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in a national park, management will continue as it has been, and I don’t foresee a problem unless something happens to wipe out the entire population,” Morawe said. The Rio Sonoyta pupfish population has a complicated history, according to Morawe. “The population got separated by a volcanic eruption, but there was [still a habitat] connection, and in years past it was consistent,” Morawe said. “But in the 1850s and 1860s residents created some damming of the connection, and the fish got locked in.” Ross Timmons, pupfish coordinator for the
Local businesses on University Boulevard near the UA are concerned about the new minimum wage hike. These businesses are mostly run by student employees. Proposition 206 was approved by voters last November to raise the minimum wage from $8.15 an hour to $10 an hour. With this new mandate, businesses on University Boulevard expect to be impacted because of this raise. “It is pretty pricey, especially for a restaurant like ours,” said owner of Kababeque Indian Grill, Saurabh Sareen. “I don’t feel comfortable that I can charge $10 an item to students.” The award-winning Kababeque has been in business for 15 years and has over 20 part-time students as staff. The minimum wage boost has added $5,000 a month to the restaurant’s budget. But Sareen’s business has expanded as a food truck service for special events as Kababeque Express. “People who work hard, deserve to get paid more, obviously, and I think we are just under the radar, so we are okay,” Sareen said. “We will continue to give good food and good service and take care of our employees.” The small restaurant has won Tucson’s best restaurant award for seven years in a row, according to Sareen. “Students are more adventurous to try new food,” Sareen said. “It is a healthy food as well. We use natural herbs and spices imported actually from India; we don’t buy anything from here.” Another popular restaurant on University Boulevard is the 13-year-old wrap cuisine, EatA-Pita. This family-run restaurant currently employs 25 UA students and offers delivery services. “We opened in 2004, when minimum wage was $5.25 and the sandwiches were $5.50,” said current owner and manager Cami Quist. “The sandwiches now are $7.99.” According to Quist, Proposition 206 thought about big companies like McDonald’s and Wendy’s. This left out the smaller businesses like her own, jumping to a minimum wage that can hurt her business. “I think what they should’ve done is a percentage across the board,” Quist said. “They didn’t lower my state taxes, my city taxes or my payroll taxes.” According to Quist, 60 percent of her
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Endangered pupfish find new home BY MARISSA HEFFERNAN @_mheffernan
Rio Sonoyta pupfish occur in only two wild places: Rio Sonoyta, in Sonora, Mexico; and Quitobaquito Pond, at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. However, they are now found at a handful of other locations, due to a conservation attempt by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the U.S. National Park Service. Recently, 300 of these endangered and endemic fish were relocated from a Tucson Safe Harbor Agreementenrolled captive pond on the property of Bob
Hernbrode, where they had been since 2009, when the pond began to fail. Their new home will be the NPS-run Desert Research Learning Center in Tucson, in a artificial tinaja. A tinaja is a bedrock pond, naturally carved out by water, sand and gravel. The goal of moving them into the new pond is to allow the population to grow larger and reduce the risk of genetic bottleneck. As the Desert Research Learning Center is a NPS property, Rijk Morawe, general natural resources manager and biological scientist at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, said the fish will be safe there. “Since they’re sitting
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“We need to reject these harmful midnight privacy regulations that serve only to The Senate voted in favor empower bureaucrats and hurt of allowing internet service consumers,” Flake wrote. providers to sell users’ personal S.J. 34 overturns rules set in information without their place for the FCC last year that permission in a close vote last banned the sale of personal week. information. Without these Introduced by Sen. Jeff Flake, regulations on the newlyR-Ariz., Senate Joint Resolution republican FCC in place, ISPs 34 would overturn an Obamaare able to sell records of users’ era law that required ISPs to online behavior, including your obtain permission before selling location, web history, purchasing information to advertisers and habits and more to advertisers other companies. With a final and other companies. tally of 50-48, Following the the vote was discovery that the entirely along [ISPs] CIA developed party lines with shouldn’t be tools to spy on two republican able to profit Mac computers, abstentions. the Senate off of the vote was met In an op-ed for information about with reactions the Wall Street Journal, Flake what you search from privacy wrote that the for, read about, advocates who new law would purchase and say that the rights be put into place of internet users more without your are in danger. to repeal existing consent. The Electronic regulations on the Federal Frontier Communications —Kate Foundation, a Commission that Tummarello, digital rights are a threat to EEF policy analyst group based in consumer choice. San Francisco, Flake called the vote a understands “crushing blow” the FCC’s regulations enacted to online privacy. in 2015 as a power grab over “ISPs act as gatekeepers to the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Internet, giving them incredible Commission; his argument access to records of what you is rooted in firms’ abilities to do online,” wrote EFF Policy provide deals to consumers. Analyst Kate Tummarello on
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business is delivery and she can only afford a limited number of in-shop keepers. “Unfortunately, the two drivers I have here are doing a little bit of extra work, so I have them on a bonus program,” Quist said. “If we hit a certain amount in inshop business, they get a little extra money.” Other businesses seem more optimistic about the jump in the minimum wage and see this as an opportunity for better business. Espresso Art Café owner, Danny Mannheim, doesn’t see it being too harmful for his business. Espresso Art Café began as an art gallery in May 2004, originally only selling coffee, according to Mannheim. The establishment incorporated itself as a hookah lounge about seven years ago. “What I believe is going to happen is that sales will increase,” Mannheim said. “If everyone stays employed and makes more money, that is wonderful for business. The more money circulates, the more products and services.” The carefree zone of Espresso Art Café is a student hangout, from playing chess with strangers to smoking hookah with friends while listening to live music, according to Mannheim. “If they have money to spend, it is good for business,” Mannheim said. “The worry is that most people will let their employees go if their payroll is too high.” Proposition 206 supports a minimum wage of $10 by 2017 and then increments to $12 an hour by 2020. While it still has time to show its long-term effects on the businesses on University Boulevard, it is too early to tell if the increase in wage expenses will negatively impact small business owners.
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UA films instructional active shooter video BY KELLY DORNEY @DailyWildcat
The filming of an informational gun violence video concluded this past Friday, March 24. The video is meant to educate students on how to respond in the case of a gun-related incident. Filming spanned the course of three days, shooting at over 50 locations around the UA campus. These dramatic reenactments were shot in public areas and were visible to individuals in the area. UA police helped to keep filming areas safely barricaded during this time. “Filming this in a campus setting shows our campus how UAPD wants its students to respond to incidences,” said UA Police Chief Brian Seastone. UAPD played a major role in the creation of this video by making filming possible and appearing in the video itself. Seastone explained that UAPD lent its services to the production team because of the video’s importance. “What we are showing can be applied anywhere,” Seastone said. “It is an excellent opportunity to educate the entire community.” The video will be available to students online through the Office of Student Affairs. Jeff Larsen, CEO and Executive Producer
of In The Telling, served as the director of this film. Larsen explained that the video is meant to teach proven survival techniques for emergency situations. “There are three main points that we’re trying to get across. First, you run and try to get away. If you can’t, you hide or block the doors,” Larsen said. “If you have no other choice, you have to fight with whatever you have around you.” The film will be linked to additional resources and videos. Among these resources is an interview with Jesse Robinson, a psychology major and member of the UA wheelchair basketball team. Robinson is the survivor of a shooting. In the company of around ten friends, Robinson heard gunshots, and fell to the ground with a pain in his arm. “My sister and friends had time to make it in the door and I’m thankful for that,” Robinson said. The bullet hit Robinson in the arm and entered his torso, leaving him paralyzed. The shooter fired around ten shots that night, killing one and injuring two others. Robinson explained that UA campus would be safer without the presence of guns. “With guns, anything can happen,” Robinson said. “Sometimes you only get one chance.”
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Arbol de la Vida project moves forward BY JOE FERGUSON THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR (TNS)
A controversial proposed expansion of the University of Arizona’s Honors College, including a 1,000-bed dorm, is moving forward despite protests from nearby residents and concerns about the legality of the proposal. UA officials met with area residents twice last week, offering an overview of the plan to build a six-story building that would span an entire city block between East Drachman and Mabel streets and North Fremont and Santa Rita avenues, north of East Speedway. The land where the dorm is proposed is owned by American Campus Communities and is outside the official campus boundaries. ACC, based near Austin, Texas, is one of the nation’s largest developers of student housing communities in the country. A two-hour meeting Monday on campus had more than 80 people attend, mostly nearby residents who were visibly upset and often
alluded to previous disputes with the university expanding into their neighborhoods. University officials said a second meeting held the following night was less confrontational. Peter Dourlein, the campus architect for the university, said those attending the second meeting offered suggestions on ways to change the project’s physical dimensions that could help alleviate some of their concerns. In addition to the 1,000-bed dorm building, plans include multi-story buildings for classrooms, office space, a recreation center as well as a four-story parking garage to be built on the adjacent block between North Park and Fremont avenues. The university is also considering demolishing several buildings along Park between Drachman and Adams streets, and putting in surface lots to offer additional parking. The neighborhood now consists of homes, apartments catering to students, university parking lots and vacant land. Currently, many UA students who
are part of the Honors College live in residence halls close to Euclid Avenue and Sixth Street. The UA said there are more than 4,000 students enrolled in the Honors College. Many frustrated residents said they are weighing their options, legal and political, and were concerned there was little information coming from the university about the proposal. Some hoped the university’s new president, Dr. Robert Robbins, will weigh in on the proposal and work with the neighborhoods. On Monday night, former City Councilwoman Molly McKasson said she hoped the Tucson City Council would find a way to stop the project, which does not have to abide by city zoning codes, including when it comes to building heights, density and parking requirements. As of now, the university does not have a formal agreement with the ACC for the project, which is known as a memorandum of understanding. Councilman Steve Kozachik, who is also a university employee, said
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ARBOL DE LA VIDA, one of the Honors residence halls located at the UA. A proposed project would expand the Honors College at a location north of Speedway Boulevard between Fremont and Santa Rita avenues.
the UA has worked hard in the past to establish good rapport with the surrounding neighborhoods and that he hopes the school works with residents about their concerns. On Friday, Dourlein confirmed
he and other university officials are continuing to meet with ACC to discuss plans for the project. He expects that the university will hold more public meetings in about two weeks.
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Bye-bye bong Once again, UAPD responded to a call at the Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall for marijuana odors around 10 p.m. on March 19. A resident assistant made contact with the officer taking the call and lead him to a room where the marijuana smell was strongest. The officer knocked on the door and two male occupants allowed the officer into the dormitory. Both men were identified by their California driver’s licenses and both had bloodshot eyes. One of the males seemed to be withholding in his answers, and when the officer called him out on it, he agreed to be more truthful. The young men claimed to have smoked off campus and provided the officer with a small baggy with a marijuana odor. After both were read their Miranda Rights, one man sought counsel and the other agreed to cooperate. The second man provided the officer with two bowls with marijuana stems, a black container with marijuana inside, four small baggies with marijuana residue and a 2-foot-long bong that he priced at $789.99 purchased in Hollywood. The man seeking counsel did not live in the residence and nothing belonged to him as the other man claimed full responsibility. One man was given a Code of Conduct referral with the Dean of Students and the second man was given a chance with the UA Misdemeanor Diversion Program. All of the small items were tagged as evidence while the bong was set for destruction in accordance to UAPD Policy 15.1.
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State diverts welfare funds to child protection BY PATTY MACHELOR THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR (TNS)
While Arizona has one of the nation’s highest child-poverty rates, federal money intended to help the poorest families is instead being spent here on foster care, adoptions and services to children who have been removed from their families. Arizona spent $469 million in 2015 in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families or TANF funds, says the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Of that total, 8 percent went to the three objectives established for the federal program: child care help, job training and direct cash assistance to families. By contrast, 49 percent of the funding went to the Department of Child Safety, primarily for services rendered once a child has been removed from his or her home after allegations of neglect or abuse. (The remainder went to state agency operating costs and other programs such as domestic violence prevention and services for the elderly.) Most states spend some TANF money on child abuse and neglect cases, but the average is about 7 percent, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities’ analysis of the federal records. There is a “yawning gap” when it comes to Arizona’s practices, said Joshua Oehler, economic policy analyst with the Children’s Action Alliance. “This definitely is concerning for us. If you want people to go from welfare to work, they need to have child care,” he said. “It’s vitally important for families to receive this help.” While it’s legal and within the state’s wide discretion to use the funds on cases related to child abuse and neglect, “that’s not what the TANF funds are for,” said Karen McLaughlin, director of budget and research for Arizona’s Children’s Action Alliance. “We think both programs need to be funded adequately,” she said, referring to direct help for impoverished families as well as money for child neglect or abuse cases. Arizona removes children from their homes due to allegations of abuse or neglect at one of the highest rates in the nation. As of mid-March, there were 17,200 children in out-of-home care. That’s one of the primary reasons the state has shifted so much TANF funding to DCS, said
Daniel Scarpinato, spokesman for Gov. Doug Ducey. “This spending is reflective of a need that exists in child safety,” he said. “We are starting to see some success in terms of reducing backlog and the number of kids in out-of-home care,” Scarpinato added. The number of children in state care now is significantly lower, down from nearly 20,000 just a couple of years ago, he said. Those investments in the Department of Child Safety mean less for other families. Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy examined whether focusing on DCS cases is actually compounding the crisis by leaving too many families—the ones that don’t face allegations of child neglect or abuse—without help early on. Morrison Institute Director Thom Reilly concluded that while “prioritizing the competing demands of moving parents into the workforce, preserving families and protecting children is not an easy balance for states,” he found these needs to be interrelated. “Such policy and fiscal decisions are making it more challenging for poor families with children to enter the workforce,” Reilly wrote in a 2015 report. “So, what on the surface may seem to be a solution for the state’s underfunded and underperforming child welfare system—cutting benefits to poor families and shifting TANF funds to the child welfare system—may very well be exacerbating Arizona’s child welfare problem.” During fiscal year 2015, roughly 23 out of every 100 families living in poverty received cash assistance through TANF nationwide. In Arizona, 10 or fewer out of every 100 families received that help. In Arizona, TANF “hasn’t done its job, largely as a result of the lack of investment through child care support, work activity supports and training people to get good paying, stable jobs,” Children’s Action Alliance’s Oehler said. “It really takes a lot of resources and we’re not devoting those dollars to that.” The number of children living in poverty in Pima County grew from 22 percent in 2009 to 27 percent in 2014, the Annie E. Casey Foundation reports. Statewide, 25 percent of children lived in poverty as of 2015, a Kids Count report shows, ranking Arizona 43rd highest in child-poverty rates. Two years ago, Arizona became
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the nation’s strictest state in the length of time a family can get TANF benefits, reducing help from two years to one. There is a current legislative proposal that would reinstate the two-year plan. “We do have some exceptions in there, including requiring people to comply with job searches and getting your kids to school,” Scarpinato said. The school attendance rate, a controversial part of the measure, is expected to be 90 percent. “The reason for that is we should be rewarding good behavior and incentivize people to find work,” he said. “The best way to break the cycle of poverty is to make sure your children are getting an education and getting to school.” He said that as the number of children in out-of-home care due to allegations of neglect or abuse or continues to decrease, Arizona will re-evaluate how it spends TANF dollars. Long waiting list As of Feb. 3, there were 4,190 families and 7,369 children on the waiting list for TANF-subsidized child care statewide, Department of Economic Security data shows. In Pima County, there were 983 families and 1,669 children. Yadell Urrea’s name is on that waiting list. As her daughter approached
her first birthday, and the baby’s father struggled to find full-time employment, Urrea knew the trio needed more income. She secured a job at a nursery school more than a month ago, and prior to that contacted DES, wondering if she could get some help with child-care costs. She takes her 18-month-old with her to her workplace, where she receives child care that her parents pay for. “We were barely making it paycheck to paycheck with the bills,” Urrea said. There’s never money left over to buy clothing or other things that inevitably come up and help with child care would ease that tremendously, she said, until her partner can find more work. Urrea said she even had to wait to pre-register to get on the waiting list. Just recently, she was able to get her name listed and now, she’s been told, she’ll need to wait about a year. “Their priorities are to help the families that are involved in DCS, but they should also help the families that are working hard as well,” she said. “When there is a family, the idea is that ‘No, you could do it on your own,’ “ she said. “What they’ve told us in the past is that, if you’re not in a DCS case, there’s no point in applying.” Families referred for child care assistance through DCS are not subject to the waiting list.
An estimated $49 million will be spent on child care subsidies for DCS-involved families in 2017, with funding coming from the state’s general fund, the federal Child Care and Development Fund and other federal funds. Less cash assistance As poverty numbers climbed, the number of Pima County children receiving help through TANF cash assistance dropped from 17,552 in 2009 to 6,329 in 2015. Child care subsidies, according to DES records, were at their highest in 2009 when $15 million was earmarked for that help. It’s been down to $2.7 million for the last few fiscal years and is projected to be the same in fiscal year 2016. It hit its lowest point in nearly 10 years in 2012, at $717,800. “Eligibility for TANF is so low, we’re talking about the most vulnerable people in our state,” said Angie Rodgers, president of Arizona Food Banks. Initially, when TANF was created in 1996, very little of the funding was going to cases involving child abuse and neglect, she said, but now, “it’s completely flipped around.” DCS “definitely needs a lot of help,” Rodgers said, “but it doesn’t have to be on the backs of poor kids.”
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Pima County cellphone law long overdue There has been far too many pedestrian deaths due to distracted driving and the updated Pima County cellphone ordinance is a step in the right direction
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n Tuesday, the Tucson City Council approved the ordinance that prohibits cellphone use while driving. This ban is long overdue. The ordinance states that a driver caught using their cellphone without a hands-free device will receive a $100 fine. If the driver using the cell phone is involved in an accident, the fine jumps to $250. Unfortunately, the ordinance will be a secondary offense. This means that in order for police to cite the driver, the driver must have been pulled over for another reason. So the question is, is this really a ban on cellphones? The ordinance should be people using their cellphones while driving are fined. They shouldn’t have to have another reason to stop the car. Last year in May, Pima County banned texting while driving which has recently expanded to use of cellphones while driving completely. Brendan Lyons and his girlfriend were struck by a distracted driver in 2013. They both were in favor of the no texting while driving ordinance. During a press release, he talked to police supervisors about the ordeal and his serious injuries from the incident. “I hope this makes an impact on all of you,” he told the supervisors. “This isn’t about politics. This is about public safety.” I’ve heard many of my friends talking about their disapproval of Tucson drivers. I’ve also had my own fair share of frustrations. I use public transportation every day and I am a pedestrian. It’s not fun almost being hit when you’re trying to get from point A to point B. Every time
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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION OF A person texting while driving. The Tucson City Council, who implemented a texting ban in May 2016, has extended the ban to using hand-held devices while driving.
I’m crossing an intersection, I fear that I will be hit by a distracted driver. I’ve been almost struck quite a few times and it irritates me when I see someone on their phone while driving because they’re risking not only their lives but also the lives of others. You might think reading a quick text or talking to someone on the phone is important and that you can multitask, but studies have shown that humans aren’t good at multitasking.
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“People can’t multitask very well, and when people say they can, they’re deluding themselves,” said neuroscientist Earl Miller to NPR. “The brain is very good at deluding itself.” Miller said that people think they are focusing on multiple tasks at a time, but really, they’re brains are switching between different tasks at a rapid speed. This is true while driving and using your cellphone. Your brain is switching between looking at the phone and
looking at the road. In the quick second that you think you’re able to focus, the next quick second an accident can occur. The safety of drivers, passengers and pedestrians are more important. We don’t need people distracted by their smartphone. Is risking your life to send a tweet really that important? No, it’s not. The law will go into effect May 1 and the city officials will review it again in six months.
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New consortium bites back at snake venom An international team of institutions including UA is tackling the challenge of snakebites and antivenom around the world BY NICOLE MORIN @nm_dailywildcat
UA’s Venom Immunochemistry, Pharmacology, and Emergency Response Institute, or VIPER, is collaborating with two international organizations to bring education about snake bite antivenom to high-risk areas. Antivenom is expensive, difficult to manufacture and is typically used to treat snake bites, scorpion stings and other venomous attacks. To make it, venom is injected into a horse in small increments to allow the animal to build up an antibody response. Those antibodies can then be injected into a human being following a venomous sting or bite. Many tropical diseases, such as malaria or Ebola, are recognized on an international scale, with efforts being made by multiple countries to find a cure. Snake bites, however, are considered a “neglected tropical disease,” according to Dr. Leslie Boyer, the founding director of VIPER and a professor of pathology at UA. Few snakebites occur in the United States compared to the rest of the world, meaning that there is a minimal market for antivenom. “Snake bites are a nano orphan [rare medical condition] in the United States,” Boyer said. “That means it’s really hard to sell drugs to treat it.” The situation is much worse in places like India and Africa, where bites are not from rattlesnakes but rather cobras and mambas, whose antivenom is very rare in the U.S. Because little is produced in the U.S., there is not enough to treat patients who suffered a tropical snake bite from a pet cobra. “We have a huge underground zoo of people buying and selling exotic snakes,” Boyer said. This means that tropical snake bites do occur, and Boyer herself once treated a patient who had been bitten by a deadly African puff adder. And while there is not enough here, there is even less to send to other countries who need to treat victims of a snake bite.
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A PUFF ADDER SNAKE. Snakebite fatalities are commonplace in the developing world.
Sub-Saharan Africa, where hundreds of thousands of people are bitten by venomous snakes a year, suffers from an immense shortage of antivenom. It is difficult to maintain horse herds there due to disease, and few people have the specific expertise and funds required to produce antivenom. A black-market teeming with ineffective or fake anti-venom has blossomed. This is where the alliance between UA, the African Society of Venimology, and the Institute of Biotechnology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, also known as IBt/ UNAM, comes in. The group has worked together for two years and combines their expertise to improve the supply
of anti-venom in the world. Both the African Society of Venimology and the IBt/UNAM have better technology and have been involved in the production of coral snake antivenom. The team from Africa also excels at public health work. VIPER specializes in clinical research, taking the work into the field with hands-on patient care. Some of their work is centered around testing the antivenom produced at the IBt/UNAM. The alliance excels because each team brings something important to the table that the other teams may be lacking in. “We need to work together to make a change in the world,” Boyer said. Their current project revolves around increasing education about
antivenom in high-risk areas. Together, they have produced a free video series that aims to educate medical professionals in Africa on all aspects of antivenom. It will be shown in medical and nursing schools and run with English, Spanish, and French subtitles. Due to the current shortage of doctors in Africa, nurses will be the individuals most involved in administering antivenom, so it is important to integrate the videos into their education as well. Boyer hopes that public officials will also see the video series and understand that their people need help in dealing with the antivenom crisis. By increasing education about antivenom, Boyer and her team will be increasing awareness of
the proper way to administer medication and ensure that more medical professionals are trained in the process. Because antivenom is an international project, researchers and medical professionals within the field need to speak more than one language. “You’ve got to know other languages,” Boyer said. She herself had to become more adept in French. “The experts speak French. They offered to speak English [for the video], but I told them that they are the experts and should speak their mother tongue.” Boyer hopes to eventually translate the video series into other languages, in particular, the most popular languages in Africa.
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Arizona Game and Fish Department, said the Rio Sonoyta population and the Quitobaquito population are the same species, but are considered separate “evolutionarily significant units”, and therefore managed separately in order to preserve the species’ purity. “The Rio Sonoyta population is a lineage of the same pupfish species that has been isolated since the last ice age,” Timmons said. “They went off on their own genetic trajectory.” That they are genetically different is important, and a key driver of their separate conservation, Timmons said. The pupfish being relocated are the only stock of pure Rio Sonoyta lineage in the U.S., as they were brought from Sonora, Mexico in the 1970s. “The whole idea behind conservation is to preserve what’s already on a landscape,” Timmons said. “If you preserve a hybrid, is that really what you were going for originally? No. You don’t want the lineage fuzzied up.” While there are some circumstances where hybrids would be introduced to pure populations to bolster numbers, Timmons said it’s a last resort. “In some cases, when the original population reaches critically low levels, we don’t have a choice,” Timmons said. “But if you have large enough numbers, then you want to maintain those levels in refuge populations.” As of now, there is no estimate on when some fish could be re-released into the wild. Due to habitat loss, groundwater pumping and declining surface water levels, Morawe said the pupfish’s native habitat is not stable enough. “The issue is that the Rio Sonyota is
an imperiled water system in Mexico,” Morawe said. “It’s difficult to say what may come of all this in the future. The hope is that Mexico would manage the water system a little better, but there’s a lot of agricultural pressure and the monsoon seasons have failed the past few years.” Timmons said in 2012 and 2013, the area almost lost all surface water, and all the pupfish were living in a watering hole javelina had dug, and in a depression filled with water under a tree. However, the most NPS and Arizona Game and Fish can do is work with Mexico to save the habitat. “We simply haven’t got any control over what happens in Mexico,” Timmons said. “All we can do is advise and encourage them.” The conservation problem is larger than just pupfish, Timmons said. The habitat they live in is a speciallydesignated UN biosphere, and a large component of that recognition is flora and fauna. The loss of pupfish could have broad ecosystem ramifications. “There’s probably a number of aquatic biota there, mud turtles, toads, we’ve got a few native species there,” Timmons said. “Without pupfish, there would likely be a decrease in the birds that came to feed. Any that used to stop in there to eat would be gone.” Great blue herons, kingfishers, egrets and a number of other birds eat pupfish, but as they’re not dependent on the fish, Timmons said the larger issue would be the destruction or loss of the habitat overall. NPS and Arizona Game and Fish will continue to monitor the fish in their new home, as well as continue to work to protect and preserve the wild pupfish and their habitat.
Major: Journalism What I do at The Daily Wildcat: Senior Sports Writer Why I work here: Has one ever considered their dream a job? I do not work. I fulfill my passion every single day writing about sports. Sure, my byline is connected to mostly men’s basketball and football, but telling a story, regardless of the sport, is what I love to do. Everyone has a story. Being able to study someone’s background and discover why an athlete is in our presence is what makes this job great. Recaps? Yawn. You can find that anywhere, but breaking stories and feeling the rush that I am competing at a professional level keeps me satisfied and I could not imagine doing anything else. While most people are trying to be the next greatest thing, 40 years from now I want to be the one that college students say, “I want to be the next Justin Spears.” Being the greatest is what I am striving for and I am far from it, but my passion and hunger for story telling is why I’m a different breed.
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Tucson Cine Mexico celebrates Mexican culture BY MELISSA VASQUEZ @vxmel
Tucson Cine Mexico gave the Tucson community an opportunity to explore Mexican and culture through the big screen- for free. The event took place from March 22 through March 26 and showed a variety of Mexican films that were hand-picked for the festival. “Bellas de Noche” was the opening film, a documentary-style work about five of the most popular vedettes, or showgirls, from Mexican culture who saw the pinnacle of their stardom in the 70s and 80s. The film has received attention and won various film awards, including the Best Documentary award at the Morelia International Film Festival in 2016. The film followed Olga Breeskin, Lyn May, Princesa Yamal, Rossy Mendoza and Wanda Seux, all some of the most iconic and popular vedettes. Rather than focusing solely on being a historical type of film, “Bellas de Noche” presented the women in their present lives. This is something the director María José Cuevas did intentionally because she had an interest in portraying the humanity of each woman herself, not a memory of what she once was or simply her fame. While giving a short speech introducing “Bellas de Noche” in English and Spanish, Cuevas told audience members that the film was a rollercoaster of emotions, but what she learned most making it was how to celebrate life. The film showed the women in all facets of their life today: gleefully dancing at this age in their showgirl outfits, crying, talking about beauty and the fickleness of fame, battling cancer, singing, reminiscing and cherishing the life they have been able to live. The film received a standing ovation when it concluded, and Cuevas received the Tucson Cine Mexico Jaguar Award for “the most impressive directorial debut.” She said it was an honor to receive the award and to see the women on the big screen telling their story. This was followed by a Q&A session where Cuevas spoke about why she wanted to make the film and how the women are today, about a year after the film first premiered. Cuevas enjoyed the opportunity
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ENTRANCE SET UP FOR “Bellas de Noche” at Harkins Tucson Spectrum 18 on Friday, March 24. Tucson Cine Mexico made the admission for this film and other films free for the public.
to show the Tucson community “Bellas de Noche,” and appreciated the turnout. She said in the little time she’s spent in Tucson, she felt it was like home. “What I want for us to learn is how to celebrate life,” Cuevas said in Spanish. “I want us to keep moving forward. I believe that the secret to life is to know how to reinvent yourself. Life has many stages and we should learn which ones to live to the fullest.” She said she learned that the women in the film were warriors and she wanted the Tucson community to see that truth as much as she did. “We should erase all prejudices and be strong and fun and enjoy life like they did,” Cuevas said in Spanish. Carlos Gutierrez, the co-director of Tucson Cine Mexico and director of Cinema Tropical, believes the Tucson Cine Mexico festival gives
Tucson a unique chance to view the many sides of Mexican culture through films like “Bellas de Noche” and the other films that were shown. “The films that we show are very different,” he said. “Each one is very, very different. So I think they all provide a different perspective on Mexican culture, and Mexican politics and Mexican society. It’s much more complex than mass media in the U.S. represents.” Gutierrez also said it’s why the films are shown in Harkins Theatre on the south side of Tucson, as it’s a great opportunity to bring in local communities. “There’s not that many Mexican film festivals in this country and this is the longest one running,” Gutierrez said. “The people in Tucson should be proud to have a festival like this.” Vicky Westover, the co-director of Tucson Cine Mexico and director of the Hanson Film Institute, said the
purpose of the festival was to show the diversity and the “rich variety of style, tone, and genre” found in Mexican cinema. “Mexicans are able to see their culture on the big screen which doesn’t happen very often for them,” Westover said. She also said the festival gives people the chance to see films that likely will never be shown again. “They don’t show ever again in Tucson, some of them don’t show ever again anywhere nearby,” she said. Westover said she felt strongly that the festival should be free. “It’s one of the things that allow for the diversity of the audience, because if you go to another film festival, it’s often quite of an elitist thing to go to a film festival and it’s often expensive,” she said. One of the people who attended the “Bellas de Noche” opening showing was Myrna Seiter,
who works in the UA College of Medicine. She found out about Tucson Cine Mexico through an email and brought along some friends she knew were interested in Mexican culture. She said she was expecting many good films that she wouldn’t otherwise see if it weren’t for the festival. “There are really good movies and very good filmmakers in Mexico that are not being promoted,” she said. “So I think this film festival does a good job of it.” Seiter also said that the festival allows people to see Mexicans as the people they are, living life each day like we all do, through the films shown while exploring more of the culture. “I hope they see us as human beings, you know, and not just somebody that wants to cross the border and take their jobs and rape their women,” she said.
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Loft brings space camp to the screen The Loft Cinema will show science fiction film “Forbidden Planet” with a talk by UA Professor of Astronomy Chris Impey to showcase science BY KATHLEEN KUNZ @kathkunz
The Loft Cinema’s fourth annual National Evening of Science on Screen kicks off this Tuesday evening, featuring astronomer, author and UA professor Chris Impey, who will be discussing the future of space travel. The film venue will follow with a showing of the movie “Forbidden Planet,” a 1956 science fiction classic. “Forbidden Planet” was a game-changer for the science fiction genre, because it was the first film to take place on an entirely different planet, and to introduce an interactive robot character, visuals of “light speed” and electronic background music. The plot consists of a team of space explorers who travel to a distant planet to search for survivors of a previous space expedition that lost contact. When the crew finds survivors, they are warned of the danger that exists on the foreign planet. The explorers continue their search and are faced with mysterious and life-threatening forces in uncharted territory. Impey said “Forbidden Planet” was the first big-budget Hollywood science fiction movie and $2 million to make. “Before that, science fiction was a strictly low-budget, black-and-white genre,” Impey said. “There are themes of Shakespeare and Freud underlying the story. It also was a direct inspiration for Star Trek and Star Wars. The movie is a lot of fun.” Jeff Yanc, program director at The Loft, said Impey has appeared at The Loft before. “He’s a fantastic, engaging speaker, so we know he’ll be a great guest,” Yanc said. “Chris selected the film ‘Forbidden Planet,’ which will be very cool to watch on the big screen, as it’s a very beautiful, colorful film with ray guns, robots and alien life forms.” Impey is a University
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ASTRONOMY PROFESSOR CHRIS IMPEY in his office. Impey will be speaking at the “Science on Screen” event at The Loft Cinema on Tuesday.
Distinguished Professor of Astronomy as well as an Associate Dean in the College of Science at UA. He has received $20 million in grants from NASA and the NSF to research topics such as cosmology and astrobiology, and he works to improve the science curriculum and technology at UA. At the screening on Tuesday, Impey will discuss the reality of space travel and the possibilities that lie in the near future with advancing technologies, which are also the topics of his most recent book, “Beyond: Our Future In Space.” Copies of this book will be available for sale and for signing at The Loft Cinema.
“I hope to give people a sense that space is about to open up for regular people, not just astronauts,” Impey said. “Within a few decades, we’ll be living and working on Mars and we will have a future off Earth. Good science fiction movies can inspire that vision.” The Science on Screen series at The Loft Cinema was organized in order to engage audiences in thoughtful discussions on different topics in science, prompted by local experts. “I think we’ll draw a wide cross-section of people to this event, as it will have appeal for people who love vintage sci-fi movies, people who love astronomy and science, and people who love Chris Impey,”
Yanc said. “We also tend to draw entertain and enlighten their audiences from audiences about the university real world events, population for Within a few which takes the these Science on decades, we’ll movie viewing Screen events, to the be living and experience especially when next level. working on Mars the speaker General and we will have admission tickets is from the U of A, so the a future off Earth. for this screening series helps to Good science fiction are priced at strengthen the Teachers movies can inspire $9.50. ties between The and students that vision.” who show their Loft Cinema and the University of ID can purchase —Chris Impey, discounted Arizona.” College of Science tickets for $7.75. Yanc said the Associate Dean Loft Cinema is a For more local nonprofit information movie theater about this event, that hosts events such as visit loftcinema.org/film/ Science on Screen in order to forbidden-planet.
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Repertory Theatre aims to attract newcomers The Arizona Repertory Theatre recently reduced its student ticket prices but has not seen the surge of ticket purchases that it hoped for BY VICTOR HERRERA @DailyWildcat
The greatest task facing the Arizona Repertory Theatre isn’t perfecting the performance of its young actors, it’s getting people into the seats to watch shows. On a critical level recent production “Proof” proved a success and recieved positive reviews. However, despite the good publicity and decreased ticket prices, ticket sales have largely remained the same. Beginning this semester the Arizona Repertory Theatre dropped ticket prices to just $15 ffor UA students. Additionally, the theatre implemented a rush pricing option, which would allow UA students to purchase a ticket at a reduced price 30 minutes before the start of the show. Yet even with the reduced price of tickets, the theatre has not seen the influx of student patrons they were hoping for. “It’s not quite the surge that I had hoped,” said Lisa Pierce, director of marketing and development at the Arizona Repertory Theatre. While reduced ticket prices might not have brought on the desired surge, the strategy did result in some benefits. “I can say happily that we made our ticket sales goal for the budget of ‘Proof,’” Pierce said. It seems that the challenge for the Arizona Repertory Theatre is attracting newcomers, the people who have yet to experience this unique class of performance art firsthand. The theatre already has cultivated a core group of attendees who consistently view its productions. “The people that have been buying tickets were very happy to hear that (prices have) dropped, but I don’t think we’ve seen an increase in traffic based on the new price,” said Charles Cannon, box office manager at the Arizona Repertory Theatre. Even though the theatre hasn’t quite seen the boost in attendees it anticipated, new
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THE STRUGGLE IS ON as Hal (Alec Williams) and Claire (Kelly Hajek) try to figure out if it was really Catherine (Cera Naccarato) who wrote the ground-breaking proof in UA Arizona Repertory Theatre’s production of PROOF directed by Hank Stratton.
theatergoers do still find them and enjoy their performances. “The new people that have been coming in have been coming in because they heard ‘Proof ’ was really good,” Cannon said. According to Megan Gerrish, assistant box office manager at the theatre, word of mouth has so far been more effective at bringing in new audience members than the new ticket prices. “It’s a lot of word of mouth,” Gerrish said. “A lot of patrons that have come to see ‘Twelfth Night’ actually told their friends about it and are coming again a second time bringing friends.” Even with an increase of patrons attending the Theatre as a result of some free
marketing, the Theatre still desires to capture more of the student demographic. “There hasn’t been a huge influx yet of student sales; the influx of sales we are getting for ‘Twelfth Night’ were because we got a good review in the paper,” Gerrish said. Gerrish said the vast majority of patrons who have attended productions thus far this semester have been of the same, largely senior, demographic as in previous semesters. The Theatre has not yet sold a lot of the student rush tickets, Gerrish said. A rush ticket allows UA students to purchase a ticket at the box office the night of a play for $10-despite not being able to choose your own seat, it’s
a highly discounted price. “It’s not like we’ve sold zero,” Gerrish said. “A couple of nights we might sell five to 10.” The show currently playing at the Arizona Repertory Theatre is “Twelfth Night,” an original play by William Shakespeare. The play’s story focuses around a shipwrecked girl who “disguises herself as a boy” and ultimately becomes caught in a love triangle. Even with the name of Shakespeare attached to the play, a Shakespeare work can sometimes be “harder to market,” particularly for students, according to Gerrish. Gerrish recounted one patron who had seemingly had enough of Shakespeare.
“He said, ‘Honey, I am 75 years old, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen ‘Twelfth Night,’ I don’t need to see it again,’” she said. While there hasn’t yet been the anticipated rise in ticket sales by students from the last two plays, Pierce is confident that things will pick up. “I know these things take time too,” she said. “Word still hasn’t, I don’t think, saturated out there on campus.” Gerrish says that feedback from patrons has been positive. “The talent, the skill, the actual quality of the production speaks for itself,” she said. “It’s getting people to just come the first time that is the goal and the constant battle that we face.”
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JOE PAGAC WORKS ON a painting. Pagac has worked on murals, canvas work and fabrication.
Tucson artist travels the nation, paints murals BY VICTORIA HUDSON @torihudson_
Wet paint brushes lie on the floor next to sketches that inspired the canvas above them. Local artist Joe Pagac stands focused as he adds to his nearly blank canvas of a sugar skull he is recreating for a client. With each stroke of his brush, the painting comes alive and the bright colors beam off the portrait. “I really like doing figurative paintings and people dressed up in weird, surreal costumes,” Pagac said. “But the nature of being an artist has forced me to paint what other people want a lot of the time, but I really use that as a chance to learn about different styles and expand my own skill sets.” Pagac has always been an artist, but his drive to pursue art as a profession took place in a UA Drawing 101 class. His art teacher was so impressed with his work that she told him he should strive for a career as an artist. He then switched his major and his journey into the art scene began. Pagac’s art career has given him a number of opportunities to travel the world. He has traveled to places like Europe and Asia to paint and get inspired artistically. In the last couple of years, he has painted artwork for the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, MGM Grand and Buffalo Exchange in Las Vegas, and Los Angeles International Airport. Based in Tucson, Pagac has murals
distributed all around the Downtown area. He is most known for his mural on the side of the Rialto Theatre. He has smaller pieces inside of Maynards Market and Kitchen, Hotel Congress and other murals around the city. “I like to paint big because it’s active,” Pagac said. “I’m a very social person so it’s nice to be out, moving around, and when I’m doing murals I’m in a different place every week and meeting new people.” Pagac also specializes in canvas work. Most of his canvas work consists of people dressed up in costume or recreations of photos he has taken from traveling. He recently painted a series of canvas work from a 40-day bike trip he took with his fiancé in the fall. He traveled to Southeast Asia for a year and did a series of portraits in gold metallic paint of the native people. House paint is Pagac’s preferred type of paint. He swears it works the exact same as other high-end paint but is a fraction of the cost. He started this money-saving technique years ago and will continue to use it as his career goes on. He recently participated in a live painting event at the Rialto Theatre where he painted canvases by mixing silicon and glitter. Each piece got auctioned off for charity and helped the cause. Examples of his work, including murals, canvas work and fabrication work, can be found on Pagac’s website at www. joepagac.net.
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Sports • Monday, March 27 -Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Arizona baseball swept by No. 2 Oregon State BY IVAN LEONARD @Ivan14bro
On Sunday, No. 6 Arizona baseball lost to No. 2 Oregon State 11-7, capping off a threegame sweep on the road. In a series featuring Pac-12 powers, the Wildcats battled hard in all three games but were unable to claim even one from the Beavers. Two of Arizona’s three losses were in the final inning during the sweep, and now Arizona drops to 16-7 on the season after starting 10-0. The Wildcats lost the series opener in a game that came down to the last inning. Tied at three runs a piece, Beavers infielder K.J. Harrison singled down the middle, allowing catcher Adley Rutchsman to score the game-winner. J.J. Matijevic led the offense with three hits but did not register any RBIs for the Wildcats. Arizona stranded 11 runners on base and batted .091 with runners in scoring position. With runners on base, Arizona batted .167 and failed to consistently move runners over and bat runners in. Saturday’s loss was a heart-breaker as Oregon State defeated the Wildcats 5-4 on a wild pitch. Arizona had tied the game in the top of ninth due to a solo home run by Corey Voss. In the bottom of the ninth, a wild pitch by Cody Deason allowed Beavers outfielder Preston Jones to score the game-winning run.
Arizona’s offense only manufactured four hits on Friday and hit .138 as a team. No Wildcat batter registered over one hit while Arizona struck out six times. Randy Labaut got the start in the series opener, allowing seven hits and three earned runs in five innings. Deason earned the loss for Arizona and fell to 1-1 on the season. On Sunday, Oregon State jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning, forcing Arizona to play catch up the rest of the game. Oregon State would extend the lead to 5-0 before Arizona scored three runs in the fifth inning. Oregon State would add six runs in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to extend their lead to 11-3. Arizona would add four runs in the eighth inning to cut the deficit to 11-7 but could not score any more runs. Alfonso Rivas led the Wildcats on Sunday with three hits, four RBIs, and a walk. Rio Gomez started for Arizona on Sunday and the loss dropped his record to 2-3 on the season. Gomez pitched 3.2 innings and give up six hits and three earned runs. In a battle of Pac-12 heavyweights, Oregon State bested the Wildcats all weekend thanks to their steadfast pitching. Arizona came into Sunday as the only Pac-12 batting over .300, sitting at .338 throughout the year. Oregon State leads the Pac-12 in ERA at 1.25, a whole point lower than the next team. In the series, Arizona batted .197 as a team,
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ARIZONA’S RIO GOMEZ PITCHES during the UA-McNeese game, Feb. 25. The Wildcats swept McNeese State over the weekend.
much lower than the Wildcats’ average, and could not figure out the Beavers. While there are no moral victories in sports, Arizona was only a few bounces away from winning this series. No team ever wants to be
swept, but there is still a lot of baseball left to be played this season. Wildcat baseball returns to Hi Corbett Field on Wednesday, when Arizona takes on Grand Canyon University at 6 p.m. MST.
Beach volleyball splits series in Texas BY NIKKI BAIM @nikkibaim22
Arizona beach volleyball continued to struggle against ranked teams on Saturday, losing 3-2 against No. 8 LSU. The Wildcats salvaged the weekend with a 4-1 victory over unranked TCU. Last week in Hawaii, Arizona head coach Steve Walker began to make lineup adjustments by bringing his third pair of Olivia Macdonald and Olivia Hallaran up to the second team in place of Mia Mason and Kendra Dahlke. With the same strategy for Saturday’s match against LSU, “the Olivias,” as the team denotes Macdonald and Hallaran, couldn’t compete at the higher level and were taken down by the Tigers in two sets. As for the third pair, Mason and Dahlke took LSU’s Olivia Powers and Katie Lindelow to a third set, which could have potentially given Arizona a 3-2 match victory. The duo were crushed 15-6 in the third set, giving the Wildcats their fifth consecutive loss to ranked opposition. Walker made another lineup change against TCU by dropping Mason and Dahlke to the fourth pair and moving Hailey Devlin and Sam Manley up to the No. 3 spot. Devlin and Manley proved themselves worthy of
the higher rank when they shutdown TCU’s Jillian Bergeson and Avery Arellano in two sets with scores of 21-14 and 21-15. While Arizona’s lineup is under construction for the second, third and fourth teams, the self-proclaimed “fearless” No. 1 pair of Madison and Mckenna Witt are starting the season off hot, with the potential to go deep in the NCAA Championship Tournament come May. “We want to be known as a team who works hard and to be relentless and never leave half of our heart out there,” said McKenna Witt. In Texas, the Witts had no problem putting away LSU and TCU’s best players, and breezed through the day in four sets. While the middle pairs have yet to consistently achieve their roles in lineup, the Witts have been advising the younger players on getting through the midseason tests. “We tell them it’s a grind and every day is hard and a challenge in itself,” said Madison Witt. “Come out with a good attitude, and an attitude to get 100 percent better, and eventually there will be progress. There’s hard days, but you always make it.” With the additional six weeks of winter that Punxsutawney Phil gave us coming to a close last week, spring is blooming just in
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ARIZONA SAND VOLLEYBALL ATHLETE McKenna Witt jumps to spike the ball next to her twin sister and teammate Madison Witt during Arizona’s 5-0 victory over California State Northridge on Saturday, March 26, 2016.
time for the Wildcat Spring Challenge. Next week, Arizona will host New Mexico, Santa Clara, CSU Bakersfield and No. 12 Grand Canyon in four matches over two
days and a chance to break their losing streak against ranked competition. The Spring Challenge begins on Friday, March 31, at 1 p.m. MST.
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Sports • Monday, March 27 -Tuesday, March 28, 2017
COURTESY BRIAN JEFFRIES
BRIAN JEFFRIES, RIGHT, STANDS alongside longtime partner Ryan Hansen, left, before a UA basketball game. Jeffries preapres for a UA football game in the press box.
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the school in Tucson. His son will be an incoming freshman next year, hoping to pursue a business degree. “The biggest reason I love working here is the people,” Jeffries said. “It’s great that the teams win for the most part, which makes my job more fun. Great credit goes to the school for always hiring quality people.” Jeffries has seen it all for Arizona men’s basketball. He was present for the 1997 National Championship victory. He was there for the first trip to the Final Four in March of 1988. “That was a feeling … you still get chills,” Jeffries said. “There’s only that one time, the first time you ever get to go to the Final Four. 1997, I’ll never forget, too.” At the same time, Jeffries has formed relationships with coaches and still interviews them following a loss.
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BRIAN JEFFRIES PREAPRES FOR a UA football game in the press box.
“You have to earn the trust of the players ask them if they regret it.” and coaches,” Jeffries said. “That can Jeffries also was reminded of the 1986 happen quickly or it can National Championship take some time. It usually baseball team. During That was a postseason play when the takes a season. I try to feeling ... you team practiced at a high build that trust that I’m on their side.” still get chills. school, he would chase While he doesn’t like to There’s only one balls for the team. show bias, Jeffries does have “I couldn’t throw more time, the first time than 20 yards,” Jeffries said. his fair share of favorite you ever go to the “Outfielder Dave Shermet Wildcats over the years. Final Four. 1997, I’ll actually taught me how Steve Kerr comes to the mix first for everything that never forget too.” to throw the ball. I was he endured as a player during incorrectly throwing the ball. school. Jeffries recalled the —Brian Jeffries, Those were great memories.” ASU taunting of Kerr following With the hustle and IMG director of bustle of the sports his father’s assassination in broadcasting industry, there are hardly Beirut in 1984. “I hurt for him, I thought any breaks. it was unbelievable,” Jeffries “I kind of look at this job said. “From what I could tell, nobody tried like I’m still in school,” Jeffries said. “Nine to stop it. I just felt so bad for him. I would months out of the year, I work my rear end love to find all those students and see them off. I work six or seven days a week for today and find out what became of them, nine months.”
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Right before the Pac-12 Networks launched, there was a three-year span where Arizona Athletics produced the local television for Arizona basketball and football. “I was on vacation 8,000 feet up in the Rocky Mountains with a fishing pole in my hand when I got a call from my boss,” Jeffries said. “He said we are taking over TV production. You have six weeks. It was the most stressful three years of my life.” With live broadcasts, Jeffries knows he makes mistakes. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t hope to chase perfection. “I hope every game I broadcast is better than the last one,” Jeffries said. “I never want to be satisfied. I will always make mistakes.” Early on in his career, Jeffries thought his career might be finished. He told Scott he didn’t think he could do this anymore because of how many mistakes he made. “In this voice from God, he said, ‘Bryan, I’ve been broadcasting for 75 years and I’ve never called a perfect game,’” Jeffries said. Jeffries still hasn’t.
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Candrea earns 1,500th win in style Mike Candrea further establishes himself as the winningest coach in Division I softball history this weekend during the Wildcats’ rout of the Huskies BY CHRISTOPHER DEAK @ChrisDeakDW
It was a historic afternoon at Hillenbrand Stadium on Sunday. Arizona head coach Mike Candrea won his 1,500th game in front of a packed house packaged with a 5-2 Arizona victory. The Wildcats swept the No. 6 Huskies this weekend and presented Candrea, as well the program, the milestone in grand fashion. “I think the one thing I’m proud of is I think Arizona softball has been one to set a standard, a very high standard, and all we’re trying to do is keep continuing to reach that every single day,” Candrea said. During the post-game celebration, interim athletic director Erika Barnes was on hand to address Candrea in front of the crowd. Barnes played for Candrea and was a member of the 2001 national championship team. Roles are reversed in a way as Candrea now works for Barnes, and her position is in part owed to the time she spent as an athlete playing for Candrea. “I had such a positive experience playing for a coach like him that I want to give back that positive attitude, that daily effort, the grind, the blood, sweat and tears,” Barnes said. “I think he sees [winning 1,500 games] as a very long process. What he’s done for sport around the world, around the nation, has been really neat to see.” Candrea is the winningest coach in Division I history. He trails University of Michigan head coach Carol Hutchins by just five wins for the all-time lead. However, not all of Hutchins’ wins came at the Division I level, while all 1,500 of Candrea’s victories have been earned as head coach at Arizona. Win number 1,500 came in style as the Wildcats wrapped up a threegame sweep over the Huskies. Danielle O’Toole moved to 16-1 on the season and her ERA is a cool 0.65. She gave up just three hits but surrendered a two-
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THE WILDCATS ATTEMPT TO give head coach Mike Candrea a gatorade shower during the Wildcats 5-2 win over the Washington Huskies, on March 26 at Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium.
run home run in the seventh when the game’s result was mostly decided. They were the Huskies’ only runs over the weekend. Arizona made a statement during their three-game sweep, outscoring the Huskies 20-2. Washington came into the series batting .361, good for third in the nation, but the duo of O’Toole and Taylor McQuillin held them scoreless for the first 18.2 innings of the weekend. “It feels ... magical is cheesy, but that’s kind of the word I’m using,” O’Toole said. “It’s a good atmosphere to [be a part of and] everybody is on the same page. It’s fun to be playing, it’s fun [when it’s] 0-0 and [you] know that it’s going to happen at some point, [we] just have to figure out when.”
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It was in fact But as O’Toole 0-0 through three I think the one mentioned, this innings on Sunday thing I’m proud year’s team knows and it looked like “it” is bound of is I think that a typical pitcher’s to happen at some Arizona softball point in the game. duel between has been one to set O’Toole and Mercado blasted Husky starter a standard, a very a two-run homer Taran Alvelo. high standard, and to the left field Alvelo retired and the all we’re trying to do bleachers, 10 of the first 13 Wildcats led the is keep continuing rest of the way. batters she faced, to reach that every After struggling to but batter number 14 happened to single day,” string hits together be red-hot last year, this year’s Mo Mercado. —Mike Candrea, Wildcats have been With Eva consistent at the Arizona head plate, as evidenced Watson pinch softball coach by their eightrunning for Katiyana Mauaga run first inning on second base, onSaturday. a base hit from Mercado would “I think the difference is we have given the Wildcats the lead. have a stronger lineup 1-9,”
Mercado said. “Last year one of our struggles was we kind of were a streaky team with our offense, whereas this year we have newcomers and veterans that are having better at-bats and producing better overall.” A no-hitter from O’Toole on Friday, a run rule victory over a top-10 team on Saturday and win number 1,500 for Candrea on Sunday—think it’s fun being on this team right now? “To be on the team for his 1,500th win is just so exciting because so many great athletes have been here before us so to be a part of it; it’s just great,” Mercado said. Arizona will play a doubleheader against Grand Canyon University on Wednesday, March 29, at 3 and 5 p.m. MST.
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As a child, Jeffries dreamed about becoming a sports broadcaster after religiously listening to his childhood hero, Bob Blackburn, and now Jeffries is 30 years into his dream BY MATT WALL @mwall20
Thirteen-year-old Brian Jeffries sat next to the radio listening to Seattle Supersonics games. Jeffries did his best to catch all 82 games and listen to the legendary voice of longtime Supersonics play-by-play man Bob Blackburn. “It fascinated me that he could be anywhere in the country broadcasting this game and I could close my eyes and I was [transported to] where he was,” Jeffries said. “He was so descriptive of the game. I just had the bug to do that.” Jeffries tried his hand at radio. At 16, he earned the spot to do his first commercial for the Bank of Tacoma. It helped, of course, that his father was the president of the bank at the time. “I didn’t get paid a thing,” Jeffries said, laughing. He took that passion into his first radio job in Yakima, Washington. In a town of just 50,000 people, Jeffries was the morning rock-and-roll disc jockey, the newsman in the afternoon and even did play-by-play for local high school games. “I had a teacher who told his students go on the two-year plan,” Jeffries said. “Get your first job, stay there for two years no matter what and then look for your next job.” Boise, Idaho would be his next destination, a bigger market of 200,000. Two years later, he came to Tucson and earned a job at a new local radio station KMGX in 1980. In the span of six years, the UA lost four play-by-play announcers. Each time Jeffries applied, he was turned down. “I got turned down three times,” Jeffries said. “Then, they finally gave it to me. I remember sitting in the office and the general manager on the other side of the desk looked at me and said, ‘Brian, I am sick and tired of you coming in and applying for this job. So you can have it.’” One of the times he was turned
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BRIAN JEFFRIES, LEFT, TAKES a picture before broadcasting an Arizona football game with partner Lamont Lovett, right. Jeffries has been the voice of Wildcat sports since 1987.
down, the job was handed to Ray Scott, who had retired to Tucson. Scott had previously been the voice of the Green Bay Packers and was the voice of Super Bowl I and II. “It turned out to be the greatest blessing I could have asked for,” Jeffries said. “He was a legend in the broadcasting business. He taught me more than I could ever tell you.” In the fall of 1987, Jeffries landed his dream job and became
the voice of the Arizona Wildcats that the Tucson community has grown to love. It would be five years before he was comfortable with his radio identity. “As a radio announcer, you are painting the picture,” Jeffries said. “There is no camera. There is no stat box on the screen. You have to provide all of that. That’s why I love radio.” While some might try to imitate announcers like Vin Scully, Jeffries learned first-hand that you have to
be you. “One thing that I learned is to be yourself,” Jeffries said. “Like anybody else, you grow up listening to all these other voices and want to be like them. My philosophy is you will never make it if you do that. You need to be you.” With listeners constantly tuning in and out of the game, Jeffries found a way to keep them connected. He calls it time-scoreball. How much time is on the
clock? What’s the score? Where’s the ball? “Those are three basics,” Jeffries said. “You don’t know whether people are tuning in or tuning out, or how close they are listening.” Jeffries quickly became a staple in the athletics department and greater Tucson community. His wife, a 1986 UA grad, has worked at the UA for 20 years. His daughter, a current junior at the UA, would only consider
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