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University gets new Anchovies for new year BY PEARL DIXON @DailyWildcat
After closing on the last day of May 2016 to begin a renovation that would last until late November, No Anchovies has returned to the University Boulevard scene. The restaurant and bar first reopened for the ASU vs. UA football game, but held a grand reopening for the upstairs bar on New Year’s Eve. Along with the addition of the bar and game room upstairs, the main floor now extends to another bar that stretches behind the stairs. The lower level contains more booths that pizza lovers can use to enjoy their slices. Customers can play games of pool, Jenga, giant Connect Four and shuffleboard upstairs. “We were tired of losing business to downtown ,” said Greg Perricone, a manager at No Anchovies. They hoped their renovation would draw some of the dance and party scene from downtown Tucson to University Boulevard. According to Perricone, so far, it has worked. The building has always contained an upstairs, but Perricone said it was mainly used for office space prior to the remodel. Perricone also said, “way more people have been coming in.” The increase in the number of customers since they reopened has satisfied the purpose behind the remodel. The restaurant has been so popular that they even stay open until 2 a.m. some days. The pizza joint now features a highquality sound system, which they use for showing music videos when there are no sports games. “This is only at about 5 percent,” Perricone said over an already loud Selena Gomez song. The restaurant plays almost every local sports game on their collection of TVs found
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indoors and outside on their patio deck. When asked about his impression of the remodel, Sean Harms, a UA student who was enjoying a game of pool at No Anchovies on Monday said, “It’s much better than it used to be.” Harms used to frequent the restaurant before they remodeled, but he said he enjoys being able to play games upstairs and spends more time there now. On Monday, he brought a friend who had never been to the
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UA to offer joint public relations minor The UA School of Journalism and the Department of Communication are considering the development of offering a joint-degree minor in public relations to interested undergraduate students. Chris Segrin, head of the communication department, said the development of the minor is very speculative at this stage and that it relies on students’ reactions, demand and acquiring resources like new instructors. “I absolutely think there is a need for a minor and major in public relations to be honest,” Nancy Kelly, the undergraduate program coordinator for the department of communication, said. “We have so many students that want to do public relations, and once we instituted a public relations class it was like gravy—everybody wants to take it.” Segrin said if the student demand carried forward, the minor will be established. If it’s popular enough, a full-blown public relations major will be put together.
According to Segrin, for the students specifically interested in a PR career, the potential minor would be beneficial in the sense that it’ll develop more of a professional skill set for students and narrow the focus on the work they want to do. In the potential minor, students would have more access to internship programs and coursework specific to the PR field, helping them land a job at a public relations firm. “I think the reason we don’t have a minor yet is because we just don’t have the personnel for it, and that has to do with the money we get from the Dean’s Office and the provost office,” Kelly said. “The fact there is no public relations offered is mind-blowing.” According to Kelly, more courses in public relations are essential to keep up with the demand of journalism, communication and business students. “We want to hire someone specifically for PR, so the demand is there,” Kelly said. The department of communication is currently seeking an assistant professor of practice
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NEWS FAST FIVE: Syrian Civil War BY NICK MEYERS @nickmeyers214
Tendrils of the Syrian Civil War have stretched across the world, binding it in issues directly connected to the conflict. While the fighting itself remains confined to the quagmire of Middle Eastern conflicts, its global effects range from the shifting balances in global power to the refugee humanitarian crisis, shaping the future of our world.
With that in mind, we’ve boiled down the Syrian Civil War to its five most important aspects that you need to know about how it affects our world. We spoke with Leila Hudson, an associate professor in the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program who focuses on Syria and conflict dynamics. Her knowledge of the conflict has made one thing clear in the way we talk about this conflict. “This is an issue of great complexity,” she said. “It’s really important to resist thinking in simplistic, one-dimensional ways.”
4: FUELING RISE OF EXTREMISM
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THE SYRIAN CONFLICT, WHICH began as peaceful street protests in 2011, has devolved into a multifacteted civil war between multiple parties, costing more than 500,000 lives in the process.
1: CIVIL WAR
The conflict in Syria is a civil war. Spurred by the success of revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, with citizens in those countries overthrowing authoritarian leaders in what became known as the Arab Spring, Syrian activists took to the streets in peaceful protests in early 2011 hoping for similar results. According to Al Jazeera, the protests were in direct response to the detention and torture of 15 boys caught writing graffiti in support of the Arab Spring. One was tortured and killed. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s human rights violations were only one of the many issues facing the country, which included tightening of political freedoms and economic stresses caused by drought leading to mass migration to the country’s cities, increasing poverty and social unrest. Assad responded to the protests with the murder and imprisonment of hundreds of people. Eventually, some military officials announced their opposition to Assad’s actions and formed the Free Syrian Army in July 2011, the primary fighting force of the rebellion.
Prior to the onset of civil war, Syria had a population of 22 million people. According to Hudson, half of that population is now displaced, either internally or externally. “If you look at some of the drone footage of the city of Aleppo… that gives you an idea of the impossible destruction of wealth, not to mention human life,” she said. In terms of sheer numbers, while no one has an exact count of the toll on human life this war has taken, estimates now hover around 450,000 to 500,000 deaths and millions injured. Aside from death, Syria’s infrastructure and economy has been decimated as well, leaving challenges for whomever takes control of the country’s future and little hope for those who once called it home to return to the lives they once had.
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A CEASEFIRE BETWEEN THE Syrian government and many of the rebel factions has held since first being signed on Dec. 29, 2016. A peace conference in Astana, Kazakhstan, begining next week will seek to bring a permanent end to the conflict.
5: REFUGEE CRISIS
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MILLIONS OF PEOPLE HAVE been displaced since the Syria conflict began, with many ending up in refugee camps. The Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan has taken many displaced persons over the six-year conflict.
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AMERICAN DRONES AND OTHER military assets have conducted airstrikes against the Islamic State and other terrorists groups in Syria since fall 2014.
3: SHIFTING BALANCE OF GLOBAL POWER
Prior to the outbreak of war, the U.S. was the dominant powerbroker in the Middle East after fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. When war broke out in Syria, the U.S. took staunch opposition to the Assad regime. While hesitant to engage in the conflict, President Barack Obama vowed that he would not stand for the use of chemical weapons. However, in August 2013, Assad did just that, and the U.S. looked on the verge of launching airstrikes against the Syrian military. However, at the eleventh hour, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reached a deal with his Russian counterpart to remove all the Assad regime’s chemical weapons. This allowed Assad to stay in power and Russia to retain its influence in the nation. “Russia’s main goal is to support the Assad regime, which has turned this into an absolutely brutal, proto-genocidal conflict,” Hudson said. “After waiting, waiting, waiting, making sure this wasn’t a bluff of some kind on the part of the United States, [Russia] moved in with full commitment to backing up the Assad regime with airpower, rescuing that faltering regime and basically coming to own Syria.”
One of the most imminent threats to come out of Syria is the evolution of ISIS as an existential threat to western society. Conflicts like the one in Syria give the terrorist organization a chaotic theatre in which to gain power. “It’s almost like an incubator for bad evolution,” Hudson said. “People who are more moderate, less extreme, are basically wiped out by people who are more extreme, more violent and more psychopathic.” What is a tragedy for the majority of Syrians and the world creates an opportunity for ISIS to garner support for their cause, whether those recruited believe in their ideology or not, and ISIS plays that opportunity to its full extent. ISIS, the Assad regime and Russia by association have been using this disarray to affect political and social dynamics throughout Europe. The intake of refugees in European countries has fueled extremism on the other side, leading people to oppose refugees in their country. “What’s going on now is people’s fear and ignorance are being very strategically manipulated by the bad actors,” Hudson said.
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ALTHOUGH MANY THOUGHT THE highly publized death of Syrian refugee Aylan Kurdi in 2015 would spark change in the conflict, the war continued until a fragile ceasefire was brokered by Russia and Turkey more than a year later.
With such large numbers as the amount of refugees fleeing from Syria, it’s difficult to place each one of them into the context of their own lives. Hudson said the people of Syria are hard-working, resilient people who want to get on with their lives. “The thing about the refugee crisis itself is that they are an amazing reservoir of human potential,” she said. “The fact that they’re being targeted by this fascist extremism and xenophobia is another tragedy.” Houda Makansi is a 19-year-old Syrian refugee whose family relocated to Tucson after years of trying to escape violence in Syria. Houda’s family lived in Aleppo. Houda’s story parallels that of many refugees. Her family is part of a community of Syrian refugees here in Tucson that struggle to integrate into our society, mostly due to the language barrier. The men usually find work in kitchens or manual labor, but the children seem to fair best, going to school and making friends. Houda said the most important thing about the conflict that has ravaged her home country is that it’s unforgiving. “It has destroyed Syria’s history and civilization, destroyed stone and humans, destroyed the education of many children now in Syria,” she said. The parts of home she misses most are things we’d ordinarily take for granted. She misses her family. She misses the sky in Syria. She misses her neighborhood and her home. For her, “the happiness there is unparalleled.”
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Clorox won’t clean up this type of mess A University of Arizona Police Department officer witnessed a speeding vehicle at the intersection of Broadway Boulevard and Campbell Avenue around 1 a.m. on Jan. 7. The officer followed the vehicle, reaching a speed of 70 mph in order to catch up to it. The vehicle swerved through turn lanes, almost hitting the median multiple times. The UA officer gave multiple bursts of his siren before the vehicle finally came to a stop on Campbell Avenue over Aviation Highway, two intersections after the officer initiated his emergency lights. The officer noted that the driver’s window was only rolled down approximately 4 inches where the female driver held out her Arizona driver’s license, registration and proof of insurance. She was slow to respond and questioned police when they asked her to roll down her window completely. After multiple attempts, the woman managed to roll down her window, whereupon an officer asked if she had had anything to drink. The woman responded “no,” and began drinking a lot of water out of a large gallon bottle and wiping her face with Clorox wipes. Police asked the woman to exit the vehicle as she showed signs of intoxication. After failing several administered sobriety tests and a breath sample, she was read her Miranda Rights and placed under arrest for driving under the influence to the slightest degree and transported to the UAPD station for processing. UA employee teed off after car theft A UA staff member called the UAPD around noon on Jan. 5 after he discovered his car had been broken into on Lot 8138. An officer met with the male staff member who said he left his locked 2014 Hyundai unattended for approximately five hours. The staff member told police that once he returned to his vehicle, he noticed the cover of his fuse box laying on the floorboard and the center console hatch left in the open position. Upon opening the trunk, the employee discovered a golf bag and various clubs had gone missing. The missing items were valued at $1,500 and included a black and gray Nike golf bag that contained several clubs, wedges and a white UA towel. Police were unable to dust for prints because the employee had contaminated the crime scene. Police asked employees at a nearby Circle K if they had witnessed anyone with golf clubs in the area. The employees verified they had not. Officers did not find any witnesses or suspects in the area.
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Students participate in annual hackathon BY JESSICA BLACKBURN @hotbread33
Cheers erupted from a full Centennial Hall on Friday, Jan. 13, following the opening ceremony for Hack Arizona, the largest hackathon in the Southwest United States, hosted by UA. Hack Arizona is geared toward students interested in creating and learning about new technologies. “It’s not actual hacking,” explained Hack Arizona volunteer Dillon Khawani. “It’s called a hackathon because you’re supposed to be hacking the world.” More than 800 college students from around the world entered the Science-Engineering Library to commence the 36-hour event around 9 p.m. on Friday. “The first year we had about 450 participants and the second year we had around 650,” said Beau Graham, logistics organizer for Hack Arizona 2017. “It keeps growing larger each year.” Former Mexican President, Vicente Fox, even made an appearance at the event, meeting with Hack Arizona founder, Ian Tracey, on Friday. “He was here talking to students, doing some research and trying to get a feel for the culture,” Khawani said. “Because when you start something like this, you have a bridge to the rest of the world.” Support of the event has also grown in size. This year, Hack Arizona was sponsored by more than 10 major software and computing companies. Raytheon, Amazon, Red Bull and IBM were only some of the event’s many sponsors. Hackathon participants were given swag bags, T-shirts and wristbands, which gave them access to the Student Recreation Center for showers as well as for complementary breakfast, lunch and dinners outside the library. “A lot of the people who come here legitimately live here for 36 hours,” Khawani said. “Some of the teams are more serious and will work for 36 hours straight with no sleep because they want to win.” Teams were given incentives to create and demonstrate cutting-edge applications meant to promote health and sustainability. The prizes included an Amazon Echo Dot and Raspberry Pi canna kit for each member of the winning team. Sponsors gave away prize money, drones and Apple Watches to event participants at “Tech Talks” throughout the event. By Saturday night, students’ sleepless dedication to creating new applications resulted in trashcans overflowing with complementary Red Bull cans and Soylent bottles. “It’s not my first time coming to this event,” said Yash Yadav, a computer science senior. “There are always sleeping bags on the floor, people arguing over ideas and lots of caffeine consumption.” However, most of the students participating in Hack Arizona weren’t concerned with winning. “My goal is to get a basis of what companies expect coding-wise,” explained Alec Foster, a UA electrical engineering junior. “I’m going to stay open-minded, and if I get an idea then I’ll go for it, but I’m hoping to just learn.” A participating student from ASU, Alex Chambers, agreed. “I’m here to have fun and learn,” he said. “The people really trying to win are in the minority.” Students more interested in the learning aspect of Hack Arizona took part in events like drone obstacle courses and scavenger hunts. Those who worked on applications submitted their projects to be judged.
At 9 a.m. on Saturday, the Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom was filled with teams showing off their creations. “There is peer judging and actual judging is done separately,” Khawani said. “The judges are experts in these fields of technology.” Students and judges walked around the room to see what the other teams had been working on all weekend. Mobile apps for recording a user’s carbon footprint, finding medical assistance in emergency situations and seeking out the cheapest routes to fly were among the more common creations. “We don’t have any coding experience,” said Sierra Kaszubinski and Sanga Shir, UA life science seniors. “We only came up with the design. Our other team members who do know coding were able to help us out with the idea and make it into a working app.” An app called “Here” won the social media popular vote. It was designed to be a solution for location-aware messaging, according to the team who created it. The team’s members included Alex Stoken, Ben Whitely, Andrew Roberts and Evan Ridley. The app tracks your location, alerting your friends when you’re near. “It allows you to keep your hands on the wheel and to make driving safer,” Ridley said. “We realized this was a framework for something in the future.” The creators also posit that the app could be used to help emergency rooms prepare for incoming patients. “You also never want to be in the bathroom when a pizza delivery guy shows up,” joked a team member. At 1 p.m. on Sunday, the event came to a close. Organizers thanked volunteers and sponsors. “We also wanted to thank the hackers, because you guys are doing things that are incredible,” said the closing speaker. “You’re able to create these innovations that are impossible for other people who don’t know how to program or don’t have the time to do so.” The official winners of Hack Arizona 2017 were listed on Monday under nine categories. The Best Beginner Hack award, given to the team whose members have limited programming or hackathon experience, was awarded to Gab’nGo, an app designed to provide easy-access travel information. An app called PuppyBot, created to identify sad internet users and send them pictures of puppies to cheer them up, won Best Hacker Spirit award. The Vibe app won the Community award for its objective to make cultures and experiences more shareable to people through music. The app Audio Mosaic, which splices together clips from actors or speakers into whatever phrase a user would like them to say, won the Data Science and Visualization Category. TucsonConnect won the Helping Tucson category. The app was made to help users create or find community activities occurring mostly in Tucson. Meant to connect dog lovers to local shelters in order to promote and organize volunteering for dogs, an app called Bork won the Nonprofit category. BareText won the Open Source Contribution category for being the best project to contribute software, hardware or data science efforts and sharing them with the community. The Sustainability category was won by a team who created GreenFoot, an app meant to track users’ carbon footprints. A game called Texting and Driving, which demonstrates the dangers of texting while driving, won the Video Game Category.
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DHAWAL SRIVASTAVA, A UA student, fixes some glitches in his drone prototype before he demonstrating to Hack Arizona judges on Mar. 9, 2015. Students like Srivastava engage in events to find creative applications of technology.
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UA STUDENTS SHOW THEIR health application, “Half Full,” to interested audience members on Mar. 9, 2015. The application helps people with mood disorders keep track of how they are feeling through an algorithm.
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Paradise to switch to Panera Bread by fall
BY TIRION MORRIS @tirionmorris
Always bustling at lunch time with students who want to stick close to campus, Paradise Bakery is a staple when it comes to food near the university. But the Paradise chain was acquired by Panera Bread in 2007 and is set to transform into one this summer. The restaurant will close for renovations and reopen in time for the influx of students in the beginning of the fall semester. “Mostly I’m excited for it,” said Paradise supervisor and barista Alex Aldrich. “We have had a lot of mixed feedback from customers, some people are really excited about it, but I think most people are bummed because we are the only Paradise left in Tucson.” Paradise has already begun slowly transitioning by adding more and more of the Panera Bread items to their menu. The menu will continue to shift during the semester, looking more like what it will become in the fall. “We are moving toward that goal of clean food and a little bit different atmosphere,” said manager Sarah Ledesma. “They are going to have lots of healthy options, a menu that rotates with the seasons.” All of the food will be organic, cage-free, free range and preservative-free, one of the main pillars of the Panera Bread brand. “Panera’s clean menu can benefit a lot of students’ lives,” Ledesma said. “Probably so much of their life is fast food and things like that, but this is fast, healthy food.” Political science senior Jaquelyn Richards eats at Paradise about once every two weeks and enjoys the healthier options. “They have really good salads, so whenever I want a salad I come here. It’s much cheaper than Core,” she said.
The summer’s renovations will not only change the food, they will also bring big change to the look of the restaurant. The warm color scheme and cozy, but arguably old-fashioned, wooden decor will be switched out for a more modern look. “I do like the atmosphere in here,” Richards said. “But I usually don’t sit in here when I eat here. I usually take it with me.” She, like many students, is usually too busy to sit and eat in a restaurant, so the quicker turnaround time will be of benefit. “I’m exited for the change. Its going to be a completely different dynamic, a whole new store,” Aldrich said. Other advancements will be made in order to make the restaurant more efficient and cut waiting time both in line and in waiting for food. “We are going to transition, by the end of 2017, into a kind of Panera 2.0, a very cool concept where they have kiosks to make things faster, they have rapid pickups for customers,” Ledesma said. “So it will kind of enhance the kids’ lifestyles here.” The system will make the process of ordering and receiving food much faster, which is great for busy students, but it will alter the friendly feel of the restaurant. “We are going to have a closed line, so not interacting with customers as much,” Aldrich said During the summer renovations, the employees will be trained at one of the current four Panera Bread locations in Tucson. “There was a big concern within the line employees when we first got our new owners, like are they going to try to hire a whole new staff, what’s going to go on, are we going to lose our jobs?” Aldrich said. “But the owners have been amazing, keeping people on, keeping us happy.” According to Ledesma, “Everything about the cookies is staying.”
Why is it that some nights I can drink a lot of alcohol and be okay and other nights, I have a few and I get sick? There are a few things that might explain what you’ve experienced. Our best guess for the biggest factor among them? Time. Chances are, if you felt OK and avoided getting sick on the nights you happened to drink more, you probably did a good job of spacing those drinks out over a longer period of time. While theories on alcohol abound, the thing that gets most people sick is simply too much alcohol, too fast. What you’re drinking can also make a difference. Even though a standard shot of hard alcohol (around 1 oz. of 40% alcohol) is roughly equivalent to 12 oz. of 4% beer, the difference is the time it takes to drink them. Because shots go down quickly and hit your system that much faster, it’s easy to overindulge. By contrast, enjoying a beer or mixed drink takes more time and allows you to pace your consumption.
Last but not least, whether you drink on an empty or full stomach can also affect how you feel and how rapidly your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) rises, since food in your stomach slows the absorption of alcohol into your bloodstream. As a result, having a meal before a night out is a good way to keep your social buzz longer. On the other hand, drinking on empty can cause your BAC to spike, which usually results in drinking more along the way. And it’s no surprise that those higher BACs tend to be accompanied by things like throwing up, blacking out, run-ins with law enforcement, and an assortment of other not-so-fun experiences. The good news is that by drinking less, spacing out your drinks, dodging the hard stuff, and eating food before you party, you can avoid the less enjoyable aspects of alcohol in the first place.
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Trump calls approval rating polls ‘rigged’ BY LAURA FIGUEROA NEWSDAY (TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE)
NEW YORK _ President-elect Donald Trump fired back Tuesday against recent national polls showing him to be the least popular incoming president in decades, calling the surveys “rigged” in a Twitter post. “The same people who did the phony election polls, and were so wrong, are now doing approval rating polls,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “They are rigged just like before.” Trump’s comments came as three polls released Tuesday morning showed a majority of Americans view the president-elect unfavorably and have a negative opinion of his policies. More than half of those surveyed in a CNN/ ORC poll, 53 percent, said they view Trump unfavorably, compared with 44 percent who had a favorable impression of the president-elect. In an ABC News/Washington Post poll, 54 percent of respondents had an unfavorable opinion of Trump, compared with 40 percent with a favorable opinion. In comparison, Barack Obama had a 79 percent favorable rating on the eve of his inauguration, and George W. Bush had a 62 percent favorable rating before being sworn in, according to prior ABC News/Washington Post polls. A Monmouth University poll found that 46 percent of Americans had a negative
opinion of Trump in the days leading up to his inauguration, compared with 34 percent who viewed him favorably. Trump took to Twitter later to say he believed his supporters saw the “big stuff.” “With all of the jobs I am bringing back into the U.S. (even before taking office), with all of the new auto plants coming back into our country and with the massive cost reductions I have negotiated on military purchases and more, I believe the people are seeing ‘big stuff,’” Trump said. Also Tuesday, Trump met with Boeing’s CEO Dennis Muilenburg for the second time since the election to discuss reducing the cost of developing a new Air Force One fleet and other military fighter jets. Last month, Trump, who has frequently criticized the cost of defense projects, threatened to cancel the order of a new 747 Air Force One, saying on Twitter that “costs are out of control.” Muilenburg told reporters at Trump Tower after the meeting that he and Trump had an “excellent conversation,” and he expected a new deal between the federal government and the aerospace and defense company to be reached in the “very near term.” Trump’s inauguration planning committee announced Tuesday that he will use President Abraham Lincoln’s Bible and one that was given to him by his mother in 1955 to take the oath of office at Friday’s swearing-in ceremony.
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Getting ready for a different kind of president BY JOHN M. CRISP (TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE)
On Jan. 20, we will inaugurate Donald Trump as our 45th president. Please note that I’m using the pronoun “our.” I didn’t support Donald Trump. But immediately after his election, I made in writing the same concession that his opponent Hillary Clinton made, and that President Barack Obama made a few days later in the White House: Donald Trump won the election and that means he will be the next president of the entire country. And as long as we are a nation, that includes you and that includes me. Nevertheless, this election feels different from other elections. And we’ve elected a president who appears to be different from all others. Many loyal Americans welcome Trump’s presidency precisely for that reason, but many others—perhaps a majority—are anxious about a change as radical as Trump represents. And with good reason. We may think that we’re tired of “political correctness,” which is really just an exaggerated attempt to render delicate subjects in considerate terms, but, really, do we want a president who publicly calls women pigs and dogs? Well, we have one. The republic can probably survive considerable puerile crudeness in the White House, but other Trump characteristics and attitudes should concern his supporters as well as his opponents. Trump made a striking remark during his press conference last week: “I could actually run my business and run government at the same time ... as a president I could run the Trump Organization—great, great company and—I could run the company, uh, the country.” We’ll ignore Trump’s Freudian slip at the end and, to be fair, he was focusing on his supposed exemption from conflict-ofinterest laws rather than the demands of the presidency. Nevertheless the statement implies a worrisomely casual approach to the leadership of the free world and insufficient humility about its demands and responsibilities. The presidency is the ultimate full-time job and probably the world’s most informationintensive. Its intellectual complexities are
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enormous. A president always has something that he needs to read, to ponder, to resolve, to absorb, to synthesize and to pass on to others. The first thing I remember learning about President John Kennedy was that every morning he read five newspapers. George Washington, a practical man of action rather than a scholar, subscribed to 10 papers. On the other hand, The Washington Post reports that Trump says that he has no time to read: “I never have. I’m always busy doing a lot. Now I’m more busy, I guess, than ever before.” In fact, Trump says that he doesn’t need to read extensively because he can make the correct decision “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge
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I (already) had, plus ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.” This statement is entirely in line with traditional American anti-intellectualism, which values practical knowledge and know-how over book-learning and is even suspicious of anything that smacks of too much of the intellect. But this is a dubious philosophical position. And in Trump’s case, the gap between what he thinks he knows and what he really knows is significant. This creates a vacuum that sucks in ideas and influences that he doesn’t have the intellectual and historical background to evaluate, which probably helps explain why
he changes his positions on issues so readily and so often. Trump may be a good deal maker—his tax returns would help confirm that—but I’d rather have a president who feels the awesome weight of the undertaking. Maybe a president who feels a little intimidated by the job and who recognizes that he needs information and advice from others to succeed. But that’s not the kind of president we have. Confidence is a fine trait, but it easily shades into arrogance. Humility, on the other hand, derives from knowledge and is often the consequence of wisdom. Trump has too much confidence and not enough humility. Maybe the office will encourage him toward a healthy compromise between the two.
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JUDE UDEOZOR GPSC President
Dear Graduate and Professional Students, Welcome back to school! As you may remember, right after I was sworn in as the President of the Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) on Sept. 27, 2016, I wrote a letter sharing GPSC goals and our commitment to advocating on your behalf. I promised to provide updates on our progress. Although some of the goals I shared are still works in progress, we have had some successes in the last three months, and I am excited to share some of those with you. Sustaining and Expanding GPSC’s Services: We raised approximately $40,000 in my first 50 days in office as President, which will allow a 13 percent increase in the number of GPSC travel grant awardees. We also started a new partnership with the College of Engineering (COE) to streamline the application process for their students by disbursing the college’s travel grant funds using GPSC’s evaluation process. This new partnership allows engineering students to submit a single application for both GPSC and COE travel grants, thereby increasing their opportunity to receive funding. We hope to replicate this partnership with other colleges. We are working toward building a stronger relationships with our alumni and
LETTER TO THE EDITOR local organizations to help create more permanent sources of funding for our services in the near future. Addressing Food Insecurity amongst UA Students: We have made both financial and material contributions to the Campus Pantry. We acknowledge the Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s effort to make the Pantry one of its programs, thereby creating more opportunities for expansion, and we are committed to supporting that effort. We have also continued to work with the leadership of the Student Union Memorial Center to explore options that will provide steady source of contribution for the Pantry and opportunities for students to contribute to the Pantry on a regular basis. Expanding Our Outreach: We recently created a seat for the College of Medicine-Phoenix students in our General Council. We are also working toward collaborating with graduate student club leaders and the Cultural Centers in hope of reaching out to more graduate students. We hosted the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) President Eileen Klein and Board Chair Regent Greg Patterson on Nov. 15 as an effort to draw the board’s attention to graduate studentspecific issues. We have also revised our constitution to include a stronger commitment
to fight for equity and inclusion for all students. Toward the end of last semester we started discussions with the leadership of Faculty Senate to organize a listening tour between faculty members and graduate students as part of our effort to achieving our Sexual Assault and Title IX Harassment Awareness goal. Although mental health awareness was not part of the goals I shared previously, we are now focusing on addressing this issue. Data reveals that an alarmingly large number of graduate students struggle with mental health issues. We hope to work with the university to address this health concern. On a different note, tuition and fees increases seem to have become a yearly tradition. However, we have remained committed in working with the UA leadership to ensure that such increases remain reasonable and that total cost of living is commensurate with graduate student compensations. We have also emphasized graduate students objections to pay any new mandatory fees that do not directly impact or benefit us. To further access your opinions about all fees, we plan to conduct a fees survey soon. Please participate in the survey as it helps us advocate accordingly on your behalf. Following the November elections, we are aware of the concerns that have been shared by many of you and the fear that some of our fellow students now live with. While we may not be empowered to fully address some of
those concerns, we will not sit back and show apathy. We have continued to emphasize with the university leadership on the need to ensure that the university remains a safe and welcoming environment for ALL students. Speaking of advocacy, please join us on Jan. 18 for the annual Cats at the Capitol and Feb. 22 for a special Graduate and Professional Student Legislative session at the Capitol. Free transportation will be provided. Please contact: gpsclegislativeaffairs@email.arizona.edu In about two months, we will conduct the main elections to elect new leaders for GPSC. I encourage you to run for a position and to vote. While you will not see my name on the ballot, I believe that the future holds greater things for GPSC. With new and outstanding leaders like you, we can sustain the progress we have made this term and achieve even greater feats. Remember, there will be no GPSC without people to serve in it. Our focus in these last few months of this term will be You, You and You! My commitment of ACCOUNTABLE LEADERSHIP to you has not changed. I will continue to emphasize on prioritizing your needs and focusing on your concerns both within the organization and to the university leadership. As always, please feel free to reach out to us anytime if you have questions or concerns. Bear Down!
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Diary of a mad brown student;
Disney World is a great vacation, but microaggressions can take the wind right out of your sails
BY JULIAN CARDENAS @DailyWildcat
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his past winter break I went to the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Being a huge Disney fan since my conception, I had always hoped and dreamed of visiting the park, but Disneyland’s closer proximity to my home always made it the most realistic vacation option. The grandness of the Disney park surprised me and exceeded my already high expectations. I felt as if I had just met Disneyland’s big sister, and I was falling in love. Actually, the city of Orlando as a whole was thrilling to experience. From what I experienced in the city, I felt as if Orlando were built as a city completely dedicated to fun and
good times, or maybe to making money off providing fun and good times? Anyway, the overall mood of Orlando and the parks within it made knowing of the Orlando night club shooting at Pulse on June 12, 2016 even more eerie and confusing. I couldn’t understand how places that are meant to be enjoyed are often the first to become scenes of crimes or tragedies. I assumed bad people avoided good places. I’ve learned that these assumptions are completely wrong and misleading. Racism and bigotry is all around us, at all times, and in all places. Hate is everywhere. Love is everywhere. It is impossible for one to pinpoint who they believe is racist, judgmental or hateful just by looking at them. It is impossible for one to pinpoint who they believe is accepting, inclusive and loving just by looking at them. It is impossible to assume certain people have to believe in certain ways, just by the way they look.
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Looks do not warrant specific beliefs or qualities. Everyone has the right to their own different opinions. Everyone is free game for any of belief. That’s something we all know. We can’t assume certain traits to certain groups, places or institutions. Having said that, the last thing I thought I would witness on my recent trip to the Magic Kingdom was a racist situation or microaggression. I, like most people in this country, immediately correlate the word Disney to happiness. And, don’t get me wrong, I loved the park. The Disney Company was not involved in the racist and hateful experiences at all; the park’s guests were. Immediately walking onto park property, I noticed it was very different from Disneyland. Longer wait times, longer distances to cover, way more people—the Magic Kingdom is a lot to take in. I noticed that the park guests were extremely diverse, even more so than in Disneyland. I also noticed that the
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people visiting the park were slightly more irritated, frustrated and rude than the Disneyland guests I encounter every year. One instance, while waiting in line at Splash Mountain, a mother seemed to be looking for her child who had wandered further on through the line without her. The mother was calm but focused on finding her child, whose name she shouted while trying to ask people to allow her to advance through the line to find her child. She didn’t speak English. I immediately heard people yell back at her, telling her to go to the back of the line. I heard people complain about her shouting. I saw people avoid her questions. Yet, I believe she managed to find her child and went back to the end of the line, which had surely grown during the search. While waiting to board the ride, I wondered if the line’s general rudeness was caused by tiredness and stress from having to cover the park or if her lack of English proficiency and diversity was seen as threatening. In another situation, while in line for It’s A Small World, I heard people complain about another group of people who were speaking a language other than English. They rolled their eyes, almost as if hearing a different language was like being pierced by pain. This was extremely ironic and somewhat sad to me. It’s A Small World is literally a ride about the diversity of the world, and the common traits shared across countries and languages. If hearing a different language was painful for them while waiting in line, I wonder how having to sit in a ride and having different languages sung back at them must have felt. I hope they made it out of the ride okay. Hopefully the pain wasn’t too much. These were just two small, nonconfrontational instances of racial microaggressions I witnessed in the Magic Kingdom. Two of probably many experienced within the park’s gates. Two instances of minor retaliation against diversity in a park that earns lots of money in attempting to spread a message of acceptance and love to its guests. These are situations that happen everywhere, and we should not think that visiting a theme park will somehow change the opinions of its guests. However, it’s ironic to witness these microaggressions in a place dedicated to making dreams come true. If Disney’s guests were as dedicated to that cause as much as Disney is, perhaps then the world might actually be a small world after all.
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Byrne departure gives Barnes pseudo-tryout for AD positon BY IVAN LEONARD @Ivan14bro
With the news of former Athletic Director Greg Byrne leaving toward Alabama, Erika Barnes has stepped up in the interim. Barnes was the senior associate athletics director for Arizona Athletics and is stepping into to the interim position on Feb. 1. “[Greg Byrne] did some incredible things during his career,” Barnes said. “I want to thank him for the opportunity, as a leader, as a mentor, and he is going to be greatly missed by a lot of people in this community.” Alabama athletic director Bill Battle stepped down due to health reasons, so now Byrne will become Alabama’s new athletic director and rejoin the Southeastern Conference. Just a season ago Byrne’s name was in the mix for the Florida Gators open athletic director position, but he decided to stay with Arizona. “I think everyone can agree that Greg Byrne is one of the highly touted athletic directors in the country,” Barnes said. “We knew anytime there was a Power Five position open his name was going to be on there for good reason.” Barnes has worked in UA’s athletic program since her college days when she interned at the athletics department’s public relations office. Barnes was hired by Arizona in 2005 and became the senior associate athletics director and the NCAA designated senior woman administrator. From 2011 to 2013, Barnes served as the senior associate athletics director for administration and Major Gifts. Barnes is also a member of the Pac-12 Council and has been a color commentator for the IMG radio broadcast for Arizona softball. Barnes played a key role in fundraising five major campaigns that grossed over $145 million. “We have a great athletics department here; we have a wonderful staff that is very talented, starting with our coaches,” Barnes said. “Our priority is our student athletes, and we have a lot of work to do.” A former Arizona athlete, Barnes played on Arizona’s 2001 National Championship softball team. She committed to the team in 1996 when Arizona was coming off of another National Championship and in the midst of repeating. As an outfielder/first basemen, she batted a career-high .286 for the year. That season Arizona started on a 31-game winning streak en route to a 65-4 record. They ended the season on a 26-game winning streak, leading them to finish with a perfect 37-0 at home. On the regular season, she started 15 games with a batting average of .271, 13 hits
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and an on-base percentage of .352. In high school, Barnes earned an academic letter all four years for having a 3.6 GPA or higher and received the Army Reserve National Scholar Athlete Award. As a senior at Thousand Oaks, Barnes earned 1997 West Region Louisville Slugger/ NFCA High School All-Region Team, first team at first base spot. She batted .457 her senior year and earned L.A. Times Ventura County Player of the Year and Ventura County Coaches Defensive Player of the Year. Barnes was also a three-time team M.V.P. and lettered in soccer for three years. Her husband, Andy Barnes is also a former Arizona athlete, having played golf for the Wildcats. Barnes graduated from Arizona in 2001 with a bachelor’s in Communication and earned a spot on the NFCA Scholar-Athlete All-American. She then earned Pac-10 AllAcademic honors honorable mention in 2001 for maintaining a 4.0 GPA that semester. In 2010, Barnes earned her M.B.A. at Arizona in the Eller College of Management.
Her marketing savvy and ability to fund athletic director position at Arizona, but to any raise is high on a checklist of other school nationwide. must-haves for an AD. Couple While Byrne will be We have a great stepping away from that with her resume, which athletics department Arizona, he is still includes replacing former Interim Athletic Director here; we have committed to making sure Rocky LaRose’s position in a wonderful the transition goes over as 2013, and you can see why as possible. staff that is very smoothly she is primed to take over an “I look forward to talented, starting continuing to work with athletic department soon, if with our coaches. him for the greater good of not now. “I just want to focus on this Our priority is our college athletics,” Barnes semester,” Barnes said. “As student athletes, and said. “I see very much still a former athlete here, I have as a great peer and a great we have a lot of work friend to move forward incredible passion for this to do.” with that.” place.” Needless to say, Barnes For Arizona Athletics, —Erika Barnes, you can do much worse is a Wildcat. She embodies everything that the athletics UA Interim than hiring a former program tries to instill in their Athletic Director athlete who maintained a GPA above 3.5 and won athletes: Work hard on and a title. Although Barnes is off the court, represent the currently only a short-term program at all times and give option, it would be wise of the UA to take her back. She has done all three and now sits in a position to display her abilities for not only the seriously as a candidate.
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A basketball mind Parker Jackson-Cartwright’s journey through the game of basketball was paved long before his physical attributes came into play BYJUSTIN SPEARS @JustinESports
Growing up as a kid, Parker Jackson-Cartwright’s go-to activity was playing basketball with marbles. His parents, Ramon Cartwright and Belinda Jackson-Cartwright, were forced by Parker to draw lines in the carpet to replicate a basketball court so their son could split the marbles into two teams and roleplay a basketball game. Parker constantly applied himself to the game. At a young age he put the marbles in position to set up offensive and defensive sets, as well as play-by-play calls. Kids who admire the game of basketball have the reputation of playing on tiny baskets that connect to a door or twiddle their thumbs on a game controller playing NBA video games, but Parker was setting up plays on his carpet. “It was crazy, but it kinda’ speaks to his IQ and how he can see the game so well,” said older brother and former Penn player Miles Jackson-Cartwright. Coming from Los Angeles, which is arguably the largest hotbed of basketball talent in the country, players from the area normally admired the winning ways of the Lakers and the glamour of Kobe Bryant. During the 2000s era, the Lakers were consistently title contenders so tickets were expensive and the JacksonCartwright brothers went the other route and followed the Los Angeles Clippers, L.A.’s other team that was
largely viewed as an afterthought of a franchise. They bought $5 tickets to sit in the nosebleed sections, and since the Clippers weren’t necessarily the most intriguing team at that time, they were able to move down and get more than their money’s worth. Of course Kobe was head honcho of the basketball world in L.A. and was well on his way to stardom, but Parker idolized former Phoenix Suns point guard Steve Nash, who’s known as one of the best facilitators in NBA history, ranking third all-time in career assists. “He’ll even argue to me today that the best point guard ever is Steve Nash,” Miles said, “And it shows in his game.” Basketball is more than just a game in the Cartwright household, because Ramon taught Parker and Miles that the court is a canvas and it’s up to them to craft something beautiful. “To me, basketball is more art than it is athletics,” Ramon said. “It’s ballet with a ball … The most creative artists will emerge.” Ramon’s approach to the game rubbed off on Parker’s perspective of the game, which molded him into one of the most unique players UA head coach Sean Miller has brought in. His knack for trying to make other people around him better has been overlooked in his time at Arizona. Considering the plethora of first guards that have made their mark on the program, Parker assumes the role of former Wildcat T.J. McConnell, who thrived on facilitating. McConnell and Parker have parallel styles in their game because they have a pass first mentality, and McConnell went down as one of the best passers to play at Arizona.
Unfortunately for Parker, the gap between him and McConnell is measured in his height more than talent. “He’s always been the smallest guy in the room and always underestimated,” Miles said. Being an undersized basketball player presented a challenge because Parker had to put in triple the work to become successful and attacked any player that stood in his way. “Once he steps on the court, he becomes something else,” Miles said. “Like he will literally cut your throat if you’re across from him.” On a nightly basis, Parker defied the doubters when he was starting the recruiting process at Loyola High School in L.A. Spectators were in shock, according to his former teammate and assistant head coach at Tucson High School, Alex Ettinger. “Girls would ask my teammates and ask ‘who’s the best player on the court?’ and they would point to Parker and they’d be like ‘no way, he’s so small,’ ” Ettinger said. Standing at 5-foot-9, there was no way just playing high school for a few months out of the year would be enough to receive attention from notable schools. So instead, him and his father made the decision to take Parker’s talent to the PJC, 18
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year round was the most important method for Parker to become a FROM PAGE 14 better player. It not only improved his game, Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) to but he was always in basketball expose his playmaking abilities mode to help him focus on receiving despite his size. a Division I offer. Parker and Ramon were “These guys who complain about featured in a Netflix documentary AAU and criticize it, screw them,” “At All Costs”, which focuses on Ramon said. “They can fuckin’ the AAU circuit and how much take a walk as far as I’m concerned, athletes travel during summer to because it’s real basketball. This get college coaches to take notice other stuff is TV basketball.” of their game. AAU has sponsored brands like Travel teams are built, and all Adidas and Nike, so when these of the elite players band together travel club teams form it’s the at camps as if it’s like a tryout for coaches job to ensure they bring in a scholarship. the right batch of kids to wear the “It happened at a time when brand. If the next generation of top Parker was really uncomfortable in players are dominating tournaments front of the camera,” Ramon said. wearing a certain brand, then “He sat there a few times and it the reputation grows for the next looked like we were torturing him generation of young players so it’s a during the videotaping.” constant cycle putting more money From a point guard’s point of into these corporations’ pockets. view or even just a role player’s The most important note about vantage point, AAU sounds like a the cash flow is that the circuit turnoff because it doesn’t teach assists into finding free education. young players the team element of Parker played for the Nike basketball as much. affiliated California Supreme, “I had a great time playing in it which exposed him to bigger until I was in high guards at camps school,” Ettinger subsequently said. “Once I got landing him offers You bring him from Arizona, to high school, everyone played in here and let UCLA and USC for themselves.” me play against because he Ettinger also showed his passing them. I don’t give ability and team mentioned that, a shit who they are leadership. during the Phenom Camp in his early “Parker’s greatest ... They can bring years, which is an skill is the ability LeBron [James] in to bring people invite only event, here, but he better be together,” Ramon the founder of the camp said ready to scrap that said. “If he’s able AAU was the shit up and be ready to control the “worst thing to intangible thing to go, because we called chemistry, ever happen gon’ go at it fast." having a person like to basketball.” Miller was that is valuable ... I wondering who was —Ramon knew how valuable “making money skill was and Cartwright, Parker his off of it” during the how good he was at Jackson-Cartwright’s it and how well he press conference father could bring that art following Arizona’s win over Utah last to bear.” week, so AAU is on Parker knew his the teeter-totter of time would come the basketball community. at the next level once coaches took The Cartwright family however notice of what his father alluded to. is not. In fact, they are one of the “There’s a place for everyone, and biggest supporters for AAU, because that’s how I felt going into AAU and it helps aspiring Division I players what I can do and what my position who are short on visibility, like is,” Parker said. “I think the coaches Parker, earn scholarships, and that saw me during AAU really took Ramon especially backs the circuit. notice of that.” “I love AAU basketball. Always AAU was important to Parker, but will. I’m probably the biggest the sibling rivalry with his brother proponent of AAU basketball,” when he was back home in L.A. was Ramon said. “The most exciting, where he truly started to develop as the most entertaining, the most a player. engaging level of basketball to me in “If you look at the stars in the the world is AAU basketball.” NBA, the greatest players—the guys Ramon added that he ignored the we all know and love, a distinct critics and thinks playing basketball proportion of those guys are little
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PARKER JACKSONCARTWRIGHT POSES for a photo with his father, Ramon Cartwright, in a YMCA youth league, photo dated 1999. Jackson-Cartwright is in his third season with the Wildcats.
brothers,” Ramon said. “They had another sibling in the household that just beat the shit out of them and helped them develop.” Ramon was always the one that had to referee their one-on-one battles to make sure they wouldn’t kill each other but push them just enough to have a competitive edge. Miles viewed it as love and respect more than anything. “It was more of ‘that was my best friend’ and ‘how can I help him be the best player and the best man?,’ ” Miles said. “He helped me become the best man and the best player that I can be as well, and I think that’s what makes our relationship so special.” Miles is 6-foot-3 and was the big body that helped Parker prepare for Pac-12 Conference battles, because every guard he faced for the most part was that size, but not everyone was buying into him. Parker understudied McConnell for one season and then Kadeem Allen the following year. Then once bigger guards flocked in, like Kobi Simmons who is 6-foot-5 and was ranked as the No. 5 point guard on
ESPN, many doubted that Parker would receive starter-like minutes. “We know this whole ranking thing is full of shit,” Ramon said. “A lot of these guys nationally who are all on ESPN and writing articles and all that, we know these guys don’t know jack shit. They’re just picking the flavor of the month and jumping on the bandwagon and they’ll support whomever.” It doesn’t matter what the circumstances were, when people doubted him just by looking at his physique, he answered the bell. “Parker has always relished who’s ranked and who you think is good—bring ‘em in here,” Ramon said. “You bring him in here and let me play against them. I don’t give a shit who they are … They can bring LeBron [James] in here, but he better be ready to scrap that shit up and be ready to go, because we gon’ go at it fast.” As much of a tough-minded, fundamentally sound basketball player Parker is, he cared for other players to score even the ones who were green to basketball. One memory Ramon shared
was that in the third grade, Parker played with a kid who wasn’t coordinated to play basketball, and when the game was basically over with less than a few minutes left to play, he “did everything but lift up this kid and shoot the ball for him.” When the kid finally scored, he didn’t care about his stat line but rather the kid’s two points. “That says the kind of kid that he is,” Ramon said. “That says the kind of teammate he is, the kind of competitor he is and the kind of human being he is … Watching that third grader do that let me know that I was doing the right thing.” From playing marbles on carpet to being on a Netflix documentary to the uphill battle to prove the critics wrong—Parker’s story is more than just putting a basketball through a hole or finding the open man. It’s about proving the doubters wrong and being a genuine person, which he has shown time after time with his actions. If the Wildcats want to make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament, his grit, IQ and leadership will be a key reason why.
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L.A. swing marks UCLA’s rise to top benefits Wildcats key point of Wildcats season BY SAUL BOOKMAN @Saul_Bookman
BY JUSTIN SPEARS @JustinESports
Going into the college basketball season, the primary road trips that were expected to push No. 14 Arizona to its limits were the nonconference neutral site games and the matchup in Eugene with reigning Pac-12 Conference champions, the Oregon Ducks. Instead, with Pac-12 play just getting started and the conference shaping up to be an all-out slugfest between four teams in Arizona, No. 11 Oregon, No. 3 UCLA and USC, this weekend in Los Angeles is the most crucial for the Wildcats moving forward if they want to get leverage as top dog. “We have to be ready here this week,” Arizona head coach Sean Miller said. “This is a stiff road test for everybody who goes there and we want to have no regrets. We want to be ready to pay.” Lately, a typical trip to L.A. means either a sweep or a split in favor of anyone not named Arizona. In Arizona’s previous six road trips against UCLA and USC, the ‘Cats have gone a combined 4-8. The city of angels always presented an issue for Arizona and that was when USC head coach Andy Enfield was trying to establish the lob city mentality he incorporated from his time at Florida Gulf Coast, and UCLA head coach Steve Alford dealt with the pressure to quickly turn around a program with high expectations. Now? USC is prepared with only one loss at home this season while the Bruins are undefeated at Pauley Pavilion. “Our guys understand that UCLA is a program that has always been there. This year they have a chance to win the national championship—they’re competing for a one seed,” Miller said. “USC is a NCAA Tournament team. Going to Los Angeles in of itself is a big moment for I think every program in the Pac12, especially if you have some guys from L.A., which we do so that’s already in place.” This season, the Trojans went undefeated in their non-conference including a win against a mutual UA opponent, Texas A&M and have yet to sweep a week in conference so USC is aching for a sweep. “They have a very talented group and Andy Enfield continues to do a great job,” Miller said. “When you get ready to play them, they have players, they have depth and right now, with one of their best players, Bennie Boatwright… But either way they’re very good.” The buzz surrounding the L.A. teams appears intimidating, but Arizona is coming in hot winning 10 consecutive games where defense has been a major key. Arizona ranks first in the country with opponents points per
UCLA is quite possibly the best team in the country, and that is a good thing for Arizona Wildcat fans. Make no mistake about it, when the Bruins are at the top of the conference people take notice, and that can only bring more national exposure when the two goliaths meet in Pauley-Pavilion Saturday. It is UCLA and Arizona, then everyone else. That is the Pac-12 basketball hierarchy, and it has been for the past four decades. Beginning with the 1985-86 seasons, both UCLA and Arizona accounted for 24 of the 31 regular season or tournament championships in the Pac-12. This isn’t including the previous decade when the Bruins won every conference title in the 70s. Every. Single. One.
However, the Bruins’ dominance, while impressive, lacked a viable adversary. Enter Lute Olson. Olson’s ability to build Arizona into a national power and provide resistance to the force that was UCLA was key in making the Pac-10 one of the elite conferences in the country. One needn’t look any further than Kentucky lately to see how important it is to have someone in your conference that keeps you honest. Kentucky hasn’t had much consistent opposition within the SEC and is seemingly the favorite every year; well that’s no fun. Arizona’s rivalry with UCLA was ignited not only because of UCLA’s recent play and the importance of the upcoming matchup, but because of the brief history between the two head coaches, UCLA’s Steve Alford and Arizona’s Sean Miller. Miller came into the picture after one of the more iconic moments in rivalry history happened in March of 2013 during the Pac-12 tournament. Mark Lyons, then Arizona point guard, penetrated the lane and went up for a shot, but UCLA’s Jordan
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game with 63.6 and first in field goal percentage with 41 percent. To sum it up, Arizona doesn’t allow teams to score. “Our defense has been the cornerstone to that 10 game winning streak,” Miller said. Although USC is a test, the Trojans are no match compared to arguably the most offensive juggernaut team in UCLA. The Bruins are third in the country in points per game (92.9) and first in field goals made (649). “They’re the nations best offensive team, statistically,” Miller said. “You watch the Golden State Warriors play in the NBA and sometimes you marvel at just their ability to make shots and UCLA is the college version.” Just imagine if Arizona somehow plays its best defensive performance this season. Then they could come out of L.A. with a sweep and go to 18-2 with essentially the hardest matchup not coming until their trip to Eugene? This could show not only the Pac-12, but also the rest of the nation that Arizona is a legitimate title contender, and that’s without the presence of star guard Allonzo Trier. At this point, would they even need Trier? You’d be crazy to deny Trier’s ability to take this team to new heights, but with a depleted lineup, the Wildcats have the chance to pretty much prove the doubters who said they wouldn’t win without him.
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Adams knocked the ball from his grasp. Lyons was able to gather the ball and came back down with it. The referees called Lyons for a travel and Miller shouted at the refs that Adams had touched the ball, so much so that he incurred a technical foul with the Wildcats up by only two. The momentum swung at that point and UCLA went on to win the game. Miller made it known after the game his disgust with the refs and how they handled the situation. However, it wasn’t over. The ensuing visits from Arizona to UCLA were met with chants from the student section of “He touched the ball,” a chant directed at Miller. Sure, ASU is the in-state rival for the UA in all sports, but they don’t hold a candle to the heated exchanges UCLA and Arizona have been involved in on the court. Even former UCLA star and current Pac-12 analyst Don Maclean will recall on air his battles with the Wildcats and how those were the toughest games he played, especially in McKale Center. Throw into the mix all the great players between the two programs, success in
the NCAA tournament and legacies that have been made from this game and you understand this is not an average run of the mill encounter. It is the definition of why college basketball is great. Only a few rivalries nationwide draw as much attention as this one, in part because other rivalry matchups include both teams being ranked and highly regarded. It is a perfect mix of history being modernized to live up to the hype of a great game. Since that 1985 season, the Wildcats hold the advantage over UCLA 38-32. However, just a season ago both teams split in a couple of exciting games. Bryce Alford hit a gamewinning shot at Pauley, and the Wildcats won a 6-point thriller in McKale Center. This year should be no different, especially because of the styles of both teams. UCLA comes in with the No. 1 offense in the country, according to KenPom, thanks to their run-and-gun style led by freshman point guard Lonzo Ball. Arizona comes in ranked No. 16 overall in defensive efficiency, according to KenPom, and No. 12 in scoring defense, according to NCAA stats. It is the immovable object against the irresistible force and it all goes down on Saturday. Should be fun.
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LAST WEEK IN SCIENCE
From chemistry to climatology, five stories you may have missed last week
BY WILLIAM ROCKWELL @DailyWildcat
Last week was a busy time for science. Innovations and new discoveries ranged from the fields of earth science and chemistry to physics and beyond. Here is a quick recap: Recent observations have shown an extensive crack, 70 miles long, in an Antarctic ice shelf. Investigators from the Antarctic research group, Project MIDAS, spotted the crack in an ice shelf named Larsen C, which is the largest ice shelf in the Antarctic peninsula, spanning about 19,000 square miles. Previous satellite images revealed the crack back in 2014, but on Jan. 5 members of Project MIDAS reported an 18-kilometer increase (approximately 11 miles). If the crack reaches the other edge of the ice shelf 20 kilometers away, a chunk of ice the size of Delaware could snap off. This would comprise 10 percent of the shelf and could lead to its demise. It would also impair researchers who camp on the shelf during the Antarctic Summer to conduct research. The most convoluted atomic knot has been formed by chemists at the University of Manchester in England. The knot is only 20 nanometers long and is comprised of nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, iron ions and chloride ions. The knot is a kind of prime knot, which cannot be torn down into simpler pieces. The entire knot consists of 192 total atoms, with 24 atoms at each crossing point. The first synthetic knot of this kind was made in 1989 and was the only one known how to be made until 2011. Study co-author David Leigh, Sir Samuel Hall professor of chemistry at the University of Manchester, described this as “pretty ridiculous” since mathematicians know of 6 billion different kinds of prime knots. Potential future applications for this knot—and similar ones—range from surgery to better bulletproof vests. Rethinking Reality—a series of five weekly Monday lectures on modern physics will be held at the UA in Centennial Hall starting Jan. 30 at 7
p.m. The lectures, all of which are free to attend, will cover some of the most advanced concepts in modern physics, with each lecture covering a different subject presented by a different professor. Sponsors include Ventana Medical Systems, Cox Communications and Tucson Electric Power. All lectures will be available on the web, live on Arizona Public Media on Demand and will be aired Mondays on AZPM a week after they happen. SpaceX recently launched a Falcon rocket in California. The 70-meter rocket aims to put 10 satellites into orbit for satellite operator Iridium Communications Inc. The rocket launched Jan. 14 at 9:54 a.m. and was the first successful launch SpaceX has had since an explosion that occurred while fueling for a pre-flight test in Florida last September. Investigators deduced a canister of helium burst in the rocket’s liquid oxygen tank, initiating the explosion and destroying a rocket booster along with an Israeli communications satellite in the process. After Saturday’s successful launch, part of the rocket landed on a designated platform in the Pacific Ocean, allowing for rocket recycling. SpaceX plans on launching 27 rockets in 2017 for both commercial customers and cargo transportation for NASA. Research shows learning to play an instrument can improve both brain development and reaction time. The University of Montreal study shows playing instruments hones the brain and could help fight cognitive decline in the elderly. In the experiment subjects placed one hand on a box that would vibrate every so often and another hand on a mouse. They were told to click the mouse when they felt a vibration. Results indicated participants who had played instruments for over seven years had a much sharper reaction time than those that hadn’t played any instruments. University of Montreal biomedical ethics graduate student Simon Landry explained that the integration of multiple senses used to play an instrument hones the mind, increasing reaction time.
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Psychologists weigh in on why we enjoy fake fear BY ALEX GONZALEZ @AlxandrGonzalez
Halloween may be months behind us, but that hasn’t stopped filmmakers from doing their best to scare our wits out in the middle of winter. Case in point: ”The Bye Bye Man,” a new supernatural horror film, opened to excellent sales last Friday. But if horror films are timeless, one might ask the question: Why do we enjoy being scared at all? UA psychology professor Jeff Greenberg and assistant professor Dan Sullivan have made part of their research focus on answering that very question. “People enjoy being engaged and physiologically aroused,” Greenberg said. “We like to be interested and aroused—as opposed to uninterested or bored—especially when there is no real danger.” Sullivan also explained that people who attend haunted houses or go see scary movies want to feel a certain type of way. Something like an adrenaline rush that could be elicited from an experience that isn’t regularly present in one’s daily life. “I like the ‘jump’ kind of scare,
just because I get excited more than I do scared,” said Caitlin Kohnke, a sophomore studying literacy, learning and leadership. Both Greenberg and Sullivan noted individuals can ultimately find the experience of fear pleasurable if and when the individual knows they are going to make it out alive once the experience is over. “I don’t like legitimate fears, because if that kind of scaring were more appealing then that would be like ‘Ohh, terrorism, cool!,’ but it’s not,” said biology sophomore Bailey Mattox. Kohnke said stuff that isn’t actually real is enjoyable. Sullivan explained death and violence in general is not encountered everyday in the average UA undergraduate or employee’s society, compared to most people in history. “There is this kind of interesting tendency, historically, where a lot of us experience a common fear, like death, mostly through media content, and we don’t necessarily have a lot of concrete experiences of death in our own lives,” Sullivan said. Sullivan went on to explain that when someone who lacks deathrelated experiences watches a
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BELA LUGOSI IN “DRACULA,” a well-known horror film from 1931. People may appreciate horror movies for their ability to offer an adrenaline rush and sense of danger that would never truly be harmful in real life.
movie with death in it, they don’t consciously connect the death within the movie to a personal death. “What we are typically doing is connecting death within a movie or form of media to other images of death in past movies we have seen, which is the function genre serves on
some level,” Sullivan said. Genres within movies ultimately serve as guidelines. “When you watch a vampire movie, basic realities like death are going to be portrayed in certain ways according to certain rules,” Sullivan said.
He said he personally believes movies that defy traditional genres are often more disturbing and aren’t always the most popular horror films. Sullivan credits culture and context as some of the reasons why people find certain things fearful and unpleasant. “Sometimes when you are confronted with a way of thinking about fear that you have never experienced before, just because it doesn’t fit in a typical genre you are used to, it can be very disturbing,” Sullivan said. Greenberg mentioned people may seek small doses of fear to make them feel like they have better control over those fears. Mattox explained that her common childhood fears haven’t stuck with her, and she has found that her fears have changed as she has matured. “Things like ‘I have no idea what I’m going to do with my life’ or being thousands of dollars in debt—that’s terrifying,” Mattox said. For their part, horror movies will likely stick to machete-wielding maniacs and zombies for the foreseeable future.
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Hue knew? Unearthed original color replacing pink shade of Old Pima County Courthouse BY EMILY BREGEL ARIZONA DAILY STAR (TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE)
The familiar pink exterior of the Old Pima County Courthouse is being replaced by a more authentic hue. A restoration team has discovered the original color of the historic 1929 building was an earthy adobe shade. The courthouse’s pink facade likely emerged as the original paint’s yellow and red undertones faded in the sun, said Corky Poster, architect and principal with Poster Frost Mirto, which specializes in historic preservation. The county hired the firm to oversee the restoration of the iconic courthouse. As subsequent painters sought to match the faded color each time it was repainted, the courthouse grew pinker over time, he said. The original color was discovered in the building’s interior, on part of a door jamb that had been protected from sunlight for almost a century, Poster said. “It was a time capsule,” he said. “It’s like they put the paint color in a box and buried it. It gave us a very good notion of the color.” The update to the paint color will be the most noticeable change to the courthouse’s exterior resulting from its restoration, said Linda Mayro, director of the Pima County Office of Sustainability and Restoration. The restoration project will return the Spanish Revivalstyle courthouse to the architect’s original vision, while adhering to the U.S. secretary of the interior’s standards for restoration, she said. “We’re trying to restore the integrity of the architect’s and county’s intent back in 1929,” she said. Mayro presented the plans for the color change to the Tucson-Pima County Historical
Commission on Jan. 11, and all members supported the new paint, she said. The new color was developed by Dunn-Edwards Paints, which for years had manufactured paint to match the courthouse’s existing rosy tone, with a color called “Old Pima Pink.” The updated color, which harks back to the original, will be known as “New Pima Pink,” because it still has rosy undertones, said Sam Samaniego, architectural service representative for Dunn-Edwards. CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT Designed by architect Roy Place, the old county courthouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 1977 nomination form submitted to the register describes it as the “most outstanding Spanish Colonial Revival building in Arizona,” a departure from the primarily European-style county courthouses throughout the country. The nomination describes its red-tiled roofs, the “elegant” tiled dome topped with a copper lantern, balconies with carved ornamentation and archways lining a covered walkway overlooking the courtyard. “It’s kind of the crowning achievement of Roy Place -probably Tucson’s best architect that most folks never heard of,” Poster said. Place’s heyday was between 1920 and 1940, and he’s responsible for nearly all the public works buildings constructed in those years, as well as dozens of University of Arizona buildings, Poster said. Place also designed the Southern Arizona Veterans Affairs Health Care System on South Sixth Avenue and the Pioneer Hotel downtown. On Friday afternoon, many visitors passing through El Presidio Park behind the courthouse were enthused about
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THE OLD PIMA COUNTY Courthouse in downtown Tucson is being repainted. The current muted pink color will be replaced with an earthy tan color some time in early 2017.
the new paint, which is already applied on a west-facing section of the courthouse. “It’s fantastic they were able to find the original color,” said Robert Muñoz, who works for Pima County financial services. “It adds to the history of the building.” But some were disappointed to see the hallmark pink go away. Sharon Rhoy, who worked in the courthouse’s Justice Court offices before her retirement, said the new shade is “boring.” “It’s not going to stand out. I loved the charm of the building the way it was,” she said. “I was attached to the pink because I think it complemented the architecture.” For Rob McCright, who works in the TransAmerica building downtown, the courthouse’s new hue is an aesthetic improvement. Currently, “there’s so much pink,” he said. “I actually think it’ll look better.” The only downside is he’ll have to change how he gives directions, he said. “You won’t be able to say, ‘Go
to the pink building and turn left,’” he said. RENOVATION PLANS Pima County officials are taking advantage of the vacant state of the courthouse to embark on the renovation project, Mayro said. The courthouse emptied in 2015 after the Justice Courts, treasurer, assessor and recorder’s offices moved out. Plans are in the works to convert it to a regional visitors center, she said. Repairs planned for the courthouse include replacing the electrical, air-conditioning and plumbing systems; fixing broken tiles and repairing leaks on the building’s turquoise dome; and redoing the roof using the historic red tiles. The estimated cost of the exterior rehabilitation and systems upgrades is about $11 million, and additional costs of building out tenant spaces is still unknown since the designs aren’t finished, said Lisa
Josker, Pima County director of facilities management. Contractors recently discovered the courthouse’s Dillinger Courtroom -- where infamous bank robber John Dillinger and his accomplices were arraigned in 1934 -- was originally bigger than its current size, Josker said. Removing ceiling tiles in an adjacent jury room revealed the original wood trim extends from the courtroom into the jury room. The courtroom will be restored to its original size, Josker said. The exterior renovation of the courthouse should wrap up in April or May, but completion of the more extensive interior renovations will take another 18 months or so, Poster said. The restoration team’s initial assessment of the courthouse revealed it’s in good condition. “It has by no means been neglected. The county has been a very good steward of the building,” he said.
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Nogalenses create an oasis in a food desert
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A CURRENCY EXCHANGE STORE located in Nogales, Sonora. The border town is home to many local vendors selling their homemade wares and food.
BY CHRISTINA DURAN ARIZONA SONORA NEWS
Down Morley Avenue, one side of the street is lined with storefronts selling girls’ party clothes and bright plastic toys. On the other side, tents and tables occupy what’s usually a vacant parking lot. Each table is laden with an assortment of produce and homemade treats, from kale and yellow butternut squash, to pomegranates, empanadas, and different cheeses. A big metal pot between the crates of food lure Nogalenses with the rich scent of carne con chile tamales. Friday afternoons, near the border that separates Nogales and Sonora, people gather to listen to Latino hits and to enjoy the food at the Nogales Mercado. In 2012 the Mariposa Community Health Center (MCHC) and Nogales Community Development (NCD) partnered to found the Nogales Mercado. Their aim is to improve health and bring better economic sustainability to Nogales, which is classified as a food desert by the United States Department of Agriculture. A food desert is an area with a scarcity of low-priced healthy fruits and vegetables. “The market was an opportunity for the community to invest in their health and in their economy,” says Santos Yescas, program manager at the NCD. The Nogales Mercado features a mesa cooperativa, a consignment table, where local farmers, some local and some providing from their Tucson farms, can sell
their product without having to attend the market. Other vendors must set up their own tables to sell products. Many of them sell merchandise on Fridays to bring in a bit more cash for their families. Maria Elena Mandel, 60 years old, has sold her homemade soaps, bath scrubs, purses, jewelry and cards at the market since 2013 to pay her living expenses. Maria Elena Mandel, a local entrepreneur, sells an assortment of custom made jewelry, cards and soaps at the Nogales Mercado Maria Elena Mandel, a local entrepreneur, sells an assortment of custom made jewelry, cards, and soaps at the Nogales Mercado. Mandel’s dark brown hair is flecked with white and pulled back in a tight bun. She greets everyone with a smile. She calls these workdays her “social Fridays,” because she meets people from all over town. At home, she makes all of her products while also caring for her son who has cancer. Though her son’s health expenses are paid, Mandel still has to work to get food on the table and pay other bills. For now, her business headquarters is a folding table that sits under a plastic roof every Friday. “This is my venture,” Mandel says. A few tents away from Mandel, Hilda Rivera tends to her budding business. In a clean white apron, standing in front of a sign with the bold, white word “TAMALES”
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Mermaid Odette splashes into buisness BY JAMIE VERWYS @DailyWildcat
Tucson isn’t known for its abundance of sea creatures, let alone water. But, somehow, in the middle of the Old Pueblo, some locals swear they saw a mermaid with long blonde hair and seashell jewelry. She was so real, some of them had even touched her tail. As the story goes, Mermaid Odette hails from France near the Odet River. She toured with the circus to America when the tank she traveled in fell off the wagon into the middle of the desert. She was stranded under the Arizona sun. She took to the desert swimmingly and hasn’t left since. Mermaid Odette is the alter ego of Pima Community College student Emy Higdon. Every scale on her tail, each piece of backstory and purposefully placed bit of seaweed are the creation of the 25-yearold performer. “I got to help someone make a mermaid costume for a play and after that, it sparked my imagination,” she said. “Maybe I can make a real swimming mermaid.” The idea of Odette came to her while working at Valley of the Moon, a storybook children’s park, in 2009. A couple years later, she was booking gigs and making a name for herself as an aquatic performer in the desert. Her signature pink, purple and blue tail fin draws crowds and makes believers of even the most skeptical children. A couple splashes quickly solidify her status as a magical being. Higdon said professional mermaid tails cost about $3,000 retail and she spent about $1,000 making her own from urethane and silicon. She said a colorful tail usually takes three months for her to create. “I decided to go further because I didn’t want it to feel like fabric for kids,” she said. “I wanted them to feel it and think, ‘This isn’t fake. This is a real mermaid tail. This is crazy.’ ” Authenticity and a well-developed storyline are top priorities for Higdon, who regularly analyzes her character to prepare for any human interactions that could occur. “I have to make sure my character is up to par for every question children might ask and always have to make sure my stories are smooth, fluid, easy to follow and engaging,” she said. All the mermaid costume pieces, the decorative flips of her tail and trinkets to gift to children are paired with a story to explain them. The attention to detail is a key aspect of the customizable experience Higdon provides to clients. “I can provide you whatever you think your little girl or boy may want,” she said. “I want to make that experience the most amazing, magical thing.” Hanging out poolside with a group of excited children is just one of the services Higdon sells through her website. She is also available for larger events like Return of
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PERFORMER EMY HIGDON MEETS a child as her character Mermaid Odette during the Return of the Mermaids event on Aug. 13, 2016. The mermaid-themed event is one of the performer’s most popular gigs.
the Mermaids, where she is the centerpiece in her seashell chair and kiddie pool with pirate’s gold. Prices vary depending on how long she performs and what the event is. She said hiring her as a mermaid will usually cost over $100, though she makes a small profit from it after her costs. While the mermaid makes fans with her Disney princess laugh alone, what people really want to see is a mermaid swim. “It’s by far the most fun for me, that way the kids can see the beautiful movements the tail has,” she said. “You could swim with basic dolphin kicks, but there’s other things to make it more realistic … you want to turn in the water a specific way.” Higdon said children take to the mermaid concept easily most of the time, and Higdon’s favorite part of her job is to engage a child with questions. Even her worst days can turn golden in a moment by just seeing the level of energy from young crowds. Higdon said she knows she needs to keep parents interested too and has worked events specifically for adults. One of her most interesting gigs placed her in a tank at H2O Discotec, downtown. She said the bright lights, pounding house music and excitement were unbelievable, but she was dealing with drinkers. “Some of the people would tap on the glass so hard I was afraid they were going to break it,” she said. “I’d come up sometimes for air or just come up to say hi to people
and people would be like, ‘Are you high?’ I’m like, ‘No, I’ve been opening my eyes under water for like three hours.’ You just have to try and play and with it in a friendly way.” Higdon’s seemingly ceaseless ability to let it roll off and stay in character reveals a piece of her own determined personality, a separate creature from the mermaid altogether. Keeping her two personas separate is a necessity. “If I’m doing an event, I’ll be like, ‘You know my real name, but around the kids call me Odette,’ ” she said. “It’s very important for the kids. I have also had stalkers try to get a hold of me, so it’s also a safety net.” Emy Hidgon the business woman has just as much work, if not more, than her performer counterpart. As she pursues a transfer from Pima to Northern Arizona University for a bachelor’s degree in business, she balances homework along with the books. Every day involves accounting, keeping track of revenue and finding creative ways to market a service few know is available. “People think it’s just put a tail on, go to an event,” she said. “No, no, you have a lot of business stuff you need to work out, a lot of insurance and everything. It was difficult starting a business, but thankfully a lot of people find me interesting. You just need to make sure when they find it interesting you keep saying, I am a business. You can hire me.”
Performing as Odette is currently Higdon’s main source of income, and keeping the business in order is what separates her from many new mermaids who start out. Currently, Higdon is starting a new social media marketing plan and might begin to make and sell mermaid tails for additional revenue, she said. Money remains her largest challenge as she envisions new set pieces, like a tank, and pays her regular bills. Though she wants to keep performing as Odette, her dream is to apply her business savvy to others with a creative idea for their dream careers. She wants to help hopeful mermaids or any other strange creatures be successes. “All I ever really want to do is just make a living being happy, trying to get other people to do the same,” she said. “With my experience, I could really help people do this, too.” Higdon manages to conjure up magic both as a bubbly and shimmering mermaid and as a young woman balancing a business, school and the stresses of life. Though she labors to keep her two worlds separate, little pieces of the hard-working college student echo in the mermaid in the seashell bra, trying hard to figure out how humans work. “If I do a good job on my finances and make sure I keep all my books straight, I can keep going further and further and really excel this beautiful dream I have.”
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on a bright red background, Rivera serves her customers, who have eagerly lined up at her station. Rivera joined the market a year ago after friends urged her to sell something at a Día de los Muertos event. She came intending to sell flower arrangements and only brought her tamales as an extra product. However, her tamales sold out. Rivera now sells them every Friday, and is planning to expand her product line. “I am working on selling frozen tamales that people can take home and heat up,” Rivera says, opening a cooler to show a stack of tamales packed in ice. Rivera, a volunteer at the Mariposa Community Health Center and selfproclaimed housewife, uses the money she earns at the Nogales Mercado for whatever her and her family may need. As the Nogales Mercado grows, program manager Santos Yescas debates whether he should charge the vendors for their spot in the market, which is now free. Nogales Community Development gives vendors lessons in business finances, and helps them receive certification to accept WIC, SNAP and FMNP checks, all without charge. However, Yescas believes vendors should invest in their own businesses, starting with their spot in the market. “Sometimes vendors do not show up,” says Yescas. “And we need them here to attract people to the market.” Natalie Ainza, food system coordinator at MCHC, knows many people do not come to the mercado for the organic fruits and vegetables at the mesa cooperativa. But she remains optimistic. Demonstrating how to use the products in a recipe at a recent Friday market, Ainza tosses pomegranates, ice, kale and other greens into a blender and pours the green liquid into a cup: a green juice. “It’s all part of the same learning process,” Ainza says. Raul Ulloa, 67, attends every Friday and says he tries to buy from every vendor— from Rivera’s tamales with a cafecito, to whatever the consignment table is offering. “I eat everything,” Ulloa says. He also participates in the Friday bike ride organized by OS3, an organization that promotes biking in Nogales. Three years ago, the organization found a home in the farmer’s market, where it grew from eight to 10 bike riders a week to 80 riders. Each Friday, children in helmets and adults in full biking gear ride the nine miles from downtown Nogales to the Safeway on Mariposa Road, right off the interstate. “We love to help our community,” says Melissa Maldonado, president of OS3. In the future Yescas and Ainza hope to see rows of tents to the other end of the lot, and a place where people can gather from all over, not just Nogales. “We’re here to help,” Ainza says.
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