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http://chronicle12.weebly.com http://myhsj.org/thechronicle Since 1981 Free • Grátis June 2012 • junio 2012 A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Mail center to close down next February Poachers target Az reptiles Connecting the Dots By Rachael Worthington The Chronicle By Samantha Neville The Chronicle A 40-year-old Tucson post office mail processing and distribution center is one of the 140 across the nation that will not be in service by next February, a money-saving decision causing community concern. The Cherrybell Stravenue processing and distribution center serves 1.5 million people, said Richard Fimbres, a Tucson City Council member of Ward 5. The center handles three million pieces of mail per day, according to Robert Soler, customer relations coordinator for the Arizona District for USPS, and now all of that mail will go to Phoenix to be processed before being sent to its destination. This consolidation will affect more than 100 jobs in Tucson, Soler said. However, it is necessary because mail volume decreased by 25 percent in the past six years, he said. The nationwide trend of consolidation will reduce the U.S. Postal Service’s annual costs by $1.2 billion a year. The consolidation of the Tucson branch alone will save the Postal Service $14 million each year, Soler said. “To your average customer, the change will be transparent,” he said. “They won’t see a difference at all.” His reason is that all of the “customer facing” parts of the post office will not be closed. Others contend that there will in fact be an affect on the average customer. One person that did not have the same opinion was Fimbres. “There’s other methods that they can consolidate,” Fimbres said. He said that instead of being in service six days a week, the postal service could be in service five days a week, or they could raise postage rates. Fimbres also pointed out that once the consolidation process is finished, Arizona will have fewer Post Office/ Page 4 At the University of Arizona Museum of Art, Leon McNeil and Jake Hunnicutt recreated the Sol LeWitt wall piece no. 815. The directions for replicating it said to to use nails and string to connect 30 points together. Check out the website to listen to the radio story and video by Kathryn Burney. Photograph by Kathryn Burney Artists recreate LeWitt By Kathryn Burney The Chronicle W alking into the University of Arizona Museum of Art, the scratch of graphite on plaster whispered across the gallery, soon to be overpowered by the slam of hammer on nail. Ladders, scattered throughout the rooms, jutted out like aluminum stalagmites. Artists, balanced precariously, work away on masterpieces. In the exhibit, Sol LeWitt Days, local artists are getting the opportunity to work in teams as they follow the instructions made by the famous minimalist artist. Lauren Rabb, art curator, seemed to be pleased. “I’m so happy with it,” said Rabb. “It’s perfect, it’s fantastic, it’s exactly, you know, what Sol LeWitt would have wanted.” When LeWitt started, he made all of his own work. As he grew in popularity and his pieces grew in complexity, he began to take young artists under his wing. Following his instructions, they would then make the pieces, which led to LeWitt leaving directions to his work. Jake Hunnicutt, a portrait artist, said he felt getting to explore his creativity through restrictions helps him to see LeWitt’s perspective. “The steps that he’s laid out for creating the art does give you the ability to maybe see the world a little bit through his lens and understand how he viewed art and how he viewed the world,” Hunnicutt said. The visitors experienced art in an new way, by watching the artists as they worked. “It allows [people] to see working art, living art. It allows them to come down and participate and ask questions and become more involved, which is really a unique experience,” Carolyn Sotelo, another artist, said. Sotelo and her group the Magnificent Five are creating pieces No. 103 and No. 869C. Both are done in graphite pencil and express LeWitt’s penchant for imperfect abstract art. Another group called Construction Crew, made up of Hunnicutt and Leon McNeil, towered above others in the room as they hammered nails into painted patches on the wall. They used string to connect the various posts. Paint cans, brushes, nails and tape litter the plastic tarp protecting the floor beneath them as the sound of their work fills the gallery. After already completing two of LeWitt’s pieces, No. 815 and No. 1097, the pair decided to write their own LeWitt inspired directions. Made out of four squares of varying colors, which combine to create one large square, nails are then placed at random spots throughout the sections. The last step is to connect the nails by repeatedly tying black and white string from one point to another, as the piece displays influence from an earlier LeWitt artwork. Rabb said she hoped the project will expose the community to art in a way that can involve everyone. “Sol LeWitt’s premise is that art is for anybody and that you shouldn’t be afraid to do a project, it really is accessible to anybody,” Rabb said. As well as benefiting Tucson, the exhibit attempts to improve the lives of local artists. “I feel like it could give artists a chance to realize that you don’t have to be famous to do stuff in a museum,” McNeil said. “I mean that’s a big deal for somebody on my level who’s never done anything to this caliber, and so now I feel like I can go anywhere. I can do anything. I can be a famous artist.” Poaching exotic animals is a huge enterprise around the globe, and Arizona is a hot spot for rare reptiles. Animal poaching is the second largest illegal trade in the world, second only to the drug trade, said Dr. Cecil Schwalbe, a herpetologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. Even though this market is so large, only limited statistics and information exist about poaching because it is difficult to tell what trafficking is legal and which is illegal. “It’s probably more common than we know,” said Officer Diane Tilton, a wildlife manager for Arizona Game and Fish who tracks down poachers. Many reptiles in Arizona, such as the Gila monster, rosy boa and the twin-spotted rattlesnake, are protected by state law, but the problem of reptile poaching still continues. Laws that are not consistent from state to state are the cracks that poachers exploit. Poaching affects scientists out in the field of study. “I won’t even do studies on rattlesnake dens anymore on public lands because of the hide hunters,” Schwalbe said. The people he refers to as “hide hunters” are poachers who search for reptiles in order to use or sell their skins. Schwalbe has stopped going to the snakes’ dens in order to keep from giving away their hiding places. Though Arizona reptiles bred in captivity from other states are available for purchase, poaching is still a common way to obtain rare snakes and lizards. In order to capture and keep these reptiles, poachers have to find loopholes in the law. With a hunting license it is legal to take reptiles that are not protected by state law and federal law, but it is illegal to sell any Arizona wildlife. With this license, a hunter may only collect or possess a certain number of reptiles, with the exception of a select few species that are unlimited. For example, if the limit is 10 of a species, and a hunter already owns six, he or she may only collect four more. Reptiles/ Page 6 Inside The Chronicle & Online Refugees experience shock Multimedia The overall percentage of refugees immigrating to America has grown significantly in recent years. With nearly 5,000 refugees arriving in Arizona in 2009, many of them have experienced culture shock. So far this year, natives of Bhutan, Burma, Congo Iraq and Somalia have arrived in Tucson. Page 5 Students who excell in high school are only getting 25% of their tuition covered. Gonzalez de Bustamante speaks of border issues Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante speaks about the upcoming book and issues surrounding the Mexican-American border. The 15 litte bios With high school students from around Arizona coming to the University of Arizona to take part of the annual Journalism Diversity Workshop, long hours prove to be a thing of certainty. However, with varied backgrounds, these students share how they came to be interested in journalism. Page 10 Students without scholarships Venus makes a visit Snakes on the brain Cecil Schwalbe, a herpetologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, spent time on the University of Arizona campus to showcase how to safely handle rattlesnakes. Twice a century, Venus travels between the Earth and the sun, causing people to be able to see the planet move past the star. At the University of Arizona Flandrau Science Center, hundreds of people gathered to witness the transit of Venus. 2 Campus June 2012 A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Summer program helps promote healthcare field By Sierra Schulze The Chronicle High school students from across Arizona have the chance to experience what it’s like to work in the healthcare field through a hands-on health and science summer program at the University of Arizona. The six-week long program, which kicked off June 3, helps high school students entering their senior year enhance their skills and desire to be in the medical field. Students explore different UA health programs such as medicine, pharmacy, public health, and nursing. The program is also offered in Phoenix. Med-Start gives students a chance to explore their interests, said program coordinator Alma AguirreCruz. “The students have an interest in the healthcare field, but they get to learn what they want to be,” she said. The program started in 1969 to train minority students from rural and economically disadvantaged areas who will be the first in their families to attend college. Jacquel Rivers, a senior at Baboquivari High School in Sells, Ariz., discovered the program early. “I heard about the program when I was a freshman and I was really interested in it,” Rivers said. “I couldn’t wait to get started as a junior.” Steve LaTurco, a Med-Start alumnus, talked to the students during the career chat. LaTurco is now the assistant principal of Roskruge Middle School. Photograph by Varun Bajaj Participants might have a particular career in mind, but might find a new interest through the program. Nadia Jose, another student from Baboquivari High School, said she wanted to be a pediatrician, however she is aware of other possibilities. “I know there’s other things I can go into,” Jose said. “This will give me more [information] about it.” Med-Start participants are pro- vided with college-level coursework in chemistry and English and can earn college credit. A typical week consists of presentations on health careers, paired with college workshops, homework and weekend activities. Off-campus activities include tours of healthcare and research facilities, including the health center at Northern Arizona University, which help prepare the students for work in the medical field. “You get a taste of what you’re going to do for your career and the rest of your life,” said Alexandra Rivera, a student from North High School in Phoenix. Joi Nipales, also from Baboquivari High School, expects to make the best of her time at UA. “It’s very fun because you get to meet new people and actually experience college life,” Nipales said. The students are required to stay in residence halls on campus to get the full experience of a college student. This is the first time Rivera has ever been away from her mother for a long period of time. A few days into the program she was a bit homesick. “Friends help out a lot,” Rivera said. “They take your mind off of everything.” After completing the program most of the participants continue on to study in the healthcare field, even at UA. Rivers hopes to be one of those people. “I hope to pursue my dreams of being a cardiovascular surgeon and to get the credits,” Rivers said. “Also to be recognized at U of A because this is where I want to go.” “Although much of the six weeks is full of hard work and extensive training, many participants build lasting friendships,” Aguirre-Cruz said. “The most exciting part of this program has been meeting all of these people of different ethnicities and just hanging out,” Rivers said. “Being a student in college, even though I’m not in college yet, having this experience has been awesome.” College comes with stress, finding ways to cope By Maria Urquidez The Chronicle Every semester thousands of students stress over midterms, finals, assignments and studying, making stress the No. 1 health problem at the University of Arizona, said Debra Cox-Howard, a licensed professional counselor at Counseling and Psych Services. Every student shows stress at one point during the semester, according to Cox-Howard. Symptoms of stress include headaches, body aches and oversleeping. Students with these symptoms should seek help for their stress. “Stress is different for each person. For some of them it’s due to a sense of (being) overwhelm(ed),” Cox-Howard said. These students may stress in college because they are entering a new environment and leaving home for the first time. “Managing your time, that’s a big one,” she said. Some students take on a workload that’s too much for them to handle, which can lead to problems with time management. The best way to alleviate this type of stress is to organize schedules and engage in activities such as yoga and other types of exercise. Glenn Matchett-Morris, a psychologist at CAPS, said for newer students stress is “often related to adjustment,” like transitioning from high school to college, relationship problems or financial stress. He said older students stress over things like graduation finding a job after college. According to Matchett-Morris, stress can create both physical and mental problems, such as depression and anxiety. Sequoia Fischer, a 19-year-old incoming UA freshman, said she has had a lot on her mind lately. “I think there’s too much for me to handle right now, so I don’t really feel anything. I’m sure it’s just stress, though,” she said. Tony Juarez, a semi-professional dancer at ConDanza. Photograph by Maria Urquidez Fischer said she feels her years at the university will certainly be stressful. “I am in engineering, and it’s a lot of math, but hopefully I’ll be fine,” she said. UA sophomore Tera Babb, 19, said she experienced a lot of stress her first year, but to offset the stress, she prioritized her time. “I cut back on relationships I had with people and friendships,” Babb said. “I had to sacrifice, but sacrifices have to be made in order to succeed with no stress.” Babb said school was her most important priority, and in the future, her friends would understand her sacrifices. Babb also joined the Filipino American Student Association to get her mind off stress. She found talking with other members beneficial. She said the older students in the club were especially empathetic. “They have gone through this new beginning, and they gave me a lot of good advice that I utilized and still use when I have stress,” Babb said. Unlike the other students, Jose Salinas, 18, is not as stressed as some. “I am only stressed for the lastminute things, like buying books and stuff I need,” Salinas said. Ever since beginning high school, he found a way to relieve stress. “Working out gets my mind off of everything,” Salinas said. “I am very energetic, I like to be motivated.” Salinas is sure that if he continues to work out while at the university, he will stick to the same routine he had in high school. “I’m going to be working out to be mentally and physically prepared to become successful,” he said. Tony Juarez, a jazz instructor at the ConDanza Company in Tucson, recommends that students join a dance class as a stress reliever. “It is a great activity to get your mind off of homework, work and life in general,” he said. Activities like this keep students distracted from stress. They are able to interact with different people and talk with each other about stress. UA offers resources to aid transition into college By Celene Arvizu The Chronicle Transitioning from high school to college can bring new experiences and challenges to students, but the University of Arizona offers several resources to help students navigate through the changes. The day before freshman orientation at the UA, Stephanie Greller, 18, and her mother Linda walked around campus and talked about the transition to college. Although confident and excited about the new experience, Stephanie Greller said she is still unsure about what she wants to study. “As of right now, I think I’m going to do undeclared and figure it out, see what I want to do,” she said. Linda Greller is confident her daughter will overcome the uncer- Roxie Catts, Director of the Advising Resource Center at the UA, aids students in Academics and adjusting to life at the University of Arizona. Photograph by Nicholas Trujillo. tainty. “She’s done a good job of carrying herself, working hard in school, and making good choices at the end of her senior year,” she said. However, they both agreed that the changes can be overwhelming. “It’s a big rush,” Linda Grel- ler said. “Nerve-racking and scary because it’s the unknown but very exciting.” Academic advisers can help ease some of the anxieties new college students face. “That’s one of the things that we advisers can help students with, putting the students on a path to do those explorations and utilize some of the other resources that we have here at the university,” said Judy Roman, an academic adviser. Deciding on a major and picking a career are only a few of the concerns students have. “I’m kind of nervous about moving away, but then I try and remember that everyone else will be away from home,” said Charlie Franco, a Tucson High Magnet School graduate who will be attending Menlo College in Atherton, Calif. Advisers are available at several places on the UA campus to answer any questions students may have. “There’s not one building you point to and say that’s where the academic advisers are, hit five for business,” said Roxie Catts, director of the Advising Resource Center. Franco, who wants to major in psychology, knows first hand the importance of seeking help from others. He received support and encouragement from his high school teachers who helped him prepare for the transition to college, he said. Paige Thornhill, a 34-year-old UA graduate and assistant director of nursing at the Cherrydale Health and Rehabilitation Center in Arlington, Va., knows what it’s like to have worries about starting college. “I had an overwhelming pressure since I was the first person to attend college in my family,” Thornhill said. She thinks most newcomers to university life feel some anxiety, but that can be overcome. “I kept to myself until junior year. That’s when I became socially involved and a whole different me,” Thornhill said. “I pushed through. You can achieve success and get there if you do.” A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Campus June 2012 3 Streetcar construction affecting businesses By Lexie Alvarez The Chronicle Bartender Erik Hegland prepares a drink at Wilko, a restaurant on University Boulevard. Photograph by Carolyn Corcoran Several university buildings hope to get liquor licenses By Carolyn Corcoran The Chronicle The University of Arizona will sell alcohol at special events held in several buildings, pending the approval of liquor license applications. With alcohol sales being restricted to seven UA buildings, university officials do not believe that the licenses will have repercussions on campus. “It really doesn’t affect the campus at all,” said Joel Hauff, interim director for the Arizona Student Unions. “At the end of the day, it’s just procedural change for us.” The seven buildings include the Student Union Memorial Center, Centennial Hall, Arizona State Museum, College of Fine Arts, Arizona Stadium, McClelland Hall and Biosphere 2. All have hosted events with alcohol before. From fundraisers to skyboxes at the stadium, alcohol has previously been available if the establishment had obtained the necessary permit for the special event. “We tend to have events fairly often in those buildings,” Hauff said. The license will give UA the ability to sell alcohol at the buildings for special events without having to apply for individual permits. By having a license, the application, wait time and permit fee are eliminated. Though chatter about the licenses began last year, some community members have yet to be informed. Jordi Carvalho, general manager of Wilko, a locally owned restaurant on University Boulevard, knew nothing about the pending licenses. She predicts that the licenses will affect their pool of customers. “They won’t pre-party here,” Carvalho said. “I think it will hurt the university strip as far as pre-party and post-party, but it’ll keep (the students) safe.” Green signs informing the public of the pending licenses were posted around campus on May 17. “I saw the huge signs,” said Analia Cuevas, a recent graduate from the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. “I think it’s something that everyone wants, especially at games. I think it’s just common sense. People need to be responsible.” Any complaints about the licenses were to be submitted in writing to the City Clerk’s office by June 6. The City Clerk’s office did not receive any written complaints, said Thelma Sanchez, who is in charge of alcohol permits. However, the pending licenses have caused mixed feelings among parents. “I don’t think as a parent I would be for it,” said Laura Driver, who brought her son, Cole, to campus to explore the racetrack program. Jack Gardiner, an associate research scientist with the School of Plant Sciences, entertains the idea of the licenses. “I think allowing alcohol on campus is pretty contemporary,” Gardiner said. “Its time has come if they supervise it correctly.” However, as a parent of a 19-yearold, Gardiner is cognizant of the potential effect on younger students. “I’m a little bit concerned about fake IDs,” he said. “I just don’t want young people exposed.” Sgt. Juan Alvarez, a public information officer for the UA Police Department, does not believe the presence of fake IDs on campus will increase. He said the events containing alcohol held within the seven buildings are “more tightly controlled” and “really specific in invitation,” as opposed to open-invitation parties hosted in residence halls. “(The) less control, (the) more offenses,” Alvarez said. A hearing will be held on June 26 at 5:30 p.m. before Tucson’s mayor and city council to review the license applications. The hearing will take place at the Mayor and Council Chambers. Once the applications are reviewed, they will go to the state for final approval. With the ongoing construction of the Tucson modern streetcar, some businesses are seeing a decrease in sales and daily store visits downtown and on campus. Other stores, however, are using the construction to their advantage. At first, Mark Levkowitz, the manager of the Chicago Music Store, was wary of the construction. His feelings changed, however, once construction started. “Now it makes us relatively easy to get to,” he said. The Chicago Music Store will receive a $90,000 grant from the Downtown Tucson Partnership to restore its historical façade. The construction, however, is hurting other businesses just as much as it is helping them. “I think it’s… an unnecessary evil. It’s dirty and noisy. I just hope when they’re finished, it will bring more people to the area,” said Tom Cassidy, store owner of Ooo! Outside of Ordinary. Inconveniences, noises, parking limitations and timing are many factors that contribute to the demise of many businesses down the modern streetcar route. “Any road construction typically barricades and slows down traffic,” said Steve Taylor, a Tucson business consultant. “People tend to avoid the area, take different routes and park other places, sometimes spontaneously. It’s their own perception that’s a big deal.” The modern streetcar promises to bring in a new crowd of people to the downtown area and the University of Arizona campus. East University Boulevard and North Park Avenue marks the starting point of University Boulevard construction. Photograph by Lexie Alvarez Businesses hope for increased sales. “We’ll get people from all parts of Tucson to add on to the college crowd we already have,” said Prince Ampong, the owner of Finally Made on University Boulevard. The main goal of the construction is to create a more urbanized area, whether it be retail, office or residential. “Along that route, it’s going to increase people in the area and have a lot more business development,” Taylor said. With progress in mind, the City of Tucson is focusing on the final objective. “The goal is to build and operate a modern streetcar,” said Carlos Deleon, director of Transit Services. “We’ll install railings, new amenities and pavement, and also an overhead power system.” Driving will be restricted on Broadway Boulevard, Congress Street, a section of Fourth Avenue, University Boulevard and Second Street through the UA campus. Construction is expected to last until summer 2013, but the streetcar needs an additional six-month testing period until it opens to the public. Even with completion a year away, some businesses are already renovating and even moving. Other businesses are moving Posner’s Art Supply, currently located on North Park Avenue, will be relocating to University Boulevard between American Apparel and Espresso Art. Until construction is over, small businesses must tough it out. “If progress is going to be made, you gotta go through it,” Cassidy said. Exceeding AIMS tests won’t cover full tuition By Varun Bajaj The Chronicle In an effort to decrease spending, the Arizona Board of Regents decided to reduce the ABOR High Honors Tuition Scholarship in September 2010. Starting in 2013, Arizona students will not be offered fulltuition waivers by achieving an exceeding score on all three Arizona Instruments to Measure Standards exams. To combat the cut, high school counselors like Jill Ronsman of Tucson High Magnet School, have provided students with career and college centers to help them find financial aid and scholarship opportunities. “The more you look, the more you research [scholarships], the money is there,” she said. “And you can probably earn more money by spending your time looking for scholarships and applying than you can working at, you know, at a fast food on the weekends,.” Though she feels like a student can still find scholarships, Ronsman went on to discuss her fears with the AIMS scholarship reduction. “I do feel that a lot of our stu- Tucson High Magnet School provides scholarship and financial aid information in the counseling department’s Career and College Center. THMS counselor Jill Ronsman says that with the reduction in the AIMS Tuition Waivers, students must spend time looking for private scholarships to pay for higher education. Visit us online for the radio story. Photograph by Keith Perfetti. dents won’t be able to go, or at least start, at the university,” she said. Kasey Urquidez, University of Arizona dean of admissions, said that the AIMS reductions won’t affect future enrollment. “I don’t feel like it’s going to decrease the amount of students that have the opportunity to come to school because the AIMS award isn’t there,” Ronsman said. “We will continue to reach out to the students broadly and make sure they have a good understanding of what merit and need-based aids are available.” The UA spends 17 percent of tuition income on financial aid and scholarships. “No money [of the 17 percent] is being removed and used other places or to fund other things,” Urquidez said. “It’s still going to go to students.” A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Community Post office succumbs to nationwide consolidation by USPS 4 June 2012 Continued from front page mail processing centers than states with smaller populations such as Wisconsin or Iowa. Cherrybell is the 15th largest processing center in the U.S. Postal Service system, of more than 480, Fimbres said. Mangala Ghandi, a USPS area manager of human resources for Washington D.C. said that the Postal Service considered distance, transportation, volume of mail, and the type of equipment available to process the mail when deciding which mail processing centers to close. Fimbres said that there would be several impacts if the processing center is closed. “Arizona’s considered a retirement community,” Fimbres said. “There are lots of seniors in our community and they’re not computer savvy. They still want to get their mail in their mailbox, they still want to read their newspaper, the hardcopy, and the other thing is a lot of them are on prescription drugs by mail.” Geraldine Perez, a local mail carrier, said that the service the post office provides is vital. “People rely on us daily, waiting for their checks or their medicine, birthday cards,” Perez said. “This consolidation is going to slow down mail-in voter ballots,” Fimbres said. “That’s going to deter folks (from voting).” Non-profit organizations will also lose their postage discounts. For one non-profit, the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, mailing costs will go up 40 percent because of the loss of their mailing discount, said Jessica Castillo, Marketing/ Direct Mail Specialist for the Community Food Bank. She said that the organization depends on direct mail for 28 percent of its revenue, or $2.5 million. It will be more difficult, Fimbres said, to get people to come to Tucson Richard Fimbres and spend money in small businesses if there is no mail processing and distribution center. Students at the University of Arizona with family living in different states are also affected by the consolidation. “I’m from Oregon, so it would take longer for simple things to get back home.” Lisha Smith, a student at Sunnyside grad recalls unusual career path By Samantha Neville The Chronicle Franc Contreras, a freelance correspondent for Al Jazeera English, never liked reading or writing when in high school. Growing up in Tucson, Ariz., Contreras found comfort in playing the electric bass and watching films. After graduating high school, he went on to attend the University of Arizona where he gained an interest in radio. “As I became more and more educated at the university level, I learned about something called National Public Radio,” Contreras said. “So I started listening to it, and that really changed the way I thought about storytelling. I became very interested in hearing human stories told with a human voice.” After flunking out of the UA, Contreras moved to Iowa and enrolled at St. Ambrose University to pursue a career in radio. Initially getting a job as a jazz DJ on KALAFM, he realized that he could see radio as a profession. “It had nothing to do with journalism. After a while I started thinking, “I do like storytelling,” he said. “I started reading newspapers more and more, and got very interested in daily news.” Contreras went on to work in Keokuk, Iowa, as a reporter for the Daily Gate City, where he found success. His first story, on an annual mushroom hunting contest, was placed on the front page of the newspaper. Yet even with his success, Contreras was not satisfied. So Contreras went to the University of Iowa to earn a master’s degree in journalism. During this time, Contreras became what he described as a “fanatic”, of the radio the UA said. “(It would take longer) to give cards and whatever I need to, to my parents.” The main problem people see with the consolidation is the delay that it will cause in mail arrival. Soler, however, does not see this as a problem. “Transporting mail over long distances doesn’t slow it,” Soler said. He said that the speed of the machines that process the mail determines how long it takes for mail to arrive, and that the available equipment are capable of processing the mail at a fast enough rate to not slow the arrival of mail. Fimbres, however, said he thinks that the post office can’t assure delivery at the same rate partially because of the 150-mile journey the mail must make before being processed. He said that a whole number of things could delay the mail as it travels to Phoenix and back, such as technical problems with the vehicle, dust storms, and traffic. Family, friends mourn McKale center fixture By Nick Trujillo The Chronicle Freelance reporter Franc Contreras displays the petardo, an object used as a weapon, during a Skype conversation. Photograph by Samantha Neville program “All Things Considered” on NPR. “I would actually listen to the full hour and a half every day. I would record the program on a cassette and then stay up all night and just transcribe the whole thing,” he added. “It showed me how they built the program. I could see the words they would use, the actual nuts and bolts of the way they structured sentences.” When offered a job at KUNMFM, an NPR member station, Contreras abruptly dropped out of UI, hoping to chase his interest. Shortly after joining the station, he was offered another job working strictly for NPR for a month. “I gambled everything, drove across the country in a U-Haul loaded down with all my stuff to Washington for a one-month long promise for a job,” said Contreras. After the month of promised work was completed, Contreras was offered his dream job: a producer on All Things Considered. “You get a chance to work at your dream location, you know, with the dream team,” he said. “It’s a lot of adrenaline.” Contreras worked on All Things Considered for three years and currently works in Mexico for an international television broadcaster, Al-Jazeera English. One person who has admired Contreras’ leap in journalism is Celeste González de Bustamante, a former broadcast journalist an assistant professor at the UA who teaches broadcast journalism classes. “I personally think that he does a really good job, given, you know, the constraints he’s probably working under,” said Bustamante. “I am working on bringing him back to the UA.” In 2006, Contreras was the first journalist to broadcast live for Al Jazeera, from Oaxaca. “I felt this very strong personal tie to the country, like something about Mexico was going to produce fundamental changes inside the United States eventually,” Contreras said. As for journalism suggestions, Contreras says to report on subjects one is passionate about because “in the end, what I think we’re telling as journalists are human stories.” The Mckale ticket salesman, the “brother in faith,” the man with the white cane. Jeff Arnold had many names but the one that stuck to most is “the man with all the enthusiasm in the world.” At the June 2 memorial service at the Mckale Memorial Center held for Arnold, friends described him as the kind of person you always wanted to hang out with. “I came across meeting Jeff in the McKale center ticket office,” said Victor Yates, a defensive back for the University of Arizona. “I walked in and he heard someone say my name and he was like ‘Oh Victor Yates’ and I was like ‘yeah it’s me.’ Then I realized he was blind.” Yates also described Arnold as a “brother in faith.” Arnold would attend the Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting to study the Bible and shared how God related to their lives. At the age of 2, Arnold developed a brain tumor, known as Optic Nerve Glioma, which distorted his vision. As the years went on it only got worse, by the time he died, at 36 on May 9, he was almost fully blind. Arnold was a part of many things, working as a radio DJ for the Disney Cruise Line, and for the Texas Ranger baseball club in Dallas. He also led the ticket sales department at McKale center for the past six years. Arnold also served http://myhsj.org/thechronicle http://chronicle12.weebly.com John de Dios Director Keith Perfetti Web and Multimedia Lead Sarah Garrecht Gassen Arizona Daily Star Veronica Cruz Co-Director Carina Enriquez Reporting Mentor Kevin Kemper UA School of Journalism Kate Harrison Program Coordinator Angela Yung Reporting Mentor Jeannine Relly UA School of Journalism Robert Alcaraz Print Lead Hannah McLeod Photo Mentor Carol Schwalbe UA School of Journalism Melissa Guz Radio Lead Susan Swanberg Science Journalism Mentor Noelle Haro-Gomez Photo Lead • Counselor Rogelio Garcia UA School of Journalism Keynote Speaker: Amy Wang The Arizona Republic Asian American Journalists Association - Az Chapter The community demonstrated its overwhelming opposition to the decision when 600 people showed up to a public hearing at the end of last year, Fimbres said. “There are a couple bills, one in the Senate and one in the House that they’re working on, Fimbres said. “We’ve also created an email petition, online petition and we’ve got over 1,200 folks and small businesses to respond to the governing board of the Postal Service.” Fimbres also mentioned that Pima County Recorder F. Ann Rodriguez is filing a complaint with the Department of Justice as well. Soler, on the other hand, said that the consolidation might be a positive change for the post office, because they won’t need to use as many trucks and the facilities won’t have to operate all night. “The postal service is making the changes we proposed in order to preserve the service for our customers long term,” Soler said. as board president of Southern Arizona Association for the Visually Impaired for the last three years. At the memorial there were rows of people sitting and waiting for their turn to share what they remember the most about Arnold. Among the last people to speak was Dana Cooper, a sponsorshipmarketing consultant. Friends recounted the time Arnold went paragliding and how, a few weeks later, he had one of his most memorable moments when he visited the Stanley Cup. “Who in their right mind would walk up to the Stanley Cup and hoist it above their head just for the fun of it?” Cooper asked the audience at the memorial. “Jeff would.” After Cooper shared his memory the crowd all went silent, praying for Arnold or remembering who he was and what he did. Anchorman Bud Foster also shared a memory he had with Arnold, going to UA men’s basketball games. “ I would sit with Jeff and he would be our run-on commentator. Although he was blind he would use a radio piece, in his ear, and keep us posted on what was happening,” Foster told the audience. “If the commentators down below ever made a mistake, Jeff would be there to correct them, for us.” “Also Jeff would go to games with his white cane and yell and scream when the refs made a mistake,” Foster said. “He would stand up and yell ‘I’m blind and I can make a better call than that’.” A Robert P. Knight Multicultural Recruitment Award Recipient The workshop administration and participants thank the Dow Jones News Fund, our primary sponsor; Concerned Media Professionals; University of Arizona Office of the Vice President of Student Affairs; Papa John’s Pizza; and the Asian American Journalists Association. The 2012 Chronicle staff thanks the school for its continued support and sponsorship. The Journalism Diversity Workshop for Arizona High School Students ias an annual program and welcomes high school students from all over Arizona to participate in a 10-day, intensive journalism program. For more information, please contact Kate Harrison at [email protected] The Chronicle is a publication of the Journalism Diversity Workshop for Arizona High School Students, a program of the University of Arizona School of Journalism. journalism.arizona.edu UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA School of Journalism P.O. Box 210158B Tucson, AZ 85721 © 2012 Dow Jones News Fund University of Arizona Journalism Diversity Workshop A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Community June 2012 5 Refugee arrivals in Tucson decrease, but their hopes do not the refugees who arrived in Tucson this year are Bhutan, Burma, Congo, Iraq and Somalia, according to the Tucson branch of the Refugee Bhutanese refugee Damodar Resettlement Program. Khatiwada, 23, experienced culture “There will be different waves shock when he came face to face [of refugees coming in],” said Marge with the American value of consumPellegrino, director of the Owl and erism. Panther Project, a local refugee sup“Back then (in Nepal) we didn’t port group. “Right now there seems know any brands,” Khatiwada said. to be a lot of Nepalis coming.” “We only had one brand, that is Keshavi said that while she was whatever (donation) comes in.” living in a bamboo shelter in a disDamodar’s experience is not placement camp with her family in unique among the refugee commuNepal, they depended on donations nity. After living in camps around to survive. the world, coming to the United “We didn’t have anything for States was a rocky transition, said ourselves,” Keshavi said. “We didn’t refugees who now live in Tucson, own a house. If we were hungry we Ariz.. had to thank (the donors) as a god.” In 2011, 499 refugees reThe family became settled in Tucson, according refugees during a civil war to Georgia Eddy, a program between the residents of the and project specialist for south and the monarchy, the Refugee Resettlement said her brother Damodar. Program in Tucson. The people in southern Of the 4,740 refugees Bhutan of Nepali descent that arrived in Arizona in originally immigrated there 2009, nearly 20 percent were in the 17th century to work Bhutanese people of Nepali as skilled laborers. Damodar descent. After 2009, the perThe Nepali people in Bhucent of Bhutanese refugees tan had kept practicing their began to decrease, parallel Hindu religion and speaking to the 46 percent decrease of the Nepali language, and refugee arrivals in Arizona, were viewed as a menace by according to the Refugee the monarchy in the 1990s, Resettlement Program. said Natalie Brown, resource Damodar and his 19-yearcoordinator for Iskashitaa. old sister were two of the refuShe said that because this gees that came to the U.S. in population could not prove 2009, after spending 16 years Keshavi that they were descendants in a refugee camp in Nepal. of Nepalis, they were not acThey form part of the cepted back into their native 1,300-strong community of country. Bhutanese refugees in Tucson, Damodar said that celsaid Natalie Brown, resource ebrating traditions is more coordinator for Iskashitaa, a difficult in the U.S. than it local organization dedicated had been in Nepal. to helping resettle refugees. In Nepal, Diwali is an “It was in 2007 that the outdoor celebration involvInternational Organization ing the whole community. for Migration … set out in Isho In the U.S., this is more Nepal and started accepting difficult, because neighbors applications and was willing to bring might not be aware of the festival, refugees to a few different countries,” and family members aren’t always Damodar said. able to get time off work to celebrate “The U.S. was willing to bring together, said Damodar. 60,000 (refugees) and we applied Keshavi misses the decorating without knowing which country opportunities that her home in would accept us, and we were acNepal offered. cepted by the U.S.,” Damodar said. “My house was made of bamboo “It took us about a year to finish and mud and I used to decorate my all the paperwork. We didn’t get a house with different rainbow colchance to choose where to go, or ors,” she said. “Because (the walls) which country. They decided for us.” were made of bamboo, we had to As crises shift around the world, cover the bamboo with newspaper the homeland of new refugees shifts or paper so the wind didn’t come accordingly. through the holes. So I miss decoThe native countries of most of rating my walls, I miss plastering By Samantha Neville The Chronicle the floors.” Along with moving to the other side of the world, refugees face the challenge of learning English. Usually, children master English faster than their parents, and they end up translating for the family, said the refugees. “It’s kind of hard and sometimes easy, and sometimes I don’t even like it,” said Isho Muktar, a 14-yearold Kenyan refugee. “But I still have to do it. I have no choice, my family doesn’t know the language.” Refugee children also must work to fit in at school. Some Tucson educators lament that students are not more welcoming to refugee classmates. As Grace Lena, an English language development teacher at Doolen Middle School, pointed out, misconceptions about refugees persist. “If they really understood why these kids are coming here, and why these families are happy to be here, maybe they would have more of an open mind about accepting them,” Lena said. Though the Khatiwadas have had many challenges while becoming accustomed to the United States, the siblings said the use of technology is one of their favorite parts of being in the U.S. “I feel like the world is in my hands right now,” Keshavi said. Using technology like the Internet, the Khatiwada siblings can communicate with extended family Top: Binyam Gezayi, Owais Kamtekar, and Rachana Kamtekar, at the Transit of Venus. Photograph by Hayleigh Daugherty Above from left to right: Isho Muktar, 14, Milina Suvva, 13, teacher Grace Lena and Binyam Gezayi, 14. Photograph by Samantha Neville members in Bhutan, something they weren’t able to do in Nepal. Damodar said that the relationships among himself, his siblings and his parents have improved since their arrival in the U.S. “In Nepal, we were very limited,” said Damodar. “It was a very small house, and we didn’t even have a sitting room… But here, just having a sitting room gives us so much time and so much room to sit down and talk about our feelings and everything we want to talk about.” The Khatiwadas also revealed that they felt independent and free in the U.S., as opposed to the resentment aimed toward the refugees by the Nepalis. “I like it here because everyone is equal here, and everyone respects each other,” Keshavi said. The Khatiwada siblings plan to continue their higher education. Damodar wants to pursue an associate’s degree at Pima, while his sister wants to study medicine in the hope of becoming a pharmacist. “I want to use my skills that I’ve learned here...to help [in Nepal],” Keshavi said. Local woman, author leads life of altruistic service By Kathryn Burney The Chronicle As a writer, Marge Pellegrino expresses herself by taking what she knows about a situation and looking at it from a different point of view. After the death of her brother, Pellegrino wrote a story about the experience that was published in a parenting magazine. “That story just kept echoing. I kept thinking about it, so I rewrote it as though my son had said it in his voice, and so that became my first children’s book,” Pellegrino said. The finished product, “I Don’t Have an Uncle Phil Anymore,” published in 1999, explored grief and how children process loss in their lives. As a child, Pellegrino’s parents stressed to her the importance of public service, which inspired her Marge Pellegrino gives a talk about her passion for helping others. Photograph by Hayleigh Daugherty next book, “My Grandma’s the Mayor.” “We were always doing something to help out the community,” she said. “I knew how good that felt, but now that I was a parent and I was going to my son’s school I realized there were only a couple of parents that got involved. I thought ‘Wow, kids are not getting this model. I could write a story about that,’ so I did.” Pellegrino is also the director of The Owl and Panther Project, an organization that helps refugees through expressive arts. Pellegrino volunteers more than 20 hours a week with The Owl and Panther Project. She uses art, such as poems and stories, to help refugees express themselves in a safe place. Her goal is to set that model of service for the refugees so that one day a former client can take over her position. Affected by her work with refugees from Guatemala and her realization of how little she knew about the events happening there, she felt the need to learn more, she said. “I was thinking, ‘What’s gonna happen when all these cool stories that they’re telling are lost?’” Pellegrino said. “So I did a lot of research, I did interviews, I read two boxes of books, I watched videos, I read poetry that my students wrote and read poetry of other poets. It was really helpful to me.” Pellegrino felt that the public needed to be aware of what was happening in Guatemala, so she set out to write a story about it. In the hopes of reaching more people, the process eventually became the award-winning novel “Journey of Dreams,” a story of Guatemalan refugees told from the perspective of a displaced child. “I understood that I could weave three threads: weave folk tales, I could weave her dreams, and I could weave her narrative,” Pellegrino said. Though Pellegrino has published four novels, she didn’t begin writing until much later in her life. “I didn’t realize [writing] was something that I could do, that read people did,” she said. “I thought you had to be magic.” 6 Science June 2012 A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Poachers sell, breed Arizona reptiles as the Sonoran mountain king snake, that is illegal to capture in Arizona. Law enforcement has no way to determine the origin of the reptiles. The poachers are committing a federal crime under the Lacey Act by crossing interstate lines with an illegally obtained animal. Continued from page 1 The first venomous reptile protected in North America was the Gila monster in 1952. Many people believe that more species should be protected under federal law. Collette Adkins Giese, a herpetofauna staff attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, said that it would be easier to prosecute poachers if species were protected across the nation rather than in specific states. If the laws were consistent across the U.S., there would be fewer loopholes for smugglers to discover. Animals are not protected under federal law unless their species are in peril, according to Adkins Giese. Courts can impose large fines or prison time for poachers who take endangered species. Whether poaching of reptiles such as the Gila monster will lead to imbalances in the environment remains a question. But some captive breeders in other states, such as Mark Seward of Colorado, don’t believe it will cause a large impact. “Habitat loss is a much more significant impact on the wild Gila population than any level of poaching,” he said. If a Gila monster or rattlesnake is relocated, studies suggest that the animal will do poorly in its new surroundings—and possibly die. Other breeders don’t believe poaching has a large effect on the overall species. “Gila monsters have been captively produced for over 30 years,” said Robbie Keszey, a partner of Glades Herps and star of Discovery Channel’s show “Swamp Brothers.” Poachers typically “herp” (search for reptiles) at night following the monsoon season in the Southwest. The people who remove these creatures from their natural habitats often come up with creative ways to hide the animals within their homes. For more information: Visit Arizona Game and Fish http://www.azgfd.gov Cartoon Schwalbe recalls an instance while working with the Arizona Game and Fish Department where one man harboring a venomous viper cut a hole in the wall of his house, and the snake stayed slithering around inside the walls. Schwalbe and his former employers had to confiscate the snake. They had quite a “humorous time” attempting to remove the illegal non-native snake from the house. Reptiles that are removed from their environment for more than 24 hours cannot be returned to the wild, Tilton said. This is because the animals may have come into contact with other reptiles and species with diseases. Once the reptiles are removed from their natural habitat for this by amount of time, they must be kept as captive animals for life, and are prohibited from reproducing with the rest of the population. Some of these displaced reptiles are donated to museums, such as the ArizonaSonora Desert Museum in Tucson. Others are given to citizens who have applied for a special permit to possess them. To acquire a captive breeding permit, applicants must pay a $200 fee. They must list all the species to be bred, their experience taking care of that species, a description of the breeding facilities and the supplier of their breeding pair. These permits, which are not available in Arizona, are distributed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Some species, such as the Gila Rachael Worthington and Celene Arvizu monster, also are difficult to breed, especially in captivity. Captive breeders might start off with an illegally obtained breeding pair. It can be fairly difficult to find a pair of the reptiles to own legally, so some take advantage of the loopholes. Reptile enthusiasts who decide to obtain the reptiles illegally for their new breeding businesses often collect the creatures with an Arizona Game and Fish hunting license, Schwalbe said. They then take the reptiles out of state to the location where they hold their breeding permits. When filling out their applications for permits, the poachers claim that they found their reptiles outside of Arizona. One common location includes the New Mexico border, where it is legal to capture certain wildlife, such Exotic reptiles, including Gila monsters, top, and the banded rock rattlesnakes, are popular targets for reptile poachers. Breeding pairs can often fetch thousands of dollars, said Cecil Schwalbe, herpetologist. Photographs by Hayleigh Daugherty Vatican Research Observatory: Where science, faith collide By Hayleigh Daugherty The Chronicle The average person visiting the University of Arizona probably would not guess that Jesuit priests, under the authority of the Vatican, have their observatory offices on campus. Those who have heard of the astronomers hold many misconceptions concerning the men of God studying the skies, according to Father Christopher Corbally. “We are here to do good science for the church, not that the church has an agenda,” Corbally said. “We’re not looking for the aliens before anyone else so we can baptize them, despite headlines you will see.” Corbally, a Jesuit priest with his doctorate in astronomy, has been working in Arizona with the Vatican Observatory Research Group since 1984, just three years after it opened in Tucson. Not all claims against the Holy See’s astronomy team seem so far-fetched, however. With the popular stories in history textbooks focusing on the church’s opposition to Galileo, it’s easy to wonder if the Vatican’s astronomers allow Catholic dogma to interfere with research. Corbally insists this is as true as the search for extraterrestrial conversion. “Science and theology go their own ways with their own methods,” Corbally said. At the same time, faith is not “We’re not looking for the aliens before anyone else so we can baptize them, despite headlines you will see.” completely abandoned from the Jesuit astronomers’ view of science. Science “doesn’t answer all the questions, the questions of the whole and the part,” he said. “We are very matter based, but not completely matter based, and that is what can’t be answered by chemistry or physics.” The Jesuits working at the university believe Christianity and astronomy work hand in hand. “A scientist who has faith finds joy not just in the discoveries but also finds joy that in sharing that discovery is sharing God’s own joy. The religious scientist also joins in the joy of creation,” Corbally said. Professor Chris Impey, deputy head of the Department of Astronomy at the UA, has worked with the priests since 1986 and agrees that the notions of doctrine affecting research are completely false. “I think people who jump to conclusions don’t know enough about what (the priests) do,” Impey said. “The Vatican has supported astronomy since the changing of the calendar.” Impey also commented on sharing research with the on-campus Jesuits. “They’re an interesting group with two hats on each,” Impey said. “They find science and theology very harmonious.” Commonplace assumptions are not the only thing clouding the truth about the Vatican Observatory. When the Jesuits and the University of Arizona built the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope for the Mount Graham International Observatory in 1993, controversy over the location sparked a bitter dispute between the Apache Nation and environmentalists against the Vatican’s scientists. One of the men who opposed them is Robin Silver, co-founder of the Center for Biological Diversity. Silver, along with many supporters, argues that the observatory is on sacred Apache land, and is damaging the Mount Graham red squirrel population. In 2010 he endorsed a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Forest Service over the location of the building. Similar to his writings in previous years, Silver insisted in a recent interview that the Vatican Observatory researchers “lack respect and integrity when it comes to Native American culture,” and the “disregard for the Apache” is really meant to negatively affect the opposing belief system because it contradicts Catholicism. The Jesuits responded to the many accusations similar to these in an open statement published in 1992 on their official website, vaticanobservatory.org. Fr. Chris Corbally, the vice director of the Vatican Observatory Research group, explains the work they do at Mt. Graham and the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope. Photograph by Hayleigh Daugherty “The Vatican Observatory offers no opposition to the continuance of Apache religious practices or the preservation of traditional Apache religious sites on Mt. Graham. It, too, has a profound respect for the integrity of the mountain and its environs. Contrary to erroneous information that has been supplied to the press, the Vatican Observatory finds no conflict whatsoever between the construction of the Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope and Apache religious practices or site preservation,” it states. Astronomy professor George Rieke, the deputy director of the Steward Observatory, has worked with members of the research group for more than 40 years and disagrees with Silver. “It would be completely out of character to denigrate another religion. That’s not where they are,” Rieke said of his colleagues. “The problem has to do with disputes within the Apache that overflows into the observatory controversy.” In spite of the many controversies and misapprehensions surrounding the Vatican Observatory Research Group, the Jesuits continue on with their scientific inquiries, and are willing to share their perspective. “It’s a good question: Why does the church have an observatory?” Corbally said. “Part of it is to show science in its own right is a part of the Christian activity. Doing science well is a part of what it means to be a good Christian.” Science A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project They are called javelinas for their sharp teeth. Javelina is the Spanish word for spear. • When people think of a javelina, they think of a pig. They are not pigs! Their scientific name is Tayassu Tajacu. • Two babies are born per litter. • At birth, a baby weighs only a pound. When javelinas are full grown, they weigh around 35 lbs. • The life span of a javelina is 7 years. • Natural predators are mountain lions and bobcats. • Hunting javelina is popular in Arizona. • Javelinas eat cactuses, insects and fruits. • Javelinas breed year round. Source: Arizona Game and Fish Department A week-old javelina walks near the visitor center at Saguaro National Park. Photograph Kenzie Hawley by From the visitor center window, the McRees were excited to see a herd of six adult javelinas and three babies. aguaro National Park is trying to A young boy standing nearby didn’t attract more visitors by renovatseem to be as enthusiastic about the ing the visitor center, exhibits creatures. and appealing to families. The park is building a new visiOfficials at Saguaro National Park tor center funded by park fees and East, which is named after the towering donations from Friends of Saguaro vibrant green cactus, are struggling to National Park, a non-profit organizaattract new visitors to explore the desert tion that provides additional funding preserve. for upkeep. Renovation is costing “The number of visitors (to the park) $250,000; Friends of Saguaro Nahas plateaued in the past few years,” said tional Park are donating $80,000 and Andy Fisher, the park’s branch chief of $170,000 is coming from park fees. interpretation. The visitor center will be finished Park rangers are trying to increase by the end of summer, according to the number of visitors by creating famPark Superintendent Darla Sidles. ily-friendly activities. Attendance drops Exhibit renovation will be completed when it gets into the hotter summer by 2014. months and increases during the cooler Park rangers have created activities months of January through April. to attract younger visitors. Rangers go The park doesn’t have a marketing to multiple schools over the acabudget and relies on word of mouth demic year and teach students how to Saguaro cactuses can be seen from the visitor recommendations and social media to prepare for camping and hiking. In the attract new visitors, said Fisher. Between center at Saguaro National Park. The saguaro summer, rangers host three-day-long cactus can live for 200 years. 600,000 and 700,000 people visit the park camps for second- and third-graders. Photograph by Kenzie Hawley each year. Young campers hike, learn about desThe only tangible advertising used by ert communities, ecology and history of the park. the park is “the old-fashioned brown board,” Fisher said referThroughout June, Sabino High School students will moniring to the highway signs that direct visitors to the park. “Most tor cactus life at the park. Later in the summer the students will of the visitors we get are of the older generation.” harvest saguaro fruit. Saguaro fruit is harvested using a long Virginia and Wayne McRee, retirees from Georgia, said that pole to reach the fruit. The fruit is then made into jams and fruit Saguaro National Park was on their bucket list. bars. According to Sidles, visitors are able to buy the jams and “ I am interested in the West because when I was younger I fruit bars at the Saguaro National Park visitor center. would watch all of the Western movies,” Wayne McRee said. “We love the West.” By Kenzie Hawley Staff Writer S Pet owners stay cool as they rely on animal care center during rise in temps By Jose Rivera The Chronicle When the temperature rises in Pima County, animalaffiliated programs stay on their paws. All over Tucson, animal organizations are giving advice about proper guidelines for pet owners dealing with the rise in heat. Despite these helpful guidelines, the number of animals suffering from heat stress is increasing at Pima Animal Care Center (PACC). “We get more calls during this time of the year. Most of them consist of stray animals,” said Jayne Cundy, representative of PACC. “We had 423 calls last month (May) that consisted of welfare calls.” Welfare calls report animals without water, wandering the streets and being injured. So far this year, 3,399 calls have come into the PACC regarding animal welfare. The longer the time that animals spend outside in the sun, the greater their stress level. As the weather hits record highs, animals need to keep cool. “All animals can get stressed in the heat – people, dogs, cats, etc.,” said Dr. Nobel Jackson, a lecturer in veterinary science and microbiology at the University of Arizona. “Pets need shade just as (much as) humans (do) to get cool. Heat strokes are certainly a risk when anyone is out in the sun for a long amount of time.” However, with 100-degree weather hitting the area earlier in the year, local pet owners have their own ideas of beating the heat. 7 National parks try to attract visitors JAVELINAS 101 • June 2012 From top left to bottom: Dot Com, a 9-year-old Dalmatian, sits down to enjoy the shade as the sun sets on the UA campus. Nibbler, a 3-year-old pug, enjoys his evening walk. Jamie Schelble and his dog, Puppy, rest on the grass near Park Avenue. Photographs by Noelle Haro-Gomez and Sierra Schulze “I carry a gallon of water with me when I’m walking my pet just in case there’s no water around,” said Catlin Swartz, a UA student and owner of a 15-month-old pug named Nibbler. “Pugs and other different breeds of dogs have to live in weather that’s under 90 degrees, so part of carrying a gallon of water is to pour some on my pet so he won’t overheat.” However, the average rate of pets falling victim to heat strokes and other weatherrelated health issues are low, according to the PACC. “The rate of animals getting severely affected by heat is low,” said Edward Taczanowsky, business officer of the PACC. “Usually when an animal’s tongue is purple, that’s a sign that the animal is dehydrated. Give them water as soon as possible.” The PACC has 28 officers on staff for calls usually pertaining to stray animals in need of water or injured. The officers are required to give them water, as well as make contact with the owner. “During warm weather like this, take precautions. Walk your pet at night, give them cool water through the whole day,” Taczanowsky said. A criminal report can be filed for leaving a pet in an area with little air, such as inside a car with closed windows,. “In one case we had to break the windows of a car to get a pet out,” said Bethany Wilson, a crime prevention officer at the UA Police Department. The Arizona Revised Statute 13-2910 A7 allows police and animal control officers to use reasonable means to remove an animal from a vehicle, including breaking windows, if necessary. “On the UA campus, animal abuse has only been reported three times in the last ten years,” Wilson said. Records were not available regarding the number of animal abuse cases in the City of Tucson at press time. Pets that are abused are often taken away from their owner, but because of the high number of pets at the PACC, owners are sometimes given the opportunity to keep them. To beat the heat, owners must be aware of their pets’ needs. “Just giving pets water and walking them in the shade is a good way to ease the stress on the pet. On the really hot days it’s just best to stay inside,” said Leigh Moyer, a UA graduate and owner of Dot Com, a 9-year-old Dalmatian. “He’s mostly a couch dog, and whenever we go walking, he always tries to go in the shade. So Dot Com is finding his own ways to stay cool.” Hundreds gathered to view the transit of Venus Tuesday, June 5. Transit of Venus By Marissa Alejandre The Chronicle Hundreds of people gathered outside the Flandrau Science Center at the University of Arizona Tuesday, June 5, to view the transit of Venus, which occurs only twice a century. “It’s a once in a lifetime event and we’ve known about it for a couple months now so we decided to come out,” said Eric Sahr, a geology major and president of the UA’s chapter of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space. Michael Magee, the technical director of the transit event said that the transit of Venus occurs when Venus passes between Earth and the sun. He said it is much more difficult to see than a solar eclipse because Venus is “a tiny, little, black dot moving across (the sun).” Viewing the transit unaided can damage the eye, so event officials sold safe solar viewing glasses. Local amateur astronomers even brought solar-filtered telescopes so the public could safely catch a glimpse of the “Morning Star.” Flandrau observers also watched a video of the transit from the sky center on Mount Lemmon, as well as observatories around the world. Dr. Larry Lebofsky also gave a lecture series about the history and significance of the Venus transit, said David Acklam, a docent from the UA’s Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. All of the exhibit areas in Flandrau were also open to the public for free. View the video online at http://www.chronicle12.weebly.com 8 Spanish June 2012 A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Periodista de Tucson logra éxito en México por Samantha Neville Traducido por Lexie Alvarez The Chronicle Foto por Rachael Worthingtonw Traficantes venden reptiles de Arizona por Rachael Worthington Traducido por Jose Rivera The Chronicle La caza furtiva de animales exóticos es una empresa enorme en todo el globo, y Arizona es un punto caluroso para los reptiles raros. La caza furtiva de animales es el comercio ilegal de segundo más grande del mundo, sólo superado por el tráfico de drogas, dijo doctor Cecil Schwalbe, un herpetólogo con el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos. A pesar de que este mercado es tan grande, tan sólo pocas estadísticas e información existe sobre la caza furtiva, ya que es difícil saber lo que el tráfico es legal y que es ilegal. “Es probablemente más común de lo que sabemos,” dijo agente Diane Tilton, un encargado de vida silvestre de Arizona caza juego’s y pescados, que sigue la pista de los cazadores furtivos. Muchos reptiles en Arizona, como el monstruo Gila, una boa rosa y la serpiente de cascabel manchada de dos, están protegidos por la ley estatal, pero el problema de la caza furtiva de reptiles aún continúa. Las leyes que no sean coherentes de un estado a otro son las grietas que los cazadores furtivos aprovechan. Afecta a los científicos en el campo de estudio. “Ni siquiera voy a hacer estudios sobre las casas de serpiente de cascabel más en las tierras públicas a causa de los cazadores de ocultar,” dijo Schwalbe. La gente se refiere como “cazadores de ocultar”, son los cazadores furtivos que buscan para los reptiles con el fin de utilizar o vender sus pieles. Schwalbe ha dejado de ir a las casas de las serpientes con el fin de evitar que regalar sus escondites. A pesar de reptiles criados en cautividad de Arizona de otros estados están a la venta, la caza furtiva sigue siendo una forma común de obtener las serpientes y los lagartos raros. Con el fin de capturar y mantener a estos reptiles, los cazadores furtivos que encontrar lagunas en la ley. Con una licencia de caza en la noche después de la es legal tomar reptiles que no estación de los monzones en el están protesudoeste. gidas por la “La pérdida ley estatal de hábitat es y la ley fedun impacto eral, pero mucho más es ilegal la significativo en venta de la población cualquier silvestre Gila especie que cualquier silvestre de nivel de la Arizona. caza furtiva”, Con esta dijo. Si un licencia, monstruo Gila un cazador o la serpiente sólo podrá de cascabel se cobrar o traslada, los esposeer ~Robbie Keszey, tudios sugieren un cierto el animal Discovery Channel que número va a hacer mal de reptiles, en su nuevo con la entorno, y excepción de algunas especies hasta morirse. selectas que son ilimitadas. Por Otros criadores no creen ejemplo, si el límite es diez de que la caza furtiva tiene un una especie, y un cazador ya gran efecto sobre las especies tiene seis años, él o ella sólo en general. podrán recoger cuatro más. “Monstruos Gila han sido El primer reptil venenoso producidos en cautiverio protegidas en América del durante más de 30 años,” dijo Norte fue el monstruo Gila en Robbie Keszey, un socio de 1952. Glades Herpetofauna y estrella Mucha gente cree que más del programa de Discovery especies deben ser protegidas Channel “hermanos del panbajo la ley federal. Collette tano.” Adkins Giese, un abogado de Las personas que eliminar la herpetofauna en el Centro a estas criaturas en su hábitat de la Diversidad Biológica, dijo natural a menudo vienen con que sería más fácil de procesar formas creativas para ocultar a los cazadores furtivos si las a los animales dentro de sus especies están protegidas en hogares. Schwalbe recuerda un todo el país y no en estados ejemplo al trabajar con el Ariespecíficos. zona Game and Fish DepartaSi las leyes fueron consismento, donde un hombre que tentes en los EE.UU., habría alberga una víbora venenosa menos resquicios para los cortar un agujero en la pared contrabandistas de descude su casa, y la serpiente se brir. Los animales no están quedó deslizándose dentro de protegidos bajo la ley federal a las paredes. Schwalbe y sus ex menos que sus especies están empleadores tuvieron que conen peligro, según Adkins Giese. fiscar la serpiente. Tenían un Los tribunales pueden imponer buen “tiempo de buen humor” multas o el tiempo de prisión de intentar retirar el ilegal no por los cazadores furtivos que nativo de serpiente de la casa. toman las especies en peligro Los reptiles que se retiran de extinción. de su medio ambiente por más Ya sea que la caza furtiva de de 24 horas no pueden ser reptiles como el monstruo Gila devueltos a su hábitat natural, dará lugar a desequilibrios en dijo Tilton. Esto es porque los el medio ambiente sigue siendo animales pueden haber entrado una pregunta. Sin embargo, en contacto con otros reptiles y algunos criadores en cautiespecies con las enfermedades. verio en otros estados, como Una vez que los reptiles son Mark Seward, de Colorado, no retirados de su hábitat natural creo que va a causar un gran para este período de tiempo, impacto. deben ser lo más animales en Los cazadores furtivos cautiverio para la vida, y se les por lo general “de reptiles” prohíbe la reproducción con el (búsqueda de los reptiles) resto de la población. Algunos “Monstruos Gila han sido producidos en cautiverio durante más de 30 años, ” de estos reptiles y se donan a los museos, como el Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, en Tucson. Otros se dan a los ciudadanos que han solicitado un permiso especial para poseer. Para obtener un permiso de cría en cautividad, los solicitantes deben pagar una cuota de $ 200. Se debe incluir a todas las especies que se crían, su experiencia en el cuidado de esa especie, una descripción de las instalaciones de cría y el proveedor de su pareja reproductora. Estos permisos, que no están disponibles en Arizona, se distribuyen por los EE.UU. Fish and Wildlife Service. Algunas especies, como el monstruo Gila, también son difíciles de criar, especialmente en cautiverio. Criadores en cautividad podría comenzar con una pareja reproductora obtenido ilegalmente. Puede ser bastante difícil encontrar un par de los reptiles a la propiedad legal, por lo que algunos toman ventaja de las lagunas. Entusiastas de los reptiles que deciden obtener los reptiles ilegalmente para sus empresas de cría nuevos a menudo se acumulan las criaturas con un juego de Arizona y licencia de caza de pez, dijo Schwalbe. Toman los reptiles fuera del estado a la ubicación donde se celebran los permisos de reproducción. Al llenar sus solicitudes de permisos, los cazadores furtivos afirman que se encontraron con sus reptiles fuera de Arizona. Un lugar común incluye la frontera de Nuevo México, donde es legal para capturar cierta fauna, como el de Sonora montaña rey serpiente, que es ilegal para capturar en Arizona. La policía no tiene manera de determinar el origen de los reptiles. Los cazadores furtivos están cometiendo un delito federal bajo la Ley Lacey, cruzando las líneas de un estado a otro con un animal obtenido ilegalmente. Los consumidores pueden comprobar el Arizona Game and Fish folleto para obtener más información acerca de los reptiles y los anfibios los reglamentos de caza: http://www. azgfd.gov/pdfs/h_f/regulations/ ReptileAmphibian.pdf. A Franc Contreras, el corresponsal independiente de Al Jazeera English, nunca le gustaba leer ni escribir cuando estaba en el escuela secundaria. Contreras, que se crió en Tucson, Ariz., encontró tranquilidad tocando el bajo eléctrico y viendo películas. Después de graduarse de la escuela secundaria, se fue a la Universidad de Arizona donde empezó a interesarse en la radio. “A medida que me educaba más y más a nivel universitario, fue conocí una cosa que se llamabaRadio National Pública,” Contreras dijo. “Empecé a escucharlo y eso cambió mi manera de pensar sobre la narración de historias. Me interesé mucho en escuchar historias humanas narradas con una voz humana.” Después de reprobar la universidad, Contreras se mudó a Iowa y se inscribió en la Universidad de St. Ambrose para seguir una carrera relacionada con la radio. El primer trabajo que consiguió fue el de un DJ de jazz en KALA-FM. Entonces se dio cuenta de que la radio podía ser una profesión para él. “No tenía nada que ver con periodismo. Después de un rato, empecé a pensar ‘Sí me gusta contar historias,’” dijo. “Empecé a leer periódicos más y más y me interesé en las noticias diarias.” Contreras se fue a trabajar en Keokuk, Iowa como un periodista para el Daily Gate City, donde tuvo éxito. Su primera historia, sobre un concurso anual de buscar hongos, se publicó en la primera plana del periódico. Sin embargo, él no estaba satisfecho con su éxito. Entonces obtuvo su maestría en la Universidad de Iowa en periodismo. Durante este tiempo, se convirtió en lo que describió como un “fanático” del programa de radio, All Things Considered en NPR. «Yo escuchaba la hora y media completa todos los días. Grababa el programa en un cassette y yo quedaba despierto todo la noche para transcribir la cosa entera,” añadió. “Me enseñó cómo se construía el programa. Podía ver las palabras que usaban, y la forma básica en que se estructuraban las frases.” Cuando recibió una oferta para trabajar en KUNM-FM, una estación de miembro de la NPR, de repente se retiró de la Franc Contreras universidad con la esperanza de seguir sus intereses. Un poco después de unirse a la estación, le ofrecieron otro puesto, trabajando para NPR durante un mes. “Tomé un riesgo, manejé por todo el país con un U-HAUL lleno de todas mis posesiones a Washington por solo un trabajo de un mes,” dijo Contreras. Después de que se completara mes de trabajo prometido, le ofrecieron el trabajo de su sueño: ser un productor de All Things Considered en NPR. “Te dan la oportunidad a trabajar en la área de tus sueños, tú sabes, con el equipo de tus seños,” Contreras dijo. “Es mucho adrenalina.” Contreras trabajó en All Things Considered durante tres años. Ahora trabaja en Mexico para una cadena de televisión internacional, Al-Jazeera English, de que acuerdo con Contreras, “recibe sus recursos,” por un rico país del Medio Oriente que se llama Qatar. Una persona que admira a Contreras por su periodismo es Celeste González de Bustamante, un ex periodista de televisión y profesora asistente en la Universidad de Arizona, quien enseña clases de periodismo televisivo. “Personalmente creo que hace muy buen trabajo dando los limites en que esta trabajando,” dijo Bustamante. “Estoy tratando de hacerlo volver a la universidad.” En 2006, Contreras fue el primer periodista a transmitir en vivo para Al Jazeera, desde Oaxaca. “Yo sentí una conexión fuerte con este país, como que algo sobre México iba producir cambios fundamentales adentro de los Estados Unidos,” Contreras dijo. Contreras dice a reportar los sujetos de que somos apasionados sobre porque “en fin, lo que yo creo que somos diciendo a las periodistas son cuentos de humanaos. A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Spanish June 2012 9 Foto por Noelle Haro-Gomez y Carolyn Corcoran Varios edificios universitarios solicitan licencia para vender alcohol por Carolyn Corcoran Traducido por Maria Urquidez The Chronicle La Universidad de Arizona va a vender bebidas alcoholicas en eventos especiales ubicados en algunos edificios, dependiendo de la aprobación de las solicitudes de licencia para vender alcohol. Con las ventas de bebidas de alcohol siendo limitadas a siete edificios en la Universidad de Arizona, los oficiales de la universidad no creen que las licencias tendrán repercusiones en el campus. “Realmente no nos afecta para nada,” dijo Joel Hauff, el director interino para Arizona State Unions. “Al final del día, es sólo un cambio de procedimiento para nosotros.” Los siete edificios incluyen el Student Union Memorial Center, Cenntenial Hall, Arizona State Museum, College of Fine Arts, Arizona Stadium, McClelland Hall y Biosphere 2. Todos han llevado a cabo eventos con venta de alcohol. Tanto en los eventos para la Recaudación de Fondos, como en los palcos privados en el estadio de futbol, la venta de alcohol ha estado previamente disponible si el establecimiento había obtenido el permiso necesario para el evento especial. “Solemos tener eventos con bastante frecuencia en los edificios,” dijo Hauff. La licencia le dará a la Universidad de Arizona la habilidad de poder vender alcohol en los edificios para eventos especiales sin tener que solicitar permisos individuales. Con la obtención de la licencia, la solicitud de permiso, la espera, y la tarifa se eliminan. Aunque la plática de la licencia comenzó desde el año pasado, algunos miembros de la comunidad aún no han sido informados. Jordi Carvalho, gerente general de Wilkos, un restaurante de propiedad local ubicado en University Boulevard , no sabia nada de la licencia pendiente. Ella predice que la licencia le afectará la cantidad de clientes. “Ellos ya no tendrán su pre-fiesta aquí,” dijo Carvalho. “ Creo que le va afectar a la calle principal de la Universidad con las pre-y-pos fiestas, pero mantendrán a los estudiantes a salvo.” El pasado 17 de mayo se puso un aviso público en cartels verdes alrededor del campus, para informar sobre la licencia pendiente. “Vi señales gigantes,” dijo Analia Cuevas, una recién graduada del College of Social Behavioral Services. “Creo que es algo que todos quieren, especialmente en los juegos de deportes. Yo pienso que es sentido común. La gente nada más debe ser responsable. Cualquier queja sobre la licencia de La Universidad de Arizona va a vender bebidas alcoholicas en eventos especiales ubicados en algunos edificios, dependiendo de la aprobación de las solicitudes de licencia para vender alcohol.Carolyn Corcoran La oficina de el secretario de la Ciudad no recibió ninguna queja escrita,” dijo Thelma Sánchez, que esta encargada de os permisos de alcohol. Sin Embargo, como padre de un joven de 19 anos, Gardiner es consiente de el efecto potencial en estudiantes menores. “ Estoy un poco preocupada de las identificaciones falsas,” Gardiner dijo.” Nomas no quiero que los jóvenes se expongan.” Sgt. Juan Álvarez, un oficial de información publica para a Universidad de Arizona Departamento de Policía, no cree que la presencia de identificaciones falsas en el campus se aumentaran. Dijo que eventos conteniendo alcohol obtenidos dentro de los siete edificios son “mas controlados”, y “muy específicos en invitación”, oponiendo a fiestas de invitación abierta obtenidos en residencias. “El menos control, las mas ofensas,” dijo Álvarez. Una audiencia será obtenida el 26 de Junio a las 5:30 p.m. antes el alcalde y consejo de ciudad de Tucson para revisar las aplicaciones de licencia. La Audiencia será obtenida en Alcalde y Consejo de Chambres. Ya cuando las aplicaciones sean revisadas, se llevaran al estado para aprobación final. Dueños de mascotas dependen de PACC durante el calor por Jose Rivera Traducido por Maria Urquidez The Chronicle Cuando las temperaturas suben en Pima County, grupos afiliados con animales están en alerta. Sobre toda la ciudad de Tucson, organizaciones afiliadas con animales dan consejos en directrices adecuadas para los dueños de mascotas. “Recibimos más llamadas durante esta época del ano (que durante cualquier otra). La mayoría de las llamadas son para animales de la calle,” dijo Jayne Cundy, representante de PACC. “Hemos recibido 423 llamadas durante el mes pasado (Mayo) que consisten de llamadas de bienestar.” Llamadas de bienestar reportan animales que no tienen agua, que viven en la calle, y que están heridos. Hasta ahora en este ano, nos han llegado 3,399 llamadas al PACC, y tienen que ver con el bienestar de los animales. Mientras más tiempo pasan los animales afuera en el sol, más que se les sube el nivel de estrés. Cuando suben las temperaturas suben, los animales tienen que refrescarse. “Todos los animales se estresan en el calor -- gente, perros, gatos, etc.,” dijo Dr. Nobel Jackson, un profesor en ciencias veterinarias y microbiología en la Universidad de Arizona.“Las mascotas necesitan sombra tanto como los humanos para refrescarse, corre el riesgo de Foto por Noelle Haro-Gomez hypotermia quien sea que esté afuera por mucho tiempo. ” Sin embargo, 100-grados de temperatura a principios del año, los dueños de mascota tienen sus propias ideas para combatir el calor. “Yo llevo un gallón de agua conmigo cuando llevo a mi mascota a caminar, por si al caso no hay agua alrededor,” dijo Catlin Swartz, estudiante de la Universidad de Arizona, y dueña de un pug de 15 meses llamado Nibbler. “Pugs y otros tipos de perros deben vivir en un clima de menos de 90 grados, parte de llevar un gallón de agua es para echarle poca para que no se hidrate.” El promedio de mascotas cayendo victimas de hypertermia y otras condiciones , son bajas según PACC. “El promedio de animales recibiendo gravemente afectados por el clima son bajos,” dijo Edward Taczanowsky, oficial de negocio del PACC. “Normalmente cuando la lengua de un animal esta morada, es una señal que el animal esta deshidratado. Dales agua cuanto antes.” El PACC tiene 28 oficiales en el personal, para responder llamadas pertenecidas a animales de la calle que necesitan agua, o que están heridos. Los oficiales son requeridos a darles agua y contactar su dueño. “Durante que el clima esté caliente , toma precauciones, camina su mascota en la noche, dales agua helada durante todo el día,” dijo Taczanowsky. Una denuncia penal se puede presentar por dejar a una mascota en un área con poco aire, por ejemplo adentro de un carro con las ventanas cerradas. “En un caso tuvimos que quebrar la ventana de un carro para sacar la mascota,” dijo Bethany Wilson, oficial de prevención del delito en la UA Departamento De Policía. El Estatuto Revisado de Arizona 13-2910 A7 deja que la policía y labores de control de animal contralan a oficiales que usen medios razonables para remover un animal de un vehículo, incluyendo quebrando ventanas si es necesario. “En la Universidad de Arizona, abuso de animales nomas ha sido reportado tres veces en los últimos diez anos.” Dijo Wilson. Archivos de la cantidad de casos de abuso de animal en la ciudad de Tucson no son los disponibles. Las mascotas que son reportadas por abuso son tomadas fuera de la presencia de los dueños, pero por la alta cantidad de mascotas en el PACC, a veces los dueños tienen otra oportunidad para quedarse con ellos. Para vencer lo caliente, dueños tienen que estar en pendiente de las necesidades de su mascota. “Darles agua helada, y caminarlas por la sombrita, son buenas maneras para aliviar el estrés en una mascota. En los días mas calientes lo mejor es que estén adentro,” dijo Leigh Moyer, una graduada de la Universidad de Arizona, y dueña de Dot Com, un dálmata de 9 anos. “Es sobre todo un perro de sofá, y cuando vamos a caminar, el siempre trata de irse por la sombra. Dot Com busca su propia manera de mantenerse frio.” Profiles 10 June 2012 A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project 2012 Diverse backgrounds, united passions Photograph by John de Dios/ Workshop Director Top row: Melissa Guz, radio journalism lead; Second Row: Kathryn Burney, left, Varun Bajaj, Noelle HaroGomez, photo lead and dorm counselor, Rachael Worthington and Marissa Alejandre. Third Row: Yetzabell Rojas, left, Hayleigh Daugherty, Nicholas Trujillo, Sierra Schulze, Carolyn Corcoran and Lexie Alvarez. Fourth row: Kenzie Hawley, left, Jose Rivera, Robert Alcaraz, print lead, Celene Arvizu and Maria Urquidez. Fifth row: Samantha Neville. Front: Keith Perfetti, web and multimedia lead. Carolyn Corcoran, Co-Chief Editor Carolyn Corcoran, 16, will have a busy senior year at Sunrise Mountain High School in Peoria, Ariz. Along with being managing editor of the school’s paper, the Mustang Express, Corcoran is involved in several extracurricular activities including tennis, National Honor Society, the Career and Technical Student Organization, the Christian Club on Campus and she’s also a peer mentor. “I don’t like being bored,” Corcoran said. After high school, Corcoran hopes to double major in journalism and political science at an out-of-state college and eventually become a political speechwriter. Written by Lexie Alvarez Sierra Schulze, Photo Editor Sierra Schulze, 16, is a senior at Youngker High School in Buckeye, Ariz. Her goal is to become a news broadcaster, but she also has an interest in being an ultrasound technician. She is a varsity cheerleader, a member of newspaper club, National Honor Society, Health Occcupation Students of America and a participant for the Relay for Life. Schulze helped establish her school newspaper during her sophomore year and has been the only editor-in-chief. “My motivation came from my freshman year journalism teacher, Joesph Kinney. My parents (also) have been encouraging and very supportive even when I get frustrated. Writing is my passion,” Schulze said. Written by Kenzie Hawley Marissa Alejandre, Copy Editor Of all the ways Marissa Alejandre, a 14-year-old attending Tucson High Magnet School, expected to find a career worthy interest, a mistake in her class schedule was the last thing she imagined. “I signed up for yearbook, and they placed me in beginners journalism,” Alejandre said. However, this accident led her to a new passion in journalism. Alejandre, who is not embarrased to call herself a nerd, revels in the idea of science fiction and technology. Alejandre considers herself a rising multimedia journalist and an avid fandom follower, but her favorite motto says it all: “Hakuna Matata.” Written by Hayleigh Daugherty Celene Arvizu, Staff Writer Celene Arvizu, a 16-year-old junior from Douglas, Ariz., said she her love of writing began in the third grade with poetry. “Journalism just evolved from my love of writing,” Arvizu said. She is interested in literature, human behavior, philosophy and helping people for a greater good. She comes from an artistic family and loves anything that allows her to express creativity. Through this course and her future endeavors, she hopes to meet people and gain experience to refine her journalism skills, she said. Written by Rachael Worthington Samantha Neville, Staff Writer Samantha Neville, 16, a Tucson High Magnet School junior, wants the world to be a better place. “I want a more peaceful world, a world that’s more interested in the benefit of everyone and working toward a more environmentally friendly planet,” Neville said. “A place where everyone’s accepting of differences: A place we’re proud of.” She was the Spanish editor of her school newspaper, the Cactus Chronicle, which helped develop her love for journalism. She said she hoped to turn that into a career. Her ultimate goal: to be a writer for The New Yorker. Written by Kathryn Burney Fourteen current high school students and one recent high school graduate from the Grand Canyon State gathered for the Dow Jones News Fund Journalism Diversity Workshop at the University of Arizona held June 1 - 10. The young journalists worked with college mentors and professionals to learn how to improve their skills in photo, multimedia, radio and print journalism. Four lead mentors, for web, copy, radio and photo, supervised the students throughout the 10 days to produce a daily online website and the final workshop newspaper. The short biographies give just a little feel of the journalists and their diverse backgrounds coming into the program. Jose Rivera, Co-Chief Editor Jose Rivera, 17, a Tucson native, has been an avid sports fan all his life. “When I scored my first touchdown the feeling was amazing,” Rivera said. Despite his passion to play, Rivera’s interest was starting to point in a different direction — journalism. “I always thought journalism would stand in my way of being a football player, but I never knew it would stop me from playing the game all together,” Rivera said. Since discovering journalism, Rivera hasn’t regretted leaving football, and looks forward to being the editor in chief of Tucson High Magnet School’s newspaper, the Cactus Chronicle. Written by Nicholas Trujillo Rachael Worthington, Design Editor When Rachael Worthington was given the opportunity to participate in the program, she accepted the new challenge. “My mom always encourages me to take on any opportunities, and when the diversity workshop came up, I took advantage of it,” Worthington said. One of the things she looked forward to in the program was how to make her interviewing more effective. In one day’s worth of class, she more clearly understood the importance of accuracy. “You have to reach out and find your sources,” she said. After high school in Prescott, Ariz., she plans to incorporate both of her interests of culinary arts and journalism into her career. Written by Celene Arvizu Lexie Alvarez, Copy Editor Lexie Alvarez is a 16-year-old junior at Tucson High Magnet School. It was after attending a football game with her father when Alvarez discovered her passion for sports. She had her first story published in the Cactus Chronicle last school year when she was part of the beginning journalism class. “After skimming through the paper about four of five times, I thought it wasn’t there until I found it the next time,” Alvarez said after having her first article published. “That was when I felt accomplished and satisfied,” she said. After high school, Alvarez hopes to attend the University of California, Berkeley to major in journalism. Written by Yetzabell Rojas Hayleigh Daugherty, Staff Writer Hayleigh Daugherty is an accomplished Girl Scout with many different honors. Daugherty also is a multi-time award-winning blue belt in karate. She said she takes pride in her faith as a Wiccan and being welcomed into the Navajo family. The BASIS Scottsdale junior wants to go into a profession that can make a difference in teenagers’ lives. “I want teenagers to know that they have more power than they think,” Daugherty said. “You may never be able to change others but to some extent you can always change yourself.” Written by Marissa Alejandre Yetzabell Rojas, Staff Writer Douglas High School senior Yetzabell “Rhino” Rojas, 17, is no stranger to the community. Whether on the sidelines with pom-poms or a digital camera, Rojas’ multi-faceted character was recognized by her media teacher freshman year. “Rhino is one of the most passionate and energetic students I’ve had since I began teaching,” said Mark Silverstein, her media teacher. Rojas sees herself in the future with a business degree from an in-state university. She hopes the diversity of this degree may lead her to photography, public relations and interior design. Written by Carolyn Corcoran ~ Jose Rivera Co-Chief Editor Varun Bajaj, Radio Producer A 17-year-old senior at Gilbert High School in Gilbert, Ariz., Varun Bajaj has been improving his writing by contributing to his school newspaper since the seventh grade. “I like asking questions and telling stories,” he said. Along with Matt Lewis, a University of Arizona graduate student, Varun has created The Gilbert Gumption, an online newspaper that he hopes will one day be the main news source in Gilbert. He is a nationally ranked chess player, who also teaches chess at charter schools, and a National Honor Society member. Bajaj’s parents encourage him to keep his grades up, and be involved in school activities. Written by Maria Urquidez Nicholas Trujillo, Web Editor Sophomore Nicholas Trujillo, 15, started working for the Cactus Chronicle as a sports reporter at the Tucson High Magnet School in Tucson, Ariz. “It was fun, it was a bit aggravating at times because I wasn’t in beginning journalism,” Trujillo said. “But I really enjoyed it.” As the school year ended, and time was closing on Trujillo’s freshman year, he received photo of the year honors. Next year he will be the paper’s sports editor. “After not wanting to be in the class for the first semester, that soon changed for me because I soon enjoyed it,” Trujillo said. Trujillo plans to become an engineer after high school. Written by Jose Rivera Kathryn Burney, Copy Editor One of the first things that Kathryn Burney, 17, former editor of her school magazine and recent graduate of Horizon High School, learned from her father was how to not be victimized. Burney has used this lesson to overcome challenges in her life. “I think it really would have been hard to get through any challenges without that experience,” she added. “I just think my dad did me a big favor.” Burney plans to go to the University of Oregon and study journalism this fall. Her dreams for the world, however, are much larger. “I would like to see a world with more equality and a world where civil rights aren’t something people have to fight for,” Burney said. Written by Samantha Neville Kenzie Hawley, Staff Writer Kenzie Hawley, 15, a junior at Seligman High School, developed a passion for writing in a middle school English class. “I started in eighth grade, simply writing down my feelings,” Hawley said. “It was just easier to let it all out on paper.” Photography had always been one of Hawley’s fascinations because of her mother’s career in professional photography. She hopes to be editor of her high school newspaper next year, the Lopes Ledger, where she will continue working on her writing skills and practice taking better photos. Written by Sierra Schulze Maria Urquidez, Staff Writer Junior Maria Urquidez, 16, began taking photos when her teacher gave her a photo assignment in her freshman media class at Douglas High School. “My teacher just handed me a camera and told me to take pictures,” Urquidez said. “When he told me they were great; that’s when I became super interested.” Using these newly found journalism skills, Urquidez plans to delve deeper into her love for the arts, as well as continue to thrive as the “oddling” in her family of five. Although she loves photography, Urquidez plans to pursue a career in medicine. Written by Varun Bajaj A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project Photo Day June 2012 11 Photo by Lexie Alvarez/The Chronicle Photo by Sierra Schulze/The Chronicle Large top: Jesus Flores Garcia grills chicken on the UA campus for Allyn Hanes Catering. Above: Kieran Conner, Katy Carr, Ishta Robles and Vita Carr take a morning stroll on campus. Left: Turtles are common at the lily pond on campus. Photo by Maria Urquidez/The Chronicle Dow Jones Journalism Workshop Begins 31st Year By Carolyn Corcoran Co-Chief Editor Photo by Hayleigh Daugherty/The Chronicle Top: Michael Mayette and his best men prepare themselves for a photograph taken by photographer Erik Hinote. Right: Noelle Rohen brings her son, Matthew, to a monthly Storybook Character Hour at the UA Student Union Memorial Bookstore. Photo by Varun Bajaj/The Chronicle The Journalism Diversity Workshop for Arizona High School Students began on Friday, June 1 at the University of Arizona School of Journalism. The workshop is a long-running program that has existed since 1981. This year, the workshop has continued to grow with a new daily online component and a new sponsor, the Asian American Journalists Association - Arizona Chapter (AAJA-AZ). “As we embark on, hopefully, another successful 30 years, I thought it’d be a prime opportunity for the workshop to grow,” said John de Dios, the workshop director. “We have a great staff of 15 students and college mentors, and I am very much excited to see what they can produce over the next 10 days.” Among the participating students is recent Horizon High School graduate Kathryn Burney. “I was expecting to work on a publication,” Burney said, “I wasn’t expecting to dabble in everything – photo, multimedia and all of that.” Day two began with a photojournalism lecture by A.E. Araiza, an Arizona Daily Star photojournalist. Students then trekked around campus, seeking out interesting photo opportunities and source material for their future stories. “I hoped for more photography (lessons),” said Yetzabell Rojas, a Douglas High School student. “I wanted to learn more about taking pictures.” Rojas said she would apply the concepts she learned during the seminar at her high school this fall semester. The workshop concludes on June 10 with a graduation ceremony. The students with the top two stories from the workshop will receive $200 and $100 from AAJA-AZ at the ceremony. 12 June 2012 A Dow Jones News Fund Diversity Project ConDanza leaps onto Tucson Stage Former university instructor continues teaching at private studio Photo story by Yetzabell Rojas The Chronicle S From far left clockwise: Julianna Grantham, 20, who has been dancing for three years, practices in the studio. Cesar Degollado, director of the studio, talks to his class about proper feet placement. tage performance is important for any dance company. However, for ConDanza Repertoire Company & Educational Community Outreach Project, it is also about transforming from a semi-professional company to a professional company. “We hope that we can grow on a state level,” said Cesar R. Degollado, the founder of ConDanza. “We’re hoping that we can establish ourselves as a face of contemporary dance in Tucson.” Degollado started the dance group in 2009, which he named ConDanza. When translated from Spanish to English, ConDanza means “with dance.” Degollado’s idea was that “with dance,” the company would succeed as a community outreach project. Starting with only six members, the troupe now has 15 dancers who perform for free at after-school programs and fundraisers. ConDanza hopes to establish a place for dance in education, just like other performing arts. “Dance is just as important as acting or any other art,” Degollado said. Tony Juarez, 23, dances for ConDanza and attributes his growth as a person to the company. “The company is a big part of my life,” Juarez said. “It taught me the value of discipline and commitment.” Maddy Greene, 20, a member of ConDanza, said dancing helps with her fine art studies at the University of Arizona. “I think it gives me a good work ethic,” Greene said. “It really gives me something to think about because I’m an artist at the U of A.” ConDanza is located downtown on East Toole Avenue and North Fifth Avenue. The studio offers classes year-round for dancers 15 and older, but a dance class will be held this summer for children 14 and younger. Degollado hopes to create a year-round class for these young dancers. On Pointe Left to right: Tony Juarez, 23, practices proper technique in the studio. Julianna Grantham stretches in a split position before her class begins. Anna Rowland, 17, listens to her instuctor while resting during ballet practice. Top: Above: Bottom Four: Anna Rowland takes a breather during her ballet class.