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The Student Services Fee Advisory Board began its allocation of $2 million worth of funds to 15 of 29 student services fee project proposals on Monday evening. Among the top funded pro- grams recommended for 2014 were the Veterans Education and Transition Ser- vices, the Dean of Students Of- fice Graduate and Professional Stud- ies Program, the Women’s Resource Center and Schol- arship Universe. “We’ve been working really hard to do these pro- posals and review them,” said Arielle Allen, vice chair of the board. “They’re all great.” However, the proposals for the allocation of funds for Daily Wildcat Jobs: Creation, Reten- tion, Transition and Ensur- ing an Extraordinary Student Experience failed after members agreed that the proposal was not a proper use of student services fee money. This year, the board had a new development to allow each pre- senter five minutes to discuss and share their proposal with the board prior to the meeting, so board members could bet- ter understand the proposal, according to Allen. The first item on the agenda was the Veterans Educa- tion and Transition Services proposal. The program pro- vides an important service to the UA Campus, according to Olukemi Oso, the secretary of the fee advisory board. “As the current wars are ending we’ll be expecting to have an even higher number of vets on our campus, so it’s important that we have a vital space for them,” Oso said. GUARD KEVIN PARROM EMERGING AS WILDCAT STAR ‘THE BOY WHO LIVED’ INSPIRES REAL-LIFE ACTIVISM GOOGLE BRINGS MUSEUMS TO TIPS OF YOUR FINGERS SPORTS -7 OPINIONS - 4 ARTS - 12 ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT Printing the news, sounding the alarm, and raising hell since 1899 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013 DAILYWILDCAT.COM VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 108 UAPD grant to increase officers A recent grant to the University of Arizona Police Department could make impaired drivers think twice before getting behind the wheel. Last week, UAPD announced that the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety awarded UAPD a $35,000 grant, enabling the department to deploy extra officers to combat im- paired drivers around the commu- nity. “The grant’s going to allow us to put additional officers out to fo- cus on DUI violations,” said Joe Bermudez, a UAPD crime preven- tion officer. “And the number of offi- cers is going to be in addition to the normal number of officers.” Bermudez said the grant wasn’t a result of increased incidents around campus, but rather funding the de- partment has received the last sev- eral years from the state. Events where extra officers will be stationed include home football games and other designated events in the com- munity until Dec. 31, according to a UAPD media release. The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety department allots grants to agencies that apply for additional funding based on performance and need, according to Alberto Gutier, director of the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. While every agency spends the money differently, frequent- ly it’s expended toward overtime, PAINT THE TOWN PINK MAXWELL J MANGOLD Arizona Daily Wildcat Peace Corps volunteer reflects on experience W hen she was 22, Leah Iverson found herself living alone in a small, rural village on the coast of El Salvador. This village was what she called home for the next 27 months of her life; Iverson had joined the Peace Corps. Iverson said she had always known this was something that she wanted to do. “I knew that I did not want to go directly into the workforce full time,” Iverson said. “I wanted an opportunity to go abroad, to learn another language, to be able to travel a little bit more while getting paid but also doing something significant.” She applied for the Peace Corps in the fall of her senior year of college in 2005 and after graduating with a degree in anthropology and waiting almost a year to receive the paperwork and training, Iverson was finally given her assignment as a youth development volunteer. “I actually had to Google where El Salvador was because I wasn’t sure where it was,” Iverson said. “I knew it was in Latin America but that was about it.” Upon Iverson’s arrival to the small village of San Carlos Lempa, she quickly realized that she was the only Peace Corps volunteer for miles and her Spanish was not as solid as she had thought. “I went down there pretty confidently. ‘Oh yeah, I’ll be able to speak the language, I’ll be able to understand what people say to me.’ Oh, no. It was totally a shock,” Iverson said. “My accent was so horrible. It was so Americanized that I was speaking Spanish, like correct conjugations and verbs, but nobody understood a word that I said.” After becoming more confident in her speaking abilities, Iverson started to focus on her goals for youth development. She began working in three different schools in the town and aided them in learning English and computer skills. In her free time, Iverson created a female soccer team for the young girls of the town as an opportunity for them to do something other than their routine of cooking and cleaning. “I thought it would be a good way to reduce the cattiness of these females in town because at that age, girls are fighting about boys, especially because the selection is kind of limited,” Iverson said. With this goal in mind, Iverson went door-to-door asking girls’ parents if they could join the team. After receiving overwhelming support from the community, Iverson recruited a solid number of girls and immediately started practicing six days a week with games every Sunday. Success, however, did not come easy to the team. The players KELSI THORUD Arizona Daily Wildcat PEACE CORPS, 5 FIND US ONLINE ON OUR WEBSITE WEATHER QUOTE TO NOTE ‘Like‘ us on Facebook facebook.com/dailywildcat Follow us on Twitter twitter.com/dailywildcat Find us on Tumblr tumblr.com/dailywildcat It is not just a global problem. It’s in the United States, it’s in Tucson, it could be literally right next door to you.” NEWS — 2 67 37 HI LOW Donald, OR 49 / 37 Minnie, KY 58 / 41 Dale, IL 48 / 34 WINDY For breaking news and multimedia coverage of the biggest stories on campus check out DAILYWILDCAT.COM MULTI MEDIA PHOTO COURTESY OF LEAH IVERSON LEAH IVERSON, A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER, teaches English to high schoolers in El Salvador. Iverson spent 27 months in a rural village on the Salvadoran coast. GRANT, 2 At the end of the day, it’s up to the board essentially just to see what they think about a proposal, how they feel about it, and make a decision. Joel Hauff,Student Services Fee Advisory Board adviser Student fee board begins allocating $2 million in funds ALISON DORF Arizona Daily Wildcat STUDENT FEE, 5 GABRIELA DIAZ/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT STUDENTS FLAUNTED their favorite dance moves on Monday at a Pink Nation Dance Party in exchange for a surprise gift from Pink by Victoria’s Secret. The event was part of the Spring Break Campus Tour, which brings a goodie-filled Pink truck to five different college campus- es across the nation. The dance party provided an opportunity for students to show off their favorite moves for a video to be featured online that will look similar to a flipbook, with many still shots compiled together, according to Kayla Gideon, a manager for Victoria’s Secret at the Tucson Mall.

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Page 1: Tuesday, February 26

The Student Services Fee Advisory Board began its allocation of $2 million worth of funds to 15 of 29 student services fee project proposals on Monday evening.

Among the top funded pro-grams recommended for 2014 were the Veterans Education and Transition Ser-vices, the Dean of Students Of-fice Graduate and Professional Stud-ies Program, the Women’s Resource Center and Schol-arship Universe.

“We’ve been working really hard to do these pro-posals and review them,” said Arielle Allen, vice chair of the board. “They’re all great.”

However, the proposals for the allocation of funds for Daily Wildcat Jobs: Creation, Reten-tion, Transition and Ensur-ing an Extraordinary Student

Experience failed after members agreed that the proposal was not a proper use of student services fee money.

This year, the board had a new development to allow each pre-senter five minutes to discuss and share their proposal with the

board prior to the meeting, so board members could bet-ter understand the proposal, according to Allen.

The first item on the agenda was the Veterans Educa-tion and Transition Services proposal. The program pro-vides an important service to the UA Campus, according to Olukemi Oso, the secretary of the fee advisory board.

“As the current wars are ending we’ll be expecting to have an even higher number of vets on our campus, so it’s important that we have a vital space for them,” Oso said.

GUARD KEVIN PARROM EMERGING AS WILDCAT STAR

‘THE BOY WHO LIVED’ INSPIRES REAL-LIFE ACTIVISM

GOOGLE BRINGS MUSEUMS TO TIPS OF YOUR FINGERSAS WILDCAT STAR

SPORTS -7 OPINIONS - 4 ARTS - 12

ARIZONA DAILY WILDCATPrinting the news, sounding the alarm, and raising hell since 1899

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2013DAILYWILDCAT.COM VOLUME 106 • ISSUE 108

UAPD grant to increase officers

A recent grant to the University of Arizona Police Department could make impaired drivers think twice before getting behind the wheel.

Last week, UAPD announced that the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety awarded UAPD a $35,000 grant , enabling the department to deploy extra officers to combat im-paired drivers around the commu-nity .

“The grant’s going to allow us to put additional officers out to fo-cus on DUI violations,” said Joe Bermudez, a UAPD crime preven-tion officer . “And the number of offi-cers is going to be in addition to the normal number of officers.”

Bermudez said the grant wasn’t a result of increased incidents around campus, but rather funding the de-partment has received the last sev-eral years from the state. Events where extra officers will be stationed include home football games and other designated events in the com-munity until Dec. 31, according to a UAPD media release .

The Governor’s Office of Highway Safety department allots grants to agencies that apply for additional funding based on performance and need, according to Alberto Gutier, director of the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety .

While every agency spends the money differently, frequent-ly it’s expended toward overtime,

PAINT THE TOWN PINK

MAXWELL J MANGOLDArizona Daily Wildcat

Peace Corps volunteer re� ects on experience

When she was 22, Leah Iverson found herself living alone in a small,

rural village on the coast of El Salvador. This village was what she called home for the next 27 months of her life; Iverson had joined the Peace Corps .

Iverson said she had always known this was something that she wanted to do.

“I knew that I did not want to go directly into the workforce full time,” Iverson said. “I wanted an opportunity to go abroad, to learn another language, to be able to travel a little bit more while getting paid but also doing something significant.”

She applied for the Peace Corps in the fall of her senior year of college in 2005 and after graduating with a degree in anthropology and waiting almost a year to receive the paperwork and training, Iverson was finally given her assignment as a youth development volunteer.

“I actually had to Google where El Salvador was because I wasn’t sure where it was,” Iverson said. “I knew it was in Latin America but that was about it.”

Upon Iverson’s arrival to the small village of San Carlos Lempa , she quickly realized that she was the only Peace Corps volunteer for miles and her Spanish was not as solid as she had thought.

“I went down there pretty confidently. ‘Oh yeah, I’ll be able to speak the language, I’ll be able to understand what people say to me.’ Oh, no. It was totally a shock,” Iverson said. “My accent was so horrible. It was so Americanized

that I was speaking Spanish, like correct conjugations and verbs, but nobody understood a word that I said.”

After becoming more confident in her speaking abilities, Iverson started to focus on her goals for youth development. She began working in three different schools in the town and aided them in learning English and computer skills. In her free time, Iverson created a female soccer team for the young girls of the town as an opportunity for them to do something other than their routine of cooking and cleaning.

“I thought it would be a good

way to reduce the cattiness of these females in town because at that age, girls are fighting about boys, especially because the selection is kind of limited,” Iverson said.

With this goal in mind, Iverson went door-to-door asking girls’ parents if they could join the team. After receiving overwhelming support from the community, Iverson recruited a solid number of girls and immediately started practicing six days a week with games every Sunday.

Success, however, did not come easy to the team. The players

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LEAH IVERSON, A PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER, teaches English to high schoolers in El Salvador. Iverson spent 27 months in a rural village on the Salvadoran coast.

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At the end of the day, it’s up to the board essentially just to see what they think about a proposal, how they feel about it, and make a decision.

— Joel Hauff,Student

Services Fee Advisory Board adviser

Student fee board begins allocating $2 million in funds

ALISON DORFArizona Daily Wildcat

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STUDENTS FLAUNTED their favorite dance moves on Monday at a Pink Nation Dance Party in exchange for a surprise gift from Pink by Victoria’s Secret. The event was part of the Spring Break Campus Tour, which brings a goodie-filled Pink truck to five different college campus-es across the nation. The dance party provided an opportunity for students to show off their favorite moves for a video to be featured online that will look similar to a flipbook, with many still shots compiled together, according to Kayla Gideon, a manager for Victoria’s Secret at the Tucson Mall.

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UA students will showcase their yearlong research projects at the 26th annual Honors Research Expo on Wednesday .

After writing a project proposal last spring, select students were awarded grants, sponsored by the senior vice president for research and the UA Honors College, to fund their projects. Students from all majors were encouraged to create and conduct a research project of their own interest.

The program gives students the opportunity to see if they enjoy research before starting graduate school or their careers, according to Patricia MacCorquodale, the dean of the Honors College .

“Sometimes the projects will be successful and sometimes they won’t, but what’s most impor-tant is that the student gain that experience and that they’re real-ly interested in doing the work,” MacCorquodale said.

Students have complete au-tonomy with their projects, MacCorquodale added. Though they have a faculty member advis-ing them along the way, students are encouraged to think of solu-tions to problems they encounter on their own.

At the expo, presenters will speak with other students, includ-ing ones from high school, who have little knowledge of the topic and with graduate students and faculty who are experts on the

matter. The ability to convey the ideas about their research to dif-ferent audiences is another im-portant skill students hone dur-ing the process, MacCorquodale said.

“The variety of the students projects is also really impressive,” MacCorquodale said, “from stu-dents who are doing art history and music to students who are doing lab research, fieldwork and everything in between.”

Nathan Yee, a sophomore studying computer science and math , analyzed hundreds of JavaScript files to see if they were malicious and if so, how they af-fect the everyday user. Yee said he was inspired by a similar project he worked on last spring with pro-fessor Saumya Debray .

“I wanted to delve deeper into it and analyze the practical side of it. It was a very tedious process but well worth it.”

Despite that, Yee said the expe-rience reaffirmed his desire to go on to graduate school for a doc-torate in computer science.

“Research is a lot of fun but it’s difficult,” Yee said. “I was sur-prised by how many challenges and roadblocks I ran into. There were quite a few ups and downs, but I really enjoyed the whole process of research.”

Olivia Valencia, an art history sophomore , created a project that

examined how artists transition from one medium of art to anoth-er throughout their careers.

Valencia said she hopes peo-ple recognize the history behind a painting and how a piece of art can inspire future generations of artists.

“I hope people recognize that when they see works like the ‘Mona Lisa’ or the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, they recognize that there’s an incredible history behind it, not just in the artwork itself, but in the person who made it,” Valencia said.

MacCorquodale encourages any students with ideas to apply for the grant and write a proposal.

“The whole purpose of re-search is to discover new things and there’s lots of things that can be discovered in whatev-er field students are studying,” MacCorquodale said.

“One thing about the world in which we live is that the questions that we have lead to answers, and once we have those answers, we have a whole new set of ques-tions,” MacCorquodale said. “No matter what they’ve already learned, there’s more to know.”

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A UA club hopes to raise awareness here on campus and in the community about sex trafficking.

The new club, Half the Sky , was created last month and is named after a book and documentary of the same name, according to Briana Telford, the club president and marketing senior . The goal of the club is to raise money to help prevent sex trafficking and to raise awareness about the issue, according to Kim Gould, the club treasurer and psychology sophomore .

“It is not just a global problem. It’s in the United States, it’s in Tucson, it could be literally right next door to you,” Gould said. “So if you are willing to acknowledge the fact that it is in your community, it could be someone you know and not do anything about it that’s on you. You should want to do something about it.”

The club is already making plans to help the community. In March, Half the Sky will be training with Streetlight USA, formerly known as Sold No More , an organization that

has goals similar to the club, so that students can help educate local middle school and high school students on sex trafficking, Telford said.

The club also hopes to have a “percentage night” this semester to help raise money to fight against sex trafficking, according to Gould. Club members are working toward having a guest speaker from the organization Streetlight USA speak at one of their meetings as well.

Maggie Bellino, a founding member of the club and sociology senior , said she became concerned about human trafficking after attending a conference at the UA and because she has family friends doing work against trafficking in Indonesia.

This past summer, Bellino went to Indonesia and saw the effects of the sex trade and human trafficking.

“I got to speak with a lot of women who had been involved in the human trafficking business in Southeast Asia,” Bellino said.

“It just rips your heart out and so you have to do something about it once you learn this is going on, especially in Tucson, like a couple miles away from our campus, women are getting sold for slavery.”

The club is open to new ideas on how they can help raise awareness here in the community, according to Telford, who encourages people to share those ideas with the club.

“We are three people that are very passionate about making a change and we want to find other people who are just as passionate to making a change as we are,” Gould said. “Over time, I think that this is going to be a really great thing and we are going to do a lot of good.”

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BRIANA TELFORD, Half the Sky president and market-ing senior, hopes to help fight sex trafficking.

equipment and training, he added.“I don’t care if they have one DUI,” Gutier

said. “What I care [about] is that they go out there and try to protect everybody else.”

Tucson had 1,129 DUI incidents and non-accidents in 2012 , according to Tucson Police Department statistics, in addition to 141 inci-dents where personal injuries were suffered .

“Get a designated driver, get a taxi, walk home, but don’t get behind the wheel of a ve-hicle, because that’s very dangerous,” Gutier said.

Gutier added that highway safety began an initiative known as, “Drive Hammered, Get Nailed,” several years ago and that police keep an eye out for DUI drug-related incidents in addition to alcohol induced cases.

To detect this, officers look for atypical “driver behavior,” Bermudez said, such as swerving, erratic speeds, improper turns and failure to use turn signals, among others.

“‘Think before you drink.’ It’s a catchy little thing, but it’s true,” said Billie Smith, president of Designated Drivers Inc .

Smith’s company, which has locations around the country and drives customers home in their own vehicle, has provided more than 300,000 rides since opening in 1998 and plans to open in Tucson sometime this year , Smith said.

In the meantime, Smith said he believes added enforcement anywhere can curb drunk driving, since harsher punishments cause drunk drivers to think more before getting be-hind the wheel.

UAPD, which Gutier said does a “real great job” and is a “great police department,” stress-es the importance of the community’s drivers to “remain alert while driving, obey all traffic laws and to drink responsibly and legally.”

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The magical world of Harry Potter has been brought to life by a theme park,

edible goods, and collectible items. However, the company that produces the park’s Chocolate Frogs has come under fire by the Harry Potter Alliance after it received a failing grade in 47 of 48 categories from Free2Work.

The chocolate company, Behr, is based in Orlando, Fla., but gets its cocoa supply from West Africa. In the report, in a category about corporate policies, one of the questions is: “Code includes elimination of child labor?” and Free2Work answered with, “No.”

HPA has expressed concern about the use of child laborers and human rights by the company, and released an indepedent evaluation in 2010.

In the spring of 2011, the alliance presented the CEO of Warner Bros., Barry Meyer, with the report and 16,000 signatures from Harry Potter fans asking that the chocolate become fair trade.

Warner Bros. responded by saying it conducted a report and the cocoa met its “ethical guidelines.” However, Warner Bros. would not release the report to the HPA nor provide a reason.

Because of this, HPA created a movement called, “Not in Harry’s Name.” On a more local level, the UA’s chapter of HPA is doing its part in contributing to the movement.

Janae Phillips, president and co-founder of the UA’s HPA chapter, and a senior studying family studies and human development, said this is not just an issue of child labor but also a misrepresentation of the series.

“It’s bad enough to know that there are child slaves being used to produce chocolate, but its pretty terrible to know they are producing chocolate representing children’s books,” Phillips said.

Keeping in mind particular incidents from the books, such as Hermione defending the rights of house elves or Dobby’s enthusiasm about being paid to work, the use of child labor to produce Harry Potter memorabilia is completely baffling.

Warner Bros.’ failure to take responsibility is a direct show of indifference to the message J.K. Rowling offered her readers and a disregard of the reason fans

continue to love Harry Potter years after the final book was published.

After all, Harry Potter himself is the champion of the oppressed and a symbol of hope in the face of evil as “the boy who lived” and “the chosen one.” And somehow

Warner Bros. finds it appropriate to slap Harry Potter’s name on merchandise that is the direct product of child slave labor.

It comes down to one thing: American consumers are greedy. We have always been greedy and we will probably continue to be greedy for as long as possible. And while we all know it, what makes our materialistic lifestyle

affordable is our shameful ability to turn a blind eye to the cheap labor that is done outside of our own backyard.

What the HPA is attempting with the “Not in Harry’s Name” campaign is to force consumers to finally demonstrate some morality.

It is time to draw the line at allowing child slaves to produce the chocolate Warner Bros. is marketing to children of the same age worlds away.

The HPA’s goal now is to force Behr and Warner Bros. to prove in a report the steps they are taking to improve their Free2Work grade by using fair trade policies in the production of Chocolate Frogs.

Believe it or not, there are alternative routes to producing cocoa that don’t involve child slaves and are fair trade acceptable.

Harry Potter fans deserve the right to enjoy a Chocolate Frog, whether its for the taste, the character card, or to reminisce on the first time they picked up a Harry Potter book without worrying about what the chocolate really cost.

— Michelle Cook is a journalism senior. She can be reached at

[email protected], or on Twitter via @miniswag1.

Minimum wage raise good for the poor

NATHANIEL DRAKE

Arizona Daily Wildcat

Harry Potter’s chocolate should be child labor-free

It has been four years since the federal minimum wage last increased in 2009 as part of a

three-step process that was passed in 2007. Congress has barely touched the issue since, leaving low income families across the nation to struggle.

The only thought that went through my mind when President Barack Obama declared he wanted to raise the minimum wage to $9 an hour in his State of the Union address was “finally.”

The federal minimum wage currently sits at $7.25 an hour, earning a full-time, minimum wage worker about $14,500 per year. For a family of two, the poverty threshold was at $15,130 per year in 2012, so even with working 40 hours a week, the family would still be living in poverty. It’s an injustice that full-time workers should have to live in poverty in one of the world’s wealthiest nations, and it’s only further contributing to the income gap.

The bipartisan Congressional Budget Office looked at wages from 1979 to 2007 and found that wages for the top 1 percent of earners tripled, while wages for the bottom 20 percent of earners only increased by 18 percent after adjusting for inflation.

The land of equal opportunity isn’t looking so equal anymore.

Critics are concerned that such a sharp increase would shock businesses into laying off workers and would slow hiring, yet the president’s plan isn’t a sudden increase.

Under Obama’s proposal, the minimum wage would increase in a series of stages until it reaches $9 per hour in 2015. After that point, it would be indexed to inflation so that the minimum wage increases automatically each year at the same rate as inflation.

Given that Congress has again proven that it is unable to act in a timely manner, the automatic increases would be a welcome change — one that businesses can appropriately plan for.

Speaker of the House John Boehner spoke out against the plan, saying it will decrease overall employment but economics experts disagree.

Alan Krueger, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for Obama, studied how fast food companies who start workers at minimum wage adapt to an increase in the minimum wage. He found that these companies can only raise the price of their food by 3 percent, which is hardly a noticeable difference to the average consumer, to cover the higher wages. The result is more spending money in the economy — because lower wage earners tend to spend nearly all of their paychecks — not decreased employment.

Businesses may actually benefit from an increased minimum wage. Many companies may want to raise workers’ wages but are hesitant to do so because the competition will have a lower cost of labor. But if all businesses have to increase wages, then it’s no longer a problem.

Worker turnover, which causes inefficiencies, will also decrease if minimum wage is higher.

When it comes down to it, raising the minimum wage isn’t a left or a right issue, it’s an issue of humanity and necessity. White House officials estimate that 15 million workers would benefit from this increase which is enough to help spur economic growth and bring full-time workers above the poverty line.

— Nathaniel Drake is a sophomore studying political

science and communications. He can be reached at

[email protected] or Twitter via @WildcatOpinions.

MICHELLE COOKArizona Daily Wildcat

In response to “Congress must pass timely, mass immigration reform” (by Nathaniel Drake, Feb. 19):

You cannot make a pathway to citizenship without securing the borders first.

Just as giving away free government cellphones leads to fraud, free citizenship to anyone that can jump a fence or suffer in a shipping crate will lead to millions of immigrants flooding the borders and expanding the population. Our system would need to be expanded on a massive scale and would not be able to catch up for generations.

— Brian

I hope everybody in the vital positions to pass the immigration reform, unite as “one positive dedicated group” and succeed. Everybody who are wise and also the beneficiaries, will surely give credits to all of you, no matter which party you belong.

— April D.

In response to “Police, lawyers give advice on how to act in DUI, MIP situations” (by Alison Dorf, Feb. 22):

There was no indication that Adam was under 21 or over the limit. Yet he was charged with a DUI and it took him $10,000 to fix it.

I would say it’s important to know what to do in these situations even if you are responsible enough to adhere to the law entirely.

— Daniel HarmsI’m not saying that we should hang people out to dry and not tell

them what to do if they’re dumb enough to get into the situation. I’m just upset that it’s enough of a problem that this article is necessary.

Why are people so obsessed with getting drunk? What possible life benefit does it have?

Let’s see them spend their nights drinking and pissing their lives away when they’re living on their own and not living on mom and dad’s dime.

— Kevin Wos (in response to Daniel Harms)

I am a student and I rarely drink, but sometimes I do enjoy a glass of wine with dinner. Knowing how to handle myself if I am unjustly given a DUI if I were to get pulled over after that one glass of wine is knowledge I want to have.

With that being said, if you’re regularly driving around piss drunk this information won’t help you because you are guilty. And the last part of the article states that you just shouldn’t be drinking underage in the first place as it’s illegal, as well as the importance of being polite to law enforcement.

I really don’t read this as a cheat sheet for getting away with drunk driving. People do get screwed with getting DUIs when they weren’t even truly impaired. We as students/people should know the basics of this legal stuff.

— h

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It comes down to one thing: American consumers are greedy. We have always been greedy.

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The program, which initially proposed an allocation of $343,700 for three years, was given funding for two years. The program will be given $123,200 for the first year and $109,500 for the second.

The Dean of Students Office Graduate and Professional Stud-ies Program was recommended for $207,900 for two years.

The Women’s Resource Center was recommended

$150,000 for two years and the Scholarship Universe program was recommended for $209,200 for two years.

“Scholarships did rank high on our survey so it’s good to make sure that we’re support-ing proposals that are reaching as many as students as pos-sible,” said Jeffrey Rightnowar, marketing director of the board.

Other approved proposals were The Common Ground Alliance Project, approved for $88,700 for one year, The Prodigy Program, recommended for $98,600 for one year, the GPSC

Grants Program which was recommended for $162,000 for one year, and the Pathway to Academic Student Success Probation Program, also recommended for one year for the amount of $251,900.

“At the end of the day it’s up to the board essentially just to see what they think about a proposal, how they feel about it, and make a decision … as to whether they choose to fund it or not,” said Joel Hauff, interim director of Arizona Student Unions and adviser to the board.

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did not play well together and many of the girls could not afford cleats or shin guards.

Nevertheless, within a couple of months, the team began to mesh and started winning local tournaments, earning them free equipment and cash prizes. Iverson’s team lasted long after her Peace Corps tour ended and is still successfully playing to this day.

“That was a really fun thing where you don’t even feel like you’re working,” Iverson said. “Yes, you’re making a difference. You’re helping out but truly it was just an opportunity for something to happen in the community.”

While playing with her soccer team, Iverson also became involved in the local women’s group. The group consisted of almost 75 women and Iverson helped them create sustainable fundraising activities.

She helped organize a garage sale, which raised an estimated $115 and created a plastic bottle recycling program that earned the women’s group $110.

“I grew a lot. I left being really patient, really mature and really worldly. I completely feel like I’m a part of Salvadoran culture,” Iverson said.

Upon returning to the U.S., Iverson decided to go back to school and seek her graduate degree. She is currently studying public health and is a member of the UA’s

Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows program.The UA’s Peace Corps fellowship

program is one of the top in the nation and offers returning Peace Corps volunteers a full tuition scholarship in return for a commitment to serve the local community through service projects and internships.

“It gives the students the opportunity to take what they’re learning in the classroom and apply that in the community setting,” said Georgia Ehlers, director of Fellowships and Community Engagement in the Coverdell program.

Iverson will join the rest of her fellows this week in celebrating national Peace Corps Week, which started Feb. 24 and will

end March 2. There will be several

events occurring around campus, including the Peace Corps Fair today from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Student Union Memorial Center, the International Development Mixer on Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., also in the Student Union and finally two back-to-back lectures Thursday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Student Union,

featuring Peace Corps Chief of Staff Stacy Rhodes.

“I’m very excited about returning to Tucson to help recruit Peace Corps volunteers at the University of Arizona,” Rhodes said. ”I have a strong emotional attachment to the school and to the town. It is my home and where I grew up. I am very anxious to encourage young people from Tucson and students at the university to do this kind of service.”

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Police Beat is compiled from offi cial University of Arizona Police Department reports. A complete list of UAPD activity can be found at www.uapd.arizona.edu.

POLICE BEATMAXWELL J. MANGOLD

Arizona Daily Wildcat

Tuesday, February 26, 20136 •

Slipped his mindA UA student was criminally cited and released for possession

of marijuana and drug paraphernalia after being stopped with 19.3 grams of marijuana at 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 21.

University of Arizona Police Department officers were monitoring traffic when they witnessed a man on a black BMX bike cross lanes and fail to stop at a stop sign near Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall. An officer stopped him on the north side of Coronado Residence Hall.

The man, who was acting “unusual and jittery,” said he was in a hurry to take an online test. An inspection of the man’s bike showed there were no front or rear brakes and the man was “nervously puffing on a cigarette.”

The student consented to a possessions search and said only school supplies were present in his bag before the officer pulled out a “red, plastic, airtight cylinder containing a digital scale and 19.3 grams (of) marijuana inside a sandwich baggie,” according to the police report.

The suspect’s demeanor changed and his “spirit seemed deflated” before he said, “I forgot that was in there.”

The man informed UAPD he worked at the Student Union Memorial Center and earns $200 a week, which he then spends on marijuana.

He refused to tell police where he got the marijuana from and insisted it was all for personal use. He was civilly cited for failure to stop at a stop sign and no bicycle brakes, in addition to criminal charges for possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

Laptop larcenyUAPD officers went to McClelland Hall after a reported laptop

theft on Feb. 21.When police arrived they spoke with the laptop owner,

who was “very animated and frustrated.” He said the incident occurred between 5 p.m. and 6:40 p.m.

The student had placed his laptop into his backpack before going to Wilko to get dinner. He then went to the Main Library at 6:15 p.m. which was where, shortly afterward, he noticed the missing laptop, he said.

The student told police he was “90 percent sure” he lost his MacBook Pro at the library. Officers told him to retrace his steps.

Later that night, the man contacted UAPD requesting video footage of the library, which they told him they would not provide. He then became frustrated and said he wanted UAPD to find his laptop, which he valued at $1,500.

The subject gave police the serial number to his computer and UAPD gave him a case number and contact information.

Grab and goA man near Highland Market was seen leaving a fenced area

with a tire at 6:03 a.m. on Feb. 21.A woman, who reported the incident, told police she was

walking down First Street, when the man riding his bike asked her if she knew how to fix bikes. When she replied “no,” the man then asked if she had any spare money, to which she responded “no,” before proceeding toward Highland Market.

The man, who the woman described as “weird,” was a Caucasian male in his 50s, wearing a baseball cap and a navy jacket. She said she kept walking but observed the man walk into a fenced bicycle area, before walking away with his bike and a tire.

She then called police and went to the fenced area to find a silver Mongoose bike unlocked, with its front tire missing.

Police responded to the scene and recorded the serial number of the bike, but no cut locks or cables were found in the area. Police were unable to locate the suspect and could not locate the owner of the bike.

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February 26Wildcat CalendarCampus Events Campus Events Campus EventsCampus Events

Peace Corps Fair Questions answered, stories told, lives changed ... pass it on. More than 100 returned Peace Corps volunteers will share their experiences of living and working abroad. Experi-ence the vivid sights, sounds and colors of Peace Corps experience around the world. Peace Corps recruiters will be available to discuss applying to U.S. Peace Corps, and the work that volunteers do in education, health, environment, business, IT, agriculture, food security and youth development. Tucson-area nonprofi t organizations where Peace Corps Coverdell Fellows serve also will be on hand to recruit volunteers for local opportunities. A brief program will be held at 5 p.m. with U.S. Peace Corps Chief of Staff Stacy Rhodes. February 26, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Student Union Memorial Center North Ballroom US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to Hear Argument at UA Law The United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces will hear oral argument at the James E. Rogers College of Law. Information regarding event registration and procedures will be made available on our website (www.law.arizona.edu) prior to the event. Seating in the Ares Auditorium is limited. Priority seating is available for students and attorneys appearing before the court. Remaining seats will be available on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served basis. Photo identifi cation is required for those who are attending. Sergeant Bruce L. Kelly is appealing his court-martial conviction for possession of child

pornography. Case materials are available at: www.armfor.uscourts.gov. Following the argument, the judges will be available to answer general ques-tions from audience members. While judges are prohibited from answering questions about pending cases, they can discuss court operations and the decision-making process. The panel will consist of fi ve judges. February 26, 9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m. James E. Rogers College of Law, 1201 E Speedway Blvd. Professional Development Seminar - ‘Federal Job Search and Application Process’: The U.S. Federal Government can be a rich source of career experience no matter what your fi eld of interest or major. Many students are missing out on internship and job openings that might be a perfect match for their skills and interests. Learn about government jobs and how to navigate the federal applications process. Feb. 26, noon – 1pm. Student Union Memorial Center, Room 411UApresents: UA Dance - ‘Premium Blend’: Uni-versity of Arizona Dance Ensemble presents an appetizing menu of choreography by award-winning UA Dance faculty, including Douglas Nielsen’s scintillating tribute to the Rat Pack. George Bal-anchine’s three-part, evening-long ballet, “Jewels”, is one of the jewels of his output. The UA’s School of Dance is honored as only the third university dance program to be permitted to perform this work. Amy Ernst, James Clouser, Michael Wil-liams and Sam Watson will also be presenting.

All performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $29. Stevie Eller Dance Theatre. Upper Division Writing Workshop: ‘Introduc-tions and Conclusions’ Joe Stefani of the Writing Skills Improvement Program will discuss “Intro-ductions and Conclusions.” This lecture is part of a semester-long series of free workshops held every Tuesday. February 26, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.Social Sciences, Room 206 The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith, 1957-1965: This exhibition of photographs and audio recordings chronicles an extraordinary chapter in American jazz history and the climate in which it occurred. From 1957 to 1965, famed photographer W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) documented the late-night soirees inside a dilapidated New York City loft where some of the jazz world’s greatest legends (Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk, to name a few) casually performed and mingled with the likes of Norman Mailer, Salvador Dali, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and crowds full of colorful underground characters. Ongoing until Mar. 10. Center for Creative Photography. Exhibit - ‘Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race’: Is an exhibit created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will be on display at the Arizona Health Sciences Library. “Deadly Medicine” examines how the Nazi leadership, in

collaboration with individuals in professions tradition-ally charged with healing and the public good, used science to help legitimize persecution, murder and, ultimately, genocide. All day long. Arizona Health Sciences Library. Free.

Tucson:DeGrazia Way of the Cross Exhibition The an-nual showing of American painter Ted DeGrazia’s The Way of the Cross is on display through Lent with 15 original oil paintings the depict the suffer-ing and crucifi xion of Christ at Gallery in the Sun. Instead of the traditional 14 Stations of the Cross, DeGrazia’s collection culminates with the resur-rection. 6300 N. Swan Road, DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun , From 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM daily. Free. Donations accepted.San Xavier Mission Guided Tours Docents lead 45-minute tours of Mission San Xavier del Bac, the National Historic Landmark, Monday - Saturday, and explain the mission’s rich history and ornate interior. 1950 W. San Xavier Road. Monday-Saturday .Butterfl y Magic at the Garden: Tucson Botanical Gardens presents a live tropical butterfl y exhibit. View colorful butterfl ies fl uttering in a special green-house and help support global efforts for sustain-able conservation. Feb. 26, 9:30 am – 3pm. 2150 N. Alvernon Way.

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All Day Starbucks Sampling! Watch for free samples in the SUMC Canyon, between U-Mart and the BookStore.

10-2p Meet Vector Marketing. Stop by the mall to see what’s going on with Vector Marketing! UA Mall Table, SUMC, $FREE

4-5:30p LGBTQA Support Group. Here you’ll find a safe space for UA students to talk in an open and supportive environment about issues impacting their lives and the LGBTQ and Allied community. Rm 412, SUMC 4th fl, $FREE

10-11p The Charles Darwin Experience. The UA’s only all improv comedy group performs every Tuesday night in the Gallagher Theater at 10:10 pm. It’s an hour show and completely FREE. So take a break from your mundane lives and enjoy the hilarity! Gallagher Theater, SUMC, $FREE

Tomorrow 2.27.135:30-7p Press Play Wednesday: Slendeur. From Austin, Texas,

will be taking the stage and sticking around after to chat with fans! North Plaza, SUMC, $FREE

5-6p Peace Corps Information Session. Room 411, SUMC, $FREE

6p-10p Texas Hold ’em Poker Tournament. Know when to Hold ’em and when to Fold ’em? Play regularly to qualify for the championship tournament twice a semester, where excellent prizes are awarded. SUMC, Games Room, $5

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Hey Wildcats!

Miss me? While I was traipsing about the eastern part of the United States, you poor souls were left in Tucson. Jealous much? You should be. While you Wildcats were complaining about the “snow”, and huddled inside the Union for coffee (okay, body) warmth, I was in sunny 60°F weather. Not a rain or snow cloud in sight.

You might be wondering why I put snow in quotation marks. Let me give you a simple definition of snow: frozen precipitation in the form of white or translucent hexagonal ice crystals that fall in soft, white flakes. Snow must remain in this form when the flakes hit the ground. A.K.A. IT DID NOT SNOW IN TUCSON. Cold rain? Yes. Slush? Yes. Snow? NO!

If you want to experience snow, take a trip up to Mount Lemmon and tell me how different you feel. Is your world crashing down on you because you realized you didn’t experience your first snowfall? Good! I like it that way.

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Parrom a bright spot for UA

The story of Arizona’s senior guard Kevin Par-rom has been told countless times. From the tragic passing of his mother and grandmother, to the gunshot wound and broken bone that de-railed his junior season to his emergence as the Wildcats’ star sixth-man and recent inclusion in the starting lineup.

But, in Arizona’s 73-56 win against Washing-ton State Saturday, Parrom was given a name he’s rarely received through-out his four years in Tucson — the game’s best player.

“I’m really proud of Kevin Parrom’s effort in the sec-ond half,” head coach Sean Miller said. “We really need-ed him to step up and make some shots and he did. We wouldn’t have won with-out him. He played a great game.”

In a game where Miller found little to be posi-tive about, Parrom was one of the few bright spots in the Wildcats’ ugly win. He scored a sea-son-high 19 points (6-for-7 from the field), led the game with seven rebounds and played solid defense in his 33 minutes of action.

Where he really made a name for himself, though, was as a run killer. Parrom made a layup to end the Cougars 10-0 rally in the second half and later hit three-straight threes as WSU con-tinued to make its comeback. Parrom’s clutch ability not only impressed Miller but showed

just how valuable the senior can be when the Wildcats face zone defenses throughout the re-mainder of the season.

“In those moments where we really tight-ened up, I looked out there and didn’t see any-one who really wanted to shoot the ball,” Miller said. “He did. And he made some big shots.”

Zone defenses have been the Achilles’ heel for Arizona all season long, as they often stag-nate the UA offense and force the Wildcats to play in the half-court. For a team that leads the Pac-12 in three-point percentage (36.2), the zone shouldn’t be such a detriment.

Yet, it has been. When the Wildcat offense stalls this season, more often than not it’s been from another team switching to a zone defense.

Miller felt some of the players were scared of the zone Saturday. Guys were passing up open

looks and played tentatively when they caught the ball with room.

Not Parrom. Even with how off his shot has been of late.

Parrom missed his last five three-point attempts before he sunk the Wildcats’ first two shots from deep against Wash-ington State. It wasn’t just a few cold games, either, as Arizona’s

designated sharp-shooter made just 10 of his 39 (25.6 percent) three-point attempts in Pac-12 play before Saturday.

Considering he sunk 48.1 percent of his deep balls during nonconference play, Parrom had all the reason in the world to doubt his scoring touch. Instead, the senior stayed patient.

“I was happy the first one went in because I can’t remember when I last made a three,” Par-rom said. “Once the first one went, I knew it was going to be a good night for me.”

Miller described Parrom as an unquestion-ably confident. Since the Wildcats seem to

crumble when opponents switch to a zone defense, Parrom’s coolness from deep — even when his shooting touch is cold — will be cru-cial in March.

“It’s up to us to get him good shots; it’s up to him to take good shots,” Miller said. “And when he does, we just know that eventually that

percentage will come up.”“I think he’d be the first one to tell you the per-

centage that he shot in Pac-12 play isn’t reflec-tive of who he is as a shooter.”

Parrom isn’t Arizona’s best player, and as his

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SENIOR FORWARD Kevin Parrom (No. 3) scored 19 points in Saturday’s 73-56 win against Washington State. After shining in the sixth-man role for the Wildcats this season, Parrom has been inserted into the starting lineup as of late.

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Sean Miller landsfour-star guard

Arizona doesn’t really have a “true” point guard on its roster this season, as Mark Lyons is more of a combo guard. But in receiving a verbal commitment from four-star point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright on Sunday, head coach Sean Miller is making sure the Wildcats are set at the one for the foreseeable future.

Duquesne trans-fer point guard T.J. McConnell, a junior, will be eligible start-ing next season.

J a c k s o n - C a r t -wright, from Los Angeles, is short in stature at 5-foot-8, 150-pounds, but Dave Telep, ESPN’s senior recruiting analyst, said he doesn’t think his size is much of an issue.

“The only way the height is a negative is if a head coach is uncomfortable with playing small guards,” Telep told the Arizona Daily Wildcat. “Sean Miller’s brother is Archie Miller, and Parker Jackson-Cartwright might be taller than Archie Miller. So clearly Sean’s comfortable with that and when you’re 5’8” you know you have to compensate, and I think Parker has done that with his ability to deliver the ball and put it in the right place.”

Jackson-Cartwright is ranked the 30th-best 2014 recruit by ESPN, and its 7th-best point guard. He has averaged 13.6 points, 7.9 assists, 4.4 rebounds and 2.6 steals per game for Loyola High School this season.

“He steadies the ship,” Telep said. “Above anything else, he is an exceptionally trustworthy kid. You

hand him the basketball and he’s going to run his team for you. When you’re his size, you better be a tough guy, and he’s a tough kid. He’s going to earn your respect.”

Telep said he believes Jackson-Cartwright needs to work on his perimeter game and to “add a floater” because at his size, it will be difficult to get to the basket.

“You gotta knock down shots at that size,” Telep said. “And if you can

get in the lane you’re not going to be able to get all the way to the rim. So, how are you going score? You need a floater.”

Arizona beat out UCLA and Gonzaga for Jackson-Cartwright’s services.

Telep has ‘no clue’ which way Aaron Gordon is leaning

Arizona is still in the running for one of 2013’s top recruits in Aaron Gordon, ranked the fourth-best recruit in his class by ESPN and its second-best power forward.

For a while, the Wildcats were on a list of three teams in the running for Gordon’s services — Washington and Kentucky as the other two — but at the beginning of the month he added Oregon to the list.

“I don’t think anybody really has a great feel,” Telep said. “The Oregon thing really threw a curve ball. I do this enough to know that when Aaron Gordon decides to announce, probably all the schools involved in his recruitment will be just as interested and watching the television as the average fan.”

UA yearns for consistency

Head coach Sean Miller wasn’t happy.The Arizona men’s basketball team defeated

Washington State 73-56 on Saturday, but Miller still wasn’t happy.

The Wildcats are 23-4 overall and tied with Oregon for first place in the Pac-12 at 11-4, but Miller isn’t fond of the recent second half effort from Arizona’s defense.

“You can’t be good for half the game or most of the game,” Miller said Monday. “We’re trying to be really good the entire game. With that takes exceptional effort and concentration. We can’t even take one play off. That’s when we can all feel like we have a chance to compete for something extraordinary, whether it be inside our conference or beyond.”

In the second half of Saturday’s game, the Cougars shot 52.2 percent from the field and Arizona only outscored them 38-37 after holding a 16-point advantage in the first half.

A big part of that has been foul trouble, and freshman forward Brandon Ashley is the biggest culprit. Against the Cougars, Ashley fouled out in 16 minutes of action. It’s the third time he has fouled out this season, and all three occurred within the last seven games. Overall he gets 2.8 fouls per game and has had three or more fouls (meaning foul trouble) 17 times.

During the Washington State game, freshman bigs Kaleb Tarczewski and Grant Jerrett had two and three fouls, respectively.

“I know Brandon had a lot of fouls in a quick period of time,” Miller said. “That’s to be expected by a young guy that doesn’t have a lot of experience.”

Miller, though, said he blames the second half lag in defense on effort. He also said the blame doesn’t fall on the freshmen.

“Our freshmen aren’t the problem on defense,” Miller said. “Picking and choosing effort, I would put the other guys in that category … We’re not talented enough. We don’t have enough offensive firepower to really finish this season off like we want to, unless we’re a great defensive team.”

Still, Miller said he believes this year’s squad is better defensively than any team in his four years as the UA head coach.

The Wildcats are second in the Pac-12 in scoring defense, fifth in field goal percentage defense and fourth in steals. But they are last in the Pac-12 in

three-point defense.

Williams brings T-Wolves teammates to Tucson

Former Wildcats star Derrick Williams made an appearance Monday night at a new Tucson clothing store he co-owns.

The store, called VII Grand Premium Streetwear and Sneakers, opened Feb. 15 in downtown Tucson.

Williams, along with his Minnesota Timberwolves teammates Ricky Rubio, J.J. Barea and Greg Stiemsma signed autographs and posed for photos with fans.

“I’ve always wanted to open up a store,” Williams told the Daily Widcat. “It really hits home, especially coming back to Tucson where fans really took me in. I love it out here. The fans are always great, even when I did leave, they’ve always been great. It was a great turn-out today.”

Miller, who coached Williams for two years before he was selected second overall in the 2011 NBA

Baseball continues 18-game home standNo. 10 Arizona (7-1) will continue its season-long 18-

game home stand with a two game mid-week series with Utah Valley (3-4), which starts Tuesday night at Hi Corbett Field. The Wildcats are fresh off a three-game home sweep of San Jose State where they out scored the Spartans 32-15 overall.

“I thought we competed really well,” head coach Andy Lopez said. “A lot better than we did against Long Beach State.”

The Wildcats, as a team, were zoned in at the plate against San Jose but sophomore second baseman, Trent Gilbert, led the way. Gilbert went 7-12 in the weekend se-ries as the number five hitter in the Arizona batting order. The Wildcats will need Gilbert to stay productive through-out the season in order to help protect the heart of the bat-ting order that is starting to take shape with Johnny Field and Brandon Dixon.

“I’ve been getting some balls to drop in so I feel really good at the plate and in the field right now,” Gilbert said. “That just continues to build confidence, which hopefully

will carry on through the season.”Gilbert was one of only two freshmen to start a majority

of Arizona’s game’s last season and showed up big in the championship game of the College World Series. In the fi-

nal game, Gilbert went 2-4 at the plate and drove in three of Arizona’s four runs to secure the national championship.

As for Utah Valley, Lopez said he never looks at the scouting report for the upcoming opponents until the day of the game, but expects Utah Valley to be just as competi-tive as any other team.

The Wolverines are off to a sub-par start but won their most recent series against Portland. Utah Valley is 0-1 so far this season versus the Pac-12 conference. The Wolver-ines lost 5-2 to No. 6 Oregon State on Feb. 15 in the Palm Springs Tournament. Utah Valley enters the two-game se-ries with the Wildcats with a team batting average of .243 and a team-earned run average of 4.28.

Lopez has still not decided who will pitch on Tuesday for Arizona. Senior Nick Cunningham started last Tuesday’s game against Long Beach State but has been suffering from a concussion. Lopez says if Cunningham can get cleared by doctors and is healthy by Tuesday’s 6 p.m. start time, then he will get the start. Sophomore Tyler Crawford started the Wildcats’ Wednesday game last week and is scheduled to

pitch game two of their series against the Wolverines. He is on stand by to pitch Tuesday if Cunningham is still unable.

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JUNIOR GUARD Jordin Mayes has only made two of his 18 3-pointers in Pac-12 play and has only averaged 1.2 points per game.

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freshMan KeVin neWMan awaits the ball in a game against San Jose State this weekend. The Wildcats host Utah Valley for a two-game series starting today.

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Sixth-man’s ‘great game’ against Cougars cements him in starting lineup

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We wouldn’t have won the game without [Parrom]. He played a great game.

— Sean Miller,

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Above anything else, he is an exceptionally trustworthy kid.

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Sports • Tuesday, February 26, 20138 • Arizona Daily Wildcat

Wildcat hockey enjoyed a long list of milestones in its second season

but it was tainted by missing the national tournament and the 32 game winless streak against ASU.

What happenedArizona faced arguably its

toughest schedule ever, after years of mostly playing Division II and III teams.

Arizona won 15, its most since 2007-08. Seven of those were top 10 wins, its most since 1997-98, earning its first road sweep of an out-of-state team since 2000-01 and swept two top 10 opponents for the first time since 2005-06.

“We are light years ahead of where we were two years ago,” second-year head coach Sean Ho-gan said. “We’re light years ahead of where we were last year.”

The UA won eight games against Division I teams, the most since 2007-08 and won all its games against lower division teams for the first time since 2006-07.

Arizona played 30 games against ranked teams, the most in school history and the third hardest schedule in the nation, the UA’s highest ever.

The Wildcats only won three games in the spring semester and went 0-7-1 against ASU, which they haven’t beaten since 2008-09.

Arizona blew three-goal leads

against No. 2 ASU and No. 10 Liberty and two two-goal leads against No. 3 Minot State in Janu-ary and February leading voters to pick a team with an inferior resume, Rutgers, for the last spot in the 20 team national tourney over the UA.

This season Arizona also wel-comed its first recruiting class.

Highlight reelArizona won three games in a

row against top 10 teams in No-vember, sweeping No. 8 Oakland at home and beating No. 6 Oklahoma on the road.

Five days after beating Oakland

4-3 twice, the UA traveled to Okla-homa and beat the Sooners 3-1, despite leaving Tucson at 3 a.m. the day of the game.

Low pointRight before the first semester

ended, fan favorite and senior goalie David Herman was dis-missed for the team.

As Arizona struggled to get wins during the second semester, they played musical chairs with the goalies, playing all three remaining net minders and a senior would surely have helped them get a win or two to get to nationals or end the hellish streak.

MVPAny one of the big three of

junior forward Andrew Murmes (48 points), junior forward Ansel Ivens-Anderson (46 points), or senior forward Brian Slugocki (45 points) could be the MVP. Freshman defenseman Bryan Drazner was fourth in scoring with 19.

Slugocki, the captain, gets the nod though, because he was sec-ond in the nation in power play goals, earned three hat tricks, two against top 10 teams and led the team in goals.

Outlook for next yearArmed with a second recruit-

ing class that Hogan said he is already excited about, Arizona should end the Sun Devil streak and make the playoffs next year.

They lose four seniors, most notably Slugocki and sopho-more goalie Bob Schultz (3-9), the starter to close the season, who is going to pharmacy school. Sixteen of the top 19 scorers will return. “It’s exponentially growing,”

Drazner said. “We got a lot of good young guys here, a lot of good older guys that are going to lead the way.

“Losing these four guys from this senior class is going to hurt real bad, all four of them were big lead-ers that will be hard to replace but we’re building and that’s the goal.”

Newcomers made up seven of the top 13 scorers for the UA.

— James Kelley is a history se-nior. He can be reached at

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ANDREW MURMES HAD the most points on the Wildcats this season, with 48. The UA missed a chance to compete in the postseason tournament after a 15-22-1 season.

parrom from page 7

career winds down, there’s a chance he’ll never have a game at that same level. Only one other time has he played so well (in 2010), hitting 8-of-9 against Oregon on way to a career-high 20 points.

But opponents are surely going to implement the zone again. If Par-rom can keep shooting like that, the dreaded defense will no longer be an issue.

Lyons feeling under the weather

The Cougars must be creating some butterflies in the stomachs of the Arizona backcourt because for the second time this season, an Ari-zona guard (this time senior Mark Lyons) played under the weather with a stomach flu he picked up be-fore the game.

Lyons’ ailment wasn’t quite as bad as the virus Nick Johnson had be-fore the Washington State game in Pullman, Wash., but the senior still played at less than 100 percent Satur-day, Miller said.

“Early on he subbed himself out,” Miller said. “One time, we had four guys on the court because Lyons was sick, but we figured it out.”

With Lyons on the bench, Miller gave lesser-used guards Jordin Mayes and Gabe York playing time in the early minutes of the first half. Eventually, Lyons fought through the illness and tied Parrom for the most minutes (33) in the game for the UA.

Lyons scored 14 points on 5-for-11 shooting, but was reduced to more perimeter looks (eight three point attempts) as the fatigue kept him out of the lane. He had four assists to just one turnover and stole the ball three times as well.

Draft, said he wasn’t sure if he and Williams would run into each other at all while he was in town.

“We’d love to see him,” Miller said. “I don’t know if I’ll see him in Tucson. He’ll actually be in L.A. when we’re there as well, but obviously his number one priority is the Timberwolves. I don’t know if our paths will cross. I know he talked about maybe having the opportunity to maybe come to our USC game.”

Williams led the Wildcats to the Elite

Eight in 2010-11, and is currently in his second season with the Timberwolves, where he is getting 10.3 points and 5.2 rebounds per game this season.

Arizona moves up in AP pollFollowing two straight losses to California

and Colorado, the Wildcats fell out of the Top 10 in the AP Top 25 poll last week to No. 12.

After sweeping the Washington series for the second time this season, the Wildcats moved back up to No. 11.

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Freshman center Kaleb Tarczewski had 12 points and six rebounds in Saturday’s win over Washington State. The Wildcats face a more daunting task this week, as they play at USC on Wednesday and at UCLA on Saturday.

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Spoiler alert! Unlike Santa Claus, alcohol does exist.Therefore it is. But, why does it exist?

With any existential quandary, we accept that the most importantconsideration is that we are individuals, independently acting and responsible conscious beings, who create our own values and determine meaning to our own individual lives.

According to the philosopher Sartre, in existentialism, theindividual’s starting point is characterized by “the existentialattitude,” or a sense of disorientation and confusion in the face of an apparently absurd world. Sounds a little like college life.

Sartre proposed that each individual – not society or religion – is solely responsible for giving meaning to life and living it passionately.

So, if it is the individual that defines alcohol, then perhaps it isimportant to understand the reasons why an individual imbibes in alcohol. We went to the source and asked some UA studentswhy they like to drink.

Their reasons for finding meaning in consuming alcohol were the following: alcohol acts as a social lubricant, tastes good,facilitates relaxation, provides a buzz, decreases social stress,makes other people more interesting, is fun, and increasesconfidence. All are fairly positive reasons.

However, they also reported occasional concurrent effects ofalcohol that were the opposite of why they chose to drink such as feeling ill, regrets, getting into trouble, STDs, injuries, drunktexting, vomiting, blackouts, and alcohol poisoning.

Interestingly, the difference between experiencing why anindividual actively chooses to drink, and the unfortunate negativeexperiences that may occur, turns out to be a factor of a smallspecific range of blood alcohol concentration (BAC). If anindividual keeps their BAC at .05 or below, they succeed inexperiencing their own positive meaning as to why alcohol exists for them. Go beyond a .05 BAC and the meaning of alcoholbecomes sketchy. So safely discover why alcohol exists for you and how many standard drinks you can consume to remain at, or below, a .05 BAC.

Existential question answered. On other hand, maybe alcohol exists just as the byproduct ofcombining sugar with yeast.

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If you were to stand inches away from the surface of Van Gogh’s Le Berceuse at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston , you would see the thick masterful strokes and the deep opulent colors, which look as though it

has never quite dried. The viewer’s longing to touch the painting is almost overwhelming, just to assure that the painting is in fact solid.

This is a downside to Google’s Art Project : the moment when you remember you are in front of a computer screen.

Introduced in February 2011 by founder Amit Sood in London , the Google Art Project allows viewers online accessibility to artworks in major museums across the globe . Digitizing paintings, sketches, archaeological artifacts and major collections worldwide, the progressive site is a virtual database for high quality museum tours.

Equipping the same technology used for Google Street View , the project allows viewers to immerse themselves in high resolution replications of more than 30,000 pieces of art . The database is extensive, explorative and educational.

Gizmodo, a tech publication , said that the 7-billion pixel resolution of the converted artworks offers viewers an optimal experience compared to viewing an artwork in person.

It does not, however, offer the visceral and physical sense of a piece. Criticisms of the Art Project emphasize the immaterial quality that digital art

is invoking online. Removing the viewer from the museum setting possibly disengages the person from an immersion into an active art experience.

The Google Art Project’s intention is to “preserve and promote culture online.” It is, in a sense, quite possibly the frontier of expanding art culture in its accessibility and medium. Before the Art Project’s release, museums had remained relatively unscathed by the evolving online social culture, insular in their institutional identity.

However, since its re-launch in the past year, Art Project has amassed works from 151 acclaimed art partners , providing partial and entire tours of museums in more than 40 countries . What was initially an incomprehensive collection of art from 17 international museums has expanded exponentially in three years.

Questions remain as to whether this innovative online museum exploration will transcend modern institutional values.

Comprehensive information pertaining to each artwork is provided on the website and is similar to the description of a painting that you could read in a museum. The website has been designed to allow users a mock museum experience, with the technology to create a user profile and curate one’s own collection of work. It has essentially transformed an archaic entertainment and cultural facet into an interactive, social medium.

A virtual nirvana for art enthusiasts, students and art novices, the project houses the world’s greatest work for cohesive viewing. No longer is art an exclusive experience for the affluent museum buff. Finally, Claude Monet’s The Water Lilies — Morning at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris is available for high quality viewing from the screen of a laptop.

— Audrey Molloy is a journalism junior. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter via @WildcatArts.

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