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Local Charity Fashion Show Beings !ursdayUA apparel studies students and local fashion designers alike prepare for NWA Fashion Week this weekend. Full Story, Page 5

Man of the YearUA physics professor Sergey Prosandeev was named 2012 Man of the Year.Full Story, Page 2

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!e subject of alcohol is a touchy one in and of itself, with contradictory informa-tion released almost daily on either the bene"ts or risks of drinking.

Mix those competing concepts with the schedule of a physically active college student or a student-athlete,

and you have a cocktail, the depths of which few dare to evaluate.

“In sports they (coaches) are always like, ‘Do this! Do this! Do this! Practice! Practice! Practice!’ We have to practice three hours a day, "ve days a week, in the mornings and then two hours at night. Plus you have class,” said M.H., a student-athlete who wanted to re-main anonymous. “I know I shouldn’t do it because if

you’re trying to build muscle you’re just counteracting what you’re trying to do with alcohol, and plus, it kills your immune system and you feel like crap.”

Studies indicate that hu-mans require more than 100 grams of ethanol in order for muscle breakdown to oc-cur, which equates to at least seven drinks per day — a hard benchmark to achieve by any standard. !e aver-age 12-ounce beer contains

about 153 calories, mean-ing that one would have to consume over 1,000 calories in beer per day in order to produce muscle catabolism (breakdown).

But that doesn’t mean that those hitting both the gym and keg stands are out of the woods just yet. Other studies have shown that even two or three drinks per day can lower testosterone lev-

Alcohol and Exercise Can Make A Dangerous Mix

UA students have di#ering opinions on the most popular jobs despite an emphasis on computer and engineering "elds.

Computer-related jobs and careers in engineering compose half of the 10 best jobs of 2013, according to a study conducted by Career-Builder and Economic Mod-eling Specialists Intl., which pulls research from more than 90 national and state employment resources.

So$ware developers have the No. 1 spot on the list, ac-cording to the study. Aver-age pay is more than $90,000 and is expected to increase by 30 percent, according to the study.

Accountants and auditors have the second-best spot, followed by market research analysts, mechanical engi-

neers and industrial engi-neers, according to the study.

Job popularity also de-pends on the region of the United States in which people live. Factory jobs are the most common in the South, ac-cording to a search conducted by AOL Jobs. Although Ar-kansas has one of the highest obesity rates in the country, it is also one of the states least interested in fast-food jobs, according to the search.

However, students have di#ering opinions on which jobs are the most popular.

“With the whole environ-ment protection and conser-vation being big right now, there are a lot of people hir-ing,” said Joseph Black, senior environmental, solar and wa-ter science major.

He said jobs in his "eld were popular because of the increased interest in the envi-ronment.

“People want to leave a

Jobs Differ Among

Students

Kathleen Pait Sta! PhotographerStudents use treadmills, weight machines, and other exercise equipment in the HPER Monday, March 11.

Associated Student Govern-ment representatives are work-ing with the UA administration to pass medical amnesty, a pol-icy that would allow students to call 911 for friends with alco-hol poisoning without getting in administrative trouble, said Hollis Moll, ASG former sec-retary.

UA O%cials could not be reached to make a comment on this issue.

“I think it’s a good policy because if someone is in that state they could be danger-ous to themselves and to other people,” said Addison Roberts, freshman kinesiology major. “By calling 911 it would be re-ally helpful.”

Last year’s ASG president, Michael Dodd, was the "rst to propose medical amnesty at the UA, and this is the third time ASG has tried to pass the resolution, Moll said. !e reso-lution was proposed again this year, and it passed with only

Student Poll Gauges Need for Medical Amnesty Policy

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Emily Rhodes Sta! PhotographerStudents across campus hold signs about expressing faith publicly, Monday, March 11. "ose who took part wore duct tape across their mouths and o!ered #yers to interested students.

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“It’s just a big policy with lives on the line, and it has to be done very carefully.”

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A UA physics professor was named the 2012 Man of the Year for outstanding scienti"c research performed at the UA in collaboration Rostov State University.

Sergey Prosandeev’s re-search last year on the proper-ties of nanotechnology is one of the factors that led to him receiving the award, Prosan-deev said. Prosandeev and his colleagues have produced results that can be used to improve the use of medical

ultrasound, sensors and heart implants, he said.

“We have determined im-portant information about the nano-scale properties of mate-rials called relaxors, which can be used in electronic devices to change temperature or shape,” Prosandeev said. “!e discov-eries may help maximize e%-cient use of relaxors to create better medical ultrasound, sensors and heart implants.”

Prosandeev’s work in the "eld of nanotechnology is fre-quently published in Physical Review Letters, the highest-ranked journal for physics research, according to a press release.

!e award, given by the Rostov government and de-partment of culture, is pre-sented annually to 17 recipi-ents, including two scientists, Prosandeev said.

Prosandeev has been a part of the UA faculty since 2005, he said. He has previously held positions at the National Insti-tute of Standards and Technol-ogy and Rostov State Univer-sity, he said.

Prosandeev also serves as a permanent moderator of mul-tiple scienti"c journals, includ-ing the American Physical So-ciety Letters, the U.K. Journal of Physics and the American Institute of Physics’ Applied

Physics Letters, according to a press release.

Prosandeev was named Ex-traordinary Young Professor during his time at Rostov State and a Soros Professor by the Soros International Education Foundation for his achieve-ments in international science and education. He is a member of the American Physical Soci-ety and the Material Research Society, according to a press release.

!e Rostov region is lo-cated in southwestern Russia north of Moscow and encom-passes a region larger than France, according to a press release.

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ASG Legislation:

ASG Senate Resolution No. 39- Club Sports Indoor Athletic FacilitiesASG Senate Resolution No. 40- First Time Park-ing Violation WarningsASG Senate Resolution No. 41- Lower Unau-thorized Permit FinesASG Senate Resolution No. 42- Consistency in University GradingASG Senate Resolution No. 43- ScantronsASG Senate Resolution No. 44- Syllabus Infor-mation on ISISStudents can make their opinion heard during the ASG meetings 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Graduate Education Building. !ere is a public comment section during each meeting where students can speak for two minutes before the legislation starts, said Mike Norton, ASG Chair of Senate.

Results of these legislations will be published a"er they are voted on.

els by as much as 6.8 percent over a short three-week peri-od. Testosterone is especially important for athletes who require maximum produc-tion of hormones to build muscle and improve perfor-mance both in the gym and on the "eld.

Even then, with the e#ect that alcohol has on hormone production, it is thought to have no interference with muscle g l y c o g e n (energy stor-age for mus-cle), which is important for endur-ance athletes in sports like track, tennis and football. In one study, a group of athletes were given 10 drinks a$er a glycogen-depleting workout with no noticeable e#ects taking place in the replenish-ment of their muscle tissue.

Still, alcohol consumption amongst athletes and active students alike persists.

“I think the reason that a lot of us athletes drink so much is that we know we’ll

burn it o# (during practice), but everybody’s di#erent,” M.H. said. “I guess it just de-pends on the person, but I think that 90 percent of the athletes do the same thing unless they’re die-hard about their scholarships.”

M.H. himself employs a strategy of setting a tread-mill on maximum incline

and intensity for "ve min-utes to burn o# any excess alcohol still lingering from a party the night before, he said. Even the most health-conscious college students may be surprised by the fact that alcohol is prioritized by the body to be burned as fuel, meaning that no other en-ergy stores, including fat, can be burned o# until the alco-hol is gone.

M.H. also mentioned the

heightened amount of access that athletes had to parties and thus alcohol, while still pointing out that sometimes the value of their status keeps them in check.

“As you get close to your season, you back o#,” he said. “All the football play-ers I know didn’t drink that much before season, but a$er

season it’s like free game.”

!ere is no one size "ts all when it comes to alcohol con-sumption and one’s ability to work out. Some may

"nd they can consume all the alcohol they want and still perform well come game day, while others can’t tolerate a single drop and maintain the rigorous standards set for them.

!e story of alcohol and athletics for the time being seems to be a story of per-sonal boundaries rather than the simple biological or sci-enti"c yes-or-no paradigm we might prefer.

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one dissenting vote, he said.UA administrators ex-

pressed concerns about the le-gal rami"cations of the policy and told ASG that it needed empirical evidence such as study or a poll to show that medical amnesty would bene"t the student population, he said.

“!e administration is not putting up unnecessary road-blocks,” Moll said. “It’s just a big policy with lives on the line, and it has to be done very care-fully.”

!e results from this year’s student poll showed that more than 70 percent of students did not call for help when they saw an individual who was sick from alcohol, according to the ASG student poll. Seventy per-cent of students said they did not call because they did not know if the student was sick enough.

“I would still call 911, but I guess I might be hesitant be-cause I wouldn’t want to get the person in trouble,” Roberts said. “I would have to call be-cause it’s the right thing to do for their safety.”

More than 50 percent said they were afraid of the UA and state judicial processes, accord-ing to the poll.

“If someone is in trouble, call the ambulance,” Moll said. “Just get help. Sanctions aren’t

worth dying over.”Some people view the policy

as a get-out-of-jail-free card, Moll said, but he said there are still consequences even if

they are health-related instead of judicial. Some of the conse-quences may include meeting with an advisor and establish-ing a success program to edu-cate students about the dangers of alcohol, he said.

“Underage drinking is il-legal behavior, and while it’s discouraged and there are vio-lations because it is illegal, the sanctions that judicial board has should not scare people away from refusing help,” Moll said. “Alcohol is legal for half

of the students and illegal for the other half, and it’s ignorant to think that those two halves don’t associate or socialize with one another.”

Georgia, Kentucky, Louisi-ana State University and every Ivy League school have already passed proposals on their cam-puses, and nine states have passed it as a state law, Moll said.

For medical amnesty to get passed at the UA, the faculty senate, the chancellor and the board of trustees would most likely have to pass a referendum in favor of it, Moll said.

Moll proposed an orien-tation class that would teach freshman “How drunk is too drunk?” and about medical amnesty. He also suggested a trial program to see how stu-dents would respond if a per-manent policy was established. Schools that have passed the policy saw a slight decrease in alcohol violations because stu-dents began thinking about the consequences and realized how dangerous alcohol could be, he said.

“Once a student dies, then the university enacts it, but we’re trying to get the UA to be proactive and preventative,” Moll said. “Alcohol poisoning is so preventable, and that’s what this is about: to save lives.”

Caroline Potts Sta! PhotographerPhysics professor Sergey Prosandeev won the outstanding man of the year award for his work at the University of Arkansas.

His senior year at Clark Atlanta University was quickly approaching, and Kareem Taylor was starting to worry about his future.

Would he be able to land a job as a voice actor or would he end up back home with his parents like so many oth-er college graduates? Better still, how could he let people know he had “the” voice? Not having prior experience or a network to draw from, Tay-lor turned to the only con-tacts he had readily available to him, his Facebook friends.

“I decid-ed to post a demo on Fa c e b o o k , asking peo-ple to share it with their f r i e n d s ,” Taylor said recently.

In that moment, Taylor joined an ever-growing number of col-lege students and employers who are using social media networks in the search for jobs and job candidates.

In fact, according to a 2012 Future Trends Survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 90.7 percent of respondents used Facebook in their job search.

Given the near-universal status of Facebook, which re-cently announced the launch of Graph Search to enhance users’ ability to navigate their connections, the study said, “it is expected that if a stu-dent were to think of using a social network in the job search, that student would "rst turn to the base social networking platform to see what it o#ered.” Students are also turning to LinkedIn (40 percent) and Twitter (about 35 percent).

“LinkedIn, as a busi-ness networking platform, is clearly challenging Face-book for pre-eminent status among students as the net-working platform to com-municate with potential em-ployers,” the study said.

Although nearly 66 per-

cent of LinkedIn users felt that the service was e#ec-tive compared to less than a quarter of users of other net-working platforms, Taylor

credits Facebook for helping him land employment with CNN.

Once he posted his demo on his Facebook page, Taylor said it caught the attention of CNN producer Danya Levine, who was already a Facebook friend. Levine invited him to the station, where he met her team.

“!e head honcho said, ‘Let’s hear something,’” Tay-lor recalled. “I did something about CNN, and the whole room applauded.” For the next few weeks, Taylor shad-owed members of Levine’s team, editing tapes, meet-ing producers and learning everything at his disposal about the voice-over indus-try.

Meanwhile, Taylor con-tinued his job search, but “no one was calling me back,” he said.

!en just months before graduation in August 2010, he got the call he’d been wait-ing for.

“Congratulations, you’re the voice of ‘CNN Heroes,’” Levine told him.

“I was ecstatic,” Taylor said. “I’m so blessed to have this opportunity. It was a huge turning point.” Since

then, Taylor has worked on the productions “Black in America” and “Pictures Don’t Lie.” Today, at 24, he’s one of the youngest and most successful professional voice actors, with clients including Comedy Central, Taco Bell and AT&T.

Shonda Cooper, lead pro-motions producer for CNN’s “Black in America” docu-mentary, couldn’t say how o$en the television network uses social networking sites in its hiring.

She said, however, that Taylor “came highly regard-ed by colleagues at ‘CNN Heroes.’” “He made a posi-tive impression on all of us,” Cooper said. “In addition to having a really good, deep,

p e r s u a s i v e voice, he takes direc-tions well.” Taylor has been the voice of “Black in America” for the past two years, Coo-

per said.With its new Graph

Search, which is being rolled out in waves, o%cials at Face-book are hoping to make it even easier for users to "nd the right job match. Graph Search, they say, promises not only to help you "nd oth-ers but to learn more about them and make connections instantly.

With this feature, users will be able to narrow their search to something as spe-ci"c as “friends of my friends who work in the restaurant industry” or “my friends in Los Angeles who are looking for baby sitters” or “people/my friends who are report-ers and live in Seattle.” Al-though Graph Search hadn’t launched when Taylor began his job search, he said Face-book clearly helped him get noticed.

Soon a$er CNN hired him, Taylor said his agent “dragged me to New York,” where he records from home then emails the "le to his boss.

“A day later,” he said, “those promos start airing on CNN, and my mom will call and ask if that’s me she’s hearing.”

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“I’m so blessed to have this opportunity. It was a huge turning point.”

Kareem TaylorVoice Actor

“I think the reason that a lot of us athletes drink so much is that we know we’ll burn it o! (during practice), but everbody’s di!erent.”

M.H.Student Athlete

Taylor

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Symptoms of Alcohol Poisoning

- Confusions, Stupor- Vomiting- Seizures- Slow Breathing- Irregular Breathing- Blue-tinged skin or pale skin- Low Body Temperature- Unconsciousness and can’t be roused

Source: Mayo Clinic

legacy for their kids and not use up all their resources and be irresponsible with it,” he said.

Black said he thought that jobs in the government would be the most popular if "scal policy had not created a freeze on hiring. Black said he also thought jobs in the judicial "eld were appealing.

Casi Crawley, a junior dietetics major, said she

thought the most popular jobs were in the medical "eld. She said that professions like physical therapists, diabetic educators and geriatric care-takers are prominent because they represent the immediate concerns of the population.

“!ere is more of a need for people to learn how to take back control of their own health and care for themselves to relieve some

of the burden on our medical "eld,” Crawley said.

She also said she felt con-"dent that a degree in her major would help her obtain a job a$er college.

“Once you’re licensed, the job market is excellent,” Crawley said, “just because there is such a need for nu-tritional education right now both in schools and adult set-tings.”

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Traveler Quote of the Day“People want to leave a legacy for their kids and not use up all their resources

and be irresponsible with it.” Joseph Black, senior environmental, solar and

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Too Many Cars are Crowding Campus

Social networking makes teenagers of us all. Lots of my ridiculously successful friends -- some of whom ap-pear regularly on television, give TED talks and are the kind of people who get ha-rassed in restaurants by their fans (while my fans remain remarkably good-mannered and never, ever come over to introduce themselves or say a word) -- will still not permit themselves to have a Facebook account because the thought of people un-friending them is terrifying.

One of these women -- you would recognize her in a heartbeat -- brie!y had a Facebook account. But then she started getting pop-up ads, maybe through email, that sneered, “"ree people have unfriended you. Find out more.”

First of all, when did “unfriend” become a verb? Was it around the time “parenting” or “scrapbook-ing,” which was a#er “party-ing” but before “vocalizing,” which is now the word my students use instead of em-ploying the word “say” as ordinary speakers of English

might, umm, say.Anyway, this friend of

mine was plagued (good noun-to-verb usage) by the thought that three people didn’t like her. She was awake at night at the thought of be-ing dismissed from a vague network of people who she might never know. "is, per-haps, could be the new de$-nition of insane, don’t you think? "e idea that you’re afraid people that you don’t know might not like you? I mean, if you had somebody you’d never met come up to you on the street, grab you by the collar shout “Did you unfriend me?” wouldn’t your instinct be to call a cop?

Yet having the experi-ence of people who dare to unfriend you is a noth-ing compared to the recent gang-shaming experience provided by Linked-In. "ey sent out messages “con-gratulating” folks for being at the top of their searches. A relative was the $rst to forward me one with self-e%acing pride. He emailed me a note where the subject line read: “Guess I’m not too shabby a#er all.” And in the body of the email was a no-tice that his name was in the top 5 percent of last year’s Linked-In searches.

I’ll admit I was impressed.

I wrote him back an e%usive letter telling him that it was clear from this recognition that his hard work as a free-lancer had $nally paid o%. I actually wrote the words, “"at’s some pretty exclu-sive club, the top 5 percent.” He answered with blush-ing thanks and was clearly what the English would have called, “chu%ed.”

Imagine my surprise, then, when two days later I got a notice saying that my name had come up in the top 10 percent of Linked-In searches. I’ve never won a prize for self-e%acement but even I was skeptical. I turned to Facebook to air my ques-tions. “Anybody else get into the top 10 percent?” I asked.

Turns out that all of them, even those from Pluto and North Dakota, were at the top of LinkedIn search-es. It was sort of like $nd-ing out that a cute boy had written, “You’re the most adorable creature ever” on everybody’s yearbook page when all the time you’d been secretly cherishing the idea that you, and you alone (or at least you among only the top 10 percent) were chosen only to discover that what you thought was a unique signature was pretty much a rubber stamp.

And this is what I mean about making you feel like you’re back in high school.

Social networking sites -- from Facebook to Pinterest to StumbleUpon -- are very much like high school: As conducive as they are to the creation of community, they are simultaneously the cause of anxiety, bizarre competi-tions and weirdly contorted de$nitions of success.

How is getting an ad saying you’ve been “un-friended” di%erent from the experience of having a per-son you’ve never met before come up to you between al-gebra and gym and whisper in your ear “I hear a certain person doesn’t like you any-more” before scuttling, crab-like, back to their locker?

So what can we do about this? How can we stop feel-ing adolescent as soon as we face the screen?

Maybe we should screen the screen: "e word once meant “to divide, protect, separate.” Maybe we should remember that and not use it as a mirror.

Gina Barreca is an Eng-lish professor at the Universi-ty of Connecticut, a feminist

scholar who has written eight books, and a columnist

for the Hartford Courant.

Social Networks Like Getting Pimples Again

I cannot say parking on campus is abysmal. It is really only horrid when I’m coming to campus before my morn-ing class and when I’m leav-ing campus a#er my a#ernoon class. On rare days I’m forced to park on the third !oor of Har-mon. I walk to my car between a long snake of vehicles. A#er 15 minutes of patient waiting, I might be lucky enough to wind my way back to the fourth-!oor exit.

It’s not your fault as a student driver. Harmon parking passes are reasonably priced for the incredible convenience it pro-vides, parking within $ve min-utes of most academic buildings and Dickson Street. But perhaps the convenience of parking for student drivers is less of a solu-tion and more of a problem.

"ink, if a parking pass, in-stead of costing under $350 for a semester, ran closer to $800 per semester. I know I would put away my checkbook and immediately be looking for a di%erent transit option, most likely the buses. "ink if there were more buses with more stops, that ran more frequently across a broader Fayetteville area, how the number of cars on campus would decrease, lessen-ing congestion.

I’ve been looking at the plat-forms of both ASG presidential nominees, Will Simpson and Bo Renner. Between the two of them, there are some other quick solutions to decrease the number of cars clogging cam-pus.

Simpson has plans to move freshman parking to Baum Stadium, out of the way for o%-campus students to $nd parking places in the pit and in parking garages. "e on-campus fresh-man can use the transit system to get to their cars when they really need to. I remember as a freshman I only needed my

car on the weekends. O%-cam-pus students need the parking spaces in the pit daily. Simp-son’s plans to increase the range of buses to even as far as Mis-sion and Crossover would also decrease the number of cars on campus and students need-ing to drive to campus, freeing more spots.

Similarly, Renner’s platform wants to explore alternative parking for freshman. Renner understands freshmen occupy-ing parking spots are using the locations more as a long-term garage. Meanwhile, opening green lots to o%-campus stu-dents would provide su&cient parking so we can get to class on time. Also, increasing the convenience of campus park-ing, there would be a philan-thropic solution to parking tick-ets through community service. While that doesn’t decrease campus congestion, it may save you time and money when you “accidentally” $nd you parked in a faculty lot conveniently lo-cated near your class or when you are looking at low bank funds and couldn’t $nd the pocket change for the parking meter in front of Old Main.

Parking on campus has be-come too easy. Even with Dick-son blocked o% past the Chi Omega Greek "eater, trying to $nd open spaces and make it to class in a timely manner is dif-$cult for o%-campus students. Allocating an extra 30 minutes for parking is a hassle when there are solutions to decrease the need for cars on campus.

Exploring a more expan-sive Razorback Transit to serve a wider Fayetteville area and moving freshman vehicles from the most e&cient locations on campus would spread out cars and congestion. Instead of the 15-minute wait in Harmon, there would be a steady $ve-minute wait at Harmon, the Pit and Lot 72.

When you are voting for ASG presidents and senators this week, and in the future, be sure to ask about parking and transit plans. For on-campus students moving o% campus, parking may not be too di&-cult now, but next year, will you want to be stuck in the Harmon snake for 15 minutes?

Joe DelNero is a senior jour-nalism major and the opinion

editor of the Arkansas Traveler.

ASG Candidates O!er Parking Solutions

As the student body ap-proaches 25,000 students, the Transit and Parking Depart-ment must accommodate spaces for the growing num-ber of drivers attending the UA. "ere have been several changes made already, but there will need to be bigger changes this coming fall as incoming freshman classes continue to get larger.

UA parking has already taken several steps toward making parking easier on campus, according to Arkan-sas Newswire. Students and faculty can purchase parking permits online, and for those who want a%ordable parking, $82 green passes are avail-able.

For those who don’t want to pay, or don’t have cars, there are buses and free bike-parking options. However, buses may have trouble keep-ing up with the rapid expan-

sion of the student body. Ac-cording to one bus driver, it takes a total of two years for an ordered bus to come. Even with all the buses running, during the busy hours over-crowding may leave students behind. O#entimes, this is the di%erence between get-ting to class on time and not making it at all. Next year, if there aren’t changes, it will only be worse.

A new improvement to help prevent students miss-ing the bus is the new tracker system that tells the positions of all the buses. A person can get on the Internet to see where the buses are posi-tioned so they can time when to meet it. Students won’t have to wait unnecessarily in the cold wondering when their bus will $nally come.

On the other hand, the bus-tracking system does not guarantee whether the bus will be too full for more pas-sengers or not. An improve-ment would be drivers set-ting a noti$cation when the

bus is full so students have time to make other travel ar-rangements.

Another improvement to Transit and Parking De-partment is the Parkmo-bile app, allowing students to pay for parking on their smartphones. "is app saves time for rushed students and makes it much easier to pay. While it adds 35 cents to the bill as a transaction fee, it also gives a 15-minute warn-ing before a student’s time ex-pires. "at 35 cents may save you from a $20 ticket. "ere are also monthly o%ers for regular users to get reduced transaction fees. "is new technology is said to be for convenience and to prevent tickets, but the simplicity still means there will be more cars on campus taking advantage of the app and parking.

While more cars come to campus, parking control is still in working order. It still costs $10 to appeal a ticket, and only “extenuat-ing circumstances” have the

grounds for an appeal, ac-cording to the Transit and Parking Department web-site. Parking for a short time, forgetfulness, not seeing the signs — all mistakes fresh-man easily make — are not reasons to appeal. "is sim-ply means that with more cars on campus, make sure you $nd an empty spot that won’t get you towed.

“It is only easier for them to take our money now,” said senior electrical engineering student Jason Young. “"e little amount it helps us is nothing compared to how much they make o% of it. If they wanted to help us more, they could.”

Like many students, Young walks to campus be-cause of the crowded buses.

It’s the price to pay for a growing campus, and it’s only going to get worse if bigger changes are not made.

Hebron Chester is a sta! cartoonist for the Arkansas

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Companion Editor: Nick BrothersAssistant Companion Editor: Shelby Gill

“Making Your Journey Worthwhile”

7 out of 10Four cyborgs corner a

silhouetted !gure in a dark alley, thinking him easy

prey with numbers on their side. However, this is no ordi-

nary man; he produces a blade out of thin air. Four "ashes,

then the blade disappears again. #e four cyborgs don't move an

inch, but instead fall apart in pre-cise pieces as the man walks away from the !ght before it had even started.

In “Metal Gear Rising: Re-vengeance” players assume the role

of Raiden, a top-of-the-line cyborg built with one purpose: to kill. Raiden

played a mysterious subrole in “Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots,” a related game,

but he’s center stage this time in a story that supple-ments previous franchise installments.

Raiden has joined the private military corpora-tion known as Maverick, and is joined in the game by Boris, Kevin Washington and Courtney Collins,

all of whom help him in his missions via in-formation feeds and other non-combat

roles. In other words, Raiden is a one-man army.#e opening scene is a mission that requires

Raiden to protect a certain VIP. A$er nearly dying on this !rst mission, Raiden's creator makes modi-!cations to his system that essentially make him a !ne-tuned killing machine.

#e story revolves around Raiden trying to use the tools he is gi$ed to deliver justice and rid the world of people who would encourage war and suf-fering. Particularly, Raiden has a so$ spot for child soldiers, being that he was one. #e game goes into some depth on this, but mostly revolves around his striving to prevent child soldiers from being cre-ated; by created, that means removing their brains and training them in virtual reality, then sticking the brains into cyborg bodies.

Enough of the story, though; the action is where this game really shines. Taking a deviation from the usual stealthy approach that most Metal Gear games have, this one is an all-out assault on anything stand-ing in the way.

A$er his !rst mission, Raiden is upgraded. From then on, he’s able to cut enemies into pieces, liter-ally. Players can enter blade mode at any time, given that they have enough energy-providing fuel cells, and mercilessly hack hostile cyborgs to pieces. Some enemies may require a little so$ening with general hack-and-slash tactics before they can be taken out, but the road from almost-dead to dead generally lasts about 30 seconds.

While killing enemies in blade mode, if a player positions the blade right they can also cut out re-serves of fuel cells and nanopaste in enemy cyborgs, instantly restoring full fuel and life, making the phrase “death fuels life” literal. Players are encour-aged to get medieval on enemies in this way. #is combat system really encourages players to throw

caution to the wind and do whatever they want. However, this is not the only way to play.

#e game does have a stealth aspect to it in that if a player can sneak up on an enemy from above or behind, they can instantly kill them with what the game calls a ninja kill. Upon clearing an entire area without being detected, players will receive encour-agement from Raiden's allies, but other than that there is no real incentive for players to be stealthy unless they want to be.

In-game customization can also be done, and the currency a player gets is directly impacted by a combat rating the player receives at the end of every mission. #ese combat ratings are brutal, though, requiring fast mission clears and near-perfect !ght-ing to get the highest rank. Only the most skilled players will achieve a S rank more than once or twice.

#e graphics and sound are wonderful, and the soundtrack chosen !ts the aura that this type of game gives o%. However that's where the game starts to fall o% the great scale and into the mediocre scale.

“Revengeance” is a great game for as long as it lasts, which, for players not accustomed to hack-and-slash games, could be about 15 hours. #e game is ridiculously short and has little to no replay value a$er it has been beaten. #ere is no multi-player, and aside from achievement hunting, there is nothing to do a$er a player beats the game. In the game's defense, though, getting all the achievements could take a bit of time, but not every player wants to do all those trophies.

“Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance” gets a solid 7/10 for being a good hack-and-slash game and mixing up the Metal Gear franchise, but without something to do a$er the 15 hours or less of game-play, this game begs to be rented, not bought.

John MullinsSta! Writer

As major cities around the world wrap up their spring fashion weeks, northwest Arkansas begins prepara-tions for its own.

NWA Fashion Week, with the motto "Fashion for Philanthropy," is an annual fashion show put on by lo-cal designers and boutiques with the goal of spotlighting the local fashion scene while supporting local chari-ties, according to the NWA Fashion Week website.

While the actual fashion week began Monday, all runway action be-gins #ursday and continues into the weekend. On #ursday, the runway will feature local designers and their creations, and on Friday and Satur-day, the runway will display pieces from local boutiques.

First up at 7 p.m. on #ursday are collections by local designers and companies, including Esque, Kata Mari, Material Collections and Soul Yoga Lounge.

Esque is a womenswear line cre-ated by local designer Leslie Pennel. "Esque is a hand-made womenswear line o%ering laid-back luxury staples and dramatic show-stopping pieces for an e%ortlessly stylish and versatile wardrobe," according to the Esque Facebook page. Esque is teaming up with Portland-based indie shoe store Solestruck for this collection.

Kata Mari is a Fayetteville-based womenswear designer who prides herself on one-of-a-kind pieces that accentuate a woman's natural beauty. "A monumental element in her styl-ing is portraying con!dence, free-dom, and everything that is fun about being a woman," according to her Facebook page.

Material Concepts is a Fayette-ville alteration company that also dabbles in fashion design. In addition to teaching yoga classes, Soul Yoga Lounge is also contributing some pieces to this year's runway.

Next up, at 8 p.m., are original pieces created by UA student design-ers.

Alisa May, a senior apparel stud-ies major at the UA, said she will be showing o% 11 womenswear and seven menswear looks on #ursday. Inspired by the edgy tendencies of wardrobe stylist Maeve Reilly, May

described her collection as "edgy, sexy and really out there."

May has been sewing since the seventh grade, and said it was nice that she had that leg up when she began college. Still, May credits the resources the UA has given her for helping her with her collection.

"Without the classes I have taken, I would have no idea what I was do-ing," she said.

May's collection, which is for the fall of 2013, is dark and edgy but still tries to be wearable. Expect leather, velvet and a sentimental !nale piece during May's show.

Senior apparel studies major Tiara Hudson will take on a similar me-dium but spin it an entirely di%erent way. Inspired in part by musical/!lm "Rock of Ages," Hudson's collection will feature seven pieces that juxta-pose the edgy qualities of leather with so$er materials such as chi%on.

"It's kind of edgy, but it's really simple, and it's really chic," Hudson said of her collection. "It's just some-thing everybody can wear."

When Hudson found out about the fashion week, she said she knew it was the perfect opportunity to display some of her designs that were already in progress. Hudson is from the East Coast, and said she wanted to bring that kind of urban, simple vibe to her pieces. As a !rst-time designer, Hud-son said her !rst show and her !rst real sewing experience have been learning opportunities more than anything.

"#e process has been good, but very stressful at times," she said. "It's challenging, but I love it. #is is something that I really want to do for my career."

UA senior Caroline DeLay will also be displaying a collection #urs-day evening. With the theme “I’m

Every Woman,” DeLay’s collection !ts sizes ranging from 4-14 with the intention of "attering all !gures.

“I wanted to use current looks and incorporate the styles of the 60's with big bee hive hair, twiggy inspired makeup, and some 60's aspects of the design of my dresses,” DeLay wrote in an email.

Senior apparel studies major Lindsey Gallagher will be showing six looks for NWA Fashion Week on #ursday evening. Gallagher’s col-lection features the “up-cycled” ap-proach to sustainable fabric, sourcing all of her fabrics and garments from thri$ stores, estate sales and clothing swaps.

“I feel like I've saved so many high quality, out-of-style garments from

the trash,” Gallagher wrote in an email.

Gallagher strikes a balance be-tween contemporary and vintage styles in her look, all while emphasiz-ing that “‘green’ fashion is more than just organic hemp T-shirts, it can be stylish, too,” she wrote.

“Not really knowing what I was going to come up with fabric-wise made the design process much hard-er,” Gallagher wrote. “I've changed and rearranged the pieces about a thousands times, and the collection only slightly resembles my original sketches. #e general idea is there, but for some reason I had this vision that I was going to !nd everything exactly the way I originally intended. And of course that didn't happen. Overall, I'm pleased with how it turned out.”

Gallagher’s inspiration comes from the boutique Free People, 1970s Yves Saint Laurent, the Southwest, and Holi, the Hindu festival of colors. “I'll admit, a strange combination,” Gallagher wrote.

UA student Anna Taylor will also be featuring their lines on the runway #ursday.

Finally, at 9 p.m., the runway will feature collections by designers asso-ciated with Art Amiss.

Black Cherry Vintage is one of the members associated with the Art Amiss show. Owned by Leea Lee, Black Cherry is a retro boutique lo-cated on College Avenue.

Good #ings Boutique, an eco-friendly clothing boutique located on Block Avenue, is also contributing to the Art Amiss show. Most of their clothing is made from ecologically conscious !bers and supports fair trade.

Also participating in the Art Amiss section of show are Bou%ants and Beehives, the moniker for lo-cal vintage hair and makeup artist Ali Williams; Mayapple Salon and Boutique's two collections, "Smells Like Trend Spirit" and "Apollo and Daphne/Hobo Bride"; Himalayan Mountain Shop; Joelle Storet; the line "Phantasm" by Missouri-based couture apron-makers Tootlepip; and Badd Jaxx.

A$er the show, there will be an af-ter party at FIX Ultra Lounge #urs-day at 9:30 p.m., according to the runway schedule. Tickets and more information are available on the NWA Fashion Week website, nwafw.com.

Mary Kate P!"ner Sta" PhotographerAlisa May pays attention to detail while #nishing her collection Sunday, March 10 in her studio. May’s collection includes a gown inspired by one of her grandmother’s and will be the #nale to her runway show during fashion week.

Emily DeLongCopy Editor

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Local designers and boutiques spotlight the local fashion scene while supporting local

charities during NWA Fashion Week.

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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle

One of the most interest-ing of the 30 club sports here at the UA is the water ski club.

Alex Huck, the president of the water ski club, said it has been around for a long time. Roger Boskus, who owns Cedar Creek Ski Park in Elkins — the private ski lake where the team practices now, was in the club when he was a student at Arkansas.

Huck said she discovered the club her freshman year because one of her friends had a brother on the team. Huck had never skied before joining the water ski club.

Tom Geeslin, a member of the club, said he found out about it by just being handed a !yer on campus.

“"ey handed me a !yer and I took it and read it, and I was just like, ‘water ski team?’ "is sounds awesome,” Gee-slin said. Geeslin said he had skied some with friends back home but had never done it seriously until he joined the club.

Club size varies from se-mester to semester, Huck said. Last semester they only had #ve, but they’re looking at something between 10 and 15 members for this semester, and they are always looking for new members to join.

Practice starts this week for the team, whose season re-ally kicks o$ the weekend of March 23 at a competition in Conroe, Texas. "ey generally practice at least twice a week

at Cedar Creek Ski Park, but are very !exible about how o%en people can make it to practice.

Cedar Creek is a private lake built speci#cally for wa-ter skiing. Boskus even lets the team use his boats as he facilitates the continuation of the UA water ski club.

“It’s basically a really long

pond,” Huck said of the lake. “It’s really nice.”

"e team competes in the three events of competitive water skiing: slalom, jump and trick.

"ey compete mainly against schools from Texas and Louisiana. Every time the club travels for competition, they are traveling at least nine

hours away.Some schools like Louisi-

ana-Monroe and Louisiana-Lafayette actually give schol-arships for their water ski team members. "e Arkansas club team is classi#ed as Divi-sion II but competes against several Division I teams.

Huck says a lot of the team’s goal is really just to

have fun. “We have a lot less members than other teams, but it’s still really fun, so we just go and get the experi-ence,” Huck said.

No prior ski experience is needed to join the team, and the team even has all the equipment you could ever need, as they have been accu-mulating it as a team for years.

Water Ski Club Makes a Big SplashLiz BeadleSta! Writer

CLUB SPORT BASKETBALL

"e Arkansas men’s bas-ketball team is seeded sev-enth in the 2013 Southeastern Conference Tournament that begins Wednesday at Bridge-stone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.

"ey received a #rst round bye and will face the 10th seed, Vanderbilt, in the sec-ond round "ursday.

"is is the second year that the SEC has used a one-division format for basket-ball. Last year, the Razorbacks were the ninth seed with a 6-10 record in the SEC and lost to LSU in the #rst round.

"e Commodores were the third seed last season and won the tournament. It was their second SEC title in school history.

Vanderbilt comes into this year’s tournament with an 8-10 conference record, while Arkansas is 10-8 in league play.

"e teams split their two regular season games. Arkan-sas won 56-33 at home Jan. 12 and the Commodores won 67-49 in Nashville Feb. 9.

"e winner of the Ar-kansas-Vanderbilt game will move on to the quarter#nals and face second seeded Ken-tucky, who receives a double

Razorbacks Earn 7th Seed in SEC Andrew HutchinsonSta! Writer

41. Such a subtle number, it may seem. It can be associ-ated with a number on a jer-sey, age or monetary amount.

However, 41 rings loud and clear for the No. 1 Arkansas men’s track and #eld team.

"e Razorbacks won their 41st NCAA championship Saturday, marking their place as one of the most dominant programs in the nation.

“To get this done, you need a special group of athletes,” head coach Chris Bucknam said. “"e coaching sta$ had everything in place. I’m really proud of how these guys got it together. We followed the plan, and we came in here and got it done.

“We just hope our alumni are proud. We look at all the national championship ban-

ners in the ceiling, and our number one goal was to make them proud and show them that we were back.”

Dominant sport teams have been associated with vast amount of titles for a long time. Enthusiasts tend to think of dominant teams such as the Los Angeles Lak-ers, Boston Celtics, New York Yankees and even the Green Bay Packers.

People tend to focus on major professional domi-nance, but instances like this in college sometimes don’t re-ceive the respect they deserve.

Arkansas’ men’s track and #eld program has gained ma-

jor respect for what they have been able to put together over the years. "e win gives the Razorbacks their 20th NCAA indoor team title and 41st na-tional crown overall.

Saturday’s victory is the #rst NCAA Championship win since 2006, and the pro-gram’s #rst under Bucknam.

"is is easily the most dominant team in Arkansas history, in terms of sustained success and number of cham-pionships. Sports such as men’s basketball and football steal the headlines more of-ten than not, but at Arkansas, each of those programs only has one national title.

"e track and #eld pro-gram quietly goes about its business every year, and continues to produce strong teams and consistent champi-onships.

People remember champi-onships. As a kid, the signs of all the national titles track and #eld had won were all over the place. "is team has earned a lot of respect, and Saturday was just another notch in their already prestigious belt.

"is team will continue to be strong and dominant as the years pass. "ey are able to re-cruit some of the best athletes from across the world, and seem to be ranked No. 1 more

o%en than not. Dominance and consisten-

cy are always hard to maintain no matter the circumstances. Coaches and teams always strive for consistency, but the men’s track and #eld and cross country program has #gured out a formula for suc-cess. "e Hogs have displayed their dominance once again, reminding Razorback nation they are still a force to be reck-oned with.

Zack Wheeler is a writer for the Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Tues-day. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

Arkansas Track & Field Program Quietly Dominates

Zack WheelerSta! Writer

COMMENTARY

Photo Courtesy Water Ski ClubA member of the water ski club competes last year. !e water ski club practices at a private ski lake owned by a former club member called Cedar Creek Ski Park in Elkins.

TENNIS

In Arkansas’ 6-1 loss to Auburn Sunday a%ernoon at the Dills Indoor Tennis com-plex, the #nal match that took over two hours to complete proved to be the only bright spot for the Razorbacks.

It had been nearly half an hour since the last game had ended, and all the courts were empty except court four where Mike Nott faced o$ against Auburn opponent, Lucas Lopasso.

Both players had been go-ing for over two hours in the #nal game, and by their third set, the score was 40-30.

Teammates that had #n-ished long before lined the surrounding court, and the remaining fans all clapped to-gether as Nott served the ball a #nal time. It passed over the net and landed in the right

corner of Lopasso’s half, tak-ing its leave from the court with one bounce.

"e game was over and Nott had won the only match of the day for the Hogs.

“I’m real proud of Mike Nott staying in there and #ghting,” head coach Robert Cox said. “And a%er winning the only #rst set that we won, dropping the second and coming back and closing it out there at the end.”

"e day started out with three doubles matches, and all throughout the Hogs nev-er let Auburn, the No. 1 dou-bles team in the nation, pull too far ahead.

"e #nal scores were 6-8, 6-8, both in favor of Auburn, and a score of 8-8. Since the Tigers won two of the three games, they received the point for doubles matches.

“We played some really

Razorbacks Earn 1 Win in Loss to Tigers in AuburnBen EnyartSta! Writer

Addison Morgan Sta" PhotographerMike Nott serves the ball at the Arkansas v. Auburn match, Sunday, March 10 at the Indoor Tennis complex. Auburn defeated Arkansas 6-1.see LOSS page 8

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good, spirited doubles again, and obviously Auburn was very solid,” Cox said. “"ey sport the number one doubles team in the country. Mike and Manfred gave them ev-erything they wanted there.”

Going into singles trailing Auburn by the one point, the Hogs had Hall Fess, Victor Hoang, Manfred Jeske, Gre-goire Lehmann, Mike Ward and Nott out on the courts.

"e #rst round of sets had all losses to the Tigers except for Nott’s 6-3 victory. "ere were several strong perfor-mances, including Ward, who just barely lost by the

tiebreaker a%er matching his opponent 6-6, ending in a score of 6-7.

“I think it was a lot clos-er than the score indicates throughout the dual match, yet Auburn really stepped up at the end to close us out on some pretty good tight #rst sets,” Cox said.

Other notable perfor-mances in the #rst set were by Hoang, who went 5-7, and Jeske, who went on a 3-0 streak to close a large gap and managed to #nish the set out at 4-6.

"e second round of sets saw losses across the board

for the Hogs, so all that was le% to be played a%er that was Nott’s third set, in which he went on to win.

“We are very close,” Cox said. “I think we are very close to breaking through and getting a good SEC win, so we have got to take our act on the road and play A&M next Sunday.”

"e Hogs now have an overall record of 11-7, with a record of 0-4 in Southeastern Conference play.

"e Razorbacks next trav-el to College Station, Texas, this upcoming Sunday to face o$ against Texas A&M.

LOSS continued from page 7bye because they #nished in the top four of the confer-ence.

No. 13 Florida is the No. 1 seed in the SEC tournament, #nishing the season with a 14-4 conference record. Each of their four losses came on the road, including one at Bud Walton Arena against the Razorbacks.

"e other teams receiv-ing a double bye are Ole Miss and Alabama, the No. 3 and No. 4 seeds, respectively.

"e Rebels, Crimson Tide and Wildcats all #nished with 12-6 SEC records, but

Kentucky received the No. 2 seed by virtue of having the best record against the No. 1 seed, Florida. Ole Miss was awarded the No. 3 seed be-cause they defeated Alabama in their only regular season matchup.

"e #rst round of the tournament is Wednesday and it features two games. South Carolina and Missis-sippi State, the 12th and 13 seeds, respectively, will play, followed by Texas A&M and Auburn, the 11th and 14th seeds, respectively.

"e winner of the #rst

game will play #%h-seeded Tennessee and the winner of the second game will play sixth-seeded Missouri.

Georgia and LSU, the No. 8 and No. 9 seeds, respective-ly, will play in the other sec-ond round game "ursday.

"e quarter#nals are Fri-day, with the semi#nals Sat-urday and the championship game at noon Sunday on ABC.

Arkansas’ game against Vanderbilt is at 6:30 p.m. Fri-day. It will be televised on the SEC Network and streamed online on ESPN3.

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Mary McKay Sta" PhotographerAnthlon Bell defends the ball during the game against Texas A&M, Saturday, March 9 at Bud Walton Arena.