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ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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Football team to fans: Walk this way
Arizona Athletics hopes new team entrance will become tradition turn the event into a tradition. The idea came from new athletics director Greg Byrne, who had similar traditions during his tenure at other schools. In a blog post on the Wildcats’ official website, Byrne said he hoped the tradition will become “something that you (the fans) will embrace and enjoy for years to come.” “I’ve never done that. It will be
By Lívia Fialho ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT If you go to the first Arizona home football game this Saturday, you’ll get up close and personal with the players. The team’s entry into the stadium is being turned into an event: the Wildcat Walk. Arizona Athletics is hoping to
new for me,” said head coach Mike Stoops. “It’s gone over well at other places I see it. It’s just another way of trying to interact with our fans, and that’s great with me.” In the past, the team would be picked up from its hotel and dropped off directly at its locker room. Now, with the 15-minute Wildcat Walk, players, the band and cheerleaders will arrive at
campus earlier. Two hours before the game, players will get off their buses at the UA Mall, on the corner of Cherry Avenue and University Boulevard. Led by the Pride of Arizona marching band, the Arizona cheerleaders and pom line, the Wildcats will walk down Cherry WALK, page 3
Peek into the Pride of Arizona By Yael Schusterman ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
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In preparation for the upcoming season of home football games, the Pride of Arizona marching band members practice their performances and formations. The band began practice on the field outside McKale Center and worked its way over to Arizona Stadium.
The Pride of Arizona marching band members will do something they have never done before at the football game on Saturday. They will be marching double time at 240 beats per minute, the fastest ever. This year’s band will debut with a performance of Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia” and “Time is Running Out,” continuing its trend of unconventional rock music. Scott Matlick, a graduate teaching assistant and previous interim director of the marching band, recalls the early days in 1996 when the band was first beginning to experiment with non-traditional sounds. He remembers them playing the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which was “unheard of at the time.” Last year the band played Aerosmith. Matlick said this year they decided to play Muse for a fresh change of pace. BAND, page 3
Video crew produces intro film to stir up fan fervor years of highlights and videos. Saturday, you’ll be working for two hours trying to focus on every detail of the game. You aren’t a coach. You aren’t a player. You’re the video crew for Arizona Athletics. “It’s wicked awesome,” said Ryan Bloom, a media arts senior and one of five interns for the Arizona Athletics video department. The video will only last
By Michelle A. Monroe ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT A stadium will be watching — up to 57,000 fans to be exact. You’ve spent countless hours poring over
around one minute, but the department works on the idea all summer and edits it for more than a month. The entire department was putting the final touches on the season opener pre-game video on Thursday. Greg Byrne, the UA athletics director, approves the music before they can start researching the concept. “We go through the Internet, YouTube,
different places. It’s hard to come up with original ideas with hundreds and hundreds of teams,” said Michael Hausler, producer for the Arizona Athletics video department . “We try our best to be original. If we see something, we always embellish it or change it just get some ideas. You have to be creative.” VIDEO, page 3
Safe Walk expands to all By Jazmine Woodberry ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT
Lori Van Buggenum can think of so many things new with the WRC program that she has a hard time keeping up. “Safe Walk is completely revamped,” said Van Buggenum, the professional program director of the Women’s Resource Center,. What used to be a WRC intern-run program now accepts applications from all over campus. “Folks can volunteer just to volunteer.” Safe Walk provides a free escorted walk for UA staff and students traveling alone at night. The service can count for volunteer credit hours for organiza— Lori Van tions both Buggenum on campus and program director, around Women’s Tucson. “Safe Resource Center Walk is a great way to get involved with the WRC. It’s a safety measure that’s both safe and green,” she continued. To work closer with the WRC, students can also apply to be interns. The Leadership and Involvement Internship program, run by both the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and the Center for Student Involvement and Leadership, allows students to apply for internships worth one to three credits. Van Buggenum said she was open to help anyone in any major gain internship credit for working with the center. The center is taking applications for both volunteers and interns throughout the week. “Everyone has women in their lives whether it be their mothers or their sisters or their daughters,” she said. For Van Buggenum, her position as the center’s first professional director is beneficial as well. “It’s helped that facename personal relationships are in the program,” said Jessica Whitson, a student co-director of the Women’s Resource Center, of having Van Buggenum as a constant fixture in the center. As a transfer student, Whitson felt that the mission of the center, as well as the new
“I’m fiercely passionate about helping students.”
WRC, page 3
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