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Full agenda 'Marriage' of ideas: Couple combats opioid drug epidemic awaits regents at UA meetings

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The current and devastating opioid crisis has led some to call for the elimination, or at the very least reduction, in opioid prescriptions.

Yet, without an alternative treatment method, doctors cannot afford to lose this critical tool in the fight against chronic pain and more.

A group of researchers and inventors at the University of Arizona believe they have this missing replacement for opioids — a nonaddictive pain relief drug.

The road to their discovery began in a laboratory at the Indiana University School of Medicine when thenassociate professor Rajesh Khanna stumbled upon a drug that interacted with the protein he had been studying.

The protein, he discovered, played a role in regulating the body’s pain response.

After arriving at the UA, Khanna, now a professor of pharmacology and neuroscience in the College of Medicine, teamed up with his wife, May Khanna, assistant professor of pharmacology and a member of the Center for Innovation and Brain Science, and Vijay Gokhale, senior research scientist at the BIO5 Institute, to found a company, Regulonix, with the help of Tech Launch Arizona.

“Chronic pain is a big problem, and the opioid crisis that is facing the nation is really coming to the forefront now,” Rajesh said In that context, the team is focusing the new company, and its research, on providing doctors a new and better

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tool to combat pain.

Rajesh said their biggest hurdle now is obtaining the necessary funding to navigate a drug through the approval process of the Food and Drug Administration.

“Tech Launch Arizona supported us twice with funding, initially in the early, discovery phase where we synthesized the compounds in BIO5 and gave them to Rajesh and May for testing,” Gokhale said.

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The funding, totaling $140,000, also allowed the team to further characterize two of those compounds and test their safety, toxicity and efficacy in rats, according to Gokhale.

Tech Launch Arizona helped support faculty entrepreneurial endeavors and startups. Khanna initially approached Rakhi Gibbons, a senior licensing specialist, to patent

The Arizona Board of Regents will discuss academic programs and policies and hear about future plans from the University of Arizona president, during its on-campus meetings on Thursday, Nov. 16, and Friday, Nov. 17.

UA President Dr. Robert Robbins will speak to the board for the first time about his goals and vision for the university.

Students will also have a chance to share their concerns with the regents during a call to the audience at 2:20 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 16, in the North Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center.

The regents are expected to approve two new academic programs for the UA: Bachelor of Science in Personal and Family Financial Planning and a Master of Science in Econometrics and Quantitative Economics.

The board will also discuss the creation of new policies concerning off-campus real estate development and the setting of tuition and fees for the universities. They will be adding to recent reforms meant to increase transparency and simplicity in billing and limiting the presidents’ ability to unilaterally set tuition and fees.

On Friday, the UA will undergo a financial review and ask the regents to approve a series of expenditures on campus.

Among these, the UA will seek regents’ approval on financing plans for a series of construction projects to tackle UA’s deferred maintenance and shore up its infrastructure.

Already approved projects include a $25 million investment in Arizona Stadium improvements, $15 million for the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center, $8 million for the Hillenbrand Softball facility and an additional $18 million for an indoor sports center.

The UA will leverage the guarantee of student fees and state appropriations to borrow money in order to fund these projects, per regent approval.

The regents will hear about plans to finance

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UA law students entering with GRE find success

BY SASHA HARTZELL @DailyWildcat

A year after the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona became the first law school in the country to officially accept Graduate Record Examination scores for admittance, students who didn’t have the chance to attend law school are now doing just that.

The accrediting agency for law schools once required schools to accept scores from either the LSAT or another valid, reliable test for student admission. For decades, the LSAT had a virtual monopoly as the one required test.

This changed last year when the UA — with the help of Educational Testing Service, the nonprofit group that owns the GRE — conducted a study to determine the GRE’s validity and reliability. The study recruited 85 first-year students from UA’s law school to take the GRE. “The idea was to measure whether the GRE scores correlated to their first-year grades,” said Christopher Robertson, associate dean for Research and Innovation and professor in the College of Law. Since students already had their LSAT scores, the Law School was able to see how both tests actually correlated with first-year grades.

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“With this group of 85 students, we found that the GRE was as predictive of first-year grades as the LSAT,” Robertson said.

The study yielded a surprising result. Not only was the GRE as predictive as the LSAT, but it’s quantitative section, which the LSAT doesn’t have, was one of the strongest subsections in predicting law school performance.

Armed with the study, UA’s College of Law announced it would begin accepting GRE scores as well as LSAT. For the fall 2016 semester, it accepted its first 12 students based on their GRE scores. Eleven of them enrolled.

Christina Rinnert, one of the first 11 admitted to the JD program based on a GRE score, said the cohort initially experienced doubtful attitudes from some of the traditional students.

“There was this idea that somehow it was going to diminish who they let in,” she said. “We’ve proven that it’s not. We are doing as much [and] as well as the other students. People have now forgotten we’ve gotten in that way.”

For Rinnert, the college’s decision to accept GRE scores created an opportunity she had given up on. “Relying only on the LSAT was so narrowing, for me, that was the hurdle,” she said.

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she had neither the time nor the money to study for the LSAT. “The GRE is less expensive, I could study on my own and it has so many test dates; it’s so easy to get access to that test,” she said.

She was working in Pennsylvania when a colleague told her of UA’s decision. She applied.

“I got the acceptance e-mail on my phone,” Rinnert said. “I worked for a domestic abuse shelter and was on call that night.

When my phone started buzzing, I thought it was that.”

UA’s decision to accept GRE scores was implemented in part to increase the spectrum of students able to apply to the

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“We found that the LSAT was sort of a barrier to recruiting those students,” Robertson said.

According to Rinnert, the implementation of the GRE is an oppurtunity to add diversity to the profession.

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UA SlutWalk counters slut-shaming culture The seventh annual march and protest featured speakers and community leaders uniting under a message of safety and expression of women’s rights

BY VANESSA ONTIVEROS @nessamagnifique

Tucsonans and University of Arizona students marched across town during the annual SlutWalk on Nov. 9, marking the seventh year in a row the event has been held. The UA Women’s Resource Center and their affiliated student group, FORCE, organized this year’s march.

SlutWalk is a protest movement originating in Toronto in 2011. It aims to “end rape culture and slut shaming.” Protesters carry signs with slogans that address feminist issues, and many choose to dress in revealing clothing.

“I think SlutWalk is a time for all of us to find our own expression and own our bodies,” said Brigette Villaseñor, an intern at the WRC and one of the organizers for this year’s SlutWalk. “Students can find community here ... and just realize that you’re not alone in your survivorship and you’re not alone in your support.”

Prior to the walk itself, the WRC hosted an event where participants could design and create their own feminist t-shirts, protest signs and buttons. It also provided an opportunity for like-minded individuals to get to know each other before heading out into the night.

The SlutWalk itself began in front of Old Main at 6:30 p.m.

Protesters represented a diverse range of races, genders and ages, including children.

One attendee said she brought her children so they could learn that “no means no” and that they will be safe in the future, regardless of what they are wearing.

Protesters marched down University Boulevard, along the sidewalk across the street from Illegal Pete’s and No Anchovies.

Marchers yelled chants such as “Whose streets? Our streets!” and “My body my choice!”

While en route, many bystanders demonstrated their support for what the protesters were doing.

People lined up outside Centennial Hall to see Noam Chomsky raised their fists in solidarity with the marchers, with some applauding.

Diners at Gentle Ben’s raised their glasses in cheers when the protesters walked past, and cars driving by honked their horns.

The group that started at the UA took a brief break at Catalina Park, where more protesters had been waiting to join the march.

The protest culminated with a rally at Revolutionary Grounds Coffee Shop in downtown Tucson.

A small stage was set up in an open area behind the shop.

Various feminist groups, including the Southern Arizona AIDS foundation and Voices for Planned Parenthood, also had tables set up in the space.

Once assembled, organizers from the WRC explained the arrangement of the space and the schedule for the rest of the night.

They also informed the crowd of a separate area set up for attendees who became overwhelmed or were triggered by any of the sensitive issues being discussed that night, which included sexual assault.

The rally began with a series of planned speakers and community leaders, many of whom discussed their experience with sexual violence. They also advocated for female empowerment in the form of continuing activism, calling for local change and reclaiming selfworth.

“Being a slut doesn’t mean you have no boundaries. It doesn’t mean you’re asking for it,” said Brenna Stauffer, one of the speakers and a UA student. “To me, it means that I like to have sex and I’m not ashamed of saying so.”

Following the speakers was a performance by the Esperanza Dance Project, a local dance troupe made up of teenagers and young adults that aims to raise awareness for childhood sexual violence.

After the performance, organizers opened up the floor to a Speak Out Session for anyone who wanted to share their experiences.

Several survivors came up to tell their stories, with many of them also sharing poetry they wrote.

The Speak Out acted as a forum for survivors to discuss their experiences in a safe environment to a supportive audience.

Attendees expressed encouragement and understanding with each other, which many said they felt was absent in general society. At one point in the evening, a little girl in a sparkly dress came up to give a hug to one survivor, introduced as

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PARTICIPANTS OF THE 2017 SlutWalk marched from the UA to Fourth Avenue, demonstrating a fight against victim blaming, rape culture and street harassment. SlutWalk is a protest movement originating in Toronto in 2011 that aims to “end rape culture and slut shaming.”

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Tucson voters approve tax hike for zoo upgrades Democrats sweep City Council elections amid low voter turnout, but Tucsonans soundly reject pay increases for mayor and council members

BY JAHNAVI AKELLA @DailyWildcat

The recent Tucson municipal election took place Tuesday, Nov. 7, with voters deciding the fate of various propositions and municipal seats. Propositions included tax increases to fund Reid Park Zoo improvements, provide preschool scholarships for at-risk children and raise the salaries of the mayor and city councilors, amid others.

The city council seats of Wards 3, 5 and 6 were up for election.

All three seats were filled by Democrats.

Tucson’s general elections are unique in how the whole city votes for each ward’s council member, rather than just those in their respective district.

Critics of this system argue this results in a city council that does not represent all districts, as a candidate can win among his/ her constituents but not the city

at large.

Ward 6 includes part of the UA campus. The Ward 6 election resulted in a win for incumbent Democrat Steve Kozachik. He received 60.2 percent of the vote, with Republican Mariano Rodriguez receiving 32.7 percent and Green Party candidate Mike Cease receiving 6.8 percent.

Rodriguez expressed disappointment about the election’s voter response.

“With the turnout of the city, it seems like there’s a lot people out there that probably feel that the city election isn’t important just based on the turnout,” he said. “But we appreciate everyone that came out to support us ...

Hopefully more people will get involved by simply turning in their ballot.”

For his part, Cease said he was disappointed his campaign came up short. He thanked supporters for their efforts and get-out-thevote campaign.

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CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AND Associate Director of Athletics, Facilities and Capital Projects Steve Kozachik sits in at a city council meeting on Sept. 6. Kozachik won re-election in Ward 6.

“Even though we didn’t win, we feel like we brought the core message of supporting people’s needs over corporate greed,” Cease said. “We’re glad we brought that into the community.

It’s the movement that’s important and the movement goes on whether we win an election cycle or not. The Green Party — it’s a global movement.”

The evening’s big winner, Kozachik was effusive in his praise for Tucson.

“We have a great city, and the voters affirmed the unique campaign I ran, without money, based on building relationships with the community,” he said.

Kozachik also commented on his 60-percent majority win, saying, “The results were pretty overwhelming.”

In regards to his future plans as Ward 6’s councilman, Kozachik was contemplative.

“Our priorities now are recruitment and retention of police officers and rearranging the budget to start funneling money into the infrastructure of local parks.”

PROPOSITIONS Tucson’s recent municipal elections were also a chance for voters to decide on the outcome of four propositions and three city council seats. Propositions on this year’s ballot were numbered 202, 203, 204 and 406.

Proposition 202 and 203 were joint measures with the aim of allotting a bigger budget for improvements to the Reid Park Zoo. Prop 202 was a citizen initiative, with 203 making the necessary alterations in the city code to implement 202’s changes.

Both measures passed narrowly, with 52-47 votes for Prop 202 and 50-49 votes for Prop 203. Their passing has authorized a temporary sales tax increase of one-tenth a percent for a 10year period to fund the budget increase, as well as the creation of a designated zoo fund in the Tucson City Charter.

The new fund will provide free field trips for K-12 schools, finance infrastructure improvements and allot more money for animal care and acquisition.

Proposition 204, labeled

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A GIRAFFE TAKES A bite of food at the Reid Park Zoo on Sept. 27. Proposition 202 and 203 were joint measures with the aim of allotting a larger budget for improvements to the Reid Park Zoo.

“Strong Start Tucson,” was a citizen initiative created with the goal of funding preschool scholarships for at-risk children.

This would be done through a half-cent sales tax increase. Prop 204 did not pass, with 35 percent in favor of the proposition and 65 percent against it.

The measure would have enabled the creation of a seven-member commission.

Commissioners would have been appointed by the city council and would have included education activists and experts, parents of students, local businesses and nonprofit leaders. Early education experts would have been required to take up at least two spots on the commission, and early education providers would not have been able to take more than two.

The commission would have been responsible for setting early education standards of quality, eligibility for the scholarships and hiring a nonprofit to manage the scholarship funds.

Proposition 406 was a measure that sought to increase the salaries of the Mayor and City Council. This would have resulted in a $2,275 monthly wage increase for the Mayor, with his/her yearly salary changing from $42,000 to $69,300.

The City Council Members’ wages would have increased by $1,300 a month, with a transition from a yearly $24,000 salary to $39,600. The last wage increase was in 1999. The measure did not pass, with 29 percent voting yes and 71 percent voting no.

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The results of the law school’s innovation have had a national impact.

“It’s really created a ripple throughout legal education,” Robertson said.

Other law schools, such as Harvard, Georgetown, Columbia and Northwestern, have conducted their own studies since and made the move to begin accepting GRE scores as well.

“We are part of this phenomenal group, and it’s growing, every month, another one announces,” Robertson said.

Robertson said it’s hard to say why this change didn’t happen before.

“It’s partly just an attitude of innovation that you see here, at the University of Arizona, that exists in what’s otherwise a very conservative profession,” he said. “[Rogers College of Law] Dean Miller and I have recognized that legal education has to change, that the profession is changing.”

Expanding acceptance requirements to include GRE scores is offering an opportunity to many who otherwise may not have had it.

“I wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t be at law school or in this program without this opportunity, I know the other students agree,” Rinnert said. “I’m living the dream. I’m doing the thing I never thought I’d be able to do.”

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The UA will also release its official Fall Enrollment Report. Last year, enrollment and retention was up for in-state students and minorities but slightly down for outof-state students.

This year’s numbers will help the UA plan its expenditures and inform its marketing decisions.

Robbins has said he wants to make the UA a more challenging university to gain acceptance to in order to elevate its status and quality of education.

“The thing that really hurts us is sixyear graduation and retention,” he said during a recent meeting with student leaders. “For reputation and for the things that matter around the research area, we’re at [much better].”

The regents will return to the UA next semester to approve suggested increases in tuition and fees, as well as voice their position on issues affecting Arizona’s universities, as they did last year supporting Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals students.

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“Being able to work with a group like the Regulonix team to address such a huge social and medical challenge has been wonderful,” Gibbons said in a Tech Launch Arizona press release. “We’re excited to be able to have a hand in bringing such an impactful technology to the world at such a critical moment in time.”

A critical funding source will be from investors in Regulonix. According to Rajesh, Tech Launch Arizona has played a critical role in securing the team meetings with investors and venture capital firms.

With additional funding from research grants, like the $300,000 they received from the National Institute of Cancer’s Center for Cancer Research, the group hopes to team up with the UA’s new Center for Innovation in Brain Science, its director and professor Roberta Brinton and oncologists at the UA Cancer Center to begin clinical trials.

Rajesh said if everything goes perfectly, they hope to be well along the process in five years time. In the meantime, the team is optimistic, and they attribute their successes so far to their complementary expertise.

“We are sort of a mini-pharma company.

We have all necessary aspects of drug research in the same team,” May said.

Gokhale provides the medicinal chemistry, and his team synthesize the

compounds. May’s lab examines how these compounds are interacting and binding.

Rajesh provides all the biological data, examining the mechanisms of pain and proteins in cells and how they respond to the drugs.

“It all converges and marries together nicely,” Rajesh said.

Speaking of marriage, some couples go to great lengths to avoid working with their spouses. The Khannas, on the other hand, have embraced their collaboration.

“I have always been worried about being married to a scientist, but we do science together and we are both very passionate, so I think that is kind of nice,” May said.

The couple, who have two children, admit they sometimes have heated arguments over which experiment to conduct next, but they always resolve them amicably in the end, to the benefit of the project.

“I want to be really involved in the work; this was my baby from the get-go,” Rajesh said.

Yet, he recognizes where others’ strengths can play a beneficial role.

In a testament to the group’s productive dynamic, Gokhale said he has other ongoing projects and collaborations with the Khannas, and loves their quick, productive feedback.

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Sustainability, or the capability to support a population, is a hot topic right now, and for good reason. With rapidly expanding urban areas and fluctuating climate patterns, scientists are striving to develop a blueprint for a sustainable future. But what does sustainability look like in real life?

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona is answering that question by bringing concepts taught in the classroom to the community, applying scientific research to real-world problems.

“We’re all in this together, in terms of how do we sustain a population over time in the desert, with limited resources, in a practical way,” said Jeffrey Silvertooth, associate dean of cooperative extension and economic development in CALS and a professor of soil, water, plant and environmental science.

As a land-grant university, the UA is charged with making education available to the public, specifically in the areas of agriculture, science and technology, according to Silvertooth.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences bears the brunt of this responsibility by focusing on instruction in the classroom, basic and applied scientific research and extension education, Silvertooth said.

CALS fulfills the mission of extension education through its cooperative extension program, which feeds every county in Arizona scientific research, training and technical advice directly from the university.

“We don’t just go out and tell people ‘here’s what we do, listen to us because we’re from the university and we’re so smart,’” Silvertooth said. “We take those technologies out and work with people in the communities; quite often they’re helping us learn. We learn together by working together.”

But when it comes down to actually getting that information to every county in Arizona, the formula is not as simple. One issue at the core of sustaining any population is the state’s most valuable resource: water.

“We have to engage in good water management so that we have the water supplies to support our existing economy and people and what’s expected to be growing demands over time,” said Sharon Megdal, director of the Water Resources Research Center and a distinguished outreach professor.

The Water Resources Research Center, housed within CALS, also focuses on community outreach and education, specifically focusing on water issues in the local and state regions.

“It’s front and center now for us to be doing as good a job as we can, managing our water

resources ... so that we have a vibrant, healthy economy and environment going forward,” Megdal said.

For example, researchers within CALS have developed a way to accurately measure exactly how much water a crop will need during its growing season, Silvertooth said. This level of accuracy cuts back on water waste while still fueling the plant with adequate water.

Agriculture is one of Arizona’s primary water uses, accounting for nearly three-quarters of the state’s water use. That may seem counterintuitive, considering Arizona is located in the middle of a dry desert. However, in 2012 there were over 41,000 square miles of farmland in Arizona, according to the United States Department of Agriculture census.

“The growing conditions are very good for crops in Arizona,” Megdal said. “About 90 percent of the leafy vegetables consumed in the United States between November and March come from the Yuma area, so we’re feeding the population here.”

Aside from vegetable crops, much of Arizona is covered in acres of dairies, forage crops and cattle range. According to Silvertooth, though these industries use a lot of water, they also produce a lot in terms of sustaining the state’s population of nearly 7 million people.

“It’s not just a matter of exploitation of land and water resources, but those resources are going to produce crops that are producing cattle, [which] are producing milk and dairy products that are consumed almost exclusively in the state of Arizona,” Silvertooth said.

As these industries continue to grow, they turn to the UA for scientific research and technologies that can be used to improve their production.

“The farmers we work with in the state through the cooperative extension program are already experts in their field, so we mainly focus on refining and cultivating the technologies we’ve developed in the lab and putting them to work in real-world situations,” Silvertooth said.

These large-scale agricultural businesses aren’t just looking for advice from the university; they’re looking for qualified future employees, too. Students on campus can help make Arizona’s agricultural industries sustainable, according to Silvertooth, by participating in internships, research assistant positions, summer jobs and work study programs.

The CALS cooperative extension program offers internships in every county in the state, Silvertooth said. Students can also take a more grassroots approach by utilizing some of the WRRC’s online resources to share sustainability messages via social media.

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THE NORTHWEST ENTRANCE TO the Water Resource Research Center on Nov. 13. The research center has been the primary workplace for researchers striving to solve local, regional and national water problems since 1964.

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EXTERNS AT TUCSON VILLAGE Farm who facilitate camps for youth and adults around sustainability, as a part of the Cooperative Extension’s ‘Externships in Sustainability’ Program funded by the Green Fund.

Students can go to beyondthemirage.org to watch a documentary on the future of water resources, then create and share their own mini-documentaries using some of the short video clips provided on the website, Megdal said.

While these may seem like small efforts, each step toward sustainability is a step in the right direction. With the help of thousands of

dedicated students and faculty, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is working toward building a more sustainable future every day.

“If you’re interested in taking science and making it work in the real world, and you’re interested in sustainability, come work with us,” Silvertooth said.

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Making the grade

OPINIONS BOARD

How three recent UA graduates are working toward a more sustainable future

BY CHANDLER DONALD @chandlerjdonald

“My junior year of college, I started to become involved with Students for Sustainability, an ASUA student program, starting out in its marketing committee, working to advertise Trevor Ledbetter many of the events that the organization puts on, On an average day, Trevor Ledbetter will meet as well as educate students in how to be more with different departments at the University of sustainable in their own lives,” Ledbetter said.

Arizona and discuss how each can make itself “My senior year, I became the marketing chair more sustainable and how they might work and organized the Wildcat Waste Challenge to together to be more responsible as a whole. help educate students and address waste and Intrigued and concerned by a changing recycling issues in the main library.” environment, Ledbetter came to the UA to Now as Sustainability Program Manager study environmental science, one of the UA’s for the Business Affairs Office, Ledbetter leading fields of study. Later adding ecology and is continuing his efforts to create a more evolutionary biology as a secondary degree, as sustainable UA. well as a minor in “Moving forward, marine science, I am very excited Ledbetter to start actively graduated in the working with many spring of 2017. of the units that Ledbetter fall under Business is now the Affairs, as well as Sustainability other organizations Program on campus like Manager for ASUA Students the UA Office of for Sustainability Business Affairs. and the Office of “Because Sustainability,” the position is Ledbetter said. new to Business “[I want] to begin Affairs and actively engaging because I am with the many just getting challenges and started, the barriers to increased breadth of the sustainability efforts position is still on our campus.” fairly undefined Ledbetter had and open to some advice for whatever needs students who want I am able to to be a part of the identify within movement toward the various units sustainability. that fall under “Do your research Business Affairs,” and don’t be afraid Ledbetter said. to reach out to those “[That] includes COURTESY TREVOR LEDBETTER with knowledge in everything TREVOR LEDBETTER, A RECENT UA grad, now works as the that field,” Ledbetter from Facilities sustainability manager for the UA business office. said. “Sustainability Management can be difficult, and Planning, especially when on its face it competes with an Design and Construction to Arizona Public economic bottom line. However, sustainability Media and Human Resources.”

Currently, Ledbetter is meeting with the heads often offers more benefits to an organization’s bottom line, sometimes in energy savings and, of each of those departments in an attempt in other instances, in how an organization is to centralize sustainability efforts across the viewed by consumers or investors.” different organizations.

Ledbetter said he hopes that in the future “For me, sustainability is about our future,” human civilization will implement a healthy, but Ledbetter said. “We are surrounded by a world drastic systematic change. that is already seeing the effects of climate “Sustainability in higher education and at change, ocean acidification, habitat destruction, institutions like the UA should be institutional,” etcetera, and it is up to our generation to take the Ledbetter said. “Every contract, every course, steps necessary to slow and reverse these trends every purchase, every activity should consider of increasing destruction, if not for our planet, to the environmental impacts of their respective preserve our own societies.” reaches without the need for sustainability It was during his junior year that Ledbetter officers.” decided to take action in the fight for sustainability.

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BY DAILY WILDCAT @DailyWildcat

Boos and Bravos highlights the best and worst happening around the UA and Tucson communities and is brought to you by the Daily Wildcat Opinions Board. We welcome Boos and Bravos from our readers, tell us yours by sending an email to opinion@ dailywildcat.com.

This week we are painting Boos and Bravos green while we give our thumbs up or down to issues related to sustainability. Of course, we don’t like to see majestic animals of the earth lose their habitats or see those already affected by poverty be hit with additional challenges spurred by climate change. But, sustainability encompasses more than carbon emissions. It touches just about everything in our daily lives, and the daily lives of future generations.

Bravo

to the American people for seemingly growing more concerned and invested in addressing global warming. According to a March Gallup poll, record numbers of Americans are worried about the real threats of global warming and 62 percent believe those effects are happening now. The increases overall in the polls hint to record high temperatures and possibly growing fears about the dismantling of environmental policies and the current administration’s stance on environmental topics.

Boo

to the recent increase of global greenhouse gas emissions. On Nov. 13, the Global Carbon Project reported that while scientists had hoped emissions had reached a peak and were set to decrease, 2017 has seen a 2 percent increase in emissions from fossil fuels and industry. This means the goal of temperature reduction set by the Paris Climate Agreement is moving farther out of reach.

Bravo

to states and cities across the country speaking up and showing a commitment to curbing climate change, though the current presidential administration has stepped away from the Paris Climate Agreement. This June, Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild announced that the city would honor the climate agreement and the Pima County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution supporting it as well.

Boo

to President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White. The nominee is a supporter of the notion that more C02 is good for the planet, which makes sense given that she works for a think tank funded by some of the largest fossil fuel giants in existence, such as the Koch Brothers and Exxon. It’s OK that she’s not necessarily a scientist, but the environment at least needs some balanced representation in the White House. The list of climate deniers in Trump’s team is too long. And, let’s be real, she tanked her hearing, getting grilled by senators.

Bravo

to the University of Arizona for keeping a commitment to sustainability. The college has many initiatives in place or in the works to reduce our emissions, innovate in renewable energy and help young people engage in more sustainable practices. To have leadership “buy in” from current UA President Dr. Robert Robbins makes all the difference.

Boo

to proposed entrance fee increases in the country’s national parks. Some of the U.S.’s most beautiful wonders could cost up to $70 to see. This prices out many people, robbing them of an experience we should all have; spending time in nature. In our eyes, the blame doesn’t fall on the National Park Service, but rather the administration who slashed the NPS’s budget.

Bravo

to those leaders out there who are keeping the importance of environmental practices and sustainability alive. We need cooperation from all sides of the political and social asiles to create environmental policy that actually does anything. Kudos to Debbie Dooley, a founder of the Tea Party, who shows that there are fiscal conservative issues that can be met in protecting the planet. Or, Pope Francis, who said destroying the planet is a sin, and that those hit hardest by global warming are refugees and the poor. For more examples of unique climate activists, we recommend the podcast, “Stepping Up,” available on almost all your favorite podcasting mediums.

The Daily Wildcat Opinions Board is comprised of Opinions Editor Jamie Verwys, Editor-inchief Chastity Laskey, Managing Editor Courtney Talak and Arts Editor Kathleen Kunz

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GREEN TIPS

Five easy sustainability steps for students OPINION

BY JAMIE VERWYS @DailyWildcat

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ost of us have some understanding that, as humans, we are invested in the planet. Whether we are mindful of this, guiltily trying not to think about it, or completely oblivious to the world around us, we all leave an impact on the Earth. It can be intimidating to look at our own deep carbon footprint and the plethora of information on climate change and see a way that we can make any meaningful change on what, by all accounts, looks like a situation that is beyond repair.

Fear not, Wildcats. There are many ways to bring sustainability into your lives as part of the college community.

It doesn’t have to cost you thousands; you don’t need to put all your loan money into an electric car or go completely wastefree (although it has been done by college students).

I’ve worked at the Office of Sustainability for over a year now, and when I walked into my interview, I had very little first-hand experience living a green life. I ate like garbage for many years, not thinking twice about food packaging, and I rarely recycled.

This was never out of a lack of empathy for the planet; I just didn’t feel like I had the time to commit to being sustainable.

Sorting trash for recyclables and compost at the University of Arizona football and basketball games changed everything for me. If I can find the time and aptitude for a greener life, then anyone can.

and a staffed bike valet. Not only is commuting by bike, bus, streetcar or your own feet good for the environment, it’s good for you. It will also save you money on meters or parking passes.

Here’s some easy, low-cost sustainable practices you can incorporate into your life:

4. Eat less meat Even if you reduce your meat consumption to six days a week instead of the full seven, you could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by raising livestock.

Eating less meat could also have major health benefits for you personally, including lowering your risk of heart disease.

1. Opt for reusable bags If not in your dorm room, you have seen a drawer in someone’s house overflowing with plastic grocery bags. These seemingly small pieces of plastic add up, and let’s face it, you don’t have space for a collection of them. Buy a few reusable bags to take on your grocery shopping trips. Some are cute and collapsible, they’re inexpensive and you can buy them just about anywhere, like for less than $1 on Amazon.

2. Turn off your power You have things in your room plugged in, things that you simply never unplug because you switched the off button on the television. Even if you aren’t using your TV or computer, leaving it plugged in is a power suck. The best solution is to purchase a few surge protectors and just switch them off before you leave the house.

5. Get engaged in one of the UA’s many sustainability clubs or programs There are amazing opportunities for students on campus for everything from composting to diverting furniture from the landfills while students move from the dorms. Join one of the UA’s sustainability organizations like Students for Sustainability or Greening the Game, apply for a sustainability project grant through the Green Fund or become an Eco Rep in your dorm.

There is no better way to learn sustainable practices than from your fellow Wildcats.

To learn more about sustainable opportunities on campus, visit www.environment.arizona.edu/green-guides.

3. Walk and bike more This one is a no-brainer on UA’s campus, where there are great bike paths, scenic walkways to stroll, ample bike racks

— Jamie Verwys works at the Office of Sustainability and actually loves digging through the trash for that sweet, sweet compost

COMMENTARY

Environmental policy needs to work for everyone OPINION

BY ALEC SCOTT @DailyWildcat

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ne of the greatest existential threats our planet is facing in this new century of technological progress, exploding population growth and unparalleled economic development is the rise of climate change. But even those who recognize the dangers of a global environmental shift fail to recognize why the rest of the country is not on board, and risk shooting themselves in the foot by pretending it’s only a problem of education.

Depending on which study you look at, the scientific community is between 91 to almost 100 percent agreed that climate change is both real and caused by human activity.

Despite this consensus toward global warming and its consequences, around 56 percent of congressional Republicans don’t believe in its existence or mankind’s involvement in it.

While 56 percent of House Republicans completely deny climate change, a March Gallup poll showed Americans who see global warming as a by-product of mankind’s activity on earth at 68 percent. If most Americans see global warming as a threat to the health of the planet, why is there no political consensus to make a difference in Washington?

The answer is simple: economics. While most Republicans may recognize climate change, Pew Research Center showed a steep drop off for specific policies to combat climate change that

would require heavier government regulation of the economy.

This reflects an opinion among conservatives of either party that won’t be changed by more education focused on global warming. In West Virginia, where coal-based mining employs just over 15,000 people, the discussion is not about changes in temperature over decades. It’s about putting food on the table and sending their children to college.

So when liberals talk about those on the other side of the argument as being ignorant or uneducated, they’re overlooking all the rational arguments against restructuring our electrical grid in too short of a time. The problems associated with an energy revolution that doesn’t match the infrastructure or economy of the country is a waste of both funds and power.

In 2009, Spain’s vast windmill farms powered over half the country with renewable energy, a success that was dampened when authorities realized they didn’t have the power grid to properly distribute the accrued electricity and possessed no means of keeping that energy stored. So the windmills were quickly shut off and Spain barely avoided overloading the country’s power lines.

The greatest obstacle standing in the way of a meaningful policy is an overzealous dedication to quick results, as it ignores our outdated infrastructural backbone, alienates potential environmentalist sympathizers and can damage local economies.

While the immediate effects of climate change can already be felt, with the global temperature warmer and the poles losing almost 250 cubic kilometers of ice sheet coverage a year, an attempt to see radical change too quickly is a major threat to success.

For starters, the Union of Concerned Scientists wrote that, “Developing new renewable resources will require large initial investments to build infrastructure,” in the form of building an

energy grid prepared to work with the fluctuating amount of power renewable energy offers. Beyond that, certain studies show that in times of recessions or in energy sector-heavy communities, environmental regulation dampens economic growth and puts people out of work in the short term. Rather than waiting years for the communities affected by these changes to bounce back, the federal government should encourage the diversification of local and state economies.

An example worth looking at is the once massive Zollverein coal mine in Germany. When the government became focused on phasing out coal, coordinated efforts were made to train the soon to be unemployed miners for work in other fields, and the industrial park left behind was reopened as a tourist attraction. It now adds a new market for the wealth for the region. But it must also be noted that the cities affected by this change in the 1990s can reach unemployment rates higher than 10 percent, almost triple the 4.1 percent unemployment rate in the United States.

The American people are beginning to recognize the immediacy of climate change and it’s up to both Democrats and Republicans to decide whether they would rather we form a comprehensive environmental policy that leaves no one behind while cutting carbon emissions and transitioning our infrastructure, or bicker over semantics and waste precious time. The Democratic Party can no longer denounce those who disagree with its energy policy as ignorant or unjustified in their fears, and the Republican Party must stop fighting the scientific consensus and instead work to get the best deal for Americans and the rest of the planet.

— Alec Scott is a sophomore studying Political Science and who volunteered for the 2014 Ron Barber Congressional Campaign

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Victor Gomez On an average day, Victor Gomez is collecting and interpreting data from one of Panama’s many water systems. Where and for what reasons are more complicated questions.

But according to Gomez, it all comes down to finding a balance between a developing society and depleting resources.

Born on the west coast of Panama in a province called Chiriquí, Gomez grew up with the ideal of sustainability, seeing the balance of nature and society shift. He graduated from the UA in May of 2014 with a degree in hydrology and water resources.

Now Gomez works for the Ministry of Environment of Panama as a hydrologist and water resource manager.

“Panama is growing too fast, and many projects are taking place in the country, thus sustainability is the key to keep the country’s essence and its natural resources,” Gomez said. “The Ministry of Environment is the national entity that governs, protects, manages, preserves and restores natural resources in Panama.”

Water is a precious resource all over the world, but Panama takes it a step further. Thousands of ships use the Panama Canal annually to get from one ocean to the next. Panama also has a huge water need for agriculture, power and more.

Currently, Gomez is collecting data from 12 of the country’s watersheds, or sections of water flow, that are located in highdemand areas to calculate an actual amount of available water in each.

Additionally, Gomez said he is working to establish a network of hydrological and meteorological stations to collect data that might provide a better understanding of the behavior of local river flow.

“Also, we are determining a methodology to establish environmental flow in all rivers in the country,” Gomez said.

“Environmental flow can be defined as the amount of water with enough quality and in the right time that a river needs to assure its ecological needs and purposes.”

COURTESY VICTOR GOMEZ

VICTOR GOMEZ, A RECENT UA graduate, now works as a hydrologist for the Panamanian government.

COURTESY TREVOR LEDBETTER

A GROUP OF STUDENTS from the UA’s Students for Sustainability, including graduates Cole Pihl, left, and Trevor Ledbetter, center.

While Gomez said that he’s always held the ideal of sustainability, it was the UA that gave him the tools to make progress.

“My time in the United States and specially at the University of Arizona made me realize that development and natural resources can go together, hand by hand, with the same relevance,” Gomez said. “The knowledge acquired at the Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences is what inspires me to make things right, since the key for a sustainable world, I think, is a matter of education and getting involved.”

Gomez hopes more people will get on the same page when it comes to sustainability.

“My goal is to get all the parts of the process involved and aware of the importance of sustainability,” Gomez said. “One of the biggest mistakes is that developing countries work in sustainability in an isolated way.”

Gomez said the best way to break from that trend is to unify our efforts.

“To achieve this goal, we need to integrate all the parts in the process: politicians, lawmakers, state governments, local governments, NGOs, universities, the private sector and all the different users of the natural resources of Panama together,” Gomez said.

If you want to see a future with a healthy balance of society and nature, you should take action, Gomez said.

“Even the smallest effort is valuable,” Gomez said. “It should start from somewhere, but it should start now.”

Cole Pihl On an average day, Cole Pihl will travel to one of Arizona’s 1,500 water systems to inspect the quality of the water and the sustainability of the structure.

“It’s a weird job,” Pihl said. “When I say weird, I mean that sometimes when I go on inspections and I have to meet with public systems, I have to technically read them their rights because I’m part of the state.”

Pihl graduated from the UA in May of 2017 with a degree in environmental sciences. He now works as an environmental scientist for the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality.

“It gets kinda sketchy when you say that you have a right to a lawyer, but usually it’s pretty straightforward,” Pihl said. “It’s definitely interesting, and I get to see a lot of cool parts of the state, deal with a lot of problem solving and things like that. It’s a great job.”

While Pihl is using his knowledge of environmental science to ensure sustainable water practices across the state, it wasn’t too long ago he didn’t have a clue about sustainability.

“I knew nothing [about] sustainability when I first came to the U of A,” Pihl said. “The program that I found was Students for Sustainability.”

In his time with SFS, Pihl started out working in the waste

COURTESY COLE PIHL

COLE PIHL, A RECENT UA graduate, now works as an environmental scientist for the Arizona Environmental Quality Department.

reduction committee his freshman year and was co-director by the time he was a senior.

“One thing that I took from it that I didn’t really know as much about is not just environmental health but also the social justice side of things and how those things piece together,” Pihl said.

He said he hopes in the future he will be able to get involved with environmental policy-making to add his scientific background to a process dominated by politics and business.

“As we deal with more and more challenges related to climate change, a transition to a cleaner energy grid is probably one of the biggest things that we can strive for,” Pihl said. “I’m really focused on that; it’s something I’m hoping to see in the next few decades, for sure.”

Pihl said it’s important to be optimistic when facing issues like climate change and a damaged environment, otherwise nothing will get done.

“When you get involved with sustainable initiatives, you’re going to get a lot of pushback from other entities,” Pihl said. “Be patient. A lot of things take a long time to get started in the first place.”

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BY ISAAC ANDREWS @isaacandone

Outspoken, absurd and hilarious star of “Deadpool,” as well as HBO’s “Silicon Valley” and “Meticulously Ridiculous,” T.J. Miller will be performing a one-night comedy event Thursday, Nov. 30, in Centennial Hall. The Daily Wildcat spoke with Miller about the show, Tucson and why he loves the University of Arizona so much more than Arizona State University.

To see Miller perform his new comedy show in Centennial Hall on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m., get your tickets online.

Daily Wildcat: Why come to the UA? T.J. Miller: My girlfriend ended up being a Wildcat. My high-school sweetheart.

But also, it’s a great school, and it’s fun, too, you know everyone there is like, “We’re the biggest party school; we were voted biggest party school; you know there’s no school that parties more than us,” and it’s kind of true. I don’t know what the official rankings are, but … you kind of know when you play Arizona in general. You just kind of know it’s going to be a good time, people are down to have a good time there.

DW: Is this show part of a standup tour?

Miller: Yeah, I’m touring sort of my upcoming hour special, which is called “The New Nonsense,” and I’m just developing that right now. So what you’ll see is comedy, like 90 percent of the material is new, but it’s also a lot of riffing and improvising, interacting with the crowd.

You’re the first for me who has asked, that’s great, that’s a breaking story. (yelling) GOT THE SCOOP! THE WILDCATS GOT THE SCOOP!

DW: What is so engaging about stand-up comedy?

Miller: A big thing that I’ve been all about lately is ripping your attention away from the screen. The screens aren’t telling us anything great. And also, when you’re “Netflix and chilling” really you should just be chilling. Like, go to a live show,

arts@dailywildcat.com (520) 621-7579

Comedian T.J. Miller brings laughs, absurdism to UA and then go chill afterward. Because everybody is sort of glued to their screens and it’s nice to do something a little bit different which is, you know, live experience.

You’ve got a lot of options, but you come and you spend your time with me, and I’m traveling to you guys to spend my time with you. It’s just a nice concept right now, with everything that’s going on.

I left “Silicon Valley” in part to do stand-up, but certainly to kind of move on from having given four years of the same show — same character and it’s all streaming. I think that I’ve offered up enough of that, and that there’s a lot more to do with stand-up comedy and as a comic. That’s a big part of what I find engaging about stand-up, opposed to television or film or voice-over or advertising or podcasting, all the other things.

DW: Why do you like performing for colleges?

Miller: I like doing colleges; a lot of comedians don’t like doing colleges anymore, because they feel like the kids are too “PC,” or they don’t know what to be offended by and what they’re allowed to laugh at.

I think, generally, just some comedians are like, “college students are a little out of touch.” I find that not to be the case, and I really like improvising and interacting with the crowd, and at colleges the audiences are always down to do that. I find it to be fun, and also I’m an absurdist; I’m not doing political material or “doesn’t it suck when you go to work” or “I’m married and I have two kids,” there isn’t any of that. I find people either relate to me on their sensibility and sense of humor, or not. But it’s sort of one or the other. It doesn’t have anything to do with age or demographic.

DW: I saw you performed for NAU, and now UA. Is there a reason you love UA so much more than the Sun Devils?

Miller: The Sun Devils — first of all, you’ve got a cooler mascot name.

Everybody knows that, OK. I think it’s that, and also, you know I have a special affinity for it. I visited a couple times with my high school girlfriend. She loved

the school and I always had a good time there. I think the Wildcats, kind of, they’re more fun. I know it’s cliché, but it’s kind of like a more fun party school.

And that’s my attitude. The show is all about fun, about not taking yourself so seriously, about partying and kind of trying to make it through your day, nowadays, and then just a lot of silliness.

I feel like I’m positive the Wildcats are going to be down for that.

DW: What can we expect from the show?

Miller: It’s a mix of absurdism,

observational comedy and car horn noises. And then there’s going to be a lot of riffing and crowd work. I like to ask students about the school. So you’re going to come, you’re going to participate and you’re definitely going to see a show that I will not perform ever again.

I want everything to be looser, more inand-of the moment, more spontaneous and more about that audience and that night. That’s why I’m asking you to rip your attention away from the screen, because I’m going to offer you something that you’re not going to be able to see in my next HBO special or whatever.

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UA DANCE ENSEMBLE MEMBERS Tyler Zydel, Thomas Archey and Keenan Schember in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Bolero.” “Bolero” is one of the pieces featured in “Premium Blend.”

UA dancers take the stage for ‘Premium Blend’ The UA School of Dance annual fall show will include classics and pieces by new faculty member Autumn Eckman

BY GABRIELLE MIX @DailyWildcat

The University of Arizona School of Dance will perform its annual fall presentation, “Premium Blend,” this Wednesday, Nov. 15, through Sunday, Nov. 19.

The performance will showcase various ballet and contemporary pieces at Stevie Eller Dance Theatre.

Russell Ridgeway, a sophomore in the UA dance program, will perform in School of Dance visiting assistant professor Autumn Eckman’s piece titled “Eckman Seasons.”

Ridgeway has been rehearsing with Eckman and 11 other dancers since September for six hours per week in preparation for the performance.

“I am so excited to perform in [the show] because I think it will be a great opportunity to grow as an individual and as an artist,” Ridgeway said.

The School of Dance works with its ensemble of approximately 140 dancers and choreographers to create over 30 main stage concerts per year, according to the UA School of Dance website.

Ridgeway said the dance shows are a “fun opportunity for people to see us dance who wouldn’t otherwise.”

The program puts equal focus on three core dance styles: jazz, ballet and modern. However, “Premium Blend” focuses mainly on ballet and contemporary work.

According to Ridgeway, the show will consist of four pieces: “Tonadas,” “Bolero,” “Eckman Seasons” and “Meta4.” Two of these

pieces, “Tonadas” and “Eckman Seasons,” were choreographed by UA faculty.

“Tonadas” was created by husband-and-wife team Jory Hancock and Melissa Lowe.

Hancock is the director of the School of Dance, and Lowe is a professor of dance and the director of Student Services and Advising. Their piece is a Pas De Deux, which is classically in the ballet style and performed by a male and female dancer.

“Eckman Seasons” consists of three parts: “Supermoon,” “Chicken Scratch” and a solo. Ridgeway is in the “Supermoon” section, which fellow “Supermoon” dancer and student Paulsen said represents spring and consists of six male-female couples.

Paulsen said “Chicken Scratch” represents summer, and the solo, representing autumn, is performed by Eckman herself.

Paulsen, a junior in the dance program, said the “Supermoon” section is very personalized to what each dancer can do as each person has their own solo and duet.

Originally an understudy, Paulsen was placed in the piece after another dancer got injured just three weeks ago. In order to prepare herself physically and mentally for the concert, she went to hot yoga to be in her best physical shape for the performance and reviewed the piece on her own so her body would know what to do on stage.

Eckman just joined the UA School of Dance faculty this year and will debut not only her work but her technique and performance skills at “Premium Blend.”

According to the School of Dance website, Eckman trained at the Houston Ballet Academy and has professionally performed

“the works of some of the world’s leading contemporary, classical, modern and jazz companies” with a variety of companies. She has experience directing and choreographing for Giordano Dance Chicago and has choreographed for many other companies and universities.

Ridgeway said he likes that “[the performers] kind of have a voice as to what goes on stage because Autumn wants to see what looks good on the dancers and how they interpret her movement.”

Paulsen said there are differences in this performance from others.

“It is different than most pieces we do at the U of A because Autumn doesn’t want us to be held in our posture but wants us to be free and expressive with our movement,” Paulsen said.

The other two pieces featured in the show, “Bolero” and “Meta4,” are repertoire, meaning they are classic and well-known pieces of work in the contemporary ballet category. “Bolero” was choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, a Russian American choreographer and ballet dancer. Hancock and Lowe worked together to direct and set this piece on eight dancers.

“Meta4” is a contemporary piece choreographed by acclaimed dancer and choreographer Bella Lewitzky. UA professor of dance Amy Ernst directed the execution of this piece on two casts of four dancers.

Tickets to “Premium Blend” are $15 for students and $35 for adults. There will be four evening shows at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and two matinees at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

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Costume design sets the scene The UA School of Theatre, Film and Television teaches students how to create character personality through the costume design process

BY VICTOR HERRERA @DailyWildcat

Costume design wields a lot of power.

The design team has an ability to dictate what the actor will wear and, in some cases, what the actor will look like. Part of the job is taking a play or a musical and coming up with a new spin on a traditional piece, and it sometimes even requires creating your own time period.

“The costume designer has to be sort of part historian, part designer and part psychologist,” said Patrick Holt, associate professor and head of the costume design program in the School of Theatre Film and Television.

Costume production and design students have a six-show season. Holt designs one or two of the shows for any one season, and the remaining shows are student-designed.

“From the very beginning, the director introduces us to their concept and their ideas about the play that they are doing,” Holt said. “Then we go back as designers and start to research.”

The time and setting of a performance are key in determining certain aspects of an actor’s costume.

“There’s a lot of filling in the blanks; most scripts don’t tell you ‘so-andso walks in; she’s a 40-year-old white woman with white hair wearing green,”’ Holt said.

Most of the time, the designers have to decide what fits the play. They do not always get exact information about what a character is supposed to look like; Holt said that gives the costume designers and producers a lot of influence over an actor.

“We have to decide what’s most appropriate for that character,” he said.

“Many times, [the actor] bases a lot of the character on what they see us design.”

One of those actors is Marissa Munter, a senior in the musical theater program in the School of Theatre, Film and Television.

“Your clothes are a reflection of who you are, so wearing those clothes really helps you tie into the mannerisms of those characters,” Munter said.

According to Holt, a design of a character on a sheet of paper can have a huge impact on who ends up getting a certain role in a production.

“I’ll interpret the character a certain way … what I end up drawing on the page oftentimes ends up being what’s

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EXTRA-TURNED-DIRECTOR, PHIL (Matthew Osvog) goes a bit too far in this scene with Carl (Thomas Tyler West), the Queen (Shira Maas), Benny (Zachary Zupke) and Louise (Tyler Reaser) from the comedy “EPIC PROPORTIONS,” presented by Arizona Repertory Theatre at the UA.

cast,” he said.

When Holt makes his drafts, he might imagine a character being a certain height or having a certain build. He said in many ways he feels what he draws may be the best interpretation of that character for a particular performance.

However, Holt has to be flexible and open to vastly different interpretations.

“Many times it’s the complete opposite; I’ll draw a 6-foot, size-two white woman and they end up with someone else who’s not that size and not that shape, and that means I have to go back and redesign,” he said.

One such incident occurred when Munter was supposed to play a blonde

bombshell, Marilyn Monroe-type of character — someone she said she looks nothing like.

“I had to talk to the customers a lot about how we could create that illusion with the costume, which was helpful,” she said.

The costume designers have hundreds of costumes in stock that are ready for use, but they will make new costumes if the need arises. Often, the actors will be fitted in muslin, a cheaper fabric, just to get a rough idea of what a costume will look like before work begins on the costume the actor will actually wear on the stage.

“I don’t think people realize just how

expensive it can be,” Holt said. “Just the fabric alone ... if there’s a dress that needs 12 yards of fabric, and the fabric costs $35 a yard, it starts to get very expensive.”

The cost of producing a costume is increased once accessories like zippers and trims are added. But all the extra work pays off for the actors and actresses wearing the costumes.

“To me, it’s like that final touch, that final emersion into the world that you are trying to create … Once you get those clothes on, you really start to feel like that character you are trying to portray,” Munter said.

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REVIEW

Arizona Repertory Theatre revives ‘Streetcar Named Desire’

BY MOYA ZHANG @DailyWildcat

On Wednesday, Nov. 8, the audience at Tornabene Theatre was transported out of the Tucson desert and into 1940s New Orleans as “A Streetcar Named Desire” began its opening night.

Seated quite literally inside the Kowalski home in the French Quarter, the audience was treated to two hours of high-quality drama. Being a small theater, it was an intimate but appropriate setting to see an iconic play being portrayed respectfully and authentically.

The main cast consisted of Marissa Munter as the emotionally frail and distraught Blanche DuBois, Vinessa Vodotto as the pragmatic and supportive sister, and Kasey Caruso, who is the primitive and lustful Stanley Kowalski.

Audience member and musical theater junior Quinn Corrigan noted that the chemistry between the leading actors was electric.

Director Hank Stratton originally said the core of the story was a relationship between two sisters, and this was portrayed wonderfully on stage. Munter had the daring task of being Blanche DuBois, yet embodied the character with ease. She delivered the lengthy monologues without missing a beat and projected emotion and passion from her performance.

Munter’s portrayal of Blanche’s downward spiral was brilliant; she was nuanced in her performance — strong without being patronizing and hysterical without being shrill.

The other cast members were also fantastic. Kim Hunter’s film portrayal of Stella Kowalski left her dreary and submissive, but this was not the case with Vodotto’s interpretation. She was feisty and held her own voice, a standout in her own right. She was the perfect “cleft in the rock of the world” for Blanche to hide in.

By contrast, Caruso’s prowling Stanley Kowalski was crude and threatening to Blanche. Admittedly, Caruso had big shoes to fill given the role was popularized by Marlon Brando in the film, but Caruso was confident in his portrayal. His aggression was heightened by his dedication to the role, seen through how the audience flinched when he threw his plate onto the floor and smashed his glass into tiny smithereens.

A quiet but powerful character was Zach Zupke’s Mitch, who had a progressive character arc. Having a softer side than the other male characters, Zupke’s portrayal was complex, accurately depicting Mitch’s internal struggle.

Although the play is not a comedy, a reason why it is so brilliant is because of Williams’ ability to incorporate elements of laughter and light into what is otherwise a dark play.

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BLANCHE, PLAYED BY MARISSA Munter, and Mitch, played by Zach Zupke, after a date in “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, presented by Arizona Repertory Theatre. This show will be running until Sunday, Dec. 3.

In particular, this is seen in the interaction between Blanche and Mitch. As Mitch awkwardly slouches and towers over Blanche, he talks about his sweaty armpits and she attempts to seduce him in French.

It is clear the two are incompatible, yet this heightens the sympathy toward Blanche as it becomes apparent she is so desperate for company that she’ll even take Mitch. The chemistry between Zupke and Munter is a pleasure to watch, and they bounce off each other to create a playful interaction.

Overall, the pacing of the play is fantastic. Munter captivates the stage as she takes the audience through Blanche’s thoughts in slow, lyrical moments, yet the play gains momentum quickly when the action rapidly turns violent.

The costuming also aided the authenticity of the production, as it transported the audience into the era. It was these fine details that made theater fanatics such as Corrigan appreciate the

show more.

“The coloring — how Blanche was in lighter pastels, which shows more virgin [appeal], and Stanley was in more colors that fit his personality,” Corrigan said.

Now the production has a month to grow and expand until its final performance on Dec. 3, and Stratton is excited to see the cast explore the complexities of its characters.

“They have a month now to play the play … and they can continue to deepen their performances,” Stratton said. “They can continue to explore these characters, their stories and continue to tell their story; it cannot help but infect and affect them.”

For this remaining month, board member Joe Gootter is hoping as many people as possible will come to see the production.

“I think it’s educational, learning about the South and prejudice and low bluecollar,” Gootter said. “Relying on the

‘kindness of strangers’ — it applies to many people, and I hope people will not do anything other than get help from other people.”

As expected, seeing Tennessee Williams’ work brought to life was just as magical and relevant as it deserves to be. Stratton is very proud, and rightly so.

Although Williams’ lines have been uttered many times on stage, Stratton’s plan to honor the original play was successful, as the audience gave the cast a standing ovation at the end.

“The play belongs to the actors … and it is incumbent upon them to tell the story in a way that we have decided to tell the story,” Stratton said. “I’m really proud of them; I’m extremely moved by the depth and where they were able to get.”

The show will run until Sunday, Dec. 3, so be sure to book your tickets online; it is a classic American work that should not be missed.

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Soccer advances to second round

BY ALEX MUNOZ @Alex_Munoz89

The Arizona women’s soccer team advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament after completing a 2-1 come-from-behind win over Texas Christian University on Friday at Mulcahy Stadium in Tucson, Ariz.

Sophomore Samantha Falasco and senior teammate Cali Crisler helped secure a win for the ‘Cats and punch their ticket to Palo Alto for the Round of 32 in the NCAA tournament.

Things got uneasy for the Wildcats and their home crowd early on as TCU would get on the board first in the 30 minute, after senior Emma Heckendorn found the back of the net on an assist from TCU teammate

Kayla Hill on a free kick.

“I think they were able to break us down, I know they had a pick; it was a good ball in and they were just able to get behind us and had a good finish,” Arizona goalkeeper Lainey Burdett said.

The ‘Cats picked up the intensity in the second half as they out-shot the Horned Frogs 9-1.

“For 30 minutes we didn’t look like Arizona soccer,” head coach Tony Amato said of his team’s first half performance.

“I thought we started the game well and then the last 30 minutes of the half TCU seemed to win the first balls, win second balls, win any physical confrontation. You can’t be successful doing that,” Amato said.

The ‘Cats would equalize in the 76 minute when Falasco put one in off an assist from a corner kick by Jada Talley.

“Gabi [Stoian] kicked a fantastic ball — it was on the ground and I just saw my opportunity so I took it and kicked it in the back of the net,” Falasco said.

With momentum and their home crowd cheering them on in the final minutes, the Wildcats were able to capitalize with less than 10 minutes to go in regulation. In her final game as a senior at Mulcahy Stadium, Crisler provided her ‘Cats the lead in the 80 minute when she let one rip just outside the box, getting one by TCU’s keeper Katie Lund.

“I saw no one was on me, I saw space to shoot it, and I just took the opportunity and knew we had nothing to lose at that point, and we had to get a goal to win it,” Crisler said.

Arizona will travel to Palo Alto where it will face the Florida State Seminoles in the second round of the tournament on Friday, Nov. 17. Time is to be determined.

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Green prepares For final race

BY RACHEL HUSTON @mirachelonice

I

t couldn’t be a more picture-perfect scenario for Claire Green, the final race of her cross country career for the University of Arizona will be in Louisville, Ky. as she competes in the NCAA National Championship on Nov. 18.

“I was beyond thrilled because last year I was the first girl not to qualify, which was pretty heartbreaking,” Green said.

“So to come back and finally make it my senior year — my last season of cross country — was like a dream come true.”

It was eight years ago that Green first decided to run cross country, but that wasn’t the first time Green came in contact with the sport. Her mom is a cross country coach and Green said the first time she went to a meet was when she was just four months old.

Even with that influence in her life, she grew up a swimmer and swam competitively for fifteen years. But at one point in her life, she decided to go from competing in the water to on land.

“There’s just something about being on the track or being on the cross country course that really connected to me,” Green said.

And while it connected with the Louisville, Colo. native, she didn’t always enjoy it, though everyone else around her did. The roar of the crowd and the excitement that came from a community that enjoyed and supported running kept her going.

Green ran in high school, and applauds her coaches as being some of her biggest influences and role models.

“My high school coaches ... their goal was to have fun and to enjoy what we were doing,” Green said.

And that mentality hasn’t changed. Every day Green goes out on the track, she does it because she enjoys and loves it, even when it gets difficult. A sport that many shy away from because of its physical demands, Green gravitated to for the same reasons.

“Distance runners are kind of crazy, but I think one of the reasons I like doing it is that not that many people can do it.

There’s this feeling of accomplishment every time you finish a race because you are literally pushing your body to its very limit,” Green said.

Now a senior, Green still finds the sport challenging and says cross country is one sport that never gets easier. All that comes in time is speed.

But with her experience also comes better preparation and knowledge of the game and the difference between indoor and outdoor tracks. Although Green had a passion for running, she wasn’t sure if she would run at the colligate level.

“My freshman year we [Green and the athletic department] didn’t even know if I was gonna run cross country. I was recruited for track and they were planning on redshirting me, but we wound up losing more girls than expected, so they ran me that first season, and it’s pretty rough. It could only go up from there,” Green said.

Fast forward a few short years later and Green is being recognized at the UA and trying to qualify for the National Tournament.

“Winning Junior Student Athlete of the Year last year might be the most memorable [honor], because track and cross country are sports that do get overlooked a lot, and to be recognized among all the student athletes was just amazing,” Green said.

But while she was the most spectacular junior player at Arizona, she didn’t make the cut for nationals.

Green, however, wouldn’t let that get her down, as it motivated her to try to make her way to the tournament senior year.

“I think it kind of fueled me, because when you’re so close to reaching your goal and it doesn’t happen, you can either be crushed and depressed or you can get over it and find some motivation to do better the next time,” Green said.

And while cross country weighs heavily on individual talent, there’s a team aspect to it as well. Green mentioned that she balances the pressure of the two by focusing on herself and knowing that her personal accomplishments will help further the team.

But when it’s hard to keep going and find that motivation, her teammates are there to pick her up.

All the women on her team, Green said, each have different roles and characteristics that all keep the women going through rough times. She said she’s always had support whether it be a tough workout or rough morning.

How does Green fit into this equation? She’s the team’s cheerleader.

“I’m pretty energetic ... I think I tend to bring a lot energy... I try and hype everybody up and keep the energy levels higher,” Green said.

Her coaches also lift her up, whom she couldn’t praise enough for their dedication.

“Coach Riley and coach Lee are, in my opinion, the best coaches in the NCAA because their focus isn’t on giving you the best race you can have or the best season you can have; their focus is on giving you the best career you can have,” Green said.

Considering her knowledge and experience with the sport and the great coaches she’s had in her life, she has thought about being a coach, but says that likely won’t happen for a while.

Following a degree in marketing after first earning a degree in elementary education, she plans on applying to a company the likes of Nike and working in its marketing department.

If it’s not Nike, she said she hopes to be found at another place relevant to the sports world, a world she said she wants to stay in.

After that, maybe ten years down the road, she says she’ll be ready to coach high school. Now, she believes she wouldn’t be able to properly coach athletes without wanting to jump out and compete herself. But after some time, she believes she’ll be ready to commit herself 100 percent to her athletes, just like her coaches did.

For now, however, she’s just focused on doing the best she can at nationals and, most importantly, has fun while doing it.

“The day it stops being fun for me is the day that I quit,” Green said.

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Wright and Kyles provide 1-2 punch for ‘Cats

BY IAN TISDALE @iantisdl

In a game that had multiple double-digit scorers for the Wildcats, two faces stood out in the season opening win versus Iona Friday, Nov. 10: Kat Wright and Marlee Kyles.

Kat Wright, the senior transfer from Florida Atlantic, has slowly been gaining confidence after a sitting out a year for academic eligibility. Wright didn’t score in the first exhibition versus Eastern New Mexico, and is still trying to figure herself out after a long break from basketball.

“Her better basketball is ahead of her,” said head coach Adia Barnes. “She didn’t play for a long time, and she is not at a hundred percent, but she gives everything she has.”

In her second exhibition vs. WNMU, Wright looked more comfortable in her play. She started taking — and making — more shots, and seemed to rediscover the form of her signature 3. On Monday night she went 2-5 and finished with 8 points.

And on Friday, Wright looked like she was back. In a game where two teams have strong backcourts, the 3-point shot was going to be important — and Kat Wright came out firing.

“She went 7-for-7 from the free throw line, she made a couple 3s, she crashes hard, she played solid defense, she did a lot of what we asked from her,” Barnes said. “I have confidence in her down the stretch, for sure.”

Wright was 2-for-6 from the 3, drew four fouls, and finished the game against Iona with 13 points, sitting just behind Marlee Kyles and Destiny Graham.

Wright was expected to be an offensive force coming into this season, and as she starts finding more confidence in her playing style, she might meet and even exceed those expectations.

One player with less experience who also had an impressive game was freshman guard Marlee Kyles. She led the team in scoring versus Iona with 17 points, and was second in scoring last exhibition vs. WNMU, with 18.

Versus Iona, Kyles not only proved she can lead the offense in points, but also be a leader for other players. With a team thin at the point guard, she gives the Arizona offense a sense of direction that wasn’t there last season.

“With being a point guard, they [the team] look toward me a lot,” Kyles said. “I can feel they have a lot of confidence in me, and I’m really proud of it.”

Kyles is breaking through nervous energy that many freshman face in the beginning of the season; her aggressive and dynamic playing style is starting to shine through, making a huge impact on the court.

“Marlee is getting better every game,” Barnes said. “She’s super aggressive, and that’s a dynamic we don’t normally have, so I like that.”

Even at 5-foot-7, Marlee was one of the team leaders in rebounds, with six at the end of the game. Kyles continued to find open lanes, make the right passes, crash the rim and sink 3-pointers throughout the night, only making a couple of mistakes.

“I know I’m going to get a couple of bad shots out of Marlee.

She’s still playing like a freshman, and she makes a lot of freshman mistakes ... but she’s always trying,” Barnes said.

“But if you see a small guard like Marlee get six rebounds, that means she’s tough. She doesn’t back down from people, and I love that.”

However, from the sideline, although Kyles has only played in three games so far, she looks as poised and professional as a three-year veteran.

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ARIZONA SENIOR FORWARD KAT Wright (11) is defended by Iona’s Tilasha Okey-Williams (34) on Nov. 10 in McKale Center. Wright scored 13 points in the game.

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ARIZONA FRESHMAN MARLEE KYLES (13) dribbles past two Iona defenders on Nov. 10 in McKale Center. Kyles scored a total of 17 points against Iona.

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ARIZONA GUARD PARKER JACKSON-CARTWRIGHT listens as men’s basketball head coach Sean Miller yells out a play toward the end of the UA-UMBC game Nov 12. The Wildcats have averaged 102 points per game through the early part of the season.

Fast and furious Arizona men’s basketball’s offensive production has been off the charts. Can it continue at the current pace?

BY ALEC WHITE @AlecWhite_UA

Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? Whether the Lorenzo Romar effect is ahead of schedule or men’s basketball head coach Sean Miller had a change of heart in coaching philosophy, one thing is certain: Arizona is playing a style of basketball equivalent to the air raid offenses of college football, and it’s a far cry from the typical Sean Miller teams of recent memory.

Through the first two games of the 2017-2018 season, Arizona has scored over 100 points in each contest and has made an average of 60.3 percent of its field goals. The Wildcats have also hit 20 of their 41 3-point attempts, or a 46percent clip.

“I don’t know if I’ve coached a team that had more [field goals],” Miller said after Arizona hit 39 of them in the win against UMBC. “That’s a lot of made field goals … I believe that we have a lot of talent on offense and can go both inside and outside.”

Prior to this year, Sean Miller teams at Arizona have only eclipsed triple-digit scoring just six times in eight years. The ‘Cats have already done it twice this year and the season is only 80 minutes young.

Add in the fact that sophomore guard Rawle Alkins hasn’t even touched the floor due to his recovery from a broken foot, and freshman guard Brandon Randolph only played four minutes against UMBC as he worked his way back from a concussion, and it still wouldn’t be a surprise to see Arizona score over the century mark multiple times again this season.

Even more, senior point guard Parker

Jackson-Cartwright said he expects Arizona’s quick style of offense to continue throughout the year.

“Coach wants us to play fast,” JacksonCartwright said. “On makes and misses we try to get out and not shoot fast and take bad shots, but getting up fast and getting a good shot.”

Jackson-Cartwright, who operated Miller’s methodical offense the last three seasons, seems to be enjoying the new run n’ gun style so far.

“It’s unexplainable, really,” Jackson-Cartwright said. “Just so many weapons on the wings and in the post. I just try to get the ball out as fast as I can and find people.”

With such a talented core led by a National Player of the Year candidate in Allonzo Trier and a possible No. 1 overall NBA draft pick Deandre Ayton, Arizona’s offense is going to be its biggest strength. But Sean Miller teams are invested in defense and Miller knows that in order to be the complete team he hopes for, that defensive prowess must come back in some form.

“In some regards, a couple of our players that will eventually emerge are going to be those that are going to hang their hat on defense,” Miller said. “Because we need more of those types of guys right now. We need more balance.”

Still, it’s been a marvel to watch Arizona score in the blink of an eye during the first two games.

Who knows, maybe it’s history repeating itself — Lute Olson eventually changed his philosophy to a fast-break, three-guard lineup to win the 1997 National Championship, after his previous defense-reliant teams couldn’t break through.

Maybe Miller is going through a similar phase.

March is a long ways away, though. Until then, it’s probably best to sit back and watch the fireworks.

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