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Students face MCAT changes

BY JOCELYN VALENCIA The Daily Wildcat

The AAMC has made significant changes to the MCAT effective in 2015.

The Association of American Medical Colleges appointed the MR5 Advisory Committee to review the Medical College Admission Test, adding a new section to the test on social and behavioral sciences.

Stephanie Rollins, a pre-health professions advising coordinator, said that the last time the MCAT saw a change was in 2013, when the writing sample section was removed.

The current version of the exam has been in use for 23 years and the new version is predicted to be in use for 15 years, according to the AAMC website.

“The [MR5] committee was tasked with reviewing the MCAT exam and recommending changes that are likely to increase the exam’s value to medical school admissions committees and examinees,” said a statement on the AAMC website.

Rollins has been informing students who plan on taking the MCAT about the changes for the past two summers and in previous orientations.

Emily Bell, assistant manager at the UA Kaplan Center, said the additional subjects to the new MCAT — psychology, sociology and biochemistry — have made the test a sevenSAVANNAH DOUGLAS / THE DAILY WILDCAT and-a-half-hour test, instead of the previous NEUROSCIENCE JUNIOR Riyasha Daulat places testing books on four-hour test. shelves at the Kaplan Testing Center on Sept. 15. Students are preparing

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A recent report indicates that cyclist crash accidents are common near Main Gate Square due to high traffic

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With the Sun Link Tucson Modern Streetcar now securely a part of urban Tucson life, the lack of bicycle lanes has raised doubts about overall bike safety.

Jessica Mitchell, a community outreach specialist for Tucson Medical Center, said that while biking can be fun, a great form of exercise and beneficial to the environment, safety is important.

“We have a simple saying: ‘Use your head, wear a helmet,’” Mitchell said. “It is the single most effective safety device available to reduce head injury and death from bicycle crashes.”

Cyclists are expected to follow the same traffic laws as motorists,

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but the streetcar has added more traffic to the streets surrounding the university.

Living Streets Alliance, a nonprofit organization that focuses on the importance of streets and how to make them safer for pedestrians and cyclists, published the results of crash data from cyclists on its website, where people can self-report crash incidents related to the streetcar.

The report stated that many incidents occurred near the Main Gate Square area, where foot and motor traffic was high, and that these incidents were less likely in the downtown area due to the streetcar having a dedicated lane.

Mary Lauran Hall, communications director for the

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BROTHER DEAN triggers yet another student reaction at the UA. Environmental sciences freshman Veronica Bauer talks to a University of Arizona Police Department officer concerning her verbal altercation with Brother Dean on the UA Mall on Tuesday. Bauer and Brother Dean altercation led to Bauer pushing Brother Dean, according to UAPD.

Pima Community College staff, faculty and students and the Tucson community have been working tirelessly to improve PCC in order to have its current probation lifted in February 2015.

PCC was put on probation by the Higher Learning Commission, the commission that gives PCC its accreditation, in April 2013. The probation was put into effect for reasons that had nothing to do with academics or teaching at PCC, according to Dolores DuranCerda, senior assistant to the provost. PCC was not following certain criteria put into place by the HLC that keeps Pima an accredited community college, according to Duran-Cerda.

“We’re still accredited,” Duran-Cerda said. “Students’ credit from Pima can still transfer to UA, NAU and ASU.” Duran-Cerda said that the reasons for probation had to do with governance, financial situations, complaints of lack of communication between administrators and allegations of sexual harassment from former Chancellor Roy Flores to various PCC employees.

When PCC learned about its probation in April 2013, it immediately took action to fix whatever needed to be fixed, Duran-Cerda said. PCC administration members, faculty, staff and students and Tucson community members have worked for 15 months to revitalize PCC, all working as volunteers, according to

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McSally ad dropped after backlash

BY Max Rodriguez The Daily Wildcat

Martha McSally stated Tuesday that she would support new gun control legislation that would prevent citizens convicted of a misdemeanor stalking offense from legally purchasing firearms in response to an ad put out by the Americans for Responsible Solutions PAC. McSally, a Republican congressional candidate, said in a statement to the Associated Press through her campaign spokesman Patrick Ptak that she “supports the full enforcement of federal laws that are in place to keep guns out of the hands of prohibited persons, including convicted felons (including stalkers), domestic abusers, the mentally ill and people in the country illegally.”

The campaign ad, which McSally had said was “false and malicious” last Tuesday, was being run locally by the Americans For Responsible Solutions PAC.

The ad was entitled “Stalker Gap” and opened with a woman named Vicki relaying the story of how her daughter and her husband were shot and killed by the daughter’s ex-boyfriend after she told him that their relationship was over.

Vicki cried as pictures of her family members appeared on the screen and she said, “He had threatened her before, and I knew. I just knew.”

Then, a picture of McSally appeared on screen with the text, “Martha McSally opposes making it harder for stalkers to get a gun.”

Vicki said at the end of the ad, “I don’t think she really understands how important that is to a lot of women.”

McSally immediately came out through her campaign on Sept. 16 stating the contrary, as she had been subject to a stalker earlier in her life.

The title of the ad, “Stalker Gap,” is a term used to refer to the way the current laws on purchasing firearms are written, according

to Pia Carusone, senior advisor to Americans for Responsible Solutions.

The gap is that stalker’s convicted of a felony stalking offense cannot legally purchase firearms, but stalkers convicted of misdemeanor stalking offenses are not subject to such restrictions, Carusone said in a press release.

Patrick Ptak also said in a statement to the Associated Press that “Martha supports adding misdemeanor stalking to the list of criminal offenses that would keep dangerous individuals from obtaining guns in other states where stalking can also be a misdemeanor.”

According to Carusone, Americans for Responsible Solutions, which was founded by Gabrielle Giffords, is trying to garner support for a bill from Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota that would close the stalker gap.

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In response to an advertisement from the Americans for Responsible Solutions, McSally announced on Tuesday that she is in support of new control legislation. Under this proposed legislation, citizens convicted of a misdemeanor stalking offense would be unable to purchase guns legally.

Governor race still up in the air race between Democrat Ron Barber and his opponent Republican Martha McSally hasn’t How the races are panning out been updated since June; it had There are just two months Barber leading by eight points.

This lead has both candidates left until elections, and while candidates and voters may be and voters preparing for a race anticipating the outcome, political ending similarly to how Barber polls may not be as informative as and McSally ran against each other in 2012, with just a 0.8 point they had hoped. lead in favor of Barber.

Polls show Doug This race could go Ducey, the Republican either way for the final gubernatorial outcome in November. candidate, leading in The attorney the race for governor general’s race has against Fred DuVal, his Republican Mark Democratic opponent.

Brnovich running But with that lead, it against second-time isn’t indicative of who Democratic candidate could win.

Doug ducey Felecia Rotellini.

According to The According to The Arizona Republic, Arizona Republic, a a new poll released survey had Brnovich by the Arizona Free with 43 percent of Enterprise Club on the vote and Rotellini Monday indicated with 40 percent of the that 11 percent of vote. A three-percent those surveyed were difference is left within undecided. This is the margin of error, compared to 44 percent and with 83 percent of who said they would fred duval surveyors voting for the vote for Ducey, 38 leading candidates, the percent for DuVal, six percent for Libertarian candidate attorney general’s race could go Barry Hess, and one percent for either way.

The political polls between Americans Elect candidate John Ducey and DuVal, Barber and Mealer.

A six-point lead leaves the McSally, and Brnovich and gubernatorial candidate race Rotellini don’t indicate an outcome “wide-open,” according to The for the elections in November.

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Pima Community College was placed on probation in April 2013. The Higher Learning Commission will announce its decision in February 2015 on whether Pima’s probation will be lifted.

Pima Duran-Cerda. They had until July 31 to submit a comprehensive selfstudy report, which went over every aspect of the college and noted what needed to be improved on by using a red, yellow and green system, she said.

Duran-Cerda added that the system was effective. When something was categorized as red, it meant it needed to be 100 percent fixed. When something was yellow, it meant it may have needed an aspect of it changed or fixed, and when something was green, it meant it met all the standards of the HLC and did not need to be changed. “[We] went through every aspect of the college according to the HLC criteria,” said Duran-Cerda. “We had to show what we were doing and prove what we were doing.”

According to “Pima Community College: Before and After,” a PowerPoint that PCC made and showed to HLC representatives when they came to visit, the changes that PCC made included a revision and update of PCC policies, new procedures for governing contracts, evaluations of administrators to ensure that they are adhering to policies and procedures and new training for employees on the sexual harassment policy.

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community colleges and universities around the country and the HLC came to Tucson last week to do a comprehensive site visit, according to Duran-Cerda. The representatives visited every PCC campus in Tucson.

The visit was a follow-up to the 300page comprehensive self-study report that PCC submitted in July, Duran-Cerda said.

“They came to visit and talk to students, community members, staff and specific groups they had selected, just to see if the college was better and if it followed what the report said,” Duran-Cerda said.

Duran-Cerda said that the chair member of the team that came to visit PCC said the college had shown a “herculean effort” to fix their college.

Sofia Ramos, a professor in the department of Mexican American studies, is a PCC alumna and completed a two-year program there before transferring to the UA. She later spent time working as a professor at PCC and worked in student development at the college.

Ramos is actively involved in the revitalization of Pima and was a volunteer on the strategic planning committee during the 15-month effort to fix parts of PCC that did not meet the HLC criteria.

Ramos said that she was very disappointed when she heard about PCC’s probation, but believes that it is important to have oversight on

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colleges and universities. She said that she believes that PCC is key to the city of Tucson and Pima County.

Ramos added that she is very optimistic that the community college will be lifted from its probationary period in February 2015, and said that PCC is important to the community because the costs accommodate underrepresented and underprivileged students with lower incomes.

According to PCC’s website regarding its probationary status, the HLC team that came to visit in September will provide the college with a site visit report in October.

PCC will then submit a response to the HLC site visit report in November, and in December, the HLC Institutional Actions Council will hold a hearing regarding PCC. The HLC Board of Trustees will inform the college on whether or not the probation has been lifted and if PCC will remain an accredited community college in February 2015.

“I believe in Pima and have seen firsthand the changes that the college has gone through, people respecting each other, Chancellor Lee Lambert advocating for transparency,” DuranCerda said. “It’s a collaborative effort.”

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Community Chatter How much do you know about birth control, and how effective do you think it is?

“I think it’s pretty effective, but they always have to put that .9 in the statistic in case it doesn’t work. You can still get pregnant on it. But with condoms and birth control, I think it’s pretty effective, and you won’t get anyone pregnant.”

Joe Vetrano, business management sophomore

“I do believe it’s a harsh chemical that goes into your body, and you should know exactly what you’re taking before you take it. It’s effective in preventing pregnancies, but people should also know what it doesn’t protect and the importance of actually taking it on time. There’s a lot that goes into birth control.”

Hanna Clauss, cultural anthropology freshman

“There are so many different kinds and new kinds as well. I’m married, and I can tell you birth control definitely works.”

Shoshana Haag, general studies: arts, media & entertainment transfer senior

“I’ve been married for over 10 years, and I’ve been with my wife even longer than that. We’ve used it, and it’s been very effective. Nothing’s ever happened that we didn’t expect.”

Richard Poulter, applications systems analyst/developer for Career Services

“I don’t take it just for the protectiveness of it; I use it for other things, like acne and regulating my period. I think it’s effective.”

Alexis Baggiore, pre-medicine and pre-law freshman

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Rollins said that because of the addition of the social and behavioral sciences section, pre-medical student course requirements have also changed.

Students are now required to take a psychology course.

“I checked campus-wide, all the different colleges [and] all the different departments, and asked for their input on what courses would cover these competencies,” Rollins said.

Raymond Runyan, a professor of cellular and molecular medicine, said that the changes could prove to be more stressful to MCAT applicants. “[It will have] only subtle effects on the final medical student population,” Runyan said.

The old version of the exam will continue to run until January 2015. No tests are administered in February, and the new version will be offered in either March or April, according to Bell.

Bell said he believes that the Arizona test dates for the older version of the exam are booked through January, and that students who want to take the older version will have to take it in a different state. Kous Kondapalli, neuroscience junior, said he is planning to take the MCAT in May of 2015, which means he will have to take the newer version of the test. Kondapalli said he thinks the AAMC is making the MCAT unnecessarily more difficult.

“I want to be prepared for the upcoming competition,” Kondapalli said.

The UA Kaplan Center is offering a free practice test for both the current and the 2015 MCAT during the weekend of Oct. 3.

“We will probably lose a few students that were better at just memorizing facts, and we’ll pick up a few more students with strong reasoning skills and research experience,” Runyan said. “The psychology and sociology aspects will probably help diversify the student body a bit as well.”

Runyan said that he likes the idea of social and behavioral sciences receiving an increased emphasis on the exam, but from his experience as a scientist, the current population of students in the medical field already do well in this area of study.

“Really, it’s an acknowledgement that medicine is not just science,” Rollins said. “You know you can’t be the world’s best scientist and automatically be a great doctor.

You have to have good people skills as well, and so understanding why people do the things they do and so on is really critical to doing well as a physician.”

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GENEVA — World leaders met in New York on Tuesday to discuss how to tackle the risks posed by climate change, but there was little discussion of one increasingly obvious observation: The planet might be in better shape today if more countries had followed the lead of Richard Nixon’s administration when it and Congress enacted the pioneering Clean Air Act in 1970.

World experts credit the act, which was revised in 1977 and 1990, with giving the U.S. an early lead in fighting air pollution.

That’s reflected in health and air pollution measurements in the second decade of the 21st century.

Alistair Woodward, who was the coordinating lead author of the health chapter in the fifth assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told McClatchy that two years of improvement in U.S. life expectancy “are attributable to lower emissions.”

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Alliance for Biking & Walking, said infrastructure that takes bicyclists into consideration helps improve bike safety.

“Streetcar tracks can be dangerous for people riding bikes when bicycle tires become lodged in the tracks,” Hall said. “Ideally, streets should be designed in such a way that bicyclists are assisted in only crossing the tracks at perpendicular angles.

Lacking such design, bicyclists should be careful to only cross the tracks at 90-degree angles.”

Joey Iuliano, president of the UA Cycling Club, said that the streetcar is great for Tucson, but it does have its downfalls for cyclists.

“It’s great to see the positive impacts it has had on Tucson,” Iuliano said. “However, I wish the project had considered all road users a bit more.”

Iuliano said that the streetcar route near Fourth Avenue and University Boulevard is too crammed for the streetcar, vehicles and cyclists.

“Having to share a lane with moving traffic but not having

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“[The goal of the ARS is] to communicate directly with voters in this country about where candidates stand on important issues on gun violence prevention,” Carusone said.

Carusone said that there was nothing factually inaccurate about the ad and reiterated that stance Tuesday night after McSally’s announcement. Carusone also acknowledged Giffords and said she is “involved in every decision [they] make.”

However, Carusone said after McSally’s

Similarly, the U.S. milligrams per cubic meter.

New York’s level was measured Environmental Protection Agency credited implementation at 14 milligrams per cubic meter, of the Clean Air Act with Los Angeles’ was measured at 20 “preventing hundreds of and Chicago’s at 13. Compare thousands of cases of serious that with other major world cities such as Beijing’s 58, New Delhi’s health effects each year.”

Indeed, a study this year of air 173 and Cairo’s 73. European pollution around the world by cities were closer to U.S. levels, the World Health Organization with London at 16, Paris at 17 found that U.S. cities fare much and Berlin at 20.

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The global agency found that, Wichita, Kansas, at 9, Lexington, in general, large cities in the U.S. Ky., at 10, and Seattle-Tacomawere likely to have much lower Bellevue at 10.

Cities that reported higher levels of particles measuring 2.5 included Dallas-Fort micrometers in diameter or less levels floating in every cubic meter of Worth (12), Macon, Ga. (12), air. A safe level is considered 10 Kansas City (15) and Modesto,

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Calif. (15). One of the highest levels, 45 milligrams per cubic meter, was reported at Fresno, Calif.

Two world cities that ranked lower in fine particle pollution were Sydney, with a reading of 5, and Toronto, with 8.

Overall, the WHO estimates that 7 million people die annually worldwide because of air pollution, according to estimates released Monday.

“I’m afraid the figures are very dramatic,” said Maria Neira, the WHO director for environmental and social determinants of public health. “Air pollution is one of the most significant health risks we are confronting today.”

A study by the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development published in May estimated that air pollution costs the advanced economies plus China and India about $3.5 trillion a year in premature deaths and ill health.

The study warned that the costs will rise without government action to limit vehicle emissions.

enough room to dodge an opened door or driver not paying attention is a problem,” Iuliano said.

Despite this, Iuliano said he disagreed that a protected bike lane is what the city needs to prevent any accidents related to the streetcar, and that he doesn’t think bicyclists should be removed from the streetcar route.

“I think that’s the wrong answer all together as it could eliminate a good amount of business from shops along the route,” Iuliano said.

Iuliano also said that street parking along the route is a big part of the problem cyclists are facing, especially when drivers park too far from the curb. He said he thinks Tucson is overparked.

“One of the beauties of riding a bike is being able to go from your door to the door of your destination without too much effort in finding parking or having to take a special route,” Iuliano said.

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statement that ARS is now pulling the “Stalker Gap” ad earlier than they were intending from television and from the internet, including YouTube. Carusone added this is because McSally has changed her mind on closing the firearm purchasing loophole for those convicted of misdemeanor stalking offenses and not because of the criticism the ad received.

“If a candidate changes their mind, and render any of our programs inaccurate, we’d be happy to reverse positions,” Carusone said.

“This is a recognition that she’s changed her mind and that’s a good thing.”

McSally also called on Ron Barber, her

A bicyclist rides to class on the UA campus on Monday. Cyclists at the UA have been uncertain about bike safety with the addition of the Sun Link Tucson Modern Streetcar and heavy traffic.

Democratic opponent in the race, to join her in denouncing the ads in her statement on Sept.

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The Daily Wildcat received a comment from the Barber campaign prior to Tuesday’s announcement.

Ashley Nash-Hahn, communications director for Ron Barber for Congress, said guns are a huge issue for the Arizona congressional election.

“Southern Arizonans want to know exactly where both candidates stand on important issues like keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous criminals and domestic abusers,”

Nash-Hahn said. “Ron Barber supports common sense steps like background checks for gun shows and online sales, because stalkers and domestic abusers should not be able to buy guns.”

Nash-Hahn said that Barber would “absolutely” support legislation closing the stalker gap, and, as of Tuesday, that the campaign stands by its comment.

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No-knock warrants troubling

BY Ashleigh Horowitz The Daily Wildcat

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ational militarization, violent uprisings and innocents harmed all sound like the problems of a faraway land like Egypt or Burma. But the reality is that these are increasingly apparent realities in the United States.

In the past decade, U.S. police forces have become more similar to the nation’s military in terms of weapons and strength. With Department of Defense programs allowing state police forces to acquire the excess military equipment that the military doesn’t want anymore, a quiet but marked increase in the distribution of rifles, tanks and grenade launchers among our nation’s police officers has occurred. Special Weapons and Tactics forces are able to combine these new weapons with no-knock warrants, resulting in a particularly terrifying form of police violence.

A no-knock warrant gives a police officer the legal right to break into a private home fully armed without announcing their presence. According to a variety of sources, including the Arizona Daily Star, CNN and The New York Times, no-knock warrants have become common in part due to the rise of the war on drugs.

However it happened, it is now possible for a SWAT team to break into your home at any hour it pleases, with absolutely no warning, and point a gun at you — so long as officers believe you have drugs.

It’s the middle of the night, and someone just burst through the door.

In the initial panic, a resident can easily reach for their household gun, and the SWAT team could respond to the threat with deadly force.

Did the gun owner recognize the threat as a SWAT officer at 3 a.m., or did he think he was responding to a criminal threat? Who knows. He’s dead now.

The Washington Post reported on a story out of Killeen, Texas, earlier this year, when a no-knock raid led to the death of police detective Charles Dinwiddie. At 5:30 a.m. on May 9, a SWAT team raid on the house of a suspected drug dealer went horribly wrong, resulting in two officer injuries and two hospitalizations. One of those was Dinwiddie, who died at 2 p.m. the following afternoon.

After further investigation, “drug paraphernalia, a safe, a grinder, a laptop computer, two walkie-talkies, a 9-mm pistol and three cellphones” were found — but no drugs of any kind.

The use of this no-knock warrant cost an officer his life.

Also in May, a Georgia SWAT team was tipped off by an informant who claimed to have recently purchased methamphetamine from a house in Cornelia, Ga. With no additional evidence that the home owner was a drug dealer rather than merely a drug user, a team of seven officers was dispatched to the home around 3 a.m. on May 28. When they were unable to bust down the door due to a blockage of some kind, they threw a flash-bang grenade inside.

The door was being blocked by a baby playpen, and the grenade landed next to a sleeping 1-year-old. The suspect wasn’t even in the house at the time. The child was critically injured and placed in a medically-induced coma.

This heart-wrenching example will not be the last.

According to the Arizona Daily Star, there were 202 SWAT deployments in Tucson with issued warrants from 2001 to 2004. Only three of those warrants were no-knock warrants. From 2012 to 2013, the ratio was 104 regular warrants to 77 no-knocks.

With this increase in frequency, accidents will continue to happen.

People have a right to feel safe in their home no matter who they are. Even drug dealers reside in homes where innocent family members or visitors may be present. SWAT intelligence can’t always foresee all relevant factors.

No-knock warrants, when combined with the new military power placed in the hands of SWAT officers, creates situations where anything can happen.

This tactic of breaking in unannounced, bearing assault rifles and grenades, is unethical and unsafe. And in the broader scheme of things, it does nothing to make our communities safer from drugs or crime.

— Ashleigh Horowitz is a creative writing freshman. Follow her @elhixsagh

Nicki Minaj: Feminist Icon

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icki Minaj’s butt is exactly what we need in the feminist movement. Her alma mater’s rejection of Minaj’s desire to speak to their student population is a step in the wrong direction.

According to Minaj’s Twitter feed, the rapper/ singer was denied the opportunity to speak at her former high school, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in New York City. She wrote, “I wanted to go back to my HS and speak to the students but the new principal declined. No need for me to inspire them, I guess. Smh.” Now, a week later, Lamont Johnson, president of the Hempstead Board of Education, has invited Minaj to speak at Hempstead High School. And though LaGuardia High School claims that Minaj’s presence could potentially distract the students, it still begs the question: Did it miss out on an opportunity to send a powerful message to its students?

Yes. Coming off the hit release of the “Anaconda” music video, Minaj is more prevalent and important than ever, especially to the Black Feminist Movement. Though some critics questioned the album cover and music video — both of which prominently feature Minaj’s large buttocks — those critics are wrong. “Anaconda” is a celebration of female sexuality and, frankly,

is a reclamation of the black woman’s butt.

Minaj is a sexual symbol, yes, but she is such on her own terms. She refuses to be confined by the heterosexual male gaze, instead subverting traditionally oppressive iconography for a more liberating ideology.

For instance, in the “Anaconda” video, Minaj performs a lap dance on fellow rapper and Young Money member Drake. However, she does so on her own terms: not to get the man, not against her will, but because she knows her body and the power it holds.

Moreover, Minaj takes the image of the black woman’s behind — an image that has been degraded and debased since the “Hottentot Venus” days of Saartjie Baartman in the late 18th century — and flips it on its head. The black woman’s butt is no longer an alien oddity to be scorned and jeered at but a point of pride that diminishes the power of the oppressor.

And to those who denounce Minaj for her blatant sexuality?

“As a scholar, I am disheartened to see the repeated condemnation of black female sexuality,” said Jennifer Donahue, a visiting assistant professor in the Africana Studies Program. “The racist, slut-shaming responses to the release of ‘Anaconda’ and this unexplained rejection speak to the function of sexual politics in our society and the knee-jerk reactions that often accompany expressions of sexuality, particularly by black women. Reactions to Ms. Minaj’s latest release point toward the larger sociocultural need to control or censor female expressions of sexuality.”

But while I find Minaj’s iconography of the “big booty” to be a subversion of patriarchal rule, there are others who wonder whether this

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overt sexuality operates within the current racist system.

“On one hand, it is turning the desirability around, but I question that it is in ways that also offer black women respect or dignity,” said Tani Sanchez, an associate professor in the Africana Studies Program. “It seems instead to be a individual lucrative tie into representations of blacks as sexually deviant and abnormal — all of which serves to suggest blacks are inherently so different that they are not fit for average society.

The end effect is continued othering. This overt conflation of imagined outlaw sexuality with skin color and body type is long-standing, and it is difficult to see how this imagery serves any larger community purpose.”

But I disagree. Because Minaj remains in control of her own sexualized image, she stands as a strong, autonomous being in defiance of a misogynist society. That is dignity.

No matter the reason, LaGuardia High School’s choice to decline Nicki Minaj’s invitation to speak is ultimately one that sends the wrong message. It denies that Nicki Minaj, a performer who ought to be considered a Black Feminist icon, can be a role model.

At what point did we decide that being in charge of one’s own body, sexuality and career disqualifies a person from being a hero to children? We should go back to that point and try again, so that this time, feminism can take a step in the right direction.

— Paul Thomson is a senior studying BFA acting and Africana studies. Follow him @BePaulite

that will just let him off because there isn’t enough evidence.

The definition of harassment, amongst other legal definitions, In response to “Islam not root becomes too subjective to the cause of ISIS” (Tom Johnson, point that if he does get convicted Sept. 23) for something, the conviction will Dean is terrorizing people be overturned on appeal, because and is creating an unsafe he was tried in a court of public environment; I personally try to opinion before he was tried in a avoid that part of the [UA] Mall in court of law. In short, there are no the afternoons in case he’s there, real objective findings that keep because I’ve heard horror stories him off these premises. about him harassing people and If we remove Brother Dean, even spitting on them. He has then we have to remove all the done this for years, and nobody feminists and other various has done anything to stop him attention whores (good or bad) from spewing his hate speech. that arise on this campus. Then When will the [Arizona] Board again, in my honest opinion, I of Regents think they’re finally do all just trying If ASUA can something to feed about him? reach out to off other HTAZ2010 one or five or people’s 100 students, attention.

First of all, Brother that should “Brother” Dean just be considered Dean is just likes … a great being an contentious attention accomplishment. issues. whore. And LegalNut what is law enforcement or the courts going While he is exercising his right to do about it? They can’t really to assembly and thus police can’t do anything about it, because he’s get involved, he is violating the allowed to say whatever he wants, Student Code of Conduct, which even if people think what he says means the Dean of Students is “terrorizing people.”

[Office] needs to get involved.

And these “horror stories” Also, the fact that he uses a about him harassing people or bullhorn near classrooms, and spitting on them? Ultimately, it I did have a friend who said it comes down to a subjective case

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was hard to hear her Spanish professor in the classroom because all she could hear was Dean, and she was on the third or fourth floor. Those facts alone should be enough to get him expelled, at the very least.

HTAZ2010 In response to “ASUA not discouraged by forum attendance” (Meghan Fernandez, Sept. 23) I think that this type of outreach — from [the Associated Students of the University of Arizona] to the student body population — is the most important thing to focus on.

When I read the “Empty Seats” article on Monday, I felt like the author was diminishing the value of this outreach. If ASUA can reach out to one or five or 100 students and help them gain more political efficacy and interest in this upcoming governor election, that should be considered a great accomplishment. As a student who attended the event on Sunday, I can say that I am very appreciative to have [had] the opportunity to watch this live debate and learn more about the candidates in the running for governor of Arizona. Thank you, ASUA, and I look forward to future efforts toward this campaign.

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BY ARIELLA NOTH

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On Sept. 14, a group of students was diverted to the Dean of Students Office for marijuana use.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer was conducting a security check of the Sixth Street Parking Garage.

The officer noticed a vehicle with the windows rolled down with smoke emitting from the passenger compartment. The officer noted that there were five individuals in the car, and upon walking toward it, the smell of burning marijuana grew stronger.

The officer asked if they wanted to give him the marijuana, and the one in the driver’s seat turned over a partially burnt marijuana cigarette. The individual identified it as belonging to the one in the passenger’s seat, but also admitted to smoking marijuana.

The officer asked the individual in the passenger seat to exit the vehicle and informed him that the man in the driver’s seat claimed the cigarette was his. The individual handed over a package of rolling papers and a rolling machine to the officer, stating they belonged to him, in addition to admitting he had smoked marijuana.

The officer had them all exit the vehicle and conducted a search that resulted in finding marijuana under the driver’s seat.

Most of the individuals admitted to marijuana use, aside from a non-UA-affiliated individual who did not exhibit any of the signs or symptoms of marijuana use.

The individuals were informed they were being either diverted or referred to the Dean of Students Office for marijuana possession or a Student Code of Conduct violation. All five were released on the scene.

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On Sept. 15, a student discharged a weapon at a UA anthropological site.

The UA Assistant Vice President notified UAPD that an incident involving a firearm had occurred on UA property. The caretaker and resident of the property was discovered, who reported that he had been outside his residence and heard and saw a subject on the property. The resident fired one shot from a gun to frighten the trespasser away.

The officer spoke with a UA employee, who said that the resident is a student employee for the anthropology department and works in their office. In addition, he is allowed to live on the property with rent and utilities free of charge as long as he watches over it.

The UA employee said the resident had called her in the early morning hours on Sept. 14 to report that he had fired a gun on the property. He also reported that he had heard voices on the property and went to investigate. He said he had fired one shot into the ground to scare the intruder.

He said he considered the property his residence. The officer discussed the legal issues regarding the event with the department and the lack of rental agreement.

The resident was contacted by the officer to discuss the incident. The resident reiterated what the officer had previously been told.

The officer then explained the circumstances did not meet the justifications for using deadly force. When the officer asked for the weapon, the resident said he had gotten rid of it by throwing it in a wash.

No criminal charges were issued at the time.

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CAMPUS EVENTS

ASUA Volunteer Fair 10am to 2pm. UA Mall. The Associated Students of the UA are expecting around 20 nonprofit organizations and student clubs to attend its Volunteer Fair.

Get involved and help your community.

Meeting - CATS4Kitties Club 12pm. Student Union Memorial Center, UA BookStores, Room 304A. CATS4Kitties is a UA club that seeks to improve the lives of stray cats on the UA campus and in the Tucson community by educating students and employees on issues pertaining to the homeless cat population in our area, encouraging participation in the national no. ‘The Facts on Fad Diets: Separate the Hype from the Science’ 12pm. UA Cancer Center, Kiewit Auditorium. This presentation is given by Christy Wilson, registered dietitian nutritionist. Learn the pros and cons of some of the most popular diet trends and participate in a discussion about the current scientific studies relating to the eating patterns specific to these diets ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ Opening Night 7:30 p.m.

Marroney Theatre, 1025 N. Olive Road.

Winner of three Tony Awards, four Drama Desk Awards and nominated for an Olivier for Best Comedy of the Year, this musical farce is a sidesplitting pleaser.

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TUCSON EVENTS

CIUA Lecture: ‘Yellow River’ 7pm to 9pm.

UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St. This lecture will focus on the long history of civilization along the Yellow River. Poems will be recited and Chinese music will be played as the background.

Knit and Crochet Women’s Club 10am to 11am. Sr. Jose Women’s Shelter 18 W. 18th St. Located in historic Barrio Viejo just south of downtown, crafts-women can enjoy fellowship in a comfortable, air conditioned home, open to the public.

Faculty Artist Series Recital 7:30 pm. UA School of Music, Crowder Hall. Come listen to the beautiful and soothing music of our very own UA faculty! This recital features Matt Tropman on the tuba/euphonium and Michael Dauphinais on the piano.

Laughter Yoga Club 2pm to 3:30pm.

Joyner-Green Valley Public Library 601 N. La CaĂąada Drive. Come laugh away your stress with this fun and interactive class.

TUCSON EVENTS Ceramics Class 10am to 12pm. Tucson Jewish Community Center 3800 E. River Road. A paint-it-yourself pottery experience.

Decorate pre-made clay objects: plates, mugs, animals, birds, and more. Learn techniques for applying colored glazes. Cost includes firing of 3 finished pieces. $32 for 6 sessions /$28 JCC member.

Sonoran Sleuths Mystery Book Club 11am to 12pm. Oro Valley Public Library 1305 W. Naranja Drive. If you are a whodunit mystery fan, join us for a lively discussion and review of mystery suspense novels that will intrigue you. This month’s selection: “Scarpetta� by Patricia Cornwell.

Evening Meditation 7 pm to 8 pm. Desert Ashram 3403 W. Sweetwater Drive. Need some time for reflection and to come to a deeper understanding of yourself? Melt some stress away with calming as well as energizing meditation.

MEDIA SHAMANISM Films & Poetry of Ira Cohen 7:30 p.m. Exploded View Microcinema197 E. Toole Ave. Exploded View celebrates the life and work of poet, photographer, filmmaker, publisher and legendary shaman/bohemian Ira Cohen.

Ira Cohen lived and created a singular body of work in New York City, Tangier and Katmandu from the 1960s until his death in 2011. Cost: $5 Compiled by Anna Yeltchev

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VOLLEYBALL TAKES ON ASU The Sun Devils come to Mckale Center on Wednesday looking to spoil Arizona’s Pac-12 home opener, again

BY EVAN ROSENFELD The Daily Wildcat

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ARIZONA SENIOR libero Ronni Lewis (1) jump serves the ball during Arizona’s 3-0 win against UMBC in McKale Center on Saturday. Lewis and the Wildcats open Pac-12 Conference play against ASU on Wednesday in McKale Center.

The first points of the 2014 Territorial Cup will be at stake when No. 18 Arizona volleyball hosts No. 19 ASU Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. in McKale Center to kick off the conference season.

The matchup represents the first time since 2002 that the Wildcats face off against the Sun Devils with both teams possessing top-25 rankings.

Arizona (11-1) enters Pac-12 Conference play looking to extend its five-game winning streak, and most recently dispatched Coppin State, Tulane and UMBC in consecutive straight set victories to sweep the Wildcat Classic.

ASU (10-2) travels to Tucson after hosting the Residence Inn Invitational. The Sun Devils dropped the first match of the tournament to No. 8 Colorado State in five sets before cruising to sweeps of NCCU and Pepperdine.

“Nothing that we do in practice is going to duplicate what we’re going to face on Wednesday,” UA head coach Dave Rubio said.

“You just hope that your players are up for the match and are really dialed in on what we’re going to need to do tactically against those guys.”

Juniors Mercedes Binns and Bianca Arellano lead the Sun Devils defensively. Binns, who’s averaging 0.86 blocks per set, was named to the All-Tournament team this past weekend.

“They’re good. They’re balanced; they have a really terrific setter and one of the elite softhitters in Macey Gardner,” Rubio said. “They have a lot of experience, but I still think it’s going to come down to who will play the best when the score is 20-20. That’s going to dictate who comes out on top.”

Rubio described Gardner, a junior outside hitter from Gilbert, Ariz., as athletic on the court and capable of covering good range.

He also said she’s a skilled passer and that while the two are very different players, Gardner brings the same energy to her team as

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Madi Kingdon brings to the Wildcats.

In last year’s heated rivalry, the Wildcats split the series with the Sun Devils. Arizona suffered its first straight-set sweep of the season on the road (22-25, 21-25, 24-26) in its Pac-12 opener, and got revenge at home (25-22, 16-25, 25-23, 25-21) to close the regular season.

While the pattern of starting and ending conference play against ASU remains the same, this year, the Wildcats won’t have the same defensive cog that was instrumental in the fourset triumph.

Former Arizona libero Candace Nicholson, who graduated last year, was instrumental for the Wildcats in the final matchup with the Sun Devils. She amassed 36 digs — one shy of the school record (37) set by Katie Jackels in 2007 — and was a defensive ace for the UA. However, senior outside hitter Taylor Arizobal said that even though the team lost Nicholson, she is confident that the team will be able to replace the void she left defensively. “[Nicholson] was a huge part of our team, but this year we have Ronni Lewis, Kennedy Wesley, [Elizabeth] Inch and Laura Larson — who really propel our team forward defensively and with passing,” Arizobal said. “I think they’re huge factors, and each play an integral part in our defense.”

Lewis, who has earned the starting libero position as a senior and is one of four players to have played in every set this season, has been vital in Arizona’s defensive success.

The senior is averaging 3.89 digs per set and has dished out 49 assists. She said the team wants to be known for its relentlessness both on offense and defense.

“We’re going to show no mercy this weekend,” Lewis said.

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Miller has set up UA for success after this season

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ARIZONA REDSHIRT freshman quarterback Anu Solomon (12) passes the ball to freshman running back Nick Wilson (28) during Arizona’s surprising 49-45 win against California at Arizona Stadium on Saturday.

Solomon has broken numerous school records this season, including the record for single-game passing yards and passing attempts.

BY JAMES KELLEY

The Daily Wildcat With its 49-45 comeback victory over California, Arizona football started the season 4-0 for the first time since 2010.

Redshirt freshman quarterback Anu Solomon threw a for a school-record 520 yards.

Senior cross country runner Kristina Aubert remained perfect in her Arizona career, winning the Dave Murray Invitational. Aubert, who transferred from Arkansas State, won her other race as a Wildcat at NAU. No. 18 Arizona volleyball wrapped up nonconference play with an 11-1 record, only losing at then-No. 2 Texas. The Wildcats are 6-0 at home and haven’t even lost a set, owning an 18-0 record.

Arizona soccer beat Idaho 3-0 to win its fourth game in a row. The Wildcats wrapped up nonconference play with a 6-1-1 record and second-year head coach Tony Amato led the UA to a 5-13 record in nonconference play last year.

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UNIVERSITY OF Michigan head coach Brady Hoke (right) and his new offensive coordinator, Doug Nussmeier, walk off stage after a news conference in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Jan. 10.

Hoke and the Wolverines lost to Utah at the Big House this past weekend, sparking controversy over whether Hoke should stay or be fired.

With its 26-10 loss to Utah, Michigan head coach Brady Hoke dropped to 2-2 this season, while the man he replaced, current UA head coach Rich Rodriguez, improved to 4-0. Hoke has gone 11-2, 8-5 and 7-6 at Michigan, while Rodriguez’s record improved each season at UM: 3-9, 5-7 and 7-6.

Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch suffered a season-ending injury celebrating a sack of Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers. Tulloch mimicked the “Discount Double Check” motion Rodgers does in State Farm commercials.

Bay Area football teams lost twice in Arizona over the weekend. The UA beat California 4945 on Saturday, and the Cardinals beat the San Francisco 49ers 23-14.

Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston was suspended for the first half, then the whole game, of the Seminoles’ game with Clemson for yelling, “Fuck her right in the pussy,” like the popular vine video, in the middle of campus. Winston tried to suit up but was sent to the locker room by FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher.

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here are few stalwarts in life, among which include: Death, taxes and Sean Miller securing top-level recruits, with the latter being the most important.

OK, maybe not, but you get the picture.

All Sean Miller does is rake in highly rated recruits.

His latest recruiting victory came a few weeks ago when fast-rising 2015 power forward Chance Comanche committed to Arizona, adding to an already dominant 2015 class that includes five-star guard Allonzo Trier, four-star guard Justin Simon and fourstar forward Ray Smith.

Miller is clearly bracing for a mass departure from this season’s roster, and rightfully so. T.J. McConnell is a senior, so he’s for sure gone after the year. Toss in the likely NBA early entry departures of sophomore Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, freshman Stanley Johnson and juniors Brandon Ashley and Kaleb Tarczewski, and Miller has the right idea.

That’s the entire projected starting lineup gone after this season. Not to mention potential transfers like Elliot Pitts or even Craig Victor.

In essence, Miller’s mass recruitment makes a lot of sense and is far from finished.

The Arizona coaching staff is still in on highly rated 2015 recruits Ivan Rabb and Stephen Zimmerman.

According to ESPN, Rabb is fifth and Zimmerman is 10th in the 2015 player rankings.

The Arizona coaching staff had an in-home visit with Zimmerman just a few weeks ago and definitely has to be considered one of the leaders for the 7-footer’s services. As for Rabb, Arizona held an in-home visit with the versatile power forward less than one week ago.

Both recruits play for the AAU powerhouse Oakland Soliders club team, which is the program Ashley, Nick Johnson and Aaron Gordon all came from.

With the Wildcats already having four 2015 commits and Boston College transfer Ryan Anderson eligible to play next year, it’s highly unlikely both Rabb and Zimmerman end up playing in Tucson.

The Arizona coaching staff is still firmly entrenched with both recruits and has a great chance to secure a commitment from one of

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Arizona soccer nonconference grades The Wildcats ended nonconference play with six wins and improved significantly as a team

BY BRIAN PEEL

The Daily Wildcat

With its two-game home sweep over the weekend, Arizona soccer wrapped up their nonconference schedule with a record of 6-11. The Wildcats looked mostly dominate throughout the nonconference portion of the schedule, including being only minutes away from an upset of then-No. 6 Texas A&M at the Sun Devil Classic.

After a slow start to the year that saw the Wildcats drop their second game of the season to Florida Gulf Coast, Arizona is playing its best soccer of the season going into Pac-12 Conference play. The Wildcats are currently on a four-game win streak and are unbeaten in their last six contests.

This Friday, Pac-12 play starts for the Wildcats when they host USC , but before conference play begins, here is a position-byposition report card of the team so far.

Goalkeeping: B+

Gabby Kaufman is a fifth-year senior and is playing like it in her final year as a Wildcat. Kaufman has conceited only six goals through eight games played so far and has already racked up four shutouts.

Defense: A-

There has been plenty of consistency in front of Kaufman with the usual starting backline of Mykaylin Rosenquist, Sheaffer Skadsen, Laura Pimienta and Brie DeFelice locking up opposing attackers.

Defensively, the Wildcats have used a combination

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ARIZONA SENIOR forward Ali Doller (2) passes the ball past Lipscomb sophomore defender Carlotta Fennefoss (3) during Arizona’s 3-1 win against Lipscomb on Friday. Doller and the Wildcats concluded nonconference play this past weekend with two wins and improved signficantly over their eight nonconference games.

of physicality and organization to limit their opponents to less than 10 shots per game thus far.

Alexa Montgomery and Amanda Burke have provided depth off the bench.

has moved the ball well inside and on the wings with the likes of Stoian, Lexe Selman, Jaden DeGracie, Hannah Wong, Hayley Estopare, and Julia Glanz, just to name a few.

Midfield: A

Forwards: B+

So far in 2014, the midfield has been the best positional group for the Wildcats. Led by super freshman Gabi Stoian, who is tied for most points in the Pac-12 and tied for second in goals, the midfield has been nearly impossible to contain for opposing defenders. The group

After a slow start to the season, senior Alexandra Doller is really starting to pick it up of late, scoring three goals in her last two games. Doller is usually left to fend for herself at the top of the formation but still leads the team, and is third in the conference, in shots with 33. Sophomore Paige

Crouch, who missed most of last season with a knee injury, has been a key contributor off the bench with two goals.

Coaching: A

Despite the loss of three highly productive seniors from last year’s team — including Mexican National Team member Jazmin Ponce — the Wildcats are actually off to a better start than they were last year at this point despite a more difficult schedule. Tony Amato always seems to have his team ready to play no matter the competition level.

Nonconference MVP: Gabi Stoian

Nonconference Surprise Player: Paige Crouch Best Moment Nonconference:

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Gabi Stoian’s late-game, two-goal barrage vs. Oklahoma State with LeeAndra Smith’s game winner vs. NAU coming in at a close second.

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Arizona hockey gets renovations right in time for regular season the TCC has served as the arena for Arizona hockey. Although the hockey team is associated with the As hockey season begins and fans university, the team and TCC receive begin to pack the Tucson Convention no direct funding from the UA. The new upgrades funded by the Center Arena once again, some people may not recognize the newly city should help the venue draw a larger crowd to the games. renovated arena.

“I think the new arena will In March, the TCC started its renovation process on the 40-year- have quite an impact,” said Jake old arena in order to improve the Campbell, a rookie UA hockey experience of people attending player. “With more people attending shows and events. As well, this the games, it should create an project will help the city reach its amazing atmosphere for our hockey team to play in front of even goal of creating more culture larger crowds than we downtown, according do now. A newly to a city of remodeled arena Tucson press and a new release. hockey team.

“Every It’s a perfect time I match.” visited Arizona Hockey does not Due to the TCC, open its home portion of the construction, I was schedule until Oct. 24. the Wildcats excited have had to go to no practice an event time on the there but TCC ice. The n e v e r UA hockey thrilled s e a s o n a b o u t officially the actual begins this venue,” said weekend on Jordan Trejo, Sept. 27, when the a marketing Wildcats take on NAU in junior. “But after Flagstaff. seeing pictures of the In a scheduling decision likely upgrades and hearing about what it will look like it’s going to be a fun influenced by the renovations, place to go regardless of the game or Arizona hockey will have eight consecutive road games before show there.”

This $7.8 million project has built hosting its 2014-15 home opener many enhanced fan amenities that on Oct. 24, when Arizona takes on include new concession stands, Liberty University at the TCC. From that point, the Wildcats will restrooms, seating, lighting, sound have 18 home games over their next video boards and scoreboards.

Steve Kozachik, a Tucson City 21 games, including two separate Councilman , is praised for his streaks of nine consecutive home support and involvement in games. advocating passing the TCC project funding. Kozachik is also the associate director of facilities for the UA’s athletics department and has experience with renovation projects on Arizona Stadium and McKale Center.

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them. The question is which one?

Rabb is wiry strong and reminds me of Ashley when he came out of high school.

Rabb’s length and quickness provide defensive advantages and fits perfectly into Arizona’s defensive scheme.

If Rabb committed, he would essentially replace Ashley as the starting power forward next season.

Zimmerman, a 7-footer, is a matchup nightmare for opposing big men. He has the ability to stretch out the defense and is remarkably agile for a guy his size. If Zimmerman committed, he would likely replace Tarczewski as the starting center next year.

Arizona is one of the few programs in the nation where the coaching staff has the luxury of choosing exactly who it wants, and, barring a radical change, will likely do

so in this situation.

Don’t expect any news on either front anytime soon either, as both should take their time announcing a college decision.

Regardless of who Arizona gets, it’s clear that the 2015 class will be among Miller’s best.

— Follow Roberto Payne @HouseofPayne555

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MOVIE REVIEW

Kevin Smith’s ‘Tusk’ gets weird

BY ALEX GUYTON

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T

here’s a question that’s plagued mankind from the beginning of time: Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart? In one of the most bizarre movies you’re liable to see this year, “Tusk” answers this question to lukewarm effect.

The distinctively mustachioed Wallace (Justin Long) runs a popular podcast, “The Not-See Party,” with his partner Teddy (Haley Joel Osment). Yes, “not-see” is pronounced just as you think, and yes, the movie milks that gag bone dry. Also, if you haven’t kept up with Osment since his “The Sixth Sense” days, you might be surprised that his face looks exactly the same as it did 15 years ago.

For the podcast, Wallace finds stories and people that are off the beaten path and exploitatively relays them to Teddy and his listeners. His subjects are his fodder.

That’s not the only place where Wallace’s charm wears thin. His stunning girlfriend, Ally (Génesis Rodríguez), is fed up with his callous, egocentric behavior, a result of his podcast’s booming success.

This conflict feels extraneous and gives rise to an unnecessary love triangle between Wallace, Ally and Teddy.

For his next podcast installment, Wallace ventures up to the Great White North of Canada, and through a serendipitous occurrence, finds himself in the mansion of Howard Howe (Michael Parks). Howe is an eccentric recluse with stories aplenty to tell Wallace, who is absolutely enraptured with the old man’s tales.

Wallace is not the only one to be mesmerized by Howe. Parks delivers a performance that captivates the audience.

Parks’ Howe waxes poetic, quoting literature with his reedy voice. His stories of his life of adventure reel us in until the mad man beneath is revealed. Wallace and the viewer believe he’s harmless, until it’s much too late.

You see, one story of Howe’s is of particular note. While shipwrecked, he was rescued and cared for by a walrus that he affectionately named Mr. Tusk. Ever since that fateful occurrence, Howe has deemed the company of walruses superior to that of humans, and has been trying to find the answer to one question his entire life: “Is man, indeed, a walrus at heart?”

This nutty revelation, said with the utmost sincerity from Parks, perhaps elicited the biggest laugh of the film. At the drop of a hat, Parks turns Howe from benevolent, elderly man to a sinister, cackling mad man.

Howe’s endgame is to transform Wallace into his beloved Mr. Tusk. It’s like how in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic “Vertigo,” James Stewart’s character wants to transform Kim Novak’s character into the image of his dearly departed — except with more blubber and tusks.

This film follows through with this concept to its full extent. If you’re wondering whether the crazed scientist Howe is successful in turning Wallace into a Frankenwalrus, you won’t be disappointed.

However, it’s not all bonkers body horror.

Screenwriter and director Kevin Smith (“Clerks”) enjoys drawing out stories. In fact, the film’s tagline is, “Let me tell you a story.”

Smith employs long takes quite a bit, allowing his actors to play out lengthy, uninterrupted monologues. This works well with Parks as Howe but not so much with other characters.

The main culprit is the bumbling detective Guy Lapointe (Johnny Depp), who’s introduced in the latter half of the film. Lapointe can’t get to the point in any sane amount of time. He speaks slowly, repeats himself and goes off on tangents.

That’s where the humor lies, but it wears thin quickly.

Lapointe may be representative of the film’s worst aspect: Smith wants to explore the storytelling process, but the film dwells on yarns that aren’t as interesting as things off-screen. Of course, what can possibly be more interesting than a man being turned into a walrus?

The hashtag that’s been used to promote “Tusk” has been #WalrusYes. I won’t go so far as to say #WalrusYes, but I will give it a #WalrusAllRight.

Grade:

C+ — Follow Alex Guyton @GuyTonAlexAnder

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Britain’s Fab Five bring down the house in Phoenix COURTESY OF ED FLORES

MAGGIE KIERNA CONNER and Diana (Grace Kirkpatrick) fight over Max (Brian Klimowski) in the comedy farce “Lend Me a Tenor” presented by Arizona Repertory Theatre from now until Oct. 12.

Farcical madness takes stage at UA

BY VICTORIA PEREIRA

The Daily Wildcat “Lend Me a Tenor” kicks off the Arizona Repertory Theatre’s 2014-15 season at 7:30 p.m. with fun, laughs and a lot of talent.

The Arizona Repertory Theatre produces multiple plays and musicals every year featuring students in its acting, musical theatre, design and technology and theatre studies courses. The company allows them to gain professional experience working on a theater production while also providing the rest of the UA community a chance to see some fantastic productions.

“Lend Me a Tenor” is beginning this year’s program with a bang. Set in 1934, the story centers around the Cleveland Grand Opera Company and its one-night-only production of “Otello,” which features a world-famous tenor singer. When confusion occurs and the star of the show is rendered unconscious, chaos ensues as the opera company attempts to continue with the production.

“This play is what we call in theater a ‘doorslamming farce,’” said Sara Patterson, stage manager for “Lend Me a Tenor.” “Everything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and the characters are dealing with the problems in a very exaggerated, but still a realistic, relatable way.”

Patterson, a theatre production junior with an emphasis in stage management, said despite some of the stress that comes with her position on set, she has had a wonderful time working with the rest of the cast and crew.

“The nature of this show is to have fun, and our director was constantly telling our actors to do just that,” Patterson said.

David Morden, an assistant professor in the School of Theatre, Film and Television, is the director of “Lend Me a Tenor.” A graduate of Oregon State University with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Washington, Morden has a long list of theater experience in

both management and acting that he is able to bring to the production.

“Lend Me a Tenor” is considered a farce, a comedy that involves lots of ridiculous situations and over-the-top characters who deal with them in very eccentric, comedic ways. A farce is different than a typical drama, and it poses its own set of difficulties that the cast and crew had to work out in order to create a topnotch production.

“The hardest part of directing a farce is the technical skill that playing comedy commands,” Morden said. “It is extremely important that we tell the story very simply and clearly while being ridiculous and extreme at the same time.”

Despite the challenges that “Lend Me a Tenor” presented the cast and crew, the students involved were able to work cohesively to ensure their play would be the best it could be. Throughout the process of bringing the production to the stage, collaboration between the actors, stage managers, designers, crew members, the director and all who contributed allowed them to take a simple script and turn it into their own.

Sunday was the first preview showing of “Lend Me a Tenor,” and it was met with an outpouring of positivity from the audience and inspired a standing ovation. Although they have performed in front of an audience already, nerves and excitement are sure to appear on opening night.

“I am both nervous and excited for opening night, but I like to think that the nerves fuel the energy for the show,” said Paul Thomson, an Africana Studies and acting senior, and a Daily Wildcat columnist, who plays the bellhop in “Lend Me a Tenor”.

After opening night, “Lend Me a Tenor” will be playing at the Arizona Repertory Theatre until Oct. 12. Show times and dates can be found online at theatre.arizona.edu.

— Follow Victoria Pereira @DailyWildcat

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THE BRITISHIRISH hit boy band One Direction performs for fans during its Where We Are Tour on Sept. 16 at University of Phoenix Stadium.

BY ALLISON FIELD

KAMP Student Radio

The boys of One Direction hit the University of Phoenix Stadium on Sept.

16 as a stop on their Where We Are Tour.

As expected, the screams were louder than what was thought to be humanly possible, and the amount of tears shed were just short of filling the entire stadium. I will admit some of those tears were shamelessly contributed by yours truly.

Before the boys made us dance all night to the best songs ever, the openers were the up-and-coming punky Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer (aka 5SOS). Known for their hit “She Looks So Perfect,” the boys are a hybrid of a classic Warped Tour band with One Direction’s heartthrob appeal. Unlike One Direction, 5SOS plays its own instruments. The band members also have lyrics that some parents might see as a bit risqué, including the description of a girl wearing her American Apparel underwear with her ripped skinny jeans lying on the floor.

After a video introducing each of the charming British boys, it was time for One Direction to take the stage. With catchy songs and great looks, it’s hard not to fall in love with One Direction, regardless of your age. What they lack in dance moves, they make up for in fun and a bit of parkour. Leaping over skate

park-like railings and running down their stretch runway, it felt as if the boys were just having a blast and sharing it with us. Niall Horan took on the role as host, while Liam Payne and Harry Styles waved to practically every person in the stadium. Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik certainly lack the stage presence of the other three — but Zayn makes up for it with some of the stronger vocals in the group, and Louis’ smile is so sweet, you just can’t help but love him.

The boys did not make any outfit changes from their black and white ensembles. However, Harry rocked three different hair styles — from the bandana look, to free flow, to the classic mun (man-bun). Between songs, they would take time to tell stories, like how Liam hurt his arm in Las Vegas the weekend before. They played nearly all of the songs from the recent Midnight Memories album and, of course, “What Makes You Beautiful.” One of the most memorable and refreshing things about the show was how thankful the boys truly were to their fans. They rightfully attributed their successes to the love and support of their fandom. One Direction will release its fourth album, appropriately titled FOUR, on Nov. 17.

— Follow Allison Field @KAMP_Radio