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ASUA urges students to vote

BY ARIELLA NOTH

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The ASUA senate meeting on Wednesday emphasized upcoming events and discussed the last portion of its efforts to register students to vote.

Associated Students of the University of Arizona Sen. Will Box mentioned his efforts with the ASUA Pride Alliance as it prepares for Coming Out Week, which starts on Oct. 10.

“I’m hoping to be heavily

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names in an ad. involved in that,” Box said.

Hannah Sager, presidential A key part of Coming Out Week is the Out and Proud chief of staff, mentioned that the Out and Proud advertisement, advertisement in which has almost students and reached its employees at It’s the final goal of 1000 the UA can sprint for voter people, which show their registration was a leap support of — Joe Zanoni, from last the lesbian, ASUA Senator year’s goal of gay, bisexual, 600 people. transgender Prior to the a n d m e e t i n g , questioning community by including their Sager had been informed that

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only 75 more people needed to sign up for the ad in order to achieve the goal.

Jordan Allison, executive vice president, signed the ad herself and encouraged everyone to sign the Out and Proud advertisement to show support for the LGBTQ community, saying that it is important for elected officials of the school to show their support for such things.

Box mentioned that he is working to arrange a meeting

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Freshmen retention rates on the rise

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BUSINESS FRESHMAN Tiffany Nguyen participates in the College of Nursing’s Tai Chi Happy Hour on Wednesday. Tai Chi Happy Hour is a free tai chi class open to both UA students and the Tucson community and takes place every Wednesday at 5:30 p.m., until Nov. 19.

New data indicates that the freshmen retention rate at the UA has increased in comparison to previous years.

The UA welcomed 6,881 freshmen in fall 2013. According to recent data from the Arizona Board of Regents, 81.9 percent of those freshmen returned as sophomores, compared to the freshmen class in 2012, which had a retention rate was 81.5 percent.

The six-year graduation rate at the UA is approximately 61.5 percent, according to Jeff Orgera, senior vice president for student affairs and enrollment management.

According to Orgera, there are several reasons students choose not to return to the UA after their freshman year. Orgera said the biggest reason students don’t return for their sophomore year is that the UA was simply not the right school for them.

The other reasons, according to Orgera, are financial and personal circumstances, such as family issues, employment or illnesses.

Natalie Huerta, an undeclared freshman, said freshman year is a bit stressful because of failing classes, difficult suite mates and rushing Greek Life.

Universities across the nation are working to find ways to increase the freshman retention rate. The California State University Monterey Bay campus mimicked the executivestyle coaching that is offered to business executives for its students. Over the course of four years, the retention rate increased

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The ZonaZoo section in McKale Center is currently about how students on the sidelines would affect the located behind the basket at the north end of the arena atmosphere in McKale Center. and will seat about 2,300 students this year, according Mason said that moving some students to the to Suzy Mason, senior associate director of athletics sidelines would weaken the intense atmosphere of event management.

McKale Center, but Borcover said he would have In contrast, seven Pac-12 Conference schools, been in favor of moving some students to the baseline including Stanford University, California, University because it would make the atmosphere even more of California Los Angeles and University of Oregon, intimidating. along with high profile basketball schools like “I would be a huge proponent of sitting on the Gonzaga University, Duke University and University baseline, doing kind of like a of Michigan, have a portion of Michigan or a Duke-type deal,” their student sections seated Borcover said. “I think it would along the sidelines. create an incredible homeMason said that there were At the end of the court advantage.” discussions about rearranging day, it wasn’t our Other students, like Pierce the student section into a Longmire, a biomedical decision different layout during McKale — Jacob Borcover, engineering freshman, agreed Center renovations, but it Zona Zoo executive with Barcover. was decided against in order director Longmire said that the to keep the student section atmosphere would still be the concentrated in a central same because there is school location. spirit, regardless where students sit.

That decision was made without the consultation Mason said that athletics decided against moving of the leaders of the ZonaZoo, according to Jacob some students to the sidelines in McKale Center since Borcover, ZonaZoo executive director. Borcover said it would compromise the sight lines of those who the athletics department makes decisions about would be behind the students, because students tend ZonaZoo’s configuration.

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Arizona faces No. 2 Oregon tonight in a battle of 4-0 teams in prime time on national TV. The Wildcats (4-0, 1-0 Pac-12 Conference) look to beat the Ducks for the second season in a row at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN in Eugene, Ore. The Ducks (4-0, 1-0) are 11-4 against Arizona at Autzen Stadium and beat the UA 49-0 in 2012, with the Wildcats’ last win coming in 2006. However, last year in Tucson, Arizona beat Oregon 42-16.

“I think they’re going to be fired up because there is a lot at stake,” football head coach Rich Rodriguez said. “It’s a home game, a Thursday night and their blackout game.”

Last season, the NCAA proclaimed that Autzen is the second-loudest stadium in the country, behind only LSU’s Tiger Stadium. The circular shape of the single deck, 54,000 seat stadium is

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by 13 percent due to this individualized approach to engage students.

The UA has similar programs to guide freshmen and other students through their new university lives via Academic and Success Achievement peer mentoring, Wildcat Academy, the New Start summer program and Arizona Mentors, in which a student is mentored by a member of university faculty and staff.

Carol Funckes, the associate director of the Disability Resource Center, said she found that most students enrolled in the program return each year until graduation.

The DRC provides advocacy for its students’ unique needs while also advising them on

how to advocate for themselves.

The Think Tank, a free tutoring service offered on campus since 2009, has also correlated with a noticeable increase in freshmen retention since it started offering its services, according to Orgera.

Orgera said the increase isn’t entirely due to Think Tank services, but the vast offerings and student assistance provided by Think Tank has contributed to overall freshmen success and retention.

Kaydi Williams, an undeclared freshman, said freshman year can be overwhelming because of classes and financial burdens.

“It’s hard, and it’s a lot of money,” Williams said, “[but] they set us up here.”

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AZ law under fire for definition of nudity

BY ARIELLA NOTH

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Written with the intent to criminalize “revenge porn,” Arizona’s recent law banning the circulation of nude pictures without written consent is coming under fire for being poorly written and taking the definition of nudity a step too far.

Many states are criminalizing “revenge porn,” an act where an individual sends out nude photos of their ex out of spite because their relationship has ended or other similar circumstances. But critics are saying that the Arizona law strays from this purpose and will wrongly criminalize nonharmful acts.

The bill is House Bill 2515, referred to as “the unlawful distribution of private images.” The portion that critics refer to as poorly-written is as follows: “It is unlawful to knowingly disclose, display, distribute, publish, advertise or offer a photograph, videotape, film or digital recording or other reproduction of another person in a state of nudity or engaged in a sexual act without obtaining the written consent of the depicted person.”

Derek Bambauer, a professor of law, expressed that it really isn’t a “revenge porn” law, as much as it is an “anti-

naked pictures” law.

“The Arizona law is badly drafted, vague and almost certainly unconstitutional,” Bambauer said. “It provides no safeguards to exempt vital speech that is protected by the First Amendment, such as for images used in news reporting.”

Bambauer said there are a variety of situations in which this law can criminalize individuals who have not committed any crime.

“As the [American Civil Liberties Union]’s suit notes, it could easily create criminal liability for history teachers who show their class the famous ‘Napalm Girl’ photo, or for a show at the Center for Creative Photography here at UA that displays some of Edward Weston’s work,” Bambauer said. “And the response from the bill’s principal sponsor in the Arizona Legislature highlights exactly the problems with the bill: if bookstores or CCP are concerned, he said, then they should censor any potentially suspect material by blocking it out.”

Sean Feeney, president of Bookmans Entertainment Exchange, said he understands why the law is needed, but feels it is poorly written.

“I feel the actual language of the law

is way too broad to be enforced,” Feeney said.

Feeney also listed counter-examples to this law, such as the “Napalm Girl” photo.

Another example of people being convicted for a rather innocent act would be a parent taking a picture of their child in the bathtub, an incident that occurred in 2008 in Peoria, Ariz., to a family that took their photos to a local Wal-Mart to be developed and in turn were reported to the police department for pornography.

However, J.D. Mesnard, a Republican state representative from District 17, said that these incidents wouldn’t fall under this law.

“If the nude person in the photo is not an adult, i.e. a mother displaying a nude photo of her newborn, the parent or guardian of the child should be tasked with giving consent,” Mesnard said.

He also said that those who pass along the photo without knowledge that consent wasn’t given will not be penalized because the law is about photos being posted intentionally.

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ARIZONA PUBLISHES A NEW law with the intent to criminalize “revenge porn.”

The law may exceed its original purpose and wrongly criminalize other nonharmful acts as well.

Community Chatter What do you think the state’s role is in regulating the circulation of nude photos?

“Keep them off the news. You wouldn’t want your body exposed like that.”

- Sean Guenhagen, criminal justice studies freshman

“I think that the government should regulate where they show the pictures, but I don’t think they can say whether or not they can take them. People can do whatever they want.”

“I don’t think the state should have a role it, but I don’t think people should do it.”

- Ginny Friedrich, freshman studying molecular and cellular biology

- Liliana Saldana, mechanical engineering senior

“I think that the laws are probably stricter with the federal government, so I think since it’s such an important issue it should probably be federal government. It should be some sort of crime to leak news those nudes because it’s a breach of privacy.”

“I don’t think it should be regulated. It’s your own body. You have the ability to do whatever you want with it.”

- Robert Orta, English freshman

- Lucy Randazzo, junior studying English and creative writing — compiled by Christiana Silva

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FORT WORTH, Texas — ­ As North Texans struggle to handle the arrival of the Ebola virus, a Grand Prairie man is sending $2.8 million worth of medicine to help victims of the epidemic in Liberia.

By the time the disease had grown to infect thousands this summer, Andy Perkins was operating BESTWA Inc., a nonprofit he founded in 2004. With an annual budget of about $130,000 plus in-kind donations, the organization’s staff of 22 Liberians feeds about 900 children daily and sends more than 500 to school.

But this year, the little charity is providing more help at one time than its founder ever dreamed possible.

BESTWA is distributing $2.8 million worth of medication this week, 2 tons’ worth, that should help 10,000 Liberians for three months. The massive donation came together through contacts Perkins has known for years and a new one he met on an airplane.

“I never asked anybody for anything,” Perkins said. “This is way beyond my ability to do. I just keep talking to these guys, and they stay on board.”

Pronounced “best-way,” the name is an acronym created by Liberians: Building Everyone’s Success Together in West Africa.

Dan Baucum, a friend who lives in Midlothian, described Perkins as “one of the most selfsacrificial people I’ve ever seen. They live in a double-wide, live on next to nothing.”

Another Midlothian friend, Gatlan Turk, said the work Perkins does is frustrating and difficult.

Liberia’s government is known for corruption, and

the entire country has lacked running water and electricity since a 14-year civil war ended in 2004.

A personable former soldier and salesman who was a preacher’s kid, Perkins has no trouble striking up a conversation. He came across powerful kindred spirits on his travels and wound up being given the big donation put together by several groups including the World Children’s Fund; Global Assistance; Medical Mission International; International Relief and Development; and Medical, Education, Training and Development.

Each organization worked on different aspects of the donation: obtaining the medicine, logistics, packing and shipping. The medications — antibiotics, general anesthetics, steroids such as prednisone and much more — arrived in Liberia this week from the Netherlands by air, Perkins said.

His staff of Liberians, charged with distribution, came up with a detailed, 75-page plan to get the medicine to 25 different clinics and Ebola hospitals in Buchanan and Monrovia, the nation’s capital.

He talks to his staff by text message several times a day. After the civil war ended, cellphone towers were erected, but not equipment for landlines, Perkins said.

He said the whole country has basically shut down since midsummer. Schools are closed as are most government offices. The virus has altered the simplest elements of daily life.

BESTWA is taking rigorous precautions in its feeding program, he said. Children wash their hands in a chlorine solution upon arrival, again before eating and again before leaving.

“If Ebola gets into those feeding programs, that’s my worst nightmare,” he said.

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to stand throughout basketball games.

However, Longmire said the sight lines for the students would make them interested in the change.

It would be a “more whole view” of the game, Longmire said.

Mason added that a change would reduce the number of students who could attend the games. According to Mason, such a configuration would not allow the section to seat up to 2,300 students. Mason said there was talk of relocating ZonaZoo to the sidelines, specifically section one from floor to ceiling, but there would be fewer student seats in doing so.

However, it wasn’t an either-or scenario according to Mason, as the athletics event management proposed having a combination of seats, both behind the north basket and in section one on the sidelines.

Athletics is required to reserve a certain allotment of lower level seats in section one for guests of the visiting team, and those seats would have cut into the number of student seats in the lower section if a portion of the ZonaZoo was moved to section one.

According to Mason, only about 600 of the available 2,300 seats were reserved for some games last year.

“More seats wasn’t discussed when they’re not filling the seats that they have now,” Mason said.

Mason said that athletics has five years of data on student reservations and during that time, there was never a year where student reservations “exceeded 90 percent” for the year, and there were games last year that did not even reach 70 percent student capacity.

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Presidential chief of staff Hannah Sager reports to the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate in the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday about a Pac-12 Conference and White House public initiative called “It’s On Us,” which promotes sexual assault awareness. The UA is one of 233 schools to join the public campaign and the campaign will launch at the UA on Nov. 13.

to discuss the transgender name policy.

A representative for ASUA President Issac Ortega brought up the national sexual assault awareness campaign called “It’s On Us,” which is pairing with the White House and the Pac-12 Conference schools. It is going to launch on Nov. 13 on campus.

The representative mentioned that ASUA will be working in partnership with the Pac-12 for “It’s On Us.” ASUA will also work in conjunction with the Oasis Program, The Women’s Resource Center and Greg Byrne, and other athletic directors are considering an athletes video for the campaign.

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ZonaZoo fans cheer during Arizona football’s tense 49-45 win against California on Sept. 20 at Arizona Stadium. Athletics event management decides where ZonaZoo, the nation’s largest student section, will sit at sporting events.

Borcover said reservations for most games reach capacity even if they weren’t close to full capacity in regard to “scan numbers.” He did not believe the ZonaZoo would have any problem filling its section to capacity this season.

According to Borcover, the interactions between ZonaZoo and the athletics department have only been strong for about two years. He said this relationship is important because ZonaZoo can’t do much without the support of the athletics department.

Borcover said he believed that the process of determining the location for the students might have been different if the ZonaZoo and athletics had always had the relationship they have now.

“At the end of the day, it wasn’t our decision,” Borcover said.

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ASUA Sen. Joe Zanoni said that continuing efforts to utilize Turbovote.org and get students registered before elections include the welcome back concert that will be held on the mall at 6:30 p.m. on Friday. The event will include registering voters through Turbovote.org and forms.

The concert will also include performances from Aloe Blacc, Tyler Ward and Luna Aura to communicate the importance of student voting.

“It’s the final sprint for voter registration,” Zanoni said.

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Fogey TV men return us to static

BY Nick Havey

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few months from now, the final half-season of “Mad Men” will premiere. It’s widely speculated that the series will culminate in the death of its main character, Don Draper.

With this likely end of the series would come another iteration of the new, yet frequent, situation in American television — the death of the great, and usually white, patriarch.

This trend favors the dissipation of the traditional structure of the American family as led by a stodgy, old white man.

TV, the medium that has defined culture more than any other art form of the past 20 years, becomes a venue to explore societal evolution as it strays from that old canon.

A.O. Scott, a film critic for The New York Times, has also noticed a pattern in the lives and deaths of these men.

“It is the era not just of ‘Mad Men,’ but also of sad men,” Scott writes about how these characters are sad products of a bygone era formerly dedicated to oppressing already marginalized groups. “[Draper] is at once the heir and precursor to Tony Soprano, that avatar of masculine entitlement who fended off threats to the alpha-dog status he had inherited and worked hard to maintain.”

Continuing to broadcast this alpha status is an affront to our attempts at evolution: Toward the acceptance of women, people of color and other marginalized groups as suitable heads of business and, subsequently, families.

The idea, or idealization, of the white patriarch stems from a lack of imagination: A product of the captains of industry being white men. As in much of American history, marginalized groups were not considered as strong or as interesting characters and were written out of the leads in television.

What we’re starting to see is the disintegration of this figure as the ideal of American masculinity in favor of more progressive family units that value all participants rather than just a patriarch.

That the hubris and pride these men exhibit is often their downfall also shows a shift. With Don Draper, his pride never falters while his vision withers; with Walter White of “Breaking Bad,” pride transforms into something far more selfish.

For example, White, a seemingly innocuous character at the start, rapidly devolves into an insane caricature of a man, hell-bent on reclaiming a shred of his masculinity.

In arguably the most intense fictional mid-life crisis documented on television, White ignore his duties as father, husband and educator. His wife, Skyler, portrayed by the inimitable Anna Gunn, is a character so honest and right that everyone labels her as a bitch. But it is in Walter’s quest for remasculinization over Skyler that the faults in Walter’s old sense of masculinity are exposed.

Skyler is undoubtedly a strong character, albeit demoralized by her characterization and the intense loathing that “Breaking Bad” director Vince Gilligan spins around her. She is steadfast in her beliefs, never faltering when confronted by her psychotic drug kingpin of a husband. She refuses to be put into a box labeled “weak female character,” and in this, we see a foil to Walt’s insane quest for patriarchally derived purpose.

These characters show the problems in this hyper-masculinized white-man family-leading persona that has been part of our culture for so long. Walter White and Don Draper both try to hold on to their societally-dictated roles: managing their families no matter what the consequences.

But in the end the consequences are rarely, if ever, pleasant.

TV writers should continue to write these anti-masculine roles in order to push this evolution toward families that don’t center around white males who single-handedly run and support their entire families and the lives of each person in them, with their wives pushed into the background. These masculine roles are unrealistic and oppressive and highlight only one archaic and rapidly fading version of manhood.

So good for the writers of “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad,” and let’s hope there are more diverse characters in the future without a patriarchial figure having to bite the dust first.

— Nick Havey is a junior studying Spanish and Physiology.

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Compromise can conquer

BY Tom Johnson

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merican liberals were disappointed that President Barack Obama couldn’t get anything done, even when he had a Democratic Congress.

Most notable was the lukewarm “reform” that was the Affordable Care Act, even when most civilized countries — with objectively far better standards of healthcare — go with single-payer.

Part of the reason the ACA got watered down to half of a half measure was Republican obstruction, but another big part of it was chop-shopping by the Democrats to make it more passable. The most notable incident of this was the removal of the public option, thanks to former Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman’s whining, even as the Republicans made it clear they thought it was non-negotiable.

This watering down is a problem with a lot of current liberal activism. There are people all over the Internet, from Tumblr users to major pundits and commentators, advocating for sensible, smart policies like single-payer health care or a financial transaction tax or a guaranteed minimum income.

Most current congressional Democrats, however, seem too timid of appearing “extreme” to even utter a peep about them.

Even as the tea party drives the crazy train off that cliff on the far-right, there are people like Jon Cowan and Jim Kessler who wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “Economic populism is a dead end for Democrats.” This acquiescence has to stop.

Some of the blame has to go to the Democratic Leadership Council, which advocated for a rightward shift in the politics of the Democratic Party, and which was elevated to the “mainstream” after the election of Bill Clinton. In the post-Ronald Reagan world, it was thought that liberalism would need to become less liberal in order to survive; a self-fufilling prophecy as more Democrats became “new” Democrats.

Though they have helped to push things toward the middle with this desperation to be moderate, Democrats are also, as a rule, inherently more likely to think the idea of “compromise” is valid.

This isn’t just because Democrats are more about getting things done whereas Republicans are more about ideals. It’s also because conservatism is a culture of government doing less, and thus the Republican Party can get results by stonewalling as well as by passing legislation.

According to Suzanne Dovi, an associate professor of political science, both sides are at fault for increasing polarization due to the requirement of party fidelity conflicting with willingness to make a deal. A lot of this comes from commentators, despite the fact that, in reality, polls show

that Republican polarization has skyrocketed far beyond that of the Democratic party.

Others with an attitude of false equivalency are so often encountered that the term describing them has a RationalWiki page that even Obama sometimes shows up on: “Very Serious People.”

Essentially, these people are inside-the-Beltway types who tend to work upon the truth-is-in-themiddle fallacies, getting things catastrophically wrong, but tending to stay respected and kowtowed even when they keep futzing up again and again.

Given their attitude of procompromise, it’s not surprising that Democrats tend to eat VSP’s snake oil right up and try to appease them by running towards the center, especially given how a lot of VSP are or were prominent Democrats. The problem is a little thing called the Overton window.

The Overton window is the idea that there is a certain spectrum of ideas that are considered “kosher” in public discourse, and one side can shift the “center” of the debate by becoming more and more extreme and letting the “moderates,” namely those Very Serious People, move the middle towards where the extremists want to go, as the Republicans have since the age of Reagan.

A microcosm of this can be seen in how the right turned liberal into a dirty word, linking it to economic stagnation and foreign policy crisis, according to Salon.

That is why liberals in the

YOUR VIEWS From “Nicki Minaj’s butt: Feminine Icon” (by Paul Thomson, Sept. 24) EXCELLENT article. This perfectly articulates the resaponse I’ve been wanting to give Nicki Minaj naysayers. If she doesn’t control her sexualized image, someone else will.

— nick Yeah. Icon of cartoonish fake looks, really bad music, sexuality reduced to sweaty athleticism devoid of any eroticism and intellectual and spiritual desert. In a way it’s good — the more icons like that you’ve got the sooner you will be gone forever. Which is what we all are waiting for.

— pjm77 Wow what excellent written article for pure bull crap. Her butt … as a feminist movement?

Are we serious? [A]s a young black woman I don’t see how we should look at her butt as a role model in the feminist movement. Is this what we’ve come [to]. Man I can’t. People arguing that it shows her control over her sexual image. Okay sure. There’s nothing wrong with being sexy.

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Democratic Party need to know when to push back and say no, to stand by their beliefs and find ways to get around far-right stonewalling rather than trying to budge a boulder with happy thoughts alone. Remember the example of a liberal of a less wimpy stripe, Martin Luther King Jr. While he was a pacifist, King always knew when it was time to stop compromising and start acting, to stop trying to meet authority in the middle and to push back, so much so that he even wrote a book called “Why We Can’t Wait.”

But as liberals have become so focused as a party on compromise, they have lost the ability to do anything liberal out of the sheer fear of appearing to not be a “team player” to those Very Serious People, even if said other team is extremist or thoroughly corrupt.

Let’s focus on trying to elect leaders who actually know when to stand their ground, who know what ways they can play ball to get bills through the door, but who also know when a line has been crossed.

We need people who know how to get things done even when the other side is a giant heaping mound of stonewall for everything from minimum wage increases to immigration reform.

I mean, we do want to climb out of this hole we’ve dug someday, right?

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to come party with us! They’re excited to drink and dance, but none of them are going to have sex with us!” Do you understand how quickly that guy would be laughed out of his house, or if they believed him, how quickly many members would get angry that women would come to their house, drink their alcohol, and then not “put out”?

Complying with investigations (which are rarely carried out, even when accusations are raised) does not mean a fraternity is fighting against rape. A truly anti-rape fraternity would take proactive measures, including education and extensive self-monitoring, to ensure there is no culture that directly or indirectly enables rape.

Every frat claims to be against rape. Well, the numbers show most of them are lying.

— James

But there’s [something] wrong when they only respect you cause of your body. But hey, what [a] generation we live in. smh.

— Nicki

From “Let’s talk about frat Culture” (by Kirk Hendricks, Sept. 30) [99 percent] of fraternal organizations definitely don’t “do it right”.

The statement “the only way a fraternity ‘creates a rapist’ is by failing to act in a swift and effective measure to immediately suspend/expel a person from the organization the second that an accusation is been made, and to welcome any investigation” is simply false.

That is a reaction to the problem. When frats create a culture of expectation, they are enabling rapes and sexual assaults. Many (not all, but many) frats indirectly teach their members that if you throw a fun party, supply alcohol, or make a woman laugh, they have earned the right to have sex. That’s not true.

Imagine this: a frat guy walks into his house and says, “Hey guys, I invited a bunch of girls

From “New smart meters in downtown Tucson increase price of parking” (by Felipe Moreno, Sept. 30) Business owners shot themselves with this one. [Ridiculously] expensive for those who want to shop. They’re better off putting 2 hr. parking signs up, then chalk and ticket!

— Dave Schumm

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Two University of Arizona Police Department officers were driving west toward the entrance of the residence hall when they saw a man assisting a student while walking up the stairs. The man lost his grip and the student collapsed to the ground.

The officers made contact with the pair inside the lobby. The man said he was in the residence hall and received a call from someone saying that a student needed help getting inside.

One of the officers helped the student sit down. Her left knee was scraped and a trail of blood ran to her ankle from the wound.

When she attempted to stand up, she stumbled, and there was a strong odor of intoxicants coming from her breath, as well as slurred speech and bloodshot, watery eyes.

The officers called the Tucson Fire Department to evaluate the student.

She spoke with the officers but refused to provide more than her first name. One of the officers told her she was being detained and was required by law to provide her name.

Instead, she repeatedly said, “Fuck you,” and flipped off the officer.

A student approached the officers with a CatCard he had found near the entrance of the building. A resident assistant confirmed the CatCard was the student’s and she was a resident.

University Emergency Medical Services arrived prior to TFD and began evaluating the student. She repeatedly pulled her hands away from workers and began cursing at them. When EMS workers put a pulse oximeter on her finger to check her oxygen levels, she ripped it off and threw it on the floor.

The student then said to an EMS worker, “I’ll punch you in the face, motherfucker,” and repeatedly tried pushing away the worker’s arms.

TFD firefighters completed their medical evaluation and the student was cleared to stay the night in her dorm under supervision.

However, none of her friends wanted to watch her because of how she had been acting.

The student began pulling off her dress, revealing her underwear and saying she wanted to make out.

She sat down and urinated in her seat, leaving a large wet spot on the chair and her dress.

Another UAPD officer transported the student to Pima County Jail. While the officer was helping her get in his car, she grabbed his penis with both of her hands. The officer told her to never do that again, and the student laughed, asking the officer to make out with her.

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Faculty Reading: Alison Hawthorne Deming and Susan Briante. 7pm. UA Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen Street. University of Arizona Creative Writing Program faculty members Alison Hawthorne Deming and Susan Briante will read from their work. After the reading, there will be a short Q&A session and book signing.

“The Art and Work of Dave Cantrell: 30 Years of Excellence.” 7am to 8pm. Arizona Health Sciences Library, 1501 N. Campbell Ave. Nearly 50 examples of Cantrell’s work over his remarkable career, including two- and threedimensional illustrations, will be displayed in the coffee bar area of the AHS Library.

Evening Meditation 7 pm to 8 pm. Desert Ashram 3403 W. Sweetwater Drive. Need some time for reflection and to come to a deeper understanding of yourself? Melt some stress away with calming as well as energizing meditation.

‘From Baroque to Jimi Hendrix’ Concert.

7pm. UA School of Music, Holsclaw Hall, 1017 N. Olive Road. A creative virtuoso, improviser, composer, author, teacher and inventor, Robert Dick is hailed as one of the great innovators of flute performance. His concert at the University of Arizona will showcase repertoire spanning the style periods, as well as his singularly innovative works for a truly memorable concert. Cost is $5-$10.

Aerospace and mechanical Engineering Seminar. 3:45pm. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Room S212, 1130 N. Mountain Avenue. Alan Taylor Zehnder, associate dean for Diversity and Faculty Development in the College of Engineering, will give a seminar on “Opto-thermally Driven Nanosclae Oscillators.”

‘The Architecture of Line and Space.’ 5:30pm.

University of Arizona Museum of Art Join the University of Arizona Museum of Art for a guest lecture with architect Les Wallach.

Contemporary Photography from the Douglas Nielsen Collection. 9am to 4pm.

Center for Creative Photography. This exhibition presents more than 100 works from the private collection of Douglas Nielsen, choreographer and professor at the University of Arizona School of Dance.

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Fall Themed Craft Sale. 3:30pm to 9:30pm.

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Harris steps up for Arizona which is more than double her previous career mark.

During Arizona’s sweep of UCLA in Malibu, Calif., Harris notched rizona volleyball outside seven kills and was in on six of the hitter Ashley Harris has UA’s 15 blocks. proven she is a force to be “Just to be able to contribute and reckoned with on the court. put in to what the team is doing Harris, a sophomore from [and to] be a part of everything, Petaluma, Calif., entered Arizona’s it’s an awesome feeling,” Harris program last year and has since said. “I thrive under pressure and taken tremendous strides toward love playing in front of big crowds developing into a physically and being in high-risk situations. dominant player on both sides of I’m just really excited to get more the net. opportunities to perform and “I think we’re barely scratching continue to prove myself.” the surface with her,” UA volleyball Rubio said that he thinks the head coach Dave Rubio said. hardest for Harris will be handling “Ashley isn’t even close to being the responsibility of showing up where she’s going to be. My to practice every day and actively expectations are that she’s going to working towards her maximum grow into a full six-rotation player; potential. she’s going to pass, hit and be doing He added that he thinks it’s exactly what Madi Kingdon is doing, especially hard for younger players except she’s going to be 6-foot-8 to have the [instead of drive to work 6-foot-1].” hard and get After being better every utilized Ashley has really day. In Harris’ mainly as brought a lot to case, now that a blocking our team so far she’s being sub last year, this year. counted on Harris took — Madi Kingdon, UA to play on advantage of senior outside hitter a regular early season basis, those opportunities expectations to earn more for her to try playing time. to push the limits of her potential She’s currently ranked third on the both in practice and during matches team with 74 kills and has tallied becomes that much greater, he said. seven solo blocks.

As a result, Rubio has recently “Ashley has really brought a lot to been pushing the team, and Harris, our team so far this year,” UA senior a lot harder during practice. outside hitter Madi Kingdon said. “[Rubio] has been holding “I’m very proud of her. She’s really [Harris] to a higher standard proving herself in conference and is because he’s seen what she can starting to make a name for herself.” do,” Kingdon said. “Now, it’s his While blocking is arguably Harris’ job to make sure she can be up and greatest strength, she’s been more ready to hit every single time. It’s than capable of holding her own on important for her to know that she is offense as well. able to score on every ball; it’s just a In the Wildcats five-set matter of going after it and making victory over then-No. 19 ASU, sure it happens.”

Harris was able to pick up the Rubio said that while he’d still slack during Kingdon’s worst like to see Harris talk a bit more offensive performance of the year, and have more charisma on the contributing a career-high 19 kills,

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ARIZONA SOPHOMORE OUTSIDE HITTER Ashley Harris (17) prepares to set the ball during Arizona’s 3-2 win against ASU on Sept. 24 in McKale Center. UA volleyball head coach Dave Rubio praised Harris, saying, “Ashley isn’t even close to being where she’s going to be.”

at this level and [succeed]. She has a really good brain, is intellectual and doesn’t have a lot of ups and down.”

floor, right now, she’s performing very well and has already exceeded expectations.

“I think she’s a confident young lady,” Rubio said. “That’s one of the reasons she’s been able to perform

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ARIZONA LOOKS TO MAKE DUCKS QUACK Arizona football vs.

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QUOTE TO NOTE Unless you feel like explaining to your passengers why the menage-atrois in the blacked-out blur of last weekend ruled, steer clear of this track.”

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“Autzen is one of the best stadiums to play in, so I can say I’m excited,” redshirt senior safety Jared Tevis said. “As a team, we’re going to need to feed off that energy and not let it get to us this weekend.”

Junior quarterback and Heisman candidate Marcus Mariota leads the Ducks. Sports Illustrated said the junior could be the best dual-threat quarterback ever.

“Unless health-wise or something else happens, which you don’t wish on any player, he’s without question one of the top three football players in the country, and was last year,” Rodriguez said. “He’s playing at an even higher level if that’s possible right now.”

Mariota has the most touchdowns without a turnover in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

He is also No. 1 in the nation in pass efficiency, tied for 10th in passing touchdowns with UA freshman Anu Solomon among

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others and 11th in the NCAA in total offense.

Oregon senior cornerback Ifo Ekpre-Olomu is on five national player of the year watch lists.

Pink is the new black

Tonight’s game will be a black out and is expected to be the 100th straight sell out at Autzen.

their Future Stars teams.

Former Sahuaro High School player and 2014 second-round Mexican baseball returns to draft pick for the Los Angeles Tucson this weekend for the Dodgers Alex Verdugo, will be Fourth Annual Vamos a Tucson playing center field for the L.A. Dodgers M e x i c a n Future Baseball Fiesta.

Stars team The top teams If you go beginning in the Mexican Fourth annual Vamos a Tuct h i s Pacific League son Mexican Baseball Fiesta.

Thursday. will be playing Kino Sports complex from This will be a preseason October 2-5.

Verdugo’s exhibition at M L B Kino Sports debut in Complex from Tucson. today to Sunday.

Each day, Mexican there will be a double header with Baseball Fiesta matchups from the Naranjeros de Hermosillo, Tomateros de partner Jack Donovan said the Culiacan, Yaquis de Obregon and baseball games will be like no Mayos de Navajoa. There will also other baseball experience.

“The word fiesta describes it be top prospects from the Los Angeles Dodgers and Kansas City all,” Donovan said. “Expect to go Royals organizations playing for to a party and a baseball game will The Daily Wildcat

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THE ARIZONA WILDCATS celebrate after their crushing 42-16 win against Oregon on Nov. 23, 2013 at Arizona Stadium. Arizona and Oregon face off today at 7:30 p.m. on ESPN.

The Ducks will wear black helmets, black jerseys and black pants with a heavy dose of pink.

Oregon’s “what to wear guide” instructs fans to wear black.

Arizona is wearing red helmets, white jerseys and red pants. Last season, the Wildcats wore all red when they beat the Ducks.

Mexican baseball comes back over this weekend

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show up. It is a cultural experience like no other; we do it like they do it in Mexico.”

Since the first exhibition in Tucson in 2011, the Mexican Baseball Fiesta has become incredibly successful. The fiesta has grown and now has pre-season exhibition games in Phoenix; Nogales, Ariz.; El Paso, Texas; Agua Prieta, Mexico; Cananea, Mexico, and Magdalena, N.M., as well as Tucson.

Former Tucson Padres General Manager and current President of the Mexican Baseball Fiesta, Mike Feder, said the success of the baseball fiesta is due to the prominent Hispanic community in Tucson, as well as the great successes of the Mexican League teams.

“There are generations of families following these teams and they are excited to come out

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Oregon’s tradition includes the old, the Duck and the new, the “O” logo that dates back to 2001. The inside of the “O” logo is Hayward Field, the track and field stadium.

The sport is so popular at Oregon that Eugene is nicknamed “Track Town.”

The circular outside of the “O” logo represents Autzen.

Oregon uses Donald the Duck thanks to a handshake deal with Walt Disney, which was later put into writing in 1973.

Oregon students used to be known as “Webfoots,” which came from a nickname for the state, “the Webfoot State.” Oregon is now known as the “Beaver State,” a nickname Oregon State uses.

The popular comedy “Animal House” was filmed at Oregon.

Oregon’s famous alumni include Nike founder Phil Knight, Kaitlin Olson of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and CBS announcer Dan Fouts.

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Coming off of his first season with Arizona, UA rugby head coach Sean Duffy is looking forward to another successful year with the Wildcats.

Arizona rugby finished second in the Division I Double AA Nationals last spring, and as a result, the team has been promoted to Division I A. “Winning has been a good recruiting tool for the team,” Duffy said.

For the fall semester, the rugby team has 21 new recruits. In that group, there are two All-American freshmen and rugby players from Australia, England and New Zealand.

In addition to the diverse group of new players, there have been a few additions to the coaching staff as well.

UA alumnus Patrick Coco has returned to the UA to be an assistant

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Fast start

To paraphrase a famous quote: those who don’t remember history are doomed to repeat it.

The last time the Wildcats went to Oregon, they were No. 22 in the nation and 3-0, but the 2012 edition of the Ducks buried the UA 49-0. Last season, Arizona ran out to a 14-0 lead in the first eight minutes and went up 21-0 in the first quarter en route to a 42-16 win.

Both teams’ offensives are explosive and whoever gets going early could destroy the other.

Solomon shines

One thing’s for sure: A mobile Hawaiian quarterback will play a key role in the game. Maybe two will.

UO junior signal caller Marcus Mariota is a Heisman Trophy favorite, but Arizona freshman quarterback Anu Solomon is ahead of the fellow 50th state native in passing yards, passing yards per game and total offense.

Let’s not go nuts and say Solomon will be the third straight redshirt freshman to win the Heisman, but with the pressure on Mariota and the game on national TV, this is Solomon’s chance to shine.

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Marcus Mariota

Oregon is ranked second in the country and is undefeated due to one man: quarterback Marcus Mariota. In just four games, Mariota has already thrown for 1135 yards and 13 touchdowns. He has to be considered a Heisman Trophy frontrunner.

Mariota has completed 74 percent of his passes without an interception, good enough for the most total touchdowns without a turnover in the Football Bowl Subdivision.

In addition, he is the secondleading rusher for Oregon.

The Wildcats must stop Mariota

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OREGON THENREDSHIRT sophomore quarterback Marcus Mariota (8) throws a pass during Arizona’s 42-16 win against Oregon on Nov. 23, 2013 at Arizona Stadium. Mariota is a Heisman Trophy frontrunner and the engine that makes Oregon go.

with a win over a physical Big Ten Conference team and then No. 7 Michigan State, but that talk will always follow the Ducks.

Last year, a physical running back in Ka’Deem Carey abused the Ducks’ defense for 206 yards on 48 carries. This year, the Wildcats can run the two-headed monster of fifth-year senior Terris Jones-Grigsby and true freshman Nick Wilson at Oregon.

Arizona would be wise to try to beat the Ducks up with physicality.

Beat up the Ducks

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Oregon dispelled some of the talk that it is soft

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coach. Coco most recently led the University of New Mexico’s rugby team to the 2013-14 Rio Grande Collegiate Championship. Coco is a former rugby player who played under legendary UA rugby coach Dave Sitton.

Peter Savage is also a new assistant coach coming to the UA from

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Australia. Savage has experience coaching at the semiprofessional level in France and high school-level rugby in Australia.

Finally, Andy Katoa will be overseeing the UA sevens rugby program this year as an assistant coach. Katoa joined the coaching staff at the end of the rugby season last May. He is currently the Tonga National Rugby Union Team’s head coach and will return to the UA later this semester to resume coaching.

UA sophomore middle linebacker Scooby Wright III has carried the defense this season. He already has 51 tackles, four sacks and a forced fumble.

Oregon plays three running backs who share the workload in the backfield.

After giving up 45 points to Cal two weeks ago, Arizona’s defense will have to give everything they have on Thursday, because when Oregon starts fast, they are almost impossible to defeat.

“I’d like to think you can come back,” UA football head coach Rich Rodriguez said. “But you get down against a team like Oregon, it’s going to be really hard because you know they’re going to score.”

Getting Caught in Revenge

Oregon will be fired up to play on its home field this year instead of in Tucson. Last year, the Ducks got pounded on defense and their offense truly struggled. This year, however, Oregon has already defeated a highly ranked Michigan State team.

Yet, both teams are doing their best to play off the whole revenge concept.

“They have enough motivation already and it’s going to be a great environment,” Rodriguez said.

“Once the ball is kicked off, last year will be in the past.”

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Since August, the rugby team has been preparing for its preseason matches this fall semester. This weekend will be the team’s first fifteens match of the year against ASU. Last year, on the 45th Anniversary of the UA’s rugby program and naming of the Dave Sitton Field, the UA beat the Sun Devils 51-38.

“We have been focusing on the little things leading up to our first game,” Duffy said. “Everything we do has been very player-centric.”

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In addition to ASU, the UA will host two other home games this semester at Dave Sitton Field against UNM and new rugby program Grand Canyon University.

During the GCU game, Duffy will be coaching against three experienced UA alumni.

Head coach Ryan Kelly, associate head coach Merrick Firestone and assistant coach Adam Muszynski are all UA graduates. Kelly, Firestone and Muszynski all played rugby under

[and] support their favorite Mexican teams,” Feder said.

For the past two years, Mexican Pacific League teams have won the Caribbean Series.

The Caribbean Series is equivalent to MLB’s World Series.

This year, the Naranjeros de Hermosillo won the 2014 Caribbean Series title, and in 2013, the Yaquis de Obregon won. These two rival teams have the most anticipated matchup of the entire exhibition this weekend.

The deep-rooted rivalry between the two Sonoran teams is equivalent to the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox rivalry.

The Yaquis and Naranjeros will face off in a rivalry extravaganza on Saturday night.

Prominent players like Oakalnd A’s pitcher Jesse Chavez and Detroit Tigers relief pitcher Joakim Soria, who play in the Mexican Pacific League in the offseason, will not be in attendance this weekend as both of their teams have made it to the MLB postseason playoffs.

At the games, there will be live music every day along with Mexican food and a thirsty Thursday special. General admission tickets start at $9.

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Sitton.

“The GCU game will be the first rugby night game at Sitton Field, and we look forward to welcoming GCU and playing them for the first time,” Duffy said.

The first preseason game of the semester will be against ASU on Saturday Oct. 4 at Rincon Vista Sports Complex at 2 p.m.

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Looking at the mess in biology

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While some might think of it as a clean, beautiful theory, evolution is actually anything but.

An adjective that Joanna Masel, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, would use to describe evolution is messy.

Messiness is the opposite of tidiness. Tidiness, in biology, means that everything has a function and sticks to its function, Masel said.

“Evolutionary patterns often take a bird’s eye view of biology,” Masel said, “and if we take that big bird’s eye view, we see a bigger footprint from all of the things the genes are not supposed to be doing and the pressure to avoid doing them.”

This means that fine-tuning the gene’s intended function is not necessarily the most important thing for a cell.

Ryan Gutenkunst, an assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology, said that a misconception about evolution is that it is an optimization process that has been going on for a long time, so organisms must be well designed.

“If there is some feature in the cell, we have to ask: What is it for, what does it do, why does the cell want to do that?” Gutenkunst said. “We’re always interested in function.”

Many components of the cell exist because they are leftovers from the history of the cell, Gutenkunst said.

Masel said that biology strikes a balance between the cost of making things neat and the tolerance to

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JOANNA MASEL, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, demonstrates her work on a board in the Life Sciences South building. Masel is currently studying the messiness in biology.

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Two ways cells can deal with mess are either making sure mistakes don’t happen in the first place, or make the mistakes, but have a robust system that can deal with the mistakes, Masel said.

However, the former option is much more expensive in terms of energy.

“If you can function well despite the mess, it is a more durable solution in the end,” Masel said.

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evolution is a game of good enough.

“There’s been some contempt for fields like ecology because what they study is such a mess,” Masel said. “But now, molecular biologists are finding that what they study is a mess, too.”

Masel said that historically, biochemistry and molecular biology came out of physical chemistry, a field that didn’t know much about plants and animals.

The physical chemists were used to clean machines and picked study

organisms that would be as clean as possible and used tools that weren’t capable of detecting mess.

“What has happened more recently is technology has changed,” Masel said. “We now have whole system level technology. Systems biology data didn’t [use] to exist — when you see this data, you can’t help but see that it is a mess.”

Masel believes the time is right for a synthesis between different life science fields, and that the synthesis is currently happening.

“I think appreciating that messiness is good for people doing biology,” Gutenkunst said.

“You can go down the rabbit hole looking for an explanation for why a feature is in the cell and what its function is, and sometimes, that feature is just a leftover.”

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UA is studying how the Robots help ocean regulates climate researchers discover drugs

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Joellen Russell, an associate professor of geosciences, was recently awarded a $2.36 million grant towards learning more about the Southern Ocean’s role in climate regulation.

The grant is part of the Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling program, which includes Russell and scientists from nine other institutions. The National Science Foundation’s Division of Polar Programs funded SOCCOM with a $21 million federal grant to study the Southern Ocean’s role in climate regulation and biogeochemistry.

Russell explained that 93 percent of the excess heat trapped by the man-made greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere is being soaked up by Earth’s oceans.

Of that 93 percent, about 70 percent is going into the Southern Ocean, which encircles Antarctica.

Monitoring this ocean heat uptake is important because it directly impacts temperatures in Tucson, Russell said.

SOCCOM is comprised of three components. The observational component consists of 200 biogeochemical floats that will be deployed into the Southern Ocean for data collection. The floats are constructed at the University of Washington and designed with sensors from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, according to Russell.

“We really need to know what the bulk of the deep ocean is doing,” Russell said. The autonomous floats do profiles in the ocean every five days using pH, oxygen, nitrate and optical sensors in addition to temperature and salinity.

The second component is modeling, which is headed

by Russell here at the UA . The modeling component will allow researchers to see how the ocean heat is mixing and changing using a new generation of high-resolution earth system models. The modeling component will attempt to bridge between the model world and the real world in hopes of being able to project the future trajectory of the earth’s climate.

“We are trying in real time to get a handle on where that heat is going and how fast, and what the major mixing processes are,” Russell said. “For that, we need computer models of the ocean’s circulation and atmospheric circulation, and how they interact so that we can tell what happens next. We can run the models into the future, to see if the [carbon dioxide] keeps increasing like this, how will the mixing change?”

number of these channels in the membrane without rendering them non-functional.

This Robots are replacing equates to less pain with less human workers in many chance of unwanted side effects, sectors, including biology. The Rajesh Khanna said.

Functional Genomics Core at “It’s not blocking the channel the UA provides robots and other directly but indirectly in a manner equipment to allow researchers that may be useful,” Rajesh to collect large amounts of data Khanna said. that would be almost impossible May Khanna said that right through traditional methods. now, they do not know what Rajesh Khanna and May type of compound would be a Khanna, a husband and wife good candidate to interfere with research team and associate the protein interaction, but they and assistant professors of do have 50,000 possible options pharmacology, respectively, are to try. gearing up to run the FGC’s first Dealing with this much data compound screen for possible and programming the machines new pain drugs. In a compound require enormous amounts of screen, a chemical library is used logistics, according to Matthew to test different possible chemical Kaplan, an associate staff scientist compounds and their effect on a and the facilities manager of the specific biological process, Rajesh FGC. The compound screen Khanna said. requires “a year’s worth of The chemical library has over troubleshooting up front,” Kaplan 50,000 unique compounds. A said. Instead of taking a year, the robot will add each one of these robot allows the compounds researchers to to a mixture of screen all 50,000 two purified compounds in It’s a p r o t e i n s just over two different using robotic weeks. way to do pipetting.

Rajesh Khanna science Normally, compared it to — Matthew these proteins Kaplan, a chef cooking a FGC facilities interact in a meal for a large manager way so that one group of people. protein changes Everything the other to must be “activate” it, choreographed Rajesh Khanna said. to perfection, in the correct The Khannas are hoping to place and figured out far in find a compound that can limit or advance. Except, instead of a prevent this interaction as a way gastronomic delight, the screen to discover new pain-relieving yields promising compounds that drugs. might mitigate pain.

The interaction of the two Common chemical features proteins they are looking at adds between successful compounds a specific type of sodium channel can then be combined by to the cell, according to Rajesh chemists “like pieces of a jigsaw Khanna. Like other ion channels, puzzle” to create more efficient sodium channels are part of compounds or modify the a system that sends messages compounds to work better as between nerves and to the brain. drugs, May Khanna said.

For this specific channel, the However, the compound message it helps send is perceived screen is only the first step of as pain. many. The compounds will then People born without these be put through more testing to channels are unable to feel pain. determine if they will work in a If a compound can prevent live cell, in an animal model and an increase in these channels maybe, finally, in humans, Rajesh through disrupting a protein Khanna said. interaction that normally adds Big data, robotics, chemistry channels into the membrane, and biology all marry together in then that compound could this process of drug discovery. As reduce the signaling of pain, Kaplan said, “It’s a different way to or pain perception, Rajesh do science.”

Khanna said.

Disrupting the interaction of — Follow Amy Nippert the two proteins decreases the @DailyWildcat

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JESSICA RUDD, a geosciences senior, demonstrates the Southern Ocean Working Group Model Metrics website, which is a work in progress, in the Gould-Simpson building. Rudd and Joellen Russell, an associate professor of geosciences, are studying the Southern Ocean’s role in climate regulation.

Russell will be leading a team of other scientists, stakeholders and scientists to design a series of tests the public.

The last component is lead to analyze the models in order to improve the representations by Climate Central, a nonprofit of the Southern Ocean in them organization consisting of scientists and prevent further damage to its and journalists. The organization’s goal is to create broader impacts on ecosystem.

“There are several different models public policy by informing policy out there, and you’d expect them all makers, researchers and the general to come out looking the same,” said public about SOCCOM research.

Russell said that current Jessica Rudd, a geosciences senior. generations “But they don’t w i l l because the We are trying... experience people who the impact of code the models to get a handle the Southern make different on where that Ocean’s role assumptions heat is going and in climate about what how fast ... regulation. is important — Joellen Russell, “Living in and put more associate professor of Arizona, it emphasis on geosciences really matters one variable how much over another.

No model right now can exactly heat and carbon the Southern Ocean takes up,” Russell said. “It is replicate the observations.”

Rudd is developing a website that a direct impact on the next 20 years. is intended to be the first Southern Your lifetime will be affected by Ocean climate model atlas. Her goal how much mixing goes on.” is to collect models and observations and to publish the images for public use. Rudd said that the creation of the website will help disseminate — Follow Kimberlie Wang SOCCOM analyses and methods to @DailyWildcat

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