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Fuel-efficient car, prototype designed by Tech students ASHLEY PEARSON Staff Writer

How many engineering students does it take to make a car? Six Arkansas Tech seniors are taking on the challenge for a competition hosted by Shell.

The Shell Eco-marathon is a competition that challenges students worldwide to create a car that is more energy-efficient than those we are currently driving.

AMBER QUAID/THE ARKA TECH Moriah Howington, sophmore, and Uriah Greer, junior, talk about what each piece means to them.

Four exhibits, one gallery AMBER QUAID

Managing Editor

The Norman Hall Art Gallery opened its doors on September 30 to showcase artwork from Michael Warrick. This exhibition includes four different series and demonstrates years of technique and skill through many multi-media platforms.

“I work on two or three series at one time,” said Warrick on how he has so many different series in this one exhibit.

The exhibit includes “The Seven Deadly Sins,” “Narrative

Portraits,” “Meditations” and “Birds.”

Many of these pieces stemmed from his real-life experiences and world views. Throughout the four series, he uses a multitude of artistic styles ranging from ceramics to bronze sculptures.

"Getting to see the man, the behind [the scene] works [that were] as intimidating as the materials used to make them, brought a sense of relatability I wouldn't have had otherwise,” said Uriah Greer, junior graphic design student from northwest Arkansas. “How he'd struggled

“Create your own peace if it’s possible.”

-Michael Warrick Norman Hall artist for October with comps, how certain art methods were frustrating to him, how he found solace in nature and how all of that reflected in his work left me feeling like I could work at that level someday. That anyone

(see WARRICK page 5)

The competition is divided into two parts. Tech will be participating in the Prototype category.

Prototype aims to provide fuel efficiency for the vehicle.

During the time of the competition, the team will try to travel the farthest on one liter of fuel with as many attempts as possible.

Tech’s project began about two years ago under the supervision of Dr. James Steuber, director and associate professor of mechanical engineering.

The team is currently in the stages of forming the car, and then they will begin testing the turbulence to make the car as fast as possible.

According to team leader Sydney Wood of Clarksville, the team hopes to have the car up and running by the end of the semester. Wood and the other five members will be graduating in December.

A new team will take the car to the competition in the spring. “We want it to be successful, not just this semester, but continue to be successful next semester.”

The marathon takes place in three different parts of the world. The 2016 competition for America will take place in Detroit. The team encourages marketing, business and engineering majors to participate in the project.

If interested, e-mail Wood at swood17@atu.edu or Steuber at jsteuber@atu.edu.

Democrats and Republicans— getting along on Tech campus

RYAN HARMON Entertainment Writer

It started innocently enough.

Morgan Earp, leader of Tech's Young Democrats, walked into class and took the first seat she could get. Little did she know, she just so happened to be sitting next to Seth Mays, leader of Tech's College Republicans.

"We represent what society wants to put as two completely different ideas that can never talk,” Mays said. “In class, we're talking all the time. While everyone else is polarized, we're not.”

For this story, the two suggested getting together at the same time for a joint interview. Most people would find this hard to believe. I couldn't help but find amusement that Earp was wearing a shirt with red on it, and Mays was wearing a shirt with blue on it.

So, how could two people who have such different beliefs get along so well?

Part of the reason they get along so well is because they're willing to work together. They both are fairly new to their leadership positions. Earp took over the Young Democrats in 2014, while Mays resurrected the College Republicans just a matter of weeks ago.

Earp said when she found out Mays was running the College Republicans, her immediate reaction was to help him.

"I've been where he was at," Earp said.

Part of this includes working together to get students involved, regardless of which side they choose, with events such as the voter registration drive from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 27 in Chambers Cafeteria.

For students who are thinking about getting involved, the two agreed that they're looking for students who truly care and truly want to be involved.

RYAN HARMON/THE ARKA TECH "I want to know you're personally invested," Mays said.

and one person says you look awful, which one are you thinking about?"

Neither of them consider themselves a "die hard" in their respective parties. Instead, they see things both ways. Earp said she's an 80/20 democrat, while Mays said he's an 80/20 republican.

So, how can people learn to get along like Earp and Mays, rather than being hostile towards one another?

Earp said she notices the one thing some people are afraid to speak their mind about is politics. Mays added to that, saying, "If you get 20 compliments about how you look,

Politicians: take note.

"We've lost the will to talk with people who don't agree with us," Mays said. He said people often think “if you don't agree with me,

(see POLITICS page 4)

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America the uncontrollable RYAN SMITH Editor-in-Chief

I write a lot of stories about a lot of things. I’m decent at it, and I think I’ll be able to make a living doing it. Usually when I write, it’s like an anxiety-ridden game of connect the dots I must play for the (something like) pleasure it brings me.

As long as I’ve been a writer, I’ve never wrote anything with this feeling of sickness, this pang of guilt in my stomach. It’s the feeling I’ve had on and off since I heard about the Oregon community college shooting.

In the wake of 10 more deaths, a seemingly hollow yet angry President Obama said he will politicize the issue of gun control in our country because politicians possess the power to pass restricting legislation and don’t.

Yes, it would be a convenient method of saving lives if our Republicancontrolled Congress would pass laws like the UK, Australia, Canada— every single developed country in the world, for that matter—that make it harder for the sick and evil to get guns.

But sociopolitical trend starts with the citizens, because in a democracy, the decrees of rulers must reflect the desires of the people.

This is where my guilt comes in.

I feel I haven’t done anything to convince people something must change, that introducing more guns into the situation won’t solve anything, that it could be our school next time.

Responses from Republican presidential candidates on the Oregon shooting all centered on mental health—Trump, Bush, Carson—they all said it was not a gun problem but a mental health problem causing the egregious and increasing numbers of mass shootings in our country.

If you agree, you’re wrong, and here’s why.

Countries like Canada, where 21 percent of the population live with a mental disorder, have more mentally ill than the U.S. (18.5 percent).

However, countries that have equal or higher percentages of those afflicted have nearly eliminated mass shootings because they chose— usually after a single incident, from which they learned their lesson—to limit who could own guns. If an insane person has no access to a weapon, catastrophe avoided.

The U.S., though, has not learned any lesson, nor does it show any signs of response to the blood that will be continually spilled. The numbers are staggering. In 2015 alone, there have been 296 mass shootings—two of which happened the day after the Oregon shooting. Eighty-eight people die in our country every day from gun violence. Although we represent only 5 percent of the world’s population, we are home to 31 percent of the mass shootings.

This is insanity. This is welcoming numbness to afflictions that could so easily be prevented.

There are 300 million firearms in the U.S., a country of 318 million people. Yet 65 percent of citizens don’t own guns. This is because some

gun owners own arsenals (10 or more guns), which they use for hunting, collecting, self-defense or illegal purposes.

Those who require weapons to protect themselves are naturally untrusting individuals—rightfully so in a country with outrageous rates of violence from city to suburb to bucolic town. But this intrinsic fear shifts onto the government anytime they hear the mention of gun control.

They’re not doing anything wrong, so what right do we have to take their guns away? Plus, the Second Amendment protects their rights as individuals to own any weapon they want, right? Not quite, actually.

If you read the amendment, it does ensure the right to bear arms, but the phrasing intended by the men who wrote it clearly framed this right in conjunction with the maintaining of a well-regulated militia. These were men scared of a colonizing king usurping their rights from thousands of miles away—a fear we no longer share.

Here’s the text of the amendment: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

The people they’re referring to are musket-bearing militiamen, not private, unaffiliated gun owners, and certainly not seedy individuals unwittingly selling guns en masse to future murderers.

The reality, and the reason I can’t shake this sickness, is because I know the changes will be minimal, if any, during my lifetime. But like slavery, women’s rights, prohibition, interracial marriage and homosexuality, views on gun control will shift progressively too. We’ll shake our head at our past folly, like our fathers and grandfathers did at theirs, trying now only to distance ourselves from a cause we accept as foolish.

So what causes change? Writers can play some part. But in truth, I know my audience. I know most in this region disagree with me, despite the overwhelming evidence (dead bodies), many remain hidebound to their positions.

So I have a proposition in the meantime.

Kind of like how drunk drivers are shown photos of families killed in drunken driving accidents and forced to listen to speeches delivered by grieving mothers, we should publish aftermath photos of mass shootings.

If people truly want unrestricted gun ownership, they should see the damage these weapons can do. They should be forced to stare at it every morning before they send their kids to school, accepting their part in allowing it to continue.

I, for one, cannot accept it. I have to do something. This is my part.

Whether you disagree or agree with me, email me your thoughts on the issue at rsmith71@atu.edu. I want to hear especially from those with a perspective at variance with my own.

Help me understand your sentiments and talk openly with me as I do with my readers. Change starts with a conversation.

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Gibbons goes solo RYAN HARMON Entertainment Writer Billy Gibbons, legendary guitarist and lead singer of ZZ Top, recently announced his first solo tour. And to my surprise, he also announced his first solo album.

The album, "Perfectamundo," is set to release in November. Before I found out more about the album, I expected a blues album. It made perfect sense to me. ZZ Top's last few albums have consisted of mostly groovy rock songs, with occasional pop pieces, so of course he would be itching to do a blues record, as he should. He's a great blues player!

When I read the description of the album, I realized I couldn't be anymore wrong if I tried.

"Perfectamundo" is Gibbons' collection of what he calls "AfroCuban" music. He assembled a group of musicians, which he dubbed The BFG's.

Apparently Gibbons has always had this music in his soul. Before ZZ Top reached popularity, Gibbons was in a psychedelic band called The Moving Sidewalks. However, the roots of this album go back even further. Before The Moving Sidewalks, Gibbons studied Latin percussion.

Although the album has yet to be released, the first single, "Treat Her Right," was made available online when the announcement was made.

It took me a couple of listens to really get the feel for what the song was. There's no doubt about it—it's different, but it's not bad.

My biggest problem with the song is that there is ridiculously obvious autotune on his vocals. Is it necessary? No. I personally don't see how it adds to the song.

The song itself has a really good groove to it, and it gives a better idea of where some of ZZ Top's songs came from, especially stuff from the '80s and '90s.

Sure, it's not the power trio formula ZZ Top is known for, but it's still unmistakable Billy Gibbons.

His guitar tone is there, and it's still just as good as it ever was.

Usually, I can get an idea of whether or not an experimental project like this works, but in this case, I can honestly say it's half and half. It works for what it is, but as far as the audience goes, some of you will like it, and some of you won't.

What do I think about it? Well, I'll have to give the whole album a couple of listens, but so far, I can dig it.

Storytelling evolves in today's video games MATTHEW EMERY Sports Writer A black screen, a few white lines and a score. That’s all it took for Pong to take the world by storm in 1972, planting a seed that would rapidly grow for years to come.

Despite popular belief, Pong was not the first video game. That topic is still highly debated and can be traced back to 1947. Pong is, however, the founding father for modern video games.

Pong showed the there is a place in the home for video games.

Then in 1983, Japan burst onto the scene and took video games to the next level through Nintendo and its Nintendo Entertainment System. Along with the NES came Super Mario Bros. This was when the idea of what a video game

should be began to take shape.

Super Mario Bros took the player to a different world full of unusual and strange creatures, all the while trying to rescue a princess. A far cry from the surplus of one-dimensional sports games that had flooded the market prior.

Video games really began to come into their own during the ‘90s. Games like Myst and Final Fantasy proved it was possible to tell an engrossing story through a medium such as video games.

Although these storytelling may have been on par with that of a movie or television, there was a disconnect with larger audiences that would last for years to come.

As technology continued to

(see GAMING on page 3 )

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MAN ON THE STREET What do you think Tech students spend too much money on?

Distance makes the heart grow fonder

"I feel that Tech students spend a lot of money on video games."

Jared Kanady Senior Psychology Dover RYANN FLIPPO / UNCHARTED PHOTOGRAPHY CLAUDIA HALL Managing Editor "Probably a lot of food...and other bad things."

Elizabeth Weaver Freshman Accounting White Hall

"I think they spend more money on fun activities and food."

Rupesh Adhikari Freshman Accounting Nepal

"Tech students spend too much on paying for parking violations."

B. Jensen Hale Senior Fine Arts Hot Springs

"They go and buy all the gadgets and stuff.

When they get their refund, they go and blow it on stuff."

Kyaira Brown Sophomore Undeclared Jacksonville

"Going out to eat when they got a caf right here."

Tyler Kicklighter Sophomore History Camden

There are a lot factors that go into a relationship. You have to dedicate your time, love and faithfulness to one person.

That in and of itself is hard, but long distance relationships take the cake by a landslide.

Long distance often gets a bad rep. My freshman year, I was in class when the professor asked for a show of hands on who thought long distance relationships weren’t real relationships. Three-fourths of the class raised their hands.

I wholeheartedly disagree.

Long-distance relationships are legitimate, and one could argue that they’re more real than close-distance relationships. By adding hundreds of miles of distance to the mix, you have to be dedicated and committed to the relationship or it will not survive.

You have to learn how to openly communicate, something that most couples struggle with. It’s easy to get caught up in your own life and forget to call or message them back.

When you’re both busy, you have to work around schedules to find time to talk. And because you both have so much to do, it’s common to feel like you’re bothering them if you call them out of the blue.

(GAMING from page 2 ) advance, so did gaming. In the late ‘90s and into the early 2000s, voice acting and full scripts became standard in video games.

Each generation of video games provided a tremendous leap in graphics, each looking more realistic than the last.

The current generation has it nearly perfected. The skylines look like real skylines, the people look like real people and the gore is as disgusting and disturbing as real gore.

All of this culminates in recent games like “The Last of Us” from Naughty Dog and “Metal Gear Solid” from Kojima Productions, both of which have emotionally-driven

It’s easy to get jealous because their friends get to hang out with them and you don’t.

When you’ve had a horrible day, the only way to find solace is to hear their voice. You can’t hug them, which is all you really want and need.

even though we don’t have much time to talk, and we can’t physically be together, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t love me. I’ve taught myself to rely on other things to make me happy—God, my job, school and friends.

Sometimes you miss them so much your heart physically hurts.

The most beautiful thing to come out of this hardship is we are not the center of each other’s universes. I can go on with my day even if he’s in a bad mood and won’t speak kindly to me. I’ve learned how to find my own happiness.

Everyone knows the struggles of long distance, but what surprises me is no one seems to talk about the positives about all those miles apart.

In the two years of dating my fiancé, I have grown in so many ways. I’ve learned to speak my mind. If I don’t, he won’t understand why I’m upset. I’ll be losing my mind over a situation while he’s whistling and going along with his day.

Since I see him once a month, twice if I’m lucky, I have never taken his presence for granted.

The room lights up when he enters it. Every brush of a shoulder is electric.

For the first month of our relationship, we only lived thirty minutes apart. We showed love through physical touch and quality time. Once I moved away, we had to learn how to show love in other ways. It took nearly a year to figure out how to achieve this.

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that stories and fantastic acting that allows them to compete with anything in Hollywood.

Even Nintendo games, which are more cartoonish, have a Pixar-esque charm to them.

The tools are there for video games to be made as art, which is exactly what Thatgamecompany did with their game “Journey.” It takes a step back, removing the voice and the guidance, leaving the entire game open to interpretation.

Storytelling in video games has taken players back any amount of years and taught about history, such as World War I, as seen in “Valiant Hearts: The Great War,” by Ubisoft Montpellier.

It’s almost like we are in relationship limbo. Although we are completely dependent on each other, we still have our own lives and hobbies.

That’s something I would have never learned if we weren’t so far apart.

The only evidence of why we’ve lasted is because we are best friends. When something interesting happens during our day, we automatically want to tell each other. Without this bond and determination, I can’t guarantee things would have worked out.

Long distance has taught me a lot more about relationships than I ever knew was possible, but it’s not for the faint of heart. It may be true that two-thirds of long-distance relationships don’t work out, but it will build an unbreakable foundation if it does.

Or if you are curious to see what it was like to lead an army during the 16th century in medieval Japan, “Total War: Shogun 2” by Creative Assembly makes the experience possible.

Video games also cater to the “what-if ” mentality.

What if the Cold War turned into more than just a scare?

The Fallout series answers this. What if technology and science goes too far?

Then check out the futuristic dystopia of Deus Ex. What started as a black screen, a few white lines and a score has evolved into something more. In video games today, the only limitation is your own imagination.

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Tech talks, student's open forum SIERRA MURPHY

News Writer

Halfway into its first year, the Department of Diversity and Inclusion continues to host Tech Talks, an open forum for Tech students to discuss current social and other prominent issues.

“When I first got here, that was one of the first things I started,” said MarTeze Hammonds, associate dean of the department. “It gives students the opportunity, in a large

(POLITICS from page 1) you're wrong, and I've got the choice to just go talk to people who agree with me."

"I'm trying to move toward the issue, not the party," Earp said.

At a point when it seems like we're becoming more divided as

forum, to talk about differences in a safe place, intellectually, and to show that Arkansas Tech can have diverse discussions on our campus.”

The open forum is held once a month in BazTech.

“Students have the opportunity to come in between twelve and one and just discuss,” Hammonds said.

Hailey Robinson, a senior speech communication and sociology major from Okmulgee, Oklahoma, had the opportunity to participate in the most a country, it's refreshing to see two people who are friends, even though they disagree on a lot of things.

Both the Young Democrats and College Republicans have social media pages, as well as pages on theLink, where students can join either organization.

News briefs

Students graduating in December must have their degree audits done by 5 p.m. Friday.

The Alumni Association will be holding a Homecoming Classic Golf Tournament at 9-10 a.m. on Friday at the Chamberlyne Country Club.

To enter, the cost is $75 per person, $150 per hole for sponsors only and $300 for a team and hole sponsor.

The Health and Wellness Center will be answering students’ questions at Ask a Nurse at 3 p.m. on Monday in Young Ballroom.

Career services is hosting Build-A-Resume 3:30-4:30 p.m. on Monday in Doc Bryan 242.

SAB is hosting the Big Pink Volleyball Tournament 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Monday in Hull Double Gym. Become an ally for the LGBT community with SafeZone Ally training from 6- 9 p.m. on Tuesday and 9 a.m. to noon on Wednesday in Doc Bryan 242.

Free flu shots continue 8 a.m. to noon and 3-6:30 p.m. on Wednesday in Young Ballroom.

The music department will host the ATU Fall Choir Concert at 7:309:30 p.m. on Tuesday in Witherspoon Auditorium.

recent Tech Talk.

“It was about symbols,” Robinson said in an email. “Although I did not agree with the opinions of everyone, I am learning to appreciate the stories and the context behind the answers of others. For that reason alone, I believe events like this are necessary to show us that we are all human, and we all have a story.”

Hammonds urges students, professors and others to participate in the forums.

“The goal is that we get to a place on this campus where we’re not afraid to have conversations in public spaces about moving our campus from equality to equity and making sure our campus is diverse and inclusive.”

This equality to equity theme is a driving force for the Tech Talks.

“We cannot continue to look at

diversity and inclusion as a ‘one size fits all’ glove,” Hammonds said in an email. “If there is a need for everyone to wear protective gloves, do we provide the same one size fits all glove to everyone (that's equality), or do we provide them with the size needed to truly fit and protect them (equity)?”

“Our campus will be empowered, encouraged and will grow as a community as long as we continue to converse in public and private spaces about very difficult topics.

The community is strengthened when we can come together and have intellectual discussions in which folks share their beliefs openly and without fear of being ridiculed.”

The next Tech Talk on Oct. 29 will be focused on the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) community. The Tech Talk on Nov. 12 will be focused on the physically handicapped.

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Michael Warrick explains how the art piece, "Mewmaw, Maw and I", was sculpted after his daughter (her social security number is on the side of the head).

ABOVE: The "Lava Librarian" is a symbol of the librarian that's made of steal and can over come anything.

This sculpture is made entirely of bronze.

LEFT: "Bird 187" is one of a handful of sculptures in the Birds series. The birds were sculpted using the blade of a chainsaw.

Photos By: Amber Quaid (WARRICK from page 1) could."

In Warrick’s “Seer 1” and “Seer 2” he used cast aluminum with a texture that looks like fungus. He built them up with caustic wax for five hours a day over several days.

In his “Birds” series, Warrick used the blade of a chainsaw to make the markings of the birds’ faces. Warrick uses many different techniques in his art series.

Both of these series have a sense of what Warrick calls a “duality” of the internal and external world where “the mind on the inside is one thing, and the appearance on the outside is really the experience they are having in the real world.”

“I’ve experimented with a lot of different materials and a lot of different processes, so I can switch gears pretty easily,” Warrick said.

Warrick has taught at the University

Chandler Russell, sophmore graphic design student, observes the meditation wall hanging series.

of Arkansas at Little Rock as sculpture coordinator and professor for the art department for the past 25 years.

He has also been a professional artist for over 35 years, winning numerous awards. His artwork is in international, corporate, private and public collections. His most recent award, studioMAIN’S SoMa Public Art Competition, was won in July of this year, and his sculpture “Serenity” is displayed between 13th Street and 16th Street in Little Rock.

“Create your own peace if it’s possible,” Warrick said to students at Tech.

For more information about the art exhibit, go online to www.atu.edu/ art/gallery.php or visit the Norman Hall Art Gallery from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday.

For more information on Warrick, go online to www.michaelwarrick. com.

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Arsenio Favor is second in scoring in the GAC and has been a vital part of Tech’s 4-1 start.

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Favor takes unusual path to find Tech

MATTHEW EMERY Sports Writer During the Wonder Boys Sept. 26 game against Southern Arkansas, quarterback Arsenio Favor, a senior from Montgomery, Alabama, became the first Arkansas Tech player to rush for four touchdowns in a single game in eight years.

This feat, along with 224 passing yards, was good enough to give Favor his second Great American Conference Offensive Player of the Week recognition.

“I just play ball,” Favor said. “I know I have an ability to run and throw, but I just do what the play says.”

Favor is second in scoring in the GAC and has been a vital part of Tech’s 4-1 start, but it was a wild, somewhat harrowing series of events that led Arsenio here in the first place.

Favor spent three years at Southern Mississippi University before he tore his ACL. After surgery and rehab, he finally made it back onto the field but tore it again, requiring another surgery.

“With those two ACL surgeries, I couldn’t walk on my own for a year,” he said. “Recovery is crucial.

You basically have to learn how to walk again.”

Once he recovered, the team hired a new head coach who wanted to bring in his own players, so he forced Favor to make the decision to change positions or leave.

“I was doing good, and the guy hadn’t even beaten me out for the position—that was tough,” Favor said.

Following the ultimatum, Favor committed to the University of Texas at El Paso, but there was not enough time to get him set up before spring.

“At that time, I felt I had exhausted all of my D1 options,” Favor said.

After what seemed like nothing but setbacks and roadblocks for Favor, he found himself asking “Could this be it?”

However, he kept his family in his heart.

“I told myself I could make my daughter’s life comfortable and easy later on by doing this,” he said.

These were lessons learned from his father, who serves in the military, and mother that resonated with him.

“I wasn’t raised to give up; I couldn’t let that defeat me,” Favor said.

He also recalled his home.

“I told myself I wasn’t going to be a waste of talent,” he said. "Where I’m from, a lot of guys waste talent. Whether they don’t get the opportunity or what, but I told myself I’ll never be one of those guys.”

So his uncle sent out his highlight tape to a handful of D2 schools. Tech called him the next day.

“I’ll always remember the first time I saw this place. ‘Man this is country,’ I said to myself.”

"Never, ever let anybody tell you that you aren’t good enough."

-Aresino Favor quaterback Wonder Boy who died during the summer.

“He was my workout warrior,” Favor said. “A good motivator, especially on those days when I wasn’t feeling it.”

To come out of the gate so strong in his Wonder Boy career means a lot to Favor, but he is not taking all the credit.

“My impact couldn’t be felt if it weren’t for the entire team. Who helped me get those touchdowns? Who called those plays? Which defense did I practice with all week? I only play a small factor in that.”

Favor believes the championship team.

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“With the team we have defensively, and the players we have offensively, we’re gonna do something special. A lot of teams get complacent.

Not this one.”

He adds, “The players and coaches really helped out. They made me feel comfortable.”

Favor hopes to be playing football for a long time to come, and his goal is to reach the NFL, a dream of his since he was a child.

Moving to Russellville and joining Tech, Favor became close with Zemaric Holt, a former

“Never, ever let anybody tell you that you aren’t good enough.”

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ABOVE: Arsenio Favor, first Arkansas Tech player to rush for four touchdowns in a single game in eight years, gets ready to throw the ball.

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Tech falls to Henderson State MATTHEW EMERY Sports Writer The first loss of the season for the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys came Saturday night in a 17-7 game against Great American Conference opponent Henderson State.

It was a tough game for senior quarterback Arsenio Favor. Despite achieving a season high in attempts, he only completed 19 passes, leaving him with a season low 48.7 percent completion rate.

Favor also threw two interceptions, one on the Wonder Boys opening drive of the second half, which led to a Henderson field goal, and the other on Tech’s first drive of the fourth quarter.

The Wonder Boys did not go down without a fight, as they put together a 78-yard drive that culminated in a 3-yard touchdown pass from Favor to Michael Fine, a senior from Springdale.

However, time was not on the side of the green and gold, and after a failed onside kick attempt, the deal was sealed.

It was not all bad for the Wonder Boys, as the defense continued to shine, allowing only 85 yards through the air.

Senior Logan Genz was able to provide nine tackles.

Freshman Cua’ Rose had an interception for the second straight game.

The Wonder Boys return home at 3 p.m. on Saturday for an important Homecoming matchup against Ouachita Baptist, who is 4-1 this season.

The Wonderboys return to action this Saturday at 3 pm for a Homecoming matchup against Ouachita Baptist.

Photos By: Matthew Emery

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PAGE 8 | Community

The River Valley Bike Polo Experience JENN TERRELL Managing Editor Many parents look to sports for a way of bonding with their children.

Josh Carey, an employee at Tech, uses this form of bonding, but with a sport that has a bit of a twist.

In 2010, a small group started playing bike polo in Russellville and it has been alive here ever since. Bike polo is a sport involving bikes and mallets used to hit a small ball into a goal.

“In the simplest form, it is hockey on a bike, three on three [and] you can’t put your foot down,” Carey said. “Usually score to five. We just use the basic rules around here.”

A game usually lasts 12 minutes or until a team scores 5 points.

Tournament games can last 12-20 minutes.

Logan Carey, Josh’s 12-year-old son, plays in most games with the Russellville team.

“I like bike polo because it’s fun, and I get to play with my dad,” he said.

“My dad has been teaching me how to play this, so I am learning more each time I play.”

ABOVE: Carey races to get the ball with his mallet.

The Russellville team welcomes participants of any age, male or female.

BELOW: Carey and his son Logan stand together before they play in another game.

“It’s a good team sport,” Josh said. “It can be as relaxed or as aggressive as you want it to be. If we have skilled players, we play fast and aggressive.

If we have newer people playing, then we play slow, relaxed games.”

The team currently has a core group of 6-8 players, and they are always recruiting. They typically practice once a week.

The team held its first in-town tournament this past Saturday. The tournament included visiting teams from Memphis and Little Rock.

“It’s [bike polo] worldwide pretty much,” Josh said. “Every year they have regional tournaments. For every region of the United States there is a conference. There is a regional conference, and the top teams go to the national event. The top teams from national go to the world tournament.

We usually fair about middle in local tournaments. We usually come in about seventh or eighth place [out of] 11-15 teams.”

When talking about the main goal of River Valley Bike Polo, he said, “Just have fun. We are all just having fun. That’s all it’s about. Community and having fun.”

For more information, visit the team’s Facebook page at www.facebook. com/rivervalleybikepolo or email the team at rivervalleybikepolo@ gmail.com.

“We are all just having fun.

That's what it's all about.”

-Josh Carey

LEFT: From the left, Charlie Fox of Memphis, Richard Vorwerk of Little Rock, and Kevin Caro of Russellville all play bike polo together during a game in the tournament.

TOP: A mallet hangs from a fence as members play polo in the distance.

BELOW: Bike polo players from three different cities play together at the first tournament held in the River Valley.

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Photos By: Jenn Terrell