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UA Group Defends ‘Kony 2012’ Campaign Amid Criticism

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New Sororities Bring Old Traditions

Phi Mu and Alpha Chi Omega have a long history at the UA.

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Soaring Allergy Complaints

Allergies are a common problem this time of year for Pat Walker staff.

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Serving up Coffee and Dreams

Mama Carmen’s Espresso Cafe helps support an orphanage in Guatemala City.

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Andrew Bird Brings Virtuoso Skill to New Album Bird’s latest album, Break it Yourself, is relaxed, vulnerable and simple.

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No, Joseph Kony, the central African warlord, has not started a campaign for President.

However, “Kony 2012,” a publicity campaign launched by the not-for profit group Invisible Children, has generated attention any politician could only dream of.

A video uploaded to YouTube by the organization last week recently reached more than 74 million views. The reaction has been similar on campus,

African countries. He has forced thousands of children to fight in his militant guerrilla group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, and captured young girls as sex slaves.

Invisible Children took much credit in President Obama’s decision to deploy 100 military advisers to the region last fall. Kony 2012, they said, is to keep pressure on the government to continue the mission.

“We’re continuing to let people in charge know that we want them to do something and just continue to tell them that we’re very

Sustainability Office Begins Anti-Junk Mail Campaign

by KRISTEN COPPOLA Staff Writer

The Office of Campus Sustainability recently unveiled Operation: Opt Out, a new campaign that aims to reduce postal junk mail, department officials said.

“The whole point is to get people to opt out of postal junk mail,” said Carlos Ochoa, interim director of Campus Sustainability.

The campaign is part of the UA push to win Recyclemania, an intercollegiate recycling competition that ends March 31.

“Recyclemania is a program that is a tool for campuses that are trying to reach out to their students to raise awareness about recycling and motivate students,” said Alec Cooley, program manager for Recyclemania. “It’s a way of framing recycling and conservation issues that will be more meaningful.”

The Office of Campus Sustainability website offers a number of services to help people opt out, Ochoa said.

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adamant something needs to be done to end this conflict,” Harrington said.

Part of that effort at the UA will be through meetings. Jedidiah Jenkins, a worker for the group, will speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Union Theater.

A regular meeting will be Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in the Union.

However, while the group is raising awareness about the issue, some have criticized the video as being too simplistic. A nuanced understanding of the conflict comes from one’s own investigating, free-

lance journalist Michael Wilkerson said on NPR. “If the goal was to raise awareness as more than ‘I know Joseph Kony’s name, I watched the video and shared it on Facebook,’ then awareness means understanding where the LRA is and what Kony is doing today,” he said.

The video did not do enough to explain that the LRA has not been active in Uganda for six years. A percentage of donations to Invisible Children go to support the Ugandan army,

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said Christy Harrington, president of the Invisible Children UA chapter.

“Our RSO’s Facebook page, we had maybe 40 likes about a week ago, and now we’re at 440 likes, so it’s gone up quite a bit,” Harrington said. “We’re wearing our Kony 2012 shirts; everyone seems to know what we’re talking about, what Invisible Children is, where before only a few would’ve known.”

The 30-minute video highlights the wrath of Joseph Kony, who for years has rampaged much of Uganda and other central

Arkansas’ women’s basketball team was selected to its first NCAA tournament since 2003 Monday night.

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from page 1 which has been accused of raping and pillaging, Wilkerson said.

The group is also planning on raising vast sums of mon-

ey through selling $30 “Action Kits”, and claims that without awareness, the American military will withdraw. There is no evidence of that, Wilkerson said.

Some have charged Invisible Children with not spending

enough money on the ground, where the conflict is.

Invisible Children founder Jason Russell took to CNN last week to responded to those claims.

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“Invisible Children is not purely an aid organization. Their goal is not only to provide aid to Ugandans. A large part of their mission is awareness and activism in America,” said Christy Harrington, president of UA’s chapter of Invisible Children.

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“You can take pictures of your junk mail, and it automatically opts you out of receiving that piece ever in the future,” Ochoa said.

Operation: Opt Out is a practical campaign for sustainability, he said.

“It’s a no-brainer really. If you look at the statistics associated with junk mail, it has a large environmental impact,” Ochoa said. “We really want to just stop it in its tracts. It takes about 100 million trees a year.”

Results of the eight-week Recyclemania competition will be published April 16, Cooley said.

“There are many different ways that a school can be recognized,” Cooley said.

“There are nine categories in the national competition, such as which school recycles the most paper. Within that, we encourage schools to compare themselves to whoever their peers are within an athletic conference.”

The UA is competing against other schools within the Southeastern Conference, Ochoa said.

“It’s really about bragging rights and the environment.

We all win,” Ochoa said.

the traditional box of what you think about a charity and nonprofit,” Russell said.

On Monday, Russell called the criticism “myopic” and released more videos defending the efforts.

Harrington defended the video’s portrayal of the situation in Uganda and the organization’s financial management, which has been called into question since the video’s release.

“Invisible Children is not purely an aid organization,” Harrington said. “Their goal is not only to provide aid to Ugandans. A large part of their mission is awareness and activism in America.”

Regardless, the video is a perfect example of the Internet’s power to spread ideas, Harrington said.

“I’m hoping that videos about international justice can start going viral,” she said. “I love the fact that our world can be one where we’re always tweeting about social injustice rather than, you know, cat pictures.”

New Sororities Bring Old Traditions

by MANDY MCCLENDON Staff Writer

Phi Mu and Alpha Chi Omega, the sororities recently selected to join the UA in fall 2012, have long and prestigious histories, officials said.

Alpha Chi Omega was founded by members of the DePauw University School of Music in October 1885 in Greencastle, Ind. It was the country’s sixth women’s fraternity.

Founders believed their organization would be the first and last of its kind, so they chose to make the their Greek name include “Alpha,” the first letter in the Greek alphabet, and “Omega,” the last letter.

“Alpha Chi Omega is honored and overjoyed to join the vibrant and growing Panhellenic community at the UA,” said Marsha King Grady, national president of Alpha Chi Omega.

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Omega Foundation and the sorority’s National Housing Corporation serve more than 200,000 members in over 130 collegiate chapters and 200 alumni chapters nationwide.

The sorority was “very impressed with the spirit of community among the Panhellenic leadership” at the UA, Grady said.

Mattie Jo Cowsert, an Alpha Chi at Missouri State University, said she is excited to see her sorority expanding.

“Some of my best friends go to UA and are involved in Greek Life there, so I know what a strong Greek community they have. I’m excited to see my sorority growing, and thrilled to gain sisters at Arkansas,” Cowsert said.

Phi Mu, which was founded in 1852 at Wesleyan College in Macon, Ga., is the second-oldest sorority in the nation. Since its founding, Phi Mu has built

a sisterhood of more than 175,000 and chartered 228 chapters at universities across the nation.

“It is always an honor for our extension team to work to bring back a closed Phi Mu chapter,” said Andie Kash, vice president of communication and extension for Phi Mu. “We are looking forward to working with the campus community to bring Phi Mu back to UA’s campus,” Kash said.

Alyson Neighbors, a Phi Mu at Arkansas Tech University, said she is happy to see her sorority joining UA Greek Life.

“Phi Mu really does stand for good morals and academic excellence, and has definitely changed my life for the better in my college years. I’m excited that women at the UA will now have the opportunity to be a part of the special sisterhood that is Phi Mu.”

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HEALTH & SAFETY Spring Brings Soaring Allergy Complaints, Health Officials Say

by BAILEY KESTNER Staff Writer

Allergies are a common problem for UA staff and students this time of the year, UA health officials said.

“Pat Walker Health Center sees an increase in the number of students around this time of year,” said Lyn Edington, Pat Walker nursing manager.

“Pollen is one of the most influential aspects that causes allergies on this campus, espe-

cially in the cedar trees in this last month,” Edington said.

Pollen from grass, weeds and ragweed edges out cedar trees as the main allergy contributor as spring goes on, Edington said. Pollen is the common denominator.

“You see pollen from February all the way through frost,” Edington said.

Grass and weeds are producing far less pollen compared to that of trees in the Fayetteville area at this time, according to the Weather

Channel website.

“Mold is another thing to consider when dealing with allergies,” Edington said. “There is both wet and dry mold. There are many of times dust mites inside buildings cause students to sneeze all year long.”

Students can experience skin irritations, runny nose, sneezing, coughing and watery eyes. Most people who complain of the common cold in spring are actually suffering from allergies, Edington said.

Health Officials Encourage Early Vaccinations

by BAILEY KESTNER Staff Writer

Immunizations are highly recommended on the UA campus this time of year, Pat Walker Health Center nurses said.

“This is absolutely the right time to start getting a head start on immunizations, especially for students considering study abroad in the near future,” said Lyn Edington, Pat Walker nurse manager.

There are numerous vaccines available in the U.S. including those that treat for diseases such as tetanus, hepatitis B, polio and pneumonia, Edington said.

Other diseases easily prevented with vaccines are influenza, diptheria, pertussis, also known as Whooping Cough, hepatitis B, hepatitis A and the human papillomavirus.

The human papillomavirus vaccine is recommended for men and women under the age of 21. The vaccine is taken in three doses over the span of six months.

Students leaving the country should take preventative vaccines for diseases such as yellow fever and typhoid.

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“Students should be aware of when they had their last tetanus booster,” Edington said. “They should also know of any injuries where they were punctured or cut.”

If a college student last got a tetanus shot at age 12 or 13, they’re due for another, Edington said.

“Upon being accepted to the UA, students are required to have the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination, which is all in one,” Edington said. “There must be proof of at least two of these being covered.”

Paige Kirklin, freshman chemical engineering major, said she’s covered on vaccinations — for the most part.

“I got the three required immunizations done in high school before coming to the UA,” Kirklin said. “I have never gotten the flu vaccination, though. My dad gets it every year and ends up with flu-related symptons.”

The flu shot is available at the Pat Walker Heath Center, Edington said.

“The vaccine takes around two weeks to kick in. If a person has already been exposed to the flu, however, the vaccine will do nothing for you.”

“The vaccination for

meningococcal meningitis is also highly recommended, though not a state lawrequired vaccine in Arkansas,” Edington said. “Pat Walker alerts parents of the severity of meningitis at the UA orientation,” she said.

Meningitis is an infection that covers the brain and the spinal cord. Around 1,000 to 1,200 people get it each year, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services website.

Even with antibiotics, 10 to 15 percent of those diagnosed die and 11 to 19 percent of survivors lose limbs, go deaf, become mentally retarded, suffer seizures and strokes or develop nervous system problems.

Meningitis is most commonly found in 16 to 21-year-olds and is extremely common in students living in residential facilities on college campuses.

The MCV4 meningitis vaccine is recommended for anyone under the age of 55. The vaccine is to be taken in two doses for 11 to 18-year-olds, with the first dose around age 12 and the booster at 16.

If the first dose is given between 13 and 15 years, the booster should be taken at 16 to 18 years. If the first dose is given after the student turns 16, no booster is required, Edington said.

“Students [from] out of state are often not used to the different climate, plants and trees that can affect their sinuses,” Edington said. “We often say, ‘Welcome to the Allergy Capital of the World’, since Arkansas is a hotbed for allergies.”

Freshman journalism major Haley Pyland said she saw an improvement in her allergies since she began school in Arkansas.

“Normally, my allergies start in February back home,”

Pyland said. “Now that I am in Fayetteville, I didn’t see them start until March. I normally just get a prescription for Mucinex to help with them,” she said.

“The over-the-counter medicines that are available often help,” Edington said. “If someone has tried all they can and still have problems, antibiotics are often prescribed.

Sometimes, even a short course of steroids is recommended.”

Allergy injections are avail-

able at Pat Walker, according to the center’s website.

“While Pat Walker does not do allergy testing, there is other help available. If students come in to the Health Center with severe allergies, we often recommend them to an allergist,” Edington said.

There are no magic shots to cure allergies, Edington said.

It is important to identify the problem you are dealing with first, and then proceed to find what will help best with the specific allergy symptoms, she said.

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Don’t Let Spring Break Diets Keep Students Home The plans are made, bags are packed, and all that many students feel they need to do now is lose that extra 10 pounds before hitting the beach. Yet, while a lemon juice and cayenne pepper diet, or a rigorous six-hour workout may seem like a quick and easy way to shed the weight to get that perfect beach body, it could just be the one thing that keeps us from enjoying our break this year.

Taking extreme measures to feel and look great on our spring break trips are what many students are looking to, but in reality, it could keep us at home in bed if we take it to an unhealthy level.

Working out for endless hours or skipping meals in the days leading up to our big semester break is never a healthy way to ensure that we end up on vacation with friends.

When it comes down to it, we’re subjecting ourselves to a week-long eating disorder that can lead to stomach and digestive issues, and exhaustion that is sure to keep us sick at home.

The best thing we can do in the few days leading up to spring break is to monitor what we eat and drink, and tone up with easy workouts. Although many of us are starting the pre-spring break partying now, cutting out alcohol for the last few days before the weekend can keep us healthy and stop us from packing on the pounds. Sticking to a healthy diet and staying hydrated, especially when the temperatures are rising, can ensure that we remain healthy for the remainder of the week.

Turning to crazy diets or extreme workouts to give us the perfect body for break not only doesn’t work, but can also cut our plans short when we get sick from exhaustion and dieting. Spring break is a time to let loose and have a great time with friends, wherever our plans take us, not be stuck in bed recovering from sickness. If we take the opportunity now to stay healthy and cut the alcohol and junk food, we can have a safe and fun spring break week.

Advising Sign Up An Important “To Do” In the middle of packing for spring break and spending hours preparing for end of the week tests and projects, one major “to do” on student schedules needs to be advising appointment sign up.

While spring break is almost all we are thinking about this week, it’s important to remember that when we get back from the fun of traveling with friends or relaxing at home, we will be thrown into the mix of advising, ISIS enrollment and fall schedules.

While our advisors will be waiting upon our return to campus to help us choose the best classes for our next semester schedules, signing up before the break ensures that we get in line early for our enrollment appointments, giving us more choices of classes and times, and builds us a better schedule.

Taking the time this week to prepare for our campus return, through an extra few study hours or ticking tasks such as advising appointments off of our lists will greatly help when we come back for the last few weeks of the semester. So, remember when making plans for the week to add a trip to the advising office to the list.

Traveler Quote of the Day “If the goal was to raise awareness as more than ‘I know Joseph Kony’s name, I watched the video and shared it on Facebook,’ then awareness means understanding where the LRA is and what Kony is doing today.”

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It was the four-letter ‘s’ word heard around the world. No, not the thing that litters dog parks. I am talking about the word ‘slut,’ which unless you have been living under a rock the past week in half, has been in the news quite a bit here lately.

If you don’t know what I am talking about, or have simply just grazed over headlines, let me give you the short version of the situation.

Georgetown student Sandra Fluke testified in front of the House Democratic Steering and Policy Committee in support of a new mandate supporting health care coverage for contraceptives. On his nationally syndicated ra-

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cial media is largely to get him off the air permanently. Barack Obama has even come out and said that he does not believe Limbaugh’s comments have any place “in our public discourse.”

I am going to come out and say something I feel pretty passionately about, which is the fact that I do not like Rush Limbaugh. It is one thing to have passionate political beliefs, which is something that I largely encourage in our democratic society. It is quite another to be a hateful person who believes everyone else is wrong.

Furthermore, I find it to be a little troubling that someone who did not even graduate from Southeast Missouri State University is so influential in our political discourse.

And as college student who is also a female, I found Limbaugh’s comments largely out-of-touch with society.

However, the next thing I am going to say is something I feel even more passionately about. Limbaugh should not be taken off the air. Our First Amendment, for better or worse, allows us to make as many unpopular and, dare I say it, crude com-

ments as our heart desires.

As long as people tune into his radio show, and as long as he isn’t threatening anyone’s life, his airtime should be kept. People who are calling for the end of his show fail to realize that saying that is a bit hypocritical. He may say things that many people find tactless and “not in the public interest,” but the First Amendment, the thing that allows me to write opinion columns, honors all public interest. Not just the one that roars the loudest. Did he need to apologize? Yes. Should he be taken off the air? Not quite.

If the public, all of the public, want Rush Limbaugh’s radio show to go silent, then they will stop tuning in. The ratings will reflect that, and he will be forced to move elsewhere.

But until that day, his comments have a space on our airwaves. After all, it is the American way.

Mattie Quinn is a journalism major, and the managing editor of the Traveler. She can be reached at travmgr@uark.edu.

Making it Through the Week: Spring Break

by EMILY RHODES

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dio show, political commentator Rush Limbaugh took to the airwaves to call Fluke a ‘slut,’ ‘prostitute’ and propositioned that her and all of the other “feminazis” of the world make a sex tape in exchange for free contraceptives. After a national outcry, Limbaugh later backpedaled a bit and stated that he did not mean to launch a “personal attack on Ms. Fluke.”

Despite this apology, the backlash continues. More than 100 advertisers have dropped Limbaugh, from the likes of AOL, Sears and Geico Insurance. The reaction from social media has been deafening. Some commentators have stated that this is just another day in the life of Rush Limbaugh. After all, this is not the first controversy Limbaugh has weathered.

In 2006 he was criticized for claiming that actor Michael J. Fox exaggerates the effects of his Parkinson’s Disease. In 2007 he yet again found himself amidst angry people for calling Obama a “magic negro.” On the other side of the token, commentators have speculated that this might be the last straw for talk show host, and the outcry on so-

It’s that time of the semester, when the sun starts to shine and campus is heaving with hammocks, ultimate frisbee games and students indulging in iced Starbucks drinks. We spend our days on Old Main lawn with friends, and our evenings pulling all-nighters in Mullins Library, pulling our hair out over the three-page vocabulary list for that upcoming chemistry test.

Right now, campus is bustling with excitement and anticipation, and students only have two words on their mind this week – spring break.

Spring break is only three days away, and I’m willing to guess that all of us are ready for a break from campus and classes - both students and faculty alike.

Whether you are heading to the beach or staying in Fayetteville, it’s definitely time for a relaxing week away from test preparations, papers and projects.

However, it seems that there is a great divide among students on campus over whether heading to the beach or heading home is a better plan for the seven days away from class.

For those of us heading to a big beach party, what you see is what you get.

Think sun, sand and a hefty amount of alcohol consumption. South Padre Island and Panama City Beach will soon be plagued with Razorback students who will undoubtedly be partaking in the typical spring break festivities. Note, if you aren’t ready to party non stop for the break, you may want to change your flight itinerary.

Alternately, those students who are staying in Fayetteville for the break (myself included), it’s important not to get bogged down with the prospect of not hitting the beach full force this March. Whether it’s to work or simply because leaving town doesn’t intrigue you, staying in

Arkansas doesn’t have to equate to a boring break.

There are plenty of things to do in Northwest Arkansas, whether it’s hiking at Devils Den, spending time with friends or simply relaxing at home and catching up on some much-needed sleep. Not to mention, there are hundreds of day trips that are inexpensive and much more low-key than a big spring break trip.

It’s important to note that however we choose to spend our time off school in the upcoming week, we should use these last few days to buckle down in the classroom, to ensure a successful rest of the semester. Heading to your favorite spring break spot might hit the spot for a week of paradise, but it’s highly unlikely that our grades will hold the same sentiment if we don’t get our class work done now.

If we spend this week pre-partying for our time away, we’re only setting ourselves up for a mountain of homework to do on our break, or an awfully hectic workload when we return to Fayetteville.

Choosing to take advantage of the time before

spring break to crack open the books and prepare for projects and tests in advance can only ensure that our spring break, wherever it takes place, will be fun, relaxing and without a paper in sight.

Whether you are hitting the beach or hitting the hay for break this semester, it’s important not only to have fun, but to be safe and responsible while doing so.

There is nothing wrong with having a little fun during our week off school, but we should remember what we are here for - a degree.

By taking the time to get caught up or even get ahead in our classes this week, we can make sure to have the best spring break without ruining our report cards completely.

Wherever your travels take you next week, be safe, have fun and keep your classroom attendance up this week to ensure a great break and an even greater rest of year.

Emily Rhodes is a journalism major, and the opinion editor of the Traveler.

Her column appears every other Monday.

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by LAUREN LEATHERBY Features Editor

In a warehouse-esque building in the heart of Guatemala City, the 75 children in Mama Carmen’s orphanage are going about their day playing games, learning and eating. Mama Carmen, a small Guatemalan woman with a weathered face, takes care of the children, constantly cooking meals, cleaning the orphanage and sending the school-age children off to classes.

“They come by word of mouth. People know that if they can’t feed or take care of a child, they can bring them to Mama Carmen, and she’ll take them in,” said Katy Courtway, a UA senior who visited Mama Carmen’s orphanage in Guatemala in December.

“Even the kids that don’t live there come and eat there for almost every meal because they don’t have the means to eat otherwise.”

Mama Carmen, now near age 70, says that after her son was rescued from narco-traffickers more than 20 years ago, she promised God never to turn her back on abandoned children.

Since then, she has provided shelter to anywhere between 80 and 100 children at a time, many of whom have disabilities or medical issues, and she regularly provides food, clothing and other services to nearly 200 other children.

The orphanage covers its running costs largely from the revenue made at Mama Carmen’s Espresso Cafe, located at 2850 N. College Ave., which just celebrated the first anniversary of its opening. The cafe gives 10 percent of its proceeds to Mama Carmen.

About an hour outside of the heart of Gua-

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temala City, local workers harvest coffee beans from the coffee plantation also owned by Mama Carmen. Six years ago, an anonymous donor gifted Mama Carmen with the coffee farm. The plantation is run by Mama Carmen’s son, and provides paying jobs to workers in the local community, thereby providing even more families with food on the table.

“People know that if they can’t feed or take care of a child, they can bring them to Mama Carmen.”

- Katy Courtway, UA senior The cafe in Fayetteville buys much of its coffee from Mama Carmen’s own plantation, and, in addition to the coffee it gets from Mama Carmen, the cafe serves fair trade coffee from all over the world.

“We have teamed up with coffee producers in other countries such as Ethiopia, Brazil, Costa Rica and Rwanda to provide the same promise of a better livelihood,” said Angela Medley, a longtime barista at Mama Carmen’s.

The cafe features coffee roasted on site and food from Fayetteville’s Stone Mill Bread Company.

“I love my job. I'm a barista at Mama Carmen's Espresso Cafe not because of its ability to pay the bills, but because of my incredible team I work alongside and the core value we all share: to carry out the demand to love God with everything and to love others in and with that same mentality,” Medley said.

Mama Carmen’s also features a small store called The Global Shoppe, which sells products

from around the world. Each product sold in The Global Shoppe is handmade and sold in the spirit of fair trade, financially helping the products’ artisans hailing from countries like Nepal, Uganda, Honduras and India.

One of Medley’s favorite aspects about being a part of the Mama Carmen’s staff is the opportunity to give back to the world while serving very high-quality coffee and espresso.

“The Mama Carmen’s staff ’s desire to meet needs can be seen when looking at our special bond with Mama Carmen herself. God has granted us a divine opportunity to step outside of our local community and help care for our ‘neighbor,’ despite there being miles between Guatemala and America,” Medley said. “I am honored to say that we connect with her on a fairly regular basis to ensure that her needs are met and to look for ways to generously bless her and her orphanage.”

Mama Carmen’s Espresso Cafe is a part of a local non-profit organization called the Global Restoration Trading Co., established in 2007.

The Global Restoration Trading Co. seeks to create a greater marketplace for products from community development projects and businesses around the world.

While the orphanage has been able to serve a large number of children

and do great work in the community, Mama Carmen still faces some struggles. The orphanage is fairly small, considering how many children it holds, and is located on a busy city street.

“When they go to play outside, they’re playing in the middle of a really busy street. They play soccer while having to avoid cars,” Courtway said. “I think that’s one big concern of hers is where the kids can play.”

Mama Carmen has a lot of dreams for the future of her orphanage and coffee farm. She would love to add another floor to the orphanage or move the orphanage to another location, and she would love to hire an on-site medic or counselor, Courtway said.

“She has so many dreams about different things and ways she can help her community,” Courtway said. “I think her staff sometimes has trouble actualizing her dreams because there are just too many to choose from.”

But Mama Carmen’s Espresso Cafe helps Mama Carmen with this. It not only provides her with the means to care for the children in her orphanage and has helped train Mama Carmen’s son in running a coffee farm, but proceeds from the cafe allows her to save up money to see more of her dreams come to fruition.

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Samuel Gurel makes espresso at Mama Carmen’s on College Avenue. The coffee shop is a ministry of New Heights Church in Fayetteville and receives its coffee from Mama Carmen who runs an orphanage with the proceeds from her coffee farm in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Andrew Bird Brings Virtuoso Skill to the Relaxed Break it Yourself

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Break It Yourself

by Andrew Bird 8.5 / 10

“Wordsmith” and Andrew Bird are interchangeable terms. Now about seven albums deep as a solo artist, and with a soundtrack for the indie film

“Norman,” Bird has certainly established himself as a talented musician.

“Break It Yourself,” released March 6, is one of his best yet, with sanguine melodies and relatable lyrics.

Andrew Bird is a classically trained virtuoso on the violin. His talent doesn’t stop there, as he is also more than capable at playing the guitar, singing, playing the xylophone, and, strangely enough, whistling. He may

be one of the best whistlers in the music industry.

Bird is much more vulnerable, relaxed and a little simpler this time around with “Break It Yourself.” The music is so calming and at ease, it’s easy to become totally immersed. It’s the kind of music that makes you stop to unwind and smell the roses.

Bird’s music, with its simpler composition, is much more vulnerable.

There’s much more space in these songs than his older material. Often times, it’s just his balmy voice and adeptly layered plucks and bowings of his violin or guitar — “Hole In The Ocean Floor,” or “Desperation Breeds” are a prime examples of this sound.

Bird sings with his greatest fears and desires exposed for all to hear.

You can hear it when he repeats the dreary “I don’t see the sense in us breaking up at all,” in “Lazy Projector”.

This music has a strange effect on the listener. It comforts and coaxes, yet most of the lyrics have a sad tone. The album is far from depressing though.

It’s actually quite chipper and a joy to listen to from beginning to end.

Bird is also quite the unique songwriter. “Eyeoneye”, the alternativelytitled album title track, is a fine example of the intriguing mind he has. The most upbeat and chamber-pop-like song on the album, the song is about a person’s heart, someone who is afraid of opening their heart up to love and commitment with someone. They’re so closed about their feelings that they’re the only person who could

break their heart. The lyrics: “You’ve done the impossible now, took yourself apart; made yourself invulnerable no one can break your heart; so you break it yourself.” Don’t deny it: that’s a really cool — and true — premise for a song.

A nice feature to the album is that it is 14 tracks long. Albeit, two of them are one minute instrumental tracks.

Also, Annie Clark of St. Vincent provides a lovely voice for backup in a few songs, plus a verse in “Lusitania”.

The album is far from anything that would be considered mediocre.

It does, however, fall a little flat here and there, but something tells me this album is just fine with where it is. This album is easy listening, but it isn’t something everybody will like. It has mild tone, and there are barely any fast tempo tracks, so if you’re looking for a dance groove this is not it.

Undoubtedly, Bird has done it again. He has made a wonderfully composed album full of alluring melodies and songs of the heart, and dealing with its complicated emotions.

Standout Tracks: “Danse Caribe” is such a pleasant song. It’s a casual Sunday afternoon, the gap of silence between travelers’ conversations on a road trip, or the warmth of spring sunshine bursting through a rainy day. The instrumental jig near the end is excellent. “Give It Away” is a catchy little song that will get your head bobbing to and fro along with the rhythm of brushed drums and strummed violin. “Orpheo Looks Back” is uniquely crafty, full of rhythmic scrapings and

pizzicato on the violin. It also features some encasing string melodies and whistling.

Musicianship: 9 If there are any other musicians out there as talented as Andrew Bird is, they have yet to be discovered.

The melodies in the music at play in “Break It Yourself,” along with every other album Bird has made, are sophisticated and satisfying. “Hole In The Ocean Floor” is beautifully haunting, and a great example of the musicianship and looping skills he is known for.

Originality: 8.5 Bird has toned down his eclectic sound a little in “Break It Yourself,” but it’s still a very original work. The album is more reserved than his others, and it usually sticks to simpler methods. Either way, he doesn’t sound like too many other bands in today’s music.

Lyricism: 8.5 Bird isn’t as crafty with his diction in his lyrics this time around (E.g. he has rhymed “dying cities” with “plasticities” and “me” with “facsimile” before.), as his lyrics are more direct, but the song structure and craft remain strong. A nice example comes from “Sifters” where Bird ponders, “What if we hadn’t been born at the same time? What if you were 75, and I were nine? Would I come visit you? Bring you cookies in an old folk’s home?” He’s an interesting songwriter, that’s for sure.

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Embarking on Petrino’s New Era

Razorbacks in NCAA tourney

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He previously coached both Colorado State and Louisville to the second round of the tournament before taking the Razorbacks’ job.

“I’m as proud of them as any team I’ve ever coached and I’ve had some very good teams over the years,” Collen said. “I’ve been blessed with having some very good players. But this team had to fight through some adversity, these

The first era of Bobby Petrino’s tenure is almost over.

Actually, it might already be finished.

Think about it. Almost all of the stars and playmakers from Petrino’s first four seasons are gone.

On offense, Ryan Mallett, D.J. Williams, Michael Smith, Greg Childs, Joe Adams and Jarius Wright are no longer on the roster.

On defense, Jake Bequette, Jerry Franklin, Jerico Nelson, Tramain Thomas and Isaac Madison have moved on. Alonzo Highsmith is the best returning player on defense, but he will be a senior this entering just his second season for the Razorbacks this fall after transferring from a junior college.

Sure there are some holdovers from the beginning stages of Petrino’s tenure. Tyler Wilson, Cobi Hamilton, Knile Davis and Chris Gragg fall in that category.

There is a changing of the guard going on around Reynolds Razorback Stadium this spring, though.

All the turnover might not happen in 2012, but it has started. By next year, the second era of Petrino’s program will be underway.

His first four years brought levels of success Hog fans hadn’t seen in decades.

Rewritten offensive records, a Sugar Bowl trip, 21 wins in two years and a No. 5 finish in 2011 — all of those were the milestones of Act One of the Petrino tenure.

The 2012 season is supposed to

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GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas coach Tom Collen led and the Razorbacks were named a No. 6 seed in the NCAA Tournament and matched up against No. 11 seed Dayton on Monday night. Arkansas will play the Flyers in the first round on Saturday, its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2003.

by MONICA CHAPMAN Staff Writer

The NCAA Tournament brackets are out and Arkansas’ women’s basketball team is going dancing for the first time in 2003.

The Razorbacks earned the No. 6 seed in the Raleigh Regional and will face No. 11 seed Dayton in the first round at 3:05 p.m. Saturday in College Station, Texas.

“I’m just excited,” senior guard C’iera Ricketts said.

“I’m ready to play already.”

For Ricketts and four other seniors, the tournament berth will cap off a career that included two NIT appearances that sandwiched a losing record their first three seasons.

“We do so much hard work,” Ricketts said. “This is what we fought for to get here and to know that we finally reached it is just a loss for words.”

The team anxiously waited to hear their tournament seed Monday on the ESPN-tele-

vised selection show. Arkansas had to wait until the end of the show to find out it would play the Flyers (23-6).

“I was excited,” senior guard Lyndsay Harris said.

“I didn’t think I would be that nervous watching. We had talked about where we’d and all week long we’ve been like, OK we might go here, we might go here.’ We were sitting there and our hearts were pounding.”

Ricketts and Harris helped turn around the season by

leading the Razorbacks to 12 wins in their last 15 games after losing their first four in Southeastern Conference play.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Harris said. “It just feels to finally get this right before we leave here with us being seniors. We worked really hard and it just feels good to accomplish our goal before we left.”

This isn’t coach Tom Collen’s first time participating in the NCAA tournament.

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Senior Leads On, Off Court Hogs Prep for Start of SEC Play

by ZACH LIGI Staff Writer

Almost 1,500 miles separate Montreal and Fayetteville, but Fayetteville has become home to senior Stephanie Roy, a Montreal native and one of three seniors on the Arkansas women’s tennis team.

Roy put together an impressive junior career in Canada before choosing to attend college and play tennis for the Razorbacks. She was a finalist in the 2008 Canadian College National Championships, then decided to take a visit to Arkansas “Audrey (Bordeleau), my assistant coach … she sent me an email and she said ‘Its so nice, you should come visit,’” Roy said. “So I came to visit and here I am and I really really liked it. I was at other

schools and when I came here I was like, ‘Wow, the athletic department is really, really well organized. We have a lot of money.’ The landscape was really nice, especially in the summer when I came to visit.”

Her visit convinced her and she decided to become a Razorback, committing to coach Michael Hegarty.

“I really liked the team,” Roy said. “There was the number one player here in America was playing here. I was like.

‘That’s the school I want to go to.’”

Roy had to adjust to being on a team.

In her Canadian career, she was either an individual or played in doubles. She didn’t belong to a team.

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LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior Stephanie Roy, a Montreal native, is 2-2 for the Razorback women’s tennis team against opponents No. 1 players.

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No. 4 Arkansas will continue its 10-game homestand with a midweek series against No. 22 Gonzaga to finish prep for opening Southeastern Conference play against Alabama this weekend at Baum Stadium.

The Bulldogs (10-2) will be the second ranked opponent the Razorbacks have faced this season. The Hogs topped thenNo. 21 Texas 7-3 on March 4.

“They’re real good,” Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said.

“They’re an experienced team.”

The Hogs will open play with the Bulldogs on Tuesday at 6:05 p.m., then conclude the series Wednesday at 3:05 p.m.

The matchup will be televised

by CST. “(Tuesday) is our first night game,” Van Horn said. “We try to get one night game. You never know what the weather’s going to be like, so you’re leery of scheduling night games this early because it’s winter.”

Arkansas (14-2) will begin Southeastern Conference play on Friday with a weekend series against Alabama (6-9).

The Crimson Tide fell to Oral Roberts in a 3-2 loss on Sunday to end its DRASH Alabama Baseball Classic.

The Razorbacks and Crimson Tide are set to begin the series on Friday at 6:35 p.m.

Offense staying strong Junior Derek Bleeker hit two home runs in the opening game of the Binghamton series, helping set the tone for

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas junior Matt Reynolds is second on the team in batting average hitting .404 with a team-high six doubles and 12 RBIs. The Razorbacks have a two-game series with No. 22 Gonzaga beginning Tuesday before starting conference play over the weekend.

seven Arkansas home runs in the first two games.

The Razorbacks used their best power-hitting series of the season to spark the three-game sweep.

“We have some power and we know that, but we can’t rely on that,” Van Horn said. “It’s good to see … All coaches like doubles and home runs.”

Hogs that didn’t hit home runs still contributed offensively, including senior short-

stop Tim Carver.

Leading the team with a .457 batting average, Carver stayed hot on the plate this weekend as he hit .500 against the Bearcats and extended his hitting streak to a career-high 13 games.

“He’s rolling,” Van Horn said. “He’s doing a great job.

What he’s doing a good job of, he’s not swinging at a lot of bad pitches and he’s not hitting very many fly balls.”

Senior Sam Bates had one of his strongest offensive performances at the plate in the series, hitting two solo home runs and batting .429. He leads Arkansas with five home runs and 15 RBIs this season.

“It seems like he’s getting his confidence back,” Van Horn said.

Senior third baseman Matt

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GARETH PATTERSON STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior guard C’eira Ricketts is one of five seniors that will make the first NCAA Tournament appearance of their career and will enter the tournament with 12 wins in their last 15 games. from WOMEN’S BASKETBALL on page 7 seniors in particular.”

The Razorbacks had hoped to get a seed that would place them in Little Rock so they could have more of a home court advantage.

Arkansas won’t get to play in the regional held in Little Rock, but will still get to play relatively close to home, giving them the advantage of having a bigger crowd over Dayton, which will travel to Texas from Ohio.

“I wanted to be in Little Rock more for our fans than anything else just because it would’ve been a little bit closer and we would have got-

ten more fans there, but I was happy we landed at College Station,” Collen said. “I think some of our more loyal fans will find a way to get down to College Station.”

The Flyers won the Atlan-

tic 10 tournament championship against St. Bonaventure in their last outing.

“I’m going to start figuring what they’re all about and what they do and what we have to do to beat them,” Collen said.

follow suit and take the program a step farther.

Arkansas will likely start the season ranked in the top 10 — higher than any of Petrino’s previous Razorbacks teams — despite the loss of the three of the top receivers in school history and four players that kept an underperforming defense from being worse.

Still, with Wilson and Davis leading the offense, along with a deeper defense, the Hogs should be able to compete with Alabama and LSU for SEC West and national supremacy in 2012.

What happens when Wilson, Hamilton and Highsmith are gone after this season?

What if Davis does what most think and jumps to the NFL after staying healthy and returning to his sophomore form?

Heading into the 2013 season, there will be no question Petrino will have entered his second era. None of his original cast will be around.

That’s what makes this spring practice so important.

It’s a crucial step toward identifying who will step into key roles moving forward.

There are a lot of question marks.

Who will replace Childs, Adams and Wright?

Arkansas has a slew of receivers, but, aside from Hamilton, none have proven themselves as they’ve gotten to stay in the shadows of the big four.

Players like Marquel Wade, Julian Horton and Javontee Herndon get their opportunity to step into the light this spring and this fall.

Can Austin Flynn make a quick transition and fill the void Bequette left similar to the way Highsmith contributed immediately last season?

Who will replace Franklin, Nelson, Thomas and Madison?

Terrell Williams will get another chance to seize a starting linebacking job and make good on the potential he’s flashed his first three years.

Ross Rasner seems destined to start somewhere, but no one is sure if it will be safety or linebacker yet. That will unfold this spring.

The Razorback have just two cornerbacks with game experience, including one, Darius Winston, who was benched much of the second half last season. Can Kelvin Fisher and Davyon McKinney push for playing time?

Those are just the high profile battles. The seeds for future seasons will be plant-

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ed this spring.

Wilson is clearly the starting quarterback and has an opportunity to compete for a Heisman if the Hogs are successful in 2012. This will be his last year in Fayetteville, though.

The Battle of the Brandons, Mitchell and Allen, is about to get revved up as fans begin to eye Wilson’s successor. Don’t think Petrino won’t be locked in on that the next few weeks.

Good quarterback play is a hallmark of Petrino teams. It will be vital to a smooth transition to second era of his tenure.

He’s already proven he can assemble a national contender.

He did that in just a few years after inheriting a program with a bare cupboard. Now he’s established himself and the program among the elite in the SEC. There’s no reason to doubt he will reload this year and next.

There are just two questions.

Who will become the new faces of the program?

Can Petrino identify those faces fast enough for Arkansas to continue its rise to the nation’s elite?

Jimmy Carter is the sports editor for The Arkansas Traveler. His column appears every Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter @jicartersports.

By the Numbers VS. 23-8

Record

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10-6

Conference Record

12-2

7-3

Last 10 Games

9-1

33

RPI

34

4-3

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1-2

C’eira Ricketts 11.3 Ashley Daniels 6.3 C’eira Ricketts 4.3

Points Rebounds Assists

Justine Raterman 14.3 Justine Raterman 6.3 Patrice Lalor 4.5

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas senior Stephanie Roy was one of Canada’s best junior players before taking a visit to Fayetteville and signing with Razorbacks’ coach Michael Hegarty. from WOMEN’S TENNIS on page 7 Now she is part of a sevenplayer team competing against other programs.

“It’s hard to play college when you played individual and then play college,” Roy said. “It’s hard to make the transition. I’m more of a team player. I fight really hard.

Usually as an individual player you don’t have all the support, from other people. But when you’re playing with a team, your teammates support you and it gives you the extra boost of energy to overcome your opponent.”

Roy has played near the top of the lineup most of the season, going 2-2 while facing the opponents’ best player in

No. 1 singles for No. 34 Arkansas.

“You dream of having eight Stephanies in your program,” coach Michael Hegarty said.

“She’s been even more valuable than any one normally person can be. An incredibly superb kid off the court and that’s made a big difference in our program to have Stephanie here.”

LOGAN WEBSTER STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Arkansas third baseman Matt Reynolds had one of the Razorbacks’ seven homeruns during the three-game weekend series sweep of Binghamton.

Arkansas has 18 homeruns as a team, ranking second in the Southeastern Conference, seven behind conference leader Florida with 25. from BASEBALL on page 7 Reynolds is another Razorback hitting above .400, especially after Arkansas’ defeat over the Bearcats. Reynolds hit .375 this weekend and had one home run and two RBIs. He has 12 RBIs this season.

Pitchers nearly throw shutout weekend The Razorback pitching staff showcased their depth this weekend, as nine pitchers combined for a 0.67 ERA and 24 strikeouts while holding Binghamton to a .151 batting average.

Sophomore right-hander Ryne Stanek (4-0, 1.20 ERA) remained perfect after opening

the series by throwing seven scoreless innings and allowing just two hits, while striking out six.

After Friday, Stanek has struck out a total of 21 batters in 24 innings played this season, and allowed only 17 hits. “(Stanek) had an outstanding breaking ball and had some velocity on his fastball,” Van Horn said. “I thought he was impressive. He threw a lot of strikes and had a plus breaking ball going today.”

Preseason All-American DJ Baxendale improved to 5-0 after throwing for five innings in his Saturday start. Baxendale struggled at times, allowing three runs, two earned, but striking out three and remain-

ing perfect this season.

“I just found a way to get through five and give our team a chance to win,” Baxendale said.

Junior left-hander Randall Fant claimed his first season in the final game of the series. He threw six shutout innings in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader while striking out four.

“I just battled all day and today I was good enough to get the win,” Fant said. “Our pitching staff is really good and there’s a lot of friendly competition.”

Six Razorbacks relievers combined to allow no runs in the three games against the Bearcats.