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A VOLUNTEER PLAYS with a cat at Hermitage Cat Shelter on January 29, 2014. A class of English students are working on a project in which they design ads for Hermitage.

UA English students are working to create an advertising campaign for nonprofit Hermitage Cat Shelter

BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat

UA students have been given the opportunity to gain real work experience creating new advertising material for Hermitage Cat Shelter, a nonprofit organization, through a course in the UA English department.

“I’ve done successful

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collaborations with community partners in the past, and I’ve always loved cats, so I thought pairing my students with Lee and Hermitage would be great for both parties,” said Kristin Winet, professor of the English 308 class working on the project.

“When I reached out, I didn’t realize that Hermitage was about

to undergo renovations and a new campaign, so the timing was really serendipitous.”

Lee Bucyk, executive director for the Hermitage Cat Shelter, said Winet contacted her asking if Hermitage Cat Shelter would be amenable to being the class project for the semester. Bucyk said she thought it would be

beneficial for those at the nonprofit shelter, because they do not have a graphic artist on staff and do not have the money to spend on the types of materials they desperately need completed.

“They’re working on some brochures, fliers and a splash page

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A new abortion law in the state of Arizona, based off a study that suggests medically induced abortions may be reversed using shots of progesterone, has received the attention of abortion rights activists.

“The current law is solely about punishing women who seek to terminate their pregnancies,” said Monica Casper, a UA professor and head of the gender and women’s studies department. “Our politicians should not play doctor, nor should they pass legislation that files in the face of evidence.”

This new law will inform women seeking abortions, via medication in Arizona, that they are able to reverse the effects of the first dose of RU-486.

“This is a ridiculous, dangerous law … as it directly interferes with the relationship between a pregnant woman and her physician as established in Roe v.

Wade,” Casper said.

The shots of progesterone block the hormone and are supposed to reverse the effects of RU-486, which is the first of two drugs administered to induce an abortion.

Marisa Calegari is a senior studying gender and women’s studies and psychology, and is a current intern at the Women’s Resource Center. Calegari said the state of Arizona’s sex laws are problematic “because they assume women cannot make decisions about their own bodies and work to limit women’s access to health care.”

Calegari, who has been an intern at WRC’s Feminists Organized to Resist, Create and Empower since 2012, added that she does not believe the new law will provide women with more options in regards to their own bodies.

“Legislation that places restrictions on the relationship between women and their doctors is not progressive,” Calegari said.

She stated that the treatment is not supported by a large scientific body of evidence, which leads to women’s bodies being put in danger.

“I think if a woman is not physically capable of carrying a child in a healthy way … they should have the right to decide whether or not to have that child,” said Sean Gallagher, a chemistry sophomore.

A few weeks ago, the law was signed by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, and is expected to be put into effect in July. The criticism surrounding this new law mainly arises from a lack of substantial scientific investigation.

Ana Hernandez, a linguistics sophomore, stated that despite her

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Graduate student awarded diplomacy to enact change

BY LAUREN RENTERIA

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A humanitarian and now soonto-be diplomat, Robert Alvarez , is nothing short of a model citizen. As a UA graduate student pursuing a dual masters degree in both public administration and Latin American studies, he also dedicates his life to making global change.

In February , Alvarez was awarded the prestigious Humanity in Action Diplomacy and Diversity Fellowship, one of only 24 graduate students selected from seven countries.

Humanity in Action is an international, educational organization that aims to

promote human rights by establishing and educating young student leaders in projects that work toward diversity and justice around the world.

Selected from a pool of over 400 applicants from around the world, Alvarez, along with the other fellows chosen, will have the opportunity to explore issues of diversity, diplomacy and pluralism with leaders and experts across the globe.

In a statement announcing the fellowship recipients, Judith Goldstein, executive director and founder of Humanity in Action, spoke about the diversity that this pool of fellows will bring.

“The Fellows are demonstrated

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leaders with a strong commitment to international concerns with a broad array of talents, experiences and interests,” Goldstein said. “This class brings great diversity to what is sure to be an innovative, fascinating and engaging program.”

While working for change is nothing new to Alvarez, he had not always imagined his life as it is today. In his teens, Alvarez was involved with gang-related activity and was faced with two life paths.

“In my head, I had two narratives,” he said. “One path, I saw myself in juvie. On the other, I had the dream of playing football for a university.”

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UA GRADUATE STUDENT Robert Alvarez is one of 24 students from several hundred applicants chosen for Humanity in Action.

Alvarez will travel to South America to instill change for humanitarian causes.

From the streets, Alvarez was recruited on a football scholarship to play for Northern Arizona University.

He said he spent the beginning of his undergraduate career

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Students take part in Capitol Hill Days BY erik korlsrud The Daily Wildcat

The past five days have been a flurry of activity for UA students attending Capitol Hill Days in Washington. The purpose of the advocacy event, put on by Population Connection, is family planning.

There were 200 activists from 31 states in attendance. Attendees lobbied Congress for increased funding and support for family planning, both internationally and at home.

Advocacy training was a large part of the program, as attendees were given information on pressing issues involving family planning, such as the Global Gag Rule and the Helms Amendment.

These were presented by several organizations fighting the same issues, such as the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the National Women’s Law Center.

“Capitol Hill Days provides participants with the tools and knowledge to go out into the world as fully fledged family planning activists,” said Elspeth Dehnert, media relations manager for Population Connection. “There are millions of people around the world who are being denied access to contraception, real sex education and reproductive health services, and they need our support.”

Population Connection is an organization dedicated to providing family planning to the 225 million women who don’t have access to modern contraception. They strive to eliminate the Global Gag Rule and petition the Helms Amendment.

The Global Gag Rule is a controversial ruling that prevents family planners from discussing abortion with clients and blocks U.S. funding to family planning programs around the world.

While the Bill Clinton and Barack Obama administrations have repealed the ruling, the threat of its return is always present, and no permanent stop to the ruling has been issued.

The Helms Amendment, passed in 1973, states, “No foreign assistance funds may be used to pay

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A group of UA students took part in Capitol Hill Days in Washington. The focus of the event was family planning and had emphasis on laws and advocacy.

for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions,” according to the Center for Health and Gender Equality.

Education is another goal of Population Connection — for which the Capitol Hill Days event was created — and has been growing. Last year, 87 activists were in attendance; this year, that figure more than doubled to 200.

“Population Connection is encouraged and humbled by the commitment that these

and it was very professional.

Each team went, and I evaluated them with a score sheet and then from page 1 critiqued their work along with that will not only increase our two other professors from the awareness in the community but English department.”

Bucyk said the students will also hopefully help us with some fundraising of donations for the now have the opportunity to revise their materials, and she will meet shelter,” Bucyk said.

Winet said she hopes her with Winet either later this week students walk away with a greater or the next to look at the students’ sense of the impact their words final pieces for their portfolios; and ideas can have and the she will then pick a winner.

“Working with the Hermitage knowledge that they can enact real [Cat Shelter] has given me handssocial change in the world. on experience “One of the creating technical best parts about documents for a real, communitysuccessful nonprofit c e n t e r e d organization,” said learning is that Jenna Radomski, a students have nutritional sciences the unique junior in Winet’s chance to step class. outside the Radomski said walls of the the project required university and — Jenna Radomski, the students to participate in nutritional sciences take the project meaningful more seriously junior work with local because it involved a nonprofits and community partner. organizations,” She also said she Winet said.

Bucyk added that before the learned a lot about working in students began working on the groups and creating documents project, she spent time meeting that match the needs of a with each of the classes to give successful company.

“Each group had the very a PowerPoint presentation about Hermitage Cat Shelter, its real possibility of having their background, how many cats there documents chosen to represent are, and the types of programs the Hermitage,” Radomski said, “so and services they offer. Last we definitely aimed to impress.” week, she said she listened to the presentations of the teams of five to six students from the classes.

“It was really nicely done,” — Follow Brandi Walker Bucyk said. “They dressed up, @brandimwalker

young activists bring to our cause,” said John Seager, the president of Population Connection and its political arm, Population Connection Action Fund.

Students attending will have the knowledge and training to get their voices heard when it comes to speaking about and dealing with these issues.

“For months leading up to the event, our dedicated field team spent countless hours reaching out to college campuses around the

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playing football at NAU where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He explained football was able to save him and help him reach his goals.

After graduating from NAU, Alvarez joined the Peace Corps and was sent to El Salvador, where he served for three years.

Over his three-year service, he said he discovered that helping others was his passion and realized that international relations was the path on which he belonged.

Upon his return from the Peace Corps service, Alvarez said he worked with at-risk youth and immigrant students in San Diego until he had applied to graduate school at the UA. His UA academic adviser,

Hermitage … has given me hands-on experience

U.S. in the hopes of bringing as many students as possible to our nation’s capital,” Dehnert said. “The direction of our country’s future is dependent on our youth, and Population Connection is thrilled that so many young people, including [UA] students, decided to attend Capitol Hill Days 2015.”

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Marcela Vasquez-Leon, described him as a hardworking student and passionate individual who loves to help others.

“He is really willing to fight for people’s rights and is overall very passionate,” Vasquez-Leon said.

Fighting for the rights of others is exactly what Alvarez said he hopes to do this year. He will not only be involved with the HIA Diplomacy Fellowship, but also, in December, he said he plans on traveling to Brazil for graduate research on the economy in Fortaleza following the FIFA World Cup. “There are a lot of people living in poverty, which in itself creates these spaces of high vulnerability,” he said. “In addition, it is also the premiere sex tourism capital in the world, child sex tourism.”

Looking at the rates of travel and income made, he plans

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not believing in abortions, this method “sounds like a good option. … I think there are a lot of women that might regret having an abortion. … With this law, it gives them time to think about the consequences.”

Cody Blagg, a microbiology senior, said he believes the new state law regarding abortion will have a positive effect in the long run.

“While I understand there are different situations in which a woman would choose to get [an abortion], such as, rape, health concerns or simply an unwanted pregnancy, I find it ultimately immoral

on examining the effects the soccer tournament had on the city in terms of efficacy of the investments made and the problem of human trafficking.

He said, after his long career in diplomacy, he plans on giving back to the community that raised him. Alvarez said he stays grounded by looking back on these relationships he has made and is thankful for the people he has met and lessons he has learned.

“Even through accomplishments and everything, it’s the relationships and people,” Alvarez said.

“That’s where I get my motivation to move forward.

I’m thankful for how rich I have been able to live my life because of all the amazing people I have met.”

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and it should not be legal,” Blagg said.

When it comes to physical health, Hernandez said she believes “it is still up to the woman to decide what actions to take regarding her body.”

Additionally, Casper described Arizona’s state laws as being regressive and repressive. She added that if lawmakers actually cared about women’s health and the well-being of babies, they could be expanding health care coverage, funding clinics and working on decreasing infant mortality rates.

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Community chatter How do you feel about Arizona’s new abortion law?

1. “I think the fact that they have to say that is really insensitive to the whole process of the procedure, because it’s something that you’re doing usually as a result of something negative that happened to you. I personally don’t think people do abortions to kill babies.” — Alexandra Dixon, a communication and humanities junior 1.

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2. “According to the circumstance, I think it’s helpful. Maybe some women want to change their minds, so it makes sense.”

— Benjamin Gomez, a regional development senior

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3. “Personally for me, I don’t agree with abortions, so in my opinion, I think it’s a good thing if somebody realizes that maybe they’re making a mistake. It’s my own personal decision, but I do definitely want to continue to look more into it.” — Mia Morande, a sophomore studying special education 4. “I consider myself pro-choice, and I don’t think it’s a bad thing that more options are available. If they can reverse it, it’s good for them to know, I think. That way, if they change their minds, they can. I always just figure the more options the better.” — Luis-Alejandro Garcia-Ramirez, a chemical engineering junior

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California may legalize marijuana TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

SAN FRANCISCO — A fight next year over whether to allow recreational marijuana use in California may serve as a tipping point as legalization proponents press their campaign in other U.S. states.

“A lot of eyes are on California,” Gavin Newsom, the state’s lieutenant governor and a legalization proponent, said in a phone interview. “It’s very different than almost any other state because of the scale and the magnitude of the change and what it will represent across the country.”

The most populous U.S. state is among at least five, including Massachusetts and Maine, in which legalization measures are likely to appear on ballots in November 2016.

Both advocates and opponents say California is the key battleground, where success or failure is likely to determine whether most of the country decriminalizes the drug for recreational use.

“A state with so much influence and size is very important,” said Kevin Sabet, co-founder of Smart Approaches to Marijuana, a San Diego-based nonprofit group that opposes legalization. “We expect a long, drawn-out battle in California — and an expensive one.”

At stake is a market of 39 million California residents, more than double the combined size of Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon, whose voters legalized marijuana in 2012 and 2014.

California was first to allow medical marijuana in 1996, and its hundreds of dispensaries have made joints a common sight in cities and towns throughout the state. Attitudes toward pot smoking are also shifting as use proliferates, with voters increasingly supporting its decriminalization.

While California voters rejected a legalization measure in 2010, supporters say its prospects are better in 2016 — a presidential election year in which young voters who are more inclined to support legalization are more likely to participate. Backers also cite shifting public opinion and the experience of the four states that have legalized marijuana to help design a measure that appeals to a majority of voters.

Among likely California voters, 55 percent favor legalizing pot, compared with 43 percent who said the drug should remain illegal, according to a March poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute

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California’s legalization of marijuana may cause the federal government to legalize the substance for recreational use. California is expected to have such a law on the ballot for 2016.

of California in San Francisco.

Support is at its highest level since the group began polling on the question in 2010, when a ballot measure to allow recreational marijuana use in California failed.

“With California and some other, smaller states legalizing it in 2016, the federal government will be forced to reckon with this,” said Lynne Lyman, California state director at the Drug Policy Alliance, a pro-marijuana group that’s leading the effort in the state. “We’re hoping that this leads to the end of marijuana prohibition nationally.”

Both sides say success will hinge on campaign donations, where marijuana supporters have the advantage. The issue has drawn interest from wealthy donors, including billionaire George Soros, who gave $1 million to California’s 2010 measure. It’s also likely to generate funding from a marijuana industry developing in other states and providers who want to expand into the California market. Soros was unavailable to comment, spokesman Michael Vachon said.

Opponents can win if they raise $10 million, which would allow them to set up a robust field operation and

organize groups, including those in education and law enforcement, said Wayne Johnson, president of a self-named Sacramento-based firm, who ran the opposition campaign on the 2010 pot measure. They will emphasize the impact the availability of marijuana will have on children to garner votes from parents, Johnson said.

“They’re the first voters who switch sides,” Johnson said. “It’s a key demographic that represents the Achilles’ heel of the yes side.”

Lyman said supporters fear the possible involvement of big-money donors such as Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corp., the world’s largest casino operator. Adelson poured $5.5 million into defeating Florida’s medical-marijuana ballot measure in November. Adelson declined to comment, spokesman Ron Reese said.

California comprises almost half of the legal cannabis market, said Troy Dayton, chief executive officer of ArcView Group, an Oaklandbased marijuana investment and research firm that’s raised $70,000 for the state’s ballot effort.

“Legalizing adult use in California

would be a worldwide game changer that would dwarf the markets in Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska combined,” he said.

Supporters will increase their odds of passage if they offer a measure that regulates and taxes the industry, emphasizing that use of the drug is already rampant and would then be controlled, Johnson said. They’ll need to raise at least $20 million to run an effective campaign, he said.

“I don’t think it’s a slam dunk to pass,” said Rob Stutzman, a Republican political consultant who worked for former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. “There’s a lot of opposition to it. There will be a lot of concern about unintended consequences.”

Supporters will have the more difficult burden of persuading voters to change the law, while opponents can stir doubt and concern to secure “no” votes, Stutzman said.

The Drug Policy Alliance began raising funds through a political action committee in the fall with the goal of securing $15 million to $20 million for the campaign, Lyman said. The group plans to begin drafting the initiative this month

after a series of meetings across the state to gather feedback on issues including taxes, regulation and environmental damage, she said.

The initiative will require 365,880 signatures if it’s a statute change and 585,407 for a constitutional amendment, according to the secretary of state’s office.

Neighboring Nevada has approved a similar proposal for its 2016 ballot, with measures also likely in Arizona, Maine and Massachusetts, said Mason Tvert, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, an advocacy group that’s helped fund legalization campaigns in other states.

“The drug is ubiquitous already,” said Newsom, 47, who is running for governor in 2018 and chairs a pro-legalization group. “We have a very mature industry that has existed formally through medicalmarijuana dispensaries since 1996 that’s de facto unregulated. In addition, we’re not generating any revenue.”

Net Neutrality Jodi Arias sentenced to life in prison, apologizes regulations in effect June 12 TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

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WASHINGTON — Tough new net neutrality regulations were published in the Federal Register on Monday, triggering an effective date of June 12 and the first formal legal challenge to the controversial online traffic rules.

USTelecom, a trade group whose members include AT&T Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc., filed a lawsuit Monday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to stop the rules.

The Federal Communications Commission approved the regulations by a 3-2 vote on Feb. 26.

They change the legal classification of wired and wireless broadband, treating it as a more highly regulated telecommunications service in an attempt to ensure that providers don’t discriminate against any legal content flowing through their networks to consumers.

The 400-page order was made public two weeks after the vote as the FCC posted it on the agency’s website.

The order’s publication in the Federal Register, which generally takes a few weeks after new regulations are adopted, started a 60-day clock on its effective date — unless a court blocks them.

But FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who pushed for the regulations, has been optimistic they would withstand a legal challenge.

“As Chairman Wheeler has said, we are confident the FCC’s new open Internet rules will be upheld by the courts, ensuring enforceable protections for consumers and innovators online,” agency spokeswoman Kim Hart said Monday.

Supporters of the rules, which prohibit Internet service providers from blocking, slowing or selling priority delivery of content to consumers, cheered the approaching effective date.

“The publication of the rules brings us one step closer to having the enforceable net neutrality protections that millions of Americans have called for,” said Matt Wood, policy director for Free Press, a digital rights group. “And yet phone and cable companies are still scheming to overturn these freedoms.”

The publication meant the order formally could be challenged in court — and it didn’t take long.

USTelecom filed suit, arguing the rules are “arbitrary and capricious” and violate federal law.

“Reclassifying broadband Internet access as a public utility reverses decades of established legal precedent at the FCC and upheld by the Supreme Court,” McCormick said. “History has shown that common carrier regulation slows innovation, chills investment and leads to increased costs on consumers.”

USTelecom filed a petition with the court last month as a placeholder for a lawsuit, seeking to preserve the right to sue. The group was concerned that the posting of the rules on the FCC website on March 12 might have triggered a 10-day period to challenge them.

More suits are expected. A similar petition was filed last month in the U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans

by Alamo Broadband Inc., a small Internet service provider based in Elmendorf, Texas.

Jodi Arias, at the center of a long-running saga of murder and sex, apologized for killing her exboyfriend and was then sentenced Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison without the possibility of parole.

“I am very, very sorry for the enormous pain I caused,” said Arias after relatives of the victim urged the harshest possible penalty.

“To this day, I can’t believe I was capable of doing something that terrible. I am horrified by what I did, and I wish there was some way I could take it back.”

Arias, now 34, shot and stabbed Travis Alexander, a former boyfriend whom prosecutors say she killed in a jealous rage in June 2008. A previous jury convicted her of murder in 2013 and agreed that the case could qualify for the death penalty but could not agree on whether to impose it.

Arias, whose murder trial drew nationwide attention, had been in a state of legal limbo since 2013, when the first jury convicted her but failed to resolve the sentence.

In October, a new jury in Phoenix began hearing the prosecutors’ case for a death sentence. The sentencing trial ran five months, about the length of the original trial. That trial was a media circus, leading television newscasts, inspiring quickly published e-books and prompting online arguments between her supporters and detractors.

The second jury was deadlocked 11-1 about the death penalty, meaning that Arias could receive only life in prison with or without the possibility of parole. On Monday, she received the harsher alternative.

For the Alexander family, there was no question of the punishment they wanted. With the death penalty off the table, they asked for the toughest jail sentence possible in memory of Travis.

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Jodi Arias looks at her family after being found of guilty of first-degree murder in the gruesome killing her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, in their Phoenix home, Wednesday, May 8, 2013, in Phoenix. Arias was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole on Monday.

“It hurts too much to remember him alive, because if I remember him, I remember too much about how he was brutally taken from us, and I can’t handle it,” Alexander’s sister, Hillary Wilcox, said amid tears in Arizona’s Maricopa County Court on Monday morning. “This is what I’ve had to do so I can cope.”

Wilcox said during the televised proceedings that sometimes when she thinks of her brother she is in the shower, and, “I know that’s because that’s where she killed him, so I have to quickly shake it out of my head and get out of the shower.”

The second sister to speak, Tanisha Sorenson, turned and directly addressed Arias, citing Arias’ earlier claims in her personal journal where she said the person who killed Alexander deserved to die.

“What happened to that, Jodi?”

a tearful Sorenson asked as she faced Arias.

Alexander’s relatives and friends wore blue in solidarity.

Prosecutor Juan Martinez said that Alexander’s relatives hope that Arias is sentenced to serve life without the possibility of parole “not because they want to be vindictive, but [because] as you have also seen, what happened in that bathroom was a butchering.”

The story of Arias and her lover was made for the digital era.

The attractive young couple were outwardly devout Mormons with a tempestuous life behind closed doors that was revealed to the first jury in graphic detail, including about their sex life, via recorded phone calls and text messages.

Arias claimed self-defense and said Alexander had subjected her to physical and sexual abuse.

OPINIONS

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 • Page 4 Editor: Jacquelyn Oesterblad letters@wildcat.arizona.edu (520) 621-3192 twitter.com/dailywildcat

LETTER TO THE EDITOR On January 8, 2011, Tucson congresswoman Rep. Gabrielle Giffords hosted a “Congress on Your Corner” event at Safeway on the corner of West Ina and North Oracle roads.

The event was the first of its kind for the congresswoman, who wanted to connect with her constituents in a casual setting.

However, the event was cut short when a gunman began firing into the crowd in an attempt to assassinate the congresswoman. The gunman was later identified as Jared Lee Loughner, a disturbed college dropout who disagreed with Giffords’ policies. The shooting left six dead and 19 injured, including the congresswoman, who suffered severe brain trauma when the bullet passed through her skull.

Loughner’s assassination attempt launched a national debate about the dangers of political incivility.

When tolerance and civil discourse are removed from the democratic landscape, conflict and gridlock fill their void. Political polarization is at a recent high in American politics. We live in a time period where people vote for candidates solely based upon their party affiliation and where politicians are more concerned with their parties than with their constituencies.

Unfortunately, this polarization has created political incivility that has left political discourse and inter-party cooperation at a standstill. It has even threatened the lives of policymakers and civilians, such as Giffords and the bystanders at her event.

Polarization and incivility have become a prominent trend across the board in American government.

One such example of this can be seen through the 114th Congress, which passed fewer bills than any other Congress since the 1940s. The inaction of Congress leaves the most urgent problems — immigration reform, the nation’s debt, civil rights — unresolved.

It is no wonder that the American people are losing faith in government.

In 2011, CBS reported that the American approval rating for Congress was 9 percent, only 4 percent higher than their approval of Cuba’s former dictator and human rights violator, Fidel Castro. In addition, the Republican-controlled House has demonized the president since his election in 2008 in attempts to regain the power of the White House.

This constant battle between the president and Congress has led to 33 separate repeals of Obamacare repeal in the House and even a government shutdown in 2013.

There are dozens of real problems facing this nation that need to be solved through effective leadership. However, the uncooperative attitude of the two major political parties has created a divide in resolving issues that has left the American people without the system of leadership that has the ability to make meaningful progress.

It is essential for the American people to take a stand to end this gridlockcausing incivility. The movement starts with educating our youth about the adverse effects of polarization and noncooperation on policy making and democracy. It is more important than ever for young people to start tracing the origins of their political beliefs, holding themselves accountable for those beliefs, and discussing them in mixed company.

It is after these steps have been taken that we will be able to celebrate political tolerance, embrace diversity and effectively compromise to create policies and elect leaders that work on the behalf of all Americans.

I invite all UA students and community members to become part of the solution that is restoring civility to the American political landscape.

Please join me and the National Institute for Civil Discourse for what will be a productive evening of civil discourse on April 14 in the university’s Social Sciences building, Room 100, from 7-9 p.m.

The event will feature Emmynominated filmmaker Julie Winokur and a screening of her award-winning documentary “Bring it to the Table.”

The film documents her journey traveling around the U.S. while talking to people on both sides of the aisle about the emergence and endurance of their political beliefs.

After the documentary screening, audience members will be encouraged to speak about the origins of their beliefs among others with differing ideologies. Attendees will walk away from the event with an open mind, a spirit of collaboration and a deeper understanding of the views of others.

Together, we can take steps to protect our nation from divisive politics and political incivility that has rendered policymaking ineffective. Through opening the lines of communication and engaging in civil discourse, we can ensure that tragedies, such as the shooting of Giffords, never happen again.

— Elena Gold, senior studying philosophy, politics, economics and law

Stop. Increasing. Tuition.

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verage university tuition in Arizona increased almost 81 percent between the start of the recession in 2008 and 2014, more than in any other state in the nation. That number will go up again if the Arizona Board of Regents accepts the budgets presented by the three university presidents on April 20.

Hart’s plan calls for this year’s incoming freshmen to pay $11,403 in tuition each year for the next four years. Students who are already enrolled at the UA and signed up for last year’s optional tuition guarantee program will pay about $10,975. Those who didn’t sign up for the guarantee will pay about $100 less, but their tuition has the potential to increase further next year, and the year after that.

Tuition at the average American four-year public university last year was $9,139, according to the College Board.

Under the new proposals, not even Northern Arizona University, traditionally Arizona’s least expensive university, would be that cheap.

Here’s what all of those numbers boil down to: fewer Arizona students who can access higher education. And those who do graduate will have more debt.

According to the U.S. think tank Demos, the average total cost of attending a public university is “more than one third of the median household income in 22

states.” While Arizona families have been asked to sacrifice more and more of their income to fund higher education, the state has shuffled less and less of its own income into universities.

While tuition has increased more than 80 percent, state per-pupil spending has gone up by more than 45 percent.

Not to beat a dead horse, but it bears repeating: No other state, at any point in history, has raised tuition as much and as quickly as Arizona has over the past seven years. Where Arizona raised tuition 81 percent, most states increased only 28 percent.

Where the board of regents asked students to chip in almost $4,500 more, the average state asked for only another $1,936. And now they want to ask for more.

We say no. No more.

We understand that the state has dealt the universities an impossible hand. We understand this budget will be difficult to balance, and that deep cuts have already been made.

But that doesn’t excuse a tuition increase. This dismal and horrifying trend of shifting greater and greater financial burdens to students and their families has to stop eventually, but instead, it looks like it’s becoming a habit.

It’s time this state quits its tuition habit cold turkey.

This is the line we are drawing in the sand. No more increases.

Further increasing tuition

simply makes no sense. Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey got us into this mess with his awful budget, and rarely do we quote him in a positive light, but his response to the proposed tuition hikes was surprisingly astute: “Making a quality product that fewer can afford does not often make sense.”

What’s the point in preserving academics and university services if students can’t afford to benefit from them?

Even the state’s brightest and most talented students, those who presumably benefit from preventing cuts to our universities’ superior academic environments, could be priced out by the tuition increases.

The only merit scholarship that would cover four years of tuition for instate students at the new prices is the award given to National Merit, National Hispanic and National Achievement Scholars. The maximum level of the Wildcat Excellence Scholarship, given to students with at least a 3.0 GPA and 29 ACT, will pay less than 88 percent of tuition costs.

If even the highest achieving students can’t afford to attend school, what does it matter that the UA was able to avoid cutting this many classes or that research center?

Thankfully, the proposed plan is not a done deal, and the board of regents seems unconvinced of the president’s

tuition proposals. When Ducey’s deep higher education cuts were first approved, board of regents Chairman Mark Killian told The Arizona Republic, “I personally am not the least bit interested in raising tuition. I don’t think we can do that.” Last week, Killian still seemed skeptical, telling the Republic, “I was hoping to hold the line and not raise tuition on the in-state people.”

We need to capitalize on the board of regents’ uncertainty and make sure it knows that no matter the severity of the problem, continued tuition increases are not the answer. They’ll only make the situation worse.

The Arizona Board of Regents is accepting comments on the budget proposal until April 30 at 5 p.m. Comments may be sent to tuition@azregents.edu, or they may be mailed to 2020 N. Central Ave., Suite 230, Phoenix, AZ 85004. Students can also comment during an interactive hearing at Gallagher Theatre on April 20 from 5-7 p.m.

— Editorials are determined by the Daily Wildcat Editorial Board and written by its members. They are Nicole Thill and Jacquelyn Oesterblad. Follow them @DailyWildcat

US should ban pennies, tax rounded-up prices

BY TOM JOHNSON

The Daily Wildcat

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few years back, James Rolfe published a profanity-filled rant to YouTube on the subject of pennies — how useless they are, how obnoxious they are to handle, and how they waste both time and space. It’d be hard to say he was wrong.

Pennies can’t buy anything, and it’s a pain in the ass to use them, even when you’ve kept enough of the worthless things in your pocket. Adding to that, pennies actually cost 1.8 cents each to mint, which led Canada to ditch their own version of the one-cent coin.

The only reason pennies still exist is because the zinc industry keeps lobbying for them stay in production.

But let’s placate them by using zinc in one of those dollar coins that don’t go anywhere, and then we can kill the penny. It would be an easy and costeffective way to cut waste in government without cheesing off the Republicans.

Even Congressman Jim Kolbe

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launched ill-fated 2001 and 2006 attempts to get rid of the penny in which he argued we should round up all prices.

But his idea fizzled out in Congress, perhaps because he wasn’t going far enough with it.

The question is what to do with all those prices that don’t end in a five or a zero. The answer, of course, is to tax them.

Anyone who’s watched “Superman III” or “Office Space” knows about the embezzlement scheme that involves shaving off the fractions-ofcents that get exchanged in financial transactions. Imagine what would happen if we applied the same Richard Pryor-ing to prices.

Every price that doesn’t end in a five or a zero would be rounded up, with those two or three cents taken as tax.

Many pennies don’t circulate, meaning that the penny tax would not cost anyone anything. Nobody gives a crap about a

few cents individually, but collectively, they could accomplish many things.

In Arizona, it’s possible that a penny tax could fund our schools or preserve and renovate our historical buildings against gentrification.

And at the federal level, not only would the rounding-up tax provide a whole new pool of money, but the cost of printing pennies would serve as its own financial windfall. Sneak in Thomas Piketty’s proposed global wealth tax in this roundup, and we can stick it to Wall Street.

An Arizona congressman first introduced a bill to Congress in 1989 proposing that the penny be eliminated and all prices rounded up. Let’s finally pass the darn thing. Let’s pound the penny, round it up, pick up the savings and we’ll have good luck.

Or, at least, enough money to not underfund our schools and NASA.

Nobody gives a crap about a few cents individually

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

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BY AMBER WHITE

The Daily Wildcat

Don’t touch me

A UA student told a University of Arizona Police Department officer on March 26 that she was touched inappropriately by someone she did not know while going to drop off her paper in the Modern Languages building at about 4 p.m.

She reported that a Hispanic man who was about 19 to 20 years old and 5-foot-7 with a medium build, shaved head, no facial hair and glasses was running toward her at the southwest entrance of the south building; however, she didn’t think much about it.

The man followed the student to the fourth floor where she opened the door to the hallway for him. Then, the man grabbed her rear with both hands and said, “Oh, I’m sorry.”

The student didn’t believe it was an accident because the hallway wasn’t crowded, and he didn’t seem sincere.

The man continued following her until she went into a room. When leaving the building, she saw the man again. She quickly went to the Student Union Memorial Center where he followed her. The man later appeared again walking toward Old Main.

The woman told UAPD she thought he grabbed her rear intentionally, but she did not feel assaulted. She also did not want to press charges but was willing to work with detectives to make a sketch of him and would recognize the man if she saw him again. No further action was taken during this time.

Right on the line

On March 26, a UAPD officer was driving on Campbell Avenue around 11:14 p.m. and saw a 2003 gold Nissan Maxima without its headlights on.

The officer pulled the vehicle over to the side of the road where its passenger side tires hit the curb.

The UA student driving had watery, glassy eyes with the smell of alcohol coming from the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The man said he drank a red ale beer and helped drink a “saki bomb” at Fuku Sushi on University Boulevard earlier in the evening. The man stepped onto the sidewalk for sobriety tests.

The officer could see the man was swaying in a circular motion. He refused to take a preliminary breath test with the excuse being that he was “right on the line” while trying to get his passenger home and did not want to blow above the limit and get a DUI. The individual was arrested on a charges of DUI impaired to the slightest degree and was taken to the UAPD main station, where he agreed to chemical testing. His two samples indicated he had an alcohol level of .093 and .091. Additional charges of DUI .08 blood-alcohol content or above and driving without headlights were included in his arrest. The man was fingerprinted and released.

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CAMPUS EVENTS Walk with Campus Leaders: Shane Burgess, 11:55AM, Meet on south side of Old Main. Join Life & Work Connections for a walk with Walk with Dr. Shane Burgess, vice president for Veterinary Science and Copperative Extension and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Science. We will meet on the south side of Old Main and walk for about 20 minutes.

Happiness and Buddhism, 4PM, Free, UA Poetry Center- Rubel Room. Why and how are happiness and Buddhism related? What can Buddhism teach us about happiness? Why is Bhutan, the most Buddhist nation, interested in Gross National Happiness? This session, presented by Celestino Fernandez, PhD, will address these and many related questions.

Film - ‘Bring It to the Table’, 7PM, Free, Social Sciences Rm 100. Democracy is founded on robust dialogue, but somewhere along the line, politics replaced sex as the one thing in America we don’t discuss in mixed company – even amongst friends and family. “Bring it to the Table” is a documentary film and community engagement campaign aimed at engaging students in civic action and empowering them to take an active role in breaking down hyper-partisanship.

Salvador Dalí: Our Historical Heritage, 9AM4PM, Free for students, UA Museum of Art- 1031 N. Olive Rd. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is most famous for the bizarre, dreamlike paintings he created as a member of the Surrealist movement.

After having split from Surrealism in 1939, he began to explore religious themes in his art. In the

CAMPUS EVENTS portfolio Our Historical Heritage of 1975, he depicts events and figures of the Old Testament.

Beauties: The Photography of Andy Warhol, 9AM-4PM, $5/ Free for students faculty and staff, UA Museum of Art- 1013 N. Olive Rd. One of the most significant artists of the twentieth century, Andy Warhol changed the art world in the 1960s with his Pop Art paintings and screenprints. While photography had long been important to his work, it was not until Warhol was sued for copyright infringement that he began to take and use his own photographs. Throughout the 1970s and up until his death in 1987, Warhol was taking Polaroids and making them into screenprints for commission.

TUCSON EVENTS Sunrisers Toastmasters Club Meetings, 6:15AM-7:15AM, Cost:$15, 3650 S. Broadmont Dr. Sunrisers Toastmasters members improve communication and leadership skills. Learn how to communicate clearly, speak up with confidence, organize well-run meetings, lead teams, mentor others and provide constructive feedback.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER, 9AM-4PM, $4-9, Free for Children 3 and under Free, The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures- 4455 E. Camp Lowell Dr. This is a unique opportunity to experience the dazzling beauty of world-famous diamonds while tracing their circuitous journeys from the mines of present-day India to the hands of the rich and famous across Europe and the United States, told through 18 quarter-life-size historical figures, including Catherine the Great, Napoleon,

TUCSON EVENTS Louis XIV and the Shah of Jahan and 10 replica diamonds including the Hope, the French Blue and Orlov.

El Nacimiento (The Nativity Scene), 10AM-5PM, Tucson Museum of Art - La Casa Cordova- 140 N. Main Ave. A traditional Mexican nativity scene made with hundreds of tiny lights and earthen figurines displayed at one of Tucson’s oldest buildings, La Casa Cordova, Tucson Museum of Art Historic Block.

The Adventures Of Robin Hood At Gaslight Theatre, Times Vary, Cost: $8.50-18.50+tax, Gaslight Theatre- 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. Join Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men for a rollicking musical adventure as they rob from the rich and give to the poor in defiance of the blackhearted Sheriff of Nottingham.

Carondelet St. Joseph’s Hospital Farmers’ Market, 10AM- 2PM, Free, 350 N. Wilmot Road.

Wonderful Produce! Great vendors and live music!

“Empire 100 Art Show and Sale”, 10AM4PM, Free, Tucson Desert Art Museum- 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road. Works from a variety of western artists will be available for purchase in this juried event. For more information visit empireranchfoundation.org. Proceeds benefit Empire Ranch Foundation.

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SPORTS SCORE CENTER LeBron nabs triple-double in big win Cleveland Cavaliers 109, Detroit Pistons 97

Pirates hand Tigers first loss of season Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Detroit Tigers 4

Knicks take down topseeded Hawks New York Knicks 112, Atlanta Hawks 108

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GYMNASTICS

Ryden did more than coach

BY MATT WALL

The Daily Wildcat

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n terms of NCAA collegiate coaches, Bill Ryden was different. It’s not every day you have the opportunity to grace yourself with a gymnastics coach who rode motocross for 48 years or was an avid country music fan. Or even one who graduated from rival ASU with a degree in aerospace engineering and worked on missiles.

When he stepped down as head coach of Arizona gymnastics and said farewell on April 9, his team was left heartbroken. Few had expected it, and news outlets around Tucson were shocked.

Ryden had held the reigns of the program for the past 17 years and spent 25 years total in some coaching capacity for the Wildcats.

He was a master recruiter along with associate coach John Court and was the third longest tenured coach currently working for Arizona Athletics, only behind softball coach Mike Candrea and volleyball coach Dave Rubio.

There’s no doubt among analysts that he was one of the top gymnastics collegiate coaches in the country. Just take a look at his accolades. He was named 2002 South Central Regional Coach of the Year (the first to do so in Arizona history) and 2002 Pac-10 Conference Coach of the Year.

He finished his Wildcat career amassing a school record of 219200-4 in his 17 years, holding the school record for victories.

He also trained 17 gymnasts to 36 All-American honors and 36 gymnasts to 75 All-Pac-12 Conference or All-Conference awards. Some include ring of honor gymnasts Katie Matusik, Randi Liljenquist, Anna Basaldua and Heidi Hornbeek.

Under his reign, the Wildcats never backed down from an opponent. You can’t if you’re playing in one of the toughest

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ARIZONA GYMNASTICS coach Bill Ryden speaks with team members during Arizona’s 196.850-196.850 tie with Denver on March 14 in McKale Center. Ryden stepped down from the program last week and will be remembered as a tough but loving leader.

conferences in the country like the Pac-12. In fact, there were seven teams from the conference that finished in the top 25 this year, the highest number out of every conference.

Ryden’s road to the sport was different, too.

He followed his sister to the gym and practiced in his backyard on a trampoline. He took a break from motocross and has been in love with the sport ever since his high school years, competing for ASU in

his college years.

I once asked Ryden what it was like to compete in one of the toughest conferences in the country. His first response was “amen” to the level of competition in the Pac-12.

It wasn’t hard to find Ryden during meets. He would always wear a bright pink or red collared shirt. He was the first to joke around after meets and spent roughly a half hour after meets speaking with fans or former GymCats.

TRACK & FIELD MEN’S BASKETBALL

Key week looms for UA basketball UPCOMING SCHEDULE BASEBALL 4/17 at Oregon State

SOFTBALL 4/17 at Utah

SAND VOLLEYBALL 4/18 Pac-12 invitational

WOMEN’S TENNIS 4/17 at ASU

TRACK AND FIELD 4/16 at Mt. SAC Relay

TWEET TO NOTE Some athletes are wired different — @StanMan_5

Arizona men’s baskeball standout freshman forward Stanley Johnson is always a good source for motivational tweets .

Not to mention this tweet could easily be said about Johnson.

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Wildcats set records all across the board

BY BRANDON JAMES The Daily Wildcat

Arizona track and field saw a weekend full of record setting performances that featured some of the top athletes from around the country in their final home meet of the season .

Kurt Felix of Grenada received a score of 7,895 to place first in the men’s decathlon, a multi-event featuring the 100-meter dash, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400-meter dash, 110-meter hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw and 1500-meter run . Arizona redshirt junior Pau Tonnesen totaled a score of 7,783 and placed second .

Tonnesen’s score is currently the highest decathlon score in the country .

“The high jump and the pole vault didn’t go so great,” Tonnesen said in an Arizona Athletics interview. “But I had a lot of other personal records that went very well. I’m happy with the score, and I’m happy with the two days. They both went well.”

Arizona’s Harrison Ivie, Erik Mensendiek and Myles Hawkins followed up with scores of 7,198, 6,058 and 5,946, respectively, in the decathlon.

Arizona sophomore Alyssa Thompson finished with a score of 5,320 to finish third in the women’s heptathlon , an event that features the 100-meter hurdles, high jump, shot put, 200-meter race, long jump, javelin throw and 800-meter race.

Freshman Tiana Bonds finished right behind her by scoring 5,242 , and Aleah Hurst finished in sixth place with a 4,704 score.

The Wildcats’ men and women teams both finished in third place in Saturday’s individual events against USC, LSU, Illinois and Purdue.

The women totaled 91 points, and the men scored 93 .

Gia Trevisan, Lizzie Smith, Jasper Gray and Diana Gajda all clocked personal best times in the women’s 400-meter dash. The men’s 400-meter dash saw four Wildcats, Pete Lauderdale II, Blake Eichler, Bryce Houston and Collins Kibet set personal best times as well .

The men’s 4x400 meter relay group of Eichler, Houston, Lauderdale and Miles Parish clocked a season best time of 3:07.70 , and the 4x100 team of Eichler, Tyrell Johnson, Mohammad Alhasan and Ty Brandt also ran their best time of the season, with a time of 39.84 .

Aaron Castle placed second in shot put competition with a personal best mark of 18.97

His enthusiasm was contagious, and he always had positive comments to say about his team.

Yet, at the same time, he was tough when it counted.

Ryden always focused on his Wildcats “being a complete program.” From academics to athletics and community service, Ryden has succeeded in every part.

But the real factor about Ryden that sticks out the most is his willingness to never be afraid. He

UA takes top spot at PING/ASU invitational

BY JUSTIN SPEARS The Daily Wildcat

meters.

Daniel Whitham set a mark of 16.76 meters in shot put, which was a personal best as well .

Whitham also set a personal record in the javelin with a mark of 56.76 meters.

The women’s 1500-meter run resulted in an impressive first place finish for Elvin Kibet.

Kibet finished with a time of 4:23.61 , another

The No. 8 ranked Arizona women’s golf team was successful over the weekend in Tempe after the Wildcats snagged their second tournament win of the season on Sunday.

The Wildcats shot 861 (-3) and took first place at the PING/ASU Invitational for the first time since 2000.

The last time Arizona was victorious in Tempe, the Wildcats brought home a national championship and were led by then-Pac-10 Player of the Year Jenna Daniels.

According to Arizona coach Laura Ianello, a national championship is in arm’s reach.

“I’ve said this since the beginning of the year: I know we are capable of winning a national championship,” Ianello said. “We have so much talent, and we’re playing so well that winning a national championship is doable.”

More importantly, the Wildcats finished ahead of instate rival ASU and gained even more momentum to what is already a solid spring season.

This event could be a huge confidence booster for the Wildcats, considering they competed with No. 7 Arkansas, No. 1 USC, No. 2 Washington, No. 3 UCLA and No. 5 Duke.

The Wildcats spent the last invitational at home and finished in second place at the Wildcat Invitational. Arizona shot 845 (-19), and that score lifted the Wildcats to a new school record over 54 holes.

“The girls set a new school record and still lost to USC by 11 strokes at home,” Ianello said. “So I think we were extra motivated to get out there and show these top-ranked teams that we can compete.”

Arizona teed off on Friday and ended the afternoon tied for fourth place (E). Arizona was led by Wanasa

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ARIZONA TRACK and field combined events athlete Pau Tonnesen long jumps during Arizona’s third-place finish at the Jim Click Shootout on Thursday at Roy P. Drachman Stadium.

Tonnesen was named the Pac-12 Men’s Field Athlete of the Week for his performance over the weekend.

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Arizona convincingly takes final game of ASU series

BY JAMES KELLEY

The Daily Wildcat

Arizona baseball utility player Bobby Dalbec not only made his first start on the mound on Monday, he also led the revival of the Wildcats’ bats in the ninth inning to end the UA’s losing streak.

Arizona (23-11, 8-7 Pac-12 Conference) upset No. 4 ASU 7-2 to avoid the sweep in the archrivals’ Pac-12 series.

Dalbec pitched 4.1 scoreless innings in his first start. He also hit two home runs, a solo home run in the second and a two-run go-ahead shot in the ninth off of ASU closer Ryan Burr.

“It was real cool,” Dalbec said. “It’s always a good feeling to be able to do that and come through for the team and be in big situations.”

Dalbec gave up five hits, zero runs, two walks and struck out four on the mound.

“He’s done a great job; he’s really been good,” Arizona coach Andy Lopez said. “He’s done everything he’s asked. He closed, he’s hit home runs, he’s doubled, he’s done a marvelous job.”

The ninth inning homer opened the floodgates, as the UA offense scored six runs that inning.

Third baseman Cody Ramer got the next RBI, hitting Burr with the ball to knock him out of the game. Then, center fielder Justin Behnke drew a bases loaded walk.

Second baseman Scott Kingery singled to with two strikeouts.

Bannister went two innings, giving up three drive in another run, and shortstop Kevin hits, two runs, zero walks and Newman got an RBI on getting three strikeouts. a sacrifice fly.

Lopez said he will move Dalbec has 10 home Bannister into the starting runs now, the first rotation, probably as the Wildcat with at least BOBBY DALBEC Saturday starter, but he might 10 homers since 2008. put Dalbec there.

He hit three total long YEAR/ POSITION New closer Tyger Talley (4-0) balls in the series with SOPH. UTILITY went 2.2 innings and gave up his two on Monday one hit, zero runs, two walks night.

MAJOR GENERAL STUDIES and recorded three strikeouts “They were huge, to get the win. about as big as they HOMETOWN “Good for him to do it in get in a rivalry game PARKER, COLO. this environment,” Lopez said. against a big arm like “Good for him to get to the Burr,” Dalbec said HEIGHT, WEIGHT 50-pitch count.” about the homers on 6-FOOT-4, 219 LBS Up next for the Wildcats is Monday. “It’s a good MONDAY STATS a trip to Oregon State (23-11, feeling.”

6-6).

Dalbec, the UA’s 4 1/3 INNINGS PITCHED, “I think now the rotation is former closer, recorded TWO HOME RUNS HIT going to be a strong one,” Talley three strikeouts in the said, “because now we got guys fourth but gave up a hit that can go deep into games and his first two walks and hand me the ball late in games, and I think in the fifth inning.

Lopez said he should have pulled Dalbec after we can go get wins.” the first walk because that was around his pitch limit as he makes the move from closer to starter.

Nathan Bannister came in to relieve him — Follow James Kelley and got out of a bases loaded, one out jam @jameskelley520

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wasn’t afraid to go up against anyone. He cheated death three times, twice during motocross accidents and once in gymnastics.

When Ryden took over the program in 1998, Bill Clinton was president of the U.S. The cost of a gallon of gas was roughly $1.15, and “Saving Private Ryan” was the talk of the town in theaters.

“I feel that in reality, I am merely the captain of a ship that is built by a lot of people,” Ryden said in his 1998 volume one issue of Cat Scratches. “Certainly, the team is the focal point of the program, but the program was built by many people that came before. Being part of the program is much more than simply putting on a leotard on meet day.”

Times have changed, but Ryden will always be apart of the Wildcats program and should go down in history. Being a part of 29 consecutive regional appearances is special.

Ryden was special.

Arizona Athletics will surely miss him.

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Zhou after the sophomore finished tied for 14th place and shot a 71 (-1).

Zhou would also be the only Wildcat to finish in the top 20 of the first round.

Senior Manon Gidali and junior Lindsey Weaver finished tied for 24th place after they both shot 72 (E).

Freshman Krystal Quihuis tied for 29th place by scoring a 73 (+1). The Wildcats were lucky to find themselves in the top five, despite not shining on the individual leader board.

“We were lead by Lindsey Weaver, Manon Gidali and Krystal Quihuis the entire tournament,” Ianello said, “and they definitely lifted us, and they played fantastic for us this week.”

Arizona would surge in the second round, improving its score to 564 strokes overall (-12). That score would also be the second best score of a

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round, the Wildcats would go to win the event by seven strokes.

The trio of Quihuis, Weaver and Gidali would finish tied for 10th place with an overall score of 215 (-1). Zhou would finish the event at 3-over-par and 20th place. Arizona captured its second win of the season with the help of four Wildcats finishing in the top 20.

“We know we can play with the best teams in the country,” Ianello said, “but right now, our main focus is on the Pac-12 [Conference] Championships, which has basically the same teams we played against this week. So, we’ll have our hands full again.”

Arizona will compete at the Pac-12 Championships from April 20-22 in Boulder, Colo.

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Gidali and Weaver once again carded identical scores in the second round as the pair each shot a 4-underpar and moved up to a tie for seventh place.

Zhou shared 12th place after the second round after carding a 70 (-2) that lifted her to 3-under-par for the tournament. Quihuis would also climb the leader board 10 spots to a tie for 19th place after shooting a 2-underpar, which aided the freshman’s score to 143 strokes overall (-1).

The Wildcats would find themselves in the driver’s seat and were set to finish the event on Sunday in the final round. The first place Wildcats were looking for a solid final round to end the regular season on a positive note and prove they can compete amongst the best.

Arizona would go on to have a sloppy final round (+9), but thanks to a comfortable lead after the second

personal best. Kibet said she rarely competes in short distance events, as she normally competes in the 5K and 10K events.

“The 1500 [meter run] is not my event,” Kibet said. “I just went out there, kept the pace, and stayed up with those girls.”

Kibet also said it was great and meant a lot to have such an impressive performance in front of the home crowd at the final home meet of the season.

Kibet went on to run the 3000-meter run later that day, and finished first with a 9:38.63 time, with her teammate Kristina Aubert finishing in second place.

The Wildcats will head to Walnut, Calif., for the Mt. SAC Relays on Thursday and to Baton Rouge, La., for the LSU Alumni Gold Classic on Saturday .

Arizona coach Fred Harvey said he feels good after his team’s performance this weekend.

“Everyone really competed well,” Harvey said in an Arizona Athletics video. “We’re seeing some really good things with all the athletes.”

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legal drinking age is Q The lower in other countries and there’s no problem.

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Oh yeah, and this one: because many European countries have a lower drinking age, this leads to more responsible drinking habits among their young people.

However, data show that with the exception of Turkey, U.S. youth have lower reported instances of alcohol abuse than any other European nation. A recent study compared rates of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in the United States with those in Europe and found that both rates and frequency of drinking among European youth are higher than in the U.S. One indicator depicting more responsible European drinking would be lower incidents of binge drinking. However, studies show that while still a significant problem here, U.S. adolescents/young adults binge drink less than their European peers. Only Portugal had a lower rate of than the U.S. Italy, Greece, and Spain had a 30-39% greater rate, and Demark topped the survey at 61%.

In the category of intoxication, which is associated with a wide range of personal and social problems like vandalism, assaults, injuries, and death, the U.S. was below the middle of the pack compared to other European countries. Once again, Denmark topped the intoxication charts. The only category where European youth fared better were in alcohol related motor vehicle accidents, but studies show this was due to higher legal driving ages, more expensive vehicles, shorter driving distances, and greater access to public transportation.

I like so hate to burst any bubbles. But the myth that young European people, with their lower legal drinking ages and drinking socialization practices, drink more responsibly than their American counterparts is just not true. There’s no real evidence to back this up. But you never know, albino alligators might still infest NYC sewers.

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BY ELISE MCCLAIN The Daily Wildcat

Dissatisfaction with the political process and with our representatives in Washington runs deep and wide through the American public. According to research conducted in 2014 by the Pew Research Center and the Gallup Poll, only 24 percent of the public trusts the government, while Congress maintains an abysmal 15 percent approval rating.

One popular explanation for the ever-increasing dissatisfaction in our current climate is political polarization. Partisan vitriol rises every year, with deafening shouts from both sides of the aisle muting bipartisan efforts and similarities.

The UA banded together with the National Institute for Civil Discourse, Associated Students of the University of Arizona, the School of Government and Public Policy, No Labels, the Honors College, and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law to present Emmy-nominated Julie Winokur’s documentary, “Bring it to the Table.”

“Bring it to the Table” is a project Winokur launched in 2012 as a response to a comment made by her 17-year-old son.

“He told me I was politically intolerant,” Winokur said. “He told me, … ‘If the other side had a good idea, you wouldn’t know it, because you wouldn’t be listening.’

When he said that, it made me stop and consider my own role in partisanship and, in general, all of our roles in what’s going on nationwide.”

Funded via Kickstarter, “Bring it to the Table” is a grassroots, community campaign that works to engage and empower participants in breaking down hyper-partisan divides through dialogue. According to PPEL senior Elena Gold, one of three student interns at NICD working to bring this project to the UA, politics is

something we should be able to discuss in mixed company.

“Political discourse is incredibly important, and we do a disservice to our country and to ourselves when we avoid talking politics around those with opposing opinions,” Gold said. “Hopefully the film [will be] able to deeply affect the attendees of the event and can spread tolerance and acceptance throughout our campus.”

Though Winokur said she believes many problems exist in our current political climate, not all of the blame can be placed on politicians and policymakers.

“On a citizen to citizen level, we’re also part of the problem,” Winokur said. “We buy into a certain kind of hostility that doesn’t need to exist. We lack a willingness to engage. I decided that I would make it my mission to listen to people. So, I took a small table and hit the road, setting up in all sorts of familiar, ordinary settings, and I invited people to sit down and have a discussion with me about the roots of their political beliefs.”

Through weeks of planning, NICD interns, in collaboration with Peter Michaels, communications director for the National Institute for Civil Discourse, worked to bring Winokur and her project to campus.

Through community outreach, marketing and fundraising, NICD was able to secure a showing with Winokur and her documentary tonight at 7 p.m. in Social Sciences Room 100.

“This is a good promotion of civil discourse,” Michaels said. “I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for the students to see how other people around the country feel about different topics, and how their life experiences have helped develop their positions on different political topics. I think it’s an opportunity for students on campus to think about the political arena and how that impacts their lives.”

Additionally, Michaels said that in the effort to bring partisan

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WITH LAVALIER MIC at the ready, Julie Winokur, director of “Bring It to the Table,” sits poised, ready to engage in discussion. Winokur will be at a screening of her documentary, which focuses on making bipartisan political discussion more accepted, today at 7 p.m. in Social Sciences Room 100.

dialogue to the table, NICD will introduce a new chapter of No Labels to campus tonight. No Labels, a political organization composed of various parties, will serve as a permanent installment of positive bipartisan efforts at the university, one that will attempt to

bridge the philosophical divides between right and left.

“I would hope that the attendees of this event will walk away with a better understanding of and acceptance for those with different political beliefs than their own,” Gold said. “Diversity

in political opinion is essential for representative democracy, but this diversity should be celebrated, not unspoken.”

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A YOUNG MAN BITES into a tangy lime. Like the popular Ice Bucket Challenge, The “Take a Bite Out of Lyme Disease” challenge encourages participants to raise money and awareness for Lyme disease.

Taking a bite out of Lyme disease

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The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge collected over $115 million last summer and inspired people within the Lyme disease community to capitalize on this same type of awareness.

Melissa Bell, and four other women personally affected

by Lyme disease, seized the opportunity to create the Lyme Disease Challenge, an organization that created the “Take a Bite Out of Lyme Disease” challenge campaign to raise awareness, fund research and dispel common Lyme disease misconceptions.

The challenge requires a photo or video of someone biting a lime, stating a fact about Lyme disease, contributing $10, nominating others to reciprocate and posting it to social media with #LymeDiseaseChallenge.

All of the donations collected will go to the nonprofit International Lyme and Associated Diseases Educational Foundation to be used for educating medical professionals and furthering research and treatment of Lyme disease.

With six times more cases than AIDS, Lyme disease receives 1 percent of the amount of funding that AIDS receives; this is despite Lyme disease symptoms producing the same type of immune dysfunction as AIDS. Lyme disease, most associated with an infection from a tick, can be transmitted by mosquitoes and other biting-insects, be passed

from mother to child during pregnancy, and through blood transfusions; the Red Cross does not screen for Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections.

Bell, once a high-functioning attorney at a top-tier law firm with the energy to push through anything, said her unwavering motivation had to switch gears.

Her severe fatigue, caused by the disease, forced her to use her laptop to make a difference from her bed.

“I’m still hopeful, with continued treatment, that I will be able to make progress,” Bell said. “But, unfortunately, I was misdiagnosed for about 17 years, which has led to a very disseminated, hard-to-treat infection and significant damage to virtually every joint in my body.”

The narrow criteria adopted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been the greatest obstacle to the Lyme disease community.

This has resulted in perpetuated misconceptions, such as the 14 to 28-day antibiotic treatment cure time frame, or how the disease can only be contracted in a limited amount of cities.

“It’s not just a single species of ticks in a limited geographic area,” Bell said, regarding the CDC’s report stating the opposite. “There are also many strains of the Lyme bacteria that can infect humans, and, unfortunately, the standard test for Lyme disease [works] only to detect that single strain.”

Jean Spinell, who has struggled with Lyme disease since the 1980s, is part of the Tucson Lyme

disease support group. Spinell and other support group members mentioned how a Lyme disease strain from Japan, Borrelia miyamotoi, was also found in New York and Russia.

Lyme disease is known as the “great imitator,” as patients with Lyme disease can remain untreated for years due to the symptoms being frequently misdiagnosed as multiple sclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, autism, Alzheimer’s disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, Fibromyalgia, among others.

“The [Infectious Diseases Society of America] will have people think it’s hard to catch and easy to treat, and that’s simply not what so many people are experiencing,” Bell said. “Whether it be Yolanda Foster, Avril Lavigne or the child in your neighborhood who is home-bound for years because they’re so fatigued they can’t even move.”

After being misdiagnosed for 26 years, Ann Sumara of the Lyme disease support group described her frustrations with medical professionals.

“This is the fastest growing infectious disease in the [U.S.],” Sumara said. “When will they get it through their heads that this isn’t going to go away?”

For further information on Lyme disease and the “Take a Bite Out of Lyme Disease” Challenge, go to lymediseasechallenge.org.

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t’s never too early to start feeling old. “While We’re Young,” the latest dramedy from indie darling writerdirector Noah Baumbach, explores the fascination and reality of youth. The film juxtaposes two couples: middleaged Josh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts), and 20-somethings Jamie (Adam Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried).

The film delves into the expectations and reality of what it means to be young and to come to grips with the absence of youth. Josh, an established documentary filmmaker, meets his 20-year-younger reflection, Jamie, while teaching a film class, and the two couples become fast friends.

Josh and Cornelia initially find themselves rejuvenated by Jamie and Darby’s perpetual hopefulness.

Jamie and Darby embody the hipster, grassroots lifestyle popular among the young folks of today, and their effect is so strong that at one point, Josh proclaims, “For an hour or two there, he had me convinced I could build myself a new desk!”

This resurgence of youth finds Cornelia and Josh at just the right time.

Jamie and Darby arrive at a point when Josh claims he’s only capable of two emotions: wistful and disdain.

For a short period of time, Jamie and Darby remove the disdain from Josh’s life. Their youth outshine the issues facing Josh: his decadelong unfinished documentary, the questions on parenthood that arise from a friend’s newborn and a damaged relationship with his more accomplished father-in-law.

Josh and Cornelia are fully entranced by youth. For a time, gone are the lack of responsibility, fear and pragmatism weighing down their 40s.

Jamie and Darby are still connected to the vibrant heartbeat of life, and would rather dance than live a quiet, domesticated life.

Where “While We’re Young” shines is the reversal of this romanticized look at youth. Slowly but surely, Jamie and Josh’s relationship begins to crack.

As Jamie’s fledgling documentary begins to gain momentum, Josh no longer finds himself caught up in the wistful protégé-mentor relationship he enjoyed. Jamie transitions from a reflection of Josh and the exuberance

of youth to a suspicious manipulator of the people around him.

As Jamie, Driver plays the one guy who checks all the right boxes but still makes your skin crawl. Jamie twists and turns the truth to fit his end goals, all the while believing his subjective version of reality is what the people want. Josh’s suspicions of a grand conspiracy weaved together by Jamie prove to be true.

In the end, our expectations fail us. Josh’s friend, a brand new father, explains how having a baby changed him for the better but not as much as he expected it would. Similarly, Josh had fallen in love with the romanticized idea of youth that Jamie fed him, which, too, ultimately proved fallow.

“While We’re Young” is the disguised journey of Josh becoming an old man.

To be young is to believe the world still revolves around oneself. Josh spends the majority of the film seeking a way to revive this belief he has held so long.

Even in the climax, as he attempts to expose Jamie as a fraud, he does so in order to vindicate himself.

“While We’re Young” explores one man’s case of confirmation bias over the question, “Am I still young?”

The answer is ‘no.’ Life passes everyone by. Aging is like the arthritis Josh discovers he has after crashing his bike trying to keep up with Jamie: an inevitable decay of youth.

In the end, Josh comes to grips with this. He confesses to Cornelia that he still feels like a child imitating an adult, but in reality, he is an old man.

The final scene proves Josh’s growth as he and Cornelia sit in an airport on the way to adopt a child in Haiti.

They have given up youth and the idea that the world can still revolve around them; they are becoming parents as a means to live a life centered on another.

Sitting in the airport and reading an article on the success of Jamie as a filmmaker, Josh says, “He’s not evil; he’s just young.”

The couple looks up to see a child imitating an adult by babbling on an iPhone. We are all that child, and we are all learning to act a littler older, a little more selfless.

Rating: 7.5/10 — Follow Alex Furrier @badjazzmaverick