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Arkansas has partnered with the country Bolivia through the Partners of the Americas pro-gram, and because of this Boliv-ians are a growing population at the UA.

! is year there are approxi-mately 64 Bolivian undergraduate and graduate students on campus,

said Cecilia Grossberger, market-ing and PR representative for First Year Experience.

Ever since 1964, UA o" cials have provided a tuition advantage for all qualifying undergraduate and graduate level students from Bolivia. Year by year more Boliv-ians come to Arkansas to have the opportunity to experience the UA and its many academic programs of excellence, according to the UA

website.UA o" cials also o# ers a Ca-

ribbean tuition advantage, non-resident tuition award and Pana-manian and a Rwandan tuition advantage, as well as more than a hundred programs in a wide vari-ety of disciplines, according to the UA website.

! e Bolivian Tuition Advan-tage pays the out of state portion of Bolivians tuition if they meet

certain requirements. Students have to meet all admissions crite-ria and accepted as a degree seek-ing student, they have to be citi-zens and permanent residents of Bolivia and are at the freshmen, transfer, or graduate level, accord-ing to the UA website.

by MATILDE BONIFAZStaff Writer

Bolivians Increase Diversity at the UA

Five UA architectural stu-dents won awards for designs this year at the fourth annual Knedak Bobo Competition.

Ken Hiley of Little Rock, Akihiro Moriya of Tomat-suri, Japan, Tanner Sutton of Gentry, and Erica Blansit of Branson, Mo. submitted their pieces.

! e Knedak Bobo Com-petition is an architectural design contest, said Michelle Parks, director of commu-nications at the Fay Jones School of Architecture. Stu-dents submitted architectural designs and drawings based o# countries they visited over the summer, she said.

“! ese winners created what I call timeless values in design,” said Santiago Perez,

assistant professor of archi-tecture and member of the competition jury.

Hiley, Moriya, and Sutton created a group design in-spired by Tacubaya, Mexico entitled “La Cuna Urbana”. Blansit created a design in-spired by Trastevere, Rome entitled “Ludoteka”.

by BAILEY KESTNERContributing Writer

Architecture Students Win Big

! e UA Associated Student Government might adopt a program from the Texas A&M University Student Govern-ment Association, o" cials said.

UA ASG president Michael Dodd contacted Je# Picker-ing, A&M SGA president, af-ter the news that A&M would be joining the Southeastern Conference. ! e two met in Dallas on Oct. 1 when the Ra-zorback football team defeat-ed the Aggies, Dodd said.

“Texas A&M is considered to have one of the best student a# airs in the nation, and their student government is very prestigious as well,” Dodd said. “! ey have some of the largest populations involved in student organizations and di# erent student groups.”

A&M has 725 registered student organizations. In comparison, UA has 340 reg-istered student organizations, according to the Princeton Review.

During the meeting, Pick-ering showed Dodd various

SGA programs, including one called Fish Aides, which al-lows freshmen to be involved in SGA. ! at could be used as a model for a similar program at the UA, Dodd said.

! e overall purpose of the program is to develop 40 freshmen into the future lead-ers of A&M, said Clay Smiley, Fish Aides executive director.

Freshmen are selected for the Fish Aides program through an application pro-cess. A$ er the Fish Aide ex-ecutive team reviews each stu-dent’s application, about 200 to 220 students are picked for the % rst round of interviews, Smiley said.

Students who are selected for the program, which was started in 1979, are placed on committees and help other SGA members, he said.

“What’s unique about Fish Aides is that it’s basically giv-ing freshmen the opportu-nity to get involved in stu-dent government really early in positions that not a lot of other freshmen get involved in,” Smiley said. “We can try to cultivate these leaders as freshmen to enable them to better serve these committees

later on down the road.”A&M’s entrance into the

Southeastern Conference will take e# ect July 1, 2012, ac-cording to the university’s website.

! e mission statement of the SEC is “to assist its mem-ber institutions in the main-tenance of programs of inter-collegiate athletics, which are compatible with the highest standards of education and competitive sports.”

“I think their overall aca-demic side and athletics, and all that, are really top-notch. ! ey really are a top-notch school,” Dodd said.

Texas A&M University is ranked 19th among the top 111 public universities, ac-cording to U.S. News and World Report. ! e UA is ranked 65th.

During the Dallas meeting, Dodd also invited Pickering to visit Fayetteville in January for the SEC exchange, a confer-ence for student governments in the conference.

“Hopefully, we will be able to collaborate a lot over the next couple of years and really learn from each other,” Dodd said.

by SARAH DEROUENStaff Writer

ASG Borrows FromTexas A&M Playbook

BRITTANY WULF STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERTanner Sutton, 5th year architect major, is working on a community housing project for people in Rwanda, Africa. Tanner was one of the winners of the Knedak Bobo Competiton.

In This Issue:

Breaking Ground

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HogsHandle

Tigers

! ursday marked the groundbreak-ing ceremony for Vol Walker Hall.

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Career FairUA students had the opportunity to present resumes to various busi-nesses.

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Hogs Cruise Past TigersNo. 10 Arkansas scored 31 unan-swered points and pulled away in the second half for a 38-14 win over No. 15 Auburn.

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Profi le From the Hill: ASG President Michael Dodd! e ASG president is an easy-going people person with the student body in mind.

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Change of Face: Students React to Site ChangesAs Facebook unveils new changes, students love it, hate it and everything in between.

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Solutions for Students With Math Anxiety Math anxiety is a common problem for many people, but UA sta# mem-bers have developed programs to help them overcome their fears.

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Etching new sections into Se-nior Walk has been delayed be-cause of the poor quality of con-crete in the area near the Chi Omega Greek ! eater, o" cials said.

“! e plan is to improve the

quality and durability of that area of sidewalk,” said John Diamond, associate vice chancellor for uni-versity relations.

How that is going to be done is still being determined, he said.

! e issue was discovered when Facilities Management tried to sandblast the concrete

to add new names, said Glenn Grippe, director of business and support services.

! e problem originated with either the contractor or the sup-plier, Grippe said.

! e UA is negotiating with the contractor to resolve the problem.

“In this and in all situations, we expect that when we contract with businesses, they will ful% ll their obligations by providing quality products and services,” Diamond said.

by MEGAN HUCKABYStaff Writer

The Waiting GameCONTESSA SHEW STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

As the names end along the senior walk, questions arise for current students about how long they must wait to see their name engraved after graduation.

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A bus filled with ex-cited Razorback students can only mean one thing — Rollin’ with the Razor-backs.

Rollin’ with the Razor-backs is a program spon-sored by UA Associated Student Government that transports students en masse to away games. This

year, ASG is sponsoring a trip to Oxford, Miss., for the Oct. 22 football game against Ole Miss.

The program is for stu-dents who would other-wise be unable to go to the game because of travel, said Grant Hodges, chair of ASG Senate.

Rollin’ with the Razor-backs will offer two char-ter buses with a total of 100 spots to students on a

first-come, first-serve ba-sis, Hodges said.

Students are not allowed to attend if they are on aca-demic probation, said Bai-ley Moll, ASG secretary.

The trip costs $20, which covers the game ticket and bus fare. Each student also receives a T-shirt, Hodges said.

Rollin’ with the Razor-backs will be funded by $10,000 from ASG and

$4,000 from Residents’ Interhall Congress. Last year, one trip cost about $12,800.

The Ole Miss trip is the only one planned for the year, ASG officials said. Last year, Rollin’ with the Razorbacks took a group of students to an away base-ball game, but that was not as successful, Hodges said.

by SARAH DEROUENStaff Writer

‘Rollin’ with the Razorbacks’ returns

Vol Walker Hall held a groundbreaking ceremony October 7, at 11 a.m. in front of the building at the Peace Fountain.

“We're breaking ground for a construction project that includes the renovation of Vol Walker Hall and the addition of the Steven L. An-derson Design Center. In the end, we will house all three programs— architecture, landscape architecture and interior design — in the new space,” said Michelle Parks, director of communications Fay Jones school of Architec-ture.

! e Fay Jones School of Architecture received a $10 million grant from the Don-ald W. Reynolds foundation to help build the addition to Vol Walker Hall according to

the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce website.

! e planned construc-tion of the 31,000-square-foot Steven L. Anderson Design Center is expected to cost $12.9 million, while a concurrent renovation of Vol Walker Hall has been estimated at $19.8 million, bringing the total cost of the project to an estimated $32.7 million.

! e university has com-mitted $18.7 million toward the project, an example of how the campus facilities fee is being used to help pay for deferred maintenance and renovation for speci" c capi-tal improvements, according to the UA University Devel-opment website.

! e project is expected to be " nished by fall 2013, ac-cording to the UA Facilities Management website.

Breaking GroundAdditional work is needed to prepare the area in ques-tion before new names can be carved, he said. However, of-" cials hope to have the prob-lem " xed and begin carving names in the next few weeks.

! ere also has been a problem with chips in grad-uates’ names, said Ruth Hirsch, administrative sup-port supervisor.

Facilities management o# cials have “ways to patch names,” Diamond said.

Other sections have been removed and stored to make way for construction, said Steve Voorhies of University Relations.

! ose sections will be re-placed when the construc-tion is complete, he said.

! e UA has plans to make a display of the names that are either covered or re-moved so that alumni can see their name if they visit the campus, Diamond said.

“We are working to com-municate with people that there are some tempo-rary disruptions [with the

names],” he said. “I think people understand that we, as a university, did our best to protect the names.”

“I think the walk states my accomplishment,” said senior Allie Mertz, food sci-ence major.

“I think they are doing a good job to keep it protect-ed,” she said. “It is kind of sad, but it’s necessary if they want to keep expanding our campus.”

Senior walk stretches " ve miles across the UA cam-pus and contains more than 140,000 names of UA gradu-ates, according to the Arkan-sas Alumni Association.

! e tradition of putting the names of seniors on the sidewalk began with the 1905 class, according to the alum-ni website. ! e class of 1904 then added their names to the walk. In 1930, all of the graduating classes prior to 1904 were added.

! e UA has plans for Se-nior Walk that extend as far ahead as 2030, Diamond said.

Diamond thinks the UA will be able to continue this tradition “inde" nitely.”

SENIOR WALKfrom page 1

by KAREN STIGARStaff Writer

And the Beat Goes On

CONTESSA SHEW STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERTyler Simmons, a sophomore in music education, delighted students Sunday afternoon as he played outside the Lewis E. Epley, Jr Hall.

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From PetSmart to Peace Corps, employers ! ursday packed the Verizon Ballroom to attract future employees from the UA. Just down the stairs, graduate schools from across the region " lled the Union lounge to recruit un-dergraduate students.

Across the lounge, the at-mosphere was comparable to a living, breathing version of a high school senior’s mail-box, full of brochures listing the bene" ts of attending each school. Marjean McDonald, from the University of Tulsa, detailed her goal for the fair.

“We would like for UA students to know that within close distance is an outstand-ing graduate school, in hopes that some of our outstanding programs might interest some of the students that go here,” she said.

Patrick Pellicane, the dean of the Graduate School at the University of Arkansas at Lit-tle Rock, had a similar mis-sion.

“We’re looking to " nd quality students and just to let people know we’re in busi-ness, even in front of our own competitors, let them know that we’re in the game too,” he said.

With graduate school en-rollment dropping, the mar-ket has become more compet-itive, Pellicane said.

“! e numbers are dwin-dling especially in certain ar-eas,” he said. “We always need students in science, technol-ogy, engineering and math-ematics. And the competi-

tion for American students is tough. So we’re trying to see who we can attract.”

For senior Charity Walk-er, " nding the perfect " t for graduate school is important.

“I’m looking for a counsel-ing/psychology program that o# ers a Ph.D. So hopefully like a " ve-year program,” she said. “I found a few places that o# er that, like the University of Oklahoma.”

Senior Alex Benson visited both the job fair and the grad-uate school fair.

“I don’t know wheth-er I want to go directly into the workforce or graduate school,” she said. “I’m specif-ically looking at law schools and internships.”

She had come to the fairs with a purpose, Benson said.

“I’m asking every booth

a speci" c question,” she said. “I’m seeing if the law schools have an agriculture program. But at the career fair, I got ex-actly what I wanted— an in-terview time with an intern-ship.”

In the ballroom, John Shook of BNSF Railways stood outside his booth wait-ing to talk to quali" ed candi-dates.

“Even though the economy [is bad], we see our business coming back strong, so we have a lot of requirements,” he said. “Plus, we’re on the edge of a lot of the baby boomers retiring and we’re going to be replacing a lot of people who will be retiring in 2012 and 2013.”

While companies like Tar-get and Johnson & Johnson hung their household logos

from tables, representatives from Teach and Learn in Ko-rea sat in the middle aisle, hoping for a visitor. Jungsoo Park, a recruiter, was eager to explain his selling points.

“What is important is that even undergraduate students can apply for this program,” he said. “! ey will teach Eng-lish in a modern school as an a$ er-school activity. It’s simi-lar to study abroad.”

Chris Carland, from Schneider Logistics, antici-pated hiring students directly out of college.

“We are expanding and hiring on a regular basis,” he said. “You have people that are graduating coming up in December that will be ready to get their hands wet and get out there.”

Charlie Guerriero, senior

economics major, sat on a bench outside the ballroom in his suit and tie and o# ered some sobering remarks.

“I want a job,” he said. “I wouldn’t bet [I found one]. At the end of the day, you don’t know you have a job until you have a job. But especially with the economy, there would probably be 50 or 60 people going a$ er the same exact spot I’m looking for.”

He felt increased pressure because of this being his se-nior year, Guerriero said.

“I’ve been to one business school fair and spring fairs over the past couple of years. ! ose I didn’t take as seri-ously because I wasn’t a se-nior. So I wasn’t dressed up as nice, I didn’t have a bunch of resumes to hand out—mostly just meeting people,” he said.

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by JACK SUNTRUPStaff Writer

UA Students Flock to Career and Graduate FairsPHOTO LEFT: GRACE GUDE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

PHOTO RIGHT: GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERStudents camp-out Oct. 7 outside Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium waiting for the entrance to open. Students are allowed to set up tents 48 hours prior to the game, and are allowed to represent up to 10 people per tent.

Students Wait Day and Night for Tickets

“Both winning boards were so well organized and inspiring,” Perez said. ! e “Ludoteka” is the design of a children’s play and learning center, not like anything you would see in the U.S., he said. ! e “La Cuna Urbana” fea-tures amazing light perspec-tive and shows layers upon layers.

“! ere was a call for sub-missions in September, a$ er the students’ arrived home from trips to Mexico and Rome,” Perez said.

! e four students only had a couple days over a weekend to construct their boards be-fore submitting them to the architectural " rm in Mem-phis, Tenn.

“Each submission was awarded $2,500,” he said. ! e group of three split the sum amongst one another.

“! e two projects were very di# erent,” Perez said. “When judging the thirteen submissions, we were not fo-cused on choosing either the one from Rome or the one from Mexico, we intended to award the best boards pre-sented.”

Bolivians must be en-rolled full time in their de-gree program. For under-graduate it is 12 credit hours per semester and for grad-uate students it is 9 credit hours per semester, accord-ing to the UA website. ! e Bolivian Advantage may be renewed for the duration of their studies.

“! e University of Ar-kansas keeps growing, so it’s essential for us Bolivians to grow with it. ! is year we will be more involved with the campus community and will organize activities, dances and speakers in order to show o# our culture,” said Grossberger.

In 2003, IBO, Interna-tional Bolivian Organiza-tion, was created for Boliv-ian students to be able to stand out amongst the rest of the population in the UA. ! e organization contributes to the local community by providing social and cultur-al activities. In the past the organization has held danc-es, fashion shows and many more showcases in order for everyone to captivate their culture.

“! is year I want to make the organization stand out to its fullest, providing more activities and events. Bolivia is such a wonderful country that not many people know about, therefore I want ev-eryone to recognize the real beauty of our country,” said Camila Salinas, IBO Presi-dent.

During special holidays, such as Carnival, Bolivian students get together and organize a cultural dance called Caporales and per-form it for the students at the UA. ! ey also take this op-portunity to cook their na-tional dishes and o# er them to anyone who attends. ! is way, students around cam-pus, are able to witness parts of what the country is really like.

“My dad is an ex alum-nus and he always tells me the experiences he had as a Razorback, when he came to visit he was so pleased to see how many more Boliv-ians were at the university and quickly remembered the time he was here with his Bolivian classmates. I hope more of us come so more Bolivians can re-live their parents’ experiences and be part of a generation, just like me,” said Catalina Bonifaz, senior majoring in econom-ics and transportation and logistics.

! e organization is open to anyone who wants to learn about Bolivia and its culture.

BOLIVIANfrom page 1

KNEDAK BOBOfrom page 1

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By now most of us have

heard of Steve Jobs’ death. I’m not here to lament

about the loss of Jobs or to give a cliché eulogy. It’s not my place.

Instead, I want to discuss his message, which may be one of the most important pieces of advice I’ve ever heard.

Everyone has a “message,” but not all are equal. The power of one’s mantra often depends on how powerful they are. I’m sure somebody said something along the lines of, “The pen is might-ier than the sword,” before Edward Bulwer-Lytton, but his play, “Richelieu: or, The Conspiracy,” made it famous.

Jobs’s 2005 Stand-ford University graduation speech shares the same rank.

“You have to trust in something — your gut, des-

tiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road, will give you the con-fidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the well-worn path, and that will make all the difference,” Jobs said.

His position on risk-tak-ing is incredible. Far too of-ten we all stick with what we know, and don’t go into the unknown. This applies in all aspects of life, but it should be remembered especially during the class advising pe-riod.

During this time, we make decisions that just don’t demarcate our next se-mesters, but we’re deciding the tools that we aim to use for the rest of our life. We can’t base our class decisions off of what our friends or significant others are taking, or what our parents want us to take. It’s time to give up trying to make others happy, and make a life for us.

Jobs reinforced this idea in his speech with a story telling of how dropping out of college led to the success of Apple. While I don’t sug-gest dropping out of college, ultimately, do what feels right, because it can lead to unparalleled success.

“You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going

to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it,” Jobs said.

Don’t ever settle, we all owe it to ourselves to be self-ish in creating our future.

In paradox to the future, however, Jobs pointed out in that speech that all of our lives will come to an end, “death is the destination we all share. No one has every escaped it.”

His position on death is perfect, “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.”

This not only reinforces the beginning of his speech that we should chase the fu-ture we want, but also high-lights the importance of our being here.

“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you,” Jobs said.

The new is… us.Even though he was

speaking to students at Stan-ford, the message is world-wide. The more than 23,000

students at UA are the future.We all have the oppor-

tunity to make change, yet, that’s not what all of us want to do.

Some of us just want to make money and relax, some want to join the Armed Forc-es, some of us want to be pol-iticians; the choices are end-less. What works in our fa-vor is that we’re some of the best-prepared students in the nation. We go to one of the best schools, have some of the most hard-working faculty, have thriving Greek life, committed student gov-ernments in Associated Stu-dent Government and Resi-dents Interhall Congress, and an elite sports program.

We are the University of Arkansas. And now the deci-sion is up to us to let every-body know it.

Jobs let nothing stand in his way while working at Ap-ple while creating the tech-nology that so many of us use every day.

The next Steve Jobs is among us, the only things that can hold us back are ourselves. We must never let our ambition run dry no matter what we do, and al-ways, “stay hungry, stay fool-ish.”

Joe Kieklak is a columnist for The Traveler. His column runs every Monday.

Jobs’ Message: ‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish’MCT Campus

Rocket Science

by Joe KieklakTraveler Columnist

“Math makes me wanna break stu# ,” said Crystal Kie# er, senior art major.

Many students will under-stand such intense feelings, and many will not. Students who are fundamentally frus-trated with math will be glad to know there is a name for the emotional and physical symp-toms experienced: math anxi-ety.

! e problems surround-ing math anxiety have “consis-tently ranked among the top 20 concerns for college students,” according to the University of Florida Division of Student Af-fairs.

Research from the American Diploma Project “estimates that in 62 percent of American jobs over the next 10 years, entry-level workers will need to be pro" cient in algebra, geometry, data interpretation,

probability and statistics.”As many as 80 percent of

U.S. students have experienced some degree of math anxiety, said Randy January, instructor and course coordinator in the Department of Mathematics.

“! ere is a direct relation-ship between test-taking skills, especially in math, and student success,” January said.

January de" nes math anxi-ety as signs of math-related stress in an otherwise intelli-gent person.

“One thing I o$ en hear from students is that they thought they were the only ones, when in reality, many people have experienced it. Even people well-versed in math have some anxiety with it at times,” January said.

! e di# erence between math anxiety and math anxiety disorder is stark. Math anxiety disorder is math anxiety gone wild. M.A.D. is characterized by complete paralysis in the face of even the most minis-cule calculation. Luckily, most students do not experience this degree of math-inspired panic, which leads to an inability to complete assignments or take math tests.

Most students can over-come their math anxiety with the right tools though.

Math-anxious students battle emotions such as anger,

sadness, low self-esteem and anxiety. Physical symptoms of math anxiety include shaking, elevated heart rate, sweating, headaches and loss of sleep.

Recent research showed that “simply suggesting to col-lege students that they would be asked to take a math test triggered a stress response in the hypothalamus of students with high math anxiety,” ac-cording to a University of Chi-cago study.

UA administration o# ers several programs designed to help students combat math anxiety and improve test-tak-ing skills.

! e UA mathematics de-partment o# ers seminars about math anxiety and math anxiety disorder.

! e UA education depart-ment is also o# ering a fresh-man seminar in math study skills in the fall. ! e mathe-matics department collaborat-ed with the education depart-ment to design the eight-week course.

! e Math Resource and Teaching Center, on the sec-ond % oor of the science and engineering building, is avail-able to students who need ad-ditional tutoring. It is “sur-rounded by teaching assistant and instructor o& ces, and pro-vides students with the sup-port and services they need,”

according to the mathematics departmental newsletter.

Students have access to advanced so$ ware that gives them “immediate feedback from electronic homework, quizzes and tests,” according to the newsletter.

! e Enhanced Learning Center, in Gregson Hall, of-fers general tutoring services, including math tutors for all ability levels.

! e UA introduced its math placement test in the fall 2010 semester. Considered in con-junction with ACT and SAT scores, the test is used to deter-mine a student’s “strengths and weaknesses at the basic algebra and calculus readiness levels and places students into cours-es according to their abilities,” according to the spring 2010 UA mathematics department newsletter.

If you hear Col. Kurtz’s ma-niacal voice whispering, “the horror, the horror,” when you are about to enter a math class--fear not. Instead of nibbling your nails to nubs and endur-ing sleepless nights, take ad-vantage of the programs that you have already paid for with your student fees.

Emily Hilley-Sierzchula is a columnist for ! e Traveler. Her column runs bimonthly, every other Monday.

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Solutions For Students With Math Anxiety

FROM THE BOARDFROM THE BOARD

Religious Vandalizing On CampusLately I have noticed that chalking campaigns from the

Occams razor resident student organization have been rou-tinely vandalized. While I hold no particular religious af-filiation, I suppose I would fall under the moniker of “Sec-ular Humanist” – with a respect for all others who claim to be from one religion or another.

I find it more and more difficult, however, to accept Christians who claim to follow the word of their Prophet, Jesus Christ, when I see them disparage and vandalize oth-er people’s beliefs in the name of their lord. I am no bib-lical scholar, nor do I usually spend any thought on their teachings. It strikes me, however, that they ignore their own spiritual leaders expressed wishes to treat others in a respectful manner. I admit that it took me some time to find a quote that bests express this issue, but I believe I have. In the book of Matthew (7:12), Jesus plainly states: ““Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.”

I can only assume, then, that you want individuals to destroy the multitude of Christian chalking strewn about campus. I will personally make it my mission to undo that which has been done in defiance of your own Lord’s word. His LAW.

From this point forward, I will find no guilt, nor plea-sure, in doing the same to those words that I, and many other students, find patently offensive. Every time I see an Occams Razor chalking vandalized, I will do what I now believe to be my civic duty, and punish the writers with “an eye for an eye” in order to set straight that which I believe is wrong.

It is tacky, it is uncalled for, and it is just plain igno-rant. Not everyone is a Christian, but you act as if the act of desecrating other messages that do not meet your own criteria is your duty. Thank you for giving me a duty. I am not a member of Occam’s Razor, but know this: I now plan on attending their meetings, and helping them chalk their message. This is their right, just as it is yours, no matter how repugnant I find it.

If you have a problem with other religions, or anti-reli-gions, re-enroll in a Christian academy. This is not meant as an offence against your one and true God. This is meant to appeal to the very words you claim to live by. ““Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the proph-ets.”

I can only assume it means you wish your messages to be erased by zealots. Something you have created in this person.

-David “Zeek” Martin, journalism major KXUA station manager

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Arkansas junior running back compiled 97 yards of total offense, including an 18-yard touchdown catch from junior quarterback Tyler Wilson in Arkansas’ 38-14 victory over No. 15 Aubrun.

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Tenth-ranked Arkansas scored 31 unanswered points, cruising to a 38-14 home vic-tory over No. 15 Auburn in front of 74,191 fans at Reyn-olds Razorback Stadium, the seventh-largest crowd in UA history.

! e Tigers were scoreless in the " nal three quarters and the Razorbacks pulled away for their " rst league win while snapping Auburn’s 11-game conference winning streak.

“! at’s a good win for us,” Arkansas coach Bobby Petri-no said. “Really happy for our football team. It took the whole team … ! is was a big game for us.”

! e Razorbacks (5-1, 1-1 Southeastern Conference) started pulling away when se-nior receiver Joe Adams scored on a 92-yard toss sweep on the Hogs’ " rst o# ensive play of the second half, extending their lead to 28-14 midway through the third quarter on the sec-ond-longest touchdown run in UA history.

Adams took a pitch le$ , hurdled fullback Kiero Small as Small made a block on the

sideline, then outran Auburn’s defense. ! e toss sweep was a play Arkansas o# ensive coor-dinator Garrick McGee sug-gested at hal$ ime, Petrino said.

“I believe in that play,” Mc-Gee said. “You get the ball to Joe Adams as fast as you can get the ball to him.”

Razorbacks’ quarterback Tyler Wilson completed 24 of 36 passes for 262 yards and two touchdowns. He complet-ed 19 consecutive passes at one point, the third-longest streak in SEC history.

“I should have hit all of them,” Wilson said. “I look at my game and gah, it wasn’t very good. I told (o# ensive co-ordinator Garrick) McGee that on the sideline. ! ere’s a lot of plays I wish I had back.”

Arkansas racked up 438 yards of o# ense on an Au-burn defense that shut down then-No. 10 South Carolina the previous week, holding the Gamecocks to 289 yards and 13 points.

! e Razorbacks’ defense struggled in the " rst quarter, but held Auburn (4-2, 2-1) to 227 yards in the " nal three quarters. ! e Hogs forced three interceptions

in the second half, picking o# both of the Tigers junior Barrett Trotter twice and true freshman Kiehl Frazier once.

Trotter completed just 6 of 19 passes for 81 yards and threw two fourth-quarter in-terceptions the Hogs turned into 10 points.

“It was just a great defen-sive e# ort those last three quarters,” Arkansas senior de-fensive end Jake Bequette said. “We knew anytime they put the ball in the air it was going to be a pressure, sack or an in-terception. We just had to stop the run on " rst and second down and put them in third and long.”

Auburn All-SEC running back Michael Dyer, a Little Rock, Ark., native, ran for 112 yards and one touchdown on 21 carries, including a 55-yard scamper for the " rst score of the game. ! e sophomore managed just 57 yards on his other 20 carries the rest of the night, though, including 41 yards the " nal three quarters.

“We controlled the line of scrimmage in the second half,” Petrino said.

! e Tigers ran for 232 yards, including 141 in the " rst quarter, on a Hogs defense

that was gouged for 389 rush-ing yards against Texas A&M the previous week. Frazier, lin-ing up in the shotgun, ran for 54 of those yards on 13 car-ries, but was intercepted on his only pass of the game, halting an Auburn drive on Arkansas’ 23-yard line.

“We did all the classic things we can not do to win a game on the road,” Auburn coach Gene Chizik said. “Ob-viously, we turned the ball over three times. Against a good team on the road, that cer-tainly isn’t going to get it done. ! is was a total team loss.”

! e Tigers led 14-7 a$ er the " rst quarter, but Wilson and Arkansas’ o# ense struck for two second-quarter touch-downs in the second to give the Razorbacks a hal$ ime lead. Wilson hit just 1 of 5 passes on the Hogs’ " rst two drives, but completed 19 of 20 passes for 212 yards the rest of the half.

“We got in a good rhythm,” Petrino said. “He did a nice job of getting his feet set and understanding what they were trying to do coverage-wise in the " rst half. I thought our receivers made a lot of real-ly good plays for him and we protected better.”

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

College football is a mess right now.

Teams are going every which way jumping conferences and all signs point toward a major shi$ in the landscape of college football.

No matter how much I hate the term “superconference”, that is

exactly the direction that college football is going.

I didn’t have a problem with how college football was go-ing before all of this realignment news. Some of you, like myself, might not have been fans of the realignment at " rst, but I got to thinking that if this is done right, college football as a whole will bene" t.

If I had my way, this is how it would be done.

First things " rst, the “super-conferences”, take the Pac 12 and add Boise State, Oklahoma, Okla-homa State and TCU, making it the Pac 16.

! en you take the SEC with the recent addition of Texas A&M and add Clemson, West Virginia, and Missouri. Both of these con-ferences were relatively easy to get to superconference status.

! ings become a little trickier when you are dealing with the Big 10, ACC and the le$ for dead Big 12 and Big East.

I kind of feel bad for the Big 12 (kind of).

! ey are the Titanic sinking in the middle of the ocean and Oklahoma and Texas are Leo Di-caprio and the hot chick – you de-cide who is who. ! e Big 12 has been le$ for dead and the only option is for the Big 10 to come along to scavenge the remains.

So with the Big 10 standing as it is they need to add four more teams, which would be Kansas, Texas Tech, Kansas State and Bay-lor. Sorry Iowa State, a$ er years of hapless football you have been le$ in the cold with nowhere to go but Conference USA.

With the new look Pac 16, SEC and Big 10 (I prefer the Mid-

West Conference), the last re-maining territory is the Big East and ACC. With Pittsburgh and Syracuse jumping to the ACC and the loss of Clemson to the SEC, we will assume that the ACC will need to add " ve more teams.

Enter Cincinnati, Connecti-cut, Louisville, Rutgers and South Florida (what’s le$ of the Big East). With the combination of these two conferences, I dub thee the East Coast Conference.

With the four super confer-ences you might have noticed that there are some teams that have been le$ out, like Texas, BYU and Notre Dame. ! ey play a key part in this thing, too, though.

! ey will become indepen-dents. ! ey are so big and make so much money on their own that they would never want to be in a conference.

All of these teams have their own television networks and all make a large amount of money. Texas has even alienated the Big 12 to the point where teams are jumping overboard and the Pac 12 to the point where they said thanks, but no thanks.

! e four superconferences would allow the NCAA to intro-duce a playo# system much more easily. ! e marks against the play-o# system would be what hap-pens with the conference cham-pionship games, what about the bowl games, what do we do with the BCS?

Well, each conference plays a conference championship game and the winners of those cham-pionship games get a bye during the " rst round. ! is means eight teams will then be chosen to play four games in the " rst round.

! ese eight teams can be cho-sen by the BCS rankings. ! e winners of the " rst four games will then get the chance to play one of the conference champions.

! e next four games will be the Sugar, Orange, Fiesta and Rose Bowls.

! is makes everyone happy. ! e BCS feels valid, sponsorship money is not lost and the fans get to see an actual playo# determine a national champion, instead of a computer.

Without a doubt, college foot-ball is going to look completely di# erent a year from now.

! e only question that re-mains is whether it is going to change for better or worse.

Harrison Stan! ll is a guest col-umnist for ! e Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Mon-day.

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Arkansas’ defense forced a season-high three turnovers in its " rst conference win of the season against No. 15 Auburn.

! e Razorbacks intercept-ed three Tigers passes, one from starting quarterback Barrett Trot-ter and two from true freshman Kiehl Frazier on their way to their " $ h win of the season.

“We have been waiting for these turnovers to come,” Ar-kansas coach Bobby Petrino said. “We did a nice job at that.”

Arkansas had just three inter-ceptions in its " rst " ve games of the season, but came up big in the second half.

! e " rst of the Hogs’ intercep-tions came at the hands of soph-omore Eric Bennett. ! e starting strong safety picked o# a Frazier pass late in the third quarter and returned it for 19 yards.

“Coach Robinson called a great call,” Bennett said. “I went out there and executed, read-ing the quarterback’s shoulders. I guess the quarterback didn’t real-ly see me because we were in the cover-3. I just dropped into the curl % at and broke on the ball.”

Bennett played in 12 games as a freshman, primarily at cor-nerback, before being moved to safety in the spring. It was his " rst career interception.

“We are always talking about getting turnovers as a second-ary,” Bennett said. “We usually get a lot of hands on balls but have dropped them, so tonight we got out there and made turnovers.”

Fellow safety Tramain ! om-as had the Razorbacks other two interceptions.

! omas intercepted a Trot-ter pass early in the fourth and

returned it 19 yards before reel-ing in his second of the night from Frazier midway through the fourth to return it for 29 yards. His interceptions set up a touch-down and " eld goal.

“It was great feeling for me to come out here and get two picks in front of a home crowd like this and a big game too,” ! omas said. “We dictated the o# ense and made them one-dimensional. Whenever they would throw, we were able to get our hands on it.”

! omas now has a team-lead-ing three interceptions on the sea-son, running his career total to 10.

“I thought Tramain did a real-ly nice job playing the ball,” Petri-no said. “He broke on the ball real well.”

! e Winnie, Texas, native struggled the past two games against Alabama and Texas A&M.

He was benched for poor play during the Razorbacks loss to the Crimson Tide Sept. 24. ! en last week against Texas A&M the se-nior saw reduced reps because of the strong play by backup Elton Ford who " nished with 10 tack-les.

! omas said he felt like the way he played against Auburn got him back into his rhythm.

“It was de" nitely a big step for me tonight,” ! omas said. “I made some big plays, got back into the groove of things and build on it from here.”

In addition to the three in-terceptions, Arkansas limited the Auburn passing attack to just 104 yards and an abysmal 36 percent completion percentage.

“! ere were some really good football plays by our play-ers,” Petrino said. “Once we got them to have some negative plays, forced them to third down, then we created some turnovers.”

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Starting as the brainchild of a visionary college student eight years ago, Facebook has grown to be the biggest social network-ing site in the entire world with more than 750 million users. A part of everyday conversation for many, the knowledge of its usage is equally common. Or at least, it was. ! e site recently introduced some new changes, and they’ve been drastic enough to cause a stir within the Face-book community.

“I de" nitely feel more creepy, and like I shouldn't know ev-erything that scrolls past since I may not be in contact with that person or even know them. However, it has made me sort of reconnect to peo-ple I haven't talk-ed to in a while since I see their name scroll past,” said Flannery Wasson, sopho-more.

While the current changes have already caused a commo-tion, what many users may not know is that these changes are

just the beginning.! e changes will lead to an en-

tirely new version of Facebook scarcely recognizable to the cur-rent format, according to Daily Beast writer Brian Ries, ! ere are two new major features of the site, called the “Timeline” and “Open Graph.” ! e Timeline is essen-tially the current pro" le, in a reimagined way. It will lay out the most signi" cant moments of one’s life in a reverse chronological format, for all to see. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerburg even described the Timeline feature as “the story of your life” and “a new way to ex-press who you are.”

Facebook pro" les will go from having one central column to two, with boxes of text, photos, videos and even maps of a us-er’s favorite locations, explained Pete Cashmore, a CNN contrib-

utor, in a recent column detail-ing the new changes..

“Rather than just displaying your most recent activities, your pro" le will become a scrapbook

documenting your entire life, all the way back to your birth. Face-book will become a record of your existence,” Cashmore said.

Facebook compiles a record of everything a person posts, plac-ing the recent things at the top of the page and over time decides which posts have been most

signi" cant. ! is in-formation is all de-cided by the server itself; however, users do have the ability to choose for them-selves what they

deem most signi" cant about their lives.

! e Open Graph comprises of broadcasting activities to all other Facebook users, but with-out having to do it through the

site itself; for instance, an article someone reads or a movie they watch online will be posted in-stantly to the site. ! is more in-vasive measure is a reason for

caution and con-cern for some us-ers.

“Knowing that people will be able to see any-thing and every-thing I do on the

Internet is a little unsettling,” said Anna Christina, a sopho-more. “It makes me feel like the privacy line is being crossed a little; there are certain things you don’t put on Facebook for a reason.”

However, according to Ries, executives emphasize that user sign-o# will be required before allowing this integration to take place and not all users feel that the integration is necessarily harmful or invasive.

“Even when I'm not actively using Facebook, I keep it open so I can see activity in real time and " nd interesting stories to chat about,” said Dylan Beschoner,

Change of Face: Students React to Site Changes

COURTESY PHOTOMark Zuckerberg unveils the new changes to Facebook at a recent f8 developers’ conference.

by ZACH WILSONStaff Writer

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Meet ASG President Michael Dodd one time, and you’re on his list. Like any good elected o$ cial, he’ll remember your name, wave enthusiastically and be genuinely interested in whatever you hap-pen to be doing. He’s a self-pro-claimed people pleaser that oozes that certain type of political cha-risma that gets someone elected to any kind of o$ ce. He has all the makings of a great politician, and yet he doesn’t like politics be-cause it involves the inevitability of making someone unhappy.

“I enjoy being part of the Asso-ciated Student Government be-cause I get to interact with a large number of people,” Dodd said. “Everything else about politics I don’t like. I’m a people pleaser, and to be a politician you have to take criticism. I have a big heart. I want to see what I can do in ev-ery situation. As a politician you have to realize that it’s impossible to please everyone. ! at’s hard for me, but I’m trying to get there.”

Dodd grew up in Leawood, Kan. (“Most people would just say Kansas City”), and was not in-volved in student government his entire high school career at Shaw-nee Mission East High. His deci-sion to run for elected o$ ce at UA was a slow one to make and grew naturally out of his desire to help people.

“It wasn’t a decision I made as a freshman,” Dodd said. “I came to Arkansas and knew only a handful of people, and I guess I didn’t know what I wanted from college. I knew I wanted to go into business, but not much else. I rushed and joined Campus Crusade for Christ freshman

year, and ended up getting into leadership positions for both. I went into my sophomore year as the philanthropy chair of my fraternity. I did a lot of service projects, and it made me want to run for ASG senate. I won sophomore year, and I became more involved with ASG and began to understand it. I got a sense of the best way to handle yourself as a senator.”

Dodd ended up becoming chair of ASG’s Parking and Transit committee as a sophomore, and also became president of Greeks Advocating Mature Management of Alcohol (GAMMA), a proj-ect he says he is very passionate about.

“I’ve just seen alcohol hurt stu-dent life in a lot of ways. It’s im-portant for me to help with it, es-pecially because the Greek system has the most problems with it,” Dodd said.

Dodd decided to run for ASG president because it seemed like the most logical thing to do, he said.

“I realized what I really wanted to do was to serve the whole university,” he said. “I decided I wanted to run for president at the end of my sophomore year, because I thought I had what it took to lead a campus and a large organization. I was going to run that year, but it fell through because I was working with a Walmart group and I missed the orientation session. I tried to make it up, but I already had to make up some tests. It was a miscommunication. I appealed it, but it didn’t work out. ! at taught me a lot about perseverance and

Profi le from the Hill: ASG President Michael Dodd

A few things are often as-sociated with the Universi-ty of Arkansas - Razorback football, the hill, even the top-ranked Walton College of Business or the architec-ture program. Something that isn’t always internationally known, though, is that the UA Creative Writing program consistently ranks among the nation’s finest.

The Huffington Post re-cently listed the MFA pro-gram at the University of Arkansas as one of the top 25 most underrated creative writing programs in the na-tion. U.S. News and World re-port ranked the UA program at number 18 in the nation.

One aspect that sets the UA’s MFA program apart is that it is one of only two four-year programs.

“At four years, the program is twice the length of the ma-jority of MFA programs,” said Rodney Wilhite, an MFA can-didate in poetry. “This gives us twice as much time to work on our thesis; conse-

quently, we have a very good chance of producing manu-scripts polished enough to be publishable.”

The extra time in the pro-gram not only gives the stu-dents time to perfect their craft, but also to get teach-ing experience, an important skill for students who often go on to be teachers to sup-port themselves while they write.

The curriculum is a shin-ing aspect of the program, but students agree that the instructors are what make the program exceptional.

“Between the faculty mem-bers, visiting writers and my peers in the program, I had a constant source of encour-agement and guidance on how to build a writer’s life,” said Sandy Longhorn, a 2003 graduate of the program.

There is great talent on campus in writers like Da-vis McCombs, the director of the creative writing program, who attended Harvard Uni-versity and worked under the

UA Creative Writing Program a UA Hidden Treasure

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by CONNOR WOODYStaff Writer

“Knowing that people will be able to see anything and everything I do on the

Internet is a little unsettling.” - Anna Christina, sophomore

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Celebrate the Harvest with Annual Music Festival

Harvest Music Festival returns to Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Ark. beginning ! ursday, Oct. 13 until Sunday, Oct. 16, headlined by the Yonder Mountain String Band.

Railroad Earth, Corey Smith, Mountain Sprout and Grammy award-winning Béla Fleck and the Flecktones are also included in this year’s lineup, which fea-

tures more than 70 artists.Four-Day, Weekender, ! urs-

day or Saturday passes are all available for purchase, along with VIP event passes for the entire weekend. Tickets range in price from $55 for a ! ursday pass to $355 for a VIP pass and can be purchased online or at George’s Majestic Lounge in Fayetteville.

Every ticket option comes with

by KATHERINE BARNETTStaff Writer

HARVEST FESTon page 8

COURTESY PHOTOEllen Gilchrist, an award-winning novelist, short story writer andpoet, is an associate professor in the UA creative writing program.Her awards include the 1984 National Book Award for Fiction.

that person or even know them. that person or even know them.

“The recent changes have been ex-plained quite fully and I really think

they will work out for the better.” - Dylan Beschoner, sophomore

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a sophomore. “Also, the media integration—especially music through Spotify—really repre-sents for me a turning point in the social ecosystem. Facebook has introduced this service at a time when the consumers are actually ready for it.”

With all these new chang-es occurring, it would be logi-cal to think that some would change the amount of time they use Facebook, and possibly even switch to other growing social network sites like Twitter and Google+. In fact, in addition to enhancing the social media ex-perience as much as possible, a main reason for Facebook’s extensive changes is in an at-tempt to get an edge on these sites which are their main com-petition, and for at least some it seems to be working.

“I'm not a fan of Google+. I feel like maybe I'm missing the big deal about it. It's just so plain looking and I don’t know that it serves any function Face-book doesn’t. Twitter is simple, Google+ is plain,” Wasson said.

Another concern of switch-ing to other sites seems to be the amount of popularity they en-joy, or lack thereof. For instance,

there are some Facebook users who stress that which social net-work they use depends largely upon which one their friends and relatives use.

“! ere are many things I like about Google+, and if over time enough people end up switching I wouldn't have a problem with switching as well. For now I plan to maintain both accounts, but my Plus account sees very little activity; none of my friends ever use their accounts and I become very bored very quickly,” Be-schoner said.

! ough many haven’t de-serted Facebook, that hasn’t prevented them from being vo-cal about what it has changed. Whether it’s a tweak or complete renovation, an angry reaction seems to form anytime Face-book makes changes.

“I think people are testy in general when changes are made to services they are already com-fortable with. And Facebook doesn't have the best history of properly implementing changes that make sense for the average user. However, I think they have consistently gotten it right in the end. ! e recent changes have been explained quite fully and I really do think they will work out for the better,” Beschoner said.

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likes of Seamus Heaney, Lucie Brock-Broido, Charles Wright and Rita Dove. Ellen Gilchrist, an associate professor, is the author of more than twenty books and the 1984 winner of ! e National Book Award for Fiction. Gilchrist has also won awards for her poetry.

Molly Giles, also on sta" , is best known for her short sto-ries and was nominated for Pulitzer Prize for # ction for her # rst book, Rough Transla-tions. Her work also won the Pushcart Prize, the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, the Small Press Book Award, the

Boston Globe Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, and the PEN Syndicated Fic-tion Award. Creek Walk, a col-lection of short stories, was named one of the New York Times' most notable books of 1997. In 2000, Giles published her # rst novel, Iron Shoes, and her story "Two Words” won the 2003 O. Henry Prize.

Donald “Skip” Hayes is most noted for his novel ! e Di-xie Association, written in 1984 and reprinted as part of the Louisiana State Univer-sity Press’ series Voices of the South. Hays’s other works in-clude the novel ! e Hangman’s Children, published in 1989, and Stories: Contemporary Southern Fiction, published in 1989, edited by Hays. His short story “Dying Light” was reprinted in New Stories from the South: ! e Year’s Best in 2003. His most recent work, Dying Light and Other Sto-ries, is a collection of Hays’s short stories. In 2006, he was awarded the Porter Fund Lit-erary Prize.

Another poet on sta" is Mi-chael He" ernan. His books in-

clude ! e Cry of Oliver Har-dy, To the Wrekers of Havoc, both recently reissued by the University of Georgia Press; ! e Man at Home, Love's An-swer, ! e Night Breeze O" the Ocean, ! e Back Road to Ar-cadia, published in 1994, and Another Part of the Island, published in 1999. His newest collection, ! e Odor of Sanc-tity, is available from Salmon Poetry, Ireland. He has won two Pushcart Prizes, the Porter Prize for Literary Excellence, and has received three fellow-ships.

“One of the great bene# ts of the University of Arkansas MFA poetry program is that it is very cra$ -oriented,” Wilhite

said. “Although we are never required to write in a particu-lar aesthetic, we could not pos-sibly spend four years in this program and not leave with a very thorough knowledge of the formal elements of our cra$ .”

A perk of the UA program is that all MFAs are fully funded. Every student accepted into the Creative Writing MFA pro-gram works as a teaching as-sistant to pay for their educa-tion. ! is is especially appeal-ing considering the cost of out-of-state tuition in addition to the general cost of graduate classes.

! e UA MFA program is rec-ognized for its commitment to excellence, both in arrang-ing curriculum and hiring in-structors, but also in shaping students to produce their best work.

“Attending the MFA program at the University of Arkansas gave me, # rst and foremost, the time to write and f ind my own voice, one of the greatest benefits of the program,” Longhorn said.

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at least one night of next-to-car camping at the festival’s camp-

ground, located within walk-ing distance of all four stages. Visitors choosing not to camp will receive an all-day park-ing pass instead. RV camping

packages are also available.Four stages will be set up

throughout the festival grounds, with the # rst performances be-ginning at 1:30 p.m. ! ursday.

Shows will continue until 2 a.m. each morning until the last per-formance, which ends at 10 p.m. Sunday.

Other events include music workshops with artists featured at the festival, an acoustic open mic stage and a disc golf course. ! is year the festival will also host its # rst annual “Fiddlin’ and Pickin’ Contest”, with competitions in mandolin, banjo, # ddle and % at picking. Entries are available to all ticket holders. Registration forms are available on the festival’s web-site and will be accepted until 15 minutes before each competition.

! e festival prides itself on be-ing family friendly, and events for all ages including yoga and arts and cra$ s will be set up at a des-ignated stage every morning of the festival. Children 11 and un-der can also receive a free ticket to the festival when accompanied by a parent or guardian with a full event pass.

Campsites do not include water or electric amenities and pets are not allowed onto festival grounds. More information about the festi-val is available online at www.yon-derharvestfest.com.

STOCK PHOTOStudents relax before a show at the 2010 Harvest Music Festival in Mulberry, Ark. last October.

my relationships with my friends, because they really supported me through it.”

! e characteristic that stands out about Dodd’s easy-going at-titude is his desire to please all groups of people. ! at trait has de-# ned his leadership style.

“Servant leadership is some-thing I appreciate. I’ve read a lot of

books about what it means to be a good leader, and what I’ve found is that it starts by serving. If I’m do-ing everything I can to show that I care, I’m doing my job. It’s really important for me to serve an orga-nization when I meet with them instead of saying ‘What can you do for me?’”

And although it might be his most admirable characteristic as a president, Dodd’s dedication to pleasing as many people as possi-

ble also gets him into trouble.“I internalize my emotions a lot,”

he said. “If I’m going through a hard time, I don’t lean on my good friends or other executive leaders. If there’s di& culty with a relation-ship or if I don’t feel like I’m getting the job done, I try to resolve it my-self. I don’t want people to be down with me. I try to make sure there’s harmony in all of my relationships. I wouldn’t seek someone’s help if I think they didn’t want to give it. I

don’t reach out.” Dodd says that relationships are

the main focus of his administra-tion.

“! e number one thing I want to do is to make it easy for all groups across campus to inter-act and collaborate and to realize that we’re part of something big-ger than ourselves. People segre-gate themselves because of their groups. I liked what I saw at the Auburn game: thousands of peo-

ple there for one thing. I want to make campus life like that game.”

And as for activities done out-side of the public eye, Dodd says he has a few that not many people know about. He follows national politics, but couldn’t say which Republican he supports in the next election: “I’m undecided. But not Rick Perry.”

“I love competitive eating,” he said. “Sororities put on contests occasionally, and I think I’ve won

them all. I tried to eat a seven-and-a-half-pound hamburger once. ! at was rough. I # nished most of the meat, but the bread was too much. I’d say I got about # ve and a half pounds into it. Pretty tasty un-til about three pounds in.”

Dodd is also an avid baseball fan and a collector of baseball cards.

“My favorite card is an auto-graphed Carlos Beltran, but I also have an autographed Willie Mays.”

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International Name to Play With UA Symphony

MARY MCKAY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERGuest saxophonist Lawrence Gwozdz plays with the wind ensemble of the UA’s symphonic band.

“Attending the MFA program [at the UA] gave me, first and foremost, the time to write

and find my own voice.” - Sandy Longhorn, 2003 graduate