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GPSC to invest in the future for spring semester BY ADRIANA ESPINOSA The Daily Wildcat
Throughout the spring semester, the Graduate and Professional Student Council plans to tackle a number of issues to improve the well-being of graduate students and professionals.
According to Zach Brooks, president of GPSC, the council will focus on long-term projects this semester, such as requesting an increase in the grant GPSC currently provides students with to help with childcare, thoroughly examining the fees that students pay each semester, specifically the
newly introduced iCourse fee, and generating discussions supporting higher education. Brooks said that GPSC has taken a stance to no longer support any newly proposed fee moving forward unless its purpose and use is clearly defined, adding that there is a lack of transparency in many fees the
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university charges students. “I don’t think there is any real transparency for a lot of fees that students pay, and I don’t think that’s fair,” Brooks said. “There are some fees that are really good as far as being transparent and some are really, really poor.”
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SARAH VICARI, a speech and language therapy freshman, unloads her car to move back into her dorm room in Coronado Residence Hall. Vicari spent winter break in Scottsdale.
New smart parking meters that accept credit, debit and smart cards, as well as coins and stored value, have been installed by the city of Tucson near the UA campus and downtown, giving students and Tucsonans more options when it comes to paying for parking. The IPS Group is the company providing the meters being installed by the city of Tucson. According to the IPS Group, Inc. website, the meters are convenient because they allow the public to pay at their parking location — eliminating the need to locate a kiosk nearby. “It will be more convenient for people to feed the meters,” said Steve Kozachik, council member of Ward 6. “You don’t have to walk around with a pocket or a purse filled of quarters.” Kozachik said the new smart meters are similar to the ones that are used on the UA campus already, so students who have used them around campus will know how to operate the new ones. Ronald Sheck, an urban transportation consultant currently living in Tucson, said he really likes the design concept of the new parking meters. “[They are] certainly better than the standard, old-fashioned meters,” Sheck said. “Most people don’t keep a lot of change anymore. … Certainly, students have credit cards and smart cards, so it’s going to be a lot easier for them to use it.” Sheck also noted that the instructions explaining how to use the older meters had worn away over time, and the new installments would help to fix this problem. According to a news release from the city of Tucson from Dec. 18, the new smart meters can connect wirelessly to a smartphone app. The new app, GoTucson, was branded specifically for its use in Tucson. It is expected that the
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Students eager for wage increase BY BRANDI WALKER The Daily Wildcat
To accommodate a slightly increased cost of living in the state of Arizona, the state minimum wage was increased 1.9 percent from $7.90 an hour to $8.05 an hour, impacting UA students and faculty members who work and earn minimum wage. Though well above the federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour, Arizona’s $8.05 minimum wage remains in the middle of the spectrum when comparing it to other states — with minimum wage as high as $9.47 in Washington or $9.50 in Washington, D.C., according
to the National Conference of State Legislatures. According to a recent press release from the Industrial Commission of Arizona from Oct. 16, the minimum wage increase in Arizona is a result of the Raise the Minimum Wage for Working Arizonans Act that was enacted by Arizona voters in 2006. Alysa Herchet, a nutritional sciences junior and employee at Campus Athletics on University Boulevard, said she thinks the increase will be beneficial to students who earn minimum wage. “It puts a little extra money in your
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ASU broadcast discusses Heroin in AZ BY David McGlothlin The Daily Wildcat
For 30 minutes, all 33 Arizona television stations and 93 radio stations were hooked on heroin as each simultaneously broadcasted the commercial-free investigative documentary, “Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona.” Arizona State University students and faculty from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication spent an entire semester tracking the heroin epidemic in Arizona from the source to the user through interviews with law enforcement, community members and heroin addicts. This footage was used to produce the documentary. The goal was to educate the public and prevent future overdoses and addictions while students practiced fundamental journalism techniques. The idea was introduced by Art Brooks, the president and CEO of the Arizona Broadcasters Association. Jacquee Petchel, an ASU journalism professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and editor, led a collection of 70 advanced journalism students through the production of the TV report. Some attended Heroin Anonymous meetings. Others went on ride-alongs with law enforcement officers. In the broadcast, law enforcement officers called Arizona a heroin distribution hub. Tucson is described as the heroin epicenter because of its close proximity to the 387-mile
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Arizona State University student Erin Patrick O’Connor conducts an interview for “Hooked: Tracking Heroin’s Hold on Arizona,” a statewide investigative report produced by ASU student journalists on the growing perils of heroin and opioid use.
Mexico-Arizona border. Pima County has an overdose rate twice as high as any other county in the state, according to one team’s analysis of public records from the 2009-2013 Arizona Hospital Discharge Data Set. The county also saw an increase of 93 drug convictions in the 2013-2014 fiscal year. Most heroin users start by taking opiatebased prescription drugs before switching to heroin as a cheaper and more accessible fix. “The only two outcomes of heroin are
prison or death,” said Clay, a heroin user, in an interview during the broadcast. Throughout their interviews, users described similar stories of how heroin took over their lives. Some stole from their parents or created elaborate plans to fund their addiction. Others sexually exploited themselves. Their common variable: regret. “If you have 20 percent of an entire generation of young Americas who are addicted to heroin, in 10 years, what does
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pocket for rent, so that’s something to look forward to,” said Mikayla Kirby, a pre-physiology junior and employee at IQ Fresh in the Student Union Memorial Center. Christina Rincon, a senior studying French and speech, language and hearing sciences, and an employee at one of the shops on University Boulevard, also said she thinks the increase in minimum wage is a great thing. “What I’ve found in my experience with working is that every cent … counts,” Rincon said. “I mean, 15 cents [per hour] will add up.”.” Cecilia Acedo, a junior studying pre-business and
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that do to our country?” said Special Agent Douglas W. Coleman in the video. ““What does that do to the future of our country, the future leaders? We are going to wipe out an entire class of people who at some point are going to lead this country.”
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pre-retail who works at the Student Recreation Center, said the increased minimum wage still isn’t enough. According to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Goldman Sachs compared changes in employment between December 2013 and January 2014 and found that a faster employment growth occurred in states where the minimum wage had been raised rather than in states that kept minimum wage at the 2013 level. An economic forecast report from the UA’s Eller College of Management Economic and Business Research Center indicates a 2.1 percent change from a 2014 in total employment, excluding farming positions.
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From left to right, Graduate and Professional Student Council President’s Chief of Staff Isoken Adodo, Rep. Brandon Smith, Rep. Joy Veluz, Rep. Juhyung Sun and GPSC President Zachary Brooks pose for a photo outside of Old Main on Tuesday. Brooks said the new semester will focus on the council’s long-term goals.
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app will be up and running by the end of 2015. “It will text you when a few minutes before your meter expires,” Sheck said. “So, you can either run and put more money in it, or use your smartphone to extend your time period within what limits of time are available.” Kozahik explained that the app will be useful for situations such as office meetings or other
commitments during which vehicle owners are not able to run to their cars to refill meters. On Jan. 5, the meter rate in downtown Tucson increased from 50 cents per hour to $1 per hour. According to a press release from Park Tucson, this is one of the lowest rates in the country. “I think [raised parking rates] will make it easier to park, because there will be a better turnover for parking spaces,” Sheck said. “It will probably encourage more people to use public transportation, either the
busses or streetcar. I noticed that the Park-Tucson strategy is to replace all the meters along the streetcar route first.” In late January, the installation of more new smart meters will continue into the Fourth Avenue business district. Kozachik said the 1,500 new meters should be completely installed between the UA and downtown by mid-spring.
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Amongst many concerns GPSC has about student fees, the council has been specifically researching the newly implemented iCourse fee that went into effect this semester. The fee is an added $50 to every class taught fully online that is meant to build an “online learning experience that is equal to a worldclass UA classroom,” according to UA’s Student Affairs webpage describing the fee. However, the use of this fee has raised concern amongst GPSC members. Jasmine Sears, assembly chair of GPSC, is skeptical of whether the iCourse fee is being used for its intended purpose. Sears said she spoke with a political science professor at the UA who teaches the same course both in-person and online, who told her that his online course has not changed whatsoever since the implementation of the new fee and that he does not plan to change his course. “He is pretty sure that the fee is used to make up for budget cuts somewhere else,” Sears said. “That might be the case, but that is not what student fees are meant to be used for.” Brooks said that GPSC plans to tackle fees to truly understand each and every one of them and how they are benefiting students. They also plan to address the lack of a childcare facility on campus for student parents, Isoken Adodo, presidents chief of staff for GPSC, said. This semester, GPSC plans to ask from $100,000 from the Student Services Fee Board, as opposed to the usual $26,000, to give immediate assistance to students who are in
need of childcare. The UA is the only Pac-12 school that does not have an accessible childcare facility, and Adodo said she believes that lack is detrimental to the university. The grant is provided to students through UA Life & Work Connections for those seeking childcare assistance, Adodo said. “Every year, young faculty that are looking for jobs are asking about childcare facilities in their benefits package, and because we don’t have that, it’s a detriment,” Adodo said. “It means we can’t recruit some of the brightest and best researchers and students because we can’t provide those services.” While gaining support and funds to build an on-campus childcare facility will be a long-term project for GPSC, Adodo said that the increase in the grant will be an immediate bandage to the problem. Lastly, GPSC wants to work to increase the salary of graduate assistants. According to Brooks, the average salary a graduate assistant makes is $16,000, while the cost of attendance is $21,000 — meaning, more than likely, they need to take out loans to live. There will be a number of events that promote student engagement on behalf of GPSC, such as Grad Slam, where students will get the chance to present their research in front of a panel of judges for three minutes, and finalists have to chance to win prizes. GPSC also plans to set up discussions with Arizona politicians regarding the importance of higher education. “This is a semester of investments,” Brooks said, “and we’re prepared to be really smart advocates of spring of 2015.”
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Muhammad on new Charlie Hebdo TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
At an emotional briefing Tuesday, staff members from French publication Charlie Hebdo described the motivation behind their latest issue due out Wednesday, the first since the deadly attacks last week on the satirical magazine. Gérard Biard, the editor-in-chief, said the new edition was produced “with pain and with joy” and noted that 3 million copies will be published in multiple languages in contrast to the usual run of 60,000. He and cartoonist Renald Luzier, known as Luz, displayed the edition’s cover, which shows a frowning prophet Muhammad holding a sign that says, “Je suis Charlie” — “I am Charlie” — under the headline, “All is forgiven.” Luzier described how he came up with the drawing following last week’s attack, blamed on two Islamist brothers later slain by police. Eight staff members were among the dozen people killed in the assault. “I said to myself, we must do a drawing that above all makes us laugh and not one on the emotional charge we are victims of,” he said. Luzier referred to a firebombing attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2011, saying he chose
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Muhammad as the subject because “he is a character that got our offices burned and a character who at first got us treated as the great white knights of the freedom of the press because the offices had burned down. Then a year later when we redrew the character, we were treated as dangerous, provocative and irresponsible.” He drew Muhammad crying, he said, and then cried himself. “This was not the front page the world wanted us to draw, it was our front page,” he said. “This is not the front page that the terrorists want us to draw — there are no terrorists in it, just a man who cries.” “This Muhammad is so much nicer than the ones the terrorists brandish,” Biard said, holding the cover aloft. “He’s sympathetic. Look at him, he’s crying!” It was one of the few light moments during the emotional briefing, during which Luzier repeatedly choked up and paused or rubbed tears from his eyes. Luzier, who has worked at the magazine for 20 years, was displaced from his office along with the rest of the magazine’s staff as police continued their investigation into last week’s attack. They have been working this week in borrowed offices at the newspaper
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Liberacion, where they held Tuesday’s briefing. The day of the attack, Jan. 7, was Luzier’s birthday, and he was running late and arrived after the attack to see bodies on the ground. While he conceded that the cover of the latest issue is provocative and “there are risks,” he was firm in his resolve to keep drawing. “We can’t remain silent,” he said. “We trust people’s intelligence, their
sense of humor. … People who committed this attack are just people who lack humor,” he said. “Yes, I am Charlie. But I am also a cop. I am Jewish, I am Muslim and I am atheist,” he said, speaking figuratively. He spoke of “complicated emotions” following the attack, about colleagues still struggling with the emotional impact who he hopes return to work soon. If the press thrives, he said, “we have really won.”
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— An in-flight stall caused the plane to crash. — “The Interview” can be streamed — 162 people were on board the plane. on iTunes, Google Play, YouTube — Search teams have recovered 48 bodies; 29 were and Xbox starting at $5.99 as of identified as of Jan. 10. Dec. 24. — The film was played in 331 independent theaters. — $44 million was spent on making — The magazine had received threats for its history film and $35 million was spent on of publishing controversial cartoons of the Prophet marketing. Muhammad. — The film generated $1 million — Al-Qaida claimed responsibility of the attack on in box office ticket sales on its Charlie Hebdo. opening day. — The shooting sparked rallies across the world with — “The Interview” generated $15 message, “Je Suis Charlie,” meaning, “I am Charlie.” million in online sales and rentals.
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DEC. 19: FBI confirmed North Korea orchestrated the hack.
DEC. 17: Sony announced it was cancelling the Christmas Day release of “The Interview.”
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THOUSANDS OF people gather during a demonstration march in Marseille, France, on Saturday in support of the victims of this week’s twin attacks in Paris. Hundreds of extra troops are being deployed around Paris after three days of terror in the French capital killed 17 people and left the nation in shock.
DEC. 30: Crash debris location was confirmed to be in the Karimata Strait, which connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea.
DEC. 25: 331 independent theaters released “The Interview.” DEC. 22: North Korea’s Internet was shutdown for 10 hours by hackers.
JAN. 9: The tail of the Air Asia flight was retrieved from the Java Sea.
DEC. 28: Air Asia flight QZ8501 traveling from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore lost contact with air traffic controllers at 6:17 a.m.
JAN. 7: Masked gunmen killed 12 people in an ambush of Charlie Hebdo, and a manhunt began for the gunmen.
JAN. 12: The first flight recorder was recovered by search crews.
JAN. 9: Two gunmen and four hostages were killed during a police standoff inside a kosher grocery store in Paris.
JAN. 13: The second flight recorder was recovered.
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Don’t ask Muslims to apologize for terror BY ashwin mehra The Daily Wildcat
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fter the Jan. 7 terrorist attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, media coverage once again turned around to the question that has dogged Muslims for over a decade: Why aren’t Muslims apologizing? On Twitter, Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp., tweeted that “Maybe most Moslems [are] peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer, they must be held responsible.” Meanwhile, on CNN, Don Lemon asked Arsalan Iftikhar, a Muslim human rights lawyer, if he supported the Islamic State, leaving Iftikhar stunned. It’s a trend that seems to follow every major terrorist attack, with the media asking why regular Muslims aren’t apologizing for the attack and suggesting that all Muslims need to be held personally responsible for it, as Murdoch claims. It’s also a question that isn’t posed to any other group of people. The media didn’t ask why ordinary cops weren’t apologizing after the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown. The media doesn’t go after Americans and ask them to apologize for the U.S.’s invasions of other countries. When a white supremacist attacked and killed six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., no one asked all white people to apologize for the shooting. The majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are done by men, according to Time, yet no one would claim that every man in the U.S. has to be held responsible for them. The idea that all Muslims have to apologize for the attack is a double standard. The vast majority of the world’s over 1.6 billion Muslims are not terrorists, and asking them to apologize for a crime they never committed makes no sense. There is no way that every Muslim in the world even can apologize; should all of them be required to report to their nearest news station to issue a brief statement of regret? Or should every Muslim’s social media accounts be searched to make sure they’ve apologized for every attack perpetrated by terrorists? The statements by Lemon and Murdoch, among others, also ignore the fact that many prominent Muslims have indeed condemned the attacks. According to The Huffington Post, the Grand Mosque of Paris condemned the attack, along with the Union of Islamic Organizations of France. The French Council of the Muslim Faith posted a press release on its website asking Muslim citizens to join demonstrations against the attacks. Even international leaders spoke out against the shooting. According to the Los Angeles Times, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi, the Palestinian Authority, Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, and the leaders of Hezbollah and Hamas all condemned the attacks. Hasan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, called the shooters takfiris, or apostates. Calling for Muslims to apologize for terrorist attacks or blaming them distracts from the actual problem of terrorism. If every Muslim in the world who wasn’t a terrorist apologized for the attacks, terrorism wouldn’t disappear. The people who are terrorists will continue to plan out attacks, as they have so far. In fact, most of the victims of Islamist terrorist groups are themselves Muslims, as in the case of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Boko Haram and the Taliban. Asking for apologies, especially when Muslims are already condemning the attack, is really just racism, bigotry and persecution of the Muslim community. And as more Muslims feel persecuted by their governments and the media, the chance that a few of them will join extremist groups increases. The Muslim community, regardless of whether or not it supports Charlie Hebdo’s journalists, is already reaching out and condemning the attacks. One of the police officers who died trying to protect the journalists was a Muslim. Muslim groups in France are asking ordinary Muslims to join protests to show the world that not every Muslim in France supports this violence. Publications across the Middle East have printed their own solidarity cartoons to confront Islamic extremism. Muslims are saying they’re against terrorism. It’s time everyone else stops sticking their fingers in their ears while complaining they can’t hear anything.
— Ashwin Mehra is a physiology senior. Follow him @Arvedui
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Better things to print than cartoons of Muhammad BY Jacquelyn oesterblad The Daily Wildcat
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n Jan. 7, two terrorists stormed the headquarters of a newspaper and gunned-down a dozen people because they were offended by the ideas their victims had published. I was deeply shaken by the attack. When I choose a cartoon each night to print on this page, I never expect to be killed or arrested for my choice. So, I admire the slaughtered journalists for their commitment to their beliefs; despite the repeated threats, Charlie Hebdo journalists continued to operate courageously according to their personal code of ethics. It just so happens that my personal code of journalistic ethics looks a bit different from theirs. That’s OK. It turns out, newspapermen and women have widely divergent views on the responsible use of the power of the press. Charlie Hebdo believes that its role in society rests on its willingness to, in the words of one Newsweek columnist, “speak truth to power,” and that speaking truth to power means drawing pictures of Muhammad in sexual positions. But with Charlie Hebdo’s right to publish its cartoons comes my right to call (some) cartoons tasteless, racist and unproductive. I find it funny to draw attention to the hypocrisies of Muslim fundamentalists, which is why I laughed at a Charlie Hebdo cartoon depicting an ISIS fighter about to behead the prophet. But when the punchline of the joke is that the cartoonist is willing and
able to malign an oppressed minority, I find it profoundly unfunny. I’ve been frustrated by some journalists’ inability to see this distinction. From Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine to Ross Douthat at The New York Times, many have argued that supporting the slain cartoonists should mean supporting the content of their cartoons. Teju Cole at The New Yorker summed up my feelings perfectly when he wrote that “it is possible to consider Islamophobia immoral without wishing it illegal.” Of course, in a country where we struggle with considering homosexuality immoral without wishing it illegal, is it so surprising that we’re having difficulty? The rules of a liberal society may grant the right to distribute flyers emblazoned with the name of God in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods or to organize neo-Nazi marches outside a predominantly-black church, but that doesn’t mean using the rules in that way makes you a champion of liberal society. It makes you an asshole. For the Charlie Hebdo columnists and many others on the French left, insulting religion is an inherent good. I, on the other hand, choose not to participate in such ugliness because I believe that a public sphere is made free not through the absence of any religion but through the presence of all religion. I also believe in freedom of the press, which is why I’m just as worried about the 24 American journalists who were arrested for reporting the Ferguson protests as I am about eulogizing the French free speech martyrs. While the world celebrates the million-man marches through the streets of Paris expressing support for the principle of free speech, I’m still concerned about last summer’s pro-Palestinian demonstrators, who were threatened with up to three years in
French prisons for exercising that principle. My opposition to terrorism manifests itself not only in concern about the attack in Paris but also in the 2000 mostly-Muslim Nigerians murdered by Boko Haram this week and the NAACP building in Colorado that was just bombed. The overwhelming focus on Charlie Hebdo and lack of a corresponding commitment to enforcing these values in other instances forces me to ask: How much of the #JeSuisCharlie movement is an expression of support for free speech in its most absolutist form, and how much is it an expression of the fact that we just really hate Muslims? How much is it an expression of the fact that we support journalists so long as they publish the stories we want to hear, support protestors so long as they are mostly white and mourn terror victims so long as they fit our narrative of “them” hating “us”? As much as one can ever “learn” anything from senseless tragedy, the lesson of the Charlie Hebdo massacre ought to be a renewed understanding of the gravity of the press’ power and the sacred responsibility of free speech. We need to interrogate the reason that stories like this resonate so powerfully while others draw so little attention. It’s time for the news to shut up about #JeSuisCharlie and start demonstrating a real commitment to freedom by reporting on its abuse. We all know that we have the right to say anything we desire. What’s much more difficult, though, is exercising that right in thoughtful ways.
— Jacquelyn Oesterblad is the opinions editor. Follow her @JOesterblad
What you missed this break New governor, same budget cuts In Gov. Doug Ducey’s speech at his swearing-in on Jan. 5, he said critics would argue “that the state has already found all the savings that can be found, cut every line item that can be cut.” But, Ducey assured us, he will not sign any bill that raises taxes. The $1 billion budget shortfall for fiscal year 2015 will still, somehow, have to be covered through new cuts to state programs. This might seem like an odd assertion considering that, according to the Private Enterprise Research Center, Arizona is already in the bottom five nationally for healthcare funding and spends less per pupil on our schools than any other state, as noted by the National Education Association. But in a way, Ducey is right: There is still fat to be trimmed in the budget. Arizona spends 40 percent more on prisons than it does on universities, in part because
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of a unique law requiring even non-violent offenders in the state to serve 85 percent of their sentences. According to a 2012 study from the Vera Institute of Justice, a $1 billion dollar prison budget in Arizona relies on a contribution of over $1000 from each taxpayer. Arizona has spent more than a billion dollars on prisons every year since 2010. If Ducey insists on continuing the trend of draconian budget cuts, he may be forced to target an area of spending that has remained sacrosanct in the state legislature. No means no, Mitt Romney Our favorite perennial candidate announced on Jan. 9 that he is likely to run for president in 2016. After all, the third time is the charm. Perhaps Romney is looking to Nixon as his inspiration, who lost to Kennedy in 1960 but secured the presidency in 1968. Or perhaps Romney should learn that any parallel political
reporters can draw to Nixon is not going to serve him well. Politico has reported that Romney is keeping most of his old staff, leading many Republican donors to question how much he has learned from his old mistakes. And, of course, there’s always the threat that Romney will change his message so much that the old “Flip-Flop Mitt” characterization will gain new strength. Thank God for small blessings, though — Romney’s runningmate, Paul Ryan, has announced unequivocally that he won’t seek a nomination next year. Palestine goes to court Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rang in the New Year by signing the Rome statute, officially joining the International Criminal Court. Palestine’s membership in the ICC will enable it to bring war crimes charges against Israel and subjects the Palestinian leadership to similar charges.
The United States called the move “an escalatory step” and threatened sanctions. But Israel acted immediately, withholding the $127 million in Palestinian tax dollars that Israel owed the Palestinian Authority for December. Under the Paris Protocol of 1994, Israel agreed to collect and remit West Bank taxes to the PA. Israel’s choice to respond to threats of legal action by breaking an international, legally-binding treaty is odd, but Abbas’ choice to ignore the consequences and move forward demonstrates the hopelessness that has overtaken most Palestinians about a peaceful, negotiated solution to the conflict. If Israel and the U.S. aren’t able to reign in this despair, they will find themselves with much bigger problems than a summons to the Hague.
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An individual with no affiliation to the UA was placed under arrest for driving impaired to the slightest degree on Dec. 27. A University of Arizona Police Department officer was approaching the intersection of Speedway Boulevard and Fourth Avenue when they noticed a black Chevrolet make a right hand turn onto Speedway Boulevard. The officer noted that while the vehicle was making this turn, it turned into the number two lane — almost striking the curb before correcting to the middle of the lane. This prompted the officer to conduct a U-turn and follow the vehicle. The officer noted that the vehicle drifted from side to side within the number two lane multiple times. The vehicle proceeded to drift and drive on top of the broken white lane dividers. The officer then saw the vehicle make a quick lane change before entering a Taco Bell parking lot. The officer conducted a traffic stop on the vehicle in the parking lot. However, the vehicle continued into the drive through, the driver placed an order, paid for the meal and received their food before coming to a complete stop in a parking space. The officer made contact with the male driver of the car and introduced himself, stating that he stopped the driver because he had drifted within his lane multiple times and had driven on top of the broken white lane dividers. The officer asked for the driver’s license, vehicle registration and proof of insurance. The officer noted that the driver had red, watery and bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and a strong smell of intoxicants on his breath. The officer asked the driver if he had been drinking earlier in the evening; the driver responded yes. The driver handed the officer his driver’s license and said he did not have registration or proof of insurance. The driver proceeded to turn off his vehicle and attempt to step out of the car, prompting the officer to tell him to remain inside. The officer conducted a license and warrants check and proceeded to ask the driver to step out of the vehicle. While the driver was standing in the parking lot, he had a noticeable back-and-forth sway. The driver repeatedly stated that he “just wanted to have a good time tonight” with his friends that were in town from New York. A field sobriety test was conducted. While performing the walk and turn, the driver continued to sway. He had to be instructed multiple times to stay in the starting position but, at times, stepped out of the position to regain his balance. Following the field sobriety test, the driver was placed under arrest for driving impaired to the slightest degree. The individual was handcuffed, searched and placed in the back of the officer’s patrol car. During the search, the officer found a stack of used plastic shot glasses in his front left jacket pocket. The driver was transported to the UAPD station where he consented to a breath sample.
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SPORTS SCORE CENTER Kansas holds off OK State in battle
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Let the Stanimal loose As the Arizona men’s basketball team continues to struggle to score, it’s time to take the reins off Stanley Johnson
No. 9 Kansas 67, No. 24 Oklahoma State 57
Wizards hold back Spurs on NBA TV Washington Wizards 101, San Antonio Spurs 93
Suns spoil The King’s return Phoenix Suns 107, Cleveland Cavaliers 100
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t doesn’t take a genius to know the No. 10 Arizona men’s basketball team had no business losing to Oregon State this past Sunday. It was an uncharacteristic loss for the Arizona program to a team in Oregon State that had been handled by the Wildcats in recent history. Not to mention the loss raises plenty of red flags around this Arizona squad — many of which reside on the offensive side of the ball. Much like the UNLV loss, the UA offense fizzled for long stretches of time. Want proof? Look no further than the 21-20 UA lead over the Beavers at halftime. Arizona was just 6-23 from the field for a putrid 26-percent field goal percentage, including going 1-10 from behind the arc. It was a performance that made last season’s struggling offense look like world beaters. The biggest difference between the two offenses has to be the lack of a go-to scorer on this season’s team. There was a consensus that Nick Johnson would be missed, and boy has he been missed. The Wildcats have struggled to find a late game scorer to take over the void left by Nick Johnson and have seen end of game offensive possessions result in turnovers more frequently than made buckets. Interestingly, the one guy on this Arizona team that has the ability to take up that late game scoring role is also a Johnson. Stanley Johnson came to Arizona as one of the best scorers in his class and a perfect candidate to get buckets for the Wildcats. While Stanley Johnson is leading the Wildcats in scoring at 13.9 points per game, he is also the leader in turnovers and second in personal fouls. In Arizona’s two losses this year, Stanley Johnson has struggled
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ARIZONA FORWARD Stanley Johnson watches as his shot is blocked by ASU’s defense during Arizona’s 73-49 win against ASU in McKale Center on Jan. 4. Increased offensive output from Johnson could be the boost Arizona needs to get over its recent struggles.
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TWEET TO NOTE Some athletes are wired different —@StanMan_5
Arizona men’s baskeball standout freshman forward Stanley Johnson is always a good source for motivational tweets . Not to mention this tweet could easily be said about Johnson.
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With a 7-4 record heading into conference play, it looked like Arizona women’s basketball was on the verge of turning the corner. After all, the Wildcats had already surpassed their five-game win total of the previous season. Then came two close losses to the Washington schools at home. The home stand was followed by an 88-41 defeat to ASU, also in Tucson. When the UA traveled to Tempe this past Saturday, the margin was closer, but the outcome remained the same: another loss. In a matter of two weeks, all the good vibes had gone away. The current reality is that the Wildcats sit at the bottom of the Pac-12 Conference standings with an 0-4 conference record. If it’s any solace, Utah and Colorado are right there with them. Now the question becomes whether head coach Niya Butts can right the ship and lead
Buckeyes’ win shows playoff system works BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat
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ARIZONA women’s basketball coach Niya Butts looks on during Arizona’s 49-44 win against UAB on Dec. 14 in McKale Center. Butts and the Wildcats have lost four straight games.
Arizona out of the Pac-12 cellar — a task that should prove daunting but plausible.
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ake a note, this is historic: The college football national championship system worked. On Monday, college football crowned its first national champion of the College Football Playoff era when No. 4 seed Ohio State shocked No. 2 seed Oregon 42-20 in North Texas. In the old Bowl Championship Series era (1998 to last season), neither team would probably have even played for the national championship. The BCS would likely have spit out Alabama, No. 1 in the AP before the bowl season, and Florida State, which
was No. 2. The Seminoles were the defending national champions and had won 29 straight games, so they surely would have been picked over Oregon or Ohio State to play the Crimson Tide for the national championship game. This year, the college football Jedi Council added the fourteam playoff and a committee to select them. In the semifinals, Oregon crushed Florida State in the Rose Bowl, 59-20, and Ohio State shocked the world by rallying from a 21-6 deficit and knocking the SEC out of the national title game for the first time in nine years. The semifinals were a part of the revamped New Year’s Six, which put the six most prominent bowls front and center on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.
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Here’s what you missed over break BY JAMES KELLEY The Daily Wildcat
While UA sports had a fall semester to remember, winter break was filled with disappointment. Football lost its second game in a row, while men’s basketball, women’s basketball and hockey lost multiple times, and gymnastics lost its season opener. Here’s a rundown of everything you might have missed over the break. Boise State spoils football’s Fiesta On a dark and gloomy day in
Glendale, UA football was upset by Boise State in its return to a major bowl game. On Dec. 31, the then-No. 10/12 Wildcats (10-4) lost the Vizio Fiesta Bowl 38-30 to then-No. 20/21 Boise State. It was Arizona’s first major bowl since the 1994 Fiesta Bowl. The Broncos (12-2) opened the game with 21 unanswered points in the first 10 minutes. “They executed a whole lot better,” Arizona head coach Rich Rodriguez said right after the game about the UA’s start. “It was like it was against air. I mean, it wasn’t even challenged.”
After Arizona trailed 31-17 at halftime, the Wildcats rallied, holding Boise State to zero touchdowns on offense, but UA quarterback Anu Solomon was sacked on the Bronco 10-yard line on the last play. The loss snapped Rodriguez’s twogame bowl win streak at Arizona and his 11-game, nonconference win streak as UA head coach. On the plus side, UA linebacker Scooby Wright won three national player of the year awards: the Bronko Nagurski Trophy, the Chuck Bednarik Award and the Rotary Lombardi Award.
Men’s basketball splits road trips First, Arizona men’s basketball saw its streak end, and then they suffered a historic loss. The No. 10 Wildcats (142, 2-1 Pac-12 Conference) went 5-2 over the winter break, but lost two of their last four games. Near the start of the break, Arizona beat Michigan, 80-53, and Oakland, 101-64, at home, before besting UTEP 60-55 on the road. Four days later on Dec. 23, the Wildcats lost 71-67 at UNLV, which ended their nation-leading, regular-
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season nonconference winning streak at 39 games. Right after the game, when Arizona head coach Sean Miller was asked about the streak ending, he said, “It’s good.” “When you get that sick feeling when they storm the court — how it feels when the horn goes off — there’s nothing that simulates why you want to win more than that feeling,” Miller said. The Wildcats took a break for Christmas, didn’t play for another 12 days and came back with a new lineup, defeating ASU 73-49 at home. “Losing to UNLV was a good thing for our team in that it really made us refocus and realize that even though we’re a talented team, we’re not invincible,” UA forward Brandon Ashley said right after the ASU game. Then, Arizona beat Oregon 80-62 in its first Pac-12 road game. Point guard T.J. McConnell scored a UA career-high 21 points as the Wildcats won for the first time at Matthew Knight Arena. However, three days later at Oregon State, the Wildcats lost 58-56. Arizona had won seven in a row against the Beavers, who took down a top-10 team for the first time since upsetting No. 3 Arizona in 2000. After the ASU game, forward Craig Victor decided to transfer to LSU. The four-star recruit from New Orleans played in eight games and averaged 3.1 points per game and 1.1 rebounds in 7.1 minutes per game.
Sports • Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Hockey swept by Oklahoma schools Last week, Arizona hockey opened 2015 by picking up where it left off in 2014: on the losing side of the scoreboard. The Oklahoma schools swept the No. 20 Wildcats (9-13-0) at the Tucson Convention Center Arena. On Thursday, No. 2 Central Oklahoma beat Arizona 6-3. Then, on Friday and Saturday, No. 6 Oklahoma beat the UA 5-3 and 6-4, respectively. The Wildcats have lost six in a row, including the last five at home. Women’s hoops opens Pac-12 0-4 Over the break, Arizona women’s basketball saw its four-game win streak snapped before struggling in Pac-12 play. The Wildcats (7-8, 0-4 Pac-12) opened the winter break by defeating Southern University, 56-45, and UAB, 49-44, at home. However, Arizona lost 72-60 at Stephen F. Austin in its last game before Christmas. While Arizona began the conference season with three straight home games, it lost all three conference home games so far — 81-70 to Washington State, 7969 to No. 23 Washington and 88-41 to No. 18 ASU. Two days later on Jan. 10, in the return leg of the rivalry series in Tempe, the UA fell behind by a mere three points at the half but lost again to the Sun Devils, 71-54. Gymcats drop opener Arizona gymnastics opened the season with a 196.225-194.375 loss at No. 4 Alabama. The Gymcats earned a 48.950 on the bars and 48.750 on the vault, leading after the second rotation. “There were some amazing
performances, and we definitely learned a lot about some girls [Saturday night],” head coach Bill Ryden said in a press release. The Gymcats scored 47.850 on the floor and 48.825 on the beam. Jessie Sisler won the beam with a personal best score of 9.950. Allison Flores was the sole UA gymnast to compete in the all-around, which she finished second in with a 39.050. Swimming and diving shines Arizona swimming and diving teams were a rare bright spot for the UA over the break. On Jan. 2, the No. 11 men upset No. 8 Missouri 160.50-101.50, while the No. 14 women beat the No. 16 Mizzou females 175.00-106.00. The UA women also beat Oregon State (184.00-97.00), NAU (191.00102.00) and New Mexico State (198.0089.00) at that meet. For the women, Bonnie Brandon, Emma Schoettmer, Elizabeth Pepper and Taylor Schick all won two events. Brandon, Schoettmer and Schick also comprised the winning 200 medley relay team. For the men, Nick Hogsed, Kevin Cordes and Rasmus Skjaerpe each won two events. Right before Christmas, three Arizona divers excelled at the USA Diving Nationals in Columbus, Ohio. Samantha Pickens won the women’s 1 meter with a score of 566.35. She finished sixth in the 3 meter with a score of 852.40. Rafael Quintero finished fourth in the men’s platform with a score of 1234.60, while Dominic Ricotta took 13th with a 986.70. — Follow James Kelley @ jameskelley520
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ARIZONA MEN’S basketball coach Sean Miller directs his team during Arizona’s 73-49 win against ASU in McKale Center on Jan. 4. The Wildcats have dropped two of their last four games.
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Arizona baseball
Arizona baseball sophomore Bobby Dalbec and junior Kevin Newman were named to the Perfect Game preseason All-American third team. The infielders received the preseason awards after solid performances last season. Also, Collegiate Baseball named Newman and junior Scott Kingery to the 2015 Lousiville Slugger Preseason All-American teams.
Ohio State football
In what is to go down in CFP history, Ohio State defeated Oregon 42-20 in the first-ever College Football Playoff Championship. The Ducks looked lost on offense, and their defense just couldn’t quite stop the OSU rushing attack led by running back Ezekiel Elliott. Props to quarterback Cardale Jones for leading the Buckeyes in just his third start. He will easily go down as the best third-string quarterback ever.
Arizona football
Even though their last two games did not go the way they wanted it to, the Arizona Wildcats finished the season ranked No. 19 by the AP Poll. This ranking is the Wildcats’ eighth time being ranked in the AP Top 25. Plus, they can say they are one of two teams who were able to beat the Oregon Ducks, a team that made it all the way to the CFP championship.
The winter break did not serve the Arizona Wildcats well. First, the Wildcats lost to UNLV on the road, and then they lost to Oregon State on Sunday night. The UA also dropped to No. 10 on the AP Poll. It needs to find a player who will take over games late in the fourth quarter, especially with the loss of dynamic scorer Nick Johnson.
Denver Broncos
After their Sunday afternoon loss to the Indianapolis Colts 24-13, Denver Broncos fans were disappointed. Then, they found out star quarterback Peyton Manning had played the game and the past month with a torn quad. Now, head coach John Fox mutually parted ways with the Broncos. They are without a head coach and possibly a quarterback if Manning decides to retire.
Arizona women’s basketball
The Wildcats have four straight losses, including a recent loss to in-state rival ASU. Plus, they are 0-4 in the Pac-12 Conference. After a solid nonconference run, the Wildcats are struggling to find any momentum. If they don’t win soon, they might go down the losing path just like the previous season. . — Follow Matt Wall @mwall20
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While Arizona lost, playing in the Fiesta Bowl in the New Year’s Six was a great boost to the program. The system preserved the pageantry of the bowls, featuring mainstays such as parades, video games and eating contests, before the game. After the bowls came the national championship game, where Ohio State pounded
Oregon, despite starting its thirdstring quarterback. In the old system, as Big Ten and Pac-12 Conference champions, those two teams would have played in the Rose Bowl, and while it would have been cool, that would be the end of it. Instead, the four seed won the “undisputed national championship” for the first time in college football history.
Maybe TCU, which won the Peach Bowl 42-3, has a gripe for not being included in the playoff, but so far, the College Football Playoff has been a rousing success. Week after week, teams eliminated each other, and then Cinderella (sort of) won it all — making the CFP a mix of the importance of the regular season under the old system and men’s basketball’s March Madness. — Follow James Kelley @jameskelley520
to consistently be that scoring presence that the Wildcats so desperately need. Against UNLV, the freshman went just 3-11 from the field en route to a 13 point performance aided heavily by six free-throw makes and committed seven turnovers — the last of which came as the clock wound down and the Wildcats looked to tie up the score. Against Oregon State, he attempted just four shots, making two, and finished with a grand total of seven points in his second-ever Pac-12 Conference road game. Not exactly the type of performance needed from the leading scorer. It’s not that Stanley Johnson isn’t good enough to lead this team, because he most certainly is. It’s almost as if the freshman is defaulting to his older and more seasoned teammates. In most cases, that’s exactly what a freshman is supposed to do. But
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In order for the Wildcats to jump to the middle of the pack, they will need to cut out the inconsistent play that has plagued them all season on both sides of the ball. Offensively, Arizona does a solid enough job facilitating and finding the net, but it’s not a team that will scare opponents with its shooting. As a group, the UA is making less than 40 percent of its field goal attempts and lacks a true deep shooter. Point guard Candice Warthen has consistently been the team’s leading scorer, and guard Malena Washington is finding her form as well. However, the backcourt duo has committed more turnovers than assists, highlighting the major issue of the Wildcats’ offense. Arizona constantly forces itself into big holes by playing careless with the ball, which leads to easy scores for the opposition. If, for example, Arizona had not committed 21 turnovers against the Sun Devils on Saturday, the UA might have been in a position to win at the end. Instead, ASU was able to capitalize by scoring 19 points off those turnovers and pulled away. Defensively, the Wildcats are liable to go Jekyll and Hyde from possession to possession.
in this circumstance, where more seasoned teammates like Kaleb Tarczewski, Brandon Ashley and Gabe York are struggling, Stanley Johnson needs to do what he’s been doing his entire basketball career and go seek shots. I’m not saying he goes completely off the hinge and put up Kobe-Bryant-type shooting numbers, but he has to realize that he’s one of the few guys on the roster that can get his shot almost anytime he wants. It’s one of the reasons why he’s such a talented player and a likely top-5 NBA Draft pick. As Arizona looks to bounce back from its most recent loss, it’s up to Stanley Johnson to pick up the offensive slack and lead the Wildcats down the stretch. Because, in the end, he’s not the scorer the Wildcats deserve. He’s the scorer they need.
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Bolstered by a .259 3-point percentage defense that ranks second in the Pac-12 and No. 19 nationally, Arizona has no trouble defending jumpers. However, teams have repeatedly taken advantage of the UA’s lack of size by attacking the paint. With no one on the roster above 6-foot-1, the Wildcats have trouble matching up against opposing centers. This forces them to play a bend-but-don’t-break type of defense down low, a strategy that is effective for only so long. Even with a smaller group, the team has to put up a better fight in the post without getting into foul trouble. Perhaps the best news for Arizona going forward is that the Pac-12 is in the midst of a down year. While ASU, Stanford and Oregon State are all ranked in the top 15, a major drop-off follows, particularly in the South division. Both UCLA and USC are struggling, and Utah and Colorado are also 0-4 in conference play. Those four schools compose six of the UA’s remaining 14 games. The Wildcats will have plenty of winnable games ahead, but they’ll need to execute better than they have been in order to come out victorious.
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Rogue Theatre waits for ‘Godot’ BY IVANA GOLDTOOTH The Daily Wildcat
As students come back to campus fresh from winter break, the red doors of The Rogue Theatre welcome all to its spring opener with Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” Through the play, one can experience the absurd existential crisis of waiting for a man who may or may not exist and has yet to show up to his appointment. Additionally, as play director Cynthia Meier said, one may also experience how “Nothing happens.” That is the basis of the plot that the theater company explores in how it plays out the absurd through characters’ humorous ticks and behaviors. For example, the character Pozzo, played by David Morden, lays on the ground crying for help, seemingly unable to get up by himself despite being able to. At first glance, this may seem like a petulant act, but one cannot help but snicker at this self-important man being ignored, especially when his softly spoken “pity” makes the house roar with laughter at his predicament. The restlessness of the character Vladimir also adds to the humor as he constantly wakes his companion, Estragon, from his short nap. This prompts the refrain, “Why will you never let me sleep?” The humor is helped by the piano accompaniment. Its musical cues following the characters’ footsteps in a fashion reminiscent of old Warner Bros. cartoons. The music aids the play’s tone and transforms what could easily be serious and depressing into something satirical and darkly humorous.
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JOSEPH MCGRATH AND MATT BOWDREN perform in The Rogue Theatre adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” The theater’s first play of 2015 explores existentialism and will run until Jan. 25.
Many things about the play are humorous, absurd and wonderfully existential, but it is the cast that makes the play. Admittedly, there are problems when looking at the two main characters whose journey the play follows. Vladimir, played by Joseph McGrath, and Estragon, played by Matt Bowdren, have been companions for about 50 years, and there is some expectation that the characters should look older. It is,
in part, made up for when Bowdren acts more tired than his years at the prospect of their fruitless waiting. In the Broadway run of the play in 2013, with Vladimir and Estragon played by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, respectively, this duo reveals a story of companionship and a way to help pass the time together, as Vladimir remarks in the play. However, with The Rogue Theatre’s production and ensemble,
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which nothing really happens. But perhaps it is the way one passes the time, and, with a friend, the wait can become worthwhile. “Waiting for Godot” runs Thursdays through Sundays until Jan. 25 at The Rogue Theatre.
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Tucson musicians show songwriting savvy and skills BY CHELSEA COOK
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he Imitation Game,” the awards season’s darling biopic of British mathematician and code breaker Alan Turing (“Sherlock’s” Benedict Cumberbatch), attempts to play its own “imitation game” with the audience. One of the first exploratory forays into artificial intelligence, a field that Turing pioneered, involved a simple game where a third party had to determine the sex of two unseen participants, their only method of communication being written notes. This would give rise to more complex tests involving computers imitating humans, blurring the line between the intelligence of man and that of machine. The film, and Turing himself, via direct address to the audience, asks the viewer to judge him on his actions and character during World War II. It’s a provocative question to pose, especially with Cumberbatch’s arresting delivery, instructing the audience to look closely, pay attention and reserve judgments until the very end. However, there’s really not a lot of moral ambiguity in Turing’s case; the movie comes down squarely on his side — for good reason. Turing’s legacy has a single black smudge, though not through any fault of his own. He was homosexual, which was a crime in Britain at the time. It is the beginning of World War II, and the Allies are not faring well against the Axis. The Germans encrypt all of their radio communications using Enigma machines, rendering all messages frustrating gibberish to the Allies. Everyone believes it is uncrackable. The precocious Alan Turing puts forth that they will know for sure whether it’s unbeatable only once he’s had a crack at it. He, along with a team of Britain’s best and brightest mathematicians, linguists and cryptographers, hit their heads together, and sometimes hit each other, in a daily sprint against the clock. Enigma changes every day. Turing is presented as the classic socially awkward genius. His condescension toward his colleagues stems from both his social ineptitude and the belief that he is, indeed, better than everybody else. Both Cumberbatch and director Morten Tyldum strike a balance with Turing between “likeable” and “unlikeable” that only just tips in favor of “likeable.” Though he may be brash, both accidentally and purposefully, it feels validated, as he really is the smartest one in the room. His inability to pick up on social cues sometimes manifests itself humorously, as he attempts to tell a joke in deadpan delivery, and sometimes tragically, as he struggles to accurately express himself through the occasional stutter. For all of his eccentricities, Turing’s heart is in the right place. He just wants to win the war, which would also
“Waiting for Godot” may instead show the satirical side of Beckett’s play. This leads the way to brooding and doubting one’s reality but also creates an “Inception”-like moment at the end, with Vladimir reflecting, “Is this a dream?” The play still prompts the question: Why wait for Godot? Perhaps it is, in part, because of the circumstances — that there is nothing else to do, and it is a play in
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give him the pleasure of solving his greatest puzzle yet — Enigma. However, these aspects described may be exaggerated. This awards season has brought into the forefront the tricky nature of the phrase “based on a true story.” “Selma,” “Foxcatcher” and “The Imitation Game” have each had their fair share of various parties coming forth claiming distortions and inaccuracies. In this particular case, historians have laid claim to a litany of potential falsehoods. An aspect that seems so inherent to the film’s conflict and characters, Turing’s social struggles, is claimed to be highly exaggerated. If Turing did indeed get along in general with his coworkers, as is put forth by scholars, the film paints a much different picture. The characters and stories presented in the film ring true, yet, if major aspects are altered, how should that affect criticism? The details may be far from the truth, but the general form seems to be true: a genius that nearly single-handedly won World War II, a man who later committed suicide after his closeted homosexuality came to light and was punished by society for it. At times, a paradoxical way to pay homage to someone’s life is to alter it.
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Local musicians and their creativity will be in the spotlight the second Wednesday of each month as the Monterey Court holds the Tucson Songwriter Showcase on its courtyard stage. Ron Pandy hosts the annual show in addition to participating in the showcase. The event, according to Monterey Court’s official website, is inspired by the success of the Nashville Songwriter’s Showcase. Each month, there are nine new performers — three groups total — in the lineup who spend the night swapping songs. “Each group has time to play four songs each,” Pandy said. “They also are encouraged to play along if they can on the other’s song.” All styles of music are represented at the showcase, from folk and country to jazz and rap. While the performers take the stage, people of all ages are invited to dine or grab drinks from the café and watch the show for free. The target audience, Pandy said, is anyone who enjoys creativity. “There are some who reserve a table every month and bring their friends,” Pandy said. “Monterey Court is an outdoor venue, so kids are welcome … [and] some people bring their dogs.” Periodically throughout the night, Pandy will take a brief pause from the music and ask the musicians a songwriting question. These usually encompass questions such as, “Which came first, the music or lyrics?” or, “What part of writing this song gave you a headache?” By answering these questions, the songwriters have a chance to express the meanings behind their songs and explain a bit about the journey it took to write them. The performers’
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LOCAL SONGWRITER and Tucson Songwriter Showcase host Ron Pandy plays an original song titled “Raining Cats and Dogs” at Himmel Park on Tuesday. The song was written on an airplane, because, as Pandy said, “If the plane goes down, there in the wreckage, they’ll find the last words of Ron Pandy.”
experience varies, with some having performed for decades and others having only just started writing. The list of musicians for this month’s event includes Kenny Williams, Denise Lane, Dal Hodges, Don Armstrong, Ron Pandy, Marilyn Ryan, Eric Hansen, Vicky Smith and special guest Beth Fitchet Wood, the winner of the Tucson Folk Festival songwriting contest in 2009 who is on tour from California. Monterey Court has been open since November 2011, and the Tucson Songwriter Showcase has been going continuously for over a year now, according to Greg Haver, the owner and booking agent for Monterey Court. Over the course of the year, more than 100 different singersongwriters have attended and been a part of the event.
“[Pandy] has been putting together an ever more diverse group of singer-songwriters and has increased the interest by the public many fold over the past year,” Haver said. The Monterey Court not only hosts the Tucson Songwriter Showcase but has also had acts including comedy troupes, classical music quartets and clowns perform on occasion. On the equinox and solstices, the venue invites Native American tribes to come sell their artisan wares at a weekend gathering at the Court. The next Tucson Songwriter Showcase is today at the Monterey Court from 6:30-9:30 p.m. The event is free to the general public and is open to all ages. — Follow Chelsea Cook @DailyWildcat