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In this edition of the Arizona Daily Wildcat: Modern love Wildcats no longer "Sleepless in Seattle" Brass Tax brings its singular sound to Sky Bar this Saturday Culture and sexuality collide in 'Gun Hill Road'

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Where do you meet people?

Parties, bars Class, workYou don’t

WILDCATWEEKENDIT’S WHAT YOU’VE BEEN WAITING FOR

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2013 • VOL. 106, ISSUE 91 • DAILYWILDCAT.COM/WEEKEND

MODERN � ere’s hooking up and hanging out. But whatever happened to dinner and a movie?

SEE PAGE 2

INSIDE

LOVE

Through friends

No response

Coffee

{ }“Want to hang?” text

{ }Booty text

Friends with benefits

Movies

Dinner

Relationship

Break up

Forever alone

Friend zoned

Awkward fi rst kiss

Ice cream

Hook up

{ }Text them

GALLERY FROM LAST NIGHT’S WIN OVER WASHINGTON

DAILYWILDCAT.COM

FREE FILM SCREENING AT GALLAGHER PAGE - 3

BRASS TAX CARVES ITS NICHE

PAGE - 7

GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY AT BICAS PAGE - 6

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friday, february 1, 2013 • page 2

LOVEOLOGY

A friend set them up. He picked her up for dinner. Over sushi, he tried to convert her to Catholicism by drawing on a napkin: her behind the bars of a jail cell to represent her atheism, him surrounded by rainbows to represent

religion.They didn’t go out again.“It was probably the worst date ever,” said Laura

Scotney, a political science senior. “We couldn’t really talk about anything because he sort of thought he was better

than me.”Throughout college, Scotney

has casually dated men she met through mutual friends and at house parties, but it never seemed to lead to anything but awkward encounters and casual hook-ups.

“Dating in college … it seems like if a guy asks you to hang out, sometimes he’s asking [you]on a date,” she said. “But you don’t necessarily know you’re being asked out until you start hanging out with him.”

It goes like this, explained Alex Teran, a physiology sophomore: Boy meets girl at a

party. Boy and girl exchange numbers, then text messages. They trade texts for a week, then have dinner. Then, nothing.

“We still saw each other out, and we’re still friends … but we didn’t date,” Teran said.

People meet, are infatuated for a little while, then lose interest. Things are “quick and fast” in college, she added.

“It’s hard not to get a little disappointed, but you kind of just have to keep on going,” she said.

First comes sexWhen Joree Schneider, an early education sophomore,

gets ready for a date, he starts with a shave. He puts on cologne and makes sure he has enough money in his wallet to cover the bill. At least, that’s what he would do — but he hasn’t actually gone on a date at the UA.

“It’s more of a rail and bail situation” on campus, he said.

Most relationships start with the pursuit. Sometimes the pursuit involves every contact in your phone.

“Sometimes we just invite, like, a group of girls to parties,” said Hunter Thompson, a pre-business freshman. “Do, like, a mass text … to everyone in your contacts and whoever shows up, shows up.”

Not exactly the ideal foundation for a lasting relationship. But for many students, it’s normal to meet people out at a bar or at a party and to hook up with them.

It’s a lot rarer for someone to try and make plans to hang out sober, Teran added.

“I’ve never really had [the traditional dating experience] in college,” said Paul Mesrobian, a senior studying engineering management. “I’ve hooked up with a girl and then afterwards gone on dates, but I’ve never gone on a date, a couple of dates, and then hooked up with a girl.”

Relationships require an intimate connection, Mesrobian said. That connection can get lost in the bar scene when alcohol and peer pressure are thrown into the mix.

“To have a long-term relationship, it needs to build off of something,” Mesrobian said, “not just random sex.”

Women have as much of a role in starting a relationship as men do, some students added.

“Chivalry works on both sides,” said Cameron Whitlow, a criminal justice freshman. “Like, girls like to say guys are assholes and all they want is sex, but if you look at UA Confessions [on Facebook], and you hear girls talk, they’re all the same.”

A lot of men and women seem to think rushing into sex is normal for college; hooking up doesn’t promise much.

“I’m not going to get with someone I went all the way with on the first night,” said Jesus Ortiz, an economics junior, “because they don’t respect themselves … enough to get to know me. They don’t even know who I am.”

Then comes loveNow in his late 20s, Kyle Maxwell has “been there and

done that.”A doctoral student pursuing his degree in musical arts,

he’s outgrown the one-night stands and no-strings-attached hookups of his undergraduate years, he said.

“There’s more interest in what your love interest or partner is doing and where they are with their career and how they’re progressing,” he said. “You want to get to know them a little better. Certainly, it’s more intimate and in-depth, emotionally and mentally.”

As an undergraduate, it seems “almost close to impossible to have a healthy relationship,” Teran said. “Dating … doesn’t really happen here. When people are more in their places in their life when they know what they want, then I think relationships are a lot easier.”

Getting older changes who you are and what you want, Maxwell said.

“You have a better sense of who you are and your moral compass,” he added. ”I enjoy meeting that one person and sharing much more than just a brief moment.”

‘Hanging out’ or ‘watching a movie,’ avoiding labels, keeping it casual — whatever you call it, it’s not dating. So what is it?

wildcat staff

“Dating … Doesn’t really happen here. when people are more in their places in their life when they know what they want, then i think relationships are a lot easier.”

— Alex Teran,UA physiology freshman

“i’ve hookeD up with a girl anD then afterwarDs gone on Dates, but i’ve never gone on a Date, a couple of Dates, anD then hookeD up with a girl.”

— Paul Mesrobian,UA engineering management senior

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friday, january 31, 2013 • page 3

In modern cinema, movies where sexual orientation, family tradition and cultural boundaries intersect are few and far between. But just such a film premiered to positive critical reaction at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, and now that film is coming to the UA.

In the 2011 film “Gun Hill Road,” named after the major avenue that cuts through the Bronx neighborhood of New York City, culture meets change when an ex-convict, played by Esai Morales, returns home after a lengthy prison sentence. There he finds his wife emotionally involved with another man and his child, who he thought was a son, undergoing a gender transition.

This altered version of his family leaves Morales’ character struggling to come to terms with his transgender daughter’s choices and his wife’s infidelity, while trying to remain both a husband and a father in the eyes of his parole officer.

The film explores the sometimes unyielding ideals of Latino machismo, which holds masculinity above all else. The concept is intrinsic in Morales’ character, as is evident in his seedy past and his inability to cope with his child’s transition.

But Harmony Santana is the film’s true star. While “Gun Hill Road” centers around Morales’ character and his struggle to come to terms with how life went on without him, it’s Santana’s backstory that’s most worth focusing on. As a transgender actress who plays a young transgender woman transitioning in the film, Santana portrays the most multi-dimensional character in “Gun Hill Road.” Her performance has garnered her national attention and accolades.

Presented by the ASUA Pride Alliance, the Office of LGBTQ Affairs, Chicano/Hispano Student Affairs, Campus Health Services, the LGBT Studies Institute and the Dean of Students Office, “Gun Hill Road” will play at the Gallagher Theater on Friday. After the free screening, director Rashaad Ernesto Green will be on hand for a question and answer session.

Juan Pereyra, the graduate assistant intern coordinator with the Office of LGBTQ Affairs, helped to bring the film, and Green, to Tucson. “It’s an event I’ve been wanting to do for some time,” he said. “It brings different aspects of life together to have a discussion about it.”

But as important as the discussion about the film is, what’s most valuable is what the viewer takes away from the movie itself.

“A big part of the movie is developing family relationships and the conflicts between parent and child,” Pereyra explained. “[The film] resonates with college students, as we’re still trying to help our parents to understand our lives right now.”

If you’re looking to broaden your horizons and gain insight into the intersection between tradition, culture and change, it’s worth spending your Friday night at Gallagher Theater.

Culture and sexuality collide in ‘Gun Hill Road’

k.c. libman

Press Photo sundance contender “Gun Hill Road” comes to the Gallagher Theater on Friday with a free showing and a Q&A with director/writer Rashaad Ernesto Green.

if yOu gO:7 p.m. to 10 p.m.,

Gallagher Theater, Student Union Memorial Center

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entertainment • Friday, February 1, 20134 • wildcat weekend

War, destruction and political conflict permeate our newspaper headlines. The world seems more and more unstable every day.

“Freud’s Last Session,” put on by Arizona Theatre Company, comes to the stage at a time when many

of us are trying to reconcile the conflicts between science and religion.

After ending 2012 with a cheery and romantic musical adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Emma,” ATC now presents audiences with a more thought-provoking production. It’s just what you might expect from a play whose main characters are Freud and C.S. Lewis.

The year is 1939 in London. Freud sits hunched over his desk, listening to the radio. Trains full of fleeing citizens are leaving London for the countryside as Hitler wages war in Europe.

Freud is suffering from oral cancer, which makes it excruciatingly painful for him to talk, but that does not stop him from trying to articulate his point of view to Lewis. Lewis, a younger, sprightlier gentleman, enters ready to debate with Freud over a book Lewis recently published. He has been invited to Freud’s study and is curious to discuss the famous psychologist’s work as well as his own.

Freud hobbles around with his back hunched while Lewis impassively examines the study, acknowledging the iconic therapist’s couch.

In the beginning, the men are formal and professional, but when the air raid sirens sound, the two adversaries are thrust into a life or death situation. As they scramble for their gas masks, each reacts in his own way. Lewis stands there, hoping for the danger to pass while calling upon God and his Christian beliefs; Freud thinks

realistically about the destruction that might occur any moment. Freud claims that Lewis is an intellect who has abandoned truth

and gone to live with the gods. With atheism, Freud says, you are left alone. By choosing God

and religion, you are in a relationship. Though they each experience doubt during their debate, and

eventually each is caught in a lie that leads him to renounce something he deems important, it is obvious that, in the end, neither will concede defeat.

The theme of reason versus faith is mirrored in the faith and resilience of England aginist Hitler’s Germany as they launch into World War II.

When they begin discussing their fathers and their childhoods, Freud and Lewis finally let down their guards.

They joke as if friends, though each is still analyzing the other and taking stock of their responses.

“There’s no avoiding this, is there?” Lewis says as he points to Freud’s iconic couch.

As they speak to each other, they call the audience to recognize its own doubts.

“Freud’s Last Session” raises questions of propaganda, politics, religion, health and sexuality.

It makes us ask, in such a chaotic world, should we choose to be blissfully ignorant or take on our troubles and try to solve them?

Finally, when the fighter jets of England fly overhead, Freud and Lewis humbly stand together at the front of the stage. At that point they realize no matter what, they will not be able to solve the world’s problems.

A beautifully thought-provoking production with two seemingly opposed intellectuals, “Freud’s Last Session” will stay with you for the rest of the year.

FREUD VERSUS LEWISTwo of the most iconic figures in literature and psychology meet on

the stage in Arizona Theatre Co.’s production of ‘Freud’s Last Session’CECELIA MARSHALL

Press Photos

iF yOu GO:“Freud’s Last Session”

Arizona Theatre CompanyPerformed at The Temple of Music and Arts

Written by Mark St. GermainDirected by Stephen Wrentmore

Showing Jan. 19 – Feb. 9

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With all the emails from academic advisers about cap and gown orders and grandparents prodding you for the date so they can buy their plane tickets, you may be left wondering if switching your major would be easier than switching into the real world

at this point. As UA seniors begin their last semester and start taking the

final steps toward graduation, emotions run high over future plans and aspirations.

Some students immerse themselves in the job market, while others rely on internship interviews and graduate school applications. For UA fine arts majors, it’s all about letting the artwork speak for itself and hoping for the best.

“I’ve applied to exhibitions and I’ve applied to galleries … You apply and you hope you’ll get accepted, but 99 percent of the time you don’t,” said Nicole Isbell, a senior in the UA College of Fine Arts .

Isbell said she has always been diligent when it comes to her academics. Juggling being a model student with promoting her art has proved to be a challenge, and uncertainty is setting in as graduation draws near.

“Everyone in the art world is always anxious from one day to the next, and I’m no exception,” Isbell said. “Some days I wake up and I’m like, ‘This is going to be the best life ever and I am set and I am totally going to have a great time and be successful and rise to stardom,’ and then other days I’m like, ‘I will never make it out of this room and my walls will be the only thing adorned with my work.’”

If you’ve ever set foot inside the Student Recreation Center , you’ve probably seen the work of Jeff Lowry , an illustration major here at the UA .

Lowry finished a series of enormous murals in the Rec Center in summer 2011, before his junior year, after spending more than a year on them. While the project gave him incredible experience and recognition, he still feels uncertain sometimes.

“Most of the reservations come from myself,” he said. “I have those moments where I’m just like, ‘Am I really going in the right direction with my art?’”

Lowry has had his work published, and he often draws the chalkboard illustrations inside the U-Mart .

After graduation, Lowry hopes to work toward a master’s degree in fine arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York .

“I knew it was what I wanted to do, but the whole process is just stressful,” Lowry said. “Especially since I only applied to one school, because it was the only school with the program I liked. So I had to kind of put all my eggs in one basket.”

According to the School of Arts’ website, it is one of the top-ranked art schools in the nation .

The college works to open doors for those pursuing a career in the fine arts. The resources provided by the school allow students to grow within their field, which promotes

discipline and an overall sense of accomplishment.

Every student has a vast number of options to explore within their chosen field.

“ I guess you could say I have an interest in graffiti, so I was always starting to draw little characters,” Lowry said. “I had a background in design and have always loved drawing.”

Lowry said that he loves to work in all sorts of mediums but has a strong dedication to his chosen major.

“I love illustration because I feel I have more of a personal voice versus design, which gets hidden behind whatever the client needs, and [in]

illustration you’re hired more for your own visual language and ideas,” he said.

As graduation looms and butterflies begin to swirl in the stomachs of seniors, some students in the College of Fine Arts look back on their experiences at the UA with fondness.

“I wouldn’t know half of what I do now if I didn’t come here. The program here is great. I’ve loved the past four years,” Isbell said. “I wouldn’t change a second.”

“I’ve applied to exhibitions and I’ve applied to galleries, things like that. You know, you apply and you hope you’ll get accepted, but 99% of the time you don’t.”

— Nicole Isbell,senior in the UA College of Fine Arts

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in summer 2011, before his junior year, after spending more than a year on them. While the project gave him incredible experience and recognition, he still feels uncertain sometimes.

NOELLE HAROGOMEZ/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

NICOLE ISBELL IS a senior in the UA College of Fine Arts. Isbell has applied to galleries and exhi-bitions, hoping to form plans for after her graduation in May.

TYLER BESH/ARIZONA DAILY WILDCAT

JEFF LOWRY IS a senior majoring in illustration. Lowry’s works can be seen in the Student Recreation Center. He does illustrations for private clients as well.

UA arts seniors look to futureAMY JOHNSON

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School yourself on two wheels: Learn bicycle mechanics at BICAS

If you find yourself in a bit of a slump this semester, get yourself in gear at BICAS, an underground haven for self-powered movement. It’s green, it’s affordable and it’s certainly radical.

The Tucson nonprofit collective Bicycle Inter-Community Art and Salvage is not a bike shop. It is an organization that provides the community with the knowledge, resources and space to fix a bicycle and

set itself in motion. The underground concrete space that houses BICAS is extensive and spacious, the beams adorned with hanging bicycle wheels in all shapes, sizes, colors and degrees of

imperfection. More than a few bike aficionados bustle about the workplace, and a sea of bicycles in the center of the room imbues the viewer with a feeling of whimsy. Boxes

of parts are scattered about the basement, cordoned off by the purpose they serve. For those already familiar with the mechanics of a bike, BICAS is a candy shop,

and you’re a greasy little kid. If you’re mechanically challenged, this is the place to familiarize yourself with the tools of the trade while being guided

along every step of the way. The BICAS community is made up of the kind of people who welcome newcomers with open arms, albeit with hands grimy from

bicycle repair. But a little grease never hurt anyone, and in this case, it’s for a good cause.

“We have trained thousands of youth and adults in the trade of bicycle repair, maintenance and safety, and restored

thousands of bicycles, saving them from the waste stream,” reads a message on the collective’s website.

Kylie Walzak, BICAS’s administration coordinator, has been involved with the organization five years this April.

“I got involved with BICAS after taking one of the Build-A-Bike classes offered and was so thrilled to find a

place that offered such dynamic community outreach programs,” Walzak said.

Sustained entirely by donations and recyclable materials, BICAS is a collaborative space. It’s an alternative kind of community outreach, fueled through community donations and participation. This symbiotic relationship has sustained the organization since 1994.

The patrons of BICAS are a colorful microcosm of greater Tucson: “Older folks, families, people like you and me, students from the [university] … we see just about everyone,” said Monique Laraway, a member of the BICAS collective.

BICAS operates as a maintenance location, bicycle education center, sustainable arts complex, supply shop and community outreach program, with a wealth of recycled bicycle riches.

Plus, who doesn’t love saving money? BICAS caters to the student budget with a work-trade program that awards volunteers eight dollars of store credit an hour to put toward a used bike.

As all the available materials and bicycles are either salvaged or donated, this is by far the most

economic and environmentally friendly means to get moving. For bicycle enthusiasts, BICAS’s recycled

pieces means that there are some gems to be found amidst the plethora of parts. A keen eye and resilient

disposition can score you high-end track hubs, Italian road bike handlebars or even retro racing framesets.

Keep coming back to BICAS and you may be lucky enough to put together a two-wheeled beauty that will

warrant the jealousy of even the most seasoned cyclists. You’ll probably meet some characters, too; that’s one of

the charms of BICAS. “I like the diversity of people coming in to use BICAS’

services,” Walzak said. “There will be an entire family with little kids working side by side next to a student, who’s working next to a

homeless person.” The mission of BICAS is to get people moving, to create a collective

space for growth and self-fulfilled opportunity. It is engaging people in a sustainable practice that ultimately benefits everyone, a practice that those

at BICAS feel is by no means losing momentum. For those in need of a new perspective, a new ride or just a certain bike part,

BICAS is the place to go.

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kyle wasson/Matt Fulton/arizona Daily wilDcat Bicas Bike shop, located at 44 W. 6th St., accommodates experienced and amatuer riders alike with tools, parts and service.

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Stale pop music is enough for some people, but for the rest of us there’s local band Brass Tax. Brass Tax is a four-piece band whose eccentric instrumentation has featured everything from the marimba to auxiliary percussion scoured from a junkyard.

It’s hard not to be excited about a band whose ReverbNation page is categorized, intriguingly, as “Metal/Electronic/Jazz.” The band more than lives up to the description. “I’ve always been at-tracted to more maudlin, complex types of mu-sic,” said co-founder and multi-instrumentalist Frank Bair. “With Brass Tax we have the oppor-tunity to just be adventurous.”

Soon after Bair’s move from North Carolina to Tucson in April 2010, he co-founded Brass Tax with Chris Halvorsen, whose 16 years of marimba playing quickly made them one of the

more singular live shows in town. “I’ve always been pushed to do more violin

work with this band,” said Bair, who studied the instrument for years before switching his focus to music recording .

According to Bair, Brass Tax started out as a primarily electronic band, supporting Bair and Halvorsen’s live playing with backing tracks and drum programming.

With Bair’s experience as a producer and pro-grammer on their side, the two soon augmented their live setup and expanded to include Erik Ketchup on percussion instruments crafted from found items and products from home im-provement stores.

“We just started going to Home Depot with drumsticks and banging on everything we could see, picking out what we liked and what we wanted to incorporate in the songs,” Bair said. “I always wondered what the employees

thought about these weirdos coming in to drum on their stuff.”

Despite its experimental tendencies, the band has always taken great care to ensure its music remains grounded for the public, which Bair said is a challenge. “The goal is to be able to think outside the box musically but still bridge the gap between what we want to make and what makes sense to perform at places around town,” he said.

Nonetheless, the band is quick to acknowledge that Tucson has been an exceptional place for it to cre-ate and play its quirky sounds.

With the addition of drummer Darrin Wood late last year, Brass Tax aims to explore realms of son-ic space that were not available with the previous drum program-ming. “It adds to the overall sound

considerably,” Wood said. “I think the songs are able to be

a lot more colorful now,” Bair added, calling the presence of live drums “definitely a breath of fresh

air.” In addition to the live show on Saturday,

Brass Tax promises to have more performances over the next few months. The band also plans to record a new lineup sometime soon.

“I think it’s very important that music be challenging,” Bair said. “I know some people would rather just play straightforward rock

or whatever because doing something more complex is too much work. For

us, it’s never too much work.”

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UApresents: Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Making music since 1919, they are one of Canada’s most successful performing arts institutions. Eighty-eight musicians strong, the VSO performs to an annual audience of more than 200,000 and features more than 50 celebrated guest artists each season. Regarding Jon Kimura Parker, the Seattle Times raved, “Parker gave a performance that was so fresh, so scintillating and so technically dazzling that the only possible response was a standing ovation.” This performance of Grieg’s majestic “Piano Concerto,” the only concerto Grieg com-pleted and among the most popular of all piano concerti, is certain to be a highlight of this classical season. February 1, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. Tickets start at $30 with discounts available Centennial HallPublic Lecture and Q&A With AAU VP Toby Smith Toby L. Smith, vice president for policy at the Association of American Universities, will present “The Evolution of U.S. Science Policy and the American Research University and Current Chal-lenges.” February 1, 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Student Union Memorial Center, Kiva MENAS Spring 2013 Colloquium Series - ‘Special Zones and Local Friends: Boundary-Making in the Kurdish Confl ict’ The School for Middle Eastern and North African Studies prestents its 2013 Spring Colloquium Series. This talk features Cem

Emrence, a lecturer at the University of Colorado-Boulder, speaking on “Special Zones and Local Friends: Boundary-Making in the Kurdish Confl ict.” This talk examines the Kurdish confl ict in contemporary Turkey. It focuses on the state’s record and shows that boundary work was a Turkish response to ethnic contention. February 1, 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. Marshall Building, Room 490Special Events Film Screening - ‘Gun Hill Road’ “Gun Hill Road” follows the struggle of an ex-convict who returns to grapple with tenuous relationships between himself, his estranged wife and his only son. As his son embarks on a journey of sexual transformation, this man’s family is tested even further. This fi lm will be fol-lowed by a panel of speakers, most notably fi lm director Rashaad Ernesto Green. This program is a collaboration provided by ASUA Pride Alliance, the Offi ce of LGBTQ Affairs, Chicano/ Hispano Student Affairs, Campus Health Services and the LGBT Studies Institute. February 1, 2013 7 p.m. - 10 p.m. Student Union Memorial Center Gallagher Theater Eliot Chang’s ‘Easily Excited’ Comedy Tour The Wildcat Events Board is proud to announce that Comedy Central’s Eliot Chang will be performing at the University of Arizona! Eliot Chang’s TV appearances include his Comedy Central Presents half-hour special, Comedy Central’s “Premium

Blend,” E!’s “Chelsea Lately,” and Showtime’s “Minority Report.” Every year Chang tours America for eight months and has performed at more than 400 colleges. Born and raised in New York, he currently resides in Los Angeles and travels regularly between coasts for projects. Subscribe for free to “Eliot Chang’s Stupid Podcast” on iTunes. February 1, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom 40th Annual President’s Concert Featur-ing the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Concerto Competition Winners The concert will feature the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and student soloists who won the highly competitive University of Arizona Concerto Competition. February 2, 7:30 p.m. $11 general, $9 for UA employees and seniors 55+, $5 for students Centennial Hall Arizona Men’s Basketball vs. Wash-ington State (Away) Arizona takes on Washington State. February 2, 8 p.m. - 8 p.m. Location: Pullman, WA

Tucson:TUCSON RODEO PARADE MUSEUM TOURS January 02, 2013 - April 06, 2013. 4823 S. 6th Ave. Guided Tours daily at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Rodeo week hours vary, closed Feb 21 & 25. Call for times Admis-sion: Adults: $10. Seniors: $8. Children:

$2.00. Military (and family) with ID: 50% off 520-294-1280 or 520-294-3636 Fred Harvey and the American South-west Art Exhibition January 11, 2013 - February 15, 2013 6872 E. Sunrise Drive, Suite 150Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures: Small Scale Skirmishes: Battles From Imagination and Reality opens Tuesday, Jan. 29, and continues through Sunday, April 7. The exhibit highlights ways miniatures have been used for military re-enactments and for play, through history to current trends in gaming. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and noon to 4 p.m., Sunday; $9, $8 senior or military, $6 age 4 to 17, free for a younger child. Visit theminitimemachine.org for more information. Jan. 29nd. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Dr. Davis Dominguez Gallery: An exhibit of abstract paintings by David Penning-ton and Amy Metier, and abstract metal sculpture by Steve Murphy, continues through Saturday, Feb. 9. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit davisdominguez.com for more information. 154 E. 6th Street

Brass Tax brings its singular sound to Sky Bar this Saturday

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proved he could handle a talented center on the road after going toe-to-toe with Washington’s Aziz N’Diaye. Tarczewski had 10 points and eight rebounds but missed two dunks during the game that could have pushed his performance to the next level.

Motum’s versatility means the two freshman forwards, Brandon Ashley and Grant Jerrett, will most likely be assigned to shut down the Cougars’ main threat. If they manage that, then the Wildcats should continue clawing their way back into the Pac-12 title race.

But Arizona isn’t looking to just win the conference. A loss to Washington State would take a major bite out of the Wildcats’ credibility, fair or not.

“Expectations are high. We set the bar high because we won 14 [games] in a row; we’re ranked high nationally,” Miller said. “When we lose it’s, ‘What’s wrong?’ and I understand that.”

After winning in Seattle, though, the Wildcats are a victory in Pullman away from their first road Washington sweep since December 2005. Not a bad way of putting those questions to rest.

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ArizonA sHot A worse percentage than the Huskies, but was still able to pull out a win.

BASKETBALLfrom page 12Tennis hosts St.

Mary’s on campusComing off of a big win at

home against New Mexico State last weekend, the Wildcat men’s tennis team looks to continue its play as a team at home when it hosts the Gaels of St. Mary’s at 10 a.m. on Friday at the LaNelle Robson Tennis Center on cam-pus.

Wildcats coach Tad Berkowitz has been emphasizing toughness as a fo-cal point both in practice and on the court, and the team will need it Friday come match time.

“St. Mary’s is a tough team,” Berkowitz said. “We have had some good battles with them [the] last few years. We need to continue to com-pete hard, show that toughness and play well all around.”

This weekend will be a real test for the Wildcats. The Gaels have experienced players like junior Tuomas Manner, who was named singles player of the month in November for the West Coast Conference.

In doubles play, Jesse Kiuru and Joakim Norstrom were named players of the month at the same time. Manner, who

comes from Finland, played against some of the best compe-tition in the country in 2012 and looks to build on that success in the new year.

“It all depends on how the lineups shake up, but he should be in the top of their lineup,” Berkowitz said.

This may mean a matchup for either of the junior leaders on

the Arizona squad, Giacomo Miccini or Andre Vidaller.

St. Mary’s is 2-1 in singles play so far this season, coming off of a sweep (7-0) vic-tory over Sonoma State in its first home match of the season.

St. Mary’s Alec Wagner is a fresh-man from Hawaii who just claimed his first victory on the team. Fresh-man Naoki Takeda would be a great matchup against

the Gaels freshman come match time.

“We could see a possible matchup of freshmen as well as transfers going at it, so it should be interesting,” Berkowitz said.

As for the Wildcats, look for Vidaller to build on his win at New Mexico State, as well as fellow leader Miccini, who also won his match last weekend.

Field named All-AmericanArizona baseball junior outfielder Johnny Field is

one of the top offensive Wildcats returning to the roster in 2013. He was honored for his prior success by being named a Preseason All-America Third Team by Baseball America on Thursday.

The player they call “Man Baby” had a breakout year in 2012. Field hit for a .370 batting average, drove in 44 runs and scored 72 runs. His success at the plate earned him the 2012 Pac-12 batting title and a roster spot on the collegiate USA national team.

Field, who was listed as a designated hitter on the All-America list, drastically improved his stats between his freshman and sophomore year. The right-handed out-fielder only hit .297 in 2011 and reached base 11 percent less than in his sophomore year.

“He’s a great player,” Arizona head coach Andy Lopez

said. “We’re going to need him this year, but we got to make sure he doesn’t try too hard to carry the team.”

Last season, Field hit second in the batting order for the Wildcats, but this season Lopez has said he expects Field to hit more in the heart of the lineup.

Field was highly recruited out of high school in Las Ve-gas, Nev., but he began to gain a lot of national attention after he opened the 2012 postseason in NCAA regionals by batting .533 with 10 RBI and eight runs, including a grand slam in a three-game sweep by the Wildcats.

2013 will be the first year since he graduated from high school that Field is eligible for the Major League Baseball draft, but he’s not too worried about the draft.

“I can’t think about that right now,” Field said. “It’s way too early for that, and I’m more focused on getting this team ready for the season.”

The Wildcats will open the 2013 season on Feb. 15 at Hi-Corbett field as they host Coppin State.

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Hockey takes on ASU in TempeWildcat hockey has two birds to kill with one

stone this week: ending its 28-game winless streak against its archrival and earning a trip to nationals.

No. 18 Arizona travels to Tempe, Ariz., to face No. 2 ASU for a two-game series Friday and Satur-day night.

“We want to send a message this weekend that we’re capable of beating anyone,” head coach Sean Hogan said.

Thanks to its seven wins over top 11 teams and fourth most difficult schedule in the country, Ho-gan thinks Arizona is one win away from clinching a spot in the tournament.

This weekend also gives the Wildcats the chance to end the streak.

“We’re playing for both,” said junior forward Andrew Murmes. “We definitely want to make it to nationals. We think we could make a huge splash at nationals, surprise some teams, and to beat ASU and then to clinch a berth in the same exact night … we’re definitely going to have fun.”

The winless streak has progressed quickly over time, with a 0-4-0 record so far this season, a 0-7-1 record against ASU last year, a 0-7-1 mark in 2010-11 and a 0-8-0 record in 2009-10.

Hogan said Arizona is in rebuilding mode, while ASU is the best it’s ever been.

“Going through that process is frustrating, but in our minds I know for a fact that we match up well with them,” Hogan said. “We can beat those guys.”

Arizona’s last win over the Sun Devils was Feb. 21, 2009, a 4-3 shootout win to cap a series sweep. That season, 2008-09, was the last time Arizona won the season series, 4-2.

ASU (28-6-0) has nine players with over 20 points this year, while the Wildcats only have three.

Junior forward Colin Hekle, with 53 points, and sophomore forward Kale Dolinski, with 47 points, lead the Sun Devils in scoring.

ASU junior goalie Joseph D’Elia (20-4) has a 2.46 GAA and a .910 save percentage and leads the na-tion in wins.

Hogan said if the Wildcats don’t give up a fury of goals, which cost them four wins against top-10 teams, they can spring an upset.

“We get caught up in some things that we don’t need to get caught up in, and if we stay out of that, we got a really good shot at beating them,” Hogan said. “We’re playing well right now — the best hockey we’ve played all year.”

Though Arizona owns the overall series advan-tage at 130-60-8 and the longest win streak (62

games), no current Wildcat or Sun Devil has expe-rienced an Arizona win over ASU.

Arizona hasn’t beaten Arizona State on the road since Jan. 31, 2009, when it won 4-0.

After ASU lost at home to Oklahoma 6-3 and No. 16 Central Oklahoma 4-2, it dropped out of the top spot in the rankings, which it had held for eight weeks.

Hogan said the losses were because they were “devastated by injuries,” missing four or five of their leading scorers, but that both teams are at full strength now.

The Sun Devils rebounded last weekend, beat-ing No. 17 Rhode Island in two games by a com-bined score of 7-0.

The Wildcats are coming off splits with then-No. 5 Oklahoma and No. 10 Liberty on the road. Arizon’s last appearance in the postseason tour-nament was 2005-06.

Murmes guaranteed good fortune for the Wild-cats, saying Arizona is “definitely getting the vic-tory.”

“Right now I feel like, actually, our team chem-istry’s the best it’s ever been,” Murmes said. “We played four awesome games in a row against Oklahoma and Liberty. I felt like we definitely should have had two in Liberty.”

So far this year, the Wildcats have been blown out by the Sun Devils on Fridays, losing 11-3 in Tempe and 7-1 in Tucson. Arizona has fared bet-ter on Saturdays against ASU though, just losing 4-1 on the road and 3-1 at home.

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“We have had some good battles with them the last few years. We need to continue to compete hard.”

— Tad Berkowitz,UA coach

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Well, as the saying goes, the third time’s the charm.After two primetime flops against Pac-12 opponents Oregon and

UCLA in crucial conference games, the Arizona Wildcats defeated Washington last night, 57-53, in head coach Sean Miller’s first victory against Washington in Seattle.

The Huskies are not as talented as the team that made it to the NIT Final Four last season, but they aren’t completely deprived of scorers, either. Heading into the game, C.J. Wilcox was second in the conference with 19 points per game, but Arizona held him to 11 points, partly because of four fouls.

Despite that, both teams struggled to score for most of the night, as proven by a 28-23 halftime score, before the Wildcats were able to pull away with 34 points in the second half.

Arizona (18-2, 6-2 Pac-12) started the game down 16-5 and had more turnovers than made shots in the first half, bringing back memories of the awful eggs the Wildcats laid against UCLA and Oregon; they started the games with sloppy play and were never able to recover.

Washington versus Arizona has turned into a rivalry of sorts since Sean Miller arrived in Tucson, what with Derrick Williams’s block that won the first “whiteout” game, former UW point guard Isaiah Thomas’ game-winning shot that sunk the Wildcats in the Pac-10 championship that same season, and Tony Wroten’s 17 points and block of former Wildcat Josiah Turner’s last-second layup last season.

The tide had to turn eventually, right?Thursday night, the Wildcats were

finally better than the Huskies, not because of their prolific 3-point shooting but because, this year, they had an answer for Washington’s Aziz N’Diaye. Last year, 6-foot-7 center Jesse Perry was left to deal with the 7-foot center, leading to all sorts of problems for the Wildcats.

Freshman center Kaleb Tarczewski fouled out late in the game but tied a career high with 10 points and eight rebounds in 29 minutes of action. Tarczewski, who is usually a last resort offensively, responded aggressively despite guarding N’Diaye, who had 12 rebounds and four blocks against the Wildcats last year. Tarczeweski said earlier this week that he enjoyed playing against people of a similar size, as that was what he was used to.

He wasn’t lying.Against ASU two weeks ago, Tarczewski was stuck with the challenge of

defending 7-foot-2 junior center Jordan Bachynski, who leads the Pac-12 with 4.3 blocked shots per game; Tarczewski limited him to three points and six rebounds for the game.

Against N’Diaye on Thursday night, Tarczewski gave up 10 points and 11 rebounds, but because of Washington’s awful 3-point shooting, he didn’t hurt Arizona as much as he could have.

For the game, both teams shot a combined 4-of-30 from beyond the arc, but by the time the second half rolled around, the Wildcats were able to force the UW into poor offensive positions and seven turnovers, resulting in 11 points for Arizona.

As opposed to in losses to Oregon and UCLA, the Wildcats never seemed to panic, despite the fact that the last time they won in Seattle was

in 2006.Unlike in the nationally televised, overhyped games against the Bruins

and Ducks, Arizona was able to get stops when it needed to and win despite not having the 3-point shot, which has been rare for the best 3-point shooting team in the conference, making 7.7 per game heading into last night.

Thursday night’s game against the Huskies was out of the ordinary. In fact, aside from the fact that Arizona had more turnovers than made shots in the first half, the Huskies actually shot a better percentage than the Wildcats — 37 to 35 percent — and Arizona only had nine bench points.

Arizona’s largest lead was five, so the “Cardiac ’Cats” nickname still applies to this year’s Wildcats, who, paired with Oregon’s loss Wednesday night, are now one game behind the Ducks for the conference lead.

Fortunately, if this season is any indication, down by one in the standings with 10 games left is right where the Wildcats want to be.

— Cameron Moon is the sports editor. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter via @MoonCameron20.

Wildcats try to stop losing streak in McKaleThe Arizona women’s basketball team

(11-8, 3-5 Pac-12) will look to end its three-game losing streak Friday night at 7 p.m. as it hosts Washington (14-5, 6-2) in McKale Center.

The Wildcats enter Friday’s matchup coming off consecutive road losses to No. 21 Colorado, No. 19 UCLA and most recently, USC. In those three games, Arizona lost by an average of 25.3 points, only making 27 percent of its shots. The Wildcats were also out-rebounded by those three opponents by an average of 6.7 per game.

“We’ve got to play more physical,” Arizona head coach Niya Butts said following the Wildcats’ 73-57 loss to UCLA last week. “I’m not happy with our effort.”

Prior to this season, Butts called this year’s group of girls the most athletic Arizona team she had coached since being named head coach in 2008. She stressed that they would need to play aggressive full-court defense and score points off turnovers in order to compete day in and day out.

So far this season, she hasn’t been happy with her team’s effort on either side of the ball.

Friday, the Wildcats will welcome a Huskies team that is currently riding a four-game winning streak in which it beat up on three of the bottom four teams in the Pac-12

conference.Washington defeated Arizona 76-65

during the opening weekend of conference play on Jan. 6. That day, the Wildcats were down big early in the second half but fought back by playing more aggressively and

forcing turnovers. However, the deficit was too large and the effort too late for Arizona to capture the road victory.

“If we played the whole game like we played the last 12 minutes in the second half, we win the game,” Butts said in a press

release following the loss to Washington. “Once we started being aggressive and attacking the rim, we got to the foul line, and we have got to continue to do that.”

In its first matchup against Washington, Arizona’s senior captain, Davellyn Whyte, led the Wildcats with what was her second double-double of the season, scoring 17 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.

Arizona also had contributions that day from junior guard/forward Kama Griffitts, who scored 10 points and had four steals in the Wildcats’ 11 point loss. Griffitts missed four consecutive games for Arizona due to personal reasons but returned for the game against UCLA. Sophomore Layana White started in Griffitts’ absence and hasn’t given up the starting role since she was inserted on Jan. 11 against Oregon State.

In her six games as a starter, White has averaged 6.8 points, but she didnt score against USC. Since her return, Griffitts has averaged 33 minutes coming off the bench and has scored an average of 16 points per game.

Both White and Griffitts will be expected to be aggressive and help the Wildcats improve in the Pac-12 standings Friday night. The Wildcats are currently in seventh place in the conference, four games behind Pac-12 leader Stanford (18-2, 7-1).

“We need to get back to playing our style — defensively,” Butts said.

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Arizona’s high rankings in the polls have put a target on its back all season, but another number has the bull’s-eye painted bright red: its No. 4 overall RPI.

After besting Washington in Seattle, Arizona’s resume remains one of the top in the nation. It’ll be put on the line Saturday in Pullman, Wash., with Washington State desperate for a win.

The Cougars (11-9, 2-5 Pac-12) have yet to record a win against a top-50 RPI team. In fact, they haven’t beaten a top-100 or even a top-150 RPI team this season. With a chance to finally get that gold star on their profile, Arizona (18-2, 6-2) has to be ready for an all-out effort in Wallis Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum.

“We’re getting a lot of teams’ best shots,” head coach Sean Miller said during Tuesday’s press conference.

“If you have a chance to beat the No. 4 RPI team, think about what that does for your season.”

A win for Washington State still wouldn’t put it close to the bubble picture in terms of the NCAA tournament, but a loss for Arizona would be a huge black mark on the Wildcats’ otherwise sterling resume. The Cougars’ No. 158 RPI is the second-weakest in the conference, ahead of Utah, and a loss Saturday could end up costing the Wildcats when the tournament seedings come out in March.

But as easy as the matchup looks on paper, having to travel to Pullman makes the cellar-dwelling Cougars a much tougher test.

“Playing on the road is difficult, so we know that we have to be at our best,” Miller said.

The results haven’t exactly backed that up, though, and Miller feels Arizona has done well handling adversaries out of town. The Wildcats are 5-1 on the road this season and senior Mark Lyons is averaging 4.1 more points per game on the road than at home, even after putting up a road-low of 10 against Washington.

Sophomore Nick Johnson has also scored better in enemy territory, but the difference isn’t as extreme for him as it is for as Lyons. Johnson is averaging around 2.5 more points per game and shooting 2.5 percent better from the floor on the road.

Miller said experience is key in remaining consistent both at home and in hostile environments, but against the Cougars, it’ll be the freshman big men who have the most important job: covering senior Brock Motum.

Motum is the top-scoring front court player in the Pac-12, with 18.9 points per game, and he has proven to be one of the few threats on the somewhat lacking Cougar offense. The versatile forward leads his team in total points, blocks, rebounds and 3-pointers.

Freshman center Kaleb Tarczewski

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