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Campus outreach, fees, voting on ASUA’s plate for fall semester YARA ASKAR Arizona Daily Wildcat

ASUA stressed on Wednesday in the senate’s first meeting of the semester the importance of collaborating with the university in order to ensure representation of students.

Senators discussed club outreach, Career Services fees and the national presidential election.

Sen. Logan Bilby, who

collaborated with Career Services, proposed an annual $5 student service fee for seniors. In previous years, seniors paid a $25 fee for services provided by the department. With a passing vote, freshmen will now receive the same services to assist them with finding internships and jobs after graduation.

With only three days into the school year, student traffic has been heavily increasing in the Associated Students of the

University of Arizona office, and them different tactics and having the senators have been working more committees and directors.

“The senators have started off hard since day one, according to Krystina Nguyen, executive vice president.

The senators have “I hope they continue with started off with a lot on the same momentum they have their plates and I have started with,” Nguyen added. faith they will ... surpass ASUA also plans to extend their goals. outreach efforts by teaching clubs various ways to market themselves.

— Krystina Nguyen, ASUA Nguyen discussed how ASUA will executive vice president help clubs reach out to potential members and recruit by teaching

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with a lot on their plates and I have faith that they will keep up throughout the semester and surpass their goals,” she added.

ASUA President Katy Murray stressed the importance of the upcoming election year and the importance of engaging with the students to vote. The Arizona Students’ Association will host tables on the mall for students to register to vote, and ASUA is

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Storm soaks students, steals shoes BRITTNY MEJIA

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ucson experienced a downpour Wednesday morning, resulting in minor flooding on campus streets and walkways.

Some students were forced to take alternate routes to get to their classrooms, while others suffered wardrobe malfunctions due to the rain.

“I walked from Arbol to the Modern Languages building and I got pretty soaked,” said Kaitlin Beardmore, an undeclared freshman. “I even lost my shoes a couple of times.”

Some of the flooding was due to a drainage clog near the Administration building, which Facilities Management is working to fix, according to Chris Kopach, the department’s assistant vice president.

“During a lot of these heavy rains our streets are acting as bigger troughs to go ahead and channel this water off campus,” Kopach said. “What we’re trying to do is make sure our sidewalks are clear.”

Before the puddles dried up, some students had trouble trying to take their normal transportation.

“Puddles are bad for the bearings, but I was running late, so I figured I’d take my board anyway,” said Dylon Gookin, a sophomore studying biochemistry and neuroscience. “There were a few points where I didn’t want to completely drench my board though, so I’d get off and walk a little bit.”

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A HEAVY MORNING DOWNPOUR left many campus streets and walkways flooded, causing many students to take detours to class.. According to Facilities Managment Assistant Vice President Chris Kopach, the streets double as troughs to channel water away from campus.

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More than 500 jobs throughout campus and the local community were up for grabs at Wednesday’s Wildcat Student Employment Fair, held in SUMC’s Grand Ballroom and featuring nearly 50 departments, companies and organizations.

The Wildcat Student Employment Fair is the only job fair on campus that is designed strictly for students who attend the university. Other job fairs allow students from other schools, such as Pima Community College, to attend their events.

The event created valuable opportunities for hundreds of UA students. All the departments and businesses who were in attendance were willing to work with students’ schedules to find the times that work best for them.

“I am excited about the number of opportunities available here,” said Melissa Rivenbark, a studio

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THE UNIVERSITY’S ANNUAL WILDCAT Student Employment Fair, designed specifically for UA students, aimed to fill hundreds of positions on campus and throughout Tucson.

art junior. “I already went to Career Services to beef up my resume.”

Among the local businesses at the event were CyraCom International Inc., Arthritis Introspective and

College Nannies and Tutors.

The UA Tech Park and the Office of Federal Relations were two of many UA departments hosting booths at the event. UA Tech Park

was looking for juniors, seniors and graduate students to help with three ongoing projects: Innovation Day, Racing with the Sun and Esteemed High School, which is a new high school being built at the UA BioPark.

According to Brenda Hough, executive assistant at the Office of University Research Parks, getting involved with UA Tech Park is a great opportunity for students studying science and technology, business, marketing or communications, as it offers job opportunities that pertain directly to those fields.

In addition to university departments, local organizations and state departments offering several positions at the fair.

Sunnyside Unified School District promoted opportunities for substitute teachers, instructional assistants for both special education classes and regular courses, office health clerks, tutors and even bus drivers.

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Rumors of war within Mexico’s Los Zetas gang raise fear of new violence MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s largest crime group, Los Zetas, appears to be splintering into two rival factions locked in occasional open warfare with each other, experts say.

The factions are tussling for control of the central states of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi and are battling each other in parts of the Yucatan Peninsula.

What sparked the rift is unclear, but signs of the apparent split have come in public banners left at crime scenes, replete with accusations of betrayal and treason between factions led by the two top leaders, Heriberto Lazcano and Miguel Angel Trevino.

“We’re looking at a turning point for them,” said Samuel Logan, a security analyst who co-authored a book on the Zetas that was released earlier this year. “We’re at the beginning of the public stage of the split, but it’s been developing for a while.”

A fracturing of Los Zetas could

force a violent realignment of Mexico’s drug-trafficking gangs and would probably create challenges for President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto, who promised to bring down soaring homicides after his inauguration Dec. 1.

One of the latest signs of turmoil came Aug. 9, when authorities found a Mercedes-Benz truck bearing 14 bodies on the outskirts of the city of San Luis Potosi, a mining and industrial hub that’s the capital of the state of the same name. Afterward, state Attorney General Miguel Garcia Covarrubias said a man who’d feigned death and survived the massacre told authorities that groups of Zetas were battling each other.

“It seems this is a dispute within Los Zetas, a rivalry among themselves,” Garcia Covarrubias told Mexico City’s W Radio network.

The members of Los Zetas, a band formed by military deserters, worked as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel in northeast Mexico until a violent schism in 2010. Since then, the Zetas have branched beyond

drug trafficking to extortion, human smuggling, kidnapping and piracy of goods.

Known for extreme brutality, the group is thought to be active in at least half of Mexico’s 31 states and Mexico City, as well as throughout Central America.

“The Zetas have expanded rapidly in recent years, and they might have hit a wall,” said Alejandro Hope, a former official in the national intelligence agency CISEN. He cautioned that reports of a rift within the Zetas could be part of a government “psy ops” campaign to inject paranoia into the gang. As to the extent of a split, “we don’t really know yet.”

Initial reports of a rift emerged in early June, then surged with the arrest June 12 of Trevino’s brother, Jose, at a horse-breeding ranch in Oklahoma, inflaming mistrust and questions that someone within the gang had led U.S. agents to the ranch.

“It might have launched a chain reaction of suspicions within Los Zetas,” Hope said.

In early August, cloth banners appeared along highways in the

states of Veracruz, Coahuila and Tamaulipas denying that a Zetas split had occurred.

But within days, new signs of infighting emerged in the states of Campeche, Tabasco and Quintana Roo, all in Mexico’s southeast. On Aug. 9, security agents arrested Jorge Luis Martinez Rodriguez, known as “El Taz,” in Campeche, linked to one faction of Los Zetas.

The next day, police in Quintana Roo arrested an alleged midlevel henchman of Trevino’s, and said another Zetas faction had ratted him out.

Other crime groups are taking note — and sides — in the dispute.

The Knights Templar, a longtime enemy of Los Zetas with a strong presence in Michoacan state, hung banners across the state Friday belittling Trevino as a “terrorist” and a “military objective” of their group.

Heavy violence linked to Los Zetas has sprung up in central Mexico, leading President Felipe Calderon last week to order the deployment of some 15,000 additional federal police and soldiers to the states of Michoacan, Nuevo Leon,

Guanajuato, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosi, Coahuila and Tamaulipas.

Analysts said a splintering of Los Zetas could lead to an uptick in violence as lower-level gangsters sought to snatch turf, smuggling corridors and crime activity.

“When organized-crime groups divide, these divisions are often very violent,” said Jorge Chabat, a security expert at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, a Mexico City research center.

Added Logan, the Zetas expert: “When you have the big dogs fighting, it leaves room for the smaller dogs to pick up the pieces and get stronger.”

Any weakening or division of Los Zetas would leave the Sinaloa Cartel, under kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the strongest crime group in Mexico. The U.S. Treasury Department in January labeled Guzman “the world’s most powerful drug trafficker.” His group is based in the Pacific Coast state of the same name but it has tentacles around the world.

Nearly a dozen other crime groups occupy smaller niches in the nation’s criminal hierarchy.

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REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Rep. Paul Ryan greets supporters Wednesday at SMT, Inc. in Raleigh, N.C. Ryan has turned his “affable” personality into a moneymaker just in time for election season, winning over CEOs and lobbyists to boost fundraising.

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WASHINGTON — Rep. Paul D. Ryan has cultivated his “affable wonk” persona into an effective moneymaker, winning over CEOs and K Street lobbyists to build a fundraising machine that has boosted his standing on Capitol Hill and helped make him one of the GOP’s most influential figures.

In 2002, the Wisconsin congressman established a so-called leadership PAC, a fund that allows him to raise money to give to other lawmakers, but the fund did little until 2006, when he began his rapid rise in the House Republican hierarchy. That year, Ryan’s PAC distributed $322,000 to Republicans, a 607 percent increase in giving from the cycle before, according to the nonpartisan campaign finance group Center for Responsive Politics.

“Part of what you do when you’re a member of Congress who has ambitions and wants to become committee chair is you start raising money and you start giving money to your colleagues,” said Steve Northrup, a Republican health care lobbyist who has hosted several Ryan fundraisers.

“You can’t divorce that from his

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personality and his smarts,” Northrup added.

The high-profile post and the exposure it has brought has helped Ryan raise even more, which, in turn, has allowed him to cement ties to his congressional allies. In this election cycle, he has brought in $8.5 million to his campaign account and political action committee combined. Of that, Ryan still has more than $6 million in the bank, a notably high reserve compared with his congressional colleagues.

The PAC so far has given more than $539,000 to Republican candidates and lawmakers, a figure that ranks among the top 10 leadership PACs in contributions to federal candidates, alongside prolific congressional fundraisers Eric Cantor, R-Va., and Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

“Even the most idealistic members of Congress realize that the way to power is to raise money and to spread it around to your colleagues,” said David Donnelly, executive director of Public Campaign Action Fund, a campaign finance reform group. “(Ryan) certainly learned that early on.”

Ryan has become one of the most requested fundraising surrogates

for House Republicans. And he has invested in a multimillion-dollar direct mail campaign that has bolstered his name recognition and given his finance network a national scope.

The insurance, finance and healthcare industries have been his biggest donors over the course of his career, according to an analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics. He has collected checks from some of the right’s most prolific individual donors, including the Koch brothers, the billionaire energy executives whose corporate PAC has given Ryan more than $60,000 throughout his career.

“Ryan is known as a serious policy guy but in reality, his budget is a wish list for wealthy interests,” Donnelly said. “He put forth a policy agenda that matches up with the funding constituencies of the Republican Party.”

Kevin Seifert, a Ryan spokesman, said his boss’s emergence as a top GOP money man is a natural outgrowth of his climbing political profile.

In the last two election cycles, Ryan has tapped into conservative grassroots dollars by investing $3.5 million in a direct mail program that touts his policy proposals as a fundraising appeal.

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HOUSTON — Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan should be forcibly shaved of his beard before his trial begins to avoid a “distracting and disruptive sideshow” that is “flagrantly disrespecting the Army,” military prosecutors said Wednesday.

Military prosecutors, in a response to a court of appeals ruling staying Hasan’s courtmartial, argue that Hasan’s refusal to follow orders to shave is not a question of religious freedom but one of decorum and authority.

“This is a direct challenge to the military judge’s authority,” prosecutors said in court documents. A military appeals court stayed the trial last week after judges found that forcibly shaving Hasan, as the military trial judge Col. Gregory Gross had ordered, would violate his religious freedom.

The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces — a panel of four civilian judges appointed by the president and based in Washington — issued the order at the same time Hasan was appearing in court last Wednesday at the base in central Texas. The appeals panel, the highest court in the military system, is the equivalent of a federal Circuit Court of Appeal.

Hasan, 41, a Muslim American born to Palestinian parents, had appeared in court that day with a full salt-and-pepper beard, in uniform. He is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the November 2009 attack on the Army base. He did not have a beard when he was arrested. If convicted, he could face the death penalty.

Hasan’s defense team argued in a court filing last week that forcibly shaving their client would violate his First Amendment right to freedom of religion. Hasan, they said, “is a practicing Muslim and has

recently had a premonition that his death is imminent. He does not wish to die without a beard as he believes not having a beard is a sin,” according to his petition to the appeals court.

The lawyers noted that Hasan had “discussed his premonition and reasons for growing his beard” with a member of his military defense team who is an imam and who vouched for the fact that Hasan’s refusal to shave is because of “a sincere, personal religious conviction.”

Prosecutors noted Wednesday that Hasan had previously requested a religious exemption to wear a beard, but his request was denied by superiors, who cited the need for “discipline, unit cohesion and morale.”

They also noted that “forced shaving is not a novel concept in the military. Army regulations expressly authorize nonconsensual haircutting and face-shaving for recalcitrant incarcerated soldiers.”

Prosecutors also noted that the military judge gave Hasan several chances to comply with his order to shave, that Hasan was held in contempt at five hearings, fined $1,000 each time and removed from court to watch the proceedings from a trailer via closed circuit television.

“It is clear that nothing sort of forcibly shaving (Hasan) will end the disruption,” they wrote.

If Hasan is not forced to shave, prosecutors argue, he “injects potential error into the court martial” and the court will “run the risk that the accused will further inflame the panel to his own detriment” — laying the groundwork for an appeal.

They also note that allowing Hasan to keep the beard would set a dangerous precedent to other defendants and soldiers “that it is acceptable to be in noncompliance with judicial orders and Army regulations.”

Hasan’s court-martial was on hold Wednesday pending a ruling from the appeals court. It was not clear how soon the court will rule.

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News • Thursday, August 23, 2012 Additionally, every three years, the UA receives the opportunity to send a student regent to represent the student body on the Arizona Board of Regents.

This year is an important year because ASUA will have the chance to pick a student that will serve for two years on the board, Murray said.

Brian Seastone, the University of Arizona Police Department’s police commander, announced that UAlerts are now available to all community members, and will be sent to alumni, parents of students and residents in neighboring communities. A UA Net

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also working with the university on televising the presidential debates.

Murray also mentioned that there is an ongoing competition between the UA and Arizona State University to see who registers the most students for the presidential election, with the new slogan “Don’t just watch, vote 2012.�

ASUA is also handing out five scholarships for students who can’t afford to buy a ZonaZoo pass.

ID is no longer required to receive emergency information regarding media threats and major disruptions going on campus.

Sen. Vinson Lui announced at the meeting that ASUA’s official Facebook page will launch later that night.

Through the social network site, ASUA is hoping to reach out to more of a variety of students across campus, he said. “The main goal is to be more active and consistent with updating news to the page,� Liu said.

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IN THEIR FIRST WEEKLY meeting of the fall semester, ASUA addressed a number of issues, including student outreach, voting and Career Services fees.

Student groups host meeting to help connect newcomers, provide outreach BRITTNY MEJIA Arizona Daily Wildcat

The third annual “Finding Community Welcome� event brought students together Wednesday night and introduced them to communities on campus.

After seven months of planning, hundreds of students attended the event and learned about different clubs and organizations available to them. They were able to interact with organization directors and learn more about cultural centers on campus. “A main benefit of this event is to show students you don’t have to give up who you are when you come to the U of A,� said Hannah Lozon, coordinator of social justice education for Residence Life. “For example, if being Chicana is really important to you, we celebrate that here and this event is supposed to highlight that.�

Members of fraternities, sororities and other clubs sat at tables set up in the Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom, where they spoke with attendees about how to get more involved and active on campus. “This is a really great way for students to interact and feel welcome,� said Michael Rosas, a criminal justice senior and president of Omega Delta

Phi. “I know sometimes students can feel separated and that can lead to them dropping out. This encourages them to get involved.�

Food, entertainment, videos and a raffle were only some of what was offered to students at the event.

Students also participated in human bingo, which allowed them to meet new people and interact more. “I think this gives a lot of people who come here without anyone else that they know an opportunity to make new friends and find somewhere they can feel at home,� said Nikki Chand, a biology freshman from California.

Before the raffle began, a video explaining a little about cultural centers, the Disability Resource Center, Women’s Resources Center and LGBTQ Affairs was shown.

Events like these help provide a forum for students to connect with clubs, organizations and services that are there to represent different aspects of their identities, said Keith Humphrey, dean of students and assistant vice president of student affairs. “I love seeing so many students interested in finding ways to connect on campus,� Humphrey said. “There’s a really great sense of positive energy in the room, which is a great way to start off the school year.�

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Bullying won’t help the voters Dan Desrochers Arizona Daily Wildcat

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n Aug. 11, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney finally told the political world that he had chosen U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, from Wisconsin, as his running mate for the election.

But even before the official announcement, the Obama campaign had already tweeted about Romney and Ryan four times.

And thus, the dirty, muddy, slanderous political campaigning goes on.

The Obama campaign has continued to tweet things like, “Paul Ryan is an architect of the top-down GOP budget that cuts education, energy, & innovation even as it gives tax cuts to the wealthy.” Tweets also include “Romney-Ryan: The Go Back Team” and “The no. 1 thing you need to know about Paul Ryan: He’s extremely conservative — at the expense of the middle class.”

Mudslinging is a political tactic that has been used for hundreds of years. During the 1820s, John Quincy Adams called Andrew Jackson’s mother a prostitute and his wife an adulteress. While Romney and President Barack Obama aren’t going as far as saying that each other’s mothers were loose with gentlemen, they still sound like kindergarten bullies.

There isn’t completely conclusive evidence that a negative campaign will gain or lose voters. In 1994, the American Political Science Review published a study that suggested that attack advertisements drive potential voters away. In 1996, the UCLA Center for Research in Society and Politics found the opposite.

But there is a reason campaigns involve mudslinging: If someone is mean, instinct says be mean right back.

However, this is one of the most politically divisive times in U.S. history since the antebellum era. The 112th Congress may be the least productive Legislature since 1947, according to USA Today. While people complain about Obama not doing anything, the real problem is that Congress isn’t doing anything.

It is the president’s responsibility, however, to convince Congress to pass bills and to unite the legislative branch for the greater good of the country. Instead of tweeting about the other guy’s problems, his campaign should try tweeting solutions.

While mudslinging may be effective in getting a candidate elected, it divides the two political parties.

Right now we don’t need a candidate who is good at being mean, and we don’t need a candidate who won a dirty election.We need a candidate with the ability to lead. We need a candidate who can unite the two parties so that they can finally agree on something and stop trying to repeal health care reform for the 31st time.

Negative campaigning may be a good political strategy. It may work wonders for getting a candidate into office. But getting a candidate into office means nothing if he or she isn’t going to get anything done. It’s easy to say that once the election blows over, all that negativity will be forgotten. But it won’t. The two parties complain about each other more often than John Boehner gets a spray tan.

Maybe, under a good leader, the children in Congress will finally put aside their differences and work together — but that doesn’t seem likely in a race filled with candidates who are calling the other party’s candidates big meanies.

— Dan Desrochers is a prejournalism sophomore. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @drdesrochers.

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Letters To our new and returning students at the University of Arizona, welcome to the start of a new academic year. This is a wonderful time to be a member of the UA community. The UA is as popular as it has ever been, setting records this year in freshman, transfer, outof-state and overall enrollment.

Our beautiful campus is undergoing an upgrade — evidenced by the renovation of Coronado Hall, enhancements in the Student Union Memorial Center, renewal of Old Main and the construction of the Modern Streetcar. We appreciate your patience with the construction and hope that you will enjoy the results!

You are the heartbeat of the UA, and you have been missed. We all looked forward with anticipation to the return of the lively and energetic campus that you create. You also are valued members of the Tucson community. I hope that all of you will take the opportunity to get to know this wonderful city and region and to get involved in public service and community activities. Your participation is noticed and appreciated.

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ayor Jonathan Rothschild, along with several other Phoenix officials, recently returned from a five-day trip to Mexico to meet with government leaders.

There, in the port city of Guaymas, Sonora, he told reporters that “the establishment of Guaymas as a major port means Tucson increases in prominence as a logistics hub for a very large and prosperous region.”

From the beginning of his term in office, Rothschild made it clear that he “wanted to be a participant and not merely an observer of the relationship with Mexico,” said Felipe Garcia, executive vice president of the Metropolitan Tucson

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Convention & Visitors Bureau, to Inside Tucson Business. Garcia, who accompanied the mayor on his trip, said Rothschild “wants to actually work to create opportunities for Tucson companies.”

Despite its location, Arizona is not among the top five states that engage in trade with Mexico, according to Inside Tucson Business. Is this surprising? Not particularly.

Rothschild theorizes that a stronger partnership could result in a boosted economy for Tucson and Phoenix by providing thousands of jobs.

But Gov. Brewer’s most recent move against immigration was an order to state officials not to provide undocumented

immigrants with driver’s licenses or other public benefits, even if they had been granted deferred status under a new federal program.

Under the program, federal authorities will accept applications from undocumented immigrants who seek to remain in the U.S. and work without fear of deportation for at least two years.

Brewer continues to deeply offend Mexican-Americans with strict anti-immigrant legislation like the banning of the ethnic studies classes. It’s no wonder Arizona isn’t in the top five trade states, given the tension of the immigration debate.

“I also delivered the message that Tucson is not interested in demonizing Mexico, Mexicans or people of Mexican descent,” Rothschild said to media outlets upon his return. “We are partners and should work together.”

How idealistic. It’s a wonderful idea, it truly is. At less than two hours away, Mexico would be the perfect partner for imports

and exports, except for the fact that the past two years have been an ugly war over the number of Mexican immigrants in our country.

The effects of that war are devastating, and not always immediately visible. All of this immigration talk has encouraged prejudice and animosity toward Mexican-Americans and immigrants.

Examples of this prejudice include thinking Mexican immigrants are lazy or dangerous, or calling them thieves, drug lords and gangsters.

Rothschild’s extension of a friendly hand cannot cancel out a governor and Legislature with a history of anti-immigrant sentiment.

Improving economic relations with Mexico is not going to happen as long as such deep racial tension exists.

— Hollie Dowdle is a journalism junior. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

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POLICE BEAT YAZMINE MOORE Arizona Daily Wildcat

Man rages at litterer, flips the bird

University of Arizona Police Department officers responded to a call from the University of Arizona Medical Center’s security office at 4:41 p.m. Friday involving a verbal altercation between a man and a woman that had taken place about an hour earlier. The fight occurred when the two parked in front of the Cancer Center.

The man parked his car first and entered the building.

The woman pulled up a few minutes later. She got out of her car, wiped her windshield with a towel and then threw it on the ground.

As the man exited the building, walking about 60 feet from the woman’s vehicle, he put his middle finger up at her. The man then started walking back toward the building, but stopped and approached the woman instead, shaking his fist at her. Although he didn’t touch the woman, he continued to shout at her with his fists clenched at his sides.

When UAPD arrived at the scene, the woman tried to leave, but a few security employees intercepted her and asked her to stay. During questioning, the man seemed very angry, refused to comply with the officer and security and at one point approached the passenger side of the woman’s vehicle to continue yelling at her.

According to the officer, the man then went back to his car and began revving the engine and switching the emergency brake on and off. The officer was concerned that the man would attempt to back into the officer and security employees who were standing directly behind the man’s vehicle. Eventually, the man said that he did not want to participate in any further judicial proceedings and asked to leave.

Later that day, the responding UAPD officer called the man, and the man admitted to shaking his fist at the woman but said it was because she had littered. He also claimed the woman had initiated the altercation by calling him names.

The officer explained that the man’s behavior would not be tolerated and that if he were to act in such an obscene manner again, he would be escorted off campus. The man said he understood the consequences.

The officer later learned that his supervisor had had similar interactions with the man prior to the littering incident.

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The UAPD officer filled out a victim’s rights form, which was then mailed to UA Risk Management.

UAPD officers responded to a report of vandalism and theft at a parking lot on the corner of Vine Avenue and East Drachman Street at 11:32 a.m. Monday.

The victim said that when he got off work at 6:30 p.m.

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SCOREBOARD:

MLB Cincinnati 3, Philadelphia 2

Milwaukee 3, Chicago 2

Detroit 3, Toronto 2

DEFENSE ON ITS WAY BACK KYLE JOHNSON Arizona Daily Wildcat

Few teams did a worse job of defending the pass than Arizona in 2011 — only one school, Memphis, gave up more passing yards per game. But with an entirely new coaching staff in place, headed

by Rich Rodriguez, and a new defensive scheme in tow with new defensive coordinator Jeff Casteel, the secondary is trying to wipe the slate clean and look to improve in 2012.

“One thing we have to do is forget [about last year] — it’s the past,” safety Marquis Flowers said.

“Yes it was bad, but now we have a chance to come out and redeem ourselves. We’re holding that on our shoulders this year. I think everybody’s focused, no one wants to see any of those performances again.”

The Wildcats are trying to forget the 298.9 yards per game and 65.9 percent completion percentage contributed to Arizona’s 4-8 bowlless season.

To make matters worse, they’ve also lost cornerback Trevin Wade (7th round pick) and safety Robert Golden (free agent) to the NFL, leaving the team with a relatively inexperienced secondary.

So while the only way from 119th overall should be up, Arizona still has a ways to go if it wants to improve, and free safety Mark Watley said the team knows it.

But with the new system in place, Watley and the rest of the the secondary is working on everything — fundamentals, technique and even confidence.

“We’re in better shape, so we won’t get as tired now,” Watley said. “But I think it comes down to fundamentals and technique and staying focused — staying tuned

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SAFETY MARQUIS FLOWERS makes a tackle against Stanford on Sept. 17, 2011, at Arizona Stadium. Flowers, along with the rest of the Arizona secondary, had a rough season last year in finishing second worst in the country defending the pass. With new coaches and a new scheme, the Wildcats will try to bounce back in 2012.

in and not doubting yourself or doubting your teammate around you and just playing ball.”

With Casteel now in charge, Arizona is changing from its 4-3 defense of the past to a 3-3-5 odd stack.

In simple terms, it means Arizona is sacrificing a defensive lineman — hence the three-man front — but bringing an extra safety onto the field.

This new scheme will allow more speed and quickness on the field

while bringing more confusion as blitzes can come from corners or safeties without warning.

“It’s fast and can hit you from a lot of different places,” Watley said.

But as both the players and coaches have said, it’s still just

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UA TRANSFER GOALIE Gabby Kaufman played briefly at Texas Tech before making the decision to play for the Wildcats. She is expected to be the starting goalie this year.

New goalie taking on leadership role for UA IMAN HAMDAN Arizona Daily Wildcat

Goalkeeping runs in UA junior transfer Gabby Kaufman’s blood.

Following in her father’s footsteps, Kaufman was kicking around a soccer ball from the day she started walking. By the time she was 10, Kaufman’s father suggested his daughter try being a goalkeeper.

“I ended up doing really well, and from there I just fell in love with the position,” said Kaufman, who had six saves in Arizona’s 2-1 overtime loss to Long Beach State on Friday.

As a high school athlete in Calabasas, Calif., Kaufman played for a team that didn’t win very many games, but that didn’t prevent her from stepping up her game in the face of her team’s struggles. Kaufman was named the MVP Goalkeeper of the Year both junior and senior year, earned the title of Ventura County Star Player of the Year in 2010, recorded 158 saves and six shutouts and was a member of the All-District and All-State teams her senior year.

Kaufman also played club soccer with Laguna Hills Eclipse and won state, regionals and nationals with her team.

She initially attended Texas Tech, but as a freshman at a big university, she wasn’t in the kind of leadership position she was accustomed to.

“Going to a bigger university where there are older girls who are more experienced than you is slightly intimidating, but it took me awhile to find my voice,” Kaufman said.

After a year with the Red Raiders, Kaufman wanted to switch things up. She was looking to get more time on the field and turned to familiar territory: the UA, where her mother used to be a cheerleader.

“When I was at Tech we played Arizona, and it opened my eyes to what else was out there,” Kaufman said.

According to head coach Lisa Oyen, Kaufman has integrated into the team well since joining last spring.

“She is very familiar with the team and its expectations with training, and she has adapted really well,” Oyen said. “For her first game against Long Beach, she had a fairly good performance. She had one major mistake and the thing she did really well with that was she bounced back from that and made some huge saves.

“In the goalkeeping position when you make a mistake, it’s a goal. That is just the pressure of the position and she understands that.”

Kaufman is one of two goalkeepers on the team — the other being freshman Alison Gondosch — so fighting for that starting spot is a constant challenge.

“Alison puts up such a big challenge for me and I like to be pushed,” Kaufman said. “I like to have somebody who makes me want to work harder and she’s that person. I’m always there for her if she needs anything. It’s kind of funny because we are competing for the same spot, but yet we are so close because we want to do everything we can for each other to make the other better.”

She has already made a mark on her teammates, using her sense of humor to fit right in with her new team.

“Gabby is probably the most outgoing on the team and super fun,” senior defender Alex Smith said. “Gabby’s favorite song is ‘Call Me Maybe’ so every time it comes on she does a little dance.“

WHAT: Home opener against BYU WHEN: 7 p.m.

WHERE: Murphey Field LAST TIME OUT: Lost 2-1 to Long Beach

Projected Starters: Shaquille Richardson (junior), Derrick Rainey (junior), Marquis Flowers (junior), Tra’Mayne Bondurant (sophomore), Jared Tevis (junior) Backups: Mark Watley (senior), Jonathan McKnight (sophomore), Blake Brady (sophomore), Vince Miles (freshman), Jourdon Grandon (sophomore) Departures: Adam Hall (injury), Trevin Wade (NFL), Rob Golden (NFL) Returning stat leaders: Richardson – four interceptions, 47 tackles; Grandon – one interception, 36 tackles; Bondurant – one interception, 45 tackles, one sack; Flowers – one interception, 68 tackles, one sack; Watley – one interception, 27 tackles.

Last year’s defensive struggles aside, former head coach Mike Stoops didn’t leave the defensive backfield cupboard completely bare for his replacement, Rich Rodriguez.

Rodriguez inherited Bondurant and Flowers, arguably the best defensive players the Wildcats have, in addition to a group of experienced younger players in Richardson, the team’s best cover corner, and Rainey, one of Arizona’s fastest players.

After playing in a 4-3 defense that featured a traditional free and strong safety, the switch to the 3-3-5 “odd stack” means a third safety. Presumably Bondurant has the

defense, and the execution is the most important part, as it was something Arizona didn’t do particularly well last year.

Flowers believes that every

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freedom to play a “spur” position — similar to what he played after being called up from the scout team following Stoops’ firing last year, resulting in 28 tackles, a sack and an interception over a four-game span.

Bondurant will line up at safety with Tevis and Flowers, the biggest starting defensive back at 6-foot-3 and 220 pounds. Flowers was the top-ranked recruit in Arizona’s 2010 class, and has played in every game but two since he came to the UA. Tevis, a Tucson native and former walkon, was given a scholarship by Rodriguez prior to the start of this season and in the spring moved into a starting safety spot, called the “bandit” in the 3-3-5 defensive formation.

McKnight is returning from a torn ACL that cost him all of last season, but reviews from Rodriguez have been positive. In the spring, Dan Buckner even told the Daily Wildcat that McKnight was the best cover corner on the roster.

Rodriguez noted at Pac-12 Media Day in July that although McKnight would to be limited in fall practice, he will be ready to play in the season opener on Sept. 1 against Toledo.

Richardson, who led the team with four interceptions, is the most experienced defensive back on the team, having started every game in his two-year career at Arizona.

As a freshman in his first start, Richardson picked off two Washington State passes for the Wildcats and had a career-high seven tackles in a 24-7 victory.

Adam Hall, who missed most of last season due to injury, re-tore his ACL in this year’s spring game and is expected to miss the entire season.

Grade: B Up next: Offensive line

FOOTBALL NOTES

Wildcats still not in shape KYLE JOHNSON Arizona Daily Wildcat

Arizona’s first regular season practice didn’t meet head coach Rich Rodriguez’s expectations. He doesn’t believe players are ready for the new spread-option, no-huddle offense he’s implementing this season, he said after practice Wednesday.

“We’re not in shape,” Rodriguez said. “It’s disappointing that we’re not in better shape, but the guys understand that. I think some of it is that it was a little warm [Wednesday], we hadn’t practiced in three days and school started and they forgot what it was to play hard.”

Tuesday was meant to be the first full practice of the regular season, but a midday monsoon cut it short. So when the effort wasn’t up to Rodriguez’s standards Wednesday, the players felt it through some added conditioning.

“We needed a hard practice … we needed to zap them a little bit because they’ve had three days off,” he said.

The coaching staff chose to eliminate seven easier drills designed to prepare the team for its week one matchup against Toledo and instead replace them with more intense and physically demanding drills.

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Injuries on the line becoming a growing concern

It was announced Tuesday that defensive lineman Justin Washington was suspended from the team and defensive end Dan Pettinato, a potential starter on the line, may not be ready for Toledo due to injury.

The news didn’t improve Wednesday, as Rodriguez revealed that another potential starter at defensive end, redshirt sophomore Kirifi Taula, is not ready to practice fully yet. Taula has been wearing a green jersey during practice, thus limiting his participation in drills.

Taula started four games for the Wildcats last season and recorded 21 total tackles and four tackles for a loss.

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ARIZONA HEAD COACH RICH RODRIGUEZ hasn’t had much to smile about recently, as the Wildcats’ first two practices were plagued by rain and poor performance.

Senior linebacker Greg Nwoko still isn’t practicing fully after he suffered a leg injury in his

first practice at his new position.

Nwoko played running back for his first three seasons in Tucson but was moved to linebacker during fall camp to provide some added depth.

Kicker John Bonano is fully recovered from a leg injury that kept him out at the start of fall camp. Rodriguez said Bonano will still be doing kickoffs in addition to his placekicking duties this season.

Bonano, a senior, has been doing kickoffs for the Wildcats since 2009, but became the fulltime placekicker in the fourth game last season and was 8 for 12 with a long of 47 yards.

Cornerback Jonathan McKnight has been limited in practice after sustaining a minor shoulder injury.

But despite the sore shoulder, McKnight is recovering from the knee injury that kept him out of the 2011 season and he will be ready for the start of the season.

McKnight, a redshirt sophomore, is battling juniors Shaquille Richardson and Derrick Rainey for the starting cornerback spots, but all three will be featured heavily in the defense this season, Rodriguez said.

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UA track and field adds 22 recruits LUKE DAVIS Arizona Daily Wildcat

Track and field head coach Fred Harvey and his staff announced the signing of 22 recruits for the 2012-13 season.

Arguably the top recruit of the incoming class is Traci Hicks, hailing from Long Beach, Calif. In 2012, Hicks’ 100-meter hurdle time of 13.22 was the fastest time in the country and one of the top-10 fastest times in high school history.

“She comes from one of the top high school programs in the country,” Harvey said in a press

Q&A

release. “She knows what it takes to be successful at the national level.

She is a program changer.”

Aaron Castle, a graduate of Newport High School in Newport, Wash., was also added to the roster.

The Northwest native was ranked in the top 10 in the U.S. as a junior in the shotput and discus. Castle won the Washington 1A state championship in the discus and the shot put last season.

“Castle is the whole package,” Harvey said. “He is a great addition to our program.”

The Wildcats also went international with this recruiting class as they signed Jordan Young,

A 2012 Arizona D3 High School State Champion in the high jump, Roth also earned a fourth-place finish at the 2012 Junior Olympic National Championship in the high jump. His personal best clearance is 6-foot-9.

Jonathan Giess, a graduate of Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kan., was named the 2012 Gatorade State Boys Track and Field Athlete of the Year. The high jumper won the Kansas 6A State Championship with a mark of 6-foot-10, and his personal best rose all the way up to 7-foot-1, good for the nation’s No. 1 performance among prep competitors.

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Greg Byrne Arizona’s athletic director talks Olympics, College World Series

Pac-12 from a facilities standpoint, and we’re not right now. I always tell our coaches we’re not going to have gold-plated toilets, but we Greg Byrne is director of athletneed to make sure we have good, ics at the UA. He stepped into the role in May 2010 as the university’s efficient, clean and modern facili11th athletic director, and has had a ties for our student-athletes and pretty successful run in Tucson thus for our fans. The example I always give is, think if you’re recruiting a far. Before the summer, Arizona’s medical student here to our medibest athletic achievement during Byrne’s tenure probably came when cal center. If the technology, if the facilities they use are outdated and Derrick Williams and Sean Miller aren’t kept up, we’re probably not led the basketball team to the Elite going to attract the best medical Eight in 2011.

Now, within the past two months, students.

The number of Olympians that the Arizona baseball team has won we’ve had in our different sports, the National Championship, curthe number of professional athletes rent and past Wildcats have taken we’ve had in different sports who home five Olympic medals during also come here and got a quality the London Games and construceducation, and the exposure that’s tion has continued on the new brought for them — the exposure Lowell-Stevens Football Facility. that’s brought to the University of The Arizona Daily Wildcat sat Arizona — and you look at what down with Byrne to discuss Arihappened in Omaha in June with zona’s recent events and how they our baseball team. For two straight affect the athletic department. weeks the University of Arizona was Daily Wildcat: What is the real- on ESPN viewed by millions and millions of people every single day. istic direction you’re taking this You can’t buy that. athletic department in, specifically in terms of its facilities?

So did you keep track of the UA Greg Byrne: We should always Olympic athletes then? strive to be in the upper half of the Oh yeah, absolutely.

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more than 900 miles away from his home in Windsor, Canada. Young competed in all three throwing events — javelin, discus and shotput — for Canada at the World Junior Championship this past summer.

“Jordan is a sleeper,” Harvey said.

“He is a sleeper because he has not had a lot of structured coaching. I am excited about when he gets into our program, with one coach every day, he is going to do really well.”

While Young has to travel far for his new digs, Jared Roth is staying fairly close to home. Roth, a graduate of Ampitheater High School in Tucson, will be a walk-on for the 2012-13 track and field team.

How does having Olympic athletes help the athletic department and the university?

It shows the levels that we want to compete at. And it shows you can come here to the University of Arizona and compete with the best athletes in the world. That type of mentality we want to have in athletics, but we also want to have it in an educational standpoint too.

Just to have the Mars landing and to know the University of Arizona was involved in that. That’s cool — it’s incredible and [UA students] should be proud of that. We hope that athletics is a way to highlight that for them. When we’re broadcasted around the Pac-12 Network and ESPN and Fox, there are going to be some institutional spots that can highlight things like that.

And to me that drives people to be intrigued and interested in our university and our community in Tucson.

How does baseball winning the College World Series impact the athletic department and Tucson?

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recruits from all sorts of sports here in my office this summer as their families have come to visit, and they knew about [it]. They’d say, ‘Boy, that’s impressive that you can do that at the University of Arizona.’

We’ve been able to recruit at a very high level historically in baseball and that’s done nothing but increase since the National Championship. It’s amazing, now when I’m in whatever airport I’m in or when I’m traveling in different parts of the country and I’m in my ‘A’ … People know who that is. It’s an incredible accomplishment by our university, by our athletic department, by our baseball program and its coaches and student athletes.

Greg Byrne UA athletic director basketball or football to win?

No, if you spend a little bit of time around our coaches, the great majority of them put plenty of pressure upon themselves to want to go out and compete at a very high level. They don’t get to become a head coach at the University of Arizona in any sport without having a tremendous drive Does the championship in base- and desire to compete at the highest level. ball put any more pressure on Historically football and basketball are the two revenue generating sports — did the championship help the athletic department financially?

It’s not a big moneymaker, no.

We made a little bit of money on licensing from the National Championship shirts and things like that.

But again you can’t buy that type of publicity for our university.

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UA blocker recovering from a concussion Sophomore Rachel Rhoades trying to return in time for Friday’s Wildcat Classic; freshman getting reps in meantime EMI KOMIYA Arizona Daily Wildcat

Arizona volleyball is just one day away from its first season game against Evansville in the Wildcat Classic, but on Wednesday it was unclear if sophomore middle blocker Rachel Rhoades would be available.

A concussion sustained in the first week of practices sidelined Rhoades for the Red-Blue Scrimmage, and now she is working to make a quick recovery in time for the season.

Rhoades said she is hoping to take a concussion test Friday morning in time to pass and practice for the tournament on Saturday.

“Not being able to be back yet is the frustrating part,” Rhoades said. “This is my first real injury and I am just anxious to get back out there and help my team.”

With just six players returning

to the roster this season the presence of Rhoades is likely to make a difference in improving the lack of consistency head coach Dave Rubio said needs to be addressed.

While Rhoades has been in the process of recovering from the concussion, freshman Halli Amaro has been taking over the middle blocker position in her absence. Amaro, who hails from Los Alamitos, Calif., impressed at the scrimmage on Aug. 18.

“On the court we’re really getting along well, the older girls have been so helpful,” Amaro said.

Rubio doesn’t consider the prospect of giving too many freshman significant playing time the best possible scenario, but with so few returning players on the roster, getting the young girls playing experience is beneficial.

“Ideally, we don’t usually look to put an incoming player on the court right away,” Rubio said.

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defensive scheme will look the same if you don’t execute it properly, especially against high-powered offenses like Oregon.

Still, the increased speed and quickness can match up well in the fast-paced Pac 12 and fits well with the personnel the Wildcats have on defense this year.

Cornerback Shaquille Richardson thinks that the secondary is going to take big steps forward, especially because of the entirely new coaching staff.

“We’re playing way harder,” Richardson said. “We can control our effort, how hard we play, and we’ve been playing balls to the wall.”

Effort isn’t the only change though —

“But right now our roster needs our younger girls to step up as a couple of them start to see the court.”

Rhoades is the only returning middle blocker, and the most experienced. She, along with sophomore outside hitter Madi Kingdon, have emerged as clear leaders on the court.

“Rachel is a critical part of the team and we’re just ready to have her back at middle so she can help run our offense,” Kingdon said.

Coach Rubio said that the offense will only be effective once the freshman are able to shed those pregame jitters and that the offense needs to become more consistent.

“It’s been a long time since I have had to work with a team so young but you can only push that so much,” Rubio said. “I’ve done it before, it’s just been a while so we just need to be patient and be realistic about where we are.”

the secondary also wants to bring more physicality to the field.

With the loss of safety Adam Hall, who tore his ACL in spring camp, the team is losing a big hitter in the back, something Arizona’s current stable of defensive backs will work to replicate in his absence.

“We need that (defensive) intensity on our team,” safety Jared Tevis said. “Big hits — there’s nothing really to replace that. A big hit gets the whole team excited.”

And since the 3-3-5 puts more speed but less size on the field. Corners and safeties will have an increased role in tackling, which Watley said the Arizona secondary is embracing.

“We take pride (in tackling) now,” he said. “Last year the corners and safeties approached each tackle in a more typical

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ARIZONA MIDDLE BLOCKER Rachel Rhoades spikes the ball against Eastern Washington last season at McKale Center. Rhoades has been missing in action due to a concussion she suffered in practice.

fashion, but now they’re learning how to adjust for every scenario.”

The struggles of the defense against the pass last year can’t be pinned on just the performance and talent of Arizona’s secondary.

The Wildcats played against two quarterbacks last year who are now starting for NFL teams — Stanford’s Andrew Luck (Indianapolis Colts) and Oklahoma State’s Brandon Weeden (Cleveland Browns) — and the defensive line only had 10.0 sacks on the year, tied for second-worst in the country.

“You’re only as good as your upfront, and vice versa,” cornerbacks coach David Lockwood said.

“Our job is to cover [the receivers] early and the defensive line to cover them late.

We have to do a great job in coverage to give the guys up front time to execute their stunts and execute their blitzes and get [to the quarterback]. It’s not all on one unit.”

With Watley as the only senior in the secondary and question marks still surrounding the defensive line, Arizona has a lot of work to do if it wants to make a turnaround.

But safety Tra’Mayne Bondurant said the defense has the ability to make the leap forward and that they’ll need to if they want to be successful this season.

“We just have to stay focused,” Bondurant added. “We have the talent, we just have to keep working … We have to go out there with a sense of urgency this year and just play hard at all times, because when we played hard we got good results.”

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Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher firm believer in ‘YOLO’ after dealing with adversity MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Jimbo Fisher ‘s players gave him the perfect way to sum up a monumental shift in his life.

“They say it all the time. ‘YOLO,’ right? ‘You only live once,’” Fisher, Florida State ‘s 46-year-old coach, said to a room of mostly young reporters who erupted in laughter when he name-dropped a popular hip hop anthem.

Instantly, the comment went viral.

“Did Jimbo Fisher really just say ‘YOLO’ in a news conference?” curious outsiders inquired on Twitter.

Yes, YOLO. It’s an acronym made popular by the 2011 chart-topping song “The Motto,” performed by hip hop artist Drake.

“You only live once, that’s the motto. YOLO, and we ‘bout it every day, every day, every day,” Drake croons during the song’s catchy hook.

While Drake may have written those words to celebrate his wealth and excess, they have held a much deeper meaning for Fisher.

They have become a new way of life.

Exactly 366 days before, Fisher and his wife were standing before reporters for a different kind of news conference. There was no laughing that day. There was no joy. There were few dry eyes.

To them, Aug. 5, 2011 was simply day five in Month 5 A.F. There are 26 people living in the state of Florida who have the rare genetic blood disorder known as Fanconi anemia.

Fisher’s 7-year-old son, Ethan, is one of them. He’s also one of two people in Tallahassee living with the disease that slowly cripples a person’s bone marrow and platelet levels, which can trigger various forms of cancer and other lifethreatening complications.

With the disease, Ethan Fisher now has an estimated 29-year

lifespan.

The Fishers have joined others throughout the nation searching for a cure.

As it now stands, Fanconi anemia has no true fix. Bone marrow transplants, medications and radiation treatments can delay and stunt the effects of the disorder, extending the life of patients, but there is no way to completely rid a person of its deadly long-term effects.

One month after Jimbo and Candi Fisher told the sports world about their personal crisis, they formed the Kidz1stFund. It is a nonprofit organization backed by a 10-person advisory board that Candi Fisher chairs.

Kidz1stFund is dedicated to raising awareness about the disorder and funds for the University of Minnesota’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital. The research center is one of several across the country devoted to finding a cure for Fanconi anemia.

Candi Fisher said the group is raising money to tackle big questions, including, “How do we keep those with FA from getting these cancers that they’re so prone to so young? How do we help them with the infertility issues so they can one day have families? How do we help them with the endocrine issues that are so common?”

For now, her only solution is to raise money and knowledge.

“My goal is to do as much as we can, as quickly as we can,” she said.

During its first three months, Kidz1stFund raised more than $500,000, according to organization spokesman Cameron Ulrich.

That figure doubled the money Amplatz Children’s Hospital receives annually in federal funding.

Thanks to Kidz1stFund’s partnership with the national Be The Match bone marrow registry, the Fishers also added 1,710 new

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FSU HEAD COACH JIMBO FISHER, left, reaches to hug his son, Ethan, on the field before the start of the Virginia at Florida State University college football game at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla.

names to the database of people willing to donate bone marrow to those in need. The newcomers included one person who has already provided bone marrow that saved a young cancer victim’s life.

Additionally, Kidz1stFund’s bone marrow drives have registered more than 900 minorities, helping offset critically low numbers of registered minority donors, Candi Fisher said.

Bone marrow transplants can provide life-saving support for people suffering from at least 71 different diseases.

Even though the fund saw great success in its first year, Candi Fisher doesn’t want them to end.

“I knew that it was going to be fine the first year,” she said. “But I always worry how good is it going to be the second year? The third year?”

Jimbo Fisher believes “YOLO”

will follow him onto the field this season.

“Our world, all the time, worries about what you can lose and what can’t happen and this and that. Well, what about what can happen?” he said. “What about thinking positively and living every day and appreciating every day? (This) put (life) in a whole new perspective for me.”

“And I think it will in coaching, too.”

Bartolo Colon suspended for steroid use MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE

OAKLAND, Calif. — Athletics pitcher Bartolo Colon has been suspended for 50 games after testing positive for testosterone, Major League Baseball announced Wednesday.

Colon, 10-9 with a 3.43 ERA, was a veteran presence on a team full of young talent that has become an unexpected AL West contender.

Tyson Ross will start in Colon’s spot on Thursday against the Tampa Bay Rays.

General manager Billy Beane met with the team before Wednesday’s matinee against the Minnesota Twins.

“It’s disappointing,” Beane said. “From a baseball standpoint, we’re scrambling. Bartolo was scheduled to start tomorrow in Tampa, and the obvious thought was a guy like [Dan] Straily, who we just sent down. But because of his option and the 10 days, he had to stay down.”

Players optioned back to the minors have

to stay down for 10 days before they can be recalled. The one exception is when another player is put on the disabled list. Straily, who was sent down Monday when Brett Anderson was activated, can’t return until next week when the Athletics are in Cleveland.

Initial reaction from the players reflected shock. They learned of the news via MLB Network on clubhouse televisions.

“I guess you just hope there was a mistake somewhere along the line,” said Athletics pitcher Grant Balfour. “It’s definitely disappointing if it works out that he is going to be suspended 50 games. He’s a guy we’re definitely relying on right now.”

Colon essentially is gone for the season.

The Athletics began play on Wednesday with 40 games left in the regular season, so Colon can’t be activated until the 11th game of the postseason, if the team makes the playoffs and gets that far.

Beane, who learned of the suspension Wednesday morning, said the team is fortunate to have organizational depth when it comes to starting pitching. He said the Athletics are more likely to rely on that depth than make a move to acquire a pitcher.

“The loss of any player hurts this time of year,” Beane said. “It’s been a pretty resilient group.

We’ve had some injuries and young guys in particular have picked up.”

Colon, 39, apologized in a statement provided by the Major League Players’ Association.

“I apologize to the fans, to my teammates and to the Oakland A’s. I accept responsibility for my actions and I will serve my suspension as required by the Joint Drug Program,” Colon’s statement said.

Colon was not in the clubhouse before the team stretched, and manager Bob Melvin said he had not spoken to the pitcher.

Melvin met with the media after Beane,

saying his focus and the team’s focus is now to move on.

“We really do support the policy and obviously you’re seeing people being caught, so it’s obviously working,” Melvin said. “As an organization, you have to sign players and have faith in what you’re doing and there are some unknowns to it. Not just for us, I think that’s any team.”

The Athletics also released a statement that said: “The Oakland Athletics are disappointed to learn of today’s suspension of pitcher Bartolo Colon. The organization fully supports Major League Baseball’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program and its efforts to eliminate performance-enhancing substances from our game. Per the Basic Agreement, the A’s will have no further comment.”

The suspension comes exactly one week after Giants outfielder Melky Cabrera tested positive for the same substance.

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