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Brittany is a UA student who studies English literature and creative writing. She’ll be graduating from the UA in 2017.

She is a mother and a survivor of domestic violence.

Brittany, who asked the Daily Wildcat not to use her real name for her own safety, experienced domestic violence for the first time more than 20 years ago as a teenager. She said she was married to her ex-husband for 10 years and he became physically, verbally and sexually abusive toward her after the couple’s third daughter was born.

She’s dated people since her divorce, but again experienced domestic violence.

“He would say things like, ‘Maybe if you lost a little more weight, I’d be willing to take you out more often,’” she said.

Brittany said shouting matches from an ex-boyfriend became so regular and disruptive that her neighbor would come to the door to make sure she was not in danger.

Trapped “To be honest, I learned to tune out shouting,” Brittany said.

Accompanied with this type of verbal abuse, Brittany said physical abuse often came in the form of sexual assault. She said if she was not willing to be intimate with her partner, he would rape her. She said she would be thrown and held down without her consent.

“I would have bruises all along my arms from being pinned down,” Brittany said.

Her wrists were sprained multiple times from being pulled violently.

In the situation with her exhusband, Brittany often sacrificed herself to his abuse in order to spare their children. By purposely breaking a glass or telling him something she knew would upset him, she said he would project his anger onto her instead of them.

Because of her, she said her exhusband has never been able to physically abuse their children.

“He was also financially abusive—he controlled all our finances,” Brittany said. “Even if I wanted to leave, I didn’t have the resources to be able to do anything and take my kids into a safe environment.”

Financial stability often becomes a problem among domestic violence victims, according to the National Coalition against Domestic Violence. The NCADV reports that, collectively, “victims of domestic violence lose a total of eight-million days of paid work each year.”

After Brittany gave birth to their third daughter, she said she was put on bed rest because she had a mild heart attack during labor.

Because of being on bed rest, she gained a lot of weight. This piqued a new level of verbal abuse from her ex-husband. He would say to her, “Fat slob, why don’t you get your ass up and do something,” and “You need to get a job because you’re eating us out of

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that Brittany was able to escape the abusive marriage and get back into school. She now lives in a residence hall and the children live with her parents.

When she started going to school at the UA, Brittany started counseling at Counseling and Psych Services, talking to people going through similar problems.

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2014 ‘pulse flow’ impacts Colorado River delta

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The International Boundary and Water Commission reported on the beneficial impacts of an engineered flood of the Colorado River delta in 2014. Scientists from the UA, as well as from the Nature Conservancy and the Sonoran Institute, contributed to the report.

The 2014 “pulse flow,” or the temporary release of a surge of water from the Morelos Dam at the U.S.-Mexico border into the Colorado River, was a bi-national effort. Water from the U.S. side of the Colorado River flowed to the Mexican side of the river, according to Karl Flessa, professor of geosciences and the co-chief scientist of the Minute 319 monitoring team.

Around 130 million cubic-meters of water was released during an eight-week period in the spring of 2014 during the pulse flow, according to the IBWC report. This is less than one percent of the river’s annual flow, according to Karen Schlatter, the adaptive management specialist for the Sonoran Institute.

Minute 319 is an agreement that was added to the U.S.-Mexico Water Treaty of 1944, and this treaty allows Mexico to store part of its water allocation in Nevada’s Lake Mead and for the U.S. and Mexico to share in future water shortages and surpluses on the Colorado River, Flessa said. This agreement also allows for the pulse flow.

One goal of the 2014 pulse flow was to see whether the release of water would help native vegetation and wildlife in the area, Flessa said.

This goal may have been accomplished—where conservation groups had prepared the ground before the pulse flow, there was an “excellent

recruitment of young native riparian plants,” according to Dale Turner, a conservation planner at the Nature Conservancy.

Groups like the Sonoran Institute removed non-native vegetation species before the flow was released, and after the innundation of the area, seeds from plants such as cottonwood and willow germinated in restoration sites, according to Schlatter. Other areas that haven’t had nonnative species removed didn’t have as much “establishment” because there wasn’t as much bare ground for the riparian tree species to be established, according to Schlatter.

Soil salinity also decreased because prior to the greater current of the pulse flow salt could build up, Schlatter said.

Since the release, a team of scientists from various institutions, including the UA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the Sonoran Institute, the Nature Conservancy and Mexican conservation organization Pronatura Noroeste, have been monitoring the environment around it.

To do this, the team annually surveyed the vegetation and twice-annually surveyed bird abundance and diversity. They also measured groundwater levels in 72 shallow wells, and each month using satellite images, they measured the health and abundance of vegetation, according to Flessa.

“Two years is enough time to see what the immediate impacts were on the ecosystem,” said Edward Glenn, a professor emeritus in the department of soil, water and environmental science who was on the monitoring team.

The pulse flow itself and subsequent monitoring involved cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico, something Glenn calls one of the most positive thing to come from the project.

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The agreement between the U.S. and Mexico that made this pulse flow possible runs out in 2017, and there are currently discussions about renewing the agreement, according to Flessa.

Turner said releasing another pulse flow would “clearly be beneficial” because the environment adapts to a cycle of

regular flooding.

“It’s an exciting project to restore some natural conditions in a system that depends on cooperation across an international border,” Turner said. “That’s a very rare thing in this world.”

If another pulse flow were to happen, Schlatter said the team would probably target key restoration sites and possibly sites further upstream as well, depending on input from the science team and government agencies.

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the UA and college campuses nationwide continue to struggle with the issue.

College students aren’t strangers to domestic violence incidents. They can happen between roommates, students in romantic relationships, friends, coworkers and parents among others.

The UA campus offers numerous support programs this month and year round to aid domestic violence survivors like Brittany.

The Women’s Resource Center, located on the fourth floor of the Student Union Memorial Center, offers various resources for domestic violence survivors.

UAPD collects new items through its Starting Over Supplies for Survivors drive.

The drive collections will be donated to the Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse, according to UAPD officer Rene Hernandez.

“We don’t want people to live in silence because it can affect anybody,” Hernandez said.

Minnie Almader is a sexual assault and trauma treatment counselor for Counseling and Psych Services.

Almader assesses patients for physical and emotional reactions to trauma and teaches them a variety of coping strategies.

“I think college campuses are doing a pretty good job talking about sexual assault, and I see that’s a more visible topic right now,” Almader said. “I think domestic abuse where there’s physical or emotional violence is talked about less.”

Almader said she stresses to students that healthy relationships should be where you both trust each other, you both have fun and you both have boundaries in place.

Rosanna Curti, the assistant dean for Student Assistance and Accountability, said the safety of the student is the first priority when a student either self-reports a domestic violence incident or a report comes in from UAPD. A Title IX coordinator will reach out to students and explain their options for the next possible steps once any changes are made to the student’s living arrangements or class schedule for safety.

Curti said the majority of incidents that aren’t self-reported come from Residence

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Life, specifically from resident assistants observing a problem situation, and the majority of self-reported incidents come directly from off-campus students.

“I don’t think a lot of our students even know what being in an unhealthy relationship looks like,” Curti said.

Curti thinks education surrounding domestic violence and healthy relationships versus unhealthy relationships needs to be more relatable to students. Specifically, she wants to introduce education on domestic violence warning signs on social media.

“I think we really need to think of quick and easy ways to show people what red flags or concerns can be,” Curti said. “We’re very reactive—before you get to this stage let’s even try to prevent it.”

Curti is working with another staff member to create an educational social media program that she said should be completed around early November.

“You can’t learn how to be in a healthy relationship,” Brittany said. “Nothing you read, watch, hear or even do can teach you any sort of steps or formula. But what you can learn is how to walk away from a toxic relationship. And that is the most important thing you could learn, for the sake of self

love and care.”

Samantha Wallace, the coordinator for youth and activity programming at Campus Recreation, said the program’s military combat arts classes could help teach people how to better protect themselves if they ever face an aggressor.

“It certainly doesn’t hurt to be prepared and take the time to learn something,” Wallace said.

Fiona Davey, a public health junior and one of the student directors of the Feminist Organized to Resist, Change, Empower organization on campus, said FORCE has planned three different awarenesspromoting events this month with Students Promoting Empowerment and Consent.

“I think it’s really important that we all take action to talk about it in a more visible way and that we don’t think it’s victims’ faults,” Davey said.

The Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse held a support celebration for domestic violence awareness, Paint Pima Purple, on Oct. 20, where everyone could wear purple, take pictures at a photo booth, write their domestic violence stories on T-shirts for the Clothesline Project and make donations to the “Starting Over Supplies” drive.

Olivia Lawless, the philanthropy chair for the Alpha Chi Omega sorority, said Alpha Chi Omega raised around $12,000 for the cause from its most recent event, Pizza Pie with Alpha Chi. The sorority’s other major event held during the school year, Liar Games, raised around $7,000 for the cause last spring. Lawless said the sorority does a few smaller events throughout the year as well.

Lawless said 80 percent of the money raised goes to the Emerge! Center Against Domestic Abuse and the remaining 20 percent goes to the Alpha Chi Omega Foundation.

“A lot of times, it could be someone that you’re walking by down the Mall that you would never know, but maybe something with Emerge! has helped them out,” Lawless said.

Even the young woman who delivered the pizza for Pizza Pie with Alpha Chi told Lawless she was excited to help them because she had lived in the Emerge! housing units for three years while getting out of an abusive relationship.

“I think there generally isn’t enough education out there at all on domestic violence, but especially on a college campus,” Brittany said. “I think one of the biggest problems we have is that a lot of us when it first starts, we don’t know it’s domestic violence.”

Brittany said she thinks there is a tendency on college campuses to “push alcohol and drug problems under the rug” by labeling people as partiers, when in reality those people might be trying to cope with some form of abuse.

“One day after a boyfriend decided to blow up at me, I started drinking from Friday night until Sunday night,” Brittany said. “It was constant and constant—part of me thinks that I might have been trying to actually let the drink kill me.”

Brittany said her current boyfriend is not abusive. She is on track to graduate next year as a double major with an internship and a role in student government under her belt.

Brittany has one piece of advice for other students experiencing domestic violence.

“Find those little moments of happy because they go so long and so far in making sure that you keep your mind right.”

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Wrong bag A University of Arizona Police Department officer was driving around at 8 a.m. on Oct. 22 when he saw a man walking in an erratic way with his jeans falling off his waist and looking confused. The officer conducted a welfare check on the man and noticed the man’s clothes smelled like alcohol.

The man said he had drank about three to four beers the night before at the Luna apartments and he was on his way back to his dorm, Posada San Pedro. The officer asked him how old he was, and the man said he was 18 years old.

The officer had the man take a Portable Breathalyzer test twice, and both times the results were negative, but the officer noticed the man’s tongue was green when he opened his mouth to take the test. When asked, the man said he had smoked marijuana that morning.

The officer searched the man and found a plastic bag with one white pill. The man said it was Xanax and that his friend had put it in his pocket as he was leaving. He said he had thought that it had been a bag with marijuana in it. The man had a Dean of Students referral and was put through the diversion process.

That’s not soda UAPD officers responded to a call about a man who had poured alcohol into a cup and was acting intoxicated on the UA Mall on Oct. 19. Officers walked around the mall and the Student Union Memorial Center and eventually found the man by the Bear Down Gym. When officers found the man, they recognized him from the exclusionary order list. The man said he was “just walking through to go to the park,” and when asked the man identified himself.

The man was carrying a Polar Pop cup from Circle K, and as he put it down to talk to the officer, he took a sip. The officer could smell alcohol coming from the drink and the man’s breath.

When running a warrants check on the man, officers found he had an active UAPD warrant or failure to appear and also had an active exclusionary order. The man was arrested for trespassing second degree and for consuming spirituous liquor in public; he also received another exclusionary order for one year. He was taken to the Pima County Adult Detention Center.

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Here’s why congressional and presidential elections shouldn’t occur at the same time

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s you inevitably know, we have an upcoming election, and if you choose to vote, you will not only have the option to cast a vote for our next president, but you’ll also cast a vote for your local U.S. representative and, depending on the state you are registered in, your senators.

Unfortunately, many people in the upcoming election will vote for their U.S. representative based on how they feel about a party’s presidential nominee.

The American two-party system has been a cornerstone of our democratic process for over two centuries, and it applies at all levels of government.

Local, state and national political figures are almost always associated with a political party, and to rise to such a high position, a candidate usually needs Democratic or Republican registration.

Today, there are no independent members of the House of Representatives and there are only two independent senators.

Political parties essentially present themselves as holding concrete ideologies with uniform adherence to party policy standards among their members.

Voters without the time or temperament to become informed on each candidate’s policies often choose a party who most aligns with their own sense of how the government should function, then simply vote along party lines.

The simplified political strategy these voters are practicing holds serious consequences for election outcomes and forces politicians to appeal to the lowest common denominator of voters or risk angering their party and voter base.

For starters, a party’s platform often changes during a presidential election because the party’s nominee wields an incredible amount of influence over the future direction of the party.

An extremist nominee will cause the party to advocate for extremist policies, and a moderate nominee will cause the party to become more moderate.

This rapid shift in policy can be difficult for politicians to adjust to—especially for those who adhere to more moderate views.

The difficulties arising from this situation are often experienced by senators and U.S. representatives

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whose names are on the same ballot as the presidential nominees.

Their party may move toward policies which a moderate politician seeking re-election adamantly opposes as part of their platform.

This straw man I’m referring to will find themselves guilty by association.

Despite the politician’s beliefs and service record, an image spoils easily in the eyes of many party hardliners.

This can ruin a political career and deprive our nation of some of its most effective and honest legislators.

If a politician finds themselves in a situation where they’re very moderate and their party becomes more extreme—or vice versa—there’s little for a candidate to do.

While changing parties, known as party switching, may seem like a feasible solution, there are dangerous stigmas attached. The politician will be viewed as a traitor by his previous base, and many in his new party will doubt the

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politician’s motives.

As a result, party switching rarely occurs.

There’s not an easy solution to resolving the problem of congressional and presidential elections occurring at the same time.

We could theoretically change when each office is elected, but it would require an overhaul in our political process, an overhaul unlikely to take place.

Politicians could switch parties to avoid having their name tainted, but the resulting suspicion dissuades many.

They could also attempt to distance themselves from their party’s platform, but sending a political message costs money and appealing to the party donors often goes hand in hand with sticking to the party line.

Ultimately, politicians are trapped in a system where outcomes are judged by the policies their party’s candidate advocates for.

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Increasing the size and reach of companies like AT&T could give it more latitude to increase rates for data and mobile services. Enlarged size also grants AT&T more bargaining power with

BY ISAAC ROUNSEVILLE other service providers and increased leverage @itsgonbezoppity in setting rates for consumers. Without federal regulation, AT&T could even increase charges he purchase of the entertainment on rivals like Verizon and Comcast to broadcast conglomerate Time Warner Cable by their content from CNN, HBO, TBS or TNT. telecommunications company AT&T Such selective charging would be inimical to is part of a grim and expanding trend in competition and burdensome on consumers.

American business.

The true import of this decision can’t be The close to $86 billion acquisition is viewed in just the present. This purchase is monumental in both its size and projected part of a growing trend of media distributors impact, with the world’s second largest mobile purchasing media producers. In 2011, a phone provider obtaining the second largest majority of NBCUniversal’s cable company in the U.S. trading stock was purchase by Consumer choice, content the cable giant Comcast for diversity and competition As content $30 billion. are all made more vulnerable production This consolidation if the purchase isn’t followed was just the first step in a companies by appropriate trend of distributors become more growing government regulation. controlling media companies.

The consolidation consolidated under Citizens should consider was the subject of harsh one brand, a single, the logical, ethical and questioning from consumer outcome of ever-strengthening commercial advocates, members of allowing this merger process Congress and regulatory source regulates the to continue unregulated. authorities, echoing worries Advocates will argue that ideas presented in that combining content mergers like this are inevitable politically tinged production with media and ultimately beneficial to television shows, consumers. With the rise of distribution could lead to perverse conflicts of interest. movies and radio online streaming services While AT&T’s gambit to programs.” like Netflix and Amazon purchase its direct competitor Prime, Time Warner Cable’s T-Mobile was foiled by traditionally reliable base of regulators in 2011, ownership users is dwindling. of a media powerhouse like In order to stay afloat, Time Warner Cable can also merging with a larger content distributor like result in an unsettling confluence of roles that AT&T is a cost effective way to reach a broad have traditionally remained separate. audience. Such mergers also enhance the When a massive telecommunications prospects for innovation in the emerging mobile company like AT&T controls media outlets such video industry. as CNN, under the umbrella of Time Warner If content producers and distributors can Cable, what’s to stop the telecom colossus from work together directly, advocates of the merger filtering stories and reports that are unfavorable argue, the process of providing specialized to its broader business interests? Would a media content consumers is optimized. giant like CNN even bother filling the airwaves But in order for these benefits to outweigh with negative yet truthful coverage of its everthe costs from conflicts of interest, increased expanding parent company? homogenization of content and pressures on Another worry is the increased consumers, government must play a leading homogenization of entertainment media. role in ensuring fair play. The merger between As content production companies become Comcast and NBCUniversal was only approved more consolidated under one brand, a single, after anti-trust regulators hammered out ever-strengthening source regulates the ideas specific rules the company had to follow. presented in politically tinged television shows, Among many regulations was the requirement movies and radio programs. for equal treatment of other content providers TBS and HBO, both companies that are now that streamed material from NBCUniversal. under the control of AT&T, are host to several To avoid concentrations of media power that programs and comedy shows that present stifle diversity and competition, consumer and political and social satire. Consumers should anti-trust advocates must pressure government question whether acquisition of these outlets by officials to keep businesses accountable. the same company—and possible purchasing of Promises of fairness and neutrality from more in the future—would have a good or bad AT&T will meet short shrift if consumers are impact on the diversity of perspectives in the complacent and the perverse incentive of entertainment industry. increased profits play the dominant role in An additional concern is the impact such a these mergers.

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The year 2016 has officially become the year of the clown.

Ever since the clown craze that began in early October, reports of clown sightings have arisen everywhere.

Some say the whole thing is nothing but a hoax, while others fear to leave their homes at night due to the possibility of a clownfilled encounter.

Halloween is this Monday, and estimates report that clowns will be on the loose,

watching and waiting to genuinely scare the, for lack of a better word, sh*t out of anyone who crosses their path.

If you plan on going out this Halloween, keep these things in mind just in case you come into contact with one of these rednosed demons.

First of all, some clowns are really more afraid of you than you are of them. While many may seem genuinely vicious and bloodthirsty, a fair amount of them represent nothing more than poor, misunderstood creatures who just need a friend.

Clowns tend to respond to positive reinforcement, much like small animals. Just offer them a treat and make sure to throw in a “good boy.” You will have Mr. Clown eating out of the palm of your hand in no time.

If you want them to just stay away all together though, there’s no easier option than to become one for the night.

Think about it for a second.

If a clown sees another clown out and about, it will more than likely simply continue

on its way, giving you a classic clown head nod before it moves along to scare the next person they see, who more than likely didn’t have the brilliant idea to blend in and walk through town with them.

Keep in mind that many clowns only want to scare you because they feel the world betrayed them.

Even before the 2016 clown frenzy began, job opportunities for clowns started dwindling, enrollment in clown studies programs at colleges and universities were at an all-time low, and more and more opportunities for professional, hard-working clowns began to disappear.

Every professional clown already has an existential crisis once he or she realizes they have dedicated their lives to entertaining children by becoming something that terrifies them most—they never seem to get around to teaching that at clown college.

These clowns became fed up with a world that refused to respect their profession, so it should really surprise nobody that they have

now begun to lash out, resulting in this year’s killer-clown fiasco.

“The clown life is hard enough already,” said one local clown who wished to remain anonymous. “I just wish people would take the time to learn more about the art of clowning.

Maybe then they wouldn’t be so afraid of us.”

Various movements, such as Clown Lives Matter, have attempted to address this issue, but the problem still remains.

The various clown hunts that have taken place across the country over the past month illustrated that much.

“We feel hunted and prosecuted,” another clown said. “Luckily, Halloween is our time to shine.”

If you find yourself face-to-face with a clown this Halloween, try your best to understand where they’re coming from and why they feel the need to scare you.

Tell them you appreciate their work and you think the future is still bright for people in their profession.

If that doesn’t work, then run like hell.

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UA grad theses find home at Poetry Center

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Adding to the exclusivity of the UA Poetry Center, the MFA Thesis Collection is now available in the Center’s library catalog, completely available to the public.

The collection is made up of 672 (and counting) published theses from UA Creative Writing MFA grads. “[The theses] were all originally admitted to the graduate school here at the UA,” said Sarah Gzemski, the publicity and publications coordinator for the Poetry Center.

Gzemski said most universities keep records of the student theses, but the Poetry Center here at the UA has cataloged the collection as part of the library, which is unique to the university system worldwide.

The collection, consisting of published theses from the 1970s to the present, contains graduate theses in creative nonfiction, fiction and poetry.

The collection even includes early work from UA alumni such as David Foster Wallace, Nancy Mairs, Richard Siken, Agha Shahid Ali and many others.

Gzemski said all but one of David Foster Wallace’s short stories from his MFA thesis are published.

“Its cool to see where some of your favorite writers started by reading their theses,” Gzemski said. “Through this collection, its probable that people will discover new writers, as well as inspiration for their own writing.”

Trying to build the collection even more, Gzemski hopes more MFA grads submit their theses to the Poetry Center. “[The theses] have been lost or never submitted, so if MFA grads want their theses here in our library collection, we urge them to get in touch,” Gzemski said.

A lot of work from the the Poetry Center’s staff is also included in the library collection.

“It is such a thrill to see [the theses] in such a large grouping like the library collection,” said

Poetry Center Library Specialist Sarah Kortemeier. “There are so many interesting voices in the collection and that really adds to what makes it so special.”

Kortemeier is a 2010 alumna of the UA who graduated from the MFA Creative Writing Program.

Kortemeier’s thesis is also part of the collection.

Kortemeier said this collection really helps to inspire writers.

“A lot of MFA students come to look at the structure of how other writers set up their own theses,” Kortemeier said.

Kortemeier said she has been greatly inspired by the collection and appreciates gaining exposure to such great works of other writers.

The collection, which is completely free and available to the public, is comprised by different types of writing ranging from fiction, to creative nonfiction to poetry.

There is really something there for everyone.

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public and we want people to have a chance to come and read them,” Gzemski said.

With works spanning over five decades, the thesis collection remains a pinnacle part of the Poetry Center’s library.

By studying the history of creative writing, writers are able to improve their own work.

“These are such fascinating documents and they are truly a valuable resource for anyone,” Kortemeier said.

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The month of November allows you to relax, spend time with family and feast.

Some choose to binge on junk food and others like to stuff themselves with carbs, but some even feast in another way—by streaming movies and TV shows off the internet. Luckily, with so many streaming services available to consumers these days, it has become a rare occurrence to have nothing to watch at all.

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Nov. 4 will say hello to “The Crown,” a historical series about the life of Queen Elizabeth II, starring Matt Smith of “Dr. Who” fame. Netflix does not have a long history of original content like this, so the series should attract many fans of the genre.

On Nov. 11, Netflix original film “True Memoirs of an International Assassin” will premiere and probably be a film nobody should ever watch because it will most likely be absolutely awful. The film stars Kevin James as an action writer who somehow gets mistaken as an actual assassin. This plot, combined with how terrible of an actor Kevin James is, will without a doubt establish this film as a perfect example of why Netflix is losing its respected reputation.

Acclaimed drama “Boyhood” will hit the site Nov. 25. The film is a masterpiece of cinema that director Richard Linklater shot over a 12year span with the same cast.

The film takes a look at the life of a young boy named Mason as the audience literally watches Mason grow up right before its very eyes.

Nov. 25 will also make way for “Gilmore

Girls: A Year In The Life,” for any fans wanting more of the beloved series.

This miniseries will serve as a continuation of “Gilmore Girls” and the two main stars will resume their original roles.

Hulu Hulu has begun to gain momentum on Netflix, and the site thusly provides its own share of new content in November.

On Nov. 1, a variety of content will become available, including both “Charlie’s Angels” films, Academy Award-winning film “Dances With Wolves" and a variety of James Bond movies.

Other great films that will soon become part of the Hulu library include the classic Coen brothers film, “Fargo,” and the always-great “Good Will Hunting,” which originally put screenwriters and stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on the map.

Hulu may not have the ability as of yet to offer what Netflix does in terms of original content, but as far as other offerings go, it has proven itself to be a fierce competitor.

Amazon Prime Instant Video When you think of Amazon, you no longer think of it as only a place to go for last minute gift ideas.

Instead, you may think of the vast selection of television shows and movies available on Amazon Prime.

Nov. 1 will see AMC crime drama “The Night Manager,” starring Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, make its way to the site.

Michael Douglas and Glenn Close's thriller “Fatal Attraction" will also come to the site Nov. 1— just in case viewers want to watch something that feels scary-but-real this Halloween season.

A wide selection of “Rocky” films will also stream on the site this month, and so will the George Clooney comedy-drama “Up In The Air.”

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ARIZONA MIDFIELDER GABI STOIAN (left pile) and forward Paige Crouch (bottom pile) tackle Arizona midfielder Cali Crisler (middle pile) in celebration after her game-winning goal in double overtime against California at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Soccer Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 30. The Wildcats triumphed over the Golden Bears 2-1 in double overtime on Senior Day.

ARIZONA MIDFIELDER LAURA PIMIENTA (27) faces off with California forward/midfielder Abigail Kim (17) at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Soccer Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 30. The Wildcats won against the Golden Bears 2-1 in double overtime.

Seniors win final home game in double OT Cali Crisler’s goal in extra time provided Arizona soccer an exciting end to the home schedule and a fitting victory for a pivotal senior class

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The final home game for the winningest senior class in Arizona soccer history was about to come to an end. One hundred minutes had gone by, and the Wildcats were deadlocked in a 1-1 tie with California in the 90-degree October Tucson heat.

“This is it, there is no third overtime,” Arizona head coach Tony Amato told his players before the final 10-minute period.

“Put your heart into it.”

The Wildcats were celebrating a 2-1 Senior Day victory eight minutes and 38 seconds later, with junior midfielder Cali Crisler positioned at the bottom of a towering dog-pile.

“I got taken down and I was getting crunched,” Crisler said. “It was a great win and very exciting for the seniors for their last home game.”

In the 109th minute, a pair of flick-ons by midfielders Kelcey Cavarra and Gabi Stoian pushed the ball into the right side of Cal’s box, where Arizona senior forward Paige Crouch ran forward to collect it.

With the goalkeeper approaching her head on, and a trio of Golden Bear defenders—two from her left and one from behind—quickly closing, Crouch had to make a last-ditch effort.

“The last moment I remember ... I hit and we haven’t had the best run,” senior it at the keeper probably as hard as I midfielder Jaden DeGracie-Bailey said. could,” Crouch said. “And it rebounded “So we wanted to go out fighting and on a [off the keeper].” high note, which we did.”

The rebound trickled to the front of The Wildcats grabbed an early 1-0 lead the goal where a Cal defender—without when Stoian launched a shot from atop picking her head up—laced the 18-yard box into the left the ball away from the net. side of the net in just the But she didn’t spot second minute of the game.

I’m just so Crisler, who was crashing “After we saw Gabi score, relieved and we were like, ‘Oh, wow, we toward the goal, and the clearance deflected off happy that this can do this,’” Crisler said. the Arizona midfielder Boyd] is a great is how it ended. I “[Emily and in for the Wildcats’ goalie, but we knew we wouldn’t want it to were going to get chances game-winner. end with any other and we could score on her.”

“It wasn’t the prettiest Arizona saw plenty goal,” Crisler said, “but I girls or any of chances—tallying 30 knew I had to get my body other way.” shots on the day—but on it someway to deflect Boyd made 12 saves and it in.”

—Jordan kept the Wildcats without Mayhem ensued.

“It feels like a national DeGracie-Bailey, another goal through the championship,” Crouch Arizona soccer senior rest of regulation.

The Golden Bears only said. “It just means the mustered nine shots in world because it’s our last the game, but managed to home game for seniors tie the match on a penalty and we’ve been on a losing streak. So for us to beat Cal, who is a kick in the 30th minute. The Wildcats were dominating the match, more than phenomenal team, is just amazing.” doubling the Golden Bears in shots taken.

The Wildcats had lost four of their last “It would have been easy today to tie or five games heading into Sunday. lose that game and say, ‘Well, you worked “This game was especially important hard,’ but to work hard and get the result is because this was our last home game

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really the important thing,” Amato said.

Fittingly, the senior class that has won more games than any other in program history was able to get the result, tallying one last victory at Murphey Field at Mulcahy Soccer Stadium with Crisler’s late-game heroics.

“I’m just so relieved and happy that this is how it ended,” DeGracie-Bailey said.

“I wouldn’t want it to end with any other girls or any other way.”

But the end isn’t here just yet. The Wildcats still have a rivalry game against ASU on their schedule Friday at 3 p.m. So, even though Senior Day has passed and Arizona—with an 8-9-1 overall record and a 3-8 Pac-12 Conference record—is unlikely to reach the NCAA Tournament, there’s still plenty left to accomplish.

“We talked all week about recognizing the seniors before the game as if this was their last game, but their job’s not done,” Amato said. “I didn’t want them to just hang their hat on what they’ve done for the past three years, they also have to leave on a good note, and leave the program in a good state and that means a win today and a win on Friday.”

One down, one more to go.

“It was a relief and it was exciting all at once,” Amato said of Sunday’s Senior Day victory. “It’s definitely a great way for them to wrap up their home schedule.”

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ho would’ve thought discussing Arizona football would also entail the tragedy of the offense this season and the multiple failed experiments head coach Rich Rodriguez has attempted?

Offense was the whole reason athletic director Greg Byrne brought Rodriguez to coach the Wildcats, right? Rodriguez is one of those guys who will always be known as the pioneer of the spread offense, dating back to his days at Glenville State, but his trickery with using players at multiple positions is running out.

With the Wildcats now 2-6 on the season and winless in the Pac-12 Conference, Arizona is on the brink of not making a bowl game for the first time in the Rodriguez era. He has to just wake up every morning and ask himself, “Why me?” and “What wild and wacky adjustments can I make, so if it works, I’m a genius?”

The only positive takeaway from Saturday’s loss and the season overall is the microwave mentality for losses, as well as a caring mentality.

“We all really care and I got a lot of guys in that locker room that give a crap about what we’re doing and it’s really, really important,” Rodriguez said.

At this point, the only thing the offense should be worrying about is actually putting together a touchdown drive that looks like a vintage, two-minute drill offense that can score points.

But hey, those six three-and-outs against the Cardinal really showed that Arizona cares.

We could sit here and talk about the injuries, but when both quarterbacks who have been competing for the starting job since April can’t get any traction, it forces the offense into a stalemate. Brandon Dawkins completed four passes on 10 attempts for 99-yards and a touchdown to Trey Griffey, but after that scoring possession, the offense returned to struggling for a first down.

Once Dawkins struggled on the first possession of the second half, Rodriguez hit the Anu Solomon panic button and for the only quarterback with legitimate experience, he laid an egg. Solomon’s five plays in the third quarter consisted of three incomplete passes, a sack and a fumble. So the Solomon saving the day experiment completely went out the window, and so did Arizona’s chances of winning a game.

“It’s awkward when you come back from an injury,” offensive lineman Jacob Alsadek said.

“It’s a little different when you’re out for that long. Most games I missed was two and it was weird coming back already.”

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ARIZONA CORNER BACK JACE Whittaker (left) prevents Stanford wide receiver Trenton Irwin (right) from catching a pass at Arizona Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 29. The Wildcats lost to the Cardinal 34-10, as head coach Rich Rodriguez and company continued to struggle for answers in a free-fall season.

With Solomon active for the first time since the week-one BYU loss, it was a part of Rodriguez’s master plan to at least flirt with the idea that his third-year quarterback was ready for a comeback.

“Yeah, we were going to play both. That was my plan,” Rodriguez said. “Certainly he hadn’t played in a while so there was a little bit of rust in there some of it when gets in there—had a little bit of protection issues. … He’s a good player. Probably not 100 percent, but we’ll keep working.”

Rolling out right and throwing it away, and then coughing up the ball to Stanford deep in Wildcat territory proved to be the first failed test of the night.

Another one of Rodriguez’s guinea pigs on Saturday was senior Samajie Grant, who converted from a wide receiver back to his high school days in Compton, California as a running back.

Grant was an interesting move, because he had experience as a tail back with recent exposure as a wide receiver in his time at Arizona. He could’ve added a Reggie Bush dimension to the offense.

“He did okay,” Rodriguez said. “He’s still learning the position and he showed some explosiveness—I’m sure there’s some coachable points that we have to do with him

to get him better, but we’ll keep him in there with our running back situation the way it is.”

Grant had a tendency to avoid running between the hashes and bounced everything outside, whether it was designed that way or not. Football is a game about going north and getting yards even if it’s a two-yard gain. Grant was trying to do too much and because of that, it cost the Wildcats yards like his 24-yard loss in the second quarter that took Arizona out of field-goal range.

“If I were to give myself a grade, it would be a “D-” because I know I’m better than what I did out there,” Grant said. “I just got to learn from it and watch film.”

Arizona has now used a third-string tight end as a quarterback, burned the redshirt off of freshman Khalil Tate, converted a wide receiver

to running back and scored the least amount of points Saturday since its Halloween loss to Washington last season.

For an offense that was once known to carry Arizona, now just looks like something that was put together for a last minute middle school science project. But at least the players “give a crap” about the experiment.

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