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Monday, April 3, 2017 –­ Tuesday, April 4, 2017 VOLUME 110 ISSUE 76

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LOCAL ARTIST NED SCHAPER performs at the Mat Bevel Institute during Kinetic Saturdays, on April 1. Schaper creates art using discarded objects. Each piece comes with its own unique personality, sometimes including sound.

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Astronaut to teach UA Online course

BY HANNAH DAHL @hannah_dahl715

A new UA Online science course gives students the opportunity to learn about Earth from the perspective of astronaut Ron Garan.

“I hope students get a very broadened view of the world that we live in, that their universe expands and that their definition of the word ‘home,’ expands to encompass the entire planet,” said Garan, chief pilot for World View Enterprises and former NASA astronaut.

The course, titled “Introduction to the Orbital Perspective,” encompasses all aspects of science, including astronomy, physics, geoscience, ecology and atmospheric science, according to Thomas Fleming, astronomer at the Steward Observatory and senior lecturer in the Department of Astronomy. Fleming coordinates UA’s general education astronomy courses.

“This is one of those classes where students can see the scientific method at work in all areas of science and it’s about the planet they live on,” Fleming said. “[Students] can get an appreciation of what we know about how our ecosystem works and how the earth operates, and how we fit into it.”

Besides the fact that you’ll be able to say you took a class from an astronaut, Fleming added that students have the opportunity to learn about their planet through the eyes of someone who’s observed it from space.

Garan’s combined 178 days in space certainly sets him apart from other professors. As a former NASA astronaut, he had the opportunity to work with the U.S. Space Shuttle and Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft.

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NEWS Hillel Butterfly Project draws to a close Monday — Tuesday April 3 ­­— April 4 Page 2

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Since April 2015, the Hillel Foundation and the Tucson Butterfly Project has hung ceramic butterflies around the city to remember the lives of children who died in the Holocaust

BY TORI TOM @DailyWildcat

Vibrant, multicolored butterflies have fluttered above the UA’s Hillel Foundation entryway since April 2015, in memory of the 1.5 million children who were murdered during the Holocaust.

Each butterfly is etched with the name of a child who perished. Hillel Executive Director Michelle Blumenberg said they were intentionally threaded back-to-back “so that no child is left alone.”

The mirrors that separate every butterfly pair captures sunlight, creating a display of dancing reflections to highlight the slain children they represent.

The Butterfly Project, which originated in San Diego, is recognized worldwide.

According to the project’s Co-founder and Executive Director Cheryl Price, almost 150,000 butterfly installations were formed in 2016 within communities across the U.S., Israel, Mexico, Poland, Australia, Czech Republic, Canada and Argentina.

The original founders established the nonprofit organization because they were inspired by Pavel Friedman’s poem “The Butterfly.”

Friedman wrote the poem in 1942 as an inmate at the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. He was later transported to Auschwitz and killed.

This global education and arts program came to Tucson in 2013 when Amy Gould, The Butterfly Project’s director of Tucson initiatives, moved to the city.

Gould first learned about the nonprofit organization while working in Charlotte, North Carolina. She then traveled to The Butterfly Project’s headquarters to learn more about it.

After spending time in San Diego, Gould and her family relocated, connected with the Hillel Center and started The Butterfly Trail.

For the past four years, university students have painted around 2,600 ceramic butterflies on the UA Mall during annual Holocaust Vigils. These butterflies are shared among seven Jewish and non-Jewish agencies which create The Butterfly Trail.

“The idea is that it isn’t just Jewish locations because the idea of ‘never again’ and ‘tolerance’ … is about the community at large,” Blumenberg said.

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THE HILLEL FOUNDATION BUILDING front entrance, located on Second Street and Mountain Avenue. Since 2015, The Butterfly Project has been creating ceramic butterflies in memory of the children who died during the Holocaust.

The butterfly memorials at Hillel, the Holocaust History Center, Tucson Jewish Community Center, Tucson Children’s Museum, Tucson Medical Center, Congregation Chaverim and Tucson Botanical Gardens are now complete.

“We are so proud of Tucson and happy that, after much hard work and generosity from the Gould family and others, that The Butterfly Project is a jewel in your community,” Price said in an email interview.

“In so many ways, teaching about the Holocaust in a

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deeply personal and meaningful way to youth of all backgrounds, uplifting the Holocaust survivors with its messages of remembrance and hope.”

Together, the sites symbolize courage, unity and love.

As the program in Tucson ends, The Butterfly Project’s mission to honor Holocaust victims, promote awareness against hate and incite peace and compassion continues.

“We all have to stand up in cases of prejudice and intolerance, remember and hope for a future of change,” Blumenberg said.

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Treviño moves forward with diversity initiatives

BY MARISSA HEFFERNAN @_mheffernan

Jesús Treviño, UA’s senior diversity officer, started working on inclusive excellence in August 2016. Now, not even a year later, he said the UA is moving the fastest he’s ever seen.

So far, 20 diversity committees have been created across colleges and vice presidential administrative areas, though Treviño said a few were in place previously and a few colleges didn’t get the email about putting together a committee, placing them behind.

The committees are part of Treviño’s strategy. Eventually, there will be committees for every part of campus. They’ll make diversity plans to post online over summer, to be implemented next fall.

“We’re not starting at point zero,” Treviño said. “Diversity work was being done on this campus before I arrived as a result of the student protests last spring. I came in with this concept, which fits in really nicely, and it’s amazing. I use the metaphor of a train that’s left the station. I came in and I’m sort of chasing it with inclusive excellence, but I’m catching up.”

Being an inclusive excellence university means holding the entire campus responsible for diversity and inclusiveness, as opposed to just hiring a diversity officer and giving everyone else a pass, Treviño said.

“We’re using a broad definition of diversity that goes beyond race and ethnicity and includes gender, sexual orientation, disability

and many others,” Treviño said. “Ultimately, it’s about embedding diversity and inclusiveness into everything we do.”

Treviño is looking at marketing, tenure, fundraising, hiring and even traditions.

Friday, Treviño and his office started a new tradition: an Inclusive Excellence Symposium they hope will become annual.

This year, registration was only open three days before it filled completely.

Tannya Gaxiola, co-chair of the Diversity Task Force and assistant vice president for community relations and chair of the Diversity Coordinating Council, said the response to Treviño’s work has been overwhelmingly positive.

“Judging by the opening event of the Diversity Symposium this morning where the room was completely packed, there’s a lot of energy and excitement,” Gaxiola said. “That response is making me feel really confident about the long-term success.”

However, she said she realizes most progress will be very long-term.

“It’s really about systemic change,” Gaxiola said. “That takes time. It won’t happen in a month or a semester. We can make progress in the short term, but we have to stay focused on it. We have to get used to embedding inclusive excellence in everything we do.”

Lynn Nadel, regents’ professor and faculty chair, also said true progress will require sustained action, focus and tough choices by senior leadership, as change is uncomfortable and can elicit unthinking reactions.

“I hope for the long-term that we as a

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TRINITY GOSS, LEFT, AND Kevyn Butler, right, co-leaders of Black Student Union, lead MSUA protesters by Old Main on the UA Mall on March 8, 2016.

community will stay focused on the important goals that were set out at the outset and not get bogged down in momentary delays, setbacks or misunderstandings,” Nadel said.

“We are trying to make certain that at the UA diversity is supported and valued, and that all members of the UA community are treated with respect at all times, by everyone. Making this happen isn’t easy.”

While it will be difficult, Treviño said the UA has what it takes.

“I haven’t encountered any resistance at all,” Treviño said. “Part of it is because both the provost and the president, when I was hired, liked the concept of inclusive excellence.

There’s a lot of willingness on the campus, and I sensed that when I applied for the job. You cannot put a value on that.”

Treviño said he believes the new president will be just as supportive and is also working on inclusive excellence with the school of medicine, Phoenix and UA South.

WRC to hold sexual assault awareness events

BY ANGELA MARTINEZ @anmartinez2120

Aiming to decrease the number of sexual assault cases, end rape culture and empower survivors to speak out, the UA Women’s Resource Center will collaborate with other student groups to host workshops and events during April.

Carla Vasquez, a member of UA’s Students Promoting Empowerment and Consent and intern for the Women’s Resource Center will be volunteering at Take Back the Night Tucson this year. Vasquez, who has attended the past two years, said she enjoyed the event so much she wanted to take part in making it happen this year.

“It’s a great way of getting students and others to come,” Vasquez said. “Many people get something out of the event when they come, even if they don’t expect to.”

Take Back the Night takes place around the globe in 30 countries and more than 600 college campuses in the U.S. The nonprofit organization is composed of volunteers taking lead in organizing events nation- and world-wide.

This year’s event will include a candlelight vigil, music and dance performances, opportunities for survivors to speak out like poetry and speeches, a resource fair and a march.

Take Back the Night Tucson will also host

a community panel on masculinity’s role in gender-based violence and “Tough Guise 2,” a documentary that investigates the ongoing epidemic of men’s violence in America, at the Loft Cinema on April 3 at 7:30 p.m.

“A lot of people may not have been personally affected by sexual assault, so when they come, they’ll know how deep this kind of thing is within our campus,” Vasquez said.

One in four women on campus will be sexually assaulted during their time at college, according to the WRC statistics. Also according to WRC statistics, students a part of the LGBT community report sexual assault twice as often as heterosexual students, and there is an 8-percent increase of sexual assault for students with a registered disability.

One in three women and one in six men worldwide will be victims of some form of sexual assault with less than 50 percent of victims reporting their case, according to Take Back the Night.

“People really come together and I notice everyone is very empathetic,” Vasquez said. “You may not know who you are sitting next to, but hearing the stories and hearing the people, you get a certain bond you wouldn’t elsewhere.”

Take Back the Night Tucson will take place Wednesday, April 12, from 4-9 p.m.

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UA STUDENTS WALK WITH a sign reading “Speak Up. Speak Out. Against Sexual Assault.” in last year’s Take Back the Night on April 12, 2016. This year’s events include the march and a screening of “Tough Guise 2“ at the Loft.

“The most powerful part at the end is when survivors tell their own stories,”

Vasquez said. “There are a lot who cry, and it gets very emotional.”

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POLICE BEAT

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Fleeing arrest A UAPD officer was parked on Campbell Avenue on March 16 around 3:30 p.m. when a car drove by at 20 mph over the speed limit.

The officer pulled up behind the blue Honda and activated his overhead emergency lights to conduct a traffic stop.

When the Honda driver refused to stop, UAPD dispatch advised that the driver had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant for disorderly conduct.

Additional units responded, attempting to get the driver to stop. One UAPD cruiser was even positioned diagonally in front of the Honda at a red light.

The driver proceeded, narrowly avoiding a collision, and UAPD determined she was actively fleeing.

UAPD decided to stop pursuing the Honda since the driver made decisions increasingly dangerous for officers and the public.

The following day around 7 a.m., UAPD officers headed to the driver’s apartment with an arrest warrant.

Officers entered the residence, notifying the driver of the warrant. She sat on her bed despite being told to stay in the front room.

As officers began to apply a wrist lock to place her arm behind her back, she resisted by making her arms rigid.

After being handcuffed, the woman was read her Miranda rights.

She admitted to the officers that she did, in fact, know they were attempting to pull her over but she knew she had done nothing wrong and didn’t feel like she needed to stop.

The driver was then taken to be booked for disorderly conduct.

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When the Kia came to a stop, the officer approached and asked the driver for his license and registration.

The officer noticed the driver’s speech was slurred, he had glassy, bloodshot eyes and a light odor of intoxicants.

When the officer asked the driver if he had anything to drink, the driver responded, “Yeah, one or two beers, but nothing serious.”

While conducting a warrants check, the officer noticed the driver pick up a water bottle and start drinking it extremely quickly.

The officer then conducted several sobriety tests, which the driver failed.

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Adobe partnership names UA first Creative Campus in West

BY SHAQ DAVIS @ShaqDavis1

The UA has been labeled the first Creative Campus in the West as part of an ongoing partnership with Adobe Systems Inc. Collaborating with Adobe, the UA has committed to highlighting digital media literacy across all programs at the university.

Adobe will provide current and future students with the complete line of Creative Cloud software. Popular applications Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro are just two of the many tools to be implemented throughout computer systems at the university.

The software will be brought out in phases first starting with updating the Main Library, Science-Engineering Library and Bear Down gym. Adobe has gifted $100,000 toward those improvements.

The administering of the Adobe Creative Cloud software will come from the Office of Digital Learning.

Melody Buckner, director of Digital Learning and Online Education, discussed the different ways they are making the community aware of what tools they have access to.

First, an Adobe specialist was hired to teach faculty and staff about the Creative Cloud software and what it is designed to offer curriculums throughout the UA. Brian Puente was hired in February as an Adobe Creative Cloud “evangelist,” Buckner said.

“So he’s first working with faculty to teach them how to integrate the Adobe Creative Cloud into their curriculum, so that’s really getting students to use the Creative Cloud in the classroom,” Buckner said.

Second, the department is pushing the software through the Science-Engineering Library student community area called iSpace.

“There’s another strategy where we’re trying to reach students,” Buckner said. “We are pushing the Creative Cloud out through the iSpace, and

City pores over deal for off-campus UA complex

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RILEY VERSFELT, AN ACCELERATED master’s student in journalism, is seen working in the UA Main Library using an Adobe creative cloud application on Feb. 28.

Office of Digital Learning, of course that’s more studentsaid the access to the software centric. It’s a little different is important for students, than going through the especially while there is time curriculum.” left in their academic careers.

She said the department is “I think a lot of budding partnering with the libraries graphic to create ways designers, and to display even business the tools to ... I really feel students, are students. that we need having to use Buckner, who also to prepare these programs in and day teaches in our students to be day out in their the College of digitally aware. professional Education, said she has already They need to be lives,” Ball said.

I think used the digitally ready “So it’s important Adobe tools for the world that that they get within her they’re going into." exposed to it class and it has early, while been a helpful they’re still addition.

— Melody Buckner, learning.”

“I have director of Digital UA implemented Learning and Online department these products into my Education staff members have already teaching, and implemented I really feel the software, as that we need faculty licenses were made free to prepare our students to be in January 2016. The College digitally aware,” Buckner said. of Fine Arts faculty and staff “They need to be digitally said that this contribution will ready for the world that they’re benefit many UA programs. going into.”

“They’ve rolled out now Venessa Ball, senior graphic where it’s free for students and web designer at the

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as well, which is huge for us, especially in the School of Art where so much of their curriculum is dependent on access to Adobe software,” Cynthia Barlow, an IT manager at the College of Fine Arts said.

“That’s the industry standard for a significant number of what our art students are learning.”

The software use for teachers will also provide more creative learning environments within the department, Barlow said.

“It gives our faculty the ability to give them a little more freedom to innovate in what they teach and how they teach it, because access to those programs is no longer a financial burden or an issue for our students or for our department,” she said.

Barlow said this gift speaks to Adobe recognizing students as the future workers they’ll seek after.

“To me, that’s something that is a testament to that company recognizing that their future is in our college students and in our ability to train their workforce,” Barlow said.

An agreement between the UA and a Texas-based developer to build an Honors College complex, including a 1,000-bed dorm, north of the campus is already receiving serious legal scrutiny.

Tucson City Councilman Steve Kozachik has requested that City Attorney Mike Rankin provide a formal legal review of the memorandum of understanding between the UA and American Campus Communities.

The Austin, Texas-based developer is one of the largest student housing developers in the country and owns one of the two city blocks where the UA wants to build the Honors College complex, including a six-story dorm. The UA owns the other part of the property.

The new Honors College would be between East Drachman and Mabel Streets and North Park and Santa Rita Avenues, north of East Speedway Boulevard. The location is outside the college’s campus boundaries.

Kozachik, a college employee, said he is concerned the agreement will allow the private developer to sidestep zoning regulations to build the large dorm by transferring ownership of its land to the state. Also, if the developed property is considered part of the university—and not a private development—it would be taken off the city’s property-tax rolls since the school doesn’t pay property taxes.

“With all the terms and conditions built into the agreement protecting ACC’s ability to make a profit, it’s not at all clear to me how this arrangement can be anything but a public-private partnership that should still be subject to all city zoning and procedural processes,” Kozachik said.

If the project is directly tied to the university, as a state entity, it would not have to follow city zoning codes. This would

A proposed off-campus Honors College complex, including a sixstory dorm, is receiving legal pushback

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include building heights, density and parking requirements. The current height limitation for the surrounding neighborhood is 25 feet, or roughly two stories.

Area resident Diana Lett has similar concerns, noting that a reference to a land lease in the agreement, which has not been made public, suggests a portion of the property that ACC owns will not be sold to the state, but leased to the UA. She wondered how the ACC can avoid city zoning codes if it still owns the property.

Lett also questions how a deal with a specific developer to build a new dorm without obtaining bids could be legal for the UA. Peter Dourlein, the campus architect for the university, said the agreement was a natural outgrowth of discussions between the two parties, offering some legal assurances to the private developer to continue work on the project.

The agreement does not automatically assure the project will move forward as it

allows both parties to sever the agreement under specific circumstances.

A representative for ACC did not return a request for comment Friday.

ACC has two student housing developments in Tucson: Entrada Real Oeste, 1 W. University Blvd., and Entrada Real Norte, 1850 N. Tyndall Ave. In addition to the 1,000-bed dorm, plans include multi-story buildings for classrooms, office space, a recreation center and a four-story parking garage to be built on the adjacent block between North Park and Fremont Avenues.

The university is also considering demolishing several buildings along Park between Drachman and Adams Streets and putting in surface lots to offer additional parking.

The neighborhood now consists of homes, apartments catering to students, university parking lots and vacant land.

Currently, many UA students who are part of the Honors College live in residence halls close to North Euclid Avenue and East Sixth Street. The UA said there are more than 4,000 students enrolled in the Honors College.

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UA scientists solve a nectar-drinking riddle Equipment error? Not so fast. Researchers at UA discovered what seemed like a glitch was actually evidence of a unique biological process in moths

BY NICOLE MORIN @nm_dailywildcat

UA researchers recently discovered that nectar-eating organisms, such as moths, are using their sugary diet to their advantage.

The discovery was spurred by what Goggy Davidowitz, an associate professor in the Department of Entomology, and his team thought was flawed data.

At the time, Davidowitz’s team was studying respiratory quotient in a type of insect called the hawk moth, when they began to record data that didn’t seem right.

A data problem Respiratory quotient (RQ) is the volume of carbon dioxide an organism produces over the volume of oxygen the organism consumes; the number helps determine the creature’s metabolism.

RQ can vary based on the diet of the organism but should never go above 1.

“We all know that the RQ is bounded on the low side by 0.7 and on the top by 1,” Davidowitz said. “But when we were measuring it in the lab, we were getting 1.5, 1.4 or 1.8.”

Davidowitz assumed there was a problem with the research machinery, which included a round chamber called a flight mill, that measured the metabolic cost of flight, and an oxygen analyzer.

After communicating with the equipment manufacturer, the team thought they had solved the problem.

However, as the experiments continued, Davidowitz’s lab once again obtained RQ values that were above the established norm.

This wasn’t the first time that an experiment of this nature had gathered unusual RQ values. Indeed, other papers on the topic show RQ values clearly above 1.

“Nobody talks about it, everybody who does this kind of stuff just says ‘Oh, it’s just a technological limitation of the machines,’ but we all know, theoretically, that it can’t be above 1,” Davidowitz said.

Davidowitz gave the task of

determining what was causing these abnormalities to postdoctoral researcher Eran Levin. Through a series of experiments, Levin made a breakthrough. The abnormal data was caused by an actual biological factor, not a technical malfunction.

Biological problem solving Davidowitz then set to work on understanding what kind of factor was at play.

“That’s how this whole thing came about,” Davidowitz said. The team began to investigate metabolic pathways—biological processes that break down food to be used as energy—as a possible answer for their high RQ. To test their theory, Davidowitz’s team combined their usual oxygen and carbon dioxide analyzers with an isotope analyzer—a machine capable of offering detailed information about the carbon produced by their hawk moth subjects. The isotope analyzer allowed the team to see where in their bodies the moths were distributing their sugary food.

“As far as I know, I’m the only lab in the world doing this,” Davidowitz said. “We can measure this stuff in real time.”

For nectar-feeders such as hawk moths, metabolizing energy is a matter of life and death.

“The more you exercise, the higher your metabolism go, you [begin to] produce what are called oxygen-free radicals,” Davidowitz said.

Radicals are a reactive chemical that are dangerous to cells, as they are capable of degrading cell walls and DNA. For people, the solution during exercise is to consume antioxidants, chemicals which can fight off oxygenfree radicals.

In the animal kingdom, migrating birds often stop and eat berries to get their antioxidants.

The explanation Hawk moths and other

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PROFESSOR GOGGY DAVIDOWITZ FROM he Department of Entomology holding a caterpillar and a pupa in the Marley Building on March 28. Davidowitz’s team recently gained new insight into moth metabolisms.

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THE TOBACCO HORNWORM PUPAE, on the path to complete metamorphis, raised in the Marley Building on March 28. Juvenile and adult moths have different feeding habits.

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ASTRONAUT COURSE FROM PAGE 1

Garan also spent 18 days as an aquanaut, living on the bottom of the ocean floor as part of NASA’s NEEMO-9 mission.

His time outside Earth’s atmosphere has given him a unique perspective of the planet. “[This course] is really representative of a call to action that I felt when I returned to Earth, after my last mission,” Garan said.

He said this “call to action” was really focused on developing a perspective that will enable us to solve global problems differently and impact the way we treat our fellow humans and the planet. The course, which is being taught in conjunction with the University of Florida and Drexel University, is a reflection of Garan’s desire to increase collaboration and cooperation across the globe.

Garan hopes that students gain a deeper understanding of what “one human family” means, along with a desire to positively impact the world.

“One of the best examples I can think of [for] international cooperation is the international partnership that built and sustains the International Space Station,” Garan said. “The vantage point we have of our planet, of our world, of our civilization from space, makes a lot of things clear.”

Garan proposes using this “orbital perspective” to combat many of the issues facing the world today.

“When you look at earth from the space, you don’t see political borders, you don’t see those things and what you see is the earth’s ecosystem,” Fleming said.

According to the course’s syllabus, students will have the chance to participate in a hands-on project called “Earthrise-2068”.

This project is intended to give students the opportunity to apply the information they’ve learned during the course to envision an improved world in the year 2068.

Most students will get to experience the year 2068, Garan said, making this course all the more relevant.

“Particularly at this moment in history where we have a lot of division, there is divisive politics,” Garan said. “There’s hyper-nationalism, there’s a move away from cooperating and collaborating on a planetary scale. We have problems that are on a planetary scale, the only way we’ll be able to solve them is by attacking them on a planetary scale.”

‘Introduction to the Orbital Perspective’ isn’t only available to students at UA; it’s also available as a Massive Online Open Course, allowing students all around the world to take it without receiving university credit, Fleming said.

“It’s not just a class, we’re starting a movement,” Garan said.

“The movement is being born right here and it’s going to be a global movement.”

The College of Science labeled the course as one of the “NATS” or science general education requirements, meaning it will be available to students who aren’t majoring in science.

The course was held for the first time during the first sevenweek term of this semester, and there is a possibility it will be offered during the summer 2017 semester, Fleming said. While this has not yet been determined, Fleming said students should check UAccess for course information in the near future.

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nectar-feeding organisms–such as butterflies and hummingbirds–often hover, which is metabolically expensive. Additionally, organisms such as these are unable to get antioxidants through their typical diet. Davidowitz hoped to figure out what these organisms do to ward off oxygen-free radicals.

By using the isotope analyzer and determining the specific distribution of nutrients, the researchers discovered that

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NASA ASTRONAUT RON GARAN, flight engineer. Since leaving NASA, Garan has worked with space company World View Enterprises and will be teaching an online course entitled Introduction to the Orbital Perspective.

hawk moths use a different metabolic pathway than normal to process sugar. Rather than pushing the sugar through the Krebs cycle—the process used to produce energy—the moths switch to what is called the pento phosphate pathway.

In the pento phosphate pathway, the moths themselves produce antioxidants to fight off oxygen-free radicals. Such progress begins immediately after flight.

“The second they stop flapping, they start shunting to the pento phosphate pathway,” Davidowitz said.

This allows the moths to produce enough antioxidants to negate the damage they caused their body during flight, all without having to ingest other foods.

This pathway isn’t unique to organisms that survive on sugar and has been acknowledged by the scientific community for a long time; animals such as hawk moths simply apply the process more often.

“It’s very possible that a lot of organisms are doing this. It’s just that nobody thought of looking at it,” Davidowitz said.

Davidowitz considers this experiment to be a “story of science.”

“This is the way science works a lot,” Davidowitz said. “You go in a particular direction, it fizzles out, and then you try something else.”

Learn more about the Davidowitz lab’s research online at goggy.faculty.arizona.edu.

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ARTS & LIFE

Editor: Jamie Verwys arts@dailywildcat.com (520) 621-7579

Kinetic Saturdays make art sing at Mat Bevel Characters made of bike gears, toys, scrap metal and other thrown away materials come alive every first Saturday of the month at the Mat Bevel Institute

BY BREAGH WATSON @breaghwatson

The Mat Bevel Institute, a company founded by brother and sister team Ned and Paula Schafer, has big plans after a successful six-month run of Kinetic Saturdays at The Museum of Kinetic Art. Kinetic Saturdays is an event that takes place on the first Saturday of each month, when the Museum of Kinetic Art opens to the public. During the event, Ned Schaper performs as Mat Bevel and wears multiple sculptures to tell stories and poems as different characters.

The museum holds a special display of over 100 mobile sculptures constructed from found objects, including bike parts, pinwheels, toys, buckets, instruments, shoes and scrap metal. All of them have a kinetic element; the studio is filled with noises of whirring, buzzing, clanking and twinkling from thousands of moving parts.

Every machine is engaged in its own little song and dance. What is especially unique about these moving sculptures is their higher purpose in the world of Beveldom.

“These are all characters, and sets, and musical instruments and motorized vehicles that are part of this magical world of Beveldom in the theater,” said cofounder Paula Schaper. “That makes them even more special because they’re not for sale, they have this purpose in theater.”

Each sculpture has a name and a story.

There is Lover Boy, a Tinman-esque character with a metal heart that lights up.

Sharka is a giant replica of a shark, with an impressive likeness to the real creature.

She has an ironing board for a stomach, a car grille for a tail and a badminton racket and a tiara that chomp together to form a jaw.

Other miscellaneous items like string, clothespins, wheels, and chains work together to make Sharka swim in midair.

There are several people, one with a mop for hair and another with light bulbs for eyes. There are butterflies made of various metals, wire, wood and colored plastic. There are birds and fish, all with their own names and backgrounds.

Ned Schaper is the artistic mind behind the Surrealistic Pop Science Theater and the museum. He created all the sculptures and wrote the poems and songs that he performs as his characters.

Some favorites are the dutiful soldier Heckno Techno, who performs a thoughtful song through mismatched

sunglasses, and the corporate leader Mr. Chairperson, with three troll dolls attached to an antenna and wheels.

The characters are made of junk and unwanted items. None of the sculptures are planned, but are instead spontaneously put together based on Schaper’s people-watching research. According to an overview of the company, Schaper does not know what the objects will be when he starts making them.

“By working with the materials of the found object, he lets the object’s ultimate function emerge on its own, which leads to beautiful and unexpected results,” the flyer said.

After the found objects become characters, Schaper writes music and poetry to perform as the character. The castaway objects then find meaning in performance and impart wisdom and truth about life through the art.

“This is more like a church service, because you’re in here with the junk and it’s inspired. It’s all put together uncontrived,” said artist Ned Schaper.

“You end up feeling like you’re in here with a bunch of found objects, and they told you what life is really about.”

The Museum of Kinetic Art is a project 30 years in the making.

Though Schaper’s background is in etymology and physics, he found himself performing on the streets of Manhattan in the 1980s. In 1992, he established Mat Bevel Institute as an avant-garde, street performance theater.

His art focuses on the principles of ART, or Available Resource Technology.

Kinetic Saturdays is part of a bigger vision of Mat Bevel, and video is the main product. During the events, Schaper has been acquiring video footage and making connections in the Tucson community to eventually produce both a show about the characters in Beveldom and a virtual reality tour. Lars Marshall, longtime friend of the Schaper’s and supporter of the company, helps record and produce video material for future projects.

“I don’t get it when people don’t get it. He tells you amazing philosophical lessons through humor,” said Marshall.

Kinetic Saturdays will end for the season on May 6 and reopens in October.

The Museum of Kinetic Art is located at 2855 E. Broadway Blvd.

For more information contact Paula Schafer at 520-604-6273 or visit the website matbevelcompany.org.

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ONE OF ARTIST NED Schaper’s creations sits on display at the Mat Bevel Institute on Saturday, April 1.

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‘Big Trouble’ at the Loft brings together Tucson fans A 1986 cult classic still has Tucson movie fans laughing along for the ride in Kurt Russell’s big rig, the Pork Chop Express

BY KACIE LILLEJORD @DailyWildcat

Big trouble hit Tucson at precisely 10 p.m. on March 31 at The Loft Cinema, located on Speedway Boulevard. People gathered to view the 1986 John Carpenter film, “Big Trouble in Little China”, on the big screen as part of the Loft’s cult classic series. Initially, “Big Trouble” failed at the box office when it opened in July 1986, but in the years following it has metastasized into a cult classic, faring well with audiences on home video.

A cult classic generally means that a film has acquired a large following of people from either a wide range or small niche in society. Cult classics generally develop over time, but there is such a thing as an instant cult classic. We love ‘em, and we certainly don’t leave ‘em.

However, in the case of “Big Trouble in Little China,” the cult following gradually expanded and thus is the reason why it was so popular on home video.

People that follow cult classics passionately recall their favorite scenes, favorite quotes and favorite characters.

One guest at the showing was Hank Tusinski, a painter and sculptor. He described what makes a cult classic.

“In terms of language, [it’s] something that has taken hold onto a group’s consciousness that becomes something that speaks to them or their lives in a, kind of a deeper, almost symbolic, sort of way,” he said.

“The thing about a classic is sometimes it’s beyond being able to be defined like a work of art…you can say what you want about it, but it’s also more than anything you can say.”

At the showing of “Big Trouble,” it was clear everyone’s favorite character was Jack Burton, played by Kurt Russell. Russell has many memorable, and amusing, lines in the film that stuck with audiences, even 31 years later.

In fact, the moment Jack Burton appeared on screen driving his truck in a rainy storm, the entire audience cheered and clapped at his arrival.

Gregory Siow, who works at

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THE LOFT CINEMA AIRS “Big Trouble in Little China” the night of Saturday, April 1. Filmgoers roar in applause and laughter at each memorable line.

a PC repair shop, stated that one of the reasons why “Big Trouble in Little China” is a cult classic, and why it’s so unique, is because of Russell.

“Everyone loves Kurt Russell,” Siow said, “Second of all, just the scenario it’s in..ancient Chinese ghosts and mythology shown in a Western-American film in kind of a campy way. But it’s just a lot of fun; it’s just a really classic, hero saves the girl kind of thing... a movie [that] doesn’t take itself too seriously.”

Arin Haverland, a research scientist at the Institute of the Environment, said that the film’s entertainment value and quotable lines were what made the film extraordinary.

“I love the fact that the animation and the overlay of the effects, even 30 years later, they’re still impressive,” Haverland said.

Not only does the film feature fan favorite Kurt Russell, it holds a fun and entertaining plot line as well.

The story takes place in San Francisco, specifically Chinatown. Jack Burton is a truck driver that wins a bet with his friend Wang Chi, played by Dennis Dun. Before he can fetch the money he owes Burton, Chi must pick up his fiancé from the airport, and Burton accompanies him. There, the action unfolds.

Chi’s fiancé is kidnapped by a Chinese street gang, and this leads Chi and Burton on a memorable chase that involves Chinese sorcery, ghosts, history and urban legends. Kim Cattrall is among the cast, playing nosy lawyer Gracie Law, who joins Burton, Chi and sorcerer and tour bus driver Egg Shen, played

by Victor Wong. The story

ultimately becomes a battle against the nefarious David Lo Pan, played by James Hong.

Action, witty one-liners and humor are certainly not spared.

It’s no mystery as to why this film became a beloved cult classic in future years.

One audience member, Manish Shah, who owns local business Maya Tea Company, was revisiting an old favorite and brought along his two sons, who had never seen the film. Shah wanted them to experience the film on the big screen instead of a platform like Netflix.

“I remember being 17 and seeing the movie for the first time,” he said. “I probably watched it like 35 or 40 times in the first five years after [its release]. It’s probably one of the first movies I actually got on videotape.”

“Big Trouble in Little China”

has certainly left an impact on audiences, especially in the years following its initial release.

The fact that it’s still celebrated and beloved over three decades later is proof of its success as a cult classic.

Those in attendance spent Friday night lost in Chinese mythology and San Francisco’s Chinatown, along for the ride with Jack and his friends as they fought Lo Pan and the Three Storms.

We hauled ass in the Pork Chop Express as Jack navigated a world that made little sense, dropping his witty quotes along the way and ultimately watched him overcome urban legends with a simple, “It’s all in the reflexes.”

Can’t decide whether or not to give this film a try? Just remember what ol’ Jack always says…”what the hell?”

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ARIZONA DEFENDER MIA MASON dives just short of the dig during Arizona’s 4-1 win against Santa Clara at Bear Down Beach on Friday, March 31.

Beach volleyball cruises at Wildcat Challenge

BY NIKKI BAIM @nikkibaim22

After dropping to No. 8 in the AP poll last week, things are looking up for Arizona beach volleyball as the team went undefeated in the Wildcat Spring Challenge this weekend.

The Wildcats played New Mexico, Santa Clara, CSU Bakersfield and No. 13 GCU over two days.

The spring tournament rang in with four straight victories over New Mexico, but the last match wasn’t a breeze for Arizona’s fifth team of Halli Amaro and Brooke Burling.

The duo lost in three sets, but were cheered on by their teammates throughout the battle, who had gathered around the match.

A similar scene unraveled during the Santa Clara match when Olivia Hallaran and Olivia Macdonald went to a third set. They lost, but Arizona prevailed overall 4-1.

“It’s always hard to lose, especially in the first set,” Macdonald said. “It’s just the little things like not hitting in the right spot. When you go into the second set, you always have a different mindset. We’ve got the physical ability. We give each other positive feedback every single ball.”

Day two started with a 4-0 sweep of CSU Bakersfield. Due to injury, Bakersfield’s fifth pair forfeited, which postponed Burling and Amero’s chance to make a redeeming effort after their loss in the New Mexico match.

GCU was Arizona’s most anticipated opponent of the weekend, and the match lived up to the hype.

“I’m looking forward to GCU,” Macdonald said on Friday.

“They really want to beat us, and that gets me going. I just get so competitive [when] people are talking bad about us, I’m like, ‘bring it.’ I’m super excited; it’s

going to be awesome.”

Three of the Wildcat pairs took the Lopes to an extra set, and only Kendra Dahlke and Mia Mason didn’t come out on top. Third sets provide an extra challenge for the Wildcats, and Arizona head coach Steve Walker doesn’t think they’re a sign of weakness.

“Any experience is good experience,” Walker said. “For Halli and Brooke, the duel itself was clinched, but I liked that we played as though it wasn’t. To be able to go through and play through the third set, it only good experience for later.”

Buring and Amero struggled against GCU early, but through their aggression and Walker’s advisement, they finished strong in the third set to win 19-21, 25-23, 15-9.

Madison and Mckenna Witt finished their weekend sweep with a close battle against GCU’S Olivia Unnasch and Molly Turner. They prevailed 21-19, 22-21 and finished

the match with an emphatic kill and tight hug between the sisters.

This tournament had two themes for Walker and the Wildcats, the first of which was putting out a team that epitomized unity. Tyler Spriggs, an athlete who wasn’t playing this weekend, was the loudest Wildcat on the sideline.

Singing, dancing and yelling in support of her teammates—she inspired everyone to have more fun on the sand.

“Tyler’s been a model teammate,” Walker said. “She’s someone that shows up every day, works really hard. That kind of attitude is contagious; I see that happening among all our players.”

Hallaran, who enjoyed her teammates’ cheers through two competitive third sets this weekend, said she loves the support.

“It super encouraging,” she said.

“They’re always encouraging us to be the best we can be. It’s super fun anytime we can get out in the sun

and the sand.”

Secondly, at the tournament all five pairs were playing at the same time. This made it difficult for the coaching staff to monitor all the matches but is forward-thinking on behalf of the program.

“This is the exact format that’s used at the NCAA Championships,” Walker said. “It takes some adjusting to, simply because you can’t spread out three coaches on five courts, so we really have to prioritize where we place our coaches, but it’s something I give our administration so much credit for.”

The other tournament participants finished their weekends at 2-1 for GCU, 2-1 for New Mexico, 0-3 for Santa Clara and 0-3 for CSU Bakersfield.

Next week, the Wildcats will participate at the UCLA Invite for four matches against Concordia College, No. 6 Long Beach State, Washington and No. 3 UCLA.

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ARIZONA’S TAYLOR MCQUILLIN HIGHFIVES Dejah Mulipola during the UA-Cal game on Saturday, April 1.

Softball now 37-1 after sweep

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Three weeks into Pac-12 Conference play and the No. 4-ranked team in the nation remains undefeated. The Arizona Wildcats went to Berkeley this weekend and left California with a 22-game winning streak, completing an unbeaten month of March for the first time in program history.

The Wildcats sit atop the Pac-12 standings with a two-game lead over Oregon, despite the Ducks being ranked No. 1 in several national polls.

Arizona’s 9-0 start to conference play is the team’s best since 2004.

Game 1 | Arizona 7, California 0 In her sixth shutout of the season, Danielle O’Toole demolished Cal’s lineup, allowing the Golden Bears to produce only four hits. The senior collected her Pac-12-leading 18th win of the season. After three weekends of conference play, Oregon and Arizona are the only two schools to have both their No. 1 and No. 2 starters maintain ERAs under one.

The Wildcats smashed three home runs, jumping on Cal early and scoring five of their seven runs in the first three innings. Friday’s homers extended the team’s NCAA lead in home runs.

The middle infield pairing of Mo Mercado and Reyna Carranco seems to finally be firing on all cylinders, as the senior/freshman combination was lights out against the Golden Bears in the first game of the weekend series.

Mercado blasted a two-run bomb, keeping Arizona’s foot on the gas in the early innings.

Carranco continued her hot hitting in conference play, and her timely at-bats helped the Wildcats put Cal in a big hole early.

Game 2 | Arizona 6, California 0 The Golden Bears were yet again shutout by the Wildcats in the series second game, which followed a similar theme to Friday’s affair.

Arizona jumped out to a sizeable early lead and never looked back.

A Katiyana Mauga home run in the third inning gave the Wildcats a 3-0 lead. The following inning, a two-run RBI single by Mandie Perez further extended the lead before Perez was driven in by Dejah Mulipola.

The comeback seemed unlikely for the home team because Taylor McQuillin delivered a masterful performance. She tossed a two-hit shutout, striking out seven batters, remaining undefeated on the season and showing that an early-season arm injury was nothing more than a speed bump.

Game 3 | Arizona 6, California 1 Despite Cal getting on the scoreboard, the game’s result proved the same as Arizona completed their third straight series sweep in conference play.

Jessie Harper continues to swing a big bat, and the freshman recorded her second home run of the weekend, tying her with teammate Katiyana Mauga for the Pac-12 lead with 12. Her three-run shot put the Wildcats up 4-0 after the third inning.

Arizona would increase its lead to six in the fifth inning, a pair of RBI singles by Mandie Perez and Ashleigh Hughes put the game out of reach for the Golden Bears. For Hughes, the RBI was her second of the day and the junior also scored a run.

O’Toole dazzled in the circle again on Sunday.

She won her 19th game of the year, and in 14 innings against Cal over the weekend, she allowed nine hits, one run and struck out 11. “[We] Pitched well, got some timely hitting, got some long ball, got some short game, good defense,” said Arizona head coach Mike Candrea.

“We did a little bit of everything, I think overall it was a good weekend of execution.”

Up next for the Wildcats is a three-game home series against the Stanford Cardinal that begins on Friday, April 7, at 6 p.m. at Hillenbrand Stadium.

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Statman uses athlete platform to speak her mind Don’t tell Tamara Statman to simply “stick to sports.” The outspoken sophomore is leaving her mark at Arizona on, and off, the diamond with her weekly political radio show

BY NOAH SONNET @texaslad32

As Tamara Statman kicks off her radio show, you wouldn’t be able to tell that she’s an Arizona athlete. Instead, if you’re up at 8 a.m. on Tuesdays, you can catch Statman as the host of “T-Time,” a weekly variety show featuring politics, sports and whatever else the designated player for the No. 4-ranked softball team in the country deems worthy of discussion.

“I’ve always wanted to have a lot of politics [on the show] because it very important, and I don’t know if KAMP has any other political shows. So I wanted whoever is listening in to be able to hear a different voice than what they normally get,” Statman said.

The mood of the show fully mirrors Statman’s personality: quirky, full of inside jokes and intriguing. For an hour once a week, “T-Time” offers a brief window into the life of a college athlete who has made major contributions time and time again this season.

It also shows her profound love of the political world.

“When you’re in sixth grade and everyone thinks you’re weird because you talk about politics, you grow up that way,” Statman said. “But now in college it’s totally different because they have clubs for that and people are super passion about it.”

The Scottsdale native has always been passionate and interested in politics.

“Since I was a kid, we’ve been telling people I’m going to run for president in 2044,” Statman said.

This curiosity of the bureaucratic world only increased in 2008, when her parents’ company, “Everyone Loves Buttons”, caught their big break in creating the promotional buttons for John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.

Nearly 10 years later, that same kid, who’s parents made promotional buttons in one of the most historical elections in U.S. history, now finds herself commenting on the state of politics weekly through her show on KAMP. A career in political commentary is a profession the sophomore can definitely picture herself in.

“I don’t know if I would want to be involved with [politics] directly, but I would love to commentate on it and pick apart both sides, playing devil’s advocate,” Statman said.

“Everything seems very left or right. I like to stick in the middle and question both sides.”

Whether she does run for president or not in the next 27 years, it would be of little surprise to her parents if their daughter found herself in the realm of politics.

“I could see her there,” her father David Statman said. “She has been surrounded by politics her whole life, with the work we do here [at the button company].

She has met a lot of the top-tier political people, such as John McCain, and it’s had an impact on her.”

Her involvement with KAMP was rooted out of a previous encounter with the broadcasting world.

“I was always interested in TV and radio shows, because I did that in middle school but I didn’t have that in high school,” Statman said. “So I told myself I was going to do stuff in college that I wasn’t able to do in high school.”

The inability to participate and experience her broadcast interests in high school is a direct effect of why she now freely expresses her passions and desires as a student in Tucson.

“I think its really important.

People can really get stuck in that athlete box,” Statman said. “I remember being told at

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SOPHOMORE DESIGNATED PLAYER TAMARA Statman during the Wildcats 12-2 win over the Boston College Eagles at the Wildcat Invitational on Feb. 19.

freshman orientation to go out and meet people in your classes and do things that have nothing to do with athletes. So I went out and joined a bunch of clubs.”

Statman took that message at orientation to heart. Venturing high and low, joining clubs such the Swing Dance, Allegiance and community clubs at the UA. A similar message to what she heard at orientation is echoed by her hall of fame softball coach Mike Candrea.

“Coach always says you need a balance,” Statman said. “You need something that gives you an identity.”

Having a coach who realizes that his team is full of students as well as athletes is a major reason why the second-year player has

immersed herself so deep in college life.

Her desire to surround herself with different kinds of people who don’t share the same place on the political spectrum as her, or who have lived and experienced a completely different life than she has, speaks to the personality of Statman.

In a society where too often people surround themselves with those who see eye-to-eye, an important utility player on one of the winningest programs at the UA has traveled far outside of the athlete bubble.

Statman serves as a publicity director for Tucson’s Swing Dance club, and you can catch her arguing with co-host John Dalton over what is and what

isn’t fake news on Tuesday mornings.

“Things happen that you would never expect to happen,” Statman said. “Coming to college and experiencing all the different types of people and becoming more educated in classes, it’s really cool to see all this diversity come together. Going to the University of Arizona, we are lucky things are the way they are and it is open for discuss between people.”

A simple conversation with “T” Statman will reveal a sophomore who has stepped well outside of the the athlete bubble, defining herself not by her batting average or OPS but rather her life as a student at the UA.