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UA innovation continues Teams present their innovations to industry professionals in a competition style format

BY TERRIE BRIANNA The Daily Wildcat

On Tuesday , the Arizona Center for Innovation launched the 2015 Perkins Coie Innovative Minds Challenge where students compete for funding, access to Mentored Launch support and mentoring

that will help them transform their ideas into reality .

Anita Bell , acting director at the Arizona Center for Innovation , said the purpose of this competition is to “provide opportunities for students,” and one way is by creating their own jobs through starting their own companies.

According to Bell, it is important for students to stay in the state of Arizona in order to have a better educated population, which leads to higher salaries and a better quality of life.

A total of $10,000 in grants were awarded to the top three teams . The first place winner

won $5,000, the second and third place winners received $2,500 .

This prize money, according to Bell, is meant for the students to further commercialize their innovations.

In first place, winning $5,000 was Infinurja . The group aims to provide low-cost, renewable

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“People in India need this product, which would enable us to make a difference,” said Vinay Nenwani , a student

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UA to expand online presence

BY KETHIA KONG

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At the age of 24, Melody Buckner earned her bachelor’s degree at Arizona State University. After taking a few years off to work and start a family, she wanted to return to school to get her master’s degree.

Even though she lived in Tucson, she couldn’t attend the UA due to the time constraints of work and parenting. As a result, she enrolled in Northern Arizona University’s online master’s program and completed her master’s at the age of 42.

Now she’s 54 years old and pursuing her Ph.D. at the UA. She works as the director of Digital Learning Initiatives and Online Education, tasked with the job of developing UA Online, a fully online program in which undergraduate and graduate students can earn their degrees without having to be on campus.

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DANCE STUDENTS REHEARSE a number in the Boundless dance show in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre on Monday night. The School of Dance’s Spring Collection features multiple dance styles.

Online learning is not new to the UA. Since 2009, the Outreach College has offered online classes to graduate students seeking professional degrees. But, UA Online’s emphasis on helping undergraduate students earn their bachelor’s degrees through fully online courses is new.

Beginning in fall 2015, the UA will offer 24 different online degrees for undergraduate students, 18 for graduate students and 23 for students seeking graduate certificates.

According to Vincent Del Casino, vice provost for Digital Learning and Student Engagement, UA Online is planning to accept 1,000 undergraduate and 2,500 graduate students.

On the surface, UA Online should offer a number of benefits for the UA. Many have been vocal about their support of online learning and the expansion of

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Diversion program offers second chance

BY LAUREN RENTERIA The Daily Wildcat

Earlier this semester, Parking and Transportation Services launched a diversion program that could potentially erase, or reduce, parking fines that students face on campus.

The PTS diversion program keeps students’ financial responsibilities in mind by allowing them to participate in an online educational program once an academic year for a parking violation on campus, instead of paying the full citation .

It is split into four sections, each emphasizing various

aspects of UA life: University Knowledge ; Being a Better University Citizen ; Campus Health ; and Parking and Transportation . Unlike many other traffic school courses, this program is tailored to the individual. Students are given 14 days to complete the workbookstyle program, which takes about two hours to complete.

Mark Napier, associate director of operations for PTS, said the organization makes less than 5 percent revenue annually, and that parking citations can be replaced by a more positive, educational outlet.

“We could turn the negative

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WITHOUT AN APPROPRIATE parking pass, vehicles are ticketed for defying parking laws on the UA campus. Parking and Transportation Services will now provide students with the opportunity to avoid parking fines by going through a diversion program.

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the UA’s curriculum. However, there are also concerns about the effect the program will have regarding on-campus students, the change it could have on the landscape of the university as a whole, and UA Online’s ability to provide students “with online education that’s equal to the best in-classroom experience,” as advertised.

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“The big picture is access,” Casino said. “Right now, we’re limited. Geography limits us when you mandate that people move somewhere. Online allows for multiple populations to access that education that [hasn’t] been available before.”

For Buckner, UA Online means more than accessibility. It’s a matter of fairness.

“We don’t want to say, ‘Oh, you can only get a UA degree if you can physically come here and be a part of the resident,’” Buckner said. “Then we get into a bit of a social justice issue, don’t we?

This is just a way for us to reach a population that can’t experience college.”

The launch of UA Online comes at a timely period in higher education. For years, online learning has seen an unprecedented growth.

In addition to the rising popularity of online learning, there is a growing demand for bachelor’s degrees from employers. There Some said they believe the are not enough job seekers expansion of online learning will with bachelor’s degrees, and, open up more opportunities for as a result, there is a significant creative learning. credential gap in employment.

Eliane Rubinstein-Avila, an According to Burning Glass, associate professor for the UA a database that tracks millions Department of Teaching, Learning of online job postings and the and Sociocultural Studies, has credentials employers ask for, the seen the high quality education credential gap is above 20 percent online classes can offer. in management, office and “Face-to-face only, I will administrative probably not teach services, business much anymore,” and financial Avila said. “[With operations, and online classes,] computer and I can deliver mathematical courses that are jobs. a lot more multi“Both the modal.” economy and Avila cites that, society are too often, a faced e ma n d i ng to-face class is too an increase text-based. Online in [bachelor’s classes allow her degrees],” Casino the flexibility said. “We have to show films, to meet certain documentaries — Vincent Del Casino, expectations and an assortment vice provost for Digital and demands so of videos to Learning and Student that we continue complement her Engagement to have active, teachings. engaged students A study who can move the conducted by the state forward.”

U.S. Department of Education in 2010 supports her view. After analyzing more than a thousand For years, the UA has been empirical studies on online an attractive university for learning, researchers found undergraduates who want to be “students in online conditions on campus and experience the performed modestly better, on college lifestyle. The university average, than those learning the has not been nearly as successful same material through traditional at attracting students 25 years face-to-face instruction.” and older. University Analytics Yet, others are not as quick & Institutional Research to praise the quality of online reports that almost 9 percent of classes. undergraduates were 25 years “I don’t like online classes,” or older in fall 2014. At NAU, 21 said Melissa Espindola, a senior percent of undergraduates were studying chemistry and French.

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Financially, UA Online can prove to be a cheap alternative to attending classes on campus. For on-campus classes, it costs $771 per unit. It costs $490-$515 per unit for an online class. This raises the question: Will more students opt to attend UA Online, rather than experience life on campus?

“It’s just a spread of opportunity,” Casino said. “None of this is going to stem the tide of people who want to be in Tucson, Arizona. Coming

majoring in business administration and management information systems.

Nenwani added that he has connections in India, which would allow him to deploy this product when ready.

The innovation involves waste conversion. Nenwani said waste is a problem and liability, so “we are using that problem and converting that problem into electricity.”

Nenwani is the CEO of Infinurja, which aims to produce and sell patent-pending products that use organic waste processes to create consistent electricity to homes.

Agent Sage, a different group, aims to match buyers and sellers to agents on a basis of compatibility through an online platform and was awarded a $2,500 prize.

Zy Mazza, a religious studies freshman, said Agent Sage is unique because “it just doesn’t exist in the market sector right now,” and “nobody has really seen the value of personal compatibility in the field.”

Mazza, the CEO at Agent Sage, added that the six-month mentoring and office space awarded are far greater than the prize money, because they will get the opportunity to interact with people who can help get their business on the right track.

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In five weeks of advertising and marketing, UA Online has already garnered over 100 applicants and over 1,000 views on its website.

“I think things will start to grow as people understand that this is an option,” said Melissa Vito, vice provost for Academic Initiatives and Student Success.

“In five years, in my ideal world, we would probably be somewhere around 10,000 graduate and undergraduate students.”

Despite the expected rise in diplomas the UA will hand out in the next few years due to UA Online, Vito and Casino said they do not worry about the university turning into a diploma mill.

“We have the same admissions standards, the same degree requirements and the same degree,” Casino said. “This is just another way in which we’re investing in the research and practice of teaching and learning.”

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“The topics were really interesting, but I feel like, sometimes, when I had questions, I would email my professor, and it was hard for her.

I wouldn’t understand her emails sometimes.”

Another student had a similar sentiment, citing the lack of interactivity in an online class.

“It wasn’t something I liked because it was just like, ‘OK, I look at the material, and that’s it,’” said Maria Mata, a sophomore studying family studies and human development. “I need someone to actually see and walk up to ask them something.”

Casino shared a more objective view on the matter.

“There’s good teaching, and there’s bad teaching,” he said.

“And that can happen in your face-to-face classroom or your online world.”

Meanwhile, Avila said she believes it’s unfair to say one teaching method is better than the other.

“Just because someone is teaching it face-to-face doesn’t make it a quality course, and just because someone teaches it online, it doesn’t make it an inferior course,” Avila said. “I don’t think it’s for everybody or that everybody will do well. It all depends on the quality of the instructor.”

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Members of the winning team, Infinurja, pose for a photo with Nicholas Jennings (center right) and Raj Gangadean (far right) for the 2015 Perkins Coie Innovative Minds Challenge Demo Day at the Arizona Center for Innovation on Tuesday. A total of $10,000 were awarded to the top three teams.

recipients , aims to introduce optical engineering to children and parents through the production of edible lenses, which are low calorie and diabetic friendly.

“Our idea is unique, because nobody else combines STEM education with something that is edible to draw kids in and get them excited,” said Sarina Sedgwick, a

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Sedgwick added that with the prize money, they will develop products further and file for a patent.

experience of getting a parking ticket into a positive experience through getting to know more about the university, as opposed to just paying a fine,” Napier said. “It just makes sense to make this a more positive outlet for students.”

The program was originally inspired by President Ann Weaver Hart and designed by Napier with the purpose of being free and educational.

Campus Health Service and the Dean of Students Office worked closely with PTS in efforts to educate and help students.

David Salafsky, director of Health Promotion & Preventive Services, said the diversion program not only eases economic strain on students, but also raises awareness of campus resources that they might need in the future.

“I think it’s great to have another option in place of paying a fine,” Salafsky said. “It’s definitely a more attractive option … to know what is available here at UA as a student.”

While the diversion program is directed at students, the program is planning on expanding and reaching out to UA staff based on future need. Some students have indicated they are excited to use the new program that PTS has to offer.

“I think that this is something that I would definitely use,” said Kristen Baca, a biochemistry sophomore.

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Do you monitor your daily trash production? campus events

BY ERIC KOLSRUD

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While Monday was a “green” holiday for many, it pales in comparison to an even greener one — Earth Day. Today is the annual celebration of the Earth, its resources and the creatures that call it home.

Earth Day was originally founded to advocate for human health and happiness, with a focus on the environment only coming recently.

“It is about reminding ourselves Earth Day isn’t separate from caring about people,” said Maya Kapoor, graduate assistant for the Office of Sustainability.

The UA has put on a dizzying array of events to celebrate, from the Sustainability Olympics and Earth Hour, to a Battle of the Utilities.

“We are considering it ‘Earth Month,’” Kapoor said.

The Sustainability Olympics were held at the UA Mall on Monday, for students to lean sustainability with games.

Earth Hour, put on by Residence Life, is a worldwide event that encourages everyone to shut off all lights for one hour.

Lastly, Recycle Mania — an event where dorms compete to recycle the most — recently came to a close. “[It’s] basically just a competition amongst residence halls to promote reduction, reuse, recycling,” said Drew Matalon, an accounting senior.

These events come amid a greater focus on sustainability and being eco-friendly, both throughout the nation and on campus. The UA has several programs and policies to encourage sustainability on campus, such as a community garden, campus composting, and several clubs and organizations for students to join and learn more.

Most of these initiatives aren’t cheap, which is why the UA

operates the Green Fund. The fund was set up as a grant to pay for sustainability projects on campus, with a panel of students and faculty making the decisions of what programs get how much.

For students, there are many different ways to make an impact.

Students can use reusable bags at U-Mart , carry reusable water bottles, recycle, compost, limit water usage, and turn off air conditioning and lights when not in use.

“It’s important to be recycling bottles and cans but [also] reducing our waste, too,” said Jackie Mendelson, a plant sciences freshman.

While individual students have plenty of ways to work on sustainability, there are several different student organizations and clubs dedicated to sustainability as well.

Compost Cats are responsible for increasing awareness of the importance of composting and for successfully getting compost programs set up at Sabor and Cactus Grill in the Student Union Memorial Center.

Students for Sustainability works to educate and volunteer about the topic by setting up interactive booths at the Sustainability Olympics and the Tucson Earth Day event.

The Tucson Earth Day was held at Reid Park on Saturday, with participation from various people, organizations and clubs — including UA students.

Mendelson said the purpose was to find “fun ways to learn about why sustainability is important.”

All of these events and activities reflect the importance of Earth Day, both to the campus and the community as a whole.

“We need to be a resource to the Earth, just as it’s been a resource to us,” Mendelson said.

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Spanish is not a disability

BY Hailey Dickson The Daily Wildcat

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hat do you call a person speaking two languages?

Bilingual. What do you call a person speaking one?

American.

For being a melting pot of cultural diversity, America sure is homogenous in the way it communicates. The U.S. is one of the few countries in the world where a majority of citizens only know one language. People from nearly every other continent might call this blasphemy. Americans, however, call it “pride.”

“This is America, speak English” is rhetoric native-born and naturalized Americans have heard all too often. The flaw in this logic is this: America does not have an official language.

Puerto Rico, where 95 percent of citizens above the age of 5 speak Spanish at home, exemplifies the lingual diversity allowed by the U.S. Constitution. A compromising ruling by the Social Security Administration, though, challenges this.

As reported by The Washington Post, according to a government audit, “Hundreds of Puerto Rica’s residents qualified for federal disability benefits in recent years because they lacked fluency in English.”

This federal assistance operates under the premise that not speaking English (even in a predominantly Spanish-speaking U.S. territory) can hamper participation in the workforce as much as a disability.

The fact that this loophole logic was applied in Puerto Rico of all places is ridiculous. Location and misappropriation of federal funds aside, it points to some problematic ways in which the federal government treats those lacking English fluency.

Of course, inability to speak English in the continental U.S. can greatly reduce one’s ability to secure employment. However, not every challenge is a disability. If a person has a learning disability that renders them unable to learn a new language, that’s a different story. Otherwise, abled non-English speakers looking for work, while disadvantaged, are not disabled.

Elisa Vasquez, Undersecretary General of Spanish Coordination for Arizona Model United Nations, agreed.

“Many community centers and schools offer free English classes,” Vasquez said, “so many [nonEnglish speaking] people have the option to learn, but they don’t.”

Non-fluency, unlike an actual disability, is a condition reversed by education. That preferring to speak another language in America can be considered a disability is patronizing and insulting to minorities. While well-intentioned, federal benefit provisions for “unofficial” language speakers operate under the false assumption there is an official language in the U.S. (Again, there isn’t.)

Furthermore, they go as far as equating English speakers to regularly-abled, productive Americans and non-English speakers to disabled, unproductive Americans who can’t contribute skills successfully to society.

Rather than placating nonEnglish speakers through misapplied benefits, we should encourage them to participate in programs and develop skills to better prepare them for success in today’s English-dominated market.

Likewise, we should do the same for those who speak English as a first language.

English speakers need to shed the delusion that English is the dominant language by learning new languages to make them more adept for success in the global market.

Language and culture are intertwined. To regard one’s language and one’s culture as crippling is discordant with the American spirit of protecting free speech and establishing individual liberty.

— Hailey Dickson is a freshman studying public health and molecular & cellular biology. Follow her @_Hailelujah

Felons are still citizens incarceration — it is not surprising that states aren’t pushing for voters’ rights for felons.

Laws promoting disenfranchisement don’t even hold up to their self-reported goals of preventing voter fraud and maintaining an accurate representation of the American voice. According to The Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch, groups focused on restoring voters’ rights to felons and other disenfranchised groups, these laws have “no discernible legitimate purpose.”

Disenfranchisement has also largely been shown not to be an effective crime deterrent, as recidivism, or returning to crime after “correction,” has a negative correlation with voting.

Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, has said it best: “You’ve done your time in prison; now you’re living in the community. You’re expected to abide by the rules of society, pay your taxes, get a job. … It’s counterproductive to the community at large for us to essentially be treating people as secondclass citizens.”

While Arizona is a state where some people with felony convictions are allowed to vote, we are in the top 10 states with disenfranchised populations, with over 4 percent of our population ineligible to vote.

If we want to make even the tiniest changes in protecting our citizens from a system designed to keep them down, we need to offer past victims of this system the chance to voice their opinion on how future generations could be kept out of danger.

you count Australia’s entire population — and over half (58 percent) of that population is made up of minorities, although they comprise around 25 percent of the total population. The systems set up to perpetuate systematic racism and oppression are further exemplified.

Sometimes referred to as the “school-to-prison pipeline,” public services are often deleterious to the lives of minorities, specifically Hispanic and black Americans. With drastic education cuts in our state budget and across the nation, the problem isn’t being solved on the front end.

Subsequently, felon disenfranchisement is even more important.

The stigmatization of prison time can be crushing to the lives of former criminals in the eyes of the unincarcerated public, and that stigmatization comes with restrictions to voting.

In every state except Maine and Vermont (where everyone, including inmates, is allowed to vote) felons are disenfranchised.

This disenfranchisement, which affects 5.85 million people due to a felony conviction, contributes to continued socioeconomic disparity, which, in turn, causes increased crime rates. Social restrictions such as disenfranchisement and hiring difficulties for ex-felons force them into stagnancy within the community they started in, perpetuating a cycle of crime, incarceration, disenfranchisement and reduced opportunity. And it is showing no signs of stopping.

The fact, then, that one in 13 black Americans is prohibited from casting a vote in the U.S. is shocking. Since the people who can vote are making no effort to reduce institutionalized oppression and prevent the rampant incarceration of our population — in some cases, voters are striving to increase criminalization of drug activity and sex work, which would increase

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merica is as cliché a melting pot now as it was when it was formed. While our great nation suggests a celebration of diversity and difference, its dark history of oppression, slavery and religious persecution sets a precedent counterintuitive to the tenets it was founded on: acceptance, religious freedom and innovation.

Hoping to inspire and uphold these tenets, we operate within an open democracy — where all citizens (above a certain age) should be able to vote to maintain and preserve the nation they live in.

Unfortunately, for a large portion of the population, that right to vote is no longer freely given.

The fact is that the American democratic system is still working to disenfranchise minorities and preserve the old, white boys club that got us into messes like the Civil War. Disenfranchisement, which refers to the retraction of voting rights for a variety of reasons, is simply un-American.

The now-antiquated but American ideology of “no taxation without representation” can and should be extended to include phrases such as “no government-sanctioned murder without representation,” “no imprisonment without representation” and “no systematic oppression without representation.”

While cliché itself, “no taxation without representation” asks an important question: When and why should voting rights be removed?

With 2.2 million people incarcerated, the U.S. has the world’s largest prison population — unless

— Nick Havey is a junior studying physiology and Spanish.

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Independent pay policies don’t eliminate need for federal minimum wage increase

BY Jacob Winkelman The Daily Wildcat

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ver the course of the past few months, two of America’s biggest employers, McDonald’s and Wal-Mart, announced wage increases for many of their employees. Wal-Mart has agreed to give all personnel $9 an hour with the intention of raising this to $10 an hour in 2016.

Similarly, McDonald’s announced raising employees’ wages by $1, in addition to an increase in benefits.

While this is surely good news for some, other less obvious consequences of these raises need to be taken into account.

Firstly, the McDonald’s decision will hardly affect any of its employees. The move only applies to non-franchised workers, or 90,000 out of its 750,000 employees.

That still leaves nearly 90 percent of its workforce without what is already a fairly meager raise.

Secondly, and arguably more importantly, an increase to only

$10 will not be enough to bring some of these workers above the poverty line. A recent study by the Democratic staff of the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce estimates that Wal-Mart employees take in about $3,000 in public benefits each year. While a raise will help lower this amount, it certainly will not suddenly allow thousands of McDonald’s and WalMart workers to stop using several government assistance programs.

Lastly, these types of corporate announcements, which also include recent raises by Target, Aetna and The Gap, Inc., give credence to the idea that society should allow the free market, rather than the government, to set a “minimum wage”. The federal minimum wage is still stuck at $7.25 an hour, despite a five-year push by President Barack Obama to change it.

With these recent wage jumps coming from corporations rather than legislation, proponents of abolishing a minimum wage can now argue that public demand for higher wages will lead to appropriate increases in a free market.

Of course, the problems with this

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argument are that these raises still fail to provide many basic needs for families and that, without a minimum wage, some employers would offer even more abysmal salaries.

Although McDonald’s and WalMart benefit from a public relations standpoint with these moves, they do have other incentives that certainly played a role.

Economically, higher wages an employer voluntarily pays, otherwise known as efficiency wages, can attract better workers.

In fact, the U.S. Department of Labor reports that higher wages can actually reduce employee turnover, which can ultimately save businesses money. With the economy steadily recovering, employees have more leverage and can seek positions with higher earnings, thus pressuring businesses to raise their salaries.

Still, the debate over whether to raise the minimum wage, and to what amount, remains a contentious issue.

The main argument against raising it too high is that if wages rise, companies will be forced to lay off employees. Todd Neumann,

lecturer for the UA Department of Economics, however, said most research on the subject shows that small increases to the minimum wage result in little, if any, additional unemployment.

When asked about raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, as some groups have called for, Neumann said such a large jump would be unprecedented; thus, little academic literature currently exists to predict accurately what would happen.

Cities such as Seattle, Portland and San Francisco, however, have recently passed plans for $15-per-hour minimum wages.

Meaning, it may not be long before the academic community has an appropriate sample size to study.

If these city-level experiments prove successful, the U.S. must examine whether it can finally give all workers fair and substantial wages.

— Jacob Winkelman is a sophomore studying political science and English. Follow him @JacobWink94

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A University of Arizona Police Department officer went to investigate a student with suicidal thoughts after a counselor at UA Counseling and Psych Services met with the student on April 7 at 12:30 p.m.

The student agreed to be taken to Palo Verde Behavioral Health center for constant mental health service due to the nature of his thoughts. The counselor informed the UAPD officer that this man was a high-risk patient, because he recently had thoughts of using the gun and ammunition he kept at his residence to hurt himself.

The man said this was the first time being seen by CAPS staff, and he came there for connections to a full-time mental health care center. He told the staff he only wanted to hurt himself and no one else.

The student lives with his parents, so he spoke to his mother and asked her if she would remove all the weapons from their home.

The counselor told his mother he would be at the Palo Verde center for four to five days.

The officer made sure the student did not have any weapons on him, and he was then taken to the patrol vehicle and driven to the center on Craycroft Road for treatment.

The officer completed a Dean of Students Office referral form and told the student that if he needed anymore assistance after being released, he could contact UAPD.

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A UAPD officer pulled into the local Circle K on Sixth Street for a beverage when he noticed that a black BMW sedan parked at a fuel pump had an expired license plate on April 12 at 4:05 p.m.

The officer initiated a traffic stop at the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center after the BMW driver decided to pull into the parking lot. The driver had no proof of insurance and said he thought his mother had taken care of the vehicle registration. The officer also discovered that his license was suspended.

While the officer was searching the vehicle, he came across two warm, unopened cans of Coors Light and Keystone beer in the driver door’s pocket. In the trunk, there was a 1.751 of Fireball Cinnamon Whiskey with a small amount of content left inside. The bottle was hiding in the far back of the trunk under some clothes.

The man driving claimed a friend of his drove the other night and must have left the alcohol inside the vehicle. He said he noticed the cans but did not think about throwing them away.

The driver was cited and released for driving with a suspended license and was warned about the alcohol. The BMW was towed, and the alcohol was taken to the UAPD station and dumped out.

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Tony Award-winning musical based on Ingmar Bergman’s film, “Smiles of a Summer Night,” is a warm, humorous story of romantic attachments, detachments and mismatches, infused throughout with the flavor of a waltz. $31 Regular; $29 Senior, Military, UA Employee; $21 Student.

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Salvador Dalí: Our Historical Heritage February 14, 2015– June 14 2015, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. UA Museum of Art, 1031 N Olive Road. $5 - Free to UA students, faculty and staff. Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is most famous for the bizarre, dreamlike paintings he created as a member of the Surrealist movement.

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Glass Reimagined 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. Exhibition features the glass box series of Henry Halem. The sealed glass boxes become environments for Halem’s exercises in composition, utilizing objects inside and the canvas that is the glass surface.

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Familar foes face off Arizona baseball has a rare nonconference home game with ASU on Wednesday in the second to last meeting of the season between the rivals

BY NICOLE COUSINS The Daily Wildcat

Arizona baseball’s Joseph Maggi and ASU have a history almost as deep-seated as the two schools themselves.

Maggi had his eyes set on playing baseball at ASU as a high school senior at Brophy College Prep. Two of his older brothers, Drew and Beau Maggi, played baseball for the Sun Devils, and Joe Maggi grew up watching them make it to Omaha, Neb., in back-to-back years in 2009 and 2010.

But, as his senior year wound down, it was Arizona, not ASU, that recruited him.

“ASU is where I learned college baseball from,” Maggi said. “After coming here [to Arizona], I took a lot of criticism for it. I had to earn my own way; it kind of means more after everything like that happening to be where [Arizona] is today.”

Now, he has a final shot of redemption. Maggi, a senior, plays his second-to-last regular season game against the Sun Devils tonight at Hi Corbett Field.

He sat out the three-game series — which ASU took two-to-one — two weekends ago due to a hamstring injury he sustained nearly two months ago.

“They told me if I wanted to play, I’d have to play through the pain,” Maggi said, “so it is what it is right now.”

Since the injury, Maggi made his first two starts over the weekend at Oregon State, and Arizona lost two of three to the Beavers.

Arizona has now lost seven of its last nine games, recording only 16 total hits against Oregon State. The Wildcats are averaging almost 11 hits per game this season.

Utility player Bobby Dalbec, who has hit as many home runs as the rest of the team combined (12), and

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ARIZONA BASEBALL outfielder Joseph Maggi (15) sets up to receive a toss back to the bag as a USC Trojan slides back to first base during Arizona’s 4-1 loss to USC at Hi Corbett Field on April 2. Maggi and the Wildcats take on ASU in a rare nonconference game between the rivals today.

had three in the series against ASU, said Maggi’s experience should help Arizona find its way back to the tenacious team it needs to be to make it to the postseason.

“I think he’s our best defensive first baseman, and he always battles up there at the plate,” Dalbec said. “It’s good to have as many guys on the field

who won a national championship as you can, and putting him out there with Riley Moore definitely helps.”

Arizona has a 24-13 overall record this season and 9-9 in Pac-12 Conference play, just snubbing them of a shot at going to regionals if the season were to end right now, according to

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However, Arizona coach Andy Lopez says the goal isn’t out of reach.

“You can just look at the scores as to how well we’ve been playing,” Lopez said. “But they’re all big games. Especially at this late stage

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from Ohio State this season.

Arizona coach Steve Walker said he wishes he could have had her for all four years.

“Kaitlyn [Leary] has been just a blessing for the program. … She is from a great family and really possesses that Midwest work ethic that you love to coach,” Walker said, “and she’s just been great for us, and it will be a sad day when she’s done.”

Polan, who previously played at Yale, is another transfer to the program this season.

Polan and Leary competed together for the first time this season during the Pac-12 Invitational. The duo defeated ASU and UCLA in the team invitational and made it into the quarterfinals of the pairs

ealing with adversity is commonplace in sports. For the Stanford softball team, dealing with adversity has been the name of the game this season.

On Tuesday, the San Jose Mercury News reported three Stanford softball players quit the team. Seniors Hanna Winter, Cassandra Roulund and Leah White all ended their seasons, and careers, 10 games premature.

“The players left for personal reasons,” Stanford’s softball coach Rachel Hanson said to Mercury News.

“Things happen in a season. We wish them the best. We’re still just looking forward.”

Of the trio, Winter provided the most for the Cardinal. The third baseman from Camarillo, Calif., was among team leaders in games started, batting average, runs, on base percentage and stolen bases.

She even started 217 consecutive games before sitting against Oregon on Sunday.

Not to mention, she was first team All-Pac-12 as a freshman, second team All-Pac-12 as a sophomore, All-Pac-12 honorable mention and Pac-12 All-Academic first team as a junior.

Roulund had started 42 games this season before also being benched over the weekend, while White had started 33 games this season and 204 in her career.

With their departures, Stanford saw half of its senior class leave.

This puts an even greater damper on a lackluster season for the Cardinal, which enters this weekend’s series against Arizona with a 16-29 overall record and a horrible 1-14 record in Pac-12 Conference play.

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ARIZONA SAND volleyball player McKenna Witt (21) hits the ball while Madison Witt (23) looks on during Arizona’s 5-0 win against New Mexico at Jimenez Field on April 4. The Wildcats host ASU for senior night on Wednesday.

Wildcats host ASU in senior night matchup

BY JORDYN OWEN The Daily Wildcat

Arizona sand volleyball hosts its last match of the regular season at 4:30 p.m. in Tucson against ASU. No. 10 Arizona will fight to maintain its undefeated 7-0 home record and improve on its 15-3 overall record.

The Wildcats took home the victory in the last two meetings with ASU. The Wildcats took down the Sun Devils, 3-2, during the Pac-12 Team Invitational over the weekend in Santa Monica, Calif.

Arizona first faced ASU earlier this season during the Sun Devils’ ASU Sand Volleyball Challenge in Tempe. The Wildcats went undefeated in the tournament, defeated ASU, 4-1, and were named

the ASU Sand Volleyball Challenge Champions.

Tonight’s match will be the Wildcats’ first sand volleyball Red Out and will honor the seniors of both teams.

Arizona seniors Emily Kiser, Taylor Arizobal, Rachel Rhoades, Allie Cook, Kendall Polan, Taylor Lane, Kaitlyn Leary and Madi Kingdon will be recognized prior to the start of the match, along with ASU’s Jordy Checkal and Bethany Jorgensen.

Many of these seniors have plans to continue in the volleyball community after their time at Arizona comes to an end.

Unfortunately for some, that time was short-lived.

Leary transferred to Arizona

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BY BRANDON JAMES The Daily Wildcat

Siblings Elvin and Collins Kibet may be far away from their hometown of Eldoret, Kenya, but having the special opportunity to compete together, train together and always have the other by their side has made them feel closer to home.

So far, the Kibets have had an outdoor season consisting of recordbreaking performances and personal best times for the Arizona track and field team.

Over the weekend at the Mt. SAC Relays, Collins Kibet, a sophomore, posted the second-best time of his career in the 800-meter run, clocking a 1:47.23 time.

He has set a high standard for himself, as this time was still short of his 1:46.87 time he posted at the ASU Invitational at the end of March. That mark is currently his personal best, the best time in the nation and the second best in UA history.

When asked what it means to have his big sister on the team with him, Collins Kibet said how much it means to him and how much they have been able to help each other.

“Having Elvin here makes me feel at home,” Collins Kibet said.

“I consider myself lucky. We talk almost every day. I’m there for her, and she’s there for me.”

Collins Kibet also said he cherishes the opportunity to be on a sports team with his sister, something that does not happen all that often in collegiate sports.

Arizona coach Fred Harvey said he looks forward to watching Collins Kibet develop even more in the program. He said he believes he is quickly forming into an elite 800-meter runner.

“Collins is coming into his own as [a] national competitor,” Harvey said.

“His ability to grow has sparked a lot

in the season, they all become big games.”

Lopez said he will start a righthander but is unclear whether it will be Austin Schnabel or Nathan Bannister.

Bannister started Saturday and went 6.1 innings, giving up eight hits and one run.

Lopez said the reason Bannister would start is because it’s his bullpen day, so he would replace his bullpen with a start and would throw 40-45 pitches. But, according to Lopez, it depends on how he feels.

With power hitters like Dalbec, Scott Kingery and Kevin Newman, and with the pitching rotation more

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ARIZONA DISTANCE runner Elvin Kibet runs during Arizona’s third-place finish in the Jim Click Shootout at Roy P. Drachman Stadium on April 11. Elvin Kibet and her brother, Collins Kibet, have contributed in major ways for Arizona.

of fire in the men’s team.”

Collin’s sister, Elvin Kibet, a redshirt senior, is finishing her season on a high note as well.

In the Jim Click Shootout on April 9-11, Harvey had Elvin Kibet compete in the 1500-meter race, an event she rarely competes in.

She still managed to not only win the event but also set a personal record of 4:23.61. After running such a fast time in an event she is not accustomed to, she was still able to win the 3000-meter race later on that day.

Just last weekend, she ran the 5K race in 15:36.08, setting a new personal record and breaking the school record, which was previously set by Amy Skieresz in 1998.

When Elvin Kibet was asked what

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invitational, where they were defeated by teammates Madison and McKenna Witt, who placed second in the tournament.

Leary typically competes alongside Kingdon, who will also be greatly missed by the Wildcats.

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it’s like to have her little brother by her side, she said she feels fortunate and lucky to have such a unique opportunity.

“Having Collins is really a blessing,” Elvin said. “I talk to him more than anybody. I feel fortunate and blessed.”

She also said they help each other out the most of everyone on the team.

Harvey commended Elvin’s ability to shine in more aspects than just on the track.

“She has brought so much to our program,” Harvey said.

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The pair is nearly perfect when in their usual No. 1 spot for Arizona, tying the Witt sisters, who have spent most of the season as Arizona’s No. 2 team.

Walker said Kingdon has really rounded out her skill set in her time at Arizona and could have a great future playing sand volleyball fulltime, despite her aspirations of playing indoor volleyball overseas.

Although the Wildcats will be losing eight

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programs aren’t kind to inconsistency, and Stanford has certainly seen how true that is.

The Cardinal is near, or at, the bottom in almost every major offensive category, but it’s the pitching staff that has been this team’s Achilles’ heel.

Stanford’s team ERA of 6.42 is the worst in the conference and nearly two runs worse than the next closest team.

That doesn’t even include other pitching stats such as opposing batting average and strikeouts, which also rank far below the rest of the conference.

However, what’s more troubling than anything is how these seniors had just 10 games left in their season and chose to walk away rather than continue to play for Hanson.

And these aren’t walk-on seniors who rarely see the field. These are decorated players who were counted upon on a daily basis to contribute. The fact they walked away is a horrible sign for both Hanson and the Stanford program.

Hanson has seen more downs than ups in her first season at

dynamic athletes, there is still plenty of talent among the non-seniors on the team. Some of those athletes include Hailey Devlin and Sarah Seiber, who boast a 17-6 record together as Arizona’s No. 5 team.

Madison and McKenna Witt will also continue to contribute to the Wildcats’ success.

The duo currently has a 14-1 record as Arizona’s No. 2 team and has collected a 7-3 record in the past few matches, taking over as the No. 1 team.

settled since the beginning of Pac12 play, Lopez says this Arizona team needs to string offense and defense together to beat ASU. “You’ve got to get the big hit, and you’ve got to get the big pitch,” Lopez said. “We haven’t made an error in, I think, our last eight games, but you just have to get the big pitch with two outs and the big hit with bases loaded.”

Lopez said Tuesday he’s looking to start J.J. Matijevic at first base against ASU over Maggi because of his offensive contribution.

However, Maggi may still come in for the last few innings of the game.

First pitch is set for 7 p.m. at Hi Corbett Field.

— Follow Nicole Cousins @cousinnicole Stanford after she took over for longtime Stanford coach John Rittman.

Hanson was highly praised by former players and the media at the time of her hire. Stanford great, Jessica Mendoza, who now works as an analyst and reporter for ESPN, gave several kind words on Hanson.

“She’s able to bring out the best of the players and represent the university in the best way possible,” Mendoza said in a Stanford press release. “The great thing about Stanford is that it’s ‘student’ before ‘athlete,’ and Rachel gets that.”

Hanson has failed to do that so far, as the program is slowly crumbling around her.

The Cardinal comes to Tucson this weekend for a series with a top20 Arizona team.

Things will get tougher before they get easier. But as a quote in “The Dark Knight” says, “The night is darkest just before the dawn.”

This weekend could be the darkest portion of the season for Stanford — but perhaps the final straw before the Cardinal starts to turn things around.

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The duel between Arizona and ASU will be broadcast live on Pac-12 Networks.

This match is the last time this season to see what Walker deemed “The Best Kept Secret in Tucson” hit the sand on its home court.

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Honoring Earth Day slow and steady

BY VICTORIA TEPLITZ The Daily Wildcat

Earth Day is an important day to recognize the impact humans can have on the environment and its inhabitants. The Sonoran Desert is full of beauty, from the Saguaro cactus to the luminous pink sunsets; however, one of the most emblematic ambassadors is the Sonoran Desert tortoise.

The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum’s Tortoise Adoption Program has been working under agreement with the Arizona Game & Fish Department to keep these majestic reptiles in the wild since 1983.

“Our goal is to keep captive tortoises captive, because they are not used to the Arizona environment and also may carry diseases that are harmful to the desert wildlife,” said Renee Lizotte, the Tortoise Adoption Program’s coordinator at the museum.

TAP allows “custodians,” who are approved fosters, to make a habitat and care for already captive desert tortoises.

“They must meet a certain amount of requirements to be a custodian,” said Stephane Poulin, general curator for the museum.

“You’re looking at multiple things, which is why we have yard volunteers who evaluate and modify the reptiles’ habitat. It’s best to refer to the website to ensure you have met all the requirements.”

Lizotte is a current custodian herself, taking care of one desert tortoise.

In a case where a tortoise is brought to the museum, an experienced staff member determines if it is in fact a Sonoran Desert tortoise, according to Poulin.

“After identification of the animal [that] has been considered

COURTESY OF SHIRLEY CHRISTENSEN

DAPHNE, A TESTUDO graeca graeca tortoise, eats a flower. Daphne was brought to the U.S. from Switzerland by Shirley Christensen after the two became inseparable.

a native desert tortoise, and was found in a wild setting, we would encourage the person to return the tortoise exactly where it was found,” Poulin said.

Poulin also has a Sonoran Desert tortoise, Squirt, who he acquired through the program.

Over the past 30 years, the museum has seen an estimate of 3,000 Sonoran Desert tortoises attend the TAP, according to Poulin.

TAP works with an estimated several thousand people in an effort to create a compassionate environment for the tortoises that have been placed in the program.

“Each tortoise that’s going through the program at the Desert Museum is currently being microchipped to keep track of the animal’s history,” Poulin said.

According to Russ Solsky, an affiliate with the herpetology department at the museum, when witnessing this reptile in its natural habitat, it’s important to not disturb it and to understand its relationship to Arizona’s environment.

“What you don’t want to do is to [pick up] a Sonoran Desert tortoise,” Solsky said. “It may get startled and release its emergency

Celebrating Shirley Temple’s sweet legacy

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reserved water supply in its bladder.”

The desert museum’s TAP mandate is to work with only the native Sonoran Desert tortoise; the museum does not work with other exotic tortoises, Poulin said.

If a tortoise other than the Sonoran Desert tortoise is found, it is best to contact the Arizona Game & Fish Department for further instruction.

The Sonoran Desert Tortoises, when taken captive as pets, are exposed to diseases from domestication, according to an article on the Arizona Game & Fish Department’s website.

If President Bill Clinton had ever spoken from the White House lawn crediting Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen with charming Americans through the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing tragedy, all his remaining credibility would have vanished.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke of the 10 tumultuous years following the 1929 Great Depression, he measured America’s stability by stating, “As long as our country has Shirley Temple, we will be all right.”

Despite many not having the kindling to heat makeshift Hooverville huts or the luxury of boots to pull themselves up by, Americans seemed to agree with Roosevelt, and the box office didn’t lie.

Since then and in death, Shirley Temple Black is immortalized as the 56 peroxide pin curled, dimpled cherub singing “On The Good Ship Lollipop,” casting aside who she was when not wearing a pinafore.

Thursday would mark Temple’s 86th birthday, had she not died in 2014. Putting aside her filmography, here are some interesting tidbits otherwise not associated with the child star.

“Poor Little Rich Girl” Married at 17, Temple and her first husband lived in her parents’ backyard in the spacious, a i r- c o n d i t i o n e d playhouse made in her childhood, because she still lived on an allowance dictated by her parents.

After Temple and her second and last husband decided to cut the apron strings, they sought access to her money.

Fifty-six films earned her roughly $50 million, which were squandered away by her father.

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COURTESY OF MICHAEL L. KAUFMAN

SHIRLEY Temple in “Glad Rags to Riches” (1933).

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“The Littlest Rebel” Temple was the epitome of innocence, but despite her massive collection of over 1000 dolls, she wanted a Tommy gun. With two older brothers and a fascination with Mafia radio programs, Temple was repeatedly disappointed when a package arrived filled with rare dolls and not a Thompson Submachine gun.

Temple was the epitome of innocence

“Polly Tix in Washington” Ambassador to Ghana, Czechoslovakia and U.S. delegate to the United Nations, Temple lost a bid for a 1967 seat in the U.S. House as a California Republican in an effort to bring a woman’s voice into politics.

She counted J. Edgar Hoover and Ronald Reagan as close friends and served in various roles within the U.S.

“Now I’ll Tell” In her 1972 McCall’s Magazine article “Don’t sit at home and be afraid,” Temple was one of the first women to admit to taking preventative measures for breast cancer by having a double mastectomy. Speaking to media from her recovery bed, she made it clear her femininity had not diminished, and she was proud of her decision.

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tap dancing were used as examples of her prodigious nature. Starting dance lessons at 3 years old and having a mother who fudged her birthdate — reducing her age in documents by a year — were Temple’s reality. Hard work, mother’s lies and not knowing her true age until she was a teenager kept the myth alive.

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School of Dance rings in spring with new show

BY MADISON SCAVARDA

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service currently considers the Sonoran Desert tortoise as a candidate for being endangered.

In the next few months, Poulin said, there will be a ruling by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to determine if the tortoise is endangered or not.

If considering any captive tortoise as a possible companion, it is important to know that they are a very long-lived animals that need tender loving care.

Most tortoises may live over 80 years, said Shirley Christensen, a TAP volunteer. Christensen has worked with tortoises for about 28 years. She shares a special bond with her Testudo graeca graeca tortoise, Daphne. She became acquainted with Daphne while she was working at an animal shelter in Switzerland. After working to get Daphne’s legal exportation papers, she was able to relocate her in Tucson in May 2013.

Christensen has been working with TAP’s program for the past two months to ensure that the program’s custodians have created an “at-home” environment for the Sonoran Desert tortoise.

“A tortoise is for life,” Christensen said.

She stressed how education is a big part of TAP at the museum.

“The system that is in place at TAP might seem lengthy and complicated,” Poulin said, “but it is to promote a long-term relationship for the custodian and Sonoran Desert tortoise.”

For more information on the tortoise adoption program, visit desertmuseum.org/programs/ tap.php.

Art can provide much needed clarity about life, allowing for more honest introspection and a fresh perspective of the future. For some perspective and reflection entering the last weeks of the semester, look no further than the School of Dance’s “Spring Collection,” a performance with all-new choreography in the styles of jazz, ballet and modern dance, running Friday to May 3.

Dance professor Douglas Nielsen creates pieces that get audience members thinking.

According to the School of Dance website, Nielsen’s piece is inspired by John Baldessari’s photograph. Because the picture was intentionally shot at an unconventional angle, the dance blurs the line between what is considered right and wrong in the arts. His 30-minute piece is called “The Wrong Dance.”

“It’s a compilation of all of his work in [the] past 10 years,” said Alan Gonzalez, a dance freshman.

“He [recreated] some of those dances, and he put them together.

It’s a really fun piece. It’s long, but it’s really fun to dance to.”

Gonzalez said he tries to connect with the choreographer when learning and performing one of their pieces. In Nielsen’s case, Gonzalez practices the art of losing himself to portray the choreographer’s imagination accurately.

“I think I have to separate what I really feel from it, so I don’t change the perspective that [Nielsen] wants to transmit to the audience,” Gonzalez said. “I try to not put a lot of myself in it ­— regarding my feelings — but instead, what he wants.”

Nielsen seems to have specific ideas about how he wants his dance to look.

“He wants [us] to be pedestrian, like normal people on stage,” Gonzalez said. “He wants natural, modern movement, like, basic, anatomical movement.”

Before audience members can gain a new outlook from a dance, the dancers themselves must push past their own mental and emotional barriers to create a truly inspiring piece. Once the dancers open up their minds and hearts

on stage, they can invite audience members to share in their creative journeys.

“At first, everyone was kind of hesitant,” said Rachel Shiffman, a dance freshman also performing in Nielsen’s piece. “We really didn’t know what was going on. …

Somehow, Doug always is able to take people that you would never expect to be in a dance together with costumes and crazy ideas, and it always comes together, and it always comes out as this experience.”

Shiffman explained part of the creative process Nielsen implements in rehearsals.

“It’s just an experience for not only the audience but [for the] performer,” Shiffman said. “You have a different experience every time you perform it. Sometimes he gives us creative freedom to do certain things with guidelines.

It’s like we’re our own scientists.

It’s fun.”

Along with modern, ballet will be featured in the “Spring Collection” as well. Emma Henning, a dance freshman, will be performing in Elizabeth George’s ballet ensemble.

“It’s an embodiment of the UA’s ballet department,” Henning said.

“It’s definitely very classical and incorporates a lot of partnering.

The costumes are beautiful.”

“Spring Collection” will come to a close with dance professor Michael William’s upbeat and lively finale — a piece called “Do You Wanna REMIX?” The finale has three casts made up of 21 dancers.

“I wanted to make a finale with lots and lots of people, and so, that was my first objective,” Williams said. “Then, I looked for music that I thought would be fun and [have] the possibility of lots of velocity and lots of people. … I wanted to include, along with some fun and funky jazz, to include tap. …

It’s [a] big production number: very visual, very spectacle. The score that I finally chose is Herbie Hancock’s ‘Rockit,’ and this song [is] super contagious.”

“Spring Collection” promises to bring some much needed joy and inspiration to the last few weeks of the school year.

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