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Former UA swim champ nearly ends up on MythBusters UA alumnus, Martin Pepper, who was a finalist in the MythBusters search for a new host, talks about his time as a Wildcat swim champ

BY PHIL BRAMWELL @PhilBramwellMMA

Martin Pepper is a television personality and UA alumnus who is best known in Tucson for winning the NCAA national championship in swimming during the 1996 season.

For him, this time stands out among the rest.

“It is always fun to win something for the ego,” Pepper said.

Pepper, who was recently one of four finalists for the hosting job on the new version of the popular TV show “MythBusters,” recently reflected on his time as a Wildcat.

He continues to have a sense of humor. During interactions with his teammates, Pepper wanted his light-hearted nature to rub off on others.

“I have always been a clown. I do things to make myself laugh.

It is someone else’s mistake when they have taken me too seriously,” Pepper said.

He did not get to where he is today without struggles. His road to success in swimming and in his career saw him stop in multiple areas to explore his interests.

“Growing up I was a huge nerd,” Pepper said.

Pepper started his journey by working in his father’s lab.

There he experimented and learned how to create a wide variety of items.

“I started making my own gunpowder,” Pepper said.

Pepper explained that his connection with the tools helped him because talking to others was a weakness of his.

“My first friends were machine tools,” Pepper said.

Pepper joined his high school’s swim team during his freshman year in hopes of expanding his social horizons.

He never imagined that he could reach such a level of athletic success. He also surprised those around him.

“A walk on becoming a champion is super rare,” said Rick DeMont, Pepper’s former coach and current UA head coach in his fourth year. “His rise to winning was pretty fast.”

UA swim could rely on Pepper because he performed like a veteran of the sport.

“He was totally dependable in a race situation. He had a great ability to focus and get down to business,” DeMont said.

Pepper may not have gotten an opportunity to surprise people had a close family member not spoken up.

Pepper’s brother, Seth Pepper, who was also a UA swimmer, advocated for his younger brother. Eventually, Seth convinced the UA coaching staff to give Martin an opportunity.

“They let me walk on as a work in progress,” Pepper said.

Pepper was not in a good place

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ALTHOUGH UA ALUMNUS MARTIN Pepper was not selected one of the next hosts of “MythBusters,” his 1996 national championship in swimming ensures his name is remembered around campus.

following a third-place finish in the NCAA tournament during his sophomore year after coming in as the No.1 seed.

“I went in feeling like a loser,” Pepper said.

DeMont helped to increase Pepper’s confidence.

“As an athlete, you learn the power of your mind. Through swimming, I learned the power of visualization. I still do it today when I [work],” Pepper said.

Pepper has a message for UA students—advice given to him by

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“With that mental training anybody can be successful with whatever they want,” Pepper said.

People around him noticed that Pepper had quirks.

“He was interested in nature and building. A lot of people thought he was kind of nuts. He is a solo cruiser,” DeMont said.

Pepper’s personality was on display while he was on the team.

He would do unusual activities to brighten the dynamic of his team.

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“You are not in school to learn stuff. You are in school to learn how to work with others. Put less stress on what you are learning in class,” Pepper said.

Instead, he suggests that students make themselves known to people in their field of study.

“Students should learn how to promote themselves,” Pepper said.

Martin thinks that this mentality can stretch beyond athletics.

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Hillel holds Shabbat for LGBTQ community

BY TIRION MORRIS @tirionmorris

The UA Hillel Foundation held its second annual Pride Shabbat on Friday night to celebrate and welcome LGBTQ community members to the center.

“This is a safe place,” said Maya Griswold, chair of the Shabbat Comity. “We want to make sure that people know that.”

While many students who visit Hillel regularly view it as a safe and welcoming space, one of the main goals of Pride Shabbat was to extend this welcome and invitation to a larger group on campus.

“We are really working on making Shabbat more inclusive and letting people know that we are here,” Griswold said. “So we wanted to use this as a way of opening the doors and welcoming people in.”

As in every Shabbat at Hillel, after singing together to mark the beginning of the night’s event, students had the chance to attend one of the three service options; Conservative, Reform or a non-service alternative. In the alternative session, guest speaker Moshe Alfisher gave a lesson including history and the concept of masks worn during the Jewish holiday of Purim, which is coming up next weekend.

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THE HILLEL BUILDING FRONT entrance, located on Second Street and Mountain Avenue. The Hillel Foundation on campus held an LGBTQ Shabbat for community members to celebrate their faith in conjunction with their sexuality.

member of the LGBTQ community, spoke and gave words of encouragement to eager listeners.

“I always felt that something was different with me,” Alfisher began.

Alfisher told of his experience growing up in a very close-knit religious community just outside of Tel Aviv. He told of the struggles he faced in coming out to both his community and his parents, in a time where he didn’t even know what that meant for himself.

“It was a struggle for myself within my religious identity,” Alfisher said, “I thought that I could not say that I believe in God and say that I am gay.”

This idea was exactly what the Pride Shabbat hoped to combat.

“Now I am proud to be gay, I am proud to be Jewish, and I am proud of my Israeli community,” Alfisher said.

One of the main goals behind the Pride Shabbat was to help students share this sentiment, of being proud of both their religion and sexuality, and feeling that they are not alone.

“There is a huge queer Jewish community,” said Michal Chetrit, the coordinator of Pride Shabbat, “We are taking strides to create a welcoming space for everyone here at Hillel.”

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Greek Life takes steps toward being LGBTQ community inclusive

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Each year, thousands of UA students participate in Spring Rush to join a fraternity in the Interfraternity Conference or National Panhellenic Conference sorority. With over 10 percent of the UA student body participating in Greek Life, this community has a strong presence on campus.

However, this community seems to lack involvement from LGBTQ students.

Jacob Winkelman, the codirector of the ASUA Pride Alliance, rushed during the fall of his freshman year with a close friend. Winkelman openly identifies as gay, but during the rush process, he tried his best to conceal that part of his identity.

“I started coming out the summer before college started, hadn’t told that many people and definitely wasn’t going to tell people during rush,” Winkelman said. “I was worried it would affect my chances of getting a bid.”

UA Greek rush uses a mutual selection process where no one is guaranteed a bid and voting is done in private. Winkelman feared that if fraternity members discovered he was gay, he may be voted out of bids behind closed doors.

Winkelman received a bid and remained in Sigma Alpha Mu for three years. Near the end of his pledge process, Winkelman began to come out to some of his brothers and word circulated quickly.

“I had a pretty good experience,” Winkelman said.

“People did not really care, like I didn’t get dropped or anything like that.”

Winkelman was not the only openly gay brother in his fraternity, and his brothers had varying levels of comfort with the subject. After coming out, the topic was rarely mentioned.

“It just wasn’t something we talk about ever,” Winkelman said. “It wasn’t really brought up. If you don’t talk about it you aren’t forcing them to face their discomfort.”

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POTENTIAL NEW MEMBERS LINE up outside of Delta Gamma on Aug. 20, 2015. While some sororities are increasing efforts to demonstrate acceptance of the LGBTQ community, some think the rush process could be made more inclusive.

Winkelman describes his experience in Greek Life as positive. While his isolated experience was positive, he recognizes that heteronormative practices within Greek Life and the initial rush process may be deterring larger representation of the LGBTQ community.

“I think partially it is just having that visibility,” Winkelman said. “If people were gay, and heard there was an out person in the chapter, that is automatically going to make them feel better.”

Winkelman also suggested reforms in rush conduct.

Specifically, carefully chosen, inclusive word choice may open up the Greek community.

“During conversations, try to not use heteronormative language,” Winkelman said.

Say ‘Brothers can bring dates’ rather than saying ‘Brothers can bring girls’ to every rushing person assuming their sexuality.”

Alpha Chi Omega, a sorority represented on the UA campus, released a statement on Feb. 17 regarding a readiness to accept transgender women

into their sisterhood.

“Alpha Chi must be inclusive of all who live and identify as women regardless of their gender assigned at birth,” said Angela Costley Harris, the national president of Alpha Chi Omega.

The UA Pride Alliance urges members of Greek Life to pressure their own chapters to release similar statements on inclusion.

Many other LGBTQ support groups on campus have addressed that their efforts are not related to inclusion within Greek Life.

Safe Zone is a campus-wide program aimed at making the UA safer for members of the LGBTQ community.

The LGBTQ Affairs center at the UA offers this training to sororities and fraternities by request and will make it available online next year. Last year, Panhellenic required recruitment counselors to participate in Safe Zone training before the recruitment process began.

UA Greek Life also trains health advocates, a representative of the sorority or fraternity trained to promote healthy choices,

inclusion and positive self-image throughout their organizations.

“One particularly noteworthy achievement was that 40 percent of the health advocates attended Safe Zone training and are now safe zone trained,” the Fraternity and Sorority Programs annual report stated.

Described as a major accomplishment, Safe Zone training is becoming more prevalent within the leaders of the greek community, yet 60 percent of health advocates were untrained on LGBTQ issues this spring.

Dominique Hinnen, a member of Chi Omega and a club called Advocates Come Together, rushed last semester.

Originally skeptical of Greek Life, Hinnen has found Greek Life to be a supportive environment and observed a general readiness to increase diversity among her peers.

“I was actually hesitant in the beginning during recruitment because I wasn’t sure how accepting Greek Life would be,” Hinnen said. “Once I started talking to girls I realized how genuine, diverse and accepting Greek Life can be.”

MARTIN PEPPER FROM PAGE A2

“He would take his kayak and go off the diving board with it. [Another] day he brought in a 12-foot python,” DeMont said.

DeMont did not have a problem with Pepper’s mindset.

“He is fun-loving and playful,” DeMont said.

DeMont saw the pleasure Pepper took in observing.

“His interest about the natural world was unique,” DeMont said.

Pepper stood out from other team members. His personality was not always easy to manage for his coaches.

“It was a fun challenge to work with him,” DeMont said.

When Pepper complained about other team members DeMont emphasized worrying about his own abilities rather than critiquing his teammates.

“Coach DeMont would say, ‘cook your own burger dude,’” Pepper said.

Martin credits Ray Vosper, Pepper’s college neighbor who was a boat builder, for his creativity.

“He taught me to love craftsmanship,” Pepper said.

Vosper instilled confidence in Pepper, which helped lead him to take on more challenging projects and experiences.

“He showed me how to take pride in what I did,” Pepper said.

Although he ended up not being named the next “MythBusters” host, Pepper’s legacy has already been cemented on the UA campus.

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Pride Shabbat provided information for students and community members about what it means to be both Jewish and part of the LGBTQ community.

“This event celebrates the intersectionality of being queer and being Jewish,” Chetrit said. “Celebrating pride with celebrating Judaism is really important, and part of our mission is for these identities to be able to be celebrated together.”

With today’s political and social atmosphere, Hillel members emphasized the added importance to this event currently.

“In America right now there is a lot of uncertainty,” said Michael Walden, director of Jewish Student Life. “Now in the Jewish community it is important, more than ever, to stand up for all minority communities.”

Hillel, an established center on campus, is the perfect place to start.

“This is a student center,” Walden said.

“By creating programs for students, we try to build a stronger community.”

Shabbat dinners are held most Friday nights at Hillel and are open to all students, regardless of faith or belief. Pride Shabbat is held once a year.

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POLICE BEAT

BY MICHEAL ROMERO @michealbromero

Paul Blart: real cop On Feb. 26 around 1:30 a.m., a University of Arizona Police Department officer checked on a woman at First Street and Cherry Avenue whom he noticed to be distressed.

The woman was bending over, and the officer thought she might be vomiting, but she turned out to be fine.

As he walked back to his patrol car, a man started yelling at him, telling him to leave and that he was merely a “rent-a-cop”.

Due to the slurred speech, the officer determined to he was intoxicated and around 20 years old.

The officer assured him that he was in fact a real police officer, but when questioned the man didn’t answer where he was from or what his name was.

As the officer tried to place the man in handcuffs, a second man pushed him in the chest to separate the officer from his friend.

As the officer gave verbal commands for both men to get on the ground, they refused and a chase ensued.

The officer chased after the first man, and he tried to climb a wall near the Steward Observatory Annex, but he failed and was detained.

The officer sent out a description of the other man over the radio and he was successfully detained.

The officer then left the first detainee and made his way over to the second detainee for identification.

The second man had a small plastic bag of marijuana in his possession, which was confiscated, but he was only arrested on misdemeanor assault for pushing the officer.

Neither man was affiliated with UA. Someone stole Lulu’s lemons A UAPD officer was on patrol as a police aide when he was dispatched to Villa del Puente Residence Hall around 6 p.m on Feb. 26.

A female UA student reported stolen clothes from the dryer she had placed them in.

She told the officer she had transferred clothes from the washer to the dryer at 5:50 p.m. and found all her Lululemon clothes missing.

Only the Lululemon items were taken from the load as other items remained in the dryer.

There were eight missing items and the woman estimated their total value at $810.

The woman reported a pair of purple shorts valued at $60, two pairs of black pants at $100 each, two pairs gray of pants at $100 each, one pair of red and black pants at $100, one pair of gray and black pants at $100 and one black jacket at $150.

The woman wished to be present for future court proceedings despite no suspect or witnesses involved.

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Regents to interview UA presidential candidates The Arizona Board of Regents are interviewing the two candidates for UA’s next president on Monday and are expected to announce the final candidate on Tuesday

BY CAROL ANN ALAIMO THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR (TNS)

The board hiring the University of Arizona’s next president is meeting Monday for final interviews with the two remaining contenders, one of whom may have a lot to lose if he gets the job.

Dr. Robert C. “Robby” Robbins is a milliondollar man in his current post as president and CEO of Texas Medical Center, Arizona Daily Star research shows.

Robbins’ office wouldn’t provide his salary, but the medical center’s nonprofit tax records show he earned nearly $1.2 million in 2014, the most recent figure available online.

The other UA finalist, Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan, earns $447,400 as an executive vice president overseeing research, innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development efforts at Arizona State University.

Panachanathan’s income would increase by 50 percent, while Robbins’ would drop by about 50 percent, if they earned the same as current UA President Ann Weaver Hart, whose pay package totals $670,000 this year.

None of Arizona’s university presidents makes $1 million. ASU President Michael Crow comes closest with a pay package totaling $788,000 this year.

It isn’t clear if the Arizona Board of Regents considered potential salary expectations when choosing the two finalists, or whether the board would consider increasing the pay level for the UA president.

Regents haven’t answered those questions.

Nor have they provided a rationale for why the board plans to eliminate one of the two finalists

by Tuesday, leaving only the winner to visit the UA campus community on Wednesday.

They also won’t say who was on the short list of presidential contenders, prompting criticism that regents are ignoring an Arizona Supreme Court ruling that requires everyone interviewed for a state university president’s job to be publicly identified.

The two UA finalists also aren’t commenting for now.

The Star asked each for a 10-minute phone interview to talk about his vision for the UA. Panchanathan declined, saying he prefers to wait until after the regents’ final decision. Robbins’ office said he’s traveling and “is not conducting any interviews at this time.”

Both finalists have career achievements that reflect the qualities regents say they are seeking in the UA’s 22nd president.

Each has experience in the medical field, a priority area for the UA, which has two medical schools without permanent leadership after Dr. Joe G.N. “Skip” Garcia recently resigned as UA’s health sciences boss.

The board also is seeking an innovator who can drive advances in research, fundraising and other key areas.

Robbins, a highly-regarded cardiac

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AFTER A MONTHS-LONG search, the Arizona Board of Regents is interviewing Dr. Robert Robbins (left), a millionaire CEO at Texas Medical Center, and Sethuraman “Panch” Panchanathan (right), the executive vice president of research, innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development at Arizona State University for the next UA president on Monday, March 6. An announcement of who will fill the position is expected to follow on Tuesday with a site visit on Wednesday.

surgeon, spent 20 years working for the Stanford University School of Medicine as professor and department chair in cardiothoracic surgery. In 2005, he founded the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.

When Robbins left the California school in 2012 to take his current job in Texas, Stanford put out a news release saying his performance there had “won him wide respect.”

At Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest medical system, Robbins has introduced new research initiatives in areas such as genomics and regenerative medicine.

Why would someone making $1-million-plus a year at a much larger organization want to move to Arizona to run the UA for less money?

Lynn Nadel, the chair of UA’s faculty and a member of the presidential search committee, said it may be that Robbins misses university life.

“My sense is that he really wants to return to a university campus ... and the life that implies, enough that the likely loss of income is not a factor,” Nadel said. “Not everyone makes every decision based on how much money they will earn. At a certain point, job satisfaction, quality of life, and other things, dominate.”

Panchanathan, an adjunct professor at the UA medical school in Phoenix, is a computer engineer whose work has often focused on the intersection of technology and human health.

He’s spent years finding new ways for computers to improve the quality of life for disabled people. In 2004, for example, he led an ASU team that won an Arizona governor’s award for computer-assisted projects that help those with impaired vision recognize text, people and environments.

During the six years he’s been the head of research and innovations, ASU has twice been ranked the No. 1 most innovative school in America by U.S. News & World Report.

In 2014, President Obama named Panchanathan to the U.S. National Science Board, marking the first time an American of Indian origin was appointed to the body that advises the president and Congress on science and engineering issues.

UA donor Roni Woolston, a critic of the Tucson school’s current president, said she was wowed by Panchanathan when he made a 2015 presentation to the regents on innovation and technology transfer.

“He was absolutely brilliant and I remember wishing that we had someone of his caliber at the U of A,” she said.

Regents will meet behind closed doors Monday in Phoenix for one last round of interviews with the finalists and are expected to announce their choice at a news conference Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the winner will visit campus for meetings with student leaders, faculty, deans, alumni and elected officials. The campus visit will culminate with a moderated question and answer session.

The hiring likely will be finalized in early April when regents vote on the new president’s contract.

Hart is stepping down as president but will remain on the UA faculty.

Regent Ron Shoopman of Tucson, vice chair of the presidential search committee, said when the finalists were chosen that both “have the potential to lead the UA into the future in a dynamic way.”

He said he hopes the UA community “will welcome the next president with open arms.”

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Sessions recuses himself from Trump investigation

BY JACKSON MORRISON @DailyWildcat

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resident Trump’s appointees have had a troubling relationship with Russia to say the least. On February 13 Michael Flynn resigned as national security advisor. On March 1, it was revealed that sessions had previously engaged in conversation with Russia’s ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak. On March 2, Sessions had recused himself of any investigation anything related to Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Many people are brushing these instances off as a witch hunt or a technicality, but we should be concerned.

For those of you who don’t know the story of Flynn and Sessions I’ll give an abridged version.

At the end of December, President Obama placed sanctions on Russian in retaliation to election tampering. A small period of time later, Michael Flynn called Russian ambassador Kislyak to discuss sanctions and to encourage Russia to avoid retaliatory sanctions. Flynn denied any sort of interaction. Evidence was later found that the conversation had occurred

and the justice department briefed President Trump that Flynn may be at risk of Russian blackmail. Flynn resigned on February 13 as such accusations would make his job impossible to perform.

During the 2016 election, Jeff Sessions, a strong supporter of the Trump campaign, engaged in two separate conversations with Russian Ambassador Kislyak. During his congressional confirmation hearing, Sessions denied having any contact with Russian officials while acting as a surrogate for the Trump campaign.

With information coming out on March 1, that Sessions did in fact have contact with Kislyak, his testimony in front of congress—while under oath— is damning. Some are going as far as calling it perjury.

Whatever the eventual fall out of this is, Sessions has recused himself from of any investigation related to Trumps election campaign.

Whatever your political leanings, this is concerning. There’s an increasing frequency of reports of Russia tampering or influencing our political system in a manner which this country has never seen.

Some of you may firmly believe that Russia is the reason why Trump won the election, others will write that off as “fake news” and honestly it’s hard to know with certainty to know who is right. Outlooks on the issue should and will change as

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new information is brought forward, but for now, we have what seems like two confirmed cases of Russia trying to influence our executive branch.

I don’t believe we should demonize Russia. I want our countries to engage in mutually beneficial economic and defense agreements. It would be

amazing if we no longer had to think of Russia as the “Bond villain” of global politics, but we can’t improve our relationship with them unless we come together as equal partners.

As long as there are Russian attempts to gain influence over US officials, we wont be able to find that common ground.

A loss, but maybe also a gain, for transgender movement

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Now that the Trump administration has reversed the Department of Education policy on transgender bathroom use, the Supreme Court will probably dismiss the case it’s hearing on the matter rather than issue a decision. But even if that happens —and it isn’t 100 percent certain—the result may be better for transgender-rights advocates than judgment on the merits would have been.

In the long run, the movement would be better off with a decision that reads federal

anti-discrimination law as protecting against transgender bias than with a decision that makes protection depend upon the whims of the administration charged with implementing the law.

The background to the current situation involves more than just the question of whether Gavin Grimm, a transgender student, may use the men’s room at his Gloucester County, Virginia, high school.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held in favor of Grimm and against the high school because of an interpretation of a federal regulation issued by the Obama

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Department of Education.

Everyone agrees that Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. The Department of Education’s own regulations apply that law by allowing separate bathrooms “on the basis of sex” provided they are “comparable ... to facilities provided for students of the other sex.”

The Obama administration issued an interpretation of its own regulation and said that the regulation should be read to require students to have access to the bathroom corresponding to their gender identification.

The Fourth Circuit engaged in a two-step

analysis. First it asked whether the regulation was ambiguous, and it said yes. Then it held that, under a Supreme Court decision called Auer v. Robbins, it would defer to the department’s interpretation of the statute so long as it was reasonable.

What lawyers call “Auer deference” is a kissing cousin of the more famous doctrine of Chevron deference, which says that the courts will defer to an agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous federal statute. Chevron deference has been in

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the news lately because Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has sharply criticized it. The Auer approach applies the deference principle to regulations, not statutes.

As long as the Obama administration’s interpretation of the regulation was in place, Grimm could win his case at the Supreme Court so long as the justices simply held that the regulation was ambiguous and the Obama administration’s interpretation reasonable. A 4-4 split would still have been a win, because it would’ve affirmed the decision below.

Now that the Trump administration has retracted this interpretation of the regulation, the justices could dismiss the case and send it back to the Fourth Circuit to reconsider in the light of the new interpretation. Supreme Court nerds have an acronym for this kind of dismissal. It’s called a DIG, short for the writ of certiorari having been “dismissed as improvidently granted.”

On reconsideration, the Fourth Circuit would be hard-pressed not to reverse its judgment and rule for the school. After all, the court has already said the regulation is ambiguous. And it can certainly be argued that the Trump administration’s interpretation is just as reasonable as that of the Obama administration, even if you think —as I do—that it is the wrong call.

All this sounds like a loss for the transgender rights movement—but it might not be the worst outcome of all the possible options. The justices still have discretion to decide whether to decide. If they keep the case, they could in theory reverse the Fourth Circuit by saying that the regulation isn’t ambiguous, but plainly demands the interpretation urged by the school board.

That would require both Anthony Kennedy and a confirmed Neil Gorsuch taking that position, so it isn’t highly likely. But it would

mark a major defeat for the transgender rights movement.

If, on the other hand, the case goes back to the Fourth Circuit and the school board wins, Grimm’s lawyers might well decide not to go back to the Supreme Court. That would mean there would be no Supreme Court precedent on transgender issues at all for the moment. And that would be better than a bad precedent.

It would also leave room for the Supreme Court in the future to rule on the meaning of Title IX itself, rather than the meaning of the Department of Education regulation implementing it.

Ultimately, it would be best if the Supreme Court were to rule that discrimination against transgender people is prohibited by federal law and that this requires, among other things, giving transgender people access to facilities corresponding to their gender identity.

Such a ruling may be sometime in coming.

But as the Trump reversal shows, it would be much more robust than a ruling that depends upon deference to administrative agencies controlled by a political executive branch.

Equality for transgender people is coming.

And it would be best if it arrived with a strong statement of equality, not a weak statement of judicial deference to federal agencies.

The ideal result for the transgender movement would of course be for the court to keep the case and rule that the regulation is not ambiguous and that it in fact requires nondiscrimination against transgender students in bathroom use. That would in effect render the Trump administration’s position unlawful. But that possibility seems highly remote.

No lower court has yet ruled on whether the Trump administration’s approach is reasonable, and the Supreme Court doesn’t like to be the first court to weigh in on a question of law.

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Genetic possibilities, pitfalls with CRISPR New genetic engineering technology CRISPR has the potential to redefine the field of genetic medicine. It will have to answer an ethical dilemma first

BY HANNAH DAHL @hannah_dahl715

A new genome editing technology known as CRISPR has the potential to revolutionize the way scientists study diseases and genetics.

“I think it’s a really useful tool for science, in fact it’s sort of revolutionizing the speed at which we can accomplish certain things in the laboratory and it has tremendous potential for therapeutic applications,” said Kimberly McDermott, a research associate professor of medicine and an associate professor of cellular and molecular medicine, cancer biology and genetics.

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, or CRISPR-Cas9, is based off a bacterial immune system, said Thomas Doetschman, professor of cancer biology, genetics and cellular and molecular medicine.

When bacteria become infected by a virus, they take pieces of the virus’s DNA and incorporate it into their own genome. This allows the bacteria to recognize and attack the virus if it ever appears again. This system allows them to destroy the virus, but it also allows them to destroy DNA, Doetschman said.

In developing CRISPR, scientists took a hint from the bacteria.

“What it [CRISPR] actually does is causes a mutation at that site, in the DNA, and then repairs it,” Doetschman said. “And you can repair it in different ways, such that you can actually modify the sequence of the DNA.” This has enormous implications for the study of genetics and combating human diseases. And while it may sound exciting, human gene editing isn’t all fun and games.

There are two ways the CRISPR technology can be used in humans, Doetschman said. The first way is to alter somatic cells, which don’t get passed down to the next generation. This would only affect the patient who is receiving the treatment. The second way, known as the germline, can have serious long-lasting effects.

Altering genes in the germline can produce permanent changes in the patient that will then be passed on to their children.

“There’s two completely different ways of doing this, and the real concern, the big concern, is that it be used by some unscrupulous people to try to change the germline of people, so that you can create progeny that will all have this kind of modification,” Doetschman said.

CRISPR isn’t just for humans; it can be used to edit plant cells as well.

“It could alter genes in a plant so that the plant either becomes resistant to or susceptible to agents that might otherwise kill the plant,” Doetschman said. This could mean diseaseresistant plants or increased nutritional content.

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DR. THOMAS DOETSCHMAN, PH.D., examines the embryonic cells used to study and implant mutated and disease genes; if the mutated gene successfully imbeds itself into a sperm or egg cell, the resulting rat that is born will be studied to research the effects of that same disease genes in humans. CRISPR CAS9 is technology that allows the splicing of genes to both remove and replace particular DNA strands. CRISPR can affect either just the patient or his descendants as well, depending on the technique used.

One of CRISPR’s greatest contributions is in the realm of research, specifically for understanding normal development and disease processes, McDermott said.

For example, in the future scientists may be able to grow human organs from the patient’s own cells, using CRISPR. Recent studies on mice and rats have introduced the possibility of using a model organism, such as a pig, to grow human organs, McDermott said.

Another exciting possibility available through CRISPR involves induced pluripotent stem cells, Doetschman said. This process essentially works as a time machine for your cells.

Doetschman describes it as the ability to put your own cells, such as skin cells, in culture and de-differentiate those cells back down to the pluripotent “master key” stem cell, using CRISPR. Once your adult cells are transformed into stem cells, you can make the genetic

modifications you’d like, such as correcting a mutation, and then re-differentiate the cells back into the cell type of the tissue you want to correct.

These cells could potentially be engrafted back into the patient’s disease tissue, Doetschman said.

When it comes to working with human therapeutics, safety and regulations are extremely important, McDermott said.

As scientists, their primary concern is to minimize and prevent harm in every way possible.One of these regulations is a patent that was recently issued to the MIT and Harvardaffiliated Broad Institute, one of the centers responsible for creating CRISPR technology.

Despite heavy public controversy surrounding the patent, Doetschman said the patent is a good thing, because it will allow scientists to ensure that CRISPR research is carried out in a safe way, especially in regards to human use.

“I think from a scientist’s perspective, the thing

that we’re really focusing on is trying to listen to our colleagues but also the public in general about what are the fears of this technology,” McDermott said. “Of course when you start to edit genes and mutate genes there’s a lot of concerns about what might happen.”

As for the future of human genetics research, both Doetschman and McDermott remain optimistic. CRISPR improves both the efficiency and the accuracy of genome research.

McDermott said while scientists may have had the ability to make mutations in cells in the past, the results were usually inefficient and could produce off-target effects.

CRISPR might not be the cure to every disease, but it is the key to unlock many avenues of research, Doetschman said.

“In terms of the research end of science and medical research, it’s expanding tremendously the scientist’s ability to ask questions about genetic disease,” Doetschman said.

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Tucson’s Year of the Hummingbird The Tucson Audobon Society has proclaimed 2017 the Year of the Hummingbird. Incredible flight power is just one of the many unique traits of these tiny birds

BY CHANDLER DONALD @Chandlerjdonald

While 2017 might be the Year of the Rooster according to the Chinese zodiac, the Tucson Audobon Society has dubbed it the “Year of the Hummingbird.” These local bird conservationists work in the community to engage and educate Tucsonans in order to promote the protection of bird habitats.

The hummingbird was chosen as this year’s highlighted family because of its unfaltering accessibility and magnificence, according to Jennie MacFarland, bird conservation biologist for the Tucson Audubon Society.

Hummingbirds captivate us at our windowsills and gardens, but these birds’ lifestyles are even more fascinating than their ability to hover in place. Some of these little spark plugs migrate all the way from central Mexico to Alaska.

The ruby-throated hummingbird, affectionately nicknamed the “hungry bird,” has a metabolism 100 times faster than an elephant. These birds need to eat twice their body weight each day to keep their hearts beating at super speed.

Hummingbirds have also adapted a way to conserve energy when they are unsuccessful in locating food. The birds can go into a sleep-like state called torpor, where their heartbeats drop from approximately 500 beats per minute to only 50.

The most common species seen on campus is the Anna’s hummingbird, which is marked by its green back and red or gray underparts. Others include the broad-billed hummingbird, which is green with a red bill, and Costa’s hummingbird, which features a purple head and dark tail.

However, watching for hummingbirds always provides a chance for rarities, giving the birds of Tucson a seemingly endless spectrum of brilliant color.

Although hummingbirds are often admired for their aesthetic beauty, it is their athleticism that sets them apart from other birds.

“The smallest birds in the world are hummingbirds,” MacFarland said. “Their powers of flight are amazing; they can hover better than any other birds and are the only birds that can fly backwards.”

She also gave some tips on how one might attract From a zoological perspective, hummingbirds are hummingbirds to their home. She said plants are a very almost oxymoronic in their low-maintenance way to attract them. speed and endurance. They Some native plants that don’t require much water —and are nature’s long distance that hummingbirds love—are chuparosa sprinters. and salvia. Another great way to attract Spotting a hummingbirds to your home is with bird hummingbird is not The smallest feeders, according to MacFarland. By using an uncommon encounter on birds in the a solution of four parts water and one the UA campus. From early spring world are part table sugar, anyone can make their to late summer, Tucson tantalizes hummingbirds. home a hummingbird hotspot. However, urban wildlife with its abundance isn’t so sweet for the animals.

Their powers of everything of blooming flora, providing While hummingbirds usually fare well nectar for over a dozen species of flight are amazing; in urbanized environments, they aren’t hummingbirds. they can hover better unaffected by climate change. MacFarland “Tucson really is the best major city than any other birds said this is especially true for migrating for hummingbirds in the United States,” are are the only species because they’re dependent on MacFarland said. being available along the way. birds that can fly resources MacFarland also suggested the UA MacFarland also highlighted her campus Women’s Plaza of Honor as a good backwards.” concern for the ever-increasing conversion place on campus to see hummingbirds —Jennie of nesting grounds into industrial and because of its abundance of nectarMacFarland, agricultural areas. producing plants.

“Our main mission is for people to enjoy Tucson Audobon Spotting a hummingbird can be a lot like and appreciate birds and to encourage Society bird seeing a shooting star; it takes a keen eye conservation as many people as possible to care about and plenty of patience. biologist birds and their habitats,” MacFarland said.

Fortunately, several places in Tucson The Tucson Audubon Society is provide the opportunity to see a great deal currently holding a winter/spring of the little birds. hummingbird photo competition. They “Some really good places to go and see a also provide guided bird-watching tours lot of hummingbirds are the Tucson Audubon Society’s and educational materials for the public. For more details, Mason Center in the northwest part of town, the Tucson or for images of Tucson-area hummingbirds, visit their Audubon nature shop close to the UA on University [Blvd], website at tucsonaudobon.org. the Desert Museum, and Madera Canyon in Green Valley,” MacFarland said.

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Wild west meets steampunk in Tucson convention The Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention offers a fashion show, musical performances and costume contests for community

BY KIRSHANA GUY @DailyWildcat

The Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention 6 at Old Tucson is said to be Arizona’s largest steampunk convention.

The convention featured an array of activities, including concerts such as the Mission Creeps and Cog is Dead, who played Saturday night. Visitors also had the chance to meet actor Sam Jones, who played Flash Gordon in 1980’s “Flash Gordon,” for a Q&A session. A fashion show also took place, and individuals could learn how to steampunk their makeup, create props from junk or even how to make beard oil and mustache wax.

According to the Oxford Dictionary, steampunk is a science fiction genre with a historical setting, often featuring steampowered machinery. The term has been further applied to fashion, music and mechanics.

The convention also held competitions for children attending the convention. Face painting, kid’s tea dueling, story time and costume contests were just a few activities for children.

Teresa Stoa, whose character name is Lady M. Chester Pierce, has attended several steampunk conventions over the years.

“I just love the venue here in Tucson,” Stoa said. “It is the best.”

Stoa, who is from Ramah, New Mexico, is a doll maker who also dresses dolls. Stoa had Cabbage Patch Kids dolls that she had “steampunked out” riding along in a train she had built.

“I started out with a baby carriage chassis and two crates, which is the passenger and where the engine goes,” Stoa said. “And the boiler does have a bubble maker.”

The train was topped with another mechanical invention, the Tea Biscuit, which was featured in teapot races. The Tea Biscuit is a tea pot set upon a motorized car, which is then decorated and raced against others. Stoa also mentioned tea dueling, the art of

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JANICE DOMINGUEZ OF RIVERSIDE, California strikes a pose during the Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention at Old Tucson on March 4. Dominguez is attending the convention for the second time and describes her get up as “Victorian steampunk.”

gracefully dunking a tea biscuit into a cup of tea. These duels are sanctioned by the American Tea Dueling Society.

“The steampunk genre is so mysterious,” Stoa said.

She said she was drawn to the conventions because she is a maker and loves the selfexpression that accompanies the genre.

Ray Goodwin, a resident of Tucson, said he visits the steampunk convention to take pictures of those in costume.

“This is the third year I have been, and each year it gets a little better,” Goodwin said.

Goodwin said he is a

photographer who shoots an array of photos for different organizations, and attending the steampunk convention is something he does for himself.

“If you look beyond the costumes, the people are interesting, and they seem to be having a lot of fun,” Goodwin said.

Individuals walked around Old Tucson clad in steampunkfashioned clothing, from corsets for the neo-Victorian look with parasols, goggles and fur, to Joker and Harley Quinn-inspired looks.

A group of performers present at the convention were the SinCity Steampunk Dolls from Las Vegas, Nevada. One

of the dolls, Jacquelyn Salter, said she has performed two out of the four years the group has been performing.

Charlie M. Yaney-Johnston, owner of the SinCity Steampunk Dolls, said she has done all kinds of coaching over the years.

“I was actually in charge of the jazz dance team and the color guard for Las Vegas High School and did that for several years,” Johnston said. “I was on many varsity teams for dance, choreography and the ice skating team, so I learned to do formations on ice which I have now incorporated in with our routines.”

She said all the information she

collected from those teams has allowed her to combine different elements and music to create their current shows. The dolls dance with flags, parasols, whips and streamers. The group performs three local events and spends most of their time traveling for shows.

There were over 33 vendors set up throughout Old Tucson selling merchandise, from hats and parasols to steampunk outfits and jewelry.

A similar event, the Gaslight Steampunk Expo, will be Oct. 6-8, 2017, in San Diego, California.

For more information, visit www. gaslightexpo.org.

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Dragway events unite locals with a need for speed Tucson Dragway’s Friday Night Drag Open Test and Tune events offer opportunities for UA Car Cats and locals to put their cars to the test

BY MITCHELL FURRIER @DailyWildcat

There are some famous words from one of film history’s most lucrative franchises that most car lovers will know: “What’s retail on one of those?” “More than you can afford pal, Ferrari!”

For many millennials, “The Fast and The Furious” franchise was the catalyst that bore a lifelong obsession: cars. All over the world, young men and women saw Brian O’Connor or Mia Toretto every time they looked in the mirror, and Tucson was no exception.

Friday night. Seven o’clock.

Many cats are out on the town, but the Car Cats are out on an ethanol run. On Friday Night Drags Open Test and Tunes, hundreds of racers gear up and head down to the Tucson Dragway to live their own fast and furious fantasy.

Friday Night Open Test and Tune is as close to a “Fast and Furious” scene as anyone can legally get: a meet up of hundreds of cars from all over Tucson to race one another or race the clock to set the best time or prove themselves the fastest in town—at least until the next Friday Night Open Test and Tune.

For those who live their life a quarter mile at a time, it may be 10 seconds of freedom; for the modified car owner, it’s an excellent opportunity to showcase tuning talent; and to the exotic car owner, it’s an opportunity to show the world how much performance money can buy. When gas is burning and wheels are turning, there’s always one thing that every participant shares: their love for speed.

“This event is a great way to meet people who all have a similar passion,” said prospective Car Cat Michael Guerin, a freshman majoring in business.

“Everyone respects one another; it doesn’t matter what you drive.

Like, we showed up in a Nissan Skyline. There are like five other Japanese cars here, and everyone has complimented us despite being such a standout. Maybe your car has cambered wheels, maybe your car is a dyno queen. It doesn’t matter because it’s yours, it’s an expression of self. Some

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RON FURLONG BURNS OUT his Mustang during Arizona No Prep Test and Tune at Tucson Dragway on March 3. This event lasted from March 3-4.

people have art, or writing, or a and I will be adjusting my launch sport; we’ve got cars.” control next time to hopefully run Trenton high 12’s.”

Hollenbeck, Hollenbeck Maybe is part of Car a freshman your car has Cats, a UA club majoring in biochemistry and cambered that caters to math, came to the wheels, maybe anyone who is Friday Night Open interested in cars your car is a dyno and car enthusiast Test and Tune queen. It doesn’t culture. From to test out the matter because E46 BMW M3s setup of his car after completing it’s yours, it’s an to supercharged a turbo swap expression of self." Subaru BRZs, and tune on his there is a place Subaru WRX. for anyone and —Michael everyone with any “While it was Guerin, Car Cat and kind of ride. intimidating to freshman majoring compete with “When I bought other cars that in business my car a few years run low 12’s, I ago, I thought had a blast,” he it was amazing said. “It was great and it has come a seeing low 13’s on my new setup, long way since then,” Hollenbeck

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said. “What I like most about the Car Cats though is that there is no discrimination. It doesn’t matter that I drive a Subaru and that other members drive Mustangs and Hondas. It doesn’t matter because we are all close and share a passion for cars more than anything.”

Hollenbeck said there is a difference between true car fans and fanboys.

“A fanboy will rally behind his or her brand or team or whatever, but a true car fan will see the merit in everyone’s ride, even if it isn’t exactly their cup of tea.”

Hollenbeck said Car Cats has biweekly meets and tries to go to the Friday Night Drags Open Test and Tune frequently when the dragway is open to the public.

“Like an engine, there are a lot of moving parts, and trying to organize for everyone to get

down to the dragstrip is tough,” Hollenbeck said. “Some weekends we will get a bunch of people, and other weekends maybe just a handful. It really depends on who’s available and who’s cars are running, even the weather plays a role. So it’s not every weekend as a whole club, but definitely we get out there as often as we can, even if it’s just a couple of friends within the club.”

So what’s it take to head down to Tucson Dragway and make some passes? Nothing is the answer. No experience is required, not even a helmet; they’ll provide them.

Doesn’t matter what you drive, Camry or Corvette, Benz or Bimmer. The only thing that matters is that you go out and drive it, instead of letting it drive you.

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TATTOO ARTIST ANTHONY ROMERO prepares to do a back tattoo at the Tucson Tattoo Expo on March 5. Over 90 artists were showcased at the event.

Tattoo expo showcases ink, holds contests

BY SARAH COVEY @DailyWildcat

Hotel Tucson City Center hosted the Ninth Annual Tucson Tattoo Expo this weekend, drawing in Tucson residents and visitors alike.

The expo began Friday and carried onto Sunday, holding events including live tattooing, tattoo contests, a Kustom Kulture car show, a charity auction and art fusion.

Erika Jo Smith, a local 27-year old tattoo artist from Marana tattoo shop Trinity Art Collective, said the expo was a place where artists and people come together.

“My favorite part is the intimacy,” Smith said. “Everyone here isn’t here to compete but to do good pieces. I feel like Tucson is really overlooked, as far as talent goes. Tucson is a hidden treasure, and you see a lot of that here.”

With 40 booths inside, the expo showcased over 90 artists, each with something different to bring to the table. Most were tattooists specializing in various styles. Piercers also were at the event, as well as apparel vendors, selling t-shirts, pins, ink, art and other paraphernalia.

Chris Sanchez, a local 31-year old aircraft mechanic and greyscale tattoo enthusiast, said he was an expo regular and was pleased to acquire another shirt for his collection.

“Every year is something different,” he said.

“There’s always different people here. Different tattoos, different styles, and different everything.”

Jonathan Lewis, event organizer and a local tattoo artist at 4 Forty 4 Tattoo, helped with event advertising, calling and booking tattoo artists, announcing contests, setting up and offering his work for the charity auction.

“I donate my own work,” Lewis said, referencing silicone tattooed arms donated for contest auctions. “I don’t like to ask others to do something that I’m not willing to do myself.”

Last year, the expo raised over $1,200 for toys for Andrea’s Closet in Tucson Medical Center.

This year, proceeds will be spent the same way to help kids in need.

At the expo, some tattoos would take an hour while others, like those in contests, could take up to five hours or longer.

Amy Lyn, a 24-year-old attendee, was tattooed on her leg for seven hours and said her main form of entertainment was texting, talking and having attendees watch her leg be worked on. “[The decision for] it was spontaneous,” Lyn said. “The last minute of last week. The artist was doing a tattoo convention, and I was like ‘Great, let’s start my leg work.’ It was just something he designed.”

This was tattoo artist Damon Kizer’s second time at the expo, Lyn’s first, and they agreed to meet at the event.

Kizer’s favorite part was having enthusiasts pause to marvel at the process of the piece and placing her piece into one of the contests.

Doc Wells, a 36-year-old tattoo artist and a judge in Saturday’s contests, said he had to avoid bias when evaluating different works in contests.

“Everyone is looking for something different, but we try to get the judges to get on the same page,” Wells said. “We’re looking for technically well-done tattoos. As a tattooer, you should know what a technically well-done tattoo is, but sometimes you’re blind to your own stuff, and you have to be aware of that.”

Different contests throughout the convention included Best Aztec, Best Traditional, Best Color Realism, Best Sleeve and Best Large Color.

For the Kustom Kulture car show, street rods, hot rods, lowriders and vintage vehicles were showcased Saturday, competing for contests ranging from Best Sled to Best Lowrider.

A list of attending artists can be found on the expo’s website at www.tucsontattooexpo.com.

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Lauri Markkanen hosts block party in Tempe

BY SAUL BOOKMAN @saul_bookman

It was a quiet game for Lauri Markkanen and the Arizona men’s basketball team during the first half, but then the Finnish freshman found his rhythm in an unusual way. Markkanen, known mostly as a versatile offensive threat for most of the season, had three blocks in a 73-60 win at ASU Saturday that not only changed the course of the game, but quite possibly the course of the season.

Markkanen had been struggling versus the Sun Devils with his shots the entire game, finishing just 3-for-10 from the floor and 10 points, including going 0-for-5 from 3-point range. However, the mark of every great player is finding ways to impact the game when your best weapon isn’t firing. Cue the defense for Markkanen.

With 10:22 left in the game and Arizona up by 9, ASU’s Shannon Evans dribbled around Markkanen and went to the basket. Like a wolf in sheep’s clothing, Markkanen had set Evans up. What came next was a block so hard you would have thought Arizona just established its own men’s volleyball program.

The block came just after a Keanu Pinder missed layup, which normally would have symbolized a momentum shift in ASU’s favor, but the block thwarted any attempt at a Sun Devil rally. Fast-forward another three minutes, and it was Sun Devil forward Torian Graham’s turn.

“All of a sudden, the switch went on for him and he started to block shots,” said Arizona head coach Sean Miller. “He’s learning how to be more instinctive [and how] to use his size. …

Today he really utilized both of those things to win the game for us.”

Graham slipped a screen and seemingly had a wide-open dunk coming his way, but the Finn wasn’t having it, coming across the court

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LAURI MARKKANEN BLOCKS A shot during the UA-ASU men’s basketball game on March 4 in Wells Fargo Arena. Arizona beat Arizona State 73-60.

and blocking another shot, this time using power to stunt the attempt. It was a series of plays that cemented Arizona’s fourth regular season championship in the Pac-12 under Miller and may spark Markkanen to return to his old self on the offensive side of the ball.

“I think that was some of the best blocks I’ve ever seen,” said sophomore guard Allonzo Trier. “I think he did a great job changing the game for us, and it actually shifted momentum

for us in a big way. Usually you see it on offense, but defensively he changed the game.”

For some players, defense can lead to offense, and Markkanen was notably more aggressive, with a certain swagger about him, after finishing a four-minute period with three blocks and returning the Wildcats to the top of the Pac-12.

“There is so much more than just scoring for Lauri,” said freshman guard Rawle Alkins. “He

can rebound, he can finish around the basket and obviously he can play defense now, too.”

It remains to be seen if Markkanen can take his defense over to the offensive side of the ball, definitely one of the pieces Miller would like to have come tournament time. The thought prior to Saturday was that it would be hard for Arizona to go to the Final Four without Markkanen’s offensive presence, but after a performance such as his against ASU, I’m not so sure.

Softball sweeps Longhorns, O’Toole wins 10th game

BY CHRISTOPHER DEAK @ChrisDeakDW

Arizona softball completed a three-game sweep of the University of Texas Longhorns with a 4-2 victory on Sunday afternoon. Senior ace Danielle O’Toole picked up her 10th victory of the season, tossing her eighth complete game of the season.

After a couple of pitchers’ duels saw both

teams combine for six runs in the first two meetings, a total of five runs were posted in the first inning.

Texas’ Mickenzi Krpec started the scoring with a two-run homer off O’Toole, and the Wildcats trailed for the first time in the series.

O’Toole made a rare mistake hanging a changeup high in the zone to Krpec.

“Ya, I missed [the pitch location], big time,” O’Toole said.

The senior pitcher was able to settle down after the first inning and thought it was important for the Wildcats to claw out three games against an opponent like Texas.

“I think it is important,” O’Toole said.

“Knowing that we can do better and still winning the three games, I think it’s nice.

Knowing that we can all do better and improve is really saying something.”

The Wildcats entered the series averaging

nine runs per game but were limited to three and two runs, respectively, in the first two games by the Texas staff.

Longhorn pitcher Tiarra Davis was unable to keep pace in the circle with O’Toole on Friday afternoon but was spotted a 2-0 lead on Sunday.

Davis struggled to find the zone in the first inning, and the Wildcats were able to post three

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FRESHMAN DIVER CASEY PONTON during the Wildcats meet against the Stanford Cardinals at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center on Jan. 21. Ponton is the only male on the Arizona dive team.

Casey Ponton is a one-man show

BY VARUN IYER @Varuniyer6

Six years ago, a middle school kid was playing soccer for his local team, wondering if he had a future as a soccer player.

Going into seventh grade, Casey Ponton made a decision that would change his life: He would quit playing soccer and pursue another sport.

Today, Ponton is diving at the collegiate level for the UA, and his diving experience is different from most collegiate divers.

Ponton is the only male diver on the Arizona team.

Ponton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and moved to Houston, where he started playing soccer. After a few years of playing, Ponton knew he had to try something new.

“I was a soccer player for a while, and that really wasn’t quite working out the way I wanted it to,” Ponton said. “In about seventh grade, I had a friend that was a diver. He was a bit older than me, but he kind of dragged me out to it. He was like ‘come give it try, come give it a try.’”

Ponton decided to go out with his friend and give diving a chance, which would prove to

be a decision that would change his life.

“My mom was always a swimmer, and she was trying to get me to swim,” Ponton continued. “I just said, ‘no, that’s just not for me,’ and I went out, gave diving a try and it was pretty fun.”

The friend who showed Ponton the ropes in the water is Colton Haffey, a current swimmer on the Texas A&M dive team. Both athletes grew up in the Houston area and are diving at the collegiate level. Unlike Haffey, Ponton can say that he is the only male diver for his entire college.

Being the only male diver for a team presents Ponton with a lot of challenges. Expectations are very high and his room for failure is small. He said that it has its advantages and disadvantages.

“A disadvantage would be, kind of just [not having] a training partner­—someone to bump heads with, someone to push around, someone to keep you motivated on certain days,” Ponton said.

Having a training partner is something that Ponton has never had to deal with before, as he has had a partner to motivate him his entire life.

“I think the guy that has influenced me the most I’d say ... is Josh Davidson, and he’s actually a year younger than me,” Ponton explained. “He just signed to go dive at Florida State University, but he’s always been my partner in crime in diving, and he’s probably the reason why I’ve stayed in it. He’s always been just a little bit better than me, so he pushed and pushed me, and we’ve always kind of competed in practice.”

With Haffey and Davidson, Ponton has always had people to push him and make him

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better. Without another guy in practice to motivate him, Ponton has had to find other ways to motivate himself.

One way Ponton stays driven is remembering the team of people supporting him, including his No. 1 fan: his mom.

“My No. 1 supporter is for sure my mom,” Ponton said. “I figured that’s pretty standard, but yeah, she’s definitely my biggest supporter.”

Ponton’s mom was a very successful athlete on the other end of the pool as a swimmer, which presented a unique challenge for him.

“You know, at times she can be overly supportive,” Ponton admitted. “At times, early on, I would be like, ‘Mom, you don’t know much about diving, you only know anything about swimming.’ So, I had to tell her like ‘just tell me to point my toes and just be my biggest fan,’ so that’s the way it works. She loves coming out here to Tucson to see me dive ... and she’s so supportive and wants me to enjoy it. As long as I’m having fun, she’s happy.”

Just like any other incoming freshman, Ponton had a big decision to make after his senior year of high school: What comes next? With so many options, Ponton turned his attention to the UA to continue his diving career.

“I loved Tucson—wonderful weather and just a happy place to be,” Ponton said. “I really liked the coach [dive coach Omar Ojeda]. Coaching was a big part of me coming here; he’s one of the top coaches in the country. And I think he’s one of the top coaches in the world for sure. He’s a very tough coach, but he’s very knowledgeable.”

Ojeda, has been the head coach for Arizona since 2011. Just like Ponton, Ojeda began his diving career at the UA and is one of the most successful divers in school history. Ojeda was a five-time NCAA AllAmerican and a two-time Pac-10 Athlete of the Year.

Three years before his hire, Ojeda was inducted in to the UA Hall of Fame.

Ponton has nothing but high praise about his current head coach.

“He’s very knowledgeable; you can trust him, and that was a big reason I came here,” Ponton said. “He believes I have a lot of potential, and I do as well. He saw that potential, and that’s something that I picked up on. He told me, ‘You have so much potential to improve, and I can help you improve.’ To me, that was a big thing. There’s a lot of divers that will go to college and just stay stagnant, and that wasn’t a situation I wanted to be in.”

Working with Ojeda has done wonders for Ponton’s freshman year, as he has shown improvement in every meet he has competed in since November.

Ponton has set his career highs in points in the team’s last meet against ASU, where he finished with a score of 283.43 in the one meter and 343.95 in the three meter.

As for being the only male on the diving team, Ponton continues to stay positive, and it has not impacted his results at all. Ponton said that his coach and his teammates are two of the biggest advantages.

“I get a lot of one-on-one time with my coach, and that’s a big advantage for sure. It helps you stay focused and prioritized,” Ponton said. “Sometimes the girls drive me crazy a bit, but that’s alright. I love the girls to death; it definitely wouldn’t be the same without them.”

Ponton hopes he will continue to grow and improve as a diver as he spends more time with Ojeda. If Ponton can have similar successes to Ojeda, the Arizona dive team is in good hands.

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FRESHMAN CASEY PONTON DIVES at the Hillenbrand Aquatic Center.

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GymCat seniors honored in last home meet

BY MATT WALL @mwall20

In what would be their final time in McKale Center this season, Arizona gymnastics fell to in-state rival ASU 195.700-195.375 on Senior Day in front of an announced crowd of 2,410.

Overall, head coach Tabitha Yim said she was disappointed in the final results of the meet.

“We’ve worked really hard and had been trying to build toward the end of the season,” Yim said. “I really expected more and was hoping to send the seniors out in a stronger fashion. We are going to have to go back and work harder and get better. It’s not what we are looking for, and it’s not what is expected at this point in the season.”

The meet would be the last in McKale Center for seniors Gabrielle Laub, Selynna Felix-Terrazas and Krysten Howard.

“Our seniors are incredible athletes, incredible students and incredible people,” Yim said. “To watch them grow over the last two years that I’ve been here, I’m just so proud that they are representing this program and this university.”

The seniors entered the meet arm in arm in front of the Wildcat crowd, alongside senior team manager Courtney Buchanan.

“It kind of was very symbolic,” Howard said. “We walked into this program together and we are walking out together.”

Following the meet, all four seniors were presented with GymCat leotards and frames with their families beside them.

“I had the time of my life competing

with a family that has given me the best four years of my life,” Howard said. “I’m just so happy that I could close out my senior year in McKale with them.”

The Wildcats kicked off the meet on vault, accumulating a total score of 48.925 behind big performances from the GymCat freshmen. Freshman Heather Swanson and Jenny Leung tallied scores of 9.825 and 9.800, respectively. Junior Madison Cindric completed her routine with a score of 9.800.

Next, Arizona moved onto the uneven bars, totaling a team score of 48.700.

Howard started the Wildcats off with a 9.875. Felix-Terrazas tallied a score of 9.825, while junior Victoria Ortiz concluded the rotation with a 9.925.

In the rotation, Arizona faced two falls by freshman Christina Berg and sophomore Haylie Hendrickson.

The Wildcats headed to beam for the third rotation. Howard and Hendrickson led the way with scores of 9.825. Junior Kennady Schneider finished her routine with a 9.800. The Wildcats faced two more falls by Ortiz and Cindric. Overall, Arizona tallied a team score of 48.550.

“It’s four years of my life coming to a close,” Laub said. “Four years that I will never forget. We stayed together up until the last floor routine. That was something that was really special.”

Arizona concluded the meet on floor rotation with a total team score of 49.200.

Howard finished with a team high of 9.925, and she pounded the mat to finish off her final routine in McKale Center.

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ARIZONA SENIORS GABRIELLE LAUB ,left, Krysten Howard, middle, and Selynna Felix-Terrazas (right) are honored during senior night in McKale Center.

“I do my cat claw at the end of my floor routine, which is something my coaches gave to me my senior year,” Howard said.

“My emotion with that being my last floor routine, I just had to hit the floor a little bit.”

Sophomore Lauryn Mattson nailed her floor routine with a 9.875. Schenider rounded out the mix with a 9.900.

Laub concluded the meet with a selfwritten song titled “Fearless,” breaking into tears as she hugged her teammates.

“For those of you who have followed us throughout the season, it’s obvious that we have had a lot of injuries and many things we have had to overcome,” Laub said. “We have done it. Every meet, we have had to overcome something a little bit more, and we did it fearlessly.”

The Wildcats will conclude their regular season against Brigham Young on March 10 at 7 p.m. in Provo, Utah.

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runs on just two hits.

Leadoff batter Mandie Perez walked, and after a fly out, Alyssa Palomino reached on Davis’s second free pass of the inning. Katiyana Mauga blooped one between the shortstop and left fielder, and the Longhorns made a throwing error that cost them two runs.

Mo Mercado smacked a single to move Mauga to third, and Jessie Harper gave the Wildcats a 3-2 lead with an RBI single that scored Mauga.

A one-run cushion was all O’Toole needed.

After giving up two earned runs in the first inning, O’Toole shut out the Longhorns for the final six frames. Texas threatened to score against the Wildcats in the fifth after a leadoff single, and an O’Toole error had runners at first and second with no one out, but consecutive strikeouts got O’Toole out of the jam. She escaped the inning with the bases loaded and allowed just one more base runner over the final two frames.

The Wildcats scored a sweep in their first series of the season, and Arizona head coach Mike Candrea was pleased with the way his team found ways to win all weekend and noted how important the three-game stretch was for his freshmen.

“Don’t lose sight of the fact that we won three games,” Candrea said when asked about his lineup struggling for the majority of the weekend. “That’s what our goal is. I think more than anything it gives our young kids a chance to play a threegame series and feel what it’s like.”

The Wildcats hit the road for three weeks beginning with the California State University-Northridge and Loyola Marymount University tournament in Northridge, California. The Wildcats open their six-game schedule on Friday, March 10, against the CSUN Matadors at 11:30 a.m. MST.

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ARIZONA PITCHER DANIELLE O’TOOLE (3) during the Wildcats’ softball game against the Texas Longhorns on March 5 at Hillenbrand Stadium. Arizona beat Texas 4-2.

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