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Pressure’s on

Daily Wildcat baseball writer Alex Williams explains why UA baseball’s game against ASU is a must win.

Definitionally unsound

Columnist Kristina Bui takes on the FBI’s archaic definition of “rape.”

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Fraternity council seeks control over greek standards By Eliza Molk ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Interfraternity Council passed a resolution that would allow Councils of the Greek community to manage Greek Life’s Standards of Excellence. But the Panhellenic Council did not approve it due to concerns

about students evaluating one another. The Standards of Excellence are expectations to which all UA greek chapters are held to ensure they remain in good standing and are eligible for university awards, services and goods. Since 2008, all greek chapters must annually complete the

Chapter Assessment Tool, which identifies how the chapters have upheld the Standards of Excellence and provides appropriate documentation that the standards have been achieved. Currently, the Fraternity & Sorority Programs office controls the Standards of Excellence, and one staff person within the

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office evaluates all of the greek chapters based on the standards, according to Johanne Jensen, director of Fraternity & Sorority Programs. This is because having one individual evaluate all 49 chapters makes it easier for them to compare chapters

UA-ASU team raises funds for Casa de los Niños

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Lettuce weather model comes to a head By Jazmine Woodberry, ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

Southern Arizona, along with California, produces 90 percent of the United States’ winter vegetables, and now UA researchers are helping farmers double their harvesting potential with a new weather model. Called the Lettuce Ice Forecast System, the model’s objective is to deliver farmers and crop growers higher resolution forecasts with more precise satellite images, from a 12-kilometer scale to a 1-kilometer scale. This will replace a National Weather Service model from the 1980s. Paul Brown, a biometeorologist in soil, water and environmental sciences and director of the Arizona Meteorological Network, helped create the new model, which helps farmers work around nighttime freezing conditions when lettuce cannot be harvested. “It’s a next-generation forecast model,” Brown said. The project, funded by a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, utilizes an online 48-hour forecast that records any

fluctuation in temperatures not normally associated with the desert climate. Kurt Nolte, UA’s Cooperative Extension agriculture agent and director of the project in Yuma County, worked with Brown on the project. Brown’s expertise is vital to the project, according to Nolte, as this model can give farmers otherwise unavailable knowledge for where to place workers. This new model could then also create a lucrative public-private partnership in future years for the university to sustain, Brown said. Farmers are expected to take over the funding for the project after the two-year grant is done, he said. “What the Department of Atmospheric Sciences has done is adjust the model for Arizona conditions and make finer forecasts for spatial detail,” Brown said. “So we’d still be involved even after (the two-year project period). We’d operate the model out of the university because we have the modeling expertise and the computer systems to run this model at the university, and growing groups wouldn’t have access to

By John Kuells ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT The Google MIS Eller Online Marketing Challenge Competition took place on Friday and the Flinnovation group came out on top for its work with the nonprofit group Casa de los Niños. Each year, Google puts on the Google Online Marketing Challenge, which partners groups of university students with companies. The groups utilize the Google program AdWords and a budget of $200 to help local businesses create effective online marketing campaigns. This was the first year Google included nonprofit businesses in the competition. “Normally people use AdWords just to increase revenue,” said team member Ravi Ram. “This year Google wanted to encourage people to work with nonprofits to see if their advertising could work in the sense that their company is … just helping them.” Ram, a sophomore studying biology and math, said the group came together out of a common interest in business and data analysis and was effective in helping Casa de los Niños. “We looked at a lot of the things

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Paul Brown, a biometeorologist in soil, water and environmental sciences and director of the Arizona Meteorological Network, helped create a new weather model, which helps farmers work around nighttime freezing conditions when lettuce cannot be harvested.

that same technology.” Mike Leuthold, a principal systems administrator in the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, is working with people across the southwest to expand the project. Nick Dawson, a graduate student

studying soil, water and environmental sciences, will be working with agricultural and meteorological research faculty to analyze the data for the previous year to update and improve the model. LETTUCE, page 5

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Students look to Take Back the Night that the event allows the university and the Tucson community to come together and take a stand against sexual violence while educating people about violence prevention. It also offers survivors a place to come and share their experiences and feel supported in doing so, according to Strange. The March of Solidarity begins at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center at 5:30 p.m., and the resource fair, spotlight speakers, and survivor speak-outs conclude the event from 6:15 to 8 p.m. at the Women’s Plaza of Honor. The resource fair will allow participants to explore campus and community resources regarding sexual violence, and the survivor speak-outs will allow participants to honor victims and empower survivors.

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UA students participate in last year’s march for Take Back the Night, an event created for students to take a stand against sexual assault. The event will be held on campus today from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

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Take Back the Night, a national march and rally to end sexual assault, will take place today from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., starting at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center and ending at the Women’s Plaza of Honor. Take Back the Night is a publicly funded charity with the mission of ending sexual violence in all forms and lending support to survivors since 2001. The grassroots efforts have included marches and rallies around the world during the last 30 years. The UA’s OASIS Program will be hosting the event in collaboration with the Women’s Resource Center, Fraternity & Sorority Programs, Men Against Violence and other campus organizations. Erin Strange, a violence prevention specialist at OASIS, said

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