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Representatives from ! ve national Panhellenic organiza-tions are visiting campus dur-ing the ! rst two weeks of Feb-ruary as part of a search for two new sororities on campus, o" -cials said.
A# er record numbers of girls went through sorority re-cruitment in 2011 and num-bers were projected to continue to increase, UA administration decided to add new chapters.
“We sent out a bulletin an-nouncement saying that we were interested in expansion. We received packets from eight [national organizations], and invited ! ve to make a presen-tation on campus,” said Parice Bowser, director of Greek Life.
A large reason that the new chapters are being brought in is to help “ease chapter size,” Bowser said.
Holly Hilburn, who was Kappa Kappa Gamma rush chair last year, echoed the same sentiment.
“Getting new houses isn’t going to change the number of girls going through rush,” Hil-
burn said. “Two new houses are going to help a# er the fact. We don’t mind seeing smaller pledge classes.”
Hilburn listed problems such as outgrowing the chap-ter room, being unable to eat as a chapter, and pledges not be-ing able to know the rest of the pledges. $ is could be solved with smaller pledge classes, she said.
$ e administration will an-nounce its decision at the end of February, Bowser said. $ en the process of ! nding founding members of each chapter will begin.
Housing is an issue that the new chapters will have to over-come with the help of Greek Life o" cials, but they “hope to provide block residential hous-ing for fall 2013,” Bowser said.
Hilburn said UA Greek Life will give the new sororities a warm welcome.
“$ e new sororities will be taken in with open arms,” Hil-burn said. “Every single chap-ter is very eager to get new chapters and is committed to help the new chapters be suc-cessful.”
by KRISTEN COPPOLAStaff Writer
UA Greek Life Officials Begin Sorority Selection Process
UA Police Department o" cers had a reception for a retiring o" cer Friday.
O" cer Mike Daub retired a# er 30 years with UAPD.
Daub began his career with the United States Marine Corps. Daub then worked as a forkli# driver, work-
ing for less than $3 an hour. He soon joined the police department at Iowa State University, where he worked for 5 years there until transferring to UAPD in 1982, said Steve Gahagans, director.
During his tenure with the depart-ment, Daub served as ! eld training o" cer and helped to train numerous o" cers. Many of those o" cers have moved on to careers at other depart-
ments. Eric Heath, deputy chief at the University of Chicago Police Depart-ment, worked at UAPD and had Daub as his ! eld training o" cer, he said.
“I’ve taken the things that Mike told me and used them in my career. He is extremely knowledgeable,” Heath said.
Some of Daub’s fellow o" cers have gone on to careers at other agencies, including the Plano Police Depart-
ment, in Plano, Texas. Many, however, have transferred to other departments within the university, Gahagans said.
Reggie Houser, assistant director of University Housing, worked with Daub in the 1980s. He had many sto-ries and experiences to share at the re-ception.
“Mike is a great friend who main-tains a good relationship with Housing
and helps us in any way that he can,” he said.
Gahagans shared anecdotes and stories about Daub’s time with UAPD.
“Mike has shown that he cares deeply about everyone. He does his best to make sure that everyone at UAPD is safe and able to perform their duties to the best of their abilities,” he said.
$ e reception brought people from all over campus. Representatives from the card o" ce and maintenance had stories to share and an easy camarade-rie with Daub.
In appreciation for his service with the department, Daub was given a plaque and a frame with all the patch-es that UAPD has used since his time there.
$ e most important gi# that Daub was given was his service weapon. O" cers are required to return their weapons when they leave the depart-ment. However, to show their appreci-ation for his 30 years of service, mem-bers of the department pooled money to purchase his service weapon from the department. $ ey presented it to him at the reception.
Daub and fellow o" cer Sid Ramirez spearheaded a campaign for new weapons shortly a# er Ramirez joined the department. $ e two successful-ly changed the department standard from Smith and Wesson to Glock. Be-cause of their work in this e% ort, they got ! rst choice of weapons.
“$ e weapons were labeled with three numbers. For instance, 000 or 001 or 002. I chose 000, because I wanted the ! rst one in the series,” Ramirez said. “Mike, of course, chose 007.”
Daub tearfully thanked his mother, father, wife and the department.
“Everyone has made this very spe-cial for me and my wife. $ ank you.”
by AMANDA POGUEStaff Writer
UAPD Officer Retires After 30 Years
Greek Woman of the Month
Research Beat Email Etiquette Isaac Foley: Executive Director of College Republicans
Big Weekend Tests Razorbacks
Students Speak Up For Crime Prevention
Each month, Greek Life honors one woman out of the panhellenic sororities.
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A UA professor expands electric car research.
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Fool-proof advice makes writing emails to professors and potential employers easy. A! er transferring to the UA,
Foley found his niche with the College Republicans.
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Arkansas gymnastics topped No. 13 Auburn on Friday night, but fell to No. 5 Oklahoma on Sunday.
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With a new crime prevention o" cer, students need to speak up for a better, safer campus .
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JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER“Every day is about my students. Each day I am given a chance to impact a life. This is what I live to do, and this is what I love to do,” said Parice Bowser, director of Greek Life.
LAUREN HUSBAND STAFF PHOTOGRAPHEROfficer Daub of UAPD is awarded a plaque recognizing his 30 years of dedicated service to the force. Friends, family and colleagues all gathered Friday, Feb. 3rd to celebrate his retirement.
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Weekend Meets
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NEWS
The women and men of the University of Arkansas Police Department, in partnership with the community, are committed to protecting the future of Arkansas by promot-ing a safe and secure environment.
The Transit and Parking office handles parking permits and passes and transit for students, including bus routes and GoLoco Ride Sharing. Students with parking violations can contact the office to appeal their citation.
NEED TICKETS? CALL 1-800-982-4647
NEED A RIDE AT NIGHT? CALL 575 - 7233
NEED EMERGENCY HELP? CALL UAPD 575-2222
HAVE A TICKET? CALL 575-7275 TO RESOLVE IT
Otherwise known as 575-SAFE, the mission of the Safe Ride program is to provide students with a safe means of transportation from any uncomfortable or inconvenient situation. Safe Ride brings you home safely.
Don’t forget to call early and reserve your student football tickets for the 2010-2011 season. The ticket office is located on Razorback Road next to Baum Stadium.
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Panhellenic Judicial Board serves as a disciplinary com-mittee for UA sorority mem-bers. Each of the eight soror-ity chapters elects a represen-tative for the Judicial Board each spring semester that will serve for a year.
Most Greek Life houses have a disciplinary commit-tee, o! en called Standards, that members must report to when not ful" lling the chap-ter’s expectations of grades or other conduct. Panhellen-ic Judicial Board essential-ly serves as a form of a stan-dards committee for Panhel-lenic overall.
# e Panhellenic Judicial Board di$ ers from All Uni-versity Conduct Board in that it deals with conduct in-fractions from sororities as a whole.
Bailey Carroll, junior In-ternational Relations major and former member of Pan-hellenic Judicial Board, said in order to become a mem-ber on the board she “" lled out the online application and submitted an essay.”
Sorority members may nominate themselves for a position on Panhellenic Ju-dicial Board. Applicants may not have any previous dis-ciplinary history, must have a 2.5 G.P.A. minimum and must attend training sessions for their new position. Ap-plicants are also required to maintain a high level of con-" dentiality throughout their service on the board.
“We are really fortunate at
the UA to have great sorori-ties, and we didn’t have any trials this year, so my job was easy. Typically, as a member on the board, each sorority has one representative who takes part in trials as a sort of juror,” Carroll said.
Avery Ricks, junior French major, believes Pan-hellenic Judicial Board is an essential part of the Greek community.
“It’s important to make sure that sororities are fol-lowing the rules in order to bene" t their members. One of the reasons Greek Life at the UA has such a good rep-utation nationally is because the chapters balance the fun and social part of the orga-nization with the being re-sponsible and respectful part of it.”
Panhellenic Judicial Board is especially busy dur-ing the recruitment process. Any potential new mem-bers that try to have contact with a sorority member will be sent to the Judicial Board, and vice versa for sorority members, according to the o% cial Panhellenic recruit-ment rules. Any other in-fractions of the recruitment process on either the poten-tial new member’s or the so-rority’s part will become an issue with the Panhellenic Judicial Board.
Recruitment and conduct infractions fall under the responsibility of the Vice President of Judicial A$ airs, a position on Panhellenic Council.
by MANDY MCCLENDONStaff Writer
Panhellenic Judicial Board
Enforces Greek Rules
Each month, Greek Life honors one woman out of each of the eight Panhellenic so-rorities with the title of Greek Woman of the Month. Any so-rority member may nominate someone from her chapter.
Greek Woman of the Month is selected through an application process. A mem-ber of the nominee’s chapter submits the application to the Greek Life o% ce. Next, the UA Panhellenic Council reviews the application and selects the member they believe has dis-played the most outstanding involvement and leadership in both her house and the Greek community as a whole.
Courtney Matthews, se-nior art major, was award-ed with Greek Woman of the Month last year. She served as her house’s New Mem-ber Chairman, as well as Vice President of Standards.
“I truly was shocked when I was selected,” Matthews said. “I felt so honored that my so-rority would nominate me and that Greek life would consider me for such an honor. It made
me feel appreciated and loved.”When nominating a wom-
an for the honor, one is asked to not only provide basic in-formation such as which house the nominee is a member of, but also why she is deserving for such an honor.
Ally Smith, the Panhel-lenic delegate for her sorority, says the award is an important way to recognize the outstand-ing women in each chapter.
“We always encourage the girls in our house to nominate someone that has inspired them or has dedicated their time and e$ ort to the better-ment of her chapter,” Smith said.
Women in the Greek com-munity are recognized for their hard work with both awards such as Greek Woman of the Month, Order of Ome-ga awards and Greek schol-arships. Applications may be found on the Greek Life web-site, and may be submitted each month.
Greek Woman of the Month is announced at the second Panhellenic meeting of each month.
by MANDY MCCLENDONStaff Writer
Greek Woman of the Month Honors Stand-Out Sorority Members
BRIEFLY SPEAKING:February 6University Student Ambassadors University student ambassadors are undergraduate student leaders who volunteer to meet and greet prospective students, provide campus tours, help at recruitment events and assist in the O% ce of Admissions. # e goal of the Ambassadors is to pro-vide prospective students " rst-hand information about the UA. Apply online at ambassadors.uark.edu. Applications are due March 15 by 5 p.m. in Silas Hunt Hall.
Food Science SeminarSabelo M. Masuku, UA food science M.S. student, will present “Decontamination E% cacy of Blended Cellulose/Cotton Cloths and Silver Dihydrogen Citrate on Food Contact Surfaces”. Jack Teague, also a UA food science M.S. student will present “Rice Degree of Milling E$ ects on Extractable Starch and Real Degree of Fermentation” from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room D-2 of the FDSC building.
February 7Support Rape Prevention RESPECT FundraiserSupport Rape Prevention by eating at Mellow Mushroom in Fayetteville any time Tuesday. A portion of the proceeds will bene" t Rape Education Services by Peers Encouraging Con-scious # ought. RESPECT provides sexual violence prevention education programs for UA students.
Wednesday Feb. 8AEAP: Who’s Di! cultParticipants will be encouraged to evaluate themselves and their “hot-buttons.” Participants will learn skills for handling di% cult relationships more assertively. Seminar will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Arkansas Union room 508.
Beyond This Place: Using Interlibrary Loan # is instruction session is intended to guide students through the process of requesting materials not owned by the University Li-braries, from searching for materials in InfoLinks and WorldCat to requesting materials electronically using the online interlibrary loan service, ILLiad. Seminar will take place from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. in Mullins Library room 102.
February 9iPhone and iPad EventApple, AT&T, & # e U of A Computer Store invite UA students to join an exclusive event to learn the latest information about the iPhone and iPad from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. in the Arkansas Union Ballroom.
February 10From Abstract to Contract: Graduate Student Research CompetitionPublic viewing and judging of over 170 graduate student re-search posters and displays representing all academic " elds will be on exhibit in the Arkansas Union, the Fine Arts Building and Mullins Library between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Undergraduate stu-dents are especially welcome to come and view the exhibits.
COURTESY PHOTO“The experiences and relationships that I’ve gained from Kappa and Greek life are be-yond compare. Giving back to a promising system is easy when I’ve seen all that the UA Greek system represents,” said Katie Waldrip, January Greek Woman of the Month.
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RESEARCHSpecial Traveler Beat
As a fairly ‘green’ and cost-e! cient source of transpor-tation, electric vehicles are here to stay, a UA professor conducting research on the subject said.
UA Professor Alan Man-tooth specializes in active re-search of Smart Power, cater-ing for electric vehicles, which will decrease dependency on petroleum.
“You have your electric motor that provides power so that you can drive. " e question is, How do you store power in that battery?” Man-tooth said.
“" e one that is preferred right now is the lithium-ion battery. " e Tesla Roadster and the Toyota Prius use these types of batteries,” he said.
Working with the Arkansas Power Electronics Internation-al Inc., Mantooth has been able to take UA research into areas of military and commer-cial areas.
“" e idea is to maximize the longevity and the capac-ity of the battery but not make the car a driving battery,” Mantooth said, “so that there still remains that personal statement that is associated with your car.”
" ough tremendous strides have been made in the electric vehicle industry and electric cars are cheaper to use, ac-cording to the U.S. Environ-mental Law and Policy Center, Mantooth said there is still a long way to go before the electrical engine replaces tra-ditional internal combustion engine.
“One of the things people don’t realize is that you’re not giving up speed,” Mantooth said. “An electrical car can have a greater acceleration from a standing position than a gas vehicle because it has tremendous power and torque at zero speed.”
" e Council of State Gov-
ernments is in the process of encouraging states to increase their e# orts in green transpor-tation. Green transportation is transportation that produces less greenhouse gas emissions than gasoline, according to the CSG website.
Mantooth said his research can improve the e! ciency of electric vehicles.
“We build the electronics that go as an interface between the battery and the motor to do cool things like regenera-tive braking, so you can store more energy back into the battery when you’re braking the car, and while you’re going down hill the car can coast,” Mantooth said.
“" e batteries can recharge because the spinning of the wheels is just energy and that energy is just usually lost coasting downhill. Now you can take that coasting energy and restore it into the battery,” he said.
“" e wheels on an electric vehicle are far more high-tech than those on a regular car because it has the capabilities to interface with the electron-ics to charge the battery and therefore you can drive fur-ther,” Mantooth said.
" e UA involvement in Smart Power electronics research is to maximize ef-$ ciency of the overall vehicle and bring other bene$ ts to the electronic system itself.
“Our research right now is with Toyota developing elec-tronics that can be air cooled, that are smaller, lighter weight and make the cars lighter weight as well,” Mantooth said.
“We got interested in this type of research because one of our industrial partners came to us with a request from an automotive customer which turned out to be Hon-da,” Mantooth said.
“" ey wanted to build a better power electric device. " at’s how we got started,” Mantooth said.
In 2009, the UA collabo-rated with Sandia National
Laboratories, Arkansas Power Electronics International Inc, Rohm Co. Ltd and the US De-partment of Energy; resulted in the receipt of one of R&D 100 innovators award, for High temperature Silicon Car-bide Electrical Devices. " is award encouraged the indus-try to contact the UA electrical engineering department.
“" e positives associated with electric vehicles are that they are a fairly green source of transportation and will re-duce our dependence on pe-troleum,” Mantooth said.
“On the con side, the electric vehicle can only go approximately 40 miles,” Man-tooth said. “" ese cars don’t go far enough. But when you live in a town like Fayetteville, you don’t go that far in a day,” he said.
For long distances, howev-er, the electric vehicle proves to be an unreliable source of transportation.
“" e majority of America has mixed mode transporta-tion needs,” Mantooth said.
“" at’s what made the Toy-ota Prius such a breakthrough. It is a hybrid, so when you run out of charge and you need gas, you can stop at a gas station,” he said. “You can’t charge an electric vehicle that fast and it may take about three hours or more.”
Mantooth views the purely electric vehicle as an urban ve-hicle and the hybrid as a more general purpose car. " ough technology is being developed to make the charging process faster, such a process can a# ect the battery’s ability to function e! ciently.
“I personally think that the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle is the ideal way to go,” Man-tooth said. “Fast techniques of charging are currently a topic of much discussion.”
" e U.S. Department of Energy states that the key to the wider acceptance of elec-tric vehicles is to design long-lasting, reliable batteries.
“Apart from charging tech-
niques, they’re also looking to put charging stations in certain areas,” Mantooth said. “" e best areas are the ones where you know you’re going to be for long hours.”
Unlike the battery of a petroleum-only car, the bat-tery of electric vehicles are not available for inspection by the consumer.
“" ese high-tech batteries will have an interface between you and the battery which will protect the battery and will not allow the battery to be over-charged or charged too fast,” Mantooth said.
“" ere is also a notion that these batteries can be bi-directional,” Mantooth said, “so if you have a power outage
at home, you can plug your house into you car and run your house o# of the car for a short period.”
“I think that NWA would be on board for the increased use of electric vehicles. It $ ts our lifestyle, and in 15 min-utes you can be anywhere in Fayetteville,” Mantooth said.
by CHVEN MITCHELLStaff Writer
UA Professor Expands Electric Car Research
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Performing in the Palace
JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSenior majorette Chelsea Penn performed at half-time of the Lady Razorbacks’ basketball game against Alabama February 2.
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OPINIONPAGE 4 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2012
Online Classes Lose Student Interest
It’s the second month of the semester, and for those of us taking online classes, the time has come to buckle down and not forget the fact that just because we’re not in the classroom three times a week, we still have a grade coming from our Blackboard accounts.
It’s tough enough having the drive to make it to cam-pus classes, let alone ! nd the time and the motivation to log onto our web courses a" er a long day of lecture and work. # ere never seems to be enough time in the day to sit down and watch that recorded lecture, and by the time Sunday comes it’s a mad rush of ! nishing homework by the mid-night deadline. However, if we neglect our online respon-sibilities, we could ! nd ourselves in a sticky situation in just a few months. So how do we beat the web course blues?
It’s simple – we need to start treating our online class-es like our regular classes, and harnessing just a few study tips can make our online grades something to be proud of.
Setting up a study group with others in our online class-es can help keep us accountable for our online work-load, plus getting to know classmates certainly helps when group projects roll around. Emailing our professors when we have confusion or questions about our classwork, not just when we send our apologetic late-assignment mes-sages, can make a world of di$ erence in how much we ac-tually enjoy the class, and setting aside a speci! c time to do our online work can keep a structure to our course load.
Using these ideas to keep our online class a prior-ity, especially in on those warm a" ernoons when a few hours on Old Main lawn sounds too good to pass up, can give us a class we can enjoy learning from, a com-plete structure and a great end-of-semester report card.
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Playing It Safe With Student Loans
Last week, news came out that 77,000 people had signed a petition to stop private student-loan lender, Sallie Mae, from charging a $50 fee to defer loan payment. Well, the signatures paid o$ , as the loan giant came out later in the week and stated that they would credit the $50 balance to the loan amount, so long as the borrower resumed regular payment for six-months. While those unable to pay their loans will have the $50 fee dropped for now, the reality is that it is simply added onto student loan balances, to accrue vast amounts of interest on an already large balance.
We need to be constantly trying to pay more than what we can every month, even by just a few dollars, to pay down our loan as quickly as possible. For those of us who have taken out student loans to attend college, we need to be putting our loans at the top of our debt pay-o$ list, because although the interest is only a few extra dollars on our bill every month, a decade of monthly bills can really add up fast. Adding an extra thousand here and there in private loans each year to buy that new iMac or wide screen television can seem like a good idea at the time (when are we going to have extra cash to do that a" er we graduate?), but we need to be sure that our debt isn’t spiraling out of control.
Furthermore, we need to make sure that we are actually prepared to pay o$ the extra amounts, not just for what we buy but the interest accrued, a" er we graduate. Don’t be one who gets trapped in thinking that it’s free money – whatever we take out now will follow us for the next decade of our lives, and we can’t always rely on petitions and taking out loans to pay loans to ! x everything in the next few years down the road.
HEBRON CHESTER Sta! Cartoonist
Campus crime - it’s the sec-tion of the newspaper we skip over each week, the awareness group we always think about checking out but never make it to, the word we never associate ourselves or our friends with. In reality, we’re all at risk to make it on the crime list-ing faster than we ever thought we could. Whether we’re the victim or the one at fault, rape and alcohol incidents always manage to make it onto the report, yet through education and a better awareness around campus, we could have a much safer place to call home.
My parents, like most, talked to me about these topics while grow-ing up - the dangers of drinking too much, what to do if someone approaches you in a dark parking lot - we’ve all done the drill. While the majority of what I was taught in public school awareness days and at home was about as useful as textbook knowledge on these subjects can be, I quickly realized upon coming to college just how at-risk students can be when we don’t take the time to learn how to protect ourselves.
My sophomore year, I start-ed working as a photographer for the campus yearbook, and re-ceived an assignment to shoot the R.A.D. program, commonly known as the Rape Aggression Defense System, a class o$ ered at the UA. At ! rst, I grimaced at the idea of taking photographs for an-
other group on campus, but when I spent my a" ernoon taking pho-tos and watching the women’s self-defense students learning how to act in attack situations, my aware-ness drastically changed. At ! rst, I thought a slue of students dressed in protection gear attacking a UAPD o% cer to learn self-defense sounded like it would be boring, even comedic, to watch, but as a student on campus who is equal-ly at risk for assault, it really made me consider how much I actually knew.
As students, we don’t usual-ly consider how many drinks we are throwing back until we have a friend go to the hospital with alco-hol poisoning. Similarly, we don’t tend to worry about the prospect of rape happening to us until we know the true facts. While we can’t protect ourselves from everything in college, we need to be using this time in our lives to educate our-selves of the risks.
Late last week, UAPD o% cer David Waddell was promoted to crime prevention o% cer. Now for most of us, we shrug our shoulders and go on with life at news like this, but as students, we need to use this time to harness the resources that are available, suggest ideas that re-& ect what we need, and take part in keeping our campus safe.
Realistically, we probably won’t see a crime prevention up-roar on campus just because of the new o% cer on sta$ , but as the ones who live and work on cam-pus, we need to be actively pursu-
ing information. Yet, my hope is that the UAPD crime prevention unit will use this time to pursue a much more active role in cam-pus, through awareness seminars, more classes like R.A.D. and more student-friendly ways to make al-cohol and rape awareness some-thing we are actually aware of.
Now, obviously we aren’t all going to ditch Dickson street or revoke our weekend plans that in-clude being around the opposite sex, but we need to be educated and informed in more publicly known ways. Now that we have a new crime prevention o% cer on sta$ , who undoubtedly has ideas for extended promotion around campus, we should use this time to set up concrete communication lines between UAPD and students to form ideas that are relevant, useful and, most notably, desired by the students who are active on our campus.
Having more classes avail-able for rape prevention would no doubt be an e$ ective outlet for many of us on campus. # e R.A.D. class, though many have made at-tempts to enroll in for numerous semesters, close almost immedi-ately from the many girls wanting a chance to gain active experience. If this class alone is so sought a" er, why are we denying so many stu-dents each semester, rather than expanding the program to encom-pass more participants?
Organizing alcohol awareness promotions that appeal to stu-dents further than the information
boards around our health facilities and residence halls would give all students an opportunity to learn how to stay safe throughout the year. # e simple truth is that we need more outlets for every stu-dent to get involved in, whether it’s through a UAPD sponsored semi-nar, more defense and education classes, or something as simple as a better line of communication.
Yet, it isn’t all up to our campus police department. As the student body, we need to stop leaving it up to UAPD o% cers to promote events that sometimes we just aren’t that interested in. Instead, we need to express what our concerns are, what we deal with on a day-to-day basis, and what we need from our campus police. We need to be active and voice our requests, con-cerns and ideas to our new crime prevention o% cer, so that we can actually get what we want. Ask for more classes on awareness, share ideas for programs you want to see happen on campus, and voice con-cerns for issues we deal with at the UA. # ere is only so much UAPD can do without our involvement, because we are the ones directly a$ ected by and involved in cam-pus crime. Take this advantage to become an active voice on campus to promote a safer place for us all to be.
Emily Rhodes is a journalism major, and the opinion editor.
Her column appears every other Monday.
Students Speak Up For Crime Preventionby EMILY RHODESOpinion Editor
Litanies of moral issues have clogged the United States elec-tions and public policy lately. Whether it be disdaining a can-didate because of his religious be-liefs, or preventing gay marriage in states because of “morals” in-spired by religious beliefs, the sys-tem is broken (no big news).
I’m stirring up old trouble here. # ese ! ghts are not new, but Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s re-cent activity demonstrates a need to review arguments concern-ing morals in public policy, and explain the problems associated with each.
If you weren’t aware, the long-time supporter of breast cancer research recently cut it’s funding support to women’s support or-ganization, Planned Parenthood.
Funds were cut to Planned Parenthood because of new grant procedures, said Komen o% cials.
Yet, many Americans saw through this, as Komen o% cials noted that the money could have been better spent.
# e underlying reason the Komen group cut the funding is because of Planned Parenthood’s position on abortion.
Before discussing the prob-lems with this, it’s only fair that we recognize the organization, the Komen group, was in its legal right when it relinquished fund-ing from Planned Parenthood.
# ere are a few problems with the decision, though. First, it’s im-portant to note that Planned Par-enthood cannot legally use fed-eral funds to perform abortions, and that the organization refers to the procedure as a last resort.
Also, the money originally withheld from the Komen Group was used to perform potentially life-saving screenings for breast cancer.
Komen’s position is inherent-ly & awed though, as moral issues have no place when making deci-sions regarding funding.
Komen supports millions of women in a ! ght against breast cancer every year and is one of the most well organized groups in the United States. When supporting those individual women though, does the group ask whether or not she supports the idea of abortion?
Of course not, and this posi-tion should be adopted ubiqui-tously by women’s support groups nationwide. Komen shouldn’t be basing it funding based on moral positions, whether it be a person or an organization. Planned Par-enthood supports a similar plat-form that the Komen group does. At the roots, the groups support the same thing - women.
Many Senators moved the same position against the origi-nal announcement by the Komen foundation.
“It would be tragic if any woman — let alone thousands of women — lost access to these potentially lifesaving screenings because of a politically motivated attack,” 26 democratic senators, including Barbara Boxer of Cali-fornia, wrote.
Many organizations echoed the same idea as they stepped up to support Planned Parenthood in lieu of Komen, such as the Amy and Lee Fikes family foun-dation, who donated a $250,000 gi" .
Possibly the best support, if one could qualify it, was a $250,000 gi" by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. While the donation amount was similar to most other organiza-tions, his justi! cation serves as the heart of my column.
“Politics have no place in healthcare,” Bloomberg said last # ursday in regards to his dona-tion.
Bloomberg couldn’t be more correct.
Even though the Komen story has a happy ending, as the group quickly reversed its decision and returned funding to Planned Par-enthood, the problem highlights a major & aw with American de-cision-making in the status quo.
Moral politics have to come out of decision-making. One may be quick to say that using a mor-al compass to make policy deci-sions can only serve as a better
guidance and more leadership in Congress, but it o" en leads to the exact opposite.
As J.L. Mackie wrote, the ideas of “right and wrong” are purely invented.
Now, that idea is greatly sum-marized, but that thesis is the gist. We see that Mackie’s idea holds true because of the strin-gent con& icts we’ve seen in Con-gress in the last two years. In fact, the moral issues of our Congress have led to the worst policy grid-lock in history, resulting in our current “do-nothing Congress.” If right and wrong weren’t invented, we wouldn’t see this policy tra% c jam.
# e time wasted arguing moral issues is largely a net loss for the American people. Until there is a unanimous doctrine, morality must go. Don’t hold your breath.
A spillover of moral rationale could be abysmal for the general college campus. Whether it is our federal government, faculty sen-ate, or even our ASG, moral guid-ance has the potential to ruin “the campus.”
Instead of squabbles regarding two-sided moral issues, policies must be based o$ e$ ectiveness and ! scal responsibility. Without doing so, America will continue to be a crippled by a poor econo-my and bad leadership.
Joe Kieklak is a Traveler columnist.
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For fans of Americana, Dickson Street is the place to be in early Feb-ruary. Railroad Earth, Reckless Kel-ly and Yonder Mountain String Band will all be playing at George’s Majestic Lounge. ! e shows are scheduled for February 6, 7 and 8.
Hailing from Stillwater, N.J., Rail-road Earth is set to kick o" the string of Americana on Monday, Feb. 6. ! e band’s name was taken from the Jack Kerouac short story “October in the Railroad Earth.” Railroad Earth is known live for their extended impro-visation, o# en incorporating elements of rock and jazz alongside folk and blues, so fans of folky jam bands will appreciate Railroad Earth. Quoting from their website, “as anyone who has caught them live will attest, their con-certs are imbued with the $ re-in-the-belly passion of straight-ahead, blue collar rock & roll.” And for this ban-jo-playing out$ t, the operative phrase here is certainly blue collar.
Most of the band members play multiple instruments, and all of the members contribute to the vocals. ! e current lineup features Todd Sheaf-fer (guitar), Tim Carbone (violin, ac-cordion, electric guitar), John Skehan (mandolin, bouzouki), Carey Harmon (drums, hand percussion), Andrew Altman (bass), and Andy Goessling (acoustic guitars, banjo, dobro, man-dolin, % ute, pennywhistle, saxophone). Railroad Earth spent some time at the top of the chart on jambands.com a# er they released “Amen Corner.” Review-ers have noted that aspects of “Amen
Corner” draw in% uence from Jerry Garcia (as do most contemporary jam bands), but also from Je" Tweedy and Wilco. Di" erent listeners will have dif-ferent interpretations.
Stepping a little outside the realm of bluegrass is Reckless Kelly, a coun-try-rock out$ t based in the heart of Texas. ! e band is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 7. One biography de-scribes them as “straddling the fence between country and rock as if they built it themselves;” when pictur-ing said straddling, at least one mem-
ber should be pictured in a ten-gallon hat. Recording in “an old farmhouse-turned studio” and frequently produc-ing their own albums, the band strives to keep its musical focus on raw guitar music and storytelling. Lyrical content makes much of the pursuit of love, of being in love, the open road as used in metaphor and of course, the good old fashioned country heartbreak ballad.
Lead vocalist Willy Braun’s south-ern accent and rough vocal delivery lends much to the band’s country mu-sic appeal, as does his brother Willy’s
use of the $ ddle and the harmoni-ca. David Abyeta, Jay Nazz and Chris Schelske play lead guitar, drums and bass, respectively. ! eir 2008 album “Bulletproof,” with its lyrics critiquing the policies of the Iraq War and Hur-ricane Katrina, was their most com-mercially successful until “Good Luck & True Love” came out to trump it in 2011.
And for Feb. 8, Yonder Mountain String Band will be taking the stage at George’s. Yonder Mountain String Band, or YMSB, is o# en referred to as
a “progressive bluegrass” band. Like Railroad Earth and Reckless Kelly, they o# en temper their music with elements of rock. Quoting from their website, “it’s bluegrass for the masses, acoustic tunes $ lled with dazzling chops, and it’s fun to boot.” ! ey cite Black Flag and Bad Religion as in% uences just as much as they do Del McCoury and the Johnson Mountain Boys. Live, the band also has a tendency to jam. ! ey are a concert powerhouse, and their al-bums have been said to “grow on you like a sweet, psychedelic fungus.”
! e band has enjoyed relatively high placement on the charts for most of its albums, with their eponymous 2006 album remaining their most suc-cessful to date. ! e band lineup has remained consistent, and features Je" Austin (mandolin), Ben Kaufmann (bass), Dave Johnston (banjo), and Adam Aijala (guitar). For tracks that include drums, many drummers have performed live with the band, as well contributed to studio recordings.
For someone a bit hesitant about the Americana music scene, YMSB is probably the most accessible of the three bands. Because they are regard-ed as a progressive bluegrass band, their style most noticeably tempers raw bluegrass with what newcomers might $ nd more familiar, so they could serve as a great gateway band.
Each band has enjoyed relative popularity and fame, and though they could all be loosely grouped in the Americana genre, they each interpret the genre according to their own musi-cal % air, forging a unique concert expe-rience in each case.
As soon as Isaac Foley trans-ferred back to the University of Ar-kansas his sophomore year, he knew he wanted to get involved with Col-lege Republicans. Now, still a sopho-more, Foley is head of the organiza-tion on campus.
Foley, from Springdale, Ark., went to San Diego Christian College his freshman year. During Christ-mas break of his freshman year, he went to the Sugar Bowl. It was there that he knew his allegiance was with the Hogs and decided to transfer back home to the UA.
“I sat in the student section, and I realized how much I missed Ar-kansas,” Foley said.
He transferred at the beginning of the fall semester and immediately became involved in the College Re-publicans through Skot Covert, the state chairman for the Federation of College Republicans.
“I started following Skot Covert on Twitter and tweeting back and forth with him,” Foley said. “He told me I needed to get involved with the College Republicans. We became friends, and he appointed me Ex-ecutive Director of College Repub-licans for the state.”
As a political science major, Col-lege Republicans is a way for Foley to be involved in the Republican party while he is still in school.
“! e group is deeply rooted in
pressing ideals of the Republican Party,” Foley said.
Foley hopes to get his master’s degree in public policy or public ad-ministration at the UA. His dream job, “besides President of the United States,” he jokes, is to work in Con-gress.
Last semester the College Re-publicans went to the state Repub-lican Congress in Little Rock. ! is semester they are planning to go to the Conservative Political Activist Conference in February, at which members of the group are able to meet other members of the Repub-lican party.
“! e main goal of the College Republicans right now is making Obama a one-term president,” Fol-ey said.
! e group meets on the $ rst and third ! ursday of every month. During meetings, the group usually has a speaker and a discussion af-terwards. In the past, Congressman Steve Womack and Arkansas sena-tors have come to speak at the meet-ings.
At the next meeting, Bill Pritchard, a member of the Arkan-sas Senate, and Jon Woods, a mem-ber of the Arkansas House of Repre-sentatives, will be there for a district four senator forum debate.
To get involved with College Re-publicans, check the College Repub-licans Facebook group or through the group’s Twitter account, @UofAGOP.
Etiquette. It’s something we think about when visiting a nice restau-rant, attending an important meet-ing, and greeting new people. How-ever, most social formalities have become lost in laid-back Internet speech full of LOLs and WTFs. With today’s social network boom enter-ing the lives of nearly all students, it is time that we apply etiquette to the most important communication we may ever have in our careers, that of email correspondence.
Now, I’m not talk-ing about the quick email you may send to a friend or fam-ily member with at-tachments of fun-ny cat pictures. I’m talking about professional, electronic letters between students and their professors or potential employers. ! ere is a striking di" erence in tone that must be set in order to convey a message that is both formal, and straightforward.
Patsy Watkins, associate profes-sor of journalism, recommended simple tips to reach this professional style. “Practice the approach of being respectful, because once you start dealing with the professional world, you show respect to everybody—your boss, your clients, the people you supervise,” she said. “Just get in the mode of being respectful.”
“Everybody is very busy, and I ap-preciate an email that comes to the point really fast so I can respond to that email quickly,” Watkins said.
Respect and directness can bring about a desired e" ect when sending an email, but there are still certain errors to watch for.
Angela Williams, director of the University Career Develop-ment Center, said to “keep it sim-ple and avoid fancy formatting.” She also mentioned to make sure to in-clude contact information within the email. “I can’t tell you how many emails I receive that are signed by a Je" , Mary or Bob with no other iden-tifying information…Be sure to add a signature line at the end of your messages and also include a contact phone number.“
Williams also stressed to know-ing to whom you are writing, and
address them proper-ly: “Dear Mr. Smith:” not “To Whom It May Concern.”
With employ-ers and professors alike maintaining demanding life-styles, the subject line must be uti-lized to the full-est in order to get your point across. “Email inboxes are f requent ly
swamped, so a good sub-ject line helps the recipient determine the priority of your email. It also helps to prevent your email from being de-leted before it has even been read,” Williams added.
Williams also gave several in-structions for making initial contact with potential employers, besides the all-essential tool of email: “Use social media websites such as Linke-dIn to introduce yourself to prospec-tive employers or to employers in which you may be interested.”
Too o# en, students take a relaxed approach in writing to organizations or superior persons. With this relax-ation comes an ignorance of detail —detail that is key to the success or failure of a student’s communication and career.
Phyllis Miller, associate profes-sor of journalism, said one of the most common errors were, “! e same mistakes that have historically been made in traditional, conserva-tive business letters are, for the most part, the same mistakes people make in their emails. We can't get away with misspelling someone's name or having a major fact error.”
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are emotional or inebriated or even sleep deprived. Sleep on the situa-tion and see how you feel the next day.”
To make a mistake in grammar or emotional content can, and most likely will, change the perception the recipient has of the writer.
“Written correspondence in% u-ences what people think of us,” Mill-er added. “Just because we write an email or send a text doesn't make it OK to make mistakes. ! e good news is that there are many resourc-es available for students, ranging from career services to technical writing classes. Students should ask for help as we, as educators, delight in teaching. We are on your team; we want you to succeed.”
! ough it may seem like a di& -cult task, cleaning up your email act can be relatively painless. With the Career Development Center, profes-sors around campus, and websites dedicated to the subject, help is not only free but also prevalent. Bad old habits die hard, so take it upon your-self to initiate proper email etiquette to reap all of the professional and personal rewards.
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What Signing Day Really Means
OK, so now that we have all had some time to step away from the madness that was National Signing Day, we can take a look back and ap-propriately call it what it was for most of the people who signed –– I-will-make-an-impact-in-two-years Day.
For most of the players who signed to a college last weekend, they won’t make an immediate impact on their team. They will get some playing time their first couple seasons, but it won’t be until their junior or senior seasons that these players will be re-garded as being major parts of the team.
Sure, every year there are really good guys who can come in and make an im-pact, like Jadeveon Clowney did last year for South Caro-lina, but those guys are very few and far between. Many people thought that Dorial Green-Beckham –– DGB –– was going to be that kind of guy this year.
Arkansas nation was so riled up about DGB that it
projected the entire future of the program on this 18-year-old kid.
Rumors were swirling that this KID was Marcus Monk plus Greg Childs and Calvin Johnson. He has that ability, but that is major hype for him to live up to.
For a program that has won 10 games the past two seasons, the fan base reeked of desperation for this kid. Tweeting him constantly, begging him to take his tal-ents to the Ozarks.
It’s time that Arkansas started carrying itself like a top-10 program and that in-cludes the fans.
Is DGB good? Yes. Would he have made an
impact immediately? Yes.Is Arkansas going to be
fine without him? Yes. That is the beauty of foot-
ball. It is a team game. If National Signing Day
was the end all be all of col-lege football then Florida State would be regarded as the best team in the history of college football instead of the team that gets good players but is overrated every year.
So what, Arkansas doesn’t have DGB. It does have Cobi Hamilton, Julian Horton, Marquel Wade and Chris Gragg.
I doubt that Bobby P is losing a whole lot of sleep be-cause DGB chose to go Mis-souri instead of Arkansas.
If DGB wanted to partic-ipate in the No. 1 offense in the SEC, catch touchdowns like they were going out of
style, play for championships and have national coverage, he would have chosen Arkan-sas. He chose Missouri and I am sure he will enjoy his time at the Liberty Bowl.
Once again let me remind the fans that this is not a Houston Nutt’s Arkansas Ra-zorbacks team. If this were 2005, then yes, DGB would mean absolutely everything to the program, just like Dar-ren McFadden did.
It isn’t 2005, though. The program actually has founda-tion and one player is not go-ing to make or break the Ra-zorbacks.
One of the main philoso-phies in sports is that if you get the best players on your team, you are going to win. This is what has driven many
sports teams to make he moves to create these super teams.
Let’s go ahead and ask the Miami Heat, Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia Ea-gles how that strategy worked out for them.
Losing out on DGB is not the end of the world for Ar-kansas.
The Razorbacks are a top-10 program and good play-ers will come and go, but one thing is for certain un-der Bobby Petrino –– the Hogs have never been about one person and no kid from Springfield is going to change that.
Harrison Stanfill is a staff writer for The Arkansas Trav-eler. His column appears ev-ery Monday.
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Arkansas senior and nine-time All-American gymnast Jaime Pisani fi nished fi rst in the bars event scoring a 9.900, but it was Katharine Grable who won the all-around scoring a 39.550 against the Sooners. However, the Razorbacks were not able to hold o! the Sooners falling to No. 5 Oklahoma by a score of 197.425-196.175.
Arkansas gymnastics had a big weekend hosting both No. 13 Auburn and No. 8 Oklaho-ma at Barnhill Arena.
! e Hogs came up short against Oklahoma on Sunday falling to the Sooners 197.425 – 196.175. Arkansas made some mistakes that they could not recover from and the result was the " rst home loss of the season.
“I thought we came out strong on vault and bars,” co-coach Rene Cook said. “I think we were trying too hard to stick things and make them perfect rather than just focus-ing on being aggressive and using our technique and it caught up to us throughout the competition.”
! e Razorbacks had good individual performances against the Sooners as Kather-ine Grable won the all- around title but could not post scores as consistently as All – Ameri-can Jamie Pisani. Pisani scored a 9.90 on both vault and bars while Grable posted a 9.250 and 9.950 on vault and # oor exercise. Grable’s 9.95 on # oor tied her career high and was the second 9.95 she posted
this weekend.“I knew we were behind
and I knew we needed to make scores,” Pisani said.
Despite the impressive in-dividual performances by Gra-ble and Pisani, Arkansas could not overcome the mistakes they made towards the end of the meet.
“It doesn’t matter how many meets you have because you want to go out and be con-sistent each time.” Pisani said.
Arkansas was able to take advantage of many Auburn mistakes as they defeated the Tigers on Friday night 196.80 – 195.80.
All-American Jamie Pisani had an outstanding perfor-mance as she set a school re-cord with a 9.975 on # oor and personal best of 9.925 on beam, in the process tying a school record of 39.725 all-around.
Mariah Howdeshell, No. 1 on bars, matched the third-best bars score in school his-tory.
“We started o$ the meet strong on vault, bars and beam were solid, and it was the best beam team score of the year.” Pisani said.
A " nal score of 196.80 means that Arkansas has
scored over 196 in each meet this year.
“We are trying to work on the details on each event,” Pisani said. “! e scores come from the judges and we can’t really control that.”
Razorbacks Fall to Soon-ers
Just one day removed from its win over No. 13 Auburn Friday night, No. 2 Arkansas took on No. 5 Oklahoma on Sunday a% ernoon dropping to the Sooners 197.425 – 196.175.
In front of a crowd of 2442 in Barnhill Arena, the mistakes piled up on the Razorbacks and they couldn’t capitalize on their fast start.
“We had quite of few mis-takes tonight however it is the " rst competition this year we really had mistakes.” co-coach Rene Cook said. “It is going to happen, it’s a long season.”
! e Razorbacks had a great start to the meet with all six gymnasts earning a score of 9.800 or better on vault giv-ing them a combined score of 49.325. ! e scores were high-lighted by All-Americans Ja-mie Pisani and Katherine Gra-ble earning a 9.900 and 9.925 respectively. ! e Razorbacks led a% er one event 49.325-49.275.
Consistency has been the name of the game for the Ra-zorbacks and that continued as they took to the bars, were Ar-kansas is No. 1 in the nation. Once again posting the best score on bars was Jamie Pisani with a 9.900 followed by No. 1 on bars, Mariah Howdeshell and Katherine Grable each posting a 9.850.
With a score of 49.225 on bars the Razorbacks posted an overall score of 98.550 af-ter two events. However with a strong performance on vault, posting a 49.525, the Sooners took the lead a% er two events leading Arkansas 98.800 – 98.550.
“We don’t really pay atten-tion to that; we try to stay in our little bubble.” Pisani said. “We try to stay focused and go to beam and be aggressive.”
Trailing the Sooners, Ar-kansas took to the beam where they struggled mightily. ! e duo of All-Americans deliv-ered once again for the Ra-zorbacks as Pisani and Grable posted the team’s best scores on beam with 9.800 and 9.825 respectively. As the other Ra-zorback gymnasts struggled on
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Arkansas continued its ways on the road Saturday a% er-noon, falling to 0-7 away from Bud Walton a% er falling to LSU 71-65.
! e Razorbacks were able to get the game within one point at the 9:02 mark le% in the game, 50-49, but the Tigers took a 21-16 run to " nish the game.
LSU (13-9, 3-5 Southeast-ern Conference) limited the Hogs shooting to just 40.4 per-cent including a 3 of 13 mark from the 3-point line, a statistic that the Razorbacks thrive on at home. ! e Razorbacks also lost the turnover battle to the Tigers, turning it over 19 times.
“Nineteen turnovers on the
road, you are not going to beat many people,” coach Mike An-derson said. “We had some un-characteristic turnovers. Some-times being too quick and just not valuing the basketball.”
Arkansas sophomore Mardracus Wade led the way for the Razorbacks with 15 points and three steals. ! e 6-foot-2 guard also connected on all six of his free throw at-tempts, an area that Arkansas struggled against the Tigers shooting 69.6 percent.
“We didn’t get rewarded,” Anderson said. “I thought there were some times when we really got tattooed. Again, I thought there were some things that took place, not trying to
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Women’s Tennis Sweeps Weekend
Arkansas got three con-secutive wins on as many days over the weekend, im-proving their overall record to 5-1 on the season.
On Friday, the women’s tennis team beat North Tex-as by a score of 4-3. They also beat Oklahoma State by the same score on Saturday.
The final win of the weekend came on Sunday, against No. 46 Kansas State. The Wildcats were the Hogs third ranked opponent of the season and came into the match with a 2-2 record.
“It might be the most sig-nificant of the three days,” coach Michael Hegarty said. “Because it was the toughest
day, being the third day of a three day weekend. From the perspective of just today, I think it was the best of the three wins.”
Arkansas won by the score of 5-2 overall, going 2-1 in doubles, and 4-2 in singles. Arkansas had one win from each class in sin-gles. Senior Kate Lukomska-ya, junior Claudine Paulson, sophomore Laurie Gingras and freshman Catherine Parenteau got the Razor-back’s four singles wins.
“We came out and ev-erybody fought really hard from the beginning,” senior Emily Carbonne. “Every-one really competed. Even
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beam, Oklahoma continued its strong performance as Megan Ferguson scored a 9.950 on her ! oor routine. With an overall score of 49.250 on ! oor exer-cise the Sooners gave them-selves a 148.050 – 147.400 lead going into the " nal event.
Arkansas began its ! oor routine with junior Kelci Lew-is posting a score of 9.900 fol-lowed by Katherine Grable who posted a 9.950, but the miscues continued for the Hogs.
“We had a couple of mis-takes (on beam) and then again on ! oor we had some mis-takes.” Pisani said.
Oklahoma continued to post strong scores on the beam with all six gymnasts post-ing a 9.825 or better. Ferguson who came up strong again for the Sooners with a 9.925 on beam gave Oklahoma a score of 49.375 for the event and sealed the victory for Oklahoma.
“# is is our lowest score of the year but it is still a 196 and we still have a lot more meets.” Jamie Pisani said.
Razorbacks Takes Advan-tage of Auburn Mistakes
Arkansas took on the No. 13
Auburn Friday night in Barn-hill Arena, topping the Tigers 196.800 – 195.800 in front of a crowd of 3962.
# e No. 2 Razorbacks capi-talized on Tiger mistakes as Auburn’s Abbey Habicht fell o$ twice during her routine on bars.
“I told the girls before the meet that I want a lot of ener-gy tonight” senior Jamie Pisani said. “I want them feeling loose and being calm and just help-ing each other out, and I think it really helped the energy for our team tonight.”
Pisani and Katherine Gra-ble delivered a 9.900 and 9.925 respectively on vault. Capital-izing on mistakes, the Razor-backs took the early lead a% er one event 49.275 – 49.000.
As Auburn took to the vault the trend continued, as Caryn Kadous did not land her " rst run on vault. Arkansas de-livered a strong performance on the bars posting a score of 49.350, good enough for 4th best in school history.
As the Hogs took to the beam, Auburn took to the ! oor and the miscues did not stop for the Tigers. Laura Lane stepped out on her ! oor rou-
tine, costing the Tigers points. Jordan Salsberg delivered a strong performance leading o$ with a 9.825.
“We are trying to work on the details on each event.” Pisani said “# e scores come from the judges and we can’t really control that.”
# e Razorbacks had a team score of 49.225 on the beam propelling Arkansas to a 147.850 – 146.675 lead heading into their last event.
“We started o$ the meet strong on vault, bars and beam were solid, and it was the best beam team score of the year.” Pisani said.
“# e mistakes they made didn’t really a$ ect us.” Kather-ine Grable said. “We still tried to do the best we could and show everyone what we have.”
Pisani, who is the nation’s top-ranked ! oor gymnast, scored 9.975 which gave her a new school-record. Pisani earned the only 10-score of the meet by one judge for her ! oor routine.
“I told the girls before the meet that I had a really good feeling about tonight.” Pisani said. “My goal has been to get a 10 on the ! oor.”
CONTESSA SHEW STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas junior Jordan Salsberg scored a 39.225 all around total in the Razorbacks win over No. 13 Auburn 196.800-195.800. the No. 2 Razorbacks fell one spot in the rankings after losing to No. 8 Florida last weekend.
blame o& ciating, but I thought we had some windows of op-portunity to put ourselves in position.”
Arkansas (16-7, 4-4 SEC) was called for 24 turnovers compared to just 17 called on LSU.
Junior guard Julysses Nobles chipped in 14 points and four rebounds but had a team-high six turnovers while leading scorer BJ Young had just three points and three rebounds be-fore fouling out.
“You can’t win with that when your guards are having those kind of numbers,” Ander-son said. “Lets give LSU some credit because they fought and scratched and clawed, but we just never could get to that point to amount the pressure on them.”
LSU also took advantage of their size on the boards, start-ing 7-foot center Justin Ham-ilton and 6-foot-9 McDonalds
All-American a year ago, John-ny O’Bryant. # e two starting Tiger forwards combined for 22 of the team’s 43 rebounds while the Hogs pulled down just 39.
O’Bryant, who made his 10th start against the Hogs, missed " ve games, including the Tigers 69-60 loss at Arkan-sas in January, due to a hand in-jury. # e Cleveland, Miss., na-tive blocked two of the Tigers 12 total block shots as a team.
“# ey got the job done and their bigs played real well,” An-derson said. “I thought Johnny O’Bryant gave them another di-mension. He got some o$ ensive rebounds and put them back in. # ey made some big plays down the stretch with Hickey making some big shots too.”
Freshman guard Anthony Hickey had 12 points for the Tigers, shooting 6 of 11 from the " eld.
Arkansas got o$ to an 11-6 lead early, but then the Tigers went on a 10-0 run to erase the
Razorbacks largest lead.A% er the Razorbacks tied
the game at 16-16, the Tigers took another run, this time 15-4 to stretch its lead to 31-20, the 11-point was LSU’s largest of the game. Arkansas would not regain control of the lead a% er that.
“# e e$ ort was there we just didn’t have execution at the right time,” Anderson said.
LSU came out in the second half on a 6-0 run to extend the lead to double digits once again before Arkansas scored its " rst basket of the second half, but a% er the game got within one point at the aforementioned 9:02 mark, it was all LSU from that point forward.
“We really had opportuni-ties to take advantage of the control of this game a bit,” An-derson said. “We just ended up shooting ourselves in the foot.”
Arkansas will be on the road for its next game, traveling to Athens, Ga., to take on Georgia Wednesday.
though it’s the third day, no-body looked like they were tired, nobody had a bad atti-tude, everybody performed great on every single court. Everyone on every court, the matches were just real close.”
All three of the wins were at home in Fayetteville, where the team has gotten four of its five total wins. The one loss on the season for the Hogs came against Nebraska, in a match played in Evanston Ill.
“I felt that we had some good fan support this week-end,” Hegarty said. “It cer-tainly probably made a dif-ference in a couple of the re-sults even. We’re real appre-ciative of that and we really defend our home court well,
to go three for three was fantastic.”
The opponents were some familiar faces for the Hogs. Arkansas played North Tex-as and Oklahoma State last season, winning 7-0 and 5-2 respectively. Arkansas hadn’t played Kansas State since the 2004-2005 season, the Razorbacks now hold an 11-1 advantage in the series with the Wildcats.
“I think that from the very first weekend we start-ed we’ve gotten better ev-ery single match,” Carbonne said. “Every single match is five percent better and over the season those little im-provements every day are gonna add up. And then at the end of the season we’ll have improved 200 percent. Everyone has grown. You’re seeing it from everybody, everybody is just competing
hard and getting better ev-ery day.”
The team is spaced out as far as class, with three se-niors, one junior, two soph-omores, and one freshman. Arkansas uses this diversi-ty in age to their advantage to produce a team that has many strengths.
“We have great talent,” Hegarty said. “That’s the thing, it always starts with having great talent. So we have great talent, and we’re a blend of youth and expe-rience, and I think we have advantages of both. Three seniors, three first year play-ers, that’s a good blend. We get a benefit of experience, and we also get a benefit of youth. When done right that’s a great combination.”
Arkansas next match will be at home against Oklaho-ma on Feb. 10.
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior Kate Lukomskaya defeated Kansas State’s Anna Gomez Aleman in straight sets to help the No. 32 Razorbacks defeat the No. 53 Wild-cats 5-2 Sunday in Fayetteville.
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ARKANSAS !16"7, 4"4 SEC# FG 3pt FT O-T F Pts.H. Mickelson, f 1-2 0-0 0-0 1-2 3 2M. Sanchez, f 3-6 0-0 0-0 2-8 2 6M. Wade, g 3-8 3-6 6-6 1-2 2 15R. Scott, g 4-13 0-2 1-3 0-6 2 9J. Nobles, g 3-7 0-2 8-12 1-4 4 14R. Madden 5-6 0-1 0-0 0-5 4 10 D. Abron 3-10 0-0 0-0 0-5 2 6B. Young 1-5 1-5 1-2 0-3 5 3M. Waithe 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0Totals Assists: J. Nobles 3, R. Scott 3, M. Wade 2. Turn-overs: J. Nobles 6, B. Young 4, R. Scott 3, M. Sanchez 2, M. Wade 1, D. Abron 1. Steals: M. Wade 3, J. Nobles 1, R. Scott 1, D. Abron 1. Blocks: H. Mickelson 3, D. Abron 1, B. Young 1.
LSU !13"9, 3"5 SEC# FG 3pt FT O-T F Pts.J. O’Bryant, f 2-11 0-0 4-8 5-11 1 8 J. Hamilton, f 5-8 0-0 3-5 5-11 1 13A. Hickey, g 6-11 0-3 0-0 1-2 3 12 A. Stringer, g 1-8 0-7 2-2 0-1 2 4R. Turner, g 4-9 1-2 7-8 0-4 4 16 C. Bass 0-1 0-0 2-7 0-2 2 2E. Ludwig 4-6 1-1 3-3 0-4 2 12 J. Courtney 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0S. Warren 2-4 0-0 0-0 1-4 2 4Totals Assists: A. Hickey 3, A. Stringer 3, E. Ludwig 2, R. Turner 1, C. Bass 1. Turnovers: J. O’Bryant 6, R. Turner 4, A. Hickey 2, C. Bass 2, J. Hamilton 1, S. Warren 1. Steals: A. Hickey 3, A. Stringer 2, R. Turner 2, C. Bass 1, E. Ludwig 1. Blocks: J. Hamilton 4, S. Warren 3, J. O’Bryant 2, R. Turner 1, E. Ludwig 1, J. Courtney 1.
LSU 71, ARKANSAS 65
2012 Remaining Schedule
Date Opponent Time Friday, Feb 10 @Georgia* 6:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17 @Alabama* 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Feb. 24 Nebraska 7:00 p.m. Friday, Mar. 02 Minnesota 7:00 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 10 @West Virginia 5:00 p.m. Friday, Mar. 16 @ Missouri 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Mar. 24 SEC Championship 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, Apr. 07 NCAA South Central 4:00 p.m. Regional
Friday, Apr. 20 NCAA Championship TBA *Conference meets
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2012 Upcoming Schedule
Date Opponent Time Friday, Feb 10 Oklahoma 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, Feb. 12 Yale 11:00 a.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 21 @Tulsa 11:00 a.m.
ARK 31 34 ---- 65 LSU 35 36 ---- 71