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IN THIS EDITION | VOLUME 112, ISSUE 26 Arts & Life

Opinions The tricky problem of compensating student-athletes

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Poetry Center moves forward with social justice program

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Football’s Shawn Poindexter looks to go pro

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OPINIONS | GUIDE TO GREEN

A girl’s guide to going green 2) This sounds like too much work. Well, bucko, that’s just because things haven’t really hit the fan, so to speak. But honey, we got a big storm coming, so put on your big-kid pants and read this list of easy ways to be sustainable as a college student.

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irl’s Guide to Getting Your Sustainable Shit Together I was once like you are now, young and unafraid, untouched by the harsh cruelty of the waste I produce each day. Despite my abhorrence for numbers, the most boring of all shapes, a statistic brought me to the light. Multiple studies have concluded the average American college student produces about 640 pounds of solid waste in one year. For context, that is slightly more weight than a vending machine. At the University of Arizona alone, there are about 45,000 vending machines filled with garbage on campus (no offense, but only if you get it together). Using that statistic, the total waste produced by UA each year comes out to around 29 million pounds. I know you just glanced over that number, go back and read it one more time. Riddle me this, Batman, as of 2018 there were a total of 4,298 Universities in the United States. Imagine how many vending machines there are filled with trash. Unlucky for citizens of Earth, the time for “what if” is over. It is time to change. Right now, you are thinking one of two things. 1) Wow, she’s awesome! (Thanks, I know) Tell me more about how I can help.

1. Plastic Bags Chief called, he says this ain’t it. We all know the deal with plastic bags, yet they are still used in multiple stores around campus. Instead of taking a bag for your newly purchased items, place the items in your backpack, after checking out, of course. Don’t be sus. We are trying to start a movement here. Alternate uses for plastic bags include trash liners, which happen to perfectly fit the UA-issued trash and recycling bins in the dorms. They also make a sweet-looking shower cap. 2. Cool down! Wash your clothes with cold water. It saves energy and is better for most fabrics. Your clothes will last longer, and so will Earth! 3. Clothing swaps are an amazing way to save money and be sustainable The fashion industry is one of the topthree water-wasting industries in China alone, discharging over 2.5 billion tons of wastewater each year. China is just one country. I am not going to waste my time doing math for the rest (get it?). At this point, the numbers are too big to look at anyways.

4. Bamboo toothbrush Toothbrushes take 1,000 years to decompose in a landfill. Bamboo, baby, it’s the future. 5. STRAWS — GASP! You know this one too, but it’s still important! Skip the lid and straw altogether, and take a walk on the wild side, you little trendsetter, you. 6. MAKEUP WIPES: BE GONE! Cleansing face wipes contain huge amounts of chemicals that help you maintain the fun and fresh feel, woo! No, don’t woo. Wet wipe products have become the fastest growing cause of beach pollution. Buy a cream cleanser, boo. They are gentle on the skin and only require any rag/ cleaning sponge your heart desires.

meals, take an extra serving the night before and save some food, energy and a walk to the union on a lazy Sunday. Regardless of where you stand on this issue, we all stand on the same ground. This planet is not ours to keep, this ship will sail on without us (@ the dinosaurs). In order for mankind and countless other living beings to continue living, we must look past our personal biases and take care of our home. Peace out.

7. Recycle, DUH We know the classic slogan, but there’s a method to the madness. Paper and cardboard should be recycled separate from food scraps and glass, metal and plastic. Fear not: There are two recycling bins in each dorm. One can be used for paper and cardboard, the other for the rest. 8. TupperWHERE? Right here! This one goes out to all my Greek Life students. Instead of using to-go boxes provided by house chefs, bring Tupperware instead. On weekends or days without

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ARTS & LIFE | ART FOR JUSTICE

Poetry Center writes for criminal justice reform with arts grant

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It gave me a voice among the voiceless.” — KEN LAMBERTON, UA ALUMNUS

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The University of Arizona Poetry Center is using a new grant from the Art for Justice Fund to promote social justice through art. The center is in its first year of a three-year project, supported by a $500,000 grant from the fund. According to Tyler Meier, the Poetry Center’s executive director, the project commissions poets to write pieces that bring awareness to mass incarceration and the justice system’s effects on racial minorities. “In doing so, our goal is to create new art that will build public will for social change,” Meier said. The Poetry Center is one of over 60 recipients since 2017 that have been given grants by the Art for Justice Fund. The fund was created two years ago by philanthropist Agnes Gund, the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to address mass incarceration in the U.S. The Poetry Center will attempt to shed light on the experiences of people who are incarcerated and will help push for criminal justice reform through written pieces from the project. “Art can change lives. If we hope to imagine a different future than the one we are headed towards, then we’ll need new ways of imagining,” Meier said. “Poetry can help provide new ways of bringing the world into words.” The new project also has poets visit the Court Alternative Program of Education School at Pima Community Juvenile Detention. Lisa O’Neill, a writer and teaching artist, regularly teaches creative writing workshops for youth in juvenile detention. She also organizes visits through the Poetry Center where the writers commissioned by the Art for Justice grant teach incarcerated teens about poetry and how to improve their writing skills. Last month, poet Nikky Finney was commissioned to write for the project and visited teens at the CAPE School with O’Neill. “When she [Finney] came in, she came from a place of open-hearted compassion and listened to them and encouraged them,” O’Neill said. “It’s a beautiful, beautiful thing.” The piece Finney, who is from South Carolina, wrote for the project was about George Stinney Jr. He was a 14-year-old black youth who was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1944 and executed by electric chair in

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THE UA POETRY CENTER was founded in 1960 and is home to one of the largest collections of contemporary poetry in the country.

Columbia, S.C. Poet Randall Horton also visited the juvenile detention center and taught a writing class for minors in November as part of the Art for Justice project. Horton himself served in prison before becoming a writer and was able to relate to the experiences of the adolescents in detention centers. “Having someone who was directly impacted in similar ways to them by the carceral system was so impactful for them. It was a big deal for them,” O’Neill said. The Poetry Center has a history of connecting the art of poetry to the prison system. Former UA professor Richard Shelton helped create a program which holds writing workshops for inmates in Arizona’s state and federal prisons. Shelton said he got the idea to hold these workshops in 1970, after Charles Schmid, a serial killer in Arizona, sent a letter from prison asking Shelton to critique his poetry. “The project also publishes an annual journal, the Rain Shadow Review, featuring work from writers currently or formerly incarcerated in Arizona,” Meier said. Shelton started the literary journal as a way for current and former Arizona inmates to have their creative writing published. UA alumnus Ken

Lamberton was one of the formerly incarcerated writers who was mentored by Shelton. “I attended his prison workshops during my incarceration and then continued with him at the UA. We’ve become good friends over the 30 years — he is like a father to me — and we continue to get together every week to work on writing projects,” Lamberton said. Lamberton has written several books since then and now helps Shelton run the workshop program. A community workshop held at the Poetry Center gives ex-prisoners an opportunity to continue writing after they are out of prison. “The workshop has always been open to the public, so we have an interesting mix of people, ex-prisoners, ex-prison workers, others involved with prison as volunteers,” Lamberton said. Lamberton said writing gave him his life back when he went to prison and he hopes it will do the same for others. “In a place that only looks backward, only rubs your face in your past mistakes, writing allowed me something to look and work forward to,” Lamberton said. “It gave me a voice among the voiceless, and this is what writing does for others behind bars.”

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OPINIONS | ATHLETIC COMPENSATION

Should studentathletes get paid? COLUMN

BY CHUCK VALADEZ @DailyWildcat

n March 8, U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken of Oakland ruled that the NCAA violated antitrust laws by restricting compensation of student athletes. Wilken ruled schools may offer additional compensation, as long as it is related to education. Currently, “full-ride” NCAA scholarships cover costs such as tuition, room and board, class materials and even post-graduate education, an average value of $120,000, according to USA Today. After this ruling, universities will also be able to offer athletes education-related items (laptops, calculators, musical instruments, etc.) free of charge, though to the dismay of the plaintiffs, universities still may not offer non-educational items to studentathletes for free. The goal of the plaintiffs was to create a free market within the world of college sports. Their vision would have allowed universities to offer benefits to lure athletes to their institution over other institutions. The plaintiffs built their case on the belief the scholarship caps put into place by the NCAA were in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, an act put into place to ensure competitive markets and prevent interstate monopolies. The plaintiffs found these unregulated free-market incentives necessary to improve the quality of life for studentathletes. Three former student-athletes told stories of being unable to gain parttime employment, as practice had taken most of their time. Because of this, many of them stated they struggled to buy food and clothes, given they had no income. The NCAA attempted to defend its case by noting the status of student-athletes as amateurs. Judge Wilken responded by noting the NCAA does not clearly define “amateur,” and the current pay rules of the NCAA do not necessarily follow the normal guides of amateurism. This can be seen by the use of awards in the form of gift cards and other non-education related awards. The second claim made by the NCAA was that it believed the caps and restrictions helped athletes integrate

with the rest of the student population. Wilken then noted the current regulations more than likely cause poor integration, given universities can spend money on “unregulated frills” at athleteonly facilities, a concept with which University of Arizona students should be most familiar. The ruling made by Wilken based off the cases presented is just and reasonable. However, if we look at the numbers, student-athletes are not given a bad deal. The average male student in the United States earns $12,830 and the average female student earns $12,670 in scholarship funds (this figure does include student-athletes). Meanwhile, Division 1 athletes earn an average of $16,937 for men and an average of $17,654 for women. This is a $4,107 difference for men and $4,984 for women. If a student were to work 20 hours a week for $11 an hour for a total of 16 weeks (semester length), they would not be able to make up that difference as their income before taxes would only amount to $3,520. The student would also still have to pay for their books and other class materials and still be barred from the athlete-only facilities. This is not to belittle the monetary problems student-athletes are faced with, as most college students are probably aware of the high cost of living and fees associated with attending university. Most university students are also probably aware they are making an investment to ensure a good job upon graduation, and, as of right now, they may have to live frugally. In-state university tuitions have risen 243 percent since 1998, and a four-year degree is very important in today’s job market; it is an extremely expensive necessity for some. Rather than combating the NCAA by creating an overpriced bidding war for student-athletes and draining university funds in the process, we must pursue options that lower university expenses to lower tuitions. This way, scholarships will be less costly for universities and also private parties. Perhaps universities will adopt “for educational purposes only” budget restrictions to help get this process started.

— Chuck Valadez is a junior studying ethics, economics and public policy.

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NEWS | ELECTRIC SCOOTERS

E-scooters to hit Tucson streets in July The City of Tucson approved a pilot program allowing up to 1,500 electric scooters to operate on downtown city streets. How will this affect the University of Arizona’s e-scooter ban? city, Lime and Razor, as a major reason to cease operations within the city. “In addition, by signing the form, operators must agree that scooters are ‘inherently hazardous,’ a standard usually reserved for activities such as those involving operating major public fireworks,” Lime said in a press release. The joint headaches of code enforcement, scooters blocking walkways and getting the companies operating the scooters to adequately insure the devices are all enough to make Kozachik question the role the city is playing. “These things end up in front of Epic Café, and someone calls, saying, ‘Hey these things are piling up’ — that’s on the city,” he said. “If we have to put this kind of severe indemnification language into something, is it really something we want to invite people to be doing on city streets?” That’s before even considering the safety of introducing e-scooters into the ecosystem of downtown. “You are mixing scooters in with the streetcar, with buses, with pedestrians, with bicycles, with automobiles in already heavily congested commercial corridors,” Kozachik said.

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In October 2018, the University of Arizona banned the use of dockless electric scooters and similar devices on campus. Those caught riding an e-scooter on campus are subject to possible fines and impounding of the device. “This policy is in place because we are concerned about the safety of e-scooters and their potential to limit accessibility on campus, especially for those with disabilities,” UA Parking and Transportation Services said in a press release at the time. That was all before last week, when the City of Tucson voted 5-2 to approve a pilot program allowing up to 1,500 e-scooters to operate on downtown city streets beginning in July. “I think we are doing the right thing in doing a pilot program,” Councilman Paul Durham said. “It offers a transportation choice, and I think it is wrong to say ‘no’ right off the bat without trying.” According to Florence Dei Ochoa, marketing and public information manager for UA Parking and Transportation Services, there has also been a slight change in the UA’s official stance toward e-scooters. While she confirmed the devices are still not allowed on campus per se, the university is in communication with the city and potential companies regarding updating regulations. “The UA has been working with the city and the companies to help enforce where the scooters are operated and parked,” Dei Ochoa said. “The UA will set up several convenient scooter lots where riders can park them when they come to campus or find them to leave the university.” The university’s evolving outlook towards e-scooters is something anticipated by city council members on both sides of the issue. The case against For Councilman Steve Kozachik, who represents the neighborhoods surrounding the UA and Tucson’s downtown core, it makes sense the university would wait to see what the city would do first.

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“The University is smart enough to be using the city as its beta tester,” he said. Kozachik opposes the introduction of e-scooters downtown and was one of two votes against the program. His reasons range from the dockless nature of the devices to questions of their supposed usefulness to average Tucson commuters. “We have conflicts with the ridership. We have a challenge with enforcement from the riders themselves if they are breaking the law, or if they are in the street, you have the potential and likelihood of accidents,” he said. One of the cities Kozachik cited as having problems was Tempe. Since October of last year, Tempe has been dealing with the introduction of

e-scooters to its streets. In that time, ASU’s Police Department has impounded more than 800 of the devices, according to an Arizona Republic report. That comes out to over $80,000 in impound fees, according to the same report. In January, Tempe also passed a license agreement for e-scooter companies, requiring a $7,888 application fee, a “right of way use fee” of $1.06 per vehicle per day and a $100 relocation fee if the devices were found outside the designated parking area. Those fees, along with a stipulation companies acknowledge the “inherent” danger of the devices, were cited by two companies operating the devices in the

The case for Durham, who voted to approve the pilot program, isn’t as pessimistic as Kozachik when it comes to e-scooters. Part of his optimism comes from how Tucson has gone about courting companies. Unlike earlier cities like Santa Monica, where e-scooters companies just dropped off the devices without warning, Durham said Tucson’s pilot program will be restricted to 1,500 devices and will limit the amount of companies operating the devices to two. “What we learned is … the scooter companies invaded with hundreds or thousands of scooters and had no rules whatsoever,” Durham said. “Two operators will be chosen based on the ranking of the applications.” Many of the problems cited by e-scooter detractors happened in cities where there was no prior regulation or relationship between the municipality and the e-scooter companies, Durham said.

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Durham said he supported the e-scooter program because of the potential environmental and financial benefits the devices bring. “In Portland, they had a pilot program … they found that 34 percent of Portland residents took a scooter instead of taking a car. It was 48 percent with tourists,” Durham said. “If we can displace that number of car trips, it’s an option I wouldn’t want to say no to from the outset.” Durham estimated potential revenue earnings of $135,000 or more if the program meets the city’s projections. The money would go towards covering the cost of enforcement of the new policy and the cost of staff time putting the pilot proposal together, Durham said. He also said he feels that some criticism leveled against the e-scooters, including Kozachik’s argument of added enforcement problems for city, are overstated. Durham noted, under the language of the pilot program, the devices’ operating company would have two hours to send

a representative to pick up and remove illegally parked e-scooters or face a fine (with the amount yet to be determined). Additionally, Durham said the city will require e-scooter operators to limit where scooters can be parked by erecting digital geo-fences. These are areas where riders will be fined for leaving an e-scooter up to $100, according to Durham. “The riders are not motivated to end the trip there, and the operator is required to move, on two-hour notice, any illegally parked scooter,” he said. “I don’t see [that] there is a serious risk of scooters being strewn all over the U of A campus.” This is the first in a series of stories looking at the national issue of e-scooters and how they are changing and disrupting the way students and citizens use, view and interact with public transit. Upcoming stories will focus on similar programs to the proposed City of Tucson pilot program, how e-scooters are addressing the “firstand-last-mile” commuter issue and just how environmentally (and financially) beneficial the devices are.

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SPORTS | ATHLETE FEATURE

Poindexter takes backdoor route to NFL draft After three seasons at Arizona, Shawn Poindexter isn’t looking to be just another diva wide receiver. He has something much deeper in mind BY EDDIE CELAYA @reporterEddie

Shawn Poindexter, who was a wide receiver on the University of Arizona’s football team, is nearly through the last backdoor. All that remains is to hear his name called sometime in the latter rounds of April’s NFL Draft, then it’s all fortune, fame and securing the bag. Or not. “Just the way I’ve come up, I’ve always kind of worked through the backdoor. Football to me isn’t about the money, football to me isn’t about the fame,” Poindexter said. “Football to me is a platform to reach these kids. That’s what football means to me.” The 6-foot-5, 215-pound wide out, who tied the Arizona record for touchdowns in a season with 11 this past year, is currently fighting to be drafted or picked up as a free agent. This last weekend, he performed in front of scouts from nearly every team in the NFL. When it comes to the football career, and life, of Shawn Poindexter, nothing is taken through the front door. It requires taking a lot of backdoors and leaps of faith to truly understand. Growing up Poindexter is the third of four boys born to Darnell Poindexter and Dana Mule. All four of the boys grew up playing multiple sports, changing with the seasons from basketball to flag football to baseball and soccer. Before Poindexter was 10, Darnell started to see him separate himself from his brothers athletically. “When he was probably about seven BEAU LEONE | THE DAILY WILDCAT or eight, out of all four of my boys, I SHAWN POINDEXTER ENJOYING HIS last training session on Thursday, March 14, at the University of Arizona knew right then he was probably the before Pro Day with Arizona Director of Track and Cross Country Fred Harvey. most athletic,” Darnell said. “I could just tell.” wasn’t gonna be the case, because we kind of stood on the sidelines. I was one His two older brothers, Kyle, the only won like four games a year.” of those guys that kind of hid in the back; oldest, and Justin, the second-oldest, Eventually he would settle on signing but we’d always compete.” were integral in pushing Poindexter to with California Baptist University on a Through high school, Poindexter be better, often convincing the younger volleyball scholarship. At the time, the maintained his multi-sport approach, Poindexter to play up an age level to keep eventually playing three sports at move made sense and didn’t seem like the brothers together. a “backdoor.” Poindexter was a coveted Glendale’s Centennial High School: “It had kind of an influence, because force around the net, and Cal Baptist was basketball, football and volleyball. football is contagious among all of them,” moving up to Division II next season. With basketball, his first love growing Darnell said. Things ended up going a much different up, Poindexter averaged nearly 16 points Poindexter especially credits Justin direction, however. Poindexter doesn’t and nine rebounds his senior year. He with helping him ultimately stick with mince words when talking about the would have preferred playing the sport football. situation. at the next level, but there was a slight “He forced me to play football my “They were No. 5 in the country problem of exposure. freshman year, and I did,” the former UA so, I decided to go, it just didn’t end “I would have loved to go [Division wide receiver said. “I didn’t like it, I just up working out,” he said. I wasn’t I] for basketball,” he said. “I knew that

comfortable, so I came home.” Coming home After coming back from Cal Baptist, Poindexter spent time working, holding jobs as a busboy and Cinnabon-maker before hitting the football field at Glendale Community College, the next backdoor. “I decided to out there for spring ball. My brother and his best friend, Chris, were playing, so it made the transition easy,” Poindexter said. “I had guys on the team that I already knew. I just went out there and just played, honestly.” Poindexter’s mother Dana thought being close to home helped put him at ease. “So being at home, just playing football because he came back, went to GCC and played for the Gauchos, and he really has strong family values,” she said. Although Poindexter had played two years of high school football, he described his understanding of the game at the time as rudimentary. “I just kind of went, showed up, put my cleats on and played,” he said. He played, alright. In his lone season at GCC, Poindexter caught 47 passes for 727 yards and seven touchdowns. Not a bad backdoor season of work, and good enough to appear on the radar of Division I programs like Marshall University, South Dakota State and Arizona. According to Poindexter, his decision to come to Arizona was based on his wanting to stay on the West Coast and closer to home and on trusting in his faith in god. He tells the story of his plane ride home from West Virginia after visiting Marshall University. “One of my coaches messaged me. He said, ‘Shawn, did you commit?’ I said no. He said, ‘that’s stupid.’ I said, ‘No that’s not what God asked of me.’ The day before signing day, Arizona calls, and I was like, ‘That’s perfect. That’s exactly what I asked for, you know?’ Even he was like, ‘Oh yeah, you were right, Shawn,” Poindexter said. Bearing Down Still, staying close to home and playing at a D-I school didn’t immediately go according to plan. Poindexter was injured in his first year and played sparingly. Then, during the 2017-2018 season, frustration set in.

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FORMER ARIZONA WIDE OUT Shawn Poindexter gets off the line quickly during a drill on the University of Arizona Pro Day as NFL scouts evaluate his talent.

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SHAWN POINDEXTER CHUGS WATER during a break at the University of Arizona’s Pro Day on Friday, March 15. Pro Day allows NFL scouts to observe players.

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After feeling he was being misused at his position, Poindexter considered transferring. Then, Rich Rodriguez was fired at the end of the 2018 season, and Kevin Sumlin was brought on as head coach. “I was about to get up and grad transfer and go somewhere else, because I wanted to be used and I wanted to play in the league,” Poindexter said. “Obviously, the coaching staff changed, and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, just in the nick of time.’” The change in staff was integral to Poindexter having the best season of his career, bringing down 42 receptions for 759 yards. “They wanted to take advantage of my size and stretch the field with me,” Poindexter said.

It all should have ended with a bowl game, if not for a heart-breaking loss to in-state rival Arizona State the last game of the season. “It’s tough, you never want to lose a game especially when you’re up by 20,” Poindexter said. “But I mean, I don’t have any regrets. I went out there and gave it everything I had.” Pro potential The jump in Poindexter’s production raised the interest of scouts at the next level. Last Friday, Poindexter, Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles, PJ Johnson and other Wildcats hopeful of extending their football careers put their talents on display in front of NFL team representatives. Taylor Mazzone, UA’s outside wide receivers coach, Poindexter’s route running coach and his quarterback during drills on this day, talked about what scouts and coaches are looking for

out of prospects during pro days. “Scouts show up on one day to see measurements and see what they want to see for that position they are looking for,” Mazzone said. “They’ve seen the film, now it’s their time to see them in person.” While emphasis is often put on singular exercises removed from football action, like the 40-yard dash and the bench press, Poindexter said he really shined during the route running exercise, where former All-Pro Dallas Cowboy great Miles Austin put him through his paces. “If the ‘Niners did come get me and Miles Austin saw that I didn’t put any of the work he was recommending me to put in, it’s like, who am I to have just wasted a month and a half of my time to not [get] better?,” Poindexter said. For his part, Mazzone doesn’t foresee Poindexter having a hard time maintaining the same work ethic — his inner drive to succeed is too great. “I think when they get him in a room, one-on-one, behind closed doors, they’re gonna see what kind of character he is. Just very strong character,” he said. Touchdown With all the backdoors and leaps of faith to get to this point, it’s the NFL or bust, right? Maybe not. Poindexter insists he doesn’t have to be drafted to be successful. He pointed to the recent success of Phillip Lindsay of the Denver Broncos, as Lindsay went undrafted out of the University of Colorado. “He is calling the shots,” Poindexter

said. “Went undrafted, decided to stay in Denver, and he’s most likely going to make more than a first round pick last year, because he’s not bound to a fouryear contract with the option for a fifth.” But what if that route doesn’t work, or what if he gets hurt? Or, what if it does work out, and a career filled with longevity and monetary success ensues? According to Poindexter, all roads lead to one overarching route: starting his own non-profit. Regardless of his future in football, his goal is the same. He already has a name, No Wasted Steps, and a focus: at-risk teens. “No wasted steps on the field, no wasted steps in life,” he said. It’s those backdoors and leaps of faith that Poindexter believes will endear him not just to youth in the Tucson and Glendale communities, but in locations everywhere. It’s his journey that conveys authenticity. “Who would I be if I had the front door to everything? I couldn’t relate to those kids,” Poindexter said. “I couldn’t give them any game. I couldn’t connect with them on that level.” After taking in his son’s pro day, Darnell Poindexter sat about ten rows up on the west side bleachers of Arizona Stadium. Proud, he smiled and pointed to his son talking with a scout from some unidentified team. “He’s gained a lot of wisdom and knowledge over the years through life experience,” Darnell said. “Of course, the experience that he has gone through has kept him humble. What you see is what you get, pretty much.”

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NEWS | ASUA ELECTIONS

Lack of ASUA diveristy concerns students BY PRIYA JANDU @Priya_J11

Executive office candidates for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona hosted an open cultural forum on Wednesday, March 13. Students present expressed concerns over the lack of diversity in ASUA, the lack of candidates running and creating tangible solutions for prominent issues on campus. Sydney Hess, candidate for ASUA student body president, Kate Rosenstengel, candidate for administrative vice president and Bennett Adamson, candidate for executive vice president, are all running unopposed. Candidates’ platforms and positions At the beginning of the forum, the candidates shared their platforms and goals for the upcoming year. EVP candidate Adamson is currently the senator for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and is also on the Appropriations Board. The EVP is in charge of Senate meetings, oversees the appropriations board and registers clubs. “I’d like to see Senate take a stronger stance on legislation and projects,” Adamson said. “Sometimes people question the utility of the Senate, but I think it’s an important legislative body.” Rosenstengel is running again to keep her current AVP position. She was a member of the Freshman Class Council and a student body senator as a sophomore. As AVP, she works with the 12 programs of ASUA. “I want to make sure people know what our programs and services are and what they do and how they’re involved with ASUA,” Rosenstengel said. “The second thing I want to work on is ‘I Will’ week. I don’t know what that looks like, but I want to make sure it has a place in ASUA.” Hess is Rosenstengel’s current chief of staff. She has previously served as a student body senator and president of Freshman Class Council. Her three platforms are student advocacy, civic engagement and mental health awareness. “I am in constant awe at directors’ councils and all of the amazing work that these people in ASUA are doing and the projects that they’re working on and just how excited and passionate they are,” Hess said. “I cannot wait to help support them in another capacity as student body president.” Marlon Freeman, the ASUA Elections Commissioner, organized the event and asked all three candidates what they consider to be the biggest obstacle to

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achieving equity on campus. Hess said the biggest obstacle is access to resources on campus, especially among minorities and marginalized groups. “I’m not going to pretend as a white woman I know everything about everyone’s experience, because I don’t,” Hess said. Her goal is to reach out and let minority and marginalized groups have a seat at the table. Rosenstengel said the main obstacle is how expensive college is. “ASUA is only accessible to people from a certain financial background,” Rosenstengel said. “We [executives] do have a seat at that table when it comes to tuition discussion.” She also mentioned how ASUA needs to be aware of students who have jobs but still want to be involved with ASUA. Adamson agreed with Rosenstengel about working students and added they can often feel like small fish in a large pond. “ASUA serves as a voice for the students,” Adamson said. There is a disconnect

between what students want and what administrators think students want.” His goal with Senate is to put senators in a position where they can interact with administration. Community Concerns Lexy Reyelts, co-director of Pride Alliance, commented many students from cultural centers were not at the forum and students are not accurately being represented by ASUA, where all three executive positions are going to be filled by white people. “There’s no way you’re going to know what we’re going through, and I just feel it’s really disingenuine,” Reyelts said. Nikki Mastrud, ASUA’s executive diversity director, said ASUA has a tendency to talk about problems but not act on them. They wanted a tangible solution the appointees could create. Rosenstengel said as elected representatives, she expects people to come to ASUA and tell them about their problems. From there, they have direct access to UA President Dr. Robert

Robbins and Dean of Students Kendal Washington White. Hess said ASUA is currently not representative of the UA, but she wants to reach out to cultural centers. “It’s about reaching out to cultural centers across campus to find people from different backgrounds,” Hess said. Adamson said he is currently frustrated as a senator. “ASUA needs to do more to be visible on campus,” he said. Adamson wants to see more town halls similar to the forum in the future. Karlyn Bradley, a student who previously dropped out of UA, commented on the candidates’ remarks about tuition increase being inevitable. “Saying that tuition just has to increase is unacceptable,” Bradley said. “I literally dropped out of school because I couldn’t afford it, and every single year you have a student government that claims to represent students be OK with raising tuition is unacceptable. You can’t say you

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care about marginalized students and also say it is OK for you all to support something that the university knows harms marginalized students. You cannot sit here and say both.” Meucci Ilunga, a student representing Native American Student Affairs, asked the candidates how to get people to engage. Mastrud added that four of the six cultural centers on campus were not present at the forum. “We are privileged students, so we don’t have the best lens about what’s going on and about how angry people are about the state our university is in,” Rosenstengel said. Hess said that she has a lot to learn; she wants to know what concerns students have to help better meet their needs. Adamson said he was unsettled because there were some issues mentioned in a list of student demands from 2016 that should have been informed about but was not for the forum. Mastrud commented it felt disingenuous that people came to the forum to learn the candidates’ stances, but they ended up educating the candidates instead. “It sounds like you are all dedicated to improving your knowledge, but it’s frustrating when we’re showing up to events and we’re educating,” Mastrud said. “So moving forward, just name events as they are, and that can affect what people show up.” Bradley shared Mastrud’s frustration with the candidates. “One of the things I find almost so offensive that it is laughable is the sense of entitlement to be completely ignorant to the experiences of people in the room and also the confidence to feel to be able to represent us,” Bradley said. “It’s fucking mindblowing.” Ilunga ultimately asked what goals the UA has to achieve to be able to say they’ve reached the end of their history. Adamson said achieving three pillars fully would satisfy ASUA’s goal. “The end goal is to have the ultimate expression of three things, so anybody has access to this education, and it’s affordable, and you feel like you have a place where you are safe and comfortable,” he said. Hess and Rosenstengel agreed with Adamson. If you have questions for candidates, but are unable to attend future candidate meetings, email Marlon Freeman at asua-elections@email. arizona.edu. For more election information, visit ASUA’s election website.

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Bennett Adamson is running for executive vice president. Adamson is currently the senator for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Adamson is a junior also majoring in philosophy, politics, economics and law major. “I really feel like my time in the senate this year has enabled me to see the various responsibilities of the EVP,” Adamson said at a recent cultural forum. On the ASUA election website, Adamson’s campaign ideals are listed as efficiency, visibility and purpose. The executive vice president is in charge of the senate and the clubs and organizations on campus. Specifically, Adamson aims to simplify the club registration process, encourage senators to engage with students and university leadership and create more action items. “I’d like to see senate take a stronger stance on legislation and projects,” Adamson said at the forum. He also stressed the importance of the senate as a legislative body. “I’m excited to hit the ground running, as far as the responsibilities of that office are concerned,” Adamson said at the forum.

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Kate Rosenstengel is running for reelection as administrative vice president. Rosenstengel is currently the AVP for ASUA. As a junior, Rosenstengel is currently double majoring in philosophy, politics, economics and law and global studies. She’s was previously a member of Freshman Class Council and an at-large student body senator. “It’s been an incredible experience to be administrative vice president,” Rosenstengel said at a recent cultural forum. She wants to continue the projects she began this year as AVP. “As the AVP, I look really closely with the 12 programs and services in ASUA,” Rosenstengel said at the forum. “I help hire all of the directors and help them achieve their goals for their program. I make sure that all the programs are growing, that we’re staying on track and that we’re going where we want to go in the future.” Rosenstengel wants to integrate the program and service fair into the ASUA club fair and continue advocating for “I Will” week, a program that raises awareness about sexual assault. “I don’t know what it [I Will week] looks like yet, but I want to make sure it has a place in ASUA with a budget and people who want to work on it,” she said. On the ASUA election website, Rosenstengel aims to make “I Will” a permanent ASUA program to expand the initiative.

Sydney Hess is running for student body president. Hess is a junior majoring in philosophy, politics, economics and law, an interdisciplinary major offered by the university. She previously served as president of Freshman Class Council, then served as an at-large student body senator along with Kate Rosenstengel. Hess is currently Rosenstengel’s chief of staff. “What the student body president does is work with policy, elections, Wildcat Events Board, the group on campus that puts on fun events like Bear Down Festival, things like that,” Hess said at the ASUA cultural forum. Hess has three platforms for her campaign: student advocacy, community and civic engagement and mental health awareness. “I think it’s really important that we host town halls in cultural centers throughout the year to ensure that we are hearing from students,” she said at the forum. Hess wants students outside of ASUA to have a seat at the table. These town halls will facilitate conversations on student issues. Regarding community and civic engagement, Hess thinks the campus is not as connected with the city as it could be. “I want to work in city government one day, so I think it’s really important to build those relationships outside ASUA,” Hess said at the forum. On the ASUA website, she advocates for a new position that build a relationship between prominent members of Tucson government.

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SPORTS | LOCAL ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT

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DIANA GAJDA RUNS DURING the Willie Williams Classic at Roy P. Drachman Stadium on March 15.

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NEYSIA HOWARD PERFORMS DURING the long jump at the Husky Invite in Seattle, Washington on Feb. 9. Howard attended Tucson High School.

UA track athletes values staying home for school BY AIYA CANCIO @cancioaiya

Most student-athletes at Division I schools don’t generally end up competing for their hometown university, and they might not even stay within their home state. For two University of Arizona track and field sprinters, that is not the case. Diana Gajda, a redshirt senior, and Neysia Howard, a freshman, are Tucson natives. Gajda attended Salpointe Catholic High School, where she was a first-team All-State honoree her senior year and competed at the Arizona State Championships her sophomore and junior years. Howard attended Tucson Magnet High School and placed second in the 2017 State finals in the 200 meter race and long jump, as well as third in the 100 meter race. Both athletes credit their parents’ running backgrounds to their success and love of the sport. “My parents ran for Poland, but they were distance runners, which was the

funny thing. I was the oddball,” Gajda joked. “Everyday things just showed how their hard work from past years in track overlapped into their daily life, and that kind of rubbed off on me.” Howard’s father was also a runner and ran for Arizona under head coach Fred Harvey, just as his daughter does now. “My dad coaches now, and he’s one of the most dedicated people I know. He sees the potential in me more than I do, and more than anybody else in my life,” Howard said. Both Gajda and Howard agreed that staying home for college, especially as an athlete, has its benefits. “The environment Tucson provides, it’s not high-stress or anything. I’ve lived all throughout my college career with my parents, so it’s kind of comforting in a sense,” Gajda said. Howard added, “being at Arizona means a lot to me, just because I’ve been wanting to run for the school since I was little. The fact that my whole family gets to come out here when they want and just see me run

is great.” Assistant coach Francesa Green talked about the strong dynamic between the experienced sprinter and the rising star and how they have developed as athletes in the short time they have been at UA together. “Diana’s been a role model for the younger athletes, especially for someone like Neysia, being from Tucson, being able to really help her in her new path,” Green said. Speaking about Gajda, she continued: “Every year she learns a little more about herself and what she’s capable of. It’s been such an honor to coach her, because she works so hard.” While Gajda looks to close out her career at Arizona this spring, Green commented on what may be to come in Howard’s bright future. “I think, based on her work ethic and just who she is, I mean, the girl can be someone who breaks school records, makes it to the national meet and does really well. With what she’s doing right now, I just want to see her keep growing and becoming the

best athlete she can be.” Gajda and Howard recently competed in the Willie Williams Classic hosted on the team’s own track, which is Howard’s favorite meet. “Even before high school, I would always come and watch this meet, then in high school, I won the 200m four years in a row … I just won a lot here,” Howard said. Howard competed in the meet for her first time as a collegiate athlete, while Gajda competed for her ninth time at the event — her last as an Arizona Wildcat. Gajda’s experience with the invitational comes from the fact that she competed in the high school section of the event while at Salpointe. This year, Gajda helped the Wildcat relay team place sixth, while Howard got to show off her blooming skills on several events. The freshman placed first in the 200-meter dash, second in long jump and fourth in the 100-meter dash. Gajda and Howard will compete next on March 22 at the Aztec Invitational in San Diego.

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RHA hosting first Renaissance Festival BY NAGISA TSUKADA @ntsukada120_130

The first Renaissance Festival hosted by the Residence Hall Association is coming to the University of Arizona Mall on Saturday, March 23, from 3-6 p.m. The festival will have performances, activity booths and snacks, with free admission. All UA students who want to enjoy the afternoon exploring the Renaissance era are invited, according to Kari Thomas, director of programming for RHA and a neuroscience and cognitive science student. Some student clubs and groups, such as Arizona Swing Cats, will give performances at the festival. Other student groups, like the Archery Club, will have booths, according to Highland District programmer Rose De Los Santos. “They were really excited to … get their club out, so they were really eager to help us with our booth,” De Los Santos said. Thomas said the program coordinators are “trying to cooperate as many student clubs as possible” to have many different performances and activities. Other attractions and offerings at the festival will include caricatures, henna, face-painting, paper-making, art history club, jousting, torch-blowing demonstrations, flower crownmaking and jewelry-making. Food will also be available at the festival, including Italian cream soda, fruit and jerky. One of the most unique things will be the turkey legs, according to Thomas. They have prepared 20 pounds of them. The first 180 visitors will get free turkey legs. “Turkey legs are harder to find than I expected,” Thomas said with laugh. While she worked hard to search for barbecue restaurants in Tucson, she said she could not find any place to purchase

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turkey legs. She finally reached out to the UA Student Union, which helped out in not only finding a vendor but also cooking turkey legs. “After 180 turkey legs … there won’t be any more available, just because they are kind of expensive,” she said. “We’re still in talks with the Union about possibly allowing students after that 180 to purchase them, but we are not sure yet.” The operational cost for the festival is about $5,000. The Renaissance Festival is one of the events that RHA hosts throughout the year to help students living on campus build communities and to provide them education and alternative environments, Thomas said. They have hosted variety of events like the block party and rave. Thomas came up with the idea to have the Renaissance Festival from her childhood memories. Her family has celebrated her youngest brother’s birthday every year at the Arizona Renaissance Festival in Phoenix, and she said she has always enjoyed going to the festival. “As a director of programming this year, I wanted to bring kind of a version of it to students at the University of Arizona, because it’s been a really cool event [with] a lot of very unique and amazing experiences,” she said. “I wanted to bring it to campus because it’s kind of far away and not super accessible and also very expensive, so I wanted to provide a free and more accessible version for students to come to.” Her team members welcomed her idea, citing similar experiences or thoughts about the Renaissance Festival. “[The idea] was exciting. The last one I went to was I was eight or nine,” said Ramsey Martz, one of the Park District programmers. “It’s looking pretty cool. I don’t think we have ever had a Renaissance-themed event.” Victoria Howard, another Park District programmer, also loved the idea. “I thought it was a great idea, making it more accessible to

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TWO UA ALUMNI, PETE Seat (third from left) and David Martinez (right) were chosen out of over 600 applicants to join the 2018 Millenium Fellowship. The picture was taken during a Millennium Fellowship trip in Athens.

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PETE SEAT GRADUATED FROM UA in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in theater arts. He is one of two UA grads to be selected as an Atlantic Council Millennium fellow.

Two UA alumni selected for prestigious fellowship BY MARQUIES WHITE @marquies_white

Two University of Arizona alumni were among the 21 people selected from 655 applicants around the world to participate in the 2018 Atlantic Council Millennium Fellowship. The Atlantic Council Millennium Fellowship is a two-year program with the goal of developing the next generation of leaders by providing its fellows with opportunities to meet world leaders and travel across the world for hands-on experience with global issues. UA alumni Pete Seat and David Martinez were both selected for the Millennium Fellowship in 2018, adding to their already impressive careers. Martinez graduated from the UA in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in entrepreneurship and business management from the Eller College of Management. Martinez was a part of the UA Honors program and was named Honors Alumnus of the Year in 2017. He has worked as the negotiation courses chair for the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State.

Seat graduated from the UA with a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts in 2005. Seat worked for the White House under the Bush Administration and now works for the Indiana Republican Party as the executive director of strategic communications and talent development. Seat and Martinez joined the fellowship on a trip to countries on the Aegean Sea to study the global refugee crisis. Both of them said the trip was one of the most impactful experiences they have had with the fellowship so far, especially when they visited a Syrian refugee camp. “Being a U.S. diplomat, you spend so much time thinking about the high politics that you lose sight of how global politics are affecting people at their most human level,” Martinez said. “The most basic level meant this enormous tragedy of human migration and loss, and that was most nakedly expressed in the children there.” Martinez said he decided to apply for the fellowship because he believed in its goals and wanted to connect with other fellows. “I decided I really wanted to re-engage with intellectually stimulating communities of people who worked outside of my professional sphere, people with different

perspectives and people from different sectors,” Martinez said. “And I really wanted something where I could learn about and support the Transatlantic Alliance.” According to Martinez, the Transatlantic Alliance has helped maintain global peace since World War II, but Martinez said he fears the alliance is at risk of falling apart. Seat said he applied for the fellowship on a whim after getting the idea from seeing his friends and colleagues engaging in foreign affairs. “I came across the Atlantic Council’s Millennium Fellowship and realized it caps at 35 years of age, and I had just turned 35. I thought that if I had any chance to do this, now was the time,” Seat said. Seat said he did not expect to be selected out of the 655 applicants and did not even tell his wife about it until he was selected. Martinez said the most important lessons he took away from the UA were from outside the classroom while working with the UA Honors College and working with homeless youth during spring break with Stand Up For Kids. “Those experiences, along with the business background, gave me an approach to problem solving of thinking creatively and

dedicating yourself to solving the problem,” Martinez said. “It took root in this idea that I needed to do something with a broader purpose which set me on a path to do everything I’ve done up to this point.” Seat also said that his most important experiences at the UA were what he was able to do outside of the classroom, like being involved with Republican groups at the UA and around Arizona and the encouragement he got from his theater professors. “Some of my professors in political science weren’t as encouraging, because we did not see eye to eye ideologically. They tended to be a little more liberal, and I was a little more conservative,” Seat said. “Whereas on the theatre side, despite the differences in how we saw issues, they could not have been more encouraging and welcoming.” Seat and Martinez did not know each other until they met at an airport for the fellowship. “When I got the list of biographies of the fellows, I was flipping through it and I happened to notice David [Martinez] graduated from the UA,” Seat said. “I thought that was kind of wild. Out of 21 people from around the world, you got two Wildcats.”

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Finding affordable parking around the University of Arizona campus is often difficult for students and faculty members who drive to campus. Between the high costs of garage or lot parking at the UA and the city’s regulation of parking permits and time limits in the downtown area, driving on a budget can look grim. But with the advent of AirGarage, a new affordable-parking app that has recently launched at the University of Arizona, students and faculty are being offered the option to rent parking spaces from homeowners and businesses near campus instead of paying for parking permits and higher garage fees. AirGarage has partnered with several lots that surroud campus: Grace Tucson, UA Hillel, the Little Chapel of All Nations and the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. “I have recommended it to students who drive to campus and normally park in garage spaces — it is more convenient and cheaper to use an AirGarage than a campus garage,” said UA sophomore Haley Hart. “Which is super important for college students on a budget.” AirGarage first began when cofounders Jonathan Barkl and Scott Fitsimones met at Arizona State University. They were forced to jump hurdles with the campus’ parking prices and policies, but as like-minded business students, they decided to do something about it. “We were pretty frustrated with our campus’ parking monopoly and high prices,” Barkl said. Barkl and Fitsimones went door to door in search of homeowners near campus with unused parking spaces who would let them park in their driveway for a little extra cash. They got such great deals on parking that their friends wanted to reap the rewards of their tenacity, and Barkl and Fitsimones were happy to oblige. They said they saw it as a business opportunity. They made a simple spreadsheet connecting their friends with homeowners in the area renting out parking spaces and built a website, SellMyDriveway.com, to open this money-saving opportunity to other students. This was the first iteration of a grander concept. Last summer, Barkl, Fitsimones and

recent ASU graduate Chelsea Border founded AirGarage — an app that links homeowners and businesses with people looking for affordable parking rates. “We all know how expensive parking on campus can be, and it is a huge burden felt by anyone who has parked a car on campus,” Border said. So far, they have helped park around 30,000 cars in Tempe and Tucson, Border said. The app was founded from the discovery of a more prolific business opportunity at churches and businesses near campus. “This first iteration of our startup opened our eyes to the vast amount of real estate in our cities that sits underutilized because of high transaction costs,” Barkl said. “We realized that lowering the barrier to using these spaces for a variety of activities could generate new revenue streams and revitalize the area.” Many churches and businesses whose lots remain empty the vast majority of the time are not in the business of renting out their empty space — for good reason. Churches and businesses hardly have the time or manpower to regulate their parking lots, Barkl said, and when they have tried, it rarely worked well. “They were desperate,” Border said. “Students were parking illegally, lot attendants were stealing and quitting unexpectedly and staff members were stressing about their parking lots instead of focusing on their church or business.” It is easier for churches and businesses to block off their parking lots with chains and tire spikes and plaster their walls with “No Parking — Tow Away Zone” signs. The cofounders sought to change that. AirGarage is currently working with churches and businesses to rent out their unused parking spaces to student drivers. It offers them the ability to adjust the number of spaces available during services and events remotely while lowering transactions costs and not taking on the property management burden. “Our software eliminates the need for expensive parking machines and unreliable lot attendants,” Border said. “We handle advertisement, payment and enforcement so churches and businesses can focus on their customers, not on running a parking lot.” By helping these churches and businesses organize their lots and earn money while doing it, AirGarage

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“With rising trends in personal mobility such as electric scooters, shared bikes and self-driving cars, we see a shift in the way people will need to be transported,” Border said. “We want to be the ones leading that.” According to Border, AirGarage is hoping to expand out of Arizona after setting up more lots in Tucson. They are looking towards introducing UCBerkeley to AirGarage soon enough. “We see this model working at universities across the country,” Barkl said. “We have had students reach out to us from around the U.S. telling us they wish AirGarage was available at their schools.” Students can download the app on appstores and see current parking options and take advantage of the $10 promo codes AirGarage is offering to new users in honor of the launch at the UA. Use “DailyWildcat” in the promo section of the app to be used in any of the 200 spaces near the UA. Editors note: The Daily Wildcat is in no way affiliated with AirGarage and were not previously notified about the use of our name in the promotion code.

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OPINIONS | PRICE OF ACCEPTANCE Maya Noto

The American education system is one based upon privilege, so there has always been a loophole for those who can foot the bill. This system has existed with generations of payoffs that ultimately result in more resources for the institution. Benefactors who donate funds with the intention to curry the favor of acceptance reviewers may have bad intentions, but their money provides funding for programs that benefit students. Only in a perfect world, dirty money may be responsible for new couches in the locker room or a new set of helmets for the team. I don’t know, they might have a corrupt money trail of their own. Bribing schools is a necessary evil, and one that exists purely because institutions tolerate that behavior from their alumni and incoming classes. Who wouldn’t? This “bad habit” lines the pockets of the people that make the rules in the first place.

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Is there a price tag on acceptance? Unfortunately, there is. Today, more than ever, it seems to matter more to colleges the amount of money your parents have than the amount of knowledge you possess. In high school, I remember students would talk about how they didn’t have to worry about getting into colleges, because their parents made a “sizable donation” to the school of their choice each year. In reality, that donation was their ticket of acceptance. This isn’t fair to the students who have to rely solely on their test scores, school involvement and community service to get into colleges. The sad thing is, this cycle will never end. Colleges want money, and if someone is willing to give them money in order to have their child attend their school, they will take it. This makes me wonder, how much is a college acceptance really worth? I once viewed it as this special accomplishment not everyone had the pleasure of receiving, but maybe it isn’t worth more than the amount of zeros daddy can write on a check.

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Unfortunately, before this scandal even broke out, it was already known that parents will give schools “donations” to the universities that their child would like to potentially attend. I think that is absolutely absurd, because if everyone had the means to do that to increase their chances to get into a school of their dreams, they would do it in a heartbeat. Morally, it is not okay, but this is a situation happening nationwide. Everyone should have an equal chance of getting into a university. It should depend on test scores and how hard students work in high school, not how much money their family can provide. From personal experience, I know people from high school, including myself, that worked incredibly hard to get to the next chapter in their life, and people like that deserve those spots at elite universities, because they are willing to put in the work that is required from them. That is what should define their admission, not their families’ wealth.

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INVESTIGATIVE | ILLEGAL STREET RACING

A look at Tucson’s illegal street-racing scene BY MATTHEW CRISARA @DailyWildcat

So you like to live your life a quarter mile at a time? You might want to think twice if that quarter mile is on the street. Tucson has had issues with street racing as far back as 1996. One Tucson resident, Jim Hughes, has embraced it. Jim Hughes, track manager at the Tucson Dragway and an ex-professional drag racer with four division titles, multiple race victories and National Hot Rod Association-drag-racing-level experience, created an event called Beyond 1320 to do what the Tucson Dragway was originally designed to do: take street racers off public roads. His goal was to create an event with a safe environment for street racers to compete against one another. According to Tucson Police Department records, the majority of street-racing-related cases in Tucson have been linked only to speeding. Most have been reasonably above the speed limit, but some cases saw drivers exceeding the speed limit by 20 mph or more. In the past five years, there have only been a handful of DUI cases. Only 30 people were guilty of being under the influence of alcohol or another substance, like marijuana. Of those 30 people, 12 were guilty of DUI, with a blood alcohol content level of .08 or more; 8 of DUI impaired to the slightest degree; 6 of possessing, selling, transporting or using marijuana; 3 of possessing, selling or manufacturing drug paraphernalia and one minor guilty of driving after drinking. Dylan Deforge, a sophomore at the University of Arizona majoring in computer science and an ex-street racer, embraced the importance of events like Beyond 1320. “A lot of people have been smartening up and racing on the track,” Deforge said. He mentioned that TPD has also been cracking down on street racing. In 2017, Tucson passed an ordinance to prohibit street racing (Tucson City Code Sec 20-161, Ord. 11452, § 1, 4-19-17). Under this new ordinance, street racers that are caught will be arrested and have their vehicle impounded. To educate the public on street racing and the new ordinance, TPD has produced videos in English and Spanish, describing the dangers and penalties associated with it. Deforge was previously arrested after being caught street racing. He said he

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A SERIES OF SPORTS cars drive down an unknown road in a desert area in January 2017.

spent that particular night in jail and also talked about some of the repercussions of it. Because his car was impounded, he had to pay $275 to get it out of the impound lot, was charged with three misdemeanors and had to complete a driver-retraining course. Deforge said it was a roughly $5,500 mistake in the end. He said street racing normally happens in large groups, with people lining the road to look for cops. When he was caught street racing, he was only with one other person. Along with creating a safe environment, Hughes wanted the event to feel as realistic as possible. To accomplish this, participants of Beyond 1320 are allowed to choose their opponent to race.

The event also takes place at the back end of the dragway without the traditional grandstands overlooking the starting area to make it feel more like a true street racing venue. However, unlike racing on the street, it is much safer. Full fire and medical services are at the end of the track, in case they are needed. Racers and bystanders can stand as close to the action as possible, while still being behind a safety wall. The lights are also turned off at the other end of the track to add to the street-racing feel. Deforge also said one of his really good street racing friends is helping organize the Beyond 1320 events, getting racers off the street and onto the track. “He’s trying to kind of convert it into

being smarter, because a lot of people have been ruining their lives over it,” said Deforge. He also mentioned it’s much more worth it to pay the $20 to $30 for a track day rather than risk your life and the lives of other drivers. Deforge had endless stories about his friends crashing at one of the street-racing hot spots in Tucson, Mount Lemmon. More than one of his friends had rolled their cars on Mount Lemmon after crashing. He also said the Pima County Fairgrounds and Houghton Road were well-known street-racing spots. Events like Beyond 1320 are leading the charge of getting racers off the street by allowing racing to continue in a safe environment and in a responsible manner.