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WIN OR GO HOME The UA baseball team faces elimination on Wednesday after splitting its first two games in the College World Series

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Wednesday, June 22, 2016 – Tuesday, June 28, 2016 VOLUME 109 ISSUE 94

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OMAHA, Nebraska — Arizona baseball’s 17th trip to the College World Series began with an assertive 5-1 win over the Miami Hurricanes. The Wildcats’ winner’s bracket matchup with Oklahoma State didn’t go as well, ending in a 1-0 defeat.

With one win and one loss under its belt, Arizona faces UC-Santa Barbara Wednesday. If the Wildcats win, they’ll face Oklahoma State again on Friday and would need to beat OSU twice to advance to the College World Series Finals.

As a team that wasn’t expected to go deep in the postseason let alone make it to Omaha, the Wildcats entered the College World Series playing with house money.

Arizona brought its loose but aggressive style into TD Ameritrade Park, knocking off the No. 3 overall seed Hurricanes 5-1 Saturday night.

A three-run first inning propelled Arizona’s starting pitcher Nathan Bannister, who struck out 11 batters over seven innings.

Arizona’s early rally all started with a few walks and a hit batsman before Jared Oliva hit a two-run single to make it 3-0.

“That’s huge, before I even throw, when the offense puts up three,” Bannister said.

“That’s a good cushion to work with, especially in this park.”

Bannister’s only blemish on the mound came in the fourth inning when Miami’s

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ELIMINATION GAME:

Arizona vs. UCSB

Date: Wednesday, June 22 Time: 4 p.m. TV: ESPN IF ARIZONA BEATS UCSB:

Arizona vs. OSU

Date: Friday, June 24 Time: Noon TV: ESPN2

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City council to review possible balcony ban

BY Shaq Davis

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Due to several incidents of student tenants causing distress in the Main Gate area by throwing objects onto properties below, the Tucson City Council is discussing the banning of balconies on any future infrastructures built in the area.

A public hearing was held at Tucson City Hall for citizens to express their opinions about the proposed amendment in front of zoning examiner Jim Mazzocco, who will give his recommendation to the council.

The zoning examiner will have five days to send in his preliminary report based on his suggestions, which will then be added to the material used by the mayor and council members to make the final decision.

Staff presented three options for the council to decide: • To allow balconies only facing internally • To permit both internal and exterior balconies, but only going up to the third floor • To cease any balcony use completely Only three citizens voiced their opinions at the June 16 meeting, all encouraging the zoning examiner to recommend an amendment to the 2011 Main Gate District-Urban Overlay document, which would restrict the use of balconies on future constructions.

Glass bottles and other items have been thrown from apartment balconies in the Main Gate District onto other structures like the Islamic Center of Tucson.

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Chris Gans, president of the West University Neighborhood Association, speaks at the zoning examiner’s hearing on Thursday, June 16. The hearing was held to discuss a proposed ban on balconies for any new infrastructure built in the Main Gate District.

Mahmoud Obagi, a member of the centers’ board of directors, said the center has sustained damages from crashing objects.

“We have covered many repairs due to these group dwellings, including roof repairs,” Obagi said.

“Because they are higher than us, they’ll throw glass bottles to our roof, causing damage ... which we won’t realize until it rains.”

Maryam Mir, an Islamic Center member of 37 years, said she wants the zoning commissioner to

seriously consider the amendment for the safety of all of Tucson.

“Basically, it gets down to the fact that any one life is more valuable than the almighty dollar,” Mir said.

Obagi said he is glad actions are being taken to hopefully stop exterior balconies from being incorporated into further building plans because the Islamic Center of Tucson’s members have been verbally harassed and close to being injured.

“The incidents speak for themselves,” Obagi said. “There’s

been incidents of people throwing items and yelling racial slurs.”

GMH Capital Partners, the group who owns the building, did not attend the June 16 hearing. The company is located in Pennsylvania and have management locally, but have not responded in a timely manner to work out solutions, according to Obagi.

“Whenever I try to get a hold of them, it’s at least three to four days of me repeatedly calling,” Obagi said.

Windshields have also been

reported broken by car owners who parked at restaurants close to the buildings.

“Property ownership evicted students involved in [a 2014 incident], but despite the installation of video cameras, they have been unable to identify all of those involved in the most recent set of events,” said Tucson Council member Steve Kozachik in a Feburary memorandum. “It is only a matter of time before somebody is seriously injured or killed if struck by an object thrown from the balconies.”

President of the West University Neighborhood Association Chris Gans said that even though no injuries have been reported, public safety still comes first.

“Whether it’s our neighbors at the mosque, neighbors in the businesses or people on the street ... public safety should be the first thing considered when removing the possibility of having future balconies on any other high-rises,” Gans said.

The area of University Boulevard between Tyndall and Park Avenues currently incorporates high-rise structures such as Sol Y Luna and the Hub at Tucson. Hub On Campus 2, a new high rise, will also join the district this summer. No current buildings or balconies will be affected by the future decision of the council.

The city council is expecting to meet in August to decide whether new housing buildings will be allowed to incorporate balconies in their building plans.

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UA sees normal employee departure rate

BY Chastity Laskey The Daily Wildcat

The departure of six senior leadership members from the UA College of Medicine— Phoenix has prompted the Arizona Medical Association to ask the Arizona Board of Regents to launch an independent investigation.

At their June 4 meeting, AMA approved a vote of “no confidence” in the UA Health Sciences’ administrations because of their “oversight” of the UA College of Medicine-Phoenix.

Dr. Joe G.N. “Skip” Garcia, senior vice president of UA Health Sciences, said he doesn’t think it’s optimal for the entire dean’s leadership team to leave, but it’s normal in academic medicine.

“The movement in academic medicine of teams and leaders is so very common,” Garcia said, who pointed out that he himself worked in a number of different places before moving to the UA. Andrew Comrie, UA provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, said it’s not unusual to see more than one departure, and that even Dr. Garcia brought a few people from Illinois when he was first hired at the UA. Stuart Flynn, former dean of UA College of Medicine—Phoenix, announced in April he’d be leaving the college to become a dean of a new medical school in Texas. Four of his colleagues will be joining him there and one

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Headshot of the former dean of the UA College of Medicine – Phoenix, Stuart Flynn. Flynn left the college and became dean of a medical school in Texas.

other employee will be leaving for a different school.

Garcia said when the dean of the UA College of Medicine—Phoenix wants to leave and start

a new medical school in Texas, he’s going to want to have a team he can trust to do that.

“They are a very talented group and we wish them well, but this gives us an opportunity to bring in new talent from the outside,” Garcia said.

Garcia added that because AMA is comprised of mostly private practice doctors, they found the UA College of Medicine— Phoenix departures to be destabilizing because they don’t have the experience in academic medicine to understand the normality of it.

The UA has seen its fair share of employees leaving, even before the departure of senior leadership in Phoenix.

In the last few years UA has seen the departure of deans from the College of Architecture, Planning & Landscape Architecture, Eller College of Management and the James E. Rogers College of Law. The UA has also hired people to not only fill those positions, but newly created positions as well. Many of those hired came from other institutions and had to relocate. This includes Rebecca Tsosie, the newly hired special adviser to the provost for diversity and inclusion, who was hired away from Arizona State University.

Comrie said they have around 1,600 tenure track faculty and only see somewhere between 50-75 faculty departing and being hired.

“There’s no indication that more people are leaving the UA than they did last year or the year

before,” said Lynn Nadel, regents’ professor of psychology and chair of Faculty Senate. “It’s pretty steady, there’s always a certain amount of people coming and going in the academic world.”

Nadel said departures at UA fit into a normal range, even with presidents, adding that he’s been through six presidents in his time at the university.

“When folks get plucked away from the UA for senior leadership positions at other institutions, it’s a form of flattery,” Nadel said.

“Yes it’s not good that we lose them, but it certainly tells us something when other good institutions want our people, that’s a sign we’re doing something right.”

Comrie said all universities are sort of like teams who are all competing for the very best mix, making the faculty at some level free agents.

“We do the very best to keep folks here but in some situations, the opportunity is really great elsewhere,” Comrie said. “We’ll lose a few but we’ll take in a few each year. We’re diligent in making sure we’re keeping the highest faculty we can because we’re in this nationally competitive market.”

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Trump holds his third rally in Phoenix The GOP presidential nominee hoped to gain support before attending the Republican National Convention next month in Cleveland,Ohio

BY Shaq Davis and Lauren Renteria The Daily Wildcat

Presidential candidate Donald Trump made another visit to Arizona on June 18, stopping in Phoenix to rally up support before the Republican National Convention which will take place in Cleveland, Ohio next month. Trump is the last candidate standing to take the spot as the GOP presidential nominee.

Hundreds gathered in the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum to hear the candidate speak. One of the first guests to kick off the rally was Arizona House Speaker David Gowan, an avid supporter of Trump and his views on immigration from Mexico.

“We need to stop this intrusion ... they bring the drugs up, they cross the bridge, they cut fences, they murder our officers,” Gowan said. “They drop the drugs off in the North and when they become southbound, they terrorize.”

Arizona State Treasurer Jeff DeWit took the stage in support for the candidate. He praised Trump for his tactics as a businessman and believes that the presidency should be run like a business.

“As a businessman and the state treasurer, I believe that we cannot rely on the politicians to put us back on the path of prosperity,” DeWit said. “We need a conservative

political outsider who understands what it means to build a business, make a payroll and build a wall.”

Along the political trail, Trump has been met with groups of protesters outside of his rallies, some of which have recently become violent. In Phoenix, protesters were nowhere to be seen—except for Bryan Sanders, the protester who was punched in the face at Trump’s Tucson rally earlier this year.

Even though he is completely against Trump, Sanders says that he condemns the recent violence that has happened on both sides at other rallies. Even though he has been met with violence before, Sanders just came back hoping to hear more of what the GOP candidate had to say.

“I’m not going to be intimidated out of expressing my political views by a violent act,” Sanders said. “All of us in this country has the opportunity to express ourselves. We have the right to make political statements that we think are appropriate in an appropriate way.”

On the other side, Joanne Selena Lopez-Cervantez, an openly transgender Latina woman and an Arizona Senate candidate running as an Independent, fully supports Trump and his rhetoric.

“He has given us back our voice, I am tired of not being able to say exactly what I think and what I want to say and think because someone will get offended,” Lopez-Cervantez said. “The overzealous sensitivity of the American public has offended me.”

For Victor Norbart, a Netherlands native, coming to the Trump rally was more for early evening entertainment than for political interest.

“For us, it’s sort of a show to see,” Norbart said. “We get all of the media attention from him in our country. If this would be in our country, the guy would be laughed at.”

Trump was quick to address the deadly Orlando shooting on June 12 that left 49 dead and dozens more injured, according to CNN. The GOP candidate advised the crowd that the attack could have had a different turn out if those inside the club had guns.

“If you had somebody with a gun strapped onto to their head, strapped onto their ankle and you had bullets going in the opposite direction, you would’ve had a very different result, believe me,” Trump said.

Trump also offered up new ideas regarding what his plans are for the Supreme Court, which included placing new Justices with conservative values on the bench.

One of the last issues that Trump tackled was business in the U.S. He promised to make the national economy stronger by bringing jobs back to the states by taxing businesses that outsource to foreign countries.

“We are going to bring back our jobs, we’re not going to let our jobs go,” Trump said. “When you go [to foreign countries] there’s going to be consequences for the companies that go and outsource people.”

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(left) Six-year-old Trump supporter Kaydence Gonzales holds up a campaign sign at a rally in Phoenix on Saturday, June 18 at the Arizona Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum. The child’s mother, Tahnee Gonzales, will vote for Trump in the November election because she thinks he can “make education great again.” Gonzales recently made the decision to pull her daughter from the public school system to avoid its “transgender and gay” agendas. (Above) Presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Phoenix on Saturday, June 18 at the Arizona Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum. Trump came to Arizona to rally support before the Republican National Convention, which will be held in Cleveland, Ohio, next month.

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‘Talk to me about Obamacare’ UA professor and a medical student to travel from Washington D.C. to Seattle on a bike listening tour, to hear people’s opinions on the Affordable Care Act.

BY Angela Martinez The Daily Wildcat

Biking from Washington D.C. to Seattle, a UA professor and a UA medical student have decided to embark on a listening tour.

UA physician, professor and former chair of the UA Department of Family and Community Medicine, Paul Gordon, has decided to combine two things he enjoys for his sabbatical leave—biking and healthcare. Gordon flew to Washington D.C. in late April and began his journey.

“I think that people’s voices are not heard when you have just telephone data, so the opportunity presented itself to me through a sabbatical,” said Gordon. “And what better way to hear peoples voices than to have conversations.”

Gordon, who has been working at the UA in the College of Medicine for around 30 years in various positions, is dedicated to learning more about healthcare and listening to how he can better understand his patients.

Laurel Gray, a first-year medical student at the UA, is also participating in this project. Gray was able to do so because of a generous stipend that Charles Cairns, dean of the UA College of Medicine, provided.

She started biking from her hometown Minneapolis to Seattle and is planning to leave the tour in late June.

“I wanted to know how the Affordable Care Act has affected people in the US,” Gray said. “As someone who studies to become a physician, I think it’s important to understand the obstacles that people face in accessing care.”

The Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, is a U.S. healthcare law that works to improve access to care and lower the costs of healthcare through regulation and taxes.

In a 2014 survey conducted by Kaiser Health Tracking poll, 46 percent of participants were not in favor of the ACA, 38 percent were in favor and 16 percent were unsure or refused to answer.

“We are in very rural parts of the United

States, in communities that typically are not recipients of such surveys, so we are getting to hear the voice of people that are typically not heard and I think that’s really important,” Gray said.

According to Gordon, the interviews they are holding are not treated as interviews, but rather normal everyday conversations.

“They’re just conversations, and the conversations are typically started by our bike jerseys which says ‘Talk to me about Obamacare’,” Gray said. “People read that and ask [us], and if they feel compelled to engage in conversation then they can do so.”

Gray said that one of the key parts of this listening tour is that they can actively engage and follow up with people and their responses.

“It’s not a survey, it’s not a telephone interview—people are interviewed on their own terms,” Gordon said. “If someone expresses dislike or support towards the ACA, it’s much easier in person to say ‘Oh can you tell me more about that’ and

further prompt that person to dig more into the why, than just a yes or no or multiple choice survey questions.”

Both Gordon and Gray chose biking as their mean of transportation because they have a history with bike riding.

Gordon has been riding bikes for 45 years now and Gray found her love for bike riding through completing a bike tour in Mexico before starting medical school.

Gordon says he has a great sense of appreciation and gratitude to Dr. Joe G.N. “Skip” Garcia, senior vice president of Health Sciences for his support and Cairns by providing the subsidy to allow Gray to join as a student researcher on the project.

Gray and Gordon will update their blog, Bike Listening Tour, along their journey.

The journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges has invited Gordon to share his experience.

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Arizona can lead the push for gun control

BY JACKSON MORRISON The Daily Wildcat

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he United States is in desperate need of firearm regulation reform.

The tragic event that occurred in Orlando, Florida on June 12 is something that will remain in our nation’s memory for decades to come, and whether the shooter was driven to this act of hatred and violence by an allegiance to the Islamic State or by his own homophobia, one thing is obvious—he should not have had access to a firearm.

The shooter was able to legally purchase a SIG Sauer .223 caliber semiautomatic rifle and a Glock 17 9 millimeter semiautomatic handgun on June 4 and June 5 respectively, according to officials of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Despite being listed on two federal watch lists, The Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment and the Terrorist Screening Database , the shooter’s purchase was only interrupted by a mandatory three-day wait period, a federally mandated regulation. Under current federal law, it is illegal to bar the purchase of a firearm without proof of mental illness, a felony conviction, a dishonorable military discharge or lack of a legal immigration status.

These measures, though, have apparently done very little to restrict firearm violence in the U.S. Roughly 3.7 out of every 100,000 Americans are the victim of firearm homicide, according to a Snopes.com fact check.

The European Union, which has a population of 508.2 million people and gun regulation laws, suffers from a total of only 1,000 firearm homicides per year according to a Flemish Peace Institute report. This is a revealing comparison.

There are several cultural, economic and social factors that contribute to the difference between gun homicide, but it’s clear the U.S. government has a role in preventing gun violence and preventing events like the Orlando tragedy.

The main issue with current U.S. gun policy is the presumption that all individuals should have the right to own firearms. Because of that assumption, we often have a difficult time regulating the supply side of firearms.

If during the mandatory background inspection period, indiscretions are found which require more than three days to investigate, the owner of a gun store may legally supply the buyer with a firearm after a maximum of three days has transpired.

There is an often exploited loophole in which a private owner of a firearm may sell or exchange a particular firearm without any requirement to register or claim the purchase

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to the federal government—several states have passed laws regulating this act. Roughly 40 percent of all firearm purchases go through a private buyer according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

On top of giving the federal government more power to prevent the purchase of firearms based around criteria which already exists, there should also be mandatory psychological tests to determine if an individual is capable of safely owning a firearm. It does not strike me as unusual to expect an individual to provide reference from their peers to attest to the fact that the potential gun buyer is not a danger to themselves or those around them. Mass shooters often show previous signs of mental instability or extreme prejudices—double checking a gun buyer’s mental stability with their friends and family could be exactly the kind of regulation that’s capable of preventing more violence.

This issue is especially relevant to the Arizona community.

Our state has some of the freest gun laws in the United States.

Article 2, section 26 of the Arizona state constitution writes that “the right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense

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of himself or the State shall not be impaired …” and in keeping with the spirit of the state constitution, Arizona has no firearm registration system, no license requirement to purchase a firearm, and no open-carry requirements.

As Arizona residents, we find ourselves in a unique position of being able to draw national attention. There is currently gridlock in congress about passing substantial gun control regulation and no sign of the issue being resolved.

But if we, as one of the freest states for gun ownership, began to champion the cause of gun control, if we stood up and demanded comprehensive reform in our state, we could send a message to the rest of the nation that we are tired of living with the possibility of terror striking our country. We could denote that we are willing to take steps to stop it. We could provide the push congress needs in order to give up on partisan politics and come together to bring real, tangible change.

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More stem Gen eds could improve student job prospects

BY Connor Gilmore The Daily Wildcat

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f you asked someone outside the UA what the difference between Individuals & Societies and Traditions & Cultures is, there’s a strong likelihood they wouldn’t know.

Are those two general education categories really that different from Art and Diversity the way they’re different from Natural Sciences? Not really. Our current Gen ed requirements are far too homogeneous.

While the liberal arts provide a holistic education in post-secondary institutions, nine courses solely in liberal arts is more than enough when there are a total of 11 Gen ed courses to complete.

When a graduate enters the workforce, they sometimes find out their liberal arts knowledge won’t get them the job, but their STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics—education will.

There are 26 million STEM jobs in the United States, making up 20 percent of all U.S. jobs according to the Brookings Institution. The Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce shows that STEM majors make more than non-STEM majors across many fields including education and managerial professions among others. The same report also shows 63 percent of people with an associate degree in a STEM subject make more than those with a bachelor’s degree in a non-STEM profession. It’s a revealing statistic showing how important STEM knowledge is within the free market.

In short, STEM knowledge is valuable, and needed.

Due to a lack of STEM education among half of their employees, certain businesses are actually re-training their employees in STEM disciplines, as reported by Change the Equation. That training creates extra financial and opportunity costs for those companies when they have to pick up the tab that the university left them.

With more STEM education for all students across the board, via Gen ed requirements, the UA can prepare students to be better employees in their future careers.

Companies are hungry for employees with degrees in science, technology, engineering and math. Facebook and Google probably aren’t on a hunt for liberal arts majors—most companies

probably aren’t.

Within STEM occupations, there are about two job postings for every one person seeking work compared to all occupations where there are almost four postings for every one person seeking work, according to Change the Equation.

With an education in STEM, or at least a basic understanding of STEM disciplines, graduates can enter the workforce with a competitive advantage in terms of pay, position and promotion.

STEM, however, is not solely about the money—it’s also about creating innovative solutions.

Both STEM college students and K-12 parents are in agreement that STEM should be taught more frequently and will better prepare students to become the inventors and innovators of tomorrow, according to a Harris Interactive study.

Despite all of this, courses in technology, math and engineering may not count for much outside of STEM majors. With a STEM based approach to Gen ed requirements, that problem would be resolved.

A combination of STEM and liberal arts courses would help students to not only have the holistic education liberal arts proponents argue for, but also the futureleaning and skill-focused STEM education needed for success in the 21st Century.

A possible restructuring of Gen ed requirements could look as such: • Liberal arts—three courses • Science and math—three courses • Technology and engineering—three courses There could even be two exploratory classes to find interests in other majors and minors or to continue with more Gen eds.

Certainly there is a plethora of information, facts and statistics supporting the value of STEM education.

And while the details of how STEMfocused Gen ed requirements still need to be worked out, the point is that STEM should be present in a student’s academic career and one of the best ways to do that is through the Gen ed requirements.

The UA advertises “Bigger Questions, Better Answers” across the campus and across the country. The private sector is asking a big question: Can you provide STEM workers to better meet demands of today and of tomorrow? The university should give a better answer: Yes. And they should start by bringing a STEM-based approach to Gen ed requirements.

Did you know that 51% of UA students did not drink alcohol in the past 30 days? (2015 Health & Wellness Survey, n=2,705)

Top 5 Hacks to Stay in Your Sweet Spot*

* Sweet Spot [ˈswēt ˈspät ] – Drinking zone when the positive, social benefits of alcohol exceed the negative aspects most people would rather avoid (e.g. getting sick, bad decisions, hangovers, etc.). This typically occurs at a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .05 or under.

That dude always stays in the sweet spot and never hurls.

Here at the UA, not everyone drinks, but if you do, here are few easy hacks to help you stay in your sweet spot.

1) Know thy sweet spot. Pretty obvious, right? BAC is influenced by your gender, weight, how many drinks you have and how fast you drink them.

Download a BAC app on your phone so you can plan ahead and drink smarter.

From there, you can get a sense of how many drinks will keep you in the sweet spot for a defined period of time.

2) Have a plan. Experienced drinkers avoid alcohol’s ill effects by sticking to a set number of drinks. Have that magic number in mind before you go out and count as you go to stay on track.

3) Drink beer. You heard that right.

Having drinks that contain less alcohol by volume means you spend more time socializing and less time

4) Measure twice, drink once.

Compared to beer, mixed drinks take a little more work on your part if you want to keep your social buzz. Why? Because if you don’t measure the alcohol correctly, you could easily wind up with two or three standard drinks from a heavy pour, when you just needed one. Keep a standard-sized shot glass around to help, or check out your local dollar store – they often have pint glasses with guide lines on the side to help you mix like a pro.

5) Drink H2O. Water counteracts alcohol’s diuretic properties and can help fend off hangovers the next day.

This magic elixir of life also helps moderate your BAC while you are drinking when you take water breaks.

Got a question about alcohol? Email it to redcup@email.arizona.edu

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praying to the porcelain god. Hard alcohol no doubt got its name because it can make it really, really hard to stay in your sweet spot.

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Galaxy M16 seen by Jonathan Davis’ homemade telescope. With its clear skies, stable weather and vast amount of nightly observing programs, June is a prime time in Tucson for astronomical viewing.

Observation programs throughout the city are common given Tucson’s proximity to Kitt Peak National Observatory and the Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium’s telescopes, which are open to public use.

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astrophotographer.

This month, you can view Jupiter to the Southwest using a telescope. Mars will be at opposition, opposite in the sky from the sun, and Saturn will be at opposition from Earth.

If you are interested in viewing any of these events, retreating to the mountaintops around Tucson is a good way to avoid light pollution.

Kitt Peak National Observatory’s Nightly Observing Program costs $46.95 to attend for students.

You should arrive in the late afternoon. The event includes an orientation, boxed dinner, a view of the sunset and the opportunity to look through the observatory’s 20-inch and 16-inch telescopes.

The UA Science SkyCenter on Mount Lemmon’s SkyNights StarGazing program costs $65.

Arrive in the late afternoon.

Admission includes an orientation, dinner and the chance to look through their 32-inch telescope.

The Flandrau Science Center

and Planetarium costs $5 per student. Experience the night sky from 7-10 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays in the summer by looking through the center’s 16-inch telescope.

If you are interested in any of these opportunities, be sure to call ahead to ensure there is space and that the astronomical happenings you want to spot will be in good view.

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UA begins to works on space domain awareness with new initiative UA College of Engineering and Moriba Jah are working together to make space a safer place by accounting for space debris with their new space object behavioral sciences initiative

BY Alexandria Farrar The Daily Wildcat

If your GPS-equipped phone gets shattered, destroyed, lost or just becomes generally unfashionable, it’s safe to assume a United Nations conference won’t be called to address the issue. However, that’s not the case for its electronic counterparts used out in space. These devices are constantly watched for their interaction with the asteroids, comets and general debris, and now they are also being watched for their political implications.

Satellites circle our globe, facilitating incredibly accurate signaling for the purposes of location, TV, radio, the Internet, the Wall Street Stock Exchange accuracy and space photography.

However, when a satellite’s technology goes out of style or fails, it’s not as simple as tossing one out and getting a replacement.

This is where the UA’s new space object behavioral sciences initiative comes in.

“We want to understand where all the debris is that’s up there, we want to know if someone wants to launch a new satellite or a constellation of satellites, is it safe for them to go and still be able to execute whatever mission they may have?” said Brian Ten Eyck, associate director of research support for the UA College of Engineering.

It is precisely this safety of continuing missions that is a large concern for the initiative. Eyck cites the Chinese anti-satellite missile test of 2007 to illustrate his point.

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Dean Ten Eych poses for a photo on Tuesday, June 14. Ten Eych works with the UA College of Engineering to run the space object behavioral sciences initiative which creates order and accounts for debris in outer space.

“The satellite that they hit was in orbit high enough up that it created substantial debris fields,” Eyck said.

“You had a missile and a satellite. It became at least 3,000—some estimate 6,000—pieces of debris.

That’s one event in 2007.

It’s an orbit such that debris field is never going to fall.

Hundreds of years later it’s going to be there.”

It’s important to note that all of that debris is property of China, so nobody but the

Chinese government can clean those pieces up.

“You can’t go vacuum up other people’s mess without their permission,” Eyck said.

This highlights the increasingly politically charged nature of space.

“They blew up one of their own satellites, so it wasn’t in some sense hostile, but it certainly demonstrated to everyone else that they could do that,” Eyck said.

“They didn’t, and we’re not

saying that they will, but they could.”

It was the policy behind this exact sort of occurrence that the United Nations created the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in 1959.

One of UA’s own, Moriba Jah, director of the UA’s space object behavioral sciences initiative, is currently at a COPUOS conference in Vienna, bringing UA science to Austria so that he can try

to inform the policy and discussion about peaceful and functional use of space.

The science brought to the table includes information about graveyard orbits, designated locations where defunct satellites, spacecraft and general debris are to be left. The orbits are around 1,000 times the object’s areato-mass ratio plus 235 kilometers, left for no more than 25 years. Many of these objects have been in orbit

for more than 25 years, or have fallen out of the orbit where they were supposed to stay in.

“The graveyard orbit does not last in perpetuity,” Eyck said. “What are the forces acting on stuff that much further out that would cause their orbits to begin to decay? It’s a new thing and we’re studying it.”

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UA alumnus Jefferson retires as an NBA Champ The former Wildcat and Arizona native announced he’s hanging ‘em up after helping bring first pro sports title to Cleveland since 1964

BY Ryan kelapire The Daily Wildcat

Only a select number of professional athletes get to finish their careers at that top of their field, with a trophy in hand and a championship ring on their finger, but Richard Jefferson was lucky enough to join that group on Sunday night.

The UA alum helped the Cleveland Cavaliers erase a 3-1 series deficit in the NBA Finals to defeat the Golden State Warriors in seven games and win Cleveland’s first major sports title since 1964.

“I’m done, I’m done,” an elated, but exhausted Jefferson told Fox Sports Ohio after the 93-89 Game 7 victory. “I need a cigar.”

The 35-year-old played in all seven games of the Finals and started in two of them, averaging 5.7 points and 5.3 rebounds per game, while providing much-needed perimeter defense against the Warriors’ highly-talented wing players.

And thanks in part to Jefferson’s final efforts, the Cavaliers were able to do what no other NBA team has done before—win the NBA Finals after trailing 3-1 in the series.

Jefferson was inserted into the starting lineup in Game 3, scoring nine points and grabbing eight rebounds in 33 minutes in a 30-point Cleveland win—a win which served as a turning point in the series, as the Cavaliers would win three of the next four to take home the Larry O’Brien trophy.

“I’m just so overjoyed with our performance, and our resilience these last few weeks,” Jefferson told NBA TV. After 13 seasons in the NBA and three years at the UA, Jefferson finally made it to the pinnacle of the basketball world.

But it didn’t come without heartbreaking failure first.

In 2001, Jefferson, while at Arizona, lost to Duke in the National Championship game in what would be the final game of his collegiate career.

Then, after entering the NBA, Jefferson made it to the NBA Finals in back-to-back years with the New Jersey Nets in 2002 and 2003. He’d lose both times.

So now that Jefferson has achieved the ultimate goal of becoming a champion, it’s easy to understand why he’d be satisfied enough to walk away from the game.

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CLEVELAND CAVALIERS FORWARD RICHARD JEFFERSON, right, celebrates to the cheers of the crowd as he exits the plane after arriving at Atlantic Aviation on June 20 in Cleveland, Ohio. Jefferson announced he will retire after winning the NBA Finals.

As of now, that’s what he plans to do, but admittedly, it won’t be easy for him.

“Maybe,” he said when asked if he would re-consider his decision. “If you ask me now, yes. But we’ll see.”

His teammates certainly aren’t making his decision any easier. “[They] keep trying to talk me out of it,” Jefferson told NBA TV. “And I’m like guys, this has been the most stressful month of my life.”

However, if Jefferson does stick to his plan and his playing career is truly over, he couldn’t have asked for a better end to it all.

“Hell of a way to go out,” Jefferson said.

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OMAHA, Nebraska­— Arizona baseball coach Jay Johnson has a saying around the clubhouse.

“You have my permission to have as much fun as you possibly want to have.”

There’s no clause at the end of it. Winning and playing the game the right way come first, of course, but after that, it’s up to the players how far they want to push Johnson’s limit of fun.

From rally towels to water bottle spraying to Cheez-It box hats, Arizona baseball has relied on a unique brand of fun to stay loose.

So far, it’s taken the Wildcats to the winner’s bracket of the College World Series.

Sawyer Gieseke has documented much of the mayhem on his camera.

Gieseke, a junior infielder, may not be the most well-known Wildcat on the field, but off of it he has developed quite an audience by producing up-close videos of his teammates.

Gieseke first developed an interest for film-making when he received a Go-Pro camera as a high schooler.

“I had a couple great teachers here and there,” Gieseke said. “I love the whole oneman-band thing.”

This past winter break, Gieseke invested in a higher-end camera. From there, he started filming behind-the-scenes moments of life as a college baseball player.

One Instagram video captured the team’s early season road trip to Houston, Texas. Another pans through the dugout as

teammates mob one another after a big hit.

Eventually, Gieseke’s videos developed a wider audience on social media. He said his follower number on Twitter has risen by 400 over the past few months alone.

Outside of baseball, Gieseke and his teammates share another common bond— this one for nineties alternative music.

“All we sing is ‘90s alternative,” Gieseke said. “Goo Goo [Dolls]. Blink. Third-Eye Blind. Those are the big ones. Those are the ones that we mostly play.”

Gieseke, always pushing the boundaries of fun, knew there had to be a way to combine nineties-alternative, baseball and filmmaking.

One day, teammate Robert Medel called up Gieseke with an idea. He wanted to make a music video to the Goo Goo Dolls hit, “Slide.”

“I was on a flight, I had a sketch pad and I put down a lot of stuff of what we should and how we should do it,” Gieseke said. “We put the 3-2 winner towel in there which was awesome. [Medel] always has it on him.”

Next, Gieseke came up with a few iconic locations at the UA to match the iconic late 90’s song. He settled on McKale Center, Hi Corbett and Old Main.

The video’s pool scene is from Gieseke’s Tucson backyard.

In the video, a three-man band of Medel, Tyler Crawford and Kaleb Roper lip-sync and air-guitar the Goo Goo Dolls’ hit as Gieseke works his camera to provide closeup and aerial shots.

While shooting the video, Gieseke thought, “If we get the Goo Goo Dolls to

retweet this, then we’ve made it.”

Sure enough, the Goo Goo Dolls took notice.

“That was our goal,” Gieseke said proudly.

Before Arizona’s game against Miami Saturday, Gieseke sat in the dugout talking with ESPN reporter Kaylee Hartung.

Hartung had seen Gieseke’s “Slide” video and suggested that he produce another music video—this one specially made for Omaha.

The song: “This Town” by O.A.R., another 90s alternative rock group.

Gieseke and a few of his teammates spent Sunday morning filming the video, which will air Monday during ESPN’s broadcast of Arizona’s game against Oklahoma State.

Gieseke, who will play summer ball in Wisconsin, now gets to air his talents to a national audience. The Walnut Creek, California native isn’t about ready to put down his camera.

“I’d love to stay in documentary type shooting or features for sports,” Gieseke said. “That’s my niche. I think I’m decent at it because I actually know baseball and what to look for.”

As for what Gieseke’s head coach thinks of his filmography explorations?

“Jay loves them,” Gieseke said. “It’s a huge recruiting thing, too. It’s a great way to show off to America how much fun we have here.”

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Sports • Wednesday, June 22-Tuesday, June 28, 2016 ARIZONA OUTFIELDER ZACH GIBBONS swings against Miami during the NCAA College World Series on Saturday, June 18.

Gibbons had two hits and two RBI in the 5-1 win over the Hurricanes.

Wildcats hit Omaha The Arizona baseball team split its first two games in the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The Wildcats defeated the Miami Hurricanes in the opening game 5-1, but then fell to the Oklahoma State Cowboys 1-0, giving the Wildcats their first loss in the double-elimination tournament. Arizona now has to win its next three games to keep its title dreams alive, starting with a matchup against UC-Santa Barbara on Wednesday, June 22.

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ARIZONA SECOND BASEMAN CODY RAMER races toward first base during the NCAA College World Series on Saturday, June 18 in Omaha, Nebraska. The leadoff hitter is battling .346 this season.

ARIZONA INFIELDER KYLE LEWIS attempts to steal second base during the NCAA College World Series against Oklahoma State on Monday, June 20.

ARIZONA’S BOBBY DALBEC PITCHES against Oklahoma State during the NCAA College World Series on Monday, June 20. Dalbec pitched eight innings and only allowed one run to the Wildcats’ 1-0 loss to the Cowboys.

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ARIZONA FIRST BASEMAN RYAN AGUILAR holds a runner on during Arizona’s 1-0 loss to Oklahoma State in the NCAA College World Series. Aguilar leads the Wildcats in home runs (8) and RBI (51).

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Elimination games familiar to ’Cats

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who holds a 4-1 record in six starts and 22 appearances.

OMAHA, Nebraska — Arizona baseball will face its fourth elimination game of the postseason Wednesday when the Wildcats face UC-Santa Barbara at the College World Series.

So far, so good.

Arizona found itself in a similar position in Regionals, when the UA had to win three games in Lafayette, Louisiana to advance to the Super Regionals.

The Wildcats once again need to win three games in a row in order to advance to the College World Series Finals.

“Confidence comes from successful experience,” Arizona head coach Jay Johnson said. “This group has gone through [elimination play] in a very hostile environment. At least we don’t have to play the home team in this ballpark.”

Arizona enters Wednesday with a fresh slate of pitchers after starters Nathan Bannister and Bobby Dalbec combined to throw 15 of 18 innings over the first two games.

JC Cloney is a likely candidate to start on the mound Wednesday, as he ranked second on the team with 16 regular season starts. Another option is Kevin Ginkel,

Odds work against Arizona’s favor

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No team in the modern College World Series format has won its first game, lost its second game and gone on to win the National Championship.

Arizona will look to break that trend this year.

The College World Series first implemented two brackets of four teams in 2000, when LSU came out of Bracket 2 unscathed to reach the Finals, where it beat Stanford.

The last College World Series team to win the first game of its bracket, drop the second and advance to the Finals were the 2007 North Carolina Tarheels.

UNC beat Mississippi State in its opening game, then fell to Rice before pulling off three straight victories—one over Louisville and two over Rice—to reach the Finals.

There, the Tarheels fell to Oregon State in a three-game series.

In 1989, when all eight College World Series teams still played under one bracket, Wichita State University pulled off the type of run Arizona hopes to repeat this week.

After winning their first game and dropping their second matchup, the

Shockers won three straight elimination games to reach a one-game Final with Texas. Wichita State won 5-3.

According to College World Series history, Arizona’s path to a fifth national title is difficult but not implausible.

Gauchos playing like they’ve been here before

After UCSB eliminated Miami on Monday, head coach Andrew Checketts offered the best quote of the College World Series thus far.

“Everybody is celebrating like we just won the whole thing,” Checketts said. “But it’s hard to act like you’ve done it before when you’ve never done it before. First program World Series win, and it sure looked like it.”

For a program with no College World Series experience before this postseason, the Gauchos have made some Omaha veterans look bad.

In Super Regionals play, UCSB stunned No. 2 overall seed Louisville, beating the Cardinals in two games.

Like the Wildcats, the Gauchos fell to Oklahoma State 1-0 in their first College World Series game but responded by eliminating No. 3 overall seed Miami with a 5-3 win.

One small Big West Conference program took out two of the top three teams in the country by relying on a west coast brand of baseball.

“Well-coached, scrappy, good defense,” Arizona’s Johnson said. “They play good in one-run games. They’re like every team in the west, and they know how to win.”

Rightfielder Devon Gradford leads the Gauchos with a .339 batting average while first-baseman Austin Bush is the team’s top slugger at 11 homers.

UCSB’s most telling stat?

The Gauchos are 28-2 when leading after six innings.

Opening pitch for the west-coast affair is slated for 4 p.m. MST Wednesday. The game will be televised on ESPN.

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OMAHA, Nebraska — Four coaches took the podium Friday afternoon at TD Ameritrade Park, one of them had 12 more College World Series head coaching appearances than the other three combined.

Oklahoma State, UC-Santa Barbara, Arizona and Miami may all fall under the same College World Series bracket this weekend, but Miami head coach Jim Morris

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Christopher Barr hit an RBI single.

Miami had the bases loaded with one out, but Bannister got out of the jam with a strikeout and a grounder.

“I have to give him credit because I thought he handled the situation very well,” Arizona head coach Jay Johnson said. “I thought he was a little nervous early on. He settled in really well.”

Arizona widened its lead when Zack Gibbons hit a two-run double in the fifth inning to make it 5-1. Gibbons, who went 2-for-3, was the only UA player to record multiple hits.

Bannister continued to shut down Miami’s potent lineup, which had previously powered the Hurricanes to a 50-win season.

Miami rarely made good contact, with most balls in play staying in the infield.

“When you look at all of those offensive players in that lineup, I don’t think the word ‘comfortable’ comes to mind, ever,” Johnson said. “But it starts with your pitcher being able to execute pitches, and Nathan did that.”

Arizona’s Cameron Ming relieved Bannister in the eighth inning, recording six uneventful outs.

The victory placed Arizona in the winner’s bracket, where it faced a red-hot Oklahoma State team Monday night.

Bobby Dalbec started on the mound for the Wildcats, shutting down Oklahoma State’s top of the order in the first inning.

In the bottom of the first, Arizona leadoff hitter Cody Ramer drilled a ball to right center, but Cowboys centerfielder Ryan Sluder made a leaping grab on the warning track to rob Ramer of an extra-base hit.

“I was already rounding second by the time I heard the crowd go wild,” Ramer said. “So I knew I’d either be standing on third or going for the inside-the-parker. So I feel like that [made it] a complete different game.”

From then on the Wildcats hardly threatened the rest of the night, putting up only three hits on Oklahoma State starter Tyler Buffett. Only once did Arizona place a runner in scoring position.

Dalbec was equally dominant on the mound,

is in a class of his own when it comes to coaching in Omaha.

Morris, in his 34th year of coaching, knows his favorite Omaha steakhouse by heart.

He’s made this trip 13 times as the head coach of the Hurricanes, and twice he’s led Miami to national titles (1999 and 2001).

Oklahoma State head coach Josh Holliday has seen his fair share of College World Series baseball too. He made it to

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as he recorded a career high 12 strikeouts over eight innings pitched.

Dalbec’s only mistake came in the fourth inning when he allowed a leadoff double to the Cowboys’ Donnie Walton. Oklahoma State third baseman Garrett Benge knocked in Walton on a bloop single to right center.

“Walton hit a good pitch, and then the fourhitter hit a good change up and just dumped in the outfield,” Dalbec said. “It’s just the way it goes.”

Neither team put up much of a fight offensively over the next four innings.

In the bottom of the ninth with one out, Arizona’s Gibbons hit a sharp one-out grounder to third that was well played by Oklahoma State’s third baseman. However, the throw to first appeared to bring the first baseman’s foot off the bag and Gibbons was originally called safe.

After a video review, however, the four umpires overturned the original ruling and called Gibbons out.

Johnson argued the call to no avail.

“After [the umpires] talked about it, they said they felt like he was out,” Johnson said. “I saw one video up on the board and it looked like he was out, and then I saw another one on my phone and his foot was off the bag—he was safe.”

Ryan Aguilar recorded a two-out walk, but a weak grounder by JJ Matijevic ended the game.

Arizona next faces UC-Santa Barbara Wednesday at 4 p.m. MST after the Gauchos eliminated Miami. If the Wildcats win, they’ll rematch against Oklahoma State Friday evening.

If Arizona wins on Friday, it’d force a Saturday win-or-go-home contest against Oklahoma State, with the winner heading to the College World Series Finals.

Game 1 of the College World Series Finals takes place on Monday at 4 p.m. MST. Game 2 is on Tuesday at 5 p.m. MST and an if-necessary Game 3 would be played next Wednesday at 5 p.m. MST. All CWS games are televised on the ESPN networks.

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answers to your ques�ons about sex and rela�onships Did you know that 29% of UA students have never had vaginal intercourse? (2015 Health & Wellness Survey, n=2,705)

How do you build a healthy relationship?

Great question! Building a healthy relationship is probably one of life’s biggest challenges, but the rewards are both defining and enduring. Clearly, there is no one way to make a relationship work, but they do share some common elements. We’ve all heard that trust and communication are essential, but the real key is finding everyday ways to establish and reinforce these connections with your partner. Think about how you convey your appreciation for each other in small acts – you may be surprised by how much they say.

A good relationship isn’t always a bowl of cherries, nor is it predictably easy. Disagreements are inevitable, so learning to effectively address and resolve conflict is as important as sharing in the good times.

And speaking of sharing, remember that communication is a two-way street that requires both individuals to contribute. “Give and take” should refer to your sense of compromise, not the roles you adopt in the relationship.

Also, try to keep things realistic with plenty of humor.

Relationships that thrive tend to be based on down-to-earth expectations, not fairy tale myths. Your friend or significant other will not always be able to read your mind, fulfill your dreams, or constantly make you happy.

Research tells us that having healthy relationships, both amorous and platonic, is good for our health. People with meaningful partnerships tend to have better support networks, which enrich our lives, and may even help us live longer.

Unfortunately, technological and social changes may be expanding our contacts while shrinking the number of people we can actually confide in and count on. Next time you’re with a friend or significant other, be present in the moment, and focus on each other, not your phones.

Remember, relationships are not 50/50, they’re 100/100.

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Omaha as a player in the late ‘90s, and then as an assistant coach at both Arizona State and Vanderbilt.

UC Santa-Barbara coach Andrew Checketts and Arizona’s Jay Johnson had never been to the College World Series— not as a player, coach or fan.

“I was going to ask coach Morris for some tips, but he wasn’t too willing to give them,” Johnson joked.

Before the press conference, Morris roamed the media room with the demeanor of a patriarch. As far as college baseball circles go, he is one.

Despite recently entering retirement age, Morris’ health—and not to mention his memory—is in as good a shape as any of the younger coaches joining him this weekend.

Morris recalled a 21-year-old Pat Burrell standing in the on-deck circle when he got the call that he’d been selected as the No. 1 overall pick in the 1998 MLB Draft.

“I don’t know how Pat Burrell hit,” Morris said. “I wouldn’t be able to talk let alone hit. Knowing Pat, he probably hit a home run. I can’t remember. I’ll have to ask him that.”

That year, Burrell and the Hurricanes fell short of a national title, losing to Long Beach State in an elimination game.

Morris has seen the evolution of college baseball up close.

Sports • Wednesday, June 22-Tuesday, June 28, 2016 Twenty years ago, Miami was one of a couple elite programs on the East Coast who regularly made it far in Omaha. Florida State and LSU were among the others.

Much of college baseball’s power back then was connected by Interstate 405.

Morris would take his team out to Los Angeles, Long Beach and Fullerton to get a good taste of “California baseball.”

It was a West Coast brand predicated on small-ball and aggressive base-running.

Not much different than what’s buoyed Arizona thus far.

“We got used to playing guys and watching, and it was a challenge for us because we felt if we played guys like a California guy, it gets us ready to play because you’ve got to play well if you’re going to beat these guys,” Morris said.

California is no longer a breeding ground for Omaha, with exception to UCLA’s recent success.

In accordance to the wider college sports landscape, college baseball’s power structure is now located somewhere between Texas and the Atlantic coast.

Yet one-half of Miami’s regional consists of teams back west.

Morris sees similarities between Johnson’s Arizona club and the West Coast programs he used to face regularly.

“From watching Arizona on tape, what they do, they bunt a lot,” Morris said. “They play California baseball. That’s what it reminds me of.”

On Saturday night, Morris and the Hurricanes once again went up against the

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THE ARIZONA BASEBALL TEAM lines up on the field for the singing of the national anthem preceding their game against Miami on Saturday, June 18. The Wildcats beat the Hurricanes 5-1.

California brand, although this time the opposing team’s uniforms read “Arizona.”

Whether these Arizona Wildcats are revitalizing a long-standing brand of West Coast baseball or forging their own identity is something left for folks younger than Morris to debate.

“They’ve got an outstanding club,” Morris said following Arizona’s 5-1 win over the Hurricanes on Saturday.

Morris didn’t need to add anything more. By this point in his career, he knows a special group when he sees one.

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The Tucson 23 Mexican Food Festival brought together the best Mexican food restaurants within a 23-mile radius from the city of Tucson on Saturday, June 18.

The Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance collaborated with title sponsor Visit Tucson to create the sold-out event, which was held in the Arizona Ballroom at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa. .

Numerous restaurants served food and beverages at the festival. Some of these restaurants included Blanco Tacos + Tequila, Fermented Tea Company, Mariscos Chihuahua, Charro Steak, GRINGO grill + cantina, Calle Tepa and Pasco Kitchen & Lounge. The restaurant Gringo Grill Cantina served chorizo and queso fresco empanadas. This tasty Mexican specialty consists of tortilla, cheese and Mexican sausage.

Tucson 23’s food did not disappoint festival goers. Served by most restaurants, tacos and empanadas stood the most popular dish of the night. Participants of the event appeared satisfied with the selection of food throughout the night.

Chris Wilt, the facilities project manager at UA attended Tucson 23. He found out about the festival through advertisements and emails sent to him by the Arizona Daily Star, among other sources. The restaurant Calle Tepa provided Wilt’s favorite dish of the night as well as a taco dish from Pasco Kitchen & Lounge.

Working in facilities management, Wilt had some constructive criticism for the festival.

“Yeah, it was pretty fun,” Witt said. “I think they could do a little better with some more trashcans…there’s some organizational things I think they could do a little better.”

Tucson 23 offered festival-goers more than just food. It featured multiple Mexican artists like Ignacio Garcia and Anthony Eli Farias. Garcia, known for his murals, recently had his mural “Jack and Bill” displayed outside on the east side of the Rialto Theatre in downtown Tucson.

Farias is known for his abstract artistry. At the festival, Farias worked on a canvas of a Mexican sugar skull that he plans to name “Roses are Red.” Both Garcia and Farias enjoyed conversing with the festival’s participants and proudly displayed multiple pieces of art.

Besides the delicious food and talented artists, Tucson 23 had a live performance by the dance company Ballet Folklorico— La Paloma. The dance company is a Mexican folklore dance group, comprised of dancers ranging from the age of 3 to 60 years old. The company has performed in Australia and England, and plans to perform in Spain during the spring of 2017.

The group performed a beautiful dance at the festival and wore brightly colored outfits.

Tucson 23 brought more than just Mexican restaurants together—it brought the Tucson community together. Filled with great food, beautiful art and festive dancers, the festival created a cultural experience that participants will never forget.

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Jim Sturgess and David Schwimmer in AMC’s “Feed the Beast.” The show airs Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

Review: ‘Feed the Beast’ is a semientertaining disappointment

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The feeling of wanting to look away from something but not being able to is all too familiar, especially for avid TV viewers.

AMC’s new series “Feed the Beast” gives audiences a fresh dose of delightfully cringeworthy television.

The series stars David Schwimmer and Jim Sturgess as two friends preparing to open a restaurant together in Bronx, New York.

Dion, played by Jim Sturgess, recently got out of prison for burning down the restaurant he previously worked at with his friend, Tommy, played by Schwimmer, whose wife died in a drive-by shooting witnessed by their son, TJ. TJ has refused to speak at all since the shooting occurred. Now that Dion has gotten out of prison, the owners of the restaurant he

burned down want money for the damages.

To make matters worse, they come from a mob family.

First and foremost, this is really not by any means a great show. Mediocre writing, obnoxious side characters and often laughable dialogue run rampant throughout the series. Still, it has some elusive qualities that make it quite entertaining to watch.

To this day, seeing Schwimmer in any role other than Ross from “Friends” is like seeing a fish out of water. His character in “Feed the Beast” does not have any particularly compelling elements, but he still makes for a fairly convincing grief-stricken dude—he recently lost his wife, his restaurant and now his son refuses to speak to him.

TJ’s refusal to talk after his mom’s death makes him somewhat interesting at first, but the act gets real old real quick and his

lack of talking just becomes obnoxious. With Tommy—Schwimmer’s character—it’s a bit like watching a sick puppy. You feel so bad for him that you just want to give the guy a hug.

Sturgess does do a solid job as Dion, a former executive chef whose love and passion for food really comes through with the character. He constantly cooks up interesting and unique food, so if nothing else, this show will most certainly make you hungry. He also remains convinced that opening a restaurant will allow him to pay off the $600,000 debt he apparently owes to the mob. You have to let people dream, I guess.

So, the two lead characters make for decent enough viewing, but everyone else in the show is pretty much awful. Michael Gladis plays the head of the mob family in a role so horribly miscast that every scene of his will

make you want to cringe. Not intimidating in the slightest, Gladis’ character feels like something out of a terrible cartoon or a campy 1980’s movie. After all, his nickname is “The Tooth Fairy.” Need I say more?

“Feed the Beast” lacks quality content for various reasons. From strange choices with plot to confusing character motivations, this show commits just about every sin in the book when it comes to poor storytelling.

AMC usually delivers solid shows but with “Feed the Beast,” you’ll have to move past these mistakes that many pilot seasons often struggle with. The show does have its shining moments—just watch for the food, the decent lead performances and wait for the next episode to improve upon the last.

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Review: Me Like Bees at Club Congress The newcomers from Joplin, Missouri brought a robust, raw rock-and-roll sound to their show. They brought down the house as an opening act for Never Shout Never

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sound, but the band clearly has their own thing going. They fused an indie-rock attitude with dance-rock beats and riffs, Teenage angst filled the air in Club topped off with a powerful southern rock Congress on Monday night—a line sound and a punk-rock stage presence.

No band necessarily likes to have these stretched around the lobby of Hotel Congress as young alternative types labels thrown on them, but these types eagerly awaited indie-band Never Shout of genre comparisons are inevitable Never’s show. After the opening time was when a band is able to combine so many pushed back 30 minutes, and then another enthralling musical elements.

Shaefer said that there’s been a million 30 minutes, the first opener Me Like Bees iterations of what rockbegan playing as the and-roll is. Nevertheless, crowd funneled in. he encourages aspiring Opening bands musicians to forget tend to be forgotten about the labels and or permanently express themselves remembered as a authentically. musical link to the “Do what you want headliner, but Me and don’t worry about Like Bees found a way what’s cool,” Sheafer to make a name for said. “You’re not going to themselves in their stay ahead of [the trend]. brief set.

If you want to play guitar, Both bands hail get a guitar and play it.” from Joplin, Missouri — Luke Shaefer, He added that music is and kicked off their lead vocalist always progressing and national tour in it can feel impossible to Tucson. constantly stay on the Never Shout cutting edge.

Never put on a great In a musical world filled with electronic show—the dozens of swooning girls in the audience would definitely agree—but Me beats, rave-bros and everyone looking for Like Bees pumped rock and roll into the the next “sickest beat drop,” Me Like Bees veins of these young concert goers in a brought a refreshing rock-and-roll sound to the Dirty T. The band absolutely killed powerful performance.

Along with the other opening band, it—their set rose in intensity as it went on, Hundred Handed, Me Like Bees and Never culminating in a beautiful clash of hyperShout Never both stem from a dance-rock powered guitar riffs and vocals.

Void of any pretention, Me Like Bees just alternative type sound and encompass different types of rock music. Never Shout aimed to put on a good show and make it a Never stuck to their more acoustic style, memorable experience—they even created while Me Like Bees brought the house a Snapchat geotag for their show.

“You just try to put on a good show for down with a high-intensity set.

The lead singer and rhythm guitarist the people coming and hopefully they Luke Sheafer joined the band in 2012. He’s leave with some memories,” Sheafer said.

The crowd may have been intimate, good friends with the guys from Never Shout Never, but his band’s music doesn’t but Me Like Bees definitely created some larger-than-life memories for the audience necessarily fit into the same mold.

“I don’t know if there’s a lot of interaction with a blast of good ol’ American rock and between bands on tour,” Sheafer said roll.

“Everybody’s kind of doing their own thing thing.”

— Follow Sean Orth He cites a variety of early 2000’s rockers @seanaustinorth like Jack White and Franz Ferdinand as major influences in his musical upbringing.

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Me Like Bees’ guitarist and vocalist Luke Sheafer performs at Hotel Congress on Monday, June 20.

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Me Like Bees performs a set at Hotel Congress on Monday, June 20. The band opened for indie three-piece Never Shout Never.