PAGE 1 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 Vol. 106, NO. 13 UATRAV.COM WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 VOL. 106, NO. 13 12 PAGES UATRAV.COM WEATHER FORECAST TODAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY 80° 80° 79° 79° 81° 86° In This Issue: ASG Elections ASG elections will end on ursday, Sept. 8. Page 3 Online Course Platforms Students nd it dicult to manage all the dierent online course platforms for classes. Page 2 Razorbacks Football e Razorbacks continue to work on the running game in preparation for New Mexico. Page 10 Penny Pinch No More Landing a part time job in Fayetteville is made easy with these tips from students and employers. Page 6 Not 21? No Problem! UA students under 21 nd other places to hang out around Fayetteville. Page 6 AlcoholEdu Iniative Gives No Promises Traveler Columnist Joe Kieklak discusses the shortcomings in UA’s AlcoholEdu program. Page 4 News News Features Features Sports Opinion Campus Prepares for Family Weekend Sorority Recruitment Numbers Reach an All-Time High Follow us on Twitter at uatrav.com Sorority recruit- ment numbers reached a record-breaking high Sunday aernoon at the Greek eater, with 1,097 girls receiving a bid from the eight sororities, said a UA Greek life ocial. “e university is carefully consider- ing which sororities to bring to campus,” said Parice Bowser, director of Greek Life. “ere are no spe- cic organizations we are looking at adding. We are interested in chapters that would t best with our campus,” Bowser said. Some girls said they see an immediate need for more sororities. “Although I like the large pledge class, I think they need more houses,” said freshman Ashton Prude. “Our school is way too big to just have eight chapters. If our pledge class was big this year, it will just get bigger next year and every year aer.” Other sorority mem- bers said they didn’t mind the inux of girls. “I absolutely love having a large pledge class,” said freshman Beth Quinlan. “It gives every house the oppor- tunity to meet quota and expand.” Every house met quota this year, with pledge classes starting at 131 young women and upward. at has the Greek community very excited, Bowser said. “is is the rst time I can remember that ev- ery house on campus has made quota,” she said. “We are so excited to have all of our new members in our Greek SARAH CHAMPAGNE PHOTO EDITOR Late Tuesday afternoon, Larry Mayes, construction worker, helps begin the construction on the access road through the front lawn. The access road will run by the newly planted 9/11 memorial tree. LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Kappa Kappa Gamma members throw a party for freshmen recruits. The freshmen girls went through a week of touring various sororities. UA ocials and Fayette- ville businesses prepare as the university’s Family Weekend approaches, bringing in thou- sands of people from across the state and nation for a weekend. On Family Weekend, Sept. 16 -18, the UA administration invites parents and relatives of students to enjoy several events, including a Univer- sity Recreation Family Week- end cookout, the Parent Part- nership Association wine and cheese reception and a tailgate party prior to the Troy football game. As thousands of people plan to travel to Fayetteville over that weekend, the UA Police Department has begun preparing in advance. by CAITLIN MAHONEY Contributing Writer by BRITTANY NIMS Staff Writer see RECRUITMENT on page 2 see FAMILY on page 3 Twin Kitchen Restaurant Review Page 7 Construction crews began building a service road that could cost up to $300,000 and will stretch across part of the Old Main Lawn by removing 19th century stones from part of the wall that runs par- allel to Dickson Street, a spokesper- son for the UA said. “ey took the stones apart and they are putting them on pal- lets, numbering them and storing them,” said Mike Johnson, associ- ate vice chancellor for facilities. e stones are made from sand- stone that was quarried in North- west Arkansas and are similar to the sandstone that makes up the foundation of Old Main, said Char- lie Alison, a spokesperson for the UA. A wide enough section of stone was removed so that construction vehicles can enter and leave cam- pus without damaging the other sections of the wall, he said. e stones will be stored in a lo- cation on campus until they are re- placed at the end of construction, which is projected to be 2013. e service road will be in place to allow trucks to enter the campus o Dickson Street, Alison said. e road will be used mainly for dump trucks removing materi- als from the construction on Ozark and Vol Walker halls and will be removed when the construction is nished, Alison said. e entrance “may cause a few delays” along Dickson Street, he said. is cost includes measures to protect trees on the Old Main lawn and the senior walk, he said. e road will be nished within the next two weeks and will remain in place until the completion of Vol Walker and Ozark Hall, Johnson said. Bulldozers were brought in to assist with the construction of the service road. “ey had to bulldoze because we have to create a six percent grade coming o the street and that will go into the lawn a ways,” John- son said. e construction of the road will cause the sidewalk along Dick- son to be closed to prevent further delays, Alison said. To preserve the sidewalks, some of which are part of the senior walk, construction crews are putting down metal plates over the side- walks that will be covered by the road, Alison said. No damage is expected to be done to the sidewalks, but facilities management workers are prepared to repair the sidewalks in the event that damage does occur, he said. e grass, however, will need to be re-sodded aer the road is re- moved, Alison said. “ey will put down materi- al that keeps the soil from getting compacted,” he said. Precautions are being taken to protect the trees on the Old Main lawn as well. Some trees, if they are small enough, will be transplanted to an- other area, Alison said. One tree, a Nuttall’s oak, is in an area close to the service road and might be aected by the road, he said. Students have diering opinions about the service road. “It’s a historic part of campus that they are tearing through,” said Natalie Gautier, a senior food, hu- man nutrition and hospitality ma- jor. “Everyone comes out to Old Main lawn.” Other students don’t feel that the road is a major concern. “I know it is only temporary,” said John Noonan, a junior archi- tecture major. “Even if they did de- stroy it, they would rebuild.” Let’s Get Ready to Rumble Construction on Old Main Road Begins by MEGAN HUCKABY Staff Writer
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Online Course PlatformsStudents " nd it di# cult to manage all the di$ erent online course platforms for classes.
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Razorbacks Football! e Razorbacks continue to work on the running game in preparation for New Mexico.
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Penny Pinch No MoreLanding a part time job in Fayetteville is made easy with these tips from students and employers.
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Not 21? No Problem!UA students under 21 " nd other places to hang out around Fayetteville.
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Sorority recruit-ment numbers reached a record-breaking high Sunday a! ernoon at the Greek " eater, with 1,097 girls receiving a bid from the eight sororities, said a UA Greek life o# cial.
“" e university is carefully consider-ing which sororities to bring to campus,” said Parice Bowser, director of Greek Life.
“" ere are no spe-ci$ c organizations we are looking at adding. We are interested in chapters that would $ t best with our campus,” Bowser said.
Some girls said they see an immediate need for more sororities.
“Although I like the large pledge class, I think they need more houses,” said freshman Ashton Prude. “Our
school is way too big to just have eight chapters. If our pledge class was big this year, it will just get bigger next year and every year a! er.”
Other sorority mem-bers said they didn’t mind the in% ux of girls.
“I absolutely love having a large pledge class,” said freshman Beth Quinlan. “It gives every house the oppor-tunity to meet quota and expand.”
Every house met quota this year, with pledge classes starting at 131 young women and upward. " at has the Greek community very excited, Bowser said.
“" is is the $ rst time I can remember that ev-ery house on campus has made quota,” she said. “We are so excited to have all of our new members in our Greek
SARAH CHAMPAGNE PHOTO EDITORLate Tuesday afternoon, Larry Mayes, construction worker, helps begin the construction on the access road through the front lawn. The access road will run by the newly planted 9/11 memorial tree.
LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERKappa Kappa Gamma members throw a party for freshmen recruits. The freshmen girls went through a week of touring various sororities.
UA o# cials and Fayette-ville businesses prepare as the university’s Family Weekend approaches, bringing in thou-sands of people from across the state and nation for a weekend.
On Family Weekend, Sept. 16 -18, the UA administration invites parents and relatives of students to enjoy several events, including a Univer-sity Recreation Family Week-end cookout, the Parent Part-nership Association wine and cheese reception and a tailgate party prior to the Troy football game.
As thousands of people plan to travel to Fayetteville over that weekend, the UA Police Department has begun preparing in advance.
by CAITLIN MAHONEYContributing Writer
by BRITTANY NIMSStaff Writer
see RECRUITMENTon page 2see FAMILY
on page 3
Twin KitchenRestaurantReviewPage 7
Construction crews began building a service road that could cost up to $300,000 and will stretch across part of the Old Main Lawn by removing 19th century stones from part of the wall that runs par-allel to Dickson Street, a spokesper-son for the UA said.
“" ey took the stones apart and they are putting them on pal-lets, numbering them and storing them,” said Mike Johnson, associ-ate vice chancellor for facilities.
" e stones are made from sand-stone that was quarried in North-west Arkansas and are similar to the sandstone that makes up the foundation of Old Main, said Char-lie Alison, a spokesperson for the UA.
A wide enough section of stone was removed so that construction vehicles can enter and leave cam-pus without damaging the other
sections of the wall, he said." e stones will be stored in a lo-
cation on campus until they are re-placed at the end of construction, which is projected to be 2013.
" e service road will be in place to allow trucks to enter the campus o& Dickson Street, Alison said.
" e road will be used mainly for dump trucks removing materi-als from the construction on Ozark and Vol Walker halls and will be removed when the construction is $ nished, Alison said.
" e entrance “may cause a few delays” along Dickson Street, he said.
" is cost includes measures to protect trees on the Old Main lawn and the senior walk, he said.
" e road will be $ nished within the next two weeks and will remain in place until the completion of Vol Walker and Ozark Hall, Johnson said.
Bulldozers were brought in to
assist with the construction of the service road.
“" ey had to bulldoze because we have to create a six percent grade coming o& the street and that will go into the lawn a ways,” John-son said.
" e construction of the road will cause the sidewalk along Dick-son to be closed to prevent further delays, Alison said.
To preserve the sidewalks, some of which are part of the senior walk, construction crews are putting down metal plates over the side-walks that will be covered by the road, Alison said.
No damage is expected to be done to the sidewalks, but facilities management workers are prepared to repair the sidewalks in the event that damage does occur, he said.
" e grass, however, will need to be re-sodded a! er the road is re-moved, Alison said.
“" ey will put down materi-
al that keeps the soil from getting compacted,” he said.
Precautions are being taken to protect the trees on the Old Main lawn as well.
Some trees, if they are small enough, will be transplanted to an-other area, Alison said.
One tree, a Nuttall’s oak, is in an area close to the service road and might be a& ected by the road, he said.
Students have di& ering opinions about the service road.
“It’s a historic part of campus that they are tearing through,” said Natalie Gautier, a senior food, hu-man nutrition and hospitality ma-jor. “Everyone comes out to Old Main lawn.”
Other students don’t feel that the road is a major concern.
“I know it is only temporary,” said John Noonan, a junior archi-tecture major. “Even if they did de-stroy it, they would rebuild.”
Let’s GetReady to RumbleConstruction on Old Main Road Begins
by MEGAN HUCKABYStaff Writer
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Students Strugglewith Learning Platforms
Although the number of online sites and ser-vices used in conjunc-tion with classes at the UA may be broad, Black-board learn is the “stan-dardized learning man-agement system” said a UA communication di-rector
“Blackboard Learn is the o! cial online class-room tool for the UA, however, professors are not required to use it spe-ci" cally,” said Starla Sten-saas, communications di-rector for IT services
“Di# erent depart-ments may have speci" c requirements for partic-ular classes—especial-ly those required cours-es where there are more than one section—but there is no university-wide requirement. Pro-fessors working with their departments can choose what technology they want to use in their classes,” Stensaas said.
Students enrolled in some foreign language and math courses may use a supplementary on-line program in conjunc-tion with their textbooks, provided by the publish-ing company, such as mylabsplus, myspanish-plus, myfrenchplus and others.
$ ese programs make content available to stu-dents online at any time,
including homework and quizzes.
“It’s actually a really good program [mylab-splus], but it can have glitches like anything. $ is summer, it went down for eight hours and we had a test the next day, but luckily we were able to go in and " x it in time,” said Tyler Fuller, college algebra instructor.
“Most of the time if something doesn’t work, it’s your computer. Just switch the server, and it should be " xed,” Fuller said.
While there may al-ways be glitches in online programs, the UA works to retain reliability in Blackboard Learn.
“Blackboard Learn is managed by the univer-sity’s IT Services depart-ment on a very profes-sional level, using best practices, and meeting the highest IT standards possible within the re-sources available to us,” Stensaas said.
$ e choice to consoli-date many of the UA’s on-line services into Black-board was made for the convenience of students.
“$ e UA has support-ed a learning manage-ment system since 1998. Until last year, di# erent versions of Blackboard were supported by the university IT Services department, by Global Campus, and by Walton School of Business. Last year all those systems
were consolidated and IT Services now manag-es the most current ver-sion of Blackboard Learn. $ is change was made so that students would have a consistent experience and could access all their online course materials in the same place,” Sten-saas said.
However, the choice of many professors to use websites provided with textbooks adds more sites for students to visit for their school work.
“It is kind of inconve-nient. I wish everything could just be on the same website, but it’s not that big of a deal,” said fresh-man Nikki Baynes.
Some students com-plain that the online pro-grams used for foreign languages and math don’t work as well on their macs.
“Myfrenchplus only works in safari, and even then, it’s a little shaky,” Baynes said of using the Prentice Hall program on her Mac.
Students using Black-board Learn don’t have to worry about the so% ware di# erence.
“Blackboard Learn works equally well on a Windows or Mac plat-form,” Stensaas said.
“Overall, it’s pretty useful to have an online aid. I like being able to access quizzes and prac-tice stu# online anytime I want,” Baynes said.
by JANNEE SULLIVANContributing Writer
Rapid Growth Forces XNA Expansion$ e Northwest Arkansas
Regional Airport, also know as XNA, will further expand its facilities in response to rapid area growth, according to the airport’s o! cial web-site.
XNA received a $1.5 mil-lion grant from the Airport Improvement Program that will go toward the expansion of the airport’s terminal. $ e expansion, which o! cials expect to be completed in a year-and-a-half, will allow much more room for air-cra% , restaurants and pas-sengers.
$ e grant only covers a fraction of the $20-$25 mil-lion expansion. $ e bulk of the new facilities will consist of a new concourse that will be located to the east of the upper concourse. $ is will allow room for the airport to park six to eight additional planes for boarding.
$ e airport has 12 park-ing positions for aircra% , ac-cording to the website.
“$ is expansion will ben-e" t the entire $ ird District of Arkansas with additional & ights—creating a competi-tive atmosphere among trav-elers,” said Rep. Steve Wom-ack (R.-Ark.).
$ e airport recently com-pleted an expansion of its ticket counter, and also plans on adding two large ware-houses. $ e total expansion will add 51,000 square feet to the facility, according to the airport website.
“We appreciate our con-gressional delegations’ con-tinuing e# orts on our behalf. Without this ongoing sup-port, the citizens of North-west Arkansas would not enjoy the improvements and expanding facilities at XNA,” said Kelly Johnson, director of the airport.
$ e increase in ground space will allow tra! c to continue to grow, Johnson said.
$ at will impact interna-
tional students, who make up 9 percent of XNA tra! c, and it may or may not a# ect the students that choose to & y into Dallas or Tulsa and then drive to Northwest Ar-kansas, Johnson said.
“$ at is a price-point is-sue, and we have no control over what other airports and airlines charge. $ ey’re also
running business for a prof-it,” she said.
Johnson said she hopes that student groups at the university will take advan-tage of the new facilities, though she couldn’t say how the expansion would a# ect ticket prices.
XNA is located in High-" ll, Ark. It boasts Ameri-
can Airlines as a major car-rier, due to its contract with Walmart Stores Inc. $ e XNA administration hopes that the new facilities will at-tract larger airlines, Johnson said.
$ is completion is ex-pected to be in roughly a year and a half, airport o! -cials said.
BRITTANY WULF STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERPassengers are riding the moving sidewalk in the new XNA Airport Concourse. The moving sidewalk is the first ever in an Arkansas airport.
by MANDY McCLENDONStaff Writer
community.”But larger pledge classes
make for tougher cuts — this was the " rst year that girls were turned away, Bowser said. In the past, every girl who at-tended preference night, the " nal night of recruitment, was guaranteed entrance to at least one chapter.
If more chapters are not brought to Arkansas, more girls will be turned away be-cause of limited space, Bowser said.
Freshman Ashton Prude worried that too many girls are missing out.
“Every girl should have the opportunity to join the soror-ity if they want, and that will not be possible unless there are more chapters brought to cam-pus,” she said.
Samantha Kurtz, senior vice president of membership of Kappa Delta, said she has mixed feelings about the class size this year.
“$ e large numbers will af-fect our sorority because it will be hard to do things all togeth-er,” Kurtz said. “We have now outgrown our chapter room, which is a really great problem to have. We are so lucky that there is such in interest in Ar-kansas Greek life.”
$ e UA is known for its Greek presence — 22 percent of the student population be-longed to a Greek organization last year, according to the UA Greek website.
$ e Greek community has continued to grow over the years, and statistics from previ-ous years of recruitment show that it will only become larger, Bowser said.
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Elections will continue for the next two days for the 2011-2012 UA Associated Student Government senate.
“We had 108 students at-tend senate orientation meet-ings, and while I don’t know how many students will o! -cially run yet, that is the larg-est pool of applicants in our documented history, dating back to 2005,” said Michael Dodd, ASG president.
ASG is a student-led or-ganization that acts as an or-ganized voice for all students and strives to e" ectively rep-resent student interests, ac-cording to the ASG website.
# e structure and opera-tion of ASG is identical to that of the federal government,
with an executive, judicial and legislative branch, as well as committees that represent speci$ c interests on campus.
ASG also o" ers a program for incoming students called “Fresh H.O.G.S.,” in which freshmen can assume a lead-ership position through an application process, accord-ing to the ASG website.
“Currently, there are 50 open seats allocated among the various academic colleg-es,” said Grant Hodges, the senate chair for ASG.
# is year’s senate makeup is as follows: four open seats in the college of agriculture, two in the college of archi-tecture, 14 in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, eight in the Walton College of Business, seven in the col-
lege of education, $ ve in the college of engineering and 10 between the graduate school and law school.
“It is important to note that students will only vote in their own college,” Hodges said.
Voting begins Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 9 a.m. and closes # ursday, Sept. 8 at 4 p.m. Students can vote online at vote.uark.edu, and paper bal-lots will be available in the student activities o! ce in the union, Room 665.
Preliminary results will be announced by 10 p.m. on # ursday, Sept. 8, Hodges said.
“Campaigning kicked o" this past Friday,” Hodges said.
While no formal debate has been scheduled, candi-dates are encouraged to cre-
ate Facebook groups, seek en-dorsements from Registered Student Organizations, get permission to use support-ive organizations’ listserves, write in chalk on sidewalks and greet and talk to students around campus, he said
Candidates generally focus on their perspective student base, Dodd said.
For example, a student running for a seat in the col-lege of engineering should provide input on how the con-struction is a" ecting the class-room experience, Dodd said.
Hodges expects parking and transit, housing,and ris-ing tuition to be among the larger issues that candidates will build their platforms on, he said.
Biographies, pictures and
a description of the platform for each candidate will be available on the ASG website for voters to reference prior to casting their vote, Dodd said
# is year’s senators will work to reach out to students and administrators to make issues and ideas of individ-ual students more relevant. # ey will also reach out to o" -campus students and the city
on issues that relate to them, look into key areas of campus life that students have a prob-lem with and seek to point out injustice. # e senate also has goals to connect students with more jobs and career-oriented, leadership-based re-sources, Dodd said.
by MARK CAMERONStaff Writer
Students Place Votes Online for ASG Elections
Preparations for Family Weekend are the same as preparations for any home football game weekend, said Lt. Gary Crain, head of the public information and communication at UAPD.
“When you’ve got all those people coming to campus, there’s a big em-phasis on safety, pedestri-an safety and tra! c % ow,” Crain said. “Our focus $ rst is football game traf-$ c and pedestrian % ow.”
For the additional se-curity required during large events like football games, UAPD calls in o! -cers from around the area to help with patrolling and safety.
A regular shi& , Crain said, is anywhere from three to six o! cers. “We have roughly 180 po-lice o! cers that will be working these games—all games, normally,” he said.
O! cers are brought in from across Washington and Benton counties, in-cluding Bentonville, Rog-ers, Farmington, Elkins, Greenwood and Van Bu-ren, Crain said.
On a game day, the of-$ cers patrol in and around Razorback Stadium as well as the surrounding streets, Crain said.
As UAPD prepares to handle campus safety dur-ing Family Weekend, the UA Parking and Transit Department is preparing to accommodate the large numbers of people.
“We’ve only got a to-tal of 12,000-something [parking] spaces and we’ve got 70,000 people coming in,” said Andy Gilbride, education and instruction
specialist for the depart-ment. “Of course, it’s over-crowded, but it seems to work out.”
Families visiting dur-ing Family Weekend only need to purchase a park-ing permit for that Friday. “On Saturday, there’s no parking, so we send them out to the baseball stadi-um or encourage them to park in someone’s yard,” he said.
Likewise, transit bus routes change on game weekends, switching to Gold and Silver routes that are used to shuttle people across Fayetteville from parking spaces to the stadium.
Despite the overcrowd-ing and the tra! c involved with football games, com-plaints have lessened throughout the years, Gil-bride said.
“Each year, the com-plaints get less because I think parking is more of a big deal everywhere. Used to, $ ve or 10 years ago, a lot of these towns in Ar-kansas didn’t even have meters to park in. Now, almost anywhere you’re from, you’ve either had to buy a parking permit for high school, or you’ve paid to go shopping or something like that,” he said.
Just be patient, Gilbride said. “We’re all here for the fun football weekend.”
Alongside UAPD and the Parking and Transit Department, local hotels are also preparing for UA students and their rela-tives during Family Week-end.
Preparations for Family Weekend revolve around the football game, said T.J. Angeleno, general man-
ager of the Courtyard by Marriott in Fayetteville.
“It’s busy for us because it’s a home football game,” Angeleno said. “Our prep-aration isn’t much di" er-ent than that of any other home football game.”
His hotel is already booked for the Troy game weekend, but this early sell-out is likely related to the anticipated success of the football team, Ange-leno said.
“Usually, for Family Weekend we wouldn’t sell out as fast as we have,” he said. “# e games have a little more buzz I think be-cause of the team.”
While many hotels are booked for events like football games and UA Family Weekend, not all visiting relatives choose to stay in hotels.
Jill Picardi, a UA senior from Flower Mound, Tex-as, said her family plans to stay with her over the weekend.
“# ey usually stay in a hotel, but this year they’re going to stay with me in my apartment,” Picardi said.
Living so far away, her family doesn’t get to visit as o& en as they would like. Picardi said.
“# ey try to come to about two games a year,” she said. “# is is the $ rst Family Weekend they could come to, though. Every other year it didn’t work out.”
While her family plans to attend a few other events during the week-end, Picardi said her fam-ily enjoys the shared ex-perience of the football game.
“Nothing’s complete without football,” she said.
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LIBBY NYE STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThe dancers from the McCa! erty School of Irish Dance, perform traditional Irish dance for the Fest of All Sept. 1 on the Fayetteville square.
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FROM THE BOARD AlcoholEdu Initiative Gives No Promises
About halfway through this summer, it hit me that I wouldn’t be heading back to Fayetteville High School in the fall, but just down the road to Razorback Na-tion, the UA.
What the transition lacked in distance was made up for by a huge boost in responsibility, high-er expectations in quality of work and a cold snap out of senioritis. Not only did I have to challenge myself more, but had to balance that with living on my own for the " rst time.
Enter a life that was de" ned by countless boxes, “dorm need” runs to Walmart, Bed, Bath, & Beyond and trips to Petsmart for " sh food which, ended the second day of residence hall living— may ! omas Payne rest in peace.
Not only did life change in that way, but I, and all incoming freshmen became responsible for
keeping up with ISIS, Blackbaord and our UARK emails.
A# er an incredibly awkward orientation, another bureaucratic task was assigned to all incoming freshmen by the university’s First Year Experience team: AlcholEdu.
At " rst I was shocked; I " g-ured my friends were joking when they spilled news of the freshman requirement to participate in any kind of online course. To dispel the rumor, I quickly checked my UARK email account and was shocked to " nd that the rumors were true, all freshmen were to participate in a, “! oughtful and educating program for adults committed to thinking about their life choices,” as per the let-ter sent by FYE Director Quincy Spencer.
! e university administra-tion signed on to a $60,000, one-module, four-year agreement with the program, Spencer said.
! e university administra-tion partnered with the program deeming it necessary that, “edu-cating students about alcohol is important to help them make better decisions. ! is is especially true of incoming " rst-year stu-dents who are generally more like-ly to come to college and experi-ment with things they may not have experienced in the home-town,” said John Diamond, asso-ciate vice chancellor for University Relations.
One concession is made on the success of the program though: “We aren’t able to say pre-
cisely how the program a$ ected behavior and decision-making ,but we do know that participants have stated that it has enlightened them. And all we can do as educa-tors is give the students the tools and information to make better decisions,” Diamond said.
Diamond makes total sense here. While education is the cor-nerstone for success, the success depends on the approach and stu-dent responsibility.
! e initial letter puts so much emphasis on the impor-tance of physical health that it sounds like it’s positing that sim-ply by competing in the program, one will be guaranteed a success-ful life.
! ere is only link to success of the program is a statement on the company’s frequently asked questions page, “Most students " nd the course interesting and helpful, and most recommend it for their friends,” according to the website http://college.alcoholedu.com.
First of all, there is no evi-dence that students recommend-ed it to their friends, even if they did, it’s a non-sequitur argument, meaning it doesn’t relate to the ac-tual argument at hand.
! e program received one positive review, stating that drink-ing, problems related to drinking and binge drinking had all de-creased 30 days a# er the program, according to a study by the Paci" c Institute for Research and Evalu-ation.
! is is great news, but vague. One major problem with the study is that there was never a fol-low-up examination on the same students, so there is no proof of a better life, something that the letter sent to UA students almost guarantees.
Moreover, a study was pub-lished on the program that proves it to be inconsistent, noting that some years behaviors were less-ened while some years the pro-gram failed, according to the Col-lege of Charleston Time Series Analysis.
What needed to be men-tioned about AlcoholEdu is not that the program will bring re-sults, but that it’s up to students to guarantee the results for them-selves.
! e money on spent on this program ($60,000) though small when compared to other costs at the UA such as construction, could have gone to better places such as other FYE programs or even a FYE scholarship, especially when most states mandate alcohol education in their high school’s heath curriculum.
On a cost-bene" t analysis, all the UA can prove is that the infor-mation was given to the students; there is no operational de" nition of success.
Joe Kieklak is a columnist for ! e Traveler. He is a freshmen ma-joring in philosophy and journal-ism— Ad/P.R. His column regular-ly appears every Monday.
by Joe KieklakTraveler Columnist
MCT CAMPUS
Rocket Science
Old Main Road ConstructionDuring the summer The Traveler staff wrote articles
about the initial released construction plans, the communi-ties reaction and what we perceived a lack of planning on the UA administration’s part. At the time, officials said that a press release about the construction wasn’t released be-cause they didn’t expect the public backlash against the ini-tial plans.
The UA administration formally started construction on the Old Main road project Tuesday.
While we at The Traveler are glad to finally know the cost of the project— as much as $300,000 which includes measures to protect senior walk and trees on Old Main lawn, and that the UA’s plans include such due diligence as taking the bricks off the stone wall on Dickson Street and number-ing them so they can be put back in order, we were once again frustrated by the lack of notice about the beginning of the construction.
The Old Main lawn is one of the most noted parts of the UA campus, perhaps the most aside from Old Main itself. In addition, Dickson Street and its corresponding sidewalks are one of the main arteries used for the UA community. In the same vein that advanced notice is given when sidewalks will be closed, we think a notice the day before or even the morning of the start of construction is not too much to ask to give students further notice. (Though with the amount of construction taking place across campus, maybe we’ve just gotten use to having to walk around construction or find new paths to class.)
Perhaps we’ll get a press release when staff get past the initial phase of clearing away the rocks and dirt, and have to start bringing in trucks to build the road.
RIC Senate Fillibuster ! e Resident Interhall Congress had its " rst " libuster at its
meeting Monday night. We were excited to hear that RIC members were using a par-
liamentary move associated with intense debate, until RIC President Cameron Mussar said it was a move to get more time while an RIC executive clari" ed a question about legislation.
We love the idea of an intense, but respectful debate, within RIC and hope that this isn’t the only time we’ll hear of during the coming school year.
On the other extreme, RIC members, or members of legisla-tive body, should never use " libusters as a continuous, normal part of debate. (For how frustrating things can get when this happens, we point to many of the recent debates within the U.S. Congress — health care, the debt ceiling, etc. ! ink about how drawn out and stalled things get, and then apply that length of time to a legislative body like RIC that only meets for a couple of hours once a week.)
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! e Arkansas Razorback football team beat Missouri State 51-7 Saturday.
! e upcoming Re-publican presidential de-bate Wednesday night as well as President Obama’s speech ! ursday night.
U.N. o% cials say fam-ine is widening in Soma-lia, according to a New York Times article.
! e Dow Jones dropped by more than 100 points Tuesday.
Eighty-two percent of Americans disapprove of Congress, according to the latest MSBNC poll.
Wild" res in Texas have destroyed more than 1,000 homes.
! is week was only a four-day school week.
“I vote based on likability and trustworthiness. Some-one who’s sociable, who can at least carry on a good con-
versation, someone who goes out and meets people all over the dorm. I don’t want to vote for someone
I don’t know or have never heard of.”
-freshman Grace Colly, who lives in Yocum Hall, “ RIC Expects An Increase
in Student Participation”
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Resident voters went to the polls in the last week of August to elect their new RIC hall o! cers.
Candidates spent that week campaigning for po-sitions on hall senates with-in their residence halls.
For most students run-ning for RIC o! ces, cam-paigning is not an elaborate activity.
“I know in Pomfret they’ve been hanging up " yers and talking to stu-dents on " oors, in hall elec-tions. # ose are not too in-volved, except for getting to know people. # ey do have goals for the year and they communicate them, but they don’t complete a plat-form,” said Matt Seubert, a sophomore political sci-ence and economics major and a resident assistant in Pomfret hall.
“I vote based on lik-ability and trustworthi-ness,” said freshman Grace Colly, who lives at Yocum.
“Someone who’s socia-ble, who can at least carry on a good conversation, someone who goes out and meets people all over the dorm. I don’t want to vote for someone I don’t know or have never heard of.”
Although some of the senate elections have yet to take place, RIC members expect an uptake in inter-est and participation this year, likely because of the record number of fresh-men students living in the residence halls.
“# is year the UA saw the largest freshman class ever, and a vast majority of those freshmen are re-quired to live on campus,” said Tyler Priest, RIC vice president. “Because fresh-men now make up a higher percentage of on-campus students than in years past, we expect an increase in freshmen participation in our legislative body.”
Despite the record en-rollment numbers and freshman class, RIC only expects about 10 more sen-
ators than last year when all the voting is said and done in the weeks to come.
“# e maximum we can have this year is 62. Af-ter having spoken with the President Pro-Tem-pore, he estimates that if we have the same interest as last year we’re looking at roughly 40 senators ac-tively involved with RIC. However we have had an uptick in interest from the Yocum and Humphreys hall senates. Considering that they had few, if any, representation last year we could easily close in on 50,” said Cameron Mussar, RIC president.
With RIC elections drawing to a close, elect-ed hall o! cials face a new challenge: meeting the needs of the residents they represent.
“All RIC Decisions ei-ther spend the money of on-campus students, or in some way a$ ect their life-style. For this reason, stu-dents must always be at the forefront of every senator’s
mind when acting in RIC. Senators sometimes must put personal, hall-relat-ed or committee-oriented feelings aside in order to best bene% t the on-campus student,” according to the RIC website.
“Well since Yocum’s air-conditioning is broken, it would be nice if they could help % x that. # ere are a lot of students on cam-pus, I know they can’t do anything about that, but they can work on aspects of campus that will help house them comfortably,” Colly said. “Other than that, just make Yocum and the whole UA campus a wonderful place to live.”
“My biggest interac-tion with RIC was work-ing with them on 9/11 pro-gramming,” Seubert said. “# ey partially funded the Union Mall " ags [to com-memorate 9/11]. I think they should just be look-ing for ways to inspire stu-dents, like the " ags have, then I think they’ll have a great year.”
RIC Expects an Increase in Student Participation
by JANNEE SULLIVANContributing Writer
SARAH CHAMPAGNE PHOTO EDITORWaiting on a truck, Larry Mayes, construction worker, piles stones on the side of the road to be taken off sight. Mike Johnson, associate vice chancellor for facilities, notified press that the wall would be taken apart brick-by-brick and numbered and placed precisely where they originally were.
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With college comes many new responsibilities for all students alike: time management, keeping up with academics, building new social relationships and laundry (for most).But the most press-ing of all— and it’s a big one — is money management. Students are looking to the businesses of Fayetteville for part-time jobs to cover living expenses and tu-ition fees and help make ends meet. In today’s society, ! nding a job can be very di" cult, but to combat the economic chal-lenges there are ways to increase the chances of getting hired.
To increase your chances of getting a job in retail or cus-tomer service, simply do a lap at the Northwest Arkansas mall or any strip mall and stop by at all the stores at which you’d be in-terested working. Wear some-thing nice and politely ask for an application or to speak with the manager about job oppor-tunities. Eye contact and a good handshake go a long way. It’s all about giving your application a face, something memorable.
A helpful tool when look-ing for a job is the Northwest Arkansas Job Guide, a free re-source available at news stands across Fayetteville. # e guide, also in website form (www.the-jobguide.com), lists a wide va-riety of jobs, especially UA jobs, restaurant jobs, UPS po-sitions, receptionist positions and various factory positions.
Pressley Farmer, manager of the Coldstone Creameries in the area, had a few tips on ap-plying to jobs and what an em-
ployer likes to see in applicants. “De! nitely asking to see a
manager, dressing nice and say-ing, ‘Hello, can I speak with the manager about getting a job here?’ will work well,” Farmer said. “I like to see more explo-sive attitudes that say, ‘Pick me!’ and someone that is willing to come in when I need them. # is helps put a face to the applica-tion since we get so many appli-cations— it’s unreal, not only pa-per but on the Internet as well.”
Another way many stu-dents get jobs is through a friend’s recommendation.
“Most places will take a cur-rent employee’s recommenda-tion, and a lot of managers will take the easy way out, but the employees will always talk good about their friend, so it doesn’t always work," Farmer said.
James Murchison, manager of the pizza shop Damgoode Pies, also had a few tips for job shopping.
“In the restaurant business, things are kind of day-to-day. We’re always looking for employ-ees, but we’re not always hiring,” Murchison said. “You know, in the restaurant business, anything can happen. People get mad and quit, people do stupid things, they mess up, they get ! red, so I never tell people we aren’t hir-ing, but we’re always taking ap-plications. We don’t have a very high turnover rate here, though.”
Beau Farhatt, a UA sopho-more, had been searching for a job since he arrived back in Fay-etteville before classes started. A$ er applying to several di% erent places, he was able to get a job at the Dickson Street Wa& e House.
“I knew a person, Austin Culp, and he worked at Wa& e House
[when] they were hiring, and I was able to get a job pretty fast,” Farhatt said. “I applied at a bank, and they called for an in-terview but I told them I had classes Tuesdays and # ursdays, and they said they were looking for someone who could work all week. For places hiring, retail is almost always hiring. Restaurants are typically hiring; a lot of banks too, but I’m not sure if they care.”
Employers are all about open availability. Farhatt was actually denied an interview at Bank of America due to his class sched-ule. Even James Murchison, the manager of Damgoode Pies said he’s all about availability.
“Availability is a big thing, es-pecially in a college town like this because 90 percent of my em-ployees are in school,” Murchi-son said. “# e better your avail-ability is, the more likely you’ll get a job. Sometimes experience isn’t everything either, sometimes it’s better so you can mold them in the, well, Damgoode way.”
So, now you’ve gotten an in-terview. Naturally, it’s normal to be unsure of how to act or to what to say, but employ-ers really just want someone that has a good attitude and shows they really want the job.
“I want people who can just sit down and talk with. Some-one I can connect with and act normal, who won’t be intimi-dated I’m the big boss man and be calm about it,” said Farmer.
And, undeniably, positiv-ity is essential in the job search.
“I hate to use clichés, but having that go-getter atti-tude really shines,” Murchi-son said, “You got to want to work, you have to want it.”
by NICK BROTHERSStaff Writer
Tips for Finding a Part-Time Job in Fayetteville
ANDREW HAGOOD STAFF PHOTOGRAPHEREather Moore, sophomore, prepares the salad table during her shift at Tiny Tim’s Pizza. Like many other working students, Heather has multiple part-time jobs which she balances with her school schedule.
On Friday nights, the bars on Dickson Street are crowded with students celebrating the end of the week. But for those under 21, it can o$ en seem like weekend options are lim-ited to movies and frozen yo-gurt. Luckily, Fayetteville of-fers tons of options from corn mazes to concerts to change up your weekend routine.
Arkansas is known for its scenic views and natural land-marks, such as that available in Devil’s Den State Park. Devil’s Den is located about 30 min-utes south of campus o% of I-540 (exit 53). It is a perfect place for a late night hike or to go camp-ing with a couple of friends.
# e HPER o% ers camping gear for a day or a weekend trip for rent, from tents to canoes, and even bikes to explore the trails.
“We usually go camping with a huge group of friends,” said UA sophomore Samantha Cor-ral. “We leave before it gets dark, around 6 or 7 p.m. # en we all help set up the camp, cook hot dogs and make s’mores.”
Another event unique to Northwest Arkansas is Farm-land Adventures in Springdale. From Sept. 9 through Nov. 5, Farmland Adventures opens up a corn maze, a hay bale maze and a hay ride to people of all ages. It is open on Fridays from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. during the fall.
Another Friday night op-tion is the drive-in movie the-ater. 112 Drive-In theater is o%
Highway 112 in Fayetteville and is one of the three drive-in movie theaters le$ in Arkansas. It costs $12 for each car and in-cludes two movies with a brief intermission in the middle.
“# e drive in is so much fun,” said UA sophomore Erin Moody. “You can pile as many people as you want in the car and it only cost $12.”
Before the movie, a good place to get a pre-movie re-freshment is one of the many snow cone stands in Fayette-ville. You can try Shave the Plan-et in the O" ce Depot parking lot, Tropical Sno in the Home Depot parking lot, or Fro-zen Tongue in Fiesta Square.
One Dickson Street option for the under-21 crowd is to go to George’s Majestic Lounge for a
concert. Several concerts light up the stage every week, bring-ing in people ages 18 and above. On Saturday, Sept. 17, Rob-ert Earl Keen will perform, and Blue October will be coming to George’s on Tuesday, Oct. 4.
# e Arkansas Music Pavil-ion also hosts several concerts every month at the Northwest Arkansas Mall. Band NeedTo-Breathe will perform Oct. 7, with special guest Ben Rector. Tickets are available through the Walton Arts Center web-site, www.waltonartscenter.org.
“Whether it’s a ride on the city-wide biking trails or hit-ting up a movie at one of the few drive-ins le$ in America, there is plenty for people under the age of 21 to do in Fayetteville,” UA sophomore Bo Renner said.
Not 21? No Problem!
UA Students Under 21 Find Other Places to Hang Out
“# ere is plenty for people under the age of 21 to do in Fayetteville.”
-Bo Renner, UA Sophomore
New Restaurant Brings Thai Spice318 S. Archibald Yell Blvd.(479) 527-6780facebook.com/twinkitchenthai
If you can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen.
Fayetteville’s newest Thai restaurant, Twin Kitch-en, can take the heat.
There are already a handful of Thai restaurants in town, several of them very well es-tablished, so this new place is up against some tough com-petition. And Twin Kitch-en occupies a building that has proved to be a death trap for a handful of other restaurants over the years.
Regardless, I had heard Twin Kitchen, which is locat-ed next to the Pizza Hut on South School Avenue, serves up some of the best Thai food in town, so I decided to stop by and check the place out.
One of the first things I no-ticed about Twin Kitchen was how laid back and hom-ey it is. The decorations are simple and the atmosphere is casual and welcoming.
As I sat down and start-ed looking over the menu, the waitress came by with a small plate of spring rolls paired with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce. And no, she didn’t know I was there work-ing on a review; each meal comes with complimentary rolls. They were fresh, flavor-ful and delightfully crispy.
When I asked the waitress if she had any suggestions, she enthusiastically proceed-ed to give me the rundown on the entire menu, detailing each of Twin Kitchen’s most popular dishes and explain-ing what makes them so good.
On her suggestion, I went with the Mr. Crab as an ap-petizer and the Drunken Kee Mow for my entrée. I also ordered a Thai iced tea to drink— if you’ve never tried Thai iced tea, I highly rec-ommend it. Basically it’s a sweet, spiced iced tea with
cream that compliments the flavors and counteracts the spiciness of Thai food.
The Mr. Crab appetizer fea-tured five rolls, each about the size of a finger, made from marinated crabmeat and cream cheese wrapped in popiah sod (rice paper) and then lightly fried until crispy and served with sweet and spicy dipping sauce. The rolls are great; the rich crab and cream cheese is nicely com-plimented by the crispy out-side the role. The sweet and spicy flavor the dipping sauce only makes them taste better.
Good as the Mr. Crab was, the Drunken Kee Mow, which gets its name from its from popularity with the Thai bar hopping crowd, was the star of the meal.
The dish comes with your choice of protein, flat rice noodles, fried egg, fresh Thai basil leaves, bell peppers, car-rots, onions, scallions, Thai chili sauce and broccoli. On the waitress’ recommenda-tion, I went with the chicken.
Like many Thai restau-rants, Twin Kitchen lets din-ers pick how spicy they want their food on a scale of one to five stars. I went with three, which might be a little spicy for some eaters, but it was perfect for me—just spicy enough to open the sinuses.
The flavors were amazing. The freshness of the vegeta-bles was unbeatable. The sauce had just the right combina-tion of sweet and spicy. And the noodles actually had great flavor, too, which was an add-ed bonus. The Thai basil also added a great bite to the dish.
For dessert, I tried the Tem-pura Cheesecake — a light breading applied to cheese-cake, which is then fried— and then drizzled with choc-olate syrup and nuts and served with fresh raspber-ries. One word—delicious. The richness of the cheese-cake combined with the crisp-iness of the tempura and the tartness of the raspber-ries created an amazing fla-
vor and texture combination.After finishing my meal, I
sat down with the twin broth-ers (fraternal not identical, by the way) Jeffrey and Som-chay Sipomouane who own and operate Twin Kitchen.
The brothers try to buy their ingredients locally when pos-sible to help support the com-munity, they said, so they buy as much produce as pos-sible from the Fayetteville Farmers’ Market. The broth-ers also buy their chick-en, which is never frozen, from George’s Chicken, Inc.,
which is based in Springdale.When it comes to running
their restaurant, the brothers employ the Golden Rule as their management philosophy.
“We want things to be up to our standards,” Jeffrey said. “We pay attention to every-body’s needs—that’s the way we would like to be treated.”
“For us, we just want you to come in and order a dish of curry or Pad Thai and just enjoy your time with us,” Somchay,
by EDDIE GREGGStaff Writer
LANA HACKLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERTwin Kitchen is a Thai Restaurant located on Archibald Yale. Twin Kitchen opened in May and is a family owned restaurant.
THAIon page 7
by CAITLIN MURADStaff Writer
FEATURESPAGE 7 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
who goes by O.P., added.“Yeah, because we eat the
same food that we serve to our customers. We just had the Drunken Kee Mow for lunch today. We cooked it ourselves and used the exact same in-gredients as go into what’s on our menu,” Jeffery said.
While both brothers man-age Twin Kitchen, their un-cle, Teng Sipomouane, a pro-fessionally trained chef who moved to the United States from Thailand only a couple of years ago, runs the kitchen.
The brothers and Teng cre-ated their menu from old fam-ily recipes that originated in Thailand, so diners can expect authentic Thai food when they eat at Twin Kitchen.
While Twin Kitchen fac-es some stiff competition from other Thai restau-rants in town, they have the rest of the field beat when it comes to quality ingredi-ents, service and preparation.
Hours:Monday through Wednesday: 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.Thursday though Sat: 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.Sunday: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Price Range:
Food $3.95 - $18.95 (Drinks $1.25 - $1.95)
To Go: Yes
Reservations: Yes
Wheelchair Access: Yes
Free WiFi: No
Title: Rubber FacotryBand: The Black Keys
Title: xxBand: The xx
To put ! e xx simply, their sound would be described as chill indie rock. ! eir music has been described as gloom-pop due to some of the moody minor-tonal-ity sounds of the album, but the music is wonderfully enticing.
! e catchy and compelling “Islands”, the sweetly chiming “VCR,” and the interesting mi-nor-tonality ri" s of “Crystal-lized” are some of the best tracks o" the album. Most of the songs are very basic with a simple re-verbed guitar ri" , back and forth vocals from Romy Cro# and Oli-ver Sim, and a captivating beat from sound pad drummer Jamie Smith. ! ere is nothing wrong with that though, because it’s just another case of just the right amount of simplicity and talent.
! e album, xx, is a very original album worth a good listen from start to $ nish.
Title: Pickin’ Up the PiecesBand: Fitz and the Tantrums
Released in January of this year and getting radio play with their single “MoneyGrabber”, Fitz & ! e Tantrums bring a positively funky modern Motown sound with their album Pickin’ Up ! e Pieces.
One thing that’s so likable about these guys is their ability to make you want to groove to their stu" . ! e bass and the saxophone in the songs complement each other per-fectly, the keyboard leads rock, and the soulful vocals and drum beats keep you coming back for more. ! e music almost sounds like it’s from the ‘60s, but at the same time, there’s a modern-pop spin on it all.
! e songs are seriously catchy, and they’re a lot fun to listen to. Of course, “MoneyGrabber” is an easy choice for a stand out track with its passionate and down-right catchy chorus. “Don’t Gotta Work It Out” has a sweet bass/saxophone groove and has a cool breakdown midway through, and “Winds of Change” o" ers up an awesome drum beat and an even better soulful outro. If you’re a fan of ‘60s Motown or you’re just looking to dig some music that’s easy to dance to or sing along with, please do yourself a favor and check these guys out. You will straight groove on this album.
Five Must-Know Albums
RUBBERfactory
With its ability to consis-tently bring incredible track a# er track, Rubber Factory is arguably the best album by ! e Black Keys. Compared to their newest acclaimed al-bum Brothers, Rubber Fac-tory is as solid as solid al-bums go. ! e duo of Dan Au-erbach (vocals, guitar) and Patrick Carney (drums) are blues rock at its $ nest, and the album explores just about every corner of the genre.
“Girl Is On My Mind” is eas-ily one of the best songs on the album with its beefy main ri" and aggressive drums. ! e so# , old-school blues of “! e Lengths” and the bold rock and memorable sound of “10 AM Automatic” make for some terri$ c tracks as well. If you’re craving for some of the best quality rock of the ‘00s, look no further than Rubber Factory and the whole dis-cography of ! e Black Keys — nearly everything they’ve made is close to solid gold.
Rubber Factory stands out with its very sim-ple and catchy tracks, and its all together brilliance.
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Title:Aha Shake HeartBand: Kings of Leon
Most know the Kings of Leon from Only By ! e Night’s “Use Somebody” or “Sex On Fire,” but sadly, they’re unaware of the amazing track record of al-bums the band has. Character-ized as the southern version of the band ! e Strokes, their sec-ond album, Aha Shake Heart-break, is just about as com-plete as a rock album can be.
Literally from start to $ n-ish there is an awesomely sim-ple and catchy somehow in-die-southern rock song on each track. “! e Bucket” with its driving main ri" , “King of the Rodeo” and its stac-cato guitars and clap along chorus, and the cool walking tempo bass/guitar ri" of “Ta-per Jean Girl” are great exam-ples among others of what the band has to o" er on the album.
Vocalist Caleb Followill’s voice is de$ nitely scratchy and sometimes weird or hard to un-derstand, but it breaks so well musically that it will easily be-come something to love. Aha Shake Heartbreak is a serious-ly fun and well made rock al-bum worth any rock fan’s listen.
BEASTTitle: Noble BeastBand: Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is a master of all things music. He’s musically % u-ent on the violin, xylophone, gui-tar, vocals, and he’s a world-class whistler and song-writer. His lat-est album, Noble Beast, which was released in 2008, is one of his most polished and complete albums; $ rst to Armchair Apocrypha.
Andrew Bird is a very original artist, as his sound is very unique. It’s basically mellow indie-folk-rock, but it isn’t easy to put a label on. ! ere are countless endearing interwoven musical moments on the album, but some of the best tracks would have to be the var-ied melodies of “Anonanimal”, the energizing and upbeat “Fitz and the Dizzyspells”, the warm and so# “Souverian”, and the smartly written acoustic “E& gy”.
! ere is so much to discuss about Andrew Bird, it’s probably better to just pick up the album and wit-ness how great the guy really is.
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heart the pieces
THAIfrom page 6
by NICK BROTHERSStaff Writer
FEATURES WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 PAGE 8
! e UA didn’t feel any move-ment at 2:40 p.m. on March 1; it was even a relatively calm day, but one UA student was in the heart of an earthquake. Yokiko Morikuba was in To-kyo celebrating her 24th birth-day at a comedy club when she felt the ground begin to shake.
“! e " rst [earthquake], I just thought like, ‘Oh, an earth-quake is coming,’ because the Japanese get used to the feel of earthquakes,” Morikuba said.
Soon, though, Moriku-ba realized that this earth-quake was much more than just a regular earthquake.
“I realized it was something di# erent from the ones that usually hit since it didn't stop
over two or three minutes,” Morikuba said. “It was shaking more and more, and some peo-ple in the theater tried to evac-uate to the outside. We worried that the roof might fall down.”
A$ er a seemingly endless " ve minutes, Morikuba and her friends were taken out-side to the closest parking lot. She tried to use her cell phone but the phone lines were out of order because of the earthquake. Moriku-ba was le$ in the parking lot more than half an hour un-til the unthinkable happened.
About 30 minutes later, the second big earthquake hit. “I didn't know what was going on in Japan, especially in Tohoku area,” Morikuba said. “Nobody knew about it in Tokyo at that time. I was just scared and
tried to get hold of my mom by cell phone. I probably called her more than 50 times, but I couldn't get in touch with her. And then I decided to go home by walking. Fortunately, I was not far at all from my home. To me, the earthquakes were not the biggest ones in my life but they were too long to keep shaking. I didn't expect at all that many terrible things hap-pened in Japan until watch-ing the news on the television.”
Although Morikuba emerged from the disaster unharmed, she was a# ected in other ways. She had been job-hunting in Japan since she had returned in December. A$ er the earth-quakes, all the companies stopped the recruiting process. In Japan, students are required to " nd a job before they grad-
uate university and Morikuba could not return to the UA if she didn’t have a job o# er. Her stress to do well and succeed is acknowledged across campus.
“Yukiko works so hard on her classes,” said Patricia Ortega, a friend of Morikuba. “She is a very strong individu-al since she can't see her par-ents on a weekly basis. I am very sad to see her leave by the end of the semester, I wish she would stay but I know she has a great future ahead of her.”
“I had no clue what should I do and what I was going to do then. I felt I was walking on a very dark path without any lights on,” Morikuba said. “Also, I watched the video when the tsunami came and killed people over and over on TV. I was depressed and didn't want
UA Student Experiences Japan Earthquaketo do anything. And it made me think of what is the mean-ing of the life and who I am.”
Her individual stress was felt country wide, as Tokyo was directly a# ected by the upheaval. ! e transportation system su# ered great damage.
“Tokyo has the best transpor-tation system in the world. We have thousands of train lines, subway and buses,” Morikuba said. “But they were stopped completely due to the earth-quake on that day. It was cra-zy. People couldn't get home or had to walk a thousand miles to go home. My cousin said that she took four hours to get home and also walked up stairs to 28 % oors because elevators were stopped, too. ! ere were a lot of ‘stranded commuters’ in Tokyo. But it started working again on that day or next day.”
Morikuba’s understanding and empathy toward the victims of the earthquakes is easily apparent.
“It was not only about the job things. I just wor-ried about my country's fu-ture too,” said Morikuba.
! e impact of the earthquakes was known internationally. Even the UA’s Japanese Student As-sociation began a relief pro-gram in response to the event.
“! e Japan Tsunami Relief program was started collaboratively by those who wanted to help the a# ected area in Japan; Japanese Student Association, the faculties from the Japanese Program at UA, Holcombe Hall Senate, and the
American Red Cross, and a number of student organizations and individuals worked together for this program,” said Megumi Kawaraya, a member of the Japanese Student Association who helped present the project.
! e program helped in-form students about the sit-uation in Japan and em-phasize the need for help.
“! e theme of the program, ‘! ink Globally, Act Locally,’ summarizes my experience in this program,” Kawaraya said. “Since I was distressed by the situation in Japan but could not do anything in the U.S., I was so thankful that I was given an op-portunity to contribute some to my country at UA. It was quite amazing and touching that peo-ple from di# erent backgrounds did something together for a su# ering place in the world.”
Although the earthquake was con" ned to a central point, students from the UA were di-rectly a# ected, and in turn, they also were involved in aid-ing the country. ! e impact of natural disasters is not con-" ned to its geographic location but recognized across borders even thousands of miles away.
Morikuba is appreciative of all the help from UA students and people throughout the world, but she still worries about the future of the Japanese and how they will continue to rebuild and put their lives back togeth-er. “I am so worried that people in the world are getting to for-get about us,” Morikuba said.
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Editor’s Note: The fol-lowing is a player-by-player breakdown of Arkansas’ bas-ketball team Saturday in Bud Walton Arena by sports edi-tor Jimmy Carter and assis-tant sports editor Zach Turn-er. Keep in perspective the comments below are impres-sions after one, 90-minute session of pickup games.
CARTER: Abron was im-pressive in the low post on the offensive end, showcas-ing a variety of moves and the ability to finish with ei-ther hand. He was strong against top 2012 recruit Jar-nell Stokes.
He has a set shot, but dis-played a nice jumper from 15 to 18 feet. He made the most electrifying play of the day when he came across the lane to finish a Kikko Hay-dar miss home with a vicious one-handed slam.
He should start and play major minutes.
TURNER: He’s a physi-cally-gifted athlete that will play major minutes this sea-son. Abron showed skills that made him a Parade third-team All-American in high school in 2010-2011. Abron is a lefty with an un-orthodox shot, but no mat-ter how unntractive the shot looks he found a way to make mid-range shots count. Dis-
played great athleticism on a put-back dunk that got the attention of everyone in at-tendance.
20 – Kikko Haydar – G, Sophomore, 5-10, 165
CARTER: He took plen-ty of 3-pointers and didn’t make any, but played solid otherwise. He’s a walk-on, but he looks like he belongs on the court and has a high basketball IQ.
TURNER: Haydar was scrappy as ever during the scrimmage, just like he was in the spare minutes he saw in 2010-2011. He didn’t shoot particularly well dur-ing the scrimmage but played hard nonetheless. Haydar should see his role increase some this season because of low roster numbers.
00 – Rashad Madden – G, Freshman, 6-5, 175
CARTER: Madden settled for mostly outside shots, hit-ting one 3-pointer. He con-verted a physical drive off the glass, but it will be in-teresting to see how he re-sponds when opposing de-fenders body up to him.
Saturday was the second time I’d seen him in person and he again showcased his intense personality. I’ll be interested to see how he ad-justs to college competition.
TURNER: Madden seemed to get frustrated by more physical defenders even at 6-foot-5. Madden didn’t do much offensively and it is hard to gauge what kind of pro-
duction to expect from the top-30 recruit.
21 – Hunter Mickelson – F, Freshman, 6-10, 235
CARTER: He looks every bit of the 235 pounds he’s listed at, almost 50 pounds more than he was last year. He didn’t try to do much on offense, but defense has al-ways been his calling card and he had two blocks in a 90-minute session that didn’t
include many.TURNER: He didn’t play
too much in the scrimmag-es, but had some impact on the defensive end. Has got-ten much stronger and phys-ical than he had been in high school. Mickelson did show off some athleticism with a nice tip back.
Arkansas’ women’s cross country team had a per-fect weekend in the season-opening Razorback Invita-tional.
True freshman Jessica Jackson won the 4,000-me-ter race in her first colle-giate event. She was named Southeastern Conference Co-Freshman of the Week for her performance.
“It was really nice to see Jessica Jackson in her first race to get a collegiate victo-ry,” coach Lane Harter said. “She is also now SEC Fresh-man of the Week, so we’re really pleased for her.”
Other runners that fin-ished well in the compe-tition included freshman Dominique Scott, who came in second while seniors Jil-lian Rosen and Cali George finished third and fourth, respectively.
The team will continue to train and make improve-
ments for the next couple of weeks for their next race on Sept. 17 against Missouri Southern, hoping that this change in weather contin-ues.
“I think now that the weather is back to normal, which is typical of our fall, is real positive and very con-ducive to training, ‘cause our climate and environment is ideal for training,” Harter said.
Harter is using these early meets to get the newcomers adjusted to running in col-lege and give them experi-ence.
“The big guns, the vet-erans we think will be our future at the SEC level and the national level; we’ll hold them out again until we open up at Toledo at the end of the month,” Harter said.
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Hogs Trying to Correct Run Game Woes
RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior starting running back Ronnie Wingo ran for just 43 yards on 11 carries, while Arkansas managed 102 yards, but averaged just 3.1 yards per carry against Missouri State.
Arkansas managed just 102 rushing yards against FCS opponent Missouri State in the season opener, aver-aging a meager 3.1 yards per carry.
Junior starting running back Ronnie Wingo had 43 yards on 11 carries, averaging less than four yards per car-ry. Wingo became the default starter after All-Southeastern Conference junior Knile Da-vis suffered a season-ending broken ankle injury and ju-nior Dennis Johnson was un-
available for the game with a hamstring injury.
Wingo got the nod, but of-fensive coordinator Garrick McGee said he wasn’t im-
pressed with Wingo’s efforts.“I was hard on Ronnie
coming out of the game,” Mc-Gee said. “He was cruising around waiting on something
to happen instead of going out there, attacking the field and making something hap-pen.”
Senior De’Anthony Curtis, the Razorbacks’ No. 2 back against the Bears, had 37 yards on five carries, but Mc-Gee said he could have done a better job hitting the hole, too.
“You can’t wait on things to happen,” McGee said. “You have to go and make things happen.”
Wingo will likely start again with Johnson doubtful
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Opening Under the Bright Lights
Arkansas entered the season as one of the most talked about teams in the nation.
! is came as no surprise. ! e Razorbacks returned All-
Southeastern Conference " rst-team running back Knile Davis, the most experienced defense in the Bobby Petrino era and start-ing quarterback Tyler Wilson was expected to " ll the void per-fectly if not better than his prede-cessor Ryan Mallett.
Well, the Hogs took care of business, as expected, in week one against Missouri State while looking fast, explosive and like a possible SEC West winner by season’s end.
What if the Hogs would have started o# under the bright lights on a national stage like rival LSU did?
! en-No. 4 LSU played then-No. 3 Oregon on the opening weekend of college football in the biggest football stadium in the country. LSU bene" tted tre-
mendously by the 40-27 thump-ing of the Ducks, as they hopped West division rival Alabama in the recent polls, moving the Ti-gers to No. 2.
Arkansas bene" tted as well, but by people ahead of them los-ing. ! e Razorbacks went from No. 15 up one spot. Again, what if they had started the season o# with an opponent ranked on their level?
Arkansas has done it in the recent past and had to recover af-ter a rout. Houston Nutt brought in No. 6 USC as part of a home-and-home series in 2006, open-ing the season with the Trojans. Arkansas get pounded 50-14, but then won 10 consecutive games.
! e Hogs rose to as high as No. 5 that season and earned a trip to Atlanta for the SEC Championship game against Florida. If not for an errant play by punt returner Reggie Fish, the Hogs would have seen them-selves in their " rst BCS bowl game in 2006 instead of wait-ing four years later to make that come true with the 2010 Sugar Bowl berth.
So that was Arkansas under a di# erent regime and this is Ar-kansas under Bobby Petrino, one of only three coaches to take two teams to BCS bowls.
While at Louisville, Petrino stuck with the tradition of playing in-state rival Kentucky to open seasons and for good
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! e Arkansas men’s golf team will open its season at the Gopher Invitational this week-end in Wayzata, Minn., at the Spring Hill Golf Club.
! e Hogs return a team of veterans this season, including four starters.
Sophomore Sebastian Cap-pelen was awarded third team honors by Golfweek last season and " nished 18th at the Euro-pean Team Championship this summer.
Sophomore Will Pearson quali" ed for match play at the WE Cole Cotton States Invita-tional while senior Ethan Tracy won the Western Amateur and " nished in the top 30 at the Play-ers Amateur this summer.
Junior Austin Cook took sec-ond place at the Arkansas State Golf Association’s Stroke Play Championship among three other top 20 " nishes this sum-mer.
“We’ve got our three All-Americans back,” McMakin said, “and we’ve got a lot of depth this year through the line up, so I’m looking forward to getting some people in there in the fall and see a lot of di# erent faces for the " rst couple of tournaments, and then we will go from there.”
Cappelen, Cook and Tracy were the Razorbacks to earn All-American honors last season.
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by MONICA CHAPMANStaff Writer
GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Freshman Jessica Jackson won the Arkansas Invitational in her first collegiate race, earning Southeastern Conference Co-Freshman of the Week honors.
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son. However, in his last year with the Cardinals in 2006, Petri-no composed a stout schedule that featured Kentucky from the SEC, Kansas State from the Big 12 and Miami (FL) of the ACC, in addition to a decent Big East conference slate.
! e Cardinals fared well in that season even with the loss of leading rusher and preseason Heisman hopeful Michael Bush, " nishing 12-1 with an Orange Bowl victory over ACC champ Wake Forest.
Now I am not calling Arkan-sas’ schedule weak by any means. In fact, it is among the most dif-" cult in the nation.
Teamrankings.com lists the Razorbacks as having the tough-est schedule in the nation, just ahead of the two teams men-tioned earlier, Oregon and LSU, respectively. ! e tough schedule mainly is because of three games.
Road games at Alabama to
open conference play and at LSU to end the regular season as well as the annual neutral site South-west Classic game against Texas A&M, who will be ranked head-ing into the game for the " rst time.
Petrino has voiced his thoughts about the way the SEC scheduling is set up, and I don’t blame him. It is unfair, in a way, that Arkansas and Alabama, both of whom have been atop or near the top of the conference in recent years, have to face each other to begin conference play every year.
! en again, that is just how it plays out.
In seasons past A&M had just been a big name and not a big threat in the Southwest Classic. ! e Aggies got drummed by the Razorbacks in 2009 before hang-ing close and having a comeback upset attempt fall short in 2010.
! is year the Aggies will pre-sumably be ranked ahead of Ar-kansas come game time, unless the Razorbacks win the previ-
ous week at Alabama and A&M drops its game against Oklaho-ma State prior to the matchup.
! is is season may be an ex-ception to the nonconference slate for Arkansas, with the Ag-gies having such huge expecta-tions, but other nonconference games, particularly Missouri State and lowly New Mexico are always expected caliber of teams to go play SEC opponents early in the season.
Just think for one moment, if LSU can pull it o# in the midst of suspensions and trouble on the biggest stage against a team on their level and Georgia, who attempted to do the same, but came up short, why can’t the Ra-zorbacks increase their national popularity by starting the season o# with a bang and taking down a ranked opponent right out of the gate.
Zach Turner is the assistant sports editor for ! e Arkansas Traveler. His column appears ev-ery Wednesday. Follow him on Twitter @zwturner.
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nice tip back.
23 – Julysses Nobles – G, Junior, 6-1, 174
CARTER: He didn’t force anything, but looked in con-trol. He hit a 3-pointer and didn’t hesitate to shoot.
Arkansas might have highly-touted freshmen, but don’t expect Nobles to be near the end of the bench.
TURNER: Nobles really improved from his freshman to sophomore and I see a bit more improvement on the horizon under coach Mike Anderson’s system. Nobles is great at getting to the lane and drawing fouls. His out-side shooting will see an in-crease this year as he seemed to have shot better in Satur-day’s scrimmage.
33 – Marshawn Powell – F, Junior, 6-7, 235
CARTER: Powell looked like his recovery is on track. He didn’t overly exert him-self, but seemed to move well and without noticeable signs of injury.
He showcased a nice out-side stroke, draining several 3-pointers and long-range jumpers. He should benefit from having another low-post player – Abron – with the ability to create his own offense.
TURNER: According to the roster, Powell has added some extra weight, which could be good. Pow-ell seemed to move a little better than he did from last season when he had the lin-gering foot injury, but the 6-foot-7 junior wasn’t too much of a factor during the scrimmages. Expect Powell to see his numbers at around 15 points per game and eight rebounds per game this sea-son.
31 – Michael Sanchez – F, Senior, 6-8, 236
CARTER: Sanchez played like Sanchez. He was aggres-sive offensively, resulting in good and bad plays.
He hit several mid-range jumpers and gave great ef-fort. I think he’ll provide good, physical minutes in the low post this season.
TURNER: Never know
what to expect from the fifth-year senior. On one play Sanchez might drain a 15-foot jumper with no problem, but on the next possession the 6-foot-8 for-ward might shoot up an air ball. Sanchez will provide depth at the post and may even be named a starter, but don’t expect much more from Sanchez than his pro-duction from last season.
3 – Rickey Scott – G, Sophomore, 6-3, 202
CARTER: Scott looked fast on the break, dribbling full speed to create plays. He didn’t always finish, but looked quick in the open court.
In one stretch, he hit back-to-back 3-pointers, including a crossover, step back over Stokes. His phys-icality, size and athleticism should warrant minutes.
TURNER: Scott looked like he hit the weights hard during the offseason. He was more muscled and was tough on the defensive end as well against Ky Mad-den, even frustrating him at times. Rickey will play many minutes as the sixth man, if not potentially winning a starting spot.
1 – Mardracus Wade – G, Sophomore, 6-2, 175
CARTER: Wade was one of the more vocal players on the court and played aggres-sively, attacking the rim and playing tight defense for a pickup game. He found true freshman point guard B.J. Young on a nice alley-oop and looked like his confi-dence was high.
TURNER: Mardracus seemed to display some leadership qualities that will be very much needed for this young squad that will probably start no seniors. Wade seemed to have polish his outside shot a bit since season’s end. I expect Wade to continue to be a key de-fender for the Razorbacks and with a year under his belt, his production will rise.
22 – Marvell Waithe – F, Senior, 6-9, 216
DNP – Absent
11 – B.J. Young – G, Freshman, 6-3, 175
CARTER: B.J. Young
will be the Razorbacks’ best playmaker. He got into the lane at will and constantly led the break.
He threw down sever-al impressive dunks during the games, then had his own dunk competition between games, showcasing a myriad of highlight-reel slams. He can get up, get in the lane and made several nice pass-es.
His outside shot wasn’t falling, but he created of-fense for himself and others. Expect him to start.
TURNER: Young was head and shoulders above everyone on the court in terms of athleticism. He got to the hole easily and backed up his high recruiting rank-ing which I was a bit skepti-cal of. Young could still ben-efit from gaining some addi-tional weight, but his athlet-icism will make him a huge factor this coming season.
BONUSRecruit – Jarnell Stokes
– F, Class of 2012, 6-8, 250Scout.com: Five star, No.
17 overallRivals.com: Five star, No.
11 overallCARTER: Stokes, Young
and Abron were the three most impressive players on the court to me. Stokes con-trolled the glass early, pull-ing down anything close to him.
Offensively, he show-cased a soft mid-range jumper with good form and solid, strong inside moves. He finished a break with an authoritative slam with Mickelson trying to catch him from behind.
A combination of Stokes, Abron, Powell and Mick-elson would give the Hogs their most talented front-court in years.
TURNER: Stokes put on quite a show. The Memphis, Tenn. native was a beast on the boards, easily lead-ing the scrimmage in that category while showing off a pure mid-range stroke. Stokes even hit a 3-pointer with great fluidity. Would be a huge blow to Arkan-sas’ recruiting class if they aren’t able to sign him as the 6-foot-8, top 20 recruit seemed to enjoy his visit over the weekend.
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try team also finished first against Missouri Southern in the Arkansas Invitational taking the top place as well.
Eric Fernandez led the team to victory followed by Choul Dey who came in sec-ond.
“Physically the results were good; you know we’ve got a lot of work ahead of us,” coach Chris Bucknam said. “I think generally our fitness is pretty good. Now
it’s a matter of getting into race shape.”
The team did well with-out Anthony Lieghio and Solomon Haile, two runners that should help complete the team when they return to health. Coach Bucknam was still satisfied by some of the other Razorback perfor-mances at the meet.
“I was pleased with Rick Elliot with the fact I think he stepped back on where he left off. He had an outstand-ing outdoor campaign where he made it to the national
championships and so I was happy with Rick and how he looked,” Bucknam said. “I was also happy with Cam-eron Efurd, another kind of guy that has been off the fringes for us, kind of just off the radar screen. He put in a great summer of training and looked awfully well and per-formed much better this year from last year.”
The Razorback men will also travel with the women’s team to Joplin, Mo., Sept. 17 for the Missouri Southern Stampede.
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Kolton Crawford is the only freshman to join the hogs this year. Crawford spent the summer at the U.S. Amateur and " nished in the top 25 at the Texas State Open.
Arkansas has " nished in the top three at every regular season event since McMakin became head coach six years ago.
! e Razorbacks " nished third at the Gopher Invitational in 2010 with a three round score of 25-over par. Cappelen " nished sec-ond individually, scoring 4-under
par and Cook tied for 18th. “! e course is real di$ cult,”
said Coach Brad McMakin. “It should be great for us. I’m look-ing forward to it. I think with our experience there and our leader-ship with three All-Americans back, we should de" nitely have a chance to win.”
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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior starting quarterback Tyler Wilson completed 18 of 24 passes for 260 yards and two touchdowns in his collegiate starting debut in the Hogs’ season opener against Missouri State. Offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Garrick McGee said he expects Wilson and sophomore quarterback Brandon Mitchell to make a big jump from week one to week two against New Mexico.
for the game Saturday.“I’m going to take it into
practice and run with it,” Wingo said “I’m going to work on one-on-one moves and making guys miss. I’m going to put it all together until I feel more comfortable so I can take advantage of it.”
The Hogs ran the same amount of running and pass-ing plays, but threw for 364 of their 466 yards.
“It’s very important,” Cur-tis said of having balance. “It’s important for us to get that balance so they won’t know when we’re going to throw it and when we’re go-ing to run it.”
First Game A Measuring Stick
Arkansas’ offensive line allowed three sacks against Missouri State, but McGee said the linemen played well otherwise.
“They did a pretty good job with protection,” McGee said. “We weren’t really hap-py about (Tyler Wilson) get-ting hit. In the running game, we need to do better. We need to sustain our blocks.”
True freshman weak-side tackle Mitch Smothers said he needs to get quick-er. Smothers is the first true freshman to start the opener on the offensive line in Ar-kansas history.
“The speed is a lot differ-ent from high school, so that was something I had to get used to,” he said.
