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Hart presents ASUA with university’s strategic plan RACHEL McCLUSKEY Arizona Daily Wildcat

President Ann Weaver Hart discussed her strategic plan, student regent finalists were announced and changes were made to ASUA bylaws at the senate’s weekly meeting on Wednesday night.

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PRESIDENT ANN WEAVER HART gave a presentation at the ASUA Senate’s weekly meeting, where she explained her strategic plan.

Hart presented her strategic plan, which includes implementing new policies and ideas for funding, integration within classes and rewarding faculty that recognize integration and application in the curriculum of their classes.

Hart explained that the university cannot expect to see state funds

or low tuition in the future and that the UA needs to partner with private businesses or other not-for-profits to reach its goals and gain funds. For example, she said that an affiliation agreement with a current medical provider and our campus medical center might mean “using the kinds of models that we’re developing actively in medicine, but pushing them into poetry and humanities and the social sciences, where we share costs to get more done for the same amount of revenue.”

She added that administrators really have to think about how the UA would advance its goals and the goals of those enterprises simultaneously.

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Small-scale green efforts contribute to sustainability DAVID WEISSMAN Arizona Daily Wildcat

While the UA has a number of large-scale sustainability projects in the works, it also employs a number of smaller, day-to-day efforts to keep the campus green.

A major facet of sustainability that the UA focuses on is harnessing the torrential rains of the monsoon season, which often cause heavy flooding.

A number of buildings on campus have large water storage tanks that hold water collected from rooftop gutters. Two cisterns at the UA Visitor Center hold 2,000 gallons each ; a tank at the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture holds 20,000 gallons.

Under the area formerly known as Bear Down Field, where the North End Zone Expansion is currently taking place, rainwater storage tanks have been installed with a total capacity of millions of gallons of water.

This water is then recycled around campus. At the UA Visitor Center, some is used to water a lemon tree growing in the front of the building. At the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, the tank slowly feeds water to a pond that is part of a simulated desert wetland habitat.

Features that would usually not merit a second glance also help

with sustainability. Landscaping composed of a large number of rocks, such as in front of the Harvill building, diverts rainwater to keep it from reaching the street, which helps reduce flooding.

Wendi Rountree, the senior program coordinator at the UA Visitor Center, emphasized how the UA has valued sustainability for many years.

Old Main, which was built years before air conditioning or evaporative cooling, was built slightly sunk into the ground, and the large porches around the building keep heat off the windows. The trees and other vegetation surrounding Old Main, most of them native, shade the structure. Besides Old Main, there are many buildings on campus that have classrooms underground.

“The UA focuses on repurposing buildings, instead of rebuilding them,” she said.

For example, the Arizona State Museum was originally the library, before it was converted to its current use.

Rountree also stressed the importance of pollution reduction on campus, which can be accomplished by using mass transit and other alternatives to driving such as ridesharing, the pedestrian underpasses, bikesharing and CatTran.

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KEITH HUMPHREY, dean of students and vice president of Student Affairs, has accepted a position as the vice president of Student Affairs at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Humphrey has been at the UA for nearly 15 years and has worked in 17 different offices.

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Keith Humphrey’s move to California is coming far later than planned.

When he arrived in 1998, the dean of students and assistant vice president of Student Affairs originally intended to spend a few years at the UA, working in Residence Life while earning a master’s degree. On Tuesday, nearly 15 years after his arrival, Humphrey announced his resignation for a position at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo as the

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Despite a lagging economy and rising tuition, the UA is experiencing a personal best in four-year graduation rates.

Of the 6,709 students who enrolled at the UA in fall 2008, a record 39.9 percent graduated within four years, compared to the 36.3 percent of students who enrolled in fall 2006.

Nationally, for the first time ever, one-third of 25 to 29-year-olds have achieved at least a bachelor’s degree, according to a study by the Pew Research Center.

“One of the fastest ways to save on college is to move through it as quickly as possible,” said Melissa Vito, vice president of Student Affairs, speaking on students’ possible motives for wanting to graduate on time.

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Humphrey started his tenure as a hall director of Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall, and has since worked in 17 different offices on campus. Humphrey said the people and Tucson’s atmosphere are what kept him around for more than a decade longer than planned.

“I found that this was a very special place with really special people,” he said, “and I love my experience.”

Throughout his time on campus, Humphrey said his main focus has been the students, and to many of

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THE UA’S GRADUATION RATES are seeing record increases, with 39.9 percent of students who enrolled in 2008 attending all four years and graduating from the university.

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Medical providers will offer brief, free skin screenings for students, faculty and staff from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Campus Health Service.

Evren Savci, from Northwestern University’s Department of Sociology and Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, will talk from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in room 490 of the Marshall building.

The school teamed up with the Institute for LGBT Studies to present this installment of the 2012 Fall Colloquium Series.

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his colleagues, it shows. For Tina Douglas, the office’s executive assistant, what she’ll remember most about Humphrey is “his interaction with students.”

“We have had some students come in that have been upset or had some issues going on, and he’s had absolutely no trouble taking time out of whatever’s going on in his schedule to meet with them,” Douglas said.

Chrissy Lieberman, an associate dean of students, said she’ll remember Humphrey’s human side, adding that he realizes his coworkers have lives outside of their jobs.

Lieberman said that the two of them

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Vito said a “constellation of a lot of efforts” outside the classroom help make the increased student success rate within it possible.

Jeff Orgera, assistant vice president of student affairs, oversees student resources such as the Think Tank and the SALT Center, and said he believes retaining students after their first year obviously contributes to ensuring graduation.

“It’s a pretty big context,” he said. “I mean, when you think about graduation and you think about retention, they work handin-hand.”

Due to the economy, students are entering the university more focused on their goals than ever, Ortega said, and many enroll with a specific future job already in mind. Bringing these plans to fruition requires effort even before freshmen orientation.

“If you bring that right class, then it’s hopefully going to bring up

WASHINGTON — “Joy to All” is the theme of the Obamas’ fourth Christmas in the White House, which threw open its festive, firdraped doors Wednesday to the first guests of the season, U.S. troops and their children.

Fifty-four live Christmas trees lend color and sparkle to the Executive Mansion. The largest of the trees is an 18-foot, 6-inch Fraser fir from North Carolina that is festooned with ornaments crafted by children from U.S. military bases around the world.

Amid the greenery and garlands, another highlight: a gingerbread house, weighing almost 300 pounds, featuring lit chandeliers and a

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Even though Tucson is a desert city, the UA is remarkably green, literally. There are 7,000 trees on campus, including varieties from around the world. In addition, the UA has the largest green space in the state of Arizona.

These trees are more than just decoration, as they help reduce the need for air conditioning, Rountree said.

Rountree added that ideally, the Sun Link Tucson Modern Streetcar will reduce the number of cars that are driven to campus, ultimately reducing the community’s carbon footprint even more.

have kids that are about the same age.

“We oftentimes have very serious conversations [over the phone] while giving baths to small children,” she said. “It’s just great having a boss who ‘gets it.’”

While Humphrey described the job offer at Cal Poly following a nationwide search as “quite an honor,” some colleagues say that the university is the one that scored a great deal and spoke of Humphrey’s extensive experience in a number of offices.

“I think they got very lucky in getting him,” said Kathy Adams Riester, an associate dean of students and director of the UA Parents and Family Association. “I think they’re going to get someone who’s ready to come in and help take a look at what’s

going on there and really address issues that they have and be creative in finding solutions.”

According to the email announcement, Humphrey expects his last day of work to be Jan. 8. His work at Cal Poly will start less than a month later, on Feb. 4. Humphrey said he hopes to have an opportunity to build a relationship with the person who is set to take his position, and advises them to keep a clear vision.

“I think the person who comes into this role needs to be very student-focused,” he said, “not be somebody who works from behind their desk.”

Humphrey may be moving on, but one thing will always stay the same.

“I will still wear red on game days,” he said. “I will be forever a Wildcat.”

retention, which has gone up this year,” said Rafael Meza, director of undergraduate recruitment. “And then hopefully translate to what you’ve seen with that growing graduation rate as well.”

Meza described the graduation process as a funnel, with him stationed near the beginning of the pipeline endorsing and contacting prospective students.

While White, Hispanic, Black, AsianAmerican and Native American students are enjoying increased four-year graduation rates, certain groups have faced more complex difficulties navigating this pipeline.

Historically, Native Americans’ four-year graduation rates have lagged behind other ethnicities’, but within the last 17 years the group’s four-year graduation rate has seen an increase of 20 percentage points, according to the UA office of Institutional and Research Support.

“I think that American Indians in general are disproportionally disenfranchised, for lack of a better word,” said Kyle Ethelbah, program director for Native

American Student Affairs. “There’s a number of things that still play into the social structures of a lot of American Indian communities.

There’s still higher-than-average rates of substance abuse, the health conditions aren’t that well, as well as the socioeconomic conditions.”

Ethelbah, who now oversees the program he once participated in as a UA student, said it’s key to connect Native Americans with the larger picture.

“We don’t want to move them into their own silos, we actually want to help them get in the main stream of the campus environment,” Ethelbah said. “And by increasing that, they’ll increase graduation rates.”

Ethelbah added that lowered economic resources have led Native American Student Affairs to look outside of traditional means to help raise graduation rates and increase academic achievement.

“Make this campus the student’s campus,” Ethelbah said, “because when they’re disengaged, they’re not going to feel like they have any investment into the campus.”

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“Amazing,” she called the experience.

“One of the most incredible things of my life.”

A replica of Bo, the Obamas’ furry, black-and-white Portuguese water dog, appears outside the gingerbread house, and, as in past years, has a starring role throughout the White House’s Christmas pageantry.

The estimated 90,000 visitors who will stream through in coming weeks will receive a bookmark with checkoff boxes to signify they’ve spotted Bo ornaments or “Boflakes” in eight locales, including the Red Room and the Green Room.

His own quarters — the Bo-val Office, so to speak — is not part of the tour.

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The inaugural guests included Capt. Luis Avila, 42, and his wife and son. Avila, still hospitalized, lost a leg and suffered a brain injury from a makeshift bomb in Afghanistan during his fifth wartime deployment.

Obama engaged four Chicago artists — David Condon, David Lee Csicsko, Jami Darwin Chiang and Heidi Feinerman — to add creative touches to the decor, along with Chicago event planner Gabrielle Martinez.

They joined about 85 volunteers from 38 states and the District of Columbia. Tracy Jacobson, 54, a retired detective from Irvine,

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were other goals Hart addressed, adding that she wants to change the incentives and rewards that the UA currently has for faculty to recognize integration and application.

Sen. Alex Chang said he wanted to know what the criteria for teachers were. He said he understood that in order to do research at the UA, faculty have to teach as well.

Hart explained that the goal is to have students learn from people doing world-class research. She said she understood that they might not be the best teachers, but another goal is to help them learn to be good teachers.

Hart also addressed the goal of creating stronger partnerships with other universities to create research and study opportunities for students, specifically with Mexican universities, since the UA is so close to the border.

A student from the audience asked if the UA would continue to offer online classes, and Hart explained that online courses are important to the UA because the university expects an increase of 10,000 students in the future, but can’t keep adding faculty.

Another student asked about her support for a possible campus-wide smoking ban. Hart said she is for the smoking ban, but that it will likely not pass any time soon as there is a lot of opposition to it.

Hart encourages students to continue to give her their input and to attend the town hall meetings she hosts.

“If I can appeal to any of you after you relax, after exams are over, when you come back in January,” Hart said, “if you see an announcement about a town hall meeting to talk about these big ideas, take the time.

You’ll find it a very, very interesting discussion. I promise you, you will have a very good time.”

Senate weighs bylaws

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate approved one change to its bylaws and heard about other changes that will be voted upon next week.

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Senators approved a change to the Bear Down Camp bylaws. The terms of the executive director and the administrative vice president of the Bear Down Camp were changed from April-April to AprilSeptember of the following year.

The change was implemented so that there will be directors for the camp during the summer, which is a four-day event that provides orientation to incoming freshmen and teaches them university traditions.

SafeRide directors want to change their bylaws, a topic that will be voted on next week. The program hopes to remove ASUA from its title because most of the programs that ASUA provides don’t have the organization’s name in their title.

The ASUA logo will remain on the SafeRide cars.

Emergency service

Derek Smith gave a presentation on the UA Student Emergency Medical Services. ASUA will vote next week on whether to add the program to its list of programs and services. The program’s directors will have a year to decide whether they want to stay under ASUA permanently.

Student regent finalists approved

Senators approved James Allen, Chris Nagata and Alan Kohler as Student Regent finalists for the Arizona Board of Regents. They now await Gov. Jan Brewer’s approval.

Winterfest next week

The Residence Hall Association and Wildcat Events Board will put on Winterfest next Wednesday, which will include an ice rink on the Mall, according to Chang.

Sen. Bryan Namba reported that the post office and CatCard office will move to the basement with the Cellar at the Student Union Memorial Center next year. Sen. Danielle Novelly added in her senator report that those offices will be replaced with restaurants, and she is advocating for a restaurant with healthy options.

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STUART CHARME, PHD, professor of religion in the Dept. of Philosophy and Religion at Rutgers-Camden, uses current events in his classroom as he explores talk of the potential apocalypse forecasted to occur on Dec. 21.

PHILADELPHIA — When religion professor Stuart Charme decided to teach a course on the end of the world this semester, he knew he had a compelling hook: the Dec. 21 conclusion of the “Long Count” Mayan calendar that doomsday believers have latched on to as proof that time will end.

But Charme had no idea what the next few months would bring: the cataclysmic Hurricane Sandy, a fiscal cliff some have dubbed “debtmageddon” and an intensifying conflict involving Israel, the place where Christian end-time theorists believe the apocalypse will commence.

“I didn’t realize this was going to be the most apocalyptic semester that has ever been,” Charme told students at Rutgers-Camden University last week. “If you look at what’s been going on in the world today as we’re down to 30 days and counting, this has been a really good time. And remember that bad is good for the apocalyptically minded.”

And he’s not the only professor offering “end of the world” courses this semester, theoretically the last semester ever.

At Pennsylvania State University’s main campus, Latin American history professor Matthew Restall and his colleague Amara Solari, an art history and anthropology assistant professor, have teamed up on a course, titled simply “The End of the World.”

“We didn’t put 2012 so that we always have the option of teaching the class again,” Restall said, “in case the world doesn’t end.”

Despite the impending doom, students must study, produce projects and take finals.

At Penn State, the final will be given on

apocalypse eve, leaving students no choice but to work “right up to the very night the world is supposed to end,” Restall said.

The courses proved wildly popular.

“It filled in two hours,” Restall said of his honors course, which was capped at 35 students. “We had emails for weeks and weeks into the summer from people asking if there was space.”

Students said the course was among their most interesting.

“I find it fascinating to see what people do to comfort themselves,” said Bridgid Robinson, 23, of Haddonfield, N.J., a religion and sociology major at Rutgers-Camden, “because apocalyptic thinking, secular or religious, is all about comfort, or lack thereof.”

Will Wekesa, 25, a psychology and nursing major from Sayreville, N.J., said he had seen all the apocalyptic movies.

“I never heard of a class that could teach that,” he said. “I enjoy it.”

But not one student interviewed — and certainly none of the professors — said he or she actually believed the Dec. 21 expiration date.

The Mayans never predicted the end of time; it’s just a turning point in the calendar, Restall said.

But there’s an apocalyptic anxiety in Western culture, going back many centuries, in which people react to the changes around them by predicting time will end, he said. The Internet has caused that speculation to boom.

Restall noted that over time, there have been hundreds of scheduled doomsdays, and if nothing happens on Dec. 21, “people will immediately begin to move to the next date,” Restall said, or philosophize that Dec. 21 is the beginning of a seven-year period that will bring about the end.

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e love to make fun of Arizona State University.

We call its students stupid. We joke that they have STDs. We claim that our sports teams are better and then get upset when the inconceivable happens.

But ASU’s New American University model is attracting national attention in a good way.

The model’s goal is to make education accessible to as many people as possible while maintaining the high standards of a research university.

This means that the 88.9 percent acceptance rate that we love to make fun of — well, that joke is quickly being turned on us.

Through an “eAdvisor” program, which updates students when they begin to get off track on their major requirements, more interdisciplinary study and several satellite campuses, ASU President Michael Crow has been touting the new model and trying to get other state schools on board.

But the UA shouldn’t be one of them.

Crow said that he wants to avoid a time when “we let rich kids get taught by professors and poor kids get taught by computer,” which is an admirable and important effort, but one that runs the risk of watering down education.

In addition to ASU’s growing population (the university has increased enrollment by more than 20,000 people since 2003), its retention rate also saw an increase of 11 percentage points from 2000 to 2010.

You could attribute this to improved tutoring and advising opportunities or to innovative approaches to the STEM fields, but it’s far more likely that professors are teaching down to their students.

While ASU is doing great things in increasing the accessibility of a degree, it is also devaluing it. If just about anyone can get a degree from ASU, what does that degree even mean?

ASU is currently ranked 139th in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings. It is also thousands of dollars deep in debt (partially due to cuts in state funding), bringing all of Crow’s progress into question.

In a 2010 editorial, ASU’s student newspaper, The State Press, complained that the New American University leads to oversized classes and housing problems.

It’s possible that this model will work for a few schools across the country. Those schools will become places where students can get a good education for a good price.

But there shouldn’t be two of those schools in the same state.

Arizona and the UA now have the perfect opportunity to show what the traditional university model can do in conjunction with the New American University model.

The UA can begin to raise its admission standards and try to attract top applicants from across the country, while ASU continues its accessible education model in order to make Arizona the place to go for higher education.

If our state were able to offer varied and diverse choices in education, Arizona universities wouldn’t just be known for their partying anymore; they’d be known as leaders in education.

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Nations have duty to citizens metropolitan cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for the first time. Since 2001, there have been more than 12,000 rockets and mortars fired into Israel and in this year alone hat would a U.S. response there have been more than 1,600 rockets, leaving six Israelis dead. be to a group in Sonora, There are three reasons why Mexico that fired one the Israeli casualty count is so rocket into southern Arizona? An even better question is what would low compared to that of the 177 Palestinian deaths in the our reactions be as U.S. citizens incursions this past week. living in southern Arizona and First, Israelis have been what actions would we expect from subjected to consistent rocket our government? attacks for more than seven years I am fortunate enough, along and sadly have made it a successful with the rest of southern Arizona, routine to sprint to a shelter in to live in safety and comfort. under 15 seconds during a warning However, I cannot say the same siren. about the 1 million innocent Second, with the help of the Israelis who have lived under the U.S., Israel has been able to deploy constant threat of rockets raining the Iron Dome batteries that down on their homes since the have successfully stopped more Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza than 400 rockets headed toward Strip in 2005.

Since the recent Operation Pillar inhabited areas.

And last, operations like Cast of Defense, terrorist groups in Gaza expanded their rocket range to 3.5 Lead and Pillar of Defense inflicted preventative strikes on weapon million innocents, reaching the This column is a response to “Guest column: For youth of Gaza, tackle root causes of Israel conflict” submitted by Britain Eakin (Nov. 27).

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stockpiles and manufacturing sites.

There are those that attempt to underplay the Israeli fatalities due to the significantly higher number of Palestinian deaths caused by the operation, without mentioning that more than two-thirds of the Palestinians killed were involved with terrorist activities.

There are claims that Israel’s response was disproportionate.

They are right. If Israel were to have responded proportionately, it would have fired 1,600 rockets indiscriminately at Gazan civilians.

I adamantly challenge those that claim Israel was overly aggressive to explore what efforts the terrorist groups in Gaza put forth to limit innocent casualties, because they will find none.

The difference between Israel and the terror groups in Gaza is that Israel surgically aims for its targets. Israel does all it can to warn innocents by making phone calls, dropping leaflets and using sound bombs that warn before an

CAT TRACKS p u g n i d Tren Chris Brown is still on the radar, somehow. We’re not sure why we’re still talking about this guy, but here we are.

Brown has made headlines for some really, really dumb things, like a Twitter war with a comedian. And for not-so dumb things, like a shirtless photo of himself tweeted by former (and possibly current) girlfriend Rihanna. Brown pleaded guilty in 2009 for assaulting Rihanna, but the pair’s increasingly public appearances together suggest Brown’s assault is old news.

For the millions of people still interested, it sends a pretty sad message about domestic violence — certainly one too complicated for 140 characters.

Universities are trending up among Americans, who said they’re proud of colleges in the U.S., according to a national poll released Monday by Northeastern University.

On the other hand, they are critical of the direction higher education is moving in. To preserve its role as a global leader, American higher education needs more innovation, said 83 percent of respondents.

The survey results also reflected concerns about rising tuition costs, as 86 percent said paying for college was a significant obstacle to earning a degree. We just hope the Arizona Board of Regents pays attention to this when it comes time to set tuition.

attack is carried out on the terrorist groups that purposely hide near schools, mosques and hospitals.

The terrorist groups, on the other hand, aim for civilians, hoping to wreak havoc in the minds of Israelis, which unfortunately has paid off in southern towns like Sderot where more than 75 percent of the children suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder.

It should be no secret to those around the world that Israel would respond in the face of attacks on civilians from groups that refuse to accept its right to exist and call for its destruction. There should be no double standard toward Israel, because as an American citizen, I too would expect my government to protect me if even a single rocket were fired into southern Arizona.

— Joseph Bendah is a senior studying political science and Near Eastern studies. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

Trending dow n That Facebook hoax, finally. Facebook users who don’t know how the Internet works began re-posting a chain letter in their statuses in response to “new Facebook guidelines” to declare that all content they post belongs to them.

The letter stated, with slight variations, “For commercial use of the above, my written consent is needed at all times.”

Facebook issued a statement to a number of news outlets debunking the letter and saying “the people who use Facebook own all of the content and information they post on Facebook” in an email to the Huffington Post.

Similar chain letters have gone viral and proven false before too — just more proof that some people really shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet.

Sexual assault on campus is hopefully on the decline, given recent revelations at yet another college.

After Amherst College’s student newspaper published an op-ed by a former student detailing her experiences after she was attacked, Swarthmore College’s newspaper published a report describing similar experiences of assault victims.

Swarthmore, in response, promised a review of policies related to sexual assault and promised to continue preventive efforts.

Given recent revelations, it is clear that the conversation about how to prevent assault is still ongoing, and policies related to it should be examined on a regular basis.

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Turkey Day tire thief

A theft was reported near Babcock Residence Hall after a man stole a bike tire and sped off in a Toyota RAV4 at around 1 p.m. on Nov. 22.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer spoke with a man who saw the suspect use hand tools to remove the tire from the bike and then leave.

The suspect was wearing a red shirt with blue jeans, and was accompanied by a female passenger in the car.

A description of her could not be provided. The getaway car had an Arizona license plate, but the witness said the lettering was unreadable.

The yellow and pink Huffy Cranbrook was secured to a chain fence with a cable lock when its tire was stolen.

The man who saw the incident waited 15 minutes after to call the police, because he was unsure if the suspect was actually stealing the tire and became nervous.

Due to the holiday, officers were unable to find and notify the owner of the bike. No serial number was available to track it, and there are currently no suspects.

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A UAPD officer responded to a report of the recurring odor of marijuana at the Graham-Greenlee Residence Hall at 7:01 p.m. on Nov. 19. When the officer arrived, a resident assistant led the way to the room the smell was coming from. He said that police had spoken to the room’s residents several times before.

As the officer approached the room, he too noticed the scent of fresh-smelling, unburnt marijuana. The officer knocked on the door and was let in by a UA student identified with a Massachusetts driver’s license.

The student denied having or smoking marijuana in the room, but said he’d smoked off-campus as recently as Thursday or Friday. The student then refused the officer’s request to search for any narcotics in the room. A records check showed he’d previously been arrested on charges of narcotics possession.

The officer completed a code of conduct referral and arranged for the student to meet with a community director.

Trail goes cold on missing skateboard

The theft of a motorized skateboard was reported at the bike racks near Pueblo de la Cienega Residence Hall at 4:45 p.m. on Nov. 20.

UAPD spoke with a student who said his skateboard was secured with a U-lock as recently as 2 a.m., but when he returned later in the morning, it was missing. No remnants of the skateboard or lock could be traced for evidence.

The student said he wanted to follow through with judicial proceedings if a suspect was located.

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Financial Aid Candy Sale to Support UA Cares Need to soothe a sweet tooth? Stop through the lobby of the Administration building or Bear Down Gymnasium between now and the end of the month and pick up some candy for $1.It’s one of a series of fundraisers the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid is hosting to benefit the Arizona Assurance Scholars Program as part of UA Cares.

Administration or Bear Down Gymnasium, Lobby of either place, Price: $1, all day event.

Financial Aid ‘I Dare You’ Nomination Jars in Support of UA Cares This is one of a series of fundraisers the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid is hosting to raise money for the Arizona Assurance Scholars Program in support of UA Cares. The “I Dare You” Nominations consist of nominating a colleague to do something you would like to see them do. At the end of the competition, the winning dares (ones that earn the most money) will be performed. For example, let’s say John does not like to wear T-shirts with the ASU logo, but Leah would like to see John in a T-shirt that has the ASU logo, so Leah visits the OSFA and puts any amount of money she wants into a jar with John’s “dare” written on the side of it. If John’s jar has the most money at the end of the nomination period, John will have to wear the ASU T-shirt. Any donation will be accepted.

But remember, if you really want to see a specific dare performed (or want to avoid doing a dare), the jars with the most money will win. There’s a first, second and third place. Administration, inside the Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid, all day event.

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Skin Cancer Screening Medical providers will provide brief, free skin screenings for University of Arizona students, faculty and staff. Please allow 50-60 minutes for the screening. There are no appointments, so all screenings are first-come, first-served. November 29, Campus Health Service 1224 E. Lowell St. 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

MENAS 2012 Fall Colloquium Series - ‘Who Killed Ahmet Yıldız? Sex, Citizenship and Justice in a Transnational World’ The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies has teamed up with the Institute for LGBT Studies to present this installment of the 2012 Fall Colloquium Series featuring Evren Savci from Northwestern University’s Department of Sociology and Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, to present “Who Killed Ahmet Yildiz? Sex, Citizenship and Justice in a Transnational World.” Marshall Building 490, November 29, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Seminar: “Designing An Accelerated Course” Many Faculty are being asked to offer courses over shorter periods of time, the winter break, shorter summer sessions. In this seminar we will explore how to identify critical elements of your 16-week course and use those as the foundation for your 5-week course. This will include a tour of instructional design strategies, and research-based tips for making an accelerated course effective and enjoyable for all. This seminar is open to all faculty, adjunct faculty and TAs. This seminar, “Designing An Accelerated Course: Cramming 16 weeks Into 5 Weeks,” will be facilitated by Kathy Spicer, OIA. Target audience: Instructors teach-

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International Writers Workshop: “Revision” This workshop offers strategies and tips for writing final drafts and editing. We will also focus on proofreading a selected piece of text. This workshop covers topics helpful to international and second language speakers, both graduate and undergraduate. This is part of a series of free workshops held every Thursday. November 29, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Social Sciences Room 222.

UA Buddy Program Thanksgiving Event The University of Arizona Buddy Program hosts three events per semester for those involved in the UA Buddy Program, which pairs up UA study abroad alumni and inbound international exchange students. This is the last event of the semester, which will celebrate the American tradition/holiday of Thanksgiving. There will be traditional Thanksgiving meal and a discussion of the history surrounding this holiday, plus lots of fun. Who wouldn’t want a free delicious meal and to hangout with awesome people? We ask that people RSVP so we order enough food for everyone! November 29, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m. University Services Building, 888 N. Euclid Ave. Room 312.

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From Mozart to Radiohead, Bach to Led Zeppelin, this group of diverse musicians has changed the perception of chamber music. Each concert is unique because the program is determined live from the stage. The musicians press ‘shuffle’ on their iPods and play any randomly selected piece from their repertoire – The Shuffle Effect. From the moment their bows hit the strings, the audience embarks on an exciting ride that engages the senses and redefines the rules. Music Crowder Hall November 29, 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $25 with discounts available.

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DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun: Portraits of DeGrazia recurring daily through January 20, 2013 6300 N. Swan Rd. The spirit of Arizona artist Ted DeGrazia is captured in this special collection of more than 50 portraits by dozens of artists at Gallery in the Sun. The Gaslight Theatre: Scrooge The Gaslight Theatre presents a holiday season melodrama spoof about the heart-lifting classic A Christmas Carol. Recurring weekly on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

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Last year, Arizona statistically had the best 3-point defense in the Pac-12, and one of the best in the country.

Leading up to Wednesday’s 93-50 win against NAU, the Wildcats were struggling defending the long ball. Through three games, their opponents hit a combined 29 3-pointers at a near-40 percent clip, the worst in the Pac-12.

NAU isn’t exactly a marquee opponent — it was 5-24 last year — but the Wildcats did a solid job defending from deep in holding the Lumberjacks to a 5-of-17 night, which included a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from NAU freshman Dewayne Russell to end the first half.

“Maybe that’s not NAU’s strength,” head coach Sean Miller said. “We’ll play against teams that maybe shoot the ball better. We already have. But I can only go on what we do and we did a better job defending the three tonight then we have [been].”

Overall, Arizona was stellar defensively, holding the Lumberjacks to 24 second half points, most of which came with the game well out of reach in the waning moments.

Before two free throws from Blake Hamilton, NAU had just 11 points in the second half with 6:10 left.

“We wanted to chase them off the 3-point line, make them take more 2-point shots,” said freshman Brandon Ashley, who had a game-high 11 rebounds. “With our size inside, it would be a little bit harder for them to make two point shots.”

Nick Johnson, whom Miller recently cited as the Wildcats’ go-to on-the-ball defender, in particular was a defensive standout, finishing with four steals and holding Gabe Rogers, NAU’s best player, to 7 points on 3-of-11 shooting.

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The No. 9 Arizona men’s basketball team hadn’t played for eight days coming into Wednesday’s game against Northern Arizona, but the rust was nowhere to be seen as the Wildcats jumped out early and dominated late to comfortably beat their northern rivals the Lumberjacks 93-50 at the McKale Center.

“We were definitely ready to come out and play,” sophomore guard Nick Johnson said. “In the first half we let in a few easy buckets, but we were definitely ready. [Eight] days off we were definitely going to come out and play our hardest.”

Arizona (4-0) opened the game with a 9-0 run on perfect 4-for-4 shooting from the field and never led by fewer than double digits after taking a 20-9 lead midway through the first half. NAU still had a puncher’s chance going into the locker room, trailing 39-26 at the intermission, but Arizona again came out hot and the game got out of hand in front of the crowd of 13,003.

“I really think the story of tonight’s game was more about our second half than it was about our actual game,” head coach Sean Miller said. “I thought our team went into the locker room at half time and really gave great effort on defense.”

Larry Hogan/arizona Daily Wildcat The Wildcats outscored NAU 5424 in the final period and limited the GUARD NICK JOHNSON had a solid all-around performance, scoring 10 points and dishing out seven assists with Lumberjacks to 9-for-29 shooting. just one turnover. He thrived on defense, garnering six steals and holding NAU’s Gabe Rogers to seven points.

Arizona, meanwhile, was efficient really pleased with our defensive effort and he was held scoreless in the second inside and lethal from deep throughout half. in the second half.” the game, going 30-for-52 overall and 21Johnson said he felt he played well But the silent star of the game was for-28 from three. sophomore Nick Johnson. The young defensively tonight and was able to “Whoever the shooting coach is, I shooting guard was a big factor in create so many turnovers simply by need to pick his brain,” Lumberjacks’ Arizona’s quick start with five early staying with his man. head coach Jack Murphy said. “They hit “The last few games I lost my man a points. He finished with 10 points in the a lot of shots; they did a great job from game on 3-for-3 shooting, but made his little bit and all hell broke loose,” Johnson the perimeter.” said. “Just being disciplined on defense, impact in other ways.

Seniors Mark Lyons and Solomon Hill “I thought Nick Johnson played just a knowing when to go for him, when to jump lead the Wildcats with 18 and 17 points tremendous all-around game,” Miller said. the passing lanes and stuff like that.” respectively, and the Wildcats’ depth Arizona’s size down low also factored Johnson dished out seven assists with played a huge role. Arizona’s bench just one turnover and he wrecked havoc into the blowout — the Wildcats outscored NAU 40-24 with sophomore all night on the defensive end. He was outrebounded NAU 39 to 27, with center Angelo Chol adding a career-high the primary defender on NAU’s Gabe forward Brandon Ashley grabbing 11 10 points in 13 minutes of play.

Rogers, the Lumberjack’s second leading boards of his own. Ashley, Arizona’s “The depth that we have, whether it be scorer coming into the game. Rogers was leading scorer entering the game, on the inside or the perimeter, seemed limited to just seven points on 3-for-11 was limited to two points on 1-for-4 to take its effect,” Miller said, “so I was shooting, including 1-for-5 from three, shooting.

Raining threes

For all its struggles defending the three, Arizona has been spectacular shooting its own.

The Wildcats converted on 12-of-21 attempts, or 57.1 percent, and four players had two or more long balls. Ignoring Grant Jerrett’s three misses and a garbage time missed jumper from walk-on Quinton Crawford, Arizona shot a ridiculous 70.1 percent.

Nick Johnson attributes that to all the attention being paid to the Wildcats’ quartet of big men — Jerrett, Ashley, Kaleb Tarczewski and Angelo Chol.

“They’re game-planning for them and we’re getting a lot of open threes,” Johnson said. “It’s just like practice, just knock it down.”

Kevin Parrom, who went 5-for-5 from deep against Long Beach State, hit his first two against the Lumberjacks before finally missing one midway through the second half.

Seniors Mark Lyons and Solomon Hill led the 3-point barrage, each hitting 3-of-4 for a combined 35 points.

Little-used senior Max Wiepking even got in on the action, hitting a 3-pointer in garbage time with Arizona leading by 45 points.

“From an offensive perspective, when you have 22 assists and make 12 threes, it’s tough to say a lot of negative things,” Miller said.

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The Arizona women’s basketball team kicked off its three game road trip with a comeback victory over the North Texas Mean Green on Wednesday afternoon, 71-66.

“This was all about battling back,” head coach Niya Butts said in a press release. “This was all about toughness. I think we showed that in the second half.”

The second-half surge helped the Wildcats improve to 5-2 on the season.

In its first game since the Junkanoo Jam over Thanksgiving break, Arizona received balanced scoring throughout its lineup.

Five Wildcats had double-digit scoring nights, led by forward Erica Barnes, who had 15 points to go with eight rebounds in her first game

off the bench this year.

Three Wildcats — Kama Griffitts, Cheshi Poston and Davellyn Whyte — scored 14 points each, while junior forward Alli Gloyd added 11 points and five rebounds.

Turnovers have plagued Arizona this season. The Wildcats lost the ball 13 times in the first half of Wednesday’s game, but had only four turnovers in the second half, which helped fuel their comeback. In the end, Arizona won the turnover battle 23-17.

The Mean Green kept the Wildcats’ offense at bay in the first half, leading 34-17 at the midway point. However, in the second half the Wildcats outscored the Mean Green by 22 points and went on a 17-4 run to end the game. Whyte’s 3-pointer with 2:39 left in the game finally gave the Wildcats the lead.

Arizona held onto the lead with two clutch late steals by Griffitts and Gloyd.

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THREE POINT DEFENSE had been a problem area for the Wildcats going into Wednesday, but they did OK against NAU.

Wildcat hockey leader thriving in return from injury he’s able to see the ice well, so he’s able to distribute.”

At the beginning of the season, the Wildcats elected Basist and junior forward Andrew Murmes as assistant captains.

“Honestly, it was a tremendous feeling, knowing that the guys voted me assistant captain even though I missed the year before,” Basist said. “I really appreciated them recognizing me.”

According to Basist, getting the “A” for assistant captain on his sweater was a great honor.

“I take a lot of pride in wearing the ‘A,’” Basist said. “It means a lot when your teammates select you to be a leader. You definitely want to lead those that you can and represent them well.”

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rizona hockey head coach Sean Hogan has spoken frequently about his first Arizona recruiting class, but a junior who missed pretty much all of last year may be No. 17 Arizona’s biggest addition this season.

Junior defenseman Michael Basist missed nearly all of the 2011-12 season with a separated right shoulder, torn labrum and torn rotator cuff. According to Hogan, Basist was impressive during his first game playing under him.

“Bringing him in this year is almost like having a new player to add to the mix, and he’s done a great job for us,” Hogan said.

According to Hogan, Basist is a smart, offensive and aggressive player, has good on-ice vision and is a good leader.

“He’s working on not taking penalties, because he plays an aggressive style,” Hogan said. “Sometimes that gets the best of him, but for the most part, he’s one of our better defenseman for sure.”

The San Clemente, Calif., native is fourth on the team in points and highest among defensemen, despite only playing 14 of Arizona’s 17 games so far this season.

Assistant coach Dave Dougall, who coaches defensemen, said the experience Basist brings to the table is important. Arizona has eight freshmen this year.

“He’s been a key for us. This is his third year,” Dougall said. “He brings good on-ice vision. As far as being able to move the

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DEFENSEMAN MICHAEL BASIST missed most of last season with a shoulder injury, but is leading the UA this year.

he had 11 points. puck up, he sees the ice well.”

Basist said his shoulder has been 100 Basist injured his shoulder in Arizona’s percent this year but he is first game of the sea“battling a little bit of a right son against ASU. “He brings good on-ice vision. knee problem right now.”

“I got hit, kind of As far as being able to move the “He’s also aggressive offrom behind, and it puck up, he sees the ice well. fensively,” Dougall said. “As a separated my shouldefenseman, a lot of of guys der,” Basist said. “I ­— UA assistant coach Dave Dougall aren’t always as aggressive, played the second they kind of stay home more. game and then found So he takes some opportuniout like a week later ties there and he’s been a that I had the tears.” key for us on the power play, being able Basist has five assists and a game-winto move the puck around. And like I said, ning goal this year. In the 2010-11 season,

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