex Mejia. A night after stranding 11 runners on base, Arizona once again couldn’t capitalize with runners in scoring position. It stranded 12 base runners but got the big hits when they mattered most. “I think we had a lot of momentum at the end of this game,”said sophomore right fielder Steve Selsky.“We had a lot more opportunities that finally kicked in.” After the Rebels surged ahead in the top of the 12th off a two-run home run from UNLV second baseman Travis Feiner, Arizona answered back, plating two runs of its own in the bottom half of the inning. Sophomore outfielder Ethan Chavez singled up the middle and after a wild pitch, sophomore catcher Jett Bandy drove him home with a single of his own. Later in the inning with two outs and Bandy on third, freshman center fielder and Las Vegas, Nev., native Joey Rickard tied the game with a single through the left side of the infield. “I didn’t want to miss the fast ball,”said Rickard, who finished the night 1-for-5 with two RBIs. “They’re all big games, but this one’s a good one to get.” While the late-game hitting propelled Arizona past the Rebels, it was the Wildcats’ pitching that kept them in the game. After getting blasted for six runs in 1 2/3 innings in his last start, junior starter Daniel Workman

USC (16-11, 10-6) has momentum coming off of three straight conference wins. The Trojans won an overtime squeaker, 81-78, against the Wildcats in early January at McKale Center. Despite the fact that the Wildcats lost both games against the LA schools earlier in the season, freshman Davellyn Whyte says the Trojans will see a different Arizona team tonight. “We’re a way better team than we were in the beginning of the season, so if we can continue to do the little things I think we’ll be good to go,” Whyte said. A familiar storyline this season has been Arizona’s inability to close out games; it often lost halftime leads or came out flat in the second half. The Wildcats’ ability to play a complete forty minutes will be key against USC, since the Trojans are always a threat to make a run, shooting 35.5 percent from the three-point line. Butts mentioned that her team’s focus makes it possible to maintain the same intensity for the entire game. “That’s the whole science of it, trying to put things together,” Butts said. “I think some of our mistakes are mental. “We need to make better decisions down the stretch, and if we can start to do that a little bit, then I think we’ll ease up and finish games.” Junior forward Ify Ibekwe, has remained consistent for the Wildcats all season, averaging a double-double with 14 points and 11 boards. While Ibekwe knows the two road games won’t be easy, she says the Wildcats need to play their game if they want to help themselves out before the Pac-10 Tournament. “Because we’re away, it’s going to be a little bit hard, but we can still do it,” Ibekwe said. “We can still go out there and focus on what Arizona needs to do to get those two wins and the sixth-place seed.”

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Even though its chances of making the NCAA Tournament hinge on winning the Pacific 10 Conference Tournament, there is a lot riding on Arizona’s last road trip beginning tonight against USC at 7. “The stakes are high for this weekend, there’s no question about it.” said head coach Niya Butts. The Wildcats (13-14, 6-10 Pac-10) are not at all likely to receive an atlarge bid to the big dance, but they have a chance of securing the sixthplace seed in the conference tournament with a strong weekend in LA. After being picked to finish ninth in the preseason polls, the Wildcats have been playing with a chip on their shoulders, trying to prove their doubters wrong. If they’re be able to pass Oregon and take over the sixth-place spot, the Wildcats will be awarded a first-round bye in the Pac-10 Tournament, making the road to a conference title a little easier. Butts mentioned that while a bye would be welcome, it isn’t crucial to success in the conference tournament. “I certainly think it helps if you can get a bye. Whether it’s necessary — that’s a little bit tricky,” Butts said. “If you can get into that sixth-place spot, it would certainly be ideal, but if that doesn’t happen, you have to be ready to play no matter what day you have to play on.” Besides the opportunity to move into sixth place, another postseason opportunity is not out of the question for Arizona. If they are able to finish the season .500 or better, the Wildcats could be selected as an at-large bid for National Invitational Tournament. Since the NIT counts conference tournament games on a team’s record, Arizona’s postseason hopes begin and end with its play on this road trip.

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Daniel Workman releases a pitch toward home in Arizona’s 5-4 victory over UNLV Wednesday.

went 4 1/3 innings, allowing only one run on two hits. “The game plan today was throwing a lot of strikes,” Workman said. “That was something we kind of struggled with this past weekend was pounding the zone when we had guys on base and stuff.” Workman threw only 75 pitches since he was on a pitch count due to the arm soreness he’s been dealing with all season. But the redshirt junior was solid, and for the first time in three games, the bullpen followed suit. In a combined 8 2/3 innings, the Arizona bullpen only yielded two earned runs on six hits and two walks while punching out eight UNLV hitters. “I’m real pleased with those guys. They did a good job,”Lopez said of the bullpen. “Working back from Joe Allison, Tyler Hale, (Nick) Cunningham,Vince Littleman. They

did a good job.” Lopez has been preaching all season that pitching is imperative to the success of the team, and it certainly showed. Aside from a two-run home run that Hale conceded in the top of the 12th, the UA pitchers were near dominant. “There was just one pitch that they got two runs off, but besides that our pitchers were shutting them down,” Selsky said. “When our pitchers are throwing strikes, it’s amazing. The tempo is better. You can definitely feel the difference.” Arizona did the little things Wednesday night — five stolen bases, an RBI sacrifice fly as well as numerous sacrifice bunts — that don’t show up in the box score. “As a young group they’re going to have to make some things happen,”Lopez said. “They’re going to have to make momentum for themselves.”

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This is Kevin O’Neill, the dictator who never spoke to his assistant coaches. This is O’Neill, the heir who stubbornly stuck to man-toman defense with a team too slow to rotate, allowing a zillion 3-pointers. This is O’Neill, the successor who played the slowest, grind-it-to-the core offense with one of the most explosive combo guards in the conference — Jerryd Bayless. Bayless was such an athlete he overcame those barriers, dropping 30plus points in three straight games in the Pacific 10 Conference that season— but others weren’t. Bryan The raw athletic talent of Jordan Hill Roy wasn’t quick enough on his feet to play solid defense down low, usually Sports writer resulting in three fouls by midway through the first half. O’Neill would bench him and leave it to Kirk Walters. Yes, Walters would be up against guys like Kevin Love, Brook Lopez and Robin Lopez. O’Neill only went six players deep some games because he couldn’t trust the bench. Just ask Jamelle Horne, the only junior remaining from the O’Neill regime. It’s hard to not like a guy who has never said anything bad about the UA basketball program — to the point where it’s almost a memorized response to the prompt: “After the way the University of Arizona treated you during Lute Olson’s awkward exit, how do you feel about the program?” His response goes something like: “I wouldn’t trade my experience at Arizona for anything. It was a great opportunity to work with great people and I have nothing but great things to say about the fans and Tucson.” Aside from that, O’Neill always spoke his mind — never a dull moment (or whiteboard). And for that, unleash one final ‘boo’ to O’Neill, a guy too tough for Arizona’s 2007-08 roster.

Analysis

CON:

Why the hell not?

Bruins burdened with injuries, inconsistencies

Butler University, Long Beach State, University of Kansas and Mississippi State University. As if they needed more obstacles after failing to regain traction, the Bruins were hit with injuries in the past two weeks. • Senior James Keefe underwent season-ending shoulder surgery this week. • Reeves Nelson will be reevaluated Wednesday after his eyes are dilated — he hasn’t practiced or been able to do anything since getting laser retinopexy on Feb. 22 to repair a retinal tear in his left eye. • Fresh off a shoulder injury, Nikola Dragovic sprained his ankle in warm-ups this past Saturday in a loss to Oregon. “When you’re successful here, that’s the expectation,” Howland said. “Winning to me is relief, losing is like dying. It’s gut-wrenching. This is really the low point since I’ve been at UCLA — it being year seven, and not year one and starting over. I thought it would be a tough year, but not as unsuccessful as it has been.”

Now both Arizona and UCLA will use this weekend to avoid a play-in game for the Pac-10 Tournament. No team wants the task of winning four games in four days in Staples Center beginning March 10. With a cluster of teams in the middle of the conference standings, this weekend could mean much more than just momentum. “It definitely impacts the two teams that will be in the play-in game,”Howland said this week. “And that’s what everyone wants to avoid. “I know we’ll have a problem with any team we play. It doesn’t matter who we play, it’ll be a very difficult game for us.” Regardless, any post-season appearances — whether it be the National Invitational Tournament or College Basketball Invitational — aren’t on the Bruins’ radar. “Who knows,”Howland said.“We’re 13-15 overall right now. So my whole focus is to try to see if we can have a good game and get a win in Tucson which will be no easy task.”

O’Neill should be thanked

In the next couple of days Arizona fans will prepare poster boards and insults for Saturday’s matchup with USC as former Arizona interim head coach Kevin O’Neill returns to McKale Center for the first time since being unceremoniously let go by Lute Olson. But before anyone boos O’Neill, they need to ask themselves: Why am I booing him? Is it simply because he is the head coach at USC — which is highly unlikely — or is because he was the interim coach during Arizona’s most tumultuous season? Talking to many fans around the Tucson community, most paint O’Neill as the bad guy, it’s almost as if he’s used as the scapegoat to explain the 2007-08 season. Whether it’s the rumors that players didn’t like playing for the often-strict coach or the fact that he and Olson couldn’t see eye to eye toward the end, many who support Arizona Vincent basketball developed a dislike for O’Neill without even having Balistreri a legitimate reason. The funniest part is when you ask someone why they dislike Sports writer O’Neill sometimes they really don’t know. It wasn’t his fault that Olson took a leave of absence and he coached the team under his philosophy. It wasn’t his fault that the team, as a whole was soft, and wouldn’t buy into his hardnosed defensive scheme, which is quite similar to challenges current Arizona head coach Sean Miller has dealt with this season. Sure, O’Neill had a temper and a mouth that should have a parental advisory taped to it, but the man was, and is, a good coach. It’s no coincidence that before the Trojans had a postseason ban placed on its basketball program midway through the season, they were one of the surprise teams in the entire country. The same program that watched three of its recruits de-commit to sign at Arizona and was considered by most a disaster will finish with an equal or better overall record than the Wildcats. O’Neill has done the same thing at USC as he did during his one year stint at Arizona — make the best of a screwed up situation. He did the best he could under the circumstances he was handed and people forget that he did extend the precious NCAA Tournament streak that will likely come to an end in the next couple weeks. Fans have the right to boo the opposing team’s coach, but to place blame on O’Neill for what wasn’t his fault is a bit ridiculous. But fans will be fans and yell out the most outrageous chants but before the insults begin, at least say ‘thank you’ first.

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Hill, Lavender take over on court with Parrom out

on this team,” Miller said, adding that he expects to play Wise a good 34 minutes per game. “I can’t help but think we’ve worn him out a little bit,” he added. “He’s handled himself remarkably.” With freshman forward Kevin Parrom highly doubtful for Arizona due to a foot injury, sophomore Brendon Lavender and freshman Solomon Hill will likely see increased playing time. Miller also said Jones will play off the ball on defense to account for the loss of Parrom, whose absence could hurt Arizona’s defensive rebounding and perimeter defense. In place of Parrom last weekend, Hill started and Lavender played 25 minutes; he hadn’t played more than 20 minutes since Arizona last played UCLA on Jan. 2. “I just think they’re all growing and they’re all comfortable with the system,” Wise said of the younger players. “They’re all coming into their own late into the season.” Combined, Hill and Lavender pulled in 11 rebounds and scored 10 points against the Cardinal,

but as a whole, Arizona’s wings struggled to contain perimeter players, something they have failed to do consistently all season. “The single biggest thing that could’ve helped us this year,” Miller said, “(was) being better at defending perimeter players off the dribble, off of screens. That ingredient is something that we missed.” With a losing season staring the Wildcats straight in the eye, Jones said the Stanford game was an important pick-me-up coming into this final Pac-10 weekend. Miller agreed, adding that it could possibly become the driving force into a successful end of the regular season. “You want to have some momentum and a good feeling going to LA and the Pac-10 Tournament because there’s a number of teams that can win it,” Miller said. “If we were to be one of them, I think this weekend will have a lot to do with how we feel going into that tournament.”

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Experience pays off

Going through race day with first-time racer Jack Andrews but not falling below 17th. Andrews’ consistency drew praise from teammates. “It shows that he’s committed and he’s put in the training,” said Shane Durkin, senior majoring in molecular and cellular biology, who finished fourth in the Men’s Category 5.“He (wanted) it.”

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or many UA Cycling Club members, racing is something they’ve done for much of their lives. But for Jack Andrews, racing is something entirely new. On Jan. 30, the UA Cycling Club had its first races of the cycling season at the fourth annual UA Criterium. Andrews, a sophomore engineering major and first-year member of the club, competed in the Men’s Category 5 and the Collegiate Male C race. “It was my first race ever, period,” said Andrews, who finished 17th out of 50 in the Men’s Category 5. “I was jittery.” Unlike many of his teammates, Andrews only rode his bike for fun prior to college. “(It was) my first time to ride, train and think about what I was doing,” Andrews said. But what makes someone join a university cycling club? “I have a lot of school pride,” Andrews said.“I wanted to start racing, and what better way to start than with your college team?” Andrews doesn’t take the responsibility of representing his school lightly.

Coming to a finish

In the second-to-last lap, Andrews was in fourth place behind Durkin who was setting him up for a sprint finish. “I felt he was strong in the race and could possibly compete for the win,” Durkin said. “I talked to him and said ‘if you feel up to it stay behind me. I’ll try and set you up for the win.’” Andrews willingly took the opportunity but could not take advantage of it. “He was going to give me a lead out on the sprint if I could hold on, but I was spent on the last lap. He was being a really good teammate,” Andrews said. As the Men’s Category 5 race came to a close, Andrews did not come out with a win. “The last lap people started flying,” Andrews said.“The pace really picked up. We were going around 22 mph the whole way, and the last lap we picked up to 25 plus.” Andrews described his first race experience as “addicting.” “He’s got a lot of years ahead of him,” Durkin said.“He can have a great impact on the club and the people around him.” With his first race completed, Andrews refueled. “One more race,”Andrews said. “Then I’m going to sleep and study.” But before Andrews could hit the pillow, he had to cross the finish line for only the second time in his life.

Preparation

Competitive racing takes work. For his first two races, Andrews clocked more than 3,000 miles on his bike. When he wasn’t riding it, he was prepping it. “I cleaned it nonstop,” Andrews said. “I was testing different things to make sure everything was working properly.” However, Andrews’ preparation went far beyond the bike. “I was in bed around 10:15 p.m. (the Friday before the race),” he said.“(I was up) at 6:30 a.m. to get ready early.” For breakfast he ate oatmeal and juice — racers know they need carbohydrates, even the first timers. By 8 a.m. Andrews was at the Criterium, warmed-up.

The start

At 10:20 a.m. Andrews crossed the start line at the head of the field, not wanting to waste energy trying to catch up to the lead

DEFINE IT

Prime: A prize or bonus given to a rider who is the first person to pass a certain point during a race — sportsdefinitions.com

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Sophomore Jack Andrews turns the corner during the fourth annual UA Criterium on Jan. 30. Andrews, a sophomore engineering major, participated in two events as a first-time racing member of the UA Cycling Club.

racers. After the first lap Andrews was in eighth place, and for the next nine laps he would not fall below 10th. At the start of the 11th lap, Andrews was in fourth place when a bell rung, the signaling of a prime lap. As Andrews rounded the sixth and final turn of the prime lap he had the lead

when a member of the field fell from his bike right behind him. Andrews looked back unfazed. As the lap came to a close, Andrews kept the lead and began the next lap with a prime under his belt. “I heard (the crash) right behind me,”Andrews said.“I was worried it was going to take me out. I thought,

‘Don’t hit me.’ “I just felt really good,”Andrews added.“After the first turn on Cherry (Street) I sprinted and got a lead. I went for it, and I got it. It’s just cool to say I won a prime lap.” The race continued and Andrews maintained position with the lead group, going as high as fourth place

Experience pays off

At 2:05 p.m. the Collegiate Male C race began, and when Andrews crossed the finish line, he crossed it first. “I was surprised,”Andrews said.“I didn’t know that when I crossed the finish line I was in first. I just tried to ride as fast as I could. When I saw the results I couldn’t believe it. Not expecting it and then finding out that I won, it was exciting.”

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