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!e UA club hockey team was set to clinch its third con-secutive Southeastern Col-legiate Hockey Conference playo" title until a player was recently caught falsifying his academic transcript, the team’s head coach said.

As punishment, the Ameri-can Collegiate Hockey Asso-ciation banned the UA team from national post-season play. !e team voluntarily withdrew itself from the SECHC playo"s this season.

While no further punish-ments have been handed down, the UA may step in and further punish the o"ending student.

“!e players have already started to put things behind them and are looking towards next year, but sometimes it’s a little harder for the coach to get over the disappointing end to a great season,” said head coach Bryan Gallini.

!e team ended the season with a 13-game winning streak that brought their season re-cord to 22-6. !e team also won the SECHC West Cham-pionship for its third consecu-tive season.

!e team only graduates two players from this year’s team and is looking forward to adding some new faces to the team, Gallini said. Four of the team’s top #ve scorers will re-turn next season.

Gallini called this year’s team one of the best he has been a part of and expects to build on its success next sea-son. Training begins a$er spring break.

“!is year’s team was young, but these guys have all done it before, and it helps the coach when guys do what they’re sup-posed to do from on-ice train-ing to o"-ice,” Gallini said.

Gallini is trying to persuade o%cials at the Jones Center, where the team practices, to al-low the team more time on the ice.

Gallini said he expects a good showing from the team next season and believes that a strong post-season run is in the team’s future.

UA Club Hockey Rebuilds After Post-Season Ban

by JARED LAGINESSContributing Writer

On-campus students, especially #rst-year stu-dents, face many problems throughout the year. !e seven-year-old Counselors in Residence program is one of the resources provided to students who may need extra help coping with campus life, a residence education o%cial said.

!e program consists of two counselors in Maple

Hill East and Gibson Hall to make counseling services readily available to on-cam-pus students, said Takama Statton-Brooks, assistant di-rector for Residence Educa-tion.

!e counselors, Will Heath and Aneeqa Istaiq, are employed by Housing and Counseling and Psychologi-cal Services. Both are doc-toral students who counsel students with issues ranging from depression to eating disorders to homesickness.

Clinical depression and anxiety issues are on the rise in college students, up 10 percentage points in the last decade, according to a study by the American Psychologi-cal Association.

One out of every four or #ve college students are di-agnosed with anxiety or de-pression a$er a routine visit to a university health clinic, according to a study from Northwestern Medicine.

“Counselors in Residence” Grapple with Rising Depression Rates

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Pat Walker Loosens Appointment Policy

UREC Hosts CPR Training Sessions

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Inevitable Legalization: An Age Division

Pat Walker o!ers services for students through the RazorCARE clinic

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UREC o"cials will o!er courses in #rst aid, CPRand AED use.

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Classes for beginning beekeepers continue for the 10th year on campus.

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UA students have mixed feelings on music piracy.

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Arkansas women’s basket-ball on the cusp of making its #rst NCAA Tournament in coach Tom Collen’s six years.

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!e Associated Student Government and the Resi-dent Interhall Congress members joined forces over the weekend to increase com-munication and to do some-thing new for student gov-ernment.

!e group came togeth-er Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to increase communi-cation and cooperation, said Tyler Priest, ASG liaison to RIC.

Even though joint meet-ings between the two organi-zations is not new, the group

partook in something not yet done before.

For the #rst time ever, a joint legislative session took place during the retreat. !is session included a couple joint resolutions, said Priest.

!e only resolution the senate discussed thanked the Arkansas Union sta" for their hard work, said Michael Dodd, ASG president.

!e resolution was brought forward allowing both bodies to pass it togeth-er, he said.

“!is promotes the ability to consult both groups in the future,” Dodd said.

In the morning, govern-

ment members participated in break-out sessions. !e senate members and execu-tive branch from each group participated in team building activities to get to know each other. In the a$ernoon, mem-bers of UA administration, including Chancellor David G. Gearhart and Athletics Di-rector Je" Long made presen-tations, Priest said.

!en, the group had is-sue breakout session in which each person decided which session would be best to at-tend. Topics for these ses-sions included student life,

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The Transit and Parking office handles parking permits and passes and transit for students, including bus routes and GoLoco Ride Sharing. Students with parking violations can contact the office to appeal their citation.

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Otherwise known as 575-SAFE, the mission of the Safe Ride program is to provide students with a safe means of transportation from any uncomfortable or inconvenient situation. Safe Ride brings you home safely.

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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CRIME REPORT:February 14Theft Of PropertyA student reported someone stole his laptop computer while it was unattended on a desk on the fourth ! oor of Mullins Library.

February 13Theft Of PropertyA student reported someone stole his iPhone while it was un-attended on bleachers in a gymnasium in the HPER Building.

Possession Of A Controlled Substance (Marijuana)A student was arrested in Humphreys Hall.

February 11Public Intoxication A student was arrested in Lot 30.

February 10Fraudulent Use Of A Credit Or Debit CardA student reported someone used his organization’s debit card to pay parking tickets at the Transit and Parking O" ce.

Disorderly ConductA sta# member reported a part-time employee caused a distur-bance during a meeting in the Chemistry Building.

Battery Third DegreeA student reported he was in a $ ght with an unidenti$ ed person in the east parking lot at Garland House.

Theft Of Property; Criminal MischiefA sta# member reported someone removed screens from uri-nals, damaged two trash cans, clogged toilets and threw toilet paper around restrooms in the Science Building.

In addition, about 2 to 3 percent of those students have either had suicidal thoughts or are considering suicide, according to the study.

Depression is not neces-sarily the main issue encoun-tered by the UA Counselors in Residence, Statton-Brooks said.

“With the $ rst-year pop-ulation, they deal a lot with homesickness,” Statton-Brooks said. “But it really de-pends on a lot of things; there’s not one particular issue they see more than another.”

Anxiety can be caused by homesickness and can cause extreme distress in some cas-

es, according to an article in the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

% e main di# erence be-tween the Counselors in Res-idence and the counseling services provided through Pat Walker Health Center is proximity, Statton-Brooks said.

Because the Counselors in Residence are doctoral stu-dents, they understand the residence hall population and have a good hold on what is happening within the resi-dence halls, Statton-Brooks said.

“We work hard to make the program visible for stu-dents,” Statton-Brooks said.

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construction and curricu-lum, Priest said.

% e purpose of these ses-sions is that a& erwards sena-tors can make legislation and action based on these discus-sions “to work with adminis-tration on behalf of the stu-dent body,” said Priest.

% e last time RIC and ASG had a similar retreat was

two years ago. Priest worked with the

RIC Chief of Sta# Jillian Pat-ton and ASG Chief of Sta# Roxie Hazelwood since De-cember to put together this meeting. Both ASG and RIC gave money to provide food for the event.

During the event, the groups were asked to pro-mote voting in both local and national elections, said Dodd.

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JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERExecutive Director for Business and Operations, Doug Walsh, stood in the construction of the new Jean Tyson Child Development Study Center. The center will be completed in August 2012.

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In keeping with the trend toward walk-in medical care, the Pat Walker Health Center now o! ers services for stu-dents on a " rst-come, " rst-serve basis through the Ra-zorCARE clinic, the director of medical services said.

Although appointments are not needed, students are encouraged to call the clinic to make sure their medical problem is within the range of services provided by the RazorCARE clinic, said A.J. Olsen, director of medical services at the health center.

RazorCARE provides stu-dents access to a physician or certi" ed nurse practitioner for common issues such as coughs, colds, earaches, si-nus discomfort, sore throats, allergies and skin conditions like sunburn, poison ivy, bug bites and eczema.

“In order to expedite stu-dents’ stay at the clinic, we only o! er a limited number of services, but those services are the bulk of what we see at the primary care clinic,” Ol-sen said. “Another reason for the limited care is because we provide point-of-care test-ing.”

Point-of-care testing lim-its the time a student spends at the clinic because the stu-dent stays in one exam room and one doctor or nurse treats the student. Complex medical issues might require a student to see several prac-titioners at di! erent loca-tions around the health cen-ter.

RazorCARE is o! ered Monday through Friday from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. # e walk-in clinic sees an aver-age of 15 students each a$ er-noon.

“With increasing enroll-ment, we are continually looking for ways to improve

our services for students. With RazorCARE, we can increase the same-day avail-ability for our patients and increase the number of pa-tients seen at the primary care clinic,” Olsen said.

# e health center " rst of-fered RazorCARE during the fall semester on a trial basis.

“We wanted to pilot the program and make sure we had all the kinks ironed out” before spring semester, she said.

A student might expect to wait 10 to 30 minutes for care, “but that is still no-where near what you would encounter at other walk-in clinics or the emergency room,” Olsen said.

“Eventually we plan on expanding the hours we op-erate the clinic,” she said.

# e clinic o! ers a$ ernoon times because that is when the clinic " elds most ap-pointment requests.

RazorCARE has allowed the health center to see 9 percent more patients than before the clinic opened, Ol-sen said.

Health care providers are able to see more students while keeping the health cen-ter budget stable, she said.

Other comparable univer-sities are catching on to the walk-in clinic trend.

Health center o% cials spoke with o% cials at the University of Minnesota about their Gopher Quick Clinic, which is o! ered as part of that university’s Boynton Health Service.

“We wanted to get an idea of the pros and cons and complications, and they gave us some good suggestions,” Olsen said.

RazorCARE is a service provided only to students. # e primary care clinic con-tinues to treat faculty and sta! .

by EMILY HILLEY-SIERZCHULAStaff Writer

HEALTH & SAFETYSpecial Traveler Beat

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Appointment Policy

University Recreation o% cials will present the " rst of two safety courses of-fered this semester on April 12, giving participants the opportunity to become cer-ti" ed in CPR, " rst aid and automated external de" -brillator use.

UREC will host another session April 22 for those who can’t make the " rst one. Both courses last four hours, the " rst session from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. and the second from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. and will take place in room 323 of the HPER building.

“[CPR] is one procedure that everyone should know. First aid training covers a wide variety of emergen-cies and emergency scenes,” said paramedic Rod Brou-hard.

CPR is a technique to induce respiration when when someone has stopped breathing and is unable to attempt to resume breath-ing by themselves. Adult CPR is a technique intend-ed for those 12 and older.

First aid, o$ en confused with CPR, is an overview of many emergency situations. CPR is usually included in many " rst aid classes but it is not the only thing that is taught in them.

First aid classes are de-signed to give students the tools to save lives. Common

topics covered in basic " rst aid classes include: emer-gency scene management, safety and protection from infection, initial assessment of victims and recognizing emergencies.

Everyone should be cer-ti" ed in CPR, said fresh-man Josh Degeeter.

“I " rst had to get certi-" ed in " rst aid and CPR my sophomore year of high school in order to lifeguard over the summer,” Degeeter said. “Ever since then, I just got in the habit of renewing my licence since its such a

basic and important skill to have.

First aid o$ en includes the use of de" brillator, “a device that automatically analyzes the heart rhythm and, if it detects a prob-lem that may respond to an electrical shock, that per-mits a shock to be delivered to restore a normal heart rhythm,” according to Med-icineNet.

De" brillators are com-mon in public places such as airports, schools and of-" ces due to their usefulness and small size.

Students can register now at the HPER building in room 225. Students can contact Sam Fehr, graduate assistant of Special Events and Instructional Programs for UREC, at sfehr@uark.edu for more information.

Both of the safety classes will be open to the public allowing students, sta! and community members alike to pre-register for these classes. # e price is $65 for UA students and $75 for non-students.

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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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In 1972, the National Com-mission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, created by President Nix-on, released a report claiming “neither the marijuana user nor the drug itself can be said to con-stitute a danger to public safety.” Nixon refused to read the report.

Forty years later, marijuana legalization is still a controver-sial issue, though it has become much more balanced, as recent polls show 50 percent of Ameri-cans now support full legaliza-tion, while 70 percent support medicinal use. ! e breakdown of these numbers shows a gen-erational gap as the source of di-vision—those over 65 have a 69 percent opposition rate, while 62 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 29 suppor t it.

To put it bluntly, a# er seeing these numbers, I think it’s clear that full marijuana legalization in the near future is inevitable, especially once a Midwestern or Southern state starts the domino chain.

However, there’s still a large " ght over the process of legaliza-tion. ! e DEA still has marijuana classi" ed at the same level as her-oin. And though in 2008, Presi-dent Obama insisted that he was “not going to be using Justice De-partment resources to try to cir-cumvent state laws on this issue,” and later both Attorney General Eric Holder, drug czar Gil Ker-likowske, and Deputy Attorney General David made it clear that marijuana growers who com-plied with state and local laws would not be targeted, there have been more than 100 federal raids on dispensaries in the Obama Administration’s " rst three years. Much of this has been stepped up in the last year speci" cally. I don’t know about you, but this seems a little hypocritical to me.

! e federal government has seized property from land-lords leasing to dispensaries and threatened state regulatory work-ers with imprisonment. ! is seems to be a response to the growth of the legal marijuana sales in the southwestern states over the last few years. In Cali-fornia alone, medicinal marijua-na has become a $1.3 billion in-dustry

It’s a terrible reaction, though. By doing this, the government will only push the legal marijua-na trade underground and back into a more dangerous place. I’m not going to argue the morality of marijuana use, but I’m seeing clear links to the historical pro-

hibition of alcohol. Prohibition became increasingly less popu-lar as people realized legaliza-tion would raise a large amount of tax revenue and make orga-nized crime take a major hit " -nancially.

Recently, Oakland, Calif., faced federal threats from plans to open up indoor growing with taxation, having to shut down its developments, though it could have " lled the $31 million de" -cit in its budget. ! e Califor-nia State Board of Equalization estimated that a tax of $50 per ounce would create over $1.3 bil-lion in tax revenue for the state, which has faced huge shortfalls. And we’ve all heard the stories of Mexican drug lords who thanked the U.S. Government for provid-ing them a source of income - the black market in the United States - which keeps them in business. Sometimes, it’s possible that a law can have a more negative e$ ect than what it tries to address.

Case in point, Portugal has over the last several years legal-ized all drugs, and overdoses and cases of HIV dropped while the amount of users seeking treat-ment for drug addiction in-creased. Less money had to be wasted imprisoning people and overall criminality associated with drug use dropped. Maybe this would have helped the over 200,000 students who lost feder-al " nancial aid eligibility because of a drug conviction, or the 7,043 arrested for marijuana o$ enses in

Arkansas in 2007. Even more recently, you may

have seen that several players on the TCU football team were arrested for buying marijuana and other drugs. ! is isn’t really a surprise, in all honesty, as the NCAA released results saying that 22.6 percent of student-ath-letes in 2009 admitted to using marijuana in the previous year.

When 102 million Ameri-cans have smoked marijuana at least once in their life, and Wash-ington D.C. as well as 16 states have legalized some form of mar-ijuana use, it’s only a matter of time before the rest of the coun-try legalizes and starts to regulate and tax it.

In fact, 17 states have pend-ing legislation for legalization, and Colorado and Washington will likely see ballot measures this fall. Arkansas itself may see a bal-lot proposal in the 2012 election if Arkansans for Compassionate Care receive 62,507 signatures from registered voters before July 6, 2012.

Full legalization will come. It’s a generational issue, a taxation is-sue, and a regulation issue. Fear has no place in the discussion, and perhaps soon Americans won’t be paying for both sides of a civil Drug War.

Chris Sonntag is a Biochemis-try major, and a Traveler colum-nist.

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Comments From the Traveler WebsiteRe: O" cials Will Expand Safe Ride ProgramRuby Star Jones: I have worked as a Safe Ride operator/

dispatcher for the last 2.5 years. Believe me, I understand that Safe Ride has some problems, but making it available to the entire city? ! at idea is just downright preposterous. Has any-one on this “committee” ever bothered to come in and see how hectic things get on a normal weekend night when we are tak-ing home students only? I dare one of them to come do my job for weekend night, say during Rush Week, and I guarantee that they would change their mind. We work hard every night to ensure that students, who made the decision to come to col-lege and devote their time and money to this University, have a safe ride home. Why should other people get to use the ser-vices that we as students pay for? ! ey made the decision not be enrolled, so why should they get to reap our bene" ts? By choosing to attend this university, we are given certain rights and privileges that others are not. If we start sharing those with everyone, what makes being a University of Arkansas Razor-back so special?

Re: More Than $40: Obama’s Tax Cut GainJeremy: ! e payroll tax cut is the only funding mechanism

for social security. ! e cuts in the payroll tax do not decrease the bene" t payout, which means that social security will run out of money faster. People who collect social security or are

due to start in the next few years will be aware of this. ! at age bracket is also more likely to vote than youth voters, who would likely not care about social security.

Re: Kimpel Crosswalk: A Transportation Crisis

Kat :As a sta$ member who has to drive that route daily, I can say the need here is more overwhelming than anyone can imagine... I’ve now learned unless I want to sit for half an hour, I must push my way through the pedestrian tra% c.... I basically force the pedestrians to stop or walk right into my vehicle. I hope the campus powers that be " nally take notice before its too late.

Re: Muslim Youth: The Importance of Voting

Arrafat: As it concerns voting...where do Muslims experience democracy? And I mean democracy and not just voting at a stu$ ed ballott box. I mean freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of religion and all that democracy incldues - not just voting at a stu$ ed ballot box.

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LSU-Arkansas: A Campus Thanksgiving

It’s not often that UA students are happy when they hear some one say “LSU,” “tigers” or anything remotely related to the purple and gold university. We know them as one of our biggest rivalries - the fans we dislike the most and the game we look forward to all season long. Now, it’s the news we can’t keep our eyes off. Bringing the big LSU-Arkansas game to Fayetteville means less driving, more fun and one more rea-son for students to stay in town over the Thanksgiving break.

It’s no secret that Fayetteville loses a huge chunk of the population during holidays - most of us go home to our families and friends, spend Thanksgiving away from campus and cherish the time away from classes. How-ever, bringing the rivalry to our state not only means a boost in our economy but a boost in campus population.

For those of us who stay in Fayetteville year-round, this is quite a bit of good news. No more sitting alone for the week of Thanksgiving. Instead, we will be surrounded with friends, family and a multitude of Razorback fans who, this year, choose to ditch the turkey and stuffing for the stadium.

It’s time to start notifying our families that plans will be much different this year. Flights will be booked, Thanks-giving will come early and most of us who are even the least bit interested in Razorback football will make our way back from break in time to see the rivalry go down. There are only so many televised games we can han-dle when the football is thrown on our playing ground.

Make plans now to prepare for a campus-based break in November - book parents and siblings into hotels before they sell out, start saving for tickets, and get ready for a fall se-mester to remember, as our Hogs are coming home this year.

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Mardi Gras Celebration Brought to Fayetteville

Mardi Gras - unless you’re from New Orleans, you probably don’t actively celebrate the big day. However, we can make the most of our Mardi Gras Tuesday right on campus, through celebrations with friends or an early-in-the-week night on Dickson Street, there is likely to be something going on in town.

If you made it to the Fat Saturday parade or the local Funkytown ball over the weekend, you’ve not finished your fun for the New Orleans celebration. If you skipped out Saturday, not to worry - there are a few more events going on today that we can take part in.

Head to local New Orleans-style restaurants for what is sure to be a tasty feast to start the festivities - Cafe Rue Orleans, Lyn D’s Cajun Cafe and even Boar’s Nest Barbecue offer some great Mardi Gras favorites like Po’Boys, gumbo and crawfish to start the celebration at lunch. When evening comes, Dickson street has a mass celebration starting at 7 p.m., complete with parades, food and royalty crowning.

Although many of our friends are in New Orleans celebrating in style this week, we don’t have to be shut out of the party simply because we’re staying in Fayetteville. However you choose to celebrate this Mardi Gras, whether it’s at Mullins library studying for end of the week tests, going out for a drink or two with friends on Dickson Street or simply staying at home and making some beignets, make sure to take the time to celebrate the different cultural events and celebrations that come to town. Grab your favorite cajun or creole cookbook, rally together some friends and take a break from the hectic schedule to immerse yourself in the fun culture that comes only once a year.

“With increasing enrollment, we are con-tinually looking for ways to improve our services for students. With RazorCARE, we can increase the same-day availability

for our patients and increase the number of patients seen at the primary care clinic,”

-A.J. Olsen, director of medical services at the health center,“Pat Walker Loosens Appointment Policy,” page 3.

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! e Pauline Whitaker Equine Center was all abuzz during a begin-ner’s beekeeping class starting on Jan. 30. ! e series of classes was hosted by the Northwest Arkansas Beekeep-ers Association and featured speakers Jon Zawislak of the UA Cooperative Extension Service and Program As-sociate of Apiculture, and Ed Levi, a queen bee breeder and former state bee inspector.

Over the course of three classes, prospective beekeepers learned about equipment, basic bee behavior, and setting up their " rst hives.

“When I teach these beginning classes, I try to break it down to the important basic concepts and show how they all work together,” said Jon Zawislak, who taught the " rst two classes on Jan. 30 and Feb. 6.

Zawislak said it was important to him to inform the public about the gentle nature of honey bees.

“Honey bees are not dangerous, aggressive creatures,” Zawislak said. “While they may defend themselves if they feel threatened, they are more likely to ignore you and go about their business as long as you leave them alone.”

Amongst talk of honey, queen

candy, and royal jelly, the classes, which have been running for almost 10 years, also provided the chance for new beekeepers to purchase equip-ment and order their " rst bee colo-nies. New bee hives must also be reg-istered with the Arkansas State Plant Board.

It is important for beginning bee-keepers to consider whether they have a dependable source of nectar and fresh water for their bees, and also to be considerate of their neigh-bors.

“If your neighbors are a little con-cerned with your new hobby,” Zawis-lak said during his lecture, “they’ll forget all about it the " rst time you bring them a jar of fresh honey.”

! e local beekeeping community is diverse, according to Zawislak.

“[Local beekeepers] may be farm-ers, or business professionals, or any-where in between. Quite a few pro-fessors and students at the UA keep bees, too,” he said.

Ken Fielding, president of the Northwest Arkansas Beekeepers As-sociation, said the bee population took a hit last year because of combi-nations of extreme weather, from an unusually cold winter to an unusually hot summer.

“We had a lot of hives die o# , but my guess is that this year will be more of a rebounding year,” Fielding said.

Grady McCoy, a senior poultry science major, hopes to contribute to that rebound this spring. He attend-ed the beekeeping classes for the " rst time this year.

“I have an interest in cultivating my own foods,” McCoy said, “and beekeeping seemed like a... produc-tive way to get my feet wet in back-yard agriculture.”

Fielding encourages veteran bee-keepers and newcomers alike to at-tend the classes.

“I think it’s very good to have new people that will become responsible with beekeeping because that’s very important,” Fielding said. “! e for-mat here is to train people to be suc-cessful in beekeeping and help the area and overall local economy.”

Bee products certainly contribute to the local economy, but bees and bee products have larger implications in our area and in the world.

“Honey bees provide a vital role in our food chain,” Zawislak said. “Beyond the obvious fruits and veg-etables, bees pollinate many types of nuts, herbs and spices, and important oilseed crops.”

“More beekeepers means more bees in our community,” he said, “which bene" ts all our area gardens as well as local wildlife that depends on wild berries and seeds to survive.”

As Ashton Kutcher famous-ly answers in the movie Valen-tine’s Day, “110 million red roses” are sold on the infamous holiday. While Ashton won the hearts of many viewers in the theater, there were actually 198 million roses sold on Valentine’s Day in 2010 according to the ProFlowers web-site. Unfortunately a bouquet of roses only lasts about a week, but heaps of petals in the garbage can be avoided by using them to make various decor.

Rose petals are great for mak-ing cra$ s and decorating, but " rst they must be dried. ! ere are sev-eral di# erent methods to drying out petals as found online, such as placing petals between newspa-pers.

A$ er roses are selected they can be tied at the stem and hung upside down on a coat hanger and placed in a dark dry area. A$ er about a week the gravitational pull on the petals causes them to dry out but still keep their shape. ! e " nal step into drying the petals is to mist some hair spray on the dried % ow-ers to protect the color and shape.

Waiting a week might not be the most ideal method, so using a microwave to dry the petals can speed up the process considerably.

Silica gel - found in those little white packets that o$ en come in shoe boxes - is essential for this method. ! e gel is a a porous sand that is designed to absorb and hold moisture, and executes its duties perfectly in this instance.

In a large microwave-safe bowl, bury the petals in silica gel and then microwave for two minutes on the lowest heat setting. Next, pour about a cup of water into the bowl and microwave again for the same time, then remove the bowl and allow it to sit for a few hours. ! e roses can then be brushed free of the gel and hung upside down. ! e process speeds the drying, as the petals only have to dry upside down for a few days a$ er they are combined with the silica gel.

Red roses are considered the most romantic % ower, but they can also prolong their sentimen-tal meaning by being used to make cra$ s.

While card stores have many creative greetings, homemade cards add a more personal touch that the receiver can appreciate more. Flowers can be used as em-bellishments to the card by paint-ing them on paper, and petals can also be used to decorate a photo al-bum, journal, or even folders and binders for school.

As found on allcra$ s.net, ros-es can be a great foundation for

potpourri because of the subtle perfume stored in their petals. To make potpourri, about six cups of petals are needed along with two cups of dried lavender, one cup of rose leaves, rose oil, and Fiber" x, which is a constituent that keeps the oil fragrance from fading. Mix the dried petals with the oils and place in a sealed bag to shake vig-orously. ! e potpourri can then be stored for four to six weeks.

Once the potpourri is " nished it can be used to make a potpourri pie by putting the % ower mix into a pie tin with baked dough. It can be a unique decoration that smells and looks delicious.

Flowers may not seem like the ideal thing to use as a facial cleans-er, but with one cup each of rose petals, lavender % owers, whole oat-meal, and a half cup of chopped al-monds, a scrub used in the Victo-rian era can add old-world charm to your daily beauty routine.

Allcra$ s.net also gives insight-ful instructions on how to make % ower petals glow by pressing the % owers. As they become thinner, they become permeable to light, giving what was once something old an invigorated shine.

Valentine’s Day only lasts twen-ty four hours but the romantic gi$ of % owers can last through out the year by using them as adornments.

At some point in time, odds are most UA students have been exposed to or partaken in downloading music from the Internet, and not through a legal music store such as iTunes, Am-azon, or a local record store. ! at act is called piracy. What’s stranger, a vast majority of people in the world do this, even though it’s been labeled an illegal act. Why?

In recent events, piracy of copy-righted material has gained a lot of attention from such U.S. house-pro-posed bills as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA).

Jack Schmandt, sophomore com-puter engineering major, said you can’t target those who download the music, there are just too many people.

“SOPA or PIPA weren’t the way to go. If you want to stop piracy, you have to track down the people who upload it—the source,” he said. “I think how it starts is when somebody thinks that Kanye West or Jay-Z don’t need their $10 for an album. ! e big name art-ists won’t feel it. However, given the example of an indie band, they’re go-ing to feel that stolen $10 a lot more than Kanye will. I think that’s how it starts, but it’s inaccurate.”

Lauren Struzik, a freshman Eng-lish literature major, said that no mat-ter who you’re stealing from, it’s still stealing.

“I think that’s like saying since Gap is making money like crazy, I’m going to steal a shirt because screw them. I think you should always pay back the artist for what they’ve made.”

Struzik also has bought 100 per-cent of her music she has in her li-brary.

“I feel like if the artist goes through the entire process of what they did to make the music, you should pay them back for what they’re doing,” Struzik said. “I can’t control what people who pirate do. It’s something I could easily do as well, but I choose not to.”

Surprisingly, people like Struzik are in the majority worldwide. ! e International Federation of the Pho-nographic Industry (IFPI) estimat-ed&that only 28 percent of Internet us-ers worldwide accessed pirated music online in 2011, according to the on-line database of black market activi-ties at havocscope.com.

For a lot of reasons, people will get what they want. One of the main things about a mixed market econo-my is that consumers have the choice of " nding that product priced at the

lowest common denominator. In oth-er words, why pay for music if it’s eas-ily found for free somewhere else?

An example of this scenario comes from the CEO and Co-founder of Valve so$ ware company, Gabe New-ell.

"! ere is a fundamental miscon-ception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem," he said. "If a pi-rate o# ers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal com-puter, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country three months a$ er the US release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable."

As easy as it is to go ahead and claim piracy to be an evil, it’s actually been shown to promote more in the entertainment industry than hurting it. ! e data essentially implies that in a study released by the Swiss govern-ment, and it also suggests censorship bills such as SOPA and PIPA won’t get the job done. Despite governments’ best e# orts and spending to con-trol piracy, it causes more harm and spending than needed.

“[! ose who pirate] don’t spend less money as a result because the budgets they reserve for entertain-ment are fairly constant. ! is means that downloading is mostly comple-mentary. Downloaders are reported to be more frequent visitors to con-certs, and game downloaders actually bought more games than those who didn’t download games illegally. And in the music industry, lesser-known bands pro" t most from the sampling e# ect of " le-sharing,” according to the press release on the Swiss confedera-tion website, www.ejpd.admin.ch.

Also, with the rise of music stream-ing sources such as Spotify, Groove-shark and Rhapsody, it seems the in-dustry is slowly but surely evolving.

“Something like Spotify does a lot to prevent piracy,” said Schmandt. “For less than the cost of a new album from iTunes for the premium service, you have at your " ngertips the major-ity of music, from ever. I think that does a lot to draw people away from music piracy.”

No matter the argument, down-loading of copyrighted material on the internet is illegal. Whether there are reasons to justify it or not remain to be disputed. Looking towards the future, this debate is here to stay until a solid policy is established and the$ disappears.

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YANI KO CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERMark Eaton, an Arkansas-based beekeeper, shows bee hives to people interested in buying equipment.

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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas women’s basketball coach Tom Collen is 89-63 overall during his six seasons at Arkansas. The Razorbacks’ win over Mississippi State gave the team its second consecutive season with at least 20 wins. Although Arkansas has won nine of its last 10 games, the Razorbacks have still not cracked the Associated Press top 25 poll, receiving 29 votes this week.

On the Cusp of MadnessIt didn’t happen over-

night, but Arkansas women’s basketball coach Tom Col-len is on the brink of leading the Razorbacks back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2003.

Arkansas’ 67-53 win at home against Mississippi State on Sunday gave the Ra-zorbacks 20 regular season wins since the 2003 team.

After inheriting a tough rebuilding task when he re-placed former coach Susie Gardner –– Arkansas won just 29 percent of its SEC games in Gardner’s four sea-sons –– Collen has steadily built the program up.

His first team only won two games in conference play, but the wins have con-tinued to grow every season since. The current Razor-backs have a program-best nine SEC wins with two con-ference games remaining.

Arkansas’ five seniors, which are the first class Col-len ever recruited, have a large part to do with it. The group averages a combined 29 points per game, almost half of the Razorbacks’ 62.2 average.

“I think it’s special for this class knowing we were his first recruiting class here and making history year after year after year and to final-ly get that bid for the NCAA Tournament is big for us,”

senior forward Ashley Dan-iels said. “Our first step is to get this SEC Tournament win because since we’ve been here we’ve never clinched that first win so I think that’s something we’re looking for-ward to now.”

On top of already clinch-ing a winning season, Collen earned his 300th win earlier this season at LSU.

Arkansas has a better shot to make the NCAA Tourna-ment going down the stretch than Collen’s first five teams. The Razorbacks went to the NIT last season and won two games before losing to Illi-nois State.

“It just feels like, Coach Collen, when he recruited us he trusted us and I feel like

we’ve done what he’s asked,” senior guard Lyndsay Har-ris said. “I feel like we’ve helped him fulfill what he wanted for this program and we’ve kind of jump started it. Whether it’s us doing good and recruits wanting to come here now and I think that’s really special and it makes us feel like we’ve done our job.”

Collen knows what it takes to get to the tourna-ment after being on the staff as a recruiting coordinator for Arkansas from 1993-97. He helped assemble the team that made the program’s only Final Four appearance in 1998.

Surprised by the Hogs’ Struggles? Don’t Be

In one week Arkansas went from needing a strong finish to make the NCAA Tournament to needing a strong finish to make the NIT.

That’s what two blowout losses does.

The 77-58 loss at Ten-nessee on Wednesday was a somewhat shocking margin, but road woes have become

the norm this season.The 98-68 loss to Flori-

da on Saturday might have been shocking to some, but it shouldn’t have.

Mike Anderson has just eight healthy scholarship players and is relying on a 6-foot-4 quarterback to pro-vide post depth. The Gators are better than the Razor-backs at at least four posi-tions.

That was evident at any point one of Florida’s 13 3-pointers were ripping through the nets at Bud Wal-ton Arena, quieting a big crowd.

The loss to the Ga-tors might have been the low point of the season be-cause it was the Hogs’ loss in 18 games at Bud Walton this season. If nothing else, though, it gave Anderson an-

other glimpse of the areas he needs to shore up on his ros-ter.

1. Point guardAnderson has four play-

ers that have played point this season and none of them have taken hold of the posi-tion and claimed it.

Julysses Nobles averages 29 minutes per game and can be solid. He struggles with consistency and has a hard time creating for others.

Rickey Scott has been more inconsistent than No-bles. He has great physical gifts, but is raw from a skill and basketball IQ standpoint.

Ky Madden has shown the best point guard instincts on the team, but could be hitting a freshman wall. He is just 2 of 18 from the field and 1 of 8 from 3-point range with eight assists and 11 turnovers

the last four games.BJ Young has played point

guard sparingly and is much better operating on the wing. He is averaging 23 points the last four games and is easily Arkansas’ most skilled play-er.

Solution moving ahead:Madden’s development.

None of the three signess in the 2012 class are point guards and Nobles and Scott haven’t shown the instincts to run the team effectively. Madden’s progression will be key.

2. Lack of an inside scor-ing threat

This is one of Arkansas’ key flaws. The lack of an in-side threat puts all the pres-sure on the guards to score.

The Razorbacks lost their inside threat when Marshawn Powell tore his ACL before

the third game of the season. The 6-foot-7, 220-pound-er was in great shape and looked like he had returned to his freshman form when he was an athletic big that could score in a variety of ways.

Hunter Mickelson has po-tential and a smooth offen-sive game, but doesn’t get a lot of touches and is incon-sistent at times. He averages just 6.2 points the game after a scoring in double figures.

Devonta Abron and Mi-chael Sanchez are often of-fensive liabilities in the post.

Solution moving ahead: Hope Powell returns healthy next season.

This is where missing on Jarnell Stokes hurt. If Pow-ell makes a full recovery and Mickelson develops, the duo could provide a solid scoring

punch inside.3. Lack of shooting/scor-

ing ability in the backcourtArkansas’ only consistent

3-point shooter, Mardracus Wade, can’t get his own shot.

Young is a gifted scorer and while his outside shot is inconsistent, he is the only guard that can consistently finish in the lane and create his own offense.

Scott, Nobles and Mad-den can get to the rim, but struggle to finish consis-tently and are streaky-at-best 3-point shooters. When you watch a good team, they have players that can consistently knock down shots and finish around the basket.

Solution moving ahead: Recruiting.

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Van Horn Facing Old Team

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERArkansas senior right fi elder Sam Bates had more RBIs in the Razorback’s three-game sweep of Vil-lanova, nine, than the seven he had in 2011.

Arkansas baseball coach Dave Van Horn is no strang-er to the Razorbacks’ next opponent.

Van Horn went 106-65 and won two regular season conference championships in three seasons as coach of Northwestern State, the Hogs’ opponent today and Wednesday in a two-game midweek series.

He coached the Demons from 1995-97 before taking the Nebraska job, his stop be-fore coming to Arkansas.

“I spent three and a half years there,” Van Horn said. We had a lot of success in my three seasons there. It’s

been a real good school to at-tract coaches that have gone on. It’s been a good place for young coaches to go and de-velop and recruit. They have a nice ballpark and I’d kind of call it a baseball school.”

Both games against North-western State will start at 3:05 p.m. The Razorbacks (3-0) will try to remain unde-feated after outscoring Villa-nova 41-7 in a season-open-ing sweep.

“They’ll be a big chal-lenge, Van Horn said. “It’ll be different than what we just saw.”

Sophomore right-hander

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Hogs Stuck In the Middle

A! er blowout losses last week to Tennessee and Florida, Arkansas is back in the middle of the pack in the Southeastern Conference.

" e Razorbacks (17-10, 5-7) dropped to less than .500 in Southeastern Conference play and are tied for eighth with Ole Miss (15-11, 5-7).

However, there are four teams just one game ahead of the Hogs in the standings with a 6-6 record.

“It just tells you the state of the basketball in our league,” coach Mike Anderson said. “" e league is better than it was last year and we have kind of beaten up on each other. A lot of teams are holding serve at home so now we get to see how this things # nishes up.”

One of the 6-6 teams ahead of Arkansas is Alabama. " e Hogs host the Crimson Tide on " ursday night and in an ef-

fort to break a two-game losing streak.

“I think the urgency goes to another level now,” Anderson said. “" ey are one of the teams in that pile and we are trying to get some separation.”

Arkansas lost its # rst meet-ing with the Crimson Tide, dropping a 72-66 game on the road.

Alabama is a revamped team since when the Hogs last saw them. Junior forward Tony Mitchell has missed the Tide’s last four games and Grant an-nounced Monday he would be suspended for the remainder of the season. “I don’t anticipate them being available (" urs-day),” Alabama coach Anthony Grant said.

" e Crimson Tide are just 1-2 in games without Green, who leads Alabama with 14.1 points and 7.2 rebounds.

Freshman Rodney Cooper

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Two-game losing streak drops Razorbacks in SEC Standings

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The Razorbacks made just three NCAA Tournament ap-pearances after that season, settling for five NITs and missing the postseason five times.

Arkansas is in a four-way tie for third place in the SEC with road games remaining at No. Tennessee

and South Carolina. The Lady Vols beat the Ra-

zorbacks 69-38 in early Janu-ary, while Arkansas topped then-No. 24 South Carolina 68-47 in early February.

The Razorbacks received 29 votes in the Associat-ed Press poll released Mon-day and have won nine of 10 games, making a strong case for earning the March Mad-ness bid.

“I mean I feel pretty good about it,” Collen said. “I said the other day, I’ve learned over my career you can never totally depend on other peo-ple to say whether you are, you aren’t good enough. At the same time I feel like I’ve been around this long enough to know what a good résumé looks like and I think we have the résumé in place already. I feel good about that.”

from COLLENon page 7

Young can get his own shot whenever. Anderson needs to add more shooters and players that can

Anthlon Bell, a 2012 sign-ee from Memphis, is one of the best high school shooters in the nation and will factor in an area where Arkansas desperately needs help.

Jacorey Williams, a signee from Alabama, is a 6-foot-8 combo forward that can han-dle and finish. His 3-point shot might not be amazing, but he has the skill and size to finish around the rim and will give Anderson a versatile player.

4. Lack of reboundingArkansas has been out-

rebounded in 10 of 12 South-eastern Conference games and its minus-ST rebounding margin in conference play would easily rank last in the

nation for the season.Mickelson struggles to re-

bound. Abron is a good re-bounder with good hands, but has trouble getting up to get tough boards.

Sanchez is Arkansas’ most physical rebounder, but struggles with positioning and securing the rebound.

Solution moving for-ward: Progression plus Pow-ell

Arkansas still has two scholarships available in the 2012 class. Anderson could sign another big or two to contribute.

Mickelson and Abron have the potential to be im-posing, but are being asked to contribute as freshmen be-cause of the Razorbacks’ lack of depth. An offseason add-ing good weight and devel-oping will help both.

Still, the Hogs need Pow-ell to come back healthy and having another big body with

athleticism would help. Wil-liams and 2012 wing signee Michael Qualls have the ath-leticism and size to contrib-ute on the glass.

Arkansas will likely need a four-wins-in-four-days run through the SEC Tourna-ment to make March Mad-ness. That seems unlikely.

The Razorbacks might struggle down the stretch and miss the postseason al-together. It won’t be because of lack of effort, if the Hogs continue to play as hard as they have.

Anderson missed the postseason his first two years at Missouri. Then he went to the Elite Eight in his third with his players.

He doesn’t have his play-ers yet.

Jimmy Carter is the sports editor of The Arkansas Trav-eler. His column appears ev-ery Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter @jicartersports.

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Brandon Moore will start to-day for the Hogs, while fresh-man right-hander Greg Mil-horn will make his collegiate debut Wednesday, Van Horn said.

“Then you’ll see a little bit of everybody,” Van Horn said. “We’re going to try to win them all.”

Bates’ starts bigRight fielder Sam Bates

had just seven RBIs in 2011. The senior hit two home

runs and had nine RBIs in Arkansas’ season-opening three-game series against Villanova.

“It feels great to start out the season in such a high note,” Bates said. “That will give me confidence through-out the season now. Just be-ing in there and getting those first three starts was big. I feel like I have something to build on now.”

Bates hit just .237 last

season and missed several games late in the year. His of-fensive performance helped spark the Razorbacks’ high-est-scoring season-opening series since 1986.

“He’s a definite threat and if you make a mistake he can put a charge into it,” Van Horn said. “He’s a good hitter and he’s worked extremely hard to get where he is and he deserves what he’s getting.”

Catchers get their feet wet

Sophomore Jake Wise started Friday and Sun-day against Villanova, while freshman John Clay Reeves played in all three games.

Wise finished the week-end 3 of 5 at the plate, while Reeves went 2 of 5.

“I thought both guys did a great job receiving,” Van Horn said. “You look at (Sat-urday’s) game, Wise blocked 3 or 4 nice sliders in the dirt with runners on base and they weren’t able to advance. Reeves did a tremendous job

blocking and throwing.”Wise ended the Sunday

game with a 2-run home run to left field, the final swing in a game called by a 4:15 p.m. travel curfew for the Wild-cats.

“Wise kind of showed you what he can do with that last at bat,” Van Horn said. “He had some power, and that was a no-doubter. He’s hit a lot of balls like that in batting practice and scrimmages.”

Reeves excelled in his first career start Satur-day afternoon when he threw out a runner on sec-ond base and had two RBIs.

“I’m very blessed to just get the opportunity to come out and get to start today,” Reeves said, “but I was pret-ty nervous and just thankful I got my first hit, first at bat and got to throw out a run-ner to get the nerves out of the way.”

Jimmy Carter contributed to this story.

from BASEBALLon page 7

RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas coach Mike Anderson is trying to help his team snap out of a two-game losing streak and a skid that includes four losses in five games. The Razorbacks dropped from a tie for third place in the Southeastern Conference before the streak to a tie for eighth now.

has picked up some of the scor-ing in Green’s absence, averag-ing 13.0 points over the Tide’s last three games, including a 28-point outburst against LSU.

“In my mind we are going to prepare for the team we played up there previously,” Ander-son said. “With guys not being around it really gives other guys an opportunity to step up. I have really been impressed with Cooper. Who has had an op-

portunity to really step up and really shine.”

Alabama sophomore center Moussa Gueye, who has played in just eight games, made the ! rst start of his career in the Crimson Tide’s 62-50 win over Tennessee on Saturday. Gueye played in just 16 minutes, but registered six blocks and two points.

“I got to see him play in ju-nior college,” Anderson said. “I know he has had some injuries, but his presence in the last game having six block shots. Now the

young guys get a chance to re-ally show a lot of the burden there.”

Arkansas is coming o" its worst loss of the season –– a 30-point beat down by Florida in its ! rst loss in Bud Walton this season.

“Obviously we are going to their place, one of the tough-est places in our league to play,” Grant said. “# ey have played really well at home but are coming o" a tough loss. I know coach Anderson will have his guys really excited to play.”

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERArkansas sophomore catcher Jake Wise started two games for the Razorbacks against Villanova batting .600 with three hits, including a 2-run homerun in the Hogs 17-1 win over the Wildcats on Sunday. Wise is splitting time with freshman John Clay Reeves, who started and had two RBI’s saturday and played in all three games against Villanova.

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