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City of Tucson brings bike share program to campus BY CORINNA TELLEZ @DailyWildcat

After years of development, the City of Tucson’s new bike share program, Tugo, finally began on Nov. 17. “I encourage people to use it,” said Steve Kozachik, Ward 6 Tucson City Council member. Kozachik, who tested the new program out himself at a ribbon cutting ceremony at McKale Center. “Getting people out of their cars and onto bikes is healthier.” Bike share is a newer form of transportation where users are able to go to a self-service station to rent a bike. The bikes are commonly used for short trips around a city or for short trips combined with transit transportation. “As bike share started to grow in popularity, we were starting to look at whether or not it could help Tucson with increasing the visibility of cycling,” said Ann Chanecka, former Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Coordinator for the City of Tucson. The Tucson bike share program launched with roughly 36 bike share stations and 330 bicycles kept in solar-powered docks placed around midtown Tucson. The self-service stations will be open for use 24 hours every day of the year. Workers at the Tucson Department of Transportation suspected a bike share program would be good for Tucson, Chanecka said. The next steps were to hire workers who already had experience implementing a bike

share program and to figure out whether Tucson could support the program. Once experienced workers were found, a Bike Share Feasibility Study and Implementation Plan was completed. The study looked at aspects of Tucson such as ridership, weather conditions, topography, destinations and bike friendliness. “They looked at several different land-use characteristics to evaluate whether or not Tucson could support a bike share system, and if so, where the station locations made the most sense,” Chanecka said. Tucson was found to meet the requirements for a bike share system to be implemented, but the process, beginning in 2013, was not the easiest. The lack of familiarity with bike share among Tucsonans caused skepticism toward it, turning it into “a very political project,” Chanecka said. Finding the funding for the project and getting Tucsonans to understand it have been the other main challenges. The primary funding for the project is a federal grant, the Transportation Alternative Program Grant, and cannot be used to pay a police officer or to “fill a pothole,” said Chanecka, who admitted that with Tucson’s “huge budget deficit” the city is a “unique challenge.” “There’s also this image of the city talking about layoffs and can’t balance the budget and now we’re introducing bicycles, and so to some it may be confusing,” Chanecka said. The costs for the program up until its launch are supposed

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A NEW TUGO STATION on University Boulevard near McKale Center. The station is a part of Tucson’s new bike sharing campaign.

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New human rights grad program coming to UA BY SASHA HARTZELL @DailyWildcat

This spring, the University of Arizona will begin offering a novel degree program in human rights practice. In this fully online program, students can attain either a Masters of Arts or Graduate Certificate. This will not only be the cheapest masters degree the UA offers, but only the second such program in the world. The courses will be offered in concentrated seven-and-a-half-week blocks, with each credit costing $500. The total for the 30-credit masters will be $15,000 and the 12-credit certificate, $6,000. The program director, Bill Simmons, said the faculty has agreed not to require any books or other material to be bought. “Students will have access to a U of A degree from anywhere in the world for $15,000. So I think that’s pretty reasonable,” he said.

Before coming to the UA, Simmons spent 10 years at Arizona State University, where he created a masters in social justice and human rights. Five years ago, he came to the UA and began connecting people who did human rights work around the campus. The idea for the masters degree originated out of these connections. The team decided to make it a fully online degree in part not to compete with ASU’s program, but also because they felt that was where the need was. The program was designed from the ground up, continuously asking the question “What can we do with an online platform that we can’t do with in person degrees?” One of the main advantages of the online platform is it enables the program to be open to students, lecturers, advisers and experts worldwide. The degree leverages this potential to the fullest. Each course is designed to be taught by a near 50-50 mix of UA faculty and

other experts in the field from around the globe. Currently, the program has 32 listed UA faculty members with a variety of expertise. Collectively, they represent five colleges and 15 different departments at the university. The program also has an official international advisory board comprised of 11 leading human rights experts from countries including Burkina Faso, South Africa, Gambia, Russia, Sri Lanka, China, Kyrgyz Republic and Belize. Another advantage of the program, according to Mette Brogden, the program’s manager, is that students can do the course in their own time. The program is designed for students who are employed or pursuing careers. Every aspect of the program was designed to facilitate future students’ needs and desires. “We really want to gear the courses to what the student’s interests are,” Brogden said. To

accommodate this, the classes will incorporate the issues that the current students are passionate about or working on. Simmons said faculty won’t be teaching, but instead facilitating courses, with the students contributing the courses as well. “If we get a cohort of students who are really excited about a certain issue, it would be silly of us to not offer a course on that issue, especially when we can tap into experts from around the world. Even if it’s something that UA faculty don’t know a whole lot about, we can get people from around the globe to teach all of us about it,” Simmons said. The incoming students are expected to be from a diverse background. Some may arrive with years of experience in the field and others without even knowing the basic legal framework for human rights. Most students are, however, expected to come with some area of focus that they’re passionate about.

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UA professors streamline autism research BY RANDALL ECK @reck999

There is no known cause of autism spectrum disorder and no cure. The number of children with autism spectrum disorder is increasing rapidly; in 2000, one in 150 children received a diagnosis, now it is one in 68. Currently, the Center for Disease Control tracks ASD diagnoses in 11 states. Yet, in order to track its prevalence and distribution, researchers need to scour through thousands of pages of often complex records. A team of UA researchers aims to change that. “Our project hopes to make that process a lot faster, cheaper, easier and bigger,” said Gondy Leroy, a professor of management information systems in the Eller College of Management. The project is being funded by a grant of $292,404 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Humans Services. Her team is creating Natural Language Processing algorithms that can “read” the text of electronic health records and identify mentions of the criteria that are used to diagnose ASD. Leroy, alongside Mihai Surdeanu, an associate professor of computer science, is responsible for developing the algorithms. The team also includes Sydney Pettygrove, assistant professor in the UA Zuckerman College of Public Health, who helps provide the electronic health records, and Maureen Kelly Galindo, genetics and developmental research coordinator

in the UA College of Medicine, who provides clinical feedback on the analysis of the health records. Two months into the two-year project, Leroy said they have an algorithm that can successfully identify and annotate some of the diagnostic criteria for ASD. They are currently working on training a machine learning algorithm, which can learn from its mistaken identification and do better in the future. One of the diagnostic criteria the algorithm will look for in the health records is if children make eye contact with their caregiver. This measure of decreased social interaction can be written by doctors and psychologists in many different ways. One of the challenges for the algorithm is to be able to correctly identify all these different phrases — something that comes naturally to human researchers. Another challenge is providing the learning algorithms with a sufficient number of examples of all 12 diagnostic criteria for ASD, even those that are very rare, for it to be able to recognize in the future. As of now, the team is working with a small sample of Arizona health records. “Ideally, we want to scale up and go as big as the entire United States,” Leroy said. “Then we could test whether something in the environment is affecting ASD.” With the current data, Leroy plans to conduct a set of case studies to determine how ASD diagnosis has changed over time or based on who is doing the diagnosing.

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DR. GONDY LEROY, A professor of MIS at the UA’s Eller College of Management, is working to automate autism research.

According to Pettygrove, the recent increase in ASD diagnosis could be attributed to a greater awareness of the disorder among the population and doctors. For example, the number of nonHispanic white children diagnosed with ASD used to be 3.8 percent more than Hispanic children. That gap has since narrowed. Yet, Pettygrove said she cannot rule out environmental or regional factors that could be the cause of ASD. A future case study with the help of data collected from this algorithm could help answer these questions Leroy said. Pettygrove also said they are studying how the language used to describe ASD has changed over

the years. More critically, this technology could be used to help flag cases of ASD from health care records and help lead to earlier diagnoses of ASD and earlier treatment interventions for children, Pettygrove said. “Children who are evaluated earlier in life and receive services at a younger age do better in the long run,” Pettygrove said. In the future, Leroy believes this algorithm could also benefit the study and diagnosis of mental illnesses. If it can lead to earlier and increased services for children with ASD, it could do the same to help those suffering from mental illness.

Cats bring composting to Santa Cruz County BY MARQUIES WHITE @DailyWildcat

Compost Cats, a University of Arizona program, was recently awarded over $100,000 in grants. Compost Cats is planning on using this money to set up a compost operation in Santa Cruz County. Compost Cats is developing the operation “to compost the roughly 8,000 tons of produce from the bi-national produce industry currently ending up in Southern Arizona landfills every year,” according to a Compost Cats press release. “Compost Cats’ mission is to transform organic, would be waste, like food scraps, manure or brush, into soil amendments that we can reinvest into our food growing soils,” said Chet Phillips, Compost Cats director. “And keep this waste out of landfills to avoid methane transmissions and other damaging environmental effects.” But that’s not all the club does, according to Phillips. “Compost Cat’s other important role is serving as a student environmental leadership training program, because students get multifaceted job training,” he added. That means students are integral, said Phillips. “We have a collaborative governance

model, but we make almost all our decisions together. Students are involved in business planning, marketing, website, sales, heavy equipment, and soil monitoring.” The operation in Santa Cruz will build on the successful model of Compost Cat’s current program, which has diverted over 15 million pounds of material from local landfills and currently provides composting services to over 70 businesses in Tucson. The program has also provided green leadership training to over 60 University of Arizona students since the program began in 2011, according to a Compost Cats press release. “We realized that food waste is an enormous national problem, and that it is particularly bad in Southern Arizona. Roughly 2 million tons of food cross the Arizona-Mexico border bound for all parts of the United States,” Phillips said. “So we wanted to be part of the regional solution.” Due to the amount of produce coming from Mexico, Santa Cruz County has a produce waste dilemma. “We’re going to employ Rio Rico High School students, community college students, and UA South students to conduct the Santa Cruz operation,” said Phillips. “These are additional student opportunities.”

Phillips hopes that working with Compost Cats as a high school student might encourage those students to attend the UA and continue their work with Compost Cats. Compost Cats received an EPA Border 2020 Grant of $91,519, as well as a $10,000 Honorable Mention grant from the Rathmann Family Foundation “Mitigating Climate Change through the Use of Compost” Challenge Grant. Border 2020 is the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to increase environmental action along the United States border with Mexico. The EPA has five goals stated on its website, including promoting waste management. With the operation in Santa Cruz, Compost Cats is embarking in a major waste management initiative. The program has connected with the EPA in the past. In 2016, the EPA awarded Compost Cats for outstanding efforts in food recovery. The Rathmann Family Foundation was established in 1991, and provides grants to hundreds of organizations across the United States and the world. The Rathmann Challenge provides grants to “organizations with forward thinking ideas and a willingness to challenge themselves and their professional colleagues

to come up with a better solution,” according to its website. “The Rathmann Challenge was a new way to have a selective area where we could invite organizations we never heard from or had experiences with in the past,” Rick Rathmann, Executive Director of The Rathmann Family Foundation, said. Rathmann described some reasons why Compost Cats was selected for a grant over hundreds of other organizations. “There was incredible commitment and resourcefulness displayed by the Arizona students and their leadership,” Rathmann said. “Absolutely inspirational. “Compost Cats have executed past programs beautifully and they are looking to the future,” Rathmann continued. “This shows to us that they have the right aspects to make an impact in years to come. “We are so glad that we got to know Compost Cats. We are excited about seeing this as a beginning rather than an end. We’ll start conversations with Compost Cats in 2018 and discuss possibilities of continuing support,” Rathmann added. Phillips believes that the operation in Santa Cruz will rapidly grow larger than the Tucson operation, in terms of materials composted.

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BY ANDREW PAXTON @Andrew_AzP

ith the Federal Communication Commission’s decision on net neutrality expected during its Dec. 14 meeting, the world now waits to see how the Trump administration will react to millions of people, as well as tech giants, digital rights advocates and some of its own members demanding the internet remain open and free. For nearly a year, everyone from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to John Oliver have been raising awareness about net neutrality, which, without getting too wonky, essentially means that internet service providers like Verizon and Cox can’t charge more to access certain content, block websites, etc. The controversy stems back a few years, involving a ‘recategorization’ of internet regulation under the Obama administration, a lawsuit by Verizon against the government and the appointment of a new FCC head. The new head is antiregulation and, coincidentally enough, was once a lawyer for Verizon. In other words, it’s a big mess. It boils down to whether the public wants private companies to have control over the internet and how it’s accessed, or whether the internet is regarded as a public utility, like water or telephones, that needs government oversight. Without that oversight, it’s possible that internet service providers could block students from research materials some may find offensive, charge more for news stories on topics that might be unfavorable to investors or completely shut out a competitors’ content altogether. Naysayers contend that would never happen, but in a dog-eat-dog tech world where proprietary information is protected with countless safeguards and corporate espionage is commonplace, it is hard to believe that some companies don’t do anything to increase profits. Plus, if these huge corporations are already supporting an open internet, as many claim, there is no reason they should fear public oversight, which could ensure they are delivering the best available product to their customers at the best possible price. Net neutrality enjoys more than 75 percent approval ratings from across the political spectrum, according to a poll

this summer by Freedman Consulting. Still, ISPs have spent hundreds of millions lobbying Congress and the public for relaxed regulations, which they argue hurt investments and competition. However, small and mid-sized ISPs counter by pointing out there is already little competition. Here in Tucson, customers know they don’t have many options when it comes to internet service. Letting big corporations write their own rules wouldn’t change that. And about that hurt business? Comcast earned $2.3 billion in net profits during the last three months of 2016, a 16.5 percent bump from 2015, according to the company. Verizon said it had a decrease, but still made $4.5 billion in net profits and retained its top spot in the wireless market. With large ISPs raking in billions in profits every year, the argument that they need less regulation in order to be profitable or spurn investment is downright laughable. The internet, with all of its unlimited and nearly unfathomable potential, is far too powerful and vital to trust in the hands of corporations that already control so much of how information is accessed and used. The current rules governing net neutrality fall under the Communications Act of 1934, an era when technologies, like the internet and wireless communication, could not be foreseen by those writing the guidelines. The ideal solution would be to draft completely new laws, with all vested parties taking a seat at the table. They can agree to rules that are workable to ISPs and tech companies while, most importantly, best serving the public. But with the FCC hamstrung by the 2014 Supreme Court ruling and Congress currently unable to pass any sort of meaningful legislation, the responsibility lies with the FCC. For now, they will determine how the internet is to be governed. FCC chair Ajit Pai should heed the call from millions of internet users, companies including Google, Twitter and Facebook and free speech advocates around the country. Keep the current net neutrality rules in place, at least until a better solution can be reached. If Pai allows ISPs to make their own rules on how the public can access information, the gates will open for corporations to place profits ahead of the free flow of ideas, expression and knowledge. The internet is too important to allow this to happen. — This story was originally published in the Daily Wildcat on July 19. The story has been updated.

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Course offerings will include NGO management, human rights law, communitybased action research and human rights emergencies and crisis. The courses will include virtual field trips where experts doing work on the ground will film their work and interview different constituents. For example, one of Simmons’ colleagues is an attorney working with rural villages in China as they sue corporations who are polluting their rivers. Simmons said he could take students around for several weeks, showing them the site and interviewing villagers, activists, corporate officials and government officials. Everything would be recorded to avoid timedifference issues. All of the contributors will be compensated for their efforts. “When we do tap into people’s expertise, we need to pay them. We wanted to really resist any form of colonization or paternalism where we take their knowledge and they don’t get anything out of it,” he said. After finishing the program, alumni will continue to have full access to the program,

experts and the information. “We will be building a network,” Brogden said. As methodologies for promoting and accessing human rights, as well as repairing human rights injustices, evolve in the world, the program will seek to be an information source and idea incubator. “We’ve kind of broken out of the paradigm of what academics is supposed to look like, and that’s what this program is trying to do,” Simmons said. He said he encountered few bureaucratic obstacles from the university in creating this program, unlike his experience at ASU. The dean of Social and Behavioral Science, John Paul Jones III, was very willing to try to think of programs that didn’t fit traditional boundaries. “Once we lined up a bunch of faculty and showed how exciting this could be, it was a pretty easy sell to the dean and to the provost,” Simmons said. Despite this ease, the program team is still working to offer financial aide. Currently, there is little available, but they are anticipating more in the future. The incoming students for the spring semester will have an opportunity to help shape and grow the program. “It is such a creative field, and there are so many really

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interesting things people are doing in many different ways,” Brogden said. Early decision applications are asked to be in by Dec. 15. However, it is possible

applications will be accepted up to a week or two before classes start. “It’ll be interesting to see the directions in which it grows,” Brogden said.

Wildcat fans commit to more than a game

BY MEKAYLA PHAN @DailyWildcat

Under Arizona Stadium’s bright, dazzling lights and in midst of thousands cheering, a soldier being welcomed home stood ready to make one of the greatest commitments of his life. After returning from a nine-month deployment in Iraq, Army Specialist Anthony Baker proposed to his long-distance girlfriend, Taylor Gaines. It was at the University of Arizona’s final home game of the season, against Oregon State on Military Appreciation night. “I was in shock, this overwhelming happiness just filled me and I couldn’t breathe,” Gaines said. “I dipped down trying to replenish my air so I could breathe, and then when I came back up, I realized that he was still on one knee.” Gaines laughed that she said “yes” right then, before she actually heard Baker pop the question. Baker wanted to marry her from the moment they started dating. Though they only dated long-distance for a year, they’d been good friends ever since middle school. Both being huge Wildcat fans, Baker couldn’t think of a more perfect place to propose. However, Gaines still couldn’t believe that, without her even telling him, he would have guessed to pull off her “dream proposal.” “I knew she wanted people there to take pictures of it ... and I wanted to go big,” he said. Several months prior, Baker had reached out to the Arizona Athletics Twitter page about his idea. He was then connected to the department’s Director of Marketing and Fan

Engagement Laura Little, who helped organize the event for him. “When people come it’s because they want to make a memory with Arizona Athletics and our football team. We try to do anything possible to make sure that our fans are getting the best experience,” Little said, explaining the importance of the requests they receive. “Our mentality is all about our fans. We want to make sure our fans are all taken care of as much as possible,” she said. The Arizona Athletics Department usually has about two special event requests every football season. Little said that it is preferable for people to send their requests about two or three weeks ahead of time, or at least by the Monday before a game. Baker’s case was special, where the two kept in contact for months while he was in Iraq. Baker was also the first to have his proposal supported by a paid promotion at the game (Casino del Sol), and he was fully accommodated. It didn’t cost him a thing. “Laura was amazing. She mainly did everything, she sent me her ideas and I told her what I wanted to do and all of the U of A set everything up,” Baker said. “All I had to do was go down there [with tickets] and get the ring.” The newly engaged couple could not thank the staff enough for helping make it happen. “I was so happy! It worked out more perfect than I could have imagined,” Little said, with a laugh. “My goal was to get half of the stadium to cheer for him, and I think I succeeded.” For Little, the whole process was indicative of how the UA wants to treat veterans. “Our school is very proud to support all of our military and all the branches. We have a great relationship

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ARMY SPECIALIST ANTHONY BAKER embraces Taylor Gaines after asking her to marry him during halftime of the Nov. 13 football game against Oregon State.

with all the branches around Tucson. I think that is just showing unity, that we also involve the community as much as possible.” Baker is planning to join the Green to Gold and ROTC program to finish his Nutritional Science degree at the UA. He has hopes of becoming a sports physician. In the future, the couple is looking to move to Colorado, where Baker is looking to be stationed. Gaines is currently at Pima Community College studying veterinary science.

The couple is planning their wedding for sometime in 2021. “I wouldn’t have changed [the proposal] at all. Even if it didn’t go perfectly, it was memorable for both of us, and that’s all that matters,” Baker said. His advice to other men thinking of a proposal: “You just gotta do it.” “I mean, of course, you are going to be nervous but … I didn’t think about the crowd or anything. I just thought about her and I,” Baker said.

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Boos and Bravos highlights the best and worst news concerning 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. As we arrive at the edge of another semester, we have lots of things to praise and lament. This week, the editorial board takes a look at our favorite and least favorite parts of the end of the fall semester.

Boo

to homework pileups. We know, we know. There should be no homework pileups if people work ahead, or on schedule. Maybe we’re just hooked on the rush of a tight deadline, still in a coma from Thanksgiving dinner or perhaps just having some time management problems, but who doesn’t? Hang in there, Wildcats. Push through that last bit of work because we are almost there.

Bravo

to the many free events and goodies provided by the college during finals week. From Nov. 29 to Dec. 14, Finals Survival Week will offer students everything from free food to therapy dogs. We have a good feeling about this “free late-night pancake breakfast” offered by Cactus Grill, Nosh at PSU and Bear Down Kitchen on Dec. 7. To see the full schedule, visit http:// saem-aiss.arizona.edu/uafinalssurvival.

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to this last week in UA sports. There have sure been a lot of ups and downs this semester in basketball and football. Though we had some great, sometimes unexpected moments in sports this semester, we were really hoping for a stronger finish. The loss to ASU was painful, and seeing our star Khalil Tate get injured, well, that hurt pretty bad, too. We are still rooting for you, Wildcats!

Bravo

to University of Arizona President Dr. Robert Robbins for being an engaged member of the campus community. From his first days on campus to now, Robbins has been present at UA events, spotted in Zona Zoo and pretty accessible to students and faculty. It’s still fairly early in his career here at the UA, but we feel positive about the forward momentum. Robbins was installed on Nov. 29.

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to the dwindling bank accounts and overloaded bursars accounts. It’s the end of the semester and meal plans are starting to get low. All those lunches at Panera added up fast, and your coffee habit, which has only increased in the last few weeks, isn’t cheap. For those graduating, the looming debt that’s been avoided for four years is inching closer. Try out a budgeting app like Mint, which can help you keep track of your money and even help you keep track of your loans.

Bravo

to all of us for making it through lots of long nights of studying, forging new friendships, challenging ourselves and putting in the work. College isn’t easy, and after this last home stretch where sleep is just not going happen, pat yourself on the back and, better yet, take a nice, long nap. Congrats to our students graduating, and to the rest of you. See you next semester. — The Daily Wildcat Opinions Board is comprised of Opinions Editor Jamie Verwys, Editor-in-chief Chastity Laskey, Managing Editor Courtney Talak and Arts Editor Kathleen Kunz.

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Seat smack down Punches were thrown in Modern Languages room 401 on Nov. 15 at 4 p.m. when two male students began fighting, prompting a police response. The first student walked into his Spanish class and sat down at a desk. The desk had a notebook on it, which he moved. A fellow student, the owner of the notebook who had left to go to the bathroom, walked into the room and told him to get out of his seat. The first student refused, stating he could just move to another desk, prompting the second student to call him a “bitch.” “Don’t call me a bitch,” the first student responded. The second student attempted to punch the first student in the face. He dodged and put the second student in a headlock. They both rolled around on the ground, the first student punching the second in the face multiple times. After the police were called, the first student stated he did not want to press assault charges. Both students were issued a code of conduct violation to the Dean of Students. Lover’s quarrel A fight broke out in front of the Main Library on Nov. 15 at around 11:30 p.m., prompting a response from four police officers. A male and a female, both roommates and a new couple, were walking into the library when the ex-boyfriend of the female “came out of nowhere” and yelled, “Hey, I thought you were going home!” The ex punched the new boyfriend in the chest and face with a closed fist. The girlfriend got in between them, holding her ex back. The ex, who is also a roommate of the couple, dated the female for five years before they broke up five days prior to this incident. He told police he had suspected something was going on between the other two roommates, but they denied it each time he asked. At the time of the incident, he was sleeping on the couch in their house while his ex was sleeping in their previously shared room. “You betrayed me,” he shouted to the new boyfriend. “I thought you were my friend.” The ex then called the female a slut and said her new boyfriend was going to play her because “he does not like you” and threatened to tell her family what was going on. Eventually, the ex calmed down, and responding police officers confirmed no medical attention was needed. They have all been living together for two years, which resulted in the ex being arrested for domestic violence – assault.

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TABLES FEATURE VARIOUS STUDY abroad programs during the University of Arizona’s 2017 Study Abroad Fair at the Student Union Memorial Center. Study abroad opportunities are educational experiences that allow students to become immersed in a foreign language.

Merits of foreign language in higher education OPINION

BY ALEC SCOTT @DailyWildcat

ver since my freshman year of high school, I’ve been studying German as a foreign language. For almost six years I’ve tried (and often failed) to master a language that, in the grand scheme of things, should really be a cakewalk for an English speaker, especially considering how much our languages relate to one another. But I’ve still fallen on my face and at times felt hopeless against the tidal wave that is German grammar. At my worst moments, I felt the urge to just drop the course and forget everything, embarrassment and all, over time. But I didn’t, and just last week I was talked into studying German as a major. Historian Dr. John McMillan complains that students “still have not learned, in any meaningful or practical sense of the word, how to “read” another language. No wonder students tend to regard these exams (required language class exams) as hoops to jump through, and nothing more.” I empathize with him greatly. He’s right! Most students may not even leave their high school introductory language class with a fluency in German or Spanish, let alone Latin or Mandarin. And with many language classes structured as if total fluency is the goal, students are being set up to fail. My experience with German is applicable with any language classes students have struggled to pass since time immemorial. But what if these courses aren’t trying to get you fluent, at least not at first? The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages put out a study on students taking a foreign language, and the influence of that course on their future academic success, and it shows something very different from McMillan’s fears. Even students who don’t report fluency still score better on tests, receive higher grades in secondary education and, most interestingly, can better “achieve in their first language.” Going even further, students who take introductory language classes in high school, and then fall in love with the culture or take to the grammar, now have the ability to study it with a stronger foothold than if they just jumped in blindly. While many students will not end up majoring in the foreign language they studied as freshmen, some do, and are infinitely better off for it.

The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign languages point to various studies that show even those students who will leave the classes convinced that they will never need Spanish or French still receive benefits in the form of reading and language comprehension that transfers to their mother tongue. Beyond academics, the cultural components behind every foreign language course brings us together and helps students place their culture in a greater worldview. These classes offer students study abroad and transfer programs, both of which create memories and experiences which will stay with you throughout your life. I participated in the 2015 and 2016 German-American Partnership Program, which sent me to the small south German town of Murnau am Staffelsee, in the shadow of the Alps. For three weeks, I lived with a Bavarian family. They took me to the local school and showed me a lifestyle which was different from my own. I can’t for the life of me remember what I did the entirety of junior year in high school, but I remember every single day I spent in Bavaria.Even in the nights I spend at the library, racking my head to remember just where to put the verb in each sentence, I never regret choosing German back in freshman year, and I can’t see myself regretting any of the experiences I have made while studying it. As a student of a foreign language, I feel as if I have a more confident understanding of my own language. I’m so lucky to have experienced a foreign culture and all it has to offer. I have acquired a skill that I will never regret. If we stop prioritizing foreign language classes in high school, these opportunities for study abroad programs will dry up, and students will lose their chance to become immersed in a culture foreign to their own. The practical benefits that studying a foreign language has to offer will be ignored as a consequence of school administrators seeing fluency as the only sign of success for the class. I certainly did not graduate from my German IV class confident enough to move to Berlin , or converse on the street about complex political theory in the language, but I was so thoroughly invested in it that I continued taking classes in college. Those classes in high school gave me a leg up once I started university courses. Today, I couldn’t imagine tackling a foreign language without the experiences and skills I gained years ago. — Alec Scott is a sophomore studying German and Political Science who participated in the 2015 and 2016 German American Partnership Program (GAPP)

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When in space, trust your gut UA researchers have developed new technology to mimic the micro-environment of the human gastrointestinal system to test how astronauts will react to cosmic radiation in space Using animals won’t work either, as the microbiome of a human gastrointestinal system is completely unique. That’s where this microchip comes in. It allows A NASA-funded lab at the University scientists to radiate normal human cells of Arizona’s Center for Applied in a controlled environment and study the NanoBioscience and Medicine has results, Lacombe said. developed a way to test how the human In order to truly mimic the human gut will react to cosmic radiation gut, researchers had to design a in space. This new technology way for many different types of mimics the entire microbacteria to coexist in the same environment of the human environment. This chip contains gastrointestinal system, and it all both aerobic human cells, which fits on a microchip the size of an require oxygen, and anaerobic SD card. bacterial cells, which can only “This is really a tool to learn grow without oxygen, interacting what will be the makeup of the in different chambers, according gut microbiome in space when to Lacombe. it’s exposed to cosmic radiation,” These two different cell said Frederic Zenhausern, populations can reside in close Researchers have director of the Center for Applied proximity to each other and re-created the microNanoBioscience and Medicine communicate through a nanoenvironment of the and professor of basic medical porous membrane, Zenhausern human gut on a chip sciences and radiation oncology. said. Much like the layers of a the size of an SD This foundational “gut-on-acake, diverse types of cells each card. This technology chip” technology is part of NASA’s can be used to test occupy separate levels on the plan to put humans on Mars. The chip in an environment tailored the effect of cosmic International Space Station is only radiation on humans to their specific needs. about 250 miles away, Zenhausern when they travel in “What happens is the cells can said. If astronauts have a medical be contained in their different space. emergency, they are brought environments, happy to grow and home to be treated. be alive,” Zenhausern said. “Now if we want to go to ... Mars, it would This is the first time researchers have be 50 million miles away, so the journey been able to show they can control an will be long,” Zenhausern said. “We need to environment to accommodate both come up with a way of bringing technology aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, according to [diagnose] most of the diseases in space.” to Zenhausern. The chip is equipped Studying the effects of space on the with sensors and mechanisms that allow human body is a challenging task, researchers to regulate the flow of nutrients particularly when you want to look at the to each level. effects of cosmic radiation. The information researchers glean from It’s very difficult to find human models this microchip will be useful in preparing to study the effects of radiation on, unless for whatever strange diseases or bacteria you are using cancer patients, said Jerome astronauts are exposed to once in space, Lacombe, assistant scientific investigator Zenhausern said. By studying the effects of at the College of Medicine–Phoenix Center cosmic radiation on the gut’s cells, they will for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine. have a better idea of what to expect once BY HANNAH DAHL @hannah_dahl715

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NASA ASTRONAUT TERRY VIRTS is pictured here on a spacewalk as the Earth’s surface passes by in the background. Virts and fellow astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore were routing hundreds of feet of cable as part of a reconfiguration of the International Space Station to enable docking by U.S. commercial crew vehicles currently under development.

humans are actually on Mars. “Maybe we can think in the future to have probiotics that we will be giving to the astronauts to in fact prevent or treat [damage from radiation], depending on the exposure,” Zenhausern said. This technology doesn’t just have applications for future space travel. Both Zenhausern and Lacombe see opportunities for it to be used now to develop drugs that could help mitigate cell damage caused by radiation. “We [have learned] so much more about radiation biology and the effect of the microbiome interacting with human tissue,” Zenhausern said. “We have a different project now, derived from that, where we are looking at the

effect of radiation toxicity in the case of radiotherapy treatment, because right now there are a lot of things that we don’t know when cancer patients go under radiotherapy.” The chip could also provide a platform to test new drugs, instead of using animal models. Additionally, it could be a way to discover new biomarkers for gastrointestinal diseases, Lacombe said. The gut-on-a-chip research is funded by a grant awarded to Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine by NASA’s Translational Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine. The Translational Research Institute is working to develop ways to lower human risk on long space exploration missions.

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UA alumna creates film production company UA graduate Marissa Hall and her husband Ben Sharples released the first film of their own production company BY GABRIELLE MIX @DailyWildcat

Tennis player and actor Ben Sharples had always wanted to write, direct and act in a film about the sport. One night at a dinner party, while making light conversation with friends and relatives about his passion, Sharples was shocked to hear one partygoer say, “I personally think that tennis is a pussy sport.” Sharples went home to his wife, Marissa Hall, in a fit of fury. Hall, a 1996 University of Arizona graduate and filmmaker, found humor in his reaction and told him, “you’re so angry right now ... make a movie out of it.” That was the inspiration for their first film, “Gentlemen’s Fury.” Although they received 15 offers from various distribution companies, Hall’s father, a lawyer, advised the couple to turn them all down and do it all themselves. “Anyone can make a movie now, which is great, but distribution companies will take advantage of you, so you’ll work your heart out for two years and these people will just take it and give you a little percentage of it,” Hall said. The husband-and-wife team decided to create their own production company, Gold Door Films. “We are doing this all, 100 percent, on our own with no help from any studio or big production company,” Hall said. However, after doing all the writing, producing, casting, directing, editing and distributing, they realized how hard creating a film really is. “No wonder these huge movies have $50 million marketing budgets,” Hall said. “We get it.” Despite the extra work and hardships that came with it, she recommends “doing the whole process yourself ” to any new filmmaker. “You learn so much; it’s such a fascinating process, and it’s so empowering to know all the information and have all the tools yourself.” Even though “Gentlemen’s Fury” was completely edited on Sharples’ “tiny little flip-top” laptop and, according to Hall, having a very small budget, Gold Door Films’ vision came to fruition. A dark comedy, the film demonstrates the couple’s view that “so many guys think they need to be aggressive and fight in order to be a man, but we’re saying, no, that’s not what makes you a man at all.” Main character Aaron Faust, played by Sharples, is a professional tennis player who has an aggressive outburst, which results in him being “thrown off the tour and lands him in a league that might not be strictly about tennis,” according to the film’s IMDb page. As a child, Faust was told by his father that tennis was not a man’s sport, and despite his passion for the game, he was always tormented by its lack of physical

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BEN SHARPLES AND MARISSA Hall, a UA graduate, at an event for their movie “Gentlemen’s Fury.”

aggression. In an original and satirical display, “Gentlemen’s Fury” demonstrates the silliness of the notion that playing tennis, or doing anything for that matter, makes a man any less. “Unfortunately, society’s kind of told us that, so we’re trying to show men and women to lighten it up a little bit,” Hall said. The budget for “Gentlemen’s Fury” was raised completely on Kickstarter, so Gold Door Films is hoping that the sales from the movie, as well as a connection with another small production company, will allow for a larger budget on their next movie. The company only had 18 days to shoot their first film, shooting 10 pages of their script per day. They also hope to have more time for their next movie. “We would love the ability to have more time, which means more money,” Hall said. Gold Door Films already has another movie ready to go, and Hall said they are looking forward to it because they “made so many mistakes and have learned so much; [they are] just so excited to make an

even better movie.” Hall said their goal is to continue to make movies for the rest of their lives and create a production company that’s “full of integrity, that’s grounded and is attracting incredible other artists.” She said the problems that have been going on in Hollywood recently have been around forever, and so the most important thing for the two of them is to “create a company with truly good people and only good people.” Hall considers the UA acting program to be one of the best she has ever been a part of. She said she’s learned so much and that the UA helped her tremendously as she now finds so much joy in directing actors. “We are very grateful to the U of A,” Hall said. “Gentlemen’s Fury” was officially released Nov. 10 and is now available on iTunes, Vimeo on Demand and Amazon. “We’re so proud of it,” Hall said. “We just want to get the word out. We just want to make people laugh.”

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Showcase highlights student choreography Student choreographers will see their work performed this weekend with the UA Dance “In the Moment — Student Spotlight” show BY VICTORIA PEREIRA @vguardie917

The University of Arizona School of Dance is showing off some of their choreographers and dancers this weekend at “In the Moment — Student Spotlight.” Undergraduate and graduate students are bringing pieces of all different styles and inspirations to the show. “It’s not just concert ballet dance; it’s really exciting,” said Natalie Clevenger, a senior majoring in dance. Clevenger choreographed one of the featured pieces, “King,” in a modern style with inspiration from choreographer Martha Graham and the techniques used at Indiana Dance Company, a studio Clevenger was a part of. Clevenger’s piece will be performed by eight men and one woman, all undergraduates in the dance program. With her choreography, Clevenger has created a contrast between the movement of the female soloist and the eight men by having the men adopt more feminine movements. “I feel like dance has a very big potential as an art form because it’s using the human body,” Clevenger said. “A lot of times, I think it’s just choreography for choreography, and I wanted to try to experiment and make something that was a piece of art and that was speaking to someone.” While she danced a solo that she choreographed herself last year, this will be Clevenger’s first piece that she has choreographed to be exhibited by other dancers. Haley Johnson, a senior majoring in dance, is another one of the students showing her work at “In the Moment” this weekend. Johnson has had several works performed in various UA shows in the past, but this will be a bit of a departure from her previous pieces that featured darker tones. Using “Mr. Blue Sky” by the Electric Light Orchestra as her music, Johnson said the creation of this piece was very much a collaborative process between herself and her dancers. “I never really have a plan when I’m going through a dance,” Johnson said. “I knew I had a beginning, and then I just was inspired by the push-and-pull kind of thing with the ED FLORES DANCE ENSEMBLE MEMBER DANIEL Gilmore will perform in the showcase “In the Moment – Student Spotlight,” which goes on from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3.

dancers. They gave me a lot of feedback, and that inspired me and I inspired them.” The piece, “Squabble,” is about expressing small, common arguments between people through movement. Johnson said she hopes the audience can take this theme and run with it, finding their own story within it as it is a subject anyone can relate to. Johnson described “Squabble” as contemporary, a blend of the techniques of ballet with the freedom and movement of modern. “It’s freedom in your bones,” Johnson said. “There’s still a technique to it. You still have to straighten your legs and point your feet and you have to be very precise with each movement, but I think the beauty of choreography is using that contemporary technique to make something completely new and original.” That contemporary style will be seen in various performances at “In the Moment,” including “Water from the Same Source.” Nicole Hennington, a junior majoring in dance, choreographed the piece to a song of the same name to explore how people are connected through who and what they learn from. Hennington has choreographed several pieces before, but for this process, she wanted to try something new and created the choreography first, allowing the story and meaning to grow out of the movement. “We’re all being nurtured by the same people or by the same idea or by the same education,” Hennington said. “It’s just up to us what we do differently with it.” “Water from the Same Source” features four dancers, Hennington among them. “I appreciate how compassionate dance can be,” Hennington said. “Your individuality is appreciated in this art. It’s all about what we want to do with our own individual style, and we all support each other … That’s where the passion comes from.” “In the Moment” will feature 12 pieces and will be performed at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 30, Dec. 1 and Dec. 2 and at 1:30 p.m. on Dec. 3 at the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Tickets are $25 for adults and $12 for students and can be purchased at the College of Fine Arts Box Office or online. “It’s very pleasing and entertaining to the eye,” Clevenger said about the show. “A lot of times, modern dance gets confused for something really out there that no one can understand, but I feel like, as a non-dancer, you can come and watch the show and be entertained.”

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Five things to do this December BY AVA GARCIA @ava_garcia1

December is here, and so is the end of the semester. Whether you’re just trying to keep your spirits up through finals week or plan on sticking around during break, here are a few things to check out in Tucson to make the most of this month. Brew Lights 2017 For those 21 and up, Reid Park Zoo offers a twist on Zoo Lights, pairing the familiar dazzling light display with craft beer tasting at Brew Lights. There will be local breweries at the Dec. 2 event, including Barrio Brewing Co., the Grand Canyon Brewing Company, Borderlands Brewing Co. and Catalina Brewing Company, among others. With a $35 VIP ticket, attendees get four tastings of beer and a Brew Lights tasting glass. If you’re under 21, don’t fret. There’s still plenty to check out, like the falling snow, s’mores stations, carousel rides and, of course, the lights. Tickets cost $10 for adults not doing beer tasting, $30 for VIP members doing beer tasting and $6 for children with members getting $2 off zoo admission. Winterhaven Festival of Lights This Tucson winter classic is celebrating its 68th year with a run from Dec. 9–26. Visitors to Winterhaven can opt to take in the sights on foot, hayride, trolley limo or Arizona party bike from 6–10 p.m. each day of

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Bahama breeze sweeps Arizona’s mojo ANALYSIS

BY SAUL BOOKMAN @Saul_Bookman

he Arizona men’s basketball team traveled to Paradise Islands, Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament, and it might’ve well been lost in the Bermuda Triangle. The Wildcats looked nothing like a No. 2-ranked team. In fact, it was the lone team to leave the Bahamas without a win — the last leg in the trio of games possibly being the worst, an 89-64 thumping by the No. 18 Purdue Boilermakers. Is it cause for concern or a bump in the road? One might caution the former. One game is understandable through the course of a season, two can even happen from time to time, but three in three days? Well, the last — and only — time that a team ranked No. 2 lost three times in a week was the ’87–’88 Louisville Cardinals, according to ESPN. To make matters worse, outside of effort, nothing appeared to get better day-to-day. In fact, things only got worse. Let’s break it all down piece by piece.

OFFENSE: Movement The offense was as lost as I’ve ever seen an Arizona team — movement with no purpose, meaning no one was cutting expecting to have the opportunity to score or set someone else up to. Players didn’t seem to understand that each action causes another and though they, themselves may not receive the pass it, may set someone else up for an easier opportunity. Screening was also another problem during the weekend. Players seemed to put themselves in position to screen for a ball handler, then either bail at the last second or the person they screened for wouldn’t come off the screen hard enough to make it effective. It almost looked like each screen was a “flash,” meaning right before impact the screener would jump toward the basket; however, that never happened. Screens were useless the entire weekend, making it far more difficult to create any easy offense. Allonzo Trier If you want to be the man, you have to take the criticism that comes with it, and for that, sophomore guard Allonzo Trier deserves plenty. Offensively, no one had a worse week than him. A constant barrage of forced shots, poor shooting and turnovers plagued the junior in the three games. In the final game against Purdue, Trier opted to not pass to open teammates in favor of forcing up his own shot. It never worked out. He would finish the game with a season-low 8 points on 3-for-10 shooting and four turnovers. He had five turnovers the day before against SMU.

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THE UA MEN’S BASKETBALL team huddles together before their game against Eastern New Mexico on Nov. 1 in McKale Center. Arizona dropped three games while in Paradise Islands, Bahamas for the Battle 4 Atlantis Tournament.

Lack of a third scorer A lot was heard about this team being great once sophomore Rawle Alkins comes back into the fold, but until that happens this team will need a solid third option. They may have found it in Brandon Randolph during the Purdue game. The freshman scored 17 points on 7-for-11 shooting in 26 minutes off the bench. However, with Trier being Inefficient, the Wildcats were still in search of a third double-digit scorer who would never come. A lot has been said about Alkins’ possible contributions, especially if you watched any of the streaming on ESPN3. His return to the lineup is apparently vital, and suddenly, this team isn’t as deep as it once appeared in the preseason.

DEFENSE: No stopper Arizona fans have been spoiled by hard-nosed defenders and great defense under head coach Sean Miller. This year may be his biggest test yet. There isn’t one player on the roster currently that has the ability to shutdown, or even slowdown, a perimeter player. Braxton Beverly (NC State), Ben Emelogu (SMU), Dakota Mathias (Purdue) and Vincent Edwards combined for 81 points on 28-for-44 field goals, including going 16-for-27 from three. Constant room for shooters to get open shots off, wideopen shots or even basic curls into the lane would throw Wildcat defenders into an abyss from which they could never recover. Hedging screens, help defense and solid

rebounding, all Sean Miller staples, were inexplicably absent this week. This is a young team, but they also had several extra days and practice in Spain. Have to wonder where their heads are at right now. Rebounding Arizona was out-rebounded through three games in Atlantis. Some of it was bad bounces, while the remainder was lack of boxing out, plain and simple. Relying on athleticism, the Wildcats never realized that other teams may have similar abilities and were constantly beat to the boards for second-chance points.

FINAL ANALYSIS: In the end, the Battle 4 Atlantis should be left where it was, never to be spoken of again. There are four days before Long Beach State comes into McKale Center and takes on the Wildcats. Then Arizona has road games at UNLV and a neutral site game against Texas A&M. Those are three games that could get the mojo back in a hurry, especially A&M. After that it’s Alabama, New Mexico, North Dakota State and UConn, who beat Oregon in the PK80 Tournament. Win ‘em all and you’re looking at 10-3 heading into the Pac-12 opener versus ASU no worse for wear. Lose a couple and things, such as NCAA Tournament seeding, get decidedly worse, though at this point it should be the furthest thing from anyone’s mind.

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ARIZONA FOOTBALL HEAD COACH Rich Rodriguez during the UA-ASU rivalry game on Nov. 25 at Sun Devil Stadium.

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ARIZONA’S SHUN BROWN (6) MISSES a pass by Khalil Tate during the UA-ASU Territorial Cup game on Nov. 25 at Sun Devil Stadium.

Cup back to Tempe, not without controversy A game filled with coaching errors and unwarranted penalties cost the Wildcats the Territorial Cup BY SAUL BOOKMAN @Saul_Bookman

With the ball on their own 45-yard line and a 10-point lead, Arizona football head coach Rich Rodriguez played it conservative and it led to the Arizona Wildcats’ demise in a 42-30 loss to rival ASU on Saturday at Sun Devil Stadium. The next series of plays resulted in a failed hail mary attempt and, more importantly, shifted the tide in favor of the Sun Devils as Khalil Tate favored an arm that was previously injured after getting hit on the pass. ASU would score 21 unanswered points and never look back. Arizona was in control for the most part, able to use its running game to move ASU all over the field, jumping out to a 14-0 lead in the first quarter. Tate also used his arm more in the first quarter than perhaps any time this season, guiding the ball to four different receivers for a total of 62 yards without an incompletion. Defensively, the Wildcats were solid, able to contain ASU’s running game for the most part, limiting quarterback

Manny Wilkins and company to just 35 yards rushing on 20 carries. Wilkins did exploit the UA secondary for 132 yards but also threw an interception, which Arizona was able to capitalize on. But the game’s controversy began with a minute to go in the half as Arizona fielded a punt at its 30 and was awarded a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty by ASU to start at their own 45. With 1:00 left on the clock and multiple timeouts in tow, Rodriguez chose to run the ball and drain the clock, opting to take timeouts on third and fourth down. It appeared Rodriguez may settle for a field goal, instead he chose to have Tate heave one into the end zone. Tate would take a hit and slowly get up, take a step after being helped up by a teammate, before stopping, bend over and play his right arm on his knee with his left arm dangling in obvious pain. “No, he was hurt before that and it was a concern,” Rodriguez said. “Somehow in the first quarter, he nicked up his left shoulder [not his throwing shoulder]. It affected him mentally and physically a little bit.” Whether it was discomfort or mentally

challenging, Tate would not start the second half and it was left to former starter Brandon Dawkins to salvage the Arizona offense. Dawkins would go three-and-out on his first possession with the ensuing punt blocked out of bounds at the Wildcat five. Next possession, he’d throw an interception to Sun Devil defensive back Demonte King. Next drive, punt. “I mean, I didn’t really know. I am always ready to go in, though,” Dawkins said. “No matter what happens, god forbid Khalil gets hurt or if they just want to try and switch it up. I am always ready to jump in, take the reigns and go full speed.” Tate would come in to test out his arm again, but to no avail, visibly still in pain, lofting a ball 50 yards downfield as if his off arm was holding onto a 100-pound weight. All three drives ended quickly, and all three possessions following were touchdowns by ASU. Dawkins would do his best to help Arizona recover, scoring from 50 yards out on a run. And it seemed the Wildcats had completed the comeback when wide

receiver Shun Brown took a punt return all the way back for a score before getting called back on a controversial block in the back penalty. “No, I didn’t think it was when I saw it live or on the replay,” Rodriguez said when asked if he thought it should’ve been a penalty. The Wildcats’ last gasp was with five minutes left and the Wildcats down 4230. Dawkins wasn’t able to convert on a fourth-and-goal try, which sealed the game for ASU. The Wildcats, now 7-5 on the season, await news as to what bowl game they will be selected to play in. Possible scenarios could have them in either the Sun Bowl or Las Vegas Bowl at this moment. For a team expected to finish dead last in the Pac-12, not all is lost on this game. “I enjoyed it, I thought we shocked a lot of people,” defensive back Lorenzo Burns said. “We were picked dead last in the whole [Pac-12], so I thought we did a great job of coming together and proving a lot of people wrong. I’m not happy with the result today, but with the overall season, I’m pretty happy with it.”

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THE ARIZONA MEN’S HOCKEY team takes on Arizona State on Feb. 18 in the Tucson Convention Center.

Wildcats hot, Sun Devils not BY RACHEL HUSTON @mirachelonice

On Friday, Dec. 2, and Saturday, Dec. 3, the Arizona hockey team will play its first game since Nov. 18 against Missouri State. But it won’t be just any game. It’s a big-time rivalry with ASU coming to town. What makes this matchup special is the position both teams are in heading into the game. Spoiler alert: UA is well off and ASU isn’t. The Wildcats have been through a reasonable amount of struggle with tough opponents, such as Central Oklahoma and Missouri State, but still have a record of 14-6. Anthony Cusanelli is also tied for the league lead in goals with 22, and sits seventh among all players in points with 32. Meanwhile, ASU is 9-15 on their season after posting a record of 24-11 just last year. Jake Savona, who was ASU’s leading scorer when they first came to town in September, is tied for the point lead with teammate Austin Ehrlich. The two have 22 points, though Savona has accumulated those points in 15 games while Ehrlich has done so in 22 games. Savona also leads the team in goals with 12. The last time these two teams clashed in Tucson, the Wildcats took control of the game and won 8-4 with two tallies by both Orion Olsen and Trey Decker. The next matchup took place in Tempe, and Arizona won once again, that time by a score of 6-4. Anthony Cusanelli was just warming up his season at that point, yet registered two goals on the night nonetheless. Just because Arizona has won against the Sun Devils before and has a statistical

advantage, ASU could very well pull out a win. It’s not characteristic of the Wildcats to get complacent, so that’s not likely to bite them, but rust is a possible factor. The ‘Cats are coming off Thanksgiving weekend after a 2-1 series in Alabama and Missouri, so even if most of the squad is young and quick and not likely to be slowed down by one week without a game, the time off could be a factor. This could wind up hurting the Wildcats and result in an ASU win, or it could help them since they spent a lot of time traveling as of late, so it was a well-timed byeweek. Despite it being Thanksgiving last week, ASU could still be hungry — hungry for a win that is. Nothing can get a season going again quite like a swift win against a rival. The Sun Devils know as well as the Wildcats how important this matchup is to each season, so they will be willing to risk a lot to come out on top. Look for ASU to come out just as hot as they did in the first contests this season. Place some bets on Savona getting the opening goal. That being said, Savona is the player to watch on Arizona State’s side. As for Arizona, there’s Josh Larson. Cusanelli is leading in both points and goals and often gets the spotlight for his feats, but Larson is an underrated winger who sits at third on the team in points (24) and second in goals (14). He’s found twine against ASU before, netting one goal in each game against ASU previously. Expect his line with Justin Plumhoff and Trey Decker to be leading the way for the squad with their speed, agility and agitating. Puck drop is at 7:30 p.m. both Friday and Saturday in the Tucson Convention Center.

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MADISON CINDRIC DOES A midair split while warming up for her floor routine during Arizona’s 194.025-191.600 win over Utah State and Texas Woman’s in McKale Center on Jan. 6.

BY SYRENA TRACY @syrena_tracy

The Arizona gymnastics team is tumbling its way into McKale Center on Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 6 p.m. for their annual GymCat Showcase to give fans a sneak peak of what to expect for the upcoming 2017–18 season. Arizona looks to build on last season’s fifth-place NCAA Regional finish with 11 returning GymCats and four freshmen. The ‘Cats faced another coaching change after the 2016–17 season and welcomed previous assistant coach John Court as interim head coach. Court was assistant coach for the gymnastics team for 19 seasons and took place of coach Tabitha Yim going into the 2017–18 season. Court adjusted to the head coaching position quickly and is optimistic for the season. The Wildcats’ 2017–18 schedule is unlike others in the past as they will take on more difficult teams.

“It is exciting. It is nice to compete against people that are challenging,” senior Madison Cindric said. “It brings more energy to the team and brings a higher level of motivation to all of us.” The team will rely on the experience from seniors Kennady Schneider, Victoria Ortiz and Cindric. The three GymCats have been a powerful trio since their freshman year and impacted the program greatly from the moment they came to Arizona. “They have had a good run here and have accomplished a lot,” Court said of the trio. “They want to see the team do better than it has in the past. When they were freshmen, the team finished No. 17 in the country, and they would love to get that back to end their four-year legacy.” Junior GymCats include Haylie Hendrickson, who has improved her skill set; Lauryn Mattson, who dominates on floor; and Danielle Spencer, who is the gymnast that the team can count on for competing on bars. “The junior and sophomores are advancing in skills

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and getting better and better,” Court said. Court has seen improvements from the sophomore GymCats: Christina Berg, Courtney Cowles, Jenny Leung, Maddi Leydin and Heather Swanson. As a class, the gymnasts have practiced and made strides to improve their skills all around for the season. For freshman Payton Bellows, Sydney Freidin, Laura Leigh Horton and Adra Parks, the GymCat Showcase will be the first time they will be under the lights in McKale Center. “Freshman don’t know much about competing in college gymnastics because club gymnastics is very focused on individuals rather than a team,” Cindric said. “This is such a team sport and focused on what we need to do to succeed.” Fans will get a sneak peak of the upcoming season at the GymCat Showcase before they flip into the season with a quad meet against Denver, Rutgers and New Hampshire on Saturday, Jan. 6, at 4 p.m. in McKale Center.