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Ariz. grads retain less loan debt Averages here among lowest compared to rest of nation RACHEL McCLUSKEY Arizona Daily Wildcat

Although student loan debt has become a hot-button issue across the country, especially during the presidential campaigns, half of Arizona college graduates are below the nation’s average in terms of how much debt they retain when they graduate.

Arizona 2011 graduates fall in the forty-fifth percentile, with $19,950 in debt, compared to the nation’s average of $26,600, according to a financial aid report released by the Arizona Board of Regents.

Sarah Harper, director of public affairs for the board, said that although rising tuition costs have been a problem in Arizona, at the same time, financial aid has increased as well.

“Despite the fact that there has been increases in tuition at our public universities, we still remain competitive among our peer institutions, so we’re still a really big value,” Harper said.

According to Harper, Arizona ranks near the bottom in state-funded aid, but the regents require universities

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to set aside 14 percent of tuition revenues to return to students for need-based aid. In recent years, the regents have asked universities to set aside 17 percent to combat rising tuition costs.

In the 2010-2011 school year, Arizona universities provided $391 million in institutional aid and provided grants to 69,069 students, Harper said. Over the last five years, the amount of institutional aid has increased by approximately 74 percent, she added.

John Nametz, the executive director of scholarships and financial aid, added that the UA offers students the opportunity to work on campus to earn money and help combat their debt.

Additionally, individual opportunity counseling is offered daily for UA students to help lower debt. Nametz explained that more than 4,000 individual changes are implemented to student financial aid cases due to individual circumstances each year.

Nametz mentioned that students seeking financial aid should look to the AZ Assurance Program offered at the UA. The Assurance Program’s vision is to empower low-income students to become scholars and contribute to society to improve the educational demographics in the

state of Arizona.

Michael Staten is a professor of family and consumer sciences and the director of the UA’s Take Charge America Institute, which provides programs to increase financial literacy. Staten said that taking on some amount of debt is often necessary, and can be viewed as an investment.

“We like to think of student loan debt as good debt,” Staten said.

“Taking on debt to acquire those skills that allow you to get into that career earnings path is probably a good investment. But for many kids that [loans] was the ticket to get those skills.”

Nametz added that, along with the reduced debt students incur from the lower cost of Arizona compared to other schools, the UA is one of the best higher educational opportunities in the country, and that the university returns the investments its students make in their education.

“This school invests in students in so many ways,” Nametz said. “So much educational opportunity and advantage falls on students due to the position of this university as a Research I and because of the unique convergence of our diversity of opportunity, student makeup, location, geography and climate.”

TINY HEROES Faculty and staff brought their children to the UA Mall for Greek Life’s Greek or Treat, where fraternities and sororities passed out candy

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Half the proceeds from a skate and costume party at Skate Country on Tuesday night went to benefit a local LGBTQ community center.

ASUA Pride Alliance hosted the second Queer Skate Night to raise money for Wingspan, a Southern Arizona LGBTQ community center, and to give students an opportunity to make new friends and mingle.

Admission cost $4 and half the proceeds went to Wingspan. The proceeds raised totaled $293.

A costume contest for the scariest, funniest and most creative Halloween costumes was also held, and Pride Alliance hosted a booth with information on upcoming events in the LGBTQ community.

Queer Skate Night was created last year by Pride Alliance, said the club’s social events chair, Greg Daniels. The idea was to combine Halloween and skating to make a fun event anyone could attend.

“We initially knew that we wanted to do an actual skate event,” Daniels said. “But I think for the purposes of visibility, we

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JERRY GRIMES, president of the Arizona Elks Major Projects, shakes hands with Fayez Ghisan, the Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center’s director, over a commitment to donate $2.5M to the center.

The Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center will receive $2.5 million in financial support from the Arizona Elks Major Projects within the next 10 years. The project has been supporting the Steele Center for the past 20 years and has already raised about $5 million to fund several different initiatives within the center.

One million dollars of the funds will go toward supporting basic research for various disorders, autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis and celiac disease, said Fayez Ghishan, director of the Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center.

The other $1.5 million will help establish the Arizona Elks Endowed Chair Research Center in Phoenix, which will provide financial support benefiting children in the future, Ghishan said. The endowed chair will help recruit research leaders from all over the nation to head the center in Phoenix, he added.

The Elks project has been a supportive partner in all aspects of the center’s missions, said Lori Stratton, the center’s director of development.

“Our mission is to teach and they have supported money for education … and to discover science,” Stratton said. “They have been 360 degrees supportive.”

The funding is not meant to duplicate the labs in Tucson, but

to extend the research that works directly to assist the children in the greater metropolitan Phoenix area, Stratton said.

“By opening a facility in Phoenix, we can impact more children and move science faster and closer to new ways of treating children with illnesses,” she said.

The center in Tucson currently has 27 labs that do basic research, while the center that will open in Phoenix will focus on extending the clinical transitional research, she added.

The Arizona Elks has 47 different lodges for 28,000 members that work year-round to help raise funds to support a project that helps improve health treatments for child illnesses,

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Community Chatter How much influence will each presidential candidates’ student loans plan have over your vote?

“Obama’s student loans policies haven’t affected my vote but his funding for other, I guess, social research did. I think student loans are really messed up right now and education shouldn’t be so expensive.”

— Evelyn Pickering, graduate student studying anthropology

“Not at all because I don’t have student loans. It doesn’t affect me at all.”

— Sean Parker, business management senior

“A lot. At this point I believe that I should only vote for who’s going to help me personally the most … Right now what’s most important to me is paying for college.”

— Christian Pierce, creative writing junior

“None whatsoever. I don’t have a student loan and I don’t need one.”

— Greg May, junior studying entrepreneurship and mechanical engineering

“It doesn’t really influence me that much because I looked at the candidates more like on their other values. That one just didn’t stand out to me that much.”

— Jennifer Kennard, psychology freshman

Design day showcases student research projects SARAH-JAYNE SIMON Arizona Daily Wildcat

The UA’s first Biomedical Engineering Design Day showcased a variety of research projects within the field at the UA Cancer Center yesterday afternoon.

More than 20 student-designed posters covering a wide range of biomedical engineering topics were placed on exhibit to compete for a cash prize. While the judges made their decisions, attendees mingled and discussed their research.

The biomedical engineering undergraduate program is only four years old and enrollment has been growing continually since its creation, said Diana Wilson, the program’s adviser.

“I hope younger students will be inspired and notice that research can really have strong outcomes,” Wilson said. “Lives can be improved through medical research.”

The poster judging was conducted from 1 p.m. until 2 p.m., followed by a keynote presentation from Patrick Norris, a product development

engineer with W.L. Gore and Associates, a Delaware corporation that manufactures fluoropolymer products for a number of different industries.

First place was awarded to biomedical engineering junior Sumana Veeravelli for her presentation on magnetic resonance imaging of the neurological effects of hypertension.

“I think this is a great opportunity for many reasons,” Veeravelli said. “It gives students who are doing research a chance to present and use their communication skills and translate the science research we are doing to the community.”

Second place was awarded to Michelle Heusser and third place to Logan Graves.

“Learning how to communicate as a science major is important and a nice opportunity for the students to get to talk to professionals in the industry and see what life will be like after graduation,” Veeravelli said.

Senior Ariana Lamanda focused her poster presentation on electrokinetic isolation of free circulating DNA from

physiological samples.

“I think it is important because this way we actually get to present our research and get it out there,” Lamanda said. “It gives a little bit of perspective as to what we do.”

Some attendees participated in the event to find out if biomedical engineering could be a suitable major.

“I came here because I’m not sure what I want my major to be,” undeclared freshman Emily Masterson said. “This is a great opportunity … It shows students a final project and what students can aspire to be.”

The graduating senior class this year will have completed training in translational engineering, have a solid understanding of measuring signals on living systems and experienced the workflow in a clinical environment.

“I hope that people take away that this is important research that we do and that even though it is a new field, we are definitely broadening and becoming more and more important to what society needs,” Lamanda said.

“I hope they feel that we have the potential to change the future.”

Noelle haro-gomez/arizona Daily Wildcat BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING STUDENTS presented their research to the community during the UA’s first Biomedical Engineering Design Day.

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wanted to add ‘queer’ into the title to show that it is a queer event. But obviously anybody can come.”

Chance Mora, the club’s co-chair for education, said that last year about 75 to 100 students attended the event, and this year about 50 people showed up.

Students encouraged friends to attend the event and support the LGBTQ community. Stephen Stern, a molecular and cellular biology and psychology sophomore, said he heard about the event when his friend forwarded him an email about it, and decided to bring along Bianca Taylor, a psychology sophomore.

Though the event revolved around skating, attendees didn’t have to know how to roller-skate, and many just spent the evening mingling and eating.

Talented skaters, like creative writing junior Samantha Campas, also came to support the event.

“I’m on the U of A roller derby team and one of the other girls actually suggested to us to come,” Campas said.

“I think this is a great thing to do. It’s fun to be able to show your support for turki allugman/arizona Daily Wildcat something like this even if you’re not in ABOUT 50 PEOPLE TURNED OUT in support of ASUA Pride Alliance’s Queer Skate Night on Tuesday, a skate and costume party that raised the actual group.” $293, half of which will be donated Wingspan, Southern Arizona’s LGBTQ community center.

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improve health treatments for child illnesses, said Jerry Grimes, president of the Arizona Elks Major Projects.

Each lodge is a chapter of the Elks project from a different city, and each holds fundraising events to contribute to the commitment of raising the money for the center, Grimes added.

“We want to see healthy, happy kids in the state of Arizona and we feel one of the best ways to do that is to provide money for research that will find cures for certain diseases for kids,” said Al Skorupski, the Arizona Elks Major Projects’ executive director.

The project has been able to collect $42,440 for the center since May 1, when efforts began, Grimes said.

“It’s tremendous to have their support,” Stratton said. “It’s great to have that many people out there to understand what we do and share the good work we do with people.”

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‘The Future of Journalism in the Digital Age’ Talk James E. Rogers, a television station owner and the namesake of the UA’s College of Law, will speak from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Harvill building in room 101. Rogers will talk about the future of journalism during a time of digital transformation. He is president of a communications company that owns and operates TV stations in 11 media markets in the Western United States.

Town Hall Meeting With President Ann Weaver Hart UA President Ann Weaver Hart will host a campus town hall from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. in the Kiva room in the Student Union Memorial Center, where she will discuss the future of the UA in terms of a variety of topics. Anyone who is unable to attend but would still like to participate can view the discussion through the Arizona Public Media website, where the meeting will stream live.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, a Pakistani hard-line cleric with a $10 million bounty placed on him by the United States because of his alleged links to militancy, says he wants to help Americans on the East Coast broadsided by Hurricane Sandy.

Saeed, who founded the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba in the 1980s and now heads up its social welfare wing, Jamaat ud-Dawa, issued a statement Tuesday saying his charity was prepared to provide doctors, rescue experts, food and medicine to victims of the storm, which has ravaged the East Coast and left millions without power.

“Regardless of what the U.S. government propagates about us, including their announcement of bounties, we look forward to acting on the traits of our prophet Muhammad ... and serving adversity-struck American people,” Saeed said in a statement posted on Jamaat ud-Dawa’s Facebook page.

In April, the U.S. announced a reward of $10 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of Saeed, widely viewed in the West and India as the alleged mastermind behind the 2008

attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai that killed 166 people.

Saeed formed Lashkar-e-Taiba with the help of the Pakistan’s main spy agency, Inter-Services Intelligence, to fight Indian rule in a portion of the Himalayan region of Kashmir. The U.S. and other Western governments are concerned that the militant group has broadened its agenda to include Western targets.

Despite Washington’s announcement of a bounty on Saeed, Pakistani authorities have refused to take him into custody, contending they have no evidence to build a case against him.

Saeed has strongly denied maintaining links with any Pakistani militant group, saying Jamaat udDawa focuses solely on humanitarian work and has no relationship with Lashkar-e-Taiba or any other extremist organization. His offer is likely to be viewed in Washington as a public relations stunt.

“We consider this a humanitarian issue,” Saeed said in the statement.

“Wherever and whenever humanity is at stake and needs urgent help, Islam orders us to help them without discriminating between religion, caste or creed.”

Sandy halts campaign tours for both candidates message” to those suffering is “America is with you” and will be for the long haul.

KETTERING, Ohio — With Sandy He said the emergency response had spreading more storm havoc, the two been outstanding and the word he sent presidential contenders stepped back to federal emergency officials was to act Tuesday from overt politicking as their without hesitation. “No bureaucracy,” tight race assumed an odd limbo just a Obama said. “No red tape.” week before Election Day. “Get resources where they’re needed President Barack Obama remained as fast as possible, as hard as possible, at the White House, overseeing federal and for the duration,” Obama said. emergency efforts and receiving The president received effusive praise welcome praise from New Jersey’s — politically unthinkable, under normal Republican governor, Chris Christie, circumstances — from Christie, who took who has been one of Mitt Romney’s to the morning talk shows to discuss the highest-profile surrogates. Obama devastation his state suffered. announced he would tour battered New The administration has been Jersey with Christie on Wednesday, “outstanding,” Christie said on ABC’s skipping a pair of campaign rallies.

“Good Morning America.” “I want to The GOP nominee helped gather thank the president personally.” donations at an Ohio campaign stop Asked on Fox News — before Obama’s hastily rebranded as a relief effort, visit was announced — about the then flew to Florida, where he planned prospect of a Romney tour, Christie to resume full-time campaigning on replied: “I have no idea, nor am I the least Wednesday. Romney declined to bit concerned or interested. I’ve got a respond when reporters asked about job to do here in New Jersey that’s much past statements questioning the role of bigger than presidential politics and I the federal government in disaster relief. could care less about any of that stuff.”

He struck a decidedly nonpartisan All the while, the candidates and tone in brief remarks to more than 1,000 their allies kept pummeling each other supporters gathered at a high school on the television airwaves. Romney arena outside Dayton. was airing a pair of anti-Obama ads “We have heavy hearts, as you know, making discredited claims about the with all the suffering going on in a major auto bailout and welfare reform. Obama part of our country,” Romney said. “A and his supporters were paying for lot of people hurting this morning. They spots attacking Romney’s private-sector were hurting last night. And the storm record at Bain Capital and replaying a goes on.” clip from the secretly recorded video Meanwhile, Obama paid a visit to where he disparaged the 47 percent of Red Cross headquarters in Washington, Americans he said were overly reliant where he said his “most important on government support.

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coach’s primary concern should be his players’ safety, not a win. But that’s not football culture.

Last Saturday, in a game against USC, quarterback Matt Scott slid in for a first down in his last drive of the game. As he did so, he was hit in the head by USC safety T.J. McDonald and linebacker Dion Bailey. Scott got up quickly, walked around a little and, as Austin Hill was trying to talk to him, threw up.

Then he threw up again. Then he threw up again.

Head coach Rich Rodriguez was forced to take the team’s second timeout of the half. Shouts were heard from the ZonaZoo, fans yelling at Rodriguez to pull Scott out of the game, and as the team headed back onto the field, Scott was still back behind center.

Scott threw a beautiful pass into the end zone, but after that play, he was brought to the bench and had his helmet taken away.

Later, Scott tweeted, “Man all those people thinking I threw up because I got hit when I was really just tired haha.”

Rodriguez saw the exact same symptoms as the fans, announcers and everyone watching the game, and he even said that Scott “might have been a little foggy at the time.”

It’s possible that Scott was just dehydrated, but let’s look at the symptoms: head trauma, check. Repeated vomiting, check.

Confusion, check.

“No one should return to play or vigorous activity while signs or symptoms of a concussion are present,” according to the Mayo Clinic’s website. “Experts recommend that an athlete with a suspected concussion not return to play until he or she has been medically evaluated.”

But Rodriguez isn’t the only coach that does this. It’s the football norm.

In May, more than 100 former NFL players filed a federal lawsuit against the league for failing to properly protect its players from concussions. The suit accused the professional football league of not doing enough to inform players of the dangers of concussions, and said that not enough is being done to take care of them.

Lawsuits have also been filed at the collegiate level, as in the case of former Bowling Green State University player Cody Silk.

He joined the team in 2010, and later sued the university, coach and team trainers after he suffered “multiple concussions” that he said could have been prevented and weren’t properly treated.

A 2007 study of more than 2,500 retired NFL players found that those who had suffered at least three concussions during their careers were three times more at risk for clinical depression than other players.

A 2012 study of 3,500 retired players also linked concussions to neurodegenerative diseases.

Players are four times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s or Lou Gehrig’s diseases compared to non-players.

And yet it’s part of football culture to worry about something as “minor” as a concussion. In Rodriguez’s statement about Scott being a little foggy, he made it sound as if this happens all the time, and it’s no big deal.

Rodriguez’s decision to disregard the safety of his players is indicative of not just his character, but of football culture’s complete disregard for the safety of its players.

— Dan Desrochers is a prejournalism sophomore. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu or on Twitter via @drdesrochers.

website, which includes the development of liedetecting avatars, mini unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) and advanced biometric identification ix thousand and 74. Those are two numbers technology, makes it clear that security-centric that should immediately come to mind thinking dominates. whenever anyone tries to tell you about the That grant only strengthened and expanded importance of securing the U.S.-Mexico border. the work already happening at the UA’s Science Six thousand is a recent estimate of the number and Technology Park, which is now a major of migrants who have died crossing into the research and development hub where border United States since the mid-1990s when border enforcement tech companies enjoy cheap access enforcement picked up dramatically. Since 2000, to infrastructure and streamlined connections to nearly 2,500 of them have died near here, in the the government agencies thinking about adopting Arizona-Sonora borderlands. their technology.

Seventy-four is the percentage by which the With the border tech market pegged to street price of a gram of pure cocaine in the United grow to $25 billion by 2020 and the wars in States has fallen in the last 30 years, despite the Afghanistan and Iraq more or less winding down, billions of dollars that have been spent on the southern Arizona is fast becoming a hotspot border and elsewhere to stop the trafficking and for defense contractors looking to guarantee cultivation of narcotics, which is to say nothing of future profitability. Mike Crosby, the CEO of Aria the shocking human costs of our country’s manic International, a military contractor with extensive prohibitionism. experience in the Middle East that recently moved When it comes to slowing undocumented its headquarters to the Tech Park here in Tucson, migration and the flow of drugs northward, U.S. put it bluntly: “We want to be right here in the policy on the border has been a tragic failure. heart of it. As they say, ‘Follow the money.’”

However, when it comes to endangering the lives Some at our university have shown great of migrants and lining the pockets of contractors, it enthusiasm for getting in on this increasingly has been a resounding success. lucrative game. But many of my peers and I do not As these inexcusable policies grow at taxpayer want our university staking its financial future on expense, the UA has positioned itself to both the continuation of policies that are irretrievably perpetuate and benefit from them. inhumane and profoundly wasteful. Instead, we In 2008, the UA received a six-year, $17 million want our university to think beyond borders and Department of Homeland Security grant to help prioritize helping to make the world a better place create the National Center for Border Security for everyone, not just a more profitable place for a and Immigration, or BORDERS. The program’s select few. mission statement says that it is “dedicated to the As one of many students on campus concerned development of innovative technologies, proficient by the woeful state of migrant human rights and processes, and effective policies that will help the boondoggle that is the War on Drugs, I think protect our Nation’s borders, foster international we need to be asking these questions more: trade, and enhance long-term understanding of How do we prevent 6,000 migrant deaths from immigration determinants and dynamics.” becoming 7,000? How do we change drug policies The list of currently funded projects listed on its MURPHY WOODHOUSE GUEST COLUMNIST

so that we stop wasting billions of dollars on gadgets and border infrastructure that drug cartels quickly outsmart? Probably not with lie-detecting avatars, unmanned drones and biometric stations.

As current DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said in 2005, in one of those priceless moments of elite candor, “Show me a 50-foot wall and I’ll show you a 51-foot ladder at the border. That’s the way the border works.”

To satisfactorily answer these questions, we need to move beyond the security-centric thinking that has dominated border discourse for decades, and the academy has an important role to play in that process.

At best, such thinking pushes concern for the human rights of migrants to the background and casts migrants as national security threats, and at worst results in their baseless demonization. The fact that the proportion of migrants dying in the desert has been increasing while the total number of migrants crossing into the United States has been decreasing is grim evidence of this.

To be sure, there is a lot of outstanding social science research happening here at the UA that contests and points beyond the security framework, some of which I’ve had the tremendous pleasure to be a part of. But I can’t imagine there’s much DHS money supporting such work.

I know that these are trying times for public universities and I’m beginning to appreciate the marathon that is securing grant money for research. However, all money comes with strings and we need to think about where those strings lead and whether we want to be a part of that.

— Murphy Woodhouse is a graduate student pursuing a master’s degree in Latin American Studies. He can be reached at murphywoodhouse@email.arizona.edu.

basketball does with a penalty system for not showing up. I think that this will stop people from just deciding to not go to the game. Instead if they sign up they know they have to go. It also creates a demand for seats if students think they might not be able to just show up and sit anywhere.

Second is get the student section more involved. Start having competitions among the sections where actual students can win prizes or get free stuff. As a student I somehow this year have felt a little bit ignored up there in the stands when I’m shouting my head off at the other team. Get the students involved, In response to “No sense in shrinking ZonaZoo” (by James Kelley, and reserve seats.

Oct. 30): Decreasing the size of the Zoo isn’t going to solve anything.

— JFK Students who leave early and abandon the team are cowards and do not deserve to call themselves real fans. You want to know how you fix the Zoo situaI feel that if we can continue to be a consistent relevant team in football, our tion? Downsize the Zoo. Limit admission to people who deserve it. Limit it to fan culture will change. We cannot compare ourselves to schools with rich histhe real fans who want to stay the whole game because unlike the people who tories in football success. Given time and success, we can mold and create a leave early, they actually support the team. truly dedicated fan base.

As for the cowards/fake fans who show up for half the game and leave early, — Matthew Madden they can buy tickets like any other fan. They don’t deserve the privilege of being part of the Zoo. It should be something that’s earned, not something hand- In response to “Struggle continues for UAccess with recent system ed out to drunk idiots who make our university look bad. crash” (by David Weissman, Oct. 29): I expect this comment will attract plenty of criticism and negative votes, and I say bring it on. I was a proud Zoo member. I was a top 20 Zoo points earner UAccess has always sucked in every way possible. It doesn’t even act like my last two years, and I was the top points earner my senior year. I have a bas- a normal webpage in this day and age, which is typical of crappy PeopleSoft ketball autographed by the entire 2011 Elite Eight team to show for it. I went to software. On top of that, UofA had a great system called Student Link that football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, softball, baseball, gymnastics looked great, worked great, and was intuitive. Plus, it was developed inand volleyball. I know what it means to be a real fan and you people who leave house, which would have saved students from paying millions of dollars to early are not real fans.

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You should be ashamed of yourselves. The ZonaZoo should be ashamed of — Jim themselves for refusing to address this problem. The Daily Wildcat staff should be ashamed of themselves for parroting the ZonaZoo’s head-buried-in-theStudent Link used to crash — really, completely crash until they could resand approach. build it — every single semester. This semester UAccess had a slowdown, not —Kevin Wos even an actual crash, for 15 minutes. In general it’s faster, more stable, and

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The backpack thief

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to a theft from a car in a parking lot on the southeast corner of Enke Drive and Campbell Avenue at 4:40 p.m. on Oct. 26.

When the officer arrived, he spoke with a UA employee who said that his Toyota Tundra had been broken into and vandalized. The officer saw that the rear passenger side window had been shattered.

The employee told the officer that a polka dot backpack belonging to his daughter and a dark blue Nike jacket had been stolen. The man said the bag contained several miscellaneous school supplies, valued at roughly $50, and the jacket was valued at $100. Both had been in the back seat when he left the car in the lot between 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

He discovered the broken window when he returned. The man said he then searched the surrounding area for any clues before calling the police.

The officer took photos of the scene and the car, and the employee said he wanted to take part in the judicial process if a suspect was located.

Night terrors

A UAPD officer responded to a woman who said she felt threatened at Ring Road and Warren Avenue at 5:31 a.m. on Oct. 26.

The woman, who was not affiliated with the UA, said she was afraid to walk home and wanted to be escorted back to her residence to be sure she was safe. While en route to meet her, the officer learned the woman had an arrest warrant for a prescription drug violation from the Tucson Police Department.

When the officer arrived, the woman identified herself, and said she was afraid to go home because she lives in a bad neighborhood. The officer asked if anyone she knew was available to pick her up and drive her home, but she replied no. Throughout the conversation, the woman was breathing quickly and heavily, but said she didn’t need medical assistance, only a ride home.

The woman’s warrant was confirmed through dispatch and she was placed under arrest. The officer searched the woman, but didn’t find any identification or property on her.

The officer then booked the woman and transported her to Pima County Jail.

Party at the Medical Center

A UAPD officer responded to a report of a group of drunken men stumbling around the ER ambulance bay at the University of Arizona Medical Center — University Campus at 2:11 a.m. on Oct. 26.

UAMC security guards were talking with two men, whom they believed to be intoxicated, when the officer arrived.

The guards then returned to patrolling the area. Both men, who were UA students, identified themselves with California driver’s licenses. They were slurring their speech and had bloodshot, watery eyes.

The men informed the officer they had recently returned from an Alpha Phi date dash. They said that before the date dash, they been drinking vodka at Coronado Residence Hall.

Though they were cooperative, neither of the students had any idea where they were, or in what direction they were headed. The officer took the students back to their dorms, and referred them to the Dean of Students for alcohol-related offenses.

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First UA lineup to debut in opener KYLE JOHNSON Arizona Daily Wildcat

No. 12 Arizona’s home exhibition game against Division-II Humboldt State tonight at 6:30 p.m. marks the official start of the Wildcats’ season.

More importantly, though, it provides the first chance for players to establish their roles on the team.

“One of [the] things that I’m really curious to see from an attitude and team chemistry perspective [is] role definition,” head coach Sean Miller said. “How players accept the role that they’ve earned — not been given — but role that they’ve earned through their performance that started a long time ago.”

The position of team leader has already been earned by senior Solomon Hill, both through his Pac12 All-Conference season last year and his weekly performances in practice.

But every other position is still relatively in flux. Five players are battling for the two starting guard roles while the three freshmen big men and sophomore Angelo Chol will share time at power forward and center.

Considering only Hill has a solidified starting spot on the 10 player-deep roster, a few players may see a reduction of game time or even a spot far down on the bench.

“It’s that depth every day that puts players in certain positions,” Miller said. “Five guys start and there’s

FILE PHOTO/arizona Daily Wildcat ARIZONA OPENS ITS exhibition season tonight against Humboldt State. In last year’s exhibition opener, the Wildcats fell to Seattle Pacific.

a reason. Eight guys play more minutes than maybe two others, maybe a certain player doesn’t play — there’s a reason.”

The exhibition game will be the first time the entire team has sat on the same bench since the Wildcats’ trip to the Bahamas in mid-August.

But now that players are fighting for

minutes rather than on the court in practice, a few players will need to accept a limited role.

“I think it’s the first time we have the opportunity to see our team chemistry and the roles right there in front of us,” Miller said. “[We’ll] see how players handle that.”

One player whose minutes

already look to be limited is four-star freshman guard Gabe York.

During media day, Miller said York, ESPN’s 65th overall prospect for the 2012 class, would have to be an everyday guy in practice. York has to role up his sleeves, work hard and eventually earn a contributing role, Miller added.

York said at media day that he’s fine with the role and that level of competition was something that enticed him to come to Tucson. But he won’t be the only player working to find minutes this season.

The crowded frontcourt pits freshman center Kaleb Tarczewski, ESPN’s 4th overall recruit, against two other five-star freshmen — forwards Grant Jerrett and Brandon Ashley— as well as Chol.

“Every day in practice I have three great players to go against,” Tarczewski said during media day.

“It’s competitive every day in practice.

We’re all battling for playing time.

We’re all battling for positions. It makes us the best basketball players we can be.”

The one player who has stood out in the frontcourt so far is Jerrett.

Since arriving in July, Jerrett has been one of the most impressive players in practice, Miller said, and the power forward/center will start against the Lumberjacks.

But the lineup that takes the court tonight isn’t guaranteed to be the same once the season starts.

“On a given night or a given week, I can see where the lineup can change,” Miller said, “and I don’t mean that from a negative. I mean that only from a positive.

“That’s the great part of exhibition games — you learn more about your team when you play somebody else.”

Humboldt State more than an exhibition game the freshmen quartet will make as big of an impact as we all expect them to, or if Lyons will overcome the questions of maturity that led to his transfer from Xavier.

Zack Rosenblatt In that game against Seattle Arizona Daily Wildcat Pacific, Turner made his debut with seven points and four assists, and the Wildcats were supremely while Johnson fouled out with rizona was doomed from undersized, with 6-foot-7 Jesse the start. four points and two rebounds in Perry starting at center and Coming off an just 14 minutes of action.

6-foot-6 Solomon Hill at power unprecedented Elite Eight run, Hill had a solid game, scoring forward. The team was not ready on the heels of Derrick Williams’ 16 points, but Fogg did not. historic season, expectations were to carry the weight of the previous Considered to be the team leader, year’s success. a bit bloated. in large part because of his work A lot has changed since then.

“It was a dark day of reality of ethic leading up to the season, ‘This is where our basketball team Turner, Johnson and Kyryl Fogg finished with just three Natyazhko are gone. Jesse Perry, is,’” head coach Sean Miller said. points on 1-of-5 shooting.

Kyle Fogg and Brendon Lavender The Wildcats went on to miss “Kyle Fogg invested his heart have graduated. the NCAA tournament for the and soul for a great offseason for Size is no longer an issue. The second time in three seasons, us in his final year,” Miller said.

Wildcats added three freshmen after making 25 straight before “He was determined to be the in Brandon Ashley, Grant Jerrett that, and lost to Bucknell in best player he’s been at Arizona. and Kaleb Tarczewski, who range the first round of the National Hill has inherited the role of from 6-foot-8 to 7-feet tall. There senior leader, and he’s taken it Invitation Tournament. is also an experienced, proven A bloated No. 16 preseason in stride. If Arizona is going to player in the point guard position avoid an upset to the almighty ranking, coupled with the in Mark Lyons. predetermination that Josiah Humboldt State, he will have to With freshmen, it’s a lot harder be the one that steps up.

Turner was the next great to predict personality than member of Point Guard U (he “When I’m watching Solomon wasn’t), gave this team false hope. skill set. Miller has raved about practice now, he’s focused, he’s The season-opening exhibition the maturity of Ashley, Jerrett, better, he’s ready and he’s hungry Tarczewski and guard Gabe York, to leave a winner,” Miller said.

69-68 loss to Seattle Pacific and Hill has been impressed as deflated this team and the Hill can’t afford to score only well.

Arizona fan base. three points, and Arizona can’t “There’s no egos this year,” But expectations are even afford to lose to Humboldt. higher this year, and the Wildcats Hill said at media day. “We don’t It’s only the preseason opener. have any problems. Nobody’s are ranked No. 12 in the AP It doesn’t count toward the been late. That’s a good feeling preseason poll. season record. But it matters just when you have a good team.

“We all look at preseason, and the same.

There’s nobody that’s not willing it’s just that,” Miller said. “Our to learn.” record is 0-0.”

— Zack Rosenblatt is the sports Learning from past mistakes The writing was on the wall editor. He can be reached at will be the underlying theme of last season, however. Turner and sports@wildcat.arizona.edu or via the 2012 season. Nobody knows if Twitter @ZackBlatt Sidiki Johnson were immature

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file photo/arizona Daily Wildcat FORMER ARIZONA SWIMMER Cory Chitwood is now a coach for the LSU Tigers.

Coaching in the SEC has always been one of Chitwood’s “fantasies.”

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Less than a year after graduating from Arizona, former Wildcat swimmer Cory Chitwood was named Louisiana State University’s newest assistant coach this season, at the young age of 23. He described it as a dream come true.

“It’s really exciting,” Chitwood said. “This is my life dream. I definitely can’t wait to get out there.

I want this to be my career, and I’m looking forward to being a swim coach now and in the future.”

As a Wildcat, Chitwood enjoyed great success in the pool, earning three individual national championships in the 200 backstroke between 2010 and 2012, and acting as Arizona’s team captain from the start of the 2010 season until his graduation.

He was named Arizona’s Male Senior Athlete of the Year at the conclusion of the 2011-12 season.

“Corey is a good guy,” head coach Eric Hansen said. “He always worked hard as a collegiate swimmer, and his success showed that. I think he is going to learn a lot in his first year coaching. He is going to do a great job in college swimming and I wish him only success.”

During his collegiate career, Chitwood was honored as an AllAmerican 14 times and was placed on the Pac-10/12’s All-Academic team every year he competed.

“I had a great time swimming with Cory,” junior Giles Smith said. “He was an amazing captain,

awesome leader and great friend. I tried to follow his example a lot and he was definitely a person I looked up to a lot. He really was the perfect example of an Arizona Wildcat swimmer.”

Growing up in Union, Ky., Chitwood avidly followed Southeastern Conference sports as a child.

“I’m always a Wildcat at heart,” Chitwood said. “I was lucky enough to attend a great university and have many amazing memories there. It helped me acquire this job opportunity and I can’t thank Arizona enough. However, I was raised in Kentucky and grew up with SEC. The conference is part of my childhood and it’s what I’m used to.

Being a part of the SEC has always been one of my fantasies.”

Brandy Collins, current assistant coach at the UA, worked at LSU as assistant coach for the past two seasons before returning to Arizona this year. At LSU, she worked hard to help rejuvenate the swimming programs in the SEC and NCAA. Since his graduation last year, Chitwood has been working for his childhood swim club, the Northern Kentucky Clippers. At LSU, Chitwood joins assistants Jeanna Fuccillo and Clemson’s former head coach, Christopher Ip, where they will try to raise LSU’s swimming program to the next level.

“It’s an amazing conference,” Chitwood said. “The athletic department is really top notch there. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Football notes: Still work to be done for UA football KYLE JOHNSON Arizona Daily Wildcat

Upsetting the No. 10 team is the nation is usually enough to earen some praise from the head coach, but Arizona’s Rich Rodriguez has already placed the Wildcats’ signature 39-36 win over USC firmly in the rearview mirror.

“Watching the film Sunday, I know USC, I guess, is not real happy with how they played,” Rodriguez said.

“But I’m not really happy with how we played at times, either. That wasn’t one of our best games.”

Since coming to Arizona, Rodriguez has instituted the 24-hour rule, which essentially means that players are allowed one day to enjoy a win before they get back to practice Sunday.

In addition to forcing the team to move forward quickly, receiver Dan Buckner said Rodriguez’ balance between praise and criticism helps keep the team both humble and focused.

“I think that’s what the great head coaches do,” Buckner said. “They pat you on the back, but they don’t just continue patting you on the back.

They give you your little love and then you get back to it — short memory.”

Even though the huge win Saturday propelled the Wildcats back into the rankings, Rodriguez made it clear there was no time for gloating with a colorful metaphor: “I’ve said it before, I got to be careful patting them on the rear too much,” Rodriguez said after the game Saturday, “cause I don’t want to make a mess of my hand.”

Several players had jaw-dropping

performances against the Trojans, including quarterback Matt Scott’s 469 total yards and receiver Austin Hill’s 259 yards receiving.

But the unforgettable game didn’t stop Hill from saying that everyone on the team could have done better.

“A lot of silly mistakes,” Hill said. “I know we had a lot of penalty yards, we killed ourselves on a couple drives, dropped a couple balls as a receiving core. I think we kind of went away from our fundamentals a little bit, and we didn’t really play that good of a game-watching film. But, you know, we played a good enough game to win.”

The game Saturday was by no means clean. No. 24 Arizona had a season-high 14 penalties for 129 yards

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Former Wildcat hockey star Jonathan Watanabe has returned to the program as an assistant coach.

Watanabe, who played for Arizona in the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons, rejoined the program after an unsuccessful tryout for the Evansville IceMen of the East Coast Hockey League, the AA affiliate of the St. Louis Blues.

“It’s all about giving back,” Watanabe said.

“The game’s given me so much.”

Watanabe began coaching last week at practice and then scouted No. 20 Eastern Michigan in the stands during the games for the Wildcats with the team statistician.

“He’s doing a good job for us,” head coach Sean Hogan said. “He’s still in school, he wants to be involved with the program, the guys really respect him.

“He has a brief pro experience, which is something that he can help talk to the guys about, kind of what it will take to compete at that level.”

The shift has been an adjustment for Watanabe, but his transition should help the team greatly.

“It’s definitely different being on the bench rather than on the ice,” Watanabe added. “But I feel like I can help the boys out and hopefully through my experiences and hopefully some of them can get farther than I did.”

Hockey homecoming weekend

Hosting No. 2 ASU isn’t the only event this weekend for No. 17 Arizona.

It will be Arizona Hockey Alumni Weekend.

There will be a golf outing Friday at 10 a.m., a white out Saturday night and an alumni game Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m.

“It’s going to be an exciting weekend for us,

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in the game, slightly more than the Trojans, who lead the nation in total penalties with 82 for 677 yards. The Wildcats’ upcoming game at UCLA could be equally sloppy, though, as the Bruins are fifth in the nation in penalties with 8.38 per game.

UCLA’s big boy under center

The Wildcats have struggled at times with bringing down some of the Pac-12’s big tight ends. In the past, Rodriguez has compared the Wildcat defense to fire ants trying to take down an elephant – the elephant being Stanford’s Levine Toilolo – but this weekend they’re facing a whole different beast.

UCLA’s quarterback Brett Hundley is listed on the Bruins’ official website at 6-foot-3, 223 pounds, but the freshman play-caller plays the position with much more physicality and athleticism.

bringing guys back that were involved with the program,” Hogan said. “We have alumni that are excited to come back, too.”

A ticket for Saturday’s ASU game is also good for the alumni game.

Hogan said he’s expecting 60 to 70 alumni for the game, but it could be more.

“We’re hoping for a hundred, because some guys just randomly show up, you know?” Hogan said.

The event will mix former Icecat players with former Wildcats from last season, Hogan’s first, when the team was rebranded.

“It’ll be really exciting to see these guys, and they are excited about the change in the program and the direction of the program,” Hogan said.

It will be a shortened game, with 15-minute stop time periods and no Zamboni cuts.

“It’s kind of a shortened version of a hockey game, so nobody dies,” Hogan said.

Polls kind to UA

Arizona is No. 15 and No. 11 in the first computer polls released by the ACHA, owing to their strong strength of schedule.

The first poll, where Arizona is 15, takes the margin of victory into account, up to seven goals. The second one does not.

In the human poll, Arizona is No. 17, its highest ranking since December 2006. Playoff spots are not decided by the computers.

Powerless power plays

After going 2-for-15 on power plays last weekend against Eastern Michigan, the Wildcats are tying to fix the problem.

Hogan promised more exciting hockey this weekend and said Monday’s practice was better than the “lethargic” Saturday and Sunday first home series.

“We’re hoping to play much better than we did this last weekend, a more exciting brand of hockey,” Hogan said. “We talked about it, that’s kind of the message [Monday].”

“I remember him coming out of high school,” Rodriguez said. “Shoot, that’s what you want them to look like. He looks like those tight ends we’re playing against all the time — big, strong, physical athletes.”

Rodriguez said that he could run the same sort of offense with a bruiser like Hundley, but a taller quarterback has the added advantage of having better vision on the field. Rodriguez has never had that luxury, though, as both of his former star quarterbacks, Pat White and Denard Robinson were listed at 6-feet even.

“I don’t know if I’ve had any that big,” Rodriguez said. “It seems like I’ve always got these shorter guys. Matt [Scott] will dispute that he’s short.”

Scott is listed as 6-foot-3 on the official Arizona website, but that number might be a little generous for the senior quarterback.

When asked if Scott was six feet tall by Ryan Finley of the Arizona Daily Star, Rodriguez joked, “We’re gonna say 6-foot-2 for Matt. For the pro scouts we’ll say 6-foot-3.”

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Think about your average day. It starts out normally enough, pretty much the same way all your days start. Wake up, get yourself together and head off to class. After a thoroughly enlightening hour, your friend asks you if you want to stop by the BookStores with him while he picks up a few things he needs before you guys go to lunch. You shrug, thinking why not, it will only take a few minutes and then you can get some food.

You and your buddy get to the BookStores and you start looking around, noting a few items that you’d like to buy.

You pick up a pair of sunglasses, try them on and decide they look pretty good on you and you want to get them. You take a look at the price, $16, and think that’s not too bad.

Then, you think again. In your head you start adding up all the money you’ve been spending lately, and remember that rent is due soon. Your thoughts then start going in a very, very bad direction.

Things like “There are so many people in the store, I doubt anyone would notice if these sunglasses made their way into my pocket; even if I do get caught nothing is going to happen to me, they wouldn’t do anything about such a small amount of money; there’s no way they would even call the cops. It’s not an academic issue so I can’t get in trouble with the university.”

Unfortunately for you—you’re very wrong.

Students lead extremely busy lives, balancing classes, homework, jobs and social lives. They’re often running on not enough sleep and too much caffeine, which is never a good combination

for solid decision-making. So what’s the motivation behind the impulse to shoplift?

Ray Cashen from University of Arizona BookStores explains “Most shop lifters are unable to articulate their motivations for shoplifting, indicating that shoplifting is often a spur of the moment decision.

The majority of shoplifters don’t enter the BookStores with the intent to shoplift, and then when they do and are caught they aren’t aware of how negatively shoplifting can impact their lives.

“We hear a variety of different reasons for shoplifting, anywhere from not having enough money, forgetting to pay for an item, and—

my personal favorite—thinking that they would get away with it.”

Obviously, there is no formula for what causes people to shoplift, but knowing how severe the consequences

of shoplifting are might make potential shoplifters think twice before slipping something into their pockets or backpacks. Cashen detailed some of the consequences of shoplifting, both legal and academic.

“We prosecute shoplifting to the fullest extent of the law here, regardless of the value of the item that was shoplifted.

Some people just assume that if they’re only trying to get away with a pack of note cards that they’ll simply

read in the Police Beat all the time that people’s names are getting sent to the Dean’s office for getting a MIP, but come on, it’s just a pack of notecards.”

Pre-physiology sophomore Matt Weiss was also surprised to learn about academic implications. “Yeah, I never would have guessed that. Legal and academic problems? That’s not going to help you get where you want to go.”

be told to give them back, and they’re wrong about that. Shoplifters also get banned from all BookStores locations and face trespassing charges if they violate the ban.”

Beyond the legal implications, there are academic consequences to deal with—shoplifting is a violation of the University of Arizona’s code of conduct and can result in University sanctions.

“UAPD gets called in for all shoplifting incidents,” says Cashen, “and if the suspect is a student their name gets reported to the Dean of Students.”

So, is shoplifting really worth the risk? Communications junior Eva Perez had no idea that there were academic consequences of shoplifting. “I never would have guessed that legal issues with shoplifting would somehow impact my academic standing. I mean, you

Wouldn’t you rather pay three dollars for the notecards or highlighters you need than deal with legal and academic problems that could prevent you from reaching your goals in life?

Consider how much money is being invested in your education. Add up tuition cost, fees, books, and living expenses, and then think about how much those notecards are. Do you really want to be labeled as a thief, compromise your investment in your education, even lose out on future job opportunities over a few dollars?

According to Cashen, “We’ve seen a really wide range of items that people try and shoplift, including magazines, socks, pens, and hats. You kind of wonder why people are willing to risk so much for these things.”

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