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THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015
VOLUME 108 • ISSUE 130
Religious clubs are questioned
IN THE NEWS Robert Durst indicted on gun charges
BY CHASTITY LASKEY The Daily Wildcat
Five women’s rights activists being held illegally in China Video of Walter Scott shooting reignites debate on police force Tsarnaev found guilty on all counts in bombing trial — The New York TImes
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KAMILA YUYAKBAYEVA, a public health junior, makes a T-shirt for the Clothesline Project at the UA on Wednesday. The project was put together by the Oasis Program to raise awareness against sexual assault and relationship violence.
Participants decorated shirts and pinned them on a clothesline for passerbys to view to convey that sexual assault is not tolerated BY ALISHA PERERRA The Daily Wildcat
Hallie Wilson continues to lead by example for UA softball Page 6
Madi Kingdon uses experience to aid Wildcats
The Clothesline Project came to the UA on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the UA Mall, allowing individuals from within the community to demonstrate that they do not stand for sexual assault. The Clothesline Project event was hosted by the Oasis Program, a program against sexual assault and relationship violence, and Students Promoting Empowerment and Consent. The Clothesline Project, which started in 1990, is a way for survivors and people against sexual
assault to express their emotions and experiences by decorating a T-shirt. This event is one of many that is happening during April to promote Sexual Assault Awareness Month. “The Clothesline Project is an event to promote Take Back the Night, which is an event that is happening April 14, that includes a march and speakers protesting against sexual assault,” said Gabriela Valenica, an intern for the Oasis Program and a member of SPEAC. “For the Clothesline Project, we are encouraging people to make T-shirts with messages of support for survivors. We are just having
them write anything they think will be a message of empowerment or support. We are hoping that students will gain more awareness on campus, and that they will help contribute to an environment that is supportive of survivors and believes in survivors.” Students gathered at the project’s booth with the goal of creating their own T-shirt consisting of anything from inspirational messages to silly pictures. “My T-shirt is sending a message that many times in sexual assault situations, everyone starts questioning the survivor,”
At the ASUA meeting on Wednesday afternoon, Cody Ortmann, a UA alumnus, brought his concerns about UA student groups being affiliated with the Faith Christian Church in light of recent allegations being raised against the church. Ortmann, a former Associated Students of the University of Arizona senator himself, said he had his own personal encounters and experiences with FCC when he was a student. Wildcats for Christ, Native Nations in Christ and the Providence Club are the three UA student groups that are affiliated with the church, and under the FCC’s umbrella, according to Ortmann. Ortmann claimed that the FCC has been using these student clubs to gain access to campus by renting rooms and even holding barbecues on campus. ASUA Sen. Michael Finnegan asked Ortmann what he was proposing and what he wanted the senate to do in regards to the issue. Ortmann responded that he would like to have them send out a resolution telling the Dean of Students Office that they not only agree with the University Religious Council’s decision but also recommend they follow suit in no longer formally recognizing the three clubs, at least until the dean of students’ investigation into the matter is complete. Although there was no comment from the senate on whether they will send a resolution, senators continued to ask more questions about the incidents and allegations brought against the FCC and the student clubs associated with them. ASUA Sens. Elena Gold and Joey Steigerwald asked Executive Vice President Jordan Allison to provide points of information to clarify what benefits arise from recognizing these student clubs and if it were even possible to suspend their recognition, how would it disadvantage the club. The benefits afforded are the
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Interfaith SCIENCE marriage discussed BY TERRIE BRIANNA The Daily Wildcat
Exploring the role of oxytocin in grief Page 10
OPINIONS It’s illegal to execute the mentally ill, so why does the U.S. continue to do it? Page 4
QUOTE TO NOTE
“It is a national embarrassment that we incarcerate more people than any other country — more, even, than regimes to which we consider ourselves morally and materially superior.” —Martin Forstrom OPINIONS, 4
Nayel Badareen, a postdoctoral fellow in the UA School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies, will be giving a lecture this afternoon titled “Interfaith Marriage: Can a Muslim Woman Marry a Non-Muslim Man?” “I am among many of the MuslimArab men who are skeptical about many of the Islamic rulings and laws which discriminate against women in Islam,” Badareen said. As an Arab-American, Badareen said he witnessed many of his friends and acquaintances suffer from these archaic laws. “Some of my friends who married people from outside the Islamic faith had to escape to the West.” He said they feared “retaliation from their relatives and the Muslim government in their homeland.” Badareen hopes to “inform the American public … and Muslims in particular about some of the Islamic laws written by Muslim jurists which did not grant women equal rights.” Badareen added that many of these Islamic laws are outdated and unfair to women, which is why he proposes a reform. “I hope to educate others to not be intimidated by Islamic law, … [which] should not be considered static or frozen in time,” Badareen added. Islamic law, according to Badareen, is there to serve a community and its members. However, these laws have been in the books since the 10th century with minor changes since
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THE UA MOCK Trial team poses for a photo in San Diego after qualifying for nationals on March 8. The team will travel to the National Championship Tournament in Cincinnati to compete next weekend.
Mock Trial goes to nationals BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat
The top competitive team from UA Mock Trial will travel to Cincinnati to represent the UA at the American Mock Trial Association National Championship Tournament from next weekend. Matthew Ashton, treasurer and co-captain of the Mock Trial A-team and an aerospace engineering senior, said this tournament will feature the top-48 Mock Trial teams in the nation going head-tohead against one another in four simulated trials. He said they are competing in hopes
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of making it to the final round, which will be held the afternoon of April 19. Ashton also said the national championship tournament will be unique this year. He said typically, The American Mock Trial Association only puts out one case each year, and all of the tournaments use the same witnesses, facts and pieces of evidence. Ashton said this year, for the first time, there will be a completely new case used for the national championship tournament next weekend. “We have been working on this new case ever since it came out, preparing direct and
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cross examination, opening statements and closing arguments,” Ashton said. “And trying to prepare for every possible curve our opponents could throw at us. On the whole, we believe that the new case puts us at an advantage over other teams in the nation, as we feel that our strengths with quickthinking and improvisation will serve us better than most programs, who focus more on meticulously scripting out everything that can happen in the trial.” Emily Farmer, UA Mock Trial tournament director and
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