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ASUA senators prepared for next year’s senate class by discussing state budget cuts, senators’ 2015-2016 workload and stipends. Current senators receive $1,200 in pay for their positions, which is taken out of the Associated
Students of the University of Arizona’s overall budget. ASUA Sen. Joshua Wexler said he thinks the senate should consider lowering the stipend because it seems like there’s a lack of “real responsibilities.” He said it’s hard to justify $1,200 when there are limited defined expectations for
senators to meet. If stipends are lowered, ASUA Sen. Brooke Serack said they should also consider lowering the number of office hours. Senators are required to complete 10 office hours and five out-ofoffice hours each week. However, there is no official way of tracking if senators complete these
hours or what work they accomplish. ASUA Sen. Jack Emery said there is a discrepancy in the amount of responsibility taken and how much senators are paid. ASUA Sen. Joe Zanoni argued that holding this position keeps people from other jobs, and he urged senators to be
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cautious when talking about decreasing stipends. Worried about how people already view the student government, ASUA Sen. Trey Cox warned that lowering stipends will only defend the arguments that senate doesn’t do work and will devalue the position.
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TOP: STUDENTS stand and shout on University Boulevard during riots that broke out after Arizona lost to Wisconsin in the 2014 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight on March 29, 2014. Police responded to the rioting by dispersing pepper canisters and shooting pepper balls at the crowds. ANGELINE CARBAJAL/THE DAILY WILDCAT
While last year’s Elite Eight loss saw police officers declare an unlawful assembly on University Boulevard, there was a significant difference in the way students and police officers reacted to the Elite Eight loss this year. Filbert Barrera, UAPD public information officer, said UAPD officers are adept at being a part of a crowd and part of celebrations at the university. “A lot of our officers had a lot of good comments from the public about how friendly we were, how friendly the atmosphere was — and that was the plan,” Barrera said. “Cops are fans too, and we want the ’Cats to do well, too, and that’s what we were doing.” The 2014 Elite Eight loss to Wisconsin produced a less friendly atmosphere. According to Daily Wildcat reporting from last year’s riots, at least 15 people were taken into custody. Fans threw smoke bombs and beer bottles at the police. Riot police joined the already 80 officers on University Boulevard and responded by dispersing pepper canisters and shooting pepper balls
BOTTOM: STUDENTS pose for a selfie with police officers stationed on University Boulevard after Arizona lost to Wisconsin in the 2015 NCAA Tournament Elite Eight on Saturday. No riot police, pepper canisters or pepper balls were used.
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The ASUA Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Elections Commission indefinitely naming Manny Felix the president of ASUA for 2015-2016. Hannah Sager, a marketing junior, appealed the decision of the Elections Commission that deemed Felix’s disqualification invalid. Sager said she appealed the decision because she wanted to ensure the election was based on “honest” and “legitimate” results. After Felix’s disqualification and subsequent requalification, Sager felt it was most appropriate for the Supreme Court to make the final decision. The Supreme Court, made up of five student justices, held a hearing on Sunday at the James E. Rogers College of Law where the argument of Sager v. ASUA Elections Commission was heard, according to a Supreme Court document on the Associated Students of the
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MEMBERS OF THE Alpha Epsilon Pi and Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternities came together for a community service project on Sunday. The fraternity members picked up pieces of trash and shards of glass from around the exterior and interior playground area at the Islamic Center of Tucson.
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Two UA fraternities came together to clean up the Islamic Center of Tucson near campus last weekend. “This morning marked the beginning of a partnership between SAE and AEPi that we are extremely excited about,” said Lior Schinagel, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi
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fraternity and an MIS sophomore. “We hope to serve as an exemplary force for the greek community and aim to spread the partnership to all organizations that are interested in contributing.” About 40 fraternity members from Alpha Epsilon Pi and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity teamed up to pick up trash and debris for this community service event.
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“The main reason why we chose the Islamic Center of Tucson is because last semester, there was all this commotion and there wasn’t a close connection between the Islamic Center of Tucson and the students on campus,” said Zach Janikis, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon and a finance junior. “So
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UA community stuffs the CatTran BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat
The Community Food Bank of Arizona received a large supply of food and monetary donations thanks to the annual Stuff the CatTran event. The event, hosted by UA4Food, allows people to donate items in an attempt to fill a CatTran with donations and took place yesterday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.. Christina Rocha, Stuff the CatTran event chair and accountant at the Arizona State Museum, said the donations came pretty steadily throughout the day. The CatTran, parked at the intersection of Cherry Avenue and University Boulevard, accepted donations of cash and nonperishable food items. “The athletics director dropped off a whole bag of food,” Rocha said. “He walked it over himself, and the women’s basketball coach has stopped by and she donated some money into our bucket, so everyone seems to be wanting to donate lots of things and money.” Rocha added that both the Dean of Students Office and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences gave cash donations, and that every dollar donated will provide four meals for a family. “Last year, I volunteered for a couple of hours, and I was so overwhelmed by all the help and all the donations that I decided
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SOPHOMORE KELSIE Rogers puts donated food in boxes on the CatTran on Wednesday afternoon. This marked the seventh year the UA and Community Food Bank have coordinated the “Stuff the CatTran” event.
that this year, I would be chair,” Rocha said. Sheila McGinnis, director of Outreach and Community Partnerships at the UA, said the ambassadors who placed the collection bins around campus at the beginning of March were UA staff and faculty members, but every year, students step up to volunteering and help with collection on the day of the event. Amber Hodges, a senior studying special education and rehabilitation and a
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at fans. The riots lasted more than a hour and were cleared out by 9:30 p.m. Michael Polakowski, an associate professor at the School of Government and Public Policy, said he offered his opinion to two assistant chiefs for the Tucson Police Department and suggested changes that he thought were more appropriate for such events. “I also made these issues known at a Faculty Senate meeting last year,” Polakowski said. “I have no idea if any of my suggestions were used as the basis for the changes or if they would have happened upon them themselves due to the research
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University of Arizona website. After deliberation, the court affirmed the commission’s decision to discredit elections commissioner Diego Alvarez’s disqualification of Felix. According to deputy elections commissioner Ali Gates, the Elections Commission was represented by a College of Law student; a law student also represented Sager. Felix won the ASUA Presidential election against Sager by 238 votes, taking in 52.4 percent of the 4,406 votes. Alvarez disqualified Felix on March 12 for allegedly violating chapter five, section three of the ASUA 2014-15 Elections Code. Felix appealed the disqualification that night, and the elections commission met immediately to review his appeal. Gates said that all seven members of the commission met and decided that the disqualification did not meet the guidelines of filing a complaint in chapter five, section four of the elections code. The commission’s reasoning was based off of reviewing the
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member of Gamma Beta Phi national honors society, said volunteering at the Stuff the CatTran event is a big deal for her group. She said Gamma Beta Phi specializes in community outreach, and the staff member that helps with the group was in charge of the event last year, so members were encouraged to participate. Many other Gamma Beta Phi members came out in support of the event. Devin Newhouse, an undeclared freshman, said he saw flyers for the event
the department was conducting.” Issac Ortega, ASUA president, said he worked with Jacob Borcover, the ZonaZoo executive director, and the UAPD to put out a video that encouraged UA students to bear down with pride. “Bear Down with Pride pretty much started last year with Chief of Police Brian Seastone wanting to promote and have a responsible celebration, to promote that overall bear down with pride theme and really act like we’ve been there before, which we have in basketball,” Barrera said. The Bear Down with Pride campaign is an ongoing effort between the athletics department, the department of communications, the dean of students and the UAPD, Barrera said.
elections code and making the right decision based on that, Gates said. He also said that the complaints made against Felix’s campaign were invalid because they did not meet the 48-hour time frame in which complaints must be made after a supposed violation. Sager then appealed the decision of the Elections Commission to take the case to the Supreme Court. Felix said that he is glad the case has been resolved and, while he respected the entire process, he is happy the court understood he did everything in accordance with the code. Sager said that while she was disappointed by the results, she respects the Supreme Court and the process, and ultimately wants what is best for the student body. Sager said she will continue to work to serve students no matter what. “I am very excited to finally get to work to ensure ASUA works for the students and, along with my executive team, ensure we keep the [UA] moving forward,” Felix said. To see a timeline of the events check dailywildcat.com — Adriana Espinosa @DailyWildcat
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around campus and wanted to help out in some way. “I’ve been helping stack the CatTran, unloading the boxes, loading boxes, breaking down boxes and anything else they’ve needed help with,” Newhouse said. Amy Jackson, a support staff member at Campus Health Service, said she has been volunteering for a couple of years after hearing about Stuff the CatTran through work emails. “I love volunteering and helping the community, and
Jonathan Benaroch, a prebusiness sophomore, said people were really upset after the UA lost the basketball game last year in a game that came down to the wire in overtime. “People were really upset that we lost and made their way down to University to see what was happening.” Benaroch said. “It was really rowdy, and people were really heated. That’s why it ended with riots. This year, on the other hand, the cops were really friendly on University and were talking to students about the game, and understanding why Wildcat nation was upset after losing to Wisconsin for a second year in a row.” Barrera said it was not the UAPD but the TPD that set up the police video tower on University
this was a good opportunity to get out and be with the students and other people on campus besides just the department I work in,” Jackson said. McGinnis said the food that has been collected will help the Community Food Bank of Arizona restock its shelves after the holiday season.
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Boulevard. He said UAPD officers were engaging with students and took it a step further by handing out wristbands that said “Bear Down with Pride.” Barrera also said the department had “Bear Down with Pride” hats made specifically for March Madness, which were incorporated into the officers’ uniforms. “I can’t speculate on what caused the riot [last year], but what I can say is that this year, with our presence out there, I think really helped promote a safe environment — a fun environment — because our officers had a blast,” Barrera said.
Senate stipends have decreased $300 in the last 10 years, according to ASUA Executive Vice President Jordan Allison. “It’s really not okay for us to be using dollars to pay salaries for people who aren’t working for the students,” said ASUA Sen. Elena Gold, who said she thinks the reason stipends have decreased is because people get elected and don’t do anything throughout the year. ASUA Sen. Brian Seastone said that senators should not focus on putting a monetary value on the work they do. He joked that if they did, then ASUA President Issac Ortega would make somewhere near 15 cents per hour of work. He reminded senators that they aren’t doing this for money but for the work going toward helping ASUA and students around campus. Personal accountability was brought up by Seastone, who believes that they don’t have to stop at 10 office hours — that they can exceed that amount. He ended by saying that no one is trying to live off of their senate stipend.
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“I only found out about the stipend once I was elected,” said Wexler, who said he thinks that in light of statewide budget cuts, it would be a strong step as representative body of students to say they’re taking the cuts along with the rest of the student body. With the senate divided on how much of a stipend to award next year’s senate class, Ortega said that one of the main purposes of stipends is to balance out the time
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that was our biggest concern, to let them know that there are people here to help them, and we don’t want there to be any negativity there.” Schinagel said there were shards of glass in the playground at the Islamic Center of Tucson that had fallen from the surrounding highrise apartments. He said the main concern of the fraternity members was to remove the dangerous objects and create a safe place for the children to play. “The biggest thing we wanted to do was help replace the turf grass they have in the playground, but I talked to the office manager and he said they weren’t ready to do that yet,” Janikis said. “So I told them we would help them out in anyway we could.” Janikis said he was told by the Islamic Center that they hope to cover the playground sometime in the next couple of months. Janikis also said he extended the offer that, when they do begin renovations, the fraternities would be more than willing to help out. “In the future I think we’d definitely want to engage more fraternities, but it was a cool thing to do just between AEPi and SAE,” Janikis said. Schinagel said the greek community is full of people who are willing to dedicate a good portion of their time to benefit a larger purpose. “For us to see that the Islamic Center of Tucson was getting all of these really terrible impressions of students at the UA based on the actions of just a few, … that’s something that we as fraternities can relate to,” Schinagel said. “We always get labeled by the actions of the few, so we found this as an opportunity to kind of reverse the roles, where the actions of a few of us paint a much better picture for the larger student community to the Islamic Center and, by extension, to the Tucson community.” Robert Bloom, a mechanical engineering sophomore and member of AEPi, said giving back to the community is important to him on a personal level. “I want the place that I am learning and living in to be one that is welcoming and to truly feel like home,” Bloom said. “By doing community service we invest ourselves in something that we otherwise might never even think about and make the experience more ‘home-y.’”
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An unnamed man exited his vehicle at Speedway Boulevard and Mountain Avenue to report having being run off the road by a potential drunk driver to a University of Arizona Police Department officer on March 15 at approximately 3:48 a.m. The man was not injured or involved in a collision and told the officer the description of the vehicle, a pickup truck, and the direction it was heading. The officer caught up with the suspected truck driving eastbound on Speedway Boulevard. The vehicle hit the center median before turning into the left lane on Tucson Boulevard. The officer stopped the vehicle after it drove across other lanes. The driver was a non-UA affiliated man and had a strong odor of intoxicants coming from his mouth, slurred speech and bloodshot, watery eyes. The driver agreed to take sobriety tests. The man was swaying and losing his balance while trying to complete the tests, and the officer asked him to stop for his safety after he almost fell down. He was read his Miranda rights and admitted to consuming beer before driving. He said he was at a five on a scale of one to 10 in feeling impaired. He was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and transported to the UA police station for further testing. He was also cited for failure to drive within his lane.
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Two UAPD officers were parked in Arizona Stadium when they heard what sounded like an item falling onto metal on March 17 at approximately 4:20 a.m. They walked over to where the noise originated from and saw a plastic garbage can on the ground. They also heard what sounded like people running. The officers saw two men at different places in the stadium. Each officer made contact with one of the men. One was detained and read his Miranda rights. He said he understood them but wanted his attorney. The man was wearing shorts with a large tear in the right leg. He admitted to climbing over a locked metal gate with a “no trespassing” sign, and said that was how he ripped his shorts. The man did not say who threw the trash can, and then said, “It’s spring break and I couldn’t go home.” He said that he and the other student wanted to see the stadium, so they went in. Both students were placed under arrest on charges of third degree criminal trespassing and booked into jail. They were also referred to the Dean of Students Office for a student code of conduct violation.
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CAMPUS EVENTS ‘Generations: Identity and Health in Three Cohorts of LGB People.’ 12pm. McClelland Park Building, Room 402, 650 N. Park Ave. Come join the Institute for LGBT Studies for free pizza and conversation as Stephen Russell talks about Generations – a new NIH-funded study that will explore and test the usefulness of minority stress theory for the study of health disparities in LGB individuals. Chemistry and Biochemistry Colloquium. 4pm. Henry Koffler Building, Room 218, 1340 E. University Blvd. Cynthia Larive, chemistry professor and divisional dean for Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy at the University of California at Riverside, will present a seminar titled “Identifying Hydrogen Bonds in Sugars through NMR Measurements of Exchangeable Protons.” Archaeological Institute of America lecture. 5:30pm. Haury, Room 216. Presenter Yannis Galanakis will discuss “The Diplomat, the Dealer and the Digger: Writing the History of the Antiquities Trade in 19th Century Greece.” Poetics and Politics of Water Series- Natalie Diaz. 7pm. UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St. “The Poetics and Politics of Water,” a series curated by the American Indian Studies Program and the Department of English at the UA, presents Natalie Diaz, who will read from her work, followed by a Q&A session and a book signing.
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‘Curtis Reframed: The Arizona Volumes’ 10 am to 5 pm. Arizona State Museum, 1013 E. University Blvd., just inside the Main Gate at Park and University. $5 for adults, free for CatCard holders. Edward S. Curtis, famed photographer of the American West, created iconic images of Native peoples at the start of the 20th century. This exhibit explores Curtis’ work in Arizona from 1900-1921, featuring photogravures and narratives from his life’s work “The North American Indian,” a 20-volume set.
Lunch Yoga. 11:30am to 1pm. 283 N. Stone Ave. Mini power stretch for your lunch break to stretch you inactive muscles during the day. Classes are $5, $10 for class and lunch!
Salvador Dalí: Our Historical Heritage. 9am to 5pm. University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1031 N. Olive Road. Bizarre, dreamlike surrealist paintings and religious themes featuring events and figures from the Old Testament, by Salvador Dalí. Tickets are $5.
Geology of the Tucson Mountains. 2:15pm to 3pm. 2700 N. Kinney Road. Professor Richard Liebe explains how the Tucson Mountains were formed and how they continue to change.
Beauties: The Photography of Andy Warhol. 12pm to 5pm. University of Arizona Museum of Art, 1031 N. Olive Road. See Andy Warhol’s pop art paintings and screen prints. Through a generous gift from The Warhol Photographic Legacy Program, the UAMA is able to present these photographs, which make up an important and commonly overlooked part of Warhol’s working process. Tickets are $5.
Ananta Talks. 7pm to 9pm. Ada McCormick Library, 1401 E 1st St. A rare opportunity to have an in depth conversation with a self-realized guru. Ananta is a westerner, who blends an awareness of human nature, humorous stories, and helpful tips to make peaceful living a reality.
Mainstream Square Dancing. 7:30pm to 9pm. 8625 E. Tanque Verde Road. We dance Mainstream! Square dance attire or casual dress is welcome. Cost is $5 per person, $4 after. Butterfly Magic. 9:30am to 3pm. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. Visit the Cox Communications Butterfly & Orchid Pavilion, and experience the beauty of live tropical butterflies. Tucson Botanical Gardens is home to one of the best butterfly houses in the country. This exhibit will be open through May.
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Rape is rape, even if it happens in prisons BY Jacquelyn Oesterblad The Daily Wildcat
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hen neurosurgeon and presidential-hopeful Ben Carson caused a big flap a few weeks ago with his comments about prison turning people gay, this page made no comment — in part because Carson is not going to be the Republicans’ nominee for president, and in part because almost nobody seriously agrees with Carson’s ideas about gay people. He’s a lone voice in the wilderness, shouting things like “a lot of people […] go into prison straight — and when they come out, they’re gay” into the wind. Who cares? But Carson’s comments do draw attention to other, more insidious and widespread ideas about the rape that is endemic in American prisons: the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that in 2011 and 2012, four percent of people in prison and almost 10 percent of those in juvenile detention were raped. Half of those assaults were perpetrated not by other prisoners, but by prison staff. Immediately after Carson asserts that men who go into prison straight return to the outside world as raging homosexuals, he asks, “So, did something happen while they were in there? Ask yourself that question.” People aren’t more likely to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender after a prison sentence than before. There’s not a single scientific study that can back Carson up. But that insinuating question at the end suggests that he wasn’t talking about people turning gay after their release from prison at all — he was talking about them being raped by other men while inside. Carson is part of a larger trend in politics, mostly on the right, that tries to equate prison rape with consensual gay sex, spin it as a form of justice for sex offenders, turn it into a joke or otherwise explain it away. Mike Huckabee, also a presumptive Republican candidate for president in 2016, wrote a chapter in his wildly successful “I’m running for president” book, “God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy,” titled, “Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!” Get it? Because the federal government taxing its citizens is similar to a rapist assaulting another prisoner while the victim is in government custody. Isn’t that funny? And in popular media, too, like “Law and Order: Special Victims Unit,” an ostensibly progressive show that advocates on behalf of sexual assault victims, suspects are frequently threatened with the prospect of being raped behind bars. These are terrible people, yes — rapists and child abusers themselves. But unlike what Brother Dean would have us believe, even terrible people don’t deserve rape. A justice system that operates on the principle “an eye for an eye” is not a justice system at all. At a time when sexual assault advocacy is gaining attention and traction among the public and policymakers alike — first within the military, now on our nation’s college and university campuses — we need to be talking about the fact that nobody deserves to be raped, especially not people who are wholly dependent on the government for their wellbeing. In a partial acknowledgment of the scope of the problem and the government’s inherent responsibility to protect its prisoners during their time in prison, Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, or PREA, in 2003, which laid out basic steps prisons could take to protect their most vulnerable populations and improve the reporting and response steps taken after an assault. States were given until 2014 to comply. Arizona is one of seven states that simply refused. As the executive director of Middle Ground Prison Reform in Tempe, Donna Leone Hamm said last year when it became apparent that Arizona was going to miss the deadline, “There are very few Arizona legislators that authentically care about inmate safety.” That needs to change. And even those of us who can’t find it in our hearts to “care about inmate safety” can at least care about what willful noncompliance is costing the state — at least five percent of our federal prison funds are being withheld until the state adopts PREA, at a time when higher education funding is being slashed to pay for state prisons. So while Ben Carson is just a far-right troll, the ideas behind his ranting are still dangerous. If the past few years of seeing sexual-assault advocacy in the news have taught us anything, it ought to be this: No victim is a perfect victim, but rape is still rape. And rape is always wrong.
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efore Hillary Clinton has even stepped through the door into the building that is the 2016 race, Republican interests have had their fighters warming up and undermining Clinton’s steps. For over three weeks now, Clinton has been dogged by the so-called email “scandal” — an arguably regular practice for which she is facing unfair scrutiny. Were she in the ring already, this behavior would be considered mere mud-slinging, but she isn’t. With folks like Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush already lacing their gloves, it makes sense that the Republican Party is so interested in Democrats who have also expressed interest in the presidency. But it also seems like this fight should be fought amongst the candidates, not through media coverage that takes preemptive jabs at one opponent. So why all the fuss over Clinton? The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza wrote on Nov. 17, “The Inevitability Trap: Hillary Clinton and the drawbacks of being the front-runner.” He described a rally in New Hampshire, where “[she] asked at the rally what many were thinking: ‘Are we ready for Hillary?’ The crowd chanted Clinton’s name, and she mouthed a thank-you.” This unrivaled support of a figure whose name is familiar to every voter is undoubtedly worrying to the Republican side, particularly in its currently divided state. Regardless, it hardly seems justifiable to
conference didn’t even take place. And nearly everyone but Clinton herself acts as though her candidacy is imminent, and cannot focus on anything else. While CBS covered the story in early March, referring to the former secretary of state as “likely Democratic presidential candidate,” Clinton was preparing for the Women’s Empowerment Principles Annual Event at the United Nations, where she was keynote speaker. The next day, she made a surprise appearance at the eBay Women’s Summit in San Jose. On March 23, while a biased CNN/ORC poll was gathering the public’s opinion on Clinton’s character and ability to serve as president in regards to her use of a personal email account, Clinton was sitting at a roundtable hosted by the Center for American Progress, discussing issues in urban areas. She also presented the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting to Dan Balz, a Washington Post reporter. And of course, there’s another possibility for the media obsession with this case beyond the need to discredit the presumptive Democratic nominee. During the press conference Clinton gaveh, as Kahraman Haliscelik with Turkish Television asked, “[If] you were a man today, would all this fuss being made be made?” Considering Colin Powell’s well-known use of personal email while he was serving as secretary of state, the answer to that question seems quite clear.
attack her character over the use of a personal email account as secretary of state, something hardly unprecedented. On March 10, Clinton held a press conference in which she explained that she used a personal email for convenience and didn’t think it would be an issue to mix her personal and work emails. As she stated, “the vast majority of my work emails went to government employees at their government addresses, which meant they were captured and preserved immediately on the system at the State Department.” She also explained why this issue was even brought up in the first place — she was not, after all, the first secretary of state to opt out of using a .gov email account for work. “[After] I left office, the State Department asked former secretaries of state for our assistance in providing copies of workrelated emails from our personal accounts. I responded right away and provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related, which totaled roughly 55,000 printed pages, even though I knew that the State Department already had the vast majority of them.” Clinton even addressed the matter of deleting the emails off her server, which is now capturing news headlines, stating that she chose to erase her personal private emails from the server after she thoroughly searched for all emails the State Department could need. This explanation goes above and beyond what anyone asked of her at the time, and yet the majority of news sites continue to push. A pusher herself, Clinton “took the unprecedented step of asking that the State Department make all [her] work-related emails public for everyone to see.” Over two weeks later, the media is still gossiping about the story as though her press
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e all know about the “riots” that took place after the UA vs. Wisconsin Elite Eight game last year. This year, despite the Wildcats losing to the Badgers yet again, was a much different story. Admittedly, the game outcome was different — it wasn’t as close. However, the police deserve credit for learning from last year’s mistakes: they did not warn fans of a potential riot and did not show up in riot gear. This is a tremendous improvement. All in all, the police blocked off the street so that fans had a place to go after the game. Yes, their technology was over the top for a college basketball game and the watchtower on University Boulevard was largely unnecessary, but preparations kept everyone safe and “riot”-free this year. This year, UA students’ Facebook pages were filled with selfies of fans and police officers on University Boulevard. The year before, they were filled with pictures of a man getting shot repeatedly with some form of gas, and of police officers interacting violently with students. Though some say the preparations looked much like a police state, its only fair to know that police will police an event they think might get out of control. The way they police the event makes the difference.
t might be easy to credit the lack of a riot after the Elite Eight basketball game to the efforts of the Tucson Police Department. That’d be wrong, though, because TPD seems not to have learned from last year’s mistake. The “unlawful assembly” a year ago wasn’t because students were loud and ready to rumble with law enforcement. Instead, much of the blame was TPD’s, whose officers showed up en masse in riot gear ahead of the game. It was a move that intimidated people who were already drunk and in a bad mood, causing a riot. This year’s response was no different. Again, tens of officers were lined up on University Boulevard. It was a risky move that could have once more caused a riot. Maybe there wasn’t a riot because the students were smarter; maybe it was because of outreach beforehand by UA officials. It certainly wasn’t because of TPD, which did nothing different than last year. The problem is in the underlying assumption of why a police presence is needed. When TPD assumes that there will be a riot, it ends up causing one by antagonizing people who otherwise would just go home. It’s a presumption of guilt before innocence, and it’s exactly what happened last year. Lining up officers before the game and having them be nice is not the solution. The solution is to give people a chance to go home without being treated like they are potential problems.
— Maddy Bynes is a junior studying political science and history. Follow her @madelinebynes
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The defense rests
For the last two seasons, one thing has been synonymous with Arizona even more than dry heat or pretty women: defense. It’s no coincidence that the Wildcats made it to back-to-back Elite Eights for the second time in school history when they had the kind of lockdown defense coach Sean Miller craves. However, the Wildcats lost two NBA Draft picks last year who played stout defense and will likely lose all five starters this season. How can you replace defensemen like forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, point guard T.J. McConnell, forward Brandon Ashley, center Kaleb Tarczweski or forward Stanley Johnson?
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To replace the expected lost five starters, Arizona reloads with three four-star recruits and a five-star guy, the second-best recruiting
class in the country going into the McDonald’s AllAmerican game. The thinking is Allonzo Trier will be the next superstar, one-and-done player for the Wildcats, and four-star guys will fill in at the one, the four and the five. However, recruiting is far from an exact science; what if they fail? Like the Alamo, Arizona fans remember busts such as Grant Jerrett (five stars), Josiah Turner (five) and Sidiki Johnson (four). Recruiting analysts are about as successful as meteorologists.
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Arizona’s known as Point Guard U, but before McConnell renewed the school’s accreditation, there were some lean years. What if he doesn’t get replaced well enough? Arizona’s options are a petite sophomore who hardly played this season (Parker JacksonCartwright), a freshman (Justin Simon), a combo guard who redshirted this year (Kadeem Allen) and a shooting guard (Gabe York). McConnell personified Miller’s toughness and fight on the court and put a major dent in the record book in two seasons. His assists, assist-to-turnover ratio and steals this year — and his career assists — were historic. McConnell’s irreplaceable.
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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard Gabe York shoots a 3-pointer while UCLA guard Isaac It’s widely speculated Arizona will lose its entire starting five from this year. That’s Hamilton (10) plays defense during Arizona’s 57-47 victory over UCLA on Feb. 21 in McKale Center. York and the Wildcats have a chance to make the Elite Eight for a third straight year next a whole lot of lost production. Luckily for season. Arizona, coach Sean Miller has yet again put together a top-flight recruiting class. Miller further develops his The class consisting of five-star Allonzo Trier and fourcoaching style stars Justin Simon, Ray Smith and Chance Comanche is Everyone knows Miller can rated No. 2 in the nation , according to ESPN, behind the coach defense. Where he struggles Kentucky Wildcats. Big contributions from each of the is in half-court offensive sets. Far four recruits would go a long way to Arizona continuing too often, the Wildcats struggle to its success from the last couple seasons. get good shots and instead rely on talented players to get open on their Different in a good way own. Guys such as T.J. McConnell, Stanley There’s no doubt next season’s Arizona team Johnson and Brandon Ashley were classic will look completely different from this season’s. A examples of players who could do just that. dominant front court was the Wildcats’ calling card It’s certainly a luxury to have players that can throughout this season and often the difference when do that, but it’s not always the greatest form teams matched up against Arizona. With the starting of offense. Just look at Wisconsin, which has frontcourt all expected to leave, Miller will have no talented individual players but is predicated on a choice but to send out a different type of team. Where system more than anything. Miller would do well shooting was an area of concern for Arizona over the to do the same. past couple years, guards such as Parker JacksonCartwright, Gabe York, Elliott Pitts, Trier, Kadeem Allen and Simon give the Wildcats plenty of threats from deep. Don’t be surprised to see Miller trot out three or — Follow Roberto Payne four guard lineups at times. @HouseofPayne555
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rizona’s men’s basketball is expected to lose its entire starting lineup. So, in trying to project its next first five for next season, you have to really think long and hard. The Wildcats are reloading with a recruiting class that is currently ranked second by ESPN, behind only Kentucky, and quite frankly, they barely used their 2014 class, which ESPN had sixth. So, don’t fret, Wildcat fans. Arizona should be fine. You’ll just have to learn some new names. Here are the first five (maybe):
Center — Dusan Ristic
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While there is talk that Kaleb Tarczewski could come back after getting into the Eller College of Management, let’s assume he’s leaving early. Seriously, who would pick wearing a suit to class over playing professional basketball? The Wildcats would then turn to Ristic and incoming freshman Chance Comanche, who is a four-star recruit, according to ESPN, and the 14th-best center. Comanche is 6-foot-10 and 205 pounds, while Ristic is 7-foot and 245 pounds. So, it’s hard to see coach Sean Miller taking a chance on starting a freshman over a sophomore who scored 12 points in one half against UCLA, a Sweet Sixteen team.
Power forward — Ryan Anderson
This is assuming five-star recruit Ivan Rabb does actually pick Cal over Arizona, like the fan and recruiting sites allege. Anderson transferred to Arizona from Boston College and had to sit out this season due to NCAA rules. Did he scare away 2014 No. 9 ESPN power forward Craig Victor, who transferred to LSU? Who knows? But to the victor go the spoils. Anderson was an All-ACC player in Bean Town, and last season, he was third in the ACC in free-throw attempts per game (6.6), was 12th in scoring and sixth in rebounding.
Small forward — Ray Smith
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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball coach Sean Miller directs his team during Arizona’s 91-69 win against Stanford in McKale Center on March 7. Miller and the Wildcats have several lineup changes to make for next season.
Shooting guard — Allonzo Trier
Unless Rabb or five-star center Stephen Zimmerman picks Arizona, Trier is the Wildcats’ representative in the McDonald’s AllAmerican game. MaxPreps (which had Stanley Johnson No. 1 last year) ranks Trier as the second-best high school player in the land. He averaged 26.6 points and 5.4 rebounds for Findlay Prep, where Victor, Arizona forward Brandon Ashley and former UA guard Nick Johnson went to school.
Point guard — Gabe York
This is where it gets wild. While Arizona does have an heir-apparent point guard in Parker Jackson-Cartwright, incoming freshman Justin Simon, who ESPN rates as the seventh-best point guard, and Kadeem Allen, a combo guard who redshirted and was the 2014 junior college player of year, maybe Miller starts a shooting guard at the point. York was the third-string point guard all year, except when Jackson-Cartwright suffered a concussion, and he became the backup. Plus, he will be a senior next season. Allen and Simon are NCAA virgins, and JacksonCartwright will just be a sophomore. York also finished the season strong, scoring in double figures seven times since midFebruary. He was the sixth man (averaging 8.2 more minutes than the seventh man and 13.5 more than Jackson-Cartwright) after getting bumped from the starting line in favor of HollisJefferson. — Follow James Kelley @jameskelley520
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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard Gabe York (1) celebrates one of his buckets during Arizona’s 80-52 win against Oregon in the Pac-12 tournament Championship Game in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on March 14. Despite potentially losing their entire starting five, the Wildcats have a good chance to be ranked in the top 10 of the preseason polls.
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here’s no doubt in my mind the Arizona men’s basketball team will be a top-10 team next season. With speculation that Arizona is about to lose its entire starting lineup to the NBA Draft and eligibility, many are wondering if the Wildcats really have a chance next year. In fact, some were even calling for Arizona coach Sean Miller’s head after his fourth Elite Eight loss. Sure, let the haters hate. Miller already put them in their place on Twitter. “Finally to the people that try to make us feel like our season was a failure. Go cheer for ASU! #BearDown,” Miller tweeted.. The Wildcats will be back next year with a vengeance. First, let’s take a look at the 2015 recruiting class, starting with Allonzo Trier. The 6-foot-4 guard from Findlay College Prep (Henderson, Nev.) is ranked 15th in the ESPN 100 and is considered one of the most explosive scorers coming out of high school. Trier will be able to provide the offense that Miller hasn’t quite been able to conquer in his years at Arizona. Ray Smith, the 6-foot-8 small forward from Las Vegas, was sent an offer from 11 schools,
and before tearing his ACL in 2014, ESPN Insider Paul Biancardi said he had “a freakish ability at the small forward position.” Justin Simon and Chance Comanche, both originally from California, play point guard and center, respectively. The director of Comanche’s club team has even compared him to former UA forward Grant Jerrett. The Wildcats will, at the very least, return sharp-shooter Gabe York, speedy point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright, defensive-minded Elliott Pitts and big man Dusan Ristic, in addition to the No. 2-ranked recruiting class in all of college basketball. Plus, Arizona fans will be given the chance to see the 2014 JUCO College Player of the Year in Kadeem Allen, who redshirted this season, and Boston College transfer forward Ryan Anderson. All of these players combined will make for a mean combination. The Wildcats also boast the longest active home court winning streak in the nation. Although there are many significant players the Wildcats may lose, they have the opportunity to gain so much more. Of course, having Miller at the reigns will help, too. Don’t be quick to bet against the Wildcats or Miller. It’s a mystery why people are starting to now.
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any questions loom over the state of the program after Arizona’s season-ending Elite Eight loss to Wisconsin. Right now, we don’t know a lot, but the guaranteed loss of team leader T.J. McConnell makes it hard to stomach for Arizona fans. Although no players have said they are parting ways with Arizona, there’s a lot of speculation, and it doesn’t help the team’s potential preseason ranking for the 2015-2016 season. Stanley Johnson is projected to leave Arizona and become a lottery pick in the NBA Draft. Draft projections have him going as high as seventh overall, where he would receive a guaranteed two-year contract. Rondae Hollis-Jefferson is another starter that draft projections list as a firstround pick. The sophomore defensive powerhouse had some of his best career performances during March Madness, and, like Johnson, he is built for the NBA. If Johnson and Jefferson go, the question remains: What will Kaleb
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Tarczewski and Brandon Ashley do? Both are projected as second-round picks if they leave, and that would open up two more scholarships for coach Sean Miller — who would have just one to work with otherwise. Then, there are those who may stay. Parker Jackson-Cartwright seems to be the best fit to take over at point guard, but can he match McConnell’s leadership skills? Elliot Pitts, Gabe York and Dusan Ristic may come back, but they also have to fight for spots with transfer Ryan Anderson from Boston College and redshirt junior Kadeem Allen, who will be eligible next season. As far as recruiting goes, 2016 five-star recruit T.J. Leaf, a 6-foot-9 power forward, has verbally committed to Arizona. He’s one of 19 top high school players with offers from the UA, but nothing is set in stone until the signing period opens up on April 13. Even with a potential influx of new faces, possible returnees and newly available players, it will be hard to replace McConnell, Jefferson and Johnson, and it will be even harder for the Wildcats to go into next season ranked in the top 10.
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T.J.’S LEGACY T.J. McConnell will be remembered as one of the most loved point guards in program history BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat
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rizona men’s basketball’s starting lineup was loaded with stars, but it’s the least touted one that many UA fans loved most. The Wildcats’ starting lineup in 2015 featured five players who are expected to leave early for the NBA. All were five-star recruits — except for one: point guard T.J. McConnell. He received three stars when he graduated in 2010, and he signed with Duquesne. However, it was McConnell who received the biggest cheers in McKale Center and the most tears when his career ended. McConnell played for two seasons at the UA, went 33-5 and 34-4, went to two Elite Eights, won two Pac12 Conference Championships and never lost a home game. His Wildcat teams were always in the top 10, and they were ranked No. 1 for eight weeks. “I think what he brings to the table is just comprehensive in its ability to make his team win,” Arizona coach Sean Miller said. “That’s what we love about him. To me, that will be his legacy at Arizona, really. From the moment he stepped on our campus, a lot of great things happened in large part because he’s on our team.” McConnell kissed the ‘A’ at center court to show his love for the school as he was subbed out of his last home game in McKale Center. It became a famous photo that fans posted again on social media when his career ended last week. “I love them all to death, and I’ll always remember them, and I’m going to miss them, and thank you,” McConnell said, choking up, when asked for a message to Arizona fans after his career ended. “They’re the best fans in the country, and I’m going to miss them more than anything, and I love them.” After McConnell didn’t win the Pac-12 Player of the Year award, Arizona fans serenaded him with chants of “MVP” in McKale Center, Las Vegas and Portland, Ore. McConnell made a serious dent in Point Guard U’s record books in just two seasons. His 238 assists this year is the second most in school history and most since 1979. Last season, he had 202 assists, which is sixth all-time in UA history. His 83 steals this season is the third most in school history and most since Mike Bibby had 87 in the late ’90s. “The guy that stands out most to me is T.J. McConnell because of all the things that he brings, that you might not see in the box score,” ESPN analyst Jay Bilas said when asked about the UA’s lineup. McConnell had an assist-to-turnover ratio of 3.01 in the 2014 season, good enough for third all-time in school history. He had a an assist to turnover ratio of 3.05 in his senior campaign, the second best in UA history. “We all know how T.J. is and the type of basketball player that T.J. is,” Arizona guard Gabe York said. “He’s a floor general, and he does everything to the best of his ability, and he makes offense easy. Not having him next year is going to be something that all of Arizona is going to miss, not just the team.” As of Wednesday, McConnell is sixth in the country in steals (83), 11th in assists per game (6.3) and assist-to-turnover ratio and 14th in steals per game (2.18). McConnell starred at Duquesne for two seasons. He impressed Arizona coaches and fans in his first appearance in McKale Center in 2011 when Arizona beat the Dukes 67-59, and McConnell had nine points, six rebounds, four assists and three steals. After the season, he transferred to Arizona, and Miller said he helped make them better when he sat out his third year due to NCAA rules. Miller is also a point guard from Pittsburgh. Arizona forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson said when the Wildcats did something, Miller always looked to McConnell first. “As a point guard and as a former point guard, they have that bond,” Hollis-Jefferson said. McConnell is not in NBADraft.net’s mock draft or Draft Express’ 2015 projection, but he may be the most remembered Wildcat from the 2015 run, and in recent history. “I get a kick out of him, because he doesn’t look like a special player, but he is a special player,” ESPN analyst Seth Greenberg said, “and he’s got a toughness about him that is really special.” McConnell started at Arizona, also known as Point Guard U, after a succession of less-than-popular shoot-first point guards. McConnell is so much a pass-first point, he changed his Twitter handle to “@iPass4Zona.” “Just want to thank literally everyone in Tucson!” McConnell tweeted after his last game. “You guys are the absolute best and it was an HONOR to be your Pg I love Arizona basketball.” McConnell changed his Twitter picture to him hugging Miller at the end of the Wisconsin loss. The point guard often said Miller was like a second father to him. He said he apologized to Miller for not getting him to the Final Four. “It was emotional,” McConnell said about the hug. “He’s like my dad, and I’m going to miss playing for him. It sucked; I just wanted to be able to get him and this team to a Final Four.” McConnell wore No. 4 at Arizona, but he was No. 1 in many Wildcats’ hearts. “There are a lot of players [you miss] when they walk out the door,” Miller said. “I don’t know if I’ll miss anybody more than him.”
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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright (0) dribbles past Oregon defense during Arizona’s 80-52 win against Oregon in the Pac-12 tournament Championship Game in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on March 14. Jackson-Cartwright is the heir apparent to T.J. McConnell and figures to get most of the reps at point guard next season.
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(TOP) Then-Duquesne guard T.J. McConnell (20) dribbles past then-Arizona men’s basketball guard Josiah Turner (11) during Arizona’s 67-59 win against Duquesne in McKale Center on Nov. 9, 2011. FILE PHOTO/THE DAILY WILDCAT
(MIDDLE) Arizona men’s basketball guard T.J. McConnell (4) looks for a teammate to pass to during his first game as an Arizona Wildcat and Arizona’s 73-62 win against Cal Poly in McKale Center on Nov. 8, 2013. REBECCA NOBLE/THE DAILY WILDCAT
(BOTTOM) Arizona men’s basketball guard T.J. McConnell (4) walks off the court for the last time as a member of the Arizona team and tearfully hugs Arizona coach Sean Miller. Arizona lost to Wisconsin 85-78 in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament in the Staples Center in Los Angeles on March 28.
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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball guard T.J. McConnell (4) triumphantly walks off the court during Arizona’s 57-34 win against Oregon State in McKale Center on Jan. 30.
better guard than him. “He’s way beyond his years,” McConnell said. “You guys don’t see him in practice rizona men’s basketball — the way he kills me in practice most of point guard T.J. McConnell’s the time. He runs the team, he can shoot eligibility is up, as difficult as the ball and people underestimate him for that might be to face. Luckily his size, and that’s when he kills him.” for fans, Arizona coach Sean Plus, Jackson-Cartwright is a shooter. In Miller and his staff are master recruiters his limited action, he shot 39 percent from and knew this day would come. the 3-point line, compared to McConnell’s Freshman Parker Jackson-Cartwright 32 percent . will be the answer to the Wildcats moving For a freshman, the California native is forward at the floor general position and wise beyond his years. He even compared will continue the legacy of Point Guard U. his learning from one of the best point “He’s like my little brother,” McConnell guards in the country to that of a sponge. said. “He doesn’t get enough credit for “[McConnell is] just great,” Jacksonwhat he does, and he should play more Cartwright said after the Wildcats beat than he does, and that’s nothing against USC earlier in the season. “He’s the best the coaches. He’s done as good of a job point guard in the country, and I don’t as anyone on this team and Tucson; this say that because he’s my teammate. He school is going be in good hands with teaches me every day on and off the court him.” good things. I’m a sponge That’s high praise trying to soak up everything coming from a player he tells me, and I’m glad with one of the biggest he’s here with me.” hearts Tucson has ever The Wildcats have a seen. lot to look forward next Following in year, and it starts with McConnell’s footsteps Jackson-Cartwright. With will be a challenge. speculation that the entire Nobody doubts that. But Arizona starting lineup McConnell knows the will be gone, the Wildcats — T.J. McConnell, Wildcats are in a great bring in another topArizona point guard place with Jacksontiered recruiting class Cartwright at the reigns. and will have transfers “He’s one of the best in Ryan Anderson and point guards I’ve played Kadeem Allen able to play against,” McConnell said immediately after sitting to AZCentral back in October. “He’s a out a year. different kind of point guard. People look Wildcat fans welcomed Jacksonat him and say, ‘Aw, this kid’s small; he’s Cartwright with open arms in Arizona’s skinny.’ But you get on the court, and he’s first game of the season against Mount going to embarrass you if you have that St. Mary’s, 37 games before their mentality.” disappointing loss to Wisconsin in the Embarrass you he will. As you can ask Elite Eight . Following the game, Jacksonmany opponents this season, JacksonCartwright thanked the fans for their Cartwright exploded to the basket many support when it hit him that he was a times as soon as a defender took his eyes Wildcat. off him. Plus, his speed and quickness “From day one in the summer when I make defenders break their ankles ; just got here, I knew this is where I wanted watch his recruiting mixtape. to be,” Jackson-Cartwright said. “This The 5-foot-10 point guard from Los crowd is behind us, and just the support is Angeles averaged 9.6 minutes per game, unimaginable.” 1.8 assists and 2.9 points as the backup Moving forward, who knows what the this season . But even more than those Wildcats will be able to accomplish with stats was McConnell being able to get a Jackson-Cartwright handling the rock? breather on the bench and the Wildcats not falling off during those few minutes. “He’s way better than me,” McConnell said. “I think he’s going to be better than I was here, and I’ve said this before: Tucson’s in great hands with Parker, and I love him to death.” — Follow Matt Wall McConnell even went as far as to @mwall20 describe why Jackson-Cartwright will be a BY MATT WALL
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Front court progress not as planned expected with any young player — the same growing pains Kaminsky surely experienced his freshman season. As the two high school standouts struggled to score with regularity in college, it became clear they would not fit the one-and-done mold, even when fellow freshman Grant Jerrett decided to leave for the NBA after one season. Ashley and Tarczewski, like Kaminsky, needed multiple years of college to adapt to a higher level of play and develop physically. But all players do not progress at the same rate. Kaminsky transformed from a role player to the Badgers’ go-to guy between his sophomore and junior years. He finally broke through on the national scene last March, when he dropped 28 points and 11 rebounds on the Wildcats. Tarczewski posted a modest 12 points and four boards in the overtime loss. Ashley, of course, was in the midst of recovering from a season-ending foot injury. Fast forward from spring to fall, to the start of another season. Sports Illustrated released its annual college basketball preview as the 2014-2015 campaign kicked off. One region’s cover featured Brandon Ashley going up for a dunk. Another regional cover displayed Kaminsky in the same act. Who could have guessed that in a matter of months, those two would be trying to dunk on one another with the Final Four on the line — again? Kaminsky, Ashley and Tarczewski were all playing some of the best basketball of their careers headed into this season’s NCAA Tournament. For Kaminsky, that meant maintaining a National Player of the Year level of performance. For the Wildcats’ two juniors, it meant fulfilling their roles, defensively and offensively. Then, whether by luck or fate, the selection committee determined a bracket that would set up a potential rematch. Whether Ashley or Tarczewski have underachieved in college, or whether Kaminsky has overachieved, is up for debate. But in the waning moments of the 2014 West Regional, it was Kaminsky who came out ahead of Tarczewski. In the waning moments of the 2015 West Regional, Kaminsky toppled both Tarczewski and Ashley. Both times, Kaminsky and his team won the game. With recruiting rankings, draft positions and All-American accolades all put aside, Kaminsky won the game.
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Arizona’s fears were already coming true less than two minutes into the Elite Eight rematch with Wisconsin. The Badgers’ Frank Kaminsky could be contained, but he could not be stopped. History would repeat itself. Arizona had an entire season to prepare for one game, for one player, and in crunch time, it didn’t matter. With another year under his belt, Wildcat center Kaleb Tarczewski still lacked the agility to follow Kaminsky out to the perimeter. While Tarczewski could hold his own in the paint, Kaminsky still had the advantage with his superior athleticism and refined post moves. And despite Brandon Ashley’s presence, it quickly became clear the power forward lacked the strength or size to blockade Kaminsky from driving to the basket. It took exactly 1:21 for Kaminsky to force Ashley into drawing a second foul, rendering him useless on the bench for most of the first half. Everyone knows what happened over the next 38:39. Kaminsky took Arizona’s big men to work for the second year in a row, and with the help of a superb supporting cast, sent the Wildcats home one win short of the Final Four for the second straight season. Kaminsky’s next stop is the NBA, where he will no longer have the opportunity to torment Arizona fans every March. It’s possible, even likely, that Tarczewski and Ashley will forgo their senior seasons and join Kaminsky in the NBA. That is, if they get drafted. According to the latest mock draft from draftexpress.com, Kaminsky is a sure lottery pick. Tarczewski is projected to go No. 57 out of 60, while Ashley isn’t even on the board. Go back to this time three years ago. Ashley, a five-star recruit, was preparing to play in the McDonald’s All-American game. Tarczewski, ranked as the No. 4 overall recruit by ESPN in the class of 2012, didn’t get invited to the game but had plenty of accolades to show for. The pair of big men made up the bulk of a recruiting class ranked among the best in the nation. Meanwhile, in Madison, Wis., a scrawny 7-footer with a hard-to-pronounce last name was coming off a freshman season in which he averaged 1.8 points per game. Unlike the guys from Arizona, Kaminsky had only been given four stars as a recruit. His scholarship offers came from programs like Bradley, DePaul and Southern Illinois. Not Kansas, Kentucky and Texas. When Ashley and Tarczewski arrived in Tucson, so arrived the type of growing pains
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s successful as the last two seasons have been for Arizona men’s basketball, the Wildcats have failed to get over the hump when it mattered most, losing two straight Elite Eight matchups with Wisconsin. In both the 64-63 overtime loss last season and the 85-78 loss this season, the Badgers and Wildcats had fairly similar talent. The difference was coaching. Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan has developed an offensive system that has proven to be effective over the latter portion of his 14-year tenure at the helm of the program. He’s fit in talented players to his system and made things work. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Ryan can coach defense, too. That may not have shown up in Wisconsin’s advanced defensive metrics this season, but it still is the case. In terms of defensive coaching ability, Arizona coach Sean Miller is definitely one of the best defensive teachers in the nation. His pack-line style of defense has completely changed the trajectory of the Arizona program and has given the team a new identity. Off the court, Miller is one of the nation’s best recruiters. He continues to stack top-10 recruiting classes, with his latest class standing at No. 2 in the nation, according to ESPN. For all the good that his defensive coaching and recruiting do, it feels like something is
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Arizona men’s basketball coach Sean Miller bellows at his team during Arizona’s frustrating 85-78 loss to Wisconsin in the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday. While a talented defensive coach, Miller’s offensive coaching ability is improving.
missing offensively. Far too often, it seems as if Arizona players are forced to go one-on-one when set plays don’t work as planned, which, with some of the talented players Arizona has had under
Miller, is fine at times. It’s troubling when done regularly, though. That’s not to say Miller needs to develop a system as successful as Wisconsin’s or Kentucky’s overnight. There just has to be
more attention to that end of the floor if the Wildcats are going to get to where they want to be. While it’s easy to criticize Miller’s offensive coaching from a distance, it’s still important to see how far Arizona has come offensively over the past three or four seasons under Miller. In the 2012 season, Arizona was ranked 86th overall in adjusted offensive efficiency, which is points scored per 100 possessions adjusted to opponent strength, by kenpom. com. The Wildcats then ranked 10th in the 2013 season, 20th in 2014 and are ranked seventh in the latest 2015 rankings. To go from 86th to seventh in just three seasons is a fantastic jump and isn’t really that unbelievable, considering how talented the Wildcats have been over the past couple seasons. The point being, the sky isn’t falling down on Miller and his coaching staff. There is certainly an outstanding level of talent each year that puts Arizona among the nation’s best. All that’s needed is fine-tuning. Just imagine if Arizona had a Wisconsinlevel offense to go with its dominant defense. That combination would not only be deadly, it would likely bring home the program’s second National Championship — which, after all, is what the program desperately wants.
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any of Arizona sand volleyball’s athletes come from an indoor volleyball background and are having to make the tough transition to sand volleyball. Ohio State transfer Kaitlyn Leary has had a remarkably smooth transition to the sand. A native of Ohio, Leary spent 2010-2013 playing volleyball for the Ohio State Buckeyes. She was an AVCA All-American and All-Region and led the nation and the Big Ten in kills. Leary is now a part of the Wildcats’ No. 1-seeded team, along with partner Madi Kingdon. The pair is 8-1 this season and won the Cal Poly Pairs Tournament. The transition to playing sand volleyball from indoor volleyball is no small challenge, but Leary has handled it flawlessly. “It’s been really fun and it’s been challenging, but coming early in the fall and having that fall semester just to get the training and the reps with [Arizona coach
Steve Walker] and the girls has been really helpful,” Leary said. Walker said Leary is a blessing to the program and wishes he had the opportunity to coach her for a full four years. “She possesses the Midwest work ethic that you love to coach,” Walker said. “And it will be a sad day when she’s done.” Leary said she chose to come to Arizona because she felt comfortable with the girls and coaching staff and also wanted to play for a big school with a big athletics atmosphere. “The atmosphere here is awesome here at bear down beach,” Leary said. “We get big crowds and the fans are all into it, so it’s been really fun.” Leary attributes some of her success at Arizona to her time spent in the Big Ten at Ohio State. “The Pac-12 and Big Ten are the best conferences for volleyball in the country,” Leary said. “The competitiveness has been similar, so that’s prepared me for, like, the pressure and the playing environment.”
Walker agrees Leary’s experience playing at such a high level of indoor volleyball has given her the preparation and focus needed to make the successful transition to the sand. One of Leary’s strengths is her mental composure and focus, which Walker hopes some of the younger players will develop. “Kaitlyn is certainly someone who is steady day in and day out, and you know exactly what you’re going to get,” Walker said. “That’s something I would love our younger players to adopt, and something I point out constantly.” Although she is a newcomer, Leary has already made an impact on this Arizona team through her leadership qualities. “I think it’s in her nature to be that way, and something she does really, really well at is lead by example.” Walker said. “She has just been a terrific role model on the court for a lot of our players.” JORDAN GLENN/THE DAILY WILDCAT
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ARIZONA SAND volleyball redshirt senior Kaitlyn Leary tips the ball over the net during Arizona’s 5-0 victory over Cal State Northridge on Saturday at Jimenez Field. Leary has taken on a leadership role for the Wildcats this season.
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ARIZONA BASEBALL pitcher Tyger Talley (19) pitches during Arizona’s 13-4 victory over Oregon on Sunday at Hi Corbett Field. Talley and the Wildcats take on USC in a pivotal three-game series starting Thursday.
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Arizona baseball takes on USC at home this weekend following back-toback Pac-12 Conference sweeps over Stanford and Oregon. The No. 22 Wildcats (22-6, 7-2) are on a six-game winning streak to begin Pac12 play, something they hadn’t done since consecutively sweeping Utah and California in 2013, following their 2012 national championship. “If you have a really old team that all back from Omaha and they’re all AllAmericans, you’ve kind of figured it out,” Arizona coach Andy Lopez said. “When you don’t, you just need someone to get hot.” Arizona’s offense is on fire, leading the nation in batting average and boasting two of the top-five hitters in Scott Kingery and Kevin Newman. Outfielder Justin Behnke is one of Arizona’s silent predators, batting ninth and rounding out the team’s top-three batters. Arizona also leads the Pac-12 in 10 offensive categories, including hits, on-base percentage, triples and runs scored. But No. 9 USC (22-6, 4-2) is not far behind. The Trojans rank in the top three in six of Arizona’s 10 leading categories, and rank first in stolen bases and at-bats. Its pitching staff, led by left-handed pitcher Kyle Twomey, is pretty strong too, with a combined ERA of 2.62 and 237 strikeouts halfway through this season. Twomey is one of five Trojan pitchers throwing under 3.00 in at least 22 innings pitched. Arizona’s Sunday starting pitcher Tyger Talley is day-to-day with an arm
injury. He left Sunday’s game after just 2.1 innings when he reported feeling a tingling numbness in his throwing arm. “We’ll have to see how [he] is; we do not know,” Lopez, who hopes to have the junior back on the mound this weekend, said. “I don’t think it’s serious, but I honestly can’t tell you what it is.” USC’s top-10 national ranking may be daunting, especially with Talley’s pending status, but that’s something Arizona catcher Riley Moore said isn’t on his team’s mind going into the early weekend series. In fact, the senior isn’t even sure where exactly the Trojans fall in the NCAA. “I think [USC] is having a pretty good year,” Moore said. “I’m sure they’re ranked in the top 25 — if not better than 25 — but everyone in the Pac is a good team.” Moore’s mentality comes from experience. Arizona hadn’t taken a series from Oregon in his first three years as a Wildcat, before they swept Oregon last weekend. USC swept the three-game series at Dedeaux Field in Los Angeles the last time the two teams met. It won the first game 1-0, the second 5-4 in 12 innings and the third 2-0 to complete the sweep. “We just need to get nine strong innings from our pitching staff — whoever it is — and hang zeros,” Arizona relief pitcher Nathan Bannister said. The home series starts Thursday at 6 p.m. at Hi Corbett Field, with Friday’s game at the same time and the series finale at noon on Sunday.
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Arizona softball travels to Corvallis, Ore., this week to take on Oregon State in a three-game series beginning Thursday afternoon. The No. 18 Wildcats enter the road-trip with a 3-3 Pac12 Conference record after dropping two out of three games to rival ASU last weekend. The UA has found no trouble putting runs on the scoreboard in most of its contests behind an offense that ranks among the nation’s best. However, the Wildcats are still looking for more consistency at the mound with two underclassman pitchers leading the helm. Michelle Floyd and Trish Parks have occasionally struggled to slow down the bats of heavy-hitting lineups, and Oregon State provides another formidable challenge. “They’re young and they need experience,” Arizona coach Mike Candrea said. “Unfortunately, this is a tough ANGELINE CARBAJAL/THE DAILY WILDCAT conference to get experience ARIZONA SOFTBALL outfielder Katiyana Mauga (34) swings at a pitch during in because it’s very tough top Arizona’s 9-4 loss against ASU on Saturday at Hillenbrand Stadium. Mauga and the to bottom.” Wildcats hit the road to take on Oregon State on Thursday. Floyd leads the staff in most major statistical categories, after them, whoever you play.” benefit from predominantly including innings pitched, Arizona’s pitching staff contact-hitters like Kellie Fox strikeouts and ERA. Parks, a can enter the series knowing and Chelsea Suitos, who both freshman, is not far behind. they have one of the premier hover around .400. Both pitchers most lineups backing them up. Offense should not be an recently struggled against the The Wildcats continue to issue against a good-but-notnationally rake at the great Oregon State staff, as ranked plate, as they long as the Wildcats’ firepower Sun Devils rank fifth in travels with them to Corvallis. over the With Pac-12 play setting into the country first two with a .366 full swing, this is a series the games of b a t t i n g Wildcats will need to win, if the series average, and not sweep, in order to remain b e f o re are among in the hunt for a conference Team Nickname: Beavers locking the national championship and a national Location: Corvallis, Ore. down on leaders in seed. Enrollment: 30, 058 Sunday “At this stage of the game, slugging Founded: 1868 a n d percentage, every win is huge,” Candrea Year Record: 23-11 (4-5 Conference) holding home runs said. “When you look at Head Coach: Laura Berg ASU to a and on-base rankings and RPI, all that stuff Peak Performer: OF Dani Gilmore combined is going to come into effect percentage. one run T h e when you start looking at over five contribution postseason.” innings. First pitch on Thursday has come from top to bottom The Beavers, unranked of the lineup, with every is at 3 p.m., and the series with a 4-5 conference record, regular position player batting continues through Friday may not hit the ball as well over .300. and Saturday. All three games as the Pac-12’s top teams, but Katiyana Mauga has will be televised on Pac-12 nonetheless enter the series provided the power punch Networks. with a respectable .320 batting by knocking out 15 home average. Outfielder Dani runs, which ranks third in the Gilmore leads the way with a nation and first in the Pac-12. .411 mark. Chelsea Goodacre isn’t far “Every day is just take what behind with 13. — Follow Ezra Amacher you got and go after them,” The lineup’s sluggers @EzraAmacher Floyd said. “You have to go
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Q&A with visiting Nobel winners as Edvard says, every synapse can change moment to moment, and that’s a form of plasticity as well.
BY AMY NIPPERT AND JULIE HUYNH The Daily Wildcat
The UA commemorated three milestones in brain science research with a visit from three Nobel laureates, John O’Keefe, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser, who all won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014, and Eleanor Maguire, the winner of the Ig Nobel Prize for medicine in 2003 — a prize given to improbable research that captures public attention. These distinguished guests came to help celebrate the 25th anniversary of the UA Arizona Research Laboratories Division of Neural Systems, Memory and Aging, the 10th anniversary of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at the UA and the fifth anniversary of the School of Mind, Brain and Behavior. Before their open forum on last Thursday, they met with the press for a Q&A session. Daily Wildcat: Will we be able to find a “cure” for Alzheimer’s disease or is it going to be more like cancer, where there are many treatments rather than one cure? John O’Keefe: Very much like cancer, one of the big problems is that it spreads. The idea now is that it starts in very special areas such as the entorhinal cortex but then spreads, and maybe the spread is what one needs to target and stop it from spreading. That might be an easier target to go for than preventing it in the first place. Edvard Moser: It looks like some cells in the entorhinal cortex are for some reason particularly vulnerable, and I think we’re on the track of finding out why these
Arizona Daily Star: When you come here to the UA, can you learn something? May-Britt Moser: Edvard and I were still students when we started to read their work. When we did our master’s thesis, we [understood] that Lynn Nadel had already done it. We started to read beautiful papers about aging in rats by this “C.A. Barnes”, and we wondered who this was. Then we met her and it was a “she” and that was exciting.
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FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, Eleanor Maguire winner of the Ig Nobel, and 2014 Nobel Laureates in Medicine and Physiology John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser meet for a media briefing before their public forum Thursday. The researchers have close ties to researchers at UA, including Lynn Nadel and Carol Barnes, and were visiting to celebrate milestones in UA brain science research.
cells are vulnerable. Once we know that, that’s an important step in slowing down and possibly preventing this disorder. May-Britt Moser: There are two very early symptoms of Alzheimer’s. One is that they can’t find their way, and one is that they can’t distinguish odors. We know what part of the entorhinal cortex is dealing with odors, which is the structure John was talking about, … and giving that information to the hippocampus. My earrings are seahorses and those are hippocampuses — that’s the structure we all started in before we went on to the abstract structures — and you need this structure to remember what you had for breakfast.
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Eleanor Maguire: There’s another issue here which is that [the] brain functions as a system. The hippocampus and these grid cells, they aren’t just islands. We know from work in humans and rats if the hippocampus is damaged, [then] other parts of the system that aren’t damaged but communicate with the hippocampus also start to malfunction. Information flow has been disrupted and that can amplify the difficulty that these patients have. Daily Wildcat: Is it generally accepted that the brain is plastic now, and what does that mean for people? Maguire: There is agreement that new neurons are born in the
hippocampus now. Cortically, there is still uncertainty about whether that happens. If you were to pick all the parts of the brain, it must be very significant that the [two places] new neurons are generated are the hippocampus and olfactory bulbs. Edvard Moser: All the learning that happens throughout our lives, every day, all the time, that’s plasticity in the brain. It goes on everywhere in the brain all the time. That doesn’t mean genetic factors don’t have a strong role. I think no one would claim today that plasticity isn’t an important part of the brain activity. Maguire: Plasticity is a term people think of as the structure just getting bigger or smaller but,
Edvard Moser: I would say that much of [the] work we got the prize for and the whole development of systems neuroscience, much of it has happened here in Tucson. It’s easy to take it for granted now, but there were major breakthroughs that sort of established the whole field. Maguire: First we went to John to learn 16 channels, then we came here to learn to record hundreds of channels. As Carol [Barnes] said, Lynn and John’s book was extremely important for us. O’Keefe: The answer to your question is yes, this is one of the centers of neuroscience, particularly hippocampal neuroscience. So we learn a lot when we come here. Both in terms of the work done at the single cell level in rats [and] in terms of imaging studies. It’s a great place.
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ASAP Science, a popular science channel featuring an out gay couple, is coming to do a live video panel at the UA COURTESY OF FARAH BUGHIO
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The UA chapter of Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, a national organization dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning representation and leadership in STEM fields, will be hosting a live video panel with the hosts of popular YouTube channel ASAP Science. The panel will be held Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Marley building Room 230. “ASAP Science is one of YouTube’s most popular science channels, with over 3 million subscribers,” said Cole Eskridge, a graduate student in the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Entomology and Insect Science and president of oSTEM at the UA. “It features two guys, Greg [Brown] and Mitch [Moffit], who are both out, gay and are in a relationship with each other.” Victoria Osby, an MIS junior and oSTEM’s vice president of finance, described ASAP Science. “One good way to describe what ASAP Science is referring to it as ‘armchair science,’” Osby said. If you aren’t a science major, for example, it’s a way to learn about scientific topics in a way that a lay person can understand. “It’ll be a forum where they’ll be able to talk about their experience — what got them into science, how they met, their experience being out as gay in the science field,” Eskridge said. “But there will also be a particular focus on how they got into science communication as a profession, giving them the ability to give advice to students who might be thinking of going in that direction.” Moffit and Brown chose a STEM career that’s outside of
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ELECTRON MICROGRAPH images taken by Farah Bughio of vascular endothelial cells, the cells lining the surface of the heart and blood vessels, that are infected with Cytomegalovirus. Virus particles can be clearly visualized at the genome, which can be visualized as the uniform, spherical particles with the very dark dense core.
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the more traditional career paths in industry or academia. Instead, they chose a path that allows them to really reach out to the public and really engage them, Eskridge said. “For example, they answer questions like why do we need to sleep, why the dress is blue and black as opposed to white and gold or the science of orgasms,” Eskridge said. “Stuff that really sparks peoples interests and makes them say, ‘Hey, I have wondered about that.’” OSTEM seeks to support members of the LGBTQ community who are also in the STEM fields. “We encourage greater [LGBTQ] equity in STEM fields,” Eskridge said. “Basically, that comes out as encouraging greater visibility of queer scientists so they can selfidentify and people can see they’re not alone and isolated in their fields. We also encourage allies to be visible and show that they are in support of students and scholars in the field.” — Follow Laeth George @DailyWildcat
Cytomegalovirus, or CMV, is one of eight human herpes viruses that are known for causing latent infections — infections that don’t exhibit symptoms — and 60 to over 90 percent of the population is already infected with CMV. The Goodrum Lab at the UA is seeking to determine how this virus works genetically and its effects on congential infections, where an infection in the mother can affect a newborn or fetus. CMV is unique in that it can cause a congenital infection that affects one in 150 births in America. More severe cases of congenital CMV are thought to occur when a seronegative woman, or a woman who has not been infected and does not have antibodies for the virus, is exposed to the virus for the very first time. “The baby of a seronegative woman is at risk for severe congenital infection if she were to contract the virus during her pregnancy, because the virus has time to move across the placenta before there’s any immune response to hold it back,” said Felicia Goodrum, associate professor for the department of immunobiology. “To acquire an immune response to CMV that would be protective takes weeks to develop after infection.” Goodrum’s lab is currently studying a gene locus UL133-UL138 and has found that these viral proteins are responsible for both suppressing and promoting viral replication, which is why the virus is able to sustain a persistent, latent infection. Katie Caviness, a genetics
graduate student, focuses on the gene UL136, which codes for five different proteins. The functions of these proteins are not yet known, but using genetics, Caviness has determined that two of the proteins suppress viral replication and two of the proteins promote replication. To determine how the UL136 proteins function, Sebastian Zeltzer, a graduate student studying cellular and molecular medicine, is studying how the proteins encoded by the gene UL136 interact with host cell proteins, which are proteins expressed by the human cells. These host proteins are important for embryonic development, cancer, tissue regeneration and organogenesis. Therefore, the interactions between UL136 and host proteins may be important to disease associated with the congenital infection. “In development, when the pathways targeted by UL136 get turned on, cells proliferate and migrate,” Zeltzer said. “This is important for the establishment of organs and what are called the axes of development. If the pathways are turned off, it will kill the developing embryo, but if it gets turned on to an even greater extent, that can lead to some pretty terrible mutations as well. We have some evidence that the virus is actually turning it up instead of turning it down.” A reservoir of latent virus within the body are bone marrow hematopoietic progenitor cells, which are precursors to the body’s blood and immune cells. “It achieves a latent infection in these cells and does not make new
virus, so it just totally hangs out,” said Mike Rak, a graduate student studying cellular and molecular medicine. “Very few viral proteins are expressed. The immune system can’t target these latently infected cells. The immune system can only target the cells that express viral proteins.” This also makes it very hard for antivirals as well, which can only target cells actively replicating the virus. In immunocompromised patients, such as cancer patients, organ transplant recipients and HIV/AIDS patients, CMV can infect every cell in the body, which can lead to a variety of symptoms such as blindness, gastroenteritis and pneumonia. “When you lose your immune system to HIV infection or to suppression following organ transplantation, the virus can reactivate, and that may ultimately cause disease,” Goodrum said. The Goodrum Lab collectively works to understand how CMV contributes to and controls its persistence within the human host. “Our hope is that our work will ultimately identify strategies to prevent disease in the immunocompromised or prevent birth defects in the congenital infection,” Goodrum said. “Understanding the basic biology of CMV infection and latency are paramount to achieving this goal.”
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