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UA PRESIDENT ANN WEAVER HART sorts through documents before her next meeting on Monday.

A day with the university’s president is stacked with meetings, lectures and presentations across campus

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he view from UA President Ann Weaver Hart’s office typically extends far north, interrupted just beyond the foothills by the Santa Catalina Mountains. But Monday is no typical day, and ominous gray rain clouds leave nothing to be seen

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Student interaction

Hart’s first stop is Breakfast Club, which she organized last year with the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, in the Student Union Memorial Center’s Ventana Room. The meeting allows a select group of student applicants to sit down with Hart

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At 7:48 a.m., Hart steps out of the elevator wearing a black-andwhite spotted jacket and black slacks, briefcase in hand. With her is Chris Sigurdson, the UA’s senior communications adviser.

The downpour outside is the main topic of small talk.

Sigurdson waits in the lobby as Hart steps back into her corner office to put the briefcase away.

She doesn’t waste time — she has

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Tucson community members will have the opportunity to see, hold and even eat insects this Sunday at the third annual Arizona Insect Festival.

The festival will feature 18 insect-themed booths intended to educate the public about insects unique to Southern Arizona and the Sonoran Desert.

The Office of Vice President for Business Affairs provides the $12,000 it costs to put on the event.

Booths will be interactive, allowing people to see and hold living and preserved insects as they learn about how insects play a significant role in the ecosystem.

Kids will also get to participate in craft activities related to insects.

“It’s really cool though, because I think the general public sees insects in a completely new light,” said James Robertson, research associate at the department of entomology. “Most people are concerned about the cockroach running around across their floor, but you get to totally interact with all these cool, diverse types of insects that people don’t realize are all around them.”

People have their own ideas of what insects are like, but the event aims to provide a more realistic view, said Kathleen Walker, an assistant professor of entomology who helped organize the event.

“It’s a real thing in front of you and you can touch it, you can hold it and you can interpret it,” Walker

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Students prepare for UA Fall Career Fair services beyond the event could register with UA Career Services for $5 per academic year.

Career Services offers a number of resources for students, from career counseling to Wildcat JobLink, a website that lists career positions and student employment opportunities on and off campus, as well as summer jobs and internships.

“From the time students get here to the time they graduate, we [Career Services] can help them with their future,” Miller-Pinhey said. “When you’re looking for a job … any avenue that you can explore, including the career fair, including this event … anything you can do to get your resume and your interest in working out there is helpful.”

BY Alison Dorf

The Daily Wildcat With the largest annual UA career fair less than two weeks away, UA Career Services worked to prepare students for the professional world on Wednesday during its annual Career Services’ Kick-Off. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., students were able to take advantage of numerous resources, from resume checks with employers and professional staff to mock interviews and a government agency mini-fair.

“We have a lot of resources, and we want students to be able to take advantage of it,” said Susan Miller-Pinhey, marketing and special events manager for Career Services. “Ultimately what you’re gearing for is a career, you know, beyond the time of your academics, so we’re helping students achieve that.”

Various employers volunteered to attend the event and check student resumes, from Wells Fargo and General Motors to Raytheon and Vanguard, according to Career Services’ website.

Brianna Rao, a biomedical engineering senior, said she plans to attend the career fair and attended the preparation event because she wanted help with her resume.

“I feel like it just gives me more confidence, so that when I go in [for an interview], I’m not scared,” Rao said. “It was helpful to know what I needed and maybe didn’t

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Ashley Ireson , who graduated in May with a masters in public administration from the UA, speaks with Brian Watson, a special agent with the Internal Revenue Service, at the Career Service Kick Off on Wednesday.

need in my resume.”

Those ready to dive right in and meet potential employers could attend the government agency mini-fair just a few feet away, which included representatives from the Peace Corps, Saguaro National Park Services, the Internal Revenue Service and

more.

According to Shennendoah Rogers, a human resource analyst with the City of Tucson, the city offers a variety of unpaid and paid internships, including some through the mayor’s office.

Student can gain invaluable experience through an internship

with the city, Rogers said.

“It gives them an opportunity to serve the community,” Rogers said. “It also gives them an inside view of how things operate … and it also gives them some insight into what their career is actually going to consist of.”

Students interested in more

Student inspires through fitness the Tucson Terminator, she also participated in the NPC Arizona Open national qualifier competition.

Ten months ago, a fitness-foStudents who know cused UA student made it her Hertzberg said she has motigoal to not only get in shape, vated them to improve their but also get on stage. fitness and well-being.

Natasha Hertzberg, a junior “I have always felt uncomstudying arts, media and en- fortable in my own skin, but tertainment, began her jour- lately she has inspired me to ney with the dream of compet- better myself,” said Jennifer ing in the National Physique Sutton, a nursing junior and Committee as a lean bikini one of Hertzberg’s roommates. body builder.

“My goal isn’t to lose a specific “I am 30 pounds down from amount of weight. I just want where I started. One day I woke to improve my self-confidence up and I didn’t because I feel want to look that no one like that anyI took the can really love more, so I made initiative to you unless you a change,” love yourself.” really push Hertzberg said.

R i e l l y myself to “I have always Bingham, a achieve this had a positive public health passion. mindset, and freshman, by following said she sees — Natasha Hertzberg, hundreds of Hertzberg as a junior studying other athletes role model. arts, media and on Instagram, entertainment “She has litmy newsfeed erally changed was filled with every view inspiration of mine,” and it really moved me to be Bingham said. “I look up to her the best version of me.” so much. She helps me with Hertzberg’s dream has now working out, eating well and become a reality. She has com- even boy issues.” peted in two NPC competiHertzberg said her next goal tions and is currently training is to imbue more people with for her third. She stays active a passion for fitness and selfsix to seven days a week, and confidence. She said she has her workouts typically include been offered positions to teach weight lifting, boxing, cardio at the Student Recreation and dance. Hertzberg said she Center, as well as supplement takes pride in never having a and apparel promotions; howrest day. ever, her ultimate goal is to be a “My New Year’s resolution trainer for brides-to-be. was to compete in the Tucson “Right now I have my own Terminator with 167 oth- training sessions that I offer, er athletes. I did whatever it mainly for women,” Hertzberg took to be on that stage,” said said. “I hope to eventually Hertzberg. “All the hours of host bridal boot camps. I want training, comp[etition] prepa- brides to be able to feel and rations, sacrifices and dieting look their best on their wedpaid off.” ding day … I’m a strong believAfter she competed in er in love, and nothing makes

Fall Career Fair Days will take place on Sept. 24 and Sept. 25.

It will host 140 employers on the first day, followed by more than 100 employers on the second.

Students can find a full list of these employers on the UA Career Services’ website.

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Natasha Hertzberg works out at the Student Recreation Center on Tuesday.

me feel better than helping a woman realize her worth and beauty on her wedding day.”

Along with keeping herself in competition shape, Hertzberg said she has made it a point to be an inspiration to others. With just under 5,000 followers on Instagram, and her own YouTube channel, she said she attempts to preach positivity on a daily basis.

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said. “This is like nature, unfiltered.”

The family-friendly event has grown each year, according to Walker. In the first two years alone, attendance grew from about 2,000 to about 5,000 visitors.

Children seem to enjoy the festival more than their parents because they are typically more openminded about insects, Walker said.

“It’s like the kids are really bringing their parents back to that more open view that a child has,” Walker added.

At the event, attendees will be able to sample insect-based foods, including chocolate chirpy cookies — made with chocolate chips and crickets — and tostadas with meal worms. Robertson said that in some parts of the world, insects are considered a delicacy.

The primary goal of the festival is to educate the public about how harmless, important and diverse insects are, according to Gene Hall, manager of the UA’s insect collection. Robertson agreed and said the event will help showcase the necessity of insects.

“Our planet wouldn’t function as we know [it] without insects,” Robertson said. “We rely on them for pollination. We would not be able to eat without insects pollinating plants and crops.”

The arthropod zoo, a two-room booth, has been revamped this year to provide more meaningful education and interaction. The booth will focus on insect diversity and visitors will have the chance to let a bug crawl on them.

“Most kids get really excited about insects,” Robertson said. “It’s often a really cool thing to watch a kid’s excitement being able to see [an insect] and then hold it and let it walk on his hand.”

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PRESIDENT HART MAKES HER WAY out of the Second Street Parking Garage and heads to the James E. Rogers College of Law building for Monday’s faculty senate meeting.

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HART REVIEWS DOCUMENTS with Amy Taczanowsky, her senior executive assistant, before her 10:15 a.m. appointment at a staff advisory council meeting.

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HART ADDRESSES NEARLY 200 students in a Heritage and Traditions of the University of Arizona class in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering building.

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MEMBERS OF STAFF ADVISORY COUNCILS from all three Arizona universities look on as Hart gives an introductory speech at their meeting in the student union on Monday.

over French toast and scrambled eggs, learn about her role as president and ask any questions they might have.

An entourage comprised of Hart, Sigurdson and David Caballero, a detective with the University of Arizona Police Department, piles into the elevator and rides it Engineering building in five minutes, dodging classdown to the first level. bound students. Campus has grown humid since the At the bottom, the trio files out. The walk to the earlier rains. student union is a short one, but Hart is still prepared After an introduction by professor of agriculture with a red umbrella. She climbs the stairs to the fourth 3 education James Knight, Hart is met once again by floor, careful of the puddles that have applause as she takes a seat in front of the nearly 200 collected on each step.

Arizona universities. As she works on her students filling the auditorium.

Just before making her entrance, Hart desktop computer, her iPad sits on the Hart uses her time with the class to present her “Never explains the importance of engaging I am an marble desk directly behind her. She’s the Settle” plan, adding that she aims to make the most out students. academic first to admit that she’d be lost without all of the funding the university has.

“My job is so isolating, I wouldn’t know voyeur. I get to of her devices.

“We have many opportunities and many options, but what was going on in their lives if I didn’t,” “One of the things I love about we will never settle for anything less than what could hang around Hart says. technology is that I can start checking benefit our well-being,” Hart says. “That’s the spirit of with the She stops briefly to speak with ASUA emails as soon as I get up,” Hart says, the UA.” President Morgan Abraham, but soon smartest people adding that she was awake by 6 a.m. on During another question and answer session, Hart begins making her rounds. The five on Earth.

Monday. “I do a lot of communication via speaks about the strangest thing she’s ever seen students at the first table beam as Hart text.” on campus — “untoward behavior toward bushes pulls up a chair, each of them eager to ask Amy Taczanowsky, senior executive at tailgates” — and shares an anecdote about how questions. associate to the president, enters with a renovators recently discovered dirt being used as sound ‑— Ann Weaver Hart, Gabriella Gutierrez, a junior studying soft knock and hands Hart a red leather insulation between the floors of Old Main.

UA president English, asks Hart how she began her folder filled with agendas, timelines and But she doesn’t mince words when a student asks her career in higher education, and says she the layouts of the rooms Hart will be about her favorite part of the job. was surprised to learn that Hart also speaking in. The Staff Advisory Council “I am an academic voyeur,” Hart says. “I get to hang studied English as an undergraduate. from Northern Arizona University is here, around with the smartest people on Earth.”

“I always like to know just the backgrounds of all my professors or Dr. Hart just to see the route that they but the rain has slowed the arrival of the group from took and how they were able to get to where they were,” Arizona State University. Hart will go on 15 minutes Gutierrez says. “I thought it was interesting that … she later than planned.

In the Santa Rita room on the third floor of the never thought she would become a university president.” student union, Hart is welcomed again with smiles, and Hart rotates counterclockwise through the room, After her lecture, Hart slips out a back door and stopping at each table. She visits with a variety of she shakes hands with Shanley Ten Eyck, the UA Staff students, including ROTC cadets, graduate students and Advisory Council’s president. Immediately after, the boards the golf cart with Det. Caballero close behind. room quiets, and Hart takes the podium.

Back in her office, Hart prepares for another private ASUA officials.

“Many groups have been talking about how we can do meeting, this time with James Hyatt, the interim senior Soon after, Hart gives a speech presenting her new strategic plan titled “Never Settle.” She addresses the better at what we do,” Hart says. “From my vantage point, vice president of business affairs.

Almost directly after, she packs up her things. It’s pitfalls currently facing education, focusing heavily on locked up on the seventh floor of the Administration funding, and urges students to use their own critical building … it’s really important to me and very vividly 2:40 p.m., and the first Faculty Senate meeting of the apparent to me on a regular basis that I help to lead an semester begins in 20 minutes. Hart is listed on the thinking skills to help find solutions.

“Think of yourselves as Einstein and Edison rolled institution with the permission and support of all of you agenda for a 25-minute presentation on “Never Settle.” who do the work.”

It’s a presentation she’s given twice today, but this time into one,” she says.

Hart’s appearance at the meeting lasts less than she’ll be talking to faculty instead of students.

After a few minutes, she opens up the floor for Hart takes her own vehicle to the James E. Rogers questions. The inquiries from students ask for Hart’s 10 minutes, and then she’s out the door and in the College of Law building — she’s headed home after. The thoughts on everything from a campus-wide non- Administration building elevator once again. unusual weather and shade of the Second Street Parking smoking policy to requiring freshmen to live in residence Garage has chilled the black leather seats inside her halls. late-model white Toyota 4Runner.

Following the question and answer session, Hart Hart parks in the lot to the north of the law building makes herself available for a group photo, as well as a and makes her way inside. Introductions with faculty are few with individual students. The line for photos quickly Hart’s 11 a.m. meeting with UA Foundation President lengthens, and it’s evident she’ll be there for a while. and Chief Executive Officer James Moore is spent behind short, as she arrives right on time. The meeting starts at “Back when this wasn’t digital, they couldn’t take this the closed door of her office, as it involves discussion 3 p.m. sharp.

Hart takes the floor 20 minutes into the meeting, many,” she says. concerning a number of the foundation’s private donors.

Before the meeting, Hart and it’s clear she’s been there before. As with her other explains the necessity of meetings today, she starts off with an anecdote, which is 2 private discussions with other met with laughter. But once the projector warms up and university officials, offering displays the title slide on the screen behind her, she’s all assurance that no decisions that business. “‘Never Settle’ consolidated some of our great affect the university as a whole are ever made without the traditions, missions and visions into a distilled, 21stconsultation of the university century look forward to where we want to be and what we want to become,” Hart says, by way of introduction. community.

The meeting runs until 5 p.m. and “Nothing sees presentations from other senate we do that You can see members before it is adjourned. Hart has anything how open she lingers for small talk with faculty. to do with Some of Hart’s colleagues express is with us, how governance their appreciation for having a president candid she is is in private who works so closely with them. m e e t i n g s ,” with us.

“It’s very gratifying to have a university Hart says. president who respects faculty and — Wanda Howell “Everything we chair of UA Faculty expects their input in the operation of do isn’t a public Senate and professor of the university,” says Wanda Howell, meeting, but nutritional sciences the Senate’s faculty chair and professor everything the of nutritional sciences. “It’s not even regents do is a a question to her, and it would never public meeting.

We’re talking student arrests, occur to her to try to avoid this. You can see how open student disciplinary action, she is with us, how candid she is with us. Our president lawsuits, property issues — all of those things require understands what it’s like to be a faculty member.”

Hart leaves the building and makes her way back to confidentiality in order to manage a university.”

When Moore arrives, he greets Hart, and their voices her car, chatting with Caballero about the day. The two shake hands before she climbs in.

By 9:15 a.m., the rain has stopped, and spots of fall to a murmur as the door shuts.

Caballero stands in the parking lot as Hart pulls away, It’s not all business, though — toward the end of their sunlight paint the foothills gold again. Clouds drift watching to make sure she isn’t followed. hour-long meeting, the two are heard laughing before around Mt. Kimball.

As he walks back to his unmarked patrol car, the Like the lobby outside, Hart’s office is adorned with the door opens again. detective pulls out an iPhone — different from the other hardwood floors, and there’s a wooden kitchen table in smartphone he’s been using throughout the day — and the center of the room. Southwestern-themed paintings dials Sgt. Juan Alvarez. from as early as the 1900s adorn the walls. A lounge chair “President Hart has left campus,” he says. under the window serves as a display for Hart’s own collection of Arizona football and basketball jerseys, her Hart has already given two speeches by the time she name stitched across the back of each. sits down to lunch, but she’s just getting started.

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Language programs important for future

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he federal government has identified more than 70 “critical languages,” which are determined by a combination of their importance to American interests and the deficit of competent American speakers of these languages.

Nine of the 70 languages are considered so essential to our security and economic potential that Congress allocated hundreds of millions of dollars over several budget bills to pay for, among other things, the creation of 26 “Flagship Programs” dedicated to producing speakers with professional-level fluency in these languages.

The UA’s Arabic program became the 26th flagship program this year, and it represents a major step forward in both our national commitment to education and the way we choose to interact with the rest of the world.

According to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, only 18 percent of Americans reported being able to speak a language other than English in 2010, and most of those were heritage speakers. Most Americans whose first language is English never learn a second language. When an American does choose to study a second language, the most common choices continue to be Spanish and French.

It is essential that we learn languages outside of our traditional comfort zone, both to prepare us for a global economy and to dispel the illusion that American and European perspectives are the only valuable ones.

Not only are there fewer opportunities and incentives to learn critical languages than Western languages, but students embarking on studies of languages like Arabic and Chinese require more support than those taking French and Spanish.

The Defense Language Institute within the U.S. Army has organized foreign languages into categories based on the length of study required for proficiency. Arabic is a category four, meaning it takes nearly four times as long to master as most romance and Scandinavian languages. For comparison, German is a category two.

We cannot ensure students will reach proficiency in a critical language during four years of university study unless we invest in these programs. It takes money to ensure students have the necessary benefits of small class sizes, experienced instructors, individualized tutoring, immersive travel experiences and technological learning tools.

However, we don’t have a strong history of recognizing the benefits of foreign language learning.

The U.S. first started funding the study of critical languages after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, and our current programs were largely created in the aftermath of 9/11.

At the time, The New Republic commented about the bill funding critical language programs: “It remains to be seen whether the lightly funded initiative will be anything more than symbolic.”

That skepticism was well-founded.

Last year, the funding for graduate students in Flagship Programs was completely cut.

But money spent on educating students to become proficient in Arabic is a strong investment, according to Sonia Shiri, an assistant professor of language pedagogy and the director of the UA’s Arabic Flagship Center.

“Their peers in the Arab countries will be working with people who get it — who understand the culture and the language and the context,” she said. “That’s a professional benefit and a benefit for the country as a whole.”

Even when our nation is in a moment of vulnerability, we must continue our support for students seeking an international and globalized education. Otherwise we cannot claim to be a leader in the 21st century. ­— Jacqui Oesterblad is a junior studying global studies, political science, Middle Eastern and North African studies. Follow her @joesterblad

Should U.S. strike in Syria?

Fortesa says...

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ore than 100,000 Syrians have been killed and millions more forced into a refugee existence as President Bashar al-Assad tears the country apart with a civil war. President Barack Obama asked Congress on Tuesday night to hold off on its vote on military action while a diplomatic solution is explored, but the threat of a military strike remains very real.

Although talk of a military strike has only been prominent in the news for a few months, the killing started in April 2011. More than two years have passed since those initial deaths and Syria is now engaged in a brutal civil war that, with its use of chemical warfare, has gone too far to avoid a military response.

Assad is a genocidal leader intent on retaining power through any means necessary.

Murdering more than 1,000 people, including more than 400 children, with chemical weapons is unquestionably a crime against humanity that he must be held responsible for.

This is not the first time that the world has watched as a country is terrorized by genocide, and we must not make the same mistake again.

During the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia commenced a genocidal attack against Bosnia. Three years passed as the international community considered action, leaving more than 100,000 Bosnians dead and millions more displaced.

Once Milosevic had had his fill of savagery in Bosnia, he moved on to Kosovo, where my family is from.

Ethnic cleansing ravaged the country as Milosevic continued his vicious campaign. My parents were lucky enough to escape before the cleansing began, but much of my extended family was not. As any child of a war-torn country will tell you, I will never forget watching the news every night in terror and jumping every time the phone rang, sure that someone from my family had been killed.

President Bill Clinton finally intervened in the spring of 1999, and after 78 days of air strikes and no soldiers on the ground, Milosevic withdrew from Kosovo.

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If the intervention had happened earlier, we might have been able to avert the worst genocide that Europe has seen since the Holocaust.

BY MAX WEINTRAUB “Assad was able to use The Daily Wildcat chemical weapons before and there was no response, and so resident Barack Obama why not do it again?” Sen. John claimed the Assad regime McCain said in an interview committed “a crime against during a trip to South Korea. humanity and a violation of the “They viewed that not as a red laws of war” during his address to line but as a green light, and the nation Tuesday night. For this they acted accordingly.” reason, should negotiations fail, The situation is getting the president has said he will ask worse, not better, and more Congress to approve a military strike innocent Syrians will be killed against the Syrian government. with chemical weapons if the This is a complicated situation, U.S. fails to continue the threat and one that requires caution from of military action. the Obama administration. Military “Sometimes resolutions and intervention should be the last statements of condemnation option on the table, even if it just a are simply not enough,” Obama series of “limited air strikes.” said in his address to the nation Throughout on Tuesday. his speech, Should Obama negotiations appealed to the We have been very clear with Russia nation’s sense and Syria fail, to the Assad regime, but of humanity for which they also to other players on the innocent likely will civilians and the ground, that a red line given Assad’s children killed questionablefor us is we start seeing a in the Aug. at-best whole bunch of chemical 21 gas attack. integrity, According weapons moving around we must to the Syrian or being utilized.” swiftly and Observatory for — President Barack Obama decisively Human Rights, intervene. of the 110,371 Enough people that have Syrians I see no convincdied since April have been ing evidence that this 2011, 40,146 murdered, were civilians is an imminent threat enough and 5,800 were have fled to the United States of children. their homes, America.”

Where was enough live — Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-O.R. the outrage in fear that before? Sure, they and their there were family are warnings and I definitely believe there next. sanctions, but needs to be a vote.”

We should serious talks — Sen. Tim Kaine, D-V.A. have learned of military our lesson intervention by now. We started should have because Obama drew a “red line” stopped Milosevic in Bosnia condemning chemical weapons before he attacked Kosovo. We and Assad allegedly called his bluff, have the opportunity to stop though the official United Nations Assad before the situation gets report will not be able to confirm even worse and more Syrians this for approximately another week. suffer agonizing deaths.

No one is disputing that a human It is our duty as both rights violation occurred, but both international citizens and, the Syrian government and the rebel more fundamentally, as moral forces have been documented by the human beings, to do anything UN Human Rights Council as having we can to end the bloodbath in committed war crimes, including Syria before the use of chemical using child soldiers. weapons is normalized and the Jessica Maves Braithwaite, Syrian conflict ends up another associate professor of International stain in our history books — Relations at the UA, explained that a an example of incompetent military attack to support the rebels diplomacy, inept world leaders would be problematic. and the tragedy of genocide.

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During a town hall meeting in Tucson last week, Sen. John McCain was adamant about the merits of his three-part plan to resolve the civil war. He would see us remove Assad’s chemical weapons capabilities, arm the Free Syrian Army and turn the tide of the war to force a negotiation.

But “the rebel movement involves so many different groups,” Braithwaite said. “No matter which element[s] take power, some others will be unhappy with the outcome and may be inclined to continue fighting.”

In fact, a military strike could prolong the civil war and increase the death toll even more because the weakened side may lash out against civilians.

“Research by political scientists suggests that military interventions tend to prolong civil wars and cause them to be more deadly,” Braithwaite said.

Russia handed the Obama administration a reprieve by launching a proposal that would see Assad hand over his chemical weapons without military intervention. The plan, which should be taken with skepticism given Russia’s close military and economic ties to the Assad regime, at least keeps open the possibility for a diplomatic solution to the situation and an alternative to military intervention.

Obama claimed that Assad agreed to join the chemical weapons convention “in part because of the credible threat of U.S. military action,” but Assad likely knows that threat is limited.

Obama has said, “I don’t think we should remove another dictator with force,” and Secretary of State John Kerry said a strike would be “unbelievably small.”

“If the U.S. chooses to engage in unilateral limited air strikes against Syrian military installations, and this doesn’t do much to weaken the Assad regime,” Braithwaite said, “it could embolden him and his forces to engage in more (and more brutal) attacks against the rebels and possibly civilians as well.”

If Obama is serious about limiting the number of civilian casualties, then he will wait until the evidence of Assad’s chemical weapons use is indisputable, attempt to remove the chemical weapons diplomatically and engage in a multilateral peacekeeping effort with the rest of the international community to force both sides involved in the conflict to the negotiating table.

Military strikes must be held as an undesirable last resort.

— Max Weintraub is a senior studying creative writing and Italian studies. Follow him @mweintra13

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JUNIOR FORWARD ALEXANDRA Doller, Arizona’s leading scorer, starts to kick the ball at practice on Tuesday.

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“I’m a home bug,” Doller said. “I didn’t want to leave my momma.”

Whatever the reason, the Wildcats are certainly benefiting from the junior forward’s choice of Tucson. She has four goals and two assists in the 3-0-3 start to the 2013 season for Arizona, which is off to its best start since the program’s founding in 1994.

In recent years, Arizona athletics has benefited greatly from the arrival of big-name transfers like former quarterback Nick Foles, who broke several Wildcat football records, and former point guard Mark Lyons, who led the men’s basketball team to the Sweet 16 . However, few have had as interesting a journey as Doller, who started her college career in arch-rival territory in Tempe, Ariz., her hometown .

A knee injury cut her freshman year short at ASU before she moved on to Paradise Valley Community College, where a healthy 2012 season gave her options for the next step.

At PVCC, Doller, who led the Pumas with 31 goals and 15 assists to an undefeated

season, culminating with the NJCAA national championship.

First-year head coach Tony Amato is glad her next stop was the UA. “Ali is a good player,” Amato said. “She is one of those goal scorers who you feel like just has a knack for finding the back of the net. She has an outgoing personality, has a lot of energy and works hard, so she brings a lot to the dynamic of the team.”

After all the struggles Arizona soccer has had these past

few seasons — in 2011 it only won one game, and in 2012 it went 6-11-3 — newcomers like Doller have helped the Wildcats get off to a hot start.

Doller’s four goals so far this season tie

her for seventh in the Pac-12, with many of the goals coming in clutch moments. In the opening game of the season against Florida International , Doller scored two of the Wildcats’ goals in a game in which Arizona won 4-2.

This past weekend, playing in front of family and friends at the Sun Devil Classic in Tempe, Doller’s 85th minute header tied the game against the Kansas Jayhawks 1-1 , and preserved Arizona’s unblemished record in 2013.

Even though she is now a Wildcat, Doller still appreciated her homecoming in Tempe.

“A lot of friends and family came, which was nice,” said Doller. “It’s always fun when people you know are watching you play.”

Although this is her third school in three years, it’s the first time in her college career Doller gets to experience living in a community outside of the Phoenix area.

“It’s exciting and interesting to do something new and different,” said Doller.

“So far I like it. The campus is really nice, I love the team, and my coaches have been great. It’s really not that different from home, weather-wise, so yeah I like it.”

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Arizona aims to avoid Roadrunner trap calling this a trap game. “I don’t even think our guys pay attention to the next game. Tuesday, they’re just looking to get through Tuesday’s practice; today, they’re just looking to get through today’s practice.”

Nevertheless, the Wildcats can’t afford to overlook their opponent this week.

Up on the outfield wall of Arizona’s Unlike their two previous opponents, practice facilities is a large 2013 Wildcats the Roadrunners are a confusing team football schedule. However, the only game that will give Arizona’s posted is Saturday’s defense a variety of looks. home matchup against Communication will be key This week’s Texas-San Antonio. in making sure Saturday game will be the With the Wildcats’ ends up an upset. first conference biggest challenge “We just need to make game against No. 19 of the season so sure we’re focused and Washington just two far. understanding our roles weeks away, playing a and be prepared,” junior fairly new program in — Rich Rodriguez, safety Jared Tevis said. head coach UTSA could be a trap In 2008 the Wildcats lost — just don’t say that on the road to New Mexico, to head coach Rich which finished the season Rodriguez.

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The Daily Wildcat Arizona volleyball will try to continue its winning ways in Hawaii, but will have to do so without star junior outside hitter Jane Croson.

This weekend, the Wildcats will play in the Hawaii tournament in Honolulu, with matches against Northwestern on Thursday, Portland State on Friday and Hawaii on Saturday. It will be a tough task for the team, as Croson won’t be making the trip.

Croson, a transfer from Hawaii, has agreed not to play in the tournament as part of the deal that let her leave Hawaii for the UA. So far this season, Croson has 65 kills, second on the team only to fellow junior outside hitter Madi Kingdon.

“It’s a situation where I felt it was in [her] best interest for her to stay at home, so that changes the dynamics for us for sure,” head coach Dave Rubio said. “But we’ll get by. Shaq [Shaquillah Torres] and Taylor [Arizobal] will carry the load in her place.”

So far this season Arizobal is fifth on the team with 27 kills,, and Torres has 16 kills for seventh on the team.

Kingdon said she isn’t worried about Croson not being with the team and is confident her replacements will step up.

“I think that our team will be able to pull through without her,” Kingdon said. “We just need to clean up a few things before we go with whoever is going to play on the outside.”

Kingdon also said that she is confident the team will treat the tournament as a business trip, not a vacation.

“I think we’ll do well in this tournament,” Kingdon said. “I think everyone is ready to go …

Today’s practice was really good, hopefully we can continue it into the tournament.”

As if the loss of Croson wasn’t enough, the Wildcats’ three opponents won’t go easy on them. Their first match is against the Big Ten’s Northwestern.

The Northwestern Wildcats are 4-2 so far this TYLER BAKER/THE DAILY WILDCAT season, and the team is led by senior outside JUNIOR OUTSIDE HITTER JANE CROSON spikes the ball during a 3-0 win over Eastern Kentucky on Saturday hitter Stephanie Holthus, who has 94 kills this year. Next on the team is junior right side hitter (3-4). The Vikings are led by senior outside hitter leads the team with 88 digs.

Katie Dutchman with 69 kills thus far this season.

“Hawaii is really good. They always win their Kaeli Patton, who has 85 kills this season.

Redshirt sophomore defensive specialist/libero The last match of the tournament for the conference,” Kingdon Said. “I know a few girls Caroline Niedospial leads the team with 99 digs.

Wildcats will take place Saturday night against who play on their team and we just have to have “Last time we played them, we lost in the first host Hawaii (5-1). The team will be in for a tough the right mindset going in, knowing that they’re round of the playoffs … three or four years ago,” fight, as Hawaii is consistently one of the best in a team we’re going to have to play hard [against] Rubio said. “I don’t have a lot of information, but the country. Hawaii’s head coach Dave Shoji is and compete with.” they have an all-American outside hitter who is the all-time winningest coach in NCAA Division terrific. They have a couple of freshmen starting, I women’s volleyball. but … they got some talent.”

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season and was just one week before the conference opener against UCLA. The loss to New Mexico did not completely ruin the Wildcats’ season, though, as they finished 8-5 (5-4 Pac10) and ended the season by beating No. 18 BYU 31-21 in the Las Vegas Bowl .

Current Arizona players don’t seem worried at all about the 2008 team or even last week’s game against UNLV. The mindset is to “pull the rope” and win Saturday’s game.

“I don’t use games before,” junior safety Tra’Mayne Bondurant said about taking his strong performance from last week into this week.

“Once the game is over, it’s over. Now we just got to move forward and worry about UTSA.” Bondurant is off to a strong start in his third year in Tucson. He has two interceptions, both returned for touchdowns. He is also second on the team in tackles with 11, and in week one, he was named Pac-12 defensive player of the week.

“Like I said, I’m not worried about the games before.

I’m just on to the next one,” Bondurant said. “Just got to keep doing it every week and focus on what’s next.”

Bondurant’s mental focus is like the schedule posted in the Kindall-Sancet practice facilities. It’s a precise mindset, and one that Arizona hasn’t had in the past.

It’s a change that has been one of the biggest improvements to the Wildcats’ defense, which was the worst in the conference last season. But two games into 2013, it is ranked fourth in the conference and 19th in the country.

“For the most part, our guys have understood the shell of our defense,” Rodriguez said.

“This week’s game will be the biggest challenge for the season so far.”

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junior andrea vilarasau tied for 10th at the Dale McNamara Fall Preview on Wednesday. Her final score was 211 (+1). Arizona will play next at the Windy City Classic on Sept. 30-Oct. 1.

The Arizona women’s golf team tied for eighth and junior Andrea Vilarasau tied for 10th at the Dale McNamara Fall Preview on Wednesday after three days of competition in Tulsa, Okla.

Defending NCAA champion USC won the team competition with an 848 (+8), Oklahoma was second with a 852 (+12) and Oklahoma State rounded out the top three with a score of 855 (+15).

Arizona finished with a score of 861 (+21) for eighth place in the preview. The Wildcats had daily rounds of 283, 292 and

296.

Vilarasau finished tied for 10th place with a final score of 211 (+1). Sophomore Lindsey Weaver was 14th with 213 (+3) total, after starting the first day of the preview in 32nd place. Junior Kendall Prince finished in an eight-way tie for 28th place with a total score of 218 (+8).

Freshman Jessica Vasilic finished in a four-way tie for 47th place with a final score of 221 (+11). Lastly, junior Shelby Martinek rounded out the Wildcats with a 64th place finish, shooting a 227 (+17).

Arizona will play next at the Windy City Classic, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, in Chicago.

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The Daily Wildcat Entering his 10th year of coaching college hockey, Arizona head coach Sean Hogan admitted that he’s almost never happy with the first few days of on-ice practices. However, so far this week the 2013 squad has been a pleasant surprise.

Senior forward Andrew Murmes said the first couple of practices on the ice were filled with goals and laughs and were an overall good time. It was like “night and day” in comparison to 2012’s opening ice practice, he said.

“Just like with anything we’ve talked about before, we’re going through the process every year of getting better each year,” Hogan said.

Perhaps the attitudes in Monday’s off-ice workouts foreshadowed the success of this week. Hogan said he was very impressed by his players’ attitudes and the rigorous 300-yard shuttles they ran, working hard and picking one another up.

The entire Wildcat hockey staff has continued to drill into players’ heads the importance of outworking, out-willing and outcompeting every opponent and even one another in practices.

Hogan also shared his favorite quote with his players on Sunday’s post-open camp meeting: “Effort is between you and you.” The quote is from an inspirational speech of two-time Super Bowl champion NFL linebacker Ray Lewis.

In his time coaching Oakland’s hockey program, Hogan said he learned that team camaraderie off from the ice is just as important as the team’s work ethic on it.

“We [Oakland] didn’t have more skill than everyone else,” Hogan said to his players in Sunday’s meeting. “What we had was a love in that locker room and a love for one another like I have

never seen. I wanted to come to the rink every day because every guy on that team wanted to be there more than anywhere else, and that’s why we won.”

Arizona’s 18 returning players are expected to play a crucial role in providing the 10 freshmen with knowledge and leadership. Five out of the six seniors are the final remaining players from former head coach Leo Golembiewski’s Arizona Icecats era.

Former Icecat or not, all are hungrier than ever to win and establish the “Wildcat hockey way” with the newcomers, and solidify it with the younger returners.

“I’m going to bring in what Hogan has brought to us, bring winning back, bring a sense of leadership, what the Wildcat hockey program is all about and how fortunate and lucky we are to not only be a part of this team, but also this school,” Murmes said.

Senior wingers Murmes and Ansel Ivens-Anderson, alongside defenseman Michael Basist, have led the team in stretching on the ice so far. However, Hogan shot down the idea that this was a sign of the three frontrunners for the next team captain. He explained that for now, the seniors will lead in the practices until an official captain is picked sometime before the season starts.

Like team captain, starting goalie is another title that remains wide open between senior Steven Sisler, sophomore Dylan Hojnacki and freshman Garrett Patrick, who played for the Austin Bruins last year. Tuesday was Patrick’s first official on-ice practice at the college level.

“It was good; I felt fresh out there and thought I had a good practice,” Patrick said. “This is definitely a good pace. I think the Bruins started off with more of a conditioning approach, but this one’s more flow drills and getting shots.”

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magnetic resonance spectroscopy, a technique employed to determine the properties of organic molecules, the researchers were able to examine exactly how the brown recluse spider venom was affecting the phospholipids, said Daniel Lajoie, a graduate student in the department of chemistry and biochemistry and the first author of the paper.

Instead of merely knocking the “head” off of the phospholipid molecule, which is the effect researchers previously attributed to the toxin, the team discovered that the head of the molecule is actually replaced by a significantly different ring-shaped structure, according to Cordes.

Although the findings shed new light on the chemistry involved, the downstream effects the toxin has on the body are still something of a mystery.

“We hope that other researchers will now take these results, and that it will inspire them to do experiments to help untangle all the effects that happen after the initial action of the toxin,” he said.

Vahe Bandarian, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry and co-author of the paper, said that the findings could eventually lead to better treatment options for bite victims.

“If you could understand how that one system works, you might be able to find a way to inhibit it,” he said.

Despite the dangers that brown recluse spiders present, Lajoie said that the arachnids spark his curiosity. “[Considering] what they can tell us and the secrets that they have, there’s lots and lots of research that needs to be done into what spiders can produce,” he said.

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Science of baseball hits home run BY zane johnson

The Daily Wildcat A giant water balloon launcher, baseballs and an enormous protractor: these aren’t the ingredients of a disastrous college prank, they’re the means for teaching middle schoolers the importance of math, science and America’s favorite pastime.

Arizona Science of Baseball is a UA club and class with the goal of introducing underprivileged children and adolescents from underperforming schools to the world of math and science.

“We have two main modes of employment,” said Ricardo Valerdi, the club’s founder and a professor in the College of Engineering. “One of them is the camps we have for kids.”

At these day camps, the morning is spent in the classroom, where students are taught math, nutrition and other skills that will be useful in their daily lives. After lunch, the students take the field to get a hands-on understanding of the skills they learn in the classroom.

The other mode is teacher training. During the four-hour training sessions, teachers learn how to better instruct their students in complex concepts.

Lesson plans are created using the Common Core State Standards, an initiative to standardize the education received by young students across the U.S., but they look more like playbooks. This allows the teachers to pick and choose which lessons they can use to satisfy their needs in the classroom.

Students taking the honors colloquium are also gaining a unique perspective on the sport, according to engineering freshman Kyle Everly. “[Baseball] seems like a good sport to go into scientifically,” Everly said, “because the concept is very simple, but there are so many different aspects of it that you can look at.”

The Science of Baseball has partnered with the Arizona Diamondbacks to attempt

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Ricardo Valerdi, associate professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering, mentors students in the science of baseball.

to reach out to a younger generation of patrons. The club has even created a booklet for the Diamondbacks to help keep kids engaged throughout the whole game by entertaining

them with coloring pages, educating them with player statistics and teaching them to keep game statistics of their own.

The kids’ passion for the sport is fostered by students

like Maurissa Wortham, an undergraduate student in the College of Engineering. She has been a coach with the club since its creation.

“I started playing baseball

at age 3 and softball at age 6,” Worthram said. “I love both sports … [This club] made me realize the importance of these [scientific] concepts, even as a college student.”

Before students make their way to a major league baseball diamond to try their hand at physics, arithmetic and basic geometry, they are expected to empirically derive the answers.

“It’s a bit more hands-on, more, ‘Let’s find out what the answer is,’” Valderi said. “The ‘finding out’ part is the scientific part.”

In traditional classrooms, those with kinesthetic learning styles are often left behind. Valerdi’s approach offers information in a way that is easy for all learners to understand.

“I think you’ll capture more [students] if you’re kinesthetic,” Valerdi explained. “It’s just a matter of admitting that math ­— you’ve just got to do it.”

Though the program focuses primarily on middle school students, students at the UA can also participate in the club and enroll in the honors colloquium to reap the benefits.

For Alex Aydt, a biochemisty freshman, Arizona Science of Baseball suited his interests.

“It’s a fun sport to watch,” Aydt said. “I’m from St. Louis and the Cardinals are really good right now.”

Worth has found that she can combine her love of baseball, math and science to do something she loves: work with children and young adolescents.

Some camps can be difficult, but the coaching staff of Arizona Science of Baseball said they can always find something wonderful in their work.

“I remember one day that was particularly hard,” Wortham said.

“The kids’ education level wasn’t quite where we anticipated, so we had to explain everything, and it was pretty stressful. [Then] a little girl came around with her brother and had all the coaches sign her ball. We could tell it was her brother’s, but he was too shy to ask.”

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Decades old map points UA scientists find answers in to rising temperatures spider venom

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In the rare event that a brown recluse spider bites a Researchers at the UA human and venom is injected, recently discovered that the one of two things happens. venom of the brown recluse The most common effect is spider has a different effect that the venom soaks into the on the body than previously skin and damages the cells, causing the development of a thought.

Their findings, published in painful lesion in the affected the online journal PLOS ONE, area, said Dr. Leslie Boyer, could lead to the development founding director of the Immunochemistry, of better treatment for the Venom spider’s bite, which can be Pharmacology and Emergency Response (VIPER) Institute. fatal.

In a small number of cases, “This is something that happens fairly often in a reaction occurs throughout science,” said Matthew Cordes, the body that can lead to death associate professor in the by kidney failure and other department of chemistry and causes, Cordes said.

Those are the easily biochemistry, “which is that you start out trying to answer observable, large-scale effects. one question and you wind up At the molecular level, though, finding something you didn’t things are less than clear. “ W h a t expect to see happens and answering when venom a different What happens gets into question.” when venom the skin has T h e gets into always been researchers the skin has something of in Cordes’ always been a mystery,” lab originally B o y e r developed an something of a said, “and experiment mystery. the work to compare — Leslie Boyer, that was the effects founder of VIPER published of spider [ t w o venom toxins weeks ago] on different molecules within cell is a major step towards membranes.

They found understanding what goes on that the toxins produced by in the tissue.”

For their study, the a family of spiders generally focused on referred to as brown recluse researchers spiders were showing effects phospholipids, which are entirely different than the molecules that make up the membranes of cells, expected, he said.

Brown recluse spiders, said Cordes, adding that if also known as violin spiders phospholipids are damaged, because of the markings on they can cause the cell to lose their head and back, can be its integrity.

Through the use of nuclear found primarily in North and South America, with several Spiders, 11 BY mark armao

A researcher at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum recently found evidence that the location of plants in the Santa Catalina Mountains is shifting.

Richard Brusca, a retired research scientist from the UA department of ecology and evolutionary biology, was on an arthropod study in the Sky Islands with his wife, Wendy Moore, an assistant professor in the department of entomology, when he stumbled upon a piece of history — a paper cataloguing the plants of the Catalinas published in 1963 by distinguished ecologist Robert Whittaker “It was kind of a light bulb moment,” Brusca said, “Here’s one of these very rare, 50-year-old databases that we could compare our data to.”

Brusca said that he was surprised at the results when Moore’s team compared 27 of the catalogued plant species’ locations, which were documented in Whittaker’s findings, against their current locations.

Fifteen species have moved higher up, meaning they no longer appear where Whittaker had documented them.

The cutoff boundary for growth has also increased for four species, and lowered for eight.

While the researchers expected to record an

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A PLANT IN the Santa Catalina Foothills on Tuesday. Professor Richard Brusca has found change in plant location over the past 50 years.

upward movement of vegetation caused by increasing temperatures and water scarcity, they also found that some plant species shifted to a lower, less abundant level of elevation. The team is unsure of why that happened, but they think it has to do with rising temperatures.

The most unexpected finding, Brusca said, was that besides a downward shift for some plants, the level of abundance for most plants has decreased as well. This means that vegetation could become scarce and have the potential to disrupt desert wildlife, he explained.

“It’s simply getting harder and harder for [the

plants] to hold on with the rising temperatures,” Brusca said.

For example, when Brusca and Moore hiked down from the Alligator Juniper’s current elevation of growth, they found thousands of dead junipers all over the valley.

“It’s the evidence of a shifting baseline,” Brusca said. “Here they are. Here’s the ghost of climate past.”

There are many researchers at the UA whose work, when compiled with Brusca and Moore’s, shows a definitive change in the environmental climate.

Some of that research belongs to Mike Crimmins, a professor

of climate science who runs the Climate Science Applications Program in Cooperative Extension at the UA. He works as a liaison between the public and the climate research community at the UA by communicating research findings through education and outreach programs and identifying applied climate research needs.

“The desert we see around us now isn’t the same as it was 50 years ago,” Brusca said, “and in 50 more years it will have changed double that amount.”

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