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Male cheerleaders help pump up crowd Inside look at the lives of male cheerleaders at Arizona
Regents to focus on UA’s plans for future BY STEPHANIE CASANOVA The Daily Wildcat
BY SCARLETT MCCOURT The Daily Wildcat
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t 6 a.m. on a Wednesday morning, most college guys are sleeping. Or maybe they’re just rolling out of bed. But at 6 a.m. at McKale Center, there’s a group of college guys who are wide awake, tossing and catching girls. These are the Arizona male cheerleaders. There’s a stigma that cheerleading isn’t a sport, that a male cheerleader isn’t masculine, that you don’t have to be athletic to cheer. But the truth is, a lot of physical training goes into being a cheerleader. James Hosobe, a junior in his second year on the squad, used to play football in high school. Hosobe came to terms with the fact that he wasn’t big enough to play football in college, but found his place in cheerleading. Cheerleading, according to Hosobe, is a very physically demanding sport. Weight training workouts for the guys on the squad consist of fast twitch muscle techniques and other exercises to condition their core and legs. “Football is about getting big, big, big,” Hosobe said. “Cheer is about abs, abs, abs.” Hosobe said the most important part of cheer training is technique. Having good technique is crucial — after all, a woman’s life is in his hands. “You can weight lift a million pounds, but if you don’t have the technique to follow the jump, it’s impossible,” Hosobe said. Besides having weight training days, the cheer squad has early morning practices three times a week. On top of that, it has appearances at games, which this
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UA CHEERLEADER T.J. Mitchell yells into a megaphone at the football game against UNLV on Sept. 7 in Las Vegas.
units, including two labs, while time of year could include women’s cheerleading. volleyball, women’s basketball, How does he men’s basketball survive? and a football “A schedule game all in one Football is book and lots of week. about getting coffee,” Hosobe Cheerleaders big, big, big. ... said. can easily spend Cheer is about Psychology 20 hours a week abs, abs, abs. senior Courtney on cheer alone. Broome manages On top of that, — James Hosobe, a not only cheering they juggle junior base cheerleader and being a schoolwork, jobs student, but having and internships. two jobs as well. Hosobe, a pre“It’s very hard,” med student who Broome said. “But it teaches you is majoring in East Asian studies really good time management.” with an emphasis in Japanese, manages 17 units along with cheer. CHEERLEADERS, 7 Last year, Hosobe was taking 19
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Months of preparation will come to fruition on Friday when top UA administrators present their overarching plan for the UA’s future to the Arizona Board of Regents. The second day of the board of regents meeting, hosted by the UA, will be dedicated to a three-hour presentation of Never Settle, the UA’s academic plan, and the UA’s business plan, which will show how the university intends to finance Never Settle. The Never Settle plan focuses four major priorities for the university’s future: engaging students in realworld experiences, innovation through research and creativity, partnership with businesses and community organizations and synergy, which focuses on advancing the UA’s diversity and sense of place. UA President Ann Weaver Hart and members of her senior staff will walk the regents through the UA’s future academic and financial plans and possible challenges, said Rick Myers, chairman of the board of regents. Myers said he considers the Never Settle plan an ongoing strategy rather than an unchanging set of goals for the future. “We live in a very changing … world,” Myers said. “[Hart has] looked at this big picture of education and research and economic development and tried to put together a roadmap of what U of A can do now and moving forward.” Since the first time the UA’s academic strategic plan was presented to the board of regents a year ago, the president’s cabinet has gotten feedback that helped flesh out the details of the plan, said UA Provost Andrew Comrie. The board will likely be more focused on the business plan, which links the university’s goals with its resources, said Wanda Howell, chair of the Faculty Senate. The business plan will show the regents how UA
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The Daily Wildcat Mitza Molina, a junior studying special education, never thought she would get a red tag. But in 2011, the house that Molina and her roommates shared at the time was red-tagged after a party there with more than 100 guests was broken up by Tucson Police Department officers. “That was why we got in trouble,” she said. “People were letting the cops in.” Texts with Molina’s address were forwarded to random people, which led to strangers flooding her house. After her neighbors called the cops, the fun was over and the house was red-tagged. Molina said she did not appreciate the fine that came with the orange paper on her house. She and her roommates were required to pay $300 dollars and wait six months before their house was free of the tag. “It took us a while. After the time was up, we still hadn’t paid [the fine],” Molina said, “so we had to keep [the tag] up until we paid.” The Associated Students of the University of Arizona will be hosting an open forum about red-tagging today at 6 p.m. in order to raise awareness about situations like Molina’s. The forum was organized by Justin Spodek, ASUA’s director of local affairs and a senior studying political science
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UA and community speakers discussed what being human means to them and how they have felt dehumanized in their lives at a symposium on Tuesday. The first-ever Tlakatl: What it Means to be Human symposium ran all day Tuesday at the Student Union Memorial Center. Speakers discussed humanitarian issues, including the personal effects of immigration laws and discrimination against Native Americans. Dulce Juarez , the immigrants’ rights project coordinator of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, said being dehumanized means that people feel unseen. Juarez spoke about the importance of sharing personal stories with others to better understand people and feel closer as a community. “If we want to be human, we must first think about the moments where we felt dehumanized,” Juarez said, “and then reflect on how we can move forward to be able to treat others as humans and also to be seen as people.” Overcoming the struggles of dehumanization, Juarez said, is not about helping others to make yourself feel good, but about learning about the struggles of others and standing by their side. This issue, which especially affects minorities and
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER Jake Edwards speaks at the Tlakatl: What it Means to be Human symposium on Tuesday. The symposium involved a discussion between students and community leaders about humanitarian issues.
“[For] families like mine … immigrants, is particularly relevant to the UA because the only way to communicate of its proximity to the border, is through Skype,” Diaz said. “It’s through she added. a screen, Cynthia Diaz , If we want to which is a freshman be human, not human studying preand it’s not public policy we must first fair, but it’s and Latin think about reality.” A m e r i c a n the moments Keynote studies, gave where we felt speaker Jake the welcome dehumanized. Edwards, speech for the a member symposium. — Dulce Juarez, of the Diaz and immigrants’ rights Onondaga her mother project coordinator N a t i o n presented Council together about immigration issues. Her of Chiefs, said he hopes to mother, who lives in Mexico, educate people about the called in via Skype.
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The importance of creativity is completely understated. Creative thinking should not be an idea exclusive to the arts; it is important to every educational discipline. OPINIONS — 4