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UA students will compete with blood donors from the University of Tennessee in the Game for Life blood drive, taking place Feb. 4-8 at Willard J. Walker Hall, said Residents’ Interhall Congress officers.

The event is sponsored

by RIC and the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks (CBCO). Students can give blood in the Hembree room from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

“RIC is co-sponsoring the blood drive because we believe that community service projects such as this help foster a healthy campus com-

can, director of programs for RIC. “Not to mention, blood donations are a much-needed and life-saving service.”

For the first time in the

“Not to mention, blood donations are a much-needed and life-saving service.”

Sarah Plavcan

Director of Programs for RIC munity and give on-campus students valuable opportunities to help their campus and community,” said Sarah Plav-

blood drive’s 19-year history, the UA is competing with the UT to see which university can donate the most blood.

The blood drive has a sports theme in light of Saturday’s basketball matchup between the two schools. Each donation will equal one point, and the winning university will receive a traveling trophy and “bragging rights,” according to the CBCO’s website.

All donors will get an event T-shirt and free pizza.

“Anytime I hear about a blood drive, I love to help,” said Breanna Nyitrai, sophomore animal science major.

“It doesn’t take much. I don’t have to give money or any-

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Black History Month Kick Off Concert Connor Malone Contributing Writer The UA music department, under the coordination of Dr. Eddie Jones, kicked off Black History Month with its Black Music Symposium on Friday, Feb. 1. The concert featured performances of traditional African-American gospel and spiritual music and highlighted works written by prominent AfricanAmerican composers.

Performers for the evening included Schola Cantorum, a group of UA student vocalists under the direction of Dr. Stephen Caldwell; piano works by Dr. Claire Detels; and violin pieces by Dr. Er-Gene Kahng.

Amanda Davis, a sophomore member of Schola Cantorum, said she enjoyed singing in the concert.

“The music is very passionate,” Davis said. “It’s good to have something with passion to work with.”

A guest to the UA, Dr. Raymond Wise attended the concert and noted the importance of AfricanAmerican musical achievements.

“They (early African

American musicians) created an entirely new style of music,” Wise said. “(They) were the influence for many new styles including spiritual, gospel, blues and even rock ‘n’ roll.”

One writer whose music was featured in the concert, Dr. Shawn E. Okpebholo, was in attendance. Okpebholo is aware of his musical influences and likes to give them a nod within his own pieces, he said.

“I use African chants and old African-American songs and work them into my pieces,” Okpebholo said.

Schola Cantorum Director Caldwell chose to pick a fully African piece, “Betelehemu” by Wendell Whalum, as one for his group to perform because of its significance toward music in America, he said.

“Before this piece, no one performed purely African music, but after this piece hit it became more prominent,” tCaldwell said.

Other works and composers chosen for this event were important to the advancement of African-American music in the United States. These selections included pieces by Jeffrey Mumford, William Dawson and Edward K. “Duke” Ellington.

Introducing New Men’s Apparel Store Megan Smith Contributing Writer The Independent Denim & Essentials is a new men’s store coming to Fayetteville. There are two other stores owned by the same company that are already established in Little Rock and Rogers but are simply know as The Independent.

Both of those stores sell brands like Ermenegildo Zenga, Isaia Napoli, Boglioli, Luciano Barbera, and Hugo Boss.

The store is opening in the old Campbell Building in the Fayetteville square. The building was previously occupied

by KNWA. Principle/Buyer for The Independent Judson Lee says they waited almost a year to get the space, and are excited to join stores like Riffraff and The Mustache that are experiencing great success and have a sense of camaraderie.

“We hope to contribute in our own unique way to the atmosphere,” Lee said.

The goal for this new store in Fayetteville is to be the go to place for jeans for men. This store will be more casual and denim orientated that the other two stores.

“We really do think of this as a jean shop first and foremost. We plan to have upwards of eight to ten different denim lines, with something for everyone,” said Lee. The Independent plans to focus on the “young of mind” and will have three different price points with world renowned brands imported from Italy and contemporary labels found in New York boutiques Brands will range from Bridge and Burn, Life/After/Denim, and Penfield and up to more

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Group Brings in the New Year at Chinese Festival

Nuri Heo Staff Writer

A Chinese New Year banquet, also known as Spring Festival in English, occurred in the Union Ballroom on Saturday, Feb. 2, complete with performances and food.

The event was organized and sponsored by the UA Chinese Students and Scholars Association.

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“I did not have a chance to see all the Chinese traditional dances and did not get to learn calligraphy demonstrations.”

Shu Liu

UA Student

mances offered were traditional dances of the many ethnic minorities of China in full costume, kung fu, calligraphy demonstrations and an array of adorable Chinese children, according to the International Spotlight Newsletter.

“The purpose of our banquet is to promote diversity on campus by sharing the authentic Chinese culture through various performanc-

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Kathleen Pait Contributing Photographer Students and faculty celebrate the Chinese New Year at the Chinese Students and Scholars Association Chinese New Years Banquet Saturday, Feb. 2 at the Verizon Ballroom.

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BLOOD continued from page 1 thing. I always have the blood.”

In addition to the competition with the UT, the blood drive will also be a competition among residence halls.

“The goal of this, and any blood drive, is to have the most participation possible,” Plavcan said. “Because this drive is itself a competition with the University of Tennessee, we decided to run with the competition idea. Competitions add an extra incentive for people to make the effort to donate.”

Residents are encouraged to give blood themselves and recruit others to donate for their hall, Plavcan said. To keep the competition fair among large and small residence halls, the winning hall will be decided on the percentage of residents who give.

Residence halls have devised many methods to recruit students to donate for their hall. Rachel Knight, freshman Holcombe Hall Senate member, said Holcombe is at a disadvantage because students who have traveled outside of the county in the last six months cannot give blood. She said Holcombe Hall senators plan to recruit by posting flyers, chalking and spreading the news through word of mouth.

Besides hall pride, the winning hall senate could receive $200 from RIC to use for whatever purpose they think will most benefit residents. The bill to make this possible must first pass a vote at an RIC meeting Monday.

“This blood drive is especially important because CBCO serves the northwest Arkansas community,” Plav-

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can said. The blood collected during the blood drive will directly go toward community members or students who are in need of a blood transfusion.

More than 4.5 million Americans will need a blood

transfusion each year, and giving 1 pint could save three lives, according to America’s Blood Centers.

“I think it gives you a good mindset,” Nyitrai said. “It’s an easy way to help people instead

of just giving something that doesn’t matter so much. Mainly, it just saves people’s lives.”

Students can also give blood throughout the year at the CBCO donation centers in Springdale and Bentonville.

STORE continued from page 1 contemporary labels like Baldwin Denim, Shipley and Halmos, Billy Reid, and Jack Spade.

“No matter the price point, what is ultimately important to us is that every piece of merchandise that comes through the door lives up to the style and quality that The Independent brand and customer demands,” said Lee. Lee says that if all goes according to plan they hope to open during the first week of March. The store will be showing a collection in the Northwest Arkansas Fashion Week on March 15th and they will be running some promotions with that event. Promotions for students have been discussed, but Lee says they are not sure what they will be just yet.

“I think it is great that there is a store coming in that is geared towards guys our age,” said student Matt Jones, “Fayetteville really needed a store like this.”

McKenna Gallagher Staff Photographer Construction begins for a new men’s clothing store that will open on the Fayetteville Square next door to women’s clothing and home store, Riffraff, Sunday, Jan. 27.

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es and (an) authentic Chinese meal,” said Mengjiao Liao, Chinese Students and Scholars Association president.

“This celebration is the one of the biggest festivals in China, and it is an annual event.”

Not only do Chinese students participate in the annual celebration, but many American students do, too.

“I have two roommates who are from China, and I am interested in learning (about) Chinese culture,” said Iesha Williams, UA student.

Williams said she planned to participate in the kung fu flash mob that occurred Saturday.

“I had never had a chance to get along with people who are from different countries

before I met my roommates,” Williams said. “It will be a good opportunity for me to learn many different things and I am excited. The reason I decided to do the flash mob is to show that I am willing to mingle with people from different countries.”

The Chinese Students and Scholars Association expected about 500 UA students to attend the event.

“I was born in China, but I was raised in the states,” said Shu Liu, UA student. “I did not have a chance to see all the Chinese traditional dances and did not get to learn calligraphy demonstrations. I think the event will be a good opportunity for me to learn my own ethnic culture.”

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International Culture Team Training Takaaki Iwabu Raleigh News & Observer/MCT Li Li, center, and other Chinese dancers perform their number during the 27th International Festival of Raleigh at the Raleigh Convention Center Sunday, September 30, 2012 in Raleigh, North Carolina. The three-day event featured the culture from about 60 different countries. The festival is produced by a non-profit organization calledInternational Focus, Inc.

Mu Qian China Daily, Beijing / Asia News Network A family reunion dinner, firecrackers, visiting friends and relatives, handing out red envelopes, and putting up couplets around the house used to be part and parcel of Wang Lei’s Lunar New Year celebrations at his home in the Henan province countryside.

But not this year. Instead of returning home, the 26-yearold Beijing cellphone salesman will travel with friends to Hunan province during the upcoming Lunar New Year to have some fun.

He will set out on the first day of Lunar New Year, also known as Spring Festival, and return to the capital before the holiday ends, along with everyone else who has a hectic work schedule.

“The Lunar New Year holiday is a good time to travel, as there are fewer tourists,” he comments.

Wang says Lunar New Year is not as atmospheric as it used to be in his hometown.

Most of the young farmers have left to become migrant workers in more developed eastern areas, and many return only every two or three years.

As for Wang’s family, his parents will spend this Spring Festival with his sister in Xiamen, Fujian province, while Wang intends to see his parents in the summer instead.

Leisure travel has become a popular activity around this time after it became a “golden week”, or seven-day public holiday, in 1999.

Li Xiang, a young office worker in Beijing, travelled to Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region during the Spring Festival holiday two years ago.

“I wouldn’t say it’s the best way of celebrating the occasion, but the holiday is the longest of the year for many people to travel,” she says.

Li often wavers between vacationing on her own, or seeing her parents in Jilin province during the Lunar New Year. This year she has decided to do the latter. “I love travelling, but I also want to be with my parents,” she says. “I wish I could compromise by traveling with them.”

Li is planning to do just that next year. Although her parents are not used to celebrating the festival in this way, Li says she intends to persuade them and believes they will enjoy it.

Lunar New Year is traditionally a time for family reunions, just like Christmas is in the West. Originating in the Han Dynasty (206 BC/AD

220), it takes place around the turn of the year in the Chinese lunar calendar.

Held during the slack season for farming, it traditionally consists of a long series of rituals and activities. It formally starts on Lunar New Year’s Eve and ends with the Lantern Festival that falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

The most important event is the family reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve. In Northern China, people make dumplings to eat around midnight. In the south, it is customary to make a glutinous New Year cake.

The first day of Lunar New Year is for visiting senior members of the extended family. Those who are married give red envelopes con-

1979, and people were exhorted to spend a “revolutionary” Lunar New Year instead.

But it is the economic development of the past three decades that has created the greatest challenges for the traditional festival.

With the increase in mobility, Lunar New Year involves more travelling than in the past. Every year huge waves of people return home to spend the holiday with their families, creating the world’s largest annual migration.

The National Development and Reform Commission estimates a recordbreaking 3.4 billion journeys will take place during the 40 days around the 2013 Lunar New Year.

Getting train tickets dur-

“I think celebration of Lunar New Year may change in form, but it will always be the most important family reunion.”

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Beijing Office Worker taining cash to youngsters as a form of blessing.

On the second day of the first lunar month, married couples typically visit the wife’s parents and relatives.

The fifth day is when people eat dumplings and let off firecrackers.

The New Year celebration ends with the Lantern Festival, when people eat yuanxiao, sweet glutinous rice balls brewed in a soup, and families walk the streets carrying lighted lanterns.

Few people today have the luxury of staying with their family for 16 days and observing all the rituals. The official public holiday starts on Lunar New Year’s Eve and ends on the sixth day of the first lunar month.

“Since the 1980s, the rapid pace of modernisation and the influence of globalization have greatly challenged the traditions of Lunar New Year,” says Gao Bingzhong, a professor at Peking University’s Institute of Sociology and Anthropology, and secretarygeneral of the China Folklore Society. “Urbanisation of the rural areas has also undermined use of the lunar calendar.”

This switch dates back to as early as 1912, when the Republic of China government officially adopted the Gregorian calendar.

During the turmoil after the founding of New China in 1949, Lunar New Year was regarded as a feudal tradition that required updating. As such the public holiday was cancelled between 1967 and

ing this period can be so difficult that it deters many people. According to a survey by the China Association of Social Workers, an organisation under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, nearly 70 per cent of people surveyed become anxious about returning home for the festival. Getting train or plane tickets is the major concern.

For couples who come from different regions and live in a third place, it is even more troublesome. This is a

common situation in big cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

For those lucky couples who can get tickets home, the festival is usually divided among the two families and becomes a tiring event.

For those who are from the countryside or small towns, but work in the major cities, the contrasting lifestyles can also be a cause of discomfort.

Some people are reluctant to see their parents and relatives who live in the countryside because they fear they will be pressured by the traditional values of their elders relating to marriage or raising the kids.

And the conspicuous consumption of the holiday season can be an additional burden.

A China Association of Social Workers survey suggests those who are originally from the countryside are even more worried about returning to their hometown for the holiday than those who were born in the cities.

Yet, despite the challenges and difficulties, the majority of Chinese still choose to celebrate Lunar New Year with their families. There are numerous stories on the Internet of people going home in jammed trains, by motorcycle or in shared cars.

“I think celebration of Lunar New Year may change in form, but it will always be the most important family reunion,” says Li Xiang, the Beijing office worker. “When I have a child, I will tell him or her the origins of Lunar New Year and why we celebrate it.”

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End of January Police Report Friday, January 25 Minor In Possession Of Alcohol t -A student was arrested at the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity -Fraudulent Or Altered Personal Identification Document -A student was arrested at the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity House.

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A Letter to President Obama

Will Watson Contributing Columnist

Dear Mr. President, Congratulations on your reelection and inauguration. You won a second term convincingly, by almost 5 million votes and a substantial majority in the Electoral College.

I am writing to express the hope young people have that you will use your second term to fulfill the many promises you made during last year’s campaign — and the one four years ago.

As young people and students nearing graduation, we have a lot riding on these next four years. We need a strong job market, a growing economy, a health care system we can depend on and a secure nation respected around the globe.

In 2008, we turned out in unprecedented numbers for your campaign. In 2012, we supported your campaign overwhelmingly again. Associated Press exit polling showed more than 3 in 5 young people voted for you, Mr. President.

I remind you of this, sir, because we had your back in 2008. Now you need to have our backs to improve education and health care and repair our relationships around the globe.

You told us in 2008 you would responsibly end the war in Iraq. You have brought most of our troops home and ceased combat operations and, for this, we applaud you. But according to NATO, we still have over 68,000 troops in Afghanistan – more than seven times the next highest national contributor to the coalition! Isn’t it time to bring our people home?

You told us in 2008 you would shut down Guantanamo Bay within one year of taking office. Today — four years later — it is still open. The continued operation of an extralegal facility in another country is a stark reminder of an ugly chapter in American foreign policy. Let’s close that chapter — and that base — today.

Mr. President, I commend

your commitment to making America safe. However, as a student of Constitutional law, you know our use of unmanned aerial vehicles to prosecute the war on terror is not just bad politics, it is not the American way.

These cases must be brought before the eyes of the world, not hidden behind secret covert operations, wherein civilians and Americans are killed without trial.

Mr. President, I admire you for your education reforms.

Taking out the middleman in the student loan process and allowing college students to directly borrow from the government was a great idea and you followed through on your promise. The other side of that coin though, Mr. President, is the growing and massive amount of debt students have due to the cost of education.

In 2008, you pledged to find service options for students to work off their loan debt — a crisis if there ever was one, with higher delinquency rates than any other kind of debt. You told us you would create more teaching jobs to fill needs in our schools and help graduates work off debt; we are still waiting for this program to emerge.

This promise of education is one that still only applies to those of us who don’t have to hide in the shadows. We have a generation of students who went to school right here in America but, through no fault of their own, cannot attend college because their parents brought them here illegally. They played sports with us, graduated from our high schools and we call them our friends.

Your own Congressional Budget Office said in 2010 passing the DREAM Act and letting these kids serve in the military or go to college would increase revenues by $2.3 billion. Please, Mr. President, do the right thing and pass comprehensive immigration reform — and the DREAM Act — this year.

There’s a lot on your plate, but I’m an optimist, sir. I believe that my fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton said it best, “there is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.” We have a lot of potential to do great things, Mr. President. Let’s get to work.

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

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Don’t Believe Everything You Tweet

Clara Spann Contributing Columnist Rush Limbaugh is dead.

In case that doesn’t concern you, so are Denzel Washington, Kanye West, Jon Bon Jovi, Nelson Mandela, Justin Bieber, President Obama and Morgan Freeman. Furthermore, Bill Cosby must be undead because he’s died four times over.

OK, OK, all these lovely folks aren’t really dead. (Thank goodness — the world needs Morgan Freeman’s buttery voice.) But sometime in the last couple of years, tales of their alleged deaths surfaced … on Twitter.

The Internet — more specifically, social networking — is ruthless when it comes to rumors. One post, a couple of retweets and, before you know

it, half your Facebook friends and their mothers are frantically warning the world white bread causes cancer.

We see this happen almost daily, with varying degrees of consequence. An annual scare cycles through Facebook that we will have to start paying to snoop on our buddies from middle school. Recently Instagram had a to-do with changes in their privacy policy, when everyone was afraid their dreadfully artistic snapshots of coffee cups and sunsets could be sold without permission or royalties. Yet, sometimes, the results of such rumors cause more trouble.

Earlier this week, for the first time, Twitter affected the stock market. Not once, but twice. A couple fake accounts tweeted messages claiming two companies, one in cell phone technology and one in biopharmaceuticals, were being investigated for fraud. In the second case, “the stock dropped over 9 percent in a matter of seconds,” according to The Huffington Post.

In a more disturbing twist, one of Twitter’s trending topics last month was “#CutForBieber.” Posts in a forum on the website 4Chan became a

social media disaster in which girls were seemingly encouraged to harm themselves in response to photos depicting Justin Bieber smoking marijuana, according to Fox News. Many people responded with photos; most were fake but some were real.

Another example of harmful social media can be pulled from my own life. In the town where I grew up, a woman was hospitalized with serious pregnancy complications. As her situation grew worse, a rumor somehow began she had died.

One person foolishly posted it to Facebook. Within an hour the false news had spread through the whole town and, worst of all, resulted in a slew of sympathetic posts to her teenage daughter’s account.

The woman did go on to pass away shortly after, which only complicated the matter further. I’m not sure the mess was ever sorted out, or if her family forgave everyone for the damage it caused at such a traumatic time.

It’s high time we start thinking more about what we read online. By and large, the Internet is about as sincere as a presidential candidate’s smile.

Before you retweet or share,

do some research. Check out www.snopes.com or www. hoax-slayer.com for the truth about common online myths, like those on Facebook and Twitter. For more specific rumors, especially concerning celebrities or companies, make sure you get your information from a reliable source, like a major news network (though sometimes not even they can be trusted, as in the case of the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting).

On the flipside of the issue, the ease and speed of sharing things online can — and should — lead to good news getting around. The first example that comes to my mind is, of course, Gangnam-Style.

Nonetheless, stories of hope or kindness don’t make the news often. I propose we change that, at least here at the UA. We love the positive changes that are made in people’s lives throughout our Fayetteville community and on our campus, so let’s share them. Let’s use the flash of social networking to lift spirits and make more smiles.

Clara Spann is a sophomore English and creative writing major.

Make Schools Safe Rather Than Scary Rand Richards Cooper The Hartford Courant The mass killing at Sandy Hook Elementary School has occasioned systemic reviews of school security procedures, and that’s appropriate. Parents are clamoring for reassurances that their kids are safe. That’s understandable.

But I winced to read the comments of Connecticut state Rep. Christie Carpino, sponsor of a bill requiring school districts to implement “panic systems” in every school. Citing the “many schools where kids and their teachers are sitting in fear,” Carpino advocated panic systems as the best way “to be pro-active and make schools safe for our children.” She added, “If they’re not safe, they’re not learning.”

As the father of a firstgrader, I agree that my child’s safety is paramount. What parent wouldn’t? But before we act, we need to identify what we’re trying to accomplish. And that means asking, How unsafe is my child? What is the chance of her being the victim of a school shooting?

There are more than 132,000

schools in this country, with 55 million students. The chance of my child or yours being killed by a shooter is literally less than 1 in a million.

In the wake of a horrific human tragedy, thinking probabilistically seems coldhearted. But while our emotions don’t work statistically, our policymaking must. If I thought there was any substantial chance of my daughter being harmed at school, I would yank her in a second.

For me the biggest concern is that measures taken in the wake of Newtown will create an atmosphere of anxiety in our schools, way out of proportion to any actual danger.

It’s not that I oppose sensible security measures; and if we decide that a hidden emergency button a principal or teacher could push in the highly unlikely case that an armed intruder got into the school is one such measure, so be it. What I do oppose is having an emergency state of mind inside our schools. Security measures that create a fortress effect can corrode the openness, adventure, playfulness and trust that conduce to learning, while sparking an undercurrent of panic in our classrooms and in our children. To me it’s not about

keeping my daughter safe in school — she is safe — but about keeping her feeling safe.

She needs to feel secure; in fact, she needs to be not even thinking about her security.

That’s why I worry when I hear all the talk about buzzer entry systems, panic buttons, bulletproof glass, armed guards, armed teachers, bolstered surveillance cameras, practice lockdown procedures and on and on.

After Newtown, a friend told me about asking his 9-year-old son what he’d do if a shooter appeared at school.

The son said he’d hide in his locker. The dad pointed out that the lockers don’t lock. The son said he would try to find some other place to hide. The dad went on about a shooter’s stance, lines of fire, how you should position yourself and so on.

He was just trying to be responsible, I know. But any conversation or procedure that invites a child to envision specific violent scenarios in her school is not one I want my child involved in. Such scenarios become rooted in a child’s imagination, ramping up the sense of a looming harm. In my view that is badly counterproductive. We think we’re enhancing a child’s secu-

rity, when actually what we are doing is magnifying her insecurity. I would hope that any increased security procedures be deployed innocuously, infrequently and without specifying to students the kind of harm that has occasioned them. And whatever policy or system we do implement, let’s not use the word “panic!”

We all know the uneasiness that accompanies airport boarding procedures. The stripping, the frisking, the Xrays: the natural response to so much invasive security is one of suppressed dread. We put up with it because we’re only going to be in that plane for a few hours, during which nothing important is going on anyway. It’s just a plane ride, you tell yourself; it’s not my life.

I know this is an awkward metaphor, but from an educational perspective, if we turn our schools into jetliners via these new procedures, we will have really shot ourselves in the foot.

Rand Richards Cooper of Hartford, Conn., co-chairs the education committee of the West End Civic Association.

He wrote this for The Hartford Courant.

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Summer Camp Offers Students a Chance to Be a Kid Again Stephanie Ehrler Staff Writer Sitting on a log, with the fire crackling and the stars shining, is a nostalgic memory that many of us remember from summer camp. Camp War Eagle allows college students to become kids again as youth mentors growing in their spiritual beliefs.

Camp War Eagle currently has about 25 members, and it is preferred that a student is a camp counselor before they join the CWE RSO. Anyone interested can talk to the recruiters who will be on campus Wednesday, Feb. 13.

“At first I had gotten into Camp War Eagle because it sounded interesting, and because I called myself Christian,” said Stephanie McCullough, senior music and psychology major. “I attempted to live out those values, and I had always dreamed of going to a ‘Parent Trap’ kind of summer camp. I had no idea that CWE would rock my whole world.”

Camp War Eagle is located on the shores of Beaver Lake, where over 350 camp counselors escape from everyday life to mentor children for a summer.

“At CWE we get to play, literally,” said Jessica Tolan, senior broadcast journalism major. “It is three months of summer camp with seven different sessions of kids, but you are required to work the entire summer. The counselors get to live in the cabins with the kids to hang out and teach them about God. “CWE is a Christian sports camp, so most of the day is spent playing sports.

We also have a ropes course, pools, the lake, archery, a nature center and so much more. There is really nothing like CWE; it is the most rewarding thing you can do with your summers in college.”

The RSO allows for the camp counselors to stay in contact during the school year, when they cannot constantly be together like they are during the summer.

The members of the RSO create friendships while growing in faith and overcoming the stresses of college together.

“Camp War Eagle is a place of astounding growth,” McCullough said. “I have seen people change and mature so much in just a few short weeks. It is a place very much removed from this crazy college life.

“There in the woods, we aren't tweeting our time away or instagramming selfies. At CWE our job is to love: love God, love kids. In doing so, one's focus is finally drawn outside of self.

“I think college life is one of the most self-centered seasons of life, and an atmosphere that insists upon selflessness is sometimes exactly what we need for eyes and hearts to be opened.”

One of the main things that the RSO participates in is the CWE Ozone mentoring program, which allows campers to stay connected with CWE year round.

Students who are eager to tutor kids for school, or who just want to be a peer mentor, can become involved with the mentoring/tutoring program even if they have not been a CWE camp counselor before.

“CWE 365 is an amazing mentor/ tutoring program that is basically yearround camp for the kids of NWA,” Tolan said. “The tutoring/mentoring program hooks kids up with whatever kind of tutor they need, whether that is past counselors from camp, older campers or parents.

CWE wants to give children a good role model to look up to, because sometimes kids don't respond well to their parents, but a college student may be the coolest thing ever to them.”

Camp War Eagle is about 45 miles away from the UA campus, providing students a place to take time off from the day-to-day college routine to focus on a humbling experience.

“I have so many favorite things about camp,” McCullough said. “I love the games, the kids, the dancing, the huge variety of activities, the cabins, the lack of Internet and cell phone, the incredible people, the quirky jokes, the competition.

“By far the most meaningful thing is the atmosphere created that allows for God to move. Through the faithful determination of a truly amazing staff, both counselors and kids are relieved from the loud, obnoxious and distracting world. In the bubble of CWE, we can grow. We can learn. We can gain a right view of the Father, and thus a right view of self.”

Mason Sams Staff Writer

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Paramore

Local Natives Hummingbird

Atoms for Peace AMOK

ne of the most exciting things about starting a new year is looking forward to new record releases. Some years are better than others, and some albums are forgettable, but 2013 is already starting to look like an exceptional year for music.

Old and new artists alike have announced some exciting releases as early as the first quarter of the year. From rock to rap, acoustic to pop, there are plenty of hopeful releases on the horizon of the new year. While there are entirely too many to list, here are some worth knowing in advance of their release dates.

While some groups seem to be creating albums nearly every year, perhaps the most exciting album releases this year are from groups that have not released new material in years. Within the last few weeks, Justin Timberlake released his “Countdown” YouTube video that strongly hinted at new material this year. He later confirmed that he was in the midst of an album that is tentatively going to be released later this year.

In a similar vein, David Bowie will be releasing his new album “The Next Day,” which will be the first musical endeavor he has done in a decade.

Bowie announced the album on his birthday while showcasing his new single “Where Are We Now?” which has already garnered accolades from critics.

For those who are feeling nostalgic, the Backstreet Boys have decided to come back together for

Lady Gaga ARTPOP

one more album, which does not have an approximate release date yet.

“They were my first boy crushes, and even though I am not the same as I was when I was a fan of them,” said Courtney Spaulding, junior marketing major, “I am excited for this release anyway — mostly for memory’s sake.”

As far as pop groups are concerned, there are plenty of notable albums to be mindful of as the year progresses. Paramore has finally announced a new release after writing the past few years, Local Natives have released their follow up to “Gorilla Manor,” and Eminem and Britney Spears, too, are awaiting new releases.

In addition to Spears, Lady Gaga has been writing material since her last critically acclaimed release “Born This Way.” Judging from her last album, Gaga’s new album should be quite an explosive release. The new album is titled “ARTPOP,” and she has also been in the studio with Tony Bennett on a jazz collaboration, which should be an intriguing take on the genre.

Speaking of collaborations, Thom Yorke of the world-renowned Radiohead will be releasing material he has written with Flea from the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Joey Rowenker from REM and Beck, and Nigel Godrich, the producer of essentially every Radiohead album. The group is called Atoms for Peace, the album has been titled “AMOK” and it will be released next month. Even though it is not a Radiohead album, it is something to look forward to in between Radiohead albums.

Kanye West is planning to release his follow-up to “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” at some point this year. Who knows who he will feature on some of the tracks? It almost goes without saying that this album is one of the most anticipated of the year.

But not everyone is excited for music this year.

“I’m not as excited for music this year as I was in 2012,” said Chelsey Shone, junior apparel merchandising major. “However, I’m most excited for all the tours this year. All the good albums from last year are going to be doing major tours this year.”

Either way, the future of music this year looks bright and sunny as there will be new albums coming out every month, followed by a jam-packed summer tour season. There is much to look forward to on the horizon.

STUDENT PROFILE

UA Drama Student Delves Deep into Character While Starring in Play Alex Golden Staff Writer

No aptitude testing necessary — a home video provided evidence of a UA drama student’s future career path. There is documentation of graduate student Stephanie Bignault, as a toddler, walking onstage in the middle of her sister’s church performance and performing alongside the older kids, hand motions and all.

Bignault’s career has advanced since her camcorder days, and the actress will be playing Stella in University Theatre’s upcoming production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

“Stella is the first time I’ve felt really challenged,” she said.

Bignault said that prior to coming to UA, she was unknowingly playing “caricatures, not characters”: She was memorizing lines and going through the motions, but was too in her own head.

“Something I didn’t understand in undergrad was that I wasn’t using my heart; I was using a shell,” she said. After doing her undergrad at Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga., Bignault began to let acting fill her up at the UA, she said.

To get into character, she said, drama students are taught to play actions on each other, making the other person onstage feel a certain way, and allowing them to do the same. It is all about the persona that the actors give off to make the others react.

They use the definition of acting, “living truthfully in imaginary circumstances,” Bignault said, and break down the values of the character and relate them to their own values to determine how to react.

For example, Stella’s primary value is to hold everyone together, and she does not know what to do if the people around her are not OK. Stella is in an abusive, controlling marriage where her life revolves around her husband Stanley, his friends and his career. She has no money or friends of her own and has

Courtesy Photo Stephanie Bignault, a drama graduate student, will be playing the role of Stella in University Theater’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Acting has been a part of her life since she was a toddler, she said. not been in contact with her family.

While doing character analysis for Stella, Bignault met with volunteers and leaders at Peace at Home, a shelter for domestic violence victims in Fayetteville. She found that the situation she would be portraying is “as real as it can get” after viewing a certain pattern she saw at the shelter.

Bignault said that abusers start out like knights in shining armor and gain trust, but that facade soon disintegrates. Everything is then slowly stripped away from the victims until they are completely dependent on the abuser. That is when the violence starts, because the abusers know that the victims have nowhere to go, Bignault said.

Although Bignault said she sees herself as an independent, strong person, everyone has been in some sort of situation where they have let

another person take the front seat, so she channels that to play Stella.

Bignault said she can play this part truthfully because the circumstances are realistic and because Tennessee Williams “covered everything,” even in the way he describes the rough way Stanley moves while doing everyday things.

“It’s like, ‘You see the way I just slammed this package on the table?

That could have been your face,’” she said. “It’s that ‘walking on eggshells’ mentality.”

Bignault was homeschooled and participated in various independent drama clubs growing up, until she started at Artios Academy, a collegepreparatory high school for homeschooled students with an emphasis on the arts.

For her senior project in college, Bignault wrote, directed, did the set

design and acted in her own play, and the feedback she got encouraged her, she said. She got letters from people that said the play spoke to them, in addition to various emails, Facebook messages and people who came to speak to her after the play.

The messages in plays are spoken profoundly, Bignault said, and she likes that theater can challenge people or show them a mirror of themselves. She said that Jodi Foster described how Bignault feels about acting in her Golden Globes speech when she said, “I will continue to tell stories, to move people by being moved: the greatest job in the world.”

“I love that theater is always about celebrating or questioning humanity,” Bignault said. “The more you find out about it, the more you feel the need to know more and go deeper.”

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Non Sequitur

Garry Trudeau

Wiley Miller

By Bernice Gordon

The Argyle Sweater

Scott Hilburn

Across 1 David Copperfield’s forte 6 High-ranking Indian 10 Like the Sahara 14 Last new Olds 15 Alike, in Lourdes 16 Madcap 17 Main idea, as of an argument 20 “__ Pinafore” 21 Handy bags 22 Inventor Howe 23 Candy in a wrapper 24 WSW’s opposite 25 Stick to a strict budget 32 Beauty parlor 33 Saying to remember 34 Tool for a lumberjack 36 Cultivate the soil 37 Car pedal 38 Needed a Band-Aid 39 Till now 40 __ fatale 41 Town near the tip of Cape Cod 42 To the point 45 Notes after mis 46 Contents of a cruet 47 Saltwater candy

50 Rested (against) 53 __ Beta Kappa 56 Burnout cause 59 Part of USA: Abbr.

60 Like dedicated fans 61 18th-century Swiss mathematician 62 Goes bad 63 High roller’s rolls 64 Baseball’s Pee Wee Down 1 Sitcom set in Korea 2 Homecoming visitor 3 Jeweler’s inventory 4 401(k) alternative, briefly 5 Have inside 6 Take a break 7 Flu-like symptoms 8 Pokes 9 Three racing Unsers 10 Colorful garden shrub 11 Wife of a 6-Across 12 Ancient Peruvian 13 Turns blue, perhaps 18 Campus residence 19 Like someone pacing back and forth 23 Forehead

24 Rim 25 Comical Soupy 26 Material 27 Cheese city in northeast Italy 28 End of Rhett’s sentence that begins “Frankly, my dear” 29 Like a newborn 30 Relative worth 31 Put forth, as effort 32 Le Carré character 35 Tokyo’s former name 37 Puts money (on) 38 Songwriter Jacques 40 Wears at the edges 41 Social network for short messages 43 Bids 44 Male offspring 47 Old Russian monarch 48 Prefix with sphere 49 Guitar ridge 50 Volcanic output 51 City west of Tulsa 52 Does some sums 53 Ashen 54 Hurries 55 Legal memo opener 57 Carpentry tool 58 Feel bad about

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BASKETBALL

Win Over Vols Pulls Hogs Even in SEC

Cameron McCauley Staff Writer

After two consecutive road losses, the Arkansas Razorbacks returned to the ever-friendly confines of Bud Walton Arena to beat Tennessee with ease, 73-60.

The Hogs were led by sophomore BJ Young, who had 25 points on the night.

Tennessee and Arkansas look the same on paper: teams that are winless on the road but play a higher level of basketball on their home court. The Hogs proved they were the better team, scoring 46 bench points and playing their successful style of up tempo basketball.

Michael Qualls earned his first start of the season, and the freshman guard didn’t disappoint. After a good outing against Alabama, the 6 foot 5 inch Qualls was a mismatch for the Vols, playing bigger than his actual size by grabbing 11 rebounds and scoring seven points in 32 minutes of playing time.

“I thought the injection of Michael Qualls into the lineup really gave us a high energy level, his energy was contagious,” head coach Mike Anderson said.

With Qualls and Coty Clarke in the starting lineup, typical starters Hunter Mickelson and Young were able to provide a big impact off the bench.

Mickelson was 5-8 from the field with 10 points and five rebounds, and Young

GYMNASTICS

Gym‘backs Fall to No. 1 Florida

Liz Beadle Staff Writer

“When (McRae) shot it, we were right there with him.

Our guys were linked up defensively,” Anderson said.

Marshawn Powell finished with 12 points in limited minutes because of foul trouble, and the Razorbacks as a whole were able to domi-

The Razorback gymnastics team took on No. 1 Florida Friday in Barnhill Arena and fell short, losing the meet 197.575 to 196.175.

Arkansas struggled on the beam but outscored Florida on the floor and marked their season-high scores on the bars and the vault.

This was the Hogs’ third loss on the season, having already dropped meets to No. 8 Georgia and No. 16 Kentucky.

The only win for Arkansas so far this season was in a meet with No. 13 Denver.

Despite the loss, several Razorbacks had season-high scores Friday night. Amy Borsellino, Katherine Grable, Bailee Zumwalde, Kelci Lewis, Shelby Salmon, Erin Freier and Heather Elswick all recorded season highs for Arkansas.

“Our routines were good tonight,” co-head coach Mark Cook said. “Florida has a roster that is loaded with Olympians, but we felt like we had a good shot to come out today and pick up the upset.

Overall though it was a great score for us and we will look to build on this as the season goes on.”

In the first rotation, the

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Ryan Miller Staff Photographer Rashad Madden pressures the Tennessee defense at the Arkansas v. Tennessee game, Saturday, Feb. 2. The win over the Vols pulled the Razorbacks to 4-4 in the SEC, with each win coming in Bud Walton Arena. finished with 25 points, including 2-3 shooting from beyond the arc. Having only made two three pointers in SEC play prior to playing Tennessee, Young was confident in his game against the Vols.

“I was able to go back to my role from last year and just come in and do my thing

and play with a chip on my shoulder, our whole team played with a chip on their shoulder,” Young said.

Tennessee was able to keep within 10 most of the second half, thanks to sophomore Jarnell Stokes’ play around the basket. Stokes, a former five star recruit who infamously chose Tennes-

see over Arkansas last winter, finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds against the Hogs in his first game at Bud Walton Arena.

However, the Vols’ leading scorer Jordan McRae had a tough outing, shooting 2-11 from the field and finishing with six points before fouling out.

TRACK & FIELD

Hogs Hold Onto Momentum in New York City

Zack Wheeler Staff Writer The No. 1 University of Arkansas men’s track and field team finished the 2013 Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York City with five top-three results and a total of 45 team points over the two days of action.

Tomas Squella recorded the only winning time for the Hogs all weekend, a 1 hour, 49.51 seconds, in the men’s 800-meter run.

Teammate Andrew Pisechko rode his time to a ninth-place overall finish.

Jarrion Lawson also recorded a runner-up finish in the long jump competition.

Lawson’s jump measured out to be 7.84m/25-8 3/4. Caleb

Cross also finished in third place for the 60-meter hurdles and team’s distance medley.

Anthony Lieghio, Eric Janise, Patrick Rono and Kemoy Campbell comprised the men’s distance medley and finished with a time of 9:35.50 for their third-place finish.

The No. 4 University of Arkansas women’s team also competed in New York this weekend. Friday marked a runner-up performance and No. 3 best time in school history for the team distance medley relay. The team composed of Grace Heymsfield, Regina George, Martine Borge and Dominique Scott combined for a time of 11:04.93 in the second place effort.

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Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations Jarrion Lawson’s 7.84m/25-8.75 Friday in the long jump set a new personal record. The No. 1 men’s track and field team earned five top-three finishes over the two day Armory Collegiate Invitational in New York City.

COMMENTARY

Conference Road Wins Prove Difficult to Come By

Haley Markle Asst. Sports Editor With a win over Tennessee Saturday afternoon, the men’s Razorback basketball team improved their record to 4-4, with

each of the wins coming in the comfortable confines of Bud Walton Arena.

Since Mike Anderson took the reigns to the basketball program, the Razorbacks have won only one Southeastern Conference road game, a 77-71 defeat of the Auburn Tigers at the end of last season.

This lack of success away from home has led some of the more fickle Razorback fans to question wether Anderson is the right man for the job, even before he has completed his second season as head coach of the Hogs.

The truth is, winning any college basketball game on the

road is challenging, but winning conference games on the road can be close to impossible.

Fans are rarely more excited than when familiar conference rivals roll into town and that creates an atmosphere that can be difficult for the visiting team to overcome.

In Anderson’s defense, he did not inherit a team that was accustomed to winning on the road. The last time the Razorbacks finished .500 or above in conference road play TLC and Boyz II Men were topping the charts, gas was $1.35 a gallon and the Hogs were only a year removed from celebrating a

national title.

Beginning with the 1995-96 season, the Razorbacks have a conference road game winning percentage of just over 22 percent.

Arkansas isn’t the only team that has trouble winning on the road, though.

Since the beginning of the 2008-09 season, only two teams win more than 50 percent of their SEC games away from home. Kentucky leads the conference, winning almost 65 percent of the time followed by Florida, who won almost 53 percent of their games during that time.

Two teams, Tennessee and

Vanderbilt, won exactly half of their SEC road games during that frame of time.

Texas A&M also has a .500 winning percentage, but the Aggies have only played four conference road games as a member of the SEC. Eight teams join Arkansas under the .500 mark during that time. That includes Auburn, Georgia and South Carolina who each won less than 25 percent of their games since 2008.

The other team playing their first season in the SEC, Missouri, has never won a conference road game as a member of the SEC, but they have

only played three.

So to those fans ready to give up their seat on the Anderson bandwagon, I say sit back down. Give Anderson and the players a little more time.

If the team couldn’t win at home, I might be willing to give up my seat to the next nice old lady that walked by, but as it is, I still have faith that Anderson can get the road kinds worked out..

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

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Hogs Earn Best Finish in School History

DROP continued from page 7 Hogs scored a 49.15 on the vault and the Gators scored a 49.45 on the bars. Florida continued to lead in the second rotation where Arkansas scored a 49.25 on the bars and Florida scored a 49.40 on the vault.

Both Arkansas’ vault score and their score on the bars marked a new season high in those two events.

The meet was still very

close going into the third rotation but that rotation ended in a 48.375 beam score for Arkansas, all but sealing the deal for the Gators. Florida scored a 49.275 on the floor in the third rotation.

The final rotation resulted in a 49.40 on the floor for Arkansas and a 49.45 on the beam for Florida. Floor work was the only area in which Arkansas outperformed No.

1 Florida.

“It was important for us to finish strong on the floor,” Cook said. “We had some errors on the floor in the last couple of meets, but to come back and finish strong after we had some difficulties on beam was huge for us. It was a great confidence builder.”

Next up for the Razorbacks is a meet at No. 17 Auburn Friday.

Photo Courtesy of Athletic Media Relations The No. 18 Razorback swimming and diving team won all 16 events over the Kansas Jayhawks Saturday and finished the season 10-1. This mark ties for the best record in school history.

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nate a bigger Tennessee team in the paint, outscoring the Vols 42-28 in the box.

Pushing the ball down the court was key late in the first half, as the Hogs were able to force turnovers and finish at the rim on the other end of the court. Anderson preached the more shot attempts the better in the “fastest 40” that the Hogs

play, and the hogs shot nearly 50 percent from the field.

Arkansas is 10-0 when shooting above 45 percent from the field, and that high-percentage take-it-tothe-basket mindset will be key for the Hogs moving forward.

Next up, the Hogs host No. 4 Florida Tuesday, their third game in six days. Flori-

da has been dominant so far in SEC Play, going a perfect 8-0 while beating conference foes by more than 25 points per game on average, while Arkansas will look to stay undefeated in conference play at Bud Walton Arena.

“They’re a real good team and we just want to go out and execute against them,” Qualls said.

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Mary McKay Staff Photographer Katherine Grable competes on the uneven bars, Friday against Florida. Grable added a 9.85 to give the Hogs their second season high total of 49.250 on the bars.

The Hogs also had a competitor record a personal best. Tamara Meyers posted a personal best in the long jump competition, going a distance of 6.13m/20-1 1/2.

Saturday’s competition brought even more wins for the Hogs.

The 4x400 relay team and Keri Wood recorded victories on the final day of competition in New York City.

Arkansas had many members finish very well in their

respective runs.

The 4x400 relay team was composed of members Sparkle McKnight, Borge, Gwendolyn Flowers and George recorded a time of 3:35.20 to win the event. Arkansas finished nearly three seconds ahead of Clemson, the runner-up competitor.

Wood ran a 4:48.90 mile for the victory, and teammate Diane Robison finished third with a time of 4:49.79.

Robison knocked nearly 16

seconds off her previous best for her third-place performance. Wood and Robison marked the best times of four Razorbacks who finished in the top seven for the mile event of the invitational.

Both the men and women will compete in the Tyson Invitational next weekend.

The event will be held in Fayetteville at the Randal Tyson Track Center, and will feature over 40 teams.