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Women bare all at Breast Party Battle for senate heats up at debate

By Alexandra Newman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

The Women’s Resource Center invited women to “1,2,3 … take it off” at a Breast Party on Thursday in honor of Women’s Herstory Month.

The Breast Party is held semiannually, in March for Women’s Herstory Month and in October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

“It’s one of the WRC’s most famous events,” said Malia Uhatafe, religious studies senior and student director of the Women’s Resource Center.

At the event, held in the Student Union Memorial Center, women were invited to make plaster molds of their breasts by applying pre-cut strips of plaster dipped in water.

About 30 people attended this year.

Typically the event brings in 30-50 people, with a lot of the same women returning each time, according to Uhatafe.

The first breast party was held in the Women’s Studies conference room in October 2007 and hosted about 80 people. A founding member of the Women’s Resource Center completed her undergraduate education at the University of Delaware, where she first participated in this type of event, and decided to bring the idea to the UA. A $700 Corporate Partners grant funds the party. The money was enough to fund the supplies for the event for three years, Uhatafe said.

“This is more of a ‘love your body’ event,” Uhatafe said. “Past participants have expressed feeling empowerment and comfortable in their own skin.”

Uhatafe said Thursday’s party was unique because so many women were participating for the first time.

“This is an amazing experience to embrace my boobs,” said psychology freshman Danielle Abel. “I’m going to frame this.”

Some of the women said they felt uncomfortable at the thought of undressing in front of everyone.

“It’s not as scary as I thought it was going to be,” said veterinary science freshman Megan Nixon. “Getting in here and realizing I had to take my bra off in front of people … there was a moment of terror.”

Uhatafe said that having everyone take their shirts off at the same time makes it less awkward.

“It’s great to feel comfortable around other women and to embrace our bodies,” said political science freshman Danielle Dobrusin.

ASUA candidates defend platforms, campaign promises

By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

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Danielle Abel, a psychology freshman (left), and Jenna Polsky, a speech and hearing sciences freshman, create papier-mâché breast molds during a Breast Party in the Tucson room of the Student Union Memorial Center on Thursday. The “Love Your Body” event was hosted by the UA Women’s Resource Center in celebration of Women’s Herstory Month.

Provost Hay walks for health

By Laura Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Ten staffers and one student joined Provost Meredith Hay Thursday for a 20-minute, on-campus walk in support of physical activity and Walk Across Arizona.

“Walk Across Arizona is part of statewide Healthy Lifestyle Education through the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension,” according to the Arizona Cooperative Extension’s Web site.

“Walking can help with creative juices, and it’s also nice for those who want to get out and take a break from work,”said Nancy Rogers, coordinator of the Worksite Wellness and Health Promotion program, which offers a variety of services that help employees maintain or improve their health.

Hay and Rogers led the way for the duration of the walk, starting off at the band shell

on the UA Mall, east of Old Main, and walking past the Social Sciences building, west down South Campus Drive and back to Old Main via University Boulevard.

“You can work better when you come back from exercising,” Hay said.“It’s a great activity and a great thing to support.”

Hay said she exercises every morning.

“It starts your day well. Your mind is clear, and your body is ready for a good day’s work. Plus, we live in Tucson, why wouldn’t you be out walking?” Hay asked.

Melanie Fleck, a master’s student in public health and a specialist in Campus Health outreach, met Hay and the other walkers on the UA Mall, which also held the Spring Break Safety Fair.

“I’m here out for the Safety Fair today, and I thought it would be cool to meet Provost Hay,”Fleck said.

Some UA employees came to the walk for exercise and interaction with other students

and workers on campus.

“I like to exercise, and this is a good way to promote fitness while also meeting staff members,” said Lee Ann Hamilton, assistant director for Health Promotion and Preventative Services at Campus Health.

The Cooperative Extension worked with Worksite Wellness to bring the walk to campus.

Garry Forger, an officer in development grants management at the Office of Instruction and Assessment, attended the walk with Hay. Forger was also a part of last month’s on-campus walk with UA President Robert Shelton.

“The walks give you a chance to get to know people you haven’t met,” Forger said.

Hamilton had hoped the walk would give her the opportunity to talk with students.

“I want to meet with Rodney Haas/Arizona Daily Wildcat students and talk, because Provost Meredith Hay, left, leads a walk with a student and faculty maybe there’s something around campus with Nancy Rogers, coordinator of worksite more that we can all be doing wellness and health promotion in human resources, on Thursday, as part of the annual Walk Across Arizona campaign to promote for them,” Hamilton said. physical fitness.

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The 16 Associated Students of the University of Arizona senatorial candidates presented their platforms to an eight-person student panel during a debate Thursday night.

More than 30 people came out to hear candidates respond to questions from ASUA, the Graduate and Professional Student Council, the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership, Greek Life and many other representative bodies on campus.

Although the event was called a debate, candidates spent two minutes explaining their platforms, then fielded one question each from the panel of student representatives.

Some candidates made sure to make their mark during this limited time.

“I want to take a minute to talk to you about sex,” said Scott Rising, a family and consumer sciences senior,promoting his sex education platform. “(During orientation), we’re teaching them all kinds of things about how to use their CatCards, but they don’t know how to use a condom.”

The room, audibly surprised, sat nodding heads and laughing in a mixture of shock and agreement.

Other candidates used their platform presentation to shock in a different way.

“ASUA has the honor of being the least representative student government in the Pac-10,” said Trevor Hill, a sophomore majoring in English. During his speech, he noted that 10 senators are elected to represent 29,000 undergraduates at the UA and proposed more direct student representation.

The candidates issued campaign promises, described their involvement backgrounds and tried to win over undecided voters.

“You see your department getting smaller, you see your classes getting bigger, and you might not feel as connected as you did before,”said Gabriela Castillon, a political science senior. She echoed many of the candidates’ pledges for more student involvement.

Most candidates emphasized transparency and creating more cooperative initiatives between ASUA and other sections of campus.

Justine Piscitello, ASUA elections commissioner, said that cooperation is necessary.

“I think it’s important that we form relationships with those outside of ASUA,” Piscitello said at the close of the debates.

Although candidates seemed eager for real debate, this event marked the last public forum for senate candidates to voice their platforms outside of personal campaigning before general elections.

Debates for the presidential, executive vice presidential and administrative vice presidential candidates take place Monday at 6:30 p.m. in the Ventana room of the Student Union Memorial Center. They will employ a similar question-and-answer format, with a student panel and more time for each candidate to speak.

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Fashion and a cure

A plague on both their houses

Snowshoe party!

The Moda Provacateur fashion show, a style showcase to raise awareness for HIV/AIDS, is this Sunday at 4:45 p.m. in the Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom. General tickets are $40 and can be purchased at www.saafnmoda.org. All proceeds benefit The Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation.

Today at 4 p.m. in Social Sciences building room 128, a specialist in the social history of religion and religious movements in the European Middle Ages, Smith College Professor Emeritus Lester K. Little will give a lectuer on “The Current Laboratory Revolution in Plague History.”

Today is Saint Piran’s Day, Nametag Day and World Day of Prayer. Tomorrow is U.S. Snowshoe Day.

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In the movie of your life, who will play you?

Jason Statham, I think.

So, it would be like an action movie?

Yeah, definitely.

Is your life like an action movie?

I try to keep it that way.

Yeah, as much as I can make it.

If the movie focused on one event in your life, what would it be?

An event that has happened?

Either happened or going to happen.

I’d have to say some fight scene or a shoot-out scene.

That’s something you think will happen someday?

Depends on how much trouble I get into. But, yeah, that would be nice.

You’re going to get into a lot of trouble going into international business?

Hopefully not, but I think it’s possible.

Are you going into “taking care of business” international business?

Like arms dealing? (laughs) Wherever it takes me.

Wherever the money is, I guess.

It sounds like something Jason Statham would be interested in.

Perfect.

Do you have a Facebook?

Yeah.

Did you take part in “doppelganger week”?

No. I saw it, though.

Do you think your doppelganger would be Jason Statham?

I would hope for it to be Jason Statham, but it would probably be someone more mellow. I don’t know who, though. Maybe Nicolas Cage.

Nicolas Cage is insane, though.

He is, but Jason Statham has to kill a bunch of people.

That’s true. He has to keep his adrenaline up.

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‘Extinct’ frog species found again after 30 years SYDNEY — A species of frog thought to have been extinct for 30 years has been found in rural Australian farmland, officials said Thursday.

The rediscovery of the yellow-spotted bell frog is a reminder of the need to protect natural habitats so “future generations can enjoy the noise and color of our native animals,” said Frank Sartor, minister for environment and climate change.

A fisheries conservation officer stumbled across one of the frogs in October 2008 while researching an endangered fish

species in New South Wales state.

The officer, Luke Pearce, said he had been walking along a stream trying to catch a southern pygmy perch when he spotted the frog next to the water.

Pearce returned in the same season in 2009 with experts who confirmed a colony of around 100 yellow-spotted bell frogs.

Dave Hunter, threatened species officer with the Department of Climate Change and Water, said the find is very important.

“To have found this species that hasn’t been seen for 30 years and that professional researchers thought was extinct is great,”

he said. “It gives us a lot of hope that a lot of other species that we thought were extinct aren’t actually extinct — we just haven’t found them.”

The find wasn’t made public until now to allow enough time to establish conservation measures to protect the frogs from many dangers, including poaching, Hunter said.

Seven of 216 known Australian frog species have disappeared in the last 30 years.

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fast facts • A cockroach can live for several weeks without its head.

• The average human produces a quart of saliva a day — about 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

• Elephants have been known to remain standing after they die.

• The embryos of tiger sharks fight each other while in their mother’s womb, the survivor being the baby shark that is born.

• Nearly a third of all bottled drinking water purchased in the U.S. is contaminated with bacteria.

• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over 1 million descendents.

• The oldest multi-cellular fossils date from about 700 million years ago.

• An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space. The cartilage discs in the spine expand in the absence of gravity.

• The oldest known fossil is of a single-celled organism, blue-green algae, found in 3.2-billion-year-old stones in South Africa.

Blair’s autobiography to be published in September

LONDON — Will he expose the deal critics suspect carried Britain and the U.S. to war in Iraq? Take aim at those who dubbed him President George W. Bush’s poodle? Describe his furious arguments with successor Gordon Brown?

Probably not. But Tony Blair promised Thursday to give the public intimate insight into his decade as British Prime Minister when his much-anticipated memoir, “The Journey,”is published in September.

Publisher Random House paid an estimated $7.5 million for Blair’s personal account of his time in power, after a bidding war that Washington Tony Blair literary power-broker Robert Barnett — an attorney whose clients include President Barack Obama, his predecessor George W. Bush and both Bill and Hillary Clinton — described as among the most fierce in memory.

The book will be closely read for revelations about the push to war in Iraq, tense negotiations to win peace in Northern Ireland and Blair’s sometimes troubled relationship with Brown, who succeeded him in 2007.

“I have tried to write a book which describes the human as much as the political dimensions of life as prime minister,” Blair said in a statement.“Though necessarily retrospective, it is an attempt to inform and shape current and future thinking as much as a historical account of the past.”

Random House said the book would be published in Britain under its Hutchinson imprint, and in North America by Knopf.

Blair himself will narrate the audiobook version.

The timing means Blair’s autobiography won’t appear before Britain’s next national election, which must be held by early June. Blair won three election victories for his Labour Party, beginning in 1997.

Gail Rebuck, chief executive of Random House, said the book would break new ground.

“His book is frank, open, revealing, and written in an intimate and accessible style,” said Rebuck, whose husband Philip Gould is a former adviser to Blair.

Blair will carry out an international promotional tour for the book, which will cost $38.

Andrew Lake, the political buyer for Waterstone’s book store chain, said Blair’s book“should be the best selling political memoir since Margaret Thatcher’s.”

Random House confirmed that Blair wrote “The Journey,” himself, without a ghost writer.

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Dr. Rebecca Gómez, UA associate professor of psychology and cognitive science, sits in the Child Cognition Laboratory on the fourth floor of the Psychology building. Gómez and her colleagues did research that found naps are an integral part of a baby’s development.

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UA researchers find babies require sleep to learn

By Laura Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT There is another reason to appreciate naps, thanks to Rebecca Gomez, Richard Bootzin and Lynn Nadel of the UA psychology department.

The three professors have recently conducted research that shows that infants who took naps before or after learning something new were able to retain that knowledge and apply it more effectively.

The researchers also found that infants who did not nap after a learning experience did not apply their newly acquired knowledge.

“When you think about learning in class, you have to extrapolate what you have learned because you won’t get the exact same question on an exam that you heard in a lecture,” said Gomez, a psychology professor.

Gomez explained the importance of knowledge application in simpler terms: “Take 6-year-olds, for example. They typically learn how to write in block letters, but they also have to generalize to cursive as well,”Gomez said.

Gomez and her colleagues played recordings of phrases and sentences from an artificial language to about 50 infants. They repeated simple phrases, such as “pel-wadim-jic”, until the babies became familiar with them.

The infants who napped after the exercise learned something more general about language

or created a rule that allows them to apply what they have learned, the researchers found.

“Infants, after napping, take what they have learned to something not identical to what they have already seen,” Gomez said. “They don’t get stumped like the infants who don’t naps.” Only infants who slept in four-hour intervals were able to retain information a day later, Gomez said.

Infants have mostly rapid eye movement sleep, given how their brains are developed at that point, according to Regent Professor Nadel.

“And they have to get some of that sleep within a reasonable amount of time after inputting information in order to be able to do abstracting work on it,” Nadel said.“If they don’t sleep within four to eight hours, they probably just lose the entire thing.”

These results can’t be fully applied to adults.

“Infants are not like adults,” Gomez said.“They have to sleep after a learning experience.”

The researchers are always looking for infants to participate in infant research studies.

Contact Rebecca Gomez at rgomez@email.arizona.edu for more information.

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UA’s VP of research lobbies Congress for science funding

By Matt Lewis ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Leslie Tolbert, UA vice president for research, spoke on Capitol Hill on Feb. 23 to lobby Congress for more funding for science facilities’ maintenance and renovation at research universities.

She used the UA as an example of the need universities have for funding for building infrastructure. Tolbert said the UA has a documented need for about $200 million to improve facilities.

She was speaking on behalf of the Association of American Universities and also the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. The UA is a member of both associations.

Before being able to testify in front of the House Subcommittee of Research and Science Education, she was vetted in an interview process that involved Leslie several other candidates.

The subcommittee expressed concern about losing the global edge in science and wanted to hear from representatives of research institutions.

Pennsylvania State University, Medical University of South Carolina and the University of Illinois also had representatives, who testified on other topics.

According to Tolbert, federal agencies have research funding that provides for the direct costs of doing research, but funding for building renovation and pieces of equipment are rarely funded.

“You’re funding this research, but you’re not going to be able to get the most bang for your buck if we can’t provide the research facilities that allow for the research to be done as well as possible,”Tolbert said to Congress.

She said the committee was “friendly” with the ideas she was bringing up, but they were not all in

favor of federal agencies providing these funds.

Tolbert says differences lie in what the states should cover, what the federal government should cover and what universities should generate from philanthropic donations.

She added that states look to the federal government to provide the infrastructure for the research it supports, but the federal government says it will provide the money for the research as long as the state provides the facilities, laboratories and equipment.

“The reason for looking at this issue now is that we’re in an economic crisis.

They (the state of Arizona) haven’t been able to fund us for years, but the point is, now more than ever they’re not going to be able to provide funding to bring labs up to par,” Tolbert said.

“We need our faculty to be in a position to do cutting-edge research. They have Tolbert to have the facilities that allow them to do the best possible research.”

Shay Stautz, UA associate vice president of federal relations, thought Tolbert’s testimony was important because research institutions, such as the UA, “have contributed tremendously to the advancement of science in the U.S.” “Any time a knowledgeable voice such as Dr. Tolbert’s is heard in the halls of Congress,” Stautz said, “it has an impact either on the policy being considered or in adding to the information base from which policymakers make decisions that impact our nation’s universities.”

Tolbert’s ideas may help the committee plan for the future.

In this case, the House Science Committee wanted to hear about the status of the nation’s university research infrastructure and solicited ideas on how to improve it. Dr. Tolbert succeeded in providing meaningful insight into both in her well-delivered testimony, Stautz said.

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No room for racially themed parties

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niversity of California, San Diego, may be a prestigious institution, but recent on-campus events have tainted the world-renowned university’s image.

Last month, a UCSD fraternity helped set up a“Compton Cookout,” a party that was meant to mock Black History Month. Attendees were instructed to wear gold chains, flashy clothes, gang tattoos, gold teeth, etc., according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

The event invite read:“For those of you who are unfamiliar with ghetto chicks — Ghetto chicks usually have gold teeth, start fights and drama, and wear cheap clothes.”Naturally, the received a lot of negative Laura Donovan gathering press and national attention, and Columnist for good reason. Just days later, a UCSD student admitted to hanging a rope noose from a campus library bookcase, according to the LA Times. On March 2, a Ku Klux Klan-style hood was placed on a statue outside the main campus library. When does it end? The Compton Cookout party took place nearly a month ago, and bigotry continues to blatantly poison the campus environment.

As to be expected, Compton Cookout forums made their way to Facebook, where online users debated whether or not the event was truly offensive. Many commentators came to a general consensus that the media overreacted to the gathering, which was supposed to be lighthearted and fun.

Themed parties are a significant aspect of college life, but university students, and everyone, for that matter, should know better than to single out a specific race for this sort of event. Someone is going to get upset, even if the event organizer never intended to demean a particular group.

Unfortunately, the UA campus experienced a similar incident in February 2007, when one student held a “black-themed party” with 15 attendees dressed as black people. Some painted their faces black, and costumes included gangsters, lawyers and characters from the television show “Family Matters,” according to a Feb. 16, 2007, Daily Wildcat report.

The student in charge of the party explained that the event was not meant to offend people. But, clearly, it did. Both parties reportedly had black attendees and, for some reason, that makes the events seem less discriminatory.

It’s presumptuous to assume that the party planners were coldblooded KKK men solely out to insult the targeted race. Like many people, they were probably just stupid and misinformed. More than likely, they behaved out of ignorance and used extremely poor judgment. They wanted to have fun with their seemingly creative gathering and didn’t understand the kind of implications that a racially themed party would have. One can only hope that they’ve learned their lesson, but apparently others have not, seeing as the events immediately sparked more racist acts on other college campuses.

Regardless of intention, these sorts of parties are highly offensive and disrespectful to minorities, and people are going to get upset even if the event was not meant to bash or diminish a race. Such gatherings set this country back about fifty years and ignore the prejudice that many blacks have had the misfortune of experiencing.

In the aftermath of the UA blackface party and the Compton Cookout, students at both universities suggested that everyone take an extra multicultural course as a general education requirement. This sounds like a reasonable response, especially since exposure to different cultures and historical context can eliminate stereotypes.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger rightly responded to the events, saying in a statement,“The acts of racism and intolerance that we have witnessed are completely unacceptable and I join with the University of California president, chancellors and student leaders in condemning these terrible incidents.”

Government leaders, school officials and students everywhere must speak out against racist-driven events and hate speech. Anytime a similar event happens on a college campus, students have to take it upon themselves to host forums, raise awareness and contact the media about what has taken place.

MAILBAG Letters to the editor Phi Psi is at it again. The fraternity that was (allegedly) involved in the theft of roughly 10,000 copies of the Daily Wildcat last semester seems to have found another way to silence free speech — this time on the Internet. The organization’s Wikipedia page, which has had a brief summary of the allegations for the past five months, was recently vandalized without explanation. While the site details several embarrassing moments from the organization’s history, the only change that the vandals made was the removal of the section on the UA controversy. A quick check showed that the change came from a computer in Tucson, Ariz. I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to assume that a member of Phi Psi, an organization that has (allegedly) shown a clear affinity for censorship in the past, is responsible. While I’m sure nothing much will come of this second attempt to repress an unflattering story, I hope this episode will at least serve to cast further shame on this deserving fraternity.

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CHATTER Suck it up, Senate

The U.S. Senate has been criticized heavily of late for allowing partisanship and bitterness between factions to prevent important decisions from being made. Many in the country argue that, while senators are busy bantering about personal opinions and there is increasing animosity between parties, important issues are left unresolved. Most Republicans and Democrats, however, were finally able to see eye−to−eye on one recent controversy that has been causing contention within the body … Following the proposal last week of a bill that would provide a month-long extension of expired institutions — most notably unemployment benefits. While the Senate sought future legislation, Sen. Jim Bunning, R−Ky., single-handedly blocked the spending bill for several days before finally acquiescing last night under heavy pressure from both parties, who eventually convinced him to comply. The bill will allot $10 billion toward measures, such as unemployment relief and health insurance subsidies, as well as allowing construction workers to resume work on federal highway construction projects. Bunning’s unwillingness to vote for the bill caused a slew of problems for unemployed people dependent on federal aid.

As a result of Bunning’s actions, some 2,000 Department of Transportation employees were forced into unpaid furloughs, and jobless Americans saw their unemployment checks and health insurance come to a halt on Monday. Although the bill has now been passed, senators worry that the delay may still cause holdups for people seeking unemployment checks. Disagreement over diverging principles is an inevitable and necessary function of the way that the Senate is structured. However, a position in a government office should not be used as a forum for

On ‘Commentary: Should fans boo Kevin O’Neill,’ March 4 Kevin O’Neill has the “litle man syndrome”! He is a foulmouth lout of a person. Livengood should never have let him be hired. He won’t last long at USC. Slow down, boring basketball. Boo the hell out of him. Wish I could be there!

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Keith Howell Economics senior The Faculty Senate’s recently approved change to the grade replacement opportunity policy limits it to students within their first 60 units of UA residence credit. This change in policy appears to me to be a disadvantage to students who begin their undergraduate careers at the UA. I will compare two typical students. One I will call“native”(a student who began his or her undergraduate career at UA), and the other I will call“transfer”(a student who began elsewhere before coming to UA). For the sake of example, they each have completed 60 units, achieved junior standing and earned high grades along the way. The native student never had the need to use GRO during the first two years at UA. They both now take an upper-division core course in a major (e.g. COMM 300, SOC 300) and fail. The transfer student, having not completed 60 in-residence units, is allowed to repeat the course and use GRO. The native student may repeat the course but without the benefit of GRO. This strikes me as an unfair and arbitrary way to treat students who have contributed to the life of the campus and supported the university through their tuition dollars.

—Laura Donovan is a creative writing senior.

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Two thousand people is not a lot of people … in the country, or even in the state.

How many of these pregnancies were planned pregnancies? Many 18-24-year-olds are in committed relationships if not married.

Being 16 and pregnant is one controversial issue. If 2000 16-year-olds were pregnant, that would be interesting … but still not that large of a number.

12 and pregnant

On ‘Don’t drink the jungle juice,’ March 1 In 2001, Purdue University released the results of a nine-year study of 109 rape accusations and the resultant outcomes. False accusations averaged 41 percent for all reported rapes, varying from 27 percent to 70 percent year after year. Rape is never something to be taken lightly, but when more than four out of 10 are cases of “crying wolf,” no wonder there is a certain amount of skepticism, especially when viewed in the light of excessive drinking and partying by young adults who are, in many cases, just a few months out of their parents’ care.

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A view from other college editorials protest against issues that an individual senator finds problematic. Bunning’s protest was a misuse of his power. Senators — whose job is to look out for the best interest of the country — should put personal grievances aside and work together to mend the faltering economy. While vast numbers of jobless Americans’needs were put on hold on Monday and most of Tuesday, Bunning continued to fight a battle that he knew he would eventually lose. The fact that Bunning was chastised not only by Democrats but also members of his own party is indicative of how senseless his actions were. It is the responsibility of anyone elected to a government position to put his or her own bias aside and make decisions that will help the greater good. Jim Bunning wrongly tried to make a point based on his own opinions about the deficit instead of trying to help those who are unemployed and rely on the government for help.

— “US Senate not a forum to push personal gripes,” The Tufts Daily editorial board, March 3

Aid to Chile should not be so chilly

The news coverage of the earthquake in Chile has not been nearly as big as the one in Haiti,Yet, the United States has once again been summoned for help. Once again, we have been called upon by a nation in need of our previous acts of humanity in cases of disaster. And despite our financial situation, we must once again stand up and come to the aid of those in need. According to Chile’s government, as of Tuesday, there are 763 casualties as a result of the 8.8 magnitude earthquake. While the number of deaths might not be nearly as high as that of Haiti’s disaster, aid must still reach the western South American nation. If foreign forces deny Chile the dedication that went into Haiti, they would only be denying

the value of human life and would seemingly take a simple number as the main decision-maker … While there is a great discrepancy between higher and lower classes in the nation, under great scrutiny, we should help as we have others time and time again. The case is simply that a failure to exude any sort of sympathy, fiscal or material based, would make the United States seem to focus on numbers rather than human life.

This responsibility does not only fall on our shoulders as nations such as Canada and the United Kingdom, both of whom have or will spend millions of dollars of their Olympic Games’preparations, could also take it upon themselves to help. To argue the case that many others are in need of help would only be denying aid to all of the countries in need. International help is needed, and even a country such as Chile, one in relatively good financial standing, must be supported in times of natural disaster.

— “Aid necessary in Chile,” The Rutgers Daily Targum editorial board, March 2

More than one kind of diversity

When prospective students peruse college applications, they are confronted with a litany of questions. They’re asked to list their extracurricular activities, awards, family military service, ethnicity, race and sometimes religious beliefs. All of these questions are used by admissions officers to help create a class of students that is both qualified and diverse. But applications have never asked about sexuality. That should soon change.

The University of Pennsylvania has begun to reach out to gay admitted students by identifying those who have indicated that gay issues are important to them through their application (for example, personal essays). For years, universities have had black students

contact black admits, engineering majors contact engineering admits and Honors students contact Honors admits. These contacts help make a big, scary campus seem more safe and welcoming. At Penn, gay students may contact gay admits to create a similar effect. While this is an admirable step in the right direction, it doesn’t go far enough.

LGBT Americans are the last to receive equal rights under the law. They still are not allowed to marry in 44 states, even though most politicians would agree separate is not equal. They still cannot serve openly in the military. And they lack a true leading voice for their movement. While these are national issues that no question on a college application can solve, the lack of a question regarding sexual orientation symbolizes how that portion of the population is viewed … Just as having a diverse student body in terms of race and gender benefits the university by bringing a wide variety of perspectives together, LGBT students bring a different set of questions, judgments and life experiences to the classroom and having a significant population of them helps improve the education of all students.

Now more than ever, administrators strive to provide a campus that is inclusive and diverse. While some may carp on preferential treatment for one group over another, true equality is not achieved without acceptance. And acceptance cannot be achieved without adequate representation. The university has an opportunity to mold a campus and a generation of Americans that is not only diverse on paper but truly accepting of the people around them, including gay students. And a simple question on an application is a good place to start.

— “Applying diversity,” The University of Maryland Diamondback editorial board, March 1

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A University of Arizona Police Department officer arrived to the Arizona Sonora Residence Hall on Monday at 8:59 p.m. after a resident assistant was told by an anonymous resident that a woman was dealing drugs from her dorm room.

The officer went to the dorm room and saw that there were two women and two men inside and could smell a strong odor of intoxicants and smoke coming from the room.

The women were identified by their Arizona driver’s licenses and told the officers that they did not use drugs and that they did not have drugs on them.

All four of the students were asked to wait in the hallway.

The officer questioned one of the women in her room about having drugs. She told the officer that she was unsure if there were drugs in there, but there was an opened bottle of alcohol in her drawer.

The woman pulled a bottle of 99 Bananas liquor out of the top drawer of dresser and gave it to the officer.

When the officer spoke with the other resident, she admitted to having drugs in her purse and gave the officer a small green baggie with a white substance inside. She told the officer that she started doing crystal meth the past week.

The resident also gave the officer a ball of burned tinfoil.

The baggie with the crystals inside weighed in at .3 grams. The baggie and the tinfoil were both placed into property as evidence.

The meth was sent to the Department of Public Safety to be tested. The officer reported that once testing was completed, he would follow up with charges for the woman.

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A UAPD officer was near Sixth Street and Santa Rita Avenue on Monday at 7:06 p.m. looking for a man who had been looking into cars near Seventh Street and Highland Avenue.

The officer got a call from police aide saying there was a man matching the suspicious person’s description in an apartment complex southwest of the intersection of Sixth Street and Santa Rita Avenue.

The officer found the man and asked what he was doing in the apartment complex. The man told the officer he was just walking around and had not been anywhere near Seventh Street and Highland Avenue.

The man identified himself verbally because he did not have identification on him and said that his parents lived in the apartments and he was waiting for them.

While the officer was talking with the man, a resident went out and told the officer that the man told him the same thing about his parents, but he had never seem him or his parents in the area before.

When the officer performed a records check, the man turned up as a runaway juvenile from Child Protective Services.

The man was taken into custody and brought back to the Child Protective Services office at 1700 E. Broadway Blvd.

UA hopeful sleeping under ramp

A UAPD officer was called to the Bear Down Gymnasium on Tuesday at 12:50 a.m. after a police aide called to report a man sleeping under a wheelchair ramp.

When the officer arrived, he used his flashlight to see the man’s legs. The rest of the man was hidden behind a large metal duct.

The officer went in beneath the stairs next to the ramp and yelled at the man to wake up. The officer yelled again and told the man he was a police officer after he did not respond the first time.

When the man finally responded, he was told to come out from underneath the ramp under which he was sleeping and sit on the stairs.

The officer was able to identify the man by his Social Security number. The officer thought the name of the man was familiar and called his supervisor.

The supervisor said that man was talked to on Feb. 16 and told not to sleep on campus anymore.

The man told the officer that no one ever told him not to sleep on campus and became very upset when he thought he would be arrested for criminal trespassing.

When the officer told the man he would only be given a warning for trespassing, another officer called to say that the man had already been warned.

The man insisted on talking with the supervising officer about the previous warning.

Before the supervising officer arrived, the man told the original officer that he was “going to have your job for this,� that the officer was not “being nice to him anymore and just trying to get him in trouble so that he could not apply to UA� and that “I’m not going to sign your summons to court.�

Because the man was no longer being cooperative, he was charged with third degree criminal trespassing.

The man was cited and released and told not to return to UA property unless he had a reason to be there.

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A UAPD officer was sent to UA Campus Health Service on Tuesday at 3:50 p.m. about an assault victim who went into the health center to receive treatment.

The director of medicine told the officer that the man arrived to Campus Health Service complaining of lower back pain.

During the health exam, the man said that he was assaulted at a party he was at on Sunday.

The man stated he did not know where he was at the time but that he was hit in the head and kicked in the lower back.

Campus Health Service is required to make a report of any assault victim.

The UAPD officer called the man, and he said that he did not want to report the incident or press charges.

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Fogg uses 3s to ruin Bruins’ run ’Cats save best for UCLA

By Bryan Roy Arizona Daily Wildcat

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Arizona men’s basketball sophomore guard Kyle Fogg celebrates after a 3-pointer during the Wildcats’ comeback 78-73 victory against UCLA Thursday night in McKale Center. Fogg helped lead the charge, scoring 26 points, including seven 3-pointers.

Late surge lifts Wildcats over UCLA to go above .500 in Pac-10 play

By Kevin Zimmerman Arizona Daily Wildcat Momentum killers, turnovers and mediocre records aside, it was a vintage UCLA-Arizona grudge match.

Missed free throws and a missing Nic Wise defined the first half, but ironically, it was those two ingredients that catapulted Arizona (15-14, 9-8 Pacific 10 Conference) to a 78-73 victory Thursday night in McKale Center.

“Every shot I took … they were all in-and-out,” said Wise after scoring 12 points, all in the second half. “I know I wanted to come out fighting in the second half. I just wanted to provide a spark in the second half and get us going.”

The senior point guard, who also had seven assists, didn’t score until six minutes after intermission, but after Arizona gained a lead thanks to two Kyle Fogg free throws with 3:19 to go, Wise nailed a 3-pointer from the right corner to give the Wildcats a 68-64 lead.

Their lead cut to two, Wise then whipped a pass to a back-cutting freshman Momo Jones for a layup before the Wildcats finished off the

Bruins with free throws.

“We executed,” said UA head coach Sean Miller of the second half. “What I always look for playing a zone is free throw attempts. To get to the foul line against the zone is important and we did that.”

Arizona shot a poor 8-for-15 from the charity stripe in the first half before they regained their form with a 15-for18 performance in the second.

Fogg, who didn’t score in double figures the past two games, scored 26 points on 7-for-10 shooting from long range. Miller said the team tends to have its best moments when Fogg is sharp.

“I’ve been doing push-ups every night and getting a lot stronger,” the sophomore joked. “I just wanted to show it off a little bit.”

The Bruins (13-16, 8-9) bumped the lead up to 12 points with half a minute to go in the first half. Fogg hit a 3-pointer to cut the lead to single digits, but the Bruins had a 39-29 lead at intermission.

Junior Jamelle Horne didn’t start the first half in an attempt by Miller

to jump-start the forward — and it worked.

Horne was aggressive, grabbing eight rebounds and scoring seven. But with almost five minutes expired after halftime, he mishandled the ball while trapped in the lane and was caught sleeping on the defensive end. UCLA made him pay as forward Nikola Dragovic hit a 3-pointer from the left wing to give the Bruins a 50-36 lead.

Arizona came back with a 11-5 spurt, including two consecutive 3-pointers

by Fogg. He hit another to bring the Wildcats within five points with less than 10 minutes remaining.

“It was great to see us stick to what we’re doing and get some results down the stretch,”Miller said.

The Wildcats came back with freshman forward Derrick Williams suffering through foul trouble and a quadriceps bruise. He still finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds.

Scoring his second consecutive and career-high 16-point game, Jones tied the game at 58 with two free throws with less than eight minutes remaining on the scoreboard.

But in the first half, missed free throws and poor shooting summarized the Wildcats’ play. They couldn’t scratch out more than 39 percent shooting and hit just 3-for-12 in 3-pointers launched.

“We weren’t playing like ourselves in the first half,” Jones said.

The Wildcats got out to a slow start, finding themselves behind 8-2 three minutes into the contest. Horne nailed a trey off the bench to cut the lead in half.

But UCLA continued to break down Arizona’s defense, edging the lead to 14-7 with 15:41 in the first half off a jumper by Dragovic.

“Our defense was poor at best,”Miller said of the first half. “They (UCLA) screen and they’re disciplined. We had no answer.”

But in the end, Arizona regained its form, playing in what Miller said was possibly the 20th game in which his team went into crunch time with the game on the line.

“I thought it was our best win of the season,” he said. “(Through) the ups and downs, (it’s) very gratifying for everyone in our locker room.”

Globetrottin’ in McKale Center

By Jaime Valenzuela Arizona Daily Wildcat

The Arizona Wildcats and the Southern California Trojans are not the only basketball teams playing in McKale Center this weekend.

On Sunday at 2 p.m., the Harlem Globetrotters will provide the “true entertainment” for the community of Tucson and the UA campus as part of the 2010 Magical Memories Tour.

“It’s a special event,” said Suzy Mason, associate athletic director of Arizona Event Operations. “We don’t do this all the time. It’s an opportunity for our fans to see an act that has world recognition. It’s something fun for Tucson.”

One player providing some of the entertainment is Globetrotter and Phoenix native Buckets Blakes who had the opportunity to play with former Arizona Wildcat Eugene Edgerson when he was a part of the Globetrotters. “(Eugene) told me it was awesome playing in McKale,”Blakes said.“A sold out crowd (every night) and living like kings as far as respect in Tucson and the country goes.”

Raised in Phoenix, Buckets’ loyalties lay elsewhere.

“I was a fan of (ASU) actually,” Blakes said.“I went to a lot of Bill Frieder camps when I was in high school. I was going to go to school there, but Frieder wasn’t

going to be there anymore, and I didn’t want to play for anybody else.”

Being a former fan of the Sun Devils, you would think Blakes would have some animosity about playing in McKale. But, as a true Globetrotter, that is not the case.

“I’m happy to play in McKale Center,” Blakes said. “It’s a great basketball atmosphere.”

In previous years, the Tucson Convention Center has been the destination for “America’s team” to show off its basketball tricks when in Tucson.

“They had scheduling difficulties with the TCC previously (which lead) to them not being able to come down there last year,”Mason said.

Recently, the Arizona Icecats have had games and practices cancelled due to scheduling conflicts with the TCC, and, when the Harlem Globetrotters take the court in McKale Center, the TCC will be hosting Monster Jam, a three-day monster truck show which opens tonight at 7:30.

This year, the Globetrotters are looking to appeal to a more basketball-friendly environment.

“They thought they might get a bigger crowd by playing where basketball games are usually held in Tucson,” said Beth Megerle, director of Ticket and Donor Systems and Technology.

Currently, the Arizona Athletics department is still in the process of working out a contract with the Harlem Globetrotters for

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Harlem Globetrotter Anthony “Buckets” Blakes feeds a giraffe at the Reid Park Zoo on Feb. 26.

Blakes signed autographs for eager fans and also threw some basketballs to a polar bear during his quick trip to the Zoo.

the use of McKale Center as a venue.

“We’re still working out contract details on (the venue charge),” Mason said.“We’ll see how ticket sales go, and we’ll have a (contract) settled 30 to 60 days after the fact.”

Arizona will not take a percentage of the ticket sales, which range from $17 to $85. Also, student discounts will not be available, as the Arizona Athletics department did not set the prices.

For those who attend the game, entertainment will not be lacking,

Blakes said.

“From start to finish, you’re going to see some amazing things,” Blakes said.

“There will be a lot of crowd participation and some quality basketball.”

And for Blakes, one thing is certain: his pre-game menu.

“It’s just a little comfort thing,” Blakes said. “I grew up that way. No matter how much I’ve eaten that day or have not eaten, I have to have a bowl of cereal before I go to bed at night. It helps me sleep.”

The big yellow blimp at halftime sputtered in aimless directions, unable to fly on an empty tank of gas.

The Arizona Express, as symbolically nicknamed, was bound to crash had a few fans not caught the remotecontrolled flyer carrying free tickets for Saturday’s USC game.

But nobody touched the tickets.

Nobody wanted to sit through another unimpressionable showing or another 40 minutes closer to lifting weights in the offseason.

Could that halftime score of 39-29 have been the tipping point for Arizona’s 2010-11 season?

“Yes,” UA coach Sean Miller said.

“I thought we were in that awkward stage, where ‘uh-oh, we could go down by 20.’ But maybe it’s a testament to all the things we’ve been through.”

Just when its tank dripped to empty and effort stalled to a flat line, Arizona scrambled together another gutsy effort at home to fend off the oncemighty Bruins of UCLA, 78-73.

Rejuvenated? Back on track? The bus is warming up for Staples Center and next week’s Pacific 10 Conference Tournament.

Grab your tickets for Saturday’s home season-finale against USC. “I have such a strong feeling for our fans that they’re watching a team that’s 14-14 in early March and stuck with us at halftime,” Miller said.“I thought it was our best win of the season. To be down by double digits with as much as we’ve been through this season, it’s very gratifying.”

The Wildcats executed big defensive stops when it mattered, limiting UCLA to 33 percent from the floor in the second half after giving up 60 percent in the first 20 minutes.

Give credit to Jamelle Horne’s seven defensive rebounds after the UA forward sat the bench at tipoff.

Give credit to Nic Wise’s late clutch shots and all 12 of his points scored in the second half.

Give credit to McKale Center’s 14,407 fans for evolving from a yawner University of California, Riverside crowd to a classic UCLA one.

But most of all, the duo of Kyle Fogg (26 points) and Momo Jones (16 points) clawed the Wildcats back to 15-14 overall, 9-8 in the Pac-10 and 100 percent confidence down the stretch.

“We just knew we didn’t want to go out with a loss,” said Jones, still riding the wave of a buzzer-beater against Stanford last week.“We were playing lackadaisical, but we came back in the second half and did what we did.

“Last week was a phenomenal win. Coming into today, I know it gave our team a lot of momentum, but me personally it gave me a fire that I’ve never felt before,” he added. “Coming into the game, I knew I just wanted to play my best, give it my all. Second half we just came out with a no-lose attitude.”

The seams unfolded once enemy target No. 1 committed a flagrant foul.

Nikola Dragovic, the guy who raised his hands and unleashed yells after his made 3-pointers, looked stunned after the referee caught him grabbing Derrick Williams before the ball came in bounds.

His bow of disappointment shifted from a glare at the floor to a blank stare into the game clock, which read :14.

Williams, the same guy who played seven minutes with four fouls and a bruised quad, somehow hit both free throws.

Williams began the game 1-for-5 from the free throw line, which he let “bother him,” Miller said.

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Softball displays lackluster offense in win

By Kevin Zimmerman Arizona Daily Wildcat

It’s either one or the other.

A day after Arizona (15-1) twice runruled New Mexico State University despite a few defensive miscues, an anemic Wildcat offense and a steadfast defense did just enough against the University of Northern Iowa (8-3) Thursday night to defeat the Panthers 4-1.

“Our hitting has to be on all the time,” said pitcher Sarah Akamine.

“Our defense was amazing today. We just have to put two and two together.”

Akamine was a surprise starter after ace Kenzie Fowler “tweaked” her knee

before the game began, according to head coach Mike Candrea.

Fowler was not available for comment following the game.

Akamine threw seven innings for the first time this season, turning in an eight-strikeout, four-hit performance and improving her season record to 4-1.

She didn’t finish well, however, lobbing a solo home run to UNI catcher Courtney Dunker in the top of the seventh inning.

Despite the late run, Candrea was pleased with the senior’s performance overall.

“I thought she threw extremely well at times,” he said.

“I thought we played well defensively, and that’s a huge part of

the equation,” Candrea added. “But I thought offensively we stunk.”

Freshman Brigette Del Ponte hit her third home run in three games, nearly smashing the ball over the left field bleachers. The two-run shot gave the Wildcats a 4-0 lead by scoring designated player Stacie Chambers. Chambers was on base after hitting an RBI that scored shortstop K’Lee Arredondo from first base thanks to a Panther error.

Del Ponte, who went 2-for-3 at bat Thursday, now has five home runs on the season and is tied with sophomore Lini Koria for the team lead. Chambers, freshman Baillie Kirker and junior Brittany Lastrapes are right behind the

pair with four homers apiece.

But Thursday, Candrea wasn’t satisfied with only four points.

“I just thought we gave away too many at-bats,” he said. “I thought we weren’t on time seeing the ball well.

That’s frustrating.”

The Wildcats’ first score came after Panther starting pitcher Melissa Tillett consecutively walked sophomore Kristen Arriola and freshman Becca Tikey with two outs. Leadoff hitter Lastrapes dropped a hit into shallow left field to score Arriola and give the Wildcats a one-run lead in the bottom of the second inning.

Tillett was replaced by Jaye Hutcheson after two full innings, but

Hutcheson didn’t fare well against the Arizona offense.

The Wildcats threatened to score in the bottom of the fifth inning after singles

by Del Ponte and Koria. A wild pitch advanced the runners to second and third bases, but Arriola was thrown out at first and the game, unlike Wednesday’s twogame series, went past the fifth inning.

After the game ended, Candrea, who expected a larger margin of victory, questioned his players’ preparation.

“If we better prepare, then we’ll runrule them next time,” Del Ponte said.

“You can tell not everyone was giving their best effort, but I think that’s going to change now.”

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Wise deserves to be mentioned with the greats under four head coaches?

None.

To describe how hard it would be to play under four different head coaches, Miller’s statement explains it all:“I wouldn’t have done it.”

When coaches left the program for their next gig, Wise stayed.

When players left for NBA money or transferred to other programs that were more stable, Wise stayed.

When Wise had an opportunity to make a couple grand playing overseas, he stayed.

He could have easily left the program. Everyone would have understood. But instead he stuck through it all, now completing one of most unstable careers in history of college basketball.

Through the three years of uncertainty, Wise was the glue that held the program together while Olson couldn’t decide whether he was in or out.

Sure, Chase Budinger, Jordan Hill and Jerryd Bayless were the go-to guys, but Wise at point guard was just as important to the team as any future NBA star.

Who would’ve played point guard for the Wildcats if Wise had left?

Bayless was a hell of a talent, but he

By Vincent Balistreri Arizona Daily Wildcat Just four years ago, a chubby 5-foot10 freshman point guard wowed fans in McKale Center with his nifty ball handling and gave four-year starter Mustafa Shakur a run for his money at Arizona’s annual Red-Blue Scrimmage.

Though his first appearance in McKale Center recalled Jason Gardner, the last great Arizona small guard, four years later a slimmed-down Nic Wise has created his own legacy.

Wise has undoubtedly placed his name alongside the great point guards that come through a program referred to as “Point Guard U.” The senior won’t finish his career with the same statistics or national recognition as the all-time greats, but he is their equal in loyalty to the program and heart.

Some former Wildcats are only recognized as Arizona greats because of their NBA success, but Wise will be remembered by the Arizona basketball program for what he actually did while sporting the Cardinal and Navy.

He has been the definition of persistence since arriving on the UA campus.

He came to play under legendary coach Lute Olson for four years, but after his freshman year got Kevin O’Neill, Russ Pennell and current Arizona head coach Sean Miller.

What other Arizona player played

surely wasn’t a point guard.

Every year except his first, when he played sparingly behind Shakur, Wise was a key ingredient to each team that continued to make the tournament despite its circumstances.

During his sophomore year, when everyone thought he was too small and wouldn’t see the

floor with a big time recruit like Bayless coming in, Wise came in and played well with the current Trail Blazer.

After the season, when Bayless left for the draft, Brandon Jennings was expected to eclipse Wise, whose best bet, everyone whispered, was to transfer.

But when Jennings couldn’t get the SAT score he needed and bolted for Italy, Wise came back and came through for the Arizona basketball program. Wise, Budinger and Hill, Arizona’s big three, created one of the 2009 NCAA Tournament’s best feel-good stories, leading a suffering program to the Sweet 16.

Though Wise’s impact is somewhat intangible, he did have some great moments that Arizona fans will always remember.

Jan. 29, 2009: Wise had a then-career-high 29 points, hitting 14-14 free throws. Twenty of Wise’s points came in the second half of the game, helping Arizona to defeat Washington.

March 20, 2009: Wise tied his career high with 29 points in a first-round NCAA Tournament win against the University of Utah in Miami, Fla. 2009-10 season: Wise hit the game winner at the buzzer against Lipscomb University on Dec. 21. Two days later, he converted a game-winning layup

against North Carolina State.

Jan. 31, 2010: Wise scored a new career-high 30 points against California in an exciting first-place game in McKale Center.

Wise’s numbers don’t tell the entire story. The Houston native represents a transition to a new era in the Arizona basketball program.

“That’s one of the reasons me and coach sat down and I decided to come back,”Wise said.“I decided to be the bridge between the old and the new.”

As Wise will fittingly hold the floor by himself as the lone senior on the team, he will get a much-deserved standing ovation on Saturday — and three of his four coaches will attend his senior day festivities.

People may question whether he will ever earn a spot in the NBA because of his size or whether he was vocal enough on this season’s team, but no one can ever question his loyalty to the program.

Earlier this week, when Wise was asked what he wanted to be remembered for five to 10 years from now, this is what he said: “Someone that was loyal to the program. I committed here when I was 15 years old and I never wavered, even through the turmoil with coaches and players leaving. Just someone that loved the program and stuck with it through thick and thin.”

For that, he should be remembered.

Baseball faces another big test Gymcats meet Dawgs

By Michael Fitzsimmons Arizona Daily Wildcat Breaking in a young team could be compared to breaking in a new baseball glove.

Both are tedious processes that require a lot of repetition. Forming the perfect pocket in a glove can be frustrating and takes a while to feel comfortable.

For Arizona head coach Andy Lopez’s squad, the same is true of finding consistency on a nightly basis.

With perennial college powerhouse California State, Fullerton (No. 18) in town for a three-game series beginning tonight at 6, the process of breaking in the young Wildcats will continue regardless of the final scores.

“We need to play good people, and we need to play a lot of games,” Lopez said.“It’s the only way to have young guys get old.”

After sweeping the first series of the year against Utah Valley University, Arizona (4-3) has been humbled by losing three of its last four games.

Inconsistent pitching and untimely hitting characterized those losses, and against a team like Fullerton (3-4), the margin for error becomes even smaller.

For Lopez, success rises and falls with pitching.

“Nobody’s foolish in this program,”

Lopez said. “They know our best years, and most successful years have been when we’ve been pretty good on the mound.”

Wednesday’s walk-off win against University of Nevada, Las Vegas, restored order for Arizona after it had lost three games in a row, and it all started with a solid start from redshirt junior pitcher Daniel Workman.

Workman, who will likely round out the weekend rotation on Sunday following freshman Kurt Heyer and sophomore Kyle Simon, says that playing series against teams like Fullerton will only help Arizona in the long run.

“The better competition you see now, out of conference and everything, just makes you that much better for the teams that are ranked in your conference,”Workman said.

“It’s crucial for us because we aren’t ranked as high as (Fullerton), and getting those wins under your belt now keeps your confidence up for the season, and just helps to keep everything rolling,” he added.

The back end of the Arizona bullpen has been shaky thus far, and the closer position remains unfilled heading into this weekend.

Young candidates for the job like freshmen Tyler Hale and Nick Cunningham won’t have any time to catch their breath against a potent

Titan lineup.

Fullerton returns the core of last season’s team, which made it to the College World Series, and with a preseason ranking of No. 4, the Titans appear primed to make another deep run into the postseason this year.

Against such elite competition, the Wildcats’ mentality will ultimately dictate the outcome of the series.

“We’re young, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be good at baseball,” said sophomore outfielder Steve Selsky. “(The Titans) are good, and it should be exciting, if we play well. I know (Fullerton) and I think we can take it to them.”

No ‘Jett’ lag for Bandy Sophomore catcher Jett Bandy has been locked in at the plate for the Wildcats in their first seven games.

Bandy leads the team in every major offensive category, with three home runs, 11 RBIs and a .485 batting average.

He has also been responsible for handling Arizona’s young pitchers.

Although they’ve had their ups and downs early on, Bandy is confident that the experience from playing games will benefit the young arms.

“It’s still early in the season,”Bandy said. “It’s like a new car, we’re still figuring out all the new buttons and stuff and how everything works.”

By Kevin Nadakal Arizona Daily Wildcat

The Arizona gymnastics team will attempt to end its last few meets on a high note as it prepares for the Pacific 10 Conference Championships, which it will host beginning March 27. The team will aim to improve from last week, when they placed second out of four teams at the University of Nebraska. The No. 21 Gymcats (2-5) are performing against the University of Washington tonight at 7 in McKale Center. The Huskies (1-5) are the first unranked opponent the Gymcats will have faced in the last month.

“We need to have a good home meet — that’s for sure, because our first few home meets weren’t good,” said senior Sarah Tomczyk.“I think we need to go at least 195 this weekend at home.”

The team will have to compete in today’s meet with only two days of practice this week, as head coach Bill Ryden is choosing rest over training.

“We would like more training,” Ryden said. “Right now at this point in the season we have to rely on all the months that we have already put in. We have to give them time to recover.”

This will be the first home meet in a month for the Gymcats, something that the gymnasts are welcoming in the waning weeks of the season.

“I think that one thing I am looking forward to is the team just getting really excited about it,” said Deanna Graham.

“I just want to get out there and have

everyone cheering, everybody really excited for everything.”

The home crowd is not the only positive from having a home meet this week. Arizona is also looking forward to reducing injuries and fatigue by being at home.

“If we had to get on another plane on Thursday, it would be like, ‘again?’”

Ryden said.

According to Ryden, the team gets more rest during the week if they have a home meet because they do not have to worry about traveling. The team still has to go to class when they are competing at home, but, at away meets, they are taken away from everything.

The entire team agrees that it needs to perform better on beam and floor, as the Gymcats have had falls in two consecutive weeks on beam.

“What was unfortunate was that people who fell two weeks ago stuck this last week, but then other people fell,” Tomczyk said. “You can’t get upset when people fall because it’s not like they are always messing up.”

The Gymcats are having a solid week in practice. Katie Matusik has been practicing a floor routine, and Mykle Douglas has been looking good on the vault, but Ryden does not know if he will use them in the meet yet.

“We are a really good team, and when we practice, we practice amazingly well,” Graham said. “We just have to keep that in mind. We just have to compete like we practice.”

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Last chance in Iowa and Indiana

By Galo Mejia Arizona Daily Wildcat

Fourteen is the magic number for six UA track and field athletes this weekend.

This is their last opportunity to move up to at least 14th in the descending order for the NCAA National Championship meet.

Fourteen athletes are chosen for each event in the meet, and after the top 14 athletes are chosen, those who are doubling events are counted in order to free spots for single-event athletes. This leads to a total number of 284 men and women allowed to compete.

“This weekend is purely about time,” said head coach Fred Harvey. “It doesn’t matter what place they get. It’s about them running the best time they can.”

The women’s 4x400-meter team and sophomore LaTisha Holden will be headed to Lied Recreation Center at Iowa State for the NCAA Qualifier.

Senior Mohamud Ige will be headed to Notre Dame for the Alex Wilson Invitational.

The women’s 4x400m team is currently in 23rd on the descending order list. While nine spots seems like a lot, redshirt sophomore Echos Blevins has confidence that the team can improve.

“I’m excited that we’re going to get the chance to run again to better our time,” Blevins said. “This isn’t a race we can bullshit. We have to run it.There are schools there who are going to be running fast to better their time too.”

“I would have liked to have this week off,” Blevins added, “but I don’t mind going and running because that (4x400) is the only thing we’re running.”

Holden is aiming to improve her 17th spot in the women’s 60-meter hurdle by at least three positions this weekend. Holden has already climbed her way from 25th last week to 17th with a performance of 8.27 seconds.

Ige might have the largest hurdle this weekend as he looks to improve his 25th ranking. He provisionally qualified for the men’s 5000m last weekend with a time of 14:00.13.

It will be a pressure-packed weekend for the Wildcats, and Harvey feels that all the athletes this weekend should understand the situation that they are in and the pressure that comes with it.

“In Division I athletics, the pressure is a part of what we do,”he said.

A weekend for benchmarks

W-track begins Pac-10 season in Washington; men at home in rebound mode

By Nathan Comerford Arizona Daily Wildcat The start of conference play for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association’s No. 39 Arizona women’s tennis team (8-2) has been something the team has been looking forward to for a long time.

With games against ITA No. 18 Washington and an unranked Washington State team on Friday and Saturday, respectively, this weekend will serve as an initial benchmark for how the team can compete against the stacked Pacific 10 Conference.

It will be the hardest test the Wildcats have faced this year. Even with their pair of ranked singles players in No. 89 sophomore Natasha Marks and No. 106 sophomore Sarah Landsman, there are no guarantees against the Huskies (8-1) and their two, top-20 nationally ranked singles players, Denise Dy and Venise Chan.

“Arizona has always challenged the top programs, but we have also struggled to close out matches against

the top teams,” said head coach Vicky Maes. “This year, we have more depth, so I certainly feel that we have a chance against Washington, but everyone will have to play well.”

The team is accepting that underdog role, with not only these two teams, but also the conference in general.

“It is nice because we are the underdog, and therefore, the pressure is on them,” said senior Ariane Masschelein. “But we truly believe that we can compete with them and hopefully this year we can play hard and maybe upset one of those big teams.”

Men ready to rebound, get back to their winning ways In the minds of the Arizona men’s tennis players and head coach Tad Berkowitz, the team has no recollection of last week’s road trip to Texas, where it dropped two matches by a score of 4-3 to No. 18 Texas Tech and No. 32 University of Denver. The Wildcats received their lessons and moved on.

Those matches are behind Arizona, and the team is ready for what this weekend will bring. Santa Clara University and University of Nebraska both come into Tucson, with UA playing Santa Clara (7-2) at 1 p.m. on Friday at LaNelle Robson Tennis Center and hosting Nebraska (6-3) on Sunday at 12 p.m. at the same location.

It will be interesting to see how the Wildcats can respond after their first sight of adversity this season. Up until last week, their only loss had been in the ITA National Indoor Tournament against No. 25 Alabama.

“I think our guys will rebound well and have a successful weekend,” Berkowitz said. “We believe we can beat anyone in the country … but we also believe that if we’re not ready to go and if we’re not a complete unit, anybody can beat us.”

The biggest thing the head coach is looking for this weekend is a consistent outing from his entire team. While he mentioned that a lot of players are playing good tennis “day in and day

out,” there hasn’t been one specific match in which everyone has played his best at the same time.

As the tennis season is now in full swing, there would be no better time to have a good outing for the men this weekend, who play in the prestigious, invite-only Blue Gray Tennis Classic over spring break, then follow that up with their Pac-10 opener.

Wildcats in the rankings With the release of the ITA’s rankings on March 2, the men dropped 10 spots from No. 25 to No. 35. The doubles team of senior Ravid Hazi and junior Geoff Embry is slotted as the No. 51 team in the country.

For the No. 39 women, who improved 11 spots from the last release, undefeated sophomore Sarah Landsman is the newest ranked singles player at No. 106. Fellow sophomore Natasha Marks is at No. 89, a spot down from her previous ranking.

The next set of rankings will be released by the ITA on March 9.

UA men’s rugby team looks toward Sweet 16

By Jaime Valenzuela Arizona Daily Wildcat It’s March, and the Arizona basketball teams are not the only teams on campus aiming to be ‘Sweet.’

The Arizona men’s rugby team will have the opportunity to advance to College Rugby’s Sweet Sixteen for the first time since 2001, when it hosts divisional opponent UCLA at 3:30 p.m. at Murphey Soccer Stadium.

The winner receives an automatic bid into College Rugby’s championship tournament.

After the team’s Tuesday practice, one coach described the upcoming game as the biggest game in Arizona men’s rugby in the last 10 to 12 years.

“I think the seniors understand that if you win this, you go to the Sweet Sixteen,” said head coach Dave Sitton.

“All they’ve heard about are the great teams full of All-Americans that would go all the time. Everyone playing since then has had that burden on them.”

One player carrying the burden is senior flanker Sean O’Sullivan.

“It’s huge for me personally,” O’Sullivan said. “Since the time I was

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Arizona club rugby team senior Tyler Chastain chases down junior Robert Cardiff during a March 2 practice at Rincon Vista Field.

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We’ve slowly been working our way up (as a program) year by year. This will be the ultimate top to my senior year.”

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With a possible tournament berth and a 6-3 overall record, the rugby team has garnered national attention.

Arizona is currently ranked No. 20 by American Rugby News and No. 11 by Rugby Magazine and Goff on Rugby.

Though the national attention is nice, the men who play on the pitch have higher aspirations.

“We appreciate that,” Sitton said, “but the wonderful thing about (rugby) is that all polls will be decided on the field. It’s fun now, but without an outstanding performance on Saturday, it all means nothing.”

O’Sullivan echoed his coach’s sentiments.

“It’s nice to have the rankings,” O’Sullivan said, “but I’d rather validate it with a win and a trip to the Sweet Sixteen.”

Arizona lost 17-15 to UCLA on the road earlier this season by missing tackles and dropping passes, along with a failure to return kicks well.

When coach Sitton was asked about the loss, he could only search for a reason.

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By Dan Kohler Arizona Daily Wildcat

The Arizona women’s basketball team added a fourth game to their losing streak in a close battle against USC in Los Angeles Thursday night, 55-53.

The Wildcats (13-15, 6-11 Pacific 10 Conference) came into Thursday night’s contest needing a win and the momentum that comes with one, but were unable to shake the Trojans’ solid perimeter shooting. Arizona now sits with a 2-6 road record in conference play.

Going into the USC (17-11, 11-6) game with three straight losses, the Wildcats were determined to play competitively for the full 40 minutes.

“We need to play a full game, first half and second half.”said senior pointguard Ashley Frazier before the game. “We have to stay focused and determined.”

But because of the Wildcats’ mediocre first-half play, they were unable to follow through.

The game was close in the early minutes of the first half, with USC up 14-11 after freshman Davellyn Whyte sunk a 3-pointer with 11:45 left in the first.

USC maintained that lead all the way into the locker room, ahead 32-20 at halftime. UA struggled to get anything going in the first 20 minutes of play, especially with forward Ify Ibekwe benched for

most of the half with two fouls.

“Anytime you don’t have one of your starters and one of the best players on your team on the floor, offensively that’s going to hurt you,”said head coach Niya Butts. “It affects our offensive flow, but she got in there in the second half and she went to work which was what we needed her to do.”

USC kept the offensive pressure up coming into the second half, maintaining a lead of nine or more points throughout the first eight-and-a-half minutes.

But Arizona finally bounced back and turned the tables on the Trojans with a 10-2 rally courtesy of Ibekwe and Whyte, who helped bring the Wildcats within three with 8:42 on the clock.

With 55 seconds left on the clock, UA guard Brooke Jackson hit a 3-pointer, once again cutting the deficit to three.

Jackson regained the ball with the clock winding down. She attempted another 3-point shot, but this time was unable to convert as time expired.

“It was a perfectly executed play,” Butts said.“The shot just didn’t go down for us, which was unfortunate because we really fought back and had a good second half.”

Despite Arizona’s solid comeback, the Wildcats had difficulty at the free throw line, shooting only 65 percent as a team.

The Wildcats also allowed 20 turnovers.

“It’s a 40-minute basketball game and all of your mistakes tend to add up,”Butts said. “Certainly our free throws and our turnovers hurt us a lot.”

The Wildcats are still looking to reach the sixth spot in the Pac-10 in order to earn a first round bye in the conference tournament next weekend.

“In terms of a team playing three games versus four, it certainly makes a major difference,” Butts said of the conference tournament.“If you can get into that sixth place spot, it would certainly be ideal, but if that doesn’t happen, you have to be ready to play no matter what day you have to play on.”

The loss Thursday night puts Arizona in a shaky position, as Oregon’s game results this weekend will determine its fate. The Ducks head to the northwest this weekend to take on the Washington State Cougars and the Washington Huskies, currently eighth and ninth in the conference, respectively.

Regardless of the outcome of Thursday night’s game, the Wildcats can go into their last regular season game against the UCLA Bruins on Saturday with a little more confidence due to their second half play against USC. “I was really proud of their efforts,” Butts said of the team.

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continued from page 6 Ever so quietly, the Pac-10 Freshman Player of the Year front-runner still managed to grab a double-double with 12 points and 11 boards.

“We’ve grown on each other, we know how each other plays,” Jones said.

“We have a great relationships together. Now that we know each other we have a bond. It’s not a one-man show, we just have to do it all together.”

The bond was evident in the post-game press conference, when Arizona’s ‘Small Three’ took the podium as the fun-to-love players that even the 80-year season ticket-holders stayed up until 10:47 p.m. to watch.

Fogg and Wise fielded questions from the media, but it was Jones who sat in the middle and became the goto guy with all the answers.

Just as he and his freshman teammates will in this team’s future.

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Men’s swim, dive in third ByDerek Lawrence Arizona Daily Wildcat The UA men’s swim and dive team held steady on day two of the Pacific 10 Conference Championships, currently sitting in third place.

The No. 1 men’s team had many great performances on Thursday, but none of them were quite good enough to get into the winner’s circle. In the 200-yard freestyle relay, Arizona’s team — seniors Jake Tapp and Jordan Smith, sophomore Adam Small

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and junior Rob Iddiols placed third with a time of 1:18.48.

“I think we did well, especially considering we were swimming against guys that are more rested than we are,” Smith said.

The UA’s big event of the night was the 200y individual medley, in which the Wildcats had four swimmers place in the “A” heat. Senior Jack Brown led the way, finishing third with a time of 1:45.53.

Sophomore Cory Chitwood placed fifth in the event, with senior Clark Burckle and

freshman Carl Mickelson coming in just after him.

Senior Jean Basson finished as a runnerup in the 500y freestyle “B” heat with a time of 4:19.57. Only Stanford’s David Mosko, the winner of the 500y freestyle “A” heat, finished with a better time.

“I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t make the ‘A’ final because I would have been second in there with my time,” Basson said.“But it’s OK for now because I’ve been saying that my main focus is nationals, so this was good preparation for that.”

Jazz rally in fourth quarter to beat Suns The Associated Press The Utah Jazz trailed the Phoenix Suns nearly the entire game.

Still coach Jerry Sloan kept urging his team to “keep on fighting, keep on fighting,” Utah forward C.J. Miles said.

Fight they did, erasing an 11-point deficit with 7:43 remaining to beat the Suns 116108 on Thursday night.

Deron Williams and Mehmet Okur were the catalysts of the Jazz’ comeback, which was reminiscent of their rally from 17 points down when the teams first met this season on Jan. 25 and Utah won 124-115.

Williams scored 13 of his 27 points during a 41-point fourth quarter and Okur finished with 24 points.

The Jazz trailed 96-85 early in the fourth quarter, then reeled off a 13-2 run, capped by a 3-pointer

by Okur, to tie the game.

They took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Williams with 1:36 remaining that made it 109-106.

Overall, Utah finished 12 of 24 from 3-point range, including 7-of-11 in the fourth period.

“Basketball is a game of runs,” Miles said, “and we got ours at the right time.”

The Suns, meanwhile were only 5 of 19 from behind the arc.

“I think we did a good job of not letting them hit the home run most of the night,”Sloan said.

Carlos Boozer had 15 points and 15 rebounds for Utah, and Miles scored 15.

“It seemed like they (the Suns) had the momentum in the first three quarters,” Boozer said. “We’ve played this team twice and both times they were able to jump out and somehow we were able to come back and beat them.

“But we can’t keep up that trend.”

Amare Stoudemire scored 30 points for the second consecutive game for Phoenix. Jason Richardson had 22, Grant Hill 17 and Steve Nash 14 points and 15 assists.

The victory kept the Jazz in fourth place in the Western Conference, 1½ games ahead of the Suns.

“You never know what’s going to happen and who’s going to end up where in the playoffs,” Boozer said. “Especially when you’re playing in the ‘Wild West’ where every game is monumental.”

“To come back the way we did says a lot about the character of our team,”Williams said.

Phoenix coach Alvin Gentry was mostly satisfied with his team’s play.

“I thought we played well for about 45 minutes, but the last three minutes is where it fell apart,” he said.“We just couldn’t finish the job off. You have to give them credit. They’re a tough team and they did a good job of executing down the stretch.”

“I don’t know if fatigue set in,” Stoudemire said, “but we played well most of the night. We just didn’t play well defensively down the stretch. We just have to key in defensively in the fourth quarter to get some stops.”

The Suns took control in the first half with a blistering shooting performance (13-for-19, 73.7 percent) and an 11-0 run in the opening quarter. After Okur hit the first field goal, the Suns ran off their burst, with Robin Lopez making three shots.

The Jazz never got closer than five points after that in the half and needed a 3-pointer by Sundiata Gaines at the buzzer to trail 57-49 at intermission.

Nash, who scored only two points against the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday night, already had 14 at the half, along with eight assists, directing the Suns’ offense with his usual efficiency.

At the break, the Suns still were shooting a dazzling 64.9 percent (24-for-37). What kept Utah reasonably close was its offensive rebounding. Nearly half the Jazz’s total 23 rebounds (11) were off the offensive glass and they scored 11 secondchance points.

Phoenix’s biggest lead in the first half was 13 points, 37-24, on a three-point play by Jared Dudley with 1:30 gone in the second quarter.

Utah was hurt in the half when Williams and Andrei Kirilenko each incurred three personal fouls.

Stoudemire really asserted himself in the third quarter, scoring 15 points on a variety of shots — including three dunks, a jumper, a drive, a layup and three foul shots, two of them completing three-point plays.

Okur kept the Jazz reasonably close — they trailed 86-75 at the end of the period — with 10 points. The Suns’ turnovers — they had a total of 15, leading to 16 points, also helped the Jazz.

But it was the Suns’ extraordinary shooting — they were 34-for-53, 64.2 percent, at that point, that kept them safely ahead.

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