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POUYE KHOSHKOO, A PH.D. candidate in Middle Eastern and North African Studies and an Iranian immigrant, poses for a photograph in the Marshall Building on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. Khoshkoo immigrated to the U.S. eight years ago and is now an American citizen, but regardless is feeling the effects of Pres. Trump’s purposed travel ban.

Definitions of humanity An Iranian immigrant, a U.S. citizen, an educator and a human: UA graduate assistant Pouye Khoshkoo describes life after Trump’s immigration ban

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While teaching her class, Pouye Khoshkoo, a graduate assistant teaching Persian at the UA was asked, “What do Iranian girls look like?”

Khoshkoo used the class time to look up photos and describe to students first-hand what she knew.

They asked her specifically, “are they under the veil, covered, burqa?” Khoshkoo responded, “I’m saying no, it’s like what you

see here and then we have to Google it.”

Khoshkoo showed them what she described as fashionable, nice and colorful styles and some of the class still didn’t believe.

“Then you have to go show it on two different sources and make them believe that people are not different around the world,” she said.

When she was younger, Khoshkoo said she had the energy to answer the student’s similar questions about the Middle East to try and eliminate

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any misconceptions that they have. Today, those same questions wear on her.

“When I was younger, I started teaching at University of Wisconsin-Madison and I had a range of students also, like 45 to 50, and then I had more energy,” Khoshkoo said. “But after doing this for eight years, sometimes I feel really broken from inside. That ‘why should I keep doing this?’ The world is not going in a direction that gives the right information to people and it’s tough.”

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On Jan. 27, President Donald Trump signed executive orders that banned immigrants and cut off refugees from seven Middle Eastern countries. One of those impacted was Khoshkoo’s home country of Iran.

The days that followed weighed on Khoshkoo more than the questions her students asked. Although she is a U.S. citizen, her close friends around her were impacted.

“We were numb the whole

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Micro pantries provide solution to hunger

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Tucson Free Pantry is on a mission to fight hunger and food waste in Southern Arizona.

The TFP slogan, “take what you need, give what you can,” is attached to each of the 24-hour pantry locations in the Tucson community.

Local farms, community members and the TFP team sustain each pantry with food, school supplies and toiletries.

According to TFP Director, Chaparrelle Mogavero-Cline, the project was started because of the food security gap in Southern Arizona.

“Many people skip meals and aren’t able to get what they need,” she said. “This is not going to solve the problem, but it’s going to help with hunger, food waste and bring the community together.”

The team builds a small pantry in a Tucson neighborhood and, along with the community, fills them for anyone who might need some assistance.

“When we approach the pantries, there’s a concern that it might not be filled, but that’s never the case because community members have been filling them,” Mogavero-Cline said. “With a regular pantry you need to submit an application and show up at certain hours.”

Blake Harding, TFP adviser and board member, added that TFP and standard food banks differ in accessibility.

“Some barriers in accessing traditional pantry, soup kitchen and food welfare models include shame, limited hours and the requirement for an ID card or extensive paperwork,” he explained. “Since with TFP, none of these are barriers, it serves a real diverse need.”

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Coordinator, Peyton Anne Prater, agreed.

“Instead of having a formal location, its just a small pantry that’s set up in a neighborhood so people can just come and get or drop off food whenever they want to,” she said. “TFP has unlimited access.”

The team hopes to boost the number of pantries within the next year.

“Right now we have a partnership with three private places,” Mogavero-Cline said.

“We’re building more.”

Prater added that the mission doesn’t only include Tucson. “We want to engage in a national effort to make these available,” she said.

TFP members plan to build the model further by connecting community partners, stakeholders and others outside the community to duplicate this free public pantry model in other communities.

The idea has even spread to Tennessee,the team explained.

“We’ve received many inquiries from others in several states such as Washington and California,” Harding added. “It’s very exciting to see incredible interest in the project.”

As is the case with most non-profit organizations, TFP faces some challenges.

“In particular, with utilizing and leveraging scarce resources in bootstrapping the TFP model in attempting to have the highest most positive impact possible,” Harding said. “But we have received significant funding interest from private donors and have a pending grant receipt from a community arts foundation in Tucson, all of which will be put to hard work to support TFP’s mission.”

However, the team’s successes have far outweighed their setbacks.

“We’ve been very surprised in the outpouring of support and excitement for

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UA students are encouraged to use the pantries as well, since many college students face food insecurity.

“It will reach UA students since it’s so close to campus,” Prater said. “It’s accessible for people to donate and take food. You can just bring food or take it freely.”

TFP isn’t limited to those with extreme hunger and need.

“TFP is for everyone,” Mogavero-Cline explained. “Even if you may not need dire assistance, if you’re walking down the street and you need a snack, you can use TFP.”

According to the team, the project has been running a little over a year.

“TFP is a true team effort,” said Harding.

“We are all very busy with respective schedules and pitch in as we can to have the most positive impact in leveraging the TFP concept in primarily reducing nutritional insecurity in the Tucson Borderlands region.”

Mogavero-Cline added that TFP is selfsustaining and the community has been receptive toward it.

“The community has been filling the pantries every time I come to check,” she said. “Obviously TFP is not going to feed a whole city, but it’s going to help a lot of people in need.”

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ASUA joins Pac-12 meningitis B campaign The Associated Students of the University of Arizona are working with Campus Health Services and other UA organizations to raise awareness about the new meningitis B vaccine.

The program, called Vax-12, is a coalition of Pac-12 student government organizations working together to combat the disease on college campuses.

Christine Hall, a representative of the ASUA Student Health Advocacy Committee, has been planning for a campaign at the UA to spread awareness about meningitis B and inform students about their new vaccination options.

“We’re very lucky now that we have this vaccination,” Christine said. “We’re trying to stop an outbreak from happening at the UA and advocate for students to make healthy choices about vaccination schedules.”

There have been five outbreaks of meningitis B on U.S. college campuses in the last four years, resulting in two deaths and cases of brain damage and amputation. However, thanks to large-scale vaccination efforts, the outbreaks were not as severe as they could have been.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, young adults have some of the highest rates of meningitis and are particularly susceptible to meningitis B. UA Health Promotion and Preventive

Services Director David Salafsky said, while meningitis isn’t typically spread through casual contact, those who live in close quarters such as a residence hall or greek house are at higher risk. Salafsky also added that, since it is spread through saliva, meningitis is spread easiest between people who are kissing or sharing things like food, drinks and smoking materials.

Students can also reduce their risk of contracting meningitis by abstaining from activities that would expose them to other people’s saliva, like sharing food and drinks.

“The good news is that we have vaccines that really can help reduce students’ risks,” Salafsky said. “Students can come in Monday through Friday to our travel and immunization clinic to get the vaccine, and chances are their insurance is going to pay for it.”

Until 2014, the only meningitis vaccines available protected against meningitis A, C, W and Y. It wasn’t until recently that vaccines became available for meningitis B. This means even if students were vaccinated for meningitis as children they’re still unprotected against meningitis B and need to get the new vaccine.

Meningitis can leave victims with loss of vision, brain damage, limb amputation and other complications. Stephen Scholand, an infectious disease practitioner at BannerUniversity Medical Center, stressed the importance of vaccine education.

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“It is the 21st century but, even with all our advanced care, there’s still a 10 percent chance that if you get meningitis you’re going to die no matter what antibiotics or advanced treatment

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administration, the rules were changed for those with singleFROM PAGE 1 entry student visas in 2011.

The policy change allowed for week ... I couldn’t talk, I couldn’t multiple-entry student visas, so walk,” she said. “I just read the Iranian students could visit family news and I started crying. I was and come back to their studies. preparing materials for my Persian “We were so happy when President class about election in Iran, Obama made it multiple entry,” freedom of speech Khoshkoo said. “It and constitution was a relief.” and I was like, Now, under the “If we don’t ‘I can’t do this executive order, stand against anymore.’” least 60,000 such a thing at Khoshkoo, a visas were revoked graduate student [as Trump’s while the ban was in the Middle recent immigration implemented.

Eastern and “Even as a orders], I think we North African U.S. citizen, I’m should reconsider Studies program concerned,” definitions on the Khoshkoo said as came to the U.S. in 2009 and word humanity.” she first received received a student the news of the visa after she —Pouye Khoshkoo, orders. “At the graduated from a graduate assistant moment I read the University teaching Persian at this news, I saw of Tehran. She the UA people—Iraqi, received her Syrians, all of citizenship in them—were Jan. 2016 after detained in the marrying a U.S. airports. I was like citizen.

‘I wish I could just leave everything She experienced how the now behind and just go.’ ” process affected people coming to She said that two of her friends the U.S. years before the ban. were overseas conducting field “Some of my friends had all work when the orders were signed. these problems [with] the single“They are out of the country entry visa; you come in and you for their field work. One went to cannot go out,” she said.

Afghanistan and the other is in Under the Obama Iran; they didn’t go there illegally,”

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POUYE KHOSHKOO, A PH.D. candidate in Middle Eastern and North African Studies and an Iranian immigrant, far right, pictured with her family in Iran in 2007 on her brother’s birthday.

she said. “The university allowed them to go there and the one in Afghanistan now has the problem because Afghanistan doesn’t issue him a visa to stay. He can’t go back to Iran, he can’t come to the U.S. What’s going on?”

The UA Global Initiatives office said in a statement that students from the countries listed should

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FELICE COHEN-JOPPA HOLDS up the sign usually displayed in her front yard to passing cars on Congress Street outside of the Arizona State Building during a protest against Donald Trump’s recent travel ban on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. “Tucson is a welcoming community to refugees and we need to stand up right now. We need to welcome people fleeing wars,” Cohen-Joppa said.

refrain from traveling.

“Given the effect of the Executive Order in conjunction with statements by the Department of Homeland Security, we strongly urge that international students, scholars, staff and faculty from any of the seven designated countries listed above refrain from traveling outside the U.S. until further notice,” Mike Proctor, vice president of the department, wrote.

Khoshkoo said that if similar policies continue against international students, they will reconsider coming to schools in the U.S. This would ultimately impact universities and departments like UA Global Initiatives.

“If the U.S. is going to go in this direction, it’s losing its credibility, its position among the other countries,” she said. “I don’t think they’re going to consider as much as before to come to this country.”

Khoshkoo said the lack of knowledge and understanding is the fuel to misconceptions and discrimination.

“It’s scary that Muslims are the object of these rules, the ignorance, the lack of knowledge about the other countries ...” she said, “The ignorance is the threat of the people and it’s tough to see everyone go through this.”

Suzanne Panferov, associate vice president of the Global Initiatives office, said the UA is sending information to the community about the executive orders.

“We’re trying to educate as much as we can,” she said. “We already have a message going out to travelers and we’re updating a webpage specifically for this topic with a lot of external resources that will help people make informed decisions.”

Throughout the legislative process of the executive orders being enacted and suspended, one event that encouraged Khoshkoo was the protest in front of Sen. John McCain’s Tucson office.

“I was really happy to see how people reacted to this … the atmosphere was really good,” she said. “It was so good to see that still people care.”

More than 1,000 people attended the event.

All of the signs reminded her of the past pictures she saw of the Iranian revolution where some Iranians called for U.S. citizens to leave. Now, the reverse was taking place before her eyes.

For many, including Khoshkoo, the future that lies ahead is still scary.

“I’ve been here for eight years and I’ve never felt this unsecured in this land,” she said. “Everyone should be really concerned.”

At the end of it all, all of the people impacted are humans and we have to take a stand, Khoshkoo said. “If we don’t stand against such a thing, I think we should reconsider definitions on the word humanity.”

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POLICE BEAT

BY LAUREN RENTERIA @lauren_renteria

ROAD RUNNER A University of Arizona Police Officer saw a silver car run a red light at Speedway Boulevard and Campbell Avenue on Feb. 2.

The officer initiated a routine traffic stop in a nearby parking lot with the female driver. The woman gave the officer her name and date of birth but said she didn’t have her license on her because her boyfriend stole it.

After the officer did a record check on the name the woman provided; the officer found that the woman gave him a fake name and date of birth. The officer asked the woman for her social security number but she said she couldn’t remember it.

The officer became suspicious that the woman was lying to him about her identity and gave her a warning: Lie one more time and be arrested for providing false information to law enforcement.

The woman told the officer her real name and social security number. After another check, the officer found she had a suspended license and three other warrants.

After the woman was placed into the squad car, the officer searched her purse and found a blue pipe that smelled like marijuana and a yellow prescription bottle with marijuana wrapped in plastic inside.

The woman told the officer that the marijuana was her friend’s and she was just holding it; the prescription bottle had the suspect’s name on it. She was transported to Pima County Jail and booked.

WAITING FOR UBER On Feb. 2 at around 3 a.m., a UAPD officer performed a routine check on the Park Avenue Garage when he found a young man sitting on a curb in front of the garage with his body slouched.

The patrolling officer noticed the man was asleep and drooling on the ground. The officer flashed his headlights, spot light and flashlight but the man didn’t wake up.

The officer got out of his squad car and smelled intoxicants on the man’s person. It wasn’t until the officer announced himself that the man woke up. He didn’t know where he was, his clothes were disheveled and his shirt was soaked with spit.

The young man identified himself as a UA student with his CatCard. The officer noticed the man had a small glasses case stuffed in the back pocket of his pants and asked to see what was inside. The man fumbled to take out the case from his pocket and showed the officer his driver’s license and a fake I.D. After the officer read the 19-year-old his Miranda rights, the student told the officer on duty that he was waiting for his Uber to take him back to Coronado Residence Hall.

The officer noticed the student was confused by simple questions, had bloodshot eyes and didn’t feel the 40 degree weather despite being in just a T-shirt.

The student was cited for minor in possession of alcohol and received a courtesy ride back to the dorm from the patrolling officer.

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Cabinet update: Rex Tillerson, CEO of state

BY CLAUDIA DRACE @claudiadrace

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ast week, the former ExxonMobil CEO and chairman, Rex Tillerson, was narrowly made the secretary of state after a close vote in the Senate.

Tillerson meagerly won with a 56-43 lead. Before Tillerson, the closest vote in for secretary of state happened in 1825 when Henry Clay was made secretary of state with a 27-14 win.

It’s clear that Tillerson is not the senate Democrats’ first pick for secretary of state, as there were only three Democrats and one independent that voted for President Donald Trump’s nominee.

Though Tillerson appears to be one of Trump’s more moderate picks for his secretary of state, the Senate and the nation still have their concerns.

Tillerson’s foreign affairs experience should help him in his new position, though making business deals versus political deals will likely throw him a new curveball compared to how he handled international affairs on behalf of ExxonMobil.

Despite his international experience, environmentalists are highly concerned with having a former CEO of an oil company as our secretary of state, fearing the prioritization of business over the environment.

It makes sense that he was selected by Trump, whose goal is to bring in as many people from the business world as he can, primarily CEOs. There seems to be an end goal here of privatizing

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parts of the government.

Tillerson is known for his “America first” attitude, much like Trump’s.

Compared to other nominees, he’s not the worst choice in the eyes of the Democrats, even though they don’t support him, because he has extensive foreign affairs experience.

Tillerson has been criticized for his close relations with the Russian President Vladimir Putin, who awarded Tillerson with Russia’s Order of Friendship

in 2013. This is unsettling for many Americans who believe that Russia is aggressive toward Eastern Europe and Syria. There are worries that he may pardon Russia for their atrocities and ease sanctions on the rogue country.

Another foreign affairs concern with Tillerson is his lack of knowledge of Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations toward women due to his business dealings with Saudi Arabia’s oil companies. It looks like he has a similar mindset to

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Trump in that business relations are more important than human rights violations.

The worry with having a real estate mogul and a CEO of a former oil company as our president and secretary of state is that they will prioritize deals with countries regardless of their crimes and the threat they pose.

Stepping into this new role brings the responsibility of finding compromise with Russia and China while also reviewing the international nuclear deal with

Iran. Our relations with our close neighbor Mexico are rocky due to Trump’s insistence on a border wall. And as a result of all of these international issues, Europe is displeased with us as well.

Tillerson has a big job ahead of him that even the most qualified politician would find tough to work with. Despite the doubts that many have about him, the hope is that maybe a fresh perspective in the role secretary of state will be a good thing.

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Scientists probe Mayan history with carbon dating

BY MALIK SHELP @MalikShelp

While Mel Gibson’s thrilling film “Apocalypto” attempted to depict a clear image of Mayan culture, it didn’t. There are in reality extensive gaps in our understanding of this civilization. In a recent paper, UA professor of anthropology Takeshi Inomata and his team have used radiocarbon dating to dig deeper into the history of the Mayan people.

Inomata, anthropology professor Daniela Triadan and a team of graduate students have been working in Guatemala for over 20 years in order to explore the patterns of Mayan society’s rise and fall. At first, they studied a Mayan site known as Aguateca, which boasted an abundance of pottery, bones and other remnants left from the Classic Period of Mayan civilization from around 250 AD to a precipitous decline in 900 AD. While Aguateca’s Classic Period artifacts are a treasure trove, Inomata and his team broke ground by analyzing pre-Classic artifacts at a site called Ceibal, through a method known as radiocarbon dating.

“Working with artifacts in the Classic period, you didn’t need to use radiocarbon dating, you used the hieroglyphs [on the artifacts to help in identification],” Inomata said.

He explained that radiocarbon dating of even pre-Classic artifacts is a new approach.

“It is evolving very quickly and now it is very precise, which is useful to determine changes in occupation of sites,” Inomata said.

Radiocarbon dating measures the decay of a radioactive isotope called carbon-14. By learning how much carbon-14 remains in a given artifact, researchers can put an age to the item.

At any given archaeological site, the more artifacts collected, the clearer the picture of age. When researchers discover numerous artifacts all from the same time within a given settlement, they are able to infer that the rough date in question saw a population spike.

In the case of Ceibal, this technique showed the team when the settlement was abandoned. Using radiocarbon dating around Ceibal, Inomata and Triadan determined that Mayan civilization did not have just one collapse at the end of the Classic Period, but two—one before the Classic and one during it.

“The occupation of these sites can be represented in waves,” Inomata said. “Slowly the occupation of these sites decreased heavily with small increases before they went back down again. The low occupation of these sites for the extended period is the collapse.”

However, it took the application of historical knowledge to this new data to piece together what actually happened.

“There were intense war pressures and climate change in the middle of the pre-Classic collapse which gave rise to the elites and set up the kings and dynasties for the Classic Period,” Triadan said. This explains why artifacts from the Classic Period are often adorned with hieroglyphs reflecting the rulers of the time.

Another member of their team is Melissa Burham, an anthropology graduate student who started working on the project for her dissertation.

“It takes some getting used to but working with the locals and the directors [Inomata and Triadan] was a great experience,” Burham said, reflecting on her experience in Guatemala. “I go back every year around the spring to avoid the rainy seasons that Guatemala has during the summer.”

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DANIELA TRIADAN, AN ANTHROPOLOGY professor, discusses her recent fieldwork. Alongside anthropology professor Takeshi Inomata, Triadan studies the Mayan civilization in Guatemala.

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SHARDS OF DECORATED POTS from the Mayan civilization. The hieroglyphics on many such artifacts provide a record of Mayan history.

A SHARD OF A Mayan vessel. Inomata and Triadan’s team used radiocarbon dating to study artifacts without hieroglyphics.

Determining why and when the Mayans left their settlements is an ongoing project that Inomata and Triadan continue to work on, but it is not without difficulty.

“Along with the amount of travel time to and from the site we, also run into the problem of locals coming into the sites to cut down trees and hunt, even though it is

considered a national park,” Burham said.

Although the Mayan Classic Period may be long gone, Inomata’s team has been active in the community today.

His group has hired locals to help with their excavations for the past 20 years and employed Guatemalan students to analyze the artifacts they collect all year long.

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Population recovery, delisting in store for bat

BY TONY DAVIS THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR (TNS)

The U.S. government wants to stop protecting a Southwestern bat species because it appears to be recovering from its endangered status.

And in a rare moment in the fractious debates over endangered species, advocates on both sides agree that’s a good idea—but for different reasons.

The lesser long-nosed bat, which frequents Sonoran Desert agaves, saguaros and hummingbird feeders, is proposed for removal from the endangered species list because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says its known population has skyrocketed in the past 30 years.

When it was listed in 1988, less than 1,000 were known to exist in Arizona, New Mexico and Mexico.

Today, the known population is around 200,000.

About 90 percent of those in the U.S. live in Southern Arizona. Their roosts have been documented from Organ Pipe National Monument and Cabeza

Prieta National Wildlife Refuge on the west to the Chiricahua Mountains on the east and in the Catalina, Rincon and Santa Rita Mountains in between.

The number of known lesser long-nosed bat roost sites in the two countries rose from 14 in 1988 to around 75 today. Bats typically roost in underground areas during the day, such as caves, mines and crevices, and often roost in trees, bridges or porches at night, said Scott Richardson, a Fish and Wildlife Service supervisory biologist.

Better monitoring and management have contributed to the higher population counts, the service says. Authorities are gating some bat caves and abandoned mines to prevent the bats from being harassed by the public while still allowing them to fly in.

Many bat roost sites are monitored several times a year now. Authorities use infrared video recordings instead of manual counters to track the number of birds at a roost, Richardson said.

“With infrared video, you can play back on your computer at

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A LESSER LONG-NOSED bat pollinates a cross section of a saguaro cactus flower. Photo by Merlin D. Tuttle, Bat Conservation International. Scientists believe that the bat’s population numbers may be recovering.

slower speeds. They sometimes come out at 200 a minute, and you can slow the video to a quarter or half speed,” he said.

In Mexico, scientists are working with tequila producers, who cultivate agaves to make their product, to modify growing conditions to produce “bat friendly tequila,” the wildlife service says.

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Biologist Rodrigo Medellin, a top Mexican scientist and longtime bat expert, has been working with tequila producers for 10-15 years to design harvest practices that leave areas of agave blooms available for bats, Richardson said.

About half the total bat population is migratory, flying up to 1,500 miles from central

and southern Mexico to the U.S. from mid-April to October in search of food, Richardson said.

Because many agave flowers aren’t available in the summer in Mexico, the bats take advantage of blooming desert plants here in that time, he said.

Environmentalists, ranchers and some scientists have butted heads over lesser long-nosed bat protection for years. But today the Center for Biological Diversity and Arivaca ranchers support the bat’s delisting.

For the center, the bat’s recovery shows the Endangered Species Act is working. The Obama administration delisted 23 species and proposed another eight, including the bat, making a total species recovery count larger than in all other presidential administrations combined.

“The act has saved more than 99 percent of the creatures and plants placed under its care from extinction. And it’s put hundreds more ... on the road to recovery,” said Michael Robinson, a conservation advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity.

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ARTS & LIFE Krav Maga mixes self defense with fun

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Krav Maga is a close-combat martial art utilized by the Isreal Defense Forces that focuses on responding to threats and neutralizing dangerous situations.

The art originates from Israel and is influenced by a smorgasbord of other disciplines; notably boxing, aikido, wrestling, judo and KAPAP. The system, developed by Hungarian-Israeli martial artist Imi Lichtenfeld, utilizes natural body mechanics and form in order to train the mind and body to respond better to the fight or flight response.

Lichtenfeld created the discipline in reaction to anti-Semitic riots in Bratislava shortly before World War II. He sought to give those within his Jewish neighborhood a tool to defend themselves, and thus developed a system of techniques for self-defense.

All of this may sound intimidating, but don’t let that stop you from trying it out. It’s an art for any and everyone, military or civilian, young or old, bouncer or sorority girl, full-time student or full-time mom. There’s many places in Tucson to train, and there’s even a club at the UA. UA Krav Maga is a student-run and student-led club. You may have a little trouble finding them at first because they train in the shadows like ninjas. On Wednesdays, in between the Ina E. Gittings (Physiology) building and the Stevie Eller Dance Theater, the group meets and drills.

The club is run and organized by president Stephanie Flores and vice president Esmeralda Zaragoza and instructed by retired U.S. marine Bruce Montoya. The three work together to create a welcoming yet challenging atmosphere that encourages members to grow, and it seems to be working.

Jacob Little, a UA pre-business freshmen who has been attending the club for a semester, said he feels safer and more confident since joining.

“I had very minimal martial arts experience before joining,” Little said. “[It’s a] good starting point; [it] gave me awareness of how I should defend myself.”

When members of the club meet, they perform drills that

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JESSE JAMES TUCKER LEADS a Krav Maga lesson in Rising Phoenix Fitness & Defense in Tucson on Feb. 2.

emulate real-life scenarios. They practice getting up from the ground after being knocked down and defending against numerous attackers. Even though the students were training to break an attacker’s tracheas, the atmosphere was light and productive.

Montoya described the club’s interpretation of Krav Maga as “the art of preventing further violence” and described them as a “training group, not a fitness studio.” He is certified in both Tucson and California as a Krav Maga instructor.

He teaches a variety of classes at the fitness center that delve deeper into military combatives.

If Krav Maga interests you but you’re busy on Wednesday nights, there’s gyms that offer classes out in town. Rising Phoenix Fitness and Defense is a hidden gem in the vast desert city of Tucson. Although the

studio is Krav Maga-centric, it offers a variety of programs. These include personal training, Jiu Jitsu, weapon tactics, competition fighting, martial arts fitness/yoga and nutrition.

Rising Phoenix Fitness and Defense is the brain child of Jesse James Tucker, the owner and senior instructor at the studio. At 24 he felt a calling to teach Krav Maga. He saw it as a vehicle to help thousands of people and save lives.

Tucker is the epitome of a small American businessman. He built his gym from the ground up, living out of his car and teaching in a park for 10 months before buying his studio.

Regardless of turmoil, he turned a profit within the first year of his business and continues to run it successfully. He’s been teaching for over 12 years, has experience with both MMA and Krav Maga and has earned Israeli validation. He

also has a black belt in Krav Maga through the United States Krav Maga Association.

He described the gym as, “a real Krav Maga gym but taught in a way that’s comfortable for everyone.”

Their philosophy is the use of Krav Maga as a vehicle to get in good shape and encourage growth of the mind, body and spirit.

There is a reoccurring theme in Krav Maga of preparing for real-life situations. On Tucker’s command, the group played a game of shoulder tag in the dark with a strobe light and music. This orchestrated chaos created a pseudo club. This game was merely training in disguise.

The activity allowed the class to practice footwork and coordination, breaking away from the monotony of traditional workouts. Many of his classes are conducted this way. The instruction is stimulating and fun.

Cristin Coppock, a mother and gym member, has been training at Rising Phoenix Fitness and Defense for a year. She has found solace and community in this little gym on East Broadway Boulevard between Campbell Avenue and Tucson Boulevard. “[They] start off as friends [and] end up as family,” she said. She thanks the gym for making her feel safer when she goes out in public, especially with her kids.

Don’t let lack of experience discourage you. Anyone can learn self-defense and doing so can have a serious positive impact on your life.

Get out of your comfort zone and try something new. Who knows? Krav Maga might be your next passion.

For more information on Rising Phoenix Fitness and Defense, contact the gym at self-defensetucsonJJT@ outlook.com or 520-838-1592.

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UA Comedy Corner takes show, laughs to nationals

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On Monday and Wednesday nights in the Harvill building, you may overhear a group of a dozen or so people screaming and clapping between bouts of laughter. Passerbys might mistakenly assume these UA students are participating in an unpaid study focused on the psychological and hallucinogenic effects of potatoes. This spunky troupe, however, is practicing improvisational comedy.

These students are members of the UA Comedy Corner, a club with a chance to be considered some of the funniest students in the United States. After performing at the College Improv Tournament on Jan. 21, Comedy Corner qualified for the CIT nationals at the Vittum Theatre in Chicago on Feb. 25.

The group will compete in the West SuperRegional on the morning of the 25, where they will match up against improv groups from the University of California-Berkeley and the University of British Columbia. If they win, they will be declared Super Regional Champions and will qualify into the competition for the title of CIT National Champions.

Comedy Corner performed half long-form and half short-form improv during the CIT West Coast Regional at the Torch Theatre in Phoenix.

Katie Gerdts, producer and club president of Comedy Corner, said the group plans to include fun, snappy, short-form games and longer freeform scenes at the end. The group will have 25 minutes to impress the judges.

Chris Bergin, director of Comedy Corner, said that what he is most looking forward to is seeing all the other troupes that are also going to be at nationals.

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When Food is Your BFF Ask yourself this simple question: “Why do I eat?” Your answer may have been, “To survive, duh!” The truth is, we eat for so many other reasons.

Think about it. Have you ever eaten because you were bored? What about when you were sad, lonely, tired, overwhelmed, or stressed? During happy times or celebrations? We’ve all eaten for these reasons (and more), but when you find yourself using food to cope with uncomfortable feelings, emotional eating can turn into overeating and an unhealthy eating pattern.

Here are some tips to achieve a healthier relationship with food: 1. Practice mindful eating.

Mindfulness involves being aware and recognizing what you’re feeling in the present moment without judgement. Before approaching food, try the “apple test.” Ask yourself, “Am I hungry enough to eat an apple?” If the answer is no, there’s a chance that you aren’t physically hungry and your emotions may be influencing your desire to eat. You can also practice mindfulness while eating by savoring each bite, eating slowly, eliminating distractions (computer, phone, TV), and pausing halfway through a meal to assess your hunger/fullness levels.

2. Avoid restricting.

When we put unnecessary restrictions on ourselves (i.e. “no carbs” or skipping meals) we are more likely to overeat. It’s best to follow a regular meal/snack pattern and to approach foods with an open mind to avoid the restrict/overeat/repent/repeat cycle.

3. Find different ways to cope.

Instead of focusing on how you’re feeling (sad, lonely, rejected, inadequate) and coping with food, focus on what you need (support, love, distraction, company, encouragement). Try going for a walk, writing in a journal, meditating, reading, listening to music, watching a movie or favorite TV show. Calling or texting a friend or family member can help, too. If this is a constant challenge, get support at UA Campus Health’s Counseling & Psych Services.

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COURTESY MOHAMMED USMAN

MOHAMMED USMAN (RIGHT) HAS a few words with his brother Kamaru (left) on Feb. 19, 2016. Mohammed is expected to make his MMA debut sometime in April of 2017.

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so you can basically say I was out of shape. There’s not a team, it’s not 11, people it’s just you.”

Fortunately, MMA and football have a similar vicious mentality, according to Mohammed; so the transition should be well within his ability.

“You have to have an aggressive mindset and become a different type of person when you play football and the same thing translates to MMA,” Mohammed said. “You have to have some type of edge, some type of aggression to be able to be an MMA fighter.”

He can’t just pick up the gloves and boom he’s the next Conor McGregor, but Kamaru’s support and guidance give him an advantage.

“That extra motivation comes from people that doubt you, people that don’t think you can do it, people that don’t think you can make the transition and plus for my family to be successful,” Mohammed said. “That drives me more than anything in the world. Success drives me. I want to be successful for my family. I’ll do

everything and anything to make sure my family is OK and that they’re well taken care of.”

The only characteristic that doesn’t work in Mohammed’s favor is that UFC fighters are supposed to talk the talk and walk the walk. He just allows his fighting to do the talking for him.

Being the quiet guy may demote his popularity in his earlier years, but he wants that title.

“I know they’re going to underestimate me,” Mohammed said. “I don’t want to come loud and talking. I just want my abilities to show. Football you can trash talk, but this is different. This is me versus you, hitting each other in the face.”

Mohammed’s first fight doesn’t have a set date, but he said it should be in Phoenix in the first two weeks of April. Mohammed’s first fight is a parallel to his brother’s, because Kamaru’s first fight was in Nebraska, where he wrestled in college.

At the end of the day, he has his sights set for the bigger picture, and that’s taking the road less traveled to become the best fighter in the world.

“I believe in my heart and in my mind that I can be the best at this sport in my weight class,” Mohammed said. “I can bring something to the table that you haven’t seen before.”

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Moore and Quihuis as the team’s standout players. Quihuis has had a successful season so far with two top-10 finishes this year. Moore and Stoll have also shown improvement, with Moore finishing in the top-15 in every tournaments this season and Stoll finishing in fourth place at the Pac-12 Preview.

“I’d like to improve on staying in the moment,” Quihuis said. “I tend to get excited when I’m way under par.”

Moore also said she is looking to improve her game, particularly her short game, by improving her up and down percentage around

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Ultimate Fighting Championship.

At first it was Mohammed who walked out with Kamaru for every fight and stood in his corner even though he had little experience giving advice in the Octagon.

“When you’re going to war, you always want the person that you love and care about right next to you, and that’s why I like to have my brother there with me,” Kamaru said.

Kamaru is the No. 14 welterweight fighter in the world with a 9-1 record and has developed the nickname the “Nigerian Nightmare.”

“There’s no other sport like this,” Kamaru said.

“It’s the purest thing you can do in life besides having a child. This is fighting. Everybody fights; even animals fight, and so if you’re not doing it for the right reasons and you don’t have that

the greens. Moore explained how the team has to know that their short game needs to be on-point going into the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge this week.

Looking toward the rest of the season, the women are looking forward to improving and playing their best game at the Pac-12 Championship this year.

“I’m looking forward to the season getting started,” Moore said. “Especially when we host the Pac-12 Championships, it gives us a big advantage and a great opportunity to win it.”

Arizona heads to Palos Verdes, California, this week where they hope to start strong and continue their success. The Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge kicks off on Feb. 12 at the Palos Verdes Golf Club. strong motivation behind you to help you get through the hard times, it’s something that can really break you.”

With the success brought in from the family, Mohammed officially hung up the shoulder pads and decided to pursue his own fighting career.

“My brother really elevated me because he put me front and center, put me directly into it,” Mohammed said. “All the stuff that goes on backstage, the weight cutting and just everything that it takes for you to become successful.”

Another challenge was ahead of Mohammed.

What most people don’t know is that a football player can be in tip-top shape and it still won’t match the training to become a UFC fighter.

“Football shape is nothing compared to the shape you have to be in for MMA,” Mohammed said. “There’s nothing that compares to a fiveminute fight for three rounds or five rounds.

There’s no such thing as football shape in MMA,

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Anyone who drinks on an empty stomach will tell you that they felt the effects of alcohol MUCH faster than when drinking on a full stomach.

Having food in your stomach slows down the rate at which alcohol is absorbed into your bloodstream.

While it’s easy to imagine that late night burrito “soaking” up the alcohol like a sponge, that’s not exactly what happens. When you eat, your stomach holds on to food in order digest it.

Enzymes break up proteins into amino acids, fats into fatty acids and cholesterol, and carbohydrates into smaller molecules of glucose.

Without that burrito to keep your stomach busy, alcohol zooms through your stomach, quickly making its way to your small intestines. About 80% of the alcohol you drink is absorbed in your small intestine (and about 20% in your stomach).

Complex carbs, fats, and protein take longer to digest, so eating foods like cheese, meat, nuts, seeds or whole

grains will help to slow down the rate at which you absorb alcohol. Eventually, your BAC will rise, but starting with healthy food in your stomach will help slow down the effects of alcohol. If you eat simpler carbs (cookies, white bread, noodles, etc.) your stomach will digest them quickly and become empty again.

FOOD Fruits Veggies, beans, grains Nuts, seeds, avocados Cooked meats and fish

DIGESTION TIME 30-60 minutes 1-2 hours 2-3 hours 3-4 hours

While eating healthy food can help, it isn’t a magic “drink eraser” and won’t cancel out the effects of too much alcohol (the real culprit in high BACs). If you want to enjoy a fun night out, start with a plan, set a limit, and stick to it. Two standard drinks/hour for men and one standard drink/hour for women (or less) will help make it a night to remember.

Got a question about alcohol? Email it to redcup@email.arizona.edu

www.health.arizona.edu

The Red Cup Q&A is written by Lynn Reyes, LCSW, LISAC, David Salafsky, MPH, Lee Ann Hamilton, MA, CHES, Spencer Gorin, RN, and Christiana Castillo, MPH, in the Health Promotion and Preventive Services (HPPS) department of the UA Campus Health Service.

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SPORTS

Editor: Saul Bookman sports@dailywildcat.com (520) 621-7579

Women’s golf returns looking for success

BY HEATHER ERNST @HeatherErnst15

he couldn’t do,” Mohammed said. “He’s faster than everybody, stronger than everybody and could jump higher than anybody. That raised my level of work ethic.”

Once Mohammed’s college football career concluded, he had a decision to make: continue to pursue his dream of playing professional football or find another niche.

“Short story short—you want to be in the NFL and make your family proud, but at the same time, everything doesn’t go as you wanted to in life,” Mohammed said.

Mohammed observed what Kamaru did with his athletic abilities after wrestling in college by becoming a mixed martial artist and entering the

Arizona’s women’s golf returns to play this week at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes, California.

After finishing in second place at the Pac-12 Preview in October, the women are returning to the spring season more confident than ever.

Thanks to the coaching and support of coaches Laura Ianello and Derek Radley, the team has already found success in the fall season and will look to build upon that success in search of a championship.

The team’s strategy for the rest of the season is improve day by day, enjoy the process, have a positive attitude and win championships, according to Ianello.

The beginning of the season had some ups and downs, but the Wildcats ended strong in Hawaii where the team finished second, proving to themselves they could compete against a tough group of competitors.

“I feel that we, as a team, did great at the Pac-12 Preview,” said junior Krystal Quihuis. “I know we struggled as a team in the fall, but we reviewed our weaknesses and converted them into our strengths.”

The women started their fall season in September where they finished in fifth place at the Dick McGuire Invitational with Quihuis and Haley Moore finishing in a tie for third individually.

The Wildcats struggled at the Windy City Collegiate Classic where they finished No. 8 overall with no players in the top 10. However, the women improved their game at the Pac-12 Preview, finishing at second overall with individual finishes for Quihuis in third, Gigi Stoll in fourth and Moore in seventh.

The Pac-12 Preview had the best finish of the fall season, according to Moore, who points to her two thirdplace finishes as a part of her success.

As the season moves forward, Ianello has repeatedly singled out

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COURTESY ARIZONA ATHLETICS

MOHAMMED USMAN CHARGES AN offensive lineman from NAU on Sept. 3, 2011, at Arizona Stadium. Usman transferred to Arizona after stints at the University of Houston and Navarro Junior College.

From the gridiron to the octagon: The Mohammed Usman Story

BY JUSTIN SPEARS @JustinESports

Imagine coming from Nigeria as a young child, from a tropical and humid country in Africa, and moving to Arlington, Texas, in winter, during a snowstorm. For former Arizona defensive lineman Mohammed Usman and his brother, Kamaru, it was their first experience with snow and their first time in America.

Mohammed and Kamaru, 6 and 8 years old, were forced to adjust, a mature task they had to take on when most kids that age were wondering what flavor Snack Pack their mom packed for lunch. Coming to a different country presented unique obstacles.

The Usman brothers still held on to the family

values developed in Nigeria while growing into Texas culture, so getting by presented no challenge.

Mohammed became the 2008 No. 1 high school heavy weight wrestler in Texas. Despite his success on the wrestling mats, his love and passion was football and he wanted to follow his dreams of playing in the NFL. Mohammed even has the NFL logo tattooed his right arm.

After his high school career was over he spent two seasons, one at the University of Houston and one at Navarro Junior College, before moving to Tucson to become Brooks Reed’s backup. Reed was a three-year starter for the Wildcats under former head coach Mike Stoops. Mohammed said Reed’s mentorship his brought out the best in his game.

“That is the one guy that can physically run through a wall if he needed to; there was nothing