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Bryan Korth, a chemistry and bio-chemistry doctoral student, filled a 160-liter container near the Henry Koffler building with liquid nitrogen at -321 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday. Ventilation of nitrogen gas from the container results in a cloud of condensed water vapor.

ASUA executive candidates debate By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The candidates for the top offices of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona voiced their platforms and answered questions at the debates on Monday night. For a crowd of several dozen, the two candidates for administrative vice president and the two current ASUA members running in uncontested races for the executive vice president and presidential spots faced rounds of questioning from a representative student panel. The two unopposed spots went through a similar debate system to the ASUA senatorial debates on Thursday, though with five minutes for platforms and a question from each of the nine panelists chosen to represent the student body. The real debate came between the two candidates running for the administrative vice president spot, Sen. Hillary Davidson and pre-business sophomore Brett Ponton. Davidson presented her platform, which deal with direct student involvement through town hall

meetings, outreach program to bond students and faculty on campus and a peer mentoring program implemented during orientation. Ponton’s platforms dealt more with community building, focusing

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ASUA administrative vice presidential candidate Brett Ponton makes his opening statements during the debates held last night in the Student Union Memorial Center’s Ventana room.

on cultural and arts preservation and student interaction with athletes with learning disabilities in the Tucson community, which would connect those on campus with the diversity of people off campus. Both Ponton and Davidson were asked a series of questions from the panel and had the chance to ask a question in rebuttal to the other candidate. Davidson thought the debate went well and served its purpose, especially for the administrative vice presidential race. “I think the debates were very informative just to kind of see the direction for ASUA next year,”she said. Ponton left immediately after the debate and was unavailable for comment. Sen. Katherine Weingartner, executive vice presidential candidate, noted there was room for improvement in ASUA but wanted to work on both the governmental body’s image and the information students have about it. “I want people to know what we do, because it’s tremendous,”saidWeingartner during her time at the podium. Emily Fritze , the current executive

vice president and the uncontested candidate for president, noted that even for positions with one candidate in the running, the debates were beneficial. “I think that for the unopposed positions, it was a great way to see if they are qualified for the position,” Fritze said. “Especially since there was a diverse panel of students, I think that it was a good set up to see what candidates stood for.” Audience members were unable to ask questions of the candidates, as the debates ran over time, said Justine Piscitello, elections commissioner for ASUA. These debates were the last public forum for candidates to speak with voters. General elections will be held from 8 a.m. today through 8 p.m. Wednesday.

General elections begin today at 8 a.m. and conclude Wednesday at 8 p.m. with a general election results show in the Kiva room of the Student Union Memorial Center Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.

There have been more than 1,000 picture suggestions for the UA’s HiWISH Mars imaging program. HiRISE, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, is a camera orbiting Mars that was launched into space in August 2005 and began taking images in the fall of 2006, according to Guy McArthur, senior applications systems analyst and developer for the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and a software developer for HiRISE. A life-size model of the spacecraft can be found at the UA HiRISE center at 1541 E. University Blvd. HiRISE is known as the “people’s camera,”according to Alfred McEwen, professor of planetary sciences and principal investigator of HiRISE. “We actually had the idea of the public input images when we first submitted our proposal. We didn’t get started with it as soon as we wanted, and we finally got time to do that,” McEwen said. The HiRISE scientists wanted the public not to only see their work, but also to be a part of it. “Other missions had done similar stuff, but our camera is the most powerful that we’ve ever sent to another planet,” said Ari Spinoza, media liaison for HiRISE and senior information technology support analyst for the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. “This opens up science to everybody.” Most of the work is done locally in Tucson, but the mission has international arms as well. “We have a science team comprised of individuals at other institutions across the U.S. and in Switzerland, and they can participate,” McEwen said.“People here locally do all the detail and image programming and send the command files to the spacecraft.” HiWISH is a program that allows the public to suggest imaging sites on Mars using the HiRISE camera. People have suggested 1,056 sites for imaging since the program began on Jan. 20. “We were ready to go several months beforehand, but our spacecraft was in safe mode, so we didn’t want to have targets coming in and wait around for it,”Spinoza said. The HiWISH team has imaged about 18 of those suggested targets. MARS, page 3

Arizona.edu upgrades Web site format By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT After a failed launch a few months ago, the UA relaunched the new version of its homepage Monday morning. “It wasn’t like March 8 had anything magic about it,” said Kate Maguire Jensen, assistant vice president of marketing.“We ended up just having to make a decision based on readiness.” The new site loads quickly and incorporates features from the old site, including an updated search feature and the original and more complete phonebook. The site went through final changes in early February before a date for the final launch was determined. The UA’s new homepage still has sections for future and current students, parents and faculty, but there is also a

new business and industry section for corporate connections to find out more about the UA. These sections cater their news toward their respective audiences and are one of the biggest changes on the new Web site. Along with these secitons, changes to the search engine, the Web engine and the programming to go along with those were the biggest changes to the site between launch dates, said Derek Masseth, senior director of infrastructure services for University Information Technology Services. Masseth works on the incident command council charged with fixing issues with the new site.

Visit www.arizona.edu to see the changes to the UA’s homepage.

He noted that the new site had “dramatically better results” but that there will still be modifications made if necessary in the coming weeks. “We have a lot of expert folks sitting together in a room watching this thing like a hawk for the next few days just to be sure,” he said. “But we went live because today was the right day, because all of our ducks were in a row, and we made all the changes we thought we needed to make.” The new site is aligned with the update to the UAccess student system, which is slated to replace Student Link incrementally through fall 2010. The site’s launch met originally projected costs . Its design, by Archetype 5, an outside constractor, cost $116,000, with $30,000 more spent on additional hardware for

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Film sophomore What’s your favorite film? This week … If you had to pick one? This week if I had to pick one I would say maybe“James and the Giant Peach.” Really? Why? He overcomes his obstacles. With a peach? No. No. That’s fruit, Omar. Not with the peach.You know, sometimes the biggest enemies can be family, the biggest obstacles can be family. And not fruit. Not fruit. Yeah. Did you watch the Oscars? I did — the last part of them, like the last hour. Don’t you think James Cameron has enough money? Don’t you think he seems like a douche bag? That’s why he didn’t win anything. Right? And his ex-wife won all the stuff. Really? The Bigelow is his ex-wife? That is sweet. She’s a hottie. She’s way hot. Do you think he would win or lose in a fight against Steven Spielberg? Like an all-out fist fight — no weapons, like ultimate cage fighting. I think Spielberg could take him ‘cause Cameron looks gauntly. He looks like … sickly. I think he looks like a cake-eater. I think since Spielberg has the beard, he just looks rogue. You don’t know what he’s going do in the ring. Yeah, he’s a little guy. So, South Park or Family Guy? South Park. It was trailblazing. And highly offensive. Yes, I love it.

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Waste watchers? UK group fears trash bin spies LONDON — Microchips have been placed in garbage bins to monitor how much people throw away. A pro-privacy group warns in a new report that more than 2.6 million of the chips have been surreptitiously installed in what is seen as a first step toward charging those who toss too much. Proponents say it’s a bid to push recycling. Opponents say it stinks. “They should mind their own business,” said Terry Williams, an unemployed Londoner who thinks the government is meddling. “I believe they have gone too far. It’s

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not like we are throwing away anything that is illegal.” The advocacy group Big Brother Watch found through a series of Freedom of Information requests that many local governments, called councils in Britain, are installing the microchips in trash cans distributed to households, but in most cases have not yet activated them — in part because officials know the move would be unpopular. “They are waiting for the political climate to change before they start using them,” said campaign director Dylan Sharpe, who predicted that families that produce large

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amounts of garbage would be fined. The trash microchips are now part of the British information grid, which already includes a heavy reliance on closed-circuit television surveillance and cameras to monitor the population, particularly on the crowded public transportation system. “This is yet another piece of surveillance that the councils are taking on in our daily life,”said Sharpe.“With this information they can tell if we are home or not, and the information is stored on their database, which is not that secure.” — The Associated Press

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Director Bigelow makes history with ‘Hurt Locker’

LOS ANGELES — Kathryn Bigelow made Oscar history Sunday night, becoming the first woman to win best director at the Academy Awards for her gritty Iraq war saga “The Hurt Locker.” Bigelow’s film, which also won best picture, follows the dangerous daily existence of an Army bomb Kathryn Bigelow defusal team. It earned six Oscars, including one for Mark Boal’s original screenplay, based on his time as a journalist embedded with such a unit. “There is no other way to describe it — it’s the moment of a lifetime,” Bigelow said, her voice quivering. She dedicated the award to the military men and women serving in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the world:“May they come home safe.” Bigelow was the fourth woman nominated for the prize, following Sofia Coppola for 2003’s “Lost in Translation,” Jane Campion for 1993’s “The Piano” and Lina Wertmuller for 1975’s “Seven Beauties.” She was the front runner heading into the Academy Awards. Barbra Streisand, director of films including “Yentl” and“The Prince of Tides,”walked out on stage to present the category. “Well, the time has come,” Streisand said before announcing Bigelow’s win. Bigelow also bested ex-husband James Cameron, who was up for directing the sci-fi blockbuster “Avatar” — and she’d been sitting directly in front of him all night during the Oscar ceremony. Much has been made about the former spouses competing against each other, but their split was amicable and the two since have supported each other professionally. As Bigelow’s victory was announced, Cameron could be seen clapping and saying,“Yes, yes.” Backstage, reporters repeatedly tried to coax her to dish on her ex, but she was abidingly diplomatic. “I think he’s an extraordinary filmmaker,” she said, when asked what it was like to beat him. Bigelow had already been a pioneer for decades, having built a career making action pictures like “Point Break” and “K-19: The Widowmaker,”usually male-dominated territory. But at the Directors Guild of America Awards, where she won the top honor, Bigelow said:“I suppose I like to think of myself as a filmmaker”— not a female filmmaker. And now, she can think of herself as an Oscar winner. —The Associated Press

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UA receives contracts to explore dark matter in space By Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA has received two contracts to develop and build key components for an experiment searching for dark matter in the universe. The contracts were awarded to the Imaging Technology Laboratory and the Optical Fabrication and Engineering Facility at the College of Optical Sciences. Both groups will focus on developing components vital to the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment, a project being conducted at the McDonald Observatory at the University of Texas at Austin. The Hobby-Eberly Telescope, the fourth largest optical telescope in the world, will scour the skies and take measurements of light from faraway stars to compute a 3-D projection of the universe. With the new components being manufactured at the UA, the telescope will be able to search a larger area in greater detail than ever before. One of the new components of the telescope is an optical device known as a wide field corrector, which the Optical Fabrication and Engineering Facility at the UA College of Optical Sciences received a $4 million contract to design and manufacture. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The current optical device on the telescope is a collection of 96 spherical segments,â&#x20AC;? said Martin Valente,

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Fabrication-Engineering Facility director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the problem with those is they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t focus very clearly. So what the wide field corrector does is more precisely focus light while also allowing the telescope to cover a greater area of the sky.â&#x20AC;? According to Valente, the corrector will be completed in about 13 months and the project will involve UA students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is exactly the type of hardware we enjoy building and designing because of the opportunity it presents to students,â&#x20AC;? Valente said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Projects like this enable students to work side-by-side with researchers so they can see what it takes to design, build and commission hardware in a real and applicable way. That practical experience, in turn, is what makes them valuable in the field.â&#x20AC;? Valente said he expects around six students to be directly involved in the process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here to produce outstanding students,â&#x20AC;? he said. The UA Imaging Technology Laboratory received the second contract, worth about $2 million. Astronomical Research Cameras, Inc., a California-based company building camera electronics for the HobbyEberly Telescope, awarded the contract to the Imaging Technology Laboratory, which in turn will produce approximately 200 charge-coupled device detectors to be placed on the telescope. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We make some of the most efficient and

highly sensitive detectors in the world,â&#x20AC;? said Michael Lesser, Imaging Technology Laboratory director. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also pride ourselves on producing exactly what our customers want, which is vital in contracts like this, where the product needs to fit exact specifications.â&#x20AC;? The charge-coupled device detectors are made of silicon and work by transforming photons (the particles which make up light) into electrons, which produce a voltage that can be read by the telescope and displayed as a digital image. Those digital images can then be studied by astronomers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The big advantage of these kind of detectors is the ability to take images without a lot of interference or noise, intrinsic or otherwise, that could affect the viability of the signal,â&#x20AC;? Lesser said. Lesser also said that students will be involved in development processes such as research and computer support, though the actual manufacturing will be left to the staff of the Imaging Technology Laboratory. Lesser expressed his confidence that the high-exposure contract would lead to new opportunities in the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The big thing about projects like this is that it advances our own technology,â&#x20AC;?Lesser said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we have new opportunities like these, especially advanced projects, we can develop technology for projects of all kinds. This then makes us more competitive in the future.â&#x20AC;?

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Anger works in funny ways

eing a journalist or part of a journalism entity is a lot like being an athlete: People in the general public will love you when you’re on and hate you with a fiery passion when you’re off or do anything to upset them. And it’s no ordinary hate. It’s hate composed of shards of mal-informed hypocrisy spit out like daggers without any real preconceived notion of why the press is a target. In the past three weeks, I was told to my face that the Arizona Daily Wildcat is a joke and that we don’t take our jobs seriously. You try it. There’s no better feeling as a journalist than to print a story that has news value, oozes with truth, informs all readers and is 100 percent balanced. It’s what we strive for. But Lance Madden in all reality, it doesn’t work out perfectly Editor in chief every time we print a story. Even the biggest newspapers and news entities share this trait from time to time. No one is perfect. As a journalist, if one person disagrees with the story, you’ll know about it. Your ears will bleed thanks to obsessive insults, and your phone will ring off the hook until that person, or group or people, is satisfied — and they almost never are. The Daily Wildcat has endured this for the past three weeks. On Feb. 15, we printed a story called“Human rights violations”about a group on campus attempting to have the University of Arizona Police Department’s contract with Motorola terminated. The students’ reasons for the recommendation to end the contract deals with Motorola’s involvement with the Israeli government, which is occupying Palestinian lands. Admittedly, the Daily Wildcat did not have two sides to this story, though this wasn’t deliberate. There was absolutely no bias from the reporter or the Daily Wildcat in reporting the story — despite allegations against us — and some sources simply weren’t willing to comment. To make matters worse, the Daily Wildcat also published an opinions article on the same subject. The author’s views, which do not represent those of the paper, mirrored the views of the UA group calling for the termination of UAPD’s contract with Motorola. In hindsight, we could have published the news story and the opinions piece on different days and we could have tried to counter the opinions piece with a view from the other side. But we didn’t, and it caused a great stir in the Jewish community on campus. We ran readers’ letters and guest columns of concerned individuals expressing their displeasure with our coverage, and Hillel UA said our ethics were in question. In reality, though, it was apparent that they were angry over political issues more than anything else. Michelle Blumenberg, executive director of UA Hillel, spearheaded a campaign to have people sign a letter to the Daily Wildcat. This involved asking for support in an e-mail with the subject“Speak Out Against the Wildcat,”as well as collecting signatures at Israelpalooza, an on-campus event to“highlight the positive aspects of Israel and to create solidarity.” And that’s fine with us, but it really doesn’t show much. Anyone can write a letter and have about 600 people sign it, especially if they are signing it based solely on what they are being told. I bet the majority of the signees hadn’t even read the article or column Hillel UA was upset about. I was presented with the letter on Friday, and after review, the signature section looks shaky, to say the least. Signers were allowed to choose more than one affiliation, so there are duplications of signatures, which makes the list look longer than it actually is. But there are also duplications for what seems like no apparent reason; seven times in the letter, a person and his or her affiliation is duplicated. Coincidence? Further, Michael Schwartz is listed as a signee and a UA alumnus. Schwartz, a former Daily Wildcat employee, said he received two e-mails from Hillel about signing the letter, but never agreed to sign anything, and is appalled that his name is listed. Maybe it’s Hillel’s ethics that should be in question. Regardless, it’s time to move on. — Lance Madden is a journalism senior. He can be reached at editor@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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Are you kidding me? Seriously, this whole“Herstory”thing is stupid. The word “history” is not a masculine term. It’s entirely gender neutral. You’re making an issue where there is none. Are we not allowed to say “mankind” anymore? How about “humanity?”After all, both words have the word“man”in them so they’re clearly inappropriate. You are furthering a climate of political correctness run amok and it’s disgusting. — Kevin W. I LOVE the Women’s Herstory Month events. Really wish I could have made it to this Breast Party — the one in October was fabulous. And Kevin: You must be one of those people who thinks women have equal pay, racism isn’t a problem, and there’s never been a war caused by religion in the history of HUMAN kind. You are furthering a climate of ignorance run amok and it’s disgusting. — Christina Bischoff Men and women are equal — different and equal. And they need each other, I’m tired of women saying that they don’t need men. I’m all for women being empowered, but men don’t have to be labeled worthless to do it. You don’t have to sterilize an English word that has the letters h-i-s in sequence. Our culture has changed in the last several decades from women being oppressed to men being de-valued. If you look at our culture there is currently an influx of absent fathers. I’m not saying anyone but the fathers themselves are to blame, but the last thing men need is a message that they aren’t important. When are we going to learn to appreciate each other as men and women instead of cutting down each others roles? We should be supporting each other’s roles and sacrificing for one another. — Joe

Thank you, Joe. That’s exactly the point I’m trying to make. You can celebrate women’s history without shutting men out of it. After all, lots of progress wouldn’t have been made without men. How many women were in government when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was passed? — Kevin W.

On ‘No room for racially themed parties,’ March 5

I’m glad that we have a requirement for diversity courses now and that the campus offers so many venues to explore the diversity of humanity. Unfortunately, there’s always going to be some ignorant student who makes the rest of the campus look bad because they can’t open their eyes. (Or rather, they’re pulling a Miley Cyrus and just mocking Asians … Amazing how many times I’ve seen that around campus.) I don’t think any amount of mandatory classes will fix people that awful, sadly. — Christina

On ‘Shelton reflects on presidential pressure,’ March 4

I don’t hate him. I think he has a tough job and he’s doing great in this difficult time. He’s no Truman, and people in power always get blamed during hard times. The man is working more than 13 hours a day. — Shelton Rocks!

On ‘Fogg comes up clutch,’ March 8

I take back every negative thing I said about Jamelle. He has really stepped it up in the last two games. He was especially on point against USC and he definitely played a huge part. Great job and Bear Down! — Kevin W.

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Violence, ambushing no way to protest budget cuts

inconvenience friends, strangers, neighbors and fellow schoolmates. arch 4 was a chaotic, disruptive day for several college Protestors are casualties of tuition increases, and, now, innocents are campuses across the country. The UA seemed to have missed the memo, and good riddance to that. casualties of the protestors’ decisions. On March 4, which was the Day of Action to Defend Public This approach deters supporters and seems to have no Education, students all engaged in rowdy demonstrations to speak consideration for the students who just want to attend classes at the academic institution for which they already paid. What’s the point of out against education budget cuts and tuition increases. breaking into a classroom to chant about budget cuts? Way to cheat Peaceful protests are perfectly sound, but students at the University of California, Davis among many other institutions the students who went to class to learn something. staged inconsiderate, unconstructive protests that The same argument can be applied to the freeway cheapened their message of lowering the price of blockage. What purpose does that serve, other than to infuriate bystanders who have no control over intellectual curiosity. budget cuts? Nearly 300 UC Davis students came together to block the I-80 freeway ramp, which is by the campus. According to an Associated Press report, protesters Earlier that day, many of these protestors took their at the University of California, Santa Cruz blocked demonstrations to occupied classrooms and, in turn, gates and smashed the windows of a car Laura Donovan campus while its driver was inside. The same news story disrupted class sessions. Columnist reported that a group of students at the University It’s understandable that students are furious about the ridiculous rising cost of higher education, but why would they of California, Berkeley formed a human chain blocking a main gate choose to punish their fellow schoolmates and community members to the campus. California State University, Northridge students with ambushing protests? Shouldn’t they want as many people as followed the UC Davis protesters’ lead and stood in the middle of a traffic intersection. possible on their side? Many of these protestors acted childishly by resorting to violence Everyone is upset that students have to foot the bill for pretty and immense hostility. Worst of all, they were completely insensitive much everything these days, but isn’t it also disrespectful of towards their classmates, who actually wanted to go to classes on protestors to interrupt class lessons and prevent their classmates from learning and safely traveling around their own city? March 4, which was just two weeks away from the UC Davis finals Clearly, student protestors everywhere are feeling helpless and as week. Why should everyone on campus and in the general college if they have no other option but to get pushy, even if they have to town have to suffer simply because state legislatures all over are

implementing budget cuts? The UA seemed to have missed out on college campus insanity on March 4. In January 2009, Arizona students rallied against massive budget cuts at the Capitol. At no point in this protest did students lash out in violence or prevent townspeople from crossing the streets. Sure, that event didn’t receive the same amount of television coverage as the California school protests, but it didn’t make a national ass out of the UA, either. To be fair, the March 4 protestors, like all public school students, have grounds to be fed up. Many students are unable to continue pursuing a higher education as a result of fee increases, among other factors. This is unjust, but the individuals at hand can actually accomplish something semi-constructive and mature by creating petitions, making phone calls to government officials, writing letters, and being persistent in an intelligent manner. The state legislatures remain blasé and apathetic, but they probably won’t want to listen to a bunch of out-of-control protestors with an unwarranted sense of entitlement. Tuition will not decrease in the aftermath of these sorts of protests. Perhaps nothing, not even positive give-and-take dialogue, will persuade state legislatures to make education more affordable for everybody. This is an unfortunate reality, but protestors aren’t going to change the situation by wreaking havoc in their university cities and towns.

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—Laura Donovan is a creative writing senior. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harsh educational reforms have come under fire, and, while some may say firing faculty at public institutions is an unproven method of helping education, we believe reform is needed in order to truly increase school value. In the case of an underperforming Rhode Island school, the board of education decided to fire all of the teachers due to poor test results in prior years. The decision to fire the 93 teachers has come under great critique as the $3.5 billion federal school aid program gets started, according to The New York Times. Teaching has slowly but surely been turning into just another profession or job until a real career comes through. The sad truth is that many public school teachers do not put in the same effort as they did decades ago. The situation is even grimmer when it comes to underprivileged schools and the children who attend them. If those kids who grow up in the inner slums of cities are not given proper educational opportunities from the start, their likelihood to succeed decreases with age, and the lack of dedicated instructors will only deepen their hardships. While trying not to get too into the political aspect of the problem, former President George W. Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s No Child Left Behind debacle only attempted to get students, suited for grade promotion or not, through the system to high school graduation. Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s plan, however, is an example of quality education reform, rather than the supposedly fair-forall temporary solution of letting underperforming children and excelling students graduate at an armâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s length of each other. And, with the addition of a federal school turnaround of $3.5 billion, Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s support for nixing poor faculty only serves to eliminate those who do not qualify for funding. The Central Falls, R.I., school that has become one of several locations of debate saw a mere 7 percent of kids passing their 11th grade state math exams. Therefore, the decision to fire those 93 teachers is valid, as the district, state or federal administration had to put its foot down on educational reform. After all, even in poor school districts, teachers are some of the highest paid figures, and if the ultimate goal is to receive a paycheck, then the reason for teaching and the system itself has reversed from times when education was a priority. Underperformance is the teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fault, and, if a passion for teaching is not a teacherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top priority, then funding from the federal government should be in no way a method of escape for schools. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Firing faculty necessary,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The Rutgers Daily Targum editorial board, March 7

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POLICEBEAT By Bridgette Doran ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

You can run, but you can’t hide

A University of Arizona Police Department officer arrived to the Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall on Wednesday at 12:05 p.m. after a resident assistant reported the smell of marijuana in one of the hallways. When the officer knocked on the door and said he was a police officer, the RA then yelled to the officer that, from the outside, he could see the men climbing out of the window. As the men began to run west down Highland Avenue, the officer repeatedly yelled for them to stop. They refused to stop and headed toward the walkway between Villa del Puente and Pueblo de la Cienga Residence Halls. Another officer was on patrol behind those dorms, so he yelled for the men to stop, and one of them immediately laid on the ground. The other man continued running until he tripped and fell. Both were instantly handcuffed. The man who lay on the ground refused to identify himself. The officer was able to get the man’s wallet from his front pocket. He noticed that the man smelled like alcohol and had bloodshot eyes. Inside the wallet, the officer found a UA CatCard, a Connecticut driver’s license, an expired New York driver’s license and two Arizona driver’s licenses. The Connecticut license was real and showed the man to be 18 years old. The first Arizona driver’s license had the picture of a 21-year-old man, but the license number showed that it belonged to an 80-year-old woman. The officer told the man that he was under arrest. After placing the man under arrest, the officer reached into the man’s other front pocket and found a crumpled piece of paper with marijuana inside. The RA had been waiting outside the room window, and both he and the officer could see that inside the dorm room was a bottle of tequila and buds of marijuana on the students’ desks. A resident of the hall reported that a man walking down the hall had run from the same room earlier. When the officer spoke with the man, the resident said he lived in the room across from the room in which they had been smoking marijuana, and he left when they started smoking and drinking. The officers got a search warrant for the room by phone at 3:30 a.m. and found a wallet with Zig Zag rolling papers on the desk, a full bottle of Jose Cuervo Especial tequila, two baggies with marijuana buds inside, a glass pipe with burnt residue and a Zong bong with fresh marijuana in its stem. Both of the men who ran were taken and booked into Pima Country Jail for minor in possession, refusing to provide a lawful name after detainment, possession of marijuana and possession of a fictitious license.

Thief caught magenta-handed

A UAPD officer arrived to the UofA Bookstore at 1209 E. University Blvd. on Thursday at 1:35 p.m. after bookstore security reported a shoplifter. The officer met with the shoplifter in the conference room and asked him what was going on. The man said, “I took the markers.” After the man was read his rights and agreed to answer questions, the man said he had gone into the bookstore with a group from his Amerischools College Prep Academy class. While he was walking around the store, the man said he saw two markers, a black, medium-point Sharpie, worth $3.49, and a magenta fine point Sharpie, worth $3.29, and decided to take them. After he put the markers in his back pocket and walked past the point of all sales without paying, security stopped him. The officer asked the man if he had any money to pay for the markers, and he said no. The man was arrested for shoplifting. He was cited and released on scene to the care of his teacher. Photos of the markers and a receipt were placed into property as evidence along with video surveillance of the crime.

Rude awakening: Napping man sent to jail

A UAPD officer was performing a security check of the parking garage at 1060 N. Cherry Ave. on Thursday at 1:02 a.m. when he found a man sleeping in a truck. The officer woke the man up and identified him by an Arizona driver’s license. The man told the officer he was sleeping in his Chevy pickup because his girlfriend is a member of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority, and she would not let him stay the night in her room. A records check on the man showed he had a warrant out of Pima County Jail for failure to appear in court. He was handcuffed and searched. The officer found a woman’s CatCard in his pocket which the man said was his girlfriend’s. The man was warned not to sleep on campus again or he would be arrested for trespassing. He was then transported to Pima County Jail. Parking and transportation was told of the car in the parking garage, and the CatCard was returned to the woman.

Printing costs a lot more after wallet is stolen

A woman working at the computers in the Manuel Pacheco Integrated Learning Center reported that her wallet had been stolen on March 2 at 1:41 a.m. The woman told a UAPD officer that she left her wallet in her backpack unattended at the computer desk when she went to print off some papers. Once she had her papers, she got her book bag and returned to her dorm. At the dorm, she saw that her wallet was missing. After checking the area in which she had been working and asking ILC employees if a wallet had been turned in, she called the police to report it stolen. The officer told the woman to stop usage on all cards and to report any suspicious spending on any cards to UAPD.

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Patti Van Leer, a UA marketing specialist at the Office of Student Computing Resources, noted that earlier February dates had been tentatively pushed back in order to ensure that this time, the site would be able to go up and stay up. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were as confident as we were going to be about (the site),â&#x20AC;? Van Leer said. She also noted that University Information Technology Services

chose Monday for the launch because, after the weekend, the Web site usually incurs a high number of users, the perfect setting for testing. Jensen noticed that only a few hours after the launch of the new site, there had been positive feedback. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People around campus that know weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been struggling with it have just been saying

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you glad?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Good job,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Jensen said. Jensen noted students should like the faster, more userfriendly Web site but says it will be somewhat of an adjustment. â&#x20AC;&#x153;(Students) are going to have to get used to it again,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, when you are used to a site, it takes a little time to relearn where some of those key links are.â&#x20AC;?

White House tweeting spreads presidentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s message THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D; If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re PressSec â&#x20AC;&#x201D; White House press secretary Robert Gibbsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; username on Twitter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; you join the powerful social media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time. Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s record, White House and administration officials increasingly are communicating through Twitter. The popular social network is operating as a Web-based clearinghouse for public statements on weighty subjects (the federal budget) and the mundane (personal grocery lists). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s similar to a bulletin board where anyone can post short notes and users cull the pieces they see by choosing to â&#x20AC;&#x153;followâ&#x20AC;? individualsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; account. Forget press releases. Gibbs and his deputy, Bill Burton, are now sharing news in Twitter messages. So far 35,000 people have signed up to follow Gibbs and more than 6,000 are tracking Burton.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wow unreal gameâ&#x20AC;Ś POTUS watched OT in his office right off the Oval Office â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all of us are so proud of our great team,â&#x20AC;? Gibbs tweeted during the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olympic hockey finals last Sunday, when the Americans lost the gold medal game to Canada in overtime. POTUS, of course, is the acronym for president of the United States. Burton offered a midgame, inside-the-Beltway joke: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tied! White House response, on bgnd, from a low- to midlevel administration official: USA! USA! USA!â&#x20AC;? (He was referring to a favorite administration request when talking to the press â&#x20AC;&#x153;on backgroundâ&#x20AC;? means the official wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be identified publicly.) After the U.S. loss, Burton noted that America still led the overall medal race. As Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team continues an online strategy set in place during the campaign and imported to Pennsylvania Avenue, it seems only natural that they would make it a piece of a broader communications plan that extends across the

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’Cats earn recognition Williams honored nationally; Wise named to all-conference team By Bryan Roy Arizona Daily Wildcat The national media is beginning to pick up on Derrick Williams. The 6-foot-8 forward was named toThe Sporting News’ First-Team All Freshman team with the nation’s other high-profile players John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins of Kentucky, Xavier Henry of Kansas and Derrick Favors of Georgia Tech. Williams also received the Pac-10 Freshman of theYear award for his team-leading 15.7 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. “I wouldn’t have gotten FOY if it wasn’t for (Nic Wise) and rest of the team,”Williams wrote on Twitter. Wrote Wise on Twitter:“Yessiirrrr congrats to the lil homie (Derrick Williams) gettin Pac-10 Freshman of the Year.” Williams joined Wise on the All-Pac-10 team — the school’s 54th and 55th players named to the list since 1978. Wrote Wise on Twitter: “Appreciate the Love that everyones givin me for bein All Pac-10. love yall.” Arizona also announced its own awards during a team banquet Monday night.

Wildcats confident going into Pac-10 Tournament By Vincent Balistreri Arizona Daily Wildcat

Pac-10 Awards: Player of the Year: Jerome Randle, California Freshman of the Year: Derrick Williams, Arizona Defensive Player of the Year: Seth Tarver, Oregon State Most Improved Player of the Year: Nikola Vukcevic, USC Coach of the Year: Herb Sendek, ASU All-Pac-10 First Team Ty Abbott, ASU Patrick Christopher, Cal Landry Fields, Stanford Quincy Pondexter, Washington Jerome Randle, Cal Michael Roll, UCLA Isaiah Thomas, Washington Klay Thompson, WSU Derrick Williams, Arizona Nic Wise, Arizona Wise and Williams earned co-honors for the Fred Enke Most Outstanding Player Award. Wise also won the Mo Udall Captains Award. Other honorees included freshman forward Kevin Parrom, who earned the Best Defender Award, and freshman guard Momo Jones, who won the Most Improved Player Award. Center Alex Jacobson was named the Best Teammate. The Golden ‘A’Award, given to the players with the highest garde point average, was given to guard Kyle Fogg and forward Max Wiepking.

Arizona’s strength key to win streak

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Arizona freshman forward Derrick Williams jumps for the opening tip during the Wildcats’ 86-84 double overtime victory against USC in McKale Center on Saturday. Williams was named Pacific 10 Conference Freshman of the Year on Monday.

After taking a 24-point pounding at California just 11 days ago, the Arizona basketball team could have easily given up on the season. Instead, a resilient Wildcat team heads into the Pacific 10 Conference Tournament on a threegame win streak. Arizona now has its second-longest winning streak of the season, coming back from a double-digit deficit in each of the last three games. “We have momentum on our side. Every team wants to enter their conference tournament feeling good,” said Arizona head coach Sean Miller after Saturday’s win against the USC Trojans. “All three games have come down to the final shot or final plays. We’ve been resilient, and we won all three.” Arizona (16-14, 10-8 Pac-10) finished the regular season where it was picked to finish in the preseason: fourth place in the Pac-10, right around where Miller hoped his team would be. “I don’t want to say we’ve overachieved, but looking at how we started out, I think we’ve come in where everyone would have hoped under the circumstances,” Miller said. “Hopefully, our best basketball is yet to come.” Before the current three-game win streak, the Wildcats looked dead in the water, losing five of six games to start the second half of the Pac-10 schedule. Since then, the Wildcats have turned it around with a total team effort. “We’ve made some progress. We’re more tough-minded and more of a team now,” Miller said. “Some of these games have really represented that fight. In Sunday’s double overtime win against USC, all five starters scored in double figures for the second time all season — the last coming on Dec. 9, 2009, against Louisiana Tech. Whether it was forward Solomon Hill’s defense on USC point guard Mike Gerrity or center Alex Jacobson’s energy-filled minutes off the bench, the Wildcats had help from a variety of different players. Hill filled a defensive void that had been left by the absence of forward HOOPS, page 10

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Every time the Intercollegiate Tennis Association updates its rankings of the top-75 teams in the nation, you can bet one on thing — well, six or seven things this season in particular. The Pacific 10 Conference will be making its mark. If you’re tired of hearing about the South Eastern Conference in football or the Atlantic Coast and Big East Conferences in basketball, then why don’t you come over to college tennis, where the Pac-10 reigns? According to the rankings released March 2, the Pac-10 has six men’s teams in the rankings and seven women’s teams in the top slots. In

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night with his delivery so we’re going flawless in two appearances this season. to tinker with him just a little bit, and In 5 1/3 innings, Littleman has allowed hopefully that will help him out.” only one unearned run on four hits and Simon has yielded 10 runs (eight two walks, while striking out five. earned) on 13 hits and six walks dur“Great stuff to him. Smooth, easy lefting his last two outings and needs a hander,” Workman said of Littleman. bounce-back performance against the “The ball just kind of jumps out of his 1-6 Hawks of Saint Joseph’s. hand because he’s so smooth. He’s go“The start against Long Beach, he was ing to go out there and compete for us.” a little all over the place, but this last one The Wildcats are coming off of a big he didn’t really get hit hard. It was just series-victory against No. 18 Cal State ground ball through the hole, ground Fullerton, and should make easy work ball through the hole,”said junior starter of a lesser Saint Joseph’s team. But the Daniel Workman, who is 1-0 with a 5.25 main focus for the Wildcats lies on the ERA through three starts. pitching mound, as one rotation spot “It’s really frustrating as a pitcher be- remains unclaimed. cause, a foot the other way — great play The bullpen is still far from and everybody’s solidified. high-fiving.” now we’re Offensive team leaders just“Right But as he is clearreally trying to Batting average: Jett Bandy (.465), ly one of the most find those mid-week Steve Selsky (.400), Bobby Brown (.364) things,” Workman talented and experienced pitchers on said. “Guys that are Runs: Jett Bandy (15), Rafael the young Arizona going to fill those Valenzuela (11), Bryce Ortega (9) staff. His fellow roles of long relief RBI: Jett Bandy (13), Joey Rickard hurlers expect him and solidify our (11), Rafael Valenzuela (10) to rebound on the rotation before we Homeruns: Jett Bandy (4), Joey mound. hit Pac-10.” “Right now SiA third starter Rickard (2), Rafael Valenzuela (1) mon’s really got to Stolen bases: Joey Rickard (4), Bryce and a closer are atop get back on his plan the Wildcats’ launOrtega (3), Bobby Brown (2) where he says ‘this dry list of things to sequence works for do, but 10 games me,’” Workman said. “He’ll get there. through the season, Lopez is pleased He’s a super competitive guy.” with his team’s progression. While Simon is pitching to prove “We’ve lost a couple that we probably he still has it, Littleman is out there could have got in the right-hand column, to make an impression and prove his but for the most part I’ve been pretty worth to the club. happy with them,” he said. “All in all, it’s The Page, Ariz., native has been almost been a good start for the first 10 games.”

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Technology helps golfers, changes game the U.S. — has implemented rules to restrict the width and depth on the grooves found on the face of clubs, which affect ball spin and control. Although these new rules only apply to Go to a driving range or golf course, and one noise will stand out above the rest: the unmistak- professionals for the time being, they will affect amateur golfers no later than the year 2014, able ping that today’s advanced drivers make. From drivers to wedges, putters and even golf and UA assistant coach Andy Barnes is already balls, today’s equipment gives players an unde- preparing for the effect the rule will have. “They’re trying to reel the game back in a litniable advantage over their counterparts of 20, tle bit. They want to scale back the power and 10, or even five years ago. Golf is changing, and as long as technology bring control back into the game. You used to be keeps improving, so will the equipment used by able to blast it anywhere and it wouldn’t matthe players around the world — professionals ter, because your grooves and clubs were good enough,” Barnes said. and weekend hackers alike. “I kind of like it … I like what they’re trying to “Everything’s changing … I guess the world is changing in that respect. Golf is adapting do,” he added. “Do I think that the way they’re going about doing it is the to that … everything is adright way to do it? Maybe vancing technology-wise,” not … it’s tough to keep said UA golfer Tarquin up at the college level, MacManus. “Golf is just because the pros come keeping up with the rest of On being named the world.” the Pac-10 Golfer first, and rightfully so.” Because of the new Even the club heads on of the Month for rules, colleges and unidrivers and woods are adversities now face a justable now, so players can February: “It’s new challenge: preparopen or close them to create good to play good ing their golfers to use a fade or draw. Rich Saferian again. I struggled in the new wedges even “(The) driver for me is the Golfer though the old ones are one thing that’s changed a the fall a little bit still allowed for use by lot,”said junior Rich Saferian, but its good to be helping the team amateurs according to who was recently named the the Golf Association. Pacific 10 Conference Golfer out and building momentum.” “We have kids who of the Month for February.“I have it set up a little open to help with a little are eventually going to transition from this cut. That’s really the only thing that’s changed amateur college game to the professionfor me since I’ve come here, but technology is al ranks,” Barnes said. “It would be nice to get them the equipment ahead of time just always getting better.” To keep up with some of the technological to prepare them. That’s what our job is at advancements, the United States Golf the university level … just to prepare them Association — the governing body for golf in whether it be for golf or life.”

SPRING FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

New coaches, attitude spark 2010 campaign

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UConn wins NCAA record The Associated Press

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about USC. You don’t beat those teams without being good and having a good program.”

For the first time since the 33-0 drubbing at the hands of Nebraska in the 2009 Pacific Life Holiday Bowl, the Arizona Wildcats took the field to welcome the 2010 season. “We’re excited to get back and working on the field,” said head coach Mike Stoops in a press conference on Friday.“We have some pretty big holes to fill but we feel really strongly about the some of our players that we have in our program.” There are plenty of changes for the Wildcats this year, but perhaps the most underrated — and important — is the change in attitude. Stoops said there’s no question the team is more confident. “You look at the way we played the entire season and how we matched up with every team and had a chance to win all 12 games,” he added.“That’s hard to do.” For 10 years, Arizona failed to reach a bowl game, but, in 2008, it won the Las Vegas Bowl. That following spring, the ‘Cats were still living on that excitement, and the enthusiasm translated into a second-place finish in the Pacific 10 Conference and a trip to the Holiday Bowl. Despite the embarrassing loss, Arizona enters this season with a sense of pride that the program hasn’t had in a very long time. “We had a lot of good wins,” Stoops said.“Everyone forgets about (wins over) Stanford, everybody forgets about Oregon State, everybody forgets

Coordinators excited about new roles

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The top-ranked Connecticut Huskies made women’s college basketball history Monday night — not that you would have known it by watching them. Tina Charles scored 16 points and Maya Moore added 11 to help UConn win an NCAA record 71st straight game, a 59-44 victory over No. 6 Notre Dame in the semifinals of the Big East tournament. The Huskies didn’t gloat, though. They didn’t even celebrate. Just another night’s work for coach Geno Auriemma’s latest dynasty.

At the final horn they just shook hands with the Irish — the way they have with opponents after nearly every other game during their incredible streak. “I can’t think anything is more important than winning and playing in the Big East championship for these kids,” Auriemma said. UConn surpassed its own mark set from Nov. 9, 2001, to March 11, 2003. Unlike that amazing run, which ended in a loss in the Big East conference tournament semifinals to Villanova, this Huskies team has thoroughly

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Replacing successful coordinators like Sonny Dykes and Mark Stoops puts a lot of pressure on the shoulders of the men who step in, so head coach Mike Stoops decided to place that burden on four guys rather than two. It’s a little unorthodox, Tim Kish yes, but, Stoops stands behind the decision: “I Co-defensive wouldn’t have done it if I coordinator didn’t think it could work.” Bill Bedenbaugh and Seth Littrell will run the offense. Both were on staff last year as offensive line coach and running backs/tight ends coach, respectively. While the role of play-caller has yet to be decided, Bedenbaugh and Littrell are confident that the transition from Dykes — who left to be the head coach at Louisiana Tech — will be smooth. “Seth (Littrell) and I have known each other for a long time,” Bedenbaugh said. “Everything up to this point has been great, and it’s going to continue to be great. “We’ve been in this Greg Brown offense. We know what we want to do. We think Co-defensive alike. We want to run the coordinator same things.” Littrell echoed Bedenbaugh’s thoughts. “I think the biggest thing to ease the transition is that we’ve all been together for a long time,” Littrell said. “We’ve all been in this offense for a while. No wholesale changes (in the offensive scheme), we may do things a little differently here and there, but our biggest thing is to spread the ball around to as many different positions and make defenses honest and make them cover the whole field.” The two showed solid chemistry during the press conference on Friday, seamlessly taking turns fielding questions from the media and never speaking over one another despite meeting with the media together for the first time. On the defensive side, linebackers coach Tim Kish and Greg Brown, the secondary coach at Colorado last year, will join forces to replace Mark Stoops, who took the defensive coordinator job at Florida State. Brown, the only one of the four new coordinators who wasn’t with Arizona last season, said the FOOTBALL, page 10

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Notre Dame latest victims of Huskies’ winning streak

dominated its opponents in every game, winning all of them by double digits. “After the season, the last game we play we can look back and see what we’ve done,” said Kalana Greene, who scored 15 points. “You don’t want to celebrate about wins. We don’t plan on our season being over any time soon.” The Huskies are focused on bigger goals — not just winning a 16th Big East conference championship but also a seventh national title. Connecticut (32-0) will face No. 9 West Virginia, the second seed in the tournament, on Tuesday night for the league championship. But even top teams haven’t posed much of a challenge for the Huskies since they beat Georgia Tech to start this run on Nov. 16, 2008. With Monday’s win over Notre Dame (27-5), UConn improved to 13-0 against top10 opponents, winning by an average of 26.2 points. Even second-ranked Stanford lost by 12 when the teams met in late December. UConn has rarely even trailed during its streak. The Huskies have been behind for a total 86 minutes in the 71 games. It’s been even more uncommon for UConn to be down in the second half — only facing a deficit three times after intermission. None of those scares lasted long. There hasn’t been a need for any late-game rallies or last-second shots by the Huskies. Notre Dame kept this one close for a half. UConn only led 25-22 at the break — its lowest scoring output in nearly three years. The Huskies then asserted themselves, led be Greene. The senior hit just one of eight shots in the first 20 minutes, but scored the first four points of a decisive 13-4 run that gave UConn a 49-35 lead with 9:00 left. Moore’s deep 3-pointer capped the spurt. Notre Dame, which was led by Skylar Diggins’ 10 points, was only able to close to 10. Even with the incredible numbers that this team has put up, Auriemma is still partial to the 2002 team that started the previous

record streak. Those Huskies, led by Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, featured four of the first six picks in the WNBA Draft. “I think that group would beat this group,” Auriemma said. “But that’s not important because they’ll never have to play each other.” Bird and Ashja Jones, who also played on the 2002 team, were in the XL Center for the quarterfinals on Sunday. The mood Monday was tempered when Huskies guard Caroline Doty caught an elbow from Ashley Barlow in the head with a minute left. She was on the ground with the training staff huddled around her for a few minutes before she woozily got up. “She may have a concussion, we’re not sure,” Auriemma said. “We’ll evaluate her. If she has a concussion she’s not playing tomorrow.” Connecticut had already beaten Notre Dame twice during the regular season — including a 25-point win in South Bend seven days ago. But the Irish have a history of ending notable winning streaks. Notre Dame stopped Oklahoma’s 47-game winning streak in football in the 1950s, UCLA’s 88-game winning streak in men’s basketball in the 1970s and North Carolina’s 92-game winning streak in women’s soccer in the 1990s. For 20 minutes it looked as if Notre Dame might have some of that luck. It was a sloppy first half as neither team could put together a sustained run. The Huskies took their biggest lead of the half on Doty’s 3-pointer with 8:37 left that made it 19-14. Notre Dame answered scoring six of the next eight points to close within one. The Irish had plenty of chances to take the lead, but couldn’t get over the hump. “We got embarrassed the first two games and wanted to play to our potential today,” said Diggins, who scored all her points in the first half. “We had little lapses. They are a great team and we know that.” Everybody else does, too.

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decision to come to Tucson was easy. “It’s a great opportunity to be here at the University of Arizona,” Brown said. “It was easy, it took all of two seconds. When Coach Stoops called up and mentioned that his brother Mark was looking at taking another job and he said, ‘Do you want it?’ and I said yes, that was it. Just the fact that where he’s taken this program from and what he’s been able to do on defense and accomplish on defense, it was a complete no-brainer.” Kish added that his relationship with Brown will work well, especially considering Mike Stoops will have a say in the defense. “Coach (Stoops) is always going to be involved on defense, so nothing changes there, and that’s good,” Kish said. “Having his expertise there certainly helps. We’re excited. There’s no egos here between Greg and I. All we want to is develop this group because we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us and we need to replace a lot of starters.” Replacing seven starters might seem like a daunting task, but both Kish and Brown seem more than ready for the challenge. “That’s the name of the game in college football, and every day is going to be critical in the spring,” Brown said.“We can’t waste a single rep, can’t waste a single period, we just need to get better.”

Depth chart notes

The depth chart heading into spring was revealed on Friday, with a few noteworthy changes. On the offensive line, sixth-year senior Adam

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Grant will move over to left tackle to replace Mike Diaz, who was lost to graduation. The rest of the line, anchored by center Colin Baxter, remains intact. On defense, Marcus Benjamin is listed as the starter to replace the departed Devin Ross. It was speculated that strong safety Robert Golden might move over to corner — his original position — and Joe Perkins would step in at strong safety, but instead Golden is staying there and Perkins is listed as the starter at free safety. Adam Hall, a high-rated recruit who saw minimal playing time as a freshman last season, is currently second on the depth chart at free safety. However, while a depth chart in March is interesting, the piece of paper it’s on right now will be about as useful as scrap paper by September.

Holiday Bowl explanation?

The debacle in San Diego has been well documented, but the reason for such an embarrassing showing has been relatively unknown. Some speculated that Arizona wasn’t ready, some pessimists believed that Arizona wasn’t good enough to compete, but cornerback Trevin Wade said that the 33-0 loss was because of a lack of focus that stemmed from the team not wanting to be there. “People wanted to go home for Christmas and see their families,”Wade said.“I know it’s all business and everything, but we’re still college kids and people wanted to go home. Had they given us a couple days, people would have come back happy and ready to go.”

Jacobson, Hill provide needed spark off the bench

Kevin Parrom, who is out with a left foot injury and is the team’s best defender. “He did a good job. I thought that was as well as Solomon (Hill) has moved his feet,” Miller said. “Early, he was aggressive and made some key plays on offense for us also.” Jacobson, who only played 10 minutes, brought energy off the bench on a couple plays, giving the Wildcats extra possessions with his offensive rebounding and giving the Wildcats a big body inside against USC big man Alex Stepheson. His play also gave forward Derrick Williams a breather. “Alex (Jacobson) played a big role in us winning. We didn’t have that energy, and we didn’t have that physical play around the basket. I sensed that Derrick (Williams) was wearing down,”Miller said. “His 10 minutes really provided a big spark for us.”

The current three-game winning streak is how the Wildcats had hoped to finish the season after an embarrassing game at California. “We wanted to win three games going into the Pac-10 tournament,” said senior Nic Wise. “We wanted to get our momentum up and our confidence going, and we talked about being that team no one wants to play come Pac-10 Tournament. We have our confidence up now so we’re ready to go.” With all the talk being about the end of the season and how Wise will go out as the lone senior on the team, the Wildcats feel that is a little premature. “You guys keep saying going out, but to me this is the beginning,” said forward Jamelle Horne in response to the media talking about the end of the season. “This is when the season really starts for us.”

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Obama: Voters should push Congress for health care The Associated Press GLENSIDE, Pa. — President Barack Obama took his pitch for health care legislation on the road Monday, urging voters in suburban Philadelphia to make their voices heard above the political echo chamber in Washington and demand an up-or-down vote now in Congress. “It’s time to make a decision. The time for talk is over. We need to see where people stand,” Obama told about 1,800 people at Arcadia University. Saying he was happy to be out of Washington, Obama said the capital had grown obsessed with how a vote on health care legislation would affect the November congressional elections. In that environment, he said, it’s crucial that voters contact Congress and make themselves heard. “They need to hear your voices, because right now the Washington echo chamber is in full throttle,” he said. “It is as deafening as it’s ever been. And as we come to that final vote, that echo chamber’s telling members of Congress, ‘Think about the politics,’ instead of thinking about doing the right thing.” Yet appealing for a popular uprising easily could cut both ways, as some voters in the Philadelphia suburbs are impatient in their demand that Congress pass Obama’s proposed health care legislation while others are just as vocal in opposition. “It’s time to do something. We help every country on Earth. We help communist countries. We help Muslim countries. But we have 35 million Americans without health care. How is that right?” said Pat Moroney, a software salesman from Blue Bell, Pa. “And what he says about Congress is true. They’re only concerned about their next election.” His wife, meeting planner Maureen Moroney, was even blunter, saying Obama should cast aside any thoughts of his own re-election if that’s what it takes to enact a health care overhaul. “We voted for it. Make it happen,”she said.“Do what you were elected to do. ...

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If he’s a four-year president because of it, so be it.” Daryl Solomon, a custodian from Philadelphia, applauded when he heard Obama say that the legislation is needed to rein in runaway health insurance premiums. “The premium shouldn’t be doubling,” he said. “We haven’t had anything that would help us for years.” Hanna Romberger, a college student from Glenside, liked it when the president said that his proposal

would allow people to stay on their parents’ insurance until they reach age 26. “My older sister lost her insurance last year,” she said. “She’s a bartender now, but she doesn’t get insurance there.” If Obama stirred anyone to call or write to Congress, however, he also probably riled up opposition. “I’m against all the spending,” said Meg Panas, a retired teacher from Valley Forge.“It’s another bubble. We have no

money. We simply can’t keep borrowing more and more.” She said she’d like Washington to make some changes, such as limiting malpractice awards against doctors to help reduce costs. “But I’d like it done piece by piece so we can evaluate it,” she said. The vast size of the health care legislation angers or scares a lot of opponents, from those who don’t think the government should be

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doing anything to those who want some changes but would prefer them to be taken up one at a time. Opponents voiced other complaints as well. “There should be some regulation of the insurance industry, but not this,” said Henry Bulitta, a chiropractor from nearby Chester County. “I’m a big supporter of limited government. This health care bill goes way too far. ... Let the free market take care of it.”“

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fact, five of the six ranked men’s teams all are in the top-25, with Arizona being the only outsider at a strong No. 35. Talk about dominating. Because ASU, Oregon State and Washington State do not field men’s tennis teams, Oregon is the only non-ranked school, and even so, they hold a 10-3 record. This is after finishing near the bottom of the conference last year. The women are no different. They have five of their seven ranked schools in the top-20. The top teams in the Pac-10 not only lead the conference but also make up the nation’s cream of the crop. Then you can see those schools. For the men, it’s USC and UCLA at No. 5 and 6, respectively, with the women having UCLA and California at No. 4 and 5, respectively. Even with Arizona at No. 39 for the women and Arizona State at No. 44, being ranked at that level is no small feat. “Even though the Pac-10 has always been the best conference, things have shifted a lot and, in my opinion, most schools have gotten even stronger all the way down the line-up,” said Arizona women’s head coach Vicky Maes, who03-09-10 DATE: played tennis on the UA women’s

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team in the late ‘90s. The fact that schools all around have improved is a testament to how good the Pac-10 actually is. To give you another example, the men’s national champion last year, USC, didn’t even win the conference. That distinction went to the Bruins of UCLA. “USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal, those are teams that other (schools) would love to have on their schedule, and yet we get to play some of them at home even,” said men’s assistant coach Tom Lloyd, who played tennis for the Wildcats in the early 2000s. There is no loss of excitement for the UA players, as they get to play some of the nation’s elite on a regular basis. “I mean, if you are not motivated when you play Stanford, who has the most national championships in the nation, or Cal, who has been runner up at the National Championship these past two years, then you can go home,” said senior women’s player Ariane Masschelein. Even when interviewing Scott Treibly, the head coach and director college placement at the IMG MKTS: Div 9 U/A, ofUNR Bollettieri Academy in Florida, on an

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