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COL. ROBERT D. DWAN, left, Gerrit Steenblik, center, and Cpl. Lawrence W. Strahler, right, pose for a photo at the American Legion Post 109 Sunday, April 23. Both WWII Veterans earned the Ordre national de la Legion d’honneur, France’s highest honor.
Former UA ROTC commander receives France’s highest honor BY TORI TOM @DailyWildcat
Col. Robert D. Dwan was one of two U.S. World War II veterans awarded the Ordre National de la Légion d’honneur for military heroism on Sunday, April 23, at the American Legion Post 109. The stoic 97-year-old army retiree labored out of his wheelchair at the start of the ceremony and stood for five long minutes throughout the Pledge of Allegiance, the national anthem, French national anthem and Cienega High School’s JROTC presentation of the colors.
Dwan is a former commander of UA’s ROTC program from 1966 to 1971. He said his job on campus was to equip student cadets with basic military principals and regulations. Dwan graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, similar to his father, after briefly attending Harvard University. Although he was in the class of 1944, Dwan was commissioned a year early because of the war. Following tactical warfare training in the California desert at Camp Coxcomb, Dwan, leader of the 15th Calvary Regiment, fought on Utah
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Beach in the Allied invasion of Normandy. “The assault troops had been briefed as to their exact destination, and if the Germans found out, the results would have been disastrous,” Dwan wrote in a letter after the war to the sisters of a fellow soldier, Ted Dobosz. “There were many rehearsals since the exact D-Day was unknown. Then, during one rehearsal, it happened and it was for real.” His platoon had arrived in England aboard the Queen Mary vessel, which was formerly a luxury liner, in June 1944. Thomas Dwan, Dwan’s second son, fondly recalled
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some of his father’s stories surrounding the voyage. “Guys were stacked in there with six-[unit]-high bunks,” Thomas said. “Guys who had never been on a ship before were just puking all over the place. He was saying they didn’t have any escorts and if they sank, they would have lost about 15,000 men.” In a diary entry, Dwan remembered a close call that left him wounded from German artillery fire. A half-inch shell fragment struck his lower leg as he checked on an injured soldier in an adjacent St. Claude trench, near Brest, France.
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Old Main recongized for 2014 green renovation BY MARISSA HEFFERNAN @_mheffernan
Old Main’s renovation, completed in 2014, recently received the 2017 U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) Arizona Leader Award in Building Performance during the Arizona chapter’s Heavy Medals Luncheon on April 19 in Tempe. According to the Arizona council, the award was granted for the renovation’s “significant increase in building performance through the implementation of sustainable design solutions.” Peter Dourlein, UA’s assistant vice president of planning, design and construction, said the award recognizes not only the increased comfort, efficiency and extended functional life, but the UA’s vision as a whole. “The great thing is it’s in recognition of our program and how we treat buildings,” Dourlein said. “We’re not just looking at the upfront cost; we’re looking at the life cycle cost of the building. We’re going to own it a long time, and we want it to have a long life and be comfortable and efficient.” Dourlein said the renovations included increased natural light, better air quality and better acoustic quality, to help people perform better. “You can create space that is inspirational,” Dourlein said. “It doesn’t just facilitate work, but it also inspires. Good architecture can lead and do more than facilitate.” Rodney Lane Mackey, associate director of planning and public private partnerships, was the design project manager for the renovation. He said the renovation was timely because
the building was experiencing issues. The wood portions, in particular the outside porches and the outdated mechanical systems, were all failing. “This is the oldest building on campus, one of the oldest institutional buildings in the state,” Mackey said. “It was the only building on our campus that had not had a major renovation since it was built, so it was not in very good shape.” Mackey said the team took Old Main back to the original design concept from the 1880s, which includes large cross hallways that divide the space into four large, open blocks. “Our efforts to restore it to its original design concepts, but still have a facility that meets modern office requirements, is something we feel really good about,” Mackey said. The project cost $13.5 million, but Mackey said it’s hard to estimate how much money will be saved, because the building was not metered individually prior to the renovation. Lorna Gray, facilities project manager for the renovation, said the installation of efficient heating and cooling equipment means the building now benefits from a combination of the original, Tucson-appropriate architectural design and modern technology, making it more environmentally friendly. “Although we don’t have older data to compare to, we do have a national ASHRAE [American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers] standard which was used for a baseline as the designers pushed for a 24-percent improvement above and beyond,” Gray said.
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AS THE “CENTER OF the UA universe,” Old Main is the first building ever constructed at the UA. It was originally the School of Agriculture building.
“The LEED Silver certification and the recent Arizona Leader Award for Building Performance are a result of these design priorities.” Other awards the Old Main renovation received: the 2015 Governor’s Heritage Preservation Grand Award; the Tucson-Pima County Historical Commission’s Historic Preservation Award; the Design-Build Institute of America’s Western Pacific region Design-Build award; and the National Award of Merit in Rehabilitation, Renovation and/ or Restoration from the DesignBuild Institute of America. Gray said the awards recognize
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“You’d be surprised how often you see that image associated with Tucson. It’s really the center of the UA universe.” Dourlein said when other old campus buildings need to be updated, the teams will look to the Old Main renovation for ideas. “When you work on a historical building, it’s kind of like peeling an onion,” Dourlein said. “You could just keep peeling away and peeling away, but if you’re not careful, you won’t have anything left. You just have to know how far to peel away before you start to restore.”
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the UA’s commitment to sustainability and tradition. “There is probably no building on campus that is closer to people’s hearts than Old Main,” Gray said. “Throughout the design and construction processes, many community members provided input, shared stories, watched the progress and engaged in the transformation.” Mackey agreed the building is more than just a space for offices, and said with the renovation, Old Main is set for another 125 years. “Old Main is an essential symbol, for not only the UA but also for Tucson,” Mackay said.
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$200k of pres. salary paid anonymously from donors BY HENRY CARSON @_henrycarson
As part of his compensation negotiated earlier this month, incoming UA President Dr. Robert Robbins will be receiving $200,000 annually provided by the University of Arizona Foundation. This compensation is detailed as part of his appointment to Endowed Presidential Leadership Chair, a position with no additional responsibilities or expectations outside of being UA president. The $200,000 from this endowment brings Robbins’ annual compensation up to $988,000, not including annual and multipleyear, at-risk compensation to be assigned later this year, making him the highest paid university president in state history. UA Foundation President and CEO JohnPaul Roczniak said in an email that this faculty chair endowment “supports the position of president of the UA as defined by the Arizona Board of Regents.” The creation of this new leadership chair position was approved by the UA Foundation board of trustees, and according to Roczniak, the endowment will also continue to support future UA presidents. “It’s basically a funding stream rather than a position,” UA Foundation Assistant Vice President for Marketing and Communications Liz Warren-Pederson said, “so it doesn’t have duties and responsibilities that are different than those that have been established by the Arizona Board of Regents for the role of president.” According to the UA Foundation’s website, endowment funds are a way for donors to give money that will continue to support something of their choosing. The funds are invested and the income from the investment is put toward the endowment’s cause, leaving the principal amount to be reinvested every year. The UA Foundation controls an endowment of approximately $673 million, the most of any public university in Arizona. “The foundation is committed to raising $5 million to fund this chair in perpetuity and is close to reaching that goal,” Roczniak continued. Like all other UA Foundation endowments, the position will be funded by donors and not by UA students’ tuition. The contributors to the Endowed Presidential Leadership Chair, however, are unknown. “There are multiple donors who have committed funding to this endowment,” Warren-Pederson said, “but at this time, they have chosen to remain anonymous.”
Ducey visits UA to talk new plans BY ROCKY BAIER @profroxy
Gov. Doug Ducey visited campus Thursday to meet with deans of different colleges and to share his business background and knowledge with students in MGMT 202, Ethical Issues in Business. During the meeting, Ducey wanted to learn what support the colleges needed from the Governor’s Office. As an Entrepreneurial Fellow for the Eller College of Management, Ducey also discussed his hope for expansion of opportunities for business students to not only touch the Tucson market, but the Phoenix market as well. In the works for all in-state universities is Ducey’s $1 billion funding plan, where universities will be able to keep their sales tax in order to fund critical maintenance needs and new capital or research infrastructure. This new plan would still have universities paying the sales tax, but it would allow them to
“recapture” the funds and build on it. Because the $1 billion would be split between all of the instate universities, the amount of sales tax each university pays determines how much they receive. Arizona State University would receive roughly $450 million, the UA would receive about $400 million and Northern Arizona University would receive about $150 million. The UA needs $200 million for deferred maintenance for buildings in the College of Medicine, the BioSciences West building and the Microbiology building, among others. These delayed repairs mean that these buildings could pose a risk to public health and safety. The opposition says the sales tax paid by the universities goes to the cities and counties around the state and that funding would be lost. “There’s always going to be pushback on any new idea, anything that’s innovative,” Ducey said. “We have a state that’s growing again; it’s among
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the fastest growing states in the nation. We have excellent universities who need to be prepared for that growth.” During the class, he spoke about his background as a finance student from ASU and as CEO of Cold Stone Creamery. He also spoke about becoming governor and what he’s learned from the experience.
“I am someone, and it might just be my entrepreneurial background, [who wants] to lead with the things that we’re doing right in the state of Arizona,” Ducey said to the class. “But at the same time, we do need more resources for education, and health care, but there’s really no way to get those without rough.”
UA hosts TEDxLive talks series BY RANDALL ECK @reck999
More than 700 students signed up online to attend UA’s TEDxLive throughout the day, according to Robert Johnson, senior director of InnovateUA and africana studies junior. “InnovateUA organized this TEDxLive event as part of our plans to host a UA TEDx conference this fall with live speakers from across the UA ecosystem,” Johnson said. The event featured six segments, each centered around a broad theme. The first four themes— Connection, Community; Bugs and Bodies; Mind, Meaning and Planet, Protection—were streamed live to the first floor of the UA Bookstore. “The unique opportunity we offered with this event was we were one of the two communities in Tucson that was licensed by TED to broadcast TED’s Vancouver conference,” Johnson said. The event provided students the opportunity to discover the newest, freshest and brightest ideas developing around the
world, Johnson said. Many of the talks will not be available until summer, Johnson said. “You can’t rewind it; you are in the moment,” Johnson said. “The Student Union Memorial Center also played a big role in covering the food trucks, and the library was a big part of providing the space,” Johnson said. The Under the Stars portion of the event featured a series of speakers focused on the themes Our Robotic Overlords and The Human Response. Johnson said all the themes were really broad, but it all boiled down our impact on the world. Becca Rogers, a neuroscience and cognitive science senior, attended the event to support UA’s efforts to host a TEDx event on campus. “I watch a TED Talk every single day,” Rogers said. “You can learn so much from them, and I really like to see women in technology.” Rodrigo Savage, a doctorate student in electrical and computer engineering, said, “I had no idea that the technologies TED are
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SAMANTHA ORWOLL, LEFT, AND Danielle Orozco, right, help guests of the InnovateUA-sponsored TEDxLive stream Thursday, April 27.
showing this year existed and that people are working on these concepts.” Savage and Rogers said they are both inspired by TED Talks and hope to give one of their own one day. “I hope students learned something new,” Johnson said of the event. “I hope students get inspired to share their own ideas.” Johnson said students can get
involved in planning UA’s own TEDx event by reaching out on social media, visiting InnovateUA’s website or attending Monday TEDx planning meetings. “I am really thankful for the students who came out and were committed to sitting down for these talks,” Johnson said. “There are big questions, but there are better answers, and we are the ones who deliver them.”
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Rio Nuevo ups development after years of mismanagement BY RANDALL ECK @reck999
After a checkered past, Rio Nuevo, a special taxing district in Tucson, is achieving success and increasing economic development and output in the community. Rio Nuevo was formed following a 1999 ballot initiative to create a Tax Increment Financing district in Tucson. The district receives a portion of the transaction privilege taxes or sales tax collected within its district. “Rio Nuevo’s district is largely downtown, but it also extends all the way out Broadway to Wilmot,” said Steve Kozachik, Tucson City councilman for Ward Six. According to a Rio Nuevo press release from Jan. 24, for every dollar their board spends, $10 is generated in economic activity for the Tucson community. “The influx of major corporations coming to the downtown area has proven to be the catalyst for a live, work and play urban renewal,” said Fletcher McCusker, chair of Rio Nuevo, in a press release announcing a 2016 deal with Caterpillar. Yet, Rio Nuevo has not always had such success. “The legislature almost abolished the district over accusations of mismanaging funds about a decade ago,” Kozachik said. “There was a couple hundred million dollars where people started to wonder where it went.” After an investigation by the state auditor general, oversight of Rio Nuevo was transferred from the City of Tucson to the state legislature following the determination that funds were mismanaged. After an 18-month investigation involving the FBI, the state attorney general declined to bring criminal charges for the $250 million that was wasted, citing a 2010 Supreme Court decision that made prosecutions without proof of direct bribery or kickbacks more difficult. During the investigation, the Arizona State Legislature reorganized Rio Nuevo, starting in 2009 with a strong majority vote. In 2010, a board was reappointed. According to Kozachik, there
is now a hard line in the sand separating the actions and deals of Rio Nuevo and the actions of the city. The Governor, President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives are responsible for appointing board members to Rio Nuevo. The current board consists of six members: besides the chair McCusker, there is Mark Irvin (secretary), Chris Sheafe (treasurer), Jannie Cox, Jeffrey Hill and Edmund Marquez. “Under the current Rio Nuevo leadership and city leadership, we have a good and positive relationship,” Kozachik said. McCusker is a graduate of the UA from the class of 1974, 2011 Alumni of the Year, and serves on two of the university’s boards, according to Rio Nuevo’s website. “He is determined to celebrate a vibrant, world-class downtown,” the website reads. McCusker relocated his billion dollar company to Tucson and has since helped revitalize Tucson’s downtown. Rio Nuevo has been able to help revitalize its district by working creatively, effectively and with transparency in cooperation with the city and businesses. “Rio Nuevo is in a position to come up with creative solutions which the city is not,” Kozachik said. The city does not lend money or backstop loans in economic development projects. “Rio Nuevo helps to provide gap funding in areas that may the private sector won’t yet, but Rio Nuevo is in a position to do it,” Kozachik said. “They help bridge financial needs of projects that because of the state of the economy and the challenges private lending sector still sees they are not really willing to step up yet.” Rio Nuevo is only allowed by law to invest and sign development deals within its district. The goal of these deals is to increase economic activity and also sales tax in the district. Part of this sales tax acts as a return on Rio Nuevo’s investment keeping them self-sustainable, but it also increases revenue to the state and the city, according to Kozachik. “The City of Tucson is
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THE ARIZONA STATE BUILDING where Rio Nuevo meets. Rio Nuevo works to develop downtown in conjunction with the City of Tucson and private developers.
working with Rio Nuevo on a Caterpillar Surface and Mining complex and an AC Marriott Hotel,” Kozachik said. Rio Nuevo recently announced a deal with Hexagon which secured the companies relocation into its downtown Tucson district. The deal involved $1.289 million of economic incentives for the Swedish company but is estimated to bring hundreds of jobs and have an economic impact of close to $250 million. Caterpillar vice president with responsibility for Surface Mining and Technology, Tom Bluth, said in a press release, “Southern Arizona is a growing region known for a workforce rich in mining, technology and engineering expertise as well as an attractive quality of life for both families and young graduates.”
Rio Nuevo worked closely with Caterpillar to secure their investment in Tucson which is estimated to $900 million. “The city of Tucson recently signed an agreement which gives Rio Nuevo an opportunity to repurpose some of the properties that would potentially be demolished on Broadway due to the widening of Euclid and Country Club,” Kozachik said. In order to save small businesses who may be losing their access and parking, Rio Nuevo is in a position to buy up these businesses and selectively demolish some in order that others can survive with new parking and access, Kozachik said. It is deals like these, that the city cannot make, that characterize Rio Nuevo’s economic role.
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“I … raised up and saw that his foot was nearly severed,” he wrote. “Hearing another incoming shell, I dropped back in the slit trench … I felt a thud in my right calf, looked down and saw blood at the top of my legging.” Despite the grit he encountered on the battle field, Dwan remained a dedicated soldier, husband and father. His No. 1 goal in life was to raise his four children with upstanding morals. Thomas, 57, described his father as “an honorable, honest guy” who bears a heart of gold. When the army veteran and his family were stationed in Germany, Thomas shoplifted a packet of fruit-flavored candy tablets called Fizzies from a local grocery store. Staying true to his candid nature, Dwan forced Thomas to rectify his dishonesty by returning to the shop and paying for the stolen item. Everything Dwan did within the army and apart from it was motivated by truthfulness. He believes that a person’s worth is based on their integrity. “If he was off by 25 cents on his taxes,” Thomas said, “he would refile his taxes and do it correctly. If someone ‘underrang’ him at a store, he would pay the right amount.” Both he and Cpl. Lawrence Strahler were given the Knight’s Medal in Corona De Tucson by Gerrit M. Steenblik, Honorary Consul of France in Arizona, commemorating their military merit for rescuing France from German occupation. Their names will be displayed on a plaque alongside their fellow recipient comrades within Paris’ Musée de la Légion d’honneur—the Museum of the Legion of Honor. The Legion of Honor, which is the highest French award, was established by First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte during 1802. “We will not forget, as France has not forgotten the things that tie us together,” Steenblik said. “It is because of this that France wants to honor these veterans. No sacrifice made in that war was too small, and we are grateful for the opportunity to honor everyone who has served and helped to liberate France.” Dwan’s other significant decorations include The Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart Medal and the French Croix de Guerre. “We are proud of … what our dad has done,” Thomas Dwan said on behalf of his siblings. “The fact that he was recognized for something he did … was pretty darn impressive.” Like many other World War II servicemen, Dwan operated his military career with the utmost sincerity. Thomas Dwan said his father expressed gratification in receiving the French Legion of Honor metal, especially since it was unexpected. After the ceremony, Dawn said, “I highly appreciate the honor.”
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Robbins to be highest paid UA president Incoming UA president Robert Robbins accepted a contracted salary of close to one million dollars, where there was opportunity to give back to the university community
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he United States is not the only place that has brought in a new president to take over; our beloved UA has brought in a new commander in chief to take place of President Ann Weaver Hart at a rather steep price tag. Dr. Robert Robbins, the former CEO of Texas Medical Center, agreed to a three-year contract, in which he will be paid just short of $1 million annually. You wouldn’t expect a former CEO to take a humble salary would you? This has proven to be significantly higher than any other president in not only UA history, but in the history of the three public Arizona universities. The salary does not match up with the position with only nine public university presidents earning over $1 million, but will Robbins take this opportunity to impress us in wanting to make a difference at the UA and in the Tucson community? Many presidents of well-known public universities have donated large portions of their salaries or even requested their salaries be lowered to benefit the university as a whole. President Gregory Fenves of UT Austin was originally offered a $1 million salary, but only ended up receiving $750K. In the original contract, he was also offered a 12-percent bonus on top of the $1 million, which comes out to $120K. Even then Fenves opted for less. He requested his salary be dropped by 2 percent. When asked why he requested a lower salary, Fenves said, “One million dollars is too high for a public university,” and he went on to elaborate, saying, “It will attract widespread negative attention from students and faculty given the difficult budgetary constraints of the past five years.” Fenves and his knowledge of the budget constraints and the inevitable controversy that would follow shows a connection to the people and an understanding that leading a public university is a service to the students and faculty, not a high-paying corporate cash cow. This is something former President of
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THE SOLE FINALIST FOR UA President, Dr. Robert Robbins, speaks during a press conference at the UA College of Medicine — Phoenix on Tuesday, March 7. Robbins is contracted with a starting salary just short of $1 million.
Kentucky State University Raymond Burse understood. The Harvard lawyer and former senior executive of GE allowed his salary to drop from $349,869 to $259,745 simply so the lowest paid campus employees could receive a living wage. When Burse was asked why he would allow around $90,000 to be cut from his salary, he responded with, “I was in a position where I could do that.” Burse’s understanding of the worker gave campus workers who were earning $7.25 an hour an impressive increase to $10.25 an hour. Men like Fenves and Burse are what advance institutions of higher education; the ability
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to take less money for themselves shows an understanding of the position and compassion for not only faculty, but us students. In a study by the institute for policy studies, public universities where the president earned a $1 million plus salary were also the institutions that showed higher rates of student debt. “Presiding over a public university should not be a ticket to extreme wealth,” said Dr. Margie Wood of the Institute for Policy studies. President Ann Weaver Hart took a 23-percent pay cut when she took her current job at the UA. When she began her term as president in 2012-2013, she earned $560,000.
Robbins’ $1 million salary plus the ridiculously high salaries of the UA’s athletic department figureheads really gives you an insight to where your tuition is going. I guess most of you didn’t realize the UA also had that one-tenth of 1 percent socioeconomic burden. Dr. Robbins, on behalf of all UA students wondering how they will pay their high tuition: Welcome, and I hope you take this opportunity to utilize our money to better the university and help the workers on campus. If not, enjoy the money my parents and I earned from picking strawberries and mixing concrete so you can continue your lifestyle.
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Sawmill Fire: Wilderness blaze a hot topic at UA The late-April Sawmill Fire has engulfed over 40,000 acres as of printing. UA researchers offer their insight on this blaze and others like it BY HANNAH DAHL @hannah_dahl715
A wildfire sparked in the Santa Rita Mountains Sunday and is currently sweeping across the Coronado National Forest. It has already claimed over 40,000 acres of mesquite, oak and riparian woodland, according to reports from the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. The Sawmill Fire was caused by humans, though the exact details are currently under investigation, according to Tiffany Davila, public affairs officer for the Department of Forestry and Fire Management. Some of the factors contributing to the severity of the Sawmill Fire have been the extremely hot temperatures and high winds, direct results of current climate change, said Donald Falk, an associate professor in natural resources, global change and dendrochronology. “The weather has played the main role in this fire; the wind has been fanning the flames; the fuels on the ground are dry, so those two combinations are hazardous conditions for firefighters,” Davila said. According to Falk, increasing temperatures due to global climate change have resulted in fire seasons that start sooner and last longer. “It used to be that fire season was about five months long, usually beginning in April or May, and now in the Southwest, fire season is almost 12 months, almost yearround,” Falk said. This issue has recently received national attention, even before the Sawmill Fire. This month, Falk traveled to Washington D.C. to present on wildland fire issues at a congressional briefing sponsored by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Falk testified to members of congressional staff regarding the future of wildland fires and how current trends in climate and suppression tactics may impact the frequency and severity of these fires. According to Falk, extreme fire behavior results from three main factors: topography, weather and
fuel. These three factors make up what is called the fire behavior triangle and can be the cause of an extreme, fast-moving fire with a high heat output. While topography is relatively fixed and doesn’t necessarily allow for much human modification, climate and fuel are a different story, Falk said. Over an extended period of time, hot, dry, windy afternoons create the perfect fire weather, he added. Changes in climate have caused the range of weather to shift closer to the spectrum of extreme fire danger. Recent data published by the USA National Phenology Network shows that spring is occurring three weeks earlier in the southeastern United States than it has in the past three decades. Falk said this means that fires can now start three weeks earlier. “Every degree of [temperature increase] means spring is going to come earlier, snowpack will melt sooner, the fuels will dry out and you will have a longer fire season,” Falk said. “When we project that out, it looks like fire season is just getting longer and longer and the peak intensity of temperatures is higher.” The second factor—fuel—refers to the vegetation available to be consumed by fire. Fire suppression and preventing natural fires leads to fuel build-up, which in turn results in extreme, out-of-control fire events, Falk said. When forests aren’t able to burn naturally, dead leaves and branches pile up, providing fires with access to the tree canopy. One major source of fire suppression comes from federal- and state-sponsored fire management, said Jesse Minor, a graduate student studying geography and natural resources. Where a forest might have normally burned every 12 years, suppression tactics have prevented the forest from burning for extended periods of time, resulting in missed fire cycles, Minor said. “Eventually, you’ve got 100 years worth of fuel accumulated, where in the past, you would’ve only had five,” Falk said. This means that when a fire is
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MIKE TRUBMAN, LEFT, WORKS with fellow Black Mesa Type-1 Interagency Hotshot Crew member Steve Daly, right, to mop up hot spots along Cienega Creek east of Empire Ranch while the Sawmill Fire burns on April 27 burning in Southeastern Arizona between Green Valley and J-6.
finally started, it can quickly get out of control, like the fire currently tearing through the Coronado National Forest. According to Falk, in the case of the Sawmill Fire, dry vegetation build-up could have led to a more extreme blaze, while prior to fire suppression practices, it might have been a more manageable and beneficial fire. “What we’re seeing now is fires that can’t be suppressed very easily, and they end up really radically changing the vegetation that we have out there in the mountains,” Minor explained. And while Tucson’s inner-city neighborhoods probably won’t have to worry about wildland fires anytime soon, the surrounding mountains and Sonoran Desert are at risk. Non-native species such as Buffelgrass have created a fire risk in a desert which otherwise wouldn’t be likely to burn as much, Minor said. The foothills and surrounding
mountains are in greater danger of an extreme wildland fire. “When you have a mixed fuel complex where you have houses and powerlines and gas lines and dense vegetation, all of that mixed together is a really hazardous condition,” Minor said. According to Falk, one of the best ways to prevent extreme wildland fires is to simply let the fire run its course. “You have to start letting fires burn again,” Falk said. “The bottom line is that fire, when it’s in its natural role, can safely reduce fuels over very large areas, entire landscapes, without you having to go out and do anything except protect people’s houses.” Alternative ways of managing fire include using mechanical methods, such as thinning out trees or repurposing excess fuel into wood chips to allow for a safer, prescribed burn, Falk said. “Fuel [treatment] is what we can do now and we can do it immediately, and it’s expensive, but
a lot of things are expensive that are worth doing,” Falk added. The Forest Service recently released a report stating they plan to use over two-thirds of their budget to focus on fire management and suppression in the next eight years. The report stated the majority of the funds would go to “battling ever-increasing fires, while missioncritical programs that can help prevent fires in the first place […] will continue to suffer.” There are currently over 600 people working to fight the Sawmill Fire, including a mixture of helicopters and airplanes and crews from across the state. Nearly 200 people have either been evacuated or face the possibility of having to evacuate their homes, Davila said. Despite this, Falk and Minor remain optimistic. The rise in extreme wildland fires is “absolutely treatable,” as long as prescribed burns are allowed and measures are taken to slow down climate change, Falk said.
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Science • Friday, April 28-Sunday, April 30, 2017
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RESEARCHERS EXAMINE THE CATCH from an oxbow lake in the Amazon rain forest. Students who particpiate in the Ecuador study abroad program have a chance to do original research.
Ecuador program makes winter an adventure BY MARISSA HEFFERNAN @_mheffernan
UA Study Abroad offers more than just semesters abroad for students learning languages or studying culture. Many shortterm options focus on science. One such trip is the winter break expedition to the Ecuadorian rain forest, lead by HansWerner Herrmann, a research scientist and adjunct professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment. “This is a first glimpse for an undergraduate to get a little bit of international experience,” Herrmann said. Lasting about two weeks and costing, all expenses included, around $5,730, student participants of SWES 495F/595F Amazon Rainforest Conservation Biology in Ecuador perform field work in Yasuni National Park, one of the most biologically diverse areas in the world. Herrmann said students have a number of assignments on the trip. They keep a field notebook, lead a discussion of a peer-reviewed paper, present on a relevant scientific topic to the group and write a 10-page research paper on their individual research project once they return to the U.S. “From talking with the students about the scientific paper discussion or the research project, I have the impression that’s the first time students do that,” Herrmann said. “It’s an exercise in getting used to the research that can be done in a short timeframe and an experience in how to plan and conduct something like this.” Most importantly, the students spend a lot of time in the rain forest. Alaina Michaels, a biology junior, participated last winter. She found out about
the trip through personal research and said she doesn’t know why it’s not more popular. “I didn’t want to study abroad for a whole semester because I don’t have time,” Michaels said. “For the price and for all the stuff you do, it’s awesome.” Michaels said while the trip is based in the rain forest, the drive from Quito, the Ecuadoran capital, to Coca, where they enter the rain forest, allows for a lot of sightseeing because once in the rain forest, the days revolve around the work. “Basically from 6 a.m. to one in the morning, you’re doing field work,” Michaels said. “You’re hiking—we’d night hike, then morning hike, we had sunset hikes and we had boat rides in the evenings. We went fishing, we’d stop for meals and we had a siesta at 2 p.m.” As for the research presentation and research project, Michaels focused on insects. “My research presentation was on ant mutualism, which was fun because we actually got to see the ants that I talked about in my presentation, which was awesome,” Michaels said. “My research project was on Neotropical moth families and blacklight time preferences. It’s really cool and I might actually get it published, which is not anything I was expecting.” In biology, mutualisms are frequently beneficial relationships between multiple species. Much entomology research is performed by collecting insects using a blacklight. Herrmann said a few students have published their papers, which is impressive considering the short amount of time students have to actually carry out the research. Read more online.
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UA museum highlights pharmacy history The UA College of Pharmacy is home to a collection of pharmacy artifacts dating back as early as the 1800s BY SAVANAH MODESITT @DailyWildcat
UA’s Pharmacy Museum at the UA College of Pharmacy officially opened in 1966 and still, after recently celebrating its 50th year of running, continues to receive recognition as a prized museum for pharmacy artifacts and history. The museum is home to all kinds of medicinal items that date back as far as the 1850s. From unique items like asthma cigarettes and medicinal wine, the Pharmacy Museum has one of the largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts. The museum emerged after a former Tucson pharmacist, Jesse Hurlbut, donated his collections of antique pharmacy items from over the years. Stephen Hall, an assistant curator at the Pharmacy Museum with a masters degree in library and informational sciences from the UA, often gives tours and provides information about the history of the museum. Hall said the museum’s layout is scattered throughout the Pharmacy building. “It’s hard to know the exact amount of people who come to visit every day since it’s always open to the public, but we do know that we have students visiting and viewing the museum every day,” Hall said. When asked about some of the most interesting artifacts the museum has to offer, Hall had a handful of pharmaceutical items that fit the criteria. The museum has a large collection of “show globes” that are large, hanging, colored, glass fixtures that were the physical symbol of a pharmacy location. Hall said show globes are thought to date back to the 1500s and let people know where a doctor was in Europe. “No one knew how to read, so it was a visual indicator of where the doctor was,” he said. Among the show globes are medicines like asthma cigarettes that contained no
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CABINETS FULL OF CONTAINERS at the Pharmacy Museum. Former Tucson pharmacist Jesse Hurlbut donated his collection of pharmacy items to the museum.
tobacco but were instead filled with medicinal leafs called belladonna and stramonium. The museum’s collection included tools used to make the medicine. Before the 1900s nearly every type of medicine was made from scratch with the assistance of tools like a mortar and pestle, which help grind ingredients. “Mortars and pestles have been around for the majority of human existence,” Hall said. “There’s even reference of the invention in the Old Testament of the Bible.” In addition to the mortars and pestles, the museum also showcased apothecary jars that stored various materials and
medicines. These jars are fairly large, beautifully detailed and are scattered all around the museum. Placed with the jars are various tinted medicinal bottles and glass bottles with cork stoppers. “We have tons of medicinal bottles in our drawers, and we have clear, glass bottles that are almost as old as the Arizona state itself,” Hall said. The Pharmacy Museum is also home to a variety of aged cosmetic products like perfumes, soaps and shampoos. The bottles of most of the products were aged and remained untouched. Hall said many of the bottles have contents and the museum keeps these contents inside the bottles to preserve their authenticity.
One of the most recognized parts of the museum’s exhibit is their collection of pharmacy items from Disneyland that date back to when the amusement park originally opened in 1955. At the time, the wellknown Upjohn pharmaceutical company was invited to open a store in Disneyland until it was closed in 1970 and was replaced by the New Century Clock and Watch Shop. “Now, the space is used as a gift shop at Disneyland, and we have kept almost 900 items from the Upjohn Company,” Hall said. “California Science Center had the items after it closed, and then in the early 2000s it was given to the UA.”
Hall emphasized the rarity of the pharmacy museum. “In general, there is very little literature in pharmacy or any documentation of it, so this museum really preserves the history of the profession,” Hall said. Hall said that no matter what field a person decides to study, one can always learn from the profession’s history. “By looking back in the past, we can learn and figure out where we are going to go in the future,” Hall said. The pharmacy museum is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. There is free admission, and tours are available for free as well.
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‘I Dream in Widescreen’ spotlights student films BY VICTORIA PEREIRA @vguardie917
Some college seniors write thesis papers; others assemble a portfolio or complete a research project. Each major has some sort of senior capstone that requires students to utilize the skills they’ve learned over their past four years, and for those completing their Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in film and television, that capstone takes the form of a short film. The annual ”I Dream in Widescreen” screening event is here to showcase the talent in the film and television graduating class. The 12 participating seniors have put in immense amounts of time, energy and creativity to put these projects together since before the first day of the fall semester, and this Saturday they will be brought to the big screen at the Fox Tucson Theatre. Margaret Adams is one of these film and television seniors eagerly awaiting the premiere of her film. Adams began writing her short film, “Glass,” two years ago, not originally intending to turn it into her senior film. “My film is about a young woman, Elly, who has found herself at the cusp of adulthood,” said Adams, the writer, director and editor of the film. “She has a fight with her mother and she leaves. She ends up finding these two complete strangers and has this night with them and finds this sense of release and sense of freedom.” The film was originally much longer than Adams intended, and the script went through 26 drafts before shooting began. For Adams, production was the most enjoyable part of the process as she had a cast and crew of close friends to support her through her directorial debut. “Having it be a collaborative
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MAGGIE ADAMS LEFT, EVAN Colten (center) and Jack Alexander (right) will all have their work shown during “I Dream in Widescreen.” Twelve students in total will have their work shown during the event.
process was very important to me because I wanted to get other people’s input on something that was so personal,” Adams said. “In production, you’re in the battlefield, you’re in the nitty gritty and it’s incredibly rewarding and incredibly challenging and just so much fun.” While Adams’ film is a comingof-age drama, there is always variety among the films at “I Dream in Widescreen.” Evan Colten, a film and television senior, went the comedic route for his short film, “Pizza.” The story follows a middle school English teacher trying to figure out why his students seem to have the answers to every test he administers. “It’s tonally very inspired by
the comedy in a John Hughes movie ... but to try to give it this mystery, almost whodunit kind of style, it’s also very reminiscent of ‘Ocean’s Eleven,’” Colten said. “At the same time, it’s all strung together with this Latin guitar music that almost makes it feel like a telenovela.” For Colten, the film really came to life in the post-production stage. An editor at heart, he said it was a difficult but rewarding process to put all the pieces together in the cutting room and watch the final product really come together. With the premiere so soon, Colten is most anxious to see how the comedy plays for the audience. “Tackling the genre of comedy is the biggest weight on my
shoulders, because if they don’t laugh, I’m done,” Colten said. “The second you hear one person laugh, it’s such a relief.” The majority of BFA Film and Television seniors created their own short films this year, but those who are interested in different areas of filmmaking had the opportunity to specialize in just that. Jack Alexander, a film and television senior, decided to do a cinematography emphasis for his senior capstone. Alexander was the director of photography for three senior films: “Gun-Crossed Lovers” by Ricardo Salcido, “Daisies for Two” by Ana Quiñones and “Pizza” by Colten. Alexander also colorcorrected the three films in postproduction. The two areas of
filmmaking are his favorite of the process. “Leading up to production, there’s a lot of insecurity about what’s going to happen or what the outcome’s going to be,” Alexander said. “Once in production all that sort of goes away when you’re in the element and the confidence starts coming back.” A full list of “I Dream in Widescreen” films, their filmmakers and the official event trailer can be found on the event’s website. Screening begins at 7 p.m. and tickets can be purchased for $5 either online, at the film and television office in the Marshall Building or at the door. Take Alexander’s advice: “Come check it out; there’s 10 films and a lot of heart.”
Super Cool News: Tips for summer in Tucson BY ALEC KUEHNLE @ThrowMeAnAllie
Note: Super Cool News is a Daily Wildcat feature that shares the, yes, coolest news happening around town and around the
country. Try not to take what its writers have to say too literally. In two weeks, summer vacation will officially have arrived. It may seem hard to believe, but that does not make it less true. Unfortunately, as
summer gets closer, something starts to happen with the outside world of Tucson. You may have noticed that the outside temperature has begun to warm up considerably during the past few weeks, and this trend will continue until
not too long from now when Tucson will become nothing but an apocalyptic summer wasteland running rampant with 105-degree heat. One bit of advice: Get out now. Many students listen to this advice and get the hell out of
town for summer break, but just as many of us remain stuck in the Dirty T for summertime. If this sounds like you, you better start preparing now, before it’s too late.
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Luckily, you have ways to prepare, so listen up. Spending the summer in an underground bunker always makes for a solid Tucson summer plan. Unfortunately, it seems like in recent years more and more people have stopped building underground bunkers in their homes, creating a stigma that these safe havens only serve conspiracy theorists and those people who never stop planning for for a zombie apocalypse. However, this could not be further from the truth. Any reasonable Tucsonan should spend at least two to three months of the year safely locked in their airconditioned, underground bunker packed with canned peaches and freeze-dried ice cream. Any sort of nonperishable food will do. Of course, these bunkers take a while to build, so you better start soon if you want it completed with enough time to still make productive summer use out of it. Now, this next option might prove unaffordable for many of us, but you could always hire a summer servant to take care of all of your heat-related needs. Everyone needs a summer job, and if you find someone just desperate enough at just the right time then you may convince them to follow you around all summer with an umbrella and a water bottle, simultaneously shading you from the dreadful sun and keeping you wellhydrated. This next one unfortunately gets rather difficult, but if you get the chance,
jump right on it. Studies have shown that spending the summer as some sort of magical water creature can greatly improve a student’s overall summer experience. If you wade out into a body of water and say the magic words correctly, creatures from the deep may just adopt you as one of their own and allow you to ride out the summer as they conjure up plans to take revenge on the human race for polluting so much of the world’s water supply. Unfortunately, bodies of water in Tucson will prove about as rare as the magical water creatures themselves, but if you somehow get this opportunity then make sure not to waste it. What sounds better than spending the summer as a mermaid, or merperson to stay politically correct. If all else fails, you can always follow the standard advice and just drink lots of water and put on lots of sunscreen. But don’t fall into this trap. “The man” invented this rule just so corporate entities could sell more bottles of water and sunscreen. Everyone knows that no matter how much water you drink, it’s still hot as hell here during the summer. They say that if you’re thirsty, it’s already too late. Give me a break. Summer in the great city of Tucson may feel like a constant outdoor oven, but some careful planning beforehand can help you outsmart the dreadful rays of sunlight that will soon radiate across the city. If you don’t have this figured out yet, stop studying for your finals right now and devote all your time and energy into preparing for the summer. It may become your only hope of not roasting alive.
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Beach volleyball survives day one of Pac-12 tourney BY NIKKI BAIM @nikkibaim22
In the first day of Pac-12 Tournament play, Arizona beach volleyball went 2-1 and dropped into the contender’s bracket after a loss to UCLA in the second round. Still, head coach Steve Walker said the team is right where it needs to be. Going into the weekend, Arizona knew that they would have to beat No. 1 USC or No. 2 UCLA to win the conference title. Following the early loss to UCLA, the Wildcats now have to beat both USC and avenge their loss to UCLA on Friday in order to become the Pac-12 champs—a daunting task. The third-seeded Wildcats opened the tournament against sixth-seeded California. Arizona eased over the Golden Bears in a 5-0 sweep. Only their fifth seed, Halli Amaro and Natalie Anselmo, needed an extra set to get the win (17-21,21-17,15-11). The Wildcats moved on to UCLA, who beat seventh-seed Washington 4-1, where the No. 1 pairs for each team had fans thinking they were seeing double vision. The Wildcats’ twins, Madison and Mckenna Witt, faced UCLA’s own twins, Nicole and Megan McNamara. So, some advice for aspiring beach volleyball moms: Have twins.
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“After the first two games, I just relaxed and told myself to play the game,” Salazar said. “By my senior year, I was already committed to the UA.” Although high school baseball wasn’t the experience Salazar hoped for, Valenzuela made sure he was still practicing and developing as a player. Salazar played with his travel team ran by Valenzuela during the summer and was able to get in touch with UA coaches. “Once he was contacted by different programs, including Arizona, that was when he relaxed and got excited,” Valenzuela said. “All the work he put toward his goal—he finally began to see the results.” Salazar wasted no time making his mark on the UA baseball team under head coach Jay Johnson. Salazar pushed himself and was determined to reach his goals. Helping his team as a freshman get to the 2016 College World Series was one of the biggest moments of Salazar’s baseball career. “It was the best experience
Arizona’s twins, and the rest of the team, competed with UCLA in close matches, but the Bruins were too fast and read the Wildcats well. They took the match 4-1. Amaro and Anselmo won as the fifth pair (21-16, 25-23) to avoid the Bruin sweep. “I think it’s all positive,” Walker said about the loss. “We played them much better than we did earlier in the year. On a few courts, we just didn’t finish. Overall, I liked our performance.” This loss put Arizona in the contender’s bracket, so they would need to win two extra matches to get to the championship. Arizona began the extra play against Stanford. In a nail-biter that had two pairs going to third sets, they outlasted the Cardinal 3-2. It was the fourth team, Mia Mason and Brooke Burling, that decided the match in three sets (20-22, 12-12, 15-11). In a high-pressure situation, the pair showed the Wildcats’ strong character. “I love it,” Burling said about playing in the decisive match. “I love the pressure; I live for it.” Her partner, Mason, saw the game a little differently. “Honestly, I didn’t even know it was the deciding match,” Mason said. “It’s always fun to be the deciding match and win the game for our team.”
of my life,” Salazar said. “I’ve never played in front of so many people in my life.” Salazar has grown as a player thanks to his coaches at the UA; they have taught him and the team how to be winners and focus on the mental strength when being a baseball player. Salazar connected with his teammates at the UA quickly and adapted to college baseball fast due to his maturity level. “Cesar is a great guy and a great teammate,” said UA pitcher and roommate Randy Labaut. “We both came on our official visit together, and right away we connected as friends. We both speak Spanish also, so there was an instant connection. Pitching with Cesar is great. He always keeps me on my toes, and that is always fun.” Salazar is now in his sophomore year at the UA and is still determined to grow as a player and hopefully reach the College World Series once again. Salazar has the support from his parents, who come to home games, Valenzuela and the Tarantola family. Salazar looks to never give up on baseball and plans on staying
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ARIZONA’S OLIVIA HALLARAN READIES a serve during the UA-UCLA match of the Pac-12 Conference Tournament on Thursday, April 27. The Wildcats lost 4-1.
Only Arizona, ASU, UCLA and USC remain and will advance to the semifinals Friday. Day two will be all about rivalries. UCLA plays USC at 9 a.m. and Arizona squares off against ASU at 10 a.m. After the Pac-12 champs are decided
Friday, the pairs bracket will begin. Arizona’s No. 1 pair, Madison and McKenna Witt, and No. 2 pair, Olivia Hallaran and Olivia Macdonald, will compete at 5 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively.
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ARIZONA CATCHER CESAR SALAZAR sprints toward first base during Arizona’s 11-5 victory over St. Mary’s College on March 6. The Wildcats have been relying on Salazar throughout the season.
in the U.S. to, one day, be drafted into the MLB. “I have never thought about
not doing baseball,” Salazar said. “Baseball is going to be the thing that helps maintain me and my
family. I don’t plan on having a backup plan. I just want to focus on baseball.”
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Softball ready to close home schedule against ASU The Wildcats are looking to finish off one of the best seasons in school history with a pivotal matchup against the Sun Devils BY CHRISTOPHER DEAK @ChrisDeakDW
Arizona softball enters the weekend with a two-game lead over the Utah Utes in the Pac-12 Conference, and with six games left in the season, the Wildcats host the rival Arizona State Sun Devils in their final home series of the regular season. The No. 23 Sun Devils are coming off a series against the Utes where they dropped two out of three at home and they will put their top 25 ranking in Tucson. The Wildcats remain in the No. 2 spot, according to the ESPN.com/USA Softball polls, and even received onevote for first-place after winning their home series against the Oregon Ducks last weekend. After taking the first two matchups against the Ducks, the Wildcats stumbled in the sixth inning against them on Sunday. Arizona starter Danielle O’Toole gave up two solo home runs that gave the Ducks the 4-3 score they won the game by. “I think we should have had it,” O’Toole said of the final game against the Ducks. “I take responsibility for that loss. Knowing that we need a sweep [against ASU], I know we should be looking at it a game at a time, but we’re looking to go for [a sweep].” It will be only the second time in her career O’Toole has matched up with the Sun Devils; she spent two seasons playing at San Diego State University before transferring to the UA, but as soon as she stepped foot on campus three seasons ago, she understood the bitter rivalry between the two schools, saying “you just knew” right away. Last season, O’Toole appeared in all three games in Tempe, picking up a win, save and loss throughout the weekend. She shut out the Sun Devils with a complete game onehitter in the teams’ first Pac-12
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THE ARIZONA SOFTBALL TEAM huddles before their game against Oregon on April 21 at Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium. The Wildcats beat the Ducks 2-0.
games last season, got the save in the Wildcats’ game-two victory and took the loss 3-2 in the third. Sun Devils slugger Chelsea Gonzales homered off of Taylor McQuillin last season, and she leads ASU with a .372 average, 10 home runs and 41 RBIs this season. “Every game is a new game,” McQuillin said. “No matter what, even if she hits a home run off of me, it’s like now this time she’s going to fight even harder, so I have to fight even harder. This year is very different than last year.” After beginning the season 13-0, McQuillin has struggled in her last two conference starts. She picked up her first loss of the season on the road against the Utes, allowing six earned runs in 5.1 innings.
After defeating the New Mexico State Lobos, she struggled in 3.2 innings, surrendering six more earned runs to the Ducks. With the season coming down to the home stretch, the Wildcats need McQuillin to get back on track. “I think the last two conference series [against Utah and Oregon] that we’ve played have particularly been very good teams, both ranked in the top 10,” McQuillin said. “I mean, we kind of didn’t get the best schedule toward the end of the season; we’re playing really tough teams.” O’Toole noted her teammate had struggled her last two times in the circle during Pac-12 play, but to get back to Oklahoma City she knows she needs her sidekick in McQuillin to make
it there. “I would say it’s important [for McQuillin to pick things up], but we’re not dwelling on it,” O’Toole said. “I’m not looking at her any different. We need her, so you can’t sit there and dwell on stuff like that.” The Sun Devils lost their ace from 2016, Kelsey Kessler, to a transfer, and this season they have three pitchers who have thrown at least 70 innings. For comparison, only McQuillin and O’Toole have surpassed 31 innings for the Wildcats. Without a true No. 1 pitcher, the Sun Devils will have to be careful with the Wildcats’ Pac12 leading offense. Arizona leads the conference in average, runs, home runs, RBIs, slugging percentage, walks and on-base percentage.
“Offensively, it’s a very talented group,” said UA head coach Mike Candrea. “It’s not often you can look at a year and go ‘God, every piece of the puzzle is there.’ You still have to go out and do, it but I think this group overall has really been a consistent force offensively. I hope we can continue to do that; we need to continue to do that.” On paper, the Wildcats lineup has an advantage over the Sun Devils staff. The series could spark the Wildcats to an even tighter grip atop the Pac-12 Conference, but any kind of slip can give way to the Utes’ chances of sneaking back in to the race. The series begins on Friday, April 28, at 6 p.m. MST at Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium.
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Cesar Salazar has always sacrificed for baseball BY SYRENA TRACY @syrena tracy
Walking up to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs in the 11th inning against Mississippi State last season, Arizona catcher Cesar Salazar took a deep breath and swung his bat. Blacking out during the midst of the action, Salazar sprinted to first base with the voice of his first base coach yelling in his ear. Salazar soon blinked back into his senses and saw his teammates sprinting toward him as he just hit a walk-off single and punched their ticket to the 2016 College World Series. “When I hit that ground ball and I saw it through, I completely blacked out,” Salazar said. “I just remember my coach from first base reminding me to touch the base and after I touched, I just remember seeing everybody running toward me. It was such an amazing feeling.” Salazar has always hoped that he would one day be a part of something big like the College World Series, but to get to where he is now, Salazar had to go through many obstacles. Growing up in Hermosillo, Mexico, Salazar never thought about coming to the United States to play baseball until he was about 15 years old. When Salazar was 14 years old, he was playing against older players pushing him to work harder and mature early as a player. Many of his friends and teammates began signing with professional baseball teams at the age of 14, but his father knew it wouldn’t be beneficial for him. “He knew my education was going to be messed up and I wasn’t going to study high school,” Salazar said. “He knew it was going to hurt me.” Salazar’s father started talking to him about the option of going to the U.S., but Salazar was unsure as he was only 14 and didn’t want to leave home. Seeing many of his teammates and friends playing with professional teams, Salazar just wanted to play the game. Luis Valenzuela, who ran a club team called the Nogales Roadrunners, went down to Mexico for a tournament and invited Salazar to play in the states knowing, saying it would open other opportunities. Salazar worked hard and played as a shortstop for the team alongside Valenzuela’s son, Luis III. “I told him what I was trying to do,” Valenzuela said. “My goal was always to use baseball as a tool to get him a four-year degree.” Coming from an educated and driven family, it was a priority for Salazar to get a better education, even if that meant him going to America. “Valenzuela gave me the opportunity to play with him every weekend or every
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ARIZONA CATCHER CESAR SALAZAR 12 bats during the baseball game against Oregon on April 13 at Hi Corbett Field. The Wildcats lost 8-4.
other week and go travel with him,” Salazar said. “That was the best thing that could’ve happened to me. He is the one that brought me to the U.S.” Before making the transition and moving to America, Valenzuela sat down and talked to Salazar and his family about changing Salazar’s position from a shortstop to a catcher. “Cesar was a very good shortstop, but he didn’t have the size of a shortstop for major league baseball,” Valenzuela said. “He had quick feet, was fast and had good hands with very quick release. So I told him, ‘In my opinion, if you really want to pursue reaching MLB, your best bet would be as a catcher.’” Salazar was unsure of the position change as he played shortstop very well, but he soon realized the switch was going to be more beneficial for him in the future. One of the first steps in coming to the U.S. was finding somewhere to live. Salazar went to a tournament with the Roadrunners in Fort Myers, Florida, where he met Vinnie Tarantola. Salazar was one of the only kids on the team who could speak English as he told Tarantola how he hoped to, one day, come
to the U.S. to play high school and college baseball. “Vinnie called me and said him and his dad were willing to bring me to their house because his high school needed a catcher,” Salazar said. “My mom didn’t want that at first because I was this ‘baby’ and she didn’t want me to go, and my dad was a little hesitant because he didn’t know the family either.” Salazar never looked at the cons of going to America and only considered the benefits and opportunities it would provide him. After talking with his parents and getting to know the Tarantola family, a decision was made. “I made my first big decision on my own and told them [parents] that I wanted to do it because it was going to be the best opportunity I would get,” Salazar said. “It was the best decision of my life so far.” Salazar moved to America and was welcomed into the Tarantolas’ home. Even though Salazar left Mexico, the tradition and his culture stayed alive. “In Mexico, we are very into our culture,” Salazar said. “And it was nice because the Tarantola’s had the same culture as my home.”
Enrolled at Sahuaro High School, Salazar became a part of the baseball team under head coach Mark Chandler. The Tarantolas took all the steps for Salazar to be eligible to play during high school, but the Arizona Interscholastic Association stated that Salazar was ineligible to play during his sophomore year. “During my sophomore year, I wasn’t too mad because I just thought it was the rule, so I was just practicing and playing some JV games,” Salazar said. “But I played year-round summer and club ball during the same time, so I didn’t mind.” Going into his junior year at Sahuaro, the AIA ruled that Salazar would be ineligible to play once again. This time, Salazar started to get frustrated but knew that his time would eventually come. Senior year approached and Salazar was able to play in the first 18 games before AIA ruled him as ineligible, forcing Chandler to pull him off the field. “After the first two games, I just relaxed and told myself to play the game,” Salazar said. “By my senior year, I was already committed to the UA.” Although high school baseball wasn’t
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