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A professor of biologi-cal sciences was appointed interim associate vice pro-vost for research and eco-nomic development.

As part of this new role, Cynthia Sagers will be working with faculty

to seek proposals for re-search funds, said Jim Rankin, vice provost for research and economic development.

!e o"ce of research and economic develop-ment serves the research community across cam-pus, not just research in the hard sciences, Sagers said.

Sagers will also be working with EPSCoR, the Experimental Program to

Stimulate Competitive Re-search, Rankin said.

“EPSCoR is a special program to promote re-search in states where it is underfunded,” Sagers said. !ere are 26 states, includ-ing Arkansas, and #ve fed-eral agencies that are in-volved with this program, Sagers said.

As an overall goal, UA is looking to increase

federal research grants, Rankin said. Speci#cally, the university specializes in the research areas of health, nanoscience, en-ergy and environmental science.

Results of e$orts by this o"ce are already ap-parent in various #elds across campus, Sagers said. In the biological sci-ences #eld alone, UA fac-

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!e Arkansas Razorbacks o"cially announced Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema as the new head football coach today.

At 2 p.m. yesterday, Arkansas athletic director Je$ Long tweet-ed, “New Football Coach release at 6:15 PM Today #GoHogs!!!” Bielema has a record of 68-24 in seven seasons at Wisconsin. !e Badgers, with Bielema, have made three consecutive Rose Bowl appearances. Arkansas’ hiring of Bielema was originally reported by Yahoo! Sports yes-terday a%ernoon.

Bielema served as the defen-sive coordinator at Wisconsin for two years before being pro-moted to head coach in 2006. He played college football as a defensive lineman at the Uni-versity of Iowa under legendary coach Hayden Fry from 1989 to 1992, becoming team cap-tain his senior season. Bielema graduated from Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in marketing, said ESPN journalist Joe Schad.

Bret Bielema’s seven-year career at Wisconsin was impres-sive and caught the attention of Je$ Long and the Arkansas Ra-zorbacks.

“!is is an excellent hire for

Arkansas. Athletic director Je$ Long, who has ridden through a wringer since Bobby Petrino’s ill-fated motorcycle ride on April Fool’s Day, found a per-son perfectly suited to coach in a place with fantastic monetary resources,” said Sports Illustrat-ed writer, Andy Staples.

A%er a short stint playing for the Milwaukee Mustangs in the Arena Football League, Bielema returned to the University of Iowa and served as an assistant coach from 1993 to 2001. He was the co-defensive coordina-tor for Kansas State University from 2002 to 2003. He then was hired the same position at the University of Wisconsin–Madi-son the following year. !en, in 2005, he got his big break as a head coach when Wisconsin’s athletic director, Barry Alvarez, chose Bielema to succeed him as head coach a%er he announced his retirement from coaching in 2005.

Most Fan reactions seem op-timistic as some Arkansas fans took to Twitter and other social media outlets to express their feelings on the decision.

“Bielema had over sixty wins, seven bowl appearances, six times ranked in the #nal AP Top 25, three Big Ten titles and three trips to the Rose Bowl. Now he’s a Razorback,” said junior Business Major, Taylor Berry.

Writers Say Arkansas Finds ‘Perfect’ Hire

O"cials announced Tues-day night that the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers would assume the position of the Razorback head coach, ending an eight-month coaching search.

Bret Bielema led the Bad-gers to three consecutive ap-pearances at the Rose Bowl including this year against the Stanford Cardinals.

!e Badgers lost to the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs in 2011 and to the Oregon Ducks in 2012. Bielema will not coach the Badgers Jan. 1, according to an article on SB Nation.

Athletic Director Je$ Long single-handedly con-ducted the coaching search, and though Oklahoma State’s

Mike Gundy and Boise State’s Chris Petersen were rumored to #nalists for the position, the 5-year contract was given to Bielema.

“!roughout his career, he has demonstrated a com-mitment to competing for a national championship with a program known for disci-pline, honesty and integrity,” Long said in the o"cial re-lease.

While at Wisconsin, Bielema had a coaching re-cord of 68-24, and the Bad-gers have quali#ed for a bowl game each season. Wisconsin has only won two of the bowl games.

Bielema has a six-year contract worth $3.2 million annually,” according to re-ports by !e Associated Press.

Bielema will be introduced to the media at 4 p.m. today in the Broyles Center.

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!e Union, Mullins library and local co$ee shops are con-sidered the top three places students said they like to study during #nals time.

In response to student sug-gestions and in anticipation of #nals, Mullins Library has been opened and will be open 24 hours a day for the dura-tion of #nals, said Tim Zou, head of Access Services.

In previous years, Mul-lins extended the hours for two weeks, #nals week and the week prior to #nals, Zou said. However, in recent years many students have expressed a desire for the library to ex-pand the extended hours, Zou said.

Many students have indi-cated that the workload hits hard in the weeks before #nals

begin, Zou said. Tra"c in the library has

been increasing every year, along with the increase in en-rollment, Zou said.

“Students don’t want to study with the distractions at the dorms,” Zou said. “It is important to provide space and time that they can study.”

College students also tend to be in the habit of studying late at night, students said.

“I’m used to studying at night,” said Kirsch Mackey, a second year electrical engi-neering graduate student. !e extended hours at Mullins have been excellent, Kirsch said.

ASG and Chartwells are also working to provide cof-fee and cookies late night in the library Sunday, said Kim Johnson, marketing director for Chartwells.

!e Law Library is also great place to study because it is not crowded, said Ngoc

Phan, freshman #nance major. Others said they prefer the

environment of a co$ee shop to study.

“I can’t study when it’s si-lent,” said Alison Lorei, fresh-man architecture major. “I like to study in Starbucks or Au Bon Pain.”

Co$ee shops are nice dur-ing #nals time because there’s co$ee and snacks to have while studying, said Peyton Mehere, freshman nursing major.

Business for the newest Ar-saga’s, o$ of Dickson, has been just as successful as on-cam-pus co$ee options, said Emily Lawson, manager for Arsaga’s at the Depot.

“Enough people like cof-fee to keep good business at all the co$ee shops around the area,” Lawson said.

Also in anticipation of #-nals week, the dining halls will be focusing on serving “brain food and foods that relieve stress,” Johnson said.

Study Spots Flood as Finals Time Hits

Associated Student Gov-ernment senators represent-ing the graduate college have proposed to create a Graduate Congress, a sepa-rate legislative body within the legislative branch com-prised of graduate students only.

!e bill went to senate for a vote last night and the bill was passed.

!e Graduate Congress will be comprised of 35 graduate students who meet once a month and report directly to the executive branch, senators said.

For graduate students to devote two to three hours a week in the senate to be able to retain a seat is unmanage-able, said senator Michael Powers, a Ph.D history stu-dent.

!e move to create this representative body for graduate students coincides with the UA’s recent goal to increase graduate enroll-

ment to 20 percent of the student body by 2021, ac-cording senator Sanket De-sai, a Ph.D. history student.

“If we want to reach the top 50 we need to do stu$ like this in order to make us competitive, to provide bet-ter bene#ts for graduate stu-dents and a better environ-ment for graduate students,” Desai said. “!e ultimate goal is to be able to repre-sent and bene#t not just the grad students we have, but the thousands that we are going to be bringing in on campus. So this university has to change and this is go-ing to help bring that about.”

In eight years will go from having 3,700 graduate students to 5,600, said sena-tor Alex Marino, Ph.D his-tory student.

“Being a top 50 institu-tion does not just mean hav-ing the checklist, ‘do you have a rock climbing wall? Do you have nice facilities?’ It is going to be ‘what is my experience as a student go-ing to be like?’ Are you go-ing to be able to a$ord to live, to do research, are you

going to have an o"ce? !at is what potential graduate students are going to look at when they choose a school, and we are lagging on those things.”

!ere are more than 100 degree programs in the graduate school, which en-compasses all graduate pro-grams in all colleges, and right now it is hard for seven people to represent all of those students, Marino said.

“We are trying to give a centralized and legitimate voice that unites graduate students from all of the vari-ous programs,” Powers said. “A legislative body like this will bring everyone togeth-er where we can form one voice that better in&uences administration to get our is-sues noticed.”

Graduate students are facing issues that most o%en go beyond the undergradu-ate experience, like health-care, childcare, instructor’s rights, the ability to fund travel grants, library issues and o"ce space, said sena-tor Madeleine Forrest, Ph.D history student.

Graduate Students Seek Voice in ASG

Northwest Arkansas home-lessness increased 36 percent in two years, according to the UA most recent homeless cen-sus. Shelters have prepared to help nearly 2,000 home-less people prepare for cold weather.

Many organizations in northwest Arkansas have re-sources available for the home-less to receive food and cloth-ing, but !e Salvation Army is the only organization with overnight shelters for men and women in Rogers and Fayette-ville, Dawn Alva, a Salvation Army o"cial said.

Shelters are open for the homeless every night from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m.

A hot dinner, breakfast and sack lunch are provided for everyone who stays overnight, said Danny Camarillo, Salva-tion Army housing manager.

To ensure privacy, shelters are separated into dorms for men, women and families with 42 beds total. Guests can stay for 10 nights and are expected to complete job applications daily, or up to 30 nights if they have a job, Area Commander Maj. Tim Williford said.

“People are required to be looking for jobs if they’re stay-ing at !e Salvation Army,” Williford said. “!is is not long-term housing, we’re try-ing to help them get o$ the streets.”

!ose restrictions don’t ap-ply when temperatures are less than 23 degrees.

In severe weather, !e Sal-vation Army serves as a 24-hour emergency shelter open to anyone, regardless of job status and can accommodate up to 75 people though there are 42 beds, Camarillo said.

“!e Fayetteville shelter is normally full,” Williford said. “!ey sleep on cots because

there aren’t enough beds for them all.”

People may be crammed, but the shelter does its best to keep everyone warm though the winter.

!e Salvation Army cannot exceed 75 guests. When ca-pacity is reached, o"cials have used creative resources, they said, to ensure everyone has a warm place to sleep during se-vere weather.

“We try not to turn anyone away,” Camarillo said. “Some-times we’ve had to call law en-forcement who will help them #nd a secure place. People have spent the night in jail before because the weather was so bad.”

Some churches also open their doors to the homeless as a cold-weather shelter during the winter, Camarillo said.

!e number of homeless persons in Benton and Wash-ington Counties increased 36 percent between 2009 and 2011, from 1,287 to 2,001, ac-cording to the most recent homeless census taken in 2011. !e number of homeless youth increased by more than 39 per-

cent. “!ere are a lot of cold

people out here,” said 29-year-old Jessica who asked not to disclose her last name. “I don’t think others know how it is to be out here on the streets — to live the life and walk the trials that I’ve walked.”

Jessica has been homeless for two years, she said.

In 2010 and 2011 a 24-hour, severe weather shelter was needed in January and Febru-ary. Winter was too mild in early 2012 to warrant an emer-gency shelter, Williford said.

O"cials don’t expect severe weather to be a problem this year.

“I don’t see us doing a se-vere weather shelter this year, but if it gets cold enough we’ll be ready for it,” Williford said. “You know how crazy the weather is around here.”

Recently, the Salvation Army began its annual Coats for Kids drive that will provide coats for children and adults through the winter. Last year, there were 209 cases of fami-lies who bene#ted from the drive, according to the 2011

Salvation Army social service statistics.

“We had people coming in all winter to get coats,” Dawn Alva, former Salvation Army social worker said.

Along with coats, !e Sal-vation Army provides blan-kets, pillows and cots to help sustain the homeless through the winter.

“People steal [cots] like crazy because they don’t have anything else to sleep on when they leave the shelter,” Willi-ford said. “!ey’re on camera but we still can’t catch them.”

!e preferred term for the homeless in Fayetteville is “ur-ban outdoorsman,” Williford said. “!e name really makes sense because they sleep in the woods and live outside in ur-ban environments.”

!e term is relevant for Jes-sica and her boyfriend who both sleep under a bridge in south Fayetteville with a small group of homeless people, she said.

Jessica thinks “there’s a pur-pose for everyone” and not enough people are helping the homeless, she said.

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Students dance in a step show in the Union Mall, Tuesday, Dec. 4.

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Ashley Swindell Sta# PhotographerStudents study at the Au Bon Pain cafe in the Arkansas Union, Monday, Dec. 3.

!e UA’s Latino Alumni Society is raising money to cre-ate an endowment for scholar-ships.

!e Latino Alumni Soci-ety Scholarship Fund is a new project for the alumni society that has been a work in prog-ress since April 2012. “La Pachanga,” a banquet put to-gether by the Latino Alumni Society in April, was the #rst event to initiate fund raising for the endowment.

“!e Latino Alumni So-ciety is two years old and we have been raising money for the scholarship fund since our event in April,” said Erika Gamboa, president of the La-tino Alumni Society.

La Pachanga honored 95 alumni members and 179 UA seniors of Latino descent and raised $5,000 for the scholar-ship fund. !e Latino Alumni Society plans to continue La Pachanga to both recognize

the accomplishments of the students and to raise money for the endowment.

“As an alumni society, it’s our job to help these students #nancially,” Gamboa said. “Part of our mission is to pro-mote education and celebrate diversity and we need to do that by helping our students out with scholarships.”

Earlier this semester La O#-cina Latina worked with Univi-sion, a local Latino news orga-nization, to organize “Bailamos por sus Sueños.” !e event was a dance that raised $2,000 for the scholarship fund and Uni-vision split the pro#ts with the alumni society.

“I think we have been doing a really good job,” said Cecilia Grossberger, committee head for Hispanic Heritage Month. “!e whole thing was orga-nized in less than a month; we did everything in about three weeks.”

!is was the #rst year for the dance, but the Hispanic Heritage Month Committee plans to make it a university tradition, Grossberger said.

A scholarship fund must raise $25,000 before it can be an endowment, according to the UA’s scholarship o"ce. !e Latino Alumni Society has raised just over $5,000, Gam-boa said.

!e Latino Alumni Soci-ety will make the scholarship application available to all graduate and undergraduate students as well as incoming freshmen, and plans to award scholarships to four students this year.

Scholarship recipients must join the Latino Alumni Society board for as long as they con-tinue to receive the scholar-ship. As a board member the students must go to all meet-ings, events and help shape the organization.

!e scholarships will be awarded in increments of $500 and will be renewable, Gross-berger said.

“If we see that a student is working hard and is coming to all the meetings and being in-volved, we won’t make that stu-dent reapply, we will just renew it for them” Grossberger said.

New Latino Society Scholarship Seek Funds Bob #omas Contributing Photographer

Traci Petty performs at a trumpet recital in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall, Monday, Dec. 3.

Petty Hits Crescendo

Whitney Green Sta# PhotographerKelvin (preferred not to use last name) has been homeless for 26 years and lives in the south Fayetteville woods near the Salvation Army Dec. 3.

Whitney GreenSta! Writer

Cactus Truck, a trio from the Netherlands, will be per-forming a free concert at 7:30 p.m. today at Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall as part of a six-week tour of the United States.

Led by saxophonist John Dikeman, formerly of Fayette-ville, the members of the group are active on the international-improvised-music circuit and

recently released their #rst al-bum, “Grand New for China,” on the Public Eyesore label.

!e group has played all over the states.

“!is tour has taken us all over the USA and a great part of that has been revisiting places and people from my past. I lived in about 10 di$erent states while I was growing up in states and we’ve played in most of those states,” Dikeman said.

Dikeman said he feels fan-tastic about the event. Aside

from being in Fayetteville again, he said he is happy every time he gets to play. He has worked many jobs throughout the years, installing satellite dishes, securi-ty alarms, being a cashier and a janitor in Arkansas, he said. He has been very lucky over the last couple years to work solely as a musician and it is not some-thing he takes for granted.

“Nor is it something I expect to last forever, so I’m just trying to make the most of it,” Dike-man said.

Netherland Trio to Perform Today

Pictures with Santa12 p.m.- 4 p.m. Arkansas Union- Connections Lounge

Candlelight Yoga4 p.m.- 7 p.m. HPER Room 216

Guest Trio, Cactus Truck7:30 p.m. Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall

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ulty have received research grants in physiology, genet-ics and the diversity of life sciences, Sagers said.

“!ere is a lot going on even in just that one #eld,” Sagers said. !e university has bene#ted from research grants like this in #elds across the board, Sagers said.

A professor at the UA since 1993, university o"-cials allowed Sagers to go on detail with the National Sci-ence Foundation for the last two years. !e UA allows faculty to go on detail and work with various agencies in order to gain valuable ex-perience to bring back with them, Sagers said.

“I think that’s the real reason I am sitting in this o"ce,” Sagers said.

While working with this agency, “my job was to give away money,” Sagers said. “I reviewed grant proposals that came in and evaluated them based on merit.”

Upon returning to UA, she has been able to put to use all of the skills she ac-quired while on detail, Sag-ers said.

“We are happy to have her and her experience here in the o"ce,” Rankin said. “We think she is going to be very bene#cial to the o"ce.”

Sagers will continue to teach courses in the biologi-cal sciences, in addition to ful#lling this new role.

“I am really thrilled to be here and I look forward to meeting researchers on this campus of all di$erent &a-vors,” Sagers said.

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As !nals approach, ev-eryone is stressing out about all the things that they need to have done in the next two weeks. Tests and papers can be crammed into this last week and knowing there is only a short amount of time le" to boost grades can be over-whelming. In this time, it is more important than ever to be organized, otherwise some-thing could be forgotten and missed. #is is where a plan becomes a necessity, in my opinion, and a pen or pencil is

your best friend.When it comes to study-

ing, I would suggest !rst writ-ing out everything that needs to be done and the times of all deadlines, either in a plan-ner or just any sheet of paper. Writing stimulates the reticu-lar activating system which helps the brain process infor-mation, allowing more focus to be brought to the material in front of you. Author Henri-ette Anne Klauser writes in her book, “Write It Down, Make It Happen,” that writing trig-gers this system which sends a signal to the cerebral cortex, thereby causing your brain to work harder to make sure you remember and understand the material. So by writing every-thing down, such as, a study schedule, you will be able to get in a study mode and have a speci!c schedule in mind which makes everything seem much less overwhelming.

For the actual studying, I also suggest writing out ev-erything you need to know, whether it is an outline, bullet points, notecards, whichever form works best for you. #ree

brain processes are used when writing: visual, motor and cog-nitive, according to a study cit-ed by !e Hu"ngton Post. As this is more complicated than simply typing, it causes the brain to work harder, allowing for better cognitive skills and more e$ective learning. #ere-fore, by writing out the infor-mation, you are able to process it in three di$erent ways and on three di$erent levels. #is is a much more e$ective way to study than by typing it all out, even though typing is always tempting as it is much faster and does not make your hand cramp up.

In the same study, it was shown that focus is sharpened when writing. When doing so, you are focused on only one point, the tip of your writing utensil. When typing, your attention goes back and forth between the keyboard and the monitor. #is creates a lack of focus during which some in-formation could slip through. Writing also creates a pattern unique to each individual person, which makes it easier to remember what is written

down. Typing changes this pattern and erases all origi-nality from it. It also requires you to look for each key as you type, or at least, think about where it is located. Di$erent areas of the brain are activat-ed while writing and typing. Other studies have shown that letters learned through writ-ing were recognized more ac-curately than those learned through typing. #erefore, this subsequently allows you to re-member what is being written more easily.

So in the upcoming crazi-ness, I suggest you put your pens and pencils to good use. #e key is to stay organized and to not let yourself be over-whelmed. #ere are less than two weeks le" before the end of the semester and you can make it easier on yourself by writing everything out rather than typing. It can only help you stay focused and get the GPA you want. Good luck!

Katherine Kortebein is a sta# columnist. She is a junior English and creative writing major.

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RALEIGH, N.C. — For many years the conventional wisdom in the United States has been that the more people who graduate from college, the better o$ we’ll be. It’s time to challenge that “wisdom.” #e evidence says it’s wrong.

In his !rst major address early in 2009, President Barack Obama set forth a na-tional goal of becoming !rst in the world in the percentage of college-educated citizens. Supposedly, that would make our economy more produc-tive and competitive.

#e notion that the econ-omy can be pulled up by pro-cessing more young people through college has lots of al-lure at the state level as well. Two University of North Car-olina professors, for example, recently proposed that North Carolina set as an “aspira-tional” goal having 32 per-cent of the state’s working-age population have a bachelor’s degree or higher by 2018, up from 28 percent today.

#ere are two problems with such goals.

First, politicians and bu-reaucrats shouldn’t be setting goals for citizens. It should work the other way around, especially when the know-it-all government consistently fails to meet minimum com-

petency standards itself, such as passing a budget on time.

Individuals usually make pretty sensible decisions on their own. We don’t need public o%cials to set goals for us.

But how could more edu-cation be harmful?

#at brings me to the sec-ond problem.

America already has gone far past the point of dimin-ishing returns on higher edu-cation. Trying to lure more young people into college just so we can say we have more college graduates will lead to more 20-something Ameri-cans with college degrees who are holding down jobs that don’t require degrees or don’t pay enough to cover the cost of college.

For decades, we have been subsidizing college through increasingly generous stu-dent aid programs. #at has worked — in the sense that more high school graduates go on to college.

But many graduate with-out learning much. #at’s because as the number of students entering college has gone up, academic standards have gone down.

Many books and articles have been written about the “dumbing-down” of college and how administrators en-courage faculty to mollify students — many of whom are ill prepared and poorly

motivated — by in&ating grades and watering down the material. Professors have been telling us that for years, but few of us have paid atten-tion.

Now, as a result of two events from last year, many Americans are starting to realize that college has been oversold.

#e !rst event was the “Occupy Wall Street” pro-tests. A large percentage of the occupiers were unem-ployed college graduates who had a lot of grievances, fore-most among them the fact that they couldn’t pay their college loans.

#at was a direct hit on the belief that college gradu-ates have the inside track on good, high-paying jobs. In fact, hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of college graduates today — in addi-tion to those who are unem-ployed — are working part-time, or holding jobs they could have done while still in high school, such as serv-ing co$ee, waiting on tables, working a cash register.

Supply doesn’t create its own demand. #e simple fact that we produce more stu-dents with bachelor’s degrees doesn’t automatically create more jobs requiring bach-elor’s degrees.

#e second 2011 event was the publication, by the University of Chicago

Press, of a remarkable new book, “Academically Adri",” in which the authors, two highly respected sociologists, showed that a high percent-age of college students “did not demonstrate any signi!-cant improvement in learn-ing” during their student years.

As veteran higher educa-tion writer Scott Jaschik com-mented in Inside Higher Ed, “If the purpose of a college education is for students to learn, (the book showed that) academe is failing.”

Pushing more people through college hasn’t raised our national skills level or made us more productive. Instead, it has helped create a bloated, ine%cient high-er education sector; it has strapped millions of students with high levels of debt; and it has caused a bad case of credential in&ation — with employers demanding col-lege degrees for work that only calls for basic skills and trainability.

It is time for our leaders to recognize that higher educa-tion, like almost everything else, is subject to diminish-ing returns. More isn’t always better.

George Leef is director of research at the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.

Why the college degree mania?

Katherine KortebeinSta# Columnist

After five years of lousy economic performance, you would think people would be sick of it by now. Guess not. How else to explain why we’re having a big fight over inequality instead of argu-ing over how to jump-start growth?

There’s no denying in-equality has increased. Me-dian wages haven’t kept up while families in the upper tax brackets have prospered. But even so, getting the economy back on its typical growth path of 3.4 percent a year should be the overriding imperative.

That would do wonders for the immediate problem of too few jobs and too many jobless — not to mention the problem of lagging incomes and insufficient federal rev-enue.

Sadly, that’s not the topic du jour.

Prosperity harbors a con-tradiction. Rapid economic growth requires a relatively high degree of inequality, which is more tolerable when the pie tends to grow for all.

In hard times, those who succeed and enrich them-selves draw more envy and the political left amps up its obsession with punishing the rich — expressed in the form of taxes that impair the econ-omy’s potential.

The current inequal-ity obsession has gotten so bad some people think we would be better off running the top tax rate back up to 91 percent, where it was in the 1950s. Those were prosper-ous times, they say. Business-es were still created. Invest-ment was healthy. And there was less inequality!

The New York Times’ Paul Krugman gave this a try in a recent column, with the add-ed notion that we would also be better off — less inequal-ity! — if organized labor had the same heft it did in the ’50s. As a Nobel laureate, he had to know better.

Today, the economy is weak even with relatively low tax rates. Yet Krugman and his fellow travelers say the solution to our woes is a job market dominated by labor monopolies — unions — and a tax rate that gives upper-in-come investors and business owners virtually no incentive to earn an additional dollar.

Krugman forgot that the 1950s were a unique period in our history. Much of the developed world’s industrial capital was incinerated in war

and was still being rebuilt. Of course the American econo-my prospered. How could it not?

Moreover, as James Peth-okoukis of the American Enterprise Institute recently pointed out, jobs were plen-tiful in those years in part because the post-war boom came at a time when the size of the labor force was reduced, not only by a De-pression-era birth dearth but the loss of potential workers killed or wounded in war.

Krugman would profit from reading a recent column by his Times colleague, Edu-ardo Porter. It includes sever-al passages that were amazing to find in The Times.

A sample: The U.S. tax system is “one of the most progressive” in the devel-oped world. It does “more to redistribute resources and reduce inequality” than tax codes in other countries. But progressive taxes “make it hard to raise money” because they “encourage people to re-duce their tax liability rather than to increase their pretax income.” And: Hitting top earners with high rates “can discourage work and invest-ment.”

Porter was arguing for flatter, European-style taxes like the value-added tax or a carbon tax — levies few people can avoid, which produce revenue like gang-busters. Porter doesn’t think Washington does enough to support low-income families compared with big-govern-ment social democracies, which rake in much more revenue.

The European debt crisis, however, highlights the flaws in that model.

It’s true we must have more revenue and the Simp-son-Bowles plan, once as-sumed to be a roadmap for the fiscal cliff talks, would have produced more by carv-ing loopholes from the tax code. But it also would have encouraged growth by rolling back the top rates. Forget it: Obama now insists we dis-pense with the rollback. To heck with growth: He wants to carve out the loopholes and raise the rates.

If he gets his way, we could face four more years of economic anemia — which means we may someday look back on the Obama years as the Japanese look back on their “lost decade.”

E. Thomas McClanahan is a member of the Kansas City Star editorial board.

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!e Arkansas Traveler NewspaperWednesday, Dec. 5, 2012 Page 5

Companion Editor: Nick BrothersAssistant Companion Editor: Shelby Gill

“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

Despite the recent warm weather, winter is coming to Ozarks whether we like it or not. With the cold weather comes blistering, icy winds that chill you from the inside out. At the end of the day, a!er walking around in the cold on campus, one of the best things to warm up with is a hot bowl of soup.

Many Fayetteville restau-rants have soups to choose from. Hammontree’s, located o" of Dickson Street, o"ers a bowl of soup and half of a sandwich for a meal. #eir hot, cheesy sandwiches are perfect with a bowl of their craw$sh bisque, french onion soup, spinach gorgonzola soup, black bean tortilla soup, or to-mato and fresh basil soup. Pho Quyen, located on Martin Lu-ther King Jr. Boulevard, across from Fayetteville High School, is a Vietnamese restaurant that specializes in soup. If you want to branch out from basic, Pho Quyen is worth checking out.

Soup is fairly easy to make; it just takes a little patience. Many families make soup during the holidays, so cooking soup can be a good way to bring a little of your home into Fayetteville.

“Soup is one of the meals that my mom and grandmoth-ers have always made for my

family when we’re all home around Christmas, so it’s a tra-dition I really like to continue in my home here,” said Cath-erine Atchison, junior account-ing major from Van Alstyne, Texas.

Squash soup is a soup that is more hearty for the winter months and has a unique %avor worth trying out.

Butternut Squash SoupServings: 81 large butternut squash3 tablespoons oil4 cloves garlic, crushed1 onion, chopped1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped

5 cups chicken broth1 cup apple cider1 teaspoon saltDollop sour cream

Peel and seed the butternut squash, then cut it into 8 wedges.

Drizzle squash with 2 table-spoons oil, then roast it at 350 F for 1 hour.

Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large pot, then add the onion and saute for 5 minutes.

Add the roasted squash, gar-lic, apple, chicken broth and apple cider. Simmer together for 30 minutes, until apple is very so!.

Puree the cooked mixture in a food processor. Garnish with

sour cream. Chicken noodle soup is a

classic for a reason. It’s not just warm and tasty, but the chicken, carrots and noodles are very $ll-ing on a wintry day.

Chicken Noodle SoupServings: 44 & cups chicken broth1 cup onion, chopped1 cup carrot, sliced 1 cup celery, sliced1 teaspoon basil, dried and

crushed 1 teaspoon oregano, dried

and crushed 1/4 teaspoon ground black

pepper1 bay leaf1 & cups dried egg noodles2 cups cooked chicken Combine broth, onion, car-

rot, celery, basil, oregano, pep-per and bay leaf in a large sauce-pan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 5 minutes.

Stir in uncooked noodles, and return the pot to boiling.

Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 8-10 minutes, or until noodles and vegetables are tender. Discard bay leaf.

Stir in cooked chicken, then heat through.

With this information, you can hopefully $nd a recipe worth trying or a restaurant serving a nice warm bowl to help warm you up this winter.

#ey’re sliced down the middle with a big knife. #e gooey inside mess is scraped out with a spoon. #e halves are sliced into slivers and placed on the grill. #ey roast over the %ames. He opens the lid every few minutes to %ip them over and yell, “Oh, pumpkins!”

Ben Mills, owner and operator of Fossil Cove Brew-ing Co., spends his days roasting pumpkins, stirring bar-ley and making beer.

Today, Fossil Cove needs more pumpkin ale. It didn’t last very long last time it was brewed, but nothing brewed here lasts very long. Two weeks seems to be a standard time frame.

“We’re thinking of expanding,” Mills says. “We’ve got four bigger fermenters coming already.”

Perhaps it’s the fact that Mills was a biology major at Arkansas Tech and enjoys hands-on work, combined with the brewmaster degree he received from UC Davis, which makes the quality of his brewing unfold in every sip of his beer.

#e demand for his beer has exceeded predictions.“We’re $ve months in, and I wasn’t really planning

on buying any more equipment for at least a year,” Mills says. “I never expected it to be as popular as it is.”

Nobody helps 25-year-old Mills brew the beer. Sure, his mother goes over to Vanzant’s Fruit Farm in Lowell to pick up the pumpkins for his seasonal ale “because she’s awesome like that,” but Mills is the one peeling o" the scorching skins to stir the good stu" into the hot wa-ter and barley-$lled mash tun.

Mills has done this 38 times — on a weekly basis and for seven hours. Tonight, he is working from 10:30 to 5:30 in the morning. He $lls up the kettle to warm the water — the target is 65 degrees Celsius. You let it boil in the kettle, but not the mash. #e liquid you get out of the mash boils in the kettle — he throws a bag of grain over his shoulder, climbs up the ladder, dumps it into the mash tun and stirs with a wooden oar. Again and again he climbs, dumps and stirs. He wears a mask, and his words are mu'ed.

Mills is doing this by himself, partly because he’s a perfectionist, and partly because he can’t a"ord to hire any help. He has one part-time bartender, and that’s it. He has one dog named Barley, but she doesn’t have hands.

#e brewery hasn’t turned a pro$t yet. #ere are bills to pay and equipment to repair. Fossil Cove opened June 2, and Mills expects his lifestyle to stay this way for a couple years. “I’m the owner of a small business,” he says. “I do everything, full time.”

Most of the beer will be taken out the door and dropped o" — by Mills — to local restaurants that serve his belgian brown and paleo ales.

#ese two ales stand up to their bigger competitors, says Patrick Carney, manager at Brewski’s. “It’s around top 10 for overall sales, which is great when you have 71 dra!s.”

A lot of people %ock to Fossil Cove a!er trying Mills’ beer in local restaurants.

His beer is so loved that the owner of Lyn D’s Ca-jun Gypsy Cafe, Lyn herself, comes over with an empty growler in hand, excited to get a re$ll of the brown ale to put in her popular brew soup. “We’re renaming the soup,” she says. “#e Belgian Brown Brew by Ben and Barley.” She laughs as she asks, “Is that enough B’s for you?”

#e $rst day the brewery opened, it was packed. “I’ll bet between 200 and 300 people came,” Mills says. And the talk about this opening was all word of mouth and Facebook, no advertising. Mills believes the turnout was due to Fossil Cove being the $rst production micro-brewery in northwest Arkansas to open. He makes the beer there, in a building he gutted himself. About half the beer is distributed to nine local restaurants, and the other half is served in the tasting room.

Mills tries not to think about the future and has de-cided to take life one day at a time. His life has been con-sumed by his small business, but he escapes when he can.

He loves to take Barley to Lake Wilson and walk around the trail that circles the water. He’s into the sci-ency stu", so he notices the types of plants that are in bloom and mentions it’s sad that the water doesn’t run over the rocks into the lake anymore. He usually comes out here by himself. He usually does everything by him-self, but he doesn’t mind.

“I don’t get super lonely,” Mills says. “I don’t get lonely really at all. I’m doing what I like. And I’ve got Barley.”

Sophia AndersonContributing Writer

Local Brewmaster Finds Success inBeer Business

Survive the Winter Season with Soup

Ashley Swindell Sta" PhotographerAs #nals week approaches, many students seek prescription drugs such as Adderall and Vyvanse to “help” with concentration and work.

Georgia CarterSta! Writer

Editor’s Note: !e names of the sources have been changed to protect their identity due to the sensitive nature of this topic. Name change is denoted with an *.

As the semester comes to a close, $nals tend to creep up on students, causing them to pull all-nighters to cram for exams. When a double shot of espresso doesn’t seem like enough, many students turn to stimulants like Adderall, Ritalin and Vyvanse to help them pull through and ace their $nals.

#e use of these “study drugs” is becom-ing a regular occurrence on college cam-puses. #e drugs are used to stay awake during long nights studying and to stay fo-cused on tasks.

Lisa* $rst started taking Adderall dur-ing the second semester of her freshman year in order to study for a big test the next day. One of her friends who is prescribed Adderall gave her two pills to stay up and study.

“I typically only take Adderall when I need to pull all-nighters, so usually about once or twice a month,” Lisa said.

Lisa isn’t alone in getting prescrip-tion drugs from a friend: 59.1 percent of stimulant abusers receive their drugs from

a friend or a relative, according to a study done on high school seniors in 2010 by the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

Although Adderall may seem like an easy $x for a late night of studying, a one-time use can have damaging side e"ects both physically and mentally.

“When I take Adderall, I won’t fall asleep,” Lisa said. “I usually take it around midnight and then won’t go to sleep until the next day a!er I am done with all my classes. I also don’t like to eat at all when I’m on Adderall.”

Regular use of “study drugs” can lead to more serious health issues than lack of sleep and appetite. According to the Na-tional Institute of Drug Abuse, high doses of stimulants can cause irregular heartbeats and, in some cases, heart failure or seizures.

“For example, stimulants such as Ritalin increase alertness, attention, and energy the same way cocaine does — by boosting the amount of the neurotransmitter dopa-mine,” according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse.

Some students who are prescribed stim-ulants for their ADD and ADHD are con-stantly being hounded by their peers to sell their Adderall.

“I was prescribed Adderall my freshman year in college to help me with my ADD,” Jane* said. “Once people found out that I was taking Adderall, they would ask me

to buy mine to help me study for tests and write papers.”

Jane tries to keep her Adderall prescrip-tion a secret, especially around midterms and $nals.

“Some of my friends still ask to buy my Adderall around $nals time,” Jane said. “I feel bad telling them no, but my parents pay for my prescription and I really need it.”

Other students are happy to sell their prescriptions to students for a certain price.

John* says he sells his Adderall pills any-where from $3 to $5 a pill, depending on the dosage and type of pill. For example, ex-tended relief pills will last up to eight hours and usually go for $5 a pill. #e instant re-lease pills usually go for $3 at the most.

University o(cials have found that the abuse of “study drugs” is di(cult to track because it is reliant on students admitting to the use of these prescription drugs.

“#e most important thing that we want to work on is to encourage people who are prescribed these medications not to sell them and for people not to take medica-tions that they are not prescribed,” said UAPD Lieutenant Matt Mills.

Possession of narcotics is illegal and can result in an arrest or felony charge de-pending on the schedule of the drug. Sell-ing prescription drugs can lead to similar consequences. Both result in a university sanction.

Rebekah Harvey Sta" PhotographerRebekah Porter, a UA student, makes soup in her home o" campus on Dec. 4th.

Students Seek Prescription Aid To Prepare For Finals WeekCaitlin MuradSta! Writer

Courtesy PhotoBen Mills, Fossil Cove Owner, opened his brewery in June 2012 after a six-month brewmaster school at UC Davis in California.

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

!e swirling cyclone of coaching rumors has "nal-ly settled down, as Arkan-sas has found its home run hire. Arkansas announced Tuesday night that it hired Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema, who led the Bad-gers to the last three Rose Bowls representing the Big Ten.

!e hiring of Bielema signi"es that Athletic Di-rector Je# Long wanted to not only contend with Les Miles and Nick Saban in the Southeastern Confer-ence, but also be able to win conference and national ti-tles. Bielema has had some of the Big Ten’s toughest teams in his years at Wis-consin and looks to bring that same bruising style to the SEC.

While Mike Gundy, Chris Petersen and Gary Patterson were some of the names paraded around this past week, Bielema is the guy Arkansas needed most. O#ensive-minded coaches in the SEC might wow you with style, but National Championships are won by great defenses and a solid running game.

Bielema had both a great defense and solid running game while at Wisconsin. !e Badger defense ranked 13th nationally in an atypi-cally down year in 2012. His latest running back, Montee Ball, is the NCAA career touchdowns and rushing touchdowns leader and was a "nalist for the Heisman in 2011.

!ese were things Je# Long clearly realized while getting physically beaten by Alabama over and over the past few seasons. If you can’t beat their style of play, you might as well join them.

!e only concern I might have is that Bielema hasn’t recruited this part of the country. In his 2012 and 2013 recruiting classes, Bielema had only three players from the south (all from Florida) and mostly recruits from the North and northeast states. It would be wise to keep a guy like Tim Horton or Bobby Allen on the sta# to not lose touch with the Ar-kansas and Texas recruiting bases.

However, that is only a short-term worry, as new coaches usually have some growing pains in the "rst few years. It will be inter-esting to see what Bielema can do with the current tal-ent. !e Hogs return much youth on defense, a defense Bielema and his sta# may be able to mold into a much improved version of last season’s squad.

On o#ense, it is expect-ed Brandon Allen will be the starting quarterback, but keep an eye on Jona-than Williams and Knile Davis. Wisconsin running backs always had impres-sive seasons, and it will be interesting to see how they will be used.

Now, all Hogs fans can do is sit, wait and speculate for nine months about how good the Razorbacks will be in the near and distant future.

Cameron McCauley a sta! writer for the Arkan-sas Traveler. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

‘Old Man Football ’ PrevailsCameron McCauleySta! Writer

COMMENTARYBASKETBALL

Behind forward Marshawn Powell’s 33 points, the Arkan-sas men’s basketball team was able to hold onto a late second half lead to beat the Oklahoma Sooners Tuesday, 81-78. !e Hogs exacted revenge on the Sooners, who won the last game in the series last year in Nor-man, Okla., 78-63.

Powell set a career high for points in a game with 33, while "lling out a nice stat sheet with six rebounds and "ve assists. Powell’s previous high was 29 against Appalachian State in his freshman season in 2009. Pow-ell also had six rebounds and "ve assists, showing his com-plete repertoire of skills.

It seems concerns about him being 100 percent a$er miss-ing nearly all of last year are no longer necessary, as Powell took control of the team against the Sooners.

In the post game interview, however, Powell insisted he is still at 95 percent, always leav-ing room for improvement.

Mardracus Wade had 10 points, making two consecu-tive threes in the second half that helped pad the Razorbacks’ lead. As a team, the Hogs shot 9-22 from beyond the arc, clear-ly their best e#ort all season in that category.

!e Razorbacks once again had a good turnover ratio, forcing 17 Sooner turnovers and scoring 19 points o# those turnovers. Arkansas ranks in the top 10 in the country in turnover margin, and showed

their pressure is key to winning close games.

BJ Young had 10 points as well as a career high eight as-sists, taking on more of a dis-tributor role with Powell being so hot. Young played the most minutes of any Arkansas player, but was mostly keyed on by the Oklahoma defense.

“He made everyone around him better, even when he wasn’t scoring he was still a threat on the court, and that really helped us tonight,” said Powell about Young.

“Our awareness of Young was pretty good, but he is still a very tough player to guard,” said Oklahoma head coach Lon Kruger.

Fellow sophomore Rashad Madden also contributed good minutes in his "rst game of the season o# the bench, "nishing with eight points and three re-bounds including some clutch shooting late in the second half.

!e Sooners wouldn’t go down easily though, as they were able to hang on and stay in the game most of the second half, shooting 64 percent from the "eld in the second frame. !e Razorbacks were able to keep ahead just enough in the second half to close it out, un-like what they were able to do in games earlier this season against Arizona State and Wis-consin.

With 22 seconds remain-ing, an o#ensive rebound led to a Steven Pledger three for Oklahoma to give the Sooners the lead for the "rst time since 17:58 in the "rst half. !e Hogs

Powell Breaks Single-Game RecordCameron McCauleySta! Writer

Logan Webster Sta" PhotographerJunior forward Marshawn Powell led the Razorbacks with 33 points, setting a new career single-game high, in their win over the Oklahoma Sooners Tuesday night. see POWELL page 8

Yesterday a$ernoon, UA students learned of the hire of Wisconsin head coach as the new Razorback head coach.

Students, though sur-prised, were pleased with the idea of Bret Bielema becom-ing the next coach at Arkan-sas.

“It’s as good of a hire as we could get,” sophomore Forest Holmes said.

Several students pointed to Bielema’s success in the Big Ten and believe that it will carry over to the Southeastern Conference.

A$er a season full of ru-mors, Boise State’s Chris Pe-tersen and Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy seemingly emerged as frontrunners for the job, so Bielema’s hiring came as a surprise to students.

“We had Petersen, Gundy, and at one point Les Miles was a potential contender,” junior Samuel McLelland. “It was a surprise, but that’s Je# Long’s style, to keep every-thing hushed up.”

With a new coach inevi-tably comes a new o#ensive system. Bielema had a run-oriented o#ense at Wisconsin, and UA students are torn as to how it will work at Arkansas. McLelland believes it will re-

vive memories of Darren Mc-Fadden and Felix Jones.

“It’s our traditional run game that we’re looking for and that we’ve seen at Arkan-sas before,” McLelland said. “It will bring back a familiar style of Arkansas football.”

However, senior Joey Tay-lor is concerned.

“It’s kind of like what LSU and Alabama have been do-ing, but I think that’s a lot harder to do at Arkansas with the type of players we get here,” Taylor said.

Students are also excited about the fact that he taken Wisconsin to three consecu-tive Rose Bowls.

“(Fans) overthink it some-

times,” junior Daniel Sulte-meier said. “!e guy is a win-ner.”

McLelland is not con-vinced that the BCS appear-ances are a sure sign that success will follow at Arkan-sas, because each conference is limited to only two teams, sometimes meaning the best teams don’t get in the BCS games.

“A lot of people are throw-ing around the fact that he’s been to three Rose Bowls, and that’s something I just don’t know about,” McLelland said. “!e SEC usually knocks each other out of potential BCS bowls.”

A history of coaches start-

ing in the Big Ten before com-ing to SEC also excites Sulte-meier.

“I see (Alabama’s Nick) Sa-ban came from the Big Ten. Les Miles came from the Big Ten originally,” Sultemeir said. “People say we need a high-octane o#ensive guy; Bobby (Petrino) could do that, but we weren’t going to "nd a Bobby.”

Ultimately, fans are glad the search is over and that Arkansas hired a coach with a winning record.

“I think we got a winner,” Sultemeier said. “I think he’s going to be an awesome coach and he’s going to be here a long time.”

Students Respond to Hire Out of Left Field

Although Arkansas’ season did not go as expected, several players had standout seasons. A few of these players will likely have the opportunity to be dra$ed by an NFL team next April and several will probably have a chance to sign with a team as an undra$ed free agent.

Tyler WilsonWilson raised some eye-

brows when he announced that he would return for his senior season a$er an impressive ju-nior season. He was projected to be dra$ed in the "rst round a$er Andrew Luck and Robert Gri%n III, but he decided to come back to Arkansas and try to win a National Champion-ship and the Heisman Trophy.

However, early in the season Wilson dropped o# the radar for the Heisman a$er he was knocked out of the ULM game with a concussion and missed the Alabama game. His statis-tics also took a slight hit this season. Wilson passed for 3,387 yards and completed 62.1 per-cent of his passes, down from

3,638 and 63.2 last year.He threw over twice as

many interceptions, 13, as he did last year, six. Despite these factors, I do not believe Wilson will slip that far in the dra$. He has shown a lot of toughness by standing in the pocket and delivering perfect passes, while knowing he is going to be hit. He could have just called it a season a$er the Alabama game and focused on staying healthy for the dra$, but he didn’t. NFL coaches and general managers value these characteristics in a quarterback, so I expect Wilson to be dra$ed as high as late in the "rst round, but de"nitely no later than the second round.

Cobi HamiltonFor three years, Hamilton

had to wait his turn behind three future NFL wide receiv-ers: Joe Adams, Greg Childs and Jarius Wright. He "nally got the opportunity to be the No. 1 target his senior season, and he made the most of it.

Named as one of the 10 semi"nalists for the Biletniko# Award, he hauled in a UA sin-

Razorbacks with a Chance in the DraftFOOTBALL

Andrew HutchinsonSta! Writer

see NFL page 8

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Ryan Miller Sta" PhotographerSenior Cobi Hamilton broke the UA and SEC single game receiving yards record with 303 yards against Rutgers Sept. 21.

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NFL continued from page 7gle-season record 90 passes. Against Rutgers, he shattered the UA and Southeastern Conference single-game re-cord by gaining 303 yards through the air. His 1,335 receiving yards are the "$h most by an FBS receiver this season.

Hamilton has certainly caught the eye of NFL scouts and I expect him to be dra$ed around the same time Ad-ams, Childs and Wright were picked last year, either the third or fourth round.

Knile DavisLike Wilson, Davis came

into the season with Heisman hopes, but quickly realized that wouldn’t happen. Davis rushed for 1,322 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2010; howev-er, he missed the entire 2011 season with an injury.

With him healthy this sea-son, Razorback fans expected him to return to his 2010 form. Instead, he struggled with fumbles early in the sea-son and "nished the season with only 377 yards.

Only a junior, Davis has one year of eligibility le$. He has not announced whether he is coming back next year or not, but if he declares for the dra$, I don’t expect him to be picked. I think he should come back and participate in a full-contact spring and fall practice, which he didn’t last year. If he gets these early reps, he will get in a groove early and put up bigger num-bers during the season, great-ly improving his dra$ stock.

Possible Late Round Picks

Running back Dennis Johnson and punter Dylan Breeding have had solid ca-reers as Razorbacks. Johnson is the all-time kicko# return yards leader for the SEC and carried the load at running back when Davis struggled this season. He gained 757 yards on 137 carries, for an average of 5.5 yards per rush. Breeding averaged 45.6 yards per punt this season, which ranks ninth in the FBS. He also pinned 18 punts inside the 20-yard line.

If Johnson or Breeding get dra$ed, it will be very late in the dra$. Johnson showed glimpses of greatness, but he never had the opportunity to be the featured back. Breed-ing is de"nitely one of the best punters in the nation, but very few punters get dra$ed. I expect them both to at least get a free agent contract if they are not dra$ed.

Tight end Chris Gragg is in a similar position. He had a good season, but he only played in "ve games. His leg injury has been a recur-ring problem and I think it will scare some teams away from him. I expect him to be picked up late in the dra$ or most likely signed as an un-dra$ed free agent.

Undra!ed Free AgentsA few members of Arkan-

sas’ defense will likely have the chance to try out with an NFL team as undra$ed free agents. I believe linebacker Alonzo Highsmith and de-fensive tackle DeQuinta Jones will have the best opportuni-ties to try out and make an NFL roster.

!e 2012 season ended for the Arkansas volleyball team a$er a 3-2 loss to Wichita State in the "rst round of the NCAA tournament.

!e Razorbacks "nished the season 22-10. !is is the "rst season Arkansas has won 20 matches since 2005.

Roslandy Acosta and Jas-mine Norton were named to the All-South Region First Team by the American Vol-leyball Coaches Association.

“Roslandy and Jasmine were a big reason why we had the kind of season we had,” head coach Robert Pulliza said.

Acosta averaged 3.15 kills per set with a .253 hitting per-centage throughout the sea-son. She posted double-digit kills in the last 15 matches of the season.

Norton averaged 3.65 kills per set and 3.04 digs per set. Norton posted 16 double-doubles this season and had at least 10 kills in 14 of the last 15 matches.

Acosta has made the deci-sion to continue her career at the professional level in Puer-to Rico.

“It’s one of the best league’s in the world to play profes-sional at,” Pulliza said. “It worked out that she’s just go-ing to be able to play down there and ful"ll her dream.”

“I think the best is yet to be seen from Roslandy Acosta,” Pulliza added.

Acosta and Norton along with Amanada Anderson, Kasey Heckelman, Marci King and Janeliss Torres-Lo-

pez make up a group of se-niors that have helped return the Arkansas program to a level of success not seen since 2006, the last time the Hogs made the NCAA tournament.

“For them to close out their careers the way they did, it’s got to feel good for them to know that they le$ a mark not only as a team, but individu-ally,” Pulliza said.

!e three seniors that started and "nished their ca-reers at Arkansas, Anderson, Norton and Torres-Lopez, were Pulliza’s "rst recruiting class at Arkansas.

“It’s been a great ride,” Pulliza said of coaching this group. “!is is a group of se-

niors that, the easiest way I can describe it is have rebuilt something from the ground. It’s a group that committed to making a change and doing it the right way.”

Pulliza said he told his team a$er they were selected for the NCAA tournament that their lives would be changed.

“!ey have immediately been empowered for the rest of their lives to understand that when you commit to do-ing something the right way and you work and you com-mit to people and to one an-other and to a dream, then you can do anything,” Pulliza said.

Seniors Lead Hogs to a Higher Level of Success Haley MarkleAsst. Sports Editor

VOLLEYBALL POWELL continued from page 7answered with a BJ Young la-yup with 14 seconds remain-ing to put the Razorbacks back on top 79-78.

Oklahoma then missed a basket with two seconds re-maining and fouled Powell, who then hit both free throws to put the Hogs up for good.

“!ey wouldn’t go away, we had the opportunity to distance ourselves, and their players stepped up,” said Ar-kansas head coach Mike An-derson.

!e Hogs were able to hold on in the end to improve their record to 4-3, and may have some newfound leader-ship in the play of Powell.

Next up, the Razorbacks face No. 3 ranked Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., their "rst true road game of the season. Tipo# for that game is noon Saturday.

Rebekah Harvey Sta" PhotographerHead coach of the women’s Volleyball team, Robert Pulliza, talks about the team’s progress at the Olympic press confer-ence on Dec. 4th.