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! e Department of Parking and Transit recently installed camer-as on nearly all of the UA buses, a transit o" cial said.

“Most better transit systems have security cameras installed in them,” said Mike Seither, associate director of transit.

! e Federal Transit Authority administration requested that the department install the cameras, which are meant to keep students safe and keep drivers accountable in case of an accident, Seither said

“With the security cameras, we are better able to review customer courtesy put forth from the driver in con# ict, but even more impor-tantly, adjudicate vehicular acci-dents,” he said.

In the event of an accident, the cameras allow the transit depart-ment to discern the speed at which the bus was going, where the inci-dent took place, and what actually caused it to happen, Seither said.

“While we do not have many problems on the UA campus buses concerning poor behavior of riders,

it is helpful to have a record of what happened in any con# icts without all the ‘he said, she said,’” Seither said.

! e security cameras also dis-courage bad behavior, he said. When passengers know they are being recorded, they are less in-clined to act up.

“When riders recognize the fact that they will not be able to lie about their actions when later con-fronted, they are more likely to co-operate,” he said.

Students said they weren’t both-ered by the cameras.

“I’m used to security cameras everywhere, so it personally doesn’t bother me to see one on the bus I ride,” said Suzanne Murphy, fresh-man anthropology major.

Sophomore geography major Aaron Mills said the cameras make him feel safer.

“Based on the fact that it is a public transit opened to people o$ the campus along with UA students, I think it is a good idea,” Mills said. “I have had a few issues in the past with other people on the bus. If it was just the UA students riding the bus, I would be more lenient in say-ing we do not need them.”

Many of the buses recently pur-chased by the UA already had secu-rity cameras, Seither said.

“Since 2007, the UA has been buying buses already containing the cameras. We used a $60,000 federal grant to pay for these bus-es, which in actuality cost $75,000, leaving the UA to spend only $15,000,” Seither said.

All the buses now contain se-curity cameras and many of the older cameras have been recently replaced with a newer version, Sei-ther said.

“! ey are for our protection as well as the students,” said David Robinson, UA transit bus driver.

“! e video cameras catch every-thing that happens on the bus and in front of the bus so the account of what happened is not just our word.”

Robinson said he hopes one camera, the one positioned right behind the driver, won’t be used to spy on the driver.

“! e SafeRide vans on campus feature the video cameras as well,” said Josh Hilton, UA bus driver. “I think they are a good addition to this campus, they protect both the drivers and students of the UA.”

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University Housing o" cials are investigating the cost of put-ting air-conditioning in Hum-phreys Hall, but they have not given any dates for when the project will start or % nish, o" -cials said.

Construction crews started preparing the residence hall for air-conditioning during the $2 million of upgrades that be-gan this summer, said Florence Johnson, interim executive di-rector for University Housing.

! is work allows housing to upgrade to air-conditioning with little impact to student life, Johnson said. ! e cost of % nish-ing the project was estimated to be $850,000 to $900,000 by UA Housing and Facilities Manage-ment.

But the installation is in limbo because the department hasn’t raised the funds, Johnson said.

“For the next phase, we have only put together what is called a blue budget form,” she said. “A blue budget is a form Facili-ties Management uses to get all the cost of a project together.”

! e funding method for all UA housing programs and projects comes from revenue generated by student contracts and conference housing dur-ing the summer. Housing still needs money for installation and upkeep, Johnson said.

“! ere will probably be some type of increase to the rate of Humphreys,” Johnson said. “Because of the increased use of chilled water, that is how build-ings are air-conditioned. ! ere is still more work that has to be done in the mechanical room and there is also the connection to the main chilled line.”

! e UA has kicked around the idea of installing air-condi-tioning in Humphreys for years, but nothing has been done until this summer, said Reggie Hous-er, assistant director for facili-ties administration.

“I have been in my current position at Housing for over 20 years,” Houser said. “[Air-con-ditioning] has never gone two years without being discussed.”

Residents move into Hum-phreys in August, about a month before the weather cools, so air-conditioning has never been a high priority, Houser said. But that’s changed in recent years.

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! e Arkansas Music Pavilion could become a future venue for University Programs’ concerts once renovations are completed to the AMP, a university o" cial said.

On Sept. 14, University Pro-grams provided a free concert for students. Eli Young Band was originally set to perform at the Chi Omega Greek theater, but because of rain and construction the venue was change to the AMP, said Tri-sha Blau, program coordinator for the o" ce of student activities.

! is was the % rst event provid-ed by University Programs in the AMP.

At least 4,500 people attended the concert, Blau said.

“! at’s one of our biggest con-certs that we’ve had for University Programs, and it went over pret-ty smoothly and everything, so I would consider it a success,” Blau said.

With renovations set to begin on the AMP in October, Univer-sity Programs is contemplating using the AMP as a future venue, Blau said.

In February, the Walton Arts Center bought the AMP from Crowne, said Beth Goodwin, pub-lic relations manager for the Wal-ton Arts Center.

! e Walton Arts Center does cooperate with the UA by provid-ing venues and tickets for certain events, but booking events for the AMP would be determined by University o" cials and Crowne, Goodwin said.

“[Crowne] has been in discus-sions with the university about what shows potentially could be go to the AMP. Especially with the increased capacity, I think there is a signi% cant opportunity, but we don’t quite know what that will look like yet,” Goodwin said.

Crowne did not respond for comment about future endeavors between the University of Arkan-sas and the AMP.

! e Walton Arts Center is com-mitted to expand arts and enter-tainment in the region and the de-mand for bigger artists fueled the expansion of the AMP, Goodwin said.

“Increasing the capacity and creating a better artist and patron experience is going to signi% cant-ly increase our ability to book big acts,” Goodwin said.

Potential artists include James Taylor, Toby Keith and Maroon 5, Goodwin said.

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Fulbright advising will not change operations to accom-modate the record-breaking number of students.

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! e Latino student pop-ulation is the fastest grow-ing at the UA, with a 24 per-cent increase from last year, according to the 11th day enrollment report. With the growing numbers, the UA has started a new mentor-ing program for Hispanic students.

Conexiones Latinas mentoring program is a foundation created by the O" ce of Diversity A# airs and the Multicultural Cen-ter.

! e process for research-ing and benchmarking be-gan last year, but they did not solidify the goals and initiatives for the program until this year.

A$ er receiving some information on the Lati-no mentoring programs at George Mason University, Cedric Kenner, director of the Multicultural Center, started discussing the con-cept with Rafael Garcia, ad-

missions counselor.“Rafael gathered addi-

tional information and dis-cussed the concept with the Latino faculty, sta# and stu-dents,” Kenner said.

! e Multicultural Center and the o" ce of diversity af-fairs already o# ered a men-toring program in which participants were most-ly African American stu-dents. ! is year, however, they wanted to provide one for the Hispanic diversity as well, Kenner said.

“We are extremely excit-ed about the future and how it will have an impact on the retention of our Latino stu-dents,” Kenner said.

Alejandra Gonzalez, president of Conexiones La-tinas, has a goal to create a strong foundation for and would like to have a posi-tive, welcoming image for incoming freshmen as well as transfer students, he said.

Part of the mission of the mentoring program is to retain freshmen by pairing them with upperclassmen

that have been successful at the UA, Kenner said.

“We want to help stu-dents have a successful transition into the UA by providing a strong academ-ic and professional support network, and by promoting academic excellence and leadership through vari-ous programs and services,” Garcia said.

Upperclassmen and stu-dents familiar with campus and involved with organiza-tion will serve as mentors.

“Conexiones Latinas Mentoring Program is ben-e% cial to the Hispanic com-munity because it creates a support system for them,” Gonzalez said. “Transition-ing can be such a hard pro-cess, but by having this pro-gram, we are helping stu-dents be strong in their aca-demics and hopefully help-ing them develop a profes-sional network.”

! e Multicultural Center and the O" ce of Latino Ac-ademic Advancement and Community Relations are

currently % nancially assist-ing the program.

“Students who join will be volunteering as mentors and mentees,” Garcia said. “However, we are looking for incentives to o# er to those that participate.”

“Because this is such a new program, the events that we are planning to do are still being brain-stormed,” Gonzalez said. “However, our main fo-cus right now is to have the mentors build a good sup-port system with our men-tees.”

Mentors need to meet with their mentees at least twice a month and keep in contact through email, Facebook, text messaging and other communication conduits, according to the application.

! e % rst meeting was Sept. 14th and Conexiones Latinas members are in the process of electing o" cers and seeking a date for their next meeting.

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years it has become an is-sue to students, our weath-er seems to have gone bi-zarre on us, and that is an-other factor,” Houser said. “Due to the summer we just went through, it was one of the major things we have been considering. If we % nd out next June or July that it will be an un-seasonably hot summer, we can’t get it air-condi-tioned that fast.”

As of now, Humphrey’s has air-conditioning in study rooms and social rooms, but not in students’ rooms. Some students wondered if air-condition-ing would change the sense of community in Hum-phreys Hall, Houser said.

“It would be good, but it would change how ev-eryone is here. We would be like all the other build-ings,” said Arika Rhodes, freshman kinesiology ma-jor and Humphrey’s resi-dent.

Students o$ en meet in the large Humphrey’s lobby, called “the Great Room,” because of its air-conditioning.

“Everyone normally meets each other down here because it is the cold-est room in the whole building,” Rhodes said. “But air conditioning in rooms would also be good.”

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JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERCarlos Guzman (right) and Luis Inarra (left) take part in the Hispanic Mentor Program which provides vital assistance to incoming Hispanic freshman to become more acquainted with college life on every level. The program not only helps with school related guidance but also a network of friends for the Hispanic students.

SAMANTHA TUCKER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERAlyssa Samp, freshman, sleeps with her trusty fan close by in Humphreys Hall. The lack of air conditioning has become more of an issue for residents in recent years.

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as scheduled, in May 2012, the AMP will be a perma-nent amphitheater. Improve-ments will include 2,400 permanent seats, a VIP sec-tion, drainage and backstage amenities, a concession stand and air conditioned restroom, Goodwin said.

! e AMP’s current ca-pacity is 3,500 people in-cluding the lawn, but that capacity will be increased to 6,400 people.

! e AMP will also be turned 90 degrees and moved completely o" the blacktop. To increase visibil-ity, the tent will be raised 12 feet and a sloped lawn will be added.

“I don’t know if you have ever gone to Shogun or seen that view; it’s really beauti-ful. You can see Old Main; you can see the mountains and kind of like this lush hillside, so it will create a re-ally di" erent experience for people, and it will be more of a premier midsize venue,” Goodwin said.

Other amphitheaters around the country were used as a model for design-ing the AMP. One such the-ater was Chastain Park in Atlanta, Goodwin said.

! e 6,000-seat amphithe-ater is located on a 268-acre park. Chastain Park is home to the Atlanta Symphony Or-chestra and brings in audi-ences of more than 100,000 every summer, according to the Delta Classic Chastain Park Amphitheater, Good-win said.

! e renovation will cost an estimated $4.5 million. ! e money will come from fundraising, construction loans and a cash reserve. On Sept. 20, the Walton Arts Center board approved a construction loan of up to $1.5 million depending on how much is raised through private funders or sponsors, Goodwin said.

One donor is the Fayette-ville Advertising and Pro-motion Commission. ! e commission is donating $500,000, said Marilyn Hei-fner, advertising and pro-motion commission spokes-man.

“! e AMP new venue will allow for a bigger audi-ence and a di" erent type of entertainment with bigger acts,” Heifner said.

“It will bring in more people than just people in northwest Arkansas. ! ey will be eating here and stay-ing in hotels,” she said.

Someone from Northwest Arkansas attending a non-pro# t arts and cultural event spends an average of $23.34, not including the cost of ad-mission, and someone not from Northwest Arkansas spends more than $40 not including the ticket price, according to a Walton Arts Center economic impact study.

Last season, 80 percent of people that attended per-formances at the AMP were from outside of Washing-ton County, according to the Walton Arts Center.

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Undergraduate enrollment in UA colleges ranges from under 600 students to more than 7,500 students, mak-ing advising for each college unique.

Even with more than 4,400 freshmen on campus this fall and with 653 more under-graduate students than last fall, Fulbright advisers say not much within their advising program has changed.

“[Advising] is about the same time [of year] it’s been in the past,” said Trevor Francis, director of advising for Ful-bright College. “Its just fresh-men need to be proactive this year and be sure they get in.”

In Fulbright, # rst and sec-ond-year students are advised through the Fulbright Col-lege Advising Center, where they are given an academic adviser to help them manage core classes and future course planning. ! ird and fourth- year Fulbright students are given a departmental faculty adviser.

“Each department usually manages [advising] in a dif-ferent way,” Francis said.

Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences topped enroll-ment charts this fall with 7,504 undergraduate students, according to preliminary re-ports from the UA O$ ce of Institutional Research. Fay Jones School of Architecture # nished last in enrollment, ex-cluding the UA graduate and laws schools, with 560 under-graduate students.

To compare, Southern Arkansas University of Magnolia reported record enrollment during fall 2010, with total university undergraduate enrollment

topping 2,941 students. ! e University of Central

Arkansas also reported record freshmen enrollment for fall 2011, bringing the freshman class to 1,961 students, ac-cording to preliminary enroll-ment data.

Despite the university’s up-surge in enrollment, Fay Jones advisers also say their depart-ment remains relatively un-changed.

“[Enrollment] has a" ected us slightly, but it hasn’t over-whelmed us yet,” said Sheri Tuck, academic adviser for Fay Jones School of Architec-ture. “We’re getting there.”

First and second-year ar-chitecture students are ad-vised in the Fay Jones Advis-ing Center and during their third to # % h years, they are as-signed a faculty adviser. Inte-rior design students are given a faculty adviser their second year, while landscape-archi-tecture students are advised in the advising center each year.

Despite their numbers, be-ing the smallest college on campus has its bene# ts, Tuck said.

“Our students aren’t just numbers,” she said. “We know our students, our students know us.”

Fay Jones’ enrollment makes up nearly 2.5 percent of total UA enrollment while Fulbright’s undergraduate program makes up more than 30 percent, according to the UA OIR.

Even with a nearly 10 per-cent increase in undergradu-ate enrollment between last fall and this fall, Francis said the arts and sciences college and his administration have been prepared.

“Even this summer during orientation, things got tight,” he said. “But they always get

that way and the administra-tion responds by hiring addi-tional instructors and faculty to teach additional sections.”

“! ings always # ll up but departments have been very responsive in making sure, and our administration has been very responsive in mak-ing sure, that there are enough courses for Fulbright fresh-men and for other freshmen on campus,” he said.

“! e stress and concern about getting into classes and too-few classes is unneces-sary,” Francis said.

“We would have felt that during orientation,” he said. “I think orientation really gives people a snapshot of how to prepare better for the spring, and so the departments have been very responsive and they’re very prepared for the spring semester.”

! e Fulbright Advising Center has eight full-time professional advisers, two aca-demic counselors, two gradu-ate assistants, one student em-ployee, three assistant direc-tors, two associate directors and a director.

! e Fay Jones Advising Center has one academic ad-viser, a recruiter and a direc-tor of student a" airs.

“I am the academic advis-er,” Tuck said. “I am the only academic adviser.”

Tuck advises all # rst and second-year architecture stu-dents, all # rst-year interior design students and all land-scape-architecture students.

“It’s a lot of fun to see them start and # nish,” she said. “! e group I started with is in their fourth year. ! ey’ve grown up so much. It’s hard not to feel like their mother at times. It’s nice to know who they are.”

Fulbright Advising Will Not Change With Large Student BodyVol Walker Growing Pains

by BRITTANY NIMSStaff Writer

CRIME REPORT:

Thursday, Sept. 15Breaking Or Entering; Theft Of PropertyA sta" member reported someone stole the parking per-mit from her vehicle while the vehicle was parked in the Harmon Avenue Parking.

Friday, Sept. 16Possession Of A Controlled Substance (Marijuana)A student reported seeing drug paraphernalia on a table in a room in the Phi Delta ! eta Fraternity House. Re-sponding o$ cers referred the incident to the O$ ce of Ac-ademic Integrity and Student Conduct.

Saturday, Sept. 17Theft Of PropertyA student reported someone stole a television while it was unattended in a tailgating area in Lot 44 during the foot-ball game.

Monday, Sept. 19Criminal MischiefA sta" member reported someone painted gra$ ti on a wall in a restroom in Mullins Library.

Thursday, Sept. 22Theft Of PropertyAn employee of Chartwells Campus Dining Services re-ported an unidenti# ed person picked up sushi in the Union Food Court and ran out without paying for it.

KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERConstruction workers remove a tree during the renovation and expansion of Vol Walker Hall. The tree will be turned into a sculpture for the new addition.

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Bikes, Blues and BBQ: A Survival GuideOctober is already almost here and the roaring of bikes

can once again be heard across Fayetteville, which can only mean one thing— it’s almost time for Bikes, Blues & BBQ.

Love it or hate it—and it always seems to be one or the other—the festival which brings bikers and an influx of mon-ey into Northwest Arkansas starts tomorrow.

Luckily if you’re still buried beneath a pile of textbooks in the basement of Mullins you might be safe until this weekend, but eventually you’ll have to embrace or actively avoid our temporary guests.

While avoiding Dickson Street, and generally the down-time area, for the weekend might spare you the brunt of the event, if you’re an off-campus student we suggest that you hide in your apartment until Monday morning.

Or you could throw off the Bikes, Blues &BBQ annoyance that some students and Fayetteville residents have and ex-plore a subculture that takes over Fayetteville for less than a week a year.

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“You Never Know What You’re Gonna Get”

! ere have been a few events recently that have really made me stop and think about how life can sometimes randomly take a downturn, reminding me of the fact that life itself is a frag-ile and precious thing.

At the Razorback home game against Troy, a friend of mine was in attendance when she received a phone call, say-ing she needed to come home immediately. She drove back, where she found out that her mother had been taken to the hospital and wasn’t breathing, dying that night. I visited her and the rest of her family with my little brother, bringing her food, and talked to her for a bit. I realized that I actually under-stood everything she was saying about her emotions and state of mind—about how nothing had really hit her just yet, about how it seemed like a bad dream and

she kept hoping she’d wake up, and about how it all just seemed so sudden.

It was a bit of a realization for me that I could actually com-pletely empathize with her, be-cause even though I’ve felt bad for people going through a hard time before, it never entirely seemed connected to me. But the summer before I started col-lege, my brother had an aneu-rysm rupture, causing a stroke. He was two days away from graduating with a biomedical engineering degree from the UA and was going on to start medi-cal school. ! ough he almost died, he survived and is working hard in therapy and has made great strides towards recovery.

Maybe it’s that connec-tion I had to this girl who lost so much recently that made me write this column. It seems that life will occasionally pick someone at random and throw a huge curve-ball like that, and because humans in general are social creatures, I’m absolutely certain that we can all relate to some degree or another—that we have all known or even been the person that was at bat when life threw that curve-ball. And maybe it’s because I’ve recently been reminded about how crazy life can be that I feel as if it’s a shame that not everyone makes the most of the time they have here on this campus and here on this earth.

! is weekend, I spoke to an elderly catholic lady who came to my Lutheran church o# en. Because my family immigrat-ed to the U.S. back in 1997 and my extended family is on a dif-ferent continent, this woman has almost come to " ll a sort of grandmotherly role for me. She has had a remarkable life, meet-ing the Pope when her husband played the piano for him, sur-viving cancer, raising several kids, and what she told me really made me think. As she looked back on her life so far, her obser-vation was that the true measure of a good life is that at the end of it, you can smile about most of your memories and experiences. Perhaps that kind of outlook is precisely what lets her say that she has lived a great life.

I think that’s a good message to take to heart, especially at the time of life most of those read-ing this column are in. ! e col-lege experience can be and usu-ally is unforgettable, and is " lled with opportunities to make memories. ! e only way to re-ally " nd them is to start throw-ing yourself at new experiences and trying your hand at things you may have never thought of doing before. Maybe you’ll real-ize you like something new, " nd a new hobby, meet a new friend, discover a new future career path or sometimes—truth be told—" nd nothing worthwhile at all. ! e whole point, to quote

Forrest Gump, is that you never know what you’re gonna get.

So why not get involved? ! ere are more than 350 regis-tered student organizations on campus, including service, pro-fessional, religious, and cultural groups. ! ere are several class-es at the HPER, such as danc-ing, capoeira and fencing. ! ere are events hosted all around the campus and people just down the hall from you who would probably go if you asked. So push yourself out of your com-fort zone—that’s a big part of what college is all about. Once you’re " nished with your col-lege life, you shouldn’t look back with any regrets and wish you had done more, especially with as many opportunities to do so available to you now.

And let’s face it—time is a valuable commodity for a col-lege student, and the years only keep speeding up as you move along in life. ! ings can happen that will throw you o$ balance for a while, but this life is short. ! e best way to make that short life worth living is to seek out as many memorable activities and people as you can, and on this campus, both amazing people and amazing events and oppor-tunities really abound.

Chris Sonntag is a Traveler columnist. His column runs bi-monthly.

On ! ursday, Mr. Kieklak wrote an op-ed about the de-bate Students for Sensible Drug Policy hosted about the war on drugs. He concluded that SSDP and Ethan Nadelmann provid-ed little substance behind their claims that the war on drugs has failed, while also providing no credible alternatives.

My question for him: Were you at the same debate as ev-eryone else? Mr. Nadelmann not only provided his views on marijuana (which is to legalize, tax, and strictly regulate it), but also discussed the concepts of

harm-reduction, decriminal-ization and medicalization.

First and foremost: the pro-hibition of marijuana has been an absolute failure. Young peo-ple say they can " nd marijuana easier than alcohol these days, because drug dealers don’t ID. Drug cartels are pro" ting great-ly from illegally distributing marijuana throughout the U.S. ! e solution to diminishing the illegal sales and stopping young people from obtaining marijua-na is to legalize, tax and strictly regulate it.

As far as other substances,

we need to at least shi# our pol-icy to treat drug use and abuse as a medical issue. ! row-ing drug addicts in a jail cell doesn’t rehabilitate them; it just makes them better criminals. We should take page from Eu-rope, who has done a number of things to promote harm re-duction, like the heroin mainte-nance program in Switzerland, which has been a wild success in decreasing heroin use in the population. We agree that sell-ing heroin in a convenience store isn’t a good idea, but why not put it in the hands of a med-

ical professional to promote safe and responsible use?

! ese are all possible alter-natives to the current system of incarceration, many of which have been successfully imple-mented in other countries. To say our policy options lack sub-stance or credibility is simply uninformed; we’re providing real alternatives to a failed war.

-Stephen DukePresident of Students forSensible Drug PolicySenior, Political Science

FROM THE BOARD

Letter to the EditorRe: ‘Debate Policy, Ideas Distanced from Reality’

Uncommon Sense

by Chris SonntagTraveler Columnist

“I have been in my current posi-tion at housing for over 20 years. Air-conditioning [in Humphreys] has never gone two years without

being discussed.”

-Reggie Houser, assistant director for facilities administration, “Housing

Officials Consider Air Conditioning for Humphreys”, pg.1

Traveler Quote of the Day

Study Room Living Can’t Be All That BadWhile we understand that an increase in student hous-

ing may force students into off-campus apartments, tem-porary hotels or even, for some on-campus students, study rooms, we find it awkward that about 14 students are still living in residence hall study rooms more than a month into the school year.

But while living in a study room may be awkward for those students involved, it is nothing more than a passing joke, a let-me-tell-you-about-this-crazy-place-I-lived-in-my-freshman-year line that someone will tell five years from now, compared to the fact that students will have to pay the difference between the residence hall the live in currently, if the residence hall they move into —once space opens up— is more expensive.

We understand the UA administration and it’s various sections are doing what they can to cope with the largest student population in UA history. We appreciate that, and we can only hope that students in future years will appre-ciate and not have to deal with a similar frustration.In the mean time, students shouldn’t have to pay for the UA’s miscalculations.

Campus Campaign Videos Take Over YouTubeAs we enter the presidential campaign season we are re-

minded of the outlandish commercials that are as com-mon as funnel cakes at a county fair. (Though not part of the presidential election cycle, Carly Fiorina “Demon Sheep” commercial from her U.S. Senate campaign is a classic.)

As the Huffington Post likes to remind us, even videos made for student government campaigns can bet a little ridiculous.

We don’t want to give too much away, except to say that you should check out “Nine Awesome Stu-dent Campaign Videos.” (And perhaps in an increas-ingly digital age not everything is made for YouTube.)

And we hope someone will try to top these videos in sil-liness during ASG’s vacancy elections. (Perhaps something similar —but shorter— than last year’s staff office video.)

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Senior receiver Jarius Wright got a phone call from Tyler Wilson a! er Arkansas’ 38-14 loss at No. 3 Alabama.

“A! er we get done running, we’re going to meet as an o" ense,” Wilson told Wright.

Wright spread the word to the other o" ensive players and the unit met in the o" ensive linemen’s meeting room following the usual Sunday night team run.

“We talked about our direction and what we’re going to do to head down that direction,” Wright said. “I felt like it was real productive.”

Wilson and Wright arranged the meeting a! er the Razorbacks managed just 226 yards of o" ense against the Crimson Tide, far short of their 517.3 average enter-ing the game.

“# ere was no $ nger pointing,” Wright said. “It was everybody’s fault. We watched $ lm yesterday. We watched $ lm of the o" ense yesterday and everybody played their part in that loss, so we’ve just got to come out each and every day this week and get better.”

# e game was billed as a matchup between the top o" ense and defense in the Southeastern Conference. # e Hogs defense en-tered the game ranked No. 8 in the nation, while Alabama ranked in the top three nationally in scoring and total defense.

# e Crimson Tide held Ar-kansas to its lowest yardage output since the Razorbacks totaled just 191 yards in a 52-10 loss at Tex-as in 2008, coach Bobby Petrino’s $ rst season.

# e loss was the largest margin of defeat since the Hogs’ last trip

to Bryant-Denny Stadium, a 35-7 loss in 2009.

“You can either go two places,” Wright said. “You can go down or you can get better from the loss.”

Wilson completed 22 of 35 passes for 185 yards against Ala-bama, but 14 of his completions were for less than 10 yards. He also threw an interception returned for a second-quarter touchdown.

Arkansas managed just 17 yards rushing against the Crim-son Tide.

# e lack of a running game al-

lowed Alabama to concentrate on rushing the passer. Wilson didn’t get sacked, but was hit 11 times af-ter releasing a pass.

“I still don’t feel good about what it is we do a! er four weeks into the season,” Petrino said. “What’s our identity? What are we going to hang our hat on o" en-sively? How are we going to $ nd a way to run the ball to take some pressure o" the passing game?”

# e Hogs face Texas A&M Saturday in the third Southwest Classic.

# e Aggies lead the nation in sacks, averaging 4.67 per game. Texas A&M also is also ranked No. 23 in the nation in scoring de-fense.

“I expect it to be a great game,” Wright said. “I know both teams are going to come out and both teams are going to $ ght hard. It’s going to be a close game, but we’ve just got to come out this week and practice hard. Just play Arkansas football like we know how and we’ll be $ ne.” %

Hogs Searching for DirectionQuarterback Tyler Wilson calls meeting a! er blowout loss

by JIMMY CARTERSports Editor

GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino and the Razorbacks’ o! ense are searching for answers after getting shutdown in 38-14 loss at Alabama. Junior quarterback Tyler Wilson called an o! ensive meeting Sunday night to go over the direction of the o! ense.

Don’t Jump O! the Deep End, Hog Fans

Bobby Petrino got out-coached by Nick Saban for the fourth consecutive year.

Arkansas’ highly-touted re-ceiving corps again struggled to get open, make catches and get yards a! er the catch in a big game.

# e o" ensive line was awful,

unable to open a hole for the Razorbacks’ running backs, while allowing quarterback Tyler Wilson to take a beating.

Special teams became aver-age once the Hogs faced quality competition.

Willy Robinson’s defense again struggled to play with the big boys, failing to wrap up and limit big plays.

# ose are all complaints I’ve heard or read since Arkansas got blown out 38-14 by Ala-bama.

# ey’re all true to a degree, too.

Bottom line, though, the Crimson Tide are way too good for the Razorbacks this season.

# e Hogs would have had to play a perfect game to win Sat-urday. # ey didn’t come close,

giving up a touchdowns on a punt return, fake $ eld goal and interception return.

# e Alabama game has be-come an annual September re-minder that the program isn’t where players, coaches and fans want it to be, hope it to be. Sat-urday was just the latest.

Arkansas had its best team in recent history last season, but couldn’t seal the deal in Fayette-ville. Saturday, the Razorbacks faced a Crimson Tide team with one of the top running backs in the nation and what looked like one of the best defenses in the last decade.

Alabama just has more tal-ent.

# e Crimson Tide started four players that were $ ve star recruits, 11 4-stars, six 3-stars

and one unrated player, accord-ing to Scout.com.

Arkansas started one 5-star, four 4-stars, 13 3-stars and three 2-stars, also according to Scout.

Advantage Alabama.I’ll be the $ rst to admit re-

cruiting rankings aren’t the end-all, be-all. # e Crimson Tide have their pick of highly-rated recruits every season, then Sa-ban gets to develop them.

# e Hogs’ receivers, argu-ably the best in the nation, were cancelled out by a fast, physi-cal Alabama secondary. Even if a receiver broke open, Wilson had already had to settle for a dump-o" while getting drilled.

# e Hogs just aren’t elite yet.Good? Yes. Championship

good? No.

# at was evident.How Arkansas responds to

its latest loss to the Crimson Tide will de$ ne the season.

Last year, the Razorbacks had a bye week a! er the Ala-bama game, allowing them to regroup from a heartbreaking loss before playing Texas A&M. # e Hogs still came out & at against the Aggies, holding on for a close win late.

# is season, Arkansas has to turn around and face A&M the following week. # e Aggies are reeling, too, blowing a double-digit hal! ime lead in a loss to Oklahoma State.

Win Saturday and the Ra-zorbacks have a favorable schedule before the Nov. 25 date at No. 1 LSU. # e Hogs get Auburn, South Carolina and

Mississippi State at home.# e Crimson Tide will easily

be the best team Arkansas plays until heading to Death Valley # ere’s still an opportunity for another double-digit win sea-son if Arkansas can $ gure out its o" ensive line issues and limit big plays on defense.

# e Razorbacks got a dose of reality against Alabama.

# ey’re not an elite pro-gram. Not yet.

# ey are still a good team, though. # ere are still eight games le! , none against the Crimson Tide.

Back away from the edge.Jimmy Carter is the sports

editor for ! e Arkansas Trav-eler. His column appears every Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter @jicartersports.

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JIMMY CARTERjicarter@uark.edu

COMMENTARY

Freshman Goalie Proving HerselfArkansas true freshman goal-

keeper Emily Lillard has had her ups and downs this season, but her impressive start to Southeastern Conference play has played a large role in the Razorbacks’ 2-0 start.

# e 18-year-old Overland Park, Ks., native was tasked with replacing Britni Williams, Arkan-sas’ career leader in goalie wins, shutouts and goal averages. She al-lowed just one goal in the Razor-backs’ SEC-opening wins over Ole Miss and Mississippi State Friday and Sunday, respectively.

“We have complete con$ dence in Emily,” Arkansas coach Erin Aubry said. “She is young, but that is this team. She is learning from the best and she is only going to

continue to improve each and ev-ery week.”

She was named SEC freshman of the week for her performances.

Lillard has accounted for 47 saves this season and is averaging 5.2 saves per game, while playing 767 of 812 minutes this year. She has allowed 21 goals on the season, an average of 2.46 per game.

Lillard was a highly-recruited high school prospect out of Over-land Park High School, where she led her team to the school’s $ rst Class 6A state title. In high school, Lillard earned NSCAA All-Amer-ican and $ rst-team all-state honors as a senior.

She struggled at times prior to SEC play, giving up four goals in losses to Kansas and Okla-homa State, $ ve against Colo-rado College. She stepped up in

the opening weekend of confer-ence play, though, recording three saves against the Rebels and eight against the Bulldogs.

“We de$ nitely need to focus on how good we can be on defense,” Aubry said. “# e talent is there in our defense, and our goal keeper especially.”

Lillard was crucial in the Ra-zorbacks’ (4-6, 2-0) ability to start conference play unbeaten.

“Emily’s play was huge this weekend,” Aubry said. “She’s been making some great saves and this is really something she’s been working towards.”

# e Razorbacks had lost $ ve of six games before starting confer-ence play.

“# is is our changing point in the season,” Lillard said. “We know we have the talent and the ability

to win.”Lillard earned the starting role,

beating out senior Kendal Win-ston. # e competition hasn’t af-fected the relationship between the goalies, Lillard said.

“My role model on the team is probably Kendal Winston who is another keeper,” Lillard said. “She always has me going during practice, she never gives up on her team, and she is a leader all over the $ eld—even when she’s on the sideline.”

Lillard had to adjust to college quickly a! er being put in one of the most critical positions on the team.

“# is season is very di" erent from high school,” Lillard said. “You have to play your best at all times and $ ght for every win.”

Emily Lillard improving as season progressesby LIZ BEADLEStaff Writer

SOCCER

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER True freshman goalkeeper Emily Lillard allowed just one goal in Arkansas’ SEC-opening wins over Ole Miss and Mississippi State.

Wright to Miss Time

Arkansas junior defensive end Tenarius Wright is expected to be out four to six weeks a! er break-ing his le! arm on the opening drive of the Alabama game, Ra-zorbacks coach Bobby Petrino said Monday.

Wright was a third-team pre-season All-Southeastern Confer-ence selection by league coach-es and has started all four of the Hogs games this season, accumu-lating 10 tackles, one tackle-for-loss and a forced fumble.

“He had surgery yesterday morning,” Petrino said. “I am en-couraged that everybody else will be available to play.”

Senior $ rst-team All-SEC de-fensive end Jake Bequette, who has missed the Hogs last two games against Troy and Alabama, has improved and is expected to return to action Saturday against Texas A&M.

“Jake Bequette ran last night and he is much improved, but as the week goes on we will know

more,” Petrino said.Sophomore defensive end

Chris Smith started his second consecutive game in Bequette’s place and has registered 10 tackles and two-tackles for-loss, includ-ing one sack, in those two starts.

True freshman Trey Flowers replaced Wright a! er his injury in Saturday’s game and made a tack-le on his $ rst play. # e Huntsville, Ala., native $ nished the game with two tackles.

“We felt like if we could get eight, ten or 12 good plays out of him to keep others guys fresh then that would be a good game,” Petri-no said. “He was in there 30-plus snaps and played extremely hard. He didn’t do everything right but his strength and e" ort helped us.”

Senior cornerback Issac Madi-son and senior All-SEC safety Tra-main # omas also missed time against the Crimson Tide. Madi-son is healthy and is expected to play against the Aggies on Satur-day, Petrino said, while # omas was replaced by senior Elton Ford.

“We just made a change at the position,” Petrino said of # omas. “He didn’t get injured.”

FOOTBALL

by ZACH TURNERAsst.Sports Editor

Junior defensive end out 4-6 weeks

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERJunior defensive end Tenarius Wright will miss four to six weeks with a broken left arm su! ered on the opening drive of the Alabama game.

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DOWNTIMELAUGH IT UP

THAT MONKEY TUNE Michael A. Kandalaft

BREWSTER ROCKIT Tim Rickard CALAMITIES OF NATURE Tony Piro

WELCOME TO FALLING ROCK Josh Shalek BLISS Harry Bliss

Everyday people walk through campus and see a variety of stu-dents—engineers, business ma-jors or anthropologists. What many don’t see is that for some students there lies a hidden fasci-nation beneath those passions and interests: the love of music.

! ese people can now be found together right here on campus, in the university’s very own glee club, the Razorgleeks.

“! e purpose of the Razor-gleeks is to bring the joy of all as-pects of music to anyone who is interested, whether they are mu-sically trained or not,” said Jessica

Nichols, president of the club.! e Razorgleeks were formed

last semester, when Nichols’ sister, Sarah, was approached with the idea for it. She started the club, but le" a" er graduation; however, she laid all of the ground work for this year and passed the responsibility on to her sister. ! ough the club is based around singing, Nichols stressed that it includes any stu-dents who want to be a part of it, regardless of musical talent or background.

“! e bene# t of joining the Ra-zorgleeks is the chance for musi-cal involvement that doesn't re-quire tuition, or auditions. We take anyone who is interested and # nd a way for them to be an im-

portant part to the group, whether it is choreographing songs once we get them, writing mashups or harmonies, or even just helping us get the word out about the club,” Nichols said.

! ough some may have heard of the club, it is not the # rst glee club to enter the university cam-pus.

“! e glee club is actually not new to the university. We had a show choir here before the TV show made it cool, one that com-peted and everything,” Nichols said.

! e Razorgleeks started with about 30 interested members last year, but the club quickly dwin-dled to about six consistent mem-

bers. With the help of the popu-lar show, Glee, attendance for the club has bounced back. As of the last count, there are more than 40 people who have attended one or more meeting or expressed inter-est in the club.

“Our focus this year was getting the word out. I learned that many people were interested, but they just didn't know it existed,” Nich-ols said. “Before the # rst meeting this year, we sidewalk-chalked the entire campus. Many of the mem-bers said they came because they saw our messages.”

Students around campus have found the Razorgleeks as an out-let for their musical creativity, es-pecially those who have not found

one readily available in other plac-es on campus.

“I love music and have wanted to be involved with it for awhile now, but it seemed like unless someone was in the choir or band or a music major there wasn’t re-ally a place for them,” said Eric Carter, a junior. “Being in the Ra-zorgleeks has changed that and given me a great place to express my musical interests.”

Members of the Razorgleeks have connected with each other through the musical passion that brought them all together, pro-viding a community in which to share the joy and excitement of music.

“I really enjoy interacting with

the other members of the group, who are there sharing their love for glee club and singing just like I am,” said Rachel George, a junior.

Because of the large increase in members this year, the Razor-gleeks also aspire to become more involved on and o$ campus dur-ing the school year.

“We hope to have at least a few performances this year when the o$ ers come in and perhaps even a % ash mob or two,” Nichols said. “We have a lot of ideas for charity events such as dressing up as Disney characters and singing to the children in one of the local

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The Rapture’s “In the Grace of Your Love” Good Dance Rock

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“In ! e Grace of Your Love” by ! e Rapture

7 out of 10

Coming o$ the eclectic New York City dance-punk music scene with high energy and a lot of synthesizers is “In the Grace of Your Love”, the fourth album by ! e Rapture.

! e band ! e Rapture has been around for a while. ! is is their fourth album - their # rst, Echoes, was released in 2003. Af-ter a lot of band member chang-es, the current group consists of Luke Jenner (vocals, guitar), Vito Roccoforte (percussion) and Ga-briel Andruzzi (keyboards, saxo-phone, bass, vocals). ! e band has had, for the most part, an un-derground following with a few breaks here and there when their music has been featured in TV shows and even on Grand ! e" Auto IV’s soundtrack. ! ey’ve mainly been an underground band that has toured with and opened for bands such as ! e Killers and Da" Punk.

! e Rapture’s sound is very similar to that of Passion Pit, Empire of the Sun or MGMT, a kind of electronic fusion of in-die rock and disco. ! e eclec-tic music is de# ned by big lead synthesizers, emphasized dance rhythms on the drums, guitars with an array of e$ ects pedals, and tenor — sometimes falset-to—male lead vocals. “Children,” with its happy synth-pop sound, is a nice example of ! e Rapture’s sound. While this is a unique al-bum, it doesn’t bring anything new or exciting to the genre. ! at’s okay, though, because the album sounds just # ne.

! e music of “In ! e Grace Of Your Love” is pretty cool. ! ere

are several di$ erent featured in-struments on the tracks, and they really help the songs with their # lls and ri$ s. It’s all dance-able, too. ! e music # ts the for-mula for dance indie rock, may-be all too well. Generally, it’s lik-able stu$ , but nothing about it screams amazing.

! e album as a whole isn’t much of a landmark, but it’s enough. A few of the tracks come o$ as tedious where it’s hard to want to keep listening, as a lot of tracks go on too long with noth-ing musically new brought in to allow for its length. “Never Die Again” and its overly repetitive chorus is de# nitely one of those tracks that almost get annoying. ! e drum parts aren’t anything that impressive, whereas most songs are just a kick-snare pat-tern. ! e music is easy to dance to if you’re willing, but all togeth-er, it won’t have much mass ap-peal.

One thing that potentially makes this album worthwhile though are the high-energy dance songs. A couple of songs de# nitely # t the alt-club scene, and most songs are fun enough to get a % oor going.

Really, ! e Rapture proves they can make a good dance-rock album with “In ! e Grace Of Your Love.” ! ere just isn’t anything spectacular about the album except for a few musical moments that brie% y shine but are forgotten easily.

Standout Tracks: “It Takes Time To Be A Man”

is a great song, with its groovy piano and guitar ri$ s. ! e song is laidback too — a nice change of pace from the other speedy tracks. ! e song seems like something a producer would throw in for a TV show’s

by NICK BROTHERSStaff Writer

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One of Fayetteville’s greatest hidden gems is literally just that - a hidden art gallery beneath the Fayetteville square. ! e Fayette-ville Underground is a nonpro# t collection of artists’ studios in the basement and vaults of a former bank.

As people milled about First ! ursday, a monthly art event on the Fayetteville square, many wandered down the stairs of the ultra-modern One East Square Plaza and into the hallways and old safes that make up the Fayette-ville Underground. It is here that artists can rent one of many stu-dios for $100 or less each month, and visitors can watch the artists work, admire their cra" or pur-chase a new piece for their home.

One such artist is Megan Chap-man, a former UA student.

Chapman walked con# dently through the groups of people vis-iting her gallery during Septem-ber’s First ! ursday. She smiled warmly as family friends and visitors stepped up to congrat-

ulate her on the new collection, Sometimes I Love You and Other Stories.

Small groups of viewers slow-ly worked their way through the 22 paintings adorning the white walls of the Fayetteville Under-ground. Women teetered on high heels as they crossed the un# n-ished concrete % oors.

An older man stepped up to Chapman as she # nished talking to a group. “Did you make these paintings?” he asked.

He grabbed her hand, and pulled her across the gallery. ! e man pointed his hand at one of the paintings. Tears welled up in his eyes. He shook his hand at the painting. He tried to speak.

! e words nestled on a small-yellowed page on the right side of the canvas, underscored by graph-ite lines and % oating in streaks of grays and whites.

“Not of the past but of the futureYou sing in my earI am alone and you are asleepButStill your voice is so closeAnd I am no longer alone.”“! at’s my wife,” he said so" ly.

She had recently passed away.Chapman has become a staple

of the local art community. She had considered leaving Fayette-ville for artistic opportunities in other cities when the Fayetteville Underground opened in April 2009. Within the # rst month, Chapman rented a studio and has remained there ever since.

“I wanted to do (this) because as artists, our work is done so com-pletely alone, and you can get real-ly wrapped up in your own head,” Chapman said.

Chapman’s passion for promot-ing her own art also extends to the work of other artists.

“I like selling everyone’s work,” Chapman said. “If it’s something I truly believe in, and I believe in the person doing it, then I want to help them succeed.”

Chapman operates a studio blog to encourage and inform other artists and help them in their careers.

For Chapman, her drive to pro-duce art was as organic as her “or-ganic”, as she refers to it, style of painting and creating.

“I knew from the moment

you’re old enough to know some-thing like that, that I wanted to do something in the arts,” Chapman said.

Growing up in Fayetteville, Chapman was not always exposed to a large variety of art. Her moth-er, an art and English teacher, al-ways had art in their home, even if the Van Gogh or Modigliani prints came from yard sales. Mu-sic played a large role in the fam-ily’s life as well —her father always had music playing, and he under-stood Chapman’s need to create.

Chapman tried studying art at the UA but it took her some time to # nd her way.

“I le" in 1993 because I felt kind of aimless,” Chapman said. “I just headed out west.”

She ended up in Eugene, Ore., and a" er six years spent in and out of art classes, Chapman earned her bachelor of # ne arts in paint-ing and drawing from the Univer-sity of Oregon. She experimented with di$ erent forms of art, in-cluding “heart pods.” ! e organic shapes were painted with strange dark-oil backgrounds, to repre-sent the part of a person that holds their deepest emotions, she said.

Chapman then returned to Fay-etteville to continue her art. Her work has since been displayed in galleries across the country, with more than 20 individual shows.

Something that sets the Fayette-ville Underground apart is the fact that the gallery does not merely display an artist’s work for a few weeks, then take it down. Instead, the organization strives to keep its artists as members of the Under-ground. ! e community can ob-serve the artists working, become attached to their work and watch them grow.

Having consistent artists at the Underground allows the community to stay connected to

Artist Brings Inspiration Home at Fayetteville Underground

“Magic: The Gathering” More than Just a Card Game to Local YouTube Celebrity“Four Goblin Guides, four

Freaky Metamorphs, four Phan-tasmal Images, four of that new clone, four regular clones – I don’t know if math-magically this adds up or not. ! is is probably a mis-take, but let’s do it. ! ree in.”

Boogie Williams is methodi-cally and obsessively shu& ing through his deck of Magic: ! e Gathering playing cards, his glass-es slightly askew. He is contem-plating his next move in this # ve-

round tournament held at Castle House Hobbies and Games.

Magic: ! e Gathering is a col-lectible trading-card game that hit the market in the mid-90s. Play-ers are role-playing as wizards, or “planeswalkers,” casting spells and summoning creatures, using decks of cards that they handpick, or “build” from other decks.

For most, this popular trading card game is just a hobby. But in Boogie Williams’ case, it’s a card game that saved his life.

A" er a particularly di' cult breakup during college at the

University of Virginia at Wise, Williams moved to Arkansas in 1996, as his brother was teach-ing at the UA. Williams became a staple in the Northwest Arkan-sas Magic community. Williams, whose real name is Steven, said he got his nickname “Boogie” through a miscommunication during his # rst Magic tournament in Fayetteville and has gone by his new name ever since.

Williams is not on the pay roll at Castle House Hobbies and Games, a square, brick building jutting from a corner between a

taco joint and barber shop, in the Oak Plaza Shopping Center on Garland Avenue, which sells trad-ing cards and memorabilia and provides a place for hobbyists to engage in their favorite card or role-playing games.

While Williams is not o' cially employed at Castle House, he volunteers almost daily and is devoted to the manager of the store, Chris Curlee. Curlee dubbs him a “community organizer,” but

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hospitals, and even Christmas caroling in the winter.”

! e Razorgleeks have brought students from all areas and ma-jors together under a common banner of musical expression, forming new bonds between those who might not otherwise have much in common.

“! is club has helped me meet new people and create friendships with people I probably would nev-er have met. I’m an English major but feel so passionately about mu-sic, George said. “For two hours on Monday and Tuesdays, I get to sing and have fun with people who can be from completely dif-ferent backgrounds but still share that similar passion.”

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soundtrack. “Sail Away” has heavy dance rock vibes and some anthem type melodies. It’s a good start to the album. “Blue Bird” is a fun, very rock-driven track that really helps carry the album. ! e outro is also pretty cool with the resounding lyrics, “I’ll see you on the other side.”

Musicianship: 7Generally, the musicianship is

just good. Nothing bravely stands out, but overall it’s catchy enough and nice to listen to. ! ere are a lot of instruments used, and they layer nicely. If listening for them, there are a lot of channels that come together well, giving the band a big sound. ! e mu-sicianship is the best thing going for the album, and there are nu-merous occasions where some of the musical parts shine for a sec-ond and make things interesting. ! ey aren’t anything crazy, but they’re satisfying.

Originality: 7! e album kind of sounds just

like any other indie dance-rock band like MGMT or Empire of the Sun, but it’s original enough. ! ere are a few tracks like “Come Back To Me” with its Latin in" u-enced tone, and “It Takes Time To Be A Man” with its jazzy chill-ness, where ! e Rapture’s origi-nality shines. Plus, the versatil-ity of Andruzzi’s musical ability keeps things fresh and interest-ing.

Lyricism: 6.5! e lyrics could be romance-

or religion-themed, as the themes go back and forth quite a bit. “In ! e Grace of Your Love” is de# nitely talking about God, but then there are songs like “Miss You” where it isn’t clear if it’s a longing for God or an old " ame. ! e lyrics are pretty ba-sic, with a lot of repetition in the songs. Most songs seem a little shallow, but they aren’t bad by any means. ! e lyrics give o$ the impression that the band focused more on danceable music rather than deeply interpretable lyrics.

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the art scene and follow an artist’s work, said Greg Mack, treasurer of the Fayetteville Underground board.

“[Chapman’s] work has turned to a mature direction,” said Cindy Wiseman, an art instructor at the UA and an abstract painter. When Wiseman began observing Chap-man’s work in 2008, it was more decorative and focused on the division of spaces and decorative forms. Now it is more organic and minimalist, Wiseman said.

! e Fayetteville Underground is open for visitors from noon un-til 7 p.m. Wednesday to Friday, and is open on Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

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Williams jokingly refers to himself as the store’s “nerd liaison.”

“Everyone enjoys talking to Boo-gie,” said Curlee. “He’s a really good politician where I’m not. He does really well with getting involved with the players and making sure everyone is still excited about the game.”

Williams’s loyalty to Curlee is

partially because he’s responsible for Williams’s o% cial means of in-come – as a YouTube celebrity.

Five years ago, Williams posted a video on the popular video-shar-ing site, YouTube, which quickly garnered millions of views. In the video, Williams complains about his account with the online-role playing game, World of Warcra& , being hacked.

Playing a character known as

“Francis,” Williams acts out with over-the-top antics, raging about the game, putting on a fake lisp and feigning a “nerdy voice,” a Princess Leia poster gleaming in the back-ground.

While the hacking actually hap-pened to Williams’s roommate, he fooled millions into believing his act.

“Since I look the part already, be-ing a big guy, people were easily

duped,” he said.Williams was o$ ered a YouTube

sponsorship a& er receiving mil-lions of views, and he now gets cut a small check at the end of the month from YouTube, depending on how many people click on the ads linked alongside his videos.

Since his debut as Francis the frustrated World of Warcra& play-er, he claims his videos have taken on a more serious note.

“! ere are a lot of people on the internet trolling and being rude,” Williams said. “! ey see a guy like me and they see some fat loser, but then I talk about real life stu$ – one of my friends committing suicide, or the way my depression a$ ect-ed me, or being from an abusive home. I think I’m breaking percep-tions when it comes to ‘nerdism’, or ‘geekism’ or being overweight.”

Williams uses his YouTube ce-lebrity to help people, and it’s even how he hooked his girlfriend, Dez, who has been the biggest factor in helping him overcome his own de-pression. But Magic: ! e Gather-ing has played an important role in Williams’s battle with depres-sion, too.

Williams, who is now 37 years old, was still reeling from his rocky breakup in Virginia when he moved to Arkansas, and mov-ing did not, at # rst, provide solace from his depression. ! e move

initially in" ated it, and with every downfall and shortcoming, Wil-liams’s depression deepened.

“When I # rst moved to Arkan-sas, I didn’t really land on my feet,” Williams said.

He had a falling out with his sup-port system, faced paperwork is-sues with his student loans, and was le& homeless for about three weeks, sleeping on dorm room " oors and various couches. So, Williams was forced to do some-thing very di% cult for any avid col-lector.

“I sold my Magic collection piece by piece at the local gaming stores to get enough money to feed my-self, … then to get my # rst apart-ment. So, literally this game saved my life.”

At Castle House, Williams has taken out his opponent in a matter of minutes in the # rst round of the tournament. His subdued oppo-nent rolls up his foam mat, used as the playing-card surface. ! e two players shake hands.

It is close to 9 o’clock and Wil-liams’s girlfriend, Dez, has brought him some chicken from KFC. A gangly player stands up and asks all of the 50-minute round’s winners to circle their names on a sheet of paper at the front of the room. Dez looks up at Williams and in a voice of quiet frustration says, “It’s only round one?”

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Fall Friday Frisbee Fun

CONTESSA SHEW STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERStudents play frisbee on the Union lawn Friday afternoon. Many students on campus took part in outdoor activities to celebrate the fall weather.

COURTESY PHOTOBoogie Williams plays “Magic: The Gathering” at Castle House Hobbies and Games.