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The city of Tucson has been granted $63 million in federal stimulus money to begin construction on the Modern Streetcar Project.

The four-mile streetcar will connect the UA to Fourth Avenue, downtown and the redevelopment area west of downtown. The project is expected to be completed by September 2012. Developers hope it will generate economic and employment growth for the city, improve transit service and ease parking constraints.

David Heineking, the director of Parking and Transportation

Services and a coordinator for the Modern Streetcar Project in relation to the UA, said he believes the project will have an “extremely positive effect” by allowing students to get around on campus as well as helping the UA expand outside of “where we are now.”

Once the streetcar is up and running, private developers can build places for university students to live instead of an additional residence hall on campus in future years, according to Heineking.

Heineking also said the university will not lose money on parking, noting that “people will continue to drive to campus if they already do now.”

Pima County voters approved the Modern Streetcar Project in 2006 as part of the $2.1 billion Regional Transportation Authority plan funded by a half-cent sales tax and other local and state funds, according to the Pima Association of Governments.

The city of Tucson estimates the project will cost $196,822,000.

Before the new Congress was seated in early January, the Republican U.S. House attempted to take away stimulus funds not being used for critical projects, such as the grant Tucson received for the Modern Streetcar Project.

Gautam Gowrisankaran, an

associate professor of economics, said he would have voted “Yes” on the plan supporting the Modern Streetcar.

“This country could use more investment in infrastructure,” he said. “It’s good for Tucson, the people of Tucson, and I think it’s good to encourage public transit.” Gowrisankaran explained that investing in something like the streetcar is “optimal for growth” and that the U.S. is falling behind countries like China in infrastructure development.

The Regional Transportation Authority is helping aid businesses that could be financially impacted during construction of the Modern Streetcar through

the Regional Transportation Authority MainStreet Business Assistance Program.

Britton Dornquast, manager for the Regional Transportation Authority MainStreet Business Assistance Program, said the most important part of preparing these businesses is to get them away from “street rumors” and to “keep them out of a crisis mode mentality.”

“The last thing we want is a panic based upon bad or misinformation, which will flow out to the customers,” he said. “We want the businesses to focus on what they do have control over and maintain a positive attitude internally.”

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Power generated now available for customers to buy

By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT With a new 1.6-megawatt tracking array, allowing customers to buy blocks of solar energy, the UA houses Tucson Electric Power’s largest solar energy source.

The Bright Tucson Community Solar Program debuted the community solar panel last month and plans to parcel out 150 kilowatthour energy blocks to customers who purchase all or some of their energy using this option. The operation is based out of the UA’s Science and Technology Park.

“The idea came about because we were looking for a way to make solar energy available to customers who did not have the opportunity or the money to put solar panels on their rooftop,” said Joe Salkowski, spokesman for the Tucson Electric Power Company.

The $6.7 million system produces 1,600 solar blocks that would service around 266 of the more than 210,000 in the city. Six solar blocks, on average, power one household.

“Tucson can become a real leader in the solar energy industry,” said Bruce Wright, associate vice president for University Research Parks.

In the next four years, the park hopes to produce more renewable energy for the city than the facility itself uses.

A ‘Solar Zone’ was established at the park a year ago, after BP Alternative Energy asked to buy a portion for a 1,000-acre solar farm, Wright said.

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Michael M. Brescia, associate curator at the Arizona State Museum, keeps watch over the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, currently on display at the museum. Today marks the 163 anniversary of the signing.

Museum displays piece of history

By Mariah Davidson ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Portions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo will be on display at the Arizona State Museum in February for its 163 anniversary.

Feb. 2, 1848 marks the day the treaty was signed, formally ending the Mexican-American War and ceding a vast amount of land to the United States, of what is now Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and California.

The treaty also caused people living in the territory to renounce their Mexican citizenship and begin the process of naturalization into the United States.

Michael Brescia, associate curator of ethnohistory at the Arizona State Museum, said the treaty is significant and valid today because descendants of Mexicans living in the purchased territory are still fighting to col-

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lect rights promised to them in the treaty.

According to Oscar Martinez, a UA history professor, when Mexico refused to let the United States purchase the land, the U.S. essentially provoked the Mexican-American war to acquire the land by force in 1846.

The payment was compensation to Mexico for damages and the lost territories, Martinez said.

The treaty cost $18 million, according to Martinez, and in addition to the $15 million paid to Mexico for the territories, $3 million went to U.S. citizens who had claims against Mexico for enduring losses.

The U.S. also agreed to compensate their new citizens in the territory for their claims against Mexico.

However, the expense of the territories is insignificant when regarding the value the U.S. has

acquired with the land.

California and Texas yielded a “huge amount of good land,” said Martinez, referring to the amount of minerals found in the territories, grazing land and especially the “great” trading ports, particularly the port in the San Francisco Bay area. France, Britain and other nations desired the port because it was a direct trade route with Asia.

When asked about what effect the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had on the people residing in the territories, Martinez said it “deserves a separate story.”

Articles VIII and IX of the treaty guaranteed property, freedom of religion and citizenship for those who wished to stay within the territory.

Some people left their land and returned to Mexico but the majority stayed, Brescia said.

However, according to Martinez, there were gross viola-

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tions of the guarantees, and the people “became foreigners in their own land.” They also suffered from racial and religious discrimination.

Articles V, VIII, IX, X and XII of the treaty will be on display until Feb. 28.

The National Archives in Washington, D.C., houses the complete treaty in both English and Spanish.

IF YOU GO The Arizona State Museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Admission is $5 for adults and free for UA and Pima students with ID, museum members and children 17 and younger.

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UA community speaks on Egyptian revolts A protest urging the United States government to stop sending tax money to support the Egyptian government took place on Tuesday.

Kareem Hassan, who received a political science degree last May, stood on the UA Mall holding a sign that read “GAME OVER” in capitalized red and white letters, asking students to sign a petition to send to Washington, D.C., persuading the U.S. to no longer fund the Egyptian government.

“I just wanted to support my family, who’s out on the streets right now in Egypt … I wish I could be with them,” Hassan said, who is a “first-generation” Egyptian and had been protesting on the Mall since 11 a.m. that morning, as well as the day before.

Hassan organized the protest and got the word out via Facebook by creating a public event page called “Egyptian March of Millions Support.”

The event had 67 confirmed guests by 1 p.m. today. “Please come out and support an end to the dictatorship in Egypt!”

Hassan wrote on the Facebook public event.

Three other members accompanied Hassan at the Mall in front of the Student Union Memorial Center, holding Egyptian flags and petition sheets. Miranda Tyree, 22, a systems engineering senior, held a poster up that urged the government to stop sending tax money to support the Egyptian government.

“We just want to raise awareness,” said Tyree, who is half Egyptian. “We’re sending the petition to (John) McCain so he knows there is opposition to the current dictatorship in Egypt, and so he won’t vote for any bills that are in support of Egyptian funding.”

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Tarek Elmaghraby, an Egyptian accounting junior.

“As unfortunate as the situation in Egypt is, I’m glad that people

Solar continued from page 1 Company began, as companies proposing the land at the park as a viable area for solar development, last August.

“We have been working with the Tech Park to develop the ‘Solar Zone.’ We talked with Bruce Wright and others, and understood what they were hoping to create there,” Salkowski said.

The Arizona Corporation Commission set the rates for solar energy and the prices will be locked in at these rates for 20 years.

“The program is a great option for students who want to do what they can to reduce their carbon footprint,” Salkowski said. “If you are living in an apartment, you don’t really have the opportunity to install solar panels, but you do have the option to participate in this program and to support green power sources.”

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are finally standing up and trying to stop the government.”

“I hope they get a better president, not someone like a king, but someone that people actually elect.”

He spoke with his grandfather (who lives in Egypt) last night, who told him that he shot at someone who broke into his house a few days ago.

Tarek has been unable to contact his cousins over Facebook and MSN Messenger, but communicates with his grandparents and cousins in Egypt over the phone.

He moved to America in third grade and tries to go back to Egypt during the summer when he can. The last time he visited, his cousins told him to talk to police with extra respect.

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“Yeah, I actually have a subscription to the Wall Street Journal, so I’ve been following the Egypt thing for about the past week. Obviously something is wrong if you have a president in power for 30 years.

That’s a red flag right there. As to whether or not I think the

the expectation is credits accumulated in low energy-use months during the winter will be utilized in high energy-use summer months, Salkowski said.

The Tucson Electric Power Company converts any remaining energy credits into credit against customers’ bills.

Customers who cancel program participation will also be credited for unused energy on their next bill.

Wright said campus initiatives have been limited to in-house solar panels such as those on top of the Second Street Parking Garage and the pool at the Student Recreation Center, but discussion of adopting a similar method to power buildings on the UA campus “is under active consideration.”

“The Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities Group, and the university, and our public utility and the Tech Park have all joined together to put Tucson at the forefront of solar energy research and development,” Wright said of the program. “It’s going to provide job opportunities for UA graduates, energy for the people of the Valley … It’s bold and important and it’s very exciting for the community.”

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people are right? I think for the most part they are. They’re fighting for what they believe in.”

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Leila Hudson, director of graduate studies and associate professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies “What’s going on in Egypt is probably the most important, game-changing event we’ve seen since 1979 and the Iranian Revolution. In and of itself, it’s very important to the country of Egypt, to the U.S. vital, strategic interests in the region, but it’s not an isolated event.

It’s part of this wave of very popular protests that started in Tunisia and is having repercussions in other Middle Eastern

countries as well. It’s very important to understand each country and what is going on in each particular country because it’s not linear or predictable.

It’s not like a series of mechanical dominoes and each country is going to fall. Each country is going to have its own kind of constellation of demographic issues, government issues and economic issues.”

“The U.S. is watching this with great, great interest. U.S. involvement is something that is going to happen one way or another. The question is how skillful and nimble that U.S. involvement will be, and will the U.S. know when it’s appropriate not to interfere. Right now, it’s a very difficult position because the U.S. has propped up this convenient dictator for 29 years and is clearly nervous about what will come afterward. On the other hand, this is clearly a popular, democratic, liberal moment in Egypt, and the United States can’t be on the wrong side of that either.”

Additional quotes obtained by Brenna Goth and Eliza Molk of the Daily Wildcat.

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car continued from page 1 Dornquast said that in the long run the Modern Streetcar will be good for businesses, and in the short run it will be a construction project like any other with certain challenges and concerns.

Natalie Lucas, the administrative director for Students for Sustainability, Honors Student Council president and a political science and environmental science sophomore, believes the streetcar is a “good environmental initiative if people will adjust (transportation) habits for sustainability.”

Although she expressed concern that “changing lifestyles” is “very, very hard for people” when it comes to switching personal car use to public transportation, she is “interested to see where it (the streetcar) takes Tucson.”

“I don’t see a problem with the federal government giving Tucson funds to help innovation,” she said. “But I feel like it’s better for federal government to give states money for states to apply it where they feel it could be best used.”

Mike Beckwith, a sophomore majoring in English, used to use the Sun Tran to get to the UA and to his job at Dirtbag’s before getting a car last month. He is against the idea of the Modern Streetcar except in safety uses, like an alternative to drunk driving.

“It’s trivial to spend on a new form of public transportation when we have a very reliable and highly rated public transportation system in the Sun Tran,” he said.

Assuming the Modern Streetcar will run 24 hours a day, seven days a week, while the Sun Tran stops running at midnight, it could potentially be used as a “designated driving” service.

“If kids are paying to use public transportation, I don’t care if they are drunk and using it as a ride home,” Beckwith said. “I much rather them do that then put others in danger.”

The Daily Wildcat is always interested in story ideas and tips from readers. If you see something deserving of coverage, contact news editor Luke Money at news@wildcat.arizona.edu or call the newsroom at 621-3193.

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Larry Tinker changes wiper blades for a customer at Rayman’s Auto Service in Affton, Mo., on Tuesday.

Federal government braces for latest severe winter storm Airlines including United, Continental, Delta, American and Southwest said they had canceled more than 4,000 flights, including 1,200 in the major hubs around Chicago.

In Washington, President Obama was briefed by telephone

by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The National Weather Service has issued winter storm watches, warnings or advisories in more than 30 states, and blizzard warnings have been issued for eight states — Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,

MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE A storm brought more misery to at least two dozen states in the Southwest, the ice-crusted Midwest and the already slushburied Northeast, and threatened on Tuesday to turn one of the nation’s worst winters into something that only a snowman could love.

Road conditions were more slippery than glass as ice formed along some 1,500 miles across the nation. The DallasFort Worth international airport closed for 2-1/2 hours, blocking fans from arriving for this weekend’s Super Bowl.

Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin,” the White House said.

Eleven states have already accepted FEMA offers of personnel for the storm. The agency has also moved needed goods such as water, meals, blankets and generators into staging positions to be used if needed, according to the Obama administration.

The storm, expected to take much of the week to work its way across the nation, brought school shutdowns, power outages, clogged transportation arteries and general commuter misery to more than 100 million residents.

JERUSALEM — Yet another government fell Tuesday to the rumblings of revolution that are sweeping the Middle East, as Jordan’s King Abdullah II dismissed the country’s prime minister and Cabinet after weeks of protests.

The surprise move appeared aimed at pre-empting the types of massive protests that are under way in Egypt and Tunisia and are being planned in other Arab countries, including Yemen, Sudan, Syria and Algeria.

However, King Abdullah’s choice of Marouf al-Bakhit, 64, a former army general and former prime minister, to replace Samir Rifai, a wealthy businessman and former court adviser, failed to impress a coalition of political forces behind nationwide protests that have been running weekly since the end of last year.

Demonstrators have called for the protests to continue until the new government takes office and institutes concrete changes.

Like other protests that have spread across Arab nations recently, the demonstrations in Jordan have focused on a better quality of life for average citizens. Protest organizers say the main issues are poverty, price increases and endemic corruption.

Demonstrators from the Islamist movements also have called for constitutional amendments to curb the king’s power to name heads of government. The constitution gives the king sweeping powers to appoint and dismiss prime ministers and to dissolve the parliament.

Unlike Egypt and Tunisia —

where government authorities first ignored protests and then reacted harshly — Jordan attempted to placate the protesters by distributing water and candy at demonstrations and announcing a wage increase for civil servants and military personnel.

“The move by the king was clearly part of what is going on across the Middle East. This is not a liberal reform kind of area.

Reform usually takes years to achieve, and here we are seeing it spread like wildfire,” said professor Assaf David, an expert on Jordanian affairs at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Nowhere have the unfolding events across the Middle East been more closely watched than in Israel.

Israel’s neighbor to the south, Egypt, saw a “million man march” Tuesday that demanded the ouster of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a key Israeli ally in the region. In the north, Lebanon soon will see a new government sworn in under the Hezbollah-backed Prime Minister Najib Mikati. Syria will see its first round of protesters Saturday as opposition movements called for massive protests against the rule of President Bashar Assad.

“It’s a dangerous time, because it’s an unpredictable time,” one Israeli Cabinet minister said, speaking only on the condition of anonymity as the minister wasn’t authorized to talk about the issue to journalists. “Maybe in these countries they are calling for democracy. But we don’t know what that vote will bring. The current rulers may be called evil dictators, but they are the evil we know rather than the evil we don’t.”

Report sees high risk of terrorist activity along US-Canada border Hill, Lieberman said the northern border, which extends from Washington state to Maine, is providing “easy passage into America by extremists, terrorists and criminals whose purpose clearly is to harm the American people.”

The report said the northern border, a quarter of which adjoins federal or tribal lands, poses a higher risk to public safety now than the U.S.-Mexico border. Lieberman said the northern border is nearly twice as long and is lined with large population centers that make it harder to detect criminal activ-

MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE WASHINGTON — Americans face a high risk of terrorist activity along the U.S.-Canadian border, where less than 1 percent of the 4,000-mile stretch is adequately protected, according to a government report released Tuesday.

“To me, this report is absolutely alarming,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent and the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which released the report.

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ity. In addition, he said, Canada now has more Islamist extremist groups than Mexico does.

“It is not too much to ask that our government be able to at least detect all illegal entries along the border, so we can get this information into the hands of law enforcement agencies that can then make the arrests,” Lieberman said.

He added that the report by the Government Accountability Office, the watchdog arm of Congress, should be “an urgent call for action.”

However, Rep. Rick Larsen,

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a Washington state Democrat whose district includes about 100 miles of the northern border, said it’s wrong to imply that the border “is just being left open for people to walk across with impunity — that’s just not the case.”

“I think Senator Lieberman needs to get out more,” Larsen said. “To imply either that our border with Canada is undefended or unsafe does not at all recognize the cooperation that occurs every day between local, state and federal law enforcement and their partners in Canada.”

The report found that only 32 miles of the 4,000-mile border “had reached an acceptable level of security.” It said that federal officials had the capability to detect illegal border crossings along only 1,007 miles of the border.

The report criticized federal agencies for not doing enough to cooperate with each other and to share intelligence information.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said he fears that border security in Detroit has been hindered because of a lack of cooperation among agencies in Michigan.

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By Bethany Barnes and Luke Money ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Standing before an audience of more than 13,000 in McKale Center, with an almost equal number watching via video from the nearby Arizona Stadium, President Barack Obama took a thoughtful pause.

“On Saturday morning, Gabby, her staff and many of her constituents gathered outside of a supermarket to exercise their right to peaceful assembly and free speech,” he said.

“They were fulfilling a central tenant of democracy and the vision by our founders … That is the quintessentially American scene that was shattered by a gunman’s bullets.”

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were present in Tucson as part of the “Together We Thrive: Tucson and America” memorial event held to honor the 19 victims and six fatalities of last Saturday’s shooting spree, an attack that took the life of federal district Judge John Roll and left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in critical condition at University Medical Center.

“There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts,” Obama said. “But know this. The hopes of the nation are here tonight. We mourn with you for the fallen. We join you in your grief. We add our faith

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n the heels of a new book that asserts students are learning pathetically little in four-year colleges and universities across the nation, a Jan. 27 article from the New York Times reveals that college students are also sadder and more stressed than they’ve been in at least 25 years.

The study of more than 200,000 college freshmen found that the percentage of students who described the quality of their emotional health as “below average” rose, while the percentage of those who said their emotional health was above average fell sharply — 12 percent since 1985.

What gives? If college is, as the first study convincingly argued, much less rigorous than in past years, why are college students so damned unhappy?

Sources in the Times article posit a variety of explanations, from the drab economy and job market to ill-preparedness for real life to the pressure cooker that getting into the “right” schools has become. These factors all have a great deal of merit, and probably all weigh heavily on the shoulders of college students who are simultaneously fighting to stay on top and facing woeful prospects upon graduation, no matter how successful they are in college.

But these factors alone seem too shallow to explain what feels, from the inside looking out, like a vast, dark weight on the collective chest of students across the country. Based on my own experience and the anecdotal evidence I’ve garnered from nearly four years at the UA, the studies are right: many of us are, fundamentally and more than we should be, sad.

Permit me a bit of self-revelation. In the survey, I would probably fall into one of the problem categories — stressed, unhappy, unhopeful about the future. I don’t feel, as I believe many of my peers don’t feel, that there can be much waiting for me beyond college.

Everyone, from the media to my professors to my peers, affirms this sense of dread. There are no jobs, I am told. There are few prospects.

And certainly, these truths contribute to others’ and my sense of unhappiness. It sucks to think you’ve worked hard for nothing.

But for me, the worst part is that rather than nothing, I feel I have worked hard for, or at, the wrong thing. I came to college imagining that I was coming someplace where learning would be valued, where outcomes like job offers and starting salaries would be less important than the sense that I was entering the world a thoughtful, educated and aware citizen. I thought it would matter if I could think hard, write well, solve problems and begin to really understand the world. And in individual classes, it did matter.

But the overall timbre of the university — not just the UA, but higher education as an institution — has been, for me, sorely disappointing. While I think my professors care that their students learn and grow as people, the university looks at the bottom line. Institutes of what we still call higher education today measure success in terms of job-preparedness

“Institutes of what we still call higher education today measure success in terms of job-preparedness and earning potential.

Perhaps they should change the name to ‘hire’ education.” and earning potential. Perhaps they should change the name to “hire” education. I wish, more than that I could find a job when I graduate in May, that I had spent four years feeling valued because I wanted to learn rather than pressured to succeed based on some narrow, corporate definition of the word.

Many will say I am naive, whiny or out of touch with the real world. They’re probably right. But I can’t help believing that if universities, our own included, valued students a little more for their minds, their perceptions, their excitement and their idealism, than for their present and potential pocketbooks, students would have more room to grow into proud, wise and happy individuals.

— Heather Price-Wright is the assistant arts editor at the Daily Wildcat. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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Violence goes beyond debate regarding gun legislation

Stop looking to stricter gun laws to solve the issues of violence like the shooting of 19 innocent people in front of a grocery store. What’s amazing is that in the wake of such tragic events, time and time again, the news media fails to address the larger issue and instead jumps on the gun-law bandwagon, arguing for or against.

What’s always missing is a broader discussion of violence in American society. According to a 2002 workshop conducted by the National Institute of Justice, “(gender) is the most co air jordan retros 3 nsistent variable across all forms of violence. Men commit more violence than women.” Men are 10 times more likely to act violently, according to the study.

Yes, Jared Loughner ’s alleged ac-

tions may not directly relate if he has a mental disorder, but the tragedy still affords responsible media an opportunity to examine this glaring fact.

I’m not about to stand on my soapbox and tell you to sell your Xbox or PS3 and get rid of all your violent games, claiming that will solve the problem, or to burn those angry head-banging CDs. There is no quick fix. There is not one element that rises above all the others, and no element that makes a person commit violent acts. But each piece — increasing amounts of violence in movies and video games, socially acceptable violent language, perpetuation by the media that somehow violence makes men more, well, manly — all of these add up over the years of a developing man’s life and create a belief system that, given the right motivation, allow the man to justify com-

mitting violent acts.

Violent acts don’t require a gun. Sure, stricter gun laws might b e part of the solution — but the key here is “part.” More laws are not the solution. And until we wake up and realize that a complete overhaul of the social stereotypical view of what it means to be a man in America is in order, men will, with or without access to guns, continue to commit acts of violence in all forms.

— Tim Glass is the photo editor of Daily Wildcat. He can be reached at letters@ wildcat.arizona.edu.

Pop culture shows how not to love Caroline Nachazel Arizona Daily Wildcat It has been reported that Chris Brown is asking to have a restraining order against him from Rihanna relaxed. Let us recall last year’s events of a brutally contused pop star and one of the greatest heartbreaks known to man. A year later, it’s Grammy season and C. Breezy thinks it’s time for the order to be dropped, so he can attend the award show where the crime took place.

I am praying that the phrase “forgive but never forget” will not be considered in Brown’s request.

Pop culture fanatics around the globe, myself included, were shocked to hear that Rihanna took Brown back again. Plain and simple: she loved the way he lied.

Lied, hit, beat up, punched, whatever you want to call it, this was an unhealthy relationship. However, it seems that Rihanna is not the “only girl in the world” who has been infected with the sickness of love.

The more I listen to my friends and peers complain about their significant others, the more I find myself muttering under my breath, “Why are you even in the relationship?”

Although surveys from the Bureau of Justice have revealed significant decreases in domestic temper tantrums and dating violence among young people, this does not mean that every current relationship

has a storybook ending. Poisonous relationships do still exist. They remain an incredibly serious issue among members

“The more I listen to my friends and peers complain about their significant others, the more I find myself muttering under my breath, ‘Why are you even in the relationship?’” of our generation, who tend to live vicariously through pop culture icons.

In the year 2010 alone, I can think of three unhealthy relationships that were spotlighted in pop culture. Millions of viewers watched as Scott Disick, of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” violently bashed his hand into a wall, releasing relationship tension. Then there were the infamous Mel Gibson/Oksana recordings in which Gibson suggested Oksana deserved to be beaten. And lastly, the world saw how Rihanna went from yodeling about umbrellas in ballet shoes to harmonizing extremely masochistic lyrics.

Despite who literally wears the pants, men in relationships can be just as easily

abused as women. As women, we tend to be more public about our problems. And, admittedly, people enjoy a good scandal.

See the tabloids. However, men just as susceptible to domestic abuse as women.

Their drama just isn’t broadcast in gossip magazines or on Perez Hilton’s blog.

When was the last time a movie about a man being victimized in a relationship was shown on Lifetime? “Unhealthy relationship” does not have a connotative definition of “girlfriend who is mean to boyfriend.” Here’s a shout out to the boyfriend emotionally, verbally or physically neglected by their woman.

The key ingredients to a love potion are a poisonous combination of adrenaline, dopamine, and serotonin. Masochistic or not, unhealthy relationships are literally sick.

When relationships become toxic, these chemicals become imbalanced and cause people to do crazy things. Cussing out a boyfriend or girlfriend is not healthy.

Fighting and arguing are essential to relationships, they keep the flame lit, but there is a big difference between what is love and baby don’t hurt me, no more.

On a more serious note, I have seen and experienced couples whose happiness feels contagious. While you’re looking for romance this Valentine’s season, keep in mind that relationships should make life more enjoyable, not the contrary.

In the meantime, I will keep my fingers crossed in hopes that Brown’s Grammy will be accepted by someone legally allowed to be in the presence of our favorite Barbadian superstar.

— Caroline Nachazel is a sophomore majoring in journalism and communication. She can be reached at letters@wildcat.arizona.edu.

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By Alexander Vega ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

‘Suspicious’ skateboarder sent to slammer

An aide from the University of Arizona Police Department interrogated a non-UA affiliated man on Jan. 27 at 5:16 a.m.

The aide informed a UAPD officer that the man appeared suspicious.

The responding officer performed a records check on the man and found a warrant for his arrest for issuing a bad check through the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.

The records check also showed that the man had a warrant for failure to appear in court regarding charges of obstruction of justice and marijuana possession in Phoenix.

Since these offenses are not extraditable, the man was booked into Pima County Jail.

The officer searched the man but found no contraband.

The man’s skateboard was taken into UAPD custody.

Bike filched from fraternity house

A male UA student’s bike was stolen from the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house sometime during the night of Jan. 13.

The student reported it to UAPD Jan. 26 at 4 p.m.

The student said that he left the bike in the fraternity’s backyard, but noted that he thought the gate might have been left open.

The student did not lock up the bike, which was valued at $130.

The bike was registered with Parking and Transportation Services and was reported stolen.

There are no suspects or witnesses at this time.

UA golf cart in traffic collision

A woman struck a UA golf cart with her sedan at the intersection of Sixth Street and Warren Avenue on Jan. 26 at around 10 a.m.

The driver of the golf cart was ejected 6 feet from the cart and suffered injuries to his forehead and left shin.

Both passengers in the sedan were unharmed, as the vehicle’s airbags deployed.

Emergency personnel medically cleared all three involved in the collision.

Both parties agreed that the golf cart had the right of way at the intersection.

There was minimal damage to both vehicles.

On Deck Deli finds forged bill

A UA employee contacted a UAPD officer concerning a suspected counterfeit bill.

The employee was counting the money from On Deck Deli in the Student Union Memorial Center basement and found a suspicious bill.

The $10 bill was used on Jan. 26 between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

The bill looked out of place and, upon closer inspection, did not have the correct watermarks.

The employee also used a marker to test the bill, and it appeared positive for counterfeit.

The UAPD officer took the bill into evidence.

The suspected counterfeit bill will be given to the United States Secret Service.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports. A complete list of UAPD activity can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.

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18 again: An Irish birthday in America

By Ken Contrata ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The party is relatively innocuous. The guests are sipping their drinks out of red cups and coffee mugs while relentless, deafening bass emits from the apartments lining the dewy lawn.

What seems like a stereotypical Friday-night party is actually an Irish 21st birthday celebration in America.

After about a six-month hiatus from drinking legally, Irish exchange students Sylvia Farrelly and Heather Mc Daid are poised to rejoin the ranks of bar hoppers and club crawlers.

“I’ve been able to drink

“I came over because I wanted to drink from red cups, go to football games and be horrifically, stereotypically American.”

— Heather Mc Daid Exchange student from Ireland

legally for two-and-a-half years and been told I’m not allowed to drink again,” said Farrelly, a sociology and geography major. “I wouldn’t have this much excitement (about turning 21) if I wasn’t in America.”

Mc Daid, an anthropology major, grew up in the Irish countryside, a primarily farming community. Though the legal drinking age there is 18, Mc Daid was immersed in a bar-oriented culture since her mid-teens. She had a trying transition into a sober America before her 21st birthday the previous Wednesday.

“My liver is back talking to me again, which I enjoy,” Mc Daid said. “‘Cause I didn’t drink as much, but it’s been horrible, absolutely horrific.”

To celebrate the women’s recent drinking reinstatement, Farrelly and Mc Daid packed their night with both American and Irish traditions — beginning with a “little bit of Vegas.”

The birthday girls sat on folding chairs amid a circle of onlookers, when four shirtless men emerged from a nearby apartment. Two were dressed in true Chippendales’ fashion, complete with bowties, while

Sylvia Farrelly the other two “entertainers” were merely underwearclad, including one in a pair of skimpy Superman briefs and Clark Kent glasses. Amid the catcalls and accusations of “shrinkage” because of the frigid night, the Englishman, American and two Irishmen began their brief show.

Aside from partaking in America’s stereotypical fondness for male dancers, both women have indulged in all the best our country has to offer.

Heather Mc Daid

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Sculpture festival carves ‘Uncool’ Destroyer niche for second appearance album near perfect

By Steven Kwan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The event was never meant to be annual.

The Tucson Sculpture Festival, presented by the Parasol Project, went from an opportunity to sell artwork during Tucson’s Gem Show to a two-week exhibition, complete with theatrical performances, bands and everything “that’s going to embody the sculpture theme,” according to Daniel Wolverton, founder of the Tucson Sculpture Festival and part of the Parasol Project.

“Initially, it wasn’t going to become an annual event,” Wolverton said. “But because there were a lot of sculptures sold, (artists asked if) next time we could do it like this and I was like, ‘Oh really, you guys want there to be a next time? Alright.”

The Parasol Project was founded in 2009. To Wolverton, it is “a community arts collective … a network of musicians, artists and performance artists … We utilize it to put together big shows and art parties. Not even so much a network as a community of artists, and we’re friends who get together and produce and put on these amazing shows.”

For their second Sculpture Fest, Parasol Project booked and organized events from Feb. 4 through Feb. 18 — a duration that has doubled since last year’s Feb. 6-13 run.

A sculpture-themed dance performance, a theater show where sculptures come to life, and a band of sculpture instruments that the audience can join are all features of this year’s festival.

The opening performance ($3 to $5 suggested donation) and the closing ceremony ($10 ticket price) will be held at the Mat Bevel Institute of Kinetic Sculpture at 530 N. Stone Ave. Both shows will feature Anarchestra, an interactive band of metal sculpture instruments. The combined pieces can weigh over a ton, according to Anarchestra welder Andy Thurlow, who “uses the techniques that sculptors use” to weld steel instruments. Audience members are encouraged

IF YOU GO The Tucson Sculpture Festival Feb. 4 – 18 Ceremonies at: Mat Bevel Museum of Kinetic Sculpture 530 N. Stone Ave. Exhibits at: Studio 108, 108 W. Fifth St. Sculpture Resource Center, 640 N. Stone Ave. Solar Culture, 31 E. Toole Ave.

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to play along with his band.

“There’s a lot of good work by a lot of good people,” Thurlow said. “And if people want to come out and make music too, they can do that too.”

Besides showing and sharing art, Thurlow sees events like the Sculpture Fest as great opportunities to connect with the Tucson community.

“It’s good to see what local people are doing and get involved in the community, see what local artists of the community (are creating),” he said.

This is Thurlow’s second year participating in the festival. “Some of my best friends are sculptors,” he added.

This year’s festival will also mark the debut of the new Studio 108 at 108 W. Fifth St., a transformation from studio to gallery space by artist Susan Kay Johnson. The studio is a church built in 1914 and renovated for public exhibition, according to Johnson.

Other featured venues include the Sculpture Resource Center, at 640 N. Stone Ave., and Solar Culture, at 31 E. Toole Ave. “It’s the place to see the most diverse variety and total volume of sculptures at one showing that you can see in Tucson,” Wolverton said. “If you want to see sculptures, this is where you are going to be able to see the most.”

Destroyer’s new album Kaputt shouldn’t work, at least among today’s indie music. Yet it’s certainly one of the best records released so far this year.

Kaputt occupies a niche that encompasses late ‘70s and early ‘80s musical territory. But it’s not the stuff that most music critics base their standards on: no punk, post-punk, New Wave, New Romantic, college rock or even the canonical hard rock of Led Zeppelin or AC/DC. Instead, Destroyer (Dan Bejar’s solo project when he isn’t part of musical super group The New Pornographers) chose soft rock, smooth jazz, “adult contemporary” and ambient music as its musical loci for the album.

That list is as cool as saying something is “cool” nowadays.

That is, it isn’t. But somehow, in its own low-key way, Kaputt proves to be rewarding with each listen, and makes almost no missteps.

At first listen, one imagines Bejar is putting us on, which wouldn’t be a first for him. As evidenced by his other Destroyer albums, Bejar enjoys being oblique and self-referential with his lyrics over rather

straightforward music. (Just look to song titles like “Suicide Demo for Kara Walker” or “A Savage Night at the Opera.”)

In Kaputt, however, Bejar seems to be taking on another persona, one without the smirk. This time, he’s a ladies’ man who sounds tired of chasing after love at the fading discotheques, in smoky bars and all the trendy new downtown clubs.

Much of Bejar’s distinctive singing style is still present in Kaputt. He rushes through certain words with a flair for the dramatic and his lyric book is littered with exclamation marks and obscure references.

Washes of soft synths (no New Order here) meld with relaxed, jazzy saxophone, trumpet and flute throughout Kaputt and often take the forefront in place of an electric guitar. Long instrumental sections just settle in for the night, such as opener “Chinatown,” “Suicide Demo for Kara Walker,” “Kaputt,” “Downtown” and the 11-minute ambient epic “Bay of Pigs.”

Whether you listen intently or passively to the music and lyrics, Destroyer ’s Kaputt works on as many levels as you want it to.

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“Lemmy” at the Loft tonight.

The promos for this rock doc tag the Motorhead headman as “49% motherf**ker, 51% son of a bitch.” Dare you disagree?

to “Sensitive Kid” by the Cold War Kids. The bluesy bass line and Nathan Willett’s wailing falsetto remind us of all that used to rock about the Kids. Too bad the rest of their new album is rubbish.

“Gideon’s War” by Howard Gordon if you’re still going through “24” withdrawals. The show’s writer and executive producer can’t get enough of tuxedoed, terrorist-stomping spies, and neither can you, America.

the “Chunks O’ Cherry,” February’s flavor of the month at Eegee’s. There’s no midday energy boost quite like sucking on a rock of fruit crusted in sugary ice.

the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, which reopened this week. If you’ve never gone before, this blur of turquoise will open your eyes to Tucson culture.

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local scene To get you through your weekend …

Wednesday If you didn’t get your musical fix with “Wicked,” head on over to the Tucson Music Hall for Broadway in Tucson’s presentation of “Spring Awakening.” The sexually explosive rock musical that won eight Tony Awards in 2007 depicts the whirlwind journey from adolescence to adulthood. However, since it features some risqué scenarios, you may want to leave little ones at home. Tickets range from $25-55.

See the Daily Wildcat’s review on page 10.

Remember how the prom was such a huge ordeal in high school? This town’s prom has it beat. Visit the Gallagher Theater at 7 p.m. to watch the free screening of “Prom Night In Mississippi.” Sponsored by the Women’s Resource Center, the film chronicle’s a Mississippi town’s first non-segregated prom held in 2008.

Thursday Discover what secrets lay behind the curtain for two Broadway stars in Arizona Theatre Company’s production of “Ten Chimneys.” But you had better hurry; the show closes on February 12. Tickets range from $31-51. The show starts promptly at 7:30 p.m. at the Temple of Music and Art, 330 South Scott Avenue. Check out Wildlife’s review of the show at dailywildcat.com.

Have a blast and support a good cause. The Red & White Ball held at the Coyote Moon Pub (formerly Howl at the Moon), 915 W. Prince Road, will feature live music, dancing, food and a 50/50 raffle. The event starts at 8:30 p.m., and all proceeds will benefit the Tucson Tragedy Victims Fund.

Pottery, Crafts and Prickly Pears, oh my! Located at the corner of Broadway Boulevard and Country Club Road, Tucson vendors set up shop from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. at Broadway Village Farmers’ Market to sell fresh produce and hand-made memorabilia to those of us who are lucky enough to not have Friday classes.

This Thursday head out for some live music and to see those gem enthusiasts in another light as The Hut, 305 N. 4th Ave., hosts GemJammin’ Tucson 2011.

This musical jam for musicians in the jewelry biz donates all proceeds to Jewelers for Children. Doors open at 8 p.m. and tickets are $10.

Saturday OK, OK. So your roommate has left a pile of dishes in the sink for over a week now, just soaking and accumulating scum. But it could be worse. Check out “The Roommate,” featuring “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester and find out what happens when your bunk buddy becomes too much like Glenn Close in “Fatal Attraction.” Opens Friday.

Friday

It’s the beginning of the month, so you know what that means: First Friday Shorts at The Loft Cinema. Sit, relax and enjoy a night of original cinema or submit something of your own and you are guaranteed three minutes of fame before the cries of “Gong!” descend.

But be warned — the shorts are not pre-screened, so who knows what you will see? The show starts at 9 p.m. and admission is only $6.

Sunday

Monday

So which team will it be? The Steelers or the Packers? Bust out the chips and dip and watch Super Bowl XLV at 4:30 p.m. on FOX. Before or after the game, get your Gleek on.

During the pre-show “Glee” star Lea Michele (Rachel Berry) will sing “America the Beautiful,” and the rest of the New Directions cast will be back in action during the coveted post-Super Bowl slot. It should be quite a “Thrill” (M.J. style) and will even feature Katie Couric.

Celebrate the weirdness of life with The Loft Cinema’s Mondo Mondays. For only $3, check out the cheesy 1988 flick, “Not Of This Earth,” featuring pornstar turned B-movie actress Traci Lords. It should be out of this world.

Don’t miss your chance to travel back in time and discover the beauties of “The Ship of Dreams” at Titanic: The Artifact Exhibit. With over 120 artifacts on display in the historic Rialto Building in downtown Tucson, you will have more than enough reason to keep putting off that homework. However, you had better hurry. The exhibit will be gone after Feb. 20.

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continued from page 6 “I came over because I wanted to drink from red cups, go to football games and be horrifically, stereotypically American,” Mc Daid said.

The most shocking thing about American culture for Mc Daid: “Frat parties — as in, they’re real.”

“We had red cups, and we played beer pong.”

“And flip cup!” Farrelly said.

“Two things we had never played before.”

One of the most difficult adjustments to the norms of American nightlife was the sexualized dancing, according to the women.

“I was like, ‘I’m in America, I’m going to try it. I’ll do the bump and grind thing,’”

Farrelly said. “I just felt so awkward.”

“Leave something to the imagination.”

Mc Daid’s first experience with American dancing was similarly uncomfortable.

“It’s really awkward. I’d just seen his face and I was like, ‘I can’t remember your face, but I could probably give you, like, inches,’” Mc Daid joked. “That’s just too close.”

Farrelly said she also found it strange that friends “bump and grind” together, because in Ireland the whole dance style is reserved for teens. “(In Ireland), you go out on a dance floor and just have fun and do whatever you think you want to do because everyone’s so drunk nobody cares,” Farrelly said. “Nobody’s going to be like, ‘Oh, look at that one.’”

The prominent Irish tradition

at the party involved Farrelly and Mc Daid receiving 21 kisses for their 21st birthday.

The first 20 kisses are merely cordial, while “the 21st kiss has to be a proper kiss,” Mc Daid explained.

“I’m on a mission,” Farrelly said. “I know who is giving me my 21st kiss. He doesn’t know it, though.”

Farrelly wouldn’t divulge the identity of her impending smoocher until the liplock, though both women critiqued American men.

“Honestly, can’t stand American men,” Mc Daid said.

“I make fun of them, and they’re very sensitive,” Farrelly said, “and it’s kind of funny.

They’re just not as much fun (as Irish men).

“The Irish mentality is, though, the better you can make fun of someone, the more

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respect you get.”

Both women agreed that Irish men have the upper hand in personalities, but American men have other strengths. “(Irish men) are ugly, but they’re so much fun,” Farrelly said. “American men are way better looking.”

Mc Daid seconded Farrelly’s assessment: “So much better looking here, definitely you guys win on looks. Irishmen have no hope.”

The night culminated in a trip to Dirtbag’s for a quintessentially American 21st birthday tradition: the power hour. Though neither Mc Daid nor birthday girl Farrelly chose to attempt 21 shots in the twohour span, they did drink an amount worthy of their heritage.

“There’s a stereotype that Irish people drink a lot,”

Farrelly said, “and then when I came here I realized that we actually do.

“We drink to excess.”

Farrelly said she was surprised by Americans’ drinking habits.

“Lads don’t tend to drink that much, but girls get absolutely fucked after three drinks,” Farrelly said. “That’s really unheard of, because I’m not really a good drinker in Ireland, I’m just normal. While here, I’m classed as a good drinker.”

Though, Farrelly conceded that she drinks “everything.”

“If I’m drunk enough, I’ll drink petrol,” Farrelly said.

Farrelly and Mc Daid’s birthday bash melded Irish and American traditions into a celebration fit for both cultures, and ended in a fittingly pan-cultural ritual: an escort home.

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Gang of Four’s Content ‘The Rite’ is just so wrong not quite worth the wait

By Steven Kwan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

By Kathleen Roosa ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

The last time British post-punk pioneers Gang of Four released anything was 2005’s Return the Gift after the original members came back together in 2005. The album featured re-recordings of the best songs from the band’s catalog. In interviews, band members claimed they wanted to re-record the songs because they hated how the drums sounded in the original recordings. They also wanted to have the songs reflect their live sound.

In the wake of bands popping up throughout the past decade and taking their cues from postpunk, a more convincing argument could be made that Gang of Four wanted to show the kids how it’s done.

The band, which now consists of founding members Jon King and Andy Gill and a new rhythm section, has released Content, its first original album since 1995’s Shrinkwrapped. “She Said ‘You Made a Thing of Me’” opens Content with a tense, unnerving buzzing sound and lyrics about a disconnected relationship and objectification. Gang of Four continues riffing on many of the same themes in Content that could be found on earlier albums: relationships, politics, identity,

Anthony Hopkins is pretty much the definition of terrifying. Period. His appearance isn’t frightening.

In fact, he sometimes looks like a kindly grandfather. But on the silver screen, the wrinkled bags under his bloodhound eyes combined with a knife-like smile make it almost impossible to not imagine him hissing, “Hello, Clarice.” As if Anthony Hopkins as a serial killer wasn’t bad enough, he can also deliver a fairly scary performance as a possessed priest.

Spinning heads? Yup. Violent body contortions? You betcha.

Vomiting up nails? Yes, “The Rite” has you covered when considering the staples of an exorcism movie. But it’s nothing remarkable.

Handsome young priest Michael Kovak (Colin O’Donoghue) journeys to Rome to participate in an exorcism seminar hosted by Vatican priests. Questioning the practice (let alone his belief in God), Michael is sent to an experienced exorcist, Father Lucas (Hopkins). Despite witnessing a plethora of creepy preternatural events, Kovak still clings to his doubts. That is, until Father Lucas finds himself deep within the devil’s clutches.

Sure, it’s a passable plot, but the acting does nothing to up the scare factor. O’Donoghue, a more or less unknown actor, does nothing more than look around confused and make skeptical/ scared glances when the demons are out to play. There’s also a quasi-romantic interest in the form of a reporter investigating exorcisms (Alice Braga) that’s completely unnecessary and distracting.

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the media and religion.

Many of the songs feature memorable lines bearing on these themes. “Who Am I?” has “Who can lie when everything is true?

Who wants old when everything is new? Who am I when everything is me?” When King and Gill trade lyrics, the results can be great, as in the political polemic “Do As I Say.” After Gang of Four first disbanded in 1984, Gill made a reputation as a producer and he brings that experience to Content, with mixed results. The guitars are still jaggedly sharp and the drums don’t sound as if they were buried in sand. Everything is clear and in its right place.

But there are some unfortunate

choices, like random R&B backup singing in “I Party All The Time” or the vocoder in the downbeat “It Was Never Gonna Turn Out Too Good.”

Content won’t necessarily satisfy many ardent Gang of Four fans, especially if they are looking for a supple rhythm section. But given that reunions from seminal bands can turn disastrous once returning to the studio, Gang of Four has done well in adjusting to an era where the media has been usurped by social media.

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UA grad shines in ‘Miracles’

By Brandon Specktor ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The opening minutes of “Miracles,” the newest production at the Invisible Theatre , appear to channel “The Miracle Worker.”

Eve Hudson, an autistic 17-year-old , has been in the care of autism specialist Kate Kingsley long enough to respond to verbal cues and communicate through a keyboard, so long as someone helps steady her trembling fingers. Not only can she type yes and no, and make glib talk about the weather, with Kingsley’s help, she is about to create her own collection of inspirational poetry. This baffles her father, Tom, who has buried himself in his law firm in the years following his wife’s death and his seemingly hopeless daughter was shipped off to a suite of specialist schools. There is something suspicious about a girl whose chief mode of communication is a Shamu puppet suddenly becoming a literary superstar. Might Ms. Kingsley be working some Ouija board magic?

The miracle work at hand seems to be of a spiritual nature; how will Tom, a lonely, loveless, ex-hippie

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workaholic lawyer, learn to trust Kingsley’s teaching and accept that his daughter has become a person with talents and dreams of her own?

The early expectation is that Tom will fall in love with Kingsley, and they will tour the world with Eve to push her poems and spread hope to the “no ones” to whom Eve dedicates her book. But by the end of act one, this expectation comes crashing down like a killer whale belly flop.

And that’s for the best. As an inspirational romantic comedy, “Miracles” could not deliver any of the dismal truth about Eve’s situation that it does. The Invisible Theatre bills it instead as an “evocative drama,” and what it evokes is a lone nugget of optimism amidst a mother lode of misfortune.

The Invisible Theatre always does an impressive job of building convincing worlds in limited spaces. “Miracles” is confined to Kingsley’s classroom in a private institution in the Berkshire Mountains, and the set is densely dressed. A classroom bursting with color contrasts Tom Hudson’s drab, dresseddown life. Pastel puzzlepiece wall runners reflect the rainbow butterfly wings of

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Eve’s artwork hung around the room, and even the checkered layers of color on Ms. Kingsley’s wool socks. Time in the play is confined to a twoday span, which is marked by shifting lights on the autumn leaves visible through the tiny window above Ms. Kingsley’s bright-red piano.

But the draw of “Miracles” is undoubtedly the acting.

As Tom, James Blair (also the play’s technical director) tingles with subdued angst and anger. Betsy Kruse Craig plays Kate Kingsley with the dual respect and bursting zeal of a truly caring teacher. But Rachel Lacy steals the show as Eve. Lacy, who graduated from the UA last December with degrees in theater and French, takes on the autistic Eve with stunning conviction. She bobs her upper body in tune with a cosmic groove that only she can hear. She raps her head with contorted fingers, and caresses her flopping ponytail while reminiscing about horse’s manes. Adopted mannerisms seem a part of her DNA. Lacy said that she studied for the role of Eve by reading a book by autism expert Temple Grandin, which taught her to “think in pictures.” She also observed classes at Catalina High School, and watched a

lot of YouTube videos. Some of her character ’s mannerisms were borrowed from students she observed, others from random folks around town.

“I saw this guy walking in the park and thought, ‘Well, he looks kind of autistic,’ so I copied his walk,” Lacy laughed. Her greatest challenge was weeding out mannerisms that were not “both theatrical and genuine.”

“I hate to say it, but I would have believed you were authentic,” said audience member Moriah Santo, who has a master ’s degree in speech pathology from NAU. Santo currently works at Kelland Elementary in an autistic classroom. “The

You can essentially snooze until the ending, where Hopkins’ performance becomes something worth watching between slightly separated fingers. Besides the somewhat disgusting makeup and the unnatural limb movement, it’s his delivery that compels audiences to sit up and listen.

The actual words that he spits at Michael’s attempts are no different than any other exorcist movie. Yet as a naturally gifted mimic, Hopkins commands a variety of voices and tones that both mock and horrify.

Though scary at times, “The Rite” relies heavily on genre clichés — think crows cawing and echoing laughter in empty hotels. The soundtrack and sound design are also nothing new. Sudden eye openings are accompanied by loud crescendos, while heavy violins often overlay the dialogue.

To give it credit, based on the assumption that the devil is still at work in the world, “The Rite” treats exorcisms seriously and does attempt to make the film as realistic as possible.

Despite a solid performance from Hopkins, “The Rite” falls into the chasm of “The Exorcist” imitators. So if you like exorcism movies, this one may be worth a watch on a boring night. But at the end of the day, you’ll most likely be able to go home, turn off the lights and sleep soundly.

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way they handled it was very tasteful and really moving,” she said.

Despite the unnecessary and confusing bombshell dropped ten minutes before the play’s conclusion, “Miracles” is tight and stirring. It will not make you laugh. It will not make you cry. But it will make you think.

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Cross-cultural concert aims to spread peace

By Kim Kotel Arizona Daily Wildcat

On Monday, the Korean Students’ Glee Club will present their international pipes, individually selected by Maestro Hooncha Chai from collegiate crooners all around Seoul, South Korea. The glee club, founded in 1966, has toured internationally and will be hitting up California, Canada, Texas, Washington and Washington D.C. before peeling out of the North America. How did Tucson get so lucky?

To be sure, this is not the Eastern version of the FOX TV show — aside maybe from a few barbershop quartet numbers. And this concert will not cost you more than the lint in your pockets.

The free concert will be presented with our very own UA Symphonic Choir and promote a very timely and important cause.

The concert, “Let There Be Peace,” and initiative to put on the program grew from the violent tragedies the communities of Tucson and

Korea have recently suffered.

“It happens because of lack of love for each other, so we want to sing about the love,” said UA choral graduate student Seungyong Shin.

Shin, a former student under Chai, was also privileged to fill the shoes of assistant conductor

if you go “Let There Be Peace” presented by the UA Symphonic Choir and the Korean Students’ Glee Club Monday, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m.

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of the group for a period of time. “(Chai) is one of the leading choral conductors in Korea, and he has directed the KSGC for 45 years,” said Shin.

“That is an amazing record.”

Shin likens Chai to a Korean Robert Shaw.

“He always says that the musician has to be pure and be true,” Shin said. “His soft and kind charisma could change many musicians’ lives in Korea.” And it has; Chai taught many top musicians in Korea who are enjoying increasingly successful careers.

“Let There Be Peace” will feature American folk songs; pieces by Matthew Harris, Richard Kidd and Frank Ferko; English madrigals; and Jewish songs sung by the UA Symphonic choir. In a manner of balance, the KSGC will perform Korean folk songs, contemporary sacred works, spirituals and hymns.

And at the end of the program, the UA Symphonic Choir and KSGC will perform two pieces together — along with every member in the audience trying out their vocal talents.

“They can join the singing with the choirs,” Shin said.

“Music can unify people.” And we could all use a little unifying right now.

Courtesy of The Korean Students’ Glee Club

Oft-ignored eateries beckon bored palates

By Remy Albillar Arizona Daily Wildcat This one’s for the freshmen who are growing tired of the Union and usual University fare. This one’s also for people who aren’t from Tucson and don’t get out much, a little worried about trying to differentiate the divey-dives from the hidden gems. Fear not ladies and gentlemen, there are plenty of spots in T-town to indulge your appetites, but some take some work to find.

Mama’s Famous Pizza & Heros 4500 E. Speedway Blvd.

To walk into Mama’s is to experience a pleasant miasma of subtle lighting and wafting garlic smells. The decorum is reminiscent of a mix between a classy circus and the royal palace of the Outer Rim planet, Naboo., and Blue Moon flows by the pitcher.

Don’t overlook the wings (they’re good); they make for a decent appetizer, but the pizza is the main event here.

Oversized slices require you learn a myriad of embarrassing techniques to keep the cheese from getting anywhere but your mouth.

The wait is pretty average, considering they’re making you a pizza from scratch. The staff is always friendly, and enjoys making jokes behind the ovens loud enough for customers to overhear.

Typical Meal Cost: By the slice: $7-8 Whole pie: $12-15

Vila Thai Cuisine 972 E. University Blvd.

Shame on you for not going up the stairs next to American Apparel, underclassman! The best restaurant on University is waiting for you up there, with delicious mint water. The seating is always a nice sight at night, as patrons are treated to the understated effect from the strings of lights surrounding the outdoor tables.

The eponymous pad thai is not to be missed. With 5 levels of generous spiciness, it makes P.F. Chang’s pad thai taste like noodles with ketchup. Don’t go any lower than 3 if you want the full effect of that spiciness on delicious sliced meat and thick rice noodles.

The wait staff is admittedly a little snarky, but if you humor their exaggerated swagger, they’ll treat you well enough. The food’s worth it regardless.

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Typical Meal Cost: Noodle and curry dishes: $9-10

Mama’s Hawaiian BBQ 850 E. Speedway Blvd.

You’ve driven past it on Speedway and wondered if it’s any good. Wonder no longer.

The veil of your confusion is about to be lifted. For your information, Hawaiian BBQ refers to traditional plate lunches. That translates into American restaurant language as a big slab of meat, some white rice and macaroni salad.

Tempting? Yes. You have to understand what Mama’s is not. Mama’s is not

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The Vila Thai patio provides a cozy place to view University Blvd above American Apparel.

Vila Thai offers lunch specials such as half off a bottle of wine.

healthy. Mama’s is not super concerned with presentation.

Mama’s serves greasy food you should feel proud to lather in their teriyaki and katsu sauces with reckless abandon. Just go freestyle in there, don’t be shy.

That’s why they come in boxes, so you can mix it all together and get at it with a big spoon.

They’ve got some tasty

desserts there, too. Again, only appropriate if you aren’t interested in keeping to your South Beach this month. If the description sounds totally disgusting, don’t go. If it made you even a little hungry, get over there on the double.

Typical Meal Cost: Plate lunch: $6-9

Britney Spears’ new single is fabulous.

Every generation has a blonde bombshell who, despite ups and downs in her personal life, always fascinates and grips followers.

Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, and now Britney.

Her new song, “Hold it Against Me,” uses the right amount of double entendre to maintain pseudo-innocence with the sultry Spears we all know and love. It also shows her ability to stay true to her pop style — how she got famous — and incorporates the newest fad of fast, fist-pumping beats.

About a minute in, the song switches from girly to a hiphop beat that crescendoes to the chorus.

If I were still a cheerleader, this song would be my go-to for my next performance.

As it is, I recommend to anyone who needs an extra song on his or her workout or running mix. And by this I mean dance in your socks in front of your mirror.

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campus creatives: William Epstein

Literature professor brings act into class

By Steven Kwan Arizona Daily Wildcat

The UA professor and part-time local actor discovered, as an English literature professor at Purdue, how to use body language while pondering a thought or a student’s question in class.

“I was in a production of (playwright Harold) Pinter’s ‘Old Times,’” William Epstein recalls.

“He’s famous for all the pauses, and it will say it in the script — ‘pause,’ ‘long pause,’ ‘long, long pause,’ ‘silence’ — and you have to interpret all this sort of stuff.

“But you can’t just pause. You have to act the pauses … If you don’t do it, the play doesn’t work.

What you learn is that’s the way all theater works.”

Epstein has been teaching English literature at the UA for nearly 25 years. Yet he confesses to feeling more comfortable on a stage than being in front of a podium.

He recently played Eurydice’s father in “Eurydice” at downtown Tucson’s Beowulf Alley Theatre, and is doing a staged reading of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at Live Theatre Workshop for his drama course at the UA. In an interview, Epstein starts, stops and backtracks as if he’s in a play or movie by one of his favorite playwright-directors, David Mamet.

How did you get into acting?

I was in first grade, my sister was in ninth grade, and it was a grammar school that went from kindergarten to ninth grade. The ninth graders got to put on the Christmas play, and they needed three little kids to ride across the stage on a bicycle route, ride across and run across next to them.

So I had no idea what the play was and I had no idea what the scene was about. All I know is (my

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physician’s sister) Adrian got to ride the tricycle and Ricky and I ran alongside it. And we just went diagonally across the stage and we got a laugh. And that hooked me — that did it. … You know, I thought that was the greatest thing in the world.

I’ve been doing theater ever since that, on and off, mostly off. Things would come up now and again.

But life gets in the way, you know?

Raising a family, get promoted and tenured, publishing — all this stuff gets in the way. So I didn’t do a great deal of theater until after my wife died.

When was that?

She died in late ’96 but this was probably two years later, in ’98. I’d been deeply grieving for a couple of years. … I was sort of out of things.

It was four years of difficult times dealing with death in one way or

another.

I went to see a play downtown at a theater, a place and a company that no longer exists called Quintessential (Productions), and they were doing a Noël Coward play. It was boiling hot. It was like in August and they didn’t have air conditioning, but the play was very good. They did it very good and I thought, “I’d like to be a part of that,” and I auditioned for them.

I got a couple of small roles in “Taming of the Shrew” that they were doing. … (I’m backstage and) suddenly, these two guys just start dancing to the swing music, not with each other, just sort of dancing to the swing music out in the dark hall. Nobody’s looking at us. And I found myself doing the same thing, too. It was this moment of glee, you know? Just pure glee, just joy. After having been in such grief, to be able

to do just that, nobody’s watching, I found when I really got into it seemed to me that’s also what the theater intensely in the last dozen theater is about. Not always that years or so, where I’m going literally theater is about going across the from show to show to show, except stage and getting a laugh, but it’s for the summer, that it had a real also about things that the audience effect on my teaching. I had not never sees. It’s about part of the expected this at all. process. It’s about the moments of When you’re the actor, you’re not unadulterated pure joy that happen in charge. The director is in charge when you’re just there. and some other people also can be in Are there any specific plays charge. But you’re not in charge. I’m that you’ve performed that cover used to being in charge, right? I’m workplace drama? used to deciding on the curriculum, Yeah, and this one is really organizing the course, giving the relevant to what in fact you and I exams and grading them, and are sitting here doing right now: leading the discussions. I’m used a play called “Oleanna” by David to being in charge in my academic Mamet. I did it last winter at Live work. But in the theater I’m not in Theatre Workshop’s late-night series charge. I’ve often been asked, “Do called Etcetera. It’s a two-character you want to direct? Why don’t you play and I play the older male direct?” No, no, no, that puts me professor and there’s a younger back in charge, that sounds like female student. It’s a play about work again. And I really don’t want higher education, to be in charge, I want about gender to be an actor. I don’t I’m used relations. It was want to be the person in originally written charge. … to being in in the wake of the But (acting) put me charge in my Anita Hill hearings back in touch with academic so it’s about the what it’s like to not be perception of in charge and what work. But in sexual harassment. it’s like to really need the theater In fact, I’m the instruction and the I’m not in teaching that play preparation and being in my course this taught how to prepare. charge.. week. … The I think it changed my young woman — William Epstein teaching. I think it put (who played the English literature me back in. I watched student), Carley professor what people did and it Preston, and I will was really interesting to be doing it for the see how some of these class this Thursday. people were doing things. …

Given that “Oleanna” is a The theater is humbling. (Laughs.) two-character play, how do you … I think I’ve learned how to be approach that sort of work as humbled again, and I think that’s an opposed to other plays? important lesson as teachers that we A lot of work. You literally have need to keep learning over and over every other line. It was especially again — and as people, too. difficult because it’s Mamet. Mamet Visit dailywildcat.com to read more is very hard to act. You have to of the interview with William Epstein, figure out how to do it. And I think including his favorite roles. we finally did, but it was very hard.

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‘Awakening’ proves travails of adolescence are timeless

By Ken Contrata and Jazmine Woodberry Arizona Daily Wildcat Sex, sodomy, suicide, abortion, rape, child abuse, masturbation, sadomasochism – “Spring Awakening” has it all and much, much more.

The angst-ridden teen drama, set in 19th-century Germany, proves that the troubles of teens haven’t changed all that much in the last hundred years. The musical exploited social taboos at times, but was startlingly reminiscent of real life.

“Spring Awakening,” the 2007 Tony Award winner for Best Musical, follows the Romeo and Juliet-like romance of school heartthrob Melchior (Christopher Wood) and the naïve Wendla (Elizabeth Judd).

The musical vignettes throughout the first act explore their classmates’ struggles with real-world issues in an infantilized world created by the adults.

An awkward replacement of an overture, the opening ballad failed to set the angsty tone of the rest of the musical. Despite a stumble at the gate, the ensuing heavily rockbased songs were youthfully invig-

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The sex scene ending the first act Most of the choreography felt accurately represented the urgency disconnected from the music, leavand exploration of repressed teen ing dancing that was oddly regisexuality and was aptly accented by mented and interpretive. But the a religious undercurrent. However, dance style in “The Bitch of Living” the necessity of the graphic nature of and “All That’s Known” utilized the scene — partial nudity and bare- the classroom setting to express ly-simulated sex — is debatable. the characters’ adherence, but utter The musical prematurely cli- distaste, for the societal constructs maxed at “Totally Fucked.” The governing their lives. song represented teen rebellion, with The set appeared very simple at Charlie Brown-esque adult figures first, but was later awoken by a mulplaying multiple roles to enforce the titude of pastel lights. The limited Big Brother-type “parentocracy,” set changes were masked by the ex-

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Religious-themed clubs smite stereotypes

By Johanna Willett ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT You see them on the Mall — the booths proclaiming the respective truths of Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed — and stereotypes smite you like a lightning bolt from above.

With more than 20 religiously affiliated clubs registered with the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, religion claims a powerful role in the lives of many UA students.

And that’s not mentioning religious centers like the Latterday Saints’ Institute of Religion, the Jewish Hillel Foundation, the Newman Center for Catholic students and the Islamic Center of Tucson, to name a few.

While many of these organizations continue to cultivate solid relationships with the university, stereotypes are tough to shake.

Joey Freund, a chemical

engineering junior, is a peer minister with Episcopal Campus Ministry. Freund is one of those people you’ll see sitting on the Mall — but his sign is more about dissuading the Bible-thumping perception of Christianity.

“A lot of people see Christians as the people who stop you in the hallway,” said Freund. “I sit on the Mall with a sign that says, ‘You’re not going to hell.’”

The Lutheran Student Fellowship agrees that most Christians don’t stomp the ground, ready to charge every time they encounter a nonbeliever.

“People may be questioning what they believe, and what they grew up with,” said the club’s president, David Maynard, a mechanical engineering and applied math junior. “That doesn’t mean we go out there actively attacking, saying ‘You must come to us!’”

The president of the

Skeptics Club, Antonio Roca, a philosophy and economics senior, debunked similar misconceptions about his own, critical-thinking based club.

“We sit don’t around shouting, ‘We hate God!’” said Roca.

“We’ve had a few Christians come consistently, and we listen to their arguments about God. We’re pretty civil.”

Meryl Press, an interdisciplinary studies sophomore, organizes community service for the Fellowship for Advancing Campus Engagement (FACE) — a branch of the Hillel Foundation for Jewish students.

“There are stereotypes for every race, religion and culture,” Press said. “Things may not always be as they seem. I’m an adopted Asian. Most people wouldn’t see me as Jewish.”

Which begs the question — what actually goes on behind these stereotypes?

“We’re planning a poker night right now,” said Press. “We feed off of each other’s ideas on how to make the community a little smaller.”

For most students, participation in religious (or non-religious) organizations extends beyond spiritual growth or critical thinking. Many of these groups strive for that cozy, “there’s-no-place-like-home” feeling.

“For me, it’s a source of comfort, a way for me to relax,” said Maynard. “It gives me a purpose.”

Karen Seat, a religious studies professor, teaches the humanities course Religion in the American Experience.

“Campus groups provide a positive social outlet for students to make friends and find community in a constructive way,” said Seat.

Roca founded the Skeptics Clubs in pursuit of a community that

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“We were trying to find likeminded people,” Roca said.

“More people joined, and it turned into a socializing role.”

Press also relishes the community.

“It’s a home away from home,” Press said. “Coming here, I was looking for a deeper meaning.

How does religion fit in my life as I learn to live on my own?”

This question, and other tough ones like it, creates a need for groups that explore life’s complexities.

“A lot of people are curious about religion,” Freund said.

“They’re curious about what’s beyond what we see physically.”

Or not.

“These clubs take things on faith,” Roca said. “You’re supposed to think critically in college. The entire academic community is based on this, and religion can impede the ability of people to think for themselves.”

Seat agrees that many people don’t understand or think about religion.

“People have a low level of religious literacy,” said Seat.

“I do think that the majority of students want to be tolerant of diverse religions and are interested in learning about them.”

This tolerance blossomed on Jan. 12 when Hillel and the University Religious Council organized an interfaith prayer and memorial service on the UA Mall for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of the Tucson shootings.

“On campus, we want to engage Jews and non-Jewish students,” Press said. “After the shooting, we all came together and prayed.”

Press points out a moment where several communities became one.

The tables and fliers won’t vanish, and the crazies will stick around, but here’s proof that this campus can flourish as a place of unity instead of judgment.

That’s something to pray about or think on, whatever brings you fulfillment at the end of the day.

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Terry Wimmer Professor of journalism After winning the Pulitzer Prize did you feel like you had conquered all, on top of the game?

Until an aunt said to me that “remember you’re not the smartest one to come out of this neighborhood.”

Humility is a good thing.

I grew up in the country, and the library was the best exposure my mom ever gave me.

You are 18 years old, where can I find you?

I had hair, in the pasteup shop earning money so I could go to college at West Virginia University.

Worst trouble you’ve ever been in, with the feds, your mom, a girlfriend?

Well some of these I can’t share. Craziest time was probably in my early 20s. It was common that if you took a road trip you packed luggage and a case of beer.

Did you rock the bellbottoms?

I was post bell-bottom.

So Afros?

No, the hair went away when I was 19. Streaking, I had my streaking moments, West Virginia Library through the main stacks with a woman, and no one was looking at me because she had some gargantuan attributes.

Ever broken a woman’s heart?

I don’t know, I try not to be a heartbreaker.

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The Velux 5 Oceans send Le Pingouin onshore support crew member John Hicks into the water with 1,200 balloon as part of their own version of the Birdman contest. Brad van Liew crossed the finish line of leg 2 on Jan. 15, in Wellington, New Zealand.

Now the 57-year-old Nova Scotiabased filmmaker has 12 dolls, including “Bianca,” one of four dolls used in “Lars and the Real Girl.”

Some of these dolls cost upward of $4,000 so it’s good he has something that might help finance the purchase of more: an upcoming new documentary, “All Dolled Up,” that he says is the first to explore the adult doll community from the inside.

Hockey started toying around with the idea in the spring of 2007.

“I was doing industrial and edu-

•Close to 80 percent of people who watch the Super Bowl on television, only do so to view the commercials.

•Jewelers Tiffany & Co., based in New York, are responsible for making the Super Bowl trophy.

•Bo Jackson set a Monday Night Football record by rushing for 222 yards in one game against the Seattle Seahawks, including a 91-yard touchdown run.

•The average number of people

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cational films when I stumbled onto these,” he said. “After a while, I realized that no one had done an indepth, first-person perspective of the adult doll community.

“I really think the dolls need a new name. They’re not sex dolls, not love dolls. Calling them one is like calling a Harley-Davidson a moped.”

Hockey says the stereotypical person who buys a life-size doll is a socially awkward male unable to have a real relationship with a woman.

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The longest punt return for a touchdown was 103 yards.

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Filmmaker learns joys of life-size love dolls as alternative soul mates

All Dave Hockey wanted to do was make a documentary about people in the adult doll community. He never thought he’d become a part of it.

If you don’t know about the lifelike dolls, like the one featured in the 2007 Ryan Gosling movie “Lars and the Real Girl,” you’d better sit down.

This is a story about men who not only have sex with anatomically correct action figures, they take them to dinner … and on vacations.

“I get obsessive,” he said.

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Man: “Mom, get a room. I am not down for that!”

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Aries (March 21 - April 19) — Today is an 8 — It’s time to set goals and spring into action. You (and your friends and community) benefit from your energy. Use it to forward something you care about.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) — Today is a 9 — New opportunities for work open up, or perhaps even a new career. What your elders have been telling you starts to make sense.

Gemini (May 21 June 21) — Today is a 9 — It’s a

good day to search for your true self. Plan your career, a long trip or an exciting artistic endeavor, your call. Or you can do it all.

Cancer (June 22 - July 22) — Today is a 7 — When reinventing what you’re up to, you look for approval from others and find it.

Even though you may feel lucky, don’t gamble away savings.

Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) — Today is an 8 — The month begins with a lot of energy around partnerships. Others may require your counseling and attention. Remember to care for yourself as well. Take the time.

TODAY IS

Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — It’s adventure time both in love and career. Let your creativity flow and carry you away.

Work hard at playing, and play hard at work. Then rest.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) — Today is a 7 — The new moon feeds your soul, for romance and creative play. Younger people look up to you as a teacher and mentor. Share generously with them.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) — Today is a 7 — Home is where your heart is. Today’s a beautiful

Prom Night In Mississippi sponsored by the Women's Resource Center.

A small town holds its first ever nonsegregated prom. February 2, 2011 at 7pm. Free.

Poker Tournaments Wed, Feb 2, 6pm – 8pm in the Cellar Games Room $5 to compete-Then play for the top prize-an iPod Touch-in our ladder tournaments!

Poster SALE!!! Feb 1- Feb 4, 9am – 6pm at the UA Mall Outside Union (Big White Tent!)

Coffee with the Curators. Talk with Dr. Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, curator of zooarchaeology on February 2, 2011 from 3-4:45 pm in the lobby of the Arizona State Museum. Free.

Photographers Robert Alcaraz Gordon Bates Hallie Bolonkin Janice Biancavilla Will Ferguson Farren Halcovich Valentina Martinelli Virginia Polin Ernie Somoza Designers Kelsey Dieterich Freddy Eschrich Jessica Leftault Chris Legere Adrienne Lobl Rebecca Rillos Zack Rosenblatt Copy Editors Nicole Dimtsios Chelsea Cohen Jason Krell James Neeley Melissa Porter Sarah Precup Lynley Price Stephanie Ramirez Advertising Account Executives Ryan Adkins Kirstie Birmingham Sarah Dalton Liliana Esquer Zach McClain Grego Moore Siobhan Nobel Luke Pergande John Reed Daniela Saylor Sales Manager Courtney Wood Advertising Designers Christine Bryant Lindsey Cook Fiona Foster Levi Sherman Classified Advertising Jasmin Bell Katie Jenkins Christal Montoya Jenn Rosso Sales Coordinator Sarah Dalton Accounting Nicole Browning Brandon Holmes Luke Pergande Joe Thomson Delivery Colin Buchanan Kameron Norwood

out of the house and play with friends somewhere beautiful.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — The new moon is in your sign today. Be open to love, and explore your creative impulses. Listen to your heart and spring into action. It’s your lucky day.

Pisces (Feb. 19 - March 20) — Today is a 6 — Even if you feel like being alone, it doesn’t mean you can’t be productive. Find creativity in solitude. Follow your private inspiration.

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day to nurture your space.

Keep it nice and tidy, and it will serve you well.

Then enjoy the peace.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) — Today is a 7 — Tweet away. Share. It’s time to communicate. You’re liked and followed. Give something of value. Then write just for yourself. You can always use a pseudonym.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) — Today is a 7 — There’s a lot of activity around money and possessions today. Be mindful of possible scams. Get

Mallory Hawkins Johnny McKay Caroline Nachazel Heather Price-Wright Andrew Shepherd

“In His Own Words: The Life and Work of César Chávez” Featuring 38 photographs paired with excerpts from Chávez’s speeches interviews and writings. Held in the Union Gallery, Student Union Memorial Center, Third Floor in the month of February 12p.m.

- 8p.m.

"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.

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

Music

Ives Quartet in ConcertThe Ives Quartet will perform on Feb 2 at 8PM in the Leo Rich Theater at the Tucson Convention Center. $25, $10 student with ID. Contact 577-3769 for more info

Dance

Salsa Latin Dance: Free Intro Class Jan 26th and Feb 2nd 6pm at BreakOut Studios 522 N. 4th Ave. Visit www. soulseros.com for details.

Sport

Israeli Style Self Defense: Free Krav Maga Intro Session. Jan 27th and February 3rd 7pm at Crossfit Training Facility 204 S. Tucson Blvd. Call 520-3964864 to reserve your spot.

Theatre

Broadway in Tucson presents "Spring Awakening" in the Tucson Music Hall, February 1-6.

Of Note

Cats and Dogs for Adoption from HOPE Animal Shelter HOPE volunteer staff will be on hand to answer any questions about adopting, volunteering or donating. Please give a loving cat or dog a new forever home.

Located at PetSmart 4740 E. Grant Road Feb 2, 12p.m. - 4p.m. Contact Susan 7929200 for more info

Art Talk with Fritz Scholder February 2, 2011 at 1:30 pm in the Tucson Museum of Art Education Center Auditorium. Free for members or with Museum admission. 520624-2333

Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase January 29, 2011 - February 13, 2011Tucson's international marketplace covers dozens of locations (hotels, resorts, shops and tents) with exhibits of gems, minerals, fossils, beads, apparel, jewelry, and jewelry-making materials and more as well as museum-quality displays. At Tucson Convention Center.

Costumes & Textiles of Morocco exhibit January 15- February 28, 2011 in the historic Tophoy Building on Fourth Ave. (225 N. 4th Ave). Free Admission. Open 7 days a week 10am-4pm. (520) 250- 2786 for more information.

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Thousands of students descend hopefully on career fairs across this country every year. For some, it’s an exercise they go through mostly by rote. For others, it’s a path to their future.

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When asked about his plans upon entering the university, Martin said he “Didn’t really have any; wanted to graduate and get a good job (doesn’t everyone?!). I was of the opinion that it would come to me eventually, a calling, if you will.” During his second year here, Martin decided to pursue a career in journalism. For his complete success story, please go to www.career.arizona.edu, click on “More News” for the articles archives and filter at the bottom for Success Stories.

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You’ve got the neatly pressed suit and newly coiffed hair. Good.

Have you prepared for unusual questions? What do you say when Mr. Interviewer asks “What is your most successful failure?” A blank

look and an uncertain “Huh?” just won’t cut it.

Behavioral interviewing techniques are popular (at least with interviewers) and seek information well beyond your dates of employment. They might ask that you list your greatest strengths.

Okay, fair enough. How about your most challenging weaknesses? (Hint: When you choose these weaknesses, frame them so they convey, ever so subtly, a strength.)

And be prepared to show how you have dealt with this “flaw” successfully.

Word of caution…claiming a “workaholic” nature as a weakness probably won’t fly. But saying you’re very detail-oriented and you’ve learned to balance that strong instinct with getting work done by deadline is a good

start. Being able to cite a specific example illustrating this point is even better. With “teams” being the buzzword of the Millennium, Ms. Interviewer will no doubt ask you about a time you worked effectively as part of one. What role did you play? How did you solve conflicts? It’s a good idea to have “stories” that emphasize your team experience ready.

Your next job interview is too important to jump into cold. Get some practice with Career Services and improve your interviewing skills…and your confidence.

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momo continued from page 16 doesn’t coordinate with the red and blue?

MJ: It may bother a lot of people. To us it’s just another pair of sneakers.

DW: Sticking with fashion, the arm sleeve, those are a new design. Do you wear that as a style thing or does it actually help you shoot better? ‘Cause you have been shooting better.

MJ: I mean, I don’t know. I think I’ve just been playing. When I took it off is when I hit 3s in the last game. The new uniforms are in, the new stuff is in. I just wore it just to wear it.

DW: You said earlier during media day (that) you know how to cook. What’s your favorite thing to cook for yourself?

MJ: I’ll have to say fried chicken and baked macaroni and cheese.

DW: Who’s the weirdest or oddest player on

HOOPS In order to survive, you continued need from topage be16able says heweirdos. doesn’t pay attention to to recognize the real aliens garnered, fromhethe all the hype.

“I don’t really care what people say,” Williams said when asked if he tracks his draft For your own survival, read stock. “All I have to do is keep performing and that other stuff will take care of itself.”

The Arizona DailyallThe Wildcat sophomore’s focus may be a reflecthe team?

MJ: I would have to go with Solomon Hill and Dondre Wise.

DW: Why them?

MJ: They’re just really, really goofy. The things they do, when you look, it’s just kind of like, ‘I can’t believe they just said or did that. These guys here.’ They’re insane, but they’re funny.

DW: Can you tell the story … why you don’t dunk?

MJ: Two points is two points to me. I can get up. A lot of people say to me, my friends and everybody joking, ‘You’ll go down the lane, and your hand will be above the basket and you’ll just lay it in.’ I don’t pay attention to it, I really don’t know if my hand is over the basket. Me trying to be fancy and going to dunk, you never know what can happen.

It might pop out. I’d rather get two points rather than be fancy.

tion of his inner circle.

“That’s the beauty of Derrick, he really doesn’t have a lot of people in his ear,” said head coach Sean Miller. “He has a real small circle, he comes from a great family.”

Miller mentioned Williams’ mom, sister and a former coach as the people that influence him most.

“They’re a team behind Derrick and that’s it,” Miller added. “He has a small circle with very little distractions.”

As some parents today try shopping their student-athletes around to colleges for money, Williams’ mother hasn’t changed, even with her son on the verge of a huge payday.

“My mom hasn’t mentioned one thing to me about it, even last year,” said Williams.

“She doesn’t talk about the NBA with me, I think that’s a good thing.”

Most would assume that Miller would be more focused on trying to keep the super sophomore for another year, but the head coach hopes to contribute to Williams’ NBA chances.

“I know the best way we can help Derrick is for our team to have success,” said Miller.

“If our team continues to have success, everyone points to who gets the credit.

“If at the end of all of that if he can become, or any of our players, can become a first round pick or lottery pick then that’s great.”

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Williams mum on future Derrick Williams’ draft stock has been skyrocketing this season.

Despite being rumored as a potential NBA lottery pick, the sophomore says he hasn’t thought about his future.

WIlliams and the Wildcats will take on California and Stanford this week.

Derrick Williams can’t go a day without someone mentioning his draft stock on mock draft websites.

Even his teammates chime in on it.

“I do it all the time,” said guard Kyle Fogg.

Williams’ stellar season has created so much buzz around him that teammates Solomon Hill and Max Wiepking hurried to the UofA Bookstore to grab their teammate’s jersey.

“Max and Solomon have been talking about it,” said Williams. “So today we stopped by the bookstore and they bought a blue and white one.”

The two teammates even requested a photo with the future pro with their new jerseys, which can be seen on his Facebook page.

“I thought it was pretty cool,” he added.

Williams’ teammates have embraced the attention he’s gotten over the last few months and enjoy having him around because he’s not your typical future first round pick.

“It’s great to see just because he’s worked so hard, he’s came a long way since coming from La Mirada ‘till now,” said Fogg. “What makes it even better, as good as he is, he’s one of least cocky people you can meet.”

“I’m kind of taking it upon myself to have a big head for him.”

Despite the attention Williams has

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SWIM BRIEF

Busch to step down after season ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Arizona swim coach Frank Busch will step down after this season to become the Director of USA Swimming.

Arizona Athletics media relations confirmed that Busch will remain with the team for the remainder of the season.

Busch, his staff and his swimmers could not be reached for

comment, and Busch canceled media availability Tuesday morning. He informed his team later that day.

The Wildcat men’s and women’s teams won the National Championship in 2008 under Busch .

After being hired in 1989, Busch was awarded Pacific 10 Conference Coach of the Year 11 times and NCAA Coach of the Year six times .

FOOTBALL BRIEF Arizona Wildcats expecting National Signing Day after landing several late-signing recruits

By Mike Schmitz ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT All of the stars are aligned for the Wildcats to turn in a successful National Signing Day as Arizona head coach Mike Stoops will officially announce his 2011 recruiting class at a 2 p.m. press conference today.

Today is the first day that high school and junior college recruits can officially sign on with their schools and Arizona has 18 commits ready to ink with the Wildcats.

The headliners

Rob Hankins — LB The 6-foot-1, 218-pound middle linebacker out of Parish Episcopal School in Dallas, Texas has been committed to the Wildcats since June 20 and is easily one of their top recruits.

Hankins is a four-star recruit according to ESPN and received

offers from 20 other schools, including Nebraska, Arkansas and Notre Dame.

Dominique Petties — S/LB Stoops stole Petties away from his brother Bob Stoops on Monday, as the linebacker/defensive back chose Arizona over Oklahoma. The 6-foot, 210-pound Oklahoma native, who is a fourstar recruit according to ESPN, also turned down offers from Pittsburgh and Oklahoma State.

Where will Carey go?

The fate of the Wildcats’ 2011 recruiting class lies partially in the hands of KaDeem Carey. The biggest question is clear: Will Carey stay home in Tucson, or head north to Tempe?

Carey gave the Wildcats a “soft verbal,” but the Canyon Del Oro running back is torn between Arizona and ASU. He is expected to decide later today.

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New bat regulations to stifle power hitting

By Dan Kohler ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Arizona baseball fans looking for a juiced bat, homerun-derby style of play will have to get their fix elsewhere.

A new NCAA bat regulation in effect this season will drastically reduce power hitting and turn college baseball into a more traditionally offensive-minded game.

The bat is surprisingly similar to the old in appearance, but the distinctive “ping” sound that one identifies with college baseball has been replaced by a softer, duller sound.

When head coach Andy Lopez had his team start to the new bats, he couldn’t shake the sound difference.

“They just sound different,” he said. “They’re still aluminum but they sound real different. But you know if you leave a ball at the waist it’s still going to find a gap.”

Lopez joked that pitchers won’t be able to rest on their laurels if the hitting is drastically reduced.

“If you make a bad pitch,” He said. “A guy could have a celery stick in his hands.”

Lopez did mention, though, that a 3-1 count is not the same as it’s been in the past and that the new bat offers more leeway for pitchers trying new things.

“With 3-1 for the last 10 or 15 years you would have to hold your breath or throw a breaking ball or a changeup, you know, try to throw it behind the guy if he’s a great hitter.” Lopez said. “Now I think while you still can’t throw it at the waist … you can throw some fastballs and maybe get some routine fly balls or balls at the warning track.”

Outfielder Steve Selsky, who led the Wildcats in homeruns, 9, and batting average, .370, last season, has noticed that the chances of a player hitting the opposite field with a front foot home run will be almost nonexistent with the new bats.

“You’re going to know who hits for power and who doesn’t, and who hits for average and who can put a ball in play with two strikes,” Selsky said.

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Point guard on top

By Kevin Zimmerman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Arizona point guard MoMo Jones earned himself Pacific 10 Conference Player of the Week honors after posting 17 points and 2.5 assists per game for the Wildcats as they swept UCLA and USC this week. Jones sat down with the Daily Wildcat to discuss this season, playing with Player of the Year candidate Kemba Walker and why he never dunks.

Daily Wildcat: What does the Pac-10 Player of the Week mean to you, if anything?

MoMo Jones: Of course it means a lot to be one of the players to win that, second player on our team. It definitely means a lot.

DW: Last season, I don’t know if it was media-induced, (was there) pressure about the streak and keeping that going? With that gone, is it something off your mind?

MJ: For me it was never pressure. I never really thought about it.

I wanted to make the tournament for my own reasons, not because of what happened here in the past.

Every kid dreams of making the tournament. I think me, it was kind of like, more of I want to make it because it’s a dream. As far as the streak goes, you know, that was here before us and it’ll be here after us. It really didn’t mean that to me.

As far as our team, we just tried not to think about, though I’m sure a lot of people thought about it. It’s over,

and we can’t control that. What we can control is what we do.

DW: Did you play with (UConn guard) Kemba Walker (at Rice High School)?

MJ: Yeah, we played in the backcourt together.

DW: Both starting?

MJ: Yeah.

DW: Friends with him?

MJ: Yeah, that’s one of my good friends.

DW: What do you think of what he’s doing?

MJ: He’s playing like Kemba. He’s doing what he’s been doing a long time.

Now it’s out there and people are able to see.

I’m happy for him.

He’s doing a great job, he’s holding it together real

well. I’m proud.

DW: What was with the “Black And Yellow” inspired shoes? Was that just a Wiz Khalifa shout-out or was there something more?

MJ: Me and Derrick was just talking. A lot of people go for the whole matching thing, color-coordinated.

Me and Derrick, we wanted to set ourselves apart this weekend and kind of make a statement.

That was the statement with our sneakers and the statement with the games, statement with our play.

We’ll do it again this week.

DW: Not worried it

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