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Worlds of Words coordinator shares cultures through books

BY KATHLEEN KUNZ @kathkunz

In “Fahrenheit 451,” Ray Bradbury said, “You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

For Rebecca Ballenger, this message resonates a hundred times over.

As Collections and Outreach coordinator at Worlds of Words,

Ballenger organizes materials, events and exhibits at the extensive global literature resource center housed in the UA Education building in order to connect the Tucson community with their exclusive collection of global children’s books and artwork.

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New honors programs to help students succeed The honors college is implementing new programs, such as the honors complex, summer reading and mentorship programs to help honors students succeed

BY KELLY DORNEY @DailyWildcat

UA faculty members and administrators met to discuss upcoming changes to the UA Honors College in the Student Union Memorial Center on April 11. Faculty roamed the ballroom, visiting booths that provided information on the new honors complex, recruitment and admissions strategies, engagement programs and the First Year Program.

“The UA Honors College provides a place for our best students but is also meant to attract those students,” said Elliott Cheu, UA physics professor and interim dean of the Honors College.

Cheu said the Honors College enhances the UA community, and as interim dean, Cheu began to move the Honors College forward by implementing some of these new programs and services.

“Solving problems globally requires a nuanced ability to look at problems from multiple points of view,” Cheu said.

Hoping to attract these critical-thinkers, Cheu has worked on refining the application process to tease out traits in applicants that will benefit the college.

The new application will be completely separate from the university’s application.

The college hopes that this application will give the admissions committee a more holistic view of candidates and reach a broader spectrum of potential students.

The UA is also preparing to build a centralized honors complex, in which honors students will live, attend classes and socialize. This area north of campus is meant to bolster a sense community among students, make faculty and staff more accessible and attract top students to the program.

Students should expect to see an expansion of student engagement programs over the coming years. The Honors College currently offers honors students programs, such as the First Year Project, the Honors Trip and competitive scholarships. The new engagement programs are meant to build upon the foundation of these services.

The UA assigns honors students a common reading book the summer before their incoming year. This book is meant to give students a topic of discourse and bring students together over a common text.

This year, the college has assigned the book “Citizen”

by Claudia Rankine. This text explores racism in our society today.

Partnerships Through Honors, a program that will match incoming students with

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A VIEW OF THE Slonaker House located on Second Street on April 3. The honors college is bolstering resources offered to students to help ensure success in college.

carefully selected student mentors, is an expansion on the current honors mentor system. In the past, students have had the opportunity to request mentors from a student organization, but the UA Honors College has taken over this role to expand the program.

Student mentors will serve as a support system for incoming students. The application to become an honors mentor is

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Comrie stressed the importance of this task force in maintaining the UA Honors College as a place for honors students to excel. He explained that there are always improvements to be made.

“The UA Honors College was among the first honors programs and colleges, and life has moved on since then,” Comrie said.

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These changes will be led by an Honors College task force.

The task force was formed January 2016 to help align the Honors College with the UA’s 100% Engagement Initiative and move the college forward.

“We need to reconceptualize the honors experience—one that agrees with our values at the UA,” said Andrew Comrie, senior vice president for Academic

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Journalism professionals discuss fake news A panel of journalists discussed the state of the news industry in the rise of fake news and gave the audience tips to identify and avoid false facts

BY TIRION MORRIS @tirionmorris

An engaged panel gathered Wednesday night to discuss fake news and the future of trustworthy journalism at “The Future of Freedom of the Press in the Era of Fake News.”

Journalists and experts within the industry shared their knowledge and experience with a crowd of students and community members at the UA Main Library.

After a brief introduction by Daily Wildcat editors Andrew Paxton and Jamie Verwys of the UA Society of Professional Journalists, the sponsor of the event, the night got off to a comedic start with Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons.

Fitzsimmons illustrated the history of fake news through drawings depicting everything from pterodactyls to his mother.

“When I was young, our presidents always told the truth,” Fitzsimmons said joking, pointing out that fake news is not a new issue facing journalism.

However, the thing that is new and constantly evolving is the media through which we present news.

“When something appears online it is amazing how people will believe it,” Fitzsimmons said.

Taking a more serious stance on the issue, the School of Journalism Director, David Cuillier, presented the audience with his perspective on the current state of the news industry: “We are talking about an

information war,” Cuillier said. “It is all about power, and information is power.”

In regards to consuming news media, UA Librarian Mary Feeney used her expertise in research skills to present some tips on finding reliable information.

“Google the writers and see, do they even exist?” Feeney said.

“Always check your sources.”

Some other tips included maintaining a healthy skepticism, checking your own bias and getting news from diverse sources. Both Feeney and Cuillier advocated that stopping fake news is as much a responsibility of the consumer as it is of the journalist.

“As citizens, we need to do more; we need to demand better information,” Cuillier said.

One issue that journalists often come up against is the idea that people will believe articles that agree with their personal opinions and discount anything that goes against those views. With the influx of use of the term “fake news,” readers are immediately accusing stories that they don’t agree with as being lies.

The Arizona Republic, a traditionally conservative newspaper, struggled with this issue in the last election as they decided to endorse presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

“We had a lot of cancelations,” said Linda Valdez, an editorial writer for the Republic. “And that is when the death threats started coming in.”

While journalists often deal with being disliked—and even threatened—due to the subjects of

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their stories, the term “fake news” is appearing in complaints more and more.

“It has taken off in emails and letters to the editor,” Valdez said.

“They almost always start with 'fake news.'”

Dylan Smith, editor and publisher of the Tucson Sentinel, a local non-profit online news publication, discussed the reasons fake news exists.

Flashy headlines and attentiongrabbing stories draw clicks and readers to a page, generating

revenue—something that news organizations badly need in modern society. By being a nonprofit, Smith said he is able to work under the principle that educating readers is more beneficial than just “getting eyeballs.”

“We don’t try to run with the most feverish headlines,” Smith said. “We try to just give people the facts.”

When asked a question from the audience regarding what journalists should do in the face of fake news, Smith offered

ethical advice for the journalism community: “Try to be as accurate as we can, and fair,” he said. “That is all we can do.”

With resounding agreement from his fellow panelists and a room full of journalists, Fitzsimmons offered words of encouragement for students embarking on careers in the turbulent field of journalism: “As a journalist, all you have is your integrity,” Fitzsimmons said.

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UA astronomers help image black hole

BY TOM BEAL ARIZONA DAILY STAR (TNS)

Astronomers pointed a global array of radio telescopes at the center of our galaxy this week, hoping to image a glowing, swirling rim at the edge of a black hole that has swallowed the equivalent of 4 million suns.

The work of the Event Horizon Telescope team could once again prove Einstein right, or finally prove him wrong if relativity doesn’t work as predicted in the vicinity of such an intense gravitational force.

They won’t find out right away.

It will take some fancy computing and up to a year to combine the vast amount of data from the global array that forms a virtual telescope as big as the Earth itself.

Data from the southernmost telescope can’t even be retrieved until spring allows flights to the South Pole in late October, said astronomer Dan Marrone of Steward Observatory.

Marrone installed the receivers for the experiment last year during the polar summer.

He said the weather this week has been cooperative—the “best global weather” he’s seen in 20 years of linking radio telescopes.

Southern Arizona, which was buffeted by high winds and partially obscured by thin clouds during some of the observing runs, was “acceptable” even during those times, said Lucy Ziurys, director of the Arizona Radio Observatory, with telescopes on Kitt Peak and Mount Graham.

The global weather was so good that astronomers wrapped up their five nights of observations a full four days ahead of schedule, completing the gathering of data on

Tuesday morning.

“Five successful nights and, yes, we could have gone a few more days if needed, ... but the weather was kind to us,” Marrone said in an email Tuesday.

Now the hard drives from the campaign will be flown to MIT’s Haystack Observatory and to the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, where the millions of gigabytes of data will be combined and then analyzed to produce a picture of what happens at the event horizon of a black hole.

A black hole is a phenomenon so dense that nothing can escape from it, including light.

While you can’t see a black hole, the theory of general relativity predicts that the rim of a black hole—its event horizon—will glow with the light of the intense radiation caused by matter being compressed into nearnothingness. Optical telescopes can’t see the glow through the massive clouds of dust and gas, but longer-wavelength radio telescopes should reveal it.

The data that will produce a picture of the event horizon at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A Star (Sgr A*), will take six months to a year to process, said Marrone.

The data is carefully date-stamped, using atomic clocks installed at the observatory sites.

Precise overlay of the data is crucial to the process known as very-long-baseline interferometry, which creates a virtual telescope with the resolving power of one the size of the entire globe by combining observations from North and South America, Europe, Hawaii and the South Pole.

That resolution and sensitivity are needed to image a phenomenon that is 26,000 light years away and described as a “pinprick”

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THE TELESCOPES ON KITT Peak, located west of Tucson on Sept. 17, 2016. Telescopes on Kitt Peak are part of the project to help scientists get a better perspective on the black hole in the center of our galaxy.

on the night sky, despite its massive size.

Astronomers compare it to trying to see a grapefruit on the moon.

“This week heralds an exciting and challenging endeavor for astronomy,” said France Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation in a news release. The NSF provided funding for the project and partially funded construction of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile.

Theoretical astrophysicists Feryal Ozel and Dimitrios Psaltis of the UA’s Astronomy Department were at MIT to help coordinate the experiment. They also led a computer

simulation at the UA that predicted the size and shape of the event horizon and the “shadow” of the black hole, based on Einstein’s math.

If the image produced from this week’s campaign differs significantly from that prediction, scientists will have to rethink things.

“In my wildest dreams, I hope for seeing a deviation from the predictions of general relativity,” Ozel told the Arizona Daily Star in January. “If what general relativity predicts breaks down at some level, then it’s going to be path-breaking.”

PCC board raises tuition by $3 per credit

BY CAROL ANN ALAIMO ARIZONA DAILY STAR (TNS)

In-state students at Pima Community College will pay 3.8 percent more for tuition this fall, money that could help cover pay raises for the school’s workforce.

PCC’s Governing Board on Wednesday approved a $3 per credit increase for Arizona residents, making the Tucson school the third-most-costly of 10 community colleges statewide.

The cost per credit will increase from $78.50 to $81.50.

The change will add $72 a year to the annual tuition tab of a student taking 24 credits a year, who will now pay $1,956.

A student taking 30 credits a year will pay $90 more for a total bill of $2,445.

The board voted 4-1 in favor of the increase, with supporters arguing the extra money is necessary to retain quality employees and improve college operations now that PCC no longer receives state funding.

“I don’t like year after year putting this burden on students,” said board member Demion Clinco.

“If we don’t do a [tuition] increase, we can’t do a wage increase,” he added. “We have to build a high-quality institution, and we have to do that through [employee] compensation.”

Board chair Mark Hanna, who also supported the increase, called the decision “agonizing” because many students already struggle financially. But the tuition increase is critical “in order for our college to be financially sound and for us to reward our employees in a proper manner,” Hanna said.

Luis Gonzales, the board’s newest member, was the lone vote against the increase.

“I don’t buy the argument that you have to raise tuition for students to pay for a raise.

There are other places we could cut,” he said.

PCC employees’ last pay raise was in 2015.

International students and U.S. students from outside Arizona will see their tuition rates rise by 1 percent if they study on campus and by 5.9 percent for online classes.

PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE WEST Campus located on the corner of Anklam Road and Greasewood Road, on Feb. 9, 2007. PCC increased tuition by $3 per credit hour.

Students over age 55 will pay a reduced rate of $40.75 per credit, an effort by the college to boost enrollment in that market segment.

The college has also capped tution fees at

15 credits per semester, meaning students will not have to pay extra for any other classes they want to take.

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Found on bathroom floor, gets MIP A UAPD officer responded to reports of a woman who was found on the bathroom floor and had hit her head on March 31 in Manzanita-Mohave Residence Hall.

The officer met with the resident assistant on the second floor, where the woman was located.

The officer noticed the woman had a strong odor of intoxicants coming from her breath, had red, bloodshot and watery eyes, had slurred speech and was unsteady on her feet.

When the officer walked her back to her room, she swayed back and forth across the hallway.

Tucson Fire Department responded and said she was clear to stay in her room.

She was diverted to the Dean of Students for a minor in possession.

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Noise complaints, not music this time A University of Arizona Police Department officer reported to Colonia de la Paz Residence Hall in response to a loud verbal disturbance on April 1.

The call came from a neighbor in the next room who reported hearing the yelling of “please stop” from a man and a woman.

Upon arriving, the officer knocked on the door. There was no immediate response.

Due to the nature of someone possibly being assaulted, the officer keyed into the room, and when entering, he saw a man and a woman standing in the corner of the room visibly upset.

They were both separated and interviewed separately. The male explained to the officer he had locked himself out of his room in Posada San Pedro and called his girlfriend so he could stay the night.

His girlfriend was partying off campus at the time and she did not immediately come home to let him in the room for the night.

Both parties denied any act of violence, assault, threats or damage of any property.

The officer also interviewed the reporting person who said she was awakened from sleep from the yelling. Both parties were educated on Arizona domestic violence laws.

Both got a code of conduct sent to the Dean of Students and agreed to solve their problem at a later time.

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New honors complex limits students’ options

BY TONI MARCHEVA @DailyWildcat

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he UA is going to lose a huge part of its culture with the construction of the new honors complex: the integration of the honors college into the UA community.

This is essential for several reasons, not the least of which is that the UA’s current style contrasts with Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University’s Tempe campus. If the UA builds a similar complex, Arizona in-state students will lose their choice between an integrated honors college experience and a nonintegrated one and will be subjected to a more isolated feel.

When I was still in high school, I was set on going to ASU. I had the opportunity to tour all three in-state universities, so I visited ASU, and I decided to check UA out. I was surprised to find I liked the UA more than I liked ASU, and a major part of that decision was the difference in the honors college facilities.

Barrett was pretty off-putting. I felt isolated once I stepped through the gates at the entrance. The atmosphere was artificial, and there seemed to be an air of superiority created through the separation of the honors students from the rest of campus.

Honors students spend a large portion of their time in Barrett, and I had heard students at Barrett were often disliked by the rest of ASU because they weren’t a part of the greater community.

The separation did not make sense to me. The real world does not separate the “good test takers” from everyone else.

In the real world, students categorized as honors students are integrated with everyone else.

The UA better-reflected the honors college experience I was looking for.

During the tour, the honors college emphasized being integrated into campus.

During my college experience, I have found this to be true. The difference in culture is great. I can tell anyone I am in the Honors College and people do not

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look at me negatively for saying so. Honors students are truly part of the UA campus.

In my first semester, I had an honors colloquium on the third floor of the education building. As soon as I stepped out of class, I was immediately surrounded by the entire mix of university students.

It felt natural, because after all, I was a university student like everyone else.

However, the proposed honors complex creates a facility similar to Barrett at ASU. It will be a “village” with its own dining hall, recreation center, classrooms and dorms. The new complex will inevitably separate honors students from the rest of the campus community.

When the prospected location is input into Google Maps, it will take just as long

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for the future honors students to walk to Fry’s on Grant Road as to Old Main (18 minutes). Honors students won’t make the trek to campus, nor will non-honors students visit the honors complex unless they really need to.

There is nothing wrong with someone preferring Barrett over the UA’s current model. It really is a matter of personal preference. However, building a Barretttype complex here will disregard people who aren’t looking for an all inclusive honors college experience.

According to US News, the UA is ranked 124 out of all of the colleges in the country, while ASU is 129. Though we are ahead, the difference in academic experience is minimal. Both universities have

high-ranked programs in different areas.

The real difference between the two is the atmosphere.

If the Honors College changes the feel of the program on campus, it could affect preferences in the two universities. Having a similar complex in both universities homogenizes the feel and takes away one of the characteristic parts of the UA campus.

There should be a discussion within the Honors College as to what honors students value in the current layout rather than deciding what is valued for us. I benefited greatly from having the choice between the drastically different Barrett and UA Honors College, and I know many others would say the same.

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Climate change menaces deserts Biocrusts are tiny organisms living on the surface of deserts around the world. The miniscule creatures play an important role, but climate change is damaging their numbers

BY NICOLE MORIN

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New research from UA’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment indicates the desert heat may be cooling down, but this isn’t a positive thing for the environment.

Austin Rutherford, one of the authors of the study and a doctoral student in the school, discovered that climate change and altered precipitation patterns are killing off dark-colored species of mosses and lichens, which are responsible for trapping heat and energy emitted by the sun.

This leaves behind large patches of lightcolored species of cyanobacteria—a group of bacteria that uses photosynthesis and produces oxygen—which reflects energy from the sun back into the atmosphere.

Because the light cyanobacteria have a high albedo, or amount of sunlight reflected, heat does not as strongly affect the surface of the planet.

Albedo is an important concept in this topic. It determines how much energy is retained on Earth based on the color of the surface. Light-colored organisms reflect more, and dark colors absorb more.

This principle explains why it is difficult to wear black clothing during the Arizona summer; the darker colors trap the Sun’s heat and thus warm up the individual wearing them.

While this does indicate that temperatures could fall as less heat is trapped in the topsoil, Rutherford warned that there are more dire consequences caused by the death of dark-colored organisms that live on the surface of the soil. These effects would be most prominent in the biocrust, which are living communities on the surface of the soil in deserts.

“The consequence of that is that we are losing biocrust [organisms living at the soil surface, like cyanobacteria and lichens] species that are important for stabilizing the soils, as well as putting more nutrients in the ground,” Rutherford said. “We’re losing that fertility of the soil, as well.”

This could result in more dust events, dangerous for those with asthma, as well as the loss of fertile soil and the erosion of soil.

With the current study, however, the consequences are only being suggested, and Rutherford said more research needs to be done, particularly with

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A LICHEN-COVERED STONE ON Sept. 15, 2007. Desert lichens are important to temperature regulation and have come under threat due to climate change.

climate modeling and climate change manipulation plots.

Rutherford was inspired to do this research while working in Utah for the U.S. Geological Survey as a technician. It began when he and his colleagues noticed there was large die-offs of dark-colored species mosses, lichens and cyanobacteria on their climate change manipulation plots. They then focused on the Utah area, where they had noticed these changes.

This was the first study done on a small scale. Most research on the topic is done on a larger scale with remote sensing technology. There were specific reasons why Rutherford and his team decided to focus in on a smaller area.

“We wanted to quantify this change directly with biocrust,” Rutherford said.

“We wanted to narrow the focus in to look at specific processes driving that change in albedo.”

This allowed Rutherford and his team to find the mechanisms that led to the change, particularly climate change, and to determine what some possible consequences of the die-offs would be.

Though his current research is focused on the encroachment of woody plants and how it affects the environment, Rutherford hopes that someone will continue this research. Someone who wishes to go further with the topic would need to see the effects of dark moss and lichen die off

on a larger scale and would need more sophisticated remote sensing technology in order to separate the biocrust and the plants on the surface in their data.

“We did an exercise that shows that it may be possible, that the change in albedo …might influence a global process,” Rutherford said. “But it was more of a demonstrative exercise. Someone who knows climate models intimately would be able to start putting in different pieces in those models to reflect the changes that we saw.”

Going further, researchers might be able to determine how the death of biocrust communities in aid environments would impact the climate on a global scale.

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Science behind BPA in plastics

BY MALIK SHELP

@malikshelp

Many reusable water bottles claim to be “BPA -free.” However, what exactly does BPA-free mean, and what’s the problem with BPAs to begin with?

A few years ago the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Food and Drug Administration started investigating a chemical that has been used in plastic products since the 1960s known as bisphenol A, commonly referred to as BPA. Bisphenol A is a chemical used in many plastic products to improve rigidity and durability.

BPA isn’t just used in water bottles, though; it can be found in the lining of food or drink cans and has been used in a variety of resins for years.

Despite their prevalance, BPAs have a major downside: They are part of a class of chemicals known as endocrine disruptive chemicals (EDCs). In humans, the endocrine system plays a major part in development and reproduction.

Leif Abrell is a UA associate research scientist of soil/water and environmental science and chemistry. Abrell is an expert in organic analysis at the Arizona Laboratory for Emerging Contaminants.

“The endocrine system works with a lock and key, with the lock being a protein receptor and the key is a hormone molecule,” Abrell said.

“When they combine, a function is activated that then induces some particular growth function.”

EDCs can bind to protein receptors and negatively impact the development of different organisms. This harmful interaction is possible since EDCs, such as BPAs, can mimic hormones like estrogen.

These impacts are not limited to people. Other members of the animal kingdom can experience problems, as well.

“The most common thing we see with EDCs is how they can affect the growth and development of fish, as well as their gender,” Abrell said. “EDCs are one of the top chemicals that we should be concerned about, especially when it comes to pregnant women and younger children who are still developing.”

If EDCs are acknowledged as a problem, what is the solution?

While most reusable, rigid, plastic bottles may state they are BPA-free, according to the Mayo Clinic. some plastics marked with the recyclable number 3 and 7 may still contain lesser amounts of BPAs. The clinic warns plastic bottles and cans of food, especially those labeled with a 3 or 7, should not be left in the heat for extended periods of times because heat can break down the plastic and allow BPAs to contaminate food or liquids.

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Old and new faculty members of UA’s Fred Fox School of Music came together to present the “Chamber Music Party” recital, featuring violinist Timothy Kantor. on Wednesday, April 12, at 7 p.m., as part of the school’s Faculty Artist Series.

The recital featured three main performances, including the Sergei Prokofiev Sonata for “Two Violins,” the Robert Schumann piece played in a piano quartet in E-flat major and the Igor Stravinsky Suite, the “Soldier’s Tale.”

Kantor, one of the newest professors with the School of Music, was featured as one of the leading violinists in the faculty show.

Kantor has had an extraordinary caliber of musical experience, such as being part of the Afiara Quartet in Toronto, and has also collaborated with other well-known artists, such as scratch DJ Kid Koala and Academy Award-nominated producer K.K. Barrett.

“The most important thing I’d like for students to take away is how crucial it is for music students to see lots of different performances going into their degrees and careers,” Kantor said. “It’s also a great opportunity for students to see these pieces being performed live.”

Kantor said he’s been playing violin all his life and he’s always enjoyed teaching.

“It’s a pleasure and an honor to be working here and doing what I love here at the UA,” Kantor said.

Jackie Glazier, an assistant professor in the School of Music and a professional clarinet player, also played in the Chamber Music Party event. As a clarinet player, Glazier performed “The Solider’s Tale” piece alongside five other faculty artists, such as William Dietz (bassoon), Ryan Darke (trumpet), Moisés Paiewonsky (trombone), Philip Alejo (double bass) and Morris Palter (percussion).

According to Glazier, the performance mainly showcased the newest faculty members of the School of Music.

“It’s always nice to come together and have music as our universal language,” Glazier said. “To put

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TIMOTHY KANTOR LEFT, THEODORE Buchholz (center) and Tiezheng Shen (right) perform at the Faculty Artist Series rectial at Crowder Hall on April 13. The Faculty Artist Series allows faculty members to perform for the UA community.

yourself exposure to great new these particular pieces together in repertoire,” Glazier said. “It’s great a very short amount of time is very seeing something challenging but live on campus and worth performing.”

The Faculty For most doing the pieces without the need Artist Series students of a conductor.” performances studying to be When the faculty occur usually once a month, performers, are not teaching, professors depending on it’s valuable to see many also showcase their the flexibility of your own mentors talents outside the the professors.

The shows are perform and to give UA. The majority free and open to yourself exposure of the performers in the Faculty Artist all UA students to great new Series balance and faculty. It’s a repertoire.” both teaching and tradition that has been treasured —Jackie Glazier, performing their art.

“It’s a really at the School of assistant professor, interesting Music for many School of Music balance,” Glazier semesters. said. “Performing “For most makes me a students studying better teacher, to be performers, and teaching makes me a better it’s valuable to see your own performer. I’m doing what I’m mentors perform and to give

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preparing my students to do in the future, and both occupations go hand-in-hand.”

Palter, a visiting associate professor in the School of Music, played in the same piece as Glazier during Wednesday’s performance.

“The more active you are as a musician, the more you get to play, the more places you get to see and the more people you meet, which is something that evokes through your career as a musician,” Palter said.

Palter said music concerts happen at the UA nearly twice a week.

“Art is our culture here, and there is so much of it going happing on campus, which is so fulfilling as a professor to see,” Palter said.

Theodore Buchholz, a cellist and assistant professor in the School of Music, played in the Robert Schumann piano quartet piece on Wednesday night.

“Each faculty member will have a recital once a year, but we find

ourselves playing in each other’s recitals,” Buchholz said. “It’s really rewarding to collaborate all the time with talented musicians.”

Buchholz also had kind words to say about Kantor prior to the performance on Wednesday night: “He is an extraordinary chamber musician, and he has a way of playing that is very engaging with how he communicates the music to an audience,” Buchholz said.

While the Chamber Music Party recital may be over after Wednesday night, there are numerous opportunities to get involved on campus and with the School of Music. With recitals and performances constantly in production, Wildcats can’t miss their opportunity on free and vibrant classical concerts.

For more information on the latest of the Fred Fox School of Music events, please visit its website.

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by Short, Ballenger and numerous student workers and interns. Worlds of Words has established a website where it regularly produces online publications and has joined social media on most major platforms.

By returning to her old job, Ballenger was able to immerse herself in a community that is driven to cultivate knowledge about other cultures through books. She helps pre-service teachers, art students and researchers connect with foreign children’s literature and artwork. These pieces are then used in classrooms to expand the minds of students by introducing a different perspective.

Ballenger said her favorite part of her job is the patrons.

“We’re at an institute of higher education and we’re located in the College of Education, so watching that fostering of learning is really inspiring and it pushes me to continue learning myself,” Ballenger said.

Ballenger said she grew up in a relatively homogenous community, but when she went to college, she took an intercultural communications class that sparked her love for the insight other cultures can provide.

“I realized they were approaching all of these things in different ways, and it really opened my mind,” Ballenger said. “It was such an exposure; it was so interesting and fascinating to me.”

During this same time in her life, the internet was just becoming widely available to the public. Her generation suddenly had the world at their fingertips. This is where she discovered the opportunity to virtually “travel to another

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Ballenger’s interest in foreign communities expanded immensely, and she fueled this interest with her passion for literature.

“I think I just hit that right time where technology and my higher education met, and it gave me a window to the world,” Ballenger said.

As a coordinator, Ballenger works to provide a similar connection of technology, education and interactive activities to draw students in and fully immerse them in the books at Worlds of Words.

Providing a student with the books is one thing, but Ballenger takes it a step further by helping to curate exhibits and events that showcase not only the important books of foreign literature but also the process that the author/illustrator of these books went through to create their work.

“It’s an opportunity to invite the community to come in and take a look at this whole process that we’ve made transparent,” Ballenger said.

At these exhibits, young students can look at exclusive samples of literature and art from around the world. This literature is displayed for them in a way that is easy to understand and visually intriguing, and they can play interactive games with these themes that help them solidify the information.

Currently, the Worlds of Words is showcasing an exhibit on Joan Sandin’s “Coyote School News.” The original children’s picture book is displayed along with other materials that show the step-by-step process of creating a piece of literature.

“Joan Sandin traveled all over Southern Arizona taking pictures to use as reference for her art, she conducted interviews with students of ranch schools and did tons of other research,”

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REBECCA BALLENGER SHOWS A book at the Worlds of Words library. The library houses a large collection of children’s books from around the world.

Ballenger said.

The exhibit also shows the editing and publishing process of literature. Ballenger said it was important to include this aspect of “Coyote School News” to show that picture books are more difficult to create than one would expect.

Worlds of Words will host two “book fiestas” in the next few weeks, presenting literature, artwork and activities from Russian and Indian cultures.

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ARIZONA SOPHOMORE CODY DALTON during the Jim Click Shootout at Drachman Stadium on April 8.

Cody Dalton has hammer throwing in his blood

BY AMANDA O’BRIEN @DailyWildcat

Everyone has a story, and UA track and field athlete Cody Dalton is no different. Born and raised in the small town of Alamo, California to Dennis and Kathy Dalton, Cody began his athletic career at an early age. With his athletic build, it was no surprise that Cody was a natural athlete and would later become a hammer thrower.

His love for sport was unparalleled and continued to grow deeper and deeper the older he became.

Throughout high school, Cody played many sports; basketball, football and track and field at Monte Vista High School in Danville,

California, but he found the most enjoyment when participating on the track team. After going through six throwing coaches in four years, Dalton’s final coach at the end of his senior year ended up being his most cherished one: his father, Dennis Dalton.

“My dad was an All American hammer thrower at UC Davis, and I did not like conditioning in football, so I tried out for the track team [in high school] and turned out to be pretty good,” Dalton said.

Cody’s final season at Monte Vista High School was a special one. Dalton had not only his father as the throws coach; his little brother, Dylan, was on track team that year as a thrower,

as well.

“It was a blast coaching Cody and his brother Dylan,” Dennis Dalton said. “They were both very different throwers. Cody was big and powerful while Dylan was small but quick, with great form.”

After a high school track meet, Dalton and his family were in their motor home when he received a call from previous UA track and field coach, Craig Carter. Dalton was offered a place on the UA track and field team after his junior season at Monte Vista High School. He gladly accepted the offer and secured his spot as a Wildcat.

Dalton impressed early on during his first season in 2016 as an outdoor

collegiate track and field athlete. His personal best in the hammer thrown came at the Jim Click Shootout in 2016. His throw of 50.87 meters (166 feet) is when his collegiate career really took flight.

“My favorite part about the sport is you’re really competing against yourself the whole time,” Dalton said.

“It’s not what other people do; it’s about what you do yourself, and that’s really what makes it great.”

During the 2016 season, Cody placed in the top five in three of the four meets in which he competed, and he finished in third place overall in the Willie Williams Classic meet. However, Dalton said he is not satisfied with his

performance in 2016.

He is having a phenomenal 2017 outdoor season. Dalton threw his new personal best in the first meet, throwing 53.09 meters (175 feet), already a three-meter improvement from last season.

“I had a great first few meets this season and hope to continue the streak all the way to the end,” Dalton said.

Now in mid-season form, Dalton and the rest of the UA track team are headed to Fort Worth, Texas this Friday for the Horned Frog Invite.

After competing in Texas, Dalton will be travelling to UC San Diego, ASU and finally the Pac-12 Championship in Eugene, Oregon.

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It’s all about your number two in college softball

BY CHRISTOPHER DEAK @ChrisDeakDW

The Arizona Wildcats softball team is on the cusp of history. At 40-1, they are just five games away from tying their own NCAA record for the best start in collegiate softball history.

The Wildcats lead the nation in home runs with 71, 11 more than second-place Louisiana College, and have become one of the top offenses in the nation. But in softball, it’s always about the pitching.

Senior ace Danielle O’Toole is 21-1 with a 0.75 ERA, good for sixth in the nation and ranks third in victories.

As O’Toole goes, so go the Wildcats. Right? Not quite. In today’s game, you’re only as good as your No. 2 pitcher.

“Having more than one pitcher is the new game of softball,” said Arizona’s No. 2 pitcher Taylor McQuillin. “You don’t win much without more than one these days.”

You could argue McQuillin is actually slightly better than O’Toole this season. The sophomore is 13-0 with a miniscule 0.63 ERA; that’s good for fourth in the nation. For as good as O’Toole is, she needs a steady sidekick.

“I think that’s close to being right,” O’Toole said when asked if the difference between good teams and great teams is their No. 2 pitchers. “Not a lot of schools have a good No. 2; that’s why we’re special. I don’t think a lot of teams have a good No. 2, and I think we have probably the best one.”

The Wildcats have already won as many games this season, 40, as they did all of last year.

While the lineup has been a major improvement, McQuillin’s statistics tell the story of Arizona’s rise back to national prominence.

After going 12-8 with a 3.17 ERA last season, the elevation of McQuillin’s game is right in line with the Wildcats’ rise up the national polls.

To illustrate the point of a team only being as good as it’s No. 2 pitcher, let’s review the series against Washington from three weeks ago.

O’Toole dazzled in game one, throwing a no-hitter, but the Wildcats scratched across just three runs, less than half of their

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ARIZONA PITCHER TAYLOR MCQUILLIN (18) throws during the softball game against Texas at Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium on March 4. The Wildcats won 2-1.

season average. It was due to a solid performance from Husky starter Taran Alvelo, who has a 2.35 ERA in 128.1 innings this season.

The Huskies were the No. 6-ranked team in the nation at the time, but the difference between a good Husky squad and a great Arizona team was evident in game two of the series.

Husky starter Samantha Manti was chased from the game in the first inning after giving up six earned runs and recording just one out. Manti handed it off to Madi Schreyer, who surrendered five runs over 1.2 innings. Manti and Schreyer have switched off as the Huskies’ No. 2 starter this season, with neither pitcher having thrown more than 65 innings.

McQuillin shut out the Huskies that day. She’s every bit the reason the Wildcats are back in the national spotlight.

“She’s become a lot more consistent,” said Arizona backup catcher Robyn Porter. “Last year, she had great movement but she

couldn’t always pinpoint it, so this year she’s become more consistent and reliable with herself.”

When the 2004 Arizona Wildcats set the NCAA record starting 45-1, they relied heavily on pitcher Alicia Howell. Howell started 44 games and tossed 293.2 innings; Wendy Allen had eight starts and threw 62.1 innings, both good for second on the team. The Wildcats rode Howell nearly every day.

“It wasn’t too long ago where teams would still only have one pitcher and they would be going out there winning the world series,” McQuillin said. “Especially the past couple of years, [teams around the country] started realizing ‘hey, you’re going to need more than one pitcher to win these games.’

The game’s only getting harder.”

It’s getting harder not only because hitters are getting better; the game has also become more advanced.

“It’s not only that hitters are getting better; it’s the NCAA has changed our strike zone,” O’Toole

said. “We have to kind of serve it up and hope for a swing and miss. They’ve kind of forced us to be in this box. That’s why hitters are getting better: The game is different.”

The NCAA has tightened up the strike zone in recent years, and it has created a tough environment for pitchers. Along with technological advances, pitchers constantly have to change their game.

“Reinventing is a weekly thing,” O’Toole said. “You come out playing your game and then you have to know what [opposing teams] did, know what they’re looking for. That third day is really hard.”

With the advances in film preparation, something Arizona head coach Mike Candrea has mentioned as a recent change in softball, “reinventing” yourself is something that Porter said O’Toole had to do against Washington a few weeks ago. “[O’Toole] comes out and

throws her first no-hitter [against Washington] and she comes out the next day that she started and said ‘I have to completely reinvent myself today,’” Porter said. “It’s a really hard thing for pitchers to do.”

Even though the game has changed, Candrea still said it’s possible to have one workhorse in a perfect scenario. O’Toole has thrown close to double the innings of McQuillin this season, but it’s because McQuillin suffered an injury at the start of this year, forcing O’Toole to throw more innings early on.

“If you had someone special, special meaning that they have to have the physical skills, but they also have to have the stamina to throw a lot of innings, you could still do it,” Candrea said. “I think you’re going to see as we get in to [the] postseason that as you go on teams rely more on horse.”

Even though that horse in the playoffs will likely be O’Toole, McQuillin is the reason the ‘Cats are on the brink of history.

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Softball takes care of game one, on cusp of history

BY NOAH SONNET @texaslad32

Off to one of the best starts in school history, the No. 2-ranked Arizona Wildcats softball team hit the road this weekend for a matchup with No. 14-ranked Utah. The Wildcats took care of game one 5-1.

Danielle O’Toole got the start and threw a complete game picking up her 22nd win of the season en route to another convincing performance from the Wildcats.

Tamara Statman got the scoring going with a triple in the first inning that drove in freshman Jessie Harper nad she followed that up with a two-RBI double in the fourth. Mandie Perez added two RBIs of her own and the Wildcats are one step closer to history.

After handling Stanford last weekend, where the Wildcats outscored the Cardinal 41-2, the team improved to 40-1 on the season.

The Wildcats are the first Division I school to reach the 40-win mark this season, putting them just five victories shy of tying the NCAA record for the best start to a season, which was set by Arizona in 2004 when the team raced out to a 45-1 start.

Katiyana Mauga entered her senior season with her eyes on the NCAA softball home run record, and with a lineup filled top-to-bottom with highly rated freshman players, the ‘Cats lineup was going to one of the toughest lineups to pitch against in the Pac-12 Conference.

The lineup has lived up to the preseason hype and then some. Arizona’s Division I leading 71 homers are almost twice the amount of runs the team has allowed opposing teams to score his season (39).

Mauga has found her slugging shoes again

after a mid-season dip in form.

The senior is the conference leader in home runs with 16 and has collected Pac-12 player of the week honors in back-to-back weeks. In her last 20 plate appearances, Mauga is hitting .550, with 14 RBIs and six home runs moving her into a tie for seventh all-time on the NCAA’s career home run list.

Arizona has dropped three of its last four games to the Utes in Salt Lake City before their victory on Thrusday night. The Utes have been relentless against ranked opposition this year, having won seven games against ranked teams, including LSU, Tennessee and a sweep of UCLA and Cal twice.

The Utes have gotten outstanding play from former conference player of the year Hannah Flippen and a pitching staff that is ranked No. 3 in the Pac-12 in ERA (1.66).

Flippen hasn’t missed a beat this year, leading the Pac-12 in batting average at .465 and collecting a team-high 79 total bases so far. Her teammates Anissa Urtez and Heather Bowen have also helped carry the load offensively for the Utes and the trio has combined for 101 of the teams 181 total RBIs this season.

The team’s third best ERA in the conference is on the line this weekend agains the Wildcats top ranked offense and ace Katie Donovan allowed five earned runs in the opener Thrusday.

The Utes’ jack of all trades is Hailey Hilburn, who has put together a number of good outings this season. In 40 innings pitched her ERA is 1.23, and the California native has made frequent appearances in relief, a task she might face this weekend. Game two starts at 3 p.m.

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* Does not include Tommy Bahama shirts, Dooney & Bourke bags, Vera Bradley bags, TOMS shoes, Skicks shoes, diploma frames, Hydro Flask water bottles, championship/bowl merchandise, Arizona Vintage at Main Gate. Discount on supplies available only at UA BookStores SUMC, and The A-Store at Main Gate. Additional exclusions may apply. No other discounts apply. Some conditions apply. See associate for details. Product selection varies by location.