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FORMER DEPUTY ATHLETICS DIRECTOR Kathleen “Rocky” LaRose gives a speech at a going away event on Saturday, held at the new Sands Club in the Lowell-Stevens Football Facility.
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UA softball alumna, homecoming queen Kathleen “Rocky” LaRose retires after 34-year career with Arizona Athletics BY MEGAN COGHLAN
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athleen “Rocky” LaRose walked out of her office in McKale Center on Tuesday night having completed her last full day as UA deputy director of athletics and an illustrious 34-year career with Arizona Athletics. “I feel good walking away, and I am just so filled with gratitude for having this
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amazing career here at the university,” LaRose said. LaRose’s time at Arizona began when she was a student, then known as Kathleen “Rocky” Rockenfield. She was named homecoming queen in 1978 and was a star on the softball team. In 1979 she led the team to its first conference championship title and was a member of the U.S. National Championship Team. Softball head coach Mike Candrea has known LaRose
since she lobbied to hire him 29 years ago. Under Candrea’s leadership, Arizona softball has won eight national championships and 21 Women’s College World Series appearances. “She can be hard-nosed when she needs to and she can turn on a smile when she needs to, so she’s got really good people skills,” Candrea said. “To be able to see someone have a career like that, you just don’t see it anymore. [Thirty-four]
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years at one place is almost unheard of anymore.” The number of responsibilities LaRose has had during her time with the UA has increased immensely since she started out as softball coach. She was acting director of athletics for the 2009-10 school year, an NCAA-designated senior woman administrator, oversaw all 20 varsity sports, supervised C.A.T.S. studentathlete services, the Student
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The Arizona Board of Regents is pushing for a statewide financial aid program in order for taxpayers to share the responsibility of education costs. The board recently recommended to the state legislature to add $12.6 million in financial aid to its 2014 budget in the spring. The request is part of an effort to have a program through which students would receive financial aid directly from the state, said Rick Myers, chair of the board. Arizona is one of a handful of states that doesn’t offer such a program, Myers added. In 1989, the board, the state Legislature and Arizona Students’ Association, a student lobbying group, created the Arizona Financial Aid Trust fee. While not a statewide financial aid program, AFAT created a student fee with the assurance that the state would match those funds. Because of tough economic times, however, the state hasn’t been able to match financial aid funds for the past five years, according to Myers. In 2013, students at the three state universities collected about $11 million, and the state funded $10 million of the $22 million they were supposed to, Myers added. The board of regents is asking the Legislature to fund the remaining of the $22 million in 2014. Since 2008, most financial aid has come either from the student fee without the support of state aid, or from private donors or tuition, Myers said. Because educated students
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Hundreds of people gathered on the UA Mall Saturday for International Observe the Moon Night. The unofficial holiday, which is the brainchild of several NASA projects including the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, is intended to “get people all around the world excited about looking at the moon,” said Sanlyn Buxner, the event’s organizer education specialist and research scientist for the Planetary Science Institute, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Tucson. Along with the opportunity to look at the moon through a MARK ARMAO/THE DAILY WILDCAT telescope, the event offered the NIKKI WHITE, a business sophomore, peers at the moon through a telescope during
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The Daily Wildcat A UA professor found that people in an established relationship are more likely to give second chances than those who have never been in one. The UA will be introducing Martin Reimann as an assistant professor of marketing in the spring. Reimann, alongside Oliver Schilke
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International Observe the Moon Night. The moon was in its waxing gibbous phase during the event, which was held on the UA Mall on Saturday.
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and Karen S. Cook, recently finished a research paper titled “Effect of Relationship Experience on Trust Recovery Following a Breach.” Reimann said the research paper, which was published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, is about how our responses to trust
breaches depend on our relationship with whomever has breached that trust. “This research shows that two mechanisms are relevant here: the control system and the automatic system,” he said, emphasizing that the two mechanisms are higher-order functions and that the way we respond — which mechanism we use — depends on how long
we’ve known the person who has breached our trust. According to the group’s findings, people are essentially going to be harder on someone who breaches their trust if there is no established relationship, but when an established relationship exists, they are going to be more forgiving and open to
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