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Politicians pare partner benefits Federal court to decide whether to uphold legislative ban on health coverage for domestic unions, children of same-sex couples and unmarried state employees

By Eliza Molk ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A federal appeals court could cut state-provided benefits for 65 partners of UA employees in same-sex domestic partnerships.

University employee benefits provided by the Arizona Department of Administration cover their partner, their partner’s unmarried natural or adopted children or stepchildren under the age of 26 or disabled

before the age of 19, their domestic partner’s foster children under age 26 and children under their domestic partner’s guardianship pending adoption.

State lawmakers voted to end the benefits to save money, but Assistant Attorney General Charles Grube said U.S. District Judge John Sedwick was wrong to issue an injunction last year barring the state from altering its benefits package.

This injunction was issued to

prevent Arizona from eliminating same-sex domestic partners and their children from the Arizona Department of Administration group insurance coverage. The state has filed a motion in the Ninth Circuit Court to remove it, but as long as the preliminary injunction is in effect, the state must continue benefits eligibility for same-sex domestic partners of UA and other state employees.

Opposite-sex domestic partners were not included in this

injunction and are ineligible to be covered under the Arizona Department of Administration.

In reaction, the UA developed the “UA Alternative Medical Plan,” which provides plans for the employee in the domestic partnership, their opposite sex partner and children. The insurance plans include medical, dental and vision coverage and are backed by United Health Care.

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Speaker stresses body image

Uprooting the rings After 70 years, UA Tree-Ring Laboratory will move to new location

By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The UA Tree-Ring Laboratory was founded by an astronomer, directed by a ship hull specialist and is going on more than 70 years in what was supposed to be its temporary home under the football stadium.

But in a year and a half, more than two million samples covering 8,000 years of history from around the Southwest will be moving to their new home.

The building is in the design stage right now, and is slated to break ground in April or May of this year, according to the lab’s curator, Pearce Paul Creasman. The new laboratory will be built to connect to the Math East building, and the expected completion date is the fall of 2012.

“That’ll be great because that’ll give us a new home,” Creasman said.

By Michelle Weiss ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT “Food is not your friend,” said Jessica Setnick, an award-winning author and internationally known speaker.

Students gathered in the South Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center on Wednesday to listen to Setnick speak about healthy body image. The Love Your Body Day event, “Making Food Your Friend Again” was geared to challenge and enlighten people, according to Laura Orlich, a mental health clinician specializing in eating disorders for Campus Health Service.

It is human nature to compare your own body to others, Setnick said. Advertisements that show very thin celebrities and flawless skin are not realistic and tend to make people feel bad. People compare themselves to the altered images of celebrities in Hollywood in an unhealthy way.

“We are comparing ourselves and how we feel on the inside to how other people look on the outside,” she said. Setnick also emphasized the importance of being internally driven.

Advertising is used to confuse people, Setnick said. Viewers make up things in their head based on what they hear and see.

“Over time, we get these messages that say what you eat actually makes you a good person and what you eat

History

In 1937, A. E. Douglass, an astronomer at the UA, was comparing solar variations and sun cycles to patterns on tree-rings, a course of study, which brought him little success.

And so the field of modern tree-ring dating, dendrochronology, was born, which scientifically allowed meteorologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and astronomers a method of dating events in time. Historical dating is also what brought Creasman to the lab.

Creasman, during years of research in Cairo studying boat hulls, realized the importance of tree-rings in his research. With most boats before 1850 constructed out of wood, the lab’s research added to his understanding. A donor giving her specimens to the lab said she’d be happy to contribute her work — if they found someone to curate the lab. When Creasman heard about the job, he jumped on it.

Archaeology laboratory

“Before you have tree-ring data, archaeologists working in the Southwest didn’t know which group came first, who they were, how they migrated, if they migrated, if they even had a system of writing,” Creasman said.

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Pearce Paul Creasman, curator of the UA Tree-Ring Laboratory, explains the how the distance between tree-rings correlates to years.

“Tree-ring dating is the only archaeological dating method that can give you the resolution of a single year, and sometimes you can even do better than that and get down to the season.”

Specimens are sent to the lab from around

the Southwest and UA archaeologists can date lab samples to aid other scientists.

Some of the archaeology laboratories most famed contributions were around Pueblo

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Shelton, ASUA talk budget

By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT University administration tackled rising tuition costs and decreasing financial aid with the ASUA Senate during its meeting on Wednesday.

UA President Robert Shelton , Vice President of Student Affairs Melissa Vito and Budget Director Jim Florian addressed ever-present budget concerns.

The focus of the meeting revolved around Associated Students of the University of Arizona Sen. Scott Rising’s question: “What could

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be the implications if students are seeing reductions in financial aid and increases in tuition?”

“We’ve got about an $87 million challenge to deal with,” Shelton said. “I’d like to tell you we know exactly what’s going to happen.”

Shelton said there is a concerted effort to raise more private funds and guide potential donors to raise the 30 endowed chairs to around 300, around as many as competitor schools in the region have.

“What we’ve emphasized (to donors) is people,” Shelton said. “It’s money that spends big.”

The UA’s endowment, which

stands at around $500 million to $600 million, is small for the size of the UA, Shelton said. Recruiting more money is crippled “when we try to compete with a Texas school that has oil money going into their endowment, or older schools like Michigan or Virginia, and let’s not even talk about the private schools.”

Shelton also said that it’s misleading simply to say the UA’s perstudent spending is higher than other Arizona schools. Funding 15 agricultural research sites around

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Pearce Paul Creasman, curator of the UA Tree-Ring Laboratory, gives a tour on Feb. 16. The Tree-Ring Laboratory has more than 2 million different samples that span more than 8,000 years of human history.

Bonito, a celebrated cultural site in Chaco Canyon, a mid-seventh century Anasazi anthropological site in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico.

“Statistically, if you have a big enough data set, say from 150 years, that pattern is never going to repeat itself,” said Creasman, which allows people of various disciplines and different sections of the world to understand history more accurately, while using tree-ring research.

Specimen storage

Arizona’s dry climate provides the perfect backdrop to hold aging wood specimens. Creasman said the climate is actually the perfect preservation atmosphere.

Without the lab, according to Creasman, an entire historical frame of reference

would be gone forever.

Around 60 percent of their specimens are held in one room with the work of faculty from four colleges and twelve departments around campus. Chemists and physicists study heavy metals in wood. Radio carbon dating and studies of fire history have also permeated their research. Creasman said the lab even works with students from a variety of disciplines, who major in other fields and work in the lab.

“We have three archaeologists. I study ships and shipwrecks primarily in ancient Egypt, but one does anthropological cultures and another does ancient climatology. We have ecologists, hydrologists, all kinds,” Creasman said. “In the tree-ring laboratory, we’ve got an amazing diversity in what faculty do.”

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ASUA continued from page 1 the state and funding expensive training for health professionals skews the real cost for the average student.

Vito said that from a student affairs perspective, student levels coming into the university peaked around 2008, with current enrollment numbers mirroring those from 2002 and 2003. The UA is not projected to reach peak levels again until 2020, according to Vito.

“It’s a little bit more competitive market that we’re working in,” Vito said. “Our retention rates are not where I want them to be … and (my job entails) having students view themselves here and providing an extraordinary experience that you won’t get any place else.”

Vito addressed how the university is marketing itself to out-of-state students who are confronted with rising costs in the search for a school.

“Students say the campus is friendly, it’s diverse, it’s easy to make friends, and it’s the kind of place that forms a sense of community and tradition,” Vito said.

But with a $60 million cut from state appropriations, and

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Setnick showed a slide show of altered images depicting thin people.

“This sends the message that no matter how you look, you are being watched and you’re not good

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a tuition increase of $1,500 per student, the UA would still have a $43.9 million budget shortfall, according to Florian’s proposal.

“Financial aid is one of our large costs, and we will have to look at how we disburse financial aid and be smart about it,” Florian said. “We knew today, this time, was coming. We started increasing tuition gradually, we started saving money, we started implementing additional cuts two years ago.”

Cutting 600 staff positions through the campus reorganization process aided in these preemptive steps, according to Shelton. Vito addressed the effectiveness in leadership throughout these cost-cutting measures.

“I love working with President Shelton and (am) really proud of the way he and Provost (Meredith) Hay handled the overall transformation,” Vito said. “Bringing four colleges together in a way and moving forward strongly is not easy.”

The university has secured around $20 to $30 million in bridge funding with measures such as these.

Other steps to curb student costs include fixed tuition to stabilize tuition lev-

els, a measure that has been hard to implement at the UA, Florian said.

“As state investment goes down, the student invest-

ment, as you’ve seen historically and in the future, will go up,” Florian said.

enough,” Setnick said.

According to Setnick, 80 percent of eating should be for fuel and 20 percent should be for emotion.

Setnick displayed an advertisement for Hydroxycut, which showed weight loss over an 8-week period.

But the Federal Trade Commission removed the ad from broadcast for being inaccurate, she said.

“They actually took underweight

people, got them to gain weight for money, and then reversed the pictures in the ad,” Setnick said.

An overemphasis on body image makes people feel bad and makes them think they gained weight even if they haven’t, she said. People will judge their feelings and not share them because they feel stupid. Many people, even those without eating disorders, deal with these situations

by skipping a meal for a date and getting on the scale when something big is coming up, Setnick said.

Setnick suggests that sometimes getting away from the mirror is the best thing to do.

“When you go to the mirror for validation, you’ve already lost, because there’s zero chance that the mirror can show you what you really need to see,” she said.

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Melissa Vito, vice president for student affairs, speaks to the Associated Students of the University of Arizona Senate on Wednesday, following President Robert Shelton’s address. Vito also spoke about budgetary concerns, marketing the UA and the university’s greatest triumphs.

The plans require that 75 percent of currently enrolled employees with opposite sex domestic partners enroll in the alternative insurance plans.

Morgan Carstensen , a political science sophomore and member of the UA College Republicans, said although the state needs to find ways to cut its budget and limit spending, it is an “ineffective measure” to prevent benefits for gay partners.

“These are desperate times, and we need desperate measures to save money,” Carstensen said. “But if it’s just towards gay partners, it’s a violation of equal protection.”

She did say that if the legislation prohibited unmarried gay or straight partners from obtaining benefits that she would be in favor of it, because it prevents a significant other from “free riding.”

Ryan Klenke , a brother of Delta Lambda Phi, the gay, bisexual and progressive fraternity and a sociology junior, called the potential ruling “highly discriminatory” and said it had a “malicious intent to target same-sex workers.”

Klenke added that if people in same-sex domestic partnerships are doing the same work as people of the opposite sex, they should be getting the same benefits. He said that some state representatives are claiming this is to save money, when it would only be saving less then 2 percent, according to Klenke’s research.

“This shouldn’t even be an issue,” he said. “You cover all or not any.”

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Gay rights: A step forward or just sideways?

Heather Price-Wright Arizona Daily Wildcat

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he 800 or so UA employees, and probably scores of students and other UA affiliates, who are in domestic partnerships or civil unions can now express it in a new way: as their Facebook relationship status.

The social networking site added “in a domestic partnership” and “in a civil union” to the list of relationship statuses its 500 million or so active users can use to define themselves. The changes began to go into effect last week and during the weekend, and so far have been implemented in five countries, including the United States.

While many heterosexual couples define themselves as domestic partners, both those new designations on Facebook are widely seen as a nod to gay relationships. And, for many, they are cause for celebration. Gay and lesbian activists have hailed the move as a statement from Facebook in support of the LGBT rights movement. “Facebook sent a clear message in support of gay and lesbian couples to users across the globe,” Jarrett Barrios, president of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, told the San Francisco Chronicle.

More visibility and more options by which LGBT couples can express their love seem like an amazing step forward. And the wider a net social networking sites like Facebook cast to make their users feel included and represented, the better. But it’s hard to believe Facebook’s aims are altogether altruistic — after all, this is the company that, despite being widely used as a communication device for revolutionary young people across the globe, shut down several of the Egyptian protestors’ groups because the organizers were using pseudonyms to protect themselves. Unlike Google or Twitter, Facebook has been reticent to identify itself with the revolutionaries; it’s a company with a serious stake in not rocking the boat too hard, in working within the system.

In that light, Facebook’s addition of new relationship designations seems less like a statement of solidarity, and more like a move that allows the company to avoid such a statement. For some in the gay community, domestic partnerships and civil unions smack of “separate but equal” policies. They are, in many cases, the way governments justify not allowing gay marriage — if gay people have these equally good options, why do they need marriage?

So, while couples in civil unions and domestic partnerships should have the opportunity to express that online, Facebook doesn’t deserve much of the praise it’s garnering. The company didn’t come out in support of gay marriage; it merely added seemingly progressive relationship designations, quietly, and let the buzz spread.

This may be exciting and long awaited for many couples, but it’s not a particularly definitive moment for a multi-billion dollar company. And, with little at stake for the company besides perhaps a smattering of lame boycotts, it’s not all that bold or brave.

It might be time to take a break from worshipping the Almighty Facebook and acknowledge that the company has a financial stake in appearing progressive without actually having to do much.

Facebook doesn’t want to be part of the winds of social change; it wants to make money, and it’s doing an awesome job at that.

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

MAILBAG Jefferson Park history deserves preservation

I would like to thank Andrew Shepherd for his thoughtful column (Feb. 22 “Council should oppose mini-dorms”) of support of the Jefferson Park Neighborhood Association and its fight against group dwellings, the structures formerly known as mini-dorms.

We need to preserve what little is left of our history and culture and this starts with protecting our remaining old neighborhoods.

People (developers) should think twice about destroying things they cannot recreate. If there is a need for additional student housing it can certainly be built in a more efficient (denser) zone than R-1 or R-2 single family residential and it can be built in a more appropriate area.

Thanks again for your support.

— Bob Schlanger Jefferson Park resident and board member

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Posters tell us about candidates, but what do they know about us?

Why does it seem that the only time ASUA members behave in a serious manner is when their election season starts?

I was recently plagued with having to listen to candidates for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona complain about how little free time they had because they were so focused on their campaign. Simultaneously, another candidate was ranting about how his campaign posters were being torn down, and how a member of his campaign actually watched as the event occurred and then attempted to chase down the culprit. The candidate suggested stricter punishments for those caught doing so as a way to make people afraid of pulling down ASUA campaign posters.

To be fair, who knows if the person removing campaign flyers is even affiliated with another campaign?

(And if that were the case, I hate to say it, but Elections Commissioner Michael Colletti is powerless to do much of anything).

Is it possible that they just wanted to remove a meaningless ASUA campaign poster with an even more meaningless slogan so that they could put up their club meeting flyer?

ASUA certainly works hard, and having worked alongside many people in the office I can attest to their strong will. But ASUA tends to focus all its diligence in the wrong arenas. Instead of just ignoring that someone out there is removing campaign flyers, this candidate focused his energy on punishing other candidates who might be trying to sabotage him.

It does not matter how many people get to see your groovy colored flyers.

The truly relevant issues are not how early you got up or how tired you are from doing things that in no way affect

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your knowledge of the student body and your ability to serve it.

Use the elections to make students believe that you’re truly a unique candidate and break away from the typical ASUA mold. Believe me, there are reasons why so many people are not involved in ASUA, and the cause is not only because people don’t know about ASUA or how much work they do.

— Storm Byrd is a political science sophomore.

Mallory Hawkins Arizona Daily Wildcat

Amateur drunk girl I hate to break it to you, but being a drunk girl in a sea of drunks at a party is not a feat.

Being the drunk girl, however, surely is.

There’s always one girl who everyone loves to hate. She had too much to drink, is a hot mess, and, despite being annoying as hell, everyone finds her charming. If she were less hot, wandering aimlessly, talking at anyone within earshot about the 19-second keg stand she just did, it wouldn’t have same effect.

Drunk girls look like rock stars even when they’re sloshed. It’s in their DNA, but if you’d like to test fate, there are a few steps you can take to be more like that girl.

Before you get to the party, there’s a lot of prep work. It all starts with the outfit.

Pick something that will allow you to have a wardrobe malfunction. No drunk girl, in the history of drunk girls, has had a night to remember while wearing a turtleneck. Part of their charm is that drunk girls always inadvertently flash you some skin and then laugh about it. Depending on your best asset, I would suggest wearing either a low-cut shirt with no bra or a short dress that allows for plenty of panty shots. A skimpy dress should get the job done.

No outfit is complete without the shoes.

As a rule of thumb — if you can’t walk in a pair of shoes at the beginning of the night, the situation isn’t going to get better as the night goes on. Don’t let that deter you. It is common knowledge that the best way to identify a drunk girl is by her bare feet, with her shoes in tow. It is worth mentioning that

some girls are true champs and refuse to take the shoes off. That sort of drunk girl can be identified by her need to take a break (either on a bench or against a tree) after each block of walking. Either way, start the night in shoes that not even Kim Zolciak’s wig guy would dream of wearing, and you’ll be set.

Bragging about how much you drink is a must. If even one person is unaware of the fact that you’ve taken eight shots in the past hour, you’re doing something wrong.

Everyone should always be up to the minute with your alcohol intake. After beer five, though, people will start to lose interest.

You’ll need to get creative about how to keep them updated. Consider inviting people to shotgun a beer with you. When you finish, look at them and proudly slur, “Wow! That was my sixth beer, and I still kicked your ass!” Who isn’t fond of a gracious winner?

When you aren’t bragging about your attempt at alcohol poisoning, you should be belligerently shouting every word (you’ve made up) to the songs on the party mix. You can gauge your level of drunkenness on whether or not you’re worried about how terrible you sound. Drunk girls have no inhibitions. You should feel like you’re the next Kelly Clarkson, even if you more closely resemble William Hung.

Speaking of music, it is your duty as a drunk girl at a house party to play guest DJ without permission. Right before the chorus of a popular song, such as “Don’t Stop Believin’” or “Black and Yellow,” change the

song to something of your likings (either Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus or Britney) and start singing along immediately. Everyone will be too focused on starting the chorus on time to notice you scheming in the background. Once you change the song, though, get ready for some serious backlash.

Since you’ll be so drunk, you can just giggle it off or offer shots to everyone.

After 10 minutes or so, when everyone has moved on from your lapse in judgment, pop a mint and hit on everyone, boys and girls alike. No need to ask if someone wants to make out. Decide for them, and just do it.

Everyone expects the drunk girl to be slutty anyway.

Last but not least, it is imperative that you get a picture with all your new friends that you met during the night. The best time to do this is when your new bestie is deep in conversation with someone else. Just rudely interrupt the two and in your shrillest voice, ask the other person, “OMG-will-you-takea-picture-of-me-and-my-new-best-friend?!”

No matter how terrible it turns out, be sure to comment on the quality of the picture and how much you love it.

If you did your job right — the more obnoxious the better — people will talk about you for weeks, and only good things, because no matter how hard they try to deny it, everybody loves a drunk girl.

— Mallory Hawkins is a communication senior.

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Obama to stop defending federal gay marriage ban McClatchy Tribune WASHINGTON — In a significant change of course, President Barack Obama has decided that a federal law against gay marriage is unconstitutional and will no longer defend it in court, the White House announced Wednesday.

Obama’s decision will not have an immediate impact. Attorney General Eric Holder said the president will continue to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act until it’s either clearly struck down by the courts or repealed by Congress, which he’s urged.

That means that an estimated 1,140 laws and policies regarding marriage will remain in place and enforced, and that gay couples who are married in the states where they live will still be denied the federal benefits of marriage, in matters such as Social Security survivor benefits and taxes.

But it signaled a change of track for the administration, and underscored the evolution of the issue over recent years.

The law, passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton as he sought re-election in 1996, defined marriage as between one man and one woman.

“Much of the legal landscape has changed in the 15 years since Congress passed DOMA,” Holder said in a statement.

“The Supreme Court has ruled that laws criminalizing homosexual conduct are unconstitutional.

Congress has repealed the military’s ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy. Several lower courts have ruled DOMA itself to be unconstitutional.”

The political landscape also has changed. Gay marriage was broadly unpopular when Clinton signed the law, but is much less so now.

The ranks of Americans who think gay marriage should be illegal have dropped from 68 percent in 1996 to 53 percent in 2010, according to a Gallup poll. At the same time, the total of Americans who think it should be legal has risen from 27 percent to 44 percent.

As public opposition has eased, five states have legalized gay marriage since 2004: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont, as

well as the District of Columbia.

Maryland may soon join them.

Obama’s view also has evolved.

As a candidate in 2008, he endorsed civil unions to guarantee rights for gay couples, but said, “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.”

In December, he told The Advocate, a gay and lesbian magazine, that “like a lot of people, I’m wrestling with this. My attitudes are evolving.”

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Obama is still debating the question personally. “He’s grappling with the issue,” Carney said.

While the law’s supporters criticized Obama’s decision, he didn’t initiate it. Lower court challenges to the law required his response.

Indeed, Holder and the Justice Department announced the decision, and the White House spoke only about it when asked, and then only briefly.

Regardless of his personal opinion of marriage and the politics of the issue, Carney said, Obama agrees with Holder that the law’s definition of marriage, excluding gay couples, is unconstitutional and no longer can be defended in court.

Holder said the Justice Department had a long-standing practice of defending the constitutionality of laws as long as “reasonable arguments” could be made for them. But he said the department also has refused to defend laws when the president has concluded they’re unconstitutional.

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, Holder said Congress could defend the law itself. But he said the law was intended to discriminate against gays and lesbians.

He said the Congressional Record includes “numerous expressions reflecting moral disapproval of gays and lesbians and their intimate and family relationships, precisely the kind of stereotype-based thinking and animus” that the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause was written to stop.

Holder also said that “a growing scientific consensus accepts that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable.”

Libyan city no longer ruled by Qaddafi, but protests continue McClatchy Tribune DARNAH, Libya — Days after the police were run out of town or joined the revolution, the police station was burned down and its files strewn on charred ground, residents of this coastal Libyan city still are on the streets protesting Moammar Qaddafi’s regime.

Like other cities in eastern Libya, residents have taken control of Darnah, a city of about 100,000 people overlooking the Mediterranean Sea six hours from the Egyptian border. Male civilians patrol and direct traffic, keeping an eye on who is coming through.

“After we saw what Moammar has done, it’s impossible for us to surrender, because we know what they will do to us,” said Amer Habiel, 36. “We are not ready to surrender; we will die.”

On Sunday, when soldiers in planes and armored vehicles arrived at an airport in Labrak, about 45 miles away, airport employees began calling men in neighboring cities to surround the facility to prevent them from attacking, said Jalal Abdullah, 41, a Darnah resident.

For three days, said Faraj Saad, a police officer who defected, more than 200 men — who had armed themselves with weapons from police stations and army

McClatchy Tribune CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand — Workers continued to sift through the rubble for survivors of Tuesday’s 6.3-magnitude earthquake here, but officials said hopes had dimmed that those buried would be found alive.

Despite that gloomy assessment, volunteers pulled two people from the ruins of one building Wednesday after hearing the cries of a woman in the wreckage. The official death toll remained at 75, with scores missing.

As Christchurch settled in for another uneasy night, family

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Most recently, the popular debate about teaching intelligent design in public schools presents a perplexing quandary for scientists and policy makers. These misconceptions may affect the teaching of science, but other confusions, about climate change and nuclear weapons, affect the peace and security of the whole world.

Lawrence Krauss will address the important issue of what science is, and what it is not."

Save the date: March 12 9am-4pm DuVal Aud. FREE Fostering a Secular Society: Keep Religion out of Government The Importance of Secularism -- for the Religious and the Nonreligious; Sex! Law! Women! Morality!

The Varieties of Secularism The Godless Constitution And How We Can Keep It

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A flag-waving child is hoisted into the air on Wednesday as residents of Darnah, Libya, celebrate the liberation of their town from the control of forces loyal to dictator Moammar Qaddafi.

barracks they had raided — engaged in a firefight with the military that left scores of civilians and soldiers dead.

Six men from Darnah were among the dead. Five others, ages 12 to 21, who were shot during protests are buried in fresh graves by a courtyard in the Prophet’s Companions Mosque. At a hospital just a few miles away there are more bodies, residents said.

Some of the soldiers were captured and about 20 were held in a large room of the mosque for a few days before being mov-

ing to a location farther away, said Ashraf Sadaga, a member of the Prophet’s Companions Committee, which oversees the area. The location is secret and the soldiers are being protected from the wrath of the city’s residents, he said.

On the road in front of the mosque and a makeshift hospital, people have held protests since Feb. 17.

“Now the protest is for expression,” Sadaga said. “The uprising is over, eastern Libya has all fallen from Qaddafi’s power.”

Hope for New Zealand quake survivors fading

Lecture: Science, conscience, and nonsense.

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members of the missing waited for word under a steady drizzle and cold temperatures. Police imposed a 6:30 p.m. curfew in the city center as rescue teams continued their search, and violators faced arrest.

On Wednesday, international flights returned to Christchurch, but more people scrambled to get out of the city than in, with dozens camped out at the airport waiting for flights. Many tourists traveled without luggage or even passports, after they fled hotel rooms without any belongings.

At Canterbury Television,

where 200 people worked, searchers at 1 a.m. Thursday brought in floodlights and a digger to sift through the stillsmoking ruins. On Wednesday, officials had declared that no one would be found alive there but later returned to search some more. They said more than 100 people may have been lost in the CTV building and that the devastation was not survivable, so they were concentrating on recovery of bodies rather than rescue.

Earlier Wednesday, officials said some trapped victims were text messaging for help.

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By Alexander Vega Arizona Daily Wildcat

Kachina dolls stolen from union Lounge

Several Kachina dolls were stolen from the Student Union Memorial Center sometime between Feb. 14 and Feb. 18.

A University of Arizona Police Department officer met with the reporting student union employee on Monday at 1:05 p.m.

The employee was an art curator and didn’t discover the theft until Monday.

The ten Kachina dolls were stolen from the third floor Kachina Lounge room in the union.

Each Kachina doll was wooden and approximately ten inches in height. The dolls were painted in various colors and mounted on wooden bases.

The dolls were on display in a clear plastic case inside the room and secured in place with a small cable.

The cable had been cut to remove the dolls and there was no video camera surveillance in the area.

Apparently, the theft went unnoticed, the employee said. There are no suspects at this time.

Online gamer sends suicidal texts

A male UA student received suicidal text messages from a woman he met in an online game around midnight on Monday.

A UAPD officer responded to Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall after being referred by the Tucson Police Department, who first received the student’s call.

TPD said the student had already called about receiving suicidal text messages from a woman.

TPD was requesting assistance from UAPD to review the text messages.

The phone number was originally misattributed to another woman. TPD had contacted Biddeford Police Department in Maine and Biddeford Police made contact with the other woman.

The other woman denied sending any messages to the student and said she didn’t know who the student was.

UAPD made contact with the UA student in the residence hall at 1:20 a.m.

The student said he had met the woman through an online game called “Farm Town.�

The student had known the woman for approximately three hours and did not know the woman’s last name or where she was from.

The two began chatting through the game and eventually started sending text messages to each other.

The woman told the student that she wanted to be in a relationship with the student.

The student said that he couldn’t because he was pursuing a relationship with another female.

The woman then started making comments about how nobody cared about her and how she wanted to “end it all.�

The student deleted the messages except for the most recent one which read, “You don’t care at all.�

The student was worried that the woman might commit suicide and called 911.

The officer looked at the phone number and saw that it was different than the one TPD had received.

The officer contacted TPD with the new phone number, to trace its origin.

TPD contacted Fayette County Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee, and a short time later the officer was informed that they had made contact with the woman.

The woman had recently been released from a psychiatric facility for severe depression.

The information obtained by UAPD was recorded and provided to Fayette County Sheriff’s Office for their case.

Thumb drive and purse stolen in a flash

“Weird� Al Yankovic received a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture.

He also served as valedictorian of his high school at age 16.

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A female UA student’s purse was stolen and found at Centennial Hall on Feb. 16.

A UAPD officer met with the student around Euclid Avenue and University Boulevard.

The student was a teacher’s assistant responsible for helping students with in-class assignments.

The class had approximately 600 students enrolled.

At the beginning of class, the student put her purse below her seat.

While helping students in the row where her purse was, the student noticed a man standing next to the seat with her purse at 11:45 a.m.

When class was dismissed, the student returned to her seat and could not find her purse.

She said that it was extremely rare for a student to leave the class early because the professor often points out those that do.

The student provided a description of the suspicious male.

She also retrieved participation slips that she said could contain the name of the male who took the purse.

The student narrowed it down to one of two men. The student was unsure which slip belonged to the suspicious man, but said she was certain it was one of them.

No witnesses watched the purse be stolen.

After the officer took the student’s statement, she went back to Centennial Hall and found her purse.

The student contacted the officer and said that she was only missing an orange and black thumb drive, several quarters and a dollar bill.

The student’s credit cards, keys, phone and iPod were untouched.

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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ODDS & ENDS

Michelle A. Monroe Editor in Chief 520•621•7579 editor@wildcat.arizona.edu

ON THE SPOT Not so gleeful about Michael Jacskson

RECYCLE

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Please recycle your copy of the Arizona Daily Wildcat.

Linzi Berkowitz

Sociology senior Are you a fan of “Glee?”

I used to be but now the story lines kind of suck, but the Bieber one was pretty funny.

If your life was a musical theater production, which one would it be?

Probably “Rent” minus the drugs and the Aids and just all of it … so probably “Grease 2.”

Pink Ladies or Sandy?

There are no Pink Ladies, they’re motorcycle chicks.

Has there been a guy in your life that relates to Danny, meaning a guy who has made you a bad girl, or made you change all your ways?

My ex-boyfriend made me fail a lot of classes when I was in high school, because he was not in high school so I never wanted to do my homework.

So you are into older guys?

I am into guys in general.

How do you feel about Sean Penn?

He was really hott in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” and in “Milk.”

Would you rather bring Michael Jackson or The Beatles back to life?

The Beatles because I would rather go and see them at The Cave than see MJ on the Video Music Awards.

If you were trapped alone in a room with Michael Jackson, what would happen?

I would probably get raped.

HOROSCOPES

Aries (March 21 - April 19) — Today is a 6 — It may be one of those stuck days. Perhaps it’s time to take a break. Go on a vacation (mental or otherwise), or at least a long walk. Later things open up.

Taurus (April 20 - May 20) — Today is a 7 — Life seems more complicated than it really is today. With a little bit of focus, you can handle anything that comes at you, one step at a time.

Gemini (May 21 - June 21) — Today is a 6 — The day starts off well, with new ideas.

Caroline Nachazel Odds & Ends Reporter 520•621•3106 editor@wildcat.arizona.edu

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Logan Douglas, pre-communication junior, goes for the goal at the Red Bull Kick-Off event in the O’Malley’s on Fourth parking lot on Wednesday. The winning team received four pairs of tickets to the Red Bull Reto del Sol soccer game in Phoenix on Tuesday.

Mr. Skin’s ‘Anatomy Awards’ honors best on-screen nudity Most devoted movie buffs are anxiously awaiting the telecast of the Academy Awards on Sunday. But those who’d rather see movie stars in the buff may be much more excited about the “Anatomy Awards.”

Instead of celebrating the year’s greatest films, the 12th annual Anatomy Awards honors the best — and sexiest — female nude scenes to grace the boob tube and silver screen over the past year.

Helming this “breast in show” is none other than Jim “Mr. Skin” McBride, the Chicago film lover who’s

managed to make an actual career out of watching actresses take off their clothes.

Since 1999, McBride has been “fast-forwarding to the good parts” of Hollywood movies and TV shows in an effort to track and record every single female nude scene ever caught on tape.

He shares his fleshy findings on the website MrSkin.com.

Although he’s constantly keeping tabs on titillating movie moments, Mr. Skin told AOL News he pulls out all the stops for his annual Anatomy Awards, selecting only the best of the breasts for top honors.

FAST FACTS

Later you find it difficult to concentrate. Don’t blame yourself. Channel your energy towards creative solutions.

Cancer (June 22 - July 22) — Today is a 7 — If you start the day on the wrong foot, don’t worry, it gets better. You could always try going back to bed and getting up again on the other foot.

Leo (July 23 - Aug. 22) — Today is a 6 — You’re full of things to say and express. Do it in a playful way, with music, dance or a science experiment. Be colorful.

TODAY IS

Arizona Women’s Basketball vs. UCLA Feb. 24, 7p.m. Arizona takes on UCLA. McKale Memorial Center Artist’s Talk: Emmet Gowin Feb. 24, 5:30 p.m. Emmet Gowin received a master’s degree in fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design where he studied with Harry Callahan, a lifelong mentor and great influence. Center for Creative Photography Room: Auditorium French Film Festival: “35 Rhums” (“35 Shots of Rum”) french movies February 24, 7 p.m. The Tournées Festival is a five-week series featuring popular modern French movies with English subtitles. All films are free and open to the public. Manuel Pacheco Integrated Learning Center Room: 120 Publish or Perish Workshop: Writing and Communicating Your Work in the Academic World Feb. 24, 4p.m. - 6p.m.

This workshop will inform participants about the publishing process along with the benefits, ethics and nuances of academic writing. Participants will have an opportunity to ask an expert panel of published faculty and students about publishing and how to take part in the publishing process. Where: Drachman Hall Room: B109

Opinions Editor Kristina Bui

Like the real Hollywood Oscars, the Anatomy Awards is broken down into different categories recognizing different talents, or, in this case, body parts.

Mr. Skin said there are 40 categories total, including “best breasts,” which goes to topless Jessica Pare in “Hot Tub Time Machine” this year; “best nude butt,” earned by Jessica Alba in “The Killer Inside Me”; and “best full-frontal,” snagged by the shamelessly naked Rebecca Creskoff in HBO’s “Hung.”

Design Chief Olen Lenets Arts Editor Brandon Specktor Photo Editor Tim Glass Multimedia Editor Johnny McKay Web Director Colin Darland Asst. News Editors Bethany Barnes Jazmine Woodberry Asst. Sports Editors Michael Schmitz Asst. Photo Editor Mike Christy Asst. Arts Editor Heather Price-Wright

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still gets the attention, even if you slow down to more intimate thoughts.

Write memoir essays or paint a self-portrait. Reflect on yourself.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) — Today is an 8 — When you’re relaxed, you’re more productive. Find the artistry in your work. Get things done earlier in the day, as later it may get busy.

Capricorn (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) — Today is a 5 — A sense of tiredness fills the air. Get some rest, for your health.

Take a siesta, if you can.

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Don’t be impatient. Things are moving along, even slowly.

Aquarius (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) — Today is an 8 — Guard against being impetuous. Postpone daydreams for reality.

Don’t sweat the small stuff, and don’t waste money. Continue to increase work effort.

Pisces (Feb. 19 - March 20) — Today is a 7 — Privacy is essential. An impasse appears with a loved one. They aren’t after the money. Consider that you don’t know the full story. It’s not personal.

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Woman: “The only thing that makes me happier than puppies is drag queens.”

Let children teach you about joy.

Virgo (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) — Today is a 6 — Dedicate some of your time at home to make your place special. Clean up and organize your sacred spaces. Then you can invite someone over to dinner.

Libra (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) — Today is an 8 — You feel sexy today, and that’s okay. Others find your confidence attractive.

Step out of your shell, meet new people and don’t be so serious.

Scorpio (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) — Today is a 6 — Your creativity

Managing Editor Ken Contrata News Editor Luke Money

OVERHEARD

•Only about one-ninth of the mass of an iceberg is visible above the water. Nearly all its bulk remains hidden beneath the surface.

•There are no cemeteries in San Francisco, Calif.

•The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years.

•China has been under communist rule for 60 years.

•New York City was briefly the U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790.

Editor in Chief Michelle A. Monroe

Next Word in Poetry: A Reading by Kazim Ali and Ana Bo_i_evi_ Feb. 24, 8 p.m. The Next Word series presents authors who write innovative poetry and are in the early stages of their careers. A Q&A follows these events.

UA Poetry Center Sabbagh Lecture: “The Concept of the Self in Arab Society and Culture” Feb. 24, 7 p.m. Rosen is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University as well as an adjunct professor of law at Columbia University. The Sabbagh Lecture is presented by the UA School of Anthropology through the generosity of Tucsonans Entisar and Adib Sabbagh. The Sabbaghs have sponsored the series for 19 years. Arizona Historical Society Museum, 949 E. Second St. Peace Corps Fellows/ USA 50th Anniversary Exhibition Feb. 15 – Mar. 4 in the Kachina Gallery. While overseas, Volunteers are inherently exploring their sense of place...and pace. Their thoughts, ideals and values are often evolving, in transition, and in conflict.

Women Veterans Support Group Feb. 24, 2p.m. - 3p.m. If you are a female veteran of any age we hope that you can join us. We are a female support group for veterans of the armed services that meets every Thursday.

We have a facilitator provided by the VA. If you need more information please contact Kim at kshroyer@email.arizona.edu. Student Union Memorial Center Room: Career Services.

Arizona Repertory Theatre Presents “The Shape of Things” Sunday, February 6, 2011 - Sunday, February 27, 2011 Evenings: Feb. 9-12, 17-19, 25, 26 at 7:30 p.m. Matinees: Feb. 13, 19, 20, 27 at 1:30 p.m. Admission: Regular $28, Senior/Military/UA Employee $26, Student $19, Preview $17 Marroney Theatre

Campus Events “Treasures of the Queen” Exhibit at UA Mineral Museum Feb. 06- May 31. 1601 E. University Blvd. 520-621-4516 The Flandrau Science Center and the UA Mineral Museum presents a special exhibition celebrating historic Bisbee and collections of rare Bisbee minerals, including specimens from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.

Exhibit Commemorates Stewart Lee Udall Legacy “I’m for Stew: The Life and Times of Stewart Lee Udall” will be on display through June 15 in the gallery at Special Collections at the University Libraries, located at 1510 E. University Blvd.

Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera exhibition at the Arizona State Museum (1031 E. University Blvd). January 24, 2011 through November 17, 2012. Mon-Sat 10am5pm. $5. 520-621-6302 “Face to Face: 150 Years of Photographic Portraiture” exhibit is being shown in the Center for Creative Photography main autitorium 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.

Galleries

“Musical Compositions of Ted DeGrazia” January 21, 2011 - January 16, 2012 Musically inspired artwork from throughout the artist’s career is on display, including the complete collection of paintings from his 1945 Master of Arts thesis at the University of Arizona titled “Art and its Relation to Music in Music Education.”

Degrazia Gallery in the Sun 6300 N. Swan Road

Of Note

86th ANNUAL LA FIESTA DE LOS VAQUEROS THURSDAY, FEB. 24 TUCSON RODEO PARADE 9 A.M. Over 200 non-motorized floats are on display along the one and one-half mile parade route beginning at Park Ave. and Ajo Way, proceeding south on Park to Irvington Rd. Tickets for Grandstand seating at Irvington and South 6th Ave, $6 adults, $4 kids under 13. tucsonrodeo.com Oscar Night America 2011 Presented by Fox Tucson Theatre at Fox Tucson Theatre February 27, 2011 Oscar Night America 2011 at the Fox Tucson Theatre is Tucson’s only Oscar event officially sanctioned by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This year’s festivities will feature glamorous “red carpet” arrivals, silent auction, Celebrity fashion show, and a “Pick the Winner” contest.

Come wine, dine and experience all the glitz, glamour and excitement of the Oscars live with hundreds of your closest friends, neighbors and Tucson luminaries. It is the closest thing to the real deal outside of Hollywood! www. foxtucsontheatre.org/ The third annual Tucson Festival of Books—March 12 & 13. Free and open to the public, this two day festival endorses the community celebration of reading and knowledge by featuring hundreds of authors, publishers, and exhibitors.The Tucson Festival of Books is sponsored by the Arizona Daily Star, the University of Arizona and University Medical Center (UMC). It is planned and staged by an all-volunteer group of Tucson community, commercial, civic and educational leaders. Proceeds from the event benefit literacy efforts in Southern Arizona.

TucsonFestivalofBooks.org 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.

Theatre

Rogue Theatre Presents: Old Times. February 24–March 13 Thurs–Sat 7:30 P.M., Sun 2:00 P.M. Musical Preshow begins 15minutes before curtain Discussion with the cast and director follows all performances Preview Night Thursday Feb24, 7:30 P.M. Pay-What-You-Will Nights Thursdays March 3 & 10, 7:30 P.M. Half-price Student Rush 15 minutes before curtain

To sponsor this calendar, or list an event, email calendar@dailywildcat.com or call 621.3425 Deadline 3pm 2 business days prior to publication

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Arizona gymnastics continues to struggle with balance beam routines

By Kevin Nadakal Arizona Daily Wildcat The No. 25 Arizona gymnastics team continues to get better week by week, but it continues to struggle in one event.

The Wildcats have issues during their beam routines, as they have consistently wobbled or even fallen off the beam. The last meet the Wildcats faced off against the No. 2 Stanford Cardinal and had two falls and almost a third before freshman Jordan Williams regained her balance. “I think the intensity last weekend, in my opinion, was a little low,� assistant coach Randi Acosta said. “I think they knew it was the No. 2 team there but we needed to be ourselves, we are a lot better than what we showed.�

The beam itself is a daunting piece of equipment, standing four feet off the ground and 16 feet long. The apparatus is only four inches wide.

After the Stanford meet, the coaching staff expressed frustration and recognized that the team feels the same way. “It’s not for a lack of work,� said head coach Bill Ryden. “Like with anybody on anything, if you work on something over and over and you don’t see results it gets frustrating. The only choice we have is to just stick with it. I know we have the athletes to do the job.�

According to Ryden it’s not that the team has more mistakes on beam than other events but the mistakes on beam are so much more noticeable. “It’s just so unforgiving,� Ryden said. “It’s not that it’s more difficult it’s just the tiniest error and you’re going to fall off.�

Acosta, who is the Wildcats beam coach and excelled on the beam, scoring a perfect 10.0 mark while she competi here for Arizona, even agreed with Ryden. “With beam you have one base under you,� Acosta said. “With bars

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ORTEGA continued from page 12 turning some double plays,�

Ortega said. “Hopefully there’s a lot more of those.�

Ortega said that there weren’t any nerves while playing in his first game in about 10 months, but that wasn’t the case when he first got back to practicing. “The first scrimmage was the big deal, when I had to face live arms for the first time,�

Ortega said. “I’ve had several scrimmages and taken a lot of hacks, so now it’s just about playing baseball again.�

Ortega wasn’t the only one with nerves during his first scrimmage back in action — the senior from Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., gave everyone

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if you are slightly out you can reach your arms even farther or adjust your arms. In beam your whole body has to be on top of the beam. If your body is slightly off center it’s going to be a fight to stay on. “In my personal opinion as a gymnast, I know beam was the most difficult event.�

Katie Matusik is considered by the coaching to be the most talented beam worker on the team and has

even recorded a 9.900 this season.

Acosta also said Aubree Cristello and Molly Quirk are right behind Matusik, and maintaining focus was the key to beam success. “Everyone just needs to stay confident and calm up there,� Matusik said. “Sometimes we tend to try and finish our set as fast as possible because we want to get off of there. Just need to do what we do every day in practice.�

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In their last meeting, the Wildcats (16-9, 7-7 Pac-10) pushed hard in the second half but the Bruins (22-3, 12-2 Pac-10) wouldn’t relent, beating Arizona 70-60.

However, with newfound momentum and Arizona star Ify Ibekwe playing her best for the Wildcats, with 15.7 points and 9.8 rebounds per game, Arizona is in its best possible position to pull off an upset.

But securing their first win against UCLA since 2007 won’t be easy.

Senior Darxia Morris leads the charge for the Bruins at the guard position with 12.5 points per game.

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a scare, including Lopez. “His first official at-bat in intrasquad, he hit a triple in the gap,� Lopez said. “He ran it out, slid in to third, and then popped back up.

Everybody held their breath for a minute, but then we moved on.�

While Lopez is happy to have his second baseman back, no one is happier than Heyer, who now has one of the top double play tandems in America playing behind him. “He always gets us pumped up for the game. He’s like that guy you want behind you in everything,� said Heyer when asked about Ortega’s impact on the team. “He’s got ice in his veins, man. He’s got everything you want. It’s just good to have him back.�

Down low, Arizona forwards Ibekwe and Soana Lucet will try to contain Jasmine Dixon, whose 12.2 points and 7.3 boards per game make her one of UCLA’s most dominant players. “We just have to outwork her and box her out,� said Lucet. “We know she’s a good rebounder, even if she’s not going to finish she’s going to follow the rebound, and go finish. We just have to make sure she doesn’t outwork us.�

Playing at McKale Center will provide an advantage.

Arizona is 10-2 on the season against visiting opponents, and the ability to play for its own crowd is what gets the team the most geared up to perform. “The comfort of being at home, there’s nothing like it,�

Butts said. “Especially when you have a good crowd behind you.�

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Catcher Stacie Chambers, left, hit five home runs last weekend to earn her third Pacific 10 Conference Player of the Week award. The senior is just 17 home runs away from tying the national record.

SOFTBALL continued from page 12 on pace to break both records with 45 games remaining on the Wildcats’ regular season schedule.

As a freshman in 2008, Chambers smashed 15 home runs. Chambers and Brigette Del Ponte tied for the team leader in home runs in 2010 with 21. But in 2009 — the year Arizona broke the then-NCAA home run record with 143 homers — Chambers knocked 31 long balls out of the park.

She is currently the only active NCAA player with more than 60 home runs and has hit six jacks in 11 games so far this season.

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Two weeks into the season, the Arizona Wildcats still don’t have a starting shortstop. Candrea said he still hasn’t decided who will be the regular shortstop for the Wildcats and will continue to try out a few players at the position. “Alex (Lavine) has done a good job there and she’s

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Lavine and Brawley split time during the Hillenbrand Invitational.

Lavine started against Drake University and in both games against Texas A&M Corpus-Christi.

Brawley got the start against Kennesaw State and the University of the Pacific. “They’re young and they make some mistakes,� Candrea said. “We’re going to continue doing what we’re doing right now and see.�

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Ortega’s back Senior returns from injury

By Alex Williams ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT When Bryce Ortega went down with herniated L4 and L5 discs in his back in March of last year, Arizona head coach Andy Lopez knew it would negatively impact the baseball team.

He just didn’t know how much.

“He’s about as important a cog as we have,” Lopez said.

“You have to have that pivot man at second base. We were on pace to break all of the records for double plays turned here at the program. Once he went out, we made less than half, I think.”

But in addition to missing some double play opportunities, the possible consequences were much graver.

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Second baseman Bryce Ortega’s back injury last season was so severe that he was unable to even swing a bat. This year, Ortega has managed to not only return to the lineup, but take his familiar role as table-setter for the Arizona offense. The senior went 3-for-9 during the weekend against North Dakota State and scored five runs.

credited as the bridge between an abysmal 2009 season and a successful 2010 campaign, was in jeopardy of never playing again.

But here we are in 2011, and things seem back to normal.

“Everything feels great,” Ortega said.

The second baseman didn’t wait long to remind Lopez what he means to the Wildcats, ranked No. 17 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper poll .

In the season’s first series last weekend, Ortega went 3-for-9 at the plate while driving in four runs and scoring

UA look for revenge against UCLA

By Dan Kohler ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT It’s been a roller coaster of a season for the Arizona women’s basketball team.

Emotions were high as the season started with the Wildcats winning 11 out of their first 13 games, giving skeptics a reason to change their opinions about a team that was pegged to finish seventh in the Pacific 10 Conference.

Then, the boom was lowered and Arizona ran head first into the No. 2 Stanford Cardinal .

After losing by 33 points in Palo Alto , the downtrodden Wildcats could barely get their heads up on the path to losing their next 7 out of 9 contests.

Now, shrugging off their

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five more himself. He also started a double play in the seventh inning of Friday’s win to keep ace Kurt Heyer ’s shutout intact.

“I’m just trying to bring back the good old days with me and (short stop) Alex (Mejia) ORTEGA, page 9

Forward Soana Lucet and the Arizona Wildcats lost 70-60 to UCLA during a four-game losing streak at the end of January. The losing streak against the Pac-10’s best teams put Arizona’s validity into question, but the Wildcats’ recent win over ASU has given the team new hope for tonight’s rematch with the Bruins.

Arizona vs. UCLA 7 p.m.

McKale Center road woes after sweeping the Washington schools last weekend, Arizona returns home to take on the No. 11 UCLA Bruins tonight at McKale Center with a three-game winning streak in its pocket.

“We’ve shown through those games that we are capable of playing physical, we are capable of playing tough, and with intensity,” head coach Niya Butts said. “We are capable of playing through forty minutes, through the good and the bad,

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Chambers close to breaking records

By Nicole Dimtsios ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Catcher Stacie Chambers drove in 14 runs and hit five home runs, including two grand slams, to grab her third Pacific 10 Conference Player of the Week award .

She touted a .571 batting average this past weekend .

In the first weekend of the season at the Kajikawa Classic , Chambers had one home run, four RBI and was batting .176.

The increased production in only a span of a week stems from hitting adjustments, according to Chambers.

“Me and coach just kind of talked about having my eyes more on the ball,” Chambers said. “The first weekend I was kind of pulling my head out and didn’t really have my eyes on the ball.”

Head coach Mike Candrea said the senior ’s success at the plate so early in the season wasn’t surprising and the adjustments were the majority of the reason.

“We got her eyes down a little more and seemed to be tracking the ball a little better, Candrea said. “That’s 90 percent of the hitting is getting good information and putting a good swing to it.”

Chambers chasing history

While she’s getting national recognition for her weekend success at the Hillenbrand Invitational , Chambers is looking to etch her name permanently in the Arizona and NCAA record books.

She needs just 12 more homeruns to own the Arizona all-time home run record and 17 to claim the NCAA record.

If Chambers continues her home run pace, as she has in the past two years, she’ll stay SOFTBALL, page 11

’Cats seek Pac-10 title in SoCal Clinching scenarios: Scenario 1: Arizona splits

Arizona men’s basketball can clinch championship with sweep

This puts the Wildcat’s conference title in jeopardy, giving the Bruins either a one or oneand-a-half game deficit to makeup. Still, Arizona would need to drop one or both of its games at home against the Oregon schools to give UCLA a shot at sneaking into a share of the conference title — there’s no tiebreaker for the title, only for seeding the the Pacific 10 Conference Tournament.

Meanwhile, the Bruins’ final week is a challenging trip to the Washington schools, making it a tough hill to climb.

Scenario 2: The Wildcats drop both games in Los Angeles This gives UCLA a real shot at toppling Arizona’s Pac-10 title hopes, assuming the Bruins will beat ASU. Again, all the Wildcats would need to do is fair better at home against Oregon and Oregon State than UCLA fairs on the toughest road trip in the league.

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It also keeps the Washington Forward Jesse Perry, front, will be posed with the challenge of defending Southern Caliconsiderable size down low. Perry, however, said his athleticism will give him an Huskies in the picture, though fornia’s advantage when the Wildcats take on the Trojans tonight in the Galen Center. hardly. If the Wildcats lose their final four contests and UW wins all four, the Huskies will win the Pac-10.

Scenario 3: Weekend sweep for UA If the Wildcats sweep the Southern California schools, they outright win the Pac-10.

— Kevin Zimmerman

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Arizona Wildcats vs. Southern California Trojans Galen Center Los Angeles, Calif.

8:30 MST, Fox Sports AZ

By Vincent Balistreri ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT It’s a gigantic weekend for No.10 Arizona against two gigantic teams.

As Arizona tries to secure its first Pacific 10 Conference championship since the 2004-05 season, it will have to do it on the road against two teams with two 6-foot-10 players in their regular rotation.

First, the Wildcats will tussle with Southern California’s Alex Stephenson and Nikola Vucevic tonight at the Galen Center.

Arizona will match-up with the 6-foot-10 big-men in Stephenson and Vucevic, with 6-foot-7 Jesse Perry and 6-foot-8 Derrick Williams.

Judging from Arizona’s last outing with the Trojans — an 82-73 win at McKale Center — the Wildcats feel it shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

“We played them already,” Perry said at a press conference on Tuesday.

“I didn’t really have a hard time with guarding them. A lot guys are really big but it’s really difficult for them to score, because they really don’t have great footwork.”

Perry is highly confident despite being 40 pounds and three inches short to both Trojan men, but the defensive help from his teammates makes it easier for him.

“If you front a player, it’s hard for them to catch the ball with our help side defense,” Perry added.

One of the big-men Arizona will have to contain tonight may be one of the most polished front-court players in the Pac-10.

“I don’t think Vucevic gets nearly enough credit, like a lot of the players we play,” Sean Miller said. “He’s a great player, he does it so many ways and he has great hands.”

In the last meeting in McKale Center on Jan. 29, Vucevic led the Trojans with 18 points in the loss and had some controversial comments after the game, telling

reporters that he felt his team, “played like women.”

Despite Vucevic being a skilled big-man, USC’s lineup will present advantages for Arizona as it’s able to use speed to their advantage.

“On our end, it’s maybe a disadvantage for them,” Perry said. “A lot of guys can’t guard me too much, because the guys I’m playing are 6-foot10 and they’re pretty slow.”

Though USC coach Kevin O’Neill will be left with a slow lineup, as all Arizona followers know the former Wildcat interim coach will play his style no matter what.

“Using two guys, the size of Alex Stephenson and Vucevic, you can say it’s an advantage,” said Miller. “But it can also be a disadvantage. He (O’Neill) really uses those two guys to anchor what they do.”

With O’Neill’s style comes a strong defensive mentality and can turn any game against the Trojans into a defensive game.

“They’re smart on defense, take a lot of pride in their defense,” Miller said. “The results speak for themselves, they’re always going to be tough to score on.”

In the last two games, O’Neill has started Donte Smith in place of Maurice Jones.

Jones had 22 points against California last Thursday, and his improvement on offense has improved the Trojans immensely.

“They’ve really settled in on offense,” Miller said. “They have a number of guys capable of shooting. I think we’re catching USC at a tough time.”

Last time the Wildcats handled the Trojans in McKale Center, but this time they’ll have to do it on the road.

“I think it’s good for us to go on the road and get a couple wins,” said Williams. “To prove to everybody that we can win on the road.

Hopefully we can get the sweep.”