Arizona Daily Wildcat — March 12, 2010

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Tuition hike approved

Arizona Board of Regents votes to increase tuition, mandatory fees

By Matt Lewis ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Arizona Board of Regents passed tuition and fee increases for Arizona students Thursday morning. The increases range between 10 and 20 percent for undergraduate, graduate, resident and non-resident students.

“I wore my funeral suit,” said regent Mark Killian on Thursday about tuition increases. Killian did, however, concede that tuition increases were necessary to maintain quality.

“These are challenging times that require difficult decisions,” UA President Robert Shelton said.

Shelton added that debt has remained consistent over the past three years for UA graduates, and more than half graduate without any debt.

UA resident undergraduate tuition for the 2010-11 academic year will be $8,237, a 20-percent increase.

UA non-resident undergraduate tuition will be $24,596, a 10-percent increase.

UA resident graduate tuition will be $9,027, an 18-percent increase.

For non-resident graduate

students, tuition will be $24,889, a 10-percent increase.

Regents rolled in a sustainability fee and an economic recovery fee into the cost of base tuition. The sustainability fee is $12, and the economic recovery fee is $766 for residents and $966 for nonresidents. The regents called the move “more transparent.”

According to Regent Anne Mariucci, education at the three universities in Arizona have “been the world’s greatest bargain for the last 10 years, and it can’t be any more. It’s not on sale any more.”

There will be a $500 increase for resident undergraduate tuition and a $2,000 increase for non-resident undergraduate and graduate tuition at UA South.

The university will implement mandatory fees over the next two years, according to a memorandum Shelton sent to ABOR. Students will pay half the fee next year and the remaining portion the following year. It will cost students about $310 each academic year.

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Arizona freshman guard Momo Jones reflects on the 75-69 loss to UCLA Thursday in the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The Pacific 10 Conference Tournament first-round exit ended the Wildcats’ streak of 25 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances.

For the first time since 1985, Wildcats won’t play in the NCAA Tournament

By Vincent Balistreri ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT LOS ANGELES — Under the bright lights of the Staples Center, it was like a bad ending to a good movie as the nation’s longest NCAA Tournament streak came to an end on Thursday.

The Arizona men’s basketball program’s 25-year streak ended in a 75-69 loss to UCLA in the quarterfinals of the Pacific 10 ConferenceTournament, likely sending the Wildcats to the

National Invitation Tournament.

“It’s a terrible feeling. I never wanted to be a part of that ‘ending the streak’ team,” said freshman guard Momo Jones. “It’s not something where I want to look back and say I was a part of that team.”

UA head coach Sean Miller, ending his first season at Arizona with a 16-15 record, came short of reaching the Big Dance.

“Any coach who came to Arizona to make the NCAA Tournament for a

26th time is going to find he’s going to be a paranoid coach,” Miller said. “The reason I came to Arizona is to rebuild our program, and hopefully one day get it back to the level that everybody has watched.”

Throughout the season, Miller and his players alike said that they rarely talked about extending the streak, but as the players walked off the court with long faces and blank stares, it was HOOPS, page 6

$2M donated for UA scholarships Foundation chooses Arizona Assurance as school’s funding drops

By Laura E. Donovan ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation donated $2 million to the Arizona Assurance Scholarship Program.

“It’s a huge mistake morally and strategically to get into a situation in which you have to be from a wealthy background to pursue degree at the UA,” said Sarah Smallhouse, president of the Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation.

The Foundation decided that Arizona Assurance is the best option to mitigate the problems of rising tuition, she said.

Arizona Assurance is a scholarship for qualified in-state students. It gives “students from families earning up to $42,400 per year the opportunity to graduate in four years,” according to

the UA Financial Aid Web site.

Smallhouse also said that the Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation also chose to donate to Arizona Assurance after funding for education decreased.

“I don’t know why our legislatures don’t understand that the ramifications of what they’re doing are so devastating,” Smallhouse said.

The Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation would like to have students from underprivileged families be able to attend the UA if they wish to do so, Smallhouse said.

“The community is not deaf to students; we really do understand how bad this is,” she said.

Smallhouse said that the Arizona Assurance was the best option for the Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation

to support.

“In the prioritization of things, we really have to pay close attention to Arizona’s sons and daughters because they’re not getting any help from anyone else,” Smallhouse said when asked if the Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation would look into donating to a scholarship program applicable to out-of-state students.

The Thomas R. Brown Family Foundation has partnered with the University of Arizona Foundation, which manages gifts to the university and facilitates where donations go.

Jon Brown, director of communications for the UA Foundation, said he is not sure yet how many scholarships the donation will provide or how much each scholarship will offer students.

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From left, math senior Matthew Totlis, political science junior Steven Otero, pre-business freshman Chad Travis and sociology senior Nicole Pasteur join a rally in support of Proposition 100 as an alternative to tuition hikes on Thursday at the Student Union Memorial Center.

Students rally for one-cent tax raise

By Jennifer Koehmstedt ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Students rallied Thursday where supporters encouraged students to vote “Yes” on Proposition 100, which could prevent further cuts to university budgets.

The Students of Arizona’s University System joined with Solutions Through Higher Education, a non-profit public awareness initiative based in Phoenix, to provide information on Proposition 100 and how students can register to vote.

If passed, Proposition 100 would temporarily increase the state sales tax by one cent and could accumulate $1 billion for the state.

The one-cent increase would be equal to an 18-percent increase in state sales tax, according to Americans for Prosperity, Arizona.

Two-thirds of the profits from the increased sales tax would be allotted for public primary and secondary education, according to the Arizona Education Network.

The remaining third would pay for

health, human services and public safety. The increased sales tax would end automatically on May 31, 2013.

Brittany McMaster, project manager of Solutions Through Higher Education, said her organization is working to bring the state together on the issue of higher education.

“If (Proposition 100) doesn’t pass, it will trigger just immense cuts to higher education,” she said. “We think it’s important for the state, for everyone, to come together and support Prop 100 so that we can invest in education for our state.”

Chris Nagata , Associated Students of the University of Arizona president, said he was at the rally to support Solutions Through Higher Education and its efforts.

“We support this coalition partner because they are doing everything they can to rally support behind Prop 100,” he said. “That

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If you’ve been spending extended periods of time in a cave, a maximum security prison or the fourth floor of the Science and Engineering Library, you may not have heard: Next week is spring break. Cheers!

Scout it out

Today is Girl Scout Day and Middle Name Pride Day. Tomorrow is Donald Duck Day, Earmuffs Day and International Fanny Pack Day.

On the road (again)

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Today is the birthday of Jack Kerouac, Liza Minnelli, James Taylor and Edward Albee.

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Were you inconvenienced by the power outage Wednesday?

92%

on the spot Brother Bear

Yes (318 votes) No (22 votes, 6%)

worth noting

Yeah, it was pretty inconvenient that the power was on for my test. (7 votes, 2%)

New question: Are you suprised the hoops team’s 25-year streak is over?

News Tips

Derek Radcliffe

Psychology junior So, I’m sure you have seen all the white tents hanging around the Mall by now. Do you plan to go to the Tucson Festival of Books?

I might visit it. I worked it last year. I was Brother Bear. So, since I only saw it from inside a costume, this year I might just go and enjoy the festivities.

Brother Bear? How did you get wrangled into that?

Eh, I worked for the Bookstore. I actually fought to be a character since I was required to work anyway. It seemed a lesser of all the evils.

What’d you do as Brother Bear?

I walked around, danced, gave people hugs, took a lot of pictures and signed autographs. You know, the usual for a 5-foot-8inch animated bear.

You could have used that disguise to your advantage. You know, go up to girls you thought were cute.

I could have but did not. It was a matter of professionalism.

So, you are always about the professionalism?

(Laughs.) Not always.

There were some fun behind-the-scenes antics that took place.

Tell me about one of these.

Well, there might be a photo of me giving someone the bird as Brother Bear. There just might. But you didn’t hear it from me.

Oh, what a great children’s lesson!

They got to learn sometime.

Wait! That makes me sound like a horrible person!

Naw, just real. It must have been hot in that costume.

It was, and with the first days of heat for the year. Let’s just say it wasn’t pleasant.

How long did you have to wear the costume?

It was an eight-hour day on both Saturday and Sunday, but they treated us costume dwellers really well. We could unmask during breaks.

Did you get to see any of the exhibits?

Not really. I mostly advertised for the Bookstore and took pictures. We had to be at certain places at specific times for character visitations so that the kids could take pictures with their beloved friends. So, I didn’t really get to see any of it. That’s why I might go this year.

Sounds like a fun weekend.

No comment.

—Dallas Williamson

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The seemingly chaotic bundle of wires sits in the lobby of the Math building, which houses several graphical models of geometric shapes and math functions. The wire bundle is among several 3-D models of geometric shapes and mathematical functions.

Mummy of Egypt’s monotheist pharaoh to return home CAIRO — The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt’s enduring mysteries — the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten’s mummy. The discovery could help fill out the picture of a fascinating era more than 3,300 years ago when Akhenaten embarked on history’s first attempt at monotheism.

During his 17-year rule, Akhenaten sought to overturn more than a millennium of Egyptian religion and art to establish

the worship of a single sun god. In the end, his bold experiment failed and he was eventually succeeded by his son, the young Tutankhamun, who rolled back his reforms and restored the old religion.

No one ever knew what became of the heretic pharaoh, whose tomb in the capital he built at Amarna was unfinished and whose name was stricken from the official list of kings.

Two years of DNA testing and CAT scans on 16 royal mummies conducted

by Egypt’s Supreme Council of

Antiquities, however, gave the firmest evidence to date that an unidentified mummy — known as KV55, after the number of the tomb where it was found in 1907 in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings — is Akhenaten’s.

The testing, whose results were announced last month, established that KV55 was the father of King Tut and the son of the Pharaoh Amenhotep III, a lineage that matches Akhenaten’s, according to inscriptions.

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•There are four cars and 11 light posts on the back of a $10 bill.

•The earliest known legal text was written by Ur Nammu in 2100 B.C. •Forty percent of McDonald’s’ profits come from Happy Meals.

•Some 160,000 people attempt suicide every year in France.

•Ninety-nine percent of the solar system’s mass is concentrated in the Sun. •The Union ironclad, Monitor, was the first U.S. ship to have a flushing toilet.

•The first time movie audiences were treated to a flushing toilet was in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 release Psycho.

•The oldest commercially marketed carbonated drink was Moxie, which became available in apothecaries as a medical tonic in 1876.

•The average American eats 114,000 Tootsie Rolls in his lifetime.

•Twenty-seven percent of U.S. male college students believe life is a meaningless existential hell.

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales

LONDON — Album lovers may rejoice a little at last: A British court says Pink Floyd, purveyor of iTunes-unfriendly concept records, cannot be unbundled.

The High Court ruled Thursday that record label EMI Group Ltd. can’t sell Pink Floyd tracks individually without the band’s permission. A judge said that the band’s contract applied both to physical albums and Internet sales.

Experts said the ruling offers another brick in the wall supporting artists’ control of their own work — and a boost for music fans dismayed by the power of online music retailers to slice and dice albums into individual tracks.

The ruling comes in a long-running legal case that saw Pink Floyd sue its record label, saying its contract prohibited selling songs “unbundled” from their original album setting.

Pink Floyd The band’s lawyer, Robert Howe, said the band was known for producing “seamless”pieces of music on albums like“The Dark Side of the Moon”and“The Wall”and wanted to retain artistic control.

EMI claimed the clause in the band’s contract — negotiated more than a decade ago, before the advent of iTunes and other online retailers — did not apply to Internet sales.

But judge Andrew Morritt backed the band, saying the contract protected“the artistic integrity of the albums”in both physical and online form.

He ruled that EMI is “not entitled to exploit recordings by online distribution or by any other means other than the complete original album without Pink Floyd’s consent.”

Thursday’s judgment is not the end of the case — merely a clarification on the part of the judge about what the band’s contract with EMI means.

The judge also ruled on a second issue: the level of royalties paid to the band. That section of the judgment was made in private after EMI argued the information was covered by commercial confidentiality.

EMI said the ruling was not an end to the complex case and that the judge’s decision was not an order to stop selling single Pink Floyd tracks. They were still available individually from iTunes on Thursday.

“There are further arguments to be heard, and the case will go on for some time,” an EMI spokeswoman said, on condition of anonymity in line with corporate policy.The label said it continued to sell Pink Floyd’s music “digitally and in other formats.”

Lawyers for the two sides refused to further clarify the matter.

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Biosphere 2 offers ‘Science Saturdays’ “Most everyone decides to stop by, even just to see what’s going on,” Henderson said.

The next “Science Saturdays” event will The Biosphere 2 will be holding a series of feature the Physics Factory, a team of academics weekend events geared at providing visitors and scientists who host hands-on programs to with a hands-on science experience. demonstrate various physical forces at work.

The events, dubbed “Science Saturdays,” will Other upcoming events in the series include be on a variety of scientific topics being re- presentations by the Fin Foundation, and a searched at the Biosphere. discussion on Sonoran Desert Discovery will “Our goal is to really try and get people who round out the month of March. pass through the Biosphere to get involved The Biosphere 2 also offers a weekly scientific with the science here,” said lecture series called “Let’s Talk Whitney Henderson, a research Science,” which also takes place on technician at the Biosphere 2.

Saturdays at noon.

“We want to not only raise pub“Unlike the Science Saturdays, Biosphere 2 “Science lic awareness about what goes these are designed to be more Saturdays” presents on out here but to actively try a general audience lecture,” and bridge the gap between our The Physics Factory Adamson said.“But we encourage scientists and the public.” all of our speakers to make it as Biosphere 2 Since the university took over interactive as possible, and usually Saturday control of Biosphere 2 in 2007, one the crowd has a lot of questions of the main focuses of the site has for them.”

11 a.m. - 2 p.m. been to increase public outreach Presently, the lecture series Students: $10 and awareness of the science that is framed around the theme of General admission: $20 “extreme water,” with each lecture occurs there. Matt Adamson, the senior program coordinator at featuring university faculty experts Biosphere 2, says that “Science Saturdays,” as well talking about hydrology, drought and other wateras several other regular events, represent Biosphere related topics.

2’s dedication to that part of their mission.

“Both the lecture series and the Science “One of the official mission statements for Saturday programs are a supplemental tour Biosphere 2 is to ‘increase the public’s scientific experience,” Adamson said. “We want anyone literacy,’” Adamson said. “It’s a really neat place who comes here to have fun, to have those ‘Gee to visit even if you’re not into science, and it’s whiz’ moments and, most of all, experience some definitely our goal to try and get people who fantastic programs from an interdisciplinary may otherwise not be interested to come and scientific perspective.” experience what we have to offer.”

All “Science Saturdays” presentations are Both Henderson and Adamson estimated that included in the cost of tour admission, which is half to three-quarters of Biosphere 2 visitors stop $20 for individuals. The next program will be held to observe the “Science Saturdays” events. The March 13 with regular programs running until peak season in the spring involves about several the end of the semester. The “Let’s Talk Science” hundred people. lecture series will run weekly until April 3.

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UA President Robert Shelton sits at the Arizona Board of Regents meeting in the North Ballroom of the Student Union Memorial Center on Thursday. “These are challenging times that require difficult decisions,” he said of the 20-percent tuition increase for the 2010-11 school year.

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$150 Campus Health and Recreation Fee passed

of $160 per academic year. Of that, $90 will go Vito said students who live in student housing towards sustaining the libraries, and $70 will graduate at higher rates and have better go towards “priority information technology grades. The university’s request to increase needs,” the memorandum said. the rates for residence halls passed eight to There is also a $150 Health and Recreation one. Residence hall rates were raised by about Fee per academic year. Most of the money will 7 percent across the board. support Campus Health Services.

“Last year, the UA campus went through The current Campus Recreation Center a major reorganization that included Program Fee will continue, with $3 per the formation of new colleges, schools semester. and departments through mergers and Based on the increases in tuition and fees, the administrative reorganizations. This year, only university estimates it will make approximately one new unit reorganization is proposed,” said $45.5 million in net revenue, which will cover a UA Provost Meredith Hay. portion of the $100 million deficit the UA is facing.

The UA will set aside $1.8 $8,237 20-percent increase million of its revenue, or 17 Arizona resident percent, for financial aid.

Non-resident $24,596 10-percent increase “We are public $6,652 11-percent increase universities, but we are Arizona resident at South UA seeing the erosion of what Non-resident at South UA $24,382 10-percent increase that means,” said Regent Fred DuVal. The university has also cut about $40 million in $9,027 18-percent increase costs. Those figures would Arizona resident put the university $14.5 Non-resident $24,889 10-percent increase million short. Proposition $8,813 16-percent increase 100 might make up the Arizona resident at South UA difference.

Proposition Non-resident at South UA $24,675 10-percent increase 100 proposes a one-cent increase in state sales tax to support Arizona K-12 education.

Also approved was the UA’s academic All nine regents voted unanimously to strategic plan. The plan includes the formation increase tuition for students in the College of of the School of Theatre, Film and Television, Medicine. which is the merger of the current School of “I have dream that, one day, this board Theatre Arts and School of Media Arts — will decrease tuition,” said ABOR President both in the College of Fine Arts — and the Ernest Calderón. renaming of the School of Asian, Classical and Vice President for Student Affairs Melissa European Studies to the School of International Vito, talked about the importance of residence Languages, Literatures and Cultures. halls Thursday afternoon, saying that the The motion was passed unanimously.

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Schools should permit same-sex prom dates

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classmate told lesbian Constance McMillen that she ruined her senior year.

A Mississippi school district canceled McMillen’s senior prom rather than allow her to take her girlfriend as a date and wear a tuxedo.

The American Civil Liberties Union told the school district that a policy banning Laura Donovan same-sex prom dates violated Columnist students’ rights.

Forbidding McMillen from donning a tuxedo violated her free expression rights, according to a March 11 Associated Press report.

Believe it or not, classmates were furious with McMillen, even though she was the one who faced discrimination.

Students approached McMillen with resentment and bitterness. They couldn’t go to prom because McMillen spoke out against her school. It would be presumptuous to think that all of McMillen’s classmates blamed her for this incident, but it’s disheartening to know that McMillen was the subject of even minimal harassment in the aftermath of this event.

Why would schoolmates automatically fault McMillen, who was just trying to exercise her right to attend prom? So what if she wanted to take another girl?

A Feb. 5 memo to students laid out the rules for prom dates, and one requirement was that the person must be of the opposite sex.

Women all over the country take other females to prom, and this doesn’t always mean that they’re lesbians. Girls escort each other to homecoming, dances and prom if they’re single and don’t want to go alone.

If you’re a young lady in high school, it can really sting if no one asks you to prom.

Close girl friends can take each other and not feel so upset about the fact that they didn’t attend with a significant other or considerate male friend. Those who do go to prom as legitimate lesbians and gays should be treated the same as heterosexual couples.

The school district seemed to be more concerned with the fact that McMillen asked to sport a tuxedo instead of a prom dress.

Even if McMillen wanted to essentially cross dress, she would be hurting no one with this decision. Students have the option of averting their eyes if a woman dressed in a suit truly disturbs them.

If that’s enough to upset a group of people, they should travel to San Francisco, New York or another metropolis and actually expose themselves to the gay lifestyle. Then they would they see that homosexuals can be some of the most compassionate, nice individuals on this planet, and they’ve become this way because they know what adversity is like, and they try to be understanding and warm in an unforgiving world.

It’s truly a shame that McMillen had to miss out on her prom, which is something that everyone hears about and imagines throughout childhood. At age 10, could McMillen have guessed that she’d one day be denied a prom based on her sexual identity and desire to wear nontraditional attire?

More than likely, the school prom was canceled because the district didn’t want to deal with freedom of expression violations for one student, so they canned the event entirely. Instead of approaching her with sympathy, her classmates scolded McMillen because they couldn’t have a prom, and they felt robbed. They should have instead questioned the values of their institution.

McMillen didn’t even want to go back to her high school and face the other students, but her father encouraged her to stay strong and endure, and she has been doing just that.

Schools all over the country should, without hesitation, authorize same-sex prom dates. Sure, the gay community isn’t accepted everywhere, and perhaps certain parts of the country would be uncomfortable with homosexual public displays of affection, but this is something that everyone must get over. It’s deplorable enough that the majority of the states do not allow gay marriage, and it’s astounding that some places can’t even let two girls to go to prom together. So much for a socially evolved society.

MAILBAG Popularity contested

Finally, the popularity contest that is the ASUA senatorial race has concluded. Now my Facebook news feed can be saved from the constant “vote for (insert name here)” status updates and group invites. Once again, I can hear about that horse stable somebody built on FarmVille or those fantastic heart gifts. No longer do I have to be told to vote for someone because they’re a “great person.” I can once again walk down the halls of my dorm without hearing a candidate whining about an editorial that was critical of his campaign “platform.”

However, I must congratulate the winning candidates; you have all done a superb job of pulling the friend card and showing masterful use of social networking. Your three-word campaign posters and irrelevant witty slogans, like “sax appeal”, were most effective in taking you “Myles” and capturing the vote of the mundane. Their undying allegiance to your campaigns is incredible and concerning, all at the same time. Again, I say congratulations on recognizing that this race was about who could accrue the most hits on his Facebook group

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Mason Storm Byrd Political science freshman

Professor says

In the face of unprecedented increases in tuition and fees for the coming year, it is urgent for students at all three state universities to unite to resolve the problem at its source: the Arizona legislature. Marshall Vest, director of economic and business research in the Eller College of Management, has shown that the present budget shortfall, which threatens the stability of the universities themselves, would be almost completely eliminated if the state income tax had not been cut from the rates in effect in 2000 to their present level. In other words, no tuition and fee increases would be needed, nor other cuts in state support and services (parks, K-12 education, etc.) required, if tax rates were simply restored to

CHATTER Be safe, have fun over Spring Break

1. If you’re going to do something embarrassing, don’t wear USC gear. We don’t need a repeat of “Borat.”

2. Don’t drink the (tape)worm, enough said.

3. Don’t get sunburned on your first day.

Sunscreen is a good thing. You can even ask someone good-looking to put it on for you.

4. Don’t get arrested. If you do, make sure you send copies of your mugshot to your friends.

5. If you’re going to be home, hit up the nearest college. Just remember to represent your school — no party fouls.

6. Use protection. Condoms protect from some STDs. Mace protects from all STDs. 7. Go ahead and hook up with foreigners.

Just make sure they’re not foreign exchange students attending USC. 8. Have a DD. No, that doesn’t stand for designated drunk.

9. Watch your drink. Roofies aren’t a normal ingredient in margaritas.

10. Fist pump as much as possible. But watch where you point that thing.

Whether you choose to relax, celebrate or catch up on the work you’ve been pushing off, The Daily Gamecock wishes our readers a safe and fun spring break By the South Carolina Daily Gamecock Editorial Board , March 11

Prepare yourself over break for zombie attack

Yes, they’re back. That’s right, the zombies are back! Oh, and the humans, too, so make sure you stretch those limbs and get ready to dash around the campus shooting your Nerf guns at unsuspecting zombies. If you’re not participating in the battle, prepare to watch some good, clean fun.

The spring edition of“Humans vs. Zombies” will start after Spring Break on March 23 and run through March 27. We are excited to see this game take over Purdue’s campus once again. It’s a great way for a community of students, faculty and staff to come together and enjoy a friendly game in which people can make new friends, not to mention act like they’re kids again. To the nay-sayers: This is just a fun game that

—Laura Donovan is a creative writing senior.

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page. Now, the real challenge has arrived: representing 40,000+ students. I hope candycoated platforms of Gandhi quotes and “ABCs” have something under that chocolate shell.

their 2000 level.

With elections for state legislators coming this fall, the opportunity is at hand for students to reverse the tuition increases beyond next year by uniting to work for the election of candidates who support education and are willing to restore taxes to their 2000 level. While individuals can do little, if each in-state student at all three universities were to convince parents, parents’ friends and alumni acquaintances to become active in insisting that candidates for the legislature be willing to support education by eliminating tax cuts of the past decade, the combined efforts would have a tsunami effect in changing the budgetary situation in the state for the next fiscal year and beyond.

As Patrick Henry famously said, “United we stand, divided we fall.” The solution is simple.

Concerted student effort can save the future of education in the state in one election. With Spring Break at hand, the time to act is now, before it is too late.

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brings about campus camaraderie and unity.

It’s not detrimental to anyone involved, or any bystanders for that matter.

Kevin Barlow, the president of the group organizing and moderating the weeklong event, says the event brings the whole campus together.

“You see people from all different majors, who have never met before, working together as a team to accomplish a goal. But even those who don’t participate are brought together by the event,”Barlow said.“Everyone from students to staff to faculty knows about it, and they get to enjoy sharing stories and being part of a campus that is full of people who are both going to school and having fun.”

As an estimated 2,000 students, who will be split into three main factions with each having their own missions, skillfully slip in and out of campus buildings, we will be applauding our campus’ efforts to have recess-like fun once again.

These students will“make an otherwise normal school week exciting and fun,”as Barlow put it.

Two of our own editorial board members will be joining the battle, so stay tuned for updates, and join us in enjoying the spectacle that is about to ensue. Our last word of advice?

Beware of bathrooms if you’re trying to remain a human: Those zombies are wily minxes who will attack even while you’re on the pot.

By the Purdue University Exponent Editorial Board , March 11

A sobering tale

On Wednesday, searchers found the body of a 39-year-old woman who disappeared Monday near Munds Park in northern Arizona after leaving to take her dog on a walk.

According to The Arizona Republic, Tanya Morris was discovered fewer than two miles from where her car was parked, and sheriff’s officials believe she died from exposure to the elements.

Earlier this month, a 17-year-old high school senior named Chelsea King went missing while jogging in a park north of San Diego, and the country watched as dozens of searchers combed a four-mile area on the shore of Lake Hodges, according to ABC News. Her body was found six days after she went missing, and convicted sex offender John Albert Gardner III is being held on suspicion of rape and first-

degree murder in the case.

Chandra Levy. Laci Peterson. Natalee Holloway.

These stories are far more common than they should be.

Tragedy does not strike those who deserve it — victims of violent and senseless crime do not head out for the night expecting to find disaster. Similarly, those who die in accidents are victims of just that — an accident.

Although these are examples of missing women and outstanding tragedy, their stories are further proof (in case we needed any) that every human life is precious and utterly fragile.

Contrary to the average college student’s belief, we are not invincible.

For a generation that participates in rituals like 21 shots on a 21st birthday and finds blacking out to be funny (see textsfromlastnight.com), today’s youth are playing the odds when it comes to their lives, and the stakes are just too high.

As you head off to Mexico, California, Mill Avenue or wherever else you’re spending spring break, remember to bring your common sense along for the ride. Despite what the Nevada tourism industry would have you believe, what happens in Vegas does not always stay there.

Alcohol is an accelerant for dangerous situations — as people who scour through police reports on a daily basis for story ideas, take our word for that.

In State Press stories this semester, we’ve seen a drunken box-cutter stabbing, sexual assault aided by date rape drugs and a plethora of alcohol-related infractions on or around campus.

And all that’s been when school was in session.

We don’t mean to say that fun equals bad or alcohol is the root of all evil, but how much spring break frivolity is worth your life? A good rule of thumb is not to gamble what you’re not willing to lose.

Maybe you’re laughing right now, maybe you’re shaking your head and maybe you’re saying that we just don’t get it. But maybe you’ll think — and that just may save your life.

By the Arizona State University State Press Editorial Board, March 10

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By Bridgette Doran ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Partygoers beat security with beer

University of Arizona Police Department officers were called to the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on Monday at 12:08 a.m. after people at the fraternity party reported a possible fight.

While one of the police officers was placing the suspects into custody near Tyndall Avnue and Second Street., another was speaking with the victims at the fraternity house at 1011 N. Tyndall Ave. Two men said they were working as bouncers from TNT Security for the party, when a man tried to leave the party holding an open can of beer.

When one of the bouncers told him he could not leave with the beer, the man splashed the beer on the security guard. He grabbed a hold of the guard, and the guard grabbed him back.

The other bouncer went outside with the two of them to try and help make the man leave. As he was helping to break up the scuffle, a woman who had been trying to leave with the man grabbed a full can of beer and used it to punch the bouncer in the chin just below his mouth and then kicked him in the genitals.

Just after she kicked him, the woman got behind the bouncer and hit him in the back of his head with her purse.

She then came up behind him and hit him twice with a plastic folding chair.

Both of the bouncers told the officers that after they had been assaulted by the man, the woman and two others, the assailants ran south on Tyndall Avenue.

Another officer took pictures of the men’s injuries which included a bloody lip and tongue, a half-inch cut on the back of the head and a 1/4-inch cut on the other man’s head.

The security guards stated that they wanted to press charges.

The assaulting parties were found trying to get into an SUV on Second Street and Tyndall Avenue.

The officer identified one of the women as a UA volleyball player. The other man and woman who had assaulted the bouncers were visiting the students from California.

As the woman who had thrown the beer can was being handcuffed, she got very aggressive. The student became angry and said that she was a law student and knew her and her sister ’s rights.

When the officer was walking toward the driver’s side to leave, the student walked over to where her sister was sitting and opened up the door, trying to let her out.

The woman was also placed in handcuffs.

Eventually, the victims decided not to press charges, and the women were released. A Code of Conduct referral was sent to the Dean of Students for the student.

Man runs from police because of mushrooms

A UAPD officer went to the Cherry Street Parking Garage on Monday at 12:32 a.m. because another officer reported a suspicious person in the garage.

The other officer already at the garage said the man was running across the third level of the garage towards the north stairwell.

While the officers were trying to position themselves at the exits of the garage, the man was seen running up the stairs to the Optical Sciences building.

The officer saw the man run through a planter and jump down behind a wall to hide.

Because the officer could not see the man’s hands, he took out his handgun and aimed it at the man’s body and yelled for him to show his hands.

The man immediately threw his hands in the air, and he dropped his cell phone.

After the man was put into handcuffs, the officer could smell a strong odor of marijuana on him.

When the officers searched the area, the man was seen in a car, and, inside, they found and small plastic baggie containing marijuana and a plastic bag with psilocybin mushrooms inside.

The marijuana weighed 0.1 grams, and the mushrooms were sent to the Department of Public Safety for testing.

The man was arrested and booked into Pima County Jail for possession of marijuana, possession of a dangerous drug, possession of drug paraphernalia and second-degree criminal trespassing.

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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Facing the NIT

HOOPS

Heads hang heavy in loss to UCLA

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OS ANGELES — Fans felt the divine right to poke fun at college basketball’s loser’s bracket, the NIT, for 25 years.

“Never In Tucson,”they called it.

A quarter century of sustained postseason consistency became Arizona’s biggest selling point to recruits, the best bragging right for fans and a last grip on national prestige.

“Every kid knows,”said UA freshman Momo Jones about The Streak. “You hear about it, you read about it, you see it on TV, and that’s what you want. I have no doubt in my mind everyone coming in here wanted that. But it didn’t happen, so you have to move on.”

Just like that.

Arizona’s streak of 25 consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances concluded innocently, was mourned appropriately and became history effectively Thursday afternoon in the heart of southern California.

The Wildcats fell to UCLA 75-69 in the first round of the Pacific 10 Conference Tournament — their last shot-of-disparity attempt at winning three games in three days for an automatic bid to the Big Dance.

They stumbled out of the gate from the first minute.

One and done.

Done and gone.

“It’s kind of like second nature — you’d thought you’d be in the tournament,”said UA freshman Solomon Hill.“It just kind of sucks when the tradition is stopped.”

All senior Nic Wise needed was one word to articulate the emotional burden he endured by leading the team that snapped a generational bond between fans old and young.

“Disappointment,”he wrote on Twitter, a medium of expression probably nonexistent in 1985.

That’s the position Jamelle Horne is slated to overtake by default next season as another lone senior.

Is he ready?

“Absolutely. I just don’t want to feel what Nic is feeling right now, man,” he said.

So, what’s the past tense of streak? Is it struck? Stroke? It feels more like a swift sendoff now starting Arizona basketball’s 2010-11 preseason conditioning camp that some will call the National Invitational Tournament.

The Wildcats should earn a bid based on program reputation alone, but according to NIT-ology, even the consultation bracket considers them on the bubble.

The games would give Sean Miller a few more opportunities to tweak lineups, experiment with sets and, most of all, improve continuity as a whole. His big-picture attitude would certainly embrace any chance at further making this team a real contender for the 2011-12 season.

Reflect on the last 25 years: UABasketballStreak.com Colin Darland/Arizona Daily Wildcat

Arizona freshman forward Derrick Williams fights off UCLA defenders during the Wildcats’ 75-69 loss in the Staples Center on Thursday. For the first time since 1985 the Wildcats appear to be headed to the NIT rather than the NCAA Tournament.

It was easy for players to crown the regular season a success from the standpoint of player development: Derrick Williams, Kevin Parrom, Jones and even Kyle Fogg as of late.

A few games — possibly even on the road — would elevate this team even further, right?

It can’t hurt.

Parrom paused a few moments before deciding his stance on the NIT Tournament:“I’d rather go somewhere than go back home and not play anything. I just look at this as a learning experience for every game.”

He shares the same it-can’t-hurt mindset the rest of the team does.

And, with other national powers

like Connecticut and North Carolina potentially in the same bracket, the NIT might even find unusual exposure.

“It’s still another game,”Jones said.“We can’t look at (the NIT) as,‘Oh, it’s a lower tournament,’or whatever the case may be. It’s another game. It’s great teams.”

Now, the Wildcats can return to regular games and not worry about pressures of carrying a backpack full of tradition along the road.

Take the group of six fans in Staples Center wearing T-shirts that said“The Streak Matters”for instance.

For whom did the streak matter on this current roster? Did it matter to Miller, who was 16 years old the last time Arizona failed to make the NCAA

Tournament, just learning how to drive a car in Pennsylvania?

Or did it matter to someone from the Bronx, N.Y., who doesn’t allow easy buckets anywhere?

“I didn’t know about The Streak until I came here and I heard about it,” Parrom said.“We’re trying to build our own dynasty. We’re not worrying about the past.

“It didn’t affect me. I’m just trying to build my own dynasty as a team.”

That’s what matters.

— Bryan Roy is an interdisciplinary studies junior. Reach him at sports@wildcat.arizona.edu.

continued from page 1 as the players walked off the court with long faces and blank stares, it was obvious what The Streak meant to the team — not to mention the entire Tucson community.

“We talked about it sometimes and we knew we had a lot work to do,” Jones said. “We weren’t the team that had four or five seniors that could lead the way and teach all the young guys the ropes. Everybody was young and learning coach Miller’s system and (senior) Nic Wise didn’t even know what to expect.”

The disappointment lingered around the locker room after the game as players tried to come to grips with the fact that The Streak was over.

“We knew it would be tough. A whole new system, a whole new staff again,” said point guard Nic Wise , the team’s only senior. “With the five freshmen, it would be a mountain to climb for us to the tournament.”

The Wildcats, who swept the Bruins in the regular season, started the game off slowly just as they had last Thursday against the Bruins. But this time, Arizona was unable to get the second-half push it needed.

Each time it seemed that the Wildcats would break out, the Bruins found a way to answer.

“It was very frustrating; that was the tale of the game,” said forward Jamelle Horne . “We just couldn’t come up with a stop or a rebound.

We couldn’t find a bucket, so it was really tough.”

Horne finished the game with only three points, shooting 1-for-4 from the field and fouling out with 7:56 remaining in the game.

UCLA big man Reeves Nelson , who didn’t play during the teams’ last meeting in McKale Center, made the difference in the first half, scoring 12 of his game-high 19 points and adding 10 rebounds.

The Bruins killed the Wildcats in transition, pushing the ball at every opportunity.

“In the end, it was (Nelson, Nikola Dragovic and Michael Roll ) that we didn’t really have an answer for,” Miller said. “And uncharacteristic for UCLA, I thought they really got out in transition and got some easy ones, and that hurt us.”

Miller said that he expects better results in his second year.

“I’m confident that (with) the price that we pay through 31 games and the 80-plus practices that we’ve had, it is a system that will continue to grow and develop,” Miller said.

“Young players will get bigger, stronger and older, and the more depth and size that we add certainly will help.”

When Miller was asked whether he was ready to start his own streak, he gave a simple answer.

“That’s my only choice,” he said.

Jones guarantees bright future, new legacy

By Bryan Roy ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

LOS ANGELES — Not even a regular-season-ending loss could put a damper on Momo Jones’ confidence.

Always candid and eager to succeed, the UA freshman said Thursday’s loss to UCLA didn’t compromise Sean Miller’s big picture.

Jones promised something to make UA fans happy and hecklers even happier.

“People before us made that legacy and we just got to try to continue that on. Unfortunately we’re not going to make (the NCAA Tournament) this year but I guarantee that were going to get back there next year,” Jones said.

Jones finished with seven points in 20 minutes Thursday against the Bruins.

“The future of our team is bright.

We just got to continue to work what we have,” he added. “We will have an advantage over a lot of young players who maybe didn’t play this year or maybe played a little bit.”

Former head coach Lute Olson’s legacy finally closed

An awkward retirement brought little closure to Olson’s legacy in Tucson.

The architect himself took a number of steps — and missteps — late in his career, falling short of a storybook farewell.

The university held banquets, ceremonies and honors all commemorating his 24-year career at Arizona, but Olson’s most notable accomplishment became the program’s go-to sales pitch: a 25-season NCAA

Tournament appearance streak most just called “The Streak.”

It all ended Thursday.

Consider it the closure of closures.

Arizona fell to UCLA in the first round of the Pacific 10 Conference Tournament.

Victory in the tournament would have been the Wildcats’ last chance to secure an NCAA Tournament bid.

Olson’s fingerprints have finally been erased from those who wear the uniforms and those who keep the record books.

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Actor Bill Murray was in attendance with his own fan club: a group of UA fans wearing his same visor and spiked hairstyle.

Bill Murray’s son Luke Murray is on Miller’s staff. Despite sanctions prohibiting the Trojans from postseason play, Staples Center still displayed the USC banner along with the nine other Pac-10 teams.

THEY SAID IT: Solomon Hill: I love playing in the NIT. I want to play with Nic Wise a couple more games.

I know guys are going to have their heads down about the situation, but another game is another game.

Kevin Parrom:

I don’t look at it as frustrated, I just look at it as us getting better for next year. I don’t see frustrated.

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From left: Arizona basketball players Kyryl Natyazhko, Kevin Parrom, Jamelle Horne and Brendon Lavender look on in disappointment during the Wildcats’ NCAA Tournament streak-ending loss to UCLA in the Staples Center on Thursday.

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Arizona softball left fielder Brittany Lastrapes trots toward home plate as her teammates celebrate after one of her three home runs during the Wildcats’ 13-0 victory against St. John’s at Hillenbrand Stadium.

Lastrapes’ three homers lead ’Cats

Fowler returns to the circle for softball as offense blasts past St. John’s in third inning

By Kevin Zimmerman Arizona Daily Wildcat When Brittany Lastrapes is on, it’s hard to turn the Arizona softball team off.

The Wildcats rode the leadoff hitter’s three home runs — which tied an Arizona record for home runs in a game — and seven RBIs to a 13-0 victory against the St. John’s University Red Storm on Thursday night at Hillenbrand Stadium.

“I was just overly impressed tonight with Lastrapes,” head coach Mike Candrea said. “I asked her what she ate and she said a sausage burrito.

I said, ‘Well bring them for everyone tomorrow.’”

With a full count during the first Arizona at-bat, Lastrapes knocked St. John’s pitcher Linzee Sumrall’s throw off the top of the center field wall, giving Candrea a little of what he’s been looking for — an early inning jump-start.

“I think a lot of it is just your focus,” Candrea said of his team’s sluggish starts. “You can’t take a broad focus and keep a broad focus and then come game-time expect to turn it on.”

Designated hitter Matte Haack reached first on a fielder’s choice and advanced to second base after right fielder Karissa Buchanan was walked. Lastrapes hit a chopper to St. John’s second baseman, who fielded the ball

cleanly but lost control before her throw to first. Haack scored an unearned run on the error, resulting in a 2-0 Arizona lead after two innings.

Freshman Brigette Del Ponte extended her hitting streak to six games with a hit in the bottom of the Wildcats’ explosive, sixrun third inning. The third baseman advanced shortstop K’Lee Arredondo to second base on the single, setting up another score on a botched catch.

The Red Storm ended the evening with three errors and could not threaten pitching ace Kenzie Fowler, who returned from a knee injury. The freshman pitcher gave up four hits in the full five-inning, run-ruled game, also recording five strikeouts.

“I was a little rusty, I think, in the first couple of innings,”Fowler said.“I feel like I’ve taken a month off, but I got back into it.”

Second baseman Kristen Arriola followed up Arizona’s third run with a triple off the center field wall, driving in Del Ponte and Haack. Buchanan, returning to the lineup after battling an illness, knocked in Arriola with an RBI single to put the Wildcats’ lead at six runs.

She then stole second base, putting Sumrall in a bind — back at the top of the batting order. Lastrapes blasted a tworun shot to center field to give Arizona an 8-0 advantage before the end of the third inning.

“My biggest thing I was doing

last weekend off the exact same pitcher is I kept popping up because I was playing off the ball,” Lastrapes said. “Before she was going to pitch, I was like, ‘Stay close, stay close.’”

Her three homers gave Lastrapes the team lead with seven bombs on the year.

Catcher Stacie Chambers hit her fifth home run of the season in the bottom of the fourth inning, and after consecutive singles and a walk, Lastrapes cleared the bases with a grand slam to give the Red Storm a daunting 13-0 deficit.

Candrea said the team now must start focusing on improving toward May and June. That means bringing its best even against sub-par opponents.

“We talked a little about preparation in the batting cage and the things you’re doing to get yourself ready,” Candrea said.

“We’ve got a lot of young kids that I don’t think quite understand what’s in store for them down the road.”

Extra innings Sophomore catcher Lini Koria wasn’t present following the death of her mother.

“It’s been really really hard,” Lastrapes said of Koria. “It’s hard to see her locker everyday. We’re trying to stay strong for her.”

The Arizona women’s soccer team added a new member to its coaching staff on Thursday — former North Carolina soccer standout Danielle Sunderhaus.

Sunderhaus will assume assistant coaching duties, joining Arizona head coach Lisa Oyen and associate head coach John Galas on the Wildcats’ staff.

“We are extremely excited about the addition of Danielle to our staff and program, Oyen said in a press release. “She is a fantastic role model and mentor for our student athletes.

She has been guided by the top coaches in the women’s game and exposed to a variety of styles of play, so her knowledge of women’s soccer is

incredibly impressive.”

Sunderhaus played a big role on a North Carolina team that won national championships in 1999 and 2000. In 101 starts during her fouryear career with the Tar Heels, she recorded five goals and 18 assists.

Sunderhaus played in the US women’s soccer national team system from 1996-2000 and competed in the Women’s United Soccer Association from 2002-2003. She also has experience as a volunteer coach at UNC and a personal trainer at Treyburn Country Club in Durham, N.C. “She has proven that she knows what it takes to succeed,” Oyen said, “and we are thrilled about the knowledge and passion for the game that Danielle will bring to our program.”

Women’s swim and dive heads to NCAAs

By Derek Lawrence Arizona Daily Wildcat

While some Arizona students will be on the beaches of Mexico during Spring Break, the UA women’s swim and dive team will still be in work mode, attempting to win its second NCAA National Championship in three years on March 18 in West Lafayette, Ind. The women’s team had an up-and-down dual meet season, with high points including a home win over then No. 1 Texas, and low points including a sweep at the hands of conference rivals California and Stanford.

The team is also coming off a fourth-place finish at the Pacific 10 Conference Championships, but the

women don’t believe that their finish at the Pac-10s is telling of their future performance.

“We’ve been struggling a bit, and everyone has counted us out, but that’s fine with us,” said senior Ana Agy. “Our best performances are yet to come.”

The team is currently deep into its preparation for the NCAAs, as the practice workload has been scaled back and the swimmers have gone into full taper mode. The swimming distances have also been cut down as the team focuses more on speed.

While many of the Pac-10 teams started tapering for the conference championships, the Arizona coaches only have their swimmers taper for the national championships.

A big advantage of the tapering program used by

head coach Frank Busch is that it saves the team’s rest for this time of the year right before nationals. The team basically over-trains during the dual meet season and conference championships, but, when they taper before the NCAAs, the swimmers feel refreshed and capable of top-notch races.

“We all have faith in the program and our coaches,” Agy said. “Right now, I’m pretty excited about where my swimming is, and my body is ready to race.”

Agy is part of a remarkable senior class; it is the largest in the team’s history and the first one to ever send a full team to nationals. The class will now try to win a championship and go out with a bang.

“It would be a pictureperfect ending,” Agy said.

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Arizona races to Fayetteville for NCAA Championship Track and field team sends eight athletes, two of whom are seniors, to compete for national indoor titles

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Arizona baseball freshman reliever Tyler Hale delivers a pitch during the Wildcats’ extra-inning 8-7 victory against Cal State, Fullerton at Sancet Stadium on March 5. The Wildcats host Northern Colorado in a three-game series this weekend.

Busy break for baseball

By Mike Schmitz Arizona Daily Wildcat After playing nine games in the last 13 days, Spring Break would be a reasonable time for the Arizona baseball team to catch its collective breath. But the youngest team in the Pacific 10 Conference will keep its foot on the gas, as the Wildcats (8-4) will play eight games in the next 10 days, starting with a three-game series against Northern Colorado this weekend at Frank Sancet Stadium.

The Wildcats will then host Wichita State in a two-game series on Tuesday and Wednesday, before facing Sacramento State for a three-game series next weekend.

Arizona won its last four games, but Pacific 10 Conference play is exactly two weeks away, and the Wildcats are still searching for some answers.

“We’re still trying to settle in with some things,”said head coach Andy Lopez.

The main “things” include solidifying the closer’s role and finding a No. 3 starting pitcher.

Sophomore left-hander Bryce Bandilla will get a shot as a weekend starter against Northern Colorado after sophomore Kyle Simon was recently summoned to long relief.

Lopez deemed Bandilla “very impressive”in his three innings against St. Joseph’s. The hard-throwing lefty

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struck out five batters in a row against the Hawks and currently boasts a 4.00 ERA and a 2-1 record in five appearances out of the bullpen.

As for the closer’s role, freshman Tyler Hale, who has a 0-1 record and a 5.84 ERA, appears to be the favorite.

“I think Hale’s going to be our closer,”Lopez said after the team swept St. Joseph’s on Wednesday. “He’s got good enough stuff to close.”

Although Northern Colorado (5-6), Wichita State (9-1) and Sacramento State (5-6) are nothing like the competition the Wildcats will face in Pac-10 play, the next 10 days facilitate the perfect time for Arizona to tie up loose ends.

But one thing that doesn’t need much of an upgrade is the Arizona offense.

The Wildcats have posted a combined 39 runs in the last three games and hit .470 as a team in two games against Saint Joseph’s.

The team has six everyday players hitting over .330 and two over .440.

The bats are alive for the Wildcats, but the team is still young, and another eight games will undoubtedly help speed up the maturation process.

“We’re young, but guys are getting older as the season proceeds,” said senior first baseman Rafael Valenzuela.

“We just need to keep playing good baseball. We’re going to be alright during Pac-10.”

After the next 10 days, the Wildcats would have played 14 games in the last 20 days — all at home. But the only way a squad with 17 freshmen and 21 newcomers can grow is through experience. For now, the team is almost where Lopez wants it.

“It’s getting closer for me personally,” he said of the team’s development. “I’m starting to get a little bit better feel for what’s going to happen at (certain positions).”

Pac-10 at a glance Team ASU UCLA Washington State California Oregon State Arizona Oregon Stanford Washington USC

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By Galo Mejia Arizona Daily Wildcat For eight Arizona athletes, this weekend’s NCAA Indoor National Championship meet at Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark., is the last indoor meet of the season. But for two seniors, it is the last meet of their indoor career.

“It’s sad that I don’t have any more NCAA competitions, but I really enjoyed my time here,” said senior Luis Rivera-Morales, who is seeded sixth in the men’s long jump.

However, Luis and his fellow seniors won’t let any emotions ruin the competition.

“I don’t feel nervous. I’m excited about the competition,” RiveraMorales said. “I feel like I have a really good opportunity to win.”

Senior Liz Patterson, who is seeded first in the women’s high jump, will also be enjoying her last indoor go-around. Freshman Brigetta Barrett finished ahead of Patterson in the high jump the last time the two competed, and the two will face off again this weekend.

“It’s a competition. She wants to do well, and I want to do well,” Patterson said. “We’re both here to do the best we can. It’s always nice to jump with a teammate. You have someone to cheer for.”

Redshirt sophomore Abdi Hassan will represent the Arizona distance squad. Hassan has been to a national championship before and is looking to repeat his success, as he’s ranked fifth in the men’s mile.

Out of the eight Arizona athletes competing, four are freshmen. Barrett, Julie Labonte,

Edgar Rivera-Morales and Nick Ross are all out to prove that age doesn’t matter.

“I don’t feel like a freshman. I feel like an athlete, like anyone else here,” Barrett said. “I want to walk away with a PR (personal record). That’s the only way to finish, with your best. I feel like even though I did well last time, right now nothing really matters, except for this weekend.”

Head coach Fred Harvey stressed the importance of having so many youngsters competing in a high level of competition.

“The more people we can get here at a younger age, the better experience they’ll have going to other championship meets,” he said. “It’s like I’ve always said, ‘It’s not an age thing. If you’re good, you’re good.’”

Jumping coach honored Arizona jumping coach Sheldon Blockburger recently won the Assistant Coach of the Year for the West region.

“It was an unexpected surprise.

If they gave us five team points for it, I’d have been happy. But they didn’t give us any points, so we have to go out and kick some butt,” Blockburger said. “I’d be more happy if we win three individual championships.”

Tennis to spring back over break

For the Arizona men’s tennis team, Spring Break happens in Montgomery, Ala., and the Wildcats couldn’t be more excited to play in the annual Blue Gray Tennis Classic.

To start off break, however, the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) No. 34-ranked Wildcats (7-4) will be in San Diego, Calif., to face No. 45 San Diego (7-2) on Friday and San Diego State (1-7) on Sunday.

The story of the week, though, is the prestigious, invite-only Blue Gray Tennis Classic in which the team will compete, starting on March 18.

“They do a beautiful job with the

event, and the whole town gets involved,” said men’s head coach Tad Berkowitz, who said he has been trying to earn an invite to the tournament for years.

Competition that includes schools such as No. 15 Texas Tech, No. 20 Oklahoma, No. 22 Fresno State, all the way down to No. 69 ranked Oklahoma State will provide serious challenges.

But, even after a tough stretch in which UA has lost three of four games, the Wildcats feel they are ready to come out of spring break with a successful trip to Alabama.

“That’s our opportunity to make our move,” Berkowitz said. “It’s an opportunity to play some different teams, see some different faces and

hopefully make a little bit of a run.”

Women open break with two matches, then have a week off

After a disappointing open to its Pacific 10 Conference schedule last week with losses to No. 16 Washington and No. 60 Washington State, the No. 59 Arizona women’s tennis team (8-4) is set to rebound in its matches before taking almost a two week break.

Returning home to LaNelle Robson Tennis Center this weekend, the Wildcats will face Pac-10 foe Oregon (5-9) on Saturday at noon and Memphis (6-11) at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday.

“We have a big job ahead of us against Memphis and Oregon, and that needs to be on our minds more

than the break,” said head coach Vicky Maes. “I feel we can relax a little if we can finish this first part of the season on a high note.”

Through the first part of the season, the Wildcats have been very successful, but their coach hopes to see the mental aspect of their game improve.

“The team is definitely in need of a break,” Maes said. “We have struggled in the past few weeks, and a couple of days away from it all may just recharge the batteries.”

Before they can even think about that, though, there are bigger tasks at hand — like picking up their first conference win of the season. In a stacked Pac-10 Conference, every single win is important, and the team understands that, especially

since it dives back into its conference schedule with matches against No. 8 California and No. 11 Stanford the weekend after Spring Break.

Quick hits

•Despite four losses in the season for the men, all of them have been against highly ranked teams. No. 15 Texas Tech, No. 29 Denver, No. 32 Alabama and No. 36 Nebraska are all teams that have posted a loss for the Wildcats.

• The women dropped 20 spots in the rankings to No. 59 after their two losses last week.

• The men improved one spot to No. 34 in the team rankings, despite splitting their matches against Santa Clara and Nebraska last weekend.

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continued from page 1 proposition will be critical to keep the doors of our education open and further provide opportunities for students.”

Nagata came to the rally after the Arizona Board of Regents meeting on tuition, where instate undergraduate tuition was increased by $1,050 for the 2010-11 academic year.

The approved tuition increase will change ASUA’s focus within student support and programming, Nagata said.

“Because of the meeting today … our focus is not on tuition or fees anymore,” Nagata said. “Our focus is on assisting students with financial aid, informing students about the need for Prop 100 and also trying to put together a visibility campaign that will further highlight that importance.”

ASUA Executive Vice President and President-elect Emily Fritze said education all over the state would suffer if Proposition 100 does not pass.

“It is going to provide some sort of sustainable funding for the universities,” she said. “If we do not receive this sales tax increase, it is going to be incredibly detrimental to the universities, higher education and education in general in this state.”

TJ Klein, a pre-education senior, said he attended the rally because whether Proposition 100 passes affects him personally.

“Everything that Proposition 100 is supposed to help with affects my job in the future,” he said. “I will be employed by an educational facility in the future … and if the tax is supposed to help the educational field, I will be affected by that.”

Students can vote on Proposition 100 early on April 22 and finally on May 18, McMaster said.

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By Jazmine Woodberry Arizona Daily Wildcat For many students, breast cancer seems like a distant threat — something that affects only post-menopausal women.

But Dr. Alison Stopeck, at the Arizona Cancer Center, says she has several breast cancer patients, some of whom are UA graduate students.

“It’s important to know your family history,” said Stopeck. “For young women, there’s a small but finite risk.”

Overzealous diagnoses can be equally harmful.

“You have many more false positives with women under 20,” Stopeck said.

“We’ve always known that, but we’ve come to realize that perhaps even the scans have small risks. So we are picking up on the fact that it might be doing more harm than good.”

It’s important for each woman to know her own body, she said, because most irregularities are caught through self-exams.

She noted that the Cancer Center often deals with high-risk patients and has nutrition and chemoprevention programs which help prevent rather than treat cancer.

In fact, the Arizona Science Center, founded in 1976, and one of only 40 federally-deemed comprehensive

cancer centers in the U.S., has its own breast cancer telecommunication series.

Called “Vida! Breast Cancer Teleeducation Series,” the initiative has been reaching out to cancer survivors, providers and those at risk since 2008 to promote education on the disease.

According to Ana Maria Lopez, who heads the series, the project is focused on developing teleconference breast cancer education programs tailored to the needs of survivors near the ArizonaMexico border. She says they assess the effectiveness of these tele-education sessions and try to cater to patient needs.

This is just one of Arizona Cancer Center’s many achievements.

“It’s got a really long history,” said Sarah Hammond, public affairs officer for the center. “We’ve had 16 spin-off companies, and for a center our size, I think it stands out.”

Hammond says the mission is “to prevent and cure cancer.”

“But if you never get that disease at all, then we don’t have to treat it,” she added.

The center treats people of all ages, and some in their teens and early 20s come in to be treated for breast cancer, but that number is a small percentage of the whole.

“Young women do get it. It’s rare, but they do,” Hammond said.

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W-hoops drops Cougars Gymcats ready

By Dan Kohler Arizona Daily Wildcat

Arizona women’s basketball still has a shot at the NCAA Tournament after a 62-60 win against the Washington State Cougars in the first round of the Pacific 10 Conference Tournament Thursday in Los Angeles.

The Wildcats (14-16, 6-12 Pacific 10 Conference) came into last night’s contest after a five-game losing streak but were able to break the streak with their third win against the Cougars (8-22, 3-15) this season.

“We knew that it would be a tough game going in to play Washington State,”Arizona head coach Niya Butts said. “We beat them the two previous times and it is always tough to beat a team multiple times in one year.

“I’m proud of this group. It’s about surviving and advancing and that’s what we did.”

For the first time this season, Arizona forward Ify Ibekwe, the Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year, did not start the game.

“It was team issues and that’s where I would like to leave it,” Butts said. “But I would like to say about Miss Ibekwe is that she handled herself with class and with poise in that situation. She accepted responsibility and she came in and had a heck of a game for us and certainly showed her leadership.”

Despite the restructured line-up, Arizona came running straight out of the gate.

The Wildcats managed to take an early 8-3 lead off a jumper by forward Amanda Pierson with 14:05 left in the first half.

Arizona maintained a lead of at least five points throughout the first half.

With 2:47 left until the break, a layup by Davellyn Whyte gave the Wildcats a lead of 32-20. The Cougars managed to rally and cut their deficit in half, going into the locker room with Arizona leading, 33-27.

After the intermission, the Wildcats turned to Whyte and forward Soana Lucet to keep the offensive pressure on the Cougars.

With 11:30 remaining, a Lucet free throw gave Arizona a 14 point lead, its largest of the game.

Washington State wasn’t fazed and managed to push a 14-8 run on the back of guard April Cook.

The Wildcats barely managed to hold off the Cougars as WSU again ran for five straight points, leaving Arizona with only a two-point advantage and less than a minute left.

With two ticks left on the clock, Cook threw up a desperate 3-pointer from the half-court line that fell short, giving the Wildcats the 62-60 victory.

Lucet managed to tally a game-high 22

points on 10-for-14 field goal attempts and worked the boards with seven rebounds. “(Lucet) was outstanding tonight. She ran the floor extremely well, and we did a good job of getting her the basketball.”Butts said.“I think we try to reward players who run the floor and tonight we did that. Unfortunately sometimes we had some turnovers trying to do that, but for the most part it was a good result.”

Despite not starting, Ibekwe scored 14 points and hauled in 10 rebounds.

“It was a downfall that I did have to come off the bench, but I don’t think it’s tougher.”Ibekwe said.“I felt like I had to make up for the missed time and get in there and give it all I had.”

Today, the Wildcats take on No. 2 and Pac-10 regular season champion Stanford.

The Cardinal have beaten the Wildcats by a combined 48-points in two regular season games, and Arizona will have to throw everything they have at the Cardinal to even keep up.

“I think our team has fallen hard and played hard throughout the Pac-10 season, and so I don’t think our effort is going to be any different,” Butts said. “I do think that when you get to tournament time it’s a do or die type of deal, and it’s about survival, and I think they’ll leave it all on the floor.”

for last stand

Men’s golf heads to Sin City

By Alex Williams Arizona Daily Wildcat

The Arizona men’s golf team will begin play today in the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters, a three-day, 54-hole event held in Las Vegas that is recognized as one of the nation’s premier collegiate tournaments.

It will be the biggest challenge the Wildcats have faced up to this point in the season, as every team in the tournament is featured in the top 50 of the latest Golfweek rankings. No. 1 Oklahoma State is in the field, which includes three other top 10 teams — No. 4 Texas, No. 6 Florida and No. 7 Texas A&M.

Arizona is the lowest-ranked team in the tournament at 43rd.

Although the Wildcats are playing without junior John Kostis — who was in the lineup for all four tournaments in the fall — for the fifth consecutive tournament, they have received solid, sometimes spectacular play in his absence.

“We gave him a chance to see if he was ready to come back in tournament play, and he didn’t play very good in California,” said assistant coach Andy Barnes. “All five starters we took finished in the top 20, so you can’t really argue with their play. We’re just in the mode of whoever’s playing best, we’re going to play.”

There are four Pacific 10 Conference

teams in the tournament field — UA, No. 13 Arizona State, California, No. 12 UCLA and No. 15 USC. The Wildcats seem to have marked this tournament as one in which they can establish themselves as one of the better teams in the country.

“We played good last week … everybody finished in the top 20,” said senior Rich Saferian. “It’s a good tournament in Vegas, and we should have a little bit of momentum going in there.”

“This is where we’ll find out how good we are,” he added.

This is UA’s last tournament not located in Arizona until the NCAA Regionals, which begin May 13.

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Arizona gymnastics freshman Molly Quirk works the balance beam during the Gymcats’ victory against Washington in McKale Center on March 5. The Gymcats will host the No. 24 Minnesota Golden Gophers tonight at 7.

By Kevin Nadakal Arizona Daily Wildcat The Arizona gymnastics team aims to use the momentum it gained by defeating the Washington Cougars, 195.750195.675, tonight at 7 when it hosts the No. 24 Minnesota Golden Gophers in McKale Center.

The Gymcats (5-7) have some work to do on beam, on which they have struggled the last few weeks.

“Its just little things on beam.

We will have a competition this week to see who will be in the line-up,” said head coach Bill Ryden.“We did OK on beam, but we want to do better. We just want to make sure they are confident enough to perform how they do in practice. It’s more cleaning up than major changes.”

The Gymcats head in to the meet against the Gophers (3-9) with a focus on the small details before postseason play. The coaching staff will tweak a few routines to make them more challenging as they look ahead to the postseason judging. ”We are trying to modify Molly (Quirk’s) bar routine right now,” Ryden said.“But you have been doing something all year, it’s kind of scary because you don’t want to mess with it.”

“Beam is definitely the pressure event,”added assistant coach Colleen Johnson, who handles the beam team. “It’s definitely a mental game, and maybe at this point in the season, we just got a little mentally relaxed.”

Johnson said that she thinks that the athletes are thinking of how not to fall instead of how they will stick their routines.

One word that the entire coaching staff has repeated throughout the week was “confidence.” The entire team knows that its skill level is there, but it just needs to have that confidence too.

The Gymcats will attempt to carry over the momentum that they had during last week’s floor routine, in which they swept the standings. Aubree Cristello, Sarah Tomczyk and Deanna Graham placed, third, second and first, respectively.

“You don’t have to say much.

You prepare them the same,” said assistant coach John Court.

“They are obviously excited about last week’s performance, which makes coaching this week a little easier.”

Senior night

Tomczyk is the lone senior on this young Gymcats team.

She will be heading into her last home meet tonight, as she bids farewell to her career at Arizona.

A fifth-year senior, Tomczyk took a medical redshirt her freshman year because of a severe elbow injury.

“I’m trying not to think about it because I have already cried. I’m going to be really emotional,” Tomczyk said.

“I wish I could say that I am excited that my career is coming to an end, but I’m not. I wish I could have one more year. I know I’m in my fifth year, and I took that extra year. If I could have one more year, I totally would do it because that’s how much I love it.”

“I hope I have the meet of my life for senior night. That would be the icing on the cake,” she added.“Go out with a bang.”

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