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Patterson resigns from House

By Luke Money DAILY WILDCAT

Several weeks into a far-reaching ethics complaint about his conduct as a legislator, Rep. Daniel Patterson has officially resigned from the House of Representatives.

The House Ethics Committee voted unanimously to remove Patterson from office on Wednesday, and the full House was planning to vote on the issue later that afternoon.

Patterson submitted his letter of resignation to Speaker of the House Andy Tobin before the matter was called to a vote.

Patterson, who had represented

Legislative District 29 since 2009, was the subject of an ethics inquiry stemming from allegations of domestic abuse, charges he still Daniel faces. The re- Patterson port, compiled former state in part by princi- representative pal investigator Michael C. Manning, levies a variety of allegations against Patterson, including that he violated house rules and decorum and tampered with the alleged victim in his domestic

violence case.

In his resignation letter, Patterson wrote that he believes the ethics committee violated both house rules and his constitutional rights during the investigation, and that the whole process was “unfair.”

“The rights of Arizona voters and constituents in Tucson (Legislative District) 29 have been badly disrespected by the Ethics Committee,” Patterson wrote. “The will and decision of voters has been violated again by the House.”

Patterson has called the report “garbage” and released an official response to the allegations on Tuesday. In that response, Patterson

repeatedly asked for an opportunity to confront his accusers.

“The Manning report, which fails tests of what a true independent investigation should be, should be dismissed now,” Patterson wrote.

“Nearly all the claims in the Manning report are not substantiated.”

Patterson alleged that the report was akin to a “fishing expedition,” meant to find a reason to remove him from office and that the investigation was “far too liberal and broad” in scope.

According to the Arizona Revised Statutes, the Pima County Board of Supervisors will appoint a citizens’ committee to seek out three qualified

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candidates who are eligible to fill the vacancy. The board will then choose one of the three to serve out the remainder of the term. Since Patterson was an independent, all candidates must be registered independents in Pima County.

Per the statutes, that committee will be formed within the next three business days and then have seven days to choose the candidates. The board is expected to name an interim legislator within the next five days.

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Natyazhko, Turner leave basketball

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Bob Votruba holds his Boston Terrier, Bogart, while explaining his mission to Esther Gotlieb, an anthropology sophomore. Votruba aims to spread kindness around the nation through inspirational words both from him and quotes on his bus. To read more about Votruba and his cross-country trek, visit

DAILY WILDCAT Freshman guard Josiah Turner will leave the UA and transfer to another program, the school announced Wednesday. Center Kyryl Natyazhko will also leave the team to pursue a professional career in Europe.

Arizona now has one scholarship to spare for the 2012-13 season after it entered the day one above the limit of 12.

The Wildcats added two transfers, Duquesne guard T.J. McConnell and Cochise College forward Matt Korcheck, this offseason and are in the running for threestar guard Amedeo Della Valle.

Turner played in 29 of the Wildcats’ 35 games a year ago, starting 17 of them. The Sacramento, Calif., native is the second member of Arizona’s highly regarded 2011 recruiting class to leave the school after center Sidiki Johnson was dismissed from the team in December.

“I learned a lot in my year at Arizona and would like to thank my coaches, teammates and the fans for all of their support,” Turner said in the UA’s release.

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Spring Fling now in full swing

By Savannah Martin DAILY WILDCAT ASUA’s annual Spring Fling kicks off today at 4 p.m. and will continue into the weekend, with games, rides and snacks for all.

General admission costs $5, but is free with a valid CatCard or military identification. A free shuttle to the fair will be available to and from Old Main and Linkins Hall, and parking at the fair will cost $5.

Spring Fling began in 1974 and has grown to be the nation’s largest studentrun carnival, according to the Associated Students of the University of Arizona.

More than 25 attractions and 20 food booths brought at least 25,000 people to the event last year. While this year’s festivities will continue Spring Fling’s longstanding traditions, carnival-goers can expect some changes and new attractions as well.

For the first time in Spring Fling history, attendees can pay for their admission and tickets with credit cards, according to Brittany Steinke, a history senior and executive director of Spring Fling. The update was made along with several other service-oriented changes in an effort to address customer complaints, Steinke said.

Another enhanced feature of Spring Fling 2012 is the array of live performances. The carnival will showcase two

to three local acts each day, Steinke said, including the 1980s pop cover band, ‘80s and Gentlemen, which takes the stage on Saturday at 7 p.m. Children may find entertainment in the kid’s corner, which now features face painting and book readings.

Spring Fling brings the UA and Tucson community together, Steinke said. Thirty four student organizations from across the university and 19 sponsors from throughout the city will contribute to this year’s carnival.

“It’s so great for me to see the community partner with students,” Steinke said.

“We at Spring Fling know that this is not an event that could happen without Tucson.”

Also, as a not-for-profit fundraiser, all of the clubs and organizations participating keep all of the profits from their individual booths, Steinke said.

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Sander addresses funding issues, impact of streetcar at last town hall

By Elliot P. Hopper Daily Wildcat

UA President Eugene Sander addressed UA community members in his fourth and final town hall meeting on Wednesday to discuss funding issues, the Tucson Modern Streetcar project and the university’s future with incoming President Ann Weaver Hart.

There are two primary funding issues, Sander said — the first being disparity funding. Both the Arizona Board of Regents and the state Legislature approved funds for Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University in an attempt to make up for previously unfunded growth of the two schools, as well as level off their per-student funding.

Before legislators approved a proposal to give ASU and NAU $15.3 million total to fix a funding disparity among the three in-state universities in March, the UA ranked highest in funding per student.

Second, Sander said the UA is still waiting to hear from the Legislature about funds for its medical school in Phoenix. The funds in question, which could be anywhere from $9 million to $12 million, are aimed at expanding the school’s enrollment. Sander said he is worried that the funds will not come through. “I think if it goes below this figure, we will have to dig in our heels and tell them that it takes money to educate medical students,�

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Sander also said he proposed two other programs to the Legislature, and both were turned down immediately. One was a $4 million pro-

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UA President Eugene Sander held his last town hall meeting on Wednesday in the Kiva Room of the Student Union Memorial Center. Sander discussed a variety of topics, including streetcar construction.

posal for more professor-to-student outreach and the other was a $2.5 million proposal for more community college interaction, notably with Pima Community College. “It came down to just two things,� Sander said, “Disparity for the universities and the medical school for the University of Arizona.�

Sander also spoke about the Tucson Modern Streetcar project and its impact on and around campus. The streetcar will be vital in how the UA decides to grow, he said, in addition to its future ties with the downtown area. The UA conducts two graduate programs downtown — one in social and behavioral sciences and one

in landscape architecture.

Many audience members asked about the strengths and weaknesses of Ann Weaver Hart, the incoming UA president, who will start her term on July 1. Sander said Hart is doing her best to transition into her new position, but still must fulfill her duties as president of Temple University. Sander and Hart have not had a lot of time to talk, he said, aside from more than a few hours over dinner.

To help prepare Hart for her start at the UA, Sander said he asked the UA’s vice presidents to compile a report of their own strengths and weaknesses to share with Hart. The main thing Sander wants to relay to Hart, he said, is the importance of recruiting quality faculty. “A great university is made up of a great faculty,� Sander said. “What I have told people and professors looking to get their research out on the market is to write up a two-page proposal and send it to me, and I will do my best to get to it when I brief her.�

Sander reflected on the beginning of his term, saying that he remembers wanting to be president back in August but not knowing if the board would appoint him. He thanked UA football coach Rich Rodriguez for allowing him to be a part of the recruiting process, and said that he had the chance to speak with prospects about academics in addition to building the football program. “Rodriguez and I both agreed that if you come to this university as a student-athlete, there is a responsibility to you far beyond just being an athlete,� Sander said. “I spoke with the coach and said when we get to the Rose Bowl to save me a ticket.�

Legislature bans abortions Stipends, ties with 20 weeks after conception president’s office

By Will Ferguson Daily Wildcat

The window of time for Arizona women to get an abortion is a pen stroke away from shrinking.

The Arizona House of Representatives voted 38-22 to pass House Bill 2036 on Wednesday, seconding the state Senate’s vote of 20-10 to ban almost all abortions 20 weeks after conception. Arizona will join six other states with similar legislation if Gov. Jan Brewer decides to sign the bill into law.

Currently, abortions can be performed up to a month after the 20week period.

Supporters of the bill argue this extra time puts a woman’s life in greater danger. They also claim a fetus can feel pain at this point. “This is about protecting maternal health and preventing pain,� said Republican Rep. Kimberly Yee of Legislative District 10, who is also the bill’s sponsor in the House.

Paul Liu, a pediatrician and anesthesiologist at Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s pediatric intensive-care unit, gave testimony in support of the bill. He told legislators by 20 weeks, an unborn fetus has developed pain receptors over its body. In addition, he said there are measurable changes in blood pressure and hormones when a fetus is exposed to painful external stimuli such as a needle.

Yee said she hopes the bill will reduce the number of late-stage abortions. Nearly 200 such procedures were performed in Arizona in 2011, according to statistics from the Arizona Department of Health

Services.

Many women who choose to receive a late-term abortion decide at some stage that it’s because they can’t afford a baby, she said. “There were women who came to our committee and said ‘Well, you know if a woman can’t afford to have a baby they should be able to abort it,’� she said. “There were some who said it would cramp their lifestyle.�

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She said 82 percent of women in Arizona who discover their baby might have Down syndrome choose to terminate their pregnancies. “What message is this sending to those who have special needs?� she asked. “Shouldn’t they have an opportunity to live just like anyone else?�

Those against the bill claimed the Legislature is crossing the line from setting policy to practicing medicine.

Cecil Ash, a House Republican who is anti-abortion, voted against the bill. He said he believes wom-

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en are entitled to know and fully understand the consequences of their decisions. However, he said when the state begins directing the course of action a patient and doctor must take, based on an arbitrary time line, it is time for legislators to back off. “I was actually going to vote yes on the bill,� he said. “Then I got a call from a high-risk pregnancy doctor in Scottsdale who convinced me otherwise.�

He said because many fetal anomalies are discovered near the 20-week cutoff, it does not give women the time to make the difficult decision as to whether or not to end a pregnancy. “This is a decision not for the Legislature, but for the couple in consultation with their physician,� he said. “It’s a decision that shouldn’t be rushed by legislative mandate.�

Ash pointed out that the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a professional association of practicing obstetricians and gynecologists, has taken an official stance against the bill. The organization claims the 20-week ban does not provide enough time for a pregnant patient to develop abnormalities that could present serious health risks.

In addition to preventing most abortions after 20 weeks, the bill requires that a woman have the opportunity to view her unborn baby via ultrasound and listen to its heartbeat 24 hours prior to the procedure. The state will also be required to maintain an extensive website showing alternatives to abortion as well as pictures of fetal development.

By Stewart McClintic Daily Wildcat

The ASUA Senate discussed its future relationship with the Office of the President, in addition to the stipend amount for incoming senators at its meeting on Wednesday.

Jacqueline Mok, senior vice president of Academic Affairs and provost, came to the meeting to share her appreciation for the Senate’s involvement in the UA community. She also told them how grateful she is to be part of the team working with the Associated Students of the University of Arizona to help better the campus for students, faculty, staff and administrators.

With a new UA president arriving in July, Sen. Erik Lundstrom asked Mok what to expect of the transition from one president to another. Mok said that the transition should “barely be noticeable� because students have been so instrumental in helping welcome president-elect Ann Weaver Hart.

Because so many students were on the presidential search committee that eventually picked Hart, the student voice was represented, Mok said. This, she said, should allow for a smooth transition.

Hart is a great listener and will “listen with her ears, brain

and eyes,� Mok said. Hart will be “deeply involved� with the concerns of students as well as do her best to make their voices heard, Mok added.

In addition to having students fully represented in the university’s administration, the newly elected senators discussed stipend decreases with the current senators.

Sen. Chad Travis said he wanted to lower senator stipends by $100 next year because the money should fund underrepresented positions with lower stipends in the ASUA office.

ASUA President James Allen disagreed and said there is no need to lower the stipends.

Although he said he understands Travis’ argument, lowering stipends would hurt the Senate as a whole in the future. The stipends have already been lowered quite significantly over the past few years, Allen said, and if the motion were to pass, there would be no reason that future senators wouldn’t feel the same pressure to keep lowering them.

Allen said it is unlikely that any of the senators would vote to raise the stipends, and the amount Travis proposed to take away from the stipends is insignificant in the grand scheme of things.

The Senate voted not to lower the stipends, and set them at $1,400 per senator next year.

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Ahmed Ben Bella, father of Algerian independence, dies at 95 years old MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

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Special Prosecutor Angela B. Corey holds a press conference announcing that she is filing charges for second-degree murder against George Zimmerman, the shooter in the Trayvon Martin case, in Jacksonville, Fla., on Wednesday. Zimmerman is in the custody of law enforcement at this time.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Special Prosecutor Angela Corey announced Wednesday evening that Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman has been charged in the death of Trayvon Martin.

Corey announced a second-degree murder charge at the State Attorney’s Office in Jacksonville, more than six weeks after Martin and Zimmerman’s fatal encounter.

If convicted, Zimmerman would face up to life in prison.

“The team here with me has worked tirelessly looking for answers in Trayvon Martin’s death,” Corey said, introducing her prosecutors and investigators.

Corey added that “we do not prosecute by public pressure.” She said that her office handles all cases the same way, regardless of the scrutiny.

“We will continue to seek the truth in this case,” Corey said. “There is a reason cases are tried in a court of law.”

Corey confirmed that a warrant was issued for Zimmerman’s arrest, and

that he is in custody. She declined to say what evidence her office has that would counter his self-defense claim.

She also declined to reveal Zimmerman’s location.

At one point during the news conference, Corey recounted her first meeting with Martin’s parents. She said her prosecution team and an attorney for the teen’s parents also attended.

“We opened our meeting in prayer,” Corey said.

She said she didn’t promise Martin’s parents anything.

At the Washington convention center where Martin’s parents are expected to speak Wednesday night, a crowd of about 40 had gathered around a hallway TV to hear the decision by the special prosecutor.

When she said they would pursue second-degree murder, many in the group erupted in applause.

Soon after Corey’s announcement, the Rev. Al Sharpton addressed the crowd.

“We don’t want anyone high-fiving tonight. There was no winner tonight,”

Sharpton said. “This is not about gloating. This is about pursuing justice.”

Said Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump: “This is only first base.”

Meanwhile, Zimmerman has retained a new lawyer. Veteran Central Florida attorney Mark O’Mara will represent him, CNN legal analyst Mark NeJame confirmed.

NeJame, himself a prominent local lawyer, also confirmed that Zimmerman is in the custody of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Zimmerman, a former altar boy whose dream was to become a police officer, shot and killed Martin, a high school junior, on a rainy evening Feb. 26 in Sanford.

The teen from Miami had been returning from a nearby 7-Eleven, where he bought a can of iced tea and a bag of Skittles, when he was spotted by Zimmerman in the Retreat at Twin Lakes, a gated community where he was staying with his father’s fiancee.

Zimmerman was in his SUV on his way to Target when he called police, telling them Martin seemed suspicious.

PARIS — Algeria’s first post-independence president, Ahmed Ben Bella, who died Wednesday at the age of 95, was a charismatic revolutionary who fought alongside the French during World War II before becoming a hero of his own country’s liberation struggle.

Ben Bella was born in the town of Maghnia on the Algerian/Moroccan border in December 1916. Algeria was, at the time, a French colony.

He was called up for military service during World War II, serving first in Marseille, where he briefly played with Olympique Marseille soccer team, and later in Italy, where his bravery saw him decorated by Gen. Charles de Gaulle.

France’s liberation from Nazi Germany emboldened Algerians to make their own claim on independence. But any illusions they had that France would readily relinquish its last overseas prize were quickly shattered.

Pro-independence demonstrations in 1944 in the northern town of Setif — in which scores of Europeans were killed — met with fierce reprisals. French aircraft bombarded the region, killing about 1,000 Algerians according to the colonial authorities of the day — or several times that, according to Algerian nationalists.

Shocked by the brutality of the French, Ben Bella threw himself into the struggle for independence.

In 1948 he took part in the holdup of a post office in the city of Oran, to raise funds for the nationalist Special Organization. He was arrested and sentenced to eight years in prison but escaped and made his way to Egypt.

In 1954, he and eight others founded the National Liberation Front, which began a war for independence in November that year.

Two years later, French authorities

caught up with four of the nine, including Ben Bella, as they were flying over Algeria. The French forced them to land in Algiers and hauled them off to prison on the mainland for the rest of the war.

They were released in March 1962, after de Gaulle — who was back in power after a hiatus — agreed to a peace deal with the FLN. The tall, softly spoken Ben Bella returned to Algeria shortly afterward, where he was mobbed by ecstatic flag-waving crowds.

With the support of Gen. Houari Boumediene, Ben Bella moved quickly to take control of the country, becoming president and prime minister of an impoverished desert state that he ran along socialist lines.

Wedded to his rural roots, he focused his efforts on uplifting peasant farmers. But his results were mixed, his authoritarian style caused discontent and corruption was rife.

Under cover of darkness on June 18, 1965, Boumediene took control of Algiers and arrested Ben Bella, who spent the next 15 years in detention.

After his release in 1980 he took to touring the world and championing a variety of causes.

In 1990, he returned to Algeria at the head of the Algerian Democratic Movement, or MDA, a party he founded in exile, but his dreams of a comeback came to naught.

The MDA failed to win a single seat in the country’s first multi-party elections in 1991. The elections led to a decade-long civil war after the second round was canceled to prevent the Islamic Salvation Front from coming to power.

Ben Bella spoke out repeatedly in favor of reconciliation. For his efforts, he was given a seat on a Panel of the Wise within the African Union, which is tasked with trying to resolve conflicts.

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n my two years covering the Arizona Board of Regents for the Daily Wildcat, I’ve learned one thing above all else: You can’t separate education from politics in Arizona — partly because nobody seems to genuinely want to.

Take Greg Patterson, a former Republican state representative and current blogger at Espresso Pundit. He is Gov. Jan Brewer’s nominee to fill an open position on the Arizona Board of Regents.

Patterson has come under fire by some at the capitol because of his views on higher education that he has repeatedly and publicly declared on his blog. In the past, Patterson has questioned the value of some degrees, particularly those in the social sciences such as sociology, psychology, history and journalism.

Patterson falls into the same regrettable rut that seems to have captured so many of Arizona’s legislators. He fails to see that sometimes the point of higher education is to, well, get educated. Colleges and universities are not meant to be some kind of academic assembly line constantly churning out slighty-more-educated-thanaverage individuals to work in the middle management salt mines.

They’re meant to be places that push the paradigm of critical thinking. Sure, not all of us can be biochemists or engineers, but we can all better ourselves by learning how to think in different ways and challenging the people around us to do the same. You know, if we can afford it.

Patterson has raised solid points about the cost-to-benefit ratio of a college degree. It’s true that those students who waste away trying to learn something unmarketable like teaching are at a significant economic disadvantage to their peers. Maybe it doesn’t behoove someone to incur tens of thousands of dollars in debt to pursue a career path that will never pay them more than a pittance.

But maybe that’s not the universities’ problem. Maybe it’s the fault of a Legislature that is far more interested in the bottom line than what happens down the line, when any of the scholastic stalwarts that could have offered benefit to this stagnating state have gone to greener and more supportive pastures. Maybe it should be a priority for a state to offer its populace access to education that is as affordable as possible, like the Arizona Constitution says it should. Then, who knows? Perhaps someone could graduate from college with an average of $18,545 in loan debt, like Arizona students did according to a 2011 report from the Project on Student Debt.

But in order to bring this rosy picture into focus, Arizona’s universities need someone on the board of regents who is willing to stand up in the face of continued pressure from the Legislature.

That someone is not a person who places the economic value of an education over its intrinsic value.

Appointing someone who has repeatedly questioned the value of higher education to a board that oversees the administration of higher education for an entire state is like appointing a Scientologist to the American Board of Psychiatry. It’s shortsighted at best and asinine at worst.

— Luke Money is the editor in chief. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

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own. With almost 80 percent of the U.S. using the Internet, according to World Bank data, it seems that telling those millions of people not to say anything offensive is a waste of breath.

There’s a way for a similar piece of legislation to regulate Internet bullies without sounding like overprotective parents, with heavy edits to its subjective language. The free speech given to Americans in the First Amendment of the Constitution allows us to be heard.

Whether we offend, annoy or intimidate someone is irrelevant.

And if that’s allowed in print or in voice, the same concept should apply on the Internet.

Cyberstalking, cyberbullying and a host of other online issues are serious. But annoying, offensive or intimidating language is not in the same category as threatening or defamatory language. The bill needs to target only defamatatory language, and the websites who use it, rather than one state of Internet users.

— Caroline Nachazel is a junior studying journalism and communication. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but Dear Danielle Carpenter, upon probable cause, supported I agree with the article you

by Oath or affirmation, and wrote titled “Elderly need to particularly describing the place stop driving.” The Motor Vehicle — Joe Mosely to be searched, and the persons or Department needs to come up things to be seized.” with a standard to determine if a Think about why this was — Maria Melanie Alcaide, In response to the April 9 senior is still eligible to drive. written — it was because the San Jose, Calif. column titled “Police justified Although I agree that the government was going on fishing in utilizing cellphone location Motor Vehicle Department needs expeditions and harassing tracking”: to come up with standards for innocent people.

No one is saying that the seniors regarding their eligibility Opponents of the Bill of Rights police should not be able to to be able to drive safe, it is not In response to the April 5 generally have one weapon: fear. use cell phone tracking or right to assume all elderly are not column titled “If you want a job, other technology to investigate “Let the government do whatever fit to drive. Some elders, even delete your Facebook”: it wants, or the bad guys will come crimes. They’re saying that at the age of 70 or even older “It’s a major invasion of privacy for the government to access and get you.” are still capable to drive on the but there seems to be no way to When the writer says, “The information that reveals a lot of street safely just like any other escape it.”

United States is a country of private info about you, it needs people. Even the statistics that you Well, one way would be to make to get a warrant by explaining to household alarm systems and provided that “elders accounted requiring an applicant to hand gated sub-developments. This is a judge explaining why you are for only 14 percent of driver over their passwords against the a blessing that we often take for suspected of a crime. And even fatalities in 1999” proves that they law. Rep. Perlmutter proposed granted,” I’m not really sure what the ACLU supports an exception are not the high risk of reason for exactly that, but his amendment she’s getting at — is she saying to this rule for emergencies, driving fatalities. failed in the House http://www. that we should feel lucky that like finding a missing person.

Since the elderly population is pcworld.com/article/252837/ we’re so safe because we have I’m thinking that you are not expected to grow, I suggest that facebook_password_amendment_ so familiar with the Fourth high security? If so, that’s a very a standardized test for hearing, rejected_by_congress.html. sad and sheltered view of the Amendment, so here it is: vision and memory should be Obviously, information in the world.

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people around them but also for themselves. The Motor Vehicle Departments across the United States should develop a plan to address the issue regarding seniors eligibility to continue to have a driver’s license.

just as we would not expect to hand over our diary to a potential employer, so too should we retain some privacy in our personal accounts.

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Police Beat

By Elliot P. Hopper Daily Wildcat

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A librarian from the Main Library called the University of Arizona Police Department after she saw a man she knew was suspended from the library enter the building at 6:43 p.m. on Tuesday. She told officers that the man was homeless and she remembered that UAPD had suspended him from the library for six months. Officers arrived at the scene and found the man in a corner using a computer.

They then spoke with the librarian, and she told officers that she has asked him many times to stay away from the computers because he watches porn on them. Officers looked at the history on the man’s computer and found no pornographic material. Officers told the man that he was not allowed to be in the library, and that it is illegal to watch porn in public. They then asked him for his driver’s license, and scanned it into their system. Officers noticed the Tucson Police Department had a warrant out for his arrest. They cited the man for his warrant and placed his personal items into UAPD Property and Evidence.

Knock out

An individual called UAPD after watching a woman fall unconcious on 1340 E. Second Street at 8:47 p.m. on Tuesday. Officers and paramedics from the Tucson Fire Department arrived at the scene and asked her if she was OK. Paramedics asked if they could take her to the University of Arizona Medical Center, but she refused. She told the officers and paramedics that she was walking back from a softball game when she saw a car leaving a nearby parking garage.

She then walked into the garage, and as the gate lowered, it hit her directly on the head. She fell, and paramedics noticed lacerations on her knees and face. Officers took photographs of her lacerations and told her not to walk under the gate. Her husband eventually arrived on the scene and the officers and paramedics left.

Stumbling around

UAPD officers were on patrol when they noticed a woman stumbling on a sidewalk near Cherry Avenue and First Street at 12:16 a.m. on Tuesday. Officers pulled up to the woman but she continued to stumble forward. Officers then turned on their emergency lights to try to get her attention, but were still unsuccessful. The officers got out of their car and asked the woman to stop, turn around and sit on the curb. As she went to sit down, she fell over.

Officers asked her for her driver’s license. She gave it to them and said, “Here you go.” Officers immediately noticed a strong smell of alcohol coming from her breath. She told officers that she had been drinking at a “kid’s” house, and had several drinks earlier that night. She also told them she drinks alcohol at least once a week. Officers cited her for minor in possession of alcohol in body and took her home.

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Spring Fling 2012 Thursday, April 12, 4 p.m. 12 a.m. There’s nothing else like it! Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s Spring Fling is back again! Started back in 1974, Spring Fling has become an iconic event by providing carnival rides, games, food booths and entertainment to both the University of Arizona and Tucson communities. Spring Fling is the largest student-run carnival in the nation, attracting more than 25,000 people last year. Spring Fling provides more than 25 rides and games for attendees and more than 20 different food booths offering corn dogs to crab puffs. Spring Fling is organized and planned by eight student directors and countless University of Arizona student volunteers to bring fun and excitement to the Tucson community, while raising money for UA clubs and organizations. On April 12 and 13, bring a donation of four cans of food for the Community Food Bank and get $5 off a Spring Fling wristband. The wristband, which normally costs $25, allows for unlimited rides.

Admission: $5 (free with CatCard or military ID); $5 parking; ride/game tickets and food additional Rillito Downs, First Avenue and River Road Dedication Ceremony for Tucson’s Modern Streetcar Thursday, April 12, 11 a.m. East of the Keating-Bio5 Institute Building, near Warren Avenue and Helen Street Parking is available in the Highland Avenue garage.

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Lecture by Frank Zimring Thursday, April 12, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. Franklin Zimring is a member of the American Society of Criminology and has been on the faculty of the University of California School of Law since 1985. His new book, “The City That Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control,” details the strategies and techniques implemented to decrease New York’s crime rate. Zimring will discuss why the 40 percent drop in crime that occurred across the United States from 1991 to 2000 remains largely an unsolved mystery. Even more puzzling is the 80 percent drop over 19 years in New York City. Twice as long and twice as large, it is the largest crime decline on record. New York teaches that targeted harm reduction strategies can drastically cut down on drug-related violence even if illegal drug use remains high. And New York has proven that epidemic levels of violent crime are not hard-wired into the populations or cultures of urban America. Social Sciences Room: 100 Arizona Repertory Theatre Presents ‘Bat Boy: The Musical’ Wednesday, April 12, 7:30 p.m. Borne from the 1992 headlines of The Weekly World News, this satirical musical tells the astonishing story of a half-bat, half-human boy and his struggle for love and acceptance in a world that snubs him. Admission: General: $28, Senior/Military/UA Employee: $26, Student: $19 Tornabene Theatre

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Campus Events

Talk - ‘Wallace Berman and Materiality in 1960s Los Angeles’ Thursday, April 12, 5:30 p.m. Kenneth D. Allan’s research focuses on the rise of the Los Angeles art scene in the 1960s and has included the work and influence of Wallace Berman. A central figure in development of the postwar Los Angeles art world as the editor of the journal “Semina,” Berman’s work spanned the media of photography, collage, assemblage sculpture and film. This talk by Allan will consider how Berman’s interest in the history of radio technology, Jewish mysticism and ideas of transmission and reception come together in his later work with stones and Hebrew lettering inspired by a prized 1923 book in his library, “The Story of Modern Science Vol. IX: RadioMastery of the Ether.” His recent publications include essays for the Getty Museum catalog, “Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art,19451980.” Center for Creative Photography Room: Auditorium ‘Speaking in Tongues: Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, 1961-1976’ This exhibition, curated by Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam brings the work of Berman and Heinecken ‒ two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists ‒ into close conversation for the very first time.

Each helped usher in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California. The Center for Creative Photography began acquiring the Robert Heinecken Archive in 1981. A detailed guide to the Heinecken Archive can be found on the CCP website. Center for Creative Photography. Room: Gallery. March 27, 2012 - June 17, 2012

Campus Events

You are cordially invited to participate in a Military Culture and Sensitivity Training Workshop. April 12, 12:30pm -2:30pm. The training will include the general training workshop and a session on how to train others on this information so that you can train members of your college on how to be aware and sensitive to military culture. This training was developed by the Arizona Coalition for Military Families. Disability Resource Center room 207b.

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Frida Kahlo: Through the Lens of Nickolas Muray. March 13, 2012 -June 03, 2012 140 N. Main Ave., 520-6242333 The Tucson Museum of Art presents an intimate look at Mexico’s prolific and well-known artist Frida Kahlo through the photographic lens of her lover/friend Nickolas Muray.

San Xavier Mission Guided Tours March 09, 2012 - September 27, 2014. 1950 W. San Xavier Road. 520-294-2624 Docents lead 45-minute tours of the National Historic Landmark, Monday - Saturday, and explain the mission’s rich history and ornate interior that includes painted murals and original statuary. Monday –Saturday 10am-1pm.

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Long trek led Ndiaye to Tucson Sophomore linebacker traveled rare road to find football success

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MLB San Diego 2, Arizona 1

NHL Playoffs Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 3 f/ot

Nashville 3, Detroit 2

Turner starts the season opener against Valparaiso.

Turner is removed from the starting lineup after showing up late to a pregame workout.

Turner is suspended and doesn’t travel to Gainesville, Fla. The Wildcats lost to No. 12 Florida 78-72 in overtime.

Turner’s bullet pass to Jesse Perry with less than a minute to play gives Arizona a two-point lead on the road against Washington State.

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By Mike Schmitz Daily Wildcat

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n 2009, John Lee Hancock’s “The Blind Side” took the entertainment industry by storm, earning an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture while raking in $57.5 million in just five days.

With the help of Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, Hancock depicted the life of Michael Oher, who transformed from a troubled and homeless child into an AllAmerican offensive lineman and eventual first-round pick for the Baltimore Ravens.

Hancock could make another quick $50 million by hopping on a flight to Arizona’s Jimenez Practice Facility, because the Wildcats have their own version of Oher in 6-foot-4, 220-pound linebacker Dame Ndiaye.

In 18 short years (he turns 19 on Friday) Ndiaye has dealt with being poor and struggling in his native Senegal, living in the projects of Brooklyn, N.Y., being a homeless student at Hoover High School in San Diego, Calif., to now contending for a spot at linebacker under Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez.

“I never thought I would be here, especially playing football.

It’s crazy,” Ndiaye said. “Everything is new to me, that’s why I think of it as a marathon. If I just keep working and getting better it’s going to be so easy for me.”

That would be a first, because it seems like nothing has come easily for Ndiaye.

He grew up with his mother in Senegal where food and water came at a premium. After eight years there, Ndiaye moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., to live with his father.

It was there, in one of the world’s hoops hotspots, that Ndiaye developed a love for basketball. He idolized Kobe Bryant for his work ethic and wanted to one day be like the Black Mamba.

“My goal was to be in the NBA,” Ndiaye said. “I worked at it countlessly.”

Ndiaye made his first step in pursuing that goal when he left New York on a plane by himself to San Diego’s Hoover High School, known for enrolling underprivileged kids.

In San Diego, Ndiaye lived with different friends or family members on a seemingly week-to-week basis. He had almost no stability

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turner transfers wednesday april 11, 2012 Mike Schmitz Daily Wildcat

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emember when Josiah Turner was mentioned in the same breath as Marquis Teague and Tony Wroten Jr.?

Remember worrying about what Arizona would do if Turner left Tucson for the NBA after one season?

Well, Turner left, but it certainly didn’t end up being in the one-and-done fashion everyone expected.

After announcing that he’ll transfer on Wednesday, the Josiah Turner era will now end just like Arizona’s 2011-12 season did — with massive disappointment.

The former five-star recruit and No. 2 point guard in the country didn’t even come close to meeting the astronomical expectations that were placed on him when he committed to Sean Miller and the Wildcats.

While the freshmen point guards he was compared to shined on the grandest of stages last season, Turner couldn’t even stay out of Miller’s doghouse.

Teague is now a national champion. Wroten is a potential lottery pick in this year’s draft. Arkansas point guard BJ Young averaged 15.3 points per game and didn’t miss a game all season.

Turner, on the other hand, couldn’t stay on the court, is unsure of where he’ll play next and his NBA prospects are looking more and more grim by the day.

But despite all of the disappointment Turner drove into the hearts of Arizona fans by teasing them with alley-oop passes only to commit a senseless turnover the next play, the Wildcats will sorely miss Turner next season.

Sure, he couldn’t shake his high school habits and had a questionable work ethic. Yes, he only scored in double digits five times all season, never registered more than seven assists in a game and was oftentimes a turnover waiting to happen.

But even with all that said, Arizona is more or less point guard-less without Turner. For all of the headaches he caused Miller throughout the season, Arizona needs the 6-foot-3, 192-pounder next year.

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Softball blows by Pac-12 newcomer

Bondurant set to thrive in Arizona’s new defense

Wildcats sweep Utah as No. 1 California looms this weekend

By Zack Rosenblatt Daily Wildcat

Tra’Mayne Bondurant is not a defensive back. Tra’Mayne Bondurant is not a linebacker.

At 5-foot-10, 208-pounds, the sophomore doesn’t have the size to be classified at any position, at least not in the traditional sense of the word.

Tra’Mayne Bondurant is a playmaker.

“Tra’Mayne makes plays, you saw him last year — he’s just a ballhawk,” linebacker Jake Fischer said.

“He’s great at breaking off the ball and just great in coverage. He’s not afraid to step up and hit somebody. I wish we had a few more Tra’Mayne’s because the kid flies around and makes plays every game.”

In new defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel’s newly installed 3-3-5 defense, Bondurant’s role will be more defined, sort of. The sophomore will play the “spur” position, which head coach Rich Rodriguez described as a hybrid between an outside linebacker and a safety.

“The 3-3-5 is a great defense, I love it,” Bondurant said. “I love the whole concept of it — you get to make a lot of plays. I mean it gets everybody involved, you get an opportunity to

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Arizona sophomore Tra’Mayne Bondurant will play the “spur” position in first-year defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel’s 3-3-5 scheme.

make plays, to make big hits.”

Making plays is Bondurant’s favorite thing to do, and the “spur” position gives him an even better opportunity to do so.

“It is a playmaking position, you gotta do everything,” Bondurant said. “You have to be ready to take on linemen, tight ends. You also gotta be ready to cover. Its role is very

big, one of the most important roles on the defense. Playing that position, coach gave me an opportunity, so I feel responsible and I just want to go out there and play it as hard as I can.”

Rodriguez understands that putting all of that onto the shoulders

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The third and final game of Arizona softball’s series went as well as the first two with a 4-2 win over Utah on Wednesday at Hillenbrand Stadium.

The game marked UA head coach Mike Candrea’s 1,300th win, making him the fastest coach, and second ever, to reach that number.

The game started off quickly for both teams, as a first-inning double from Utah’s Katelyn Elliott drove in a runner, Kelsi Hoopiiaina, who reached base via an illegal pitch call after grounding out to third base, putting the Utes up 1-0 before the Wildcats stepped into the batter’s box.

“You don’t ever overshadow a win,” Candrea said. “It feels good to get a victory. There are always positives.”

Arizona’s (28-10, 7-5 Pac-12) Brigette Del Ponte kept her hot streak alive, knocking a RBI single past the third baseman and tying the game at one before Kristen Arriola slapped a single that reached the outfield wall and drove in two — putting the Wildcats up 3-1.

Del Ponte went 5-for-9 with a double, two home runs, six RBI, and four runs scored in the series.

Utah added another run in the third inning, narrowing the lead to just one.

All-American pitcher Kenzie Fowler (12-3) was pulled in favor of sophomore Babcock after giving up three hits and two earned runs in four innings. Babcock was able to pick up her first save of the season in the final three innings.

Offensively, from the second inning until the bottom of the sixth, the energy seemed to be sucked out of the Wildcats, and Candrea noticed.

“We did enough to win, and that’s all I can say,” he said. “I can’t say that we played great softball. If we bring the same energy to the ballpark we did today (against Cal this weekend), we’re going to get our ass kicked.”

The lull ended in the bottom of the sixth following back-to-back errors in the top of the inning from usual defensive standouts Shelby Pendley and Del Ponte.

Arriola stepped to the plate and whacked her fifth home run of the season, extending the Arizona lead to two runs.

“Boo (Arriola) is a kid that is on track all the time,” Candrea said. “She’s nononsense, she’s always prepared. Good things happen when you do that.”

The Wildcats start a three game road series against No. 1 Cal on Friday, the toughest matchup they’ve had all season.

“It’s sitting right in front of them,” Candrea said. “Life is full of choices, and they’ve got a choice to make. We just have to make the choice to play the game with some toughness, some drive, and some competitiveness, or it’s going to get tough.”

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Furnished or unfurnished.1BD from $610, 2BD from $825, 3BD from $1100. Pool/ laundry. 746 E 5th St. Shown by appointment 751‑ 4363 or 409‑3010 2BD $675/ 3BD $775. 24mo lease w/2mo free per summer. Gated community. Also corporate suites available, inquire price. Columbus Village 747-7524 2BDrm 4Blocks to UofA. Tastefully remodeled, light, modern and spotlessly clean. Qui‑ et, well‑maintained, 6unit building, w/patios. Cats OK. Laundry.

Owner managed. Available Au‑ gust 1 $765/mo. 623‑9565. More info & 80 photos: http://www.pip‑ pelproperties.com/860 cHArmiNg coNDo for rent.

2miles UofA. 2Br w/balconies, 2bth, office room, new appliances, washer and dryer, patio, 2covered parking +visitor parking. Spotless clean. Campbell/Glenn. Contact 520‑906‑2325 lArgE stUDios 6Blocks UofA, 1125 N. 7th Ave. Walled yard, security gate, doors, windows, full bath, kitchen. Free wi/fi. $380. 977‑4106 sunstoneapts@aol.com qUAlity AfforDABlE stU‑ DENt housing. Check us out: www.ashton-goodman.com rEsErvE NoW for summer/ fall. 1bdrm furnished $435/mo summer only. $510/mo on a year’s lease. $535/mo for 9 months in August. University Arms. Clean, quiet, convenient, 3blocks cam‑ pus. 623‑0474. www.ashton‑good‑ man.com roommAtE mAtcH & iNDv. leases. FREE dish & WIFI. Pets, pool, spa, fitness & game rooms, comp. lab, cvrd park & shuttle.

520‑623‑6600. www.gatewayattucson.com sAm HUgHEs plAcE luxury 2BD/ 2BA, AC, Washer/ Dryer owner/agent (520)370‑4640 siErrA poiNtE ApArtmENts‑ $99 Moves you ‑ in w/1 Month FREE! Remodeled 1&2 bedroom apartments. Rent Includes: inter‑ net, cable, A/c, Heat, Water, sewer, & trash. Pet friendly & quiet. Limited availability! 520‑ 323‑1170. Grant/Tucson Blvd. www.tucsonstudentliving.com. stUDios from $400 spacious apartment homes with great downtown location. 884‑8279.

Blue Agave Apartments 1240 N. 7th Ave. speedway/stone. www.blueagaveapartments.‑ com UofA coNvENiENt, lArgE 1BD 1920s duplex, wood floors, ceiling fans, fireplace. $435/mo, lease, deposit, no pets. 682‑7728.

footHills coNDo ‑20 miN‑ UtEs from the University! Full tile 2bd/ 2ba with vaulted ceil‑ ings! Within walking distance to Sabino Canyon. Contact: tucson‑ rental@yahoo.com for further information! sAm HUgHEs plAcE luxury 2BD/ 2BA, AC, Washer/ Dryer owner/agent (520)370‑4640

! 2BD/ 2BA lUxUry Sam Hughes Place. AC, Washer/Dryer, Stainless Steel Appliances, Cov‑ ered Balcony over looking Champi‑ onship dining, surround sound, blackout window coverings, fire‑ place. Owner/agent (520)3704640

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AmAziNg 3BEDroom, 3BAtH home with 2car garage available for August 2012. Large great room, dining area, spacious bedrooms, big closets. Private parking. Awesome 2story floor plan. $1650. Call (520)245‑5604

! 4Blks to UofA. 2Bdrm. $775.

Hardwood floors, private patio, laundry. All in quiet gated court‑ yard. Serious students only. No Pets. Available June. 520‑743‑ 2060. www.tarolaproperties.com.

2BD/ 1BA 750sqft. A/C, D/W, W/D. Carport storage, small fenced backyard. Unfurnished.

New kitchen and tile floors. Cats OK. $775/mo w/lease, water paid only. 1422 N Mountain. 4blocks UofA & UMC. 909‑4766

2Br 1BA, WAlkiNg distance, 1321N. First Ave., water paid, in‑ ternet access, $650/mo, +deposit, flexible terms. Call 520‑370‑8588 or 886‑1445 4BD/ 2BA fABUloUs property w/green grass & tall trees behind UMC. 3carports, fireplace, gas, bbq, A/C, and evap. cooling, D/W and laundry. Only $2,000/mo, available Aug. 1st. 1418 E. Adams (520)240‑2615. rEmoDElED Historic BUilD‑ iNg, 2bd/2ba, stainless steel appli‑ ances, assigned parking, wood floors $1500, 745 E 1st St, REDI Management 520‑623‑2566 WAlk to clAss! 1bd duplex, A/C, wood floors, water paid, avail‑ able 08/01/2012 $750, 741 E 1st St #1 REDI Management 520‑ 623‑2566

5Blks to UofA. Studio $440.

1BR $520. Priv Parkg lot. Security wall. AC. Quiet. No pets/No smok‑ ing/Unfurn. 822 E. Lee St. UofAapts.com. 490-0050.

!!!!!!! 6BDrm 6.5BAtH each has own WHIRLPOOL tub‑shower.

Just a few blocks from campus.

4car GARAGE, walk-in closets, all Granite counters, large outside bal‑ conies off bedrooms, very large master suites, high ceilings. TEP Electric discount. Monitored secu‑ rity system. 884-1505 www.MyUofARental.com !!!!!!!!! 3‑ 5 BD Houses preleasing for August 2012! All homes are new or remodeled w/AC! See www.PrestigiousUofArentals.com for pictures, floorplans, virtual tours, and information. Call Jarrett @520-331-8050 (Owner/Agent) UofA Alumni to schedule showing appt! !!!!!!!!!

ABsolUtEly gor‑ gEoUs New 5Bedroom houses @$2500/mo ($500/bdrm). Now Reserving for August 2012 Move‑ in. Conveniently located to UA at 2550 E. Water Street (Grant and Tucson Blvd).

Washer/dryer, zoned A/C, Alarm System, lighted ceiling fans, stainless appliances, private fenced back yard, plus more. Check out the floor plan at http://www.UniversityRentalInfo.‑ com/water‑floorplans.php and call 520-747-9331 to see one.

All UtilitiEs pAiD, fenced yd $300 ALSO 1bd unattached, A/C, ceramic tile, water pd $570 REDI 520‑623‑5710 or log on to www.azredirentals.com

!!!!!!!!!! #1 2Br, 3br, 4br homes.

Walk or bike to UofA. Quality living and homes. Large airy homes. call 310.497.4193 or wildcatrentals@gmail.com

cool stUDio AvAilABlE now for summer or next year. $500 OBO. 9blks north of campus. W/D, AC. Available 5/1 (520)909‑4334

!!!!!!!!!!!! 1,2,3,4 Bedrooms.

Quality Energy Efficient Homes. All within 1.5miles of campus. fenced yard, patio, call for price. 520.333.4125. info@ collegediggz.com

UA‑ 2Blocks‑ sAm Hughes.

Small studio, A/C, enclosed patio, $375/mo water included, small pet OK, available now. 522 N. Olsen call 577-7773

$1250, 4BD, 1305 E. Waverly #1 (Grant/ Mountain) fenced yard, covered patio, fp, approx 1679sqft, AC, 881‑ 0930 view pictures at www.prestigepropertymgmt.com

! 8BEDroom 7BAtH HoUsE with over 3100sf. HUGE bed‑ rooms, lots of open living area, large fenced yard, vaulted ceilings, fireplace, 2W/D, large kitchen with big breakfast bar. This is the best house you can find for you and your friends. So many extras. www.casabonitarentals.com (520)‑ 398-5738

$800‑ $2400 fy12! 3,4 &5bdrm, BRAND NEW homes! 1mi to UofA, A/C, Gar & all appl. incl. www.GoldenWestManagement.‑ com 520‑790‑0776

!! NEW! prEtty! 3BR 2.5BA A/C, $1340/Mo, 1.1mi to UA & UMC, fhkwong2001@gmail.com

1BEAUtifUl 4BDrm HoUsE w/private pool, updated. Over 2000sqft. All appliances, $2500.

Great location, close to campus.

Ceramic tiles throughout. 4bdrm 2ba very close to campus. hard‑ wood floors. plenty of parking. up‑ dated kitchen $2000/month 10th and Highland. Call Nita 520-3120857

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AWEsomE 5BDrm HoUsEs from $2000/mo ($400/bdrm), several locations convenient to UofA. RATES RE‑ DUCED! Now pre‑leasing for Au‑ gust 2012. Quality Living Rents Quick! Washer/ dryer in all homes, zoned A/C, alarm system, lighted ceiling fans, stainless appliances, private fenced back yard, check out locations and floor plans at http://www.UniversityRentalinfo.‑ com and call 520-747-9331 to see one.

1BD HoUsE, cArport, water paid $485 ALSO 1bd, A/C, wood floors, water paid $550 REDI 520‑ 623‑5710 or log on to www.azredirentals.com

1Block N of cAmpUs, clEAN!! 2BED/ 1BA, AC, W/D, Available June 1, 1617 E Lester St #1 $995/mo, 520‑990‑0783, http:‑ //tucson.craigslist.org/apa/2900462500.html

4BD/ 2BA: W/D, appliances, fire‑ place, hardwood floors, big walled yard, security guards. No Pets.

Grant/ Mountain. Available June 1, $1280/mo. 742-7314

1pool 3BA, 4BDrm 6blocks to campus $2300 520‑896‑3393 2BD, A/c, WAllED yd, pets ok $800 ALSO 2bd/2ba, A/C, wash‑ er/dryer, remodeled $1100 REDI 520‑623‑5710 or log on to www.azredirentals.com

4BD/ 3BA, AvAil 07/2012, 2000sqft, A/C $1400 ALSO 4bd/ 2.5ba, A/C, garage, stainless steel appls $2400 REDI 520‑623‑5710 or log on to www.azredirentals.com

2BDrm +loft 2BA. City/ Moun‑ tain views. Swimming pool/ exer‑ cise room privileges. Starr Pass, close to Pima and UofA. Contact 940‑3856, 740‑1902

4BDrm 2BA NEAr campus. $1600/mo. AC, W/D. (520)909‑ 4334

2BED/ 1BA, clEAN! New! AC, W/D. Available August 1. 3233 E. Monte Vista #2. $860mo, 520‑990‑ 0783, http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2900467207.html

4BED 3BAtH AvAilABlE June 1st. Fully finished. AC. Wash‑ er/dryer. Dishwasher. 1709 E Hampton ST $1800/mo (520)5772328 (home) (520)225-7949 (cell) sumin3569@hotmail.com

2BEDroom HoUsE for rent north of campus $700 per month.

Contact Bryan at (520)907‑3763 or bjettb@dakotacom.net

4BED/ 3BA, 2story with large storage unit.

Big shade trees, large living room with fireplace, nice kitchen with DW and micro, W/D, A/C, sun deck, yard, pet friendly. (520)245‑5604

2Blocks from cAmpUs, Clean!!

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3BED/1BA, AC, W/D, Available June 1, 1348 E 8th St #1, $1295/mo, 520‑990‑0783, http:‑ / / t u c s o n . c r a i g l i s t . org/apa/2900458956.html

4BEDroom 3BAtH BEAUtifUl home. Spacious, vaulted living room, W/D, microwave, DW, stor‑ age, wood floors, ceramic tile and carpeted bedrooms. Plenty of park‑ ing. Very close to UA campus.

Call (520)398-5738

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1,2,3,4 & 5bdrm, homes & aptmts!

1mi to UofA, A/C, Gar & all appl. incl. www.GoldenWestManage‑ ment.com 520‑790‑0776 3BD, cArport, WAsHEr/ dryer $795 ALSO 3bd/3ba, loft, dbl garage, washer/dryer $1100 REDI 520‑623‑5710 or log on to www.azredirentals.com 3BD/ 2BA, closE to campus, A/C, all appliances including washer/dryer, avail 08/01/2012, 2807 E Lee $1500 REDI Management 520‑623‑2566 3BD/ 2BA. UA area. W/D, tile floor, walled yard, remodeled kitchen. $990/mo. Available Au‑ gust 1. Lease plus security deposit. Call 742-7314.

3BEDroom HoUsE for rent close to campus with swimming pool. Contact Bryan at (520)9073763 or bjettb@dakotacom.net 3BEDroom, 2BAtH HomE close to campus. Lots of storage, large bedrooms, big closets, W/D, dishwasher, A/C. Private parking. $1470. www.casabonitarentals.‑ com Call (520)398-5738 4BD or 3BD house available near campus. W/D, AC, beautiful backyard. $1450/mo OBO. Very safe. Available August 1st. Call (520)909-4334.

4BD/ 2BA NEAr UMC/ UA. Appli‑ ances included. Large Arizona room, mountain views, walled yard, security, air, den, laundry.

2400sqft. $1660 OBO. (209)262‑ 4205. http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2936523394.html

4BEDroom HoUsE for rent close to campus with swimming pool. Contact Bryan at (520)9073763 or bjettb@dakotacom.net 5BD/ 2BA, AvAil 08/01/2012, A/C, w/d $2350 ALSO Sam Hughes, 5bd/3ba, private pool, w/d $2600 REDI 520‑623‑5710 or log on to www.azredirentals.com 5BD/ 3BA, sAm HUGHES! 2413sqft, dbl garage, A/C, wash‑ er/dryer, 2000 E 10th ST $2750 ALSO 5bd/3ba, A/C, washer/dryer, fenced yard, avail 08/01/2012 $2750 2212 E La Mirada REDI Management 520‑623‑2566 5BEDroom 3BAtH HomE, 7blocks to UA $2200. Upgraded kitchen, new appliances including W/D, dishwasher and microwave.

Big bedrooms, walk‑in closets (520)245‑5604 5BEDroom 3BAtH, grEAt twostory floor plan with open living room, breakfast bar, large bed‑ rooms and walk-in closets. Fenced yard and pet friendly. Microwave, DW and W/D included. 4blocks north of campus. casabonitarentals.com (520)398‑ 5738 5BEDroom HoUsE for rent close to campus with swimming pool. Contact Bryan at (520)9073763 or bjettb@dakotacom.net 6Brm/ 5BA HoUsE AWESOME and HUGE. Large open floor plan, 3master suites, huge kitchen, maple cabinets, beautiful tile, huge bedrooms with big closets. This 2600sf house is one to see. (520)‑ 245‑5604

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7Brm‑ 4BA for August 2012.

Across the street from campus.

Grand front living room, huge kitchen with microwave and dish‑ washer. Large bedrooms, spa‑ cious closets: a great floor plan!

Fenced yard, W/D, A/C. Lots of parking. (520)398-5738 @@@ 3BDrm/ 2BA, two‑story home, 1212sqft, at 3478 N sierra springs Dr, columbus & fort lowell (riverhaven), $1050 rent, $1050 security deposit, avail‑ able June 1st . two other homes at 4229 E Boulders springs Way and 4274 E Wad‑ ing pond Drive, available Au‑ gust 1st. call martha at 247‑ 9672 or mobwright@gmail.com.

BEAUtifUl 4BD. mUst see! Remodeled. Hardwood floors, re‑ cently repainted, fireplace, high ceiling, all appliances. Available July 1. 885-5292, 841-2871. Great for serious students. 2040 E Spring. Corner of Spring& Olsen near Campbell &Grant. $2100/mo.

BEAUtifUl 4Br 2BA home for rent. Biking distance to UofA! Glenn and Park. $470/ room/ month. Utilities ~$70/ person/ month. Contact Perry @480‑688‑ 0997 or pklauber@yahoo.com

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vEry cool HoUsE‑ 3434E. 5th street, Available August ‘12, 4BDRM/ 3BA house $2400/mo, 2car garage. Landlord pays: wa‑ ter, landscaping, hot tub mainte‑ nance, trash. Tenant pays all other utilities. HOT TUB, huge lot, bocci ball/ horse shoe court, large patio, flat screen television included.

2car garage/ off-street parking for 2 additional cars. Call 419-3787.

stUNNiNg 8BEDroom, 6BAtH home across the street from UofA. BIG‑BIG‑BIG with so many ex‑ tras. Almost 3,000sf of pure bliss.

2family rooms, big kitchen, ce‑ ramic tile, extra appliances, newly upgraded making this home perfect for college life. You won’t find a bigger, better home so CLOSE! Call (520)398-5738

vEry cool HoUsE‑ 927E. cad‑ die st. 2BDRM/ 1BA house w/2‑ car covered carport, off‑street park‑ ing for 4cars. $900/mo. Walk to UofA. Call Debbie 419‑3787

UA‑ 2Blocks‑ sAm Hughes.

2BDRM/ 1BA, A/C, enclosed back‑ yard, $850/mo +utilities, small pet OK, available now. 520 N. Olsen call 577-7773 vEry cool HoUsE‑ 2934 E. Ex‑ eter, Available August ‘12, 4BDRM/ 3BA, $2400/mo. Landlord pays water, landscaping, hot tub maintenance, trash. Tenant pays all other utilities. 2car garage/ 2car carport, off-street parking for 8 cars. HOT TUB, huge lot, private backyard, concrete flrs, hardwood kitchen, stainless steel appliances, flatscreen television. Call 419‑ 3787.

WAlk to cAmpUs IN FY12! 3,4 &5bdm newer homes! 1block to UofA! A/C, Gar & all appl. www.‑ GoldenWestManagement.com 520‑790‑0776

miNiDorm for sAlE Newer 5BR/ 3BA $430K 6blocks from UofA 744 E. Adams Street Oscar Ramirez/ Assoc. Broker 520‑360‑7600/ 918‑6585 ORamirez.LongRealty.com

3Br/ 2BA $400/mo only pay electric, 5miles from edge of Campus.

Call 480-205-9710 for details

grADUAtE roommAtEs WANtED FOR BEAUTIFUL 4BR/ 2BATH HOUSE -WALK FROM GREAT LOCATION 1BLOCK EAST OF UMC/ UA. JEANA@CRANMERPC.COM 928-821-0174 $500

BikE to cAmpUs IN FY12! 1,2 &3bdm Townhomes & Condos!

A/C, Gar, FREE WIFI & all appl. www.GoldenWestManagement.‑ com 520‑790‑0776 prE‑lEAsiNg for fAll 2012.

New construction 3bd 2ba duplex, close to the CatTran. Upgrade throughout, open floor plan, pri‑ vate yard. $1450/mo, $1450 de‑ posit. 909-4089 sUmmEr rENtAl sHort term lease. New construction, 3bd, 2ba, private yard, call for pricing. 909‑ 4089

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BEAUtifUl NEW HoUsE for rent. 2bdrm 1bath open concept kitchen/ livingroom, high ceilings, W/D. Must see. $1050 222 E. Elm 520-885-2922, 520-841-2871 Dmt propErtiEs‑prEmiErE UofA rentals since 1999. 1,3 and 4 bed homes avail June 1 and Aug 1. $475-$1700 p/mth Call Ilene 520‑240‑6487 For Photos and more info: http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2945395735.html http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2927974754.html http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2927952566.html http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2927760427.html http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2927229859.html http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2927198901.html http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2927185577.html http://tucson.craigslist.‑ org/apa/2927174228.html

lUxUrioUs: 5BEDroom 3BAtH with a 2car garage, just north of UofA. Spectacular floor plan, foyer, cherry cabinets, stain‑ less appliances, 2stone fireplaces, dramatic vaulted ceilings, laundry room, large bedrooms with walk‑in closets. Private cobblestone drive, ample parking. This impressive home is a MUST SEE! Call (520)‑ 398-5738

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multiple injuries to the defense, coupled with the switch from Mike Stoops to Tim Kish as head coach, Bondurant might never have even seen the field.

Instead, he recorded 45 tackles — 42 of which came in the last six games when Kish was interim head coach — and led the Wildcats in tackles three times. Over the last five games of the season, he was the team’s leading tackler, averaging 6.8 per game. Linebackers Paul Vassallo and Derek Earls, the Wildcats’ top tacklers on the season, averaged just 4.6 and 6.4 per game, respectively, in that same time span.

But Bondurant is not dwelling

on the past or thinking about why Stoops didn’t want to play him.

He’s looking toward a future with Casteel, Rodriguez and his future with the team as it’s currently constructed.

“Last year was last year. I did what I did but I gotta move on and do way better this year,” Bondurant said. “Last year was a good year for me, it was a good start good for me to see how the college game goes.”

The Fairfield, Calif., native’s playmaking abilities haven’t always been limited to the defensive side of the ball, as in high school he thrived at the quarterback position.

In his senior year, he completed a

remarkable triumvirate of statistics: he threw for 1,906 yards and 22 touchdowns, rushed for 1,011 yards and 16 touchdowns and recorded 102 tackles, two sacks and an interception. Despite his multidimensional abilities, Bondurant said it was never a question of what side of the ball he would play on.

“I knew that in college I wasn’t gonna be a quarterback, but I mean I had to transition myself before I came out here and do a lot of work,” Bondurant said. “I always had the defensive mindset in high school, so it wasn’t really much of a transition it was just becoming a better just-defensive player.”

players off the team.

“It was a culmination of a from page 6 bunch of things that he had done,” Goulston said. “At the time I’m in his life, outside of basketball. sure Dame did not understand it. I While grades and his attitude were felt that for his progression as both often an issue, his play on the a person and an athlete, I had to court was not. Alongside Arizona kind of take away what he liked.” basketball freshman and best Goulston praised Ndiaye’s work friend Angelo Chol, Ndiaye began ethic, calling him fearless and to excel for Hoover head coach competitive, but said his drive to Ollie Goulston. Hoover won the be great was so high that it almost championship his sophomore hindered his progress. season and Ndiaye led the team in With little direction and his passcoring in the state finals. sion taken away from him, Ndiaye “His sophomore year, Dame turned to football. He’d always played great,” Goulston said. “We had the perfect build for the gridwouldn’t have won the champion- iron, but Ndiaye had never played ship without him.” the game in his life.

He carried that play into his When he lined up at defensive junior year when he averaged end and at wide receiver, however, more than 16 points per game. he looked like a natural. In the Mid-major programs were on the first, and only, eight games of his verge of calling about Ndiaye, and career, Ndiaye racked up 36 tackhis senior season would all but les, seven sacks and three forced cement a likely scholarship to a fumbles while catching 18 passes Mountain West Conference or for 333 yards and five scores.

Pac-12 Conference school, accordAs Ndiaye succeeded on the ing to Goulston. field, he still bounced around from But while Ndiaye thrived on the home to home — until former court, his scholastic performance NFL defensive end and Hoover wasn’t always where it should assistant coach Burt Grossman, have been. Ndiaye and Goulston who was known for his no-filter didn’t always see eye to eye, personality, welcomed Ndiaye and that, combined with Ndiinto his home. aye’s wishes to play football, led For the first time in his life Goulston to kick one of his best Ndiaye had some sense of

consistency.

“I learned to be a man easier,” Ndiaye. “I learned to grow up on my own. I learned my work ethic.”

With Grossman, his wife and two kids, Ndiaye had the father figure and family he’d been missing.

He calls them his “second family,” talks to Grossman “all the time” and visits when he’s in town.

Thanks to the Grossman family, Ndiaye turned in a 3.5 GPA his senior year after struggling to pass in prior years. He impressed on the football field and eventually earned a scholarship to Arizona, and in the end, credited his hardships in San Diego.

“My experience in San Diego, all the struggles I went through, was probably the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me,” Ndiaye said.

After battling an injury and redshirting last season as a freshman defensive end, Ndiaye is now adjusting to a new head coach and a new position at linebacker, where he gets an earful from defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel every practice.

He said he’s “really struggling” with the new position and the scheme and isn’t fully healthy from his leg injury a season ago.

Rodriguez agreed, although he can see the potential.

“He’s got to learn to get his pads lower,” he said. “He’s probably got a lot of bruises in his chest right now, but once he learns to lower his pads a bit and get in shape I think he’ll be able to help us somewhere.”

Ndiaye’s been studying film with UA linebacker Jake Fischer and is often the last player off the field.

“The kid works his butt off, so even if you mess up a lot you’ve got to have an attitude like that and get better in competing every day,” Fischer said.

Ndiaye, a talented athlete, is driven to make it to the next level and help his family out of poverty. He hasn’t seen his mother, who’s still in Africa, since 2000. He hasn’t seen his father since 2010.

Ndiaye’s motivation is greater than simply fame and notoriety.

He’s been on a journey across the world, in and out of homes, sports and attitudes. It’s ultimately led him to the football field, where the outside world disappears and he can work toward living his dream of making it to the NFL and reuniting with his family.

“I feel like this is what God told me to do, to play football and help me out some day,” Ndiaye said. “I feel like that’s the best thing for me.”

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of a sophomore might be a lot to handle, but the new coach is confident in his ability to handle it.

“Tra’Mayne’s a guy that loves football and he’s a very competitive guy,” Rodriguez said. “I still think he’s got a lot he’s gotta learn yet … (but) I think Tra’Mayne is a football-smart guy.”

Arizona, and its opposition, took notice of Bondurant’s playmaking abilities last season when he was named honorable mention All-Pac-12 as a freshman. If not for

ndiaye

T.J. McConnell will come to the rescue in 2013-14, but who will Arizona turn to until then?

Miller will be starting his fourth different point guard in as many years, and the candidates aren’t exactly intriguing.

Nick Johnson will most likely start the year as Miller’s point. Johnson did a nice job running the show at times last season, especially for never playing the position outside of AAU ball.

But Johnson isn’t a point guard. He can get Arizona into its sets and has decent vision, but he’s not going to blow by opposing point guards or make a ton of plays off of the dribble.

Then there’s Jordin Mayes.

Outside of Turner and Kevin Parrom, due to injuries, Mayes may have been Arizona’s biggest disappointment last season. He struggled with a foot injury and was coming off of a similar injury heading into the season, but Mayes was a non-factor all season after his surprising freshman campaign.

He failed to reach double-figure scoring in conference play, shot 29.7 percent from three and is a mediocre passer at best.

A lot can change in an offseason, but Mayes isn’t the answer.

That brings us to Gabe York.

While the incoming freshman can heat up in a hurry and shoot and leap with the best of them, he’s also not a solid point guard candidate.

He “needs to continue to improve his left hand” and “doesn’t have elite-level quickness to separate off the dribble,” according to his ESPN Insider scouting report.

That leaves Arizona with a trio of undersized shooting guards trying to run the show. The UA’s best ball-handler and passer is probably 6-foot-6 forward Solomon Hill.

That’s a problem.

Although it’s tough not to like Arizona’s chances with York, Brandon Ashley, Kaleb Tarczewski and Grant Jerrett coming in, the Wildcats need a floor general to get those youngsters in the right place on the floor.

Unless the light came on and he really improved his jump shot and decision-making, on and off the court, Turner was never going to live up to his star ranking at Arizona.

But he was still one of the Pac-12’s best passers and could beat his man off the dribble with the best of them.

Arizona will feel his absence in a big way next season while Point Guard U is quickly becoming Point Guard Who? ­— Mike Schmitz is a marketing senior.

He can be reached at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatHoops.

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Shortstop using glove to draw MLB looks Mejia for three years, and praised Mejia’s skill on the field, as well as his ability to be a leader for the Wildcat club.

“He’s an aggressive player and he’s really vocal. He’s a great leader,” Mejias-Brean said. “If someone is struggling he’s got no problem going up and talking to him, he just likes to talk. He’s a great player out there too.”

After the season is over, Mejia hasn’t really given a thought to what’s next for him. He keeps his focus on the next matchup, and what he can do before then.

“I’m just focused on winning this weekend and working towards that,” Meija said. “I haven’t given too much thought to my future right now, whether it be (professional) baseball, or sticking around here another year, which is a great choice too, especially with Lopez and the rest of the coaching staff.”

For all of his defensive skill, Mejia’s no slouch with a bat either.

Currently he’s leading the Wildcats with a .380 batting average and is tied for first with 49 hits on the season.

Lopez said he’s amazed at Mejia’s progression thus far.

“It’s really a neat thing because he’s really worked hard,” Lopez said.

“When he came here I wasn’t sure he was going to hit at the collegiate level, now he’s hitting close to .400.”

By Dan Kohler DAILY WILDCAT

After almost 30 years of coaching college baseball, Arizona head coach Andy Lopez has seen his fair share of his players go on to play Major League Baseball.

With a knack for developing bigleague middle infielders like Mark Ellis and David Eckstein, MLB scouts will generally turn to Lopez for his opinion about his own Arizona infield.

Recently, preseason All-American and junior shortstop Alex Mejia has been on the radar of several major league clubs.

Lopez said that based on his looks alone, the shortstop doesn’t seem like a big-league player, but he always says scouts have to see him play first.

“Physically (looking at him), you probably would walk away,” Lopez said. “But you have to watch his first step — he’s got a really good first step, and when it comes to hands, I’d put him right there with anybody that I’ve coached.”

Mejia said he appreciates the recognition, but knows that improvements can still be made to his game.

“I’m never too satisfied,” he said.

“I’m always striving to be the best, always striving to do something better.”

According to Lopez, if someone comes to watch nine innings

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Arizona shortstop Alex Mejia makes a backhanded stop against Utah Valley on Feb. 21. The junior has been instrumental in a number of series wins for the UA this year and put on a defensive display during a sweep of Stanford.

of Arizona baseball, it’s almost guaranteed they’ll see at least one brilliant play from his shortstop.

Against Stanford, Mejia flashed the leather on several occasions, including a full extension diving grab that he gunned to first from his knees to get

the runner out.

“I thought he put on a spectacular show against Stanford,” Lopez said. “I know Stanford’s coaches felt that — they told me after the game.”

Despite his proficiency with the glove, Mejia keeps working.

“I think my defense needs to step up still,” he said. “I can make the great plays, but some of the plays I should be making, I’m kind of struggling with right now. But I can definitely pick it up.”

Arizona third baseman Seth MejiasBrean has worked side-by-side with

Ex-Wildcat finding his swing for Tribe

DEPARTURES FROM PAGE 1

Turner flashed glimpses of what made him the No. 2-ranked point guard out of high school, but battled off-the-court issues throughout the season. He was removed from the starting lineup on Nov. 9, 2011, after arriving late to a pregame workout and didn’t see the court at all on Nov. 13, 2011.

The 6-foot-3, 192-pound guard was suspended from the Wildcats Dec. 7, 2011, game at Florida and didn’t make the trip to Gainesville.

The school announced on March 7 that Turner was suspended indefinitely and wouldn’t travel with the team to the Pac-12 Tournament in Los Angeles.

Head coach Sean Miller said Turner is expected to finish the semester and leave the school in good academic standing, meaning he won’t negatively affect the Wildcats’ Academic Progress Rating. Schools can now be banned from postseason play for a two-year score of less than 930 or four-year score of less than 900.

“Josiah made a great deal of progress as a student-athlete in his year with us,” Miller said in the release.

“All of us at Arizona wish him well in his future.

While Natyazhko never battled offthe-court issues, he was ineffective on the floor during his three-year career.

deficiencies in the attack against the Sox. “Some guys were guessing a little bit,” he said. “We didn’t always produce when big chances came up.

When we break through that, we’ll be better.”

Both of Hafner’s hits came off lefthander John Danks, a good sign, inasmuch as Hafner bats from the left side.

“It’s always good to swing the bat well,” he said. “I want to continue to build off that. If a couple of guys start swinging the bat well, guys can feed off that and get everybody going.”

Indians manager Manny Acta expects Hafner to become an impact run producer after finally shaking off a shoulder injury that plagued him for three years.

“Hafner was good the whole spring,” Acta said. “I expect him to do some damage for us.”

The Tribe’s 1-4 start is not something that Hafner anticipated.

“It’s very disappointing,” he said.

“We wanted to get out of the chute well. It’s been a matter of getting key hits. We could have been 3-2 right now.”

MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

CLEVELAND — Travis Hafner and Shelley Duncan rejoined the ranks of the living Wednesday. That is, their bats came alive, despite another Indians loss, 10-6 to the Chicago White Sox at Progressive Field.

Coming out of spring training, Hafner seemed to have found his aggressive swing and his discipline at the plate. But like almost all of his lodge brothers, he got stuck in the mud once the season started.

But against the Sox, he slammed his first home run of the season and doubled, driving in three runs for the game. Duncan also hit his first homer of 2012 with a runner on base and singled twice.

The biggest issue for the Tribe has been getting the offense to produce.

Wednesday’s six-run outburst was a mix of good and bad. The attack produced 10 hits, but too many opportunities were lost for lack of a key hit.

“I think everybody was swinging pretty good today,” Duncan said. “I saw drastic improvement, so I think the offense is taking the right steps.”

But Duncan acknowledged the

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Arizona center Kyryl Natyazhko announced his decision to leave the UA and head to Europe in pursuit of a professional career on Wednesday.

The 6-foot-11, 275-pound center averaged 1.7 points, 2.0 rebounds and 0.2 blocked shots per game in 91 career appearances, including nine starts.

He averaged 1.1 points and 1.6 rebounds in his junior season and didn’t play in 11 of Arizona’s final 15 games.

“I’d like to thank the fans, my teammates and the coaching staff at Arizona,” Natyazhko said in a UA press release. “It has been a wonderful experience for me to study and play here … As hard as it is for me to leave, at this time I have to do what is best for me and my family and pursue these professional opportunities, but I plan on earning my degree in the near future.”

Natyazhko is also expected to finish

the semester and leave the school in good academic standing. Natyazhko is expected to finish his degree requirements in December 2012, according to the release.

Miller said he and Natyazhko sat down two weeks ago to discuss his future, and decided that pursuing a professional career was the right move if opportunities presented themselves, which they did.

“All of us at Arizona support Kyryl’s desire to begin his professional career,” Miller said. “As a part of our program for three years, Kyryl represented himself as a great teammate, a hard worker and a good student off the court. We wish him well in his professional career.”

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