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Arizona softball’s Mike Restaurants Candrea wins 1,500th game on University pg. 19 leary of new wage hike BY VICTOR GACIA @VicGarcia96
Monday, March 27, 2017 – Tuesday, March 28, 2017 VOLUME 110 ISSUE 73
in a national park, management will continue as it has been, and I don’t foresee a problem unless something happens to wipe out the entire population,” Morawe said. The Rio Sonoyta pupfish population has a complicated history, according to Morawe. “The population got separated by a volcanic eruption, but there was [still a habitat] connection, and in years past it was consistent,” Morawe said. “But in the 1850s and 1860s residents created some damming of the connection, and the fish got locked in.” Ross Timmons, pupfish coordinator for the
Local businesses on University Boulevard near the UA are concerned about the new minimum wage hike. These businesses are mostly run by student employees. Proposition 206 was approved by voters last November to raise the minimum wage from $8.15 an hour to $10 an hour. With this new mandate, businesses on University Boulevard expect to be impacted because of this raise. “It is pretty pricey, especially for a restaurant like ours,” said owner of Kababeque Indian Grill, Saurabh Sareen. “I don’t feel comfortable that I can charge $10 an item to students.” The award-winning Kababeque has been in business for 15 years and has over 20 part-time students as staff. The minimum wage boost has added $5,000 a month to the restaurant’s budget. But Sareen’s business has expanded as a food truck service for special events as Kababeque Express. “People who work hard, deserve to get paid more, obviously, and I think we are just under the radar, so we are okay,” Sareen said. “We will continue to give good food and good service and take care of our employees.” The small restaurant has won Tucson’s best restaurant award for seven years in a row, according to Sareen. “Students are more adventurous to try new food,” Sareen said. “It is a healthy food as well. We use natural herbs and spices imported actually from India; we don’t buy anything from here.” Another popular restaurant on University Boulevard is the 13-year-old wrap cuisine, EatA-Pita. This family-run restaurant currently employs 25 UA students and offers delivery services. “We opened in 2004, when minimum wage was $5.25 and the sandwiches were $5.50,” said current owner and manager Cami Quist. “The sandwiches now are $7.99.” According to Quist, Proposition 206 thought about big companies like McDonald’s and Wendy’s. This left out the smaller businesses like her own, jumping to a minimum wage that can hurt her business. “I think what they should’ve done is a percentage across the board,” Quist said. “They didn’t lower my state taxes, my city taxes or my payroll taxes.” According to Quist, 60 percent of her
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ARIZONA SOFTBALL HEAD COACH Mike Candrea addresses the crowd after winning his 1,500th game on Sunday, March 26.
UA COMMISSIONS ACTIVE SHOOTER VIDEO FOR TRAINING STAFF, STUDENTS
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Endangered pupfish find new home BY MARISSA HEFFERNAN @_mheffernan
Rio Sonoyta pupfish occur in only two wild places: Rio Sonoyta, in Sonora, Mexico; and Quitobaquito Pond, at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. However, they are now found at a handful of other locations, due to a conservation attempt by the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the U.S. National Park Service. Recently, 300 of these endangered and endemic fish were relocated from a Tucson Safe Harbor Agreementenrolled captive pond on the property of Bob
Hernbrode, where they had been since 2009, when the pond began to fail. Their new home will be the NPS-run Desert Research Learning Center in Tucson, in a artificial tinaja. A tinaja is a bedrock pond, naturally carved out by water, sand and gravel. The goal of moving them into the new pond is to allow the population to grow larger and reduce the risk of genetic bottleneck. As the Desert Research Learning Center is a NPS property, Rijk Morawe, general natural resources manager and biological scientist at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, said the fish will be safe there. “Since they’re sitting
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