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PAGE 1 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 VOL. 105, NO. 3 UATRAV.COM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 VOL. 105, NO. 3 UATRAV.COM With more than 21,000 students enrolled at the UA, faculty and advisors have had to make changes in the class- rooms to accommodate the record number of students. ere were about 3,820 in- coming freshmen this year, up 500 from last year, accord- ing to enrollment ocials. e increase in students was expected, said Suzanne McCray, vice provost for en- rollment and dean of admis- sions. In fact, “we knew last November that the enrollment would be up to 21,000. We ad- justed to go over two months ago, but overall, knew this was coming within a couple hundred students,” she said. To ensure every student has a seat in the classrooms, “there will be a better and more ef- cient use of facilities and space,” said Ashley Tull, asso- ciate dean of students. Instead of having a huge classroom for a 30 student class, they are giv- en a room based on the size. is way, every student has a seat, although they may not have the sched- ule they want, Tull said. One of the major reasons for this inux of students is the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship. ere are more than 3,600 kids receiving this scholarship, and non-traditional students are still in progress of nding out. “Other reasons may be the poor economy which causes enrollment to grow,” Tull said. “Also, more stu- dents decide to stay in state because it is aordable.” ere were also increased eorts in recruiting students for the 2010-2011 school year. “We worked very hard to make this the rst choice in- stitution,” McCray said. “I’ve heard nothing but excitement and it’s great to be at a place where people want to go.” Many professors said the in- crease has aected their classes, although for some professors, it has not made a dierence. “My classroom denitely feels constrained because I am teaching 400 students,” said Gay Stewart, a physics professor. Stewart teaches Universi- ty Physics 1, a required class for many majors. e class is broken into two sessions of 200 students each, with 14 lab groups. e labs are planned with the idea of 24 students, but this semester, she has to seat 30 in each lab. “We managed to get all the equipment to support 30 students, but if we had one more lab room, I would be able to accommodate 100 extra students,” she said. ere are no plans to ex- tend the university, although there have been discussions on the subject. However, cer- tain buildings on campus are being renovated and could potentially provide more space for classes. e uni- versity does have the capac- ity to accommodate 25,000 students with its facilities. Professors are also chang- ing the way they teach, so that every student has an equal opportunity to do well. Students are still getting what they need in class, al- though the learning experience may not be as fun, Stewart said. She had to change her sylla- bus so that instead of giving four exams for the semester, she is giving small exams each week. “is way, I will have a better idea of how kids are doing and I will get this information ear- ly on, so that if someone needs A menagerie of tables dec- orated in their mission state- ments and contact information lled the Union Mall ursday for the annual event, Razorbash. A part of the FYE program, Razorbash is held predominate- ly with freshmen in mind. Ra- zorbash is designed to inform them of some of the registered student organizations (RSOs) on campus, because there are so many that it can be hard for students to get involved. Find- ing that one piece of driwood with the right size and weight to sustain you in that poten- tially overwhelming sea known as college can be a challenge. Not only did RSO’s come out in droves, but local restau- rants, businesses and university service programs were in atten- dance. Among the RSO’s pres- Larry Ash PHOTO EDITOR Eureka Pizza owner Rolf Wilkin serves free pizza at Razorbash Thursday in front of the Arkansas Union. Razorfest is an annual event held to introduce members of the UA community to area businesses, student organizations and special interest groups. by JACARA ROBINSON Staff Writer help, they can be taken care of before it is too late,” she said. Even smaller classes have felt the eect of more students. e honors music lecture class usually has a size limit of 25, but it has increased to 30. “It is denitely harder to teach a larger class,” said e- resa Delaplain, a music profes- sor. “In smaller classes, stu- dents are active in the learn- ing experience, but with larg- Freshman Classes Feel Enrollment Squeeze by SABA NASEEM Staff Writer Razorbash Helps Students Get Involved on Campus ent were the Advertising Club, whose goal is to raise awareness of advertising opportunities. It welcomes all majors into the organization. Also present was the Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the organization that re- cently passed the safer drug initiative. ey decided to par- ticipate in Razorbash to recruit new members and inform peo- ple about sensible drug policy. But not all organizations on hand were geared toward tradi- tional students. Several RSO’s representing organizations for international students such as Permias: Indonesian Student Association, giving gis and raising awareness. Decorated in bold colors and Indonesian themed objects, the Permias ta- ble displayed maps of Indonesia and DVD’s titled “Welcome to Indonesia.” e National Asso- ciation for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP), e National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists (NABGG), Sisters Advocating Stronger Sisterhood (SASS) and the Black Student Association (BSA) were all there with sign-in sheets to recruit new members. Co-Sign or College Student Interest Group in Neurology, a student organization focused on examining the brain and under- standing it in as many perspec- tives as possible, was present. Many campus ministry or- ganizations were present as well, including YoungLife, Chi Alpha Campus Ministries and Wes- ley. All were there for the com- mon purpose of letting the new students know how to get in- volved spiritually on campus. e service sorority Gam- ma Sigma Sigma, which is open to all classications, genders and majors, was there promot- ing its upcoming event: Alex’s Lemonade Stand for the Foun- dation for Childhood Cancer which will be held Sept. 1 in the Union Mall from 11 – 2 p.m. Coldstone was giving away ice cream in two avors and Eu- reka Pizza was handing out slic- es, making them popular stops for students. e on-campus services for students like the Pat Walker Health Center located on north Garland, next to the North- west Quads, helped students nd their way across campus. Other student service orga- nizations like the Student Alum- ni Association, and O Cam- pus Connections were also in attendance. O Campus Con- nections is an organization that provides resources and refer- rals for current and prospec- tive undergraduate students. Not only commercial ven- dors were recruiting at Razor- bash - Class Gi representatives were present. e Class Gi, a tradition decades old, that gives graduates the opportu- nity to vote on a special gi for the campus to honor their time here and better the university. is tradition encourages class see RAZORBASH on page 3A A UA student was arrested at approximately 2 a.m. Satur- day near the Northwest Quads when police found a load- ed revolver, a stun gun and several knives in his vehicle. Tyler Richmond, 18, of White Hall was also charged for driving while intoxicated, aer an ocer noticed Rich- mond’s bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and scent of intoxi- cants. Richmond also had ap- proximately 15 pine tree air fresheners hanging in his car, according to a police report. Richmond was not the original cause of the traf- c stop. He was approach- ing a road blocked by police, so an ocer was informing Richmond he could not pass when it became apparent that Richmond was intoxicated. Richmond failed stan- dardized eld sobriety tests. e ocer also noticed a Crown Royal bag hanging from the shier and what was described as “quite a bit of loose ammo in the center con- sole,” according to the report. Richmond was released on $2,390 bond Saturday evening aer being charged for DWI and being a minor in posses- sion of a loaded, concealed handgun on school grounds. Unlawful handgun possession on a public or private univer- sity campus is a class D felony, punishable by up to six years in prison and a ne up to $10,000. Incidents like Richmond’s are rare, said UAPD Lt. Matt Mills. e UA campus saw sev- en crimes related to weapons possession in 2008, though that number has been steadily on the rise since 2006, according to the Jeanne Cleary Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics report. By contrast, the UA saw 140 arrests for public intoxication in the same year, and nearly 200 for driving while intoxicat- ed or driving under the inu- ence, according to the report. Mills could not direct- ly link the recent increase in crime to increased enroll- ment this year because crime statistics are not fully up-to- date, though he noted the connection seemed logical. “Statistically, the high- er the number of students, the higher the number of potential oenses,” he said. Fall 2004 17,269 Fall 2005 17,821 Fall 2006 17,926 Fall 2007 18,648 Fall 2008 19,194 Fall 2009 19,849 Estimated Fall 2010 20,700 Enrollment UA Student Arrested with Weapons on Campus by NICK DEMOSS News Editor WEATHER FORECAST TODAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 85° 87° 80° 81° 85° PAGE 2A A Converation with Cynthia Nance PAGE 3A Freshman hogs get pumped PAGE 6A Gameday Parking Tips Larry Ash PHOTO EDITOR Molly Rapert teaches one of her two fully enrolled marketing classes at the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Many professors report that for the first time all their clases are fully enrolled, after the large influx of admissions this fall semester. see ENROLLMENT on page 5A HOGS READY FOR TENNESSEE TECH PAGE 12

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Page 1: Sep. 1, 2010

PAGE 1 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 VOL. 105, NO. 3 UATRAV.COM

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010VOL. 105, NO. 3

UATRAV.COM

With more than 21,000 students enrolled at the UA, faculty and advisors have had to make changes in the class-rooms to accommodate the record number of students.

!ere were about 3,820 in-coming freshmen this year, up 500 from last year, accord-ing to enrollment o"cials.

!e increase in students was expected, said Suzanne McCray, vice provost for en-rollment and dean of admis-sions. In fact, “we knew last November that the enrollment would be up to 21,000. We ad-justed to go over two months ago, but overall, knew this was coming within a couple hundred students,” she said.

To ensure every student has a seat in the classrooms, “there will be a better and more ef-#cient use of facilities and space,” said Ashley Tull, asso-ciate dean of students. Instead of having a huge classroom for a 30 student class, they are giv-en a room based on the size.

!is way, every student has a seat, although they may not have the sched-ule they want, Tull said.

One of the major reasons for this in$ux of students is the Arkansas Lottery Scholarship. !ere are more than 3,600 kids receiving this scholarship, and non-traditional students are still in progress of #nding out.

“Other reasons may be the poor economy which causes enrollment to grow,” Tull said. “Also, more stu-dents decide to stay in state because it is a%ordable.”

!ere were also increased e%orts in recruiting students

for the 2010-2011 school year.“We worked very hard to

make this the #rst choice in-stitution,” McCray said. “I’ve heard nothing but excitement and it’s great to be at a place where people want to go.”

Many professors said the in-crease has a%ected their classes, although for some professors, it has not made a di%erence.

“My classroom de#nitely feels constrained because I am teaching 400 students,” said Gay Stewart, a physics professor.

Stewart teaches Universi-ty Physics 1, a required class for many majors. !e class is broken into two sessions

of 200 students each, with 14 lab groups. !e labs are planned with the idea of 24 students, but this semester, she has to seat 30 in each lab.

“We managed to get all the equipment to support 30 students, but if we had one more lab room, I would be able to accommodate 100 extra students,” she said.

!ere are no plans to ex-tend the university, although there have been discussions on the subject. However, cer-tain buildings on campus are being renovated and could potentially provide more space for classes. !e uni-

versity does have the capac-ity to accommodate 25,000 students with its facilities.

Professors are also chang-ing the way they teach, so that every student has an equal opportunity to do well.

Students are still getting what they need in class, al-though the learning experience may not be as fun, Stewart said.

She had to change her sylla-bus so that instead of giving four exams for the semester, she is giving small exams each week.

“!is way, I will have a better idea of how kids are doing and I will get this information ear-ly on, so that if someone needs

A menagerie of tables dec-orated in their mission state-ments and contact information #lled the Union Mall !ursday for the annual event, Razorbash.

A part of the FYE program,

Razorbash is held predominate-ly with freshmen in mind. Ra-zorbash is designed to inform them of some of the registered student organizations (RSOs) on campus, because there are so many that it can be hard for students to get involved. Find-ing that one piece of dri&wood

with the right size and weight to sustain you in that poten-tially overwhelming sea known as college can be a challenge.

Not only did RSO’s come out in droves, but local restau-rants, businesses and university service programs were in atten-dance. Among the RSO’s pres-

Larry Ash PHOTO EDITOR Eureka Pizza owner Rolf Wilkin serves free pizza at Razorbash Thursday in front of the Arkansas Union. Razorfest is an annual

event held to introduce members of the UA community to area businesses, student organizations and special interest groups.

by JACARA ROBINSONStaff Writer

help, they can be taken care of before it is too late,” she said.

Even smaller classes have felt the e%ect of more students. !e honors music lecture class usually has a size limit of 25, but it has increased to 30.

“It is de#nitely harder to teach a larger class,” said !e-resa Delaplain, a music profes-sor. “In smaller classes, stu-dents are active in the learn-ing experience, but with larg-

Freshman Classes Feel Enrollment Squeezeby SABA NASEEM

Staff Writer

Razorbash Helps Students Get Involved on Campusent were the Advertising Club, whose goal is to raise awareness of advertising opportunities. It welcomes all majors into the organization. Also present was the Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the organization that re-cently passed the safer drug initiative. !ey decided to par-ticipate in Razorbash to recruit new members and inform peo-ple about sensible drug policy.

But not all organizations on hand were geared toward tradi-tional students. Several RSO’s representing organizations for international students such as Permias: Indonesian Student Association, giving gi&s and raising awareness. Decorated in bold colors and Indonesian themed objects, the Permias ta-ble displayed maps of Indonesia and DVD’s titled “Welcome to Indonesia.” !e National Asso-ciation for the Advancement of Colored people (NAACP), !e National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists (NABGG), Sisters Advocating Stronger Sisterhood (SASS) and the Black Student Association (BSA) were all there with sign-in sheets to recruit new members.

Co-Sign or College Student Interest Group in Neurology, a student organization focused on examining the brain and under-standing it in as many perspec-tives as possible, was present.

Many campus ministry or-ganizations were present as well, including YoungLife, Chi Alpha Campus Ministries and Wes-ley. All were there for the com-

mon purpose of letting the new students know how to get in-volved spiritually on campus.

!e service sorority Gam-ma Sigma Sigma, which is open to all classi#cations, genders and majors, was there promot-ing its upcoming event: Alex’s Lemonade Stand for the Foun-dation for Childhood Cancer which will be held Sept. 1 in the Union Mall from 11 – 2 p.m.

Coldstone was giving away ice cream in two $avors and Eu-reka Pizza was handing out slic-es, making them popular stops for students. !e on-campus services for students like the Pat Walker Health Center located on north Garland, next to the North-west Quads, helped students #nd their way across campus.

Other student service orga-nizations like the Student Alum-ni Association, and O% Cam-pus Connections were also in attendance. O% Campus Con-nections is an organization that provides resources and refer-rals for current and prospec-tive undergraduate students.

Not only commercial ven-dors were recruiting at Razor-bash - Class Gi& representatives were present. !e Class Gi&, a tradition decades old, that gives graduates the opportu-nity to vote on a special gi& for the campus to honor their time here and better the university. !is tradition encourages class

see RAZORBASHon page 3A

A UA student was arrested at approximately 2 a.m. Satur-day near the Northwest Quads when police found a load-ed revolver, a stun gun and several knives in his vehicle.

Tyler Richmond, 18, of White Hall was also charged for driving while intoxicated, a&er an o"cer noticed Rich-mond’s bloodshot eyes, slurred speech and scent of intoxi-cants. Richmond also had ap-proximately 15 pine tree air fresheners hanging in his car, according to a police report.

Richmond was not the original cause of the traf-#c stop. He was approach-ing a road blocked by police, so an o"cer was informing Richmond he could not pass when it became apparent that Richmond was intoxicated.

Richmond failed stan-dardized #eld sobriety tests.

!e o"cer also noticed a Crown Royal bag hanging from the shi&er and what was described as “quite a bit of loose ammo in the center con-sole,” according to the report.

Richmond was released on $2,390 bond Saturday evening a&er being charged for DWI and being a minor in posses-sion of a loaded, concealed handgun on school grounds. Unlawful handgun possession on a public or private univer-sity campus is a class D felony, punishable by up to six years in prison and a #ne up to $10,000.

Incidents like Richmond’s are rare, said UAPD Lt. Matt Mills. !e UA campus saw sev-en crimes related to weapons possession in 2008, though that number has been steadily on the rise since 2006, according to the Jeanne Cleary Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics report.

By contrast, the UA saw 140 arrests for public intoxication in the same year, and nearly 200 for driving while intoxicat-ed or driving under the in$u-ence, according to the report.

Mills could not direct-ly link the recent increase in crime to increased enroll-ment this year because crime statistics are not fully up-to-date, though he noted the connection seemed logical.

“Statistically, the high-er the number of students, the higher the number of potential o%enses,” he said.

Fall 2004 17,269

Fall 2005 17,821

Fall 2006 17,926

Fall 200718,648

Fall 2008 19,194

Fall 2009 19,849

Estimated Fall 2010 20,700

Enrollment

UA Student Arrested with Weapons

on Campusby NICK DEMOSS

News Editor

WEATHERFORE C AST

T O D AY T H U R S D AY F R I D AY S AT U R D AY S U N D AY 85° 87° 80° 81° 85°

PAGE 2AA Converation with Cynthia Nance

PAGE 3AFreshman hogs get pumped

PAGE 6AGameday Parking Tips

Larry Ash PHOTO EDITOR Molly Rapert teaches one of her two fully enrolled marketing classes at the Sam M. Walton College of Business. Many professors report that for the first time all their clases are fully enrolled, after the large influx of admissions this fall semester.

see ENROLLMENTon page 5A

HOGS READY FOR TENNESSEE

TECHPAGE 12

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 PAGE 2

!e Arkansas Traveler, the student newspaper at the University of Arkansas, is published every Wednes-day during the fall and spring academic sessions except during exam periods and university holidays.

Opinions expressed in signed columns are those of the individual writers and do not necessarily re"ect the opinion of !e Traveler. !e editor makes all #nal con-tent decisions.

One copy of !e Arkansas Traveler is free to every member of the UA community. Additional copies can be purchased for 50 cents each. Mail subscriptions for delivery within the continental United States can be purchased for $125.00 per semester. Contact the Trav-eler Business Manager to arrange.

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CORRECTIONS The Arkansas Traveler strives for accuracy in its reporting and will correct all matters of fact. If you believe the paper has printed an error, please notify

the editor at 575.8455 or at [email protected].

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The women and men of the University of Arkansas Police Department, in partnership with the community, are com-mitted to protecting the future of Arkansas by promoting a safe and secure environment.

The Transit and Parking office handles parking permits and passes and transit for students, including bus routes and GoLoco Ride Sharing. Students with parking violations can contact the office to appeal their citation.

NEED TICKETS? CALL 1-800-982-4647

NEED A RIDE AT NIGHT? CALL 575 - 7233

NEED EMERGENCY HELP? CALL UAPD 575-2222

HAVE A TICKET? CALL 575-7275 TO RESOLVE IT

Otherwise known as 575-SAFE, the mission of the Safe Ride program is to provide students with a safe means of transportation from any uncomfortable or inconvenient situation. Safe Ride brings you home safely.

Don’t forget to call early and reserve your student football tickets for the 2010-2011 season. The ticket office is located on Razorback Road next to Baum Stadium.

CAMPUS NUMBERS

PROFILES ON THE HILLA Conversation with Former Dean of Law School

Cynthia Nance

UA Law School Cynthia Nance recently announced she will be returning to the classroom in July 2011 after fulfilling her five-year

commitment as Dean of the UA School of Law. Under Dean Nance’s watch, the Law School was in the U.S. News and World Report rankings every year she served as dean.

Cynthia Nance is one of the most accomplished women at the UA. She was the #rst Af-rican American and the #rst female dean of the law school, she has presented papers at Yale University and George Washington University Law

School, and she has won more awards than there is space for in this story. A$er #ve years, Nance will step down as the law school’s dean, and she will return to the classroom full-time. She spoke with !e Trav-eler about her recent decision.

Q: What was your ex-

perience like as dean

of the law school?A: Getting to know the

School of Law alumni has been one of the most rewarding as-pects of my deanship. !ey have such pride in their school. I’ve enjoyed the support of the law school community (students, sta%, faculty). It’s also been a pleasure to meet the other law school deans. I’ve made some lifelong friendships with them.

Q: What was it like be-ing the !rst African Amer-ican/female dean of the law school?

A: It’s hard for me to answer that – being a dean requires a lot of behind-the-scenes work, a great deal of travel. !ere’s not really time to sit back and think, “How is this di%erent, being a black woman?” Always, there’s an awareness of the leg-acy and example of Silas Hunt.

Q: Did it bring any ex-tra pressure to your post?

A: I’ve felt pressure to hon-or the legacy of Silas Hunt and the Six Pioneers. !e brav-ery and perseverance of those men was remarkable. I’ve had a lot of people cheering me on.

Q: What is the accom-plishment you’re most proud of as dean?

A: Helping to build a true, collegial community with fac-ulty, students, sta% and alumni.

Q: What did it mean

for the law school when all of the improvements were completed a few years ago?

A: We now have a law school facility that is among the #nest anywhere. We have the classrooms, court-rooms, and technology to compete with any law school.

Q: Was it a hard decision to return to the classroom?

A: Absolutely. It’s an hon-or to lead the law school, to work with the faculty on strategic planning, to trav-el the country and world on behalf of the university.

Q: What has you the most excited about returning to the classroom?

A: Connecting with students

on a one-to-one basis. Knowing that I’m making a positive, per-sonal di%erence in their lives.

Q: What’s been your fa-vorite part of living in North-west Arkansas?

A: Without a doubt, it’s

the people here. !ey are warm and kind-hearted.

Q: Coming from Iowa, what was your honest !rst reaction when you heard the Hog Call for the !rst time?

A: I was blown away by the exuberance of Hog fans.

by JORDAN GRUMMERStaff Writer

What is that Crazy Barcode?

A Quick Response, or QR code, is a 2-diminsional barcode readable by QR scanners, mobile phones with cameras and smart phones. !e information encoded can be text, URL or other data.

In the Traveler, the QR codes let you browse UATrav.com, participate in polls and follow links inside stories.Basically, we’re putting even more on-campus news at your #ngertips.

Page 3: Sep. 1, 2010

PAGE 3 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Parking on campus: these three little words may seem harmless to the out-side observer, but as most students know all too well, they usually only seem to in-cite feelings of deep anxi-ety, anger and flat-out dread.

As is often the case, stu-dents are faced with the day-to-day challenge of finding satisfactory parking on a cam-pus fraught with thousands of other students doing the same thing. With this year’s larger-

Amanda Springer CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERAfter finally finding an open parking space, sophomore Jimmy Bosco and freshman Maritza de la Torre run to catch the bus to their morning classes. Record high enrollments force commuter students to come early and look hard for the few available parking spots.

than-normal incoming fresh-men class, the number of stu-dents scrambling for parking spaces has significantly ris-en, which in turn has led to a need for some kind of change.

The Department of Tran-sit and Parking has addressed the need for that change. With the newly constructed Gar-land Avenue Parking Garage, 1,500 new spaces will be open to students and faculty, Andy Gilbride, the department’s ed-ucation and instruction spe-cialist, said. Permits for the Garland garage are available now, to be purchased in per-son or through the depart-

ment’s website. So far, student reaction has been generally positive. “The deck is so big and the only crowded area is the third level,” Tori Adams, a second-year law student, said. In addition, because of the spaces provided for by the ga-rage, there will be no need to convert faculty lots into stu-dent parking, Gilbride said.

As in previous years, stu-dents are also able to purchase yearlong permits for both the Harmon Avenue and Stadium Drive garages. Sophomore Taylor Welston, who has a Sta-dium Drive permit, said that she has had no trouble finding

by JUSTINE HARRINGTONStaff Writer

O!cials Say UA Parking Can Handle Growth

parking spots. “I get to school early and it seems no one takes classes before 10 a.m., so there are plenty of spaces when I get to campus,” she said. In addi-tion, general parking passes are available in order to free-ly access lots around campus.

“We’re really pleased with how everything is go-ing,” Gilbride said of the new strides that Transit and Park-ing has taken. In fact, even with the influx of students that the university has re-cently experienced, parking regulation looks even better than last year, Gilbride said.

Officials Warn Students Against Cheating

!e consequences of cheating can be severe and in order for stu-dents to receive the highest value of their degree, university o"cials encourage students to adhere to the academic integrity policies.

College cheating is wide-spread, said Sharon Gaber, Pro-vost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic A#airs, in her let-ter to new students on campus.

Gaber, who quoted a recent ar-ticle in !e New York Times said, “In surveys of 14,000 undergraduates over the last four years, an average of 61 percent admitted to cheat-ing on assignments and exams.”

Although cheating is wide-spread, Gaber said the issue is not a major problem on our campus.

“We’re not more pervasive than any other institution,” she said. “We just want students to be aware.”

!e O"ce of Community Standards and Student Ethics (OCSSE) de$ne academic dis-honesty as, “any act by which a student gains or attempts to gain an academic advantage for him/her or another by interfer-ing with the completion, sub-mission or evaluation of work.”

In the student perspective, this de$nition does not simply imply that a glance at a neigh-bor’s test answers or buying a pa-per from the Internet covers the whole of academic dishonesty. OCSSE examines every angle of academic integrity and expects students to follow the regula-tions set in the student handbook.

“Plagiarism is the most frequent academic honesty violoation,” said Gaber in her letter to new students.

Plagiarism can sometimes be confused as the intent of stealing another author’s idea “word for word.” But OCSSE in their aca-demic policies section online states that plagiarism is “the o#ering of one’s own work, words, ideas, or arguments of another person without appropriate attribution by quotation, reference, or footnote.”

“(Sometimes) students do not realize that they must cite all (of their) references,” Gaber said. And if the student is un-sure of the work that was used pertains to plagiarism, Gab-

er said to “provide a reference.” Other examples OCSSE ob-

serves as academic dishonesty include collaborations on tests, homework, quizzes and other assignments without permis-sion from the instructor, tak-ing a test for a friend, and sub-mitting work, without speci$c permission, that has been of-fered for credit in other courses.

!e consequences of aca-demic dishonesty range from a reduced grade to suspension or expulsion, according to OCSSE.

For example, a professor may recommend a case to the All-University Judicial board. !e case will be reviewed by a board made up of faculty and students who will declare whether or not a violation has been made.

“Every year there are probably 100 cases that go through OCSSE,” said Gaber.

Student responsibility is strong-ly linked to the protection of aca-demic integrity, according to OC-SSE. !e organization encourages students to reduce the number of academic violations on campus in studying prior to an exam, using study services o#ered on campus and discouraging others to cheat.

Exploring options, Gaber said, is one way to get a quality education.

!e Quality Writing Cen-ter, located on the third %oor of Kimpel, is available for students on campus who need help with grammar, the structure and or-ganization of a paper as well as brainstorming for ideas. Re-sources speci$c to plagiarism are accessible on the center’s web-site along with handouts that ex-plain issues ranging from passive voice to semicolons and colons.

!e Enhanced Learning Cen-ter, located on the south entrance of Gregson, has tutors available in areas ranging from Government to Geology, to Math, and For-eign Languages. Study guides are also available on the website, such as ways to alleviate text anxiety.

Student Support Services caters to $rst generation college students or those with disabilities. !e cen-ter, as stated on its website, serves to improve student goals, study skills, and etiquette instruction.

by SARAH GUINNStaff Writer

unity, and cultivates the habit of giving back to a community.

Local businesses like Glo tanning, Trendsetter barber-shop, Royal Coach Auto Body and Mr. Jay’s Hair Salon, were on the mall as well handing out ad-vertising materials. !ough the event targeted freshmen like Kai Tribbele, who was volunteering at the registration table, it was helpful to many upperclassmen as well. Junior Anthony Hatch-ett came to see which RSO’s had tables and ended up becom-ing involved in Connections, a mentoring program that helps freshman through their $rst year at the U of A, by getting an ap-plication to become a mentor.

He noticed the absence of an RSO he is involved with and was inspired to make sure that there is one at next year’s event, by organizing it himself. !ough many came for the free stu# and food, many le& with some-thing much more valuable - in-formation about organizations they may be interested in join-ing and services that will make their $rst year a little easier.

RAZORBASHfrom page 1A

First Year Experience will be hosting a large-scale game of laser tag in the Union Wednesday. The game will be split up into 10-minute time slots from 5 to7 p.m. Every time slot will include 15 players.

“This is for people to meet people,” said Chase Young, program assistant of the FYE. “It came up as an idea in the Hog Wild Welcome Weeks student committee. They thought it would be a fun way to get together with various groups on campus.”

Preferred Entertainment and FYE are providing all of

by KRISTEN COPPOLAStaff Writer

see LASER TAGon page 5A

Laser Tag Takes Union

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THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER

EDITOR: Bailey Elise McBride MANAGING EDITOR: Mille Appleton

You can check outthe Traveler online at

uatrav.com or byscanning here:

!e Arkansas Traveler welcomes letters to the editor from all interested readers. Letters should be at most 300 words and should include your name, student clas-si"cation and major or title with the university and a day-time telephone number for veri"cation. Letters to the editor can be sent to [email protected].

EDITORIAL BOARDEDITOR

MANAGING EDITOROPINION EDITOR

NEWS EDITOR

Bailey Elise McBrideMille AppletonKatherine DawsonNick DeMoss

It’s time for a come-to-Jesus moment freshman friends.We all do silly things as a freshman. I got locked out of

my room in Pomfret and had to walk to the front desk in nothing but a towel. Multiple times. Features Editor Lind-sey Pruitt accidentally threw her entire trashcan down the trash chute in Maple Hill. And UATV Station Manager Jona-than Weaver spent one spring a#ernoon moving his neigh-bor’s room, in it’s entirety, into the girls bathroom in Futrall.

!e silly things we did, how-ever, were just that—silly. !ey didn’t harm anything (besides perhaps our delicate freshman egos) and generally serve as some of the many fond memories we all have of living and learning the hard way on campus as freshman.

!e actions of last year’s fresh-man class were arguably some of the worst the University has ever seen. With record numbers of public intoxication arrests and numerous referrals to the O$ce of Community Standards and Student Ethics, many in the Uni-versity were le# reeling and won-dering just what their problem was and if it would ever get better.

!en the freshman class of 2010 arrived. Not only is the Univer-sity more crowded than ever, but the wave of crime and vandalism that has hit the campus with this freshman class is out of control.

Each year when we return to school, UAPD expects that the crime on campus will rise. !ere are new students, run-ning wild from their parents for the "rst time, thieves return-ing for another year of school and a generally just a lot of young adults with a lot of energy (and a propensity for drinking).

Last Sunday alone there were six alcohol or drug relat-ed arrests on campus. Six. On a Sunday. Over the week-end I also recieved the letter below from a concerned member of the University sta% about the vandalism she has witnessed "rsthand in just the "rst week of school.

In addition to these documented examples, rumors of students getting alcohol poisoning and going to the hospital leave much to be desired when it comes to the maturity of this year’s freshman.

So our advice? !ink before you act. Consider what your mother would think if she knew how you were spending your Friday nights (or Sundays, as it may be). More than anything, remember that your actions now will have an e%ect on the rest of your life. You aren’t in high school anymore, freshman, so stop pooping in mop buckets.

I suppose this could be addressed to any and all of the in&ammatory me-dia personalities out there, but Mr. Beck’s recent tram-pling of the “I Have a Dream” Speech anniversary makes him an easy target.

His “Restoring Honor” rally over the weekend, in all its unorganized, amorphous grandeur, was really just a micro chasm of Beck’s every-day behavior on his daily tele-vision program. For those of you lucky enough to have never witnessed his show, count your stars. But all the micro chasm reference really means is that this event, much like his show, lacked any real purpose besides yelling for the sake of yelling and that it was extremely o%ensive to most level-headed people. In fact, he has more in com-mon with the WWE than a credible news broadcaster.

For the rally’s critics, the most glaring issue was its date – August 28th, 47 years to the day a#er MLK Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech – and its lo-cation – !e Lincoln Memo-rial, where Dr. King delivered his speech. It seems beyond any semblance of a rational thought that this sort of over-lap could occur unintention-ally; as if a man so calculating

and shrewd in every other deci-sion would somehow have hap-hazardly orchestrated the single most o%ensive national-scale rally in recent memory. But, as if to spit in the faces of those civil rights leaders who begged Beck to fully consider the im-plications of holding such a controversial event, he smugly declared that he chose the date and location by coincidence. !at, according to Mr. Beck, it must have been “divine provi-dence” that guided his tasteless event to such an insidious lo-cale. Perhaps it wasn’t enough for Mr. Beck to o%end his usual targets. Perhaps he felt it was now time for him to patronize his predominantly Christian viewers as well, some of which have probably experienced mo-ments of divine providence be-fore, by veiling his sinister in-tentions with religion. What’s most shocking, though, is the brazen manner in which he carried all this out. He seemed genuinely surprised that anyone would be wary of a rally whose key demographic – closed-minded, mostly white tea par-tiers – stood in complete op-position to the message of uni-ty portrayed by Dr. King’s de-monstrative speech. Beck even claimed his rally would only bolster the legacy of Dr. King.

Does anyone honestly be-lieve such non-sense from a

man who has made a career out of fear-mongering, spewing hatred at underprivileged and underrepresented groups, and generally doing his best to bring out the worst in others? I sure hope not, but the 100,000 or so people who attended this farce of a rally would probably beg to di%er. Beyond the shocking na-ture of the event itself, I was also alarmed to hear so many people eager to listen to the prattling of Mr. Beck and his cohorts.

But we probably shouldn’t be surprised that Beck would try to usurp what should have been one our African-American cit-izens’, and really our entire na-tion’s, most celebrated anniver-saries. Words like equality and justice – the cornerstones of Dr. King’s message – scare Glenn Beck almost as much as he scares me. Sadly, however, on a day when Dr. King transcended race, status, and all other bar-riers to deliver a new metric for evaluating our neighbors that revolved around character rather than color, Glenn Beck just couldn’t stand for the spot-light to be pointed at someone besides Glenn Beck. Not only that, but he couldn’t even admit that this shameless event was all about Glenn Beck instead of Dr. King or even the Special Opera-tions Warrior Foundation (the charity fortunate enough to receive the event’s proceeds).

Mr. Beck, I’m glad you were able to raise money for a char-ity, but you could have done so any other time at any other place and probably been more successful. Had you held you rally any other date at any other time, then perhaps people out-side your tea-party base may have attended. Had you spent less time in your career yelling at people because of their po-litical ideology, socio-economic standing, or religion, then per-haps people who don’t look, live, and think exactly like you may have attended. Perhaps then you would have ful"lled your promise to carry out Dr. King’s message. If you had any sense of a social consciousness, you’d consider the e%ects of ac-tions like this on the people around you. Clearly, however, you have no problem trampling on an historic moment like Dr. King’s speech and shame-lessly hiding behind the cloak of patriotism or religion. Peo-ple who truly are patriotic and steadfast in their faith should be o%ended that you would bas-tardize their ideals with such transparent self-promotion.

So to Mr. Beck: Please stop inciting hatred, pretend-ing there is anything other than ego behind your mo-tives, and shouting half-truths from the podium someone was foolish enough to give you.

Glenn Beck: Please Stop

We have welcomed the new students and the returning students and in return we (the U of A community) have already the "rst week of school received broken windows, stolen U of A vehicles, somebody pooping in mop buckets, and of all things scattering !e Traveler all over the grounds. We love this campus and we work hard to make it a clean, sanitary and safe place for you all to receive a quality education and I personally want to say that this is a grown up campus and your supposed to be adults now and these juve-nile acts of vandalism and destruction is unacceptable. I strongly suggest you either grow up or go home. Your interfering with the regular work of our sta% and its di$cult for us to meet the needs of the serious students when we have to take time and money to "x these immature acts. I sincerely hope you take this serious and stop these foolish pranks and devote this energy to your education.

!anks.— !eresa Sims, Facilities Management

“MURDER-SUICIDE STUNS UA” was the headline in the Tuesday special edition of !e Arkansas Traveler.

!e headline appropri-ately captured the mood of a shocked campus trying to comprehend and cope with what had happened the day before, the "rst day of classes 10 years ago.

As I was walking out of the newsroom to grab lunch Monday morning, Student Media Director Steve Wilkes came rushing out of his o$ce.

He just received a call from a journalist friend telling him the police were reporting a possible shooting in Kimpel Hall.

In the middle of franti-cally trying to relay the mes-sage, his phone rang again.

Shooting con-"rmed. Second &oor.

!at was right above !e Traveler. I yelled at reporter Talia Myers to grab a camera.

We frantically rushed up the stairs outside the journalism o$ce and into a UAPD o$cer who had just begun forming a makeshi#

barricade out of recycling bins near the vending machines.

He yelled for us to leave. I remembering telling him we were with !e Traveler—like that suddenly gave us free reign of a crime scene. He yelled again, this time practically pushing us back.

We went outside and watched chaos engulf the campus.

A random student was tell-ing several people around him that his girlfriend saw on the TV news, “Somebody with a gun is holding a classroom hostage.”

Most students were trying to use their cell phones to no success; the phone lines were jammed with too many calls going in and out of the area.

I "nally got a hold of my mom in El Dorado, quickly tell-ing her, “I’m OK. I love you, but I won’t be calling back for a while.”

Sometime shortly a#er hearing the horrible news – a student shot and killed his pro-fessor before taking his own life – we decided to publish a spe-cial edition of the newspaper.

My entire body was rushing on adrenaline, and I all I could think about was telling this sto-ry. I started searching for report-ers, asking each to "nd another

Former Editor Recalls Class Shooting

Stop Pooping in Mop Buckets

Letter from the Editor

Bailey Elise [email protected]

and “"nd people to interview.”We talked to freshmen

who could barely put into words what had transpired – on their "rst day of college.

“Does this happen all the time?” one freshman asked.

We interviewed and pho-tographed the angst and de-spair of students. We also saw the heartbreak from distraught colleagues and students of slain professor John Locke.

!eir emotions and com-ments quickly told the story of a terri"c teacher who tried for years to mentor and help the very student, James Kelley, who would take both their lives.

I would spend the next few days putting out the special edition and two more Travel-ers, staying up until 2-3 a.m. many nights, making sure we had every angle covered.

But it wasn’t until the week ended that I really thought about the magni-tude of that Monday morning.

A#er a week focused solely on producing !e Traveler and cov-ering that fateful event, I began to process what had happened.

Emotions overwhelmed me as I sat alone in the dark on the bottom bunk of my Greg-

son Lodge room during the wee hours of Friday night.

I felt enormous sorrow for John Locke’s family and friends. I felt even worse that it took until Friday night for me to feel something more than the rush to tell the story.

I spent a week so focused on “doing my job,” on producing a newspaper, that I never allowed myself to have emotions, to feel what most other students were feeling. When that thought set in I started tearing up.

During the past decade, I’ve probably been to Kimpel Hall more than 100 times. Of-ten, I stop by the John Locke Memorial Garden to do as the creators of it wished – re&ect.

To re&ect on that day, to feel what others must have felt and to realize just how fortunate I was – and still am – to have amazing professors who mentored me and call me a friend to this day.

We should all wish and pray for a professor like John Locke – and remember to ap-preciate the ones who are.

Je" Smith was editor of !e Arkansas Traveler from April 2000 to May 2002. He currently is a consumer insights manager for Procter & Gamble in Fayetteville.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

by Jeff SmithGuest Writer

by Billy FlemingASG President

FROM THE STAFFWe love strange crimes here at !e Traveler. Cooking ec-

stasy in your dorm room? Creative. Raising snakes in your dorm room? Impressive. But hoarding a loaded revolv-er, a stun gun, a collection of knives, loose ammo and 15 pine tree air fresheners in your car to, naturally, conceal the smell of your gun? !at’s something we haven’t heard before.

Freshman Tyler White, 18, was &agged down at 2 a.m. Saturday by an o$cer who planned only to inform him that he was approach-ing a roadblock. But White wasn’t sober enough to receive the message and drive on. He failed every standard "eld sobriety test.

White wasn’t the only student busted by cops last week-end. About 28 Dickson-goers were caught using fake IDs Satur-day night, and six alcohol-related arrests were made on Sunday.

Maybe these high arrest rates are a result of "rst-weekend excitement, or maybe the UAPD is tighten-ing its policies. Whatever the reason is, students need to straighten up. Cops are on the prowl, handcu%s ready.

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Research and sponsored pro-gram awards for the University of Arkansas and the Division of Agriculture totaled $82.3 mil-lion in !scal year 2010, which set a record for the institution.

“It was a great year, you couldn’t have asked for a bet-ter year,” said Jim Rankin, the vice provost for research and economic development, dur-ing an interview in his o"ce.

Provost Sharon Gab-er said there is a lot to be excited about at the UA.

“Having research dollars and extra funding helps the university raise its pro!le na-tionally, so in the state it’s a great thing,” Gaber said from her o"ce. “It’s a win-win-win situation. It’s increasing the re-sources, it helps the students and it helps raise our nation-al reputation, so it’s all good.”

Federal awards totaled $53 million, state awards to-taled $15.2 million, and other awards totaled $14.1 million, according to the o"ce’s data.

Gaber said it seems counter-intuitive to break records and surpass goals !ve years ahead of schedule for grant money dur-ing a recession, but some of the increased funding came from the federal stimulus program.

“#at’s the new piece that is a direct result of the re-

UA Surpasses Awards Goal for 2010cession,” Gaber said. “So is it odd? Yes, but it’s also a new pool of money that we didn’t have access to until recently.”

#e stimulus money ac-counted for $11.4 million, or 62 percent of the total increase. #e money has supported vari-ous research and non-research projects like faculty research-ers’ e$orts to foil the %u vi-rus and public transportation.

However, the stimu-lus money is only temporary.

“#e stimulus money was just kind of a one or two year blip in there,” Rankin said. “So every year is a new year, and you just have to keep track-ing it. We’re hoping next year we’ll be above that.”

Gaber said her o"ce is pre-pared for the day when the stimu-lus money isn’t fattening the pot.

“On one hand the stimu-lus money will go away, but on the other hand we’re build-ing up the infrastructure for research so that we should be able to continue what we’re do-ing and more,” Gaber said.

Rankin is a key player in the continued success of the pro-gram. He came to his post July 19, a&er Collis Geren, the former dean of the graduate school and vice provost for economic af-fairs, retired June 30. Gaber said it was necessary to split Geren’s former position into two jobs.

“#ey’re each important, and we need to invest in them,”

Gaber said about the two posi-tions. “Now, we have a vice pro-vost of economic development, and we’re saying you should get up in the morning and think about research, and go to bed at night thinking about it.”

Part of Rankin’s job will be to help faculty members !nd out about grants and possible re-search money. Most teachers, like those in the Fulbright Col-lege of Arts and Sciences, are actively looking for grant fund-ing of some kind, either for re-search or journal articles, Gaber said, but Rankin can help them !nd even more opportunities.

“If we have somebody who’s looking for a grant, and we say, ‘Here’s an opportunity for a $1 million dollar grant. Professor X, would you be interested in ap-plying for this? And here’s how the university can help you out, ‘” Gaber said. “Lots of other uni-versities have that support, and we historically have not had that.”

Rankin is not only interested in research dollars, but also eco-nomic development at the uni-versity and Northwest Arkansas.

“So can we take a look at these research developments and go start companies here in Northwest Arkansas—or any-where in Arkansas—and create jobs for people who live here,” Rankin said. “So if we can start jobs, and there’s jobs for people more good things can happen.”

by JORDAN GRUMMERStaff Writer

er classes, they are passive.”Returning students said

they de!nitely noticed the full classrooms and di"culties in getting into some classes.

“I have Human Physiology in Gi$els Auditorium and all the seats are full,” said Harsha Malshe, a junior chemical en-gineering major. “In fact, they have to put chairs in the back.”

#ey “don’t have enough classes and the UA doesn’t seem prepared for this many students,” he said.

Freshmen said they had expected larger class-es, but some were still sur-prised with the amount of students in each class.

“I thought the class ratio would be 1 to 25,” said Sher-relle Lewis, a freshman Eng-lish major, “but it’s 1 to 50. One of my teachers said she will probably never know our names, so that teacher/student relationship does not exist.”

To improve this situation, Lewis suggested more student aids so that the work could be split up and students could have the opportunity to talk face to face with someone knowl-edgeable in the course subject.

#e UA has hired new fac-ulty this year, many of whom are teaching in the Fulbright College. If needed, more facul-ty will be hired, McCray said.

Exact numbers of how many students are en-rolled at the UA will be re-leased on the 11 day of class.

ENROLLMENTfrom 1A

Fish in Mullins Creek are dead after workers on the Health, Physical Educa-tion, and Recreation (HPER) building allowed cleaning materials to be washed down the roof drains. The Univer-sity of Arkansas Office of Environmental Health and Safety was alerted to the con-tamination after suds were noticed under the bridge off of Leroy Pond Road in the Razorback Gardens.

“Nothing was actually dumped [down the drain]. What we believed had hap-pened was a contractor was cleaning with several deter-gents and the products were being allowed to drain down from the roof,” said Miriam Lonon, the Biological Safe-ty Officer and Manager of the Office of Environmen-tal Safety, who is investi-gating the incident closely.

The cleaning materials used included Tide brand de-tergent with bleach and or-ganic solvents such as acetone. Acetone is commonly used in products like paint thinner and nail-polish remover. A water sample has been taken to determine the exact chemi-cals and how high the concen-trations were, but the results are not back from the lab.

Miscommunication Leads to Chemical Spill

The workers who dealt with the cleaning on the roof of the HPER were not university staff. It was a group of subcontractors

Ryan Miller CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Mullins Creek bubbles and foams as a result of a chemical spill from the HPER The spill occurred because workers were unaware the drain near the HPER led to the creek.

hired to help prepare for the new solar thermal system.

“I don’t know where the process failed,” Lonon said, “but for some reason

the subcontractor did not get the message.” All con-tractors must agree to com-ply with the environmental ideals held by the universi-ty, that information should have been passed along to those hired to clean the roof.

“The roof is such that rain-water goes into drains that go directly underground into box culverts that go into Mullins Creek,” said Nick Brown, the director of the Office of Cam-pus Sustainability. “[Most] drains… are essentially storm drains, and not every-one is fully aware of that.”

These drains are set up for rainwater and are not suitable for any sort of chemicals or disposal. That has not stopped Mullins Creek from being contaminated in the past.

Lonon closed with a warn-ing for students. “Never put anything down a storm drain. If you ever spill anything on the surface that is at risk of go-ing down the storm drain call and we will help stop it,” she said. In the past students have allowed soaps from washing their vehicles or oil from an oil change to empty into the storm drains, and that can be damaging to the environment and result in fish kill as well.

by KRISTEN COPPOLAStaff Writer

the resources and gear, but Young added that it is a “good idea to wear close-toed shoes.”

“We are just looking for different ideas and would love feedback from the stu-dents,” Young said. This is the first year that FYE has included laser tag as a part of the Welcome Weeks’ ac-tivities, but if it goes well it may become a repeat event.

The game is being held in the Union so that weather will not be a determining factor.

“And plus, the Union is the place everyone comes togeth-er. It’s a gathering place for student life,” Young stated.

“We really want to wel-come the freshmen to the uni-versity,” Young said. “If they ever need anything, we can be found in the Arkansas Union above the computer lab.”

There will be no fees and any student can participate. Students can sign up for cer-tain time slots ahead of time at the Midnight Breakfast from 10 p.m. to midnight in the Union Monday night or at the FYE office Tuesday.

LASER TAGfrom page 3A

Lana Hazel MANAGING EDITOR FOR NEW MEDIA New sorority members call the Hogs at last week’s freshmen pep rally. The Razorbacks will face Tennessee Tech in the season opener Saturday at 6p.m.

Freshmen Get Hog Wild at Pep Rally

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This Week in CrimeTuesday, August 24, 2010

-A staff member reported someone stole the parking permit from his vehicle while the vehicle was parked in Lot 38.Wednesday, August 25, 2010-Driving While Intoxicated:A non-affiliated person was arrested on North Garland Avenue south of Cleveland Street.-Theft Of Motor Vehicle occurred: A staff member reported someone stole her service vehicle from the north side of Mullins Library. The responding officer found the vehicle on the sidewalk west of the original parked position.-Breaking Or Entering; Theft Of Property occurred be-tween 07:00 and 16:15 Thursday, August 26, 2010

-Possession Of A Controlled Substance (Marijuana); Pos-session Of Drug Parapherna-lia A student was arrested in Maple Hill South Residence Hall.-Criminal Mischief occured A faculty member reported someone broke a window in the Agriculture Annex Build-ing and damaged a fence out-side the building.

Friday, August 27, 2010 -Driving While Intoxicated (Unfounded) A student was arrested in the Garland Av-enue Parking Garage. A sub-sequent breath test for blood alcohol content returned a reading below the legal limit. The student was not charged with DWI but was charged with Reckless Driving -Public Intoxication A stu-dent was arrested in Lot 9. -Theft Of Property occurred between 11:45 and 12:00 Thursday-A student reported some-one stole her cell phone from her backpack during the Razorbash event on the mall between the Arkansas Union and Mullins Library. -A student reported someone

With the Sept. 4 football game nearly upon the Razor-back community, students are getting ready to see some Ra-zorback domination. How-ever, for the freshman out there, as well as a reminder to the more seasoned stu-dents on campus, with foot-ball comes parking chaos.

When parking in the stu-dent lots around campus it’s not easy to miss the red-and-white sign that advises in big letters that cars must be moved out of the parking lot the night before a game, usually by midnight. It’s true, and they mean business.

The Razorback Founda-tion is in charge of clearing lots for the football games; and they will. Cars left in lots after the allotted time before a game will be towed and fined. The Foundation will charge a fee of $20.00 to tow a car. Not bad, but com-bined with the price of the citation ($25.00) students are looking at a $45.00 fine.

Not only do many dorm lots have to be emptied, as well as few fraternity and so-rority parking areas, many of the main student lots are in-cluded: Lot 44, Lot 46, Lot 55, Lot 56, Lot 56-B, Lots 60 and 62, Lot 67, Lot 74 and Lot 81 all have to be vacated prior to a game. Of course, this is only a few of the main lots. For residence hall stu-dents, the best way to find out whether a lot is being cleared is to check out the list of every vacancy required at the parking and transit web-site: http://parking.uark.edu

However, the Foundation

has made provisions for stu-dents who need to move their cars. The Harmon Avenue Garage will accept any car with a valid university park-ing permit up until 3 p.m. the Friday before a game. Stu-dents are allowed to park on levels 1, 2, 3, 8 and 9 of Har-mon Garage. Students will not be charged for parking here unless you leave your car past Monday at 6:30 a.m. After that, you should be prepared to pay for parking.

For students who do find themselves in the unfor-tunate position of having a car towed, there is hope. Ev-ery car that is towed is tak-en to the east parking lot of Baum Stadium. Cars can be reclaimed there, but don’t forget to pay those fines.

Shuttle buses will run from both public parking areas at Baum Stadium to the game (buses will return to those areas after the game). A bus map can be found at uapd.uark.edu. Reserved/schol-arship traffic will drive two lanes one way northbound on Razorback Road from 6th Street to Maple Street. Meadow Street from Razor-back Road to Stadium Drive will be two-way traffic. Le-roy Pond Drive from Razor-back to California Boulevard will be two way eastbound.

UAPD officials recom-mend that any reserved/scholarship permit holders on Razorback Road (Lots 4 road, 4, 4 north, 1, 2, 6, 8A, 8, 5, 13, 10, 10A, 11 or 12 enter from Interstate 540 and come north up Razor-back Road. For those en-tering Lot 3, 3 road, Leg-islative Lot or the Parking Deck enter north from Gar-land Avenue to Maple Street.

How to Survive the Gameday Parking Systemby CAITLIN HOWLE

Staff Writer

stole her backpack while it was unattended at a com-puter terminal in Mullins Library.Theft Of Property (Shoplifting); Public Intoxi-cation (Drugs) A non-affiliated juvenile was arrested at Union Station. -Theft of property occured. on 08/20/10A student reported someone stole his bicycle from the bi-cycle rack on the east side of the Arkansas Union.

Saturday, August 28, 2010 -Possession Of Handgun On School Property; Driving While Intoxicated (Drugs) at 01:57 A student was arrested in Lot 28.-Theft of motor vehicle oc-cured sometime between Thursday and Monday.-A student reported someone stole her vehicle from Lot 44.

Sunday, August 29, 2010-Public Intoxication: A stu-dent was arrested in Maple Hill East Residence Hall -Disorderly Conduct: A stu-dent was arrested in Lot 59 -Driving While Intoxicated: A non-affiliated person was arrested in the parking lot at 1417 West Martin Lu-ther King, Jr. Boulevard (EZ Mart) at 01:35-Public Intoxication: A stu-dent was arrested in the courtyard between Maple Hill Residence Halls at 01:35-Public Intoxication:A student was arrested in the courtyard between Maple Hill Residence Halls -Driving While Intoxicated; Refusal To Submit To Chem-ical Test : A student was ar-rested in the parking lot at 1021 South Razorback Road (Mezza Luna Restaurant) at 02:38-Possession Of A Controlled Substance (Oxycodone); Pos-session Of Drug Parapher-naliaA juvenile student was ar-rested in Pomfret Hall at 19:48.

Blood Donations Needed

Members of Alpha Phi Ome-ga and the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks will be hosting a blood drive Wednes-day September 1st from 9-2 p.m. in the Union Ballroom.

!e Community Blood Cen-ter of the Ozarks supplies blood to the Northwest Arkansas re-gion where transfusions hap-pen every "ve minutes. By the age of 70, 95 percent of peo-ple will have received blood.

“One donation can save three lives,” said Lora Johnson, a donor recruiter for CBCO. “!e blood donation can be used for di#erent purposes: platelets are used for che-motherapy patients, plasma is used for burn victims and red blood cells are used for trauma victims.”

To be able to give blood, stu-dents must weigh at least 110 pounds and bring their student IDs. It is strongly recommended that students come hydrated and eat a good meal before donating blood, Johnson said. !ere will be food for donors in the Ballroom.

In addition to food, do-nors will receive a T-shirt, a mini physical and the good feel-ing of saving lives, Johnson said. “Blood can’t be manufactured and there is no substitute for it,” she said. “It’s something that can only come from humans.”

!e goal for all three days is to have 300 donors. CBCO hosted a blood drive at Humphreys last week, but only received 50 donations.

“60 percent of the population is eligible to donate blood, but only "ve percent donate,” Johnson said.

Many people worry about the needle, but it doesn’t hurt that bad, said Tyler McKim-mey, a member of the CBCO RSO on campus. “If you are scared of needles, just don’t look.”

!e entire process will take any-where from 30 minutes to an hour.

“It is a sacri"ce,” John-son said, “but the people that are receiving the blood are in a lot worse predicament.”

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THE TOP FIVEWEEKENDS TO NOT BE IN FAYETTEVILLE#5Little Rock Games

You can’t hear “Woo Pig Sooie” from way down South, plus the stellar tailgating on the grounds of War Memorial will make any Fayetteville homebody envious.

#4Wal-Mart Shareholders Meeting

#3Third Annual Ice Storm

If this town is your summer vacation, skip June – you won’t !nd a parking spot for miles.

#2Bikes, Blues & BBQ

It’s literally life-threatening to weather these storms. Stock up on bread and double up on the wool socks if you can’t make it home – otherwise, pray for generous land-lords with generators.

#1Last Week of Finals

More than 400,000 people descend on NWA for the weekend, bringing with them what may well be the noisi-est modes of transportation ever invented by man. Don’t plan on getting much sleep from Sept. 29-Oct. 2, the Har-leys never cease to growl.

It sucks to be one of those with Saturday morning !nals, because by that time everyone has abandoned aca-demia and "ed the premises while you are still stuck in Mullins.

The 80’s Have Come ‘Right Round’

College students like to be-lieve that they live in a tech-nologically advanced culture and society far greater than that of their parents. We are a long way from land lines and 8-Tracks and for the most part we wouldn’t dream of ask-ing our parents for fashion ad-vice or musical taste, but in a world where fads reoccur, our parents may know more than we think. Students who once laughed at their mom’s bright-ly colored headbands and leg warmers and dad’s neon high tops may now be asking to bor-row them. !e 80’s are back!

You might already see peo-ple wearing brightly colored sunglasses, big hair and o" the shoulder shirts. All these fashions came from the 80’s.

“I like to wear the 80’s style. It’s always fun to try out new clothes. I like to wear high-waisted jeans with boots and bright colored hair accessories,” sophomore Sarah Arnold said.

Monroe Boutique, 628 W. Dickson Street, is a popular place to search for these styles.

“Many students o#en come shopping here. I’ve seen many

students wearing the 80’s trends and fashion styles these days. !e 80’s are already ‘must have’ items, including romp-ers and race clothing,” sales-clerk Jennifer Mattone said.

According to a New York Times article, design houses as disparate as Gucci, Givenchy, Ungaro, Gianfranco Ferré, Ga-reth Pugh, Proenza Schouler and Marc Jacobs, for his own la-bel and for Louis Vuitton, start-ed swiping to the 80’s with dis-plays of big shoulders, saturat-ed neon colors, wedge hairdos, pouf skirts, shredded $shnets, oversize jackets and metal mesh.

“You haven’t seen people wear big white shoulder dresses, because that would be an exag-gerated look for current times, but I think you’ve seen modi-$cation of the 80’s look,” said Kathleen Smith, apparel studies professor. “Average young con-sumers such as college students think it is a brand new style be-cause they haven’t seen it before.”

Celebrities are always lead-ing the trend of fashion. In the 80’s, Madonna used to put a big bow on her big hair and wore $ngerless wool gloves, and Princess Diana wore a pu"y shoulder dress. !ese styles are

beginning to be seen again. Just walk into Forever 21 and $nd a neon section with boom box T-shirts and ripped skinny jeans, and a formal section that mim-ics the poufy sleeves of Princess Diana and contains dresses with big bows topping the booty.

When asked what she liked about the 80’s, senior Amy Short said, “Everything.”

“I love the poufy sleeves, the big hair, the leg warmers, leo-tards, sweatbands, the o" the soldier shirts and neon colors. I think the 80’s fashions are %at-tering and I seek them out when I shop. My favorite style from the 80’s is de$nitely the leg warm-ers. !is fashion is fun, almost costume-like and brings back a wave of nostalgia,” she said.

!e 80’s trend doesn’t ap-ply only to fashion. Mu-sic has also been considered.

“I don’t like to listen to the original 80’s songs, but I like to listen to current remakes,” freshman Cambry Knles said.

Today, 80’s music is covered from many artists. “You Spin Me Right Round” by Flo Rida was one of the hit songs in 2008. According to Billboard.com, the song sold 4.4 million digital downloads in 2008. It originat-

ed from “You Spin Me Round” by Dead or Alive in 1985. Jay-Z also covered “Hard Knock Life” which was inspired by the movie “Annie,” made in 1982.

If you’re looking for a real 80’s wannabe, check out UA-TRAV.com for the music vid-eo, “Alive,” by Goldfrapp and you’ll be in for a dose of neon lights, crazy make-up and some good electronic beats. Another band really bring-ing back 80’s pop is Alphabeat that combines the cheerful lyr-ics and synthesized sounds that were so loved 30 years ago.

Who knows why the 80’s are back? Could it be the death of Michael Jackson that has people nostalgic for spiked leather jackets and mullets, or is it the fashion industry just looking for a cheery alterna-tive to troubled times by using neon colors and bizarre styles?

As Flo Rida would say, the 80’s have come right round and students may want to think twice before laughing at their parents photos. Ulti-mately, those photos may be-come congruent to their own.

!ree years ago, Robert Croak of BCP Imports was do-ing business in Japan when he saw an o&ce product shaped like a duck, and was inspired.

According to the Silly Bandz website, Croak was involved in a company that made custom silicone bracelets, similar to the Livestrong bracelets. But a#er seeing the Japanese model, he decided to try something a lit-tle bit di"erent. Silly Bandz are stronger and more durable than the original product, and unlike rubber bands, they are made of silicone, which is more environ-mentally-friendly than rubber. What distinguishes a Silly Bandz accessory from a regular band bracelet is that a#er being worn and taken o", it springs back to its original shape, which might be a %ower, a star or a heart.

Silly Bandz “were origi-nally intended for a child au-dience,” said Teresa Flores, a Customer Service Representa-tive for BCP Imports, but a#er seeing the strength of their ini-tial reception, Flores said that BCP Imports “started making them appropriate for all ages,” and the variety was expanded.

Today, there are dozens of di"erent Silly Bandz themes: dinosaurs, baseball, Rockbandz, and a space on the website for custom orders (minimum 5,000 per individual shape), some of which glow in the dark. Af-ter starting out as being mar-keted only to children, now Silly Bandz are gaining popu-

larity with college students as well, including those at the UA.

“!ey are fun!” said Amanda O’Connor, se-nior Pre-Dental student. “I have two shaped like teeth.”

As with any product, though, not all Silly Bandz are met with a warm reception.

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“My grandma bought me a bunch of ones that are Ti-tanic themed,” said Saman-tha Reeves, a junior Classi-cal Studies and English ma-jor. “I think they’re weird.”

However, this seems to be the exception rather than the rule, to judge from the number

of enthusiastic students sport-ing Silly Bandz on campus.

“I’m wearing a pig—a Ra-zorback—and an elephant be-cause they are super cute!” said Heather Rost, a soph-omore business student. “And sometimes kids want to trade, and that’s cute too.”

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Shohta Nakashima, a sophomore majoring in Biochemistry, checks out “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” at the University Bookstore. The international best seller is the first in a trilogy of thrillers by Swedish au-thor Stieg Larsson.

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Stieg Larsson !rst made a name for himself as a muck-raking journalist in Sweden, but his legacy will be his now internationally famous Millen-nium Trilogy. "e !rst book in Larsson’s posthumously re-leased series, “"e Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” currently holds the number 1 spot on "e New York Times Bestseller list for paperback trade !ction and has been on the list for 60 weeks.

According to Larsson’s Web site, the story in the !rst novel revolves around protagonist, Mikael Blomqvist, a disgraced

journalist who is hired by Henrik Vanger, a member of a powerful Swedish family, to investigate the disappearance and possible murder of his great-niece, Har-riet, nearly 40 years previous.

During his investigation, Blomqvist meets and eventual-ly teams up with a young com-puter hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As the plot thickens, the dubious pair begins to sus-pect that this single case may be connected to several sadis-tic murders in the past and that a member of the Vanger family may be responsible.

“As far as suspense novels, it’s one of the best I’ve read this year,” said Lisa Sharp, owner

of Nightbird Books on Dick-son Street. “It’s really one of those that you just don’t want to put down.” Sharp lends the book’s popularity to its ac-cessibility to a wide variety of readers. “It’s not formulaic at all,” she says. “People who re-ally enjoy genre !ction or who only read suspense and detec-tive stories can really enjoy it, but there’s a little more to it so people who generally read lit-erary !ction can also enjoy it.”

Nightbird Books and "e University of Arkansas Book-store have sold a combined to-tal of 100 copies of the book this year alone. “We’re constantly re-ordering it,” says Brandon Hill,

Tradebooks Assistant at the Uni-versity of Arkansas Bookstore.

"e other books in the series have also been following a simi-lar trend of popularity. "e sec-ond book in the series, “"e Girl Who Played with Fire,” current-ly holds the number 2 spot on "e New York Times Bestsell-er list for paperback trade !c-tion, and the recently released !nal chapter in the trilogy, “"e Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest” holds the top spot on the hardcover !ction bestseller list.

All of the books in the series can be found at Nightbird Books as well as the University of Ar-kansas Bookstore on campus.

The Randy Rogers Bandto Hit George’s This Week

Turns out winning Country Album of the Year in Playboy magazine doesn’t get you an in-vite to the mansion, just dinner with the editor. "at heartache aside, the Randy Rogers Band is going strong and moving along.

"eir seventh album, “Burn-ing the Day,” was number one on iTunes’ country albums chart when it released Aug. 24. On top of appearances on “"e Tonight Show With Jay Leno” and “"e Late Show With David Letter-man,” the band spends more than 200 days a year on the road, including a stop at George’s Ma-jestic Lounge Sept. 4 at 9 p.m.

During a festival in Colora-do, management tried to rope the band into a meeting. Lead singer Randy Rogers refused, he didn’t want to burn the day with a meeting. And so the album ti-tle was born, “Burning the Day.”

"e band hails from San Mar-cos, Texas and has had the same line up for eight of its 10 years.

Spending so much time to-gether can get a little stress-ful, but they know how to re-lax whether by playing lots of golf or having fun nights like the Bud Light “commercial” on the band’s MySpace. “It’s like a marriage,” Rogers said. “You’ve got to communicate.”

"e album stays true to the band’s Texas roots with in-

#uences from Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and George Strait. “We are a country band with a little rock #avor, not a cookie cutter country group or pop act,” Rogers said.

Unlike many groups today, all of the members contributed equally to writing the new al-bum, including a song by former producer Radney Foster. "at level of involvement can take longer to !nalize. A$er spend-ing a year working on “Burning the Day” Rogers said it feels “re-ally great to !nally have it out.”

"e latest album was pro-duced by Paul Worley, a G r a m my - a w a r d - w i n n i n g producer who has worked with Martina McBride, Big

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& Rich and many others.Working with Worley was

a “dream come true,” Rog-ers said. “We’ve been big fans of his work for years, and working with him gives you a big boost of con!dence.”

Rogers likes country songs that are “sad and lonely,” he said. His favorite track o% the new album, “Just Don’t Tell Me the Truth,” is exactly that.

"e song is a so$ plea by a man who doesn’t want to hear that his relationship is over because “What’s that gonna prove? We both know that I’m your fool. So tell me something new, a lie that I can bite into. Just don’t tell me the truth.”

"ese days life is only sad for the band in their songs. "ey have received two nominations for Music Vocal Group of the Year, had record crowds across their tours and several band members have started families.

Although they may cut their touring down the smallest bit to 175 next year, Rogers joked, they have no plans to slow down.

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A student who wishes to be unidentified opens the home page of Limewire, one of the most popu-lar file sharing sites on the internet. Use of Limewire, UTorrent and other file sharing sites is being banned on many US campuses as universities seek to avoid liability for illegal downloading of proprietary files.

by Andrew Van GenderenStaff Writer

Music piracy is by no means a new issue to college campuses. However, students will !nd that crackdowns on illegal down-loads are heavier and more se-rious this year than ever before.

Spurred on by the e"orts of the Recording Industry As-sociation of America (RIAA) and the Institute for Policy In-novation (IPI), the nation-wide, government funded ef-fort to curb the music industry’s monstrous annual losses from sites like Limewire, BitTorrent, and P2P service sites has gar-nered support from all corners of the United States’ legal and economic sectors. A#er many high-pro!le lawsuits, the de-bate over how to control music-sharing has grown into an inter-national !nancial scandal that has plagued the music scene for most of the past decade.

According to the IPI, mu-sic piracy causes, each year, $12.5 billion in global econom-ic losses, more than 70,000 U.S. jobs lost, and an absence of $422 million in tax revenues.

$e consequences of illegal downloading are wide rang-ing. If !nancially wounded

music companies cannot in-vest in developing bands, artis-tic diversity declines. Sites like iTunes and Amazon are like-wise forced to hike their pric-es, seeing as so much of their inventory is literally being sto-len from under their !ngertips.

College campuses, tra-ditional origins of new mu-sic trends and fads, are be-ing held to the most rigorous standards of all by the RIAA.

According to the RIAA Web site, university leaders have a responsibility to acknowledge campus piracy, to take steps to prevent the the# from oc-curring in the !rst place, and to demonstrate leadership in teaching students that music has value and there are right and wrong ways to acquire it. When college administrators are more proactive in address-ing the campus piracy prob-lem, it usually means fewer in-cidences of illegal downloading on those school networks and less chance that students will get in trouble for breaking the law.

Obviously, the University of Arkansas administrative sta" is taking the most direct action against students who down-load illegally. $e University’s Code of Computing Practices

states that anyone found guilty of copyright infringement is subject not only to the loss of all internet privileges, but also revocation of student accounts and initiated referrals to high-er law enforcement agencies.

$e RIAA has also been ag-gressive. Since 2007, the RIAA has sent over 7,000 early settle-ment letters to college students across the country. Of the 83 let-ters sent to students in Arkansas schools, 31 went to University of Arkansas undergraduates.

$e strict protocols have some students, in the words of Lili-anna Cai, junior, “freaked out.”

A Bolivian transfer student, she notes signi!cant changes in internet culture and law once inside the borders of the U.S. “Where I come from,” she says, “internet piracy is completely normal. China is the same way; everyone does it, and nobody cares. But since I have come here, I have not downloaded a single song. It’s just so, so risky.”

Others have fended o" the allure of free music with their own high moral standards.

“I used to do it all the time. It just seems like everyone does it. When all your friends do it, it doesn’t really even feel like steal-ing,” said an anonymous junior.

O!cials Crack Down on Music Pirates

When asked why she no longer downloads illegally, she replied, “A lot of the bands I listen to now are Christian bands, and by stealing mu-sic I hurt their pro!t. It’s bet-ter, then, if I buy music.”

$ere are, however, pos-sible bene!ts to artists from having their music traded and exchanged, even if they do not get direct revenue from it.

“All artists absolutely have intellectual rights; to rip mu-sic from somewhere is just like stealing from a library, it’s no dif-

ferent,” said junior, Grant Roe. “Big name artists take the

publicity they get from their music and use it to bolster their alternative revenue streams,” Roe said. “$ere are tons of art-ists who get, because of YouTube exposure alone, multi-million dollar endorsements with ad-vertising companies or oth-er large corporations, be they soda, cologne, or whatever.”

Although few would argue with the simple fact that steal-ing is both wrong and illegal, perhaps the problem with ille-

gal downloading is not as det-rimental to major artists as one would initially think. Is there any reconciliation from the spread of in%uence, fame, and endorsement opportunities at the expense of immediate loss-es? Are there long terms gains to be had for artists from mass !le sharing and even piracy?

As Roe said, “In the end, I am pretty sure some bene!ts go both ways.”

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GUYS NOT TO DATEGUYS NOT TO DATE

He sports croakies on his Ray-Bans, neon short shorts and Polo shirts on rotation. His favorite Friday a!ernoon activ-ity includes riding to Sonic on his scooter to pick up a mixer for his Kentucky Deluxe whis-key. When he’s not acting bel-ligerent at every football game, he spends his warm-weather weekends boating and his win-ter weekends hunting. Speak-ing of his weekend activities, he owns an absurd amount of outdoor performance gear, which doesn’t exactly match up with his beer belly or Ar-kansas’ temperate climate.

You can "nd him in the front yard of any Greek letter-clad castle on campus spew-ing semi-sexist jokes or yell-ing at any decent-looking freshman girl who passes by.

#e biggest problem this guy has in the dating depart-ment is his morally casual at-titude. Read: complete lack of respect for all women. If that doesn’t turn you o$, then his perpetual drunkenness and propensity for brawling will.

Don’t become fratu-riture. Seek parties out-side of the fratmosphere.

THE FRAT GUY THE MEATHEAD#e tricked out Crown

Vic parked on the Stadium Drive sidewalk isn’t deco-ration. It’s proof of macho athletes branding campus.

At "rst, he doesn’t seem that bad. I mean, he’s caught up on current events, attends class regularly, and he’s load-ed. But watch out. #e only reason he picks up a newspa-per is to "nd his name in the Sports section, which he thinks "lls his reading quota for the week, and the only reason he attends class is because athlete Nazis will know if he doesn’t.

During the week, you can "nd him swaggering through campus surrounded by one of his many girlfriends. You can spot him like a Razor-back geared lighthouse from across the Union mall, as he towers over anyone in sight.

You might spot him and his athlete buddy scooting up Stadium Drive at an im-pressive 10 mph, only be-cause his scooter isn’t meant to carry over 300 pounds.

If you do choose to subject yourself to dating an athlete, be sure to keep a nearly bot-tomless supply of protein and Scantrons on hand, since he’ll expect you to prepare him for everything o$ the court or "eld.

We’re mainly warning freshman here, because these guys probably won’t make it past their "rst semester, which is what usually happens when he doesn’t attend class.

#ey’ll swear to you that all guys play video games all the time. Aside from not be-ing able to hold a conversation outside of Call of Duty, it might irritate you that he, well, never leaves his room. Not for class, not for food, and not for you.

Dating this guy is a game you don’t want to play.

THE GAMER THE GRADUATEASSISTANT

We can’t blame you for suck-ing up for that “A.” We all did. But be careful not to cross the line. Hanging out during o%ce hours is great if you have class-related questions. Hanging out at his concerts with classmates is "ne, but only if invited. Hanging out at his house on a Friday night, de"nitely crossing the line.

At least wait to ask him out until a!er your "-nal grade is posted on ISIS.

THE OVERACHIEVERYou can’t deny that his resume is sexy,

right up there with his work ethic, ambition and maybe his wallet. But if you’re looking for someone the least bit attentive, look elsewhere.

If you need a friend-with-bene"ts, he’s your go-to. But if you want anything remote-ly serious you should know that to him, you’re nothing more than an extracurricular activity.

Dating this guy could work out if your schedule is as packed as his is. Only then will you both understand if you can’t see each except for, say, every two weeks.

But we shouldn’t have to tell you this. His ego probably turned you o$ in the "rst "ve minutes.

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!ere are a lot of activities in which being big is a disadvantage.

Figure skating, limbo con-testant, ice "sherman are a few. But there is a place where big is beautiful – the defensive line.

!at’s why Razorback coaches were unhappy when D.D. Jones lost weight and ec-

static when he put it back on.!e sophomore defensive

tackle is listed at 307 pounds, but dropped down to 270 a#er get-ting in shape in the o$season.

“Baby fat just had to shed o$, I guess,” Jones said. “But I’ve got back up now and I’m feeling pretty good.”

!e Razorback of-fensive line averages

“We want all our inside guys to be right around the 300-pound mark,” Arkansas defensive line coach Bobby Allen said. “If you’re

sitting in there at 270, no mat-ter how hard you try, you’re go-ing to get knocked o$ the ball.”

Jones will need the extra weight. !e Southeastern Conference and Big 12 have the highest average o$ensive line weights in the na-tion this year, according to Phil Steele’s College Football Preview.

Allen knows that Jones can play at that heavier weight. Last season, when Jones weighed around 300 pounds, he tied for third on the team with 2.5 sacks.

“You have to be big, because they have big guys in the SEC,” Jones said. “You do what you got to do to survive in there.”

!e survival test will come early – Georgia, Arkansas’ SEC opener, has an average o$en-sive line weight of 309 pounds.

Jones needs to be big, but gaining so much weight so quickly – 30 pounds in two months – has its side e$ects.

“His conditioning has to improve,“ Razorback defen-

sive coordinator Willy Robin-son said. “He has to continue to work to be an every down player for us. But he’s a guy who’s pro-ductive when he gets in there.”

Jones was listed as the start-ing defensive tackle when the Razorbacks’ depth chart was re-leased Friday, but he said he has a bigger goal for the 2010 season.

“I want a chance to prove what’s inside of me,” Jones said. “I want to compete against every team and try to put every team in the dirt.”

The Razorback soccer team will head south this weekend.

Arkansas will be in Fort My-ers, Fla., this weekend to par-ticipate in the Embassy Suites Kick-Off Classic. The Razor-backs play Miami on Friday.

The Hurricanes finished

last season 8-10-1 and 3-6-1 in the Atlantic Coast Confer-ence, but Arkansas coach Erin Aubry believes to be one of the most competitive conferences.

“Miami, being part of the ACC, has to compete in ar-

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Leaders Emerge For Razorback Football

FILE PHOTOArkansas coach Bobby Petrino put select members of the Razorback football team through leadership seminars this summer.

Arkansas coach Bob-by Petrino hasn’t shied away from expectations lead-ing up to the 2010 season.

His Razorbacks are ranked No. 17 in the AP preseason poll – the highest the Hogs have begun a season in 20 years.

!e main reason for Petri-no’s con"dence isn’t because the Hogs return junior quar-terback Ryan Mallett, who has been touted as a Heisman Trophy candidate. It’s not be-cause the Razorback o$ense returns 10 starters from a unit that led the Southeastern Con-ference in scoring last season.

Petrino said the Razor-back defense “has a chip on their shoulders” a#er "nish-ing last in the conference in 2009, but that’s not the chief reason for his optimism.

He embraces the hype be-cause his third preseason at Arkansas has been his easiest.

“!e players have taken

more of an ownership over the team and that gives us an op-portunity to be a special foot-ball team,” Petrino said. “I’ve always felt like the leadership within the football team de-termines whether you have a chance to have a special team or not. It certainly makes the coaches’ job a lot easier.

“I trust the leaders on our team. !ey dictate how we’re going to practice a lot. !ey’re able to go out there and cor-rect other players and are com-municating back and forth.”

!e Razorbacks voted on team captains at the end of spring practice, despite waiting for the start of fall practice in Petri-no’s "rst two years at Arkansas.

“We told them it was their job to lead the team through-out the summer,” Petrino said. “We have very, very good leadership on the team and we have a very good attitude.”

Mallett, junior defensive end Jake Bequette, junior line-backer Jerry Franklin, senior cornerback Ramon Broadway,

senior o$ensive tackle De-Marcus Love and senior tight end D.J. Williams were elected captains by their teammates.

“It’s up to them to lead the team,” Petrino said.

!e responsibility of being a captain is something the selected players take seriously, Love said.

“I’ve embraced the lead-ership role,” Love said. “One thing I want to do is be-come a better leader. I’m not where I want to be, but hope-fully as the season goes along I can keep motivating guys.”

Arkansas’ leadership be-gins with its signal caller. Mal-lett broke or tied 16 school re-cords in his "rst season at Ar-kansas, but Petrino said he was more impressed Mallett’s will-ingness to become a student of the game – something that has rubbed o$ on his teammates

“Any special football team that I’ve been around, the play-ers within the team have taken over the leadership and giv-en you a chance to be a spe-cial football team,” Petrino

said. “Obviously it starts with Ryan Mallett. He’s a special football player, but he loves the game. He loves practice, the meetings and walks into each room with a smile and everyone follows his lead.”

Razorbacks outside line-backers coach and special teams coordinator John L. Smith said the ownership dis-played by Arkansas’ upperclass-men is the best he’s “seen on a football team in a long time.”

“It’s di$erent than a year ago,” Smith said. “To me, it’s night and day. !ose kids are taking control; you’re seeing some leadership.”

Petrino played 16 true freshmen his "rst season at Arkansas in 2008 and redshirt freshmen Bequette and Frank-lin started 11 and 12 games, re-spectively. Two years later, the inexperienced newcomers have taken command of the locker room as battle-tested veterans.

byJIMMY CARTERSports Editor

see LEADERSHIPon page 13

JONATHAN GIBSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Norton won SEC Freshman of the Year in 2009.

FOOTBALLOLYMPIC SPORTS

by PATRICK TURNERStaff Writer

Arkansas Soccer Looking to Rebound on Weekend Florida Trip

Norton Ready to Lead

see SOCCERon page 15

JONES

It didn’t take long for Jasmine Norton to make a name for herself.

!e 5-foot-10 outside hit-ter for the Razorback volley-ball team is only the sixth All-American in program history and was named the Southeast-ern Conference Freshman of the Year and second-team All-SEC, all in her "rst collegiate season.

Norton is looking to add to her accolades as a sophomore,

but is more focused on lead-ing the Razorbacks to postsea-son play. In addition to car-rying the volleyball team to postseason success with her strong play as a sophomore.

“First o$, we need to make it to the NCAA tournament,” Norton said. “Last season we didn’t because we were a young team, but this year I feel like we have a really good chance.”

see NORTONon page 15

by ZACH TURNERStaff Writer

Standing Up Versus Lying Down – It’s Not Even Close!ere’s a semi-new sport

that’s sweeping the country. You see its handiwork on

t-shirts, on the back glass of pickup trucks, and even some-times on Sportscenter. !is sport that’s triangle choking the nation into submission is mixed martial arts, or MMA.

As far as combat sports go, it’s the sexy pick. It’s an easy sport to pick up, it’s becoming more and more accessible throughout the country, and by throwing on any “Tap Out” t-shirt, you have pro-claimed to the public you are, no questions asked, one bad mofo.

Well, I ain’t buying it. I think it’s brutal. I think it’s unsport-ing. I think it’s almost barbaric. Somehow, despite my complaints, MMA, and its %agship league, !e Ultimate Fighting Champi-onship, is bulldozing through the gyms, merchandise and the pay-

per-views. And painfully, regret-tably, it’s swallowing up the true king of combat sports – boxing.

Boxing is %uid and scientif-ic; it’s a thinking man’s game – if that man can get punched in the face and still think. MMA is hard-headed and brutal. Kick-ing a man in the face while he’s down isn’t very sporting.

!at’s why I cringed this

weekend when I heard there was a high-pro"le “MMA vs. box-er” match on pay-per-view. !e "ght pitted perhaps the ambas-sador of MMA, Randy Couture, versus James “Lights Out” Toney, a current heavyweight boxer.

Age-wise, both men are past their "ghting prime - Couture is 47 and Toney is 42. Both men have accomplished great things in their careers – Couture is a former heavyweight and light heavyweight champ, and Toney, a multiple former champ him-self, is 72-6-3 in his 22-year career.

But no matter who the com-batants are, the win will always go to the "ghter that’s compet-ing in his sport. Toney stood no chance. Zero. !ere are too many things to defend against in MMA and punching is virtually elimi-nated from the situation when you can tackle and throw people

down. To be a great MMA "ght-er, you have to be well-round-ed in many aspects of o$ensive and defense, but you can lose to a chump o$ the street that has a better takedown than you.

Not in boxing. You line up, touch gloves and tell your op-ponent, “I’m going to attack you from one area, my hands. Let’s see who can outwit and outhit.”

And boxing is a marathon, not a sprint. It’s 12 rounds of strategy, toughness, footwork and patience. MMA is a whirlwind of knees, el-bows, chokes and grabs. Or at least that’s how it’s supposed to be. When it goes slow, it goes really slow. How big of a letdown is it to pay $40 to watch two men do the horizontal tango the entire "ght?

Let’s take a moment to think about what would have happened if Couture and Toney would’ve boxed. It would have been just

as lopsided as the MMA con-test, but Couture wouldn’t lose in the "rst round like Toney did. Toney would have outma-neuvered, outthought and out-classed Couture for 12 rounds.

!ere’s a pureness to box-ing that mixed martial arts lacks, which is perpetuated by Dana White, the president of the UFC. He has reality shows – think Big Brother with head trauma – he uses the f-bomb like its his fa-vorite adjective, and he brings in guys of the street with no experience, see Kimbo Slice, and throws them into the fray, which only demeans the sport.

!at being said, I realize that as an organization, boxing is in the dump. !e sport lacks big names, quality "ghters and there are too many federations and belts. And sadly, the only two men that can save it won’t "ght each other.

I "rmly believe that if I had the opportunity to see any sport-ing event that could ever hap-pen, I would choose to see Ali v. Tyson. !e two clashing per-sonalities would explode vio-lently in the ring, and the "ght would be about wit just as much as skill. My pick, Tyson in six. I don’t believe Ali’s pre-"ght head games and taunting would work on the psychotic Tyson.

!at’s the great thing about boxing. It’s framed to showcase every detail of a "ghter – their strategy, their toughness, their weaponry. It’s a stand-up, no funny business war of attrition.

Once a MMA fight

hits the mat, America should change the channel.

Danny Meyer is the assis-

tant sports editor for The Ar-kansas Traveler. His column

appears every Wednesday.

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DANNY [email protected]

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Arkansas-Tennessee Tech Predictions

Jimmy Carter, Sports Editor

I picked Arkansas to go 10-2 and this will be the easi-est of the Hogs’ victories this season. Mallett should have a !eld day and the Razorback defense gets an opportunity to show their improvement against a lightweight opponent.

ARKANSAS 52, TENNESSEE TECH 10

Danny Meyer, Assistant Sports Editor

Expect points and expect them in a hurry. Perhaps an early lead will bring the focus to the run game, which could give someone an edge on the crowded running back depth chart. "e defense needs to, and will, have a big night also.

ARKANSAS 45, TENNESSEE TECH 6

Jordan Grummer, Senior Staff Writer

"ere’s no way Ryan Mallett and Co. play the entire game in what amounts to a glori!ed scrimmage for the revved up Razorbacks. "e second and third teamers on defense will give up a couple of late touchdowns, but the Hogs roll by six touchdowns.

ARKANSAS 63 TENNESSEE TECH 21

Zach Turner, Staff Writer

"e hype surrounding the high-powered o#ense for the Razorbacks will be on full display Saturday evening. Mallet and the Hogs should be able to exceed 500 yards in total o#ense and easily rout the Tennessee Tech Gold-en Eagles in the !rst meeting between the two teams.

ARKANSAS 56, TENNESSEE TECH 17

Patrick Grinnan, Staff Writer

"e Razorback o#ense will be looking to come out strong and own up to all of the hype surrounding the team this season If the Golden Eagles are able to score more than a !eld goal or two on the Razorbacks, it could be a sign that the team’s defense is still in dire needs of improvement. Most likely this will be a cut-and-dry win for the Razorbacks, who will be able to rest their starters in the !nal quarter of what could be a blowout.

ARKANSAS 45, TENNESSEE TECH 6

Bailey Elise McBride, Editor

A$er a summer of hype, this Saturday will be the ul-timate test of whether or not the Razorbacks will live up to the expectation of Hog Nation. "e team will probably come out strong, feeding on the energy of the the 70,000-plus and scoring almost immediately in the !rst quar-ter. "ough the Golden Eagles may score a touchdown or a !eld goal, ultimately the Razorbacks will come out on tup.

ARKANSAS 48, TENNESSEE TECH 10

ARKANSAS - TENNESSEE TECH BREAKDOWNArkansas run offense vs. Tennessee Tech run defense

Arkansas passing offense vs. Tennessee Tech pass defense

Tennessee Tech run offense vs. Arkansas run defense

Tennessee Tech passing offense vs. Arkansas pass defense

Arkansas special teams vs. Tennessee Tech special teams

Arkansas coaching staff vs. Tennessee Tech coaching staff

"e Razorbacks ranked 81st nationally in rush defense in 2009, giving up 152.7 yards per game. "e Golden Eagles av-

eraged 108 yards per game and scored 23 of their total 47 touchdowns on the ground, but will be overmatched against an SEC defense.

Advantage: Arkansas

"e Golden Eagles averaged 171.9 passing yards per game, but graduated four-year starting quarterback Lee Sweeney. Arkansas’ pass defense was a weak point for the team last year – the Hogs gave up 248.5 yards per games – but the Razor-backs have more speed and athleticism in the second-ary than their FCS foes.

Advantage: Arkansas

Tennessee Tech coach Watson Brown is entering his fourth season with the Golden Eagles and is 13-21. Brown has been a collegiate head coach for 26 years, but is just 107-172. Razorback coach Bobby Petrino will be entering his third season at Arkan-sas a$er the Hogs reset the school passing record books and led the SEC in scoring and passing o#ense for the !rst time in UA history. Petrino is 54-21 in six years as a collegiate head coach.

Advantage: Arkansas

Tennessee Tech coach Watson Brown is entering his fourth season with the Golden Eagles and is 13-21. Brown has been a collegiate head coach for 26 years, but is just 107-172. Razor-back coach Bobby Petrino will be entering his third season at Arkansas a$er the Hogs reset the school passing record books and led the SEC in scoring and passing o#ense for the !rst time in UA history. Pe-trino is 54-21 in six years as a collegiate head coach.

Advantage: Arkansas

Arkansas has a talented quartet of running backs, but the Hogs ranked 10th in the Southeastern Conference in rush-ing last season. "e Razorbacks have emphasized the run game in the pre-season and will test it against a Tennes-see Tech defense that ranked seventh in the Ohio Valley Con-ference, giving up 195 yards per game.

Advantage: Ar-kansas

Both teams had their struggles last season on special teams last season. "e Razorbacks ranked last in the SEC in punting in 2009, while the Golden Eagles only connected on 3-of-8 !eld goals last season. Razorback freshmen Ed-die Camara and Zach Hocker are competing with incum-bent Alex Tejada for the starting placekicking job. "e Ra-zorbacks ranked fourth in the SEC – averaging 23.8 yards per return – and junior Dennis Johnson returned a kick-o# for a score in the season-opener against Missouri State.

Advantage: Even

“Jake has really grown up,” Petrino said. “Maybe I’ve been a little hard on Jake, because the !rst year I was here I still remember we’re playing 16 true freshmen. You go to a game and you expect Bequette to do every-thing right. Here’s a guy who’s been through spring ball, but he was just a redshirt freshman.”

Bequette recorded 41 tack-les as a redshirt freshman and then tied for the team lead with 5.5 sacks last season.

“Now he’s a junior and he understands that he can be a dominant player – he has a chance to be as good as there is at his position in the coun-try,” Petrino said. “He really knows how to rush the pass-er and how to play defense. We’ve put him in positions

to show his leadership and I think that’s really helped him.

“We’ve asked him to help teach the younger guys and he’s really blossomed and re-ally helped the football team.”

While the Hogs strug-gled to a 5-7 record in Petri-no’s !rst season, the experi-ence the players gained in 2008 will pay dividends this season.

“"ere’s a maturity for them,” Petrino said. “I still re-member we broke the hud-dle numerous times that year with four true freshman wide receivers. "ey didn’t know which way they were com-ing out of the huddle, let alone what they were supposed to do.

“"ere were growing pains; hopefully now we see that paying o#. "ey understand what they’re supposed to do. "ey’ve really taken owner-ship of the football team.”

Broadway was the last player to verbally commit in Arkansas’ 2006 recruiting class and was rated just a two-star by Scout.com. "e Shreveport, La., na-tive was in-and-out of the start-ing lineup last season and – at 5-foot-9 – is the shortest play-er on the Razorbacks’ defense, but is a solid starter heading into the season opener and has been a vocal leader for the Ar-kansas defense in the o#season.

“Ramon Broadway is the smallest guy we’ve got on de-fense and he has the biggest heart on defense,” Petrino said. “He’s the greatest guy to echo what the coaches want. I think that’s when you have something special is when you put the group together and ask Ramon, ‘Hey, break us out of here,’ and the words he says are the words that the coaching sta# would say.

“He’s done a tremen-dous job leading us.”

Of the 32 o#ensive or defen-sive players listed as starters or co-starters on the depth chart released Friday, 23 are juniors or seniors and just three are redshirt freshmen. "at bodes well for leadership, Smith said.

“You’ve got guys who are a little bit older who may have felt a little bit out of place as a younger guy,” Smith said. “Sometimes you have to age into that role, so I think be-ing a year older helps us.”

"e Razorback coaching sta# tries to identify young play-ers who stand out from their peers and then encourage the players to take a leadership role.

“What you do as a coach, to a degree, is identify cer-tain guys that stand out when they come in as a freshman,”

Smith said. “"ey have that natural leadership, out-front role and that natural charis-ma that draws people to them.

“A big thing as a coach is identifying those guys and then letting those guys know that’s going to be their role and maybe they’ll start to real-ize their role at an earlier age.”

Smith said Petrino harps on players who he identi!es as having take-charge atti-tudes, conducting leadership seminars with select players.

“He’s constantly talking to them about leading,” Smith said. “He’s talked to them about, ‘"is is what we have to do to become leaders. "is is the way you do lead. "is is your projection.’ "ose guys are taking it to heart and try-ing to motivate each other.

“"ere’s nothing better than peer motivation. If you’re not getting it done and I’m standing next to you, I’m go-ing to let you know about it and vice-versa. Let’s make sure you’re accountable to me and I’m accountable to you.”

A$er the seminars and team-led summer work-outs, the Razorbacks have the leaders to go along with just their second preseason ranking in 11 years. Now it’s time to get down to business.

“"e expectations are something that I put right out in front of the team,” Pe-trino said. “I told them that it was great to have the expecta-tions – the excitement is good. It was a good motivating fac-tor throughout the summer.

“We’ve got to go prove it now.”Jordan Grummer con-

tributed to this story.

from LEADERSHIPon page 12

FILE PHOTOArkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett led the Razorbacks in the summer, de-

spite missing workouts while recovering from a broken bone in his left foot.

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The cross coun-try season is set to be-gin Friday on the Razor-back Course at Agri Park.

The dual meet will pair the Razorbacks against Mis-souri Southern and will get underway at 5 p.m. Due to NCAA rules and regulations, all teams must have a meet sometime within the first 21 days of practice - a rule that neither women’s coach Lance Harter or men’s coach Chris Bucknam seem to be fond of, although both said it gives the team a chance to run.

“It gives us an opportuni-ty to shake off the rust a lit-tle bit as far as competitions go,” Harter said. “I know where we are in our train-ing and we are way ahead

of where we have been.”The women’s race will be

the shortest of the season - only 4K - a distance that Harter felt will still be a chal-lenge due to the hilly terrain of the Fayetteville course.

The men’s race will be a 6.6K and will be a good mea-sure for the younger run-ners as well as a refresher for the experienced runners.

“We are excited to get started again,” Bucknam said. “We are going to put most of our guys out there and look to see what happens.”

Bucknam didn’t have an exact lineup for Fri-day yet and wasn’t sure if All-American Dorian Ul-rey would be participating.

“We are going to train through this meet as part of our weekly work-out,” Bucknam said.

Norton’s strong play and leadership will be key for Arkansas to make to the NCAA Tournament for the !rst time since 2006.

“She is very important,” Ar-kansas coach Robert Pulliza said. “We don’t depend on her to win matches. Last year she needed to do everything. We set her about every other ball. "is year we don’t have to do that. It will give her more #ex-ibility and free her up more.”

Despite being just a sopho-more, Norton said she tries to provide a positive vocal pres-ence for the rest of the team.

“If I am not playing well, I’ll still be encouraging to my teammates so they can help me out,” Norton said.

"e Rowlett, Texas, native comes from a competitive fam-ily and said the competitive na-ture growing up has driven her success on the volleyball court. Her older brother, Jared Norton, is a standout linebacker at Texas.

One of the main objec-tives she’s shooting for in 2010 is !rst-team All-SEC honors.

“"at’s my goal because last

from NORTONon page 12

year I got on the second team and I really wanted the !rst,” Norton said. “"at is just going to be eating away at me this season.”

Despite beating UMKC in the season-opener the Ar-kansas Invitational, Norton said she was not pleased with her performance. She !nished the match with 10 kills, but said her below-average hit-ting percentage was frustrating.

She rebounded in the second game to help Arkansas win a straight sets victory over Gram-bling State in which the team hit .429, setting the sixth high-est mark in program history.

In the third and !nal match of the Arkansas Invi-tational, Norton again !n-ished with 10 kills and record-ed a .692 hitting percentage as the Razorbacks started 3-0 for the !rst time since 2006.

“Jasmine is just going to keep getting better,” Pulliza said. “She is working hard to get better so she is going to be technically better, she is going to be physically better, but we also have better players around her to free her up this season.”

Norton said she circled the Razorbacks’ Oct. 8 match against Tennessee. Arkan-sas will host the Volunteers

and will be looking to avenge their straight-set loss in 2009, but Norton has a person-al incentive for the match.

“I know the setter on their team,” Norton said. “We should have beaten them last year and just gave up at the end, but this year I feel we can pull the victory.”

"e season’s success hing-es on securing an NCAA Tournament berth, though.

“If we don’t make it, it will be a letdown,” Norton said.

JONATHAN GIBSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Norton is trying to lead the Razorbacks to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2006.

guably the best women’s soc-cer conference in the coun-try,” Aubry said. “They are not going to be small po-tatoes and will be pret-ty talented and organized.”

The Razorbacks lost 2-1 to Stephen F. Austin on Fri-day and 19 players saw ac-tion as Aubry searched for a lineup that worked.

“We took not just a cou-ple of steps backwards, but a couple of weeks backwards,” Aubry said. “We looked very disorganized, and so we need to focus on changing that and getting back on track.”

Arkansas returns eight starters, but Au-bry said the Razorbacks need better leadership.

“We graduated a tremen-dous group of leaders,” Aubry

said. “Whenever you gradu-ate a tremendous group of leaders it is difficult to tran-sition those new players into leadership positions. We are working very hard at get-ting some people to step up, and others to follow.”

Aubry said the coach-ing staff has tried to prod the younger players to as-sume leadership roles.

“We need to continue to educate those kids that have the natural ability and en-courage them to step up into their roles,” Aubry said. “They really didn’t have to step into those roles last year, and when our four seniors left that were very good leaders every-body sort of looked around for leaders. We really need to encourage some of those kids to take responsibility, which we are actively doing.”

The Razorbacks didn’t

practice well leading up to their loss to Stephen F. Aus-tin, Aubry said. The loss could have a positive effect on Ar-kansas in the long run, though.

“We have learned far more from losing that game and performing that way than we would have had we played that way and walked away with a win,” Aubry said. “If that loss supplies us three weeks down the road with better motivation and a better un-derstanding of how our team ticks, I’ll take that any day.”

The Razorbacks first dou-ble-header of the season will be a motivational fac-tor for the team, Aubry said.

“We are excited to be play-ing in a great stadium against great talent,” Aubry said. “If anything we should have more energy coming into this double header than if we were playing a single game.”

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Light Distances for Razorback TrackCROSS COUNTRY

by ZACH TURNERStaff Writer

FILE PHOTOSenior All-American Dorian Ul-

rey will again lead the Hogs’ cross country team in 2010.

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DeMarcus Love

OT, 6-5, 315, Senior2009: Started 13 games

Arkansas Traveler sta! writer Jordan Grummer caught up with senior o!ensive tackle DeMarcus Love and talked about the Hogs’ season-opener and the Razorback o!ensive line’s nasty attitude.

What are your thoughts going into this !-nal week before kicking o" your senior season?

It feels good to be on one of the best o!enses in Arkansas his-tory, possibly, and one of the best quarterbacks in school history. I couldn’t explain the feeling I get to come to practice every day.

Where do you feel like you and the o"ense is heading into this season, compared to last year?

I feel like I’ve gotten a lot better technically. Coach (Klena-kis) has come in and brought new technique to the o!en-sive line, a whole new demeanor. I think you’ll see the of-fensive line as a whole be more nasty, physical and technical.

You mentioned a new demeanor?You know coach (Klenakis) is a real "ery guy, real "red up.

He’s going to get a#er you and tell you when you’re doing stu! wrong, but he’s sure going to tell you when you do it right, too.

How did the o"ensive line react to coach Klena-kis’ comment that the nastiest players play?

We always compete and we like to see each other on "lm getting cut blocks and knocking each other down. It’s some-thing that we’re working on getting better at – we’re not where we want to be there, either. We’re just going to continue to grow.

Do you feel like you’re a nasty playerI’ve always been a nasty player.

Are you excited for the season-opener?We’re really excited. It’s the "rst game and we to show-

case what the whole state is about. We don’t want to let the fans down that have been supporting the pro-gram. We just want to come out and put on a show.


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