PAGE 1 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 Vol. 106, NO. 18 UATRAV.COM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2011 VOL. 106, NO. 18 8 PAGES UATRAV.COM WEATHER FORECAST TODAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 85° 81° 79° 75° 77° 82° e purchase of a 16-acre plot behind the Garland park- ing garage, which is designat- ed to create more parking on campus in the future, was ap- proved by the UA System board of trustees in their bi-monthly meeting Friday. e board also approved a proposal to add the choice of a food and culinary science con- centration for food science majors and a proposal to add a German major for non-arts and science students in the depart- ment of world languages, litera- ture and cultures. During the meeting, Chan- cellor G. David Gearhart in- formed the board of trustees current standing for the UA. e UA had record enroll- ment this semester, bringing the total number of students to 23,199, he said. ere are 3,774 graduate students and 1,190 in- ternational students, which is an all-time high in both catego- ries. Of all the universities in the country, the top 194 are consid- ered top tier universities. e UA is ranked 132nd out of the 194 top tier universities. If that list included only public univer- sities, UA would rank 68th out of the 118, he said. Gearhart’s goal is for the UA to be in the top 100 top tier uni- versities and in the top 50 pub- lic schools, he said. “While we have pursued ex- cellence, we have remained af- fordable,” Gearhart said. “e UA remains one of the least expensive schools in the South Eastern Conference.” Among the 50 agsta uni- versities, the UA is less costly than 37 of them, according to Kiplinger’s Best Values in Pub- lic Colleges. e UA, however, is nation- ally ranked in many depart- ments. e architecture de- partment is ranked 20th in the country. In the Fulbright Col- lege of Arts and Sciences, the physics department is ranked 113th, and the creative writing department is ranked 38th. e business college is ranked 27th. e departments of poultry sci- ence, animal science and food science are consistently ranked among the top 10 nationally, ac- cording to U.S. News and World Report. e Razorback Marching Band is the h largest in the nation, Gearhart said. e UA System includes seven schools throughout the state. Representatives from each school attend the meetings to get dierent proposals ap- proved and to express any con- cerns for their schools. UA Board of Trustees Approve Multiple Projects Briefly Speaking UA Researchers Extract Antioxidants from Grapes Couchsurfing Connects Travelers, Promotes Trust Rowdy Beaver: Good Burger, Great Fries Razorbacks Hold On Twitter Accounts Make Fun of Individualism Summary of the weeks main events. Page 2 University researchers have found a “green” way to ex- tract antioxidants from grape waste. Page 2 Students nd free lodging and new friendships with Couchsurng. Page 5 Dickson Street burger joint oers incredible hand-cut fries Page 5 No. 13 Arkansas jumped out to an early lead, but had to hold o a comeback attempt in a 38-28 win over Troy. Page 8 A Traveler columnist discusses how UA-related Twitter ac- counts discourage individual- ism. Page 4 News News Features Features Sports Opinion In This Issue: by SARAH DEROUEN Staff Writer Speakers at the Friday dedi- cation of the new Nanoscale Material Science and Engi- neering Building called the UA and the state of Arkansas a fu- ture worldwide leader in nano- technology. “e program, started 16 years ago, will now consolidate the spectrum of tools profes- sionals use,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. “Universities around the state will also be a part of the new nanotechnol- ogy program.” Gov. Mike Beebe thanked the General Assembly and UA ocials for funding research programs in times of economic distress. “We’ve got some stars here at the UA, and we want to keep them here,” Beebe said. e program is projected as a $50 million investment. $40 million has been raised, Gear- hart said. Aer 16 years, the nan- otechnology program has grown to 25 tenure-track fac- ulty members. e faculty, students and postdoctoral as- sociates publish more than 150 journal papers a year, accord- ing to information distributed at the event. Jim Phillips, CEO of Nano- Mech, a Fayetteville nanotech- nology company that has con- tributed to the program, pre- sented a check for $375,000 with a promise of “more to come” to the UA. “We get asked why we’re not in Silicon Valley or the Re- search Triangle a lot,” Phillips said. “Well, we have the great opportunity to create the epi- center of nanotechnology.” Nanotechnology products will amount to $3 trillion in market value within four years, Phillips said. “e nano market is the fastest-growing technology in mankind’s history,” he said. “e nanotech race is the great game of the 21 century,” said Scott Livingston of New York- based Livingston Securities. “e country that rst de- velops this technology will be the frontrunner in the eco- nomic boom that comes from it,” he said. e design and construc- tion of the new building were very precise. Some rooms are constructed with vibration iso- lation to prevent any interfer- ence. Other rooms have elec- tromagnetic wave isolation and ultra sensitive temperature control. e building was de- signed by Virginia rm HDR Inc. and constructed by local rm CDI Contractors, accord- ing to information distributed at the event. Beebe, Gearhart Dedicate New Nanotechnology Building UAPD Officers Warn Students About Break-Ins by ERIC EVRIDGE Contributing Writer GRACE GUDE STAFF PHOTGRAPHER Governor Mike Beebe gives his remarks at the ribbon-cutting and dedication of the Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering Building Friday. Nanoscience is dedicated to “uncovering new ways to engineer faster, smarter electronics; devices that can identify and treat diseases at an earlier stage; and solar cells that can help reduce dependency on foreign oil.” At least 12 vehicles were broken into on Sept. 12 in Lot 72. Electronics and valu- ables were stolen and damages on win- dows occurred. UAPD ocers are re- questing students remove all valuables from cars when leaving them parked in lots. Check the Traveler for more updates on this story. There are no plans to move the Razorback band from lot 56 for practice, a UA parking and transit official said. Lot 56 is a better alterna- tive than say, a grass field, said Gary Smith, director of transit and parking. “The issue would be ending up with a lot of rain and a muddy field and that sort of thing. So they’ve always had a hard surface to practice on for their daily practice.” The storage facilities avail- able, and the fact that the lot can be gated off is an advantage to the band, Smith said. “[A number of years ago] they moved them to a parking lot directly south of the admin- istrative services building, Lot 46. It had to be cleared out ev- ery afternoon at 3 p.m. so that the band could practice, so we ended up having to tow some cars from time-to-time,” Smith said. “It was a hassle for park- ing and it was a hassle for the band waiting for us to clear the parking.” The UA band directors are satisfied with the practice lot, UA band directors said. “This is a great space,” said Christopher Knighten, UA Band Students Disgruntled With Lot 56 Practice Area see MOBILE on page 3 Vol. 106, NO. 18 UATRAV.COM UA students and profes- sors will be able to pay for parking using the smart phone application Park- Mobile, a UA parking and transit ocial said. Credit and debit card payment will no longer be accepted at UA parking ga- rages, with the exception of the Harmon parking ga- rage, said Andy Gilbride, parking and transit educa- tion specialist. “If you’re sitting in class and your meter is about to expire, it’s dicult to leave and make it back across campus,” Gilbride said. “But, the ParkMo- bile app not only sends a notication when the me- ter’s about to expire, it al- lows students to pay quick- ly without trekking back across campus.” e cellphone applica- tion is available on all ma- jor smart phone brands. “I don’t have a smart phone,” said Cristin Car- roll, an anthropology and sociology major. For students who don’t have access to the applica- tion, ParkMobile also of- fers a phone-in option as well as allowing customers to pay online. Call transactions take 30 seconds to initiate, ac- cording to the ParkMobile website. ParkMobile is a nation- al parking payment service used for both public and private lots and garages. e company works with parking providers to make paying at meters faster and more convenient for cus- tomers who can’t make it back to their car on time. e on-campus parking congestion problems inu- enced the change. “We noticed that long lines were forming at the meters,” Gilbride said. “We wanted to do something to make paying for park- ing faster and easier so stu- dents can get to class on time. “ With ParkMobile, 30 or more students can pay at a time without having to wait in line, Gilbride said. If the mobile meter ser- vices are successful, Gil- bride thinks the service will extend into many of the larger lots on campus, he said. is new service doesn’t change how the UA moni- tors parking spaces. “ParkMobile sends in- formation to us that goes out to the handheld tick- et-writing devices used to keep track of what spaces are paid for,” Gilbride said. “Ultimately, we want to of- fer students a more conve- nient way to pay for park- ing on campus.” As of Sept. 16, meters in the aected parking garag- es will no longer take credit cards. Students can still pay in person with cash, coin, or RazorBucks. To pay with a credit or debit card, customers must be signed up for ParkMobile. Regis- tering requires a car’s state and license plate informa- tion as well as the custom- er’s credit card data. “Anytime you put your credit information in the hands of a third party, you don’t really know where it’s going,” said Josh Mills, psy- chology and classical stud- ies major. “Just because it’s convenient doesn’t mean it’s good.” Parking fees are not in- creasing, but ParkMobile does charge 35 cents on top of the UA’s parking fee. While registering for Garage Payment Goes Mobile with New ParkMobile App by JASMINE REA ContributingWriter see BAND on page 3 Surfing Page 5 Couch Follow us on Twitter at uatrav.com by JACK SUNDRUP Staff Writer ““We wanted to do something to make paying for parking faster and easier so students can get to class on time. ” - Andy Gilbride, Parking and Transit education specialist
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! e purchase of a 16-acre plot behind the Garland park-ing garage, which is designat-ed to create more parking on campus in the future, was ap-proved by the UA System board of trustees in their bi-monthly meeting Friday.
! e board also approved a proposal to add the choice of a food and culinary science con-centration for food science majors and a proposal to add a German major for non-arts and science students in the depart-ment of world languages, litera-ture and cultures.
During the meeting, Chan-
cellor G. David Gearhart in-formed the board of trustees current standing for the UA.
! e UA had record enroll-ment this semester, bringing the total number of students to 23,199, he said. ! ere are 3,774 graduate students and 1,190 in-ternational students, which is an all-time high in both catego-ries.
Of all the universities in the country, the top 194 are consid-ered top tier universities. ! e UA is ranked 132nd out of the 194 top tier universities. If that list included only public univer-sities, UA would rank 68th out of the 118, he said.
Gearhart’s goal is for the UA
to be in the top 100 top tier uni-versities and in the top 50 pub-lic schools, he said.
“While we have pursued ex-cellence, we have remained af-fordable,” Gearhart said. “! e UA remains one of the least expensive schools in the South Eastern Conference.”
Among the 50 " agsta# uni-versities, the UA is less costly than 37 of them, according to Kiplinger’s Best Values in Pub-lic Colleges.
! e UA, however, is nation-ally ranked in many depart-ments. ! e architecture de-partment is ranked 20th in the country. In the Fulbright Col-lege of Arts and Sciences, the
physics department is ranked 113th, and the creative writing department is ranked 38th. ! e business college is ranked 27th. ! e departments of poultry sci-ence, animal science and food science are consistently ranked among the top 10 nationally, ac-cording to U.S. News and World Report.
! e Razorback Marching Band is the $ % h largest in the nation, Gearhart said.
! e UA System includes seven schools throughout the state. Representatives from each school attend the meetings to get di# erent proposals ap-proved and to express any con-cerns for their schools.
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Speakers at the Friday dedi-cation of the new Nanoscale Material Science and Engi-neering Building called the UA and the state of Arkansas a fu-ture worldwide leader in nano-technology.
“! e program, started 16 years ago, will now consolidate the spectrum of tools profes-sionals use,” said Chancellor G. David Gearhart. “Universities around the state will also be a part of the new nanotechnol-ogy program.”
Gov. Mike Beebe thanked the General Assembly and UA o& cials for funding research
programs in times of economic distress.
“We’ve got some stars here at the UA, and we want to keep them here,” Beebe said.
! e program is projected as a $50 million investment. $40 million has been raised, Gear-hart said.
A% er 16 years, the nan-otechnology program has grown to 25 tenure-track fac-ulty members. ! e faculty, students and postdoctoral as-sociates publish more than 150 journal papers a year, accord-ing to information distributed at the event.
Jim Phillips, CEO of Nano-Mech, a Fayetteville nanotech-nology company that has con-
tributed to the program, pre-sented a check for $375,000 with a promise of “more to come” to the UA.
“We get asked why we’re not in Silicon Valley or the Re-search Triangle a lot,” Phillips said. “Well, we have the great opportunity to create the epi-center of nanotechnology.”
Nanotechnology products will amount to $3 trillion in market value within four years, Phillips said.
“! e nano market is the fastest-growing technology in mankind’s history,” he said.
“! e nanotech race is the great game of the 21 century,” said Scott Livingston of New York-based Livingston Securities.
“! e country that $ rst de-velops this technology will be the frontrunner in the eco-nomic boom that comes from it,” he said.
! e design and construc-tion of the new building were very precise. Some rooms are constructed with vibration iso-lation to prevent any interfer-ence. Other rooms have elec-tromagnetic wave isolation and ultra sensitive temperature control. ! e building was de-signed by Virginia $ rm HDR Inc. and constructed by local $ rm CDI Contractors, accord-ing to information distributed at the event.
Beebe, Gearhart Dedicate NewNanotechnology Building
UAPD Officers WarnStudents About Break-Ins
by ERIC EVRIDGEContributing Writer
GRACE GUDE STAFF PHOTGRAPHERGovernor Mike Beebe gives his remarks at the ribbon-cutting and dedication of the Nanoscale Material Science and Engineering Building Friday. Nanoscience is dedicated to “uncovering new ways to engineer faster, smarter electronics; devices that can identify and treat diseases at an earlier stage; and solar cells that can help reduce dependency on foreign oil.”
At least 12 vehicles were broken into on Sept. 12 in Lot 72. Electronics and valu-ables were stolen and damages on win-dows occurred. UAPD o& cers are re-questing students remove all valuables from cars when leaving them parked in lots. Check the Traveler for more updates on this story.
There are no plans to move the Razorback band from lot 56 for practice, a UA parking and transit official said.
Lot 56 is a better alterna-tive than say, a grass field, said Gary Smith, director of transit and parking. “The issue would
be ending up with a lot of rain and a muddy field and that sort of thing. So they’ve always had a hard surface to practice on for their daily practice.”
The storage facilities avail-able, and the fact that the lot can be gated off is an advantage to the band, Smith said.
“[A number of years ago]
they moved them to a parking lot directly south of the admin-istrative services building, Lot 46. It had to be cleared out ev-ery afternoon at 3 p.m. so that the band could practice, so we ended up having to tow some cars from time-to-time,” Smith said. “It was a hassle for park-ing and it was a hassle for the
band waiting for us to clear the parking.”
The UA band directors are satisfied with the practice lot, UA band directors said.
“This is a great space,” said Christopher Knighten, UA
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UA students and profes-sors will be able to pay for parking using the smart phone application Park-Mobile, a UA parking and transit o& cial said.
Credit and debit card payment will no longer be accepted at UA parking ga-rages, with the exception of the Harmon parking ga-rage, said Andy Gilbride, parking and transit educa-tion specialist.
“If you’re sitting in class and your meter is about to expire, it’s di& cult to leave and make it back across campus,” Gilbride said. “But, the ParkMo-bile app not only sends a noti$ cation when the me-
ter’s about to expire, it al-lows students to pay quick-ly without trekking back across campus.”
! e cellphone applica-tion is available on all ma-jor smart phone brands.
“I don’t have a smart phone,” said Cristin Car-roll, an anthropology and sociology major.
For students who don’t have access to the applica-tion, ParkMobile also of-fers a phone-in option as well as allowing customers to pay online.
Call transactions take 30 seconds to initiate, ac-cording to the ParkMobile website.
ParkMobile is a nation-al parking payment service used for both public and private lots and garages. ! e company works with parking providers to make paying at meters faster and more convenient for cus-tomers who can’t make it back to their car on time. ! e on-campus parking congestion problems in" u-enced the change.
“We noticed that long lines were forming at the
meters,” Gilbride said. “We wanted to do something to make paying for park-ing faster and easier so stu-dents can get to class on time. “
With ParkMobile, 30 or more students can pay at a time without having to wait in line, Gilbride said.
If the mobile meter ser-vices are successful, Gil-bride thinks the service will extend into many of the larger lots on campus, he said.
! is new service doesn’t change how the UA moni-tors parking spaces.
“ParkMobile sends in-formation to us that goes out to the handheld tick-et-writing devices used to keep track of what spaces
are paid for,” Gilbride said. “Ultimately, we want to of-fer students a more conve-nient way to pay for park-ing on campus.”
As of Sept. 16, meters in the a# ected parking garag-es will no longer take credit cards. Students can still pay in person with cash, coin, or RazorBucks. To pay with a credit or debit card, customers must be signed up for ParkMobile. Regis-tering requires a car’s state and license plate informa-tion as well as the custom-er’s credit card data.
“Anytime you put your credit information in the hands of a third party, you don’t really know where it’s going,” said Josh Mills, psy-chology and classical stud-ies major. “Just because it’s convenient doesn’t mean it’s good.”
Parking fees are not in-creasing, but ParkMobile does charge 35 cents on top of the UA’s parking fee.
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Continuing the trend of “going green,” UA professors and students found an eco-friendly way to extract antioxi-dants from grape skins.
! e goal of the re-search is to “recover valu-able antioxidants from waste products,” said Luke Howard,a professor in the food science de-partment who is working the research project, and to prevent them from go-ing to compost or animal feed.
Jerry King, a chemi-cal engineering pro-fessor, and Luke Howard,received a grant for $350,000 over four years from the United States Department of Ag-riculture, said Melissa Bl-ouin, who wrote a press release on the research.
! e grant money cov-ers funding for the gradu-ate students, and provides money to buy necessary equipment,Howard said.
! e research is a col-laboration between the
Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences, and the College of Engineering.
Seven students ranging from freshmen to doctor-ate degrees are working on the research, said Jerry King.
! ere is also an inter-
national scientist from Spain working on the project, Howard said.
! e research group fo-cused on green methods of extracting antioxidants from grape skins, which are usually thrown away a" er juicing,King said. “! e skins are historical-ly used for animal feed,” King said. “! ey ferment quickly.”
Usually the antioxi-dants are extracted us-ing a bio-ethanol sol-vent, which is expensive and produces toxic waste. ! e research group has
replaced the organic sol-vents with pressurized hot water in a process called subcritical water processing, King said. ! e water remains a liq-uid when pressurized and behaves similarly to etha-nol, Howard said.
In addition to less toxic
extraction methods, the research has “maximized the uses of [the grape] waste,” Blouin said.
Antioxidants degrade quickly a" er extrac-tion. To preserve the # a-vonoids, or antioxidant found in grapes, they are freeze dried within 10-25 minutes a" er the pressur-ized heating and turned into a powder.
Antioxidants are “sub-stances that may protect your cells against the ef-fects of free radicals,” which can cause cancer or clog arteries, accord-
ing to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
! e antioxidant will act as a supplement and will be added to food to “enhance the health val-ue,” King said.
! e extracted antioxi-dants will have to be re-searched on a larger scale and approved by the Food and Drug Administration before reaching the mar-ket, Howard said.
! e grape skins are from the UA farm’s vine-yard and California, King said. ! e grapes used in research have typically been used for winemak-ing or juicing.
! e research group has extracted antioxi-dants from several types of grapes, and the results were all similar,King said.
! e lab uses about four or $ ve times more wa-ter than pomace, which is the grape waste, said Howard, and usually ex-tracts $ ve to ten grams of antioxidants.
It is a small-scale re-search lab, Howard said. ! e most antioxidants ex-tracted is 100 grams.
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Diversity: Promoting Diversity andInclusion at the University of Arkansas"Promoting Diversity and Inclusion" will be present-ed by the Employee Development Program in the Union from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 21Nadi Cinema - Daybreak (Iran 2005)! is week, the $ lm club will screen “Daybreak” at 7 p.m. in Mullins Library Room 104. ! e $ lm follows Mansour, a convicted felon, as he sits on death row awaiting judgment by his victim’s family. However, they have failed to appear for his hearing, leaving him stuck in the purgatory of his mind. ! e $ lm is based on true stories and shot inside Tehran’s main prison.
Thursday, Sept. 22Study Abroad Fair! e annual Study Abroad Fair will be at the Union from 10 a.m to 2 p.m.
No Impact Man Movie ScreeningAs a part of the One Book, One Community project, the Fayetteville Public Library will screen the $ lm “No Impact Man” in the Walker Community Room 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ! e event is free and open to the public.
director of athletic bands. “We’re very fortunate to have the assistance of the athletic department, the university administration and the parking and traffic on campus to allow us to have this facility. This is ideal for us.”
Some band students would like the band to have a dedicated practice field.
“We do deserve a better facility because our band is two percent of the student population—so seeing as our band is so big I think we deserve a little bit bet-ter than a parking lot,” said Samantha Vital, sophomore band student.
“For football themselves to have four fields to prac-tice on, they can’t possi-bly practice on all four in my belief, so I think they should share the area in the pavilion,” Vital said. “A turf field would be perfect because we do perform on turf almost all the time. To get accustomed to the turf field—it would be helpful.”
“Since our football team is so big in the nation they do deserve some perks so that they can continue to be a better team, but they also need to find ways to dis-tribute money evenly and not just focus on one thing because then things like ac-ademics and extracurricu-lar will suffer,” Vital said.
Other students view the band as support for the football team.
“We like the football team,” said Anna Hall, sophomore band student. “I mean we like them because that’s what we do at games but they do get more of the facilities than we do.”
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and using the app is very simple, student reactions are mixed.
“An extra charge for the convenience isn’t worth it.” Carroll said. “! e meters should still take debit cards so students who don’t want to sign up for the app can still pay. I never carry cash on me.”
One student would pre-fer to avoid the parking ga-rages.
“I’d rather park o# cam-pus and take the bus than pay an additional fee to pay with my card,” said Lacey Khilling, English major.
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Twitter Accounts Make Fun of Individualism
I’ve never prided myself with time management. I don’t know if it’s one of those cases where I can blame it on my upbringing, or if I’ve just developed the bad habit myself, but most people I know understand that if I say I will be somewhere at noon, I really mean 12:20 p.m.
A$ ected also is how I spend my time. While I understand it’s most e% cient and conducive to spend my free time studying, I still blow a lot of time on things such as Facebook.
In the last six months however, I’ve become addicted to Twitter. I don’t “tweet” every day, but time I know I could use di$ erently is of-ten spent reading others’ tweets. It sounds like a giant waste of time if you don’t use the website, but if you do you may understand where I’m coming from.
A couple of months ago I dis-covered the now popular pro" le, “UofA_Fresh_Move,” which twit-ter bio reads, “Some this in life are avoidable, being a freshmen however— is not. Total Freshman
Moves, straight from the Univer-sity of Arkansas.”
If you follow the pro" le, you’ve noticed the trend by now that any-thing one does that could be re-motely a “fresh move,” meaning something a freshman would do has made it on the pro" le.
“Painting your face for the freshman pep rally. #totalfresh-move,” the account said.
Anyone who used their sched-ule to " nd their classes before the " rst day of the semester, has sport-ed their free student section t-shirt or who has worn cargo shorts should be ashamed as per the ac-count.
Now, at " rst glance the account has some humor, props to the au-thor; but at whose cost are we laughing?
While it’s fair to use the ac-count, what isn’t right is to make somebody feel insigni" cant be-cause of their want to locate their classes, or their dress code.
A similar account is UofA_House_Mom: “Your Mom away from home. You girls are crazy.”
! ough the grammar here is correct, though the syntax is awk-ward.
! is account also has some humor to it; the approximately 650 followers of the account read tweets concerning the etiquette of sororities on campus.
“Girls, get dressed like ladies before you come to the kitchen to eat. Give our cute houseboys a reason to love their jobs. #Mom-knowsbest,” the account said.
Yes, the same “Mom” who ac-knowledges, “Girls, I know it’s
! ursday night and you are going to party but don’t drink & drive. Call safe-ride, because lord knows I won’t be sober,” the account said.
It makes perfect sense to take the advice of that house mom.
While in reality it’s most likely a student, remember who is being represented.
Taking a closer look at the ac-count, it also takes a stab at dress, noting that in the recent cold front, it’s unacceptable for girls to wear Ugg boots. Moreover, if attending a Razorback game, “Don’t wear a tee,” because it isn’t a high school game, “dress please.”
Yes, make sure you’re dressed up to call those Hogs, or was it to please the house boys?
Again, the point of the account is humor, but it’s grossly over-stepped its boundaries. ! is year, there are more than 1,000 sorority girls on campus — not all of them dress the same, or believe in the same cult of domesticity.
If you wore your Ugg boots because they were comfortable in this cold front, more power to you.
Finally there is an account giv-ing “Style tips for all the Fratty Hogs,” or UofA_Frat_Style.
! e best grammar of the three.! is account seems a little
more docile, o& en publicizing that it’s purely made for humor.
What is obviously not a joke though are its positions on attire.
“Jean capris don’t look good on anybody, but they especially don’t look good on men #hipstertrash,” according to the account.
I’ll cede that jean capris aren’t one of the most # attering articles
of clothing, but I’ve seen a tons of people that can pull it o$ .
! ough, the discourse is out-rageous. Calling somebody trash just because they dress di$ erently ranks with other horri" c prejudic-es such as racism.
Nobody should have to wake up in the morning and worry about being posted on a Twit-ter account because of his or her choice in clothing.
! e inherent problem isn’t with the accounts, on even solely the content, but it’s the destruction of individualism.
Which brings me to the UA’s “YOU of A” campaign, which, while is bovine, has good inten-tions. With a record number of enrolled students, we should be rejoicing in the individualism, not indicting it.
! e accounts have not just blurred, but clearly leaped the boundaries between what is hu-morous and just hateful.
With all the followers of these Twitter accounts, they should be used for good, not for demoraliz-ing fellow students.
So if in this weather you bust-ed out your Ugg boots, or you wear jean capris or do anything that could be considered a “fresh move;” rock on. Live with pride, and remember, you’re doing your part in one of Fayetteville’s core mottos, “Keep Fayetteville Funky.”
Joe Kieklak is a Traveler colum-nist. His column runs every Mon-day. He is a freshman majoring in philosophy and journalism.
Creating a More Intelligent, Accepting America
John F. Kennedy once said, “All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal op-portunity to develop our talent.”
For the thousands of us here at the university, perhaps coming to college was just the natural course of life. We graduate high school and go on to earn our bachelors degree, just as our older siblings had or just as our parents had be-fore us. At least it was for me. ! e thought of not being able to go to college never even crossed my mind—I grew up with the mind set that continuing my education was simply the next step, just like the progression of going from el-ementary school to middle school.
However, for thousands of students across the United States, the idea of going to college with a promise of a future is a dream,
one they have been " ghting for throughout the last decade.
! ese students, and many oth-ers, have been struggling for years to get the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act passed in Congress.
! e proposed legislation allows illegal immigrant children the op-portunity to earn a pathway to be-come American citizens, as long as they meet certain conditions. ! e children must graduate from a U.S. high school or obtain a GED, have arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16 and be less than 35 years of age, have lived in the U.S. contin-uously for at least " ve years, have good moral character and have no criminal charges. ! e immigrants are allotted a six-year conditional period where they must graduate from a two-year community col-lege, ful" ll two years towards a four -year program or serve in the mili-tary for at least two years. If, a& er six years, the student meets these conditions, he or she will be able to apply for lawful permanent resi-dency.
A similar bill to the D.R.E.A.M. Act was " rst introduced in Con-gress in 2001, although under a di$ erent name. Since then, it has been renamed, amended, reintro-duced, attached to various other bills and has failed to pass over and
over again. So what is the harm in allow-
ing children who have grown up in America, who consider Amer-ica their home, a path to becom-ing residents of this country? Why should innocent kids su$ er for be-ing brought here, when they are not at fault?
! ere are more than 2.1 mil-lion people eligible to apply for legal status under this legislation, however, a study estimates that ap-proximately 38 percent or 825,000 of those people would likely obtain permanent legal status, according to the Migration Policy Institute.
Studies show that allowing these undocumented students a chance to citizenship will bene" t the United States, rather than do it harm, like many of the legislation’s opponents believe.
! e D.R.E.A.M. Act would reduce the dropout rate of im-migrant students, according to a study by the National Immigration Law Center.
! e increased number of im-migrants graduating high school and college would increase tax rev-enues and reduce government ex-penses, creating a large positive " s-cal impact, according to the study.
It addition, it would create a legal work force for thousands of people, which would help busi-
nesses and the economy. It allows people to give back to the coun-try through their education and knowledge.
Last year I interviewed a young undocumented girl, at a protest in support for the D.R.E.A.M. Act. She had told me that if the D.R.E.A.M. Act did not pass, she would move to Canada, where she had the chance of going to college with scholarships and aid. Why should children that are raised in America go to other countries to o$ er their knowledge?
Another undocumented stu-dent said to me, “! is is something that won’t only bene" t students, but also the community that they live in because all these students want to do is contribute back to the society that watched them grow for many years.”
! ese people have grown up in the American system, and if they are going to continue to stay here, they should be an established part of the society, instead of creating a pariah state of uneducated, un-documented an unwanted class of people. Incorporating them will create a more intelligent America.
Saba Naseem is the 2011-2012 Traveler editor. Her column runs bimonthly every other Monday.
Rocket Science
by Joe KieklakTraveler Columnist
FROM THE BOARD
Time to Rethink Senate Seat Allocation?With the " rst Associated Student Government Senate meet-
ing of the school year taking place Tuesday night at 6 p.m. —in the Walton College auditorium in case you’re interested in attend-ing— we hope that this increase, in not only competitiveness but interest in ASG, will help turn into more activity and thoughtful legislation from ASG Senate members.
Almost two-times the number of students voted in this year’s senate elections— 1,648 compared to 893. (Interestingly more students voted in the 2008 ASG Senate election; seventy-six stu-dents also ran for ASG Senate that year. Presidential election years generally bring more people into government process at every level, and with a likely competitive presidential election coming up next year, we look forward to see how the increased interest in ASG and increasing student population mix with a presidential election year.)
In addition, while 60 students ran for the ASG Senate, com-pared to the 51 of last year, more than half of those were in Ful-bright College. Approximately 33 students ran for Fulbright’s al-lotted 15 seats, compared to the 19 students from 2010.
While there is an increased interest, there is still a discon-nect between the number of students running per college, and the number of Senate seats allotted, particularly with Fulbright College.
For the past two years, Fulbright College has had more appli-cants than seats; it isn’t surprising as Fulbright College also has the largest number of students. At the same time, other election groups like the graduate and law school, had three students run for its 10 allotted seats. (To be fair, last year nine people ran, but " ve of those students were people that had been in ASG before, and many of them graduated.)
Senate Chair Grant Hodges has stated that he is against real-locating the number of seats given to each college, and, for the moment, we are too. Compared to past years’ numbers, it’s not as though Fulbright senators are suddenly representing a signi" -cantly greater number of students. (And considering how o& en students attend ASG meetings would it matter?)
But during the next few years, starting with this year, ASG executives should begin to look at how the increasing number of students a$ ects how many students run for ASG Senate, what col-leges they’re coming from and if realloting seats would be helpful. (Why not just allow Fulbright College to have 20 seats, and take a seat away from each of the other colleges which generally don’t have enough candidates anyway?)
In the past, and this year too, ASG members hold vacancy elections to help keep Senate as close to maximum capacity as possible. Vacancy elections are also university-wide (for example, last year during vacancy elections the open seats weren’t allotted by college and so, for example, students from the Walton Business College could get all of the open seats).
Vacancy elections are held every year, but all of ASG’s Senate seats are rarely full. Reallocating seats may not be the answer, but it’s something ASG members could keep in mind during the next few years.
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The Rowdy Beaver, a new bar and grill on Dickson Street behind Chipotle, fea-tures a full bar and serves up the food typical of such a place—burgers, chicken sandwiches, po’ boys, various wraps, salads—in a casual, sports-bar environment.
After a long day of class-es Tuesday, I was ready for a burger and fries.
I listened to several recom-mendations from the waiter and settled on Rowdy’s Orig-inal, a double-patty burg-er with everything on it for $6.99. For only $0.99 more, I added a side of hand cut fries, and I went with a Sam Adams Octoberfest draft for $4.00 to drink. The burger was tasty,
but nothing extraordinary. It reminded me of Stake n’ Shakes’ burgers—light on the burger and heavy on every-thing else. The waiter touted the double-patty burger as “enormous.” But, like at Stake n’ Shake, the patties were thin, easily less than a quar-ter inch thick. Loaded as the burger was, the taste of the beef got lost at times.
Still, the flavors were good overall—it just needed more actual burger. I especially no-ticed the cheese, grilled veg-gies and pickles coming to-gether nicely with the beef to make a nice flavor combina-tion. And by the time I was halfway through the burger, it was falling apart—always a good sign in my book.
Honestly, though, Hugo’s on Block Avenue has far bet-ter, and bigger, burgers for comparable prices.
The hand-cut fries, how-ever, were incredibly good.
They were fried and seasoned perfectly, and they didn’t have that slightly burnt after-taste that plagues so many hand-cut fries. I would hap-pily go back to the Rowdy Beaver, if only for a basket of fries and beer.
The service was good. The waiter knew the menu well and was quick to make sug-gestions based both on what was popular and what he per-sonally liked from the menu.
The atmosphere in the Rowdy Beaver was casual - more like a sports bar than anything else - a half-dozen TVs on the walls, all play-ing various muted, close cap-tioned ESPN shows, as mod-ern rock hits, courtesy of 104.9 the X, played over the restaurant’s sound system. Rowdy Beaver branded mer-chandise, ranging from cups and koozies to t-shirts and thongs, was on display be-hind the bar.
The Final Word! e Rowdy Beaver’s Rowdy’s
Original burger was good, but not great. For my money, there are far better places on Dickson Street to get burgers. ! e hand-cut fries, however, were excep-tionally tasty. I would de" nitely recommend them, especially as a snack to munch on while watch-ing a game on one of the Rowdy Beaver’s many TVs.
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Drinks: $1.50+ (Full Bar – $5 credit card minimum)
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Jake Olson plays his guitar Tuesday, September 13, during Open Mic Night on the patio at the Rowdy Beaver located at the corner of Dick-son Street and West Avenue.
by EDDIE GREGGStaff Writer
Students who love the per-forming arts o# en can’t attend performances because of expen-sive ticket prices. But with an up-coming series at the Walton Arts Center, they’ll be able to. ! e WAC will host 10 performances for $10 each this season as a part of its 10x10 Arts Series.
! is year’s 10x10 lineup is comprised of a variety of ac-claimed productions, including the San Francisco Jazz Collective and nine-time Grammy winners the Emerson String Quartet.
“It’s a fun and easy way for people to experience di$ er-ent types of art,” said Amanda Smith, marketing coordinator for the Walton Arts Center. “! e 10x10 series o$ ers theater, dance and music at a great price.”
! e series is in its second year at the WAC a# er an extremely successful " rst season.
“Last year was the " rst time we did the 10x10,” Smith said. “We weren’t sure how it would do, but it was a great turnout. We had solid numbers at each show, so we knew we had to do it again.”
! e series is a part of a larger e$ ort by the WAC to provide a$ ordable access to the arts for college students in Northwest Arkansas.
! e WAC also o$ ers a 50 per-cent discount for student tick-ets to many of the center’s larger productions, including Broad-way shows. ! is season, tickets to West Side Story and the Blue Man Group, among others, are eligible for student prices, al-though tickets to Mary Poppins are not included in the price re-duction.
! e series is also o$ ering a play for the " rst time this year, Aquila ! eatre’s ! e Importance of Being Earnest.
“[! e play] received rave re-views from the “New York Times” and we’re very excited to be able to o$ er it here,” Smith said.
Creating a diverse lineup that includes a variety of art forms is a major consideration for the WAC when planning each sea-son, Smith said.
“! ere are a mixture of things that we want to bring in, and we have to decide where all of these shows " t into our program-ming,” Smith said, adding that shows chosen for the 10x10 se-ries are o# en produced by small-er touring companies.
! e 10 shows are scheduled between October 2011 and June 2012. ! e majority of this sea-son’s productions occur during the spring semester, with only two shows scheduled before the end of the year.
“A lot of these are great shows that we want to get out there, and since they’re a lot smaller than big Broadway shows they’re a great " t for the 10x10,” she said.
While student attendance is a major consideration for the 10x10 series, WAC productions maintain a wide audience demo-graphic throughout the North-west Arkansas community that is also able to appreciate the re-duced ticket prices.
“People who normally come to music shows want to check out dance and di$ erent art forms, and this is a good way to expe-rience it at a discounted price,” Smith said.
While tickets to the 10x10 se-ries are available at the same price to every buyer, other WAC student discounts are available to UA students as well as those enrolled in any other college, ju-nior college or community col-lege, according to the WAC web-site.
! e series begins on Oct. 9 with the Emerson String Quar-tet. A full schedule of events, as well as tickets for the 10x10 Se-ries and any other WAC pro-ductions can be purchased at www.waltonartscenter.org or at the WAC box o% ce on Dickson Street.
Walton Arts Center O! ers A! ordable
Events for Studentsby KATHERINE BARNETT
Staff Writer
A Chinese man strolls around Boston, meeting someone at a co$ ee shop with whom he has never spoken. A woman from Germany explores Australia, shown around by locals she met only an hour before.
! ese sound like the stories of people on a study abroad trip or maybe even a summer vacation with family. But they are actually examples of people taking advan-tage of Couchsur" ng.net, an on-line travel site that has grown to international proportions.
Users from around the world can choose any place they’d like to visit—say a French woman has always wondered what Australia was like, or a man from Turkey has always been fascinated with Argentina—and " nd a couch to ‘surf.’ ! e site has dedicated users who o$ er their homes as free places to stay for these travelers as they enter the great unknown.
Users create a pro" le and indi-cate whether they would be will-ing to host a couchsurfer on their couch, or they can set their pro" le to indicate that they would like to meet up for co$ ee or a drink in-stead. Traveling couchsurfers can choose a place to stay from the ar-ray of available couches.
! e website has contributed
to one of the largest cultural ex-changes of modern times; more than 300 unique languages are spoken by Couchsur" ng users. In a week, the site facilitates about 40,000 real-life introductions on average, 80 percent of which re-ceive positive ratings from both parties, according to a Stanford University study. ! ere have been an estimated 3.5 million friend-ships formed from Couchsur" ng.net, from within the United States to around the globe.
It has helped make traveling more accessible for those short on time or low on cash by giving them a place to stay. But sopho-more Andrea Love found some-thing more than just a couch to sleep on by using the site; she formed valued friendships with those she stayed with while trav-eling on a road trip across the United States.
“I met Amanda in New Mex-ico who had puzzles all over her home in various stages of comple-tion. Stephen and Tisha, a couple in Arizona, called their home ‘the hippie castle’ - it was so beautiful and cozy. She was a midwife and he was a yoga instructor/barista,” Love said.
Love began using Couchsurf-
ing.net at the end of her senior year of high school, when she wanted to take a senior trip but without spending a large amount of money.
“At the end of my senior year of high school, my best friend Pete and I were talking about taking a trip somewhere, and he told me about Couchsur" ng as a cheap way to travel and meet awesome people. It was super easy to set up a pro" le,” Love said.
Despite being skeptical at " rst, Love found that using Couch-sur" ng opened up a wide variety of sights and opportunities while traveling, not available from stay-ing in a hotel.
“Amanda took us to the state park next door to her house, and up on top of a mesa where we could see the whole village. I am sure I would never have met these people, or been directed to the
awesome places we saw, had it not been for our Couchsur" ng hosts,” Love said.
In addition to facil-itating places to stay for weary travelers, Couchsur" ng also
helps build relationships between travelers.
“! e " rst time I was active in Couchsur" ng was when I spent " ve months in Dresden, Ger-many,” said Will Davis, a grad-uate student. “I did not have many friends there, and through Couchsur" ng, I met up with some like-minded German veg-
ans and really felt at home. I think Couchsur" ng helps build a more trustworthy and open-minded world. It feels good to welcome practical strangers into your home, talk, cook, and go to a bar or venue, and then feel like you've gained something wonderful when they head on to their next destination.”
Since last August, Davis has hosted 35 people from Canada to Taiwan.
“! e people I’ve met have taught me so much about di$ er-ent cultures, food and languages. Plus, the surfers and I have each other as international friends,” Davis said. “! ey know they will always have a place to stay with me, and I with them.”
Still, there are those who are skeptical about the website, un-
sure of the safety of its overall use and the authenticity of its users.
“! ere are a lot of things about the Internet that scare me, not the least of which being that you can never really know if someone is who they say they are. It’s one thing to be put in danger over the Internet, but to go to someone’s home that you’ve never met and don’t really know seems a little too far,” said junior Brandon Butler.
! ough the Internet itself is of-ten seen as risky, Love stressed the safety of the site and the several di$ erent ways that someone us-ing the site could " nd out more about their host family and con-tact them directly.
“I had some concerns when I " rst heard about it, but once I got on the website I was complete-ly assured of its safety. We only
chose to stay with people who had pictures on their pro" les, tes-timonials from other users, and were ‘vouched for’ by several oth-er members, meaning they were highly trusted by those people. We had a very positive experi-ence,” Love said.
! ough various aspects of the Internet are risky, the Internet’s prevalence is the primary reason for the overall success of groups like Couchsur" ng.
“Looking at even " ve, ten years ago, things like this could have never been possible. Technology, connection through the Internet, has made making international, global friendships a reality for nearly anyone,” said sophomore Breana Patterson. “! is website has brought people together liter-ally from around the world.”
MARY MCKAY STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFreshman Kristina Buchanan takes a nap during the day. Couchsurfing helps people find places to stay all over the world.
by ZACH WILSON Contributing Writer
Couchsurfi ng Connects Travelers, Promotes Trust
“I think couchsur" ng helps build a more trustworthy and open-
minded world.” - Will Davis, Graduate Student
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No. 13 Arkansas’ game against Troy didn’t go as smoothly as the Razorbacks’ first two wins, but the Hogs were able to hold on after a lackluster second half in their final tune-up for No. 2 Ala-bama.
The Trojans outscored Ar-kansas in the second half, but the Razorbacks held on for a 38-28 win in front of 69,861 fans at Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
Troy trailed 24-0 late in the first half, but cut the defi-cit to 31-21 in the third quar-ter. The Trojans outscored the Hogs 21-14 in the second half and Arkansas turned the ball over three times in the half.
“The positives were the
way we started the game,” Arkansas coach Bobby Petri-no said. “We came out of the locker room and started fast. I wasn’t really happy with the way we finished the game. We’ve got a lot to work on to get ready for Alabama.”
The Razorbacks outscored Missouri State and New Mex-ico 103-10 in its first two games, but struggled to put the Trojans away after build-ing a 24-0 lead in the first half.
“We come out first off and the first three possessions were scoring drives, boom, boom, boom,” junior quar-terback Tyler Wilson said. “They felt good. Then they started bringing some stuff out of nowhere. We’ll go back and look at it on film. I think this is a positive for us in-stead of a negative. There’s a
lot of stuff we can take from it.”
The win set the stage for an undefeated showdown with the Crimson Tide, the second consecutive year the Hogs and Alabama will be undefeated and ranked in the matchup.
“Obviously we’ve got a lot of work to do,” Wilson said. “You want to come in and beat the heck out of Troy, but taking the positive out of it, you want to have a good grind where you play four quarters before you step into Alabama. That’s the posi-tive I’m taking from this and I think we’ll be ready come Saturday.”
Troy outgained Arkansas 457-454 and had eight of-fensive plays of 20 yards or more. The Razorbacks forced just one turnover and record-
ed just one sack.“We still gave up too many
long plays,” defensive coor-dinator Willy Robinson said. “We started out fast in the first half and started out fast in the second half, but some-thing happened along the line where we didn’t execute. To have [Troy quarterback Corey Robinson] throw 63 times and still only have one sack and one interception, there’s still something about our rush.”
“We have the best rush-ers we’ve had here in a long time, so we’ve got to figure that out.”
Wilson completed 23 of 36 passes for 303 yards and two touchdowns. He also threw a third-quarter interception re-turned 53 yards for a touch-down by Troy safety LaDarri-us Madden, pulling the Tro-
jans within 31-21 with 6:12 left in the third quarter.
“They blitzed us a lot,” Petrino said. “I think there was one time they blitzed us nine times in a row.”
Senior receiver Joe Adams fumbled after a catch and on a punt return in the sec-ond half, but gave the Hogs a cushion after the Trojans pulled within 10. He turned a short catch from Wilson into a 56-yard touchdown recep-tion, making three Troy de-fenders miss and outrunning another to the endzone early in the fourth quarter.
“It was huge for us,” Petri-no said. “He made a great play. They tightened the score. We hadn’t moved the ball real well the last two drives, then
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I’m in shock. I can’t quite process what just happened.
I sit in my living room on Monday night thinking there must be a typo on the ESPN website. I just lost the opening weekend of my fantasy foot-ball?!
! at is right, fantasy football, that is the only thing that I am worried about. Not about the Cowboys loss or how my Seat-tle Seahawks managed to throw away a game by letting two kick returns go for touchdowns or how Kansas City looked like and eighth-grade team against the Bu" alo Bills, of all teams.
! e only thing that I am worried about is my fantasy football team, which made me think, how can something that has “Fantasy” in the name mean more to me than my favorite team?
Sure, there is the theory that I am a huge nerd and it re-ally shouldn’t mean this much to me, which, to a degree, is true, but in fact fantasy foot-ball should mean more to peo-ple than actual NFL football be-cause it is more personal.
When the Dallas Cowboys or the Atlanta Falcons win on Sundays do you personally gain anything from it? You aren’t the one scoring the touchdowns or making the millions of dollars, you personally don’t gain any-thing from one NFL team beat-ing another NFL team.
When you bring fantasy football into the mix these are suddenly your players; Calvin Johnson is MY receiver and he is on MY fantasy team. A per-sonal element has been added to the fantasy game when you begin to claim players as your own.
As these players become yours the interest level in their performance naturally begins to rise. ! is explains why I spent last Sunday a# ernoon watching the entire San Diego Chargers game. I didn’t watch it because I am an avid Chargers fan (which I’m not), but because I needed Vincent Jackson to gain at least 100 yards and a touchdown if I expect to win (which I didn’t).
Fantasy Football has turned a team sport into an individual sport.
Not since LeBron James en-tering the NBA has a team sport seemed so individual to the au-dience. I could really care less about how well the Cowboys do this season, but what I do care about is that Felix Jones and Dez Bryant get their fantasy points.
! ere is also a $ ipside to players becoming your own, which means other players are not. It is the creation of the “oth-er”, what isn’t yours; is the en-emy, especially if he is on your opponent’s team this week.
If you have Desean Jackson, every touchdown pass that Mike Vick throws to Jeremy Maclin are points taken o" of your scoreboard. ! is seems obvious because it is, it’s just another way that fantasy football turns the
by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor
Hogs Hold Off TrojansRYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Arkansas senior receiver Joe Adams and No. 13 Razorbacks jumped out to a 24-0 fi rst-half lead against Troy, but had to hold o! the Trojans in the second half of their 38-28 win Saturday at Reynolds Razorback Stadium.
CONTESSA SHEW STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas junior running back Ronnie Wingo ran for a career-high 109 yards and scored three total touchdowns in the Razorbacks’ 38-28 win against Troy.
Saturday, Sept. 17Reynolds Razorback Stadium
Fayetteville, Ark.
Arkansas junior running back Ronnie Wingo put to-gether a career day in the Ra-zorbacks’ final tune-up for No. 2 Alabama and its physi-cal defense.
The 6-foot-3, 231-pound-er ran for a career-high 109 yards and had three total touchdowns – two rushing, one receiving – in the Razor-backs’ 38-28 win over Troy, producing the best perfor-mance by a Hog running back this season.
“It’s just a blessing that it happened,” Wingo said. “I feel like there’s more to come…just got to get ready for Alabama next week.”
The Razorbacks ended the first half on a high note, rush-
ing for 105 yards. Arkansas was 2-for-2 in the red zone and converted a fourth-and-1 with a 21-yard touchdown run by Wingo with six min-utes remaining in the first quarter. He also had a 22-yard touchdown run less than two minutes into the game.
“I was really, really en-couraged with the way Ron-nie Wingo was running the ball and our offensive line blocking in the run game,” coach Bobby Petrino said. “I thought he ran the ball well. He did a good job in the pass game.”
Fresh off of two victories – the first a 51-7 win over Mis-souri State and the second a 52-3 defeat over New Mexico at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock – Wingo said he and his teammates weren’t as
focused as they should have been in the second half.
The Razorbacks struggled at times in the second half, only managing 46 yards on 19 carries, while the Trojans outscored the Hogs 21-14 and pulled within 10 points twice.
Wingo said it was a wake-up call that anything could happen, but despite a few missteps he said, “we found a way to pull it out.”
Wingo wasn’t the only running back on the team that had a big day. Junior running back Dennis John-son ran for 20 yards on four carries in his first game in more than one year.
NFL into an individual sport. Not only are you cheering
for one player to do well you are also openly cheering for another player to do bad. You don’t want your points going to someone else.
Going into last Monday night I am up on my opponent by 25 points and he has Tom Brady le! to play. I sat there in disbelief as Tom Brady did the
unthinkable, throwing for 511 yards and 4 touchdowns.
Now, I like Tom Brady, I had him on my team last year, but I had to sit and watch him single handedly destroy me on the last day. I spent the rest of the week cursing his name and the only reason was because he was on my opponent’s team.
" e landscape of football is changing, more people are watching, sponsorship is grow-ing and the NFL has never been stronger. Fantasy football has
created a new audience for the NFL – the people who watch for fantasy purposes.
" e NFL is evolving into an individual sport in the eyes of the fan thanks to the growing number of fantasy footballers.
Does this make us bad fans? No, it just means we care
more about OUR teams than the NFL’s.
Harrison Stan# ll is a guest columnist for " e Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Monday.
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Joe made a great play. He broke a tackle, showed his speed and just changed the game back for us.”
Junior running back Ron-nie Wingo ran for a career-high 109 yards and two first-quarter touchdowns. Wingo’s 22-and 21-yard touchdown runs put the Hogs ahead 14-0 after eight minutes.
“To see him get to his ac-
celeration, we all know he’s very fast, but it’s how quick you can get to it,” Petrino said. “He’s worked very, very hard at that. He came out and certainly showed it in the first half.”
Arkansas extended the lead to 24-0 before Troy got on the board when quarter-back Corey Robinson found sophomore receiver Eric Thomas for a 3-yard touch-down pass with seven sec-
onds left in the first half. The Trojans scored just
once in the first half, but racked up 255 yards of of-fense in the half . Robinson finished with 373 yards and three touchdowns.
“They did a good job ex-ecuting their pass game,” Petrino said. “They always do. They get the ball out of their hand quick and have guys to make plays after the catch.”
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GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior running back Dennis Johnson made his season debut against Troy, racking up 74 all-purpose yards.
RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Senior linebacker Jerry Franklin had a team-leading nine tackles, but Arkansas’ defense surrendered 457 yards and gave up six passes of 20 or more yards in the Razorbacks’ 38-28 win against Troy.
The 5-foot-9, 213-pound-er missed the final 11 games of last season after suffering a bowel injury against Loui-siana Monroe in the sec-ond game last season, then missed the first two games this year with a hamstring in-jury.
Wingo and junior quar-terback Tyler Wilson said they were happy to see John-son back, though Wilson said there were times in the game when Johnson “got kind of tangled up as he was break-ing away.”
“Our running game can be very productive and if we want to be the offense that we can be we’ve got to have
that running game,” Wilson said. “I thought Dennis ran the ball really well at times. I thought there were some runs he might have a chance of really breaking, but he didn’t quite get there.”
Johnson, Arkansas’ ca-reer leader in kickoff return yardage, also lined up with true freshman receiver Mar-quel Wade at kick returner, a move Petrino said Thursday he wasn’t sure he’d make.
Johnson returned two kicks for 54 yards, including a 35-yarder as the first half ended.
“He sees things and can execute and accelerate real well,” Petrino said. “His vi-sion on kickoff returns is probably as good as anyone I’ve ever been around.”
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GAME STATISTICS ARK TROYFirst downs 26 22 by rushing 10 6 by passing 13 14 by penalty 3 2Rushing yards 151 84Passing yards 303 373Passing 23-36-1 36-63-1O! ensive plays 76 83Total yards 454 297Avg. per play 6.0 5.5Fumbles-Lost 3-2 2-0Penalties-Yds 4-27 7-75Punts-Avg. 5-43.2 6-40.2Punt returns-Yds 3-12 3-14Kicko! returns-Yds 3-76 4-92Interceptions-Yds 1-15 1-53-1Fumble returns-Yds 0-0 0-0-0Possession time 30:14 29:463rd downs 8 of 16 5 of 174th downs 1 of 1 2 of 4Sacks by-Yds 1-6 3-19
9-3 Missouri State W, 51-79-10 New Mexico 9-17 Troy 9-24 at Alabama10-1 Texas A&M10-8 Auburn10-22 at Ole Miss10-29 at Vanderbilt11-5 South Carolina11-12 Tennessee11-19 Mississippi State11-26 at LSU
