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Renovations to the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house are behind schedule, a UA public relations said.
O! cials anticipate the construction, which began in spring 2010, will be com-pleted sometime in October, said Scott Flanagin, director of communications and student a" airs. # e original projected completion date was Oct. 10.
# e projected move-in date was August 2011. Some mem-bers moved into the house Sept. 18, but others, seven weeks into the semester, are still waiting, According to the Phi Gamma Delta, or FIJI, housing website.
“# ey’re still working on the front, but we love it,” said junior J.J. Molinaro, an in-house FIJI member.
# e $ rst % oor, chapter room and dining area should be completed by Oct. 10, Fla-
nagin said.Students started moving
into the bottom % oor this week said Beck Harris, senior, another in-house FIJI member.
Many FIJI members, including Harris, chose to temporarily live in Candlewood Suites while the house was undergoing initial construction.
“Housing was very helpful in accommodating students
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UAPD Ups Bike Safety
FIJI Renovations Behind Scheduleby JANNEE SULLIVAN
Staff Writer
A $1 million grant from the Na-tional Aeronautics and Space Ad-ministration will fuel alternative energy research at three Arkansas universities, a UA professor said.
# e UA will receive about 80 per-cent of the grant, roughly $800,000,
and the rest will go to Arkansas State University and University of Arkansas Little Rock.
NASA awarded the grant to help the schools investigate photovolta-ic devices based on nano materials, said Omar Manasreh, director of optoelectronics.
# e research engineers aim to grow materials that will be used in
power instruments to collect solar energy in space, Manasreh said. # e schools will collaborate but work from separate labs.
# e schools will o! cially re-ceive the grant and begin working Nov. 1, and the research will run for three years, until Oct. 31, 2014.
# e schools donated $1 for every $2 donated by NASA Experimental
Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.
“EPSCoR establishes partner-ships with government, higher ed-ucation and industry that are de-signed to e" ect lasting improve-ments in a state’s or research in-frastructure, research and devel-opment capacity and hence, its na-tional research and development
competitiveness,” according to the NASA website.
# e UA policy on receiving grants depends on the donating agency, said Dennis Brewer, di-rector of the o! ce of research and sponsored programs.
$1 Million NASA Grant Fuels UA Researchby SARAH DEROUEN
Staff Writer
Four members of the Na-tional Panhellenic Council visited the UA on # ursday to discuss how to manage the growth of the campus with the needs of the soror-ity system.
# e women were invit-ed by the UA Panhellenic council said Julie Johnson, NPC delegate. # e purpose of their visit was not to de-cide which chapters to add, but rather how to expedite the process of obtaining new houses.
“# ere is a large process Panhellenic goes through to add new chapters,” John-son said. “We are not here to choose which houses $ t best with the campus.”
One of the main issues the campus has faced is where to house new sorori-
ties. # e NPC delegates met with UA administrators to de$ ne ways in which growth can be balanced with cost of new houses, Johnson said.
“I would not want to be a part of a sorority that did not have a house because it lim-its the growth of sisterhood. It would make it more di! -cult for the chapter to be able to meet and discuss issues, but also it would set itself apart from any other chapter at UA in a bad way,” said Ivie Belle Bartlett, sophomore.
“More women are go-ing through the system and staying involved, which is a good problem to have. Now we have to $ nd ways to con-tinue to encourage girls to still be involved,” Johnson said.
National PanhellenicCouncil Visits UAby CAITLIN MAHONEY
Contributing Writer
KRIS JOHNSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERStudents walk into the recently restored Peabody Hall for class on October 4th. Peabody Hall opened to students this fall after an 18 month renovation.
# e number of bicycles on cam-pus this year has increased with the record number of students, and that’s become a safety concern, a UAPD o! cer said.
# e concern stems from reports of bicycles traveling at high speeds on the sidewalk and frightening pe-destrians, said Lt. Gary Crain, pub-lic information o! cer.
“For instance, coming up behind somebody really fast and near miss-es make people afraid they are go-ing to be hit,” Crain said.
# e danger isn’t limited to the sidewalk, he said.
“On the street, the bicycles sometimes will pass on the right if tra! c is backed up. # ey also will ride their bicycles through a cross-walk, and this is not correct. If they are going to cross the street, they should be pushing their bicycle,” Crain said.
# e sudden presence of a biker is startling, said Emily Bishop, sophomore.
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERConstruction, utility, and landscaping crews continue to add finishing touches to the FIJI fraternity house. Chapter residents were able to move in last month, even though construction and renovation crews continue to work.
by MARK CAMERONStaff Writer
Students Keep Valuables Close
Students Act as Ambassadors to Campus
Conference Comes Bringing Passion to UA Students
Multi-Cultural Religious Holidays Fall Together
Adams Will Play Taking Back America From the One Percent
UAPD o! cers warn stu-dents to not leave anything in parked cars.
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A university program brings current and prospective students together.
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# e Passion 2012 University Tour hits Fayetteville Wednes-day night .
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Dussehra, Yom Kippur and Hajj Day coming soon.
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Joe Adams will play Sat-urday a" er sitting out the second half of Arkansas’ win against Texas A&M with a rub injury.
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What the “occupy” protest—which will be in Fayetteville in two weeks— mean for the U.S. political system.
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Many students from small towns might be accustomed to leaving doors unlocked and valuables inside their cars, but UAPD is encouraging stu-dents to take their belongings with them, a UAPD o! cer said.
On Sept. 12, a dozen ve-hicles were broken into and valuables such as iPods, mon-ey and textbooks were stolen, said Lt. Gary Crain. Damages to each vehicle were estimated at $200.
“" is type of break-in is very rare and we are hoping to catch the suspect so we can ask him why,” Crain said.
New students are warned during orientation not to leave valuables in their cars. Students are encouraged to read the annual Clery re-port, which gives information about campus crime.
“Every year we publicize that information in newspa-pers about safety measures for property and for people,” Crain said.
Students are encouraged
not to leave their belongings unattended and remove valu-ables from their cars. Also, students should check on their vehicles every other day and report any suspicious ac-tivity in the parking lots.
“Parking lots are tough be-cause they are spread out all over campus. If you see some-thing out of the ordinary, call it in so it can get checked out,” Crain said.
Jack Weatherbee’s iPod was stolen from his truck last se-mester.
“Being from a small town stealing wasn’t a big thing so I came up here thinking that would never happen to me,” Weatherbee said.
Weatherbee is from Beebe, Ark., and is not used to lock-ing up his valuables but now removes his iPod from his truck when he parks on cam-pus.
A# er $400 of repairs and replacing the stolen iPod, Weatherbee now takes all his valuables with him.
“Sometimes you learn the hard way. I doubt any student will be proactive about this. I tell all my friends to take ev-erything out of their cars just
to be safe,” Weatherbee said. Some students say the
campus should have surveil-lance cameras in all the park-ing lots to help monitor activ-ity.
“Cameras need to be put up because of the campus be-ing so open and that would probably reduce the amount of the# s on campus,” said Anna Snodgrass, student.
However, the cost of in-stalling cameras and being able to record activity is very expensive, Crain said.
“" e project of install-ing cameras in a parking lot would cost thousands and thousands of dollars and that’s only for a few lots,” Crain said.
Because UA campus ac-cess is not controlled, students should be more cautious of their valuables. Always keep valuables, Crain said, in safe possession or in sight. Stu-dents should not leave their cars in the parking lots for long periods without check-ing on them. Be sure to re-port any suspicious activity or anything out of the ordinary. " ese measures can reduce the amount of the# s on cam-pus, Crain said.
UAPD Warns Students toKeep Valuables on Them
by JOVAN DAVISContributing Writer
" e UA holds the record for the largest quota in the U.S. so far this year, with 131 girls per pledge class. Ole Miss comes in second, with 127 girls, Johnson said.
“Even though we have the largest quota in the country as of now, other campuses across the country have far more chapters than we do. " is clearly shows that we need to expand,” Bartlett said.
" e cost for a new soror-ity house is roughly $6 mil-lion dollars, Johnson said.
“We all agree that the campus needs to expand. Now we have to $ nd how to balance growth with the cost of adding new houses,” John-son said.
Courtney Stark, UA ju-nior, has seen immense growth throughout her col-lege experience, and thinks girls will be discouraged from rushing if new houses are not added.
“" ere were roughly 80 girls in my pledge class when I rushed in 2009, and that was still overwhelming to me. I could not imagine having a pledge class of over 130 girls,” Stark said. “Large numbers can have a huge impact on the meaning of sisterhood because you can-not get to know everyone as well.”
“" ere has been incred-ible growth in the last ten years, a system wide prob-lem throughout the SEC,” Johnson said. “We now have to $ nd how to balance this growth with what we need.”
Johnson was highly im-pressed with how friendly and welcoming all of the ad-ministrators, chapters and Panhellenic council were during the visit, which le# her with nothing but posi-tive things to say, as well as encouragement for UA cam-pus in the future.
“I cannot speak enough about how inviting everyone on the campus was during this visit. I le# pleased and encouraged about the future a# er meeting with the ad-ministrators, Parice Bowser, and everyone else involved,” Johnson said.
COUNCILfrom page 1
" e university student am-bassador program is a volun-teer program and is available to any student interested in sharing their experience at the UA with prospective students and also builds experience while spending their time in-volved with the university.
“Student ambassadors will get to learn about the UA and get to share their experiences with prospective students as well as build their leadership skills,” said Kristen Parnell, tour coordinator.
To become a student am-bassador students must have a class classi$ cation of at least a sophomore and a minimum
cumulative GPA of a 2.5 as well as complete and submit an application with an uno! -cial transcript.
“I got involves with the student ambassador program during the spring semester of my freshman year. When I was a prospective student, I really connected with my ambassador. A# er my tour of the campus and talking with a current student, I felt so com-fortable and eager to become a part of the UA family. I was eager to have the same oppor-tunity to share my own expe-rience with future students once I enrolled,” said Arthur Leal, graduate assistant for student ambassadors.
" e student ambassador program is focused on help-ing prospective students $ nal-ize their college choice by pro-viding tours of campus and promoting UA, said Ti% any Chiu, recruitment coordina-tor.
“Ambassadors are able to share their experiences with prospective students and ease the transition into student life at the UA for new students,” Leal said.
“Being a student ambas-sador is about so much more than just giving tours. We spend the most amount of time with students and their families. I feel that we really do have the biggest impact on them,” Chiu said.
Recruitment for new stu-dent ambassadors runs each semester.
“A smaller recruitment process usually starts in Octo-ber and an online application and deadlines can be found
online at ambassadors.uark.edu. Our primary recruitment kicks o% February or March time frame and the online ap-plication and deadlines can be found at the same website.” Leal said.
" e application process to become a student ambassador, a# er all the requirements have been met is that all applicants go through a group interview and then individual inter-views.
From there is a selection process and applicants who are selected will become an ambassador for the upcoming fall. Another recruiting event is the Ready Razorback, where a lot of students come to cam-pus to learn more about the university and student am-bassadors give campus tours, answers prospective students questions and talk to the fam-ilies.
Student ambassadors are a registered student organi-zation and also participate in campus events such as Home-coming, Intramurals, Pen Pals, and other social events, Parnell said.
“Some of the bene$ ts of be-ing an ambassador would be getting to know people more, a super cool polo and name tag, learning more about the universities history and fun facts, talking with potential students, making a di% erence, getting to know admissions counselors, leaving your mark on the campus, and develop-ing some awesomely cheesy jokes and so on. Plus, those who can learn to walk back-wards can end up with great leg muscles,” Chiu said.
Students Act as Ambassadors to Campus by KAREN STIGAR
Staff Writer
NEWSPAGE 3 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2011
“I mean I don’t have any problem with people biking, it’s how they ride their bikes that annoys me. Like when they ! y by when you’re walking and in tra" c,” Bishop said.
I do not mind bicycles — it’s the reckless riders, said Emily Dixon, freshman.
“As a pedestrian, I get scared when they come up behind me and cut through tight spaces. But I do think it’s really great that people use bikes,” Dixon said.
In Arkansas, bicycles may legally travel on the street or on the sidewalk, but they must obey all tra" c laws just as mo-tor vehicles do, Crain said.
“So there are no rules spe-ci# c to the campus. It just de-pends where it is as far as what the rules are,” he said. “We will enforce any tra" c law, as well as if we see someone riding reck-lessly on the sidewalk. $ en we will address that.”
UAPD will be keeping a closer eye out for these viola-tions, Crain said.
SAFETYfrom page 1
during the construction pro-cess,” Harris said.
$ e renovations come on the heels of a July 2010 ar-son, which caused a great deal of # re damage, Flanag-in said. UAPD has yet to # nd the suspect.
“Somebody broke in and lit the inside on # re,” Molin-aro said.
$ ough the frame of the house wasn’t damaged by the # re, Molinaro said the in-cident provided the perfect opportunity to expand hous-ing for the fraternity.
“We’re growing, plus it was an old house and falling apart,” he said.
$ e construction compli-cated the fraternity’s recruit-ment activities, FIJI mem-bers said.
“It was di" cult. I wouldn’t say it was a setback, it was interesting,” Harris said. “$ ere was the curiosity fac-tor, we were the guys getting a new house.”
$ e construction didn’t a% ect recruitment negatively, Molinaro said.
“It didn’t a% ect that much, people were pretty excited about the new house,” he said. “Although, freshmen couldn’t walk over to the house and get to know the members because of the con-struction.”
$ e delay will be worth the wait, Harris said.
“$ ey’re working out the kinks. As soon as it’s com-plete, it will be great,” he said.
FIJIfrom page 1
For this particular project, the grant was rewarded be-cause the participants won a national competition, Brewer said.
Two graduate students will be responsible for growing materials, characterizing ma-terials, fabricating devices and testing the devices by measur-ing the solar energy conver-sion e" ciency, Manasreh said.
“$ is is the beginning and we hope we could expand on this type of research, because the harvesting of solar energy has become very important as alternative clean energy,” Manasreh said.
$ rough this research, Manasreh said he hopes to start a local company to boost the economy in Northwest Ar-kansas and hire a few people.
“$ e company would be growing and publicating de-vices and selling these devic-es and materials and then we could apply for grants for the company,” Manasreh said.
NASAfrom page 1
JACKI FROST STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERA Razorback cheerleader pets the Aggie mascot dog. The Razorbacks beat Texas A&M 42 to 38 Saturday.
Bringing the Teams Together
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“It [the construction] didn’t affect that much, people were pretty ex-cited about the new house,” Mo-linaro said. “Although, freshmen couldn’t walk over to the house and get to know the members because of the construction.”
- J.J. Molinaro, junior and in-house FIJI member, “FIJI Renovation Behind Schedule,” page 1
Across the nation Ameri-cans are rallying in the thou-sands for the “occupy” pro-tests, which aim to spotlight the broken economic system that has led to increasing education, health care and housing costs. But will these protests be enough to make any lasting change?
A mere one percent of the U.S. population owns rough-ly 40 percent of the nation’s wealth, according to a study released in 2011 by Dan Ari-ely at Duke University. In-come inequality is certainly not a new phenomenon in America but high unemploy-ment — 9.1 percent— has triggered a volatile reaction from the public.
In New York City where the “Occupy Wall Street” pro-tests began in early Septem-ber, the message from dem-onstrators has been vague. While the general theme is to highlight the needs of the re-
maining 99 percent who feel they have been forgotten, the issues have ranged from high gas prices to homelessness and a unified solution has yet to be offered.
But even with a lack of focus amongst protestors, the collective idea that mid-dle class America has had enough could not be clearer. The movement has spread to Chicago, Boston, Seattle and many other cities including Fayetteville, which will join the nationwide protests in two weeks.
Unfortunately, while pro-tests have been effective in sparking social change, it will take far more than a few rallies to completely trans-form the way the U.S. does business — at the expense of the little guy.
Corporate interests have overrun Congress and made it impossible for even the most well-intentioned politi-cian to truly represent his or her constituents. The system is broken and must be re-paired from within.
When you live in a coun-try where the Supreme Court considers corporations to be “people” and rules that cor-porate funding of indepen-dent political broadcasts in candidate elections should be unlimited, something isn’t right.
The nation’s economic downturn can be blamed on
both Republicans and Dem-ocrats, whose irresponsible agenda included over-spend-ing while continuing to cut taxes for everyone, corpora-tions included.
The George W. Bush ad-ministration initially enact-ed the “Bush tax cuts” that dramatically lowered taxes, while spending trillions on two wars and a Medicare ex-pansion that was the largest expansion of the program since it was created in 1965.
Last year when Presi-dent Barack Obama and the Democrats had a chance to end these tax cuts, which the Congressional Budget Office projected would add $3.312 trillion to the deficit over ten years (and that’s the modest estimate), they folded at the hands of far-right conserva-tives.
Additionally, the Con-gressional Research Service found that if Congress al-lowed “the tax cuts target-ed to high income taxpay-ers to expire as scheduled,” it “could help reduce bud-get deficits in the short-term without stifling the econom-ic recovery.”
Corporate tax rates in the U.S. are the second highest corporate rate in the world (only second to Japan), ac-cording to the Tax Founda-tion. However, the corporate tax code is rife with loop-holes that allow for big busi-
ness to pay only a small por-tion of earnings toward tax-es.
For example, despite a 35 percent corporate tax rate, business like Carnival Cor-poration only paid 1.1 per-cent of its cumulative $11.3 billion in profits in 2011, according to the New York Times. General Electric paid no taxes on its $5.1 billion in 2010, Forbes reported.
The New York Times also found that of the 500 big companies in Standard & Poor’s stock index, 115 paid a total corporate tax rate of less than 20 percent during the last five years.
All the while, educa-tion, housing, health care and day-to-day expenses continue to increase and al-though the country has seen a growth in job creation dur-ing the past few months, it is not enough.
There is power in num-bers and these protests will hopefully awaken the rest of America to get active. But one also must remem-ber that without meaningful change from within, wheth-er through comprehensive campaign finance reform or a restructuring of the tax code, it will be politics as usual for years to come.
Samantha Williams is the 2011-2012 enterprise editor. Her column runs bimonthly.
Taking Back America From The One PercentAcross the Aisle
by Samantha WilliamsTraveler Enterprise Editor
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UA Can Reverse The Education Brain Drain
We live in one of the best ed-ucated cities with a population more than 10,000 in the state of Arkansas, with the top three be-ing Maumelle, Fayetteville and Conway, based o# the number of adults who hold a bachelor’s de-gree or higher. Given that these areas are booming with business and four-year universities this makes sense.
Almost 19 percent of resi-dents 25 years of age and older in Arkansas hold a bachelor’s de-gree or higher compared to al-most 28 percent nationally, ac-cording to the U.S. Census Bu-reau. I know many people like to criticize Arkansas for a lack of education but these numbers show that compared to the rest of the U.S. we are less than 10 per-cent below the national average.
When it comes to the econ-omy, even though nationwide
there has been a downturn, Fay-etteville has a lower unemploy-ment rate – six percent opposed to more than nine nationwide, and three percent recent job growth in Fayetteville as opposed to -.12 percent nationwide. ! ese numbers do not make the state and this area seem so bad.
So why are there such nega-tive connotations surrounding our state’s education? Well, look-ing at it compared to the other 50 states, we are at the bottom of the list as far as those with a bache-lor’s degree or higher, only ahead of West Virginia. Circumstances that may in$ uence this include that people move out of Arkan-sas a% er graduation or may stay in Arkansas and do not go for higher education.
To help retain students post-graduation, Arkansas has joined the Complete College America Alliance of States, an organiza-tion in which states vow to de-velop speci" c plans to improve their college-completion rates. ! e UA has the highest gradua-tion rate of four-year public uni-versities in the state at 59 percent, according to the organization’s website.
Other state governments are implementing incentives for graduates to stay in state a% er graduation. An article on Ameri-can Medical News told of how Utah educators are hiring resi-
dents with ties to the state and Pennsylvania’s governor sent a letter asking residents to stay af-ter graduation. I believe one fear that many have is that they will not be able to " nd work in Ar-kansas upon graduating. Im-proving the job market in Arkan-sas would most likely in$ uence students to consider staying in the state. I know this is a lot eas-ier said than done, but creating more jobs in state is what it is go-ing to take.
I know that there is not one speci" c solution, but my concern is that I know our state has the potential to rank higher. Not that ranks and titles are everything, but I have witnessed during my time at the UA that we house a wide array of highly intelligent students.
As the largest university in the state, the UA is a place that pro-duces a large number of Arkan-sas graduates. With our school reaching record enrollment and there being talks of an enroll-ment cap and changing admis-sion requirements, ! e UA could pioneer our state’s education sta-tus to the next level. With a more selective admissions process, our school could attract a wider array of applicants that could help with our state’s education.
Although numbers do not lie, simply looking at the statis-tical data is an objective way of
looking at how educated Arkan-sas is. Success is one of the e# ects of education and success is mea-sured in a much more subjective manner than numbers can show. A college degree is not required to be successful. But we just all know that it can increase the paycheck and chances that we will actually end up in a career of choice.
Of course we are already in the right place to help out Ar-kansas’s ranking of adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher – it just depends on whether we de-cide to stay in the state a% er grad-uation or to move away. Person-ally, I would like to go beyond the state’s boundaries to " nd out what else is out there for me, but a decision like that may be be-yond my control. I love Arkan-sas – it is where I was born and raised, but I believe that college is the place that equips us with the skills to go further than any-where we have ever been.
Despite all the statistics and labels regarding our state, I am con" dent that Arkansas is pro-ducing highly intelligent and suc-cessful assets to the global com-munity. ! is is the place where one can truly ‘expand horizons.’
DeShaun Artis is a Traveler columnist. His columns runs bi-monthly.
by DeShuan ArtisTraveler Columnist
Expanding Horizons
FROM THE BOARDFROM THE BOARD
ASG Upgrades Senate MeetingsDuring the 2010-2011 school year Associated Student Government
meetings were held in the Union, and then moved to an auditorium in the Graduate Education Building. ! ere were complaints about both lo-cations. ! e Union was a central location, but some complained about the lack of space and awkward layout. ! e Graduate Education Building, while it had plenty of space, was out by Peabody Hall and the Internet was o# -and-on— hence why we o% en blogged the meetings via an iPhone.
However, this year’s ASG Senate meetings have been moved to an au-ditorium in the Reynolds Center. ! e room has about as much space as the Graduate Education Building auditorium, and the Internet works, so mark those down as checks. Perhaps the biggest, and most important, di# erence though is that ASG has to pay $25 an hour to use the audito-rium, with about $1,200 allotted to using the room for Senate meetings. (Mathematically that means ASG Senate members can have 48 hours worth of Senate meetings without having to put more money toward us-ing the Reynold’s Center.)
We have qualms with ASG members paying to use an auditorium. First of all, there are plenty of areas on campus where ASG Senate could meet for free—including both of the places ASG Senate meetings were held last year. (We sympathize though with Senate Chair Grant Hodg-es who said that multiple venues, including the auditorium in the Law School, the Union and Gi& es in Old Main were all out of use.)
However, surely there is somewhere that could hold 60 ASG Sena-tors—and that would only be 60 if ASG Senate is ever at capacity, the ASG executive members that come, and the handful of students that show up to speak at the meeting during the year.
Senate members are also using electronic clickers to vote. Our big-gest concern was again the price and if we—and interested students—would be able to tell which way senators voted on legislation. However, ASG executives bought the clickers with unspent money rolled over from last year’s ASG budget. (! at isn’t to say that the money couldn’t be put to-ward better things, but clickers for voting during Senate aren’t at the top of our list of concerns. ! ey could technically help expedite the voting pro-cess, the $ eeces bought for ASG cabinet members are a di# erent story.) Also, the clickers are assigned to a senator, so a record of who voted for what will still be kept—we can only hope unlike last year part of these records won’t be lost.
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The most commonly known religious holidays in the Unit-ed States have become al-most staples of culture, such as Christmas and Hanukkah. They fall on the same day or in the same time frame every year, and are all fairly close and therefore can be grouped together. However, there is another cluster of religious holidays in a time frame not familiar to most. While many are thinking of fall and Hal-loween costumes, three major world religions are celebrat-ing religious holy days.
Dussehra is a day of multi-ple celebrations and meanings for the Hindu people. It is cel-ebrated on the tenth day of a Hindu autumn lunar month, which falls in September or October of the Western cal-endar. It is the culmination of
the 10-day annual Navaratri, or “nine nights”, festival, the largest festival in Nepal that is celebrated by nearly all Hindu and non-Hindu Nepalis.
“In India, the harvest sea-son begins at this time and so people invoke the Mother Goddess to start the new har-vest season and make the soil fertile again. There are reli-gious rituals thought to in-voke cosmic forces that give the soil new life,” said fresh-man Caroline Chen.
In Bangladesh, this is a five -day long festival that is cel-ebrated in a congregation. The largest festival is held at Dhakeshwari temple and the largest missionary in Dhaka. On the day of Dussehra, clay statues of the Hindu goddess Durga are submerged in riv-ers in order to help the water yield better crops.
In addition, Dussehra has also taken on a more nation-
alistic form as the National Labor Day for India. It also has another religious mean-ing that may be familiar to students right here on cam-pus.
“Dussehra is also the cel-ebration of Rama, a Hindu hero, defeating the demon king Ravana, as depicted in the Hindu scripture Ramaya-na, which is actually read in some classes here at the uni-versity,” Chen said.
The celebration of Dussehra falls on October 6th this year, just one day before Yom Kip-pur, the holiest day of the year for people of the Jewish faith.
Jews traditionally associ-ate this holiday with atone-ment and repentance for sins, and observe it with fasting and intensive prayer, usually for a full 24 hours. Yom Kip-pur completes the annual pe-riod known in Judaism as the High Holy Days, or "the Days
of Awe".“According to Jewish tra-
dition, God writes down the fate of every person for the next year into the Book of Life and waits until Yom Kip-pur to sort of make it official. During the Days of Awe, a Jew tries to amend his or her behavior and seek forgiveness for wrongs they have com-mitted against both God and the people around them,” said sophomore Madeleine Young.
Yom Kippur has five prayer services in contrast to the usual three attended by de-vout Jews. The prayer servic-es can also include a unique prayer dedicated to the spe-cial Yom Kippur service, as well as a public confession of sins.
“The day is usually spent with public and private pe-titioning, as well as confess-ing guilt. At the end of Yom Kippur, one usually considers
themselves absolved by God,” Young said.
Because of its great cultur-al significance, Yom Kippur is observed by many secular Jews who may not observe other holidays. For instance, many secular Jews may at-tend synagogue on Yom Kip-pur, the High Holy Days be-ing the only time in which they attend synagogue regu-larly, causing synagogue at-tendance to soar.
Similarly, the Islamic holi-day Day of Arafa, or Hajj Day, is one of the most widely cel-ebrated days in the Muslim world. Celebrated 70 days af-ter the end of Ramadan, usu-ally in October or November, it is seen as a day of repen-tance through fasting and for-giveness of sins, just as Yom Kippur is for Jews.
“This is one of the biggest festivals celebrated by Sunni Muslims of the entire year.
Many Muslims in the Middle East may even get vacation time for it,” said Ethan Mor-ton-Jerome, professor of an-thropology.
Hajj Day marks the end of the symbolic trek to Mecca that occurs every year, where many Muslims travel on a pil-grimage. On this day, these Muslims travel to the site nearby where Muhammad gave his farewell speech to his people. This day also has oth-er associations, just as Yom Kippur does.
“Muslims celebrate this day as symbolic of when Abraham was asked by God to sacrifice Isaac but instead was able to sacrifice a goat because of his faithfulness,” Morton-Jerome said. “Many Muslims sacri-fice meat on this day and give meat to the poorer people who don’t usually have access to it.”
Multi-Cultural Religious Holidays Fall Togetherby ZACH WILSON
Staff Writer
Conference Comes Bringing Passion
to UA Students
With students’ busy schedules during the semester, it is di! -cult for them to " nd the long-ing to go workout at the gym, but the HPER is more than just a conventional " tness building, it is the recreational entertain-ment center on the UA campus and it has a lot more to o# er than most students realize. University recreation serves the UA com-munity as a part of the college of education and health through eight program areas, according to its website: intramural sports, club sports, " tness/wellness, spe-cial events, instructional, facility management, outdoor recreation, and accessible recreation, most of which take place at the HPER.
“University Recreation plays an important role in providing stu-dents with opportunities for in-volvement on campus by provid-ing a facility where they can meet and interact with each other, as well as with members of the larg-er campus community,” said Katie Helms, assistant director of Uni-versity Recreation. “We know that the more that students are involved on campus, the happier and more successful they are in college”.
$ e most popular HPER ame-nities are the " tness classes. Class-es like group cycle, Body Sculpt, and Get Fit are available six days a week and help students burn cal-ories with cardio and fun music.
“I go to ‘Get Fit’ every week, and I love that I can de-stress while getting a good workout at the same time,” said Michelle
Volpe, sophomore nursing major.Pilates, yoga, Zumba and Tur-
bo Kick are also o# ered. Each group cycle is $3, but all the group exercise classes are free to stu-dents and HPER members. Any UA student is allowed to par-ticipate in " tness classes, but they must check in with their ID and sign a waiver at the begin-ning of every semester, accord-ing to the UA recreation website.
“Programs such as Fitness/Wellness provide opportuni-ties for students to explore vari-ous forms of exercise to " nd out which ones are the most en-joyable for them,” Helms said.
If students prefer one-on-one " tness the HPER has personal training for $36 for the " rst ses-sion and $18 for every session a% er. Instructional dance classes like ballroom, swing and Latin are available to students for the cost of $35 per class. Students can partici-pate in adult/youth swim lessons and Capoeira, which combines dance, martial arts and cardio.
Students can relax from a stressful week by getting mas-sage therapy, which is $40 an hour. Appointments can be made in room 225 in the HPER.
“Instructional programs aim to teach recreation and leisure
activity skills that can be used throughout the lifetime, such as dance, martial arts or Red Cross certi" cations,” Helms said.
$ e HPER o# ers lifeguard certi" cation for $200 and CPR certi" cation for $65. Students can register in the UREC mem-bership o! ce in HPER 225.
If students go the gymnasium, located on the second & oor of the HPER, they will " nd a large rock wall to climb with 13 belay sta-tions available. Any UA student can climb for free, but they must attend an orientation, o# ered dur-ing normal operational hours, ac-cording to the recreational web-
site. $ e bouldering wall in room 102 is free to climb if students do not mind going up harness-free and possibly falling back-wards onto cushions and mulch.
As found on the outdoor con-nection center website, Out-door Recreation provides lead-ership building opportunities by organizing adventurous ac-tivities and events for students.
$ e center o# ers trips that in-clude kayaking, biking, rock climbing, backpacking, hiking, skiing and ice climbing. It also has water, camping, biking, climb-ing, picnic/tailgating and sporting equipment for rentals. Rental fees
range from $.50 to $30 per day. “Students are able to form last-
ing friendships and learn con-cepts such as teamwork and re-sponsibility by participating in programs such as Intramural and Club Sports, or Outdoor Connection Center programs,” Helms said. More than 3,000 stu-dents play intramural sports ev-ery year, according to the intra-mural website. Flag football, soc-cer, golf and sand volleyball are just a few of the intramural sports o# ered at the UA, so even if stu-dents are not at a college level skill of athleticism they can still par-ticipate in physical recreation.
“My favorite thing about in-tramural & ag football is hang-ing out with my teammates and the thrill I get from competition,” said Jordon Hoelzeman fresh-man chemical engineering ma-jor. Students can work and work-out at the same time by applying for jobs such as intramural o! -cials, " tness class instructors and o! ce assistants at jobs.uark.edu, or there are volunteer opportu-nities available by contacting Ka-tie Helms at [email protected].
“UREC encourages all students to take advantage of the opportu-nities that are provided to them as part of their tuition,” Helms said. “$ ey enhance the Univer-sity of Arkansas experience in so many ways: providing social interaction, leadership oppor-tunities, places and activities in which to be involved, and most importantly, providing places and programs to exercise, relieve stress and be as healthy as pos-sible during their time in college.”
HPER a Valuable Resource for Fun-Seeking Students
by STEPHANIE EHRLERStaff Writer
COURTESY PHOTOCharlie Hall leads worship at another Passion Conference.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly students, gathered in the Georgia Dome in Atlanta last Jan-uary. $ ey weren’t gathered for a top bowl game or an NCAA bas-ketball championship. $ ey gath-ered as a part of a giant worship service and conference, called Pas-sion, that has been changing lives across the country and across the world since it began in 1997.
“It’s just unreal to worship with that many college students ex-cited about the same thing,” said Steve Kieklak, a UA student who attended the conference when it came to Fort Worth, Texas last April. Wednesday night the Pas-sion 2012 University Tour will stop
by Fayetteville. $ e night will fea-ture worship leaders Charlie Hall and Kristian Stan" ll and a video message from Passion’s founder, Louie Giglio.
$ e Passion Conference stands out in the realm of Christian youth conferences.
“I think it’s unique because it’s a very college-driven movement leading the way in spiritually shap-ing the minds and hearts of this age group,” said Charlie Hall, the worship leader headlining the conference’s tour. “Secondly, there is real depth and authenticity to the music and teaching. Passion is always pulling people to be ac-tive in giving away their lives, time and money to change the world for God to be spotlighted.”
$ e e# ects of the Passion Con-ference are evident in the way that it changes the hearts of those who attend.
“$ e biggest thing I took away from the event was a large amount of encouragement. It was amaz-ing to see that there are people all over that are " ghting for Christ’s
name to be proclaimed,” said Su-sannah Burns, a UA student who also attended the conference in Fort Worth last April. “$ at was the biggest change for me, just a change of mindset toward this campus and how my life should be a consistent display of Christ to all of those I come into contact with.”
Passion Conference not only in-spires change in students’ hearts, but the impact of the conference is also evident in their actions. $ e biggest change that Kieklak made a% er attending the Fort Worth conference was to tighten his bud-get so that he could use more of his money to help others, he said.
He learned " rsthand about what kinds of change that monetary giving could make a% er the stu-dents at the Fort Worth conference
raised more than $200,000 to fund a project to translate the Bible for a people group called the Koso, Kieklak said.
“It was unreal and just so cool to see that even though college stu-dents always talk about being poor, God can use our money to do in-credible things,” Kieklak said.
$ e e# ect of Passion can be felt even outside of the immediate col-lege crowd that it reaches.
“I’ve been with Passion since 1997. It really feels like the things they’re putting into the stream of the church has changed the church and how people walk with God and view God,” Hall said. “I see it all around the world. We did a live link last Monday night where stu-dents could tune in over the Inter-net. More than 20,000 people from 50 countries tuned in. I walked away thinking these ideas and Pas-sion’s vision are incredibly power-ful and beautiful things.”
$ e night begins at 7:30 p.m. at the University Baptist Church. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door.
by LAUREN LEATHERBYFeatures Editor
LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERJunior Clint Ray checks his tire for safety and performance in the HPER’s Outdoor Connection Center. The Outdoor Connection Center, an outlet for outdoor enthusiasts, offers a bicycle repair center and rental program for cyclists of any level in experience.
“University Recreation plays an important role in providing students with opportunities for involvement”
- Katie Helms, Assistant Director of University Recreation
“It’s just unreal to worship with that many college students excited about the same
thing.”- Steve Kieklak, UA Student
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SPORTS
If losing six straight quar-ters wasn’t enough for Ar-kansas, Saturday’s second-half comeback might have
done more for the team than give them their fourth win in 2011.
The team had three of-fensive records set by two if its starters, came back from an 18-point deficit and man-ag ed a huge neutral site vic-tory without a consistent rushing attack.
The win just may have given Arkansas an identi-ty. One of resilience, one of a group of fighters, a bunch that actually doesn’t quit (al-though it looked like that against Alabama in the sec-ond half ).
It all starts with quarter-
back Tyler Wilson. The team should be lucky to have Wil-son as its starter rather than Ryan Mallett had he returned for his senior season because the Greenwood, Ark., native fits the personality of the 2011 Razorbacks better.
After the team’s best play-er, running back Knile Da-vis, went down with a sea-son-ending injury, Wilson has seemed to put the team on his shoulder and has per-formed great under pressure. Something that Mallett’s personality just wouldn’t have seem to fit.
Wilson has taken beating
after beating, knockdown af-ter knockdown, yet has still got up from it all and nev-er made excuses for a team that at halftime of Saturday’s game looked like it was go-ing to boast a 3-2 record having lost to both ranked opponents it faced, with its best win coming against a Troy team at home that near-ly made its own second half comeback.
With a nonexistent run-ning game at times with the exception of New Mex-ico and the fourth quarter against Texas A&M, Wilson has relied on himself and
fellow captain Jarius Wright to lead by example and play through the first five games this season.
This do-whatever-it-takes to win mentality very well might be Arkansas’ identity in 2011.
On Monday, coach Bobby Petrino joked with the media about the team’s identity.
“That’s hard to say, the identity thing,” Petrino said. “I probably should’ve nev-er ever said that to you all. That’s all I get asked any-more. We’re getting closer to knowing what we’re all about and each time we go to bat-
tle together we learn more about each other.”
Well the identity that Ar-kansas established during its six-game win streak to end the season in 2010 before losing to Ohio State in the Sugar Bowl is definitely no longer existent.
That identity was one of getting the passing game go-ing and then letting Davis do the rest to go on to victory. With Davis sidelined and the backfield failing to be consis-tent the do-whatever-it-takes
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Adams will play against TigersArkansas senior wide re-
ceiver Joe Adams will play Saturday against Auburn af-ter leaving the Texas A&M game in the second quarter with a rib injury.
He left after being hit in the end zone, while drop-ping a touchdown pass.
“He’ll be fresh, he’ll be fine,” Arkansas offensive co-ordinator Garrick McGee said. “He had a really good attitude, he’s confident and he wants to do what he has to do to help us win this week-end.”
Adams has had a huge impact for the Razorbacks this season.
He has returned two punts for touchdowns and ranks second on the team with 235 receiving yards on 21 receptions. He has also rushed for 44 yards on six attempts.
His teammates feel better knowing that Adams will be able to play, junior receiver Cobi Hamilton said.
“It felt good to have Joe,” Hamliton said. “It’s always fun to see the all in Joe’s hands. You see all through-out practice the ball in Joe’s hands. He has a lot of con-fidence going into the game. Joe Adams is feeling good and running good.
“He’s looking full speed. He can make a lot of plays this week like he always does.”Auburn defense gets job done
Arkansas’ 65-43 loss at
Auburn last season put the Razorbacks behind the eight-ball, 4-2 midway through the season.
The Hogs and Tigers com-bined for an SEC-record 108 points, but Arkansas couldn’t keep pace in the fourth quar-ter. Razorbacks quarterback Tyler Wilson threw for 332 yards and four touchdowns in relief of then-starter Ryan Mallett.
“It was a hard fought game, very competitive
game,” senior wide receiv-er Jarius Wright said. “Even then I felt like we had a chance to win, there were just a couple of mistakes. There were a couple games I felt changed the game. That’s why you have to play each game and play hard.”
Auburn’s defense is ranked No. 106 in the nation in total defense, but only al-lowed 289 yards Saturday in a 16-13 win at then-No. 10 South Carolina.
“They’re getting bet-ter,” McGee said. “I think the best part about it is that they’re simple. They don’t do much on defense and a lot of times teams that don’t do much, they understand all the details of what they’re doing and they’re able to re-ally study your offense and match your routes.”
GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Senior receiver Joe Adams saw his 38 game streak with at least one reception come to an end after he failed to catch a pass against Texas A&M in Arkansas’ 42-38 victory over the Aggies.
FOOTBALL
by MONICA CHAPMANStaff Writer
MEN’S GOLF
Arkansas Men’s Golf Ranked No. 1
Arkansas men’s golf is ranked No. 1 in the Golfstat poll after claiming back-to-back victories to open the fall season.
The Razorbacks were awarded the No. 1 spot in the Golfstat ranking after overcoming their second four-stroke deficit this sea-son at the Golfweek Confer-ence Challenge in Burling-ton, Iowa. It is the first time Arkansas men’s golf has been ranked No. 1 in any poll since 1997.
“I think it gives them a lot of confidence,” Arkansas coach Brad McMakin said. “It’s always nice to see your name in the top of the polls when they come out, so the guys were real excited.”
“In practices you can see a little pep in their step and
CROSS COUNTRY
Freshman Trio Continues To Excel
Arkansas freshmen Jessi-ca Jackson, Dominique Scott and Kaitlin Flattmann helped the Razorbacks to win second place at the Notre Dame Invi-tational in South Bend, Ind. last Friday.
Jackson’s second-place performance earned her a third SEC Freshman of the Week selection this season.
“It seems like Jessica Jack-son has a stranglehold on the Freshman of the Week hon-ors,” Arkansas coach Lance Harter said. “She leads three
very, very good freshmen that have become absolute main-stays in our program.”
Scott and Flattmann fin-ished the race at No. 31 and No. 33, respectively.
“[Jackson] fends off the other two race-by-race, but it’s by no means easy,” Harter said. “Flattmann and Scott are having spectacular freshman seasons as well.”
The three freshmen round off Arkansas’ top five run-ners.
Senior captain Kristen Gil-lespie and sophomore Steph-anie Brown finished the race
by RUMIL BAUTISTAStaff Writer
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by MARTHA SWEARINGENStaff Writer
GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFreshman Dominique Scott finished 31st overall at the Notre Dame Invitational while helping Arkansas to a second place finish.
UA MEDIA RELATIONSSophomore Sebastian Cappelan is one of Arkansas’ leaders on the No. 1 ranked Razor-back men’s golf team according to Golfstat.
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Razorback Q&AJarius Wright
Arkansas senior receiver Jarius Wright caught a school-record-tying 13 catches for a school-re-cord 281 yards for two touchdowns against Tex-as A&M, earning co-SEC O! ensive Player of the Week honors with teammate and quarterback Ty-ler Wilson.
Do you think the passing game can be as suc-cessful against Auburn as it was against Texas A&M?We’ve seen a couple of things that we’re gonna try to exploit. Hopefully our game plan works bet-ter than theirs. ! ey don’t leave the middle of the " eld open, but we’ve seen a couple of other spots they leave open.
How important is the Auburn game for this team to maintain the momentum from the Texas A&M?Our record shows that regardless of how close the game was or how tough the game was with Texas A&M, we’re still 4-1. We just have to come out and play a tough Auburn team.
What do you remember from the 65-43 loss at Auburn last year?
It was a hard-fought game. Very competitive game. Even then I felt like we had a chance to win the game, if it wasn’t for a couple of mistakes. ! e ball on the 1-yard line. I don’t really I know if Broderick was a fumble or not, but they called it a fumble. ! ere was a couple of plays I felt that changed the game. ! at’s all it was. You never know which play it is. ! at’s why you have to play each and every play hard.
Auburn is ranked No. 106 in the nation in to-tal defense. Do you think the o! ense will have a big game?We just as an o# ense we go out there to score a lot of points each and every Saturday. Regardless of who we’re playing, our mindset is to go out there and score as many points as you can. Go out there and score every time you touch the ball. Regard-less if it’s Auburn or the next SEC team, our goal is to score a lot points.
How much does it for you to be named SEC Of-fensive Player of the Week?I mean, it means a lot deep down inside. At the same time, you’ve got Auburn this week. You have to come out and prepare for Auburn.
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ARKANSAS (4 -1, 0-1 SEC)RUSHING No. Yds TD AVG YPGR. Wingo Jr. 60 284 2 4.7 56.8D. Johnson 15 71 0 4.7 23.7K. Walker 20 68 5 3.4 22.7D. Curtis 14 60 0 4.3 12.0B. Green 9 25 2 2.8 25
PASSING C-A Yds Int TD CMPT. Wilson 111-172 1517 3 10 64.5
B. Mitchell 20-29 242 1 2 69.0
RECEIVING No. Yds TD AVG YPGJ. Wright 28 478 5 17.1 119.5J. Adams 21 235 1 11.2 47.0C. Hamilton 17 318 2 18.7 63.6R. Wingo Jr. 14 159 2 11.4 31.8C. Gragg 14 148 1 10.6 29.6M. Wade 8 62 0 7.8 12.4C. Childs 5 65 0 13.0 16.2
TACKLES Solo Ast. Total TFL Sacks INTJ. Franklin 16 20 36 3.5 0.5 0A. Highsmith 14 15 29 5.5 1.0 0E. Bennett 12 16 28 1.0 0 0T. Mitchel 16 7 23 0 0 0R. Rasner 15 8 23 1.0 1.0 0E. Ford 8 12 20 0.5 0 0B. Jones 4 16 20 0.5 0 0T. Thomas 13 5 18 1.0 0 1
ARKANSASDATE OPPONENT RESULT
9-3 Missouri State W, 51-79-10 New Mexico W, 52-39-17 Troy W, 38-289-24 at Alabama L, 38-1410-1 Texas A&M W, 42-3810-8 Auburn10-22 at Ole Miss10-29 at Vanderbilt11-5 South Carolina11-12 Tennessee11-19 Mississippi State11-26 at LSU
AUBURNDATE OPPONENT RESULT
9-3 Utah State W, 42-389-10 Mississippi State W, 41-349-17 at Clemson L, 24-389-24 Florida Atlantic W, 30-1610-1 at South Carolina W, 16-1310-8 at Arkansas10-15 Florida10-22 at LSU10-29 Ole Miss11-12 at Georgia11-19 Samford11-26 Alabama
AUBURN (4-1, 2-0 SEC)RUSHING No. Yds TD AVG YPGM. Dyer 103 567 7 5.5 113.4O. McCalebb 43 221 0 5.1 44.2K. Frazier 13 81 0 6.2 16.2T. Mason 9 34 0 3.8 6.8B Trotter 28 32 0 1.1 6.4
PASSING C-A Yds Int TD CMPB. Trotter 73-122 895 5 9 59.8
RECEIVING No. Yds TD AVG YPGE. Blake 19 333 4 17.5 66.6O. McCalebb 15 173 1 11.5 34.6T. Reed 13 91 0 7.0 22.8T. Stallworth 10 160 1 16.0 32.0P. Lutzenkirchen 6 49 3 8.2 12.2
TACKLES Solo Ast. Total TFL SacksN. Thorpe 22 19 41 0.5 0D. Bates 23 15 38 2.5 1.0D. McNeal 21 15 36 1.0 0J. Holland 19 13 32 3.5 0T. Bell 23 3 26 1.0 0N. Eguae 13 6 19 4.0 0C. Davis 12 5 17 0 0C. Lemonier 12 4 16 5.0 3.0J. Evans 8 8 16 0 0R. White 12 4 16 0 0K. Carter 7 6 13 0.5 0J. Mincy 8 3 11 0 0
fifth and 21st overall, respec-tively. The duo provide veter-an leadership for the Razor-backs.
Arkansas’ top seven run-ners placed within the top 35 of the race.
“We have great depth,” Harter said. “We’re running, from our first to our seventh runner, 30 seconds apart. That’s miraculously close, and hopefully they won’t change their skill level when they move onto Chile Pepper.”
“Usually that’s a sign of maturity, but with three freshmen, we have three unique individuals. They’ve done a great job following the leadership of their upper-classmen.”
The team has a lot of posi-tive momentum going into the Chile Pepper Festival, which the Razorbacks will host on Saturday, Oct. 15.
“It’s a very formidable group,” Harter said about the teams. “If somebody has an
off-day, there’s somebody else to fill that hole. That’s what every coach dreams of hav-ing, so I’ve been really sleep-ing well the past couple of weeks.”
Men’s CC Has Work To DoArkansas coach Chris
Bucknam wasn’t satisfied with the fifth-place finish his men’s cross country team at the Cowboy Jamboree last Saturday, he said.
The Razorbacks placed be-hind No. 1 Oklahoma State, No. 7 Indiana, No. 13 North-ern Arizona and unranked Adams State in the meet.
“We don’t have everybody on the same page yet. We hope by the SEC meet that we do,” Bucknam said. “I think it takes some time to get there. But overall, the team seems highly motivated and willing to go to that spot we’re look-ing for.”
The finish helped Arkan-sas move one place higher in national rankings to No. 15. Junior Eric Fernandez was Arkansas’ top finisher at
eighth overall.“We had some pretty good
performances, so it’s a start-ing point,” Bucknam said. “It’s not where we want to end up, but I think we might’ve jumped one place in the polls this week, so I think we’re moving in the right direction, and it was a good race to get under our belt.
“I think we responded pretty good [to the compe-tition]. The team has good chemistry; they’re highly mo-tivated.”
The meet was the team’s first race in a month, after the Missouri Southern Stam-pede was cancelled Sept. 17 because of bad weather con-ditions.
“It was our first 8K of the season,” Bucknam said. “I re-ally would’ve liked to have that meet at Joplin under our belt before we went there, but overall I thought our kids handled it pretty well.”
The Hogs will take off a week of competition before they host the Chile Pepper Festival.
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The Tigers held their last two opponents to an average of 13.5 points after giving up an average of 36.7 points per game the first three games.
“They’re a pretty good de-fense, they run to the ball,” Wright said. “We’ve seen a couple things that we’re go-ing to try and exploit. Hope-fully our game plan is better than theirs.”
The Hogs have to win or start 0-2 in SEC play.
“It’s another business game,” Adams said. “It’s per-
sonal because it’s an SEC game, and they beat us last year. So we have to come out and play our best and we know that they’re going to play their best, so we have to come out and win.”
Wright got open over the middle against Texas A&M.
“They don’t leave the middle of the field open, but we’ve seen a couple of other spots that we can move the ball to,” Wright said. Players continue to step up
Arkansas has had a differ-ent impact player almost ev-ery week this season.
Junior quarterback Tyler Wilson and senior receiver
Jarius Wright were named co-SEC Offensive Players of the Week. Wilson threw for a school-record 510 yards and three touchdowns, while Wright caught a school-re-cord-tying 13 passes for a school-record 281 yards and two touchdowns.
“I think everybody is do-ing a great job of stepping up,” Wright said. “Childs is just now coming back and Knile being out, us losing a couple of defensive players. I just feel like everybody has done a great job of coming in and stepping up for the past few weeks now.”
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GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Senior Jarius Wright, along with quarterback Tyler Wilson, was named SEC Offensive Player of the Week after posting a career-high receptions (13) and receiving yards (281) against No. 12 Texas A&M.
mentality mentioned earlier has seemed to prevail.
As long as Wilson stays healthy, like many of the other Razorback starters have failed to do this season, Arkansas will continue to progress and rally around its
energetic young gun slinger.Look for Arkansas to de-
feat Auburn this Saturday to improve to 1-1 in confer-ence and don’t be shocked if Arkansas manages to rally off seven consecutive wins until the Nov. 25 showdown in Baton Rouge, La., against LSU, all because of the do-whatever-it-takes to win
mentality of the 2011 Ra-zorbacks that seems to be catching steam.
Zach Turner is the assis-tant sports editor for The Ar-kansas Traveler. His column appears every Wednesday. Follow him on Twitter @zw-turner.
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a lot of confidence in them,” McMakin added.
Junior Josh Eure and freshman Kolton Crawford finished in the top ten in-dividually at the Golfweek Conference Challenge.
“Josh Eure played great, finished runner-up, and Kolton Crawford finished tied for sixth, too,” McMa-kin said. “Our four and five guy played excellent. When a four and five guy can go out and beat the top two players in the tournament, we have three great players that are top three.”
Sophomore Sebastian Cappelen finished 11th in-dividually while junior Aus-tin Cook tied for 18th place and senior Ethan Tracy tied for 44th.
Two Arkansas players are ranked in the top 50 nation-ally by the World Amateur Golf Ranking, as of Sept. 25, 2011, Cappelen is ranked No. 14, Tracy is No. 41.
The Hogs travel to Muir-field Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, this weekend to play in the Jack Nicklaus Invitational, hosted by Ohio State. This is the Invitation-al’s first year to be held at the Muirfield Village Golf Club.
The field includes many of the top teams in the na-tion such as No. 16 Okla-homa State, No. 30 LSU and No. 31 Texas.
Oklahoma State won the Jack Nicklaus tournament last year, but Arkansas al-ready beat the Cowboys at the Golfweek Conference Challenge this season.
“It’ll be a good challenge for us coming off last week,” McMakin said. “We’re go-ing to take the same line up. Those guys did a really good job last week, so it should set up good for us. The golf course is hard and that plays in our favor, so we’re look-ing forward to it.”
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ARKANSAS-AUBURN STATISTICS