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The UA is seeking solutions to the problem of doctor shortages in the state of Arizona by expand-ing its graduate medical education programs.

According to a 2013 report from the Association of American Medical Colleges , the state of Arizona had 15,133 active physi-cians in 2012 , or about 230.9 physi-cians per 100,000 residents , which is below the national average of 260.5 physicians per 100,000 resi-dents .

The implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will make this problem more noticeable, said Conrad Clemens , associate dean for grad-uate medical education at the College of Medicine .

“At least for the short term, an influx of a lot more patients into our network is really going to strain our capacity,” Clemens said. “That’s why there is a lot of talk of needing more primary care doc-tors.”

Victoria Murrain , assistant dean for GME at the College of Medicine , also said the Affordable Care Act presents challenges.

“The Affordable Care Act is bringing to the forefront the fact that we need more providers to provide the care that is actually needed,” Murrain said. “It is mak-ing us more aware of a problem that has been looming that defi-nitely is going to get worse if we don’t fix it.”

Expansion of GME, the resi-dency training doctors complete upon graduating from medical school in order to obtain a spe-cialty, beyond the UA campus and throughout the state of Arizona is one way to mitigate the effects of the doctor shortage on multiple levels, Murrain added. It would provide more training places for medical students and help keep those trained physicians here in Arizona.

“People generally tend to stay in the area in which they have trained,” Murrain said, “so our goal is that we are able to keep them here in Tucson or Pima County, or at least the state.”

Lauren Bruner, 93, was a crew member on the USS Arizona when the ship was bombed on Dec. 7, 1941 . Bruner spent seven months in the hospital with burns on 70 percent of his body, before serving another four years in the military during World War II.

One of 10 USS Arizona survivors, Bruner will visit the UA this weekend to share his story .

The UA will hold a series of events between today and Sunday to commemorate those affected by the attack on Pearl Harbor and World War II.

The USS Arizona Reunion Association worked with the UA’s Naval ROTC unit to bring Bruner and Donald Stratton , also a USS Arizona bombing survivor, to campus for the USS Arizona Ceremony on Sunday .

Bruner will be on campus today to talk to the community about his experiences and visit the Student Union Memorial

Center , which was named and designed after the USS Arizona and is home to one of two bells that were on the ship .

Ed McGrath, a writer and documentary filmmaker who’s working on a book and

Thousands of YouTube videos showcased the explosion of and ensuing damage caused by an asteroid over Russia in February.

The Chelyabinsk asteroid wasn’t big enough to cause any catastrophic damage to Earth , and scientists believed a collision of that size would only occur once every few hundred years .

However, according to new research published in the journal Nature , scientists now believe that Earth has a much higher risk of being hit by similar-sized objects. Such impacts could potentially occur once every decade, according to the New York Times.

Generally, this kind of news inspires a “doom and gloom” reaction among the public, as people may start to think the new research means that they will somehow wind up being annihilated by a falling space rock.

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Arizona combats doctor shortage

PLAYING WITH FIRE

BY ETHAN MCSWEENEYThe Daily Wildcat

The smell of fuel hangs in the air as a crackling blaze illumi-nates the pitch-black Tucson night. Two students stand among the flames, but they don’t pull away. After all, they’re the ones holding the fire.

Nic Wolf , an undeclared sophomore , weaves poi effort-lessly around his body while a friend stands nearby with a wet towel in case of an emergency. The fire poi, tethered weights doused in white gas and lamp oil lit aflame, spin behind his back and over his head in time to music playing on a mini ste-reo, leaving trails of heat in their wake.

Although he seems like a pro-fessional fire dancer, Wolf has only been spinning fire for a

little more than a year, after see-ing fire dancing at a music fes-tival. The show stuck with him, and much of what Wolf knows now, he taught himself.

“I’ve never really fallen in love with a hobby before,” Wolf said.

“This was the first thing that re-ally grabbed me. Just having something that I’m really able to devote all of my attention to is a really awesome experience

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KYLE MITTAN/THE DAILY WILDCAT TOP Undeclared sophomore and Flow Cats President Nic Wolf holds a pair of fire poi dur-ing the club’s practice on Tuesday night. Wolf began the UA club in August.BOTTOM Wolf, left, and Jacob Aragon, a biology sophomore and club treasurer, practice fire spinning in a club member’s backyard on Tuesday night.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF LORA HARWOOD LAUREN BRUNER CENTER, a crew member on the USS Arizona, at the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor. Bruner will be at the UA this weekend.

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The GME program at the UA is already well established, Murrain said. Since 2004, the University of Arizona Medical Center — South Campus has created an additional 110 training positions, with more than half being primary care posi-tions.

Clemens said the UA is currently looking to partner with communi-ties in Arizona to bring GME pro-grams to their local hospitals. He added the UA is interested in work-ing with Phoenix in particular, given that the Phoenix area has half of the state’s population but doesn’t “have that significant of a GME footprint.”

The goal is to provide more pri-mary care physicians to see the ad-ditional patients expected due to the Affordable Care Act, but other areas are also being looked at to help alleviate the problem of doctor shortages. Clemens said healthcare providers need to examine whether all the services that are being pro-vided still need to be performed by doctors.

“[For example,] is there a place for nurse practitioners or physi-cian assistants to do some of the

things that doctors are now doing?” Clemens said.

The problem of doctor shortages in Arizona is also reverberating with those looking to go into the medi-cal field, said Alexandria Chaput, a first-year master’s student studying cellular and mo-lecular medicine who plans on going to medical school. Chaput said that with the direction healthcare is go-ing, it’s likely doc-tors won’t see the kind of pay they are expecting when they finish medical school.

“I think that [the doctor shortage] has had a big im-pact on why people aren’t finish-ing medical school,” Chaput said. “They’re taking different routes such as nursing, PA [Physician Assistant] school, or a completely different direction.”

Murrain said, adding that the main issue right now is getting the state to increase funding for

residency positions, rather than cutting it.

“My hope is that the state will somehow help us in funding more positions and creating a pipeline where we can entice our gradu-ates to remain in the state,” Murrain

said. “I think that [is] the next lev-el of investment that needs to be made.”

GME programs are not cheap, Clemens added, as they can cost upwards of hun-dreds of thou-sands, if not mil-lions of dollars just to get one

started. “There’s not a tremendous num-

ber of hospitals that are raising their hands saying ‘Yeah, I can’t wait to do this,’” Clemens said, “because it is a big undertaking.”

documentary about Lauren Bruner, said UA Libraries Special Collections Archivist Roger Myers will be showing Bruner newspapers that were printed on the USS Arizona, for the crews, in 1941.

“Lauren will be able to actually read … or look through some of those old newspapers from his ship,” McGrath said, “and it will be the second time in his life that he did that.”

Gabrielle Sykes-Casavant, director of marketing and public relations for UA Libraries, said Special Collections will be adding Bruner’s oral history to its collection of USS Arizona materials. Sykes-Casavant said she was thrilled when she found out about the opportunity to record Bruner’s story because multimedia is an area that Special Collections can improve.

Having the opportunity to get video and audio recording of Bruner’s experience will be a unique addition to the collection and will be available for current and future scholars and researchers, she added.

“Mr. Bruner’s firsthand accounts of the events of that day can’t be told by many other people,” Sykes-Casavant said. “It’s such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the university as a community to celebrate what this man has done and his story and his history.”

Bruce Grissom, U.S. Navy commander and associate professor of Naval Science, said Sunday’s ceremony will be the 60th and last reunion in Tucson for the survivors, since their numbers are diminishing. The ceremony will honor those who survived the bombing of the USS Arizona, those who sacrificed their lives during World War II and those who serve in the military today.

Grissom said it’s important to continue to remember the events that led the U.S. into World War II and changed the course of history.

“For us to continue to remember those who were at Pearl Harbor, those that served not only during World War II but in many conflicts, to continue to honor that service and that sacrifice is a great thing to teach,” Grissom said.

Michael Schaller, regents professor in the Department of

History, said as there are fewer survivors, commemorating them takes on a “poignant significance.”

“It was the beginning of such a terrible war,” Scheller said. “It wasn’t just a one day thing, but it was kicking off multiple years of global fighting, and memorializing that day is also a way of honoring those who served in the military throughout the second World War.”

The UA Veterans Alumni Club will also host a memorial on Saturday at the Student Union Memorial Center Rotunda to honor those who died during the attack on Pearl Harbor and those who served in World War II. Natasha Crawford, chair of the club, said the event will feature guest speaker Colonel Michael Kuhn, professor of Naval Science for and commanding officer of the UA’s NROTC, among others.

Crawford said having events in honor of the National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, which is Saturday, shows how much military support the UA and the community provide. Having a survivor on campus will help the community better understand what happened on Dec. 7, 1941, Crawford added.

“People can really get a better understanding of the events when it comes from a survivor, from someone who experienced it,” Crawford said.

Bruner will wear the Purple Heart medal he received for being wounded on the USS Arizona when he visits campus, McGrath added.

McGrath said Bruner is looking forward to sharing his story with the campus community and seeing artifacts in the student union that commemorate the USS Arizona, especially the two flags that were the last flags flown on the ship before the attack.

“It’s seldom that in anybody’s life they have the opportunity to actually meet a true or real American hero,” McGrath said, “and Lauren Bruner is that kind of American hero to the highest standard.”

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for me.”Wolf ’s love for “flow arts” — the explo-

ration of movement through prop manip-ulation — led him to start the Flow Cats club on campus in August with fellow UA students Jacob Aragon and Maddy Hollis. Members use hoops, poi and similar ob-jects to achieve a state of mind that Wolf refers to as “flow.”

A year and a half ago, Hollis, a psychol-ogy sophomore, started practicing with store-bought hula hoops. She then made hoops herself, using different taping on them for gripping. Once she had enough money, she moved on to light-up hoops. Eventually, when her skill level progresses, she said she hopes to buy a fire hoop.

“It’s something that once you start do-ing it, you fall in love with it,” Hollis said. “Practice is definitely something I look for-ward to going to every week. It has a really wonderful atmosphere. Everyone is there to help you out and be with one another and enjoy the art of flowing in a group set-ting.”

The club, which started with three peo-ple, has since increased to more than a dozen, most of whom joined after watch-ing Wolf and his friends practice on the UA Mall. The group is not allowed to spin with fire on the Mall, but they use objects that light up and attract people each time.

“I just saw them flowing one night and I was like, ‘I flow, you flow,’” said Cooper Montgomery, a member of Flow Cats and a freshman at Pima Community College. “I saw them on the Mall and started spinning

with them.”Now, club members are working on

getting a fire permit to host community events. Wolf has communicated with the Associated Students of the University of Arizona and is waiting to get in contact with someone at the Department of Risk Management Services. The group is also in touch with the fire department.

Herb Wagner, the UA Fire Marshal and the director of occupational and environ-mental health and safety, said a few years back a group of students was allowed to conduct practices and hold performances with fire on campus. Wagner said the group was required to go through fire safety train-ing and fire extinguisher training.

Risk Management staff also had the to authority to examine and inspect all of the equipment and storage of flammable liq-uids and could decide which events to ap-prove. He said it is possible for Flow Cats to get approved, although he hadn’t heard of the club before.

Despite the lengthy process to get ap-proval, Aragon, a biology sophomore and club treasurer, said fire spinning is not dangerous as long as the performers are re-sponsible. Whenever club members prac-tice, spotters are on standby with wet tow-els to warn spinners of errant flames.

“As long as you’re being diligent about it and paying attention to it, it’s not that dan-gerous,” Aragon said. “I hit Nic’s head once … but it didn’t catch on fire or anything.”

For Wolf, his hobby is all-consuming. Wherever he goes, his pair of poi is close by, waiting for him to find a new location. Geometrical sketches illustrating the dif-ferent paths that the poi can travel along litter the pages of his notebook.

Regardless of whether the club ever re-ceives permission to spin fire on campus, Wolf said he plans to continue spinning for a long time to come.

“I would be really sad if I wasn’t able to do this anymore,” Wolf said. “That’s one of

the worst things I could imagine ever hap-pening to me.”

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The UA is hosting a marathon on Saturday to promote physical activity for young children.

The Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will host the Tucson Marathon Family Fitness Fest on Saturday on the UA Mall. The event will consist of a series of mini marathons including a one-mile kids’ run, a 5K run and a 10K run.

The event is in its third year and has doubled in size from when it was first held, with 1,300 people expected to attend this year, according to Pam Reed, director and founder of the event. The marathon will accommodate runners of all

abilities, including those who use wheelchairs and walkers.

The College of Public Health provided 500 kids with free entry to the marathon, Reed said.

“We wanted to introduce children to running,” Reed said, “as well as introduce the community to the UA campus and school and ultimately promote health and wellness in their lives.”

The fitness fest will focus on the kids’ fun run to promote physical activity in young children, said Cynthia Thomson, director of Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention and Health Promotion and a professor of Public Health.

Thomson said children who are physically active perform better in school, are less likely to be overweight, have more energy and are generally happier.

The marathon was piloted in 2011 on a small scale, but Canyon Ranch Center wanted a key event every year to promote wellness in kids, so it added the kids’ run, Thomson said.

A major focus this year was getting under-served school districts involved. The Tucson Medical Center, a lead sponsor, is funding transportation for students from different schools

and school districts, including Sunnyside Unified School District, Amphitheater High School and the South Tucson community.

“A lot of people grow up in Tucson and they never come to the U of A campus,” Thomson said. “It’s kind of a foreign land to them.”

Other organizations partnering with the center include the Alliance for a Healthier Generation and the YMCA of Southern Arizona.

Kids who participate in the fun run will receive an official marathon T-shirt and a medal for completing the race.

Wilbur and the cheerleading team will also be at the event, as well as vendors promoting health and wellness like Beyond Bread, Grow 2B Fit Foundation and the UA Student Recreation Center.

“In order to be a vendor at the

event, they had to be promoting healthy living and wellness in children.” Thomson said. “Each booth has to have some interactive activity with kids around health and wellness.”

The center wanted to get involved in a community-based effort that supported kids’ well-being and bring kids to campus so they can be inspired and see what a wonderful place it could be for them in the future, Thomson said.

“We really want people, and especially children, to realize that [the] UA is a fun and friendly place,” Thomson said, “so that when they are making decisions about their future, college is not intimidating.”

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In response to “UA lacks adequate child care resources” (by David W. Mariotte, Dec. 3)

I don’t understand — why would UA want to go into child care? It’s a college. UA should want smart students. Smart students don’t have kids when they don’t have anyone to watch them or have the resources to pay for child care.

— Lisa

Even if you ignore your ignorant claim that “smart” students don’t have kids in college, you’re forgetting two important points.

1) An on-campus child care facility would be convenient for faculty as well as students. You would be hard pressed to argue that working professionals shouldn’t have children just because they have to work.

2) Not all students are your traditional 18-22 year old traditional college student mold anymore. In fact, that’s not even the majority of college students. A lot of students are parents who are returning to college for a variety of reasons — you can’t claim that isn’t “smart” of them.

Frankly, my high school had better child care services than the UA does, and that’s pathetic. No one is saying the UA should “go into child care” like you claim, they’re simply saying the services should be offered on campus to save on costs and add convenience. This is a basic service at most major universities, but the UA is flat out missing the mark.

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In response to “More focus should be on victims, not motives of shooter” (by Ashley T. Powell, Dec. 3)

To suggest that such mass killings have no motive, or that it’s not important both for the survivors and

the general public to understand those motives, is to resign ourselves to constant repetitions without any possibility of prevention.

In this case, the signs of trouble from Adam Lanza were clear and compelling, but the only one who knew them — his mother, Nancy — refused to act on them appropriately.

It seems that more will be known of this event from books, such as the about-to-be-released “Newtown: An American Tragedy” by former Daily News reporter Matthew Lysiak, who moved to Newtown for six months to do his research.

From the book:Nancy Lanza was becoming

accustomed to leaving her son alone for days, sometimes weeks at a time. Beginning in January 2012, she traveled to London, New Orleans, and New York City, in addition to frequent trips to Boston.

Nancy spent Thanksgiving 2012 in northern New England with family, leaving Adam home alone with a prepared meal in the fridge. “He’s fine,” she said reassuringly. “Just so long as he has his computer and his video games, he can keep himself occupied.”

Adam sometimes sat playing the game well into the night and slept

most of the day. He had no friends, and no future ambitions. His life revolved increasingly around the game of war.

Nancy was worried and wanted answers. She had recently decided to take a peek inside his upstairs bedroom.

After a few minutes of searching, she found a disturbing number of drawings stashed underneath Adam’s nightstand. Most were pictures of guns, “normal teenage boy crap,” she called it. But other sketches were gruesome depictions of death, images of mutilated corpses. One drawing she described was of a bloodied woman clutching a rosary as bullets ripped through her spine. Another sketch depicted a large rolling grassy field lined with the corpses of young children. In the drawing, the faces of the children were severely mutilated and couldn’t be recognized. One sketch appeared to be a self-portrait of a younger Adam with blood gushing from a large hole in his forehead and his arms stretched upward to the sky in a posture of triumph.

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Global warming requires action

Three days after the disastrous Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines, the 19th conference of the United Nations

Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Warsaw, Poland, to discuss international environmental policies. However, despite this latest disaster looming over their heads, negotiators failed to make a substantial commitment to curb emissions and slow global warming.

These talks usually result in little to no progress toward a greener world, and this year’s meeting was no exception. Hundreds of people left early, frustrated with the lack of headway being made.

Greenpeace and ActionAid were among several influential non-governmental environmental organizations that abandoned the conference a day early.

“We left because the climate negotiations in Warsaw have been a farce from the start,” said Brandon Wu, senior policy analyst for ActionAid, in an interview with the Washington Post.

France 24, a French news organization, reported these organizations left because the talks were “on track to deliver virtually nothing.”

The steps being taken to protect our environment are just too small and too slow. Putting these difficult decisions off and giving nations over a decade to implement changes will be too little, too late.

“The scientific community now believes that,

in terms of carbon dioxide, there’s a point of no return where you can’t reverse the impact,” said John Pollard, the director of general chemistry and biochemistry at the UA. “If we don’t act in a significant fashion soon, we get closer to that point where any action we take might not matter.”

The hot-button issue at the convention regarded compensation for developing countries, which are often affected by climate change despite their smaller contribution of greenhouse gases. Some demanded that developed countries provide aid and expertise to developing nations.

However, wealthier nations — including the U.S. — are unwilling to contribute the money that developing countries are asking for. According to the New York Times, Todd D. Stern, the State Department’s envoy on climate issues, said there was the world’s richest countries would not be providing any considerable sum to these nations.

Instead, countries are hesitantly agreeing to contribute to the Green Climate Fund, which will help emerging nations curb emissions and deal with natural disasters that may result from climate change. Supporters would like to see $100 billion donated to the fund by 2020, a maximum amount and deadline initially pledged by developed nations in 2009.

But the fund simply won’t create a large enough impact to show how seriously climate change should be taken and the drastic changes we need to make if we care at all about our environment.

“Countries have accepted the reality [of the effects of climate change],” said Mohamed Adow, an activist with Christian Aid, in an interview with the New York Times. “[They] seem unwilling to take concrete actions to reduce the severity of these impacts.”

Climate change has been hotly disputed for

years, with skeptics claiming that the warming of the globe is a natural process. However, the recent jump in temperatures has resulted in several undesirable effects, such as rising sea levels and extreme weather, which will continue to escalate if nothing is done.

“The evidence that we are having global warming overall is overwhelming, and the vast majority of scientists agree on the basics, even if there is some debate on the specifics,” said David Breshears, a professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment.

The U.S. needs to acknowledge that our carbon emissions are seriously contributing to climate change, and that this is not only harming developing countries that lack the resources to take preventive measures or to rebuild after the consequences, but also damaging us right at home.

According to the Washington Post, Arizona is heating up faster than any other state.

The major impact of this is on our water resources, but it also contributes to an increase in drought and tree mortality, according to Breshears.

Seeing how this increase in temperature impacts American citizens, as well as developing countries, is the first step in helping ourselves and other nations around the world.

“If you are concerned about climate change, and I think we all should be, you can change your lifestyle and speak up about what you want to see done in terms of policy,” Breshears said.

The world has changed — likely permanently — and the worst may be yet to come. We need to take action before it truly is too late.

Landmark Clothing’s fake bird is excessive

It’s 2 a.m. You’re walking home from a night out on University Boulevard when suddenly a loud,

piercing noise fills your ears. Or maybe it’s 2 p.m., and University

is in full swing as you walk by Land-mark Clothing and Shoes and hear that same screeching noise.

It’s … a bird? The noise projects out of a speaker on the building in an effort to keep pigeons away, but it suc-cessfully startles and annoys everyone around.

The 54-year-old store sits proudly on the corner of University Boulevard and Tyndall Avenue, selling quality shoes and outdoor apparel. I’ve never actually shopped there, but I know it as the store with the loud bird record-ing. As I stood outside, hearing the squawk go off every eight minutes or so, I found that I was not alone.

“It’s annoying,” said UA alumna Whitney Nelson. “It shouldn’t be as loud as it is. … Maybe a nice chirp, but not a loud bird.”

I have no doubt that the sound scares away pigeons, but I can imag-ine it would also scare away custom-ers. Is the noise really that necessary? A quieter or less shocking bird noise would suffice. The sound at Landmark is not the soft coo of a dove or chirp of a songbird. It is a squawking, clearly upset, loud and overbearing bird scream.

“We used to have a pigeon problem and they would nest on the side of the building. They don’t do that anymore,” said co-owner John Finkelstein. “There are less humane ways to get rid of pigeons; this is the most humane way to get them under control.”

The shriek that comes from the speaker is of distressed pigeons, which scares other pigeons away from the building — and if that isn’t enough, there are also metal barbs lining the windows to frighten lingering birds.

I saw a couple of pigeons here and there on University, but nothing I would consider a “problem.” Other stores on University get by without a similar bird scare, so why does Land-mark need it?

The store has had the timed pigeon recording for 12 years, according to Finkelstein, who said he doesn’t notice the sound anymore. He’s lucky, because other employees at nearby locations have grown tired of the ceaseless squawk.

“[The noise] is the worst,” said Matt Coope, a pre-pharmacy student at Pima Community College who works at Espresso Art Cafe. “It’s the most obnoxious thing on campus.”

He suggests the store follow in PCC’s footsteps and install a noise to scare away the birds that is less obnoxious.

“[PCC has] a soft ticking noise you can’t really hear, and there are no birds on the campus,” Coop said.

PCC has also invested in OvoCon-trol, a bird birth control of sorts that is distributed from bird feeders placed on a roof. According to Birdbarrier.com, the estimated 200 pigeons on the campus were reduced to just five in two years. Birth control for birds sounds ridiculous, but it has been ap-proved by The Humane Society of the United States and People for the Ethi-cal Treatment of Animals as a humane way to deal with bird problems.

In the same way the train that loudly chugs through Tucson may be annoying to some but calming to oth-ers, the noise at Landmark is nostalgic for at least one passerby I met.

“I remember being little and walk-ing by here,” said Paige Larsh, an undeclared freshman. “It’s been up there so long that it’d be weird not to hear it.”

Larsh seems to be the exception. I stopped many students outside the store that had strong opinions against the noise; some hadn’t noticed it before, but upon hearing it for the first time, they were quick to complain as well.

That’s too bad, because many of them complimented the store itself.

Landmark carries quality clothing and has been a staple on University for more than five decades. Unfortu-nately, I will forever remember the store as the one with the annoying bird sound instead of a popular outfit-ter. If pigeon reduction is absolutely necessary, there are a plethora of bet-ter solutions. The goal is to scare away the birds, not the people passing by.

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Not just for notebooksTwo UA students were cited and released for alcohol

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Two University of Arizona Police Department officers were on Residence Life security detail when they saw the UA students walking south from Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall to the Metro Wildcat convenience store. One of the students was wearing an unzipped, empty backpack.

The officers waited outside the store and saw the students walk out with a full, zipped-up backpack. When the officers turned on their emergency lights, the student with the backpack kept walking east, while the other student headed north.

The officers stopped both students to talk to them. The student without a backpack admitted that there was beer in the other student’s backpack and told the officer that he paid for the beer, but his friend carried it to the counter. He said he didn’t see his friend show the clerk an ID but he assumed he did because the clerk sold them the beer.

The student with the backpack told another officer he was able to purchase the alcohol with a fake ID. The student gave the officer a fake Montana driver’s license and said he was actually 19 years old.

There were two 12-packs of Pabst Blue Ribbon and a six-pack of Bud Light Lime in the backpack, the student said.

Both students were cited and released for minor in possession of alcohol, and the student carrying the backpack was cited for having a fake driver’s license.

The officers poured out the two 12-packs and the six-pack.

Keeping it coolTwo UA students were cited and released for possession of

marijuana at Santa Cruz Residence Hall on Sunday at 10:27 p.m.

A UAPD officer met with the RA on duty at Apache-Santa Cruz Residence Hall, who had been told one of the rooms smelled like burnt marijuana.

When they went to the reported room, one of the residents opened the door, and the officer asked to speak to him and his roommate.

The officer asked one of them if there was marijuana in the room, the student said, “Yeah, it’s in the fridge.”

He then opened the fridge and handed the officer a Ziploc bag with a small amount of marijuana inside.

The student said he had bought the marijuana for $10 from someone in Oro Valley and that it belonged to both him and his roommate.

His roommate confirmed this. They said they smoked with a friend in Oro Valley and they didn’t smoke any of the marijuana on campus.

Both students were cited and released and a code of conduct violation was forwarded to the Dean of Students Office for each of them. The marijuana was placed into UAPD evidence.

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remain adamant that this is not the case.

“From my standpoint, I see it as a really good educational and communication tool rather than something that is really scary or really horrible,” said Anna Spitz, the Communication and Public Engagement Lead for the OSIRIS-REx mission. “It gives us the opportunity to talk about why our efforts are important to look for these sorts of objects.”

Asteroid research is nothing new at the UA, where programs like the Catalina Sky Survey and Spacewatch are well known for their ability to track and record any asteroids or other near-Earth objects that could potentially impact the planet.

“Asteroids come in all sizes, and one of the important problems that astronomers worry about is how many of them there are in each size,” said Ed Beshore, deputy principal investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission and former principal investigator of the Catalina Sky Survey.

In our solar system, most of the asteroids are smaller in size, like the one that struck Chelyabinsk, according to Beshore.

Despite their size, these small rocks can still do some damage.

“[Chelybinsk] showed us that these small objects could be potentially dangerous,” said Dante Lauretta, principal investigator on the OSIRIS-REx mission.

These smaller space rocks are more difficult to detect because of their size, and for astronomers to see them, they need to be fairly close to our planet. However, this doesn’t slow down work at the Catalina Sky Survey, which manages to detect more of these smaller asteroids than any other observation program, Beshore said.

Luckily for us, astronomers are well aware of the presence of most of these near-Earth objects, especially the large asteroids that could cause catastrophic damage to the Earth. According to Beshore, 90 to 95 percent of these large asteroids have been found and are being tracked, which has eliminated a huge amount of risk for the Earth.

While tracking these near-Earth objects is important for risk management, understanding the characteristics of different asteroids and the forces that make them dangerous to Earth are also significant areas of research at the UA, as the knowledge allows scientists to answer questions about the early solar system.

“We are trying to figure out basic questions of, where did the water on Earth come from? Where did the organics that fuel life [come from]?” Beshore said. “And we think that possibly, they came from the asteroids.”

The desire to understand the conditions of the early solar system and to characterize asteroids has also inspired the OSIRIS-REx mission at the UA. The mission, which sees the UA partnering with NASA, will send a spacecraft to a nearby asteroid known as Bennu to collect a sample, then return the sample to Earth for continued study.

The ability to bring back a sample of the asteroid is what the researchers call the threshold objective for the mission, as it is the most important aspect of the research. Having the sample will not only allow scientists to work with more precise instruments, according to Beshore, but will also allow continued study for years to come.

While the research coming out of the UA emphasizes learning about the characteristics of asteroids, Spitz recognizes that many people will still be primarily concerned with the dangers asteroids pose.

“What people really think about is, ‘Is it going to hit me on the head?’” she said. “It’s a really nice entryway for us to talk more generally about the mission.”

Even though the news of more asteroid strikes may cause people to cast an eye towards the sky, astronomers remain optimistic.

“I think the lesson we need to take from this is that we shouldn’t be running for the exits,” Beshore said. “It’s a natural hazard, and something we are very familiar with.”

Hollywood may have a new reason to be called the land of the stars.

A UA geosciences lab that partners with NASA found clay on Mars similar to clay found in Los Angeles. The clay, along with rock samples, indicates that there

could have once been water on Mars, said Robert Downs, a UA geosciences professor and the director of the lab.

The research team found the Earth analog to the Martian clay in Griffith Park, close to where the Batcave from “Batman” is located, Downs said.

“We had NASA scientists crawling up and down the

side of the mountain trying to collect samples, and in came a photographer trying to do a fall sweater shoot,” Downs said.

The samples were drilled by the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars in August 2012. A device on the rover known as CheMin conducted X-ray diffraction analysis that revealed the presence of clay in February

2013, said Shaunna Morrison, a third-year geosciences graduate student. Morrison is the research team’s CheMin specialist.

“This finding validates a lot of ideas about water on Mars,” Morrison said. “It’s one of the more significant studies to date.”

The rover conducts a special kind of X-ray diffraction that uses vibrations to ensure the

beam captures all orientations of the sample grains, said Barbara Lafuente, a geosciences graduate student who specializes in X-ray diffraction data analysis.

“X-ray diffraction basically gives a fingerprint of your mineral,” Lafuente said. “You cannot get it wrong.”

There is a River Road in Tucson, but not an actual flowing river. For most of the year the Rillito River is a dried-up wash, only full for a short period of time after a monsoon storm. The diminishing water table is extremely important to the city, but sometimes scientific jargon makes it difficult for people to understand why they should care.

That’s where art comes in. Art, poetry and other creative

forms of communication provide a unique way to connect with scientific information, creating mass appeal for the often esoteric labors of scientific research.

“My work deals a lot with bringing science and art together,” said Ellen McMahon, a professor in the School of Art and editor of the book “Groundwater.”

“Groundwater” showcases environmental issues like water scarcity, climate change and diminishing biodiversity in Tucson’s riverbeds through different artistic projects.

“This project was great because we got to do a project with poets, geographers and biologists to look at local water issues,” McMahon said. It was a marriage between artists and scientists, and the artists were able to use the scientific information to tell the story without complicated charts and bar graphs, she added.

“It just makes for a fuller experience to talk across disciplines about things that matter to us,” McMahon said.

Another individual melding art and science is Eric Magrane, a graduate student in the School of Geography and Development. Magrane centers his poetry and other works around geopoetics

and studies the merging of art and science.

“I go to poetry for a lot of the same reasons I go outside for ecology or to geography — they’re all about looking at relationships,” Magrane said.

He also writes a blog for the Institute of the Environment called “Proximities,” which focuses on art and the environment.

“Art helps us think through and relate with a space,” Magrane said.

Magrane said he feels that science and art have different ways of explaining the world. One is not more important than the other; we need both and other alternative ways to truly solve certain problems.

“It’s just as important to think about who we are and how we arrange the world as it is to think in a more traditional, scientific way. A lot of problems are compounded from a lack

of imagination, and bringing creativity and out-of-the-box thinking into all disciplines can help us with ways forward, especially when facing environmental issues,” Magrane said.

Diana Liverman, co-director of the Institute of the Environment, said she feels that “art reaches a different group of people.”

The Institute of the Environment supports interdisciplinary environmental research and the blog “Proximities,” so promoting art and science is a part of its work.

Liverman said that art might help to reach people and show them the importance of issues like climate change.

“Artists raise awareness in different ways, and they can reach different audiences,” Liverman said.

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When a tour passes through Kartchner Caverns, the park rangers say that the caverns are living, referring to the fact that the caves are still growing and changing — but a recent UA study found that life is in incredible abundance in the seemingly uninhabitable environment.

Published in the ISME Journal in mid-September, the study describes the diversity of bacteria, fungi and archaea, which Julia Neilson, a researcher in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, said she did not count on finding in the caves.

Neilson started studying the microorganisms of Kartchner Caverns in 2002, when sludge began to form on a false painted fiberglass rock within the Rotunda Room of the caverns.

“They would wipe it all down once a month with bleach, but after a month it would all come back,” Neilson said, “and it would be goopy, and they got really worried, because could this stuff take over the cave?”

After careful research, a group of researchers including Neilson and Raina M. Maier, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, looked into the issue.

“On the surface of the Earth, you have photosynthesis. You have plants that fix carbon dioxide into glucose … but fixing carbon takes a lot of energy,” Neilson said.

Because the caves are pitch black, their main source for carbon is drip water trailing down through faults. However, in Kartchner Caverns, the drip water contains 1000 times less fixed carbon than one would expect to find in a cave in Kentucky or Virginia.

The bacteria were fixing the carbon from the paint, research found, and it gave them enough energy to then produce the slime.

This brought up a new question: What life can be found in Kartchner Caverns? A research group was formed to investigate, consisting of five principal investigators, several graduate students and a $1.6 million grant from the National Science

Foundation.From 2006 to 2012, the team

took several thousand samples. But according to Barry Pryor, an associate professor in Plant Pathology and Microbiology and co-principal investigator for the project, there are several barriers to performing research on microorganisms.

“About 80 percent of the things we find in the environment, we cannot grow in the lab,” Pryor said. “We just cannot do it.”

One way to work around these barriers is to sample DNA. Hundreds of cotton swabs are dipped in sterile water and swiped on different structures in the cave. The samples are then multiplied so that there is enough to test. A process called gel electrophoresis is used to sequence the DNA, allowing scientists to see the exact genetic

code for the sample.Once this massive amount of

information was organized and deciphered, the team discovered that the life inside the cave is widely varied. Even when a single stalactite was sampled in different regions, the types of bacteria were different, but when two adjacent stalactites were sampled, the difference was immense.

Neilson’s work also found that bacteria are partially responsible for the formation of calcite structures in the cave, which brings up an interesting series of questions: “What happens when we disturb these bacterial communities?” Pryor asked. “Will we contaminate them with our own bacteria? … Can simply our presence in the cave negatively impact calcite formation?”

The data suggests that the answer is yes, and Pryor worked for

several months with Biomedical Communications at the Arizona Health Sciences Center to create media for a kiosk to educate people on what they could be disturbing and how their conduct affects the cave.

According to Neilson, there is still a lot more research to be done in Kartchner Caverns.

“We still have tons of data that we can mine,” Neilson said. “We have millions and millions of sequences, and we’ve asked a few questions: What’s the carbon source for the cave? What’s the energy source for the cave?”

With a wealth of potential answers in front of them, the researchers are looking to ask the right questions.

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PHOTO cOurTesy Of Julie neilsOn DOcTOrAl cAnDiDATe MAriAn Ortiz takes samples of organisms on a stalactite in Kartchner Caverns. Organisms were found growing in the caves despite the lack of sunlight.

Based on X-ray diffraction, the clay from Mars was found to be composed of water and broken-down olivine, a green mineral used to make gemstones on Earth, Downs said.

The ratio of olivine to water in the clay found on Mars is very similar to the ratio found at Griffith Park, he said.

The rover also captured images of rocks weathered by water that indicate there was once a “high-activity” water source, according to Downs.

“The rocks we found resemble worn cobbles, like you would find in a river bed,” Downs said. “That doesn’t happen because of a little stream seeping by.”

Neutron experiments conducted by the rover that measure the amount of protons present in mineral samples further show there is water in the rock samples collected by the rover, Downs said.

“Does that mean there is for sure water on Mars?” Downs asked. “We don’t know that yet.”

The team has not yet been able to retrieve water from the clay samples, he said, which are currently being held inside the rover at room temperature.

One explanation for why the clay has not yet secreted water could be that the water is strongly bound to another element, like magnesium, that is preventing it from melting, Downs said.

“Any water that was in liquid form probably existed in Mars’ ancient past, because it’s too cold on present-day Mars,” said Donna Viola, a third-year planetary sciences graduate student whose work focuses on ice and water-induced crater formation on Mars.

“There should be some more exciting results to come out of this mission in the future,” Viola said. “It will be exciting to see what happens.”

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two NBA draft picks, but the Wildcats’ corps of big men required no rebuild-ing.

Through eight games, No. 2 Arizona is fourth in the country in rebound margin, tied for seventh in field goal percentage defense with 35.3 percent, 17th in blocked shots per game with 6.7 and 26th in blocks with 47.

Freshman forwards Aaron Gordon and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson joined sophomore forward Brandon Ashley and sophomore center Kaleb Tarczewski in Arizona’s frontcourt ro-tation.

“We picked up a lot of skill this year,” Ashley said.

The UA lost two players to the NBA draft, 2012-13 senior Solomon Hill was the 23rd overall pick and went to the Indiana Pacers and Grant Jerrett, a freshman last year, was selected 40th by the Portland Trailblazers. Plus, ju-nior Angelo Chol transferred to San Diego State.

Tarczewski said the sophomores’ year of experience helps them and that the addition of Gordon and Hollis-Jefferson makes the frontcourt quicker.

“I think it’s just a different look,” Ashley said. “I wouldn’t say we’re any less talented than we were last year.”

The first four big men that Arizona plays are freshmen or sophomores, and the sixth option for front court players so far this year, freshman for-ward and transfer Zach Peters, has only played three minutes fewer than junior forward Matt Korcheck. Peters, who transferred from Kansas, was lim-ited in the preseason as he recovered from a series of concussions.

Ashley said the Wildcats’ big men are versatile.

“Aaron [Gordon], Rondae [Hollis-Jefferson], me, even Zach [Peters] can do some different things on the pe-rimeter, so I think that helps us out a lot,” Ashley said.

This season, Ashley is averaging 26.8 minutes and 11.9 points and has 55 rebounds, six blocks and six steals in eight starts. Last year, Ashley averaged 7.5 points per game on the season.

Gordon averages a team-leading 13 points per game and is first in re-bounds with 73, 18 more than second-place Ashley. He is also second on the team with 13 points a game and 11 blocks.

“He’s continuing to improve,” head coach Sean Miller said after Tuesday night’s win over Texas Tech. “And the one thing you don’t worry about with

Aaron [Gordon] is his work ethic. He’ll put the work in.”

Tarczewski is averaging 24.8 min-utes and 8.9 points and has 52 re-bounds and 14 blocks in seven starts and eight games. Last season, he av-eraged 6.6 points and had 23 blocks through 35 games.

“I’ve really worked on my footwork in the post, down there, but a little bit on my jump shot,” Tarczewski said. “It’s gonna relieve the pressure down low. [I want to] not just be a low post scorer and also try to be a little bit more explosive, a little bit more ath-letic.”

Arizona’s sixth man, Hollis-Jefferson, has 19 rebounds and is av-eraging 8.8 points.

Ashley and Tarczewski said the addition of junior point guard T.J.

McConnell makes the big men better.“I like to kind of call him a ‘lit-

tle blessing,’” Tarczewski said. “He’s a great basketball player, he com-petes every day and he’s really going to make it easier on everyone on the team because of the facilitator he is.”

The undefeated Wildcats’ back-court is thriving as well. Junior guard Nick Johnson is the reigning Pac-12 player of the week, and national me-dia has raved about McConnell.

“I think, honestly, we have so much talent in every position this year,” Korcheck said. “There’s so much po-tential.”

Because Wildcat hockey head coach Sean Hogan will be in Europe serving as an assistant coach for the 2013 U.S. Men’s National University Team this weekend, eighth-year UA assistant coach Dave Dougall is in control. On Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., No. 12 Arizona (10-10-0) matches up against arch rival No. 1 ASU (21-0-0) at the Tucson Convention Center.

Dougall, a 2001 UA Hockey Hall of Fame inductee in 2001, played defenseman for the Icecats from 1983-1987. He served as a captain for two years and was awarded Rookie of the Year in 1984 and Best Defenseman his final two seasons as an Icecat.

The Daily Wildcat talked to Dougall about his chance to finally lead the program he’s been part of for so many years.

Daily Wildcat: What are you looking forward to most about leading the team as interim head coach this weekend?

Dougall: Well, it’s really going to be the other assistants and I working as a team, but I think it’s a unique opportunity in the first place with Arizona State, just to be able to play them here at home. We’ll have a huge crowd and a big group here.

How do you think your previous eight seasons behind the bench as an assistant coach will help you out against a team as good as ASU?

Just having a feel for the atmosphere that’s going to be involved in these couple nights, hopefully not getting rattled or anything with whatever goes on during the course of the game. There will be a lot of momentum swings so it’ll be intense, like always. Even if you’re playing ping pong with ASU, it’s just intense.

Coach Hogan is usually the one barking all game long. Because he’s gone for these games, will you become more vocal?

I’m pretty reserved just in general, but I might, yeah [laughs], have a tendency to be a little more vocal in times when things get heated. But I’m usually pretty reserved. I would say I’m a calm but passionate type of leader.

What’s your plan to run today’s practice while coach Hogan is away for the first time?

We’ll follow the same game plan he usually has as far as special teams and flow drills and things of that nature. I’m not going to try to change things up or anything like that, we’re just going to stay the course and work with the guys that way.

What’s your favorite memory of playing for the Icecats back in the 1980s?

Playing in front of the crowds here, and we actually played for the national championship back when it wasn’t through the ACHA, when we played Penn State in its home area and were able to win.

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Nevertheless, the question remains: Why, with the NCAA raking in the type of money that it does, is it limiting the number of scholarships provided to each institution and controlling so precisely the division of aid between different sports?

“The UA has no control over the amount of scholarships or even how they are distributed among the various sports,” Byrne said. “The NCAA sets strict distribution guidelines and rules in regard to these 315 scholarships, which every

athletic program [nationwide] are to follow.”

The answer is simply that the NCAA is a business first and foremost that cares the most about putting itself in the best position to make the greatest potential revenue. Could it do something more to level the gap between top-tier sports like football and basketball and less hyped sports like baseball? Of course it could — but it doesn’t want to.

The NCAA has purposefully invested heavily in men’s basketball and football, selling the rights to broadcast those big sports on channels like Disney/ESPN and Turner/CBS Sports. With those sports becoming more popular as they enjoy more time on the air, the audience begins to crave more of what it is being shown, and eventually its tastes are totally skewed toward watching college football and basketball.

With the current scholarship system in use by the NCAA, the association clearly favors football and men’s basketball at Arizona, like most schools, because they generally represent the only two profit-generating sports. As a result, each men’s basketball and football player (who is not a walk-on) is covered by a scholarship. The Wildcats’ baseball team, on the other hand, is forced to deal with splitting up 11.7 scholarships over 35 players on the roster, as sophomore UA baseball player Joseph Maggi told the Daily Wildcat in September.

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Junior shooting guard Nick Johnson has been enjoying one of the best starts to a season a player could imagine. After being named the most outstanding player at the NIT Championship game and subsequently lighting up Madison Square Garden to the tune of 15 points , three assists, two rebounds, two blocks and two steals, Johnson returned home en route to putting up double-digits for the eighth consecutive game this season.

Johnson has amassed 20 or more points three times this year and leads the team from the free throw line , having successfully converted 35 of 43 attempts (81.4 percent) .

“Against Duke, [while] he struggled in the first half, he came back [to have] a monster second half and was really deserving to be named the MVP [of the Preseason NIT],” junior guard T.J. McConnell said . “He’s playing great for us.”

Gordon’s free throw woes

After struggling from the free throw line against Texas Tech , freshman starting forward Aaron Gordon should be quick to forget about his uncharacteristic slip on the score sheet.

“He’s on his way to better [consistency]; he just needs to stay with it,” Johnson said. “He’s a great player, and one thing about him is he works really hard. He’ll improve.”

Johnson was quick to remind everyone that while Gordon’s free throw percentage may have been a dismal 33.3 percent Tuesday night, he shot with 87.5 percent accuracy from the stripe during the NIT Tip-Off semifinal in New York City.

In fact, the highly touted freshman did not compile a lower free throw percentage in any game this season, other than his 0-for-2 performance at San Diego State. In the three games prior to Arizona’s return to McKale Center on Tuesday , Gordon sunk nine of 11 (81.81 percent) of his last attempts from the line and was setting a respectable pace over the seven non-conference games before Arizona faced off against Texas Tech, averaging a 55.2 percent free throw conversion rate.

Turnover troubleAfter giving up 11 turnovers

during Tuesday night’s first half against Texas Tech , Arizona’s offense kicked it into high gear throughout the second half and showed that it could bounce back.

“One of the things that we obviously weren’t happy about on our side was that we were really sloppy on offense in the first half,” head coach Sean Miller said. “I

credit Texas Tech a great deal; they deflect, have a lot of athletic talent, play extremely hard — [but] we knew that coming in. The good news for us is that we were able to put that bad first half behind us.”

Miller said he was pleased that his team was able to bounce back and secure another victory. The Wildcats sharpened up and managed to commit seven fewer turnovers during the contest’s final period.

“Some were a result of bad passes, but some were lackadaisical, just not catching passes,” Johnson said. “We were better after that and finished with 15, so just four in the second half. We fixed that. We just have to concentrate. Us older guys have to lead the way going forward.”

Modern day college sports have grown into some of the most lucrative

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The National Collegiate Athletic Association consists of more than 1,000 individual institutions and is directly responsible for organizing the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the U.S. The most recent data available indicates that in 2011-2012 alone, NCAA reported revenue totaling $871.6 million . This revenue directly affects the amount of scholarships institutions are set to receive.

“[Every year], we get 315 tuition waivers from the NCAA, and we distribute them amongst all of our teams,” Vice President and Director of Athletics Greg Byrne explained. “Then, in addition, we pay for pretty much everything else as well — room, board, books, [etc].”

The NCAA’s expenses totaled $800 million , leaving the association

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Yet another road game approaches for the Arizona women’s basketball team, as it looks to secure its second road win of the season.

The Wildcats (1-6) head to Birmingham, Ala., to square off against the University of Alabama, Birmingham Blazers (5-3) on Thursday at 6 p.m. MST. This will be Arizona’s sixth road game in the first eight games of the 2013-14 season.

The Wildcats are coming off a frustrating loss last Saturday against Brigham Young University in which the team lost the rebounding battle and was dominated in points in the paint. BYU exposed a key weakness down-low in an inexperienced Arizona squad.

Arizona head coach Niya Butts said she knows rebounding is a key aspect of the game and is working to improve the team’s rebounding numbers.

“Defense and rebounding is always going to take care of you when you can’t score,” Butts said. “We want to defend, we want to run, we want to rebound and we want to finish.”

UAB will not be as physically imposing as BYU was, but that doesn’t give the Wildcats a chance to rest on the boards. UAB comes into the matchup averaging 41.9 rebounds per game, even though the Wildcats have a size advantage against the Blazers.

That size advantage should point to an increase in rebounds and points in the paint for Arizona, especially now that senior forward Erica Barnes is back in the fold. Barnes missed the first four games of the season with a concussion but has since returned and emerged as a legitimate scoring option in the low-post. Barnes is averaging 9.7 points per game and has taken on a scoring role off the bench that was previously void.

“We have been trying to take more drives … and just to get in the paint,” Barnes said. “Some of them go down and some of them don’t. We just have to keep going.”

A big part of what holds the team together is the scoring duo of junior guard Candice Warthen and senior guard Kama Griffitts. Warthen and Griffitts combine to score 28.8 points per game, which accounts

for 46.5 percent of the team’s 61.9 points per game. Griffitts has been on a hot streak lately, as she’s gone

12-for-26 from the three-point line in the last three games and led or tied for the team high in scoring in each. The only thing keeping Griffitts from hitting shots has been foul trouble. She has picked up four personal fouls in each of the past two games.

“That’s something I need to work on, especially with the new rule.” Griffitts said. “That’s been my biggest struggle. I just need to be more conscious of my hands.”

The Wildcats will have 10 days off after the UAB game before playing the Texas Tech Lady Raiders at home on Dec. 15.

BY ROBERTO PAYNEThe Daily Wildcat

Struggling Arizona faces another roadtrip at UAB

RYAN REVOCK/THE DAILY WILDCAT UA SENIOR FORWARD Erica Barnes goes to shoot the ball against Wake Forest on Nov. 26 at McKale Center. Returning from a concussion, Barnes has been a big scorer for Arizona.

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