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The Arizona Board of Regents announces two final ‘candidates’ in its search for the next UA president

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PHOENIX—The Arizona Board of Regents announced two final candidates in the search for the next UA president during a special board meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 28, at their downtown Phoenix offices.

Sethuraman Panchanathan of Arizona State University and Robert Robbins of the Texas Medical Center were named after a search that Regent Ron Shoopman described as “exhausting.”

Regents president Eileen Klein said these two candidates most closely matched the board’s requirements for the incoming president, but moving forward the board will be looking for the candidate that sets themselves apart in their cooperation with the board and the other state universities.

“It’s going to be important to see ... which

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one of them has that set of capabilities and experience to really lead the university forward,” Klein said. “There’s been a lot of input from the community, from faculty, from students and staff about what they want to see in the next leader—so that’s really the sorting process that the board needs to go through.”

The board will be formally interviewing the candidates on March 6, with an in-person campus visit scheduled for March 8. Shoopman added it is very likely the board would narrow the search down to one finalist during the March 6 interview process.

The successful finalist would then be invited to a March 8 campus visit.

This will be the second UA presidential search in a row in which the regents invite only a singular candidate to visit campus and formally interact with students. This

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practice began with the appointment of President Ann Weaver Hart, who was the first president to be named without a campus visit since at least 1971.

According to Shoopman, the practice of prospective presidents visiting a university campus prior to their selection is a dying one. He said most search firms actually recommend to their clients—in this case the regents—that only one candidate ever be officially brought to campus.

Shoopman said the regents questioned the purpose of having more than one candidate interact with students, faculty and the greater community when it ultimately is the regents job to make the selection.

He added that the regents’ hired executive search firm, R. William Funk and Associates, urged the board to forgo the campus visit

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ASUA candidates offer different experiences

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Matt Lubisich and Stefano Saltalamacchia attempted to sway student votes by both discussing their unique qualifications at a debate for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona presidency on Monday Feb. 27.

The debate was moderated by a panel of five individuals from the university: Sam Gross, Editor-inChief of the Daily Wildcat, Jude Udeozor, GPSC President, Michael Finnegan, current ASUA President, Melinda Burke, President of the Alumni Association and Kendal Washington White, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs.

Lubisich focused on his involvement and experience in ASUA since he started in his freshman year. During campaigns for his two senate elections, he promised to promote sexual assault awareness and shine a light on rape culture on campus.

“I have been able to orient myself with the services and programs as well as inner workings of ASUA,” Lubisich said. “I worked with over 20 different programs at this university to make the I Will campaign a success.”

He plans to continue his efforts, if elected president, and ensure the week-long event continues in the future.

Saltalamacchia, an ASUA senator elected in the last byelection, stressed his past experience serving as student body president for the 18,000 students of his California community college and representing over a million Californian students at the state

capitol in a campaign to oppose budget cuts.

“I desire that every student will be able to experience our institution in a way that is conducive to their individual needs,” Saltalamacchia said.

His platform involves expanding access to mental health services, increasing affordable access to healthy food and making sure marginalized students’ voices are heard on campus.

Both candidates want to lobby the state legislature to keep tuition and fee increases low in order to make the university more affordable. The candidates were asked how they plan to implement their platforms without increasing fees.

Saltalamacchia suggested forming partnerships within and around the UA community to help implement new programs.

“We need to see what partnerships we can make on campus so we can do some of the creative programing we want to do,” Saltalamacchia said.

Specifically, Saltalamacchia mentioned partnering with the University Arizona Alumni Association and Scholarship and Financial Aid Office in order to help fund his planned programs.

Lubisich focused on more internal aspects of the budget and how ASUA could operate differently to mitigate costs.

“It starts with the ASUA budget,” Lubisich said. “We need to allocate funds as efficiently as possible and then we need to take the fight to administrators.”

Lubisich pointed to the I Will campaign receiving funding from the administration without

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CANDIDATES STEFANO SALTALAMACCHIA AND Matt Lubisich during the ASUA presidential debate on Monday, Feb. 27.

increasing fees or overspending in ASUA as an example.

Burke, said ASUA elections have an embarrassingly low turnout of only 10 percent of the student body, and asked the candidates their plan to increase student engagement.

“Right now the student body is apathetic to taking part in ASUA elections and the only way we are going to change that is providing access, not limiting people from running for office,” Saltalamacchia said.

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compile the list and feels he is in the best position to implement beneficial policies for marginalized groups on campus. Lubisich admitted he does not know every issue but plans to reach out to communities on campus to help address their concerns.

Students will be able to vote for the presidential candidate, candidates for the administrative and executive vice-president positions and senate seats on Feb. 28 and March 1. Results will be announced March 2 at 7 p.m. in the Santa Rita Room.

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alone ASUA candidate. He believes he represents the new ideas ASUA needs to increase student involvement in the organization.

Lubisich believes the more students vote, the more inclusive and diverse ASUA will become.

“We need to be going out into the community and educating people that they can vote and their voice matters,” Lubisich said.

Both candidates vowed to incorporate the list of demands provided ASUA by the Marginalized Students of the University of Arizona.

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LGBTQ Resource Center needs space

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THE LOBBY OF THE LGBTQ Resource Center located on the fourth floor of the Student Union Memorial Center. Despite limited space, the center provides many great resources to the growing LGBTQ community at the UA.

accessible to the students who use wheelchairs,” Winkelman said. “It is acceptable for ADA rules but we have heard from students they feel they take up too much space in wheelchairs.”

The center serves as a welcoming place for students in the LGBTQ community to connect with one another. Ryan Valdez, a literacy learning and leadership sophomore, grew up in South Texas, where he says he felt cut off from the LGBTQ community.

“I come in here mostly for a community building kind of thing, to meet people who are within the

queer the community, and it’s a safe space to come, ” Valdez said. “I think you have to talk about lack of space in combination with the out-of-theway location.”

Valdez said it took a representative from the center to lead him to the right place his first semester because he felt the resource center was out of view and difficult to reach. He thinks there are other challenges facing the center that, if addressed, would help the center better serve students.

“Expansion of space would be the biggest one, maybe another location with more resources or increased funding so we can afford the means

to get more chairs and tables and the space to put those,” Valdez said.

Hoefle Olson said she knows the issue is on the administration’s radar.

She said their needs were reflected in a demand letter the Marginalized Students of the University of Arizona put forth about a year ago, and in the Diversity Task Force’s reports and recommendations to the president and upper administration.

“I know that space is limited,” Hoefle Olson said. “I think as space becomes available, knowing that there’s a need among our student population, that we be considered for more square footage.”

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“The way we were thinking about it is: ‘What is the purposes for the campus to be able to see and interact with the individual that’s about to be voted on by the board?’” Shoopman said. “So if you make [the selection] look like a choice, you know, the job of making that selection is the regents’. So that’s where it gets difficult to decide how to do that in the most effective way.”

Not everyone agrees with the regents’ sentiment, though.

“I think, for the candidates sake if not for the public’s sake, [not having a campus visit] wouldn’t be a particularly great move,” said Arizona Sen. David Bradley in a prior interview with the Daily Wildcat.

“That wouldn’t make much sense to me.”

Shoopman said both candidates have visited campus multiple times both by their own accord during the search process and several times during their careers.

Panchanathan, more commonly known at ASU as “Panch,” is currently serving as the executive vice president and the chief research innovation officer of ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise Development—a role responsible for the advancement of research, innovation and economic development.

Panchanathan declined to comment when contacted regarding his candidacy and instead directed the Wildcat’s request toward the regents.

Robbins is the president and CEO of the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, and is an internationally recognized cardiac surgeon.

Robbins couldn’t be reached for comment at this time.

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Since their establishment, the UA LGBTQ Resource Center has noted their lack of space, limiting the center’s ability to hold programs and have enough room for all their members.

Established in 2013, the center inside the Student Union Memorial Center allows a safe space and closed door for UA students and community members.

Jen Hoefle Olson, director of LGBTQ Affairs, said the need for more space has been advocated for a long time.

“We have been in existence for nearly 10 years, but in terms of having the center it’s the fourth year,” Hoefle Olson said. “We have students working against every edge in this center.”

The center is home to the Office of LGBTQ Affairs, Safe Zone and ASUA Pride Alliance and serves as a space for these organizations to hold talks and events for LGBTQ students.

“When there’s a lot of students in here, we have them sitting on the floor very close to each other.”

Hoefle Olson said. “There’s not quite adequate space to serve the student traffic.”

An annual report for the 20152016 academic year shows a total of 2,503 students visited the center and a total of 317 walk-ins visited staff.

“Initially of course we were happy to have a space with a closed door, but pretty much right away it became clear that we can only fit so many people in here,” said Jacob Winkelman, director of Pride Alliance. “We just cannot hold programs in our space that are bigger than 15 people basically.”

He also says the center isn’t very accessible for disabled students.

“An even more important reason is that our space is not that

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News Fast Five: Immigration

BY RANDALL ECK @reck999

The Department of Homeland Security released two memos Feb. 21 detailing new policies for immigration enforcement in an attempt to implement Trump’s two remaining

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The Numbers

“Any viable solution to a broken immigration system has to involve a way to constructively deal with the estimated 11.1 million undocumented people integrated into our communities and to accommodate the needs for temporary labor,” Marcus said.

According to the Pew Research Center, the number of unauthorized immigrants living in the US has steadily declined since reaching a peak of 12.2 million immigrants in 2007.

Pew estimates an average of 350,000 new unauthorized immigrants crossed the border every year since 2009. Only

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“The vast majority of the undocumented immigrant population are not criminals but President Trump’s efforts speak as though all undocumented immigrants are criminals,” Rabin said during a town hall event.

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Trump Administration’s Approach

The DHS memos state U.S. Customs and Border Protection “shall immediately begin planning, design, construction and maintenance of a wall.”

The memos outline a plan to hire 10,000 immigration and customs enforcement officers and 5,000 U.S. CBP agents.

According to Lynn Marcus, co-director

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executive orders on immigration.

Trump signed two immigration executive orders named Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States and Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements on Jan. 25.

The two memos, signed by Sec. John Kelly,

Over his tenure, Obama saw the deportation of roughly 8 million unauthorized immigrants. Deportations peaked at 435,000 in 2013, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security.

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of UA’s Immigration Law Clinic, the administration will need to acquire significant appropriations from Congress in order to execute these policies.

The memos direct ICE and the CBP to expand partnerships with local law enforcement officials to delegate them the authority to identify and arrest unauthorized immigrants under a program called 278(g).

DHS directs the broader detention of

100,000 of these are from Mexico, a decrease from past trends.

In 2014, Pew reported 5 percent of the U.S. civilian workforce was composed of unauthorized immigrants.

The number of unauthorized immigrants who have resided in the US for more than 10 years

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2014 concluded, “Both the Census-data driven studies and macro-level studies find that immigrants are less crime-prone than natives with some small potential exceptions.”

The study found rates of violence crime decrease as the concentration of immigrants increases.

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clarify how Trump’s orders will actually be enforced by the country’s agencies.

On the campaign trial, Trump took a hard line on illegal immigration promising to speed up deportations and build a wall along the southern border.

“For those here today illegally who are

Impact on UA and Arizona

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, created by an Obama-era executive order, provides temporary deportation relief and work permits to individuals who crossed the border illegally as children.

Trump’s executive order did

immigrants crossing the border and awaiting a hearing. The memo states immigrants can be sent to Mexico, even if they are not Mexican, while awaiting a hearing.

Expedited removals allow officers to issue non-appealable deportation notices to any individual who has not resided in the United States for the past two years—DHS is looking to expand the current, limited application of this policy.

increased from 41 to 66 percent in 2005, according to Pew. Only 14 percent of unauthorized immigrants have lived in the US for less than 5 years, down from 31 percent in 2005. In 2010, 38 percent of unauthorized immigrants lived with their U.S.born children.

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In 2014, Obama announced immigration authorities would focus their efforts on deporting criminals not individuals with established roots in the country.

Felons, gang members and individuals who recently crossed the border became the priority.

The Trump administration has reissued and drastically

creation of an office for victims of crimes committed by removable aliens,” Rabin said.

“I think this really speaks to the framing President Trump continually returns to of undocumented immigrants as criminals.”

The memo broadens deportation priorities to include all immigrants who

seeking legal status, they will have one route and only one route: to return home and apply for re-entry,” Trump said during a policy speech on the campaign trail in Phoenix.

Kelly’s enforcement memos reflect Trump’s campaign promises and the spirit of his executive orders.

expanded these priorities to encompass almost all illegal immigrants living in the US. According to Nina Rabin a law professor at UA, the Obama administration oversaw a decrease in the number of municipalities participating in the 278(g), a program Trump wants to expand, due to concerns of profiling and lawsuits. have committed a chargeable offense, no matter if they have been charged or convicted. This will also include any individual deemed a national security threat or an individual who has abused a public program.

According to Rabin, this expands the administration’s priority to all undocumented immigrants in the country.

not explicitly mention his policy on the hundreds of thousand of DREAMers but the memos state it will remain in effect. A future memo will address the fates of parents with children of U.S. citizenship.

“The executive order directs the use of all available resources to the building of new detention centers at

the border with Mexico,” Marcus said.

The memos direct the expansion of detention centers, which currently cost the U.S. $2.3 billion a year, to detain 441,000 immigrants who have been waiting years to receive initial immigrant hearing due to backlogs.

The construction of these

For example, Maricopa County withdrew from the program citing similar concerns.

Under the Obama administration, expedited removals were only issued to individuals within 100 miles of the U.S. border and two weeks of entry.

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for-profit facilities along the southern border could be built hours away from the UA. The next step for the Trump administration, after having laid out their goals in executive orders and specific policy enforcement plans in these memos, is to obtain the funding from Congress necessary to implement their vision.

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POLICE BEAT

BY JESSICA BLACKBURN @hotbread44

The truth is essential to your health A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to Highland Market around 7 p.m. on Feb. 15 in response to a shoplifting call from the manager.

The manager told police that the suspect placed an online order for the grill, arrived a few minutes before his order was ready and started perusing the vitamin section.

The manager told police the man’s behavior was odd and similar to what he has seen in the past with other shoplifters.

When the man left the store, the manager noticed a package of vitamins was missing from the shelf.

Police observed video footage of the store and observed the man purchasing the Vitamin Water, looking at the vitamins, pulling one of the packages closer to himself to read it and placing it back on the shelf.

The manager pointed out it appeared as though the man placed vitamins in his sleeve. Police viewed the footage and because of the distance of the camera and found it inconclusive as to whether or not the man actually took the vitamins.

Police later made contact with the man at his room in Pueblo de la Cienega Residence Hall where he granted the officer access to his room.

The officer asked the man about taking the vitamins. The man responded that he had no idea what the officer was talking about and said he looked at the vitamins but decided not to purchase them.

The man gave police consent to search his room and belongings. Upon completion of the search, there was no indication that there had been any vitamins in the room.

Police determined there was no evidence the man had taken the vitamins and planned to follow up with the manager. $14 theft A UAPD officer responded to the IQ restaurant in the Student Union Memorial Center around 5 p.m. on Feb. 14 when a student reported her belongings were stolen out of her employee locker.

The woman told police she secured her backpack and water bottle in the downstairs locker room and when she returned about 3 hours later, she found her backpack appeared to be rummaged through.

She found her wallet, a pair of pants and her water bottle was on the floor outside her locker. The only outstanding property was $14 cash, which was taken from her wallet.

She added that her lock was issued by the SUMC and was not her own and was issued a new lock. Police advised the woman to contact her bank to request new cards and contact the Social Security Administration about her concerns regarding her Social Security card in her wallet.

The woman added she did not want to press charges for the theft of her money and was issued a Victim’s Rights form.

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Trump plays with fire by taunting foreign nations

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he majority of Americans don’t like the way President Donald Trump is running the country. That’s probably an understatement.

Trump has a 43.7 percent approval rating, according to an average of polls compiled by Real Clear Politics. It’s the lowest of any U.S. president this early in his administration since 1953. And it keeps going lower.

The only thing that could get Trump out of this slump is a war. I’m not saying that’s what the president wants, but I fear it could be where we’re headed.

Wars have a way of pulling the country together, with everyone scrambling to line up behind our leader. Take former President George W. Bush. His overall job approval rating skyrocketed 13 points to 71 percent after launching the Iraq war in 2003, according to Gallup polls.

The same thing happened with his dad.

President George H.W. Bush saw his job approval rating jump to 18 points to 82 percent after the start of the Persian Gulf war in 1991, Gallup found.

There have been plenty of presidents with whom I disagreed on their policies. But Trump is another matter. Many Americans, including myself, are afraid of the man.

This week, we learned that Trump plans to ask for a $54 billion increase in defense spending. Why so much, and why now?

Does the president have something up his sleeve that the American people don’t know

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Dear Future President, The Graduate and Professional Student Council (GPSC) write to you on behalf of approximately 10,000 graduate and professional students at the University of Arizona (UA). Soon, you will be named the president of Arizona’s finest university. We have chosen to write this letter in advance because we want you to be successful in your new role.

about? Is there an imminent threat that he’s keeping from us?

Trump doesn’t have the patience to avert a nuclear war as President John F. Kennedy did during the Cuban missile crisis in 1962.

He certainly does not have the diplomacy of former President Jimmy Carter, who took it upon himself to step in and avert a crisis between the U.S. and North Korea over nuclear arms in 1994.

While most Americans don’t follow the government’s day-to-day dealings with foreign countries, we do pay attention to Trump’s Twitter account. And we know childish bullying when we see it.

If anything, Trump has done more to provoke these volatile countries than try to improve our fragile relationships with them.

His careless declarations regarding Iran, North Korea, China or any other country he doesn’t respect have put Americans in danger and are making our allies uneasy.

While Trump insists that the Iran nuclear deal is “really, really bad,” he seems to have sensibly backed off his campaign promise to tear it up, at least for now.

But his constant taunting of the Middle Eastern nation on Twitter, including a tweet describing Iran as “#1 in terror” and another claiming that “Iran is playing with fire,” is another way of saying, “I dare you!”

In January, when North Korea’s Kim Jong Un announced that his country was in the final stage of test-launching a ballistic missile that could be capable of reaching the U.S. West Coast, Trump tweeted, “It won’t happen.”

Well, guess what? A month later, North

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Korea test-launched a ballistic missile. But it was also a test of our new president, the way children sometimes test their parents.

Trump’s response was like an inexperienced mother saying to a defiant child, “Just wait until your father gets home!”

Obviously, tough talk isn’t enough when dealing with dictators or terrorists, for that matter.

We are sadly mistaken if we don’t think our adversaries aren’t taking notes. They are

always looking for an opening to slip in and bring our country to its knees.

We can’t trust Iran or North Korea to do the right thing, but the world is doomed if the U.S. president doesn’t know how to be the adult in the room.

If President Trump doesn’t stay off Twitter, we could end up in a nuclear war.

And if that happens, no amount of money poured into our military would be enough to save us.

Dear Future President As elected student leaders, one of our roles on campus is to actively advocate on behalf of students and provide students’ perspective during discussions with administrators. Our perspectives may not always align with those of the administration, but we remain committed to having honest conversations with you and finding a common ground regarding the future of our university. We have appreciated the robust rapport with members of the senior leadership team and look forward to a strong

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continuing relationship.

Here are a few issues we would like you to keep in mind.

Affordability: As a land grant institution, UA must remain affordable for Arizona students. We ask you to work with the Arizona Board of Regents (ABOR) and ensure that the rising cost of tuition and fees is mitigated. Tuition is estimated to have increased by more than 130 percent in the last 10 years and it continues to rise. We understand that

this is challenging as Arizona was ranked 49th per capita in state higher education funding for fiscal year 2016, yet we ask you not to relent in keeping the UA affordable, while providing the quality education a Land Grant University mandates. We will continue to advocate for more state funding but urge you to resist the simple solution of placing more financial burdens on students in the form of tuition and fee increases. In addition, cost of attendance must remain commensurate to graduate students’ wages and salary.

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Wildcat: ASUA would go well with a little SALT A long road brought Stefano Saltalamacchia to the Associated Students of the University of Arizona presidential ballot, but we’re glad he landed here.

His opponent may have more experience in ASUA, but Saltalamacchia brings an air of leadership and a refreshing perspective to a student body organization that has grown increasingly insular over the years.

Saltalamacchia’s platform is centered on diversity and inclusion—in ASUA, in the campus’ physical spaces, in the curriculum and in the community as a whole. This platform is nothing new. It’s a rallying cry we hear echoed from year to year from candidate to

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candidate—a platform that seems to be repeated across this year’s crop of candidates more than ever.

The difference this year is, when Saltalamacchia says he will fight for the inclusion of every student, we believe him. He possesses the passion, raw emotion and the leadership capabilities to make a real change in the lives of UA students who feel unrepresented and left behind by their student leaders.

Saltalamacchia said it best himself: “There’s a power in diversity. There’s a power with sitting a bunch of people from multiple pockets of campus around the table, and the only way that we can do that is opening

increases to the compensation of our research assistants and graduate students.

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Research: From the Osiris REx mission to the Precision Medicine Initiative, the Giant Magellan Telescope project and other outstanding research initiatives, the UA is known as one of the leading research institutions in the country. We urge you to invest in the future by making strategic investments in research at the University your priority. Our faculty and students are working hard to maintain the UA’s reputation as a world renowned research institution and we urge you to support their efforts through

Diversity and Inclusion: The UA has made significant progress towards diversity and inclusion on campus, but there is still a lot of work to be done. We know that practicing Inclusive Excellence and becoming a more diverse university will require the efforts and contributions of everyone, including students, faculty, staff and administrators. We want to see more diversity amongst faculty, staff, and administrators at the UA pursuant to the goals set in the list of demands from the Marginalized Students.

With the lofty enrollment and graduation goals

the doors and welcoming them.”

We’re with SALT. Voting for ASUA general elections started Tuesday, Feb. 28, at 8 a.m. and ends Wednesday March 1, at 8 p.m.

Results will be announced Thursday, March 2, in the Student Union Memorial Center at 7 p.m. You can vote online.

Editorials are determined by the Daily Wildcat Opinions Board and are written by its members. They are Editor-in-chief Sam Gross, Managing Editor Chastity Laskey, Digital Managing Editor Courtney Talak, Arts Editor Jamie Verwys and Opinions Editor Scott Felix.

set by ABOR, efforts to support, retain and graduate an ever- diversifying student body are mandatory. UA simply will not continue to compete with other research universities without a consistent commitment to diversity and inclusive excellence.

In conclusion: Please keep in mind that the UA is an academic institution meant to educate students and prepare them for real world challenges. We know that the University must remain profitable in order to run efficiently and fulfill its mission; however, the UA is a not for profit organization and should not be run strictly as a business. A university cannot exist without students. This

is not to undermine the role of our excellent faculty, outstanding administrators and staff who hold the institution together, but students must remain a key priority during your administration. Be open to meeting with and speaking directly with students. Understanding their concerns and challenges and addressing them in a timely and appropriate manner will be crucial to your success.

The Graduate and Professional Student Council is eager to work with you. We want you to succeed and we will be happy to support you in the best ways that we can and expect the same.

We wish you the best and congratulations in advance.

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Rooftop Garden Competition teams pitch plans Twenty-four student teams pitched their rooftop garden designs late last week. With backgrounds from biology to business, their plans were as diverse as their majors

BY CHANDLER DONALD @Chandlerjdonald

Twenty-four teams made pitches for the Student Union Memorial Center’s Rooftop Garden Competition last week, each comprised of five undergraduate students. As organizers hoped, the teams were made up of students from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds, each with a completely unique perspective on how exactly to develop a rooftop garden at the SUMC. This marks the second step in the Rooftop Garden Competition launched earlier this month.

On Thursday and Friday, the teams pitched five-minute presentations to judges and master gardeners of Tucson. Each team had a chance to get feedback and mingle with mentors before the first round of elimination.

The teams’ backgrounds influenced their presentations. One pitch, by a team of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences students, had already planned the crop cycles of the gardens. Another, made up of business, neuroscience, engineering and biology majors, gave a less focused but more comprehensive presentation to the judges, reflecting their mixed backgrounds.

While many teams are hoping to implement high-tech agricultural practices, others see the garden as an aesthetic and cultural opportunity.

“We want it to match the terrain, and we want it to look good,” said John Devlin, a senior studying engineering. “We want to implement more art for the garden.”

Devlin went on to highlight the importance of murals and other art forms to the Tucson community. Their team hopes to design a garden that will be both productive and engaging.

While winners and runners-up could snag up to $1,000 in meal plan money, the competitors had diverse motivations.

“If 25 years from now I’m able to take my kid and show them I helped design this, that is really worth more than the prize money,” Devlin said.

Director of Arizona Student Unions Todd Millay explained between pitches that he almost wished he could dissolve the teams and let them all work together because the variety of perspectives was amazing. However, too many cooks in the kitchen spoils the broth.

“For the garden, it’s not just about how it looks, but it’s the functionality and strategy behind it that will allow it to better serve the community,” said Jacqueline Nguyen, a sophomore studying business.

She brings the financial perspective to team ARKA, which is otherwise comprised of

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THE MAP OF THE garden space in the Student Union Memorial Center. Over 20 teams met last week to pitch their plans to a panel of judges and experts.

architecture students.

Money does play an important role in the competition. Contestants can design their garden across five different areas in and around the SUMC. Three are on the upper levels and the other two are in front of the Nugent building and outside of the Pangea restaurant. The teams will have to work within a budget of $50,000, which will certainly be a limiting factor for teams with especially complex or costly designs.

Another concern that appeared to be unanimous among the contestants was the weight-bearing capacity of the roof. Teams will have to face the challenge of estimation in the early stages of the design process and avoid producing anything that weighs too much for

the building’s structure to support.

One team was made up entirely of Students for Sustainability members. A top issue for the group was responsible practices, and along with rainwater harvesting, they would like to implement a relationship with the UA Compost Cats organization to provide soil for the garden.

Regardless of their perspectives, the Rooftop Garden Competition provides a very rare opportunity for undergraduates to design a piece of their campus. This is the motivating factor for many of the contestants.

“Other people in our major don’t have a built design [in their portfolio],” said Jenny Nguyen, a junior studying architecture.

“Having a built design is a really good thing to

have. Leaving a mark after you graduate is a good thing.”

The main goal for this garden is to serve as a conduit for students to help students. The produce will go to the UA Campus Pantry and student union restaurants. But more than that, the garden will be an educational asset to the UA and a step forward in urban agriculture.

“I think this is a visionary project,” said Chester Phillips, sustainability coordinator for the Associated Students of the University of Arizona. “I think we should be very proud to have Todd Millay as director of our student union, and union staff who are willing to introduce a project like this, who are open to student ideas in a collaborative and constructive way.”

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Constant Con keeps Comic-Con spirit alive all year

BY ALEC KUEHNLE @ThrowMeAnAllie

Although not everyone may realize it, Tucson has a lot of creative talent. For example, if you happen to take to take a stroll down Sixth Avenue downtown, you might come across Constant Con, the place where it’s Comic-Con year-round, a prime example of the artistic creativity that makes Tucson tick.

Constant Con began in December 2015.

It is a collective art gallery/comic book store/fun house and gives local creative minds a chance to display their work. The work ranges from digital art to pop art to concept art to comic books and everything in between, often pertaining to films, cartoons or video games.

“I noticed there was a lot of us in the Comic-Con community here,” said Frank Powers, founder of Constant Con. “We all know each other in one way or another, and the community is pretty tight-knit.”

The different artists with work on display at Constant Con split the rent of the downtown property, providing an opportunity for up-and-coming artists or anyone else with creative tendencies to have their work on display.

About seven artists originally displayed their creations at the store and now many have come and gone, which is all part of the process.

“Your stuff is always for sale and there is always someone here to sell it for you,” Powers said. “Comics are considered low art by some, so for us to have this in a gallery setting really makes a difference.”

Some of the artists visit every single weekend, while others only come in to pay the rent once a month. Some of them use the space as their downtown office, while others just want to display their work.

Either way, Constant Con gives them the tools they need to get their work noticed.

“You have your buddies that you get to see at the different cons throughout the year, but this place keeps that community going year-round,” said Edward Marrano, a digital artist with work currently on display at Constant Con. Marrano’s art can also be found at cyberviking.artstation.com.

“I fell in love with the design process even more than the end product,” Marrano said. “I have really fallen in love with the art behind it. I do characters, environments, landscapes and I focus a lot on sci-fi.”

Powers created the character Pissed OFF Panda, a character with comics and merchandise available for sale at Constant Con. “I was at the San Diego Zoo and I basically met Pissed OFF Panda,” Powers

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EDWARD MARRANO, LEFT, and Frank Powers, right, pose at the entrance of Constant Con, a shop on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Pennington Street. The shop boasts a wide array of all things comic-culture and creates a Comic-Con-style atmosphere and community year-round.

said. “I go to the gift shop and see all these goofy-looking toy pandas. I see one and it looks pissed off, and I’m like, ‘it’s Pissed OFF Panda.’”

The character will be featured in an ongoing independent comic book, according to the Pissed OFF Panda Facebook page.

“I’m a super positive guy, so he is my outlet to get my frustrations out without having to post it on Facebook,” Powers said with a smile.

Most people involved in the Comic-Con world can only show their work at a few conventions each year, so for the rest of the time, the work is just sitting there, an idea that Powers finds ridiculous.

“I don’t believe in the idea of the starving artist,” he said.

Constant Con has even more to offer than just an art cooperative. The business also offers classes, birthday parties and events around town. Of course, these events do require money. People can help financially support Constant Con at patreon.com/frankpowers.

Constant Con will host the Animated Arizona Film Festival March 31 and April 1 at the Screening Room, and they host F!ed Up every Wednesday at R Bar. Powers has a radio show every Saturday night on 99.1 FM from 11 p.m.-1 a.m., and he does the show live once a month at the Screening Room.

‘We have had an overwhelmingly positive reaction from the public, so I just want more people to know about us,” Powers said.

He also has plenty of ideas for

expanding Constant Con and knows what he wants it to achieve in the future.

A brand-new Constant Con website will launch within a few months, and the business can be found as ConstantConHQ on Twitter and Instagram.

The business even has a pet goldfish named Mr. Mangold, who Powers refers to as the boss of Constant Con. “I don’t want to be the boss,” Powers said. “We’re a partnership. Mangold is the boss.”

Whether you love comics or just want to see something cool, make sure to stop by Constant Con on your next downtown stroll.

“It might sound crazy, but there is almost a mini version of Hollywood that I can see here in Tucson,” Powers said.

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38% of UA students did not have alcohol in the past 30 days. (2016 Health & Wellness Survey, n=3,113)

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We asked UA STUDENTS what they wanted to change about their drinking style. Here’s what they said:

ECOGRO OWNER BRENDAN WOLTMAN mists plants shortly before closing for the evening on Tuesday, Feb. 28.

EcoGro opened in April 2012 and plans to open two more locations in Tucson within the next year.

“Slow down my rate of drinking”

Aquaponics grows in Tucson with EcoGro

“My drinking style is fairly tame, so it does not require a huge adjustment”

BY KATHLEEN KUNZ @DailyWildcat

With organic produce prices rising and GMOs and pesticides becoming a concern to some consumers, demand for organic and simple gardening is growing. For Tucson locals, EcoGro offers a solution.

EcoGro is an aquaponics supply store and exotic plant nursery located at 657 W. Saint Mary’s Road. The store’s owner, Brendan Woltman, opened shop in April 2012 after quitting his accounting job in Flagstaff and moving to Tucson. Since then, he has provided a farming alternative to the community.

The main attraction of EcoGro is that the store is a resource for aquaponics. This is a gardening system where waste from farmed fish provides nutrients for plants and the plants purify the water that the fish live in.

“It’s the most sustainable way to grow,” Woltman said. “You don’t have to add any fertilizers, and there’s no manual input besides adding water and feeding your fish.”

When asked about the benefits of an aquaponics system over traditional gardening Woltman said aquaponics is truly organic and there are no additives besides the fish waste.

He added that with an aquaponics system, it is possible to grow produce two to three times more densely than a regular garden, while using a small fraction of the amount of water.

He said it is environmentally friendly because there is no need for fertilizer or animal byproduct, and it’s a great way to ensure that your produce is free of pesticides and GMOs. Woltman and his team at EcoGro see customers of all different backgrounds come to their warehouse. The business attracts plant enthusiasts who come for their supply of exotic

plants that are usually grown in countries like Madagascar and Saudi Arabia. The store also sees a lot of backyard gardeners seeking to switch to a system like aquaponics.

EcoGro also works with surrounding school districts to provide students resources and education about aquaponics and sustainable gardening. UA’s Master Gardener program has shown an interest in aquaponics.

“We were talking with EcoGro about creating an aquaponics educational feature for our demonstration gardens here on the [Pima County] extension campus,” said Eric Johnson, a Master Gardener program coordinator. “We are very excited about the possibility of bringing this kind of gardening to the public.”

Woltman has become a leader in aquaponics education in Tucson. He plans to teach a class for the Master Gardener program each month on sustainable gardening and aquaponics, since it is a relatively new concept. EcoGro has aquaponics systems set up at Biosphere 2, and Woltman frequently visits there and gives lectures.

Woltman’s favorite part of his job is working for himself and employing people who have a real passion for plants.

Woltman is looking to expand his store and nursery into a full-scale growing company. He sees EcoGro as his pride and joy and doesn’t plan on selling it outside of his family.

“I’ve been in the gardening industry for a long time, and a lot of people are realizing what it truly means to be sustainable and trying to live off the grid,’” he said.

When considering a new way to get your veggies, visit EcoGro, located at an industrial warehouse with endless rows of plants and two sleepy shop dogs waiting to greet you.

For more information about EcoGro, visit www.ecogro.com.

“Eat before drinking”

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“Drink more water and eat before going out”

“Don't blackout, drink at least one night a week less” “Count my intake”

“Limit my amount of drinks throughout the night and who I drink with and where we are” “Don't use it to fix problems”

“I want to drink less and buy less hard alcohol like Bacardi 151 and Everclear” “I want to drink less and know my limit so I have more fun”

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“Don't drink as much in the first hour”

“Not drinking on week nights”

“Monitor how many drinks I have at a party” “Don’t pregame as much” “Amount of money I spend yearly on alcohol”

“Try and stay in the sweet spot .05 –.08 BAC”

“Only drinking on very special occasions. Just casual drinking and no partying”

“I want to drink less frequently so my tolerance is not as high”

“Set a limit in order to stay at the sweet spot”

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ERIKA BARNES POSES WITH her husband, Andy Barnes. She took over as interim athletic director after the departure of Greg Byrne in January.

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in her office.

“I think you see farther by standing “At the time, it was the largest gift from on the shoulders of giants,” Barnes said. a professional athlete to his alma mater at “[There] are people in Arizona Athletics $3.5 million dollars,” Barnes said. “It was history that have paved the way for people a neat memory to see Richard play at the like myself to have the opportunities same time I did.” that we have. My hope is With so many moving that, somehow, if I can pieces, Arizona Athletics Some people contribute a little bit to is moving forward. Most do the Zoo make our student athletes recently, on Sunday, or park on experience a positive one, I President Anne Weaver Hart feel like I’m doing my job.”

Sundays. We do named Dave Heeke the Vice Most recently, Barnes women’s basketball even saw her face in the President of Athletics, to be confirmed by the Arizona or soccer, and we back of ESPN College Board of Regents. make it a family Game Day as the ZonaZoo “I’m excited for what we affair. My 3-year-old, featured her on one of the recently announced about Fat Heads in the crowd. if she sees the letter Overall, Barnes said she is Dave Heeke,” Barnes said.

A, not even in our proud of her time serving “I think he’s going to bring a lot of experience to UA font, starts to chant in the interim role and Athletics. He has ties to ‘U of A, is very much looking the West Coast and Pac-12 to her future in U of A.’” forward experience previously at the collegiate athletics —Erika Barnes, industry and with Arizona.

Oregon. We are in a good Senior Associate place right now. We are on “To help student athletes Director of Athletics because they have the rest an upward trajectory.”

As Barnes is set to of their life at the sport,” return to her senior Barnes said. “If they can associate director role, she can take maximize their opportunities at their sport solace in the fact that she is just the to not just become a better athlete, but a second woman in UA history to serve in better person. I think that’s when I’m the any athletic director role. most proud.”

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There are a few iconic stereotypes about the state of Texas: barbecue food so good you could buy it at a gas station and not regret it, the best country music in the land and football is a religion.

It’s the type of football that’ll shut down an entire town on a Friday night and build a $59.6 million high school stadium that seats 18,000 people, which resembles a Conference-USA facility.

It’s not just the high school facilities that are bigger in Texas, it’s also the talent.

Texas is a breeding ground for football players, and new wide receivers coach Theron Aych, who was hired from University of Texas El Paso Thursday and introduced Saturday, will now sprinkle some lone star talent for years to come. “... I got 15 plus years of Texas ties,” Aych said. “That’s an area [Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez] felt he wanted to get back into. In the past, there’s been some really great players from Texas.”

Texas recruiting has been MIA for Rodriguez, while former head coach Mike Stoops was known for hauling in recruits from the area.

Nick Foles, Mike Thomas, Dan Buckner, Trevin Wade, Earl Mitchell, Donald Horton, Ronnie Palmer, Keenyn Crier, Terrell Turner, Spencer Larsen, Syndric Steptoe, Cam Nelson—the list goes on and on of Texas players who had a impact on the program.

Impact is used lightly, because the

Wildcats weren’t Pac-12 Conference contenders until 2009, but they added size to the roster, and ever since the Stoops players started to fade away under Rodriguez. Arizona lost girth.

Any program in the Pac-12 could’ve been successful without size a few years ago, but with the conference improving up and down, the best way to compete again with size is to go for the diamond in the rough prospects in Texas.

“Coaches in the past have done a really good job in bringing some Texas guys in here. We kind of branched away from it, because I thought kids were more interested in Big 12, SEC,” Rodriguez said. “I think there are so many good players in the state of Texas, so many good programs, so many good high school coaches that we have to get into that state.”

Rodriguez and Aych will focus on east Texas in the Houston area, which is a sneaky tactic considering ex-Houston head coach Tom Herman accepted the same position at Texas now so the Houston area looks to be fair game for recruiting.

“We’re going to get into particularly the Houston area a lot more, and not just coach Aych but some of the other guys on the staff as well,” Rodriguez said.

Texas players won’t change the culture of the program right away, but it’s a step in the right direction for Rodriguez.

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Erika Barnes ready for future at Arizona After being put in the interim athletic director position for over a month, Erika Barnes will go back to her previous role in Athletics with an eye on the future

BY MATT WALL @mwall20

Erika Barnes stepped into McKale Center for the Arizona women’s basketball game against Washington State looking forward to the matchup. Six hours later, she was officially named Interim Athletics Director

by UA President Anne Weaver Hart, replacing esteemed predecessor Greg Byrne, who would leave for Alabama.

“It’s been a bit surreal,” Barnes said. “As time passes, I will realize the magnitude at some point. I wanted to dive right in and make sure all the day-today responsibilities were being handled, which gives you much less time to reflect. It’s been really neat and touching to hear from those people and to hear how excited they were for a friend and fellow Wildcat to serve in the interim role.”

Barnes is a Wildcat through and through. She was the first baseman on the 2001 national championship Arizona softball team. Her husband Andy Barnes was an All-American golfer at the UA. Her two children, Tillie and Blake, rock UA apparel on a regular basis.

“Some people do the zoo or the park on Sundays,” Barnes said. “We do women’s basketball or soccer, and we make it a family affair. My 3-year-old, if she sees the letter A, not even in our font, she starts chanting ‘U of A, U of A.’” Barnes’ son Blake has become a staple for the UA softball team.

Now known as Juju Baby, he dances in the stands at games and has become a crowd favorite.

For Barnes, the last 43 days has seemed like a whirlwind roller coaster. In fact, she first heard the news of Byrne leaving on her son’s first birthday.

“We like to use the term ‘drinking through a fire hose,’” Barnes said. “Greg was pretty emotional throughout that process. I had to straddle from

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ERIKA BARNES HOLDS HER son Blake while taking a photo with daughter, Tillie and husband, Andy, on Dec. 1, 2016. Barnes is a former UA softball player and current Senior Associate Director of Athletics at Arizona.

being emotional and taking on that interim AD role that this ship is still moving forward. We are all in a great place and a good trajectory.”

What makes Barnes stand out amongst athletic administrators is her first-hand knowledge of the sports and her relationship with potential donors.

“My favorite part of development, it’s their own personal pocket books that we are asking them to pull out,” Barnes said. “Being a student athlete and coming through our system, I understand what an impact their contributions really make. I speak from the

heart about what they are doing for us. They are not just our UA supporters, but our friends.”

Barnes got her start at the UA as a student under softball head coach Mike Candrea.

“He has a lot of fundamentals and concepts that I still use in life,” Barnes said. “One of those is to have balance in your life.

In order to be the best athlete, you also have to be the best academically and a good person.

When we are making decisions, it’s what’s best for Arizona Athletics and all 20 of our sports.”

As a freshman, Barnes and her teammates saw a one-run defeat in the national championship

game finals against Fresno State.

“That was a tough one because at that time we were ranked No. 1,” Barnes said. “Our senior year, we didn’t want anything more than to win the national championship.

When they stuck the mic in front of Jennie Finch when we won, she said she just wanted to do it for the seniors.”

Barnes would finish out her communications undergraduate degree, moving to New York and then Los Angeles to work in sports marketing and public relations. She moved back to Tucson in 2005, eventually pursuing her MBA through the Eller College of Management.

“Doing the MBA program while working really made what we were focusing on really applicable to Arizona Athletics,” Barnes said.

She would take the lessons and skills she learned from the program and blow fundraising out of the water. Through her work in identifying and securing major gifts, she has had an integral role in raising more than $145 million for Arizona Athletics.

Barnes said she was most proud of the Richard Jefferson Gymnasium and his donation to the program. The photo album of the ceremony sits right behind her

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