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In honor of the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s tele-scope, scientists have creat-ed a series of events for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. Celebrations of astronomy are taking place in 140 countries, including glob-al events such as 100 Hours of Astronomy, Around the World in 80 Telescopes, How Many Stars Contest and the National Dark Sky Week.
The UA hosted lec-tures in conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy as a way for stu-dents to focus on astrono-my and cosmology. These included “New Methods For Determining The Dark Matter Content Of Spiral Galaxies” and “Conflict in the Cosmos – The Life and the Science of Sir
Fred Hoyle.” Most recently, on Thursday, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Joseph Taylor pre-sented “Binary Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity.”
“Probably the most fun and inspiring way to participate in the IYA would be to get involved with our campus astronomy group,” said Daniel Kennefick, a UA physics professor.
The Student Astronomical Society hosts astronomy-relat-ed activities not only with stu-dents, but also with the gener-al public. SAS President Chris Sharp said the group’s events provide a good opportunity to connect kids and their families with the cosmos.
“We host several star parties each semester where attendees get a chance to play with tele-scopes and giant binoculars while enjoying the hidden views in the night sky,” he said.
This year, National Dark Sky Week is April 20 through April 26. The week was established to raise awareness of light pol-lution, initiate a time for peo-
ple to enjoy the beauty of the cosmos without the intrusion of city lights and eliminate or improve the energy-wasting outside lights that prevent a
clear view of the night sky. The National Dark Sky Week
Web site suggests that citizens turn out their porch lights or sidewalk lights and use a red-tinted flashlight for neces-sary visibility before observ-ing the stars, as the flash-light won’t disrupt nighttime vision. An example of outdoor light improvement would be reducing the amount of light reflected upward away from usable space.
The Nature Web site adds, “Reducing the number of lights on at night could help con-serve energy, protect wildlife and benefit human health.”
The 100 Hours of Astronomy, which was hosted by the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, was
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International Year of Astronomy celebrated by departments, organizations on campus
Galileo Galilei made telescope famous for astronomical observations; saw craters of the moon, the rings of Saturn; biggest lense 1 in. (2.5 cm) in diameter
Telescope history
1608 1609Issac Newton produces first reflecting telescope,mirror size 6 in. (15.2 cm) in diameter
1668Newton’s principle remains the same, only modifications to the method of focusing
18th-19th century
Russian astronomers create reflecting mirror telescope, size: 20 ft. (6 m) in diameter
1974Hans Lipperhey(Ger./Neth.) creates the first telescope
Astronauts deploy giant Hubble Space Telescope in orbit
Telescope is made up of lenses and mirrors which collect visible light. The light is then magnified by an eyepiece for enhanced viewing.
1990World’s biggest twin Keck telescopes in Hawaii, mirror size 33 ft. (10 m)
Future project: OWL Telescope in Chile, bigger than a soccer field
1993 and 1996
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UA senior Josh Biddulph works at a computer in the astronomy lab Monday, March 30. 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, and UA organizations are taking part in celebrations.
Theft at UAless prevalent
than usual
Green library receives $60,000 for solar panels
Around 400 UA students
unable to vote in ASG election
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A patron of the Fayetteville Public Library leaves the building Monday, April 6. Library officials recently announced plans to continue the library’s commitment to sustainability by installing solar panels on the roof.
Officials from the Fayetteville Public Library, one of the first public libraries to register as a U.S. Green Building, recently announced plans to further the library’s commitment to sus-tainability.
The library received a $60,000 grant to install 48 solar panels on the roof of the library that will provide 10 kilowatts of energy, said Louise Schaper, the library’s executive director.
“Through this grant, the library will save energy, provide a platform for local innovators to test their technologies and provide a real world learning opportunity for the commu-nity,” Schaper said.
The solar panels will be added in the fall to correspond with the UA’s upcoming semes-ter. They are to be “designed, constructed and installed by students,” Schaper said, and senior-level electrical engineer-ing students will work on the project during the fall semester with oversight from professors in the department.
Alan Mantooth, director of the National Center for Reliable Electrical Power, is one of the electrical engineering profes-sors involved in the project.
The panels will be mounted on a rotating frame designed to follow the sun throughout
The UA Police Department received fewer reports of theft this year compared to last year, in spite of an economic downturn.
The UAPD has received 51 reports of theft in the first three months of 2009 compared to 57 reports of theft in the first three months of 2008, said Gary Crain, UAPD public information officer.
Still, the UAPD has seen an increase in theft in some areas, said Vance Rice, another UAPD officer. Earlier this month, there was a theft of cash, which is rare, Rice said.
The cash was a donation given to the Razorback Foundation, but the UAPD cannot release at this time how much was taken, Crain said. The donation was left in a drawer, and when employ-ees came back to retrieve it, the money was gone, Crain said.
“We don’t have cash come up often,” Rice said. “We (also) don’t see vehicles taken very often.”
A white 1994 GMC Sierra was reported stolen March 12, but so far that is the only case of automotive theft on campus this year, Crain said. Last year, there were two vehicles reported stolen within the first three months, he said. The UAPD has no leads in the case, Rice said. The truck was an older model, so it was prob-ably stolen to be used, not to be sold for parts, Rice said.
This was the case two years
ago when a man stole a truck from campus and used it on his farm in Oklahoma until pulled over by police, Rice said. Though this is the only case of car theft reported this year, a few mopeds also have been stolen, Rice said.
Clery Reports from 2004 to 2007 show an overall decrease in the number of thefts reported on campus, from 255 in 2001 to 198 in 2006, with an increase to 254 in 2007.
Meanwhile, the number of burglaries reported on campus has increased from 21 in 2002 to 83 in 2007, according to the Clery Reports. Five cars were reported stolen in 2007, according to the 2007 report.
Property crime increased nationally overall during the last recession in 2001, accord-ing to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Web site. Crime increased by .9 percent in 2001 while property crime increased by 1.3 percent, though violent crime fell by .4 percent, accord-ing to the Web site.
In the first half of 2008, prop-erty crime fell 2.5 percent with larceny dropping 1.2 percent, burglary falling .8 percent and motor vehicle theft decreasing 12.6 percent, according to the Web site.
In cities the size of Fayetteville, property crime decreased by 1.7 percent with burglary decreasing by 2 percent and larceny decreas-ing by .3 percent, according to the Web site.
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Results of this year’s As-sociated Student Government election were verified Friday, but controversy remains over some students’ inability to vote.
About 400 UA students logged in to vote.uark.edu but were unable to vote because they were not correctly classified as students in the system. In previous years, a “dummy election” was used to ensure students could vote, but this year one was not. Accord-ing to the Election Commission, about 150 students visited the Center for Leadership and Com-munity Engagement to cast a paper ballot.
Prior to the announcement of this election’s winners, a meeting was hosted to inform all candi-dates that they had every right to
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UA groups to host ‘Ducks for Dharma’
Heifer International and Students for a Free Tibet will host “Ducks for Dharma” 7 p.m. today at George’s Majestic Lounge. The benefit is to raise money to provide ducks for impoverished families in India, and half the proceeds will go to a Tibetan school in India. The event also will raise awareness of Heifer International’s efforts to promote sustainability to end world hunger and inform the public about the situation of Tibetan Buddhists living in exile in India. “Ducks for Dharma” will feature free food, a silent auction and entertainment including Tiffany Christopher Band, Candy Lee, Real Good Legends, The Smithstonians, Memphis Pencils and DJ Matt Boles.
Lecture to examine social, computer and communi-cation networks
Professor Barry Wellman, the S.D. Clarke Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, will deliver the 2009 Ferritor Community Lecture, “Connected Lives: The New Social Network Operating System,” 6 p.m today in Room E107 of the Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
UAPD to host sexual assault self-defense class
UA Police Department instructors will host a sexual assault and rape awareness self-defense class 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, in Room 143 of Maple Hill South. All faculty, staff and stu-dents may attend. For more information, contact officer Jerry Weiner at 575-7412 or [email protected].
Quarterly business analysis to focus on economic downturn
The Center for Business and Economic Research in
the Sam M. Walton College of Business is partnering with the Northwest Arkansas Chambers of Commerce to host the Quarterly Business Analysis breakfast 6:45 a.m. Thursday, April 9. The breakfast event will be at the Clarion Hotel, 211 SE Walton Blvd. in Bentonville.
Senior honor citation applications due
The Arkansas Alumni Association is seeking applicants for its Senior Honor Citation. The awards are given to an exceptional senior man and woman every spring along with a $500 cash prize and life membership in the Arkansas Alumni Association. All application materials must be submitted to the Alumni Association by Friday, April 10. For more information, call Debbie Blume at the Alumni Association at 479-575-6476 or visit the alumni Web site at www.arkansasalumni.org/awards/seniorhonor.php for guideline materials.’’
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Tobacco tax increase forces spending readjustments for some UA students
A 62-cent a pack increase on cigarette taxes has some UA students struggling to keep up with their addiction.
The 62-cent federal tax that began earlier this month is in addition to the 56-cent tax passed by Gov. Mike Beebe in mid-March, leaving Arkansans paying a $1.15 tax on each pack of cigarettes they buy.
The federal government grants a 3-cent price break to business owners for tax imple-mentation costs, but for some students, the financial burden is becoming too much – though they haven’t quit smoking.
“It’s just too much. I can’t pay for it because I don’t have a job,” sophomore Mallory Scheurer said. “Right now, I’m just bumming, and it’s bad.”
Borrowing cigarettes from other students is an increasing phenomenon on campus, fresh-man Tory Cottingham said.
Cottingham spends about $40 a month on cigarettes,
smoking about a pack a week. Though he hasn’t had trouble buying cigarettes, he has had to make compromises.
“I’ve had to move down to cheaper, grosser cigarettes,” he said. “Even those cost $4 or $5 a pack. They used to be $2 or
$3.”For junior Sarah Gibbs, the
tax increase this month has forced her to make some life-style changes.
“Let’s just say I don’t spend money on anything except ciga-rettes and Taco Bell,” she said.
Gibbs smokes a pack a day and spends $55 a week to keep up with her habit. Until the tax increase this month, Gibbs also had been supporting two other people’s habits, but now she
can only keep up with her own, she said.
Sales in Arkansas are expect-ed to take a hit, state tax official Gary Williams said.
“It’s going to be a few months before we can tell any kind of trend, but there’s no doubt our sales are going down some,” he said.
The Tobacco Shop on West Township Street in Fayetteville has already experienced some of the effects. Being a specialty store, the Tobacco Shop only carries tobacco, and customers roll their own cigarettes. To save money, the Shop has decreased its stock of cigarette tobacco.
“We decided (to do) that because the cost is just going up so phenomenally,” Tobacco Shop employee Tony Farnam said.
“We’ve seen people going to pipe tobacco, but if people con-tinue to buy cigarette tobacco, we’ll continue to stock it,” he said.
But not all Arkansas cities are feeling the same strain from the tax increases. Cities within 300 feet of a state line and those
that have gained special admit-tance are designated “border zones,” allowing them to pay the tax of the closest neighbor-ing state.
Fort Smith and Siloam Springs are both in the desig-nated Oklahoma border zone, according to a report released by state tax officials last month. Business owners in these zones pay $1.06 tax, 9 cents less than the rest of the state.
However, the business own-ers getting the best deal are those in the Missouri border zone, Williams said. State ciga-rette tax in Missouri is 20 cents, almost $1 less a pack than the Arkansas tax.
Border zones originally were established to help keep Arkansas consumer dollars in the state, Williams said. Transporting more than one carton and one pack of cigarettes across the state line is against the law.
For Cottingham, any more tax increases would cause him to quit smoking entirely.
“It’s bad enough as it is,” he said. “If it goes up any more, it’s just too much.”
the day and maximize energy output. In addition to pro-viding power to the library, they will reduce energy use and the carbon footprint. The higher efficiency both supports sustainability and helps the library save on costs.
After six months of moni-toring, the standard inverter for the panels will be replaced by a silicon carbide inverter for better efficiency. Over time, more panels will be added using thin-cell solar technol-ogy being developed at the UA.
With an $8,500 pledge from the Arkansas Energy Office, the library will set up a kiosk,
also designed by students, that explains how the solar panels generate power for the library and how the power is being used. It will display energy data in real-time while discuss-ing the importance of renew-able energy.
The library’s 2,000 daily visitors will be able to fol-low the project as it develops through the kiosk and numer-ous educational materials and events at the library. There will be books and DVDs available about the project and the sub-ject of renewable energy.
The project will use solar technology developed in Northwest Arkansas. The pan-els will provide power to the library through an inverter that was developed at a local ener-gy company, Arkansas Power
Electronics International. It will also provide an application of the renewable energy research at the Arkansas Research and Technology Park.
The library was one of nine public libraries awarded a Public Library Innovation Grant from the International City/Council Management Association out of the 515 libraries that applied. The grants are designed to assist the libraries in developing new and creative ways to meet com-munity needs, according to a press release.
The Fayetteville Public Library, which opened in October 2004, has been credited with several firsts. In addition to being one of the first public libraries to register with the U.S. Green Building Council, it
was the first building project in the state of Arkansas to register for LEED certification and the first municipal building to be certified, a recognized standard for building sustainability.
Some of the green features of the 88,000-square-foot facility include a cistern to catch rainwater for irrigation, a white membrane roof, cork flooring, recycled content fur-nishings and low VOC finishes and fabrics.
The library’s partners for the solar test bed proj-ect are the UA electrical engineering department, the City of Fayetteville’s Office of Sustainability, Arkansas Energy Office, Fayetteville Economic Development Council and Southwestern Electric Power Company.
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celebrated April 2 through April 5. The opening event for 100 Hours was a five-month exhibit of Galileo’s telescope, manuscripts, paintings and other artifacts at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.
This week, Giorgio Strano, curator at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy, arrived at the Franklin Institute to deliver one of the two remaining Galileo telescopes for the exhibition “Galileo, the Medici and the
Age of Astronomy.” The exhibition is especial-
ly historical because it is the only time that the artifacts have left Florence, according to a Franklin Institute press release.
“Around the World in 80 Telescopes,” which provided 24-hour video footage of the night sky from all continents in the world, was another highlight of 100 Hours, accord-ing to the IYA press release. Among the most impressive of the telescopes used for the video are the four giant 8.2-meter “Unit Telescopes” in Chile.
A “How Many Stars” contest
began Jan. 1 this year and will continue until Dec. 31, collect-ing observations from anyone willing to submit them.
This contest aims to pro-vide a great deal of data for annual comparisons of change in the visibility of the night sky. The observations are an estimation of how many stars are perceptible from humans’ viewpoint without the aid of a telescope or binoculars.
Estimations are based on a scale posted on the contest’s Web site and submitted with the time and location of the observation.
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The Parking and Transit Committee is considering a new fee – and this time, the target is bicycles.
This is just a bad idea on its face. The committee should be bending over backwards to encourage cyclists. More bicycles means less cars. This means more parking spaces, less traffic, less dependence on foreign oil and less pol-lution.
Hundreds of students are already speaking out on the Facebook group “UofA Students Against Bicycle Parking Fees on Campus,” started by Jon Bame, former Associated Student Government vice-presidential candidate, last week.
The committee’s proposal would require a parking permit at the cost of $15. This might not seem like a lot of money to you, but you might not be a college student. The casual rider is not going to even bother to pick up a per-mit. I’m frightened to think of what will happen this summer. A lot of families like to visit our beautiful campus when it’s warm out.
I can imagine a kid riding his brand new bike all the way up the hill to the campus, ringing the shiny silver bell and thinking how lucky he is. Then, he pulls out the chain lock his dad helped him pick out and secures his bike to a rack while he goes off to Old Main lawn to play Frisbee or maybe read a book.
He thinks that his bike is safe be-cause the very idea of requiring parking permits for a bike rack is so ridiculous that it doesn’t even cross his mind. He returns just a half hour later to find his bike missing – impounded by the UA.
Now, I don’t think that the Parking and Transit Committee is some sort of malicious organization out to ruin peo-ples’ lives. There are some real problems that exist, and the committee is made up of good people trying to do their best.
There are two problems that the pro-posal addresses. Fortunately, there are other, better ways to solve both of them.
The first problem is that some riders are chaining their bikes to trees and damaging them. The solution here is
simple: if someone parks their bike in a way that is going to damage campus property, then impound that bike. Our trees are preserved without punishing those who park intelligently.
The second problem is that there aren’t enough bike racks around cam-pus in the first place. These racks cost money.
Sloan Scroggin, former chairman of the ASG Sustainability Committee, says that it costs $180 a loop for new bike racks. The university is getting robbed at that price. After only two minutes of searching, I found a 16-bike commercial rack for less than $30 a spot. I’m sure that labor and shipping add to the cost, but I’d volunteer to help install them.
Yes, even if we do get a deal, some funding is needed. I would suggest tak-ing it out of the fines students pay for improperly parking cars. Last year, the Transit and Parking Department was issuing tickets at the rate of more than 200 a day. Take $1 from each of those fines, and you’ve got enough bicycle parking spots for everyone on campus.
It’s not a perfect solution, but shouldn’t we be punishing the people who are breaking rules instead of law-abiding bicyclists? Besides, it’s in an im-patient parker’s best interest to encour-age other drivers to ride their bikes.
With the way the policy is written, only a third of the fee would go toward building new racks, anyway. Another third would go toward the permit pro-gram.
The permit program seems like a
good idea until you think about it – all it is is a sticker with an ID tag. That way, if your bike is stolen and the police find it, they can trace it to you.
Apparently, the committee thinks that the same thieves who can cut through your bike chain are too weak and puny to peel off your UA permit sticker!
Five dollars from each permit is go-ing toward this ID program. These stick-ers had better be made of solid gold.
The final third of the fee is allocated to Razorbikes.
Razorbikes was a noble idea that failed. I did a radio story on Razorbikes last semester and completed an informal survey of the program. Another student and I checked out every bike rack in the central campus area between Maple, Garland, Arkansas and Dickson on a weekday afternoon. We found two bikes, both of them in very bad condition.
Adding funding won’t really do much good. These sorts of low-tech, free bike-sharing programs have been tried across the world in places like Amster-dam, Portland and Toronto, and they flop. More than half the public bikes in Paris’ widely promoted Vélib’ system have already been stolen.
Unless the university finds the money to start installing a debit card scan-ner and GPS on each Razorbike – like London and Barcelona’s bikes – it’s just never going to work.
Besides, Razorbikes must be returned to campus by the end of the night. They don’t replace a car for anyone and don’t improve sustainability. Only personal bike ownership does that.
The committee doesn’t need as much money as the members think, and they can get the money that they do need from better sources than the pockets of bike riders. We should be doing ev-erything we can to reward bikers, not punish them.
Adam Roberts is a columnist for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.
NASA needs a leader
There are a lot of questions swirling around NASA lately.When will it ground the space shuttle for good? When will
it launch Constellation, the next manned program? Where should it ultimately go, what kind of rocket should it use, and how much will it cost? How much money should unmanned programs get?
With NASA approaching three months without an admin-istrator, and mixed signals coming from the White House, it might be easier to plot the path of orbiting space junk than to figure out where the agency is heading.
NASA badly needs a leader and a plan. The future of the U.S. space program, billions of dollars, and thousands of jobs, depend on it.
Former NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, who served nearly four years under President George W. Bush, was a strong advocate for Constellation and its original goal of reaching the moon and Mars. He championed Ares, a rocket he helped design, despite cost overruns, technical problems and competi-tion from alternatives that supporters claim would be faster and cheaper to build.
He pushed for narrowing the projected five-year gap between the 2010 retirement of the shuttle and the first launch of Constellation. But Griffin resigned Jan. 20.
President Barack Obama hasn’t brought much clarity to these issues. He began his presidential campaign calling for delaying Constellation and spending the savings on educa-tion. Three months before Election Day, while campaigning in Florida, he reversed engines and declared his support for the original timetable.
The new president’s first budget proposal would raise NASA’s annual budget slightly to $18.7 billion next year. It would keep the shuttle on schedule to retire in 2010, and maintain funding to develop Constellation.
It doesn’t set a target for the next program’s first launch, however. It suggests the White House supports returning to the moon, but it’s unclear about going to Mars.
Obama has compounded the uncertainty by taking his sweet time naming an administrator, and remarking that the next NASA leader needs to address “a sense of drift” at the agency and carry out “a new mission that is appropriate for the 21st century.” That seems to leave the door open to major changes.
The uncertainty is agonizing for the thousands of workers at the Kennedy Space Center whose jobs will disappear when NASA grounds the shuttle, and for anyone else with a stake in the Space Coast’s economy.
It also leaves unsettled how long U.S. astronauts will have to hitch rides on Russian spacecraft to reach the international space station.
With the federal government now borrowing trillions of dol-lars to prop up the economy, it’s understandable that Obama would weigh carefully the value for taxpayers in every federal program.But if big changes are coming in the space program, the price of delaying them, in money and time, could be steep. If the Obama administration intends to switch rocket designs for Constellation, for example, it should cut off work on Ares as soon as possible.
The right investments in space can yield scientific, techno-logical and strategic benefits. That explains why other coun-tries, including Russia and China, are moving ahead with their space programs.
With so much at stake, Obama needs to make sure America’s program doesn’t get lost in space.
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Hunting for Easter’s meaningEaster. Again.Over time, this week has turned into an-
other occasion for greeting cards, shopping sprees and dining extravaganzas.
I participate in this pageant, for the record. And some of it, in its own right, is a good time. I like seeing the gleam in my children’s eyes when they find a hidden Easter egg. A picture on my desk shows them with baskets in one hand, eggs in the other.
But how that part squares with the drama and even violence of the biblical mes-sage being observed this week beats me. This is a pageant largely about rejection, death, rebuke and division – not exactly what you associate with a bunny, a basket and brunch.
In fact, going back to the tomb, this is a week built upon great fear. Imagine discov-ering, as Mary and the disciples did, that The One they had been following had suddenly vanished from the spot he was buried. That would give me the creeps, and it did them.
But they persisted, despite their fears, which is why this message still reverber-ates. Jesus’ followers didn’t have all their
problems solved, as those televangelists promise today. Heck, they encountered new ones, but they stepped forward in faith, just as millions of Christians try to do after the last Easter hymn is sung.
Back then, Christ’s followers risked being hung on crosses for their willingness to follow him. The truth is, I’ve never come to terms with the Bible’s violence. Never mind the Old Testament floods and the like. The New Testament has its own share.
Christians, for example, heard again this week how Jesus stormed into the Temple and drove out the moneychangers. They also heard about the curtain in the Temple being torn asunder. And, of course, there is the cross itself. This story does not add up to a warm-and-fuzzy send-off to Easter lunch.
And we churchgoers should think about ourselves as we hear that message. So much of Jesus’ focus was on the religious elites, and at the heart of Holy Week is Jesus’ attack on the religious institutions of his day.
Gulp. I like my Presbyterian church. I like sitting in the quiet of our chapel and listening to the sermons and hymns. I like seeing people hustling through the hallways between services. I like taking the kids to choir on Sunday afternoons.
But we are an institution. Our church has been in Dallas for 150 years. Are we today’s proud Pharisees?
I don’t think of us that way, but Easter should get churches thinking about their roles as institutions.
That’s hard for me because I like institu-tions. They create stability. We need them to develop our economy, raise our children and enjoy a peaceful life.
In my 20s, I didn’t always see it that way. Institutions seemed to retard progress, discriminate against people and practice collusion.
All true. But now, in my 50s, I don’t want to see London’s street protesters bringing down the G-20 or the world’s banks. Could you imagine the chaos?
But chaos is what happened in Jesus’ day. He upended much more than the things those street protesters were targeting last week in London. He took on institutions that had become their own gods.
Which makes me wonder: have we Christians allowed Easter the institution to override the Easter message?
It’s worth thinking about as we hide the eggs, buy the bonnets and carve the ham.
William McKenzieThe Dallas Morning News
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Following a “successful” Volun-teer Fair last Wednesday, the Vol-unteer Action Center on campus is looking to recruit more volunteers for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, VAC officials said.
The race itself will take place April 25 at Pinnacle Hills in Rogers. The VAC is the volunteer coordina-tor for the entire event and must recruit close to 500 volunteers for the Friday before the race and the Saturday of the event. Students who want to sign up to volunteer may go to the VAC office on the sixth floor of the Arkansas Union or visit the VAC Web site for more information.
This is the first year this part-nership has existed between the Susan G. Komen Ozark affiliate and the VAC on campus.
“Since Make a Difference Day and Student’s Day of Caring looked the same, we decided to seek out a partnership with Susan G. Komen,” said Angela Oxford, the assistant director of the Center of Leader-ship and Community Engagement and the director of the VAC. “We thought it would be an opportunity for students to volunteer alongside community members.”
Three students from the VAC Executive Board sit on the plan-ning committee for the race, and the VAC will continue to work on the partnership with Susan G. Ko-men.
The cookout and Volunteer Fair Wednesday served food to about 1,100 students and provided par-ticipants the opportunity to learn more about the VAC and 22 other organizations.
“The agencies were happy, we were happy and a lot of new con-nections were made,” VAC Presi-dent Matt McNelley said.
“There is an increased aware-ness and a call to service from prominent national and commu-nity members,” he said, referencing Obama’s call to national service and former President George H.W. Bush’s mentions of the VAC and its programs. “I think next year is go-
ing to be huge.”Oxford said the VAC “would like
to see 1,000 students at Make a Dif-ference Day this fall – I think it’s definitely doable.”
Other than the VAC’s partner-ship with the Susan G. Komen Ozark affiliate, the center also is coordinating a Web site resource that will allow students to record their volunteer hours online.
“It’s such a cool opportunity for
students because now they will be able to easily track everything on-line, watch for opportunities that interest them and get e-mail alerts when projects they are interested in come up,” Oxford said.
In the fall 2009 semester, the VAC also will host a philanthropy event that will bring together lead-ers from across campus and the community so they all can build connections early in the year.
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‘Human Rights Awareness Week’
begins todayThe Universal Declaration
of Human Rights states that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act toward one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”
It goes on to say that “ev-eryone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.”
The declaration was ad-opted Dec. 10, 1948, by the General Assembly of the Unit-ed Nations after the Second World War. This declaration, however, has been violated by nations all around the world. For this very reason, Amnesty International will be hosting a Human Rights Awareness Week today through April 17.
“We felt that there was a need to bring much more awareness to human rights is-sues on the UA campus,” said Stephanie Vang, former presi-dent of Amnesty International. “(Other than) what student organizations bring to the campus, there tends to be very little information available to students and the Northwest Arkansas community.”
Some of the current hu-man rights violations are oc-curring in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Israel, Egypt, China and North Ko-rea.
This year’s topics for Hu-man Rights Awareness Week were based on what officers of the AIUA chapter though would be most important for students.
A two-part “Human Rights Congress” will be featured 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. today and Tues-day in Room 105 of Kimpel Hall. On Wednesday, a guest
speaker will visit to speak about Burma 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Room 102 of Kimpel. A panel on Women’s Rights in the Middle East and Islam will be co-hosted by Al-Islam Stu-dent Association 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Chemistry Auditorium 0132, and a dis-cussion panel on Gaza/Isreal will be 3 to 5:30 p.m. Friday in the same auditorium.
Students across campus said they believed this was a great idea.
“I think we have two situ-ations here: there are people who know about these viola-tions of human rights but don’t care enough do some-thing about them, and there are others who don’t know about what is going on and don’t care to learn,” said Sa-mantha Puckett, a freshman civil engineering major. “I don’t know much about each of the topics, but I’m willing to learn.
“I believe we all should have the opportunity to live abroad so we know what other people are dealing with – we need to look at places outside of our box,” she said.
Juliet Morgan, a senior Spanish and French major, said this was something that could be extended to every day or every week.
“We have so many depart-ments here that we could bring in a speaker every week to address a certain human rights issue,” she said.
“I definitely think it’s good to bring us the opportunity to learn about this,” said Mary Hollis, a junior communica-tions major. “We need to know what’s going on around the world, especially as students.”
Vang said that the goal of Human Rights Awareness Week is simple and obvious: to bring awareness to the UA campus and community.
“Awareness is the first step in ending human rights viola-tions all over the world,” she said.
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challenge the election because of the discrepancy in votes. No chal-lenges were brought to the atten-tion of the Election Commission, and the results of Thursday’s election – in which about 14 percent of the UA student body voted – stand.
Mattie Bookhout won the ASG presidency with 63.1 percent of the vote. Opponent Jacob Hol-
loway received 24.3 percent, and Jonathan Powell received 12.6 percent.
Andrew LeNarz, Bookhout’s running mate, won the vice presidency with 57.3 percent of the vote. Opponent Jon Bame received 25.6 percent of the vote, and Robert Sharp received 17.1 percent.
The race for ASG treasurer was much closer, with David Brophey winning with 53.4 per-cent of the vote and Jody Bland receiving 46.6 percent. The race
was decided by 250 votes.The closest race, however,
was that for ASG secretary, which Geoff Storm won with 51.2 percent of the vote over Erica Harmon, who received 48.8 per-cent. This race was decided by only 74 votes.
All three resolutions on the ballot passed. The first resolution, The ASG Senate Vacancy Election Reform Act, will make the ASG senate vacancy elections earlier in the semester so senate seats will not remain vacant as long.
This resolution passed with 85.2 percent of the vote.
The second resolution, the ASG Senate Finance Equalization Act, which passed with 66.1 per-cent of the vote, will direct funds away from Registered Student Organization allocations to the ASG senate.
Finally, the SAFER Initiative, which calls for equalization of punishment for marijuana-relat-ed offenses and alcohol-related offenses, passed with 66.9 percent of the vote.
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Some say the psychedelic music era died with Hendrix, Joplin, Woodstock and the free-love hippie movement (which might have spawned some of us and our music credentials) in 1969.
While this era might have ended long ago, a new genre of psychedelic music might be on the horizon, and it is unlike anything the ‘60s hippies would have ever heard: loud, dark, alternative and with a bit of Southern swagger, courtesy of Georgia-based quintet Dead Confederate.
In 2006, Dead Confederate – made up of vocalist/guitarist Hardy Morris, bassist Brantley Senn, keyboardist John Watkins, drummer Jason Scarboro and guitarist Walker Howie – emerged on the music scene in Augusta, Ga. Although the band initially made the move to Georgia’s big city of Atlanta, they quickly realized the saturated scene was filled with bands that “people don’t really kind of need,” Morris said.
It was when they moved to the college town of Athens that they found their sound and their fan base.
“In Athens, a lot of people migrate to you, so when something new comes to town they check it out,” Morris said. “We’re not downplaying the Atlanta scene, but it’s been great to make Athens home.”
Even though Athens might be their home, Dead Confederate
is spending more and more time on the road, including an appearance at South by Southwest, after inking a deal with Razor and Tie Records and releasing their first full-length album, Wrecking Ball, in September. The album even had its first single, “The Rat,” which hit No. 39 on the Billboard Modern Rock charts.
“It’s good to get acknowledged,” Morris said. “We made a record for people to hear it, not hide away. It’s been awesome to have people enjoy it and play it.”
Wrecking Ball mixes several of the band members’ personal influences that Morris said emerge in the song-writing process. He said it wasn’t a deliberate choice to have one song sound one way and another sound different.
However unintentional their genre-mixing talents might be, Dead Confederate has definitely garnered a following, including the ears and eyes of legendary indie noise rock band Dinosaur Jr., who will be taking the band out on a national tour beginning this month. The tour will even stop in Fayetteville for what should be a night to remember at George’s Majestic Lounge on April 17 (for the show, Morris recommends earplugs and water).
“I’ve been a fan of them since I was a youngster and first (started to) play music,” Morris said. “I am pumped to be playing with them. We had just kind of randomly played with them last year and it went well so we submitted for a tour and they accepted. We are humbled and excited.”
Although touring with a band you idolized growing up might be on the top goals for many up-and-coming acts throughout the nation, Dead Confederate has several more goals they hope to accomplish in 2009 and throughout their music career.
The band has been demoing earlier this year and look to record a new album in the fall and winter. With many songs already written, Morris said they just need to finish working on a couple of demos and start talking to producers. Even though the record release might seem short noticed considering the band just released their debut LP late last year, the six-piece band does not plan on vastly changing their style or structure from what they are bringing on stage now as long as people keep listening.
“We want to keep making records and have people buy them and enjoy listening to them,” Morris said. “Of course, at the end of the day, make some sort of living off your art. We’re not looking to be rich rock stars, but be able to pay for roof over our heads by playing music would be goal No. 1.”
Brian Washburn is the News editor of The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.
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Writing won’t kill youDALLAS – Sooner or later everyone has to
write something – a thank-you note, a com-plaint, an apology, a eulogy.
If you hate writing assignments in school, and if you dread putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, facing that empty page or screen is almost as frightening as a combined root ca-nal and IRS audit. What to write? How to write it? Will anybody read it?
And yet lots of non-writers do manage to write, and often do it very well. Writing is like cook-ing: You don’t have to be a chef at a fancy restau-rant to learn the funda-mentals well enough to cook a tasty meal.
“Writing can be taught to anyone,” said Dr. Nancy Castilla, who directs the creative writ-ing program at North Lake College in Dallas. “I always try to find the strong point in some-body’s writing. Nobody can write a page without writing something well.”
The students in Judy Porter’s social issues class at Bishop Lynch High School in Dallas, for example, didn’t sign up for the weekly writ-ing assignments. Mostly, she said, they hope to get a better idea of what’s going on in the world and, if possible, to make a difference.
A few years ago, one of her students got riled up over a letter to the editor of this newspaper. The letter disparaged teenagers, and the stu-dent decided she wanted to write a reply. With Porter’s encouragement and help, she crafted a two-paragraph letter to the editor that was published within a week.
“She was like a local rock star,” the teacher said. “I made a copy for all the seniors. I said, ‘All right, this is going to be part of all my classes.’”
About 20 percent of the students hate the weekly assignments, Porter said. But all have discovered that they, too, can write, and make their opinions known.
“I guess about 20 get published per semes-ter, which means 40 a year,” she said. “One Thanksgiving we had five in one day.”
You don’t have to be writing for publication to write well. Diana Booher, a communications consultant, was teaching a course on writing novels when she discovered that many Univer-sity of Houston students didn’t want to write novels; they just wanted to be able to write clearly.
“A lot were engineers and lawyers, and they
said they just needed help on their job, whether it was writing a legal brief or an engineering report,” Booher said. Now she teaches execu-tives and professionals at Fortune 500 compa-nies how to write, sell and communicate.
There’s no mystery, she said. Clear writing is just clear thinking. Here are some tricks, tech-niques, and strategies Booher, Castilla, Porter
and other writers and teachers use to get the ideas and sentences flowing:
BEFORE YOU WRITEGet rid of distractions. Find a quiet place,
turn off your cell phone. Get your tools in or-der.
“I always have 5 or 6 sharpened No. 2 pen-cils,” said Liz Spears, who left a career in cor-porate communications to write resumes for clients. “To get creative juices flowing. I start a document on a note pad, then revisit it as my thoughts develop. I write in longhand. That’s very visual. I want to see those words.”
THINKING ON PAPERFormer journalist Tom Geddie teaches cre-
ative writing at Richland College and at Trinity Valley Community College in Athens, Texas.
“Sit down with pencil and paper or at the computer screen,” he said, “and start outlining what you want to say, why it’s important, why it matters, what its impact is on the reader.”
Booher leads her clients through a think-ing process: “What’s your point? What do you want your reader to do? What are the essential details? Just get the ideas down.
“The next step is to go back and put them in order.”
THE OUTLINE“My writing’s better when I do an outline,”
said Regina Montoya, whose job as CEO of the New America Alliance, a nonprofit organiza-tion of Latino business leaders, requires her to write lots of letters, speeches and the occasional
article on Latino issues. An outline “forces you to put down which points are the more impor-tant ones,” she said. “The more thorough the outline, the clearer and more to the point your writing will be.
“Then, I really hone that outline.”BEATING WRITER’S BLOCK
When they’re blocked, Castilla tells her students, “Just write something. Don’t let your pencil stop, don’t worry about punctua-tion. Just keep writing. ‘Free writing’ is what we call it. For most of them, it overcomes in-ertia.”
THAT FIRST SENTENCE
“I always teach my students to make their first sentence catch the reader’s eye,” Por-ter said. “Because if it doesn’t, the reader isn’t going to read on.”
“Get a good, clear lead sentence that summarizes your points, that answers the reader’s question
‘What’s in it for me?’ If you can’t do it in one sentence, then do it in two or three,” Geddie said. “But keep them short.”
BE SPECIFIC“Refer to exactly what you’re talking about,
whether it’s an article in the paper, or a televi-sion show,” Porter said. “Make it detailed and specific so people know what you’re talking about.”
REMEMBER THE READERShort, simple words are better than long
words. Short sentences are better than long sentences, short paragraphs are better than long ones.
“I try to make my students understand their goal is to communicate, not to express them-selves,” Castilla said. “The move for some years now has been to clear, simple, direct prose.”
READING AND REWRITINGSpears also reads what she’s written out
loud, listening for any awkward sentences. Montoya gives her work to her husband to read over.
All good writers read, then rewrite, Booher said.
“People think that it has to be perfect the first time,” Booher said. “They forget that people who’ve done it well do it well because they’ve rewritten and rewritten.”
“Back off a little bit from what you’re writ-ing. It’s an old standard, but if you can, write something and come back a day later,” Geddie said. “Also, try to be objective about it.”
Bill MarvelThe Dallas Morning News (MCT)
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The UA Jazz Ensembles perform their second concert of the spring semester at the Arkansas Union Theater Friday eve-ning. Under the direction of James Greeson and Gerald Sloan, the two 17-piece bands performed music by Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker and many others.
A JAZZY ENSEMBLEThe beautiful art of deception
I like an attractive DVD cover that features lavish colors and beautiful people. I am quite aware, however, that some of the DVDs in my film collection do not qualify as artfully striking. One particular title that comes to mind is a Hong Kong action thriller, the stellar “Infernal Affairs,” which my dear sister lovingly purchased for me while on a trip in Arizona some few years ago.
Although my DVD cover features the extremely hand-some Tony Leung, the DVD is quite hideous. It’s unfortunate, as “Infernal Affairs” is a grand film in Hong Kong. Not only did it revive Hong Kong cinema, which at the time was regarded as lacking creativity, but it was made when Hong Kong was in a state of turbulence because of the SARs outbreak. When the film was released, it shattered the box office and revitalized the excitement for cinemagoers and spawned many successors.
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Gymnasts head to nationalsUA squad aims for NCAA championshipWednesday in Sports
Phone: 575.7051 | E-mail: [email protected] Editor: Bart Pohlman | Assistant Sports Editor: Matt WatsonMONDAY, APRIL 13, 2009 | Page 8SPORTS
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SERIES STREAK OVER
After losing back-to-back games for the first time this season, Arkansas baseball head coach Dave Van Horn said the team wanted to finish the series Sunday against Vanderbilt.
But the constant rain around the Fayetteville area said otherwise.
During the two-game series sweep by Vander-bilt, the No. 12 Arkansas Razorbacks struck out 25 times at the plate and committed eight errors.
“It’s a long season,” Van Horn said. “We’ve played a lot of five-game weeks. I just credit Van-derbilt. Baseball can be cruel. If you don’t play well and make some mistakes, you can explode a little bit. And they took advantage of everything we did wrong.”
Vanderbilt used one of the four errors Arkan-sas committed and a home run Saturday to score first in the third inning during the 13-6 win.
“They didn’t give us a thing early,” Van Horn said. “They had their opportunities and took advantage of them. Things just kind of snow-
balled.”But for the second consecutive day, a big in-
ning knocked Arkansas out of the contest.“They did a incredible job of putting a nine-
run inning together,” Van Horn said. “Those are few and far between. Everything they did worked. They had a hit-and-run that found a hole. It was just a super inning.”
Arkansas used three different pitchers during the inning that had five hits, four walks and two errors.
“It was pretty devastating for us,” Van Horn said. “With the wind blowing in and the way they were pitching, we felt like we were in big trouble. We just didn’t get it done on our side.”
Vanderbilt head coach Tim Corbin said it was important to break out with a big inning.
“We came out strong and put together a couple of big innings,” Corbin said. “We did some things in certain situations which we have to do against a good club like Arkansas.”
After being shutout for the first 14 innings of the series, Arkansas broke through with a four-
run sixth inning against Vanderbilt starter Caleb Cotham, who finished the game with 12 strike-outs.
Home runs from sophomore Brett Eibner, se-nior Ryan Cisterna and sophomore Andy Wilkins helped propel the inning.
But Wilkins said it was too late for a come-back.
“Getting the runs were nice,” Wilkins said. “But if we took away some of the their runs, it would be a completely different ball game. We didn’t play good defense, and it costs us it the long run.”
Van Horn said before the series that Vanderbilt had a talented starter in Mike Minor.
And Minor showed his talents Friday during a 9-0 win – pitching eight scoreless innings while allowing four hits and striking out 11.
“I felt pretty good early,” Minor said. “I love this atmosphere and coming out and competing against the No. 1 team in the country. This win was huge and it helps boost our confidence.”
Van Horn said Minor had four pitches going and was tough throughout the night.
“Being down a couple of runs, we thought we were still in the game,” Van Horn said. “But he was on fire.”
Senior Ben Tschepikow said he had never faced back-to-back starters with that much talent before. But he said that wasn’t an excuse for the poor hitting from Arkansas.
“They threw well,” Tschepikow said. “But we are good enough to beat those guys. It’s baseball. Hopefully we can see them down the road.”
Arkansas ace Dallas Keuchel lost his first game of the season Friday when he allowed 10 hits and seven earned runs in 3.1 innings.
“Dallas wasn’t sharp,” Van Horn said. “He just wasn’t locating very well. He was leaving his fast ball up. But it happens. They did a good job of-fensively.”
Arkansas finished the game with four hits and four errors.
“We didn’t play very good defense,” Van Horn said. “We were behind and probably a little frus-
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Diamond Hogs drop first SEC seriesJONATHAN GIBSON Staff Photographer
The Razorback baseball team lost an SEC series for the first time this season, dropping two games to Vanderbilt over the weekend. Sunday’s game was rained out.
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SOFTBALL
LSU takes series from RazorbacksDedication weekend of
brand-new Bogle Park didn’t go over as well as fans would have liked, as No. 19 LSU took two of three games from the Razor-backs.
Arkansas won game one Fri-day with a valiant come-from-behind effort in the seventh in-ning to take an 8-7 victory.
LSU led 7-6 going into the final inning, but the Tigers com-mitted a critical throwing error that allowed the tying Razor-back runner to score.
Brittany Robison then hit a walk-off single to centerfield, scoring pinch runner Becca Carden and giving Arkansas its first win over the Tigers since 2006.
“In game one, we fell behind but just kept plugging away and we hit the ball hard,” Arkansas head coach Jamie Pinkerton said. “They made one mistake and we were able to come from behind in the seventh. That was a big win for us against a ranked team. LSU is a great team and that sets the table for an oppor-tunity to win the series.”
Brittany Griffiths was huge
in the game, going 3-for-3 at the plate with a two-run home run and three RBIs total.
Miranda Dixon hit her ninth home run of the season in the fourth inning.
In the late game Friday, LSU jumped out to an 8-0 lead on the Razorbacks. Arkansas eventually cut into the lead before losing 10-4.
“I was disappointed that we spotted them an 8-0 lead in game two,” Pinkerton said. “We had opportunities with at least two runners on in three straight innings. What we have to focus on is coming back (Saturday) without digging ourselves a hole or giving away too many free passes.”
Arkansas (24-17, 10-8 South-eastern Conference) stranded 10 runners on base and accom-plished little offensively until a four-run burst in the fourth in-ning.
Dixon’s two-run double complemented Sandra Smith’s RBI single, and Jessica Bachkora scored on a fielder’s choice.
Saturday’s rubber game was designated for official dedica-tion ceremonies, but Arkansas struggled until the final inning
before eventually falling 7-4.Arkansas didn’t score a run
until the final inning as LSU starter Cody Trahan struck out 11 Razorbacks.
“We dug ourselves a hole ear-ly,” Pinkerton said. “The first six innings were probably the worst we’ve had all year, offensively, but we fired up in the seventh inning and hit the ball the way we’ve been hitting it all year.”
The things Pinkerton said he didn’t want to see happen from game two on Friday carried over into Saturday’s game.
“We fell behind early, gave away some free passes and made a couple of errors so it all just rolled up on us,” Pinkerton said.
Some solace was found in recognizing the people who helped make Bogle Park happen and the advantage it will likely give Arkansas.
“To this day, I’m still in awe of this place and the gift the Bogle family has given to this university and softball team,” Pinkerton said. “The game aside, I have a great appreciation and owe many thanks to everyone who has made Bogle Park pos-sible.”
Derek OxfordSenior Staff Writer
NCAA HOCKEY
Boston U takes Frozen Four title
WASHINGTON — Did any-body expect anything differ-ent?
An NCAA tournament that was filled with stunning come-backs and thrilling finishes ended just that way in Verizon Center on Saturday night.
Boston University scored
two extra-attacker goals in the final minute of regulation to tie the game, then won its fifth national championship in overtime, defeating Miami 4-3.
Sophomore defenseman Colby Cohen’s snap shot from the top of the left circle hit off of diving Miami defenseman Kevin Roeder and fluttered over goalie Cody Reichard’s shoulder 11 minutes, 47 sec-
onds into overtime, capping the game and a wild tourna-ment.
It is Boston University’s first national championship since 1995 and it marked just the second time since the tour-nament field expanded to 16 teams (2003) that the No. 1 overall seed won the title.
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Boston University players celebrate after winning the NCAA hockey national championship in overtime.
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trated. But it really all started with them on the mound.”
Van Horn said the Friday loss didn’t feel like it was a let down at all.
“We just got it handed to us by a great pitcher that they thought would throw like this all year,” Van Horn said. “Coach Corbin said that was the best he has pitched all year.”
With a midweek series against Louisiana-Monroe at Baum Stadium on Tuesday and Wednesday, Tschepikow said the team would be ready to bounce back.
“We just got our butts hand-ed to us twice,” Tschepikow said “We have said all year good teams don’t lose back to back. It’s the first time it has hap-pened to us. We’ll see how we respond after that.”
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“Wow, what a hockey game. What a finish,” Boston Univer-sity coach Jack Parker said. “The finish made it an unbe-lievable game, obviously. It’s the greatest comeback I’ve ever been involved in.”
Miami appeared to be on track to become the first No. 4 seed ever to win a national title when Tommy Wingels and Trent Vogelhuber scored back-to-back goals to give the Redhawks a two-goal lead with less than five minutes left.
But Parker pulled goalten-der Kieran Millan with three minutes and the Terriers con-verted twice.
Zach Cohen scored on a blind backhand from the bot-tom of the left circle with 59 seconds left and Hobey Baker Memorial Award winner Matt
Gilroy fed Nick Bonino for a one-timer in the right circle with 17 seconds left.
Cohen was named the tour-nament’s most outstanding player after winning it.
“I was really concerned coming in because the teams that are supposed to win the tournament usually don’t,” Parker said. “The team that plays great in March and April is the team that wins this tour-nament. Sometimes, the best team doesn’t win.”
This time, the top-ranked team did win. The Terriers started the season with an im-pressive 5-1 victory over Uni-versity of North Dakota and held on to the nation’s No. 1 ranking for most of the season. They posted a 17-0-2 record away from home down the stretch and were always on the right side of the crazy finishes.
The Terriers, who didn’t have to play a No. 1 or a No.
2 seed in the tournament, reached the Frozen Four be-hind a Jason Lawrence goal with 15 seconds left in the Northeast Regional final against New Hampshire.
On Thursday, they trailed Vermont by a goal with less than seven minutes left, but got tallies from Chris Higgins and Colin Wilson in the final 6:53. And on the big stage Saturday, the Terriers pulled out another victory, leaving the Redhawks shocked and devastated.
“It doesn’t feel good right now,” said Miami coach Enrico Blasi, whose program had nev-er before played for a national title in any sport. “But the sun will come up tomorrow and the guys will realize what they accomplished. It’s going to sting a while, but like I said, we made history and hopefully we can continue that into the future.”
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Boston University players skate around the rink with their NCAA championship trophy after winning the title in overtime.
MacPherson wins steeplechase at Sun AngelSenior Scott MacPherson
led a group of seven Razor-backs who punched their tick-ets to the post season at the Sun Angel Classic at Arizona State on Saturday.
MacPherson won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in a time of 8:45.99. His time is a personal best, a regional qual-ifier and is No. 10 on Arkan-sas’ all-time list. He currently ranks second in the NCAA and leads the SEC.
Arkansas’ 4x100-meter re-lay qualified for the NCAA Re-gional Championships in May. Senior Cedric Zellner, junior Alain Bailey, senior Mychael Stewart and senior J-Mee Sam-uels combined for a time of 40.09 and finished third.
Samuels rebounded to fin-
ish third in the premiere heat of the 100 meters. He clocked a time of 10.45 in his first open race of the season. His time is a regional qualifier.
Bailey also picked up a regional qualifier in an open event. He finished fifth in the long jump. His mark of 24-1 guarantees him a spot in the post season.
Senior Nkosinza Balumbu finished third in the triple jump. His mark of 52-1 is also a regional qualifier. Sophomore Luke Laird finished fourth in the javelin. He marked a toss of 208-1 to improve his re-gional-qualifying mark.
Stripling wins in Norman
Junior Katie Stripling led a group of Arkansas Razorback
pole vaulters at the John Jacobs Invitational at the University of Oklahoma on Saturday.
Stripling won the event with a clearance of 13-11.25. Her jump is a season best, an improved regional quali-fier and ties for the fourth-best jump in Arkansas school history. She currently ranks fourth in the NCAA and second in the SEC.
Junior Janice Keppler also improved her regional-qualifying mark. She cleared 13-1.5 to finish third. Senior Sarah Landau was fourth with a clearance of 13-1.5, also a regional qualifier.
Freshman Tina Sutej cleared 12-7.5 to finish sixth and sophomore Tara Diebold was seventh with a height of 12-1.5.
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Angel Cabrera won The Masters on the second playoff hole Sunday at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga. The win over Kenny Perry and Chad Campbell is Cabrera’s second victory in a major championship.
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WWW.THETRAVELERONLINE.COMin North America, which is evident in the manner they distributed the film. The cover blends the faces of Leung and Andy Lau in a grainy red background and, perhaps even more appallingly, features a full body photo of a seductive femme in a short outfit, posing sug-gestively and holding a gun. I’ve watched “Infernal Affairs” many times and I think that unknown femme may be Elva Hsiao, who was in the film for a mere five minutes or so. But I cannot comprehend why that image is on the cover.
One of the official Hong Kong releases shows Leung and Lau standing out among a gritty background of a blurred crowd, indicating the wonderful magic of Christopher Doyle’s cinematogra-phy. The North American release, however, seems to introduce it as a low-budget B-film. It’s shameful.
When I first became enamored with the film’s action and intel-ligence, I made an idiotic mistake, one that continually haunts me from time to time. At a video store, I came upon a double-disc DVD boasting of two titles, “Gods, Gangsters and Gamblers” and “Triad Affairs.” The cover shows a picture of Leung and Lau, obviously pilfered from “Infernal Affairs,” and one of the head-
lines read that “Infernal Affairs” inspired the films. My infatuation with “Infernal Affairs” clouded my judgment, and I purchased it on a whim. Later that day, I turned it on, anticipating a good time of violence and adrenaline. I was horrified to realize that those films were, in fact, two old Hong Kong films – a 1991 comedy named “Don’t Fool Me” and a 1999 triad film titled “Century of the Dragon.”
If my memory does not fail me, I recall “Don’t Fool Me” was dubbed in English, a major turn-off. I like my foreign films in subtitles, as I cannot tolerate listening to poor English. After the first painful 10 minutes, I had to turn the film off as I simply did not want to torture myself. Perhaps Leung gave a formidable performance, but I’ll never know.
I kept this deceptive DVD in my film library for some time. It re-mained untouched ever since that foolish day. I finally decided to rid it from my memory. I sold it to a video store and used that money to purchase the North American version of Wong Kar-wai’s “2046,” a beautiful film with beautiful colors and beautiful music.
Anna Nguyen is the Lifestyles editor of The Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every other Monday.
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The UA Saxophone Chamber Ensemble performs Thursday evening in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. Conducted by Stan Morris, the ensemble performed classical pieces by Mozart, von Koch and others.
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