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VOLUME 113 • ISSUE 25 • University of Arizona Spring 2020 Commencement • Friday, May 15, 2020

Commencement & Year In Review Edition Spring 2020

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IN THIS EDITION | VOLUME 113, ISSUE 25 News

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Sports

2020 graduation highlights and summary

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Arts & Life

Carlos Villarreal makes most of senior year cut short

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News The seven seniors that earned top awards

News The year in protests: Speak up and be heard

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Best photos of the year: Looking back through stills

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Sports

Reviewing our top science stories of the year

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Taking note of the year’s important ASUA events

Maria Savarese earns outstanding senior title

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COMMENCEMENT 2020 | LETTER FROM THE EDITOR EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ERIC WISE @IronInfidel47

To the class of 2020...

We finally did it! Four long years (or so) of hard work has come to a close, and although the end could’ve been a little better, we’ve accomplished so much and have become better people for it. I know I won’t be the same exact person I am today that I will be in four more years, and the same may be said for many of us, but this transition from college student to college graduate is one of the most important in our lives. Life is full of transitions and transitioning, and we’re making good progress.

But enough of the stuff we’ve already heard and will hear for the next few weeks. As the graduating class, we need to comprehend how we’re going to get jobs in a time where we can’t

shake our employers’ hands or find any positions at places that had to be shut down. Some of us are just totally out of luck with our fields of study and whether we can work at all right now.

Some of us are heading into medical pursuits, and I wish you the best of luck in everything you’re about to face. But when this all ends, we will be the ones who made it through. We are the force that can surpass these difficulties in our most crucial time of life.

2020 is the year of transition. The world will not be the same after this all ends, and neither will we, but we’ve conquered so much ground already, and I don’t think this is a good time to stop. We must lead the world with our ideas and our performances, and we will do so with the stride of the Wildcats.

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COMMENCEMENT 2020 | VIRTUAL GRADUATION

Celebrations held at home on screen The University of Arizona held its ‘virtual’ graduation ceremony on Friday, May 15, abiding by the socialdistance norm. Despite the ongoing pandemic, UA’s Class of 2020 celebrated to a unique commencement

BY MAGGIE ROCKWELL @magzrock

The 156th Annual Arizona Commencement for the University of Arizona’s Class of 2020 was the most unique one yet, taking place virtually amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on May 15 at 6 p.m.

“Isn’t this awkward?” UA President Dr. Robert Robbins opened the virtual commencement, seemingly echoing how everyone was feeling while graduating from home. He opened with talking about the university’s continued fight against coronavirus as well as recognizing the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui tribes, whose land the university was built on.

The commencement then switched over to remarks by the Arizona Board of Regent’s Chairman Larry Penley, Associated Students of the University of Arizona President Sydney Hess and Graduate and Professional Student Council President Marie Teemant.

There were seven awards and medals given out to graduating students, including the Merrill P. Freeman Medals, Robie Gold Medals, Robert Logan Nugent Awards and the Provost Award. The Merrill P. Freeman Medals were awarded PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY AMY BAILEY | THE DAILY WILDCAT DUE TO THE ONGOING pandemic, this year’s 2020 commencement ceremony was brodcasted to students via Zoom, an online video chat service, and aimed to follow the to Ahmad Shahin and Marcos Gomez social-distancing guidlines put forth by the global community.

Ambriz, the Robie Gold Medals awarded to Crystal Raygoza and Tony Viola IV, the Robert Logan Nugent Awards to Lily Keane expedition, has skied to both North and candidates of professional degrees and The virtual ceremony was completed Chavez and Meucci Ilunga and the Provost South poles and is an alumna of the 1987 special certificates recognized. with Robbins asking the graduates to move Award to Lauren Easter.

UA class.

The commencement livestream was held their tassels from right to left in the final The achievements were shown being The foundation of her speech was her live and is available to the public on the rite of graduation, saying his final remarks, given to each student by their loved ones at journey climbing Mount Everest, using main page of the commencement website, and followed by the College of Fine Arts home. One particularly touching moment her “Cliff Notes” of the experience to which is available for viewing right on the students singing “All You Need is Love” was recipient Tony Viola IV placing his highlight the most important lessons she home page. The video was at the top of over Zoom from their own homes. medal on his grandmother, whom he learned from the truly once-in-a-lifetime the page with a captions screen beneath it The virtual commencement was made shared was the first person in his family expedition. Her main point was resilience, and links to the Zoom rooms for graduates as interactive and special as possible, to participate in a formal school setting. the importance of resilience and the directly beneath that with messages from loved ones to their Another was the Provost Award winner, resilience of this class of students whose Before moving on to the undergraduate graduates scrolling along the bottom of the Lauren Easter, being presented the award senior year was cut short by the pandemic degrees, Dean Terry Hunt of the Arizona screen for the duration of the broadcast, by her partner and son. crisis.

Honors College recognized the students Zoom chat rooms available for graduating After the achievements were awarded The ceremony moved to the recognition graduating with honors. Each of the students to interact with each other, as well remotely to their respective recipients, of the candidates for advanced degrees by deans or interim deans recognized the as a scrolling list of all graduates’ names at the keynote speaker was introduced. The Dean of the Graduate College Dr. Andrew undergraduates of their respective colleges the end of the live video. College-specific keynote speaker, Alison Levine, was the Carnie. There were 1,036 Ph.D. candidates, that would be receiving their bachelor’s ceremonies were also held virtually team captain of the first women’s Everest 2,219 master’s degree candidates and 521 degrees. throughout the day.

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COMMENCEMENT 2020 | SENIOR DAY

Senior Carlos Villarreal makes the best of his senior season Teams in Arizona and across the globe will continue to feel the impact that COVID-19 has left.

However, some like Carlos Villarreal looks to make the best of what they are offered

BY JACOB MENNUTI @jacob_mennuti

Carlos Villarreal was at the Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with the rest of his teammates when they received the news that the NCAA had canceled all athletic events across the country for the foreseeable future. The feeling of ending your senior season so abruptly could best be described as dropping the baton on the final turn of a relay race. The pain is insurmountable.

The cancellation of NCAA sports was one of the final dominoes to fall, as other conferences and organizations had already begun to shut down their operations as a basic safety precaution.

The Ivy League, along with the ACC and the Big 10, had withdrawn their schools from the meet just a day after the NBA suspended its 2019-20 season until further notice. The Pac-12 had also canceled its men’s basketball tournament earlier in the day.

“While the news was heartbreaking, it was not shocking as things had slowly deteriorated leading up to that point,” Villarreal said in an email.

Competition within the sport was as high as it has ever been, with 10 NCAA records being broken within the last year, two of which were in 2020. This season was also supposed to serve as a proving ground before the 2020 Summer Olympics for athletes hopeful of representing their country on the biggest stage possible, Villarreal being one of them.

“The NCAA was incredibly deep this year so I really looked forward to throwing down with the best the NCAA had to offer one last time before I graduated,” Villarreal said.

But the pill of putting his dreams to the side was too big to swallow.

Villarreal is still determined to accomplish one of his life-long goals, which is to break the four-minute mile

in Tucson on his own, self-created senior day.

“The idea to have my own senior day just occurred to me while I was still in denial of how my entire season had been canceled,” he said. “The idea was that, ‘Yeah, meets may be cancelled but everyone’s competitive spirits remained.’”

Running the mile in under four minutes is something that Villarreal has done four times in his collegiate career but never in his home state. To put into perspective of how difficult that is, the average time for an Olympic runner in the men’s 5000 meters is 13 minutes and 25 seconds which converts to four minutes and 13 seconds per mile. To accomplish a time of under four minutes, you would need to run each lap in under a minute, keeping a consistent pace without slowing down.

The only thing standing in his way now is the COVID-19 safety regulations, which Villarreal is more than willing to cooperate with. Since he is currently not allowed to use UA’s track or meet in-person with anyone, Villarreal says he plans on running the mile at a later date with head coach Fred Harvey holding the stopwatch.

“At whatever time and date we have clearance, I will be there,” Harvey said in an email.

Villarreal even hopes to celebrate his senior day with a few of his teammates and friends.

“Why have just one sub-four-minute mile in Tucson, when you can have ten, all on the same night?” he said.

To compensate for the spring season being cut short, the NCAA has granted another year of eligibility to spring athletes, meaning Villarreal will have the option of competing in an Arizona uniform in 2021. He hasn’t made that decision yet, but said that he has looked into UA’s master’s programs if he does decide to come back.

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NOW SENIOR CARLOS VILLAREAL during the Dave Murray Invitational on September 14, 2019, at Randolph Golf Course in Tucson.

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COMMENCEMENT 2020 | HUMANITIES

College of Humanities names Grace Faerber top senior

BY ISABELLA BARRON @bellambarron

Grace Faerber is this year’s outstanding senior in the College of Humanities. Faerber is an honors student double majoring in East Asian studies and global studies and minoring in pre-law. She has been speaking and studying Mandarin since the fifth grade.

Faerber said her professor and honors thesis adviser Andres Onate was her most influential figure at the University of Arizona. Onate said Faerber is very deserving of the award and sees a productive career in her future as a “Chinese expert.”

In his letter of recommendation nominating Faerber for the honor, Onate highlighted Faerber’s accomplishments.

“I would place [Faerber] in the top 2% of the 25 students in the Spring 2019 course and in the top 5% of all students I have had in my academic career,” Onate wrote. “She is most deserving of the outstanding senior award.”

Upon starting college, Faerber said she knew she wanted to continue studying the Chinese language. Through the East Asian studies major, Faerber said she was not only able to continue

studying the language but also the culture, history and government, giving her a more holistic comprehension of the country.

In addition to her studies, Faerber was also an ambassador for the College of Humanities.

Through this, Faerber represented the college and encouraged students to add a humanities major.

“I think that the ability to have an understanding of another language or culture or another region of the world is so important regardless of whatever career path someone is going into,” Faerber said. “I think that ability to specialize in something is important when searching for jobs because it sets you apart.”

Faerber said she worked as a marketing assistant for the Campus Recreation Center for nearly her entire time at the UA. Faerber was the lead of the International Flag Display project. She helped design the display in the main hallway of the Rec Center, which represents “all home nations of UA students.”

She also helped design a map showing all the locations of each country, as well as a native nations display showing the native nations of UA students.

“This project was important to me because

COURTESY GRACE FAERBER

GRACE FAERBER IS THE outstanding senior for the College of Humanities.

it allowed me to use my education and interest in international affairs to pay tribute to [UA] students and help them feel more included and respected at the [UA],” Faerber said.

Tara Watson, the assistant director of marketing and communications for the Rec Center, was Faerber’s supervisor. Watson said that Faerber makes the most of everything assigned to her. “[Faerber] wants to make a difference and

that shows in everything she does, whether it be for school, in her job, or while building her dream career,” Watson said in an email. “She is someone who knows what she wants and will pursue every opportunity to make it happen.”

Faerber studied abroad both of her summers.

During her first, she studied in Hangzhou, China. She said it was the perfect opportunity for her to practice her language and cultural skills. For her second summer, she studied in Washington, D.C. Faerber has been accepted to her top choice graduate school, the John Hopkins University — Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies graduate program in Nanjing, China.

She plans to study international studies with a concentration in international politics.

Faerber was also awarded a very selective program, the Boren Fellowship, for her graduate degree, through which she is committed to a career in the U.S. government in national security for at least one year.

Considering her involvement in the College of Humanities, Faerber said she is honored and excited to be the outstanding senior for the college.

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COMMENCEMENT 2020 | SCHOOL OF MUSIC

Maria Savarese selected as Fred Fox outstanding senior

BY ERICKA RIOS @DailyWildcat

The Fred Fox School of Music 2020 outstanding senior was chosen not just for her talent, but for her passion, assistant professor of music Theodore Buchholz said. And that same passion has earned her a prestigious position across the country following graduation.

Maria Savarese, hailing from Gilbert, Arizona, is graduating in the coming days with a Bachelor of Music in cello performance (with a high-brow GPA of 3.93) under the guidance of Buchholz, but cello is just her base instrument. Savarese plays about 10 different instruments, but has played cello for 13 years.

“Both of my grandparents on my dad’s side were professional musicians, and so I always kind of grew up around music,” Savarese said.

“In high school, I was involved with a lot of things, but music was the number one thing I was involved in.”

Throughout Savarese’s academic career, she learned to stay involved. She does her best to be present and practice in the music

room as much as she can. She was involved in ensembles, chamber music and also participated in University of Arizona String Project, a program that aims to “inspire and foster creativity among young musicians and to cultivate a learning environment that enables the development of future string teachers,” according to the Fred Fox School of Music website.

Savarese explained that the “String Project is for Tucson kids, and we give them private lessons on cello, violin, viola, bass and they also get ensemble classes. I was teaching the ensemble classes and started teaching private lessons.”

The String Project was Savarese’s first real teaching gig as a musician. “[It] was a huge adjustment because we grow up when we go into high school and college and understand, and what it takes to teach that kind of class, because we are in them all the time,” Savarese said.

She explained that she found teaching elementary school children difficult because young kids have trouble remembering things, but it didn’t sway her passion for music.

“[Teaching kids] was really fun because it kind of makes me remember, like, the fun parts of learning music the first time,” Savarese said.

“That was really cool and really special to be part of.”

Buchholz has had the pleasure of watching Savarese grow both academically and professionally. According to him, she has all the traits of a great student and a great musician: courteous, professional, hardworking, “well-learned,” proactive, “willing to go the extra mile,” prompt, accountable and ready to work.

“But more importantly than that, she always brings her love of music and desire for excellence to rehearsals and performances,” Buchholz said. “That is the quality that I value most in a musician.”

With commencement on the horizon, Savarese’s journey lies just over it. She has been accepted into a prestigious position as a graduate teaching assistant at Oklahoma State University, where she will apply her hardearned skills of teaching and performance in the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra.

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SENIOR MARIA SAVARESE IS this year’s outstanding senior from the Fred Fox School of Music and is graduating with a degree in cello performance.

Congratulations Class of 2020!

The College of Humanities celebrates our more than 400 graduating Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral Degree recipients.

We are proud of you and know you will make a lasting impact on the world.

CONGRATULATIONS TO GRACE FAERBER College of Humanities Spring 2020 Outstanding Senior and a Boren Awards for International Study Fellow!

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR GRADUATING AMBASSADORS:

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Grace Faerber

Brianna Guggino

Mandy Han

Aja Haymore

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COMMENCEMENT | FUTURE PLANS

Students share post-commencement plans

BY DIANA RAMOS @diana_sacaria

The University of Arizona’s graduation ceremony was canceled on March 20 after President Dr. Robert C. Robbins shut down campus events in the wake of COVID-19.

One of the most memorable moments for a college student was taken away, so how are seniors feeling? How are they dealing with the situation?

With money involved and everything set up for the 2020 UA commencement ceremony, COVID-19 arrived to make people stay at home.

Alawi Hamza Bafageeh, an international senior from Saudi Arabia, explained his disappointment about not having a graduation celebration. He said his family members booked flight tickets and hotel rooms a year ago.

“I honestly was extremely pissed off because I have been waiting this day [for] like forever,” Bafageeh said in an email. “I was dreaming about that day for so long. … This dream has been on [my] mind since I first arrived in the U.S., that was about 7 years ago.”

Although the situation doesn’t look positive, Bafageeh said he is in high spirits as his character and customs remain untouched.

“I’m that kind of person who looks at the bright side; in other words, as we say in Arabic, I look at the ‘half full of a cup’ not ‘half empty of a cup,”’ Bafageeh said.

Bafageeh will be receiving his bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, which he said was not an easy task.

“I passed through hardship in so many ways, not only academics but looking at me right now I FINALLY MADE IT and now I can check my list of getting my B.S. degree,” Bafageeh said in an email.

After graduation, Bafageeh is planning to pursue a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering at the UA and then intends to go back home and start his professional career and new adult life.

Kirsten Jacobsen, a student-athlete majoring in accounting management information systems, explained that every student looks forward to celebrating their accomplishments with family and friends. She said that COVID-19 also affected her athletic career.

“The spread of COVID-19 cut my swim just short of the national championships and abruptly ended my swimming career, which was really hard to deal with,” Jacobsen said via email.

Graduation pictures are another tradition impacted by COVID-19, which Jacobsen said worked out in her favor.

“It was still fun to be able to have the spaces to myself to get some nice pictures to celebrate graduation,” Jacobsen said.

Jacobsen said her experience at the UA was great. After graduation, she plans to stay in

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TWO UA GRADS SHOW their excitement before the 153rd Annual UA Commencement on Friday, May 12, 2019.

Tucson to be with her boyfriend and get a job as a tax associate.

“It’s pretty surreal to be graduating already,” she said in an email. “I feel like my time here has flown by.”

Tony Viola IV, a Native American and firstgeneration student, said that he and his family were so excited about graduation, but they understand it is a situation they cannot control.

“Graduation was something my family has been talking about for years,” Viola said in an

email. “I’m excited about the rescheduled commencement and plan on attending the virtual graduation ceremony.”

Viola will be receiving his bachelor’s degree in literacy, learning leadership.

“I am excited to do research and learn more about the ways to better support Native American students at large,” he said.

Viola plans to pursue an upper education at the UA as a doctoral student in the language, reading and culture program.

COMMENCEMENT | EDUCATION

Viola the College of Educations’s top grad

BY DIANA RAMOS @diana_sacaria

The College of Education’s outstanding senior, Tony Viola, is a Native American student who is passionate about teaching and doing research that will improve education for Native American students.

Viola is a first-generation college student who went to the University of Arizona to get a bachelor’s degree in literacy, learning and leadership — a degree that helped him to find his voice.

Viola confessed that he was afraid of going to college, but his desire to help others pushed him out of his comfort zone. He acknowledged that his family has been his greatest support in his college journey.

“There have been so many times when I felt

alone, in over my head, or lost for not knowing something other people knew in high school,” said Viola in an email.

Viola used to be shy and quiet, but once he started getting involved with campus activities, like joining clubs or participating in class, he started feeling more confident about himself.

Nowadays, Viola describes himself as a loud person because he is not afraid to speak up anymore. He mentions that every club, program and organization he joined helped him to find his voice and to be proud of his roots.

Maria Gary, Viola’s mother, described her son in an email as a “very passionate, determined and strong-willed person.” She said Viola has a big heart and is always willing to help.

“Seeing Tony pursu[ing] great things while remembering his cultural background is very gratifying,” Gary said in an email. She thinks

Viola got selected as the outstanding senior because he stays true to himself.

Viola is part of the Pascua Yaqui tribe.

His cultural upbringing based on passion in supporting where unrepresented students come from. Viola decided to pursue an education major to help those who are minorities in educational spaces.

“I try to support our undeserved students from different backgrounds and lived experiences,” Viola said in an email.

Sara Chavarria, assistant dean in research development for the College of Education, mentions that the College of Education was looking for an outstanding student who not only has good grades, but is also committed to the community.

According to Chavarria, Viola stands out because he genuinely cares about high school,

Native American and first-generation students who want to go to college and succeed.

“In our college we are very much about serving,” Chavarria said.

According to Chavarria, Viola is the complete package; he is a good student and has a good service record and leadership qualities that make him an outstanding student.

“He is very responsible, he is very committed, he is a hard worker and he meets deadlines,” Chavarria said. “He shows a lot of leadership.”

Chavarria recommends senior students to be on the lookout for opportunities that can be very fulfilling and helpful to stand out from the rest.

“Be genuine, be yourself and do act on it,” Chavarria said as a recommendation for students who want to be outstanding seniors.

“Make things happen.”

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Senior award winners shine with talent The University of Arizona held its commencement Friday, May 15, honoring seven standout individuals for their academic exploits

BY RANDALL ECK AND MADDIE MCCORMICK @DailyWildcat

Tony Viola: Robie Gold Medal

Tony Viola, a senior majoring in literacy, learning and leadership and minoring in American Indian studies at the UA, was named one of this year’s two Robie Gold Medal recipients.

This award, established by UA alumni Wendell Robie and Inez Robie, honors students who demonstrate exemplary initiative, integrity, cooperation and versatility during their college careers.

“I am really excited by this award because I want people to learn about all the projects and collaborations that I have been a part of [at the UA],” Viola said.

A first-generation college student, Viola came to the UA intending to study how to increase educational attainment among students in underrepresented communities, especially Native American communities.

COURTESY CLAUDIA DAVILA Outside the classroom, Viola has been THE SEVEN AWARDWINNING seniors, from left to right, Lily Chavez, Tony Viola, Ahmad Shahin, Lauren Easter, a powerful voice for UA’s Native American Crystal Raygoza, Meucci Ilunga and Marcos Gomez Ambriz were the award recipients. community, co-founding VOICE, or Voices of Indigenous Concerns in dean for research in the College of work with students to fill those gaps by Education.

Education. providing access to college transition “One of the most meaningful things I After graduating this May, Viola programs and helping students feel a have done during my last four years was will continue his studies at the UA in sense of belonging in college.” helping co-found VOICE,” Viola said. the College of Education’s language, Raygoza was selected as a McNair “It is really empowering to see a group reading and culture Ph.D. program. The Scholar, allowing her to pursue an of Native students, both graduate and interdisciplinary program emphasizes independent research project on campus. undergraduate, come together and really research into multicultural education, Raygoza chose to study the relationship try to focus on creating change on campus literacy, and the impact of other between family values and educational that will go beyond us to support students educational initiatives. aspirations and attainment among a group long into the future.” of Latinx middle schoolers.

Viola is also a project coordinator for From her research, Raygoza Crystal Raygoza: Robie Gold Medal the Linking Southwest Heritage through concluded that while students from Crystal Raygoza, a senior majoring in Archaeology project, or LSWHTA, which underrepresented communities still face family studies and human development teaches local high school students about adversities in the educational system, and minoring in Spanish at the UA, was the cultural history of the Southwest family values that place an importance on named one of this year’s two Robie Gold through visits to archaeological sites, education positively impact the success of Medal recipients. university research labs and national these students.

After graduating this May, Raygoza parks.

“Raygoza is an intelligent and focused will continue her studies at the UA in “[Viola] provided guidance on how student,” said Andrew Huerta, Director the College of Education’s educational to talk about our heritage, the topic of of the McNair program at the UA. “She leadership and policy Ph.D. program. conquest of Native lands, and the topic was an ideal scholar in the McNair “As a low income and first-generation of cultural resource management of Achievement Program due to her deep college student, I know a lot of times our public lands, all in a manner that commitment to her studies and strong there are educational barriers that was constructive and inspiring to our engagement in her undergraduate students experience, especially those students,” said Sara Chavarria, a lead research.” from non-traditional or underrepresented investigator of LSWHTA and assistant According to Raygoza, a key to her backgrounds,” Raygoza said. “I want to

success was building a strong community and support system on campus.

One of the programs that Raygoza also participated in was the Global Experiential Learning program.

Raygoza’s experiences at the UA helped her discover her passion and settle on her fourth and final major, a field of study she has thrived in and plans to continue to pursue in the future.

Lauren Easter: Provost Award

Lauren Easter, a senior majoring in law and philosophy at the UA, was named this year’s Provost Award recipient. After graduating in May, Easter will remain at the UA to complete her accelerated master’s program in legal studies with a focus on human rights.

The Provost Award was established in 2014 to honor the persistence, leadership and commitment to academic excellence of a graduating student who transferred to the UA from an Arizona community college.

“I choose to study law because I am a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault,” Easter said. “It is really important for me to study the legal system and learn about what aspects of our system need to be changed to help victims of sexual assault.”

According to Easter, working at UA’s Civil Rights Restoration Clinic has been one of her most meaningful experiences on campus.

The clinic provides students the opportunity to develop litigation skills and fight to restore the rights of previously incarcerated individuals, helping them fully reintegrate into their communities.

“Ms. Easter has been a pleasure to work with,” said Andy Silverman, director of the Civil Rights Restoration Clinic. “[Easter] was assigned four cases to work on and did an excellent job on each one of them.

She is highly intelligent, hardworking and relates well with her clients.”

In addition to her work at the clinic, Easter is also a volunteer at the Emerge!

Center, Pima County’s center against domestic abuse.

As a non-traditional student, Easter faced an array of challenges through college.

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Chavez hopes to work with a nongovernmental organization to research women’s rights and global education issues.

“My biggest challenge at UA was trying to balance my coursework, taking care of my 7-year-old child who has autism and work full-time,” Easter said. “The UA has so many resources to make any plan you want to happen work out, so if you have a dream in mind, do not hold back.”

Meucci Ilunga: Nugent Award

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Lily Chavez: Nugent Award

Lily Chavez, a senior majoring in global studies and creative writing at the UA, was one of two recipients of the Robert Logan Nugent Award this year.

Like many students, Chavez entered the UA without knowing exactly which subject she wanted to study, but thanks to the financial support of scholarships she was able to participate in a multitude of experiences.

“It was not until I studied abroad, the summer after my freshman year, that I really, came to see where my true passions resided,” Chavez said. “When I returned from what became my island home, Martinique, I added my creative writing and global studies majors.”

In addition to studying abroad in Martinique, Chavez also had the opportunity to travel to Paris, Franc,e to study international affairs and work for a local refugee resettlement organization. Chavez has also had the opportunity to work with refugees in Arizona, working with Tucson’s International Rescue Committee.

This past semester, Chavez worked as a research assistant for Thomas Miller, a professor of English, researching civil rights, communications and social movement.

“Chavez has done outstanding research on the challenges facing immigrant women from Africa and the Middle East as they seek to find jobs and learn how to live in America, and her honor’s thesis will be put to use by her community partner in a well that will make a difference in those women’s lives,” Miller said.

After graduation, Chavez plans to travel to the Ivory Coast to teach English for a year, but the current pandemic has created uncertainty whether or not she will be able to travel.

“After my program in the Ivory Coast, I plan to attain a law degree and pursue international human rights law,” Chavez said.

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Honors student Meucci Ilunga is a senior graduating from the UA this semester with the Robert Logan Nugent Award as a testament to his commitment to the service of others, namely his Native American community.

The Robert Logan Nugent Award honors students who show outstanding service to their community and to the university. Ilunga believes his sense of community is what resonated most with the award selections committee.

“I really am somebody who is committed to the service of others,” Ilunga said. “On the reservation, we have a strong sense of community and it’s really that sense of duty of being bound to other people that allows us to function properly.”

In the course of his education at the UA, the biochemistry major has done everything from overcoming his fear of dogs by volunteering at the local humane society, to mentoring elementary school students, to a summer research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ilunga said he sees himself in a research career and has received a job offer for a tech position at MIT. “I’m hopefully going to be spending a year in that tech position and then hopefully moving on to graduate school for a graduate program where I can study synthetic or computational biology,” he said.

Ilunga explained that one of the greatest challenges for Native American students is leaving home. According to a Navajo origin story, “no Navajo who leaves his homeland can be happy,” Ilunga said. For Ilunga, the UA offered a Native American community that made the transition to college easier.

“I think that the greatest takeaway I will have from the UA is that opportunity and my culture are not mutually exclusive,” Ilunga said, “and we can start to move away from this old idea that to go forward is to lose everything and to go back is to lose all opportunity.”

Ahmad Shahin: Freeman Medal

Ahmad Shahin, a senior majoring in physiology and minoring in Arabic at the UA,

was one of two recipients of this year’s Merrill P. Freeman Medal.

The Freeman Medal, established by the estate of former UA Chancellor Dr. Merrill Freeman, honors two graduating students with outstanding moral character, popularity, athleticism and service each year.

“I am honored to have received the Freeman Medal,” Shahin said. “I do not think I am particularly special. I am proud to be part of a great community of people who really care about each other at UA.” Involving himself in UA’s Undergraduate Biology Research Program, Shahin had the opportunity to work in the research lab of May Khanna, an assistant professor of pharmacology.

In the lab, Shahin crystallized a protein named TDP-43, linked to the motor neuron degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Using high-resolution imaging, Shahin was able to visualize TDP43’s interactions with chemical compounds that have been identified as potential treatments for ALS in fruit flies.

“Dr. Khanna put a lot of trust in me early on, handing me a challenging project in the lab,” Shahin said. “At first, I did not think I was up for the challenge, but I learned that there are tasks that seem too difficult to take on, but that is why we should take them on and think big.”

After graduation, Shahin will be starting medical school at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Shahin hopes to use his Arabic minor and experience mentoring refugee children at Catalina High School to more effectively provide medical care to underrepresented communities.

“My advice to UA students would be to definitely focus on what you are passionate about, but also be willing to branch out and take risks,” Shahin said. “Do not commit to just one or two activities early on because there are so many great opportunities to explore so much to do.”

Marcos Gomez Ambriz: Freeman Medal

and the impact of that never really hit me until college, where I had actually had health insurance for the first time,” Ambriz said.

“That is what motivated me to pursue health sciences.”

Before the outbreak of COVID-19, Ambriz had planned to spend the next year working for an orthopedic surgeon before applying to attend medical school. Yet the pandemic has exposed extreme inequalities in the American healthcare system and deepened Ambriz’s interest in public policy.

Currently, Ambriz is applying to earn a Master of Science in Law at Northwestern University in Chicago.

“The program is aimed at helping STEM students get their foot in the door of business and policy, training students to be more effective leaders for the future,” Ambriz said.

“As [student body senator] for the College of Medicine, I realized that I can do more than just practice medicine, but also help make the policy [impacting patients].”

As an Associated Students of the University of Arizona senator, Ambriz fought for additional resources and visibility for undergraduate physiology students in the College of Medicine.

“As ASUA College of Medicine Senator, [Ambriz] was very active in establishing better lines of communication within the college, providing support for new student programs for peer mentoring and career advising and implementing fun avenues for volunteering and community outreach,” said Lucinda Rankin, associate professor of physiology.

“Besides all that, he’s a passionate learner and consistent contributor to classroom discussions.”

As a student from an underrepresented background, Ambriz did not see people like himself in leadership positions on campus.

“I realized that that I could do something on campus, be visible in leadership positions,” Ambriz said. “I could show students that just because they are different, does not mean that they are anything less and that they too can be on the homecoming court or senator for the college.”

Marcos Gomez Ambriz, a senior majoring in physiology and biochemistry at the UA, was one of two recipients of this year’s Merrill P. Freeman Medal.

“I never grew up with health insurance

Definitely focus on what you are passionate about, but also be willing to branch out and take risks.”

- AHMAD SHAHIN, FREEMAN MEDAL

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2019-20 YEAR IN REVIEW YEAR IN REVIEW | CORONAVIRUS NARRATIVE

An editor’s timeline of COVID-19

BY AMBER SOLAND @its_amber_rs

In January, I began to see news of a virus in Wuhan, China, circulating the internet. By now, we have all been affected by it, but back then, I remember too many people brushed it off as another distant disaster. At the time, I was reading Thucydides’ recount of the plague of Athens for a class. Thucydides told a familiar tale: a city’s dissent, wild theories of where the plague originated, how those who cared for the sick were quickly dying, mass graves and the crippling isolation and loneliness of the diseased in their final hours.

It seemed familiar. Prophetic, even. I attribute that to history repeating itself again and again.

Thucydides attempted to record a history of the plague of Athens and, in fewer words and with more reputable sources, I attempt to do that here. I started a journal in my isolation, and it occurred to me that I couldn’t possibly record it properly and comprehensively. But, in sum: On Jan. 30, just 30 days after the initial report of a new illness in Wuhan, China, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

The U.S. was suddenly realizing this might be serious. Tucson, as far from the disaster as we seemed at the time, felt the fear of the pandemic so strongly that the Tucson Festival of Books was canceled on March 9. The Daily Wildcat, and my desk — the Arts & Life desk — in particular, suddenly found ourselves with days of nearly wasted content. At the time, Arizona only had six confirmed cases of COVID-19, according to the Arizona Daily Star.

On March 11, WHO assessed that COVID-19 was officially a pandemic. I think March 11 is the day the world went mad.

The escalation was swift. University of Arizona President Dr. Robert C. Robbins sent the first of many coronavirus related emails on March 11, delaying the start of classes to after spring break. We were rather sure it was never just an extension of break. We wouldn’t be coming back.

Within a week, stores were out of stock. I visited three different supermarkets on the outskirts of town to pick up the usual grocery list: toilet paper, frozen vegetables, body wash, etc. The shelves were cleared. At 9 p.m., I felt like I was walking through society’s remains, pacing empty, darkened aisles in search of supplies to support basic needs.

I began social distancing on March 12.

On March 13, President Robbins stated in an email that classes would resume on March 18 in a fully online capacity. For the educator and the pupil, what happened in the coming weeks is something that can only be told by the individual. Professors raced to rewrite their syllabuses. Students struggled to meet their educational requirements. Later, petitions for tuition refunds and pass/fail grade options founded by the likes of UA junior Sterling Stokes — who published a guest letter to the Daily Wildcat on March 20 — would bring to light just how gravely a pandemic devastates education.

More event cancellations trickled in around the time that the Centers for Disease Control recommended limiting mass gatherings, March 15. As an event worker, my mom struggled to find work, then couldn’t find it at all.

The world seemed to pass out of control after

that. On March 31, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey instituted a stay-at-home order for the state.

I started a journal that day. Reading it over, I realize there’s so much that happened in only 20 pages that it would be impossible to compile a comprehensive experience for others to read and relate to. People were losing their jobs, people were dying, people I knew were actually getting sick. By that point, the UA already had its fair share of cases among students.

So, where do we stand now?

As of May 9, the total death toll so far is over 275,000 worldwide. In Arizona alone, 532 deaths have been attributed to COVID-19, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services. The total number of Arizona cases is 10,960. There is likely severe undercoverage due to lack of testing on all accounts.

According to Forbes, on April 24, the IRS distributed $157.9 billion in stimulus checks to the American people. By May 9, that statistic jumped to $216.7 billion, and the IRS communicated that $33 billion is still in process. According to CNBC, the U.S. unemployment rate is up to 14.7%, 2.5 million jobs having been lost in April. The “real” unemployment rate, which includes those not searching for jobs, as CNBC reports, is likely 22.8%.

For reference, in 1933, during the Great Depression, the unemployment rate was 24.9%.

Here at the UA, commencement is just around the corner and not a soul will be present for it. There are too many variables in this situation to accurately predict how the next year will pan out, especially for our seniors entering the workforce.

There are so many petrifying questions to be answered in future narratives of this year.

Exactly how deep is the toll taken on

education and how will it affect education for the next decade? How will this year’s and future graduates handle entering the worst job market since the Great Depression? Will the U.S. be able to curve the spread of this disease enough that we don’t repeat the mistakes we made with the Spanish Flu and spur a second wave in the coming months?

But there are other questions to be answered. We speak so much of the pandemic’s destruction. When the Greeks called sickness a miasma, perhaps it was not only the stench of the dead they referred to, but the influence it had on society. How it grossly permeated like a dense fog through the walls of homes, temples and the steps of the Senate.

How it changed people through death and perseverance. How, in dealing with a plague’s decimation, creation closely followed.

There will be many more narratives of this pandemic in the coming years. Articles, opinions, studies, autobiographies, histories and modern science fiction to be analyzed in future classes. Disaster sparks creativity in a way nothing else can.

Telling this story is not fear mongering, as many people on the internet like to claim.

Rather, it’s a way of dealing with fears that were already latent within us. Recounting what has happened is the only way to make sense of it.

And maybe, in another 100 years, when a new, formidable pandemic arises, people will read what happened in the year 2020. After our long history of handling pandemics poorly, maybe future generations will have learned.

— Amber Soland, a Creative Writing and Classics junior, is the Daily Wildcat’s Arts & Life Editor

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A year of protests and movements

BY KRISTIJAN BARNJAK @DailyWildcat

This past school year, Wildcats fought for a more sustainable and inclusive future. Students took a stand to ensure that people in positions of power were held accountable for their actions, including a professor, University of Arizona Police Department and even the president of the university. Here’s a review of some of the major protests at the University of Arizona that took place throughout the 2019-20 school year.

Queers United Coalition versus Dull

The Queers United Coalition held a protest the morning of Sept. 4, 2019 to call for the removal of Dr. Randal Dull as a professor at the University of Arizona.

The demonstration was organized in response to a letter unearthed by the Arizona Daily Star in which Dull wrote, “The promotion of homosexuality, bisexual confusion, and other degeneracy cannot be tolerated.” Dull wrote the letter to the Park City Record, the local paper of Park City and Summit County, DESIREE GUERRERO | THE DAILY WILDCAT Utah, in January 2004.

STUDENTS GATHERED IN FRONT of the Administration building in protest of Dr. Randal Dull not being fired Protesters gathered in front of the from the University of Arizona. Students later walked to Old Main holding up posters and yelled “fire him”.

Administration building with signs that read “FIRE HIM” and “together we rise.”

A second protest was held on Sept. 18, with dignity and respect.” and wore black to express solidarity with 2019, two weeks after the initial protest. After Dull stepped down from chairman of UA’s the victim. They marched down University amassing in front of the Administration building, Department of Anesthesiology shortly after the Boulevard, eventually stopping in front of protesters marched to Old Main to drop off letter first came out, but he is still a professor in Coronado Residence Hall, where they raised letters to UA President Dr. Robert C. Robbins, UA’s Health Sciences. their fists in a moment of silence for the victim. urging him to remove Dull.

The protesters then marched to Old Main, “It’s going to be a collective effort,” Riley where a list of demands compiled by the Black Black Student Union protest Conklin, co-founder of the Queers United Student Union were read aloud. The demands On Sept. 13, 2019, hundreds of students Coalition, told the Daily Wildcat. “It’s not just us, released after the protest read as follows: and Tucson community members gathered in not just Queers United that are being ignored “We demand consequences for the assaulters front of the Administration building in a protest by [Robbins]. We’re going to get the whole and officers who perpetuating the continued organized by the Black Student Union to show community involved if we have to. We’re not suffering of our Black Students of the University solidarity with a UA student who was the victim going to stop, we’re never going to stop until we of Arizona. We demand the expulsion of the two of a racially motivated crime. get justice, until Dr. Dull is fired, until he has no assaulters, who deliberated racially motivated On the night of Sept. 10, 2019, the two benefits, until all of our demands are fulfilled.” attacks upon a Black student as well as the assailants, Matthew Frazier and Matthew Dull, a professor of anesthesiology, Rawlings, had reportedly approached the victim, release of the Incident Report. We demand physiology and surgery, issued a statement sent an explanation of why the racial aspect of the called him the “N-word” and proceeded to out to Health Sciences students addressing the assault wasn’t included in the public report and tackle and punch the victim. A Dean of Students controversy. the assault was not treated as a Hate Crime. We referral and a hate crimes reporting worksheet “I apologize unequivocally for the hurtful way demand a reassessment and retraining of the were both completed the night of the assault.

I addressed an issue 15 years ago about which University of Arizona Police Department officer’s A statement from the university’s Black people have very sincerely held thoughts and cultural competency training.”

Student Union released after the assault feelings,” Dull wrote in the written statement.

An hour before the protest itself, an email demanded accountability from UAPD and “I recognize that it’s an honor and a privilege was sent out revealing that the assailants were university administration: to serve as an educator and physician, and I charged with class 1 misdemeanor assault.

“The victim suffering from this racially am committed to the values and vision of the motivated attack has yet to be served justice. The University of Arizona and Banner University silence on this matter is threatening. Especially Arizona Youth Climate Strike Medical Center. I always have and will continue as black students, we deserve safety in our own In the week of Sept. 20, 2019, which was called to train medical students and residents to community. The victim’s silence is warranted, the Global Week for Future, there were a series provide equitable, compassionate care, and to but the administration’s is not.” climate strikes occurring internationally, most of serve every person and every patient I encounter On Sept. 13, protesters chanted, held signs which were led by young people.

The Arizona Youth Climate Strike was held on Sept. 20, 2019 at Presidio Park in Tucson. Its goal was to raise awareness about the climate crisis.

Several organizations from the UA were present, including the Tucson branch of NextGen, a national activist group whose mission is to mobilize youth to get out and vote, as well as the Tucson branch of Defend Our Future, a non-profit, non-partisan activist group centered around climate change.

Kyle Kline, one of the Tucson cocoordinators for the AZ Youth Climate Strike, told the Daily Wildcat about what the climate strike meant to him.

“I would say the protest means basically securing our future,” Kline said. “I think it encapsulates a lot of youth voices on the issue. … I’m passionate about a lot of different issues, and we can work towards better education, eliminating poverty, all of these different types of goals, but we can’t do anything like that if we don’t have a planet to live on.”

Kline also said he thought “this strike is the first move to get Tucson as a city involved in the climate movement. … The big goals of the movement are to both get Tucson to declare a climate emergency, and to actually create and enact a climate action plan.”

Slutwalk 2019

The 2019 Slutwalk, held on Nov. 13, began at the Women’s Plaza of Honor at the UA and ended at the Rialto Theatre in Downtown Tucson. The annual walk aims to normalize the idea that women should be free to choose their clothing without being subject to shaming or sexual assault. It was organized by the UA feminist group Feminists Organized to Resist, Create, and Empower, or FORCE. “SlutWalks protest the blaming of the victim that occurs when sexual assault survivors are criticized for their clothing and sexual history,” Patricia MacCorquodale, a UA gender and women’s studies professor, said in an email to the Daily Wildcat.

The walk also places special emphasis on transgender women and women of color. Signs at the walk read, “my body, my choice” and “stop killing black transgender women.”

Kelsey Valdez, co-director of FORCE, spoke to the Daily Wildcat on the message of Slutwalk.

“There are so many messages, but we are really trying to center women of color, trans women of color, any really marginalized folks, and really just combatting rape culture,” Valdez said.

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TOP LEFT: Brady Boyce from Lewistown, Mont., gets ready to wrestle a steer to the ground during the 2020 Tucson Rodeo. (MARISON BILAGODY) TOP CENTER: Wildcats celebrate win against USC with the score of 57-73. Dominique McBryde ge currently doing research on how blue light therapy could help resolve traumatic brain injuries. (ANA BELTRAN) BOTTOM CENTER LEFT: Environmentalists gather to protest climate change in El Presidio Park in downtown Tucson on Friday, Sept.

Scented Leaf. (ELIJAH BIA) BOTTOM RIGHT: Josh Green (0) jumps past Washington State and dunks the ball into the basket. (AMY BAILEY)

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UA Science takes leaps from land to space From studying solar winds to rainfall to animal genetics, here are some science highlights from the University of Arizona.s 2019-20 school year

BY JILLIAN BARTSCH @_thisisjillian_

Space Research:

NASA released the first robotic spacecraft to study the solar wind and outer layer of the sun. The spacecraft will encounter heat and radiation like no spacecraft has experienced before.

The goal of this mission is to collect new data about the sun’s active energy and allow researchers to understand more about space-weather events that may affect Earth in the future.

Kristopher Klein and Joe Giacalone, are professors at the University of Arizona who specialize in solar and heliospheric research. They work as theoreticians for the Parker Solar Probe.

“While people have been studying the sun for centuries, the technology was never available — until now — to actually come close to the sun’s surface for research,” the original Daily Wildcat article said.

Giacalone discussed how that region of space has never been measured locally. He explained how the mission is to learn more about the sun’s outermost layer and understanding space weather.

Klein discussed how they are trying to understand fundamental physical processes about the sun.

Studying solar wind is one of the key steps to learning more about the sun’s effect on space. According to the same article, “it will help researchers prepare for potential future events of harm on Earth from massive amounts of energy and radiation.”

Overall, their goal is to understand basic questions about how energy flows from the sun to the rest of the solar system through solar wind. Once they develop a better understanding of that, they will be able to construct better models for space weather.

Animal Science:

A group of researchers that range from the U.S. and Mexico, including biologist Benjamin Wilder from the University of Arizona, received a $2.6

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ARTIST’S CONCEPT OF THE Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. Launched in 2018, the Parker Solar Probe will provide new data on solar activity and make critical contributions to our ability to forecast major space-weather events that impact life on Earth.

million grant.

The group of researchers are called the Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers. The researchers began their studies in August 2019.

There are researchers from many different disciplines working on studying the Sonoran Desert. They are studying the cause of genetic distinction between northern and southern species on the Baja Peninsula.

Wilder explained in the original Daily Wildcat article that they are looking at the cryptic vicariance.

According to the article, the cryptic vicariance is when “an animal from

the northern portion of the peninsula will be genetically different from its southern counterpart despite looking the same on the surface.”

Wilder discussed how species are in the process of diversifying or coming together.

There are three hypotheses they have developed to explain the genetic divergence between northern and southern populations.

They know that the genetic divergence occurred because the species in different areas did not reproduce with each other over a period of time. Their research is to figure out what caused this to happen.

One of the hypotheses is that there was once a canal that separated the species which prevented them from reproducing with one another. They found evidence of a geological barrier that could possibly provide evidence to support this hypothesis.

Another hypothesis is that there was a 100,000-year cycle of glacial periods shifting the habitats, forcing species that lived there to take refuge in mountainous areas.

The last hypothesis is that differing rainy seasons caused the separate species to mate at different times of

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Smith advised more research to be conducted to prevent harmful effects of climate change.

the year. They know that different rain seasons could have caused different times when water was available.

This project is unique in that it connects two fields that don’t often work together. The physical and biological systems will continue to work on the five-year project.

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Agricultural Science:

A new study showed that the increase in rainfall in the western U.S. caused a decline in tree growth.

This study is led by researchers at the UA. The reasoning behind the research was to find effects of the rise in variability for the sake of American forests.

“To conduct the study, researchers used tree ring widths from over 1,300 sites throughout the U.S. to observe the linear and nonlinear forms of the correlation among precipitation and growth,” the original Daily Wildcat article said. They observed the tree growth response specifically to exceedingly dry and wet years.

The growth of numerous trees reacts more intensely to dry years in comparison to wet years. The decrease in tree growth during droughts are not entirely offset by increases in wet years.

Therefore, rising in precipitation variability may result in long-lasting growth declines.

They estimate there will be a twofold rise in the probability of years that have extremely little growth and then no difference in probability of high growth.

They are looking into other aspects of climate change in order to manage the forests. The aspects they observe are warmer temperatures, increased carbon dioxide concentrations, reduced snowpack and changes in the lifecycles of forest pests.

Although they are unsure of how these changes will affect forests, they will continue to do experiments to learn more about the aspects of climate change.

William Smith, an assistant professor at the UA, discussed how they started by working with the long-term climate observations.

With their current research, they found that precipitation variability altered drastically through the southwest regions.

This year, there were over 100 UA undergraduate researchers who presented their work at the Undergraduate Biology Research Program Conference.

UBRP is an educational program that teaches students science by involving them in biologically related research.

The program is available to all students interested in biology.

The conference served as a public showcase of the work these students completed during their time in the program.

According to the original Daily Wildcat article, “students are hired as paid research assistants to work throughout the summer. UBRP participants are also able to continue their work into the academic year if they meet certain requirements.”

At the conference, UBRP students presented their work through posters they designed. The students explained their posters to anyone interested in their research.

They attended presentations, such as one about disparities in healthcare.

The presentation was by UA alumnus Dr. Oscar Serrano, an abdominal transplant and hepatobiliary surgeon at Hartford Hospital.

Serrano had participated in UBRP when he attended the UA. After graduating, he had taken the experience he learned through the program and continued to conduct research.

During the conference, the UBRP students presented their research in one of two poster sessions. Although all research was based off of biology, they covered a wide range of topics.

Presentations ranged from genetics to plant growth to speech, language, and hearing sciences.

The conference partnered with other programs to put on different presentations. There were many displays from “Science in Color” to the “Symbiosis” presentation.

The conference ended with an awards ceremony where Cesar Medina won the Outstanding UBRP Graduate Student Mentor of the Year award and Dr. Jennifer Bea won the Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award.

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AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Spencer Anthony Battraw Derek Edward Bischoff Benjamin Evan Champion Samuel Bennett Crowley Kirk Dahl Joseph Michael Davy Oscar Del Castillo Jr. Angelo Joseph Guerra Joseph Lerno Jett Thomas Robert Maher James Allen Markland Riley Sim McClurkin Joseph Arthur Meadows Treyton Alexander Moore Thinh Phu Nguyen Bailey Nichols Will Reynolds Kylie Lynn Scurto Eli Samuel Seltzer Trevor Andrew Swafford Tony Truong Lindsey Rose Urh Lucas Miguel Velasco Patrick Whitten Xiuwen Yin Maxwell Scott Zimmerman

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ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING Blake Nolen Donohue Hector Alejandro Garavito Sarah Kuhyun Joe Joseph Tobechukwu Ndubuisi BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING Ahmed Amin Al Eid Karm Jamil Al Hajhog Hussain Mahdi Aldarwish Mohammed Abdulmohsen Alharbi Ali Baqer Alquraini Dana Nicole Bernhardt Kerri Ann Bjornholm Sierra Varina Bracamonte Bailey Cheyenne Buchanan Andre Fernando Coello Hernandez Audrey Tamra Cohen Skylar Joseph Davidson Kareen Alexandra Fajardo Andrew Peter Filiberti Hannah Torun Gerson Alana Gabrielle Gonzales Sohil Gopal Matthew Thomas Grimes Jacob Thomas Hageman Kyle N. Johnson Dina Khaled Cassandra Ivy Kimble Zaynah Arzie Kmeid Sarah Elizabeth Laks Jacob Emanuel Mapp Connor James Maxwell Ryan Joseph McNamara Emily Janna Monroe Jaclyn Christine Nesemann Brandon Tuan Tu Nguyen Martin James Niemiec Alejandro Enrique Ortega John Andrew Patterson Nancy Yen Ngan Pham Lindsay Nicole Pruitt Frankangel Servin Jacob Jeffrey Sindorf Kiley Alexis Slater Bridget Ann Slomka Hunter Liam Spallas Deserae Rachael Stanerson Cody Jay Thivener Teodoro Esteven Trujillo Nathan Michael Upp Diana Vargas Lopez Christine Elizabeth Wiltbank Ryan Stephen Zenhausern James Zhuang BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING Ann Marie Brunton Lia Noel Crocker Alexander Shelton Doumas Lianne Helen Evans Amy Nicole Littlefield Killer Humberto Lopez Felix Curtis Duncan Reidy Cassidy Renee Rhoades Caroline Claire Schulte Lucas James Wojcik Alanna Victoria Zubler

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Jessica Sofka, Electrical & Computer Engineering Austin Bradford, Mechanical Engineering Jacklyn Higgs, Mechanical Engineering Kelsey Ingerson, Systems Engineering Mikayla Spaizman, Systems Engineering

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Looking back at some of the best Arizona games of the year With the athletics season over, take a look back at some of the most memorable games from the 2019-20 season for Arizona Athletics

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Women’s basketball versus No. 4 Stanford After Arizona’s somewhat embarrassing loss to Colorado, No. 4 Stanford came to McKale Center for a top-15 matchup. The game was tight throughout, but down the stretch, Arizona was still down. Aari McDonald made a pair of free throws to tie the game with 15 seconds left but Stanford would get the ball with a chance to win. The Cardinal turned the ball over right away, which then gave Arizona with a chance. McDonald, however, missed a jumper with a second left to send the game to overtime.

Overtime played out just like regulation. With under 10 seconds left, McDonald gave Arizona the lead, but Stanford still had the last shot. Kiana Williams missed the shot for Stanford and Arizona pulled off one of their biggest wins in program history.

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AARI MCDONALD 2 SIGNS TO her teammates about the next play during the second of half of the game.

Women’s basketball versus No. 9 OSU Arizona’s game against Oregon State was another top-15 nail-biter.

A month earlier, the Beavers pulled out a controversial last-second win in Tucson that left a bad taste in the mouths of Wildcat fans. Fastforward to Feb. 9 and the Wildcats and Beavers were in another tight one. Oregon State tied the game with

1:24 left in regulation but neither team would score again and the game went to overtime. Both teams struggled to score in overtime as Arizona’s defense held OSU to only two points. Sam Thomas hit a big three with 1:16 left to put Arizona up by five and they wouldn’t look back, winning the game 65-58.

Soccer versus No. 10 UCLA

Leading up to this game, Arizona was 1-23-1 all-time against UCLA. The Wildcats had not won a game against the Bruins since 2004, so history was certainly not on their side. It would have been considered a success if Arizona walked away from this game with a draw, but the Wildcats were striving for something bigger that night.

Propelled by a strong defense and a string of amazing goals, the Arizona Wildcats shocked the conference and stunned UCLA 3-0. Arizona played their best defensive game of the season, limiting UCLA to just 11 total shots while freshman goalkeeper Hope Hisey recorded her first conference shutout of her career.

But all of that was overshadowed by Brooke Wilson’s rocket of a goal from way beyond the box in the 68th minute that was later BEST GAMES, 30 featured on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays.

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Football vs. UCLA

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ARIZONA QUARTERBACK GRANT GUNNELL (17) throws the ball past UCLA defenders to his teammate, giving Arizona another first down.

Softball at No. 8 Alabama A promising season that was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic still had plenty of memorable games, but maybe none bigger than the two games between Arizona and Alabama at the end of February. The first top-10 matchup was a pitchers duel between Mariah Lopez and Lexi Kilfoyl. Both teams scratched across a run in the first inning, but that’s how it would stay until the seventh.

In the top of the seventh Alyssa Palomino-Cardoza singled to bring home Jenna Kean, which proved to be the winning run.

The next day, the two teams met again with another exciting ending in store. They went back and forth until the bottom of the sixth, when Alabama took a commanding 5-3 lead with only an inning left. After Reyna Carranco and Jessie Harper both got out, Arizona was down to

their final out. Singles from both Sharlize Palacios and Marissa Schuld brought the leading run to the plate in Malia Martinez.

Martinez crushed a home run to centerfield to give the Wildcats a 6-5 lead. Alabama got the tying run to second on a double in the bottom half of the seventh but couldn’t bring her home as Arizona swept Alabama.

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Another disappointing year for Arizona football still had a couple great games that Wildcat fans can look back on. Arizona started the year 2-1 as they hosted UCLA for some “Pac12 after dark” action. Khalil Tate was out for the game, which meant true freshman Grant Gunnell would make his first career start. Gunnell played well, going 29-of-44 for 352 yards with a touchdown pass to Darrius Smith.

The first half of the game was slow, however, and Arizona was down 7-6 at halftime. The two teams went back and forth in the second half, and in the fourth quarter Arizona was able to get a 20-17 lead with plenty of time remaining. After a couple of punts, UCLA got the ball into Arizona territory with under a minute on the clock. The defense was able to get a stop for Arizona, which set up a 39-yard field goal attempt with 40 seconds remaining. Head coach Kevin Sumlin iced UCLA’s kicker, who ended up making the kick just before the snap. The second attempt, however, missed wide right and Arizona won their conference opener and gave them momentum heading into the rest of the season.

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Men’s basketball versus Washington

A season full of high expectations that was cut short saw Arizona only win one game against a top-25 team. But that game doesn’t make the list because of how dominant Arizona was throughout. Instead, Arizona’s first win on the road was the highlight of the men’s basketball season.

Arizona was just coming off a brutal loss to ASU when they had to then travel up to Seattle, Wash. which is never an easy place to play. Washington was underperforming and was the last place team in the conference, but they were still a really good team with Isiah Stewart and Jaden McDaniels.

After a tight first half, the Huskies jumped out to a nine-point lead in the second half, and it looked like Arizona would lose another road game. But the Wildcats kept battling back and eventually got a lead with just over four minutes left. Both teams would go back and forth the final couple minutes, but Arizona was down one with under a minute to go. Jemarl Baker Jr. had played his best game of the year so far for Arizona and had made three 3-pointers at that point. With 44 seconds left, he made his fourth and put Arizona up by two, a lead they wouldn’t surrender the rest of the game.

Football versus Colorado The game against Colorado ended up being the lone game against a Division I school where Arizona scored more than 30 points and still won.

Khalil Tate was back after missing the week before and Arizona was sure to win their fourth game in a row.

We knew the altitude would be no problem for Tate, since he had his best game in an Arizona uniform at Colorado just two years prior. This game wouldn’t be too different except for the fact he got it done with his arm instead of his legs. Tate finished 31-41 for 404 yards and three passing touchdowns. The game was back and forth from the beginning. Until the last two minutes of the second quarter, the score was only 7-6 with Arizona

leading. In the last two minutes, however, the teams combined for 21 points, and it could’ve been 28 if Jamarye Joiner didn’t step out of bounds on the last kickoff with three seconds left. However, the score was 20-14 with Colorado up at the half.

Both teams traded scores throughout the second half but it was the Arizona defense holding Colorado to a field goal with 11:29 left in the game that ultimately won the game. Arizona scored three touchdowns in the half while holding Colorado to two touchdowns and that one field goal.

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ASUA 2019-20: A year in student governance

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This year, the Associated Students of the University of Arizona’s Senate class and executive team addressed many issues on campus.

While this year was cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic and all on-campus affairs were subsequently suspended, the student senate tackled subjects in the time it had, including the reformation of the ASUA constitution, elections, important resolutions and the establishment of the mental health committee.

Important resolutions The AZCensus resolution was passed unanimously in senate at the Oct. 9 meeting. This resolution, spearheaded by Student Body Senator Rocque Perez, intended to raise awareness for the current 2020 census in an effort to fuel participation among students.

One of the most important resolutions passed was the VOICES resolution created in support of the Native American students on campus at the Nov. 6 meeting. It was created in partnership with Voice of Indigenous Concern in Education and

Native Student Outreach, Access and Resiliency; the resolution was made an action item and voted on, passed unanimously in urgency due to comments made by UA President Dr. Robert C. Robbins.

The Removing Barriers to Voting resolution was passed at the same meeting in partnership with NextGen. The resolution was made to bring civic responsibility into the senate and onto the campus in its entirety. It was discussed heavily and passed unanimously with a roll-call vote.

The Trans Day of Resilience resolution was created in partnership with Pride Alliance by College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Senator Matt Hernandez. It was created in solidarity and support for the students of the transgender and gender non-conforming community in recognition of their contributions and efforts to the university, also recognizing Nov. 20 as UA’s official Trans Day of Resilience. It was moved to an action item and passed by the senate in the meeting.

Mental health ASUA President Sydney Hess ran on a platform last year of promoting mental health reform on campus. Many of the senators were interested in

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helping with the promotion of mental health, and all senators expressed interest in joining the mental health committee when it was established.

The mental health committee, a standing committee, was created at the Oct. 30 meeting and included Senators Joseph Sturm, Ana Mendoza and Madison Smith, headed by Senator Allie Schoenike. The committee was created to be the center of the mental health initiative, making sure that it is seen to its full potential.

ASUA elections The ASUA elections were held March 3-4 right before the halt of university affairs, appointing a whole new executive team and senate class for the 2020-21 school year.

The elections saw competitive races for the positions of student body president, executive vice president and senator-at-large, as well as senators for the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, College of Engineering and College of Medicine.

In the executive elections, Tara Singleton beat out Rocque Perez in the presidential race, while Noah Vega beat out Vincent Jasso for

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the executive vice president position. Maryan Hassan secured her spot as administrative vice president after running unopposed.

The three open seats for Student Body Senator were vied for by six candidates,

The ASUA House of Representatives On Feb. 19 at the weekly ASUA meeting, the Joint Constitutional Reform Committee gave a report that proposed immense changes and new amendments to the ASUA Constitution.

The changes mainly revolve around Article II of the constitution. Many of the other changes presented are general proceedings that either needed to be corrected or changes that fall in line with having two legislative bodies and how they will work together.

President Hess presented the addition of 29 appointed members of the student body which, according to the new constitution, “will include representation of twenty-two student communities that are represented by a University unit/department and seven other student communities not represented by a designated University unit/department.”

In addition to these representatives, there will be one student member of the Tohono O’Oodham nation and one of the Pascua Yaqui nation that will serve in the ASUA House of Representatives. This is done in recognition of the university’s presence on these tribes’ original land. Along with these representatives serving on the house, one of the members of these nations will also be serving as Speaker of the House, or chief spokesperson for the house.

The duties of the house will run along the same lines of the senate. The new changes to the constitution that outline the duties of both legislative bodies would have ASUA function similar to the United States legislative bodies and governing. Much like the rest of ASUA operations, these are modeled and will be executed analogously. The operations of the senate and the house together will be a big change, but the biggest will ultimately be the sharing and passing of legislation.

The Feb. 26 ASUA meeting brought much discussion from all members of the senate, as is expected with a change of this magnitude. But after all of this, the senate ultimately passed the amended constitution. This referendum passed on the general elections ballot on March 3-4 for students to vote on, meaning ASUA will see the addition of a House of Representatives beginning the 2021-22 school year.

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What ZonaZoo did this year to become even better

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One of the most important parts of a home atmosphere for any game is the student section. Take a look back at the past year and what the ZonaZoo Crew has done to make the student experience that much better.

Ever since it’s creation back in 2003, the ZonaZoo has become one of the largest student sections, not just in the Pac-12, but throughout the whole country.

It has won awards back in 2015 and 2018 by the National Collegiate Student Section Association for being the student section of the year. Even though that award is based on Twitter polls, it helps that ZonaZoo has the largest Twitter following of any student section in the entire country.

Running a student section isn’t as easy as one might think, especially when it’s the size of the one at the UA. The people who are in charge of the student section are called the ZonaZoo Crew. Matt Etherington has been the executive director for the past year now but has been a part of ZonaZoo since his freshman year.

“You apply [at the end of] your freshman year and then you start your sophomore year,” Etherington said. “Most people go through the general crew phase, and if they want to, they can go for a director position.”

Within the crew there are many different leadership positions: executive director, associate director, branding and marketing director, media and communications director, event management director, gameday director, branding and marketing teams, media and communications teams and event management teams. This past year, there were 30 students helping to run the student section.

The reason for such a staff is that a lot goes into what the ZonaZoo actually does. There needs to be people to run the tailgates, run social media accounts, take pictures and videos, go on trips and be in charge of promotions.

In recent years, however, the attendance of the ZonaZoo at basketball and football games has gone down. Just this past year

Etherington came up with his own ways of getting more students to go to football games — and it seemed to work. The 2019 season saw a rise in attendance compared to 2018.

“We wanted to give people a reason to actually show up to a game,” Etherington said. “One thing we wanted to make sure we had was giveaways.” Etherington also wanted the Twitter page to be more involved. “I saw it if ZonaZoo is always popping up on your timeline, then it’s going to stick in your head.”

The ZonaZoo is one of the most important reasons for a home-field advantage for Arizona Athletics. When Dave Heeke took over as Athletic Director, he has instituted a $100 athletics fee for students, which allows students to attend every sporting event besides football and men’s basketball.

Students can then buy a Blue Membership for $100 to gain access to football as well as the other sports. There is also a Red Membership for $150 for access to football and men’s basketball as well as the other sports.

There are only 5,581 seats available for the ZonaZoo for football games, so it’s based on a first-come-first-served basis.

Men’s basketball attendance is based on who reserves their seats first. Reservations for basketball games opens up a week in advance.

Etherington knows that recently people have been more inclined to stay home and watch games from the comfort of their couch. But he also wanted to leave this message for anyone that’s on the fence and unsure if they want to join the ZonaZoo: “If you’re passionate enough about our school and you’re prideful about our student representation, it goes a long way,” Etherington said. “Without the ZonaZoo Crew’s efforts, we might not have that many students.”

It takes many students to make up the ZonaZoo, but when it’s in full force, it really can be a game-changer on the field. Many coaches and athletes have given praise to the students and fans when they do show up to their games.

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ZONA ZOO CREW MEMBER Matt Etherington yells while a member of the Arizona band bangs the drum at the start of the Arizona football game.

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A university campus is the ultimate place to find bizarre cases, and this past year has proved exactly this. The Daily Wildcat’s Police Beat has seen a diverse cast of characters these past one and a half semesters, with cases ranging from paintball fights to fraternity brawls all the way to reports of a couple having sex in the library.

We love writing Police Beat as much as you love reading it, so we’ve compiled the best cases from this year for your enjoyment.

couch candle - 3/4/20 Let’s admit it, we all have a little bit of pyromaniac in us. Lighting little things on fire every once in a while can be a weird little guilty pleasure. Most of us know pretty well, on the other hand, that lighting furniture on fire probably is a very bad idea, especially if you decide to do it with a firecracker.

According to the police report, two officers were dispatched to the Árbol de la Vida Residence Hall on the evening of Feb. 13 in reference to a couch that was or had been burning on the fourth floor. No smoke alarm or smoke was observed when they walked in, but there was a small couch sitting in the hallway with a red solo cup sitting on it, liquid under the couch, and a burnt spot that was 3-6 inches wide where the back of the couch connected with the seat. When the officers entered the hall they observed two pieces of a “bottle rocket” on the ground at the east end of the hall where a seating area was; the couch was from this seating area.

The firecracker had been angled to shoot down the hall but had malfunctioned and the main charge had not been activated.

When Tucson Fire Department arrived, a small firecracker was found stuck between the cushion and backrest of the couch with no active smoke but definite burnt residue where the firecracker had been inserted.

One of the officers spoke with the residents who lived adjacent to where the incident had occurred. Both reported hearing a loud bang that sounded like a gunshot and had come out of their room to see smoke coming from the chair, but no one in sight. One of the residents took a video of the aftermath,

which she provided to the police officer.

Neither of them had any idea who had set it off or where they had gone.

The incident was turned over to a University of Arizona Police Department detective and the individuals who set off the firecracker have still not been found at this time.

b-day suit surprise - 9/18/19 Do you ever drive home from work with no memory of how you got there? Well this case is exactly like that, except this man did not drive, he jumped a fence and home was actually a pool and he was naked when the cops found him. So, really nothing like that.

UAPD officers arrived at Hillenbrand Aquatic Center at around 1:30 a.m. after an alarm went off on Sept. 7. The officers split up to search the area.

One of the officers spotted a naked man running near the west side of the pool, according to the report. She ordered him to stop and lie on the ground, which he did.

She handcuffed him while he identified himself. At first, he told the officer that he was an employee, before saying he was a student and then later saying he worked in the Honors Village.

The officers located his clothing and helped him dress. The man was slightly damp when he was initially apprehended.

The man told the officers he had been drinking on Fourth Avenue earlier in the night and had no idea how he had gotten to campus or the pool, though he suspected he jumped over the fence.

An officer took the man to Pima County Jail, where he was booked on one charge of criminal trespassing.

studying hard - 11/27/2019 Honestly, it’s amazing that Police Beat has gone at least two years without an entry about a couple (possibly) having sex in the library. But now that streak is broken.

When two UAPD officers arrived at the Main Library at around 2 a.m. on Nov. 12, they spoke with a library employee who

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told them that she had caught two people engaging in sexual activity in one of the study rooms.

The employee told the officers she had been performing a security check of the third floor study rooms when she spotted the pair. The woman was reportedly sitting in a chair, with her face near the man’s pelvic area and was moving her head “back and forth,” according to the employee. The man had his hands on the woman’s head and had his back to the door, the employee further reported.

After making eye contact with the man, the employee quickly walked away. When the pair tried to leave the study room, the employee stopped them and told them that the police were coming, so they could not leave.

When asked, the employee said that she had not seen the man’s penis, but that she was going to be a “witness” and “victim of sexual behavior,” according to the report.

One of the officers then went to speak with the couple, who were sitting on a nearby stairwell. The officer spoke with the woman first, who showed him that she was a UA student.

The woman told the officer that the employee had detained her and her boyfriend when the two were about to take a study break and get food. She also told the couple that the police were on their way.

The student said the employee thought she and her boyfriend were having sex, but that it was a misunderstanding. She then showed the officer she had been sitting backwards in the chair, with her knees on the seat. Her boyfriend had been standing behind her, rubbing her back.

When the officer asked her straight out if they had been having oral sex, the woman told him they had not. She also told him that her boyfriend had never removed his pants, after the officer asked about that as well.

The officer then spoke with the man. The man also said the employee thought he and his girlfriend were engaging in sexual activity in the study room but that they had not been. His retelling of the events matched his girlfriend’s story, in that he said he had been giving her a massage as she kneeled on the

chair, according to the report.

Based on the information the officers gathered, no arrests were made.

tunnel cinderella - 11/13/19 A UAPD officer went on a scavenger hunt for several items that surely have an interesting — and possibly disturbing — story behind them.

Police received a call about suspicious items possibly located in the Olive Tunnel under Speedway Boulevard on Oct. 28. An officer checked the area but did not find anything.

The officer then inspected the Warren Avenue Tunnel and found the items, which included a woman’s tank top with blood on it, a silver platter that also had blood on it, a picture of a woman, two high heeled shoes, two more shoes, a makeup tool and a photo memorial card.

According to the officer’s reporter, the blood on the shirt and platter was minimal and appeared dried and like it had been on the items for a while.

He asked a man in the surrounding area if he had seen the items or knew they were there, but the man said he had not.

A second officer later found similarly strange items in the same tunnel, including a red backpack with VHS tapes inside. The backpack also appeared to have some dried blood on it.

All of the items were entered into the station’s Found Property.

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