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Senate hashes out ‘academic freedom’ By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT By the end of the year’s first meeting of the Faculty Senate, academic policies were refined, faculty frustration was vented, and a student leader met a tough crowd. The senate opened its meeting last night with a moment of silence for professor of surgery Dr. Charles F. Zukoski, who recently died in a car accident. The quiet, however, did not last long. Faculty, administrators and students shared the floor, sometimes more peaceably than others, at the two-hour meeting, which covered a
range of issues from faculty inclusion in the UA transformation decisionmaking process, to the university’s imminent transition to a new information technology system. Time reserved at the beginning of the meeting for open comments from the floor was taken in part by professor of English John Warnock , who said he was dissatisfied with the administration’s decision to make funding allocations based on a department’s ability to bring in grant money, a method President Robert Shelton in recent statements has termed “differential funding.” This method, Warnock said, has left departments (like his own) that don’t
bring in grant money in the dust, while some departments that do less teaching have received more funding. “They didn’t choose to become educators,” he said. “We did.” Shelton acknowledged that differential funding has provided “an incentive to teach less” for some departments, as funding has been allocated less on enrollment or other student-based factors and more on individual faculty research, a trend that tends to favor the sciences over the humanities. As a few other senators raised similar concerns, Shelton responded by saying that the administration has made an effort to include faculty bod-
ies such as the Faculty Senate and the Strategic Planning and Budget Advisory Committee (which is meant to be a faculty consultation group on budget issues) in all decisions. Nevertheless, law professor Andrew Silverman said after the meeting that he and other faculty remained frustrated by what he perceived to be a dearth of faculty input. “I don’t know how the faculty was included,” he said. “I’m not sure the faculty was included.” The issue of faculty inclusion was raised again during discussion of a proposed new method for faculty to report their academic activity known as the Professional Evaluation Tool
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Sets, which in the past has been done on paper, but which may soon move online. As various faculty members voiced concerns and objections to the proposed system, professor of English John Ulreich said that whether the system would be useful or not, the main issue was that the system could be imposed on faculty without their consent. “We’re not voting on this, folks,” he said. “This is something that’s going to happen.” Also on the agenda was a proposal to define the term “academic FACULTY, page 5
Shelton: ‘I’m sure we’ll talk budget,’ at staff town hall-style meeting By Tim McDonnell ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT President Robert Shelton will participate in a town hall-style meeting today to talk about issues affecting UA staff. The meeting, hosted by the Classified Staff Advisory Council, will take place at 1 p.m. at the Gallagher Theater in the Student Union Memorial Center. The president will take questions from staff members on any number of subjects proposed at the meeting and beforehand online. Past meetings have focused on budget cuts, layoffs, staff inclusion in university decisionmaking and bridging the gap between staff and faculty. Shelton said he was unsure what kinds of questions might be asked today, but had one idea. “I’m sure we’ll talk budget,” he said. Staff members have had the chance to submit questions to the council’s Web site, and the list is already long. Check back tomorrow for coverage of the meeting.
Questions on the Classified Staff Advisory Council’s Web site the president may address: Kathy Kmonicek/NewsdayMCT
Taylor Dent of the USA fires a backhand return to Andy Murray of Great Britain during the US Open at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, September 6, 2009 in Flushing Meadows, New York. A career-ending injury almost affected former UA tennis coach Taylor Dent beyond just tennis. Now he’s not only back on the court, but making a name for himself at the highest level — again. See sports, page 7.
UA astronomers present ‘whole rest of the universe’ free of charge By Angel Allen ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Triangulum galaxies. Shooting stars. The birth of supernovas. Cracking Einstein’s Code. These topics and more will be revealed to lecture-goers in the semesterlong speaker series at Steward Observatory. A lecture last night, “A Study in Scarlet: The Spitzer Space Telescope View of the Triangulum Galaxy,” was presented by Dr. Joannah Hinz , senior research assistant in the infrared astronomy wing. The lecture focused on the Triangulum Galaxy, one of three spiral galaxies in our local galaxy group. The program, its directors say, aims to give everyone from old and seasoned astronomers to young and eager students with their first telescopes, a view of the universe’s expanse. Steward Observatory
has been hosting public, evening lectures on astronomy since 1922. Seven free lectures are scheduled for the fall semester, and all are held on every other Monday at 7:30 p.m. in Room N210 of the Steward Observatory. Following each lecture, the Raymond E. White Jr. Reflector in the historic Steward Observatory dome will be open for the public to view the night sky. Steward Observatory is paid for with taxpayer money and the lecture series is one way in which astronomers can give back to the public by sharing the exciting research they conduct, said Thomas Fleming , associate astronomer and senior lecturer at the observatory. “You really have no idea how big the universe is,” he said. “If you don’t look to the stars, you’re ignoring 99.9999 percent of the universe. ASTRONOMY, page 7
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Joannah Hinz, researcher at Steward Observatory, lectured on Monday about the discoveries of the Spitzer Space Telescope. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that a high-speed collision of this sort occurred a few thousand years ago around a young star, called HD 172555, still in the early stages of planet formation. The star is about 100 light-years from Earth.
• Are you planning to implement staff furloughs this semester? What about this Academic Year? • We just experienced an increase of over 50% on health insurance. Will this cost ever go down? • A while ago, we had heard something about 4 day work weeks and 10 hour days. Is that still a possibility for the near future? And if so, how will people with children in childcare get around the 10 hour daily maximum at most child care facilities? • With all the budget cuts and layoffs, why can’t we cut the salaries of the CIO’s and upper management and give the working people raises? Minimum wage has increased almost to the point of my wage, prices are skyrocketing. I work hard and my belt cannot get any tighter. • There are a number of areas of lush green grass on campus, and I often see the irrigation system on, even at the worst possible times (mid-day). If this irrigation is done with gray water, that is fine. If not, how can the University justify the use of this precious resource of water, particularly in light of the fact we live in the desert?
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So did you watch the MTV Video Music Awards last night? Howard:Yes, we did. Kisner: Actually, we watched them together. Honestly, I didn’t see exactly what happened and I had to YouTube.com it this morning, but what is your take on the whole Kanye/ Taylor Swift thing? Kisner: Um, well I know he sucks. (Laughs) Howard: (Laughs) Yeah, he was just really rude. But why does he suck though? Kisner: Because that was just really mean. But basically, he just got a microphone and got up on stage, said he had his girl Beyoncé’s back and that he thought it was better and then he sat back down. Is it really all that bad? Howard: Yeah, he stole the microphone from her. Kisner: Yeah, it was her moment. Not his.
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Blake Bordelon, 11, demonstrates a jump rope trick where he sits on the floor and swings the rope underneath himself on July 22, 2009, in Dallas, Texas.
Man tries to retreive impounded vehicle by stealing tow truck BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Police in eastern Pennsylvania said a man charged with drunken driving faces more charges after allegedly trying to steal a tow truck a few hours later to retrieve his impounded vehicle. Lower Saucon Township police allege that 29-year-old Timothy Peare, of Whitehouse Station, N.J., was spotted at
Are you going to support him as a musician anymore? Howard: Yeah, I like his music. Kisner: Yeah, I don’t think I’ll stop listening to him, but I don’t like him as a person. I think he’s an asshole. — Brian Kimball
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“Basketball Diaries” author dies NEW YORK — Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote “The Basketball Diaries,” died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his home in Manhattan, his exwife Rosemary Carroll told The New York Times. In the 1970s, Carroll was a Jim Carroll fixture of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene, where he mixed with artists such as Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, Larry Rivers and Robert Mapplethorpe. His life was shaped by drug use, which he wrote about extensively. Carroll also published several poetry collections. His 1980 album, “Catholic Boy,” has been hailed as a landmark punk record, and he became known for one of its songs,“People Who Died.” But it was“The Basketball Diaries,”his autobiographical tale of life as a sports star at Trinity, an elite private high school in Manhattan, that brought him his widest audience. The son of a bar owner, Carroll attended the school on a basketball scholarship. The book, which began as a journal, was first published in 1978 and became more popular, particularly on college campuses, when it was issued as a massmarket paperback two years later. A 1995 movie version starred Leonardo DiCaprio. His poetry career started even earlier. Carroll was in his teens when he first received recognition for his poems, especially “Organic Trains” in 1967 and then “4 Ups and 1 Down”in 1970. Among his other works are collections such as “The Book of Nods” (1986), “Fear of Dreaming” (1993) and“Void of course: Poems 1994-1997”(1998). Carroll left New York in 1973 and moved to California, where he met his future wife Rosemary Klemfuss. They later divorced. — The Associated Press
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Fast Facts Marcel Marceau’s greatesthits album consisted of 40 minutes of silence, followed by applause. More than 2.2 million Americans play the accordion. There are more bagpipe bands in the United States than there are in Scotland.
The original jukeboxes came with earphones, only one person could listen at a time. There are 158 verses in the Greek national anthem. Singer Wayne Newton is a descendant of Pocahontas. No one knows exactly where Mozart is buried in Vienna.
When he needed inspiration, Ludwig van Beethoven poured water on himself. Mozart wrote a piano piece that required the player to use both hands and his nose. Sixty-one percent of Americans like to hear music when put on hold. Twenty-two percent prefer silence.
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But it seems like he’s just always doing stuff to get attention? Howard: He’s cocky. He has a very large ego.
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Yeah, I’m not going to explain all of that one, so that joke got killed. But that’s fine. Kisner: Well he’s just really cocky and I don’t like that.
You don’t think people should start boycotting him or anything? Kisner: Um, I don’t know. Howard: He’s still a good musician.
tempt to steal a vehicle, theft from a vehicle and loitering and prowling at nighttime. He was taken to Northampton County Jail in lieu of $20,000 bail. A listed number for him could not be found Monday and it was unclear whether he had an attorney.
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Maybe was it because Kanye was eating a bunch of fish sticks or something? (Pause) Or it looks like y’all missed that episode of South Park. Howard:Yeah, is that like a metaphor for something?
I’m not a big fan of him as a human being either. Do you guys think anything should happen to him as a result of his actions? Howard: I don’t think anything should happen. I mean, he apologized. I know it doesn’t make up for it, but you can’t really fine him for something like that.
7:40 p.m., Sunday inside a tow truck at Saucon Collision, which was closed. Police say he acknowledged that he was trying to start the truck to remove his impounded vehicle. Authorities said in court records he had been arrested on a drunken driving charge at 5 p.m., Sunday but did not say in what jurisdiction. Peare is charged with criminal at-
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Conservative clubs respond to liberal climate By Devlin Houser ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Younger Republicans are getting a boost of energy from what they see as an opportunity to appeal to voters who are displeased with the country’s direction, said active members of conservative groups on campus. Leaders of groups such as Young Republicans and College Republicans are finding it easier to motivate young Republicans to get actively involved in political organizations, said Mike Cole, chairman of Pima County Young Republicans. Cole serves as a liaison between his organization and local politicians, for whom he and his group campaign. Young Republicans’ members are between 18 and 40 years old . Cole said the main goal of his organization is to support candidates at a local and national level, and to help rally support for conservative causes. He said he felt Republicans had gotten complacent until the Democrats took control of both Congress and the White House after the November elections. “It’s helped our numbers go up a lot,” he said. “The past few years, with the Republicans in office, young people like me and Republicans in general felt like we have both of them, so we don’t really need to volunteer. Now with the Democrats taking over both congress and the White House, we’re realizing we need to work harder.” Cole said he was involved in two fundraisers at the local “Tea Party” rallies in the last five months, which he said raised about $1,200 by selling donated bottles of water. The
organization’s newfound wealth may have been a catalyst for collaboration between College Republicans and Young Republicans, he said. “We are starting to work together this year,” he said. “Maybe they saw we have money now.” Young Republicans set up its first Facebook page in March, which has helped the organization draw attention to itself and make it easier to communicate with its 109 members, Cole said. While Cole said the primary role of the Young Republicans is to support Republican candidates in general elections, he said he noticed more of its members’ views aligned with the libertarian “hands-off” approach rather than with the socially conservative views of the religious right. “I’ve noticed a lot more people are a lot more independent now,” he said. Ry Ellison, last year’s president of UA College Republicans and a management and entrepreneurship senior, said Democratic control of the executive and legislative branches of government have gotten local Republicans more actively involved in politics, citing the Tucson Tea Party and demonstrators at town hall meetings where the health debate has taken place. “The president has mistakenly interpreted his victory as a mandate for a liberal agenda,” he said. “When the Democrats take control, you see kind of a kid in a candy store (mentality). They don’t know what to grab first, so they try everything at once and it turns out to be a disaster.” College Republicans is described on its Facebook page as “the grassroots army needed for victory in major
campaigns,” and lists 503 “friends,” although not all friends are university students and at least one, “McCain Southwest,” is described in its profile image as a “team.” Ellison said although membership has increased slightly in the past year, he hasn’t noticed a significant spike. The UA College Republicans is one chapter of over 2,500 nationally, and the UA chapter has about 2,200 members “on paper,” Ellison said. The 2,200 members are people who have filled out the paper work for membership or the listserv, but are not necessarily attending the club’s weekly meetings, he said. Jennifer Rogers, vice president of UA College Republicans said she has noticed more Republicans who were previously not involved in political clubs becoming more involved. “Our membership has increased with people who (were) Republican or conservative before, but weren’t politically motivated to get involved in a club, but now that there is a Democratic majority, they think maybe they should get involved,” she said. College Republicans has recruited a lot of people who were independent or moderate, but no former Obama supporters that she knows of, Rodgers said. She described the political climate on campus as “even more polarized” since Obama took office. Rogers said that publicity remained a priority at a university dominated by liberal politics. Because so many campuses are heavily liberal, she said, “one of our main goals is to let people know that there is a conservative presence on campus.”
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Ry Ellison, last year’s president of UA College Republicans and a management and entrepreurship senior, has said the fact that more branches of government are now under Democratic control has encouraged Republicans to become more active in the political atmosphere on campus and in Tucson. Although the UA College Republicans have reported an increase in membership numbers, it is not a significant spike.
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Climate legislation advocates caution foreign oil dependence like Mexico and Central America that will overwhelm our borders.” The poll found voters agreed far more with that argument than with one echoing Republicans’ arguments against the bill —— chiefly, that it would raise energy prices and kill American jobs. Buoyed by the poll results, and by other polls that show similar voter support for a jobs-themed clean-energy pitch, climate bill supporters are fusing their security messages with their ongoing focus on the economic opportunities of industries such as wind turbine and solar panel manufacturing. The messages intertwine in a commercial launched this week by Clean Energy Works, a newly formed band of environmental, labor, religious veterans and other groups that support the climate bill. The spot opens with this warning:“When we spend a billion dollars a day on foreign oil, we don’t just waste our money. We put our economy in the hands of hostile nations.” The climate bill would limit the heat-trapping gas emissions from sources, such as power plants and factories, which scientists blame for global warming. Critics mock the argument it would boost U.S.
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE WASHINGTON — After months of promoting President Barack Obama’s climate plan as a vehicle for creating millions of clean-energy jobs, supporters of the legislation are increasingly pushing another strategy: touting its benefits for national security. It’s a deliberate, anxietythemed effort to pressure a handful of fence-sitting moderates to support a bill that is likely to be the Obama administration’s next great legislative push after health care. A coalition backing the energy and climate bill pending before the Senate has enlisted war veterans to pressure senators in person. In television advertisements, they call foreign oil dependence a threat to national security and fuel for terrorists. Other new ads features ominous pictures of angry Middle Eastern crowds and impoverished “climate refugees,” many of them apparently African. One recent poll from climate bill supporters tested voter opinions on the argument global warming will “destabilize developing countries, creating the conditions for war, become a breeding ground for terrorism and lead to mass movements of people from places
security. “Passing the bill would create far more severe, dangerous, and imminent global crises,”James Jay Carafano, a researcher for the conservative Heritage Foundation, wrote last month. He added: “The law would ensure a steep decline in U.S. economic competitiveness and military preparedness. The consequences of a weak America would inevitably lead to a string of national security crises and an undermining of the nation’s capacity to deal with natural disasters here and abroad.” The security argument has been invoked by both sides in previous unsuccessful congressional pushes for greenhouse gas limits. Presidents and federal candidates have promised energy independence for decades. But this time, climate bill proponents say polls show the security argument could prove powerful. A national survey by Democratic pollster Mark Mellman last month found a majority of voters call global warming a “serious” threat to national security. The poll was conducted for the American Security Project, one of the groups in the Climate Works coalition, whose board of directors include retired generals and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. Kerry is helping draft the Senate climate bill.
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MAILBAG Cyclist, pedestrian awareness, student disrespect toward football team
I appreciate your article about bikes on campus. There area lot of riders not following the rules. I think much of the problem is awareness. However there are also dangerous pedestrians who, while they have the right of way, still have certain traffic laws they need to abide by, including using crosswalks and sidewalks, and not walking on the street because they want to walk shoulder-to-shoulder with their friend and catch up with the latest gossip. I think there should be a bridge for pedestrians somewhere on the main UA Mall. The article is somewhat skewed toward bad riders and not enough mention of dangerous, careless, unaware of their surroundings pedestrians. I’ve often wondered why the Zona Zoo doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. We are the largest student section in the conference, and yet in terms of stadium atmosphere, all anyone ever hears about out of the Pacific 10 is Autzen Stadium (rightfully so, though, since they are probably the loudest stadium in the nation). However, over the past two Saturdays, I found my answer. We don’t get the recognition we deserve because hardly anyone stays for the whole game. By the middle of the third quarter against NAU, people were already leaving the Zoo. I wondered aloud what could possibly possess people to do so. The answer I received was telling:“We’re a
party school. People want to go drinking.”That, my fellow Wildcats, is ridiculous. You spent more than $100 dollars to get an exclusive spot in Arizona Stadium and you can’t wait an extra half an hour or so before you leave? Is the alcohol really going to dry up if you don’t leave midway through the game? Are the parties going to suddenly shut down just because you didn’t show up? The answer to both of those questions, of course, is no. It is completely ridiculous that people would put their priorities in that order, especially when the Zona Zoo pass is so expensive. I mean, what if NAU had staged a comeback and three-fourths of the Zoo wasn’t there to have the team’s back? We will never get the respect of programs with more well-known fan bases if our fans don’t give enough of a damn to stay for the whole game. If you’re not going to stay for the whole game, then please don’t buy a Zona Zoo pass and let someone with real loyalty to the team have your spot. Until our fans start having some respect for the team and don’t just treat the game like a Saturday night time-killer until the parties start, Arizona will never get the respect it deserves, no matter how well the team does. Remember that the next time you’re abandoning the team in the middle of a game. — Kevin Rand Wos Political Science junior
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cquiring a university degree isn’t supposed to be easy, but the U.S. Census Bureau reported in 2007 that 27.5 percent of America’s population completed at least a bachelor’s degree. This figure is in sharp contrast to the numbers of students completing the same degree even a few decades ago. At the UA alone, enrollment has increased from 12,518 in 1960 to approximately 38,800 this year, according to the UA Office of Institutional Research and Planning Support. Does this drastic increase signify Arizonans have developed a greater interest in the world of academia? This discrepancy can partly be attributed to the ease with which women can now seek a university education, as well as the greater scope of choices offered to young people now. But the main reason almost a third of Americans now hold a bachelor’s degree is there has been constant growth in the number of places accommodating more and more students passing through the system. Universities tout increased enrollment, omitting the detrimental effect that a greater number of students are going to have on everyone’s education. With extra seats in classrooms comes pressure on teachers to shuffle us through courses at the expense of our learning experience. The difficulty in maintaining the quality of our education comes primarily from two sources: professors’ lack of commitment to teaching and the need to acquire funding determined by full-time equivalents. The cumulative number of full-time equivalents dictates the amount of funding the UA receives. House Bill 2012, signed by Gov. Jan Brewer, states,“the total … enrollment shall be the basis of providing state aid”. Essentially, more units equal more money. UA President Robert Shelton has stated,“ASU has, appropriately, received a lot of enrollment increase money because they’ve increased enrollment. They should get that money; fair is fair.”His comment suggests that ASU, regardless of the quality of education it offers, deserves these funding increases just because of student numbers. The UA is following suit.
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’m pretty sure it’s not just me, but just in case, has anyone else noticed the everchanging parking format at the UA? It seems with every spot available, the UA is trying to suck the students and/or their parents dry. A permit to park at the UA costs hundreds of dollars, but they often leave you several blocks from your class, or even from campus. I feel sorry for the people who only have class on Tuesdays and Thursdays; boy, are they getting a raw deal. Does anyone get reimbursed the difference if they don’t actually use $500, or whatever amount, worth of parking for the year? Has anyone tried this? I think you’d have a good case with that one, but then again, I’m not in law school. I noticed this year that the UA raised the prices for parking in the garages around campus. Now it’s $2 for each of the first two hours with a maximum of $8 for the day (that’s if you don’t lose your ticket, cause if you do, it’s now a $10 charge). They keep shooting the prices up, trying to suck up cash wherever they can. For example, the time limits at meters. Who parks for 1 hour? That’s the length of a class! There’s not enough time to park, walk to class, sit through class and walk back before your time is up. It’s ridiculous! Two hours is even too little; maybe if a person only has one class that day, but in that case, your class is likely going to be over two hours anyway. On top of those silly time limits, why is it illegal to feed the meter? They should be happy, right? You’re basically guaranteeing them parking revenue longer than they
would expect, yet the UA still has an army of “Parking Enforcement Officers” patrolling the campus and surrounding areas, making sure the parking lots are safe; or at least safely collecting money. Woe to the student who needs to stay after and ask the instructor some questions, cause after that meter starts blinking, it takes one of our campus’ favorite people approximately 3.4 seconds to find you vehicle and ticket it. Sure, I understand that the amount of public funding for higher education has been cut, and money, apparently, is hard to come by, but how about the idea that, by attending this institution, I should at least be provided with the means to attend, specifically in the form of adequate parking. “I pay thousands of dollars in tuition to go to this school, and I can’t even get to class because there is no parking,” kind of argument. Why have large numbers of metered parking spots been turned into parking permit required spots. I used to love the meters, it was like striking gold to be able to find one of those on campus, now it’s not worth driving around for 20 minutes trying to find one. Doesn’t anyone else have these problems?
I’m poor and have a mortgage and bills to pay, so I can’t afford to drop hundreds of dollars in one shot for a parking permit. Besides, all I could afford would be a Zone 1 or something, and I’m trying to protect my car. A year of every day being in the Arizona sun would destroy it. As far as I’m concerned, covered parking should be a right, not a privilege in this state. Even if you drop the money for a permit the UA Web site clearly states, “Parking permits (with the exception of Reserved permits) do not guarantee anyone a parking space, only the right to park in specified areas when space is available.” So even if you pay the $350-$570 for a permit, don’t assume that buys you a place to park. It’s more like buying a theoretical parking spot; it may, or may not be there. I think it’s a shame that the UA is trying to expand enrollment and retention, when it
University administrators have to reconcile these budget cuts and consequently, students have become little more than commodities to secure funding. Professors have an ethical obligation to teach and, in doing so, teach us to learn. This does not involve spoon-feeding us answers and yet, this is the experience students have come to expect: to absorb only enough information in class to enable them to do an assignment. Sadly, professors are generally happy to deliver if it means they aren’t forced to contend with complaints from students and the administration about poor grades. The sheer amount of time it takes to resolve a dispute over a grade with a student is often time that professors can’t afford. There is hope yet, but all professors must recommit themselves to making us into better thinkers and learners. As long as students continue to demand to be allowed to pass classes whose requirements we have failed to fulfill, students are the ones who will lose. Just as professors must grade us according to the merits of our work rather than university politics and funding needs, we must also demand that our educators educate. We should be challenged and made to work hard for our degrees, rather than thinking tuition payments entitle us to receive credits. Enabling students to pass even when they skip in-class material is a mistake. Cramming 1000 students into a hall and essentially annihilating the potential for any real discussion is a mistake. A campus where students video stream their lectures at home and take zero pride in their work because minimal effort is expected of them will completely and irreparably alter the university experience for the worse. If we continue to tolerate the damaging effect these budget cuts will have on our education, the UA will become another contributing factor to creating the dumbest highly“educated”generation, ever. And that’s nothing to be proud of. —Dunja Nedic is an Australian exchange student. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.
seems we’re lacking in even the most basic on campus facilities, parking especially. Student and resident inconvenience and suffering are the consequence. If the money generated from parking has become more important than the students abilities to get to their class, then the priorities of this institution are indeed misplaced. — Chris Ward is a senior majoring in English. He can be reached at letters@wildcat. arizona.edu.
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Nearby neighborhoods naysay nonresidents By Will Ferguson Arizona Daily Wildcat For long-time residents of the Jefferson Park Neighborhood, the end of summer is marked by a flood of U-Haul trailers bringing students back to Tucson. While many students keep their back-to-school antics in check, some never fail to start off on the wrong foot with their new neighbors. Bob Schlanger, a 25-year resident of Jefferson Park and president of the Jefferson Park Neighborhood Association, said this year the start of school brought the usual beer bottles, cans and red cups left behind by students who live in his neighboorhood. Schlanger is not alone in his feelings of exasperation with some UA students, but the issue extends beyond after-hours noise. Members of the Jefferson Park Neighborhood Association are becoming increasingly concerned with the growing level of development that is bringing more students to their neighborhood. Lisa Jones, head of campus community relations for Jefferson Park, said that it is not the students that are at fault but rather landlords and developers who tear down single family homes and replace them with large structures — known as “minidorms” — that house four or five students. “Developers are playing monopoly with the neighborhood,” she said. Jones and Schlanger said they see the increasing density of students as
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a problem for a historic neighborhood that has limited space. “It’s not so much the students in particular,” Jones said, “but rather having a lot of people living in a small area.” To address the problem, the Jefferson Park Neighborhood Association is in the process of designing a new building manual that will restrict the size, occupancy
and design of new structures built in the neighborhood. Feldman’s, another centrally located Tucson neighborhood, recently completed a similar design manual that was approved by a Tucson City Council sub-committee. The Feldman’s manual will go before the Mayor and Council for final approval in late October. City Council member Karin
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President Robert Shelton addresses concerned faculty members at the Faculty Senate meeting at the College of Law on Monday night. Shelton said the administration has made efforts to include faculty in the transformation process.
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freedom,” which is used on various university policy documents but was, before last night, undefined, leaving the door open to ambiguous interpretations of the term in the context of faculty complaints. The new definition — which was approved, although not unanimously — states, among other things, that “academic freedom is essential to the fundamental mission of discovering and advancing knowledge and disseminating it to students and the society at large.” Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Chris Nagata, who sits on the senate, requested that the proposed definition be amended to include more studentspecific language, including a clause that would allow students to reject class work they deem offensive. “Not to ruffle anybody’s feathers, but I think it should be somewhat of a two-way street,”he said. The suggestion was met with widespread laugh-
ter, grumbles and even boos from the faculty. “It’s not what you said, it is the notion that anybody should get to tell faculty what they should or shouldn’t do,” said Wanda Howell, nutritional sciences professor and former chair of the faculty. Howell also proposed a resolution, which passed, condemning a recent revision to the Arizona Board of Regents’ student conduct policy that allows students to bring guns on campus if they remain inside a locked vehicle. “This is not appropriate, and it’s important that we get it on the record that we resolve such,” she said. Near the end of the meeting, Shelton asked faculty to go easy on students who may need to miss class because of the flu, which has been among faculty unrest and the budget crisis as problems mounting for the president. “We need some good news on this campus,” he said. “I’m still looking for that.”
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Professor of English John Ulreich expresses his dissatisfaction with the lack of faculty involvement in university decisionmaking. Regarding a proposed new system for faculty self-reporting, he said, “We’re not voting on this, folks. This is something that’s going to happen.”
Uhlich, a proponent of the Feldman’s design manual, said that its goal is to both encourage and accommodate higher density buildings in a way that maintains the quality of life for students and their neighbors. If the Feldman’s design manual gets the green light from the Council, developers will be subjected to building restrictions that will prevent them from building
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large occupancy structures in the neighborhood. Developers say this could cause potentially disastrous repercussions for the city and the majority of residents living close to the university. “Potentially, the liability goes into tens of millions of dollars,” said Mike Goodman, a principal developer in the area. Goodman, a longtime property owner in Feldman’s and Jefferson Park, is concerned that neighborhood design manuals that restrict homeowners from modifying their property will have a devastating effect upon the city’s economy. “Twenty percent of the Tucson economy is from development,” Goodman said. “If developers can’t make a profit, then they won’t build.” Richard Studwell, a developer in the Jefferson Park Area, said that the interests of the vast majority of occupants in the area, the students, are going unnoticed. Students make up over 70 percent of the population in Feldman’s, he said, and are entitled to live close to where they work and study. Both Goodman and Studwell said the homes they build are high quality and enhance the overall value and character of the neighborhoods. They said if the city passes the Feldman’s design manual, it could be more expensive for developers to build housing for students. “The issue is a red herring,” Studwell said. “Owner occupants who make up the neighborhood associations want students out.”
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Birthday party goes wrong
A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to the top of the Sixth Street Parking Garage on Sept. 10 at 2:47 a.m. in reference to a report of three or four male subjects quietly huddling together at the southeast corner of the structure. Upon arrival, police observed three males standing together, and as officers exited the patrol vehicle, they could detect the odor of marijuana coming from the men. Officers were able to locate the source of the odor behind a wall, but were unable to recover a sufficient amount of marijuana to charge the men with possession. One man admitted to police that he had a water bottle full of rum in his backpack. He also told police this was the first time he and his friends had done anything like this and that they were celebrating because it was his birthday. All three men were referred to the Dean of Students Office for Student Diversion for the possession of narcotic paraphernalia. The student with the rum in his backpack also had the charge of minor in possession of spirituous liquor added to his diversion. An unused cigar was also taken from the men and placed into police property as evidence. All three men were released on scene.
Crystal meth cyclist steals wheel, bike
UAPD officers went to the area around Sixth Street and Highland Avenue on Sept. 10 at 7:46 a.m. in reference to a report of a man riding a bicycle while dragging another bike behind him. At 7:49 a.m., officers were able to locate a man matching the description given and spoke with him. He identified himself with an Arizona driver’s license. Police then began questioning him about the bicycles. According to the man, he took the Magna bicycle “by Circle K, at the stadium” at approximately 7:35 a.m., by removing the front wheel, which he left locked to the rack. He then took a rear wheel from a Diamondback bicycle and attached it to the Magna bicycle he had taken. He then left the area on the stolen Magna bicycle, dragging his own Magna bicycle behind him. Police checked the serial numbers of all three bicycles for any reports of theft but were unable to find any. The man was placed into custody on two charges of theft and was searched for contraband. During the search, police removed an empty syringe, a green scrubbing pad, an orange BIC lighter and a green bag containing a crystal-like substance from the man. Police asked the man what was in the bag, to which he replied, “You know what it is. It’s crystal meth.” Police used a field test to confirm that a sample of the substance was methamphetamine. Police returned to the bike racks where the incident had occurred and were able to locate and photograph the front wheel of the Magna, still attached to the rack, as well as a Diamondback bicycle missing a rear wheel. The man was transported to Pima County Jail where he was booked on charges of possession of a dangerous drug, possession of narcotic paraphernalia, and two counts of theft of less than $1,000.
Twelve thousand pesos missing from wallet
UAPD officers received a telephone call on Sept. 10 at 8:20 a.m. from a university employee who told them that her wallet had been stolen from the Education building. According to the employee, she had last seen her wallet on Sept. 8 at 1 p.m. and had not noticed it missing until Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. She told officers that on Sept. 9 at 12:30 p.m., she left her office for approximately 10 minutes. She left her wallet in her purse that was hanging on a coat rack behind a filing cabinet. She claimed that she had closed, but not locked, the door on her way out. When she returned she noticed the door was slightly ajar and suspected this as a possible time for the theft. The woman told police her wallet had contained 12,000 pesos (estimated at $967) and $24. She also said she did not normally carry this much money, but had planned on sending the money to relatives in Guaymas, Mexico who had been affected by a recent hurricane. The woman then told police that when she had returned to work on Sept. 10, she had found the wallet on her desk, along with a note from Building Services explaining that her wallet had been found in a trashcan in the third floor women’s restroom. According to police, the woman’s money and social security card were missing, but her CatCard and several credit and debit cards were not. The woman was issued a Victims Rights form and was advised to secure her office at all times in the future.
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Officers responded to the UofA Bookstore on Sept. 10 at 10:20 a.m. in reference to a report of a male shoplifter. Upon arrival, officers met with the bookstore employee who reported the incident who then pointed out a man standing in line for the registers. Police watched as the man paid for several items and then left the store. Officers contacted the man outside of the store and asked him if he had paid for everything in his possession. The man replied that he had not, at which point officers escorted him back into the store and into a conference room for questioning. According to police, them man had a Turning Tech remote classroom response device in his possession, valued at $53.50, that he did not have a receipt for. He did have a receipt for the $169 worth of products he had paid for at the register before leaving the store. Police asked the man why he took the remote and he told them, “because of the adrenaline.” Police cited the man on charges of shoplifting and he was released on scene. The bookstore was issued a Victims Rights form.
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Every other department deals with what happens on this planet, we have the whole rest of the universe.” Hinz began her lecture loosly quoting passage from the Sherlock Holmes’ novel, “A Study in Scarlet”: “There’s a scarlet thread of murder running through the colorless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, to isolate it, and to expose every inch of it.” “Except for the murder,” she said, “that’s how I feel about science.” Jamie Fitzgerald, a freshman business major, and Amy Ciaccio, a freshman psychology major, attended the lecture for their natural sciences 101 class, Planet Earth: Evolution of the Habitable World class. They said their professor, Dr. Hal Larson, invited his students to interact with the science community on campus. “He tells us to talk to rocks and stuff,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s really cool, looking at systems and energy and understanding even why people work they way they do from the science spectrum.” All those who attended the lecture were able to look through the White Reflector telescope afterward. A few astronomy majors helped position the telescope on Jupiter and its four moons. “I like being right,” Pye pye Zaw, a sophomore astronomy and physics major said about why she choose to study the stars. “It’s easy to be right in a field where no one knows the right answer … Also, I really like shiny things.” Ciaccio said, as she went up to look through the telescope lens,
Joannah Hinz, a senior research assistant in the infared astronomy wing of the Steward Observatory, gives a lecture Monday night. Her lecture, “A Study in Scarlet: The Spitzer Space Telescope View of the Triangulum Gallery,” discussed scientific discoveries made possible by the telescope that determined galaxies are much larger than previously thought. Rita Lichamer/ Arizona Daily Wildcat
Vote fraud could doom U.S. military involvement McClatchy Tribune KABUL — The leading challenger in Afghanistan’s national elections warned Monday that if President Hamid Karzai wins another term based on a fraudulent vote, the U.S.led war against al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan will fail. “We will have a vacuum of power, security and stability,” Abdullah Abdullah told McClatchy Newspapers. Five years of illegitimate rule cannot be sustained by more troops or more resources.”Abdullah was the runner-up in the Aug. 20 presidential election that Karzai won, according to disputed initial tallies. Evidence of widespread fraud, however, has put a cloud over the outcome, which has yet to be announced. Abdullah, an ophthalmologistturned-politician, is hoping that that fraud investigations will strip enough votes from Karzai to force a runoff either this autumn or in the spring. Abdullah said Western publics are unlikely to tolerate a political outcome based on fraud. He said the Western nations already are paying “to maintain this corrupt government” and have to justify their presence before their own people.“It’s not like Western governments can cheat their own populations forever,”he said. A Karzai spokesman on Monday said that Abdullah’s comments reflect a candidate who fears defeat and who is now trying to undermine the Afghan electoral system. Once an international emissary for the United Front, an anti-Taliban alliance, Abdullah received strong support in northern Afghanistan provinces that from 1996 to 2001 served as a stronghold for the Front, also known as the Northern Alliance. Some of the main supply routes for U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan run through Northern Alliance strongholds, and so does some of the country’s electrical grid. Many Western officials are con-
cerned that Abdullah supporters might block some of the routes or take control of the infrastructure if Karzai declares himself the winner of the elections. The issue has also drawn the attention of top tier officials in the State Department as President Barack Obama deliberates future U.S. troop levels for Afghanistan. On Monday, a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman denied a McClatchy weekend report that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Karzai last week to urge that the fraud standards not be relaxed. Abdullah said that on a visit to Charikar in Padrwan Province north of Kabul Sunday, he met frustrated supporters who wanted to demonstrate their discontent. He said he urged them to be calm but added that he couldn’t predict what will happen. “I will do my utmost to avoid violence. I know how difficult it is to reverse things once they go in that direction,”Abdullah said. “But I can’t guarantee anything and everything that will happen in this country. Nobody can.” There already is plenty of violence in this nation spawned by fighting between Afghan and international forces and the Taliban-led insurgency. Last month, 51 U.S. troops died in Afghanistan, the highest monthly death toll in the eight-year war, and September is shaping up to be another bloody month. A spokesman for the Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior said the government would respect the rights of Afghans to protest peacefully but that it would not tolerate any actions to disturb the peace. “We don’t expect civil unrest,”said Zemari Bashari, an Interior Ministry spokesman.“But bad guys who want to bring insecurity to the people of Afghanistan ... we are obligated to stop those activities.” The political crisis has been triggered by widespread reports of ballot box stuffing and other misconduct, and hundreds of thousands of votes are now in question. McClatchy reported Saturday that Afghanistan’s independent election commission decided to
lower its standards last week to count enough votes to put Karzai over the 50 percent needed to avoid a runoff election. On Aug. 29, the commission established a set of standards to exclude questionable votes, but when an analysis of the results showed that the exclusions would put Karzai’s tally below 50 percent, the commission cast a second vote on Sept. 7 to loosen the fraud standards, according to a commission official and Western official in Afghanistan. Abdullah alleged Monday that Karzai had personally intervened to pressure Afghanistan’s election commission to relax the standards for ferreting out fraud. Abdullah also alleged that Karzai has sought to claim the presidency even before fraud investigations are completed and the tallies are officially certified, but has refrained under pressure from Western officials. A Karzai spokesman dismissed the allegations. Waheed Omar told McClatchy that Karzai hadn’t intervened with the election commission and had never contemplated claiming victory until the fraud investigations are complete. “These are very serious allegations, and if he cannot produce evidence to support those allegations, then that will require an investigation,” Omar said. “We believe there are limits to what someone can do.” The initial tally of all the Aug. 20 votes is expected to be announced this week. Omar said that Karzai’s share of the vote will bump up slightly from its current level of 54 percent to as high as 56 percent. U.S. and other Western officials have been monitoring the election aftermath. Senior U.S. officials have met Karzai as well as Abdullah, and the U.S. Embassy urged a full investigation. The fraud investigations may take weeks to complete, and only then can the vote can gain final certification. Omar doesn’t think these investigations will push Karzai below 50 percent. “We believe there will be no reason for a runoff.”
that learning about the stars makes her feel small. “It’s scary and fascinating at the same time,” she said. Former UA professor Andrew Douglass established Steward Observatory in 1916 and made sure the public was invited to view the night skies. Efforts by UA astronomers to engender enthusiasm among the public go back to the times when Douglass would hold lectures under the stars in the uncompleted construction site, Fleming said. The Spitzer Space Telescope is an infrared telescope that orbits in space behind Earth because it observes the galaxy with long infrared wavelengths that can’t make it back to Earth before being absorbed by our atmosphere. Since it is in space, it can see objects in other galaxies much clearer than they can be observed from optical telescopes on Earth, Fleming said. This year is the United Nations International Year of Astronomy in memory of Galileo Galilei, who created the first telescope 400 years ago. Kitt Peak has been selling “Galileo scopes” for $12 and the UA has bought 400. General education students in the astronomy department will use these kits to build their own telescopes with which to view the heavens. Fleming said the ‘Galileo scopes’ are actually much better than Galileo’s own telescope. “While you’re here in college,” Fleming said, “you’re here to expand your mind. What better way to do that than contemplate the expanse of the universe?”
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Former UA tennis assistant returns to the big stage By Shain Bergan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT After shaking hands with Ivan Navarro and the chair umpire, American tennis star Taylor Dent grabbed the microphone from the umpire’s chair and turned to the U.S. Open crowd. It was not the typical ending to a professional tennis match. But then again, Dent will never be accused of being typical. “You guys are awesome!” he yelled. The New York audience went wild after that Sept. 4 match, but it might as well have been a shout-out to the UA campus. Thirty-one other players made the third round, but this night belonged to Dent. While all eyes may have been on U.S. Open winner Juan Martin Del Potro on Monday — who dethroned World No. 1 Roger Federer — it’s an American who is catching the imagination. Somewhere, UA assistant tennis coach Tom Lloyd was most definitely smiling. “It was amazing,” Lloyd said.“But it didn’t surprise me one bit.” Lloyd knows better than anyone the up-and-down saga of Taylor Dent. It was Tom Lloyd who convinced Dent to volunteer coach at the UA in 2007 during a back injury that sidelined Dent for more than two years. Two days after his match with Navarro, Dent fell to World No. 2 Andy Murray in the third round. It didn’t matter, though. The word was already
Gronkowski practices, probable for Iowa game By Tim Kosch ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
There are still a lot of question marks, but Arizona head coach Mike Stoops seemed pleased last night with the way his team has performed in its first two football games of the season. “All in all, offensively, we’re running the football and we’re controlling the game with our ability to run the football and that’s kind of how we have made up this team over the past couple years,”Stoops said in his weekly Monday press conference. The rushing attack has been phenomenal, especially junior Nic Grigsby and his 207 yards last Saturday against Northern Arizona University. The Wildcats plan to hit the ground running at the University of Iowa on Saturday, but they know they can’t completely rely on their ground game. “We haven’t really had to throw it as much as we probably would have liked, and as the games move forward it’s going to be harder and harder to rush the ball,” Stoops added. “It’s going to be a lot more difficult, but we have to continue to try to improve our ability to throw the football.” The struggles of the passing game have been well documented, but Stoops believes that they have been just a few small mistakes so far this season. The hope is that the aerial attack will be better this week, and they plan on using threat of the run game to compliment it. “We need to keep creating playaction passes and boot passes off of our run game,” Stoops said. “I think offensively we’re close and we’re getting better.”
Offensive line leads the way
All of the attention has gone to Grigsby and running quarterback Matt Scott , but the rushing attack has been able to flourish thanks to the offensive line. “I thought our offensive line did a really good job blocking,” Stoops said. “I think they’re probably the most consistent groups we have right now. They pass blocked well, they ran blocked well, so that was a very positive aspect of our team.” Looking at the numbers, Arizona performed well against a fairly good NAU defense. NAU limited opponents to less than 100 yards rushing per game last season, yet Arizona combined for 365 rushing yards on Saturday.
Injury update
Junior tight end Rob Gronkowski was in pads on Monday for the first time this season. Gronkowski missed the first two games of the season while nursing a lower back injury, but according to Stoops, he is probable to play this weekend at Iowa — which would be a huge help to the passing game. “(Having Gronkowski back) certainly opens up another aspect of our offense,” Stoops said. “If we can get that injury under control then that opens up another dimension of our team.” Junior wide receiver Delashaun Dean and sophomore offensive lineman Vaughn Dotsy suffered minor concussions that forced them to leave the game on Saturday but both are expected to be in the lineup this week. Junior defensive back Trevor Foster is out for the season after tearing his ACL in his right knee.
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Taylor Dent of the United States returns a shot as he faces Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Saturday, August 21, 2004. Dent, a former UA assistant tennis coach, is back in the tennis circuit and hopes to make a top 100 world ranking.
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Defense keeps the volley alive Alanna Resch and Jacy Norton have given the UA offense chances to score By Nicole Dimtsios ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Although the excitement in a volleyball game usually stems from the energetic kill, for some members of the Arizona team, the rush comes from preventing that point. Seniors Jacy Norton and Alanna Resch are the defensive walls of No. 21 Arizona volleyball and have played big in the Wildcats non-conference schedule. Resch, Arizona’s libero — the defensive specialist of a volleyball team — has recorded 57 digs so far this season. Her primary job is to defend the spike off the opponent’s hitter, hitting the ball back up to set up a Wildcat kill. Meanwhile, Norton has to literally step up for Arizona. As the middle blocker, she has the task of preventing the kill from coming over the net. She has tallied 31 blocks this season in addition to six digs and is known as “Arizona’s Roof” at home games. While setting up the attack is crucial to win games, being able to turn opponent’s attacks into side-outs can change the flow of the game. Unlike the attack, the defense is less about repetition and more about knowing the field of play. “They (coaches) tell us and the blockers, which angles and which line to take away when we’re hitting,”Resch said about defensive preparation.“It makes defense a little easier for us because we know which (lines) the blocker will be taking away so we know which part of the court we need to defend.” The coordination of the blockers at the net and the libero in the backcourt has a big impact on how the attack is set up. If the block goes awry, the play can be doomed from the beginning. Norton and Resch however, have meshed well. “Those two seniors have been playing like you want them to play. They’re playing like seniors; they’re playing at a very high level,”Rubio
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UA outside hitter Whitney Dosty, No. 21, and senior middle blocker Jacy Norton, No. 12, rise to block a hit by a Houston outside hitter on Sept. 4 at McKale Center. Norton and the Arizona defense have kept the ball in play, allowing the offense to take advantage.
said of Norton and Resch. “They’re real consistent day in and day out — whether it is at practice or in a match.” The experience of the women has also led to their improvement. Unlike the underclassmen, the seniors have had their goals change throughout their time at Arizona. After a disappointing end to the 2008 season, one of the Wildcats’ hopes this season was to improve their winning consistency. “We didn’t do very well on the road last year,”Resch said.“We’re going to make it a point to do a lot better on the road this year.” Although Arizona has had successful seasons in the past, neither Norton nor Resch have experienced postseason play. Because of the Wildcats’ absence from the NCAA Tournament
in recent years, the experience that they role of defense in Arizona’s play. have gained throughout their time at Keeping the ball alive is the key for Arizona has helped shape the team to the seniors of Arizona volleyball. If win now. they want to experience that postseaThe team’s conVolleyball’s Dosty out up to 3 weeks sistency is someRedshirt junior outside hitter Whitney Dosty did not travel with the thing that has been then-No. 25 Arizona Wildcats over the weekend due to a left hand injury she forming over the sustained during practice on Sept. 9. course of the nonTeam doctors have said the injury could keep Dosty out of the lineup conference season anywhere from 10 days to three weeks, head coach Dave Rubio said. The team for Arizona. As far reported that Dosty would definitely not play this weekend. as the coaching The injury could also have implications as they start Pacific 10 Conference staff is concerned, the team’s identity play in 11 days. The Wildcats take on USC and UCLA on Sept. 24 and Sept. 25. — Nicole Dimtsios is one that is very promising. “The aspects of the game have son play they have longed for, both been very solid. We’re very low error. Resch and Norton will have to keep We’re a team that manages those the ball and Arizona’s winning record errors very well,” Rubio said about the from falling to the ground.
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Icecats’ goalie at UA after nomadic career prior By Mike Schmitz ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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rizona Icecats’ goaltender David Herman has redefined the term road warrior. Imagine playing Triple-A hockey at age 12, leaving home at 16, attending six high schools in five states over a four-year span and living in nine states from ages 16 to 21. While this life is chaotic enough to think about, Island Park, Ill., native David Herman actually lived it. “I just wanted to play hockey and wherever that took me was where I wanted to go,” the freshman said. Herman was determined to go as far as hockey would take him; little did he know that would be around the country and back. He was traveling around the country before he could even see a PG-13 movie. With a great amount of hockey experience under his belt, Herman worked his way to becoming the No. 1 high school goalie in Illinois his freshman year. He chose to take his game to the next level at age 15 when he tried out for the Chicago Steel, considered one of the most prestigious junior leagues in the country, and a member of the United States Hockey League — a big jump from the Illinois high school ranks. Forty-four goaltenders were vying for one spot. Herman made the final cut of eight but failed to make the roster. While Herman’s unsuccessful tryout closed one door, it opened a host of others. The Chicago Steel’s head coach made some calls and found Herman a spot on a Triple-A team in Colorado. “The coach told me that I needed to be playing somewhere other than high school so that I developed quicker and developed better,” Herman said. Herman wanted to leave home to pursue his dream and his parents supported his hockey passion, but they still had a tough decision to make.
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ead coach Mike Stoops and offensive coordinator Sonny Dykes acknowledged that the passing game was subpar on Saturday against NAU, but they didn’t place all the blame on the quarterbacks. Apparently it was the receivers that struggled, and even starting quarterback Matt Scott said that he and the receivers would need to watch extra film this week to get on track. But all wide receivers have to do is catch the ball, right? It certainly seems that simple, but it’s much more complicated than you’d think. Receivers have to do as much reading of the defense as a quarterback does, because their designated pattern that’s called in the huddle can change at any moment before or even during a play. Let’s take a look at some of the elements that receivers need to recognize before they decide which route to run on a passing play.
“It was very difficult,” said David’s mother, Lindsay Herman. “We had to make some choices as parents that either let him pursue his dream and give it his best shot, or have to live with the fact that we didn’t let him go after it.” Peter and Lindsay Herman let their son pursue his dream, a decision that didn’t exactly develop how they expected. After a season in Colorado, Herman chose not to return to the team because of some issues with players that were beyond his control. Soon after the season’s end, Herman left for Florida for the second stop of his hockey expedition. His junior team in Florida was highly talented, making it to nationals in Herman’s first season with the squad. Although his team lost, Herman gained exposure from his trip to nationals. He received offers from some junior teams back east, one of which he ultimately accepted. After playing for a junior team in Boston, Herman still couldn’t find the right fit. He left Boston to play in Syracuse and continued moving on to Colorado, Canada, Oregon, Michigan and Montana over the next few years. “I was trying to find the right team where I liked the coach and I thought that they had connections to move me on,” Herman said. “It was just a bunch of unfortunate events that led to all of the jumping around.” Herman’s junior hockey career came to an end last season in Billings, Mont., with the Billings Bulls of the Northern Pacific Hockey League. He gained experience, but on his six-year adventure, he learned more than how to stop flying pucks. He lived with host families in each city while he was too young to live on his own. Herman did have a roof over his head and a bed to sleep in, but he was virtually on his own. “He had to deal with everything that adults had to deal with,” Lindsay Herman said. “If you don’t have anyone to guide you it makes it a little more difficult, but he managed to get through it.” GOALIE, page 11
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Freshman goaltender David Herman sits in his Skyview Apartment room yesterday. Herman made the Arizona Icecats hockey team after traveling across the country in pursuit of his hockey career in nine states since the age of 16.
X O Gridiron Glossary
Blitz Recognition
Quarterbacks rarely have enough time to comfortably read a defense and make an accurate throw when there are four defensive linemen rushing them, and they have even less time to react when a linebacker or a defensive back is hot on their tail. First, the receiver needs to recognize if a blitz is coming and then notify the quarterback. Receivers generally point to the man who they believe is blitzing, and then generally make an audible call to let the quarterback know that he is “hot” (it’s sometimes difficult to read since defenses try to mask what they’re going to do, so receivers are generally told to play it safe and point it out anyway). If the defensive player does blitz, the inside receiver must alter his route to fill the void. Regardless of what pattern he was told to run in the huddle, the receiver simply runs to where the defender used to be and looks for the ball immediately since the quarterback has very little time to throw. In Figure 1, the solid line indicates pat-
tern that was called in the huddle, but the dotted line shows what the wide receiver does when he sees the blitz. Obviously the possible reward for the new pattern is significantly less than the original one, but positive yards are preferable to a sack. William “Bug” Wright did a great job of this in the first
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quarter against NAU. He recognized the linebacker on a blitz and received the short throw from Scott just before he got hit. He then used his speed to turn a short gain into a first down.
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Offensive coaches often talk about setting the tone of the game rather than letting the defense control them, but a lot of what the offense does is dictated by the defense regardless of which is playing better. Just like a blitz can change the pattern called in the huddle, defensive coverages change it as well. The most basic route is a “hitch” (the receiver runs 7 yards up field, then turns around and receives the ball 5 yards from the line of scrimmage). The receiver leaves the huddle and lines up expecting to run a hitch, but he must first read the corner to decide if a hitch is actually the right move (see Figure 2). Notice how important the depth of the cornerback is. When he is close to the line in press coverage and cover-2
the receiver takes off downfield. In press coverage it becomes a straight “fly”route, but in cover-2 it’s more of an abbreviated downfield pattern. Since the safety will generally migrate over the top of the receiver, the wide receiver needs to look for the ball quickly since the quarterback has a much smaller window to throw. When the corner is further from the line — regular man coverage and cover-3 — the receiver can run his original pattern since he has more room to work. On cover-4 the corners and safeties don’t move backward until the receiver has passed him, so the receiver can exploit that by running a post between the two. The key to all of this working is whether or not the quarterback and wide receiver can see it and are on the same page. The main reason that the quarterback takes so long at the line before he calls “hike” is because he’s trying to read the secondary before the snap so that he has less to do while dropping back. — compiled by Tim Kosch
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Federer stunned by del Potro in US Open final The Baltimore Sun NEW YORK -- Normally so cool, so consistent, so in control of his emotions and his matches, Roger Federer let the U.S. Open championship slip from his grasp. Two points from victory against inexperienced, unheralded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina, two points from a sixth consecutive title at Flushing Meadows and a record-extending 16th Grand Slam overall, Federer, quite simply, fell apart Monday. He railed at the chair umpire. His legs grew weary. His double-faults mounted. He could not figure out a way to stop the 6-foot-6 del Potro from pounding forehand after forehand past him. In a result as surprising for who lost as how it happened, the sixthseeded del Potro came back to win his first Grand Slam title by upsetting the No. 1-seeded Federer 3-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2. “Can’t have them all,� Federer said. He had won 40 consecutive matches at Flushing Meadows. He had won 33
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The Fallout
Then something decidedly untypical happened to the upstart American, something that left Lloyd not smiling. Having dealt with back pain his entire career, Dent received regular shots to ease the pain, shots that suddenly stopped working. Dent was forced to retire after surgery to deal with the fracture of his L5 vertebrae on both sides. Dent likes to keep his composure on the court as to not let emotion get the better of him. He now found himself trying to keep that same composure off the court in the face of his physical ailment. “If every match I won was a high and every match I lost was a low, God,� Dent said,“I don’t know if I could play
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The 4-hour, 6-minute match was the first U.S. Open final to go five sets since 1999, and there were no early signs to indicate it would be this competitive -- much less end with del Potro down on his back, chest heaving, tears welling, a Grand Slam trophy soon to be in his arms. He is the first man from Argentina to win the U.S. Open since Guillermo Vilas in 1977. Vilas was in the stands Monday, sitting one row behind Jack Nicklaus. One simple indication of the difference in age and status of the two finalists: The 28-year-old Federer’s guest box was full, with pals such as rock-star couple Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale and Vogue editor Anna Wintour seated alongside Federer’s parents, wife and agent. Only three of the 15 available seats were occupied in del Potro’s box. Federer took a 3-0 lead in 15 minutes, winning one point by racing about 5 feet wide of the doubles alley for a defensive backhand, then sprinting the other way for a cross-court forehand passing winner that he celebrated by yelling and shaking his fists.
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Roger Federer, of Switzerland, reacts as he plays Juan Martin del Potro, of Argentina, during the fifth set in the finals of the men’s U.S. Open on Monday, September 14, 2009, at Arthur Ash Stadium in the Billie Jean King Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, New York.
Lloyd: ‘He was told he’d be lucky to pick up his child’
out — Taylor Dent was back. A top 25 player before his injury, Dent was in his prime and rising through the ranks of professional tennis. Reaching a career high ranking of 21 in 2005, Dent seemed destined to break onto the world stage. That was the plan. “No plan ever goes 100 percent the way you want it to,� he said.
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of his previous 34 Grand Slam matches. And he has made the final at 17 of the past 18 Grand Slam tournaments, 21 overall. Del Potro? This was the 20-yearold’s first Grand Slam final, and he was 0-6 against Federer until now. But after handing Rafael Nadal the most lopsided loss of his Grand Slam career in the semifinals Sunday, del Potro came back the next day and rattled Federer. Until Monday, Federer was 2-5 in Grand Slam finals against his nemesis, Nadal, and 13-0 against everyone else. Somehow, del Potro never seemed intimidated by the setting or the man many consider the greatest tennis player in history. The usually unflappable Federer argued with chair umpire Jake Garner during a changeover, using a profanity and saying, “Don’t tell me to be quiet, OK? When I want to talk, I talk.� Del Potro, meanwhile, managed to have the time of his young life, high-fiving front-row fans after winning one point, and reveling in the soccer-style serenades of“Ole!�ringing through the stadium.
this sport.� This wasn’t a match, though. This was Taylor Dent’s life. “It was no longer necessary for my tennis career,� Dent said.“It was necessary for quality of life.� His best man agreed. “It was about whether he’d be able to mow the lawn or tie his shoes,� Lloyd said.“He was told he’d be lucky to pick up his child.� Seeing his best friend since childhood struggle with the hand that life had dealt him, Lloyd reached out to Dent. “I was just sitting around not knowing what to do, and he offered me a volunteer coaching job out there,� Dent said.“I said sure.� It was an easy call for Lloyd to bring Dent into the UA tennis family. “We grew up together in southern California,� Lloyd said.“I mean, we were the best men at each other’s weddings.� While at Arizona, Dent melded into his new role as a mentor to the young players, as well as a recruiting tool. He never went to college, so the UA became his new home, his default alma mater. A year later, the unthinkable hap-
pened. Dent was told by his doctor that he might be able to give a tennis comeback a try. Dent, the fan favorite forced into early retirement who had to worry about completing mundane everyday tasks, was now going to come back to the sport he had been told he would never be able to play again. It sounded risky to most. It sounded typical to Lloyd. “That’s who he is,� Lloyd said.
The Comeback
After sustaining a second surgery, Dent was left“pretty disheartened�by practice sessions that left him out of breath. This comeback thing was going to be hard. “I didn’t know what to do,� Dent said.“So I just sat down later that day for like three hours and just kind of weighed my options.� Dent pulled out a piece of paper, sat down and wrote down exactly what it would take for him to return to professional form. “There wasn’t really anything I was writing down that was unattainable,� he said.“Everything was in my hands.� With the support of his best friend and the UA tennis team, Dent worked vigorously with a passion that may be
rare for some, but was typical for Taylor Dent, and in 2009, he competed in three Grand Slam tournaments for the first time since 2005. His world ranking improved from No. 800 in the world to under No. 200. He received an enormous outpouring of support from tennis fans. And all the while, there was the UA tennis team and Tom Lloyd, watching Dent’s new achievements with admiration. Dent will never forget. “My time (at the UA) was great,� he said.“It’s pretty tough when you’re playing a full-time tennis schedule, but I still keep in touch with the team.� Now 28, an age when tennis players find themselves falling out of their prime, Dent sees his best days ahead of him. “(This year) was an amazing success. I proved that not only could I compete with these guys. I could beat them,� Dent said.“I’m arguably healthier and stronger now than before I stopped.� Strong words from a man who is entering an age bracket reserved for the tour’s “old guys,� but that’s typical Taylor Dent, Lloyd said. “He’s got a newfound respect for
the sport and a love for the game,â€? Lloyd said.“And I think we still haven’t seen his best.â€? So what might his best look like? What can fans expect in the future from the man who rose through the tennis ranks, was told he would never play again due to a fractured back, then defied the odds by not only coming back to the tour, but making it to the third round of American tennis’ “holy grailâ€? of tournaments? “The sky’s the limit with this guy,â€? Lloyd said.“But we don’t want to really look too far ahead. There’s a lot of tennis to be played.â€? Lloyd isn’t willing to speculate on the future of the aging comeback project ‌ but Dent is. While Dent is focusing on playing as many tournaments as possible to get his ranking back to the top 100, there is one tournament in particular that has caught Dent’s eye in the future. “We all grow up dreaming of winning the U.S. Open one day ‌ Hopefully by the time the U.S. Open rolls around next year, I’ll have a good chance to do really well,â€? he said as he laughed.“I’m back. Yeah, I’m back.â€? Typical Taylor Dent.
Considered small in size, Herman to prove critics wrong
Herman’s journey had its ups and downs, but he is adamant that he wouldn’t do anything differently. He met a host of people all over the country and had experiences that a 16-year-old kid could never dream of. There were times when Herman’s par-
ents wanted him to end all of the statehopping, but he was too driven to make a name for himself in the hockey world. “He has always been highly motivated,� Lindsay Herman said. “There are a lot of cases where it is the parents pushing the child, in our
case it was the exact opposite.� His motivation was unquestioned, but it became clear that his 5-foot-8 stature would prevent him from Division I stardom. As most Division I goalies are expected to be at least 6 feet tall, Herman’s col-
lege options dwindled. He had the chance to walk on and ride the bench at Boston University and Miami University (Ohio), but David ultimately chose Arizona. He couldn’t be more excited about the opportunity to play
in front of five-to-eight thousand fans per game. “I just can’t wait,� Herman said. “I can’t wait to hear the chants against the opposing goalie. It’s going to be an experience that I’m going to love for the next four years.�
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