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CLAIRE LAWRENCE, a political science junior and Kacie Pottock, a special education junior, float on rafts at the Student Recreation Center on Tuesday.

UA admin to replace key faculty members

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This summer, the UA administration will undergo an internal restructure and will begin a national search for the replacement of several faculty members. Earlier this month, UA President Ann Weaver Hart sent out several emails regarding the changes.

Milton Castillo, former chief financial officer for the UA, quit earlier this month, though the email made no mention of reason or an alternative job. The UA has hired Jim Hyatt, senior

research associate and principal investigator at the University of California Berkeley, as interim chief financial officer.

Hyatt said he will continue to do research for the Center for Studies and Higher Education from Tucson. While he looks forward to working with UA administration, Hyatt said he has no intention of spending more than his one year interim term at the UA. “I’m excited about coming to the University of Arizona,” Hyatt said. “I think that working with President Hart and her team will be interesting and exciting, so I’m looking forward to that.”

Campus leaders across the nation are urging Congress to come up with a longterm solution for student loan interest rates.

If Congress does not create a new plan

by Monday, interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans will double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent, according to an issue brief from the Arizona Public Interest Research Group.

This is not the first time students have seen a crisis regarding student loan interest rates. In 2012, President Barack Obama and Congress extended the 3.4 percent rate for one more year, after a 2007 college affordability plan expired.

If the low interest rate is not extended, students will see an approximate $902 increase in their student loan debt, per loan, according to a news release from Arizona PIRG. Despite the increase in debt, the federal government is projected to profit $50 billion

STUDENT LOANS, 7 Castillo declined to comment.

Following Castillo was Senior Vice President for Research Leslie Tolbert, who decided to step down from her administrative role in order to focus full-time on her research work, according to another email announcement. Jennifer Barton, associate vice president for research, will be taking on the added responsibilities as interim vice president for research.

“It was time to move on and I’m enjoying being back in my faculty position,” Tolbert said.

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The UA Campus Arboretum is working to promote sustainable practices and living, through several harvesting projects this summer and fall.

The arboretum is installing nets onto the trunks of mesquite trees to harvest the seed pods, which will be used to make flour.

Dining Services will incorporate the mesquite flour into several dishes served on campus, and olives and citrus fruit will also be harvested in similar projects, “As a land-grant school, our three-fold mission is research, education and outreach, so I think it’s really appropriate that we have the campus itself designated as an arboretum,” said Tanya Quist, assistant professor of plant science and director of the Campus Arboretum.

The arboretum is also interested in promoting sustainability related initiatives, Quist said. To that end, they have given the green light to several fruit-harvesting projects on campus.

“To me, sustainability is balancing inputs and outputs,” Quist said.

In terms of the mesquite trees, Quist said the input is the

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Jennifer Fitzenberger, former director of external communications, also announced that she will be leaving the UA for a position with marketing and communications of Tucson Electric Power.

“I was offered a terrific opportunity,” Fitzenberger said in an email. “I work with great people here at the UA and I wish them the best of luck in the future.”

A national search for a chief financial officer and a vice president for research will begin in the fall, according to Teri Lucie Thompson, senior vice president for university relations. Thompson said she is currently working on a job description to find a new director of external communications as well.

“We spend some time really thinking about what those descriptions need to look like, what are the qualifications of the person that we’re looking for,” Thompson said. “Those specs

work that goes into maintaining the trees, and the output includes shade, aesthetic appeal and floodwater absorption.

“So, harvesting the products of these trees increases the outputs that they are providing,” she said.

The mesquite harvesting project is supported by the UA Green Fund, which provides grant money for projects aimed at making the university more environmentally sustainable.

Maya Cross-Killingsworth, a microbiology sophomore and an intern with the Office of Sustainability, is coordinating the mesquite project.

“It’s nice to know that, really, the campus is a garden, and that there’s a lot of edible food here,” Cross-Killingsworth said.

The mesquite pods will be collected via a “passive harvesting” system that catches the pods that fall off the tree in a net affixed to its base. Designed by a UA student, the nets are intended to streamline the harvesting process, which was previously done by hand.

The mesquite seed pods are highly nutritious, CrossKillingsworth said. However, the only readily edible part of the pod is the spongy pith that lies between the rigid outer skin and the hard seeds. A milling process is therefore necessary to

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[specializations] have not been written yet.”

National searches occasionally happen through a search firm where a large database is maintained, allowing the firm to match the appropriate talent to the job specifications, according to Thompson. After the firm collects candidates, an internal search committee narrows down the pool of potential employees, holds phone interviews and eventually invites a few selected candidates to visit the university for a final interview.

Universities also advertise positions in publications that focus on higher education and on websites such as LinkedIn, Thompson added.

Thompson said this type of change is part of the nature of large organizations such as the UA. “All of us all of the time are making decisions about how to best manage our career and we all have decisions to make around balancing our personal lives, balancing our professional lives,” Thompson said.

The UA administration is also changing its structure by integrating the UA Alumni Association with University Relations. One of the

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Maya Cross-Killingsworth holds a handful of mesquite pods. The pods harvested on campus will be ground into a nutritious flour that will be used in various food items served on campus.

emails sent by Hart to UA employees announced the association will be reporting to University Relations allowing the association to “renew alumni connections, and encourage active participation within the University community.”

“Serving as a front door to the UA, the Alumni Association’s vibrant chapter and club network, alumni membership program and leadership groups provide a strong network for driving the reputation and success of the institution as a whole,” Hart said in the email.

Thompson said she is excited about the change which will allow the association to work with other university relations leaders to strategize alumni outreach.

“The alumni are an adequately critical group for us,” Thompson said.

Changes in departments and new administrators at the UA are a healthy sign of a dynamic institution, Thompson said.

According to Hart, one of her main areas of focus when she became president was to recruit experienced senior executives for key positions at the UA.

“I’ve worked very very hard to accomplish that,” Hart said. “Whenever there’s a change in leadership and direction at a university it is often the case that you have senior executives who have other opportunities and who also we are able to recruit here to join is at the University of Arizona.”

Since Hart took office almost a year ago, several leadership positions have been filled from internal leaders such as Andrew Comrie, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, and recruited externally such as Thompson.

Hart said she has been very gratified by the incredible quality of all the candidates for all of these major positions, and is looking forward to the searches next semester for a new CFO and Senior VP for research.

“To see an organization undergoing change and doing things to be fresh, current, reinvent itself,” Thompson said, “an organization that’s not settling, that’s not being static … has new talent coming in, new ideas, I find it a very exciting place and I’m excited to be a part of it.”

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Community Chatter How would it affect you financially if student loan interest rates doubled?

“Big time, because for [the] graduate level it’s a lot harder to get scholarships and funding and whatnot. You’re here trying to go to school, trying to do your best at your graduate level course, so it’s kind of hard to have a job that pays enough to live and afford a loan.”

— Juan Laitano, graduate student studying bio-medical engineering at Arizona State University/Summer intern at UA.

“This is a make-or-break for a lot of people. It could really discourage a lot of people from continuing college or coming to college in general … it does make me a little nervous. I can absorb it, but some people, I don’t think they’re going to be able to make it.”

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“It wouldn’t affect me at all, since I don’t have any student loans or anything like that. I have the AIMS scholarship, so my tuition is paid for. It’s a huge relief, I’m not sure what I would do if I didn’t have that scholarship.”

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transform the pods into flour.

“It’s a sort of sweet-tasting flour,” CrossKillingsworth said, “So it’s best for things like pancakes, brownies and pastries.”

In 2011, the Office of Sustainability worked with Dining Services to add flour made from UAharvested mesquite to campus menus, said Joe Abraham, director of the Office of Sustainability.

Abraham said that it was a complicated process due to liability issues.

“It’s one thing to have someone dump a bunch of food products on your dock that come from companies that are regulated. It’s another thing to produce some flour that comes off a tree,” Abraham said. “Working through all those little details was a process, but we’ve worked through all that.”

The Office of Sustainability will work with the Linking Edible Arizona Forests organization to coordinate citrus and olive harvests later in the year, said Melanie Lenart, project manager of LEAF on the UA campus.

In collaboration with the Iskashitaa Refugee Network, various types of limes, oranges and

“I don’t think it’s going to make it that much worse, because you have such a long time to pay the student loans back, and really the payments are pretty affordable … I already have a job in the field. I’m already making a decent salary, so for me it’s not going to matter.”

— Tiffany Cook, post-graduate student studying education

grapefruits will be harvested and distributed to local refugees. Iskashitaa is a local organization that engages the community in harvesting fruits and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste, said Barbara Eiswerth executive director of Iskashitaa.

“We feed families instead of landfills,” Eiswerth said.

According to Quist, the university has served the purposes of an arboretum since it first opened its doors in 1885.

“Our campus grounds themselves have always been used as a living laboratory,” she said.

In fact, Quist said, many of the olive trees on the west side of campus were planted more than 120 years ago by Robert Forbes, for whom the agriculture building is named.

While the olive trees were planted to determine the viability of different varieties for use in the desert, the trees will now be harvested to promote sustainability in an urban environment, Quist said.

“The goal of the arboretum is primarily to promote stewardship of urban trees,” Quist said.

“But more broadly, the emphasis is to promote sustainable practices and sustainable living in the desert.”

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Unpaid internships leave students at disadvantage CASEY KNOX Arizona Summer Wildcat

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lookout for viable, paid internships. Ideally, this internship should allow students to develop their unique skill-set and intellectually challenge themselves in the field they are pursuing.

“Research shows that particularly paid internships significantly increase the student’s opportunities after graduation,” said Eileen McGarry, director of Career Services.

This year, a student survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers determined that over 60 percent of paid interns received at least one job offer, compared to the 37 percent of students who worked unpaid internship positions and received no job offer. Shockingly, just over 35 percent of students who held no internship in their academic career received at least one job offer. The slight difference in these two percentages is just a representation of the staggering reality of the economic struggle that many students face in today’s job market.

We aren’t idiots. If we’re doing almost the same amount of work as an employee, we’re going to want money. And sometimes, the pros of the internship never outweigh the cons because students just can’t afford to work without pay.

If students are discovering that they literally cannot afford the experience that should tell employers that a change needs to happen. If internships are what it takes to get a job, but we can’t afford it, where does that leave us? Companies everywhere know exactly what’s happening with the economy so perhaps this case will help employers reevaluate their programs and see if they could begin paying interns. Internships may lead to jobs but if we can’t even accept an internship, the career-driven paths we’re supposed to have are looking incredibly bleak.

f anyone has ever said finding a job is easy, know that they lie. We all want “good jobs.” In fact, it’s been hard-wired into our brains for at least four years, if not more. All we used to have to need was a college degree to say we know what we’re doing. Now we need prior experience to show we know what we’re doing.

Now, more than ever, employment results come from former experience, shaped entirely by internships. According to a recent Forbes article, a 2012 survey conducted by Internships.com polled that “Sixty-nine percent of companies with 100 or more employees offered full-time jobs to their interns in 2012.”

So let’s say you do find that incredible internship that you know will lead you right to your dream job. Now let’s say it’s unpaid.

Do you take it? Can you afford it?

Earlier this month, a Federal District Court judge in New York ruled that an internship provided by Fox Searchlight Pictures violated federal minimum wage and working laws.

The unpaid interns were doing the work of employees but were receiving neither financial compensation or academic credit.

According to criteria set by the U.S. Department of Labor regarding unpaid internships, the work must be similar to vocational training, it must benefit the intern, cannot displace the work of regular employees, the work should not be to the advantage of the employer, and that students should not be entitled to a job after completion.

— Casey Knox is a sophomore studying As the case is brought into the public eye, companies should be assessing the journalism. She can be reached at letters@ development of the internships they provide. wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @ In today’s job market, students are on the knox_casey

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Right call made in voting law “Today’s decision sends a strong message that states cannot block their citizens from registering to vote by superimposing burdensome paperwork requirements on top of federal law,” said Vice President of Litigation for the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Nina Perales, to various news BRIAN PEEL outlets.

Arizona Summer Wildcat This is about Arizona’s citizens getting the opportunity to voice their opinions at the rizona has taken dozen of steps to polls, and possibly the citizens with the most ensure that it remains as free of illegal to gain from the decision are Arizona’s youth, immigrants as possible, its two biggest specifically on college campuses. Students on being the U.S.-Mexico border wall and Senate campus aren’t just walking around with all bill 1070. the necessary documents to prove that they Then came the proof of citizenship law that are American citizens, so schools’ attempts to the state was trying to pass. In late October strengthen the youth vote will fall short.

2012, the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., When the youth vote is lost or weakened, sued the state, claiming that it broke a law decisions that impact their future would be regarding voting. diminished.

If the voting process becomes too Last week, the Supreme Court voted 7-2 bureaucratic there is the potential that young against an Arizona law requiring proof of voters would become apathetic and not bother citizenship when registering to vote using to vote in future elections. a form issued by the federal government.

Proponents of the law claimed it would stop However, the state can request both a federal illegal immigrants from voting in and state-issused U.S. elections but this, along with registration form, which voter fraud, isn’t the problem. To would require proof of Students on campus bring in America’s immigration citizenship, by driver’s aren’t just walking policy issues as a reason to license or passport. To try change federal voting procedures around with all the to explain it more simply, necessary d­ocuments is just dirty politics. in 1993, Congress enacted Undocumented workers are to prove that they are the Motor Voter law which not the group deciding federal American citizens, so provided a unified voter elections and taking the vote schools’ attempts to registration form. away from American citizens strengthen the youth Then in 2004, Arizona is not how elections should be vote will fall short. passed Proposition 200 won. Voting is one of the most that stated voting officials democratic processes a person were required to reject can participate in and to take registration forms that away that right, in the name of didn’t provide “concrete” masking voter fraud is outrageous. proof of citizenship like a birth certificate or The Supreme Court has taken a huge step in a driver’s license. The question the Supreme the right direction by realizing that Arizona was Court faced was whether the requirements choosing inequality and segregation, practices from Prop. 200 conflicted with the Motor Voter that this country has worked hard to expel. law.

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­ Brian Peel is a senior studying history. He can — be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatsOpinions

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As part of the north end zone expansion project, a new dining facility is expected to debut in the Arizona Stadium this fall, offering the campus community a place to come together.

Located in the stadium, Bear Down Kitchen will have a large menu and incorporate both a full-style kitchen and pizza oven, as well as meals designed for athletes.

The menu will also rotate every week, and will be buffet style, according to Jason Tolliver, director of Arizona Student Unions. Students can pay at the door, and eat however much they want, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, he added.

Some menu items may include Carolina BBQ pork, Chicken Marengo, Greek pizza and calzones.

“When we were planning this new building, we were wondering if there was a way to incorporate the nutritious needs of our student-athletes,” said Greg Byrne, athletic director. “As

well as an opportunity to create a place that our campus can come to.”

According to Tolliver, the new restaurant could create some unique and special experiences for those who want to be a part of it.

With more than 40,000 students at the UA and only 500 student athletes, chances of students interacting with athletes are very limited, Byrne said, but bridging the gap between students and studentathletes is an important goal for the Athletic Department.

“We [the Athletic Department] don’t want to be isolated from campus and we think this is a good facility to reinforce the relationships between us and the rest of campus,” Byrne said.

Some students said they liked the idea of having a restaurant for both athletes and students.

“It would be good to have the restaurant mixing students and athletes because it will create more excitement for big games,” said Kira Karns, a pre-medicine senior.

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UA astronomers are using a state-of-the-art telescope to hunt for planets orbiting nearby stars.

Funded by NASA, the team is studying the interstellar dust around the stars as well as the telltale signs, such as clumps or trails, that planets create as they orbit around stars. There are two such projects underway at the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) on Mt. Graham, near Safford, Ariz.

The Hunt for Observable Signatures of Terrestrial planetary Systems (HOSTS) will survey about 50 nearby stars and is slated to operate through 2017. The project will observe each star’s “zodiacal” disk, which is the cloud of dust that accumulates around a star due to collisions of nearby asteroids, among other things.

The LBTI Exozodi Exoplanet Common Hunt (LEECH) will also look at the zodiacal disks around other stars, as well as seek to identify exoplanets which are planets that orbit stars other than our sun, namely gas-giants like Jupiter. The two projects will work simultaneously by using different science cameras on the LBT.

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The new expansion to Arizona Stadium will have the new eating establishment Bear Down Kitchen.

new north end zone expansion, Byrne said Bear Down Kitchen will also help from a recruiting stand point. This new restaurant will bring together studentathletes from all sports, not just football.

However, plans for Bear Down Kitchen to be open during home football games are still up in the air.

“The building is going to be used extensively on game days, and so we’ll be limited,” Byrne

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“The reason we want to detect such dust around extrasolar systems is because it can mask a planet inside,” said Denis Defrère, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astronomy who is involved with both projects.

“One of the main goals of NASA over the next decades is to find an earth-like planet, and this dust is a show-stopper,” he said. “If the dust is too bright, we will not be able to detect earth-like planets inside the system.”

Which is where the cutting-edge technology of the LBT comes in handy.

The telescope utilizes two 8.4 meter mirrors that were made at the Steward Observatory Mirror Lab on campus. The mirrors are positioned sideby-side like a pair of binoculars.

“The basic concept is, you spread the imaging portions of two telescopes and you get a much larger telescope,” said Tom McMahon, project manager for the Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer (LBTI), which is the instrument that combines the light from the two telescopes.

This technology allows astronomers working with LBTI to image the dust clouds with unprecedented resolution, he said.

said. “We haven’t decided how it will be used.”

Though still undecided about game days, the restaurant is scheduled to be open Monday through Friday.

“We just hope it creates a good bond,” Byrne said, “Between the university, the faculty, the general students, our studentathletes and our athletic department.”

“This is the only telescope in the world like this,” said Andy Skemer, postdoctoral researcher and principal investigator of LEECH. “Using LBTI, it turns this into the biggest telescope in the world.”

In addition to its resolving power, the LBTI is also capable of manipulating the incoming light in such a way that it cancels out much of the glare from the nearby star, making it possible to image very faint disks.

The information gathered from both HOSTS and LEECH will help astronomers to better understand not only the formation and composition of extrasolar systems, but also the composition of our own, Skemer said.

In addition to their short-term goals of observing exozodiacal disks, identifying gasgiants and studying the interaction between the two, the projects are also assessing the technology for application in a space-based telescope, McMahon said.

For now, the state-of-the-art LBT is the cheap alternative to a comparable space-based telescope, which would cost up to $5 billion dollars, Skemer added.

Although astronomers cannot yet image earthlike planets directly, the people at HOSTS and LEECH are gradually approaching that milestone, while furthering knowledge and understanding of the universe along the way.

“For me,” Defrère said, “It’s based on my curiosity and the will to learn and to discover new things.”

A non-UA affiliated man was cited and released after attempting to steal a traffic cone at 2:30 a.m. on June 16.

A UAPD officer watched as a vehicle stopped on Park Avenue and a man opened the passenger door and took a traffic cone.

The car drove a few hundred yards forward and the passenger placed the cone back in the road. The officer pulled the car over and questioned the man who said driver made him return the cone. The officer issued the man a citation, who then said that he was drunk and he deserved the ticket.

The driver and passenger were both released.

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A non-UA affiliated woman was pulled over on Speedway Boulevard at 10:19 p.m. on June 15, after an officer saw a man wearing a cowboy hat and riding a mountain bike holding on to the back of her truck. When the officer pulled the truck over, the man fled the scene. The driver of the truck said that she did not know there was a man on the back of her vehicle. Officers later found the bike, the cowboy hat, and a backpack with a crack pipe at the 7-11 at Park Avenue and Speedway Boulevard.

Out of the blue

Officers responded to campus after a shirtless non-UA affiliated man activated one of the emergency “blue light” phones at 12:45 a.m. on June 11.

When they tried to approach him, the man ran into an alley between the ArizonaSonora and Árbol de la Vida Residence Halls. When officers found the man, he told them he pressed the button because he needed to talk to the police, but didn’t provide a reason.

Officers then found the man had two warrants out for his arrest for domestic violence charges. He was arrested and booked into Pima County Jail.

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in revenue from the 2013-14 Stafford student loan program by collecting 12.5 cents for each dollar loaned, the release said.

“Congress has got to get off their you-know-what, and do something,” said Kaiser Adeni, a father of two college students, one of whom will be studying business at the UA this fall. If nothing is done, Adeni said the increase will definitely affect his finances.

Katie Boswell, an anthropology senior, said she currently has one subsidized student loan, but is planning to take out another in order to finish her education.

For Boswell, it is both stressful and a huge inconvenience.

“For me it just means saving that much more,” Boswell said.

“It means pushing back financial plans that you would’ve had, you know? Like if you were planning on getting your first car, or going in on your first big investment … it’s almost like having child support or a mortgage when you’re right out of college.”

Last week, more than 100 campus leaders signed a letter requesting Congress seek a long-term solution. Among them were student body presidents from Northern Arizona University, Arizona State University and the UA. “As student body president, this is probably the number one issue that’s going to universally affect every single student at the U of A if it doesn’t get acted on,” said Morgan Abraham, president of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. “I think this is the one issue that every student can kind of agree on and want something done … at the rate its going right now, nothing is going to happen.”

The letter to Congress begins by explaining that student debt is skyrocketing, now exceeding $1 trillion with the average student holding $27,250 in loans by graduation day.

“This enormous level of student debt weighs heavily on students, our families and our economy, forcing young Americans to delay major life decisions like buying a home

Arizona Summer Wildcat • 7 or starting a family,” the letter said. “Our classmates and their families represent a broad range of ideologies and backgrounds. However, the vast majority of students on our campuses are rallying again, like we did last year, around the belief that everyone should have access to an affordable, world-class education.”

Finding a permanent solution to the problem is the most important goal, said Jordan Davis, student body president of ASU, Tempe.

“It’s a serious concern, especially when you’re looking at you know, tough economic times, and tough career opportunities after you graduate…,” Davis said.

This weekend, campus leaders were invited to attend a conference hosted by the National Campus Leadership Council and held in Washington, D.C. NCLC is an organization that “empowers student body presidents to leverage campus ideas to influence national policy and opinion by connecting with each other and national leaders,” according to its website.

Both Abraham and Makenzie Mastrud, student body president of NAU, attended.

“The one thing I really appreciated about it was it was information based,” Abraham said, “And not so much partisan based you know, they were just feeding us information, letting us know everything that’s going to be affecting students next year, so it was incredibly helpful.”

On Monday, Abraham said he met with Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education, and went to the White House to speak with several of Obama’s aides about what is happening with the interest rates bill. Abraham also met with several aides from the Arizona delegation, to speak with them about the letter he signed and to share ASUA’s perspective.

“There’s a lot of options that can happen in the future,” Abraham said. “What we’re kind of reiterating is that there’s not really enough time for some sort of long term game plan to come through [by Monday], you know, they’ve waited this long, it’s their fault, but you can’t let students be punished for this.”

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The campus leaders’ letter concludes that if a long-term plan proves “politically impossible,” campus leaders support a short-term extension of the current 3.4 percent interest rate, until a time when comprehensive reform proves politically viable.

“I believe that eventually a long-term solution will come and hopefully it will be bipartisan and hopefully the students will love it,” Abraham said, “But there’s no way we have enough time right now to figure that out.”

If Congress does not create a long-term solution or extend the current rate by July 1, interest rates on Stafford subsidized loans will double.

Current rate: 3.4 percent Doubled rate: 6.8 percent Number of affected students in Arizona: 450,977 Dollar increase: Approximately $902 By 2020, 64 percent of Arizona jobs will require a certificate or degree Only 31 percent of the current population has one Source: Arizona PIRG

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Hill, Jerrett might find NBA homes the Minnesota Timberwolves. The last time multiple former Wildcats were picked was 2009, when the New York Knicks nabbed Arizona may lack headline stars in the Jordan Hill with the eighth pick and the upcoming NBA Draft, but the UA makes up Detroit Pistons selected Chase Budinger with for it in numbers as seven former Wildcats the 44th overall pick. have a chance to hear their named called on Other former Wildcats — Mark Lyons, Thursday.

Kevin Parrom, Josiah Tuner and Lamont The 2013 NBA Draft will be broadcast from “Momo” Jones — are draft eligible but they’re New York City on ESPN Thursday at 4 p.m. The not expected to be picked Thursday. draft is made up of two rounds and 60 picks.

In the nbadraft.net mock draft, Jerrett is Out of the group, forwards Solomon Hill projected to go to the Portland Trailblazers and Grant Jerrett, as well as former UA transfer with the 45th pick and Withey to the Cleveland Jeff Withey, appear to be the mostly likely Cavilers with the 33rd pick. Hill isn’t projected former Wildcats to be picked. to be picked in the mock draft, but is ranked Draft Express video scout and columnist, No. 60 on Aran Smith’s Big Board. as well as a former Arizona Daily Wildcat Lyons hasn’t been included in mock reporter, Mike Schmitz is confident that Hill drafts, but did score 20 points in a win in will be selected. the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament Hill was Arizona’s second-leading scorer championship game, a showcase for seniors. in 2012-13, with 13.4 points per game and Schmitz said he doesn’t see Lyons getting second in rebounds with 5.3 rebounds per drafted but said he could make an NBA game. training camp and become a good player for Schmitz said he thinks that Jerrett could an international team. be drafted, too. He added In April, Parrom that Jerrett’s decision announced he was going People don’t know about pro, rather than applying to go professional was surprising, but with [Jerrett] as much ... I for an unlikely fifth year highly-touted Allof eligibility. In 2011-12, think he has a chance American Aaron Gordon Parrom was shot and then to get drafted.­ coming in, it makes sense. a few months later broke a — Mike Schmitz, “It was obviously a huge Draft Express bone in his foot. surprise that he left, but Turner played one season at the same time, there is for Arizona, 2011-12, where obviously a lot of talent coming in,” Schmitz he was suspended twice, the second time said. “A lot of times when guys hang around indefinitely at the end of the season. ESPN. for three, four years, NBA teams look at that as com ranked Turner as the No. 15 overall ‘OK if you haven’t really improved over three prospect and No. 3 point guard in the 2011 or four years in college, then you kinda are class. what you are.’”

Turner decided to transfer to SMU, then Jerrett left school early for the draft after changed his mind, instead going to play averaging 5.2 points and 3.6 rebounds in 17.8 professionally in Hungary. He then left minutes per game coming off the bench his and went to Canada to play for the Halifax freshman season. Jerrett was a McDonald’s Rainmen but was promptly cut after 15 games. and Parade All-American in high school.

Turner returned to Tucson in April to serve “People don’t know about him as much, two days in jail for an extreme DUI. [they] saw him play limited minutes for “It’s kind of his only option,” Schmitz said. one year, but I think he has a chance to get “I’m not surprised he entered the draft, I don’t drafted,” Schmitz said. “I think he could go think he’ll get drafted, but he’s definitely a undrafted, but my guess he will be a very late talented kid, so I can see some teams bringing second round pick.” him in for work outs or him having a chance at Withey attended the UA in fall 2008 before summer league to prove himself.” deciding to transfer to Kansas after Hall of Fame head coach Lute Olson decided to retire.

See the rest of the story online at He never played a game as a Wildcat.

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Arizona basketball fans have always had the reputation of being most devoted. Now they can prove it, as a study by marketing professors at Emory University ranked the Wildcat’s faithful fans the second best fan base in college basketball.

Several weeks ago, Emory professors Manish Tripathi and Michael Lewis released a study of the most brand equitable fan bases in college basketball. Arizona fell to Louisville. The report reviewed information spanning between the 2001 and 2011 basketball seasons.

“For the study, we looked at the number of sellouts compared to the team’s performance and compared to the average ticket price,” Tripathi said. “Louisville had slightly more sellouts and the fans were paying slightly more money for the tickets.”

While last season didn’t count for the rankings, the trend seemed to continue as the Wildcats led the Pac-12 in attendance by a significant margin.

“When you think of college basketball on the men’s side, it doesn’t take you very long to put Arizona on that list,” Athletic Director Greg Byrne said. “There is no question that the UA Wildcats men’s basketball program has been a top program for some time.”

“I was only here for one year of that study, so I can’t take any credit. It’s our fans, it’s our coaches and it’s the job coach [Sean] Miller has continued to do.”

Tripathi said that he wasn’t very surprised to

find Arizona is number two.

“We tried to have little expectations, going into the study,” Tripathi said. “But when you look at the numbers it makes sense.”

But, a strong basketball fan base doesn’t equal strong athletic support as a whole. While the basketball program ranks at the top of the list, the Arizona football fans, especially students, are known for their lackluster attendance at football games.

“We are looking to find ways to get the students to come to the game and stay throughout the game,” Byrne said. “We’re only talking about six or seven weekends per year.”

When the Wildcats bring football recruits to the game during a weekend visit, Byrne said it could affect them negatively if the student section is only half full come halftime.

Overall attendance was a problem for football as well. Even with a shrunken stadium since the north end zone was closed for construction, Arizona only topped 50,000 in attendance in three of the eight home games in 2012.

While an 8-5 record last season under head coach Rich Rodriguez was a good start, sports management Professor Jim McLean said winning is the key to gaining fans for any sport.

“It helps to have the type of [basketball] program we’ve got,” McLean said. “If you got a winning team and a winning program and a winning coach and a legacy of sorts which we have it certainly doesn’t hurt. There’s a lot of marketing and communications.”

McLean said that the buildup of the program

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ARIZONA HOCKEY takes to the ice against Oakland on Nov. 10, 2012 at the Tucson Convention Center. While the UA won’t play the perennially ranked Grizzlies this season, the Wildcats will play 25 games against teams ranked in the top 14 in the final 2012 polls.

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For years, Arizona and ASU were the only ACHA Division I teams west of Oklahoma.

Finally, Colorado and Colorado State are moving up from ACHA DII to form the Western Collegiate Hockey League.

In addition to those, Oklahoma and Central Oklahoma will join the conference to form the WCHL, which will give the Wildcats a chance to finally earn an automatic bid for the playoffs.

“It will be great,” head coach Sean Hogan said. “The conference could be the premier conference in the ACHA.” ASU finished last season ranked No. 3, Oklahoma was No. 6, Central Oklahoma was No. 14, Arizona was No. 20 and Colorado will be getting a new on-campus ice rink in the fall.

Each WCHL team will play 16 conference games, four against local rivals and three against interstate foes. Arizona will play ASU in four non-conference games as well.

There will not be a WCHL tournament in its inaugural season; the champion will be crowned based off of total points.

The last time Arizona was a member of a conference was 1996-97, when it was a Central States Hockey League affiliate. The Wildcats were a CSHL affiliate for two seasons. Before that, they were full members of the Pacific Intercollegiate Hockey Conference. The Wildcats were in the PIHC from 1984 to 1987.

While the WCHL will naturally provide its challenges, the rest of the Wildcats schedule is equally difficult and includes a game against

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Arizona women’s golf junior-to-be Kendall Prince won the 104th Oregon Amateur.

Prince lost in last year’s final, but beat high

school junior Gigi Stoll on the 17th hole in the final to win the championship.

“I’d say I enter any tournament with high expectations, and obviously coming in runnerup, I knew I could make the finals,” Prince said to The Oregonian. “I had a lot of confidence coming in, and it was good to play off of that.”

Pac-12 Bowls take shape

While the college postseason is quickly changing with the College Football Playoff on its way, the Pac-12 is staying pat with its top bowls. The opponent, though, is changing to a new, but familiar, foe.

The Holiday Bowl announced it will pit the Pac-12 against the Big Ten for six years starting in 2014. The San Diego-based bowl will get the third pick from the Pac-12 to face a team from the Big Ten, to be determined.

Big Ten teams cannot go to the Holiday Bowl more than twice during the six year time

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Recently graduated Wildcat Brigetta Barrett won the USA Championship in the high jump with a personal record 6-8.25 (2.04m). Barrett now has the No. 1 jump in the world for the outdoor season and it was also the second best jump in American history.

Another former Wildcat, Georganne Moline, finished second in the 400-meter hurdles, with the second fastest time of her career (53.88). The top three finishers at the U.S. Championships earn a spot at the World Championships in August.

At the Canadian National Championships, senior-to-be Julie Labonté won the discus with a toss of 173-3 (52.81m). She will not compete in the discus at the Worlds. She will focus on the shot put instead, where she also won with a season-best toss of 57-11 (17.65m).

Former Wildcat Zack Lloyd also punched a ticket to Russia to compete in shot put with a third place finish, throwing it 69-2.5 (21.09m).

Senior-to-be Alyssa Hasslen earned a spot on Team USA with a season-best toss of 59-4.75 (18.10m), good enough for third.

Volunteer assistant coach Bernard Lagat won the men’s 5,000-meter. The 38-year-old Lagat will be making his fifth World Championships appearance.

Senior-to-be Nick Ross tied for 12th place in the men’s high jump, reaching 7-0.5 (2.15m) and sophomore-to-be Traci-Lynn Hicks finished seventh in the 100-meter hurdles at the Junior USA Championships, with a time of 14.61 (-4.2 wind).

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Also, the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl will feature a Pac-12/Big Ten match-up for six years, starting in 2014. The bowl will move from the AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco Giants, to Levi’s Stadium next year, the future home of the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, Calif.

The Fight Hunger Bowl will get the fourth Pac-12 team and work with the Big Ten to pick teams each year. Bowl officials said they want at least five different Big Ten teams to go to the bowl during the six years.

The Pac-12 will face the Big Ten in three of its top four bowls — the Rose, Holiday and Fight Hunger bowls.

The Hyundai Sun Bowl announced that it signed a six-year contract with the Pac-12 starting in 2014. The El Paso, Texas bowl will get the fifth Pac-12 team. The opponent, however, has still not been announced.

The Sun Bowl, which once got the third Pac-10 team, dropped from fourth this past season and the Fight Hunger Bowl moved up from sixth.

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over a long period of time helps the team continue to sell out during the down years, because fans are still confident the program will eventually begin winning again.

But marketing and branding a team don’t always come down to performance on the field. Director of Marketing Ben Chulick said that a lot of the marketing involved in branding the team comes from the introduction video. The team uses a lot of the former players and past success to market to the fans, which is especially the case for basketball, where former head coach Lute Olson shows off his 1997 national championship ring at the end of the video.

Chulick also said the recent hiring of former Arizona basketball star Damon Stoudamire as an assistant coach has helped the team with marketing because he was a popular player.

Once everything is added up for the men’s basketball program, it didn’t come as a surprise for Chulick that the program ranked so well nationally, he said.

“I wasn’t surprised, I was actually quite pleased,” Chulick said. “I think that we here in Tucson know that we have a passionate fan base for our men’s basketball team. It was exciting to see someone recognize that.”

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York University, a varsity Canadian team.

Arizona, which finished 2013 as No. 20 in the final American Collegiate Hockey Association poll, will play 25 games next season against teams that finished in the top 14.

“I think it will be right up there in the top 10 difficulty, which is what we want to do,” Hogan said. “We’re definitely excited about it, that’s for sure.”

Highlighting the schedule will be a Jan. 3-4, 2014 series against York.

“That will be a good test for us, to see where we’re at,” Hogan said.

Other than a trip to NCAA Division I Cornell, Arizona is the only American team that the Lions play.

Last season was the first time Hogan was able to draft his own schedule since 2011-12. Former Arizona captain Brian Slugocki said a more difficult schedule was one of the main reasons the team sought a new coach in 2011.

Though Arizona won 15 games, its most since 2007-08, seven of which were against top 10 teams, it only won three games in the spring 2013 semester and missed the national tournament.

Hogan said he didn’t think last year’s schedule was too tough. The UA played 30 games against top 25 teams, the third toughest strength of schedule in the nation.

“That’s the schedule we need to play to [be] competitive,” Hogan said. “Being as isolated as we are, when we do travel, we want to play good opponents.”

The Wildcats open the season with a ninegame road trip at NAU Sept. 27-28, at ASU, at Liberty, at Central Oklahoma and at Oklahoma.

Then Arizona has a 22-game homestand, featuring NAU, 2012 national champion Delaware, Colorado, Colorado State, 2013 national champion Minot State, Wyoming, Iowa State, ASU, York, Oklahoma, Central Oklahoma, Liberty and San Diego State. SDSU is coached by former UA star Dennis Hands.

Hogan said they work with the arch-rival Sun Devils on scheduling, since the chance to play established ACHA power ASU and up-andcoming Arizona is appealing to teams.

Delaware, for example, will play at ASU before coming to the Tucson Convention Center to face the Wildcats.

“Most teams that come in want to play both teams,” Hogan said.

Arizona goes on a seven game road trip to ASU, CSU, CU and Minot State before closing out the regular season by hosting the Sun Devils.

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UCLA beat Mississippi State 8-0 to sweep the College World Series championship series against the Bulldogs to win the Pac-12’s second straight baseball national title.

The Bruins captured UCLA’s first ever baseball championship and the school’s 109th team championship.

Arizona won the title in 2012. The Pac-12 has won 28 baseball championships since 1947, the most of any league.

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Boards of Canada shines on “Tomorrow’s Harvest” ALEX WHELAN Arizona Summer Wildcat

Boards of Canada has never been a band short on ideas, and Tomorrow’s Harvest only further cements its canonization in electronic music. Considering that its 1998 record, Music Has the Right To Children helped define the Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) genre, it stands to reason that every Boards of Canada release will have at least something new to offer.

Given the hype surrounding Tomorrow’s Harvest, the Scottish duo has amassed a cult following and for good reason.

At the forefront of the IDM movement, Boards of Canada was undoubtedly a driving force in today’s electronic dance music scene, helping to popularize EDM as we know it.

Yet where previous records like The Campfire Headphase and Geogaddi found Boards of Canada moving toward a heavier, hip-hop sound, Tomorrow’s Harvest scales back the group’s percussive elements, and instead lets atmospheric and swirling tones speak for themselves.

Tracks like “Uritual” and

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“Collapse” exhibit a newfound attention to repeating ambience while still maintaining enough of the band’s penchant for melody to elevate the tracks above new age style yoga music. Likewise, late-album highlight “Nothing Is Real” bridges the gap even further by splicing drum sounds, though never letting them take the lead.

The record does have its share of that signature Boards of Canada drum sound, though.

Taking a cue from Music Has the Right To Children, “Jacquard Causeway” features loping, dizzy drum samples interspersed with the kind of oscillating melodies that most electronic musicians

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do not reflect Alvarez’s previous statement. Many skateboarders are stopped by UAPD officers throughout the year as a result of dropping off curbs to avoid pedestrians. Getting caught could mean

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can only dream of creating.

On construction alone, the six and a half-minute “Jacquard Causeway” stands among the best of Tomorrow’s Harvest, as each additional tone loops on top of the next, as if to evoke the best kind of highway driving — mindless, in the moment and musical.

Boards of Canada’s approach is nothing if not a well-constructed road to a specific sound or theme, but “Jacquard Causeway” proves that it remains just as committed to the scenery.

Perhaps the most intriguing moment of the record; however, belongs to the oddly titled “Semena Mertvykh,” the closer that stretches ambient bits from the album like “Uritual” and “Sundown” into a full-fledged track. It’s a telling moment, one that poses a change in sound more drastic than even the least drum-laden tracks on Tomorrow’s Harvest.

Whether Boards of Canada will eschew its IDM textures for more droning endeavors remains to be seen. Either way, the group’s fourth full-length album emerges as yet another in its long string of triumphs.

losing a $140 board to the UA impound, a citation or even an arrest.

“Keep an eye out,” Callaway advised his fellow skaters. “Don’t stay in one spot too long, keep moving. … Go do another trick, go to another spot, go get something to eat. Just stay out of [UAPD officers’] sight.”

You just saved the world.

Take a break and grab The Summer Wildcat!

Do it to save a life, or do it for the free cookies and juice. Either way the American Red Cross is in need of blood donors. To schedule an appointment, go to redcross.org and register.

Thursday, June 27th

Farmers’ Market, University of Arizona College of Medicine, 10 a.m. — 2 p.m.

This biweekly event features a variety of fresh foods with 15-30 vendors to choose from. For $20, you can walk away with plenty of homegrown fruits and vegetables — a small price that will leave you feeling guilt-free.

Friday, June 28th

Triple Double Kickstarter Launch Party, Club Congress, 9 p.m.

This local band is a fusion of feel-good electronic, layered with big vocal harmonies and serious grooves. Come check out their set at Club Congress as a way to kick off your own Friday night and support the band’s Kickstarter launch for its next record.

Saturday, June 29th

Wingspan Volunteer Training, 430 E. Seventh St., 9 a.m. — noon Wingspan is Southern Arizona’s community center for lesbian,

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gay, bisexual and transgender.

Educate yourself on becoming a volunteer for the program.

People of any sexual orientation, race or gender are encouraged to apply.

Summer Beer Tastings, Hotel Congress, $20, 5 p.m.

If you’re not able to escape to the beach at all this summer, Hotel Congress’s summer beer series this week will feature those of the Maui Brewing Company.

Beers include Maui’s sweet and citrusy Mana Wheat Beer, Bikini Blonde Lager and Big Swell IPA. All tastings are $20 and come with dishes from Cup Café.

Sunday, June 30th Porch Fest, Armory Park, 7 p.m.

— 9 p.m.

Located in the Armory Park neighborhood, Porch Fest will bring together over a dozen artists and musical acts performing on 10 porches. Each porch is located within walking distance of each other and is completely free to the public.

Tuesday, July 2nd Rawksplosion at Club Congress, 6:30 p.m., free Giving back to all those Tucson music fans who endure the summer heat, Jalph, better known as Dream Sick’s Matt Baquet, brings you a two-day festival that has the Northwest’s Milk Music as a headlining act.

It’s a free festival in a cool setting — what more do you need?

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Tucson LGBTQ icon Jaime J holds “Coming Out” party GALINA SWORDS Arizona Summer Wildcat

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JAIME J AND RAW-B DJ at La Cocina’s “Pride Under the Stars” event on June 22. Jaime J will be holding this week’s “Coming Out” party on Friday.

If you are looking for a place to let loose, be yourself and hear great music, with the added bonus of free admission, La Cocina’s “Coming Out: A Queer Dance Party” this Friday is it.

Born and raised in Tucson, Jaime J said, “My heart and soul has always been attached to the queer community in Tucson.” So when a friend who worked at La Cocina approached him in 2011 about having his own show at the venue, it seemed more than fitting.

Jaime J said his first memory of relating to music was listening to K.T. Oslin’s 80’s Ladies.

“I matched pitch … and I remember being amazed that my voice could do that,” he said.

But performing was difficult as he often struggled with extreme stage fright. However, upon entering his 20’s he said he wanted to care less about how people perceived him and just perform. For Jaime J, being on stage now is about “living in that moment, moving past the expectations and putting on some tiny shorts. It is about making a connection with the audience.”

Jaime J originally declined to play, but once his friend, Robert Lopez, also known as DJ Raw-B, agreed to help, Jaime J finally accepted La Cocina’s offer.

“I knew when we first started that Raw-B would be in charge of the music and I would be in charge of performing,” Jaime J said.

Together they were able to

conceptualize a party for people of all ages, races and sexualities, Jaime J said.

“Coming Out: A Queer Dance Party” has been at La Cocina on the last Friday of every month since March 2011.

“Expect a lot of great pop music … I have no guilty pleasures I’m proud of everything I love,” Jaime J said.

Featuring artists like Big Freedia and the signature closing song Robyn’s “Dancing on my Own,” with raffles benefiting Fluxx Productions and Tucson Latin Pride, La Cocina’s “Coming Out: A Queer Dance Party” promises nothing short of a wildly fun time. But more than that, Jaime J said, “I want people to walk into the coming out party and know they will be accepted.”

Summer skateboarding is as unlawful as ever GREG GONZALES Arizona Summer Wildcat

If you’re tired of being inside and think you can brave the Tucson heat, grab your skateboard and head to the UA to make the best of your summer.

“Just put on some sunscreen, get some water, you’re good to go,” said Grant Callaway, store manager at Starr Skates, who has skateboarded for 15 years. “It is a good idea to wait until the sun goes down [to skate]. You’re less likely to get skin cancer.”

The Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology reported that Arizona skin cancer rates, excluding melanoma, are some of the highest in the world. And yet, skateboarders will still face the brutal Arizona sun every day. Some skateboarding companies even bring their teams through Tucson in these sweltering months, simply to collect footage on a college campus

that’s free of college students.

“You get the urge to go skateboarding, you don’t want to wait a couple hours,” Callaway said.

“It’s fun. It’s the best activity you can participate in, regardless of the weather.”

Skateboarding isn’t always fun, whether it’s the oppressive heat, occasional slams or broken bones.

The University of Arizona Police Department is notorious for its enforcement of no-trick rules on campus property.

It’s even harder when the UA campus is littered with spots, some of which have found international recognition as proving grounds of sorts. One of these locations is the gigantic stair set on the north side of the Eller College of Management, where skateboarders like Birdhouse Skateboards pro Aaron “Jaws” Homoki, a Phoenix native, have thrown themselves down the massive gap for the sake of capturing it on video. Homoki’s

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DESPITE THE CLEARED-OUT CAMPUS and opportunities to hit up spots usually congested during the year, skateboarders are just as likely to be busted by the ever-watchful UAPD.

huge heelflip was featured in the “Happy Medium” skate video, a milestone in the Arizona skateboarding community.

But Callaway, a Tucson native, said he hasn’t skated on campus

in a while because of the strict law enforcement.

“You can’t even go up a curb — you have to keep all four wheels on the ground, you can’t do anything.

You can’t even turn around. Just

trying to get out of the way of somebody, that can be seen [by UAPD] as ‘hot-dogging.’”

However enticing an empty UA may be, Callaway said he’s aware that skateboarders will head to campus in the hopes that police enforcement will be less stringent.

But according to UAPD Officer Fil Barrera, police patrols remain constant throughout the year, save large sporting events and other special gatherings on campus.

Barrera said officers do not specifically target skateboarders, but will respond to called-in complaints.

However, UAPD public information officer Sgt. Juan Alvarez said the rules are not as strict as Callaway claims. For instance, he said jumping up and down curbs is OK, as long as it’s only for the purpose of transportation — just not trying kickflips or lipslides down rails or stairs on campus.

Callaway’s personal experiences

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