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everything related to him, from comic books to statues.

“He was here in Tucson,” Macias said. “The hotel where he stayed in Tucson is still here; it is about two blocks away. In December 1912, he [escaped] jail and [stayed] here in Tucson.

It is from here that he [got] funding to form a revolution in Chihuahua.

So for me, Tucson is really

UA Biosphere 2 is hosting Earth Month, a series of activities held on weekends during April where people can learn about different environments through a variety of interactive learning experiences.

John Adams, deputy director for Biosphere 2, said rather than just celebrating Earth Day itself, Biosphere 2 wanted to highlight Earth Day for the entire month of April.

Adams said this is the second time Biosphere 2 has done this and will continue to do so in the coming years.

“What’s consistent across all of it is the opportunity to explore Biosphere 2 and get to go inside the facility, and not only hear about the historical aspects of what made and brought this facility to be, but also hear how the UA is using this facility to better understand our planet,” Adams said.

This weekend, Biosphere 2 will be focusing on light, as 2015 is the International Year of Light, and light-based technologies, Adams said.

“April 25 we are going to be celebrating and focusing on the Biosphere 2 ocean, and will give people increased access to our ocean area,” Adams said. “We’ll have some of our researchers who are specifically working with our ocean there to highlight what’s going on and what will be coming up in the future in the Biosphere 2 ocean.”

So far, Adams said the turnout has been very good and the numbers have been strong each weekend.

“Typically, April is a time frame when we have a lot of folks visiting the Tucson

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EDWARD POLANCO, a history graduate student, presents his research at the Playground Bar and Lounge in Tucson on Wednesday. The UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry hosted the event, where three graduate students spoke.

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Graduate students took time to share their current research with an audience at the Playground

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The UA’s Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry hosted their Show & Tell: Grad Jam on Wednesday from 6-7:30 p.m. at Playground Bar and Lounge.

“Show & Tell is a monthly event on a Wednesday,” said Jamie Manser, the communications and

events coordinator for the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry. “We have it downtown at Playground.

Tonight, we had our graduate fellows who presented the research that they were able to due to the funding that we granted.”

Eric Magrane, a graduate student in the School of Geography and Development, who presented “Woven Words

at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum,” shared his own poetry and the poetry that you can find at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

Marco Macias, a graduate student in the history department, shared “Francisco ‘Pancho’ Villa in Collective Memory and Popular Culture,” showing his love for the revolutionary Pancho Villa and

Celebrating Camp Wildcat

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QUOTE TO NOTE “But just because the grocery store gives you plastic bags for free doesn’t mean plastic is free.”

This weekend, Camp Wildcat, a studentrun organization that mentors kids in need, will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. Camp Wildcat has been providing a free and fun outdoor experience for underprivileged children since 1965. The program also encourages these children to attend college and set life-long goals. This weekend will play host to a number of events and activities to commemorate the longlived program.

The camp’s events will range from fundraisers to activites, and the Arizona Historical Society Museum will host a meet and greet Friday at 6:30 p.m. The following morning, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the UA Mall, is the kids’ Fun Fest, where alumni and current

members of Camp Wildcat will put on educational activities. There will be a silent auction from 6-9:30 p.m. Saturday in the Grand Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center.

These events are a way for Camp Wildcat alumni to interact with current volunteers as well as Title 1 kids, who are the focus of the program, according to Catherine Patton, community relations chair for Camp Wildcat.

Volunteers for the program spend time as counselors at one of several camps and hike with the participating youngsters.

The camps are divided into Big Camps, where 40 to 60 children are led by about 40 counselors on camping trips to Mount Lemmon.

Adventure Camps, smaller hikes to Madera Canyon and similar places, include 20 to 35 kids and about as

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CURRENT AND FUTURE members of the Bobcat Senior Honorary clap in celebration at the conclusion of the 25th Evening of Excellence in the Student Union Memorial Center North Ballroom on Wednesday. The evening honored those who made significant contributions in academics, service and involvement.

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Last night, the UA Bobcats Senior Honorary hosted its 25th Annual Evening of Excellence, where outstanding UA clubs and individuals were recognized for their significant contributions in the areas of academics, service and involvement.

The Bobcats Senior Honorary is composed of 13 seniors who pride themselves on being dedicated to the UA. Ben Malisewski, the current president of the honorary, started the night by

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welcoming and thanking the around 300 students, teachers and alumni in attendance for showing up to honor those receiving rewards.

Guest speaker and economics professor Steven Reff said he was honored to speak in front of a crowd at such a marvelous event that recognizes students.

Reff titled his speech “Life Lessons I have Learned During My First 60 years.” Some of the wisdom and lessons Reff said he wanted to pass on included: how life is similar to building a house, why everyone should join

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area, and so many of these folks choose to visit Biosphere 2 as one of the attractions to see in the area,” Adams said. “I would say a fair percentage of our visitors are from the out-of-state market, but we’re also looking to attract the local Tucson audience by giving a diversity of things to do at Biosphere 2 throughout the year — and this is one of those activities.”

Adams said Biosphere 2 has reached out to various campus entities and is looking to provide additional activities for a younger audience. He said each weekend is themed, and Biosphere 2 offers free admission to children ages 12 and under on both Saturdays and Sundays throughout April.

Kevin Bonine, director of education and outreach for Biosphere 2, said the emphasis of the research is on earth science and focuses particularly on how water and energy move through different ecosystems.

“We’re studying all the hydrological and physical properties of the soil as well as the changes in the biochemistry and the microbial communities,” Bonine said.

“The reason why we’re interested in this is because as climate is changing, we can expect things like precipitation patterns to change [and] we may experience more drought. If we don’t understand how water moves through ecosystems, we’re not going to know how much water will be available.”

Sarah White, a biology sophomore,

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INSIDE BIOSPHERE 2 lies the ocean biome, one of seven ecosystems within the complex, on Oct. 11, 2014. The Biosphere 2 is celebrating Earth Month throughout April in honor of Earth Day.

said her favorite part of Biosphere 2 is the Technosphere, the underground mechanism that runs the whole biosphere.

“I personally thought it was really interesting to see all the intricate machines

at work, because it really exposed how technology was really sustaining nature, which is very seldom seen,” White said.

“Most of the time, we use nature to run our machines, and I liked seeing it the other

way around for once.”

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CAMP WILDCAT aims to mentor underprivileged children in the Tucson area. This weekend the Camp will be celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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many counselors.

Food and transportation are provided free of charge to the kids who come on the trips, with meals cooked by counselors.

“As a counselor, my job is to be there and support the kids, whether it be through songs, games, hikes and life talks,” said Justice Onwordi, a volunteer and counselor for Camp Wildcat. “We interact with the kids through various rotations that involve skits, crafts and games. Our

main priority is to guide the kids and motivate them to be the best they can be in life, and to encourage them to attain all their goals in life while still getting an education.”

The campers are from the Tucson area, with the schools acting as intermediaries between Camp Wildcat and interested youth.

Schools submit an application, and each school is selected about every three to four years.

Counselors are hired on a basis of interest, for those who want to get involved in the free to join club. Camp Wildcat’s website, UofACampWildcat.org, provides

important in that sense.”

The last presenter was Edward Polanco, who presented “Empowering and Revitalizing an Indigenous Language with Technology.” Polanco is also a graduate student in the history department. He shared an Android app that he created called “Nahuatl Naman” to help people who are interested in learning the Nahuatl language and the culture.

Polanco discussed why the Nahuatl language is so important by relating it to Spanish. For example, the Spanish word “mitote,” which means gossiping or making a lot of noise, comes from the Nahuatl word “mitotli,” which means dance or festival.

“There are a ton of words that come from the Nahuatl language

more information and a listserv registration. The club meets every week, though attendance isn’t mandatory.

“You can be as committed or uncommitted as you want,” said Cassidy Solper, natural resources senior and chair of the club.

For these volunteers, it is more than just fun and games.

“I got to change kids’ lives over a weekend, and that is really cool and powerful,” Solper said.

In a baseball column titled “Bobby Dalbec shows all-around skill for Arizona baseball” that appeared in Wednesday’s edition misidentified a baseball player. The photo shows Robby Medel, No. 34, pitching during Arizona’s 13-6 loss to USC at Hi Corbett Field on April 3, not Dalbec, who was featured in the column.

In an article titled “Students take part in Capitol Hill Days” that appeared in Tuesday’s edition misidentified the number of activists.

Last year’s event had 87 student activists but had 140 total activists in attendance. This year, the total number of activists was 200.

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The Daily Wildcat regrets the errors.

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“Do you buy all your required textbooks every semester? Why or why not?”

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1. “Yes, I do, because it helps me get better grades.” ­— Rina Ornelas, a pre-public health freshman.

2. “If I know someone who has taken the class before, then I ask them

and offer to pay them less than the amount they paid. If I don’t know anybody, then I just buy the book myself.” — Erika Hocheder, a prephysiology freshman.

3. “Yes, I do, but I don’t think I’m going to do that anymore. I feel like classes don’t use textbooks anymore; they use e-books or they don’t use a textbook at all.” — Maximiliano Verdugo, a public health freshman.

4. “Yes. I’m a freshman, so I did first semester, but I didn’t this semester 3.

because I realized I don’t need to use all of them. I checked Rate My [Professors], and so this semester I didn’t buy as many.” — Cole Miles, an undeclared freshman.

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the FLC “Fricking Lucky club,” how it’s not just only who you know, but what you know and how living off other people’s money is not a bad thing.

Many awards and scholarships were given throughout the evening recognizing clubs and members of UA’s student organizations who have shown dedication, spirit and passion.

Bobcats Taylor Ashton and Dana Kline honored the late Professor Richard Ruiz by presenting the Outstanding Faculty Member of the year Award to his wife Marie Ruiz for his kindness, good nature and dedication.

Also recognized and given an award for drive, devotion and commitment to students’ success was marketing and management instructor Samuel Williams.

The Arizona Mortar Board Senior Honorary, Chain Gang Junior Honorary, S.M.O.R.E.S. Sophomore Honorary, Sophos Sophomore Honorary, Arizona Allegiance Honorary and the Arizona Ambassadors all also took moments to recognize and congratulate their new incoming members for the 2015-2016 year throughout the night.

Jill Hall, the advisor for the Bobcats, said she thought everything was successful and is excited that the event continues to grow each year, meaning more students are having their accomplishments honored.

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— Compiled by Chastity Laskey and photos by Brandi Walker

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that really influence the way that Spanish is spoken in Mexico and other parts of the world,” Polanco said. “There [are] approximately 1.7 million speakers of Nahuatl in Mexico, according to the Mexican government.”

Polanco pointed out how people who want to learn the language are able to do so through his app because it can be accessed in both English and Spanish. He also mentioned that Yale University is going to pick up the app and use it in their classrooms in a pilot run.

“It is not just teaching you how to say words,” Polanco said. “It is also telling you the importance and significance of the word, and how long people have been speaking the language and things like that.”

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Remembering ‘BringBackOurGirls’ TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

WASHINGTON — On the first anniversary of the abduction of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls by terrorists, two survivors joined human rights advocates and members of Congress on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to ensure their classmates’ plight is not forgotten.

The group dressed in the color red, which they said represented the girls, wore purple ribbons as a symbol of stopping violence against women and held signs that read “BringBackOurGirls” as a call to spread the word on the Internet.

Nearly 300 schoolgirls from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Nigeria, were kidnapped last April

by Boko Haram, an Islamic terrorist group based in northeast Nigeria that’s pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. More than 50 victims escaped, but the rest have not been found.

“Boko Haram is physically and psychologically abusing girls,” said Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., who traveled to Nigeria to urge the release of the girls. The militants are “forcing them to get married, forcing religion conversions and are even using women and girls as human bombs.”

About 10 of the girls who escaped are in the U.S. now and attending school.

“When I came to America, I [found] that American people say that ‘give me liberty or give me death,’” said Saa, one of those who escaped. “When I heard that, I remember the time that I decided to jump out of the truck that I’d rather die than live.”

She used a pseudonym and wore sunglasses to conceal her identity, for fear of retaliation against her family in Nigeria. She and her friend jumped out of a truck carrying hundreds of the kidnapped girls and crawled into a forest to look for help.

“Here I am now, free and continued with

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DAVIS TRUMBLE, of Washington, D.C., protests against the abduction of nearly 300 girls by the terrorist group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, at a rally and demonstration in front of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on May 6, 2014 in Washington, D.C.

my studies,” Saa said. “But my class are still in the hands of the terrorists. I’m pleading everybody from all of the world to bring the girls back to school.”

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, who traveled with Wilson to Nigeria and met families of the victims, noted that Boko Haram has displaced 1.5 million people — including 800,000 children, according to a

recent UNICEF report — ­ from their homes in Nigeria.

“This should not be a life of children,” she said.

Wilson said there would be classified briefings for Congress to share information with the State Department about the kidnappings.

President Barack Obama and the

international community called on the new president-elect of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, to use the military to tackle Boko Haram.

Wilson said she was working on a bill that would urge the Nigerian government to collaborate with the international community to defeat the group.

Depressed diabetics face risk of dementia TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

PITTSBURGH — It’s already known that people with Type 2 diabetes and those with depression each face a greater risk of dementia.

But now a study published online Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry says people with both conditions face a risk of dementia higher than expected.

“Depression and diabetes mellitus were independently associated with a greater risk for dementia, and the combined association of both exposures with the risk for all-cause dementia was stronger than the additive

association,” the study concludes.

Type 2 diabetes and depression go hand-in-hand. Poorly managed blood-glucose levels can lead to depression while inactivity from depression raises the risk of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes brings a 20 percent higher risk of dementia as compared with people without diabetes due to “poorer adherence to diet, smoking cessation, exercise and medication regimens” necessary for control, the study says.

Depression is associated with an 83 percent higher risk of dementia.

For years, researchers followed 2.5 million Danes, age 50 and older, including 477,133 with depression

and 223,174 with Type 2 diabetes. It found that people younger than 65 with both diabetes and depression represented 25 percent of all dementia cases in that age group.

Six percent of all dementia cases among people 65 and older had both conditions.

The big message is that “the best treatment for dementia is preventing it from happening,” said Dr. Dimitry Davydow, University of Washington associate professor of psychiatry, adding that no treatment can reverse dementia.

Most dementia cases combine Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia caused by strokes or

other interruptions of blood flow to the brain. Dementia results in “significantly impaired intellectual functioning that interferes with normal activities and relationships,” the National Institutes of Health states. People with dementia also “lose their ability to solve problems and maintain emotional control, and they may experience personality changes and behavioral problems, such as agitation, delusions and hallucinations.”

“We found that depression and diabetes mellitus were both associated with a greater risk for all-cause dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and vascular dementia,” the

study states.

In his commentary published alongside the study, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center geriatric psychiatrist Charles F. Reynolds III said study results are plausible and stress the need for lifestyle interventions to coach people about healthy dietary practices, with the need for drug targets to improve human health. In all, he said, we need “convergent scientific approaches to meet the challenge of promoting healthy brain aging and cognitive fitness into the last years of life.”

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Save some money: Live with old people BY nick havey

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ince the recent election of Gov. Doug Ducey, Arizona’s universities and public schools have faced astronomical budget cuts as a part of an effort to reduce the state’s massive budget deficit, a platform Ducey ran on. This budget cut reflects disturbing trends in higher education: tuition, room and board and auxiliary costs inflating at rates that students, especially from lower income brackets, cannot keep up with.

Costs must be cut on both ends, and one possible answer might be grandparents.

Elders often support their grandchildren financially, if they are lucky enough to still have them around, but university students are finding an alternative to asking for money outright — living with them.

The Humanitas retirement home in Deventer, Netherlands, allows students to live rent-free in dormitory-style apartments within the retirement home alongside the elderly — on the condition that students are polite and spend at least 30 hours a month with the more seasoned residents.

Sparked by one student’s interest in escaping poor conditions in university housing, the program is a way to subsidize student housing while providing a service to the elderly.

According to a study by the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, social isolation and loneliness have a sharp positive correlation with mortality in the elderly. This residential exchange program could be a simple and preventative measure.

The study reads, “social relationships are central to human well-being and are critically involved in the maintenance of health.” This concept has been consistently proven in residential contexts for students, with those living on campus for at least one year showing high rates of retention and academic success.

It should be no surprise then that the same positive effects attributed to social interaction could benefit the elderly, as the study explains “it is a particular problem at older ages, when decreasing economic resources, mobility impairment and the death of contemporaries conspire to limit social contacts.”

Gea Sijpkes, head of Humanitas, said in an interview with PBS regarding the exchange program that the students’ interactions positively impact retirement communities.

“The students bring the outside world in,” Sijpkes said. “There is lots of warmth in the contact.”

At the Cleveland Institute of Music, in a similar program, students are offered a method to cut costs while also providing company to the senior residents of Judson Manor. The students, who play music and spend time with the senior citizens, are part of a program combatting rising tuition and room and board costs within the American university system.

While both parties cite the warmth Sijpkes spoke of as the greatest benefit of the program, it is also a lucrative measure in reducing housing costs for students — a burden many pay for themselves through loans or scholarships while getting their education.

While it is unlikely that the almost 7,000 undergraduates living in on-campus housing at the UA could subsidize their expensive (and rising) housing expenses by living rent free with the elderly, innovative and cost cutting measures could and should be explored by the UA and Residence Life.

With concerns about rising tuition costs and a hands-tied legislature struggling to balance the budget, it makes sense for public universities to increase auxiliary costs like housing.

“One way to make tuition prices go up more slowly is to make room and board go up more rapidly,” said Sandy Baum, a professor of education for George Washington University and a researcher of higher education finances for the Urban Institute, in an interview with The Hechinger Report.

This smoke screening isn’t slowing down rising costs for anyone. With room and board costs up 9 percent more than general inflation and a national average of 21 percent tuition increases in the past five years, college is rapidly becoming an industry mandate that students can simply no longer afford.

With a university education rapidly becoming a mandate rather than the suggestion for success it used to be, the system needs to change if American students are expected to compete globally. If the state legislature and its head — Ducey — are unwilling to preserve the institution designed to make our nation great, we’ll just have to survive until the next election.

But maybe we could add a “Would you be down for hanging out with old people to save some money?” question to housing applications.

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish.

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Law banning too-skinny models achieves nothing

BY Maddie Pickens The Daily Wildcat

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rance recently passed legislation prohibiting fashion models with a body mass index below 18 from working.

Modeling agencies violating the ban could face over $80,000 in fines and up to six months in prison.

Perhaps obviously, this ban affects a large segment of the industry. When similar legislation was enacted in Spain, 30 percent of the models from previous years were turned away.

The ban is a response by François Hollande’s administration to the growing body image issues and cases of eating disorders in the country. Currently, an estimated 40,000 people — 90 percent of them women — in France suffer from anorexia nervosa, just one type of eating disorder prevalent worldwide.

In theory, limiting the exposure of teenage girls to models who are deemed to be unhealthily thin could improve these statistics.

After all, 47 percent of girls in grades five through 12 reported wanting to lose weight because of magazine pictures.

However, this legislation is problematic on several levels. The first is that BMI, the

disorders reach beyond the physical consequences of extreme weight loss: Almost 50 percent of people suffering from eating disorders meet the criteria for depression.

Reducing eating disorders to a mere question of body weight, as this legislation does, ignores the larger scope of the problem.

It is, in short, a one-size-fits-all solution — pun intended — for a problem filled with nuances.

“Rather than being focused on all the talk about thinness and obesity, I am personally interested in championing healthy eating choices and behaviors, as well as improving physical activity,” said Sheila Parker, a UA public health lecturer.

Real solutions to society’s problem of body image will address not only these healthier behaviors, but also the competitive, comparative and image-obsessed nature of the media and culture.

However, all the proposed “solutions” are akin to this new law — simplistic, blanket bans that ignore the complex scope of eating disorders as illnesses that are just as mental as they are physical. Until this changes, legislation like France’s will only be making things worse.

measure by which the models are deemed “fit to work,” is already a noticeably flawed standard of health.

BMI is a number derived from your height and weight — and only your height and weight. It ignores factors that could actually make for a better holistic assessment of a given model’s health, like age, metabolism, muscle composition or the location of body fat.

In short, a low BMI does not indicate an eating disorder, or even that a model is unhealthy. Applying it in this way, then, is somewhat akin to using a hammer on a screw — it’s the entirely wrong tool to fix the problem. Moreover, forcing models into a body type that may not be natural for them could bring about a whole host of other issues of image and self-esteem.

“Eating disorders are emotional disorders that have psychological, behavioral, social and physical manifestations, of which body weight is only one,” as was nicely put by the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s website.

Almost ironically, the image of disordered eating presented by the media is that of a railthin waif suffering from anorexia. However, it is possible to suffer from anorexia and be at a normal weight, or even be considered overweight — it is even more likely that this will occur if the patient is suffering from a different eating disorder, such as bulimia nervosa or binge-eating disorder.

Moreover, the consequences of eating

— Maddie Pickens is an economics freshman. Follow her @maddieclaire149

AZ bans banning plastic bags

BY Ashleigh Horowitz The Daily Wildcat

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et’s hope the current generation of young adults in Arizona enjoys the idea of a future littered with plastic waste, because that’s what it’s looking to be.

Gov. Doug Ducey just signed Senate Bill 1241, which prohibits towns from passing local ordinances banning plastic bags.

According to Californians Against Waste, 18 states have bans and fees set in place against plastic, with California taking the lead. California has been attempting to ban plastic bags on a state level, and after two long years, the bill was signed on March 7.

Now the question remains, why isn’t every other state jumping on the train? Why is Arizona moving backward on the issue? The easy answer: money.

The American Progressive Bag Alliance has spent millions arguing that Americans should

“Bag the Ban” and keep plastic around.

It’s no secret though that plastic is harmful to the environment, and legislators have even worked to amend bills to allow for smoother transitions when it comes to banning plastic, but nothing can appease a hungry hippo.

Plastics make up 13 percent of all waste in this country — a huge jump from the 1960s when plastics were less than 1 percent of trash, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority reports that plastic bags emit three times more greenhouse gases than reusable green bags and require 4.5 times more energy to create than their

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counterparts.

Go into any grocery or pharmacy store, and you’ll likely find reusable bags for sale. Whole Foods Market, for example, supplies shoppers with colorfully designed reusable bags, prompting shoppers to save money and energy.

The only reason people aren’t stuffing their cars with reusable bags is convenience.

It’s more convenient to have groceries packed into bags that are already free. It’s more convenient to throw away plastic bags instead of saving.

It’s more convenient to not have to remember to bring green bags with you every time you shop.

But just because the grocery store gives you plastic bags for free doesn’t mean plastic is free.

In Phoenix alone, plastic

Why is Arizona moving backward on the issue?

bags cost the city $1 million in recycling equipment repairs every year, according to The Arizona Republic. The Los Angeles Department of Public Works calculated that litter clean-up for plastic bags costs counties and taxpayers $20 million each year.

It shouldn’t take harsh taxes to convince us to stop letting baby turtles suffocate to death; we should care, in today’s world. Alas, it appears too hard for many to try.

We should care not only about what happens to our planet but also what we can do to help it.

We all live here together, all 7 billion of us, and we need to begin acting that way.

If Arizona State Rep. Warren Peterson says the right to use plastic is an individual choice and claims that bans are a violation of people’s rights, then I uphold my individual right not to offer him a plastic bag at check out.

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Speeding on Speedway

A man was arrested on charges of driving under the influence on March 22 after speeding on Speedway Boulevard.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was driving behind a 1992 Maroon Lincoln Town Car on Speedway Boulevard when the vehicle accelerated, driving between two lanes at 45 mph in a 35 mph zone. The man in the car drove over a curb and parked in two lanes at the Boston Market parking lot where he was pulled over at approximately 3:40 a.m.

When the officer approached the driver, he could smell alcohol on the man’s breath. The officer reported the driver’s eyes were red, watery and bloodshot, and his speech was slurred and slow. The driver told the officer he had been drinking earlier in the evening and was unable to produce his driver’s license because it was suspended. The officer had the driver get out of his vehicle and performed a series of tests.

The man was arrested for driving under the influence to the slightest degree and taken to the UAPD station. He took a Breathalyzer test at the station and samples had a bloodalcohol content of .182 and .191. He was charged with a DUI with BAC over .08, an extreme DUI with BAC over .15, and civilly cited for failure to maintain lane. Authorities impounded his vehicle and any further checks on the man could result in more charges if necessary.

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The UA Bookstore called UAPD on March 26 around 4:52 p.m. regarding two non-UA affiliated male shoplifters.

The shoplifters had purchased two items before returning to the shopping area, where each put a pair of socks into their bags and attempted to leave the store without paying. They were stopped by the UA Bookstore loss prevention team. The men claimed to be on spring break, visiting Tucson from Colorado.

One of the suspects told a UAPD officer that he was shopping with some friends and decided to buy a shirt. Once the shirt was purchased, he placed a pair of socks bearing the UA “A” logo into the same bag as the shirt he purchased while waiting for his friends, who were still shopping. He said the UA seemed to have a lot of money, and he didn’t think the loss of a pair of socks would be a big deal to the university.

The officer explained to the individual that by placing the socks in the bag, he had shoplifted.

The other individual involved, a 17 year-old, said he was visiting Tucson and staying in a hotel near campus. He was shopping in the bookstore and decided to buy two shirts, but went back to the shopping area and noticed a pair of socks on sale, which he placed in the same bag containing the purchased shirts. When he was caught, he continuously apologized and said he and his friends were part of a high school baseball team competing in a tournament.

The first suspect UA officers spoke to was cited and released on charges of shoplifting and escorted out of the bookstore by security. The 17 year-old was given a Juvenile Paper Referral for shoplifting. Authorities contacted both individuals’ parents, who then came to pick up their children. Copies of surveillance videos and receipts were placed into evidence.

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‘An Exploration of Affective and Cultural Production in Israel-Palestine’, NOON, Free, McClelland ParkRm 402- 650 N. Park Ave. Building on insights of queer theory, hip-hop studies, affect studies, and spatial theory, Alex Karaman will elaborate for us a possible exchange between bodies of Western theory and research on political and cultural landscapes in Israel-Palestine. Drawing from a field project located in multiple sites in Israel-Palestine, this talk explores how Palestinian cultural and affective production indicates new directions for both queer theory and hip-hop studies within Western academies. Free pizza included.

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rizona outfielder Katiyana Mauga arrives an hour early to Hillenbrand Stadium before each home game, gets dressed and then takes a seat on the bench.

The sophomore blares music from her Beats by Dre headphones and stares out onto the field for a couple of minutes. Nothing else going on around her matters.

This is Mauga’s way of reaching tranquility, or in her words, of zoning in before game time.

It’s a simplified mindset, but one that has reaped rewards for Mauga and the Arizona softball team.

The San Diego native, who is known by her teammates as mellow and laconic, brings an unmatched force of tenacity when she steps up to the plate.

Mauga leads the Wildcats with 19 home runs, a mark that ranks third in Division I. One of her homers against Washington nearly cleared the left field bleachers at Hillenbrand Stadium.

“She has two sides,” Arizona infielder Mo Mercado said. “She’s one of those players who is pretty calm, and you build off her personality that day. But when she’s fired up, we definitely feed off of that.”

Mercado knows Mauga as well as anyone on the team. The two played travel softball together as early as eighth grade and were roommates last year.

Mercado has been on both ends of her friend’s competitive streak over the years.

“She’ll take a game of Simon Says and take it into a competition where she wants to win,” Mercado said.

That mentality drives Mauga as she elevates her play to an elite level.

Mauga earned nearly every feasible accolade as a freshman, from USA Softball and NFCA Player of the Week to first team All-Pac-12 Conference.

Most notably, she was the first Arizona player to earn Pac-12 Freshman of the Year since Caitlin Lowe in 2004.

Mauga has nearly matched her home run and RBI totals from last year; there are still four regular-season series left this season. Her .855 slugging percentage leads the Pac-12.

“I think she has progressed more mentally than she has physically,” Arizona coach Mike Candrea said. “The more you play the game at this level, the larger your database becomes and the better your decision making is.”

It helps to have some natural power. Mauga has been looked upon as a slugger since her early days of playing softball — she set the San Diego District Division II home run record with 41.

Mauga’s strength at the plate is something she said she’s “just got used to.”

“We work hard in the weight room, but [Mauga] came here with a strong upper body and quick hands,” Candrea said. “She’s always been a good hitter, it’s just a matter of her [making] adjustments when people are trying to make adjustments against her.”

Mauga’s production will be counted on all the more as the Wildcats enter a key stretch of the season that could determine whether they earn a national seed for the Women’s College World Series.

ARIZONA SOFTBALL outfielder Katiyana Mauga (34) follows through on a swing during Arizona’s 10-2 victory over UC Riverside on Feb. 28, 2015 at Hillenbrand Stadium. Mauga’s power and poise have been driving forces behind Arizona’s dominant offense.

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Arizona track and field will be sending athletes to Walnut, Calif., to compete in the Mt. SAC Relays, and to Baton Rouge, La., for the LSU Alumni Gold Classic.

The throwing and distance team is headed to Walnut and competes today, Friday and Saturday, while the sprint team will compete at LSU on Saturday. The meet in California is expected to feature many Pac-12 Conference schools.

Hanna Peterson will be competing in the 5k race at the Mt. SAC Relays. The Jim Click Shootout was a difficult meet for her last weekend, as she had to fight through a cold.

Peterson said she feels a lot better this week and is excited to race over the weekend. This will be Peterson’s second time competing in that event this season.

“I just really want to go out there and have a consistent time for all three miles and do better than last time,” Peterson said. “I want to be competitive and have fun.”

Peterson has been trying to rest this week, but she has continued to practice and work on weights and core in the training room.

Pete Lauderdale II will be competing in the 400-meter dash and the 4x400-meter relay at LSU. Blake Eichler will run the first leg of the 4x400-meter race, Lauderdale the second, Bryce Houston the third, and Miles Parish will run the final leg.

“It’s going to be a really fast meet,” Lauderdale said. “The level of competition is going to be even higher than it was at Jim Click.”

Lauderdale said Texas A&M, in particular, will bring some of the top 400-meter runners in the nation, and he looks forward to competing against them.

He hopes to set his personal record in the 400-meter race, and looks to potentially set a new school record in the 4x400 relay.

Lauderdale said having the right mindset going into both events is key.

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ARIZONA TRACK and field coach Fred Harvey looks on during Arizona’s third place finish for both men and women at the Jim Click Shootout on Saturday at Roy. P. Drachman Stadium. Harvey will send athletes to two seperate meets starting Thursday.

Arizona coach Fred Harvey said he believes his team has now entered “championship season” after the Jim Click Shootout, and he hopes to see his athletes step up in California and Baton Rouge.

Harvey hopes his men’s 4x400 team of Eichler, Lauderdale, Houston and Parish will improve on their previous times, and thinks Eichler can improve on how he leads off the event.

Harvey hopes Collins Kibet can improve on his times at the Mt. SAC Relays and Kate Penney has

a breakout meet. He said he looks forward to seeing how Elvin Kibet performs.

“Mt. SAC is really important because we want to get that first round qualifying mark under our belt,” Harvey said in an Arizona Athletics video. “It’s going to be really exciting to see all of them get out there and run.”

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rizona women’s golf is a program that has a long line of rich culture, but many athletic programs at Arizona are built on the tradition of winning.

Arizona coach Laura Ianello has built quite the resume and has the Wildcats primed and ready for not only a Pac-12 Conference title, but also a deep NCAA Championship run.

Having already collected two tournament titles, Arizona is among the top programs in the country, thanks to Ianello.

The Wildcats won the SunTrust Gator Women’s Golf Invitational in Gainesville, Fla., in March and then took the PING/ASU Invitational for the first time since 2000.

Arizona looks good. Really good.

What most people don’t know is Ianello happens to be a former champion herself, not only in the pros, but also at the collegiate level.

Ianello played professionally for five seasons on the LPGA Tour, Futures Tour and West Coast Ladies Golf Tour. She finished 147th on the LPGA Tour money list in 2004 and eighth on the 2003 Futures Tour, with a 72.1 stroke average to go alongside three top-10 finishes.

Ianello, then bearing the surname Myerscough, played for the Wildcats from 1998-2003 and was a member of the NCAA Championship squad in 2000, which was the last time Arizona took the crown of women’s golf.

The trend of former players turning into young coaches has become a theme across sports, and not just women’s golf. For instance, former NBA player Jason Kidd has

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After having both heartbreaking losses and fantastic wins, the Arizona women’s tennis team travels to Tempe to compete against the rival ASU Sun Devils on Friday.

When the two teams matched up last year, the game came down to the wire. The Wildcats didn’t win the doubles point, but played with enough passion to be able to come close to winning the point on Senior Day. This year, the rivalry is still up in the air, as it is the last match of the regular season for two schools with a long history.

“Last year, it was definitely one of the most exciting matches overall for the season,” UA junior Shayne Austin said. “We struggled a little bit last weekend, but it is a new weekend for us, and if you beat ASU, that always concludes a pretty good season for us.”

Austin and senior Briar Preston, who are 5-3 in Pac-12 Conference play, hope to make it to nationals as doubles partners, but could potentially be playing together for the last time against ASU. The duo said they have developed great chemistry and truly trust each other on the court, which is essential to being able to succeed.

“We just believe in each other and trust each other on the court, which is huge in doubles,” Austin said.

“There’s never any anger toward

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coached the Milwaukee Bucks into the NBA Playoffs while Steve Kerr, former Arizona Wildcat and current Golden State Warriors coach, has the chance to win NBA Coach of the Year.

Arizona basketball coach Sean Miller even emphasizes Arizona basketball as being a players program, considering Miller’s coaching staff is full of former collegiate standouts.

Ianello is much like Miller in this case in having a former player, Derek Radley, as an assistant.

Radley graduated less than a decade ago, in 2006, and played in

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Arizona men’s tennis sophomore Will Kneale returns a volley during Arizona’s 4-1 loss to Oregon on Friday at the LaNelle Robson Tennis Center. Both men’s and women’s tennis teams hit the road to take on conference foes.

each other or anything. We are really close on and off the court, so I think that definitely helps us when we go out and play.”

Austin said she wants to forget about the past weekend and go out there with a positive attitude, support her teammates and play as hard as she can, as it could be their last match of the season as a team.

“We are just going to go out

there and try and do what we can,” Austin said. “We know we are capable of beating them and just supporting them.”

Meanwhile, the Arizona men’s tennis team is traveling to Salt Lake City to conclude its regular season matches.

The team has not had many great wins, but still has the drive and determination to play the

the No. 3 spot for Ferris State.

Ianello stepped in to coach the Wildcats in 2010 in an attempt to earn Arizona’s third National Championship, much like Sean Miller did in 2009 when replacing hall of famer Lute Olson.

Since joining the program, Ianello has already had her best season as a coach when Arizona finished second in the Pac-12 Championships last season.

Many coaches wouldn’t celebrate finishing in second place, but the Pac-12 is arguably the best conference, top to bottom, in women’s golf.

To go along with sharing a runner-up finish, Arizona went on to finish seventh in NCAA Regionals and tied for

seventh place in the NCAA Championships.

Ianello has brought Arizona back to the national spotlight as the Wildcats fended off the top-three teams in the country, including the defending national champions, Duke, at the PING/ ASU Invitational. So, it’s safe to say that Arizona has the ability to win a National Championship.

Ianello’s collegiate career for the Wildcats is history, but by the looks of the way Arizona is playing, she has a legitimate shot at taking the Wildcats to even greater heights.

best it can.

During the last two weekends, Arizona men’s tennis coach Tad Berkowitz said the team has been working hard to improve its game and get ready for Utah.

“Our main thing is kind of our athleticism, just being strong with our legs, being real light with our footwork and getting in the right position for every shot,” Berkowitz

said. “That’s something that we can control: being in the right position, staying low with our legs just so we are never finding ourselves kind of not ready for the ball.”

Sophomore Will Kneale said he has never been to Salt Lake City and that he loves going to the Pac12 Conference schools because they have very nice campuses. For the match this weekend, he said he wants to be able to finish off his matches and not lose control. “[I need to] finish off the match if I’m winning,” Kneale said. “On Sunday, I was up, and I got a little tired and didn’t finish it off. But [I’ll] just compete hard like everyone, and hopefully we can get the win.”

As the last match of the regular season is here, Berkowitz said he wants his players to be able to finish strong.

“The guys have been through a lot this semester and, despite taking some losses, I am really proud of their effort and perseverance despite some injuries and stuff like that,” Berkowitz said. “Right now, it’s a gut check and character check for the guys — you know, let’s make sure we finish strong. It is the last regular match of the year and we need to give it absolutely everything that we have.”

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Arizona women’s golf coach Laura Ianello (right) speaks with spectators during Arizona’s second place finish at the Wildcat Invitational on March 17 at Sewailo Golf Club. Ianello has continued the trend of strong Arizona coaches by guiding the Wildcats into the National Championship talk.

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New app to aid traffic flow

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Hate being stuck in traffic?

There’s an app for that. An innovative app developed by a UA associate professor allows users to help alleviate traffic, benefit the environment and even receive rewards for doing so.

UA civil engineering associate professor Yi-Chang Chiu said he began the development of the app, Metropia, in the summer of 2011.

Beside the typical usage, similar to other navigational programs where users are able to input their desired destination for routing, Metropia also provides different routes based on different departure times to assist travelers’ trip planning processes.

According to Chiu, the app aims to encourage users to travel at lowtraffic times and evenly distribute their commute across all available routes to improve flow of traffic and decrease congestion. By decreasing the amount of time spent in traffic, users can decrease carbon dioxide emissions. This is because fuel consumption, and therefore CO2 emission, increases with the stopstart way of driving that is done in heavy traffic.

“A key [difference] between Metropia and other navigational apps is that we want to trigger a behavioral change so as to avoid congestion,” said Xianbiao Hu, Metropia research and development director.

“In Metropia, you can plan your trip ahead of time. You can see that if you leave for the grocery store at 1 p.m., it will take you 10 minutes, but if you leave at 5 p.m. it will take you 20 minutes.”

According to Chiu, Metropia aims to modify the commuting habits of users by using a point collection system as an incentive.

Points are not given out arbitrarily, but users must leave at the stated time and follow the given route to

receive the points, Chiu said. The points can then go toward buying gift cards from different businesses that have partnered with Metropia, Inc., including Target, Amazon and Starbucks.

“We are working with local merchants and artists to create this ecosystem of providing incentive for users to not only save their time, but also to decrease CO2 emissions and benefit the environment,” Chiu said. “And this is all done from small changes in their behavior.”

The app launched in Tucson on March 18, and since then has accumulated over 1,000 active users, Hu said.

“The more people that use this app, the better it will be because of the increased amount of data to be collected,” Hu said. “With over 1,000 people driving, we can cover a lot of the main roads like Speedway, Grant, and Campbell — we have pretty good data coverage.”

Metropia, Inc. has also partnered with American Forests, the oldest national nonprofit conservation organization in the country, to allow users to create a positive environmental impact. For every 100 pounds of CO2 emissions saved, Metropia, Inc. will fund the planting of a tree to support the national re-forestation effort.

The app is currently available for iOS and Android devices for free. It is available in Tucson as well as Austin, Texas, and will be expanding to six more locations within the year, including New York City.

“This app is a great example of how the UA can help promote research products, commercialize them and create a real world impact,” Chiu said. “And most of the people we hire to work at Metropia are our own students.”

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A TUCSON driver uses the Metropia app during their daily commute. The app incentivizes commuters to make better informed travel choices, which helps manage the traffic flow in a city.

UA reseachers study how rats make decisions

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of, ‘Should I expend some effort to get this good reward, or should I take the easy-way out?’”

According to Cowen, his The output of cost and benefit analyses people make are research may answer even discernible: Choosing Chipotle simpler questions like whether over a salad, or chasing a dream the neurons in this area of the job over a stable paycheck. brain respond to the anticipated However, what can’t be seen is effort or cost of completing a what exactly is going on in the task, respond to anticipated brain that ultimately results in reward, or combine those two bits of information together to do these decisions.

Stephen Cowen, an assistant an evaluation of the value of the professor of psychology, studies decision.

Matthew Schmit, a researcher how the brain processes the costs and benefits that are involved in the Cowen lab who has two in every decision we make at a bachelor’s degrees, one in and cognitive neuronal level. While in the past neuroscience people have heavily researched science and the other in molecular and cellular rewards, not biology, is much is known developing about how the computer brain anticipates software that or evaluates cost. will allow the “We are trying lab to analyze to see if the hundreds of similar systems gigabytes of involved in costs neural data. are also involved “We get in benefits, a lot of data and vice versa,” with these Cowen said. “Is — Stephen Cowen, rats,” Schmit dopamine, for said.

“We assistant professor of example, which have 123 psychology, we think is very channels. We important in record every reward and time one learning about reward, involved in costs, or at of the doors in the maze move; least allowing you to overcome the we record every time one of the barriers move. There is just a lot negative parts of costs?”

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter, of data to go through. With that a chemical signal that is sent much data, the question becomes, from neuron to neuron to illicit a ‘Do you get it in a form that you are able to work with to determine response.

To tackle these questions, the what is actually going on?’”

By using thin pieces of wire Cowen lab is looking at the activity of individual neurons of rats going called tetrodes and placing them through a maze that requires them near different regions of the rat’s to make cost-benefit decisions. brain, the individual neurons The individual neurons that are of the brain can be measured, monitored through this process Cowen said.

“In our brain we have about 80 are largely in the frontal cortex and a region of the brain called billion individual neurons, but the striatum. Individual neurons together, they make us think, learn in the striatum are involved in and remember,” Cowen said. “We motivation, learning and habit are very much interested in the activities of individual cells and learning, Cowen explained.

“We are learning how the how they contribute to learning, striatum interacts with the frontal memory and navigation.” cortex during decision-making,” Cowen said. “An example of this decision-making is when the — Follow Chelsea Regan animal is processing the choice @DailyWildcat

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LUNAR AND PLANETARY Lab and UA art students, led by Alfred Quiroz, a UA professor of art, collaborated to create a mural. It is meant to commemorate the OSIRIS-REx mission, and is on display on the west side of the Michael J. Drake building.

Mission to asteroid revs up

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On Sept. 3, 2016, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission, developed and spearheaded by the UA, will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and begin its two-year journey to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.

By 2016, the endeavor will have been 12 years in the making. The proposal was first submitted to NASA in 2004.

OSIRIS-REx is an acronym for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, SecurityRegolith Explorer.

The title “OSIRIS-REx” was selected because it embodies the five major goals of the mission, explained Bashar Rizk, senior staff scientist at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite instrument scientist.

According to Dante Lauretta’s blog “Life on the Asteroid Frontier”,’ OSIRIS-REx also parallels the myth of Osiris in ancient Egypt. Lauretta is the principal investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission and a UA professor of planetary science and cosmochemistry Much like Osiris brought knowledge of agriculture to the Nile Delta, which led to the development of modern civilization, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will return asteroid samples that may very well have been the “seeds of life” that originated life on Earth.

Asteroids and Osiris can also be associated with both life and death.

The samples and data to be obtained by OSIRISREx and returned to Earth by September 2023 will reveal valuable information about the origins of the solar system, asteroid evolution, carbon-rich resources that could be utilized for future missions, and patterns that may put Earth at risk for asteroid collision, Rizk said.

A number of institutions have collaborated to integrate the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a variety of

cutting edge technological tools aimed to maximize the quality of data obtained, Rizk explained.

These instruments include a state-of-the-art camera suite and laser imaging technology to characterize the size, shape, geology and environment of Bennu, as well as several other instruments that collect and analyze samples. One example is the Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, otherwise known as the TAGSAM, which collects asteroid samples by agitating the surface of Bennu with quick spurts of inert gas and sucking them in with a vacuum.

“The primary objective of OSIRIS-REx is to return pristine carbonaceous material from the early Solar System,” Lauretta writes. “These rocks are rich in organic compounds and water-bearing minerals like clays. We hope to find organic molecules that may have led to the origin of life on Earth and inform the likelihood that life may have originated elsewhere in our solar system.”

Following the initial proposal in 2004, four subsequent proposals were written and re-submitted until OSIRIS-REx was selected for NASA’s New Frontiers Program in 2011.

“It turns out getting selected was the easy part,” Lauretta writes.

Since selection by NASA, the OSIRIS-REx team has surpassed four of the five rigorous checkpoints called Key Decision Points, Lauretta writes. The OSIRIS-REx team passed the fourth checkpoint last month and has since begun the last checkpoint: assembly, test and launch operations.

“Building and flying a spacecraft on an interplanetary trajectory is a challenging task,” Rizk said. “No single failure can be allowed to threaten the failure of the mission, and, hardest of all, it must all be done under an unforgiving time schedule. The planets wait for no one.”

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