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"e Black Students Association presented a fashion show "ursday as a part of a celebration of Black History Month.

"e fashion show featured prominent blacks throughout his-tory, with students dressing as ev-eryone from Charles Hamilton Houston to Malcolm X. "e #nale featured President Barack Obama and #rst lady Michelle Obama.

“All the amazing #gures that we have seen tonight makes us wonder who of these people that are sitting here today might be the next ones that we’re talking about,” said Sta-cee Lambey, who moderated the show with Marteze Hammonds.

“It just makes us sit back and wonder, ‘What are we doing to make a change in our world to-day?’” Lambey said.

"e show featured di!erent forms of art from a range of de-cades, including a reading of a

poem by Langston Hughes, a gos-pel performance, a swing dance and a contemporary dance.

BSA president Raven Cook, an African American studies major, said that it is very important for students to participate in Black History Month.

“If you are an African-American or just anyone in general, you must come to a Black History Month program. "ere is no excuse why you shouldn’t celebrate your histo-ry,” Cook said.

Black History Month start-ed as a week-long celebration in 1925 called Negro History Week, but was extended in 1976 to the month-long event with which most Americans are familiar, according to the Library of Congress.

“Seize the opportunity to hon-or the too-o$en neglected accom-plishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history,” said President Gerald R. Ford, according to the Library of Congress.

O%cials at Chartwells Dining Services and the Of-#ce of Sustainability are in-stituting Project Clean Plate, a sustainability movement which will run from Feb. 6 to Feb. 16. "e project fol-lows a year in which the UA sent approximately 240 metric tons of food waste to land#lls.

Students can always go back for seconds if they are still hungry, but they should be more mindful of how much they put on their

plates, said Kim Johnson, Chartwells marketing direc-tor.

“"e best description of it would be that it’s an in-formal buzz campaign,” Johnson said. “Student vol-unteers will be intercepting students in the dining halls, during dinner hours and talking to them about being more mindful of the food they waste.”

To raise awareness on campus, o%cials will o!er the chance to win one of two free Kindles through a ra&e. Winners will be cho-sen at the end of each week,

Johnson said.Food waste is an issue

Chartwells o%cials have tried to address for four years, Johnson said.

UA o%cials made a “gi-gantic stride” in reducing food waste when Chartwells o%cials stopped providing trays in the dining halls four years ago, Johnson said. "is campaign seeks to reduce that waste even further.

Approximately one in six Arkansans live below the poverty line and struggle to provide enough food for

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Project Clean Plate to Reduce Dining Hall Waste

Black Students Association Perform for Historical

Fashion Show

WESTLEY CLAWSON, PHOTO COURTESYThis past weekend the Facebook page UARK Memes generated more than 1,500 ‘likes’ from UA students.

NAMIKO BAGIRIMVANO PHOTO COURTESY FROM LEFT: Kesha Boyles, Brittany Rogers-Means, Ashyle Horton, Camilla Harris and Addie Danielle perform at a fashion show Thursday.

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LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERProject Clean Plate is a conservation effort executed by Chartwells dining services. Students are encouraged to waste as little food as possible by being more intentional with the amount of food they put on their plate.

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"e University of Arkansas Po-lice Department o%cers premiered a program designed to help people retrieve stolen merchandise, o%cials said.

LeadsOnline is a national pro-gram used by law enforcement agen-cies to record data on personal prop-erty, said UAPD Lt. Gary Crain.

“"e program is simple to use and open to everyone. You simply go onto the website, sign up and en-ter your information. "e program asks for serial numbers, descriptions and photographs of your property. "e service is completely con#den-tial and is not accessible even by law enforcement agencies,” Crain said.

“"e information is password protected and accessible only by the person who submitted it,” he said.

"e purpose of the service is to give people a database to collect all of their information and keep it in one place, Crain said.

“If something is stolen, they can then retrieve their information and give it to the police. "at way we can enter it into a database and #nd it if it’s sold,” he said.

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

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BRIEFLY SPEAKING:February 13ASG Executive Election Packet AvailableApplication packets are available for Associated Student Gov-ernment executive o! cers (president, vice president, secretary and treasurer) starting Feb. 1.Applications will be due at noon Friday, Feb. 17, to the O! ce of Student Activities.

American Institute for Foreign Study Representative on CampusAmerican Institute for Foreign Study representative Michelle Walters will be on campus to chat about the program opportu-nities o" ered by AIFS on Monday, Feb. 13, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Arkansas Union Food Court.

Student Organization Outreach & Involvement Experience Interest SessionsStudent Organization Outreach and Involvement Experience, SOOIE, is a new student organization that is looking for mem-bers and o! cers. SOOIE members will be trained to lead team-building activities, retreats, and workshops to help other Reg-istered Student Organizations succeed. Executive o! cers posi-tions are selected through an application and interview process. # is session will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. in Union 507.

February 14Extreme Makeover: Resume EditionAll business majors are invited to stop by the second $ oor en-trance of the Walton College to get their resumes ready for the upcoming campus career fairs and recruiting season. Walton College Career Center sta" will be providing quick 5-minute re-sume revisions on Feb. 14 from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m., and Feb. 15 from 9 to 11 a.m.

Saving lives by utilizing Automated External Defi brillators # is training will cover how and when to use the Lifepak Au-tomated External De% brillators that have been distributed in buildings on campus. All University employees interested in learning how to use the AEDs should attend this training. # e session will take place from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the Union room 510.

February 15International Business in Ireland Drop-In Info SessionVisit Walton College of Business froom 343 to learn about busi-ness study-abroad opportunities in Ireland. # is informational session will take place from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. Food will be pro-vided.

International Writers Course in Galway Info Meeting An informational meeting for students interested in the Inter-national Writers Course in Galway, Ireland, will take place from 4 to 5 p.m. in Kimpel room 339. Food will be provided.

February 16Beginning Ballroom and Salsa Dance# is 10 week course will teach you the basic dance steps and styles for several ballroom dances. # e class will start o" at the Jones Center, but a few of the classes will take place at the Glob-al Campus in Fayetteville. # ose changes will be announced in class. Classes will be from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

February 17Dual Speaker Event: Greta Christina and JT EberhardOccam’s Razors will be hosting two guest speakers, Greta Chris-tina and JT Eberhard. # ey will begin speaking at 7 p.m. in Gi" els Auditorim in Old Main, but there will be free snacks available at 6 p.m. # e talks will be especially important to secu-lar thinking but will apply to everyone. Classes will be from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Razorback Band Auditions

Begin# e UA marching band

will have auditions un-til mid-April for positions in the 2012 Razorback Marching Band, depart-ment o! cials said.

“We encourage that if there are any current UA students that want to be on the marching band, they are welcome to set up an audition date and try out for the marching band.” said Connie Vick, adminis-trative support supervisor for the UA band program.

Any student with mu-sic ability is eligible to au-dition for the marching band. Students don’t have to be a music major, Vick said.

“For the last couple of years there have been 340 students on marching band,” Vick said. # ere are already about 100 sched-uled auditions for next year’s band and we usually have about 120 auditions each year,” Vick said.

# ese auditions are competitive because they determine the amount of merit-based scholarships a band member will receive, according to the UA band website.

Of the 340 members of the marching band in the 2011 year, more than 310 students received some type of % nancial support to help pay tuition and fees, according to the UA band website.

# e Department of Music o" ers band scholar-ships to students based on musical ability, academic achievement and potential contribution to music de-partment ensembles, ac-cording to UA catalog of studies/% nancial aid web-site.

Scholarships are renew-able for up to % ve years as long as the student meets the conditions speci% ed on the scholarship letter or contract. Music and band scholarships are available to music majors and to

students majoring in oth-er areas who participate in certain ensembles and all scholarships require an au-dition, according to the UA catalog of studies/ % nancial aid website.

Current marching band members do not have to tryout again. Tryouts are for incoming freshmen and any current student who is interested, Vick said.

Music majors who want to audition should contact Connie Vick and be pre-pared to perform two ex-cerpts of contrasting styles that best represent the stu-dent’s highest technical and musical achievement, according to the UA band website.

Non-music majors will audition for band directors and should be prepared to preform two excerpts of contrasting styles, the chromatic and all major scales and sight reading, according to the UA band website.

“Non-music majors should look on the website and choose a date to sched-ule an audition. Music ma-jors will schedule a speci% c date with applied profes-sors,” Vick said.

All non-music major auditions will be scheduled for 12:30 p.m. according to the UA band website.

“For all auditions, the students need to report to the band department. But all the music majors au-ditioning are held in the band building,” Vick said.

# ere will be two au-ditions for percussionists. First-round auditions will be throughout February and early March. # ose in-dividuals who pass on to the % nal audition will be noti% ed by email, accord-ing to the UA band website.

Audition information is available on the Razor-back Marching Band web-site. Students can schedule an audition and % nd schol-arship information by con-tacting the UA band o! ce.

by KAREN STIGARStaff Writer

their families, according to the Arkansas Hunger Alli-ance website.

More than one-fourth of the northwest Arkansas pop-ulation received some form of food assistance in 2009, ac-cording to the website.

“Northwest Arkansas has some of the highest hunger rates in the state,” said Car-los Ochoa, interim direc-tor of Sustainability. “# ink about people going hungry, and we’re just throwing food away.”

Food waste also has sub-stantial economic and en-vironmental e" ects, Ochoa said.

“# e agriculture industry depends on oil and it takes a lot of input to make that food,” Ochoa said. “It’s also an investment just to trans-port that waste to a land% ll. We probably spent $36,000 last year just taking that stu" to the land% ll.”

Food waste also produces methane, a greenhouse gas which is 20 times more ef-fective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon di-oxide, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency website.

Chartwells o! cials have worked with the Sustain-ability Council on issues of food waste outside of Project Clean Plate, Johnson said.

“We’re also looking at oth-er options for how to handle the waste we do produce, be-cause there’s always going to be some waste,” Johnson said. “We tried composting, us-ing earth tubs, but due to the type of waste, composting doesn’t necessarily work.”

Food waste can lead to problems that a" ect every-one’s day-to-day lives.

When le& in land% lls, food waste runo" can contaminate ground water, Ochoa said.

“# is isn’t really about the free Kindles, it’s about educa-tion,” he said, “Knowing is an ingredient to % nding a solu-tion.”

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RESEARCHSpecial Traveler Beat

O! cially established in 2011, the UA Nanoscale Ma-terial Science and Engineer-ing building has quickly be-come a hub of new research that stands tall on Dickson Street.

“" e new Nano science building is very special. It’s a great place speci# cally con-structed for high-end in-strumentation,” said Mou-rad Benamara, director of Arkansas Electron Optics.

“We want to know what happens on such an ex-tremely tiny material scale,” Benamara said. “We also want to develop new mate-rial at that scale.”

“Nanoscience refers to the ability to manipulate individual atoms and mol-ecules, making it possible to build machines on the scale of human cells or cre-ate materials and structures from the bottom up with novel properties,” according to National Science Founda-tion website.

Material at the nano scale takes on di$ erent physi-cal properties, Benamara said. " ese can be physical, chemical, electronic or me-chanic.

“For instance, paint. What if you could develop some nano material to in-clude into the paint so that when the paint is used on a wall it will not allow any-one in the room to receive a phone call?” Benamara said.

“A nano material can also be developed to reduce the penetration of electro-magnetic waves inside the room,” Benamara said. “We are developing nanomateri-als for the future.”

" e technology has great scienti# c implications. New materials that can be created from nano research are the basis for major technologi-cal advances of the future, according to the Royal Soci-ety of Chemistry.

“" is work can, in the fu-ture, generate grants which will greatly bene# t the stu-dents at the UA,” Benamara said.

Benamara’s department provides analytical services to a range of local scientists, which furthers its regional impact, Benamara said.

“We collaborate with many people on campus, from electrical engineering, chemistry, geoscience and physics,” he said. “We char-acterize samples for all UA departments, supporting the scientist on campus.”

" is makes the UA nan-otechnology a student-cen-tered # eld, Benamara said.

“" e nanoscience build-ing o$ ers students an en-vironment where they can conduct their research with-out having to send samples away to a nano research fa-cility or lab,” Benamara stat-ed.

“" e scientists, the ma-terials and technology now exist here on campus, and this will generate interest from other scientist within the region wishing to use or collaborate with UA scien-tist and the Nanotechnology facility,” Benarama said.

by CHVEN MITCHELLStaff Writer

Nanotechnology Professors Spur

Innovative Research

Above the Curve

KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSenior art student KC paints the front facade of Mullins Library for an advanced painting class.

The Rising Tide

KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThe full moon rises above Old Main on Monday, February 6.

People can enter the infor-mation into the website them-selves or they can have UAPD do it for them. At the UAPD headquarters and substation, people can pick up a form, # ll it out and return it to UAPD to be entered into the database, Crain said.

While the service has not

had to be utilized by the department, UAPD hopes that students will use it.

“We had an incident where some laptops were stolen. Be-cause the students had their serial numbers recorded in some way, we were able to re-trieve the laptops when they were sold to a pawn shop,”

Crain said.All property- electronics,

jewelry, bicycles and more- should be documented on the website, he said.

“We ask that everyone doc-ument their property, safe-guard it as much as possible and report it in a timely man-ner if it is stolen,” Crain said.

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! e Arkansas Traveler welcomes letters to the editor from all interested readers. Letters should be at most 300 words and should include your name, student classi" cation and major or title with the university and a day-time telephone number for veri" cation. Letters should be sent to traveler@uark.edu.

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Saba NaseemMattie QuinnEmily Rhodes

HEBRON CHESTER Sta! Cartoonist

Only 51 percent of Muslim youth from the ages of 18 to 29 were registered to vote in the 2008 presidential elections, according to the 2009 Gallup Poll “Muslim Americans: A National Portrait.” ! is is the lowest percentage recorded among young Americans, ac-cording to the " ndings.

So why aren’t the Muslim youth voting? What is the root of this apathy (if that’s what you want to call it)?

One factor is probably American foreign policy. ! ough most of the Muslim youth are American citizens by birth, many have parents who immigrated from the Middle

East or South Asia. ! e rela-tionship between America and the predominantly Muslim populated countries has been far from perfect in the past— ! e Gulf war, the War on Iraq, the War on Afghanistan and of course, the Israeli-Palestinian con# ict. Many Muslims have felt that American relations in the Middle East in the past have lacked an important un-derstanding of the religion and various cultures that encom-pass the region. And so many may ask, why vote when the policies never seem to change?

! is lack of understanding has echoed in terms of Mus-lims in America. A$ er 9/11, 55 percent of Muslims say it has been harder to live in the United States, according to the 2011 Pew Research Cen-ter " ndings. Immediately a$ er 9/11, Islam was on the spot-light. Some wanted to under-stand it, some wanted to hate it and others simply didn’t see the correlation between the terrorist attacks and Islam.

! e media, in many in-stances, portrays a non-objec-tive view of Muslims. Di% erent media outlets have portrayed Muslim women as oppressed, bearded men as radicals and

Muslims in general as belong-ing to a backwards religion. ! e word Islamaphobia- “an unfounded fear of and hostil-ity towards Islam,” according to the Council of American-Islamic relations- has worked it’s way into American life. Is-lamaphobia leads to alienation and the youth questioning their in# uence in a country where they feel like they aren’t accepted and where their re-ligion is constantly under at-tack.

In Tariq Ramadan’s book, “What I believe”, he discuss-es how Western Muslims can maintain dual identities as Muslims and as loyal citizens of their country. He writes, “When it is made clear that they are at home in the West, that the Way of faithfulness to higher principles must be followed both here and else-where, that they must stop considering themselves a mi-nority but that on the contrary knowing their duties as well as their rights as citizens in-volved in the majority is a ne-cessity: when all that is made clear, Muslims will be called up to take responsibility for themselves and get rid of the victim mind set.”

His point is that Mus-lim Americans need to make themselves a part of the ma-jority and involve themselves as citizens. Voting, of course, is a privilege as well as a duty to one’s country, and a basic way to show that you care for your country’s future and well-being.

On the # ip side, people who are giving rise to this Is-lamaphobia need to be more sensitive to Islam and try to learn about it, rather than out-right reject it.

! ere is a balance to be sought out by both sides. While the American Mus-lim youth may be integrat-ed into today’s society- many of them were born here and would identify themselves as more American than anything else- they need to fully involve themselves in the future of this country and take advantage of the rights they are given.

Saba Naseem is a journalism, French and Middle Eastern studies major, and the editor of the Traveler.

Her column appears every other Monday.

Muslim Youth— The Importance of VotingFrom the Editor

by SABA NASEEMEditor

Student Loan Proposal Takes Student Power to Pay

It’s student loan time again – " lling out the FAFSA, checking on Sallie Mae paperwork, and preparing for the summer and fall se-mesters. But while we’re racking up student debt, with hopes to get a good enough job a$ er graduation to pay our he$ y loans, one group of college students have come up with a di% erent plan for repayment.

“No to debt slavery.” A concept that could very quickly become one way that we repay our education debts without having to remember our bill each month. ! ough this might seem like a quick " x to avoid-ing late payments, the program could cause more problems that it " xes.

! e idea behind the FixUC proposal, which in time could pave the way for other colleges and universities, is to get rid of the monthly payments and let students pay for their tuition with a " xed percentage of their income for the 20 years following gradua-tion. ! ough many of us light up at the idea of not having to wor-ry about our loans, rather that they would simply be taken out of our income and forgotten about by us and our monthly bud-gets, how can we take this program into serious consideration when there is such a huge span in our projected income levels?

Many of us are hoping that we can land a job that pays just enough following graduation, but for some of us, our paychecks could be wildly over or under our expectations. ! e prospect of making a $20,000 pay-check or a $100,000 paycheck makes us ask the question – if we have a " xed percentage of our paychecks taken out for tuition for a set amount of time, how is that fair to those making a larger income each year? Po-tentially, this could mean one student could pay thousands, while an-other only pay hundreds for the same level of education. With no pros-pect yet of making this number variable for di% erent income levels, the idea seems entirely problematic and a bad idea for the any student.

! is program, though making it easier when it comes to re-membering bills each month, would put students in a posi-tion to desire lower paying jobs, as one of our larger bills, our stu-dent loans, would be cheaper. Higher education institutions can’t put students in a box, making " nancial choices based on the “average.” We need to instead take out our loans and be pre-pared to pay o% our individual debts, however much they may be.

Traveler Quote of the Day

“! is isn’t really about the free Kindles, it’s about education,” he said, “Knowing is an in-

gredient to " nding a solution.”- Carlos Ochoa, interim director of Sustainability, “Project Clean Plate Aims to Reduce Dining Hall Waste,” page 1.

Students Mourn DeathOf Music Great

For many of us, Saturday came and went with a schedule of sleep-ing in, hanging out with friends and relaxing from a busy week of school. Yet, while most us were sitting at home watching the basket-ball game, the news of Whitney Houston’s death came as a shock.

As a music icon for our generation, many of us probably have some distinct, and entirely comedic memories of singing “I will always love you,” while bopping around our living rooms to “I wanna dance with somebody,”

And while the times have moved to a radio playlist of Ke$ha, Flo Rida and David Guetta, we need to remember our past and honor the late music star who gave us so many hits to dance to while growing up.

Along with other greats, Houston was just one of our icons who died at an extremely early age. At 48, Houston died on the Gram-my Awards eve, making a splash in news headlines. And while many of us remember her through reports of rehab, crazed behavior and drug use, we should rather remember her for her loud stage pres-ence, strong voice and for everything she gave to the world of music.

Whitney Houston, we will always love you. Whether it’s from the Coca Cola commercials, “! e Bodyguard,” or simply our memories from long ago, we at the Traveler, along with many of our fellow students, will mourn the death of pop sensation in the best way possible – by once more listening to the music great belt the words to her most popular hits.

With the general election full speed ahead, and a long break be-fore the GOP “Super Tuesday,” all eyes have turned to Obama.

An economic report card that has seemingly taken a turn for the better, along with a # ourishing grassroots movement, the presi-dent’s stars may have aligned just in time to give Republican con-tenders a run for their money.

As natural, however, the presi-dent can’t please anyone, and has one group up in arms this week - Catholics.

A$ er spending 10 years in the Catholic school system and what seemed like more than that thumbing around the decades of the Rosary, I’ve taken particular in-terest in the issue. Yet, one need not be Catholic to see Obama’s prob-lems on this issue.

Last week, Obama was met with vehement criticism because of his recent decision to force reli-gious-a& liated employers in Cath-

olic hospitals and colleges to in-clude a birth control provision in their health insurance plans.

Many may not see problems in this, but as is the Catholic belief to abstain from birth control as not to interrupt the natural consequenc-es of sexual intercourse, Obama’s policies forced those institutions to inherently contradict themselves.

Feeling pressure from one of the strongest coast-to-coast vot-ing blocs and it being this close to an election season, the Obama administration quickly rescinded its original mandate, and worked quickly to ease national tensions.

Obama’s “plan b” is only OK, though. Last week, the president announced that he would back down from the mandate, and tweak his recent insurance reso-lution. While women would still be able to obtain birth control un-der the mandate, Obama took the pressure o% religious institutions to provide it for them. Instead, in-surers would take the responsibil-ity of including it in plans. Happy to be able to appease a majority of Catholics concerned with the mat-ter, the Obama administration is boasting the plan.

“We didn’t expect to get uni-versal support of the bishops or all Catholics,” said White House Chief of Sta% , Jacob Lew. “I think that what we have here is a policy that re# ects bringing together two very important principles in a way that’s true to the American tradi-tion.”

Lew is partially correct - keep-

ing in mind the situation the presi-dent was faced with. While largely shi$ ing the costs away from em-ployers, Obama helped secure birth control to millions of wom-en, which is incredibly bene" cial for the Democratic Party. Each enfranchised woman is one more vote for the president who will likely be facing a close race in No-vember.

Yet, boasting aside, the prob-lem is still is inherent contradic-tion in the plan.

For some opponents of the original plan, most notably presi-dential candidate Rick Santorum, however, the compromise isn’t enough. While I’m glad Santorum is on the o% ensive, he’s going about it the wrong way.

“! ere’s no compromise here,” Santorum said. “! ey are forc-ing religious organizations, either directly or indirectly, to pay for something that they " nd is a deep-ly, morally, you know, wrong thing. And this is not what the govern-ment should be doing.”

Santorum, a favorite among evangelical and religious conserva-tives, seems to be digging himself into a hole though. Over the last four years, Obama has been able to e& ciently alienate conservatives, and Santorum is playing right into his hands by attacking the presi-dent on a moral front.

While Santorum is coming o% three big wins in recent primary races, continuing the anti-birth control bravado is a sure way to drive him away from the coveted

Republican presidential nomina-tion.

! e most valid concern of the compromise comes from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. While Santorum at-tempted to shi$ voters into notic-ing the moral dilemma, taking a largely anti-contraception stance, Ryan noted the deception that the Obama administration is trying to sell to voters.

! e lie is in that many religious organizations are self-insured, meaning they still front the costs of birth control, Ryan said. Religious institutions will still face provisions that are contradictory to their be-liefs.

Without taking sides, it’s overwhelmingly illogical for the Obama administration to do this. ! e issues isn’t the morality of birth control, it’s the freedom of companies to have those morals and beliefs.

“! is should be rescinded, not compromised like this, because I would, again, say it’s not a compro-mise,” Ryan said. “! e president’s doubling down.”

Ryan is exactly right, and we need to see the president guaran-tee those freedoms to those institu-tions while extending birth control to women - they are not mutually exclusive.

Joe Kieklak is a Traveler columnist.

His column appears every Monday.

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With a pen and clipboard in hand, Channing Barker clocks in to produce the KNWA evening news. As the cameras get ready to roll, she prepares for another broadcast. During the week, Barker works at UATV, where she has produced and anchored since 2007.

With an already impressive ca-reer, Barker derives inspiration from an unlikely source. At age 16, Barker was diagnosed with multi-ple sclerosis, a chronic in! amma-tory disease that damages the my-elin sheath of the brain and spinal cord. MS has a" ected millions of Americans, from comedian Rich-ard Pryor to actress Annette Funi-cello.

As an overachieving broadcast journalism and political science student, Barker uses her diagnosis to inspire awareness for multiple sclerosis.

“It was very important to me to get the word out on multiple sclero-sis. It o# en seems to go unnoticed,” she said.

In April, Barker will participate in the Walk MS Northwest Ar-kansas, a rally to raise awareness and funds for multiple sclerosis research. $ e walk will consist of more than 500 Northwest Arkan-sas residents of all ages, and partici-pants hope to raise a minimum of $40,000 for research.

$ e cause has given Barker an opportunity to reach out to other UA students with connection to the disease.

“One of my friends, Jordan Carr, has done monumental things for MS awareness in the community,” Barker said. “When his mother was diagnosed with MS, he chose to spearhead the walk.”

Barker’s journalistic career has also opened doors for her cause. Last summer, while living in Wash-ington, D.C., she advocated on

Capitol Hill for MS awareness. A# er college, Barker hopes to

remain in Arkansas and continue working as a television broadcast-ing producer.

“I really love my job at KNWA. Working there has been an amaz-ing experience thus far,” she said. “I really love the environment of the workplace.”

Likewise, Barker loves her ex-periences at the university’s own UATV. Since 2007, she has pro-duced student television, anchored, and was even recognized as a senior sta" member in 2011.

For those a" ected by MS, Chan-ning o" ers words of encourage-ment. “It’s very important to feel connected to one another,” she said.

To learn more about multiple sclerosis, visit nationalmssociety.org for more information on the program, how to become a par-ticipant and how to donate to the cause.

by CAITLYN SWAINStaff Writer

$ e recent fad sweeping the UA cam-pus is the Facebook page UARK memes. In 24 hours, nearly 100 students posted memes on the Facebook page, making jokes about everything from the lack-ing air conditioning in Humphreys Hall to the Arkansas Newswire emails that ! ood UA students’ inboxes at 2 a.m. in the morning.

Memes (pronounced meems for students who may not be familiar with them) have long been popular on sites like Reddit and 9gag, but have recent-ly become popular on Facebook as well. One student saw genius in this and started the UARK memes page on $ ursday evening.

$ e tagline on the Facebook page reads, “Avoid homework. Post memes,” and it seems that many UA students have heeded the call. Since UARK memes joined Facebook $ ursday eve-ning, more than 1600 students have ‘liked’ the page, and hundreds have posted memes. Some of the memes have gotten as many as 400 ‘likes’ from other students.

“I think they’re funny,” said Macy Brisben, junior. “It brings students to-gether in a relatable way because we all know what it’s talking about.”

$ e memes can be addicting, too. When junior Paige Nelson showed her friend Jordan Hilton the Facebook page on Friday, Hilton was hooked.

“I couldn’t fall asleep until I read a lot of them,” Hilton said.

Alex Kidd, the UA student who start-ed the page, was surprised at the page’s rise to popularity almost overnight.

“I have always assumed that people who read Internet memes were a mi-nority at the UA, but it appears that

quite a few people here are familiar with some of the best,” Kidd said, “Just when I thought I was forever alone,” he said, in reference to the ‘forever alone’ meme.

Kidd decided to start the page a# er he saw a friend from another university post a meme that was speci% c to their university. He got the idea to make a page for students to share their experi-ence at the UA through memes.

Sophomore Grayson Barber % rst saw the page on Friday a# ernoon. At that point it had about 600 ‘likes.’ By that evening, he said, the page had more than 1000 ‘likes.’

Barber has made four memes so far using sites like memegenerator.com, he said.

“I think that UARK memes allows students to express their feelings about the UA in a humorous way,” Barber said. “Memes are an Internet culture, and their humor applies to all sorts of people, so it’s not really surprising that UARK memes became so popular.”

Some of the students who post memes on the page, though, get frus-trated when they see other students us-ing the memes incorrectly.

“I have noticed quite a few mentions on the page about the ‘improper use’ of certain memes,” Kidd said. “Not ev-eryone has a PhD in meme-origins and their uses. Memes are supposed to be clever and fun, nothing more. Everyone should feel free to give meme-making a shot and share theirs with other stu-dents.”

As the number of UA students that ‘like’ the page grow, memes will con-tinue to come in, causing students to come together and laugh about things to which all UA students can relate.

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While advertisements repeat over and over that students need to buy their special someone a perfect gi# , e" ort and thoughtfulness are much more important than money spent. O# en a homemade gi# or a well-thought-out date idea can mean more than an expensive teddy bear.

Even though there is pressure to have your special date on Valentine’s Day itself, sometimes homework and work schedules can make a Tuesday-night date nearly impossible. Defer-ring dinner to another night, espe-cially considering how crowded res-taurants can be on Valentine’s Day, is completely understandable.

O# en a creative date with an ex-perience to remember can be bet-

ter than splurging on roses, box-es of chocolate and teddy bears for your special someone. Creative dates could include a trip to the Gentry Zoo, Eureka Springs, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art or Mount Sequoyah, among others.

By this time, Valentine’s Day res-ervations at Fayetteville’s hottest restaurants may already be booked up. Getting a recipe and cooking a homemade meal can be even more romantic, and won’t require a long waiting time in a crowded restau-rant. Cooking together can even be part of the date.

For students that will be on a % rst date for their Valentine’s Day, it is important to remember to relax and be who you are. Put some e" ort into your out% t, but there’s no need to spend hours to look perfect. En-joy yourself and be genuine, because that’s the most sure% re way to enjoy a % rst date.

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CHAD ARNOLD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERWhen she isn’t occupied by her involvement in multiple sclerosis causes, senior Channing Barker is hard at work producing and anchoring for UATV. Barker has been at the station since 2007 and a part of the senior staff since 2011. “UATV has grown tremendously, from the people to the actual station itself,” Barker said about working throughout the years.

JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERRick’s Bakery offers a wide variety of Valentine’s day treats every year.

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COMMENTARY

CAUTION: You are about to read a way too early, re-actionary column about the ! rst four games of Jeremy Lin’s career as the New York Knicks starting point guard. Proceed accordingly.

No matter what people say, everybody loves an un-derdog story. Jeremy Lin is Rudy, Average Joe’s Dodge-ball, Bosie State and Tim Tebow all rolled into one.

An Asian-American, Har-vard graduate, undra" ed free agent has done the unthink-able and taken New York by storm. New York is a tough town, just ask Eli Manning, who, a" er two Super Bowl wins, is still going to be booed a" er a bad game.

If you don’t win, espe-cially in New York City, no-body cares and the Knicks were on the verge of being a WNBA team. Until Jeremy Lin showed up.

# e New York Knicks are

one of the most storied teams in the NBA. When you think about all the great players that have played in the Gar-den like Patrick Ewing, Al-lan Houston, Walt Frazier, Earl Malone and Carmelo Anthony, the last person you would think to be on that list would be a former Ivy League guard who has started in four games, but that is exactly where this is going.

# e Jeremy Lin phenom-ena has taken on a life of its own, inspiring an array of nicknames, masks that fans can wear, a hilarious and quite amazing rap song on YouTube and pissing o$ Kobe Bryant. So needless to say, New York is in love.

“Linsanity” is approach-ing “Tebowmania” and it’s coming up quickly.

# e two movements have their similarities. Both in-volve players that most peo-ple didn’t give a chance at the next level, two well-spo-ken athletes who have gained more notoriety o$ the ! eld than on (in a good way), two last names that have been added into normal words and they both win.

# e Knicks have won ! ve straight since Lin became the starting point guard, but here is where Lin and Tebow sep-arate –– the Knicks are win-ning BECAUSE of Jeremy Lin not despite him.

In his ! ve games as a start-

er, Lin has dropped 25, 28, 23, 38 and 20 points.

It is one thing to have good games against Wash-ington, Utah and New Jer-sey, but where players are really measured is how they perform against the best. Great players shine on the big stage, and there was no great-er stage than Friday night, Madison Square Garden, on ESPN, against the Los Ange-les Lakers.

Lin came to ball.He dropped 38 points in

front of a packed house with Spike Lee running around on the sidelines and Kobe Bry-ant purposefully trying to outplay him. Well, better luck next time Kobe.

Jeremy Lin is slaying gi-ants and is going to go down as the best player in the his-tory of the New York Knicks. Without their two best play-ers, the Knicks have won ! ve straight on the back of Jere-my Lin.

Before I go let me leave you with this:

“# e haters gonna hate and call him lucky / ! rst Ivy Leaguer in the league since Chris Dudley.” –Random Rapper on YouTube

If that doesn’t say it all, I don’t know what does.

Harrison Stan! ll is a sta" writer for # e Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.

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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas freshman guard BJ Young scored a home career-high 27 points in the Razorbacks’ 76-65 win against South Carolina. Young led all scorers and was part of the Razorback’s 51 points off the bench, outscoring South Carolina’s bench by 28 points.

Hogs Bounce Back at Home# e di$ erence between

playing at home and on the road was on full display Satur-day in Bud Walton Arena.

On Wednesday, Arkansas lost 81-59 at Georgia, a team that entered the week tied for last in the Southeastern Con-ference.

Saturday the Razorbacks earned a 76-65 win against South Carolina, a team that en-tered the game last in the con-ference standings.

# e Hogs (17-8, 5-5 SEC) remained undefeated at Bud

Walton in their arena-record 17th win this season.

“# ey showed what they’re made out of, I think more than anything,” Arkansas coach Mike Anderson said. “When we’ve lost a game, we’ve always responded well. To me, that’s been the tale of this team all year long. I thought the Geor-gia game we just didn’t play well at all.

“So now we had an opportu-nity to just get that taste out of your mouth. Just get that feel-ing out of knowing that you’re better than what you played.”

South Carolina tied the game at 27, then the Razor-

backs went on a game-de! ning run. Arkansas held the Game-cocks scoreless for more than eight minutes as part of a 17-0 run that spanned both halves and turned a close game into a double-digit cushion.

“It was like 3:50 le" (in the ! rst half) and we were in the huddle and Coach (Anderson) told us we want to really extend this lead,” freshman guard BJ Young said. “We do four min-ute drills in practice just to see how intense we can get and how much pressure we can put on a team.

“So we said let’s do a four-minute drill right here and put

as much pressure on them as we can and that’s what we did.”

# e Razorbacks led by as many as 23 in the second half, pressuring South Carolina into 21 turnovers.

“It’s not just turning the ball over but turnovers that lead to easy baskets for them,” South Carolina coach Darrin Horn said.

Young scored a home ca-reer-high 27 points and had four assists, leading the Razor-backs to their ! rst win in three games and snapping a skid of

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South Carolina coach Dar-rin Horn said Arkansas’ football player was a non-factor in the Razorbacks 76-65 win over the Gamecocks.

However, forward Brandon Mitchell posted eight points and four rebounds in the win-ning e$ ort while Gamecock starting point guard Bruce El-lington, also football player on the Gamecocks football team, scored nine points and pulled down four rebounds.

“Brandon Mitchell, who is in better basketball shape and you can see that, has a good bas-ketball IQ,” coach Mike Ander-son said. “# at is not bad for a football player who you can tell has basketball in his blood. He made a lot of very very good de-cisions.”

Ellington committed four of South Carolina’s 21 turnovers as Mitchell just turned it over three times for the Razorbacks.

With a shoulder injury side-lining starting forward Michael Sanchez, Mitchell saw his min-utes increase logging a career-high 16 minutes for the Hogs.

“He really helped our basket-ball team with Mike Sanchez not playing today,” Anderson said. “Our bench played well, they scored 51 points and we scored 76 total points so that tells you the strength of our team.”

Mitchell, the Hogs back-up quarterback on the football team, had seen just four min-utes of action over the course of three games since joining the team a" er Arkansas’ Cotton Bowl win against Kansas State.

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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas backup quarterback and sophomore forward Brandon Mitchell dunked in two of his eight points while also pulling down four rebounds for the Razorbacks in their 76-65 win over South Carolina.

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Hogs Trying to Heal

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior distance runner Lane Boyer ran a first place time of 14:15.81 in the 5,000 meter run at the annual Tyson Invitational.

With just a few days left until the season opener at Baum Stadium against Vil-lanova, the weather has been less than average and several Razorbacks are still trying to heal from injuries sustained in practice.

Junior outfielder Matt Vinson and junior third base-man Matt Reynolds both sus-tained injuries in practice.

“Vinson’s back is bother-ing him a little bit, hurt it the other day,” Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. “He ac-tually hurt it in the weight room, which isn’t a good thing.”

Reynolds also suffered a minor injury during practice last week.

“I strained my hip flexor

on Sunday during the scrim-mage, so I’m just trying to take it day by day right now that way I’m 100 percent on opening day,” Reynolds said.

Vinson is close to a full recovery and Van Horn said he thinks both players will be okay by Tuesday.

Pitching rotation unde-cided

Arkansas pitching staff is led by team captain and pre-season All-American DJ Baxendale and Ryne Stanek, Baseball America’s No. 3 sophomore prospect in the country.

The duo will be the Razor-backs’ Friday and Saturday starters in the season open-ing series.

“Our staff is ridiculously

# e top ranked Arkansas men’s team punched its ticket with a national quali! er in the men’s 4x400 relay at the Tyson Invitational Saturday.

# e Razorbacks 4X400 team had a dominating per-formance in their event of the USA Track and Field Classic, missing the national record by only two-tenths of a sec-ond. # e Razorbacks ! nished the relay with a time of 3:03.76 with second place going to South Plains’ time of 3:05.41.

“Great great e$ ort from all four guys in that relay,” assis-tant coach Doug Case said. “We knew we could run re-ally fast, we didn’t necessarily know we’d two-tenths o$ the collegiate record. We thought we’d run really fast, three-oh three is a great e$ ort from everybody, we feel accom-plished.”

# e annual Tyson Invita-

tional meet is held at the Ran-dall Tyson Indoor Track Cen-ter and is televised by ESPN.

“# e home crowd is huge,” Case said. “Calling the hogs before and a" er the race, those type of things, they take us to another level. We are very ap-preciative of that, from every-body.

Qualifying in the 4X400 was not the only highlight of the meet for the Hogs, they also placed ! rst in two other events. Senior distance run-ner Lane Boyer ran a ! rst place time of 14:15.81 in the 5000 meter run, and runner An-thony Lieghio placed ! rst in the 800 meters with a time of 1:48.58.

Other than the collegiate teams that Arkansas faced, there were also professional and Olympic athletes compet-ing at the meet. # e USATAFC was held in Fayetteville this

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three losses in four games.“We were ready just to

come back home and show our fans that we had some ups and downs, but we’re still a pretty good team,” Young said. “We’re just a work in progress. Just came out here and wanted to show our fans we’re getting a little better every day.”

Young scored 16 in the ! rst half, including ! ve in the run before hal" ime. He pushed the pace throughout.

“BJ came o# the bench and gave us a big li" in terms of scoring,” Anderson said. “When the game is up and down, you can see he’s at his best, knock-ing shots down, getting to the basket.”

$ e Gamecocks used a 16-0

run to pull within 68-61 with less than three minutes re-maining, but the Hogs clamped down late.

“$ ey wouldn’t go away,” Anderson said. “At times their pressure bothered us, which it shouldn’t have. I thought we were a little careless. I thought we started playing not to lose, as opposed to playing to win.”

Arkansas outrebounded South Carolina 32-30 one game a" er being outrebounded 44-21 by Georgia.

“We were real hungry,” freshman forward Devonta Abron said. “We just went af-ter the ball. We just challenged each other to see how many re-bounds we can get apiece. We go out and challenge each oth-er.”

Devonta Abron scored an SEC-high 10 points and

grabbed six rebounds for the Razorbacks.

“Devonta set the tone,” An-derson said. “I even showed him to the guys. He had blood on his pants. On his shorts. $ at told me then, he was in the trenches tonight. He was in the trenches this a" ernoon. He just gives us a presence.”

$ e Hogs play on the road for the third time in four games Wednesday at Tennessee. It will another opportunity to win away from Bud Walton, some-thing Arkansas hasn’t done in eight opportunities.

“It feels great to have the re-cord at home, but it would feel even better to go out on the road and take one in some-body else’s house,” Young said. “Hopefully we can transfer it over to the road and get a road win soon.”

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deep,” Stanek said. “And we have 12 really, really good arms. We have six guys that started on the weekends for us last year, all returning. And we’ll have eight guys that throw low- to mid-90s.”

The Hogs still have to identify a third weekend starter, though.

“It’s going to be Baxen-dale, Stanek and we’re not sure yet,” Van Horn said. “Fant has been throwing well

but his arm is a little tender. We’re just going to take it easy with him a little bit. Could be Moore, but we’re just not sure yet. Hopefully we’ll know in the next couple of days.”

Wise earns catcher jobSophomore Jake Wise and

freshman John Clay Reeves competed for the starting catcher job in practice, but Van Horn said Wise will most likely be opening Friday’s se-ries behind the plate.

“Jake has done real well,” Van Horn said. “I think last week Reeves just got a little

tired with the grind or what-ever, but I thought Wise had some really good practices and a couple of good scrim-mages and he’ll get the nod for first game as of right now.”

Wise learned playing be-hind graduated All-SEC per-former James McCann dur-ing 2011 and appeared in some Tuesday games, while Reeves was an honorable mention All-State catcher in his senior season at Ouachi-ta Christian High School and was a first-team all-district selection twice.

year, with some of the top ath-letes in the world competing.

$ e men’s two mile Ameri-can record was broken by Ga-len Rupp, representing USA. Rupp won the race by a land-slide with a time of 8:09.72, the next closest time coming from USA runner Andrew Bumba-lough at 8:30.05.

$ e Tyson Invitational was the last meet for Arkansas be-fore the Southeastern Confer-ence championships. Arkansas will travel to Lexington, Ky. for the SEC Championships with events starting on Friday, Feb. 24.

Razorback Women Finish Biggest Meet of Season

Arkansas women’s track team went into their biggest meet of the season over the weekend, and came out with another nationally qualifying time at the Tyson Invitational.

$ e Razorbacks won ! ve events overall with a one-two

! nish in the 400 meter dash. Junior Regina George placed ! rst with a time of 52.73 while senior Whitney Jones came in second with a 53.13.

“$ e kids performed out-standing this weekend,” as-sistant coach Rolando Greene said. “Regina George running the third fastest time in the 400 meters in the country, Whit-ney Jones running number ! ve in the country. It was a suc-cessful race, it was a successful weekend. Every kid in the pro-gram performed like a champ.”

Arkansas sophomore Keri Wood placed ! rst in the 800 meter run and second in the mile with ! rst place going to junior Stephanie Brown. $ e last win for the Razorbacks came from senior Tina Sutej, in the pole vault champion-ship.

“$ is weekend we have had record a" er record a" er re-cord, personal best a" er per-sonal best a" er personal best,” Greene said. “When you line up against the nation’s best, people expect you to break re-

cords or beat them at all times. At this level, anything can hap-pen at any given time. Any-body can perform at any given level.”

$ e Tyson Invitational wasn’t the only track meet in Fayetteville over the weekend, Randall Tyson Track Center was also chosen as the host for this year’s USA Track and Field Classic. $ e USTAFC brought many professional athletes to Fayetteville, some of the Olym-pic athletes that will be com-peting in London also showed up for the meet including for-mer Razorback Veronica Cam-bell-Brown.

Cambell-Brown represent-ed Jamaica and ! nished sec-ond in the 60 meter dash with a time of 7.08, just .06 behind ! rst place. A new womens shot put record was also broken by Jill Camarena, who threw a distance of 19.89 meters.

Next up for the Hogs is a trip to Lexington KY. for the SEC championships. $ e championships start on Friday, Feb. 24th.

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$ e 6-foot-4 multi-sport ath-lete threw for 271 yards and two touchdowns while also add-ing two rushing touchdowns for the 11-2 Razorback football team this season.

“He brought great energy to the game because he is in bas-ketball shape now,” freshman forward Devonta Abron said of Mitchell. “He can get up o# the % oor. In practice it is 94 feet but we play 95 feet because we play outside the lines. We bang, hustle, get scratches and bruis-es but we still come back and bang. He has helped us a lot.”

Mitchell had registered just one rebound this season prior to Saturday’s game.

South Carolina sophomore Bruce Ellington played receiver for the Gamecock’s 11-2 foot-ball team, hauling in 17 passes for 211 yards and one touch-down. $ e 5-foot-9 guard aver-ages 10.7 points and 2.7 assists for the 9-15 Gamecocks.

“I thought we dictated the tempo of that game trying to get the ball out of Ellington’s hands,” Anderson said.

Mitchell played in four games his freshman season un-

der coach John Pelphrey, av-eraging 1.3 points and 1.3 re-bounds. $ e Amite, La., native was a member of Arkansas’ 2009 football recruiting class, while Ellington took the bas-ketball route out of high school and was a member of the 2010 South Carolina basketball re-cruiting class.

Two of Mitchell’s points came on a dunk o# an assist from freshman guard Ky Mad-den. Mitchell also made an impact on the defensive end blocking one shot and stealing one pass.

“He is very athletic,” fresh-man guard BJ Young said. “He has become better conditioned so he was able to get out there and give us some minutes, quality minutes. He helped us out rebounding and even put in a couple of buckets for us.”

Richardson Reacts to “40 Minutes of Hell” Documen-tary

Legendary Arkansas head coach Nolan Richardson was on hand for the Razorbacks win over the South Carolina.

A" er the game, ESPN pre-miered its documentary on the coach who led Arkansas to three Final Fours and the Na-tional Championship in 1994.

“I have always said that sometimes things you see sometimes don’t set really smooth with some people,” Richardson said. “But the truth of the matter was they were able to investigate and come up with a lot of things I had even forgot-ten. I am very proud and satis-! ed with what I saw.”

Richardson was 389-169 as coach of the Razorbacks in his 17 seasons at the school.

$ e ! lm was produced by NASCAR Media Group and di-rected by Kenan Harris-Holley. Included in the 48-minute doc-umentary were interviews with current coach Mike Anderson, ESPN college basketball per-sonality Dick Vitale and even several bits with former presi-dent and Arkansas native Bill Clinton.

“When you get to Bill Clin-ton let him hear what we are asking for,” Harris-Holley said he told Clinton’s public rela-tions people. “Once we got to him he was like ‘Oh for coach, for Nolan?’ and he was so hap-py. You should have seen him the day we interviewed him. He pushed his aides away and said ‘Lets talk’ and he wanted to talk all day but they made him get up and leave.”

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