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Local Music Lovers Call for DIY Venue Revival DIY venues offer a different, more intimate music scene than Dickson Street.
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2012 to Bring Box Office Hits Movies like The Hunger Games and The Hobbit to light up theatres this year.
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Hogs Face SEC’s Best Arkansas will try to snap an eightgame losing streak at Rupp Arena, dating back to 1994. No. 2 Kentucky is undefeated at home in coach John Calipari’s three seasons.
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Community members gathered at the Walton Arts Center Monday morning to participate in the annual MLK Jr. Day March. The march ended at the Verizon Ballroom inside the Union for a vigil.
Refreshed by Winter Break, Students Return to Dorm Life by JANNEE SULLIVAN Staff Writer
Many students must readjust to living in UA residence halls this week after living at home for winter break. For freshman apparel studies major Grace Colly, moving back to campus was bittersweet. “I’m glad to be independent again, but I will miss my parents’ food and my pets,” she said. “There are a lot of things I’m going to have to readjust to with living on campus after a month,” Colly said. “Like having to walk everywhere, sharing a bathroom, doing my laundry and having limited food again.” While some students may find it hard or bittersweet to be back on campus, others look forward to the move back. “I don’t think it will be too hard to readjust. I kind of missed it,” said Arika Lewis, a freshman broadcast journalism and Spanish major living in Yocum Hall. Some students said life on campus is more exciting than life at home.
Pi Beta Phi and Lambda Top Greek GPA List by MANDY MCCLENDON Staff Writer
Hotz Hall to Become Honors Quarters in 2013 Freshmen honor students will be able to interact more with honors upperclassmen
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“I’m glad to be back. It was getting boring at home,” said Logan Moyer, a freshman business major who moved back into Futrall Hall the day it reopened. Most residence halls on the UA campus closed for winter break, although Yocum Hall, Holcombe Hall, Gregson Hall and the Northwest Quad remained open with limited services, according to the UA housing website. Students had to turn off their appliances and heat before vacating the residence halls for the break, according to the UA housing website. “I had to run the heat
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for a while when I got back,” said Mark Cameron, a freshman English major who moved back into his room in Futrall Hall. “Other than that, it wasn’t too bad.” Most students agree that they are ready to get back to campus and back to their routines. “Overall, I’m just ready to get back into the groove of campus,” Colly said. “It will be fun to readjust.” Moyer said he was glad the stasis of winter break was finally ending. “I’m actually ready for classes to start and to get back into the motion of things,” Moyer said.
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Sororities and fraternities completed the fall 2011 semester with an all-Greek GPA of 3.146. The overall sorority GPA was a 3.236, and the overall fraternity GPA was a 2.977, according to the Greek Life website. Pi Beta Phi finished first among UA sororities with a average GPA of 3.408, while Lambda Chi Alpha achieved the highest fraternity GPA with a 3.171, according to the website. Laura Cooper, a sophomore member of Pi Beta Phi, said she is very proud of her sorority’s grades. “It really shows how hard we work, and we’re
extremely proud of what our house has achieved,” Cooper said. “It proves that sororities are not merely a social event, but we also do good work for the community and encourage each other to maintain good grades.” Each Greek chapter has an academic chairperson or an academic standards committee to monitor the grades of individual members and the chapter as a whole. Members are often provided tutors, group study sessions and other academic aids to assist in achieving high GPAs. Many houses offer incentives for high GPAs. Those who earn a 4.0 win prizes such as T-shirts, gift cards or special awards that mem-
bers can add to his or her chapter pin. Greek chapters also set academic standards for members by requiring a minimum GPA. If this minimum is not maintained, members may be subjected to special tutor sessions or put on academic probation. Sadie Smith, vice president of Academic Excellence for her sorority, helps her chapter achieve high grades by monitoring which classes seem to give members the most trouble. “I ask girls to let me know what they’re struggling with,” Smith said. “If economics is giving a lot of people trouble one semester, we bring
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UA Volunteer Action Center members will sponsor the third annual MLK Day of Service from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in the Connections Lounge of the Arkansas Union. Ten local non-profit agencies will hold a community service fair for the campus community. A screening of the PBS documentary Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock will be presented by producer and director Sharon La Cruise in the Donald W. Reynolds Center at 2 p.m. Jan. 19.
January 17 Starting a Business in Arkansas
Starting A Business in Arkansas prepares participants for the intensive business planning process. Many questions entrepreneurs have about starting a business are answered in this three hour workshop from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Donald W. Reynolds Center room 202.
January 18 Keep The Challenge
This workshop will inform students about how to get and keep the Academic Challenge (Lottery) Scholarship. The workshop will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in room 223 of Silas Hunt Hall.
January 19 Understanding Online Marketing
This presentation will cover how small businesses can use online advertising, like Facebook, Google and Twitter, to help their business. The presentation will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce.
January 20 Jack Buckley Lecture on Link Between Test Scores, Student Achievement Jack Buckley, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics in Washington, D.C. will speak in room 343 of the Graduate Education Building on the topic “Is There a Link Between State Performance Standards and Student Achievement?”
International Culture Team Kick-Off
UA International Culture Team members are sponsoring their semester kick-off event from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Walker Hall Auditorium.
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The UA Honors quarters will move to Hotz Hall as soon as renovations are complete in 2013. The new location would allow honors freshmen to interact with more honors upperclassmen and allow them to eat in the Northwest Quad dining hall, officials said. Honors College officials are also planning to have honors programming in the Northwest Quad dining hall and other meeting places nearby. “For several years we have been working with the housing office either to renovate Pomfret or to find another location for first year honors students,” said Kendall Curlee, director of communications for the Honors College. UA officials abandoned plans to renovate Pomfret or move the honors quarters to Yocum Hall when those measures proved to be too expensive, Curlee said. The Honors College also considered moving first year honors quarters to Yocum Hall but that plan failed for budgetary reasons also, she said. Hotz Hall is about the same size as the B-Wing of Pomfret, where current firstyear honors students live. Honors College officials said they don’t know the exact number of honors students
living on campus or whether that number will grow substantially in the future. Lizzie Alvarez, freshman pre-nursing student and Pomfret Hall resident, thinks Pomfret should remain in the first year honors quarters. “They just redid a lot of stuff and they have the summer to make it even nicer,” Alvarez said. “I didn’t even know they were thinking about moving the honors dorm.” Though the Hotz honors location would be more central and convenient in the eyes of the Honors College, honors students may miss the Pomfret experience. “We’ve all bonded from living at the bottom of the hill and having to make the trek up together every morning,” Alvarez said. Some honors students don’t appreciate the trek from Pomfret, but agree that it builds a certain companionship. “It is a disadvantage that we’re all the way at the bottom of the hill,” said Catherine Woodrow, a freshman English and social work major and Pomfret resident. “Although it’s not that big of an issue, we have a really great bus system and we have a great sense of community in Pomfret.” Honors students will also lose the cafeteria conveniently located inside Pomfret, although they will gain closer access to the Quads,
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Freedom Forgotten on National Holiday For many of us, yesterday gave an extra day to recuperate after a final weekend of visiting friends, sleeping in and lounging around. What most forget to take notice of is that it was intended to be a celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, work and dream. King gave America a chance at hope, peace and equality through his civil rights work, but every year the commemorative day comes and goes without much notice from students. Maybe it’s the lack of interest in history, past filling in our degree plans, but maybe it’s something more serious. As each year passes, there seems to be a strong sensibility that we are moving further away from what King preached and worked for so many years at, into a nonchalant attitude concerning racism in the U.S. Racial inequality still plagues every corner of the U.S., but seems especially apparent in the south. It’s not uncommon to hear racial insults and comments on campus on a day-to-day basis, but many of us think nothing of it simply because of our upbringing or by the way that society has made it acceptable to use intolerant words and actions in a surprisingly nonchalant sense. We can try to convince ourselves that racism really is dead, but the cold truth is that it’s still very much alive. Though the segregated buildings and racial violence ended before most of us were born, there are still significant problems concerning equality in the U.S. According to a study by MSNBC in 2008, a quarter of black Americans still lived in poverty, the typical black household made only 62 percent of that of a white household and homicide was the leading cause of death of black males. Those numbers have changed in the past three years, but not nearly as well as they could have. We can read the statistics over and over again and pretend that they don’t concern us, but what we need to be doing is focusing on the very idea that King acted on in a time where the unimaginable happened regarding racism. For once, why don’t we make this holiday count? We must be the ones to break the stereotypes, stop the hate and learn how to treat people as equals. It’s near impossible to imagine a world where racism truly is dead, but we are the next generation to have an opportunity to make change. As the generations that were directly affected by the civil rights movement become faint, we have a clean slate to move away from the historically accepted hate and make the change that King so strongly worked for. If we curbed what stereotypes we thought about and acted upon, white and black Americans could experience a much better freedom. King made it clear that to bring the nation to a place of true equality, we would have to become the leaders that we desired to see. Rather than sitting back and speculating on what we feel is not right, we have to be the ones to come together and demand change. We need to not let the idea of civil rights be another page in our history books, but rather become a part of history for breaking the cycle. This year, rather than merely letting the commemorative day pass, we should take the chance to reflect on what we can do to make our nation experience freedom, and then act upon it.
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Incredible India: Experience the World From The Editor
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My aunt sets the dinner plates before us on the table. She made chicken biryani, a traditional Indian dish of chicken mixed with rice. My stomach responds with an audible rumble to the spicy aroma that rises from the yellow and orange colored rice. My aunt hands me and my sisters forks for our food. I am about to take it, when, out of the corner of my eye, I see my cousin eating with her hands. As I was raised in an Indian household, with parents who always worked to preserve our Indian heritage, the art of eating with the hands was not new to me. However, living in America, it was a practice that I rarely took part in. I could have
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and people. There, drivers have to worry about motorcycles, cars, trucks, scooters, bicycles, pedestrians, rickshaws, goats, camels and cows— yes, cows. In fact, everybody seems to have the same right-of-way.
“Going there [India], I saw a piece of the constant struggle in this world that is less visible living here.” As I was on the train to Rajisthan, I would stand at the door of the train, watching as we passed by isolated villages. People lived in straw houses, in what seemed to be the middle of nowhere. In Rajisthan, one of the poorest states in India, I’d watch village women working in the fields or carrying heavy wood on their heads, struggling each day to feed the family. Here in America, we have the concept of lines. People stand behind each other, the last person knowing that he/ she will get something. In India, there is no such concept because when it comes to resources, there is no guarantee that the last person or even the
middle person will get something. I had never seen poverty until I stepped into the markets of New Delhi, where kids, mothers, sick people and old people were begging on the streets, clad in barely a cloth or two. I was only there for a month, but I learned some very valuable lessons about myself and about the world. It’s that time of year when study abroad deadlines are coming up and I encourage all students to apply. Whether you go to Asia, Africa, South America or Europe, every country has a culture and history of its own and it would benefit you not to go as a tourist, but to immerse yourself in that society. Leave behind the comforts of your life here and open up your mind to meet the everyday person on the street, strike up a conversation with the taxi driver (they have the most interesting tales) and eat cuisine frequented by the locals. These are experiences that will stay with you forever. Saba Naseem is the 20112012 Editor. She is a senior majoring journalism, French and Middle Eastern Studies.
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taken that fork and eaten like I normally do at home, but I decided I wanted to experience India in every way that I could. I needed to let go of my American lifestyle and integrate into the Indian society. After my many trips abroad, and my most recent one to India, I found that the real experience comes through understanding the culture and people. It is very easy for Westerners to go to India, stay in five-star hotels and live in the luxury that reminds them of home. That “luxury”, however, only makes up a small percent of India. The real India is in the people’s everyday life and their stories. Eating with the hands was, of course, one of the small adjustments. The harder was adapting to their lifestyle. The first time I was in a car, I thought I was going to die any minute. We would be driving in the middle of the road and a car or truck would be coming at us head-on. At what seemed to me to be the very last second, both cars would swerve around each other. Traffic in the markets and on the streets was something else. Here, all I have to worry about are cars
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#Cottonbowl, Hogs, #WPS, Arkansas, Woo Pig Sooie. These terms all look familiar to us here in Razorback Country, but some may be asking, “What’s up with those hash tags?” These came from the “Trending Topics” from Twitter during the Razorback’s victory over the Kansas State Wildcats just a few weeks ago. To those of you who frequently Twitter, the website may seem like it is ruled by college students, but less than
20 percent of college students use Twitter as of summer 2011, according to Communication Studies. For those of you who do not “tweet,” Twitter is the selfproclaimed “best way to discover what’s new in your world,” allowing users to share opinions, news, pictures and videos, and spread rumors all from their computer, tablet or cell phone in 140 characters or less. You could follow Kanye West, though there is a great chance that he will not follow you back, and his random thoughts and feelings would appear on your timeline, where the tweets of the people who you follow appear. The real question is not what Twitter is, but rather how do we use it as college students? I didn’t join the site until halfway through my freshman year, though my friends were constantly talking about what they had seen or talked about on Twitter. So as I sat at home with not much to do over the winter break of freshman year, I joined Twitter. Here at
the UA, Twitter is a large, public conversation for people to air out their feelings and comment on what is going on in their life. It has become the tool we use to have those small conversations with friends that we do not mind the public reading. It is where gatherings are planned, gossip is spread, lies are told, pictures from last night are posted, and complaints about campus life and life in general are shared with followers who may or may not want to know them. Every Razorback fan turns into an online sportscaster during a football game and the drama of The Real Housewives of Atlanta unfolds tweet by tweet when a new episode premieres. Once upon a time Facebook was the social network to be on, but now it seems that Twitter’s shorter updates are making it the place to be for those wanting to be in the know or those wanting to share what they know. So why does Twitter appeal to those of us in college? From what I have
noticed, Twitter mirrors the real world in the sense that users join can join cliques, or “teams.” #TeamiPhone, #TeamDroid, #TeamSingle, #TeamUofA, #TeamUCA, #TeamFollowBack are some of the Teams that frequent my timeline. I think this appeals to students because of the inclusion factor; we are able to find others with similar lifestyles or interests to us. Another aspect of Twitter that college students enjoy is subliminal tweeting and subtweeting. Depending on who you follow, who follows you and what the trending topics are, Twitter is a different experience for everyone. Whether you are a user or not, Twitter seems to be what is in right now for staying connected until another social network becomes the #TrendingTopic of our conversations. DeShaun Artis is a Traveler columnist. His column appears every other Tuesday.
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from page 2 where the Honors College plans to hold programming. “The Pomfreteria isn’t really known for its food, but it’s convenient. Hotz is so close to the Quads that it shouldn’t really be an issue, though,” Woodrow said. Regardless of the location, students agree that more contact with other honors students strengthens the Honors College ex-
perience, Alvarez said. “Living with other honors students has helped me stay on track with my schoolwork and the honor students are an interesting and really diverse bunch,” Alvarez said. Contact with the 150 upper-class students living elsewhere on campus would be very beneficial, Curlee said. “The change won’t affect that sense of community. Hotz will just be their honors dorm,” Woodrow said.
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UA Chi Alpha members are working with chapters in Bentonville and Northwest Arkansas Community College to sponsor a Biggest Loser competition, officials said. The winner, who is judged by the percentage of weight lost rather than pounds, will receive $500. Gift baskets assembled by Chi Alpha members will be given to anyone who achieves 10 percent weight loss. Since there will be no weigh-ins between the beginning and end of the competition, optional groups are in place for participants that would like accountability. “One group is for guys. They play basketball together on Thursday nights, and it helps keep each other accountable,” said Courtney Hoover, Chi Alpha staff member. These student-led groups offer a range of activities. Group membership is optional, but recommended for those who hope to stay on track. “All of the major weight loss programs say that you need a weekly support system. You can’t just let yourself go and then try and do it all at the end. It’s really unhealthy,” Hoover said. Competition officials will provide nutritional guides to participants at the weigh-in to underscore the importance of healthy living over weight loss. “We also have the option to meet with a nutritionist at any time that they would want to schedule it,” Hoover said.
The main mission is to contribute to the campus. However, all money collected through the competition goes to ministries that Chi Alpha supports. “It’s a giving back to the campus, because we’re promoting healthy living,” Hoover said. “We are raising money for the mission projects that we’re doing,” Hoover said. “We work with an orphanage overseas. Also for local nonprofit organizational support, for campus outreach, student development, and international student connections such as Free Food Friday.” Free Food Friday is a weekly event at 6 p.m. in the Chi Alpha house on Leverett Avenue. “Area churches cook all of this food and we offer the food for free to any student on campus to come and have a home-cooked meal on Friday nights,” Hoover said. Registration begins Jan. 17 in the Arkansas Union. Those interested may register for $20. A booth will be set up during weekdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the Connections Lounge, said Mack Clements, graduate student and member of Chi Alpha. Students and professors are welcome to participate and compete against students who register with the Bentonville and NWACC chapters, said Courtney Hoover. The competition will span six weeks and consist of two meetings – a weigh-in on Feb. 1, and a weigh-out on March 14.
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2012 to br ing B ox - O f f i c e H i t s by NICK BROTHERS Staff Writer
When it comes to major movie titles coming out in 2012, this year looks to be nothing short of spectacular. With such movies as the Batman trilogy finale Dark Knight Rises, the star-studded Avengers, a new James Bond film and J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit coming out, it should be a great year.
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With success already established with a bestselling book series, The Hunger Games will make its film debut this March, with predictions already calling for blockbuster sales. Set in a dystopian future in the once-was North America, there are 13 “districts” instead of our 50 states, and as punishment for a previous rebellion against the wealthy Capitol, the other 12 districts are forced to provide a teenage boy and girl to compete in a televised survival game known as the Hunger Games. The story follows 16-yearold hunter Katniss Everdeen as she volunteers herself to go in her younger sister’s stead to represent her district. With its compelling plot, and its relatively young and upcoming actors, The Hunger Games just might have what it takes to be the next successful book-to-movie franchise.
After several major Marvel superhero series and many contextual hints of a future collaborative project, The Avengers will finally hit theaters May 4. Combing the forces and story lines of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Hawkeye and Black Widow (and the Hollywood philosophy “the more, the better”), the group forms up as the Avengers. If done right, this should be a superhero film for the ages. With the star-studded cast, the inherited success from the combined Marvel franchises, and the consensus of anticipation to be a spectacular action movie, this will be one hell of a ride that will kick off a terrific summer of movies.
From the mind of Sacha Baron Cohen — the man who brought the world the likes of Borat, Ali G and Bruno— comes the newest character, General Aladeen, the star of The Dictator. Hopefully he hasn’t gotten to be too formulaic, although it seems like this film will feature the usual culturally-offensive humor we’ve grown to expect from him. In reality, it will probably be a near-hilarious movie that will be quoted throughout the next summer.
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Oh man. If this isn’t going to be the biggest or even best movie of 2012, then 2012 will be a year of more than one fantastic movie. The last of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, which have been some of the best Batman or superhero movies to date, will be a surefire summer blockbuster. Super villain Bane will take the helm as Gotham’s menace, and even the morally ambiguous Catwoman will be added into the story. It’s perfectly acceptable to be excited like a little kid for this one.
You read that right. November heralds the arrival of the next James Bond in the Daniel Craig series. This is the 23rd Bond film, but there’s just something awesome about the level of swagger the Bond character has, along with the heart pounding action that keeps the film series going. There hasn’t been much information released about the movie yet, but if Skyfall is anything at all like its predecessors Casino Royale or Quantum of Solace, there is definitely much to look forward to in this next installment.
Before the trials the Fellowship of the Ring faced in the Lord of the Rings series, Gandalf the Gray, Bilbo Baggins and their adventuring party traversed the fantasy lands of Middle Earth. Based on the first of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epics works, Peter Jackson, who helped bring to life the thrilling Lord of the Rings movies, is back in the director chair to bring a prequel to the super successful trilogy. Yes, December 14 is a very long time from now, but keep this on the back burners
True, Spiderman 3 was released just five years ago in 2007, but it seems it’s high time for a refresher on the series. Following much more closely to the comics than the previous series did and with a whole new cast and director, The Amazing Spiderman will be yet another worthy summer superhero movie. As its tagline suggests, this will be “the untold story” of Peter Parker and his family. It won’t have the same glamour as the 2002 hit Spiderman, but it will remain true to the Spiderman mythology. The first-person shots in the film trailer were seriously cool, so if there’s more where that came from, this should be an awesome summer flick.
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Snow White and the Huntsman June 1 One of the more unexpectedly cool-looking movies of 2012 is Snow White and the Huntsman. In keeping with the traditional fairy tale, the story follows Snow White as the Evil Queen seeks to keep her beauty and youth by taking it from the maidens of the world. However, this story seems to be far from the Disney adaptation of the Brothers Grimm story. In this epic remake — without the seven dwarves, it seems— Snow White is a warrior, and the Huntsman is sent after her by order of the Queen to capture the “fairest of them all.” The gritty reboot of this series is welcome and is something to keep an eye on this year.
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Keeping New Year’s Resolutions into the School Year by EMILY RHODES
Local Music Lovers Call for DIY Venue Revival by YANI KO
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It’s 2012, which means students face a new semester and a long list of resolutions to accomplish in the realm of academia. While many of us vow to study at least six hours a day, making a few smaller changes can erase the fear of pulling up your early progress report. Here are just a few new year’s academic resolutions that don’t take much work but can significantly help in the long run.
He peered through a narrowly cracked door, BB gun in hand. A soiled Persian rug lay folded just so in the threshold, a MacGyvered attempt to prevent the door from being opened any further. The busted carcass of a futon and sunken-in love seat sat mildewing on his front porch, sad oases in a landfill of beer bottle caps, fast food wrappers and cigarette butts. “Oh, sorry! I couldn’t hear you knocking,” said Nick Shoulders, who had been shooting at leftover beer cans inside of his home. “I’m pretty deaf and last night didn’t help.” In fact, the previous night’s alcohol-fueled, rage-inducing, rock ‘n’ roll house-show held at Shoulders’ home had left several of the nearly 150 attendees with temporary hearing problems, chipped teeth, and gnarly bruises. Beyond the doorway and in what no longer could be referred to as a “living” room, broken glass covered the intensely worn hardwood floors. A life-size cardboard cut-out of John F. Kennedy was folded in half and discarded among electrical cords, couch cushions and bloodied clothing. The carnage, emphatically embraced by Shoulders, was an expected result of that event in late September — an evening showcase of five local bands with sounds ranging from surfrock to thrash metal. It was the last house-show to be put on in the do-it-yourself (DIY) venue on Rollston Street, endearingly referred to by its occupants and show-goers as “Trashcanistan.” It lasted into the early morning hours, before being shut down by the police – something Shoulders had anticipated. In his mind, his bags had already been packed. A DIY venue can be any structure, be it somebody’s house to a warehouse or studio, where music and art events are held, according to attendees and DIY venue owners. These shows are generally put on without the intention of making a profit and they exist to house more experimental exhibitions, not usually welcomed by bars, theaters, or for-profit venues. Fayetteville was once teeming with these types of unofficial sites, accommodating roughand-tumble performances from artists who can be “challenging, disturbing, or even kind of dangerous,” as described by Stuart Feild, former local DIY venue owner who moved from Fayetteville to Texas this year. “Fayetteville has had a lot of trouble supporting venues that are willing to take risks,” Feild said. “I think it was a very organic response to the lack of good places to see good, or at least different, music.” The fact that house venues host a wide variety of music had
Change your study area - Though hitting the books in 1. your dorm room might seem like the comfortable, easy option, skimming over your study guide while laying in bed
and watching the latest television drama isn’t the best way to go. While you’re trying to cram information for those midsemester tests, your brain is only retaining a fraction of the information while being distracted by your roommate, entertainment or simply the prospect of doing anything but study. Find an area that you can do nothing but study in, whether it’s the library, a quiet coffee shop or other area on campus. If you’ve gotten used to people-watching in the same spot of the library each night, switch it up by visiting a different part of the building like the reading room, archive room or one of the rented study rooms. By leaving your comfort zone, you can focus solely on the academic task at hand instead of counting down the minutes until it’s all over.
Organize your school supplies – Carrying a different 2. notebook to each class may seem like just another item to fit in your backpack, but stuffing homework assignments and syllabi into your bag is a recipe for disaster. By getting organized before the rough part of the semester develops, the tests, assignments and work will seem ten times easier. Make it a point to carry at least a multiple subject notebook to keep your classwork separate, along with adequate writing and study supplies. Keeping your class materials structured makes studying, class time and stress levels an ease rather than a hassel.
Hit the hay – The National Sleep Foundation recom3. mends that adults require seven to nine hours of sleep each night. While going out on a 2 a.m. Taco Bell run or cutting relaxation time short to party on a Thursday night might seem like fun, it can greatly affect your academic life. According to the NSF, making a nightly routine, creating a regular bedtime and avoiding caffeine or food for several hours before catching some shuteye means more memory capability and better productivity during the day. Next time your roommate complains about having the late night munchies, excuse yourself from the drive and catch an early night.
your snacking habits – Everybody makes the 4. Change same ‘eat healthier’ resolution each year, but changing
the snacks you crave during a long study session can help your productivity as well as your pant size. Instead of grabbing a bag of fast food before heading to the library, try packing some healthy snacks to fuel your cranium. According to a study by Purdue University, healthy brain foods that are perfect for taking to a study group include nuts, high fiber granola bars, low fat cheese and, of course, fruits and vegetables. Why not try a bag of baby carrots with ranch dip, or granola and milk? As well as packing the right foods, make sure not to continuously snack, but rather take a break every hour to walk around, drink some water and eat. While returning to school for the spring semester might make changes like these seem unecessary, taking the time to get organized, grab some healthy choices at the store and get an extra hour of sleep each night can greatly help with academic performance and ensuring a successful semester.
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A UA student puts out a cigarette on a sidewalk. Giving up smoking is a New Year’s resolution to many, but is difficult for students who try it.
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always been a major factor in attracting an audience. Fayetteville’s DIY venues have seen everything from punk to hip-hop to experimental acts like Satan’s God, a “doom bassist” who Feild said laid on the floor and invited guests to step on him as they left the show at his housevenue “The Groj.” But recently, the local DIY music scene has quieted down. With many venue owners moving away, going on a hiatus from the mayhem, or just completely shutting down because of noise complaints and damages to their homes, house-shows have largely died out. Wanbli Gamache, a cultural anthropology major who graduated in December, noticed the absence of the DIY ethos in the local music scene. “Me and [my roommate] Willie were really reminiscing on all of the old places – The
Ameroplace, The New Deli, The Blue House, and the Sang House,” Gamache said, referring to out-of-commission DIY venues that once existed in Fayetteville, “but we realized they are just not around, so we said ‘Why don’t we just do it ourselves?’” And so they did and continue to do. Gamache and his two roommates, Willie Benson and Zane Placke, began hosting local musical acts about a year ago in their house on Virginia Street, which has been dubbed “The Virginia Music Hall” or “The Manor.” The shows have brought in anywhere from 70 to 150 guests, shuffling in and out of the house throughout one night. “At our house, everyone is wild about it,” Gamache said. “They like to dance and everyone feels open enough to have as much fun as they want. That’s
something we’ve really tried to make sure of.” Gamache also wanted to establish his home as an all-ages venue, a popular principle in the DIY scene. “When I was going to the New Deli, I was still underage and that was the only place I got to see good music,” Gamache said. “If you’re 20 years old and you can’t get into a bar … and you spend your entire life thinking about music and you can’t see a show, then what’s left for you?” said Shoulders, who also maintained an all-ages venue. “You’re gonna either find an outlet like a house-show or just go crazy, honestly.”
Gamache and his two roommates relied on their already established connections
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A UA Tradition: The Spring Semester Ice Storm by CAITLYN SWAIN Staff Writer
With the holiday season under their belts, UA students patiently anticipate the next incentive for celebration, procrastination and excessive Facebook status updates: the first ice storm of the year. In the past three years, students have reveled in the ice, snow and most importantly, the possibility of class cancellation. It’s no secret that we’ve experienced a mild winter thus far, but history serves that Jack Frost won’t let us down in 2012. All hooplah aside, the inclement weather has done some serious damage to the city in the past. In January 2009, an unprecedented ice storm hit Fayetteville, leaving many homes and businesses severely damaged. Tree branches covered the streets, and schools were forced to close for days at a time. During that year’s horrendous storm, Arkansas was even declared a federal natural disaster area by President Obama. With the help of some power generators and a good mug of cocoa, UA students braved the biting cold and made the best of a frightening situation. Ty Murdoch, a UA senior majoring in biology, remembers the 2009 ice storm with a sense of awe. “I remember standing on my porch and watching transformers explode,” Murdoch said. Though that picture may suggest a grandiose scene from a Michael Bay film, the ice storm aftermath certainly lacked the thrill of technology. “We didn’t have power for a week, and practically lived off the gas fireplace in our house.” Mike Killingsworth, a senior majoring in anthropology, recalls a similar experience. When the power went out, he too was alarmed by the electric cataclysm. “It sounded like gunshots going off. We heard limbs falling all around us, got scared, and ran to a friend’s house,” Killingsworth said. “We also came across a woman whose house was wrecked by a tree branch, so we stopped to help her.” Many citizens of Northwest Arkansas had to rely on the kindness of strangers during the storm. An unexpected glacial deluge isn’t enough to
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keep Fayettevillians from having fun, however. Most students cherish their memories of playing in the snow. Throughout the past few winters, students passed the time with sledding, snowball fights and quality time with friends. Killingsworth shared his favorite spot for icy merrymaking. “On campus, the best place for sledding is the hill on J.B. Hunt,” Killingsworth explained. “We even hiked to Chik-fil-A from Mission Boulevard once. It was insane.”
of it,” Gamache said. “[Willie] knows a lot of people, he talks to a lot of different bands and, usually, he’s the one that handles getting most of them,” he said.
Most of the shows have been played by local musicians, but Gamache said he wants to start booking traveling acts. “We are actually trying to
The devastating effects of past ice storms have undoubtedly brought citizens together. Mayor Lioneld Jordan expressed pride for the people of Fayetteville in their efforts to relieve those affected. “The compassion and generosity of the people in our community is never more evident than when facing our collective difficulties,” Jordan said. With the harshest winter months ahead of us, the possibility of yet another ice storm re-
start doing a donation system,” Gamache said. A donation system or cover charge is common practice in the DIY scene when hosting traveling bands. Contributions help cover their gas costs or are offered simply as an act of hospitality. “We want to get some money for the bands. We have no interest in keeping the money for ourselves,” Gamache said. Neil Lord, a veteran Fayetteville DIY venue owner and show-attendee found a welcoming community of do-it-yourselfers in Austin, Texas while on tour with his own musical groups. Along with several other purveyors of house-shows, in search of a launching pad for his musical career, Lord decided to make Austin his home in August of this year. Shoulders referred to this flight of musicians from Fayetteville to Austin as “the Texodus” and said it lent itself to the dying-out of DIY venues in Fayetteville. But Lord’s experiences as a traveling musician showed him how easy it was to nab touring acts for shows in his now non-functioning housevenue in Fayetteville, “The Ameroplace.” “Really, I never had to go too far out of my way,” Lord said, “Word-of-mouth spreads quickly within the DIY venue scene, and after a few successful shows, bands were contacting me to play The Ameroplace.” “One band would give another band my phone number or e-mail and pretty soon, I would have a month’s worth of shows booked two months in advance,” Lord said. The Internet also plays an integral role in the booking of house-shows and the guarantee of attendance. DoDIY.org is a website that went up in 2007 and was founded by Neil Campau. It lists the contact information for DIY venues around the country (organized by state), and even internationally. “Since 2007, this site has operated as a resource for musicians, performers, speakers, artists, and activists who would like to organize events and/or travel around the world,” the website claims. It has seven venues listed
mains. If past years are any indicator of the season to come, the UA can expect lots of precipitation. When asked if he hoped for another snowfall this year, Murdoch replied with a smirk. “I absolutely hope so,” he said. “No matter what hardships the storms bring, the snow unites us all.” So, Hogsicles, let us sally forth into the winter and see what Arkansas has in store.
in Arkansas. Feild, who also moved to Texas from Fayetteville this year, said he made his own website to advertise his also out-of-commission venue, The Groj, to traveling bands. “Basically I just put up a website and an e-mail, and that was all it took,” Feild said. “I was getting around ten email requests a day for bands wanting to book at the height of it. Bands actually prefer house-shows most of the time,” he said. The notion that bands prefer house-shows seemed to be supported by venue owners and bands alike, with the two groups overlapping in many cases. “In a bar, there is a definite separation between audience and performer. During a house-show, you’re sharing the same bottle of whiskey. You’re cooking with each other before or after the show. You’re letting the band sleep in your bed while you take the couch,” said Lord, who is a musician himself. Shoulders, also a performer, said he enjoys the allowance of “rowdiness” at a house-show that would not be welcomed in any other arena. “There is no greater joy in the world than playing a house-show,” Shoulders said, “Everyone in that room is your best friend and it’s just the greatest experience in the world.” Shoulders quickly stripped the softness of this sentiment. “Especially if it’s heavier music, because when you get enough drunks in one room that are that pumped up – it’s just madness,” he said. “It’s basically like you’re in a fight with 40 people, but it’s a very good fight.” The kind of disorderly behavior welcomed by Shoulders can be daunting for others considering hosting a show in their home or studio, and it has been cause for several venues to close their doors to the public. While giving access to his home to hundreds of people was fulfilling for Feild, he said there were some negative facets to the scene as the venue’s owner. “The cons [to owning a house venue] are having to be constantly vigilant that people aren’t [messing] stuff up
or doing something stupid and watching out for the police, although they only came twice,” Feild said. “I never got a ticket, but I did find out that it’s illegal to pee in your own backyard.” Shoulders had not been so lucky with law enforcement. “It’s hard to run a house venue, both from a fiscal and logistical point as well as from the law,” Shoulders said. “Fayetteville, as far as I can tell, and have experienced, is really, really anti-rowdy unless it’s within a confined, understood sort of context like a frat house or a sorority,” he said. And this attitude is exactly what he expressed to the cops, that fateful evening, at Trashcanistan’s riotous farewell event. Shoulders stumbled through the junk yard of his lawn as drunken show-goers rushed around to the back of the house venue – an area where the toilet had been flushing into the yard. The sewage back-up was one of many complaints Shoulders had about his home. It was one of many complaints which he had shared with management. It was one of many complaints that had gone unanswered by what he referred to as his “slumlord.” Fed up, Shoulders had already decided to move out a few weeks prior. This houseshow was his last hoorah. “We wanted to have one last night to really [mess] the place up,” he said. A police officer shined a flash light into Shoulders’ bleary eyes. The cops were familiar with the location, an eyesore in an otherwise quaint neighborhood in the downtown area. It was the final noise complaint call these officers would answer to at the dilapidated, tumbledown venue of Trashcanistan. “If I was in a frat would I be getting this ticket?” Shoulders said in an act of noncompliance. His wily friends watched and cheered him on. The last unruly band had already played, the house lay in ruin, and Shoulders, faced with a $90 ticket (which he still has not paid), moved out of the venue one week later.
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MVPs Offensive MVP: QB Tyler Wilson The junior two-year backup to record-breaking Ryan Mallett finished with similar, in some cases better, numbers than Mallett had in his first year as a starter. Defensive MVP: MLB Jerry Franklin The senior made a career-high 101 tackles and ended his career with 382, second in school history. Franklin was steady, leading the team in tackles for the fourth consecutive year. Special teams MVP: PR Joe Adams The senior returned an SEC-record four punts for touchdowns and his 16.9 yards per return ranked No. 2 in the nation.
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Worst Moments of 2011: No. 1 — Uekman’s death
Arkansas was on the ropes and its season was on the verge of falling apart, down 35-17 at halftime to No. 14 Texas A&M a week after getting blown out at Alabama.
The regular-season finale at No. 1 LSU, a game with national title implications, was overshadowed by the death of redshirt freshman Tight End Garrett Uekman of an undiagnosed enlarged heart five days prior. Worst Moments of 2011: No. 2 — Big-game struggles
Joe Adams’ 61-yard touchArkansas won 11 games for down return came in a 49-7 the first time since 1977, but blowout win, but was the most finished third in the SEC West impressive of his SEC-record after struggling in 24-point four TD returns this season losses at Alabama and LSU and was ranked the No. 5 play of 2011 by ESPN. Worst Moments of 2011: No. 3 — Davis’ injury Top Moments of 2011: No. 3 — Cotton Bowl win Junior running back Knile Davis was a preseason AllThe 29-16 win against No. American pick by multiple pub8 Kansas State was Arkansas’ lications, but missed the season second win against a top-10 after breaking his ankle in Auopponent this season and gave gust. the Razorbacks 11 wins for just the third time in school history and first since 1977.
3 -- Arkansas’ ranking in the Nov. 20 poll, its highest ranking since October 1978. 4 -- wins against top-25 opponents. 5 -- Arkansas’ final ranking, its best since 1977. 11 -- wins for just the third time in school history. 12 -- Jarius Wright receiving touchdowns, a school record 21 -- wins the last two seasons, Arkansas’ winningest twoyear stretch since 1964-65. Garret Uekman--File Photo
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Top Moments of 2011: No. 1 — Comeback in Texas
Top Moments of 2011: No. 2 — Adams against Tennessee
Hogs Have Bright Future
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jicarter@uark.edu Arkansas’ No. 5 finish was its best since 1977, when the Razorbacks finished No. 3 following an Orange Bowl win against Oklahoma. Back then, Jimmy Carter - ha was president, while Stevie Wonder, the Eagles and Fleetwood Mac were among the most popular in music. Barack might not still be picking his bracket on ESPN as P.O.T.U.S. and hopefully a cure will have been found for Bieber Fever, but I doubt it will take the Razorbacks three more decades to finish in the top-five again. In fact, I’d put money on it being much sooner if I were a betting man. Bobby Petrino has put the Razorbacks on the map. The Hogs recorded just their third 11-win season this year. Don’t expect a falloff soon. Look at the popular early top 25 rankings for next season that are floating around from big-name analysts. Arkansas is a consensus top six or seven team and I’ve seen the Razorbacks ranked as high as No. 4 by Sports Illustrated columnist Andy Staples. That’s not shocking, either. People around the nation are noticing the program Petrino has built in just four seasons. His final three Louisville teams combined to go 32-5 and finish ranked No. 7 or higher twice. The Hogs are 21-5 the last two seasons. In the SEC West. Now the fan base is talking about getting over the hump for an SEC or national championship, expecting that level of team each season. It wasn’t long ago that a bowl
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Arkansas Faces Daunting Test in Rupp Hogs try to snap eight-game Lexington losing streak
by ZACH TURNER
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Arkansas heads to Lexington, Ky., today to try and accomplishment something the program hasn’t done since 1994 — taking down Kentucky at Rupp Arena. First-year Razorbacks coach Mike Anderson was on the bench the last time the program beat the Wildcats in Kentucky as an assistant under Nolan Richardson. The Hogs have lost eight consecutive games at Rupp since beating No. 4 Kentucky 90-82 in their national championship season. Arkansas (13-4, 2-1 Southeastern Conference) will face its third ranked team of the season in No. 2 Kentucky, a team that leads the nation in blocked shots with 9.1 blocks a game. “We have to turn the game into a track meet,” Anderson said. “We have to make those guys get up and down the floor. We have to get them on the move and be in attack.” The Wildcats rank second in the SEC in scoring, averaging 79.3 points, while Arkansas’ 76.9 points per game is third. Kentucky coach John Calipari expects a “hectic, frenetic” style, he said. “Their style of play unleashes guys,” Calipari said. “They
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put it on the floor. If you can’t stay in front of them, they’re getting to the rim.” Arkansas guard BJ Young is one of eight freshmen expected to play major minutes Tuesday night. The game features seven of ESPN’s top 55 players from the 2011 recruiting class, with freshmen leading both teams in scoring and rebounding. “This game is something I have been looking forward to for a while,” Young said. “I think my teammates have to as well and we are ready to go get this.” Kentucky is undefeated at home since Calipari took over following the 2008-2009 season. The Wildcats are 45-0 during that span. “This is a big game because they have never lost at Rupp (under Calipari),” Young said. “We plan on going in there and getting one, bringing everything we got, and we are going to be ready for the game.” Arkansas will be at a disadvantage in size and rebounding
against the much bigger Wildcat lineup. The freshman-heavy lineup for Kentucky boasts four starters 6-foot-7 or taller, while the Hogs start a lineup with just two players taller than 6-foot-7. Kentucky (17-1, 3-0 SEC) leads the conference with a plus-7.7 rebounding margin and has five players who average double figures in scoring, led by sophomore guard Doron Lamb’s 14 points per game. “They’ve got five guys in double figures and probably three of the leading rebounders in the SEC,” Anderson said. Wildcats freshman guard Michael Kidd-Gilchrist averages 13.4 points and has followed in the footsteps of Derek Rose, Tyreke Evans, John Wall and Brandon Knight as freshmen that have excelled under Kentucky coach John Calipari. “Gilchrist, I think he’s a bigtime player for them,” Anderson said. “He is playing real well as a freshman.” Arkansas freshman Devonta Abron leads the Razorbacks in rebounding and grabbed 13 of the Hogs’ 38 rebounds in their 69-60 win Saturday against LSU. He grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds when Arkansas outrebounded Connecticut, the biggest team it has faced enter-
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Arkansas freshman guard BJ Young will be one of seven players playing in the Arkansas-Kentucky game that was ranked in the top 55 players in the 2011 recruiting class by ESPN.
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from EXTRA POINTS on page 10 game and nine wins was a standout year. Arkansas gets Alabama and LSU at home next season. Beat the Crimson Tide on Sept. 15 and the national title talk will be inescapable. While Alabama and LSU were being hit with defections to the NFL last week, Razorbacks quarterback Tyler Wilson and running back Knile Davis’ decisions to return to school turned heads nationally and put the rest of the country on notice that the No. 5 team in 2011 has the potential to finish higher in 2012. Wilson figures to be even better with a year of experience after impressing in his first season as a starter. He posted slightly better numbers than predecessor Ryan Mallett and could have been a first-or second-round selection if he’d chosen to enter the draft. He cited returning “to compete for championships� as his reason to stay for his senior year. It’s a possibility. Davis can give Wilson and the Hogs’ offense the dependable running game it lacked against the Crimson Tide and Tigers. He’s already proven he can be an All-SEC back after breaking an ankle, so, if fully recovered, he can make the offense more potent than this season -- even without the trio of graduating receivers. Arkansas will miss Jarius Wright, Joe Adams and Greg Childs. It’s highly unlikely anyone will replace what Adams brought to special teams, but offensively the Razorbacks are stocked at receiver and could even become scary good by early February. Cobi Hamilton should have a huge season and young receivers Marquel Wade, Julian Horton and Javontee Herndon showed potential this season. Chris Gragg could be one of the best tight ends in the nation. The Hogs have three four-star receivers committed, according to Scout.com. If you haven’t seen film of California JUCO receiver
Courtney Gardner, do yourself a favor and check it out. What could make the offense scary good is if Arkansas lands Springfield, Mo., receiver Dorial Green-Beckham, the consensus No. 1 player in the 2012 class. Green-Beckham is 6-foot-6, was the Missouri state 100-meter champion as a sophomore and is in the mold of Calvin Johnson or AJ Green. The Razorbacks are one of five finalists, the only school he’s slated to visit before the Feb. 4 signing date and have been tabbed as the possible favorite by multiple national recruiting gurus. With a more experienced offensive line, the Hogs could have the most potent offense in Petrino’s tenure. On the other side of the ball, new defensive coordinator Paul Haynes will get an opportunity to install his scheme and do what predecessor Willy Robinson couldn’t -- field a defense that can sufficiently compliment the offense. Haynes will have to find replacements for defensive end Jake Bequette, middle linebacker Jerry Franklin, jack linebacker Jerico Nelson and safety Tramain Thomas. Arkansas has stockpiled youth at end and Ross Rasner played as much as Nelson down the stretch of this season. Identifying a new middle linebacker and safety could be the key to competing for a championship. There’s no guarantee the Razorbacks will be in the title hunt in late November again in 2012. Petrino’s past, Arkansas’ present and the bright future predicted by many of college football’s high-profile analysts suggests that the Hogs aren’t going anywhere soon unless the Mayans got it right. If that happens, I’m pretty sure Nick Saban has a predetermined No. 1-for-eternity deal with the BCS. Jimmy Carter is the sports editor of The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter @jicartersports.
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Senior has big meet against rival Longhorns by ZACH LIGI Staff Writer
from KENTUCKY GAME on page 10 ing the game today, 47-35 in early December. “We are just going to buckle down and take care of business,� Abron said. Kentucky center Anthony Davis, the consensus top-rated recruit in the 2011 recruiting class, leads the nation with 74 blocked shots and anchors a Wildcat defense that ranks second in the SEC in scoring defense, allowing just 58.9 points
per game. “We can’t just let him sit there and protect the paint because that is an advantage to them,� Anderson said. Arkansas is 0-4 away from Bud Walton Arena this season, including three road losses. “I think we have to play good basketball for 40 minutes,� Anderson said. “It can’t be for 20 or 25 minutes. We have to rebound the basketball because that is one of their strengths. They can throw it up there and go get it.�
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RYAN MILLER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas freshman forward Devonta Abron and the Razorbacks’ post players will face a Kentucky team with a plus-7.7 rebounding margin.
Lane Boyer kicked off his senior season in a big way. The distance runner ran to a first-place finish and five important points in the 3,000-meter run, helping key No. 2 Arkansas’ 89-81 season-opening win against No. 10 Texas. Though it’s early in the year, Boyer’s 8:15 time is the best mark in the nation this season and gave the Razorbacks a lift late in the meet. “It’s a big step for me,� Boyer said. “It’s nice to have a national leading time. Nothing really matters until later in the season, but its good and it’s a good start.� Arkansas senior Michael Chinchar actually took the lead in the run, setting the pace for Boyer and keeping a lead for the Razorbacks throughout most of the run. Boyer took over with a few laps left, passing Chinchar and taking the lead, leaving everyone behind him. Chinchar finished five seconds behind Boyer and Texas’ top runner, freshman Will Nation, didn’t finish until 8:21, six seconds behind Boyer and his record-setting time. “It’s big for me and my teammate Michael Chinchar,� Boyer said. “He really helped me out there, setting the pace for the first whole 2K. It’s a good start
and we’re in a really good spot, this was a good meet to set things off.� Boyer was a 10-time state champion in high school, has earned numerous academic all-region and AllAmerican honors at Arkansas and has experience in three indoor SEC Championships, but has high expectations for himself and his team in his final collegiate season. The Razorbacks’ No. 2 ranking is their highest to open a season since being No. 1 in 2009. The Hogs finished second at the SEC Championships, eighth at the NCAA Championships. Arkansas has the potential to have a better season this year, Boyer said. “We can win the national championship,� Boyer said. “We’re a really good team, we could be the national champions and that’s our goal.� Individually, Boyer expects a lot from himself, too. Despite his impressive early-season victory, his time was well short of his career-best 8:00.25, a mark he wants to improve on as he tries to ready himself to compete for a spot to represent his country. “I’m looking on down the road to this June, to the Olympic trials in Oregon for the U.S. national team,� Boyer said. “That’s the whole goal for outdoors is to run
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Kentucky guard Michael Kidd-Gilchrist averages 13.7 points and 7.7 rebounds and is arguably the Wildcat’s best perimeter defender.
Arkansas-Kentucky: Quick Hitters by JIMMY CARTER Sports Editor
Struggles against Kentucky
Arkansas beat No. 22 Kentucky 77-76 in overtime last season at Bud Walton Arena, but that is its only win against the Wildcats in the last decade. The Razorbacks have lost eight consecutive games at Rupp Arena and haven’t won in Lexington, Ky., since a 90-82 win against the No. 4 Wildcats in 1993-94, the Hogs’ national championship season. Arkansas has won just four of its last 22 games against Kentucky and is just 8-20 since joining the SEC in 1992. The Razorbacks are 3-7 when the Wildcats are ranked in the top five, including six consecutive losses.
Impact freshmen aplenty
Arkansas freshman guard BJ Young’s 15 points per game ranks No. 5 in the SEC and leads conference freshman. Kentucky boasts two of the freshmen, guard Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and forward Anthony Davis. Sophomore guard Doron Lamb’s 14 points per game leads the Wildcats, but Kidd-Gilchrist and Davis average 13.4 and 13.1, respectively. The teams combined for five of the top 19 players in the 2011 recruiting class and seven of the top 55, according to ESPN. For Arkansas, Young was ranked the No. 16 player in the nation, guard Ky Madden was No. 36 and forward Hunter Mickelson was No. 55. For Kentucky, Davis was No. 1, Kidd-Gilchrist was No. 4, guard Marquis Teague was No. 8 and forward Kyle Wiltjer was No. 19. The Wildcats’ class was ranked No. 1 in the nation, while the Razorbacks were No. 9. Block Party Arkansas freshman forward Hunter Mickelson ranks third in the Southeastern Conference and No. 19 nationally with 2.8 blocks per game. Kentucky freshman Anthony Davis leads the league with 4.6 blocks per game His 6.67 blocks per 40 minutes played leads the nation, besting Davis’ 6.12. Mickelson is on pace to shatter the UA freshman blocks record, set when Oliver Miller recorded 60 in 1989.
Super Tuesday
The Wildcats lead the SEC with 9.1 blocks per game, while the Razorbacks’ 6.1 swats is second. The game marks the first of Arkansas’ two games featured on ESPN Super Tuesday. The Razorbacks host Vanderbilt on Tuesday, Jan. 31 and also host Ole Miss on Tuesday, Feb. 28 in a game televised on ESPNU. It is the Hogs’ first Super Tuesday game since March 4, 2008 at Ole Miss. The game is the first of four Kentucky Super Tuesday games.
LOGAN WILSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior Lane Boyer recorded the best time in the nation this season while winning the 3,000-meter race in a dual meet against Texas. under the Olympic qualifying time and make the team.� Boyer’s plans are to pursue the Olympics, but he still plans on focusing on this year, his final year in track, with a national championship the goal.
Arkansas is off to a 2-0 start, also winning its other meet, the Arkansas Invitational, the week before its dual meet against Texas. The Razorbacks’ next meet is the Razorback Invitational on Jan. 27.
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