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By Brenna Goth ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA is coping with the proposed 20 percent budget cut in state funding by introducing a retirement program for long-term employees.

A retirement incentive program will provide employees with a year’s salary if they choose to retire at the end of the academic

year or summer session, according to a statement released by the university last week.

About 250 faculty and staff are eligible for the voluntary program, according to Vice President of Human Resources Allison Vaillancourt.

The program applies to faculty and some staff such as librarians and curators who are at least 65 years old and have worked

at the UA for 10 or more years.

Employees can accept the offer through mid-March.

“The governor plans to reduce our budget by 20 percent,” Vaillancourt said. “It’s one of the strategies we’re going to use to manage the budget cuts that are coming.”

Vaillancourt was not aware of a retirement incentive ever being offered before.

“This has been discussed for

years, and we’ve always decided not to do it because we were afraid of losing some of our very best faculty,” she said.

“Now we must use every strategy we have to handle the budget situation.”

Roger Dahlgran, chair of the Academic Personnel Policy Committee, said the program would most likely attract faculty already nearing retirement.

“We’re talking about faculty on the verge of retirement anyhow,” said Dahlgran, an associate professor of agricultural-resource economics. “If anything, they’re retiring a year or two sooner than they would have.”

Dahlgran said the program is helpful for these employees.

“No one is being forced to retire,” he said. “It’s possible for both faculty BUYOUTS, page 2

Advising uneven among colleges Some advisers are assigned to multiple majors

By Eliza Molk ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Certain colleges at the UA offer a variety of advising resources while others are more limited in what they can offer.

The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences has 5,412 students, 20 different majors and 19 advisers, according to the UA advising website and the UA Fact Book.

John McNeill is an academic adviser for six different majors within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences: sociology, linguistics, journalism, philosophy, politics, economics and law general education and undecided students. He said that although it “looks rather impressive” that he advises six different majors, it is “not that difficult.”

McNeill is the general education adviser for three majors which all contain the same basic general education requirements and three others that all have additional faculty advisers.

McNeill said the wait time to see him depends on the time of semester, but priority registration is “rough.” McNeill said he asks students to make an appointment more than a week in advance during registration. McNeill also tries to accommodate other students through first-come, first-served walk-in hours, which he holds for four-and-a-half hours Monday through Friday.

Jenna Naegle, a political science junior, said she believes that there are not enough advising appointment times to go around and the appointments themselves “go really fast” during walk-in advising. Students have 20 minutes to talk with their specific adviser, according to Naegle, and, once walk-in advising hours end, the students waiting in line cannot be seen that day.

“If I could change anything, there would be more appointment times or different walk-in hours instead of the same times every day,” she said.

Eitan Cramer, a journalism sophomore, said he had “managed to pull through (with the current advising system) but for incoming freshmen I can imagine it must be extremely challenging.”

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Ramon Moreno, 23, an installer for Goodman’s Interior Structures, gathers memorial items for preservation after a light afternoon rainfall on Monday at the University Medical Center, where a makeshift memorial honoring the shooting victims has remained since Jan. 8.

Memorial to move on Friday

By Bethany Barnes ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Tributes left by the Tucson community to those affected by the Jan. 8 shooting will be moved on Friday.

University Medical Center, Safeway and Rep. Gabrielle Gifford’s office have been working with the UA Library Special Collections to maintain and archive the three different memorials for the shooting that killed six and wounded 13 more, including Giffords.

Items left for the memorials will be moved into a facility at UMC. These items will be stored until a more permanent memorial is established.

Efforts to preserve and collect tributes on the lawn escalated on Monday because of the rain.

“The Giffords office did quite a bit of work this morning, and Mother Nature just decided they need to take in a lot more items today than they had planned to,” said Stephen Brigham, director of capital planning and

projects for UMC. “It was very emotional for them.”

The “temporary nature” of some of the items left at the memorial makes them easily damaged, Brigham said.

“Everything’s damaged a little bit … but things are drying out,” Brigham said.

Chrystal Carpenter, manuscript and Congressional archivist for Special Collections at UA, has been acting as a consultant for the process.

“There will be definite challenges

based on the wide range of materials,” Carpenter said.

Many of the items require different maintenance, and sorting out how to best to preserve them will be a long process, according to Carpenter.

Volunteers from UMC have been helping staff at the Safeway memorial move the items.

“It’s very touching and of course sombering (sic) and I feel very honored to be able to help with this part,” Carpenter said.

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Department of Health Services issues criteria for obtaining marijuana

By Alexander Vega ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Stricter state marijuana regulations have made the drug harder to obtain, even for medicinal purposes.

The Arizona Department of Health Services issued a set of draft rules on Monday, designed to regulate the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act as it is implemented .

As the law and new set of rules state, only patients with certain serious ailments are eligible to be provided with written certification for a registry identification card .

These “debilitating medical conditions” include, but are not limited to, cancer, glaucoma,

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HIV, AIDS, hepatitis C, Crohn’s disease, Alzheimer ’s disease or a chronic condition that causes pain, nausea or muscle spasms.

Furthermore, a patient must have one year’s record with a single doctor to be eligible to for a registry identification card.

These new rules are expected to serve as “true checks and balances” against those seeking to abuse the law.

Will Humble , director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, stressed the importance of such checks during a press conference last December.

The purpose of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act is a “medical program and not a

recreational marijuana program,” Humble said.

State Rep. Steve Farley, D-Tucson , is taking steps he believes will ensure that medical marijuana is not taken lightly.

Farley proposed a bill in the state Legislature last week that would levy a 300 percent tax on the sale of medical marijuana.

The percentage was decided based on how much cigarettes are taxed in the state.

Farley said he wants to avoid a situation like in California and Colorado where “there is a dispensary on every corner.”

“There is a major funding crisis,” Farley said. He also

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A growing marijuana plant and the end product are displayed on Monday after harvesting a fully grown plant in Tucson. The grower, who asked not to be identified for fear of legal repercussions, said the plants are grown and MARIJUANA, page 2 smoked because of chronic health issues.

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BUYOUTS continued from page 1 and the university to benefit.”

Long-term professors like J. Jefferson Reid are among those who have been offered the program.

Reid is a university-distinguished professor of anthropology and has taught at the UA since 1969.

Reid said he is planning to retire in five years and did not seriously consider the offer.

“I was telling people that I wanted to retire in 2015 so I could

MARIJUANA continued from page 1 said he envisions using the bill as a means of helping address the state’s $1 billion-plus shortfall.

However, the bill isn’t merely a moneymaking scheme for the state, Farley said.

Farley’s proposed tax would

celebrate the 100th anniversary of the School of Anthropology,” Reid said.

Reid said he would consider taking an incentive if it fit with his retirement plan but the offer came too suddenly for serious consideration.

“The window was too narrow and the incentive too small,” he said.

The program will save the university money because not everyone who leaves will be replaced.

This could result in additional work for remaining faculty, according to Vaillancourt.

“We might just reorganize things,” she said. “Perhaps a class isn’t offered or something like that. We do not want this in any way to affect the student experience. We’re going to be creative to make sure that does not happen.”

Reid said the program might be effective in saving money, but that professors with the most experience should put their skills to use in the classroom.

“It would be good if they could get people with very high salaries to retire,” he said.

Reid said professors who love

also provide for independent quality and safety regulations of marijuana sold in dispensaries.

The tax isn’t designed to “arbitrarily tax people,” Farley said. Instead, the tax is a method of “saving” Arizona.

The Arizona Department of Health Services set up a form on their website for Arizona residents to comment on the new law and proposed rules.

The form will be available through Feb. 18 and the input will go toward formulating the finalized code that is expected to be ready at the end of March.

Though new rules are being deliberated, medical marijuana will still be prohibited on the UA campus.

ADVISING continued from page 1 The UA School of Journalism lost its adviser, Karen Weaver, at the end of Spring 2010. Now McNeill advises the school.

“It (seeing the current adviser) is not the same as having a walk-in adviser in the department,” he said. “SBS is a big department and journalism is such a tailored program that SBS can’t encompass advising all of the journalism students when it has other departments it has to focus on.”

Not all students in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences have had problems with the current advising system.

Daniel Mathis, a linguistics junior, said that the linguistics department “makes life

really easy” by allowing students to book appointments through their website.

“I’ve never had a problem with advising for my major,” he said. “They have always been really helpful and always put me on the right track.”

The Eller College of Management has 6,297 total students, five advisers for the eight majors it encompasses and five additional pre-business advisers. They have three advising options including 30 minute scheduled in-person appointments, “quick advising,” which is walk-in advising for five hours on Mondays and Tuesdays and three hours on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, and email advising, which is for quick, general assistance.

Skipton Drulias, a business management junior, sees his adviser twice per semester

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their work would probably continue teaching.

“I enjoy what I do so much,” he said. “Retirement might even be scary.”

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and says the system is “good the way it is.” Drulias makes his appointments online ahead of time because every Wednesday the Eller College puts up available advising times for the following week. He uses “quick advising” whenever he has questions on a non-pressing matter and waits about five minutes to be seen.

Students in other colleges also find the advising system well organized and helpful.

Dan Shtutman, a physiology junior, met with his adviser at the beginning of every semester during his freshman year and used the “online major map” starting his sophomore year in order to see what classes were necessary to stay on track. Getting an in-person appointment is “no problem”, according to Shtutman, as long as students look at the online appointment calendar about a week or

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Judge rules ‘Obamacare’ unconstitutional McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida dealt President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul another legal blow on Monday, ruling that the entire law is unconstitutional because of a requirement in the legislation that Americans get health insurance starting in 2014.

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson’s widely anticipated decision goes beyond a separate ruling by a federal judge in Virginia who last year ruled only that the insurance mandate is unconstitutional.

In separate lawsuits, two other federal courts have ruled that the law and its insurance mandate are permissible under the socalled Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

The divided opinions set the stage for a potentially landmark constitutional debate in the higher courts, with a final decision expected in the U.S. Supreme Court, perhaps as soon as next year.

Vinson, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, signaled for months that he would back the challenge to the law filed by Florida’s Republican attorney general and joined by 25 other states.

And in his ruling Monday, he said he had no choice but to invalidate the law.

“The existing problems in our national health care system are recognized by everyone in this case,” Vinson wrote in the 78page ruling. “Regardless of how laudable its attempts may have been to accomplish these goals in passing the Act, Congress must operate within the bounds established by the Constitution. ... I must reluctantly conclude that Congress exceeded the bounds of its authority in passing the Act with the individual mandate.”

Vinson rejected a second claim by the states that the health care overhaul unlawfully forced them to expand their Medicaid insurance programs for the poor, another key part of the new law.

And he declined to stop implementation of the law, as the plaintiffs requested.

Vinson’s decision comes six weeks after a similar ruling in December by a federal judge in Virginia, who backed a lawsuit by that state’s attorney general. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, a Republican, also concluded the insurance mandate was unconstitutional, though he declined to halt implementation of the law while higher courts considered the case.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., has agreed to expedite its review of the Virginia case, scheduling hearings for May.

Other federal judges in Michigan and Florida — both appointed by President Bill Clinton — have concluded that Congress had the authority to require Americans to get health insurance.

With some exceptions, the unprecedented insurance mandate will require Americans to get health insurance and penalize those who do not.

The requirement was designed to spread risk more broadly and control insurance premiums, enabling the federal government to offer consumers other protections, such as prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to patients with pre-existing medical conditions.

Without a mandate, healthy Americans would be able to avoid buying insurance until they got sick. That phenomenon, which has occurred in several states that have guaranteed coverage without any insurance requirement, has helped drive up premiums.

But the mandate remains the most unpopular feature of the health care overhaul and has helped galvanize a nationwide Republican attack on the new law.

Nineteen states joined the Florida suit last year: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Washington.

And in January, six more states joined the lawsuit after new GOP governors took office — Ohio, Kansas, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Maine and Iowa.

Except for Louisiana, the states are represented by Republican attorneys general or governors.

The National Federation of Independent Business, a leading conservative smallbusiness group, also joined the suit.

Several dozen leading consumer groups, medical associations and patient advocates have joined the Obama administration in defending the new law.

These include: the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the American Nurses Association, the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association, the Catholic Health Association of the United States, the National Breast Cancer Coalition, Families USA, Consumers Union and the March of Dimes Foundation.

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Attack on Danish cartoonist an act of terrorism, court hears McClatchy Newspapers

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — An attack on the Danish cartoonist who sparked outrage with his depiction of the Muslim prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban should also be considered as an act of terrorism, a prosecutor said Monday as the trial against his alleged attacker drew to a close.

A Somali-born man is on trial for allegedly forcing his way into cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s home a year ago. That attack was aimed at inciting “fear and chaos” at large, prosecutor Kirsten Dyrman said in her closing remarks at the trial in Aarhus, western Denmark.

The lawyer for the 29-year-old defendant rejected this, arguing it was an attempt to frighten the cartoonist, adding

that the prosecution had not been able to prove allegations of attempted murder.

The defendant did not exercise his right to address the court before it adjourned.

Sentencing is due later this week.

Westergaard earlier told the court how the defendant, allegedly armed with an axe and a knife, had forced his way into his home on New Year’s Day in 2010.

The 75-year-old cartoonist said he was forced to hide in a panic room after hearing the man smashing a glass door with an axe. At the time, the cartoonist’s granddaughter was in the house near Aarhus.

Since the publication of the caricatures, the Jyllands-Posten newspaper — and Westergaard — have been the target of several alleged plots.

17 killed in Somalia McClatchy Newspapers

MOGADISHU, Somalia — At least 17 civilians were killed and 56 injured in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Monday when a soldier fired an antiaircraft gun into a crowd, witnesses and officials said.

Soldiers had killed a plainclothes policeman, triggering a tense standoff as his heavily armed colleagues came to confront the troops. A soldier then triggered the anti-aircraft gun mounted atop a truck, although it was not clear if it was accidental or intentional.

Witness Soleman Abdirahshid told the German news agency dpa that dozens of people were cut to pieces as high-caliber bullets ripped through the crowd.

“Everyone was terrified because all you could see were dead bodies littered around,” he said.

“Five people died while receiving treatment, while 12 others were deadon-arrival,” Mohamed Yusuf Hassan, director of Medina Hospital, told dpa.

“Fifty-six people, most of them seriously injured, were admitted.”

Abdihakin Mohamed Fiqi, Somalia’s Defense Minister, visited the wounded and promised an investigation.

“We are very sorry for what happened, but we should bring to justice those responsible for the incident,” he said.

Somalia’s ineffectual government is struggling to contain an Islamist insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives over the last few years.

The mandate of the Transitional Federal Government, which only controls around half of Mogadishu with the support of African Union peacekeepers, runs out later this year with nothing to show for its efforts.

The regional body the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, meeting on the sidelines of an African Union summit in Addis Ababa, said it had agreed the government’s mandate should be extended, although the AU criticized the TFG for performing badly.

“This nonperformance, if you may, has impacted negatively on perceptions of its legitimacy and credibility,” African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping told the IGAD meeting.

Somalia has been engulfed in chaos since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

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Mexico gets medieval Johnny McKay Arizona Daily Wildcat

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ast week, in a scenario that sounds like the abandoned brainchild of a blazed kid playing Age of Empires, a catapult was used to launch weed over the border in Southern Arizona. The culprits were caught on a surveillance tape used by the US border police, who then promptly called the Mexican authorities, probably opening with something along the lines of “Uhhhhh....” When the authorities responded the perpetrators were already gone, leaving behind an SUV and the aforementioned catapult. In a state filled with a plethora of wacky stories and news clips about immigration issues, it seems only fitting that the next story in the saga would feature weaponry from the dark ages.

I personally admire the audacity of these would-be criminal masterminds. Clearly history buffs, they put their collective heads together during the scheme session and emerged with a plan that would make Wile E. Coyote proud. Utilizing the wisdom in the age-old adage of, “If you can’t go through it, go over it,” they managed to wage war on both gravity and the American government’s policy on

illicit drugs. There was only one kink in their plan — we on this side of the fence were using 21st century technology. And I think that is completely out of line.

If the Mexican proletariat is going to change the nature of the game that we’ve been playing around this border, we need to keep up with them. If they are going to technologically lower the stakes, we need to technologically lower our stakes too. I call for a complete paradigm shift in our tactics at the border, fighting fire with fire by downgrading our technology to the level of mankind’s darkest time in history. Scrap the jeeps — we will be a completely horse mounted security force safeguarding our country. Given the gung-ho “cowboy” dynamic that seems to run through the souls of most border patrol agents, I’m sure this wouldn’t be an issue (Obscure reference: If the ostrich farm near Picacho Peak lets us borrow their animals, we could guard the nation “Joust” style). Guns can be replaced with swords, phones with carrier pigeons and sandwiches with giant legs of turkey, if renaissance fairs are to be believed. The most

striking and obvious change would be to the border itself. In the most impressive example of “we get the message” in the history of man, the border fence would be changed to a giant moat. This would accomplish many things, increasing security, saving money in the long run and keeping with the theme of this increasingly absurd scenario I am laying out.

Alligator maintenance costs would be a factor to consider, but I cannot imagine any other issues that would arise from the installation of a country-wide man-made defense river.

Sadly, such a tactic-changing debacle wouldn’t even be the craziest story to emerge from Arizona, as we seem hell-bent on making ourselves into the most nationally recognized state for poor decisions. I sense that there may be a scientific correlation to be found somewhere about that, possibly linked to the recent study that established Arizona as the most alcoholic state in America. As long as local taco vendors are still trying to serve lion meat tacos to the public (clearly disregarding America’s unwavering love for “Lion King”), we will still have our throne of weirdness to sit on. After that story fades, we should finally be able to enjoy a little bit of mass media normalcy in Arizona. Normalcy that will, of course, soon be shattered when Mexicans attempt to trebuchet a kilo of cocaine into our backyard next week.

— Johnny McKay is a media arts senior. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

Legislature should tone down crazy as recalls loom Andrew Shepherd

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s expected, the Arizona Legislature is off to a crazy start. In addition to planning cuts to education and other vital state agencies, along with the cuts to the corporate tax rate, the Legislature has more bizarre plans in store for the new legislative session.

Some of you may remember the so-called “birther bill” from the last legislative session.

This bill would require candidates running for president to swear allegiance to the United States, verify they have never been a citizen of a different country and prove where they have lived over the previous 14 years. It failed during the last legislative session, but last week Rep. Judy Burges decided to reintroduce the bill to the floor, demonstrating the insanity that’s running rampant throughout the State Capitol. Of course there’s nothing wrong with wanting someone holding such an important office to swear allegiance to the land that person is supposed to represent, but this bill is pointless and a complete waste of time. Unfortunately, the resurrection of the “birther bill” is child’s play when compared to the rest of what the Legislature is proposing. As fellow Wildcat columnist Elisa Meza pointed out last week, State Senate President Russell Pearce’s new focus is on abolishing the 14th Amendment, which gives US citizenship to anyone born in the country, regardless of the parents’ citizenship. This is nothing more

Arizona Daily Wildcat than a political stunt, as a state can’t pick and choose which parts of the Constitution it wishes to follow.

Nonetheless, a public debate over this topic will only fuel the rhetoric of the overly xenophobic, extreme nativists that Pearce seems to yield to. Pearce was elected for his strong stance on illegal immigration, but these ideas show him not as an issue-minded statesman, but as someone who only has an interest in us-

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(Members of the Legislature) are excellent at pandering to the fringes and playing on people’s emotions, but are seemingly unable to govern.

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y parents taught me how to do my own laundry when I was 12. I can’t cook anything fancy, but I know how to avoid starvation if dinner ’s not already prepared. And hey, I can also tie my own shoes and am fully potty-trained, just like a big kid.

According to a study at UCLA of 200,000 freshmen at 300 colleges, freshmen are reporting record stress levels.

The study, which spans over the course of 25 years, found more students than ever rank their own mental health as “below average.” Researchers weren’t able to pinpoint exact reasons for why freshmen stress levels are on the rise, but say it’s likely related to the economy and a pressure to succeed.

That’s fair. Money is tight. The study found paternal unemployment was also at its highest since the study began measuring, and more of its participants took out loans. The economy sucks, and all of us are feeling it. The pressure to succeed is fair, too. Students have their futures in mind. We should be glad that they’re so goal-oriented and driven to achieve.

There’s nothing to criticize there.

The problem is that, despite apparently being so conscientious about money and accomplishment, freshmen do not come to college prepared for real life.

They have their extra-long sheets and their microwaves, their bulletin boards and shiny new Macbook Pros. But they don’t know what to do when the window won’t open, or the toilet won’t flush or their roommate is a jerk. They’ve never had to solve their own problems.

Too many teens arrive at school without any idea of how to take care of themselves. Suddenly, dinner ’s not just on the table and clothes aren’t magically hung in the closet. There’s reading to do, an essay to write and a new episode of “Glee” on TV. The next thing you know, you’ve busted through your CatCard meal plan and you’re wearing your shirts inside out. The book’s not open and the essay’s still a blank Word document. But you did finish watching “Glee.”

Desperation sets in. You call Mom, who sends you some money for food, talks your resident assistant into teaching you how to separate the whites from the darks and asks your professor for an extension. And it’s all crap, because all you learned from the experience were the words to an ‘80s hit song

by Journey.

Stress isn’t a bad thing if you learn how to cope with it. Parents who coddle their children up until the first day of the semester are just sentencing their kids to a rude awakening, in which their children rank their own mental health as “below average” because life just got hard. Sometimes you only learn how to deal with stress if you dye your socks pink first, or you fail an exam or write a bad paper. You will make mistakes, and these mistakes will feel awful. But they are not the end of the world, as record stress levels would suggest.

Shit happens. Stress happens. But you keep your big kid pants on, and you try to take care of it yourself before you go running to your parents. Don’t stop believing, kiddo.

ing the matter as a bargaining chip.

One of the more bizarre actions made by the Legislature is their attempt to exempt Arizona from international law. Why? A few years ago an Iraqi father in Phoenix felt his daughter was acting too westernized, so he decided to run her over with his vehicle, killing her. This action, throughout certain parts of the world, is justified as an honor killing, and some

members of the Legislature are expressing concern that this may complicate his prosecution. This, of course, is ridiculous. Just because an action may be culturally acceptable elsewhere does not make it legal in the United States. Like many other bills passed by the Legislature, this bill is absolutely pointless.

Also, this has nothing to do with international law, but even if it did, Arizona, as a state, not a country, wouldn’t be able to do anything about it. A state can’t just decide to stop following laws it feels are above its head. This is just another example of the Legislature’s obsession with political posturing, while being unable to do much of anything meaningful.

The Legislature’s Republican Caucus must be feeling pretty safe after increasing their seats in both houses after the last election. However, they shouldn’t be feeling too secure, as last week three groups filed paperwork to petition for a recall of Pearce and Gov. Jan Brewer. One group aimed at Pearce run by a Republican and is gaining ground within Pearce’s own Mormon Church. Is a recall likely? Probably not, but it is possible if the Legislature keeps up with its current craziness.

The introduction of the “birther bill” and the discussion surrounding the 14th Amendment and Arizona’s observance of international law only show the Legislature’s leadership as incompetent and unable to rationally tackle the problems our state faces. They are excellent at pandering to the fringes and playing on people’s emotions, but are seemingly unable to govern. This had better change, or Pearce and Brewer just may find themselves in the embarrassing position of facing a recall election.

— Andrew Shepherd is a political science senior. He can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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Egypt’s police returns; foreigners try to evacuate MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS CAIRO — Police officers began returning to their posts in the Egyptian capital on Monday, seeking to restore order after days of looting, but they stayed away from the protester-thronged square that has become the epicenter of the movement to oust President Hosni Mubarak.

As the dramatic standoff entered its seventh day, protest organizers called for the biggest demonstrations yet, urging that 1 million people flood the streets Tuesday.

Defying curfews, protesters have maintained an around-theclock presence in Tahrir Square — Liberation Square — worried that it will be sealed off by the military if they leave. Army tanks continued to ring the sprawling plaza Monday, blocking off some access routes, but people were still allowed to move in and out at several points, sometimes in queues separated by gender.

Noisy protesters alternated among speeches, prayers and anti-government chants. To keep warm overnight, crowds huddled around small campfires and shared plastic cups of tea.

Foreigners, meanwhile, mobbed Cairo’s international airport, seeking a place aboard one of the trickle of evacuation flights on Monday. The State Department on Sunday had urged U.S. citizens to consider leaving and said it would charter flights for those wishing to do so. But many Americans in the Egyptian capital said they had not been able to get any information about the flights.

The redeployment of the police — who have been blamed for most of the violence against demonstrators to date — was a sensitive issue. The army, made up of conscripts, enjoys far more respect from the Egyptian people,

and soldiers have been careful not to manhandle those who are protesting peacefully.

The abrupt vanishing of the police from the streets three days earlier had left a security vacuum, filled by vigilantes wielding clubs and knives to defend their neighborhoods. The ad-hoc neighborhood-watch groups managed to protect some areas against looting, but the sight of roving gangs of armed men contributed to the enveloping sense of chaos.

Demonstrations against Mubarak’s rule began Jan. 25 after a popular uprising in the Arab nation of Tunisia drove longtime strongman Zine el-Abidine ben Ali from power and paved the way for a transition toward democracy there.

Mubarak has clung to power and resisted demonstrators’ demands that he resign, instead shutting down access to the alJazeera channel, the Arab world’s most popular news outlet, and blocking Internet and cellphone traffic, though the latter has been partially restored.

Mubarak swore in his intelligence chief, Omar Suleiman, as his first-ever vice president, named a new prime minister and issued vague promises of change that have left even his most ardent supporters in the West and Israel disappointed. On Monday, state television reported the appointment of a new interior minister, but he was a ministry stalwart whose selection appeared unlikely to appease protesters.

Protesters in Cairo, Alexandria and the city of Suez have increasingly defied a curfew that has now been extended to span 3 p.m. to 8 a.m. On Monday, some of Cairo’s roaring traffic returned to the streets, and shops and businesses reopened in outlying districts, though swaths of the center remained blocked off.

Activists using social-media websites such as Twitter and Facebook have begun calling for a “million-man march” against Mubarak to begin Tuesday from Tahrir Square — a call that, if heeded, could force a confrontation with the army, which so far has acted with restraint.

The mostly young protesters and the country’s traditional opposition groups, including the Islamic fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, have coalesced around the loose leadership of Nobel Peace Prize winner and former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammed ElBaradei, who many say is a potential transitional figure if Mubarak steps down.

Protesters had called for a general strike Monday, but its effect was hard to gauge as banks, the stock exchange, offices and many shops were closed because of security worries.

In Tahrir Square, speakers with megaphones and voices hoarse from shouting took turns Monday keeping the crowds energized.

Many said it was important to stay loud and boisterous to counter reports on state-run media that everyone had gone home and the square was empty.

Relations with the military remained generally good, but protesters whistled and waved defiantly at helicopters that flew overhead periodically and rushed to stand in front of any tanks that attempted to reposition from the square’s perimeter into the plaza itself. After initially welcoming the army, protesters have grown suspicious of its aims, worried that it will use its general popularity to further Mubarak’s aim of reimposing control.

Protesters said momentum was on their side.

“We will stay until the entire world hears us,” said Iman Zaki,

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Egypt is the Arab world’s most populous nation and a linchpin to the Middle East’s tenuous peace. Many analysts predict that Mubarak ultimately will be driven from power, a prospect that has inspired activists and shaken authorities across the Arab world and beyond.

“The winds of democracy and freedom that shook the entire world 20 years ago and were

unable to penetrate the Arab states now seem to be blowing across the Arab world,” Fahed Fanek, a columnist for Jordan’s Al Rai daily newspaper, wrote Monday.

Even China, worried about its citizens being inspired by the uprisings, disabled searches for the word “Egypt” on some internet services, underscoring Beijing’s continued concern over the Internet and its potential to access anti-government information and organize opposition to China’s ruling Communist Party.

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Klepto can’t be controlled

A male UA student was arrested for shoplifting a pair of shorts from the UofA Bookstore on Thursday at 10:35 a.m.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to the bookstore at 10:10 a.m., to meet with bookstore loss prevention employees before speaking with the student in the second floor conference room of the bookstore.

In the meeting, the student verbally identified himself and told the officer that stealing the gym shorts was a stupid decision.

That pair of gym shorts was the last of its kind, and the student did not have his wallet with him.

The student then hid the shorts, valued at $34.28, behind his backpack and attempted to leave the bookstore.

The officer conducted a records check on the student and found that there was a warrant out for the student’s arrest in Maricopa County for failure to appear in regards to underage driving under the influence.

He arrested the student for the shoplifting and the warrant.

While searching the student’s possessions, because of the arrest, the officer found that the student had a $100 gift card to the bookstore and a California driver’s license.

The officer took the student into custody and booked him into Pima County Jail.

Skater scampers from police

UAPD officers confiscated a non-UA affiliated man’s skateboard on Thursday at 10:32 p.m.

An officer noticed another UAPD officer attempting to stop a skater heading north on Vine Avenue from First Street at 10:16 p.m.

The skater picked up his board and ran north through the parking lot toward Speedway Boulevard.

The officer observing made contact with the original officer attempting to stop the skater and asked if the skater was fleeing.

After confirming that man was on the run, the officers initiated a watch for the skater. A third officer finally stopped the skater on the east side of the Highland Avenue Parking Garage.

The officer interviewed the skater and asked him why he was fleeing from the police.

The man said he was afraid that UAPD would take his skateboard because a friend had told him about UAPD confiscating skateboards for riding on campus.

The officer then asked if he was merely skating through campus or doing tricks and skating in prohibited places.

The skater said that he was skating in front of the Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium.

UAPD confiscated the skateboard and issued him a citation.

The officer advised the skater that if he was caught skating again, the offense would warrant a trespassing charge.

Man cited for speeding on way to ER

A non-UA affiliated male was cited for criminal speeding, 42 mph over the speed limit, on Campbell Avenue on Thursday around 3 a.m.

A UAPD officer on regular traffic patrol on Campbell Avenue observed a vehicle driving at an estimated 60 mph.

The posted speed limit was 35 mph.

Using a laser device, the officer confirmed that the vehicle was speeding at 76 mph.

The officer stopped the vehicle and found that the driver’s license was also suspended.

The officer cited and released the man for criminal speeding at least 20 mph over the speed limit and for driving on a suspended license.

However, the officer did not impound the driver’s car because the driver was on his way to see his son in the emergency room.

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Glendon Gross Trumpet performer in the UA Jazz Band What first turned you on to the trumpet?

When I was six years old, I heard a recording of the Chicago Symphony and that was my introduction to classical music and I’d dance around the living room. Ever since that time I wanted to play the trumpet. I’m in my 40’s and it’s fun being a student and a jazz musician at the same time.

When you were in your 20’s what was going through your head at the time?

I dropped out of school so I didn’t see how school related to my trumpet playing. I really love mixing with younger people and going to classes, it keeps my mind active and I meet a lot of interesting people here.

What is something you do when no one else is looking?

When no one else is looking I usually am at the piano trying to figure out a song or improvising.

First drink you ordered on your 21st birthday?

A beer. I think it was Heineken Dark.

What is something you do that makes the ladies go crazy?

It seems that when I play the trumpet people take more interest in me, and when I play jazz I have a better chance.

I don’t think any woman can resist a musician.

I think that is definitely true.

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Soda pot: California company creates ‘Canna Cola’ Coca-Cola once called itself “the pause that refreshes,” but a new line of marijuana sodas may be known as “the pot that refreshes.”

That’s because each 12-ounce bottle of “Canna Cola” will contain 35 to 65 milligrams of THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

Considering that the average dose of medical marijuana is about 25 milligrams, it’s no surprise there’s quite a buzz surrounding the product, which is scheduled to

debut in Colorado cannabis collectives in February and cost $10 to $15 per bottle.

The Canna Cola family of beverages (which include the Dr Pepper-like Doc Weed, the lemon-lime Sour Diesel, the grapeflavored Grape Ape and the orange-flavored Orange Kush) is the brainchild of Clay Butler, a commercial artist in Soquel, Calif.

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"Double Vision" Exhibit by book artists Julie Chen and Clifton Meador is being shown at the Joseph Gross Gallery until February 4, 2011.

"Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture" exhibit is being shown in the Center for Creative Photography main auditorium until May 15, 2011.

The Aesthetic Code: Unraveling the Secrets of Art, through April 12, 2011. University of Arizona Musem of Art. "Ansel Adams: Arizona and the West" exhibit is being shown in the Center for Creative Photography until May 15, 2011.

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Although she did well individually, Ross attributes the team’s loss to their recently heavy racing schedule.

“It was good as an individual,” Ross said.

“As a team, we’ve been through a lot of racing and we just took our hearts out there and did the best we can with so much racing going on in the past eight days. We raced four out of the last eight days.”

Continually putting their hearts in it to no avail could lead to heartache. Ross said she aims to stay positive and focus on the team as a whole.

“Try to keep your head up high and go out there and individually try to put forth what you can and hopefully as a team it will collectively come together,” Ross said.

Another standout, freshman Margo Geer, didn’t seem to be jeopardized by

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her foot injury. She was first in the 50y freestyle and was on the winning 200y medley relay team, along with freshman Sarah Denninghoff, sophomore Ellyn Baumgardner and senior Dana Christ.

Geer also came in second in the women’s 100y free.

As for the men, junior captain Cory Chitwood won his NCAA title race, the 200y backstroke — he has yet to be defeated in the event this season.

Arizona had another win in the men’s 200y free relay with junior Adam Small, sophomore Kelley Wyman, freshman Mitchell Friedemann and senior Craig Jordens.

The men’s team did however win against Southern Methodist University, 233-111, who they took on in order to meet their dual season quota. Even though Arizona did get a win, their main competition and focus was the Longhorns, who, in the end, defended their No. 1 ranking.

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Capers’ No. 2-ranked unit relentless in its pursuit of turnovers McClatchy Tribune GREEN BAY, Wis. — Dom Capers presides over a complex defensive scheme.

It’s a disservice to the Green Bay coordinator to boil his philosophy down into a few easily digested paragraphs.

But if he were to publish a “Defense for Dummies” guide, this would be one of the installments: There are 60 or so plays in a game and three to four of those will have a huge influence on the outcome. Any good defense will have two to four players who are consistently capable of making plays that will change the course of the game.

“The more people you can put out there to have a chance to make those kinds of plays, then the better your chances are,” Capers said. “The more guys you have with speed and explosion, the better chance you have of getting the ball turned over. It’s been one of our strengths here the last two years, taking the ball away.

“We’ve had a number of different players that have stepped up.”

Cornerback Tramon Williams had two picks in the team’s win over Philadelphia. Cornerback Sam Shields had two picks in the win over Chicago.

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returned interceptions for touchdowns.

And that’s just in the playoffs.

Linebacker Clay Matthews and cornerback Charles Woodson are the cornerstones of the NFL’s No. 2-ranked defense.

But four different players scored defensive touchdowns during the regular season. Eleven came up with interceptions and 15 helped compile the team’s gaudy sacks total.

The Packers are a 3-4 defense that may spend the majority of the game in their nickel and dime packages. That’s because Capers, in the words of Raji, “is a big matchup guy.”

Green Bay’s cornerbacks are as likely to blitz as they are to backpedal into coverage. The same goes for the linebackers and linemen.

The decisive defensive play of the NFC Championship Game came when Capers called a Right Cat. Shields blitzed from the right corner position and Raji, the nose tackle, dropped back into zone coverage. Raji’s 18-yard interception return for a touchdown proved to be the winning points in the team’s victory over Chicago.

“We’re relentless,” safety Nick Collins said. “We want everybody on that defensive side to get to the ball and make something happen.”

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger recovers his own fumble in the third quarter. The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the New York Jets 24-19 to win the AFC Championship game on Jan. 23 at Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, Pa.

McClatchy Tribune DALLAS — The Pittsburgh Steelers lost their way in their first 37 years in the NFL. The Steelers never won a championship. They never even played for a championship. Pittsburgh was almost 100 games below .500 in those first four decades of football (157-253-19).

So inconsequential were the Steelers that the NFL sent Pittsburgh packing to the AFC when the NFL and AFL merged in 1970. The NFC certainly wasn’t going to miss the brand of bad football being played in Pittsburgh.

But the change of scenery suited the Steelers. They won their first division title in 1972, then won the first playoff game in franchise history on what has been dubbed an “immaculate reception” by Franco Harris.

Two years later, the Steelers won their first AFC Championship. Two weeks later, Pittsburgh hoisted its first Lombardi Trophy.

The formula the Steelers utilized in winning that first title is still in place 36 years later as Pittsburgh pursues a record seventh Lombardi Trophy.

It’s now officially the Steeler Way . . . whatever way that is.

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“It’s hard to define,” Steelers director of football operations Kevin Colbert admitted. “It’s really just trying to do the right thing in all situations. It’s not a complicated formula.”

Not complicated at all. Hire good people and let them do their jobs.

The Steelers have employed only three head coaches since the AFL-NFL merger — Chuck Noll, Bill Cowher and Mike Tomlin. All have won Super Bowls. The Steelers have employed only three personnel directors since the merger — Dick Haley, Tom Donahoe and Colbert.

The Steelers have had only two owners and both came from the same family — Art and Dan Rooney. Both are in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

“If there’s a consistency, it’s the Rooney family and the way they want their team run,” Colbert said. “It gets back to doing the right thing in all situations — be it draft picks, coaching decisions, how we carry ourselves in the building, off the field.

“There’s no sign that says, ‘This is how we do it.’ It’s just an understanding that gets passed on from one owner to the next, from one coach to the next, from one player to the next . . . through everybody. You just learn that way … whatever way that is.”

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Victoria Kemp, 17, will miss the first three weeks of the season due to a knee injury. Sophomore Matte Haack and freshmen Ashlee Brawley, Alex Lavine and Chelsea Suitos will compete to replace her at second base.

Softball continued from page 12 viable option off the bench for the Wildcats.

Injuries will force Kemp to miss action for the second time in her Arizona career. A fracture to her orbital bone in 2008 caused her to miss 20 straight games.

Designated hitter Lini Koria practiced for the first time on Monday after missing significant time with a concussion. Koria was hit in the back of the head with a ball during throwing drills.

Candrea said he was optimistic about her chances of playing when the season starts.

Arizona tops Pac-10, national polls

The Wildcats landed in first place in both the preseason Pacific 10 Conference Poll and the ESPN.com/USA Softball polls. While the nation recognized Arizona’s depth and pitching prowess, Candrea said isn’t particularly concerned with Arizona’s rankings this early in the year. He said the polls tend to reflect a team’s achievements from the previous season, and are not necessarily an outlook for the current team.

“It really doesn’t mean anything to me right now,” Candrea said. “We’re anxious to get started and see where we’re at. I think we’re going to have a lot of good tests early in the season that can confirm that or not.”

Vying for positions

With the injury to Kemp and the vacancy left by former shortstop K’Lee Arredondo, the underclassmen on Arizona’s bench have the opportunity to step into a starting role.

Candrea said Sophomore Matte Haack and freshmen Ashlee Brawley, Alex Lavine and Chelsea Suitos are all getting chances at the shortstop position, but that no one has claimed a starting spot yet.

“I think it’s going to be one of those situations where you’re going to try to give them all the opportunities early on,” Candrea said. “Right now we haven’t had anyone step up on a consistent basis.”

Candrea added that the depth of his bench can only help the Wildcats, but the uncertainty of the positions wouldn’t last long.

“Right now I’m not worried,” Candrea said. “If I’m still saying this to you in a month then I’ll be worried.”

Sophomore Derrick Williams is perhaps the most efficient basketball player in the NCAA — maybe ESPN stat guru John Hollinger can put an exact number on it — but his high quality of shot selection might be contagious.

The Wildcats are one of the best teams in the country in field goal percentages, ranked No. 18 with a 48.3 pure percentage and No. 7 in adjusted field goal percentage, which takes into account 3-pointers and thus points per shot taken.

That jump from the pure percentage to the adjusted is thanks to Arizona’s 40.7 percent 3-point accuracy, which is a tribute to Williams’ inside presence and a number of his teammates being capable shooters if they are selective enough with their shots.

“We’re not a team that relies on that one or two (players),” Miller said.

“We have five or six different players.

Because of that, it allows us to be more consistent.”

And of course, Williams isn’t too shabby himself, shooting a whopping 70.6 percent from the 3-point line. Saturday, he hit all three attempts despite a heavy wrap on his shooting hand.

“He doesn’t shoot that way in practice all the time,” Miller said. “He’s such a gamer.”

Great quotes

Arizona fans might know firsthand that USC head coach Kevin O’Neill isn’t one to censor himself.

Such was the case for O’Neill and his center, Vucevic, after USC fell to the Wildcats.

“I felt like we played like women today,” Vucevic said. “We weren’t aggressive, we didn’t handle the ball well, and we were slow.”

Vucevic, a Montenegro native, publicly apologized through the Los Angeles Times Sunday night for his comments after the game.

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“Back home, when we say that, it means we didn’t play hard,” he added. “It’s just a saying we have.”

Although Arizona led by as many as 20 points during the game, the nine-point loss for the Trojans might have been a different story had USC not shot 13-for-25 at the free throw line.

“That went right along with the tone of the game,” O’Neill said. “It was abysmal.”

Wildcats in Top 25, tied for first in Pac-10

Though they had adopted the mantra of “we never left” this season, in the opinion of coaches and writers who vote in the top 25 polls, the Wildcats had indeed left.

But on Monday, Arizona was back, debuting in the Associated Press Top 25 ranking and returning to the ESPN/ USA Today Coaches Poll. It’s the first time the Wildcats have appeared in both polls since Dec. 31, 2007.

The Wildcats are now ranked No. 21 in the AP and No. 22 in the coaches’ poll.

They were aided as 17 teams from last week’s ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll recorded at least one loss this past week.

Arizona is now tied for the conference lead after No. 17 Washington lost its only game this weekend against Washington State.

Pac-10 Player of the Week: Momo Jones

Point guard Momo Jones was named the Pacific 10 Conference Player of the Week on Monday after scoring 17 points against both UCLA and Southern California.

Jones also averaged 2.5 assists and 1.5 turnovers in leading Arizona to the two wins. He is averaging 8.7 points and 2.5 assists on the season.

The sophomore from Harlem, N.Y., has started every game this season at point guard.

PAC-10 POWER RANKINGS

By Vincent Balistreri Arizona Daily Wildcat No. 1 Arizona (18-4, 7-2) Arizona had the best weekend of any team in the Pacific 10 Conference. The Wildcats came out of the weekend tied for first place, back in the rankings and had a point guard win the Pac-10 Player of the Week award.

No. 2 Washington (15-5, 7-2 Pac-10) The Huskies lost to Washington State for the first time in two years, but they are still the favorite and should bounce back against the Oregon schools this week.

No. 3 Washington State (15-6, 5-4 Pac-10) With a win over the rival Huskies the Cougars kept their hopes alive for the conference lead with Washington and Arizona still on the schedule.

No. 4 UCLA (14-7, 6-3 Pac-10) The Bruins may have had one of their worst weekends of the season, getting outplayed by the Wildcats and nearly losing to the Pac-10’s worst team, ASU. Despite the unimpressive weekend the Bruins are still in contention for the conference crown.

No. 5 California (12-9, 5-4 Pac-10) California won’t compete for the top spot, but the Golden Bears are on a three-game winning streak and can upset a contending team any night.

No. 8 Oregon (10-11, 3-6 Pac-10) At this point, the Ducks are trying to finish the season with a better record than instate rival Oregon State.

No. 9 Oregon State (8-12, 3-6 Pac-10) The Beavers looked like a surprise Pac-10 team after sweeping their first two conference games against the Arizona schools. Since then, though, the Beavers have lost six of the last seven, and are currently on a three-game losing streak.

No. 6 Southern California (12-10, 4-5 Pac-10) The Trojans had an opportunity to get a quality win but didn’t show up against Arizona on Saturday, moving them into the sixth spot in conference, just about eliminating them from contention.

No. 7: Stanford (11-9, 4-5 Pac-10) The Cardinal, like its Bay Area rival, can beat anyone — but at the same time can lose to anyone, as was the case with Oregon on Thursday.

No. 10 ASU (9-12, 1-8 Pac-10) At this point, the ASU Sun Devils are a sweep waiting to happen when they play Arizona again in two weeks. The Sun Devils might be a lock to finish last in the conference.

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Tree standing upright

Wildcats’ center contributing after early back injury Center Alex Jacobson’s status on the team was uncertain at the start of the season, considering his history of injuries and the young talent on the roster. His defensive prowess in wins over UCLA and Southern California, however, have cemented him as a valuable asset.

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By Kevin Zimmerman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Junior Alex Jacobson was an afterthought when he sat out with a back injury earlier this season.

After all, 0.9 point and 1.1 rebound averages won’t stick out on a box score.

But sure enough, there the fan-favorite “Tree” made his presence felt this weekend,

helping now-No. 21 Arizona (18-4, 7-2 Pacific 10 Conference) fight off two Los Angeles schools that had big and tall frontlines.

First it was frustrating 305-pound UCLA center Joshua Smith. Then it was Saturday against Southern California, when Jacobson played a season-high 15 minutes fending off Trojans Alex Stepheson and Nikola Vucevic.

“It feels like I just ran a marathon. I’m exhausted,” Jacobson said afterward. “I had a

Batter up A postseason appearance was all Arizona head coach Andy Lopez wanted out of his team a year ago, but that won’t cut it for this year’s team.

“It was a reality that with all of the freshmen playing (last season), you need that experience of playing in the postseason,” Lopez said. “I would hope that people expect us to be good. I would expect these guys to play well.”

A key to building off of last year’s regional loss to Texas Christian University is the continued development of Kurt Heyer.

As a freshman in the 2010 season, Heyer led all Arizona pitchers with a 3.26 ERA over 102 innings pitched on his way to being named to the Yahoo Sports and Baseball America Freshman AllAmerican teams.

“I didn’t really expect to do that well last year, but there’s higher expectations for all of us now coming into this year,” said Heyer, who didn’t pitch during the summer after surpassing his innings limit last season.

“Coach Lopez didn’t want me to pitch and I respect him for that,” Heyer said. “I was a little down (at first), but it’s going to help me in the long run. I didn’t want to get hurt or anything like that.”

Pitching isn’t the only area the Wildcats are returning experience. UA brings back all eight position players from of last year’s 34-win squad, including All-Pacific 10 Conference right fielder Steve Selsky who led Arizona with a .370 batting average and nine home runs.

“I think we’re going to be

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really successful (this season),” Selsky said. “Everyone that’s returning from last year has been to a regional, and that’s something that a lot of teams can’t say they have.”

Selsky, now a junior, said that the biggest difference between this and last year’s team is the level of maturity on the roster.

“I can’t really explain how much you learn and how much experience you gain (in a year),” Selsky said. “But it really does play a role in how the season is going to play out.”

Although the Wildcats return all but two players off of last season’s team, their most important returnee may be second baseman Bryce Ortega, who missed all of Pac-10 play last season after suffering two herniated discs in his back.

“We’re going to take it easy with him over the course of the season in terms of practice,” Lopez said.

“I don’t know if he’ll ever be over (his injury), but he looks real good right now. He looks strong and he looks healthy. I think he’s as important a cog as we have.”

Lopez hopes that all of Arizona’s experience will result in a successful season in 2011.

“There’s just a real comfort,” Lopez said. “I’ll be surprised if they don’t go out and play good baseball.”

OPENING DAY What: Arizona vs. North Dakota State When: 6 p.m. on Feb. 18.

Where: Sancet Stadium

did a nice job.”

Jacobson earned his nickname during his freshman year at basketball player factory Mater Dei High School.

“My freshman year at Mater Dei, it was meant as an insult,” Jacobson said. “I got there and didn’t know what to do. Our high school coach said, ‘You’re standing there like a tree.’

“It just kind of stuck.”

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Swim

Arizona sinks in Texas

Experience, maturity are key for Wildcat baseball

By Alex Williams ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

bulging disk — three of them to be exact.”

Jacobson, who hadn’t played since a Dec. 5, 2010 game against Oklahoma, scored two points and grabbed four rebounds in 19 minutes through the two games this weekend, and head coach Sean Miller praised the defense and solid all-around play of the 7-foot center.

“He screens, he offensively rebounds, he catches and moves the ball,” Miller said. “He

By Kelly Hultgren ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Wildcats continued their losing streak against elite competition this past weekend when they were swept by the Texas Longhorns at the Lee and Joe Jamail Center in Austin, Texas. The men fell 186.5-155.5, while the women lost 189-156.

While both the men and women did defeat Southern Methodist University as part of the weekend’s dual meet, the losses to Texas put a damper on the weekend.

Head coach Frank Busch takes the blame.

“As coaches, we don’t like to take our team some place and watch them perform poorly, and I certainly take full responsibility for that,” Busch said. “I think maybe we just underestimated what last weekend did, back-to-back days of hard rac-

ing, and then came back and threw a little bit at them this week before we left.”

The week before, Arizona fell to both Stanford and Cal, making this their third consecutive loss. Busch doesn’t sugarcoat the situation and saw that the Wildcats weren’t as physically prepared as the Longhorns.

“We were OK the first day, not great, but OK,” Busch said. “In the second day, we had no gas. I think it’s just a matter of making sure we don’t put our kids in a place where they can’t respond to the competition. It’s just a little over-extended, and I certainly take full responsibility for that. “ Despite the team losses, there have been some consistent individual wins over the past couple of weeks. Junior captain Alyssa Anderson won the 400-yard individual medley event in 4:12.24, topping her last season best

of 4:12.89. Anderson also claimed the 200-yard individual medley, 500y freestyle and finished second in the 200y freestyle.

Like Busch, Anderson hints at the team’s exhaustion.

“Obviously, it hurts to lose, but I’m not disappointed. Everyone raced hard, being tired and stuff like that, but I don’t think disappointed is the right word,” Anderson said.

“I think everyone is looking forward to rest.”

Also on the women’s side, junior Hannah Ross beat out four Longhorns in the 200y backstroke with the time of 1:57.27. Ross then placed second in the 100y backstroke.

“This past weekend I swam really well and it has given me a lot of confidence for what’s to come,” Ross said.

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Softball

Around the bases As one Wildcat returns, another goes down

By Nicole Dimstios ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Senior infielder Victoria Kemp will miss the beginning of the 2011 season with a torn posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) in her knee.

“The pain was in the back of her knee,” said head coach Mike Candrea. “She’ll be out for about three weeks.”

Pac-10 Power Rankings Wildcats up to No. 1 in the Daily Wildcats’ latest rankings.

Candrea said the injury occurred in practice this week when Kemp came down on the grass on a routine ground ball up the middle. Candrea said Kemp would have to wear a brace once she returns.

“It’s one of those injuries that you can put a brace on it and play with it but whether you can play at this level is yet to be seen,”

Candrea said.

The infielder saw limited action in the 2010 season, appearing in 21 total games for Arizona last season, starting nine at second base .

Although current second baseman Kristen Arriola solidified the spot last March, Kemp proved a SOFTBALL, page 11