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hile young and new adult may be all the rage nowadays, don’t forget the tales as old as time and the songs as old as rhyme when wandering around the Tucson Festival of Books. Fairy tales aren’t just for little kids, and people of all ages are welcome to attend the “Fractured Fairy Tales” panel at the festival on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Student Union Memorial Center in the Kachina Lounge. Two UA professors — Kate Bernheimer and Aurelie Sheehan — and Elizabeth Frankie Rollins, who teaches at Pima Community College, will host the panel. All three are published authors, and Bernheimer is one of the leading figures in the growing literary realm of fairy tales. The Daily Wildcat sat down with Sheehan to discuss the panel and find out what about fairy tales is important to her.

What is the panel about?

The panel will focus on the expansiveness of fairy tales, on the variety of ways fairy

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tales and myths permeate our collective literary history and can come out in cool ways today.

What do you mean by “fractured fairy tales”?

The organizer of the panel is using that phrase to suggest that fairy tales are not rigid structures, but vessels that are constantly remade and can be remade some more.

What do fairy tales mean to you?

I have learned more about fairy tales because of the work of so many people, including my two co-panelists. … Kate Bernheimer is a central figure in the national (even international) growing interest in and respect for fairy tales, and … she has brought consciousness of and joy in this form to many colleagues and students here at the [UA]. Fairy tales are, for me, mysteries and secrets. This is very personal, of course, but in my life, they have sort of hooked into an essential part of who I am from a long time ago and consoled me and invited me to jump into realms that might have otherwise scared me.

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What made you interested in fairy tales?

I have always been interested in mythology, ever since I was a child. A few years ago, I was inspired by thinking about parallels and connections between mythological figures and individual people here in Tucson, and that became a central part of my collection of stories, “Demigods on Speedway” (published last year

by University of Arizona Press).

What do you think people will learn from the panel that they didn’t know before?

How many vital ways fairy tales and myths are part of our contemporary life — or can be.

Why do you think fairy tales tend to be looked down upon in literary circles?

I’d say that fairy tales are only looked down [on] in some literary circles. In lots of them, they are now recognized as the fluid, vital, powerful stories they are.

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Reporter pens past adventures into novels Madison Scavarda

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desire for adventure seems to be another one of those inherent qualities human beings possess. It is a desire to know more about the human condition outside of one’s own realm of comfort and understanding. It is an insatiable hunger to feel, touch and smell new places. And for those who write about their experiences, they might find that they create a whole new self — compiled from the pieces of the world and the people they just can’t forget.

To travel across the nation while writing about the different people one meets and the different places one sees is probably a life goal for many people, but few get to do it as a profession. However, author and former journalist Philip Caputo, who will be present at the Tucson Festival of Books, got to do just that while gathering information for his novel, “The Longest Road.”

Accompanied by his wife and two dogs, he packed up his trailer and truck and set out for his very own adventure.

As a journalist, Caputo’s articles graced the pages of acclaimed publications such as the The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and National Geographic. However, Mort Rosenblum, a professor at the UA School of Journalism, offered some insight into the reasoning behind Caputo’s journey from journalist to novelist.

“The thing about Phil is he started out as a really honest reporter,” Rosenblum said, “[He] admitted that he was also doing it because he was kind of looking for himself and looking for some reaction to it. At the point where he kind of realized … all these … feelings and observations and just general sense of the human being was getting into his reporting, he switched to fiction.”

However, Rosenblum believes that Caputo’s time as a journalist only strengthened his skills as a novelist.

“As such, we have a really good example of a guy who gets it from having seen things up close,” Rosenblum said, “but also [someone] who can step back and, not so much invent things, but at least tell [the story] … with actual facts.”

Caputo got the chance to delve into the different facets of human beings during his road trip from Key

West, Fla., to Deadhorse, Alaska, for “The Longest Road.”

“The most interesting part of the journey was traveling to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota,” Caputo said. “[It] is plagued by a lot of the problems that most Indian reservations are — mainly unemployment, alcoholism, drug addiction, youth suicide. [B]ut meeting a Sioux Indian gentleman there who was both a successful entrepreneur as well as being a [member in the] traditional [Oglala] … Sioux [Tribe whose] … name was Ansel Woodenknife … was probably the most interesting part.”

Tired from traveling, conducting interviews, maintaining a travel journal and taking care of the vehicle, Caputo’s adventure wasn’t always intensely exciting.

However, Caputo did recall a certain adrenaline-pumping moment on a Canadian highway with a herd of wood bison.

“There’s only about two or three thousand left, and to see a hundred of them in a single herd was quite something,” Caputo said. “The herd bull charged the car in front of us, and the car got out of the way just in time.”

Caputo’s adventures include much more than the trek he made for “The Longest Road.” Immersed in the action of the Vietnam War, Caputo served as a Marine and as a war correspondent.

“Philip Caputo is one of those rare journalists and novelists whose experience with Vietnam spans that awful era,” said Joe Sharkey, Vietnam veteran and columnist for The New York Times.

His experiences with danger did not stop there. For his novel “Crossers,” Caputo said he traveled to a site that has seen enduring strife since the 1850s — the U.S.-Mexico border.

“I had to go down into Mexico a couple of times in fairly dangerous places,” Caputo said. “I was a foreign correspondent for many years, so I was kind [of] used to dangerous places, but nevertheless, the challenge there was always … [to] try to … see what was going on without attracting too much attention.”

Caputo found creative ways to overcome this challenge.

“On one of those four [days] down South, I was with an undercover agent from the U.S. border patrol,” Caputo said. “We were posing as magazine journalists, pretending we were taking pictures of the desert or something like that.”

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During his time in Mexico, Caputo said that he got some insights from the immigrants he met.

“It’s quite an eye-opener to see the level of poverty that exists only 200 miles south of our border,” Caputo said. “You can’t blame anybody that’s living like that who sees a chance or a shot at bettering themselves for taking it.”

Caputo’s event, called “Elasticity Can Give Nonfiction Bounce,” will be held on Saturday in the Student

Union Memorial Center in the Kachina Lounge.

“I believe it’s going to be mostly a discussion on the … creativity that goes into nonfiction writing and the limits to creativity in nonfiction,” Caputo said.

While Caputo encourages aspiring journalists to “think twice” about pursuing that career path, he said that he found and still finds the profession to be very gratifying.

When asked if he had any regrets

about his career, Caputo responded, without hesitation, that he didn’t have any.

“I used to look forward to going to work,” Caputo said. “I just loved it, and I consider myself an extremely fortunate person to have been able to do that, because most people don’t.”

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Roy A. Johnson Memorial Organ Series, 7PM, Friday, Cost:$5-10, Fred Fox School of Music- Holsclaw Hall, 1017 N. Olive Road. The Roy A. Johnson Memorial Organ Series presents “Fantastique,” a concert of French Romantic repertoire for organ featuring organist Woosug Kang.

The program is filled with fantastical, passionate and powerful musical language written by such composers as Louis Vierne, Charles Marie Widor and Maurice Duruflé.

Inter-Professional Diabetes Updates Conference 2015, 8PM, Saturday, Cost: Free/ $10 for non-UA attendees, Arizona Health Science Center- DuVal Auditorium.

Learn how advances in clinical evidence have changed our care strategies for people at risk for and currently diagnosed with diabetes. Dr. Desmond Schatz will guide us through the new 2015 standards of care in diabetes, and local leaders in diabetes care will share prevention and treatment guidelines for a variety of populations.

Online streaming is available for this event at www.nursing.arizona.edu.

Dialogue with Journalist Óscar Martínez, 5:30PM-7PM, Friday, Alliance for Global Justice Headquarters- 225 E. 26th ST. You are cordially invited to join us for a dialogue with acclaimed El Salvadoran journalist and author Óscar Martínez. Martínez would like to share some of his experiences as a an investigative journalist researching migrations from Central America to the United States, as well as learn more about how local Tucson activists are involved in the issues.

CARNIVAL OF ILLUSION: AN EVENING OF OLD-WORLD MAGIC, 5:30PM &7:30PM, Friday and Saturday, Doubletree by Hilton Tucson, Reid Park- 445 S. Alvernon Way. Add to Itinerary Laugh, have fun, and celebrate a magical night out at this must-see for visitors and armchair travelers alike. This top-rated attraction is “revitalizing magic” by blending an “Around the World in 80 Minutes” travel theme with all the charms of a vaudeville roadshow. Catch the “magic, mystery, and oooh la la” in the boutique theater at the Doubletree Hotel-Reid Park on select weekends.

Tucson Festival of Books, 10AM-5PM, Free, Saturday &Sunday, UA Mall. The Tucson Festival of Books is widely known for its unique panels, inspiring workshops and record-breaking crowds that entice best-selling authors from across the country to come to Tucson each March.

The Festival brings authors from a variety of subject areas and diverse genres. It’s your chance to meet your favorite authors, discover new works, and hear from upand-coming writers.

A Conversation with Noam Chomsky, 4PM, Sunday, Free, Centennial Hall.

During the session, John Nichols, the Washington D.C. correspondent for The Nation, will interview Chomsky on a variety of topics. Attendees will be able to submit questions during the presentation by going to 2shoesapp.com/chomsky on any device with a web-browser. John Paul Jones III, the dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, will introduce Nichols and Chomsky.

2ND SATURDAYS DOWNTOWN, 5PM10PM, Free, Downtown Tucson, There will be many activities and things to do at this event such as: Acclaimed guitarist Gabriel Ayala and JazzMenco, Belly Dance Tucson will perform live (free concerts) on the 94.9 MIXfm-Scott Avenue Stage, A mint vintage car show, living history demonstrations at Tucson Presidio museum, art exhibits at Etherton, things to do for kids and much more!

WA:K POW WOW, 10:30AM, Saturday and Sunday, Mission San Xavier del Bac-1950 W. San Xavier Rd. This annual gathering of southern Arizona’s Tohono O’odham Nation and other American Indian tribes from around the USA features inter-tribal dances, hoop dance contest, drumming contests, and crafts and food vendors at the historical Mission San Xavier del Bac.

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artisan polarization, the schism portrayed by the divide between the Republican and Democratic parties, is now the defining feature of contemporary American politics.

According to research conducted

by Pew Research Center in 2014, America faces the most dramatic state of polarization since the Reconstruction Era. In cooperation with the Tucson Festival of Books, the UA will host a panel Sunday at 11:30 a.m. dealing with the nation’s polarization and dysfunction from the perspective of differing generations. The panel will include former Oklahoma Congressman Mickey Edwards, director of the UA National Institute for Civil Discourse Carolyn Lukensmeyer and millennial experts Steven Olikara and Kari Saratovsky. Though the perspectives on political polarization and the road we took to get here differ from panelist to panelist, they all agree on this:

Something needs to change.

“Honestly, every political conversation you can have these days seems to boil down to political dysfunction and how we’re not really solving the real problems our nation faces,” Olikara said. “Students around the country want to make a difference, but now about half of our generation doesn’t believe politics can solve the problems at hand. The reaction to our problems cannot be to disengage. We have to directly engage in order to solve them.”

Co-founder and president of the Millennial Action Project, Olikara works to make political cooperation between the generations the norm.

“We think this generation is disproportionally impacted by partisan polarization and political dysfunction, but we also believe our generation has the greatest potential to overcome that partisanship,” Olikara said.

Working to bring an alternate perspective to the table, Edwards will draw from his book, “The Parties Versus the People: How to Turn Republicans and

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Democrats into Americans.”

Though Edwards lacks the millennial perspective, he brings an entirely different angle on polarization to the table.

“Congress isn’t working,” Edwards said.

“Everybody seems to think the system is dysfunctional, but I realized that when something doesn’t seem to be functioning properly, one of

two things has happened: Either we’ve elected the wrong people, or the system is wrong.”

In order to achieve desired political change, we have to compromise, Edwards said.

According to a 2013 USA Today article, “Divided we still stand — and getting used to it,” the American people are fleeing the political parties faster than ever before.

“This is a system that rewards people for being unwilling to compromise, and it punishes people in the primaries who do compromise,” Edwards said. “We’re talking about a fundamental change to the only system many people have ever known. It’s not easy to fix this polarization, but it can be done.”

In the same 2014 Pew Research Center study, over 40 percent of Americans now register as independent. Olikara and Edwards both adamantly believe that the divide can be bridged through compromise and partisan cooperation.

“If you think there is something wrong with Congress, and that the system doesn’t work, here’s

the good news: It’s not the people are terrible and stupid, it’s that we’ve created a bad system,” Edwards said. “… But it can be fixed. Things can change for the better.”

Bringing the individual outlooks of four uniquely different panelists together, “Political Dysfunction” aims to deal with the bigger picture through multi-generational perspectives.

“The political arena is highly dysfunctional and we need to start taking action,” Olikara said. “I hope our panel works to inspire students who attend, who want to make a difference and want to understand the extent of our nation’s problems. To incite positive change, we need to understand the generation in power, just as much as the generation in power needs to understand the generation about to take power.”

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Pondering dirty dog whistle politics Elise McClain

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onsider the terms “welfare queen,” “gang banger,” “food-stamp president” and “illegal alien.” On the surface, these terms don’t explicitly state racial prejudice; however, according to Ian Haney López, author of the book “Dog Whistle Politics,” they’re all examples of coded racism.

As a constitutional law professor at UC Berkeley, Haney López is an expert in the evolution of racism since the Civil Rights era. Working to parallel the use of dog whistles to American politics, Haney López claims the use of coded words in American political rhetoric ultimately works to pit voters against each other.

“If you think about a dog whistle literally, it’s a whistle that works on such a high frequency that [a] human ear can’t hear it,” Haney López said.

“It’s a metaphor that aims to get us to appreciate how a lot of political speeches operate on two registers:

On one register, we’re silent about race, but on the other register, we’re triggering strong racial anxieties.”

The political tactic of dog whistling, said Haney López, is the mechanism by which politicians seduce middle-class citizens to vote against their better interests.

“Coded speech is used excessively and pervasively by politicians — especially, but not exclusively, by the Republicans,” Haney López said.

“This is racism used as a strategy.

By stirring up racial animosity, politicians are able to better achieve their desired votes.”

In cooperation with the Tucson Festival of Books, Haney López will host a panel addressing dog whistle politics Saturday at 1 p.m.

“Tucson Festival of Books volunteers work throughout the year to recruit authors who will inform and inspire festival attendees,” said Terry Holpert, a festival volunteer.

“With current events authors, we strive to offer voices who provide thought-provoking and critical perspectives on important issues.

We invited Ian Haney López because he is one of the leading academics and public intellectuals to explore issues of race, politics and income inequality. As you know, those are critical issues facing our country and are particularly important in Arizona.”

Haney López will not only address the issue of reinvented race, but also the destruction of the American middle class.

“I think most people walking into a panel on race will think the conversation is going to be exclusively about communities of color,” Haney López said. “While that’s partly it, the principle argument deals with the sort of politics being used to rock the middle class, which includes whites and nonwhites alike.”

Haney López argues coded racism and other sorts of cultural provocation, such as abortion, gender, same-sex marriage and guns, have been used to organize politics that reach beyond the court.

“As a constitutional law scholar, I’ve been deeply engaged in the

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happenings of the Supreme Court for the past several decades,” Haney López said. “I realized that the more you look at the Supreme Court, the more you begin to recognize the holes in the system. The rhetoric and logic of the system doesn’t fully address what’s actually happening.

Though I initially started researching this topic because of my interests in the courts, as time progressed, I realized that the nation is dealing with a very serious political issue here.”

Haney López’s current research delves into the connection between racial divisions in society and growing wealth inequalities nationwide. He attributes much of the nation’s political dysfunction to the rhetoric of contemporary politics and the act of dog whistling.

“The first and most important thing to recognize when dealing with this issue is to recognize there’s something fundamentally wrong here,” Haney López said. “We need to say forcefully and repeatedly that … this drum banging will not stand.

We’re talking about a set of ideas, a set of divisions and a set of anxieties that are being manipulated to make everyone worse off — nonwhites and whites alike. We’re all affected.”

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Don’t judge a YA book by its genre

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espite getting a bad rap from literary snobs, the young adult book industry is thriving, from the staggering amount of books atop best-sellers lists and the seemingly infinite number of book-to-movie adaptations based on the genre. For those looking to meet some famous faces in the young adult world, the Tucson Festival of Books has something for the young adult in everyone.

“I’ve been writing since I was very young,” said Jenny Han, author of “The Summer I Turned Pretty” trilogy and of 10 middle-grade and young-adult novels. “I’ve always been a fan of stories about young people. My favorite books, ‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro and ‘I Capture the Castle’ by Dodie Smith, are adult novels with young protagonists. It’s a very compelling time in a person’s life.”

Han will be on several young adult panels throughout the weekend, including “Why Diversity Matters in YA Literature” on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. and “What’s Trending in YA Literature” on Sunday at 11:30 a.m.

As a self-identifying Slytherin, Han said much of what we consider young adult literature is thanks to J.K. Rowling.

“It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that I’m a Slytherin, but I accept it now,” Han said. “I’m a huge ‘Harry Potter’ fan. We

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all owe J.K. Rowling a huge debt. I can’t think of one person, with the exception of Oprah Winfrey, who has done more for literature in the recent past. She got people reading; she got people excited about books. There wouldn’t be a YA genre as it exists today without J.K. Rowling — or for that matter, Stephenie Meyer.”

To add to the young adult discussion is E. Lockhart, author of the recent The New

York Times best-seller “We Were Liars” and a National Book Award finalist.

“I love having these kinds of public dialogues about books and hearing what people in the audience have to say, as well,” Lockhart said.

“And I get to unpack all the latest trends in YA with Jenny Han and Lisa McMann, and I think I’ll learn a lot.”

Lockhart has written both children’s and

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he symbiotic relationship between the film, television and book industries has served writers well for decades. Usually, writers make the transition from books to screenplays with their own material bridging the small gap between the two. William Goldman wrote the novel, and the subsequent screenplay, for “The Princess Bride,” as did Stephen Chbosky for “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” and Gillian Flynn for “Gone Girl.”

However, for at least two of the three writers who will be at the “And the Oscar Goes To … Screenwriting for Movies and TV” panel at the Tucson Festival of Books, writing scripts preceded writing books.

“I came to be an author after I worked in film,” Stuart Gibbs said. “I sort of went the other way. Most people start as an author

and end up writing screenplays.”

Gibbs moved out to Los Angeles during the spec script sale boom in the film industry of the 1990s.

After starting his career performing script coverage and writing B-grade kickboxing movies, Gibbs then made the jump to studio work. He performed “punch-up” work on films like “Anastasia” and the “Open Season”series, and was brought in to develop “Ice Age” before there was even a script.

The transition away from Hollywood began during an event that momentarily came to define television: the 14-week Writers Guild of America Strike from 2007 to 2008.

“During the writers strike, everybody was sort of saying, ‘Hey, maybe there’s something else I can do to make money writing while I’m not working for the film business,’” Gibbs said.

His agents encouraged him to write

middle-grade books, and the career suggestion panned out well.

“At the time, I had a 2-year old son and another kid on the way, and I was just thinking it would be really neat to write a book that they could read some day,” Gibbs said.

Another author who will be at the panel, Betty G. Birney, initially worked in advertising at Disneyland and then moved onto the Disney Studio.

Around this time, a new project was getting off the ground: the Disney Channel. Birney wrote for “Welcome to Pooh Corner,” which premiered on the first day of the Disney Channel.

“I found out that I liked writing for children, and I hadn’t thought of that before,” Birney said.

The opportunity at the Disney Channel opened up doors, and Birney freelanced for more than 20 years. However, she felt the urge to pursue what she had been playing around with for a long time: writing children’s books.

“It’s like my third act,” Birney said. “I started off in advertising for a number of years, then I moved onto television and now I’m writing books.”

Both Gibbs and Birney have been beckoned by television since leaving it,

adult literature and disagrees with the notion that one genre of literature is better than another.

“I would like to live in a time when we are done shaming other people’s reading choices,” Lockhart said. “Some books are deep, some books are shallow. Sometimes deep is scary.

Sometimes shallow is nice. Every book is different.”

Lockhart will also be on the “What’s Trending in YA Literature” panel with Han, as well as “Story Interrupted: Moving In and Out of Time and Space in YA” on Saturday at 10 a.m.

For festival attendees who want to write young adult fiction, attending one of the panels at the Tucson Festival of Books is a start. For Lockhart, writing is largely the process of revision and change.

“I write an average of 12-18 drafts of a book,” Lockhart said. “Most published writers I know do the same.”

Han said one of the most important things to writing is to harness past experiences.

“My advice is to just be present in your life, and write down all of your big moments, especially the sad or painful ones,” Han said.

“When you’re a writer, there’s no such thing as an experience without value.”

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and both seem to be able to rebuff it.

There are development talks to bring one of the books in Gibbs’ “The Spy School Series” to television. However, his writing slate has burgeoned to two books a year.

“I’m just so wrapped up in the writing that there’s the chance that, if it comes down to having somebody write the screenplay or whatever, I’m not even going to have time to do that,” Gibbs said.

“But we’ll see.”

There’s also potential for Birney’s award-winning, hamster-centric “According to Humphrey” book series to be adapted to television, but, like Gibbs, she finds herself more committed to her current charge.

“Well, I used to think I’d want to, but [now] I’m not sure,” Birney said. “I think I may be able to just let it go.”

“And the Oscar Goes To … Screenwriting for Movies and TV” panel will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Education building in Room 353. Birney, Gibbs and Drew Daywalt will be present, moderated

by Lisa Morris-Wilkey.

— Follow Alex Guyton @GuyTonAlexAnder

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READ IT AND WEEP In honor of the Tucson Festival of Books, the Daily Wildcat staff goes between the lines to give you a few of our favorite books

“Temperance” by Cathy Malkasian Blessedbowl is a massive, stationary ship made of stone.

Its inhabitants are closed off from the world, convinced that a monstrous enemy is pursuing them across a sea of fire. Their greatest hero, Lester, suffers from amnesia but believes he will someday face the enemy on the Final Shore. Minerva, his wife, is Blessedbowl’s matriarch and propagandist. Knowing the truth of their situation, she weaves stories to motivate their productivity and keep Lester safe from memories that could destroy them all. Malkasian’s graphic novel explores war and propaganda with expressive pencil lines and supernatural characters. It’s a thoughtful text with a fantastic world you’ll find hard to leave.

— Nicole Prieto, copy chief “White Teeth” by Zadie Smith Zadie Smith’s sprawling, Dickensian first novel is the most modern, immediate book I’ve ever read, and also the main reason I got to write about masturbation on my AP Literature test. Smith effervescently explores the effects of globalization and the many intersections it has produced. There are Jehovah’s Witnesses, mice of the future, radical terrorist groups and a little bit of Joe Pesci. But what I took away was a sense of transience about identities and histories — the power and magic of self-ascribing — that I haven’t taken lightly since.

— Katelyn Kennon, assistant online editor “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide” by Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas Kristof “The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged human beings.” “Half the Sky” is an eye-opening storytelling of the unbelievable injustices of girls and women in developing countries. It is told through stories of young women and written by two of the most remarkable activists and journalists of our time: Pulitzer prize winners Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn — #RelationshipGoals. It tore down my idea of equality but gave me hope for the potential for progress. Plus, the book made a really nice addition to my Kristof shrine.

— Christianna Silva, investigative editor “Still Life with Woodpecker” by Tom Robbins Simply put, “Still Life with Woodpecker” is an unorthodox love story — but certainly not one of the sappy variety. This book is the best kind of junk food read — it is simultaneously addictive and cerebral, and while appealing to every guilty pleasure, it also feeds the intellectual within. Rife with symbolism, “Still Life” is the kind of story that takes place in a pack of Camel cigarettes. Delving into such matters as “the moon, pyramids, the distinction between criminal and outlaw, the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, Arabs, exiled royalty and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.”

— Elise McClain, arts and life writer “Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling I wanted to say that my favorite book is “Everything is Illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer, which is fantastically written, or “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which inspired the tattoo on my foot.

But if I’m being strictly honest, there is no book that has ever brought me more pleasure than the “Harry Potter” series by J.K. Rowling. It was the first time words made me laugh out loud, and then it became the first book to make me cry and the first to pervade my dreams.

“Harry Potter” still lives in my bones. He is, in a word, bae.

— Jacquelyn Oesterblad, opinions editor

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PICK UP AN old favorite or read something new this spring break.

“The Phantom Tollbooth” by Norton Juster I have read this book so many times. I loved it as a kid because it really is just a magical journey, but I fell even more in love with it the older I got because it’s then that you can really appreciate the book’s fun cleverness (you jump to get to the island of conclusions) and wordplay (there are characters such as the Whether Man and the Senses Taker).

— Julie Huynh, science editor “Scott Pilgrim” comic book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley “Let’s be friends based on mutual hate” — Wallace Wells, Scott Pilgrim’s cool, gay roommate. This book spoke to my soul.

Scott Pilgrim is a quirky, hilarious comic book series by Bryan Lee O’Malley about an average joe fighting seven evil exes to win the love of the coolest girl in Toronto. It’s an action-packed, goofy underdog story that makes fun of vegans and reminds you that bread makes you fat.

— Joey Fisher, assistant design chief “The Count of Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas “The Count of Monte Cristo” is, by far, my favorite book of all time simply because it encompasses every genre you could ever want within the confines of an excellent adventure novel. Being a megapolyphonic novel, it includes a vast array of inherently flawed characters and deals with themes of revenge, betrayal, romance, power, mystery, hope and justice, just to name a few.

No other novel I have ever encountered so perfectly exemplifies human nature with such tact and in such an entertaining way. The Count himself, Edmond Dantès, is impossible to dislike despite his quest for detrimental and sometimes violent vengeance.

You’ll root for him during his fall from grace, his rise to power and his intricate destruction of the lives of those who wronged him — and you’ll love every damn page.

— Torsten Ward, managing editor “My Brilliant Career” by Miles Franklin Residing in the Australian bush, Sybylla Melvyn was the anti-

heroine in Miles Franklin’s debut semi-autobiographical novel published in 1901. Sybylla defied social conventions by cursing god, demanding gender equality and the most shocking of all: turning down two marriage proposals to pursue an unlikely writing career. She was rash and resilient when women were to be coy and reticent. She fell in love with an eligible bachelor but knew her passion to write would be hampered by marriage and babies.

Franklin wrote Sybylla as an extension of herself and risked not being published due to refusing to give the reader closure or a fairy-tale ending.

— Anna Mae Ludlum, arts and life writer “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green “The Fault in Our Stars” is the story of two teenagers who fall in love, which would be completely uninteresting if the protagonist, Hazel, didn’t have cancer. It remains my favorite book because of the simultaneous heartbreak and hope that exist inside its pages, and how it never fails to extract my rawest emotions whenever I read it. As Hazel says in the book, “Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” This is that book for me.

— Mia Moran, arts and life editor “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien Few novels have captured the imaginations of so many people as “The Lord of the Rings” by J.R.R. Tolkien, whether as a book, a radio drama or a film. I was a movie-watcher first — I read the books after the first movie came out in 2001 — but I was hooked

by Middle-earth and its beautiful inhabitants from the very start.

Frodo’s journey is a reminder to readers that, as Sam realizes in the depths of Mordor, “the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

— Ashwin Mehra, assistant copy chief

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Saturday morning with Mitch Albom A jack of all trades, Mitch Albom comes to Tucson to discuss his books and career

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aturday at 10 a.m., you can listen to a musician-turned-novelist who paid off his professor’s medical bills by writing a best-selling nonfiction novel and the kind of stories that make you think twice about the world in his free time. Mitch Albom will be at the Tucson Festival of Books giving a “Meet Mitch Albom” presentation at the Student Union South Ballroom, a book signing at the SUMC North Ballroom Foyer and a performance with his band alongside fellow writers.

Speaking from Detroit, Albom said one of the main draws for coming to the event was getting together with his bandmates.

“We don’t get together very often,” Albom said. “In fact, I thought we were retired, but apparently we’re not. I got a word that everybody wanted to un-retire for one more gig and we wanted to do it in Tucson, so I said, ‘Sure. Why not?’”

Albom’s books feature bold characters that drive stories that are surprisingly down-to-earth for the powerful messages they pass on. “Tuesdays with Morrie,” which spent four years on The New York Times Best Sellers list, features an old professor who documents the aspects of life that matter just a little bit more while he battles with ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease.

“The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” Albom’s first fiction novel, is driven by a war veteran’s interaction with circus freaks, a girl with a lime green T-shirt and a decaying carnival, after which the vet realizes that a simple life is far from a meaningless one.

Albom has written over 10 books and is currently working on another to debut on Nov. 10.

While Albom draws from common themes we all deal with, he bases his works — almost — solidly in fiction.

“I’m pretty sure I don’t go off of personal experiences,” Albom laughed, “because I’ve written about a guy wandering around in heaven, and a town that gets a bunch of phone calls from heaven, and a guy who travels through time with an hour glass — so I have a much more exciting life going on than I’m aware of if that is the case.”

Albom began his writing career as an award-winning sports journalist and transitioned from writing nonfiction to novels after his unprecedented success, “Tuesdays with Morrie.” He describes his

transition from nonfiction to fiction as driven by necessity.

“I had planned to go back to sports writing, to be honest with you, and then ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ became this really big success,” Albom said. “It became so big that it was almost intimidating to consider doing anything else nonfiction. No matter what idea I came up with, it was just going to pale in comparison.”

After taking his book to multiple publishers, Albom found one to publish “The Five People You Meet in Heaven,” which enjoyed 85 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list. Albom drew the inspiration for the main character from a beloved uncle.

“Eddie, the main character, was really based on my uncle Eddie that I had that was very much like [the character],” Albom said. “[Eddie] was 83 when he died. He was a World War II veteran; he was a rough guy, talked just like Eddie does in the book, and just like Eddie he would always say to me, ‘I’m a nobody. I’ve never been anywhere.

I’ve never gone anywhere. I’ve never done anything,’ and it always broke my heart to hear him say that. I thought he was a really special guy — I loved him, I adored him.

But he just didn’t really have any self-worth because he had a really blue-collar job. He worked in factories and things like that, and he really just didn’t think that he mattered.”

In the book, Eddie meets every person he touched in his life.

“I wanted to write a book about people who don’t think that they mattered finding out that they do,” Albom said.

When speaking about his writing process, Albom describes the job as just that.

“When I talk to young people, [what] they sometimes have a misconception about is [that] writing is waiting for a thunderbolt to hit you, and when it does you just pound the coffee or the Red Bull and write a novel in three days,” Albom said. “You get up every morning, no matter how you feel, no matter what might be on your mind, and you write. You plug away at it, and some days its goes easy, and some days it’s a little more difficult. … You sit in front of that keyboard, even if it means not producing anything, or you draft something up, or you work on different parts, or you try to write a dialogue — whatever it takes. But you don’t walk away from it. And for me, it’s seven days a week.”

Albom’s books deal with themes about life, god and religion, but are relatable nonetheless.

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“In terms of what I write about, I guess ever since ‘Tuesdays with Morrie,’ the things that have interested me have been the things that have to do with how you live your life,” Albom said. “I like the messages of my stories or books to resonate with things that everybody has to deal with. …

I kind of begin with something I want to say about how we approach life, and then I build a story around it. That’s the subject matter, and there’s no shortage of that really for the rest of my life. There are going to be plenty of topics in terms of how we approach our lives and what we value in life — I’m never going to run out of that.”

Albom is currently writing another novel,

“The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto,” which he says is one of his biggest projects yet, to come out in November of this year. Warner Bros. is currently producing another one of his books, “The First Phone Call from Heaven.” On top of that, Albom is working on a trilogy series he wants to have finished within one or two years and regularly works with charities around the country.

— Follow Lior Attias @DailyWildcat

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Ready for a feline frenzy Victoria Teplitz

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hether you’re a crazy cat lady or just enjoy taking a cat nap every now and then, you will have the oppurrrtunity to release that inner feline-fanatic on Sunday. “Cats, Cats, Cats: A Feline Obsession” will give you a chance to get up close and personal with a variety of authors and illustrators who will discuss the felinephenomena and a cats involvement in litter-a-ture.

“I’ve always been a cat lady,” said Yasmine Surovec, the creator and blogger of Cat Versus Human, who will be one of the speakers at the cat panel this weekend.

Surovec started Cat vs. Human in 2010. The blog consists of cat-comics that the typical cat owner can relate to. Readers really took to her cartoons, and now Survec has published books such as “I See Kitty” and “Cat Versus Human,” a book based on the comics from her blog.

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experiences with our cats; they wake you up at 3 a.m., they don’t eat the expensive treat you give them, and yet they are a beneficial companion,” Surovec said. The cat cartoonist, who has lived with cats all her life, claims she started with three cats and now owns 12.

Born in the Philippines, Surovec said, “It boggles me because I never thought the cat-lady would have such a negative stereotype.”

As an artist she has redesigned the stereotype, giving it a more paws-itive appeal. Some of her comics actually feature classic princesses such as Rapunzel and Ariel from “The Little Mermaid” as cat ladies. Surovec plans to go into further detail concerning her love of cats and inspirations during the panel.

Other talented authors who will speak about their passion for cats on Sunday include Eugene Yelchin, author of “Breaking Stalin’s Nose,” a children’s book which received the Newbery Honor in 2012. He also wrote “Won Ton and Chopstick: A Cat and Dog Tale Told in Haiku,” and will be speaking about how he began writing

nonfiction.

“I will certainly be focusing on reading books as a surviving tool for living in a police state,” Yelchin said.

Carmen Agra Deedy will be presenting the story of her picture books, “Martina the Beautiful Cockroach,” and telling Juan Bobo tales, which are similar to the traditional Jack tales, according to Deedly’s business manager, Erin Grace.

Michael J. Rosen, creator of The Company of Animals Fund, which has donated a variety of profits made by his many award-winning children books such as “Dog People and Horse People” and “Chanukah Lights,” will also speak.

So make like a cat on a hot tin roof, because the event is sure to be the cat’s pajamas.

“Cats, Cats, Cats: A Feline Obsession” will start at 1 p.m. in the Education building in Room 349.

— Follow Victoria Teplitz @torteplit

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A comic from Yasmine Surovec’s blog Cat Versus Human. Surovec will be speaking at “Cats, Cats, Cats: A Feline Obsession” this weekend.

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Catching up with Joyce Carol Oates Chelsea Cook

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oyce Carol Oates began her writing career in 1963 with her first published novel, “By the North Gate.” Since then, she has received multiple awards for her writing, such as the O. Henry Award, the National Book Award for Fiction and the Chicago Tribune Literary Prize. At the Tucson Festival of Books on Saturday from 10-11 a.m., she will be a panelist at the Fiction Heavyweights lecture, and from 2:303:30 p.m. she will be participating in an interview called “A Conversation with Joyce Carol Oates.”

Daily Wildcat: How did you first become interested in writing?

Joyce Carol Oates: Like all children, I began with Crayolas and coloring books, then drawing, [and] then ‘storytelling.’

How do you manage your time between teaching at Princeton University and writing?

How do I ‘manage?’ I just divide the time in a plausible way. Teaching is one full day a week. But I am teaching at Stanford [University] this term, again one full day at the university. Preparation is most enjoyable since I am reading interesting student work as well as assignments from

an anthology (Hemingway, Faulkner, etc.).

Is there any one genre of writing you prefer over another?

Both the novel and the short story are immensely challenging.

How would you say your writing style has developed since you first began your career?

Individual voices, not my own, are of more interest to me now. I would be less likely to ‘narrate’ a story than to allow individuals to speak from their singular perspectives. I love the varieties and surprises of human speech.

interests wherever they lead. If you can, take a writing workshop to acquire critical skills and to see how your work impresses others. And don’t be discouraged.

— Follow Chelsea Cook @DailyWildcat

At the Tucson Festival of Books, what will you be focusing on during your talk?

I believe that I will have an on-stage conversation with the screenwriter Lisanne Skyler.

What has been the hardest part of maintaining your career in writing?

Finding uninterrupted periods of time simply to write and rewrite.

If you could give a piece of advice to a young, aspiring author, what would it be?

Read widely, following your own

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JOYCE CAROL OATES at the 2014 Texas Book Festival on Oct. 25, 2014 in Austin, Texas.

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Pi, volcanoes and DNA at Science City Patrick O’Connor

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he normally patchy field of grass on the east side of the UA Mall will soon be the stomping grounds of animals, insects and robots. All of Tucson will have a chance to be a scientist for the weekend at the Tucson Festival of Books’ Science City event.

The Tucson Festival of Books has been a Tucson staple going on seven years, and Science City provides the public with an opportunity to interact with Tucson’s diverse science community. This year’s city is divided into five neighborhoods where around 80 participating groups will be divided by broad scientific disciplines.

Science of Everyday Life In the Science of Everyday Life neighborhood, participants will be able to make liquid nitrogen ice cream with the Student Members of the American Chemical Society and learn about the science of baseball from the UA College of Engineering.

“It is a great feeling to know you are inspiring

the next generation of scientists,” said Daria Timonina, a senior studying biochemistry and molecular and cellular biology and the secretary of the UA SMACS. Science of the Natural World Don’t forget your safety goggles: At the Science of the Natural World neighborhood, the department of geosciences is simulating volcano eruptions three times a day.

The neighborhood isn’t the only way you can experience the wonders of the natural world this weekend. Many UA departments will be holding tours of their research facilities that are usually closed off to the public. On Saturday, the newly constructed UA Laboratory of Tree Ring Research will open its doors to the public for an open house. After checking out the rings, you can see some creepy crawlies during a tour through the UA Insect Collection or check out the diverse collection of plants and fungi at the UA Herbaria open house. On both Saturday and Sunday, visitors of all ages can learn about the diverse plant life on campus at the Campus Arboretum.

Science of You That’s not the only biology you can see at Science City. At the Science of You neighborhood, participants can extract their own DNA at the BIO5 Institute’s exhibit.

“It is awesome to see a child’s eyes light up with wonder when their interest in science is ignited,” said Lisa Romero, senior director of public affairs and communications at the BIO5 Institute and Science City Executive Committee co-chair.

Science of Tomorrow At the Science of Tomorrow neighborhood, visitors can get a magnified view of the sun through the telescopes of the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association. Some of the UA’s most cutting-edge technology will be on display for the public this weekend. On Sunday, the UA physics department will be offering guided tours through its laboratories, and on Saturday and Sunday, Steward Observatory Mirror Lab will be showing the public where some of the largest mirrors in the world are made.

Saturday marks a special day in every mathematician’s calendar because March 14 is

Pi Day. To commemorate the occasion, Science City’s Science of Pi neighborhood promises to inspire visitors with the majesty of mathematics.

Science City also features a central stage where engaging speakers will be giving talks and demonstrations that inspire the scientist in everyone. One of the most popular events will surely be a discussion on preventative medicine and healthy living by former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona and Dr. Peter Rhee, chief of trauma, critical care, burns and emergency surgery and a professor of surgery at the College of Medicine — Tucson.

Science City is a collaboration between BIO5, the Helios Education Foundation, the UA College of Science, the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Arizona SciTech Festival.

“Part of BIO5’s mission is to engage, inspire, educate and train future scientists, as well as to communicate the impact of collaborative science research being done at the UA,” Romero said.

— Follow Patrick O’Connor @tachyzoite

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Myths, monsters and heroes, oh my!

Victoria Pereira

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ne look at the master schedule for the Tucson Festival of Books is enough to overwhelm anyone: There are dozens of panels, Q&A sessions and informative talks of all sorts. On Sunday, there will also be myths, monsters and heroes.

“Percy Jackson, Jaguar Stones and Islands: Myths, Monsters and Heroes” is one of a handful of panels catered towards the younger portion of the festival audience. The panel features Austin Aslan, John Rocco and Jon and Pamela Voelkel, all of whom are involved in creating middle-age or young-adult level fantasy novels.

Aslan is the author of the “Islands at the End of the World” series, in which an epileptic Hawaiian girl is faced with the end of the world. After the world’s technology collapses and Hawaii is cut off from the rest of society, 16-year-old Leilani and her father must fight to survive the journey back to the rest of their family. The first novel in the series was Aslan’s first, and it as well as the sequel have received praise from readers and critics alike.

Rocco makes a living as an artist and book illustrator. As well as creating the artwork in an assortment of children’s picture books and middle-grade novels, Rocco is also the illustrator for the outrageously popular Rick Riordan and

his “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” “Kane Chronicles” and “Heroes of Olympus” series. He has also written and illustrated several children’s books of his own and received the Caldecott Honor for the picture book “Blackout.”

Jon and Pamela Voelkel are co-authors of the middle-grade series, “The Jaguar Stones.” The series follows 14-year-old Max in his search for his archeologist parents who went missing while on a dig in Central America. Throughout the fourbook series, he goes on incredible adventures and encounters friends, foes and Mayan myths aplenty.

Jon and Pamela Voelkel began writing the series over 10 years ago after being inspired by Mayan mythology.

“Essentially what we’re trying to do is bring alive Mayan mythology in a kind of modern context,” Jon Voelkel said. “There is a Mayan story, the creation myth of the Maya, about these hero twins that battle the lords of death, … and we’re loosely being inspired by that.”

The final installment of the series was published just a month ago, so Jon and Pamela Voelkel are looking forward to seeing what their fans at the festival have to say. Jon Voelkel explained that he enjoys writing for the middlegrade audience. The main difference between a middle-grade novel and a young adult novel is certain kinds of content that is included —

the plot could be the same but told in a slightly different way depending on the age of the reader.

Jon Voelkel said that he and Pamela strived to make “The Jaguar Stones” a series that could apply to younger readers as well as adults. He said that he believes some of the best writing today is done in the young-adult and middlegrade areas because of the necessity for authors to keep their novels interesting.

“When you’re appealing to young readers, you have to keep them reading,” Jon Voelkel said. “I think there’s a sharpness of craft that is necessary to appeal to a middle-grade audience, and that makes for a really good book.”

Aslan, Rocco and the Voelkels will be discussing their work in the young-adult and middle-grade areas of fantasy writing in a hour long Q&A panel in the Education building in Room 351 on Sunday at 10 a.m. After the panel, the authors and illustrator will have a signing area set up for their fans. The speakers will be involved in multiple panels throughout the weekend, and an entire schedule can be found online at the festival’s official website.

— Follow Victoria Pereira @vguardie917

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Banned books from Waldo to wild things

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n 1963, Max was considered dangerous, disrespectful and accused of delving into witchcraft. Fearing these behaviors could be psychologically damaging to other children, complaints were filed. Fifty-two years later, Max’s creator, Maurice Sendak, won many awards for his book “Where the Wild Things Are.” The picture book, with minimal text, is considered a brilliant depiction of a child’s perspective of resistance and a redemptive return to his mother from his fantasy escape.

Sendaks’ work is known to have influenced other artists and is even a personal favorite of President Barack Obama.

The Tucson Festival of Books will bring Helaine Becker to the Sunday panel, “Banned Books: Why We Should Let Kids Read What They Want,” to discuss the importance of allowing children the freedom to choose their own reading material.

Having authored over 50 books for children and adults, Becker is slated to discuss why protecting children from literature might not be preparing them for real-life situations.

Children develop coping strategies as they read books about characters going through

difficulties, giving children perspective, rather than being protected from literature’s difficult scenarios only to be unprepared when difficulty arises in their own lives, said Kathy Short, a UA professor, director of World of Words and co-chair for the children and teens author committee.

A common belief is that if banned books were put in elementary school libraries they would, essentially, be complicit in providing pornographic material to innocent children. This is not quite the case.

Not every book that has been comprised in the increasing list of censored books to be kept far from children is on par with E.L. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” or would have made Henry Miller blush.

“Teachers and librarians are very aware of what is appropriate literature for children at

different age levels, so they’re not going to be bringing in books that are inappropriate to the curriculum to what children of that age level and thinking can deal with,” Short said.

Technically, a book needs only one complaint to be considered for censorship; when it comes to anything regarding children, HARPERCOLLINS no complaint is taken lightly.

“While parents always have the right to say that their child as an individual should not read a particular book, they don’t have the right to say no one can read it,” Short said.

“Bridge to Terabithia” author Katherine Paterson, whose work has not been immune to banned books lists, will be at the Tucson Festival of Books along with other authors of books deemed in need of censoring.

Despite misconceptions that banned books all contain sexual content, it should be noted

that banned literature has a history of including “Where’s Waldo?” and even the “Little House on the Prairie” series.

The American Library Association awards the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award every two years to children’s authors or illustrators who have made a significant impact in children’s literature. The award is highly prestigious and honors Ingalls’ contribution to American history and literature, despite her own famous literature reported to be banned for writing unflattering depictions of Native Americans.

Despite the ban on Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie” series, her canon is included in the Library of Congress and included on lists of literature that shaped America.

From the dictionary to “Little Red Riding Hood,” censored books have played an integral part in children’s lives, whether their judicious parents realize it or not.

Helaine Becker will discuss “Banned Books: Why We Should Let Kids Read What They Want” Sunday in the Education building in Room 333 at 2:30 p.m.

— Follow Anna Mae Ludlum @maeludlum

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The best (or worst) of Noam Chomsky

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His second appearance at the UA since 2012, the event will be hosted by John Paul Jones III, dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and Chomsky will answer questions submitted online at 2shoesapp.com/chomsky.

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2015 ASUA General Election Official Results Total ballots cast: 4,990 REBECCA NOBLE/THE DAILY WILDCAT

LEFT ASSOCIATED STUDENTS of the University of Arizona presidential candidate Manuel Felix reacts to the announcment of his disqualification from the ASUA election in the Student Union Memorial Center on Thursday. (RIGHT) Associated Students of the University of Arizona presidential candidate Hannah Sager, right, is consoled by Robbie Hyne, left, after losing the ASUA election in the Student Union Memorial Center on Thursday.

BITTERSWEET WIN The election announcement Thursday night was overshadowed by the disqualification of the newly elected ASUA president, leaving the group without a winner   Manny Felix’s victory for the 20152016 ASUA presidency was short lived.

He was disqualified from the presidential race after his victory was announced Thursday night by elections commissioner Diego Alvarez.

At the announcement, Issac Ortega, current president of the Associated Students of the University of Arizona, said that Felix had won against opponent Hannah Sager but was disqualified, leaving no current president for the 2015-2016 academic year.

Felix, a junior studying political science and Spanish translation and interpretation, beat Sager, a marketing junior, by 238 votes with a total of 4,990 student voters in this election.

While Felix has not previously held a

position within ASUA , he was president of the Beta Omega chapter of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity until this spring and has worked at the Dean of Students Office for three years.

Sager is the current presidential chief of staff and has been involved in ASUA for the past three years.

Alvarez said Felix was disqualified for violating terms of the election policy.

According to Alvarez, Felix violated chapter five, section three of the ASUA Elections Code campaign conduct policy.

According to Alvarez, a “few” complaints from students were made to the ASUA offices Thursday morning.

When the complaints came in, it was Alvarez’s job to fully investigate the complaints to ensure complete validity before disqualifying Felix.

“The decision was made purely with

everything that was in front of us,” Alvarez said.

Felix said he will appeal this decision and that he knows that neither he nor his team violated any campaign regulations during his run for presidency.

In 2011, both presidential candidates were disqualified for violating the Elections Code. The election ultimately went into a special election after the appeal process, where James Allen won.

To appeal the decision, Felix will need to submit his appeal to the ASUA Elections Commission, which will ultimately decide if his appeal is valid. If his appeal is denied, he can place an appeal under the ASUA Supreme Court. If again denied, a special election will be held.

In a special election voters will again decide between Felix and Sager in a

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President: Manuel Felix 52.4% (Disqualified) Hannah Sager 47.0% EVP: Evan Hastings 76.6% Richard Gallom 22.7% AVP: Tatum Hammond 68.4% Louie Mbarkeh 31.0% Senate: Hailey Schwartz 10.5% Matt Lubisich 8.6% Natalie Scibilia 7.1% Maddy Bynes 7.1% Joe Zanoni 7.0% Andreas Zai 6.5% Trey Cox 6.4% Alec Kretch 6.2% David McGarey 6.1% Alexa Jenkins 5.35339% ------------Zeina Cabrera-Peterson 5.34802% Omar Pereyra 5.2% Zachary Berenson 4.7% Citlali Aguilar-Cañamar 4.7% Taylor Susan 4.6% Trinity Goss 4.3%

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speedier process, Ortega said.

More ASUA election results Evan Hastings, a mechanical engineering junior, was elected executive vice president and won by 1,540 voted against opponent Richard Gallon.

Hastings, who has worked as an appropriation board director for the past two years, will work to increase funding for clubs.

Tatum Hammond, an English sophomore and current administrative chief of staff was elected administrative vice president. Hammond wishes to expand, innovate and collaborate as AVP.

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Associated Students of the University of Arizona administrative vice president candidate Tatum Hammond tearfully rejoices after winning her election over Claire Larkin and Louie Mbarkeh in the Student Union Memorial Center on Thursday.

10 senators were elected • Haley Schwartz, a public health junior • Matt Lubisich, a freshman studying political science and economics • Natalie Scibilia, a freshman studying prebusiness and math • Maddy Bynes, a junior studying political science and history • Joe Zanoni, a political science junior • Andreas Zai, a pre-business freshman • Trey Cox, a sophomore studying pre-pharmacy and government and public policy • David McGarey, an engineering freshman • Alec Kretch, a pre-computer science sophomore • Alexa Jenkins, a sophomore studying criminal justice and psychology — Follow Adriana Espinosa @adrianaespi7

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Wildcats advance in tourney forward Brandon Ashley and then pushed him while the game action was on the other side of the floor.

“That’s basketball — you compete, LAS VEGAS — It was a tale of two halves for Arizona men’s you play hard, you battle,” Martin basketball as it opened up the Pac-12 said. “You don’t play dirty. You don’t Conference tournament with a close do anything malicious. Just battling.”

Both players received technical game that blew open in the second fouls on the play. However, Ashley half.

The No. 5 ranked and top-seeded had the last laugh, scoring 15 points Wildcats (29-3) beat California and grabbing seven rebounds.

“We’re the team that’s [29-3],” 73-51 in the Pac-12 tournament quarterfinals. Arizona led by six at Miller said. “We’re going to take the half before outscoring Cal 40-24 some punches. I’ve talked to these guys a lot about that, and when I say in the final 20 minutes.

“On our end, I thought we were punches, I don’t mean a punch. I better in the second half than we mean effort. And Cal played us really were in the first half across the board,” hard and physical.”

Kravish had a career-high 25 Arizona head coach Sean Miller said.

“There’s always a feeling-out process points on Wednesday but Arizona in March when you get into these limited him to just six points on tournaments, because teams are 3-for-13 shooting. It was the ninth time this season desperate.” that Kravish made Arizona now three or fewer plays UCLA in baskets in a game. the semifinals “I think you have Friday night at 6 to give all the credit p.m. on the Pac-12 to defense,” Martin Networks. said about Kravish.

Despite losing “When the shots 73-50 to Arizona were falling they in Berkeley, did the same thing, Calif., and 99made shots, made 60 in Tucson, plays to get shots. the Golden And you have to Bears played the give credit to the Wildcats close defense for making early on, as there it tough on them.” were six lead — Cuonzo Martin, Cal A r i z o n a changes and two head coach freshman forward ties.

Stanley Johnson “No matter scored 19 points, which team it is, any team in the Pac-12 tournament tying the game-high. With 450 seems to raise their level,” point points this year, he passed Salim guard T.J. McConnell said. “They Stoudamire for 10th most all-time for played well in the first half, and we a freshman.

Johnson also grabbed seven were kind of stagnant and we picked rebounds to tie center Kaleb it up in the second half.”

Arizona improved to 25-13 in the Tarczewski for fourth most in a rookie Pac-12 tournament and 8-5 under season for a Wildcat. This is the 26th Miller. No. 1 seeds are now 29-10 and time that Johnson has scored in double-figures this season. eight seeds are now 9-17.

“I think it’s always good to have Thursday afternoon’s game was Arizona’s first in this year’s games like this,” Johnson said. “We tournament, while Cal beat ninth- can always learn from every game we seeded Washington State 84-59 on play. I think we played good in spurts and bad in spurts.”

Wednesday.

“Competitive game, we battled, they battled,” Cal head coach Cuonzo Martin said. “They played well.”

The Golden Bears’ battle almost turned into a literal fight after Cal — Follow James Kelley forward David Kravish sat on UA @jameskelley520

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That’s basketball — you compete, you play hard, you battle.

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Arizona men’s basketball forward Stanley Johnson (5) smiles during Arizona’s 73-51 win against California during the first round of the Pac-12 tournament at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday. By defeating Cal, Johnson and the Wildcats advanced to the Pac-12 tournament semifinals.

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Arizona men’s basketball forward Stanley Johnson (5) holds back an angry Arizona forward Brandon Ashley (21) from California forward David Kravish after Kravish sat on Ashley during Arizonas’ 73-51 win against California in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday. Ashley and Kravish each received a technical foul for the altercation.

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Top: Arizona forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson (23) soars to the basket for a dunk during Arizona’s 73-51 win against California in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday.

Hollis-Jefferson and the Wildcats take on UCLA in the semifinals of the Pac-12 tournament on Friday.

RIGHT: Arizona men’s basketball guard T.J. McConnell victoriously raises his arms to the crowd as he walks off the court after Arizona’s 73-51 win against California in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Thursday. McConnell and the Wildcats defeated UCLA 57-47 in the lone matchup of the season.

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Arizona softball utility Hallie Wilson (5) gets a hit during Arizona’s 8-3 win against UNLV at Hillenbrand Stadium on March 4. Wilson and the Wildcats take on California on the road to open up Pac-12 Conference play.

“I think in the scheme of things, we’re doing good,” Arizona utility player Hallie Wilson said. “That’s what’s hard to really get into people’s heads. Nothing’s broken, we don’t need to be fixed. We’re okay.”

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In a quest to reverse a recent stretch of poor play, No. 18 Arizona softball hits the road for a three-game series against California to open up Pac-12 Conference play. The Wildcats went 2-3 at the Judi Garman Classic last weekend and have been working in practice this week to change their losing ways.

Arizona softball head coach Mike Candrea tore into his players before practice on Tuesday in an effort to motivate the team. Candrea emphasized accountability and playing as a team rather than individuals.

“We’ve talked about a lot of things and things we really need to fix,” Arizona outfielder Eva Watson said. “I guess our mindset right now is really looking at yourself and deciding what you can do best to help out the team and help out the program. I mean, it’s a team effort, … but we really need to look at ourselves.”

While it may seem like the sky is falling, Arizona is 21-6 so far this season and still ranked in the top 20 nationally. The Wildcats were 20-6 when they lost their sixth game last season, which actually puts this year’s team nearly at pace with last year’s team, which ended 44-16.

a .443 batting average and is tied for the team lead in home runs with Cordes at five.

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Combatting that level of talent both offensively and on the mound will not be an easy task for the Wildcats, but rather a task at which the team flourishes.

“It’s so exciting,” Wilson said. “That’s the best thing about coming off a long, tough weekend, is that we right away have another chance to redeem ourselves and do what we know how to do. We get to start off with a great competitive team [in] Cal, and we’re ready to show them what we can do.”

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Arizona baseball outfielder Justin Behnke (4) slides into home during Arizona’s 9-6 win against Portland on March 8. Behnke and the Wildcats take on Utah at home to open Pac-12 Conference play.

UA Baseball hosts Utah Utes

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Arizona baseball begins Pac-12 Conference play by hosting Utah (4-11) for a three-game series at Hi Corbett Field. The Wildcats are coming off a three-game sweep over Portland, while the Utes are coming off a 2-1 series win against Kansas, their first series win of the season.

Arizona took the three-game series 2-1 against Utah last season.

Arizona is approaching the weekend with an aggressive mindset, even though

Utah stands in the bottom of the Pac-12.

“We have to play just how we have been playing, but maybe a bit tougher, just because it’s conference play now,” Arizona center fielder Justin Behnke said. “There’s better pitching and better batters, so it’s different now.”

Leading the Utes offensively are juniors Wyler Smith, Cody Scaggari and sophomore Dallas Carroll.

Arizona second baseman Scott Kingery and shortstop Kevin Newman are ranked No. 1 and 2, respectively, in the nation for runs scored and base hits.

The Wildcats are riding a six-game

winning streak, their longest since 2013.

They are also leading the Pac-12 with a .339 batting average while leading the nation in hits (226) and runs (151).

Arizona right fielder Jared Oliva said the team’s approach will not change.

“There’s no different approach,” Oliva said. “We just have to keep doing what we’re doing to keep winning, especially in the next games.”

The Wildcats trailed in all three games against Portland last weekend, but rallied to win all three. Arizona head coach Andy Lopez said that when conference play begins, he wants the team to execute the way it did during those games.

“There has been good execution from them and they need to keep doing that if they want to win,” Lopez said.

The pitching rotation for the weekend will have a change for Friday’s game.

Cody Hamlin will be on the mound Friday, while Robby Medel will remain Saturday’s starer and Tyger Talley will start on Sunday. This will be Hamlin’s first weekend start of the season and

Medel’s first Pac-12 start.

Utah’s probable starters are Bret Helton, Dalton Carroll and Jayson Rose.

Arizona leads 55-7 in the all-time series and is seeking its first opening Pac12 series win since 2012.

“We can get it done, we just have to stay focused coming into the weekend,” Oliva said.

The first pitch on Friday is scheduled for 6 p.m.

During spring break, Arizona will travel for just the second time this season to play Stanford in a three-game series. The Wildcats will play Stanford March 20-22, with the March 20 and March 22 games being televised on Pac-12 Networks.

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GymCats look to rebound

Despite several key injuries, Arizona gymnastics aims to recover on Senior Night Laub’s comment could not be truer, since Flores has anchored the Wildcats in almost every No. 17 Arizona gymnastics event this season and rarely gets has a lot on its plate moving flustered in competition.

All three of the seniors forward after scoring the thirdhighest team score in program graduating have spent time history. The GymCats will finish recovering and fighting off their regular season on Saturday injuries, with the most recent against No. 18 Denver during victim being Flores. Wobma was injured during the fall season Senior Night in McKale Center.

Senior Night has brought its and has only competed once this ups and downs for Arizona. season for the Wildcats.

Fox, on the other hand, had Seniors Allie Flores, Shay Fox and Amber Wobma will be no intention of ever competing honored for their work with again after back injuries the Arizona program. But the prevented her from competing honors come with sad news for during the end of her high school career. She was introduced the Wildcats.

Arizona Athletics confirmed to Ryden by former Arizona gymnast that Flores would K a t i e not compete for Matusik the “duration of during her the season” due sophomore to the injury she year at sustained against Arizona and Texas Women’s has since University. become “When we a staple came back to for the Tucson, Allie did Wildcats. consult with our “ T h i s team physicians meet is very i m m e d i a t e l y ,” special for Arizona gymnastics —Bill Ryden, us every head coach Bill Arizona gymnastics year,” Ryden Ryden said during head coach said on The Ryden Show.

The Ryden “Unfortunately, Show. “We she did sustain a season-ending injury and in fact honor the outgoing seniors who had surgery to repair. But this, in have completed their eligibility essence, means it was a career- or are retiring. It’s great for our ending injury. Not the way any of home fans and for our team to be us or she wanted to go out, but able to share their appreciation.”

Also ending her time with it’s nice to know how much she Arizona gymnastics is four-year meant to the program.”

Flores took to Twitter to team manager Ahnalee Cristello, express her emotion about the sister of former Wildcat gymnast Aubree Cristello. injury.

Arizona has not faced Denver “I am so thankful for everyone who has sent me their prayers since 2010, and in that season, and good vibes,” Flores tweeted. the Wildcats faced Denver twice “I am blessed with the greatest and split the pair of meets.

Following the meet against friends, family and teammates.”

Flores’ teammate, Gabby the Pioneers, Arizona will travel Laub, responded to Flores with a to Salt Lake City for the Pac-12 Conference championship on tweet of her own.

“Wishing you the fastest March 21. healing/recovery,” Laub tweeted. “We would be nowhere near where we are without you. I — Follow Matt Wall love you so much!” @mwall20

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Arizona gymnast Allie Flores performs her floor routine during Arizona’s 196.425-196.100 win against California in McKale Center on Feb. 28. The Wildcats end their home portion of the schedule with Senior Night against Denver on Saturday.

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Arizona sand volleyball coach Steve Walker chats with sisters Madison (23) and McKenna Witt (21) during Arizona’s 5-0 win against Tulane at Jimenez Field on March 7. The Wildcats hit the road to take on Cal Poly this weekend.

Arizona gets first road test in California

BY Jordyn Owen The Daily Wildcat

Arizona sand volleyball travels to San Luis Obispo, Cali., this weekend to take on the Cal Poly Mustangs on Saturday and Sunday. Like the Wildcats, the Mustangs are also in their second season as a Division I program.

This will be the first time that the Mustangs host a team on their home courts.

This weekend marks the first away match of the season for the Wildcats, who are hungry for their first road win of the season.

If last year is any indicator, though, this will be one tough match. The Wildcats pulled out

a hard-earned win against the Mustangs last season, 3-2.

Going on the road is a battle for any team, but this was especially true for the Wildcats last year.

After a five-match winning streak at home, the Wildcats went on the road for five-straight weeks where they struggled to bring home wins, only winning three of the remaining 15 matches. Arizona ultimately ended its season 8-12.

“We weren’t too accustomed to the conditions of playing on a beach,” Arizona head coach Steve Walker said. “But being a year in and recruiting some true beach players with backgrounds in playing on multiple surfaces, I think we’ll be just fine moving

forward.”

The Wildcats are determined to continue the success this season that they built during the Arizona Invitational.

Walker said that the team tries to stay in its routine while traveling, and attempts to prepare for the type of surface it’ll be playing on as best as it can.

“There is nothing that can really replace experience, though, and we’ve got a little bit of that now.” Walker said.

One player, among a few others, that Walker said he can always rely on to be focused and composed is newcomer Kaitlyn Leary, who Walker said has outstanding mental habits.

“Playing in the Big-10 Conference has mentally prepared me for playing in this competitive conference.” Leary said. “The Big-10 and Pac12 [Conference] are both very competitive conferences for volleyball.”

The full roster of strictly sand players, in addition to the focus that the team is working to gain, should aid the team in its competition on the road.

“Having more people in the fall has helped in the spring,” sophomore Sarah Seiber said.

“Now that we’ve had 10 just sand girls in the fall, we’ve all gotten better and had the time to work on our skills.”

Some of the skills that the team has been working on in practice this week include setting and serving, as well continuing work on shots.

The Wildcats will get to test those skills on Saturday at 11 a.m. during the first day of their matchup against the Mustangs.

The two teams will get to face off again on Sunday at 9 a.m. in the Cal Poly Pairs Tournament.

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