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ASUA ELECTIONS

Presidential candidates to face off

BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA The Daily Wildcat

Presidential candidates Manny Felix and Hannah Sager will face off in a debate today at noon in the race to become the 20152016 Associated Students of the University of Arizona president.

Candidates will be asked various questions from a panel, which includes Issac Ortega, current ASUA president, Jordan Allison, current executive vice president and Nicole Thill, editor-in-chief of the Daily

Wildcat.

Ortega said he believes this event is “hugely important” to the student body.

“You have the two candidates who are going to be representing all 42,000 students, and there’s going to be, hopefully, some really tough issues talked about in terms of budget cuts,” Ortega said. “I think it’s really important for students to get perspective on the two choices that they’re going to be voting on.”

According to Diego Alvarez, elections

commissioner for ASUA, the panelists have thoroughly researched the candidates and prepared questions for them based on their platforms and other subjects.

Ortega said his questions will be based on the challenges and difficult situations that he had to face throughout his current tenure as president.

“My questions are more based on how I viewed my role this year as president and questions that resemble how they would really carry out a task, given some tough

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situations,” Ortega said.

Ortega added that audience members will

have the chance to write down their own questions

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Computer science sophomore Ian Tracey, the InnovateUA director of Hack Arizona, said everything went very smoothly this weekend, especially considering this is their first time ever throwing an event like this.

Tracey said he’s impressed and proud of the way he and his InnovateUA teammates were able to pull this off.

Friday afternoon, students checked in and had the chance to network with some of the biggest names in the business.

Hack Arizona’s sponsors, such as Raytheon, Amazon, Wolfram Alpha, USAA, State Farm and

esley Snipes uttered the now famous line, “ever play roulette … always bet on black,” in the early 1990s film “Passenger 57”, but fans in Las Vegas, Nev., should probably bet on red this week.

March Madness is here, and Arizona men’s basketball is playing so well, it looks like a shoe-in to win big in Las Vegas at the 2015 Pac-12 Men’s Basketball Tournament.

The No. 5 Wildcats (28-3, 16-2 Pac-12 Conference) beat Stanford 91-69 to win their eighth game in a row and 38th consecutive home game, and finished undefeated at home for the second straight season.

Arizona is playing its best basketball of the season.

“I’d say you could say so,” Arizona guard T.J. McConnell said. “We’ve been playing really good basketball, but it doesn’t stop here. We have to keep playing like that in Vegas and just like I said, take it one day at a time.”

Arizona won its second straight, outright Pac-12 regular season championship by three games over Oregon, a team that lost by 18 in Eugene, Ore., and by 34 in Tucson.

During the current eight-game win streak, the Wildcats only played one close game, at Utah, where the Utes had won 18 straight.

The UA won four games on the road, improving its road record to 8-3. It also beat good teams such as UCLA, Utah and Stanford and, perhaps more importantly, cured its one Achilles heel of overlooking bad teams: The UA pounded Washington, Washington State, USC, Colorado and California.

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TOMMY PRYOR, freshman at the University of Washington and Tucson native, demonstrates his sign language translator on Sunday in the Science-Engineering Library. Pryor is studying aerospace and electrical engineering and won Hack Arizona’s Hardware Prize.

36 hours of creation

BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat

It’s 5:47 a.m. Students are sprawled out in the ScienceEngineering Library, passed out.

In a frenzy to finish and submit on time, others are stressfully working out the semantics of their hack. All that can be heard is a loud snore rumbling throughout the fifth floor.

Hack Arizona, the largest hackathon in the Southwest, brought a new meaning to student commitment and drive.

Over 400 students from schools across the country and from Tucson worked for 36 hours straight to build and innovate anything they dream possible. Students were

encouraged to get creative with the hardware and software.

Among the works created were drones and robots reliant on algorithms that individuals spent the weekend working on. Another hot topic of the weekend was the American Sign Language translator created by Tommy Pryor, who was the winner of Hack Arizona’s Hardware Prize.

Other creations consisted of apps such as “Gridlock,” developed

by ASU students Connor Davey, Christian Robles and Aritro Majumdar, which helps change the way traffic lights are controlled, and “Half Full,” an app that focuses on mood disorders through the use of an algorithm.

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ASUA ELECTIONS

Primaries narrow candidate field

BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA The Daily Wildcat

Two presidential candidates remain in the running in the 2015-2016 Associated Students of the University of Arizona elections following the primary elections last week.

Presidential candidate Manuel Felix , a junior studying political science and Spanish, plans to strengthen the relationship with various cultural centers on campus as well as between Greek Life and the Dean of Students

Office, increase advocacy for the services available to students on campus, and introduce new ideas into academics.

Felix said it is important to embrace the diverse student population the UA caters to. He said he hopes to create a mutually beneficial relationship between ASUA and cultural centers. Felix added that giving a voice to all the groups on campus is vital in order to sustain a culturally diverse student body.

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years and as the former president of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity up until this spring, Felix said that preserving a strong relationship between Greek Life and the Dean of Students Office is crucial to maintain a well-rounded greek community. Felix said he wants to further the impact of the “It’s On Us” campaign on campus while supporting the “Good Samaritan” law.

Felix said he also wants to work to create more upper division tutoring and a class to help students study for exams such as

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the LSAT, MCAT and GMAT that counts as a credit or hour toward students’ majors.

Hannah Sager, a marketing junior, is also in the running for ASUA president. The current presidential chief of staff said her involvement on the “It’s On Us” campaign is what inspired her to run for the presidency.

Sager is basing her campaign under giving students the ability to find their voice on campus.

She said the latter is especially vital for the upcoming year,

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Tucson festival of books

‘Starcatchers’ reflect on their careers

BY Chelsea Cook The Daily Wildcat

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dave Barry and New York Times bestselling author Ridley Pearson have completely different styles of writing, but the two share a similar past.

Between the years of 2004 and 2011, the both collaborated and wrote the novel “Peter and the Starcatchers,” along with four sequels.

Pearson’s novels are generally suspense or young adult adventure, with “Peter and the Starcatchers” having been made into a Broadway musical. He began writing after college, when he became a singersongwriter for acoustic and folk-rock bands.

“In there somewhere, I began writing screenplays and eventually novels,” Pearson said. “I wrote for eight years before selling my first novel. Between the songwriting and the novels, I’ve always been a storyteller; it just seems to be in my bones.”

Over the years, Pearson’s writing

part of journalism is that there is no routine, so the job never gets boring.

Barry was a columnist for multiple major newspapers, including the Miami Herald, until he retired in 2005.

“Read a lot and write a lot,” Barry said, when asked what advice he would give to someone pursuing journalism. “Above all, get practical work experience at real newspapers; this is much more important than academic courses.”

Although Barry is mainly known for his hilarious newspaper commentaries, he has also written a handful of novels and nonfiction pieces. Some of his more popular fiction books include “Lunatics,” “Tricky Business,” “Peter and the Starcatchers” and “Insane City.” His nonfiction works include “I’ll Mature When I’m Dead,” “You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty” and “Dave Barry’s History of the Millennium (So Far).”

Barry and Pearson grew together as writers when they spent time

style has drastically changed. In the beginning of his career, Pearson started out as a dedicated mystery and crime writer.

“When the TV show ‘CSI’ came along, I elected to get out of the forensic, procedural novel as the show diluted and confused the genre for me,” Pearson said. “I’ve circled back occasionally, and I nearly always have some kind of mystery woven into my suspense novels.”

Some of Pearson’s more wellknown suspense novels include “The Red Room,” “In Harm’s Way,” “Choke Point” and “The Risk Agent.”

He is also known for his young adult novels, many of which are backed

by Disney, including “The Return: Disney Lands,” the “Kingdom Keepers” novels and the “Peter and the Starcatchers” series.

Barry, who began his writing career as a newspaper columnist, is now one of the most popular humorists in the country. In an interview for students on Barry’s official website, he stated that the best

developing the “Peter and the Starcatchers” series.

“When I stumbled into writing books for younger readers while still continuing my suspense novels,” Pearson said, “I found a different voice, certainly a different style, though not intentionally. It was a new world for me. We wrote for a decade together, and I learned a ton from Dave and treasure that time in my career.” “Peter and the Starcatchers,” the first book in the series, was the most popular.

“I have two pieces of advice for writers who are trying to sharpen their game,” Pearson said. “Read, read, read. And read ‘up.’ If you play tennis against much better opponents, the strangest thing happens — you lose. But your game vastly improves. If you read ‘up,’ you hit your target more often.”

Both Barry and Pearson will be at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend. Pearson will kick off the festival with his band, Rock Bottom Remainders, Friday from 8-9:30 p.m., and Barry will host lectures

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in the Student Union Memorial Center South Ballroom on Saturday from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 2:30-3:30 p.m.

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many others, set up booths that provided free material and information on job opportunities at the companies.

Most students were shocked when companies such as Raytheon and Amazon asked them if they had a resume they wanted to submit to them right there on the spot.

Each sponsor had mentors wandering around the event helping students.

InnovateUA carefully planned a schedule full of activities to not only help participants or spark creativity but also give them much needed entertainment breaks.

Therapy dogs and a Super Smash Bros. tournament were provided and held as ways for students to unwind and relieve stress. However, by far the most popular activity offered was the hypnotist show.

Come early Sunday morning, tons of student hackers packed into a room to watch a show filled with laughter, tears, sleep dust, singing and dancing.

Tech Talks were offered throughout the weekend from the sponsors and InnovateUA members.

Each Tech Talk covered a specific topic or program and were applicable to any level of experience.

Throughout the weekend,

and possibly have them answered if they are drawn.

Alvarez said the event is key for candidates to gain exposure both for their benefit and for the voters’ benefit.

“It’s more interaction and candidates giving as much information as they can about what they’re doing and why they’re doing it,” Alvarez said. “It’s important that people know who these people are that are going to be the elected officials, and trying to help ASUA and make a change and difference.”

According to Alvarez, about 3,600 students voted in the primary elections last week — roughly 500 students less than last year’s primary election.

Alvarez said the focus was not on how many students voted; rather than just being based on liking individuals or seeing their campaigns around campus the most, votes should be based on believing in what the candidates stand for.

“They need to know who it is that they’re going to be electing,” Alvarez said. “We wanted to make sure we didn’t get only the maximum amount of votes but the highest quality of votes.”

Ortega said he hopes this event will get Felix and Sager’s names out there, so students can determine which campaign best suits what they would like to see at the UA.

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UA engineering students try to make their drone fly for Hack Arizona judges on Sunday in the Science-Engineering Library. Over 400 students from across the country participated in Hack Arizona.

it allowed him to respect programming much more because of all the hard work put in and the unique things you can do in such a short amount of time. He added that his favorite part was the closing ceremony, because that’s when all the students found out what everyone else created in the span of 36 hours.

Finalists were announced at the closing ceremony.

Each hack and team chosen went up and did a twominute demonstration.

These teams won challenges

mentors made concepts easy to understand, even for inexperienced students.

In fact, many students in attendance had never been to a hackathon before and were excited for the opportunity to explore their potential.

Kevin Nguyen, an electrical and computer engineering freshman, said one of the main reasons he wanted to attend was to learn more by participating in such a hands-on event.

Nguyen said he enjoyed this experience and said

offered by InnovateUA and the sponsors and are now in the running for Best Hack, the biggest award of the event.

The team who wins Best Hack will be sent to the Global Hackathon in Seoul, Korea, later this year.

The winner, however, has not yet been chosen, because the organizers decided to let the student participants vote online for which hack they think is the best.

Justin Williams, executive director of InnovateUA, said

the event was amazing and that he was very impressed with the organizing team.

“The fact that students on campus are leading this sort of an effort is amazing,” Williams said, “and to be able to pull people in from around the country and pull out of our own campus some of the most talented people here building amazing things. It’s super impressive and really inspirational.”

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“I think it would be to start a recycling reward program, because it would encourage and give students an incentive to recycle. One of my friends has this at his school back East, and it’s really improved their college’s green initiative.” — Michael Dicaro, a neuroscience and cognitive sciences senior

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given the harsh budget cuts the UA may face. Sager wants to promote access and affordability, and create a program that would gauge what students really need and want on campus — such as easily-accessible textbooks — which require student feedback.

In regards to health support and awareness, Sager wants to make the Campus Health Service a more efficient resource for students by cutting down wait times and collaborating with other events and programs on campus.

Sager wants to engage campus diversity, make ASUA election packets available throughout the entire year, and work under her platform to enhance programs and services for postgraduation employment. Sager said she wishes to focus on mentor programs with alumni and current students to help create relationships between different workforces.

Lastly, Sager said she wants to improve ASUA’s services directly and create a proper training program for newly elected ASUA members.

Executive Vice President Evan Hastings, a mechanical engineering junior, said he believes club experiences in an individual’s undergraduate career is as equally important as the time spent in class, because clubs offer the chance for students to practically apply and practice skills needed in real-world experiences.

Hastings, who is currently in his second year working as an appropriations board director, will work to increase funding for clubs.

By the end of this year, Hastings plans have funded clubs around $500,000 and wishes to do even more next year.

Richard Gallon, a junior studying communications and sociology , has seen a lack of visibility between ASUA and the entities they interact with on campus. Gallon, who has been involved in clubs, cultural centers and the Residence Hall Association, said there is a huge disconnect between ASUA and the clubs it serves on campus. He added that he wishes to change this by increasing communication between the two.

Administrative Vice President Tatum Hammond , an sophomore studying English and current the administrative chief of staff, wishes to expand, innovate and collaborate

THE DAILY WILDCAT • 3 as AVP. Hammond wants to make sure UA programs and services do not fall short of funding due to budget cuts. Instead, Hammond wants to look at external ways for funding, because she said she believes that the department is at a pivotal point and needs to grow.

Louie Mbarkeh, a political science junior, had been involved in ASUA in his first two years at the UA until he took a break to analyze what students wanted to see within ASUA. Mbarkeh wants to work on efficiency, accessibility, outreach and innovation.

He would like to create a better relationship with alumni. He said he believes alumni have a huge impact of the future of the UA, and he would like to strengthen the relationship between Greek Life and the Dean of Students Office.

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Internet needs to be made safer

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f tech companies wanted to end online harassment, they could do it tomorrow.”

That’s what Jessica Valenti said in The Guardian around three months ago on the issue of online harassment and stalking, citing YouTube’s Content ID program as an example.

Commentators such as Mike Masnick of Techdirt and Sarah Jeong of The Verge disagreed with Valenti’s assertion that ending online harassment could be easy, citing the flaws of automatic methods like Content ID, but most agree that online harassment is a massive problem.

This is especially true for women. According to the Pew Research Center, 26 percent of women age 18-24 report having been stalked online, and 25 percent report having been sexually harassed.

Compare that to the figures of 8 and 6 percent of men with the same experiences.

And it’s only gotten worse in the age of GamerGate and its coordinated harassment campaigns that sometimes force people out of their own homes — so much so that one of their targets, Zoe Quinn, is trying to create an organization known as the Crash Override Network to combat the targeting.

But this would be more easily done if the sites hosting this kind abhorrence were more active in regulating it. Ariel Waldman posted a horror story about how Twitter refused to ban a stalker who was clearly violating its Terms of Service due to the company being afraid of being sued.

The “reforms” Twitter made after that article broke were just a removal of a tiny step from the complaints process that didn’t increase one’s likelihood of actually getting a complaint addressed.

On Facebook, the situation is similar. One woman reportedly had to wait three months to get a page featuring her head photoshopped onto porn taken down — which only happened after the cops got involved.

Another page called “Ban Islam” was taken down after somebody reported it, only to be shortly brought back thereafter because Facebook reviewed it and declared it “not [to be] hate speech.”

Part of the problem is volume, according to an article on the blog The Internet Offends Me. “While Facebook can boast that they have nearly 1.5 billion users this year, the impressive feat is that they have 1.2 billion active users who log in nearly every day,” thus creating a huge amount of data that is extremely difficult to sift through, especially given all the baseless reports thrown around.

This could be assumed to be true for other tech companies as well, but this doesn’t mean there’s nothing they can do.

They can use communitybased regulations, such as those the game League of Legends has implemented, or perhaps copy the examples of security-enhancing mods, such as Block Together.

But some way, somehow, we must make social media sites more responsive to blocking abuse. We’re well past the “Internet isn’t serious business” era of online discourse and into the “assholes on 8chan will ruin your life if you’re a woman with opinions” days. It’s time social media companies acknowledged that.

— Tom Johnson is a film & television studies junior. Follow him @tbok1992

UA shouldn’t pay athletes

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n a court decision last August and then in a National Collegiate Athletic Association vote last month, it became possible for college athletes to be paid for their work. With the court case still winding its way through appeals, though, we’re all left guessing when and if universities will begin compensating their male football and basketball players — the only athletes to whom the case applies.

Many athletes have long argued that the NCAA is effectively stealing from them. Their jerseys are being sold, their autographs are given and their images are being used in popular video games, all without any compensation.

Others, though, feel that the actual monetary value of the scholarships these athletes receive exceeds what most think they should be paid, and it’s certainly more than the $5,000 minimum they could potentially be getting paid per season if it is decided that the NCAA can or must pay its athletes. Furthermore, it’s possible each player would be getting paid the same to avoid any controversy, and giving star players and

benchwarmers the same pay check doesn’t add up.; it would just be controversial as well.

Many are left asking: If student athletes were to get paid, what would differentiate between a professional athlete and a student-athlete? And what would be the incentive for colleges to pay attention to athletes’ education if they cease being student-athletes and become employees of the university?

Athletic director Greg Byrne is opposed to paying college athletes.

“When you look at what they’re getting right now, it’s tremendous,” he said, “and we need to do a better job of communicating that.”

And what exactly are they getting right now?

Byrne concedes that “we as an industry have done poorly talking about what the studentathletes receive while they’re [in college].” But, he explained, the UA has 20 sports teams and nearly 500 student-athletes who average $85,000 each in athletics scholarships. The 85 football players and 13 men’s basketball players who are on full-ride scholarships receive approximately $150,000 each.

These full-ride scholarships provide funds over and above the cost of attendance, and even athletes on partial scholarships get free, unlimited meals and a six-days-per-week Bear Down Brunch, which costs the university $400,000 each year. The tuition costs of the full-ride students eat

up $350,000 of the athletics budget each year.

The athletics budget itself totals $70 million, which Byrne said is “challenging to balance … between 20 sports,” but he argued that “those are real dollars that we spend as an institution on that experience for our student-athletes.”

Student-athletes at the UA receive amenities such as gear, strength and conditioning training, access to equipment, academic support, an athletic psychologist and more. Add in the cost of health insurance and traveling, and it makes no sense for anyone to say that college athletes don’t get anything.

“But does that mean we can’t do more?” Byrne said. “No, of course we can do more, but I want to make sure that we are careful with the decisions we’re making and understand the big picture impact that it can potentially make.”

Paying college athletes would create an absolute mess. Who gets paid more? Why do only certain teams get paid? And what is a university’s obligation to educate those being paid for a different purpose?

So long as it’s optional, as the NCAA policy currently says, the UA shouldn’t pay its studentathletes.

— Jessica Terrones is a journalism freshman.

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The U.S. has been screwing up in Ukraine, and it could get worse

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bout a year ago, a conversation between Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland and the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, was intercepted with ease by Russian hackers. The conversation revealed the United States’ shameless promotion of a violent coup in the country of the president who had been elected democratically in fair, internationally-monitored elections.

In his analysis of the transcript of these two top State Department officials’ conversation about how they are working behind the scenes to support the illegal coup of the legal ruler of a sovereign nation, the BBC’s Jonathan Marcus notes, “The US says that it is working with all sides in the crisis to reach a peaceful solution, noting that ‘ultimately it is up to the Ukrainian people to decide their future.’ However this transcript suggests that the U.S. has very clear ideas about what the outcome should be and is striving to achieve these goals.”

Nuland, according to the released audio of a portion of the conversation, displayed her cynicism of (or outright disregard for) international law, the sovereignty of European countries

and the national interest of Russia — the country with the second most powerful military in the world, the most nuclear weapons and a penchant for behaving unpredictably and violently when backed into a corner.

“He’s now gotten both Serry and [UN Secretary General] Ban Ki-moon to agree that Serry could come in Monday or Tuesday,” she said. “So that would be great, I think, to help glue this thing and to have the UN help glue it and, you know, fuck the EU.” Our Ukraine policy since has displayed an ever-increasing level of hypocrisy and disregard for our allies’ and Russia’s interests.

This is an embarrassment for the U.S. It reflects an astounding level of hypocrisy and lack of respect for our allies, whom we have convinced to lose tens of billions of dollars of trade with Russia by implementing sanctions — while American trade with Russia has actually increased 7 percent, said John Willerton, associate professor of political science and expert on the region.

With pro-Russian rebels breaking the second ceasefire and capturing the strategically important town of Debalsteve, however, there is a growing chorus of voices, especially from Republicans, for the U.S. to provide offensive arms to the government in Kiev.

This would be a potentially disastrous mistake. While it is unlikely this would lead to war with Russia and the potential nuclear holocaust that could follow, even

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the most remote possibility should prevent us from engaging in another international adventure that provides little potential benefit.

“Any open-upping of assistance will only precipitate more of the same from Russia,” Willerton said.

“Russians don’t want Russian troops in Ukraine, but if they see Donetsk and Lugansk threatened by a Kiev regime bolstered by foreign forces, they’ll support outright intervention.”

Willerton noted that great powers like Russia will inevitably have spheres of influence and said “no country is more important to Russia than Ukraine. Canada and Mexico don’t have that level of meaning to the U.S., and even in these cases one can’t imagine the U.S. permitting either neighbor to join a military alliance from which it is excluded.”

To expect this of Russia is madness.

Russia feels backed into a corner.

After the fall of the USSR, it was under the impression — whether or not a verbal guarantee was made is a point of contention — that NATO would not expand east of West Germany and especially not into Former Soviet Republics.

Instead, it has expanded to include many former Warsaw Pact countries and even Former Soviet Republics, such as Lithuania and Estonia, countries that border Russia.

Former pro-Russian president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, was poised to bring his country closer to Russia and perhaps join the Eurasian Union, but the West

wouldn’t accept the actions of the country’s legitimate president. So, we turned the Maidan protests into a coup.

Now, we expect Russia to not only accept that loss but also to allow the most important country to Russia’s national interest to join the EU and NATO — a fate that many Ukrainians in the East have taken up arms to avoid.

Willerton said that on the battlefield, “Eastern Ukrainians have gained the advantage … captured Kiev equipment, their morale is much better … but there is no give from Kiev regarding some sort of federal solution,” so he “[expects] a return to very fierce fighting soon.”

This will only increase the calls for military aid. It is profoundly important that President Barack Obama’s administration restrain itself and not escalate the situation.

This means allowing Russia to turn the Donbass into another “frozen conflict” zone that will prevent Ukraine from joining the EU or NATO, just as it did by using nationalist movements to carve off pieces of Georgia and Moldova.

When the best alternative is subsidizing backwards economies that have nothing to offer the EU or the U.S., and the worst alternative being World War III, we will just have to swallow this bitter pill.

— Martin Forstrom is a senior studying sociology and Latin American studies. Follow him @martinforstrom

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A University of Arizona Police Department officer was called to Theta Tau engineering fraternity because an off-duty officer smelled burning marijuana from the southwest corner of the yard on Feb. 25 at 4:53 p.m.

Three joints were sitting on the brick skirting next to Corporal Sierra, and one appeared to be half-smoked, according to the officer. The joints looked to be rolled in the same way with a piece of folded white paper at the end inside. The half-smoked joint was rolled with brown paper, and the other two were with a light brown translucent rolling paper.

The officer spoke with three fraternity members, one woman and two men, about their involvement. They were each read their Miranda rights. The UAPD officer then asked who the joints belonged to, and one of the men claimed they were all his. The other male interjected in the conversation and said he was to blame as well.

One of the male students said he got scared when the officer came up to the block wall and told all four fraternity members to come out of the backyard and speak with him. In his state of mind, he threw the half-smoked joint into the rocks on the southwest side of the courtyard.

The fourth individual said she just arrived on the scene and had not been smoking. The officer also claimed that she showed no signs or symptoms from smoking, and the other three individuals said she had not been smoking either, but they admitted to do so themselves.

The three marijuana smokers had bloodshot eyes, a greenishbrown tint on their tongues and raised taste buds. They were all taken to the UA Diversion Program for possession/use of marijuana. A referral was sent to the Dean of Students Office.

Corporal Sierra and the UAPD officer spoke with the fraternity president to let him know about the three house members smoking marijuana.

The three joints were submitted into UAPD Property and Evidence.

Space alien

A UA student and the Coconino Residence Hall resident assistant told a UAPD officer on Feb. 25 about an unknown person drawing space aliens with Mexican innuendos on a white board. The individual had labeled them illegal aliens with dry erase markers in study room No. 10 in the unlocked basement.

One of the drawings had a space alien wearing a sombrero with a gun in one hand and a maraca in the other. On top of the drawing was the statement, “The illegal alien has returned.” The drawing next to it had an alien saluting a Confederate flag and the word “illegal alien” with an arrow pointing toward the alien.

The next drawing was of a space alien and a cowboy hugging each other with a U.S. passport with a photo of the space alien in it next to them.

The white board is located near the dorm’s custodial closet.

The custodian spoke with the officer, saying she is the one who saw the drawings and reported them to the RA. She said she feels that the drawings may have been directed toward her, since the closet is right next to the board, but said she doesn’t feel threatened or have any safety concerns.

The RA said that the dorm Community Director sent out a hall-wide email asking if anyone knew who was doing the drawings, but he doesn’t know if the director has received any information.

Photos of the drawings were taken and entered into Property and Evidence.

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Lunchtime Learning Series – Civil Rights ‘Eyes on the Prize’ College of Law 156, 12pm.

Eyes on the Prize is a PBS, award-winning documentary series about the civil rights movement in the 1950s and ‘60s. Come for any and all segments and bring your lunch. All are welcome.

Weight Watchers at UAMC Dining Room A, 12pm. Meetings last 45 minutes, including 15-minute registration plus a 30-minute meeting. The program includes food and activity plans. Plus, visit other Weight Watchers meetings in Arizona.

Discussion – ‘Vision and Change in Undergraduate Education at NSF’ SUMC Kiva Room, 2pm. Susan Singer is a national leader in undergraduate education policy and pursues a career that integrates science and education. Singer is a developmental biologist, an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow and has served on numerous committees and boards for science and education.

Planting for Future Generations: Environmental Justice in Guatemala Chavez 405, 4pm. Please join Lopez Pocol to learn about Chico Mendes Reforestation Project and also the environmental crisis in Central America created by civil war, free trade, and continued social repression.

The Exodus as Cultural Memory 1245 E. 2nd St. 4:30pm. The Exodus is a central event in biblical and Jewish memory. But according

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to the archaeological and historical record, it is unclear what it is a memory of. Hendel proposes that it is, in part, a transformed memory of the demise of the Egyptian Empire in Canaan, which facilitated the emergence of Israel as an independent people.

Surgical Weight-Loss Informational Seminar UMC Dining Rooms E & F, 5pm.

The informational seminar is for prospective patients interested in getting started in the surgical weight-loss program. Take the first step toward a healthier you and learn about the impact it will have on your life.

UA Science Lecture Series: Life in the Universe Centennial Hall, 7pm. Life as we know it produces complex order. Earth’s many life forms are diverse and continually changing through birth, growth, and evolution. To understand life in the Universe we ask: What environments produce life and which attributes make something alive? How does life change?

Is there life in our Solar System, or on one of countless exoplanets? Is there a connection between life on Earth and life elsewhere? Or are we alone?

Quite a Night O’ Dixie Crowder hall, 7:30pm.

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Preview – ‘Othello’ Tornabene Theatre, 7:30pm. The play centers on Othello, the Moorish General, whose valiant exploits have saved the state and won him the love of Desdemona, who defies social convention and her father’s will to marry him. But Othello’s ensign, Iago, harbors a secret resentment and plants the seed that will destroy Othello’s love.

Garden Kitchen Dinners 2205 S. Fourth Ave., 5:30pm. The evenings will each begin with a little socializing followed by a talk and cooking demonstration, with some hands-on preparation shared by all. We will finish by sitting down together – an important part of the Mediterranean lifestyle – to enjoy the culinary creations we’ve made and will take home knowledge and recipes!

Exhibit – ‘Curtis Reframed: The Arizona Volumes’ AZ State Museum, 10-5. Edward S. Curtis, famed photographer of the American West, created iconic images of Native peoples at the start of the 20th century. This exhibit explores Curtis’ work in Arizona from 1900-1921, featuring photogravures and narratives from his life’s work “The North American Indian,” a 20-volume set.

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Thousands march 50 years after Selma TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

SELMA, Ala. — Thousands of marchers, many singing “We Shall Overcome” or “This Little Light of Mine,” turned out Sunday to retrace the steps their forebears took half a century ago on the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge.

The route was the same, but the conditions were far different. Instead of enduring tear gas and billy clubs on what came to be known as Bloody Sunday, the weekend’s visitors crossed the bridge with smiles and songs.

On the weekend marking the 50th anniversary of the demonstration that led to the Voting Rights Act’s passage, some marchers locked arms, and some knelt to pray as they crossed the bridge — named for a Confederate general who was also a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

The March 7, 1965, protest had been planned to go from Selma to Montgomery but was delayed by law enforcement violence.

Marchers reached Montgomery on March 25, and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addressed demonstrators at the state Capitol steps.

On Sunday, Claudia Mitchell, 62, came from her home in Montgomery, about 50 miles east, and took photos of her daughter Temisha at the foot of the bridge. Mitchell had joined the 1965 marchers as they entered Montgomery and remembers many of them staying at her parents’ house at night.

“We couldn’t even stay in the hotels then,” Mitchell said. “So, I’m here to commemorate that day.”

Sunday started with fiery sermons at Brown

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PEOPLE RAISE their arms as they march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Sunday in Selma, Ala.

Chapel AME Church, where the 1965 marchers based themselves. Several speakers, including U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and Rev. Al Sharpton, called for restoration of the Voting Rights Act, which was weakened by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling, Shelby County v.

Holder.

In a 5-4 decision, the court struck down a key part of the act that required Southern states to seek federal approval before changing their election laws or redrawing districts.

The congregation at Brown Chapel included

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama’s nominee to succeed Holder as attorney general.

In a fiery speech, Sharpton said, “We know why they went across that bridge, and there’s still some bridges we have to cross.”

In a less figurative way, Sharpton and his fellow dignitaries didn’t make it on time for Sunday’s planned midday bridge crossing.

With the Secret Service and other security infrastructure that had accompanied

Obama on Saturday gone, Sunday’s crowds overwhelmed authorities. By midday, the bridge was packed with people.

Alabama state troopers and local police tried to persuade demonstrators to make room for motorcades.

Rose Sanders, a local civil rights activist, grabbed a bullhorn.

“Please, everybody, I’m pleading with you: Clear the bridge,” she said. She burst into laughter at the futility of her plea.

“We’ve never had this many people in Selma,” Sanders said. “You’re gonna have to forgive us. We don’t know what we’re doing.”

Although various dignitaries didn’t get to the head of the line, many aged people who had walked with King in 1965 did. They led the way across the bridge.

Several helicopters and at least one drone hovered overhead, and marchers waved at them from the bridge.

Back at Brown Chapel, Holder urged state legislatures “to lift restrictions that currently disenfranchise millions of citizens convicted of felonies” and added that his expected successor, Lynch, who is also black, “will continue to fight aggressively on behalf of this sacred right.”

Holder also drew applause by nodding to current controversies in Ferguson, Mo., and elsewhere across the U.S. He noted that the activist Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was killed in Marion, Ala., in 1965, was an unarmed black man.

“We will march on,” Holder said, calling on listeners to “challenge entrenched power.”

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BASEBALL

Wildcats sweep Portland

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Arizona baseball (15-4) rallied back to complete a three-game sweep of the Portland Pilots (4-15) on Sunday afternoon, after clinching the series with a come-from-behind victory on Saturday.

The Wildcats rallied back from a 6-4 deficit after five innings and scored five unanswered runs, capitalizing on a threerun seventh to win 9-6.

Scott Kingery went 4-5 with one run and one RBI in the victory, while Kevin Newman recorded his fifth straight, two-hit game.

A host of errors and dropped balls allowed Arizona to take an early 4-1 lead after three innings, but all of the runs were unearned.

Arizona’s first two of 12 hits came off dropped balls from the Pilots. Scott Kingery’s single to shortstop was mishandled by Michael Lucarelli in the first, and Zach Gibbons reached on a bobble by Portland’s second baseman Kevin Farley in the second.

Gibbons’s base hit was the first of three that resulted in a two-run inning for Arizona.

Lucarelli overthrew the pitcher following a base hit by Newman, which allowed Gibbons and Justin Behnke to score.

“I told our guys, ‘Hey, Portland practices, too,’” Arizona coach Andy Lopez said.

“They’re not just going to school, they’re going to school on the field, too … but I’m happy that we have capitalized to the point that we’ve taken advantage of [their errors].”

The Pilots flew back into contention in the fifth, capitalizing on bases loaded with situations to string together five runs and go up 6-4. Portland recorded 10 total hits, including three from third baseman Cody Lenahan.

Lucarelli redeemed himself by hitting a two-RBI single off Arizona starting pitcher Tyger Talley with the bases loaded. The Pilots reloaded the bases before Talley walked in left fielder Grant Taylor.

“It’s college baseball, so you’re going to have people on base,” Lopez said. “It’s just

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ARIZONA BASEBALL infielder Scott Kingery (25) runs between bases during Arizona’s 9-6 win against Portland on Sunday. Kingery and the Wildcats swept Portland over the three-game series.

Arizona defeats Stanford on SAND VOLLEYBALL Senior Day

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Arizona succeeds

BY JORDYN OWEN

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Arizona sand volleyball hosted the Arizona Invitational over the weekend at Jimenez Field, which featured Arizona, Texas Christian, Louisiana State, Tulane and ASU. The Wildcats faced off against TCU Friday, followed by matches against LSU and Tulane on Saturday.

The Wildcats had a winning opening weekend with 5-0 sweeps over TCU and Tulane and a 4-1 win over LSU. “You put the time and effort in, as these ladies have,” said Arizona sand volleyball coach Steve Walker. “They deserve a chance to get out and compete, and the victories were wellearned.”

The Wildcats battled through the intense wind in Tucson on Friday. Madi Kingdon shed some light on how the team offset the wind and pulled out a victory.

“The ball moves a lot in the wind,” Kingdon said. “Keeping our sets low and keeping the ball in rhythm really helps to get good sets and good swings.”

Arizona’s adjustments were successful, as the Wildcats went undefeated against the TCU Horned Frogs, finishing up their first match of the weekend with a 5-0 sweep.

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who defeated TCU, 21-16, 21-8.

The second round of the match went much the same as the first. Arizona’s No. 1 pair, Kingdon and Kaitlyn Leary, dominated the court and won 21-7, 21-11.

Twins Madison Witt and McKenna Witt sealed the deal

The No. 19 Arizona gymnastics team went undefeated over the weekend after earning a 195.450 first place score in a quad meet on Friday in Lansing, Mich., and then defeating Texas Woman’s University 197.125192.475 on Sunday in Denton, Texas.

The mark against TWU was the season-high for the Wildcats and the third highest in team history.

Although the team shined throughout the weekend, everybody’s main concern was senior captain Allie Flores, who was injured during her floor routine against the Pioneers and was unable to finish the meet.

“She will meet with our team doctors when she gets back to Tucson,” Arizona gymnastics coach Bill Ryden said. “She sustained an injury on floor and was unable to finish the meet.”

The extent of the injury is unknown at this time and could not be commented on.

“Right now, we can’t celebrate it too much because our thoughts are with Allie,” Ryden said in a press

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MADISON WITT (23) goes to high-five her twin sister, McKenna Witt (21), during Arizona’s 5-0 win against Tulane on Saturday at Jimenez Field. The Witt sisters helped lead the Wildcats to three straight team wins over the weekend.

Arizona’s Taylor Arizobal and Allie Cook started off the weekend with a win over TCU 21-4, 21-18.

The rest of the Arizona team followed suit as the competition continued. Sarah Seiber and Hayley Devlin won 21-5, 21-13 over TCU, followed by Emily Kiser and Olivia Macdonald,

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UA struggles with top talent

BY EZRA AMACHER The Daily Wildcat

Arizona softball went 2-3 over the weekend at the Judi Garman Classic in Fullerton, Calif., with all three losses coming against highly ranked opponents.

Florida, Auburn and Baylor combined to outscore the No. 13 Wildcats 39-3. Arizona, however, did pick up a pair of wins over Long Beach State and Fresno State and left the tournament with a 21-6 record.

Arizona opened up the tournament Friday afternoon by falling to No. 1 Florida 10-0 in a sixinning run-ruled game.

The defending national champion Gators scored five runs over five innings against Arizona pitcher Michelle Floyd, who picked up her third loss of the year.

Florida broke the game open, with the lead 5-0 going into the sixth inning on a grand slam off Nancy Bowling. The Wildcats’ bats could get nothing going, as the lineup recorded just three hits.

Arizona suffered its worst loss in program history Friday night, a 20-2, five-inning defeat to No. 14 Auburn.

The Tigers jumped on Arizona pitcher Trish Parks from the start, who allowed seven runs — six earned — in one inning of work. Floyd came in

for relief, but she also suffered a pounding on the mound, allowing six runs over two innings.

Auburn scored seven more runs off of Siera Phillips. The Tigers’ 20 runs were the most Arizona has allowed in school history.

Parks provided Arizona’s only offensive production of the night with a two-run homer in the second inning. The Wildcats produced four total hits as a team.

Arizona turned things around Saturday night with a 2-1 victory over Long Beach State behind a complete game from Floyd. The sophomore struck

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for Arizona with their win over TCU, 21-11, 21-16.

The Wildcats continued their dominance during day two of the Arizona Invitational with wins over LSU and Tulane. Arizona took on the LSU Tigers to begin the day and won the match 4-1.

Arizobal and Cook took the win over

LSU, 21-13, 21-18, in round one of day two.

Seiber and Devlin followed suit and also defeated LSU, 21-13, 21-18.

Kingdon and Leary started off round two of day two with a 21-6, 21-17, win over LSU, while Madison Witt and McKenna Witt beat LSU, 21-12, 21-6.

Arizona’s Kendall Polan and Rachel Rhodes fell to LSU, 19-21, 21-19, 14-16, making Arizona’s match record 4-1.

The final match featured a showdown between Arizona and a Tulane squad

Arizona dominated last year in a 5-0 win.

The Wildcats again swept Tulane 5-0 to close out the invitational.

Arizobal and Cook kicked off the final match on court one and defeated Tulane, 21-19, 21-15. Seiber and Devlin continued Arizona’s winning streak with a 21-16, 2111, win over Tulane.

Arizona continued to overpower Tulane in round two to clinch the 5-0 sweep, as Kingdon and Leary defeated Tulane, 22-20, 21-15, as the No. 1 team.

Madison Witt and Mckenna Witt pulled out two close sets with Tulane on court two to win 21-19, 24-22. Polan and Rhodes defeated Tulane 21-14, 26-24, on court three to seal the deal for Arizona.

The Wildcats are off until Saturday when the team hits the road to face Cal Poly.

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the nature of the beast.”

Rio Gomez came in to relieve Talley halfway through the fifth inning after the junior gave up six runs on seven hits and recorded five strikeouts. He gave up two more runs before Arizona ended the inning on a 6-4-3 double play.

“Any time you can get two outs in one pitch like that, it really shifts the momentum in our favor,” Kingery said.

Kingery continued to change the momentum offensively in the bottom of the sixth inning with an RBI double down the left field line that scored Behnke. He reached home two batters later off a single by Riley Moore to tie the game at 6-6.

“I really think the biggest part was Behnke getting on in that inning,” Kingery said. “He’s a plus runner; he can wreak havoc on the bases.”

Arizona’s last push came in the bottom of the seventh, when the Wildcats pushed home three more runs after stealing two bases and taking advantage of a wild pitch by Portland reliever Billy Sahlinger.

Nathan Bannister earned the win for Arizona, after allowing one hit and recording two strikeouts in 2.1 innings, to improve his record to 3-0.

“It’s important that we fight back and persevere through our competition in

team camaraderie are keeping the Wildcats on track to be a top contender in the Pac-12 this year.

“Everyone’s upbeat; everyone’s working hard,” Bannister said. “We’re rolling right now, and we intend to keep it that way.”

out five, walked one and allowed four hits over seven innings.

The Wildcats picked up both of their runs in the top of the first inning. Chelsea Suitos scored on Kellie Fox’s double to center field. Fox later scored on a Long Beach State error.

Once again, Arizona’s bats were mostly silenced as the UA notched just five hits.

In the bottom of the sixth, it looked like the lack of offensive production might come back to haunt the Wildcats, as Long Beach State put a pair of runners on base with no outs. However, Floyd was able to limit the damage to just one run. The seventh and final inning went by uneventful.

Arizona picked up its third loss of the weekend early Sunday afternoon, falling 9-1 to No. 9 Baylor.

The Wildcats gained an early, second-inning lead on a wild pitch that scored Parks. After holding Baylor scoreless through three, the lead disappeared in the fourth inning as the Bears put up a five spot on Floyd.

Bowling allowed four more runs in two innings of relief. Phillips closed the loss with a scoreless seventh inning. Arizona’s offense was held to six hits in another muted performance.

Arizona defeated Fresno State 7-1 in the final game of the weekend.

The Wildcats’ lineup finally broke out with nine hits, including a three-run, second-inning homer from Lauren Young. Right fielder Katiyana Mauga went 2-3 with an RBI, while freshman Ashleigh Hughes added two more RBIs. On the mound, Floyd allowed one earned run over seven innings in her second complete game of the tournament.

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release. “Of course, this score will help us, but when bad luck strikes like that, it’s so sad.”

The Wildcats edged out Bowling Green (195.250), Michigan State (194.350) and Eastern Michigan (195.225) in their first meet of the weekend.

The GymCats totaled a team score of 49.025 on beam. Arizona gymnasts Flores, Shelby Edwards and Madison Cindric all scored a 9.825.

Krysten Howard and Selynna Felix-Terrazas both started the event

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ARIZONA BASEBALL pitcher Nathan Bannister (35) delivers a pitch during Arizona’s 9-6 win against Portland on Sunday. Bannister picked up his third win of the season during the team’s 9-6 win on Sunday.

order to be ready for Pac-12 [Conference play],” Bannister said. “If we fall down early, it’s good to know that we can come back and just not fold like most teams would.”

Arizona’s 15-4 record doesn’t come lightly. At this time last year, the Wildcats were just 10-9, and didn’t earn their 15th win until their 34th game on April 9 against ASU. Hard work, mental toughness and

on bars with a 9.825. Flores and Lexi Mills followed with a 9.775 and 9.750, respectively.

Edwards highlighted the vault event and led the Wildcats with a 9.900. The score marked the highest individual score for Arizona in the meet.

The GymCats totaled a team score of 49.125 on floor. Flores and Jessica Sisler had the highest marks, both scoring a 9.850. Felix-Terrazas followed with a 9.825.

Ryden said that he was pleased with the overall performance and the fact that the team was able to go undefeated over the weekend.

“It was great for the team,” Ryden

said. “I’m proud of the efforts and what we did. Certainly, we keep improving, and today’s meet was an example of finally seeing all the same gymnastics that we actually see in practice and then seeing it put on the competitive floor.”

The GymCats tallied the highest score in the history of TWU’s Kitty Magee Arena and their season-high on the Pioneers’ Senior Day. “It’s a testament to overcoming adversity in a lot of ways and just believing in hard work,” Ryden said. “I can’t say enough about all of the efforts of the athletes, all the efforts of the coaches, all the efforts of the medical staff, because

it’s been everyone on deck. We’ve had so many injuries and things to overcome, and we just keep plugging forward one routine at a time; it’s our basic mantra.”

The highlight of the meet was two consecutive 9.950’s scored by Sisler and Mills on beam, marking the highest total team score on beam of the season with 49.450. The score is also the second-highest in program history.

“They are both exceptional beam workers, and we knew that when they were recruited,” Ryden said.

“They were just spot on and a real joy to watch. The beam team as a whole was amazing, and those two were

really amazing.”

Arizona received a total team score of 49.275 on bars, good for the second-highest of the season. Sisler led the Wildcats on floor with a 9.875, and Cindric nailed a career-high routine in the event with a 9.850.

Edwards led her team on vault with a 9.875, and Cindric followed with another career high of 9.850.

Arizona will travel back home to face Denver for its final home meet of the season and Senior Day in McKale Center on Saturday.

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On to the next one No. 5 Arizona is playing its best basketball at the season as March Madness gets underway — as Arizona coach Sean Miller says, it’s all about the Pac-12 tournament See the photo gallery on

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bad teams: The UA pounded Washington, Washington State, USC, Colorado and California.

If you think about it, the Wildcats are undefeated against good teams, similar to the Kentucky Wildcats. Their only losses came at UNLV, Oregon State and ASU. There are no more road games for the UA, which is 3-0 in neutral site games, in the one-and-done postseason.

The Wildcats celebrated the championship Saturday but have since shifted their focus toward winning their first conference tournament championship since 2002.

“It’s over; regular season is over,” Arizona men’s basketball coach Sean Miller said. “We feel good about what we’ve done. It’s on to one thing, and that’s the Pac-12 tournament. It’s not about the NCAA. It’s about getting ready, being at our best, enjoying March Madness, and going out there and playing really well.”

While the Wildcats have turned the page, they don’t want to make drastic changes.

Sure, they had a longer win streak to open the season, 12, but most of those came against teams such as Mt. St. Mary’s, Cal State

Northridge and Gardner-Webb. Plus, only one of those was on the road, against UTEP, which is No. 74 in the RPI. “We have this motto: ‘Do what we do,’ and we kind of stick by that day in and day out and each game,” McConnell said, “And we’re not trying to change who we are. We’re just trying to play Arizona basketball every day.”

Not only have the Wildcats won eight in a row since their loss to ASU, they’ve also won 14 of their last 15.

Forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson has slid in the starting lineup and become more of a threat on offense since the Wildcats’ winning streak at the beginning of the season. Guard Gabe York has adjusted to his sixth-man role, and McConnell, center Kaleb Tarczewski and forward Brandon Ashley are playing their best ball of the season.

There’s no scary opponent for the Wildcats.

Their only conference losses are at Oregon State and ASU, and they beat them both handily at home.

Arizona is the safe bet to win in Las Vegas.

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard T.J. McConnell and forward Brandon Ashely run through the ZonaZoo after Arizona’s 91-69 win against Stanford in celebration of the Pac-12 Conference championship in McKale Center on Saturday.

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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball coach Sean Miller cut down the net in celebration of the Pac-12 Conference championship after Arizona’s 91-69 win against Stanford in McKale Center on Saturday. The Wildcats won their second consecutive Pac-12 championship for the first time in over 20 years.

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A. Masturbation is a safe, easy, and natural way to fulfill sexual needs and desires.

Six times a day is more than most people masturbate. That said, it’s a healthy behavior as long as it doesn’t interfere with your academics, work responsibilities, relationships, physical health, or emotional well-being. If your pattern of masturbation negatively affects other areas of your life, or you suspect it’s a way to avoid addressing conflicts, anger, loneliness, etc., then it may be time to re-evaluate.

Using lubricants like KY or Astroglide will help prevent soreness. As for

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performance improvement, try changing your frequency of masturbation (doing it less may heighten sensitivity). Changing up how you masturbate might lead to improved satisfaction.

Pay attention to what prompts your desire to masturbate. If it’s your go-to stress-reliever, consider adding other activities such as exercise or mindfulness (breathing, meditation, etc.). If you feel frequent masturbation is unhealthy for you, consider talking to a counselor. Counseling and Psych Services is on the 3rd floor at UA Campus Health. Call (520) 621-3334.

I’ve heard that when a girl has sex for the first time, her “cherry” breaks. I’ve also heard that it can break because of certain sports, even though she has not had sex. Do you know what may cause a woman’s “cherry” to break?

A. A woman’s hymen (“cherry”) can be stretched or torn for many reasons – strenuous activities such as horseback riding, gymnastics and dancing are just

a few of them. Inserting tampons, masturbation, and gynecological exams may also affect the hymen. A broken hymen does not mean a woman is not a virgin. The hymen can be stretched or broken for many different reasons other than sexual intercourse.

Have a question? Send it to sextalk@email.arizona.edu SexTalk is written by Lee Ann Hamilton, MA, CHES, David Salafsky, MPH, and Carrie Hardesty, MeD, CHES, health educators at The UA Campus Health Service.

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Monday, March 9, 2015• Page 12 Editor: Mia Moran arts@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-3106 twitter.com/dailywildcat

PLAY REVIEW

Move out of way of ‘Mrs. Markham’

BY ANNA MAE LUDLUM The Daily Wildcat

It’s brash, it’s bold — and it’s bound to exhaust you if you aren’t primed for the hyperactive farce that publicly boasts a production with over 250 stage entrances and exits.

“Move Over Mrs. Markham,” based on the 1969 production written

by Raymond George Alfred Cooney and John Chapman, is directed by Live Theatre Workshop’s Stephen Frankenfield.

London’s swinging ’60s are in full gear in Mrs. Markham’s (Shanna Brock) flat as she returns home from an afternoon of shopping, never suspecting the chaos about to ensue.

The geometric patterns on the wall are the work of interior designer Alistair Spenlow — the proud installer of the Markhams’ new floral bidet. Attired in a paisley ascot, a deep purple and blue shimmering suit jacket, and blue suede boots, Spenlow may or may not be pretending to be gay in order to avoid exposing his relationship with the Markhams’ maid.

Naturally, the breathy European maid Sylvie Hauser (Allison Akmajian) lollygags around the apartment in her highly inappropriate and impractical French maid getup; this is a farce, after all. Sylvie plans an evening with Spenlow in the Markhams’ apartment while they are away.

This is just the first of many a sexual rendezvous planned for the evening in the Markham home, none of which includes the Markhams.

Joanna Markham is the go-go bootwearing, lustrous, flowing, blonde

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(TOP ROW) Janet Roby, Cliff Madison, Allison Akmajian, and India Osborne. (Bottom row) Christopher Younggren, Matthew Copley, Michael Woodson and Shanna Brock in “Move Over Mrs. Markham” at Live Theatre Workshop. The play is a subpar sexual farce.

supermodel-type with a husband of 15 years, whose affection hasn’t been had in quite some time. Her best friend, Linda Lodge (Janet Roby), is the wife of Mr. Markham’s boss, and she is at her wit’s end dealing with her adulterous husband.

Linda knows her husband has been having nonstop trysts with other women, and she is determined to seek lovin’ on the side as well. Divulging a love letter

from her paramour, Linda is given reluctant permission to arrange her own tryst in the Markhams’ apartment.

As expected, Mr. Markham (Matthew C. Copley) and Mr. Lodge (Christopher Younggren) find a page of Linda’s love letter in the couch, and the spiral begins as Mr. Markham believes the letter was sent to his wife. Described as a “stick in the mud,” his proper business

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manner disintegrates as his anxiety goes from zero to 60 in under a minute.

Copley certainly obtained his daily cardio workout during his performance as Mr. Markham.

Running about on the small stage, contorting his body and sweating buckets as his beet-red face hardly contained his overflowing hysteria, it was a wonder he didn’t experience a heart attack.

His energy never waned, and, impressively, his English accent was maintained while he screamed through gritted teeth.

In contrast, playboy Mr. Lodge is cool and collected. He knows the life of infidelity well and isn’t easily ruffled. His steady eyes are a reminder of his blasé attitude toward monogamy as he prepares for his own night’s liaison.

Accusations and misunderstandings fly between characters, resulting in Mr. Markham declaring his belief that Spenlow and his wife are lovers.

Mr. Markham hands his wife over to the perplexed interior designer and becomes determined to find his own lover.

Due to the show’s hectic pacing, Mrs. Markham isn’t given time to figure out the situation; instead, she is game for a romp with Spenlow.

Forgetting Sylvie, Spenlow drops his drawers as he dances in his chili pepper boxers.

The remainder of the show involves switching identities, changing accents, and preventing disclosures while half-dressed.

Adding absolutely nothing new to sexual farces, “Move Over Mrs. Markham” should rest at the bottom of the farce barrel, letting ones with thicker plots rise to the top for future revival.

“Move Over Mrs. Markham” will run at Live Theatre Workshop until March 28.

— Follow Anna Mae Ludlum @maeludlum

MOVIE REVIEW

Robot gone gangster THE REEL DEAL

BY ALEX GUYTON

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BY ANNA MAE LUDLUM

The Daily Wildcat PBS’s “Downton Abbey” wrapped up its fifth season ending in 1924. The Roaring ’20s have changed long-held attitudes toward sex, education and respectable suitors, and the Crawleys, residing at Downton Abbey, haven’t been immune to these changes. Here are some recaps (and spoilers) of a few of the characters as they navigated 1924.

Upstairs

Lady Mary Crawley (Michelle Dockery) She’s thoroughly modern Mary now. She chopped her hair into a fashionable bob and spent a weekend sexing it up with the oh-so-dull Tony Gillingham. As usual, Mary never recognizes the negative impact on other people’s lives each of her scandalous secrets has and is rarely all the happier afterwards.

Lady Rose Aldridge (Lily James) Her flippant flapper days are over, and she is now the wife of Atticus Aldridge, who is of Russian-Jewish ancestry. The inclusion of a Jewish man and the anti-Semitism that followed him is very apropos of the time, and the current public resurgence of global anti-Semitism show that some injustices just don’t die.

Dowager Countess (Maggie Smith) Bit by bit, the Dowager Countess is revealed to have spent the 1860s like it had been her free-love years. Russian refugee Prince Kuragin made one last play for her affection after a failed attempt half a century earlier to ditch their spouses and was rejected.

Countess of Grantham (Elizabeth McGovern) Taking evening strolls through London with a man who isn’t your husband is not good. This oversight on Cora’s part can’t be blamed on her “Americanness.” Cora flirted with disaster, and it ended with her husband wrestling the art dealer in her bedroom.

Downstairs

Mr. Carson (Jim Carter) and Mrs. Hughes (Phyllis Logan) The two leaders of the household staff have changed with the times and begun to plan for their future retirement. Mrs. Hughes confesses she hadn’t any money to invest with Mr. Carson, and the series ends

with Mr. Carson proposing to the longwaiting Mrs. Hughes — she said yes.

Thomas (Rob James-Collier): Pre-War Thomas’ blackmailing is in full swing again. Turning to medically experimental methods to “cure” his homosexuality, he is eventually informed there is no cure. Gaining his strength back, he finally sees the Lady’s Maid, Baxter (Raquel Cassidy), as an ally to trust with his life. In the last episode, Thomas donates his time helping a foolish young server regain his swindled savings, displaying the deeprooted kindness hidden beneath his tough exterior.

Daisy (Sophie McShera) Sampling the delights of an education, Daisy is desperate for knowledge and experience. More competent in the kitchen and in her newfound interest in social justice, Daisy is far from the scullery maid life she once knew as she prepares to learn how to run her father-in-law’s farm.

Negatives

• School teacher Miss Bunting (Daisy Lewis) was easily the most disliked of the season. She gave voice to 21st century views with abominable arrogance. Not only is it difficult to replace Lady Sybil (Jessica Brown-Findlay) as Tom Branson’s (Allen Leech) love interest, but Miss Bunting’s show of feminism was actually a display of unnecessary rudeness.

• Mr. and Mrs. Bates (Brendan Coyle and Joanne Froggatt) entered the disaster zone once again as Anna is framed for the murder of her rapist. Mrs. Bates spends an episode in prison while Mr. Bates disappears only to have the two reunited in the end. Julian Fellowes, give these two a break.

Positives

• Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael) and Marigold are now together as mother and daughter at Downton Abbey.

• Tragedy struck as Isis, the beloved Earl’s dog, died, but it resulted in an outpouring of Internet consolation from fans calling out for “Prayers For Isis” — no doubt confusing many unfamiliar with the show.

• Tom Branson finally received the same lovely validation from the Earl of Grantham (Hugh Bonneville), as Matthew Crawley (Dan Stevens) had.

— Follow Anna Mae Ludlum @maeludlum

It’s 2016 in South Africa’s largest city, Johannesburg, and crime is rampant. The police have enlisted armored, bipedal robot guards, called Scouts, to work alongside law enforcement. This is good news for Tetravaal, the company that produces the robots, and Deon Wilson (Dev Patel), the robot’s designer, who is also working on a side project of his own: a firmware update for consciousness.

His workplace rival is Vincent, played by a mulleted Hugh Jackman, who is vehemently against artificial intelligence. He’s a half-baked villain, never getting much characterization outside of his religious opposition to A.I. Deon successfully develops his consciousness program, but the head of Tetravaal, Michelle Bradley (Sigourney Weaver), idiotically has no interest in real A.I. Inexplicably, Bradley does not see the potential and thinks it would only produce a sentient being that would have opinions on art. With no other recourse, Deon steals away a Scout that’s been decommissioned to test out his program. This coincides with a couple of down-ontheir-luck gangsters who kidnap Deon.

Ninja and Yolandi Visser of Die Antwoord, a Cape Town group whose appeal has gone international over the past half-decade for their outlandish songs, personas and music videos, star in the film as characters of the same names. It’s not mentioned in the film that they belong to a famous, real-life group, yet they wear sweatshirts that are emblazoned with their names and “Die Antwoord.” It’s fun, and a little weird, how pervasive their presence is in the movie.

The two, with their reinterpretations of the mullet and overall weirdness, have the perfect look for Neill Blomkamp’s characteristic, gritty Johannesburg ghetto, first seen in the director’s 2009 film “District 9.” His first featurelength outing, after over five years and two more films, remains the director’s best work, far and away.

Ninja and Yolandi need to pull a heist to pay off another gangster. They abduct Deon, thinking that he would have a catch-all remote to switch off the police robots. He doesn’t,

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but he has the next best thing: a stolen robot in his trunk.

The consciousness program is successfully uploaded, and Chappie is born.

Well, “he” doesn’t come into the world as “Chappie.”

It’s his christened name given to him by Yolandi. Despite Deon’s protestations that his creation, arguably one of the most important in the history of man, is going to be called something as flippant as “Chappie,” the fledgling robot happily takes to his name. This is a fair summation of the main conflict.

Though he develops at an accelerated rate, Chappie still begins with the mind of a child.

He is extremely malleable, ready to take after whatever example is put in front of him.

As Chappie’s creator, Deon wants him to live up to his full potential. Ninja wants Chappie as his personal “robot gangster No. 1.” Yolandi is stuck in the middle, taking on the role of Chappie’s sympathetic, caring “mommy.”

The risk with “CHAPPiE” is that most of the heavy lifting, in terms of exposition and emotion, is carried out by a South African rap-rave duo and a CG robot. It’s safe to say that the trio is hardly the most stable acting foundation for a feature film.

Yet, extremely surprisingly, it works for the most part.

At times, it’s apparent that Ninja and Yolandi are simply reciting lines. Their charisma and sincerity compensates for the occasional lack in acting finesse, if one remembers that they’re not really actors.

Yolandi, particularly, is impressive in displaying a soft, nurturing nature.

Sharlto Copley, Blomkamp’s mainstay in both “District 9” and “Elysium,” voices the robot. His effective voice work, combined with physical mannerisms, transforms Chappie into a quirky, vulnerable little guy.

Like his previous works, Blomkamp’s latest film climaxes in action and violence, putting whatever intriguing ideological concepts it originally addressed — such as consciousness and life itself — on the back burner.

There are revelations at the end that approach transcendence but don’t feel earned, like they did at the conclusion of “District 9.”

Like the character himself, there’s a good heart underneath the clunky, physical trappings in “CHAPPiE.”

Grade: B— Follow Alex Guyton @GuyTonAlexAnder