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KEEPING THEIR ‘WITTS’ ABOUT THEM

Despite health setbacks, the Witt sisters are primed for a big year on the beach at Arizona

Wednesday, April 5, 2017 – Thursday, April 6, 2017 VOLUME 110 ISSUE 77

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BY NIKKI BAIM @nikkibaim22

Arizona’s beach volleyball stars Madison and McKenna Witt have battled through physical and mental obstacles that would discourage the weak-hearted on their climb to the top of college volleyball and to the cusp of a professional future.

The seniors from Glendale, Arizona had to overcome the challenges of two heart surgeries for McKenna Witt on top of the uncertainties in their volleyball careers.

Volleyball began in eighth grade for the Witts, one year later than their preference.

“We didn’t make the team in seventh grade,” Mckenna Witt said.

Could this be another Michael Jordan-esc story in the making? It might be.

In three years at Mountain Ridge High School, the Witts excelled at indoor volleyball and earned scholarships at UC Riverside their junior year. However, the twins had to search for other options when a change in the coaching staff lead them to decommit.

“We didn’t feel like it was the right culture or the right fit for us anymore,” Madison said. “We wanted to pursue other options.”

That’s when Arizona coach Steve Walker came into the

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Mandala represents impermanence of life

BY STEVEN SPOONER @DailyWildcat

As part of a religious studies expansion, the UA has brought three Buddhist monks to campus where they are currently creating a mandala from only colored sand, to wash it away Thursday after five days of tedious work.

“The mandala is representative of our bodies,” said Lama Tensin, one of the monks.

“Our body one day is gone; our life is gone second by second.”

The sand-made mandala is common practice in Tibetan Buddhism as part of their belief in impermanence. The mandala design is drawn out on the surface where they then use funnels to carefully lay out different colored sands.

The mandala symbol itself is sacred. In addition to being a metaphor for our bodies, it represents a world in harmony and peace.

After praying over it, they will dissolve it with water, leaving no trace of the design. In a moment, it will all be gone.

The water, with the sand dissolved in it, will be taken with the monks. Some will be kept at their Buddhist school, and the rest will be released into a stream, blessing the rest of the world.

Lama Tensin, along with Lama Norbu, came to assist Drupon Thinley Ningpo Rinpoche, the monk headlining the event and giving a lecture April 4.

Drupon and Rinpoche are both honorary titles. Drupon means “master of spiritualattainment,” which Thinley Ningpo obtained after studying in the Drikung Kagyu Institute at the Jangchubling Monastery in the foothills of the Himalayan mountain range in northeast India.

The event was organized by the recently hired professor Rae Erin Dachille, who holds a doctorate in Buddhist studies from the University of California, Berkeley. The event is in conjunction with the university expanding its religious studies major to incorporate Tibetan Buddhism.

Dachille has organized the showing of this ritual art form at other universities. The event was largely funded by the Arizona

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DRUPON THINLEY, ASSISTED BY Lama Tensin and Lama Norbu, apply sand to their mandala as part of a Tibetan Buddhist tradition on Monday, April 3 at the UA Main Library. The mandala will be washed away after it is completed on Thursday, April 6.

Drupon currently teaches at the Drikung Namgyal Ling, the Drikung Kagyu Buddhist Center of Tucson in Sahuarita.

The organization was formed in May 2004 and recognized by the State of Arizona as a religious nonprofit in August 2004.

Drikung Kagyu derives its school from the Kagyu School of Buddhism, one of four major branches of the Tibetan religion.

Many of the religious studies students, both graduate and undergraduate, came to the event to talk to Drupon about various aspects of Buddhism.

Friends of Tibet, but also received support from both the departments of religious studies and East Asian studies.

She started by reaching out to a college from Berkeley who used to translate for the Drikung Namgyal Ling, the temple Drupon teaches at. It just so happened the whole event would work out.

“We decided we wanted to proceed without figuring out where the funding would come from,” professor Dachille said.

“The event was organized in the past threeand-a-half weeks.”

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“Aside from participation points for the class, it’s an amazing event,” said Nick Noble, a religious studies senior.

Although Noble isn’t Buddhist himself, he does take an interest in the subject, taking many Buddhist-focused courses through the major.

“There are a lot of opportunities to learn from Buddhism,” he said.

The monks are creating the mandala on the bottom floor of the UA Main Library every day from 9 a.m-5 p.m. It is open to public.

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Regents to vote on tuition, Robbins’ contract

BY HENRY CARSON, NICK MEYERS @DailyWildcat

The Arizona Board of Regents will vote on next year’s big-ticket items at their regular board meeting Thursday and Friday, April 6 and 7. They will be discussing new tuition rates for Arizona universities, the contract for incoming UA president Dr. Robert C. Robbins and a new lease between the UA and the City of Tucson for Hi Corbett Field, The proposed multi-year employment contract for Dr. Robert Robbins, the sole finalist in the UA presidential search, includes a $600,000 base salary plus numerous monetary benefits, all totaling out to approximately $988,000 per year.

The figures were published on the regents’ website prior to this week’s board meeting.

Robbins’ base salary is $100,000 more than the yearly salary of outgoing UA President Ann Weaver Hart, which runs at $500,000 per year.

The proposed contract would run through June 1 of this year to June 30, 2020, though the contract notes that the board’s chair may approve “reasonable and mutually acceptable” changes in the start date if they are deemed necessary.

The action item published on the regents’ website detailing the proposed contract breaks down both his salary and separate benefits: • $600,000 annual base salary • $70,000 annual housing allowance • $108,000 cash balance defined pension plan (18 percent of annual base salary) • $10,000 annual car allowance • $200,000 from an appointment to an Endowed Presidential Leadership Chair to be funded by private funds from the University of Arizona Foundation • Annual and multiple-year at-risk compensation to be assigned through a separate agreement entered no later

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than Dec. 31 At-risk compensation, the final point in Robbins’ salary package, is designed to incentivize university presidents to accomplish goals assigned by the Arizona Board of Regents. This puts part of the presidents’ salaries at risk if they don’t accomplish these performance agreements.

According to Sarah Harper, vice president of communications for the Arizona Board of Regents, there are not yet any conditions set for Robbins’ atrisk compensation.

The regents will vote on a 1-percent increase in tuition rates for incoming resident and nonresident undergraduate and graduate students, bumping base tuition up $108 to $10,860 for in-state undergraduates and $340 to $34,290 for out-of-state undergraduates per semester.

In-state graduate students will pay an increase of $114 for $11,486 per semester and out-of-state graduate students will pay another $312 for $31,436 per semester.

Additionally, the regents will vote on fees for two new undergraduate programs and two new graduate programs. The new architectural engineering program in the College of Engineering will cost students $450 per semester for lowerdivision classes and $900 per semester for upper-division classes to match the persemester fees for the rest of the College of Engineering.

A new animal and biomedical industries degree in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will charge students $1,500 per semester in upper-division classes.

Program fees for the Entry to Profession of Nursing graduate program will increase by $4,000 for the 15-month program for both residents and nonresidents, bringing the total cost of the program to $44,000 for residents and $53,000 for nonresidents.

Several class fees in the College of Fine Arts-Music will increase by $18 or $60, depending on the class.

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INCOMING UA PRESIDENT ROBERT Robbins’ contract will extend the base pay $100,000 beyond current president Ann Weaver Hart’s salary to $600,000. Robbins’ total compensation will come to $988,000.

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Sleeping on school grounds A University of Arizona Police Department officer responded to the College of Pharmacy in reference to a man sleeping outside around noon on March 16.

As the officer approached the man, who was wearing a hoodie and shorts, the man began to wake up and, upon seeing the officer, muttered an expletive. Police had made previous contact with the man for the same reason, and because they knew he had a pocketknife, the officer asked the man to remove it and toss it out of arm’s reach.

The man appeared intoxicated, had a can of beer in his hoodie and told police he already consumed it. UAPD advised the man he was suspect in a Circle K theft. The officer placed the man in handcuffs and read him his Miranda rights.

The man told police he had gotten the beer earlier at a 7-Eleven but could not specify which one it was. He added that he hadn’t been in the Circle K in which the theft had taken place. When police told the man that the security camera footage showed him inside the store earlier that day, the man claimed their cameras were lying and continued to deny stealing any beer.

The man was issued a six-month exclusionary order for his continued failure to leave UA property and taken to Pima County Jail for loitering on school grounds.

Father of the year UAPD officers were dispatched to the Campbell Avenue and Sixth Street intersection around 4 p.m. on March 17.

UAPD officers were told a man had “passed out” at the wheel prior to their arrival. The driver was escorted to a curb prior to UAPD’s arrival.

A UAPD officer could smell a strong odor of intoxicants coming from the driver’s breath while conducting a DUI worksheet.

The officer administered several sobriety tests, which the driver failed. “As you have witnessed, I am not OK to drive,” the man told officers. “You already know it’s not OK for me to drive.”

Officers noted the driver became aggressive and began to use vulgar language.“I’m not fucking drunk, dude,” he said. Police informed the man he was under arrest and told him to place his hands behind his back. The man began to back up and said “absolutely not.”

An officer managed to place handcuffs on him without incident and informed dispatch the man was under arrest for DUI. Police removed an unopened bottle of vodka from the man’s pocket and transported him to UAPD station.

When officers asked the man if he would consent to additional tests, he consented.

Police informed him that any additional delay would be considered a refusal.

After a judge-approved blood test was obtained, the man was provided with his paperwork and released to his teenage son.

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OPINIONS

Editor: Scott Felix opinion@dailywildcat.com (520) 621-7579

Trump’s environmental war only pads corporate pockets

BY CHUCK VALADEZ @DailyWildcat

T

rump has almost waged a one-man war against the environment and the safety of the American people by trashing environmental protection laws and safety regulations for the American worker.

By doing this Trump says he is “creating jobs,” yet all he is doing is increasing corporate profit by lowering production costs in certain industries.

President Donald Trump, a man who has run off a platform of xenophobia and the creation of jobs, has never been too keen on environmental issues.

Trump was a big advocate for the coal miners in his campaign, promising West Virginia workers their jobs back. However, what Trump has done in the mining industry has been far from helping the worker in any manner.

Trump signed a bill in February allowing mines to dump waste in streams and hollows of the mountains in these communities.

Trump said this was “another terrible, job-killing rule” and continued to persist arguing that by lowering the cost on these corporations jobs would be created. In reality, all this law has done is poison mountain streams and increase big coal profits.

Coal was not the only pie Trump had his finger in during the campaign. Oil and gas companies were huge donors to Trump.

Many people are aware of the controversy surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline, and many people stood together through police brutality and wrongful arrests at Standing Rock in the Dakotas. Trump issued an executive order in January for the pipeline to be built, in turn opening up the possibility of potentially poisoning the water sources in nearby areas and directly violating the sacred rights, history and well being of the Standing Rock people.

Trump has also had a bonanza of a time with pesticide regulations.

EPA chemical safety experts have advised against the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos.

Research shows this pesticide can cause brain damage in children and farm workers even at very low exposure to the chemical. Since DOW

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Chemical Company has argued the chemical is safe.

Our new EPA administrator, the Oklahoma attorney general famous for fighting against the EPA on behalf of big oil, has pretty much said he could give less than a flying fuck about the consequences of the chemical’s use and fully opposes the ban.

Pruitt, as well as Trump, questions the existence of global warming as a whole.

Pruitt once stated on CNN that the impact of Carbon Dioxide on the Ozone is “unclear,” contradicting countless studies by both American and international scientists.

Pruitt and the EPA, who would be in favor of removing the dome from Springfield, are still the least of our concerns.

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Trump has slipped in a bill that looks to eradicate the EPA by the end of 2018. For a man who claims his sole purpose is “creating jobs,” he sure loves to destroy jobs that do work he disagrees with.

The “build that wall” chant has been a war cry for Trump supporters since the very beginning. Though they probably are completely apathetic to the fact or have not even an inkling of how great an environmental strain this would cause in the border lands.

Stretching from the America’s finest city to Brownsville, this wall crosses the beautiful Sonoran desert and the mighty Rio Grande.

This wall will affect the migration patterns of many animals and likely completely fail to keep clever drug smugglers and

undocumented immigrants from digging under or going over the wall. Trump now holds in his hands the fates of all animals in the federal wildlife refuges in Alaska.

The Senate has just passed on a 52-47 vote to allow hunting tactics like killing hibernating bears and cubs in their dens and the hunting of predator animals from airplanes. This could throw off the balance of predators in the last true frontier and threaten to destabilize the ecosystem.

What has been outlined here is a short list of how the Trump administration has attacked the environment. Trump as the commander in chief holds a lot of power, and with great power comes great responsibility. We can only hope he realizes this responsibility.

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SCIENCE

Editor: Logan Nagel science@dailywildcat.com (520) 621-7579

Meteor impact, lung removal From nuclear testing and space exploration to a massive volcanic eruption, April 5 is a science history goldmine

BY REBEKAH ULMER @DailyWildcat

April 5 has seen its share of science headlines in the last 200 years. Here are the highlights: 1804: Meteorite impact The High Possil meteorite fell to Earth and landed in a quarry near High Possil, just north of Glasgow, Scotland.

The High Possil meteorite is one of four meteorites thus far recovered in Scotland. However, this apparent irregularity is perhaps due simply to Scotland’s sparse population.

Despite its unique landing location and extraterrestrial origin, the 5 billion-year-old High Possil meteor was composed of earthly minerals such as feldspar and copper.

Although mankind has been fascinated with space throughout history, this particular meteorite, as well as several other European examples, are thought to mark the beginning of what we call modern meteorite science.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, scientists began searching for meteorites in earnest and thoroughly studying the composition and materials they were made out of, in order to better understand the composition of the universe.

1815: Mt. Tambora eruption On the evening of April 5, the first of many massive explosions in connection with the volcano Mt. Tambora occurred. The explosions were heard by the villagers on islands up to 870 miles away, in what was then called the Dutch East Indies and is now present-day Indonesia. Tambora was a massive stratovolcano that had been dormant for several hundred years before the eruption.

Stratovolcanos are characterized by steep sloping sides and are usually intensely violent in their explosions due to the pressure built up by the magma inside. The first day of the eruption, the main source of

concern for the surrounding villages and islands were the lava flows.

The massive columns of ash and debris would not begin to enter the atmosphere until the following day.

The eruption would continue for at least another five days and have world-wide consequences. The year after the eruption was dubbed “the year without summer” due to the ash and debris blocking the sun’s rays. Reports of crop failures and wintertime conditions persisted well into the summer of 1816, which scientists attributed to the eruption of Tambora.

1933: Lung removal operation The very first single-stage lung removal operation, or pneumonectomy, was performed by Dr. Evarts Ambrose Graham.

Dr. Graham performed the surgery after he discovered that his patient, who was also a physician, had lung cancer. The cancer had metastasized into multiple lobes of the patient’s lung, and Graham ascertained the only way to remove all of it was to remove the lung entirety. Previous surgeries had removed small sections of a patient’s lungs.

Graham removed several ribs and let the surrounding soft tissue of the chest fill the void left by the lung. This surgery was considered groundbreaking for its time. This was especially true because the patient not only survived and made a full recovery in terms of the surgery, but was also determined to be entirely cancer free, even years later.

After the success of the surgery, Graham added to his already impressive CV by focusing on lung cancer, studying the possibility of a relationship between the cancer and the smoking of cigarettes.

1973: NASA space probe launched NASA Space probe Pioneer 11 was launched as a sister probe to the previous year’s Pioneer 10 in order to study the asteroid belt, which separates the interior rocky planets from the outer gas giants.

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A HUGE METEOR FLEW over the Urals early in the morning of Feb. 15, 2013. The 1804 impact of the High Possil meteorite helped kickstart the scientific study of these extraterrestrial objects.

The Pioneer probes were the first and second to make it through the asteroid belt, and Pioneer 11 was the first spacecraft in history to make it to Saturn. The goal of the probe’s mission was to map and study the asteroid belt in order to ascertain whether a manned mission could make it through safely, as well as study the atmospheric environments of Jupiter and Saturn. The probe was designed to take measurements from the magnetic fields of Saturn and Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, as well as observe the general features of the gaseous planets, such as temperature and orbit trajectory.

Unfortunately, NASA lost contact with the Pioneer 11 probe in November 1995 due to its distance from Earth.

1977: Nevada nuclear testing The Operation Cresset nuclear tests begin at the Nevada Test Site.

The Nevada Test Site is northwest of Las Vegas and was the location of

numerous U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapon tests during the Cold War. Of the 928 total nuclear tests, 828 were conducted underground, with the remainder taking place at the surface.

The testing site was officially established by President Harry Truman in late 1950 and covers roughly 1,360 square miles of the surrounding desert and mountainous terrain. Although the site is no longer used for active explosives testing, there are still minor tests conducted in order to gauge to effectiveness of the U.S.’s nuclear arsenal.

The Department of Energy monitors the site for radioactive materials and issues alerts to the surrounding city and residential areas in case of active contamination.

The testing site offers tours to visitors year-round and there is a Smithsonian-affiliated museum in Las Vegas illustrating the history and impact of the site.

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AN AERIAL VIEW OF the Pu‘u ‘O‘o fountain during episode 23 of the Pu‘u ‘O‘o–Kupaianaha Eruption on July 28, 1984. The eruption of Mt. Tambora led to a year of cold, devastating crops and causing widespread panic.

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New research in fruit juice, dinosaurs

BY NICOLE MORIN @nm_dailywildcat

Researchers made advancements in several fields last week. From dinosaurs to orange juice, there is never a dull moment in science.

Juice may not be as unhealthy as once thought A long-standing parental debate has revolved around the health benefits and consequences of children drinking fruit juice. Some parents believe that it sets their children up for a life of unhealthy living and obesity, while others may not see a problem with it. A recent review of several studies related to this topic may ease parents’ minds.

The review, published in the journal Pediatrics, focuses on eight different studies about juice and how it affects children’s health and weight gain.

The biggest complaint against children drinking juice is that the extra sugar—as much as 36 grams in an 8-ounce serving depending on the fruit—will lead to severe weight gain. The data suggests that this is not the case.

According to the studies reviewed, juice contributes only a small amount to weight gain.

The researchers determined that for children ages 1-6, a single serving of 100 percent juice per day added just 0.18 to 0.33 pounds to weight over the

course of a year.

Scientists consider this evidence that juice is not as harmful to a child’s health was previously thought, but caution that sugar-added drinks, like fruit cocktails, could be much more fattening.

Nerves suggest tyrannosaur had sensitive face Paleontologist Thomas Carr at Carthage College in Wisconsin recently discovered that a new species of carnivorous dinosaur may have had an unusually sensitive snout.

The skulls of the species, Daspletosaurus horneri, show evidence of many nerve endings in the snout, similar to those of crocodiles. In crocodilians, these nerve endings are connected to sensory organs able to detect both temperature and touch. Carr suggests that the sensitive snout would have allowed D. horneri to detect its young and gently pick them up.

The discovery has led Carr to suggest that all tyrannosaur dinosaurs, including the famous Tyrannosaurus Rex, may have had these nerve endings.

While this research is new, D. horneri have been uncovered in Montana since the 1990s.

ADHD leads to gender differences in brain Research from the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore has uncovered more differences

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TYRANNOSAURUS SPECIMEN AT THE American Museum of Natural History. New research indicates that tyrannosaur dinosaurs may have had sophisticated sensory organs in their snouts, similar to modern crocodilians.

between girls and boys with attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

It is known that males and females diagnosed with ADHD demonstrate different symptoms.

While girls typically have a difficult time focusing

on a given task, boys often experience motor coordination abnormalities.

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Matt Finish was first attracted to the world of burlesque in November 2011, when a friend of his insisted that he attend a show with her. Despite his disinterest, he went to a Black Cherry Burlesque performance at the Surly Wench Pub. “I thought it was horribly depressing,” Finish said. “I didn’t understand when I was younger. I thought they were showgirls.”

However, the show, which took place on a tiny stage in the bar, immediately drew him in. He decided that he had to do burlesque.

Lucky enough, one of the performers, Fanny Galore, announced she was offering classes.

“They were beautiful; they were gorgeous; they were sexy,” Finish said.

“They were just having the time of their lives and the audience was there for it. It was a different way of being sexual; it was a different way of being glamorous, and I really appreciated that.”

That was just the beginning for the performer.

Finish is a UA School of Dance graduate and an internationally known burlesque performer. He recently won the Arizona Mr. Entertainer of the Year 2017, a pageant-like contest held nation-wide. He will advance to the national competition in July.

This isn’t the most prestigious title awarded to Finish. In 2014, he was named the International Master of “Assels,” an award aptly named for dancing with tassels on a certain spot. He was also named Mr. Exotic World in 2015, or King of Burlesque, the highest award for a male burlesque performer.

“Once you win that award you stop competing, so it was kind of sad,” Finish said. “I liked competing. It was a natural progression to branch out into pageantry, and that’s what this is.”

Finish has been a classically trained dancer for most of his life, so structure was a big part of his skill. Following the completion of his undergraduate degree at the University of California Irvine, during which he also gained experience dancing in the Disneyland parade and working as a go-go dancer, Finish moved to New York City to pursue his dream.

In a sort of fairytale combination of luck, opportunity and hard work, Finish booked a job after four days in the Big Apple. On his 21st birthday, he signed a contract to dance with the all-male comedic ballet troupe, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. In 2008, he decided to go back to school at the UA School of Dance for his masters degree.

“The environment at the university was so creative,” he said. “There were people 10 years younger than me who could run circles around me as far as creating movement. I

took that with me into burlesque, even though I hadn’t done it there [at the university].”

After graduating in 2011, he discovered the world of burlesque at that one fateful show and joined Black Cherry Burlesque before starting his own company, Don’t Blink Burlesque, with a few other performers in 2012. Since then, he has produced his own shows and competed in several pageants and festivals.

Now, Finish is still booking tours through 2018. He is also the production designer at Pima Community College, runs the Arizona Burlesque Festival, dances with Don’t Blink Burlesque and runs Downtown Burlesk: Strip Local.

Don’t Blink Burlesque is a worldfamous group, competing for the fourth time this summer for the Best Large Group at the Burlesque Hall of Fame.

Downtown Burlesk: Strip Local is a show specifically for new local entertainers to gain experience onstage performing in front of an audience. Finish provides his performers with photoshoots and videos to advance their careers to the next level. He started this show with his rent money, hoping to return a favor to the community that had given him so many resources.

“It’s kind of my passion project; that was my way of giving back,” he said. “It’s me giving them access to resources that I have now that they might not have.”

One of Finish’s hopes for the future of burlesque is to find an Arizona legend, someone who was a burlesque performer in the 1940s through the 1990s. They are responsible for the revival of burlesque and its vitality today. Every year, legends still come out to perform and strip—some even in wheelchairs.

“They are sacred in the burlesque community, and the community is very tightknit, but we don’t have any in Arizona. ... I know we must have some,” he said. “If it weren’t for them, we wouldn’t be doing what we are now. Burlesque would be dead. They don’t know that they are so beloved.”

Finish said he hopes to be a role model to those aspiring in the performing arts, especially burlesque. He is refreshingly confident, extremely hard-working, open and friendly.

“To an aspiring performer, you can’t do it wrong,” he said. “It is literally impossible for you to do it wrong; that doesn’t mean it’s good, but it’s not wrong. Make mistakes. Do it. Why wouldn’t you? And you will find an audience for what you are doing.”

Don’t Blink Burlesque performs on Second Saturdays at The Hut, 305 N. Fourth Ave.

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MATT FINISH IS THE reigning Mr. Arizona Entertainer of the Year. The burlesque performer is co-founder of Don’t Blink Burlesque and runs the Arizona Burlesque Festival.

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Among the bars, shops and restaurants lining the short, crowded University Boulevard at Main Gate Square, a new take on fast, healthy food has opened its doors to the community.

Cup It Up American Grill held its grand opening on Saturday, April 1, and presents a new take on build-your-own-entrée.

Customers at Cup It Up build a portable meal with all their favorite foods tossed together.

They begin with a main entrée with choices like citrus herb chicken or grilled jumbo shrimp, then add a grain base, greens, toppings, sauce and superfoods. There are numerous choices in each category, and vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free options are offered.

The restaurant also has a variety of noncup items, including salads, sides of mac and cheese and caramel carrot cake for customers with a sweet tooth.

“We have all the options that everybody wants,” said Chris Smith, the owner and founder of Cup It Up. “There’s nothing on our menu that doesn’t hit home with somebody, and everything is fresh, 100 percent.”

This new location on the corner of University Boulevard and Tyndall Avenue is the second Cup It Up storefront. The original is located in the Trader Joe’s Shopping Center on the corner of Speedway Boulevard and Wilmot Road.

Smith said his original plan was to open the chain’s first location near the UA campus.

“We wanted to open up [at Main Gate Square] as our first location because this really fits our model,” Smith said. “I’m actually kind of glad we didn’t because we worked out a lot of the kinks.”

Smith is very passionate about the company and said he was thrilled with the success of the second location’s grand opening. As part of the celebration, the first 100 customers on Saturday received their meals for free and all customers

who visited throughout the day received half off their orders.

Smith estimates that his team served over 750 customers on opening day and is confident the restaurant will continue to be popular, especially among students on the go.

Cup It Up’s new location is specifically tailored to the UA students that make up a large percentage of Main Gate customers. CatCash is accepted, the restaurant is featured on Tapingo and it even has its own app to allow students to order food late on weekend nights.

Although the dining area closes at 9 p.m. each night, Cup It Up has a late-night window open until 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

The idea that sparked Cup It Up came out of Smith’s need for portability. An avid golfer and traveler, Smith is always looking for meals that are quick, easy to eat on the go and healthy—a combination that he couldn’t seem to find too often.

Smith began asking the golf clubhouse restaurants to chop up chicken, lettuce, tomato and the like and toss it all together in a cup for his golfing meals rather than dealing with a traditional sandwich or entree.

“I could eat on the golf course without getting my hands dirty,” Smith said. “It was just more convenient than anything.”

The restaurant also has a full liquor license and a list of signature cocktails that combine tried-and-true favorites with sodas from the unique Stubborn Soda machine. All natural sodas like Lemon Berry Acai and Orange Hibiscus can be mixed and matched with classic drinks in whatever way the customer desires.

First-timers are welcome to try any ingredients they are curious about when crafting their perfect cup.

When it comes down to it, pretty much all the ingredients can be combined to make a healthy, fresh meal to cater to every customer’s taste.

Should I not drink if I’m sick?

Should you stop drinking alcohol?

Yes. Water? No. If you have a cold, it’s important to drink plenty of non-alcoholic fluids to avoid dehydration and to help your body recover. This means reducing intake of caffeinated beverages, as well. Drinking alcohol can interfere with getting a good night’s sleep and also inhibit your body from absorbing vital nutrients. Alcohol can increase your blood sugar levels leading to decreased energy, making you feel worse than you do.

Getting enough rest and eating nutritious foods can also help you recover from illness quicker.

If you are on antibiotics, you shouldn’t drink alcohol either.

Alcohol may not make an antibiotic less effective at treating an infection, but it may make the side

effects of both alcohol and antibiotics worse. These side effects can be dangerous and include: flushing, headaches, dizziness, drowsiness, nausea, vomiting, and rapid heart rate.

Bottom line: It’s a good idea to avoid drinking alcoholic beverages when you’re sick, whether or not you are prescribed antibiotics.

And don’t forget to seek help from a medical professional when needed. You can make an appointment by calling Campus Health at (520) 621-6490, or by going online at health.arizona.edu.

Walk-ins are also welcome at Campus Health. You can contact CHS Pharmacy at (520) 621-6516 for additional questions or concerns about medications.

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BLOCKER MADISON WITT (23) PLAYS the ball during Arizona’s 4-1 win against New Mexico at Bear Down Beach on Friday, March 31. Madison, and her sister McKenna, will look towards professional careers after college.

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“Their first couple years they really gave themselves to me and the staff and allowed us to make significant changes in their technique,” Walker said. “They’ve been good role models and ambassadors for the program and the university and the sport itself. It’s amazing were coming close to wrapping up four years of it.”

And it is; through their relationship that they have overcome some their greatest challenges.

“I admire how strong McKenna is and determined and willing,” Madison said. “She pushes me when I need it or supports me when I’m struggling.”

McKenna asserted that she is more of the disciplinary of the two, but she equally admires her sister.

“Madison is extremely patient and gracious when it comes to me making errors,” McKenna said. “She knows when I need support, when I’m feeling a little less confident.

She’s there to step in and give me some grace and some more confidence when I need it.”

The twins, which Walker described as “one of the more premier pairs teams in the country,” have shown that, together, they are fearless and the physical setbacks won’t stop them from achieving success at the highest level. Despite the odds, the Witts joined the small percent of collegiate athletes who continue onto the professional level when they qualified for the AVP last summer and played in the San Francisco Open.

The accomplishment came with great difficulty when the twins were met with a surprise in their first match against Olympians April Ross and Kerri Walsh Jennings.

“It was a fun welcome to the AVP,” McKenna said. “We were a little frazzled like ‘whoa,’ but it was really fun.”

They lost the match 21-10, 21-14, but said they did better than they expected. Ross and Walsh went on to win the tournament.

The Witts’ ultimate goal is to one day join the 113 Wildcats who have competed in the Olympics.

Before their career at Arizona sees its completion, the twins have three goals: go to nationals, go to the pair championships and, of course, take down ASU. “We’re so excited. It’s always fun to play our rivals from ASU,” McKenna said. “We couldn’t be more excited to showcase what we’ve been working on. We’re gonna bring it.”

Next year, the twins will return to indoor volleyball in a fifth year at Cal Baptist University on scholarship. During this time, Madison will get her masters in communication, and McKenna a masters in kinesiology.

After four years, the Witts are nothing short of gracious for every opportunity they’ve been provided in building the foundation for Arizona’s top-10 beach volleyball program.

“We had a really good experience here,” Madison said. “I want girls to come through here and grow as not only volleyball players, but as people, and learn about themselves, to learn about who they want to be in the future.”

And now it’s up to freshmen like Olivia Hallaran, who Walker compared to the Witts in a postgame interview, to carry on the Witts’ standards of hard work and eagerness to learn in a program looking for many prosperous years ahead.

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DEFENDER MCKENNA WITT (21) FIGHTS for a point during Arizona’s 4-1 win against New Mexico at Bear Down Beach on Friday, March 31. McKenna, along with her sister Madison, is expected to lead the Wildcats back to the NCAA Tournament this season.

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picture. He brought the Witts to the UA on a campus visit in 2013 with no program to show them.

“We didn’t have our facility built yet; we didn’t have girls to meet,” Mckenna said of the visit. “We realaly liked our coaching staff, so it was ultimately just the school as a whole, being offered a scholarship and the coaches.”

“We loved everyone we met in academics, as well,” Madison said.

From the visit, the Witts were ready to take on the first of many challenges in their collegiate careers at Arizona.

“It’s funny because when we got here we didn’t even play the sport of beach volleyball,” Madison said. “Here you have to be successful in every single skill to win games. When we got here, Steve started us off right from the beginning just learning how to even throw the ball. That took much longer

than it should have. It took a lot of patience and a lot of time developing those skills.”

Just as the twins were settling into college life as freshman, volleyball became secondary when McKenna had the first of her two heart surgeries. The second was this past fall.

According to Mayo Clinic, your maximum heart rate should be your age subtracted from 220. In McKenna’s case, her maximum rate should be about 198 beats per minute, and it would be unnatural to surpass 200 bpm.

“During games it got up to 250 bpm,” McKenna said. “I had to go through a series of tests and ended up deciding to go into ablation, which means they basically burn a spot in your heart that’s sending off extra electrical activity to get it to stop firing so fast.”

Despite the surgeries, McKenna hasn’t completely recovered.

“I’ve had a couple of episodes since, just randomly,” she said. “I probably won’t do surgery again because it’s just kind of defeating. After the second time, I was like, ‘You

know what, I’m just gonna learn how to deal with this and pray about it and go from there.’”

The source of her heart’s rapid beating is still unknown, but McKenna manages the symptoms by taking care of her body. This includes staying hydrated and eating the right foods.

“It’s been a long four years, and I feel like when you’ve been in a program a long time, there’s going to be a lot of mental struggles that ultimately make you stronger, and a better volleyball player and a better person,” Madison said.

Through everything, the Witts have become a stronger team. In four years, they’ve found confidence and trust in their skills and each other. As freshmen, they were losing close games and finished with a 13-15 overall record. Over the next two years, they improved tremendously and had 24 wins last year that took them to the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championships.

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Jessie Harper smashes through expectations Harper came into the year as an unknown commodity to Wildcats fans, but her power and consistency have quickly made her a fan favorite

BY CHRISTOPHER DEAK @ChrisDeakDW

The Arizona Wildcats softball team currently leads the nation in home runs with 56 in its first 38 games. After hitting just 67 home runs last season, this year’s team reloaded over the summer and welcomed back one of last year’s top recruits, Alyssa Palomino, from an injury that kept her out last season.

The Wildcats boast both of the Pac-12 leaders in the HR category, and one of those leaders is senior Katiyana Mauga who has 12 this season, tying her with a freshman teammate.

Who’s that freshman teammate? Palomino? Nope.

It’s time for Wildcats fans to become familiar with freshman Jessie Harper.

The Stevenson Ranch, California native is tied for the Pac-12 lead with teammate Mauga at 12 home runs and is second to Mauga on the team with a .761 slugging percentage.

After hitting only 11 home runs as a senior at West Ranch High School, no one foresaw the type of power numbers Harper has put up.

“I did not expect to be doing this good; my mind is so clear right now,” Harper said. “I’m just doing what I can to help my team; that’s the end goal.”

Her home runs don’t exactly sneak out of the park, either.

Harper already has a reputation for hitting some serious long balls.

Harper arrived on campus in the fall and was recruited as a shortstop. Right away, Harper could tell the differences in the college game, but she never let it get to her.

“Being in this atmosphere is so different; college is definitely a step up from travel ball,” Harper said. “The girls are bigger, faster, stronger, and just their intelligence level with the game is amazing. The jitters were there and they still are here. I mean, anyone who is out here and says they don’t have a little bit of jitters is lying.”

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FRESHMAN JESSIE HARPER DURING Arizona’s 4-2 win over Texas on March 5 at Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium, Tucson. Harper is one of the freshman standouts that have led Arizona to a top-five ranking this season.

But Arizona wasn’t in need of a Harper’s glove at short; senior Mo Mercado was a member of the All-Pac-12 Defensive Team last season.

Softball is similar to baseball in the sense that if you’re swinging a hot bat, you’ll find a way into the lineup. Harper has started all 38 games this season for the Wildcats at first base.

“Her going to first base was definitely hard for her, but she’s somebody that just wants to be out there. She’s somebody that, put her anywhere and she’s going to give you 110 percent,” Mercado said.

Harper has done more than help so far this season and has

been as big a factor as any for the Wildcats 37-1 start.

Besides her physical tools, head coach Mike Candrea has applauded Harper’s mental makeup for a freshman as a reason for her sustained success in her first college season. Harper believes the game is 80 percent mental and 20 percent talent or skill.

“I kind of look at her as a Leah O’Brien,” Candrea said.

“She’s got that smile on her face all the time, and whether it’s in practice or whether it’s in a game, there’s no change in emotions. To me, that’s one of the traits you have to have to play this game at a high level

and play it consistently at a high level.”

O’Brien was a three-time national champion at Arizona and won a gold medal with Candrea in the 2004 Olympics.

Clearly, Arizona’s skipper is excited about his newest power hitter.

“I knew she was good [during her recruitment],” Candrea said. “She played 18 and under when she was a freshman and had success. She was a bigtime player that loved the big moments and came through in the big moments. I knew that I had gotten a gem when we got her to commit to Arizona.”

Mercado has taken Harper

under her wing, and eventually Harper will take over the shortstop position when Mercado graduates. For now, Mercado is just as impressed as everyone else.

“To come out as a freshman and put as many home runs up as she has, she’s just very mature for her age,” Mercado said. “I feed off her, she feeds off me and she’s done nothing but spark our lineup.”

The sky is the limit for Arizona’s newest slugger, and besides being the breakout star for the Wildcats this season, Harper has a reputation for hitting everything, ever her outs, on a rope.