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!e student living industry has been making the most of UA’s steady growth over the last few years, building complexes with hundreds of rooms, exclu-sively for students.

“!ey’re coming in and I think it’s certainly di"erent to have some of these large, pre-dominantly student-only hous-ing projects,” said Andrew Gar-ner, the senior planner for the city of Fayetteville.

Fayetteville’s traditional housing stock was based more on the necessities, Garner said, but recent construction has fo-cused on upscale student living. It is no longer uncommon for studens to take a short walk to the building’s workout center, pool or study lounge.

“From what I’ve heard from these housing developers, they feel like there’s a market for that, which is a di"erent market,” Garner said.

!e developers are also new to the area. Instead of local companies owning and man-aging new complexes like !e Grove and !e Domain, out-of-state businesses want in on the growing pool of student cash.

“I think almost all of them are from out-of-state,” Garner said. “!ey’re not the ones that have been here a long time and changing what they’re doing. !ey’re like a chain, a college student housing developer that does these, and they do it at all the major college cities around the country.

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It’s Friday night, and a group of friends are arguing over the hour’s most intense debate — where to eat in Fay-etteville. With all of the unique restaurants on Dickson Street, fast food on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Ameri-can chain restaurants on Col-lege Avenue, there are meal venues to #t every college stu-dent’s budget.

Fayetteville, is one of the best college towns to live in be-

cause of its music venues and food, according to Southern Living’s website.

With the cheapest on-cam-pus meal plan being $1,431, according to the UA dining webpage, many students resort to eating out around campus.

Rick’s Bakery, located on College Avenue, is known for its cakes, donuts and pastries. !e bakery is considered a cheap eat according to the Urbanspoon website, but the prices are not based on the col-lege student’s wallet.

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Arkansas’s largest county fair will begin Aug. 28 and end on Sept. 1 at the Fayetteville’s fair grounds near Garland Av-enue.

!e fair will also o"er free entertainment on the Arkan-sas Music Pavillion’s stage each

night. UA students are both in-

volved in the fair and attend the fair said Kendall Pender-gra$, president of the Wash-ington County Fair.

“4-H and FFA members are allowed to participate in the livestock auction, so only freshmen participate in that particular auction. We have one junior in the open division

as well, she said.”Taking part in the fair can

also bene#t students through scholarship.

“We award several schol-arships. !e fair awards four scholarships per year and we also award two others in memory of longtime fair participants. To apply for the

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ASG’s chair of the senate has urged students to partici-pate in upcoming senate elec-tions.

“We need senate candi-dates, leaders among the chair of the senate.

Senate is the representa-tive body of every student on

this campus. It dra$s, passes and votes on legislation, which could be either a bill or resolution, Norton said. He encouraged students to be-come involved.

“College is reciprocal. You get from it what you put into it. We want to leave this cam-pus looking better than we found it. It’s up to us to ensure the administration is always looking a$er students’ best interests,” Norton said.

Students will need to cam-paign and get elected in order to become a member of sen-ate.

“Utilize social media heav-ily and focus on the buildings most used by your college, es-pecially with %yers,” Norton said. “You may also utilize club Listservs, as long as they approve, which is an excellent way of getting out the vote of those who share your same interests.”

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that city,” he said. !e university’s under-

graduate population has grown 28 percent since fall 2008, to 24,595 this fall, according to the o&ce of institutional research.

Houston based Asset Cam-pus Housing noticed the uni-versity’s growth and decided to tap into the market, said Alex Abernathy, a leasing and mar-keting specialist. !e company plans to open !e Domain next fall, located o" of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

When Asset builds, other companies follow, Abernathy said.

“We’re considered the largest privately owned student man-agement company in the world right now,” he said. “We’ve got over 70 properties and serve 40,000 students nationwide.”

Asset o&cials have been working out the details of the project for the last few years, before breaking ground in May, Abernathy said.

“Usually when we do enter a market there are other com-panies that follow us into it just because they know that we know how to prime the mar-ket,” he said. “We have a great product so they think it’s a good opportunity as well.”

!e Fayetteville complex will be able to house 650 stu-dents and includes a pool, tan-ning beds, a volleyball court, study rooms and other ameni-ties in the $500 per person price range, Abernathy said.

Some local companies have also taken notice.

!e ECO Modern Flats, which are environmentally sus-tainable, leased out remodeled rooms in Nov. 2010. Formerly the Glendale apartments, the complex was gutted and reno-vated, said Kimberly Pierson, the community leader.

“I believe the quality of Fayetteville is improving and it’s due a lot to the population growth at the university and of course the lack of new or qual-ity apartments that were here in Fayetteville,” she said. “I think it’s de#nitely pushing the bar up and it’s requiring older apart-ment complexes to renovate and to get rid of the old dilapi-dated apartments.”

“We are 100 percent occu-pied and have a waiting list al-ready,” she said.

Springdale based MC3 Man-agement, which manages the ECO Flats has two other com-plexes in the works, most no-tably the Sterling Fresco apart-

ments, which the company has already started construction on.

Lindsey Management oper-ates about 11,000 apartment complexes in northwest Arkan-sas, said Scott Rogerson, direc-tor of the company.

Lindsey Management runs !e Links and !e Cli"s, two complexes that cater to stu-dents and have non-essential amenities. While there has been growth in the market, Rogerson does not have any new, big proj-ects in the works.

He said that while “we love our students,” the company also rents to young professionals and families, where the new com-plexes only cater to students.

Instead of “raising the bar,” these new complexes have actu-ally helped out the local housing scene by o"ering more options to students, Garner said.

“It allows for a mix of di"er-ent product types,” he said. “I don’t think it’s going to dictate or change or require anybody else to do anything if they don’t feel like it. Not everybody’s go-ing to be able to a"ord the $700 per month and they’ll still be living in the other places.”

Karen Stigar contributed to this report.

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elections will take place Sept. 4 through Sept. 6. Results will be announced by 10 p.m. Sept. 6, according to the ASG website.

Norton will be happy once elected senators are in place so that they can continue making the UA a better place, he said.

“I want senate to get back to the basics this year, focus-ing less on expensive pro-grams and internal reforms and more on #xing problems for their fellow students,” Norton said.

In order to pass more leg-islation this year, senators will be required to write at least one piece of legislation

per semester, Norton said.“!is will allow senators

to focus on issues outside of the ASG o&ce and still walk away with something to show for,” Norton said. “!e new requirement will give them the experience of writ-ing and defending legisla-tion. My goal is to have them walk away from senate with something to talk about in an interview, as an example of when they showed leader-ship in addressing an issue of importance.”

!is new requirement will also replace senator o&ce hours.

“I’ve always dreaded of-#ce hours. !ey were a once a week hour-long nuisance that didn’t produce much,” Nor-ton said.

ASG President Tori Pohl-ner has speci#c initiatives from her platform that she wants to go through senate this year, she said.

“We will be utilizing the director of legislative a"airs to make sure each [senator] know[s] how to write legisla-tion and be a liaison between senate and cabinet to ensure a good relationship exists be-tween them,” Pohlner said.

scholarships, you simply have to get online on our website and #ll out the form. Of course, you have to have participated in the fair in order to be eligible,” Pendergra$ said.

Deadlines for this year’s scholarships have already passed.

!e UA student popula-tion is a demographic that the fair attempts to reach when marketing events, Pendergra$ said.

“!is year we have hired someone to help us with marketing because the UA is a large group of people we want to reach. In fact, Beat the Bookstore is o"ering coupons for every student that buys a book that give them o" on Sat-urday from them. Tuesday night [was] $2 gate admis-sion and on Friday you get $5 o" at the gate if you bring a Pepsi can.”

Kirsten Hartz, a junior speech communications major, believes the fair is an event that bene#ts the entire northwest Arkansas community.

“I participated in the fair when I was younger and really enjoyed it. I grew up in Fayetteville so my family and I always went together. With the schol-arships and entertainment the fair provides, I think it is a great opportunity for those in our community no matter what age you are,” she said.

Admission to the fair will cost $5 each night. Among the fair’s largest events are rides, exhibits, livestock shows and night-ly performances. Tuesday, the Southern gospel group Master’s Voice performed on the AMP stage and on Aug 29, country group Steel Magnolia will per-form, according to the fair’s website.

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Silas Hunt will be perma-nently memorialized at the UA today, with the addition of a statue of his likeness.

A dedication event will take place at 4:30 p.m. be-tween the Pi Phi Centennial Gate and Old Main.

Hunt was the #rst black student to attend the univer-sity when he came to campus in 1948, according to a press release.

UA made the decision to accept Hunt a$er recognizing the negativity brought upon other southern universities that did not accept blacks. Hunt was accepted to law school, while black under-graduate students were still denied acceptance, according

to encyclopediaofarkansas.net.

!e statue was sculpted by Bryan Massey and was com-missioned by the Arkansas Public Art Advisory Commit-tee.

Chancellor G. David Gearhart, the art department chairperson Jeannie Hulen, and Massey will speak at the dedication.

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It costs about $100,000 to run one bus on the Razor-back Transit for a year, tran-sit o&cials said.

!at money goes to pay-ing for fuel, driver salary and maintenance, said Andy Gil-bride, education and instruc-tion specialist for UA transit.

In addition, it costs $375,000 to buy a new bus, he said. !is year, Razor-back Transit o&cials bought and put into service two new buses, both added to the Red route.

With 19 buses in service that adds up to around $1.9 million yearly, plus extra buses in case of problems and for special events, Gil-bride said.

!e transit system re-ceives a little more than $2 million a year in federal, and city funds and student fees, leaving around $500,000 ex-tra for incidentals like extra fuel costs, unexpected main-tenance, bus shelter in case of bad weather or vandalism, Gilbride said.

!e transit service gets most of its money from stu-dent fees and federal fund-ing. Transit receives about $1.3 million from student fees annually at about $2.53 per credit hour, Gilbride said.

!e federal government contributes nearly $1 mil-lion in operating funds and $68,000 in capital funds, Gil-bride said.

“We have to match it (fed-eral funds) with university money (student funds), so we don’t end up having any

federal money le$ at the end of the year and the money we have le$ from student fees we keep for the next year,” he said.

Because of federal stipula-tions, the Razorback Transit is required to remain public as long as the UA receives federal and city funds, Gil-bride said.

“We are federally funded,” Gilbride said. “!at’s why everyone can use it. As soon as we stopped taking fed-eral money we could close it down to just UA students and faculty -- we wouldn’t be able to pick everybody else up if we didn’t take those funds.”

In addition, the city of Fayetteville provides $50,000 a year, he said.

During the summer and winter breaks, the Razorback Transit operates only four out of the normal 10 routes on a reduced service sched-ule. On Saturdays, during the normal spring and fall semesters, Razorback tran-sit operates all 10 routes on a reduced service schedule, according to the Razorback Transit website.

During these times, the cost to run and maintain buses is generally lower be-cause of lower ridership, Gil-bride said.

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“We set the prices based on the cost of materials and labor to make each item,” said Shannon Bode, Rick’s Bakery employee. “We do have a great deal of business not only from college stu-dents but from the UA as a whole.”

While Rick’s Bakery does not have any o&cial student discounts, they o"er other means of price markdowns.

Bode said that Rick’s al-ways has coupons in the cam-pus coupon booklet, donates products to student organiza-tions and accepts Razorbucks.

Fast food restaurants such as Popeye’s Chicken o"er a student-dis-count meal, while Taco Bell takes 10 percent o" of the ticket total when s t u d e n t s show their UA ID card.

E u r e k a Pizza o"ers a “Monday Mad-ness” price of #ve-dollar take-out pizza, while Mojo’s Pints and Pies, located o" of North S t r e e t , s e r v e s their pizza half-price on Mon-day nights.

“It is great to not have to worry about cooking food and just have a pizza ready to eat at a cheap price,” said Alex Rut-ledge, sophomore computer science major.

Q d o b a M e x i -can Grill, located on Dickson Street, discounts its tacos to one dollar with the

purchase of a drink.While some UA students

base their meal choices on frugality, others base their de-cision on taste.

Rutledge said his fa-vorite place to eat in Fayetteville is Ham-montree’s, a grilled cheese sandwich shop located on West Avenue o" of Dickson Street.

“I love all of the sandwich varieties that they have,” he said.

Restaurants that let the customer choose the ingredi-ents in their meal allow them to not o"er the cheapest prices but still receive a modest prof-it.

“I like to eat at Burger Life, but it is kind of expensive,” said Kyira Schrock, sopho-more computer science major. “You get to build your own burg-ers, and it is delicious.”

Uniqueness of a food ven-dor may have an e"ect on some students, but college stu-dents agree that it is bene#cial to save money on eating out.

“I think that students tend to go to budget-friendly res-taurants so that they can save the most money,” Rutledge said. “It is great that Fay-etteville has places that o"er student discounts for college kids.”

Students like to have ex-tra cash in their pocket, but they will o$en spend that extra money to be with their friends.

“I usually base where I eat on where my friends go,” Schrock said. “I do not base

my choices primarily on cost, but I am also not going to go a four-star restaurant either because my friends usually choose La H u e r t a or Buf-falo Wild Wings.”

According to the LA Times, “!e Dark Knight Rises” made $249 million during its open-ing weekend, indicating that people still enjoy the movies even when trying to stretch a dollar. UA students can also use their ID to get a discount at Razorback Malco Cinema.

“We strive to o"er com-petitive pricing at all of our theatres, and we feel the $1 discount (o" of regular admis-sion pricing) is a good deal for students,” said Alan Denton, vice president of Malco’s cor-porate communications.

Fayetteville o"ers a bal-ance between top-dollar res-taurants and low-priced ones. With so many dining choices available, students can easily choose what #ts their budget and social needs best.

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College and leisure time are rarely coupled in the same sentence. For many college students, a typical day requires more planning than a Broadway production. !e only way to get through the day is by consult-ing a color-coded, minute-by-minute list detailing where to be and what to do.

Picture this: Your teacher lets class out 15 minutes early, giving you just enough time to cram for the French quiz that you couldn’t study for last night, because a"er you #nished teaching Pilates at the HPER yesterday, you had to rush to your sorority to help paint a banner.

Before the paint #nished drying, your roommates pulled up so you could grab a quick bite to eat before they dropped you o$ at your intramural soc-cer competition.

During hal"ime, you called the vice president of Ad Club to discuss your latest project idea, and then you had to skip the postgame victory celebration to make it to small-group leader meeting which you arrived at #ve minutes late.

When that meeting ran over, you barely had enough time to #nish your online mylabsplus homework before the midnight deadline hit. You #nally dri"ed o$ to sleep while trying to catch up on your class reading ... still 16 pages shy of where you’re supposed to be.

Face it, we are busy.. People speed by on their way to one ac-tivity or another, talking about how their volunteer hours and leadership skills are building their résumé.

It’s easy to get swept in when you’re surrounded by students with a seemingly insatiable hun-ger for involvement.

As they stroll through Ra-zorbash, students are barraged by clubs and organizations clamoring to hop aboard and get active. Churches, Greek organizations and intramural leagues also stake their own claim for attention.

With UA boasting over 350 RSOs on the student activities website, as well as a create-your-own option, there are plenty of things vying for students’ time.

Idle people are less happy than their busier counterparts, according to a 2010 survey pub-lished in the journal Psycholog-ical Science.

Not only are people with full schedules more productive, but they’re actually more satis#ed. !e general consensus for idle-ness is it’s bad, and extremely so.

Scroll through any quote website on the Internet and

you’ll #nd pages devoted to warning just how detrimental the idle are to society.

Yet there comes a point when business becomes exces-sive. What’s the magical thresh-old that divides being produc-tively busy with being far too exhausted? Obviously it varies for everyone, and sometimes, students get stretched a little too far.

!e majority of health pro-fessionals agree that sleep is more than just vaguely ben-e#cial. Passing your classes also falls in the realm of important things that you should pay at-tention to. Yet these are some of the areas that students are quick to compromise.

People tell themselves that one sleepless night or one D won’t hurt them.

!ey are right. Yet these singular occur-

rences have a nasty tendency to gain frequency until they re-semble something frighteningly similar to habit. Bad habits can quickly hamper collegiate suc-cess.

College life is grooming us to multitask and micromanage until our planners are laden with ink-#lled pages of cramped appointments. But to what end?

A"er leaving college will we discover that we’re afraid of empty calendar spaces? Have we lost our ability to be calm?

Continually bouncing from one activity to another doesn’t leave much room for relaxation, which can deter stress.

Prolonged stress can be dif-#cult and have adverse e$ects over time. However, we can overcome.

“Manage your time and tasks to get done what you can. Make a realistic list of tasks to do,” according to the Pat Walker Health Clinic website on how to alleviate stress. Furthermore, balance time by regularly taking the time to relax.

It doesn’t have to be long, nor does it have to be extreme. A semester-long mountain re-treat to practice tai chi in the heart of Kilimanjaro isn’t neces-sary. However, taking just a few minutes to do something you want actually can help.

Never be afraid to push yourself. Being busy is ful#lling.

However, when you #nd that you can’t manage to pencil in the things you love, maybe it’s time to turn down a couple of requests.

It is impossible to do every-thing that you want to do. In-stead, gi" your time wisely.

Shawnya Wethington is a contributing columnist. She is a sophomore English/journalism- editorial/print major.

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Not everybody’s going to be able to a"ord the $700 per month and they’ll still be living in the other places.

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Fad diets come and go, but some diets are required because of physical necessity or even ethically based.

!ese diets, such as being vegan or gluten-free, severely restrict the culinary options available on campus for the students who are bound by them.

O"en times on campus free food is o$ered at events, like last week during the Walton College Block Party and Business Bash where pizza, hot dogs, cookies and watermelon were o$ered to students. !at’s great for students who eat the standard American diet , but what about those of us who can’t or choose not to eat meat or dairy, or the students who cannot tolerate gluten?

I am aware that the population of students this a$ects is rather small, but it is growing daily, as more people become more environmentally and nutritionally conscious.

Some students actually get by #nancially by seeking out the free food that is available to save money during their stay at UA. !is option is just not provided for people with an alternative diet, unless they were to try and live on watermelon alone.

Another way many students have been making dietary changes recently is by switching to organic produce, grown without pesticides, herbicides or growth hormones.

I personally committed to buying only organic produce about eight months ago. I didn’t do this because I like spending all of my money on food.

I did it because I was terri#ed of putting toxins in my body that are strong enough to kill living things, but also because I can no longer conscientiously support the type of agriculture that would use pesticides despite our knowledge of the environmental damage it causes.

“Over the past three years we have seen a decline in customer interest in organics. Nationwide, there has been a decline in general consumer interest as well. Price conscious consumers have certainly dri"ed away from organics as an option,” said Kim Johnson, marketing director for Chartwells on campus.

So is it our own fault that these options aren’t being made available?

What is our social responsibility when buying food? We need to step up and show what we want by paying the extra dimes to cast a monetary vote for the better foods.

People who make the decisions about what to provide will then be able to see clearly what it is that we want. How can we do that though if the option is not made available to us?

I have yet to be able to #nd one source of organic produce on campus that is for sale or distribution to

the student population. !is troubles me because there is fruit for sale.

It is made readily available at the food court, in the cafeterias and at all of the Club Reds on campus. While Chartwells has made an e$ort to o$er free-range eggs and growth hormone-free milk, the produce that they serve is still not organic.

For vegans who are eating at Brough Commons, the produce available is one of the only things they can actually eat in the entire cafeteria.

I had breakfast at Brough Commons yesterday, just to test it out and see what I could #nd. I paid $8 for that breakfast that consisted of a non-organic orange, a half of a plain bagel with peanut butter on it, tater-tots and a cup of orange juice. !ose were the only options I had. I could have taken that money somewhere o$ campus and eaten a delicious vegan meal that was organic that would have been much more satisfying.

!ankfully, I don’t live on campus and eating at Brough Commons was an experiment for me, and not a reality. However, I can’t help but pity the vegan who is living on campus with no car and who’s meals are covered by a meal plan which allows them to eat only at the cafeterias there.

Tater tots and fruit that some would consider to be unhealthy due to pesticides will not maintain a healthy body and without a healthy body, one cannot focus on

building a healthy mind. Chartwells does o$er

some vegan foods, such as veggie wraps from the food court and the Club Reds occasionally have packaged vegan or gluten-free foods, but they are very hard to come by.

Also, there is apparently no source of organic produce on campus that is for sale. Chartwells has made e$orts to cut down on water use and waste by eliminating their tray systems, so why not go the extra mile and pull for organics?

I cannot understand is; because we are paying for the fruit or vegetables regardless … why can we not be provided with some organic options?

If we would choose to pay as much as twice the price for an organic banana vs. a pesticide covered one because it is that important to us, we ought to have that option.

Shouldn’t we be able to prove with our purchases that a market for organic food does exist?

Harvard is now o$ering organic produce and though we may not have the same resources, we should provide more options to students concerning their diet. We should get on board and take the lead, inspiring this change to happen in college campuses across the nation.

Jodi Nimmo is a contributing columnist. She is a junior journalism-editorial/print major.

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Jodi NimmoContributing Columnist

When I started taking French in the eighth grade, my parents were initially apprehensive that I’d be wasting my time learning a language just so I could sound like an arrogant “kid” whenever I pronounce Paris as “Pah-ree” and order “mille-feuille” without making a fool of myself.

And, they were kind of right.

Being that northwest Arkansas does not boast sizeable French- or German-speaking populations, but has seen a signi#cant increase in the Hispanic population in the last decade; Spanish is, ostensibly, the most useful language for students to learn

if they plan on staying and working in the area.

Becoming bilingual, no matter what the language, improves mental abilities and staves o$ symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease, according to research done by Dr. Ellen Bialystock.

To be fair, I’m not particularly concerned about Alzheimer’s at this point in my life, and I doubt that will ever become a major selling point to convince language students to go home and conjugate irregular verbs during their spare time.

Another #nding is that bilinguals are better at multitasking when they performed better than monolinguals at driving while talking on the phone, according to Bialystock.

I took French for #ve years,

all through high school. I thought about taking Spanish at some point, but starting Spanish I as a junior sounded, pardon my French, hellish. Now, as a freshman in college, I have more options for my third language.

And I picked Russian. Judging from my academic

choices, one would think my career plans involve becoming an international super spy during the Cold War. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t, but I digress.

Regardless of whatever career path I end up taking, my language skills will put me in a higher demand.

In fact, bilingual pay di$erentials range between 5 and 20 percent per hour more than the position’s base rate, according to Salary.com.

In any case, I’m glad that

I put so much time into my French studies. And, I’m kind of ba%ed whenever people tell me I’ll never use it. I doubt I will ever use the majority of the things I “learned” in high school. French opened me up to many opportunities I would’ve never gotten from, say, calculus.

French got me a scholarship to study abroad for a summer in the sunny south of France.

Finally, it will continue to guarantee opportunities in a job market that is growing increasingly international.

All I ever got from math was pain.

Katelyn Page is a contributing columnist. She is a freshman international relations major.

A Bilingual State of MindKatelyn PageContributing Columnist

!e Arkansas Traveler NewspaperWednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 Page 5

Companion Editor: Nick BrothersAssistant Companion Editor: Shelby Gill

“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

Getting an apartment or house is an exciting part of the college experience, open-ing up new opportunities and freedoms. But moving into your own place also means having to buy furniture. Get-ting a couch, a TV, a bed and all of the other necessary pieces of furniture can add up very quickly. An easy and less expensive way to furnish a new place is to get furniture from Craigslist.

Along with having post-ings about job listings, ser-vices and many other things, Craigslist has a very large “For Sale” section. You can !nd everything from cars, phones and clothing. With a little bit of browsing, you can !nd pretty much any kind of furniture you need.

“I got almost all my furni-ture from Craigslist,” said Ka-ity Dye, a junior anthropol-ogy major. “It was a cheaper alternative to buying furni-ture at the store and is espe-cially awesome for college kids with no money.”

Craigslist sets up an anon-ymous email account for sell-ers that is used for initial con-tact. From there, you can set up a meeting time to pick up the furniture. When setting up a meeting time, it’s smart to either make the meeting in a public place or to bring someone with you, just to avoid a shady situation.

"e Craigslist listing may not be completely honest or not say much about the con-dition of the furniture, leav-ing room for negotiations.

“When we picked up the futon (we bought on Craig-slist), it had a little more dam-age than (the seller) let on, so we were able to negotiate and get it for a little cheaper,” said Rielle Dye, UA law student.

“Meeting up is always a little awkward, but as long as you bring cash and a truck, and a friend, it should work out well,” Kaity Dye said.

Even if the item you bought o# of Craigslist isn’t exactly pretty, with a little hard work, time and money, you can turn it into something you’ll love having in your home. An easy !x for an ugly couch is a slip-cover, which can be bought from home decor stores such as Bed Bath and Beyond or at large superstores like Target or Walmart. You can also pur-chase throw pillows at these stores to add a little color to the couch and the room it’s in.

Fixing a less-than-perfect dresser or bookshelf may re-quire a more than a trip to Target. Items like these usu-

ally need to be re!nished and painted to be spruced up. Luckily, in the age of the Internet, a tutorial on re!n-

ishing and painting a piece of furniture is nothing more than a few clicks away on Pinterest or Google. Pinter-est also has great tutorials on how to make the piece even more special, like !lling in the back wall of a bookshelf with patterned fabric for a pop of

color. Another great thing to do for an old or boring piece of furniture is to buy a few brightly colored knobs for any drawers on it. "is cus-tomizes it to your taste and can bring in any color coor-dination you have going on in the room.

For those of you looking to get rid of items, whether you are moving into a smaller place or just wanting to make some extra money from an unused item, selling on Craig-slist is a fairly simple process. Simply visit Craigslist and click on “Post to Classi!eds.” "is will take you through the entire process. Before you post, though, try browsing through the “For Sale” sec-tion to see what other people are selling similar items for. "is way you can be sure to get the most money. It’s ex-tremely helpful to include pictures and as many details as possible in your posting so that the buyer knows what they are getting and will not try to negotiate for a lower price once they see the item.

When trying to furnish a new apartment or home, there is little need to stress out about getting furniture. Using Craigslist is a cheap

and easy way to get the needed pieces for your place. Craigslist items can also be great do-it-yourself projects. All you need is some time, a little computer knowledge and patience, along with some money, and you’ve got a furnished house.

Furnishing Your Home with Craigslist

Most books that contain the phrase “Essays:” in the title scare me. Partially be-cause they remind me of ev-ery English Lit class I’ve ever taken, and partially because “Essays:” usually contain some deep, intimidating rev-elation of life that I have yet to fully comprehend. Sloane Crosley’s compilation of es-says in her book, “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” proves to be a rare breed of its kind — humorous — no, downright hilarious.

In a truly unique way, Crosley reveals her own rev-elations of life, and those vary from hoarding toy po-nies to stealing an exhibit at the Natural History Museum. She captures New York living in a light-hearted and unas-suming manner whilst some-how exploiting life all at the same time.

“As most New Yorkers have done, I have given se-rious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day,” Crosley writes in “I Was Told There’d Be Cake.”

Her book is not in the least offensive but drudges up a variety of relatable hy-pocrisies she’s experienced. Crosley has a true knack for appealing to a college-age audience through vivid im-agery, a quirky tone of voice and guaranteed laughter-in-ducing punch lines.

“By the time I graduated, I had groomed myself into a liberal-arts worker bee with a pitch-perfect buzz for maga-zine publishing. I had more

magazine internships under my belt than I had actual belts,” Crosley writes in “I Was Told There’d Be Cake.”

Crosley isn’t obviously funny; she’s naively funny, and that’s what makes her book so inviting to read. It isn’t pretentious or planned. Through her writing, you can just tell that this is, in fact, her life.

“I Was Told There’d Be Cake” is divided into essays, and each essay is an event in Crosley’s life. These range from family conversations to Christian summer camp to even her high school prom.

“There are two types of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not,” Crosley writes.

Each essay is titled with a small snip-it from the actual essay so the reader doesn’t understand the connection until after reading the essay. Since the titles are so outra-geous, this tactic really drives the reader to finish the book.

In the author’s note, Cro-

sley explains that her book is compilation of brush strokes of the people in her life.

“The goal was to main-tain people’s privacy without damaging the integrity of the essays,” Crosley writes in the author’s note.

From the very first sen-tence of “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” readers will be on the floor laughing at not just the atrocity of the situ-ation, but the relatability of each event that Crosley encounters.

‘I Was Told !ere’d Be Cake’ by Sloane Crosley

Georgia CarterSta! Writer

BOOK REVIEW

Shelby GillAsst. Companion Editor

Sarah Colpitts Contributing PhotographerAubrey Bland, a recent UA graduate, sits writing at her desk, which she found and bought on Craigslist.

“Meeting up is always a little awkward, but as long as you bring cash and a truck and a friend, it should work out well.”

Kaity DyeJunior anthropology major

"e sting of living away from your parents be-gins to set in the moment you are faced with cook-ing your own meals. Not once a week, when Brough closes before you get to din-ner, but every day, three times a day.

Here are some simple and inexpensive meals to take away the daunting task of cooking and to leave you a little more satis!ed than you would be with a bowl of Easy Mac.

One of the di$culties of cooking in college is mak-ing meals for one. "ese !rst couple of recipes can be made several times dur-ing the week using a roasted chicken from the grocery store.

"e !rst night you buy the chicken, you can slice a serving and eat it with a salad and pasta. Boil at least two servings of the pasta to use later in the week.

You can also cut up the le%over chicken add a little mayonnaise, celery, onion, apple or grapes, and salt and pepper to make chick-en salad. Put the spread on a sandwich or eat it with crackers.

Another meal you can make with your le%over chicken is chicken noodle soup. Heat chicken broth in a saucepan and add cut-up chunks of your le%over chicken. "en add your le%-over pasta, cut up carrots and celery, and a little salt and pepper.

To !nish o# your chick-en, you can make chicken stir-fry. Buy a package of Rice-A-Roni Fried Rice &a-vor and prepare according to the package instructions. Add the cut-up chicken during the last few minutes of the rice’s cooking time, and enjoy.

Because of busy sched-ules, many college meals have to be eaten on the go. Better Home and Gar-dens has an egg pita pocket breakfast that takes 15 min-utes to make from start to !nish and can easily be tak-en on the go.

Scramble two eggs, add chopped-up ham, spinach and bell peppers and cook until done. Put the scram-bled eggs into a pita pocket, and eat it on your way to class. "is breakfast is full of protein and iron and is only $0.95 per serving.

For another easy break-fast option, take a pita pocket and put peanut but-ter and sliced bananas in-side. You can also do the same thing with Nutella and

strawberries or whatever fruit you like.

You can also use a pita pocket to take a sandwich on the go. Put turkey, let-tuce, tomatoes, cheese and a little hummus in the pita pocket, and eat it between classes.

Seventeen magazine presented an article on “A Week of Good Eats,” where they featured a pita pizza as a healthier pizza alterna-tive. Spread marinara sauce on a piece of pita bread. "en add mozzarella cheese

and whatever toppings you would like. Bake in the oven on 400 degrees for seven minutes.

“Ramen to the Rescue Cookbook” features over 100 recipes using a college student’s favorite meal: ra-men noodles. "e book transforms the everyday package of ramen into meals that are nutritious and sometimes even gour-met.

One of the recipes is teriyaki chicken stir-fry. All you need is vegetable oil, one chicken breast sliced into strips, teriyaki sauce, vegetables and ramen.

First, stir-fry the sliced vegetables in a pan with a tablespoon of vegetable oil. "en add the sliced chicken, and stir until it is cooked through. "en add the ' cup of teriyaki sauce to the mixture and cook for two minutes. Empty the stir-fry into a bowl of cooked ramen noodles, and enjoy your teriyaki chicken stir-fry.

"e ramen cookbook also has a recipe for home-style mac and cheese made with ramen noodles. You need a package of chicken-&avored ramen noodles, butter, milk and shredded cheddar cheese.

Cook the ramen noodles like you normally would, but drain the broth once they are cooked. "en add a tablespoon of butter and ' cup of milk, and stir until the butter is melted. "en add the ( cup of cheddar cheese.

Almost all of these meals can be made with variations from the same ingredi-ents. Get creative with your meals, and you will never have an excuse for settling for a bowl of cereal for din-ner.

Cheap Meals: !e Best Bang for Your StomachCaitlin MuradSta! Writer

Mr. BlueJose’s Patio at 8 p.m.

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!e Arkansas Traveler Newspaper

Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012 Page 7

When football season comes around, I start getting reminiscent. Not just for past football games, but for all of my past experiences with the Hogs.

My favorite memory con-cerning the football team is from my freshman year of

college during Razorback Fan Day. At that point, I didn’t know any of the football play-ers’ names — except for Ryan Mallett, of course. I remember getting my T-shirt signed and making my way down the de-fensive players’ line.

I was really shy coming into college, so while I was getting autographs, I kept my head down. I made it halfway through the line, players ask-ing how I was and telling me to have a good day, and suddenly one player asked me what my name was.

I looked up at the speaker and saw my new favorite foot-ball player — Jake Bequette.

I tell you this story to re-mind you of something as the !rst football game approaches. Our athletes are real people

and excellent representatives of the UA, not just sports ce-lebrities. Too o"en people treat them like their only job is to win games, but these play-ers represent our school in so many more ways than that.

Not too long ago was this year’s Fan Day at Bud Walton Arena. #is year I paid atten-tion to how the athletes inter-acted with fans. Did you know that the Razorbacks are really nice people?

For two hours, these ath-letes signed autographs for hundreds of people who had been waiting in lines for hours. And not once did any of the team complain.

Knile Davis de!nitely tugged my heartstrings when a little boy asked him if he could get a picture with him.

Davis agreed, and the boy stood beside him and faced the camera, totally content to have his picture taken right there. Davis, however, picked the boy up and sat him on his knee. It was one of the sweetest things I witnessed that day — imagine being a kid and your hero scooping you up like that. #at’s basically real-life Super-man hugging you, right?

Alfred Davis (or “Big Al,” as he signed his name) seemed to be in bright spirits the whole time as well, smiling and jok-ing with fans about how fast the lines were moving, and making sure the fans at least got Davis’ signature if they hadn’t waited in line for Tyler Wilson. #at’s some fan and team dedication right there — worrying that the fans he

was getting to meet didn’t get a “big-name” autograph.

It was nearly impossible to get to Wilson if you went to any of the other lines before getting in the quarterback and special teams line. His conge-niality continued even a"er the Fan Day ended. Disappointed fans who did not get his signa-ture tweeted at him a"er they le", and Wilson responded with an apologetic tweet about how he wished he could have signed for everyone.

It was di$cult to !nd any player who wouldn’t ask how you were or at least smile at you. Every time a player signed a new autograph, that player would check to see who owned the football, %ag or poster they were signing. #e Razorbacks never let some-

thing slip through their hands without smiling and making some sort of small conversa-tion with the fans. A"er a long day, that made me respect them even more.

As you gear up for the game this weekend, remember to be proud of the Razorbacks. Not only because we’re all dying to see them make it to the nation-al championship under new leadership, but because they are representing our school the best they can in more than just the athletic aspects of their lives.

Tamzen Tumlison is a sta! writer for #e Arkan-sas Traveler. Her column ap-pears every other Wednes-day. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

Don’t Forget, the Hogs Are People, TooTamzen TumlisonSta! Writer

COMMENTARY

Coming o& of a win in the Arkansas Invitational over the weekend, the Razorback volleyball team continued its success Tuesday night, beat-ing Tulsa in three straight sets during a mid-week match.

#e Golden Hurricane played it close in all three sets, but the Razorbacks showed their maturity and toughness by never slacking. #is win brings Arkansas’ all time re-cord vs. Tulsa to 7-1 in favor of the Hogs.

“We were stable and we maintained, that’s why we won the game,” said Junior Raymariely Santos.

“#ere’s always possibility of a let down on a Tuesday match especially a"er win-ning an exciting champion-ship, but we were ready,” said Head Coach Robert Pulliza. “We certainly are hungry to keep getting better.”

#e Razorbacks were be-hind early in the !rst set to an energetic Tulsa team but eventually found a way to ral-ly and get into a rhythm.

“We were down, but once we got back up we rarely trailed again,” Pulliza said.

During the !rst set, the Razorbacks’ hitting percent-age was .414, to the Golden Hurricane’s .282 and Tulsa had 16 kills to Arkansas’ 15.

Junior Kellie Culbertson and senior Tyler Henderson had !ve kills each for Tulsa and senior Jasmine Norton had !ve for Arkansas.

Senior Kasey Heckleman scored the eventual set-win-ning kill to make the !nal score of the !rst set 25-22 in favor of the Razorbacks.

#e second set was a similar story, staying close throughout. Tulsa made a late surge, but the !nal score was 25-22 in favor of the Razor-backs once again. Norton was the one to eventually put an end to the set on a kill, one of her six during the second set alone.

#at set-winning kill was also Norton’s 1,401st all-time kill, making her only the !"h player in Razorback volleyball history to exceed 1,400 kills. She ended the match with 14 kills.

“We came out ready to go, we want to get better every day,” Norton said of her team. “We are one of the best teams in the nation and we just have to go out and prove that ev-eryday.”

#e third set followed suit of the !rst two for the most part but the Razor-backs pulled away at the end to make the !nal score of the !nal set 25-18.

Arkansas’ defensive e&ort was impressive throughout the match, ending with 65 digs in just three sets.

“We want to be one of the best defensive teams in the country and 65 is a number that gets us talking about that,” Pulliza said. “I’m re-ally proud of that number, it shows great e&ort.”

Twenty-two of those digs game from junior libero Em-ily Helm alone.

“She’s great, she just wants to be great,” Pulliza said of Helm. “She’s focused and she really cares to make sure that this team is great.”

#e next challenge for this team is a trip to Ann Arbor, Mich. this weekend where they will face the University of Maryland Baltimore Coun-ty, Central Michigan and the hosting Wolverines in the Adidas/Michigan Challenge tournament. #e next home game for the Hogs is next Tuesday against Oklahoma.

“It’ll be an adjustment but I think we’re ready for it,” Helm said.

Razorback Volleyball Starts Season 4-0VOLLEYBALL

Liz BeadleSta! Writer

Logan Webster Sta" PhotographerRaymariely Santos (Left) and Janeliss Torres-Lopez (Right) block a shot by the Tulsa Golden Hurricane volleyball team during their match Tuesday night. !e Razorbacks won in 3 sets.

Traveler ArchiveJunior Sebastian Cappelen chips the ball during a game last season.

GOLF

As the 2012-2013 season approaches, the Arkansas Razorbacks men’s golf team is looking to build on an im-pressive last season in which they !nished No. 7 in the GCAA Coaches Poll.

Coach Brad McMakin has the team gearing up for an impressive schedule that will challenge his team every tournament they play in.

“#is is going to be a tough schedule,” McMakin said. “We will be facing the best teams in the nation week a"er week, but by the end of the season I believe that we will be a better team and pre-pared for the SEC and NCAA tournaments.”

#e fall season begins with the Gopher Invitational Sept. 9-10 in Wayzata, Minn. Ar-kansas is looking to repeat as champions at this event, as they captured !rst place last

year with impressive perfor-mances by then-senior Ethan Tracy and current junior Se-bastian Cappelen. Tracy !n-ished !"h overall, and Cap-pelen !nished tied for sixth with fellow junior Austin Cook. Cappelen also !nished second in the tournament as a freshman in 2010.

Tracy is now gone, but Cappelen, Cook and Taylor Moore, a highly anticipated true freshman, should make the event conquerable. Both Cappelen and Moore com-peted at the U.S. Amateur at Cherry Hills, Colo. that took place Aug. 13. #ey both missed the !nal cut for the match play-style Amateur crown but still played some impressive golf.

In two weeks in Atlanta, at the Capital City Club, the Razorbacks will play in the Golfweek/Ping Preview tour-nament, which is a preview of what the NCAA champi-onship course will be in the spring. Arkansas has been in-

vited to play against some of the top teams in the country, including host team Georgia Tech, who !nished last sea-son at No. 10.

Later in the season, the Razorbacks are proud to host an NCAA regional at Bless-ings golf course May 16-18, which could turn out bene!-cial because that is the team’s home course.

“Having a regional right here at Blessings will be a tre-mendous bene!t to us, and I appreciate the e&orts of our administration and those at the Blessings for allowing us such a great opportunity,” McMakin said.

A"er being one of the more successful teams in the country last season, the Razorbacks should !nish o& the season strong in the hometown NCAA regional and continue onto the Capi-tol City Club and compete for an NCAA championship May 26.

Hogs Expect SuccessCameron McCauleySta! Writer

!e Arkansas Traveler NewspaperPage 8 Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012

In the late 1990s, !ve Fay-etteville High School students created a Men’s Ultimate Club and since then ultimate has grown to be one of the top club sports at Arkansas.

#e Ultimate Club is cur-rently under the direction of Matt Seaton, who has been the president of the club since 2010. Seaton takes on many duties as president.

“My responsibilities as president are to lead the team at practice by deciding what drills to run or what to work on throughout the practice,” Seaton said. “As well as travel logistics and !lling out the necessary paper work that the Club Sports Department has requested.”

Along with being a mem-ber, William Sharp is the of-!cial treasurer of the club, but he also takes on the responsi-bility of leading and organiz-ing the team. Sharp believes that there are a few reasons why people should join the club.

“Some of my best friends have grown out of being a member in the Ultimate Club. You spend multiple hours a week with one an-other and then you go to a weekend long tournament,” Sharp said. “You experience wins and losses together, suc-cess and failure. When you lose a game on Ultimate point to end your weekend, all you

can do is look around at your teammates and know you get to go back to work with them next week, it’s hard (to) not form those bonds.”

#e Ultimate Club is made up of about 30 to 40 mem-bers. Out of those members, about 25 are allowed to trav-el to tournaments with the team.

Ultimate Club is open to any male, student or faculty. #ere is no experience re-quired.

“People should join the team because it’s a fun way to stay in shape, meet new people and travel across the country,” Seaton said.

It is undecided this year whether there will be tryouts. Over the past years, there have never been tryouts, but Seaton said they would like to require tryouts and eventu-ally have an A and B team.

#e cost for Ultimate club is $300 per year for returning members, but only $250 per year for a new member. #ese student dues help pay for traveling expenses and tour-naments. Any other expenses are taken care of with money given through University Recreation and donations.

Ultimate practice takes place every Tuesday and #ursday night from 5 to 7 p.m. at the UREC !elds, just west of and across the street from Bud Walton Arena.

Tournaments will start around late September or ear-ly October and continue until May. Tournaments generally

start around 9 a.m. and last until around 4 p.m., depend-ing on how the team fares.

Ultimate Club travels all over the country for tourna-ments. Last season the team traveled as far as Las Vegas, Atlanta, New Orleans, Aus-tin, Texas and several other cities, including many college campuses.

Sharp believes that the Ul-timate Club stands out from other sports.

“What separates the club ultimate experience from a normal sport experience is the places it takes you,” Sharp said.

Returning standouts from last season include 2011 Freshman of the Year and 2012 All-Regional Player, Abe Co$n, who is now a ju-nior. Also returning are stars senior Wesley Axtell and se-nior Stuart Allgood.

“Our team !nished 11th in our region, which was a little bit of a disappointment, but we showed a lot of improve-ment throughout the year,” Seaton said.

#e Ultimate Club is look-ing to have a better !nish this year, but their goals for the season aren’t particularly based around winning.

“Our goals for the season are to get as many new stu-dents as possible to come out on a regular basis while being competitive and having fun,” Seaton said.

Ultimate Frisbee Club Proves SuccessJessie McMullenSta! Writer

CLUB SPORTS

#e Arkansas Razorback soccer team experienced its’ !rst loss of the season Sun-day night at SMU. Head coach Colby Hale seemed to know exactly why the loss occurred.

“When we put in extraordi-nary e&ort, kind of stick to the game plan and play as a group we’re pretty good,” Hale said. “I mean, we compete, we’re good. When we don’t, we’re gonna get smacked. And we did.”

Going into the game, the team had only allowed op-ponents to score one goal. #en they allowed SMU to score four. However, Hale has managed to !nd the silver lin-ing.

“#e good news is 90 per-cent of it is very !xable, it’s very easy and the other 10 percent is !xable. SMU caused us some tactical problems that we hadn’t faced yet so they’ll be good teaching moments moving forward, but, really, it was just e&ort and it showed pretty strongly on video,” Hale said.

#e loss hasn’t been seen as a game that should cause a lot of major concern.

“#e reality is we’re 3-1,” Hale said. “We’ve played four games. #ree of them we were good, one of them we weren’t. So we don’t really need to make any changes. We just

need to be true to who we are,” Hale said.

#e team has not allowed the loss to get to them and is expecting to have a good week of practice.

“We’re looking forward to getting some proper training sessions in,” Hale said. “We’ll get some technical work, some tactical work, we’ll watch some video for sure, both pos-itive and negative. We want to show them what it looks like on video when they do it well and then we want to show them some of the areas where we need to make sure we stay consistent. But for the most part, the kids are in great spir-its. We had a good weight ses-sion on Monday and they were very good.”

#e Razorbacks are a young team, with only two seniors, but Hale is happy with the ef-fort the team is giving and the commitment and leadership he is seeing in his team.

“#e peer pressure where if they don’t work hard, they’re kind of now the odd man out is emerging to where the lead-ership is a bit by committee,” Hale said. “You know, the ex-pectation is if you don’t work hard, it’s going to show in training because everyone else is and that’s a pretty big posi-tive step for us. I think if you ask the girls, you listen to the press conferences, you listen to their quotes, they’re pretty aware of who we are, what our core values are and they

talk about it on their own on a regular basis, which is pretty exciting for us.”

#ere has been one change to the team with the addi-tion of Kathleen Paulsen as a volunteer assistant coach an-nounced Monday. Paulsen was a member of the soccer team from 2006-09, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in biology in the spring of 2010 and earned her masters in ki-nesiology in May. Hale thinks Paulsen is a great addition to the Soccer program.

“She’s great,” Hale said. “I mean, she’s a great role model in terms of being a student-athlete who has graduated re-cently. She’s super loyal, she’s motivated, she’s responsible, she’s talented, she’s got a very bright future in the game.”

#e next game is against Kennesaw State Sunday at 7 p.m. Hale knows the game will be a !ght and expects his team to compete.

“We know they’re good,” Hale said. “#ey lost to Ala-bama, I believe, 1-0. #ey’ll be super competitive. Tradition-ally, they have an international %air to them, some English girls. #ey’ve done very well in recent past, in terms of in their conference. We expect, just like we expect every game, a !ght. #is is kind of their op-portunity to come into an SEC school and kind of show their merit, but our expectations are our girls will play hard, play well and be successful.”

Razorbacks Move Past First LostHaley MarkleAsst. Sports Editor

SOCCER

Gareth Patterson Sta" PhotographerSenior Cameron Umbarger throws an ultimate disc during ultimate frisbee practice Tuesday. !is is the 13th year for the Ultimate Club team which has more than 30 members.

Ryan Miller Sta" PhotographerForward Haley Hatcher pursues the ball during the Aug. 2 game against Missouri State. !e Hogs went on to win the game 1-0.

ATHLETICS

An Arkansas Razorback athletics iPhone app was re-launched Tuesday and re%ects improvements and updates for the 2012-13 season.

#e three megabyte app has tabs for news, schedules, live events, on-demand, ros-ters, scores, photos, athletic facilities, the Twitter feed of the Arkansas Razorbacks of-!cial account and game day.

Users can sort by sport or choose to view all sports.

#e rosters have photos of the players and coaches next to their names and numbers. Users can tap on a player to view his or her biography, po-sition and stats.

#ough free to download, users can pay $2.99 for an upgrade that provides access to on-demand video of press conferences, highlights and other special features.

#e upgrade, which is the

fourth version of the app, al-lows fans with a RazorVision subscription to listen to live audio on their phones.

Users are also able to share stories to social networks in-cluding Twitter and Facebook or send messages or email from within the app.

#e Arkansas Razorbacks app can be downloaded through iTunes on a comput-er or through the App Store on the iPhone.

An app designed for the iPad will debut in the next few weeks, according to a press release. #e iPad app would have many of the same features.

#e Arkansas Razorbacks app has many more athletic features than the UARKmo-bile iPhone app, which is powered by Blackboard and is the o$cial app for the UA. #e UARKmobile iPhone app only shows scores, schedules, and news under the athletics tab.

Athletics Revamps iPhone AppKristen CoppolaSports Editor

Photos taken from o!cial app!e UA Athletic Department released the updated Arkansas Razorback iPhone app Tuesday. !e app allows fans to remain up-to-date with current Razorback athletic events and news.