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The university will investigate the Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity for possible violations of the Code of Student Life. Phi Gamma Delta, more commonly known as Fiji, is alleged to have hosted a party that involved underage drinking on the night of Aug. 27. The Office of Community Standards and Student Ethics is investigating whether the fraternity served alcohol to minors at the party. The party was also unregistered, compounding the violation of the Code of Student Life. The Office of Greek Life is assisting with this process. The decision comes on the heels of an accusation made by an 18-year-old female freshman against three Razorback basketball players who she claimed raped her while she attended the party at the Phi Gamma Delta house. The woman reported to police that she drank a large amount of alcohol at the party. Witnesses at the party reported that she was dancing provocatively with the three men in a private bedroom. When left alone with them, the woman claimed that two of the men forced her to commit a sex act and another began a sex act with her a short time later. While the investigation into Phi Gamma Delta is ongoing, the rape charges against the three basketball players have been dropped. Prosecuting Attorney John Threet will not seek to prosecute the three athletes because, See

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Bikes, Blues & BBQ rolls back to town Jordan Grummer

Contributing Writer The 10th anniversary of Bikes, Blues & BBQ will feature what most festival goers have come to expect: a family environment, free live music and thousands of bikers. But, this year, the Arkansas Music Pavilion will provide a new twist to the tradition: a hot rod show. “In looking at new ways to make BBB rally week even more fun, adding a new venue with cool cars and other unique attractions seemed natural,” said Brian Crowne, the owner and general manager of the AMP. The addition of the first annual Bikes, Blues and Hot Rods Too car show reflects just how big BBB has become. What started as a poker run in 1999 for the Meals on Wheels Association of America became a motorcycle rally in 2000, when organizers decided to expand the run to increase its economic impact. They achieved their aim: An economic study by the University of Arkansas in 2005 showed the rally can generate anywhere from $35 million to $50 million for the Fayetteville economy. “In 10 years, we have seen BBB go from a few dozen riders to more than 400,000 people flocking to Northwest

Arkansas each year to enjoy some of the best riding, music and barbecue anywhere,” said Nelson Driver, the executive director of BBB. “With the addition of the AMP as a destination, we think the 10th anniversary rally will be the best yet,” he said. The timing and location of the rally – not to mention the free music – have ensured its continued popularity, said Bob Corscadden, the BBB marketing director. The last big rally of the year before winter, and in the heart of Northwest Arkansas, BBB is particularly attractive to bikers who missed earlier rallies or who don’t want to travel completely across the country. The Ozarks also offer bikers enjoyable scenery. “(And) people love live music,” Corscadden said. “What better way to sell beer and merchandise than with music?” But BBB doesn’t only attract bikers. Some UA students head down Dickson to earn, of all things, community service hours. The event usually needs about 500 volunteers each year, Corscadden said, and a lot of students participate, See

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Hundreds of bikes and sightseers crowd the streets at last year’s Bikes, Blues & BBQ festival. This year’s celebration will mark the event’s 10th anniversary.

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UA public intoxication arrests up this year, UAPD officials say Bailey Elise McBride News Editor

With six public intoxication arrests Saturday alone, cases of public intoxication seem to be on the rise across the UA campus, officials from the UA Police Department said. As of last Thursday, 15 public intoxication arrests had been made on the UA campus, compared to last year at this time, when 11 arrests had been made, said Gary Crain, UAPD public information officer. “The officers working patrol have a good feel for how things are going,” Crain said. “Looking at the numbers, it is clear the number of arrests and the number of charges are higher so far this year. These numbers are preliminary and not confirmed, but they do indicate a pattern of increased activity this year.” Over the last six years, there has been a significant increase in the number of public in-

toxication arrests on campus, according to UAPD data documented in the Clery Report. In 2003, 39 arrests were made. In 2004, that number rose to 79 arrests, and in 2005, it rose again to 122. For 2006 and 2007, the number of arrests remained stagnant at 119 arrests, and the 2008 data will not be released until later this semester. These numbers do not reflect arrests made by other police officers who work on the UA campus for security and during athletic events. The rise in public intoxication cases has also helped to contribute to the rise in charges across campus. Freshmen alone have racked up 47 charges this semester as of Sept. 17. The UAPD operates under the definition of public intoxication that is listed in Arkansas law, Statute 5-71-212: “The person appears in a public place manifestly under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance to the degree and under

circumstances such that: (1) The person is likely to endanger himself or herself or another person or property, or (2) The person unreasonably annoys a person in his or her vicinity.” Section C of that same statute states that a person drinks in public if he or she consumes alcoholic beverages on any highway or street, in any vehicle commonly used for the transportation of passengers, and in any public place “other than a place of business licensed to sell alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises.” This statute is cited as Arkansas’ “open-container” law; however, an officer would technically have to see a suspect consuming alcohol to arrest them on this charge. The decision to be intoxicated in public does not go without consequence – the first offense is a Class C misdemeanor, See

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BRIEFLY speaking Learn about obtaining science foundation research funding today A National Science Foundation Research Fellowship Opportunities seminar will be hosted 2 to 3 p.m. today in Room 2288 of the Bell Engineering Center. Madeleine Andrawis will present information about creating a competitive application for National Science Foundation Graduate Research funding. Refreshments will be served prior to the event. For more information, please contact Madga El-Shenawee at magda@uark.edu.

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Associated Student Government works to better promote Safe Ride to UA students Kyle Kivett

Contributing Writer This year, to improve campus safety, the new Associated Student Government Cabinet will prioritize a proven program, ASG representatives said. “Safe Ride is one of the most important things we do in our office,” said Mattie Bookhout, ASG president and chair of the Safe Ride Committee. “It’s sav-

ing people’s lives.” Each year, drinking contributes to an estimated 1,700 college student deaths – and drunk driving contributes significantly to that statistic, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Safe Ride is a safe alternative to driving under the influence – which is why the ASG redoubled its efforts to promote the program. Thanks to the ASG, adver-

tisements for Safe Ride are suddenly everywhere – on ID cards and the new Associated Student Government Web site, on key chain bottle openers and pingpong balls. These advertisements were designed to raise awareness, but they’ve also raised the question: Does the ASG promote drinking? Bookhout says no – but ASG reps do acknowledge the reality of drinking on the UA campus.

Cofounder to discuss principles shared by KIPP schools Mike Feinberg, cofounder of KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program), will speak about the five operating pillars of KIPP schools during a lecture at noon Friday, Sept. 25, in the Graduate Education Building auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public. RSVP for a light lunch at Uark.edu/ua/der.

Be part of a field study in Egypt UA students studying archaeology and/or anthropology may consider an opportunity to analyze skeletal material at the commoners’ cemetery at Tell Amarna, Egypt, the city built by Pharaoh Akhenaton. The monthlong program is tentatively set for May 9 to June 15. The application deadline is Oct. 15, and early applications are encouraged. For an application or more information, contact the Office of Study Abroad at Studyabroad.uark. edu/Egypt or studyabroad.uark.edu.

Dance workshop to be hosted in October Dance Coalition, a Northwest Arkansas nonprofit group of choreographers and dancers, has paired up with the THEA Foundation and Arkansas Dance Network to present “A Modern Dance Workshop with Broadway Star Bill Hastings” in Room 220 of the HPER Building on Sunday, Oct. 18. Workshop classes begin at 12:30 p.m. and finish at 6:00 p.m. Tuition for the afternoon workshop is $20 and includes a snack and THEA Foundation T-shirt when participants register online at THEAfoundation.org. For more information, contact Sally Ashcraft, the executive director of Dance Coalition, at 479-422-6132 or info@ dancecoalition.com. To submit an event to be featured in “Briefly Speaking,” e-mail Managing Editor Kimber Wenzelburger at travmgr@uark.edu.

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Police officers patrol during the Razorback football game Saturday, when six people were arrested on charges of public intoxication.

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public intoxication has been an issue for UA students – last March, Razorback quarterback Ryan Mallett was arrested for public intoxication on Dickson Street. Many UA students have expressed concerns not about the law or punishment, but about the students who have been arrested on public intoxication charges. “It makes me sad that people feel like they need to go out

and get that drunk,” said Becca McCall, a sophomore social work major. Katie Rowan, a sophomore resident assistant in Reid Hall, also said she’s troubled by the rising number of public intoxication arrests. “Working in a first-year residence hall, it’s a little scary to think about our residents not being safe and conscious when they go out,” Rowan said.

“By denying we have a problem with binge drinking, we are not offering the help needed,” she said. “So, we’re putting (Safe Ride) right in students’ faces.” And, according to the ASG Web site, Safe Ride serves students in more than one way, anyway. It’s “an efficient means of transportation from any uncomfortable or inconvenient situation.” More than 12,000 students used the program in the 200708 academic year – a 56 percent increase from 2006-07. This year, though, Safe Ride will no longer be able to rely on state-funded university buses – and that could affect ridership. In January 2008, the state classified Northwest Arkansas as a metroplex, Bookhout said. Under this new designation, state-subsidized transportation cannot be used for charter services like Safe Ride. That means the program will have to rely solely on its four charter buses. But just going from two buses to three in 2005 doubled ridership – and the most recently purchased bus offers room for 24 passengers and is handicapped accessible. Safe Ride is also always in need of drivers, Bookhout said. The dispatch is located in the Transit and Parking Department on Razorback Road and offers paid positions to students willing to work late hours. To the ASG, though, reclassifications, staff shortages and student complaints are just reasons to work harder to honor the 22 cents per credit hour students pay for Safe Ride. “We’re trying to serve as many students as we can in a short amount of time,” Bookhout said. Tina Korbe contributed to the writing of this article.

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More than 100 cases of swine flu reported on campus, official says Lana Hazel

Assistant News Editor Swine flu has officially swarmed the UA campus – 110 cases had been confirmed as of last week, and that number is expected to rise, a Pat Walker Health Center official said. The PWHC reported 61 “influenza-like cases� to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week, up from 23 cases the first week of class and 26 cases the second week, PWHC Director Mary Alice Serafini said. This week, the health center has been handling an unusually large number of calls, Serafini said. “We were quite busy (Monday),� she said. “We had a record number of calls – 142 before 2:30 p.m. – and we had to stop calling people back. We expect to continue to be quite busy, and we’re bringing in extra help.� Serafini noted that health center officials are seeing students for illnesses other than the H1N1 virus, and though the center is booked, officials do hold some spaces for students in need of urgent care. The UA is among many colleges and universities coping with the swine flu, and university officials have been working to spread the word to students about preventing the H1N1 virus. The PWHC is

making flu updates and information available on the UA Web site. Guidelines from health center officials include: – Students who are well but live with an ill person can still go to school and work as usual. They, like everyone else, should take precautions, like washing their hands often, and if they develop symptoms, they should stay at home. – Students who think they had the flu but have improved should stay at home at least 24 hours after the fever is gone. – Most cases of flu-like illnesses do not need to be seen by medical providers. However, students with chronic medical problems who experience flu-like symptoms or students who have symptoms that improve and then return worse than before should see a doctor. – The flu shot does not prevent H1N1, but is still recommended to help protect against the seasonal flu. An H1N1 vaccine will be available in the coming months. – The PWHC itself cannot confirm H1N1 according to CDC and state guidelines. Though UA health care professionals are leading the campaign to prevent the spread of H1N1, the many staff members on campus also have important roles in the issue. “We are emphasizing to ev-

eryone the importance of good hall rooms. hygiene to protect against the College students who have H1N1 virus,� Serafini said. the H1N1 virus are relatively “But the university staff mem- unlikely to require hospitalbers who work in custodial, ization, and for a long time housekeeping and the food there were no flu-related stuservice are doing even more.� dent deaths. The jobs of the 117 cusHowever, on Sept. 8, Antodial workers to keep on- drew Salter, a freshman at campus buildings clean have Troy University, died from become more intense in the pneumonia after he exhibited last month, and custodians flu-like symptoms and was have received special training admitted to a hospital. focused on the importance of Also, a student at the Unidisinfecting any surfaces peo- versity of Nebraska at Omaha ple are likely to touch as well died from H1N1 complicaas training to tions last protect themmonth, but selves while this student they clean. had signifiT h e r e We had a record cant health are also 48 benumber of calls –142 problems housekeepfore contractbefore 2:30 p.m.� ing H1N1, ers employed — Mary Alice Serafini, according to by University Housing to referring to the The Omaha clean the resiincrease of H1N1 W o r l d - H e rdence halls on the UA campus ald. on campus, Herbert and because Reeves, dean they are more of students at likely to be Troy, said the exposed to the virus, they have health center on that campus received additional training has been treating five or six and protective equipment. students for H1N1 each day The housekeepers have ex- since the beginning of school. panded their daily cleaning Washington State Univerroutine to include things like sity has had one of the largpublic computer keyboards est outbreaks of the swine flu and elevator buttons. to date, and more than 2,000 Chartwells also is encour- students on that campus have aging hand-washing and had H1N1-like symptoms. is distributing information As of last week, no students around campus. The dining had required hospitalization. halls have made arrangeIn a letter to the students, ments to provide carryout plates for students who are ill See H1N1 on Page 6 and staying in their residence

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Bikes are good. Bicycles are better Thanks to the new registration policy, the word “bike” has acquired an unexpectedly negative charge. What was once associated with the first stab at independence – “Take off my training wheels, please, Mom” – has been reassociated with, as one UATrav.com commenter put it, “bureaucratic boredness” or the “Big-

Brotheresque.” And bureaucrats, in defense of the policy, have equated bikes with obstacles to the walk across campus, tree assassins and eyesores. But what are bikes, really? Pieces of nostalgia? Evidence of athleticism? The epitome of fossil-fuel independence? How about ... gas-guzzling, silence-shattering, revenue-raising hogs? This week, the prodigal son of the two-wheeled family returns to a feast of the fatted calf – er, pig – while its better-behaved brother is tagged and counted. But, really, it’s just smart to celebrate motorcycles: They hardly squander the family fortune. Bikes, Blues & BBQ generates anywhere from $35 million to $50 million for the Fayetteville economy. That’s why we’ve devoted this entire issue to it. We hope you find it as provocative as you’ve found our bicycle policy coverage – “Bicycle permits to be mandatory, but free” continues to be the most popular story on UATrav.com, and Sam Letchworth’s column, “I want to ride my bike, I want to ride it where I like” follows closely in third. So, yeah, as this issue implies, we’re happy to throw our arms out to Hondas and Harleys and Suzukis. We just don’t want to forget Cannondales, Cinellis and Schwinns. Ride on, Tina Korbe Editor

GIVE BIKES, BLUES & BBQ A TRY THIS YEAR When the thousands of bikers swerve off I-540 and on to Dickson today, revving their engines and preparing for a three-day celebration of motorcycles, food and music, Fayetteville will split. Supporters will hit Dickson and revel in the Bikes, Blues & BBQ festivities, and critics will lock themselves indoors, leaving only when necessary to avoid the traffic and noise. Students, in particular, have a history of feeling conflicted about BBB. Do they support the event? Do they appreciate the fundraising, the hell-raising and that oh-so-good, melt-in-your-mouth barbecue? Or is the fact that Dickson – prime cruising territory for bikers – ends right atop the Hill, near several residence halls, just too much for busy, sleep-deprived students to bear? With BBB, like with most other events of this magnitude, residents – and students – simply must learn to take the good with the bad. We know that more than 400,000 people attended BBB last year. Good for local businesses, bad for traffic. We know that upwards of 100,000 noisy motorcycles hit the streets of Fayetteville for BBB last year. Good for bike enthusiasts and sightseers, bad for sleepy students and nearby residents. And we know that more than $500,000 has been donated to area charities since 2000 because of BBB, and event coordinators hope to raise $100,000 this year alone. The good’s evident; the bad, not so much. The fact is, BBB has a purpose greater than to be just another bike show. It supports charities and organizations – like Youth Bridge, the Walton Arts Center, the Seven Hills Homeless Shelter, the American Red Cross, etc. – that are probably close to students’ hearts. It’s the largest national motorcycle rally of its kind, and it’s set right here, in the backyard of the UA, bringing with it people from all 50 states. Sure, it’s noisy, and yes, it’s crowded, but so are Razorback football games. So give BBB a chance. Support the local economy, and give back to area charities. We bet you’ll have some fun while you’re doing it.

Soda “sin tax” makes slippery slope logic look, well, logical The tobacco fight is over. Prohibitionists have sugar at the plate now. President Obama wants to explore the idea of a soda “sin tax.” Several states and cities already have one. Public schools across the country have banned soda and candy, often creating illegal black markets. The simple solution (ending subsidies to agribusiness) isn’t politically feasible, so the War on Deliciousness is going to be fought on the battleground of personal freedom. I want to be clear that I’m completely in favor of getting people to eat more healthfully. I buy organic whenever I can. But I’m also completely opposed to forcing people to eat more healthfully. I disapprove of what you eat, but I will defend to the death your right to eat it. State campaigns against sin - culinary or otherwise - have never turned out well. As C.S. Lewis put it, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.” To all those people who think like Lewis and me: Have any ideas? We lost on marijuana, we lost on tobacco and we’re losing on carbonation. Supporting freedom is a pretty losing cause. Our legislators don’t care what we think. Nobody in the Arkansas State Senate, Arkansas House of Representatives or Arkansas Office of the Governor bothered to ask the opinion of anybody at the University of Arkansas before they banned smoking on campus. Sen. Sue Madison was the only one who would talk to me, and she wouldn’t budge from her vote. I doubt things will be any different with the soda issue. Don’t expect any help from the industry. They can’t fight the movement, so they coopt it. Tobacco companies spend

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a lot of money designing anti-smoking programs. It’s actually pretty clever. The only ads that work are those that emphasize the health effects. Studies have consistently shown that anti-tobacco ads that tell kids “smoking isn’t cool” actually increase youth smoking. These are the types of ads that ‘Big Tobacco’ churns out. Every time Philip Morris USA pays for a public service announcement about a teenager who rebels against peer pressure, teens take the message and rebel against the enormous anti-smoking peer pressure from parents, governments and corporations. One more customer. This is why I’m skeptical when Nickelodeon runs commercials telling kids to turn off the TV and go play or when McDonald’s advertises the importance of healthy eating. We can’t count on the general populace, either. Arkansas has a modest soda tax already, thanks to the 55% who voted in favor of it in 1994. Why is the case for freedom so difficult to make? Freedom is an ethereal concept. You can literally take a photo of fat, but you can’t take one of freedom. Explaining the pro-freedom position requires philosophy, political science and ethics. The anti-smoker position can be explained with a couple quick breaths. I’ll give it a go anyway: When the United States was founded,

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At a recent meeting with Reid Hall residents, a UA Police Department officer commented that this year’s class of freshmen is the worst ever in terms of violations that require police involvement. Data available through public records shows a significant increase in arrests for public intoxication from last year, and freshmen are particularly to blame. Why? Are these freshmen just out of control? Or have an unusually large number of drunk people just happened to wander the wrong way down Dickson? The answers to these questions might not be immediately clear, but the underlying issue is that people have been taking things a little too far this year. There is no law against drinking for people who are over the age of 21, but

at the point when an individual is putting himself or others in danger, he is breaking the law. So it makes us wonder – why do people do this? Public intoxication is also known as “drunk and disorderly conduct,” and that’s not something to brag about having on your record. Since 2003, there has been roughly a 200 percent increase in the number of arrests for public intoxication on the UA campus. Students need to realize the negative impact some of their decisions can have – it’s just not worth it to have to deal with the judicial process as a consequence of one night of drunken revelry. It was Ernest Hemingway who said, “Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.” We hope UA students will learn to get their act together next time they decide to go out.

the various states couldn’t agree on what counted as a sin, so they all agreed not to use the federal government to impose their views on others. Thanks to the 14th Amendment, that social contract has been adapted to all levels of government. When the Supreme Court struck down Texas’s anti-sodomy law in 2003, the justices didn’t comment on morality. They ruled, correctly, that the state doesn’t have the authority to punish what many see as sin. The Constitution recognizes our rights to do all sorts of evil things, from committing adultery to joining the Klan. So we’ve got the government out of the bedroom, but pushed them into the kitchen. We’ve got the right to unhealthy souls, so why not unhealthy bodies? My argument is pretty good, but it assumes that individual rights are selfevident to everyone. That’s not the case. Voters are happy to sell their birthrights for the good of society. Just visit an airport sometime. Decades ago, activists warned that anti-tobacco laws could lead to anti-fat laws. They were accused of using “slippery slope” logic and were dismissed as irrelevant. Extrapolating things into a dystopic nightmare is a great way to seem prophetic, but it’s not very helpful. George Orwell’s “1984” didn’t do a lot of good. Between now and 2011, 20,000 English families are going to be put into what the media is calling “sin bins” – homes where the government monitors their behavior with security cameras 24 hours a day. Only we civil libertarians are complaining. We’re going to lose this one. But 50 years from now, I hope we still complain between bites of veggie burgers. Adam Roberts is a columnist for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every other Wednesday.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

It’s time to focus on SAFER Over the past few weeks The Traveler has reported cases of rape at the University of Arkansas that mention a great deal of alcohol usage. It comes at no surprise that college students are drinking at the beginning of the semester, but it goes to show how harmful of a drug alcohol can truly be. The SAFER and NORML campaigns run by students at the university have also released several pamphlets and invited

guests to speak on the issue of alcohol being more dangerous than marijuana. Although it is a small voice in the crowd, I think this is a great message to inform the students on the effects of marijuana usage. After last year’s Lower Priority initiative passed with an overwhelming vote of 66 percent, isn’t it time the university focuses on this popular issue? Evan Ray Senior Computer Science

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NEWS

Online study, UA groups say marijuana could be “safer” than alcohol alone Morgan Miles

Contributing Writer Marijuana could protect the brain from damage caused by binge drinking, according to a Neurotoxicology and Teratology study released online, and some organizations on the UA campus continue to promote marijuana as a “safer” option than alcohol. For the study, researchers at the University of California, San Diego, compared microscopic changes in brain white matter, or axons, between 16- to 19-year-olds in three groups: binge drinkers, binge drinkers who smoke marijuana and a control group who had little to no experience with alcohol and drug use. According to the study’s results, the binge-drinking group showed higher levels of white matter than the control group in the eight regions examined. However, what was described as “unexpected” occurred in the binge-drinking/ marijuana group, which showed only three areas with more brain damage than the control group and less brain damage than the binge-drinking group in seven of the eight regions. Jacob Holloway, a senior agricultural economics major and president of Students for Sensible Drug Policies, said he isn’t surprised by the results of the study. Marijuana should be legalized, he said, and it only hasn’t been because of myths surrounding the drug. “A lot of the concepts in American culture against legalizing marijuana are that marijuana is a dangerous substance – that it’s highly intoxicating and very addictive, and if we legalize it, there will be some serious consequences,” Holloway said. “Well, I think a lot of those are just fears, and they’re not really facts based on anything except for myths.” Mason Tvert, co-author of “Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?” and executive director for SAFER, added to the ongoing debate surrounding mari-

juana use at the UA recently. During his presentation, he asked for more support from lawmakers, administrators and students to change the UA’s drug and alcohol policies. Tvert said he wants to deliver the “true” facts regarding alcohol and marijuana to the public. “Marijuana and alcohol are the two most popular substances used by college students and Americans in general,” Tvert said. “The reasons for using them are the same: They elevate mood, they relieve stress and anxiety, they’re social lubricants, and they improve experiences. There’s no reason to accept the use of alcohol and not marijuana.” Last year, 67 percent of UA students voted in favor of an Associated Student Government referendum to reduce the punishment of marijuana to the same as underage drinking, and Holloway said the UA’s policy remains flawed. “Intellectually, it’s sending a bad message that is based on lies and fear, and morally, it’s saying it’s OK to do this more dangerous drug,” Holloway said. “But if you’re deciding to make a more responsible choice to use marijuana over alcohol, we’re going to punish you harsher here at the UA.” Essentially, Tvert said that though universities are making an effort to reduce drinking, they are doing it through campaigns that still promote alcohol use, through such slogans as “drink responsibly” and “only drink a certain amount.” He said the school is missing an opportunity by ignoring an alternative to drinking. “If kids are staying in their rooms smoking pot and playing video games as opposed to going out and getting (drunk), there’s going to be a lot less problems on campus,” Tvert said. “Universities can punish their way out of alcohol problems all they want, but they aren’t addressing the fact that kids want to party. They should instead provide alternatives for students who want to make the safer choice.” However, junior graduate

student Melissa Nash said that even though she thinks the study is interesting, neither alcohol nor marijuana should be used. “(Marijuana) is from the Earth, but it all goes back to the fact that if you are under the influence of anything, you are not in control,” Nash said. “Anything that impairs your cognitive behavior shouldn’t be legalized.” Brandon Middleton, a sophomore chemical engineering major, doesn’t drink or smoke, but said the study’s results might make a good point. “(After hearing about the study), I think it’s OK to use marijuana in moderation, as long as it’s not abused,” he said. Holloway agreed, but said he doesn’t want students to misinterpret the study and think they should binge drink and smoke marijuana together. He said he wants to encourage students to think for themselves when it comes to choosing marijuana or alcohol, but he hopes that one day the “safer” choice is more accepted. “I personally discourage drug abuse,” Holloway said. “I don’t think that’s good for anyone. The issue here really lies in personal responsibility. But I don’t believe you should punish society as a whole for those who are individually irresponsible.”

HONORS COLLEGE WELCOMES PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

STEPHEN IRONSIDE Staff Photographer

High school seniors and their parents gathered at the UA on Monday for the Honors College Convocation. Prospective students learned about the different colleges, scholarship opportunities and undergraduate research and were given a tour of Pomfret Honors Quarters.

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from Page 1 particularly sorority members. Junior Madeline Key has never been to BBB, but she wants to go for the music, she said. Junior Parker Daniels said he loves going to hear the music, and he especially enjoyed seeing the Allman Brothers Band last year, but some things about the rally bother him. “I’m dreading all of the traffic that comes with the rally,” Daniels said. “Also, when I lived on campus last year, it was really annoying being woken up in the morning by a bunch of bikers,” he said. Restaurants on Dickson Street are subject to the rally’s street closings regardless

of whether they like it, and, for Jeff Caudel, the owner of Powerhouse Seafood and Grill, it can come with mixed results. “The first couple of years, (the vendors on Dickson) really hurt us,” Caudel said. “But, in the last couple of years, we’ve been able to get some repeat customers who come every year and know about us.” Lt. Gary Crain of the UA Police Department said officers will work overtime during the rally. They will also have help from the Washington County Sheriff’s Office because the UAPD doesn’t have enough officers to cover everything needed. Crain added that, historically, arrests haven’t increased significantly during the rally.

STUDENTS RIDE UP FOR BIKE REGISTRATION

STEPHEN IRONSIDE Staff Photographer

Students registered their bicycles outside of the Arkansas Union Monday and Friday to comply with the Transit and Parking Department’s new bike permit policy.

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NEWS

Area festivals to offer something for everyone Samuel Letchworth Staff Writer

We all know Bikes, Blues & BBQ is coming to town. And if you don’t already, you’ll certainly know mid-week when the super-sonic roar of Harley-Davidson engines rattles the Hill. But while BBB may be the loudest festival in Northwest Arkansas, there are plenty of others happening year-round. Here’s a list of some of the festivities coming up this semester, most of which are right in your backyard. 2nd Annual Scooting in the Ozarks Rally Sept. 16-19 In Eureka Springs. STO welcomes riders of all scooters – mopeds to maxis, classic to modern – and offers scenic rides in the Ozark Mountains, a poker run, scooter games and more. “The Gathering” POW/MIA Day Sept. 18-20 In Rogers. The veterans’ event will feature the traveling tomb of the unknown soldier at the Avoca City Park with activities and a chicken dinner. NWA Bridal Show 2009 Sept. 27 The 2009 NWA Bridal Show will take place 1 to 5:30 p.m. at the John Q. Hammons Center in Rogers. Plan your wedding in one day, meet vendors from the wedding industry, win prizes and enter contests. 4th Annual Artists Studio Tour Sept. 25-27 In Eureka Springs. Visit

the artists at work in their studios. Admission is free. For more information, visit Eurekaspringsstudiotour.com. 18th Annual Charity Challenge of Champions Sept. 24-28 At Pinnacle Country Club in Rogers. This is a two-day, adult-team tennis tournament. The event attracts a line-up of celebrity legends of tennis to play on teams with sponsoring participants, providing players the opportunity to play in one of several pro/ amateur matches and brush up on their skills. For those who prefer the course to the court, a golf tournament is also offered as a benefit of sponsorship. In addition, tournament evenings are filled with social events. For more information, visit NWAcharitychallenge. org. Art in the Park Oct. 3 Artists of Northwest Arkansas will host Art in the Park 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Wilson Park, 675 N. Park Ave., in Fayetteville. This event will feature free hot dogs to the first 150 people, free arts and crafts for children, and art how-to demos. For more information, visit Artistsnwarkansas.org/artinthepark. html. Tour De Cure Oct. 3 At Arvest Ballpark in Springdale. The American Diabetes Association will host its sixth annual Northwest Arkansas event, which will include a Health and Wellness Festival from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., kids’ activities, live music, a fashion show, health screenings, food

and beverages, a beer garden, and a photo booth. The events will raise funds for research and support for Americans with diabetes. All participants of the races are asked to meet the $150 fundraising minimum, in addition to the registration fee. By meeting the minimum, participants will join the Elite Feet Club and receive full access to the event.

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H1N1

from Page 3 President Elson Floyd wrote that absences should not be excessive, but written excuses from health-related personnel would not be required. He also encouraged students to visit the health center or their doctors if they had flu-like symptoms. The WSU Web site states its flu phase has now passed beyond yellow to orange, list-

ing phase red as a worldwide disease outbreak. However, the campus is still under normal operating conditions. The University of Kansas has also experienced large numbers of students and faculty with flu-like illnesses. If students have fever and one additional symptom – cough, body ache, sore throat, or headaches – they are required to wear a mask that the health center provides. The professors at the university are similarly relax-

ing expectations for doctor’s notes for students who miss class because of sickness. For more information regarding the H1N1 virus, visit Health.uark.edu, Flu.gov, or CDC.gov/flu.

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WAKARUSA MUSIC FESTIVAL

19th Annual Corvette Weekend Oct. 1-4 In Eureka Springs. The weekend will feature rides, poker runs, a parade of champions, seminars and more. Admission is $40 for registrants and free to non-registrants. For more information, visit Eurekaspringscorvette. org. 62nd Annual Ozark Folk Fest Nov. 6 In Eureka Springs. Loudon Wainwright II and Kim Richardson will perform live as part of the event. For more information, visit Theaud.org. Civil War Living History Weekend Dec. 5-6 In Prairie Grove. The Battlefield State Park, 506 E. Douglas St., will host a Civil War Living History Weekend, which will include various military drills, camp life and other living history activities. Visitors are encouraged to wander the grounds and talk with the volunteer re-enactors. Admission is free. For more information, visit Arkansasstateparks.com, e-mail prairiegrove@arkansas.com or call 479-846-2990.

STEPHEN IRONSIDE Staff Photographer

Wakarusa attracted thousands of people to Mulberry Mountain, Ark., this June. Wakarusa is just one of the numerous festivals hosted in the Fayetteville area every year.

BIKES, BLUES & BBQ EVENT SCHEDULE

All events will take place in the Baum Stadium parking lot on Razorback Road or across the street from the stadium.

Friday, Sept. 25 8 a.m. Poker run, first bike out Noon & 6 p.m. Cooking demonstrations and tastings by the Southern Living Tour Event hosted by Troy Black. The KCBS Top 20 BBQ Events in the country will provide cooking demos and education to become a KCBS cook-off competitor. 4 p.m. Poker run ends 6 p.m. The Simmons Foods People’s Choice serving begins

Saturday, Sept. 26 8 a.m. 9 a.m. Noon 12:30 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m.

1:30 p.m. 3 p.m. 4 p.m. 4 p.m. 4 p.m.

Poker run, first bike out Scooter scavenger hunt, first scooter out KCBS cook-off competition judging begins with chicken Ribs are judged Pork is judged Cooking demonstrations and tastings by the Southern Living Tour Event hosted by Troy Black. The KCBS Top 20 BBQ Events in the country will provide cooking demos and education to become a KCBS cook-off competitor. Beef brisket is judged KCBS & Simmons Foods People’s Choice Awards Ceremony Scavenger hunt ends Poker run ends Parade starts

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Life After Graduation THE ARKANSAS TRAVELER UA graduates join work force Wednesday in Lifestyles

E-mail: travlife@uark.edu|Phone: 575.7540 Lifestyles Editor: Brian Washburn | Assistant Lifestyles Editor: Lindsey Pruitt

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Classic icons and local favorites headline this year’s festival Brian Washburn Lifestyles Editor

Throughout the years, music has blended genres from all over the world and combined them into what has become modern music. More than any other genre, blues has influenced everything from rock ‘n’ roll to hiphop to country. And the blues genre is the main musical focus in Northwest Arkansas this week when Bikes, Blues & BBQ sets up in Fayetteville. With main-stage acts like the Marshall Tucker Band and Molly Hatchet to local favorites Kory Montgomery and Benjamin Del Shreve, it seems festival attendees will be singing, or at least listening to, the blues. Southern rock pioneers the Marshall Tucker Band are this year’s BBB headliner. Combining a blend of rock, blues and country, the band has been around since the mid-‘70s, influencing modern rock ‘n’ roll bands along the way. But even though the band has just one original member, vocalist Doug Gray said the blues – and, specifically, the aspect of the live show – is what keeps the Marshall Tucker Band going. “The live show is what the Marshall Tucker Band is built on,” Gray said in a phone interview yesterday. “People never know what we are going to do next, how we’re going to do it. We’ll play some hit songs, then songs that just keep us hanging out where we can have fun and jam. “Sometimes we had no choice to replace original members because three have passed away,” he said. “We all started out being in different bands in high school, but as we changed members, we still had one goal with the original Marshall Tucker Band, which was to play good music – music that creates memories.” But though members of the Marshall Tucker Band have built their status as a classic rock band around their live show and created musical memories for mil-

An Arkansas Ramadan Taniah Tudor

Assistant News Editor Coming into the home of Wahida Zamani on any given afternoon, visitors might hear the boisterous sounds of teenagers watching TV and breathe in the aroma of dinner being prepared as they take off their scuffed shoes and place them by the front door. But this night Wahida isn’t cooking for her husband and three children. She is preparing food for almost 130 Muslims and guests to break fast on the 22nd night of this year’s holy month of Ramadan. Wahida is padding back and forth on her bare feet, dashing between pans to turn the sautéing chicken and add saffron to a huge pan of rice. When she is finished, the food is going to the Islamic Center in Fayetteville for iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break their fast. “Let me tell you, this is not kind of bragging,” she says as she shrugs a shoulder and smiles. “Iranian has the best cuisine.” Wahida moved from Iran almost 19 years ago to be with her husband. When she first moved to Northwest Arkansas, there was See

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lions of listeners, Gray insisted it has never been strictly about southern rock or fusing genres. Instead, he said, it has been about where the band came from – South Carolina – and the fact that people continue to turn out for the band’s shows. The Marshall Tucker Band – Gray, bassist Pat Ellwood, guitarist Rick Willis, drummer B.B. Borden, keyboardist/ flutist Marcus James Henderson and guitarist/steel guitarist Stuart Swanlund – will revisit their blues roots this week when they take the stage in Fayetteville. Gray said the band has played with many blues icons in the past, which makes their live show even better. “The blues is all good,” he said. “We put out a blues record called Face Down in Blues, and we’ve done these things on and off for 30-something years, and a lot of times we’ve played with some really, really good blues artists. “We’ve played with B.B. King, and you can’t go any further than that... These people just get up there and jam. You never know who’s going to show up or how it’s going to go,” he said. And even after more than three decades, the Marshall Tucker Band is still going strong, especially with the classic rock revival seen over the past few decades. While Gray does not have the answer to how the band and its avid followers keep the magic alive, he is certain the Marshall Tucker Band has always been and will always be about one thing: the music. “If I had the answer to (why we keep on going), there’d be people down here trying to drink the water,” Gray said. “It’s just all about the music, and that’s all it ever was about – just a bunch of guys wanting to get up there and have a good time and play every note to every song, and that’s how we go on.” However, big-name national classic rock acts, like the Marshall Tucker Band, are not the only performers

Most annoying things about Bikes, Blues & BBQ:

Rumbling engines...

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ANNA NGUYEN anguyen@uark.edu

The end of the ‘60s may have very well birthed one of the most exciting times in the world of music – the Woodstock Festival of 1969. How Ang Lee managed to make a film about Woodstock be almost amazingly boring is incomprehensible – but I admit I only embellish my complaint because I found the film to be fundamentally lacking the music that was vital in that era. Bored as I was while at the theater, I really did love the film’s use of vibrant, quintessential ‘70s colors. I have been, for quite some time, rather enamored with the romantic, innocent look of the hippie chic style, admiring the flower and psychedelic prints on tunics, the flowing dresses with billowing sleeves, the soft leather and suede vests, and the macramé detailing, fringes and

Drunk creepers on campus... because, “No, I won’t tell you where the girls’ dormitory is.”

3.

Old women in sexy attire... because wrinkles coupled with your grandmother’s grin is never hot.

LARRY ASH Staff Photographer

Last year, the BBB festival brought thousands of bikers to Dickson Streeet. This year, the bikers will watch a myriad of blues musicians, including the Marshall Tucker Band.

this weekend. Local favorites Benjamin Del Shreve, Kory Montgomery, Mo Brothers, Ben Miller Band, the Eoff Brothers, Leah and the Mojo Doctors, Big Uns, and Joe Giles and the Homewreckers also will perform around the area during the BBB celebration. And this isn’t the first time many of these acts have taken part in BBB. “Bikes, Blues & BBQ is just chaotic. It’s chaos,” said Montgomery, who has also shared the stage with blues legend B.B. King. “It’s been great the past couple of years

with ZZ Top and the Allman Brothers and getting all the festival bands out there for a full week. It’s nice getting everyone out there and having people spend money and have people making money.” Though the festival takes place in Northwest Arkansas, Montgomery said all of Arkansas has a long history with the blues, especially the eastern portion of the state. “Blues has a huge part in Arkansas history,” Montgomery said. “Maybe not in this part, but people born and raised on it in eastern Arkansas had good times.”

HEAD BANGING WITH THE HIPPIE CHIC Le Smoking

because contrary to popular belief, college students do sleep.

beads. What a fun era to dress up for, I’ve always thought. However infatuated I am with this look, I don’t display a lot of evidence of it in my own wardrobe, as I prefer a more somber palette and a more tailored look than the lively hues and loose garments of the flower-child girls. The only exception to my limited interest in color is found in my small collection of headbands. As reluctant as I am to add bright hues to my closet, I have noticed that I usually gravitate toward lively colored headbands. In this particular case, I prefer the bolder, the bigger, the better philosophy. The headbands I wear consistently are thickly crocheted with silly flowers sprouting on the side. Ridiculous as I may look, I don’t care, as I like the headbands enough to wear them, and they have proved to be especially resourceful whenever I delay trips to the hair salon – I wear them to conceal the dreadful summer shag I never bothered to tend to. A couple of weeks ago, while waiting for a friend at the Little Bread Company, I made my first visit to World Treasures, a store

that has been open for more than 20 years and one I often pass but had never entered. Walking in, a clutter of things assaulted me – clothes, home décor, jewelry and trinkets were everywhere – and it was all almost too overwhelming to browse properly during such a limited time. The store collects unique treasures from Guatemala and Mexico as well as locally made products, the nice owner told me, as I eyed a display case that exhibited a fascinating silver cobra armband. With no intention to shop, I went farther back into the store and discovered a small basket of headbands of colors and designs reminiscent of the patterns I saw in “Taking Woodstock.” A few days later, I was still intoxicated with the film’s insanely tripping colors – so intoxicated that I bought two extremely bright red and yellow headbands priced at $4. So what if music wasn’t central to “Taking Woodstock”? I’ve since replaced Marvin Gaye with my own Woodstock soundtrack, blasting The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin and The Doors while driving around town wearing my headbands.

4. Tons of policemen...

because Razorbacks don’t have a good rep with the police, and public intox arrests make for an uncomfortable sleepover.

cyclists hitting on 5.Old college girls... because those chaps aren’t showing anything off, and he isn’t turning anything on but his old Harley.

Check Traveler Top 5 next week for top 5 books we wish were banned.

!People love live music, and what better way to sell beer and merchandise than with music?" - Bikes, Blues & BBQ Marketing Director Bob Corscadden

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Barbecue aromas to fill Dickson Street this weekend Erin Robertson

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Staff Writer

Some like it spicy hot, some like it mild, and others prefer sweet, tangy or dry-rubbed. The subject of so much taste debate is the timeless American tradition of barbecue. With many distinct styles of preparation, barbecue has become more than just a weekend pastime. Rather, an entire sect of artists has distinguished itself from the group of sauce-smearing slobs, refining the image into one of culinary perfection. One of those secret-ingredientkeeping artisans set to descend on Fayetteville this coming weekend for what Gov. Mike Beebe has now decreed as the Bikes, Blues & BBQ Arkansas State BBQ Championship is Mike Dietzen, co-founder of The Habitual Smokers, an award-winning team entered in this weekend’s BBB competition on Dickson Street. The Habitual Smokers have a long list of prestigious championships to their name, the most prestigious being the 1996 Las Vegas National Finals Rodeo BBQ cook-off, where they took first place with their perfectscore brisket. Dietzen and college friend Robert Waddell got started in the competitive barbecue business after they visited music and food festival “Memphis in May.” They saw the huge crowds and the mega grills, draped with slabs of ribs and glazed chicken breasts, and thought, “Wow, this is a lot of fun, we could do that.” So, in 1996, Dietzen and Waddell build their first smoker and The Habitual Smokers was born. They now participate in 12 to 14 national competitions a year but claim the BBB competition as one of their favorites because it is close to their home base in Rogers and Springdale. “It’s a really good contest ... there’s a lot going on: the music, the bikes ... and a lot of our friends are here so they come out and support us,” Dietzen said. The Habitual Smokers usually cook Kansas City-style barbecue and align themselves with the Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS), the organization that sanctions the BBB cook-off. Dietzen explained the differences between Kansas City style and the other styles: “The sauces that we use are a little more sweet and have molasses and brown sugar in them. Memphis barbecue-ers tend not to use as much sauce, but when they do it’s more of a mus-

Main Stage (Walton Arts Center Parking Lot) Wednesday, Sept. 23 ERIN ROBERTSON Staff Writer

tard or vinegar-based sauce. Then, of course, there’s the Texas group... There’s three or four big organizations across the country that do these (competitions), and they all have different styles.” No matter what their differences in style and cooking technique, throughout their competitive years together, the team has developed a cross-country group of friends, and it makes each competition feel like a reunion. “It’s kind of like being in a fraternity,” Dietzen said. What might seem like a calm culinary pursuit is, in fact, an exhilarating experience. Dietzenn detailed the labor-intensive process of setting up camp at a competition site, shopping for and preparing the many cuts of meat, cooking the meat from 10 p.m. into the wee hours of the morning, and finally turning in the tender creations the next day for judging. “It is a very, very serious competition,” said Ron Autry, coordinator of the BBB Barbecue Championship. “The teams have to score very highly to win. “This week we were fortunate to be selected by the KCBS as one of the top events of the year, and they’re sending down demo cookers to be a part of the events. Southern Living magazine has also chosen us as one of the top 10 BBQ events in the country,” Autry said. Autry laid out the event in two stages: Friday evening’s “People’s Choice Night” and the “more serious,” KCBS-sanctioned competition Saturday. Because of donations of Simmon’s Foods of Siloam Springs and Tankersley Food of Van Bueren, all of the teams participat-

ing in “People’s Choice Night” will cook up their signature barbecue and offer it to the public in hopes of being voted a favorite. Unlike the strict, formal competition on Saturday, Friday night’s event is without rules or guidelines; rather, the public tastes, gives their honest opinion and the winners take home $500. The contest will be located in the parking lot across from Baum Stadium on Razorback Road, and serving for the “People’s Choice” Contest will begin at 6 p.m. The official KCBS cook-off competition and judging begins at noon and continues until 3 p.m. the following Saturday. “We are giving away a total of $1,500 in prize money and the first-prize winner will be awarded $800,” Autry said. Currently, 50 teams are pre-registered and certified judges will be present Saturday to score the teams. With such prestige in its barbecue contest, it is only natural that the rest of the event would be likewise recognized. BBB is the third-largest motorcycle rally in the U.S., and it is the only such event whose purpose is the funding of non-profit organizations. “Yeah, it’s a lot of hard work,” Autry said, “but my favorite part is that we do have monies left over that we can donate to local charities, and that’s a major value to the community of Northwest Arkansas. “The hardest part is just trying to get around town with 75,000 to 125,000 motorcycles from every state in the union and 3,000 to 4,000 people. The event has anywhere around $45 million of an economic impact, which is another positive impact for the commercial

community,” Autry said. However, BBB is not the only attention this popular food category get in Northwest Arkansas. Popular barbecue joints have sprouted up all around the area, including local favorite Penguin Ed’s BBQ, which has been around Fayetteville for more than 16 years with two locations off College Avenue and the original on Mission Road. “Barbecue is very well-accepted in the South. It’s got a tradition in small towns throughout the South ... kind of lends itself to ‘mom-andpop’ operations,” Penguin Ed’s founder Ed Knight said. While competitors in barbecue competitions like The Habitual Smokers specialize in only one type of barbecue, Penguin Ed’s has a couple, along with several sides known to be popular with barbecue consumers. “Penguin Ed’s specializes in a combination of Texas and Kansas City style. There is not much doubt in my mind that the best barbecue is from Texas, but we’re a mix of it all,” Knight said. While Knight is adamant about Texas barbecue, the debate over which barbecue style is the best will rage on for decades to come. But Fayetteville residents have the chance to have their say in the battle over barbecue supremacy at BBB this weekend. Anyone within a five-mile radius of Dickson Street can experience firsthand the size of the crowd and the enormity of this event. Engines rip and roar, music blasts and fragrant barbecue smoke wafts across campus – the sweet smell of success for the economy, the charities and the barbecue lover.

5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

JC/BC

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Little Hoojin

9 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Eoff Brothers

Thursday, Sept. 24 4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Gary and John

6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Red Ambition

8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

FOS Project

10 p.m. - Midnight

Ben Miller Band

Friday, Sept. 25 Noon - 1:30 p.m.

Steve, Gene, and Ron

2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Robert Hatfield Band

3:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. Kory Montgomery Band 5:15 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Leah and the MoJo Doctors 7 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.

Earl and ‘Em

8:45 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Big Uns

10:30 p.m. - Midnight Full House Saturday, Sept. 26 12:30 p.m. - 2 p.m.

Gary and John

2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Big Bad Bubba 4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. The T.J. Scarlett Band 6 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

Lafuso

7:45 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Joe Giles and the Homewreckers

9:15 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Oreo Blue 10:45 p.m. - Midnight Nace Brothers/ARKMO Jam concluding with Star Spangled Banner Jimi Hendrix Tribute

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no one to tell her things like the time of iftar; she had to look at the sky to guess. She had to work hard to keep the spirit of Ramadan alive. Now she uses a tape to announce iftar to her family and to help remember traditional Ramadan in her home. “When I was growing (Ramadan) kind of turned out to be a‌ symbol of growing, adulthood, maybe power, challenge,â€? she says. “Especially during that time of iftar, when people are sitting around the table, it was feeling that sense of victory, that ‘I made it!’ all the day.â€? Wahida has defined her life in this country by combining the values of Iran and the U.S., she says. It gives her a unique structure and a unique way of life. She has decorated her house so that the front is in a more traditional American style, but the back, including the kitchen and the family room, help her feel closer to home. A traditional tea maker from Iran holds a place of honor on the kitchen counter. Elaborate hand-woven carpets from Iran cover the hardwood floors in several of the rooms, but are most prominent in the family room where small carpets decorating the walls contain the names of Wahida’s two daughters, a passage from the Qur’an and a woven pictorial of a carpet maker and his son. “It is very accepting here because everyone is immigrant here and it doesn’t have a color of its own,â€? she says. “I love that spirit of accepting.â€? When Wahida arrived in the U.S., she had a degree in math and was accepted into the master’s program for computer science, but three pregnancies in five years prevented her from finishing her degree. She says it was during this time of staying home with her children that she began to really know herself and grow spiritually. She experienced a need to embrace her faith and tried to influence her husband to begin praying and fasting during Ramadan, something he had not been doing before he married Wahida. Wahida’s husband, Hossein Kouchehbagh, moved to the U.S. nearly 38 years ago, and has lived in Fayetteville the last 35 or 36 years. Hossein had a good job in Iran, but he did not like the regime at that time, he says. After arriving in the U.S., Hossein received a degree in industrial engineering, and now owns a used car dealership. After 16 years in the U.S., Hos-

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sein visited Iran to find a wife. He and Wahida were introduced by his sister and her neighbor, and were married three weeks later. After a honeymoon in China, Hossein returned to the U.S., but he and Wahida traveled together over the next two years while they waited for her visa. Hossein did not practice Islam the first 16 years before he met Wahida, he says. “I see some Muslim, they say something (but) they do something different. I was discouraged from it,� he says. In 1997 a friend of Hossein’s from the University Baptist Church, H.D. McCarty, invited Hossein to come talk to a man named Baker about Islam. “After that I was in love with Islam again, and I started practicing in 1997,� Hossein says. His faith had been rekindled by Wahida and he had been fasting and praying some with her for five or six years before talking to Baker, but hearing from a Christian about Islam cemented his belief, he says. He began observing Ramadan every year after. Ramadan is a total fast for a lunar month in which people abstain from eating, drinking, sexual relations and smoking from sunrise to sunset. It is the celebration of the month in which the first revelation of the Qur’an is believed to have been revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. When she first arrived, Wahida began collecting and learning recipes traditionally prepared in Iran for Ramadan such as the sweet called Zoolbia, but it was not easy to find things she needed for making traditional foods. Wahida once substituted corn starch when she could not find the wheat starch Zoolbia is normally made with, she says. Unfortunately, corn starch absorbs about 10 times as much water as wheat starch. “My recipe got bigger and bigger; it was a disaster,� Wahida says, laughing. Now when she goes to Iran she brings ingredi-

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ents she cannot find locally back with her. Not all of the Muslims in the community practice Ramadan, and it was hard for her to understand at first because where she came from everyone practiced, she says. “But here, people have choices, options ... so it really, you know, raised my tolerance and acceptance,� Wahida says. That does not always go both ways. Wahida doesn’t wear the traditional hijab, or headscarf, that many Muslim women wear, so she is not always recognized as being Muslim. She returned to school a few years ago to get a master’s in counselor education and recently began her internship. During orientation they were offered free lunch, and when Wahida didn’t take a lunch, everyone asked her why she wasn’t eating. “I just wanted not to say, ‘Hey, I’m Muslim and I’m fasting,’ you know,� she says. She didn’t know how her new coworkers would accept her and she didn’t want to create a wall between them and her, she says. Instead, she told them she wasn’t hungry. Wahida also has had to deal with occasional prejudice in Northwest Arkansas. Her son had a music teacher who sang songs about “swatting the Muslim fly� and correlated Muslims to being terrorists, she says. Wahida had to make a complaint to the principal of the school. “Music is supposed to bring people together, not separate them,� she says. Bringing people together is an ideal that Wahida believes in strongly and is something she thinks Ramadan helps to do. It brings together friends, people in the community, but most of all, family, she says. Ramadan “binds us together, that we are warriors of temptation,� she says. “Wahida basically is our moral spirit in our house,� Hossein says. “About the religion, our

relationship, about eating habits, drinking habits ... she is our moral spirit because she really does more than a person, more than a wife, more than a mama. She is our friend.� Sara, her 17-year-old daughter, says Wahida is the one who brings the family together during Ramadan. She wakes the family to eat sahur, the pre-dawn meal, and encourages the kids to keep the fast even when they don’t feel like it. But she never forces them, Sara says. “I never push my children to do praying or fasting,� Wahida says. “I encourage them, but not push them.� She never punishes them for breaking fast, she says. During Ramadan the family often takes iftar in the Islamic Center. Taking iftar in the mosque is for social as well as religious reasons, Hossein says. He enjoys the discussion, and his children have a chance to make new friends. Ramadan is special for people; for some it’s religious and for some cultural, says Joel Gordon, director of The King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas. It is a time of deprivation, but it can also be seen as festive, especially during the breaking of fast, Gordon says. People can break fast at home, but here going to the mosque becomes a community get-together, he says. That evening at the mosque, the spread is an international potluck; savory dishes and desserts from Asian countries, including India, and several Middle Eastern countries clog the two buffet tables. During iftar, Wahida’s dish of chicken and rice is one of the first to disappear. “People around the world ... practice Islam within the context of their own culture,� Wahida says. “Culture influences our beliefs. Family culture, regional, continent, they all affect our beliefs.�

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Assistant Sports Editor Sophomore wide receiver Greg Childs lined up isolated to the right of the field during a third-quarter play against Georgia. Depending on the coverage, Childs knew he’d have to adjust his route. Quarterback Ryan Mallett looked over, and they both knew what to do. “The play called for a hitch,” Childs said. “But if the corner pressed me, I had to convert it to a go route down the sideline.”

With the corner clearly pressing, Mallett pump faked to the right and quickly turned and found Childs with the ball inside the 10-yard line. “When Mallett threw it, the defender seemed to lose the ball,” Childs said. “I cut back to the perfect spot. The end zone was close, so I had to get it in. Coach always tells us you never know what might happen during the next plays.” He reached out with his right hand for a stiff arm, and the rest was just fighting for yards for the 40-yard touchdown, Childs said. “I think I got a pretty good stiff arm,” he said. “I try to stay in the weight room some just to be stronger and do things like that.” It’s a play Mallett said he sees Sun-

days. “You see stiff arms in the NFL like that,” Mallett said. “You can see the strength right there.” And it was a play Childs was reminded of several times after the game. “I got too many phone calls,” Childs said, smiling. “Before the game was over with, I had about 50 missed calls. People were texting me out the blue when I was showering. Ryan put the ball in a perfect spot for me to get it, so I had to go produce and catch it for him.” It’s a route Childs said he has run many times in practice. “We make plays in practice all the time,” Childs said. “It was just a matter of doing it in a game.” But Arkansas head coach Bobby Petrino said he missed an opportunity to improve during the spring after struggling with practice time because of pneumonia. “I couldn’t really practice and be out with the team during spring ball,” Childs said. “I

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practiced maybe one full week.” Petrino said the missed time affected Childs. “He didn’t have things going real well for him in the classroom and on the practice field,” Petrino said. “I think his parents came up here and did a great job helping him. They took the time to help him and met with our coaches.” Through those meetings, Petrino said Childs See

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Williams sets school record for shutouts Cross country Michele Hagelin Staff Writer

Arkansas goalkeeper Britni Williams set a school record Sunday achieving her 18th career shutout when the Razorbacks defeated FIU 2-0. In the game she tied her season high with four saves. She broke the previous record held by Molly Myers with 17.5. “I feel good about it,” Williams said. “My defense helped me out the most… I never could have gotten this without them because they back me up and they’re always there.” Myers was with the team from 1989 to 1992 and has been at the top of the shutout list for 17 years. The win over FIU was Williams’ 24th career win, also putting her in a tie for second with Myers and Kerri Reifel behind collegiate career win record-holder Carrie Dillsaver with 28. “Britni has had a great season so far in terms of progress,” head coach Erin Aubry said. “We kind of saw it coming with her working with Tim

Nowak and our other goal keepers. They constantly push her to be better and better because they’re getting better. It’s not surprising, but it’s exciting for her because she definitely deserves it and the team really wanted it for her.” Williams is a criminal justice and sociology major, keeping her options open for the future. A junior from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Williams starting player soccer at the age of 4 and toured with competitive teams around the time she was 10. She has played with Arsenal, a club team, for eight years. After receiving offers from UCLA and Georgetown she decided to come to Arkansas to make a difference. “I wanted a new experience,” Williams said. “I didn’t want to stay in California, and when I originally came out here I loved the girls, the coaches and the campus. The team looked really good but needed improvement, and I wanted to come to a team that looked like they were going somewhere.”

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Britni Williams (right) and the Razorbacks have held their opponent scoreless in seven of 10 games this season.

Arkansas hired Aubry after Williams’ sophomore year when head coach Gordan Henderson left. Williams had 66 saves on the year last season, finishing with a .733-save percentage, while in just eight games with coach Aubry has already recorded 22. “It wasn’t as hard transitioning coaches as I thought

it would be,” Williams said. “They told us in the spring we were switching coaches and we all got a little nervous, but she came in here, (and) we all love her and I think it was a really good switch. She has a harder work ethic – she always pushes us to do our best and doesn’t See

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While the Arkansas men’s cross country team has won its first two meets in convincing fashion, the team should get a more accurate barometer of where it stands at the Wisconsin Invitational in two weeks, coach Chris Bucknam said. Before heading to Madison, Wisc., the Hogs have a week off after easily outpacing secondplace Pittsburgh State 48-131 at the MSSU Stampede in Joplin. Bucknam said the field at the Adidas meet will be the first true gauge for the squad. “Our first real test is Oct. 3 when we run up in Madison,” Bucknam said. “That’s going to be an extremely tough field with a lot of ranked team in it. That’ll give us a better idea of where this team is at at this time.”

Bucknam said Iowa, Wisconsin and Auburn would be in the field of about 20 teams. The 35-team field at the Stampede was the first large meet of the 2009 season for the Razorbacks, after they beat MSSU in a head-to-head matchup in early September. “It was a good meet to be in – it was a nice course,” Bucknam said. “The kids had to adjust to something different than when we just had the dual meet. It gave a big-meet feel to it.” The Stampede was the first meet of the 2009 season for sophomore Rick Elliott and freshman Cameron Efurd. The duo finished 12th and 19th, respectively, and Bucknam said the experience should help down the road. “Rick Elliott ran for the first time and is shaking the cobwebs See

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Razorbacks must move on

The 2009 Super Bowl was on Feb. 1, 2009. But for the Arkansas Razorbacks, Saturday’s 52-41 loss at Georgia was the game that received the hype and glamour from the minute fall practice began. The obvious question becomes: How will the Hogs respond? Players and coaches readily admitted leading up to and after the game that they had spent the summer preparing for the Bulldogs. Safety Matt Harris said the team used the game as motivation during summer workouts. The team wanted to show the country how improved they were, that they’re a different squad from 2008. And they certainly did that, on the offensive side of the ball, at least. Sophomore Ryan Mallett shined on the nationally televised ESPN stage, breaking the school records for passing yards and touchdowns in his first SEC start. Simply put, Mallett may have the best arm in Arkansas history. ESPN studio analyst Mark May called Mallett the best passer in the SEC following Saturday’s game. Mallett’s receiving corps showed

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that they can play with anyone. Greg “Man-Childs,” Jarius Wright, Joe Adams and tight end D.J. Williams all made big plays against a solid Southeastern Conference defense. The Razorbacks had receivers running open for most of the evening. Michael Smith’s shoulder injury re-affirmed how vital the 5-foot-9, 180-pounder is to the Arkansas run game. Dennis Johnson had several good runs, but the Hogs lacked Smith’s quickness and vision. Coach Bobby Petrino said that while running back Broderick Green could’ve lowered his pads better, the offensive line was ultimately to blame for the offense’s continued struggle to convert in short yardage running

situations. The Arkansas offense showed it can make big plays and score effectively. The Hogs will face one of their toughest tests of the season on Saturday in Nick Saban’s vaunted ‘Bama defense. The Tide will challenge Mallett and the Razorback offensive line with perhaps the most aggressive pass rush the Hogs will see this year. Mallett pointed out the opportunities the Hogs squandered after moving the ball effectively in last year’s 49-14 loss to the Crimson Tide in Fayetteville. Execution would be key, Mallett and Childs emphasized. Arkansas has the offensive weapons in place to move the ball and score on most teams, even an Alabama or a Florida. Mallett said the team realizes it is now in the middle of 11 straight games and has no time to hang its head. There will be many more opportunities to score a breakthrough win this season. The main question now is whether the defense can stop anyone. Georgia quarterback Joe Cox is a solid SEC quarterback. He’s a fifthyear senior, comfortable in the Bull-

dogs’ offensive scheme. Cox entered the game with 363 yards through the air in the Dawgs’ first two games, but he shredded the Arkansas defense for 375 yards and tied the Georgia school record of five touchdown tosses. Losing linebacker Jerry Franklin certainly hurt, but it wasn’t as if the Hogs’ defense was stellar before the sophomore’s ejection. The Bulldogs had already scored 10 points, and Franklin was covering tight end Aron White on White’s 21-yard touchdown catch. What hurt more was the 59 yards in penalties assessed against the Hogs in less than three minutes, killing Arkansas’ momentum after safety Tramain Thomas’ interception gave them the ball at the Georgia 48 with a chance to build on their 21-10 lead. True freshman Terrell Williams was forced into action following Franklin’s ejection, and the Bulldogs quickly broke an 80-yard touchdown run to pull within four points. The Hogs’ secondary was the subject of the most criticism following the game, though. While A.J. Green is an absolute stud, Cox rarely had trouble finding an open teammate,

whether it was No. 81 or not. The defense must make a quick turnaround if it hopes to have a better showing Saturday. Petrino said Alabama all-conference receiver Julio Jones is very similar to Green. Jones is set to return from a bruised right knee, which he injured in the Tide’s Sept. 12 win over Florida International. The quick turnaround from such an emotion-filled game against the Bulldogs to playing a national power like Alabama doesn’t bode well for the Hogs. Saturday’s game, along with the Oct. 17 trip to Florida, are games Arkansas simply isn’t equipped to win yet. Look for the Mallett-led offense to put up its fair share of points Saturday against a strong Crimson Tide defense. It’s become obvious the Hogs will have to rely on outscoring teams this season. Can they do it? That remains to be seen. Jimmy Carter is an assistant sports editor for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every other Wednesday.

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was able to realize how much he meant to the team. “Greg found out how much we really care for him,� Petrino said. “We love him and want him on our team.� But after not getting an opportunity to perform with the team, Childs made up for lost time during the summer. “He had an unbelievable summer,� Petrino said. “He worked in the weight room as much as anybody. He worked on his lift, strength and speed.

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lows 5.3 yards per catch and has given up just two touchdowns through the air.

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Passing Offense:

GRADE:

The Crimson Tide offense is directed by first-year starting quarterback Greg McElroy. In the Tide’s first three games in 2009, McElroy has thrown for 647 yards on 66.7 percent passing completion with four touchdowns and one interception. Thus far, McElroy’s main target has been sophomore running back Mark Ingram, who has caught 10 passes for 120 yards and two scores. Alabama’s most potent player on offense is sophomore wide receiver Julio Jones, after he had 924 yards receiving last year and four touchdowns, but in 2009, Jones has been mostly ineffective with only five catches and 55 yards receiving and no touchdowns. He also sat out the most recent 53-7 victory over North Texas with a knee injury last Saturday. While Jones has been relatively quiet, fellow wide receivers Mike McCoy, Marquis Maze, Darius Hanks and Colin Peek have each caught at least six passes. McCoy and Maze have each hauled in more than 100 yards receiving. GRADE:

C+

Rushing Offense:

Using a plethora of potent running backs, Alabama has rushed for 803 yards with four backs in three games. Led by Ingram’s 297 yards on 44 carries and three touchdowns, Alabama trails only Florida in rushing yards per game in the SEC team with 267.7 per game. Complementing Ingram are Terry Grant, Trent Richardson and Roy Upchurch, who each have at least 11 carries and more than 100 yards rushing. Richardson is the main back spelling Ingram with 29 carries for 215 yards and three scores. GRADE:

A-

Pass Defense:

Alabama ranks fourth in SEC pass defense after allowing 143.3 yards per game in its first three games. Led by the ball-hawking prowess of senior cornerbacks Javier Arenas and Justin Woodall, the Alabama secondary has proved to be burdensome to opponents. A year ago, both Arenas and Woodall returned interceptions for touchdowns against Arkansas in the Tide’s 49-14 victory in Fayetteville. The squad only al-

B+

Run Defense:

The true tenacity of the Alabama defense is found on the defensive line. Anchored by 6-5, 365-pound nose tackle and Lombardi Award candidate Terrance Cody, the Alabama front four rank first in the SEC in rush defense after allowing only 42 yards per game on a miniscule 1.5 yards per carry through the team’s first three games. Junior linebacker Rolando McClain, who stands at 6’4� 258 pounds, is also a first team AllSEC member and Butkus Award candidate. GRADE:

A+

Special Teams:

Cornerback Javier Arenas truly impacts the game as he expands his skill set to include punt returns. He is Alabama’s leader in punt returns yards in a game, season and career yards as well as touchdowns (six). He’s averaging 13.5 yards a return this season and is the active NCAA leader in career punt returns for touchdowns and punt return yards in a game. Senior place kicker Leigh Tiffin ranks fifth on the Tide’s career kick-scoring list with 253 career points. On the season, he is 8-of-10 on field goals, but has missed two PATs. GRADE:

A-

Coaching:

Head coach Nick Saban, the country’s highest paid coach, has gone 22-8 during his tenure in Alabama, including a 12-2 record last year in his second season in Tuscaloosa. The season was mired, however, by a 31-17 loss to underdog Utah in the Sugar Bowl. Saban has almost single-handedly resurrected Alabama to national prominence since taking over three seasons ago after a two-year hiccup with the Miami Dolphins in the NFL. With a 113–50–1 overall record including one national championship as a collegiate head coach since 1990, Saban remains one of the game’s best minds in the country GRADE:

A+

out,� Bucknam said. “Cameron Efurd, the freshman from Rogers, who I was really impressed with, did a nice job. The thing I was impressed with about him was he picked up about eight or nine spots in the last mile, which is a good sign. It shows what kind of competitor Cameron is, and to finish strong like that shows a little bit about his character.� Bucknam said the younger players and short-distance runners are still adjusting to the longer distances. “We’re in a heavy training, volume-mode right now, so some of our freshman are a little bit tired,� Bucknam said. “Some of our mile athletes, shorter-distance guys, are a little tired, as well. But we’re working through this month and early next month to get ready for our championship season.� Four-time All-American Dorian Ulrey is still resting and doing base work after his summer competing at the World Championships. Bucknam said the junior may not run until the Oct. 17 Chile Pepper Festival. Freshman Solomon Haile won the Arkansas Invitational, but Bucknam said Haile is still adjusting to the demands of running at the collegiate level. “(We’ve tried) to get him

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009 |Page 13 He really put it in his mind – with the help of his parents and Paul (Petrino) – that he could become the type of player he can become.� And the results have shown, as he is ranked second in the Southeastern Conference with 95 receiving yards per game. But Childs is closely followed in the statistic by sophomore Jarius Wright, who leads the SEC with 123.5 yards and was a high school teammate in Warren. Childs joked that it still seems like high school with both making impacts on the same team. “We have been playing to-

gether our whole lives,� Childs said. “I know the plays he can make. We came out of high school all having big games. Coach (in high school) gave us all opportunities to score and throw the ball.� Both are getting that same chance after preparing for a big year. “We came into the offseason knowing we need to have a big year,� Childs said. “We practiced hard with intensity, wanting to be better. We just try to carry over what we do in practice to the game.� And Childs is glad he is now getting that opportunity.

used to the rigors of running every other week and get used to that schedule,� Bucknam said. Bucknam said sophomore Eric Fernandez didn’t run in the Stampede because of general soreness stemming from extra running over the summer and this fall.

body else to fill in the gap. “It’s always nice to have depth, and having seven interchangeable parts definitely helps.� Alyssa Allison was named the Southeastern Conference Player of the Week after finishing runner-up – just less than seven seconds behind Walker – last weekend. “Alyssa Allison, she is a racer,� Harter said. “She is one of those individuals that doesn’t give a darn what happened during the course of the week. Once you let the gun go off you’re going to be in for a fight. That’s why she represented the United States this summer at the junior Pan-Am games.� The Razorbacks will face their first stiff competition in two weeks at the Wisconsin Invitational. Harter said the team will be one of the youngest in the field. “In two weeks we’re going into the fire and we’re going to see the best of the best,� Harter said. “There’s nine total (regions) in the U.S. and most of them are represented. It’s a lot of teams looking for points. SMU has gone after five foreign athletes, Baylor has the best team they’ve ever had, Rice has the best team they’ve ever had and then we’re evolving or rebuilding. “We’re very, very young and we have a lot of people that need some experience real quickly. We’re in over our head a little bit and we’re going to have to continue to evolve.�

Women’s XC shows depth Junior Miranda Walker won her second consecutive race at the MSSU Stampede, but Coach Lance Harter was more encouraged by the Arkansas runners that finished behind Walker. Arkansas’ scoring five were separated by a 50-second spread in the season opening 4k Arkansas Invitational, but just 33 seconds separated the five in Saturday’s meet. Miranda Walker The top seven runners were only separated by 41 seconds at the 5,000-meter Stampede. “We’re running closer together in spite of being farther in distance,� Harter said. “Our depth is starting to come together with the front running staying the same. (The depth) helps us spread the responsibility of scoring. So if somebody does have a cold there is some-

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The Seattle Times/MCT The quickest release in Gainesville, Fla.? Sorry, Tim Tebow fans, but it’s the Gators’ NCAA compliance staff. Those contentious compliance cops have already fired off cease-and-desist letters over use of the Florida QB’s name or likeness to the likes of: -The Ballyhoo Grill in Gainesville, which has the “Tim Treebow� – an 8-foot tall chainsaw log carving of You Know Who – sitting out front; -Turtle Trails, a public arts project in Jacksonville, over its “Tebow Turtle;� and -Samantha Smith, maker of TeeBow thongs. What? “They’re women’s underwear shaped like a T,� explained Erich Spivey of Jacksonville’s WTLV-TV,

Talk about a gunner Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West, the ex-Sonic, was arrested last Thursday when D.C.-area police discovered a handgun in his pocket, another in his pant leg and a shotgun in the guitar case on his back during a traffic stop. Looks like he was ready to shoot a three. Headlines -At SportsPickle.com, after the Gators’ 23-13 win over Tennessee: “Lane Kiffin accuses Florida of recruiting better players.� -At CBSsports.com, after Washington’s stunning 16-13 upset of thirdranked USC: “Meet the Lockers.� When’s dessert?

“Humble Bob� Shoudt of Royersford, Pa., captured the 2009 World Burrito Eating Championship at the New Mexico State Fair last Friday, downing 33{ of them in 10 minutes to beat runner-up Hall “Hoover� Hunt of Jacksonville, Fla. Shoudt won $1,500, a trophy and all the Tums he could eat. Writers’ bloc -Comedian Argus Hamilton, on the recent outbursts by tennis player Serena Williams, musician Kanye West and congressman Joe Wilson: “What’s happened to this country? Dogs are being arrested for betting on people fights.� -CBS’s Dick Enberg, after Roger Federer’s stunning between-the-legs shot in the U.S. Open semifinals: “And for my next act, I’m going to hit a winner while I’m in a box and they

saw me in half.� -David Thomas of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, on Brett Favre Vikings jerseys being the NFL’s No. 1 seller: “Unlike Favre’s retirement decisions, the jersey isn’t reversible.� -Greg Cote of the Miami Herald, on T.O.’s Honey-Toasted Oats, the new Terrell Owens cereal: “Mmm. Tastes like ham!� Giving an earful Italian revenue authorities tracked down Diego Maradona at an Alpine resort and took the former Napoli soccer star’s $5,900 earrings as partial payment for his outstanding $54 million tax bill, Italy’s Sky TG24 TV reported. In a rare display of restraint, the tax agents said they’d come back for his fillings later.

VOLLEYBALL

Norton named SEC Freshman of the Week UA Media Relations UA outside hitter Jasmine Norton was named the Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Week Monday when the league office announced its weekly honors. Norton paced the Razorback volleyball team to a split during the opening weekend of SEC play with 17 kills against South Carolina and seven kills against No. 5 Florida. “Obviously, I’m very excited for Jasmine to receive this honor,� head coach Robert Pulliza said. “She has been working hard since day one of preseason workouts, and that was evident this weekend as she played in her first SEC match and comes up with 17 kills. I’m proud of her and look forward to seeing her progress even more as the season continues.�

Norton’s 17-kill performance against the Gamecocks was her eighth double-digit output of the season, and is the third-best total of her young career. The Rowlett, Texas, native also equaled her career best with five blocks in the three-set win against South Carolina. The Razorbacks opened league play with a 25-16, 25-21, 25-15 victory. In the weekend finale, Norton was one of two players to lead the team with seven kills against the Gators. She has led the Razorbacks in kills on nine occasions this year, including the 23kill effort in her collegiate debut against TCU. For the week, Norton averaged four kills per set and one block per set for totals of 24 and six, respec- Jamine Norton

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tively. She averaged 4.67 points per set during the weekend. Through 13 matches, Norton leads Arkansas with 156 kills, good for 3.47 kills per set, which also leads the team and is fourth in the SEC. The high-flying freshman also has a team-best 18 service aces and is third on the roster with 30 total blocks. Norton is second in the conference with 0.40 aces per set. She has also proven her ability when not attacking the ball with 68 digs. The Razorbacks hit the road this weekend for a pair of SEC matchups. Arkansas opens its conference road schedule with a Sept. 25 meeting at Tennessee. The match is set for a 6 p.m. start time. The team then travels to Lexington, Ky., to close out the weekend against Kentucky at 12:30 p.m.

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let anyone slack off, which we had a problem with last year. She is very encouraging and motivating.� The Razorbacks have come out this season with the best start they have had in school history. Including Arkansas, there are 20 unbeaten teams in the nation with a total of 300 Division I programs. With a record of 6-0-2, Arkansas keeps adding to its best-ever season start. The Razorbacks are looking to be a dominant force this year in the Southeastern Conference by relying on their work ethic and team chemistry. “I feel good about the team this season,� Williams said. “This is probably the best I have seen us so far just with everyone’s work ethic, and working together we have really improved. I think we’re finally going to make it to the SEC tournament, and hopefully the NCAA, as well.� The Razorbacks head back home to start SEC play Friday against Tennessee. The last two matchups between Arkansas and the then-No. 6 Tennessee ended in a 1-1 tie.

RAZORBACK CALENDAR VOLLEYBALL Arkansas at Tennessee Friday at 6 p.m. Knoxville, Tenn. Arkansas at Kentucky Sunday at 12:30 p.m. Lexington, Ky.

SOCCER Arkansas vs. Tennessee Friday at 7 p.m. Arkansas vs. Georgia Sunday at 1 p.m. Both in Fayetteville

FOOTBALL Arkansas at Alabama Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Tusacaloosa, Ala. TV: CBS

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Razorbacks defensive end Adrian Davis and Arkansas Traveler assistant sports editor Jimmy Carter sat down and tackled several tough subjects, including the defense’s performance and whether he prefers Gatorade or Powerade. Davis finished second on the team in sacks in 2008 and has nine tackles in the first two games of the 2009 season. How much of a statement does the defense feel like it has to make in the next couple of weeks? We’re just trying to make the statement that we’re going to play hard this year, be physical. Just play how we know how to play. Do the players feel more comfortable in the system this year or is there still some hesitation? I think there is a bit of a difference (between now and last year). We played a lot of freshmen last year and they’re all sophomores now. So everybody knows the system a little bit better, so that allows us to play faster. What is the toughest offensive line you’ve had to play against? I’d have to say Alabama last year. You put on 14 pounds in the offseason, and the coaches have said that you’ve been able to retain that weight. What did you work on during the summer? I’ve just been staying in the weight room and doing extra stuff to get my body right through the offseason and summer. The strength coach did a good job keeping me in shape with this weight. Growing up, what was your first actual job? Man, I never really had a job. I was one of those

kids that was blessed with two parents that took care of me. So they never really made me work. I probably would’ve worked at a shoe store because I collect certain types of shoes. Probably a shoe store like Foot Locker – I like Jordans. If the team had a talent competition, who would win? Probably (junior offensive lineman) DeMarcus Love. He could be a comedian, and he can rap a little bit. He can do a lot of things, and he can imitate a lot of people. Gatorade or Powerade? Gatorade, Cool Blue. Who is your favorite actress? I have to go with Megan Fox. Nothing else needs to be said. (Davis agrees). Do you have any pregame rituals? I like to just stay to myself, listen to some music. Lil Wayne, a couple of songs that get me in the mode to play a football game. I get ready for the game, focus for the game. What’s your favorite class? My favorite subject is history; I really don’t have a favorite class. Which coach yells the most during practice? I would probably say (offensive coordinator) Paul Petrino. He probably does the most yelling, trying to get his receivers ready to go practice every day. What does your pregame meal consist of? I eat spaghetti. Just (trying to) get some carbs in me, eat a lot of spaghetti.

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