September 17, 2012

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Wildcats overtake South Carolina State in blowout ZACK ROSENBLATT

Downtown investing on the rise STEPHANIE CASANOVA Arizona Daily Wildcat

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Public and private investment in downtown Tucson has significantly increased since 2008 and is expected to continue to do so through 2014, according to a five-year economic development report for downtown Tucson. While the majority of public investment took place in 2011 with streetcar construction, an estimated $209 million in private investment between 2008 and 2013 will also contribute to the attempt to revitalize downtown Tucson. The estimated public investment is $589 million for the five year period. “It’s exceeding even my expectations at this point,” said Michael Keith, chief executive officer of Downtown Tucson Partnership. Downtown Tucson Partnership was created in 1998 to enhance “security, maintenance, marketing, festivals and events and economic development,” according to its website. Tucson business owners are either opening new concepts downtown or adding downtown locations to their businesses. From bars, restaurants and coffee shops to publishing companies and student housing complexes, downtown Tucson will have 141 new businesses in the five year period, 48 of them restaurants and bars, Keith said. “I think that a lot of people see that there’s a great potential here,” said Kate Preble, coowner of Brewd, a coffee house on Sixth Avenue near Congress Street. “Not just for the students but for everyone.” Preble opened the coffee house in January 2012 and said her decision had nothing to do with the streetcar. Rather, she wanted Tucsonans and students to have an alternative to bars and

Matt Scott was feeling it in Saturday’s game against South Carolina State. The senior quarterback was at the helm for 42 of the Wildcats’ 56 points in the shutout victory, and finished with 288 passing yards and three touchdowns along with 61 yards on the ground and a score. He went 30-for-36 through the air, and completed his last 13 passes of the game before he was pulled for backup B.J. Denker at the start of the fourth quarter. After the game, Scott said he didn’t realize how many passes he was completing, but he still believes he can do better. “I didn’t know my numbers were like that,” Scott said. “I thought I missed a few passes here and there that I could’ve easily hit. I can do better.” Rodriguez was impressed, although he still believes Scott is a work in progress. “He was pretty sharp,” Rodriguez said. “I think he missed one deep ball. Those are the things, in order to beat a team like we have coming up [in Oregon] those big play shots that we had … we’ve gotta hit. “Every week you can see that he’s hungry to prove himself,” Rodriguez added. “Even though he had three pretty good weeks, he’ll be hungry this weekend … Matt’s still learning, he’s only three games into playing the new system. There’s still some things he can get better at.” In three games, Scott has thrown for 995 yards and has 190 rushing yards.

‘Vanilla Vick’ gets his shot

B.J. Denker, the Wildcats’ top backup quarterback, calls himself Vanilla Vick because he has attributes — athleticism, lefthandedness, small stature — similar to Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Mike Vick. On Saturday, Denker finally had his chance to show the public what he had, as a 42-0 lead entering the fourth quarter became an opportunity for

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BACKUP QUARTERBACK B.J. Denker celebrates a touchdown with walk-on receiver Sean Willett in Saturday’s 56-0 win over South Carolina State at Arizona Stadium. Denker played the entire fourth quarter as Arizona rested starting quarterback Matt Scott and others for Saturday’s game at Oregon.

Poetry Center loses director after 10 years STEPHANIE CASANOVA Arizona Daily Wildcat

The university is conducting a nationwide search for a new poetry center executive director following Gail Browne’s resignation. During Browne’s 10 years as executive director, the poetry center went from being housed in three small historic residential buildings to the first of three “new landmark buildings” for poetry in the country. The Helen S. Schaefer building is also the only one of the three poetry centers of its kind that is directly connected to a university. “I feel like I was hired in 2002 to construct this building and to develop an organization,” Browne said. “I feel that I’ve accomplished those goals and that the poetry center is in such a good place right now.” Browne said she believes that now is the best time for new leadership to maintain and continue to grow the program. After her tenure is over, Browne will move to Phoenix to explore new opportunities while continuing to work with arts and literature. “I’ve been involved in arts administration and arts marketing my entire career and I expect that I’ll continue to be involved in those areas,” Browne said. Browne also said she agreed to be available as a consultant for the new executive director for a year after she leaves the UA. “I was relieved to hear that she would be willing to stay on as a

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UA POETRY CENTER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Gail Browne has announced her resignation after 10 years in the position. Browne is leaving to continue arts and literature work in Phoenix.

“Half of our books were in storconsultant and sometimes [be] involved with some of our larger proj- age … so there was just a limit to what we could reects past the time of ally do in those her stepping down,” spaces,” Browne said Mary WildnerWe’re sad to see her go said. “Here, not Bassett, dean of the ... Gail has done so much, only are all the College of Humanibuilt so much for us, been a books available, we ties, which includes wonderful leader. also have the space poetry as a area of to present not only emphasis. — Mary Wildner-Bassett Dean, College of Humanities our reading series Along with being but a number of a resource for stuprograms that help dents, the poetry center reaches out to the commu- to build audiences for poetry and nity through readings, lectures, literature.” Before becoming executive discussions, workshops and a K-12 director, Browne had an arts outreach program.

marketing company in the San Francisco Bay Area. Browne said she was able to apply her business skills to her job at the UA, which involved raising money, first for the new building and then to pay for reading series at the center. “It’s laborious to raise money for a capital campaign for building a building,” Browne said. “While we finished raising the money for this building, our next new project is to raise enough money for our programs endowment.” When Browne was hired in 2002, there was talk about moving the poetry center from one set of small “near-collapse” buildings to another university building then wasn’t being used, according to Peter Likins, president emeritus from 1997 to 2006. Browne continued to raise money and Likins supported the decision to build the poetry center its own building. “I think that’s why Gail gives me some credit for helping them get their new and really quite lovely home,” Likins said. “There’s a very large body over the generations of people who love that place … It is a world-class program.” The Schaefer building has won eight awards since it opened in 2007, most of them for architecture and design. Likins has maintained his admiration of the poetry center from a distance since he left in 2006, he said. When he found out about Browne’s decision to resign from

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