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Shutdown slows NASA project

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The Daily Wildcat The testing of one of four instruments for a large-scale telescope was put on pause last week due to the federal government shutdown that began on Oct. 1.

George Rieke, a UA astronomy professor and science team leader working on the mid-infrared instrument of the James Webb Space Telescope, said his team had been preparing to test the instrument for almost three months. The mid-infrared instrument was halfway through tests when NASA employees were sent home due to the government shutdown, he said.

His wife, Marcia Rieke, also a UA astronomy professor and the principal investigator of the telescope’s nearinfrared camera, had to cancel a flight to Greenbelt, Md., last week due to the shutdown. Marcia Rieke said she was supposed to perform “shake tests” on the instrument at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, home of the James Webb Space Telescope, in preparation for the telescope’s launch in 2018.

The James Webb Space Telescope will replace the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope. Its main functions will include looking to discover which galaxies formed first after the Big Bang and to characterize planets orbiting other stars.

Although the teams of astronomers working on the telescope can continue to work on certain pieces out of facilities not run by the federal government, some operations in the telescope’s construction have been paused until the shutdown ends, George Rieke said.

“There are a lot of people this kind of project has to keep paying to do things, and the project needs a huge amount of coordination,” he said, “It’s Goddard that has the job to keep it all organized, and so that’s the real disruption.”

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GEORGE RIEKE AND MARCIA RIEKE, UA astronomy professors, are working on developing the James Webb Space Telescope for NASA. The government shutdown has affected the project’s schedule.

UA student educates on human rights violations

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Ahva Sadeghi recalls standing in a photo exhibit, staring at Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph “The Vulture” and crying as her heart dropped .

In “The Vulture,” the eponymous bird stands watch over a starving Sudanese child curled up on the ground.

The piece is displayed in the Newseum, a journalism museum in Washington D.C., along with a collection of other photos that have won the Pulitzer Prize.

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Arizona utilizes alumna’s project

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The Daily Wildcat The Arizona Department of Transportation recently adopted a UA alumna’s master’s project to help wildlife species safely cross Interstate 10.

Sara Sillars worked on wildlife linkages in the Cochise County area as part of her master’s project, which has since been adopted by ADOT. Wildlife linkages are pathways that wildlife species use to move between living places.

Sillars earned her degree from the UA’s Master of Science and

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ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION employees work to implement a UA graduate’s master’s project to help wildlife cross the Interstate 10 near Cochise County.

Geographic Information Systems Technology program in May, while interning with Sky Island Alliance, an organization that works to protect native species and habitats in the Southwestern U.S. and

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ADOT put forth a plan to widen the I-10 between the Dragoon and Galiuro mountain ranges by 60 feet

AHVA SADEGHI, a junior studying philosophy, politics, economics and law, founded a new club this semester, United, which aims to educate students about human rights violations.

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Running makes you happy.

The ability of running to act as an anti-depressant in humans has already been proven. A preliminary UA study, however, suggests that certain types of running shoes may improve mood better than others.

A small-scale study led by UA psychiatry professor Dr. Charles Raison, found that runners who ran in five-finger shoes, commonly known as barefoot shoes, experienced a greater increase in mood than runners who ran in regular running shoes.

This finding will be used in a fullscale study exploring the antidepressant effects of running barefoot, Raison said.

Most of Raison’s research at the UA focuses on the marriage of the mind and body. He is also the mental health expert for CNNhealth.

“What we have so far doesn’t fully establish causality, but it is an intriguing preliminary finding,” Raison said.

According to Raison, there may be a sensory pathway in the foot that is stimulated differently when people run barefoot compared to when they run in shoes.

“We don’t know exactly what that is yet,” he said, “but what we are trying to test is if different foot stimulations experienced in barefoot running might enhance the anti-depressant effects of running.”

Raison got the idea for the study from his own experience running in five-finger shoes, which he said boosted his mood more than when he ran in traditional running shoes.

There were 23 local participants in the study, all of whom ran at least 20 miles per week. The participants were divided into two groups: barefoot runners and

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bones in his body; you see his skin, and he’s completely malnourished. It looks like he’s dead,” Sadeghi said. “And then when I

Sadeghi, a junior studying philosophy, politics, economics and law, spent last summer studying international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., through the Semester in Washington program, and interning with the Peace Corps. In her internship, Sadeghi said she studied cases involving issues related to human trafficking, which fed her passion for the cause of human rights.

This inspired Sadeghi to start United, a new campus club that aims to eradicate issues such as human trafficking

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UA celebrates Chávez building BY adriana espinosa

The Daily Wildcat The UA will honor César Chávez’s influence in the community on Friday.

The Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs department will host an event celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the naming of the César E. Chávez building.

The event will include a speech from César Chávez’s youngest son, Fernando Chávez, as well as from Macario Saldate, former director of the department of Mexican American Studies, and Peter Likins, who was UA president emeritus during the César E. Chávez building’s renaming in 2003.

Students from Tessa Valencia’s fourth grade class at Davis Bilingual Elementary Magnet School have prepared poems about César Chávez to present at the event as well. Daniela Vizcarra, a junior studying journalism and Mexican American studies and an intern for Davis Bilingual Elementary, worked with Valencia’s class on the poems.

“We had already done a project on [César Chávez] previously,” Vizcarra said, “so this event was a great place to show [their work].”

This celebration or “tardeada,” which means late afternoon picnic, is a dedication to César Chávez, “a great American hero,” said Socorro Carrizosa, program director at CHSA. “He was an amazing man who was an amazing leader in this country, for this country,” Carrizosa said, “so we felt that it was very appropriate to honor him.”

UA students and community members felt the need to rename the building after a Latino because of the Latino community’s involvement in the university, Carrizosa added.

“The Latino community has been involved in the university since the beginning,” Carrizosa said. “They helped build the university, and felt it

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allocated through the end of the year, astronomers will continue to be paid and to work on the parts they have access to from places like the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which is primarily run by the California Institute of Technology.

Chris Impey, deputy head of the astronomy department, said while UA employees can still work on the NASA project for now, the shutdown will eventually become more of an issue.

“Sub-contractors are able to work and U of A employees are able to work,” Impey said, “but if the center of the activity is not working, then that’s eventually going to be a big problem.”

While the shutdown hasn’t affected the timeline of the project’s launch, smaller effects are keeping pieces of the project from moving forward, such as emails that have gone unanswered because NASA employees aren’t allowed to respond to emails during the shutdown, George

alex plaumann/The Daily Wildcat HEAD OF MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES Richard Ruiz (second from the right) stands with members of the Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs Program Board in front of the César E. Chávez building on Wednesday. From left to right: senior Alejandro Tapia, freshman Danae Meza, junior Carolina Ramirez, Ruiz and first-year master’s student Anamaria Ramirez have helped coordinate Friday’s César Chávez event.

was important to have that present.”

Richard Ruiz, head of the Department of Mexican American Studies, said the event is important because once people have been gone for a while, their contributions to society tend to be forgotten.

The César E. Chávez building is also unique because most buildings are named after people who donate

Rieke added.

Communication was suddenly cut off, which is starting to become more of a concern as the shutdown enters its second week, Marcia Rieke said.

“That’s the kind of thing where a day or two wouldn’t have made such a big difference,” Marcia Rieke said, “but when it starts to stretch into weeks, the last time you were given instructions from Goddard starts to be a long time ago.”

The telescope project is a group effort by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency. Not only is the shutdown inconvenient for the astronomers working on the project, George Rieke said, it also makes the U.S. look like an unreliable partner to other countries.

“We’re just a pain to deal with because we’re not predictable,” George Rieke said. “Of all the problems they’ve had in the European Union, they haven’t had anything quite like this.”

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a large amount of money, Ruiz said, and while César Chávez had a major influence on the university, he did not donate money.

Poems, artwork and essays will be on display at the event, and there will be food and drinks for guests. Two paintings by a local artist will also be unveiled, one a portrait of César Chávez himself, which will reside

permanently in the building.

The CHSA is expecting a strong turnout of Tucson community members because there was a lot of support during initial talks about changing the building’s name to honor César Chávez.

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and child soldiers through education about international violations of human rights.

“I thought that there needs to be some sort of movement on campus where people are educated about human rights,” Sadeghi said. “If they’re not aware of these problems, then these issues will never be addressed.”

Julia Leone, a member of United and a psychology senior, said the club will bring a lot of attention to the reasons human rights violations occur and will help educate people about solutions.

“It [human rights violations] affects everyone,” Leone said. “A lot of people don’t realize it’s an issue in America.”

Sadeghi said she does not want the club to be controversial or political.

“I want it to be everybody on a common playing field that we all think genocide is wrong; we all think rape is wrong,” Sadeghi

The event will be held on Friday from 4-7 p.m. on the east side of the César E. Chávez building.

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said. “Now let’s try to educate people that use rape as a tactic of war why they shouldn’t do that.”

The meetings will start with a student newscast of international current events and human rights violations, followed by a 20-minute Skype session with an expert or world leader on the monthly topic and open discussion about the issue.

“It can bring awareness to human rights issues around the globe and also to local human rights issues in the campus community,” said William Paul Simmons, associate professor of gender and women’s studies and faculty supervisor for United. “I think that will be real important.”

United will also have an online journal with articles focusing on a student-chosen topic. Topics may include hunger issues, women’s rights, education, malaria and genocide. After the first meeting, United will start accepting applications from students who want to write for its website.

“It will be fun to work together

with a lot of different students and do some good for the community,” Simmons said.

In the club’s first meeting, students will vote on themes to discuss each month.

“We’re all human and we should all have an incentive to care about another human, regardless if that human is in another country or experiencing a different situation,” Sadeghi said. “As humans, we are all united and all linked in a certain way.”

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United will meet every Thursday at 5:30 p.m. starting on Nov. 4.

Students pay a $20 membership fee and get a club shirt.

Scholarships will be available.

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Students rock runway at male beauty pageant To win the title of Señor Vida, contestants must compete in the categories of swimsuit, formal wear, Girls aren’t the only ones who can casual wear, talent and pick-up lines. flaunt what they’ve got.

Alisha Glass, a freshman veterinary Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall is science major and co-coordinator hosting Señor Vida, a male beauty of the event, said Señor Vida is pageant, on Saturday evening. unique because it’s typically women Señor Vida is who participate in in its third year at pageants. Árbol. The event “It gets the idea Maybe the started as a way to out there that it’s conventional create camaraderie not all about girls definition and have fun, said that have to show of beauty is Ryan Richard, themselves off,” an undeclared Glass said. “Guys outdated. freshman and cocan do the same — Ryan Richard, cocoordinator of the things.” coordinator of Señor event.

Contestant Vida The event is the Chanlin Wong, a second biggest at math freshman, said Árbol, Richard said, he is looking forward and this year’s pageant will be even to doing just that. bigger than the last.

“I always wished that our high “We’re getting a stage this year,” school had a male beauty pageant, Richard said. “That’s a pretty big and we never did, so I’m excited thing.” that we have one here,” Wong said.

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DALMAR WILTSHIRE, a UA student, competes in the 2012 Señor Vida male beauty pageant.

“It seems like a fun time to show off different talents. It’s the guys in Árbol that are really outgoing and friendly that are doing it.”

Richard said the event has a satirical theme that leads people to examine the their preconceived ideas about beauty.

This event might change some perceptions of beauty, but the real goal is see people laugh and enjoy

themselves, Richard added.

The pageant will be judged by female resident assistants from Árbol, and Richard will serve as emcee.

“Maybe the conventional definition of beauty is outdated,” Richard said.

“Maybe it needs to be thought of in a different light.”

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Señor Vida kicks off Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in the Árbol de la Vida courtyard.

There will be food from Eegees, and residents of Árbol are encouraged to invite their friends.

MAP courtesy of wildlife linkages program

The Arizona department of Transportation is working to widen Interstate 10 in Cochise County. ADOT will implement a UA alumna’s master’s project to their work in order to protect wildlife.

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in order to accommodate heavy traffic flow. ADOT then brought its concerns regarding wildlife species in the area to the public, and that’s when Sky Island Alliance jumped on board the project to provide its thoughts, said Jessica Moreno, the wildlife linkages program coordinator for Sky Island Alliance.

One problem is that the I-10 acts as a barrier for wildlife movement because the roads fragment the places where the species live, according to Sergio Avila, a program manager for the Northern Mexico Conservation Program with Sky Island Alliance.

This provided Sillars with the opportunity to research and analyze the vulnerable wildlife and habitats surrounding the area, which became the subject of her master’s project. Her project gathered valuable information that ADOT can use in formulating its plan, which is still in its early stages, according to Moreno.

Sillars’ project is expected to benefit the state in a variety of ways.

“Her thesis project has tangibly helped bring focus to the importance of the wildlife linkage in the Texas Canyon area, provided science-based information to develop sound strategies

to address wildlife connectivity and ultimately will help promote population viability and reduced highway mortality for a host of wildlife species,” said Ryan Harding, public information officer for ADOT, in an email interview.

Sillars’ project aims to improve culverts, which are underpasses that can be widened to provide a passageway

for animals like deer and javelinas. Otherwise, if the road was expanded, the animals would balk at passing through the long, dark holes of the culverts. Overpasses are also a possible solution, since underpasses are more specific to certain species, according to Moreno.

“I hope that it actually comes to fruition and that there’s a corridor [passageway] put in place,” Sillars said.

Sillars said the goal of her project was to see what types of species would use which crossing structures, and at what locations.

ADOT chose one of her suggested locations as a place to study further.

“This is a way to make sure that our wildlife stays healthy,” Moreno said. “[Sillars is] helping us do our mission to protect wildlife in the region, but she’s doing it in a way that’s going to help protect people on the road, and it’s very collaborative.”

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Portrayal of assisted suicide important

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Tucson man pled guilty to manslaughter last month in an assisted suicide case.

Physician-assisted suicide is legal under the Death with Dignity Act in my hometown of Seattle, so I was horrified to hear that he could receive seven to 10.5 years in jail — until I heard the whole story.

Tyler Christopher Gunn, 47, told investigators that he helped Katherine Lemberg, 37, take her own life by putting a bag over her head and directing helium gas into it.

With these brutal details in mind, the sentence is understandable.

Gunn was not a caring doctor helping a terminally-ill patient pass away painlessly. He was a man who suffocated a friend whose reason for wanting to die remains unknown.

Unfortunately, the charge of “assisted suicide” is misleading, and conjures up undeserved sympathy.

This isn’t an isolated case, either: Kenneth Minor from New York claims that Jeffrey Locker, a motivational speaker and author struggling with debt, asked Minor to help stage his death to make it look like a mugging so his family could receive his life insurance benefits.

Minor told authorities that he held a knife against the steering wheel of Locker’s car while Locker repeatedly lunged into the knife.

Originally convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, Minor won an appeal Oct. 3 to instead be tried for manslaughter.

However, the media and the courts continue to classify these disturbing incidents as “assisted suicide,” lumping them into the same category as ethical, physician-assisted death.

If the media continues to associate assisted suicide with sketchy suffocation and a “knifing on the streets of East Harlem,” while turning a blind eye to the merits of physicianassisted suicide, people will fail to see the nobler side of euthanasia.

There needs to be a clearer distinction in both the law and the media between these two “assisted suicide” cases and that of a physician helping an elderly or sick patient pass on.

There is a large difference in morality between what the Tucson and New York men did and what is legal in Washington, Oregon, Vermont and Montana, but that difference is lost in the verbage. If you search “assisted suicide” on Google, the second result is the Euthanasia Research and Guidance Center’s webpage at assistedsuicide.org.

What this group supports — ending the suffering of dying patients by their consent — will be buried when people begin associating assisted suicide with cases like Gunn and Minor.

Our names and terms for things are important. George Lakoff, a linguistics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, was one of many people who led the push to use the term “undocumented migrant” instead of “illegal immigrant,” because language matters when addressing legal and political issues.

The same principle can be applied to assisted suicide. Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act “allows terminally-ill Oregonians to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal medications, expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose.” This is not mindless and brutal killing, and it shouldn’t be lumped into the same category as manslaughter.

The act requires three statements of consent from the patient: two verbal statements separated by a period of 15 days and one written request with two witness signatures, one of whom is not related to the patient, in addition to a confirmation of the patient’s terminality and an evaluation of the patient’s sanity by attending and consulting physicians.

Furthermore, the patient must be well-informed of the alternative treatments and options available.

These and more restrictions ensure that acts of physician-assisted suicide are far different from manslaughter.

Physician-assisted suicide, though only legal in four states, should be considered with an open mind, unblemished by the callous actions of men like Gunn and Minor. It’s important that the media keep the difference between the two in mind when reporting these types of cases.

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Back pay a contradiction of policy

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bout 800,000 federal employees were furloughed as a result of the government shutdown, while an additional 1.3 million continue to work in positions considered too critical to do without.

Around 350,000 of the furloughed employees have been recalled by the Pentagon in the past few days, but many remain at home waiting for Congress to reauthorize their employers by passing a budget.

The U.S. House of Representatives has made progress toward alleviating the fears of federal employees by unanimously passing a bill guaranteeing all furloughed workers back pay. This raises two major concerns: How does this address the fact that the many furloughed employees can’t go to work, and where is the consistency in the Republican Party’s message of fiscal responsibility?

and pay us for that, but not get Unfortunately, our elected any work out of it,” said Julie officials seem more concerned Flores Kriegsfield, a federal with burning a hole in the employee with the Federal taxpayers’ pockets in a cynical Aviation Administration. “I don’t game of chicken over the Patient know how they feel like that’s a Protection and Affordable Care reasonable mindset.”

Act. The drain on the economy For anyone worried that the is a double whammy if we pay bill ensuring furloughed workers individuals for services that receive back pay won’t pass, the aren’t being provided.

Senate has already expressed Kriegsfield gave her comments support for the bill, and President to the Boston Barack Obama Globe, which is has stated that he It’s no surprise reporting that would sign it into that Congress furlough pay law. Furthermore, can’t see how would negate Congress has whatever savings granted federal nonsensical the shutdown employment it is to pay provided. Most back pay in each people for of the $1.4 of the 16 other work they billion expense government aren’t doing. incurred by the shutdowns since last shutdown in 1976.

1995 was directly Senate tied to paying back furloughed Majority Leader Harry Reid, employers. The Globe also who supports the legislation, identified several “marginal” recently drew ire for comments costs such as “the expense of he made describing the back pay getting the government back as a “paid vacation” for federal on its feet once the shutdown employees. But he raises a fair is over and paying for higher point. Shouldn’t the federal bids submitted by contractors employees be allowed to go back who are hedging against future to work? instability.”

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Your Views Online Comments In response to “Bicycle citations necessary to keep students safe” (by Nick Havey, Oct. 9) It also doesn’t help that pedestrians are careless about crossing the street since they are too occupied with texting or talking on their phones. It’s ridiculous. They do not look both ways before they cross, they just assume everyone will stop for them. I’ve even seen a girl reading a book while walking. Come on, people.

— Claire The simple fact of the matter is that traffic laws apply to everyone, regardless of their means of getting around. Bicyclists need to understand that the laws apply to them as much as they apply to pedestrians and motorists.

— thekevinshow1990 If you’ve been hit by four bicyclists in three semesters, the problem might be you.

— Daniel In response to “Letter to the Editor” (by Priscilla Teran, Oct. 9) Well put! The ASUA [Associated Students of the University of Arizona] does a fantastic job of representing undergraduates, and that is all they should be expected to do, because that is the condition they have a grasp on and care

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— Max Weintraub is a senior studying creative writing and Italian studies. Follow him @mweintra13

two entities is already clear...” Except that it isn’t, when ASUA continues to claim it is the representative government body for “all students registered at the University of Arizona.” (See ASUA’s constitution) The basis for this proposal is that many graduate students feel completely unrepresented by ASUA. Maybe if the author of this editorial bothered to talk to some grad students, she’d hear what exactly they hope to accomplish with this.

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about. As a GAT, how could I possibly expect my students to be able to represent my interests as a graduate student, researcher, and instructor?

And why would I ever want to? I have one child and one on the way. I have a mortgage and I have health and life and car and home insurance to contend with. I am responsible for educating my undergraduate students, producing and publishing my own research, assembling comp and dissertation committees, completing grant applications for the university, getting lab time, grading papers, getting funds for travel and professional development, and completing my own coursework. What undergrad knows about all of this or cares about all of this enough to be my advocate?

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I don’t think most undergrads feel represented by ASUA either since they never really do anything of value. ASUA is just a old boys’/girls’ club where a bunch of friends join up to run together to boost each others’ resumes. They don’t do anything substantial for anyone except waste money. Remember the Last Smash Platinum Bash? I do, and I won’t let them live that one down until we see real reform for ASUA. We need a student government that actually works FOR THE STUDENTS, not just its members in need of a great story to tell during a job interview.

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Amen! In the last several articles I have read about this the DW allows [ASUA President Morgan] Abraham to avoid answering questions by automatically just saying that he thinks “it’s unfortunate” or he is “saddened” that [Graduate and Professional Student Council President Zachary] Brooks said or did this. I don’t really care that Abraham thinks that ... what I care about is what he will do to solve the problem.

Clearly he has no answer and that is why he answers that way and the DW lets him do it. I also have children and identify with this person 100 percent. Thanks DW for publishing this.

— Wildcat Alum 2008

GPSC conducted a survey and 99.3 percent of the graduate students that took the survey stated that they were not represented by ASUA but by GPSC and 25 graduate students came to the meeting to speak at call to the audience.

A petition circulated among graduate student leaders was signed by over 100 graduate student leaders including the Presidents of the Student Bar Association, the UA Med School Tucson Campus, The UA Med School Phx, the UA college of science, the school of pharmacy, and Eller. Why is ASUA choosing to ignore them?

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If Congressional Republicans were really concerned about the economic impact of “Obamacare,” then they wouldn’t be threatening to seriously damage the global economy by forcing the U.S. to default on its debts. And yet they continue to do so as it were their only hope of gaining leverage in the situation.

It’s no surprise that Congress can’t see how nonsensical it is to pay people for work they aren’t doing. But the longer this debacle continues, the easier it will be for the American people to send the right federal employees home in 2014: the entire Congress.

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Sniffed out Three UA students were diverted to the Dean of Students Office for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia on Oct. 3 at 8:37 p.m.

A resident assistant called University of Arizona Police Department officers after noticing a strong scent of marijuana coming from a student’s room.

When officers knocked on the door, a UA student opened the door, but told officers he did not live there. The student who did live in the room came up behind him and told the officers they could come in.

The students inside were hesitant to say whether or not they had marijuana, and asked officers what would happen if they said they did not have any. An officer said he would get a search warrant because the strong smell of marijuana coming from the room proved there was some in there.

The students admitted they did have marijuana, but said they had smoked it all. They gave the officer an empty plastic bag, a purple glass pipe and a cigarette replica pipe.

They also handed officers a blue and yellow glass pipe and a metal grinder with 0.9 grams of marijuana inside.

Officers searched the room for other illegal drug paraphernalia, but didn’t find anything.

The students were referred to the Dean of Students Offices for diversion.

Creeper status A UA student called UAPD, on Oct. 1 at 3:57 p.m., to report a “creepy” note left on her windshield while she was in class.

She told officers over the phone that she had left her car in a campus parking surface lot while attending class from 9:05 a.m. until 3:30 p.m.

When she came back to her car, she found a note on her windshield that she was “creeped out” by.

The note said, “I saw you park this morning and your [sic] amazing to watch.”

The student said she was not scared for her life and did not feel that she was in any kind of danger. However, she wanted the note officially documented by UAPD in case she got any other notes or something happened to her or her car.

The student said she will not park in that lot-specific zone anymore and will find another place where her permit allows her to park.

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The Daily Wildcat Although USC athletics and academics are renowned around the country, there is much more to know about the university than the 11 football national titles it claims and its prestigious alumni.

The Trojans began playing football in 1888.

In its 125 seasons, USC has posted a combined record of 789-321-54, the highest winning percentage in the conference, and entering the 2013 season, the eighth best in the country.

USC’s mascots Tommy Trojan isn’t USC’s only mascot. His Andalusian horse, Traveler, is also considered an official mascot. George Tirebiter, on the other hand, is an unofficial mascot of USC. He was most famous for biting Cal’s mascot, and died in 1950 chasing a car. After the incident, the Daily Trojan wrote that “tires are safe now.”

The Trojans have since stopped bringing a dog to games, but a statue was built on campus in 2006 to honor the unofficial mascot.

Thursday’s game will be USC interim head coach Ed Orgeron’s first as the leader of the Trojans. Before former head coach Lane Kiffin was fired last week, Orgeron was the defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at USC. This is Orgeron’s second stint with Southern California — he was the defensive line coach under former USC and current Seattle Seahawk head coach Pete Carroll from 2001-2004. In that time, Orgeron helped lead the Trojans to two national titles.

Following the 2004 season, Orgeron became the head coach at Mississippi, but was fired after three unsuccessful seasons. Orgeron joined Kiffin at Tennessee as an assistant coach in 2009. The two left the Volunteers after one season to return to USC in 2010.

Current team On paper, USC is one of the most talented teams in the country, but inconsistency at quarterback has prevented its highly touted offense from excelling in 2013.

Sophomore quarterback Cody Kessler has taken a majority of snaps this season and is anticipated to start Thursday, but will be on a short leash, as quarterback Max Wittek is waiting to regain his coach’s trust after a rough start to the season.

Marqise Lee, the 2012 All-American receiver, has not produced as he has in the past due to the struggling quarterback situation. Not only that, but Lee sustained a knee injury in the Trojans’ Sept. 28 game at Arizona State. As of Wednesday, his status for today’s game was uncertain, which should be a huge advantage for Arizona.

The Trojans’ offensive line has also been a concern in 2013. The big men up front have allowed 2.5 sacks per game. Only California has a higher average in the conference.

USC’s defense, though, has not lost a step. Led by redshirt junior linebacker Hayes Pullard, the Trojans’ defense ranks No. 14 in the country, holding opposing offenses to 306.8 yards per game.

Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, located just a block southwest of the USC campus, has been home to the university since 1923. Today’s

STAFF PREDICTS Megan Coghlan: 35-31 Arizona “Thursday is my optimistic day.”

Luke Della: 16-14 Arizona “Defense, defense, defense.”

Scarlett McCourt: 21-17 Arizona “Seriously.”

James Kelley: 17-10 USC “Trap game/Trojan horse”

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aseball is a much more defensive sport now than it was just a decade ago.

Instead of relying on home run hitters to support mediocre pitching, current major league teams have come to depend on a strong ace, a consistent rotation and the offensive ability to provide the pitcher with run support.

In 2003, New York’s Alex Rodriguez won the AL MVP award with 47 homeruns ; in contrast, Detroit’s Justin Verlander was awarded AL MVP honors in 2011, after winning the American League pitching triple crown, leading the league in wins (24), strikeouts (250) and ERA (2.40).

Arizona baseball head coach Andy Lopez has always preached that the key to winning is being the team that pitches the best.

Of the six Wildcats drafted in

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I really like what we have, [but] it’s really hard to tell this early.

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— Mathew Troupe, junior closer

Coaches’ lives more difficult than they look

NUMBER OF THE DAY

BY JAMES KELLEY

The Daily Wildcat In the last two weeks, two prominent UA coaches have taken unexpected leave of absences, shedding some light on the tough lives coaches lead.

On Sept.

27, Arizona announced that assistant men’s basketball coach Emanuel “Book” Richardson will be taking a leave of absence for health reasons. Then a week later, it was announced that baseball head coach Andy Lopez had to undergo triple bypass heart surgery on Monday. On Tuesday at practice, Andy Lopez’s son, assistant coach Michael Lopez, said his father was doing well.

“It’s almost kind of a silent thing.

You don’t really know what’s going to happen until it happens, but anyone that works hard at this profession is definitely going to be under stress,” said softball head coach Mike Candrea. “It’s a part of competition. Our bodies all handle it differently and sometimes we neglect ourselves for others, and that can catch up to you. I’m just glad [Andy Lopez]’s in good hands.”

The UA hasn’t updated the public on Richardson’s status or had media availability for men’s basketball since, but Richardson said in a press release in September that he isn’t in serious danger.

“This is not a life or death situation, but nonetheless very important,” Richardson said. “I am very appreciative to be given the flexibility to temporarily step away from coaching and basketball and to concentrate on my well-being.

I want to thank [men’s basketball head] coach [Sean] Miller, the Arizona basketball family, and the athletic department for allowing me this opportunity. I look forward to returning to the

Arizona played in what is believed to be the first-ever night college football game in 1905 against St. Vincent’s College. The college is now Loyola Marymount. The game was at Fiesta Park in downtown Los Angeles, where USC once played.

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UA SOFTBALL coach Mike Candrea has coached for 28 years.

Arizona basketball program.”

Coaches work almost all year round between games, practices, other team functions, scouting and recruiting.

Indoor volleyball head coach Dave Rubio said that coaches don’t enjoy winning that much, and after losses they are “hard to be around.”

“I think the stress that all coaches go through is hard to measure, but it really affects every aspect of your life,” Rubio said.

“You don’t enjoy the winning. It’s a relief to win and the losing is just devastating. It just grinds on you and it stays with you all the way until you get the chance to practice again.”

Michael Lopez and Candrea said they were surprised to hear that Andy Lopez needed heart surgery, because he is in good shape.

“I think for all of us it was kind of shocking, because when you look at him, he doesn’t look like he’s 60. He runs everyday,” Michael Lopez said. “We weren’t

expecting surgery, but that’s what it was, and just like he’d say, ‘You gotta attack it.’”

Rubio said families of coaches need to be understanding, and he is thankful that his wife is so supportive.

“There’s just so much that the general public doesn’t really see with coaches and how much stress and concerns and effects that it has upon the coaches and their families,” Rubio said.

But coaching isn’t all negative — Andy Lopez made sure that his son tweeted from the Arizona baseball account to thank all his well-wishers.

“He got a lot of texts, a lot of phone calls, and there is a lot of support, a lot of prayers,” Michael Lopez said. “I think it put him at peace a little bit, as well as the rest of the family.”

— Evan Rosenfeld contributed reporting to this article

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Arizona baseball junior closer Mathew Troupe is returning to add depth to the squad.

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the 2013 First Year Players Draft, four were pitchers.

Arizona lost Konner Wade and two parts of the bullpen in Augey Bill and Nick Cunningham, but the Wildcats’ rotation still possesses the depth necessary to be dominant this year.

Arizona’s pitching depth includes returning starters James Farris and Tyler Crawford and relievers Mathew Troupe, Cody Moffett, Tyger Talley and Nathan Bannister.

Farris, the rotation’s ace, turned down the Houston Astros’ money to come back to Arizona for his senior year. The Astros picked Farris in the 15th round and 437th overall.

Troupe, a junior closer, said that he’s impressed with what he has seen so far and is expecting a strong year.

“I really like what we have, [but] it’s really hard to tell this early,” Troupe said. “We have a good group of older guys coming back, and from what I see in the bullpens, I think we’ve got a lot of good young guys that will really surprise some people and jump right up there in the rotation.”

Junior outfielder Joseph Maggi is expected to be a key offensive and defensive contributor this season and said he anticipates great things from this year’s rotation.

“I’m expecting them to really attack the zone to get first pitch strikes,” Maggi said. “I know last year, some of the guys didn’t exactly have the type of year of production they wanted to, so I’m [happy to] see a lot of guys who are hungry. We also welcome a lot of freshman arms who are over there trying to earn their spots. I just want to see them working hard to put a name to this program.”

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Arizona soccer has been racking up the travel miles this season. It opened the year across the country in Florida, took a quick trip to America’s heartland to play Ohio State in early September and is now in the middle of a five-game Pac-12 road swing that has the team playing up in Oregon this weekend.

For assistant coach Kylie Louw, all the TSA screenings and complimentary beverages must be second nature by now, considering her soccer career has taken her to more places than Carmen Sandiego ever dreamed of.

“I’ve seen teams, players, tournaments, and styles all over the world,” Louw said. “It has really helped me understand the game better.”

Louw, who is from Johannesburg, South Africa, came to Arizona in February 2013 when first year head coach Tony Amato was assembling his staff to try to rebuild a soccer program that had been dreadful before his arrival. Amato didn’t just choose Louw on a whim; the two had known each for years, as Louw was a superstar midfielder at Stephen F. Austin in Texas, where Amato used to coach.

According to Louw, Amato was a huge part of her collegiate success on the pitch.

“When Tony joined at Stephen F. Austin, I was in my sophomore year and I was thinking about transferring,” Louw admitted. “Tony spoke to me and asked me to stay and train with the team for a few weeks and see how I liked it, and after like three or four days, I walked into his office and told him I was staying. I wouldn’t want to learn from anyone else.”

Her choice to stay at Stephen F. Austin may have been the best decision she has made, as she went on to become an All-American in athletics and academics and a three-time Southland Conference Player of the Year for the Ladyjacks before she finished her career in 2012.

Playing and succeeding at Division I soccer in the U.S. may be the dream of athletes across the world, but for Louw, it was just the tip of the iceberg.

In the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Louw was part of the South

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Coach Kylie Louw talks with senior midfielder Shannon Heinzler on Oct. 8. The Wildcats are preparing to travel to Oregon State for a match on Friday night.

African women’s soccer team, which was playing in its first-ever Olympic tournament. Although the team didn’t collect any medals for its country, it helped advance a team still looking for its first berth in the FIFA Women’s World Cup. Louw said her experiences growing up and playing in both South Africa and the U.S. are what helped her make the national team and become a better player and coach overall.

“I was playing at such a young age,” Louw said. “I was playing with boys till I was 14, played with girls all across Africa and then recently played overseas. I saw a lot of everything, which gave me a good range.”

For current Wildcat players, Louw’s experience has been valuable and has helped lead the team to one of the

program’s best starts, at 5-4-3.

“She knows her stuff,” said senior midfielder Jazmin Ponce. “She’s more advanced than any other player, because I guess she was the oldest one on her team, so she knows what we all need to do and has a really good understanding of the game.”

It’s difficult to say what future adventures may be in store for Louw, but for right now, she said she’s glad to be in Tucson.

“I’m loving it,” said Louw. “I’ve really bonded with the girls, and Tucson feels like home. I’ve enjoyed it and I’m trying to give everything I have to make this program work.”

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As Arizona football and USC split their last four games, tonight’s prime time match-up is full of storylines.

The Daily Wildcat got the perspective of Jacob Freedman, a senior sports editor for USC’s NeonTommy.com, Galen Central editor and a Daily Trojan reporter.

The Daily Wildcat: Losing 62-41 to a team like ASU isn’t acceptable at a school like USC, but considering the NCAA sanctions, was firing head coach Lane Kiffin so quickly maybe a little too harsh?

Freedman: Kiffin led USC through the sanctions, but his firing was justified. It wasn’t only that USC went 7-6 last year. Players lost confidence in their coach, recruits shied away from USC because of uncertainty over Kiffin and USC’s home attendance was dwindling by the week. There was no sign Kiffin was making improvements after being kept around for 2013, so it was the right time for USC to cut bait.

On campus, who’s at the top of the new coach wish list?

There’s a lot of positive sentiment for Vanderbilt head coach James Franklin, while Boise State’s Chris Petersen is a prime candidate if he can be convinced to leave the state of Idaho. Steve Sarkisian is also a name being tossed around. Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio is being considered the leading candidate nationally, but on-campus sentiment is to be wary of hiring a leader with no college coaching experience.

The UA regards the win last year

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matt scott, former UA quarterback, helped the Wildcats to a 39-36 victory last season against then No. 10 USC.

over USC as a big one; it has a photo and information on it in the tunnel leading out to the field along with wins over No. 1 Washington and No. 2 Oregon, but ultimately, the Trojans finished 7-6 last year.

How big a role did that game play in the end of the Kiffin era?

It marked the beginning of the end for Kiffin. Before there was the 28-0 stretch by Arizona State two weeks ago that sealed Kiffin’s fate, there was Arizona’s 26-0 run in that game to take the lead for good. The Trojans

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home game against Arizona will be the 90th anniversary of the first game played at the Coliseum, on Oct. 6, 1923, when Pomona College and USC played in the inaugural game, with the Trojans winning 23-7.

Since 1923, the Coliseum has been home to a variety of teams, schools and events, most notably UCLA football (1933 to 1981), the Los Angeles Raiders (1982-1994), the Los Angeles Dodgers (1958-1961) and the summer Olympic games (1932 and 1984).

The Coliseum has a seating capacity of 93,607. Just this past

still looked competitive during that stretch, but Matt Scott outplayed Matt Barkley, and with the win put the first nail in Kiffin’s coffin.

Was the performance of USC’s defense at ASU a cause for concern for an impressive unit, or an aberration?

There’s nothing not concerning about allowing nearly nine yards per play. Missed tackles and assignments plagued the team, but I think this week’s matchup

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Ferrell is not just one of the Trojans’ most notable fans, he is also an alumnus. Though he is now an actor, the comedian didn’t graduate from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, which in 2008 became the oldest and largest film school in the country. Ferrell actually graduated with a degree in sports information.

Fellow alumni include astronaut Neil Armstrong, film directors Ron Howard and George Lucas and 135 Olympic gold medalists.

In football, USC has had 480 players drafted into the NFL, more than any other school.

As the San Diego Chargers are the nearest NFL team to Los Angeles, USC is treated as the alpha dog in the country’s secondlargest city. It’s not uncommon to see celebrities such as actor Daily the Wildcat-4-91x10-5-print.pdf Will Ferrell and rapper Snoop Lion standing along sidelines of

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Predictions?

summer, USC signed a 99-year lease to oversee management of the Coliseum. The university will pay $1 million per year in rent to the state of California and will need to put approximately $100 million into improvements over roughly the next 50 years. There is hope that modern renovations will entice a current NFL team to move to Los Angeles and call the Coliseum home.

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Big Data Symposium 8AM-5PM at the Student Union Memorial Center- South Ballroom. The Management of Information Services Department at the UA is proud to announce a one-day symposium addressing the use of big data for predictive analysis. The goal of the symposium is to help educate audiences on the various applications of predictive analytics from big data in various industries. We will also discuss open challenges and issues that need further work.

Attendance to the symposium is free to attend, an RSVP is required.

Movie - ‘Pacific Rim’ 5PM at Gallagher Theater in the Student Union Memorial Center. FREE MOVIE SHOWING! (with Catcard) “As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. “ -imdb.com Starring: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi Movie times: 5pm & 8pm.

on globalization, borders and environmental security in Latin America.

International Writer’s Workshop - ‘Principles of Using Articles: a, an, the’ 4PM-5PM at the John W. Harshbarger Building, Room 206. This workshop is titled “Principles of Using Articles: a, an, the” and covers topics helpful to international and second language speakers, including both undergraduate and graduate students.

‘Made in China: Cinematic Aesthetics and the Disappearing Chinese Factory’ 4PM-5PM at the UA Poetry Center, Rubel Room, 1501 E. Helen St..

Although manufacturing in China is big business, the factory, as spatial organization, seems to be disappearing around the world, but not in the movies.

Join UA professor Hai Ren as we discuss three cinematic engagements with the Chinese factory. This event is sponsored by the UA College of Humanities as part of Humanities Week.

‘Bridge the Gap: International Literacy and CrossCultural Communication’ 5PM-6:45PM in the Center for English as a Second Language Building, Room 103. Are you planning on studying abroad, an international student or planning to work in a global field? In this workshop for students, we will examine some of the fundamentals of international literacy, such as the basics of what you should know before you go abroad and what you should do before welcoming a global guest. A pizza reception will follow the workshop.

‘On the Line: Border Images from Two Perspectives’ 5:30PM at the Center for Creative Photography, 1030 N. Olive Road. Photographers Alejandra PlattTorres and David Taylor have spent years along the U.S.-Mexico border, separately documenting the landscape and the people. They will show and discuss their work in a forum moderated by Scott Whiteford, professor at the UA Center for Latin American Studies, whose current project focuses

Science Café at Borderlands Brewing - ‘The Ocean and the Amazon: Making the Climate Connection’ 6PM-7PM at Borderlands Brewing Company, 119 E. Toole Ave. A Science Café brings the community together with a UA scientist in a casual setting. You’ll learn about the latest research, get to know the people doing science and have the opportunity to ask lots of questions. Join the conversation! The speaker will be Luke Parsons.

Hybrid Writing Series: A Reading by Maggie Nelson 7PM-8PM at the UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St..

Author Maggie Nelson reads from her writing, followed by a QA session and book signing. Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction, including “The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning,” which was named a Notable Book of the Year and Editor’s Choice by the New York Times, and the cult hit “Bluets.”

School of Music Presents the Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra 7:30PM at Crowder Hall. The University of Arizona Philharmonic Orchestra will present its opening concert of the 2013-2014 season on Thursday, Oct. 10 in Crowder Hall. General admission is $5.

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Editor: Dan Desrochers science@wildcat.arizona.edu twitter.com/dailywildcat

Rings hold knowledge of past

BY DAN DESROCHERS

The Daily Wildcat It all started with a tree stump.

When A.E. Douglass noticed the rings on the stump of the tree he was sitting on, he took his observation to the next level, eventually creating a new field of science — dendrochronology.

Dendrochronology research uses tree rings to determine the age of a piece of wood.

Over time the field has broadened to include other sciences with the prefix dendro-, like dendroecology and dendrochemistry.

The UA is home to the first-ever dendrochronology lab, the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. It was founded in 1937, when Douglass was given temporary access to a space below Arizona Stadium; that lab has since grown into one of the largest in the world.

“It was the most dingy, dirty place you’ve ever done brilliant science,” said Mary Glueck, a docent for the LTRR and former researcher.

Last year, the LTRR finally emerged from underground and found a new home, designed to look like a tree house, next to the Mathematics East building.

The new space’s open floor plan allows researchers to interact with each other more freely.

“Now we’re kind of really in the place where we needed to be for decades,” said Tom Swetnam, Regents’ professor and director of the LTTR. “The interactions are so important.”

T h o s e interactions create an environment of collaboration vital to the diverse applications of tree ring research.

“We’ve been a multidisciplinary organization from the beginning,” Swetnam said.

“I think the lab, in some way, is the poster child of different disciplines coming together and interacting.”

This diversity stems from the amount of information that is contained within tree rings.

“Trees record everything that’s going on around them, so anything that affects the tree’s growth is locked up in a tree ring,” said Kit O’Connor, a dendroecology researcher and graduate student. “As long as that tree is in one place, it’s recording everything that’s going on

that’s affecting it.”

O’Connor is studying forest fires and how they have changed over the past 400 years. By looking at trees and how they’ve been affected by fires, he can learn about the disturbance regimes in the forest and as how they have changed over time, as well as what’s causing the changes.

O’Connor and his colleagues work with land managers to try to restore the resiliency of the forest ecosystem so that forests won’t be devastated by severe fires like they are now.

“We’re kind of retelling the natural history of what’s happened so that we can inform managers

of how best to manage for these things in the future,” O’Connor said.

He has found that one of the major causes of the increase in fires’ severity is the way that humans have managed forests.

“We’ve choked our forests with too many stems,” he said. “The forests that were firedependent have become kind of their own human-created beast.”

But the LTRR isn’t just focused on forest fires.

“Everybody kind of has their own interesting thing that they look at, that’s recorded in those rings,” O’Connor said. “Everything from chemical changes to earthquakes, floods, any kind of natural events

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PAMELA PELLETIER, the community planner for the Laboratory of Tree Ring research, shows off the rings on a Sequoia tree from Northern California.

UA scientists use bacteria to contain irritating insects

BY AUSTIN MCEVOY

The Daily Wildcat As bugs become resistant to insecticides, researchers are looking for new ways to control agricultural pests. One UA researcher is exploring ways to control the insects with bacteria spread by wasps.

The National Science Foundation awarded Molly Hunter, a UA professor of Entomology and Insect Science, a $520,000 grant to conduct a three-year study exploring how Cardinium bacteria manipulates the reproductive systems of parasitic wasps, which prey on whiteflies.

This mechanism is known as cytoplasmic interference, or CI for short, and it may provide a way to control whiteflies, a major pest for Arizona crops like cotton and melon, Hunter said.

“This research is at the forefront of discovery because we are able to see what these endosymbionts are doing,” said Liz Bondy, a research technician in Hunter’s lab.

This kind of bacteria can only be spread from mother to offspring, Hunter said. It sabotages the reproductive potential of uninfected female wasps by making them sterile when they try to breed with infected males, she added.

The end result is that infected females have a reproductive advantage over uninfected females.

“We think that the wasp’s sperm is modified in such a way that it won’t fertilize an egg cytoplasm that does not contain the bacteria,” Hunter

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ENTOMOLOGIST MOLLY HUNTER views a sample of whiteflies to determine if they are infected with parasitic wasp eggs.

said. “The grant will be used to understand this.”

Wasps infected with the bacteria need a host in which to lay their eggs, which is where the whiteflies come in. Unlike the bacteria in the wasp, the implantation of the

that are affecting trees.”

Those natural events enable researchers to date the rings, giving precise information about exactly when a tree lived and was cut down.

“It’s a tool,” Swetnam said. “It’s the record itself that’s preserved, so it enables us to basically reconstruct what has happened in places and times, very precisely, to the year, or sometimes to the season.”

The capacity for precise dating makes tree ring research extremely valuable to the fields of archaeology and history. If a researcher is given a piece of wood with rings, they can determine the year that the tree was cut down. That can help to assign precise dates to archaeological sites or wooden historical artifacts.

“Anything with lots of tree rings in it can be analyzed with dendrochronology,” said Paul Sheppard, an associate professor in the LTRR who dates violins using dendrochronology.

Sheppard performed dendrochronological analysis on “The Messiah,” a famous violin, to determine if it was actually a Stradivarius made in 1716.

The ability to enhance knowledge about a broad range of topics is what makes dendrochronology so valuable. It can enable discoveries in topics including the climate, fire and the rise and fall of past civilizations, according to Swetnam.

When a researcher puts a tree stem under a microscope, they’re taking a look into the past and using it to shape knowledge in the present.

“It’s a sense of like you’re t o u c h i n g something that is reaching back into the past, like a time machine or something,” Swetnam said.

wasp egg eventually kills its whitefly host.

“The symbiotic relationships these insects have with this bacteria are fascinating in the way that they affect the bacteria’s biology,” said senior research

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specialist Suzanne Kelly. Kelly has been conducting research with Hunter since 1996.

The CI mechanism is being used to control other insects as well, Hunter said. In some countries it is being used to control mosquitos spreading a tropical disease known as dengue fever, she said.

A team of researchers in Australia recently infected mosquitoes with Wolbachia, another bacteria that uses CI. Mosquitoes infected with the bacteria were unable to transmit dengue fever, according to a report published in the international science journal Nature in 2012.

“One of the things this lab can do with cytoplasmic interference is use it as a way to spread whatever we want in an insect host population,” Hunter said.

CI is often studied in Wolbachia bacteria, Hunter said. Though it doesn’t have many genes in common with Wolbachia, the Cardinium bacteria that Hunter is interested in for this study also express CI, she said.

It is possible that Cardinium bacteria developed the ability to use CI by independent evolution, Hunter said.

Although the end goal of the study is to gain a better understanding of CI with which to combat pests, it is not yet known exactly how this will be done, Hunter said.

“Research is hardly ever linear,” Hunter said. “You usually discover things you don’t expect.”

shoe runners.

“We had some world-class long-distance runners that participated in the study,” Raison said. “Not quite Olympic gold medalists, but still very experienced.”

The participants were led to think that their heart rates were being analyzed, not their mood measurements.

Data about the participants’ moods was collected using a questionnaire given both before and after the participants ran for 30 minutes at moderate intensity on a treadmill, said senior research coordinator Kim Kelly.

All of the runners from both groups ran in both types of shoes at various points throughout the experiment, and all wore Vibram five-finger shoes as a way to standardize the results and as a safety precaution.

Vibram donated five pairs of shoes for the study. Adult Vibram fitness footwear prices range from $75 to $110.

“The company was interested enough in what we were doing to donate the shoes,” Kelly said.

The researchers also took video to see where runners’ feet were striking the treadmill as they ran.

“A lot of people who run in regular running shoes tend to be heel strikers,” Kelly said. “Part of the study will be to examine the differences in mood scores between heel strikers and toe strikers.”

This data has not yet been analyzed, and the study is on the “back-burner” due to lack of grant funding, she said.

Another area of interest for the study is the benefit of running barefoot from an evolutionary perspective.

“It’s the perfect example of this idea of intelligently reincorporating anciently evolved mechanisms of well-being into the modern world,” he said.

Raison collaborated with UA anthropology professor David Raichlen for parts of the study.

“From an evolutionary perspective, the key thing to remember is that we either ran barefoot or with very minimal covering on our feet,” said Raichlen, who specializes in the evolution of human movement and exercise.

“Our feet were originally adapted for barefoot movement,” he added.

More research needs to be done before any conclusions can be made, Raichlen said.

“If you can change the way you feel just based on how you’re running, that would be a pretty amazing result,” he said.

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