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Tree rings can tell scientists more than the age of the tree

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A discussion on how to write the “culinary essay”

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Opinion The university gets bigger every year, but how big is too big?

Arts & Life A Q&A with Piranha, using drag as therapy

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How 100% engagement can be bad for campus

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Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

NEWS | FULBRIGHT

UA welcomes five new Fulbright faculty CIARA JEAN @Ciara__Jean

In August, the University of Arizona welcomed five Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants from all over the world.

The Fulbright FLTA program allows educators from different countries to come to the U.S. and participate in teaching assistantships at universities around the country. This allows them to teach Americans about their culture and language while having the chance to learn about U.S. culture.

This program, sponsored by the United States Department of States’ Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, includes educators from over 50 countries who speak over 30 different languages.

Ihsan Onur Yigit and Dilan Erteber, from Turkey, are teaching Turkish in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies.

Also in the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Imad Guemmah, from Morocco, and Heba Abu Zaher, from the Palestinian Territories, will be teaching assistants for students learning Arabic.

Laura Fontana Soares, from Brazil, is a teaching assistant and is working with Portuguese students in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.

Every FLTA who comes to the U.S. has to attend an orientation during the summer before they can start teaching. Only seven universities host these orientations.

During this orientation, the FLTAs learn about the American educational system by taking workshops and seminars

covering topics such as diversity, equity and inclusion, student engagement and teaching methodologies.

“The briefing about [the] American grading system was really useful for me as a Turkish teacher and they told us about cultural codes, like don’t show students grades to each other, which is a habit in Turkey, like you can just announce their grades,” Erteber said.

Four out of five of the educators had their orientation out of state before they came to the UA. Yigit, Erteber and Guemmah had their orientation at Michigan State University and Zaher had hers at Ohio State University.

Soares was one of the first FLTAs who had her orientation at UA’s first Fulbright FLTA orientation.

The UA hosted its first Fulbright FLTA orientation in August. This orientation lasted five days and hosted 58 Fulbright FLTAs from 32 different countries.

The FLTAs working at the UA are teaching assistants but also take classes and are cultural ambassadors.

As teaching assistants, they attend language classes, assist students with group work and work individually with students to get extra help with anything they need.

Most of the FLTAs said their favorite part about teaching is seeing the reaction on students’ faces when they finally get what they are supposed to be learning.

“They’re doing it in Turkey, learning English, because they have to learn it,” Erteber said. “But when it comes to this situation here, they’re learning about it because they want to learn it, because they’re

curious about Turkey or Turkish culture.”

FLTAs also take at least two classes that have to do with either their language, culture or American culture.

As cultural ambassadors, they work with UA Global to give talks about their culture and find ways to share their culture with other people.

“I gave a talk at a Catholic high school about being a Muslim woman in the U.S. and that was a great experience,” Zaher said.

“Also, I try to find any opportunities to try and talk about my country, my culture.”

Although their orientation prepared them for living in a new country, there were some difficulties for a few FLTAs in the transition, such as culture shock while others felt no different.

“Sometimes I think life teaches you lessons from places you least expect them,” Yigit said. “I was thinking about this in a way with kind of a naive attitude and I thought I would never have culture shock, but it came to me in full force.”

Guemmah, on the other hand, said he experienced no cultural shock because he grew up with the “American lifestyle.”

“Geography is an obscure term for me, I think you are wherever you need to be,” Guemmah said. “I’ve never experienced that culture shock because I used to move a lot in Morocco. The whole lifestyle — the American lifestyle, as vague as the concept may seem — it’s very diverse, but also very similar.”

The UA FLTAs will be here for the 20192020 school year.

After their program ends, the FLTAs will

COURTESY IMAD GUEMMAH

IMAD GUEMMAH IS AN educator from Morocco. He is currently at the UA through the Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants working with students learning Arabic.

return to their home countries. If they would like to come back to the U.S., they would have to stay in their countries for two years before they could apply to enter the states again, according to Guemmah, Zaher, Erteber and Yigit.

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Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

NEWS | TREE RINGS

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A RECENT STUDY LED by the University of Arizona found that high variability in precipitation leads to a decline in tree growth. The extra rain during wet years does not counteract the adverse affects of dry years, the study found.

High precipitation won’t save trees from climate change

BY GABRIELLA COBAIN @ GabriellaCobian

A new study led by researchers at the University of Arizona found that the increase in rainfall in the western U.S. caused a decline in tree growth.

Matt Dannenberg, assistant professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa and lead author on the study, explained the research process.

“A warmer atmosphere can hold more water vapor, which intensifies our water cycle,” Dannenberg said in an email interview. “Based on precipitation data from 1901-present, yearto-year precipitation variability has increased quite substantially in many parts of the U.S., particularly in the Southwest.”

The purpose of the research was to find the effects of the rise in variability for the sake of American forests. To conduct the study, researchers used tree ring widths from over

1,300 sites throughout the U.S. to observe the linear and nonlinear forms of the correlation among precipitation and growth. Researchers also observed the tree growth response particularly to exceedingly dry and wet years.

Researchers found the growth of numerous tree types, such as ponderosa pine, Douglasfir and piñon pine located in the Southwest and bur oak located in the Midwest react more intensely to dry years compared to wet years.

Drops in tree growth during drought are not entirely offset by rises in wet years.

This means rising precipitation variability may result in long-lasting growth declines, even if there’s no difference in regular precipitation.

Throughout the previous 100 years in the Southwest, it’s estimated about a two-fold rise in the probability of years with extremely little growth, yet no difference in probability of high growth.

Dannenberg thinks the next step as climate change persists is to comprehend the other aspects of climate change to manage forests.

These aspects include warmer temperatures,

increased carbon dioxide concentrations (which could possibly stimulate photosynthesis and/or water-use efficiency), reduced snowpack and changes in the lifecycles of forest pests. It’s still unclear how these changes will affect forests.

William Smith, assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the UA and senior author of the study, provided insight on the study.

“We first worked with the long-term climate observations,” Smith said over email. “Using computer programming that allows us to quickly process large datasets, we explored how rainfall variability has changed over the last 100 years over the full U.S. region. We then worked with thousands of tree-ring records to determine whether or not trees exhibit any sensitivity to changes in precipitation variability.”

The study found that precipitation variability altered drastically through the southwest region, particular dominant tree species are vulnerable to these alterations.

According to Smith, the work integrated long-term climate records, model projections and a large synthesis of tree-ring observations.

Smith said he believed the next step is to incorporate satellite observations of tree, grassland and shrub growth to affirm the study’s original findings and to observe different sensitivities to changing precipitation extremes across these functional types. This can give insight on how these systems will shift with climate change.

More experiments are still being conducted, according to Smith.

“We are starting a large experimental manipulation in the Santa Rita Experimental Range so that we can experimental increase precipitation variability and then measure how the ecosystem changes,” Smith said in an email interview.

Smith advised more research to be conducted in order to prevent harmful results of climate change.

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Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

ARTS & LIFE | FOOD STORIES

Writing workshop links everything to food

BY JAMIE DONNELLY @JamieRisa11

Shopping at the local grocery store, bargaining for produce at the farmer’s market, holiday dinners and eating a meal with friends — food can be a great avenue for interaction and conversation. Can it also be a serious topic of literature?

According to Wren Awry, the instructor of a current culinary writing workshop at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, yes.

Running from Oct. 15 through Nov. 5., “Food is Connected to Everything: Writing the Culinary Essay” is a four week workshop that gives community members the opportunity to digest and discuss how food is present in everyday life.

“I like that food can provide a lens into other things,” Awry said. “There’s this way to kind of weave food into other topics or use it to talk about other things.”

Throughout the workshop, participants will cover several genres of writing, from nonfiction essays to more intimate memoirs, all through this culinary lens.

When Awry isn’t working at the Poetry Center, they are writing and reading about food. This interest ultimately inspired them to create the workshop.

“I wanted to share some of the things that I was reading to other people,” Awry said. “I also really love having conversations and learning from other people, so it was exciting to think about getting a bunch of different folks in a room to talk about food and writing about food.”

During the workshop meetings, Awry provides their students with readings from prominent food authors, feedback on their students’ work and writing prompts.

Awry often draws inspiration for these writing prompts from other food writers.

One exercise they created was based on a question posed

by Arizona Public Meeting reporter Mark McLemore: “What food did you love as a child that you can’t get anymore?”

“I thought that was such a great question, so we did a writing exercise based on that,” Awry said. “We also did a writing exercise that was writing about food travel, inspired

by Jessica Harris, who is a historian and food writer.”

The workshop isn’t the only food-related event happening at the Poetry Center.

“Come to the Table” is an exhibition focused on food and poetry. Awry and Leela Denver, the senior library assistant

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at the Poetry Center, collaborated on the exhibition, which runs until Nov. 23.

The exhibition began as an exploration of how poets write about different stages of food experience, according to Denver.

“I am a poet myself and I have always written about food.

Food is really important to my childhood,” Denver said. “I write a lot about my relationship with my family, so food always comes into the picture.”

Aside from featuring works from various authors, the exhibition has an interactive aspect that allows people to make connections between their life and food.

According to Denver, she and Awry have collected quite a few sticky notes with those connections from attendants at the exhibition. The notes are placed on a large piece of paper.

“People can write on sticky notes what Tucson tastes like to them,” Denver said. “The idea is that it’s kind of a collaborative community poem.”

Laura Vázquez Blázquez, an additional curator of the exhibition, contributed a presentation that features poems associated with food, culture, community and memories from the U.S. and Mexico border.

According to Blázquez, everything about culture, identity and our relationship with nature can be defined through food.

“Food has long been used in and as different cultural and artistic artifacts,” Blázquez said. “Therefore, it is important that we also showcase its presence in literature. It is relevant that we provide a space and exposure to those poets who contributed to the cultural heritage, the memory and the experience of the U.S. and Mexico borderlands.”

Denver said that food not only brings communities together, but is something everyone can relate to, making it a prime candidate for poetry.

“Sometimes poetry can be kind of scary to approach or kind of inaccessible if you aren’t familiar with it, but I think food is something that everyone shares, and I saw a lot of connections between food and poetry,” Denver said.

Awry doesn’t personally believe anything is universal, they said, but they do believe that food is something everyone experiences.

“Eating is part of how we survive on the day-to-day, so it seems like everyone I talk to has a story about food,” Awry said.

Awry told a story from a laundromat as an example of this.

They were in the laundromat when a woman asked them what they were reading. The book in question was an

ANA BELTRAN | THE DAILY WILDCAT

WREN AWRY HOSTS “FOOD is Connected to Everything: Writing the Culinary Essay,” a four-week writing workshop that emphasizes the world through a culinary lens. The event is held from Oct. 15 to Nov. 5 at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

anthology of food writing.

“All of a sudden, she was telling me about this lasagna recipe with bacon that she really loves,” Awry said. “All I did was tell her that I was reading an anthology of food writing.

[Food] connects with a lot of people.”

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Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

ARTS & LIFE | INDEPENDENT BUSINESS

New local vendors at UA Mall farmers market

BY KARYME CUADRAS @CuadrasKaryme

Students, faculty and staff can find local food, produce and products on the University of Arizona Mall.

The farmers market takes place every Wednesday on the UA Mall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and every Friday at Banner — University Medical Center Tucson from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

It also be found at St. Philip’s Plaza every Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

New artist on the block One of the latest additions to the market is Hot Mess Mama Art. According to Jennifer Johansen, the founder of Hot Mess Mama Art, she started her business less than a year ago.

“I do acrylic fluid art, like acrylic pouring, and I make jewelry out of it,” Johansen said.

Her jewelry includes rings, necklaces and bracelets and they all have acrylic paint underneath their glass.

Johansen does acrylic art in making personalized signs, picture frames and custom color orders. This fall, she has signs with decorum and pumpkins poured over with acrylic paint.

“I’ve been in food and beverage since I was 16, so over 20 years, and my arm just started getting really bad,” Johansen said.

“I was just trying to get out, just physical toll of being in banquets and carrying heavy things.”

She then decided to give the experience of selling art at the farmers market a try and hopes it will work out.

Quench your thirst For those trying to find a refreshment, BlackJack Citrus Infusion specializes in freshly squeezed lemonade infused with homemade syrups and natural fruits.

Their infusion flavors include mint, peach, strawberry, ginger, blueberry, mango, raspberry, lavender, basil and their signature drink prickly pear and jalapeño.

They also offer a special drink for UA students called the “Wildcat,” which is a blueberry and strawberry lemonade.

According to Mary Wood, co-owner BlackJack Citrus Infusion, she makes a simple syrup and then adds the unique infusion flavors to the lemonade.

“With the flavors, I boil the jalapeños while everything is melding together in the pot, so it pulls those flavors out, the essence of it,” she said. “Same with the lavender; I use fresh lavender petals.”

According to Wood, the idea for the business started years ago, but they finally kicked it off last May. They have since been setting up at special events, rodeos, fairs, private events, weddings, food truck

roundups and the farmers markets.

“People love it,” said Mike Tobin, co-owner of BlackJack. “We get people that come back and especially request it and they bring their friends to have it. We really enjoy the fact that people are starting to notice that, because we are doing it for them.”

BlackJack also offers a sugar free variety.

Wood said they make everything separate, from their sugars to the fruit and the lemon juice, which is how they are able to customize everybody’s drink in terms of sweetness and taste.

“It’s kind of a show that we put on for people,” Tobin said. “She makes the syrups and then I get the fruit, we squeeze the lemons, and then we mix and serve.”

According to them, people love to watch the process of them making the drinks.

Wood describes BlackJack as a “new twist on lemonade.”

We all scream for ice cream Ice Craft Tucson specializes in oldfashioned artisan ice cream flavors.

They offer a variety of egg-free ice cream options with flavors ranging from their mother vanilla, strawberry basil and fire roasted coffee to horchata, kettle corn and mazapán. They also offer vegan flavors including vegan pistachio and piña colada.

Ice Craft Tucson was started by Horacio Quirrin, who is a professional chef that has been cooking since he was 14 years old. According to him, working at various restaurants across Tucson sparked the start of his business.

“It was at these restaurants that I was making ice cream because I could never find a purveyor that could give me custom ice creams. So, I started making my own ice cream,” Quirrin said. “We were selling out, we were selling like crazy. That’s when I thought I could make this into a living and I took the plunge. I quit and we are actually doing pretty well.”

Quirrin is always coming up with new and unconventional flavors, though the kettle corn ice cream is one he is most proud of.

According to Quirrin, he decided to make this ice cream after a student was upset because she couldn’t find kettle corn at the market. He offered to make the ice cream. He was able to make it and it sold out.

His newest addition is a “neon lemon” sorbet that glows in the dark. Currently, the sorbet is only offered in neon green, but he is currently working to include a red or blue color.

Quirrin mentioned that he is hoping to implement rare Mexican ice cream flavors to his menu and is open to custom flavors, too.

ERICKA RIOS | THE DAILY WILDCAT

ICE CRAFT TUCSON IS a vendor at the farmers market that sells unique ice cream flavors. Ice Craft Tucson’s owner, Horacio Quirrin, poses at his stand with a smile.

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HOT MESS MAMA ART displays necklaces, earrings, rings and picture frames at the farmers market.

The Daily Wildcat • A7

Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

OPINION | DOES SIZE MATTER?

It’s not the size of the university, it’s how you use it

BY NATHAN GOSNELL @DailyWildcat

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he University of Arizona is a respectably large school, with the campus spanning a large portion of central Tucson and having an enrollment total of around 45,918 total students, according to UA data.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; there are negatives and positives to be found within schools of massive and growing sizes. The issue arises in how universities approach their size and ultimately the vast influence the university holds with it.

First and foremost, the sheer size of the UA provides a sense of accessibility to the school that other smaller and often private institutions don’t have.

On campus and in classes, you can find a wide array of students, and with the still relatively affordable tuition price, it isn’t a school sectioned off for an upper echelon of students. Diverse opinions and

experiences inhabit the campus grounds and contribute to every class in a unique way that may not be as readily seen at smaller and more exclusive universities.

Despite this, as enrollment increases, so does the pressure on the faculty as well as the university in hiring and providing for the faculty, leaving academic professionals in an increasingly precarious and stressful place. In a 2011 study, the American Association of University Professors stated that around 41.3% of faculty are part-time and another 15.4% are full-time but non-tenure track.

Within this is the issue of faculty-tostudent ratios. Large classes can feel dehumanizing and impersonal for both the students and those lecturing. With growth in size, small classroom sizes can be hard to maintain — especially in popular majors — but students are the primary responsibility of universities.

Size also comes with space, and as universities increase their size in terms of people, they also expand their physical scale. The recent completion of the Honors Village Residence Hall at the UA was an example of this. Despite the traditional campus boundaries, this new

construction required the repurposing of a portion of the Feldman’s neighborhood, situated within the residential block instead of the typical university area. As enrollment increases and the amenities for students grow as well, physical space will always be a necessary component despite any aspirations of the university.

The contentious process of reformulating space for a new purpose is often left out of the conversation on expanding universities, including the gentrifying possibilities of expanding beyond their traditional boundaries.

So how big should universities get? The answer really depends what angle you look at it from and whether or not the way the university progresses forward is sustainable and equitable. The real issue is not the size, but how universities use it.

In order to grow, they can’t exacerbate the issues of precarity facing those working in the academic field and contribute to gentrification as they expand into surrounding communities, and they must make sure that growing enrollments take into account the diversity of those they enroll to maintain an inclusive and accessible environment benefited by size.

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Faculty, especially part-time, shouldn’t take the burden of a university’s scale while those above them benefit from increased enrollments. New university projects, primarily those expanding out from the campus, should work with the community and take into account the pressure and influence they exert into the area and perhaps provide studentoriented services. Higher prices may follow but it would mimic the footsteps of the university.

Lastly, those they enroll shouldn’t be admitted for their numbers or tuition rates; instead, it should be done from a community perspective and a studentoriented position.

— Nathan is a senior majoring in East Asian studies and minoring in government and public policy

A8 • The Daily Wildcat

Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

ARTS & LIFE | DRAG WORKSHOP

More to drag than racing Drag queen Piranha’s Instagram is a boldly colorful but dark aesthetic accessorized with anime and macabre stickers. However, looking past the fantasy, glitter and stickers, drag plays a more therapeutic role in Piranha’s life

BY ELLA MCCARVILLE @DailyWildcat

In partnership with the University of Arizona Institute for LGBT Studies, Piranha created a free workshop titled “Drag as Therapy” that will take place on Oct. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Global Justice Center.

However, the workshop will stay open until 5 p.m. to allow participants to continue working on their projects.

The Daily Wildcat communicated with Piranha over email to learn more.

Daily Wildcat: How did this workshop come about?

Piranha: I used to take a yoga class and the teacher Sarah Maaske posted on Instagram about the U of A LGBT workshop applications.

I wrote a little abstract about my vision and sent it in to the institute and they voted for me!

Sarah and I have been working together super hard to make this workshop as great as we possibly can.

DW: What issues has drag helped you solve/ deal with?

P: Truly, drag has helped me deal with so much. Its helped me cope with body image issues, made me feel strong at my lowest points, helped me release governmentinduced rage and allows me to go into a pop-princess world when everything else is too hard.

DW: Is there a story behind your choice of drag name?

P: Honestly, I do not remember at all where the name Piranha came from. Probably a telepathic message from my alien drag queen family next galaxy over or something. Piranhas are just spooky and violent and I like that.

DW: Who can and/or should do drag?

P: Drag has a long, multicultural and often minority-based history. Modern day American drag owes a lot to black trans drag queens like Marsha P. Johnson, yet a lot of drag queens I have been unfortunate enough to encounter are racist, trans-misogynists.

Drag is anti-classist, drag is anti-racist, drag is anti-transphobic, drag is anti-mysoginist, and if you dont represent that, you shouldn’t be doing drag.

DW: You wrote “drag is expansive.” What do you mean by this?

P: “Drag is expansive” means that you can mold it into whatever you can think of. Of all the art mediums I have tried, drag is the most loosely defined. Whatever skills you have can probably be used in some way as a drag artist.

You play a mean kazoo? Bring it on stage.

Drag is expansive in that it’s ever-growing and expands your world. It truly makes you see your world a different way. That’s part of why it’s such a therapeutic tool.

DW: What would you recommend to those who are interested in getting involved in drag?

P: My recommendation is if you want to do drag, don’t expect to look good your first time.

Do it for fun, and do it now. You do not need anything special to start. One time I didn’t have any makeup with me, so I used pastels.

Don’t do that, just go to the 99 Cent Store. If you decide you want to continue doing drag, don’t mimic someone else’s look, and don’t get trapped in the Rupaul’s Drag Race world; there’s more to drag than reality TV. DW: Are there any other organizations or other things/people that you would recommend to people who are starting to do drag to look at/explore?

P: I would recommend that you make connections while you’re starting. Community is everything. Speaking from my experience, if you are a youth starting drag, it is super hard to find spaces to perform. [Queer Youth Art Showcase] at the [Thornhill Lopez] Center on Fourth [Avenue] is a really great show to get involved in and was the first drag show I performed in. Other than that, the MOCA School of Drag is a sort of camp that came from this need I saw for youth to have a place to learn the basics of drag and performance; The School of Drag is now also open to seniors as well. Once again to bring it up, my workshop and drag show! Oct. 26 and Nov. 9! The most important thing I’ve been taught through all of this is that if something doesn’t exist, create it.

DW: Do you have anything to tell those who do not want to do drag but want to help out?

P: To those who do not want to do drag but want to help with the workshop, if you have donations or wish to share information, that is all super helpful and appreciated. All the information for that can be found on the

COURTESY OF PIRANHA

DRAG QUEEN PIRANHA POSES in pink.

Institute for LGBT Studies Instagram and Facebook, as well as my own.

Piranha performs at the QYAS at Thornhill Lopez Center on Fourth Avenue and mentors at the MOCA School of Drag. Besides the upcoming “Drag as Therapy” workshop with

the UA Institute for LGBT studies, they are also hosting a drag show at Artistic InQUEERies event on Nov. 9.

Piranha can be for found on Instagram @piranha_queen and their art account @piranha_bait.

This article was edited for clarity and AP style

The Daily Wildcat • A9

Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

OPINION | CAMPUS CONVERSATION

More engagement, more paperwork

BY RANDALL ECK @reck999

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n 2012, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked employers to list the most important factors they considered when hiring recent college graduates. A student’s coursework and GPA ranked near the bottom of the list.

Internships and employment during college ranked first and second.

This would not surprise most of today’s University of Arizona students. We understand that good grades and rigorous classes are not going to get us very far on their own. Instead of taking the more difficult course or studying an extra few hours for an exam, our time is better spent researching in a laboratory, applying for oftentimes unpaid internships or volunteering in the community.

UA’s administration also recognized this shift in the value of a university degree. In 2013, UA’s Never Settle strategic academic and business plan called for every UA student to be given

the opportunity to apply and integrate their knowledge in real-world learning experiences.

This Engagement initiative was born to meet this goal.

It does not create new opportunities for students to apply their knowledge in the real world. Instead, 100% Engagement “define[s] our common values around these experiences in the form of Engaged Learning Activities nad Competencies,” according to their website.

Although 100% Engagement does not provide access to additional financial support for students to seek out these opportunities, it instead adds an “Engaged Learning Experience” notation to students’ official transcripts.

The model of university education desperately needs to be modernized, though 100% Engagement is a bureaucratic step that does not add value to a UA degree.

I have participated in five 100% Engagement experiences, four semesters of undergraduate research and one semester preceptoring a neuroscience course. A mark on my transcript is not worth the added paperwork I am required to complete to enroll in these credits.

This Engagement asks students to reflect on, in writing and at length, the three core principles

of every engagement experience: competency, activity and skill.

Competency pushes students to leverage innovation and creativity to question the status quo and generate new ideas. Activity guides students towards discovery, reflecting on the development of solutions to real-world problems. Skills require students to convey how an experience will teach them problem-solving and critical thinking.

If these “common values” sound like a lot of buzz words, it’s because they are.

A required line on my resume does not need to be supported by an asterisk on my transcript.

The program’s paperwork annoys me more because I know if I were a molecular and cellular biology student, research and preceptorships would not be considered 100% Engagement opportunities and would require no additional paperwork. It is important to note that some preceptorships requires the paperwork while other programs say it does not. This makes the 100% Engagement initiative complicated because its implementation is inconsistent.

This Engagement does not represent UA’s full effort to transform university education, but it is a good case study of initiatives that do more compared to initiatives that produce change.

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UA’s academic programs need to acknowledge the trade-offs faced by its students. Students should be able to replace required courses with internships, research and other real-world experiences. Additionally, more academic programs should require these experiences.

Students should have access to additional support to find these opportunities and the financial resources to pursue them. Coursework should incorporate outside the classroom experiences and place a reduce emphasis on root memorization and difficult exams.

Genuine campus-wide investments to create new research, internship opportunities and other related resources for students are necessary.

As part of this investment, the UA needs to recognize students are busy. Students are forced to balance a lot, we should trust them to be able to articulate the benefits of these all-butnecessary experiences without the added timeintensive paperwork.

— Randall is a senior studying neuroscience and cognitive science and political science

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Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

ARTS & LIFE | AROUND THE CORNER

Hang with the ghost and ghouls at the Owls Club An old Tucson mortuary comes to life as a cocktail bar with all kinds of spirits. This week’s Around the Corner features Owls Club in the historic Armory Park neighborhood

BY SUNDAY HOLLAND @sunday_holland

Tucson is brimming with old structures rumored to be haunted, from Hotel Congress to the Fox Theatre, but the Owls Club is where both alcoholic and ghostly spirits collide.

Just around the corner, in historic Armory Park, the Owls Club is a western-inspired bar brimming with spirits of all kinds: historic, alcoholic and — depending on what you believe — supernatural.

The bar is housed in an old mortuary, according to Andrés Ortiz Sanroman, who has been bartending there since it first opened. The repurposed chapel has dim chandelier-lit rooms, the original church pew seating, stainedglass windows and flickering candles, making for a spooky setting.

“Many people think the building is haunted,” Ortiz said. “I’ve had customers tell me they’ve heard voices talk to them from certain corners of the bar.”

It’s no wonder why the bar has earned such a reputation. According to Real Estate Daily News, thousands of bodies had been escorted in and out of that building for nearly a century.

The original mortuary, Bring Funeral Home, was opened back in 1928.

According to the home’s website, the funeral home moved locations in 2014 due to a decline in downtown real estate and is now located on 6910 E. Broadway Blvd. Then, as stated on the Peach Properties website, the former mortuary was renovated and converted into a two-story building by Ron Schwabe and Marcel Dabdoub in 2015.

The Owls Club later opened in November 2016.

The concept behind the bar was to pay homage to a late-19th century local bachelors’ club of the same name, according to Ortiz.

According to Dawn Moore Santiago in the Journal of Arizona History, the original Owls Club lasted from 1886 to 1912, founded by 13 wealthy bachelors

ERICKA RIOS | THE DAILY WILDCAT

INSIDE OF THE OWLS Club, which is located on South Scott Avenue.

looking to bring their finery and finesse to the frontier lands of the not-yetdeclared city of Tucson.

Many of those men became affluent businessmen and academics at the University of Arizona. From the original mansion’s opulent adobe walls, wellto-do men working at the Tucson outpost of the Southern Pacific Railroad would wander into the bar for a drink, according to Real Estate Daily News.

Their wild parties lasted late into the night, so they aptly adopted the owl for their mascot. Fittingly, the club was closed when the founder got married, Ortiz said.

“We don’t go that far. You’re allowed here if you’re married or not,” Ortiz said.

“The modern Owls Club isn’t just a bar for bachelors. Everyone is welcome.”

This Owls Club is not as populated with bachelors of the Wild West like its predecessor. These days, a wide range of customers come to the bar, from college students to theatergoers, according to Ray Chasson, the bar’s custodian.

Despite the quiet whispers of shades from the building’s glory days as a mortuary and the ghosts of eligible bachelors, the only spirits Ortiz has encountered are the intoxicating kinds.

David Wood, a first-timer at the bar, stopped in Arizona in the middle of his western road trip. He had been in Tucson for five days.

“There’s an incredibly chill vibe,”

Wood said. “The space is really cool and the bartenders know what they’re doing.”

The Owls Club has a selection of six house-invented cocktails, a large whiskey collection and a variety of wines, beers and other liquors, according to their website.

UA alumnus Chushi Mwewa stopped by the bar for his second time on Tuesday, Oct. 15, on his way home from working at a mine.

“For me, the uniqueness, the good prices and the history of the bar are really cool,” Mwewa said. “I’ve traveled all over the world and this is the first time I’ve ever seen something like this.

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Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

ARTS & LIFE | AROUND THE CORNER

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It’s somewhere I would want to bring a friend or someone from out of town.”

The bar is located at 236 S. Scott Ave. and is open from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. every day of the week. Whether you’re looking to find a friendly place to stop and have a drink or are hunting for haunted hangouts, the Owls Club is the place for you.

Even if the specters and stories don’t interest you, “Everybody likes candles,” barback Robert Bayze said.

ERICKA RIOS | THE DAILY WILDCAT

A PAINTING HANGS ON the wall inside of the Owls Club. The Owls Club is located on South Scott Avenue.

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AN OLD FASHION MIRROR stand inside the Owls Club.

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A12 • The Daily Wildcat

Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

SPORTS | NEW PITCHER

After struggling to find pitching, Arizona baseball should be in good hands

BY ARI KOSLOW @koslow_ari

The University of Arizona baseball team lost eight players from last season’s team to either graduation or the MLB draft. This team will see a mix of returning players from last year’s sensational freshman class and new faces from another highly anticipated freshman class this year.

With the Wildcats’ fall schedule kicking off this Saturday, Oct. 26, against Team USA, coach Jay Johnson likes what he has seen from the team so far.

“I like how they have worked in terms of the weight room through the first month,” Johnson said. “I think it is clear that a lot of the returning players are stronger and more physical and used their experience in the summer time well.”

It’s no secret that pitching was what hurt the Wildcats most last season.

The offense ranked No. 1 in batting average, hits and runs scored in the Pac12 conference.

The pitching, on the other hand, ranked second to last in team ERA, third to last in strikeouts recorded and second to last in walks allowed.

Johnson is determined to turn around the pitching staff this season, beginning with the addition of pitching coach Nate Yeskie. Yeskie comes to Tucson from Oregon State after spending the last 11 seasons in Corvallis, where he won an NCAA National Championship in 2018 and was named the D1 Baseball Assistant Coach of the Year in 2017, according to Arizona Athletics.

“I think [Yeskie] is one of the best pitching coaches in the country,” Johnson said. “I think he’ll have a large impact on developing that side of the ball for us, which frankly needed some improvement. I think he is a solid person.”

Several exciting young arms will get to work with Yeskie this year, including Dawson Netz, a freshman right-hander out of California who posted a 0.43 ERA with 99 strikeouts over 65.2 innings at Maranatha High School last season.

Arizona also recently added three other players to the team late this summer, two of which are pitchers — freshman right-hander Wesley Scott and right-hander graduate transfer Davis Vainer.

Scott, who is coming to the UA from Woodcrest Christian High School in California, went 6-1 in his senior year with a 0.98 ERA and 85 strikeouts in 50

COURTESY MIKE CHRISTY | ARIZONA ATHLETICS

BLAKE PAYTON IS A left-handed pitcher from San Diego, Calif.

innings.

Vainer, who will be finishing out his collegiate career with the Wildcats after playing the last three seasons with the University of Alabama, “limited opposing hitters to a team-low .173 batting average,” according to an Arizona Athletics article.

The Wildcats pitching staff will also look to rely on sophomore left-hander Randy Abshier, who was recently named as the Wildcats’ Summer Pitcher of the Year.

“He’s got plenty of talent,” Johnson said. “It’s just his ability to consistently fill up the strike zone, and his first outing last week was very good — a sign that I think the best has yet to come for him.”

Abshier was prominent this summer, pitching for the Mat-Su Miners of the Alaska Baseball League, working a 3-1 record across 10 appearances to the tune of a 1.52 ERA with 42 strikeouts across 47.1 innings pitched. He showed flashes last year throughout his freshman season and will look to take a step forward for what is expected to be a new-look Wildcats pitching staff this season under Yeskie.

Arizona will be looking to find their way back into the NCAA Tournament this year after a two-year absence.

COURTESY MIKE CHRISTY | ARIZONA ATHLETICS

MARCH 8, 2019 DURING Arizona’s 7-5 game 1 win over College of Charleston. Hi Corbett Field, Tucson.

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The Daily Wildcat • A13

NEWS | RESEARCH FUND

Astronomy Prof. receives $875,000 to study supermassive black holes University of Arizona assistant professor of astronomy Peter Behroozi received a $875,000 grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Behroozi will use the money to study stupermassive black holes. The Daily Wildcat spoke to him about his research

BY PRIYA JANDU @Priya_J11

Daily Wildcat: How did you become interested in astronomy?

Peter Behroozi: It was totally by accident. I went to Stanford [University] for graduate school in physics. The way the program works is that there’s a rotation with up to three different professors your first year, and all the people who I wanted to work with doing laser physics didn’t have any openings.

I said, “Why not? I’ll try astronomy,” because there’s another professor who did simulations of the entire universe on big computers and I thought that sounded super cool. So I tried that and then I loved it so much that I stuck with that professor. I didn’t even try going back to research physics, and that began my career.

DW: How did you get the Packard grant?

PB: That’s a competition both at the {University of Arizona] and then also nationwide. The first stage is for the UA to pick two people to send to the Packard competition, so I was very lucky to be one of those. The Packard Foundation picks among the hundred applicants, so basically 50 universities and two people at each, and the Packard Foundation has very famous and also very old people – you can find a picture of them on the Packard Foundation website – to decide among those hundred candidates, and they picked 22 for this year.

DW: How would you explain what you plan to research in the simplest way possible?

PB: The project I proposed was to study the growth history of supermassive black holes. Black holes are pieces of the universe that have gotten so dense, so much matter in the same spot, that they’ve created a region where not even light can escape. Anything that passes within something called the event horizon in a black hole gets sucked inside and can never escape.

The UA recently was part of a collaboration that took the first picture that we have of a black hole that’s surrounded by matter that’s falling in. That was earlier this year with the Event Horizon Telescope. We know these strange parts of the universe exist and I want to uncover what was the history, how did they form inside galaxies?

We believe the center of every galaxy, like our galaxy the Milky Way, that there exists one of these supermassive black holes. The way I study this is that it’s impossible to look at a single black hole and figure out what its history was — that is, how fast it grew over time.

We can see growing black holes, or at least the matter falling into black holes, all across the history of the universe. I built models of the entire universe to try to capture the growth of black holes and compare those models to the real thing.

I generate entire simulated universes where I know how black holes grow, and I compare those to the real universe and see, “Do they look the same? Do they not look the same?” If they do look the same, then I’ve been able to verify that my guess for how black

holes grow matches what is happening in the real universe.

Just to make an analogy to something that’s maybe more familiar, if you think about human growth, how humans have changed or evolved over time, you can’t take a single human and say, “This was your history,” but if you look deeper and deeper into the surface, you see things that seem to be related to humans, like our ancestors, the Neanderthals, and so on, as you go earlier and earlier into the history of Earth.

So I’m doing something similar to black holes and looking for the ancestors of black holes that existed at earlier and earlier times in the history of the universe, and then trying to construct the evolutionary pathways of black holes from that.

DW: How long have you had this research idea in mind?

PB: I’ve actually had this idea for quite a long time. I would say five years. It’s been very hard to find funding for it because it’s someone outside of the field for which I’m best known.

I do most of my work in galaxy formation and that’s why I was hired at the UA. The research I proposed for the Packard fellowship is with supermassive black holes. What happens usually when one applies to traditional grants through the government or other places, people look at your past work to see, “Have you done anything with black holes?” If you haven’t, then they view your application with a little more skepticism.

Because success rates are so low, people end up effectively being very risk-averse, so they fund the projects that only seem very likely to succeed, but they also tend to fund projects where the people proposing them have had clear paths to success in that field. Even though my method was very interesting, and the comments I got suggested it was very interesting, people are somewhat hesitant to fund someone who’s never done black hole research before.

The Packard Foundation had been unique in that they care less if you’ve been very successful in a field and more about, “Does the approach sound interesting and creative and new and likely to push the whole field in a new direction?”

I was very lucky that they exist and fund that kind of research, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to do it.

DW: The grant is $875,000 over five years – why does your research require that amount of funding?

PB: For most people, me included, that’s an almost unimaginable amount of money. Actually, if you ask, “How much does it cost to hire a student and post-doctoral fellow to work?”, that’s actually then enough to fund one student and fellow for five years. If you divide it up each year, it’s about $175,000 and split that across two people’s salaries plus benefits plus retirements plus everything, it ends up being eaten up very quickly.

DW: What do you hope to find from your research?

PB: Definitely, I want to understand how black holes grew and why they grew. Another hope that I have with this research is to learn a little more about, “What are the seeds of these supermassive black holes?”

For context, when I talk about a supermassive black hole, I’m

COURTESY PETER BEHROOZI

PETER BEHROOZI IS AN assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona and an assistant astronomer at the Steward Observatory.

talking about something that can be up to 10 billion times the mass of our sun. Researchers of the UA have found that these enormous black holes exist, even when the universe was maybe 5% to 10% of its current age. In other words, in not very much time, the universe created these really enormous black holes for no light to escape.

It’s been a puzzle for a long time why that could be, and there are several different ways people have thought up for this to happen.

I hope with my research to be able to find out which way it is to understand what was the tiny seed that eventually grew so much to become these enormous, supermassive black holes very early in the history of the universe.

DW: How do you think your research will contribute to our current understanding of black holes?

PB: The answer to the previous question depends on how matter falls into black holes and how fast black holes spin out as that matter falls onto them. We have very unclear ideas because it’s very difficult to see exactly where matter is falling into black holes.

We can see the light that’s produced. The same way that if someone has a light bulb and it’s a mile away, you can see that there’s light but you can’t really see what’s emitting that light. These supermassive black holes are so far in the distance, we can tell that there’s light but we can’t see details about what’s happening; as matter falls in, it heats up and releases a lot of light in that process.

My work will help tell us about how fast black holes grew, and that will also give us some more insight about what’s happening that we can’t see today but which we hope to understand how do black holes grow.

This interview has been edited slightly for clarity.

A14 • The Daily Wildcat

Wednesday, October 23 - Tuesday, October 29, 2019

NEWS | GRANT

Ditch the angel shots, ask for safer bars

BY ANA TERESA ESPINOZA @anaespi2405

The Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Arizona State University received a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to implement the Arizona Safer Bars Alliance at bars surrounding the three main universities.

The Arizona Department of Health Services will take care of training bar personnel on prevention methods for sexual harassment in bars. The training goes deep into actions they should take, barriers they may face and how to overcome those barriers.

“We work with bar staff to identify barriers to intervention, because we know that just because you know these skills doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re always going to be able to use them,” said Elise Lopez, assistant director of the relationship violence program and co-investigator on the program.

The program’s research was developed through feedback from bar managers, staff members and community members that described the behaviors they see in bars.

“This is a bigger agenda, a bigger initiative of bringing key players in the state to figure out a multifaceted approach and figure out a safer way for alcohol consumption among university students,” said Mary Koss, UA regents professor of public health and co-principal investigator on the program.

According to Koss, police reports of sexual harassment are made all around town but are reported at a higher rate around college campus bars than anywhere else. This information is what reinforced their focus on university bars.

Their research found that it is not that the victims aren’t saying no, but rather that the perpetrators are not listening to the cues being emitted by the other person.

“It’s like when you’re drinking and driving,” Lopez said. “It’s harder to stop at a yellow light because the alcohol has impaired your ability to perceive those cues quick enough for your body to react.”

Although there are many different aspects of the program and they have a well-rounded training, the main emphasis on the training is demoting bystander behavior. The idea, in the end, is to encourage bar staff to attend and be willing and ready to intervene if needed.

They have heard back from bar staff who said after the training they feel more confident in approaching the situation head-on.

“My students didn’t believe me that bystander behavior is so prominent,” Koss said.

“So, they went to film a video in front of the Administration building where someone would lie down on the steps and they could not believe that no one came up to say anything.”

Koss said she’s seen similar things taking place in bars while they were conducting research. Patrons would see something knew

REBECCA NOBLE | THE DAILY WILDCAT

GENTLE BEN’S, A BAR and grill on University Boulevard, is one of the top spots to watch sports games, including Arizona football and basketball games. The Arizona Safer Bars Alliance aims to prevent sexual harrassment at university bars.

was wrong but did not approach the situation.

Lopez and Koss aim to change that.

Apart from the bystander behavior, Koss said she will measure the success of the program in four ways: increasing general knowledge, strategies for intervening, observing unwanted behavior and recognizing that unwanted behavior for what it is. A common sign often overlooked is that the victim likely knows the perpetrator.

“When you’re thinking of your safety, it’s not just about watching out for the weird stranger in the bar, but being able to trust your gut about someone who is being sexually aggressive towards you, no matter what that may be,” Lopez said.

Lopez and Koss emphasized that the aim of the program is not to make bars less fun by monitoring the sexual activity, but rather to make it a safer environment for patrons to not feel attacked or ridiculed.

“We are not here to tell the bars ‘turn the lights on and the music down,’ we simply want to discourage sexual misconduct from happening in those bars,” Lopez said.

Currently, according to Lopez, five bars in Tucson are trained in the Safer Bars Program: Hotel Congress, Good Oak, Sky Bar, Casa Film Bar and Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails. Some bars not trained in the Safer Bars Program may have financial obstacles holding them back, since bars have to pay their staff for taking the

ANA TERESA ESPINOZA | THE DAILY WILDCAT

THIS IS THE CARD provided to a bartender at Good Oak Bar. The bar is one of four bars working with researchers to reduce sexual assaults in bars.

training. The aim, however, is to have as many bars under the Arizona Safer Bars Alliance as possible. There is even a bar in New York City that is trained in the Safer Bars Program.

“After six months, when we can measure what’s going on with the bars that didn’t receive training, they do eventually get training if they want it,” Koss said.

Posters stating that the bar is part of the program are hanging in bathrooms and windows, usually encouraging bar patrons to report any sexual misconduct and letting them know that the staff is there to help. Customers

who wish to know if a bar has been trained can simply ask the staff or post on their social media. If they are not trained, customers can express their interest in the bar becoming part of the program.

Lopez said that “there’s plenty of opportunities for students to get involved in recruiting and encouraging bars to go through the Safer Bars program.”

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NEWS | POLICE BEAT

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The second student approached the first student, who was sitting on her bed. The first student said she did not remember exactly how, but the verbal argument escalated to a physical fight that left her without her glasses and three scratches on her arm courtesy of the second student.

She also said the second student cursed and insulted her before leaving the room.

The first student told the officer she did not feel safe in the room and would be spending the night at a friend’s place off campus. She did not know if she wanted to press charges for the assault.

The officer then spoke with the second student, who also told him that she and her roommate did not get along. She had previously requested to be moved to another room, as she did not want to live with the first student anymore.

She said during the argument over moving the food, she was within arm’s reach of the first student, who was sitting on her bed. The first student had hit her throat and kicked her while on the bed, she told the officer.

She said she did not want to press charges, as they were equally responsible for the fight.

spoke with the roommate.

The roommate admitted that the argument, which was strictly verbal, had taken place and that he was a bit of a “hothead” during disagreements. He did not remember exactly what he said to the student. He also told the officer that he felt intimidated by the student’s size compared to his own.

He assured the officer that his father was not coming to come to campus to make good on his own threats.

When asked about the pistol picture, the roommate said that it belonged to his friend, who lived off campus. He had also already deleted the picture.

The student and the roommate discussed the situation and conflict resolution with the resident assistant. Ultimately, they decided to make a “chore schedule” to fairly determine who had to undertake which responsibilities in their room.

The student did not want to press charges. The officer sent FYI referrals for both students to the Dean of Students office.

CREEPY UBER

A THREAT AND A FLEX

GRAPHIC BY AMBER SOLAND | THE DAILY WILDCAT

Take a long-standing feud between two roommates, sprinkle in an argument about some misplaced food and a dash of latenight tension, and you have a recipe for disaster.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer arrived at Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall on Oct. 13 around 1 a.m. to get both sides of the story from the students involved. A resident assistant led him to a basement office where the first student was waiting.

She told the officer she and her roommate, the second student involved, do not get along. The pair had been through mediation attempts and roommate agreements with Housing and Residential Life, but it had not done much good so far, she said.

Earlier that night, she had been in the room alone while the second student was at the Arizona-Washington football game with her visiting family. She noticed that her empty pizza box and the second student’s Chinese food had been moved to the top of her refrigerator. According to the first student, the refrigerator belongs to her and she does not allow the second student to use it.

She moved the pizza box and Chinese food back onto the water jug that it had been sitting on top of earlier. Then she went to sleep.

The first student woke up when the second student and her family returned to the room after the football game. She told the officer she could hear the second student talking in the hallway about the moved food and how the two would need to discuss it.

When the second student entered the room, the pair began to argue. The first student said she would throw the food away.

GRAPHIC BY AMBER SOLAND | THE DAILY WILDCAT

GRAPHIC BY AMBER SOLAND | THE DAILY WILDCAT

Living away from home can be tough, and it does not get any easier when your roommate threatens you over something as simple as a water filter.

A UAPD officer arrived at Coronado Residence Hall on Oct. 13 at around 5:30 p.m. Once there, he spoke with the student who had made the call.

The student told him that his roommate had threatened him verbally a few days ago, though he could not remember if it was on the night of Oct. 10 or 11.

He said the two had been in their shared room when he asked his roommate to refill their Brita water filter. That was when the roommate began to get aggressive, according to the student.

According to the student, the two got into an argument, with the roommate eventually saying, “Imma have my dad come here and beat your weasel ass!”

Later on, the student found a picture on social media of the roommate holding what looked like a pistol, a move meant to “flex” on the student.

The student also said that the roommate had removed his mattress from their room the day before and spent the weekend away from the room. However, he had brought the mattress back that morning and was up in their room now.

A resident assistant took the officer up to the room, where he

Given how many stories of creepy rideshare drivers end up in Police Beats, it is amazing any of us still use these apps.

A UA student called UAPD and spoke with an officer about her unsettling experience with an Uber driver on Oct. 11 at around 1:30 a.m.

The student said she had left a party at the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house. She got into a blue four-door sedan that she though was her Uber. Inside, the driver was a man in his 30s with a shaved head wearing glasses and a baseball hat.

When a friend said goodbye to her, addressing the student by her first name, the driver said, “So that’s your name.” Since the student used a nickname as her Uber name, she became suspicious and checked the Uber app, only to realize that the man in the car with her did not match the photo of her actual requested driver.

It was then she realized this was not her Uber.

She asked the driver to pull over and let her out. She said he slowly came to a stop, but when she tried to open the car door, it would not budge due to the child lock feature. She told the driver to roll down the window so she could pull on the outside handle. He said in a low voice that the door was broken from the inside. The student managed to reach out the window and open the car door.

She exited the car and got into her real Uber. Once she was safely home, she called to report the encounter.

The officer told her that Counseling and Psychological Services were available if the incident went on to bother her to the point that it negatively impacted her daily life.