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STEFANO SALTALAMACCHIA PRIOR TO hearing the ASUA election results on Thursday, March 2.

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PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MATT LUBISICH smiles after hearing the ASUA election results. Lubisich received more votes than candidate Stefano Saltalamacchia for ASUA President, however his disqualification is pending review by the elections commission.

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The Associated Students of the University of Arizona presidential candidate Matt Lubisich, who earned the most votes, has been disqualified from the election pending an Election Commission Appeal.

Current ASUA President Michael Finnegan and Elections Commissioner Chloé Durand presented the results for the election noting Lubisich’s tally of 3976 votes to opponent Stefano “Salt” Saltalamachia’s tally of 1961 votes.

The ASUA Election Commission will make a decision on March 3 regarding the results, which can then be appealed to the ASUA Supreme Court.

Finnegan said that if the decision goes to the Supreme Court, it could take two to three weeks, depending on the final exams schedule for the UA Law students serving on the court.

Durand noted that this situation has happened in recent years, but the process remains the same for all parties involved.

“We have done our due diligence and reviewed everything thoroughly,” Durand said.

“This is the outcome that has occurred.”

Durand said the result is out of her hands now, as the decision goes to an appeal process that the Deputy Elections Commissioner will officiate.

Both parties were understandably upset with the outcome of the election, but candidate Saltalamachia tried to not be deterred by the numbers posted.

“They are not the same number as my opponent’s,” Saltalamachia said. “They are a number nonetheless, and a significant margin at that.”

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Secretive searches the ‘new gold standard’

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The Arizona Board of Regents has announced the names of two finalists for the presidency of the UA amid calls for more transparency and assertions by legal experts that the regents are wrong on the law by refusing to release the full list of candidates who were interviewed by the search committee.

Robert Robbins, president and CEO of Texas Medical Center, and Sethuraman Panchanathan, the executive vice president and innovation officer of ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise Development, were announced as the only candidates after the regents met for several hours in a private executive session Tuesday afternoon.

The two finalists will be interviewed by the regents March 6. One is then expected to be chosen by the regents and make a campus visit March 8 before assuming the presidency during the summer.

After announcing the two finalists, the regents spent the remainder of the meeting thanking one another on a search well done.

“Our search committee did an outstanding job looking at hundreds of people,” said Ron Shoopman, who cochaired the committee.

According to the regents, the process was as open as it could have possibly been.

“We wanted to be as inclusive and diverse as possible,” said Bill Ridenour, chair of the search committee. “It was not a quote-unquote closed search.”

The Daily Wildcat has had three public records requests denied, and two others were answered with the press release that was made available to the public on Tuesday.

This press release only listed the two candidates, but according to both Eileen Klein, the president of the board of regents, and Ridenour, other names had

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REGENT RON SHOOPMAN SPEAKS at an Arizona Board of Regents Meeting on April 7, 2016. The regents have refused to release all but two names they received from the search committee to find a new UA president.

been nominated by the committee, but “those prospects may have chosen not to be candidates.”

Ridenour then rolled back his statement, saying only two candidates had been forwarded by the committee at all.

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This ruling makes the legal distinction between a “prospect” and “candidate.”

When the search only has a pool of prospects, those names are not public records. However, these prospects become candidates after they are seriously considered for the job and interviewed, at which point those names

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records experts. The regents have refused to release these names, even though this action is inconsistent with a 1991 Arizona Supreme Court ruling.

“I understand that the committee is trying to protect confidentiality, but I do think they’re running into the teeth of this ruling,” said Derek Bambauer, professor of law at the UA. “I think the ruling is actually pretty clear on this point.”

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Saltalamachia noted that no matter the outcome, division would not help ASUA accomplish their goals.

“It’s going to take all of us to come together to initiate some change on campus,” Saltalamachia said.

Lubisich said he was pleased with the results.

“Honestly, I’m feeling great, I think my team did an excellent job,” he told the Daily Wildcat on Facebook Live shortly after the results were announced.

The other top wins for the night saw David McGarey take the Executive Vice President seat and Lorenzo Johnson take the Administrative Vice President seat.

McGarey was very pleased with voter turnout and was hopeful to get on with the newly elected senators to ensure success for next year.

“The thing I’m most excited to start working on and really hit the ground running with is just getting the senators geared up for a great year, working with them and making sure we have connections so we can come forward and bring our best foot [forward] right when we become the official new senate class,” McGarey said.

Johnson said he is eager to continue work he started as a senator and the new responsibilities that his new position has in store.

“What I’m most excited to begin working on is the

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JORDAN STRANG REACTS AFTER winning the Eller College of Management Senator seat in the ASUA election on Thursday, March 2.

rec center and our campus’ libraries which are projects I have undertaken as a senator,” Johnson said.

“But I‘m more excited to take on the role and the challenges that Administrative Vice President brings.”

A total of 6,459 ballots were cast in this year’s ASUA election.

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become public record.

Now the regents are refusing to release all the names forwarded by the board, according to Ridenour’s statement.

According to the regents, the candidates that participated in the interviews and had their names forwarded to the board are still prospects because they do not consider themselves to be candidates.

The UA presidential search has been ongoing since September of last year.

However, Tuesday’s meeting was the first glimpse the public has had of any information concerning the candidates.

All other meetings have been conducted in executive session.

This is because of the regents decided to have a confidential search process, a method that has become

At-Large senators: • Olivia Johnson • Sydney Hess • Jalon Jackson • Kate Rosenstengel • Marcello Mottola • Anna Woolridge • Mathew Rein • Srini Sudanagunta • Cris Reyes

more and more common when hiring university presidents.

“I think, nationally, all of the searches are going more toward this type of search where very few are advanced to the final governing board,” Ridenour said.

However, many on campus have problems with conducting the search in this fashion.

“It’s a growing practice, but it is not the right thing to do,” said David Cuillier, director of the School of Journalism at the UA. There have also been anxieties on campus about lack of student and faculty involvement.

“They could have put more students and faculty on the search committee,” said Jasmine Sears, director of operations for Innovate UA. “That way, the University of Arizona is better represented when choosing our next president.”

Despite this, the regents considered this search to be a glowing success.

College specific senators: • Katherine Christopher, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences • Briana Chaney, College of Education • Madeline Melichar, College of Engineering • Ashley Heerding, College of Humanities • Erin Thompson, College of Letters, Arts & Sciences,

“My opinion is this was an excellent process,” Shoopman said.

According to the board, the guidelines that have been used to withhold this information are perfectly within legal boundaries.

“Our search guidelines were very well thought out,” Ridenour said. “So we attempted to adhere to those guidelines, taking into account all the legal ramifications.”

According to the guidelines, “The search advisory committee will provide aggregated, non-personally identifiable information to the board and to the public with respect to all persons whose qualifications are being reviewed, including but not limited to the following: gender; age; race, ethnicity; current or prior positions held in academia or elsewhere; educational background; and geographic diversity.”

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website. In January, Ridenour would only tell the Wildcat that the pool was “diverse” and the prospects were from all across academia and the business sector.

Klein summed up those guidelines: “Nobody’s a candidate until they’ve been invited to be and until they’ve agreed to be.”

That process has been questioned by experts.

“I think they have mischaracterized the ruling,” Bambauer said. “Because they’re conflating ‘candidates’ and ‘finalists.’”

According to the regents, the law was not only followed, but this should be the new model for presidential searches.

“I think going forward that [this] sets the new gold standard for how searches are to be conducted,” Ridenour said.

The regents are now taking public comments on the two finalists at the bottom of the search committee website.

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POLICE BEAT

BY ANGELA MARTINEZ @anmartinez2120

Needing a bus ticket home A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to room 105 of Harvill building following reports of a disturbance on Feb. 17. As soon as the officer arrived, he identified the male as a non-UA affiliate and noted he was rambling incoherently and wore a white helmet.

The agitated male did not indicate any intentions to harm himself or others, but it was apparent to the officer he was in need of help, homeless and had nothing to eat. As two officers escorted him outside; the male said he was prescribed medication but did not take them, stating it made him feel like a “zombie.” He complained of having a very fast heartbeat and felt severely thirsty.

Tucson Fire Department medics were requested while one officer provided the male water. During the evaluation, an English as a second language instructor told the officer the male stood in the doorway yelling, “You don’t have authority over me” and made faces at a student and yelled at her, too. One Japanese student translated what he yelled as “I’m screwed, not you. You’re going to be OK.” The instructor said the students were shaken up.

After TFD medically cleared him, the male explained his out-of-state father was trying to help him but his cell phone was dead and he did not have an outlet power adapter to charge his phone. The officer found the father’s information and gave him a call. The father said he was trying to get his son a ticket home but lost his wallet and needed a police report of the loss to be able to board a bus.

The officer completed a lost property report while one officer provided the male with a power adapter, bought him lunch and gave him six water bottles.

The male cleaned himself up at the police station and left as soon as the report was ready.

‘Corrupt UA’ A UA student reported vandalism to a UAPD officer in Tyndall Garage on Feb. 20. The student reported seeing a male in his early 20s standing by the cement wall located south of the eastside elevators on the third level. She did not see him cause the damage but thought he may have had something to do with it.

The two-foot-tall letters in the middle of the wall read “CORRUPT UA” in black spray paint. A picture was taken and uploaded to digital image information systems. The reporting party was unable to identify the male, and there were no other witnesses or camera footage in this area. Victims rights were sent to risk management by the officer.

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Tohono O’Odham nation needs to fight border wall With tribal lands stretching across the border, the Tohono O’Odham nation is fighting Donald Trump’s wall with hopes of preserving the unity of their people

BY AURORA BEGAY @DailyWildcat

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hen President Donald Trump announced his plans for the border wall, the Tohono O’odham tribe was outraged. The border wall that Trump wants to build would be a physical wall travelling through 75 miles of the Tohono O’odham reservation, which would split their land in two, leaving some of the tribe’s land in Mexico. The tribe criticized the government’s lack of communication before President Trump signed the executive order.

In the Tohono O’odham language, there are no words for “citizenship” or “wall.” The tribe calls themselves the “desert people.”

The tribe has about 34,000 enrolled tribal members with an estimated 2,000 of them living in Mexico. They currently control 2.8 million acres of land in Arizona and a smaller portion of land in Sonora, Mexico.

The Nation provides care for sick immigrants, and they have paid more than $2,500 for autopsies of dead immigrants that were found. The deaths were mostly from dehydration. The reservation has somewhat of a wall now, but it still is considered one of the busiest drug smuggling corridor. It is also a popular place for immigrants to travel through.

Since Trump became president, he’s been in headlines every single day because his actions haven’t been the greatest. Along with his border wall proposal, he attempted—and failed, thanks to Congress—to put in effect a travel ban.

The Tohono O’odham tribe isn’t the first Native American group trying to protect their land. The Sioux tribe in North Dakota, to this day, is still fighting to protect their sacred land at Standing Rock. They’ve been protecting their ancestral land against the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.

Every action that Trump takes makes me question if he really is pushing for white supremacy. It sure does seem like it. He has

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THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO southwest border fence line in Arizona in January 2011. New border wall construction would split the Tohono O’odham nation even further.

attacked almost every racial group and has had seemingly no regrets. He wonders why the media criticizes and condemns him, and yet, he makes these decisions that he must know will put him in the spotlight.

The Tohono O’odham Nation recently released a video highlighting their opposition against the wall. Chairman Edward D. Manuel is featured with other members of the tribe. They focused on important topics, such as how the wall will have impacts on the environment, their culture and how it will split their nation further apart. Right now, they can walk to a

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well to get water and go to ceremonies in an efficient time. Adding a border wall will only complicate things more.

The current border wall on their reservation has three gates, which are opened for family reunions, ceremonial purposes and religious pilgrimages into Mexico.

Monte Mills, co-director of the Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic at the University of Montana, told the New York Times that, in order for a wall to be built on the tribal land, it must be an act from Congress. He also said that, in order for Congress to partake in a “detailed

consideration of tribal interests,” the Supreme Court has to consider whether it’s appropriate to act in ways that will impact the Native Americans.

As Americans, we should support the Tohono O’odham Nation. As Americans, we should be taking a stand with the Native American community.

Before the United States existed, the Americas belonged to the Native Americans.

They were forced to give up their land and be colonized. They were abused by the Europeans, and to this day, they are still being abused by the power of the government.

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White house orders enforcement of weed laws

BY CHUCK VALADEZ @DailyWildcat

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he Trump administration is looking to backpedal on yet another campaign promise. People may not remember Trump saying this one verbatim, but it was implied throughout his campaign.

Sean Spicer said that recreational marijuana will receive “greater enforcement” by federal agents last Thursday during his daily briefing. Even in states where the plant is legal for recreational use, the Trump Administration promised to crack down due to the recent opioid crisis.

“There’s a big difference between [medical marijuana] and recreational marijuana, and I think when you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country, the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people,” Spicer said during his daily briefing,

per a New York Times article.

The use of “medical opioids” has caused the addiction epidemic in the United States.

The fact is, however, opioids are addictive while marijuana is not leaving people in cold shivers when they find themselves without their favorite inebriation.

“There is still a federal law that we need to abide by in terms of recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature,” Spicer said, according to the Times.

Marijuana is now legal for recreational use in eight states, though the federal law remains unchanged on it’s stance and keeps marijuana classed in the same group as heroin, meth and cocaine. As most people would agree, one is not like the others in this grouping.

Yes, heroin is an opioid and helps with pain, and yes, cocaine helps with altitude sickness, but I am not here to speak for all the good qualities in everything. Marijuana has proven to help people on a higher level than just sickness and pain; it can help cancer patients and stop children from having seizures.

Marijuana is a proven medicine, and because of this, 28 states have been able to overlook the social stigma attached to the herb.

Among the legal recreational drugs— tobacco and alcohol—marijuana alone possesses medical properties and has no proven long-term effects on well being.

Tobacco has caused an average 480,000 deaths a year in the U.S., and alcohol has killed a far-fewer 88,000 annually.

Marijuana has killed all of zero people by way of overdose.

The Trump Administration’s disrespect for states’ rights comes as no surprise seeing Trump’s actions since the election.

“In terms of marijuana and legalization, I think that should be a state issue, stateby-state,” Donald Trump said in 2015 on campaign in Nevada. Since then, the tone has obviously changed on Mr. Trump’s part.

Breaking promises or altering them has been part of Trump’s presidency since day one in office. Donald Trump, especially, should have respect for states’ rights. He is a man who won because of the Electoral College; if we judged things based off popular vote, right now we would be receiving CNN alerts about President Hillary Clinton.

Trump, a man who said he would create jobs, is now indirectly destroying jobs in the

fast-growing marijuana industry.

“Now either the president is flip-flopping or his staff is, once again, speaking out of turn.

Either way, these comments leave doubt and uncertainty for the marijuana industry, stifling job growth in my state.” said U.S. Rep. Jared Polis from Boulder, Colorado.

Colorado, which was the first state to legalize marijuana, reported $1.3 billion in medical and recreational sales in 2016. The industry is projected to reach $24.5 billion in 2025 if Trump does not thwart the plan by sticking his nose into the rights he seemed to support during his campaign.

The reason Trump’s administration is taking such a hard line on the Cannabis industry is uncertain. Trump might just be angry that he does not have his own strain and is not cashing in on the profits, though I feel Leafs

by Snoop and Willie’s Reserve sound far more appealing than the inevitably failing Trump’s Golden Nugs. An even more believable reason for Trump taking such a stance could be that he is taking away the people’s attention from something even more scandalous than going back on his promises.

Editorial: ASUA’s elections commission could use a refresher on open meeting law

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o no surprise, the Associated Students of the University of Arizona elections results show ended in tears and frustration.

After a nearly hour-long delay and a tense introduction, it was announced that presidential candidate Matt Lubisich— who would have won the election with a 66.42 percent margin over Stefano Saltalamacchia—was disqualified after accruing three strikes by breaking ASUA elections code, pending an appeal to the ASUA elections commission.

Lubisich’s fate now hangs in the hands of the commission, a secretive group which we know so little about we can’t even gauge its size.

Granted, the commission’s decision will inevitably be appealed by one candidate or the other (it almost always is) and then handed off to the ASUA Supreme Court, but this is not the problem. The problem lies in the commission’s refusal to be transparent.

This commission has classically met behind closed doors, kept the identities of its members secret and simply dictated the reasoning for their decision through a neatly written document.

Their argument is that the secrecy is to protect the identities of the commission members in the name of personal safety.

Ours is that the secrecy of their actions and discussion is contrary to open meeting law, which ASUA and it’s respective committees, subcommittees and commissions are subject to.

Arizona open meetings law is relatively straightforward: Public organizations may only hold executive sessions, or closed meetings, under “very few circumstances.”

We’d like to take this chance to remind ASUA and the commission of what Arizona open meetings law outlines as acceptable reasons to close a meeting, per A.R.S. §§ 38-431 - 431.09: 1. Personnel 2. Discussion or consideration of records exempt by law from public inspection.

3. Legal advice – with public body’s own lawyer(s).

4. Discussion or consultation with public body’s lawyer(s) to consider pending or contemplated litigation, settlement discussions, negotiated contracts.

5. Discuss and instruct its representative regarding labor negotiations.

6. Discuss international, interstate and tribal negotiations.

7. Discuss the purchase, sale, or lease of real property.

There is nothing about discussions regarding elections violations. The law states a “quorum of a public body at which they discuss, propose or take legal action, including deliberations,” is the definition of an open meeting; it also seems to match up with the role and actions of the election commission.

The ASUA presidential election’s fate is now in the hands of a small number of unnamed people—people whose names we will never know, who’s biases we can never vet and whose discussions we will never be privy to.

Just shy of 6,500 people voted this year—a relatively trivial number when compared to the total 46,000-plus student population—but those 6,000 voters should be angry. Because right now, their votes don’t matter. Right

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AN ATTENDEE OF THE ASUA election results grabs a paper copy of the vote-count on Thursday March 2.

now, ASUA is taking the election into its own hands, away from their constituents, away from the press and away from the candidates themselves.

We suggest ASUA reevaluate their secrecy regarding the ASUA elections commission and brush up on their familiarity of Arizona’s open meeting laws.

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SCIENCE Biologist studies bee foraging efficiency Friday — Sunday Mar. 3 — Mar. 5 Page 7

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Bumblebees forage for a variety of flowery foods. But in a big, open world, how is a bee to decide where to go? UA researchers found out

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An experiment focusing on the actions of foragers—bees that leave the hive in search of pollen or nectar—was recently conducted through UA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology by former entomology doctoral student Avery Russell.

Russell’s research involved studying an artificial hive of bumblebees, which were given the option to forage from two artificial sources of pollen and nectar.

By studying a bee’s trips to and from the hive, Russell was able to gather data on the specializations and efficiency of the foraging bees.

Because bees within a colony must divide their attention among various tasks, foragers will encounter deviations in their daily patterns and they must adapt to those variations. The type of deviation encountered could range from a change in food source to a shift in collection location.

Russell’s research proposed that, in order to adapt to these variations, foragers can increase efficiency by avoiding multitasking and instead focusing on one task at a time in a given foraging day.

The goal was to examine the patterns of the bees to determine why specialization occurred and what impacts specialization had on other bees. “So, in this case what we’re interested in is figuring out whether bees are specializing on a given foraging task over shorter periods or their lifetime,” Russell said.

Traditionally, many entomologists argued that bumblebees are very general in their patterns of collection and pollination.

Russell’s study has demonstrated that this may not be the case.

“The rationale behind the study is not just to look at whether or not foraging specialization is changing from short time scales to long time scales but also whether that specialization has any relationship to the efficiency of the worker,” Russell said.

Normally, these types of studies require a researcher to observe a hive for an extended period of time and record their findings and observations.

Russell’s study made use of RFID—radio frequency identification—tags so that the actions of the bees could be observed without the limitations that tend to come with human eyesight.

The use of the RFID tags allowed the researchers to track the exact movements of collecting and foraging

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FORAGER BEES WITH ATTACHED RFID chips during an experiment in the Papaj Laboratory within Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. New research indicates the bees increase efficiency by focusing on a specific type and location of food.

trips for multiple bees.

“This is the beauty of the RFID system, that we can get a complete foraging record for every single individual and every single foraging event that they make for their entire lives,” Russell said, adding that it “allows you to keep track of specialization patterns over the course of a day, over the course of a lifetime, and how those needs shift depending on what the colony is doing.”

In order to fully understand the data from the RFID tags, Russell enlisted the help of Sarah Morrison, a doctoral student in astronomy and planetary sciences.

Morrison currently does research using astrophysical simulations to study how planets interact with debris disks. She was able to adapt one of her programs to compile and make sense of the data gathered regarding bee interactions.

Morrison explained “[Russell] basically created this huge dataset based on the movements of bees. What was being recorded with the RFID readers was every time a bee moved in proximity to one of them, it recorded the date and the time.”

“If you want to look at, say, one bee in particular and figure out what are they doing over time, in order to be able to get

that information from the data set, you need programming skills,” Morrison said.

“Very quickly, even just looking at what the hive is doing on a particular day, you generate very large files of data,” Morrison said. Using this program, Morrison was also able to help filter out the unusable data, such as bees that did not make full foraging trips, and gather the detailed data Russell needed from the hive.

By monitoring the bumblebees’ trips, Russell was able to conclude that the bumblebees are much more specific in their daily tasks than previously thought.

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A VIEW OF THE Santa Cruz river wash in Tucson, Nov. 17, 2016. Experts at a recent science diplomacy conference argued that considering equity is critical in water policy questions.

Science diplomacy conf. tackles water

BY MICHAELA WEBB @michaelastoke

Discussion of equity in water policy took center stage during the “Water Sustainability Challenges for the Americas and Role of Science Diplomacy” panel on the third day of the Science Diplomacy and Policy with Focus on the Americas conference in Tucson from Wednesday, Feb. 22, through Friday, Feb. 24.

The conference was meant to provide a forum for discussion and new ideas on the role of science diplomacy—a field the conference website defines as “the use of scientific collaborations among nations to address common problems and to build constructive international partnerships.”

Helen Ingram, professor emeritus in planning, policy, design and political science at the University of California, Irvine, was one of three panelists. She focused her talk on the importance of equity in water governance.

William Logan, deputy director for the International Center for Integrated Water Resources Management with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Francisco Zamora, director for the Sonoran Institute’s Colorado River Delta program, were also panelists.

In her speech, Ingram said although we understand the science behind water, we still don’t know much about governing water.

In a paper titled “Knowing Equity When We See It: Water Equity in Contemporary Global Contexts,” Ingram and Margaret Wilder, the paper’s co-author and an associate professor in UA’s School of Geography and Development, got to the heart of some of those problems.

They found that many of the current water governance structures put priority on efficiency

rather than equity. “The conclusion to our paper is that a greater commitment to equity has got to be at the heart of any kind of government changes,” Ingram said.

Ingram noted that prices are one of the starkest inequities in water policy. “Some people [spend] a third of their income, pittance though it may be, on water, while others flagrantly use hundreds of gallons of water a day watering their lawns,” Ingram said. “It’s an old idea that water flows uphill toward money, and it seems to me that embedded in many water institutions are long-term advantages for some and not many.”

After Ingram’s talk, Elsa Abs, a French doctoral student in applied math, asked what can be done to ensure that the new generation of engineers and scientists understand that equity is just as important as efficiency when it comes to water governance.

Ingram responded that it’s important for engineering and science departments to require classes in policy, social science, philosophy of science, environmental ethics and equity.

She stressed that anyone doing doctoral research needs to be sure that it addresses relevant questions and has real-world applications.

That idea caught Abs’ attention. “I love doing science and I love the quest for truth, but even in a field like environmental science or ecology, it still feels like its not connected to reality,” Abs said.

Toward the end of her speech, Ingram focused on the connection between water and place.

“Water cannot be divorced from its natural setting,” Ingram said. “This is the view of science.

Water and place belong together.”

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Earthbenches promote sustainability, peace

BY SEAN ORTH @seanaustinorth

President Donald Trump’s proposed wall will undoubtedly divide American and Mexican communities that are split along the borderlands. However, a separate nation that has spanned this border for centuries prior to its creation is imminently under attack.

According to the Tohono O’odham Nation’s website, there are approximately 28,000 people in its tribe. The Native American community occupies a vast 2.8 million-acre area in the Sonoran Desert.

Although a large majority of the tribe’s population lives in the Arizona portion of the reservation, thousands of Tohono O’odham people live in the southern part of the land in the Mexican state of Sonora.

The frustrations about the future of their nation tend to focus on federal funding and policy decisions. However, two organizations have teamed with the Tohono O’odham people to bring a force of positivity and hope to the community.

GreaterGood.org and the Native American Advancement Fund collaborated with the Gu Vo community to help build an Earthbench, a sustainably-built public bench that functions as a both a sitting area and a powerful cultural symbol. Completed Feb. 20, the bench joined over 50 other benches around the world in 15 different countries as part of the Peace on Earthbench Movement.

San Francisco-based artist Brennan Bird came to the Tohono O’odham nation to help construct the bench. Bird has several years of experience creating Earthbenches. He came to help mix the cob into the foundation and oversee the construction of the bench, but a lot of the work was already done by the many dedicated volunteers in the community. “[The Tohono O’odham people] had been collecting bottles for a month before I got there, but we built the bench in a week, which was a significantly short period of time,” Bird said. “We had a lot of help from community workers who are hired to help with projects around the community.”

The bench itself is eight feet long and four feet wide and is made out of recycled bottles, organic trash and natural materials. The back of the bench is shaped like the tribe’s sacred mountain and features the imagery of Man in the Maze—or I’itoi—which portrays a labyrinth depicting the journey of an individual’s life.

Claire Kaufman, the Environmental and Sustainability Program manager for GreaterGood.org, said that other Tohono

COURTESY CLAIRE KAUFMAN

MEMBERS OF THE GU Vo community in the Tohono O’odham Nation pose by the beginnings of their new Earthbench. The project is a collaboration between GreaterGood. org, the Native American Advancement Fund, the Gu Vo community in the Tohono O’odham Nation and the Peace On Earthbench Movement.

O’odham communities have already expressed interest in building their own benches, including the Meanagers community, which is located near the U.S.-Mexico border.

“Other Tohono O’odham Nation members are calling to ‘build benches not borders,’” Kaufman wrote. “The border wall would not only divide their nation but would also be an ecological disaster, preventing the migration of plants and animals.”

The message of the Peace on Earthbench Movement is centered on promoting world peace and environmental sustainability, but in a time of deep frustration for Tohono O’odham community members, it’s hard not to politicize the cultural impact of this bench.

“While we were working there, there was a lot of talk about the wall,” Bird said.

“I learned that after 9/11 it became a lot more difficult for them to cross the border.”

Unlike many indigenous tribes along the U.S.-Canada border, members of the Tohono O’odham nation were not offered dual citizenship after the Gadsden Purchase solidified Arizona’s borderlines

in 1853, even though they had a preexisting community in both countries.

The marginalization of this community has only continued since their function as an independent nation was ignored over 150 years ago. The Nation faces dangerously high amounts of poverty and unemployment. The unemployment rate is around 29 percent, and children of the tribe face poverty rates of 62 percent, 35 percent higher than the state of Arizona as a whole.

“It’s a very poor community with very little social services,” Bird said. “Spending money on a wall when there’s such a need for social services out there—it’s very upsetting to them. President Trump hasn’t even tried to reach out to them.”

Some children of the Gu Vo community plan to continue creating public art to enhance the vibrancy and positivity in their community. The next project will include painting a scenic mural on rainwater barrels—another tribute to the importance of nature and sustainability.

This specific Earthbench is significant to the rich culture of the Tohono O’odham

Nation, but it sits in solidarity with the dozens of Earthbenches all around the world that serve as a symbol of peace on Earth and community connection.

“The bench is a symbol of peace and sustainability on this planet, which I would think goes against President Trump’s plan to build the wall,” Bird said.

Bird said there is a long way to go until an Earthbench is built in every country, but he said so far it has definitely mobilized and started a movement.

Public art continues to inspire countless communities, and a creation like the Earthbench shines a light on the importance of cooperation with each other, as well as with our natural environment.

“Build benches, not walls!” is a slogan that transcends culture or nationality, but for the Tohono O’odham Nation, it represents a call to action that reveals the impact that additional political borders could have on this community.

For information on how to get involved with an Earthbench project, visit www. earthbench.org.

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Rialto to host Planned Parenthood benefit Tucson’s Tempest DuJour will host an eclectic bash with community performers at the Rialto Theatre to show support for Planned Parenthood

BY DAVID PUJOL @deathlydavid

Drag queens, jugglers, choir singers, clowns, mimes and more will be featured at “The Very Big Show of (Support!).” This event is far more than a variety show featuring eclectic Tucson performers, it also supports an increasingly relevant social cause.

“The Very Big Show of (Support!)” opens on Saturday, March 4, at 7 p.m. at The Rialto Theatre and will benefit Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, Arizona’s local political advocate wing of Planned Parenthood.

The two-hour event hosts a broad cast of Tucson-based performers and featured acts, including Tucson circus troupe Flam Chen, Arizona Daily Star cartoonist David Fitzsimmons, Katina Murphy from Desert Voices chorus, mariachi from Diana Olivares and comedy from the Unscrewed Theater. A handful of donors are helping support the event, including The Feinman Family and Child & Family Resources, an organization which provides social services for children in Tucson.

The executive producer of the event, David Hoffman, runs Golden Gravy Productions, a local creative collective that is running the variety show.

Hoffman regularly works with Patrick Holt, who performs as Tempest DuJour, Tucson’s premiere drag queen. Holt was brought on as the master of ceremonies.

“There are plenty of fabulous people who could host a show like this, and I guess because people know me I have some notoriety in the community,” Holt said. “I think it just adds to the fun and festive nature of the atmosphere. It’s a serious cause, but we just want to have a lot of fun.”

Planned Parenthood and Golden Gravy Productions met when their venue at Hotel Congress was double-booked. The event coordinator of the venue asked Golden Gravy if they’d like to piggyback their event on Planned Parenthood’s Rock and Roe concert and turn their retro game show night into a benefit.

Planned Parenthood later reached out to Hoffman and asked if he’d like to help create an event that was more fun than a typical luncheon. Hoffman said he is a huge supporter of Planned Parenthood and that, though he may have never been able to write them a huge, publisher clearing house-sized check, he thought the benefit was one

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TEMPEST DUJOUR ADDRESSES THE mourning crowd at the Tucson Stands With Orlando Vigil on June 12, 2016. The performer will host The Big Show of (Support!) at the Rialto Theatre on March 4.

way he could contribute. specialist Tayler Tucker said they look “It’s a huge night for the community forward to doing something a little different and for Planned for the community.

Parenthood, and this “It’s a way people can event is happening to come out, be entertained, “If there is bring the whole family, give us all a sense of something celebration and solidarity have a celebration of we can do the progress Planned in these trying times for health care and women’s to help, we will,” Parenthood has made reproductive rights,” Holt said. “Tucson and celebrate the work Hoffman said. we still have to is such a giving that Those who buy a come,” Tucker said. and altruistic ticket will not only be Hoffman is excited for community, and the event because Tucson supporting the work that Planned Parenthood does that’s one of the is known for having a but can also expect a things I love about diverse community of night of family-friendly, and performers. being here artists entertaining fun. The “This is how we come —Patrick Holt, together and raise funds evening will consist of performer, and awareness, in a very comedy, music, dance Tempest DuJour fun and positive way,” he and circus acts, and even Mayor Jonathan said. “We want people Rothschild will attend the to get on their feet and event as a special guest. sing and dance along, and I’m not sure Planned Parenthood communication how many fundraisers can do that with

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their audience.”

While this event aims to support a political agenda in women’s rights, the festivities and atmosphere are far from political.

The goal of The Very Big Show of Support is to host an event focused on fun and having a great time, without any of the gloom and glum that can accompany politics.

“If there is something we can do to help, we will,” Holt said. “Tucson is such a giving and altruistic community, and that’s one of the things I love about being here, and I’ve always made that a part of who I am and who Tempest is ...”

Tickets for this event are available now. Students, senior citizens, military and those under 30 can purchase a $25 special ticket. Regular tickets are $50.

For more information, visit The Rialto or www.TheVeryBigShow.com.

For information regarding Planned Parenthood Advocates of Arizona, visit www.advocatesaz.org.

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GymCats face ASU, seniors to say goodbye

BY SYRENA TRACY @syrena_tracy

(LEFT) REBECCA NOBLE/ THE DAILY WILDCAT (RIGHT) COURTESY ARIZONA ATHLETICS

Arizona women’s gymnastics moved up to No. 23 in the NCAA rankings after last week’s victory against No. 4 UCLA. This weekend, the GymCats are back in McKale Center for their last home meet of the season, where they will take on rival ASU Sun Devils.

It’s senior night for GymCats Krysten Howard, Selynna FelixTerrazas and Gabrielle Laub, as they will be honored at their final competition in McKale Center.

Krysten Howard From competing in one event to three, Howard has always been dedicated and committed to gymnastics at the UA. She has competed in every meet since arriving in Tucson four years ago.

Howard was homeschooled through high school, so attending UA is an experience that she will never forget.

“Being a student athlete in general has been the most rewarding and most challenging thing that I could’ve ever done in

SELYNNA FELIXTERRAZAS, LEFT, AND KRYSTEN HOWARD, RIGHT, COMPETE IN A UA GYMNASTICS MEET.

my college experience,” Howard said. “I wouldn’t have changed any part of it for the entire world.”

Howard had a good start to her freshman year as she competed on the uneven bars in every meet of the season, earning her thencareer high of 9.875. During her sophomore year, Howard starting competing on the floor and beams on top of her uneven bar routine. She continued to prove her versatility, scoring career highs of 9.800 in both events during the season.

Going into her junior and senior years, Howard was named captain and took on a bigger role. Howard learned from her former senior captains on how to motivate and instill confidence in the younger GymCats.

“To come in as a one event specialist and then to leave as a leader on all three events is just a testament to her dedication, her commitment, her hard work and also her passion for the sport,” said Arizona head coach Tabitha Yim. “She has been a captain for

two years and she has stepped into that role and keeps inspiring her teammates.”

Howard’s favorite event to practice is the uneven bars, but her passion is on the floor.

“There is just nothing like being out there and being able to express who you are and getting to express that in such a beautiful place like McKale,” Howard said. “It is something that I will remember and treasure forever.”

Howard has reached new heights as a senior, setting new career

highs on beam with 9.925, bars with a 9.875 and floor with a 9.900.

After graduating with a degree in physiology and a minor in psychology, Howard plans on attending physical therapy school and hopes to one day become a physical therapist.

Selynna Felix-Terrazas There was no doubt in FelixTerrazas’ mind that she was destined to become a Wildcat.

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‘KILLING FIELDS’ AT THE LOFT

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DAVE HEEKE WAS INTRODUCED as the new athletic director on March 2 at Lowell-Stevens football facility.

Heeke served as athletic director at Central Michigan University for 11 years prior to accepting the position at UA.

Haing S. Ngor and Sam Waterson play journalists in the 1984 Roland Joffé film.

See “The Killing Fields” on Sunday, March 5, at 2 p.m. at The Loft Cinema, and hear former New York Times war correspondent Craig Whitney, and author and UA adjunct professor Joe Sharkey analyze the Oscarwinning film about journalists trapped in Cambodia.

The two men served in Vietnam in the same Navy unit.

Journalism on Screen

The series, hosted by the UA School of Journalism and The Loft, pairs top journalists with their favorite films.

Craig Whitney: His five-decade career for New York Times included stints in Saigon, Moscow.

Joe Sharkey: UA adjunct professor; author of “Above Suspicion,” new film with Emilia Clarke.

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Dave Heeke appointed new athletics director

BY CHRISTOPHER DEAK @ChrisDeakDW

As Dave Heeke walked in to his introductory press conference alongside UA President Ann Weaver Hart on Thursday, he looked comfortable in his new role as Arizona’s newest athletic director and ready to hit the ground running.

Heeke is no stranger to Arizona. Before Heeke served as the athletic director at Central Michigan University, his title for the past 11 years, he spent 18 years working in the University of Oregon department.

It was at Oregon where Heeke became familiar with the Arizona program and the rest of the Pac-12 Conference. It was also there he worked under Oregon athletic director Bill Byrne, father of Arizona’s most recent athletic director Greg Byrne.

“I really couldn’t be more excited about joining the Wildcat family and about coming back to the Pac-12,” Heeke said.

He said it was “a surprise” to him when Byrne left his position to take over the same job at the University of Alabama, adding that Tucson has always had something different about it.

“I’ve always looked at this place as a special place,” Heeke said. “When I was with Oregon, this was a program that people were always envious of. There was something special when you came here.”

His ties to the program don’t end at Byrne or working in Eugene, Oregon. Heeke will become the third alumnus from Albion College to serve as athletic director at the UA. Heeke was born in Munich, Germany and then moved to East Lansing, Michigan. He attended Albion College, where he was a fouryear letterman in the baseball program.

He said his experience as a student-athlete “transformed” his life. He follows the footsteps of Albion alumni and former UA athletic directors

Cedric Dempsey and J.F. “Pop” McKale.

“There must be something in the water in Albion, Michigan,” Heeke said through a smile.

“Those are big shoes to fill. I’m proud to try and live up to those expectations and standards those men have set.”

As a young administrator, Heeke said he and his colleagues would often ask who you want to be like in order to become an athletic director.

The answer to that question was easy for Heeke, who idolized Dempsey during his time at UA. “He was the icon when we were moving up through the ranks,” Heeke said about Dempsey’s national reputation.

Heeke spoke at length about the importance of the quality of people in the UA program. He noted that, in the college administration world, “there’s no substitute for quality people” and that, when he interviewed at Arizona, he felt comfortable with the rest of the staff.

According to the Arizona Daily Star, Heeke’s base salary will be $500,000 in year one and his base will be raised to $575,000 and then $650,000 in the following two years, respectively.

In his final year at CMU he earned $245,000.

His contract also includes incentives that can increase his compensation each year based on how far UA teams go in championship play.

Heeke said he’ll spend the rest of this month balancing his final duties at Central Michigan, while trying to attend Arizona basketball’s upcoming postseason games.

As far as getting started with his duties at UA, Heeke said gaining the perspective of his staff is the most important part of beginning his job.

“First and foremost, I want to meet our staff [and] have really good conversations with our coaches, who I consider the key elements,” Heeke said. “They’re the faculty; they make the biggest impact on our student athletes.”

Heeke’s official contract begins on April 1 and ends in 2022.

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Softball gears up for matchup against Texas Longhorns

BY NOAH SONNET @texaslad32

Arizona softball returns home to Tucson this weekend as the Wildcats open up a three-game set against the Texas Longhorns at Hillenbrand Stadium. No. 6-ranked Arizona enters the matchup with the Big 12 powerhouse with a record of 15-1 after going 4-1 in the Mary Nutter Classic last weekend.

The Wildcats’ first loss of the 2017 season came at the hands of No. 1 Florida State on the final day of the tournament. Arizona senior Danielle O’Toole held the Seminoles to one run, but the lineup was unable to come through for their ace.

“We had the pitching,” said Arizona head coach Mike Candrea. “I thought O’Toole did a wonderful job, gave us a chance to win. We had one mistake defensively that cost us, and [we] couldn’t get the timely hits when we needed it, but hey, that’s the way softball is.”

Falling to the No. 1 team in the country by one run counts as a loss, but the Wildcats have plenty to be excited about after a 4-1 weekend. Arizona offense continued to produce, outscoring their opponents 48-7 during the weekend.

While Arizona played tougher competition than in the previous two weeks, they were ready for the step up in competition. With their lone loss coming in a pitching duel against the No. 1 school in the country, O’Toole said she wasn’t disappointed, she was excited.

“I don’t think I have felt that way in a while

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Felix-Terrazas was born in Mexico, but moved to Tucson shortly after and has lived here her whole life. She attended meets in McKale Center for years and dreamed of competing herself.

Now a senior, Felix-Terrazas has had the opportunity to become a part of the GymCats family. Over her four years at UA, Felix-Terrazas focused on family to help her gain strength to be the best she can be.

“Throughout the four years, I think I have grown a lot—not physically but mostly emotionally and mentally,” FelixTerrazas said. “I’ve always known the capabilities that had to put into the skills to grow as a gymnast.”

During her freshman year, FelixTerrazas earned a career-high score on the uneven bars with a 9.900; the number is still her career high today.

This season, Felix-Terrazas had to overcome adversity after she broke both of her ankles. She recovered quickly and even posted a season-high score of 9.825 on the uneven bars.

“She has always been fun-loving and brings that calm, cool and collected approach to the floor,” Yim said. “This year

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ARIZONA PITCHER NANCY BOWLING pitches during the Wildcat Invitational, Feb. 18. Arizona is currently 15-1.

about a team,” O’Toole said when asked about losing to Florida State. “I think there is a good competitive nature going on right now. I think we look super good and have some things to work on, but other than that were good to go.”

Seniors Mo Mercado and O’Toole picked up Pac-12 honors this week, with Mercado collecting the national player of the week award as well.

O’Toole fanned 23 batters and picked up

she has dedicated herself to be the strongest she can possibly be. Seeing her go down was so hard, but to keep the attitude she had and get back into the lineup so quickly showed tremendous growth.”

Felix-Terrazas is majoring in literacy, leadership and learning in hopes of opening a mainstream gym facility created for everyone, including people with disabilities.

Gabrielle Laub From the first time Laub stepped onto the floor as a Wildcat, nothing has been able to slow her down.

As a sophomore, Laub became one of the GymCats’ most consistent performers, scoring three consecutive 9.825’s on uneven bars, followed by a new career-high 9.900 against the California Golden Bears.

Laub has competed in every meet of her career, and her senior year might be the best season she has had as a GymCat. “Gabby is a gamer,” Yim said. “She loves to compete. She steps up. The bigger the moment, the bigger Gabby does. She is a steady presence on the floor and someone we can rely on. This year we have struggled with injuries and she stepped up willing to help, and that has shown a lot of who she is as an athlete, as a senior and as a leader.”

This season, Laub had to fill in for her

two more wins, bringing her season total to eight. Mercado had a batting average above .800 and knocked in 11 RBIs in five games during the Mary Nutter Classic.

The shortstop, known for her defensive play and durability, has put together solid offensive showings in the opening weeks of the season. She is currently second on the team with 21 hits, third with RBIs (17) and is currently hitting .488.

injured teammates and perform on the floor, an event that she hasn’t competed in during her time at the UA. She scored a season-high 9.550 against the University of Washington.

“This sport has taught [me] that true happiness is found when you’re first happy with yourself,” Laub said. “Meaning, I love myself for who I am and not for who other people want me to be or for who other people paint me to be. I know I have a lot more to experience and learn, but I love who I am becoming, and it’s truly the happiest I’ve been in my life. I know I can accomplish anything I set my mind to because of the confidence I have in myself, and it’s important to me that every little girl out there who looks up to me loves herself, too.”

Laub plans on receiving her Bachelor of Science in finance in December 2017.

Laub currently has a job lined up after graduation at North Star Resource Group, which is a financial advising firm.

The GymCats look to take down the SunDevils in McKale Center for the last home meet this season on Sunday, March 5, at 1 p.m. MST. The meet will be on the Pac-12 Networks.

Arizona gymnastics wraps up the regular season against BYU on Friday, March 10, at 7 p.m. MST before heading to the Pac-12 Championships in California.

“I’ve work on my preparation a little bit, worked on more tilt in my swing and changed a few drills,” Mercado said. “It’s nice to have more offensive players, so that stress of having a bad game is lifted because I know my teammates can help pick me up.”

Texas comes in after a disappointing conclusion to the Mary Nutter Classic. After winning their first four games, they failed to close out the tournament on a good note dropping the last two games, both at the hands of Pac-12 schools. The Longhorns followed a sloppy defeat against ASU with a disappointing effort against the Washington Huskies.

The Longhorns bring in an ace of their own to try and match up with O’Toole this weekend. Tiarra Davis has been lights out for Texas so far. The senior was named Big12 pitcher of the week after the Mary Nutter Classic, as Davis went 2-0 against ranked teams Missouri and Tennessee.

Looking past the team’s star pitcher, the Longhorns bring a balanced offensive attack to the table. Mickenzi Krpec is known for swinging for the fences early and often. She is the team leader in slugging percentage and ranks in the top five in most, if not all, of the major hitting categories. Kelli Hanzel and Stephanie Wong are another pair of skilled batters in the Austin-based school’s lineup.

Big-12 schools have had trouble with Pac-12 teams so far in 2017. After struggling against ASU and Washington, the Longhorns head to Tucson for their first true road series of the season. Arizona takes on Texas this weekend beginning on Friday, March 3 at 6 p.m. MST.

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GABRIELLE LAUB COMPETES IN the vault portion of Arizona’s 194.025-191.600 win over Utah State and Texas Womn’s in McKale Center on Jan. 6.

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