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Hogs’ Loss Hurts Dickson

Congress Delays DREAM Act Vote

Razorback Football and the support thereof are rich traditions at the UA, and the Associated Student Govern-ment is again o! ering Rol-lin’ with the Razorbacks in line with these traditions.

Rollin’ with the Razor-backs is an annual program o! ered by ASG that takes 100 " fans to one away game. # is year 96 students and four sta! members as chap-eronws will be bussed to the Auburn game on Oct. 16.

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and return it to the Campus Life Center on the sixth % oor of the Union. Applicants only need to be a student at the UA. Applications are accepted on a $ rst-come, $ rst-served basis.

# e ASG made applications available at noon on Wednes-day, Sept. 22, and students have been grabbing them up quickly. As of Friday morning on Sept. 24, there were only 30 spots le& . However, students should not be discouraged because there is a waiting list.

“We don’t know the game time yet, so Wednesday be-

# ere hasn’t been a more anticipated football game in Fayetteville than the Arkansas-Alabama game last Saturday.

# ere were plenty of reasons for all of the hype. It was the $ rst time in three decades that two teams ranked in the top ten played in Fayetteville, the Razorbacks were coming o! a huge road win against Geor-gia and it was a chance for Ar-kansas to redeem itself against the best team in the coun-try a& er last year’s 35-7 loss.

A record crowd, 76,808, witnessed Arkansas blow a 20-7 lead and walk away with little more than a moral vic-tory, which everyone knows doesn’t really count for much.

# e crowd went from happy Hog fans to ticked-o! tourists with Ryan Mallett’s third, and game-sealing, interception, and local businesses who were ex-pecting a huge in% ux of business for the weekend had to make do with the depressed Hog fans."

“# e hurt for us was we had a lot of fans come out during the

game to the restaurant to watch the game, and a lot of them le& in tears,” said Eric Lea, the ex-ecutive chef at Hog Haus Brew-ing Company Restaurant and Bar." “# e restaurant completely cleared out when we lost the game. We were full, and then ba-sically there was no one in there until later on until about an hour a& er everyone le& the stadium.”

Lea said the restaurant even-tually $ lled"back up, but there’s no doubt a crowd of Hog fans drunk with happiness would have been much more will-ing to spend their money if the outcome had been di! erent.

“If we had won the game, we would have done maybe double the night’s business,” Lea said. “I don’t want to state that would have actu-ally been the night’s numbers, but we could" have done prob-ably double the night’s business.”

Marty Elkins, a manager at Powerhouse Seafood and Grill, was working on the % oor Sat-urday night a& er the game." He said the overall mood of the fans was a! ected by the loss.

“# ey all came in here pissed o! ,” Elkins said.

He said one customer told him she was in a bad mood be-cause of the game, and a& er deal-

“If we had won the game, we would have done maybe double the night’s business”

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Thousands of immi-grants who were brought to America illegally as chil-dren have waited years for a bill that would grant them a path to citizenship and will now have to wait lon-ger to embrace this dream.

Despite supporters’ efforts to pass the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, it was voted down in the Senate last week.

Both Arkansas Sens. Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln voted no to the Defense Au-thorization Bill to which the DREAM Act was attached.

This legislation was first introduced to the Senate in

by SABA NASEEMStaff Writer

2001 and has been in and out of the Senate and House of Representatives since then.

The DREAM Act allows illegal immigrant children the opportunity to earn a pathway to become Ameri-can citizens, as long as they meet certain conditions. They have a six-year condi-tional period in which they must graduate from high school, maintain good moral behavior, and attend a col-lege or serve in the military.

Many students in Arkan-sas said they were angry from the results and the actions of the two Arkansas senators.

“I feel betrayed and angry and my feelings echo the sen-timent of all the students,” said Juan Manuel, the found-er of the Arkansans Natural

Dreamers. “She (Sen. Lin-coln) promised she would vote yes when she got in.”

Sen. Pryor had “said he would vote for the DREAM Act in 2007,” but backed out of that, Manuel said. “It’s always hard to talk to him. When we have a meeting, he always calls and can-cels or doesn’t show up.”

Another UA student was “very disappointed that our senators were two of the three Democrats that voted against the DREAM Act,” said Fer-nando Garcia, a senior me-chanical engineering major.

“Sen. Lincoln said she voted against the bill be-cause she couldn’t add some amendments that she wanted and thought the process was incorrect,” he said. “Those

reasons aren’t good enough.” "Lincoln, however, backed

up her vote by reaffirming her support for the DREAM Act.

“I am a proud co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, and my procedural vote on the De-fense Authorization bill in no way alters my support for this legislation,” said Sen. Lincoln, in a press release. “I co-sponsored the DREAM Act so that all children liv-ing in Arkansas can go to college and reach their full potential.” “Unfortunately, the DREAM Act was taken hostage by election-year politics." I believe transpar-ency should be the rule, not the exception, and we

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It’s that time of year again for the Bikes, Blues & BBQ Rally." It is the largest motorcycle rally in the United States that gives back to local charities, according to the rally’s o' cial website." Bik-ers from all over the 50 states ride in to support the commu-nity. It is estimated that each year more than 400,000 people come to join in the festivities of the music, barbecue and mo-torcycles. # is year’s rally will be held Sept. 29 through Oct. 2.

# e rally began more than 20 years ago, according to bikes-bluesandbbq.org, and has grown to be the biggest event of the year for motorcyclists. Some of

the festivities include # e Pa-rade of Power Route, Battle of the Bikes, concerts and BBQ cook o! s. # is year’s rally is ex-pected to be one of the largest."

In the past, thousands of rid-ers have traveled to Fayetteville to participate in the events. It was estimated more than a thou-sand motorcyclists rode along Dickson Street to show o! their bikes, meet up with friends, and have some fun, according to the Bikes, Blues & BBQ board.

All the festivals events will be sponsoring numerous local charities such as Big Brothers & Big Sisters of NWA, Arkan-sas Children’s Hospital, Habitat for Humanity and many others." Since the year 2000, Bikes, Blues,

& BBQ has donated more than $550,000 to these local chari-ties. Last year’s rally alone raised $48,500 to contribute. Among all the activities that will be going on throughout the week there will also be a huge selection of vendors selling a variety of things includ-ing: clothing, jewelry, motorcycle equipment and loads of food." "

Along with all the bike events there will also be a schedule of concerts for entertainment." # ese acts include the best of the national, regional and local bands for the public’s pleasure. # e concerts that are produced

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File PhotoThousands of bikers will flock to Northwest Arkansas this week for Arkansas’ biggest motorcycle rally. Students typical-ly have mixed feelings about the rally - some enjoy participating while others find it little more than a noisy disturbance.

Photo IllustrationThe US Army Silver Wings Parachute Team delivers the game ball to Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium prior to the Alabama-Arkansas Football game on Satur-day. Student’s initial expressions of joy and celebration quickly turned to despair after a fourth quarter meltdown by the Arkansas offense.

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PROFILES ON THE HILLA Conversation with Anthropologist Peter Ungar

Peter Ungar, the chair of the anthropology department, has studied the origins of the modern human for almost 30 years. He has traveled all over the world studying monkeys and apes, and his research centers on three aspects of research: dental anthropol-ogy, primate feeding ecol-ogy and ! paleoanthropology.

Q: What got you interested in anthropology initially?

A: That’s a really good ques-tion. I was nine years old, and my father took me to a matinee of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The first part of that movie is all about ape men in Africa, and that transformation from sort of an ape to human. It was really that movie that sort of led me ultimately to rain forests all over Asia to study apes and monkeys.

Q: What’s your favorite monkey or ape?

A: I’d have to say my fa-vorite primate that I’ve ac-tually spent time with in the wild is the orangutan. It’s sort of a solitary, pen-sive animal. But it’s so hu-man in the way it thinks.

Q: Can you explain the early paleontology of early hominins?

A: It’s basically trying to un-derstand the way our distant ancestors made use of their environment to earn a liv-ing. What they ate more specifically, how and where they ate it and how changes in the environment changed them over the course of millions of years basically to become us. Ecology is interaction between an or-ganism and its environment and with human evolu-tion. I mean, I sort of view our ancestors as in a dance with their environment--it changes and they have to keep step. They change and they actually ultimately change their environment.

Q: What’s something that’s surprised you in your re-search?

A: How hard it is (laughs). It’s really hard to do, espe-cially writing. Writing is not easy. Another thing that sort of surprised me is at one point I started looking at the teeth of our ancestors and I wasn’t finding the pat-tern I was expecting to find. We have these ideas about what our ancestors ate, and here at the UA we devel-oped these new techniques to allow us to tease a little bit more information out of the teeth and to figure out what did they eat, how can we reconstruct this and how can we confirm what people have said all along. It wasn’t matching. It was really frus-trating. They should have been basically paleolithic Cuisinarts, and yet we saw this little wimpy wispy pat-tern of scratches on the teeth that tell us that’s not what they’re doing. And that was really surprising until I re-alized one in ten specimens show that pattern of this very heavy use. So maybe in reality it’s not a matter of the fact that we do what we’re designed to do; maybe we’re over built. Maybe just like you might have a pretty fast sports car that can do 90 on I-540, of course I wouldn’t recommend that. And sus-tain that all the way from Fort Smith to Fayetteville, but you’re not going too be-cause there’s a cop there. But it’s nice to know that you can accelerate on that highway if you need to. You have the power to do it, and maybe that’s where the anatomy comes in with that potential for when you need it. Which isn’t most of the time. So when you see these dioramas in museums that tell you what our ancient ancestors did, based on the anatomy, most of the time they prob-ably didn’t do that, and that was a real surprise to me. Just a way of looking at the way that evolution operates.

Q: What’s the best part of being an anthropologist?

A: I get to go to re-ally cool places.

Q: What are some of the places you’ve been?

A: Where haven’t I been? I’ve worked in Ethiopia, Kenya,

Tanzania, Botswana, South Africa, Indonesia, Venezue-la, Costa Rica, all over Latin America, Asia and Africa. So I have trekked through the Jordan Valley in the Middle East searching for Nean-derthal fossils, and in the Kalahari Desert searching for the origins of anatomi-cally modern humans. I’ve chased monkeys and apes through the rain forests of Sumatra and Costa Rica.

Q: What’s the worst part of being an anthropologist?

A: Nobody has ever asked that question. Having to con-stantly chase down money to get this research done, and convince people that it’s im-portant to do. If somebody could just leave me alone and let me do my job, and provide the money needed in order to get these results, that would be a good thing.

Q: Which came first - the chicken or the egg?

A: Definitely the egg. Think about it for a minute, in or-der to have a new species you have to have genetic change. You can’t change something that’s all ready alive and de-veloped, but what you can

do is have cosmic rays com-ing down and zapping your gonads basically and chang-ing the DNA in the eggs and sperm and that’s what actu-ally leads to the new genera-tion. You could mutate your cells, your autosomal cells until the cows come home, it could give you cancer, but it’s not going to change your species. You have to pass it along to the next generation, and the only way to do that is by doing it to the egg or the sperm.

Q: If you had to pick a field of study other than anthro-pology, what would it be?

A: Oh yeah, cosmology. I always loved origins of the universe. I always loved understanding the for-mation of other planets. If I wasn’t looking down into the earth I’d be look-ing up into outer space.

Q: Do you have a favorite superhero?

A: Does Indiana Jones count? I am not a huge fan of the idea of robbing graves and sell-ing antiquities, but the idea of combining adventure and academic pursuits and inte-grating that into a teaching at a university, those are cool.

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ing day of the new University Book Store on Garland Avenue. The new store features a complete line of Clinque products and a staff of trained make up professionals, as well as books, tee shirts, computer repair services, magazines and many other products and services.

The UA computer store, general bookstore, textbook department, Razorback shop, as well as the office, school, art, architectural, engineering and lab supply departments have all moved from their location from the Arkansas Union to the Gar-land Center. The group of stores is collectively known as the University Bookstore.

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store featuring Apple, Dell, and HP products and an Of-ficeMax school supply store will be opening through-out August and September.

Those stores should be popular among stu-dents, based on the uni-versity’s research.

“Three years ago we did a survey on the buying pat-terns on students and what they were looking for, and what we need to do to make life easier for students. It was an elaborate scientif-ic survey, and based on it we realized that students want an exciting shop-ping experience that can stimulate all of their sens-

es,” said Ali Sadeghi, direc-tor of the UA bookstore.

“One thing that came up repeatedly was students wanting more name brands, names that they grew up with. So we tried to build a center based on all of the in-formation we were given.”

So far, the new book-store has proven to be a positive change for the UA.

“We opened up on time as promised, and moved the entire store in 36 hours. The staff worked really hard. Our business is up from what we were doing last year, and we really appreci-ate people coming to check us out,” said Sadeghi. The

bookstore has consolidated itself into one giant store, which has been helpful for both students and staff.

“There are places you can stand and see all of the items from all the differ-ent stores within the book-store. A student can go get coffee, a magazine and look at Razorback clothing all at the same store,” Sadeghi said. “It has been helpful for our staff too. They can greet someone and show them where to find something without having to send them

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Public Forums, Recycling Program on Tap for the ASG

! e Associated Student Government has a lot lined up for the students this semester. With new policies, volunteer committees and university events, ASG will be looking for many students who are willing to get involved.

On Sept. 30, ASG will be hosting two forums free to the public. First at 1:30 p.m. the Sta" Senate is hosting a Legislative Panel Discussion in the Reynolds Center for Enterprise Education Auditorium. ! en at 6:30 p.m., David Whitaker, the Democratic candidate for the ! ird District seat in the House of Representatives, will be speaking in the School of Law auditorium.

Rollin’ with the Razorbacks, is taking applications for the Arkansas versus Auburn game in Auburn, Ala. Oct. 16. It is a # rst-come, # rst-serve program with applications due Oct. 1.

New policies have been implemented for campers in the student-section line.

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fore we leave, we send stu-dents the information, and inevitably there are some stu-dents who aren’t able to come, so we just go to the next stu-dent on the waiting list,” said ASG advisor Jessica Morgan.

! e trip is sponsored by the Athletics Depart-ment, Residents’ Interhall Congress and ASG, but stu-dents still pay a fee of $20.

“It includes their ticket to the game, transporta-tion… ! ere’s a tailgate, so it includes their meal and a t-shirt,” Morgan said.

Students also get a rally prop to hold up during the game and show the team that they are supported.

“We’re going to have big blow-up mallets that say ‘Fear the Mallet’ in reference to Ryan Mallet,” Harmon said. “I hope that by seeing that large group of students [will encourage] the team.”

Rollin’ with the Razor-backs began in the early 2000s, and demand has in-creased every year that the program has continued.

“! e number of people who want to go on this trip has increased every year since we’ve started it,” said Emily Evans, the ASG Vice President, “I think [it’s be-cause] this is a great oppor-tunity for the true Razorback fans to travel with 100 other students who are just like them and just really gung-ho.”

Rollin’ with the Ra-zorbacks draws stu-dents back year a$ er year.

“It’s a really amazing deal for only $20, and it’s a fun expe-rience for us to go because a lot of us wouldn’t be able to if the university didn’t do something like this,” said Joseph May# eld, a repeat participant. “! ere is de# nitely a whole lot of cama-raderie… Being in close quar-ters from noon until 2 a.m., you’re bound to make friends.”

Department collaborated early [last] week to come up with a set of camping guidelines that were in the best interests of both students and the University,” said Afshar Sanati, director of athletic relations. Other new policies will be added to the academic policy and course evaluations. Trae Holzman and Ro DiBrezzo are currently forming a student panel to work on these policy revisions. Also, ASG is looking to re-do student parking for graduate students and have a proposal to sell the unused parking spots in the deck for discounts.

Recycling with the Razorbacks and the upcoming Bring Your Own Bottle campaign are ways ASG is encouraging students to go green and keep campus environmentally friendly. Recycling with the Razorbacks provides more than 45 tons of recyclable material and reduces the amount of trash going to the land# ll a$ er every sporting event. Students who are members wear green T-shirts to raise awareness at games. Bring Your Own Bottle is a campaign that will kick o" Homecoming

week to encourage students to stop using plastic water bottles.

For fun and to encourage student readership, the “Get Caught Reading” program launched Sept. 20 to encourage students to pick up and read a newspaper on campus every day of the week. Every student who is caught will get his or her name published in ! e Traveler.

Freshmen who are looking to get more involved with student government have joined Fresh HOGS and are the future of ASG.

“! is year Fresh HOGS is committed to bringing our freshmen leaders into the ASG family,” said Sarah Gibson, director of FYE and leadership development. “We will be working on a project that allows the freshmen to demonstrate their leadership skills while collaborating with other leaders on campus.”

ASG o% cials said they want student input in everything that they do.

Football Officials Promote Good Sportsmanship

Football season has descended upon the UA yet again, and the excitement of game-day tailgating and play action can be felt throughout the community. However, university as well as the SEC o% cials want to make it clear that sportsmanship

does not stop at the sidelines. “Razorback fans are the best of the best. ! ey model this by loudly supporting the Razorbacks and displaying respect and good sportsmanship toward the visiting team and visiting fans,” according to &a UA press release which contained both the Razorback Code of Conduct and the SEC policy regarding

fan behavior. “However, the NCAA, SEC and UA have assigned a high priority to assuring athletic events are conducted in a safe and enjoyable atmosphere which promotes good sportsmanship by spectators, student-athletes and coaches. We request your

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Building Renovations to Cost $8 Million

by KRISTEN COPPOLAStaff Writer

Renovations to Peabody Hall are costing $8 million to restore the building to its original historical appear-ance with a few modern con-veniences and sustainable adjustments. ! e construc-tion began last spring and is scheduled to be completed by the Fall 2011 semester.

! e renovations to Pea-body Hall are partly intended to make it a more inviting learning environment. Af-ter the overhaul is complete, Peabody Hall will have more rooms set up for labs and one computer lab; it will also once again be the home of Peabody Perks co" ee shop.

“! ey are also putting in sustainable and environmen-tally friendly windows,” said Craig Edmonston, the assis-tant dean for administration. “! ey’re reinforcing the struc-tural integrity and returning it to a usable facility for teach-ing college-aged students.”

! ere were also major ' aws with the layout of Peabody Hall, including the lack of an elevator and only one bath-room & for the entire building.

“! ere wasn’t a restroom on every ' oor and the re-strooms looked like old locker rooms from the ‘50s and ‘60s,” Edmonston said.

! e renovations on Pea-body Hall will also restore it to its former glory. Construction workers are already removing the layers of paint, which have been added over the years, to reveal the original red brick beneath. ! e brick will be stained to its original color, and the mortar between the bricks will be repaired as well.

! e renovations are being paid for with the university’s 2009 bond issue, said Mike White, the associate con-troller with administration.

“I’m happy that they are using $8 million to reno-vate Peabody, but I would much prefer them spend that money on scholarships for education majors,” said & Kelly Peterson, sophomore child-hood education major.

However, the price is not as steep as it may seem.

“It’s actually a good price for that type of renovation. Because it is a renovation [to a historic building] some things have to be done carefully to maintain the integrity of the building,” Edmonston said in reply to students’ shock over the cost. “It isn’t an astronomical amount for that type of work.”

Other students are very pleased about the chang-es happening in Peabody.

“I’m excited for Peabody to reopen, especially Peabody Perks. It was a really homey place for me to study,” said Haley Lewellen, a junior child-hood education major. “Also, having more bathrooms is great since the bathrooms were all in the basement before.”

Peabody Hall is the nu-cleus of the College of Edu-cation and Health Profes-sions and also an important historical part of campus.

“[It was] built in 1913; it’s a very important piece of the history of the campus. It is also the home of the Teacher Edu-cation Program. Any students who want to become teach-ers go through that depart-ment,” said Heidi Stambuck, the director of communication with the College of Educa-tion and Health Professions.

Classes and faculty have been moved around be-cause of the construction.

“! e College of Education is also located in the Gradu-ate Education building, so they’re having classes there. ! e faculty have been moved to Stone House on Arkan-sas Avenue,” Stambuck said.


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“What I want to do is just to go speak to young people directly and remind them of what I said during the campaign, which was change is always hard in this country. It doesn’t happen overnight. You take two steps forward, you take one step back. ! is is a big, complicated democracy. It’s contentious. It’s not always fun and games…And the point is, though, you can’t sit it out. You can’t sud-denly just check in once every 10 years or so, on an exciting presiden-tial election, and then not pay atten-tion during big midterm elections.”—President Barack Obama, Sept. 27, 2010

On Monday, President Obama hosted a conference call with col-lege journalists from around the country. Although the ma-jority of the call consisted of him pointing out the construc-tive things his administration has done to help college and uni-versity students combat not only the poor job market but also the rising cost of education, one of the most important points the President discussed came up in the Q&A near the end, when he discussed the important of getting civically engaged.

People across our nation, and our campus, are deeply entrenched in a political gridlock, each thinking the other side is crazy and un-realistic. For many, this is a depressing state to ! nd ourselves in. Our parents have raised us to want to go out and change things and make the world around us a better place—how are we supposed to do that with all the hatred and confusion we are constantly surrounded by?

It is an increasingly di" cult task. We ! nd ourselves asking what impact we, young people living in Arkansas, actually make on any larger scale.

Quite an impact, I would argue. Even if you look at the US Senate Democratic primary that took place this summer between Blanche Lincoln and Bill Halter, it seems abundantly clear that Arkansas and Arkansans can play a central role in national politics. Even interna-tional news sources like the BBC were covering that primary as an indicator of what would happen on a national scale in November.

As we all know now, Sen. Lincoln won that battle and now faces Rep. John Boozman in November. # at race, cou-pled with a series of other heated battles (District 3 for the US House of Representatives, state races for governor, lieu-tenant governor, secretary of state, to name a few of inter-est to student voters) leave plenty to be decided in November.

And that’s not to say there haven’t been plenty of peo-ple out there telling us what to think or how to vote in Novem-ber. It’s tough to turn on the television to any sort of news pro-gram without being bombarded with pundits giving you their latest opinion on those liberal democrats or tea party crazies.

What I would encourage you to do, and what I got out of President Obama’s call, however, is to go out and express your vote, whatever it may be. In Arkansas, the deadline to register to vote is this Sunday, Oct. 3.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “# ose who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: ‘Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.” So go vote—at least then you’ll have a justi! cation when you complain.

Keeping it Professional Will Benefi t You

StudyAbroad: An Amazing Discomfort

You Can’t Sit it Out

FROM THE STAFF! e Traveler sta$ has no love-hate relationship with any Fay-

etteville weekend stronger than that with Bikes, Blues & BBQ.For Fayetteville ! rst-years, expect to witness more than

400,000 motorcyclists % ooding Northwest Arkansas this week-end, much like ! re ants on a hill. Don’t plan to accomplish much studying or sleeping this weekend, not because you’ll be so intrigued by Dickson festivities, but because you won’t be able to concentrate over the noise of downtown Fayetteville.

And unless you plan to walk, making plans on Dickson will result in circling for at least half an hour for a parking spot. Restaurants are packed, and lost bikers are wandering in and out of every store.

Still, we have to give Bikes, Blues & BBQ some cred-it. First and foremost, it brings in the most money to Fay-etteville in a non-game weekend each year. Also, prof-its raised by the event are donated to local charities.

Other perks of BBBBQ include free Dickson parking this week, which has lately become a rare privilege, and delicious fair food such as turkey legs and funnel cakes. Prime people-watch-ing wins out as the highest point of the weekend for students.

If you’re not sucked into the Bikes, Blues & BBQ hype, then this weekend might be the best weekend for you to explore other parts of Northwest Arkansas.

If you’ve been trying to schedule a weekend to visit your par-ents, high school friends or long-distance boyfriend or girl-friend, or if you’re looking to embark on the staple spontaneous college road trip, this weekend might be your grand opportunity.

# is weekend might prove to be the weekend that you ! nd your next favorite restaurant o$ the beaten path. Check out east or west Fayetteville, where you can ! nd restaurants such as J.J.’s Grill & Chill and Wing Stop.

Our favorite BBBBQ activity is to check out nearby camp-grounds. Bikes, Blues & BBQ weekend typically marks the ! rst cool-weather weekend in Fayetteville, creating perfect nights bundled up by camp! res and cuddled in sleeping bags.

Whatever you do this weekend, don’t let Bikes, Blues & BBQ put a damper on it. Make the most of the fes-tivities, or use it as an excuse to get out of dodge. And whatever you do, stay safe and make it memorable! The relationship you

form with your profes-sors is one of the most im-portant relationships you will make while in col-lege, if not the most im-portant. Getting to know your professors will not only benefit you while you are a student, but can work in your favor in the long run. There are so many amazing adults working with and for stu-dents at the University of Arkansas that you will want to get to know them.

I had a teacher first se-mester freshman year who I absolutely loved. Truth be told, his class was the most difficult I have tak-en so far in my college career, but his teaching style and the way he con-ducted class made me ex-cited to learn. As cheesy

as that sounds, it’s true. I wanted to go to class, and his passion for the subject inspired me to find what I was passionate about. Like I said, his class was very difficult so I took advan-tage of his office hours.

Throughout my first se-mester, I would go and ask questions during his office hours about the material we were covering in class. I would run to him to clari-fy any small detail I didn’t understand. During this process I accomplished two things: I grasped a better understanding of the mate-rial and I formed a profes-sional student-teacher rela-tionship. My professor knew I was working hard in his class and genuinely cared about my grade. Before fi-nal grades went out at the end of the semester and af-ter all my hard work, do you think he bumped me a few points to get an “A,” or the kid whom he didn’t know? I promise you, I was not dis-appointed with my grade.

Not only is important to work with your teachers to show you at least care a little about what they are teach-ing you, but in the future, having a good relationship with a few faculty members

could be extremely ben-eficial. If you want to con-tinue your education onto grad school, law school, or whatever your calling is, you’re going to need rec-ommendation letters. Many admission counselors and professors have reminded me that the recommenda-tions which stand out are the ones that are the most personal. Anyone can write a letter based off of your re-sume, but a professor wih whom you have a closer re-lationship will be able to write a recommendation not only based off your re-sume, but also based off of your personal attributes. I know students who gradu-ated from the University of Arkansas who were offered jobs right out of college simply because they knew a professor who recom-mended them to someone else. In today’s job market, that’s a pretty sweet deal.

The key to getting to know your professors, teaching assistants, or any other faculty member on campus is to keep it profes-sional! It’s true, there are a ton of young adults teaching or helping with classes these days, but the worst thing you can do is overstep any

type of boundary with them.I have a friend who goes

to school in Texas who took his relationship with a teaching assistant too far. He was a freshman in col-lege and would go to his teaching assistant for help in a chemistry lab. The as-sistant was 27 and, from what I hear, a very likable person. The two began se-cretly dating during the semester. While out one night, another faculty mem-ber recognized the two and the teaching assistant lost her job and my friend’s par-ents would no longer pay for his college. On top of all of that, they quit dating. Both lost more than they gained in the process. Do not put yourself in a position that will result in an unhealthy relationship between any faculty members and your-sel. Keep it professional.

This semester, wheth-er you are a freshman or a senior, make it a priority to get to know your pro-fessors. It’s never too late to form a relationship with them. Go to their office hours, ask questions, and be interested. I promise that if you keep it profession-al, your relationship with them will only benefit you.

CAMPUS TIESby Abby Stuart

Traveler Columnist

This August, as I stepped onto campus for the first day of my senior year, I found myself feeling the very odd sensation that I was a stranger. I looked around, mildly confused by a sea of completely un-familiar faces. What was in reality my final year here felt surprisingly like my first. Thankfully, I had no problem handling the situation thanks to the lessons that I had learned while studying abroad.

It is true that my choice to spend all of my junior year (and the following summer) abroad was the cause of this disorien-tation in the first place. Both of the classes that had been above me dur-ing my sophomore year

BEYOND BOUNDARIESbyAndrew Walchuk

Guest Writer

were suddenly gone, and two new classes had taken their place. Just a week before my arrival in Fayetteville, I was walking the bustling streets of Morocco, dodging crazed taxi drivers and bar-tering with street vendors. The relatively calm pace on campus proved to be some-thing of a shock. Even with the jarring shift back to nor-mal life, I count my time abroad among the best deci-sions that I have ever made.

You may think it strange that I am advocating study abroad by describing the discomfort of return. I don’t want to overlook all of the very fun parts of the experi-ence. I’ve been to the run-ning of the bulls in Pamplo-na, skied in the Swiss Alps, taken a cruise across Loch Ness, and climbed through the ruins of a Roman city in the Moroccan desert. I ad-vanced academically as well, learning three new languag-es and doing research with access to resources that I could never have imagined having at home. Howev-er, I stress the discomfort of return because it was the lesson of being a strang-er that taught me the most.

Why do employers, schol-arship committees, and graduate schools across the nation look so favorably upon study abroad? The answer is not in the profes-sional or academic skills you may have acquired. In fact, it is because studying abroad forces you to adapt to life in an environment that you don’t understand. The simple daily tasks that we take for granted at home can become harrowing or-deals abroad. Even study in Britain, a country that shares our language and much of our culture, requires you to change some of your habits (Helpful hint: don’t forget that cars drive on the left).

Study abroad also teach-es you how to deal with an environment that doesn’t understand you. I was par-ticularly struck by what one Moroccan friend told me. “You always think of your own culture as normal and as neutral,” she said after I committed a rather embar-rassing cultural gaffe. “You must remember that, to us, it is as foreign as everything here is to you.” I realized then how much I had yet to learn. Yet despite vast differ-

ences in language, culture, and belief, I had come to an understanding about the common bonds of humanity and the need to empathize with someone that saw the world in a completely differ-ent way. These are the les-sons that stay with you and that benefit you regardless of your career or field of study.

Study abroad is within the reach of every student at this university. Whether you are looking to travel for just a summer, a semester, or a full year, the staff of the study abroad office will help you to find a program that fits. Even a month abroad can affect you more than you could imagine, and we are lucky to be students at a uni-versity that understands and values those benefits. While it is true that study abroad is typically more expensive than comparable time in Fayetteville, the university and federal government pro-vide considerable amounts of money each year to offset the cost. The opportunity is there. The scholarships are there. All you have to do is make that first step. Visit the Study Abroad Office on Ma-ple Street and start exploring!

LETTER FROM THE EDITORby Bailey Elise McBride

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cooperation by supporting the participants, o! cials and event management sta" in a positive manner.” Inappropriate behavior such as language that is racist, sexist, abusive or intimidating being directed at anyone is also prohibited, the Razorback of Code of Contact goes on to describe. # Additionally, acts such as $ ghting, smoking, public drunkenness and the throwing of objects are strictly prohibited, as is entering the playing area without proper credentials. If a person is found to be in violation of these rules, they “are subject to removal from the site of competition, or arrest and/or loss of ticket privileges.” “% e University of Arkansas reserves the right to remove

the ticket holder from the premises if, in the sole opinion of the security personnel, the ticket holder’s conduct endangers or disrupts the environment,” the code states. % e SEC policy regarding fan behavior is similar to the Razorback Code of Conduct; however it also penalizes the institution that is holding the event. If a person without the proper credentials crosses into the playing area, that party will be subject to reprimand however the institution can “at the discretion of the commissioner” face $ nes ranging from $5,000 on a $ rst o" ense, to $25,000 on a second o" ense and $50,000 on a third or subsequent o" ense. Unsportsmanlike language, signing or chants can also bring about discipline on the institution $ rst by a reprimand and then by subsequent $5,000 $ nes. % is too is at the

discretion of the commissioner. % e SEC holds each institution responsible for making the public aware of the policy. Additionally, they require that the head couch of every team make it a point to “publicly discourage spectators from entering the playing area at any time,”according to the policy regarding fan behavior. “Personally I think it’s a good thing,” said Garrett Stacy, a broadcast journalism major. “You have to regulate rules so people don’t get out of hand. I think it’s a really good rule.” % is feeling is shared by Razorbacks who are both current students and graduates. “I think it creates a better atmosphere and it makes it more enjoyable for the fans,” said UA alumnus David

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ing with her complaints three times, eventually comped her meal. % e di" erence between Friday and Saturday night could also be seen in what the custom-ers were ordering, Elkins said.

“% e night before, every-body ate steaks, and, I mean, we couldn’t cut enough steaks,” Elkins said. “But Saturday night, hardly anybody ate steaks. It def-initely a" ected the way they ate.”

Elkins estimated that sales were negatively a" ected be-tween $2,000 and $3,000.

Junior Dawn Ford, an ac-counting major, said she planned on going out to Dick-son Street a& er the game, espe-cially when the Hog’s appeared to have the game locked up, but a& er the game she said she was in no mood to deal with the crowd.

“When Mallett threw that last interception, it was like popping a balloon,” Ford said. “I went from being the most excited I’ve been in a long time to almost depressed. It was just so sad and disappoint-ing, but de$ nitely more sad.”

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should have had an open amendment process.# In fact, I had eight amendments to improve the quality of life for our troops that could not be considered,” she said.

Hundreds of undocu-mented students in Arkan-sas rely on the DREAM Act for a future. State rules require these students to pay out of state tuition for college and they are not eligible for financial aid.

“It’s not about being documented or undocu-mented,” Garcia said. “It’s about everyone having equal rights to an education.”

Opponents to the DREAM Act say that reward-ing undocumented students would increase the number of illegal immigrants flow-ing in the United States.

“A lot of people say we should go back and apply for citizenship,” said Amber Mendez, a senior at Spring-dale High School. “They don’t know how hard that is - to go back for 10 years to a country that you’ve barely lived in and not know whether we will ever be able

to come back. It’s dangerous back home with the drug wars that are going on and we’re scared. We made a sac-rifice and we’ll have to face it.”

Students on campus said they were torn between their opinions on the DREAM Act.

“It’s a double-edged sword. I’m torn in that I feel that people that are citizens should probably get prior-ity over illegal immigrants, but at the same time, these people need to be well edu-cated,” said David Yeager, a freshman pre-nursing major. “Ignorance and poverty will only lead to mass disruption.”

“I think the Mexican government should be helping people instead of their having to flee here for a better life,” he said.

Although, the legisla-tion was shot down with the failure of the Defense Authorization Bill, it did not die, Manuel said. Sup-porters, who call themselves Dreamers, are re-strategiz-ing and reforming to get the DREAM Act out again. They are hoping to make it a stand-alone proposal and have the Senate vote on it before the end of the year.

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LUCIE PATTON PHOTOGRAPHERUA Director of Greek Life Parice Bowser is in charge of the student section at football games. Her job there is to enforce SEC sportsman-ship policy.

AMANDA SPRINGER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThe Alpha Omicron Pi sorority letters were stolen two weeks ago during the Little Rock game. Members were able to find the ‘O’ in the dumpster behind their house but the ‘A’ and ‘Pi’ still remain missing.

College of Engineering Gains National Prestige

% e undergraduate pro-gram in the College of En-gineering has continued its steady rise in national rank-ings and for the $ rst time has been deemed one of the top 100 programs in the country, according to the 2011 edition of America’s Best Colleges.

% e undergraduate pro-gram is now ranked 98 overall (a four-point jump from its 2010 position), and 61 among public institutions (a three-point advancement). Addition-ally the Industrial Engineering graduate program ranked 25.

“It’s nice to be in the cat-egory of being ranked and certainly even nicer that we’re in the top tier,” said Dean Ashok Saxena, head of the col-lege. “% is is something that we have sort of aspired for over the last several years.”

Saxena has noticed steady improvement in the pro-gram’s ranking since taking o! ce seven years ago. “In the overall ranking we are prob-ably coming from some-where around 125,” he said.

“I remember the very $ rst year we got together and we said that we need to have a strategic plan,” Saxena said. “% e trend of continuous improvement is key here.”

“I think realistically we are probably going to get to the top 75 (in rankings) or so from 98 over the next $ ve years,” Saxena said. “I think you do get to a point where you have improved and you sort of hit a plateau, and that plateau is determined

by the size of the college.”“Obviously there are some

rewards,” Saxena said about the rankings. “For example the quality of students is going to go up; our college has 25 per-cent of the honors students, and we have only 13 percent of the total student population.”

He applied that # logic to his faculty as well: “It helps to attract better faculty. Fac-ulty want to come to a nice place like Fayetteville,” he said, “ but at the same time they want to come to a place where their careers will take o" .”

A college has to maintain a solid faculty to improve in the ratings so it can continue to at-tract highly quali$ ed professors and sta" to its program, he said. % e best way to do this is “to know what the cutting edge ar-eas of research are (because) en-gineering is one of those profes-sions in which one force sort of builds on the other,” Saxena said.

“One of the guarantees that we give to our students is that they will have the abil-ity to do research one-on-one with faculty,” Saxena said. “We wouldn’t be able to do (that) if we didn’t have good research facilities and faculty that were working in cutting edge areas.”

One of these research fa-cilities is the partially com-plete nanotech building across Dickson Street from Bell Engi-neering. Saxena was adamant that his department would be sharing the building with col-leagues in physics, chemistry and biology, as he considers them all to be “interdependent.”

However the comple-tion date for the build-

ing is still up in the air. “It depends on something

that we don’t control,” Saxena said. “We have a proposal out to the National Institute for Standards and Technology for $50 million. If we get that then it is going to be at least another year and a half.” % is puts the best estimation of completion as the spring of 2012. Without money from the National Insti-tute for Standards and Technol-ogy it is unclear how the nano-tech building will be paid for.

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will be free to all the public to join.# Some of this year’s music line-up includes T.J. Scarlett, Little Hoojin, Oreo Blue, Earl’s Garage, Cathead Biscuit, % e Uncrowned Kings, % e Nace Brothers and the Bikes, Blues & BBQ master of ceremo-nies, Joe Giles and his Home Wrecker Band. % e schedule can be found on the website.

% e barbecue portion of the rally is for some the most important. Barbecue teams come from all across the United States to enter into the Barbe-cue Cook-o" Contest and the Arkansas State Barbecue Cham-pionship. % e event is open to the public and fun for all of the family to enjoy tasting and vot-ing for their favorite barbecue. #

% e entire weekend is pos-sible because of all the sponsors and volunteers who help out and volunteer their time. With Bikes, Blues, & BBQ being a non-pro$ t rally, numerous sponsors con-tribute $1000-$50,000 and the volunteers work countless hours to make the festival happen.



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2 AM Grill Feeds Pre-Game Dickson Street

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by ANDREW VAN GENDERENStaff Writer

Every Friday night before a home football game, the 2 AM Grill fires up outside The Rockhouse at the corner of Arkansas and Dickson, giving out free hamburgers and hot dogs to late-night people passing by.

Students from Christ on Campus run the curbside operation from approxi-mately 11:00 p.m. into the wee hours of the morning on game nights, often hand-ing out between 150 and 200 burgers in a single evening. It is no surprise that many who frequent Dickson Street have made it a priority to seek out the stand both for free food and good conver-sation.

Cory Garren, one of the current organizers of the

Grill, says the purpose is built around a sense of com-fortableness and belonging.

“It is more of a chill, laid-back time for people after they are done with school, or work or after an evening at the bars,” he said. “It is a chance to be who you really are rather than who you are forced to be during the day.”

Senior Rebecca Molina has been a part of the Grill for four years.

“I think the Grill is just a comfortable way to get to know people, and that can happen in two ways. Ei-ther you can meet complete strangers, or get to know people you already know on a deeper level,” she said. “It is comfortable. It is not threatening, because it is neither formal nor stiff. It becomes what people make it that night, and it is always

different.”Christ on Campus has

been in Fayetteville since current pastor Mike Arm-strong started the church in 1982, and it has made its presence felt in the local area through numerous public service projects and through building personal relation-ships.

As well as being deep-ly involved on campus, the ministry contributes great amounts of time and finan-cial support to The Chil-dren’s House and Seven Hills homeless shelter.

Armstrong said the pur-pose of the Grill “is to serve the university community and to show God’s love in a practical way. We feel called to bless those around us, be-cause God has blessed us.”

However, Friday nights are all about the relational as-

pect of the church’s mission. Indeed, emblazoned just in-side the doors of the church is its unofficial motto: “Love God, love people.”

“We invite people to stop by on the Friday nights we are out and get to know us,” said Armstrong. “No pres-sure, just food.”

Armstrong said the event started seven years ago as a result of the efforts of former student Travis Crone. Crone received a doctorate from the U of A last year and is now an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Houston.

“When we first started the grill there wasn’t any food on Dickson; there were just the bars and some run-down

Need a Ride? The University Can Help

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by JORDAN BURNSStaff Writer

$ e University started a rental car program this semester to help students without vehicles run short errands or take week-end trips. $ e program, run by Hertz rental company, charges students an hourly rate that in-cludes GPS, roadside assistance, insurance and free gas (up to 180 miles per day). Education and Instruction Specialist, Andy Gilbride, who coordinates spe-cial events and programs at UA, said his department got the idea to host a rental program from sta! at Ohio State. “$ ey had very good things to say about it,

so we thought we’d try it out. We only have three vehicles right now, but if students start using them more, we will de# nitely buy more.”

$ e three cars are parked at the Lot 50 bus stop, near Brough Cafeteria. Students can choose between a Toyota Prius, a Ford Escape and a Mazda 6. $ e Toyota Prius has a hybrid engine and according to the Hertz website its CO2 emis-sions are less than 100 g/km. $ e site also claims that each of their vehicles, which are EPA SmartWay certi# ed, eliminate up to 14 vehicles from the road, thereby reducing harmful emis-sions and energy consumption.

Ipod adapters and air condi-tioning come standard in all the vehicles.

Usually rental companies require customers to be 21 or older to rent a car, but the mini-mum age requirement for the Hertz campus program is 18. To use the service, students must apply at Hertz’s website and re-ceive their membership card in the mail. Cars can be reserved “in minutes, for as little as an hour and as much as a couple days.” Members can # nd their reserved car at the Lot 50 bus stop, where they swipe their membership card to unlock the car, and then return it to the parking space when they

are # nished. Hertz o! ers three di! erent payment plans with advantages that depend on how frequently a driver needs to rent a car. Each plan comes with a monthly or annual fee, an appli-cation fee and an hourly rate of around $8.

Gilbride said he tried to pro-mote the program as much as possible during orientation, and Hertz is now running a promo-tion for University of Arkansas students. Renters must pay a $25 application fee and they will receive $35 in drive time. (Sign up online with the promo code: ‘razorbacks’.) For more informa-tion or to rent a vehicle, go to ConnectbyHertz.com.

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Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday3p.m. - Midnight Noon - Midnight 10a.m. - Midnight 8 a .m. - 1 a .m.

Main Stage (Walton Arts Center Parking Lot)5:30 – 7:00 – Gary and John 7:30 – 9:00 – Another Fine Mess 9:30 – 11:00 – Strange HeroesSouthern Stage (Baum Stadium Parking Lot)5:00-6:30 - Ransom 7:00-8:30 – One Bad Monkey! e AMP8:00 p.m. – Citizen CopeDemo Rides (Baum Stadium Parking Lot)9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Can-Am Spyder, Harley-Davidson, Yamaha

Jeeps Rocks and Road Tour (Baum Stadium Parking Lot) 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.Demo Rides9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Can-Am Spyder, Harley-Davidson, YamahaArkansas State Championship Barbeque Cook-O" (Wash. County Fairgrounds)12:00 p.m. – Contestant Check-InMain Stage4:30 – 6:00 – Red Ambition 6:30 – 8:00 – T.J. Scarlett 8:30 – 10:00 – LaFuSo 10:30 – 12:00 – Boom Kinetic

Poker Run 1 – North Route (From Baum Stadium Lot)8 a.m. – First Bike Out10 a.m. – Last Bike Out4 p.m. – Poker Run EndJeeps Rocks and Road Tour 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.Demo Rides9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Can-Am Spyder, Harley-Davidson, YamahaArkansas State Championship Barbeque Cook-O" 12:00 p.m. – Contestant Check-In 6:30 p.m. – People’s Choice Awards – (Taste Kits: $5)

Poker Run 2 – South Route8 a.m. – First Bike Out10 a.m. – Last Bike Out4 p.m. – Poker Run EndStokes Air Battle of the Bikes (Walton Arts Center Lot)8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – Bike Reg-istration10 a.m. – Judging Begins 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. – $ e Battle of the Bikes 2 p.m. – Final Battle at the Main StageJeeps Rocks and Road Tour 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Andy Gilbride, the Educational and Instruction Specialist for Parking and Transit showed off the University’s newest rental cars. Students can rent these cars starting at $8 an hour.


Local Magazine Harnesses Fayetteville Creativity

It was a moment of fate when Sam Slaton, co-founder of the Fayetteville literary magazine Wolf Review opened a dictionary to peruse the meaning of the word “wolf.” A lesser-known de! nition struck Slaton as perfectly o" - beat. Usually connoting an animal, the de! nition of wolf means the actual pelt of a wolf, or meanness of living.

“It is also de! ned as an instance of dissonance, as when an instrument is broken or tuned incorrectly, you would say there is a ‘wolf ’ in the music,” Slaton said. ########

“While it was, in a way, an excuse for us not thinking of an over-arching theme for the publication, it was a way to make it as open as possible to whatever we deem good that comes our way. It allowed us to take it in whatever direction; it allowed us to de! ne the aesthetic, but not restrict the theme.”

Slaton is currently pursuing his MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College in New York City. In a phone interview, he spoke highly of his time at the University of Arkansas, even though at ! rst he was dead-set against following in his older brother’s academic footsteps. However, as in many cases, scholarship money speaks louder than autonomy.

#“I started in small business management, but that quickly threatened to destroy my soul,” Slaton said. “I always liked writing, so I became an English-Creative Writing major in Fall 2006, and ended up adding a philosophy major.”

Rewind to June 2009, before the birth of Wolf Review, and imagine Slaton and his “partner-in-crime-cum-co-founder and co-editor” Nick Claro deep in thought, sipping whiskey and reading poetry. $ e friends had been mulling

by ERIN ROBERTSONAssistant Features Editor over the strange contrast

between the inspiration ripe for the taking in Fayetteville and the amount of creativity actually producing results in the area.

“We had been discussing for a little while the weirdness of the fact that Fayetteville was like this think tank where people buddied up and got in-spired, and then le% the area and went to places like New York City, Portland or Provi-dence to do what they were dreaming of,” Slaton said. “We thought there was no reason for people not to be doing those things while in Fayette-ville.”

And so they did the things they dreamed of and began taking steps towards Wolf Review. $ e duo created a Facebook page (“Which is indispensable these days when you want to make a mass market,” Slaton said.) and started up a blog for the & edgling publication.

“Surprising enough, people started submitting things,” Slaton said, “but we also had to solicit.”

$ e ! rst team behind Wolf consisted only of Slaton, Claro, and graphic design/artist friend Mike Anderson, the man responsible for the layout and technological details.

“For the ! rst issue, Nick and I talked it up as much as pos-sible, read through submis-sions, chose submissions…for the second one we tried to build o" of whatever momen-tum we had,” Slaton said. “We got a grant from Art Amiss for a couple hundred dollars, and we started printing and selling shirts and totes with the Wolf logo to supplement some of the costs.”

Personal funding plus a great deal of generosity from talented friends and family helped to launch the ! rst is-sue, and since the ! rst two publications, the Wolf Review team has grown and changed

considerably.Kirstin Cauldwell, a UA

graphic design student, de-signed the second issue. Jason Wilkins, Joel Eikenberry and Brett Shook of Workspace designed the Wolf logo, and Wilkins of Workspace will design the third issue, to be released in the upcoming fall/winter.

Slaton described the ! rst issue as “all Arkansans.” To compile the second issue, Sla-ton sent emails to department heads of Universities around the country, asking them to forward the call for submis-sions to their undergraduate and graduate students, from which ! ve non-Arkansan art-ists were featured and eight locals were published.

$ e Wolf Team plans to fea-ture at least three visual art-ists in every issue, and want to keep that category strictly within Arkansas.

“We’ve asked ourselves: what are we trying to do? We want to provide a vehicle for Arkansan voices and artists to be heard and seen,” Slaton said.

When asked about his dreams for the future of Wolf Review, Slaton was humble and optimistic.

“I think as long as I can fea-sibly do this and people are interested, we’ll keep doing it. My hope would be that it would bring attention to oth-erwise relatively unknown writers. Or even if it doesn’t, that it might show people that there’s no reason not to do the things you think are cool and think you can’t do yet – you can do what you want to do.”

“If Wolf can inspire other people to do more things that they get excited about,” Slaton said, “then it would be totally worth it.”

Submissions for the fall/winter issue will be accepted until midnight Sunday, Oct. 10 and the loose theme of the upcoming issue is set as “translation.”

For more information, find Wolf Review on Facebook or at

www.wolfreview.com.

Megan Zachary of Fort Smith and Nick Stewart of Arkansas Tech University joined hundreds of other fans to cheer on the Hogs at Razorback Stadium Saturday.

Outside Razorback Stadium, hundreds of fans without tickets gathered to watch the Arkansas-Alabama game on the Jumbotron and cheer on the Hogs.

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“The Sorostitute” “The Activist” “The Drama Queen” “The Stage-5 Clinger” “The Succubus”“The Drama Queen”

GIRLS NOT TO DATEGIRLS NOT TO DATE

There is nothing wrong with being in a sorority, but the sorostitute takes all of the negative ste-reotypes about Greek life and amplifies them ten-fold. ! She can be heard all the way across cam-pus as she yammers away into her iPhone or Black-berry with the latest gos-sip about rival sorori-ties – that is when she’s not texting at breakneck speed with calloused thumbs. ! The sorostitute never leaves the sorority house without her Greek letters on, and when she goes out to a party, she’s always the first to ask, “Where’s the punch?”!

The sorostitute also has a propensity for fulfill-ing the reputation of her namesake. Don’t expect to get with her unless you’re Greek as well, but if you do, you may wake up with more than you hoped for.

Don’t fall for the activ-ist unless you are very knowledgeable about political science, ethi-cal conundrums and/or environmental con-cerns. ! The activist is in-capable of having a con-versation. ! She can only have debates. !For the ac-tivist, everything is an is-sue or a cause that must be discussed ad nause-am. ! She can come in all shapes and sizes – from the fundamentalist Chris-tian pro-lifer to the hip-pie chick who constantly rants about marijuana le-galization. ! Unless going to a rally for PETA is your idea of a hot date, avoid the activist at all cost.

She doesn’t have to be a drama major to be a dra-ma queen, but like the drama major, she prob-ably lives by the Shake-spearean motto, “All the world’s a stage.” !The dra-ma queen is larger than life at all times. ! Every-thing is a big deal to her even if it is insignificant to everyone else.

Whether it stems from insecurity or some other deep-seeded need to be the center of attention, the drama queen will go out of her way to make sure all eyes are on her. !Unless you have extra-absorbent shoulders and don’t mind being cried upon 24 hours a day, then stay out of her performance space. ! The show isn’t worth the price.

We all know this girl from the incredibly life-like portrayal of her in “Wedding Crashers.” !The stage-5 clinger can be de-scribed in one word – cra-zy . . . bonkers, insane, off her rocker! ! Ok, that’s more than one word, but the bottom line is this girl is too much.

The worst part is that sometimes a

stage-5 clinger can be hard to spot until it is far too late. ! She may seem sweet and innocent at first, but danger lurks be-hind those eyes.

This girl gets way too close way too fast. ! If she tells you on your first date that she’s in love with you or she never wants to leave your side, you may want to start thinking of an exit strategy. ! Howev-er, you better let her down easy because if you don’t, she’ll find you.

" e succubus is not hu-man. !She’s a demon from hell, and she wants your soul. !She will stop at nothing until all the fun in your life has been sucked away.

She will use whatever meth-od of disguise necessary to make you hers. ! However, once under her spell, it is al-most impossible to see her for what she really is.

Your friends are your al-lies. !" ey will be the # rst to see the signs, and they will do their best to warn you. !Listen to them. !When she is around your friends, they will prob-ably complain of a chill run-ning up their spine as soon as she enters the room. ! Af-ter that, it won’t be long be-fore she asks you not to spend time with them anymore. !She knows they are the only ones who can stop her.

If you’re lucky, and you have friends who are strong enough to combat the forces of evil incarnate, you might just be able to make it out of her grasp in one piece. !If not, then may there be mercy on your soul.

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available filled a void in the bar scene and gave people a reason to sit down and hang out. !

“People would sit down and talk for two hours or more. It was great,” he said. “It is a place to meet people

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and meet needs.”The Grill attracts its share

of regulars. Many who come by are known on a by-name basis, and some show up af-ter not having been for sev-eral years to discover that someone remembers their name.

In particular, the local fraternities make it a point to stop by. As Garren said, “The Pikes and Kappa Sigs definitely know what’s go-

ing on.”The diversity of the crowd

lends itself to unpredictable, thought-provoking and en-tertaining conversations ranging from sports to as-trophysics to politics to re-ligion.

On some nights, the Grill can certainly be as much ac-ademic as it is social.

“It is always interesting to talk to people,” said Garren. “The Grill is just a great way

ThursdaySouthern Stage4:00-5:00 – Russ and Mike 5:30-7:00 – Pope County Bootleggers 7:30-9:00 – Quinntalkin 9:30 -11:00 – Jim Mills BandThe AMP6:00 p.m. – Easton Corbin ($10 General Admission)

FridayMain Stage12:30 – 2:00 – TBA 2:30 – 4:00 – Earl’s Garage 4:30 – 6:00 – Rich Fabec 6:30 – 8:00 – Levee Town 8:30 – 10:00 – Earl and ‘Em 10:30 – 12:00 – Oreo Blue Southern Stage2:00-3:00 – Cathead Biscuit 3:30-5:00 – Underground Blues Division 5:30-7:00 – Kory Montgom-ery Band 7:30-9:00 – Robert Hatfield 9:30 – 11:00 – Leah and the Mojo DoctorsWashington County Fair-grounds5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – Metro Park 8:00 p.m. – Midnight – Quinn Talkin’The AMP7:00 p.m. – Pat Travers & Rick Derringer ($10 Admis-sion)

SaturdayDemo Rides9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Can-Am Spy-der, Harley-Davidson, Yama-haArkansas State Champion-ship Barbeque Cook-Off12:00 p.m. – 2 p.m. - BBQ Cook-Off Begins 3 p.m. – Awards CeremonyParade of Power (University of Arkansas Parking Lot 56)3 p.m. – Parade Pre-Staging 4 p.m. – Parade StartMain Stage12:30 – 2:00 – TBA 2:30 – 4:00 – FOS Project 4:30 – 6:00 – The Uncrowned Kings 6:30 – 8:00 – Nace Brothers 8:30 – 10:00 – Joe Giles Band Featuring Anastasia Gilliam 10:30 – 2:00 – Chubby Car-rierSouthern Stage2:00 – 3:00 – Minus Bob 3:30 – 5:00 - Cassette 5:30 – 7:00 – Rich Fabec 7:30 – 9:00 – Little Hoojin 9:30 – 11:00 – Tiffany Chris-topherWashington County Fair-grounds8:00 p.m. – Midnight - Ruck-usThe AMP7:00 p.m. – The Black Crowes ($20 General Admission)

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to interact with people in a different setting than they are used to.”

The purpose of the Grill, however, is to provide much more than just food and time to talk.

“The philosophy behind it is this: we love you,” said Crone. “We don’t know who you are, we don’t know what you need, but we love you.”

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PAGE 10 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010 SPORTS EDITOR: Jimmy Carter ASST. SPORTS EDITOR: Danny Meyer



The Goodyear Blimp flew away from an emptying and subdued Reynolds Razorback Stadium on Saturday, taking Arkansas’ upset hopes with it.

The Razorbacks con-trolled the first three quarters of their matchup with No. 1 Alabama, but the Crimson Tide scored 17 unanswered points to pull out a 24-20 win.

The contest was the first top 10 matchup in Fayette-ville in nearly 31 years and the Hogs almost pulled off their first Fayetteville win over a top-ranked team since beating Texas 42-11 in 1981.

Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett threw two cru-cial fourth-quarter intercep-tions and the school-record crowd of 76,808 witnessed the Crimson Tide win their 28th consecutive regular-season game in dramatic fashion.

“We just need to respond and get over it,” Petrino said. “It’s going to be hard, there’s no doubt about it. We put a lot into it, a lot of preparation and practice.

It’s going to take us a little while to get over it. I think we’re lucky we have a bye.

The Razorbacks get their bye week before play-ing Texas A&M in Arling-ton, Texas on Oct. 9. Ar-kansas took off Sunday and Monday, resumed practice Tuesday, but will get Fri-day and Saturday off before beginning game-week prep for the Aggies on Sunday.

“We’ll give them Friday and Saturday off and then come back again Sunday night,” Petrino said. “We’ve got some time to take a deep breath, regroup and get back feeling good. We need to get back and work hard.”

Mallett in particular will benefit from the bye week, Arkansas offensive coordi-nator Garrick McGee said. The junior’s second intercep-tion Saturday gave Alabama the ball at the Razorbacks’ 12-yard line, setting up Crimson Tide running back Mark Ingram’s go-ahead, 1-yard touchdown run.

Mallett threw an inter-ception on Arkansas’ ensu-ing possession after the Hogs advanced to the Alabama 48 with less than two min-

utes remaining. The Crim-son Tide picked up a fourth-and-1 and ran out the clock for their 18th straight victo-ry overall. Mallett complet-ed just 4-of-10 passes for 51 yards and the two intercep-tions in the fourth quarter.

“I feel bad for (Mallett) right now, because he’s really down, but he turned the ball over and it got us in trouble,”

McGee said. “I think it’s good we have an off week this week, because he’s hard on himself.”

Arkansas can’t take sol-ace in the near win it let slip away, Mallett said.

“We lost,” Mallett said. “What’s a moral victo-ry? People talk about that,

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

Ryan Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER No. 1 Alabama scored 17 unanswered points in the ! nal 16 minutes of a 24-20 win over then-No. 10 Arkansas

Bouncing BackFOOTBALL

Gareth Patterson STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Quarterback Ryan Mallett completed 4-of-10 passes and threw two inter-

ceptions in the fourth quarter

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GOLF

UA MEDIA RELATIONSArkansas freshman Sebastian Cappelen ! nished second in his ! rst collegiate golf tournament.

Cappelen Destined for Razorback Greatness“He has the chance to

be the best player Arkan-sas has ever had.” – Arkan-sas men’s golf coach Brad McMakin about fresh-man Sebastian Cappelen.

That’s a pretty heady statement after seeing Cap-pelen play in just one col-legiate tournament. The Odense, Denmark, native made a pretty big statement with his second-place finish in the season-opening Go-pher Invitational, though.

Cappelen finished with a final round even-par 72 and was one of just four players to finish the tour-nament under par. He re-corded an impressive nine birdies and shot a 5-under-par 67 in the second round to put him in contention.

“I was extremely im-pressed,” McMakin said about Cappelen’s perfor-mance. “He made nine bird-ies that second round and I didn’t see three birdies out there; he even still missed a couple of putts that could

have made 10 or 11 (birdies).”Cappelen was rated the

top junior golfer in Eu-rope last season and was the prized possession of McMa-kin’s 2010 recruiting class.

Cappelen, 20, is older than most freshmen, but his ex-tra maturity helps him keep his poise on the course.

“On the first two rounds of the tournament the two freshmen I was playing with were 18 both of them, and I felt way more ma-ture than them,” Cappel-en said. “I have probably played a lot more tourna-ments than they had, so just

getting into the feeling that I knew what I was doing.”

Cappelen impressed him-self with his place at his first collegiate tournament, but expected to do better on the course as a whole.

“It is good to have a good start and it had effects on everyone here,” Cappelen said. “I felt good before the tournament and I was calm and didn’t feel nervous or anything and just took it like any other tournament.”

Cappelen was named as Razorbacks’ No. 1 golfer by McMakin after the tourna-ment. Cappelen’s ability to putt the ball more effective-ly than his peers is what Mc-Makin said makes him op-timistic about his choice.

“He is the best putter I have ever seen that I have coached,” McMakin said. “From 10 feet and in he is 90 percent while most the guys are 20 percent to 30 percent.”

With the spotlight now on Cappelen, McMakin is hop-ing for some good compe-tition among the other Ra-

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by ZACH TURNERStaff Writer

To Pay or Not to Pay?COMMENTARY

If you follow sports at all, you’re familiar with the A.J. Green situation.

Green, Georgia’s All-Ameri-can receiver, was suspended for the ! rst four games of the sea-son for selling a game-worn jersey for $1,000 to a person the NCAA deemed an agent.

Green and Georgia ap-pealed the suspension, but the NCAA upheld its decision. Stu-dent-athletes receiving extra in-come is a touchy subject and has been for some time now.

Some feel student-athletes deserve to be reimbursed for the revenue they bring to their uni-versities in jersey sales and over-all income. " e argument is uni-versities make money o# student-athletes, but the players see none of the income from jersey sales.

If each player were paid a por-tion of the income from the sales of his or her jersey, there would be a wide disparity. In the Title IX-conscious culture, that wouldn’t $ y. " e star volleyball player like-

ly won’t get near as much money back as the football player with the ! % h-highest selling jersey on the team. " e vast majority of play-ers aren’t going to get any mon-ey back from selling their jersey.

Some argue paying collegiate athletes would result in a greater desire for top prospects to stay in school, speci! cally college basket-ball players who would be provid-ed extra incentive to stay in school instead of jumping to the NBA af-ter the required one year of college.

Universities get portrayed as greedy, cash-hoarding enti-ties, which use student-athletes like slaves for their own gain.

" e only $ aw in that argu-ment is that collegiate athletes do get paid. " ey get paid a lot.

Out-of-state tuition for the University of Arkansas is $24,000 per academic year. If an out-of-state scholarship athlete plays four years, he or she gets near-ly $100 grand worth of educa-tion paid for by the university. Many players redshirt and get a ! % h year of school for free, too.

Most collegiate athletes aren’t going to make it to their professional level and many wouldn’t even be getting a col-lege education if it weren’t for their athletic abilities.

Getting your education paid for seems like a pret-ty good deal to me. I don’t know that I’d push my luck.

Jimmy Carter is the sports edi-tor of " e Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Wednesday.

OLYMPIC

Road Trip GrowthThe Arkansas volleyball

team showed improvement in the first half of a four-game road-trip and will have an op-portunity to continue to grow this weekend against South Carolina and No. 2 Florida.

The road matches against the Gamecocks (3-10, 0-3 Southeastern Conference) and Gators (10-1, 3-0) come on the heels of Ar-kansas’ first road matches. The Razorbacks split their first two matches, losing at Mississippi State on Fri-day, before a four-set vic-tory at Alabama Sunday.

“It was a weekend of growth for us,” Arkansas coach Robert Pulliza said. “We were able to do some good things (against Mis-sissippi State) but were un-

able to close the match out. Then we went out to Ala-bama and were able to do some really good things, so we’re very proud of the way we regrouped af-ter Saturday and were able to come to play Sunday.”

Arkansas’ improvement from Friday to Sunday was a good sign, Pulliza said, as the Razorbacks were able to com-municate on the court more effectively and maintained focus throughout the match.

Sophomore Jasmine Nor-ton put in two double-double performances on the week-end, with 15 kills and 14 digs against Alabama and a 15-kill, 15-dig performance against Mississippi State. Norton has five double-

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but what’s a moral victory? We lost. Alabama’s a good team, but we should have beat them. We didn’t exe-cute and they finished it off.”

The Hogs were on the verge of pulling off their first win against a top 10 opponent un-

der Petrino following a week of build-up. Instead Arkansas blew a 13-point lead in the last 16 minutes of the contest.

“We should have fin-ished that game out and had a win right now,” Mal-lett said. “I think the (bye week) comes at the right time. We need it right now, especially after a loss like that. You just have to watch

the film, learn from it and go to Dallas and play hard.”

How the Razorbacks re-spond to the loss will re-veal their makeup.

“Any time you have ad-versity like that, it doesn’t necessarily build character, but it does reveal it,” Petrino said. “Now we get to find out what we’re made of as a foot-ball team and as individuals.”

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zorback golf team members for qualifying spots. McMa-kin believes the level of play Cappelen established is go-ing to improve the chanc-es of Arkansas reaching its full potential for this season.

“When you have some-one that is always leading the group and you have guys that want to get there it will help the number two guy catch him,” McMakin said. “The number three guy catch the number two guy and so on although we haven’t really figured out our lineup yet.”

Despite being named the top golfer, Cappelen said he can’t be content.

“Things can change the next week, “Cappelen said. “We have Jamie, he is a se-nior and played well for four years, I have only played for one tournament. At the moment though, I am playing really well.”

Cappelen’s experience with the European style of golf has aided his transition to the American style. McMa-kin said the European style is harder because of the con-ditions they have to play in.

“They learn so much and he can hit so many differ-ent shots,” McMakin said. “Our guys are so used to do-ing the same things over and over with American golf. Over there, though, play-ing in the wind and the dif-ferent kinds of golf cours-es playing in the wind he is able to hit low or high.

“He works the ball left to right, right to left re-ally well. His game is just so much more mature than I have seen in a long time.”

Cappelen believes the field of good golfers in America is better than what he was used to back home.

“The best players are quite similar, but if you play bad here you will end up all the way down and you can

get away with (a bad score) in Europe,” Cappelen said.

Cappelen comes from a line athletes. His father, Ul-rik, was a member of the Den-mark national soccer team and his grandfather intro-duced him to golf as a child.

“I had a grandpa who played golf for over 25 years, he introduced me to golf, and I liked it,” Cappelen said.

Cappelen decided to choose golf over soccer be-cause he wanted to focus more on an individual sport and was tired of playing well and his soccer team losing. The decision paid off. He holds the course record for a round at his home course in Denmark, shooting a 10-under-par 62 at Odense Eventyr in July of 2009.

“I shot it last year in a small tournament and it was special; made me realize I was the best on the course,” Cappelen said with a smile.

Now he’s the best on the course for the Razorbacks.

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from COMMENTARYon page 10

Ryan Miller STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas defensive end Jake Bequette can’t reach Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy. ! e Hogs failed to generate any

quarterback hurries and the Crimson Tide conveted 8-of-14 third downs.

held opponents to an aver-age hitting percentage of 17. The Gators beat Arkansas in straight sets twice last year.

Women’s Cross Coun-try Headed to Indiana

The Arkansas women’s cross country team will be heading to South Bend, Ind., to compete in the Notre Dame Invitational 5k. The race will follow a bye-week

in which Arkansas was able to rest and focus on the race.

The nation’s three top-ranked teams, Villanova, Florida State and Washington, will be participating along with fifth-ranked Oregon.

“This is a race that has

an asterisk next to it on the schedule,” Arkansas coach Lance Harter said. “We are going right into the heat and will be tested by fire. Twelve of the top-ranked teams in the nation will all be assembling.”

The race will take place on the Notre Dame golf course, a course that Harter said will pose a unique challenge.

“It’s a relatively flat course, but has a hair-pinned turn at about 400 meters,” Harter said. “You get 300 people try-ing to get position, so those that don’t get there soon enough literally come to a walk through the turn. With a young team we will prob-ably go in a little more con-servative than most, and let them free-reign after that.”

The Razorbacks are ranked third in the South Central Regional poll, and has received votes for a na-tional ranking, but has not cracked the top 25.

Arkansas’ last race at the University of California-Riverside gave the Razor-backs a first-place team fin-ish. The team’s seven runners all placed in the top 25, with Miranda Walker and Kris-ten Gillespie finishing sec-ond and third, respectively.

doubles on the season. The sophomore hit 46.7 percent in the win against Alabama.

The Razorbacks rolled against the Crimson Tide. Arkansas totaled 10.5 blocks, marking the Razorbacks’ sixth double-digit effort in blocks of the season – Arkan-sas had just eight last year.

Sophomore middle block-er Janeliss Torres-Lopez has been a big factor in that stat. Her 1.26 blocks per set and 6.8 per match lead the team.

“This is three weeks in a row that she has out and has shown great effort, per-formance and focus,” Pul-liza said. “She had another spectacular blocking week-end. This is the first time we’ve had an athlete in the top ten in blocks in the con-ference since I’ve been here, and we’re really excited about what she can do for us.”

The Razorbacks’ road trip this weekend will pit them against tough SEC compe-tition. South Carolina’s re-cord does not show the tal-ent they possess. Arkansas had a tough nonconference schedule, which could con-tribute to their unimpres-sive record, Pulliza said. The Gamecock’s libero, Hannah Lawing, leads the confer-ence in digs with 3.32 per set.

The Gators’ No. 2 ranking is well-deserved. Florida has

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FILE PHOTOSophomore Amanda Anderson and the Razorbacks will try to build o" their 3-1 win at Alabama when they travel to

South Carolina and Florida this weekend.

Miranda Walker

The Razorback soccer team will host No. 25 Auburn on Friday in their Southeast-ern Conference home opener.

Arkansas (3-5-2) will face the Tigers on Friday and then play host to Alabama (7-2) – currently on a four-game winning streak – on Sunday.

“Obviously we are re-ally excited to be in confer-ence play,” Arkansas coach Erin Aubry said. “I think you work hard all season and it is hard to keep it out of your head getting into the SEC.”

Arkansas finished its first weekend of SEC play with a 2-1 loss at Tennessee and a double overtime 0-0 tie against No. 17 Georgia. The tie was just the second tie of a ranked opponent in pro-gram history. Aubry said she found this tie to be different because of the magnitude of the game and opponent and because the conditions of the

game made for unfavorable playing surface with rain.

“On Sunday I think it was a little bit different because of the environment we were in,” Aubry said. “I don’t en-courage ties, we don’t play for ties, and we don’t play for low-scoring games.”

The Razorbacks are 0-24 all-time against ranked op-ponents, but will have a chance to pick up their first win against Auburn.

“Obviously it would gen-erate a huge amount of con-fidence,” Aubry said. “For us to put it all together and to come out with a win to kind of put that final stamp on it would generate a huge amount of confidence for us. We want to make those land-mark improvements to show the growth of the program.”

The Razorbacks will play their next four con-ference games at home.

“We are definitely going to have a lot of enthusiasm to play; there is no doubt about that,” Aubry said. “We have

only had two home games so we have seen our fans out there. A Friday night SEC game is, in our stadium, not comparable to any other.”

Arkansas continues to be strong on the defensive side of the ball lead by senior goalkeeper Britni Williams and junior defender Kailey Anders. The Razorbacks have only allowed three goals in their past four games and lead the SEC in saves per game. Kailey Anders has played every minute of the last 12 games, a streak Aubry said she has been impressed with.

“This takes an incred-ible amount of interest, because sometimes play-ers get bored,” Aubry said.

The Razorbacks will look to put points in the books and goals on the score-board this weekend, as they are last in the conference in points. Auburn and Ala-bama have both faired well against Arkansas in the past – both schools are 10-5-2 against the Razorbacks.

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DJ WILLIAMS

Senior, Tight EndLittle Rock, Ark.

2010: 19 receptions, 236 yards

Arkansas Traveler staff writer, Zach Turner caught up with Arkansas tight end D.J. Williams, discussing his in-creased role in the Razorback offense and his bye-week plans.

You are on pace to have a better statistical season this year as opposed to last, and the team is off to a better start as well. Do you see any correlation between the two?

It is just the whole team coming together. I don’t think my stats being better is helping the team more, it is just a part of our offense. Joe (Adams) is having a great year. Knile (Davis) has been running the ball hard, I think he averaged seven yards a carry last game. Brod-erick (Green) is running the ball hard. We have a great quarterback and our offensive line has done a great job.

First loss of the season against Alabama, just give a few quick thoughts about that.

It is tough and something you got to put behind you and not dwell on. You can learn from it because it was a great environment and great opportunity that we had.

Where do you see yourself stacking up with the other premiere tight ends in the country?

It is always something you can take pride in just be-ing the best at your position, and it is a year where I feel I can be the best at my position. I don’t sit back and watch the other games and see if I do better than them because my first concern is our team and our produc-tivity. I will let all the individual stuff take care of itself.

With the bye week coming up do you have any special plans for the weekend or things you would like to get done?

I will probably go home to Little Rock. My head coach, Tim Perry who used to coach at Central Arkan-sas Christian, now coaches the Nashville Scrappers and he is going to be in Little Rock playing Pulaski Academy so I will probably put on a little Scrapper gear. Not tak-ing anything away from CAC, but I love coach Perry.

In your opinion, who is the best basket-ball player on the Razorback football team?

That would be between Joe Adams and Brandon Mitch-ell. Joe and Brandon are unbelievable athletes. Guess we got to get a one-on-one match set up and call in Erin Andrews to get the GameDay crew and everybody.

Hogs Anticipate Conference by ZACH TURNER

Staff Writer

Gareth Patterson STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior Kailey Anders and the Arkansas soccer team will try to pick up the program’s ! rst win over a top 25 opponent

when they host Auburn at Razorback ! eld on Friday.

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