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Veterans seek solace in Israel experience

BY ROCKY BAIER @prof_roxy

In an effort to spread the word and help other veterans, two soldiers spoke to students at the Hillel Center and the Jewish Medical Student Association about their experiences with posttraumatic stress disorder, a visit to Israel and the Heroes to Heroes Foundation on March 21.

Heroes to Heroes is a non-profit organization that strives to provide support for veterans suffering from PTSD or “moral injuries,” injuries to one’s conscience. In order to do this, they send veterans of any religion to Israel to visit holy sites for therapy and to meet both American and Israeli veterans from the Israeli Defense Force.

Sergio Lopez, one of the veterans who spoke, served as a U.S. Army staff sergeant with the 104 Airborne division from 2003-2010 in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was injured by an improvised explosive device that exploded underneath a vehicle he was riding in. From his traumatic experiences during deployment and his injury, he developed PTSD. According to evidence collected by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, traumatic experiences can lead to diminished faith in religious individuals.

Lopez said he has experienced this many times while overseas.

“One day you’re talking to a buddy and the next day he’s either hurt or he’s gone,” Lopez said. “It kind of takes you through a roller coaster of emotions.”

Lopez first shot someone in self-defense. He didn’t know how to process it, so he went to the chaplain of his unit for advice.

“These things happen in war and God understands and he’ll forgive you,” the chaplain told him, but Lopez didn’t want to accept that.

He still hasn’t found the answer to reconciling his faith with his deployment.

“I obviously believe in God and my faith was deeply rooted in my religion, especially when we were deployed and we were overseas,” Lopez said.

“I guess like everybody you look up to a higher power when you’re in that type of situation, when you’re scared, when you’re alone. “ In order to move past the experience, Lopez has focused his efforts on doing more volunteer work in his community.

The other speaker was Angel Rivera, who served as a staff sergeant in the Army. He is still living with PTSD after the trip to Israel, just a diminished form of it. After his experience, he’s no longer prone to lashing out but still has many sleepless nights.

Both veterans dealt with similar forms of PTSD. They isolated themselves from their families, friends and the outside world because they got agitated easily. As the years go by, it becomes normal to stay at home day after day, only going out at odd hours to the least amount of people.

Rivera said he can see events from his service very clearly, especially moments when people he served with died.

“I close my eyes, I hear it, I see it,” Rivera said. “That’s not an experience that I would want anybody to see.”

To help with their recovery, both went to Israel with Heroes to Heroes. Rivera, who was not religious before the trip, described the experience as the trip of a lifetime.

“My soul got laid,” he said. “I was walking through there light-footed.”

During his trip, he was baptized in the Jordan River.

“Came up, and it was like it washed some of the anger off,” Rivera said.

When he deals with hardships at home, he can always look at pictures on his phone or message the veterans he met to feel better.

Both of them noted that the media make the VA out to be worse than it is.

“I go to the Bronx VA, there’s an excellent staff there” Rivera said. “ You hear on the news that veterans are getting screwed here and screwed there, and I haven’t dealt with that yet.”

The only thing that Lopez would change is that he wishes information for help would be more readily available, but he said the VA provides adequate suuport for veterans returning from deployment.

Both of them stressed that if anyone knows someone who is suffering from PTSD tohead to heroestoheroes.org to learn more about Heroes to Heroes.

“It was a blessing going up there, and I would go up there again in a heartbeat,” Rivera said. “Can’t find a cheeseburger, but that’s alright.”

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Green Fund accepting committee applications

BY MARISSA HEFFERNAN @_mheffernan

Applications for the Green Fund Committee are now open until the deadline, March 31 at 11:59 p.m.

The Green Fund is a $400,000 fund collected from student fees. The committee provides funding in the form of mini-grants and annual grants.

Mini-grants are for projects that will be completed by June 30 and have a cap of $1,500 per project. Annual grants are given once per year to projects that could take a year or longer. The annual grants for projects directed by or with UA employees vary in amount.

All projects need to improve sustainability at the UA by increasing renewable energy and efficiency, reducing waste, promoting water conservation or education, research and outreach initiatives.

Environmental studies senior Diego Martinez-Lugo, this year’s vice chair of the Green Fund Committee, said the work the committee does is vital.

“This is an important structure to have students dictate how the money is used,” Martinez-Lugo said. “It’s really important work, and I love the dialogue.”

Larissa Lee, a second-semester graduate student studying natural resources, joined

the committee in January after seeing an opening on the School of Natural Resources and the Environment listserv. She was excited to learn more about the Fund.

“It’s so amazing that we have a sustainability fund—$40,000 annually is huge,” Lee said. “It’s student fee money, so these are student decisions. It’s great that I get to support those things. We’re recruiting the next leaders in sustainability.”

The Green Fund Committee is comprised of 10 students: six members elected at-large, through the above application, two elected by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona and two by the Graduate and Professional Student Council. Committee members can be undergraduate or graduate students and do not have to be in any specific field of study. The only requirements are that applicants have a GPA of 2.0 or higher, have paid the UA registration fee and are not on academic probation.

Julia Rudnick, coordinator of campus sustainability programs, said the Green Fund Committee is looking to get members from as many areas of campus as possible to get a diverse way of thinking about campus and sustainability.

“I encourage everyone to apply, regardless of interest in environmental science, because this is fee-based,”

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Trump’s budget cuts university research funding

BY RANDALL ECK @reck999

The Trump administration’s proposed 2018 federal budget, released March 16, does not reduce deficit spending, but rather redistributes discretionary funding to reflect Trump’s campaign priorities.

The administration’s proposed cuts could significantly decrease UA’s capacity to fund research and development projects on campus.

The budget calls for an additional $52 billion, a 9-percent increase, to be allocated to the Defense Department to increase U.S. military capacity and fulfill Trump’s promise to increase American prosperity through increased security.

The budget increases Department of Homeland Security spending by $2.8 billion to fund the construction of a border wall and the hiring of additional border and customs agents.

The administration is calling for a 6-percent increase in funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs in order to expand and modernize VA services.

In an effort to maintain current levels of deficit spending, the Trump administration proposed marginal to significant cuts to the remaining federal agencies.

According to Jen Peng, a professor at the School of Government and Public Policy, “Congress is unlikely to adopt the budget” due to concerns over these radical cuts.

Five departments would see budget cuts of over 15 percent: • The State Department, -29 percent • Agriculture Department, -21 percent • Labor Department, -21 percent • Department of Health and Human Services, -18 percent • Commerce Department,-16 percent In 2015, the UA received over 39 percent of federal research and development grants from these five departments.

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demonstrate they’re committed to the Green Fund’s mission.

Martinez-Lugo added passion for environmentalism or sustainability to the list. He also said representatives from any green community group that’s underrepresented are strong candidates.

Martinez-Lugo himself joined to ensure the committee had a “more equitable balance of students of color.”

“I was very involved in other green things on campus, like Students for Sustainability, which seeks considerable funding from the Green Fund,” MartinezLugo said. “It seemed like a great opportunity to get involved in a more administrative role.”

The most recent data from the NSF in 2014 shows around 43 percent of research expenditures at the UA have federal obligations, making it the largest single source of funding.

“It is hard to imagine the proposed cuts will be sustained by Congress, but it is not hard to imagine that we are going to have to justify every federal dollar we are spending on research,” said Neal Armstrong, regents professor and associate vice president of UA Research, Discovery and Innovation.

He expects the agencies that fund university research will be required to be strategic and make cuts to previously funded programs.

“We need to be sensitive to the fact that these are somebody’s tax dollars we are spending and not an entitlement for the research community,” Armstrong said.

The EPA (-31 percent) and NASA (-1 percent), cut in Trump’s budget, as well as the National Science Foundation, not mentioned in the budget, accounted for over 41 percent of federal R&D grants at the UA in 2015.

Departments with an increased budget in the proposal accounted for over 8 percent of grants to the UA in 2015.

According to the Arizona Board of Regents, the UA plans to spend an estimated $639 million on research and development projects in the 2017 fiscal year. Around 50 percent of this funding is anticipated to come from federal grants, with about half coming from the NIH alone.

“Smaller pools of money means less will go to the universities,” said Kimberly Espy, senior vice president for research at the UA. The UA is a public research institution, ranked in the top 40 for research expenditures.

It is hard to predict the effect of these cuts, but faculty at the UA have been

Rudnick said every student should have the opportunity to be on a committee.

“Students are here to get life experience, and this is the second biggest financial decision students will make, besides buying a house,” Rudnick said. “How often can you say ‘I gave away $400,000 this year?’”

Being a Green Fund Committee member requires one hour per week at meetings for most of the year to read and decide minigrants. Three meetings per month are closed to the public and one is open.

In February and March, meetings change to three hours, all closed, to review the annual grants that were due in January, Martinez-Lugo said.

“That’s when the Green Fund Committee requires a significant amount of time, energy and patience,” Martinez-Lugo said.

Lee said during those busy months, time is required outside of meetings as well.

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successful in producing innovative ideas and receiving competitive grants in the past, Espy said.

For Armstrong, these cuts serve as a wake-up call to researchers. Researchers must be flexible and able to pivot their work to align with the priorities of the new administration. He said researchers must also work to brand their research to the public in order to keep the public informed on how their tax dollars are spent.

“People are being routinely saved by new medical technologies and new understandings of biological systems,” Armstrong said. “A lot of those innovations came out of universities settings from federally sponsored research programs.”

Beyond the research, federal grants significantly impact the local communities,

which are home to research universities.

According to a 2014 UA Impact Study, federal R&D dollars generate $1.2 billion in economic impact and, according to a 2015 NSF survey, contribute 7,800 jobs.

Along with damaging local communities, cuts to research could decrease the output of educated students, the “most important product of research on this campus,” according to Armstrong.

In the face of cuts, Armstrong said the UA could turn more to private institutions and industry to maintain its research status, but the transition will be challenging.

“I am not happy about these proposed cuts, but on the other hand, it is not time give up, but instead Bear Down,” Armstrong said.

“It takes some time to read over the grants,” Lee said. “We usually read about eight before each closed meeting in our busy months, so about two hours, plus the three hour meeting. We always have to take into consideration how many students are affected and the overall student impact on sustainability. We have to represent campus and what we think the students want.”

Rudnick said students who are on the committee learn skills like group work, negotiation, how to have an effective meeting and leadership.

“This is how a student can leave a legacy,” Rudnick said. “You say when you graduate, ‘I got a lot from the university, but what did I leave behind?’ You get to choose your impact, and the impact of the Green Fund Committee is that it allows students, faculty and staff the ability to

work with each other and on sustainability projects that benefit the campus, the community and the students.”

According to Martinez-Lugo and Rudnick, the application is straightforward and not too lengthy, only requiring a resume, two references, answers to a few questions and background information.

Rudnick recommended thinking about personal value when applying.

“Everyone is apt to say what they will get out of it, but say what you’ll bring to the table,” Rudnick said. “Tell them what you’ll add to the committee.”

Martinez-Lugo had more technical advice: Fill out the application on Google Drive, then copy it into the form, because the website times out and will delete entered information. The application form can be found online, and selections will be announced in mid-April.

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POLICE BEAT

BY ANGELA MARTINEZ @anmartinez2120

Reefer reel A University of Arizona Police Department officer noticed a white Toyota Corolla enter the parking garage between two large “do not enter” signs, while driving down Tyndall Avenue on March 4.

The officer pulled the car over and as soon as he stood next to the door he noticed a strong smell of marijuana.

He asked the driver if there was any marijuana in the car and she said no.

He then identified the driver by a drivers license. He asked the driver and passenger to exit and sit on the ground next to the vehicle.

He searched the car and found the marijuana in a plastic bag under the drivers seat.

He read both of the vehicle’s occupants their Miranda rights and began to question them.

At first, the driver answered the officer that one of her friends left the marijuana in her car but later admitted it was hers.

The driver told the officer she smoked it four hours prior at a movie theater. The passenger also admitted to smoking it at the theaters with their other friends.

The officer told the driver she was being arrested, cited and released for possession of marijuana.

The marijuana weighed in at 0.3 grams outside of the bag and was submitted into evidence.

Exam exhaustion A UAPD officer reported to Tyndall Avenue Parking Garage in response to a woman hysterically crying next to an emergency blue light phone on March 3.

As the officer spoke with the woman, she revealed she was a UA student who had just failed her pharmacology exam and thought about jumping off the top of the garage to “end it all.”

The officer noticed a smell of alcohol coming from the student; she told the officer she had three drinks earlier at Frog and Firkin.

She expressed her concerns and said she was afraid of being a failure in her parents’ eyes so she turned to drinking to relive her stress.

She stopped crying and agreed to sit in the officer’s vehicle and speak to him. The officer drove her down to speak with two members of a behavioral health organization.

After that, she agreed to seek help at the crisis resource center where she was released.

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Trump could improve U.S. relation with Israel

BY VICTOR GARCIA @VicGarcia96

Unlike Donald Trump’s predecessors, the new administration has a commitment to Israel’s sociopolitical struggle and has a good chance in succeeding, according to professor Shai Feldman from Brandeis University.

Feldman, who teaches at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies, spoke about Trump’s current take on U.S. involvement in the Middle East at the Jeffrey Plevan Memorial.

“There are some aspects of [Trump’s] particular character that paradoxically may actually be helpful,” Feldman said.

“That’s my counterfactual talk.”

The University of Arizona’s Center for Judaic Studies hosted their fourth annual Jeffrey Plevan Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, focusing on President Donald Trump’s current and future policies in the Middle East, led by professor Feldman.

“We like to put on events like this because it is a topic of interest for a lot of people,” said John Winchester, outreach coordinator for the Center for Judaic Studies. “Especially with all the stuff going on in the Middle East, here and locally, with two bomb threats at the Jewish Community Center and the Muslim Community Center also being vandalized.”

Winchester emphasized how the Judaic Studies Department likes to bring academic scholars like Feldman, who is the “cream of the crop” according to Winchester, to speak about current issues, like relations between the Middle East and the United States.

According to Feldman, the attempts in the last 25 years to resolve the conflicts within the Middle East have all failed.

“Contrary of what you may have heard, U.S.-Israeli

defense and intelligence cooperation have never been as close as they’ve ever been since eight years of the Obama administration,” Feldman said. “What Obama has miserably failed is to convey the emotional feeling of his commitment to Israel and his attachment.”

Feldman emphasized how Trump called the Israeli and Palestine issue the “bigger deal” and how he spoke to members of the American Jewish community about his emotional tie to their struggle and commitment to Israel.

This is something that, according to Feldman’s lecture, is something the Obama administration and others before him failed to do.

“Against all of the expert opinion, if you read articles of the Washington Post and the New York Times, especially the journals on foreign policy and international affairs, I actually think that President Trump has a chance,” Feldman said.

The lecture series is named after Jeffrey Plevan, a UA graduate with a degree in history and Minor in Judaic Studies. Although he had a learning disability, he overcame the obstacles thanks to the support of his professor and programs at the university. In 2013, Plevan died of a heart attack at the age of 36.

“He felt like he was part of the academic life here,” said Plevan’s parents, Ken and Betsy Plevan. “ As big as the school was, he found friends and organizations; he was active in his fraternity and this became a real home for him.”

Plevan was the president of the MetroCats, the New York chapter of the alumni association, when he died.

According to his parents, Plevan worked as a professional in the Jewish community because it was “what he loved.”

“He was a real success story,” said Deborah Kaye, one of

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Plevan’s professors. “This is in memory of such a wonderful UA alum. His legacy is for peace and for understanding. His interests were for Judaism and its politics.”

Jeffrey would visit the UA once a year to show pride in his school, and as for his commitment to the Jewish community, once every two years he took a trip to Israel.

Plevan’s parents said Jeffrey would be an outspoken individual against the current president.

“His parents under-right this lecture and we try to contribute and donate to it anyway we can,” Kaye said.

“The purpose of this memorial lecture is to bring the most current topics since, according to Kaye, Jeffrey loved Judaic studies and was actively involved in the Jewish community.

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Four reasons not to push mongo when you skate

BY ISAAC ANDREWS @Issacandone

We’ve all seen them around campus: students pushing their skateboards, longboards and penny boards around in a technique that looks like the board is towing the skater along and he or she is desperately pushing to keep up.

This is called pushing mongo.

Mongo-pushers use their front foot to push the board forward, while their back foot remains on the back of the board. The other type of pushing, known as regular pushing, is when a skateboarder pushes the board forward with their back foot, while their front foot rests near the frontcenter of the board.

Pushing, stance and style differ greatly between longboarders and skateboarders. Some longboarders, especially downhill riders, prefer to push mongo because they believe they gain momentum and aerodynamics. In Tucson, however, there are few hills around campus.

Here are four reasons riders should stop pushing mongo: 1. It looks silly Riders push mongo to try to steer their board while pushing, which is risky and looks extremely whacky. If you don’t want to look inexperienced, like you are snowshoeing on concrete or cross-country skiing with a single ski, stop pushing mongo.

Kyle Joyner is a local Tucson skater who rides for the BLX Skateshop team. Joyner said he has been skateboarding for about 18 years and riding for the BLX team for about four years. His stance has been regular since day one, meaning he leads with his left foot.

Joyne mainly does street skating, with a little transition mixed in, and he occasionally rides longboards for transportation. Joyner pushes regular, with his back foot.

“First of all, it’s the right way to push because it’s easier to control, you go faster [and] you won’t fall as easily,” Joyner said. “It looks way better; mongo just looks ugly.”

2. It’s a bad habit Joyner said he pushed mongo for almost two years when he first started skating.

“At first it was not easy to get used to pushing regular,” Joyner said. “If you force yourself and just keep pushing with that foot, you’ll get used to it and it will be your dominant foot.”

Joyner said riders looking to switch to pushing regular from mongo have to work on riding that way.

“You’ve just got to force yourself into it; you’ve just got to do it cold turkey,” Joyner said.

3. It can be harder to stay steady If riders encounter a rock or crack and fall while pushing mongo, their board is likely to shoot out in front of them and take out the ankles of the unfortunate pedestrian walking in front of them. If riders take a spill while pushing regular, they may be able to just hop off, or at least not have to witness the maiming of the ankles belonging to the pedestrian walking behind them.

Anna Aloma, a sophomore studying chemical engineering, has been skating for about a year; she uses a longboard to commute to class.

Aloma pushes regular, and her stance is goofy, meaning when she rides forward, her right foot is in the front of the board.

Aloma said if she pushed with her right (back) leg she would feel like she was going to fall off.

“I trust my right leg to [stay] on the board; I just feel more stable that way,” Aloma said.

4. Style matters.

Skateboarding is like weight lifting; it’s a personal sport. If you push mongo and you are a skilled rider, keep doing you.

However, style is a very important part of skateboarding. The Street League Skateboarding competition accounts style points into scoring of their Run Section competition.

In Tony Hawk’s Trick Tips Vol. 1, a VHS instructional video released in 2000, Hawk said mongo pushing is the most common pushing mistake you can make in skateboarding.

“You get much less control; you don’t get as much speed; you have to set up your feet more when you stop the push, and we do not recommend it,” Hawk said in the video.

So, if you are a beginner at skateboarding, don’t start off on the wrong foot. Don’t push mongo.

If you need pseudo-mnemonic device to help you remember which pushing technique is the proper one, just remember this: mongo is wrongo.

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ALBERT KLINE PUSHES HIS penny board regularly while riding home along the UA Mall on Tuesday, March 21.

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Regular riders lead with their left foot forward.

Goofy riders lead with their right foot forward.

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Regular pushing uses the back foot to push the board.

Mongo pushing uses the front foot to push the board.

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Style is the aesthetic quality involved in a skater’s riding, pushing and tricks.

Street skaters perform tricks that can be replicated in public places.

Transition skaters use ramps, like halfpipes, to perform tricks.

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Longboards are the longer, heavier boards designed for downhill, freeriding, slides and transportation Penny, or nickel, boards are the small, foot-sized, usually plastic boards used for transportation.

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ANNA ALOMA, A SOPHOMORE in chemical engineering, rides her longboard along the UA Mall on Tuesday, March 21. She has been skateboarding for about a year.

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People you meet hitchhiking through Arizona Daily Wildcat reporter Steven Spooner recounts his adventures of a hitchhiking trip through Arizona to the Grand Canyon and back over spring break

BY STEVEN SPOONER @Stev_spooner

Sunday morning began with two eggs, a cup of coffee and an empty 90-liter backpack. The plan was to go hitchhiking around the state. I packed up, jumped in my car and parked it at the Linda Vista Trailhead, where it would sit until I returned, whenever that would be. I walked out to Oracle Road, threw a thumb up at around 2 p.m., and the trip began.

To my surprise, it only took about 10 minutes to get my first ride. A pickup truck with a camper on the back pulled off the road.

After a brief introduction, the driver, Deborah Oslik, began asking me questions. After explaining that I was a university student on spring break, her tension eased, and I got my chance to ask her about why she was willing to pick me up.

“We’re just so busy, focused on ourselves,” Oslik said. “It’s nice to prioritize someone else without planning it.”

She explained that she used to hitchhike a little, mostly around national parks where she felt safer doing so. About 20 minutes later, she dropped me off at the outskirts of Oracle, Arizona.

Not too much later, I got a ride from a white Toyota Tacoma. It was an older model, sitting low to the ground, with a camper on the back.

An old man with a hearing aid and a couple cuts on his cleanly bald head offered to take me to the other end of Oracle, where I might better be able to get a ride.

Peter, 74, started talking right when I got in the car. He lived alone in Oracle in a small house with a big yard. I know this because he invited me there for a beer. I had a good feeling about Peter, so I accepted.

He was really excited to have someone to talk to. He talked my ear off for the next half hour all about old friends he used to have, including his best friend Danny.

He offered to take me all the way out to Mammoth, Arizona. I of course took him up on that offer.

We got to talk for about another half hour before he dropped me off on the far side of Mammoth. He gave me his number in case I was ever in Oracle and left for home.

Just before the sun set, a white Chevy truck pulled over about an hour later and let me in. This was

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UDDYALOK BANERJEE PHOTOGRAPHS THE Grand Canyon at sunset on March 13. Banerjee is a hobby photographer.

how I got a ride all the way up to Snowflake, a little town just out of Show Low. The driver told me his name was Matt Smith.

Smith said he did electrical and radio contracting for a living.

He spends much of his free time brewing his own beer and building his own airplane. I asked if he had a pilot’s license. He said he doesn’t.

It was dark when we got to Snowflake. He let me off in the city, but close to the edge on the 77, leading up to Holbrook. I started walking out along the highway. I put on a headlamp and tried to hitch a ride but didn’t expect to get one so late.

I was right: the only person to pull over was a police officer, who ran my ID and questioned me before leaving. I cowboy-camped that night in some juniper trees. The next morning, I packed up quickly and got my thumb back up. It wasn’t too long until a gray Ford Focus pulled over to give me a ride.

A middle-aged woman offered me a ride to Holbrook. The inside of her car was clean with a breathalyzer attached to the ignition. She told me her name was Ida, a single mother with four kids.

She made a joke about the

breathalyzer, saying that at least I know she’s sober. According to her, she received a DUI when she drove from a bar to keep her friend from killing himself.

“It was irresponsible, but I would do it again,” Ida said.

After waiting a few hours in Holbrook, a clean yellow truck with veteran stickers on the back window pulled over.

Danny “Jeremie” Washburn, 69, offered me a ride to Flagstaff; he was headed through on his way to Las Vegas.

I asked him if he ever got nervous picking up hitchhikers.

“No, I have a gun,” he said.

He dropped me off in downtown FlagstaffAfter two rides and more waiting, a white four-door sedan pulled over and let me in.

William was the driver, a man in his late 40s wearing a bandanna with a blond braided tail coming down from the back.

William said he picks up hitchhikers on this route all the time, saying he figured I worked at the Grand Canyon. William hitchhiked all over the country when he was young.

“It was a little different back then,” William said, mentioning how tuckers usually picked up

hitchhikers for the company to keep them awake. Nowadays, it’s against company policy. He spoke with a tone of nostalgia, as though reminiscing on a dying age.

He dropped me off in Valle, where I waited about half an hour for a ride. This time, an orange Range Rover pulled off the highway.

Kelly was a 58-year-old “hippy” who currently lives and works in the national park.

She seemed very comfortable picking me up.

“I don’t feel threatened, this is my neighborhood,” Kelly said.

Kelly ended up being a real stroke of luck. Since she was a resident, we took a resident entrance into the park where we didn’t have to pay to enter.

After being dropped off, I had enough sunlight to hike the along the South Rim and get to a viewing point for sunset. After the sun went down, I took a shuttle out that Kelly mentioned to Tusayan.

I camped on a ranger forest service road, and the next morning, I was back looking for a ride. This time, a white pickup truck offered to get me back down to Flagstaff.

I asked John, the driver, to drop me off on the exit to the 89A to Sedona. My thinking was that I might get a ride from someone going

all the way to Tucson from Sedona. It was not a good decision.

I ended up getting three different rides just to the end of Sedona. I got one more ride from an Ecuadorian man named Claudia in a gray station wagon, who came to Arizona over 20 years ago without knowing a lick of English. He gave me a ride out to the I-17 despite it being out of his way. I couldn’t thank him enough.

Later, once I got to the interstate, it took me 20 or so minutes to get a ride. Two guys, covered in tattoos, open beer in the driver’s hand, picked me up and took me to Camp Verde.

They gave me a cold beer and let me out at the gas station next to the ramp for the I-17.

Just before the sun disappeared over the mountains to my south, a brown truck with various Arizonathemed bumper stickers on the back pulled over. That was how I got down to Phoenix.

Mike, a 20-year-old trip guide, was coming back from kayaking rapids trip. Mike was the youngest person to ever pick me up, in fact the only person in my age demographic ever to do so. He dropped me off somewhere in Phoenix, leaving me a business card in case I ever wanted to hire him for a trip.

In Phoenix, a friend gave me a place to stay and dropped me off at Apache Junction on the US 60. I got two rides that took me just past the Arizona Renaissance Festival.

It took me over an hour to finally get my last ride. A small red truck pulled over. The driver said he was going to Tucson.

After throwing my pack in the bed and jumping in the passenger seat, my excitement snapped to caution when I saw a handgun sitting in his lap. Maybe I should have gotten out, but before I could make a decision the car was already moving.The car was covered in Star Wars stickers.

After a quick introduction, the driver grabbed the gun, told me not to worry and put it in the side pocket of the driver side door.

Ryan Churchhill, he said his name was, spent a decent amount of time in Europe living out of a backpack and hitchhiking. He also talked a lot about his 7-year-old daughter and how she reads at a ninth-grade level.

He gave me a ride all the way back to my car parked at Linda Vista. Just like that I was back at my car at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

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MARIA JOSE CUEVAS ADDRESSING the audience at the Tucson Museum of Art on Wednesday, March 22. Jose Cuevas was giving a talk on her latest film, “Bellas de Noche/Beauties of the Night.”

Tucson Cine Mexico kicks off with filmmaker talk

BY KIRSHANA GUY @DailyWildcat

The Tucson Cine Mexico 2017 festival kicked off with an Artist/Filmmaker Talk with “Bellas de Noche/Beauties of the Night” filmmaker Maria José Cuevas and University of Texas at Austin associate professor Laura Gutiérrez on March 22.

During the talk at the Tucson Museum of Art, the two women spoke how “vedettes,” Spanish for stars on stage or television, changed the way we used to see women. Cuevas said vedettes were the nightlife of Mexico.

Cuevas began attending the family-friendly versions of shows featuring vedettes with her father when she was 10 years old.

From the ‘30s to the ‘80s, the public could see that as time passed, the vedettes became more provocative, or “more risqué,” according to Gutierrez. However, after the ‘80s, there were no such thing as vedettes. Cuevas explained that around 1985, an earthquake devastated Mexico, destroying many buildings, even the cabarets.

Cuevas has spent the last 10 years collecting research on the women portrayed in the documentary. She has a collection of countless iconic images, including a more recent image of five women embracing the limelight in their 70s.

Gutiérrez, a former professor at UA and currently an associate professor in Latin American Performance Studies at the Univerisity of Texas at Austin, was eager to speak alongside Cuevas about their individual research.

Gutierrez had been a part of the festival committee while living here in Arizona. She said the significance of the conversation for Cuevas’s documentary was the extensive archival research that had been done.

Gutiérrez also said the significance of the event was to highlight thatsome figures

researched had been looked down upon or easily dismissed because of the way they functioned within Mexican culture.

“Basically, they were the sources of entertainment for male pleasure specifically,” Gutiérrez said.

She’s also interested in story logging with Cuevas to try and create a kind of lineage in these figures and their Mexican cultural landscape, specifically, because Cuevas has done research on women from the ‘70s and ‘80s, where Gutierrez mostly works from the ‘40s to ‘60s.

Gutiérrez hopes people understand the importance of the type of archival research that looks at figures who are not necessarily prominent or elite in the cultural field, but are in the second or third tier of hierarchies to come away with a more democratic understanding.

She also hopes the audience looks at the women from the documentary now as they have had to overcome obstacles and reinvent themselves in a different historical moment.

“I think there is something really inspiring about the way these women continue to hold themselves up,” Gutiérrez said.

When asked about the significance of the festival she said, “I think Tucson Cine Mexico provides a great opportunity to explore the diversity of Mexican culture, and to find out what is happening in contemporary filmmaking in Mexico, and there is a lot happening.”

This year’s festival had support from the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, the Institute for LGBT Studies, the Southwest Center and other sponsors, according to Kerryn Negus, assistant director of the Hanson Film Institute.

The festival premiere of “Bellas de Noche/ Beauties of the Nigh,” is Friday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. Tickets to the festival are free. To learn more about the festival or to get your tickets visit http:// www.tucsoncinemexico.org/.

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Women have a right to over-the-counter birth control

BY CLAUDIA DRACE @DailyWildcat

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ex is taboo in American culture, creating misconceptions about contraceptive access for adult and adolescent women.

The rise in education surrounding birth control methods has decreased unplanned pregnancy rates drastically in recent years.

Unintended pregnancy rates have been declining for both adult women and teens in recent years. According to NPR, the teen pregnancy rate for girls between the ages 15 and 19 has decreased by 36 percent between 2007 and 2013, and the abortion rate is at an all-time low.

Even with the decrease in unintended pregnancies, the amount is not as low as it could be with a greater use of contraceptives.

Greater access to contraceptives would have so many more benefits than consequences for women that are not currently intending to have children.

According to a paper from Johns Hopkins, there is no correlation between access to contraceptives and increased promiscuity or riskier sex. Plus, condoms are readily available at most stores, so limited access to birth control is not going to stop people from having sex.

It is frustrating for women to obtain birth control because, in most states, it has to be prescribed by a doctor, and many teen girls do not feel comfortable getting birth control because of the social stigmas surrounding contraceptives at home.

This means that, because of sex culture in the United States, teens are more likely to only use condoms or have unprotected sex than adults are. Even though condoms do prevent unplanned pregnancy and are much more effective in STD prevention than birth control, they should not be the only form of contraceptives used.

A misconception about female birth control is that people will be less likely to use a condom while they are on birth control, making them more prone to STDs. However, the Johns Hopkins study shows that most people use condoms when they begin to have sexual relations

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PROVIDING OVERTHECOUNTER contraceptives in all 50 states would reduce unexpected pregnancy and abortion numbers.

with someone, then only rely on birth control when they are in an established relationship.

Another concern around the daily pill specifically is that women and teens will forget to take it, which would make it ineffective. But the study also concluded that women, especially teens, are more trusted to take the pill regularly than they are to use condoms because condom use is “influenced by sexual or emotional pressures.”

So if lack of access to birth control is the reason for the unintended pregnancy rate, then we should make all birth control more readily available.

One way to increase access to birth control would be if birth control packs were available over the counter at more local pharmacies, like condoms are. Currently,

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many states still do not permit over-thecounter sales of birth control.

Legalization would especially help teens who are concerned about going to the doctor for a prescription in fear of their family’s judgement.

Despite what many people think, the health risks of birth control are actually greater for older people than for younger people.

When women go to the doctor the major health concerns that they have surrounding birth control are high blood pressure, heart disease and breast cancer.

The older women get the more prone they are to developing these side effects.

Plus, the National Cancer Institute is actually noticing a connection between the pill and a reduced risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers.

The pill should be available over the counter due to its public health benefits.

For women who choose to go to the doctor’s office to receive different forms of birth control, a 2015 study published in The Lanclet found that only half of Planned Parenthood clinics have staff who are able to insert IUDs or progestin implants.

The same study also found that when long-lasting and highly effective birth control methods are offered, like IUDs or progestin implants, women are more likely to opt for the stronger birth control options.

Women should be able to easily access birth control, whether that is the pill, a long-lasting birth control method or any other form of contraceptive because they decrease unplanned pregnancy, abortions and public health costs.

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Spring breakers in Mexico chant ‘build that wall’ American spring breakers started a xenophobic chant on a Cancun dinner cruise

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pring break is a time when college students decide its time to pick up a bottle rather than a paycheck—since daddy makes enough to spare—and completely let go of the small amount of morality and self-respect they seemed to posses.

“Today I was with Suly, my wife—who is a native of Mexico—watching an entertainment show off the coast of Cancun aboard a boat, and at the end of the show, a flock of Americans— maybe under the influence of alcohol or maybe not—began to sing the infamous ‘build that wall’ chant louder and louder,” said Peruvian Anaximandro Amable to the Yucatan Times.

The incident took place on the Captain Hook Pirate Ship Dinner Cruise, where many of the staff workers and other tourists had complained about the behavior of the American college students.

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behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancun and that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country, which is—or should be—totally unacceptable.”

The lack of respect for the Mexican people should come as no surprise after the election of Donald Trump.

“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best ... They’re bringing drugs.

They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” Trump said during his presidential bid announcement in June of 2015.

If Americans are against Mexicans and Mexico as a whole, shouldn’t they refrain from going to Mexico?

Americans complain about what Mexicans are supposedly coming here and doing, but they are doing those exact things down in Mexico.

Mexican immigrants more often than not come here to get jobs—in most cases more than one— and send their money back to México to their families, thus putting more money into the Mexican economy. They come here and make something of themselves.

Alternatively, Americans go to Mexico and make something out of themselves: an ass.

They break laws, show disrespect to the people and their culture and blow their money on frivolities. This money thus puts more money in the Mexican economy, the same one they

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They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime.

Some of them might even be bringing rape.

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It’s hard to find the time and energy for hobbies as a student, but container gardening can be an easy, cheap and fulfilling option

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absolutely gorgeous,” Groth said.

“You can do combinations of things, you can do combo gardens or you can do what I would call specimen gardens.”

For example, you could plant verbena and butterfly bush together to attract butterflies to your yard, Groth said. You could also focus on one specific specimen and make that the center of your garden.

Another low-maintenance, drought-resistant option is to create an entire garden out of cacti and succulents.

“It’s always fun to combine pots of fluffy, leafy things with pots of spiky, structured plants,” Groth said.

“It really gives you a lot of texture, so you could make a whole garden on a terrace or a deck out of just pots.”

If you’re looking for a way to distract yourself from the final grueling weeks of this semester, look no further. Gardening may just be the stress relief you are looking for.

Late February to early March is the perfect time to start a warmseason garden as the temperatures begin to rise and the danger of frost disappears, according to Jan Groth, the Master Gardener program coordinator for the UA’s Cooperative Extension Program in Sierra Vista. And it isn’t too late to begin now.

Whether you were born with a green thumb or you’ve never touched a plant in your life, the following tips from some gardening gurus will have you sowing your first seeds before the end of this semester.

1. No backyard? No problem.

If you think the word “gardening” means tilling the soil, planting seeds in perfectly straight rows and spending hours on your knees pulling out weeds, think again.

“I think especially since students are transient and because they have limited space, the best thing for them to consider doing is container gardening,” Groth said.

Container gardening can be easily moved from place to place and doesn’t depend on the seasons, Groth added.

“I think it’s a great starting place; that’s a good way to figure out the seasonality of Tucson and kind of get a little gardening under your belt before you try to garden on a bigger scale,” said Moses Thompson, Tucson Unified School District/UA school gardening coordinator.

Though the idea of growing a garden out of containers might seem strange, it’s really not that different from a traditional garden.

You can grow everything except full-size trees in a container garden, from herbs to vegetables to flowering bushes, Groth said.

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A SMALL GARDEN SITS in a pavestone planter. Container gardening is an accessible hobby for students.

2. It’s all about the soil When it comes to soil, don’t be frugal. Investing in a good potting soil is the first step to a successful container garden, according to Groth.

An important part of any garden soil is the fertilizer. Groth cautions against synthetic or man-made fertilizers, which can burn the soil.

Instead, opt for an organic blend that contains natural materials like bat guano or earthworm castings.

3. Water thoroughly but less often The key to helping your plants survive the Tucson heat is to water less often but more deeply, Thompson said.

“If you can water at a two-foot or 30-inch depth once or twice a week, you’re just going to grow more resilient plants and you’re really going to encourage deep roots, and that helps buffer against the heat and dryness,” Thompson said.

Another helpful watering tip is to establish a watering schedule specific for your plants.

Groth said the best way to determine if your plants are thirsty is to feel the top few inches of the soil a day after watering. If the soil is still wet, wait until it starts to dry before watering again.

“There’s not a rule on how often to water. You’ve got to water according to the temperatures, the weather and according to the wind,” Groth said. “Winds can be just as drying to a plant as a hundred-degree day can be.”

4. Give your plants some friendly neighbors Step up your gardening game by doing some companion planting.

Planting certain plants next to each other can form a symbiotic network of plants that will help to ward off pests, Thompson said.

For example, tomatoes and basil make excellent neighbors, Groth said. The basil benefits from the shade of the tomatoes and the tomatoes get infused with flavor from the basil, making it a win-win situation.

5. Use local seeds Pay attention to the seeds you select for your garden. Thompson suggests using heirloom or landrace seeds, which can be found on the Native Seed/Search website.

Landrace variety seeds have been collected in a specific area over generations, which means they’ve adapted to the region’s climate and seasons, according to Thompson.

6. Get creative!

Just because your garden may be confined to containers doesn’t mean it has to be boring.

“Container gardening can be

7. Beat the heat It’s understandable if you’re worried about your plants getting burned to a crisp by the scorching Arizona sun. However, Thompson and Groth both have some tips on how to avoid this.

Design your garden so that the plants receive both morning sun and afternoon shade, Thompson said. During the hottest months of the year, using a shade cloth can also help protect plants.

If you are container gardening, one useful tip is to “top dress” your plants. Once you’ve planted your containers, cover the soil with about an inch of material, such as decorative rock or mulch, Groth said.

According to Groth, this does three things.

“It keeps the root cooler from the top, it holds the weeds down in that pot and it keeps the moisture in because if it’s just the soil, you’ll find that the moisture evaporates much more quickly.”

If you’re still feeling a little unsure about your gardening abilities, check out the Tucson Backyard Gardening Facebook page, which is full of helpful advice from local gardeners.

You can also head over to the Tucson Botanical Gardens for some beautiful plant inspiration.

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iSpace offers students high-tech tools Located in the Science - Engineering Library, the iSpace contains a myriad of high-tech tools and a collaborative space for students to keep up with changing technology

BY MALIK SHELP @malikshelp

Technological advancement is rapidly changing the education game.

However, in many cases advanced equipment is prohibitively expensive for student use.

The UA libraries are aiming to change that.

Located in the ScienceEngineering Library, the iSpace is dedicated to giving students the experience they need with cutting-edge technologies.

Located in the building’s basement, the iSpace contains a huge screen comprised of many smaller monitors, a 3-D printer and scanner suite and a green room dedicated specifically to virtual reality applications. Alongside this maker bling, the spot also sports equipment such as a laser cutter, router and Raspberry Pi/Arduino computing materials.

Jessica Shumake is an assistant professor in the College of Information who teaches classes on digital communities, culture and social spaces.

Shumake has used the iSpace in her classes and is optimistic about the space’s role in education.

“The activities and programming offered by the iSpace is open to all members of the campus community. If a student wants to learn about 3-D printing, then she might decide to come to the 3-D print club meetings. If a student wants to learn about mobile app development,

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THE 3D PRINTER USED in the iSpace to print 3-D models made by students, for students. The iSpace also provides instruction in the available technology.

she might come to a Friday technology talk,” Shumake said. “I would recommend anyone who is interested in iSpace activities and events subscribe to their email list to stay informed about all the scheduled talks, workshops, etc.”

That email list is the key to the other side of what the iSpace offers: technologyrelated events and programming. Weekly iSpace events include the 3-D design-focused

Modeling Monday, which teaches students to scan and model 3-D designs; Tuesday virtual reality demos, What’sa Wednesdays, which showcases new devices; Threaded Thursdays— focused on digitalenabled clothing and sewing and Friday Tech Talks.

Friday Tech Talks are hosted every Friday from noon to 1 p.m. and feature an expert’s presentation on tech subjects from drones to developing web

maps. These talks are free—one of the iSpace’s big strong points.

Shumake is no stranger to the iSpace’s strenghths, describing it as “a better space to learn” with students.

In addition to the positive attitude of the iSpace and its staff, the facility also offers a number of lowertech design features to foster productivity and creativity.

“The iSpace is an environment that

supports students to feel much more like they are active co-participants in the creation of valuable knowledge and meaningful insights because there is no designated front of the room,” Shumake said.

Most of the walls in the iSpace are comprised of floor-to-ceiling whiteboards for students to claim space and use the entire wall to feel-out their ideas. Even details like how the furniture is arrainged in the room

is designed to make a physical space that fosters collaboration.

But for all its strengths and opportunities, the iSpace is still just one studio. Shumake’s hope is that the iSpace will start to receive more recognition and eventually gain a larger space with more student involvement.

Subscribe to the iSpace’s newsletter to keep up-to-date on all of their events, or stop by yourself to build your own robot.

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Allen’s fairytale leads to heartbreaking ending

BY JUSTIN SPEARS @JustinESports

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Who would’ve thought a junior college transfer guard from Wilmington, North Carolina would be the heart and soul of this Arizona team?

It’s clockwork to dissect a senior whenever they play the final game of the season and ask, “How difficult was it to digest the loss?

What do you remember most about your time? What did coach say to you?”

Listen, we get it. We, as members of the media and even fans, want to know what the ride has been like. What was the journey like for Kadeem Allen? He’s a two-year starter, a soft-spoken southerner, who played in fewer games than Dusan Ristic and Parker Jackson-Cartwright and was still the veteran leader of Arizona.

The rest of the team had nothing but the upmost respect for Allen, and through thick and thin, he left his mark.

“I told him that he’s got big things coming and that he’s such a great leader, a winner,” said Arizona forward Lauri Markkanen. “I’m just proud of him.”

Allen’s journey at the collegiate level wasn’t normal, though. He played at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas and won JUCO National Player of the Year in 2014 and redshirted his first season at Arizona because he didn’t fit in the lineup.

Imagine going from top dog at a competitive level and then just being a body on the end of the bench wearing an Arizona

shirt—an outcast, if you will—because there were too many bodies. He could’ve held up his two fingers and hopped back on the next flight to North Carolina and Arizona would’ve been in his rear view, but he didn’t.

Instead, he dealt with the struggle of not playing, came back the next season and started, but even last season, he turned the ball over seven times in Arizona’s loss to Wichita State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

Allen returned as the lone senior but was looked over by the headline names like Allonzo Trier and the freshmen. From day one, we all asked about Markkanen’s impact or what to expect out of Trier, but Arizona head coach Sean Miller had a tendency to bring the conversation back to Allen.

“There’s never been anybody—and we’ve had some great players, great kids at Xavier and Arizona—that means more to me, that embodies the good in college basketball, than Kadeem Allen,” Miller said.

For how many times Miller called Allen the “rock” or “heartbeat” of this team, you would think he was talking about his son.

And for a short stint in Tucson, the way his teammates look and talk about him, Allen might as well be the greatest guard to ever come through Arizona.

“It speaks for itself,” Allen said. “My coaches, teammates, everyone in the program­—they give me the confidence that I have toward the end of the season. I took it and I was just playing basketball. I appreciate everything he’s done for me and the coaching staff and my teammates. I love these guys.”

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ARIZONA HEAD COACH SEAN Miller talks to senior guard Kadeem Allen during the Arizona vs Xavier Sweet 16 matchup on Thursday, March 23. This was Allen’s last game for the Wildcats.

From North Carolina, to top JUCO player, to an afterthought, to a turnover machine, to leading the Arizona Wildcats by experience and defensive grit, Allen’s journey at the UA was awe-inspiring. He didn’t have the best story or even the fairytale ending to go with it, but he looks at this season as a glass half full.

“I’m proud of my team,” Allen said. “When you win 32 games and only five losses, it says

a lot about the program and the coaching staff. I’m just proud of these guys.”

Up next, Allen will look to play for some money, whether it’s a spot in the NBA or overseas professionally. Regardless, Allen will be remembered as one of the most underrated Arizona players that not only Miller has ever coached, but that came through McKale Center.

Arizona softball returns home for top 5 matchup

BY NOAH SONNET @texaslad32

After two weeks on the road, No. 4 Arizona softball returns home to Hillenbrand to face off against No. 5 Washington in a three-game set this weekend. The Wildcats find themselves in another matchup with a top-10 team, however, this time Arizona will have to play more than just a single game against their opponent.

The Wildcats return home, have yet to lose a game at home all season, riding on the back of a 14-game win streak after their heart-breaking loss to Florida State earlier in the year.

Ever since that loss, Arizona has steam rolled every team in their path, including the defending national champion Oklahoma Sooners.

Freshman Jessie Harper is playing at such a high level that it’s hard to believe she’s only a freshman. The California native picked up Pac-12 player and freshman of the week honors after going 7-14 with two home runs and helping Arizona go 5-0 last week.

Players like Harper are clicking on all cylinders, making this one of the best times for the Wildcats to face off with a top-five opponent.

Both teams in the nation opened up Pac-12 play the best way they could: sweeping their opponents with relative ease last weekend. This series will be a full showcase for softball fans to see first-hand with two of the top offenses

and pitching staffs in the country. Arizona head coach Mike Candrea said Arizona has to be prepared for Washington’s all-around attack.

“They’re a good team, very balanced both offensively and pitching wise,” Candrea said. “So we’re going to have to play well, and I think it’s going to be like this from here on out.

The Huskies roll into town having won 16 of their last 17 games. Arizona aces Danielle O’Toole and Taylor McQuillin will be countered by the Huskies’ Taran Alvelo and Samantha Manti. ­­ Alvelo may only be a sophomore, but make no mistake, her playing style is far from that of your average underclassmen pitcher. She’s tied atop the Pac-12 wins’ column with O’Toole (14) and the conference leader in getting batters to strikeout (32). Candrea noted the team’s attitude when facing talented pitchers: “I think the biggest thing is pitch selection and trying to keep it simple,” Candrea said. “So you’ve really got to be prepared for that, plate discipline will be extremely important, as will our ability to do the little things.

On the offensive end, Huskies catcher Morganne Flores leads the Pac-12 in RBIs with 34, and her eight home runs have her tied for third in the conference. Sis Bates, Flores’ partner in crime, will look to help out her teammate and frustrate Arizona’s pitchers. The freshman also finds her name all over the Pac-12 leaderboard. Her .430 batting average is just enough to edge out Mo Mercado, who leads

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FRESHMAN JESSIE HARPER (19) DURING Arizona’s 4-2 win over Texas on March 5, in Tucson, AZ.

Arizona with a .429 average in Pac-12 play.

Hillenbrand Stadium is home to the only top-five matchup in the country this weekend. With three teams in the Pac-12 ranked within the top five overall, taking this early series over the Huskies could have implications in the conference later this season.

The series begins Friday at 5 p.m. and can be seen on Pac12 Networks.

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SOPHOMORE GUARD ALLONZO TRIER sits upset in the lockeroom after after Wildcats’ 73-71 loss to Xavier Musketeers in the Sweet 16matchup on Thursday, March 23.

Trier unable to come in clutch for ‘Cats

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SAN JOSE, Calif.—After missing 19 games, Allonzo Trier was considered to be the missing piece in getting Arizona back to the Final Four, but sometimes pieces have a funny way of not fitting, as Arizona found out in the Wildcats’ loss to Xavier Thursday in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

Trier is a conundrum for head coach Sean Miller. His offensive output makes him a much-needed weapon on a team desperate for scoring, but his defensive ability, especially in the tournament, left a lot to be desired. Trier came out slow against Saint Mary’s College just a week ago and picked it up in the second half; the same was the case Thursday. This time, with the game on the line, Trier fell short.

Fifteen second-half points seems like a lot, but with the Wildcats’ season on the brink of elimination, Trier couldn’t come up with the bucket that Arizona needed most: the winning one. Several in-and-out shots from Trier kept Arizona from realizing the dream of reaching the Final Four and will keep Trier in the gym the entire summer wondering what might have been.

Perhaps it was the toll the entire season took on the sophomore that led him to look lethargic at times in the tournament. Whatever it was, it came at an inopportune time for the Wildcats.

“It’s been a long year full of emotions, full of stress, full of ups and downs,” Trier said. “Not disappointing because we had a great year with all the things we were able to accomplish.”

Trier was not the only Wildcat to make errors or miss the key play to lead Arizona to victory, but he is the guy who values

having the game in his hands, and for that, the burden will fall on his shoulders.

Trier was able to muster 19 points and nine rebounds, but it will be the last miss with eight seconds left that will haunt him.

Trier was upfront and honest about this being the last game of the season when he faced reporters in the locker room following the game. He has been all season. That is a testament to his need to carry the load for his team.

“Losing the last game of the season with your teammates, being so close to where you wanted to be and your goal,” Trier said, “just knowing you came up short, feeling like it wasn’t supposed to end like this, a lot of emotions bottled up.”

Trier hasn’t made any decisions as to whether he will attempt a run at the NBA, saying he isn’t thinking about that and that he will take some time before he does. As for now, he is Arizona’s best shooter, but it wasn’t enough against Xavier.

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‘Cats fall to Xavier, season ends in Sweet 16

BY CHRISTOPHER DEAK @ChrisDeakDW

SAN JOSE, Calif.–The Arizona Wildcats men’s basketball season came to a close on Thursday night. The Xavier Musketeers defeated the Wildcats 73-71 in a thrilling Sweet Sixteen matchup.

Sean O’Mara’s layup with 40 seconds remaining ended up being the winning basket for Xavier, who now moves on to face Gonzaga in the Elite Eight. Xavier head coach Chris Mack drew up the play for O’Mara, and it worked to perfection.

“I opted to go with a little bit of a quicker play, and that one worked for us earlier in the game,” Mack said. “We felt like they didn’t press us, so [Quentin Goodin] was able to get the ball near half court because we wanted to go two for one down the stretch. Fortunately, [O’Mara] was able to catch a great pass by [Trevon Bluiett] and put it in through all that traffic and gave the guys a boost of confidence.”

The Wildcats held the lead late in the contest thanks to big contributions from there veterans but were unable to come up with a clutch shot in the final seconds.

For the second straight game, Allonzo Trier had a huge second half. After scoring all 14 of his points in the second half against Saint Mary’s College in the Wildcats’ secondround game, he recorded 15 of his 19 points against Xavier in the final 20 minutes.

With 7:06 to go, the Musketeers led 61-57 and had Arizona on its heels. Trier proceeded to score on Arizona’s next two possessions to tie things up, but he wasn’t done.

Trier gave the Wildcats a 64-61 lead with a 3-point shot from the right wing, giving the Wildcats all the momentum.

Kadeem Allen hit a 3 the next time down for Arizona, and a pair of Parker Jackson-Cartwright free throws the following possession stretched the lead to 69-61. The 12-0 run came right when Arizona needed it, but the Musketeers had one final push left in them.

The Musketeers went on a 10-2 of their own, and with 50 seconds to go, it was a 71-71 ballgame.

O’Mara’s layup sealed it with under a minute left, and the Musketeers advanced.

“We couldn’t get a couple of stops down the stretch, and they hit a couple big 3’s,” Allen said. “It hurts. We just lost to a very good team; you can’t take that from them. We fought, we never gave up, [but] they came up with a win.”

After the first 20 minutes, there was barely separation between the teams, but the Wildcats held a slim 37-35 lead.

The Wildcats were able to jump to a quick 10-2 lead thanks to big man Dusan Ristic. Ristic had 7 of his 9 first-half points in the first five minutes. Ristic lead all Wildcat scorers.

The Musketeers’ Tyrique Jones, who stands at 6-foot-9, had trouble stopping Ristic down low, and the Wildcats were able to control the game early.

Everything was going according to the Wildcats’ game plan except for Allen. The senior picked up two early fouls and had to exit the game. He would only play five minutes in the first half, and it allowed Xavier’s Trevon Bluiett to continue his hot streak.

“One thing that really hurt us in this game is Kadeem picked up two fouls early on,” said Arizona head coach Sean Miller. “He means so much to our defense that we really almost played the entire first half without him. And although we were up two, not having him out there hurt our team.”

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SOPHOMORE GUARD ALLONZO TRIER (35) DRIVES to the basket during the second half of the Arizona vs Xavier Sweet 16 matchup on Thursday, March 23. Wildcats lost to Xavier Musketeers 73-71.

After scoring 29 points in Xavier’s dismantling of No. 3-seed Florida State last weekend, Bluiett scored 18 points in the first half and started off 7-7. Allen was guarding him to begin the game, but the Wildcats struggled to defend him with Allen on the bench.

Bluiett finished with 25 points and he tied the game up with a pair of free throws at the 1:53 mark. Bluiett was a freshman on the 2015 Xavier team that fell to Arizona in the Sweet 16 and he made sure he was at his best on Thursday.

“It feels good ... just to be able to kind of get that revenge that we have been looking for and to ... make it to the Elite Eight,” Bluiett said. “It’s been a while since the program has done it, and just to get back there it’s a surreal feeling.”

Arizona outrebounded Xavier 35-27 and had 14 offensive rebounds, but the Musketeers shot 56 percent in the second half, while the Wildcats struggled to find a constant rhythm all night.

Allen scored eight points in his final collegiate game and played all 20 minutes in the second half after being limited to five in the first half because of foul trouble. Miller has mentioned all year along Allen’s importance to the team, and he summarized his feelings about Allen’s career in the postgame press conference.

“There’s never been anybody—and we’ve had some great players, great kids at Xavier and Arizona—that means more to me, that embodies the good in college basketball, than Kadeem Allen,” Miller said. “And that’s always the hardest part when you know that his time is up.”

Arizona finished the 2016-2017 season 32-5. Every year expectations are for the program to make it back to the Final Four, and this year was no different. As tough as it is for Tucsonans everywhere, Miller summed up his thoughts about this year’s season: “Well, it’s never easy when it ends, especially if you have a great team or had a great season,” Miller said. “I think it’s always important, especially as the leader of our team and program, that we define our own success. I think if you’re a team that is 32-5, you win both the Pac-12 regular season and also the Pac-12 Tournament and our journey ends in the Sweet Sixteen, it’s hard to look at that as not getting it done or [having failed].”

The 2017 NCAA Tournament continues this weekend, and the West regional final between the Gonzaga Bulldogs and Xavier Musketeers will be played on Saturday at 3:09 p.m. MST.