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SPORTS | WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

The road ends here: WNIT Final Four preview

BY NOAH AUCLAIR @noahauclairUA

With its win over Wyoming on Sunday, Arizona women’s basketball is headed to the Final Four of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament for the first time since 1996. Here are three things that were key in the Wildcats’ win over the Cowgirls: 1: The emotion and play of Cate Reese While she’s been bringing it all season, the McDonald’s All-American freshman seems to have kicked it into another gear in the WNIT. She opened up the tournament with a 20-point, 10-rebound double-double and finished the game vs. Wyoming one rebound short of another, with 13 points and nine rebounds. From hustling up and down the court to flexing after a strong and-one basket to thrashing around trying to win the ball in a tie up, Reese has brought an intensity and ferocity to the postseason. Although she’s just a freshman, her emotion on the court seems to inspire and energize her teammates.

2: Defense wins championships Coming into the game, Wyoming was second in the nation in 3-point percentage. The Wildcats held it to 2-12 from beyond the arc, or 16.7 percent, with the two made 3s coming late in the fourth quarter. On the season, the Cowgirls were shooting 46 percent from the field, but the Wildcats held them to 31 percent. There were also only two players on Wyoming that had more than six points, so to say the Wildcats were clamping up on defense would be an understatement.

3: Record crowds Tucson was out in full force on Sunday afternoon, with the official attendance announced at 7,717, the most for Arizona women’s basketball since 2016. To put that into perspective, the record for attendance in the program’s history is 8,442. The crowd was loud throughout the game, as head coach Adia Barnes and the players both credited the crowd for inspiring them and picking them up when the going got a little rough.

For the previous matchup against Idaho, Barnes asked for 5,000 fans to be in attendance. She got 6,307. For the game against Wyoming, she asked for

7,000. Now, for the Final Four matchup against TCU, she’s asking for 10,000.

Soon enough, McKale might not be big enough to hold the amount of people waiting to see Barnes and company.

Including the ‘Cats, there are now just four teams left in the field of teams in the WNIT. Here’s a look at the other three, starting with their opponent Wednesday night, TCU: TCU Tournament Wins: Prairie View A&M, UT Arlington, Arkansas, Cincinnati TCU comes to McKale with a 2410 record and boasting three 14-point wins in the WNIT. The Horned Frogs’ leading scorer on the season is senior center Jordan Moore, who is averaging 14 points per game in the postseason.

She has not been held under 50 percent from the field and has two doubledoubles in the four postseason games.

Senior forward Amy Okonkwo is averaging 20 points per game in the WNIT, including a 26-point, 14-rebound performance in TCU’s four-point win over Arkansas.

James Madison Tournament Wins: North Carolina A&T, South Florida, Virginia Tech, Georgetown Hosting Northwestern on the other side of the bracket, the Dukes also have three double-digit wins in the tournament and head into their Final Four matchup with a 29-5 record. Their leading scorer, Kamiah Smalls, has only played in three of the four WNIT games but has tallied point totals of 17, 16 and 13. Redshirt junior Jackie Benitez is averaging 16 points per game in the postseason.

Northwestern Tournament Wins: Dayton, Toledo, West Virginia, Ohio Northwestern enters the Final Four with wins in different fashions. After beating Dayton by 23, its highest margin of victory was seven points, with its last two wins decided by five points combined. Sophomore Lindsey Pulliam is averaging 20 points per game, while senior Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah opened up the tournament with a 17-point, 11-rebound double-double. Other than the two, the Wildcats don’t have a player averaging double digit points on the season.

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TEE TEE STARKS CENTER gets hyped with teammates Cate Reese (left) and Sam Thomas (right) after a crucial play in the second half vs. Idaho on Thursday March 28 in McKale Center.

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ARTS & LIFE | PH.D. SPOTLIGHT

Ph.D. student strings together modern American guitar history

BY JESSE TELLEZ @jtell27

On March 7, Kathy Acosta Zavala stood in front of peers from around the world at the Senate House in London at the International Women and/in Musical Leadership Conference to present research she had done for her dissertation.

Acosta Zavala is a Ph.D. musicology candidate and guitarist in the University of Arizona’s Fred Fox School of Music. The paper she presented in London was titled “Vahdah OlcottBickford and the Development of the Modern American Guitar Landscape.”

It focused on Olcott-Bickford, a famous American guitarist from the early 20th century who founded the American Guitar Society in 1923.

“She basically built a whole institutional framework for the classical guitar and the championing of the instrument,” Acosta Zavala said.

“I’m trying to build on that and how she built the Society and what it did for the future of the guitar.”

Acosta Zavala came to the U.S. from Peru at age 16 to pursue her education in music and completed both her undergraduate and Master’s studies at the UA. She said she became inspired to apply for the Ph.D. program so she could research the lives of women in music because she noticed most musical repertoires she had been exposed to were by male composers.

“I wanted to see the lineage I had come from, because my education had not given me that, so I wanted to search for it,” Acosta Zavala said.

After receiving a grant from the UA College of Fine Arts’ Medici Circle donor program, Acosta Zavala was able to visit the Vahdah OlcottBickford Collection at California State University, Northridge, last summer to look through archives and conduct research.

Acosta Zavala said her Medici donor, Pam Geoga, who passed away in early March; her mentor-turned-coworker Julia Pernet from the Tucson Guitar Society and her female colleagues in the School of Music inspired her to do

research on influential women in the music community.

One of those colleagues was Jennifer Post, a lecturer in ethnomusicology who first taught Acosta Zavala two years ago in a course on music in Latin America and the Caribbean.

“It was clear from the beginning of this course that we were on the same wavelength, and this made it easy for me to teach her and for her to learn from me,” Post said. “I chose to focus the course on politics and music, and I think Kathy was especially interested in this approach.”

Post said she is passionate about studying music and gender and is excited for Acosta Zavala to write her dissertation, which includes those topics.

“The School of Music has not offered courses on women in music in recent years, and I am pleased that Kathy has taken on this important subject,” Post said. “I am fully in support of this work and definitely believe that we must continue to address the need for greater diversity in music history in both education and research.”

Another subject Acosta Zavala has been interested in researching is how music has been used during times of war. She wrote a paper on the topic titled “War, Institutions and Commissions: A Study of the 1943 League of Composers’ War-Themed Commissions.”

Acosta Zavala presented that paper at the 2018 Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference, where it won the award for best student paper. Acosta Zavala said that year’s conference, which she organized, was held at the UA and had over 100 scholars from around the country attend.

Acosta Zavala said she was able to do research for her award-winning paper through a trip with five other UA music students to several archives in New York. The research trip was organized

by Matthew Mugmon, an assistant professor of musicology at UA’s School of Music.

Mugmon said dealing with lots of archival documents can be challenging, but Acosta Zavala did not

ANA BELTRAN | THE DAILY WILDCAT

KATHY ACOSTA ZAVALA IS a Ph.D. musicology candidate. Recently, Acosta Zavala traveled to London to speak at the International Women and/in Musical Leadership Conference about her dissertation research.

let that stop her.

“Kathy faced this task confidently and gained important experience that has already paid off,” Mugmon said. “I know that Kathy has been developing fluency with a wide range of approaches and methods used in the study of music, and that she will combine those skills with her analytical acumen and strong musical sense ... and make a splash wherever she goes.”

When Acosta Zavala is not conducting research about music, she can be found working at the Tucson Guitar Society as the operations director or hosting the “Sundays in the Garden” concert series at the Tohono Chul botanical garden in Tucson.

After she graduates from UA, Acosta Zavala said she one day hopes to write a children’s book that tells the story of Vahdah Olcott-Bickford. She also hopes to eventually become the executive director of an arts organization and help give back to the music community.

“That is what I want to do with my Ph.D., with my career, with who I am,” Acosta Zavala said.

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VAHDAH OLCOTTBICKFORD AND her involvement in American guitar is the focus of Kathy Acosta Zavala’s dissertation for her Ph.D. project.

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NEWS | BIKE THEFTS

UA Cycling Club advocates for dormitory bicycle-policy changes

BY JAKE TOOLE @JakeToole4

The University of Arizona Cycling Team is again seeking to reform UA policies on bicycles, particularly the policy of students not being allowed to have their bicycles in dorm rooms.

This next phase of pushing for policy change from the UA Cycling Team comes after one of their members, Spencer Ciammitti, a freshman engineering major, had his racing bikes stolen from Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall on Feb. 14.

According to Ciammitti, his roommate woke him up the morning of Feb. 14 and told him his bicycles were gone. Ciammitti said he found a University of Arizona Police Department officer outside the dorm, and they pieced together how the thief broke into the dorm’s bike locker.

Ciammitti said evidence the UAPD officer and himself found made it seem that the perpetrator used an angle grinder to cut through the side paneling of the dorm’s bike lockers to get inside and get the bikes.

While this is the most recent theft of a UA Cycling Team member’s bicycle, the UA has a large number of bike thefts so, it is not the first, according to Joey Iuliano, a doctoral student in the UA School of Geography and Development and the president of the UA Cycling Team.

Iuliano also said he has been trying to get the bicycle ban in dorm rooms removed since 2013.

He explained the reason he has been trying to change the policy for so long is it can negatively affect the team’s ability to properly function.

According to Iuliano, the university does provide bike lockers to keep bikes secure. Iuliano said, however, that the bike lockers usually cost over $100 each for a year and only hold one bike, which is a problem for competitive bicyclists, who usually have more than one bike.

He also explained that the system that assigns bike lockers does not assure one location.

“There’s no guarantee that you’re going to get three that are side by side or you’re going to get any that are

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BIKES STRIPPED OF PARTS sit in front of Arbol de La Vida Residence Hall on Mar. 29. The UA Cycling Team wants to allow students to keep bikes in their dorm rooms to reduce thefts.

even close to your dorm,” Iuliano said.

“They’re not that well situated. They don’t have a lot of them. Some are located close to dorms, but you have no idea.”

According to Iuliano, the inconvenience of the bike lockers has affected freshmen and sometimes graduate students’ decisions on choosing to stay on the team, as freshman students on the team sometimes either do not stay in the dorms because they can’t keep their bicycles in the rooms or they use the bike lockers for a while and then quit the team because of the inconvenience.

Iuliano has met with Housing and Residential Life staff before and said they listened to and seemed to understand why the Cycling Team wants to have their bicycles in the dorms but at the same time stood firm about the rule of not allowing them.

Iuliano said the Residential Life staff he met with said they would add more bike lockers close to the dorms to help them, but he is not sure if he has really seen them.

Herb Wagner, the director of the Occupational/Environmental Health and Safety sections of the Risk Management Services department, said bicycles are not allowed in any buildings on campus, not just the dorms. He said the policy was introduced after students brought their bicycles into class rooms and hallways, creating safety issues, especially in evacuation situations.

According to Wagner, the problem they are trying to prevent is people grabbing their bikes in an emergency evacuation and preventing people from exiting as fast as possible. According to Ciammitti however, students are allowed to store other large, expensive

equipment, such as skis, in the dorms, which he sees as unfair treatment to cyclists.

“It’s not like we’re going to be riding our bikes down the hallways of the dorm and stuff like that,” said Ciammitti. “We just want those in our rooms to give us some kind of aspect of security.”

Iuliano said he met with staff from Residential Life the week of March 18 and discussed what could be done.

“They are exploring several different options to help improve the situation,” Iuliano said. “They’re improving the security of many of the enclosures by replacing the bars with a metal mesh that is much more difficult to cut through. They’re looking at installing more bike lockers. And we’re having a meeting with the Rec Center about space to store bikes there as well, so I’m very happy with the efforts so far.”

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NEWS | CYCLOVIA & POLICE BEAT

Experience a Tucson without cars at Cyclovia

BY MARQUIES WHITE @marquies_white

Cyclovia is a free, biannual event where three miles of Tucson streets are made car-free for the day and are lined with different activities, events, food and other entertainment. The spring 2019 Cyclovia event will take place Sunday, April 7, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Cyclovia is a program of the Living Streets Alliance, a non-profit organization that advocates for inclusive streets that are a safe, public spaces for anyone who travels on them, regardless of their transportation method.

“Our mission is to advocate for a thriving Tucson by creating great streets for all of us,” said Kylie Walzak, lead program manager for the Living Streets Alliance. “We envision streets as public space that connects people to each other and to places.”

The Cyclovia route extends three miles from the Banner University Medical Center Tucson location to the Tucson Historic Warehouse Arts District.

“Cyclovia is a chance to remove cars from a network of streets completely so that people can experience what it is like to get around in their city outside of a car,” Walzak said.

Over 100 activities and performances will

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BY VANESSA ONTIVEROS @NessaMagnifique

package for mj Getting a package is always a treat, whether it’s cookies from mom, a sweater from grandma or a bong from yourself.

However, only one of those will get you in trouble with the law.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to Coronado Residence Hall after the mailroom attendant reported the scent of marijuana coming from inside a package on March 11.

When the officer arrived, he spoke to the attendant, who said the package was already in the mailroom at the start of her shift.

The officer inspected the package and reported he could also smell the strong scent of marijuana.

line the route of Cyclovia. Many of these events will promote fitness and healthy living and incorporate poetry and writing, as Cyclovia will be celebrating national poetry month.

“We have a stated goal that everyone who attends Cyclovia will encounter poetry in some way along the route,” Walzak said.

“We’ve really used that as a theme to plug in all kinds of poetry themed activities all along the route.”

Banner University Medicine is the title sponsor of Cyclovia, and the Banner University Medical Center Tucson location will preview the first two floors of its new patient building at the start of the Cyclovia route, according to Katie Riley, director of media relations at Banner University Medicine.

Banner will host guided tours of the new building, and just outside there will be live music, food trucks, a zip line and other activities.

The 2019 Cyclovia spring event will be the 15th event over the last eight years. Walzak said Cyclovia has been a popular event throughout the years, and the Living Streets Alliance is expecting 40,000 people to attend.

The Living Streets Alliance has had success in creating safer streets in Tucson.

In February, Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and the Tucson City Council unanimously

The UAPD K-9 unit was called in. The package was placed in the community room along with two identical, clean packages. The dog showed interest in the suspicious package but did not make a positive alert.

After this, the officer located the room of the student whose name was on the package. The student answered the door and allowed the officer in.

The officer told him about the situation and the student explained the package contained a bong that did not have any marijuana in it. According to the student, he had packaged and mailed the bong over spring break and was planning on using it in his fraternity house. Before mailing the bong, he had carefully scrubbed it clean of any marijuana.

The student agreed to the officer’s request to open the package so he could confirm there were no drugs in it.

When the student opened the package, he revealed an 18-inch, blue, glass bong along with two bowls. The contents of the box were all tightly packaged in styrofoam.

The student told the officer he had been placed in the Diversion Program last month for possession of marijuana. After confirming this, the officer informed him he could not be diverted a second time. Instead, the officer cited, arrested and released him

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CYCLOVIA TUCSON LOOKS TO promote and increase awareness for cycling and walking as acceptable and safe modes of transportation. The free event, pictured here in April 2018, is open to all.

adopted a complete streets policy which requires new streets to have safe means of transport for every user.

“We’ve really gone far down the road, pun intended, of creating streets that really prioritize one dominant mode of travel in personal automobiles,” Walzak said. “And

that’s not achieving the highest potential of our streets. Our streets should be safe, comfortable, convenient places that foster the community.”

The full route, a line-up of activities and more information can be found on the Cyclovia website.

for possession of paraphernalia. He also confiscated the bong.

his belongings from her dorm room, but he ignored her. She then told him if he didn’t pick up his clothes, she would burn them.

She said he responded by saying she should go ahead and send a video and showed the officer the text where he said this.

The student said she then burned his clothes, including four pairs of basketball shorts and two t-shirts.

She admitted the clothes technically belonged to the man, but she had considered them like gifts, since she had been keeping and wearing his clothing while they were dating. She alleged he also never asked for the clothes back.

A second UAPD officer who had gone with a Yavapai resident assistant to check for signs of a recent fire confirmed what looked like remainders of burnt clothes in the grill.

Another officer was supposed to meet with the man near the stadium, but he never showed up and did not answer his phone.

The first officer spoke with the student’s roommate, who said the man had recently come to their door and asked if the student was back. When the roommate responded she was not sure, he left.

The student also told the first officer the man’s mom told her the court had issued a no-contact order for the man.

The officer told her to call UAPD if the man attempted to contact her again.

ooh, burn!

It’s rare that a relationship literally goes up in flames, but that was the case for one couple on March 11.

A UAPD officer responded to Yavapai Residence Hall to investigate a possible domestic disturbance. The man who called alleged he had gone to Yavapai to collect his clothes from his ex-girlfriend, a UA student, and she had slammed the door in his face and sent a video of herself burning the clothes.

When he arrived, the officer found no signs of active fire activity. He located the student’s room and overheard a female voice inside the room saying she had burned all “his” clothing.

The officer knocked, and the student invited him in to talk. The student told him she and her boyfriend had broken up right before spring break, from which she had just returned to Tucson. The two had ended their relationship after filing a police report for unspecified reasons.

According to the student, when she returned to Tucson from spring break, the student asked the ex-boyfriend to collect

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SPORTS | ATHLETE SPOTLIGHT

Former Wildcat running back tackles MMA After a standout high school football career, Noah Pittenger embraces a new challenge in refining his skills through Jui Jitsu. In addition to taking classes at UA, Pittenger trains daily at 10th Planet Jui Jitsu

BY MARK LAWSON @MarkLawson_1

The gym inside of 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu is filled with all different walks of life: professional fighters looking to stay sharp between matches, average joes looking to pick up a new hobby and children being introduced to the sport. Among the group is a University of Arizona student trading his life on the gridiron for a life on the mat.

Noah Pittenger was a preferred walkon on the 2017 Arizona football team who went 7-6 in the final season of the Rich Rodriguez era. A pre-physiology major, Pittenger played the sport since he was a kid, becoming an all-state running back at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix as a senior. Eventually, he felt it might be time for a change of pace from the sport he had known his whole life.

“After you do something for so long, it kinda gets repetitive,” Pittenger said. “I had always been interested in martial arts and fighting, and this was kind of the first thing I wanted to do after I left the game.”

Pittenger called the gym and was connected with Mercedes White, who owns and operates 10th Planet with her husband, professional MMA fighter Anthony Birchak. White recommended jiu jitsu, which is a Brazilian form of martial arts that focuses on grappling and ground fighting, as a way to quench his thirst to still be a competitive athlete away from football. White said Pittenger started to pick the sport up quickly.

“At first, he was only able to come to mat training, where we don’t have as much structure,” White said. “I saw him picking up little things just from trial by fire and getting right into the mix.

He expressed his frustration of getting stuck in positions and not knowing certain things where his athleticism was enough to get him past new guys but not with more experienced grapplers. I told him the fact he’s learned as much as he had was amazing and a sign of a very intellectual athlete.”

White currently has a stable of around ten fighters under her fight team ToroTech MMA , with three of them being professionals. “The rest are up-andcoming amateurs looking to continue their rise to the pro level,” she said.

Pittenger has been doing the sport for about five months now and says the similarities between MMA and football are more from the mental side than the physical one.

“It’s similar, from an attitude perspective,” Pittenger said. “You’re always trying to learn and get better, and when people start off in any new sport, you’re always going to have a learning curve. Every day when I come in, I try to bring the same attitude as I had on the field on the mats.”

One of the biggest challenges in transitioning sports, besides not having any background in jiu jitsu, was affording a gym membership on a student budget.

Pittenger’s family was unwilling to finance a future in the sport, leaving him in a bind financially while he works towards his degree.

“I have a program I do with young, hungry, ambitious athletes who want to train but can’t afford it,” White said.

“All they have to do is clean the gym, which includes our normal regiment of sweeping and mopping mats, trash detail and cleaning the bathroom. Noah has never once complained or said he was too busy. It shows me he is truly invested in this sport and our team. There’s not many people that stick with the program for a free membership, so for someone like Noah who comes from good means to be able to show me that’s not beneath him speaks to his character as a man.”

In his few months of training, Pittenger said the best part of the whole experience hasn’t been technique-based, but actually learning patience on the mat.

“You gotta wait for moves to open up,” Pittenger said. “Sometimes you learn to push the pace, and other times you learn to sit back and relax. You have to know when the right time for that is.”

Pittenger said the sport is definitely something he can see himself doing down the road, but there is a lot of work to be done. He competed for the first time last month, finishing first in his weight division and third overall.

“I lost by making a small mistake learning how to position your body, staying balanced,” Pittenger said. “I feel I’ve always been motivated to be good at whatever it is I do. Just like in football, working hard to try and hone my skills.

That’s what I’m trying to do here.”

White feels that for Pittenger, the sky is the limit.

“I would no doubt expect someone of his athletic level, good heart and character to get his black belt in jiu jitsu and win a lot of gold medals along the way,” White said. “It’s just a time thing for when he’s finally a master at this craft.”

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NOAH PITTENGER STRETCHES BEFORE starting his jiu jitsu class.

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NOAH PITTENGER SPARRING WITH his partner during training on Mar. 28 in Tucson. Pittenger trains at the 10th Planet Jiu Jitsu gym daily when he’s not studying physiology.

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INVESTIGATIVE | FAITH CHRISTIAN CHURCH

FCC maintains on-campus presence

BY JAKE TOOLE @DailyWildcat

Have you been approached on campus by a person wearing sunglasses and an empty backpack asking you to take a survey on religion?

If you have, you were probably approached by a member of the Faith Christian Church. In 2015, over 20 former members alleged this Christian ministry had cult-like practices, according to an Arizona Daily Star investigative article.

This investigation, however, has not prevented group members from being on campus and interacting with students.

The alleged cult-like practices included teaching members to corporally punish their children, financially coercing members and encouraging members to alienate themselves from their families.

FCC was a member of the University Religious Council until the article was published, prompting the URC to investigate FCC and revoke its membership.

Ongoing Presence

John Winchester, outreach coordinator for the Arizona Center for Judaic Studies, said even after the FCC had its URC membership revoked and the Daily Star’s investigations, FCC still has a strong presence on campus.

According to Winchester, FCC is not allowed to use any of the university’s facilities.

Winchester said FCC has responded to the Dean of Students Office restrictions by organizing its events, such as Bible studies, at off-campus locations.

“All the Dean of Students Office did was say, ‘you can’t do anything organized on campus,’” Winchester said. “So they took it off campus.”

A defining characteristic of FCC’s influence on campus is its campus ministers.

According to FCC’s website, it has 30 campus evangelists, whose jobs are to go to campus and reach out to students through religious surveys and other practices.

“They’ve got more people as far as any other Christian groups on campus,” Winchester said, explaining FCC ministers are consistently on campus on a day-today basis.

What has been done

According to Randi Kisiel, secretary of the University Religious Council, the URC has not monitored FCC since 2015.

She explained FCC is no longer under the URC’s jurisdiction.

The URC has a red flag program, which

is a list of warning signs of a religious organization potentially being dangerous.

The list can be found in pamphlets for UA incoming freshman, where there is also a warning specifically about FCC. Kendal Washington White, dean of students and vice provost for Campus Life, said the responsibility of monitoring FCC came under the Dean of Students Office, but they never technically had jurisdiction over FCC, because FCC is not officially associated with the UA. The DSO does have jurisdiction to investigate anything that involves official UA organizations, such as official Associated Students of the University of Arizona clubs.

During the Daily Star investigation, three ASUA clubs were said to have affiliations with FCC: Native Nations in Christ, Wildcats for Christ and Providence Club.

According to Washington White, they would have Dean of Students Office staff members attend meetings of the three clubs unannounced to see if they were following UA and ASUA restrictions and guidelines.

DSO staff members attended multiple meetings of these clubs but discontinued after a year and a half.

“Our staff had multiple unannounced attendance at their meeting and there were no signs of misbehavior and FCC leaders were not present,” Washington White said.

Soon after the results of the investigations came out regarding FCC, the Dean of Students Office held a presentation on campus in April 2015 led

by Doni Whitsett, a professor from the University of Southern California and expert in cult-related issues.

The Dean of Students Office has not sponsored any education sessions on cults since then, according to Washington White.

Washington White said the Dean of Students Office watched certain areas where FCC members tended to be seen but has discontinued observation because of the lack of reports.

“We did spot checks for a year and have not continued to do so as we have not received reports from the UA or Tucson community,” Washington White said.

Washington White explained monitoring is incredibly difficult, because the DSO can’t keep track of all organizations that set foot on campus.

Free Speech

Kisiel said she believes the main reason FCC potentially survived its negative media coverage in 2015 and is still able to convert people on campus is the UA’s prioritization of free speech.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY NICHOLAS TRUJILLO | THE DAILY WILDCAT

FAITH CHRISTIAN CHURCH MEMBERS dress up as students and hang around campus to talk with students.

The students pictured in this illustration are in no way affliated with the Faith Christian Church.

She clarified she believes in freedom of speech and freedom of religion but is also concerned when groups like FCC are continuously influencing students.

After complaints of its presence, Kiesel said, “I then refer them to the Dean of Students Office with the hope that the Dean of Students Office will take care of them.”

According to the Dean of Students Office, the university free speech policy is: “The University is committed to protecting the free speech rights of students, faculty, staff and invited guests. The purpose of this policy is to respect the Campus Community’s rights to free speech and expressive activity within public and designated public forums, while preserving public health, safety and welfare, the normal business uses of the campus and the rights of others to legitimately use and enjoy the campus.”

Student Experiences

TJ Hoshiwara, a pre-computer science sophomore, was approached by members of FCC with a survey the beginning of his freshman year, in the 2017 fall semester.

After this first encounter, Hoshiwara went to church services, which he said about 200 members attended, and met with an FCC campus minister once a week for six months. According to Hoshiwara, the one-on-one sessions consisted mainly of the FCC campus minister’s questions about when Hoshiwara was going to convert or change his lifestyle to FCC’s preferred belief set.

Hoshiwara said he believed the FCC

member displayed a genuine interest in his personal well-being, making it hard to understand their motives and priorities.

He said the first time FCC started raising red flags for him was when his friends from other Christian groups on campus told him about the allegations against FCC. However, the biggest red flag for him was he began to doubt his beliefs after many meetings with the FCC campus minister.

Hoshiwara said he confronted the FCC campus minister he had been meeting with, and together they met with an associate pastor of the church to address the accusation Hoshiwara had heard.

According to Hoshiwara, they were very open to talking about it with him, but at the same time did not really directly address the accusations.

After that meeting, Hoshiwara met with the FCC campus minister a couple of times but declined to go to FCC’s church services. The meetings quickly stopped after that.

“From what I’ve read, FCC has hurt a lot of people, and I believe there is a lot of validity to a lot of these claims,” Hoshiwara said. “But the people I met from there were genuine, and they’re on campus every day because they want to share the gospel with as many people as they can, which I admire.”

Despite the investigations and administrative responses in 2015, FCC has continued its presence on campus and influence over students.

The Daily Wildcat reached out to FCC but it did not respond.

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ARTS & LIFE | ART SHOW

‘Railed Out Art Show’ benefits horse rescue Student artists from the University of Arizona are benefitting both struggling artists and horses by hosting an art show, where a portion of proceeds will go towards Wild Horse Ranch Rescue

BY AMBER SOLAND @its_amber_rs

Outside of western paintings hanging in grandparents’ houses, art and horses are not an obvious pair.

But art students from the University of Arizona are making the two worlds collide with the “Railed Out Art Show”, a studentled, local gallery for the benefit of Wild Horse Ranch Rescue.

The show is April 11, 6-10 p.m. at the Whistle Stop Depot on 127 W. 5th St. and will feature both local and student artists with a variety of mediums, including a virtual reality platform.

“I initially thought it would be smaller than what it’s shaping up to be,” said Beau Brooks, a co-planner of the show. “Funny coincidence, really. Early on we noticed that a lot of the artist submissions were really cohesive, so that kind of shaped the personality of the show.”

The show began as a class assignment for Brooks, a senior and studio art major taking an art gallery management class this semester.

It was originally supposed to be a group project with his classmates, but Brooks had a better idea — he enlisted the help of his friend Delaney Thomas, another student majoring in Art and Visual Culture Education and Psychology.

In January, Brooks had heard Thomas was wanting to “plan something.” She was always keeping herself busy, Brooks said, and she had experience with planning galleries and shows.

Thomas was immediately intrigued.

“I feel like when you are a student artist, you want to showcase your work but don’t know where to start or where to go,” Thomas said. “I want to give people the opportunity to showcase their work for the first time and feel more confident.”

Thomas and Brooks started rounding up sponsorships from family circles and even Specter Tours and made a call to artists.

There was an uncanny synergy among the artists’ works, according to Thomas.

There wasn’t a particular theme, but all the submissions were Gothic inspired, despite being different mediums.

Without even trying, the show had been given a personality, and suddenly it was not just a class project anymore.

Between the Gothic themes and horses, the “Railed Out Art Show” was already shaping up to be a weird one. Once Thomas and Brooks found Whistle Stop Depot they decided to run with the show’s

quirks and hijinks and book it at the venue.

“Whistle Stop itself has a very unique atmosphere — very artsy and metal, but also very classy,” Brooks said.

The venue is “recycled-chic” — a craftily built warehouse of rustic rails, wagon wheels and elegant fairy lights.

There’s a hand-welded tower that rises over downtown, a desert garden and a dinosaur statue named Veronica that will be dressed up as Bob Ross for the event.

“It offers both a large dinosaur statue and elegant lighting, which is an odd pairing, but it’s perfect for us,” Brooks said. “Our artists are both talented and kind of wild.”

When it came to picking an organization to donate proceeds to, Thomas wanted to honor the person who made her love event planning and gallery curating in the first place: Kim Meagher, owner of Wild Horse Ranch Rescue.

“Picking a non-profit to partner with was a no-brainer,” Thomas said. “Kim does amazing work and is an all-around fantastic person. She has done so much for me and gave me my first start in planning shows.”

Meagher has been a patron of the arts since before the rescue made headway in 1995. She took up the responsibility as a horse rescuer and as an artist and has even held galleries at her ranch.

“I miss being in the art world on a regular basis, so events like Delaney’s are a joy to me to combine my love of art and rescuing horses in need,” Meagher said.

“What could be more beautiful?”

According to ASPCA, approximately 80,000 American horses were sent to the slaughterhouse last year. Wild Horse Ranch Rescue has grown since its humble beginnings as barn with a 11 stalls for 11 horses, but it still needs help. According to Meagher, 100 percent of the staff are volunteers, so the rescue is fully reliant on donations.

“A few dollars goes a long way,” Meagher said.

According to Meagher, a bale of hay costs $15 to $18. Wild Horse Ranch Rescue have a program called “‘Bale’ a Horse Out”, where people can feed a horse in need for just $15 per month.

The goal is to have 100 monthly “‘Bale’ a Horse Out” Donors, and so far, they have amassed 53 monthly donations.

“When a person is around horses, you have to pay attention and be in the moment,” Meagher said. “It’s like leaving the world behind when one is in

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DELANEY THOMAS AND BEAU Brooks are the co-planners of the “Railed Out Art Show”, a show being held Thursday, April 11, at Whistle Stop Depot. The event goes from 6-10 p.m.

horseland.”

The “Railed Out Art Show” is an opportunity for both horses and artists to get the exposure they deserve in the community, according to Thomas.

“The arts district is amazing in Tucson, and most people don’t know about most of great events artists put on here,” Thomas said. “It’s really important that people support local artists, not just because it helps struggling artists, but because they have the opportunity to support the whole of Tucson while they’re at it.”

Thomas and Brooks will both be featured artists, along with Michael Cochin, a UA student and the designer of the “Railed Out Art Show” promotional posters.

Attendants can look forward to live music, food and a bar. There is no entrance fee, but there will be a donation bucket at the door for those who want to give a small donation to Wild Horse Ranch Rescue.

“Art and Rescued Horses,” Meagher said. “It’s a great combination.”

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NEWS | MOON SAMPLES

UA professor to study Apollo 17 lunar samples An incoming assistant professor to the University of Arizona is set to lead a research study on never-before-seen lunar samples from the 1972 Apollo 17 mission

BY MARQUIES WHITE @marquies_white

Incoming University of Arizona assistant professor Jessica Barnes will lead a research team studying lunar samples that were originally collected during the 1972 NASA Apollo 17 mission.

The study will focus on how different curation and storage practices affect lunar samples. Barnes and her team will compare their lunar samples, stored at freezing temperatures and untouched since their original collection, with lunar samples kept at room temperature.

“This study will be really important for missions like OSIRIS-REx, because we are going to have to curate samples from those missions,” Barnes said. “We want to make sure that the practices we put in place to store these samples are not only ensuring the integrity of the samples for now but also thinking 50 years in the future.”

After nearly 50 years in storage, NASA

began accepting applications for teams to study Apollo 17’s lunar samples. NASA kept these samples stored for so long because they wanted technology to evolve to be able to better analyze the samples before opening them to be studied.

Barnes will join the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in the fall as an assistant professor. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

“I’ve been studying moon rocks for my almost seven- or eight-year career, and I knew that this study would be something really important, not just for my career, but also I wanted to be part of the Apollo legacy,” Barnes said. “I wasn’t old enough to see the Apollo missions, so this is my personal way of getting involved in the Apollo era.”

In college, Barnes first studied for an undergraduate degree in geoscience. As she moved to graduate school, she was interested in Earth science until an advisor

introduced her to an advertisement for a lunar doctorate program.

“As soon as I read the advertisement, I was hooked. It was looking at moon rocks, it was using a brand new, cutting edge technique that now I am an expert in using,” Barnes said. “It was very serendipitous that I would go for something completely different and get the opportunity to do something that would shape my entire career so far.”

While Barnes’ research will focus more on the water content of the lunar samples, her co-investigator Carolyn Crow, research assistant at the University of Colorado Boulder, will focus on dating the samples.

“In order to link water content to a point in lunar history, we have to know the age,” Crow said. “That’s where I come in.”

According to Crow, this lunar sample study could be very valuable to the scientific community, as they are entering “the decade of sample returns.”

“There’s plans to go back to the moon

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within the next decade. There is a go-ahead for getting samples that are getting cached

by Mars 2020. We have asteroid sample returns with OSIRIS-REx,” Crow said. “So there’s a practical aspect of this project with understanding what is the best way to handle these samples.”

Barnes and Crow will be joined by a team of researchers, including Tom Zega, an associate professor at the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory.

“I’m thrilled that the University of Arizona will be a part of this new program.

We’ve had researchers studying lunar samples more or less continually since the Apollo missions 50 years ago, but this program is particularly significant,” said Timothy Swindle, director of the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. “In this case, we’ve got someone who wasn’t born when the Apollo missions happened … Yet [Barnes] can use the best tools available in 2019 to study samples from nearly 50 years ago.”

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OPINIONS | LOCAL ISSUES

Student club on UA trademark licensing policy GUEST COLUMN

CONTRIBUTED BY DAVID KLEBOSKY

Club officers of the many University of Arizona recognized clubs were surprised this winter by a new policy that began Jan. 1, 2019.

The new policy states that every club that desires to produce club shirts for its members must now go through the UA Bookstore’s Direct to Campus program for all club shirt orders.

This policy was imposed with the intention “to provide student groups very clear direction about the use of UA trademarks while limiting the number of required reviews and revisions”.

The program limits our ability to order shirts from the vendors we know and have worked with in the past to the 12 approved vendors

associated with the university. Trademark licensing is also required of all school clubs, demanding a 15 percent commission on top of the wholesale price. Clubs cannot even put “Arizona” on their shirts without licensing because the university has trademarked our state’s name.

I am the captain of the UA Concrete Canoe team. Every year, the civil engineering students come together and learn how to make a canoe made of concrete light enough to float but also strong enough to support the load of four rowers. We take the canoe to a massive conference of over 1,000 civil engineering students and race it against 17 other universities. Every team likes to show off their school pride with creative shirt designs as everyone cheers on their row crews.

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In years past, we’ve created fun, stylized UA shirts for our team members to wear and keep to remember the project. We also generously provided shirts to anyone who helped us make the canoe, including material vendors, machine shop operators and anyone who gave us support throughout the year. The new t-shirt policy imposed this year has made this tradition impossible to maintain. The canoe team depends entirely on donations and fundraising efforts to afford to give everyone a nice shirt, and these new policies are forcing a decline in school spirit.

We all love our school and would like to show off to all the other engineering programs how great UA is, but this year we just can’t afford to pay 15 percent commission. The cost of having a shirt with our school name or any associated

logo is simply too high for our team to afford.

For the first time, we will go to the conference with a shirt that will not display anything associated with the University of Arizona.

We are an ASUA official club and are a staple of the civil engineering student tradition. Our club provides students with a place to develop their professional skills while also forming life long friendships.

We urge the university to reconsider this policy for its official clubs, so we can continue to promote the university through our club endeavors.

— David Klebosky is a civil engineering student at the University of Arizona and captain of the UA Concrete Canoe team.

Arizona treads the political fence COLUMN

BY ALEC SCOTT @DailyWildcat

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rizona is a state at war with itself. Despite for decades being a bulwark of smallgovernment conservatism that produced such Republican icons as Barry Goldwater and Sandra Day O’Connor, Arizona is no longer the reliable Grand Canyon holdout Republicans used to have.

This image of a state trying to discover itself as we approach the start of a new decade can best be seen in the stark contrast between the messages sent by many of our representatives, state and federal, and the recent report on the reliance of states upon the federal government.

Since Arizona was first admitted to the Union in 1912, we have voted Republican in 19 presidential elections, and, excluding Bill Clinton’s surprise win here in 1996, we have not strayed since 1952. This reliable conservative bent at a state level is paralleled in our state house and senate, neither of which have flipped Democratic for more than two decades, and

we have consistently elected Republicans and conservative Democrats to the office of Governor election cycle after election cycle. And to top it all off, between 1994 and 2000, and then again starting in 2009, Republicans have held a trifecta over all three state branches, meaning a majority in both the House and Senate as well as occupying the Governor’s seat.

This means for decades Republicans have had the opportunity to formulate and execute their plan for Arizona, one of small government and private-sector growth lifting up the finances of not only the state but its citizens as well.

Wallethub’s recent report that Arizona is the sixth-most federally dependent state in the Union challenges that message. It goes further to state while the citizens of Arizona are the 11th most dependent on the federal government, the state itself is number 4, a significantly high margin for a state that prides itself on fighting against federal government encroachment. The Phoenix New Times put it well when they wrote in their measured response to the publications that “Arizona lawmakers love to fight the federal government — to an extent.”

This is a sign that the imagined Arizona of our lawmakers is very different from the one most of us are experiencing, and this current administration is not an anomaly: In 2014,

Arizona was in the same position, with about ten billion dollars in government aid making up about 35.5 percent of total state revenue.

Our legislatures may consistently voice small government and clash against big brother here at home, but we sure are willing to take federal money, and let the federal government oversee and pay for the 42.2 percent of the state that exists as public land. As a matter of fact, when the issue of purchasing much of the public land in Arizona came up to a vote in 2012, Arizona residents voted it down, preferring that the federal government manage the million of acres of wildlife preserves and undeveloped desert landscapes.

Arizona looks like it’s beginning to develop into an entirely new state than it was in decades previous. No longer the safe red state it was often seen as, Arizona has become something of a wild card. As of 2019, Arizona’s Senate and House delegations in Washington are split, with five Democrat and four Republican representatives and Senators from both parties. On top of that, Arizona residents seem to buck the national movements seen in other states. They oppose the border wall and support Obamacare, but they are also pretty even on whether or not they support President Trump. This strange divide between the way our legislators view our state

and how it truly is may be slowly changing.

Arizona’s destiny is not to become a liberal stronghold, a safe victory for any candidate with a “D” next to their name like Massachusetts or Oregon; instead, it is to become competitive, where Republicans and Democrats have to compete for votes and become more in touch with the real Arizona rather than the version that has so long been projected. Those small government Republicans will have to adapt to a new state demography of liberals and moderates who need to be convinced to support proposals that can actually improve the state. And on the other side, those newly emboldened liberals will have to prove their dedication to the many concerns of Arizonans outside of the traditional style of California or New York Democrats. It’s about time we take stock of our state and try to understand where we really are now and where we want to go.

— Alec Scott is a junior studying political science and German studies and volunteered for the 2014 Ron Barber Congressional Campaign.

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The role of Border Patrol on campus On Tuesday, March 19, a University of Arizona student confronted two U.S. Border Patrol agents during a presentation for the UA Criminal Justice Association. The club contacted the UA Police Department to address the incident, resulting in controversy over the line between freedom of speech and obstruction of education and student safety on campus. Recent developments in the story have led the Daily Wildcat to ask our columists to contribute opinions on the issue Maya Noto

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I first heard about the encounter between UA students and border patrol officers when the sound of the girls’ screams came around the corner. I was walking home at the time, and I saw a group of about ten girls following two men in matching uniforms, but I couldn’t tell who they were exactly. “Murder patrol, murder patrol,” they yelled in unison, then one girl began to yell the names of people who had been killed by border agents. My attention was immediately drawn to the scene, and I deserted my journey home to watch how it all played out. They walked all the way to where the agents had parked their cars, with the agents not saying a word the entire time they were followed. When it was all over, I felt ashamed.

Being Hispanic, I do feel resentment toward border agents, as they are a symbol of an institution that props up systematized racism, but that is a topic for a different article. The agents who came to our campus were merely there to give information to students pursuing a career with the Border Patrol.

The agents were here with the sole purpose to help the members of the student body, not to arrest anybody.

They meant no harm, which means they deserved none in turn. For justice to come for members of the Hispanic community that have been harmed by border agents, we must keep our heads above the rest.

Actions like those that occurred during career days invalidate the movement, because they are unfounded and unorganized and not everyone can understand the intense emotion that was behind the yells of each girl as they followed the agents.

They were not wrong for standing tall, it was simply the wrong time. In the words of Michelle Obama, “When they go low, we go high”.

Considering the circumstances surrounding the protest of the USBP that unfortunately left a stain on the University of Arizona, it has become apparent this case of student activism is a transplant of the demagoguery we see all too often on other institutions across the United States. Frankly, insofar as the video has shown us, we witness the loudest voices on campus that insist the worst of the USBP, and while the sentiment may hold some truth to it, they had disrupted the learning environment and refused to yield an inch to those that were not troubled by the presence of Border Patrol agents.

The community outrage this incident has caused is not surprising, because while it is part of the larger debate on freedom of speech and when and where it applies, at the same time, it is unacceptable and unAmerican for a mob that does not speak on behalf of this university or its student body to intimidate or shame its opponents and dictate who the rest of us decide to welcome to campus in the future. As a student, I am grateful to the community and peers that have spoken out in a period of extreme schoolwide apathy. Sometimes, hot-topic issues remain one-sided, and a lack of differing opinions makes for an incredibly dull conversation, assuming there is one to begin with.

I really don’t see the big deal in Border Patrol being on campus.

It’s not like they are here arresting people left, right and center. The controversial day they were here was to speak at a job fair and at a club.

Whether or not you like it, there are students interested in these jobs after graduation. Would you harass an FBI agent until they got off campus?

Their jobs are just as controversial, and I’m willing to bet you wouldn’t.

Tucson isn’t Nogales, and Border Patrol isn’t really part of the culture here. It would be horrendous if they came specifically with the intent of causing trouble, but they never have, to my knowledge. If you have issues with them coming onto campus, there are better ways to protest their presence.

They have just as much of a right to be here as all of the Jesus preachers on campus.

You don’t have to like their job or what they do, but at least respect the fact they are human beings who were here to do the job they were invited to do — which was to speak to students at a job fair.

The recent protest over the presence of Border Patrol on campus in a career booth and the subsequent University response is counterproductive to the cause of reform and campus openness. Many students at the UA are currently taking classes in criminal justice and public policy with the goal of joining the Border Patrol after graduation, and the highly emotional and frankly misdirected protest toward office workers associated with the Border Patrol just helps create an atmosphere of “Us versus Them.” By dividing each argument between the good and the bad, it leaves no middle ground. Either the Border Patrol is a neo-nazi, fascist, Stormtrooper brigade designed by the devil himself, or it is an infallible defense force for the people that cannot be questioned. If we engage in discussion with those who are interested in joining the Border Patrol and other agencies and open them up to the complaints being leveled, we can change the whole landscape through constructive discussions. Otherwise, we are just encouraging the digging-in of armed political camps and ruining a perfect opportunity for us to address the successes and failures of our government policy towards immigration.

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A UA student who filmed her interaction with United States Border Patrol agents violated freedom of speech during an incident in the Modern Languages Building on Tuesday, March 19, according to the University of Arizona’s Dean of Students.

Kendal Washington White addressed questions surrounding the now viral video filmed by a student named Denisse. The video shows Denisse confronting agents, who were there addressing a club, through a door.

“Everyone has a right to assemble, and we shouldn’t be disrupting a club meeting or a class or anything like that,” Washington White said.

Investigations open up Washington White confirmed Denisse, the student filming, is now under investigation for violations of the UA Student Code of Conduct. According to Washington White, the University of Arizona Police Department has also opened a criminal investigation into the incident.

A university-wide email sent last Friday from UA President Dr. Robert Robbins confirmed both investigations of the student in question.

“The UA Police Department will continue to investigate the incident for additional criminal violations, and the Office of the Dean of Students is reviewing potential violations of the student code of conduct,” Robbins wrote in the email.

While Washington White will be in charge of any discipline handed down by the UA, she said she’s more concerned with Denisse’s health and well-being.

“That’s why we do this work, is to help her,” Washington White said. “One of my team members has already been in regular contact with her about classes, attending classes, what can she do to feel safe, that sort of thing.”

Additionally, Washington White confirmed the presence of a UA employee at the time of the confrontation.

Luisa Pinto, president of the Criminal Justice Association — the club responsible for hosting the Border Patrol agents — said in an interview she tried to speak with the UA employee during the incident but off camera.

“I did try to get [Denisse] to talk to me, but she would not,” Pinto said. “But there was a UA employee there … I had more interaction with him, because he was calmer.”

Washington White said that UA employee was Matt Matera, coordinator of the Immigrant Student Resource Center, though she added she was not sure what role or capacity Matera was acting in at the time.

“We are trying to figure that out,” Washington White said.

Robbin’s Friday email alluded to a probe into the actions of UA employees. It is unknown if Matera is currently under investigation. The Daily Wildcat reached out multiple times to Matera for comment but were unable to reach him for this story.

UAPD contacted, but no incident report Additionally, Washington White confirmed Pinto’s account that members of the Criminal Justice Association contacted UAPD. Pinto said her reasoning behind contacting authorities was to try to defuse the situation.

“The reason I called UAPD was because [Denisse] said she felt unsafe. As UAPD are the police with jurisdiction on campus, I called them to figure out if there was any way she could feel safe,” Pinto said.

Pinto said two officers eventually arrived on scene,

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but their presence only allowed the club’s meeting to continue. The situation remained.

“They weren’t able to talk to [Denisse], but they were able to close the door and have our meeting,” Pinto said.

“We were able to finish, but not really. I reached out to club members and asked if they were able to learn anything … they said they weren’t able to.”

Whenever there is an incident report involving a student issued by UAPD, it goes to the Dean of Students Office. That didn’t happen with this incident, according to Washington White.

“My understanding is UAPD, they came there … but there was no action, no arrest, because we would have received that info by now. It’s my understanding that they called the dean-on-call … and they wanted the Dean of Students to manage,” Washingon White said.

Washington White said her office’s role is not to monitor incidents like the one caught on film.

“There is a difference between when there is a Mall preacher and ABOR meetings — we do that,” she said.

“But that’s different from when a classroom or a meeting is being disrupted.”

According to Chirs Sigurdson, the UA spokesperson acting in the capacity of UAPD spokesperson, the reason for the agency not issuing an initial police report was that the investigation into the incident is ongoing.

“There will be a police report at the conclusion of the investigation,” Sigurdson said.

Their letter takes issue with the presence of Border Patrol agents on campus and claims their presence has a negative effect on many attending the UA. The letter also claims there have been 10 incidents involving Border Patrol agents around Tucson in the last two weeks.

“Everyday, the presence of law enforcement threatens the existence of Black, brown, indigenous, queer and trans, refuge and undocumented communities,” the letter began.

The letter said the recipients “fully support” the students who confronted the Border Patrol agents and issued a rebuke of Robbins’ latest response.

In their letter, the DACA recipients claim Robbins’ response proves “again, the swiftness with which institutions criminalize people of color.”

In his email, Robbins addressed the campus “community of scholars.”

“As a community of scholars, we need to be more thoughtful and deliberative in how we approach these issues and work together to sustain vigorous conversations to find better solutions,” Robbins wrote in the email.

The letter from the DACA recipients struck a decidedly different tone and made clear there are members of their community who currently live in fear.

“We do not tolerate any form of harassment and marginalization that comes from Customs and Border Patrol,” the letter said. “We appreciate, value and are here for allies who are now being persecuted.”

Robbins, DACA students take different views On Monday, April 1, a letter signed by “DACA recipients at the University of Arizona,” was shared on social media.

DACA stands for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.

*Editor’s Note: Per her request, the Daily Wildcat has chosen not to publish the last name of a source within this article due to privacy and safety concerns.