University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906 ursday, March 14, 2013 Vol. 107, No. 97 Today’s Forecast 67 / 40° Tomorrow Clear 76 /52° Fayetteville Farmers Market Returns in April e Fayetteville Farmers Market returns on April 6. Full Story, Page 3 Razorbacks Sweep Bulldogs in Midweek Series e Razorback baseball team completed a midweek series sweep of Alabama A&M University with victories on Tuesday and Wednesday. Full Story, Page 7 St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday, and to celebrate the pa- tron saint of Ireland, many Fayetteville bars will be oer- ing specials in commemoration. In fact, the Dickson Street business association will be oering a pub-crawl starting at Common Grounds at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. Registration is $5, and participants must collect stamps from Dickson’s nest drinking establishments. If you collect them all, you win a free pub crawl t-shirt. If you decide to strike out on your own on Sunday, the rst order of business should be a stop at Mickey Finn’s Irish Pub, Fayetteville’s only Irish pub. Farrell’s and Dickson Street Pub also oer a traditional pub scene. Powerhouse will have live music on the patio, weather permitting, starting at 7:00 p.m. As one of the great drinking holidays, however, all bars will be open and ready to serve you dyed green beer and Irish car bombs. Smoke and Barrel Tavern will be celebrating with DJ Shortfuze. For a nontraditional St. Patty’s Day, the Sheet Fort Experience, a project of Fayetteville’s Artist Labora- tory eatre, is throwing a holiday party for a $5 donation. Located at 612 West Center Street, the party will feature comedians Sam Letchworth and Jocelyn Morelli. is is probably the greatest sheet fort ever built, because there is even room for a beer and wine bar under the blankets. George’s Majestic Lounge will have the Trashcan Bandits on Sunday night for a St. Patrick’s Day party. For a more wholesome Irish-themed activity, there will be a parade at noon on Saturday on Dickson Street, with Irish music pre- ceding the event in front of the Fayetteville Towne Center at 11:00 a.m. George’s Majestic Lounge will be operating at a reduced concert schedule during spring break, but a precious few musical acts will still be on stage. Here Come the Mum- mies, a funk band that dress in mummy costumes, will play this ursday. e band members are all anonymous, and each mummy character has a short biography on the band’s website. If you want to get down and get weird, don’t miss out. Tickets are $25, and rumor has it that a few noteworthy musicians are beneath the cloth wraps. Friday night, Dirtfoot, Shreveport’s self-described Gypsy Punk Country Grumble Boogie band will be at George’s. e show starts at 9:00 p.m., and tickets are $8 in person. George’s will feature a Doors tribute show on Sat- urday night. e show starts at 9:00 p.m. with a $5 cover. ursday, Tahlequah-based roots rock band Meandering Orange will be playing with Carter Sampson. e cover is $6. Smoke and Barrel Tavern wont miss a beat during Spring Break. Friday, the bar is hosting DJ Bizar for his bon voyage party, and local favorite Swimming is playing on Saturday. e Friday during Spring Break, Austin rock band Not In e Face will be at Smoke and Barrel for a $3 cover. e following Saturday, the bar will host the delight- fully named Gypsy Lumberjacks. For classic rock fans, the Walton Arts Center will have a Queen tribute show, “One Night of Queen” with Gary Mullen and e Works. Tick- ets start at $25 for balcony seats. Randall Shreeve will be playing alongside a burlesque company at Rogue on Satur- day night for a $10 cover charge. For some Spring Break laughter, UARK Bowl will be hosting two comedians. On Friday, March 15th, Jason James, comic and writer for Kidd Kraddick’s radio show will be performing two sets. Tickets to both the 8:00 p.m. set and 10:30 p.m. set are $7. On Friday, March 22, Texas comedian Peter Berrera will be spitting jokes at 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. As always, UARK Bowl hosts an open-mic comedy night on ursdays. f you’re stuck in Fayetteville over Spring Break, don’t fret. With St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday, as well as several music acts and comedians coming to town, even the most mundane week in Fayetteville can seem like a day at the beach. ere will be pub crawls, and even comedy in a giant sheet fort. is Spring Break, make sure you aren’t locked on repeat mode like a Dropkick Murphys song in the month of March. Alex March StaWriter starts at Common Grounds 6:00 p.m. Sunday registration $5 It’s that time of year again: e layers of clothes are starting to come oslowly but surely in those snowbound north- ern cities; the rst buds of spring have arrived in the form of corals, bright yel- lows and bathing suits; guys and gals are just realizing that it’s time to put in some sweat and trade othat six-pack of Plati- nums for at least a four-pack of abs; and a slew of college students are “slabbing” to beaches of Mexico, the Caribbean and the Southern United States, turning them into twisted cesspools of sunburn, shots galore and waking up to “What’s your name? And how did I get here?” Ah, spring break. What started as a week of raunchy, uninhibited and reckless fun has to, at some point, come to an end. No good thing lasts forever, right? While the little bit of your liver and mind are still on the next round of body shots, sandy beaches and priceless moments that you wouldn’t even repeat to yourself, the reality of the matter is that the "burnout" is real. e mid-year academic burnout, that is. Talk about "What happens here stays here” — combating the aermath of spring break is no joke. Hangovers and tans are only the con- crete remains of spring break. And stu- dents may be tempted to continue their vacations into the rest of the school year. Returning from spring break is hard for faculty and students. Whether you use your break for relaxation or a week that’s turned all the way up, regaining momen- tum and putting your party wheels back on track are essentials for successfully completing the semester. And both fac- ulty and students must nurture the factor of motivation. ere are several things that can be done to combat the mid-year burnout. Charlotte Lee, director of the En- hanced Learning Center here at the UA, said her job is to help students who are looking to improve their academic standing in the limited amount of time they are given aer spring break up until the semester ends. “Students should develop a plan to do whatever it is they need to do to success- fully complete the semester,” Lee said. It’s so important for you to leave your bathing suits on the beach and approach the remainder of semester in your “Mon- day’s Best.” And by all means, don’t lit- erally leave your bathing suits on the beach. It’s always tough to for people to get back into the routine of attending class aer coming back from a vacation, but if you can at least go and continue the habit, that’s 80 percent of the battle and a good start. Here are a few ways that you can combat that mid-year burnout with just the fuel you may need to hold you over until summer: Re-gathering: Take a couple days be- fore spring break ends to rest up and re- adjust to the academic mindset. Follow your syllabus: Doing a little extra work never hurts. Take care of the post-spring-break work before the break. You will be less overwhelmed, and you won’t be in a tizzy over cramming for as- signments. Take advantage of resources: Tutoring and campus learning centers are only at your advantage so that you can success- fully get through the rest of the semester. Finally, take your lazy, hungover selves to class. at’s half the battle. Combating the Mid-Year Burnout Deanne Applewhite Contributing Writer
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University of Arkansas Student-Run Newspaper Since 1906!ursday, March 14, 2013 Vol. 107, No. 97
Today’s Forecast67 / 40°
TomorrowClear
76 /52°
Fayetteville Farmers Market Returns in April!e Fayetteville Farmers Market returns on April 6.
Full Story, Page 3
Razorbacks Sweep Bulldogs in Midweek Series!e Razorback baseball team completed a midweek series sweep of Alabama A&M University with victories on Tuesday and Wednesday.Full Story, Page 7
St. Patrick’s Day is this Sunday, and to celebrate the pa-tron saint of Ireland, many Fayetteville bars will be o"er-ing specials in commemoration. In fact, the Dickson Street business association will be o"ering a pub-crawl starting at Common Grounds at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. Registration is $5, and participants must collect stamps from Dickson’s #nest drinking establishments. If you collect them all, you win a free pub crawl t-shirt. If you decide to strike out on your own on Sunday, the #rst order of business should be a stop at Mickey Finn’s Irish Pub, Fayetteville’s only Irish pub. Farrell’s and Dickson Street Pub also o"er a traditional pub scene. Powerhouse will have live music on the patio, weather permitting, starting at 7:00 p.m. As one of the great drinking holidays, however, all bars will be open and ready to serve you dyed green beer and Irish car bombs.
Smoke and Barrel Tavern will be celebrating with DJ Shortfuze. For a nontraditional St. Patty’s Day, the Sheet Fort Experience, a project of Fayetteville’s Artist Labora-
tory !eatre, is throwing a holiday party for a $5 donation. Located at 612 West Center Street, the party will feature comedians Sam Letchworth and Jocelyn Morelli. !is is probably the greatest sheet fort ever built, because there is even room for a beer and wine bar under the blankets. George’s Majestic Lounge will have the Trashcan Bandits on Sunday night for a St. Patrick’s Day party. For a more wholesome Irish-themed activity, there will be a parade at noon on Saturday on Dickson Street, with Irish music pre-ceding the event in front of the Fayetteville Towne Center at 11:00 a.m.
George’s Majestic Lounge will be operating at a reduced concert schedule during spring break, but a precious few musical acts will still be on stage. Here Come the Mum-mies, a funk band that dress in mummy costumes, will play this !ursday. !e band members are all anonymous, and each mummy character has a short biography on the
band’s website. If you want to get down and get weird, don’t miss out. Tickets are $25, and rumor has it that a few noteworthy musicians are beneath the cloth wraps.
Friday night, Dirtfoot, Shreveport’s self-described Gypsy Punk Country Grumble Boogie band will be at George’s. !e show starts at 9:00 p.m., and tickets are $8 in person. George’s will feature a Doors tribute show on Sat-urday night. !e show starts at 9:00 p.m. with a $5 cover. !ursday, Tahlequah-based roots rock band Meandering Orange will be playing with Carter Sampson. !e cover is $6.
Smoke and Barrel Tavern wont miss a beat during Spring Break. Friday, the bar is hosting DJ Bizar for his bon voyage party, and local favorite Swimming is playing on Saturday. !e Friday during Spring Break, Austin rock band Not In !e Face will be at Smoke and Barrel for a $3 cover. !e following Saturday, the bar will host the delight-fully named Gypsy Lumberjacks. For classic rock fans, the Walton Arts Center will have a Queen tribute show, “One Night of Queen” with Gary Mullen and !e Works. Tick-ets start at $25 for balcony seats. Randall Shreeve will be playing alongside a burlesque company at Rogue on Satur-day night for a $10 cover charge.
For some Spring Break laughter, UARK Bowl will be hosting two comedians. On Friday, March 15th, Jason James, comic and writer for Kidd Kraddick’s radio show will be performing two sets. Tickets to both the 8:00 p.m. set and 10:30 p.m. set are $7. On Friday, March 22, Texas comedian Peter Berrera will be spitting jokes at 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. As always, UARK Bowl hosts an open-mic comedy night on !ursdays.
f you’re stuck in Fayetteville over Spring Break, don’t fret. With St. Patrick’s Day on Sunday, as well as several music acts and comedians coming to town, even the most mundane week in Fayetteville can seem like a day at the beach. !ere will be pub crawls, and even comedy in a giant sheet fort. !is Spring Break, make sure you aren’t locked on
repeat mode like a Dropkick Murphys song in the month of March.
Alex MarchSta! Writer
starts at Common Grounds 6:00 p.m. Sundayregistration $5
It’s that time of year again: !e layers of clothes are starting to come o" slowly but surely in those snowbound north-ern cities; the #rst buds of spring have arrived in the form of corals, bright yel-lows and bathing suits; guys and gals are just realizing that it’s time to put in some sweat and trade o" that six-pack of Plati-nums for at least a four-pack of abs; and a slew of college students are “slabbing” to beaches of Mexico, the Caribbean and the Southern United States, turning them into twisted cesspools of sunburn, shots galore and waking up to “What’s your name? And how did I get here?” Ah, spring break.
What started as a week of raunchy, uninhibited and reckless fun has to, at some point, come to an end. No good thing lasts forever, right? While the little bit of your liver and mind are still on the next round of body shots, sandy beaches and priceless moments that you wouldn’t even repeat to yourself, the reality of the matter is that the "burnout" is real. !e
mid-year academic burnout, that is. Talk about "What happens here stays here” — combating the a$ermath of spring break is no joke.
Hangovers and tans are only the con-crete remains of spring break. And stu-dents may be tempted to continue their vacations into the rest of the school year. Returning from spring break is hard for faculty and students. Whether you use your break for relaxation or a week that’s turned all the way up, regaining momen-tum and putting your party wheels back on track are essentials for successfully completing the semester. And both fac-ulty and students must nurture the factor of motivation.
!ere are several things that can be done to combat the mid-year burnout.
Charlotte Lee, director of the En-hanced Learning Center here at the UA, said her job is to help students who are looking to improve their academic standing in the limited amount of time they are given a$er spring break up until the semester ends.
“Students should develop a plan to do whatever it is they need to do to success-fully complete the semester,” Lee said.
It’s so important for you to leave your bathing suits on the beach and approach the remainder of semester in your “Mon-day’s Best.” And by all means, don’t lit-erally leave your bathing suits on the beach. It’s always tough to for people to get back into the routine of attending class a$er coming back from a vacation, but if you can at least go and continue the habit, that’s 80 percent of the battle and a good start. Here are a few ways that you can combat that mid-year burnout with just the fuel you may need to hold you over until summer:
Re-gathering: Take a couple days be-fore spring break ends to rest up and re-adjust to the academic mindset.
Follow your syllabus: Doing a little extra work never hurts. Take care of the post-spring-break work before the break. You will be less overwhelmed, and you won’t be in a tizzy over cramming for as-signments.
Take advantage of resources: Tutoring and campus learning centers are only at your advantage so that you can success-fully get through the rest of the semester.
Finally, take your lazy, hungover selves to class. !at’s half the battle.
Combating the Mid-Year BurnoutDeanne ApplewhiteContributing Writer
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!e Dream B.I.G. orga-nization, part of the UA’s Al-ternative Service Breaks, has a lot to look forward to this upcoming spring break, said Amanda Finch, program co-ordinator of Dream B.I.G.
!e organization’s Ar-kansas Delta group has 30 UA students participating as mentors for 45 teenage girls grades 6-12.
!e mentors traveled to Phillips County in the Arkan-sas Delta during their fall and winter breaks to meet and interact with the girls at Mar-vell Elaine High School.
During spring break, the 45 girls will travel to Fay-etteville and camp at Mount Sequoyah to participate in ac-tivities and games.
!is year’s theme is “Dream Big Galaxy,” in which the past represents the big bang theory, the present rep-resents the Apollo spaceship and the future represents “to in"nity and beyond.”
Fundraising for the event took place at the UA when students with meal plans had the chance to swap a meal in order to donate money to the organization.
!e percentage of meals given up and money raised is used for the cost of program-ming in activities, including campus days, a day at the Boys and Girls Club, and a fashion show at the end of the week.
Mentors help kids par-ticipate in song- and dance-welcoming, relationship-building, self-esteem, con"dence-building, goal-setting, and exploring higher education. Outdoor activi-
ties are imminent, scavenger hunts are undoubtful and Ra-zorback tradition is unques-tionable.
!e camping trip will take place March 18-22 at Mount Sequoyah in Fayetteville.
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Spring break for UA stu-dents begins March 18. The Pat Walker Health Center wants students to be armed with information and tips on being cautious, safe and healthy during their week away from campus.
For students who are va-cationing for spring break, the Health Center advised preparation. Those who live off campus should prepare their homes by taking these steps: Stop both your news-paper and mail delivery, lock all doors and windows, shut off all lights and electronics that do not need to be left on, and make sure that any pets have reliable care.
Students who live on campus should also follow
these checklists for their residence hall rooms and have everything that will be needed for the break before leaving.
“We want everyone to have a good time and en-
joy themselves, but all stu-dents need to be conscious and think about what is best individually,” said Su-
san Rausch, health educator and representative of the Pat Walker Health Center.
Health issues that many students do not think about that sneak up during break include sunburn, food poi-soning and exhaustion.
Rausch’s tip for staying away from these issues in-clude “staying true to what you’re used to” and “not tak-ing chances in another place you wouldn’t take here (in Fayetteville).”
Just like any time students are in town, the health cen-ter wants students to stay in groups, relax and always be sure that they know where they are going.
“Make sure you take care of yourself,” Rausch said. “Stay safe and enjoy sur-rounding yourself with a new environment while tak-ing a break from your stud-ies to come back refreshed.”
Tips for a Safe, Fun Spring Break
Stephanie CarlsonContributing Writer
!e Fayetteville Farmers Market returns to Fayetteville on April 6 with enough rea-son to not only eat healthier, but be assured that what is being eaten is organic and grown by the sellers them-selves.
!e Fayetteville Farmers Market was established in 1973 as an economic develop-ment project to give low-in-come residents of northwest Arkansas an opportunity to produce additional means of income, said Lori Boatright, president of the Fayetteville Farmers Market.
In recent years, the mar-
ket has grown to be one of the largest and most popular farmers markets in the coun-try, being awarded the title of “America’s Favorite Large Farmers Market” in 2012.
“In our 40th season, we hope to keep the spirit of the market alive by opening addi-tional opportunities to more vendors as well as providing a community event that brings out people from all walks of life,” Boatright said.
!e Fayetteville Farmers Market is a grower/producer-only market, meaning that if farmers do not grow or make their food in the four north-west Arkansas counties, then they are not able to sell it.
!e seasons of growing are long and diverse.
During early spring, buy-
ers will "nd local meats, eggs, baked goods, and arts and cra#s. Also available are greens, salad greens, root vegetables and fresh herbs. Plants are also provided for spring planting.
Buying local food ensures a longer shelf life because there is less time spent being shipped; this stretches food budgets by eliminating the amount of waste.
“Buying local foods from the Farmers Market not only gives you the bene"ts of lo-cal, nutritious food, but every dollar spent at the market remains in our community,” Boatright said.
Times, dates and locations of the market can be found on the Fayetteville Farmers Market website.
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“Stay safe and enjoy surrounding yourself with a new environment while taking a break from your studies to come back refreshed.”
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Traveler Archive PhotoFayetteville residents shop local at the weekend Farmer’s Market in the 2012 season. !e 2013 Farmer’s Market will reopen for business at the Fayetteville Square in April.
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Traveler Quote of the Day“We want everyone to have a good time and enjoy themselves, but all students need to be conscious and think about
what is best individually.”Dr. Susan Rausch, health educator and
representative of the Pat Walker Health Center“Tips for Students to have a Safe Spring Break” Page 3
It’s Spring Break for a Reason
Nearly 8 million Ameri-cans go to work every day yet still live below the poverty line. !at is in part because the fed-eral minimum wage is too low.
Currently, an individual with a full-time job at the minimum wage and a fam-ily of three will fall below the poverty line. Despite putting in regular hours, workers are struggling to provide necessi-ties for their families. Allowing minimum wage to remain at an unlivable level, we deemed jobs not worthy enough to meet even our country’s mini-mum standard of living.
How have we kept wages so low without social discord? By using tax revenue and a complicated government bu-reaucracy to subsidize low-wage employers and supple-ment minimum-wage salaries. Rather than "rms paying a worker’s true cost and cus-tomers paying an appropriate price for services provided, the government provides work-ers with “income transfers” to help them meet basic needs. !ese include programs like the earned income tax credit, food stamps and Medicaid.
!ese government sup-ports mask a job’s true value and set an arti"cially low wage. !ey also represent ine#cien-cy. Raising the minimum wage means the income required
for basic needs is delivered in a one-step paycheck from "rm to worker, rather than requir-ing additional government ex-penditures.
Beyond e#ciency, there is also human dignity. !ink about it: A$er a day on the clock, you come home know-ing despite your hard work, you can’t feed your family, cover their insurance or pay rent without government sup-port. What message does that send about the dignity of your work? Low wages push work-ers into shadow labor markets where they get paid under the table and evade tax responsi-bilities. Arti"cially low wages teach workers that their work is not valuable _ a disastrous policy outcome.
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama called for raising the mini-mum wage to $9 an hour. !at would be a start toward restor-ing dignity and value to low-wage work. But it isn’t enough. We propose raising the mini-mum wage, in stages, to $12.50 an hour, an amount that would allow an individual supporting a family of three to live mod-estly, at about 138 percent of the federal poverty line. !at level o%ers workers a way to escape poverty, a chance to feed their families, buy basic medical insurance and live in secure housing without sig-ni"cant government support.
!e most common objec-tion to raising the minimum
wage is that it destroys jobs. But a slew of recent studies have pointed out that although raising the minimum wage does increase earnings and reduce poverty, it has a lim-ited, almost negligible, e%ect on employment. Studies have also illustrated that restoring the dignity of work through higher wages reduces worker turnover and increases pro-ductivity.
Some make the overstated claim that increasing the mini-mum wage would accelerate companies’ o%-shoring of jobs. But most low-wage jobs today are geographically "xed, or as economists call them, “non-tradable.” A janitor or home-care worker’s job, for example, can’t be outsourced to China.
What is sometimes under-stated is the likelihood of low-wage jobs being automated, a real and growing threat. But if a small growth in the mini-mum wage is enough to move an industry to automation, it is likely that automation was coming in short order any-way. Technological progress is inevitable and further auto-mation unavoidable. If raising the minimum wage leads to productivity gains through in-vestment in automation, so be it. In the meantime, we need to reward American workers for their e%orts.
Some argue that raising the minimum wage o%ers bene"ts to those who may not need them. !is argument is also
&awed. !e Economic Policy Institute’s latest analysis shows that most low-wage workers live in low-wage households, and 84 percent of the workers in low-wage jobs are at least 20 years old. But, regardless of age or need, anyone who shows up to work and puts in hard hours deserves a wage that keeps him or her out of poverty.
Finally, critics of raising the minimum wage o$en suggest raising the earned income tax credit instead. But that would simply perpetuate the cycle of devaluing work. It also takes money out of the pockets of taxpayers rather than from the businesses that bene"t from the credit, creating, in e%ect, a federal subsidy for low-wage employers. A higher mini-mum wage would help ensure that the earned income tax credit works more e%ectively and e#ciently.
Raising the minimum wage is about reducing inequality, but it is also about restoring the true value of work. Every American’s hard work should be rewarded.
Andy Stern is a senior fellow at Columbia University’s Rich-man Center and former presi-dent of the Service Employees International Union. Carl Camden is president and CEO of Kelly Services and co-chair-man of the board of trustees of the Committee for Economic Development. !ey wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.
Why We Need to Raise the Minimum Wage
!e idea of spring break has yet to hit me. A full week to myself. A week of swim-ming in the ocean, dabbling on the golf course and tossing a disc on the white sands of Destin sounds too good to be true. And it very likely is. You see, I am in middle of writing a thesis.
While my body will be taking the necessary break from academics, lounging on the warm, southern coastal waters, my mind will be de-veloping a hopefully success-ful argument as to why it is important to analyze content from various news publica-tions.
It’s not at all a project I want to be working on during this week long holiday, but like too many students, in or out of class, some things just have to get done.
Spring break is my double-edged sword. It’s the calm be-fore the storm. It’s the poison-ous apple of my eye.
I have one full, beautiful, sunny week of joy followed by eight weeks of stormy chaos. I either tarnish this perfect week with my large journal-ism and thesis projects, or I leave for Destin “accidental-ly” leaving my laptop at home and pray the good Lord gives me extra time in the second half of the semester to "nish everything.
!is is the contradiction. You can work during the last class break before the plunge into the end of the year. Or you can fully relax, and rather than plunging into a shallow, calm, refreshing swimming pool, you plunge into a frozen whirlpool of massive projects, theses and "nals.
Trolling for jobs or in-
ternships, reading recently released novels and planning for the summer are more ca-sual ways to spend spring break while still getting work done, wrote USA Today’s col-legiate correspondent John McAuli%. !ese small and fun activities knock o% tasks that may nag you later in the semester.
However, the Monday af-ter break, would I rather be waiting to hear from potential internships, or would I rather be sitting on a completed the-sis?
Balancing work and a fun week is crucial, and too many students are unaware of the fact that a full break or a full week of work can be detrimental in the long run. A week of fun leaves students underprepared for the tests and "nals ahead. It creates opportunities for failure. Students get trapped in the spring break, end-of-the-year mindset, and grades will re&ect the rapid shi$ in lifestyle. On the other hand, a week of work, while over 1 million college students head to various vacation destina-tions across the country, can be depressing. !e workload keeps a constant amount of stress through the break that will only increase as the se-mester continues and "nals approach.
While I say balance, my spring-break approach will not be even remotely close to an even split between work and fun. A$er all, this is my last spring break ever. I plan on using my extensive 20 hours in the car and early mornings to be dedicated purely to school. From noon until late evenings, my mind will be sprawled along the beach with my burnt body. I will sleep with vacation on my mind. I will wake with night-mares of work, then hop to.
I recommend you do the same. Find the split, set a ba-sic schedule and ensure you don’t neglect student duties while sleeping in the sand.
Joe DelNero is a senior journalism major and the opinion editor of the Arkansas Traveler.
Balancing My White Sand Study DESTINation
!e countdown is almost up — just a few days separate UA students from the week long hiatus of spring break.
Spring break is a much-anticipated respite for stu-dents struggling through the semester. Many students have the dates marked down even before they sign up for spring classes.
Some students have elabo-rate travel plans with desti-nations ranging everywhere from shark-ridden waters o% the coast of Florida to couch-sur"ng in Finland to building a cafeteria in a Belizean village. Of course, others opt to stay local.
No matter the plans, stu-dents are getting antsy for some time o%.
However, some students are using their break time to catch up on classes instead
of using their break to relax. Worse yet, other students have to spend their time o% study-ing for classes.
When students spend their time doing school work, they’re missing the point of break.
Students need to take an actual break. !ey need a chance to pretend they’ve nev-er heard of Blackboard. !ey need to stop worrying about deadlines and forget that GPAs even exist.
During break, you shouldn’t need to worry about anything remotely school-related. It should be a time to focus on relaxing.
Students have been work-ing on a solid nine-straight weeks of classes, with hardly any breaks to speak of. School work has been coming hard and fast and hasn’t let up yet.
A$er spring break, stu-dents will come back in a "nal, steady drive to end the se-mester. !ere aren’t any other days o% built in. Unless we get an extreme April snowstorm, spring break is it.
With so few breaks scat-tered throughout the semes-ter, spring break is especially important. Students need the time o% to step back and re-group.
Weekends can only do so much. Between studying and
homework, activities and so-cial events, it can be di#cult to "nd the time to relax.
It is much harder to "nd the strength to stay motivated when you’ve been working for too long, so it’s important to get your mind o% school. !ough slightly counterin-tuitive, taking a break actually helps long-term focus.
Without a break, students get worn out. !ey get tired and sick of school work, and they lose the motivation nec-essary to "nish the school year. As soon as your motivation goes, your school work is go-ing to take a hit. You cannot coast by without putting in at least a little bit of e%ort.
Former NASA scientists found workers had an 82 per-cent increase in job perfor-mance a$er returning from vacation, according to Bloom-berg Businessweek. However, “micro-vacations — taking two or three days o% — do not deliver the same stress-reduc-tion bene"ts as vacations that last one and two weeks.”
Aaron Lynn, co-founder of the time-management website, Asian E#ciency, advocates taking a seven-day break every year. “If you want a productive year ahead, taking this once-a-year extended downtime is essential,” Lynn said. “You’ll come back refreshed and ready
to take on another year of fo-cused productivity.”
Lynn gave two guidelines for downtime: Do something di%erent from what you nor-mally do, and aim for an activ-ity you "nd relaxing.
Perhaps it’s not always pos-sible to take the full weeklong break. Some things are un-avoidable. You can’t do much about deadlines, due dates and tests the Monday a$er spring break, aside from leaving a less-than-appreciative com-ment on a professor evaluation at the end of the semester.
No matter how much you have to do, try to set aside a day or two for yourself at the very least. Come May, you’ll be thanking yourself.
So, read that book you’ve been hearing about, get caught up on “How I Met Your Moth-er” and sleep until noon. May-be even make a Hobby Lobby run and work in some cra$ing. Whatever it is, make sure it’s something that you want to do.
Waste some time this break. Not only will you ben-e"t now, but further down the line as well. It’s a win-win situ-ation.
Shawnya Wethington is a sophomore journalism and English major and marketing minor, and a sta" columnist for the Arkansas Traveler.
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For some bands, the deciding on a band name is a lengthy process. For the Delta Bends, a Fayetteville rock group, the name sprang up a!er a long night of drinking.
Garrett Parker, the band’s bassist, had drunk most of a bottle of gin and was spitting band names out of his head when he came up with the name.
Landing the band’s "rst show was a simi-lar sort of #uke. Last year, Patton Hughes, the band’s guitarist, received a desperate call from Rogue needing an opener for $e Swoops. $e Delta Bends hadn’t been playing together for long, but decided to go through with the show anyway.
Despite the casual beginning, the Delta Bends are serious about their music. Along with Hughes and Parker, the Delta Bends feature Alex Burns on drums and Jared Heiles on guitar and vocals. Burns, Hughes and Parker are all current UA students, and Heiles is living in Memphis while attending pharmacy school. $e project began when Burns brought a drum set to Fay-etteville from his parents’ house in Jonesboro. He told Hughes to come over to start jamming, and they kept adding instruments.
$e Delta Bends began playing shows at lo-
cal bars, in Jonesboro at a barbecue festival and in Forrest City. Burns said that the band tries to "t in practicing a!er school commitments. $ey prepare for shows, but sometimes their busy lives get in the way, especially now that Heiles is six hours away in Memphis.
Hughes has a list of weekends that Heiles has free for shows. Hughes said the band usually "nds a way to work everything out. Even when things seem rough, all the guys in the band have a deep-seated love of what they do.
“$e show we were least prepared for has probably been my favorite,” Hughes said.
$e band cites a wide array of musical in#u-ences, beginning with Pearl Jam, Springsteen, Neil Young and Kings of Leon. $ey started out playing covers, but the jam sessions com-bined with songwriting, and soon, the band had original material. $e band played mostly cover songs at its earlier shows, but they soon became bored with playing someone else’s songs.
Parker said one of the obstacles the band faced is that crowds in Fayetteville didn’t seem to have much of an appetite for the band’s origi-nal songs. He said there’s a careful balance, and a great deal of thought goes into each set list. Preparing the set lists is one of Hughes’ favorite parts of shows. He said each show needs a #ow, with highs and lows of emotion and energy. $e audience at last month’s show at Z330 saw just how dynamic the band could be.
With a handful of shows both in Fayetteville and in eastern Arkansas, along with the origi-nal songs, the logical next step for the band was to cut an album. Eight hours a day for "ve days over winter break, the Delta Bends recorded at East Hall Recording in Fayetteville. Hughes said the band recorded nine songs in the old-school analog method. All members of the band were present in one room, and songs were recorded on actual tapes instead of being pieced together with separate tracks.
“You try to be as perfect as possible, but we ended up hating ourselves,” Hughes said. “You never realize how bad you suck until you hear yourself on tape.”
$e band is currently waiting for East Hall to "nish mixing their unnamed album, and Hughes hopes it will be out in April. $e band is still trying to decide on artwork for the al-bum, but the current favorite is an old picture of Hughes’ mother smoking a cigarette.
As for what’s next, the band is eager to start selling their new record. $e band already has a page on Soundcloud with unmixed tracks, along with a Facebook page and a Twitter handle, @thedeltabends. Hughes said he wants music in the hands and ears of as many people as possible.
“If there’s one thing the Walton College has taught me, it’s that word of mouth is everything,” Hughes said.
Although now all upperclassmen or gradu-ated, the idea of the band hitting it big still lin-gers. Finishing school is important, but all of the band members said they would rather be jam-ming out than sitting in class.
“If someone called me up and said, ‘Drop ev-erything and go on tour,’ I’d do it in a heartbeat,” Hughes said.
Alex MarchSta! Writer
Can’t a%ord a trip to the beach? No problem. $ere are plenty of relatively inexpensive things to do within an hour of Fayetteville over spring break.
Located just o% campus, the Clinton House Museum is a fun choice within walking distance of campus.
See where Bill and Hillary Clinton "rst lived a!er getting married. $e house is "lled with memorabilia from Clinton’s various political cam-paigns, as well as other interesting pieces of Clin-ton paraphernalia.
$e Clinton House Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Ad-mission is $8.
A scant 20 minutes north of Fayetteville, Crys-tal Bridges is quickly becoming a must-see desti-nation for American art. And for nothing more than the price of gas, you may go wander the grounds of the museum over spring break.
$e museum will have di%erent free activities every day during spring break.
On Monday, visitors may drop in and do sev-eral activities, including a class exploring design with natural material from 1-4 p.m.
On Wednesday at noon, the museum will have a drop-in class in which visitors will make home-made paper.
On $ursday and Friday from 1-4 p.m., for those who like to perform there, will be an improv class $ursday, and on Friday visitors may make and perform with puppets.
$ese are just a few of the highlights from the week. For more information, visit www.crystal-bridges.org and click “spring break special” on the main page.
If looking at art doesn’t sound like fun, maybe exploring Arkansas’ aviation history does.
$e Arkansas Air Museum is located in south Fayetteville just before reaching Greenland. $e museum is located in an old hangar and houses decades of aircra! odds and ends, including every-thing from "ghter pilot helmets to "ghter planes.
$e Air Museum hours of operation are Mon-day through Friday, Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Admission is $10.
If the other options are too tame, a safari might
just do the trick.About 45 minutes west of Fayetteville in the
town of Gentry is the Wild Wilderness Drive $rough Safari, formerly known as the Gentry Zoo.
Driving through the zoo patrons will see a variety of di%erent animals. $e zoo has a hippo, zebras, kangaroos, monkeys and even a rhino, as well as many other types of animals.
$e zoo also has a petting portion where guests may interact with some of the cuddlier animals.
While the zoo does open daily at 9 a.m., they recommend that visitors come between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. when animals are more ac-tive.
For more information about the types of ani-mals in the zoo and directions on locating the zoo, visit their website at www.wildwildernessdrive-throughsafari.com.
And if animals aren’t enough to warrant a visit, Gentry also has a Little Debbie snack cake factory and outlet store.
$e bakery store o%ers discounted snack cakes and is located on the corner of Highway 59 and Main Street in Gentry.
$e store is closed Friday a!ernoon through Monday morning.
Don’t want to drive through the zoo? $en visit Turpentine Creek Wildlife Refuge in Eureka Springs.
Located 45 minutes north of Fayetteville, Tur-pentine Creek houses many exotic animals that have been rescued from owners who couldn’t properly care for their animals.
Turpentine Creek deals primarily in big cats, but has other animals on site as well.
Turpentine creek has lions, and tigers and bears, as well as monkeys and other large cats.
$e sta% recommends that you visit around 4 in the a!ernoon to watch the big cats feed, as this simulates their natural hunting habits and lets guests see the big cats closest to their natural state.
It is $15 for an all-day pass to Turpentine Creek. $ere is also on-site lodging for those who wish to stay near the big cats.
If none of the above sounds appealing, there’s always one of the numerous state parks that house miles of trails and beautiful scenery the Natural State has to o%er.
If unsure of which park sounds best, visit www.arkansasstateparks.com and "nd the park that does.
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!e No. 17 Arkansas men’s golf team won the General Hackler Invitational at TPC of Myrtle Beach, S.C., Tuesday.
!e Razorbacks were led by junior Sebastian Cappelen and sophomore !omas Sorensen.
Not only did the Hogs win as a team, "ve players placed in the top 17 individually as well.
“We had a tough second round yesterday, but I am proud of the way the guys grinded out the win,” head coach Brad McMakin said. “When you have "ve players "nish among the top 17 in any tournament, good things are going to happen. Our goal is to get better every tournament
and I think that our team did that over the last two days.”
While Cappelen and So-rensen led the team a#er 54 holes, senior Austin Cook posted Arkansas’ lowest score of the day with a two-under par, 70.
!e round allowed him to move up "ve spots on the in-dividual leaderboard into 11th as the Jonesboro, Ark., na-tive stayed consistent with his three birdies along with a lone bogey.
Cook played the front nine at 2-under par and the back at even par.
A round of even par kept Cappelen right where he was in the individual standings a#er the "nal round. He got o$ to a hot start for Arkansas
Arkansas Wins Invitational, 5 Hogs in Top 20 Zack WheelerSta! Writer
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Sports Editor: Kristen CoppolaAssistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle
Fans of the Arkansas State Red Wolves have been itching to play the Razorbacks since they were still Indians. !is has been — and will probably con-tinue to be — a great debate in Arkansas.
However, some representa-tives from the Arkansas legis-lature are trying to take a legal approach to this debate.
Rep. Harold Copenhaver (D-Jonesboro) and Rep. Andy Mayberry (R-East End) have a bill they would like to put forth for a vote that would mandate both schools to meet in a ben-e"t game, with at least $250,000 in proceeds going to a charity chosen by the voters.
!ey have a website for those interested to vote, ar-kansasasubene"t.com, and as of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, 8267 votes had been cast and 55.5 percent were in favor of the bene"t game.
!ere were 5531 votes on which group should receive the proceeds, and 71.6 percent
of votes went to the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
Other institutions on the poll are the Arkansas Veteran’s Home (13.7 percent), War Me-morial Stadium (7.1 percent), the Little Rock Zoo (6.2 per-cent) and Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame (1.5 percent).
Voting ends midnight Sat-urday, according to the site.
According to House Bill 2274, “the athletic adminis-tration of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville and the Arkansas State University at Jonesboro shall cause their respective NCAA varsity foot-ball teams to play each other... in one regular season football game at War Memorial Sta-dium.”
I have a very big problem
with this bill, and it has a lot to do with my views of sports.
Please don’t misunderstand; I support charities o#en. I think charities are important and people should put aside money for philanthropies and good causes.
But I don’t think the Arkan-sas Legislature should have any say on sports.
Surely, the elected o%cials could try to pass legislation to "x the Arkansas Academic Challenge Scholarship rather than decrease it.
Surely, they could increase the funds they provide to state universities so that tuition didn’t have to increase each year.
But alas, they would rather put their leg-work into a foot-
ball game. Football is one of my great-
est joys, and it is a wonderful thing that a charity could ben-e"t from sports. However, I think the match-up should be in the hands of the respective institutions.
Each athletic department should be in charge of its own schedule. If the programs de-cide that it would be mutually bene"cial to play a regular sea-son football game, then by all means, let it happens.
!is should not be some-thing le# to legislators, who do not think in terms of boosting the status of athletic programs.
What good would it do for the Razorbacks to rout the Red Wolves the way they routed the Missouri State Bears in 2011?
And in the reverse, what good would it do for the Red Wolves to pull o$ a fourth quarter up-set like ULM did to Arkansas in 2012?
It would be a shining win on Arkansas State’s record, but they are still in the Sun Belt Conference, and they cannot hope to greatly improve their program without changing conferences.
Stop the madness, Arkansas Legislature. Leave the football up to the institutions and get back to passing laws that would improve the state.
Kristen Coppola is the sports editor for the Arkansas Trav-eler. Her column appears every !ursday. Follow the sports sec-tion on Twitter @UATravSports.
Arkansas-ASU Bene"t Not Entirely Bene"cial to State
BASEBALL
!e Razorback baseball team completed a midweek series sweep of Alabama A&M University with a 20-2 victory Tuesday followed by a 13-0 win Wednesday.
Le#-handed freshman Co-lin Poche got the start Tues-day, but was pulled a#er 1.2 innings during which he al-lowed one run on three hits and three walks, leading to an early Arkansas de"cit.
Reliever Brandon Moore replaced Poche and put in two perfect innings, striking out four. Junior !omas Altimont earned the win for 2.1 innings of work during which he al-lowed only one hit and one run.
Landon Simpson closed out the game, pitching the "-nal three innings and striking out "ve.
Six players recorded mul-tiple hits including Jordan Farris, Willie Schwanke, Brian Anderson, Jacob Mahan, Jor-dan Farris, but the star of the game o$ensively was fresh-man Isaac Hellbusch.
Hellbusch recorded two hits in the fourth inning, one of them his "rst home run as a Razorback, and posted "ve RBIs.
Junior Dominic Ficociello played at Baum Stadium for the "rst time this season and went 1-for-5 with three RBIs.
Redshirt freshman Ty-ler Spoon’s 16-game hitting streak came to an end even though he reached base twice
on walks and drove in three runs.
Sophomore Chris Oliver took the mound to start the game for Arkansas Wednes-day. He went three innings, allowed one hit, no walks and recorded "ve strikeouts.
Senior Tyler Wright re-lieved Oliver and did not allow a baserunner in two innings,
recording two strikeouts.Colby Suggs pitched the
next 1.1 innings and allowed one hit and one walk while re-cording three strikeouts. Mi-chael Gunn entered the game and recorded a strikeout and a pop-up before being replaced by Jalen Beeks with two outs.
Beeks recorded a strikeout to end the inning. He then
struck out the "rst batter in the top of the ninth before be-ing replaced by Barrett Astin, who retired the next two bat-ters to end the game.
!e Razorbacks combined for 18 hits Wednesday, includ-ing a season-high six extra base hits.
Brian Anderson recorded four hits while Joe Serrano,
Gunn, Michael Vinson and Jake Wise each had two.
Gunn, Anderson, Vinson and Eric Fisher each drove in two runs.
!e Razorbacks return to the diamond this weekend to open Southeastern Confer-ence play against the Ole Miss Rebels. First pitch is set for 6:35 p.m. Friday.
Addison Morgan Sta# PhotographerBrian Anderson takes a swing at the Arkansas v. Alabama A&M baseball game, Wednesday, March 13, at Baum Stadium.
TENNIS
A#er a pair of losses at home to Alabama and Au-burn, the Razorback men’s tennis team will travel to Col-lege Station, Texas, to take on Texas A&M Sunday.
Arkansas has yet to earn a Southeastern Conference vic-tory in the spring season and has a 11-7 overall record.
Texas A&M is ranked No. 11 in the nation going into their next matches before tak-ing on the Razorbacks Sun-day. Virginia, the top-ranked, undefeated team, will play the Aggies Wednesday.
!e Aggies also have earned a record in the SEC, going 12-5, 3-1. Prior to the Virginia and Arkansas match-es, Texas A&M maintained a winning streak of three games, including two wins over No. 19 Vanderbilt and No. 5 Kentucky.
While Arkansas has no top-100 players, Texas A&M boasts a few. Coming in at No. 77, a freshman, Shane Vin-sant, dropped only one SEC match of four, and has a re-cord of 12-4.
Texas A&M’s Jeremy E$er-ding is ranked No. 52. E$erd-ing will be riding a high this week of play a#er defeating two top-50 players last week-
Hogs Aim for Wins Over Spring Break
see BREAK page 8
Tamzen TumlisonSenior Sta! Writer
GOLF
COMMENTARY
Kristen CoppolaSports Editor
Photo Courtesy Athletic Media RelationsRazorback golfers pose with the trophy at the General Hackler Invitational at TPC in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Tues-day. !e Razorbacks won the invitational, and "ve players "nished in the top 17 individually. see TOP page 8
A#er sweeping the week-end series against San Diego State, Arkansas next faces a sti$ challenge this weekend against No. 8 Mississippi in a three-game series kicking o$ Southeastern Conference play. !e talented Rebels will look to steal a few early SEC road wins at Baum Stadium.
Ole Miss was picked to "nish fourth in the SEC West in the SEC Coach-es Preseason Poll, and have looked among the league’s best by post-ing a 17-1 record to start the season.
Arkansas has worked their way back to being ranked No. 15 in the USA Today coaches poll, a#er winning "ve in a row to increase their record to 12-5.
At the plate, the Rebels are led by catcher Stuart Turner, whose .483 batting average is good for fourth best in the country. Turner also leads the NCAA with 28 RBIs.
Expect Turner as well as other Ole Miss batters to be ag-
gres-sive at t h e plate against an Arkansas’ pitching sta$ that strikes out nearly three times as many batters as it walks.
!e pitching sta$ contin-ued to impress last weekend
against San Diego State, as starters Randall Fant, Trey Killian and Colin Poche all started and all allowed zero runs against the Az-tecs.
Killian was named SEC Freshman of the Week for his
performance, pitching seven in-
nings of no-hit baseball and striking out seven en
route to an 8-2 win in the "rst game of the doubleheader last Saturday.
Killian will start the con-ference opener Friday, fol-lowed by Fant Saturday and Ryne Stanek Sunday.
Arkansas hitters had an easy day at the plate Tues-day against Alabama A&M, walking 19 times against an
overwhelmed A&M pitching sta$. Arkansas walked their way to a 20-2 victory, and will hope to show the same type of patience and stabil-
ity at the plate going into the weekend series against Ole Miss.
Freshman Isaac Hell-busch hit a two-run home run and tallied "ve RBIs in only his second start against Alabama A&M.
Tyler Spoon played well de-
spite seeing his 16-game hitting streak end Tuesday.
I n f i e l d e r Dominic Fi-cociello is still nursing an oblique injury and is taking his time on his
recovery, but could be
a v a i l a b l e a g a i n s t t h e
R e b e l s this weekend a#er playing in the "rst of the two midweek games.
“Its de"nitely something I don’t want to rush, because I don’t want it to linger the en-tire year,” Ficociello said.
Mike Mayers, Sam Smith and Bobby Wahl are the prob-able starters for the Rebels, all of who post ERAs lower than 2.70. A sharply pitched game by both teams will be key.
First pitch against the Rebels is set for 6:35 p.m. Fri-day.
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end. In conference play, Ef-ferding has a perfect 4-0.
Another worrisome com-ponent of Texas A&M’s ten-nis team for the Hogs is its intimidating doubles play. In all the Aggies’ matches, only three doubles points have been lost. A#er earning the doubles point, the team has won 12 of 14 matches.
!ough Arkansas’ top pair of Mike Nott and Manfred Jeske took on the No. 1 ten-nis duo in their match with Auburn, the ranked doubles opponents won’t end there.
Texas A&M will pit its No. 13 and No. 15 duos of freshmen Harrison Adams and Vinsant and sophomore Jackson Withrow and ju-
nior Junior Ore, respectively, against Arkansas. !e fresh-man duo are undefeated in the SEC.
!e Razorbacks begin play Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center. Arkansas’ next match will be played in College Station, Texas, on March 19 against UT-Pan American.
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when he was 3-under par a#er six holes, but made the turn at 1-under a#er bogeys on holes seven and nine.
Back-to-back bogeys on holes 11 and 12 had Cappelen over par for the "rst time, but he responded with back-to-back birdies and closed out the round with one bogey in the "nal four holes.
Cappelen completed the competition with a score of 2-over par and tied for "#h individually.
Sorensen started Tues-day’s round with the individ-ual lead, but a rough stretch over the "nal three holes dropped him from the lead into a tie for "#h overall with
Cappelen. Sorensen sank a birdie putt on his second hole, but gave the stroke back on No. 3 with a bogey.
Sorensen made the turn at even par a#er parring six straight. A bogey on No. 10 put him over par for the "rst time on the day and he closed the round with two addition-al bogeys and a double bogey for a "nal round of 77, 5-over par.
!e Razorback victory is the team’s second of the sea-son and "rst this spring se-mester.
Arkansas shot a "nal round score of 3-over par to "nish the 54-hole tourna-ment at 9-over as a team,
matching the score of No. 23 Kent State who tied for the team title. No. 29 Tennessee "nished third at 16-over par and was followed by the host Coastal Carolina (+28) and East Tennessee State (+34).
Junior William Meason "nished the competition at 6-over par Tuesday and 8-over for the tournament to tie for 17th. Playing as an individual, freshman Nicolas Echavarria played another consistent round with a score of even par.
Freshman Taylor Moore also "nished Tuesday’s com-petition at even par, which placed him tied for 14th overall.
TOP continued from page 7
Addison Morgan Sta# PhotographerMike Nott serves the ball at the Arkansas v. Auburn tennis match, Sunday, March 9. !e Razorbacks play at Texas A&M this Sunday.
