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The influenza virus is now considered to be widespread in Arizona and is especially prevalent in the Tucson community. The term widespread, which is the most severe rating, is calculated by the amount of newly infected patients compared to the population of the demographic area. This level of flu, however, happens almost every year, according to Dr. Sean Elliott, the director of the pediatric residency program, who specializes in infectious disease for Banner – Health University Medical Center. The thing that is different this year is the timing. This level of the flu usually occurs about four weeks earlier in the year. “There’s normal seasonal variation, but because it has been so warm—not just in Arizona, but also other parts of the country—it seems like the flu season might have been delayed,” Elliott said. Arizona is the highest-ranked state with incidents of flu activity as of the week of Feb. 14, according to the Walgreens Flu Index. The index is based on data collected about retail prescriptions for antiviral medications that can be used to treat the flu. The information comes from Walgreens locations around the country. According to the same flu index, Tucson is ranked fourth in the country as a top area for flu activity. During the week of Jan. 31 to Feb. 6, there were 1,051 laboratory-confirmed cases of the flu reported throughout 14 counties in Arizona, according to the Arizona Department of Health
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Experience a virtual concussion BY MACKENZIE BOULTER The Daily Wildcat
Challenged by the NCAA, the U.S. Department of Defense and its Mind Matters Challenge, a team of UA researchers and athletes teamed up to improve the safety and behavioral responses of sport-related concussions. The researchers, including UA
football player Jason Sweet, created BrainGainz, a virtual reality app that allows athletes to experience the symptoms of a concussion firsthand. According to Ricardo Valerdi, an associate professor of systems and industrial engineering at the UA, BrainGainz received a monetary reward of $100,000 for its success in the Mind Matters Challenge, which
enabled the creators to generate the prototype for the virtual reality app. On Feb. 5, the prototype was showcased for the NCAA in Indianapolis. “They absolutely loved it,” Valerdi said. Using the BrainGainz app, a user can virtually stand on the field and receive a number of punt returns before getting tackled by linebackers
Scooby Wright III and Sweet. After getting tackled, the app simulates a series of five randomized symptoms experienced during real concussions. “I thought it would be beneficial to give the athlete a choice of trial and error that led to either a reward or a consequence based on their decision to stay in the game after enduring the
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event space where SBS can bring people together, such as faculty, students, government officials, business owners, nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals and community members,” Yamnitz said. Studio 44 will tie together the UA and the Tucson community, according to Yamnitz. “We see it as an investment in the revitalization of downtown, and the location where faculty and staff can meet community members to build on existing
collaborations, create new ones, share ideas and strengthen the partnerships between the university and the community,” she said. According to Virginia Healy, senior director of development at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Studio 44 is fully funded by donations. “These donations have come from people in the Tucson community,” Healy said. “The total amount of individual
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Studio 44. The studio will be a short-term residential space for faculty who are visiting the university. It will also host a downtown lecture series, receptions and seminars, as well as provide a location for donor, faculty and staff meetings. Jennifer Yamnitz , director of marketing and communications for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, said this studio will bring people of academia together. “Studio 44 is an education and
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concussion or to seek out medical assistance from the trainer,” Sweet said. Issues of concussions are not merely limited to sports, however. Sports just happen to be the subject. “It really can happen to anyone,” Valerdi said. One of the major factors that the developers of the app try to convey is the idea of reaching people of our generation, where the use of technology has become a central commodity, “It has to be both entertaining and has to be a blast,” Sweet said. The primary goal of the app is to educate people on the symptoms so that unrecorded concussions are recognized and reported, according to Valerdi. “Therefore the measure of success would appear to be counterintuitive,” Valerdi said. “If the number of reported concussions goes up, then the app is a success.” Valerdi also said the app is simply just the means to change. “As a college football player, my greatest fear is not having some type of medical problem when I’m 60 years old,” Sweet said. “My biggest fear is letting my team down and losing the football game.” Hopefully, the app will lead to an ultimate behavioral shift in how concussions are handled in sports. “There are a lot of people on our football team that would probably die if they had to in a football game, because it’s that important at the
Services. During this flu season, 939 cases were from Pima County alone. With the high number of flu cases, hospitals like Banner – Health University Medical Center have received many patients with flu symptoms. The influx of patients can limit the amount of available hospital beds. “All the hospitals are filled to the brim, so we’re reaching crisis levels of hospitalized patients and yet there’s still another three or four weeks of this current level of flu, so it’s a bit dicey right now,” Elliott said. Because of this, patients in need of hospitalization may have to wait longer in emergency rooms for a bed to become available. Elective surgeries may also be put on hold in order to use those beds for patients who are sick. Elliott estimates that the current percentage of hospital patients with the flu or a similar illness is around 15-18 percent. “That doesn’t sound like a lot, but if you compare lots of other patients who have had surgeries, who have kidney failure, for example, that’s a pretty significant increase in additional patients that are adding to our bed burden for the hospital,” Elliot said. Of those patients who are hospitalized with the flu, young adults, pregnant women and obese people have the worst complications, according to Elliott. These complications include sepsis, or a complication from an infection, and the need for breathing
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time,” Sweet said. “When you’re in the heat of the matter, nothing else matters. You would do anything out of pure instinct.” In order to convey the importance of the severity of concussions for players that have this much passion, the question remains how to reach them in a way that will intrigue them and inspire them to respond. “This is one of the most outstanding issues that we face today when it comes to changing the culture of the football players: Prompting them to seek help when they notice symptoms of a concussion,” Valerdi said. Sweet said the way to mediate this problem is to boost education and awareness in an appealing way. “Football is a game in its own genre and there is nothing like it,” Sweet said. “I don’t want to see the game get softened or altered more than it already has.”
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machines or blood pressure support. To deal with the influx of flu patients, the center has crisis response teams to work with staff and equipment to discharge and admit patients quickly. “If everybody is talking to each other, how can we speed up the process?” Elliott said. “How can we increase our resources? That ends up being much better for the safety of the patients and to hospitalize those patients who do need hospitalization.” All of this is done to help with the increasing number of patients. Elliott said if someone has symptoms, but isn’t too sick and can stay home, he or she should call the doctor instead of going to the emergency room. In order to prevent getting the flu, Elliott emphasized the importance of people washing their hands frequently. He also recommends following basic health care guidelines. David Salafsky, director of health promotion and preventive services at UA Campus Health Service, also emphasized that students should get flu shots. Flu shots are available at Campus Health and Salafsky said they are the “best defense” against the flu. “It’s really not too late [to get a flu shot] because as we move later in the semester, most students can’t afford to be missing a week of school of several days of school or of class,” Salafsky said. “I really recommend being vaccinated.” — Follow Ava Garcia @ava_garcia_
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Last year, the Associated Students of the University of Arizona worked together to restructure the senate to encourage students to get involved and have a voice for their specific colleges. The current senate structure is composed of 10 at-large senate seats, which any UA student can run for. With the recent ASUA elections, that’s about to change. With the senate’s restructuring, each of the academic and graduate colleges would be represented with one senator from each college and three additional at-large senators. Isaac Ortega, ASUA student body president for the 2014-2015 academic year, graduated in May 2015 and spearheaded the senate’s restructuring. “It was something we talked about in ASUA for a very long time and the whole thought behind it was 10 student senators alone couldn’t represent the 43,000 students that we have now,” Ortega said. He said he hopes to have a greater
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voter turnout with students getting excited about other students running to represent their colleges. “Increasing the amount of senators would reflect the amount of representation for students. The number one goal was to get more students involved in running and feeling like they are represented in the senate structure,” Ortega said. “Encouraging students to run for their college rather than an atlarge seat is important because it lets every college have an advocate.” Diego Alvarez, current ASUA elections commissioner, said it was time to switch up the dynamic of the senate structure to increase the senate’s accessibility and accountability of representation. Alvarez said the restructuring has affected him tremendously throughout the elections and he discussed how things would work out logistically. “I and this year’s executive team had to address the implications of what this would do,” Alvarez said. According to Alvarez, he and his team
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have had to address the candidacy. Only students from that college may run. Signature requirements for those running to represent their colleges and voting requirements may only include those who are within that specific college. In short, the votes counted for collegespecific candidates are strictly from individuals within that college. In this year’s ASUA elections, only students from six colleges are moving on to the general elections as a collegespecific senator. Alvarez said there will be a special election in the case of vacancies of college-specific seats. When a special election is held to fill the vacancies of the college senate, Alvarez explained that those open seats would then become at-large senate positions. “At that point, the colleges have given up their right to a representative as nobody ran, expressed interest or did a write in,” Alvarez said. “However, in theory, to get a representative, it would
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be an at-large senate seat where the senator could serve that college.” He said it is a combination of things that made ASUA fall short of having a candidate run to represent each specific college. The colleges that have a student running are more involved and a lot larger, according to Alvarez. “I think that some of them were not informed early enough. I think some of them maybe just didn’t express interest,” Alvarez said. “We kind of expected that not all colleges would have an interest in having a representative.” Looking back, Alvarez said he thought he and his team could have done better if they weren’t pressed for time to notify colleges of the opportunity to have a representative. He hopes more students will have an interest in representing their colleges in future elections.
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Earlier this month, the World Health Organization declared a public state of emergency for the Zika virus. First identified in humans in 1952, Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that is transmitted by aedes mosquitos. What makes Zika particularly frightening is the effects it can have on pregnant women. Scientists think there may be a link between the virus and microcephaly, a serious birth defect resulting in abnormally small heads in infants. Furthermore, Brazil’s Ministry of Health has reported an increase in Guillain-Barré Syndrome cases since the Zika outbreak began. GBS is a rare, but potentially fatal, neurological condition in which the body’s immune system damages its nerve cells. One of the biggest issues with the Zika virus is that only one in five people will experience symptoms. As a result, many people might not know they are infected with the virus. With spring break approaching, students are highly encouraged to check travel advisories for their destinations. The CDC recommend that travelers to these areas try to protect themselves from mosquito bites and to use condoms, because the disease can spread via sexual contact. To find out more about the disease, UA epidemiologist and assistant professor at the College of Public Health, Heidi Brown, answered questions put forth by the Daily Wildcat. Brown’s research focus is on the epidemiology and control of vector-borne diseases, as well as diseases that are spread between animals and humans. The Daily Wildcat : What is the Zika virus and what are some signs and symptoms to watch out for? Brown: Zika is a virus transmitted primarily by the bite of certain mosquitoes. The most common symptoms are fever, rash, joint pain or conjunctivitis. DW: How is the disease spread? Brown: This is a vector-borne disease. That means that it is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected with Zika after they bite an infectious person – someone with the virus in their blood. There is some evidence for other modes of transmission; you may have heard of two cases of sexual transmission here in the US. DW: Has the disease reached the United States?
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donors is seven, then there was a group donation which consisted of about 50 to 60 donors. All together we’ve raised about $230,000.” Bill Nugent, a member of the advisory board of the Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, John Paul Jones III, is the lead investor in the Studio 44 project. Nugent said that having the space downtown may help remove the intimidation of visiting a university. “The wisdom behind the project is going where people are and also to have a reception center downtown,” Nugent said. “Concerning things like lecture series, some people are intimidated by the UA campus, so having lectures downtown is less intimidating and more community friendly.” The opposition to Studio 44 claims that the facility would end up being a social center for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. “More than anything, it’s a facility off the main campus that creates new venues that people might be more familiar using,” Nugent said. “Also, people visiting the city of Tucson are more likely to go to an event if it’s happening downtown rather than on campus.”
Currently, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, UA Bookstores and the UA Libraries all have programs housed downtown at the Roy Place building. The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences will also use the building for community outreach, and for its master’s in public administration and master’s in development practice programs. The public administration program teaches students to work in public or nonprofit organizations. Students in the program give back to the community through internships and projects with local and state agencies. Sean Purcell, a UA junior studying Japanese, said the new location associated with the university will help draw people into different events that the university has to offer. “I think it’s great that the university wants to work with Tucson community,” Purcell said. “It’s more likely that people from the local community will attend public lectures if they’re in the city instead of the university.”
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Brown: A few years ago, and recently in Texas, there was sexual transmission of Zika, where the man had been infected and infected his female partner. This is a relatively rare occurrence and not the primary way Zika is transmitted. DW: Are there any current threats to Arizona residents? Brown: Here in Arizona, we have established populations of the mosquito that transmits the disease. However, it is important to remember that this is the same mosquito that transmits dengue and chikungunya and we haven’t seen outbreaks of either of these diseases.
DW: What precautions can students at the University of Arizona take to prevent possible infection? Brown: Protecting yourself from infection is protecting yourself from bites by wearing long sleeves and using insect repellent. If possible, keeping mosquitoes out of your home through window screens or closing windows and turning on the [air conditioning]. Check out the full interview on our website: dailywildcat.com/news
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DISNEYLAND DEBUTS its new Disneyland Forever fireworks show in celebration of its 60th anniversary on May 21, 2015. One of the little-known facts about Disneyland Park is that parkgoers can commandeer the Mark Twain Riverboat.
Here are some Disneyland Park hacks for spring break BY JAMELIA RIZATAYEVA The Daily Wildcat
In light of the upcoming and longawaited spring break, you might consider taking a trip to Anaheim, California, to visit the magical Disneyland Park. Disneyland Park attracts almost 16 million visitors every year or, on average, more than 43,000 people every day. Many of you have probably been to Disneyland at least once in your life, but whether you have strolled around the park knowing some of its secrets is a different question. Familiarize yourself with these five cool features that may change your next Disney experience. 1. Club 33 This elite private bar and restaurant, located in the New Orleans Square, was created by Walt Disney to host Disneyland’s corporate sponsors and industry
VIPs. For platinum membership, members must pay an initial fee of roughly $25,000 to $27,000, as well as an annual fee of between $10,000 and $12,000 for access to the private club. The platinum membership also includes parking benefits and early park admission. As surprising as it might be, the waitlist to join the club has a wait of about a dozen years. Look for a “33” inscribed on the door next to the Blue Bayou next time you go. 2. Mark Twain Riverboat If you want to feel like a captain, ask politely if you can pilot the boat. If you’re lucky, you will be escorted to the wheelhouse where you may get the chance to steer the boat and sound the whistle and bells. You’ll also receive a personalized riverboat pilot’s license and will be able to sign a special guest book. The guest book has the names of other honorary drivers who ruled the boat
before you since the 1950s, when the attraction was created. 3. The Underworld Do you ever wonder how Disneyland employees and cast members move around and make trash magically disappear? All these things are possible thanks to “utilidors,” short for “utility corridors,” which are underground tunnels used to remove trash, monitor the attractions, accept deliveries, store costumes and cook food. For $79, Disneyland offers the Keys to the Kingdom tour in which visitors can gain access to a small part of the underground world where Disneyland employees and cast members reside. 4. The Purrland Disneyland is home to hundreds of cats that reside in the park, keeping it free of mice. To care for their furry inhabitants, Disneyland has a number of feeding stations
where cats stay during the daytime. They start infiltrating the park once the sun goes down. Fireworks are not the only reason to stay late in the park if you want to catch a glimpse of the felines. 5. Skulls of the Pirates of the Caribbean If you don’t already think this ride is creepy enough, check out this fact: Some of the skulls and bones in the attraction are real. They were donated by the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of Califonia, Los Angeles, and used because fake skulls break more easily than real ones. Next time you ride, just think about how a part of someone’s body made it to Disneyland to rest there forever. Wouldn’t you prefer this option to a lonely grave? — Follow Jamelia Rizatayeva @jamelia_riz
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The Puritans who traversed the Atlantic Ocean from England and settled in America believed that God had predetermined everyone’s eternal fate. One was either born saved and intended for Heaven or born a sinner, damned to Hell. The trick was to live your life in accordance with God and hope that he would throw you a bone and hint at which way your soul was going. In terms of signs, a forest-dwelling, decrepit witch haunting your family is probably a big, red, neon arrow pointing straight down. It’s not that the family in “The Witch” isn’t devout. On the contrary, at the beginning of the film, the staunch patriarch, William (Ralph Ineson), takes his family from their New England colonial plantation because he believes the colony’s teachings are veering away from the true word of the Bible. It’s 1630 (predating the Salem witch trials by over 50 years) and the family must follow the dominant male figure. But this is a coming-of-age story about
violence shown, but the disturbing a young woman under the veil of a horror images combined with the discordant story. Thomasin (the revelatory Anya and ominous music create a violent Taylor-Joy) is the oldest child, a maturing experience that transgresses the viewer’s teenage girl. To begin, she is still a comfort zone. penitent devotee of Christ. From this point on, any shot of the The family relocates to a barren patch opaque forest or sound of land on the of grass errantly rustling edge of a wood. means the witch may be Cinematographer Director: Robert Eggers coming. The threat and Jarin Blaschke uses its subsequent tension wide-angle shots Genre: Horror are omnipresent. sparingly because Starring: Anya TaylorThis allows firstthey are so potent. time director and When the family’s Joy, Ralph Ineson, screenwriter Robert small outpost is Kate Dickie, Harvey Eggers to keep the witch framed against the in the background and larger surrounding Scrimshaw not take up screen time landscape, you see Runtime: 93 minutes while he tells the more how alone the family compelling story: the is. familial drama. At first, It doesn’t take long “‘The Witch’ scared the I was of the opinion that for tragedy to strike. hell out of me.” I wanted to see more While Thomasin of the title monster, plays peek-a-boo - Stephen King a criticism that I also with her baby leveled against “The brother Samuel, he Babadook.” I’ve now is whisked away right changed my mind. from under her. Though this is Thomasin’s story, Here is the introduction to our Eggers balances the various perspectives witch. It is arguably the film’s most and vices of our ill-fated pilgrim family. memorable scene. Shrouded in shadow, William is a devoted but proud father and with only candlelight and moonlight Katherine (Kate Dickie) is a mourning for illumination, the old hag with a mother who covets objects, specifically bloated body gruesomely disposes of her father’s silver cup. Younger brother the innocent babe. There is no physical
Caleb (Harvey Scrimshaw) is a well-todo young boy who occasionally sneaks glances at his sister’s developing bosom. Then there are twins Jonas and Mercy, whose only sins are being annoying as hell. After poor Samuel is spirited away by the witch, an entity who no one has actually seen in the flesh, the family starts casting a wayward eye at Thomasin as the reason for their supernatural misfortunes. A girl maturing and speaking her own mind is dangerous, a free radical in the ultra-conservative environment of fundamentalist religion. Suspicions mount slowly and quickly devolve in a flurry of violence. Perhaps the film’s greatest achievement is that we, as an audience, know that Thomasin is not the culprit, and yet even we begin to question whether this teen girl is the malevolent cause of all the misfortune. Ironically, it is the manic questioning of her intent and piety by her family, and perhaps the audience as well, that causes her to ascend and cast away the constraints of religion. Much of the film’s content is based on actual diaries and accounts, making “The Witch” an evocative, true-to-life horror film. — Follow Alex Guyton @GuyTonAlexAnder
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A student earning her master’s degree in speech-language pathology provides speech-language therapy in a small group setting. Speech, language and hearing sciences is a major that explores how sound affects people and the world.
SLHS students study how sound shapes life BY victoria pereira The Daily Wildcat
Writing a letter, calling a friend, typing a text, signing a phrase: There are endless ways for people to convey their thoughts and feelings. Students and faculty in the UA department of speech, language and hearing sciences endeavor to study methods of communication and how they shape the world in which we live. “We can do anything from giving therapy to children with speech impediments to helping a stroke victim communicate again to working with people with autism,” said Karen AyalaMiranda, a sophomore studying speech, language and hearing sciences. Undergraduate students like Ayala-Miranda take a variety of classes to get a foundation in all the different facets of speech, language and hearing sciences. There are courses on phonetics and language acquisition for those interested in language science and development, a series on communication disorders for students looking into clinical work or disability research, and various classes that teach the neurobiology and anatomy behind speech and hearing. Speech, language and hearing sciences majors are constantly presented with opportunities to assist in laboratory studies and clinical observations with graduate students and faculty members. Many students in the undergraduate program go on to complete a master’s degree in speech-language pathology or audiology. Students who pursue speech-language pathology in their graduate studies are interested in the diagnosis and treatment of communication disorders in people of all ages. Pelagie Beeson, professor and head of the speech, language and hearing sciences department, conducts research in communicative disorders that arise in stroke patients. “I’m really interested in how the brain works and how it supports language,” Beeson said. “I
also care a lot about rehabilitation and helping people recover.” Beeson runs the Aphasia Research Project at the UA, which endeavors to learn more about disorders caused by damage to the areas of the brain that contain language. Mara Goodman, a speech, language and hearing sciences graduate student, is one of Beeson’s assistants for the project. “My thesis is working on how we can help [patients] best recover in terms of their language and their speaking abilities,” Goodman said. Goodman and her fellow researchers are looking into data collected over decades and examining how the brain functions through different types of therapy as part of their investigation into aphasia. The other degree path, audiology, also focuses on the hearing aspect of speech, language and hearing sciences, and deals with auditory disabilities such as hearing loss. The speech, language and hearing sciences department enjoys getting the community involved in its work and collaborating with disability organizations around Tucson. The department hosts a weekly colloquium open to the public in which professors present interesting research on a variety of speech, language and hearing sciences subjects. These students study the universally utilized ability of communication; yet many students don’t know much about it. Both Ayala-Miranda and Goodman started off their undergraduate careers in other fields of study. “I looked into it and immediately fell in love,” Ayala-Miranda said. While the department is in the UA College of Science, the program is focuses on helping people in the community, which is evident in the passion shown by the students and faculty. “You can affect somebody’s life, but you get that pursuit of science as well,” Beeson said. — Follow Victoria Pereira @vguardie917
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Going medieval at Renaissance fest BY Kincaid Rabb and sammy cherukuri The Daily Wildcat
Every February and March, Apache Junction, Arizona, comes alive with its feature attraction: the Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival & Artisan Marketplace. Spanning 30 acres, this legendary 13-stage festival boasts an arts and crafts fair, a tantalizing selection of food and liquor, a jousting tournament, rides and more. Immerse yourself in a medieval village and wander among peasants, royalty and craftsmen of the mythical Fairhaven. Two Daily Wildcat reporters attended Feb. 20 to take in the sights, sounds and tastes: Sammy Cherukuri: I enjoyed the psychic reading with Lady Joyce. Although it was pricey, the experience was intriguing and shockingly accurate. Greeted by her helpful assistant, the atmosphere proved to be most welcoming and intimate. Once seated, Joyce introduced herself with a large palatte of gems and stones and a deck of cards. She proceeded to predict my future with a spread of cards. What about you? Kincaid Rabb: I liked listening to the characters at the CROFT Folk Life Center. Where most of the Arizona Renaissance Festival was an opportunity for entertainment and pleasure, that particular area was dedicated to showing how life actually was during that time. Using authentic tools and craft methods,
knowledgeable peasants demonstrated and lectured on life in medieval times, which was fascinating and delightfully quaint. SC: The Fairy Secrets lotions and potions were magical. These scented candles, once melted, are used as lotion and body oil. One can rub the oil from the candle over his or her body, making it smooth to the touch and filling the room with the sweet aromas of avocado and macadamia nut. The prices range from $15 to $25. KR: Cast in Bronze featured an organ-like instrument called a carillon, which used bells instead of pipes. The instrument was loud and it played well-known songs such as themes from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Phantom of the Opera,” the traditional Christmas carol “Carol of the Bells” and Carl Orff’s “O Fortuna” from “Carmina Burana.” The instrument, one of over 500 in the world, was rather discordant. Each bell sounded like it had an overtone of a minor third, which added to the cacophony of the instrument. It was an impressive and rare experience. SC: Kincaid, I think you really missed out by not coming to the Her Majesty’s joust to the death with me. The stadium was grand and packed with drunken medieval enthusiasts and merry families. The royal court of the festival presided over the ceremony in its reserved seating section. The squires first presented their knights’ colors and steeds, and
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the lady of virtue presented the knights with esteem and character. The knights engaged in an epic jousting tournament. Shields were knocked aside, lances were splintered and the crowds went wild. When one of the knights proved victorious, a violent brawl ensued and a convincing fight to the death commenced. People were invested in the fight and the stadium was electric with the audience’s energy. KR: Sammy, with all due respect, I think you missed out when you decided not to join me for the Tortuga Twins R-rated show. The first joke, asked to a 6-year-old girl sitting in first row, set the stage for the rest of the act: “Dumbledore: pitcher or catcher?” It was raunchy, raucous and definitely not appropriate for children. At one point in the show, two girls were sitting on either side of a 15-year-old boy, whom the twins had dubbed Masturbation Boy. With persuasion from one of the twins, he leaned back and the two girls kissed. Given the audience involvement and the nearly 30 years of comedic experience of the three Tortuga Twins, I thought the act was one of the highlights of my experience at the Arizona Renaissance Festival. The Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival runs every Saturday and Sunday from now until March 27 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Adult tickets (ages 13 and older) are available at
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Some of the attractions at the annual Arizona Renaissance Festival, held last weekend in Apache Junction, Arizona. The festival featured crafts, psychic readings and a joust.
the festival gates for $24, though discounted tickets are available. With its multitude of shows, activities, characters and food options (including Pleasure Feast: five courses of fine food and unlimited libation), this event is not to be missed and is well worth the drive to Apache Junction, Arizona. For more information about the Arizona Renaissance Festival, visit www.renfestinfo. com. — Follow Kincaid Rabb @Kincaid_Rabb and Sammy Cherukuri @SammyCherukuri
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Arizona is devaluing high school diplomas BY HAILEY DICKSON The Daily Wildcat
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f you are a student at the UA, then congratulations, odds are you have a high school diploma or its equivalent. Though education is becoming more diverse and the process may be slightly different among various high schools, for the majority of us graduating meant obtaining a minimum number of credits, maintaining a passing GPA and, finally, donning a cap and gown to receive a piece of paper that validated our past 12 years of education. For decades, being a high school graduate meant checking off all of the above boxes. Now, new legislatures in numerous states are working to change that. If you grew up in Arizona, you may remember the eighth-grade through 12th-grade Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards exams. The
tests were tedious, bothersome and required for graduation. Last year, Arizona rescinded its AIMS exit exam requirement. Countless other states are changing or revoking their exit exams too. In 2012, half of all states had statespecific high school exit exams like Arizona’s AIMS. Now, that number is 13 and it continues to drop. Furthermore, since exit exam requirements were withdrawn, at least six states began to issue retroactive diplomas. In these states, a school district can now issue a retroactive diploma to any student who failed his or her state exit exams at a time when a passing score was still required to graduate. Such a protocol awards diplomas to students who just missed the mark. Some of them would have graduated up to two decades ago. Tens of thousands of students across the U.S. now qualify for these retroactive diplomas, with no extra work required. Thousands of wouldbe graduates, including alumni from many Arizona school districts, have seized the opportunity to finally acquire a high school degree. Of course, a high school education
should be available to everyone. But diplomas should be reserved for students who met certain standards during their educations. Anyone who has received a retroactive diploma may feel like they’ve won the lottery, but in reality, have they really received anything more than a piece of paper? High school graduation requirements exist for a reason: They ensure that every student who earns a diploma has the minimum skills necessary to enter college or the workforce. Sure, exams are never perfect and often fail to indicate a student’s full potential, but then again, that’s life. We live in a system that expects certain standards to be maintained. Anyone who wants a job will, at some point, be asked to complete a task not perfectly aligned with his or her skill set. Americans need to prepare for those scenarios and adjust accordingly, as would a high schooler preparing for a daunting, yet important, exit exam. Many worry that as the meaning of graduation changes, diplomas will ultimately be stripped of their values.
“It’s a very misguided policy. All you have to do is have an IQ above room temperature and you’ve got a diploma,” said Bill Hammond, chief executive officer of the Texas Association of Business. “What about all those students who worked hard, who tried multiple times to pass? Now their diplomas are worth nothing, the same as those who were given a free pass.” While harsh, Hammond’s words ring true. If a diploma represents a set of qualifications, then a person issued a retroactive diploma isn’t really given a free pass at all. They still lack the knowledge deemed necessary for being a productive, valuable member of the workforce. It’s no secret that the U.S. education system is faltering. National test scores continue to drop and, frankly, we perform embarrassingly low when compared to other countries. The last thing we need is to further devalue our diplomas.
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Gen-ed courses are a waste of time BY NICOLE ROCHON The Daily Wildcat
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s a senior with two majors and a minor, I have finished all of my major-specific course requirements. This semester, however, I am in a Tier 1 Natural Science class. The course is interesting and provides good information, but I’m constantly questioning why this information is considered so important to my future that not taking this class would prevent my graduation. Undergraduates seeking a degree at the UA are required to take general education courses in order to graduate. Math, science, humanities and foreign languages, in almost all cases, are required regardless of a student’s field of study. Gen-ed courses are usually viewed by students as joke classes. Most strive to find the easiest possible route when taking them. Assignments in these classes tend to be easy, but are assigned often enough to dominate homework priorities,
teaching students to, essentially, fake it until we make it. When students are required to take upperdivision courses outside of their majors, their educations are devalued. Imagine a nutrition major taking an upper-division linguistics course to satisfy a gen-ed requirement. It’s not unrealistic for half of the class to have no linguistics background at all. The professor is then forced to choose between teaching an incredibly challenging class for the gen-ed students or a slow-paced, almost remedial course for the linguistics students. No matter what choice the teacher makes, it is unfair to half of the students. This devalues upper-division classes for students in several fields and puts other students in an uncomfortable learning environment. If students only took classes in their respective fields, the quality of their education would be higher and undergraduates would be able to become more skilled in their chosen fields. The way many major programs are currently structured leaves us as jacks of all trades, but masters of none. U.S. universities are some of the only universities that require students to take so many courses outside of their fields of study.
Universities abroad direct their students’ studies and let them focus only on the subjects that matter to them. This relieves the stress of many students who feel pressured to take over 18 credit hours a semester while maintaining a job to pay for the exorbitant cost of college. The only required courses outside of a student’s major area of study should be writing courses teach students how to write analytical essays at a college level. Literature analysis should be taught in high school and each student at this level should possess the skills needed to write an essay that could be published in an academic journal. If needed for certain majors, math or statistics would also be a reasonable requirement. University-level studies should be more about specialization in a chosen field than about a wide breadth of topics with little depth. Making gened courses obsolete would benefit students, and professors alike and ultimately increase the value of our degrees.
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Lots to consider with UA salaries BY michael cortez The Daily Wildcat
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ithin the Arizona Athletics department, the head coaches for both the football team and the men’s basketball team, Rich Rodriguez and Sean Miller respectively, each make $2 million annually. Greg Byrne, the vice president and director of athletics, makes about $700,000 annually. This is surprisingly common at many universities and while it may seem like our coaches are overpaid, head coaches of private institutions like Duke make even more annually. What’s worth noting is that athletics departments are put on pedestals when compared to other fields and departments such as engineering, the humanities and the sciences. It’s intriguing that the leaders of our athletics department make even more annually than President Ann Weaver Hart. These exorbitant salaries are the result of both economics and students’ willingness to go without questioning them for the sake of having winning sports teams. The economic reason behind these excessive salaries is known as scarcity value, which is just a fancy way of talking about supply and demand. Well-qualified coaches with a prominent reputation are relatively scarce compared to professors and those operating in administrative occupations. Considering how risky their jobs are—with their reputations and pay rates being dictated by how well college athletes perform—the job security is limited. The more risk there is, the more reward there is to gain. A common misconception, and often overlooked aspect, of the job is that the role of a coach extends far beyond coaching. Their jobs also entail an immense amount of networking, meeting with potential and current donors, and recruiting more talent for their teams. Depending on the competence of a coach, the rewards can be reaped for the university as a whole. The economic yields then aid in providing further resources for students. Ultimately, it’s the market that decides the salary based on supply and demand. Furthermore, when looking at the salary distribution of professors compared to head coaches and other high-ranking members of the administration and athletics departments, one finds that they balance out, and settle the morality issue surrounding the excessive wages of head coaches, since there are more professors total on payroll than there are coaches.
It should be taken into consideration that the coaches are not state-funded, unlike some of the professionals in other fields at the UA. Hart’s salary is 100 percent funded by the state, while the director of the Cancer Center Division receives 35 percent of his salary from state funding. Sean Miller’s and Greg Byrne’s salaries are zero percent funded by the state. Some professors and other UA employees may not make as much as their colleagues within their respective departments, but the explanation has many factors: tenure, seniority, published material, overall reputation and experience. When you compare an excellent instructor’s annual earnings to others in the same or related field, you might be disheartened to find that their wages don’t always reflect their teaching abilities. The fact that there are other professors who make much more than that excellent professor or instructor is due to the above reasons and, again, market value. When I was a freshman at the UA, my Italian culture class professor was given the boot toward the end of the semester I had his class. Why? Because he didn’t have any published material. He was an excellent professor, but his lack of published material at the UA meant a lack of prestige and recognition, which in turn meant a lack of revenue for the university. Universities are meant to be intellectual and academic institutions, but they have, for all intents and purposes, transformed to reflect the ethics and practices of businesses. While it’s unfortunate that so many universities adopt this system, it should be noted that without enough recognition via published academic material, athletic talent and so on, the UA (and any university for that matter) would have to raise tuition and other fees to sustain itself and support its students academically. Considering the vast recognition and respect that the athletics department brings to the UA, it does serve its purpose despite the extreme salaries. The department reels in more opportunities, money, sponsors, donors, resources and talent to our university. It all comes down to marketing and athletics is the easiest and strongest way for the UA to market itself. Is there really a salary disparity? Absolutely. Are the head coaches of the football and men’s basketball team overpaid? Perhaps. That’s not really for an individual to determine, however. At the end of the day, it comes down to the market and scarcity value, and the way the economic figures are perceived and presented to the majority. — Follow Michael Cortez @MicAngeloCortez
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Arizona gymnast Kennady Schneider, who selfchoreographed her floor routine, ends each routine with a different dance move BY MATT WALL
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In the final seconds of her routine against Michigan State University, Arizona sophomore gymnast Kennady Schneider left the McKale Center crowd with something to talk about. She fell to her knees and did a popular dance move, the Dab, to a thunderous applause from the crowd and her teammates. The choice was spur-of-the-moment and was never originally part of her floor choreography routine, according to Schneider. “At our first home meet, I was just really happy with how I performed, so I just decided to do it on the spot,” Schneider said. “I didn’t tell my teammates and my coaches didn’t know it was going to happen, so it was the highlight of my season so far.” This is a season in which Schneider has seen her role on the team expand, as she now anchors the final spot on-floor for the Wildcats at every meet. Schneider’s career high on floor is 9.900, a score she has hit multiple times already this season. “Kennady has a huge personality,” Arizona gymnastics head coach Tabitha Yim said. “I think what’s great about floor is that it allows our girls to bring their style and personality … through their gymnastics to really impact the crowd. She choreographed her own routine and cut her own music, so I think it’s very special to her and brings energy to the crowd and team seeing her have fun out there.” At a recent men’s basketball game, the GymCats were warming up for their halftime performance. The famous song “Hit the Quan” by iLoveMemphis came through the McKale Center loud speakers, causing Schneider and Yim to break into a dance routine. The duo has even performed the moves in a recent ZonaZoo video. That energy and pride is what Schneider constantly brings to every meet in which she competes. Self-described as spunky and memorable, she wants the crowd and the judges to leave with that same excitement she brings to the floor. “I like to keep the audience on their toes a lot, so I don’t know if you will see me dabbing at the end of my routines or something else,” Schneider said. “I just like to keep people engaged and seeing new things.” One of the ways she keeps the audiences and her teammates on their toes is through her self-choreographed routines. While most gymnasts neither cut their own
music nor choreograph their routines, Schneider has found inspiration and a way to implement her personality by bringing her own story to each routine she performs. “It comes really naturally to me,” Schneider said. “Whatever sounds right and feels right I put together. It’s really easy to choreograph for yourself because you know what looks good on you and what feels good on you. It was just being myself and picking out the moves that I feel most comfortable in.” At the moment, that is through modern dance moves and 1990s hip-hop music. Schneider said she chose them because they are a reflection of whom she is. She found inspiration through art and is a studio art sophomore. While recently attending a museum in New York, she was fascinated by the work of Bill Brandt. “It was seeing the world through a different perspective,” Schneider said. “I want people to see me in a different light than just a normal gymnast. I want them to see me as a performer, as … Kennady first, GymCat second.” Throughout meets, Schneider is pretty easy to spot. Just look for the gymnast getting down to the music. She said her two favorite dance moves are the Batusi (or peace sign across the eyes) and the Quan. While many may stray away from being in the moment while in front of thousands of people, Schneider embraces the public eye. “I do better when there’s a big crowd because I like the support,” Schneider said. “We don’t really get this so much in our life. We get it for these four years so I like to show off what I love to do and having a big crowd is definitely the support I need for that.” Although she is a sophomore, Schneider has taken on a leadership role and understands that every choice she makes will affect her team. “Growing up, gymnastics was always a very individual sport,” Schneider said. “You compete for yourself. Coming here to Arizona, it changes into a team sport. The biggest lesson that I’ve learned is that it’s not about me anymore, it’s about the team. Every decision that I make inside the gym and outside the gym reflects the team and not just myself.”
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ARIZONA GYMNAST Kennady Schneider dances during her floor routine on Saturday, Feb. 13 in McKale Center. Schneider has self-choreographed her routine and mixed her own music.
Maryland outlasts Michigan 86-82 at home
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ARIZONA GYMNAST Kennady Schneider ends her floor routine with a touch of flair on Saturday, Feb. 13 in McKale Center. Schneider ends her routine with a different dance move depending on how she is feeling about the routine.
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As we drift closer to March Madness, change is in the air at Arizona. Luckily, change for this team has been good. Since the dreadful home loss to the Oregon Ducks on Jan. 28, the Wildcats have won six games in a row, including a road sweep of the Washington schools and a home sweep of UCLA and USC. So what changes led to this recent winning streak? Throughout his tenure at Arizona, head coach Sean Miller has created an ideology that defense will be what drives success for his teams. Over the past two Elite Eight seasons, players like Aaron Gordon, Rondae HollisJefferson and T.J. McConnell have exemplified this state of play. This year, Arizona has been a onedimensional team. The offense flowed nicely, but the team struggled to put together many games where the defense fully clamped down. The most recent game against ASU was a brief glimpse of what Arizona can do defensively. Granted, it was against a team that has been pretty bad this year, but a 38-point victory is impressive regardless of whom you play. Miller even summed up his team’s improvement after the game. “I’ve talked a lot about our defense. Our defense was in place tonight,” Miller said. “We defended them as well as I think we can, and the last time we played these guys in early January, they almost scored 90. Tonight they scored 61.” Miller’s right. In Tempe, the Sun Devils kept the game interesting until ultimately falling 94-82 to Arizona. Over the last six games, Arizona forced opponents to shoot the ball 39.5 percent from the field. The team also forced almost 12 turnovers a game. Washington averages 83 points a game, but Arizona held them to 72 on the road. ASU averages 75, but only scored 61 on Wednesday. There are obvious improvements that were made, but there is still work to be done. Arizona’s perimeter defense has been shaky and the team continues to struggle putting a full game together, but the defensive improvements are there. Another area of change was the implementation of Parker Jackson-Cartwright into the starting lineup. Jackson-Cartwright made his debut in the lineup against Washington State on the road and the team has run with it. He averaged five assists per game started, as well as only committing around one turnover a game. He also averages almost 10 points per game. “Parker is playing the best basketball of his
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Arizona center Dusan Ristic (14) blocks Arizona State forward Savon Goodman (11) on Wednesday, Feb. 17 in McKale Center. The Wildcats overcame tough losses to sweep the Washington schools and the southern California schools.
career,” Miller said. “He’s running the team and making players better, but it’s his defense that we’re the most proud of. He’s a much better defender right now than he used to be this season. That’s what you hope with young players as they continue to work.” Kadeem Allen never struggled as a point guard. He’s arguably the team’s best defender and quickest player. Allen is more of a natural scorer, whereas Jackson-Cartwright facilitates more. He can score when needed, but is shifty with his drives and gifted at finding the open man. The offense has flourished under Jackson-Cartwright and Allen gets more opportunities off the bench. “Parker has not missed one day,” Miller said. “He hasn’t missed one practice or any time from the beginning of school to now. And its that consistency and effort that has allowed him to grow and really play at a very crucial time for our team, at the highest level he’s played.” During the last three games, JacksonCartwright defended some of the Pac-12 Conference’s better point guards. He helped hold ASU’s Tra Holder to 10 points on 3-11 shooting. UCLA’s Bryce Alford scored 17 on Feb. 12, but only shot the ball 4-14 from the field. USC’s Julian Jacobs only scored 11 against Jackson-Cartwright on 5-15 shooting. His impact is crucial and it’s exactly what Arizona needs as it nears postseason play. Credit Miller and his players for stepping up the defense at a critical point of the year for Arizona. With only four regular season games left, Arizona will need to continue its improvements if it hopes to make another deep run in this year’s NCAA Tournament.
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Sports • February 22-23, 2016
Wildcats fall to WSU on Senior Day BY Ryan Kelapire The Daily Wildcat
Senior Day marked a night to remember for the Arizona women’s basketball team, but not in the way it had hoped. The Wildcats lost to the Washington State University Cougars 62-61 in a heartbreaking display. “I’m not so much focused on senior night, but it’s always tough to lose a game like that,” said Arizona’s lone senior, Keyahndra Cannon. “I thought we fought hard, but we just came up short.” After trailing for the entire game, the Wildcats tied things up at 50 near the end of the third quarter and took their first lead of the game at the start of the fourth, thanks to a pull-up jumper by LaBrittney Jones. Arizona would take a four-point lead after Cannon found Breanna Workman for a score in transition, but WSU would tie things up at 56 soon after. The Wildcats answered and Cannon scored inside while Jones hit a desperate 3-pointer with the shot clock expiring, putting Arizona up 61-56 with less than two minutes remaining. It looked as if Arizona was going to create separation and pull away, but a pair of WSU free throws would make it 61-58 with
roughly 40 seconds left. Needing just one basket to ice the game, the Wildcats failed to generate an open look and eventually turned the ball over. WSU’s Mariah Cooks drew a foul while securing the loose ball and headed to the free throw line, where she split the pair to make it 6159 with 14 seconds left. After WSU used a foul to give, the Cougars covered well on the Wildcats’ inbounds play and Workman threw an errant pass out of bounds. The Cougars would get one last chance with 7.6 seconds remaining. “We didn’t make smart decisions there at the end,” Jones said. “We turned the ball over and we didn’t execute like we needed to and that’s what happened.” Nike McClure was fouled as WSU was throwing the ball in and she headed to the line for two free throws. She missed both, but Cooks scored for the offensive rebound, put it back up and in, and drew a foul in the process. Cooks sank the free throw to put WSU up 62-61 with 3.4 seconds left. “I shouldn’t have fouled, but I was trying to go for the rebound,” Jones said. “On that type of play, I just got to let her catch it. They were only down by two and giving her the and-one put them up by one.” Malena Washington, who had a teamhigh 14 points, heaved up a shot from near
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UA hockey plays ASU’s D1 team for final time BY SETH PINES
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The Arizona hockey team had one last order of business to tend to before shifting its focus to the national tournament. The Wildcats’ rival, ASU, made the trip down Interstate 10 to Tucson to play Arizona in its last home series of the regular season this past weekend. Friday night’s contest slated the Wildcats against ASU’s Division I team for their last meeting before the Sun Devils enter a full NCAA schedule next season. “It’s bittersweet because I’ve been a part of this rivalry for 20 years,” said Greg Powers, ASU head coach. “I’m going to miss it tremendously.” The Sun Devils jumped on the Wildcats early in the first period as Ryan Ostertag deposited a goal into the first period that was followed by a tally from ASU’s Jake Clifford 11 minutes after. The star of the game was Sun Devil Joe Lappin, who recorded a hat trick as he scored on the power play, short-handed and at even strength. ASU goaltender Robert Levin, who tore his right anterior cruciate ligament when he played in Tucson a year ago, turned away 18 shots as the Sun Devils cruised to a 6-0 victory over Arizona. Despite the lopsided score, the Wildcats
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ARIZONA DEFENSEMAN Matthew Armenti (3) hits the puck past an Arizona State player on Friday, Feb. 19 in the Tucson Convention Center Arena. The Wildcats dropped two games against the Sun Devils over the weekend, the final time the UA will face the division one ASU team.
played a more competitive game than the last meeting in October, during which ASU won 8-1. “It’s a little bit of an improvement, but I honestly thought we actually played a really good game,” UA forward Robbie Wilkinson said. “They had a couple nice goals that any goalie is going to have an issue stopping some
of those really nice shots.” Saturday night’s game featured Arizona State’s Division II Elite team, to whom Arizona lost four times earlier in the season. The Wildcats brought the fans to their feet early in the first period as defenseman Matthew Armenti beat ASU’s goaltender with a wrist shot from the slot to give Arizona an early edge.
ASU stormed back in the second period, as it scored twice on Arizona goaltender Austin Wilson and supplied continuous pressure in the neutral zone clogging up the Wildcats passing lanes. Arizona wasn’t able to generate any more offense in the third period, as it allowed two more goals and closed it’s regular season with a 4-1 loss. “It kind of always seems like they have our number,” Wilson said. “A bounce here and there it could have gone the other way and it’s a closer game, but we battled and it’s all you could ask for.” Saturday’s game was also Senior Night for the Wildcats’ lone senior, defenseman Bryan Drazner. Drazner has played for the team for three years. Drazner, a native of Buffalo Grove, Illinois, said the highlight of his career while playing for Arizona was Saturday night’s game, which included a packed crowd at the Tucson Convention Center Arena. “Tonight was pretty special. I don’t know if it could be topped,” Drazner said. “Playing in front of 5,000 screaming people is pretty special.”
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pregnant. There is still much to learn about the link between Zika and microcephaly, but the connection between the two appears to be getting stronger. As a result of its association with microcephaly, men who live in or have traveled to areas affected by Zika should use condoms during sex or abstain from sexual activity with their pregnant sex partners to lower the risk of transmitting the virus. If you have travel planned to Central or South America or the Caribbean, be sure to review the CDC travel alerts before you go. At present, the CDC recommends that pregnant women should consider postponing travel to any area where Zika virus is spreading. For individuals who are already in these areas or have no choice but to travel, preventing mosquito bites is the best way to avoid the Zika virus, since no vaccine is available at this time.
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