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!"#$%&'(% )*%+#%,-. Kristen Coppola Sports Editor Officials announced Tuesday night that the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers would assume the position of the Razorback head coach, ending an eight-month coaching search. Bret Bielema led the Badgers to three consecutive appearances at the Rose Bowl including this year against the Stanford Cardinals. The Badgers lost to the Texas Christian University Horned Frogs in 2011 and to the Oregon Ducks in 2012. Bielema will not coach the Badgers Jan. 1, according to an article on SB Nation. Athletic Director Jeff Long single-handedly conducted the coaching search, and though Oklahoma State’s
Mike Gundy and Boise State’s Chris Petersen were rumored to finalists for the position, the 5-year contract was given to Bielema. “Throughout his career, he has demonstrated a commitment to competing for a national championship with a program known for discipline, honesty and integrity,” Long said in the official release. While at Wisconsin, Bielema had a coaching record of 68-24, and the Badgers have qualified for a bowl game each season. Wisconsin has only won two of the bowl games. Bielema has a six-year contract worth $3.2 million annually,” according to reports by The Associated Press. Bielema will be introduced to the media at 4 p.m. today in the Broyles Center.
For a story about student’s reactions to the new coach, see Students Respond to Hire Out of Left Field on Page 7
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Northwest Arkansas homelessness increased 36 percent in two years, according to the UA most recent homeless census. Full Story, Page 2
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Writers Say Arkansas Finds ‘Perfect’ Hire Hunter Hawk Staff Writer The Arkansas Razorbacks officially announced Wisconsin coach Bret Bielema as the new head football coach today. At 2 p.m. yesterday, Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long tweeted, “New Football Coach release at 6:15 PM Today #GoHogs!!!” Bielema has a record of 68-24 in seven seasons at Wisconsin. The Badgers, with Bielema, have made three consecutive Rose Bowl appearances. Arkansas’ hiring of Bielema was originally reported by Yahoo! Sports yesterday afternoon. Bielema served as the defensive coordinator at Wisconsin for two years before being promoted to head coach in 2006. He played college football as a defensive lineman at the University of Iowa under legendary coach Hayden Fry from 1989 to 1992, becoming team captain his senior season. Bielema graduated from Iowa with a bachelor’s degree in marketing, said ESPN journalist Joe Schad. Bret Bielema’s seven-year career at Wisconsin was impressive and caught the attention of Jeff Long and the Arkansas Razorbacks. “This is an excellent hire for
Arkansas. Athletic director Jeff Long, who has ridden through a wringer since Bobby Petrino’s ill-fated motorcycle ride on April Fool’s Day, found a person perfectly suited to coach in a place with fantastic monetary resources,” said Sports Illustrated writer, Andy Staples. After a short stint playing for the Milwaukee Mustangs in the Arena Football League, Bielema returned to the University of Iowa and served as an assistant coach from 1993 to 2001. He was the co-defensive coordinator for Kansas State University from 2002 to 2003. He then was hired the same position at the University of Wisconsin–Madison the following year. Then, in 2005, he got his big break as a head coach when Wisconsin’s athletic director, Barry Alvarez, chose Bielema to succeed him as head coach after he announced his retirement from coaching in 2005. Most Fan reactions seem optimistic as some Arkansas fans took to Twitter and other social media outlets to express their feelings on the decision. “Bielema had over sixty wins, seven bowl appearances, six times ranked in the final AP Top 25, three Big Ten titles and three trips to the Rose Bowl. Now he’s a Razorback,” said junior Business Major, Taylor Berry.
Timeline for Arkansas Coaching Search After the Petrino wrecked his motorcycle, Smith wrecked the Razorbacks; now Bielema gets his chance. Full Story, Page 8
New Vice Provost for Research and Economic Development Appointed Bailey Deloney Staff Writer A professor of biological sciences was appointed interim associate vice provost for research and economic development. As part of this new role, Cynthia Sagers will be working with faculty
Stimulate Competitive Research, Rankin said. “EPSCoR is a special program to promote research in states where it is underfunded,” Sagers said. There are 26 states, including Arkansas, and five federal agencies that are involved with this program, Sagers said. As an overall goal, UA is looking to increase
“There is a lot going on even in just that one field.” Cynthia Sagers
Interim Associate Vice Provost to seek proposals for research funds, said Jim Rankin, vice provost for research and economic development. The office of research and economic development serves the research community across campus, not just research in the hard sciences, Sagers said. Sagers will also be working with EPSCoR, the Experimental Program to
federal research grants, Rankin said. Specifically, the university specializes in the research areas of health, nanoscience, energy and environmental science. Results of efforts by this office are already apparent in various fields across campus, Sagers said. In the biological sciences field alone, UA fac-
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Homelessness on the Rise
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Northwest Arkansas homelessness increased 36 percent in two years, according to the UA most recent homeless census. Shelters have prepared to help nearly 2,000 homeless people prepare for cold weather. Many organizations in northwest Arkansas have resources available for the homeless to receive food and clothing, but The Salvation Army is the only organization with overnight shelters for men and women in Rogers and Fayetteville, Dawn Alva, a Salvation Army official said. Shelters are open for the homeless every night from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 a.m. A hot dinner, breakfast and sack lunch are provided for everyone who stays overnight, said Danny Camarillo, Salvation Army housing manager. To ensure privacy, shelters are separated into dorms for men, women and families with 42 beds total. Guests can stay for 10 nights and are expected to complete job applications daily, or up to 30 nights if they have a job, Area Commander Maj. Tim Williford said. “People are required to be looking for jobs if they’re staying at The Salvation Army,” Williford said. “This is not long-term housing, we’re trying to help them get off the streets.” Those restrictions don’t apply when temperatures are less than 23 degrees. In severe weather, The Salvation Army serves as a 24hour emergency shelter open to anyone, regardless of job status and can accommodate up to 75 people though there are 42 beds, Camarillo said. “The Fayetteville shelter is normally full,” Williford said. “They sleep on cots because
there aren’t enough beds for them all.” People may be crammed, but the shelter does its best to keep everyone warm though the winter. The Salvation Army cannot exceed 75 guests. When capacity is reached, officials have used creative resources, they said, to ensure everyone has a warm place to sleep during severe weather. “We try not to turn anyone away,” Camarillo said. “Sometimes we’ve had to call law enforcement who will help them find a secure place. People have spent the night in jail before because the weather was so bad.” Some churches also open their doors to the homeless as a cold-weather shelter during the winter, Camarillo said. The number of homeless persons in Benton and Washington Counties increased 36 percent between 2009 and 2011, from 1,287 to 2,001, according to the most recent homeless census taken in 2011. The number of homeless youth increased by more than 39 per-
Salvation Army social service statistics. “We had people coming in all winter to get coats,” Dawn Alva, former Salvation Army social worker said. Along with coats, The Salvation Army provides blankets, pillows and cots to help sustain the homeless through the winter. “People steal [cots] like crazy because they don’t have anything else to sleep on when they leave the shelter,” Williford said. “They’re on camera but we still can’t catch them.” The preferred term for the homeless in Fayetteville is “urban outdoorsman,” Williford said. “The name really makes sense because they sleep in the woods and live outside in urban environments.” The term is relevant for Jessica and her boyfriend who both sleep under a bridge in south Fayetteville with a small group of homeless people, she said. Jessica thinks “there’s a purpose for everyone” and not enough people are helping the homeless, she said.
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going to have an office? That is what potential graduate students are going to look at when they choose a school, and we are lagging on those things.” There are more than 100 degree programs in the graduate school, which encompasses all graduate programs in all colleges, and right now it is hard for seven people to represent all of those students, Marino said. “We are trying to give a centralized and legitimate voice that unites graduate students from all of the various programs,” Powers said. “A legislative body like this will bring everyone together where we can form one voice that better influences administration to get our issues noticed.” Graduate students are facing issues that most often go beyond the undergraduate experience, like healthcare, childcare, instructor’s rights, the ability to fund travel grants, library issues and office space, said senator Madeleine Forrest, Ph.D history student.
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SAGERS continued from page 1 ulty have received research grants in physiology, genetics and the diversity of life sciences, Sagers said. “There is a lot going on even in just that one field,” Sagers said. The university has benefited from research grants like this in fields across the board, Sagers said. A professor at the UA since 1993, university officials allowed Sagers to go on detail with the National Science Foundation for the last two years. The UA allows faculty to go on detail and work with various agencies in order to gain valuable experience to bring back with them, Sagers said. “I think that’s the real reason I am sitting in this office,” Sagers said.
cent. “There are a lot of cold people out here,” said 29-yearold Jessica who asked not to disclose her last name. “I don’t think others know how it is to be out here on the streets — to live the life and walk the trials that I’ve walked.” Jessica has been homeless for two years, she said. In 2010 and 2011 a 24-hour, severe weather shelter was needed in January and February. Winter was too mild in early 2012 to warrant an emergency shelter, Williford said. Officials don’t expect severe weather to be a problem this year. “I don’t see us doing a severe weather shelter this year, but if it gets cold enough we’ll be ready for it,” Williford said. “You know how crazy the weather is around here.” Recently, the Salvation Army began its annual Coats for Kids drive that will provide coats for children and adults through the winter. Last year, there were 209 cases of families who benefited from the drive, according to the 2011
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Associated Student Government senators representing the graduate college have proposed to create a Graduate Congress, a separate legislative body within the legislative branch comprised of graduate students only. The bill went to senate for a vote last night and the bill was passed. The Graduate Congress will be comprised of 35 graduate students who meet once a month and report directly to the executive branch, senators said. For graduate students to devote two to three hours a week in the senate to be able to retain a seat is unmanageable, said senator Michael Powers, a Ph.D history student. The move to create this representative body for graduate students coincides with the UA’s recent goal to increase graduate enroll-
ment to 20 percent of the student body by 2021, according senator Sanket Desai, a Ph.D. history student. “If we want to reach the top 50 we need to do stuff like this in order to make us competitive, to provide better benefits for graduate students and a better environment for graduate students,” Desai said. “The ultimate goal is to be able to represent and benefit not just the grad students we have, but the thousands that we are going to be bringing in on campus. So this university has to change and this is going to help bring that about.” In eight years will go from having 3,700 graduate students to 5,600, said senator Alex Marino, Ph.D history student. “Being a top 50 institution does not just mean having the checklist, ‘do you have a rock climbing wall? Do you have nice facilities?’ It is going to be ‘what is my experience as a student going to be like?’ Are you going to be able to afford to live, to do research, are you
While working with this agency, “my job was to give away money,” Sagers said. “I reviewed grant proposals that came in and evaluated them based on merit.” Upon returning to UA, she has been able to put to use all of the skills she acquired while on detail, Sagers said. “We are happy to have her and her experience here in the office,” Rankin said. “We think she is going to be very beneficial to the office.” Sagers will continue to teach courses in the biological sciences, in addition to fulfilling this new role. “I am really thrilled to be here and I look forward to meeting researchers on this campus of all different flavors,” Sagers said.
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Ashley Swindell Staff Photographer Students study at the Au Bon Pain cafe in the Arkansas Union, Monday, Dec. 3.
Bailey Deloney Staff Writer The Union, Mullins library and local coffee shops are considered the top three places students said they like to study during finals time. In response to student suggestions and in anticipation of finals, Mullins Library has been opened and will be open 24 hours a day for the duration of finals, said Tim Zou, head of Access Services. In previous years, Mullins extended the hours for two weeks, finals week and the week prior to finals, Zou said. However, in recent years many students have expressed a desire for the library to expand the extended hours, Zou said. Many students have indicated that the workload hits hard in the weeks before finals
begin, Zou said. Traffic in the library has been increasing every year, along with the increase in enrollment, Zou said. “Students don’t want to study with the distractions at the dorms,” Zou said. “It is important to provide space and time that they can study.” College students also tend to be in the habit of studying late at night, students said. “I’m used to studying at night,” said Kirsch Mackey, a second year electrical engineering graduate student. The extended hours at Mullins have been excellent, Kirsch said. ASG and Chartwells are also working to provide coffee and cookies late night in the library Sunday, said Kim Johnson, marketing director for Chartwells. The Law Library is also great place to study because it is not crowded, said Ngoc
Phan, freshman finance major. Others said they prefer the environment of a coffee shop to study. “I can’t study when it’s silent,” said Alison Lorei, freshman architecture major. “I like to study in Starbucks or Au Bon Pain.” Coffee shops are nice during finals time because there’s coffee and snacks to have while studying, said Peyton Mehere, freshman nursing major. Business for the newest Arsaga’s, off of Dickson, has been just as successful as on-campus coffee options, said Emily Lawson, manager for Arsaga’s at the Depot. “Enough people like coffee to keep good business at all the coffee shops around the area,” Lawson said. Also in anticipation of finals week, the dining halls will be focusing on serving “brain food and foods that relieve stress,” Johnson said.
New Latino Society Scholarship Seek Funds
Sarah Villegas Staff Writer
The UA’s Latino Alumni Society is raising money to create an endowment for scholarships. The Latino Alumni Society Scholarship Fund is a new project for the alumni society that has been a work in progress since April 2012. “La Pachanga,” a banquet put together by the Latino Alumni Society in April, was the first event to initiate fund raising for the endowment. “The Latino Alumni Society is two years old and we have been raising money for the scholarship fund since our event in April,” said Erika Gamboa, president of the Latino Alumni Society. La Pachanga honored 95 alumni members and 179 UA seniors of Latino descent and raised $5,000 for the scholarship fund. The Latino Alumni Society plans to continue La Pachanga to both recognize
the accomplishments of the students and to raise money for the endowment. “As an alumni society, it’s our job to help these students financially,” Gamboa said. “Part of our mission is to promote education and celebrate diversity and we need to do that by helping our students out with scholarships.” Earlier this semester La Oficina Latina worked with Univision, a local Latino news organization, to organize “Bailamos por sus Sueños.” The event was a dance that raised $2,000 for the scholarship fund and Univision split the profits with the alumni society. “I think we have been doing a really good job,” said Cecilia Grossberger, committee head for Hispanic Heritage Month. “The whole thing was organized in less than a month; we did everything in about three weeks.” This was the first year for the dance, but the Hispanic Heritage Month Committee plans to make it a university tradition, Grossberger said.
A scholarship fund must raise $25,000 before it can be an endowment, according to the UA’s scholarship office. The Latino Alumni Society has raised just over $5,000, Gamboa said. The Latino Alumni Society will make the scholarship application available to all graduate and undergraduate students as well as incoming freshmen, and plans to award scholarships to four students this year. Scholarship recipients must join the Latino Alumni Society board for as long as they continue to receive the scholarship. As a board member the students must go to all meetings, events and help shape the organization. The scholarships will be awarded in increments of $500 and will be renewable, Grossberger said. “If we see that a student is working hard and is coming to all the meetings and being involved, we won’t make that student reapply, we will just renew it for them” Grossberger said.
Netherland Trio to Perform Today
Nuri Heo Staff Writer
Cactus Truck, a trio from the Netherlands, will be performing a free concert at 7:30 p.m. today at Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall as part of a sixweek tour of the United States. Led by saxophonist John Dikeman, formerly of Fayetteville, the members of the group are active on the internationalimprovised-music circuit and
recently released their first album, “Grand New for China,” on the Public Eyesore label. The group has played all over the states. “This tour has taken us all over the USA and a great part of that has been revisiting places and people from my past. I lived in about 10 different states while I was growing up in states and we’ve played in most of those states,” Dikeman said. Dikeman said he feels fantastic about the event. Aside
from being in Fayetteville again, he said he is happy every time he gets to play. He has worked many jobs throughout the years, installing satellite dishes, security alarms, being a cashier and a janitor in Arkansas, he said. He has been very lucky over the last couple years to work solely as a musician and it is not something he takes for granted. “Nor is it something I expect to last forever, so I’m just trying to make the most of it,” Dikeman said.
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The Obama years could become our ‘lost decade’ E. Thomas McClanahan
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After five years of lousy economic performance, you would think people would be sick of it by now. Guess not. How else to explain why we’re having a big fight over inequality instead of arguing over how to jump-start growth? There’s no denying inequality has increased. Median wages haven’t kept up while families in the upper tax brackets have prospered. But even so, getting the economy back on its typical growth path of 3.4 percent a year should be the overriding imperative. That would do wonders for the immediate problem of too few jobs and too many jobless — not to mention the problem of lagging incomes and insufficient federal revenue. Sadly, that’s not the topic du jour. Prosperity harbors a contradiction. Rapid economic growth requires a relatively high degree of inequality, which is more tolerable when the pie tends to grow for all. In hard times, those who succeed and enrich themselves draw more envy and the political left amps up its obsession with punishing the rich — expressed in the form of taxes that impair the economy’s potential. The current inequality obsession has gotten so bad some people think we would be better off running the top tax rate back up to 91 percent, where it was in the 1950s. Those were prosperous times, they say. Businesses were still created. Investment was healthy. And there was less inequality! The New York Times’ Paul Krugman gave this a try in a recent column, with the added notion that we would also be better off — less inequality! — if organized labor had the same heft it did in the ’50s. As a Nobel laureate, he had to know better. Today, the economy is weak even with relatively low tax rates. Yet Krugman and his fellow travelers say the solution to our woes is a job market dominated by labor monopolies — unions — and a tax rate that gives upper-income investors and business owners virtually no incentive to earn an additional dollar. Krugman forgot that the 1950s were a unique period in our history. Much of the developed world’s industrial capital was incinerated in war
and was still being rebuilt. Of course the American economy prospered. How could it not? Moreover, as James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute recently pointed out, jobs were plentiful in those years in part because the post-war boom came at a time when the size of the labor force was reduced, not only by a Depression-era birth dearth but the loss of potential workers killed or wounded in war. Krugman would profit from reading a recent column by his Times colleague, Eduardo Porter. It includes several passages that were amazing to find in The Times. A sample: The U.S. tax system is “one of the most progressive” in the developed world. It does “more to redistribute resources and reduce inequality” than tax codes in other countries. But progressive taxes “make it hard to raise money” because they “encourage people to reduce their tax liability rather than to increase their pretax income.” And: Hitting top earners with high rates “can discourage work and investment.” Porter was arguing for flatter, European-style taxes like the value-added tax or a carbon tax — levies few people can avoid, which produce revenue like gangbusters. Porter doesn’t think Washington does enough to support low-income families compared with big-government social democracies, which rake in much more revenue. The European debt crisis, however, highlights the flaws in that model. It’s true we must have more revenue and the Simpson-Bowles plan, once assumed to be a roadmap for the fiscal cliff talks, would have produced more by carving loopholes from the tax code. But it also would have encouraged growth by rolling back the top rates. Forget it: Obama now insists we dispense with the rollback. To heck with growth: He wants to carve out the loopholes and raise the rates. If he gets his way, we could face four more years of economic anemia — which means we may someday look back on the Obama years as the Japanese look back on their “lost decade.” E. Thomas McClanahan is a member of the Kansas City Star editorial board.
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Katherine Kortebein Staff Columnist As finals approach, everyone is stressing out about all the things that they need to have done in the next two weeks. Tests and papers can be crammed into this last week and knowing there is only a short amount of time left to boost grades can be overwhelming. In this time, it is more important than ever to be organized, otherwise something could be forgotten and missed. This is where a plan becomes a necessity, in my opinion, and a pen or pencil is
your best friend. When it comes to studying, I would suggest first writing out everything that needs to be done and the times of all deadlines, either in a planner or just any sheet of paper. Writing stimulates the reticular activating system which helps the brain process information, allowing more focus to be brought to the material in front of you. Author Henriette Anne Klauser writes in her book, “Write It Down, Make It Happen,” that writing triggers this system which sends a signal to the cerebral cortex, thereby causing your brain to work harder to make sure you remember and understand the material. So by writing everything down, such as, a study schedule, you will be able to get in a study mode and have a specific schedule in mind which makes everything seem much less overwhelming. For the actual studying, I also suggest writing out everything you need to know, whether it is an outline, bullet points, notecards, whichever form works best for you. Three
brain processes are used when writing: visual, motor and cognitive, according to a study cited by The Huffington Post. As this is more complicated than simply typing, it causes the brain to work harder, allowing for better cognitive skills and more effective learning. Therefore, by writing out the information, you are able to process it in three different ways and on three different levels. This is a much more effective way to study than by typing it all out, even though typing is always tempting as it is much faster and does not make your hand cramp up. In the same study, it was shown that focus is sharpened when writing. When doing so, you are focused on only one point, the tip of your writing utensil. When typing, your attention goes back and forth between the keyboard and the monitor. This creates a lack of focus during which some information could slip through. Writing also creates a pattern unique to each individual person, which makes it easier to remember what is written
down. Typing changes this pattern and erases all originality from it. It also requires you to look for each key as you type, or at least, think about where it is located. Different areas of the brain are activated while writing and typing. Other studies have shown that letters learned through writing were recognized more accurately than those learned through typing. Therefore, this subsequently allows you to remember what is being written more easily. So in the upcoming craziness, I suggest you put your pens and pencils to good use. The key is to stay organized and to not let yourself be overwhelmed. There are less than two weeks left before the end of the semester and you can make it easier on yourself by writing everything out rather than typing. It can only help you stay focused and get the GPA you want. Good luck! Katherine Kortebein is a staff columnist. She is a junior English and creative writing major.
Why the college degree mania?
George Leef MCT Campus
RALEIGH, N.C. — For many years the conventional wisdom in the United States has been that the more people who graduate from college, the better off we’ll be. It’s time to challenge that “wisdom.” The evidence says it’s wrong. In his first major address early in 2009, President Barack Obama set forth a national goal of becoming first in the world in the percentage of college-educated citizens. Supposedly, that would make our economy more productive and competitive. The notion that the economy can be pulled up by processing more young people through college has lots of allure at the state level as well. Two University of North Carolina professors, for example, recently proposed that North Carolina set as an “aspirational” goal having 32 percent of the state’s working-age population have a bachelor’s degree or higher by 2018, up from 28 percent today. There are two problems with such goals. First, politicians and bureaucrats shouldn’t be setting goals for citizens. It should work the other way around, especially when the know-itall government consistently fails to meet minimum com-
petency standards itself, such as passing a budget on time. Individuals usually make pretty sensible decisions on their own. We don’t need public officials to set goals for us. But how could more education be harmful? That brings me to the second problem. America already has gone far past the point of diminishing returns on higher education. Trying to lure more young people into college just so we can say we have more college graduates will lead to more 20-something Americans with college degrees who are holding down jobs that don’t require degrees or don’t pay enough to cover the cost of college. For decades, we have been subsidizing college through increasingly generous student aid programs. That has worked — in the sense that more high school graduates go on to college. But many graduate without learning much. That’s because as the number of students entering college has gone up, academic standards have gone down. Many books and articles have been written about the “dumbing-down” of college and how administrators encourage faculty to mollify students — many of whom are ill prepared and poorly
motivated — by inflating grades and watering down the material. Professors have been telling us that for years, but few of us have paid attention. Now, as a result of two events from last year, many Americans are starting to realize that college has been oversold. The first event was the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. A large percentage of the occupiers were unemployed college graduates who had a lot of grievances, foremost among them the fact that they couldn’t pay their college loans. That was a direct hit on the belief that college graduates have the inside track on good, high-paying jobs. In fact, hundreds of thousands (perhaps millions) of college graduates today — in addition to those who are unemployed — are working parttime, or holding jobs they could have done while still in high school, such as serving coffee, waiting on tables, working a cash register. Supply doesn’t create its own demand. The simple fact that we produce more students with bachelor’s degrees doesn’t automatically create more jobs requiring bachelor’s degrees. The second 2011 event was the publication, by the University of Chicago
Press, of a remarkable new book, “Academically Adrift,” in which the authors, two highly respected sociologists, showed that a high percentage of college students “did not demonstrate any significant improvement in learning” during their student years. As veteran higher education writer Scott Jaschik commented in Inside Higher Ed, “If the purpose of a college education is for students to learn, (the book showed that) academe is failing.” Pushing more people through college hasn’t raised our national skills level or made us more productive. Instead, it has helped create a bloated, inefficient higher education sector; it has strapped millions of students with high levels of debt; and it has caused a bad case of credential inflation — with employers demanding college degrees for work that only calls for basic skills and trainability. It is time for our leaders to recognize that higher education, like almost everything else, is subject to diminishing returns. More isn’t always better. George Leef is director of research at the John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.
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Courtesy Photo Ben Mills, Fossil Cove Owner, opened his brewery in June 2012 after a six-month brewmaster school at UC Davis in California.
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They’re sliced down the middle with a big knife. The gooey inside mess is scraped out with a spoon. The halves are sliced into slivers and placed on the grill. They roast over the flames. He opens the lid every few minutes to flip them over and yell, “Oh, pumpkins!” Ben Mills, owner and operator of Fossil Cove Brewing Co., spends his days roasting pumpkins, stirring barley and making beer. Today, Fossil Cove needs more pumpkin ale. It didn’t last very long last time it was brewed, but nothing brewed here lasts very long. Two weeks seems to be a standard time frame. “We’re thinking of expanding,” Mills says. “We’ve got four bigger fermenters coming already.” Perhaps it’s the fact that Mills was a biology major at Arkansas Tech and enjoys hands-on work, combined with the brewmaster degree he received from UC Davis, which makes the quality of his brewing unfold in every sip of his beer. The demand for his beer has exceeded predictions. “We’re five months in, and I wasn’t really planning on buying any more equipment for at least a year,” Mills says. “I never expected it to be as popular as it is.” Nobody helps 25-year-old Mills brew the beer. Sure, his mother goes over to Vanzant’s Fruit Farm in Lowell to pick up the pumpkins for his seasonal ale “because she’s awesome like that,” but Mills is the one peeling off the scorching skins to stir the good stuff into the hot water and barley-filled mash tun. Mills has done this 38 times — on a weekly basis and for seven hours. Tonight, he is working from 10:30 to 5:30 in the morning. He fills up the kettle to warm the water — the target is 65 degrees Celsius. You let it boil in the kettle, but not the mash. The liquid you get out of the mash boils in the kettle — he throws a bag of grain over his shoulder, climbs up the ladder, dumps it into the mash tun and stirs with a wooden oar. Again and again he climbs, dumps and stirs. He wears a mask, and his words are muffled. Mills is doing this by himself, partly because he’s a perfectionist, and partly because he can’t afford to hire any help. He has one part-time bartender, and that’s it. He has one dog named Barley, but she doesn’t have hands. The brewery hasn’t turned a profit yet. There are bills to pay and equipment to repair. Fossil Cove opened June 2, and Mills expects his lifestyle to stay this way for a couple years. “I’m the owner of a small business,” he says. “I do everything, full time.” Most of the beer will be taken out the door and dropped off — by Mills — to local restaurants that serve his belgian brown and paleo ales. These two ales stand up to their bigger competitors, says Patrick Carney, manager at Brewski’s. “It’s around top 10 for overall sales, which is great when you have 71 drafts.” A lot of people flock to Fossil Cove after trying Mills’ beer in local restaurants. His beer is so loved that the owner of Lyn D’s Cajun Gypsy Cafe, Lyn herself, comes over with an empty growler in hand, excited to get a refill of the brown ale to put in her popular brew soup. “We’re renaming the soup,” she says. “The Belgian Brown Brew by Ben and Barley.” She laughs as she asks, “Is that enough B’s for you?” The first day the brewery opened, it was packed. “I’ll bet between 200 and 300 people came,” Mills says. And the talk about this opening was all word of mouth and Facebook, no advertising. Mills believes the turnout was due to Fossil Cove being the first production microbrewery in northwest Arkansas to open. He makes the beer there, in a building he gutted himself. About half the beer is distributed to nine local restaurants, and the other half is served in the tasting room. Mills tries not to think about the future and has decided to take life one day at a time. His life has been consumed by his small business, but he escapes when he can. He loves to take Barley to Lake Wilson and walk around the trail that circles the water. He’s into the sciency stuff, so he notices the types of plants that are in bloom and mentions it’s sad that the water doesn’t run over the rocks into the lake anymore. He usually comes out here by himself. He usually does everything by himself, but he doesn’t mind. “I don’t get super lonely,” Mills says. “I don’t get lonely really at all. I’m doing what I like. And I’ve got Barley.”
Ashley Swindell Staff Photographer As finals week approaches, many students seek prescription drugs such as Adderall and Vyvanse to “help” with concentration and work.
Students Seek Prescription Aid To Prepare For Finals Week
Caitlin Murad Staff Writer
Editor’s Note: The names of the sources have been changed to protect their identity due to the sensitive nature of this topic. Name change is denoted with an *. As the semester comes to a close, finals tend to creep up on students, causing them to pull all-nighters to cram for exams. When a double shot of espresso doesn’t seem like enough, many students turn to stimulants like Adderall, Ritalin and Vyvanse to help them pull through and ace their finals. The use of these “study drugs” is becoming a regular occurrence on college campuses. The drugs are used to stay awake during long nights studying and to stay focused on tasks. Lisa* first started taking Adderall during the second semester of her freshman year in order to study for a big test the next day. One of her friends who is prescribed Adderall gave her two pills to stay up and study. “I typically only take Adderall when I need to pull all-nighters, so usually about once or twice a month,” Lisa said. Lisa isn’t alone in getting prescription drugs from a friend: 59.1 percent of stimulant abusers receive their drugs from
a friend or a relative, according to a study done on high school seniors in 2010 by the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Although Adderall may seem like an easy fix for a late night of studying, a onetime use can have damaging side effects both physically and mentally. “When I take Adderall, I won’t fall asleep,” Lisa said. “I usually take it around midnight and then won’t go to sleep until the next day after I am done with all my classes. I also don’t like to eat at all when I’m on Adderall.” Regular use of “study drugs” can lead to more serious health issues than lack of sleep and appetite. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, high doses of stimulants can cause irregular heartbeats and, in some cases, heart failure or seizures. “For example, stimulants such as Ritalin increase alertness, attention, and energy the same way cocaine does — by boosting the amount of the neurotransmitter dopamine,” according to the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Some students who are prescribed stimulants for their ADD and ADHD are constantly being hounded by their peers to sell their Adderall. “I was prescribed Adderall my freshman year in college to help me with my ADD,” Jane* said. “Once people found out that I was taking Adderall, they would ask me
to buy mine to help me study for tests and write papers.” Jane tries to keep her Adderall prescription a secret, especially around midterms and finals. “Some of my friends still ask to buy my Adderall around finals time,” Jane said. “I feel bad telling them no, but my parents pay for my prescription and I really need it.” Other students are happy to sell their prescriptions to students for a certain price. John* says he sells his Adderall pills anywhere from $3 to $5 a pill, depending on the dosage and type of pill. For example, extended relief pills will last up to eight hours and usually go for $5 a pill. The instant release pills usually go for $3 at the most. University officials have found that the abuse of “study drugs” is difficult to track because it is reliant on students admitting to the use of these prescription drugs. “The most important thing that we want to work on is to encourage people who are prescribed these medications not to sell them and for people not to take medications that they are not prescribed,” said UAPD Lieutenant Matt Mills. Possession of narcotics is illegal and can result in an arrest or felony charge depending on the schedule of the drug. Selling prescription drugs can lead to similar consequences. Both result in a university sanction.
Survive the Winter Season with Soup
sour cream. Chicken noodle soup is a classic for a reason. It’s not just warm and tasty, but the chicken, carrots and noodles are very filling on a wintry day.
Georgia Carter Staff Writer
Despite the recent warm weather, winter is coming to Ozarks whether we like it or not. With the cold weather comes blistering, icy winds that chill you from the inside out. At the end of the day, after walking around in the cold on campus, one of the best things to warm up with is a hot bowl of soup. Many Fayetteville restaurants have soups to choose from. Hammontree’s, located off of Dickson Street, offers a bowl of soup and half of a sandwich for a meal. Their hot, cheesy sandwiches are perfect with a bowl of their crawfish bisque, french onion soup, spinach gorgonzola soup, black bean tortilla soup, or tomato and fresh basil soup. Pho Quyen, located on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, across from Fayetteville High School, is a Vietnamese restaurant that specializes in soup. If you want to branch out from basic, Pho Quyen is worth checking out. Soup is fairly easy to make; it just takes a little patience. Many families make soup during the holidays, so cooking soup can be a good way to bring a little of your home into Fayetteville. “Soup is one of the meals that my mom and grandmothers have always made for my
Chicken Noodle Soup
Rebekah Harvey Staff Photographer Rebekah Porter, a UA student, makes soup in her home off campus on Dec. 4th. family when we’re all home around Christmas, so it’s a tradition I really like to continue in my home here,” said Catherine Atchison, junior accounting major from Van Alstyne, Texas. Squash soup is a soup that is more hearty for the winter months and has a unique flavor worth trying out.
Butternut Squash Soup Servings: 8 1 large butternut squash 3 tablespoons oil 4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 onion, chopped 1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped
5 cups chicken broth 1 cup apple cider 1 teaspoon salt Dollop sour cream Peel and seed the butternut squash, then cut it into 8 wedges. Drizzle squash with 2 tablespoons oil, then roast it at 350 F for 1 hour. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a large pot, then add the onion and saute for 5 minutes. Add the roasted squash, garlic, apple, chicken broth and apple cider. Simmer together for 30 minutes, until apple is very soft. Puree the cooked mixture in a food processor. Garnish with
Servings: 4 4 ½ cups chicken broth 1 cup onion, chopped 1 cup carrot, sliced 1 cup celery, sliced 1 teaspoon basil, dried and crushed 1 teaspoon oregano, dried and crushed 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 bay leaf 1 ½ cups dried egg noodles 2 cups cooked chicken Combine broth, onion, carrot, celery, basil, oregano, pepper and bay leaf in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 5 minutes. Stir in uncooked noodles, and return the pot to boiling. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 8-10 minutes, or until noodles and vegetables are tender. Discard bay leaf. Stir in cooked chicken, then heat through. With this information, you can hopefully find a recipe worth trying or a restaurant serving a nice warm bowl to help warm you up this winter.
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BASKETBALL
Powell Breaks Single-Game Record Cameron McCauley Staff Writer
Logan Webster Staff Photographer Junior forward Marshawn Powell led the Razorbacks with 33 points, setting a new career singlegame high, in their win over the Oklahoma Sooners Tuesday night.
Behind forward Marshawn Powell’s 33 points, the Arkansas men’s basketball team was able to hold onto a late second half lead to beat the Oklahoma Sooners Tuesday, 81-78. The Hogs exacted revenge on the Sooners, who won the last game in the series last year in Norman, Okla., 78-63. Powell set a career high for points in a game with 33, while filling out a nice stat sheet with six rebounds and five assists. Powell’s previous high was 29 against Appalachian State in his freshman season in 2009. Powell also had six rebounds and five assists, showing his complete repertoire of skills. It seems concerns about him being 100 percent after missing nearly all of last year are no longer necessary, as Powell took control of the team against the Sooners. In the post game interview, however, Powell insisted he is still at 95 percent, always leaving room for improvement. Mardracus Wade had 10 points, making two consecutive threes in the second half that helped pad the Razorbacks’ lead. As a team, the Hogs shot 9-22 from beyond the arc, clearly their best effort all season in that category. The Razorbacks once again had a good turnover ratio, forcing 17 Sooner turnovers and scoring 19 points off those turnovers. Arkansas ranks in the top 10 in the country in turnover margin, and showed
their pressure is key to winning close games. BJ Young had 10 points as well as a career high eight assists, taking on more of a distributor role with Powell being so hot. Young played the most minutes of any Arkansas player, but was mostly keyed on by the Oklahoma defense. “He made everyone around him better, even when he wasn’t scoring he was still a threat on the court, and that really helped us tonight,” said Powell about Young. “Our awareness of Young was pretty good, but he is still a very tough player to guard,” said Oklahoma head coach Lon Kruger. Fellow sophomore Rashad Madden also contributed good minutes in his first game of the season off the bench, finishing with eight points and three rebounds including some clutch shooting late in the second half. The Sooners wouldn’t go down easily though, as they were able to hang on and stay in the game most of the second half, shooting 64 percent from the field in the second frame. The Razorbacks were able to keep ahead just enough in the second half to close it out, unlike what they were able to do in games earlier this season against Arizona State and Wisconsin. With 22 seconds remaining, an offensive rebound led to a Steven Pledger three for Oklahoma to give the Sooners the lead for the first time since 17:58 in the first half. The Hogs
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FOOTBALL
Students Respond to Hire Out of Left Field
Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer
Yesterday afternoon, UA students learned of the hire of Wisconsin head coach as the new Razorback head coach. Students, though surprised, were pleased with the idea of Bret Bielema becoming the next coach at Arkansas. “It’s as good of a hire as we could get,” sophomore Forest Holmes said. Several students pointed to Bielema’s success in the Big Ten and believe that it will carry over to the Southeastern Conference.
After a season full of rumors, Boise State’s Chris Petersen and Oklahoma State’s Mike Gundy seemingly emerged as frontrunners for the job, so Bielema’s hiring came as a surprise to students. “We had Petersen, Gundy, and at one point Les Miles was a potential contender,” junior Samuel McLelland. “It was a surprise, but that’s Jeff Long’s style, to keep everything hushed up.” With a new coach inevitably comes a new offensive system. Bielema had a runoriented offense at Wisconsin, and UA students are torn as to how it will work at Arkansas. McLelland believes it will re-
vive memories of Darren McFadden and Felix Jones. “It’s our traditional run game that we’re looking for and that we’ve seen at Arkansas before,” McLelland said. “It will bring back a familiar style of Arkansas football.” However, senior Joey Taylor is concerned. “It’s kind of like what LSU and Alabama have been doing, but I think that’s a lot harder to do at Arkansas with the type of players we get here,” Taylor said. Students are also excited about the fact that he taken Wisconsin to three consecutive Rose Bowls. “(Fans) overthink it some-
times,” junior Daniel Sultemeier said. “The guy is a winner.” McLelland is not convinced that the BCS appearances are a sure sign that success will follow at Arkansas, because each conference is limited to only two teams, sometimes meaning the best teams don’t get in the BCS games. “A lot of people are throwing around the fact that he’s been to three Rose Bowls, and that’s something I just don’t know about,” McLelland said. “The SEC usually knocks each other out of potential BCS bowls.” A history of coaches start-
ing in the Big Ten before coming to SEC also excites Sultemeier. “I see (Alabama’s Nick) Saban came from the Big Ten. Les Miles came from the Big Ten originally,” Sultemeir said. “People say we need a high-octane offensive guy; Bobby (Petrino) could do that, but we weren’t going to find a Bobby.” Ultimately, fans are glad the search is over and that Arkansas hired a coach with a winning record. “I think we got a winner,” Sultemeier said. “I think he’s going to be an awesome coach and he’s going to be here a long time.”
FOOTBALL
Razorbacks with a Chance in the Draft
Andrew Hutchinson Staff Writer
Although Arkansas’ season did not go as expected, several players had standout seasons. A few of these players will likely have the opportunity to be drafted by an NFL team next April and several will probably have a chance to sign with a team as an undrafted free agent.
Tyler Wilson
Wilson raised some eyebrows when he announced that he would return for his senior season after an impressive junior season. He was projected to be drafted in the first round after Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III, but he decided to come back to Arkansas and try to win a National Championship and the Heisman Trophy. However, early in the season Wilson dropped off the radar for the Heisman after he was knocked out of the ULM game with a concussion and missed the Alabama game. His statistics also took a slight hit this season. Wilson passed for 3,387 yards and completed 62.1 percent of his passes, down from
3,638 and 63.2 last year. He threw over twice as many interceptions, 13, as he did last year, six. Despite these factors, I do not believe Wilson will slip that far in the draft. He has shown a lot of toughness by standing in the pocket and delivering perfect passes, while knowing he is going to be hit. He could have just called it a season after the Alabama game and focused on staying healthy for the draft, but he didn’t. NFL coaches and general managers value these characteristics in a quarterback, so I expect Wilson to be drafted as high as late in the first round, but definitely no later than the second round.
Cobi Hamilton
For three years, Hamilton had to wait his turn behind three future NFL wide receivers: Joe Adams, Greg Childs and Jarius Wright. He finally got the opportunity to be the No. 1 target his senior season, and he made the most of it. Named as one of the 10 semifinalists for the Biletnikoff Award, he hauled in a UA sin-
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Ryan Miller Staff Photographer Senior Cobi Hamilton broke the UA and SEC single game receiving yards record with 303 yards against Rutgers Sept. 21.
COMMENTARY
‘Old Man Football’ Prevails
Cameron McCauley Staff Writer The swirling cyclone of coaching rumors has finally settled down, as Arkansas has found its home run hire. Arkansas announced Tuesday night that it hired Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema, who led the Badgers to the last three Rose Bowls representing the Big Ten. The hiring of Bielema signifies that Athletic Director Jeff Long wanted to not only contend with Les Miles and Nick Saban in the Southeastern Conference, but also be able to win conference and national titles. Bielema has had some of the Big Ten’s toughest teams in his years at Wisconsin and looks to bring that same bruising style to the SEC. While Mike Gundy, Chris Petersen and Gary Patterson were some of the names paraded around this past week, Bielema is the guy Arkansas needed most. Offensive-minded coaches in the SEC might wow you with style, but National Championships are won by great defenses and a solid running game. Bielema had both a great defense and solid running game while at Wisconsin. The Badger defense ranked 13th nationally in an atypically down year in 2012. His latest running back, Montee Ball, is the NCAA career touchdowns and rushing touchdowns leader and was a finalist for the Heisman in 2011. These were things Jeff Long clearly realized while getting physically beaten by Alabama over and over the past few seasons. If you can’t beat their style of play, you might as well join them. The only concern I might have is that Bielema hasn’t recruited this part of the country. In his 2012 and 2013 recruiting classes, Bielema had only three players from the south (all from Florida) and mostly recruits from the North and northeast states. It would be wise to keep a guy like Tim Horton or Bobby Allen on the staff to not lose touch with the Arkansas and Texas recruiting bases. However, that is only a short-term worry, as new coaches usually have some growing pains in the first few years. It will be interesting to see what Bielema can do with the current talent. The Hogs return much youth on defense, a defense Bielema and his staff may be able to mold into a much improved version of last season’s squad. On offense, it is expected Brandon Allen will be the starting quarterback, but keep an eye on Jonathan Williams and Knile Davis. Wisconsin running backs always had impressive seasons, and it will be interesting to see how they will be used. Now, all Hogs fans can do is sit, wait and speculate for nine months about how good the Razorbacks will be in the near and distant future. Cameron McCauley a staff writer for the Arkansas Traveler. Follow the sports section on Twitter @ UATravSports.
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VOLLEYBALL
Seniors Lead Hogs to a Higher Level of Success Haley Markle Asst. Sports Editor
The 2012 season ended for the Arkansas volleyball team after a 3-2 loss to Wichita State in the first round of the NCAA tournament. The Razorbacks finished the season 22-10. This is the first season Arkansas has won 20 matches since 2005. Roslandy Acosta and Jasmine Norton were named to the All-South Region First Team by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. “Roslandy and Jasmine were a big reason why we had the kind of season we had,� head coach Robert Pulliza said. Acosta averaged 3.15 kills per set with a .253 hitting percentage throughout the season. She posted double-digit kills in the last 15 matches of the season. Norton averaged 3.65 kills per set and 3.04 digs per set. Norton posted 16 doubledoubles this season and had at least 10 kills in 14 of the last 15 matches. Acosta has made the decision to continue her career at the professional level in Puerto Rico. “It’s one of the best league’s in the world to play professional at,� Pulliza said. “It worked out that she’s just going to be able to play down there and fulfill her dream.� “I think the best is yet to be seen from Roslandy Acosta,� Pulliza added. Acosta and Norton along with Amanada Anderson, Kasey Heckelman, Marci King and Janeliss Torres-Lo-
pez make up a group of seniors that have helped return the Arkansas program to a level of success not seen since 2006, the last time the Hogs made the NCAA tournament. “For them to close out their careers the way they did, it’s got to feel good for them to know that they left a mark not only as a team, but individually,� Pulliza said. The three seniors that started and finished their careers at Arkansas, Anderson, Norton and Torres-Lopez, were Pulliza’s first recruiting class at Arkansas. “It’s been a great ride,� Pulliza said of coaching this group. “This is a group of se-
niors that, the easiest way I can describe it is have rebuilt something from the ground. It’s a group that committed to making a change and doing it the right way.� Pulliza said he told his team after they were selected for the NCAA tournament that their lives would be changed. “They have immediately been empowered for the rest of their lives to understand that when you commit to doing something the right way and you work and you commit to people and to one another and to a dream, then you can do anything,� Pulliza said.
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answered with a BJ Young layup with 14 seconds remaining to put the Razorbacks back on top 79-78. Oklahoma then missed a basket with two seconds remaining and fouled Powell, who then hit both free throws to put the Hogs up for good. “They wouldn’t go away, we had the opportunity to distance ourselves, and their players stepped up,� said Arkansas head coach Mike Anderson. The Hogs were able to hold on in the end to improve their record to 4-3, and may have some newfound leadership in the play of Powell. Next up, the Razorbacks face No. 3 ranked Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., their first true road game of the season. Tipoff for that game is noon Saturday.
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gle-season record 90 passes. Against Rutgers, he shattered the UA and Southeastern Conference single-game record by gaining 303 yards through the air. His 1,335 receiving yards are the fifth most by an FBS receiver this season. Hamilton has certainly caught the eye of NFL scouts and I expect him to be drafted around the same time Adams, Childs and Wright were picked last year, either the third or fourth round.
Knile Davis
Rebekah Harvey Staff Photographer Head coach of the women’s Volleyball team, Robert Pulliza, talks about the team’s progress at the Olympic press conference on Dec. 4th.
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Like Wilson, Davis came into the season with Heisman hopes, but quickly realized that wouldn’t happen. Davis rushed for 1,322 yards and 13 touchdowns in 2010; however, he missed the entire 2011 season with an injury. With him healthy this season, Razorback fans expected him to return to his 2010 form. Instead, he struggled with fumbles early in the season and finished the season with only 377 yards. Only a junior, Davis has one year of eligibility left. He has not announced whether he is coming back next year or not, but if he declares for the draft, I don’t expect him to be picked. I think he should come back and participate in a full-contact spring and fall practice, which he didn’t last year. If he gets these early reps, he will get in a groove early and put up bigger numbers during the season, greatly improving his draft stock.
Possible Late Round Picks
Running back Dennis Johnson and punter Dylan Breeding have had solid careers as Razorbacks. Johnson is the all-time kickoff return yards leader for the SEC and carried the load at running back when Davis struggled this season. He gained 757 yards on 137 carries, for an average of 5.5 yards per rush. Breeding averaged 45.6 yards per punt this season, which ranks ninth in the FBS. He also pinned 18 punts inside the 20-yard line. If Johnson or Breeding get drafted, it will be very late in the draft. Johnson showed glimpses of greatness, but he never had the opportunity to be the featured back. Breeding is definitely one of the best punters in the nation, but very few punters get drafted. I expect them both to at least get a free agent contract if they are not drafted. Tight end Chris Gragg is in a similar position. He had a good season, but he only played in five games. His leg injury has been a recurring problem and I think it will scare some teams away from him. I expect him to be picked up late in the draft or most likely signed as an undrafted free agent.
Undrafted Free Agents
A few members of Arkansas’ defense will likely have the chance to try out with an NFL team as undrafted free agents. I believe linebacker Alonzo Highsmith and defensive tackle DeQuinta Jones will have the best opportunities to try out and make an NFL roster.