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CROWNING THE QUEEN

Get a glimpse inside the process of selecting the Homecoming queen

FRAT FLOATDOWN

11time Homecoming competition champs look to take title again

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Queenly quintet aspires for crown

By Bethany Barnes Arizona Daily Wildcat The Homecoming queen is expected to hold passion for the UA above all things.

The Bobcat Senior Honorary conducts homecoming royalty elections.

For those hoping to wear the crown, the process after nomination starts with an application.

The application has a variety of questions, including, “If you could take Wilbur on a date where would you take him and why?”

Emily May, Queen Selection cochairperson and a political science senior, said the Bobcats are looking at a student’s involvement, personality and, most of all, their passion for the UA as criteria for selection.

“It is mostly just about how much you love the U of A,” May said, adding that they are looking to see “if it’s more than just the whole rah-rah thing, if it’s more of a passion.”

After applications a mixer is held. This year it was held at the Marvin D. Swede Johnson building. According to May, this year’s event was “very casual.”

After the first mixer applicants sign up for an interview time, and after the interviews, 15 women are invited to attend a second mixer.

Events of this nature are usually held at someone’s house, but this year the Bobcats chose to hold them on campus.

At the second mixer, students wore outfits that showed their UA spirit and played a game called

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Campus Capture, in which students went around campus solving riddles related to the UA’s history and taking pictures in front of some of the campus’ historic locations.

Some of these locations included a golden brick in the Student Union Memorial Center, Dirtbag’s Bar and the McKale Memorial Center.

“It’s kind of cool to challenge people to go beyond,” May said.

She said the Bobcats wanted the game to teach students little details about the UA’s history.

“We want people to go and actually learn stuff … it’s an awesome honor to be Homecoming queen, but if we can teach a couple people a little more about history and tradition, then that’s kind of our goal. That’s why we’re here.”

After the second mixer it’s time for the Bobcats to narrow the field once again, this time to five.

This year the contending queens woke on Friday to Bobcats standing over them, screaming they’d made it to the final five.

After hearing the news, the Bobcats treated the potential queens to a breakfast with contending kings at the local Blue Willow Restaurant, Bakery, and Gift Shop at 7:30 a.m.

Now the decision is in the hands of UA students, and both the king and queen will be crowned at the Homecoming bonfire.

How You Vote:

Voting began Wednesday at midnight and continues today

Link to it from the ASUA website (it isn’t up yet will add)

The Nominees:

Name: Rosette Abud Major: Communication

Q: Why do you want to be Homecoming queen?

“I think I represent the average Arizona girl. I worked really hard and grew up in a small border town, came to Catholic school when I was a freshman, and now I’ve been a U of A cheerleader for four years.”

Q: What is your favorite UA moment?

“My freshmen year I cheered my first football game. The cheerleaders all get in a circle in the middle of the field and — I just got chills actually — I’ll never forget when I turned around and I looked at the sea of red and the fireworks went off and we tumbled across the field.”

Name: Jaime Bales Major: Psychology

Q: Why do you want to be Homecoming queen?

“Well, I want to be Homecoming queen mostly for the experience and just the opportunity to get to represent the U of A in a great light and bring diversity to the whole entire process.”

Q: What is your favorite UA moment?

“Just initially coming to the campus and moving in by

myself … just finally feeling that independence and then getting the experience of being on a campus that is just as gorgeous as it is and so community based. It was just an unbelievable experience, immediately getting onto campus and just being.”

Name: Paige Weber Major: Accounting

Q: Why do you want to be Homecoming queen?

“This is the biggest shock to me. I had no clue I would even be nominated, let alone be picked as a finalist, but I just think that I really want the opportunity to represent athletics for nominating me and just represent the school in a way that I would want people to view the school. That’s really exciting to get to do that on a large scale.”

Q: What is your favorite UA moment?

“I would have to say that, so far, my favorite U of A moment, even though we (the volleyball team) weren’t there, was probably when football beat Oregon at home, because we had a game the next day so we had to leave, but my whole team was in the lobby of our hotel screaming our heads off and getting in so much trouble from the hotel people because we were so happy that the guys won.”

Name: Kaitlin Simpson Major: Communication

Q: Why do you want to be Homecoming queen?

“I think obviously any of these girls here would be really deserving, but I think it would be a really fun thing to represent the U of A. I try to represent the U of A in all of the greatest ways by being involved and succeeding academically.”

Q: What is your favorite UA moment?

“I would say one of the many insane football games. You know, those ones during the last few minutes we suddenly pull off this miraculous win. Those are some of my favorite ones.”

Name: Randilyn Crist Major: Communication

Q: Why do you want to be Homecoming queen?

“Because I just want to represent the U of A. You know, it’s my last year, and I really want to experience something so U of A. I’m just really proud to do it.

Both my parents went to the U of A so I’m second generation. I just talked to them, and they’re so excited. It’s kind of for the whole family, I guess.”

Q: What is your favorite UA moment?

“I loved the Oregon game my freshman year when we beat Oregon … it was the first time I had gone to a football game and stayed the whole time.”

11-year streak

Theta Tau, engineering fraternity, hopes for 12th-consecutive first place in float contest

By Lucy Valencia Arizona Daily Wildcat This year’s homecoming theme is “One for the Ages,” but members of the UA chapter of the Theta Tau fraternity decided to add their own twist to it. They will be bringing the sci-fi 1985 movie “Back to the Future” to life with a flying Marty McFly as part of the float’s design.

After presenting their futuristic Homecoming float design to a panel of alumni for approval using a computerized three-dimensional program to virtually design their model, more than 25 members of Theta Tau began working on safety features and making their vision feasible.

“We actually will have one person suspended by cable on the front, appearing to be on a hover board as Marty McFly,” explained Nathan Oxnam, a computer engineering senior and one of the major float designers.

Leandra Brettner, an engineering mathematics major who was in charge of aesthetics for the project, said the float means more to them professionally because it’s one of the program developmental events that encompasses a lot of engineering.

“We take it a lot more seriously,” she said. “We have alumni from the engineering industry come in, hold a design review and have a completion schedule.”

A team of six to seven people would normally work on the float during its construction phase, according to Oxnam, who oversaw most of the work.

“The hardest engineering problem is coming up with a design that looks really cool but is safe too,” he said. “We’re planning on having at least five people suspended in the air and off the ground on Saturday.”

Brettner said the float would look to recreate scenes from the “Back to the Future” films.

“In ‘Back to the Future Part III,’ there is a part where Marty McFly is on a hover board,” she said. “We hope to have a sort of beam that a person will be hooked up to using climbing gear to look like he’s flying on a hover board. He’ll also “be wearing an 80’s outfit” for even more of a realistic Marty McFly look.

To preserve the overall theme of this year’s Homecoming, Theta Tau is including a silver and sage colored “A,” the colors of the theme, on their float.

“We also have a filmstrip of pictures from many decades back, dating back to the first ever football game,” Brettner said.

“We have a great photo of the first football team in their practice lineup.”

They chose to include the filmstrip because football is a huge part of the university’s Homecoming history.

A challenge Theta Tau members faced in the building process — aside from safety factors and cutting-edge engineering — was feasibility.

“We allocated money in our annual budget to work on floats, but our biggest amount came from a donor,” Oxnam said.

“Grant Rose Lumber donated wood that covered almost all of it, and that saved a huge chunk (of money). We also reused some things from the previous year.”

One of these things is a Wilbur T. Wildcat costume, which Theta Tau used last year.

Theta Tau has placed first in the float competition each of the last 11 years, and they don’t plan on letting that streak end anytime soon.

“We hope to keep our winning streak alive,” said Bill Duy, a mining engineering senior.

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Jonathan Overpeck, co-director for the UA’s Institute of the Environment, speaks at a conference held in the Rincon room of the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday. Rep. Raul M. Grijalva announced that a $3.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior will fund a new Southwest Climate Center to be hosted by the UA.

Federal grant funds new UA center to connect policy makers, science

By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA will be the lead university of the U.S. Department of Interior’s Southwest Climate Science Center.

The center will develop strategies and solutions for climate change and work to connect science with public policy makers.

“It was a competitive process,” said Rep. Raul Grijalva on the decision process that went into selecting the UA. Grijalva gave the announcement to a packed crowd in

the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday.

The Southwest Climate Science Center is a consortium made up of six other schools with UA acting as the central hub.

This is the fourth regional climate science center created by the department, and they plan to establish four others.

Jonathan Overpeck, co-director for the UA’s Institute of the Environment, will lead the center.

They have a $3 million grant to set up the structure of the center with

more funding to follow, according to Overpeck.

The center will look at climate change in relation to science as well as communication, the social sciences and public policy.

“It’s going to cut across all the colleges … we’re all going to have a role to play,” Overpeck said. “It’s all about usable knowledge and that’s what we want to produce, not prescriptions of how to deal with problems. We’re not telling anyone how to do it — but to give decision makers choices.”

UA Biosphere 2 Director Travis Huxman is excited about the UA’s opportunity to make an impact on how science is done.

“We’re accelerating the production of usable science to impact the way people make management decisions about our land resources,” Huxman said. “Primarily, I’m excited for us because its an opportunity for us to really create these new scientists that are going to wear all of these wonderful hats that really CLIMATE, page 7

Students are pushing to shake things up in the same-sex designations for roommates in residence halls.

About 30 UA students from the LGBTQ community attended a forum held at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, to discuss the establishment of a themed wing or floor in a residence hall that would be designated for people of their community who often feel victimized, uncomfortable, misunderstood or unsafe.

“Our goal is to have something in place for next year, recognizing that our returning students have to sign up for housing by February,” said Hannah Lozon, coordinator of social justice education at Residential Life.

“We need to get as much support as we can,” she added.

Support is something they have struggled with endlessly, students at the meeting said.

Tyler Diaz, a junior transfer student, took out extra loans to live off campus because he was afraid to live on campus. “If I would’ve known the community was more inclusive, I would’ve saved a lot of money and lived on campus,” he said.

Christina Bischoff, a biology and theatre arts sophomore, said her DORMS, page 7

DUI drama wins UA dancers’ steps make cents student film prize

By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Not all participants in the Campus MovieFest film “D.U.I: Under the Influence” knew they were being filmed.

The five-minute film was shot at University Medical Center and follows a man who crashes his car after driving drunk. Many members of the medical staff believed the actor was a real patient.

Physiology senior Kandarp Shah and finance senior Jigar Desai made the film with help from Dr. Rifat Latifi, UMC associate director of trauma, critical care and emergency surgery. “(Latifi) did not tell anybody that I was going to be a fake patient,” said Desai, the film’s primary actor.

“He basically kind of made a twist in this movie so everyone would do this the way they’d treat a real patient.”

Desai was taken from the UMC

helipad to the operating room.

Staff cut open his shirt and actually drew blood.

“We had to stop them from doing further procedures,” said Shah, who directed the film.

The realistic footage helped the team win the award for best drama at the University of Arizona Campus MovieFest competition on Oct. 1. The competition loans students film equipment to make short films within one week.

The students won Final Cut software and an iPod Nano. The film will also go to a national competition in June.

“The audience was really, really surprised by the footage,” Shah said. “All the audience came to us after and asked us, ‘How did you take this patient to the O.R.? How is this possible?’”

Shah competed in the film festival last year but did not win an

Choreographers plan fundraiser for cancer research

By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

A non-profit dance troupe started by a UA alumnus will hold its inaugural benefit show this weekend.

Mika Deslongchamps, who graduated in May with a degree in speech, language and hearing sciences, and her aunt, Patte Lazarus, started Dance for a Cause in July.

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COMING MONDAY

Float parade

Kiara Lloyd, a retail and consumer sciences senior, rehearses “Africa” as other Dance for a Cause company dancers wait for their entrance.

Dance for a Cause, a nonprofit organization raising funds for breast cancer research, will be performing at Pima College West Campus on Friday and Saturday.

The Arizona Daily Wildcat will detail the Homecoming float-making process including photos

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continued from page 1 “Mika came to me with the idea of starting a dance group whose primary objective would be to raise funds for other organizations,” Lazarus said. “It’s to celebrate the joy of life but also to give back to people who are going through difficult times.”

The organization plans on holding four events each year, starting with its first benefit show this Friday and Saturday.

“It was just kind of an idea I’ve had for a long time,” Deslongchamps said. “I wanted the dance community to come together, despite their different backgrounds, and give back to the community.”

The two want the show to benefit different organizations each year. This year, all proceeds will benefit local breast cancer causes through the Arizona Cancer Center and the International Cancer Advocacy Network.

“We decided to focus on research and advocacy,” Lazarus said. “We feel that those are two areas that aren’t necessarily touched as much as maybe awareness is.”

Deslongchamps said they chose the cause in part because Lazarus is a breast cancer survivor.

“A lot of the dancers have personal connections, so we thought it would be a good one to start with,” Deslongchamps said. “It’s a big one that people know about.”

Deslongchamps recruited dancers from the UA and around Tucson to donate their time. The group is composed of about 20 to 25 people who started rehearsals over the summer. Dancers have practiced from 9 p.m. to midnight four days a week for the past month.

“It’s been a big commitment for the dancers. All of them are either full-time professional dancers, full-time college students or parents,” Deslongchamps said.

Psychology sophomore Christopher Smith, who will dance in the show and choreographed one of the dances, heard about the organization from a friend.

“I showed up, saw the dances and decided this is something I want to be a part of,” Smith said.

Smith said he juggles the rehearsals with practices for an African dance ensemble at the UA. “I kind of just go from one to the other,” Smith said. “It is your life.”

The show features about 10 dances previously performed by other studios and another 10 choreographed by group members specifically for the event.

“Every single one of them is a premiere work,” Deslongchamps said. “A never-seen-before piece.”

English sophomore Elle Grant choreographed a 17-minute piece for the show called “The Flood.”

“It’s about the trials the women go through with breast cancer,” said Grant, who is also a dance minor.

“So it’s talking about the initial finding out and the tearing apart of relationships.”

Deslongchamps said the two-hour show features several types of dance. “(The audience is) going to see a huge variety of dance styles from African to modern and everything in between,” Deslongchamps said.

“They’re also going to get to see a group of people who really love to perform together.”

Smith said the show is an enjoyable way for people to give back.

“If you’re not there to support the cause, who doesn’t like to see people dance around and have fun?” Smith asked. “A lot of our dances make you smile. If you don’t smile, some of our dances will make you cry. It’s better than a movie.”

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undeclared sophomore Thursday is a big day; not only is it raining but (Thursday night was) also the “Jersey Shore” season two finale. What is going through your head?

Oh man, I can’t even tell you right now. I just love Snooki so much and all the crazy love-making that goes on inside that house.

What are you going to do on Thursdays now that it’s over; like, what is going to happen?

I’m probably just going to watch a different show that’s less dumbfounded on my mind. And yeah, it will be awesome, it will be good.

Like what?

Probably like “Family Guy” or “South Park” or something good. Some reruns, maybe. Reruns are always better than “Jersey Shore” stuff, ya know? I mean, I’ve watched all the episodes but it’s just, I mean, they’re kind of crazy.

Yeah, but you can’t find anything more entertaining.

Yeah, you’re right.

They’re super entertaining and super dumb.

So how are you feeling about this weather?

I’m not seeing you in any rain boots or ponchos or anything.

Why are you wearing rain boots (when) it’s not even raining? It was raining at like 6 o’ clock in the morning.

Dude, it was raining at 10 and I had to walk, chill out.

OK, well I like the rain.

I’m from Vegas so we don’t get a lot of rain.

What is the big plan for Homecoming for you?

Just partying, right?

Drinking, watching the game.

Being a sophomore, you’ve got two more years to go. Does it frighten you that you are almost halfway done?

Yeah, time is just going by way too fast ya know?

Yeah, I mean you haven’t even decided your major yet.

Yeah, I don’t even know what I want to do yet. I already got so many pressures, but I guess that’s life for ya.

What is the biggest thing you are looking forward to in your life?

Just living on my own, maybe.

Having kids?

Yeah, I guess having kids would be cool, raising a family, buying a family dog and stuff ­­— crazy stuff like that. That’d be awesome.

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Jimmy MacKenzie, a physiology senior, participates alongside members of Bobcats Senior Honorary in the Club Olympics mud tug-of-war challenge on Thursday on the UA Mall. UA Cheerleaders received first place in the mud tug-of-war challenge.

Jenna Jameson trading porn for Broadway stage Porn queen Jenna Jameson is in talks to star in the hit Broadway rock musical, “Rock of Ages.”

The X-rated icon is negotiating to take the role of Venus strip club owner Justice — whose big, crowd-pleasing number is appropriately Journey’s “Any Way You Want It.” Jameson confirmed, “I am in talks with the ‘Rock of Ages’ producers, and I’m praying I get the role. Broadway has always been a dream of mine ever since I was

a little girl. I am really excited.”

“I’m meeting with the producers, and I just hope I have enough talent to carry the role. We are talking about a run that would be anything from a month to three months, and it could start very soon.”

She added, “I think I’m perfect for the role, and I am really looking forward to becoming a New Yorker.”

A show source said, “The producers were surprised, but Jenna

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(Jameson) has a good voice. And while she’s famous for her X-rated movies, she can act. This may be a shock to traditional Broadway fans, but the show is always trying to push the boundaries.”

The Tony-nominated musical, which features music from Journey, Whitesnake, Styx and Bon Jovi, is running at the Brooks Atkinson. The role of Justice has been played since 2005 by Michelle Mais.

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Time for UA to embrace gender-inclusive housing

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hy are many college students — most of them legal adults — who choose to live on campus required to live with same-sex roommates?

That’s one of the questions being asked at the UA and on college campuses across the nation by advocates of gender-inclusive housing. On Wednesday night, about 30 students from the LGBTQ community met with representatives from Residence Life to discuss the possibility of establishing a gender-inclusive or LGBTQ-themed portion of a residence hall, possibly starting as early as next year.

This proposition feels like a no-brainer. The UA and many other universities currently employ an archaic policy when it comes to on-campus housing. The assumption that men “should” live with men, and women with women, stems from a set of anachronistic stigmas about gender relations that universities should have left behind decades ago.

Only relatively recently have women and men been allowed to live in the same building, let alone the same floor.

An article in the Daily Wildcat archives reveals that UA residence halls began to go coed as recently as 1984. But male-female dorms seem innocuous to all but the most conservative students and parents today. The next decade will almost inevitably see gender-inclusive housing, like coed housing, become the rule rather than the exception on college campuses.

Today, the main argument for samesex roommates has more to do with comfort and safety than morality. This makes sense; some men and women might feel uneasy or even at risk living with someone of the opposite sex. Of course, residence halls should feel secure for all students, and no one should ever be asked to live with someone who makes him or her feel unsafe.

But gender-inclusive housing wouldn’t place men and women together as roommates at random. Instead, it would allow people to choose to live in a part of a residence hall that was specifically designated as gender inclusive.

The availability of such a living situation is especially vital for students who identify with the LGBTQ community.

Many students who are gay or transgender feel unsafe in traditional residence hall arrangements. They face everything from gossip and stigmatization to hate crimes.

This was made tragically evident when Tyler Clementi, a freshman at Rutgers University, committed suicide after his roommate broadcast via the Internet an intimate moment between Clementi and another man. Clementi’s death is an extreme example, but gay and transgender students in the dorms face harassment on a daily basis. Many fear being placed with a roommate who will not understand or accept their sexual orientation and will be cruel to them as a result. This fear is not unfounded, and Residence Life should take it seriously.

At least 35 colleges and universities across the nation, including several large state schools, have some form of genderinclusive housing. While such housing opportunities on those campuses have by no means eliminated bigotry toward the LGBTQ community, they have gone a long way in making students feel more secure in their living situations.

The opportunity to live in a community that is guaranteed to be safe, accepting and inclusive is one every student should be afforded. Currently, and unfortunately, that is not the case at the UA. While there are certainly still kinks to work out in the process of establishing gender-inclusive housing, Residence Life must take every step possible toward making such housing a reality. No one should ever feel persecuted, or even mildly uneasy, because they’ve been placed with a roommate who doesn’t accept who they are. The UA must leave behind outdated assumptions and practices and make gender-inclusive housing a reality.

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office. He also said he would not risk his reputation as a journalist to make unsubstantiated claims against Brewer.

On his blog, Brewer’s campaign adviser Chuck Coughlin posted a 20-year-old transcript of an interview in which a nameless speaker alleged Goddard, a married father, was gay.

Coughlin quickly apologized and backpedaled as if he could just take back what he suggested about Brewer’s competition.

The Brewer camp was illustrating a point, he said. He wanted to make it clear that Brewer’s health is as irrelevant as Goddard’s sexual orientation.

That did not go as planned, and there is still no accounting for why Brewer thinks stubbornly refusing to answer questions will convince people that she is in perfect health.

When Dougherty pointed out a band-aid she was wearing in a photo and said it was from a thyroid biopsy, reporters asked about the band-aid. Brewer said she’d been wearing a few, but did not remember the one on her chest, despite the photograph.

None of this criticism validates Dougherty’s claims, which appear to rely solely on the testimony of one anonymous

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“Tainted Love” … and celery: A Texas food-processing plant has been shut down after four people contracted listeriosis after consuming celery tainted with the bacteria. Apparently, the reason you lose calories while eating celery is that it may make you violently ill.

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The retirement age in France: Of course, this could easily be “riots and civic unrest” since they are basically the same thing at this point. All the influential French unions (those representing mimes, disenchanted women at cafes and Jerry Lewis impersonators) are calling for at least two additional days of protests against a controversial proposal to raise the retirement age in France from 60 to 62. But cheer up, French politicians; at least you were able to save your populace from Lady Gaga.

Every little boy’s dream: Did you see “Jackass 3D”? Well, if you did, you’re not the only one, since it raked in more than $50 million its opening week. Somewhere, a group of bored suburbanites just found their unoriginal out from a lifetime of working for “the man.”

— Editorials are determined by the Daily Wildcat opinions board and written by one of its members. They are Heather Price-Wright, Luke Money, Colin Darland and Steven Kwan. They can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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he past few weeks have been spent speculating on the state of Gov. Jan Brewer’s health, with bloggers suggesting that she could be suffering from anything ranging from dementia or a stroke, to cancer.

But some unofficial guess of a diagnosis is not going to be my reason for not voting for her.

I’m not voting for Brewer because she reminds me of an awkward turtle trapped on its back. Watching Brewer’s arms and legs flail in the effort to right herself during her campaign is painful enough, and I don’t want to watch that for four years.

Last week, John Dougherty, former U.S. Senate candidate and an investigative journalist, claimed in Facebook and Twitter posts that “there are persistent reports from reliable sources” that Brewer is too “seriously ill” to finish a four-year term.

Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard recently released his health records, and called on Brewer to do the same.

Brewer brushed off the doubts about her health as “just outrageous” and said Dougherty had “zero credibility.”

Dougherty said he stood by his source, whom he claimed worked in the governor’s

guy whose credibility cannot be evaluated.

The speculation over Brewer’s health is unfounded and unnecessary, an effort to draw voters away from the issues. That said, her response to speculation is poor and will not win voters over.

In typical Brewer fashion, she retreated from questions and lashed out at others to deflect attention from herself. She also distanced herself from Coughlin, though he is her top adviser and she should have expected to be linked to him immediately after his blog post.

Then she pretended to fail to remember an incident (which, given the context, was easily not of her most persuasive moments).

Brewer has this habit of pasting a vacanteyed grin on her face every time she’s asked a difficult question. It turns out she also does it when she’s asked simple ones, like why anyone could suggest she is too sick to be capable of finishing a four-year term. This is probably why bloggers thought it would be OK to suggest she had a stroke before her infamous 16 seconds of silence during the gubernatorial debate.

I will not spend Nov. 2 seriously considering Dougherty’s Facebook status updates or his anonymous source in the governor’s office. It would be unfortunate if Brewer were sick, especially too sick to complete a full term if elected, but her handling of the controversy ought to be the real deal breaker.

— Kristina Bui is a sophomore majoring in journalism and political science. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

Tenth-grade civics: The separation of church and state is an issue that has been on the minds of constitutional framers and enforcers for hundreds of years. Unless you’re Christine O’Donnell, who apparently decided, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” doesn’t bar church and state from commingling. Technically, she’s right.

Functionally? Not so much.

Juan Williams: The former political commentator for National Public Radio was fired after an appearance on Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” during which he said, “When I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they’re identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.” Granted, it’s not as bad as if he said that he would get nervous encountering an African American in a dark alleyway, but that’s why we have Chris Wallace.

Ice, ice, baby: According to a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, temperatures in the Arctic and Greenland continue to be well above historical norms. This year also saw a record loss of ice from a Greenland glacier when a 110-square-mile portion of the Petermann Glacier broke off.

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The upcoming Landscape Evolution Observatory at the Biosphere 2 will help researchers evaluate the interaction between soils, ecology, geomorphology and biochemistry in relation to the behavior of water in our world. Topics like this are discussed in Biosphere 2’s continuing “Let’s Talk Science!” lecture series.

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Paper beats rock and plants eat rocks. Biosphere 2 will show how plants can eat rocks at a lecture on Saturday.

A discussion of the relationship between plants and rocks serving as a source for nutrients will continue the Biosphere 2 “Let’s Talk Science!” lecture series on Saturday.

Part of an outreach effort, the eight-lecture series will take place every Saturday until Dec. 4. Research faculty members were chosen to speak about their primary areas of expertise in an effort to reach out to the community and improve scientific literacy.

Soil chemist and assistant research professor Katerina Dontsova’s lecture, “How can plants eat rock?” will be held this Saturday.

The lecture’s focus is appealing to many, Dontsova said. “Everybody knows about plants in their garden. How (they) get nutrients from the soil, particularly from rocks we often see in Arizona, might be of interest.”

The researcher recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to do this work on microorganisms, plants and rock weathering.

Her work focuses on rocks’ transformation to secondary minerals, when elements are released that can be a nutrition source for plants.

She is also working on a larger, related Biosphere 2 project called the Landscape Evolution Observatory.

It will explore interactions between biology, geology and chemistry and its effects on water movements.

It is a tool to bring public awareness to “the important science done at the biosphere,” said Hassan Hijazi, director of external affairs for Biosphere 2.

The series kicked off Oct. 9 and is on its third week. As the Biosphere enters the fourth year under

if you go What: Biosphere 2“Let’s Talk Science!”

Third lecture:“How can plants eat rock?”

When: Saturday, noon Where: Biosphere 2 Visitor Center UA administration, it’s “a good time to revisit the significant research that’s being performed,” said Matt Adamson, the Biosphere 2 senior program coordinator organizing the series.

Biosphere 2 receives 80,000 visitors a year, and people touring the center will be able to hear first-hand about the findings of research they see being conducted, Hijazi said.

At the lectures, in seminar style where participants are free to ask questions, live shots will be shown to the audience of where in Biosphere 2 the particular work presented is being done.

Adamson predicted a heavily research-oriented facility emerging over time, with visitor tours concentrating on the work being done more than the history of the site.

The lecture series’ championing of science awareness is important, Dontsova said. She used climate change as an example of research that has been “long accepted by scientists,” and a “large fraction of the public” still doesn’t believe it to be true.

“It’s very important to tell the public about research that’s going on. (If the public) is more involved, (they) can make informed decisions about information they receive,” she said.

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A University of Arizona Police Department officer arrested a non-UA affiliated man for driving with a suspended license on Tuesday.

The officer was at an intersection on Speedway Boulevard at about 12:09 a.m. when he noticed a car in the middle lane stopped at the same light, traveling in the opposite direction. The vehicle’s lights were off, so the officer did a U-turn in the patrol car and pulled the car over.

The driver identified himself verbally, and a records check revealed his driver ’s license was suspended. The man recited the last four digits of his Social Security number to the officer, which matched the one on the suspended license. After his identity was confirmed, the man was placed under arrest for driving with a suspended license and his vehicle was towed.

Debate gets physical

A man reported that another man assaulted him on Monday at 5:22 p.m. Both men are UA students and were part of a political demonstration occurring before a debate at the Student Union Memorial Center.

Neither one of the two men were injured. The man accused of assault apologized for his actions. The victim indicated he had no intentions of prosecuting.

On Monday, a UAPD officer was monitoring a crowd that had gathered near the student union for a political debate that was about to start. There were several people in the crowd yelling and chanting for their political candidates.

The officer noticed a disturbance in the crowd as a victim came running forward yelling, “His hands were around my neck, he was choking me!� The officer started toward this person, who was pointing towards another man. The officer took both students aside and obtained identification from each of them. Both individuals were very agitated and still yelling at each other. The officer advised both men that they needed to calm down so that he could determine what had happened.

The officer questioned the victim first, who explained that he had been shouting in the crowd when the other man got angry and placed his hands around his neck as if to choke him. He said he was not injured, and that the other man hadn’t applied pressure on his neck. He did not feel that he had tried to choke him.

The victim said he only wanted the other man to know that he could not act like that or get physical.

When asked if he wanted the man to be arrested for his actions, the victim said he did not believe things “rose to that level,� and was not willing to participate in the prosecutorial process.

The officer then spoke with the other man and asked him what had happened. The man said, “I lost my cool,� and admitted he had put his hands around the other student’s neck. He said he wasn’t trying to choke him. He just wanted to hold him there because he was so frustrated with him. The man stated he had become upset because the victim had been shouting political rhetoric directly in his face. He also said he understood violence was not acceptable and apologized to the victim. Both subjects shook hands and were laughing about what had happened as they parted ways.

Can is half-empty

A man was arrested for consuming alcohol in public on Tuesday.

A UAPD officer was driving eastbound on Speedway Boulevard at 8 a.m. when he noticed a man sitting at a bus stop drinking from a can in a brown paper bag.

The officer went up to him and saw that the can was a 24-ounce can of Steel Reserve beer.

The man was identified, cited and released for consuming spirituous liquor in public. The officer disposed of the half-full beer can on scene.

Unattended backpack stolen from Old Main

A UA student reported a backpack containing her laptop and wallet was stolen sometime between 12:15 p.m. and 1:06 p.m. on Tuesday.

The officer spoke with the woman on the phone at 1:06 p.m. She told him she had left her green Jansport backpack near the stage at Old Main at about 12:46 p.m. that day and when she returned at 1:06 p.m., it was gone.

Her Blackberry phone, wallet, credit cards, $60 in cash and laptop had all been in the backpack.

It’s your bike? Prove it

A man said he found his stolen bicycle locked up to a bike rack on the north side of Old Main on Tuesday.

A UAPD officer went to Old Main and met with the man at 2:35 p.m. to figure out what had happened. The man said his bike had just been stolen at around 2 p.m. from the Modern Languages building and had wanted to try and locate the bike before filing a report with UAPD. He said he knew it was his because there were three scratches on the seat of the bicycle that he had put there.

The man also said that he still had the paperwork for the bike and could prove ownership. The officer placed a UAPD bike lock on the frame of the bicycle to secure it in place. The man will bring his proof of ownership documents to UAPD, or the lock will be removed.

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A student’s bicycle was stolen from the bike racks behind Sky View Apartments sometime between the hours of 1:30 p.m. on Friday and 9:30 p.m. on Monday.

The student had locked up his bicycle with two cable locks on Friday and returned to the same spot three days later to find it missing. He reported the incident at 10:58 a.m. on Monday and met with a UAPD officer to give his report.

The student described his bicycle as being almost all white, with some black and red accents. The bicycle’s value is believed to be about $300. The student did not have his bicycle registered with Parking and Transportation Services, and was not sure of his bike’s serial number at the time of his report either. He was advised to call UAPD back when he was able to find that information. There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports. A complete list of UAPD activity can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.

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biggest issue in her UA residential experience has always been roommates. Other attendees agreed with her, expressing that it was uncomfortable and problematic to share a room with another woman who treated them differently because of their sexual orientation. “We need to identify people who are allies of LGBTQ and people comfortable living with us,” she said.

Some attendees voiced that they preferred to live in rooms or suites with the same sex.

Others preferred to live with the opposite sex, for the sole reason that there is no attraction and they can feel more comfortable in the room.

An option that many students were in favor of was being able to state your rooming preference of gender and sexual orientation when applying for campus housing. That way, the entire rooming process would be optional. “This isn’t about segregation. It is only about making people feel more inclusive and safe,” Lozon said.

“The problem with this sort of option is it could stem to include other modes of segregation,” said Jim Van Arsdel, director of Residence Life. “The reason we don’t collect more demographical information (from students) is that race, religion, sexual identity, etc. can also be fought for on the roommate preference issue. Part of the difficulty is that if we become too accommodating, we get to the point where we are expected to be the agents of hatred. Not gathering that sort of demographic information allows us to say ‘We don’t know.’ Asking questions about religion or anything of that sort is going to get the public to think we’re going to act on those answers in some way, which is inappropriate.”

Bryan Ponton, a junior studying art history and journalism, had a white board

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hanging on the door of his room and a resident wrote the word “fag” on it. “It was my first experience with a hate crime and I just think we need more training for resident assistants in dealing with them, and programs for dealing with them,” he said.

There are 54 other universities in the country who have established LGBTQ themed wings or areas in their residence halls, according to Lozon. “Most of those started off initially only open to returning students, then as they are fueled on, became open to incoming freshmen,” Lozon said. “We’re looking at many different models, but more importantly want to know what our students think first.”

Northeastern University has gender-neutral housing available for upper-class students during the room selection process, according the Northeastern University Housing and Residence Life website. The themed housing option was established in 2009.

Van Arsdel said he sees why there is aspiration to establish a new wing, but he does not know how it could become reality and ensure its survival after the creators leave.

“The broader the base of support … the more realistic this idea can be. We want it to work to the effect that the lives of students are changed in a positive way. Often after a new program is initiated strongly, the supportive members who helped launch it leave and it dies out,” he said. “We don’t want it to die out in two years. We need people who stick around.”

After parting ways, all LGBTQ attendees were enthused about the possible launch of a themed wing for them. “What can I do next?

I have a lot of friends who would be interested … where do I tell them to sign up?” Diaz asked.

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Overpeck said that by being on this is the world capital for We’re not telling anyone how the front lines of climate change, climate change research, we to do it — but to give decision they hope to develop strategies think. And they also get access and technologies that will create makers choices.” to our wonderful graduate “a whole new economic engine — Jonathan Overpeck for our region and our state in students and they are able to train them and they can asparticular.” sume careers sometimes with the federal agen“It (climate change) is real, it is upon us and cies but often times in other positions,” said the University of Arizona will be leading the Charles Hutchinson, director of the UA School remediation, the adaptation strategy and the of Natural Resources and the Environment. mitigation strategy that will be part of what we Hutchinson said the UA also gets great rewill need to do not only to cope with the issue search collaborators from the project, noting but survive the issue and more importantly that walking through a hallway you can’t tell plan around the issue,” Grijalva said.

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WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security, apparently ready to cut its losses on a so-called invisible fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, has decided not to exercise a one-year option for Boeing to continue work on the troubled multibillion-dollar plan involving high-tech cameras, radar and vibration sensors.

The result, after an investment of more than $1 billion, may be a system with only 53 miles of unreliable coverage along the nearly 2,000-mile border.

The virtual fence was intended to link advanced monitoring technologies to command centers for Border Patrol to identify and thwart human trafficking and drug smuggling. But from the beginning, the program has been plagued by missed deadlines and the limitations of existing electronics in rugged, unpredictable wilderness where high winds and a tumbleweed can be enough to trigger an alarm.

Homeland Security officials decided on Sept. 21 not to invoke the department’s option with Boeing, the

principle contractor on the project, and instead extended the deal only to midNovember, Boeing officials confirmed this week. Boeing has charged DHS more than $850 million since the project began in 2006.

The two-month Boeing extension about to run out, several members of Congress expect DHS to rule soon on the fate of the invisible fence, the hi-tech portion of the $4.4 billion Secure Border Initiative.

DHS spokesman Matt Chandler would only say a new way forward for the program “is expected shortly.”

But given that the virtual fence has yet to pass muster even in the 53-mile test area — two sections in Arizona that officials acknowledge won’t be fully operational until 2013 — and the government’s lack of interest in extending Boeing’s contract, most do not expect DHS to invest billions more in a project that has continually disappointed.

Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he hopes DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano acts soon. “The program is headed in the wrong direction,” Thompson said.

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Workers find concessions sweet

By Michelle A. Monroe Arizona Daily Wildcat It’s not all just popcorn and cotton candy, concession workers say.

“I know when people think of concessions, people think it’s just hot dogs and nachos, but we put in a lot of hard work and we make these events happen; it takes a lot of time and preparation,” said Cameron Wiggins, a microbiology Pima Community College student and UA concessions worker for the past two years. “It’s not all fun and games. We work hard. We work really hard.”

For Arizona football games, workers arrive at the stadium five hours before kickoff. They count and clean every item and begin preparing the food, but workers say it’s worth it.

“It’s a lot of fun. You get some real characters who come here: the guys who are all painted up, red faces, crazy hairdos and the like,” said Rhonda Hamacher, treasurer for the Roadrunners, a softball not-for-profit group that works at the games to fundraise. “I have not found any students to be rude, obnoxious; they’re all polite and just having fun.”

On a good night, the concessions booth in the student section will make around $10,000 in profits. Not-for-profit groups take 15 percent of the total profits for their stands.

The concessions workers are a tight-knit group because they work together for so long and, for most, for many years.

Marilyn Taylor, a level supervisor, has been working concessions since she was a 12-yearold selling hot dogs up and down the stands.

“I like working with the groups and the

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excitement of the crowd,” Taylor said. “I like the chaos, fun chaos from when I get there until I leave.”

Now she is responsible for the entire operation on the top east side of the stadium. Her day begins at 1 p.m. for a 7 p.m. game and doesn’t end until 11:30 p.m.

The new ZonaZoo policy, which allows students to enter games four hours before kickoff, means the workers have to come to the stadium even earlier.

“Is it cost-effective? Not really, but it meets the needs of our clients and that’s what Greg (Byrne) is looking to do, and we had to think how to do this,” Taylor said.

Even though the workers can’t watch the game from their booths inside the stands, they still root for the Wildcats.

“The better the U of A plays, the hungrier they (students) seem to be,” Hamacher said. “If we’re doing bad, that’s a slow night; everyone goes home early or sits in seats and pouts, so we’re always hoping for a good score.”

Even if they are watching the game, they’re thinking about the concessions.

“When I bring my kids to the games, in the back of my mind I’m wondering what’s going on in the background,” Taylor said.

Some concessions workers plan on continuing to work at games for many years to come.

“Well, my husband says he’s not planning on stopping coaching ever, and as long as he’s coaching, we’re planning on working at the U of A,” Hamacher said.

“It’s a lot of fun. They’re a great crowd; I definitely wouldn’t mind working here after I’m actually done going to school,” Wiggins said.

Doctor hopes movie cuts down student DUIs

award.

“This semester, I thought I wanted to do something better, something meaningful,” Shah said. “I wanted to do something that applied to the community as a whole.”

Shah said he decided to focus on drinking and driving because “it has been an issue at the UA.” “I work in the ER because I’m pre-med, and every weekend we see patients come in who have been drunk driving,” Shah said.

Shah then approached Desai about acting in the film.

“This movie was promoting a good cause. I took the action and was like, ‘OK, let me help you guys out,’” Desai said. “It was a lot of fun as well.”

Shah knew Latifi from previous medical work and asked him to help. His connections with UMC staff allowed the group to film the same evening.

“He got everybody in the film to be ready right on the spot,” Desai said. “We got all the footage done in about three to four hours, I would say.”

Latifi said he readily agreed to participate.

“Unfortunately, we deal with this all too often in the trauma room,” Latifi said. “Anything we can do to prevent one of you guys, one of the students, a young person, anyone from getting drunk behind the wheel, I will do it.”

Latifi said he wanted the film to show even graver consequences, had there not

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“I wanted this guy to go to jail because in the script we had him killing someone at the scene as well,” Latifi said. “Because he killed someone under the influence and had no idea that he did.”

Latifi said the project inspired him to make a longer film showing real lives ruined by drunk driving.

“This opened up a few things that we will do,” Latifi said.

Shah also plans on making more films.

“I always wanted to do something with media and medicine,” Shah said. “I don’t see myself just being a doctor.”

He has a film idea in the works focusing on minorities in medicine. He said he will have the opportunity to speak with directors and filmmakers during the national competition this summer.

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Pac-12 plans announced

Football divided into North and South divisions, UA and ASU in the South Expected revenue

By Bryan Roy Arizona Daily Wildcat The future Pacific 12 Conference took a final leap towards its vital upcoming television contract negotiations by aligning football’s conference divisions, solidifying title game logistics and finalizing revenue sharing Commissioner Larry Scott announced the expected football divisional alignment Thursday morning: Arizona joins ASU, UCLA, Southern California, Colorado and Utah in the Pac-12 South.

Stanford, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Washington and Washington State create the Pac-12 North by a unanimous agreement throughout the league.

The nine-game conference football schedule includes the five inter-divisional games and four cross-division games. To maintain the deep tradition between the division-split Los Angeles and Bay Area schools, those four are guaranteed to play each other annually by using two of their four cross-division games on each other, Scott said.

The best overall conference record in 2011 also hosts the conference’s first-ever football championship game. Scott said the league could use head-tohead or BCS to determine a tiebreaker if needed.

“This is truly a historic day for the Pac-12 conference,” Scott said in San Francisco yesterday.

“Our overarching objectives were very simple clear: we aimed to create a modern 12-team conference for the long-term.

“We’re building not just a national, but a global brand,” Scott said.

get to see our teams play the most,” Byrne said.

The league also approved an equal revenue sharing agreement with one stipulation: Any year the conference does not earn $170 million in total media rights, UCLA and USC will each receive $2 million since both schools have traditionally generated more under the conference’s current appearancebased television revenue deal.

Beginning in 2012, Arizona could receive about $15 million per season — almost double of what it earns now — based on market value of upcoming television contract negotiations.

“There are other leagues in that ballpark already,” said UA athletic director Greg Byrne.

“Knowing that we’re united as a league going forward, that helps us a lot with TV. There are players out there that want to be involved in college sports at a major level.”

Byrne said the expected financial gains subsidize the burden of relying on ticket prices to pay for competitive coach’s salaries, new facilities and maintaining the 500-plus studentathletes from non-revenue generating sports.

Football’s title game setting

The league discussed several scenarios for the revenue-driven football championship game — neutral sites from Glendale to Seattle and every major city in between — but decided on home field advantage after weighing the benefits seen by the NFL Playoff model.

“There will be great enthusiasm whoever the home team is,” Byrne said. “I think the atmosphere will be there, the ticket sales will be there. We hope it’s in Tucson, Ariz., as much as possible.”

Basketball unchanged

Basketball will not divide but rather will play an 18-game conference schedule with seven home-and-home series and four single games.

A new television contract could open up the entire week to games, rather than the Thursday-Saturday travel combinations in the current Pac-10 format.

Similarly, ESPN has weeknights dedicated to Atlantic Coastal Conference and Big East Conference games.

Southern California connection

The significance of competing in a division with the Los Angeles schools was on everyone’s radar. From a hotbed of nationally touted recruits in every sport to large alumni fan bases, Byrne recognized the impact — and geographic fortune — of maintaining strong ties with UCLA and USC. “That was one of my arguments. Let’s talk about from a travel standpoint what allows our fans to

Launching its own network

The Pac-12 is “very interested” and “seriously exploring” its own television network, Scott said, but will wait for offers from other networks when negotiations begin next year.

Scott said television objectives go beyond financial gains, including exposure for the league’s highly competitive Olympic sports.

Hoops gets rolling with Red and Blue scrimmage Miller focusing on team defense

By Vincent Balistreri Arizona Daily Wildcat

Sophomore forward Derrick Williams was an unknown commodity at last year’s Red and Blue scrimmage, yet by season’s end he was a Freshman AllAmerican. Head coach Sean Miller hopes that another freshman will follow the same path this season.

The Arizona basketball team has had its longest offseason in 25 years.

After losing to UCLA in the Pacific 10 Conference tournament, the Wildcats failed to make both the NCAA tournament and the National Invitational Tournament, ending its historic 25-year NCAA streak and sending them on a seven-month vacation.

The Wildcats will play in front of a crowd for the first time since having its tournament streak ended at Staples Center on March 11 as the team prepares for its annual Red and Blue scrimmage in McKale Center on Sunday.

Though the scrimmage is held to give the fans a glimpse of the team before the season, coaches and players are ready to start the process of getting over one of the program’s most disappointing seasons in over a quarter century.

“Like a lot of programs, it’s been a work in progress, in our case, for a lot of months,” said Arizona head coach Sean Miller. “It’s been a lot of conversations, a lot of work individually, for our players and coaching staff to prepare for an improved season.”

The Red and Blue scrimmage is a game in which players typically want to put on a show offensively, but Miller expects to see his players work on the defense and rebounding fundamentals they’ve focused on throughout the first week of practice.

“We’ll have enough in for the Red/Blue game to take the ball out of bounds,” Miller said of what to expect from the players in the scrimmage. “It’ll be very simple in our approach; it’ll be about playing hard and playing together.

“Initially we’re trying to see the things in front of a crowd that we’re doing in practice,” he added. “Offensive rebounding if you’re supposed to offensive rebound and team defense.”

Since the first day of official practice last Friday, the Arizona coaching staff has

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V-ball heads to Washington UA looks to snap two-game losing streak

By Alex Williams Arizona Daily Wildcat Relentless is a word that comes to mind when describing Pacific 10 Conference volleyball, and this weekend is no exception for No. 25 Arizona.

The Wildcats (14-6, 3-4 Pac-10) play at No. 7 Washington (15-3, 4-3) tonight, and at Washington State on Saturday. The Wildcats are 5-0 in true road games this season.

“Washington’s always been a very complete, very steady, very efficient team,” said head coach Dave Rubio. “They serve well. They don’t have any weaknesses and tend to never

beat themselves. You have to play at the same efficiency level as they do in order to compete.”

Washington has played at a much more efficient level than Arizona to this point in the season, but Rubio sees some similarities between his squad and the Huskies.

“We have a team like (Washington),” he continued. “We’re constantly battling some type of injury, but hopefully we get healthy here in the next couple of weeks. That’ll make a big difference, too.”

Injuries have plagued the Wildcats so far in 2010. Outside hitter Whitney Dosty, Arizona’s second-leading scorer at the time of her injury, hasn’t been at 100 percent in a few weeks while

battling a stress fracture in her ankle.

Freshman libero Candace Nicholson is dealing with a wrist issue, and junior middle blocker Kaylen Bannister is still working her way back into volleyball shape after giving birth to her son in August.

All three should be able to play this weekend, but how effective they can be remains to be seen.

Washington will be the sixth team that Arizona has faced ranked in the top 20. The Wildcats are 1-4 in those matches, but three of the four losses have come in five sets.

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Wildcats host pair of elite teams Soccer set to play top-ranked Stanford, Cal

By Michael Fitzsimmons Arizona Daily Wildcat There is no rest in the Pacific 10 Conference when it comes to soccer.

After dropping a tight match to rival ASU last weekend, the Wildcats soccer team will host a pair of the nation’s best teams this weekend in Tucson, starting with California tonight at 7 and then No. 1 Stanford on Sunday at noon.

Against the Sun Devils, Arizona ended up on the wrong end of an evenly played match on both sides. The Wildcats displayed the energy that head coach Lisa Oyen has been looking for but left Tempe empty handed.

“I think we were on the right path. The encouraging part is that we didn’t come out of last week’s game without a solution,” Oyen said. “It was encouraging to know that we have a way we can win games, but now it’s just seeing if we can do the little things to change close games into wins.”

The nature of the Pac-10 won’t allow Arizona to test its adjustments against a weaker opponent. Instead, the Wildcats return home after a three game road stint with the talented Bears (7-3-4, 2-2 Pac-10) and Cardinal waiting.

Stanford is undoubtedly deserving of its current number one ranking. The Cardinal (13-0-2, 4-0 Pac-10) has won 12 games in a row and feature immense depth on their roster — five different players scored for Stanford last week.

“They’ve got depth, and they’ve got some very talented players. Both teams have players who are the top players in the country right now,” Oyen said.

The Wildcats know how good their opponents this weekend are and relish the fact that they play the nation’s top teams week in and week out.

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Senior Jordan Schupan has paced the Icecats so far this season with 13 points. The Icecats will take on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, this weekend in a two game series.

Icecats prepare for final road trip

By Daniel Gaona Arizona Daily Wildcat Arizona caps its season-opening, sevengame road trip this weekend when it takes on University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for a two-game series.

The Icecats opened up the season with two losses to ASU. then they traveled to Ohio for the American Collegiate Hockey Association Showcase where they went 2-1. However, the team had an eight-day stretch off the ice after its 8-3 win over No. 19 West Chester on Oct. 10.

UNLV is currently 3-0 but hasn’t had a game since Oct. 1. The Rebels average 4.3 goals so far this season and have only given up 2.3. Last year the Icecats lost both games in Las Vegas by a combined score of 15-6 but won 6-3 when the Rebels came to Tucson.

“We’re looking forward to getting back on the ice,” said senior co-captain Jordan Schupan. “We didn’t have a very good showing, and I’m excited to get back up there because of the new team dynamic.”

“We have a lot more to offer this year. We’re excited about a lot of the new guys, and the returning guys have been stepping up, too,” he added.

Schupan feels the team can win both games this weekend.

“Our offense right now is really clicking,

so if we can keep that going we should be able to come out with two ‘Ws,’” he said.

Head coach Leo Golembiewski said it’s essential to get the most out of the ice time to get the feel back for the skill factors.

“You can’t become a better shooter unless you shoot and you can’t become a better skater unless you skate,” he said. “These three days are important because UNLV is a tough team, usually an older club and very hard to beat in their barn.”

The players still kept in shape in their time off the ice and also spent extra time with academics. Golembiewski added that it gave the team extra time to recover from standard bumps and bruises.

“We do go the gym together but in different groups because of time constraints with school,” Schupan said. “We definitely do a lot of cardio and light lifting to keep in shape.”

Golembiewski made a couple of adaptations to the front lines in their last game. The first one is Schupan anchoring sophomores Scott Willson and Jared Lowell. The second is freshman Andrew Murmes centering for junior Blake Richards and sophomore Brian Slugocki.

“We’ve mixed up the lines a little bit, and we’re finding some combos that work,” Schupan said. “It’s early in the year, and if ICECATS, page 15

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elite talent of Stanford.

“To play against teams like this is fun and exciting because it gives our team a natural incentive to do well. Besides just being in our conference, they get to play Stanford who is the number one team in the country right now,” Oyen said.

“It’s a huge motivator to play well against the best. Our players

come to the UA to play in the Pac-10. They come because they want to play with and against the best players in the country.”

Tactically, the Wildcats made minor adjustments from last weekend’s match, feeling that they played the kind of game that was good enough to walk away with a win.

Whether the loss to rival

ASU will deflate or light a fire in the team will be something to watch as the Wildcats play this weekend.

“Are we going to come out frustrated because we didn’t get a win last week, or are we going to come out fired up because we didn’t get a win?

I think it will be the latter,” Oyen said.

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Golf back after break ’Cats still searching for consistency

By Kevin Nadakal Arizona Daily Wildcat After taking last weekend off, the Arizona men’s golf team will be back in action this weekend as it looks to rebound at the Isleworth Collegiate Invitational in Orlando, Fla. after a disappointing tournament at the William H. Tucker Invitational. The tournament will start Saturday and continue until Monday.

Texas Tech hosts the Isleworth Invitational, which head coach Rick LaRose considers “the biggest tournament of the fall.” There will be 15 Division I teams in total in this tournament, and it will be a challenge for the Wildcats, who have been struggling so far.

The team has had trouble with consistency this year, especially finding a fourth and fifth starter to fill the rotation.

“As much as it is a team game when we are out there, we have no one to lean on as far as that goes,” said the team’s No. 1 golfer, senior Tarquin MacManus. “When we get out on the course we have to play our own game, and I’m not in any position to control how the other guys play.”

MacManus has been active during the break between the team’s last tournament since he participated in The Asian Amateur Championship. He was invited to be a part of the Australian delegation because he is from

Queensland, Australia.

“The winner got an exemption to the Masters, and he got second,” LaRose said. “He played great, shot 10-under par. It is keeping him sharp because right now, playing here is a little tough because of the conditions.”

Women back in action

The Arizona women’s team has been out of action since Sept 28, but the No. 11 Lady Wildcats will be heading to Sin City to compete in the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown.

The tournament starts Monday and continues until Wednesday and gives UA a chance to refine its skills.

The women have been very successful this season but were not happy with their finish at the Golfweek Conference Challenge, where they finished in second place.

“Well with going to Japan our first week of class, these three weeks off gave the girls a good opportunity to get caught up on their school work,” said women’s head coach Laura Ianello.

Ianello also believes that there is over seeding going on around golf courses in southern Arizona, but she was able to see the positive side of the situation.

“A lot of golf courses are changing from Bermuda to Bentass,” Ianello said. “A lot of facilities aren’t in the best of conditions. But honestly I think it’s good because it gets the team to play in different conditions.”

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Complete schedule at UAhomecoming.com.

11 a.m. UA Alumni Authors Booksigning — Meet UA alumni and best-selling authors J. A. Jance ’66 and Jay Dobyns ’85 at the main UA Bookstore on campus. Books will be available for purchase or you can preorder them online at uabookstores.arizona.edu/alumni.

10:30 a.m The Before-Luncheon Appetizer A Collegiate Showcase Feature Presentation

The UA’s Nelson Riddle Collection and the Music of Hollywood Attend the presentation by curator Keith Pawlak at the Gallagher Theater. Afterward, enjoy the Homecoming Luncheon in the Grand Ballroom South and listen to live big-band music, arranged by Riddle and performed by the 17-piece UA Studio Jazz Ensemble. A perfect marriage of mind and music!

11:30 a.m. All-Class Homecoming Luncheon — With special guest UA President Robert N. Shelton and musical entertainment by the 17-piece UA Studio Jazz Ensemble.

Student Union South Ballroom.

2 p.m. Tents on the Mall — this great UA tradition features student and alumni organizations, colleges and academic units, and the Homecoming parade.

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Homecoming Food Court — Just east of the Integrated Learning Center on the UA Mall.

Alumni Association Tent — Visit to register, pick up a Tents on the Mall map, get homecoming event information, and purchase your Homecoming T-shirt. Located at University Boulevard and Cherry Avenue.

Alumni Association Member Welcome Tent — come by our tent to receive your free member appreciation gift (while supplies last). Located next to the Alumni Association Tent.

4 - 6 p.m. Alumnus of the Year Awards Ceremony. Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom South. Honoring individuals who have been chosen by their colleges for their unique and demonstrated commitment to the college’s success and mission through professional achievement, service or support.

Reunion Class Tents — located next to the Alumni Association Tent. Celebrating the reunion classes of 1950, ’55, ’60, ’65, ’70, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’00, ’05.

5 – 7 p.m. Bear Down Friday — at Main Gate Square, on University Boulevard between Park and Euclid avenues.

Includes interactive games, prizes, giveaways, ESPN radio’s happy hour live, and special guest speakers.

3 p.m. Homecoming Parade — Parade Route Change! The Homecoming parade begins at 1st Street and Cherry Avenue then heads south on Cherry to North University Boulevard, west around Old Main, then east on South University Boulevard. The parade nishes at Campbell Avenue.

7 – 9 p.m. Homecoming Kickoff Celebration — Includes bonre, pep rally with UA football team and coaches, and crowning of the Homecoming King and Queen. West side of Old Main (fountain side).

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The Wildcats are down without Nick Foles — ranked second nationally in completion percentage (75.3) — but they certainly aren’t out. Matt Scott is the man now, and UA can count on him. That’s what backups are for.

Like The Situation winging for Pauly D. Or Napoleon voting for Pedro. Or Robin distracting villains while Batman looked badass.

Or Odie getting lasagna for Garfield. Wait, those are the worst backups ever. Screw it.

Arizona wins away.

Throughout my years at Arizona all I wanted to see was a brutally efficient passing machine, and now I come back only to be treated to a helping of Matt Scott with a side of Keola Antolin. But Washington’s defense is bad enough that the Wildcats would be able to score even if they put Kris Heavner back behind center, which never was a pretty sight. The Wildcats need Foles to heal quickly to have any chance at the special season we thought they were headed for, but the adrenaline rush of Homecoming will be enough to knock off the Huskies.

Despite Arizona’s fast start, the popular sentiment seems to be that Washington is going to come into Tucson and ruin the Wildcats’ chances at a Homecoming win. Without Nick Foles, the Wildcats will be hard-pressed to put up staggering offensive numbers like they’ve done all season, but as long as Matt Scott doesn’t take a page out of Jake Locker’s playbook — specifically the 4-for-20 performance against Nebraska — I like the Wildcats at home. And let’s be real. Unless Scott starts taking advice from Brett Favre via text message the night before in his hotel room, he should be able to avoid a total quarterback meltdown on and off the field.

Arizona 28, Washington 24

Arizona 27, Washington 20

Missouri vs. Oklahoma

The Sooners were a team that lost a lot after last season but somehow remained atop the preseason predictions. Now as one of the only teams left to sport an unblemished record, they face a tough Big 12 foe in Missouri, another team who has yet to suffer a loss this season. You have to go with Oklahoma in this one based solely on depth. If the Sooners’ middle linebacker comes out of the game, they can bring in that woman — I think? — from the dance team who has a more distinct, manly jaw line than Jay Leno. That woman — again, I think? — would make Brian Bosworth cry.

Arizona 27, Washington 24 The Missouri School of Journalism is considered to be one of the best programs in the nation. It’s also supposedly one of the world’s first schools of journalism. Makes me wonder why the hell I went to the UA. And then I remember what a badass job the UA staff did, how much fun I had at the Daily Wildcat and how Bob Stoops coaches Oklahoma. And I’m a Stoops Troop. Boomer! Sooner!

Oklahoma 31, Missouri 24

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Call it the curse of being No. 1. Two weeks ago the nation’s most talented team (Alabama) went on the road and was throttled by South Carolina. Last week Ari’s poor Ohio State Buckeyes ran into a buzz saw in Madison, Wisc. This week the No. 1 team in the first official BCS standings will fall victim to a very good Mizzou team that’s undefeated itself. The Sooners won’t be the last No. 1 to fall either as I like USC to take down Oregon next week. Isn’t it about time for a BCS playoff system?

Spotlight on newcomers Perry, Bejarano and Mayes

placed an emphasis on team defense, with mostly drill work preaching defense.

According to the NCAA website the Wildcats ranked 264th in the nation in scoring defense, allowing 72 points a game last season.

“We’re building our team defense. There is a lot of that going,” Miller said. “We want to improve our two point field goal defense.

That’s our focus.”

“A lot of it has to do with playing with great effort, getting used to playing with that effort all the time,” he added. “We want to get to the point when we start our season we’re prepared for anything that our opponent does.”

Overall, the Wildcats should improve on defense now that players know what the coaches expect of them defensively, entering the second year in the Miller era.

“In relationships period, it’s difficult to trust people that you barely know,” Miller said. “We’ve going through 18 months now, so it’s easy for everybody to be on the same page.”

Miller comes into this season with a much deeper roster, so the freshman won’t be relied upon as much as last year’s incoming class, when Miller routinely started and rotated four freshmen.

“A year ago I didn’t know if Derrick Williams was going to play five minutes or 20 minutes,” Miller said. “I never could’ve guessed he would be the Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, but he evolved and improved.

“Jordin Mayes, Jesse Perry and Daniel Bejarano will go through that same transformation, except it’s not dire straits whether they do it or not,” he added. “We have a number of guys in place.”

What to look for during scrimmage

New Additions The newcomers will get their first chance to show the McKale Center crowd who they are. Everyone will see if Jesse Perry, Daniel Bejarano and Jordin Mayes are really the players that recruiting websites hyped them up to be. How athletic is Jesse Perry? Can Jordin Mayes shoot the ball? Does Daniel Bejarano have to potential to be another great Phoenix-area Wildcat?

Momo era Nic Wise is over in Germany playing point guard, so that means the “Point guard U” throne belongs to Momo Jones. Last season Jones struggled to adjust to college basketball early but came around in the second half of the season. This year the keys are his, and Sunday will be his first chance to show he can handle it.

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Is Natyazhko really improved?

In the summer, so much was made about Kyryl Natyazhko’s performance in the U-20 European Championships for the Ukraine in which he averaged 17 points and eight rebounds. Now everyone will see whether Natyazhko can take some pressure off of Derrick Williams or if the center still needs time to grow.

First of many lasts for Jamelle Horne Senior year for an athlete is filled with many lasts.

The last home opener.

The last road game.

For Jamelle Horne this is his last chance to show why he was a five star recruit coming out of high school. On Sunday he will play in his last Red/Blue game which could be the start to an impressive senior year after three inconsistent seasons.

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they’re a good team,” said senior setter Paige Weber. “They’re good volleyball players. They don’t really have to do anything flashy. They just play the same way that they’ve played since I’ve been here.”

“You have to understand that they’re a good team with good players, and they’re not going to fold easy,” Weber added.

Washington will also provide a challenge that Arizona hasn’t seen much of this year: top-spin serving.

“We’re going to have to come out in our servereceive and be ready to battle that,” said junior Courtney Karst. “Some people think that topspin is one of the easier serves to pass, but with Washington they’ve always top-spin served, so it’s always a lot harder for us because they serve at a really high velocity.”

Even though Washington State (6-11, 0-7) is winless in Pac-10 play, Rubio knows that going into Pullman isn’t going to be a cakewalk.

“They’ve got some legit players on their team,” Rubio said. “We haven’t beaten them up there in Bates/Arizona Daily Wildcat a while. Even though we’ve beaten them down Paige Weber and the Wildcats continue theirGordon difficult Pacific 10 Conferhere, it’s just a hard place to play … they do some ence schedule with matches against Washington and Washington State.

Arizona is 3-4 in Pac-10 play so far. unorthodox things.”

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we’re starting to click, now we’ll just continue to improve on that.”

Golembiewski also said that they are establishing a third line that can score. He emphasized that that it can’t just be a “chucking line.”

The third line is currently sophomore Sean Sullivan centering freshman Eric Watters and sophomore Michael Babyak.

Scoring goals hasn’t been a problem for the Icecats, especially in the last two games in which they scored eight in each. Their season average stands at 5.4. Slugocki leads the team in goals with seven. He also has three assists.

Murmes leads the team with 14 points despite a slow start that he was disappointed in. He’s scored six goals and registered eight

assists. Schupan is just behind him with 13 points on four goals and nine assists.

“I showed up to Ohio, and I just wanted to prove myself,” Murmes said. “There was great line support in the last game. It was nothing individual. We were finding each other and creating opportunities.”

Murmes also said that the defensemen have done a good job getting the puck up to the forwards.

He expects the offense to stay strong in Las Vegas and knows the goal is to win both games.

“We have an offense with three strong lines — two I think can score every time they are on the ice, and the third one most likely could do the same,” Murmes said.

“We’ve got some good puck-moving defensemen too.”

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Sophomore Davellyn Whyte addresses the media at Arizona women’s basketball media day yesterday in McKale Center. Whyte and the stellar incoming freshman class are expected to give the Wildcats some youthful energy this season.

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By Alex Williams Arizona Daily Wildcat Last year’s Arizona women’s basketball team saw only six players log over 12 minutes per game, but head coach Niya Butts expects that to change in the 2010-2011 season.

“Last year, it was depth,” Butts said. “It wasn’t necessarily the effort, or lack thereof. We ran out of gas a lot. I think with the new additions to our team, our returners are going to feel like they can go out there and really give everything they have.”

During games isn’t the only place where a lack of depth shows up. It affects how hard a team can practice and can even limit the types of drills being run.

“We can do a lot more drills now that we have more people,” said sophomore guard Davellyn Whyte. “Last year, we didn’t even have enough people to do simple drills. Now we can do them faster, and the depth gives us more competition in practice.”

Competition is something that a team, especially one as young as Arizona, can never get enough of. It challenges players to rise to the occasion every day in practice, which leads to them being more prepared in games.

“The competition level is off the charts because we have people competing at every position,” Butts said. “They bring that fire and that energy, and they’re challenging each other. It’s so refreshing for a coach not to have to do that every single second.”

That depth, and the competition that results from it, has led to practices being run at a much higher pace this season compared to last.

“It’s a lot faster this year. Everything is just so much quicker,” said junior guard Reiko

Thomas. “We’re a lot faster because of our conditioning. We’re all pretty fast and athletic, so (practice) just kind of goes with our game.”

That speed and athleticism isn’t the only thing contributing to Arizona’s quicker pace this year. Familiarity with how practices are run is also playing a big role.

The newfound athleticism on the Wildcats’ roster isn’t something that happened overnight. Butts raved over the speed and athleticism that freshman guard Candice Warthen brings to the table.

“We’re more athletic for sure, I think the point guard position is much more athletic,” Butts said. “Especially the point guard position when you think about Candice Warthen, a newcomer, a young kid, but what she can do athletically, we just can’t teach it. You either have that or you don’t.”

Another thing that comes with familiarity in a program is more vocal leadership, which is something that senior forward Ify Ibekwe might have been lacking at times during her career at Arizona.

“I kind of see myself stepping outside my limits and communicating more,” Ibekwe said.

“That helps the team, to have a senior leader talking and being there.”

To find an example of how different players have stepped up as leaders for the Wildcats this year, look no further than practice. Players have started policing themselves, which takes the weight of the world off of Butts’ shoulders. A far cry from years past.

“Coach isn’t going to see everything we do wrong,” said senior forward Soana Lucet. “We see one of our teammates not touching the line, we’re going to tell them. This is for us. This is for the team.”

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By Lívia Fialho Arizona Daily Wildcat The class of 1960 is back on campus to reminisce this weekend.

UA alumni association is honoring that year’s graduates for their 50-year golden reunion.

Before the reunion begins, 1960 engineering graduate and former varsity football player Gary Cropper was talking with the person responsible for his enrollment at UA. His 96-year-old former eighth grade teacher got him a scholarship. “Next thing I knew I was in Tucson. I had never been in Arizona,” he said.

Cropper met his wife here and got married senior year, “and we’re still married 51 years later,” he said. Since then, he has been involved with the university for 30 years, and was a chair at the UA alumni association board.

When he arrived on campus in 1955, there were probably 8,000 students, he said. Some of the campus is still the same, even though it’s gotten much bigger and crowded.

“What’s kind of neat about the whole deal is that the basic Mall is still the same. The football stadium is still the same, they just added to it,” Cropper said.

Football games are totally different now than when he played, he said. Players are bigger, stronger and faster and the stadium only held 10 or 12,000 people, he remembered.

“The lower part of the stadium is all that was there, if you look at the student section,” he said.

Over all, the campus evolved but didn’t go away. “The Yavapai dorm to pick up your date is still there,” he said.

Committee Co-Chair James Rogers didn’t come back to the UA for 27 years after he graduated from law school in 1962. But when he did, his mark was left permanently at the university.

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The James E. Rogers College of Law is named after him for his donations to the school. “That thought never crossed my mind,” he said of the impact he came to have at the UA. It all started at the law college’s lobby, when he was asked to contribute at a time when it was in financial trouble. “I came down and walked in to the law school and said, ‘My god this is the same furniture than when I was here. I don’t even think you had it covered’,” he said.

With several donations and after many years, his commitment grew in 1998, when over $100 million was given to the college, which was re-named after him.

“I didn’t want to do anymore than what I had done in my

professional life so I decided I’d invest in the University of Arizona,” he said, and as any investment, “you watch it to see how it grows.”

Of his time as a student, Rogers remembered studying a lot and paying his own way through school.

A sharp difference now is the cost of higher education, he said.

“I don’t think anybody in my class ever talked about a student loan. I don’t think there were any,” he said.

Another big change for him is the football games. During his six years as a student, the Arizona Wildcats didn’t do so well. On the former parents weekend, his dad never saw them win a game.

“I don’t think while I was here

we ever won a football game. So seeing them win is a pleasure,” Rogers said.

Another 1960 graduate remembers her time full of studying.

Patricia Preciado Martin’s family is going into its third generation of UA graduates. She and her siblings were the first in her family to graduate college, and it changed her life, the award-winning author said.

Martin lived at home while going to school, and defined herself as “one of these students who spent a lot of time at the library,” she said.

As a Mexican-American, she remembered Los Universitarios as being a great social tool for Latino students. “That gave me a

home,” she said.

The group later became the UA Hispanic Alumni Association, which is still active on campus.

She attends Homecoming weekend almost every year, and the Hispanic Association’s pachanga is one of the events she enjoys. She looks forward to reuniting with her old classmates.

“I don’t know if any of us will recognize each other. 50 years is a long time, people change,” she said.

For her, one of the positives changes in campus life are the resources and support available for Mexican-American students,.

“We’ve come full circle and made a lot of progress, but we have to be very vigilant because we could slip back to where we were,” Martin said.

Recent alumni reminisce about UA always get different days off, so it is hard to make plans — by the time I am done with work I am too exhausted to go out.

DW: What advice would you give current seniors and undergraduates?

RS: If they are juniors, I would recommend getting internships.

For seniors, I would say enjoy your last year because real life is not as easy. I would definitely use school resources to find a job, because it’s hard to find one these days. The reason I got my job was because of my internship and networking.

Daily Wildcat: What did you get your degree in?

Rebecca Schotz: Retailing and consumer sciences after graduating in May. DW: What are you doing now?

Were you able to get a job right out of school?

RS: Yeah, I had an internship last summer with Nordstrom, so I got a job in the kids’ shoes department right now.

DW: Did school prepare you well for the job market?

RS: Yes. My major was good with that. I would always hear about different job opportunities and announcements that retailers were coming to interview students in my classes.

DW: How do you like your current job?

RS: I love my job and working with kids. I also really enjoy sales and working on commission.

DW: What made you want to come back for Homecoming?

RS: I’m really excited to see all my friends who are still there. I have friends from all over who are coming down to Tucson.

DW : What do you miss most about college?

RS: I really miss living with my friends and being able to go out. My job is different because I work in retail and I don’t have consecutive days off. I never know my schedule. In school you have a set schedule, and that was nice. I work five days a week and

Daily Wildcat: What did you get your degree in?

Bryan Grossman: Business management — ­­ I graduated in May. DW: What are you doing now?

Were you able to get a job right out of school?

BG: I work for a pediatric office

in Phoenix full time, almost 40 hours a week. I am training to be an EMT. I used to work for this office, and before I graduated they offered me a position. I am a workaholic and have always been a busy person. Most of the money I make is being saved to go to medical school. Fortunately, I live with my parents, so I do not have any big financial expenses.

DW: What was the hardest thing to adjust to after graduating college?

BG: Besides moving back with my parents? Not to be cliché, but seeing everyone else go back to school when August came around and people had their Facebook statuses saying they were going back to school, it really hit me that I wasn’t going back.

DW: Can you share a fun college memory?

BG: I actually ran for Homecoming king last year, and I was Homecoming king in high school, so I thought I would try two for two. I made it to the top ten, but I didn’t win. I was OK with that though. I still had a blast doing it.

when it comes to a business presentation, is not easy. Now if you give me a PowerPoint, I won’t just read the slides like many teachers do. I have developed the ability to present one successfully.

DW: Which class would you tell students to avoid?

BG: Accounting 210. Take it at Pima.

DW: What food on campus or university do you miss the most?

BG: I have an infatuation with No Anchovies.

DW: What did the UA have that was really unique and set it apart from other schools?

BG: I’ve been to a lot of colleges and I think every college has a central area, but when you go on the Mall, it’s so special at the UA. You can see the entire campus on the grassy area, and when you walk around, you always see someone you know.

The atmosphere is beautiful. We have a great openness, gorgeous blue skies and great weather.

DW: What advice would you give current seniors and undergraduates?

BG: I would just say, for me personally, get involved. It doesn’t matter what you do, but do things that will benefit you in the future. Everything I did, I knew would benefit me in the long run.

DW: Did the UA prepare you well for the job market? How so?

BG:. I thought Eller (College of Management) was great, and my business fraternity helped me. Eller forced you to do presentations, and I’m not a shy person, but learning how to present something, especially

DW: What are you doing now?

Were you able to get a job right out of school?

RL: I’m in law school in California right now. The economy did not have anything to do with me going to law school.

DW: What was a memorable college moment?

RL: Rushing the field for the Oregon game; I think it was two years ago when Oregon was ranked No. 2 in the fall of 2008 (sic). It was just really crazy.

Everyone rushed, and everyone was getting trampled on.

DW: What advice would you give current seniors and undergraduates?

RL: Be persistent. Try your best and keep on working on whatever you want to do. Be motivated and annoy whoever you want to work for until they acknowledge you.

DW: What was your favorite class?

RL: The Africana experience.

It really got me to understand the African American hardship and what they dealt with. It was a class I really enjoyed, and it showed how diverse the UA was with their classes.

DW: What food on campus do you miss the most?

RL: I miss the Park Student Union. They had a Philly cheese steak that was amazing. I never got sick. It was a solid place.

Daily Wildcat: When did you graduate and what was your degree in?

Ryan Lefton: I graduated in December 2009 and majored in regional development.

DW: What did the UA have that was really unique and set it apart from other schools?

RL: The campus. I loved how well it was designed, the brick buildings and the Mall covered with grass. It is a great campus compared to a lot of other schools.

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GAME DAY Scott’s redemption

X-Factors Arizona: Joe Perkins, FS

While all eyes will be on the offense, this game probably depends on the defense. Senior Joe Perkins has been a jack-of-alltrades so far this season, lining up in the box and at the line of scrimmage as often as he does in his traditional free safety spot.

Perkins will likely be in the flex role again, making him the key to stopping Locker’s throwing as well as Locker’s running. Perkins played in the box for most of the season before dropping back deep for most of the Washington State game, but expect him to mix it up more to keep Locker on his toes.

Washington: Jermaine Kearse, WR

Locker is the key to the offense, but a quarterback is only as good as his wide receivers allow him to be.

Fortunately for Locker he has a stallion in Kearse — a tall, speedy receiver who can stretch the field as well as turn a quick hitch into a big gain. The Wildcats got torched by Oregon State — the only team they’ve played with an above-average set of quarterbacks and receivers so far — and top receiver James Rodgers had a field day against the secondary.

That doesn’t bode well for UA, considering Kearse had a whopping 146 yards and four touchdowns against Oregon State last week.

— compiled by Tim Kosch

By Nicole Dimtsios ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Arizona Wildcats need to prove that they haven’t gone into panic mode tomorrow against the Washington Huskies.

With the loss of starting quarterback Nick Foles, the fate of the Arizona season is up in the air and in the hands of junior Matt Scott.

“It starts around Matt, no matter what,“ said receiver Juron Criner.

“He’s the quarterback, and he’s ready to go.”

The No. 15 Wildcats have made the adjustments in practice this week without Foles, but they’ll have to make sure those adjustments show on the field.

“Matt’s looking well. He’s practiced well. He’s practiced well all year,” said Arizona (5-1, 2-1 Pacific 10 Conference) head coach Mike Stoops. “It’s no big deal to (Scott) or us. We’re going to do what we do, do the things that (Scott) likes to do, and hopefully he’ll go out and make a bunch of plays that Matt (Scott) has practiced well all season.”

With the offense in a state of transition, the defense needs to be the grounding body. Literally.

“We definitely need to come out and do all of our jobs, make sure that we lock those guys down,” said linebacker Paul Vassallo. “Making sure that we can contain (Washington quarterback Jake Locker) if he does pull the ball and run.”

The defense will have to show up at home and give Scott and the offense some time to work out the kinks — a tall task considering the threats that Locker poses.

“With his athletic ability to improvise and make plays, I think that’s just who he is. That’s hard to do all the time,” said Stoops of not letting Locker get out of control.

While the defense will help keep the team in the game as the offense finds its stride, the running game will help Scott get comfortable. The trio of

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Wide receiver Juron Criner will have to carry the offensive load now that Matt Scott has replaced Nick Foles due to injury. The junior wide receiver is known for making catches down field but will likely need to settle for shorter passes with Scott now under center.

Nic Grigsby, Keola Antolin and Greg Nwoko should expect to see increased carries, and Scott will even run the ball

Injury Report

Nick Foles, QB Justin Washington, DT Bug Wright, WR Juron Criner, WR

out, knee out, knee probable, shoulder probable, toe

Arizona keys to the game

Wildcats have their hands full with Locker

Ricky Elmore. “He’s just a good athlete. You don’t play guys like that every week, so when you do Imagine a 6-foot-3, 230-pound you’ve just got to spend some quarterback with an NFL arm, the more time in film and get better speed and vision of a running back prepared.”

Locker’s had an up and down and the power of a fullback.

Impossible? Not for Washington year for the Huskies this season, but as linebacker Paul Vassallo senior quarterback Jake Locker.

“He’s damn good. He’s a hell said, “Any time you’re menof an athlete. He’s strong. He’s tioned to be the top pick in the got great knowledge of their of- NFL draft you know you’re dofense. He causes you a lot of ing something right.”

He is by far the best player problems,” said co-defensive coordinator Tim Kish. “We have a Arizona will have faced up to this point, but despite lot of respect for the relentless prehim.”

Jake Locker stats The Wildcats Passing yards: 1,431 season Heisman certainly reTouchdowns: 13 and NFL hype he’s proven he member Locker, 4 isn’t Superman. who exploded Interceptions: 132.56 Nebraska held for a 56-yard Rating: touchdown run Rushing yards: 276 him to just 4-foragainst them in Rushing touchdowns: 3 20 for 71 yards and two intercep2009. Last year’s defense wasn’t ranked amongst tions.

Despite Locker’s abysmal effort the top 10 in the nation, but the 2010 Wildcats have yet to face a against the Cornhuskers, his numquarterback near Locker’s pres- bers this season have been solid, and he is a threat to score from tige.

“He’s just a guy that’s got it anywhere on the field by throwall. He’s really athletic, he’ll run ing or running.

“He’s definitely going to presyou over, he’ll run outside, he’s fast, he can throw the ball really ent several different challenges for far,” said senior defensive end our defense because you can cover

a significant number of times.

If the Wildcats hope to stay in contention while Foles is recovering from a right knee injury, Scott and the Arizona offense must out duel Locker and the Huskies with the intentions of saving the perception of the Wildcats’ goal of the Rose Bowl.

“We all have to step up,” Criner said.

“We all gotta be the one to make plays.”

Run effectively

The most puzzling part of the 2010 season has been Arizona’s running game.

Seemingly stuck in neutral all season, the Wildcats run to a pedestrian 120.7 yards per game, good enough for just eighth in the Pacific 10 Conference and 90th in the nation. Being able to run effectively is the key to a consistent offense, but being able to run effectively tomorrow against Washington might be the only way to win with inconsistent quarterback Matt Scott making his first start of the season.

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Win the turnover battle

Arizona has been average this season when it comes to turnovers. While the defense has picked off six passes, the offense has also thrown six balls away. In what figures to be a close match, the team that takes the best advantage of turnovers likely will win. Scott needs to stay within himself and not give anything away, and Arizona needs to capitalize on one of the inevitable mistakes Locker will make when trying to make something out of nothing.

Shut the Locker

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Washington quarterback Jake Locker tries to put off the rushing defense of Nebraska’s Lavonte David in the second half at Husky Stadium in Seattle, Wash, on Sept. 18. Nebraska thumped Washington, 56-21.

everybody and then he can run it,” Vassallo said.

Arizona’s struggled to contain opposing quarterbacks after they’ve escaped the pocket this

season and that can’t happen against Locker.

“We’ve got our work cut out for us this week, and we know that,” Kish said.

Only Nebraska has been able to truly shut down Jake Locker, and as good as Arizona’s defense is this season, it is a very different defense from the Cornhuskers. A key to stopping Locker will be to keep him from breaking a big one on the ground.

Arizona has been susceptible to long quarterback runs because their defensive ends tend to speed rush the edges rather than bull-rush the middle, leaving the tackles to clean up the inside. Both Brooks Reed and Ricky Elmore do this well, but a fast quarterback will take advantage of the interior holes. Arizona’s defensive linemen need to stay true to their rush responsibilities.

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Football is driven by the quarterback, and the Pac-10 is the most quarterback-driven league in the country. Jake Locker is one of the best in the nation, and Nick Foles is right there behind him. Unfortunately Foles isn’t playing, giving the reigns to unproven Matt Scott. As much as I expect UA’s defense to step up, I just think Scott is too skittish in the pocket to be trusted.

Washington 20, Arizona 16

Arizona might be the underdog heading into Saturday’s homecoming matchup. Nick Foles is MIA, and Jake Locker isn’t.

Arizona will have its hands full with the Huskies’ offensive attack of Locker, Chris Polk and Jermaine Kearse. And it remains to be seen how Matt Scott will respond in his first start of the 2010 season. But although Washington’s offense can be lethal, Arizona’s defense will clamp down and squeak one out.

Arizona 24, Washington 21

Arizona got a bad bounce last year in Seattle. And the state wasn’t so kind this year either when quarterback Nick Foles went down with a knee injury at Washington State. Matt Scott takes over this week, but it’s the Wildcats’ defense that keeps Arizona in the game. Washington hasn’t won or lost two games in a row this season. Luckily for Arizona, Washington is due for a loss this week.

Arizona 29, Washington 20