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For the first time this year Chair of Senate Mike Norton broke the tie vote and passed a bill to support the implementation of a gender-neutral housing option in the near future, according to the bill.

“We are so happy this was contentious, because it means we will work from many angles to move our campus forward,” said Sen. Joe Kieklak, author of the bill.

ASG senators are working with the Gender Neutral Housing Committee to create a detailed application process for students who want to use this option, Kieklak said. This will

prevent students from abusing the system, Kieklak said.

ASG passed a bill Tuesday night to provide the funds needed to become members of the National Association of Graduate and Professional Students.

This is a “network that connects graduate and professional students across America so they may share resources

and best practices” with the ultimate goal of helping member organizations “amplify students’ voices to campus, state, and federal policymakers,” according the group’s workshop.

The bill was authored by Sens. Alex Marino and Grant Addison and ensures that ASG Senate will pay a $250 registra-

RazorCARE to Make Pat Walker More Efficient Stephanie Carlson Staff Writer Pat Walker Health Center introduced the new RazorCARE program with the purpose of getting students in and out of the health center more quickly and efficiently.

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Students Compete to Reduce Serafini This program is modeled after a rising trend known as “Minute Clinics,” which allow for walk-in patients to be seen by the doctor within a short period of time, decreasing the need for appointments.

Mary Alice Serafini, Pat Walker Health Center director, said the new RazorCARE program will allow students to see a doctor by walk-in or appointment during school hours Monday through Friday, and one night a week.

The differences between this program and the past clinical program include making the clinic more ac-

Hogs Selected for Regional Competition The gymnastics team competes in the Corralis NCAA Regional Saturday.

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Kris Johnson Staff Photographer Students decorate bottles at the Conservation Campus National 2013 Kickoff Party sponsored by the Office of Sustainability, Thursday, March 28.

Hogs Prepare to Face a Pair of Top-25 Teams

The No. 44 Razorbacks play at Tennessee and Georgia this weekend.

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Jaime Dunaway Senior Staff Writer UA students will be participating in the Campus Conservation Nationals competition during the first three weeks of April to reduce rising energy costs, said Carlos Ochoa, director of the Office for Sustainability.

The goal of the program is

to reduce energy consumption by $1 per student per week, which will cut $15,000 in utility bills if successful, Ochoa said.

The competition is in its third year, but this is the first year the UA has participated, Ochoa said. The number of universities participating has doubled every year, with 200 schools nationwide planning to compete in 2013, Ochoa said.

In addition to competing nationally, students in residence halls will also be competing with each other. The residence hall that reduces its energy consumption by at least $1,000 will win a pizza party and a viewing of “Jurassic Park,” Ochoa said.

“We need students who are passionate to spread the word in their own residence halls,” Ochoa said. “Direct peer-to-peer education and

engagement works much better than having administration tell students what to do.”

Participation in CCN will help the UA reach the climate commitments made in 2007 when it signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment, Ochoa said. The agreement states that schools will become carbon-neutral by 2040,

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“I went to the clinic with strep and was diagnosed, given medicine and sent back to my room to sleep within an hour.”

Hannah Hinton UA Freshman

cessible for students to get in “that day” and for students with smaller illnesses, such as colds and viruses, to get the medicine they need on a more efficient timeline.

“I went to the clinic with

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Staff Report Brandon “Bam” Margera, prankster, pro skateboarder, musician, and star of the television and movie series Jackass, is coming to Fayetteville next month.

F*@kface Unstoppable is Margera’s latest project, featuring him on vocals.

The group will perform at George’s Majestic Lounge on April 15 with special guest Hunter Moore.

Margera started a weekly show called “Radio Bam” on the Sirius Satellite Radio channel Faction in 2004. The show features Margera along with some of his friends and

friends from the Jackass series. In 2005, Margera started the music label Filthy Note Records and has directed videos for various groups and artists.

F*@ckface Unstoppable has been touring the country this spring and includes members of the Philadelphia Band CKY, which Margera’s brother is a member of. The show will feature the band’s original songs along with some covers. The show will also include stunts and meet and greets.

Tickets for the show are $20, and meet and greets are $40. Tickets can be purchased at the George’s Majestic Lounge website.

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RAZORCARE continued from page 1 strep and was diagnosed, given medicine and sent back to my room to sleep within an hour,” said Hannah Hinton, UA freshman. “I can’t imagine having it any other way.”

Another prominent Ra-

zorCARE goal is to make sure students are healthy and to keep them from spending hours in the health center missing classes and important meetings.

“RazorCARE doctors

and coordinators have been working together to make this system the more effective that the health center has seen from the clinic,” Serafini said. “We hope that it continues to benefit stu-

dents and health center staff as we have seen it so far this semester.”

Students can visit the health center or visit myhealth.uark.edu to make an appointment with the clinic.

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Kathleen Pait Staff Photographer Students fill out health forms and sit in the waiting room at Pat Walker Health Center student facility, Monday, April 1.

HOUSING continued from page 1 tion fee to become a NAGPS member for the remainder of this year.

This association lobbies for education and professional development and holds regional and national conferences, said Sen. Alex Marino, co-author of the bill.

“It is important for ASG to go to these conferences in order to learn how things are done at other schools and allow others schools to see how we do things here,” Marino said.

Unlike the SEC Exchange,

NAGPS will allow participation of graduate students as well, Marino said.

ASG also passed a bill to support the purchase of thicker toilet paper for UA restrooms.

Sens. Will Simpson and Will Hansen authored the bill in support of the “investment to find a more durable and efficient tissue for university restrooms,” according to the bill.

In addition, ASG postponed voting on the bill proposed last week to allow a system of GPA forgiveness for students suffer-

ing from clinical depression.

The authors said they plan to talk with administrators during the upcoming week and gather further support and evidence for the necessity of this bill.

The bill, authored by Sens.

Hayley Noga, Joe Kieklak and Ellen Rudolph, proposes that administration allow students suffering from depression to count up to two academic years at the UA like transfer credit that will not affect GPA. “This bill represents exactly what ASG is here to do, which

is to make students better enjoy their UA experience,” said Sen. Ellen Rudolph. “We are open to hear senators’ opinions during debate and want to work as much as we can to represent the students on our campus that are struggling with balancing aches of depression and managing school work.”

Other proposals from Tuesday include a bill to pay for a “Blue Light app” as an emergency alert system and a resolution to implement Razorbucks at sporting events.

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Earlier this month, five Clark County families embarked on a five-week journey designed to change the way they think about their household waste, and change their behavior to reduce it.

Turns out, just signing up for the Wastebusters challenge may have done the trick.

“Anticipating this, I was surprised how quickly your mindset can change,” said Vancouver resident Suzanne Mickelson.

“That has been the most immediate brain switch.”

Mickelson found herself jotting down ideas for how to cut down her family’s trash output.

She started using wash rags, ditching the disposable paper towels she said she used “way too many of.” She considered the amount of packaging around

portant and recycling is really great,” Calder said. “But there’s a lot of things you can do beyond recycling.”

Plenty of factors influence what ends up in a family’s trash can -- kids, pets, even the neighborhood it calls home. For the Loudenback family in the Brush Prairie area, rural life means being more deliberate about the trips they make into town.

That tends to cut down on conveniences such as fast food and the packaging that comes with it, said Amy Loudenback.

The family of five doesn’t eat much take-out, she said, and plans ahead for most meals.

“You can’t just run to the store every time you want something,” Loudenback said.

Loudenback and her family already have other wastereduction steps in mind. They’re using cotton hankies instead of tissues. Amy Loudenback said she plans to make her own reusable bulk food bags to avoid using plastic.

“The trash and recycling systems are so good that it almost makes it too easy for people to throw things in the garbage, or be an over-recycler.”

Suzanne Mickelson

Vancouver’s Riveridge neighborhood resident everything she buys, even a tube of toothpaste.

“It really makes you think,” Mickelson said. “And of course, it makes you feel guilty. But it’s a good guilt.”

The Wastebusters program, now in its second year in Clark County, pits five families against each other in a friendly wastereduction competition. Each participating household conducted a trash audit and an initial weigh-in to establish its starting point. The family that cuts down its waste the most is crowned top wastebuster at the end of the five weeks. Participants will also take on more specific challenges along the way.

One of the benefits of the program is taking families out of their comfort zone, said Serena Calder, an AmeriCorps volunteer coordinating Wastebusters as the county’s sustainability educator this year. That means more than simply filling the recycle bin, she said. It means finding ways to not produce that waste in the first place.

“Recycling is really im-

The Mickelson family lives in east Vancouver’s Riveridge neighborhood. A more urban setting with urban services can be a blessing or a curse when it comes to cutting down on waste, Suzanne Mickelson said.

“The trash and recycling systems are so good that it almost makes it too easy for people to throw things in the garbage, or be an over-recycler,” she said.

The Loudenbacks -- Amy, husband Robert, three kids and a cat -- checked in with a base weight of 29 pounds of waste.

That’s 100 percent of their trash in a week, plus 15 percent of their recycling. The Mickelsons’ starting point is just under 37 pounds, generated by three adults, a toddler, a dog and two cats. Other families’ totals ranged from 14.36 pounds to 78.8 pounds. They all used county-issued scales to weigh their trash and recycling.

The final weigh-in will happen April 14. A Wastebusters recognition ceremony is set for April 20, to coincide with an Earth Day fair the same day.

Preparing to Elect New Leaders

Caroline Potts Staff Photographer German Club President, Derek Kiyoshi Fukumoto, speaks about the upcoming officer elections at a meeting in Kimpel Hall, Tuesday, April 2.

COMPETE continued from page 1 he said. Conserving energy is important because it reduces carbon emissions, which are the leading cause of climate change, he said.

“Energy conservation is important to me because I hate seeing unnecessary waste,” said Nicole Lusk, sophomore dietetics major.

“If you can reuse something, why not do it? It is also about the future; one day we may not have the resources that we are lucky to have now.”

Students can help conserve energy by turning off lights when leaving the room,

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Breaking Or Entering -A student reported someone stole the parking decal from his vehicle while the vehicle was parked in Lot 56D.

Wednesday, March 27

Public Intoxication -A student was arrested in the Arkansas Union.

Theft Of Property -Two students reported someone stole several items from the

Thursday, March 28

Arrest On Warrant -A student was arrested on Maple Street west of Oakland Avenue.

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Public Intoxication -A student was arrested at the Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity House.

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Sophomore Dietetics Major ers or racks instead of using the dryer, using fluorescent lamps and keeping windows and doors closed while using heat or air conditioning,

he said.

A kickoff party was organized Thursday at the HPER to launch the competition.

Dinner was provided by Jimmy Johns, and free dinosaur T-shirts were available.

Students had the opportunity to make recycling crafts and intermingle with studentathletes, cheerleaders and Razorback mascots.

“I want to show my support for what the people behind CNN are trying to do,” Lusk said. “It is a good cause, and I want a dinosaur T-shirt, of course.”

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ASG Legislation:

The Ballot Information Accessibility Act A Bill to Allocate Funds for the Development of a Safe Ride and “Blue Light” App A Bill to Fund a Safe Ride Expansion Pilot Program The ASG MacBook Pro Bill of 2013

Police Report: March 26 - March 31 University-owned property at 1487 W Walton Street.

“Energy conservation is important to me because I hate seeing unnecessary waste.”

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taking the stairs instead of the elevator, unplugging chargers and electronics while not in use, and running full loads of laundry, Ochoa said.

“It’s easy,” Lusk said. “This campus has recycling bins all over the place for bottles, cans, even batteries. It doesn’t take much effort to turn off the lights, turn off the water and unplug your phone charger. That little effort can save a lot of energy. Students should think about the future.”

Other tips include using fans instead of air conditioning, drying clothes on hang-

-A student was arrested in Pomfret Hall.

Minor In Possession Of Alcohol -A student was arrested in Yocum Hall.

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Theft Of Property -Occurred between two students reported someone stole their backpacks while the backpacks were unattended on the ground at the corner of Harmon Avenue and Williams Street.

A Bill to Fund ASG Participation in the Southeastern Conference Graduate Student Government Conference An Act Calling for the Creation for a Traditions Council A Resolution to Implement Razorbucks at Sporting Events A Resolution to Support Soft Closing of Dickson Street Establishments A Resolution for Student Representation on the Board of Trustees A Resolution for Course Change Email Notification through ISIS A Resolution for a Varied ROTC Parking Plan A Bill to Fund the Graduate Student Congress NAGPS Membership A Resolution Calling for Support of Housing Legislation The Toilet P.A.P.E.R. (Promoting Additional Plies and Efficient Restrooms) Resolution of 2013 A Resolution for Clinical Depression GPA Forgiveness A Resolution for Expanded Housing Options

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Students can make their opinion heard during the ASG meetings 6 p.m. Tuesdays at the Graduate Education Building. There is a public comment section during each meeting where students can speak for two minutes before the legislation starts, said Mike Norton, ASG Chair of Senate.

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Let’s Help Our Fellow Fayetteville Residents

Joe DelNero Opinion Editor In our soft, cushy campus bubble, we comfortably lounge in the Chi-O theater between classes. We pull out our hammocks and set up on Old Main lawn with a frisbee.

While we revel in our “college experience,” thousands of people around the greater Fayetteville area sleep in tents, less than tents, in the rainy outdoors.

The Traveler reported Tuesday that the homeless population in northwest Arkansas has increased to more than 2,000 people in 2013.

Over the past six years, this demographic has climbed by over 1,000. A large percentage of this homeless population is single parents, constituting nearly 15 percent, according to the Traveler article.

Jim Woodward, the CEO of the 7Hills Homeless Center, said lack of funding may be partially responsible for the constant rise in homeless numbers. However, as a student at the UA, I feel like there is an incredible lack of awareness of the homeless issue on campus.

Greek students often hold fundraisers supporting the Susan G. Komen Foundation or the Ronald McDonald house, extremely valid and well-meaning organizations.

But more importantly, the Greek community donated over 8,000 canned goods to the UA Full Circle Pantry, in addition to $570,100 to charities across the nation, according to the Fall 2012 Greek newsletter.

I’m using the Greeks on campus as an example others should imitate. A portion

of the money raised on campus through fundraisers and events should go to help this homeless population in need.

What do we owe the homeless, though? And where would the money actually go?

What could we accomplish?

Earlier in the semester, I was talking with MaryLou Gates, the 7Hills Center program director, about how the 7Hills Center has a different approach to dealing with the homeless people in their facilities.

First, a vast number of the homeless population don’t know how to handle money responsibly. The 7Hills Center has classes about money management, and in order to be a resident, you must hold a job and prove you are saving and spending money responsibly.

Second, many homeless people are dealing with drugs and alcohol addictions, or worse. The 7Hills Center has classes and resources to help the homeless, along with strict policies about not drinking or having drugs on their campus.

Therefore, charitable contributions to centers dealing with homelessness in the northwest Arkansas area would not simply be going to food kitchens for those who don’t have the luxuries of us college students. The money can go to fund a bigger picture. The money can fund a problem-solving center that seeks to rehabilitate the homeless up to a point where they can maintain jobs and regain a higher status by saving money.

The UA and students, especially those focused on philanthropic contributions, should continue to raise money and supplies for food kitchens around the northwest Arkansas area. Raising on campus awareness will help slow this constant growth UA sociology professor Kevin Fitzpatrick has seen over the past six years. Using our vast resources, we can make a major difference in our city.

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

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Spring Off Campus to Get a Full Experience

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The return of nice weather and the final weeks of spring classes can mean only one thing at the University of Arkansas: It’s time to get off campus and explore.

One of the biggest mistakes I made as an undergrad at the UA was letting social inertia keep me relatively close to campus my first four years in Fayetteville. But with spring arriving and warm sunny days dominating the weather forecast, there is no better time than the present to explore Fayetteville and northwest Arkansas.

The rapid growth and fantastic geographical setting of our university makes it a prime location for any kind of adventure. I wanted to use this column to tell you some of my fa-

vorite spots around northwest Arkansas and encourage you to step outside your comfort zone on campus and go find your own kind of fun, no matter what you’re into.

Springtime means weekend baseball games at Baum Stadium, but just up the road in Springdale, there’s a great attraction for sports fans. The Northwest Arkansas Naturals are the Double-A affiliate for the Kansas City Royals, and Arvest Ballpark is one of only two places in Arkansas to watch minor league baseball. A trip up to the park is a cheap fun way to spend an afternoon, and for those of us over 21, there are great specials on those particularly thirsty Thursdays. Tickets start at only $7 and are a great way to see future Major Leaguers in action.

Farther up I-540, most of us know the Walton family built one of the finest art museums in the world, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. If you haven’t been up there yet, spring is the perfect time to go check out the trails and take in some of the most famous American artworks ever created. As a history nerd, I particularly like the portrait gallery featuring original

paintings of George Washington and other scenes from colonial America. Bentonville also offers some great restaurants on their historic square, where the original Walton 5 & 10 store is located.

For the sportsmen and sportswomen among us, some of my favorite spots to hit in the spring are in Madison County, just east of Fayetteville. There is great bass and fly-fishing to be found on the Kings and White Rivers and numerous city and state lakes around to try your luck, some just a short trip away from campus, including Lake Wedington and Lake Wilson.

For other adventures on water, there is nothing better than a weekend trip to the Buffalo National River. With some parts of the river as close as 90 minutes away from campus, you should not miss out on the hiking, camping, floating and fishing opportunities at one of America’s greatest national sites. I won’t tell you my favorite places to camp there — so you can’t go take the last site – but I will tell you that nps.go/ buff and buffalonationalriver. com have great resources to offer you in planning a trip to the river. Ok, fine, my favorite place to camp on the Buffalo is

Kyle’s Landing.

Another hidden gem for the warmer months closer to summer is Riverside Park in West Fork. Less than 20 minutes south of campus, one of the nicest parks in Northwest Arkansas-- or all of the state for that matter-- offers access to the flowing branch of the White River. During the hotter months, you can find people jumping off the rocks into the deeper parts of the river, playing Frisbee and holding picnics by the riverside. It’s a great place to take off after work or class on Friday or spend a lazy Sunday afternoon.

These are just a few of the dozens of great experiences I’ve had in Northwest Arkansas since moving here. Use this spring semester, whether it’s your first or last one on campus, to get out and discover something new about this area. I promise your experience at the UA will be enriched as much by what you experience off this campus as much as what you learn while you’re on it.

Will Watson is a graduate student in the public administration program and is a staff columnist for the Arkansas Traveler.

Career Skills are Outside the Classroom Hayley Noga Staff Columnist

College is a time to receive a degree and set sail into the real world. However, it seems the more well-rounded students are becoming the most valuable workers. Life lessons and leadership skills learned through extracurricular activities will benefit students in the long run.

We used to think it’s all about making that GPA. But today, college is much more than grades. Being involved has proved to be valuable to students.

“College is obviously about getting your degree, but getting involved with different organizations gives you some of that ‘real-world’ experience that you don’t learn inside the classroom,” said sophomore Chelsea Hawthorn.

Book smarts show the ability to learn information quickly, but there are more valuable traits to future employers than strict academics. Many other skills will come into play when a student is looking to find a job.

The most important skill for future careers is the ability to handle people. One of the facts of life is you will eventually encounter people you find difficult to work with.

“When you have good interpersonal skills, you are able to develop social skills and can effectively communicate with someone using various

techniques,” said Bill Smith, a writer for Yahoo Voices.

Once we make it to the workplace, the main goal is to move up and excel. Who wouldn’t want to be the top dog at their company?

A resume is important, of course, to get a foot in the door. But once the paper gets the check, one must prove themselves and show the boss why they’re the most valuable worker there, which takes personal communication skills.

Time management is something every student learns in college.

I for example have had many struggles with this. Not only do I take a full schedule of classes, but I work at UATV, the Traveler, am the spirit chair of my sorority and am a member of the ASG Senate. Balancing so many things has been difficult, but I’ve found ways to handle it all. It may mean planning out every hour of my day and making about a million “to-do” lists, but I know these time-management skills will pay off in the future.

Students who use college as a time to take classes and nothing else may be missing life skills as well as career opportunities.

“I think it’s important to be involved but not to the extent that you’re taking away from the main reason why you’re here, which is your education,” said freshman Stephanie Carlson.

The main reason students

come to college is to learn. My parents told me, “Grades come first, always.” It’s important for us to put grades first, but we need to emerge well-rounded to move up in future careers.

“How you spend your time outside of the classroom is a critical part of your college experience…make the most of it!

Join a club that explores your interests and passions,” wrote Kelci Lucier for College Life.

The University of Arkansas is anything but short of clubs.

For journalists, there is UATV, the Arkansas Traveler, KXUA and the Razorback Yearbook. For political science students there is Young Republicans, Young Democrats and even ASG. For Dale Bumper students there is an Agricultural Business Club and even a Crop, Soil and Environmental Sciences Club.

Depending on your interests, there will be a club fitting your studies.

“Getting involved with UATV showed me how to work with many different kinds of students and how to grow not only in the station but in myself,” said junior UATV anchor Veronica Calhoun.

“The hands on experience let me gain real world experience so I could feel prepared when going into an internship for a news station. Although grades are the most important aspect of college, getting involved can help not only your social skills but prepare you for future jobs as well.”

Greek life has also proven to be valuable to many students.

“Although my GPA is my main priority, I feel that it is necessary to be involved as much as I can,” Sophomore Jessie McPhail said. “Being an Alpha Delta Pi has opened me up to a lot of opportunities and has taught me how to manage my time between school work and activities. Being involved in anything during college will show that you can manage your time and are more prepared for the real world and jobs than to have been involved in nothing at all.”

It’s clear that the university has a diverse array of organizations for students to join. No matter what your interest or major is, there’s a club for it.

Students should push themselves to get involved around campus. Not only will it improve their personal skills, but it just may be the path to a career opportunity.

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t,” said folk singer Pete Seeger.

Students, I urge you to experience college for all it is and what it has to offer. Then, and only then, you will see what college is all about.

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

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Madelynne Jones Staff Writer College is full of memories captured in hundreds of Instagrams, but cataloging all of those memories to mimic your mother’s coffee-table scrapbooks can take more time than you have. Though Instagram does provide options for printing out photos, it’s just not the same without the story attached.

Thankfully, professional blogger Becky Higgins found a solution: ProjectLife. ProjectLife is a new version of scrapbooking that focuses more on the end product of a beautiful collection of life stories than the frustrations of glue, paper cuts, layout design, and time commitment.

It’s not like the photo books you can print out at Walgreens or Shutterfly, where there’s still a lot of design work. With ProjectLife you simply print out 4x6 prints of your favorite shots, and then slip them into the plastic, compartmentalized page protectors. You can then journal on the back of accompanying cards, or flip them over for their design. The journaling and filler cards, together with your printed photos, make an easy, clean-cut, trendy catalog of your life.

"It's called ProjectLife because it's about your life,” designer Becky Higgins said on her website.

“Whatever your life is, whatever your stage of life, whatever your family circumstances, whatever your lifestyle, Project Life is de-

signed to help anyone and everyone get their pictures into a book.”

Higgins wrote her goal is to help others cultivate a good life and record it.

ProjectLife has been a huge hit with professional bloggers. Elise Blaha Cripe of eliseblaha.typepad. com is daily blogging and photographing. She prints out her favorite photos at the end of the week and puts them into her ProjectLife book.

Cripe said on her blog that though she used to work on spreads throughout the week, but she now does them at the end of the week.

“As a result, I think my spreads are ‘better,’ which for me means they are capturing the stories of the week more fully and they feel a bit more cohesive,” Cripe said.

Each kit comes with a binder that has page protectors sectioned off, almost like a baseball card collection. Customers can order different page layouts to add variety, or order the same one in bulk for consistency.

The kit also comes with filler cards, which are like paper packs with designs, but are already cut out, ready to be slipped into a spot on the page. Customers can order different paper packs that come with pre-cut and designed journaling and filler cards. ProjectLife has a wide variety of themed cards. The most popular are the Clementine and Turquoise editions.

ProjectLife scrapbookers who don’t want to write everything out by hand can type out commentar-

ies on photos through Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop works perfectly alongside ProjectLife. The collaboration of ProjectLife and Photoshop allows users to type text into virtual journaling cards, which can then be printed out and inserted into the tangible ProjectLife book.

All ProjectLife products can be purchased on Amazon.com. To get started, most people buy three products together for a total of $70: the ProjectLife core kit, which includes designed title and journaling cards, for $30; a ProjectLife binder for $20; a pack of 60 varied photo pocket pages for $30.

You could easily skip buying the binder, since it’s just a plastic binder with a cute design and logo on the front, and buy one at Walmart or Target for cheaper.

Those who are willing to put a little more effort into memory keeping, not wanting to spend $60 on the kit, should entertain the idea of making their own ProjectLife kit.

A small variety pack of ProjectLife photo pockets is only $7, contains 12 pages and fits in most three-ring binders. Buy a $5 pack of designed paper from Walmart, and a cheap, one dollar 3-ring binder and you’re good to go! A 24-page do-it-yourself ProjectLife book is only $20. It would require cutting the paper to fit the pockets, but would be a more economical option. Just look at the many ProjectLife-inspired Pinterest boards for layout ideas.

‘The Pale King’: Posthumous Novel Offers Insight into the Mundane Life

Mason Sams Staff Writer

‘The Pale King’ is David Foster Wallace’s posthumous (and technically unfinished) published work, compiled and edited by Michael Pietsch. The book, largely centered in Peoria, IL at an I.R.S. office in 1985, focuses on the idea that “death by amusement” and “death by boredom” are essentially “two sides of the same coin.”

Wallace mostly spotlights the minute details of life in all its glory and despair, especially in the “boring” or “uneventful” parts because that is where life happens to take place. Puberty is not one brief headache - it is a series of excruciatingly embarrassing events of life-altering importance that don’t end as much as become the norm.

For example, Wallace describes the daily woes of a boy who does not seem to have anything wrong with him except for his excessive and overwhelming issues with perspiration. He hates speaking in front of the class for fear of judgement from his classmates from his profuse sweat; he attempts to get out of class by acting sick but realizes the class would stare at him and notice his wet forehead and pallored face; he even begins to sweat at the thought of sweating.

This character, named Cusk, grows up in the novel to work at the I.R.S. branch crunching numbers with his colleagues, who all appear to be afraid that their careers -however boring they might be- will be taken over by computers.

It is these sorts of characters that Wallace imaginatively creates in ‘The Pale King’ with matching illustrative descriptions of their daily lives that leave a sense of understanding in a person - he teaches empathy in a way that is difficult to accomplish in the real world.

The book surrounds the lives

David Foster Wallace

of essentially six characters, one of which is David Foster Wallace himself. In one chapter, he explains (with his signature use of excessive footnotes) that this book is more of a memoir than anything as he used to work at the I.R.S. branch as a security guard where he overheard many of the stories described in the book. Of course, this is not true, but it adds an intricate layer of complexity to the story as well as Wallace the writer.

The five characters of the book each portray distinct personalities: Sylvanshire, the depressed “ninny”, Cusk, who was mentioned earlier, Meredith, a beautiful woman with an exceptionally troubled youth, Steyck, the CEO who ironically describes his youth as a “do-gooder,” and Lane Dean Jr. who got caught up in an unwanted pregnancy and struggles at the IRS branch to care for a family he did not ask for entirely.

However, a book about boredom does not escape the occasional bouts of, well, boredom. It could be argued that he intentionally places “too much information” into the text as a way of making the reader feel just as bored as the characters do in their work at the branch. One character, Lane Dean Jr., describes

it as “boredom beyond any boredom he’d ever felt,” while another attempts to glorify the life of an accountant because they bring “order amidst the chaos.”

But these occasional narrative lulls are made up by many brilliant and refreshing moments that leave the reader contemplating facets of their own life. Wallace is a keen and thoughtful observer and shows it quite skillfully in his writing.

However, one of Wallace’s major critiques from other writers is that he does not fully “end” a book so much as he just stops. If the reader is okay with a book that ends abruptly, then Wallace does it better than many writers of today.

Taking this into account, it is important to consider that he committed suicide near the end of writing this book. Some scholars and critics propose he himself may have “gotten bored” with life.

Whether, they are wrong or right does not matter as the book argues that life should be lived from moment to moment, even with the boring parts, because that is when life happens. Afterall, it is not one big event after another.

Do not let the suddenness of the book’s ending trick you or his sometimes overwhelming wordiness discourage you from reading this book. Personally, I found it best to take the book as a culmination of short stories that all happen to add up at the end.

Wallace is a truly gifted mind and what some would call the writer of a generation, even though they may never have known he was speaking for them. His writings are like an ever growing tree, not unlike Jack and his beanstalk, where his words seem to weave in and out of themselves in perpetuity. Except here it is you at the stump of this seemingly endless growing stalk.

The only solace is that once you start climbing, you never want to stop.

A few years ago, very few people even knew what gluten was and even fewer even thought about eating or not eating it. In the past year or so a new trend has swept through the diet and health community, the glutenfree diet. Gluten is in most bread, pasta and is even in beer. Luckily, now that the gluten free trend is growing, eating a gluten-free diet is easier than ever with various companies making gluten-free versions of their food and more and more options to use for flour, like coconut flour and almond flour. Meat, vegetables, and fruit are gluten-free and are great options to eat if you are seeking to eat glutenfree.

Gluten is a protein that is founded in wheat rye, and barley. About 1% of the population has a gluten intolerance. This intolerance can oftentimes cause celiac disease, which is an intestinal condition which prohibits the body to absorb nutrients from food.

Some symptoms of gluten-intolerance can include eczema, aching joints,

among other things. The symptoms are so varied, so seeing a doctor is the best option if you suspect you have a gluten intolerance.

People without celiac disease or gluten intolerance are choosing to eat a gluten-free diet. Some people preach a gluten-free life, saying that it leads to weight-loss, can improve cholesterol levels, and help assist digestive health. Dr. Peter HR Green, MD, the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, says that unless people are very careful, eating a gluten-free diet can lead to the person missing much of their daily nutrients.

Whole grains are rich in necessary vitamins and nutrients, like iron and fiber.

For those with a gluten intolerance, gluten-free is really the best option to have optimal health. When many people find out about their gluten intolerance, they usually think that they will be subjected to a diet of just meat, fruit, and veggies and won’t be able to indulge in some of their favorite foods. With the growing trend of the gluten-free diet, more and more recipes are in circulation that take classic recipes and make them gluten-free.

Gluten-Free Bacon Mac and Cheese

Ingredients

bacon grease 4. Combine pasta and bacon in bowl together 5. Whisk together eggs and evaporated milk 6. Add in spices and cheese and mix 7. Add in pasta mixture and stir well 8. Bake mixture in a square pan for about 12 minutes, or until golden brown and bubbling

Directions

Living with a gluten allergy or celiac disease does not mean that you have to forgo all of your favorite foods. A quick browse online or the purchase of a gluten free cookbook can assist you in enjoying some treats that used to be off limits.

½ pound of any gluten free pasta 5 slices of bacon, chopped 3 large eggs 1 12 ounce can of evaporated milks 1/8 teaspoon of ground nutmeg ¼ teaspoon of cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon salt 1 ½ cups grated sharp cheddar ½ cup grated Monterey jack ½ cup grated Parmesan 1. Pre-heat oven to 475 degrees 2. Boil water and once it is boiling, add in pasta. Cook the pasta for about 6 minutes (it will be undercooked) and drain 3. Cook bacon until crispy and keep two tablespoons of

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients

8 ounces butter ¼ cup of cornstarch 2 cups of rice flour 2 cups tapioca flour 1 tablespoon xanthan gum 1 tablespoon slat 1 tablespoon baking soda ¼ cup sugar 1 ¼ cup brown sugar 1 ½ teaspoon of vanilla 1 egg 2 cups of chocolate chips

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees 2. Combine dry ingredients (besides sugar) in a bowl 3. Mix butter and sugars together until a creamy mixture, then add the eggs 4. Add flour mixture 5. Add in chocolate chips 6. Bake for roughly 8 minutes, or until the cookies are golden brown

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Comics Pearls Before Swine

Dilbert

Calvin and Hobbes

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Sudoku Stephan Pastis

Scott Adams

Bill Watterson

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Crossword

Doonesbury

Non Sequitur

Garry Trudeau

Wiley Miller

By Erik Agard

The Argyle Sweater

Scott Hilburn

ACROSS 1 Pressured, with “on” 7 NASA citrus drink 11 Digital doc format 14 Cry from an oversleeper 15 Smokehouse order 16 Meyers of “Kate & Allie” 17 *Career soldier 19 Quaint curse 20 Yellowish green 21 “Gotcha!”

22 Small craft concern 23 End of a New Year’s song 24 *1995 movie flop dubbed “Fishtar” by some critics 26 Word before chi or after mai 28 Long tale 29 *Much-sought-after celebrity 35 Baker’s 13 38 Campfire residue 39 Beijing-born, say 41 Madhouse 42 Green stuff 44 *Sun emanation responsible for the northern lights 46 Unveiler’s cry 48 British verb ender 49 *Petal pusher?

54 Walrus feature

58 Dieter’s gain?

59 Singer Erykah 60 Political channel 61 Word of repulsion 62 Brangelina, e.g.—or, in a way, each of the answers to starred clues 64 “__ Big to Fail”: 2009 account of the financial crisis 65 Gets to 66 Mourn 67 Clairvoyant’s gift 68 Soft “Yo!” 69 Beginning bits DOWN 1 Oscar night rides 2 “Our Town” girl 3 Too pooped to pop 4 Unworldliness 5 Sermon ending?

6 Deal-busting org.

7 Behind-closed-doors event 8 ‘Til Tuesday lead vocalist Mann 9 Cavs and Mavs 10 “The Pyramid” channel 11 29-Across chasers 12 Dryly amusing 13 Not likely to move 18 River valley formation 22 Disco adjective

24 Fingers-crossed thought 25 Angler’s gear 27 Place to play “Space Invaders” 29 “Skyfall” director Mendes 30 GI’s hangout 31 Image-editing software 32 “__ a pity” 33 Year abroad?

34 Fam. reunion attendee 36 Years and years 37 Bob of hope, maybe 40 Take a trip by ship 43 Congressional output 45 Triathlon attire 47 Vine yards?

49 Champagne glass 50 Java’s coffee cup et al.

51 Stares stupidly 52 Latin clarifier 53 1921 robot play 55 Shoe top 56 Simultaneous weapons discharge 57 Oft-patched clothing parts 60 Trite stuff 62 Humdinger 63 Software-driven film effects, for short

Sports Editor: Kristen Coppola Assistant Sports Editor: Haley Markle Wednesday, April 3, 2013

TRACK & FIELD

Razorbacks Are on the Road Again

Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer The No. 11 Arkansas women’s track team hits the road again Friday, competing in the 34th annual Sun Angel Classic at Arizona State in Tempe, Ariz.

Last weekend, the Razorbacks competed in three different meets, creating a “logistical nightmare,” head coach Lance Harter said.

The team was split up between the Texas Relays in Austin, the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif., and the Razorback Spring Invitational in Fayetteville.

Four Razorback athletes set personal records in Palo Alto, while the 4x400-meter relay team, anchored by senior Regina George, broke the school record with a time of 3 minutes, 28.42 seconds, finishing fourth in Austin.

No. 4 Florida, No. 6 Texas and No. 3 Texas A&M finished ahead of Arkansas.

“That was a fantastic effort,” Harter said. “Usually those times don’t come available until the NCAA Championship, but those four teams were the best in the U.S. and got after it.”

Harter said he expects George to continue to improve, as she still hasn’t run her top event, the 400-meter.

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GYMNASTICS

Hogs Selected for Regional Competition Ben Enyart Staff Writer

The Arkansas gymnastics team has been selected to compete in the Corvallis NCAA Regional and will be traveling to Corvallis, Ore., this weekend for the tournament.

The Hogs are seeded third with No. 4 Georgia as the first-seed in the Regional, No. 9 Oregon State as the secondseed, No. 21 Boise State as the fourth-seed, Arizona State as the fifth-seed and Cal as the sixth-seed.

“Oregon is definitely going to be tough at home; they are very tough at home regardless of NCAA berth,” co-head coach Mark Cook said. “Georgia is ranked quite a bit higher than us, but again if they have a couple slip-ups and we perform well, we can slide right past them.”

The Hogs are ranked No. 16 nationally and are coming off a sixth-place finish at the Southeastern Conference Gymnastics Championships last weekend.

They are nationally ranked in all the events as well: No. 9 on the floor, No. 14 on the bars, No. 16 on the vault and No. 22 on the beam.

Arkansas’ Katherine Grable is ranked No. 14 nationally in the all-around competition, No. 14 on the floor and No. 24 on the vault.

Grable, along with teammate Kelci Lewis, was also just named to the All-Southeastern Conference team, and Keara

Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Co-head gymnastics coach, Mark Cook, speaks at the Olympic press conference, Tuesday, April 2. Cook discussed the tough competition the Gym‘Backs will face at the Corvallis Regional this weekend.

Glover and Sydnie Dillard were named to the All-Freshman SEC team. Between these four athletes, this is the largest SEC team selection in the program’s history.

“Amy has been doing great in training,” Cook said. “Kelci Lewis is a really strong senior in two events, and our freshmen just have to get in there and get after it. So, individually, it’s going to take everybody.

Katherine definitely has to lead the team, but everybody has to do their job as well, otherwise it just doesn’t happen.”

The meet will be divided into six rotations. For the Hogs, the meet will start with a bye round in the first rotation, then they will move onto the floor for rotation two, vault for rotation three, another bye on rotation four, bars on rotation five and they will finish up on

TRACK & FIELD

Hogs Use Week Off to Prepare

Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer

Coming off of a solid performance at the Stanford Invitational and Spring Invitational in which five Razorbacks won events, most athletes for No. 2 Arkansas are getting a week off.

The only event this week for the men’s track and field team is the John McDonnell Combined Events in Fayetteville Sunday and Monday.

Athletes that compete in combined events, like the decathlon, are the only ones participating.

The rest of team is preparing for the John McDonnell Invitational in Fayetteville April 12 and 13.

“We have Texas A&M coming in and they’re the No. 1 team in the country right now,” head coach Chris Bucknam said. “We’re No. 2, so it looks like that’d be a pretty good track meet to come to.”

At the Stanford Invitational, Arkansas’ top performer was junior Kemoy Campbell,

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the beam for rotation six.

Going into the regional meet, the Hogs are 8-12-1 overall for the season and 3-10-1 in the SEC. This will be the 10th regional appearance in the last 11 seasons for the Razorbacks.

“We’ve been gaining momentum for the latter part of the season and our scores have been consistent,” Cook said.

“We’ve not been perfect; we’ve gone out and hit some good

TENNIS

Hogs Prepare to Face a Pair of Top-25 Teams

Tamzen Tumlison Senior Staff Writer

Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Head men’s track coach, Chris Bucknam, speaks at the Olympic press conference at Barnhill Arena, Tuesday, April 2. who ran the 5,000-meter in 13 minutes, 32.82 seconds. His time not only won the race, but was also the best NCAA time and second best time in the world so far this year.

It is also the eighth fastest time in UA history.

“Obviously, we’re happy with Campbell’s NCAA-leading time in the 5,000,” Bucknam said. “He seems to have kept it rolling after the Indoor Championships.”

Junior Solomon Haile also took home a top-10 finish

at the Stanford Invitational.

He finished the 10,000-meter in 28:56.92, which was the eighth fastest finish at the meet and his fastest since suffering an injury and missing

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meets, but at Oregon we’re going to definitely have to not be perfect, but we have to hit a really good competition to advance on.”

This meet will start at 6 p.m.

Saturday, April 6, and depending on if the team can finish in one of the top two spots at this Regional meet, the next and final meet of the year will be the NCAA Championships in Los Angeles, Calif., April 19.

Following a weekend of losses, the No. 44 Razorback women’s tennis team will jump back into action Friday at Tennessee and Sunday at Georgia.

The Hogs came up short against South Carolina and Florida, two highly ranked Southeastern Conference opponents.

The losses pushed Arkansas to 10-12 overall and a 3-7 SEC record, but the Hogs are “certainly excited to get back out there this weekend on the road,” head coach Michael Hegarty said.

“We go to Tennessee and Georgia, who are both having good seasons,” Hegarty said.

“Obviously, they are two traditional SEC powers.”

Tennessee is ranked 23rd in the nation and is also coming off of a weekend with two losses, falling at the hands of No. 3 Texas A&M and No. 58

Missouri.

Arkansas stands at 5-20 in the all-time series against Tennessee, but pulled out a surprising win at Tennessee in the 2012 season when the Volunteers were ranked 12th. The win was the highest ranked victory of that season.

“We had a good trip there last year and beat Tennessee on the road, so we feel comfortable with the trip,” Hegarty said. “We’re excited about it and it’s definitely a match where we’re looking to improve.”

No. 5 Georgia leads the all-time series against Arkansas, as the Hogs stand at 3-23 against the Bulldogs.

Georgia had an outstanding weekend of play and topped Texas A&M at home and Missouri on the road. The win over the third-ranked Aggies boosted Georgia’s overall record to 15-2, with a dominating 8-1 record in the SEC. Texas A&M has never won

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COMMENTARY

Underdogs Shine in More Than Men’s Basketball

Tamzen Tumlison Senior Staff Writer Upsets and underdogs are some of America’s favorite sports tokens. It wouldn’t be a good season of any sport if someone didn’t lose a game they were supposed to win

— what would be the fun of that?

If you haven’t kept up with the women’s basketball NCAA Tournament, the only news you might have heard about Louisville in the past week is how Kevin Ware’s leg snapped in two while playing against Duke, a game Louisville later won.

However, just a few hours later, the No. 5 seeded Louisville Cardinals pulled off one of the biggest women’s basketball upsets over the weekend.

No. 1 seed Baylor, a 34-2 team that was on a streak of 32 wins and won the NCAA championship in the 2012

season, got blindsided by Louisville 82-81.

Not even Baylor superstar Brittney Griner could keep her Lady Bears afloat the whole game. Griner didn’t even score until the second half, and fouled in the last 3 seconds to give Louisville the foul shots needed to take the game.

Closer to home, you might have heard about the first softball series sweep over a ranked opponent since 2000.

The Razorbacks took down No. 22 Georgia over the weekend.

As it typically goes, unranked opponents are more than likely not high-priority

games in the mind of the ranked team’s players — think ULM against Arkansas. Knowing that the ranked Bulldogs probably didn’t expect to be swept in a threegame series by Arkansas makes the wins that much sweeter.

The slightly surprising wins only set Arkansas with a record of 3-6 in the Southeastern Conference, and the Hogs sit at 25-13 overall.

The upset over Georgia also gave Devon Wallace national recognition. Not only did the SEC name Wallace the Player of the Week, but CollegeSportsMadness.com named her the National Play-

er of the Week.

Of course, not all upsets make America happy. Take the men’s basketball NCAA tournament. If you made a bracket, chances are, it’s busted. And if you had any money on a certain team, I’m sorry.

Florida Gulf Coast was a true nearly-Cinderella story.

This school was only established a little over 20 years ago, which is part of the reason the 15th-seeded basketball team shocked the nation by defeating No. 2 seed Georgetown by 10 points.

Not only that, but FGCU continued on into the Sweet 16. The No. 3 seed, Florida, ended FGCU’s chances at

making it to the championship, but not before the nation rallied around the team.

Wichita State added another NCAA tournament upset to the list, taking out the first-seeded Gonzaga 76-70.

These are just a few of the numerous underdog stories and upsets that excited Arkansas and the nation in the past week. Chances are, by the end of the week, there will be even more to add to the list.

Tamzen Tumlison is a writer for the Arkansas Traveler. Her column appears every other Wednesday. Follow the sports section on Twitter @UATravSports.

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PAIR continued from page 7 against Georgia, but the two times have only met seven times.

Georgia features three ranked singles players. No. 8 Lauren Herring beat Texas A&M’s No. 5 player. The Bulldogs also have a player ranked 18th and another ranked 43rd.

Arkansas has its own batch of ranked players, including No. 47 Yang Pang

and No. 97 Claudine Paulson, as well as the duo of Paulson and Segou Jonker at a No. 74 ranking in doubles.

The two matches will be the final two away games for the Hogs before a final home match and the SEC Tournament.

“What you’re trying to do right now is have everybody push on through as well as possible, maybe altering

your training just a little bit at this point in the season,” Hegarty said. “You’re trying to freshen people up as well as you can, and for the most part, that’s going well.”

“It’s a critical point in the season, and I think we’re ready for it,” Hegarty said.

The first serve is April 5 at 4 p.m. in the match against Tennessee and 1 p.m. April 7 against Georgia.

Addison Morgan Staff Photographer Head women’s track coach, Lance Harter, speaks at the Olympic press conference at Barnhill Arena, Tuesday, April 2.

“Regina George is an incredible warrior out there,” Harter said. “Everybody fears having to run against Regina.”

Senior Stephanie Brown showed her range at the Stanford Invitational, running in the 800-meter and 5,000-meter. She finished 14th and ninth, respectively.

“I’ve had a lot of coaches come up to me and say that Stephanie Brown is a unique individual,” Harter said. “She’s an outstanding athlete that asked to move up and see what she

could do as far as endurance goes.”

Only a couple weeks into the outdoor season, Harter said that his team is still in a “very heavy training phase right now,” so he is “really pleased” with their performance so far.

Until the sprinters and jumpers leave for the Sun Angel Classic, the Razorbacks will train and prepare wherever the weather allows them. Rain and cold weather have forced the team to practice inside the Randal Tyson Track Center several

times since the conclusion of the indoor season.

“We’re blessed to have an indoor track,” Harter said. “Not only is it a track, but it’s the best of the best.”

Although the weather has forced the team to “modify our training a little bit,” Harter said he still sees his team making progress.

“As long as the athletes and coaches are on the same page and heading in the same direction, we’re going to be fine,” Harter said.

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“It was great to see (Haile) back out on the track running the 10,000,” Bucknam said.

“I’m excited and pleased with how hard he’s worked to get back to this point.”

Overall, Bucknam said the team is in a “rebooting phase” after winning the NCAA Indoor Championship and the athletes are working primarily with their specialty and event coaches.

“I think after the first few

outdoor workouts, the indoor season is long gone,” Bucknam said. “We have a lot of tired puppies right now.”

“Nothing fancy is going on in practice, just a lot of hard work, a lot of heavy breathing and getting back to the basics,” Bucknam said.

While many of the Razorbacks have the week off, there are a couple opportunities for students and fans to interact with the team.

Bucknam, as well as assis-

tant coaches Doug Case and Travis Geopfert, will be at Jose’s Mexican Restaurant on Dickson Street Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. as part of the track team’s monthly luncheon series.

Friday, the UA is having a pep rally for the men’s track and field team in honor of their 2013 NCAA Indoor Team National Championship. Free pizza will be available to students while supplies last.

The pep rally begins at 12:30 p.m. at the Union Mall.

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations Claudine Paulson returns the ball at a match this weekend. The women’s tennis team faces two top-25 opponents on the road this weekend after losing two at home.