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Despite the national gun control debate and the in-creasing number of school shootings, UA students said they still feel safe on campus.

“I feel like it’s a pretty safe campus, no matter what time of day or night it is,” said Adrian Ordorica, sophomore computer engineering major.

Well-lit paths, low crime statistics and knowing UAPD o!cers are on campus are what Ordorica said makes him feel safe.

All UAPD o!cers are trained in emergency pro-cedures, but extra precau-tions are not being taken this semester because of the in-creasing gun violence in the national news, Lt. Matt Mills said.

“We have annual train-ing where o!cers go over various active shooter proce-dures and we have continual training throughout the year that allows us to maintain pro"ciency and response methods,” Mills said.

State legislatures are also taking action to protect stu-dents on university cam-puses. Charlie Collins, mem-ber of the Arkansas House of Representatives, said he plans to propose House Bill 1479, which would allow trained and licensed faculty and sta# to carry a concealed handgun on university, col-lege or community college

campus.Collins presented the bill

in 2011, but it died in the House Committee. $e bill is even more important now for protecting students af-ter the Dec. 14 shootings at

the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six women, he said. Collins said the new make-up of the legislature would result in more support for the bill, and he said he thinks it will pass.

If faculty and sta# were allowed to carry concealed weapons it would prevent at-tacks because of the greater risk the potential shooters would be engaging in. Pro-fessor would also be able to protect students and re-duce the amount of damage a shooter could do, Collins said.

$e problem that seemed to be most concerning to people was that the cure would be worse than the re-lief. People were afraid that the bill would result in more guns in the hands of drunk, underage, male students, Collins said. Others also worried that the concealed carries would create confu-sion for the responding of-"cers.

About 131,000 people have active concealed licens-es in Arkansas. In Arkansas,

there is also a reciprocal agreement with most other states for concealed carry, said Bill Sadler, public infor-mation o!cer for Arkansas State Police.

“I’ve put every safeguard into the bill to prevent that from happening,” he said. “Concealed weapons carriers are all around us, and they always have been. I’ve never heard of a situation where concealed carriers created chaos for the police.”

$e bill would only apply to faculty and sta# members who were at least 21 years old, and students would not be allowed to carry. $ere would also be a restriction on guns in the residence halls, he said.

Some students are in fa-vor of the bill.

“$e majority of the time the student is the shooter, and I think it would be high-ly unlikely that it would be a faculty or sta# member,” Or-dorica said. “$ey make sure you’re not a crazy because you have to go through so much training. I would feel

UA Students Feel Safe in Wake of Violence

$e UA is showing top marks among schools in the state when it comes to get-ting students to return to the classroom. However, compet-ing schools are showing UA o!cials that there is much work to be done to bring our retention rates up to par.

In 2011, 81.2 percent of Arkansas freshman returned for their sophomore year, according to records the Of-"ce of Institutional Research. $is is not a bad number, but when compared to the

likes of Columbia Univer-sity, which boasts a nation-topping 99 percent retention rate, the UA rate looks less impressive.

$e UA holds a command-ing lead over any of its state rivals, according to a report by the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. $is includes a 71.6 percent fall-to-fall retention rate from the Bears at UCA, and a more anemic 68 percent for third place at ASU in Jonesboro.

Only one more school, Ar-kansas Technical University, boasts a retention rate of over 65 percent. $is means that in most Arkansas schools, less than 65 percent of freshmen return to the same school for a second year.

“As long as we’re "rst and continue to stay "rst, I’m happy,” said James Sampson, UA student.

Among Arkansas schools, the UA looks great, and if re-cent trends continue, it will remain the top school in the Natural State for retaining freshman. When compared to the Southeastern Confer-ence, however, the UA has work to do.

$e top of the list in the SEC boasts a 96 percent re-tention rate for academically inclined Vanderbilt. $e Uni-versity of Florida and Texas A&M show 95 percent and

UA Boasts Top Retention Rate in State

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Emily Rhodes Photo EditorUA students Ryan Lamberson, Hayden Byrd and Steven Gorgas hand out Campus Special coupon books at the Union Mall, Monday, Jan. 14.

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“As long as we’re !rst and continue to stay !rst, I’m happy.”

James SampsonUA Student

$e various construction projects occurring on campus this semester have a direct correlation with the growing student population at the UA, Facilities Management o!-cials said.

$e UA is working on mul-tiple construction and resto-ration projects on campus, said Mike Johnson, associate vice chancellor for Facilities Management.

Founders Hall, which is still under construction, and the recently opened Hillside Auditorium are two of the major projects that will help

to alleviate the congestion caused by the growing student population, Johnson said.

“$e Founders Hall is go-ing to be a dormitory that connects to the Brough Com-mons,” he said.

Founders Hall will be a six-story building with the ca-pacity to house approximately 215 students, Johnson said. $e building will increase seating capacity of the Brough dining hall by 250 seats.

“Founders Hall is sched-uled to be completed in the fall of 2013,” Johnson said.

Despite delays that extend-ed its completion date during the last year, Hillside Audito-

Progress Continues on Campus ConstructionTravis PenceSta! Writer

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Emily Rhodes Photo EditorStudents attend classes in the newly completed Hillside Auditorium, Monday, Jan. 14. "e auditorium construction was com-pleted over the winter break and was open to students Monday.

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Housing and Informa-tion Technology Services are working together to "nd a networking model that better suits students’ needs in the dorms.

“Housing is working with ITS to develop a net-working model more in line with what one "nds at home,” said Eric Roberts, associate director for Infor-mation Technology. At the same time, the new network model must also provide ap-propriate security, Roberts said.

Previously, housing used Bradford Networks’ Net-work Access Control (NAC) system, which manages net-work users, Roberts said. However, this year, the UA will undergo a new NAC im-plementation, and the cam-pus as a whole will move to Junos Pulse Gateway, Rob-erts said.

Student needs have evolved over time, consid-ering that when ResNet was "rst conceived, few students even brought computers, Roberts said. Now, most students not only bring a laptop, but they are likely to bring multiple devices.

$e previous model (the one-port-per-pillow model) makes using those devices inconvenient, Roberts said.

“Rather than make a wholesale change in our policy, we are temporarily permitting wired and wire-less routers in some loca-tions so we can analyze the

real-world e#ects of the de-vices in our dense housing setting,” Roberts said.

“For this reason, we are not encouraging students to purchase equipment, as the temporary policy could be revoked at any time,” said Florence Johnson, executive director of University Hous-ing. However, any students that already have these de-vices and wish to use them may use them during this temporary trial.

In addition, there are trials occurring in both Buchanan-Droke and Glad-

son-Ripley, testing whether a wireless-only model could better serve students, Rob-erts said.

Other dorms, such as Maple Residence Hall, uti-lize a combination model with both wired and wire-less internet, Roberts said.

“We will continue to ex-pand the footprint of the new NAC and will continue to expand the footprint of the temporary policy until we get results that support or refute our ability to sup-port these devices on an on-going basis,” Roberts said.

IT O#cials Search for New Network System for Housing Bailey DeloneySta! Writer

Intellectual property has become an issue at the UA be-tween professors and students with the rising popularity of a note-sharing website.

Notehall was started in 2007 for students to buy notes from other students. $e company keeps 50 percent of each sale as a commission.

“We aim to facilitate student success through applications that allow academic interac-tion among peers and the op-portunity to see supplemental materials for thorough com-prehension of all required sub-

ject matters,” according to the Notehall website.

$e UA Academic Integrity Policy doesn’t directly address Notehall or similar sites, but professors can choose to in-clude a clause in the course syl-labus, banning students from using note-sharing sites, said Provost Sharon Gaber.

“For a faculty member who does not want a student to take notes and then sell them, you can write in your syllabus that the notes that you gather in this class are for your sole use only,” Gaber said.

“State common law and federal copyright law protect my syllabus and lectures” is the clause UA o!cials have provid-ed for professors who want to prevent students from putting notes online.

“You are not authorized to record my lectures, to provide your notes to anyone else or to make any commercial use of them without express prior

permission from me,” accord-ing to the clause.

$e clause is cra%ed so that, if necessary, it would stand up in court, said Ro DiBrezzo, vice provost for academic a#airs.

“I don’t know that it is any-where near being resolved,” Di-Brezzo said. “I think that it will become bigger, and I think that it will probably become tested (in court).”

Some UA students use Notehall to supplement notes they take during classes, in-cluding junior Kimberly Mc-Guire.

“Notehall is the only way I passed sociology and mu-sic lecture with &ying colors,” McGuire said. “It’s not dishon-esty; it’s someone giving you

a copy of their notes — really good notes at that, notes good enough they should get paid for them.”

Supplementing notes with those on Notehall isn’t in viola-tion of the Academic Integrity Policy if the professor didn’t include the clause in the course syllabus, but it doesn’t cultivate individual learning, DiBrezzo said.

“I would challenge the stu-dent that wrote that to think of what kind of learning took place,” DiBrezzo said in re-sponse to McGuire’s use of Notehall. “If your suggestion is, ‘I got better notes than I took,’ one might want to think about maybe you’re not a good no-tetaker and you should learn how to do that, because that is part of what we’re trying to teach.”

Some students refuse to use Notehall because they want to protect the professors’ work and research.

“I think that our personal notes shouldn’t be sold because the lecture was and remains the property of the professor that gave it,” said senior Claire Chesshir. “I’m sure the profes-sors haven’t given permission for students to sell their lecture notes.”

DiBrezzo, who is a kinesiol-ogy professor as well as the vice provost, agreed with Chesshir.

“I feel as though someone has taken my intellectual prop-erty and has used it,” DiBrezzo said. “$e unwritten contract in my mind is that I’m com-mitted to the people who have registered to my class and my commitment is to teach that class the best I can.”

Notehall doesn’t have qual-ity assurance and isn’t fail-proof, as some students have learned.

“He spent the $6.99 and re-ceived notes that were not only totally useless, but absolutely misleading, and he received a 36 — I repeat, a 36 — on a "-nal,” said junior Philip Culver about a friend.

Junior Eric Carter took a class in which a student posted an answered study guide on Notehall. $e professor dis-covered the study guide and changed the test.

“$ey made the next test harder with a too complex study guide,” Carter said. $ough the actions of the pro-fessor may have irritated stu-dents in the class, it was within the professor’s authority.

“More power to the faculty member for making it harder and getting upset about it,” Gaber said. Ensuring that stu-dents receive a quality educa-tion is the pinnacle of the dis-cussions about Notehall.

“Why wouldn’t you want to feel that you earned this degree?” Gaber said. “Why wouldn’t it want to have a high-er value and quality by know-ing that you worked for it and didn’t cheat your way through?

“$is is a better institution than that. $e students de-serve better. Everyone deserves knowing that it was a good, quality education.”

Intellectual Property Issues Arise Regarding Note-Sharing Website

92 percent rates respective-ly, but they are the only SEC schools in the 90s. Round-ing out the bottom of the list is the University of Mis-sissippi, with a modest 81 percent retention rate. What this means is the UA is only better than Ole Miss as far as taking freshman in and keeping them for the next

year.UA o!cials are aware of

the situation and are enact-ing a plan to raise the gradu-ation and retention rates in future years, according to provost.uark.edu. $e plan, enacted in 2011, details several steps like making attendance a larger part of the curriculum, keeping a

transparent and more eas-ily usable ISIS, and o#ering freshman streamlined re-sources for keeping up with grades and staying involved.

$e hope is that the UA will succeed in keeping its freshman involved and in the class. A full report of the plan’s e#ectiveness will be published June 2012.

rium is now open for classes for the spring semester.

Hillside Auditorium is an-other project constructed to accommodate the UA’s grow-ing student population, said Bob Beeler, director of design and construction services.

“$e auditorium will re-place the old Science and En-gineering Auditorium, which only held about 250 students,” Beeler said. “$e building will be able to accommodate room for up to around 700 students.”

Construction crews are also renovating various exist-ing buildings on campus.

“We are making renova-tions to buildings such as Kimpel Hall, Hotz Hall, Ozark Hall and the Yocum dormi-tory,” Johnson said.

University o!cials are making plans to bring the buildings’ quality up to cur-rent standards, Johnson said.

“$e buildings are sim-ply outdated,” he said. “$eir quality has somewhat deterio-rated over time.”

$ese projects are neces-sary if the UA wants to keep up with its growing popula-tion, Johnson said.

“In 2009, we had roughly 16,000 total undergraduate students,” Johnson said. “$is

year, we have around 25,000 undergraduate students.”

Students have noticed the growth in the UA’s population.

“I’m glad the school is building more classrooms and dorms,” said Elliot Zinter, se-nior history major. “$ey’re obviously running out of room to accommodate every-body. I’ve never seen it this congested before.”

Kristen CoppolaSports Editor

SAFE continued from page 1

RETENTION continued from page 1

“I think that it will become bigger, and I think that it will probably become tested (in court).As the icy winds become more of a problem on the hill this January, it’s time to explore layering with your out!t. .”

Ro DiBrezzoVice Provost for Academic A$airs

more protected knowing they have weapons in case a tragedy struck.”

Others disagree.“I think the University

should promote an aca-demic environment and a bunch of professors with concealed weapons would not promote and academic environment, “ said Bran-

non Daniels, sophomore agricultural business major and gun owner. “Just leave it up to law enforcement. Students shouldn’t feel like they’re going to school in a war zone. $ere is a time and a place for weapons and I don’t think the university is that place.”

UAPD will continue to

comply with state legisla-tion.

“We will continue to support whatever laws are passed,” Mills said. “We’re tasked on the enforcement of the laws whether we like them or don’t like them. $e schools and administration decide if it’s good for our campus.”

Logan Webster Sta$ PhotographerConstruction workers work at the Ozark Hall restoration and honors wing addition site. "e restoration project is scheduled to be completed in Fall 2013.

Emily Rhodes Photo EditorConstruction of Founders Hall at the intersection of Dickson Street and McIlroy Avenue contin-ues, Monday, Jan. 14.

PROJECTS continued from page 1

Rebekah Harvey Sta$ PhotographerFreshman Nina Drolc logs onto the Internet in her dorm room at the Northwest Quad, Saturday, Jan. 12.

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Opinion Editor: Saba Naseem

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Editorial BoardEditor-in-Chief

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Chad Woodard Brittany Nims Saba Naseem

!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 classi"cation and major or title with the university and a day-time telephone number for veri"cation. Letters should be sent to traveler@uark.edu.

Students shouldn’t feel like they’re going to school in a war zone. !ere is a time and a place for weapons, and I don’t think the university is that place. Brannon Daniels, sophomore agricultural business major. “In the Wake of Violence, UA Students Feel Safe,” Page 1

Traveler Quote of the DayMarcus Ferreira Senior Sta" Cartoonist

Before I started college, high school teachers and el-ders would always warn me about college classes.

“It’s not like high school,” they’d say. “You’ll have classes with hundreds of students and you won’t get to know the teachers personally.”

My !rst auditorium class was Principles of Biology in the old Science and En-gineering Auditorium. Sure enough, there were about 300 other students with me, and of course, that was only one sec-tion of the class. "e teacher didn’t take attendance be-

cause that would have taken up half the class.

"e class itself wasn’t that hard, but the teaching style was an adjustment. I had to work hard to keep my atten-tion focused on the professor, instead of on the 200 some-thing others around me who were just as distracted. "ere were days where I had to mo-tivate myself to go to class.

Most of the general fresh-man level courses at the UA are taught in an auditorium setting. "ere are too many students and too few profes-sors for a smaller teacher to student ratio.

However, is that a#ecting our education?

To a certain extent, I do think it has an impact. I’ve been lucky in my time here and have only had three or four classes with more than 100 students in one section. "e classes I did have, how-ever, were a waste of money and time.

Last year, I was enrolled in a generally sociology course, which met in the Arkansas Union Ballroom. "e location was bad enough. "ere were hundreds of students in the

classroom, a poorly set mi-crophone system for the pro-fessor. It was just a very poor learning environment. As a dedicated student (and one who would actually like to be able to hear the professor) I sat in the !rst couple of rows. At least for a month.

It didn’t take me long to realize that nobody re-ally wanted to be there, and it didn’t matter where I sat. All around me, people were on their phones or computers, checking Facebook or Twitter. "e only thing that mattered to them was passing the class, even if they learned nothing.

"e professor didn’t help much either. All I recall is a dry monotone voice explain-ing di#erent situations or ask-ing questions that were an-swered by the same kid each time.

Every single day that I was in that class, I asked myself why I was paying money to be here. I could have just bought the book for $60, read it my-self, and learned a lot more than I learned by paying hun-dreds and wasting an hour ev-ery Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

A$er that, I vowed I would only take honors courses, which usually don’t have more than 30 students in one class. "e learning is so much more e#ective and interactive, and I almost always leave know-ing I got my money’s worth of knowledge.

Now whether I retain that information is a di#erent story.

As enrollment continues to increase each year, it’s impor-tant that the UA administra-tion does whatever it can to cater to the students’ needs. I know that big classes are a part of college, but when it’s to the point where students don’t feel like they’re learning, per-haps there should be a change. "e UA could try hiring more professors or have smaller sections.

I want to make sure I get my money’s worth of an edu-cation.

Saba Naseem is the opin-ion editor. She is a senior journalism, Middle Eastern Studies, and French major.

Auditorium Classes: Are !ey Worth Your Money and Time?

Saba NaseemOpinion Editor

I discovered the straw that broke the camels back about two years ago.

I hadn’t missed one day of school since beginning my col-lege career. I was on three straight years without missing a day and I was determined to make it through my career without an absence.

Yes, looking back, I realize how ridiculous this goal was, but I am the type of person who follows through with a goal.

Everything was going fine until my wife volunteered to help for a day at a skating rink.

She told me she would only be gone for a few hours. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, like now, it happened to be flu season.

My wife was surrounded by groups of children who were laughing, running, coughing, sneezing… whatever it is that nas-ty children do.

That night she started to feel sick.

I hadn’t had the flu since I was a kid and the thought never oc-curred to me that we were even in flu season.

I laughed it off and told her it was probably just a cold.

The next day she got worse and I started to feel sick.

We went to the doctor and he confirmed that we had the flu.

I couldn’t go to school. No, not because I cared about

getting people sick. Yes, I used to be one of those students.

We literally could not get out

of bed. I ended up missing a week of

school as a result of having the flu. My goal was destroyed and as

a result of missing so much con-tent in my French class at a c r u c i a l time I e nd e d

up earn-ing my first

B at the UA. I still jok-

ingly blame my wife for giving me the flu that winter, but in all honesty there were certain things we both could have done to have prevented the flu, according to the center for Disease Control

and Prevention. We could have gotten a flu vac-

cine. Granted, I am aware that the

flu vaccine can vary from year to year in effectiveness, but this is one preventative step that people can take in an effort to avoid be-coming sick.

If a flu vaccine isn’t your pref-erence then simply avoid be-ing around people you know who are sick.

Of course, this sounds ob-vious, and, as the case I presented earlier, sometimes it is not pos-

sible.Always clean surfaces

that you think might not be clean.

For instance, I regularly disinfect

this entire office. Other steps in-

clude covering your mouth while couching, your nose while sneez-ing, and washing your hands as well as avoid putting your hands in your mouth.

Those things can certainly be

done, and, frankly, should be done regardless of the season. Just don’t be gross and you should be fine here.

Keep in mind I am self aware of what I am writing and that I under-stand we a part of a very stressful, sleep preventative environment demanding that students attend class in order to be successful.

Just try, ok? The flu can hit anybody, but

if you follow some of these steps then the likelihood of getting sick is supposed to diminish.

Trust me, from my experience two years ago, the flu really can clog up your life and potentially hurt your GPA depending on when you miss class and how much class you miss.

Don’t let the flu be that straw that breaks your back this semes-ter.

Chad Woodard is the editor of the Traveler. He is a senior journal-ism major.

‘Tis the Season...For the Flu

Only last week, the weather in Arkansas was in the 50s and 60s. Today, it’s in the 30s.

Fayetteville is known for its unstable weather. One day it may be 70, the next it goes down to 30. Or one day it’s bright and sunny, and the next day the campus is flood-ing.

At the Traveler, we feel that we’ve been through it all when it comes to Fayetteville weather. We don’t even try pretending to know what to expect and when it does get weird, we’re not surprised.

But for many of you who haven’t been here for long or are from a different state, this constantly changing weather may come as a surprise.

And so, we came up with some tips to brace for the cold weather. Well, cold for us. To anybody from the North, this is probably nothing.

1. Check the weather every morning before you get dressed. This may seem obvious, but it’s better to know what to expect for the day. You don’t want to end up wear-ing flip flops if the weather is going to drop 20 degrees through the day.

2. Layer up, but make sure you have on lighter layers underneath. It is possible to overdo the layering. Many mornings, if it’s cold, you may pile on layer upon layer of sweaters, but you’ll regret it once you get to class and start sweating.

3. Grab yourself a warm cup of coffee and or hot chocolate before class. This will wake you up, keep your insides warm and get you ready for the day.

Of course, the biggest danger of cold weather is sick-ness. Make sure you wash your hands regularly and stay away from people who are sick.

We hope these tips help you through the next couple of weeks. Let’s hope the cold doesn’t stick around for too long.

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Chad WoodardEditor-in-Chief

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Companion Editor: Nick BrothersAssistant Companion Editor: Shelby Gill

“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

Record of the Year Lonely Boy!e Black Keys

Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)Kelly Clarkson

We Are YoungFun featuring Janelle Monae

Somebody !at I Used to KnowGotye featuring Kimbra

!inkin Bout YouFrank Ocean

We Are Never Ever Getting Back To-getherTaylor Swi"

!e record category may be the biggest overall

award at the Grammys, awarding a performer and a producer for one song. !is is a tough category to predict, but I think it's going to come down to either Kelly Clarkson, Fun or Gotye. I give it to Go-tye for penning the song that no one could get out of their heads the entire year. !e record category is o"en described as the award for song of the year, and "Somebody !at I Used to Know" is most like-ly that in voters' eyes.

Album of the Year

El Camino!e Black Keys

Some Nights Fun

BabelMumford & Sons

Channel OrangeFrank Ocean

BlunderbussJack White

!e album category awards the performer and

producer of an entire album. While I personally would be happiest to see Frank Ocean given the award, my bet is that it's going to go to Mumford & Sons. A few reasons why: the British indie-folk band didn't receive either award they were nomi-nated for in 2011, and voters have been known to make up for past snubs; "Babel" had six singles in the Billboard 100, with lead single "I Will Wait" making it to No. 1 in rock and alternative catego-ries; and Grammy voters tend to vote for uncon-troversial, nice-guy performers whenever they can.

Song of the Year

!e A TeamEd Sheeran

AdornMiguel

Call Me MaybeCarly Rae Jepsen

Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)Kelly Clarkson

We Are YoungFun featuring Janelle Monae

!e song category is awarded to

the writer of a song, so the voting committee considers the quality of the composition and lyrics rather than the performance or produc-tion here. Given voter prejudices against lighthearted songs and songs by unknown artists, I'd say this one is going to come down to either Fun or Kelly Clarkson. I'll give the edge here to Fun and their irresistibly catchy an-them. Kelly's a shoe-in for best pop vo-cal performance, anyway.

Best New Artist

Alabama Shakes

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ing, as most of the artists in this category have been releasing music for a while. Grammy voters award the gramophone here to the artist who has released "the #rst recording which establishes the public identity of that artist" in a given year, which proba-bly means whenever voters #rst discovered the art-ist. I am going to be shocked come Feb. 10 if Frank Ocean doesn't receive this award: his "Channel Or-ange" was one of the most solid releases this year.

Snubs and Surprises Timing hurt Drake's chances this year. Al-

though "Take Care" is eligible for awards this year, the long delay between the album's release in No-vember 2011 and the Grammy voting le" him out of the top awards, and while he has nominations for best rap album and rap performance, a strong year for Nas and Kanye/Jay-Z may leave Drake out in the cold once again.

It was not a good year for teenyboppers, either: Justin Bieber, as well as One Direction, got entirely snubbed. !is is less of a surprise and more of a tes-tament to the Grammy voters, who are known to be less inclined to pick those who are younger and haven't stood the test of time. Case in point: Britney Spears' #rst Grammy was for her 2003 song "Toxic."

Nicki Minaj also got snubbed this year, with nei-ther hit single "Starships" nor album "Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" being nominated for anything. I wouldn't worry too much though, Nicki fans, as her career arc is looking longer than expected, and I'm betting her best music is yet to come.

Overall, it's hard to be satis#ed by the

Grammys. !e awards reward long-estab-lished stars and amend past mistakes, and

rarely recognize the best of the best. Still, that's the fun of watching them,

because you never know when Kanye's going to storm on

stage and explain just how badly the Grammys got

it wrong.

While Arkansas’ ever-changing weather has our wardrobe disheveled and our ability to make weather-appropriate clothing choices damaged, winter is still among us. With cold and windy temperatures in the near future, the default choice is o"en to grab that oversized jacket and run out of the house. My challenge for you this season is to learn the art of layering. !is winter, I encourage you to not just layer, but lay it on thick.

Layering seems like one of the easiest things for ladies to do, but actually, because of the vast options that the retail market provides, it re-moves the boundaries that every fashionista needs. !e most popular mistake made when layering during the winter is combining clashing patterns. Most don’t see the error within their out#t until they have le" the house, and at that point it’s usually too late to go home and change.

Editing is the most important tool you must use when layering clothing. !e best way to properly edit an out#t is to take a picture of it from the neck down and evaluate how you truly feel about the pieces together, instead of look-ing at yourself in the mirror wearing the out#t. !is is the most e$ective way to remove personal bias or denial of the incompatibility of the pieces from your decision. Another way to edit an out-#t is to lay the clothes down on a color-neutral background, such as black or white, and use the same evaluation technique as per the photo evaluation.

Texture is another key component in your ar-senal when taking on the task of layering cloth-ing. I personally am a texture enthusiast and be-lieve that if it doesn’t feel good when you touch it, it usually won’t translate well when you put it on. Keeping that in mind, I suggest combining di$erent textures. When you combine di$erent textures, you get the same result as if you were cooking a gumbo or stew. With gumbo, the dif-ferent ingredients are what make the dish great, and the same result comes about when combin-ing textures in an out#t.

Understanding dimension is the next piece to the puzzle that is layering. !e proper execu-tion of dimension is the art of using things that taper close to the body and things that %ow and breathe as well. !e last thing you want to do is look like you’re trapped in your clothing.

A great out#t that uses good execution of di-mension and texture is a chi$on pilgrim blouse, corduroy pants, a wool pashmina and knee-high leather riding boots. !is out#t contains tons of di$erent textures: chi$on, which is sheer and airy; corduroy, which is #tted and ribbed; wool,

which is thick and warm; and leather, which is edgy and weather-resistant. !e dimensions in this out#t are plentiful, too: !e straight-leg pants pull you in; the blouse is light and breath-able; the boots create a separation between your legs and feet, which either can make the wearer look taller or shorter; and the pashmina adds width, which is scary to some women, but actu-ally, because of the combination of the scarf with the skinny pant, it actually creates an illusion that the wearer is smaller.

Since the options for men are less, the art of layering is a lot more simple. Texture is not as important for men’s fashion, although it is a component nonetheless. !e dimension and shape to aim toward whenever layering clothing is the martini glass: broad shoulders giving an illusion of a muscular composition, and a small waist.

An ideal men’s layered out#t would be a tweed or herringbone blazer with de#ned shoulders, a cashmere shawl-neck sweater, khaki chino trou-sers and distressed leather combat boots. !e textures in this out#t are abundant: !e tweed has lots of ridges and feel, the sweater is so" and light, the pants are comfortable and breathable, and the leather is rough and controlled. !e di-mensions are very simple: !e blazer provides width; the sweater provides length and height; the pants, although relaxed, add to the height; and the boots create a sense of edge.

Layering is a limitless journey with endless choices and a plethora of combinations for the wearer. All you have to do is remember the key tools to executing it properly: editing, texture and dimension. If you keep those in mind, noth-ing can stop you from looking great, not even the weather. Now, get to layering, and lay it on thick!

It's that time of year again: come Feb. 10 at 7 p.m., UA students will be glued to CBS, criticizing de-signer dresses on the red carpet and rooting for their favorite acts during the 55th Annual Grammy Awards.

!e 2013 Grammys will certainly be #lled with more surprises than last year's ceremony; no one artist is likely to pull an Adele and sweep almost all of the main categories. !at being said, six artists — Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys, Fun, Kanye West and Jay-Z — have six nominations each, so, provided the stars align appropriately, someone could go home with a plurality of golden gramophones once again.

But I predict it's going to be di$erent from last year, and that there's likely to be a few more surprises and a wider distribution of awards among artists. Here are my predictions for the major categories at the Grammys.

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!e Arkansas baseball team entered the 2012 season with high expectations and lived up to those, advancing to the Col-lege World Series for the sev-enth time in program history.

!e Razorbacks opened and closed the season with a No. 3 national ranking and "nished the season with a 46-22 record. !e Hogs will open up this sea-son with a No. 1 national rank-ing with high expectations once again.

!e 46 wins were the most for Arkansas under 10-year head coach Dave Van Horn and the most in a season since 1990.

!e Razorbacks put togeth-er an impressive postseason run, going on the road to win a NCAA Regional and Super Regional. Arkansas advanced through the Houston Regional, hosted by Rice, defeating Sam Houston State twice and No. 8 Rice once.

!e Super Regional round took the Razorbacks to Waco, Texas, to face the No. 4 national seed, Baylor. A#er dropping the "rst game of the Super Re-gional, Arkansas bounced back to win the next two games, in-cluding a 1-0 10-inning win in the decisive game three. Jake

Wise came through with the game’s only run-scoring hit, driving in a run with a 10th-inning single to win the game.

In the College World Se-ries, Arkansas won its "rst two games for the "rst time since 1979, defeating Kent State in the CWS opener and downing South Carolina in game two. !e victory over the Game-cocks snapped their 22-game postseason win streak and their 12-game College World Series winning streak.

!e Razorbacks "nished in a tie for third in the College World Series, matching the 2009 team for the second best "nish in program history.

!e Arkansas pitching sta$ was e%cient throughout the 2012 season, "nishing the year with a 2.83 ERA, the second-lowest single-season ERA in school history. Razorback pitchers saved some of their best work for the NCAA Tour-nament, recording a 1.92 ERA in postseason play.

Arkansas starters DJ Bax-endale and Ryne Stanek tied for the team lead with eight wins each. Baxendale, who set a new single-season school re-cord with 20 starts, "nished his junior season with an 8-5 record and a 3.11 ERA, while Ryne Stanek was 8-4 with a 2.82

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!e disappointing football season, the beginning of basket-ball season and the hiring of a new football coach seemed to

highlight last semester on cam-pus. Now that the new year is upon us, Hog fans can look for-ward to plenty of things.

!e men’s and women’s bas-ketball teams look to excite fans in Bud Walton Arena each and every time they take the &oor.

Baseball and so#ball start in a month, and track has already started its indoor competitions.

!e Diamond Hogs are ranked preseason no. 1 to begin what could become another ex-citing year for baseball.

Swimming and diving, gym-nastics and track and "eld are not to be taken lightly either.

Many people tend to only think of men’s basketball and foot-ball, but in reality many sports require attention at this univer-sity. People should expand their sports viewing and try to take in more events this spring.

!e spring semester seems to drag on longer than the fall, but being active in sports along with other social activities can help pass the time and make the semester more enjoyable. Peo-ple seem to enjoy hanging out with friends at various sporting events, and the University of Arkansas o$ers many opportu-nities to do so.

Other sporting events up-coming include the Super Bowl, Major League Baseball spring training, the Masters golf tour-nament and the NBA tourna-ment pushes are beginning to get into full swing. !ose are just a few things for sports fans to be looking forward to in the upcoming weeks and months.

Arkansas o$ers a unique opportunity not many colleges can. Every team on campus may not be competing for a National Championship, but every team does put quality talent out for fans to enjoy. Being a loyal Hog doesn’t mean support when

they are really good, it means supporting all the teams all the time and continuing to watch them in action.

!e men’s basketball team will face Auburn tomorrow night in Bud Walton Arena at 7 p.m. With all the students back on campus, it would be great to see a full house in support of the team. !is could mark the beginning of a very passionate fan base that will only become stronger.

!is semester will hold many opportunities like to-morrow night for students to become involved. Besides, if

you have already purchased an access pass it is just wasted money if it isn’t put into use at any sporting event.

I feel that the students should make a better e$ort to attend more sporting events to show support, and that includes myself. !ese athletes are stu-dents as well, and they deserve some support for the rigorous life they live while on campus.

Zack Wheeler is a writer for the Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Tuesday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

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A#er defeating Vanderbilt 56-33 for the "rst Southeast-ern Conference victory of the season last Saturday, UA head coach Mike Anderson wants to focus on shutting down key players in the home matchup against Auburn Wednesday.

!e Tigers will come into Bud Walton Arena with an 8-7 overall record and a perfect 2-0 record in SEC play.

“!ey’re putting it together at the right time,” Anderson said. “In basketball, there are no surprises to me anymore. Fans may look at a team’s nonconfer-ence schedule, but as coaches, we look at the personnel they have.”

Senior guard Frankie Sul-livan leads the Tigers with 17.2 points per game. Last season, Sullivan scored 25 points in two games against Arkansas.

“We’re very familiar with Sullivan,” Anderson said. “He’s a dynamic scorer and a "#h-year senior, so his leadership is important for his team.”

Rob Chubb has also been

“playing extremely well” for Auburn down low, Anderson said, averaging 9.7 points per game and a team-leading 7.9 rebounds per game.

While Anderson is not happy with his team’s recent o$ensive performance, he is not worried about it. Despite only scoring 51 points and 56 points against Texas A&M and Vanderbilt, respectively, he be-lieves they will turn it around.

“We just haven’t made shots,” Anderson said. “I thought we’ve had some good looks; we just haven’t knocked them down.”

Sophomore guard BJ Young is averaging 17.1 points per game and junior forward Mar-shawn Powell is averaging 14.3 points per game. However, no other player is averaging over 7.4 points per game.

“We have to have a third and fourth scorer,” Anderson said. “Our team is built on balance, so we have to have some guys step up.”

He points to freshman guard Anthlon Bell as a player who could step into a larger scoring role. Bell is only averaging 4.3 points per game, but Ander-son said he has been practicing

well and needs to transfer it into games.

“I think Anthlon Bell is a guy that’s about to burst onto the scene,” Anderson said. “He puts himself in position to take good shots.”

Defensively, the Razorbacks are coming o$ of their best de-fensive performance of the sea-son, holding Vanderbilt to only 33 points, their fewest points allowed in a game since joining the SEC.

!is bodes well for Arkan-sas, as Auburn plays a similar “mid-tempo” style of basketball, Anderson said.

“We want to build some mo-mentum and continue to play that harassing style of defense,” Anderson said.

Although only 11,526 fans attended the Vanderbilt game, Anderson expects the crowd for the Auburn game to be larger because UA students are back in class.

“More than anything else, I like the energy of the crowd,” Anderson said. “!ey’re very vocal.”

!e Razorbacks and Tigers tip o$ at 7 p.m. Wednesday in Bud Walton Arena.

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Ryan Miller Sta" Photographer“We want to build some momentum and continue to play that harassing style of defense,” head coach Mike Anderson said at a press conference, Monday, Jan. 14.

We arrive now at a crucial moment in any college bas-ketball season. !e transition from nonconference to confer-ence play is not an easy one, but winning January games is the key to an ultimately suc-cessful season.

Arkansas is 10-5 and 1-1 in Southeastern Conference play and it’s time to make a way too

early, way too bold prediction on how this season will turn out.

!e Razorbacks are a tal-ented team with a promising nonconference season that can win at home but falls com-pletely &at even in what should be easy away games. !ere have been three games already this season that Arkansas has lost which they had no busi-ness losing — Arizona State, Wisconsin, and Texas A&M — none of those games were

played in the state of Arkansas.!e schedule only gets

harder from here. Because of the restructuring of basket-ball scheduling that took place when Texas A&M and Mis-souri joined the conference, there are no longer divisions in SEC basketball. It is one con-ference of 14 teams, and it is apparently just random chance that determines who you have to play twice.

In typical unlucky Arkansas fashion, the Hogs play a home-

away series with both No. 10 Missouri and No. 11 Florida. On the &ip side of that, those games will allow the Hogs to be on a big stage and make an impression that could help them score an NCAA tourna-ment bid.

I think that if the Hogs can win both home games and not get killed in both away games (see: Michigan game) it will be a positive outcome. Win one

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ERA.Barrett Astin led the

Razorbacks with 11 saves, which is tied for the third-highest single-season total in school history.

Matt Reynolds led Ar-kansas in several o$ensive categories, "nishing the year with a .323 batting av-erage, seven homers and 45 RBI. Reynolds was named an All-American by Col-legiate Baseball and Perfect Game and earned "rst team All-SEC and All-SEC De-fensive Team honors.

Tim Carver hit .299 with two homers and 30 RBI while Dominic Ficociello batted .290 with six homers and 41 RBI.

Bo Bigham was named second team All-SEC af-

ter hitting .306 in league play, while Ficociello was named to the league’s All-Defensive team a#er committing just one error at "rst base in conference play.

!e Razorbacks will have to "nd players that can step into the holes le# by Reynolds, Carver, Baxendale and others, but the team has a lot of young talent that is up to the chal-lenge.

!e Hogs will look to have a better, more e%cient regu-lar season of play before the postseason comes around this year. !e pitching sta$ will still have a lot of "repower, and the o$ense will look to have key hitting from every spot in the lineup. !e Razorbacks seemed poised to make another run this year in the College World Series.

OMAHA continued from page 7TOURNEY continued from page 7of the road games, and people around the country will have a reason to take Arkansas very seriously.

!e Hogs are going to have to do a lot more on o$ense than they did against Vanderbilt in order to compete with Florida or Missouri. I had the opportu-nity to watch the Gators play in person last week, and if Arkan-sas plays anything like they did against A&M or Vanderbilt, it will be a bloodbath both times the two teams meet.

Missouri looks a little more vulnerable than they did pre-viously a#er losing to what is shaping up to be a decent Ole Miss team Saturday, but the Razorbacks will still have their hands full.

Playing on the road is the biggest challenge the Hogs are

going to face during conference play.

Vanderbilt, Auburn, Ala-bama, Georgia and Mississippi State have all already su$ered embarrassing nonconference losses — the types of losses that the Hogs actually managed to avoid this year.

!is means these teams aren’t great, but it also means that beating them doesn’t mean a whole lot for Arkansas’ re-sume. Plus of course, this in no way means that the Razorbacks have a guaranteed victory when they travel to places like Tus-caloosa, Ala., Nashville, Tenn., and Auburn, Ala., later this sea-son.

Convincingly beating a Vanderbilt team that gave Ken-tucky (a struggling Kentucky team, but a Kentucky team

nonetheless) all they could handle in their SEC opener is de"nitely a step in the right di-rection, but we must remember this is also a Vanderbilt team that lost to Marist on a neutral court earlier this season.

I have no reason to believe that Arkansas will make the NCAA tournament this year, but the good news is that I have no reason not to believe it.

I am going to go ahead and predict that Arkansas doesn’t make it to the tournament, and that the sole reason for that is the inability to stay focused and play well on the road. I would also say that an impressive SEC tournament run with a win against a ranked team would be the only way the Hogs sneak in the back door.

!e Hogs have to continue

to get the support from the bench and younger players that has been the deciding factor in more than a few games this sea-son.

If I were only to watch the Michigan game and then be asked if the Hogs were an NCAA tournament team, the answer would be unequivocally yes. But sadly, I have more in-formation than that.

!e Hogs went 1-7 in SEC road games last year, losing plenty of games they were ex-pected to win in the process, and the pattern has already started to continue against Texas A&M. If Mike Anderson can’t "nd a way to convince his players to transfer their con"dence out-side of Bud Walton Arena, there is no way the Big Dance is in the stars for the Hogs.