March 2019 – Page 2

14Mar

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Sports

Aztecs hit rough patch drop 4-6

By ANGEL CANEZ The Pima Community College Aztecs are a quarter into the season with a record of 16-9-1. Brian Romero Pima’s freshmen first baseman won the ACCAC Division I Player of the Week for February 18-24. This marked the second consecutive week an Aztec player has won the ACCAC Division I Player of the Week award as Philp Skies took it home for the week of February 11-17 . This also marked the third Aztec player to win an award this season as Pitcher Astin Bryan won ACCAC Division I pitcher of the Week for the week of February 11-17 as well. However Pima has hit a bit of a snag during conference play as they dropped four of there last six games. Pima played host to the Yavapai Community College Roughriders on Mar. 9. The doubleheader was was pushed back from its...

14Mar

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News

‘Speaking Out’ over society’s silence

By AMARIS ENCINAS On March 7, the Downtown Campus hosted Speaking Out: A Day of Inquiry and Exploration, which was an event that focused on the featured work of American writer Audre Lorde. To kick off the event, Sandra Shattuck, Pima Community College instructor in Communications, shared some words about the late Lorde and how she changed the way people discuss social justice issues. “I just want to give everyone a round of applause for ever everyone here today because showing up today is 90 percent of the work,” Shattuck said. “Audre Lorde developed theories, analyses and practices of intersectionality before the term existed, so to use a Western African political designation she is the Queen Mother of Intersectionality. She’s not alone, but if she were here today, she would say tha...

A Sentient Roomba’s Guide to Music: How I learned to stop worrying and love The Roots

14Mar

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Arts & Entertainment, Opinion

A Sentient Roomba’s Guide to Music: How I learned to stop worrying and love The Roots

By KYLE KERSEY In case you didn’t know by now (or haven’t been paying attention, which, I mean, fair enough), The Beat Report is a bi-weekly music report on some of my favorite new stuff music has to offer. It will also will feature retrospectives on great albums celebrating anniversaries this year. No genre is off limits. Everything written about is recommended and encouraged. And if you don’t know, now you know. Something New: Ariana Grande – “Thank U, Next” (Pop) Let’s talk about the chart-topping elephant in the room: It’s similar to last year’s “Sweetner,”, an incredibly clean pop album that checks all the boxes: it’s catchy, it’s energetic, it’s … catchy. Oh, and it’s vulnerable. Very vulnerable. “Ghostin’” stands alone as the zenith of vulnerable pop, a ballad that runs over a ...

14Mar

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Opinion

Dating in college, maybe?

By ALEXZANDRIA MARTINEZ As my dramatic life progresses and another failed attempt to form a relationship results in the heartache of unrequited love, my sitting on the couch repeatedly watching “Dirty Dancing” days are questionable. Why should I care to create this deep bond, when I haven’t even figured out who I am yet? As many before me, I’ve been told, “You will meet your love of your life in college.” Today’s young people often succumb to the growing popularity of “hookup culture,” or in my case, guys being straight-up assholes. There’s the difficulty of getting into a relationship, but it is also difficult to maintain one because of life’s stresses. In fact, it seems like most college students prefer to go on casual dates and not maintain any emotional connection than to be in...

14Mar

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Arts & Entertainment

Vagina Monologues

By MONTY GANTTSpring2019VaginaMonologuesV1 On March 28th at the Proscenium Theater at 7 PM, Pima Community College students, staff and alumni will come together to put on a performance of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” Upon first glance at the title of the show, it may seem like an open discussion forum of anatomy for women. But despite its shock and awe title, this show is far from that. “The show is based on a series of interviews that Ensler conducted with various women of all races, ages and ethnicities,” said Jennifer Wellborn, West Campus Student Life coordinator. The interviews Ensler conducted were then transcribed into different segments based on the respective experiences from the lives of the interviewed women. Since then, many arts programs have adapted “The Vagin...

14Mar

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Opinion

It’s more than a feeling

By PARKER BROCK Love has been a key component of human culture and society since the beginnings of civilization, helping guarantee the continuation of our species. Our modern understanding of love and romance is tied to the formation of romantic relationships in 18th Century Europe. The societal norm of two partners per relationship derives from here. The basic concept of a person finding an attractive mate to then later procreate and create lasting relationship with is heavily reinforced in our society, typically between a male and female. Recent social movements have begun re-integrating the concept of homosexuality and polyamory, a relationship with more than two partners, into mainstream society. Some struggle to understand how homosexuality is possible because it doesn’t...

14Mar

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Sports

Pima Rolls onto Third Straight Regional Championship

Pima Rolls onto Third Straight Regional Championship By MONTY GANTT The Pima Community College Men’s Basketball team dominated Scottsdale Community College March 8 to win its third straight NJCAA Region 1, Division II championship. March 8 vs. Scottsdale CC 107-73 The No. 1-ranked Aztecs defeated the two-seeded Scottsdale Community College 107-73 to win the NJCAA Region I, Division II championship. The Aztecs started the game hot shooting for 7 from the field and took a 27-8 lead, which forced the Fighting Artichokes to call a timeout six-and-a-half minutes into the first half. Pima took a commanding 60-36 lead at halftime after shooting 70 percent (23 for 33) from the field and hitting 8 three-pointers. “We knew we had to come out strong and set the tone and not let them (Scot...

14Mar

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Opinion

Desperation or the pursuit of love?

By COSTA B. PAPPAS A few decades ago, online dating was nonexistent. Sure, some people met through sketchy chat rooms back in the late ’90s, but online dating was nowhere near what it is today. A few years back, people were forced to form solid connections through face-to-face interactions or risk being single. The world was a sea of possible opportunity where singles could meet a potential soulmate through bar nights, blind dates or by sitting next to them at a coffee shop. Fast forward to 2019: We’re in a world where blind dates are virtually nonexistent, bar nights are spent surrounded by your closest friends with little to no awareness of potential suitors around you and coffee shops are a lot more silent …it appears that live interactions are dead. With our generation no longer...

14Mar

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Sports

Winning streak snapped in Phoenix

By Kyle McDaniel March 12th, Game 1 and 2 at South Mountain Community College were cancelled. March 9th (A) Game 1: PCC 0, Phoenix College 7 On a four game winning streak the Aztecs headed out on the road to take on the number three team in the nation. However Phoenix College proved why they’re ranked as high as they are, after the Aztecs had only two hits in the first game. Freshman Bianca Castillo suffered her fifth loss of the season, after allowing seven earned runs on eight hits in six innings of work. Game 2: PCC 3, Phoenix College 7 In the second inning Pima took the lead after sophomore Janice Garcia and freshman Giselle Munoz scored on wild pitches. The game would remain close throughout, with Pima holding their own...

14Mar

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Pima adjunct charged with Murder 1

By ALEXANDER LOPEZ An Oro Valley man and adjunct instructor of two online history classes for Pima Community College has been arrested in connection with the murder of his wife, Oro Valley police said. Trevor Draegeth, 37, was teaching The Holocaust and Introduction to Western Civilization at Pima this semester, according to class schedules at pima.edu. Those classes will be covered by other instructors, according to a statement released by Pima. Draegeth is being held in Pima County Jail on a $10 million bond and is awaiting his next court date March 18, according to online records. He is being charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of his wifeLaurie Draegeth, 40. A police report stated that about 12:30 a.m. Feb. 12, an altercation between the Draegeths turned physica...