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The Faculty Senate focused on moving the UA toward the digital age during its monthly meeting Wednesday afternoon.

Vincent Del Casino, vice provost for digital learning and student engagement, headed the discussion informing the senators on how the university is looking to develop an online college.

Del Casino said the student demographic this is being directed at isn’t so much the crowd from 18-23 years old, but rather the 28- to 32-year-old who wants to finish their

degree.

Del Casino also said that unlike school programs that separate the physical from the digital, the UA does not intend to simply make every degree offered available or every course available online overnight.

“We are going to take a much more measured approach to this entire approach,” Del Casino said.

In terms of the admission standards for students hoping to pursue the online route for their education, Del Casino also said students would be held to the same admission standards as students who are choosing to enroll for the physical campus.

“We are not going to chuck out what we are as a university in order to get online,” Del Casino said.

He also said that decisions would be made by sitting down and working with the departments to make sure what is offered is offered correctly.

Del Casino said that based on what has been seen at other universities, those who are able to physically attend the school will do so, whereas the online school will mostly be for people like working, single mothers who are unable to take time out of their day

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MIA ELIA PERFORMS ON HER violin next to the University of Arizona Mission Fountains at the Alumni Plaza on Monday. Elia usually performs downtown, but she performs on campus occasionally.

The Undergraduate Biology Research Program has started a petition in protest of the decision to cut Arizona Public Media’s funding at the UA. Earlier this summer, the UA decided that AZPM would lose $2 million over the next five years, or $400,000 annually.

Matthew Groysman, a senior studying molecular and cellular biology and a founder of the UBRP petition, said he believes cutting funding to programs like AZPM are detrimental to the university.

“I grew up watching AZPM,” Groysman said. “They make relatable news, and it looks bad on the university to put them in such dire financial straints.”

Groysman said that he believes the AZPM budget cuts are unfair, considering President Ann Weaver Hart just received a bonus.

“Hart cuts funding to AZPM and then accepts a bonus,” Groysman said.

“The amount of money she spent on renovating her new office in Old Main could have gone to AZPM.” According to the Arizona Daily Star, Hart said that the budget cuts to AZPM were fair because the difference could be made up through member donations.

Groysman said he doesn’t understand how AZPM could make that amount of money by itself without donations.

“Donations help, but they can not solve everything,” Groysman said.

Rebecca Safford, owner of the craft beer shop Tap & Bottle, said she would donate to AZPM on a personal level but would prefer to keep her business out of the petition.

Jane McCollum, a local Tucsonan, said she believes that budget cuts for AZPM are a complex situation and she

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The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is introducing a veterinary medicine degree program, anticipated to launch fall 2015.

The Arizona Board of Regents officially approved the program during its meeting at Northern Arizona University on Sept. 25.

The program will give in-state residents a chance to obtain a veterinary medicine degree at half the cost of normal veterinary program costs across the nation, according to Shane Burgess, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He compared it to a veterinary medicine degree from Midwestern University, an Arizona private university that

requires four years as a full-time student and costs just under $55,000 per session. This does not include what in-state students would have already spent on their undergraduate career at the UA .

According to Burgess, the program cost is low compared to other veterinary programs because CALS is already established, which takes away a lot of expensive administrative costs. He also said there are already resources available in the college that will be useful for the veterinary science program.

“As far as we know, we’re the first veterinary medical education program ever to have been started with student cost issues front and center as one of the priorities,” Burgess said.

The amount students will get

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ANIMAL SCIENCES SENIOR Rachel Williams does a routine grooming on the Equine Center’s horse Sheza Lopin Deelite, 18, at the center on Sept. 10. The Arizona Board of Regents recently approved a new UA veterinary medicine degree program that will launch in fall 2015.

charged per year is going to be spread out over 12 months, which makes it more cost effective, Burgess said.

According to Burgess, the program will provide 11 sessions of education, and each session

is equal to a semester, which he compared to other programs that provide eight sessions. Burgess said the program is cheaper and will provide nearly 50 percent more education.

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Student app promotes ridesharing BY jocelyn valencia The Daily Wildcat

HitcHike is a new free app that helps students search and find rides from other students within their respective universities.

Nicholas Vale, a freshman majoring in information sciences, technology and arts, created the app. HitcHike is able to find a student who has open seats in their car, is headed to the same destination and is willing to carpool.

Nicholas Vale said that on HitcHike, the user logs in, registers and posts a Hitch.

He said the user will have a profile picture and can include their email, age, gender and phone number and can also choose whether or not to include their address and a bio.

The person providing the ride will be posting when and where they are headed, how many spots they have available and

whether or not they want gas money. the “hiker” that will allow you to choose Students will be able to pay through the the age or gender of students you prefer to carpool with. app to reserve their seat.

Nicholas Vale first thought of the idea “It’s a win-win situation,” Nicholas Vale when he was speaking said, because one with his girlfriend person is finding a ride I think it’s Chrisanne Tirres, and the other can get going to be an interior design extra gas money. freshman at Northern Ten percent of revolutionary.

Arizona University, the gas money goes I’ve seen nothing over the phone and towards the funding like it. was trying to figure out of the app servers and — Chrisanne Tirres, how they were going to back-end process, NAU interior design see each other because according to Nicholas freshman they attend different Vale. schools. He realized The app will become available to all students who have a .edu that a lot of students have trouble finding email, which is the only way someone rides, and soon after, he started creating can register for the app, a way of keeping the app.

“I think it’s going to be awesome, and I the “HitcHike” process safe, according to think it’s going to be revolutionary,” Tirres Nicholas Vale.

There will also be a safe search filter for said. “I’ve seen nothing like it. It’s totally

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Nithin Reddy, a foreign programmer in India whom Nicholas Vale has worked with on other projects and found through Elance.com, helped him develop the app.

HitcHike will be launched within two or three weeks after the payment and search options are finished, according to Nicholas Vale.

Jonathan Vale, a sustainable plant systems junior, is the brother of the founder and a supporter of the app.

“HitcHike conceptually and functionally does what should have been done with localized transport years ago,” Jonathan Vale said. “It’s one of those things where you say, ‘Wow, I can’t believe I didn’t create this.’”

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Community Chatter How would you feel about using an app to coordinate a ride with a stranger?

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“I use [other ride-sharing apps], so I am for it then.”

“I can dig it.”

— Preston Kramer, French freshman

-— Andrew Roscigno, political science sophomore

“I probably wouldn’t be up for it because you don’t know the stranger, and it could be an awkward ride.”

“I would go with a stranger. I think it could be fun.”

— Tyler Bauer, pre-business sophomore

“It’d be kind of cool as long as the person wasn’t crazy.”

— Sarah Fritz, mechanical engineering freshman

— Destiny Hulgan, pre-business freshman

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Neuroscience professor and senator-at-large John Hildebrand yawns during the Faculty Senate meeting, which took place in the Old Main Silver and Sage room on Monday. Attention spans wavered as those in attendance participated in the Q&A with President Ann Weaver Hart and Provost Andrew Comrie and listened to the open session.

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Zachary Brooks, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Council, asked if graduate students would be used to teach the online courses.

Del Casino said that he felt they would be doing the graduate students a great disservice if they were not offered this opportunity.

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Associate professor and College of Engineering representative Ricardo Valerdi listens during the Faculty Senate meeting, which took place in the Old Main Silver and Sage room on Monday. Attention spans wavered as those in attendance participated in the Q&A with President Ann Weaver Hart and Provost Andrew Comrie and listened to the open session.

William Neumann, a professor of practice at the Eller College of Management, asked about the availability of the online format to students enrolled at the physical university.

Del Casino said he believes the online format will be an option for students in extenuating circumstances, such as when they may have to go home for the semester. However, he also said students will not be free to change from one to another as they please.

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Del Casino added that the online university will most likely be cheaper per credit compared to the physical university so as to allow those who want to be a part of the program the freedom to do so. They may actually finish the program rather than pushing themselves to take extra credits to save money, Del Casino said.

Del Casino also said the tuition will most likely be a flat rate for all individuals who choose to partake in the online

program, whether they be outof-state or in-state students.

“The first thing to understand is when we talk about online education and what we are trying to do as a university is that this isn’t something that is new to us, but rather an ongoing project,” Del Casino said. “The question is: where do we go next?”

“We have a very engaged consultative board that helps us very specifically define what competencies need to be trained for people to be successful,” Burgess said. “This means that we can refine details of the curriculum that are obsolete and focus on the things that are really important, so that every bit … of information and time students are involved in the program and paying for actually has real value and tangible value.”

Andrew Comrie, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, said people forget that the veterinary science and animal science majors have about 800 to 900 students enrolled right now, and that a lot of those students were seeking to study veterinary medicine elsewhere because there wasn’t a program implemented at the UA. Comrie said he expects a number of students to transfer into the program that the UA will offer.

Monique Garcia, a veterinary science senior, said the program is a great option to pursue her career in veterinary science.

“It’s really difficult to go out of state as an Arizona resident, even with scholarships,” Garcia said.

“It doesn’t seem like going to vet school as an Arizona resident is as likely, so it opens a lot more doors for veterinary students in Arizona to pursue their profession.”

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would have to learn more before she supported the petition.

“I know there are a lot of cuts at the university,” McCollum said. “I support AZPM, but if you bring back funding for them, you have to cut something else.”

McCollum said she supports public media and will continue to donate to AZPM. “I have always donated to AZPM, and with these budget cuts, I am going to donate more money to them,” McCollum said.

Groysman said AZPM is a cause worth fighting for because it is fair and informative.

“AZPM is a non-partisan and non-sensational news source,” Groysman said. “I feel more informed after listening to them.”

McCollum said she believes that the petition is supporting a good but too narrow cause.

“AZPM is a great organization,” McCollum said. “They do a lot of good things, but we need to be fighting for more than just NPR — we need to fight for the university.”

The Daily Wildcat reached out to AZPM for comment but was informed that officials don’t comment on money issues regarding AZPM.

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Drought model shows worst case scenarios Tribune News Service

A few years ago, a group of researchers used computer modeling to put California through a nightmare scenario: Seven decades of unrelenting mega-drought similar to those that dried out the state in past millennia.

The California economy would not collapse.

The state would not shrivel into a giant, abandoned dust bowl. Agriculture would shrink but by no means disappear.

Traumatic changes would occur as developed parts of the state shed an unsustainable gloss of green and dropped what many experts consider the profligate water ways of the 20th century. But overall, “California has a remarkable ability to weather extreme and prolonged droughts from an economic perspective,” said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the University of California, Davis.

The state’s system of capturing and moving water around is one of the most expansive and sophisticated in the world. But it is based on a falsehood.

“We built it on the assumption that the last 150 years is normal. Ha! Not normal at all,” cautioned paleoclimate expert Scott Stine, a professor emeritus of geography and environmental science at California State

University, East Bay. “The weather record that we tend to depend on in California for allocating water … is based on about 150 years of really quite wet conditions when you look back at, say, the last 8,000 years or so,” Stine said.

He found evidence of two extreme droughts in ancient tree stumps rooted in the state’s modern lake beds. The trees could have grown only when shorelines beat a long retreat during medieval mega-droughts lasting a century or more.

Curious about how the nation’s most populous state would fare under such chronically parched conditions, Stine, Lund and other researchers imposed a virtual, 72year drought on modern California. In their computer simulation, annual runoff into rivers and reservoirs amounted to only about half the historical average. Most reservoirs never filled.

Under that scenario, experts say, irrigated farm acreage would plunge. Aquatic ecosystems would suffer, with some struggling salmon runs fading out of existence.

Urban water rates would climb. The iconic suburban lawn would all but disappear.

Coastal Californians would stop dumping most of their treated sewage and urban runoff from rain storms into the Pacific and instead add it to their water supply.

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Sheri Shaffer, a manager with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, views the water inlet/outlet tower’s exposure above water, revealing how far the water has receded at the Diamond Valley Lake in Hemet, Calif., on Sept. 18. Reserves in the Riverside County reservoir have helped Southern Californians get through one of the driest periods in the state record without wrenching cuts, but lake levels have been dropping all summer and the lake is now about half empty.

Mega-drought “doesn’t mean no water,” said Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, an Oakland think tank. “It will mean using what we get more effectively.”

In Southern California, withering decades would speed up the region’s move to expand local water sources and reduce dependence on increasingly erratic supplies from Northern California, the Eastern Sierra and the Colorado River.

“This is a situation that we’re likely to be dealing with for a long period of time, whether it’s 25 years in a mega-drought or repeatedly

any number of years over the next 25 years,” said Nancy Sutley, chief sustainability and economic development officer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.

If conditions got bad enough, Los Angeles could use its existing drought ordinance to ban landscape irrigation completely. But former DWP Commissioner Jonathan Parfrey doubts the city would go that far.

Instead, he said, the DWP should use its rate structure to make high water use extraordinarily expensive. “The days of making mini-Versailles around Los Angeles, I think, are over.”

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iplo, LNY TNZ, Yellow Claw and Waka Flocka Flame just released a new music video that I can only describe as the opening scene of a cautionary Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode overlaid with some electro house (or hardstyle, I can never be sure) music.

Aptly titled “Techno,” the video depicts a pseudo-Breaking Bad plot line in the midst of a kindof-obvious and very Swedish homage to the party drug scene.

“Techno” is clearly intended by its creators to state some social message about the danger of drug use linked with the techno music scene. But the irony of it is killing me.

The video brings us a sub-artsy look into the world of electro house music, raves and the drugs that so often are associated with them. The story surrounds a father and daughter dealing with the fallout from the daughter’s admission to university. The father is a farmer who somehow rapidly gets into the drug-cooking field á la Walter White in order to pay for his daughter’s new life.

The duo embark on a journey to what looks like Ikea to furnish her new high-rise apartment life. The daughter, spoiler alert, then becomes popular somehow — being an attractive farm girl can do that to you — and almost immediately dies after going to a warehouse party.

Her father rushes to the hospital and seems confused that his now-hip daughter has died of the drugs he was making to fund her schooling, and sadness ensues as the song ends.

The artists should be lauded for bringing to light a serious issue.

According to data compiled by the Drug Abuse Warning Network, emergency room visits in the U.S. involving MDMA jumped 123 percent between 2004 and 2009, the most recent year on record.

And that’s just ecstasy — those numbers don’t account for other popular party drugs like GHB, ketamine or acid.

But while I think this video could have been an exemplary example of artists and celebrities using their fame to bring attention to a topic of concern, it feels a little bit like the stoners at your school teaching the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.

In my own experience, I have seen a shockingly high concentration of D.A.R.E. T-shirts being worn ironically by college students at parties. The video for “Techno” presents the same kind of problem.

It’s a cool video and a decent song. But it’s also gimmicky, hypocritical and ultimately doesn’t teach us anything that we don’t already know about rampant party drug use on college campuses and electronic music concerts around the world.

Diplo, LNY TNZ, Yellow Claw and Waka Flocka Flame are making money off of criticizing a culture in which they are complicit.

Diplo may have recently banned kandi, homemade jewelry used to facilitate the selling of drugs, from his concerts, but he only did so a week after two drug-related deaths at his appearance at the Mad Decent Block Party in Maryland.

And Waka Flocka Flame just offered someone $50,000 to roll his blunts for him.

So, while I’m willing to give the artists the benefit of the doubt in assuming they had the best of intentions when they filmed “Techno,” I’d like to see them try a little harder to prove their commitment to reducing drug use among their audience.

And I’m definitely worried about the message getting lost when this song is played at college parties by the same people wearing D.A.R.E. shirts.

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish. Follow him @NiHavey

Ariz. needs comprehensive sex ed State Board of Education’s requirements are that the program must emphasize abstinence as the only 100 percent effective way to avoid pregnancy, stress the importance of abstaining from sex until adulthood and discuss the severe consequences of

BY Elizabeth Hannah sexually transmitted diseases.

The Daily Wildcat Therefore, explained Kate Thomas, community sexuality educator for Planned Parenthood ost K-12 students have memorable Arizona, school districts can decide “whether or anecdotes to tell from their sex education not to provide students with information about classes — or they didn’t take one. If they preventative methods like contraceptives or attended public school in Arizona, that anecdote condoms.” might be similar to that of environmental science Furthermore, Arizona has an opt-in senior Nancy Freitas, who attended Tucson High requirement for sex education — parents must Magnet School. sign a permission slip for their children to receive “My most vivid memory of sexual education any sexual health program their school district in high school is a woman who spoke to my offers. freshman physics class,” Freitas “There are a number of things said. “She wrapped a piece of that could go wrong in this Arizona tape around her arm, removed scenario: the kid forgets to return does not it and tried to restick it. When it the signed permission slip to didn’t restick, she told us, ‘This require the school, the parent forgets is what happens when you have to sign the permission slip, et public sex with more than one person cetera,” Thomas said. The opt-in schools to — you don’t develop a bond requirement effectively prevents administer with anyone.’ It was her way of a large number of students from sexuality telling us not to have sex until receiving any sex education at marriage.” education all.

Or perhaps it’s more like in any form Sexual health comprises biomedical engineering far more than abstinence and sophomore Suhitha Veeravelli’s.

STDs. It involves understanding “During one week every healthy relationships, human spring semester, we spent an hour each day anatomy and safe sexual practices. Arizona should scrolling through slides of graphic images — mandate comprehensive sexuality education everything from Syphilis to Chlamydia to genital programs for all students — programs that warts,” Veeravelli said. “The sessions were good for acknowledge the complexity and importance of one thing: effectively scaring 12-year-old children human sexuality. Such programs would promote into believing that if they had sex, they would abstinence as the only surefire way to avoid contract one of these infections.” pregnancy, but they would simultaneously teach Veeravelli and Freitas’ experiences are reflective contraceptive techniques to keep young people of Arizona’s inadequate policies regarding sex safe should they choose to have sex. They clearly education. According to the Sexuality Information are making that choice: Arizona has the sixthand Education Council of the United States, highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation.

Arizona does not require public schools to In order to enact such a change, Arizona’s opt-in administer sexuality education in any form. laws must become opt-out laws, “where every Individual school districts decide whether to child in Arizona schools is guaranteed to receive implement such a program, and the district’s comprehensive sexuality education, unless their governing board has the sole discretion to parent or guardian signs a form saying they do determine the program’s curriculum. Some of the not want their child to receive that programming,”

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Your Views In response to “‘Yes Means Yes’ consent law impacts UA,” by Anna Ludlum (Oct. 6) To me, I think it’s just more government interference and elimination of due process.

— Thought Process “Elimination of due process,” say the rape apologists. Yeah, because laws that clarify what a crime is and isn’t definitely causes people to not get a fair trial. Yep. They understand the legal system alright.

— JT Rager I’ve just grown to notice that people who think that all persons still have rights are labeled immediately as rape apologists. Did I actually say rape was okay? Did I actually blame the victim?

I am against [the law] for several reasons. I am against the idea of having a government or university

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decide and codify student behavior to combat sexual assault. And then the burden will be unfairly shifted towards men. Who decides what’s “consent”? Is it the two individuals?

Or is it the two individuals, the government and the university? It further assumes that every guy is a sexual predator. Not every man out there is a sexual predator. It’s finally also repetitive because there are laws already in place to address rape. …

Second of all, even advocates for affirmative consent don’t even know what even constitutes an actual, tangible violation of consent. One handout for this I read showed that the “awkwardness or embarassment” is worth it if it avoids the risk of sexual assault.

It sounds more like guilt-tripping rather than persuasion. Might as well have Dean Saxton tell me that the awkwardness of being a

Thomas said. “We can’t opt out of math, reading or science, and … comprehensive sexuality education is just as important.”

Opponents of comprehensive sexuality education claim that exposing children to “too much information” simply promotes casual sex.

In fact, in a 2007 study, sexual health researcher Douglas Kirby showed that “education about sexuality can help teens delay intercourse, reduce the frequency of intercourse and have fewer partners,” contrary to critics’ claims.

“Today’s young people are bombarded by sexual images from TV, movies, music, and the Internet,” Thomas said. “Sexuality education provides young people with the tools to understand and interpret the sexual messages they receive every day.”

Because Arizona requires schools to emphasize abstinence, there exists a misconception that Arizona is an “abstinence-only” state. In reality, it is completely legal for schools to implement comprehensive sexuality programs, as long as they also comply with Arizona’s current policy. Yet at present, “only Creighton School District in Phoenix is currently implementing a comprehensive sexuality education curriculum to its students,” Thomas said.

We need to prepare Arizona’s children for healthy adulthood by making sex education a priority. That starts with local school boards, which should decide to implement comprehensive sexuality education within the confines of the current laws, and it ends with the state legislature, which needs to revise the current laws that effectively discourage schools from providing the most effective curriculum.

Most of us who grew up in Arizona have a story about used tape or graphic depictions of STDs. Arizonans need to work to change those stories, so that kids in this state become adults who feel capable of making empowered, informed decisions about their bodies and relationships.

virgin is worth it if it avoids the depths of hell.

Third of all, the language of the bill … [is] a near-automatic presumption of guilt. Why? The burden of proof is shifted towards the accused, as the accused “must take reasonable steps to ascertain whether the complainant consented.” Legislators and lawyer don’t even know how consent could be proven. …

Finally, I doubt that this law will even achieve its intended effect: to protect women from sexual assault and clarify what constitutes sexual assault. It’s another feel-goodism to say, “Yes, we finally did something about it.” Sexual predators will be around, and … [they] will still rape, deceive and attack to achieve that end. Why? Because they will break the law. All it will do is further aggravate the legal issues and promote the “he said, she said” issue inherent in the rape cases and alienate simple errors of judgment and cluelessness with outright defiance of the law.

JT’s little comment is borne out of the clear-cut fact that he doesn’t really know what the law entails, let

— Elizabeth Hannah is a neuroscience & cognitive science sophomore. Follow her @ehannah10

alone fully understand the social and constitutional impact of the law. I’m not a rape apologist, but I also don’t believe that we should alienate the accused with laws that … do not solve the problem but complicate the legal system.

— Thought Process, in response to JT Rager You’ve got a lot of words there.

Defensive much?

Just reread the bill. All I see is definition of consent and a bunch of mandates of schools to implement policies to support victims and confidential. It is the court’s job to determine whether this consent is met or not. Yes, the defendant is innocent until proven guilty, and this bill doesn’t do jack shit to affect that. It’s the measuring stick and the legal definition of consent. It presumes guilt in the same way that defining “speeding” as “going over the speed limit” presumes that everyone drives dangerously.

Spare me your faux concern for justice.

— JT Rager, in response to Thought Process

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Sleepy with syringes

A non-UA affiliated man was arrested at the Park Student Union for a felony warrant from the Pima County Sheriff’s office on Sept. 29.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer noticed the man around 2 a.m. sitting at the south patio of PSU with his face down and not moving. The officer conducted a welfare check on the man, having to stand over him and calling for him to wake up.

The man woke up and said he must have fallen asleep. When asked for an ID, he said he had none but verbally identified himself. The man also indicated he may have had a warrant for a probation violation.

When the officer tried to confirm the warrant, he found the man had three warrants out for his arrest. Among these were an active felony warrant for theft by control out of the Pima County Superior Court and two active misdemeanor warrants for shoplifting and possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to appear through the Tucson Police Department. The man was placed under arrest.

Upon searching the man, the officer found four used syringes with fried residue in them, a zebra-striped pipe with dark residue inside it, a brown glass case with several wrappings with burn marks on them and an empty Ziploc bag.

The officer also found a Ziploc bag containing four yellow pills that were identified as clonazepam and an unopened suboxone patch. In addition, the officer found several personal items that did not belong to the individual, such as a checkbook, a Sun Tran bus pass, a voter registration card, an insurance card, an Arizona state identification card and a one-gallon Ziploc bag containing miscellaneous stamps.

The man was read his Miranda rights and said he understood them. When asked about the syringes and prescription pills, he said he used the syringes to shoot up heroin but had no knowledge of where the pills came from.

When asked about the personal items, he claimed he had found all of them while dumpster diving, but would not provide further details.

The officer looked to see if any the owners of the items could be located and found that the owner of the checkbook had reported the checkbook stolen out of his mailbox and several of the checks had been fraudulently cashed.

The individual was transported to Pima County jail where he was booked under his existing warrants, in addition to possession of drug paraphernalia and prescription-only drugs. The individual was also informed that sleeping on campus was not permitted and any future incidents would result in him being excluded from anything under the ownership of the UA.

Attack of the Frats

A UA student was assaulted near Old Main on Sept. 29.

A UAPD officer responded to the lobby of the UAPD in reference to a report of assault. The officer met with the student, who had a visible bump on his face.

The student claimed he was walking alone to his dorm at around 11 a.m. from his class in the Center for English as a Second Language when he was punched in the face outside of Old Main by a man. The student did not know if the man had been following him or not.

The student said he heard the man say something he couldn’t understand. The man then came up to the student and punched him in the side of the face. The student said he fell down and couldn’t see straight as the man ran off.

The student identified the man as a college-aged white male with brown hair and wearing black dress pants, a white buttondown, long-sleeve shirt, and a light-blue tie.

The student informed the officer that all the pledges rushing for fraternities were wearing similar outfits, and that based on the man’s tie, he may have been a pledge for the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.

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Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Colloquium, 3:45 p.m., Carol Paty, associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, will give a talk titled “From Ionospheric Electrodynamics at Mars to Mass and Momentum Loading at Saturn: Quantifying the Impact of Neutral-Plasma Interactions using Plasma Dynamic Simulations.” Free.

and he doesn’t skimp on either. Combining original mind blowing magic, and a heavy dose of humor is his secret to success and why it’s made him one of the top booked college acts around the country.

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Cooking on Campus–‘Guilt-Free Tailgating’, 5:15 p.m., Cost: $5, Rec Center Instructional Kitchen. Our student chefs will show you how easy it is to make tasty food during this hands-on culinary crash course.

Featured recipes for this class include cauliflower buffalo bites, guacamole, chicken skewers and flavored waters!

LGBTQA+ Support Group, 4-5:30 p.m., SUMC Rm. 412. A safe space for UA students, staff and faculty to talk in an open and supportive environment about issues impacting their lives and the LGBTQ and Allied community. Facilitated by LGBTQ staff to provide resources and guidance, the group is free and confidential.

A Night of Magic w/ Peter Boie, 7 p.m., UA Mall. Peter’s show is about two things, astonishing magic, and having a good time;

UA Wind Ensemble & Wind Symphony Concert, 7:30 p.m., $10, $7 UA employees & seniors 55+, $5 students, UA School of Music. Paul Basler’s “Mangulina,” Jaime Texidor’s “Amparito Roca,” Clifton Williams’ “Fiesta” from Symphonic Dance No. 3, Eugene Bozza’s “Children’s Overture” and H. Owen Reed’s haunting “Mass” from “La Fiesta Mexicana.”

American Landscapes: Selections from the Kingan Collection, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Cost: $5, UA Museum of Art. Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall all come together in this show of American landscapes.

Works by Birge Harrison, George Inness, and Ernest Lawson.

Remember Me: Portraits from the Permanent Collection, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Cost: $5, UA Museum of Art. European and American portraits that range in date from the 15th century to the present day. As this exhibit will demonstrate, portraits are not

TUCSON EVENTS Abstract Men: Art of Phil Hastings, Bob Kray, Bart Mahoney, Cost: Free, Dragonfly Gallery, 146 E. Broadway. Also on exhibit is hand blown glass by Phil Hastings, photographs by Rod Mullen and many fine art prints. 50% of proceeds go to benefit Dragonfly Village Transitional Housing.

Joanne Mattera: Chromatic Reasoning, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Cost: Free, Conrad Wilde Gallery, 101 W. Sixth St. Ste. 121. The reception will run concurrent with the Central Tucson Gallery Association’s annual event, The Big Picture gallery tour.

Fire: A glimpse of fire history in miniature, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Cost: $9; $8 military & seniors 65+; $6 children 4-17; free for children 3 and under, 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. This exhibit at The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures showcases scrupulous scratch-built fire trucks, brushfire vehicles, fire apparatus and structures.

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ARIZONA FOOTBALL head coach Rich Rodriguez and athletic director Greg Byrne celebrate Arizona’s 31-24 win over then-No.2 Oregon at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore., on Thursday.

On Monday at his weekly press conference, Rodriguez talked about the USC Trojans, being a top-10 ranked team and walk-ons.

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

UPCOMING SCHEDULE FOOTBALL 10/11 vs. USC

MEN’S BASKETBALL 10/18 Red-Blue Game

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Arizona football has its “24-hour” rule, but the Wildcats didn’t need that long after beating then No. 2 Oregon on the road.

UA football head coach Rich Rodriguez gives the Wildcats 24 hours to celebrate a win or dwell on a loss before focusing on the next game, but he said they were quiet five to ten minutes after take-off on the way home after Thursday’s 3124 win in Eugene, Ore. No. 10 Arizona (5-0, 2-0 Pac12 Conference) is in the top-ten rankings for the first time since 2010, but Rodriguez said it doesn’t matter.

“It matters at the end of the regular season, but it don’t matter right now,” Rodriguez said. “But if it helps get a little bounce in our guys’ steps and the fans to be happy and sell out the stadium Saturday night, then so be it.”

Rodriguez said praise is like poison: “It’s OK if you don’t swallow it.”

“I don’t mind if people pat them on the back and all that, talking good things about them,” Rodriguez said. “It’s probably the same people who weren’t even mentioning them a week or two weeks ago.”

Rodriguez pointed out that only one UA player was recruited by USC, former Trojan and current UA

reserve quarterback redshirt senior Trojans completed a 48-yarder at Jesse Scroggins. the end of the first half in their 35-10 “From what I understand, USC is win over Oregon State and lost on a still favored,” Rodriguez said. “And 46-yard Hail Mary to ASU. we understand why.”

Rodriguez liked Arizona’s Hail The unranked Trojans (3-2, Mary more than ASU’s.

2-1) are favored by Las Vegas “Well, ours was a hell of a lot bookmakers by 2.5 points as of more fun for me,” Rodriguez said.

Monday afternoon.

“They’re always improbable; there’s “I’m glad we [are] the underdog always different reasons why they that just keep[s] the guys focused had success.” [on] the task at hand,” UA junior Rodriguez said he doesn’t expect safety William the Trojans Parks said. to suffer That was a big The Ducks a postare the secondHail Mary road win but that’s highest ranked hangover. not going to get team the “As hard us a first down Wildcats have as it was against USC. beaten on the probably the - Rich Rodriguez, UA road, behind next day, football head coach No. 1 USC in they’ll get 1981. those guys “You got to refocused be careful when you pat them on again and we’ll get the best USC the rear that you don’t get a mess team Saturday night,” Rodriguez made on your hand,” Rodriguez said. said. “They should feel good about Parks said he was surprised at themselves; that was a big road win, how the Trojan defensive backs just but that’s not going to get us a first stood there against ASU on the final down against USC.” play.

“It was pretty shocking,” Parks said. “I was just like, ‘Man, if it was Hail to the Hail Marys While Arizona knows the joy us, we’d probably get fired on the of connecting on a Hail Mary, the spot.’”

Parks said the Wildcats work on Trojans know it, too, as well as the Hail Marys every Thursday. sting of getting burned on one.

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one of those things,” Rodriguez said. “They’re kids in a competitive situation and things are happening fast, and sometimes, it’s hard to locate the ball.”

Walk-ons walk over Oregon

Against all of Oregon’s highly touted recruits, former walk-ons shined for the Wildcats.

Redshirt senior safety Jared Tevis had eight tackles, four of them solo, redshirt freshman nose tackle Parker Zellers had five tackles and redshirt senior running back Terris Jones-Grigsby ran for a game-high 115 yards and had a game-high 95 yards receiving.

“We’ve got to have guys like Parker and Terris and Jared,” said Rodriguez, a former walk-on at West Virginia.

Rodriguez said he knows of programs that have different locker rooms for scholarship players and walk-ons, but that everyone is respected at Arizona.

“A lot of times guys, don’t know who’s a walk-on and who’s not, and that’s the way we like it,” Rodriguez said. “It doesn’t matter to me whether he was a highly recruited guy, a five-star guy or a no-star walkon guy; the best guys play.”

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Trio ready to lead men’s hoops University in 2012 and played his first season for the Wildcats last year, has ast year, former proven to be one of the best Wildcat and current point guards in the game, NBA player Nick garnering All-Conference Johnson provided the honors in each of the three Arizona men’s basketball seasons he’s played college team with sturdy, vocal basketball. leadership both on and “He was an excellent off the court and largely player before he showed up facilitated the team’s here,” Miller said. “If you chemistry. look at him At media now, very day Friday, few players I think we UA men’s have more – Kaleb, basketball experience T.J., Rondae head than him; and I – all coach Sean very few have the Miller said have been experience he thinks more while this productive and know year’s team than he’s how to be chemistry been over leaders on could his threethis team evolve, he year career,” believes In his first — Brandon Ashley, leadership two seasons, UA junior power will come McConnell forward from was more than named the one person and that a Atlantic-10 Freshman of committee of players will the Year and ranked within pitch in to spearhead the the top five players in the team’s leadership and nation in steals twice, chemistry in the post-Nick finishing fourth during his Johnson era. freshman campaign and Redshirt senior point third as a sophomore. guard T.J. McConnell, who Last year, after having to transferred from Duquesne

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ARIZONA JUNIOR center Kaleb Tarczewski (35) speaks during Arizona men’s basketball media day on Friday in McKale Center. Along with T.J. McConnell and Brandon Ashley, Tarczewski will take up a leadership role on this year’s team.

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PAC-12 POWER RANKINGS

Week 6: Arizona moves up, USC falls

BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat

North 1 No. 12 Oregon (4-1, 1-1 Pac-12 Confrence) After getting blacked out by Arizona last week, the Ducks have an immediate chance to rebound with UCLA this week. A loss puts the Ducks out of the playoff hunt.

Last week: First, L vs. Arizona 31-24 This week: Saturday at No. 18 UCLA (4-1, 1-1) 2. No. 25 Stanford (3-2, 1-1) The Cardinal was close to beating Notre Dame on the road but couldn’t stop the Irish on fourth and 11 or manage the clock late.

This week, it gets a chance to recover with Wazzu coming to town.

Last week: Second, L at No. 9 Notre Dame 1714 This week: Friday vs. Washington State (2-4, 1-2) 3. Washington (4-1, 0-1) The Huskies avoided what @NotBillWalton called college football’s Red Wedding by not playing. This week, they travel to California for an interesting match-up; someone must lose.

Last week: Third, Bye This week: Saturday at California (4-1, 2-1) 4. California Remember last year when the Golden Bears didn’t beat a single Football Bowl Subdivision team and went 1-11? Well, now Cal sits on top of the North, and, if the season ended today, it’d play Arizona in the championship game.

Last week: Fifth, W at Washington State 60-59 This week: Saturday vs. Washington 5. Oregon State (4-1, 1-1) The Beavers barely escaped Boulder, Colo., with the win to stay alive in the Rose Bowl race. Fun fact: we saw the OSU band and pom line going to the game at Portland International Airport on Friday.

Last week: Third, W at Colorado 36-31 This week: Thursday vs. No. 24 Utah (4-1, 1-1) 6. Washington State “Couging it” is defined by Urban Dictionary as the ability of Washington State University to find a way to lose “despite all odds.” Last week, the Cougars had the ball at the Cal four -yard line and couldn’t score any points at the end of the game, losing despite Connor Halliday’s NCAA record 734 yards. If only he

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ARIZONA JUNIOR cornerback Patrick Glover (8) rejoices after Arizona’s 31-24 win against Oregon at Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore., on Thursday. The Wildcats moved up to the No. 1 spot in our Week 6 edition of Pac-12 Power Rankings.

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Last week: Sixth, L vs. California 60-59 This week: Friday at Stanford South 1. No. 10 Arizona (5-0, 2-0) The Wildcats are not only the Pac-12’s last unbeaten team; they improved to 4-8 against ranked teams under head coach Rich Rodriguez. Fun fact: since the start of the 2013 season, Arizona is 2-0 against top-10 teams while Alabama is 0-3.

Last week: Third, W at Oregon 31-24 This week: Saturday vs. USC (3-2, 2-1) 2. No. 18 UCLA (4-1, 1-1) Given two chances to save the game against Utah, the Bruins failed, missing a 55-yard field goal as time expired and then a 50-yarder with no time after a Utah penalty. After the impressive win over ASU, the Bruins face the prospect of back-to-back losses and finding themselves two games back of Arizona.

Last week: First, L vs. Utah 30-28 This week: Saturday vs. Oregon 3. No. 20 ASU (4-1, 2-1) Don’t bury the Sun Devils just yet. They took a page out of the Wildcats’ playbook to record their first win at USC this century. The Trojans live by the Hail Mary, getting one against OSU, and die by the Hail Mary, losing on one to ASU. Last week: Fourth, W at USC 38-34 This week: Bye 4. Utah The Utes recovered from their disastrous home loss to Washington State to shock UCLA at the Rose Bowl and move into the AP rankings. Maybe their win over Stanford wasn’t a fluke.

Last week: Fifth, W at UCLA 30-28 This week: Thursday at Oregon State

5. USC The Trojans’ defense against ASU in the fourth quarter was worse than Troy’s in the Trojan War, so they tumble in the rankings.

It’s like USC’s D did an impression of LA fans and left early.

Last week: Second, L 38-34 vs. ASU This week: Saturday at Arizona 6 Colorado (2-4, 0-3) While all the teams ahead of them shook up the power rankings and made it an unenviable task to rank the Pac-12, good ol’ Colorado didn’t fidget from its place in sixth.

The Buffaloes are getting close to winning a conference game, though.

Last week: Sixth, L vs. Oregon 36-31 This week: Bye

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Tennis hosted Golf readies for second annual tournaments tournament

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enthusiastic and they are very coachable. I saw a lot of good The Daily Wildcat things.”

Arizona women’s tennis In the back draw portion of hosted the second annual doubles play, freshman Devin Wildcat Invitational at the El Chypyha and junior Inge Conquistador Golf and Tennis Hendrikx dropped a tight match Resort over the weekend. It was to UTEP’s Davina Meza and the first time that the Wildcats Duda Santos 8-7(4). competed as a full team this In singles, New Mexico’s season.

Rachana Bhat defeated Sohn After ending 2014 ranked No. in a three-set match (7-6, 4-6, 33 in the nation and losing in the 6-1) in the finals of the Cardinal opening round of postseason Singles bracket. It was Sohn’s play, Arizona dominated much first loss of the weekend after of the tournament in the first being 7-0 in tournament play. and second day but struggled to Mississippi State’s Alexandra close out some of its matches on Corder defeated Hendrikx in the the final day. finals of the T h e Navy Singles Wildcats bracket. hosted NAU, On the New Mexico, men’s side, SHAYNE AUSTIN Colorado the team S t a t e , continued its YEAR Mississippi fall season JUNOIR S t a t e , heading to MAJOR Texas State, compete GENERAL STUDIES Marquette, in the San HOMETOWN UTEP and Diego State UTSA. Invitational OAK PARK, CALIF. “ T h e in San Diego.

HEIGHT W i l d c a t The Wildcats 5’ 5” Invitational b a t t l e d is a wellsome of the 2014 STATS attended nation’s WON 2014 WILDCAT INVITATIONAL event that top tennis DOUBLES CHAMPIONSHIP gives our programs, team the going up opportunity against No. 1 to play in front of a home crowd USC, No. 3 UCLA, No. 68 SDSU, in the fall,” UA women’s tennis Denver, Loyola Marymount and head coach Vicki Maes said UC Irvine. in a press release. “Last year’s Senior Robin Chou and inaugural tournament was a freshman Shoki Kasahara success as we took home the advanced to the semifinals titles in every draw. We hope to of main draw doubles action match that effort this weekend, before dropping an 8-5 match but we know the competition is to Loyola Marymount’s Joat tougher.”

Farah and Othar Kordsachia.

Junior Shayne Austin and It was the Arizona duo’s first freshman Hanna Sohn did time competing in doubles play just that when they defeated together.

Marquette’s Erin Gebes and In singles matches, junior Matt Ana Pimienta 8-4 to win the Dunn and freshman Romain doubles championship of the Boudaroua had main draw invitational. victories on the opening day of “It was a successful weekend the invitational before dropping because I got to see all the sets in the second round. new girls play,” Maes said in a press release. “It was nice to play a home event, and we found out that we have a lot of — Follow Matt Wall things to work on. The kids are @mwall20

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Arizona has another matchup this week against Oregon, but this time, it is in golf. The Arizona men’s and women’s golf teams will be playing in two different out-of-town tournaments this week with each of them facing off against the Ducks.

“It’s definitely challenging any time you go to a course that you’ve never seen before,” UA men’s golf head coach Jim Anderson said in a press release. “Luckily, for this event, no other teams have seen it either.”

The men’s team will play 54 holes over two days against a total of 11 teams. Four of those teams are Pac-12 Conference schools, including No. 7 Stanford, No. 8 Washington, No. 24 USC and No. 25 Oregon.

Freshman and Tucson native George Cunningham will play this week in the No. 1 spot for the men at the Nike Collegiate Invitational.

He leads the team with an average score of 72.83 per round.

Cunningham was the recipient of the 2014 Byron Nelson International Junior Golf Award and was ranked No. 2 in his recruiting class.

The men’s team started play on Monday at the Nike Collegiate Invitational in Fort Worth,

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sit out his 2012-13 season due to NCAA transfer restrictions, McConnell burst onto the scene and was instrumental in Arizona’s quest for a Final Four berth. He was subsequently named second team AllConference and placed on the all-defensive team.

“I’ve seen [McConnell] play against the best teams and the best players in the country, and [I] truly believe in him,” Miller said. “I know the impact he has here for our team, and I don’t know if there is a more important player in our program than him.”

Last year, Brandon Ashley combined with Kaleb Tarczewski and former Wildcat and current

tournament of the semester for the women’s team.

The women will play a total of 48 holes over two days against 14 teams. Two of those schools are from the Pac-12: Oregon and USC. UA Junior Lindsey Weaver is the defending individual winner Texas, hosted by Texas Christian at the 2013 Windy City Collegiate University at the famous Colonial Classic. Weaver shot a total score of Country Club. This will be the third 5-under-par 208.

Through Monday’s play, the tournament of the fall semester for the men’s team. This will also Arizona women’s team is in better be the first time the team will be shape than the men’s. The women playing at Old Colonial Country are sixth overall behind an 18-overpar performance. USC leads at Club.

Through Monday’s play, the 5-over-par and is the only Pac-12 Arizona men’s team is dead last in school higher than Arizona.

After the first day, Weaver holds the team leaderboards at 44-oversole possession of par and has 25th place with a considerable It’s definitely score of 5-over-par, ground to challenging while UA senior make up, as the Manon Gidali is Wildcats are 36 anytime tied for sixth place shots behind you go to a with an even score.

O r e g o n . course that Last week, the Cunningham you’ve never women’s team f i n i s h e d seen before was the runner the first day — Jim Anderson, up at the Annika 10-overUA men’s golf head Intercollegiate in par, tied for coach Orlando, Fla. The 38th place team finished with amongst all a total combined participants.

During the men’s last score of 3-under-par 861. The team tournament at the 60th Annual beat out other Pac-12 women’s William H. Tucker Intercollegiate golf teams such as ASU, Stanford, hosted by the University of New UCLA and USC. Both teams will have live scoring Mexico, the team finished in 11th place with a total combined score online for this week’s tournaments.

The men’s results can be found of 41-over-par 905.

The women’s team will be at golfstatresults.com and the playing at the Windy City Collegiate women’s results can be found at Classic in Wilmette, Ill., hosted by golfstat.com.

Northwestern University at the historic Westmoreland Country — Follow Daniela Vizcarra Club. This will be the second @vizcarra_dw

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Orlando Magic player Aaron Gordon to form one of the most lethal frontcourts in the country.

Ashley was one of Arizona’s most productive and impactful players before he was sidelined with a season-ending injury.

“Although Nick was certainly a centerpiece in our leadership last year,” Ashley said, “I think we — Kaleb, T.J., Rondae and I — all have the experience and know-how to be leaders on this team.”

The Wildcats were ranked No. 1 in the nation and had amassed a perfect 21-0 record before Ashley broke his foot in February. Ashley said that having to sit out those 16 games made him realize that nothing in life is ever guaranteed. He said that realization has resulted in him returning to the court a hungrier player than ever.

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This year, Tarczewski brings veteran experience to the low post along with an emerging defensive skill set, which could prove crucial for the Wildcats’ success.

He will be looked at to provide considerably more offensive production this year than he did last year. In addition to developing a better mid-range jumper and working on opening up more to the side, Tarczewski said he feels a lot more confident in his defense going into the fall.

“I think being able to get him the ball in and around the basket is not only good for him, but it’s great for Arizona,” Miller said.

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Q Why do students

feel pressured to drink at a party?

A. 104 year-old woman: “And what do you think is the best thing about

Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one. A reporter was interviewing a

being 104?” the reporter asked. She simply replied, “No peer pressure.”

The desire to belong and conform to one’s peer group is very powerful and does not stop after high school. In college, when students experience a time of transition and social freedom, peers continue to play a strong role.

Peer pressure is frequently cited as a cause for excessive drinking among college students. It comes as no surprise that students entering college show marked increases in alcohol and drug use compared to those who continue to live at home or get jobs following graduation from high school.

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Regarding alcohol, research describes peer pressure as a combination of three distinct influences: overt offer of alcohol, modeling, and social norms. Overt offers of alcohol range from polite gestures to intense goading or commands to drink, like during drinking games. Modeling occurs from direct imitation of another student’s concurrent drinking behavior. Perceived social norms serve to make excessive drinking appear common to student expectations. Many view college as a place to drink excessively, in a time-limited fashion, before assuming responsibilities of adulthood. Combining all this with easily accessible alcohol-based social opportunities can make navigating around peer pressure challenging.

However, there is good news about being a college student embracing adulthood. You have arrived at an age, time, and place where you can demonstrate greater ego strength as you try on new identities and behaviors safely. You can differentiate yourself from others and not get wasted in order to party or have fun. Surround yourself with like-minded individuals who party in moderation and create your own positive peer pressure circle of friends.

Okay, stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A reporter was interviewing a 19 year-old woman: “And what do you think is the best thing about being a self-assured 19?” the reporter asked.

She simply replied, “No beer pressure.”

67% of UA students party less than once a week. (2014 Health & Wellness Survey, n = 2,175)

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A millenial memoir Lost in Translation ‘Girls’ creator Lena Dunham releases a collection of personal essays detailing the types of 21st-century sexual misadventures usually seen on her hit HBO comedy

BY KEVIN C. REAGAN The Daily Wildcat

The purpose of this column is to gain a perspective of the UA community from the eyes of one its many foreign exchange students. Dongchen Hou comes to Arizona from the northern region of China to earn her Ph.D. in East Asian Studies. Hou is up for trying new American customs, but don’t ask her for a game of Scrabble, as she admits she’s not very good at board games. An admirer of the desert landscape, Hou considers squirrels to be exotic creatures. She shares with the Daily Wildcat some of her impressions of the Old Pueblo.

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f there’s a celebrity who has achieved any degree of recognizable fame, from Hillary Clinton to Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, chances are they have a multi-million dollar book deal in the works. The latest in this trend is Lena Dunham, creator of HBO’s comedy “Girls,” who just released a book of personal essays called “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s ‘Learned.’”

Dunham is no stranger to an unabashed discussion on the typically taboo, and “Not That Kind of Girl” is a tribute to her candor. From the story of having sex for the first time to conversations with her gynecologist about her uterus, there are few topics Dunham leaves to the imagination. Like Dunham’s frequent nudity in her portrayal of Hannah Horvath in “Girls,” her book mirrors her onscreen persona with a literal and figurative nakedness on the page.

Dunham’s quirky and offkilter personality oozes from every essay. Many of her essays begin with anecdotes from her childhood and extend into her adult years, and it’s evident that the middle school “awkward phase” we all wish we had outgrown is still present in Dunham — she’s just more willing to admit it than the rest of us. Her matter-of-fact humor carries the book and keeps the reader wondering what kooky and bizarre story Dunham will share next.

However, the problem with Dunham’s “Not That Kind of Girl” is relatability. She’s familiar but foreign, ordinary yet eccentric.

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Her prose is funny, but not laugh-out-loud hilarious. Her essays just miss the mark of some epiphany, like a written argument without a thesis. “Learned” being in quotes in the subtitle accomplishes the ironic goal of sharing her past, but the lessons of her anecdotes are not always obvious to her or the reader.

Many of her essays fall flat, like helium slowly leaking out of a balloon.

One could call the current era a Renaissance of women in the comedy scene. There’s Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Amy Poehler, Mindy Kaling and Ellen DeGeneres, to name a few, all of whom have a book that’s published or soon-to-be published of both the personal memoir and self-help variety.

Dunham, with multiple Emmy and Golden Globes nominations to rank her alongside these women, enters this teeming genre as the newcomer amongst

seasoned greats. It’s hard to see how her book is necessary or groundbreaking with so many more to compete with.

But perhaps that’s not the point, as Dunham makes clear.

She writes, “There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.”

We need more women telling their stories whether the stories are funny, heartbreaking, awkward, ugly or beautiful.

While Dunham’s “Not That Kind of Girl” isn’t the most riveting or memorable of these stories, it stands as a testament to the power of her honest ingenuity that offers a morsel of hope to the young and awkward.

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Daily Wildcat: What were some culture shocks when you first arrived here?

Hou: You don’t need to be so formal with professors. You have more freedom to express yourself.

There are a lot of people from other countries, so you get used to hearing different accents. And everything is big! American people like things big. Also, I think Americans express emotions and feelings more directly, but Chinese people [tend] to hide or express [emotions and feelings] in a subtle way.

Was it difficult to learn English?

I’m taking a class for language and culture where we were told to write down the types of English you think is important but not taught in class. I wrote down how I’m not being taught how to write academic papers, but I still have to learn to write it. Second, the kind of daily, everyday English [is not taught], so it’s kind of difficult for me to understand some slang.

How are you liking Arizona?

I didn’t like it at the beginning, but, right now, I like it. The natural scenery is pretty, and I really love to [hike] with friends. It’s quite different from the rest of America.

It’s kind [of] a desert view, which is quite unique.

How would you compare the academic environment to China[‘s academic environment]?

I noticed other American

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With Emma Watson’s speech at the U.N. spreading the message of ending gender inequality and reaffirming her status as a positive female role model, the “Harry Potter” starlet announced the creation of He For She, a movement to promote gender equality on a global scale. Her fictional counterpart in J.K. Rowling’s beloved books, Hermione Granger was a feminist too, even if we didn’t quite catch it from our fifth or sixth read-through of the series.

1. She takes pride in her education.

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students who were participating in a discussion, and so many people raise their hands. But in China, the teacher is more centered. The teacher is dominant in class, and the students are kind of passive, and you get used to not asking questions.

What are some presumptions Americans make when they hear you’re Chinese?

That my math is good, which is not true for me because I study humanities.

What are some cultural things in America you’ve had some trouble with?

A lot of the references to movies I have a hard time understanding, like “Star Trek.” I have never tried video games. Card games and board games are very difficult for me. And [with] the names of alcohol when ordering at a bar, I need help sometimes.

What are some new things you’ve done since being here?

I used to not be athletic at all.

Since coming here, I go to the [Student Recreation Center] about five times a week just to be in shape and healthy.

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Hermione Granger’s feminist influence

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The resident genius of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, although she got a lot of grief for it, Hermione was known to always be seen with a book in her hand.

It was her research on Nicolas Flamel in “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” her knowledge of the Polyjuice potion in the “Chamber of Secrets,” her Time-Turner (given to her for outstanding academic achievement) in the “Prisoner of Azkaban” and getting nearly perfect grades on her Ordinary Wizarding Level exams that evidenced her outstanding prowess as a student. Hermione truly understood the merits and privilege of an education and never let it once go to waste during her entire academic career.

2. She doesn’t play dumb to get people to like her.

Having book smarts, she never let someone make her feel inferior for knowing more than they did. Despite the potential harassment that comes with being the smartest person in the room and people’s general dislike of “know-it-alls,” Hermione served as proof of the empowerment that comes from knowledge. She maneuvered her way out of dangerous scenarios throughout the course of the novels, particularly those involving the Dark Arts and Lord Voldemort. She’s truly the brightest witch of her age, and was almost sorted into Ravenclaw instead of Gryffindor.

Although her future in the Wizarding World is a mystery based on the last book’s ending, one can assume she probably ended up as a pretty well-respected intellectual within the wizarding community.

3. She stands up for what she believes in.

Ahead of her time in terms of magical creature rights and much like her reallife counterpart, Hermione created the Society for the Protection of Elfish Welfare during her fourth year of school to protest the indentured servitude of an entire race. House-elves are basically born to be servants for humans, an injustice which Hermione clearly saw as morally wrong despite the general public opinion.

Campaigning for the rights of those without a voice, Hermione was more open-minded than most of the students who allowed the injustice to continue without protest, not to mention she once punched Draco Malfoy in the face for being such a wanker.

4. She is “one of the guys” just as much as she is a girl.

With two guys as your best friends, retaining your femininity can seem a challenge at times. Hermione, however, never let gender distinctions get in the way of the triumvirate she formed with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. Besides some brief arguments and the occasional romantic drama storyline, like that whole debacle over who was taking who to the Yule Ball, the three friends have truly always been there for one another in the face of true evil and adversity. One of the most magical parts about the books is the power of great friendship overcoming most obstacles and transcending gender boundaries.

5. She’s a good role model.

Hermione Granger is intelligent, clever, a great friend, a leader and someone worth looking up to, as tested through her various trials and moral tribulations throughout the novel. Not once did she let herself be pressured into going against her better instincts and sense of justice. A true feminist among wizards and witches, 10 big kudo points to Gryffindor.

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