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EDITORIAL

Student displacement reveals communication issues

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hink back to the first day of classes; remember how hectic it was, trying to find parking, where you were supposed to be and how to handle the workload of the semester.

Now imagine you didn’t know where you would be living. You thought you had your dorm all set, and were looking forward to living close to your friends and other members of your community, only to have that all thrown in the air at the last minute.

For many students living in the NavajoPinal Residence Hall, that was exactly the situation they faced after a construction project and bungled reassignment plan left them switching dorms after classes had already started.

If this relocation had been the result of an unforeseen event, the expectation might be for students to soldier through and persevere.

However, the scramble to find housing came after a renovation of Arizona Stadium that has been in the works for more than a year.

But the powers that be at the University of Arizona didn’t communicate effectively with Housing and Residential Life, student leaders or, seemingly, anyone who would actually be impacted by this project until it was too late.

One community that was impacted the most was Building Leaders and Creating Knowledge, which is affiliated with African American Student Affairs.

As Daily Wildcat reporting has revealed (story begins on page 4), the BLACK

community was not informed they would have to pack up and leave until just a few weeks before the end of the fall semester.

When they were finally told what was happening, the resulting move, hastily planned and poorly executed, left students searching for parking permits and dealing with other headaches.

The UA failed these students by forgetting who would be impacted the most by these changes. If administration had started working with Housing and Residential Life, AASA and students earlier in the process, a smooth transition would have been far more likely.

Instead, the administration put its cash cow, athletics, above the needs of students.

The fact that these students were mostly members of a minority community only adds to the disruption.

These students, who had signed contracts and paid for their housing arrangements, were not prioritized by the UA in its quest to improve attendance numbers for a football team that hasn’t won a conference title in 25 years.

By focusing more on potential ticket sales than student needs, the UA let down a portion of the community it is supposed to serve.

The university’s administration must remember who and what makes this an institution of higher learning, not a for-profit enterprise. Without students, this campus would just be a bunch of empty buildings, in addition to the empty football stadium.

University officials have been working after their glaring oversight to help those impacted

ANGELA MARTINEZ | THE DAILY WILDCAT

ANGELICA HILL, UA PUBLIC health sophomore, raises her hand to ask UA President Dr. Robert Robbins and UA administrators a question on Jan. 24 in the Martin Luther King Jr. building. Many students were displaced from their dorms due to renovations at Arizona Stadium.

by the move and ensure that everything was rectified, including cutting students checks as compensation.

Tens of thousands of dollars have subsequently been paid out to fix a problem that, with a little planning, awareness and foresight, would have never happened in the first place.

Administration must use this situation as a learning experience and strive to understand how students will be affected by major projects on campus in the future.

Without attention to student needs, the UA will continue to stumble from one blunder to another, and those who make the college what it is will continue to suffer.

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THE AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENT Affairs and the Black Student Union met with UA administrators, including Residential Education Director Daymyen Layne, Director of Athletics Dave Heeke and President Dr. Robert Robbins, on Jan. 24 to discuss stadium renovations, communication between clubs and administration, among other topics.

BLACK moved from dorm, construction cited

BY JORDAN WILLIAMS @JordaNichelleW Law freshman Kevin Bishop was living his first year in a dorm with a group of like-minded students, and he said he loved it.

“I would recommend it to anybody,” Bishop said. “Especially if you’re in a cultural community.”

However, with construction in Arizona Stadium and what can only be construed as significant miscommunications, living in the BLACK cultural community seemed like more trouble than it was worth.

BLACK, or Building Leaders and Creating Knowledge, is a living, and learning community sponsored by African American Student Affairs.

Bishop is a part of the BLACK living and learning community, which, until winter break, resided in NavajoPinal Residence Hall.

BLACK moved from Navajo-Pinal to Kaibab-Huachuca Residence Hall one week after classes started this semester due to renovations on the east side of Arizona Stadium, which Navajo-Pinal is carved into.

Potential stadium renovations had been studied for years. According to Peter Dourlein, associate vice president of Planning, Design and Construction at the University of Arizona, the most recent study started in October of 2016 and continued through 2017.

got that space, you’re going to pay aware of stadium renovations and its However, the project, primarily the stadium rate to live in Likins,” impact on students. funded by the recent addition of the Kraus said.

After that meeting, Kraus notified student athletic fee, played a role If students chose to stay, then Kendal Washington White, assistant in inspiring PDC and the Athletics vice president for Student Affairs and there were some things HRL could Department to commence work on guarantee because they negotiated Dean of Students, who was upset. the stadium. with PDC and athletics.

“When they told me, I’m upset “So, we started to look more at the “If you want to stay, then what we because I’m thinking we can’t east side of the stadium,” Dourlein can promise is that the work won’t do this,” Washington White said. said. “And the ZonaZoo area and the start until 10 a.m. and will wrap by “First of all, they signed a contract, under space behind the ZonaZoo 6 p.m.,” Kraus said. “And that, as we they paid their money and [to area for restrooms and concessions.” are made aware of kind of the scope move students] in the middle of an The Arizona Board of Regents of the project for each week, we will academic year, that’s not OK.” gave first approval to the plan on communicate that.”

HRL also had to figure out how to Sept. 28, 2017, as a part of the UA’s However, Capital options got a little Improvement more complicated Plan for when it came to fiscal years what the BLACK 2019-2021. living learning However, community according to decided to do.

Dourlein, the K.C. Williams, decision to director of AASA, move forward with plans for — AMANDA KRAUS, interim HRL director was made aware of the situation the stadium from HRL on the morning of Nov. 28. offer students living in the stadium was made in October of 2017.

Williams said she was told a project “the least inconvenience,” according The regents ultimately approved would be going on and what that to Kraus. Eventually, they offered the project on Nov. 16, 2017, about would mean for BLACK. all students living in Navajo-Pinal a one week after UA Housing and “Of course, I was like well, ‘Let’s number of options.

Residential Life was made fully move them to Pima,’” said Williams, The first option was to move aware of the situation. referring to the closest residence anywhere else on campus that had According to Amanda Kraus, hall to the Martin Luther King Jr. room for the price of living in the interim director of HRL, she was Building, which houses AASA and its stadium. invited to a meeting with the programs. “They were like, ‘No, there “Which means that if there was athletics department, PDC and is not enough room in Pima.’ Kaibab a space in Likins, one of our most other parties involved in the project was the only option.” expensive [halls] next door, and you in early November to make them

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We never would have assigned students to a hall where we knew there would be this type of disruption.”

The students in BLACK heard of the situation that evening. Since BLACK was meeting then anyway, Williams decided to have Daymyen Layne, director of residential education for HRL, inform the students that evening.

“He promised us that [moving of student parking passes] would be taken care of, compensation for having to move and deal with the situation,” Bishop said. “They promised us movers.”

Even though not all the students chose to stay in BLACK, those who chose to move did so on the contingency that everything would be taken care of over winter break.

During finals week, the students packed up their rooms before they left so that everything could be taken care of over break.

However, there was a change of plans. According to Williams, the students received an email informing them their belongings would not be moved for them over winter break, contrary to what they had been told before.

“I know because then my phone starts blowing up, and I’m like, ‘Wait, what’s going on?’” Williams said.

“And they’re like, ‘We just got this email, and they’re not going to move our stuff over winter break, and I just packed up all my stuff; my mom took

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CAMPUS CULTURE

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PEOPLE RELAX ON THE UA Mall on Feb. 13 during the annual CESL International Festival. The International Festival celebrates different cultures from all around the world.

CESL celebrates 50 years of ‘international culture’ very agile on how we approach education.”

The CESL also has a program called Teaching English as a Foreign Language, which allows students or community members to teach English abroad through in-class or online courses.

The CESL is all self-funded, meaning it doesn’t receive state money, so most things the The University of Arizona’s Center for English as Second Language (CESL) is celebrating 50 center does are entrepreneurial, which offers more of an outreach to the community. years on campus.

“We’re a pipeline for the university, for students, for teachers and for the rest of the world,” In 1968, the center was formed when then-president of the university, Richard Harvill, Ferdinandt said. asked Frank Pialorsi, a teacher and graduate student at the time, to run a summer program to The center focuses on programs that are reacting to the international environment and are teach English for international students. relevant to both bringing in students and sending them abroad. The CESL has “30 countries With an instructor on hand, the center grew into a diverse set of language training represented at any given time, has served more than 40,000 students in its lifetime and hosted programs, which expanded over time. people from more than 120 countries,” according to Ferdinandt.

Nicholas Ferdinandt, current director of the CESL, said he looks at all the things the center The center holds annual events celebrating its has done in the last 50 years and to see “what diversity, like the International Festival. This event works, and then leverage all that for the future.” allows international students involved with the CESL Through its professional, competitive and to showcase their countries with food, music, dance high-quality programs, the CESL prepares and other activities. students to achieve educational, professional This festival proves to be not only a celebration and personal success, according to its mission of the CESL and the services it has provided to statement. It is the only nationally accredited international students for the past 50 years, but also intensive English program in Arizona. a celebration of the different cultures students bring The center has five separately accredited to the UA. programs, all aiming to improve the learning One Chinese student, Cecilia Song, emphasized of the community. The Intensive English the importance of showing her fellow UA students a Program, one of the oldest at the center, is the small piece of Chinese culture.

— NICHOLAS FERDINANDT, DIRECTOR OF CESL only Commission on English Language Program “It’s a way to show American students how the Accreditation accredited program in Arizona.

Chinese culture is — what we have, what we eat, The Intensive English Program prepares what we do — just to share the culture,” Song said. students for academic and professional success through cultural and linguistic diversity and Ferdinandt said the center is a “hidden gem” that most students don’t know about and that, understanding through collaboration between the campus and community. This program “being an intercultural space, it’s very unique on campus.” holds low-level English classes for non-native speakers and is “something that isn’t as popular The CESL is always recruiting students abroad to come to Tucson to take part in its learning as it used to be,” according to Ferdinandt. programs.

By Fall 2018, the CESL expects to receive more students from countries such as “You don’t have as many people needing low-level English,” Ferdinandt said.

Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam and China.

The CESL also created a program known as the University Track Program, which takes The CESL’s 50th anniversary celebration event will be May 12 in the CESL building located students who are very close to getting accepted into the university and allows them to be at 1100 James E. Rogers Way. concurrently enrolled at the UA taking one three-credit course while also taking English as a “We’ve been around for a long time. We belong to the College of Humanities, and we do a second language. lot of humanities and a lot of intercultural understandings,” Ferdinandt said. “That’s really at “That’s a program we expect to grow, which is our [CESL] future,” Ferdinandt said. “We’re the core of what we do, and this is the place to learn that on campus.”

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[CESL has] 30 countries represented

at any given time, has served more than

40,000 students in its lifetime and hosted people from more than 120 countries.”

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SUSTAINABILITY

Ride-share program rewards green commuters

BY MARQUIES WHITE @marquies_white

The University of Arizona recently launched RideAmigos, a ride-sharing, commuter rewards program that encourages the UA community to seek alternative modes of travel to and from campus.

RideAmigos gives all UA students and staff the opportunity to find alternative commuter options like public transit, carpools and vanpools.

It also lets users log their commuter miles to get points, which can be redeemed for rewards and prizes.

Some of the listed prizes include UA-themed backpacks, sweatshirts, bottles and more.

Prizes can be won based on the number of trips a user logged and the number of miles a user traveled.

RideAmigos is replacing the previous commuter program

used by the UA, Zimride.

“In the five weeks of [RideAmigos’] launch, we’ve had almost 1,000 people sign in,” said Florence Dei Ochoa, marketing and public information manager for UA Parking and Transportation Services.

“To compare it to Zimride, the last ride-share platform, we only had 4,000 users in the five years of using it.”

Parking and Transportation Services provided specific data from RideAmigos as of Feb. 12.

Over 41,000 miles have been logged in total so far, and nearly 33,000 of those miles have been logged for alternative modes of travel, meaning non-single-occupant vehicles.

RideAmigos keeps track of each users’ travel statistics so they can view their own CO2 reduction, calories burned and money saved.

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INFO AS OF FEB. 12 according to data from Parking and Transportation Services.

RideAmigos is part of UA Parking and Transportation Service’s climate plan to reduce UA’s carbon footprint and increase sustainability at the UA. The ultimate goal of RideAmigos is to get less

people driving to the UA alone.

“We hope that this program will get people excited about their commute and consider the many benefits to commuting in ways other than driving by themselves,” Ochoa said. “[Including] CO2 savings,

money saved, calories burned and prizes from Parking and Transportation Services.”

If you already commute to the UA, or are looking to start, RideAmigos can help you find new ways to commute and earn prizes for participating.

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ALISSA HATFIELD, A PHYSIOLOGY and psychology senior, shows her project at the GPSC Research Showcase on the mall on Feb. 22, 2017. Hatfield was one of more than 100 students presenting at the showcase.

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The University of Arizona’s Mall will trade board shorts and ultimate Frisbee for cardboard tri-folds and scientific inquiry on Wednesday, Feb. 21. The Graduate and Professional Student Council will host the 26th annual Student Showcase from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Similar to a high school science fair, but set outside to take advantage of Tucson’s early spring weather, the event is meant to showcase research and findings from graduate and non-graduate students alike.

Patrice Moritz, GPSC events director and a first-year graduate student in speechlanguage pathology, called the event a “celebration.”

“It’s a real professional development opportunity,” she said. “The judges that come around are from all different backgrounds, so [the students] have to explain their research free of jargon. That opportunity to talk about what they work on to a different group than just their colleagues is valuable.”

Moritz confirmed that, much like a common science fair, participants’ research will be laid out on tables bearing 3-by-5-foot cardboard posters.

However, the research presented during the showcase promises to be much more than common, with an appeal to a wide range of interests.

There are four competition categories: community and society, education, creative expression and research. Within those categories, entries promise to have rich variety, according to Moritz.

“Any type of research is welcome on the field,” she said. “It’s for graduate and undergraduates, so you see a lot of diversity.”

An example of that diversity can be found in Celeste Atkins’ presentation. A first-year doctoral student studying higher education, she also serves as the department chair for Social and Behavioral Sciences at Cochise Community College in Sierra Vista.

Her presentation stands out among other research projects. Titled “Colored Girls and Controlling Images: Using Multiracial Feminism to Transform Pedagogy” and competing in the education category, Atkins took an out-of-the-box approach.

“My project is actually not a research project; instead, it is a reflective essay,” she said. “I reflect on my journey from a fear/ contradictory-based pedagogy to a pedagogy grounded in multiracial feminist theory and

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a day off of work.’”

Preparation for stadium renovations were scheduled to begin Jan. 4, according to Dourlein. Three days later, residence halls re-opened for the spring semester.

However, the students of BLACK returned from winter break and experienced more problems leading up to finally being moved in.

For one, students were erroneously charged for living in both Navajo-Pinal and KaibabHuachuca. However, to Washington White’s understanding, the error was spotted and fixed within 48 hours.

When Bishop inquired about his parking pass being transferred, he found out Parking and Transportation Services had no record of the students’ situation.

When Bishop finally spoke to Layne, he was told the wrong person was notified and Layne could not help him with the situation.

In a statement to the Daily Wildcat, Parking and Transportation Services noted that it worked to get the students’ parking passes resolved as quickly and conveniently as possible.

HRL hired an outside moving company to move the students from

Navajo-Pinal to Kaibab-Huachuca.

“We thought that would offer a higher level of service and just kind of make things easier,” Kraus said.

However, the process did not run as smoothly as she anticipated.

Bishop was the first to move into Kaibab-Huachuca on Jan. 17, and his experience was less than ideal.

“They were like five minutes late with mine,” Bishop said. “Mind you, I had class at 11, and I was trying to be on time.”

While the movers were moving his stuff, there was an incident with Bishop’s printer.

“The guy who was carrying my printer was also carrying my TV,” Bishop said. “For one, he had the TV chord dangling down the stairs; he dropped my printer down the stairs and tried to pick it up like no one was watching him.”

Bishop claims his printer still is not working the same. While helping other BLACK community students move in, his CatCard didn’t work, and his parking pass was not transferred.

On Jan. 24, Black Student Union hosted a meeting with UA President Dr. Robert Robbins, Washington White, Layne, Dave Heeke from athletics and other university leadership. There, the students had the chance express their experiences with the moving process.

The meeting was also where Heeke told the students his side of the situation.

“I don’t think, truthfully, there was a full understanding of the impact to that end of the stadium,” Heeke said.

“That’s not an end of the stadium that we were going to renovate or change in any way because of the living arrangements that were there.”

Heeke also admitted that, as renovation plans were moved further east, the more the student population at Navajo-Paul became a concern.

“Then it became ‘OK, there may be noise, there may be inconvenience there,’” Heeke said.

“Now we need to make sure we respect those people who live there and how they have to go about their day.”

After that meeting, according to Washington White, Robbins immediately reached out to everyone involved, hoping to compensate the students for what they went through.

“I immediately said I think it should be at a minimum of $1,250 because that was the halfway point[of the value of Spring semester rent],” Washington White said. “But I would prefer the students get $1,500.”

Robbins agreed, and the students got $1,500 as compensation for

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THE MARGINALIZED STUDENTS OF the University of Arizona’s list of demands, stadium renovations and communication between clubs and administration were just a few of the topics discussed at the meeting between university officials and students from AASA and the BSU.

their experience. They also received ZonaZoo passes from the athletics department.

However, HRL would have done things differently, according to Kraus.

“We never would have assigned students to a hall where we knew there would be this type of disruption,” Kraus said.

However, it was hard for Kraus to say if she would have closed NavajoPinal had she known earlier.

“I think, potentially, we would have diverted students; we would have certainly made that an option,” Kraus said. “We certainly could have communicated.”

As for Bishop, he said he would have never moved into the stadium if he knew this would happen. He wants other students to speak up.

“Definitely, if something happens to you, say something,” Bishop said.

“And stand up, because otherwise they’ll keep doing it to you.”

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POLICE BEAT

BY VANESSA ONTIVEROS @NessaMagnifique

Frat house of horrors A student flagged down a UAPD officer on Feb. 3 inside the Student Union to report his experiences with hazing while rushing the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity.

Alpha Sigma Phi was officially kicked off campus last semester and is no longer associated with UA. The student told the officer that he received a call asking if he would accept a bid from the fraternity. He accepted and was instructed to arrive at the fraternity at exactly 8 p.m. According to the student, pledges who arrived slightly late were met with verbal harassment and made to take long drinks of hard liquor.

The fraternity members then made the pledges shotgun beer while they threw full beer cans at them. Multiple pledges were forced to clean their own vomit.

The student came back the next day.

When he refused to follow an order, one frat member called him a homophobic slur and threatened to fight him. As he was walking away, another member asked him to come back. The student told him he was no longer interested in joining the fraternity.

The officer told the student that because Alpha Sigma Phi is no longer associated with UA, any criminal complaints would have to be made with the Tucson Police Department. The student said he would think about it.

Good knife, and good luck Around 8 p.m. on Feb. 8, a UAPD officer responded to reports of threats made against a male student.

According to the student, two weeks earlier he was in the Yavapai dorm basement with the goal of being social He made a comment to another male student about them having similar sunglasses. The other student gave him a look of contempt and stated, “I’m going to get a knife.”

When he returned, he looked the reporting student in the eye and brandished a knife, flipping open the blade. He put the knife away, but stayed close to the student. The student eventually told his friends, who encouraged him to report it to his RA. The officer met with the other student in the Yavapai basement, after listening to the reporting student’s account.

He admitted to the officer that he had a knife in his bag. The knife did not match the description given by the student.

He told the officer he had never showed it to anyone in a threatening manner and that his RA had said the knife was okay to have. The RA denied giving him permission. The officer referred the student with the knife to the Dean of Students.

SCIENCE

$1.9M grant for nursing diversity

COURTESY OLIVIA MILLS

SAMANTHA HEIDERSDORF, A NURSING student at the University of Arizona, practices drawing blood from a realistic mannequin arm during clinical training.

BY JAHNAVI AKELLA @DailyWildcat

Diversity is necessary in healthcare professions, according to Mary Koithan, associate dean for student support and community engagement at the University of Arizona College of Nursing.

“Patients want a nurse, physician, or physical therapist that looks like them, speaks their language — someone who understands them as a whole person,” Koithan said.

This is what the Arizona Nursing Inclusive Excellence program aims to accomplish — correcting the underrepresentation of certain populations in the nursing workforce.

The funding comes from the Health Resources and Services Administration, which has awarded the UA College of Nursing a $1.9 million grant.

Given as a part of HRSA’s Nursing Workforce Diversity Program, the grant will be used over a period of four years to give full-time students from Hispanic, Native American and rural backgrounds, as well as those who are firstgeneration college students, a number of tools to help achieve academic success.

Nursing students in the ANIE program will receive professional development, individualized mentoring, job placement, and preparation for certification. Though

these enrichment tools are available to all nursing students, they are mandatory for ANIE students.

Engagement and participation requirements also vary based on students’ level of collegiate experience. The program is split into three cohorts: pre-professional nursing students, bachelor of science in nursing students, and doctor of nursing practice students. Participants who fulfill the program’s requirements are also eligible for a stipend.

According to Koithan, students from the four underrepresented groups that ANIE targets understand the unique barriers these disadvantaged communities face when accessing healthcare, such as a lack of access to medical professionals and medicine.

“If you’re a diabetic patient in a rural area or around the border, you may have to travel 100 miles [for healthcare] or order medications that would take two weeks to get there,” she said. “When a healthcare provider understands where you come from and understands the challenges you face in accessing healthcare, they can tailor your care to your needs.”

Koithan also described how the grant will let the UA do its part in creating a more diverse nursing workforce.

“As a land-grant institution, we have an

obligation to graduate a force that reflects the community we live in,” Koithan said.

She said the groups that ANIE is aimed were chosen because they have a sizable presence in Arizona but are underrepresented in higher education and nursing.

Koithan and Director of Student Engagement Samantha Gluski explained that because students from these groups come from less-advantaged backgrounds, their prior education often hasn’t prepared them for a college curriculum.

ANIE strives to rectify this by providing individual tutoring and training in study skills and time management.

“One of the things we know is that [ANIE students] face barriers to higher education,” Koithan said. “Their high school may not have adequately prepared them for the rigorous science courses needed for a nursing degree.”

Gluski added that students whose parents have a college degree are more likely to have study skills than first-generation students.

“Many times, the students who have parents who have advanced degrees are pressed by their parents [to study],” Gluski said. “For students who are first-gen, this is really a different can of worms. Students struggle with figuring out priorities. The program provides mentorship to focus on what’s most important.”

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PHOTO COMMENTARY

Through the lens: Tucson Rodeo A look into the perspective of Daily Wildcat photo editor, Sofia Moraga, on the job and how new experiences and an exposure to cowboy culture shaped her mentality

PHOTO EDITOR SOFIA MORAGA @sofiamoraga

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olorful flannels and leather boots stare me in the face as I step onto the muddy Tucson Rodeo Grounds, and I accept the fact that my currently white Converse will not stay that wayvery long.

Despite failing to think this through, a smile runs across my face as I breathe in the smells of manure and fair food mingling together in the air.

My senses are overwhelmed by memories from my childhood, and I’m transported into a life I haven’t lived in a long time.

Walking into the chute, I see young kids getting ready to compete in the mutton bustin’ event.

I focus my attention on a specific boy that seems not to want to be mutton bustin’ at all. Tears run down his face as his dad tries explaining to him that the helmet is there for his own protection.

After I stand from snapping a few photos, I turn to see the media herding into the arena, hoping to get better pictures of these brave youngsters, and I quickly follow suit.

The kids are about to face a furious flock of sheep, and they will need to hold on to the animals for as long as possible in order to impress the crowd — and their own overlyexcited parents.

I stumble out into the arena and look up to see my fellow photographers having the same difficulties as I. We are all attempting to get far

enough out into the arena while also not losing our shoes in the deep mud.

I’m halfway to my desired spot when I hear the announcer’s voice ring out across the grounds and say, “those were some nice white shoes!” In the excitement I had forgotten my previous failure and immediately look down at what used to be my pristine shoes; they are now heavily caked with mud.

The experience was well worth the toll taken on my shoes, and I would definitely trade them again for angelic photos of toddlers holding onto sheep.

— Sofia Moraga is a Daily Wildcat photo editor, and after photographing Tucson Rodeo her Converse will never be white again

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Daily Wildcat photographers get down and dirty as they capture the best moments of the 93rd annual La Fiesta de los Vaqueros’ opening weekend

TOP LEFT: A father puts a helmet on his son before he competes in the mutton bustin’ competition at the 93rd Annual Tucson Rodeo this Saturday, Feb. 17 in Tucson, Ariz. (Photo by Sofia Moraga) TOP RIGHT: Jade Stoddard and Derek Pake Younger place second in the Team Roping event after bringing the animal down in 8.1 seconds on Saturday, Feb. 17. (Photo by Sofia Moraga) LEFT CENTER: A young child holds onto her sheep while competing in the mutton bustin’ competition. (Photo by Marisa Favero) MIDDLE CENTER: Bull rider Levi Berends tapes his arm before competing. (Photo by Courtney Talak) RIGHT CENTER: Logan Patterson rests his right leg on the fence just above his already saddled up horse before competing in the Bareback Riding competition. (Photo by Laurel Bluechel) BOTTOM: A ProRodeo competitor jumps off his horse during the steer wrestling event. (Photo by Marisa Favero)

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GYMNASTICS FEATURE

LEAVING THEIR MARK In a white-dominated sport, gymnastics head coach John Court and gymnast Kennady Schneider are making an impact

BY SYRENA TRACY @syrena_tracy

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UA GYMNASTICS HEAD COACH John Court smiles as the UA gymnasts successfully land their vault routine during the UA vs. Stanford meet on Jan. 11 in McKale Center.

“I don’t think that when Dave [Heeke] appointed me to this interim position that I was going to be the only black head coach in the Power Five — that includes the Pac-12, Big-10, the Big-12, the SCC and the ACC for women’s gymnastics,” said Arizona gymnastics interim head coach John Court.

Court has been with the UA gymnastics team for 19 seasons as an assistant coach, but during the 2018 season Court was named interim head coach and has been recognized as the only black gymnastics coach in all the Power Five conferences.

Court is one of four black head coaches at the University of Arizona, including women’s basketball’s Adia Barnes, football’s Kevin Sumlin and track and field’s Fred Harvey.

In a study measuring diversity conducted by USA Gymnastics, 74.46 percent of the U.S. gymnastics population is white and only 6.61 percent is black. The study shows that black females and males are underrepresented in the sport.

“I am myself,” Court said. “I know the color of my skin and, for me, I have had wonderful experiences in the sport of gymnastics. If you look back at the numbers, there have been fabulous black gymnasts come through the NCAA, and that has been over the course of decades.”

Court said he admires the women of color who have come through the gymnastics program at Arizona throughout the years, including Sydney Fredin, Alexis Greene, Jordan Williams and Kennady Schneider.

“They let everyone know that this university and team can be a place for everybody,” Court said. “It lets anyone else out there to encourage everyone to keep working, keep doing things right and good things will happen.”

Schneider said she sees Court as one of the most influential people in her life, and has found it special to be coached by him during her four years as a GymCat. She is able to embrace herself as a gymnast and also through her artwork.

“I was in the gym and I was talking to

him [Court] about Black History Month and he told me that he is the only black women’s gymnastics head coach in the Power Five,” Schneider said. “And for me to hear that makes it so special that I am being coached under him as one of the only black athletes on this team. It means so much to see someone that I look up to like that and coaches me. I want to see myself in the person who is coaching me.

It’s just so special.”

Through photography, choreography, performance and video projects, Schneider illustrates the struggles she has faced as a biracial woman.

“Her art and photography is amazing for someone that is her age,” Court said. “I have been to [her] art shows myself and some of the films she has put together. She has an incredible eye and a large vision for what she wants to produce. She believes she can make a difference and she is the heart and soul of this team. Her art is amazing and everything she does with it.”

Schneider said she has become inspired by personal experiences that she faces every single day that distinguish her from any given racial sector in society.

“I use my work as a search for my own personal identity as a black and white citizen living, dating and engaging in the millennial social sphere,” Schneider said. “I often reference the history of American slavery and early hip-hop culture, and the difficulties I have inserting myself into these contexts of my heritage.”

The subject of Schneider’s work is more than herself, but is important for her to illustrate a personal subject to convey a larger concept: social justice and acceptance.

“The purpose of my work is to dissect my own identity, and it serves as a platform for social obsessions with selfclassification and belonging,” Schneider said.

For both Schneider and Court, Arizona is their home where they can embrace their heritage and succeed whether it is coaching or being coached and have others one day follow in their footsteps.

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UA GYMNAST KENNADY SCHNEIDER practices her routine on the balance beam during the UA vs. Stanford meet on Jan. 11 in McKale Center.

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ASUA

Cultural centers host ASUA candidate forum Presidential, executive and administrative vice presidential candidates fielded questions and laid out their prospective platforms before primary elections began Feb. 20

BY JORDAN WILLIAMS @JordanNichelleW

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona hosted its Primary Elections town hall on Thursday, Feb. 15, in partnership with the UA Cultural Resources Centers.

Each candidate for the executive offices — president, executive vice president and administrative vice president — presented their platforms and addressed diversity issues on campus.

The candidates discussed how their platforms supported underrepresented students at the UA, reaching out to those students to give them a voice.

“It’s about getting those conversations going and creating those relationships,” said ASUA presidential candidate Natalynn Masters. “Because you’ll never know until you talk to someone.”

The candidates then addressed how to raise awareness about the UA sitting on the indigenous lands of the Tohono O’odham nation. All agreed it was a little-known fact about the UA, and that educating people about it is the first step.

“I think it’s just raising awareness,” said ASUA administrative vicepresidential candidate Shawn McCarthy. “Letting people know and finding ways that we can appreciate that and making sure that the university is appreciating that on its own and making our students aware that we are on tribal land.”

The idea of mandating Safe Zone training — a program administered through UA LGBTQ Affairs— was discussed, as well as other ways to raise awareness of the LGBTQ campus community. For ASUA administrative vice presidential candidate Kate Rosenstengel, it starts with the people in power.

“People that are in these positions of power in ASUA need to know what it means to respect pronouns, need to know what it means to be respectful of people that identify as LGBTQ-plus,” Rosenstengel said.

They also discussed how to retain LGBTQ students of color through connecting them early to people just like them.

“When you find a club or an

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ANNA WOOLRIDGE, Natalynn Masters, Amos Sepkowitz, Stefano “Salt” Saltalamacchia and administrative vice presidential candidate Kate Rosenstengel wait their turn to answer a question at the first ASUA candidate forum on Thursday, Feb. 15.

organization that you can associate with or belong with or really connect with, then you’re much more likely to stay on campus,” said Matthew Rein, the only ASUA executive vice presidential candidate.

The candidates discussed how to prevent sexual assault on campus. Part of the discussion involved educating Greek Life.

“We have programming in Greek Life,” said ASUA presidential candidate Stefano “Salt” Saltalamacchia. “And the folks in Greek Life laugh, or throw paper or make a mockery out of it. It’s a joke to them.”

Another line of questioning addressed simply changing the climate of sexual assault around the UA. “We also need to create a culture that makes sexual assault and things of the like not the norm,” said ASUA presidential candidate Anna

Woolridge.

The candidates discussed how to work with the cultural centers without being imposing. They all agreed that being good listeners and promoting education between the two entities could work.

“I think as student representatives, our jobs would be to open the window and to be listeners,” Rosenstengel said.

“So, it’s not our job to come up with ideas and pass them down to you and say ‘hey, do this.’ It’s our job to listen to what you want to see happen.”

The candidates also discussed the benefits of students who live in Living Learning Communities through Housing and Residential Life, agreeing that the communities are good retention programs.

“I want students to have the resources to be able to come together,” said ASUA presidential candidate

Amos Sepkowitz. “And I think this comes back to my piece of trying to establish meditation centers around campus and trying to get people resources to be happy and to find fulfillment and to find joy in other people’s presence.”

The final topic focused on support for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. All of the candidates agreed that funding for DACA students should stay at the UA, which would require lobbying the Arizona Board of Regents and holding the UA administration and regents to their commitment to those students.

The ASUA primary elections were held on Tuesday, Feb. 20 and Wednesday, Feb. 21. Following the primary elections, there will be two more debates leading up to the general elections, which are held on Tuesday, Feb. 27 and Wednesday, Feb. 28.

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OPINION

ASUA elections worth consideration Masters, along with ASUA at-large Senator Anna Woolridge and Amos Sepkowitz, are running to lead ASUA. The executive VP seat is guaranteed to Matthew Rein, as he is the only

BY CHUCK VALADEZ candidate who decided to aim for this @chuck_valadez position.

Both Shawn McCarthy and t is that time of the spring Kate Rosenstengel are pursuing semester again; the Associated administrative VP. Students of the University of ASUA at-large senate seats will Arizona elections are beginning. Like belong to Rocque Perez, Matt many UA students, I really did not pay Hernandez, Kelly Dorney, Tara attention to the ASUA election at all.

Singleton and Anthony Rusk.

I would walk by the flyers, and The Eller College of Management whenever someone tried to convince will have Michelle Mendoza and me to vote, I was immediately late to Khenda McIntee running. a made-up class.

The College of Social and Like most people, I did not care Behavioral Sciences will have Aten because it reminded me of student Morin, Bennett Adamson and Eric body elections in high school.

Roshak taking a run for the seat.

The popularity-driven contest The College of Education will did not interest me then, and that seat Brennen Feder, while Joseph thought carried an idea of what the Montoya and Ashin Katwala will “student government” would be like battle for the College of Science seat. here.

Madeline However, Melichar ASUA seems If they wanted to, they could of the much College of make some real changes for different student rights, but we will see what Engineering to me than and College student they actually end up doing.” of Nursing’s government Olivia in high Johnson will be the incumbents reschool. There is a larger student base, running for their seats. and the representatives actually have The College of Architecture, the ability to do something.

Planning and Landscape The elected students make Architecture; College of Agriculture important decisions for their and Life Sciences; College of Fine respective colleges and the university Arts; College of Humanities; College as a whole. of Letters, Arts and Science; College If they wanted to, they could make of Medicine — Tucson have all some real changes for student rights, extended their primary deadlines as but we will see what they actually end they are searching for candidates to up doing. run for office.

This year, we see some familiar Candidates were pared down faces running, as well as some new during primaries this week, and the ones. Stefano “Salt” Saltalamacchia is general elections will be held on Feb. coming back from a loss last year to 27 and 28.

Matt Lubisich.

Polls will be open for 12 hours from If you are unaware of the drama 8 a.m.–8 p.m. Go out and vote. It that surrounded the election last year, doesn’t take too long.

Lubsich was disqualified and then Before you might end up voting for immediately reinstated. someone who actually can advance After defeating Saltalamachia the interests of the UA student 3,976-1,961, Lubisich was disqualified body, or just stroking one of their for illegal campaigning, but that egos, make sure to dedicate yourself decision was later overturned by the to finding which one will make a ASUA Supreme Court due to lack of difference. evidence.

— Chuck Valadez is studying PPEL and Other than Saltalamachia, former philosophy.

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BEACH VOLLEYBALL

All eyes on NCAA Tournament for Sand Cats During practice, Walker placed a lot of focus and emphasis on technical skills, which the players said is helping build confidence in their skills as they prepare for competition. “[Walker] has been really persistent in [working on] our serve-receive and siding out, so I think that’s going to help us succeed in a lot of games,” defender Olivia Hallaran said. “[Walker] is super technical, so we should be really strong in our skills.”

Another way the team wants to improve its

BY KELLY MCCARTHY @DailyWildcat

The beach volleyball season is just around the corner, and the Wildcats are paying more attention to their personal and team goals for the 2018 season.

The team’s ultimate goal is to end its season at the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship held annually in Gulf Shores, Alaska. The top team from six individual regions as well as two additional at-large teams qualify each year. Last year, the Wildcats fell short of qualifying, ranking ninth in the country.

“Without a doubt, I think that [qualifying for the NCAA Championship] is the driving force for the team,” head coach Steve Walker said. “To get there, you have to reach benchmarks along the way. You’ve got to do well in conference, you’ve got to do well against the teams on the eastern side of the country and you’ve got to do well against the teams in the west.”

While the team’s players have their eyes set on Gulf Shores, they also recognize they need to focus on smaller wins and the immediate challenges before they can even begin to think about qualifying for the NCAA Championship.

“It’s important that we are coming out every day to practice with the right mindset to work as hard as we can and to focus on the little things, not just the big picture,” defender Mia Mason said.

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“From last season, my setting can improve, along with my attacking and my shot choices. I want to improve on working with my teammates, working with what I have and taking advantage of the different things we can all bring to the table,” Mason said.

From personal goals to aspirations for the team, the players are preparing for the season by not selling themselves short. They are pushing themselves to becoming the best players they can be so that the team can succeed. The team’s determination this year

They want to leave a legacy. I think this group wants to be a team

that I talk to future teams about ...” — STEVE WALKER, HEAD COACH performance from last season is as just that: a team.

Even though the team is split into five pairs, players succeed and fail as an entire team, not as individuals or as partners. Gaining a sense of cohesiveness is a main focus this year.

“We really want to play together as a team because even though it’s kind of a separate sport, we have to still remember that it is a team sport and that all five teams all have to play for each other,” Hallaran said.

Just as the players have goals for the team, they also set personal goals for themselves, with many of them focused on improving their skills to become better, well-rounded players.

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hasn’t gone unnoticed by Walker.

“We’ve got a number of players that aren’t interested in rebuilding. We’ve got a number of players — fifth-year transfers, graduate transfers — that aren’t interested in rebuilding,” Walker said.

“They want to make their mark, even though it’s a short amount of time that they’re going to be there.

They want to leave a legacy. I think this group wants to be a team that I talk to future teams about, and our training signals to me that this group has got high aspirations.”

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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT

Choreographer featured for her artistic activism This year, the Binational Arts Residency showcases the works of Ana Maria Alvarez who brings out her artistic style while tackling social issues and highlighting community engagement

BY VICTORIA PEREIRA @vguardie917

For years, Los Angeles-based choreographer and activist Ana Maria Alvarez has utilized dance to inspire change and transformation, and this year, she is being spotlighted at the Binational Arts Residency.

The Binational Arts Residency is a program dedicated to showcasing artists with alternative narratives, especially those of women. The program highlights one artist each year, giving them a chance to show their craft to communities in Phoenix, Tucson, Douglas and Agua Prieta over a week and a half.

“About three years ago, Performance in the Borderlands at ASU started this initiative around hosting a residency for an artist to come to Arizona and spend several days here throughout the state working with communities,” said Michelle Téllez, assistant professor in the University of Arizona Mexican American Studies Department and the lead organizer of Binational Arts Residency events in Tucson.

Téllez and the rest of the Binational Arts Residency team was first introduced to Alvarez’s work when she brought her dance company, Contra Tiempo, to Phoenix to showcase its unique blend of dance cultures and styles.

“Afro Cuban dance, and Salsa specifically, deeply inform my work and the vocabularies that I work,” Alvarez said. “Dance has the capacity to transcend genre or style. We all have bodies, and we all have the capacity to move our bodies in different ways.”

The residency began Sunday, Feb. 18, in Phoenix with a Sombremesa kick-off event. This was followed by both a classroom-instructed urban dance session and a workshop about exploring silence, activism and movement on Monday, Feb. 19.

Tuesday brought a student talk for discussing dance as a tool for social and political engagement, and another workshop focused on storytelling and experimentation through dance. Wrapping up the Phoenix events on Wednesday with one last discussion, Alvarez will be stopping in Douglas and Agua Prieta before taking up her three-day residency here in Tucson.

Alvarez and a host of other dancers in the area will be participating in a Binational Border Performance just three-quarters-of-a-mile east of the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday, Feb. 24.

“It would be interesting for folks to make it down to the border to see what it would look like to transcend the border with your performance,” Téllez said.

After this performance, Alvarez will be finishing

off her time as resident artist here in Tucson. On Monday, Feb. 26 from 4:30–6 p.m., Alvarez will host a lecture in the Cesar E. Chavez building, room 400, that is open to the public. Titled “Dancing Community: Reflections From the Field,” the talk will be about using art and performance as a tool for building a better society.

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Art reminds us of who we are as human beings inside this crazy world.”

— ANA MARIA ALVAREZ

Following the talk, there will be a community dinner hosted by the Guerrero Center in the same building at 6:30 p.m. This event, also open to the public, aims to

give students and community members a chance to meet Alvarez and talk one-on-one.

The final event in Tucson, and the final event of the 2018 Binational Arts Residency schedule, will be a dance workshop held Tuesday, Feb. 27.

“Dancing Joy: A Workshop for Radical Practice” will ask participants to embrace their bodies, move and communicate to build community and inspire positive change. While this event is also free and open to the public, a ticket is required and can be reserved in advance on the Binational Arts Residency website.

“Art reminds us of who we are as human beings inside this crazy world and allows us to see each other’s humanity and experience our own humanity in a powerful way,” Alvarez said. “When you’re dealing with breakdowns happening in society or things being built on top of injustices, our ability to break through that with an intense experience that reminds us of our humanity is powerful.”

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IMMIGRATION

Three deaths migrants face coming to Arizona enforcement and the government’s transition to targeting the border itself under the Immigration Reform and Control Act. He also said the number of migrants University of Arizona sociology professor who die at the hands of smugglers is Celestino Fernandez was angry. overestimated, compared to those who die “People are dying — daily, almost. And due to the harsh, desert environment or an no one seems to care — certainly not the encounter with border government,” patrol agents. he said during The panel on “And the Deaths, disappearances Disappearances included Robin and Deportations Reineke, a Continue … No Vale representative of the Nada La Vida,” a Colibri Center for symposium held at Human Rights, and the Global Justice Eddie Canales, the Center on Saturday, director of the South Feb. 17.

Texas Human Rights The event sought Center. to bring attention Reineke told the to the physical and story of Karen Flores, social dangers faced a migrant whose by migrants who mother disappeared cross the Sonoran in the desert. She Desert into Arizona. cited Flores’ years of The symposium waiting to identify was a follow-up to her mother’s body “Migrant Deaths in as evidence of the Arizona Desert: “disappearance as La vida no vale a torture method” nada,” a 2016 book and the “systematic written by various exclusion” migrants UA PRESS UA scholars. experience at the A SYMPOSIUM ON THE growing issue of migrant The evening hands of government deaths was held on Feb. 17, at 4 p.m. as a follow-up included three agencies. discussion to the 2016 book “Migrant Deaths in the panels that each The panel on Arizona Desert: La Vida no Vale Nada,” published by focused on a migrant deportation the University of Arizona Press. different “death” included Margo migrants face: the Cowan, an literal death that often occurs while crossing immigration lawyer and representative of the desert, the “ambiguous death” that Keep Tucson Together, and Zaira Livier, a UA happens when migrants disappear and the student and representative of LUPE Tucson. “social death” that occurs when migrants are Cowan talked about the history of deported. exploitation of migrant workers in the U.S. Panelists included community leaders, and how the threat of deportation was used experts and scholars. as a mechanism to control these workers.

The first panel on biological deaths Livier told her own family’s immigration included former Pima County legal defender story and described the various fates of U.S.and representative for Coalicion de Derechos raised individuals who were deported.

Humanos Isabel Garcia and UA assistant Jessie K. Finch, one of the editors of professor of sociology Daniel Martinez.

“Migrant Deaths” and assistant professor at Garcia described a number of instances Stockton University, said the event aimed in which Latino migrants and Americans to use personal anecdotes and statistics to died due to the actions of U.S. border patrol agents, who were never reprimanded for their raise awareness about the policies that cause migrant deaths and, most significantly, serve actions. as a call to political action.

She called the U.S. border patrol a “This goes from being a personal tragedy “murderous” agency and told the story of and something terrible that happened to Carlos LaMadrid, a U.S. citizen who was shot recognizing the political and structural forces by a border patrol agent while fleeing police that knowingly created this crisis on the officers in Cochise County. border,” Finch said.

Martinez spoke about the history of border

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SCIENCE

Rice of the future: nutritious, bountiful, green

BY VANESSA ONTIVEROS @nessamagnifique

The rice of the future may be in our bowls sooner than we think.

Researchers, led by Rod Wing, a University of Arizona professor of plant science and director of the Arizona Genomics Institute, completed the genome sequencing of 13 types of rice in an effort to cultivate new varieties to feed a changing world.

“Rice feeds half the world and it’s that half that is expected to double by 2050,” Wing said. “So we need to develop new varieties of rice that are higher yielding, more nutritious and have less of an environmental footprint. So the way we’re approaching this problem is to understand natural variation that already exists in cultivated rice, as well as in the wild relatives of rice.”

Scientists working on the

International Oryza Map Alignment Project worked for 15 years to complete and compile the genomes of nine new varieties of rice, including seven wild varieties. Four additional genomes had already been sequenced. Oryza is the genus for rice.

The project got its start during the end of another landmark genetic discovery, the initial sequencing of the rice genome, which Wing participated in.

“I started studying about the wild relatives of rice and I thought, ‘Why don’t we learn about these wild relatives?’

Because they essentially contain a virtually untapped reservoir of genes that could be used for crop improvement,” Wing said.

The Map Alignment Project began in 2003. Over the past decade and a half, researchers spent their days in the lab designing experiments,

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RICE HAS BEEN USED by many cultures to sustain their populations. According to professor Rod Wing, research being done today could help different varieties of rice feed even more of the worlds population.

completing the sequencing and validating their data.

In total, the project cost over $20 million. A majority of the

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OPINION

Local food distribution network delivers the goods COLUMNIST

BY TONI MARCHEVA @DailyWildcat

P

eople say Tucson is just a “really big small town.”

When I started getting involved in the community, I realized that our “small-town vibe” is not something we can take for granted. It is created, in part, through the interconnectedness of the spheres of Tucson’s community.

I’ll show just one example of this, using Tucson’s donated food distribution network.

Once a month, Damascus Road Tucson sets up a food bank outside of Park Student Union, and I had the opportunity to volunteer with them in January. A truck from Caring Ministries, another local food bank, delivered us the food.

We unloaded fruits, vegetables, delicious-looking prepared foods, every kind of bread I could imagine and crates and crates and crates of cucumbers.

When we opened, community members and students poured in. I had to constantly restock my fruit table until, barely half an hour later, the food bank had little left, except a box of black bananas and, of course, more cucumbers than a person can eat in a lifetime.

Yet we weren’t done when the people stopped coming in. The cucumbers still had a need. We loaded them back on the truck so they could be taken to Ishkashitaa. The bad bananas and other undesirable foods also had a home. A woman somewhere in Tucson collected the produce for her pigs.

I learned later that the Community Food Bank connects Caring Ministries directly to much of its food, which comes from local grocery stores. This line — the Community Food Bank to Caring Ministries to Damascus Road to Ishkashitaa and to piggies — is only one of many of the amazing lines of food distribution in Tucson.

Marco Liu, the director of family advocacy and outreach at the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, said that food distribution centers in Tucson have the same two goals: eliminate food waste and make sure food makes it to all of the people who need it.

He showed me how far this network reaches.

The Community Food Bank acts as the hub for this network of hundreds of partner organizations. It rescues food from grocery stores and produce from Nogales. In its own location, it distributes food boxes and governmentissued senior food boxes to the community, but it also works with its partner organizations to make sure all of Tucson has food available.

Then, it delivers food to smaller food banks and connects resources directly to larger ones. It even takes trucks out to rural areas to serve communities there.

The CFB empowers local groups who want to make

a difference in their own neighborhoods by providing food to local pantries. It also meets unique community needs, such as working with organizations that provide after-school meals at different locations around Tucson.

The University of Arizona, being such a big part of Tucson’s community, is involved in the chain in more ways than previously mentioned. Some of the nonconsumable food in this network is given to Compost Cats.

Also, the UA Campus Pantry was established by a youth governing board member of the Community Food Bank several years ago.

This network does more than give food to people who need it. It works to lift up Tucson’s community and bring it closer together. CFB Tucson often hosts family events, like a pumpkin smash last November that gave families a fun way to compost their pumpkins and a reason for them to interact with the community.

This network brings people close together who would have been far apart. These connections can start at the university. I encourage students who aren’t involved in the community to step into something they find interesting. I’d imagine that they too will find the welcoming, close-knit community that characterizes much of what Tucson does.

— Toni Marcheva is a sophomore who volunteers weekly at the Community Food Bank in Tucson.

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focusing on evidence-based techniques and best practices.”

Though her project is different, Atkins feels it is applicable to educators at many levels and reflects not only what she feels are best practices, but an integration of her own lived experiences.

“As a black woman teaching about privilege and other topics in sociology, I face certain challenges due to my race and gender that make it sometimes necessary to create a hierarchy in order to get respect from certain students,” she said.

Other students approached the showcase as a way to highlight their ongoing research.

Kaitlin Porter, a second-year French graduate student, focused her project, “Analysis through Illustration,” on her master of arts thesis.

Her work centers on critically analyzing over 80 illustrations from the French novel, “Elle Sera de Jaspe et de Corail” (“It will be Jasper and Coral,” in English).

“My argument is that drawing is a form of language congruent to that of written language,” she said. “It is a justifiable means of processing, analyzing and demonstrating proficiency in literary theories and criticism.”

Porter said events like the showcase are vital for the cross-pollination of ideas from one discipline or field to another.

“I think sharing research is very important, especially across disciplines,” Porter said. “I want to show others what I have been working

RICE SCIENCE FROM PAGE 26

The goal of the project was twofold.

The completion of these genomes opens the door for further rice research. In the future, scientists may be able to isolate genes for crop improvement, including higher yielding, more nutritious rice with a lower environmental impact.

But the project also contributes to other scientific fields beyond genetics. The phylogenetic trees, or evolutionary trees, of oryza created by the researchers can be used for understanding plant evolution on a broader scale.

“The genomes that they sequenced are of such high quality … that’s not something that’s available for most other organisms out there,” said Michael Sanderson, one of the researchers on the project and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. “So we can take advantage of that to make these rice species sort of a model system to study the evolution of plants.”

Researchers ultimately took their data package on the 13 rice varieties and outlined their findings in an article that made the cover of Nature Genetics.

The cover features a drawing of wild

on, just like I want to see what others are working on.”

While participants will be sharing ideas and research, the event also features prizes for the best presentations in each category.

According to the showcase website, $15,000 in awards were given out last year.

Moritz said this year will be similar.

Judges from various backgrounds will be paired and, after a few rounds of voting, will decide two winners in each category: The President’s Award, which comes with a cash prize of $750, and the second place winner, who will be awarded $500. Undergraduate and graduate students compete separately.

On top of those awards given out by GPSC, external awards, such as the BIO5 Innovator award, will also be bestowed, Moritz said.

However, that money prize wasn’t what motivated every participant who entered the showcase. Porter wasn’t even sure there were prizes or awards.

“I hadn’t thought about this, I don’t know what the prize even is, actually,” she said.

On the other hand, Atkins already knows what she would do with her prize money if she wins.

“I would like to buy a large monitor and a wireless keyboard for my home,” she said. “I work on a laptop both for teaching and for graduate school, and the eyestrain and sore shoulders are a challenge.”

Ultimately, Moritz said she hopes students — both those participating in and visiting the event — learn and have fun.

“This is more of a community event,” she said. “We are bringing in the community by showing them what we have to offer at U of A.”

rice dancing, designed by Wing’s daughter. “[We’re] trying to tell a story about the genomes, and that’s pretty hard to do,” Wing said. “It took us a long time to tell something that was good enough to publish in a journal like this ... The genome is fine, it’s is easy to do now, but it’s really how do you compare it in an interesting way. We think we did a pretty good job.”

All of the data from the project is now in the public domain for scientists from other labs to use in their own research.

“It’s important that everybody can look at it and come up with new ways of looking at the data,” Wing said.

“Because if we just sit on it, and nobody else has access to it, then it really doesn’t exist. Whereas if we release then everybody can look at it and extract new information out of it.”

Moving forward, Wing, Sanderson and other researchers will continue to sequence remaining genomes and compare those already sequenced, with the goal of one day transferring useful genes into new varieties of rice.

“Having the genome is the beginning of the story,” Wing said. “What we want to do know is comparing their genomes to see what’s similar and what’s different … The other thing that we will use it for is to essentially isolate new genes for crop improvement.”

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A big, bright-purple, solar-powered truck stands alone on a plain slab of concrete on the corner of North Park Avenue and East South Campus Drive.

A line of college students waits at the window, each leaving with a colorful bowl of fruits and granola. This is the Purple Tree Organic Açai Blends food truck.

Co-owner of the truck André Newman, known campus-wide as the “Açai Man,” is just as popular as the product he sells. His warm personality makes students at the University of Arizona feel welcome.

“The Açai Man is probably one of the most genuine workers I’ve ever encountered,” said Brooke Haliburton, a double major in English and journalism.

Being a college student, some days are harder than others, according to Haliburton, and “having someone to just ask you how your day was or how you were doing can really brighten your day.”

Haliburton hadn’t heard about the “Açai Man” until a friend kept raving about how delicious his products were.

She had to find out for herself how great this truck was.

The idea started when Newman was on a capoeira tour in Brazil in the summer of 1999. There, he tried açai, the purple fruit, for the first time.

He immediately fell in love with the bright berry blend, as it was also part of the limited array of healthy food options for a vegetarian.

Later, he was reintroduced to the berry February 2014 in Oahu, Hawaii while motor biking. This is where he got the idea to bring the special fruit to Tucson.

The main seller of this truck is in the name: açai. Açai berries are a South American purple fruit that is known to be a “super fruit” because of its great amounts of amino acids, fibers, antioxidants and protein. The açai tastes somewhat similar to raspberries and chocolate, according to Newman.

“With some experience in the solar industry, business partners along with assistance from Technicians for Sustainability actualized Tucson’s only solar/electric-powered açai, smoothie, coffee, juice and ice cream truck,” Newman said.

Newman uses Tucson’s sunny atmosphere to his advantage, and

because the UA experiences the warm sun for majority of the school year, his chilled and healthy snacks are a great go-to.

Being in college can mean the stereotype of gaining the “freshman 15” that most dread, according to Haliburton.

The health variable of the truck is enticing for those looking for a “healthier food option” on campus and is also quick and right in front of Main Gate, so students “can grab a healthy snack or meal on the go,” Haliburton said.

Other than the UA, the truck goes to local events, such as the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Heirloom Farmer’s Market (on Sundays at the Rillito River), as well as personal events like birthday parties, weddings and even sororities and fraternities.

“My first experience visiting the truck was enough to make me feel like a close friend,” said Jade Rushing, a political science major.

Newman’s warm personality is part of what keeps the students going back, according to Haliburton.

“He not only remembers who I am but is always careful to make sure my order is right,” Haliburton said. “Being a person who has a severe food allergy, the fact that he always is sure to make my order right, as well as how I’m doing, is very meaningful to me.”

Students enjoy the food and the process Newman takes to prepare it with such caution and care.

“After sampling his fresh and fruity creations, I was hooked — great food, great people, great service,” Rushing said.

Besides the popular açai blend, on the menu are also green smoothies, fruit juices, coffee and fruit smoothies.

If you’re looking for more sugar, there are also fruity ice creams and organic strawberry yogurt.

Purple Tree blends are vegan and are entirely free of wheat, soy and artificial sweeteners.

The top seller of the truck, the açai bowl, is made of pureed organic açai fruits with topping of granola, fruits and locally sourced honey.

The Purple Tree Organic food truck is Tucson Foodie-approved and is popular in Tucson, according to Newman.

The truck is open Monday through Friday 10:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. For more information, you can visit the Facebook page at Purple Tree Organic Açai Blends.

PHOTOS BY SIMON ASHER & MARISA FAVERO | THE DAILY WILDCAT

THE PURPLE TREE ORGANIC Açaí Blends truck can be recognized by its circular logo and purple color. Coowner André Newman, pictured, brings fruit options to students on campus like the popular açaí blend bowl.

Newman said his truck is the only electric/solar-powered açaí and smoothie truck in Tucson.