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Women’s Appreciation Banquet Connor Malone Staff Writer

Student Study Spots: The Best Places to Buckle Down for Finals Mullins Library will always be there for students’ studying needs, but there are plenty of other good options across campus and Fayetteville for study spots.

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The Turf Club on campus focuses on networking horticultural students with industry professionals for landscaping golf courses and growing turf grass.

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The UA chapter of the Society of Women Engineers organized a Women’s Appreciation Banquet on Thursday, April 25. The banquet was funded by the Associated Student Government and was held at the Inn at Carnall Hall.

SWE is a national organization that aims to “stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity,” according to their website.

“SWE is a good way to meet other women in this male-heavy field,” said Calley Martin, sophomore SWE member, “and this banquet is a nice way to see everyone before we all leave for summer.”

While the event was held

by SWE, the focus of the evening was not solely on women in engineering.

“It was titled ‘Women’s Appreciation’ Banquet to represent empowering women not only for the members in the Society of Women Engineers, but to any women aspiring towards careers that are traditionally male-dominated,” said Amy Powless, SWE president.

Those who attended the banquet were treated to dinner and presented with

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Hogs Sweep Rain-Shortened Series

The Hogs won two games in Athens, Ga. this weekend.

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Student’s Close Call in Boston STUDENT HAS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING

KXUA to Contest Away Passes Staff Report The student-run campus radio station, KXUA, is partnering with the Wakarusa for The Road to Wakarusa to have trivia contest where students could win Wakarusa merchandise, according to a news release.

Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Christopher Moutos stretches on the Frisco Trail in Fayetteville, Sunday, April 28. Moutos participated in the Boston Marathon in April 2013 and completed the marathon an hour before the bombing attack.

Alex Golden Staff Writer A UA student completed the Boston Marathon April 15, unaware that a little over an hour later, the scene that represented a runner’s triumph would be the site of a national tragedy.

S enior manhunt, For another story on the Christoa lockpher Mou- bombing in Boston, see page 3 down of tos had the city already left and the the downtown area by the time capture of suspected bomber the bombs exploded and was Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April unharmed, but he remained 19. in Boston during the chaos Tired from running the that followed — a shootout race, Moutos went to where he between police and suspects, see BOSTON page 2 the death of a police officer, a

Starting Monday, April 29, until Friday, May 3, DJs will be asking trivia questions on the air, 88.3 FM. Students that know the answer email kxua.uark. edu. Students with the correct answer will have their names put into a drawing.

Prizes include 2 Wakarusa event passes, one camping pass and a swag bag containing four Wakarusa items. There will also be two daily winners who will receive Wakarusa merchandise.

Students should follow KXUA’s Twitter feed and Facebook page for information about when the questions will be asked.

Wakarusa will be May 30 to June 2 at Mulberry Mountain in the Ozarks and will feature more than 100 acts.

Fraternity has Party More Names to Be Added as Part of Tradition to Senior Walk This Summer Connor Malone Staff Writer The brothers of Beta Upsilon Chi had their annual Island Party April 28 for their fellow students at the UA. The event started at 6 p.m. and was relocated from the Chi Omega Greek Theater to University Baptist Church. Students in attendance were able to eat, enjoy live music and hang around with friends.

tradition. Dating back to the group’s founding in 1985, the founding chapter at the University of Texas held the first Island Party to announce the founding of their fraternity.

Today, chapters nationwide hold the party annually.

Here at the UA, members of BYX use the Island Party as an outlet to serve the community.

“Our purpose for Island Party is to show God’s love to those who may not have ever experienced it and to create relationships with

Staff Report The names of 4,533 UA graduates from the class of 2012 will be added to Senior Walk this summer, according to a news release.

Engraving of these names was started earlier this year,

but was stopped because there was an error in the list that left out students’ names.

Engraving will begin shortly and is expected to be finished

by August, said Dave Dawson, the university’s registrar of students.

This error will add $75,000 to the original cost of about $350,000-375,000.

The class of 2012 is comprised of 4,631 students, and 98 students opted out of having their names engraved.

Normally, university officials wait several months after students actually walk across the stage to engrave names to make sure that all students

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“Our purpose for Island party is to show God’s love to those who may not have ever experienced it.”

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BYX is the largest Christian social fraternity in the country, offering its members “a lifelong brotherhood of committed Christian men seeking the bonds of brotherhood and unity in Christ through the avenue of a social fraternity on the Arkansas campus,” according to their website.

BYX has the party annually at the UA, but the Island Party is not specific to this campus; it is a national BYX

those in our community by serving them,” wrote vice president Josiah Raiford on the group’s website.

The music kicked off at 6:30 p.m. with an opening performance by local UA folk band Little Chief, a group that described themselves as “a ghosty feel, but overall pretty relatable,” according to singer Matt Cooper.

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Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Cyclists compete on the final day of the Joe Martin Stage Race, Sunday, April 28. During the four days this race was held, over 700 athletes from 20 countries and 50 states competed.

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“I had ran by that, that same side of the street, and I had no idea that something was going to explode there an hour or two later ... I’m definitely grateful that I wasn’t still down there,” Moutos said.

Moutos had another close call three days later. He ate dinner that evening near where police would have a shootout with the suspects about two hours later, he said.

The next day, he turned on the news to see that the suspect had been found in nearby Watertown, Mass.

“The first thing I did was pull up Google Maps,” Moutos said. He wanted to see how close he was to the scene.

“It’s heartbreaking that it happened, but the way people reacted could not have been better ... Some people who ran the race went straight to the hospital to donate blood. Everyone was doing what they could,” he said.

Moutos said that he, like many people in Boston that day, was in disbelief that someone would do something like this.

“Not just that it happened at the marathon or in the U.S.,” he said, “just on a larger scale.

Nothing like that should happen.”

He went to a memorial service to show support for the victims, an emotional experience, he said. Several runners left their running shoes at the memorial and even medals they had won at the marathon.

This was Moutos’ second time to complete the marathon.

Before the bombs went off, he said, the race was phenomenal.

The atmosphere and the crowd is unlike that of any other race, he said. Although the tragedy put a horrific light on an otherwise positive event, Moutos intends on returning to run again.

“Not going back would be furthering whatever the bombers’ goal was,” he said.

In addition to Moutos’ family and friends who contacted him to make sure he was safe, people he was not close with and several news stations and newspapers got in touch with him, he said.

“The whole thing made me appreciate the people around me checking on me — the fact that they were worried,” Moutos said.

He commented that it was nice to see that the community cared.

“That’s the way Arkansans are,” he said.

Moutos said that everywhere he went in Boston following the explosions had tight security, which was reassuring, and that every conversation he heard was about the bombing and its aftermath.

Moutos made it back to Arkansas the night of April 21. After an unpredictable and overwhelming week, he said he is relieved to be back in Fayetteville.

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Kris Johnson Staff Photographer Fayetteville locals attend the BYO show art exhibit, Friday April 26 at the East Square Plaza.

Works displayed were projects created by Lindsey Barquist.

PARTY continued from page 1 After Little Chief ’s performance, headliner Matt Wertz performed. Wertz is a Nashville, Tenn., singer who plays acoustic rock and has toured with Hanson, Jason Mraz and Gavin DeGraw.

“I’m so glad that Matt

Wertz came to our campus,” said Alex Irvin, a UA junior who attended the party. “His music is really soothing.

Sometimes the simple things are the most beautiful.”

BYX’s Island Party is heavily funded by Lifesource

International, a group that “helps children, individuals and families struggling with poverty and hunger,” according to their website. BYX uses this event to publicize Lifesource and to try and rally more support for it.

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Caroline Potts Staff Photographer The Society of Women Engineers attend the Appreciation Banquet at Carnell Hall, Thursday, April 25. a keynote address from Dr. Kim Needy, the department head of industrial engineering and current president of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. The speech was focused on leadership, specifically leading by serving.

“In its simplest form, leading is love — as in a verb, not a noun,” Needy said.

After the address, an overview of SWE’s year was

presented by Dr. Julie Carrier, SWE faculty advisor and biological engineering professor. Mentioned in the overview were events SWE held throughout the year, several projects the group worked on and the chapter’s growth from 24 to 44 members in the last year.

Awards were then given out by Powless to members who had volunteered their

time attending events and had been heavily active in SWE. “Another purpose of the banquet was to recognize everyone who supported or was involved in SWE throughout the past year,” Powless said. “It’s important to honor those who have dedicated so much time towards improving our SWE section.”

The night came to a close with the announcements of next year’s SWE officers by Powless. The new officers were given some advice from Carrier on their role within the organization.

“Freedom and responsibility come hand in hand,” Carrier said. “The responsibility to the new officers is to keep our organization growing.”

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The dust had barely settled when Gerry O’Sullivan and Dolly arrived in Massachusetts the morning of April 16, several hours after a pair of bomb blasts during the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded hundreds.

O’Sullivan is a senior special agent canine handler for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, based in Buffalo.

K-9 Dolly, his five-year-old partner, is a yellow Labrador retriever with the job title of Explosives Detection Canine and a dog tag-sized badge on her collar.

Throughout that week, they were part of the investigation that culminated with the death of one suspected terrorist and capture of another. They returned to Buffalo Monday morning.

“In my 24 years, it was the most unbelievable response I have ever seen. Every police officer within the greater New England area wanted to be there,” O’Sullivan said during an interview Friday.

Details about the work performed by O’Sullivan and Dolly remain confidential, however.

“Dolly worked all the crime scenes ... searching for evidence,” was about all he could say.

An explosives expert in his own right, O’Sullivan is trained in identifying postblast evidence.

“We know what to look for.

We know the difference between a car part and an explosive device,” he said. “You can waste a lot of time if you don’t know what you’re looking for.”

The two were among ATF resources sent to Boston, traveling aboard the local bureau’s National Response Team Bomb Truck. “We were activated within hours of the incident,” said Frank Christiano, special agent in charge of the Buffalo field office.

O’Sullivan said they arrived at 4 a.m. and attended a briefing three hours later.

From that point on, work days averaged 16 hours -- at least for O’Sullivan.

“Nobody minded,” O’Sullivan said. “Nobody wanted to leave.”

But for Dolly, trained to detect up to 19,000 different types of explosive compounds, her time on the job is environmentally driven; she can work up to an hour at a time.

“The weather in Boston was absolutely perfect ... for deploying the canines,” O’Sullivan said.

A product of the Puppies Behind Bars Foundation, Dolly was raised by inmates in a minimum-security federal prison in Connecticut before spending 16 weeks training at the ATF’s National Canine Academy in Virginia.

O’Sullivan also trained with her before they began working together in the summer of 2009.

The ATF uses Labrador retrievers, exclusively, largely because of their docile demeanor.

“We don’t want an aggressive dog by a ... possible explosive device for obvious reasons,” O’Sullivan said. Labs are hardy, adaptable to the environment and easy to train, he added.

Dolly also is part of his family, which includes 13-year-old Cliff, another yellow lab who was O’Sullivan’s K-9 partner when the agent first became a handler in 2002.

While Cliff is free to simply be a pampered pet in his retirement, O’Sullivan and Dolly train together daily, year-round. “It keeps the dog sharp,” O’Sullivan explained.

Training is food-driven, so that when Dolly detects an explosive compound -signaling O’Sullivan by suddenly sitting upright -- she’s rewarded with a piece of dry dog food. Her daily diet -- two cups of dry food -- is meted out as she responds to spent shell casings and other materials that O’Sullivan uses.

And Dolly faces an annual recertification process that will, coincidentally, be held in Boston this year.

O’Sullivan reflected on visiting the stricken city in its darkest hours.

“The citizens of Boston were just outstanding,” he said, describing how residents dropped off food and drinks for law enforcement officers guarding the perimeters of the crime scene.

“They were very, very supportive. That whole city came together,” O’Sullivan said.

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The graduates of the class of 2013 who will graduate May 11 and those who finished their degree require-

ments during the summer and fall terms of 2012 will have their names added during the spring and summer of 2014, Dawson said in a news release.

Senior Walk features more than 140,000 names, starting with the graduating class of 1876.

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UA Opportunities Can Ease Financial Stress

Joe DelNero

Opinion Editor My financial trouble started at the age of 10. I may have been young, but my mother was flat and honest. I was going to pay for college. Every penny earned would be for my tuition.

I don’t know if she was serious or simply trying to teach me a lesson in financial responsibility.

Regardless, days later, instead of playing basketball, my neighbor was running to the grocery store, so I babysat her year-old son Ben for a few minutes and earned five dollars.

That short gig later earned me some higher-paying babysitting gigs, and thus babysitting, in addition to mowing lawns, bought me my freshman year of college.

In my experience, it seems money is the limiting factor.

It’s what holds people back.

We are always saving money, then spending in bulk on room and board, tuition, and bills. Almost eight years of my work went into my freshman year.

After that year, I wisened up. Babysitting and a minimum-wage job weren’t going to pay these bills.

There are a few of us with some financial backers who are kind enough to give us wiggle room. Some of us are too proud to ask. Others don’t have that option at all. For the proud students, or the one’s looking for an Easy Street to ease the financial stress, there isn’t one.

That’s why last year the

New York Times reported the 2011 college class’ debt rose about 5 percent, to $26,500.

That’s why close to two-thirds of students graduating with bachelor’s degrees had student loans.

At the UA, we are lucky.

On the Kiplinger list of bestvalue public colleges, we are in the top 100, ranked 65 for in-state deals. However, on the Kiplinger list, the average debt at graduation is $23,111.

Mowing lawns and babysitting can’t pay that off in a timely manner — if it can, show me that manor you’re working at.

Over the course of the past four years, I’ve found that working within the UA is the best way to maintain fiscal responsibility and grow within my major. Being a resident assistant and working with student media have given me chances to befriend many of my peers and professors while earning a pretty penny to pay for school.

I’m not saying it’s the only route to take, because I have had friends who could turn a few hundred dollars in tips on any given night working expensive steakhouses. However, if money is the limiting factor, look around your department for paid jobs. If it’s better-paying than your current place of work, apply for the promotion.

Money is the worst. It’s been one of my largest fears throughout college, and just two weeks from graduation, I am simply content to say I’ve paid every penny using my own two feet. I was successful using our university and the opportunities I found within the journalism department.

If you are a younger student looking, you have to knock on opportunity’s door — it doesn’t always come to you.

Joe DelNero is a senior broadcast journalism major and the Opinion editor of the Traveler.

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Students Need to Increase Depression Awareness Hayley Noga

Staff Columnist Life is good. That is a popular motto here in Fayetteville; however, more students than many realize experience depression in college, at the UA and around the nation.

After talking to Vice Provost for Academic Affairs Ro Di Brezzo, I learned 80 percent of students will face episodic depression — many students won’t even know they’re depressed.

When we see our friends depressed, we have a natural tendency to ignore the negativity to avoid the awkward conversations.

Students need to realize they could save a life by reaching out to a friend.

If you know someone who can’t go a day without drinking, has serious mood swings or whose personality has completely changed, they could be facing depression.

If you aren’t sure how to approach a friend you think

is depressed, there are various help websites and services like Counselling and Psychological Services, CAPS, to help.

While many students just go through a short depression stint, I’ve personally had friends experience longer depression periods.

A close friend of mine graduated at the top of her high school class and was accepted into the UA Honors College. She was a member of the National Honor Society, on student council and was an extremely bright student. However, she dropped out because of low grades when she fell into a deep state of depression.

Since then, she moved home and is recovering.

However, she’s still trying to rebuild her low GPA. Even the brightest and most involved students can have their lives ruined by depression. It’s a serious issue that needs more attention on our campus.

As a member of ASG Senate, I wrote legislation

pushing for more grade forgiveness for those diagnosed with clinical depression.

Depression ruins college students’ lives. Rather than letting these students suffer, we need to help them heal, starting with increased awareness and ensuring the clinically depressed are not facing GPA despair because of one semester.

I am pushing for a Mental Health Awareness Week for the upcoming fall semester.

If students are more aware of the resources available on campus, I believe poor mental health will decrease.

CAPS, through the Pat Walker Health Center, has a 24-hour emergency service for students who need help right away.

There are also therapy groups, ways to manage stress and mental-health links for students to explore.

According to the National Institute of Mental Health, many college students don’t get the help they need because they don’t know where to go for help or believe the

treatment won’t work. Some believe the depression is simply caused by the stresses of college life.

A nationwide survey of college students by the American College Health Association “found that about 30 percent of college students reported feeling so depressed that it was difficult to function.”

According to the Mayo Clinic, the most common signs of depression are “feelings of unhappiness, frustration and irritability, insomnia or excessive sleeping, loss of energy and feelings of worthlessness or guilt.”

Whether you are personally experiencing these symptoms or know of a friend going through depression, do not hesitate to get help. The UA has resources.

We need to use them and continue to expand them to serve our growing student body.

Hayley Noga is a sophomore and a staff columnist for the Arkansas Traveler.

Traveler Quote of the Day “It’s heartbreaking that it happened, but the way people reacted could not have been better.”

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Cameras in the Classroom? Sure!

Lane Filler

MCT Campus Finally, somebody is touting reality television that I would willingly watch, and it could be bigger than “Swamp Kardashians” or “Mirandizing with the Stars.”

Call it “Cameras in the Classrooms.”

The idea of putting cameras in every public school classroom in the United States is reportedly going to get a big boost when Bill Gates proposes it in an education special airing May 7 on PBS. The Gates Foundation has been quietly floating the idea since 2011.

And I have some good news for Gates.

Although supporters of cameras in classrooms have come up with a price of $5 billion, I say they’re wrong.

I think we’ve finally found a way to turn schools into profit centers.

Virtually every parent I know would gladly pay $10.95 per month to see what’s going on in his or her kid’s classes, for reasons far beyond wondering how pithily her teachers explain the Pythagorean theorem.

We are fascinated by the lives of our children, and mostly face information blackouts.

For all I know, my 11-year-old daughter spends her time outside the house running an organized crime family. I recently asked what she does at lunch and she said, “I sit with my people, at our table, taking care of business.” I’m not saying she’s definitely running numbers and loaning out money, I’m just saying I have no idea what happens in her life on weekdays from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. and she always has more cash than me.

If the schools would throw in a “Playground Cam” and a “Cafeteria Cam,” they could name their own price. The biggest problem would be in families with multiple offspring: Dad: “Turn the channel back to Jenny. I think that senior is trying to smooch her.”

Mom: “Are you crazy?

Timmy is about to get in a shoving match with a guy the size of Shrek. Besides, I’ve seen this Jenny episode before. She turns her head and all he gets is cheek.”

So the fact that the cameras would cost $5 billion

isn’t a bar to the plan. But I do sometimes wonder if the whole “what’s wrong with our failing schools” mantra isn’t out of hand.

In The New York Times last week, William Reese, a professor of educational policy studies and history at the University of Wisconsin, wrote an enlightening piece about the birth of educational standards and standardized testing in Boston, about 160 years ago. The problems were the same then: low scores on the new tests, students seemingly woefully ignorant, and huge achievement gaps between rich and poor, black and white. The response: Blame the teachers.

We think of schools as factories, and we demand they turn out well-educated students. When they don’t, we tend to blame the teachers, but we don’t talk about what teachers have to work with. A linen factory forced to use rough cotton can’t make comfy sheets. A knife factory sent shoddy steel can’t make great blades.

And schools sent students with a tiny vocabulary, no self-discipline, poor nu-

trition, terrible sleep habits, unstable home lives, and emotional, behavioral and developmental problems can’t, generally, produce great scholars.

We love to believe great teachers make great schools, and there’s some truth to that. But there’s a lot more truth to this: Great students make great schools, and a lot of what goes into being a great student has little to do with teachers.

I believe we need to evaluate teachers with measurable results and observation.

I have no problem with putting cameras in classrooms.

But if you want to find out what’s causing bad educational outcomes, particularly in the poor communities and schools we’re having the least success with, put the cameras in these kids’ homes, and on the streets they walk. That’s where most of the problem is. And that’s the reality show no one wants to look at.

Lane Filler is a member of the Newsday editorial board.

His email address is lane. filler@newsday.com. This was retrieved from MCT Campus.

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Georgia Carter Staff Writer As this semester comes to an end, more and more students are buckling down and preparing to study for their looming finals. At this point, many students that have been studying all semester are getting worn out from studying in Mullins or they are looking for other places to go, in case Mullins gets too crowded during the weeks before finals. Luckily, the UA campus and the City of Fayetteville have numerous spots that are great for studying.

The Fayetteville Public Library, located close to the Fayetteville Square at 401 W. Mountain St., is a new Fayetteville landmark ideal for studying. Monday-Thursday, the library is open from 9 a.m.-8 p.m.

Fridays and Saturdays, the library is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and on Sunday you can visit the library

Common Grounds, located on Dickson Street, is another location in town that provides a good studying environment.

“I like to study at Common Grounds when I am studying in groups. They have big tables that can fit everyone” said Jordan Collins, a sophomore computer science major from Fayetteville.

Common Grounds boasts a huge menu of drinks and food to keep you full and alert.

“Coffee keeps me going so this place is pretty convenient” said Collins. “They have a great deal where you can get unlimited refills for only $3 while you are there.”

Although it is located on Dickson Street, Common Grounds can be a quiet, comfortable study spot on weekdays. The back room is usually less busy than the front of the house and they have tables for those who like to study more formally and couches for those who like to snug-

“I like studying outside because I feel more alert in the sunlight.”

Luke Hankins UA Junior

from 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. This location has a free parking garage, so there is no need to worry about paying to park or having to park in the street.

Throughout the library there are little spots to study at. There is also a large reading room upstairs.

This room has tons of natural light, two outlets at every seat, computers to use, and lamps on all the tables.

There is also an Arsaga’s in the lobby at the Fayetteville Public Library for when you need a caffeine fix or a snack.

gle up with their laptop and notes.

Some people prefer to study in the great outdoors. Fayetteville is a gorgeous city and outdoor spots can be found quite easily. The Greek Theater is always a great option on warm days. Gulley Park, located off of Township, is a 27 acre park and has picnic tables and a gazebo to study at. They also have large stretches of grassland, allowing students wanting to study outside to spread out a blanket and work on their studies.

“I like studying outside because I feel more alert in the sunlight” said Junior Luke Hankins, who often studies at Wilson Park, located close to campus on Gregg Avenue.

The University is home to many other libraries and study spots that are not Mullins. The Young Law Library is primarily meant for law students, but is open to all. This library, like the Public Library, is also home to an Arsaga’s. The study hours for this library are slightly more limited than the hours at Mullins and can be found on the Young Law Library’s webpage. Some buildings are home to departmental libraries. These libraries are less publicized and are smaller than Mullins. The Fine Arts library, located within the Fine Arts building has a few tables to use and also has printers and scanners available to use. This is just one of many departmental libraries. Many students take advantage of buildings that are open late and study in empty classrooms at night. These buildings are much less populated than they are during the day and can provide the ideal quiet study spot. The Walton Business building is home to a 24-hour study room, on the third floor.

Finding a good spot to study is all about finding a place that you are comfortable in. One with few distractions is ideal for most studying situations. Also, take into account the things you will need during your study session. If you are running low on sleep or will be in the study spot for a while, make sure to pick a place where you will be able to buy food or coffee. If you are taking your laptop, then a coffeehouse or library is your best bet because they have many outlets to keep your computer charged. A little bit of searching can result in you finding the perfect study spot for you.

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Golf Course Design Club Provides Professional Network Stephanie Erhler Staff Writer

Caddies, polos and clubs are the norms when playing golf, but many people forget how important the actual ground is to the sport. Students at the UA are studying how to improve turfgrass while studying horticulture in the Turf Club.

"It shall be the purpose of Turf Club to give students in the horticulture department, especially those in Turfgrass Science, opportunities to meet fellow classmates, become more involved in networking, and to become active in turfgrass events and activities within the state and surrounding communities," according to the RSO website.

“We have several encounters with industry professionals throughout the year,” said William Mears, Turf Club president/senior horticulture, landscape and turfgrass sciences major. It usually includes talking one on one with them about what is going on in the industry, where we can go and what we can do in our career, internship opportunities and career opportunities. Most of the meetings with professionals occur over dinner.

The Turf Club was founded in the spring of 2000 and there are currently nine active members. Membership is open to any student who is enrolled in at least a one credit class and is/has been enrolled in any horticulture class.

“My favorite thing about being involved with Turf Club is the ability to share work or intern stories with other students in Turf Club; every golf course has a different way of doing things, so it's fun to hear how a course in Dallas operates compared to a course in Fayetteville,” said Nathan Tompkins, Turf Club Vice President/senior horticulture, landscape, and turf sciences major. Any student who is even slightly interested in the turf industry should join Turf Club. It allows many hands-on projects with golf courses which can help with experience for the future.

Courtesy Photo Members of the The Arkansas Turf Club RSO pose with their 2nd place award in February 2013. The Turf Club competed at the Turf Bowl Competition and was awarded $2,000 for 2nd place in competition.

All of the Turf Club members graduating have found full time jobs.

Every year the Turf Club competes in the annual Turf Bowl competition, at the Golf Industry Show, where they have been the reigning SEC champion for the past three years.

“The Turf Bowl competition is a Collegiate Competition between Colleges and Universities across the entire country,” Mears said. It is sponsored by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America (GCSAA) and John Deere Turf.

This year there were 68 teams competing. The bowl consist of a test that comprises of turfgrass physi-

ology, mathematics, cultural practices, weeds, entomology (insects), pathology (diseases), business practices, management, leadership, communication, and environmental stewardship. A hands on sections allows teams to identify soil types and any turfgrasses, weeds, irrigation and mower parts, diseases and seeds.

Last December the RSO was invited to the Alotian Golf Club in Roland, AR where they networked with professionals at the prestigious golf course.

The mission of the RSO is to provide its members with the best possible learning experience in all

activities and events in which it participates, which includes moments for just enjoying college life.

The Turf Club also has time for fun too, Mears said. At the Turf Bowl competitions, which in the past have been in Las Vegas, Orlando and San Diego, members have a day or two to relax and make lifelong friends.

Back in Fayetteville, the Turf club attends sporting events together and hosts an annual bowling event. It’s a great opportunity to just enjoy and meet new friends in the club.

The RSO is constantly striving to improve the momentum of the club and the department, as they compete against other better-known

schools to continue to make a name for the UA in the field of horticulture. As they are driven professionally, the Turf Club also is driven to help each other in academic and personal life.

Turf Club has been a platform for great education, networking opportunities and strong friendships, Mears said. While the club is small it allows the members to be closer knit than other larger honors organizations. The group spends a lot of time together allowing us to really get to know each other well. The friendships help everyone grow as a person and a professional for the future.

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BASEBALL

Hogs Sweep Rain-Shortened Series Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer

The Arkansas baseball team won a pair of low-scoring games in Athens, Ga., before the final game of the series was cancelled because of rain.

Arkansas won Friday’s game with a 2-0 pitcher’s duel between junior Barrett Astin and Georgia junior Patrick Boling.

Astin won the duel, lasting eight innings, allowing four hits and two walks while striking out eight batters on 100 pitches. Boling only threw six innings and gave up one earned run on three hits and a walk. He also collected four strikeouts.

After giving up a pair of hits and a walk in the first inning, Astin settled in and got out of the bases loaded jam on a fly out. From the second inning on, Georgia did not advance a runner past first base until junior Colby Suggs came in to close out the game in the ninth.

“I thought Barrett was outstanding,” head coach Dave Van Horn said. “Once he got through the (first) inning, he kind of came in and regrouped. We were worried that we’d have to take him out in the second inning, but we never had to talk to him again.”

Suggs picked up the save by getting Georgia freshman Jess Posey to strike out with runners on second and third.

The Razorbacks picked up

TRACK & FIELD

Hogs Win 4 Events at Invitational

Cameron McCauley Staff Writer

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations Staff Photographer Barrett Astin pitches at the Arkansas v. Georgia baseball game in Athens, Ga., Friday, April 26. Sunday’s game was cancelled because of rain at Foley Field in Georgia. their runs in the third and eighth innings.

Sophomore Brian Anderson had two of Arkansas’ three hits of the game, including an RBI-single in the third inning.

Junior Jake Wise had their other hit, as well as an RBI in the eighth, when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.

Game two of the series was another pitcher’s duel, featuring junior Ryne Stanek and Georgia freshman Sean McLaughlin. Arkansas won 2-1.

It was scoreless through six innings before the Bulldogs got on the scoreboard with a sacrifice fly by senior Kyle

Farmer in the seventh.

The Razorbacks responded with a pair of runs in the eighth.

Senior Jacob Mahan led off the inning with a double and Wise followed him with an RBI-single. After a sacrifice bunt advanced Wise to second, sophomore Joe Serrano knocked him in with a single to center.

Stanek tossed 6.2 innings, allowing one earned run on seven hits, followed by 2.1 onehit innings by three Razorback relievers. Suggs earned his seventh save of the season, while sophomore Jalen Beeks picked up his fifth win. Stanek

SOFTBALL

received a no-decision.

“I can’t remember the last time we’ve come back and won a game after being behind in the sixth inning,” Van Horn said. “The pitching staff got us home from there.”

Georgia got their first complete game of the season, as McLaughlin went the distance, allowing two earned runs on five hits and striking out five.

These were the first Southeastern Conference games of the season in which Arkansas has not committed an error, as well.

“The defense was great,” Van Horn said. “The defense

has really stepped it up. We made a lot of nice plays in the outfield.”

Sunday’s game was cancelled because of inclement weather.

“We’re disappointed that we didn’t get to play, but the positive from the weekend is that we won two games and helped ourselves in the standings,” Van Horn said.

The Razorbacks improved their record to 29-15 overall and 13-7 in the SEC, which is second in the SEC West, behind LSU. The Hogs will return to action Tuesday at 6:35 p.m. against Missouri State.

TRACK & FIELD

The No. 3-ranked Arkansas men’s outdoor track and field team won four events at the Arkansas Invitational in Fayetteville Saturday.

It was a cold and rainy day for track, but the men’s team responded well, facing tough competition against nationally ranked teams. The meet served as a chance to help the Razorbacks reach NCAA regional-worthy times and measurements.

Some of the best teams in the country were in Fayetteville to compete in the seven-team event, including No. 1 Florida, No. 22 Oklahoma and No. 23 Ohio State, among others. Despite the less than ideal conditions, teams were able to perform well and reached qualifying NCAA times.

Sprinter Akheem Gauntlett took the 400-meter run with a time of 46.13 seconds in a photo finish as the top four in that race finished within .08 seconds of each other.

The senior’s time stands as the 15th-best time in the NCAA this season. Gauntlett didn’t participate in his best races, the 100 and 200 at the Arkansas Invitational.

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2 Wins for Razorbacks at Razorbacks Win Only Meeting with Tennessee the Arkansas Invitational Liz Beadle Staff Writer

Liz Beadle Staff Writer

The No. 25 Razorback softball team (31-17, 9-10) took game one of from the No. 2 Volunteers in Knoxville, Tenn., Friday before the final two games of the series were rained out.

The Razorbacks won 2-1 Friday, marking Arkansas’ fifth win in the last six games.

This also means the Hogs have won three conference series in a row, all coming against ranked teams.

The Arkansas win Friday snapped a 19-game Volunteer winning streak. Kimmy Beasley pitched a complete game and gave up just one run on four hits.

“I am so proud of our team,” head coach Mike Larabee said. “Kimmy Beasley settled down and pitched a great ballgame. Two years ago

The No. 5 Razorbacks earned two first place finishes in the Arkansas Invitational

Saturday.

The first came in the 1,500 meters and the second came in the 4x400-meter relay.

Jessica Kamilos, who was coming off a personal best in the 3,000-meter steeplechase

last weekend, finished the 1,500 meters with a lifetime best and first-place time of 4 minutes, 24.55 seconds.

Kamilos, a redshirt fresh-

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Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations Kimmy Beasley competes at the Arkansas v Tennessee softball game, Friday, April 26. we came here and got humiliated. I am so proud of how far this program has come in two years.”

Jennifer Rambo and Jayme Gee led on offense for the Hogs, accounting for an RBI each. Rambo was two for three

in the game.

“Sierra Bronkey, Jennifer Rambo and Jayme Gee came up huge,” Larabee said. “We kept putting the ball in play and it manufactured runs.”

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Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Makeba Alcide competes at the Arkansas Invitational, Saturday, April 27, in Fayetteville.

COMMENTARY

Athletics Successful Despite Football, Basketball Woes

Haley Markle Asst. Sports Editor Even though a lot of fans probably wouldn’t say so, it’s actually been a pretty good year to be a fan of the Razorbacks.

The football team went 4-8,

so that wasn’t very fun. But the Hogs now have a new head coach who has put together a top notch staff.

The basketball team didn’t make the NIT much less the NCAA tournament and now Marshawn Powell, BJ Young and Hunter Mickelson are all gone. But some young guys got some good playing time and incoming freshmen Bobby Portis and Moses Kingsley could help immediately.

The two most popular sports definitely had down years and that left a bad taste in a lot of Arkansas fans.

However, despite not earning either points for these two sports, the Razorbacks are still in 28th out of 248 schools in

the Director’s Cup Standings, which rewards an athletic department that has success across a broad range of programs.

Arkansas is behind only four other Southeastern Conference programs after the conclusion of fall and winter sports.

The top SEC program is Florida at No. 4 followed by No. 9 Georgia, No. 11 Texas A&M and Kentucky at 20.

The only two conferences with more teams in the top 30 than the five that the SEC has are the Big Ten and the Pac 12.

The Big Ten, which has eight schools in the top 30, sponsors two more women’s sports and five more men’s

sports than the SEC. Right behind the Big Ten is the Pac 12 with six schools in the top 30. They sponsor the same number of women’s sports as the SEC, but sponsor two more men’s sports.

This gives the members of these conferences an advantage in the Director’s Cup because they have more opportunities for a team to finish ranked or win a championship, which is how the points are earned.

Arkansas picked up 100 points for the men’s indoor track and field National Championship. The Gym‘Backs contributed 68.25 points for their finish at the gymnastics NCAA championships.

Swimming and women’s

track and field are the other two programs that contributed out of the winter sports, earning 48 and 80 points, respectively.

The three fall sports that added to Arkansas’ total were men’s and women’s cross country and volleyball which earned a combined 148.5 points.

The spring sports that will factor in for the Hogs are men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s outdoor track and field, softball and baseball.

The Razorbacks have a history of earning more points during the spring season than either of the other two. Both the men and women’s track teams are very good and will

likely contribute.

Add to that the very good baseball team and a softball team that continues to impress and Razorback fans can expect a very good spring showing in the Director’s Cup. There is always room for improvement and I’m sure Arkansas fans are ready to see some in some of the most prominent programs, but this year hasn’t been quite the disaster for Razorback fans as it seems at first glance.

Haley Markle is the assistant sports editor for the Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every Monday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @ UATravSports.

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Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Jarrion Lawson competes in the long jump at the Arkansas Invitational, Saturday, April 27.

Marek Niit finished fifth despite finishing with a time of 46.49, only .36 seconds behind first.

The men’s team started off Saturday on a high note, winning the first track event of the day, the 4x100.

The team of Gauntlett, Neil Braddy, Jarrion Lawson and Niit finished with a time of 39.52, which was .01 seconds off of their season-best time set at the McDonnell Invitational two weekends ago.

The Razorbacks also had little trouble fending off

competitors in the vertical jumps.

Indoor NCAA champion Andrew Irwin easily won the pole vault with a height of 5.16 meters, or 16 feet 11 inches. No reason to take any chances in the bad conditions, as Irwin’s winning vault was almost a foot and a half less than his season best.

Two Arkansas high jumpers, Brede Ellingsen and Noah Kittelson, finished tied for first with a jump of 2.02 meters, or 6 feet, 7.5 inches.

Senior Caleb Cross came in second in the 110-meter

hurdles with a time of 14.19, finishing just behind Florida’s Eddie Lovett, who ran a 13.72.

Jeff Woods took second place in the javelin throw, finishing with a personal record distance of 63.34 meters. “Despite the weather, we got some things done. We were hoping for some sunny skies but we still got some things done,� head coach Chris Bucknam said.

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The game was scoreless until the fifth inning. Arkansas scored one run in the fifth and one in the sixth. Tennessee remained scoreless until the seventh, when they scored one run in an attempt at a comeback.

Bronkey started of the fifth inning with a single for Arkansas, then Ashley Martindale pinch-ran and advanced to second as Rambo reached on an infield single.

Nicole Schroeder then advanced both runners on a groundout to short. Martindale was the runner to make it home and give the Razorbacks their first run of the game.

The second Arkansas run came in the sixth inning. Chloe Oprzedek got things started with a base hit.

She then stole second and later advanced to third on a groundout by Bronkey. Rambo then hit one up the middle on a two-out, eight-pitch at bat.

In the seventh the Volunteers scored as Lexi Overstreet hit a one-out triple.

Tory Lewis followed with a sacrifice fly that got Tennessee on the scoreboard, but it wasn’t enough and the game ended in a 2-1 Razorback win.

Arkansas is set to close out its regular season against Auburn in Fayetteville in a threegame series starting this Friday.

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The 4x400-meter relay was the final event of the day. The team consisted of Makeba Alcide, Chrishuna Williams, Ivanique Kemp and Gwendolyn Flowers, and their time was 3:43.75.

Besides the two first-place finishes, the Hogs also had six second-place finishes including Rebecca Gorden on the javelin, Makeba Alcide on the shot put, Danielle Nowell on the pole vault, Tamara Myers on the triple jump, Ivanique Kemp on the 100-meter hurdles and Valerie Reina on the 3,000-meter.

Other teams competing in the meet included Central Florida, Florida, Oklahoma, Tulsa and Oklahoma State.

Regina George and Sparkle McKnight were absent from the Arkansas Invitational as they were competing at Penn Relays in Philadelphia. George was representing Nigeria and McKnight was representing her native Trinidad and Tobago.

George competed in both the 4x100 and the 4x400 relay for the Nigerian team. The Razorback senior came up with the fastest split of the day with a 49.5 on the third leg of the 4x400 relay.

McKnight participated in the 4x100 relay for Trinidad and Tobago and helped her nation to an eighth-place finish in Philadelphia.

Next up for the Hogs is the Arkansas Twilight Friday in Fayetteville.