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EDITORIAL

Arizona athletics continues to embarrass UA

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ou can’t turn on local television, national sports television or local radio without hearing about the college basketball scandal.

The team that is caught smack-dab in the middle of it: the University of Arizona. Regardless of what has happened so far in the FBI investigation, UA’s reputation has taken a significant hit. On a national level, the hoops scandal has brought out all the other roaches from the walls of McKale Center, and there is no light to be seen.

Since ESPN dropped the bombshell on the collegiate landscape a week ago, reporting sources have revealed Arizona men’s basketball head coach was Sean Miller on a FBI wiretap discussing a possible $100,000 payment for current freshman Deandre Ayton with former ASM agent Christian Dawkins, all hell has broken loose. It started with the national media dragging Miller and the university through the mud, and it ended with UA fans on Twitter and other media outlets, including NBC Sports and Yahoo’s Pat Forde, poking holes in ESPN’s claim.

Regardless of what truths lie beneath, the results have put the Arizona athletic program at the peak of irresponsibility and embarrassment — deservedly so. During ESPN’s telecast of Arizona versus Oregon, a graphic popped up detailing the trouble in Tucson; it didn’t stop at the FBI probe. The details of new allegations added to a Title IX lawsuit, including possible gang rape within the UA football program also popped up on screen.

Concurrently on ABC, the story of former track and field coach Craig Carter and his assault and stalking of former shot putter Baillie Gibson was on full display on “20/20.”

It’s all coming full circle.

For a couple of years now, Arizona’s athletic

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department has operated in a cloak of secrecy, especially when it comes to its flagship program, men’s basketball. Players are only available to the local media on a once-a-week basis or after games. This makes it so locals who support the school have no buy-in with players, despite what they see on the court or TV. That is unless, ironically enough, you are from ESPN or another national outlet, a platform that has more viewers nationally.

Yes, the same ESPN that is currently raking Arizona over the coals.

The results of an athletic department led by Greg Byrne, former director of UA athletics, are seemingly filled with new information of past wrongdoings.

Scandal and legalities shouldn’t be the norm for a school that allegedly prides itself on doing things right.”

Craig Carter, Elliott Pitts, Orlando Bradford, Emanuel Richardson and now Sean Miller are all contributing to a national morale killing of the Wildcat brand, with little to nothing to show for it.

Is selling your soul to the devil for a Fiesta Bowl bid worth it? How about the numerous attempts at a Final Four only to be beat by some guys who represent the cheese state?

And now Dave Heeke and UA President Dr. Robert Robbins find themselves cleaning up the mess Byrne and former President Ann Weaver Hart made.

But they, too, are fumbling the ball. Since the report

by ESPN, not a peep has been made by either of the two — a stark contrast by the supposed hammer dropped on Rich Rodriguez following hostile work

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environment claims a couple months ago, although officially, Rodriguez was not fired with that as the backdrop.

This school deserves better. It’s been made out to be a corrupt organization based on the perception of Arizona basketball and the several other instances of loathesome conduct. Changes need to happen, whether that means with Miller, the core of the athletic department or with the leaders of this school who see fit to accept such poor actions on a regular basis.

Scandal and legalities shouldn’t be the norm for a school that allegedly prides itself on doing things right, the motto of every single university. The problem is the culture; whether that is the coaches, athletes or administrators that find themselves in the crux of controversy, some type of re-evaluation needs to be done. A complete overhaul of the type of person this school is looking to represent it at the national level may be in order.

There are plenty of model student-athletes.

However, the shadiness doesn’t lie within those who perform and are available any time. No, it lies within the specific programs who are allowed to operate in the dark. Coaches who allow themselves to be shielded from answering questions they don’t want to, and the administrators who accept such behavior, need some type of recourse.

No one said being a multi-million-dollar coach was easy, and neither is being an athletic director or school president, but that is why they pay them the big bucks. Or is that set aside for other endeavors?

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FBI INVESTIGATION

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ARIZONA MEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD coach Sean Miller gestures at his players during a home game versus Colorado at the McKale Center on Jan. 25.

What happens to Sean Miller?

BY ALEC WHITE @AlecWhite_UA

The question on everyone’s mind after the recent men’s basketball whirlwind is whether University of Arizona men’s basketball head coach Sean Miller will walk back into McKale Center and continue to be Arizona’s men’s basketball coach. The answer isn’t simple.

In an ESPN report on Feb. 23, Miller was reportedly caught on an FBI wiretap having phone conversations with former ASM employee Christian Dawkins discussing a potential payment of $100,000 to land Deandre Ayton.

As a result, Miller was not in his usual suit and tie to coach in the Feb. 24 game against Oregon in Eugene and informed the team of the decision a few hours before the game. Associate head coach Lorenzo Romar took the reins instead.

It’s not clear whether the decision was made by the university or by Miller himself, but in a statement released before the game, Arizona Athletics said the UA and Miller agreed it was in the “best interests of the university and the basketball program” that Miller not be the coach against the Ducks.

As of now, Miller has not been suspended or fired by the UA, and it’s possible he will don a suit and tie this week to coach in the final homestand of the 2017–18 season.

On the flip side, it’s also possible Miller won’t see the inside of McKale Center on game days again.

NCAA President Mark Emmert said on Feb. 24, in a television interview with CBS, that it is the university’s decision on whether to hold out Miller or Ayton. Deandre Ayton’s eligibility is in good standing after Paul Kelly, the attorney brought in by the UA, said there is “not a shred of evidence” to suggest Ayton or his family received payments or additional benefits. But Miller’s status is more complicated.

To break down Miller’s case, a distinction between a law and an NCAA rule must be made.

According to Sports Illustrated legal analyst and writer Michael McCann, Miller would not have broken federal law by arranging for a payment, but it does, without question, violate NCAA rules.

While the investigation continues, the university could choose to suspend or fire Miller if it chooses to not let him coach the upcoming games.

A suspension would be similar to the one placed on former assistant coach Emanuel “Book”

Richardson in September. Miller would be placed on paid administrative leave until the UA reaches a full decision. The big difference between Miller and Richardson is that Miller has not been charged with a crime by the FBI yet, whereas Richardson was charged with multiple felonies in his September arrest.

If the UA chooses to fire Miller, it could do so in two ways.

The university could choose to fire Miller as soon as it sees fit and do so without cause, hoping to get away from the rest of the FBI probe and move in a new direction. If this were to be the case, Miller would be owed 50 percent of his remaining base salary. His current contract runs through May 2022 and pays him between $1.6 million and $1.8 million annually. Miller would be entitled to that 50 percent within 30 days of his firing.

The other way is that Miller would be fired with cause. Here, the university would have to prove specific circumstances outlined in Miller’s contract that would justify a firing with cause. Two of them include “demonstrated dishonesty” and “material or repetitive violations” of NCAA rules.

If it is proven that Miller indeed arranged for a payment, the university would have cause to fire Miller as he knowingly broke NCAA rules and also demonstrated dishonesty by denying any involvement in the FBI probe.

Despite conflicting reports, The Arizona Republic’s Anne Ryman reported that Miller would not be entitled to his salary through the end of his contract if he were fired with cause.

However, there remains speculation on the initial ESPN report from Mark Schlabach concerning the dates that Miller spoke to Dawkins, which could potentially delay an immediate decision on Miller’s future.

The first report stated Miller and Dawkins spoke about the arrangement of the payment in the spring of 2017. Nearly 48 hours after publishing the report, ESPN made a correction to the timeline, stating that it was actually in the spring of 2016. That date has now been changed again to sometime in the year of 2016.

On Feb. 26, Miller was not present at team practice, according to Romar, and his usual Monday-night radio show with play-by-play announcer Brian Jeffries was cancelled.

For now though, Miller remains the head coach at Arizona, and there does not appear to be a timetable for a decision on his future. Arizona hosts Stanford on March 1, and the collective Tucson basketball community will hold its breath to see who walks out onto the court Thursday night.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Quiet seniors wrap up home career

BY NATE AIRULLA @nateairulla

Arizona men’s basketball fans have been through a lot this week, but now they must say goodbye to three of Arizona’s seniors this Saturday, March 3 during Arizona’s final home game of the season.

Arizona has three graduating seniors this year: Parker Jackson-Cartwright, Dusan Ristic and Keanu Pinder. Here is a look at what they have brought to the team throughout their careers.

Arizona’s point guard, Parker JacksonCartwright, averaged 2.9 points and 1.8 assists in his first season. Four years later, he is averaging 7.6 points and 4.7 assists, has a 3-to-1 assist to turnover ratio and is shooting 41 percent from 3-point range.

Jackson-Cartwright came to Arizona and was presented with the tall task of replacing T.J. McConnell. JacksonCartwright took it in stride and has emerged as the quiet leader for the Wildcats. This year especially, he has played the best defense of his career and confidently handled multiple difficult situations the team has faced.

Faced with adversity, such as outside voices saying he was the weakest link on this year’s team, Jackson-Cartwright responded with maturity and talked about how his role is to make his teammates better and ignore the outside noise.

That same leadership could be seen after Arizona’s last loss against Oregon Saturday, which started a few hours after the team found out that Sean Miller would not be coaching. After the game, Jackson-Cartwright was the one who talked to the media. His voice was calm and steady as he talked about continuing to lead the team through adversity and focusing on basketball.

Jackson-Cartwright’s career high came in the 2016-17 season when Arizona blew out Washington State 78-59 in Pullman, Washington. Jackson-Cartwright finished the game with 20 points and four 3-pointers.

The big man from Serbia, Dusan Ristic, has averaged 11.8 points and seven rebounds this season. The 7-foot center is having the year of his career playing alongside fellow 7-footer Deandre Ayton. Ristic has improved his post moves, his interior defense and even started regularly shooting, and making, 3-pointers.

Having Ayton helps open the floor up for Ristic and he has taken advantage.

He has hit defenders with spin-moves this season and even taken the ball up the court on occasion. Ristic has also managed to turn his mid-range jump shot into something other teams must pay attention to. But what he has improved the most since he came to Arizona are his free throw shooting. Ristic averaged just over 50 percent from the line his freshman year. He now shoots almost 80 percent from the charity stripe.

Ristic’s career high came this year when Arizona just managed to scrape by Utah with a one-point victory at the McKale Center. Arizona trailed Utah in the second half, but Ristic shot three-for-three from 3-point range, and scored seven straight points in the final two minutes to regain the lead and ultimately win the game.

Keanu Pinder, the transfer from Hutchinson Community College, has seen less playing time this year than last year.

He still averages the same 2.2 points per game, while only playing nine minutes on average — down from 12 last year. But Pinder’s role is defense, not offense, and the 6’9” senior has given Arizona some valuable minutes in that category.

Pinder’s career high came in an 85-63 win over Texas Southern in the 2016-17 season, where he scored seven points and hit a 3-pointer.

However, perhaps the most important game of his career came this season when Arizona beat Oregon 90-83 at the McKale Center on Jan. 13. Pinder had not played a single minute two days earlier against Oregon State, but when his name was called against Oregon he stepped up. He played 18 minutes, scored six points and added two blocks and a steal.

What stood out in that game was a momentum-changing dunk midway through the first half. Arizona had been up double-digits, but Oregon built momentum and rattled off a 7-0 run.

Pinder caught a pass from JacksonCartwright in transition and soared over an Oregon defender for a highlight reel and one dunk that ended Oregon’s run, got the crowd back on its feet and shifted the momentum back in Arizona’s favor.

Last year, Arizona only had to say goodbye to Kadeem Allen. This year presents a tougher challenge, saying goodbye to three players who have become fan-favorites during their time wearing the cardinal and blue.

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TOP: Keanu Pinder tries a between-the-legs dunk during the Red-Blue contest on Oct. 20.

MIDDLE: Arizona’s Dusan Ristic (14) gets ready to go up for the rebound during the second half of the UAUCLA game Thursday Feb. 8.

BOTTOM: Arizona’s Parker Jackson-Cartwright dribbles past Texas A&M’s T.J. Starks in Talking Stick Arena, on Dec. 5. Arizona beat Texas A&M with a score of 67-64

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PEDs hit star guard again

BY DAVID SKINNER @daveyskins_

Arizona junior guard Allonzo Trier is one of the most talented college basketball players in the country — but he isn’t allowed inside of the painted lines in McKale Center during game days. The 6-foot-5 junior has been named indefinitely ineligible by the NCAA for a “trace amount” of the drug Ostarine, which is ingested by athletes to build lean muscle mass. It was found in Trier’s system during his latest NCAA administered drug test in late January, according to multiple reports. It also happens to be the same PED that forced the 22-yearold slasher to sit out the first 19 games in last year’s campaign.

The re-emergence of the illegal substance was more than a year after the first failed test.

Trier’s stepfather allegedly mixed the illegal substance into a drink of Trier’s, without his knowledge, to help him recover after a car accident in the summer of 2016. The explanation Trier’s attorney used to explain why the drug has reappeared was that Trier was dehydrated when he took the drug test.

Right when Trier seemed to have escaped from the overwhelming cloud of uncertainty and idleness, he finds himself back in street clothes. He has transformed from one of the Pac-12’s most lethal players to the Wildcat’s loudest cheerleader.

Right as Arizona looked to gain considerable momentum heading into postseason play, with a regular season conference title on the horizon, the wheels have come completely off for the Wildcats; not only is Trier being subjected to street clothes, but program integrity is disintegrating with the release of a scathing

and controversial report by ESPN, saying that Arizona head coach Sean Miller had been caught on a wiretap discussing an alleged $100,000 payment to recruit a player. That led to Lorenzo Romar’s Arizona head coaching debut, as Miller stepped aside for the game in Eugene to limit the seemingly unending media carnage.

With the Wildcats a game or two away from Arizona’s first back-to-back conference titles since Damon Stoudamire was leading the point for Lute Olson in the early 1990s, the mood around campus couldn’t feel any bleaker. A program on the cusp of something it hasn’t done since its greatest coach ever was in his prime is also in its darkest days.

There are fears of an incoming death penalty, even though many believe Arizona has built a program over the last 30 years that will stand strong no matter the storms.

Allonzo Trier is the key to the morale rollercoaster. If his appeal process fails, Arizona fans can kiss their postseason goals goodbye. It would be the longest offseason for Wildcat fans in decades.

Even with Deandre Ayton, the potential No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, dressed in Arizona colors, the Wildcats don’t have enough firepower outside of their two standouts to make a considerable push in both the Pac-12 and NCAA tournaments.

If Trier’s appeal process goes through, however, Arizona is in business. Moving forward with a chip the size of Florida on their shoulder, the Wildcats will be looking to prove a lot of people wrong in the coming weeks. And with their second leading scorer in hand, who is averaging just a hair under 20 points a game, Arizona would be on a shortlist of teams you don’t want to face in March.

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TITLE IX CLAIM

Lawsuit update alleges football gang rape

BY JASMINE DEMERS @JasmineADemers

An amendment to a federal Title IX lawsuit against the University of Arizona alleges that multiple football players gang-raped both female students and staff

members, according to a report by the Arizona Daily Star.

The original lawsuit was filed by one of Orlando Bradford’s ex-girlfriends in October, saying the UA showed “deliberate indifference” to years of violent behavior and abuse by the former

Wildcat running back.

In November, Bradford was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of federal aggravated assault.

This month, a federal judge granted permission to amend the original

lawsuit, to include claims of gang rape.

The lawsuit alleges the UA prioritized the success of the football team over the safety of its students.

Former head coach Rich Rodriguez was added to the claim with the amendment.

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FOOTBALL LAWSUIT

Rodriguez fires back, alleges extortion attempt The former head coach details instances of money clamoring and paints picture of disgruntled ex-employee in recent response

BY EDDIE CELAYA @reporterEddie

Former University of Arizona football head coach Rich Rodriguez has alleged extortion on the part of a former personal assistant and her attorney, who is suing Rodriguez to the tune of $7.5 million.

Rodriguez issued his first legal response on Monday, Feb. 26, in regards to a notice of claim filed against him in late December of last year.

Extortion In his legal response, Rodriguez’s lawyers allege the claimant and her attorney, Phoenix-based counsel Augustine Jimenez III, contacted Rodriguez’s legal team twice by phone in the first week of November 2017.

During those calls, the letter said Jimenez made three accusations of Rodriguez in relation to his client: 1. Rodriguez called his accuser into his office while wearing only a towel.

2. While shirtless, Rodriguez would hug his accuser.

3. Rodriguez exposed himself to his accuser.

During the calls, the letter said, Jimenez also told Rodriguez’s counsel he had spoken with UA’s human resources department.

Jimenez “informed the undersigned [Rodriguez’s] counsel that the university had already begun investigating coach Rodriguez on its own,” the legal response said. But Jimenez insisted “his client did not initiate the investigation.”

Then, in a Nov. 8 email to Rodriguez’s attorneys, Jimenez said it would take “multiple millions of dollars” to clear the matter.

In the same email, Jimenez mentioned being contacted by Daniel Dowd, an attorney for the outside law firm Cohen Dowd Quigley, which was contracted by the UA in October 2017 to investigate allegations of harassment and a hostile workplace against Rodriguez.

After noting that Dowd’s request for information from his client was “essentially the same” as Rodriguez’s legal team, Jimenez informed the attorneys that “there is nothing that we will agree to release,” to Rodriguez or anyone else unless Rodriguez agreed to enter a Non-Disclosure Agreement.

The alleged extortion attempt was active “for six weeks,” according to Rodriguez’s legal response, and culminated with Jimenez sending a letter to Rodriguez’s attorney’s on Dec. 10, 2017, requesting $7.5 million by Dec. 26, 2017, the day before the UA was scheduled to play in the Foster Farm’s Bowl.

Documents obtained by the Daily Wildcat confirm that the letter sent by Jimenez on Dec. 10, 2017, contained nearly identical wording to the official notice of claim filed by Jimenez on behalf of his client with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office on Dec. 28, 2017. Five days later, Rodriguez would ultimately be fired.

Harassment allegations countered On top of alleging extortion on the part of his accuser and her attorney, Rodriguez’s legal response directly contradicts some of the allegations made against the former coach in his accuser’s notice of claim. Of particular note: In her December of 2017 claim to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, Rodriguez’s accuser alleged she was subjected to multiple instances of harassment. In one instance that purportedly took place in January 2017, Rodriguez “embraced her, touched the side of her breast and tried to kiss her.”

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FORMER ARIZONA FOOTBALL HEAD coach Rich Rodriguez surveys the field in University Stadium in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Dec. 19, 2015.

Rodriguez and his attorneys denied the allegations. Along with the legal response, Rodriguez’s team released multiple exhibits meant to bolster its case.

One exhibit provided sworn statements from former male and female staff who worked with Rodriguez at Arizona and during his past coaching stints at Michigan, West Virginia and Glenville State.

In one statement, UA football analyst Dusty Rutledge refuted outright that Rodriguez was ever physically inappropriate with his accuser. “I never saw coach Rodriguez stand ‘skin-to-skin’ [with his accuser],” Rutledge said. “He was always very professional in his day-to-day interaction with her.”

A few months later, the claimant alleged an incident where she was asked to retrieve underwear for Rodriguez from an equipment room. Rodriguez allegedly told her how “his preferred style of underwear ‘visually enhanced’ his genitalia when worn,” according to the notice of claim.

That claim is fabricated, according to Rodriguez’s legal response.

“Coach Rodriguez never spoke to [his accuser] about a preferred style of underwear or his genitalia,” the response said.

Zach Hemmila The notice of claim also recounts an incident where, allegedly, former player Zach Hemmila was brought to Rodriguez’s office by former General Manager and Director of Player Personnel Matt Dudek the day before Hemmila would ultimately die from complications involving prescription drugs.

According to the claimant’s account, Rodriguez simply told Hemmila: “He’ll be OK.” “Rodriguez’s refusal to allow Zach to be evaluated knowing

that he needed help was with keeping everything within football secret,” the claim alleged.

The response tells a different story. In a sworn statement included in the exhibits of Rodriguez’s response, former UA Football Operations Coordinator Krisanne Ryther claimed the entire athletic department was in mourning, with one person absent from the proceedings.

“The funeral was highly attended by Arizona Athletics employees and student-athletes,” Ryther said. “[Rodriguez’s accuser] did not attend the funeral.”

The Hide Away Book Rodriguez was also accused of keeping a “Hide Away Book.”

According to his accuser’s notice of claim, the book was meant to pass on secrets among the coaching staff like affairs and sayings, such as “Title IX doesn’t exist in this office.”

However, according to Rodriguez’s legal response, the books were for disseminating coaching instructions and don’t include the particular phrase in question.

Along with the 2015 “Hide Away Book” provided in Rodriguez’s legal response, the Daily Wildcat also acquired a copy of the 2012 version. Neither copy contains the phrase “Title IX doesn’t exist in this office.”

The books do include tips for dealing with the press.

“Remember, everything is on the record,” it reminds.

Relationships are also covered. “Be careful what you tell your wife,” it said.

This story is developing and will be updated as information becomes available. Follow the Daily Wildcat online and on social media for updates.

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ART & SCIENCE

Art and science rendezvous at Tumamoc Collaboration between UA Confluencenter and Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill brings an art-through-science program to community

BY PASCAL ALBRIGHT @pascalloves

A local landmark aims to merge the arts with science in a collaboration from the Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill and the University of Arizona’s Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry.

Tumamoc Hill, an 860-acre ecological preserve, is pairing art and science through the Tumamoc Transdisciplinary Arts Program, a project that wants to broaden the understanding of the public of what sciencebased research goes on at the hill.

This program opens up the hill for artists to engage with the desert and science community, according to Benjamin Wilder, Interim Director of Tumamoc Hill.

“The goal of this program is to really go back to the initial points of inspiration — how do we better communicate the results of research,” Wilder said. “We can tell the story in so many different ways and model ways to truly make all our users more appreciative of what a special site this is.”

Wilder said it’s important to think of the resources that the UA has that are not directly on campus. Places like Biosphere 2 and Tumamoc are both part of the university and offer assets to students and community members.

Wilder sees these places as opportunities to learn as well as be immersed in the culture that comes from these desert sites.

“I think it’s a great opportunity for students to be extended beyond campus and realize that this is still part of what it means to be a Wildcat,” Wilder said.

The art on Tumamoc started with Paul Mirocha, who has been an artist in residence for about six years. Prior to that, Wilder said there wasn’t much of an art presence on Tumamoc.

“The idea is to engage the people [who visit Tumamoc] with science and educate them,” Mirocha said. “It was something that was going to evolve and I was going to help it evolve.”

For the first few years, Mirocha was on Tumamoc by himself, doing a few projects, but then started inviting other artists to come up and do “a regular little drawing or outdoor painting sessions.”

This led to the creation of the Tumamoc Sketchbook, a blog showcasing the art created from the science on the hill.

Mirocha’s role with the Tumamoc Transdisciplinary Arts Program is that of an advisor while continuing to be an artist.

“I’ve become a resource to tap into when needed,” Mirocha said.

He has worked on multiple projects with Wilder and continues to play a role in the advancement of the program.

“[Mirocha] is a fantastic illustrator and has this beautiful way of capturing the kind of long-term patterns and the sense of the desert and the region,” Wilder said.

The Tumamoc Transdisciplinary Arts Program is a collaboration with the Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, a research center under the Office for Research, Discovery and Innovation at the UA that gave Tumamoc the funds to start the program.

For director of the Confluencenter, Javier Duran, there are three components that led to the Tumamoc Transdisciplinary Arts Program.

Duran is a frequent commuter to Tumamoc, and when seeing some of the early art it “cultivated a means to see what was going on there.”

This led to Duran meeting Wilder when he was appointed interim director. The two started talking about common interests and, with Wilder’s previous experience in art/science collaborations and the Confluencenter being active in promoting interdisciplinary projects, Duran was on board with helping fund the program.

“We began brainstorming about the possibility of creating a partnership that would help a group of artists play a more active part in the representation of Tumamoc,” Duran said. “With that conversation we created a plan and the Confluencenter awarded a fund for this to happen.”

For Wilder, the collaboration with the Confluencenter is something that helps create a link with the UA campus and is a “natural kind of partnership with them.”

The program also allows funding for a new arts fellow Lyn Hart, as well as new courses and smaller programs.

“We’re creating an arts science course that is tailored towards scientists and biologists that is arming a scientist with a visual vocabulary,” Wilder said.

An indigenous perspective is another project the Tumamoc Transdisciplinary Arts Program is aiming to include, as well as a more academic approach to science and art at Tumamoc.

Science communication is something the program is directed toward — thinking about science in a different way and using different tools to communicate research and educate the public.

The Desert Laboratory of Tumamoc Hill has a four-week mini-course planned in May. It will be about two hours a week on Saturdays, discussing the behind-the-scenes of the program and science culture as well as the artistic perspective of communicating research to the community through art.

“We are excited to be a part of this, I see

PHOTOS BY MADELEINE VICECONTE | THE DAILY WILDCAT

TOP: A building where the art and science collaborations for the UA take place on Tumamoc Hill.

MIDDLE LEFT, BOTTOM: Paul Mirocha, one of the artists in residence at Tumamoc Hill, sketches a saguaro cactus that is in front of him for a class he is going to teach later.

MIDDLE RIGHT: A gila monster conatined in a jar is an artwork shown at Tumamoc.

a lot of people in the community going [to Tumamoc] to do many different things but if people go and share experiences, you create a better community and a more diverse environment,” Duran said.

Wilder, Duran and Mirocha encourage the engagement of the community with the

arts of Tumamoc as well as the learning opportunities it may bring.

“This is a great opportunity to see the connection between the arts and the sciences, but also to connect to the university, the community and the environment,” Duran said.

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ASUA ELECTIONS

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CANDIDATES FOR STUDENT BODY president of ASUA, Natalynn Masters (left) and Anna Woolridge (right) at the presidential debate in the Gallagher Theater on Sunday, Feb. 25.

Masters, Woolridge make final push for votes

BY JORDAN WILLIAMS @JordanNichelleW

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona held a debate for its presidential candidates Sunday, Feb. 25, ahead of its general elections.

The debate was the last of four debates scheduled throughout February for ASUA elections. Candidates Anna Woolridge and Natalynn Masters were the two of four presidential candidates that won the primary elections.

Before engaging in debate, Masters and Woolridge introduced themselves and their platforms.

Masters currently serves as ASUA diversity director.

Her platforms are to continue diversity efforts, such as working on the list of demands created two years ago by the Marginalized Students of the University of Arizona, combat sexual harassment on campus and to connect ASUA with the student body through updating its website and use of social media.

Woolridge currently serves as an ASUA at-large senator. Her platforms are to lower the ZonaZoo pass price in light of the new athletic fee, expand UA Campus Pantry hours, open-source textbooks, mandate cultural competency training for faculty and give ASUA access to the all-student email list so they can connect to the student body.

Masters and Woolridge were asked a series of questions by a panel featuring ASUA elections commissioner Marlon Freeman, current ASUA President Matt Lubisich, Executive Director of ZonaZoo Brian Goldstein, Daily Wildcat News Editor Eddie Celaya, Assistant Dean of Students Sherard Robbins and Dean of Students Kendal Washington White.

Both candidates were asked questions specific to

their platforms and the office they are running for.

The candidates were also asked questions from the UA Multicultural Centers that were asked at the vicepresidential forum on Friday, Feb. 23.

They were asked how ASUA can aid in an effort to change Christopher Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. This effort is currently being led by people in the Tucson community, as well as Native American student groups at the UA. To Woolridge, it is an issue of education, about how native tribes work and that the UA sits on native lands.

“That’s necessary for the student body president to know so that when they[ASUA President] are having those conversations with administration, they can help facilitate that,” Woolridge said.

For Masters, the first actionable step would be to let the community know where the UA stands on the matter.

“I think the biggest statement the university can make is releasing a statement acknowledging the fact that we’re not going to celebrate Columbus Day on our campus,” Masters said.

The two were also asked how they would work to include marginalized communities in opportunities like study abroad and alternative breaks. The goal would be to allow these communities to participate in these learning experiences.

Both agreed to making sure the opportunity is available to all students on campus through scholarships and promotion.

Woolridge and Masters were asked their perspectives on the biggest obstacle to obtaining equity on campus.

For Woolridge, it’s lack of knowledge and the privilege of certain communities that prevents equity from being obtained.

“I think a lot of communities on campus don’t really understand each other, and therefore, they either don’t communicate, they don’t communicate well or they are not having good relationships,” Woolridge said.

For Masters, it’s a university-wide buy-in for equity, thereby placing the burden on students to obtain equity for themselves.

“I think the biggest obstacle is that some areas on campus are afraid to have that conversation, and we kind of get students having to organize and put that work on their backs,” Masters said, “rather than the administration and the university wanting to take that up.”

They were also asked how they would help in UA’s effort to be designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution, meaning 25 percent of its undergraduate enrollment is of Hispanic background, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

For Masters, it’s being knowledgeable on what the designation means for the university — eligibility for grant money from the government, according Washington White.

“I think the first part of that, as ASUA president, is working with different organizations and the dean of students and administration to make sure that’s something that we’re applying for,” Masters said, “and that we’re using that money wisely when we’re awarded it.”

For Woolridge, it’s recruiting from the Tucson community, since it has a high Hispanic population.

“That starts with the University of Arizona recruiting locally, and that gives [students] the opportunity to get an education,” Woolridge said.

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ASUA ELECTIONS

ASUA vice presidential candidates explain platforms

BY JORDAN WILLIAMS @JordanNichelleW

The Associated Students of the University of Arizona hosted a debate for its Administrative and Executive vice presidential candidates that advanced to the general elections on Wednesday Feb. 23. Each candidate had the opportunity to introduce their platform and answer questions from a panel.

The vice-presidential debate is the third out of four debates hosted over the month of February leading up to the ASUA general elections.

Executive vice presidential candidate Matthew Rein is the only candidate running for the position. His platforms are connecting clubs across campus with ASUA, ensuring senators stay engaged with their constituency and fighting to lower tuition and fees.

Rein engaged in a question-and-answer forum with a panel consisting of ASUA Elections Commissioner Marlon Freeman, current ASUA Executive Vice President David McGarey, current ASUA At-large Senator Cris Reyes, Jacob Sickler who directs marketing for ASUA and current club advocate Cassandra Bade.

The administrative vice presidential portion of the forum was a debate between the two candidates. The two candidates — Kate Rosenstengel and Shawn McCarthy — were the only two candidates to run for the position in the primary elections.

Rosenstengel currently serves as an at-large senator in ASUA. Rosenstengel’s platforms are to hire diverse program directors for ASUA, begin program fairs to inform the student body of what ASUA has to offer and increase collaboration within programs that would sit under her leadership.

McCarthy currently serves as deputy chief of staff to current Administrative Vice President Lorenzo Johnson.

McCarthy’s platforms are to aid UA Campus Pantry, develop an ASUA strategic plan that involves the student body, re-establish ASUA’s relationship with Housing and Residential Life, create an “ASUA Next Steps” program for freshman and a new diversion program for parking tickets and conduct violations.

Rosenstengel and McCarthy both answered questions by a different panel than the group that questioned Rein.

The panel for the administrative vice presidential debate consisted of Johnson; his current chief of staff Brie Alford; Chance Stewart, who is directing Spring Fling; Courtney Pijanowski, codirector of Students for Sustainability; and Sabrina Etcheverry, codirector for ASUA Pride Alliance.

All three candidates were asked questions specific to their platforms and potential roles during their portions of the forum.

However, all three candidates were asked some of the same questions.

The three were asked about aiding in efforts to change Christopher Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day. All three supported the efforts and gave their own ideas on how ASUA can aid in the process.

Rein sees ASUA getting involved in the efforts by holding events with Native American student-based groups on campus to build a good relationship with them. Rosenstengel agreed, echoing the power of public protest to make a difference.

McCarthy said he would make it a goal for the month of October, when Columbus Day is celebrated, to educate people on the history of Christopher Columbus. He would want to show that

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ASUA EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT candidate Matthew Rein answers a panel’s questions in the Sabino Room of the Student Union Memorial Center on Friday, Feb. 23.

the administrative branch of ASUA stands in solidarity with this measure.

They were also asked about boosting opportunities for marginalized communities to participate in programs like study abroad and alternative breaks.

The three agreed that opening up scholarships opportunities to allow marginalized students a chance to participate can increase the chances of those students being able to go.

All three were asked about how they would use their roles to increase equity on campus, to which they all said that recognizing privilege would be a good first step.

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Hip-Hop culture harmonizes with UA

BY BRIANNON WILFONG @BriannonWilfong

Hip-hop — a cultural phenomenon that has captured the minds of millions, comes from one place: Africana traditions and culture.

The Tucson Hip Hop Festival, now in its third year, brings together the love of music and education from students, faculty and alumni of the Africana Studies Program.

The Department of Africana Studies Program at the University of Arizona has been a sponsor of this event since its first year, when it was known as the Tucson Hip Hop Summit, in 2015.

The department offers courses in hip-hop study and is venturing into teaching about hip-hops influence on religion, fashion and food.

“One of our first graduates [in Africana Studies] studied something called the Elements, which has grown into the hip-hop festival. It is a direct extension of what we teach,” said Praise Zenenga, the director of the Africana Studies Program.

The program aims to promote courses in hip-hop elements and aspects. By sponsoring the festival, the college can support local artists who may have been former students, while also promoting music education, specifically hiphop education.

“There is a very strong educational component in this festival,” Zenenga said. “That’s why we are major funders of the program. So we are connected to it in multiple ways.”

The festival took place at 191 Toole, including live performances and free workshops open to the public.

The event spans only one day, but there are many interactive features going on throughout the event’s period.

Food trucks, hip-hop-themed workshops, performances from

local rappers and live graffiti were featured at the festival.

“It’s a very good community event, and it’s also for students so that they get exposed to [hip-hop culture],” Zenenga said.

Despite being a relatively new festival, it features a rich depth of information about hip-hop culture.

The knowledge comes straight from professors, alumni and local artists, some of whom are students at the UA. The event’s main feature is the performances of local artists and rappers. The community is a critical part of gaining support for these local artists, according to Zenenga.

Jocelyn Valencia, a former alumna of the program, turned her passion for learning about the culture and elements of hip-hop into the actual festival itself. She is now a co-director and overseer of the annual hip-hop festival.

“I had no idea that I would be running a festival at the time, but after I got into the hip-hop culture minor, after learning a lot of stuff about the music industry, I really wanted to come back to Tucson and create an event,” Valencia said.

“The main thing that makes it stand out is the fact that it represents all the elements and aspects of hiphop culture.”

Bringing that “edgy lifestyle that hip-hop boasts” is one thing that makes it stand out from the rest, according to Valencia.

Supporting local hip-hop artists and making them feel appreciated is something that Zenenga, the Department of Africana Studies and the festival aim to do.

“You learn there’s not much space for these artists to perform at these festivals, so it gives them a big platform to showcase what they do,” Zenenga said.

According to the festival’s website, “We want to create an experience that is nothing short from dopeness!”

Although 2018’s festival has concluded, there are plans for a 2019 Tucson Hip Hop Festival.

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Local artists and musicians took to Toole Avenue, to pump up the jams and kick out the bass at the Tucson Hip Hop Festival

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TOP LEFT: Woodro performs on the main stage of the Tucson Hip Hop Festival in Downtown Tucson.

TOP RIGHT: Desmond “Dezbusta” Bustamante takes a moment of zen before he performs at the Tucson Hip Hop Festival in Downtown Tucson on Saturday, Feb. 24.

MIDDLE RIGHT: A member of the Hawaii dance group ONC battles it out against Arizona residents during the 2018 Tucson Hip Hop Festival on Saturday, Feb. 25 in downtown Tucson. The break dancer was not only celebrating a good time in Tucson, he was also enjoying his birthday by taking part in the festival.

BOTTOM RIGHT: DC capitol shows off his electric mixing skills during the 2018 Tucson Hip Hop Festival on Saturday, Feb. 25 in downtown Tucson.

BOTTOM LEFT: Natasha “Rezmo” Martinez works on her graffiti piece during the 2018 Tucson Hip Hop Festival.

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SCHOLAR PROFILE

Churchill Scholar represents UA, women As UA’s only Churchill Scholar, and the only undergraduate to receive the honor nationally, Namrah Habib plans to turn her opportunity in a career in STEM

BY KRISTAN OBENG @KrissyVegas

To be named a 2018–19 Churchill Scholar is no easy feat, but University of Arizona senior Namrah Habib, a double major in aerospace and chemical engineering, came out on top after a competitive, male-dominated applicant process.

Not only was Habib the only UA undergraduate among 16 national winners, but she also was one of four women to be named a scholar. The pool of applicants included 35 women and 66 men who are all pursuing bachelor’s degrees in mathematics, science and engineering, according to The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States.

“I was happy I was selected,” Habib said.

“My mentor encouraged me to apply.”

Her mentor is Daniella DellaGiustina, a lead scientist on the OSIRIS-REx team, a NASA-funded space mission largely operated out of the UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. Habib has worked as an image processing intern at the lab since July 2014.

“She is very tenacious. She doesn’t give up. That is a great skill for a young woman in STEM to have: persistence,” DellaGiustina said.

Women make up half of the total U.S. college-educated workforce but only 29 percent of the science and engineering workforce, according to National Girls Collaborative Project. Nearly half of the team DellaGiustina runs is comprised of women, making them an “exception,” she said, to the current STEM landscape.

Habib won’t be seeking full-time employment after graduating in May. Her Churchill scholarship will allow her to pursue a Master of Philosophy in Astronomy at the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge in England. The scholarship includes at least $50,000 for tuition, a $2,000 research grant and additional funding for travel and living costs.

“I would like to get my Ph.D. afterward and work on space missions. A lot of missions are run by companies and

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UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA SENIOR Namrah Habib, a double major in aerospace and chemical engineering, was recently named a 2018–2019 Churchill Scholar.

universities,” Habib said.

She said her time at the UA has already helped her gain experience for her future career.

At the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory,researchers are tracking the progress of OSIRIS-REx, a spacecraft launched in September 2016 to collect samples from the asteroid Bennu. Habib helps DellaGiustina with a camera system documenting the spacecraft’s journey.

“She worked implementing software and standard operating procedures so that when we bring in images from the OSIRIS-REx camera suite into our labs, we can view those in stereo, something like 3D,” DellaGiustina said.

Habib began her internship with meticulously counting rocks and

pictures. Impressed by her work ethic, DellaGiustina invited Habib to do more “interesting projects” for the lab. That is how Habib started working with the mission’s principal investigator, Dante Lauretta.

“She is brilliant. She has made an enormous impact on our mission,” Lauretta said. “She can go into software codes scientists are writing or using, and she can clean them up. She can write up a document to describe what it does and how it does it and really help future users understand what they have in front of them … Keep an eye on her. She will be a superstar in the future.”

Habib said that the future she is heading toward wouldn’t be possible without her time at the UA.

Not only does she regularly receive guidance from mentors at Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, but the university has helped her improve personally and professionally.

“The UA has taught me what’s good and not good to do. It also taught me to try anything,” she said. “It changed my perspective on what I want to do and what is really engineering.”

After what she called an “intimidating” freshman year, Habib has gone far.

Habib contributed to almost everything the imaging processing team does, according to DellaGiustina, and has coauthored a peer-reviewed research paper with DellaGiustina about a meteorite, the Fukang pallasite, for the scientific journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Additionally, Habib has won several other accolades, including being named one of Aviation Week Network’s Top 20 Technology Leaders of SCIENTIST Tomorrow.

She doesn’t give up. That is a great skill for a young woman in STEM to

have: persistence.” — DANIELLA DELLAGIUSTINA, OSIRIS REx LEAD

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FILM & TELEVISION

What’s funny about that?

Award-winning director, producer and comedy writer Brian Levant workshopped with UA students to improve their comedic screenwriting skills

BY KACIE LILLEJORD @DailyWildcat

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hroughout their college career, students are given opportunities to prepare for the professional world.

In class, they discover how to program computers, direct movies and interpret an Impressionist painting, but the University of Arizona also provides resources for students to network and gain the skills they need to pursue their career goals.

The Hanson Film Institute provided one such resource with a golden opportunity for some film and creative writing students in the form of a TV comedy writing lab.

“The institute supplements the curriculum that students receive through their degree program,” said Vicky Westover, Hanson Film Institute director.

The lab, which began Monday, Feb. 12, and ran until Wednesday, Feb. 28, met for three hours twice a week and was led by the award-winning director, writer and producer Brian Levant. Levant is best known in the film and television industry for directing box office hits such as “Snow Dogs,” “Are We There Yet?” and “Beethoven.” Levant was also showrunner for “Happy Days” and the beloved Robin Williams sitcom “Mork & Mindy.”

Levant taught students how to develop a concept, plot out a pilot TV episode and create a series “bible.” These concepts were applied autobiographically; students in the workshop are basing their ideas on their own lives.

This was all in preparation for the students to present their TV ideas to a creative executive at Lucasfilm Animation, a creative director at Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, the former president of Universal Studios Worldwide Television and others at the lab’s conclusion.

Autobiographical television series currently on the air, include ABC’s “The Goldbergs” and “Fresh Off the Boat,” which are based loosely on the lives of Adam F. Goldberg and Eddie Huang, respectively. These shows, among others, were examples introduced to students on day one in the lab as guides for their own television shows.

According to Levant, situation comedy “basically has an accepted structure, so you don’t have to create,” he said. “You don’t have to frame the house; the house comes pre-framed and you can build it out and decorate it any way you want, but it provides a structure for improvisational thinking.”

Levant is no stranger to the UA. He is an alumnus and has given presentations at the university dozens of times over the past 20 years, especially when his daughters were attending.

“I’m thrilled to have an ongoing relationship with the university,” Levant said.

In the comedy writing lab, students have been doing some soul-searching to tell the stories that they may not want to tell.

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BRIAN LEVANT IS AN award-winning director, writer and producer. Levant is teaching students to develop a concept, plot out a pilot TV episode and create a series “bible.”

However, it is these stories that turn out to be the most relatable for audiences, according to Levant and others in the industry professionals.

“In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest,” Robin Williams said in a tribute video shortly before his passing.

The lab is helping each student develop their ideas and create the situational comedy of their lives. “[What’s] most important is that people learn how to present themselves to someone whose experiences give them a new and unique viewpoint to create from,” Levant said.

Higher education is about more than just taking classes; it’s seizing opportunities wherever they may appear, learning new skills, meeting new people and seeing where it may lead you, Levant said.

“I took the first film production course ever offered at Arizona [in] 1972 or something like that, and my production teacher was a guy named Jeff Benson,” Levant said. “Five years later, when I was a story editor on “Happy Days” and he was the head of Comedy Development, he’s the guy who hired me to write my first pilot that ended up premiering after the Super Bowl.”

Levant is set to return this coming fall to teach a “sitcom bootcamp” for the School of Theatre, Film and Television.

It will be a seven-and-a-half-week course where a small group of students will collectively conceive, plot and write an original pilot episode. They will undergo several re-writes before they have a staged reading with actors set in a UA dormitory.

“Put yourself in a position to learn so when your opportunity comes, you will have a better chance of succeeding. Second chances are hard to come by in this industry,” Levant said.

Put yourself in a position to learn so when your opportunity comes, you will have a better chance of succeeding.” — BRIAN LEVANT, DIRECTOR

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JUNIOR ISAAC HING DURING the Willie Williams Classic at Roy P. Drachman Stadium in Tucson, Ariz. on March 18, 2017.

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TRACK & FIELD

Isaac Hing unlocking true potential The UA sprinter posesses a fresh mindset in orderto perform his best on the track

BY ROB KLEIFIELD @RobKallDay1

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niversity of Arizona track and field sprinter Isaac Hing has mastered turning the pressure of performing well into a cool, calm and collected trance of pre-race meditation.

He might not spill his secret right away, but the redshirt senior starts by getting into the proper mentality.

“I think about how lucky I am to be here, and the nerves just go away. It’s unbelievable,” Hing said.

Hing has set a handful of personal records throughout his track career at Arizona thanks to his level head just moments before competition. His strong-willed mentality keeps him focused, but not too anxious to cross the finish line.

This is the way Hing chooses to treat his final year racing for the Wildcats.

After redshirting as a walk-on in 2015, Hing spent countless hours training to improve his times and impress his coaches. As a result, Hing’s sophomore season produced personal bests in multiple races.

However, Hing’s progressions seemed to run out of momentum by the time his junior season rolled around.

“I thought I was going to have a really superb junior year, but things

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just weren’t clicking," Hing said. "I was in a rut."

Hing’s mental struggles continued throughout much of the 2017 campaign, but he didn’t let that discourage him from achieving his goals. He managed to shave off nearly a tenth of a second from his 100-meter time and posted a personal best 21.66 in the 200-meter.

Still, Hing felt off mentally. Heading into his senior season, Hing knew he needed to change his approach.

“As the same as really every other sport, a rut is mental for the most part.

Once I changed my mindset, I started seeing better results on the track,” Hing said.

Since then, the sprinter has adopted a new outlook on collegiate sports, and

perspective, one that's focused on not putting too much pressure on himself, has allowed the sprinter to unlock levels of his potential he hadn’t even considered to exist before.

Reaching a new level may seem like a stretch when thinking about the infinite number of collegiate athletes who could be strategizing the same way. But Hing isn’t like most other NCAA competitors.

Born in Malaysia, Hing spent his youth and prep career at an international school in Shanghai, China. It was there he developed his speed and athleticism, except it wasn’t on the track.

Hing’s sport of choice was rugby. In fact, he starred as a winger, catching the ball and racing down the pitch,

Hing’s decision to enroll at the University of Arizona was more or less an act of fate. His father, along with several aunts and uncles, had lived in Tucson earlier in their lives. Now it was time for Hing to extend his relatives’ legacy, as well as create his own.

After being admitted into the UA, Hing went out of his way to reach out to the track and field program.

“I was already accepted here and just figured that I should make the most of my experience. I thought that I could make this team stronger, and I still believe that,” Hing said.

There was never any lack of effort on Hing’s end. He eventually earned a scholarship and is now looking to put an exclamation point on his career at the UA.

I thought that I could make this team stronger and I still

believe that.”

— ISAAC HING, UA TRACK AND FIELD SPRINTER

he admitted it has become the key to his success.

“Everything here is about performance and how well you run when the timer starts. You naturally put a lot of pressure on yourself. But then I took a step back and realized how blessed I am to be doing this,” Hing said.

Hing stressed that this new

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using his speed to outrun opponents.

It wasn’t long before his school’s track coach came pleading after Hing, begging the teen to make better use of his innate running ability. Hing joined, and in no time at all, he became one of Shanghai’s premier 400-meter runners.

His next step was embarking on a journey to the United States.

Hing is finishing up the indoor season, and soon he’ll gear up to attack the outdoor season with the same peace of mind that has propelled him to one personal record after another.

“I’m here to score some points for coach [Francesca] Green and coach [Fred] Harvey and the rest of my team,” Hing said.

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OPINION

If DACA isn’t fixed, action needed by all COLUMNIST TONI MARCHEVA @DailyWildcat

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ix months ago, I was shocked when the president moved to actually end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

I’m even more shocked that Congress has nothing to show us after months of bickering. I know people are calling their congressmen and congresswomen. I have friends who are DACA recipients, and they are protesting in Washington, D.C., yet it feels like nothing the people do matters.

Although a lower court has placed an injunction on the March 5 deadline, which the Supreme Court recently upheld, a long-term solution still needs to be reached.

No matter what our government decides to do and not do, we still have our personal wills — a force that history has shown is more powerful than we may think.

If DACA expires, the 19,000 students who already lost their status will face the risk of deportation and will no longer be able to work. Each day after it runs out, 1,000 more DACA recipients will lose their protection.

Students will still be able to attend school, but there are many other risks DACA recipients face still without a permanent fix.

We have to do more than hope and care. Actions, even at the micro level, matter. It was the actions of participants in the Civil Rights Movement — Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat, protesters organizing sit-ins at the Woolworth lunch counter, etc. — that gave way to bigger events and bigger marches, all of which led to the Civil Rights Act. If the government leaves us no other option, we too can enact change by acting on our own definition of morality.

An example: In my senior year of high school, I worked at Chickfil-A with a good friend, who had DACA status. Our boss was a white, evangelical-Christian franchise-owner (Make whatever assumptions you want — we certainly did!). He eventually moved away; I went to the UA and my friend stayed, giving out chicken to pay

her way through college.

When the president announced the end of DACA, I immediately thought of her. And apparently, so did our boss. He called her one day. “Can you tell me what DACA is?” he asked.

She started at the beginning.

He concluded the conversation with, “Well, if you need to, you can stay with my family.”

My friend and I were both really surprised. For her, I know it made a big difference. She felt wanted in her community. For me, the phone call was a powerful reminder that I always have the power to stand for what is right. We all do.

Can you imagine if every DACA recipient had four or five or more people looking out for them, prepared to protect them? Think of the message it would send to Congress: 535 old people can’t figure out what to do, even though millions of people in America, across party lines, have figured out exactly what is right.

That same year, I met Lupe, another DACA recipient. She was open about her status to her friends and teachers.

Our academic decathlon coach told her if she was ever threatened to be deported, he would handcuff himself to her so that immigration would have to take them both.

Many teachers said similar things to her. I am confident they would actually do so if circumstances required it — even if laws change, even if they’d lose their jobs, even though she’s out of high school now. The government can never stop us from acting on what we know is right; the people will always have extraordinary powers of civil disobedience.

Do you care about the people living and working here under DACA? Then tell one of them you do. More importantly, what would you do for that person if they lost their legal power to work? If immigration workers came to deport them?

And to the DACA recipients: Let us know what we can do. I can’t even pretend to know what’s best for you all, and neither can any of us. But your community cares and will do what it can.

We will stand with you.

— Toni Marcheva is a sophomore who is losing hope of Congress ever passing a clean DREAM Act.

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POLICE BEAT

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BY VANESSA ONTIVEROS @NessaMagnifique

What a Dive Two UAPD officers responded to a report of a suspicious man on Greek Row at 3:30 a.m. on Feb. 19.

The witness told officers he saw a man with long hair looking into windows of multiple vehicles near Kappa Sigma fraternity house, trying to gain entry. There was no obvious damage to the vehicles.

The officers then located a man matching the description in the dumpster behind the Alpha Delta Pi sorority house.

When they shone a light on him, the officers saw the man was brandishing a pocket knife. The man dropped the knife and exited the dumpster, placing his backpack on the ground.

The man told the officers he had multiple other weapons, including knives, mace and a UA “pokey thing.”

Based on his reports of weapons, the officers detained the man.

The man said he was a scavenger, looking in the dumpster for abandoned items. He also said he was homeless.

He denied looking into vehicles or trying to gain entry. The man also refused to consent to a search of his backpack, saying he had a laptop, a knife and other personal belongings inside.

The officers issued the man an exclusionary order for a period of six months and made it clear he would be arrested if he returned to campus.

Party in the U of A A noise complaint caused a UAPD officer to pay a visit to the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house on Feb. 8 at 10:30 p.m.

When the officer arrived, he met with the ZBT risk management house member, who said a neighbor called to complain about the noise. The ZBT member told the officer he and other house members had notified neighbors of the party beforehand.

He also told the officer the music had only been on for about half an hour before the officer arrived and the event was scheduled to go until 1:30 a.m.

The officer estimated that, during this conversation, over 200 people had entered the house, with more arriving.

The ZBT member had Wild West Security refuse any more guests because they were already at capacity. Security closed the gate to the ZBT parking lot and ordered people not already inside the house to leave.

The officer requested for the music to be turned down, which the ZBT member did multiple times. However, it was continually turned back up.

Eventually it was turned down to a more reasonable level.

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A VARIETY OF GUNS on display at Second Amendment Sports on Pima Street in Tucson. Bans on assault weapons, mental health exams and safety training are all possible ways to reduce the amount of gun violence in this country.

Gun bans, exams and training needed COLUMNIST CHUCK VALADEZ @DailyWildcat

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s a staunch Constitutionalist, it pains me to say this, but maybe Americans cannot be trusted with guns. We have too many kids shooting up other kids and other crimes involving guns.

I would always fight tooth and nail to keep the Second Amendment in its entirety, but I can now admit that it would be a bit careless to remain pro-gun without strict regulations.

We no longer need semi-automatic firearms under any circumstances. It provides no real advantage in home defense or hunting and is only a substitute for a man’s one-inch wonder.

If you want to play shoot ‘em up, go play your war video games, because you are too much of a coward (or too strongly principled) to join the army.

Now on the topic of the military, we can no longer be inconsistent in our standards for violence in social and governmental matters. A kid bullies another in school, that is a no-no, but a few years later, we can give that same kid a gun and tell him to shoot any unidentified person who comes near an opium field. Anyone else see the problem here?

Either tell the bullied kid it is a dog-eat-dog world and he will have to fight back, or do not push your greedy capitalist agenda across the world with bombs and bullets.

We need to implement psychological exams and gun safety training if someone wishes to purchase a gun. We don’t need anybody losing their cool and shooting about 25–30 harmless dogs a day, or 157 people as of Feb. 15, which is the number killed by cops in this country so far.

Since we are on the subject, how about we give police the same regulations on carrying firearms? This actually is a proven world practice. Countries such as Iceland, Norway, New Zealand, Ireland and Great Britain have this in practice, and it works.

In Ireland, only 20 to 25 percent of officers are qualified to use

firearms, and the number is similar in Great Britain. Icelandic citizens are very well armed (15th per capita) and the police aren’t, and the crime rate is quite low compared to the rest of the world.

My only concern here is the dishonesty of the government. Will they pass more cops than citizens through bias in the exams? More than likely, so if this is the argument that was eating away at you the entire last paragraph, why not make the exam anonymous and from a foreign, third-party organization?

We leave ourselves here, no more bullets flying, but what about crazies with pointed sticks? Let us bring in mental illness and Big Pharma being part of the problem here. We have established maybe it is best that psychological exams and a safety course need to take place before being approved to purchase a gun, but what if Timmy’s ADHD pills induce suicidal or homicidal thoughts?

Perhaps it is time for both sides to admit they have heard this very line in a commercial and giving someone a gun on this medication is not a bright idea (though it does not deter them from obtaining a pointed stick).

A gun ban is already in place for those who possess a medical marijuana card. Many people in states that have legalized marijuana for medical use had a time limit to turn in their guns or face severe penalty.

If marijuana users, taking a safe herbal remedy with no history of giving people violent tendencies (unless we include reefer madness), must turn in their guns, people taking legal amphetamines cooked up in a lab should definitely have to turn in their guns.

Now, this has been a mélange of ideas Congress will never take into consideration due to either unwillingness to compromise or an inability to make some good profit off the ideas. I must conclude this saying by a pretty outrageous claim that just about nobody is going to like: If the government is unwilling to turn over their guns, I do not expect anybody else to turn over theirs. If the government wants to be for the people, and they truly do not want these school shootings and executions of minorities carried out by the police to keep happening, they will subject both the civilians and themselves to staunch regulations.

— Chuck Valadez is studying PPEL and philosophy.

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OPINION

Increase outreach programs for former inmates COLUMNIST ALEC SCOTT @DailyWildcat

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n the U.S., over 2 million people are incarcerated.

Overwhelmingly, these prisoners are being held in state prisons rather than federal prisons, meaning the burden of prison overcrowding has been on the states.

Even worse, federal reports describe the state of these state prisons as “dilapidated” and “overcrowded.”

The underfunded criminal justice system goes hand-inhand with the national rates of recidivism, or the likelihood of a released ex-convict re-offending and returning to jail. Within three years, almost two-thirds of all released prisoners will re-offend and be returned to prison, a ratio that is ridiculously and worryingly high.

In five years, that rate is expected to reach threequarters, meaning that within half a decade, it is statistically unlikely that an ex-felon is not sent back to prison. In Arizona, the prison population is at 38,021, a decrease of about 600 inmates since 2015, but the total incarcerated population still outnumbers the amount of beds available for these inmates.

There are almost 3,000 more inmates than there are beds

to board them, a sign of overcrowding at the state level that is difficult to solve without significant funding and legal reforms.

The rates of recidivism not only continue to flood the prison systems of the U.S. — they threaten American citizens and residents; as these felons continue to offend, they’re simply arrested again and held in a system that does nothing to help end the cycle of violence.

If the U.S. is dedicated to ending prison overcrowding and lowering the national crime rate, it should dedicate itself to prisoner outreach programs. These programs help contact inmates and offer them support groups, high school diplomas, job experience and counseling once they are released.

For example, the Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco helps drug addicts and former gang members learn marketable skills that can get them employed, as well as build relationships that will help them stay out of prison. The Prison Entrepreneurship Program in Houston offers inmates job experience and wages higher than the minimum wage, helping ex-convicts direct their lives away from crime. Astoundingly, the recidivism rate among members of the Entrepreneurship Program is a low seven percent.

These programs have been encouraged across the country, with a similar project beginning in Arizona.

Erickson Companies, a major construction company in the western United States, has partnered with the Arizona

Corrections Department to hire convicts in construction projects, offering them job experience and a chance to build skills and readapt to a life outside of incarceration.

The program is only open to “non-violent male DUI offenders,” so the risk of violence or confrontation is extremely low. Over the past two years, there have been no recorded incidents like violence or escape attempts.

Erickson manager Larry Butts was very positive about the program, saying, “It’s like a really long internship. We’re able to train these guys, work alongside them, and at some point they’re going to get released. We’ve given them a skill ... and a second chance.”

This program is one among many others in the Arizona Corrections Industries, an office that helps employ and rehabilitate former convicts, and is credited with dropping Arizona’s recidivism rate by 31.6 percent.

By offering ex-convicts job experience and teaching them a trade, they can re-enter the workforce without being unduly held back by their time behind bars — reducing the incentive to return to crime.

Arizona is helping lead the way in encouraging employment and support groups for former prisoners and giving powerful examples for other states to follow in order to lower the dangerously high recidivism rates in the U.S. — Alec Scott is a sophomore studying Political Science and German Studies who volunteered for the 2014 Ron Barber Congressional Campaign.

TUCSON ROADS

Students, city team up to improve streets

BY ZACHARY OGDEN @Purplapanda

Walking into a room with toys all over the place can be a scary proposition for a parent.

For children, it can be their own imaginary world. Whether it be assembling together Lego cities, connecting train tracks or placing blocks to form a race track for toy cars, people have been drawn to the idea of designing their own world.

Although most children move on to follow interests not related to any kind of architecture or engineering, some never lose their desire to design.

Along with three other University of Arizona urban planning students and three landscape architect students, Amanda Maass was given the opportunity to design for not just her own world, but for the City of Tucson.

With city road plans dating back to the early 2000s, Tucson has been looking to update a few roads, including an expansion of First Avenue, in the interest of further developing the city’s Complete Street policies.

“The idea behind Complete Streets is just creating spaces that serve all users,” Maass said. This includes pedestrians, cyclists,

public transportation and people with handicaps.

Maass was on a team of seven graduate students that worked on a semester-long project for an interdisciplinary urban design studio course in spring 2017 at the UA. The project, called “Livable Streets for Vibrant Communities,” offered realistic plans for First Avenue, Stone Avenue and more.

“Each neighborhood, or each corridor, or each street, had a different design,” said Eduardo Guerrero, an assistant lecturer for the course. “To be very transparent and truthful … what the students are proposing, is something absolutely ideal.”

Maass said she and her classmates aimed to offer something new.

“What we wanted to do was to provide an alternative design to what is currently being composed,” Maass said.

The students were rewarded for their 82-page report with the Best Student Planning Project Award in 2017 from the Arizona chapter of the American Planning Association.

“The idea was to create these streets that invite people into them and are safer, and kind of encourage commercial development,”

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STUDENTS FROM UA HELPED design better streets to decrease street hazards such as the pothole above.

Maass said. “This also wraps into the social aspect of creating actual community spaces based on the scale of the streets, and also in addition some environmental components.

This is more of a guiding document, so it could be informative of what are the

possibilities that exist out there.”

Maass does not believe the City of Tucson would be able to fully implement the plan because of legality issues, but she does believe that this might influence future improvements.

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SUSTAINABILITY

Tri-University summit brings green students together

BY MARQUIES WHITE @marquies_white

Students from all three Arizona public universities discussed ideas at the 1st Annual Arizona Tri-University Student Sustainability Summit hosted by the University of Arizona Office of Sustainability on Feb. 23.

Each university was represented by a group of students and faculty involved in sustainability programs. Students were able to network, discuss collaboration ideas and learn from other universities about how they could improve sustainability on their campus.

Matt Lubisich, ASUA student body president, welcomed the students to the opening event. “So many different students from all three public universities discussing how we can move forward on sustainability is an incredible initiative,” Lubisich said.

To encourage networking, students from other universities sat down and introduced themselves.

“This event is all about connection. So if there’s anything we can do to build on strengths that any of the universities have to help out other universities, that’s what we need to try to do,” said Ben Champion, director of the UA Office of Sustainability.

In the first part of the event, each university presented their sustainability programs, clubs and any recent and past sustainable activities.

After presentations, each table was assigned a key sustainability topic during a breakout session and students sat

at a table with a topic that interested them to meet with other students who shared their interest.

After the breakout session, table groups reported what they had learned and discussed to everyone else.

Stanley Wong, UA student and chair of the Energy and Climate Committee for Students for Sustainability, said that the summit was a learning experience.

“Both NAU and ASU have so much going on in their sustainability programs that we could improve on,” Wong said.

Ellen Vaughan, manager of the Office of Sustainability at Northern Arizona University, was interested by how similar all three universities approached sustainability.

“We all do green games, collaborate with athletics, have gardens, work to have a sustainable move-out at the end of the semester,” Vaughan said.

Vaughan was interested by how ASU framed their goals in a positive way stating that it was just a little bit of a different mindset, and that it may be fun to revisit his goals and look at them in a certain context.

Kendon Jung is a student involvement coordinator at Arizona State University and presented for ASU at the summit.

“All the universities have really great ideas that speak to their culture,” Jung said. “Both NAU and the UA have a very strong student organization and engagement strategy, and that’s something that we’re working on at ASU.” One of the obstacles the universities face is doing things in isolation, according to Jung.

“Going out and finding partners is an area of opportunity,”

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ALEJANDRO GRATEROL, A BUSINESS student with an emphasis in sustainability at ASU, takes notes during the sustainability seminar at the UA Student Union on Friday Feb. 23.

Jung said. “Sustainability is supposed to be a nexus of a variety of different interests.”

At the summit, many students reached out to each other and tried to learn better ways to reach their sustainability goals at their own campuses.

“Even at ASU, our sustainability groups don’t always interact with each other,” Jung said. “All of the organizations on each campus working together is going to create some really great ideas.”

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TENNIS

Jonas Maier: tried and true Men’s tennis co-captain faces his own trials and tribulations but nothing stands in his way

BY DAVID SKINNER @daveyskins_

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JONAS MAIER, A JUNIOR from Hamburg, Germany, on the court during his practice on Feb. 19.

Jonas Maier has encountered his fair share of obstacles, though with the help of his family, he has not only overcome them, but exceeded expectations.

Maier, a junior men’s tennis player and recent transfer from Utah State, has faced obstacles early and often — obstacles that stretch back to his childhood.

“I was born in Southern Germany, close to Munich,” Maier said. “And then, when I was 6, my family moved north to Hamburg. When I was younger, I had asthma, and the air conditions in Hamburg were way better, so we moved up there.”

Moving all the way across Germany, Maier was able to thrive and succeed in many pursuits, among which was soccer. But at the age of 12, he chose to stick with tennis.

“I was just better in tennis. [For] soccer, everybody in Germany plays, so it just made much more sense for me to stay in tennis and stop playing soccer,” Maier said.

As Maier took steps toward tennis, a familiar figure became his coach.

“My father was my coach. He was the reason I started playing tennis,” Maier said. “He played a little bit when he was my age, and he really didn’t get the support from his parents that he wished, so he gave me all of his attention in tennis. He worked really hard to make this possible for me. So traveling with him was good, and him coaching me was just amazing when I was a kid.”

With personal coaching throughout his childhood paying dividends, Maier arrived to the rigorous college scene adequately prepared.

“College is just so much more team-based. In Europe, it was all individual, so I was just traveling with my dad the whole time,” Maier said. “The college game is not about playing for yourself but playing for your coaches, your teammates and representing your university.”

Adjusting to college wasn’t exactly a breeze either; it took some time for Maier to adjust to the new culture and environment at Utah State.

“The coaches would tell me stuff, and I wasn’t that good at English, and I wouldn’t really know what they were saying,” Maier said. “I was confused sometimes ... especially when you have your dad coach you and you have that special relationship. Now you have a good coach relationship and good teammate relationships that makes everything work together.”

After spending two years at Utah State under current head coach Clancy Shields, Maier decided he wanted to challenge himself once again and transfer to a Pac-12 Conference school.

“Coming to Arizona has been the best decision I have made since deciding that I was going to play in college. Being here has been absolutely amazing.

I’m blessed to be here, being with the team and coaching staff we have. Now we just have to get to work,” Maier said.

As Maier adjusts to his new school in the desert, he hasn’t had trouble stepping into his new role, leading and directing the youthful team in the early season.

“We have a really young team. We only have two seniors, me as a junior and the rest are freshmen and sophomores. So [I’m] just helping the new guys get accustomed to college and helping them figure all of that out,” Maier said. “[I’m] making sure that they are focused every time they hit the court and [making] sure that we aren’t wasting any time there ... It’s going good so far.”

This Arizona team is going to face its own challenges this year, but its season will be defined by how its players respond to those obstacles. With Maier in the lineup, the Wildcats can be confident that their leader is battletested and ready for anything.

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SWIM & DIVE

EYES ON THE PRIZE Butterfly specialist Justin Wright has his sights set on a National Championship, and that may not be all

BY IAN TISDALE @iantisdl

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enior swimmer Justin Wright has his sights set on one thing for his last season as a Wildcat: a national championship.

For the past four years, Wright has led the Arizona swim team in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly events, with a school record in the 200-meter butterfly and NCAA-qualifying times in both strokes.

Now, he leads the country with the fastest 200-meter butterfly time of 1:40.57, which he set at the Texas Invitational and has held for three months.

“I have trouble with long-term goals because they seem so far away, but I knew I wanted to be leading the country,” Wright said. “Now that already happened, I am setting my sights on actually winning a national championship.”

Wright has been close to that goal in seasons past.

Last year, he made it past preliminaries and advanced to the event final in the 200-meter butterfly at the NCAA Championships and took seventh place in one of the year’s toughest fields. He also posted qualifying times for the NCAAs his sophomore year in the same event, and he earned All-American honors both years, as well.

Wright hails from Fresno, California and started swimming at a competitive level early on. He competed internationally with Team USA on the junior team for four competitions and continues to swim with Team USA today. In fact, last

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year he swam at the World University Games in Taiwan, which is an Olympic-style event that takes the top collegiate athletes from around the world.

“International swimming is pretty different,” Wright said.

Wright almost feels more comfortable in longerdistanced international events than he does with highpaced collegiate swimming, even though he excels at both levels.

“College is yards and international is in meters, so the length of the pool is really the biggest thing,” Wright said. “In short course, there are a lot of flip turns and walls, so it really emphasizes a lot of sprinting and kicking when you swim, where in longcourse events it’s harder because it takes a little more skillful swimming. Typically, I’ve been better at long course.”

Wright made it to the final of the World University Games in the 200-meter butterfly and placed sixth against some of the fastest swimmers in the world.

Wright hopes to continue his experience with international swimming outside of college and said he plans to continue swimming with Team USA at the professional level.

“If it all pans out, I would swim for the national team, doing domestic and international events … and try to get a contract from as many companies as I can,” Wright said.

When all is said and done, Wright, a business major specializing in sports management at the Eller College of

Management, hopes to put some of his current, albeit secret, business ideas in action.

“What I have is a billion-dollar idea, so I don’t want anybody stealing it or anything,” Wright said.

However, even though his future is right around the corner, Wright maintains his focus on the task at hand: the upcoming Pac-12 Conference Championships.

The team right now is resting, taking time off after a brutal regular season to prepare for one of the most important tournaments of the year.

“You make a sword during the season and do most of your physical work, and now we’re sharpening it before conference championships and taking more rest and time off,” Wright said. “Most swimmers can’t improve their times without a break or a taper at some point in the season, so we’re resting and refining things now before conference.”

Wright finished in the top three at Pac-12 for the last two years, finishing third in the 200-butterfly last season and second in the previous season. And although Wright is focused on how he swims, he cares more about how the whole team performs.

“I’d like to consider myself a humble guy, so I don’t like to talk about my personal achievements a lot,” Wright said. “But when my buddies or the team as a whole succeeds, I get really excited.”

With Pac-12 Championships on Wednesday, Feb. 28, and the NCAA Championships only a couple weeks away, there is a lot for Arizona swimmers, swimming fans and Justin Wright to be excited about.

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The sale of the monastery may depict a sign of the times. A decline in the Sisters of Perpetual Adoration’s numbers led to the decision to consolidate and move to the order’s motherhouse in Clyde, Missouri.

The leader of the Tucson sisters, Sr. Joan Ridley, sold the seven-acre property to Rulney in good faith. The sale came with a mutual understanding of the importance in preserving the monastery’s architectural and spiritual significance to its community. Despite this, members of the Miramonte neighborhood, as well as the greater Tucson community, are concerned for the historical structure.

Between 1939 and 1940, Tucson architect Roy Place constructed the monastery — designed in “Spanish eclectic” style — for the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, who were invited to Tucson in 1935 by the Bishop of Tucson, Right Reverend Daniel Gercke.

Place is known for other historical assets in Tucson, including the Pima County Courthouse and several notable buildings on the University of Arizona campus.

Rulney has actively taken steps to ensure the exterior features of the chapel are preserved while endeavoring to construct luxury apartments on the site. He is contracting with Poster Frost Mirto, a local team known for its work on historical Tucson architecture.

“Poster Frost and Mirto are lead preservationists when it comes to architecture, so they are leading the project,” Rulney said in a phone interview. “He has more experience with Roy Place than anybody.”

However, after meetings between Rulney and community stakeholders, including Sr. Ridley, Ward 6 Councilman Steve Kozachik and Ruth Beeker, neighborhood advocate and former Miramonte Neighborhood association member, concerns about the future of the property have been realized.

“We made it clear. The one thing we did not want was university housing,” Beeker said.

While Rulney said he has worked with the neighborhood to provide them a voice in how the luxury apartments would be built, he also said the student housing route

After sale of 1940s-era Benedictine monastary, property may become luxury apartments — or student housing would be taken if the neighborhood association would not help him obtain a Planned Area Development — a make-your-own-zone process that would allow him to construct the more desirable “high-end” apartments.

Rulney would not need to rezone in order to build university housing, but he does need city council approval to secure a PAD. And city council approval entails neighborhood consent.

“If the ... necessary entitlements are approved, then we will develop a high-end residential community,” Rulney said. “And if not, then we will pursue a student-housing development within the current entitlements.”

Current entitlements allow for 40-foot buildings containing 220 units — approximately 880 beds that could be slated for students, if Rulney were to go ahead and sell 51 percent ownership to a Texas-based student housing developer; Rulney declined to share who that developer was.

Sam Behrend, vice president of the MNA, described the logistics during a MNA meeting on Feb. 14.

“If he couldn’t get the neighborhoods to help him get approval by the city for this Planned Area Development where he could make his own zoning and have 33 one- and two-bedroom luxury apartments … then he had a deal on the table with a student housing developer who would buy him out,” Behrend said. “The implied threat is that if we don’t go along with his plans, he’ll just sell out to this other guy and make a lot of money, and we wouldn’t be happy about that.”

While luxury apartments are preferred by

the community over student housing, concerns about the increase in traffic, noise, height of the buildings and the anticipated eyesore of parking options to support the housing are causes for contention.

“Parking garages by law have to be lit-up 24 hours,” said David Raichlen, president of the MNA, at the Feb. 14 meeting. “People [living near UA parking garages] were complaining that it never gets dark anymore at their house.”

The decision-making process for the community has come down to protecting the monastery at any cost, versus attempting to preserve some aspects of the current neighborhood aesthetic. Rulney said it would be in the community’s best interest to help him obtain the PAD. “I think they — based on the comments that I’ve heard, based on the meetings I’ve attended — absolutely want to work with me because they absolutely do not want a student-housing product,” he said. “Now, there are things, you know, we’re going to have to agree on, height …

The product still has to work financially. And in order for me to do so, I need added flexibility of use for the existing building that I don’t have.”

The community has expressed its frustration about the use of the building, now that it has been sold to a developer, through several guest letters to publications like the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Sentinel.

Some claim that the City of Tucson or even the UA could have done more to make sure the monastery wouldn’t be sold to a developer;

Kozachik echoed these frustrations.

“He has chosen one of most sensitive properties in the city to rezone,” Kozachik said.

“The thing is a historic landmark revered by a lot of people with religious affiliation. It’s also immediately adjacent to a single family residential neighborhood across the street from another residential neighborhood, Sam Hughes, and as matter of fact ... the Benedictine is listed as one of their historic assets.”

In an interview for the Arizona Daily Star conducted by Johanna Willett, Rulney confirmed, “The monastery is a historic treasure, and I will work to preserve the exterior of the building, while taking great care with interior improvements.”

Rulney declined to share which of the two development routes he would prefer to take, but he said what he sees is best for the community.

“I don’t know if I want to give my preference, but it is a strong preference of the neighborhood that it become a high-end residential versus student housing, and the neighborhood is opposed to the student housing,” he said.

“So what I’m trying to do is accommodate their concerns and move forward with what they’d like to see … including uses for the existing building, allowing restaurant and retail and a boutique hotel if that’s the direction I’d go in. Those are not allowed currently, but those would be a part of the PAD.” The MNA is deciding what to do next.

“If we oppose the PAD, I don’t know what will happen … but it’s time for us to decide what our bottom line is and take a position,” Behrend said. “With this many beds, there’s going to be a lot of students living there anyway, so how different is student housing going to be?”

Rulney said in an email that he would “probably not” keep Poster and associates on should he choose to pursue student housing.

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SAM HUGHES NEIGHBORHOOD LISTS the Benedictine Monastery as a “historical asset,” as the structure was built in 1940 by famous Tucsonan architect, Roy Place.